Mike and Kelsey’s Best Movie Theater Experiences + Movie Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent + Trailer Park: Thor Love and Thunder

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike today. I am joined by my wife, Kelsey. How are you. I'm great. I just got done choking on some water. Good. Oh. We're here today to talk about our best movie theater experiences. We each have some of ours, and I pulled a bunch from listeners and I think it's gonna be a very fun episode. Relive some fun moments. And then in the trailer park, I will talk about the new Thor trailer which looks amazing. And in the movie review there's a brand new Nick Cage movie that I wasn't expecting to like as much as I did. But all that for you on this week's episode, shout out to the Monday Morning movie crew. You guys already know what it is. Let's talk movies. 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 au MTV with classes from the Nashville Podcast networking movie movie. So the question for this episode is what was the best movie you saw in theaters because of the experience. So it doesn't have to be your favorite movie ever. It's just one that you saw in theaters and for some reason it evoked an emotion in you. You had some reaction from everybody else that you were watching it with. Just something about the experience made it your favorite. Would you like to go first or you want me to start it off? I would love to go first, Go first, right ahead. Amazing Spider Man too. Why that movie? It's been less than ten years, so I won't spoil. There's just the shocking part that you don't see coming and you think Spider Man is gonna be able to fix everything, and he can't. And it was just this like from like everyone in the theater. And then I feel like the rest because there was probably like five to ten minutes left after that scene. Like I just kept waiting for things to get fixed and they weren't. And it was one of those endings where things don't get wrapped up with a pretty bow, and I'm not used to that from a superhero movie. They always fix everything. Problem. I like it when movies do that, when they end not the way you're expecting them to. Of course you do. I feel like audiences love like everything to be fine in the end, because movies are a form of escapism. Yeah, life is never fine in the end. Exactly, movie to be fine in the end because I need I need it wrapped up with the bow presented to me. I've just never seen it that way. I love it when a movie goes in the direction of Wow, everything doesn't turn out beautifully for everybody. A relationship doesn't work out, somebody you know doesn't make it to the end. I love those type of endings. I'm glad you didn't want our real life relations No, real life I would love everything to be perfect, but when I go into a movie, I want something different. So in that same way, I do love a jarring ending like that. Okay, well that's my first one and for mine, my ultimate of all time. I'll keep it in the Superhero realm. It has to be Avengers end Game because that was every single Marvel movie led up to that moment. And it's very rare that I could feel like electricity in a crowd while watching a movie. I have often referenced Marvel movies kind of being like sporting events now because people want to go and you want to experience it with, you know, an audience. In that movie, that single scene where all the Avengers come back and Captain America tells them to assemble. You'll never have a movie moment like that ever again. I'm surprised you could feel the electricity in between the crying that you were doing during the movie. The crying came after that scene. It was later that was one of the most perfect movie moments in history. Into experience that in a theater when there was so much lead up to this movie of it being, you know, the finale of everything, all the people who have invested so much time in Marvel movies, and it was an pact theater like very rarely now our movie theater is sold out for a showing on that day. When I watched that movie, it was incredible. It's everything I want out of a movie going experience. And I don't think I will ever experience that again, because no other movie can ever come out with that much build up to it, with that much hype and be able to deliver. And I don't think I'll ever have that feeling again when that scene happened. So I feel like that has to be my number one best movie theater experience because it was so unique, but most recently would have to be Spider Man No Way Home, for it was comparable to that. It was because not a sold out theater, but it was pretty packed when we went, and that same kind of thing even leading up to the movie. It was so cool just to see people's reactions to the big scenes. Everybody yelling, everybody cheering, and it's just a fun environment that Marvel creates. And I do think that a lot of that is due to watching that movie in theaters, because I bought the Blu ray, rewatched it, and even though I still loved it, there's still something lacking a little bit, a bigger difference between watching that movie on opening weekend with the hype around people. That adds a level of excitement and makes that movie more enjoyable to watch. So I'm kind of in this weird part now that I know how much more important the movie going experience is, because just the level it takes a movie to like, that's a big thing. Now. I found when all the movies I was reviewing and watching during the pandemic and when movie theaters were shut down, sometimes those reviews were shorter. It was harder to connect on a emotional level. They were just something that was drawing away from my being able to review and talk about those movies. And now that we've been going to the movies more often, I realized I've been more passionate about the movie reviews because there's something else there. So I think a lot of that was lacking. And I picked a very kind of weird time to start a movie podcast, not knowing that I wasn't gonna be able to go to the movie theater for like almost two years. So I think the Marvel movies will always create my favorite movie going experiences, and those two are at the top of my list. I also so when you were talking about like a packed movie theater, reminded me of a memory, and I know people love it when we share those personal stories. Yeah, a couple of years ago, we were going to see whatever Star Wars Star Wars was coming out over Christmas break and I had been like, we should buy tickets, we should buy tickets, we should buy tickets because I'm just taype a plan ahead, you know where the story is going, and You're like, Kelsey, it's fine, I'm not going to forget to buy the tickets. You were a little snappy at me. Actually, if I remember correctly, You're like, it's gonna be fine. When we bought tickets, where'd we end up sitting? Uh, that back row or towards the front? Oh, it was like the very front row. I hadn't paint in my neck from looking up two hours you I'm gonna get tickets. It's gonna be fine. We go to buy tickets. There's like three seats left in the theater. But it was fine, Like you said, yeah, it's fine. I underestimated that one. And since then, whenever a movie comes out that I know there's gonna be a lot of tickets sold on opening nights and get them early. But in my way home, bought those like a month out and all right, so those are my all time one. What's your next one? Up? Next one? I'm embarrassed to say this. It's going to be Twilight. Twilight the first one. Yeah, why because I was very much like read the books before the movie comes out, and I remember going to see that with all my friends, like it was just kind of fun to see that book because the book itself had really like gained traction and taken on a life of its own, and so then to see it on the big screen. What was the opening night like for Twilight? Was it a midnight release? I don't what year did Twilight come. I was fourteen. My parents probably weren't letting me go to a midnight release, yet it was kind of like a seven pm on Friday opening night. I did go to midnight releases later on. My parents were a little strict, love your mom and dad, but how passionate it was the Twilight fan base when that first movie came out, because I didn't really it didn't really get on my radar until like that movie was successful. But I didn't really know people buying into the hype of the books before that. I didn't. I didn't really feel that. I don't know if it was like the hype as much as like the last couple of movies were. But I feel like for me, I just enjoyed, like getting to see it on the big screen. I think my next one, well, I would have to go back to the first movie I remember seeing in theaters and I was a kid in in nineteen I remember Leave It to Beaver coming out, and I'm pretty sure I went to the movies before that, but I don't remember it because I know when Lion King came out, my family went. I was probably a baby. I don't know if they took me or left me somewhere. I left you somewhere, Yeah, I left me somewhere like my uncle or something, or in the barking lot. But I don't remember watching that movie. But the first movie I remember my brother taking me to was Leave It to Beaver, because I really wanted to see it, and that was the coolest experience for me. And when I asked you that question, what was the first movie you remember watching? You couldn't remember, because going to movies were always just a big deal. I also don't remember a ton of my childhood before age like six. I guess I only remember movies. I just remember having that first experience of going up to the ticket booth saying what movie you wanted to watch? I mean, we don't even do that anymore, of actually like looking up and seeing all the movie times, seeing which one is sold out, that whole experience, like that experience that's only recently gone away. I feel like pandemic now. Everything now it's a kiosk or But I remember that experience of just being at the movies, walking in, tearing the ticket, going to get concessions. It just felt all new to me. And that's the first time I really remember experiencing that, and then watching the movie itself was just, I don't know, one of my first like fun memories as the kid. Up to that point, I only remember watching him on TV. And now that I was at a movie theater, I loved it. Do you have any other movies favorite experiences? And this is why I was torn when I picked Twilight second, the first Harry Potter the first one? What was that one? Like, well, I was seven when it came out, but I think I had already started the first book by then. I mean, there's something so magical by Harry Potter, Like even now I'm twenty eight, and I still love watching them, like if it's on, I will stop what I'm doing and turn it on, like it's just And I think the first one, I was like, Oh, this is gonna be something special, and like you knew you had six more? He didn't know they were going to turn the seventh one into two movies, but I was like, Oh, this is this is gonna be good. And I missed out on that whole theater run. I never saw any Harry Potter movie in theaters. I'm sorry what I never saw one in theaters. Have you read any of the books? Yeah, okay, I've thought something. I was just double checking. You never saw any of I've only seen them on DVD after the fact when they came out. I remember my cousin would buy the DVDs and I'd watch him in his VHS. I had Sorcerers Stone on both. Yeah, I remember watching it on DVD, Chamber of Secrets. I think I got the second one on DVD, but I had Sorcerer Stone on VHS Relic relic. My next one would probably be something. We don't have a whole lot anymore. Three D movies and the only movie I ever thought that I felt used the technology correctly, And it was also the only movie I ever went to see at midnight, and it was Jackass three D. I have no words. You saw Jackass and three D. Yes, you wanted to see that in three D, I know, But those movies like that's what you wanted to see, that is what I wanted to see it in three D because before the craze was really started by Avatar, and I saw actually a bunch of people wrote in for Avatar, not so much that it was their favorite movie, but just that experience of them using that technology and kind of, you know, kicking off that whole craze of using three D and after that, everybody had a three D movie, and a lot of the time it was kind of after the fact they added it into three D effects. But with Jackass, I felt they actually used the three D cameras to do dumb things. Okay, knowing that you saw that in three D should have been something that you told me before marriage. Well, now I'm telling you you would hate it because they do things like what you would expect, I know, And that's why I don't understand why you want to see that in three D. Because it's great and it's fun. But also Jackass movies in a theater, it's a collective, like laughing experience. I was not laughing at earlier this year, everyone else was. I was everyone and Jackass three he also had on a midnight release. It was packed and just imagine like the theater we were in, but like completely full and all that laughter. It just makes it more fun. It sounds really special. Also, you can't do three D movies. I don't. I don't even Yeah, I wouldn't even consider it now. I don't like I can't wear the glasses over my glasses. I get really like I have weird like periphery, like if I'm ever in like m VR, I can't do any of that. It goes back to when you made me go on The Simpsons, right, You're like, just come on, it can't be that bad. The whole time I was just like white knuckling it. So I can't do three D. Yeah, I'm glad three D is no longer a trend. It's just not fun. I think the last time I went to see one because I accidentally bought three D tickets, it was actually up. I watched that one in three D, which is a good movie, but it doesn't need three D, doesn't need three D at all. Another movie I have on my list is The Exorcism of Emily Rose. And I really love watching horror movies in a crowd because whenever something scary happens and everybody gets scared, it's a lot of fun. And this movie came out I was fourteen years old, and I watched it in our hometown movie theater, which is no longer a thing, Buffalo Creek and Watsahatchie, and that was like still back when you would you could call the number to hear all the show times. Like I was on the very edge of that of that still being a thing because in nineteen nine, I know it was two thousand and five, but we still didn't have internet. I didn't have a computer still in two thousand and five we couldn't. We didn't really afford to one until two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, so it was still either calm a movie line or drive by or drive by it. But what was so great about a PG horror movie is it's like the movie that everybody wanted to go see that weekend. So there would be people from you know, high school there, and it's just kind of a fun environment. A lot of people aren't really there to watch the movie, but it kind of adds to the whole experience. But I think to have the high school couple making out behind you, that has to have that going on, to have some people like talking about fighting after the movie behind the theater. This is also walks to actually Texas. By the way, I don't think that happens in every theater, but then collectively everybody is there wanting to be scared. But also when you have that kind of group of people in a horror movie, the other fun thing is people making fun of the scares. Whenever something scary happens, you laugh at it because it's kind of you're trying not to be scared, so you come off across like, oh, just it's funny. That movie is pretty scary. Anything that has to do with Possession and the Devil. It's hard not to actually be scared by it. In fake pretend you won't catch me watching that, but I remember having nightmares after that movie shocking. I thought of a movie theater adjacent best best experience. I was asked to the senior prom outside of the movie theater after Avengers. Oh really yeah, how that happened? Well, somebody ruined it for me and told me that this person was going to ask me. So the whole movie I was really nervous, and then we get outside and he was like, I want to ask. It was just one of my good friends. He was I gonna ask you something. I just go yes, and he was like, I haven't finished asking the question, and I was like, that was that was it? That was something. Also on my list as honorable mentions would be a few Christopher Nolan movies, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception in dun Kirk. And why I lumped those all together is because Christopher Nolan movies on the big screen, like that's where they're meant to be seen. So he probably should have watched Tennants. That's what I we're gonna say, And going back to what I was saying about how I feel there's a bit of a difference watching something at home and watching something in theaters. That is a great example of it, because if I watched Dunkirk at home, I probably wouldn't have liked it as much ten Confirmed. I watched dunk Kirk at home and stopped watching after thirty minutes. But visually it is stunning the sound in that movie. When at the level of a movie, theater adds a whole another element to it. So that movie needed to be seen in theaters. That's why I ended up really enjoying that movie. I kind of forget about the movie if I don't really think about it, so in comparison to watching Tenants, while the visual effects were there, the sound was there. I just didn't really get that same feeling at home with it was Harry Styles and dun Kirk think, okay, now he was so. I even feel that's why Christopher Nolan was kind of fighting against the same day HBO Max release when that movie came out. I feel like it did hurt that movie a little bit. But that movie was also very confusing, and I had to really pay attention to it, and even then I would still get lost in the movie and have to go. I think that's one of the few movies I had to rewind because I had no idea what happened? Didn't We just completely restarted the next day. Yes, we did. So that was a tough one. And you have another one before I get to the listener responses Yes, honorable mention, step up. I truly thought that if I just like took up dance again, I would fall in love with something that looked like Channing Tatum. Didn't work. Didn't work. I'm not the Mexican Channing Tatum. Can you dance? Nope? No, that's all I like. Just the dance skills, just the dance skills. Okay, I made you watch some movie with me for the first time recently, and I think you were frightened by how I can quote the entire thing and all the songs. Yes, I didn't really know any of the songs. You could quote it down to every single word soundtrack. It's just so good. If the two thousands relic it is two thousand six relic. Okay, that was my honorable mention. Let's get to some listeners now. Aaron Salazar on Twitter said, midway and I saw a bunch of people say this movie, and I think it's because it's a war movie. But this is also one that I watched not in theaters and didn't enjoy as much. You watch something about me, yes, rude, But I only watched because Nick Jonas is in it, And a bunch of people said I would love it. Yeah, why do you think I wanted to watch because Nick Jonas is in it? But I think that's one maybe you had to watch in theaters to really understand and enjoy. So I did see a bunch of people saying that one. Cody A on Twitter said during Final Destination, the emergency lights began flashing during a thunderstorm death scene. It seemed like it was supposed to be like that until we were told to evacuate. The timing couldn't have been better. Final Destination movies will ruin you. They will destination to the choke hold it still has on me. I will not drive behind the truck, but I still care. I think about every single time I'll be driving, even if it's logs, if it's anything tied down, I'm like, no, I gotta move. And I don't watch scary movies, and somehow I've seen that one like five times. Those movies had such a big pop culture impact and a lasting effect on us all as he wan traumatized. That's an interesting topic to movies that have had a long, last thing traumatic effect. Number one Final Destination. Rachel f on Twitter said she was at the premiere of Twister. She was very pregnant and they even brought in special audio equipment and it was so loud. I would have loved to have been there for that. Sounds pretty cool. I remember going to try to get opening night tickets to Twister and it was completely sold out. Twister. You were six, Yes, that's the other thing I remember. I remember because my brother went up tried to get tickets. They were completely sold out for the entire night, and then we never got to see Twister in theaters because it was sold out probably for like two or three weeks. That's how crazy the movies used to be, that people would go and want to see a movie opening night and you couldn't get in. There's also not much else to do in Walks Hatchee, no shade walks the hatche Yes. And also there's only one screen one movie, I mean one movie showed on the screen. Here. You can watch Spider Man and they put it on like six seven different screens inside the theater there they have I think it was like four or five total, and it was just one. So if you can't getting you're not gonna see it. That's how hard it was to get in. Bernie fuent this on Instagram said Transformers because of the sound effects the fighting, and you would hear it all around the theater. I do love when I go to a movie and it's so loud that it adds to the experience. And it's also kind of fun when you go and you're walking down the hall and you can hear the rumble in other theaters. What movie did we just see recently that was really loud. It was Venom two so loud, and I know part of that was one of her special powers that one of the villains was like she could scream really loud and cause some destruction. But it was unearthly loud to the point I thought, I just getting like now that I'm thirty, like gotta turn this movie down. That movie was so loud. But I remember when we reviewed that, we talked about that, and other people said, yes, that movie was too loud, But I like a movie. That's why whenever the pandemic did start and I realized I was gonna watch more movies at home, invested in the soundbar Metzi on Twitter said, Empire strikes back. When it was first released, I was thirteen. The entire place erupted when Vader was first shown on the screen. If I could go back and watch one movie in theaters on opening night, I think would be I mean, I would pick any of the original in the trilogy of Star Wars. But I can just imagine at that time, like that's kind of what created the summer blockbuster, just created that whole energy of like you have to see this movie in theaters. In like most recent history, I just think that would be so cool to go back and experience of like seeing this kind of sci fi movie that's completely new, dropped into this whole new world, like it would be amazing. Yeah, it was the first of its kind. Like now, we're so used to sci fi that's like every genre that everything wants to fall into. We're just so used to being able to see everything just exists in a movie like somebody flying. We accepted somebody you know, turning invisible, coming back and being on fire. We just accept that as like, oh yeah, and we're judging other things back in the day, like just these practical effects and something like Star Wars was mind blowing. Chewbacca you have a little robot that rolls around and talks the robot. And then finally, Ellie on Instagram said the Rookie because everyone did a standing ovation. She doesn't remember anything about the movie, just the standing ovation. I love that one because I think it's interesting when people clap during or at the end of a movie. I'm genuinely trying to figure out why there was a standing I can't think of all the movies to go watch, she said with a small townly, I'm gonna need smart, But of all the movies to go to, I think the biggest standing I don't really remember standing ovations. A lot of people clapped during Endgame. There was more cheers than clapping in Spiderman. I think when we went to go watch The Batman and I don't even feel like people clapped after that one. Who were those claps for? The director isn't there? The actors aren't there? Hot take. I cannot stand people that clap at the end of the movie in the plane lands, yeah, I get that one. I don't hate it. I just don't see why you would, like, who are you clapping for? I don't hate it, thins. My mom raised me. I'm not allowed to hate anything, Okay, I have to strongly dislike. I strongly dislike when people clap at the m movie. Yeah, I won't clap. I did find it was weird that whenever we watched Spider Man No Way Home that I like shouted, like I was yelling with the other people because I was so excited. Oh yeah with that one part. Yeah, So I get that, Like, if you can't control it and something comes out like yes, I feel like that's a more acceptable response than clapping. Yeah, it's saying like something coming out, and that's like a motion. Yes, showing emotion is fine. I think I said a curse word during Spider Man No Way Home because I was so hype. I don't remember that, but I don't see the clapping. I don't get it. So those are are best movie theater experiences. Thanks everybody for commenting and d m ng and sending in years. If you think there's one we miss, well you can always shoot me an email movie Mike D at gmail dot com and I'll fight you about it. I want to get into this movie review now. Let's talk about The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, starring Nick Cage, where he plays himself. Well, he describes it as a fictionalized version of himself, but I'm going all in and saying this is basically a Nick Cage biopic. Maybe not exactly, but in an odd way. I kind of feel like I got to know a little bit more about what it is to be a movie star. And I'll explain that a little bit more before I get into my full review. Here is just a little bit of the trailer of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. We've got another offer it's a million bucks. It's to attend a wealthy gentleman's birthday party. I would never do that. It's the easiest gig ever. You play yourself. What do we know about this guy anyway? Is something range? Your friend's working for the US problement long fly to me guns. They're my golden guns. I don't want to do here, the last person I want to kill. So what this movie is about. It's Nick Cage and he's at a point in his career where he's struggling financially and he's looking for that next big movie role. Thinks he gets it and then is disappointed when he doesn't land the gig. He's trying to find a way to make money, and then he gets this offer for a million dollars to attend this wealthy guy's birthday party. Doesn't want to do it, but finds himself there. And the guy is a massive Nick Cage fan. He has all kinds of memorabilias, has seen all of his movies. And then where the action comes in is that Nick Cage he gets recruited by the FBI because it turns out maybe this guy is actually behind some serious stuff and kind of a bad dude. So that's what kind of happened into the rest of the movie. It's Nick Cage trying to help out the FBI take this guy down. I wasn't expecting to like this movie as much as I did. I probably in the last few years have become more of a Nick Cage fan. And what I loved about this movie is how self aware it is. It's a very meta movie, but I think it works because it knows what he's trying to do. And this is a movie that only Nick Cage could make. Because they find a way to reference all his movies and in them talking about his other movies, showing clips of his other movies. I realized, like how many great Nick Cage movies there are, and how kind of underrated he is as an actor. I know he kind of started out, you know, early in his career he won an oscar, but then I feel like the perception of him in Hollywood kind of change where he was a little bit more adventurous in the roles he took, and he even kind of explains it a little bit in this movie. His character does anyway of you know, acting is supposed to be fun, and that's why he does some of those movies, So even though he wasn't exact playing like the real life version of himself, I felt like some of the story he was telling you kind of realize that movie stars, even at the level of Nick Cage, are still normal people. And I loved how self aware it was him talking about the movies he's been in and also the effects that that has on him as a person and him as an actor, because I just feel sometimes now with actors at his level, they don't really want to talk about all the movies that we all know and love. They're focused on newer things, sometimes more serious roles. Even with Nick Cage, you know, last year he did one of my favorite movies, Pig, a lot more of a dramatic role, and this one is a bit in a different direction from that. But us as movie fans, we love them for the movies, you know, we kind of grew up with him on so I think it was cool just to see that all those characters still live inside of him, and he credits all those roles for getting him to where he is now. Now this movie is an action comedy. It's not full like funny jokes. But I actually found myself laughing out loud at least a couple of times, which is a lot. And I was worried after I first saw the trailer when he came out last year, because there is a scene that looks so utterly dumb, and it's a scene whenever they're trying to get over the wall, and it's big and dramatic, and then they realized they can just walk around the wall. And I thought it was such a obvious, kind of dumb joke that if that's the level of comedy that was going to be throughout the entire movie, it was gonna be a big snore fest and almost cringing away. But when you watch this movie, all of the humor mixed with the action intertwined so well together that it all kind of makes sense. It never feels overtly cheesy. Maybe in that instance it is a little bit dumb, but for some reason it just really worked. And now I find myself oddly rooting for Nick Cage because he kind of seems like a good dude, like a really weird dude. But this movie did kind of humanize him in a way, knowing that even though he is this big Hollywood star, he still struggles with things. It touches on a little bit how that can affect your life at home wife and kids. Being gone all the time. Doing movie roles that take you all over the world can really have an effect on your relationships. But I think overall why I found this movie so enjoyable because it felt like Nick Cage put all of Nick Cage into this role, and the director had to convince him to even do this movie. He pitched it to him a lot, and eventually it was a letter later wrote to Nick Cage that made him decide on doing this movie, and it just really shows in his performance and his commitment to the character which he's playing himself not too far of a stretch, but that he really wanted to set out to make something great. And I think also realizing how big of a Nicolas Cage movie fan I am while watching this movie, it made me like it even more. So if you two are Nicholas Age fan, I think this is definitely one you should check out. Because my top five Nick Cage movies would probably be number five, Gone in sixty Seconds. Number four from last year is Easily Pig. Number three is National Treasure, which is probably the knick Cage movie I've seen the most. Number two would be Face Off, because that's just the classic. And then number one I would have to go with con Air, and I was talking about how, you know, his departure from Hollywood and the roles he was kind of known for. I think that was coln Air for him. But I just think it's cool how you can kind of walk that line of doing, you know, fun and out there movies but also do the serious stuff. And maybe it's because they were a little bit before my time. I would probably give honorable mentions to Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas, and The Rock. But there are just so many great Knick Cage movies. I just leaned more into the late nineties early two thousands Nick Cage. But I have to say, after watching this movie, I kind of feel like it almost makes my top ten, and if I had to rate it, I would give it four out of five. Golden Guns, which was one of my favorite references in the movie, and that is a reference to Face Off. So that movies in theaters now if you want to check it out. And now it's time for the part of the podcast where I break down a new movie trailer of a film coming to you very soon in theaters or streaming online. In a segment we call it's time to head down to movie. All right, let's talk about it. Thor, Love and Thunder. I've been waiting for this movie trailer for a very long time. I gotta say I love everything about it, everything from the trailer to the poster art. I just feel like Thour is such an underrated Marvel franchise. He's an underrated superhero and Chris Hemsworth just doesn't get the credit for his comedic timing and just looking like a god like that is such a high accomplishment that I feel just goes overlooked. But here's just a little bit of the four Love and Thunder trailer sounds who I want used for battle now, they're about humble tools for piece, I need to figure out exactly who I am. There we go. Thor trailers always coming strong with the use of a big song, and I really love the use of guns and roses in this trailer really kind of creates that feeling of excitement. So there's just so much good energy surrounding this movie. It's coming out on July eight, so I feel like this is going to be the movie of the summer for me. What the plot of this movie is is stores best efforts to find inner peace are dashed when Gore, the god Butcher, seeks the extinction of God's But really, what I took away from this trailer is Natalie Portman is back, and she is holding a mighty hammer and is known as the Mighty Thor. So I love that they're finally bringing Natalie Portman back into the Thor solo films, and it looks like her character is going to be awesome in this. I thought they had just so much great chemistry in the First Door movie, which again I feel like it just gets overlooked when talking about all the great Marvel franchises. I know, obviously I give a lot of love to Spider Man, and I feel like everybody's favorite always goes to Iron Man or Captain America. But man, the Thor movies are solid. The first one is so good. I get The Dark World wasn't the best Or movie, but I also feel like it came out around the time where there were just so many Marvel movies coming out, all the origin stories, but Thor Ragnarok I felt really defined the Thor character. So I think it was that movie where they finally found his voice and the groove and the field of the movies, and I credit that so much to the director, who is now back for thor Love and Thunder, So I feel like it will have that same kind of writing, and just by judging from this trailer, looks like it's gonna be pretty epic. And I feel like right now we're getting less Marvel movies every year, but I feel like they're stepping up in quality, like all the good ones are kind of coming back around right now, with Doctor Strange coming out soon, this coming out in July. I was bummed to see that Spider Man Across the Spider Verse Part one got delayed until next year. But if we get Doctor Strange, we get four. I think I'll be fine with that, and I feel like other people are excited to Within the first twenty four hours of this trailer dropping and got two hundred and nine million views. That's two million views in just twenty four hours, which is a pretty high number, but not the record. The record goes to Spider Man No Way Home, which got three hundred and fifty five point five million views in the first twenty four hours of that trailer dropping, and I think that is the only trailer that I remember when I saw it and where I was when I saw it, because it was the only time I set like an appointment to watch the trailer. I don't get that excited about trail layers now that I do this podcast that keep up with them regularly, so I can do this segment, But that was the only one I was like, I need to see this the second it comes out. Following that one was Avengers Endgame, which got two hundred and eighty nine million, and then Avengers Infinity War, which got two hundred and thirty million views within the first twenty four hours, So Thor is right up there with those movies. I feel like this will be a very fun theater experience. I love a good Marvel sporting event. I even love the poster art so much that I'm already looking into getting a T shirt with that graphic because it has that kind of eighties feel, almost like hey Man, Masters of the Universe style, And I feel like Marvel movies and just any kind of movie poster in general as of late has been so generic and so whatever that it was cool to see it actually looked like a piece of art. Now like that used to be a really important thing. The movie poster. Go to Walmart, buy one and put it up with thumb tax. Now I feel like it's all just a bunch of generic floating heads. But this one looks like it deserves to be the displayed. But again, that a store. Love and Thunder coming out on July this week's edition, and that's gonna do it for this week's episode. Thanks everybody who sent in the submissions to be a part of the topic this week. I want to go back to those for this week's listeners shout out. This one came to me on Instagram from Kara Burke. Her submission to the topic was American Sniper. No one moved for five minutes after that ending total silence. That was a very intense movie to watch in theaters. I remember watching that movie on opening weekend. It was packed and there were so many scenes where it got very intense. There wasn't much music, there wasn't much sound, and collectively the entire theater would go silent, which is rare. Like no one crunching on anything, no one pulling their straw in and out of their cup. It was utter silence because there were so many powerful moments in that movie and it was one of those movies even though you know what happens, it was still so aptivating to watch. And I also did see that movie in my hometown of walksa Hatchie, which when they did do the tribute to Chris Kyle, they went down Highway to eighties seven which runs right through walksa Hatchie and I remember that day. So I don't know if it was more impactful because of that because I was in Texas. But that is such a great movie. If you haven't seen that one, so appreciate you care for that submission and that is your listeners shout out. If you want one of those, just send me a d M on Instagram. You can contribute to a topic or send me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. Thanks to everybody for listening to this week's episode, Thanks for being subscribed to the podcast, Telling a Friend, and if you don't mind, if you haven't done it yet, if you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave that five star rating. It takes no time to set that five stars and it helps me out in the algorithm here to pop up into other people's feeds and become a part of the movie crew we have going on here until next week. Go out and watch good movies. I'll talk to you later