Mike’s Top Ten 80’s Movies + Movie Review: Bodies Bodies Bodies + Trailer Park:  Funny Pages

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today we are talking Eighties movies. It's a genre I often overlook, but there are so many essential eighties movies I wanted to dedicate an entire episode depict some of my favorites. In the movie review, we'll talk about a new A twenty four film starring Pete Davidson called Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. It's being described as a gen Z slasher, so i'll give you my thoughts on that and in the trailer park we'll keep it in the film productions. And we'll talk about a new movie that just came out called Funny Pages that I can't wait to see because it looks very nostalgic. So that is what we have coming up on this week's episode. Thanks everybody for being subscribed, Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now 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 walking audio. David's Glass from the Nashville Podcast Network I was asked recently, what are some of your favorite eighties movies? And I think unfairly I overlooked the Eighties when it comes to film. I think I tend to associate them with very cheesy rom coms or teen movies. That is just kind of what I think about when I think about eighties movies. But when I really sat down to study the decade, I realized there are so many essential films, and I think it was such a pivotal time in movies that that the decade doesn't get the credit that it deserves. Just the decade before. In the seventies, we had our first summer blockbuster with movies like Jaws. We were coming off Star Wars, so a lot of big movies were starting to happen, and I think the Eighties is what really cemented that when you look back on some of the biggest movies. So I decided to put together a list of my top ten eighties movies, and I had to go very personal on these. It would be easy just to pick all the big eighties classics, and I'll kind of get to those in the honorable mentions. But my reasoning behind these are movies I watched as a kid or maybe discovered later as an adult, and movies I also feel have big contributions when it comes to film history. And a lot of these movies I just in my head didn't really place them in the eighties. So when I was asked about my favorite eighties movies, I should have included more of these on my list. So now I have my diffinite list. But let's kick it off with number ten. I'm going with from five, The Breakfast Club from director John Hughes. Who John Hughes directed so many movies in the eighties, so many essential eighties movies, and he went on to write even countless more iconic movies. But in the eighties, not only did he do Breakfast Club, he also did Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She's having a Baby, and Uncle Buck. And if I had to just associate a director with the eighties, I go with John on Hughes. His movies had what really shaped the best eighties teen movies in that decade. Now, The Breakfast Club had a budget of just one million dollars when it came out in nine five, and it went on to make fifty one million at the box office, and it is the quintessential coming of age comedy. If you haven't seen The Breakfast Club, It's about five students from five different walks of life and they all have to go to an all day detention on a Saturday at a high school in nineteen eighty four. The group has the Princess, the rebel, they owtcast, the brainy dude, and the jock, and you get to learn about each of their story, how they are intertwined, and by the end of the movie maybe you have a little bit of a different perspective on knowing where everybody comes from. So many iconic scenes and iconic lines. I have to put The Breakfast Club from five at number ten at number nine. One of my favorite Disney live action movies, I'm going with Honey I Shrunk the Kids from direct or Joe Johnson. The movie cost eighteen million dollars to make, but went on to make two hundred and twenty seven million dollars in the United States. Rick moranis is a great comedic actor, and I really loved every installment in the Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchise, But this without a doubt is the best one. You have him playing Wayne Zelinsky, who is this inventor maybe a little bit of a mad scientist trying to invent this shrinking ray and he thinks he has it. He thinks this is going to change his life, and can't really quite get it to work, and he thinks he's wasted his entire existence. He is a detriment to his family, but then comes to find out the machine actually works and he shrunk his kids. He destroys the machine and throws out the kids in the trash and then they have to go from out on the curb in the trash and make it all the way back into the house. This is one of my favorite family adventure movies, and I think it's because of all the things they have to encounter getting back into the house. And this is a movie that I felt really played into kids imagination. As a kid, That's kind of where my mind went to, like what would happen if I was really small? How would things kind of be from that perspective, And that is what this movie did. And I love the eighties feel in this movie. From the wardrobe, you have the neighbors and the way they battle against each other. It just has that eighties American feel to it. But what this movie really captured through the use of real life animatronics is that had a very practical feel to it. The director of this movie wanted the characters to interact with some of the things going on to give that more authentic feel. So that's another thing I really loved about the eighties. They didn't really have that c g I technology yet, They couldn't just green screen everything, and they had to create real robots like the ant in this movie and do things through practical effects or camera positionings, do some forced perspective. But a lot of that just feels a little bit more authentic, feels a little bit more warm to me. And this is also a movie I try to revisit pretty frequently, especially now that it is on Disney Plus. So if you haven't seen this movie in a very long time, or if you have kids and haven't exposed them to this movie yet, let them watch it and see if they enjoy it too, or if they just think it looks really outdated. That would crush me a little bit, but I think everybody deserves to see Honey I shrunk the kids at least once so at number nine from I'm going with this one at number eight, Speaking of action adventure from the eighties, I'm going with the Goonies from Night Five. Directed by Richard Donner, the movie costs nineteen million dollars to make and went on to make a hundred and twenty five million dollars at the US box office. This movie has my favorite group of kids in any movie. Not only do you have such great actors like Seawan Aston, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Kerry Green, Martha Plimpton, one of the iconic actresses from the eighties, and you have all those actors, but each one plays such a great character, and that's what really makes this movie. They're all just so well defined and have their own individual roles and personalities. And as a kid, when you watch this movie, you kind of put yourself in the position of which one you would be. And not just because my name is Mike, but I greatly identified with Mikey in this movie. But I love that it is a story about a group of young misfits and growing up. I think we all kind of feel a little bit like outcast. We feel like we're not the coolest or the most popular, and that is what the Goonies set out to represent, that group of misfits, that group of kids who never really fit in anywhere, but can do crazy, amazing things with the power of friendship. So they call themselves the Goonies. They discover this ancient map and set out on an adventure to find the legendary pirates lost treasure. And I think if you were making a list of the most iconic characters from the eighties, it wouldn't be complete without Chunk in the truffle Shuffle. Probably couldn't make that scene today. I think it would be a little bit too offensive, But growing up as a Chunky kid, I felt that. So at number eight, I'm going with the Goonies. At number seven, we're getting to our first R rated movie on the list. Maybe could have even had a more hardcore rating, but I'm going with nineteen eight threes. Scarface the most twisted version of the American dream that has ever been created. You have al Pacino as the one and only Scarface, and just talking about iconic eighties characters, he would easily be in the top five most recognizable lines, most recognizable look. And this is a movie that I didn't really associate with the eighties. It's my favorite al Pacino movie and it kind of transcends that decade to me. So while I was thinking about all these different movies from the eighties, I was pleasantly remind it when I realized this movie was made and put out in nineteen three, had a budget of twenty five million dollars and went on to make sixty six million in the United States. If you haven't seen Scarface, it is the story of Tony Mandana and the drug trade in Miami in the eighties. He comes to the United States looking for the American dream, and for him, that is murdering anybody who kind of stands in his way, and he eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in Florida as he controls nearly all of the cocaine coming in from Miami. I love the struggle in this movie and Scarface going from being kind of a nobody at the very bottom of the rings and then being at the ultimate position of power. And it's a story about how power affects you. When you get that, I guess you would call him successful even though he is a drug lord. As you get that successful and reach that higher point. How even once you achieve your dream, it's still not be what you set out to be. It's still much more complicated and a lot more problems that you weren't expecting. But overall this is just a fun, brutal movie. Al Pacino and Michelle Peiffer in the same film is just eighties perfection. The iconic imagery of him in the Tommy gun, or him in the pile of white powder on his desk, or some of my favorite visuals ever in an action movie. And also it's one of my favorite longer movies at almost three hours long. It was on the double vhs back in the day and just proves when you make something still compelling, nobody really remembers the run time. So also a win for longer films, and that is why I put Scarface at number seven on my list of eighties movies. Moving on now to number six from a movie I just love and maybe not a whole lot of people have heard of or let alone scene, but I'm going with Born in East l A starring Cheach Martin and directed by Cheach Martin and his directorial debut, a really low budget comedy but went on to make seventeen million dollars at the box office. But beyond the numbers, beyond maybe this not being one of the most recognizable films of the eighties, this movie was very important for me. It's about his character named Rudy, who plays an l a born American who is mistaken for a Mexican legal immigrant and deported to Mexico, and then the entire movie is him trying to do everything he can to get across the border and get back home, so he takes on all these odd jobs in Mexico. He's also having to fit in because he's more American than he is Mexican. Hardly even speak Spanish, so the whole idea of him being in Mexico is bizarre to him, even though he is Mexican American. This is a movie that my family and I would sit down and watch together, and it really brought us all together because there aren't a whole lot of movies, especially comedies, that are put out in America, that represent Mexican Americans. It was one of the first films that really did that for me. And although it is a comedic approach to this situation, the movie is still really relevant to today's world. It pokes fun and a lot of the things and doesn't take itself too seriously, but at the core of the movie, it does show some of the struggles that Mexican Americans face when it comes to discrimination. So I always kind of latched onto that theme of this movie. Even though it is a pretty ridiculous and fun movie, it can still say something. And I did find there was a brief period in the eighties where movies were getting made like this, geared towards telling Mexican American stories. Almost put another movie on this list, Standing Delivery, which is another one of my favorites, and that movie came out in so I feel like there were a lot of these movies made in the eighties speaking with Latino voices, and I would quite honestly like to see more of them. And here's just one of my favorite scenes from the movie, whenever he is going to pick up his cousin from the factory and the factory gets rated and they find him hiding inside of a giant Teddy Bear. So that is kind of the scope of the comedy in this movie. Huh was a green card? I don't got a green card? Man? Where were you born. I was born in East l A. Man. And who's the President of the United States? That the coupley guy on TV? So I was on Death Valley Days, Um I was John Wayne here. So at number six from seven, let's go with Born in East l A. Made it to the top five. Now going all the way back to kicking off the decade with the Empire strikes Back. That's what I'm putting at number five. Quite possibly the best sequel ever made. And even though A New Hope is my favorite Star Wars movie, this is such a strong follow up and has some of the most iconic Star Wars in a dree ever like this is the movie that you kind of associate all the big moments with Star Wars. The movie was directed by Irwin Kirshner, who had never directed a blockbuster before. It cost eighteen million dollars but went on to make over half a billion. And I found a clip of the director, Irwin Kirshner talking about the struggles taking on his first blockbuster and how complicated the balance between sci fi and comedy and love is. While making this movie, I felt I needed humor in the picture, and yet I couldn't have gags I felt I needed a love story, and yet I couldn't have a lot of smooching and kissing and alledge stuff, and it had to all be more implied. I knew I needed something powerful going on inside Luke's soul, and he really carries the picture, of course, and hearing him talk about that, I realized he completely set out and accomplished what he was trying to do. Because I think that is what makes the Empire Strikes Back so great. It's also funny but doesn't try to be a straight on comedy. There's a very delicate balance that a Star Wars movie has to go through, even so early on, to be that perfect balance and blend of everything to not appear cheesy, to be taken seriously by audiences, and I feel like that is exactly what this movie captures. I think the love story and the comedy is perfectly detailed in this scene with Hans Solo and Princess Leiah, I love you. I know, like that's a that is Star Wars Empire strikes Back in a clip. And you also have in this movie Luke training with Yoda, Luke Skywalker really being the one who carries this entire movie and then, of course, the most iconic scene in Star Wars history, Luke Skywalker's fight with Darth Vader, in one of the most famous movie quotes of all time. If you only knew the power of a dark side will be a little to you. What happened, father? He told me enough, He told me you kill it. I am you father. Could you imagine the audience reaction if that scene happened in two for the first time, we see people flipping out at Marvel movies, yelling at the screen, throwing their popcorn, doing back flips in the chairs. Could you imagine if that was recaptured now? No, probably not, because people just hate on Star Wars for any reason they get and can't let anything new happen because of this affinity we have with the original trilogy. But if we let ourselves open our minds to recreating some of these iconic moments and allowing things to be new and fun, we could have that again, but we probably won't, So we'll go back to nineteen eighties. The Empire Strikes back at number five. At number four was just speaking about Mexican American voices, and it wouldn't be an eighties list without one of my favorite movies of all time at number four, I'm going with La Bamba from seven, directed by Luis Valdes. Movie cost only six point five million dollars to make and went on to earn fifty four point two million dollars at the US box office. La Bamba is the story of Richie Valens and his rise to fame, which happened so quickly, and he was also taken from us just as quickly as his star started to rise. But at the core of this movie, it is the story about two brothers, Richie Valens and his brother Bob, and how one of them has always been kind of the poster child of the family, the one everybody believes in, the one everybody invests in and knows that will go on to do great things. And then you have Bob and is kind of the black sheep of the family who has made some bad choices, made some bad mistakes, and resents his other brother for that and resents his brother when he does become successful and is able to take their family from an impoverished living situation and helped them achieve the American dream. And speaking of you know, Latino and Mexican American voices in film, I think this is one of the best to do it because it shows somebody who was born in the United States, but because of their last name, gets associated with being Mexican, even though Richie Vallens didn't speak Spanish, and everybody kind of assumed he did just by the way he looked in his last name, and he took that and covered La Bamba and made it a rock and roll hit. And why I love the representation of Latinos in this movie and really every movie in the eighties. I felt like it really captured our culture in the most honest way because you do have Mexican American directors at the four front of these films. It felt very authentic to me and still does. Sometimes when I see Mexican American characters portrayed on the screen, it's told through the eyes, and maybe somebody who didn't grow up that way and doesn't get everything completely down sometimes has to over emphasize things like use certain Spanish phrases or Spanish words or small Spanish characteristics of our culture. That doesn't really feel as authentic as it should. So I think when I go back to some of my favorite films, it's always back to the eighties. They just really head it down in this decade. So that is why I look back to movies like LaBamba, Born in the East, l A and Stand and Deliver, And this movie will continue to be one of my favorites. And I'm sorry, I think I've probably met my quota of talking about this movie for this year. But at number four, I'm going with Labama from Night Seven. We'll move now to the top three. At number three, I'm going with Batman from nine, directed by Tim Burton, a box office success, making four hundred and eleven million dollars from a forty eight million dollar budget, which is a pretty pricey movie, especially for one of the eighties. I think this is one of the most important superhero films, and I'll tell you why. We did have the Superman movies from seventy eight through the early eighties, but I think this is the one that showed that superhero movies could be a little bit grittier. And I think that's because of the character that is Batman. The storyline was a little darker, there was more violence. You have Jack Nicholson as the Joker, who is really responsible for making playing the Joker the role that it is today that he was one of the first ones to realize what a toll it is to really take on this character, to play the psycho path, and how much that can really affect you when you have to live in that day after day while filming this movie. And then you have Michael Keaton, who is my favorite Batman. I just love the world that Tim Burton created in Batman and in the sequel Batman Returns. It felt very true to the comic books, and the movie had such great imagery. The movie memory that I created after watching this movie was as Batman is flying towards the Joker, he pulls out this ridiculously long gun and fires it. And I think that's what made this movie great was all the gadgets, Like that's what Batman is known for, and that is where this movie really comes through. So at number three, I'm going with nine nine Batman. At number two from four, I'm going with A Nightmare on Elm Street from director Wes Craven. The movie cost one point eight million dollars to make, which at the time was a very large amount to spend on a small horror production. This movie set the standard for horror movies in the eighties, but really in the John since then, there's so much iconic imagery from this movie, from Freddy Krueger's knife wielding hand ascending from the bathtub bubbles while Nancy is in their drifting off into sleep. Freddy Krueger on Fire on the Bed has one of the most brutal openings to a horror movie that immediately killed off a character, which was such a big shock and a tactic now used in horror movies to stun audiences. Right from the beginning. I love one of the first times to see Freddy Krueger walking down the alley and his arms expand. Even though it looks a little bit fake, it a little bit cheesy, it's still pretty horrifying. But without a doubt, the best scene in the entire movie is when Johnny Depp dies and all the blood comes flowing from the bed, And that also goes back to the use of practical effects and director Wes Craven's vision to show audience is something they've never seen before, and the design of that effect was pretty cool to see the behind the scenes of that of them actually leap dumping all of that red liquid, creating all these electrical sort shortages and putting essentially everybody's life in danger on the set of that movie. But they got the shot a movie I tried to rewatch every Halloween and I think it still holds up. And at the time when this came out in the eighties, I loved all the posters, all of the TV spots for this. I go back and watch those on YouTube from time to time. And the reason why this movie just had a lasting effect and made so many ways when it came out, it's because of that idea of us not being safe in our sleep, and that is really where this horror movie goes on an entirely different level. To think there are movies that came out you would watch them and it would affect your real life. You would struggle going to sleep that night at fears that Freddy Krueger would invade your dreams. That is the power of a great movie and a grade eighties movie. So at number two, I am going with a nightmare on Elm Street before I get to my nun one movie from the eighties. There are so many honorable mentions. The eighties are such a huge decade. I could probably do several different episodes dedicated to them, But movies that almost made my list, and some that you sent in on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram were Beetlejuice from This Is Spinal Tap from four, which is one of my favorite comedies, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, RoboCop, The Shining die Hard, Dirty Dancing Footloose Bill, and Ted's Various Bueller's Day Off, Beverly Hills Cop, which Eddie Murphy had an incredible run at the box office in the eighties, one of the biggest stars in all of Hollywood during that time. Full Metal Jacket, which is one of my favorite movies. You know, so that some other great horror movies like The Evil Dead. I was never the biggest Indiana Jones fan, but Raiders of the Lost start came out in one The Outsiders big. We didn't even get into any Tom Hanks movies on this list, who also had a great run in the eighties, The Karate Kid Airplane, some people said The Little Mermaid, which came out in I still think this wasn't that great a decade for the eighties Disney movies. They were still in that xerox era where everything kind of looked photocopied over the top. From Sylvester stallone top Gun. I may have said that one already in the movie I couldn't quite put on my list that people will rip me up for was et From Night two. I love that movie. I think it is an important and iconic movie, but when it comes to my favorites from the decade, I never really had that emotional attachment to ET I think that was one I needed to experience earlier on. I was born in nine one, so that movie felt really old to me, which is weird for me to say. But the one that did make my list was a movie that came out three years after Et From five, and it is Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zamakas, who also did Forrest Gump, who framed Roger Rabbit, and did the entire Back to the Future trilogy, actually from parts one to part three. The movie costs nineteen million dollars to make and went on to make three d eight million at the US box office. And even though I discovered this movie much later in life, this is truly a movie that defies the eighties. I think it is timeless, even though it is dealing with predicting the future and a date that we've already passed, which is weird to think about, but I just think it has all the best elements of what makes a great movie, of what makes something spectacular to watch. It has comedy, it has action, and has a love story, and it has that sci fi. So we just talked about last week of movies. I would recommend to somebody just coming out of a tenure coma, this is a movie in that same kind of vein that I would recommend to somebody who has never seen a movie before, say an alien just dropped into Earth, and you're trying to explain to them what a movie is. I think this is the movie I would show them because it has all of those elements, and it is a movie me that I struggle with it ever being remade, because I selfishly would like to see how much this story would benefit from having the technology that we have today. And I know as much as we hate having movies rebooted that we know and love, and I think they don't need to be touched because they are perfect. I think if I had to pick one and was able to handpick the director and hand pick the movie studio that would go on to make the remake, I would want to see a new Back to the Future. Well maybe that's just me, but those are my top ten eighties movies. If you have more that you want to submit to the conversation, hit me up on Twitter or Instagram at Mike Distro, shoot me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. Let's get into a movie review now. I want to talk about Bodies, Bodies Bodies, which is a horror comedy movie from It follows a group of rich, twentysome things who throw this elaborate and somewhat odd hurricane party at one of their mansions, and they play this game called Bodies Bodies Bodies, where one person is assigned the killer and everybody else has to figure it out. But then some people start getting murdered and they try to figure out who the real killer is outside of this game. So before I get into what I think about this movie, here's just a little bit of the Body's Bodies Bodies trailer. Who wants to play Bodies Bodies ties? I get so stressed out every time we play that someone always has a crime. So how do you play? Well, I'm not coming to say that if you draw the tiece of paper that has the X on it, you are the murderer. Our friend is dead. So if you could just like not escalate the situation that I'm not escalating, you're holding the knife and you're moving your hands while you talk. So this movie has a cast of a lot of fresh new faces, which I found pretty refreshing. The most recognizable face, though, you have, is Pete Davidson. He is one of the rich kids in this movie. So where the story starts is you find one of the characters who has a new girlfriend and she is introducing her to all of her new friends, who are all these rich twenty year olds, and they're all getting together at one of their parents mansions where they're going to drink and take drugs as they await this hurricane that is about to hit. So one night where they're all partying, they decided to play this game called Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, where everybody draws a card and on one of those cards marks that that person is assigned to be the killer, and they all have to figure out who the killer is. They turned the lights off, that killer taps one of them, and that person is now dead in the game, and they keep trying to guess and make all these kind of accusations and reasonings of who they think the killer is, while the killer is trying not to be revealed and be able to take out as many people as possible. So that's the game they're playing called Bodies, Bodies Bodies. But then one of them actually dies, so suddenly it gets very serious as they realize there is a killer among them. So what the movie is really about is how well do you know your friends, how well do you know the people you hang out with, and what happens when you start accusing them of killing people. So it goes from them trying to find out who done it in the fictional game, to them throughout the entire movie really trying to find the killer. So it is a fun modern twist on that who Done It genre. And I do think this is a pretty important film. And even though I didn't love it, but I did enjoy it. I felt this movie was very fresh and entertaining. It is the first real gen Z slasher I have seen, and it was a little bit more horror slasher than I was expecting. I was kind of inspecting a full on comedy. It kind of felt like the movie Spring Breakers meets like a scream. I guess I was just expecting a little bit more ha ha comedy, and it was a little bit more of a clever satire on the genre and also poking fun at rich kids. But I think the thing I really enjoyed about the movie is it was very well written. I love the dialogue in this movie, how it really tried to capture what people in their early twenties are like right now. So I think this will later be looked at it is one of the most quintessential gen Z movies made. I think for my generation from millennials. I kind of felt represented this way back in with a movie called Unfriended, which is also a horror movie. I felt like that really kind of came out at a time when I was going through the things that the characters were in that movie. That movie took place entirely over Skype, so the technology was very set in that period of time that I have really seen a movie really captured that sense. And even though Unfriended isn't the best movie ever, I just go back and watch that movie a lot because it reminds me of that time. So I do think that Bodies will be that for people probably here in another eight or ten years, and why I do think that dialogue is so important because it is so easy to make a bad horror movie, and where horror movies really kind of get it wrong, I really kind of miss out on is that dialogue of really creating a story and creating something believable, which I think Bodies did do really well, because it's not enough just to rely on the horror elements, to rely on the kills to create a great horror movie, because there's a very kind of delicate balance when it comes to that. If it's just killing all the time, it loses all of its appeal, it loses all of its dramatic effect, But if there's not enough of it, it just becomes kind of boring. So where you really need to kind of focus on in a horror movie is creating great dialogue, creating memorable lines, creating funny moments. In this movie, it is pretty subtle. But even if you stripped out all of the kind of shocking jump scares out of this movie, I still think it's just a great written comedy. And the other thing that this movie does pretty well is that it does keep you guessing along. So the entertaining part of this ninety minute movie is that you'll find yourself guessing all the way through. I think I changed who I thought the killer was two or three times, and it is very rare that a movie keeps me guessing till the end, but this movie really did that and something else I kind of found funny. I know it was kind of a satire, but it did poke fun at gen Z lingo and just gen Z interactions. And then as the first time I've seen that done in the movie before. As a millennial, I feel like we've been getting a lot of heat lately. Is now what we are seeing as the older uncool generation. I'm not sure when that happened. I felt like as millennials, we had a really short time to one be just criticized by the generation that came right before us, the people calling us entitled, And I felt like for that reason, we never got to make fun of anybody. We got it so quickly of being hated on, and as soon as we got to the point that we could make fun of the older generation, the younger generation started taking stab at us for being cringe e And I think this movie showed me that their time will come too. It's just weird us creating all these barriers, like we're so different as generations were really all the same, we just say words differently. So so what I'm just saying is we shouldn't scrutinize people based on what decade they were born in. And it took me watching this movie to be a reminder of that. And I think when it comes to recommending this movie, I think it is skewed towards the younger generation, and I'm cool with that. I think that is who this movie was made for. I think it's supposed to be this generation scream and a new take on horror, which I'm on four. I'm all for keeping this genre as fresh as it can be. So if you're just a fan of slasher movies, if you're a fan of some dark and twisted humor, I think you will enjoy it too. But I don't think it's the movie for you. If you're wanting to watch something that will make you laugh out loud continuously, and you won't really be moved by some of the horror and violence in this It's pretty subtle, it's pretty straight to the point. But I still think overall it is a pretty entertaining movie, and I found myself still thinking about it days after I watched it, and that's all I'll say about that. But if I had to rate Bodies Bodies Bodies, I would give it three point five out of five. Rich kids, It's time to head down to movie Mike La Paul. I want to talk about a movie called Funny Pages. It just came out in very select theaters this past Friday and is available now to rent on Amazon. You can watch it at home for seven bucks. But it is a movie that you could have convinced me. Came out back in the nineties and I just missed it. This is one of the trailers that came on before I went to go see Emily the Criminal, and it looked and felt so nostalgic. I immediately thought to myself, I have to watch this movie when it comes out, and I wanted to share it in the trailer park first before I even get a chance to watch and review it, because maybe we could experience this movie together. But what the movie is about. It follows the story of this kid named Robert, who is a high school student and aspiring cartoonist. He is living in the suburbs and his parents want him to go to school and go on to be something, but he decides to drop out of school, leaves home, moves into a place with a really weird living situation, and then finds this guy who used to work as a comic artist and kind of wants him to take him under his wing so he can also achieve his dream of being a comic book artist. It's said to be a really twisted coming of age story. Here is just a little bit of the Funny Pages trailer. Robert meet our friend Wallace. So it's just here. You worked for a company Cold Image, Year Image Comics. I work in an artist nobody get all recur. What would I say for a drawing lesson? Honestly, you consider yourself a cartoonist? Right? I'm paying you how much? This is really crazy for me. I've just never met the professional cartoonists before. That's a big deal, I know. So while watching this trailer, I felt away I haven't felt since the nineties. If you ever remember putting in a VHS and having to watch all of the trailers leading up to the movie you were going to watch, this is how I felt watching the Funny Pages trailer. It had that feel to it. From visually looking like it was being played from a VHS, kind of this low budget nineties quality filming style. You almost have to convince me a little bit that this movie came out now in two. I also love that there are no big recognizable faces in the trailer or in the entire cast. But not only that is everybody looks pretty ordinary, and I feel like that provides a level of authenticity that you don't really get in movies anymore. When you're telling a story like this and the characters look real, they look like people you would encounter at the grocery store or encounter living in your apartment complex, that is what I want to see. So above all, I'm kind of just excited that a movie can be made like this in two and look like this, and feel like this, and be a story that feels like maybe a cross between Napoleon Dynamite and super Bad. It also kind of reminds me of the movie Jonah Hill directed mid nineties of Being One to kind of subtly capture the energy of that decade. The only person I recognize from the trailer was Andy Melanochis, who I find hilarious on TikTok and just from that trailer. It contains some very dry humor. I love the dead pant style of comedy that reminds me of Yeah, watching Napoleon Dynamite for the very first time, where maybe your first run through you don't entirely get it, but the more and more you think about it, the funnier you find it. And I think maybe if this were a movie they came out back ten twenty years ago, it could be a movie up to that level. At least that's the impression it's giving to me now. But that movie is from out in select theaters now where you can rent it on Amazon for seven bucks. Not getting paid to say that anyway. It's just the movie that I know I'm going to sit down and watch pretty soon. And if that sounds appealing to you, we can watch and experience this movie together and then talk about it in the movie review. But again, that movie is called Funny Pages. This maakes edition of movie, and that's gonna do it for another episode here on the podcast before I hop out. You know what I do every single week my listeners shout out of the week, where I just show my appreciation to you for tweeting me at Mike Destro sending me a d M, tagging me in your Instagram story, taking a picture of your car's dash as you listen to that week's episode, or send me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. But today the shoutout is taking me to Twitter in a tweet I got from Kira, who tweeted me and said, in my family, when we discuss a new movie, we always ask what did myke D say about it? So keep those movie reviews coming. You never steer us wrong. So I appreciate that, Kira, and that you and your family do that. I do try to lead you and steer you in the right direction. And I truly just share movies that I am passionate about and that I like, and that I hope you will like to all of my reviews or just straight from the heart and straight from how movies make me feel. And there are some movies that I know that I'm going to love and you probably won't, So I do try to give you that objective look of what kind of a movie fan you have to be to enjoy it. And when I do rate something so incredibly high, I know that sometimes it's not going to live up to those expectations. So as this line, I in a battle. Every single review I do to give you my most honest opinion and also recommend things that won't waste your time. So just know you're always getting my honest, true opinions without any outside agenda. I don't have to say anything, but I don't want to say so again, appreciate that, Kira, Appreciate you for listening to this week's episode. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I'll talk to you later