Movies That Can Only Be Watched on a 2004 Built-In SUV DVD Player + Movie Review: One Battle After Another + Trailer Park: The Mandalorian and Grogu

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

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Speaker 2: I think feel like I have a multi vitamin stuck in my throat. No, thank you, good Burpio. Well it's either that or I got a nice latan. I get cinnamon in them, and I think the barista heard like cinnamon challenge, so I think I'm just drinking straight cloves of cinnamon. Through this.

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Speaker 1: We are here to talk about a very specific topic, movies that can only be watched on a two thousand and four Chevrolet Tahos built in DVD player.

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Speaker 2: Very passionate.

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Speaker 1: It is the longest episode title we have ever dove into. But somebody posted this on x and even though it's so specific, we all know exactly what that means. If you grew up in the two thousands, I guess I also you didn't have a built in Oh we'll get into that. We'll get into that. In the movie review, we'll be talking about Paul Thomas Anderson's one Battle after Another was it worth the almost three hour runtime? And in the trailer park we will be talking about Mandalorian and grogu. Is it gonna be anything different than the TV show or is it just Disney trying to cash in on another Disney Plus show turned to movie, which they do. But thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. All right. The topic is movies that can only be watched on a two thousand and four Chevrolet Tahos built in DVD player. What were you saying earlier?

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Speaker 2: I said, I didn't think that you had a built in DVD player.

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Speaker 1: We did not have a DVD player. I was envious to those people because it looks so cool. I remember driving on the highway and seeing other people watch movies and I'm like, man, they're living in the future.

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Speaker 2: We got one when my younger brother was born, the middle brother, two thousand and six, two thousand and seven. It was a Ford expedition. I'd had like a portable DVD player as a kid that I watched. But yeah, the age of a build in in the car, it's a younger brother.

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Speaker 1: That it's long gone now though, because it's all phones I've maybe seen some minivans now that still have built in screens, but it's a very two thousands thing.

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Speaker 2: Listen. I don't hate the luxuries of a minivan. I don't think I ever want to drive a minivan, but I don't hate the luxuries.

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Speaker 1: I think I have something selected on my Uber whenever we request the ride that we need a bigger vehicle like Uber Excel. We always get a mini ban A lot of time in New York, though we get a minivan. I don't mind it clutch in.

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Speaker 2: New York because you don't have time to open a door, and you can't open a door into the street or you're gonna get taken out. So the minivan, it just pulls up. They just slide it open and off you go.

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Speaker 1: It's comfortable. If you were to watch a movie in there, I think it's it feels like you're in a little movie.

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Speaker 2: Here's in the captain's chairs in the second row.

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Speaker 1: I don't hate it.

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Speaker 2: I don't hate I don't hate being in one, but I want to drive one.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we never had the built in DVD player, but we had I had, like what you were describing, the small DVD player that was portable, which I think in the early two thousands those became.

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Speaker 2: Really popular and they'd skipped like a CD.

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Speaker 1: Oh Man and I had like the bare minimum one that you could get from Walmart. It wasn't even it wasn't a Sony, it wasn't a Phillips. It was some weird brand that probably existed. It was just it was soorny, I think. But the thing I hated about it is the battery life on it was terrible. Yeah, the actual appeal of the portable DVD player was that you could watch it anywhere. But I think for maybe a solid maybe month, the battery was good that you could watch it for the actual runtime of a movie. But after a while it became something that I could only watch if I had it plugged in. So we would take it on road trips to Mexico, which that's a sixteen hour road trip. I could probably watch two movies before it died, But that's tragic. That is my experience with portable movies that I'm going to get into my list later.

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Speaker 2: But I'll be curious to see if any of the ones that my little brother loved are on this this I was ten in two thousand and four.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and four I was thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so then like two I feel like two thousand and four to like two thousand and eight, we're like peak car movie years.

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Speaker 1: It was peaked DBD years, where that doesn't really happen anymore. And I think, what we're going to see on this list, it's going to be a movie that couldn't be made today because a lot of these were movies that whenever they came out in theaters, probably weren't the best received whenever it comes to critics scores, whenever it comes to box office performance. But a lot of these movies made their money not from opening weekend or its theatrical run. It was the DVD sales. Because that is something that doesn't exist anymore. Because the movie comes out now in theaters, it doesn't make money, really can't recoup it when it goes to streaming. But back then there was so much money in the physical media sales, and we don't have that anymore. So I think that is something that we're going to see here, how a movie can become a cold hit through kind of a delayed people discovering it, which now the delayed is people discovering it on streaming, but now there's just no money in it. But let's get into this list now, all right. The first one that comes up on the thread is The Pacifier with Ben Diesel. This is a perfect example of a movie that cannot be made today.

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Speaker 2: Listen kind of loved that movie.

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Speaker 1: There's an entire genre of these type of movies with.

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Speaker 2: Diesel, don't they hate each other? They hate each other and then yeah, because then the rock was in like the Tooth Fairy exactly.

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Speaker 1: So there is this entire and it's specifically kids movies that we don't really get like this anymore. And I feel really bad for anybody growing up now that won't experience this type of family friendly, not too serious, but just something that's so nostalgic that I don't think we're really having it anymore because it's not really profitable like it used to be. So I think this entire list, we're gonna see these type of I don't want to call them bless movies, but just movies that, how dare you can only appreciate if you were the key demographic when they came out and you associate really great memories with because of them just being something that you would watch in the backseat of a head rest, but the pacifier is first up on the list. Next up is over the Hedge from DreamWorks.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this was literally my little brother's car movie. Great film, honestly kind of hilarious, which the cover does say a laugh out loud funny. I will concur I need to go back and rewatch it.

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Speaker 1: It is so dumb funny. From the same people who brought you Shrek. This is like just peak two thousands to me. Love this movie. An animated movie about animals that is so ridiculous like this. I remember the trailer being everywhere when this movie came out. This movie says to me, you're gonna go to Walmart and see this on the shelves and want to buy it.

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Speaker 2: Walmart had a great five dollars DVD bin.

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Speaker 1: Oh that was my I love the five dollars DVD bin. When you would just go in, you would scan the things at the top and I would just like to grab my hand and like dig all the way to the bottom just to see what would come out. Next up on the list, are we there yet? With ice Cube?

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Speaker 2: Incredible.

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Speaker 1: It's also like a road trip movie while you're planning a road trip. See, this is the movie that ice Cube needs to go back to doing, like the Family Friendly ice Cube, which I think it kind of got away from a little bit because.

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Speaker 2: They do a sequel. Are we done yet? Not as good? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: They did it. I guess he did a run to a family friendly films. Maybe he kind of burn out on doing those type of movies. But anything is better than War of the World. Yeah, are we there yet as a good one? What about the game plan?

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Speaker 2: That's the rock? That's the other one I was thinking of too, the game plan Tooth Fairy?

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Speaker 1: Did I make better? He did do the Tooth Fairy yet? Well that could be further down on the left with the gameplay. If we're looking at the posters here, it's basically the same poster as the pacifier it is. It's the exact same thing, and that just feels like the two thousands to me. It's a white, just plain background. You have the lead and then you have the kid. It looks nostalgic to me, and that's look nostalgic And how we gotten so far away from We can't even do simple movie poster designs like this anymore. Everything is floating heads. Everything just looks like everything's made in Cambo. Yeah, we're even just something simple like this that looks like you could go to the movies and see it outside and be enticed to go watch that. You would see this poster and want to see it again, exactly. I am all about this with the dog at the bottom and then you have the tag on you half his size twice the trouble and that's the same girl now who was just in the wrong Paris. I was gonna say that you took my fount Well you can take it away. No, that's fine. Yeah. Whenever we watched that, I was like, I'm pretty sure I recognize that kid from something. Yeah, she was a child actress. To come out like that's so wild that twenty years ago was two thousand and five, Like that feels weird. That makes me feel more because a lot of those movies still feel relevant to me. And to think that a kid in high school now that feels like maybe even not even high school, like people in their twenties, that to them is movies to us that came out in the eighties, which felt ancient to us. That is that's I'm gonna keep going.

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Speaker 2: Well, It's also like we're in the time where there's like a renaissance of people who were famous in our youth, like Hillary Duff's making new music, Lindsay lohands back, and I'm like, how are we already on the second run of some of these people?

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Speaker 1: We're in the comeback era. You know what I saw the other day that also made me feel old? What it was like?

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Speaker 2: It said, No, Dancing with the Stars isn't cool again, You're just now the target demograph fit?

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Speaker 1: Is that true? Because we've been watching that every week now, which I think we.

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Speaker 2: Had like a little I mean, after Bobby did it and you like lived it, I feel like we were a little like I can't do Dancing with the Stars.

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Speaker 1: I never watched it until I experienced it live. Never I never watched it until he was on it. Never saw a single episode. I had no idea how the show really worked up until that season. I didn't know anything about Dancing with the Stars lore And then I went from knowing nothing about the show to going to every single taping what was live wasn't a taping, every single taping of every single episode for season twenty seven, And now I think when I watch it. It's kind of like reminiscing on a weird part of my life where I was in the audience and I know how everything works. It just reminds me of like getting there super early, going through security.

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Speaker 2: We were long distance then, so like i'd call you while you were I was walking to my car after works. It was like five o'clock my time, and because they would be getting to the studio, it was weird.

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Speaker 1: I started to know the security people there. Everybody was nice to me. I look forward to finding out where they were going to see this because they always see all the contestants, family and friends and like this all together. So I was always with people that I knew. And then it was cool getting like tagged on social media like I see on TV.

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Speaker 2: It was a very weird time. We had just started dating that year, and then I'd be like, well, there's my boyfriend in the audience of Dancing with the Stars. I tried telling someone the other day and I was like, this is about to be the most unrelatable star I have ever told. But yeah, now apparently we're just the target demograph. Yeah, because we're seated every week. I am here for it.

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Speaker 1: I guess we're just the key demographic now.

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Speaker 2: And then Robert Irwin, although everyone was I guess he said something in his like what's it called the packet or whatever they show before the package package, and I guess he was like, I wasn't alive in two thousand and everyone was.

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Speaker 1: Like, oh, oh yeah. It's interesting. How that show works is basically they set up each dance while those are running, so not only is it for the TV show, it's also for the stage to be able to move all those pieces. It was cool seeing how fast they could move that because they have like I think those things are like maybe a minute, maybe ninety seconds, and that entire ninety second is spent just getting everything on stage as they need, getting people out of the way, and getting the couple set, and then as soon as they are done and they move over to where they accept their scores, they get everything out of the way. So that was always really cool to see how fast they could do that.

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Speaker 2: All right back to the top of it, hands all right, distracted.

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Speaker 1: Next on the list, Daddy Daycare. Another funny one Eddie Murphy in a family comedy is something he needs to go back to as well.

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Speaker 2: Put him an ice cube in a family comedy, put them together. This was like the grown Ups Sarah too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was also that time.

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Speaker 2: It's like grown ups Daddy Daycare. Yeah, all of those like kind of slapstick comedies.

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Speaker 1: Also on the list The Haunted Mansion with Eddie Murphy another good one. I wasn't as into this one. I loved it. You don't really like Halloween movies though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I liked the Honed Mansion. It was a Disney movie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not scary. That's a that's a ride correct at Disney. Never been to Disney. We know you go over this time unaccompanied minors man. Not the greatest, yeah that I remember this one. Not one that I have really great memories of snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Junior excellent. That is a classic that feels like a two thousand and four Chevy ride like Mike.

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Speaker 2: Also great.

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Speaker 1: What about Cheaper by the Dozen two? Not as funny as the first one. Yeah, I'm more of a Cheaper by the Dozen, but because of you, I love Cheaper by the Dozen one. I think that whenever this one came out, it was probably more in the prime time for a DVD.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It also I feel like that's when sequels for direct to DVD.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the direct to DVD sequel that just wasn't as good.

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Speaker 2: It was like the sequel to DVD pipeline.

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Speaker 1: Next up Agent Cody Banks with Frankie Munaz and Hillary Duff.

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Speaker 2: This era was Hillary Duff's time to shine.

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Speaker 1: Remember how cool all these people were to us? Yeah, she's still cool to me, but I mean, like these people were so unattainable to us as kids, and people now don't have that, they don't struggle with that. That's a good point because to me, Frankie Munaz was like the biggest thing on the planet because the movies like this because of Malcolm in the Middle, but you could only seen them in this movie.

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Speaker 2: Or if they were on the cover of like J fourteen, and that was it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that was a good magazine. I remember J fourteen mainly because Tiger Beat. Yeah, because some of the two thousands bands I was into kind of crossed over into like big pop culture. So I remember, like I wanted to see like a blank Naty two article and they just happened to be in J fourteen.

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Speaker 2: I was just a basic beast, so I was reading those all the time. Oh my God, these.

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Speaker 1: Two Alvin and the Chipmunks and Happy Feet.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, similar to Over the Hedge. Happy few More was my youngest brother because he had an obsession with penguins as a child, and then they both like Dovin and the Chipmunks.

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Speaker 1: I remember finding Alvin in the Chipmunks really annoying, but I love the movie Alvin Simon. I think it was because of how popular the movie got.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it did get really popular.

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Speaker 1: And they did the Squeak Wool and then it was just the constant and perioding of all the songs that just became. I was two into Alvin and the Chipmunk's mania that it got a little like I'm so sick of them.

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Speaker 2: Jesse McCartney was one of the Chipmunks.

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Speaker 1: He was who are the other was? Weren't they all somebody? Let's see that.

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Speaker 2: Well, of course they were all someone, but.

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Speaker 1: Like all somebody famous because Jason Lee was the human in it. Yeah, Justin Long was Alvin.

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Speaker 2: M and then Matthew Grey Goodblur from Criminal Minds he was Simon, and then Jesse McCarney was Theodore.

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Speaker 1: I know they're all somebody, but I meant you said it weren't.

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Speaker 2: They all someone Sometimes.

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Speaker 1: They just get voice actors and it's like they do a really good job, but you don't really know who the name is. I meant that they are all somebody that we would know because they're actors.

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Speaker 2: I walk around sometimes still singing that one part of Happy Feet that they when they did the don't push me, I am close to the little penguin does it close to the edge? You trying not to lose my cool?

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Speaker 1: Times were just better whenever Happy Feet was real kicking and screaming with Farrell. I feel like this was the start of his downturn a little bit. Yeah, because when whenever he started doing the family friendly comedy.

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Speaker 2: Recession Indicator, Yeah, I feel like he.

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Speaker 1: Was just trying to cash a check at this point where I wasn't the key demographic when this movie came out, I was like getting the teen era now. So whenever I saw Will Ferrell starting to do movies like this, I'm like, ah, I don't want him in that. I want him in old school r V.

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Speaker 2: You know who loves this movie?

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Speaker 1: Who? It's a family member of mine? Can you guess people?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Because of the r V.

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Speaker 2: People loves somebody loves this movie. We have to watch it at Christmas.

00:16:38
Speaker 1: Whenever I was looking through this list, I'm like, something sticks out to me about r V and it's not the part that I remember watching it.

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Speaker 2: He loves this movie.

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Speaker 1: That's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: It is a great film. He really likes when they have to empty the septic tank.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that he thinks that part's pretty funny. I mean that part was in the trailer. That part sold me. And the next block we have Madagascar to escape after escape to Africa. Ah, I see what they did there. I don't really remember this one. I was never big escape Africa. To escape to Africa, I found Madagascar movies really annoying when never the moment movie thing. I couldn't stand Madagascar. I was more of a dislander when it came to DreamWorks movie. I even had to come around to Shrek a little bit because it was so what I was talking about earlier. There was so much Shrek everywhere that it became annoying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I feel like DreamWorks movies were really annoying but really effective, Like they know how to make a kid addicted to something. So it was those little music moments that just really annoyed me. So I was never big on Madagascar The Penguins. I never really found that funny. I wasn't a big DreamWorks kid again the Penguins.

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Speaker 2: My little brother went through penguin obsession. There's the tooth fair Fair.

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Speaker 1: I knew it right there at the bottom. A great family comedy.

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Speaker 2: You don't get endorsements like that anymore.

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Speaker 1: That is my dream to be a quote like that on a movie poster. But I don't say things like that. You don't. I would never just call something a great family comedy.

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Speaker 2: And I also don't feel like that sells the movie.

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Speaker 1: It really does. And that is my problem with these quotes is whenever you see this, it's something so generic, like astonishing, and it's somebody from like the Times breathtaking. I wouldn't feel comfortable reviewing a movie like that with something so generic like a bold vision, and that's what they want. And if I see that on a poster, it's not going to maybe want to go see that movie. I like to say things that are so oddly specific to my experience watching that movie. So maybe my takes on even like a simplified take, would not fit well on a poster because they don't like to use butt drenching, which I feel as a movie that induces anxiety. That's my favorite way to describe a movie. Excuse me, what butt drenching? Butt drenching because you get so anxious from it that you start to sweat in your seat at the movies, and therefore it is a butt drenching movie because by the end of it, your butt is drenched and sweat. Okay, next week, but that's why I will never be on a boaster.

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Speaker 2: Kangaroo Jack. Little brother left this one also for everyone. I really do have little brothers and they really did love these movies. It's not just me, I promise ye, little brother love this. We have a twelve and sixteen year age gap. So yeah, I did love these as like a twelve and sixteen year old, but my little brothers were watching them.

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Speaker 1: Kangaroo Jack was a little bit of a bait and switch where kangaroo Jack really wasn't in kangaroo Jack that much. Yeah, like this easily could have been like a rated R adult movie.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the poster gets me.

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Speaker 1: Grown ups.

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Speaker 2: There we go.

00:19:34
Speaker 1: I told you you knew grown up to be on this list. I was kind of a Light a late adapter to the Grown Ups franchise.

00:19:40
Speaker 2: We watched it again during the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: And it maybe that was just a dark time where I needed something stupid and funny. But I finally came around to Grown Ups. I think it was because, like I was mentioning with Will Ferrell earlier, I felt like the Grown Ups franchise were a little bit of the downfall of Adam Sandler making really really low brown movies that where he got into like don't mess with his O hand territory.

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Speaker 2: That was bad.

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Speaker 1: But the first Grown Ups is great, Like you still kind of have to be in that mentality of Okay, it's not gonna be the Adam Sandler I grew up with.

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Speaker 2: It's so funny, though, but if you're.

00:20:12
Speaker 1: Able to turn your brain off and you need a movie that is something that will please the whole family, which is hard to do, which is what Adam Sandler does really well. Grown Ups is where it's at kind of want to rewatch it. There's the three, right or the just two?

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Speaker 2: I think it's just two. Okay, if they stopped after two.

00:20:27
Speaker 1: They should make another one because it's really just an excuse for Adam Sandler to go out to an island or somewhere be like Happy Gil morning. It would just be a bunch of ads, a bunch of cameos. Yeah, yeah, I think we're good with two The Spy next Door with Jackie chan I don't really remember this one. No, this was probably when I saw the trailer two and never saw it in theaters. Undercover Brother, that's a classic, although I don't really feel like that fits.

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Speaker 2: The I'm like, that's not a watch in the back of your mom's car.

00:20:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is.

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Speaker 2: Some of these are getting a little too.

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, because this isn't a kid's movie at all. Spy Kids, Now, that's a kid's movie. Robert Rodriguez, like that is just that is peak.

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Speaker 2: It's an Austin, Texas institution there.

00:21:12
Speaker 1: If you look back at the CG. I though, on the Spy Kids movies, it's crazy to think as kids how high tech we thought these movies were. The now mimable moment whenever he hits like the the glasses that like zoom in, those green glasses that like another one keeps it appearing. That was so cool to us as kids. And if you go back and watch the CGI, you're like, man, Shark Boy and Lava Girl look pretty bad, and it was later.

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Speaker 2: To think that a Junie is married to Mecan trainer. Oh, a child looks just like him.

00:21:40
Speaker 1: And the Spy kids. We also have Finding Nemo, which I think not only was that a backseat DVD player movie, that was just an everywhere movie that was a watch in school movie. I associate that a lot with movies we'd watch in school. I think this whole slide right here is movies I associate with watching in school. Stuart Little Yes with Jonathan Lipniki class, and that's one that it wasn't a movie we would watch for educational purposes. It was a reward day movie.

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Speaker 2: Do you ever look back now, I don't know if I've said this before. Do you ever wonder if those days your teacher put on a movie, if they were like hungover.

00:22:15
Speaker 1: I never thought about that until right now, because now we are at the age of seeing your.

00:22:22
Speaker 2: Teachers ever went to a happy hour and had a little too much fun and had to teach the next day.

00:22:27
Speaker 1: I think that could have been a thing because we were in elementary school in the two thousands, yeah, where that was probably a little bit more acceptable wouldn't happen now if somebody came in hungover.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't remind me of faite movie is bad teacher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But thinking about that now, that could quite honestly be the reason that our teachers would roll out that big cart and turn down the light and they would just be at their desk grading papers or working on some lesson planned. And we're here watching Stuart Little and finding Nemo for no apparent reason, because there's no work it there's nothing.

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Speaker 2: They weren't like historical, they weren't like English.

00:23:04
Speaker 1: We weren't taking notes.

00:23:05
Speaker 2: There was a test off snow arithmetic. If you're a teacher, you don't have to say if you've done it, but if you could let us know, confirm or deny, yeah, I'm curious.

00:23:13
Speaker 1: Just throw like the shades emoji in like comments yes.

00:23:16
Speaker 2: Yes, and yeah, and just let us know.

00:23:19
Speaker 1: Just throw the shop admit to it, even if you're especially if you're like not a teacher anymore. Like Statue of libert limitations say libertations, Statue of liberty, Statue of liberty, you could say it after ten years according to the Statue of Liberty.

00:23:32
Speaker 2: Is the Statue of liberty.

00:23:33
Speaker 1: Emoji I don't know, because.

00:23:36
Speaker 2: If that that's what I want people to put.

00:23:40
Speaker 1: There is a statue of liberty.

00:23:41
Speaker 2: Okay, if you or someone you know rolled in the television because you were a little too hungover, please leave a statue of liberty emoji.

00:23:50
Speaker 1: Statue of Liberty says ten years Big Fat Liar Apology.

00:23:56
Speaker 2: Recently rewatched this. I did.

00:23:58
Speaker 1: It's because whenever we watched a hold of I was like, maybe against maybe I was unfair in my hatred towards Paul Giamatti because I've been a long Paul Giamati hater because whenever Sideways came out, I remember him doing an interview where he started to get annoyed by people giving him or low, which was a big thing in that movie, and he's like, everybody does it, and I think they they're the first one to do it, and he gets so annoyed by it, and me, I saw that as him being ungrateful for his fame because it just.

00:24:28
Speaker 2: Feels like an easy, like stick for the movie.

00:24:30
Speaker 1: And it's like, dude, you were in a movie where that was your thing. You just got free wine to have somebody who just wanted to do something nice and knows your work and is a fan of your work that you got so annoyed by that, which I could get that if somebody has something that they're known for, they start to get just inundated with it, Like I think Jason Biggs from American Pie. Anytime there's pie around, like people are gonna point it out to him. But I think to have a role like that that is so impactful, you got to embrace it. And to see him just being kind of annoying about the way he handled it, I always hated him for that.

00:25:05
Speaker 2: It's giving Jacob Lordi in the Kissing Booth. Yeah again, Like I get that it could be annoying, Suck it up and smile. It probably bought you some nice things in life.

00:25:14
Speaker 1: It really did. And I think anything you do that is public facing you have to embrace it, and the minute you start being annoyed by it, maybe it's time not to do it anymore.

00:25:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good point.

00:25:28
Speaker 1: We'll wrap up with some here. I also have some of my own, because I think we're start seeing some repeats on this list. Taxi with Queen Latifa and Jimmy Fallon. Again, this doesn't feel like Yeah, I think we're getting towards here.

00:25:38
Speaker 2: I think people just started putting in their favorite movie from the two thousands.

00:25:41
Speaker 1: Yeah. I came up with my list of not movies that I watched on the Tahoe DVD player because we didn't have one. I have movies that I watched on portable DVD player that we got from the bootleg flea market in Mexico, because that is what I associate with this time period where we would go to Mexico everyday Christmas and there was something called the tan Geese, which is essentially like a flea market in Mexico, and it only happened on Thursdays, and we would go and they would sell bootleg DVDs. But these were movies that we got. I think most of most all of them were in Spanish, so they were movies that I watched for the first time in Spanish on a small DVD player.

00:26:20
Speaker 2: So was this someone recording on their handheld camcorder in the theater and then they put it on a.

00:26:25
Speaker 1: DV Glad you asked that question. Sometimes yes it was, and you would hear people coughing, you would see it shake a little bit. Some of them were actual movie files, but they were still in Spanish. Okay, so it depended you didn't know, because you would just get you would just get the DVD.

00:26:42
Speaker 2: Kind of feels like a blind box.

00:26:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like a blind box. You don't know what experience you're about to walk into, because you would either buy it in a case where they just printed it on just the standard computer printer and like slid it in there, or it would just be the actual disc with like a label printed on it, and that it was just the risk you were running.

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Speaker 2: I feel like we have to start with the one your mom feels the most guilty about having the bootleg copy of.

00:27:05
Speaker 1: First up on my list The Passion of the Christ, which I watched for the first time on a bootleg DVD on a portable DVD player in Mexico in Spanish. In Spanish. I think this one was one where somebody went in with a video camera because I remember it being not completely centered and at times it would like move a little bit and you see the seats. But we watched the entire thing on this DVD player, and my mom felt bad about it. She was like, I don't know I feel about watching a story about Jesus on a bootleg DVD that we probably paid the equivalent of like two American dollars.

00:27:40
Speaker 2: For I mean the money. Also, like, wasn't going to a church you think about it, it was going to Hollywood. Yeah, So I actually don't know if the guilt there was warranted.

00:27:51
Speaker 1: But this is the only time I've watched this movie, so I remember enjoying it. I remember the ending, even though I knew how it was going to end spoiler alert. But I remember it really affecting me because I was like, man to see it.

00:28:04
Speaker 2: Oh, I think everyone, I think, and to be a kid when it came out. Yeah, reading and seeing.

00:28:09
Speaker 1: I mean it's rated R. So the brutality of it was something that I wasn't expecting. And I think that's also something that affected my mom a little bit. That scene was just hard for her to watch. And then the whole dilemma of the way we got this DVD. I think she was just like, I can't watch this movie anymore. But that is to me peak watching things on a portable DVD player. I also have Supersized Me, which was the documentary about Morgan Spurlock eating McDonald's for every single meal for a period of time, and what we found out later was that he was also battling alcoholism during this so a lot of the effects that he attributed to him eating McDonald's all the time from the weight gain him barfing, was not just the food he was eating, but also the fact that he was drinking and not really showing the audience that. So that's a weird one to look back on and remember.

00:29:00
Speaker 2: How but also don't eat fast footed for every yeah, every day.

00:29:03
Speaker 1: But it was one that I look back on now, like, man, it just doesn't feel like a valid movie anymore because there were some things going on behind the scenes. So but rip to him. We also have Spider Man two, which we actually just went this past weekend to go see in theaters. We saw two point one. That one I watched for the first time in Spanish. But I think this one, no, this one was also one that they recorded handheld, because I remember, I think there's a scene that was missing whenever I think doc owc first goes to attack people missing they went to the bath and I remember not seeing that until later until I actually watched it on a real DVD. And I'll say, man, I miss like a whole ten minutes of this movie because a.

00:29:42
Speaker 2: Guy film and it had to go pee, he had to get snacks.

00:29:45
Speaker 1: But I also didn't fully understand all the dialogue in Spanish when I watched this one, so whenever I watched it again in English, it was kind of like watching it for the first time. And you've since watched it seven every single every single time that I don't have I have anything to watch, I'm always itching to go watch the Spider Man movies.

00:30:03
Speaker 2: It made me buy tickets like minute anallence, Yeah.

00:30:06
Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta go see it. With New Footage two point one Gothica, which was a movie with Halle Berry. Oh that one which was really weird, and I think that was one that was an actual rip of the file. But that just wasn't really a good movie. But I just remember watching that on that DVD player and then that's pretty much my entire list mine.

00:30:27
Speaker 2: We're all in the in the Twitter list.

00:30:31
Speaker 1: What a good time two thousand and four.

00:30:33
Speaker 2: Thanks for simpler, but that is the list.

00:30:36
Speaker 1: I'll come back and I give my spoiler free review of One Battle after Another. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of One Battle after Another starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Anicio del Toro, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The movie is about a character named Bob who was an American revolutionary. Takes place at the beginning of the movie in what could some describe as his glory days of being a revolutionary, fighting back against the government, trying to liberate some people, blowing things up, and then it kind of jump cuts to about him fifteen years later, has a daughter now is trying to maintain a normal family dynamic. But then a member from his past played by Sean Penn, who is the bad guy in this movie, creeps back into his life, and suddenly he goes from being kind of a burnt out nobody who just gets stoned all the time, reminiscing on his days as a revolutionary, suddenly he is back in it. All of his old friends come back together in order to save each other, keep each other from being in some cases taken out, in some cases captured. Leonardo DiCaprio on the run the entire time, and that's what makes this movie exciting. Paul Thomas Anderson really hasn't done an action movie like this. He's done really big epic movies like There Will Be Blood. He's done comedy movies like Liquorage Pizza. Back in the day, was known for movies like Boogie Nights, but this is his first time really stepping into what I feel is his most commercial film. So going into any Paul Thomas Anderson movie, my question is is it going to warrant the runtime? And I feel like that is a slap of the face to him as a visionary that us as audiences now we think about those types of things because we think about how is this going to fit into my day? And maybe just because I'm in my thirties now and I'm like, man, if I go watch three hour movie, It's going to take out my entire Friday night. And as soon as this movie started, all of those concerns went way out the window. Before I knew it, I was an hour into this movie before I knew it. Again, we were at the two hour mark, and then it ends up being even though it's listed as two hours and fifty minutes, right around two and a half hours, this entire movie flew by, and that was the sign to me that it's a good movie. I don't have to question his run times anymore. There is so much action from beginning to end, as there were so many storylines to follow, because while you're following Leonardo DiCaprio and his daughter, which I think at the core of this movie, it is a movie about father and daughter dynamic, so you have things like that going on, you also have Sean Penn's character, who is the villain in this movie, trying to track down Leonardo DiCaprio. His character was very much to me giving off Christoph Walton and glorious bastards, not as intense, not as oscar worthy, but that was the cat and mouse dynamic that I needed in this movie that really made me love it. And his character is intense but also comical, which I think is something that maybe some people aren't expecting from a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, who he does comedy really well. And I did think that this was going to be a little bit more of a visceral action movie, just given the fact that it is about a group of revolutionaries who at the beginning of the film do blow up a lot of things. They have a lot of intentions of anarchy and chaos, and I thought that was going to be a little bit more evident throughout the entire film. And while there is a lot of action in it, there's also a lot of comedy in it, so it has this really unique balance going back and forth between the two. I think in our theater, which was a pack theater on a Friday night, there were a lot of laughs. Sometimes I was confused at what people were laughing at because I didn't find it to be as comical as some of the other people in our audience. So maybe there was some things that were going a little bit over my head. Even maybe I'm not smart enough to get some of the jokes. I didn't see it as full on as a comedy as some other people did. To me, it did at moments kind of feel like Pineapple Express because Leonardo DiCaprio's character is a stoner. Some could say this is the best action stoner that has ever been created. But in Pineapple Express, Seth Rogan plays a guy named Dale Denton who is a process server. I saw a lot of parallels between Dale Denton and Bob played by Leonardo DiCaprio that I was like, this is almost a more serious version of that movie, because I was the it was going to have more of a tone of There will be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson, the fact that you have one of the best actors of all time, Leonardo DiCaprio, who has that range, who can be a little bit more intense. This was an entirely different look at Leo. He was comical in a way I wasn't expecting he was a hero at times. But it was almost like Bob wasn't really set up to be a hero. He was set up a little bit more to be the comic relief, to be the dad that did care about his daughter but also just did not have his life together. And there are moments where are like, come on, Bob, just get it together, get out of the bathrobe, and be a little bit more heroic. But that's not the story that was being told here. I would think if there was one real hero out of the entire film, it was Benicio del Toro, which my only real complaint with this movie is I wanted more of him because I love their dynamic together, them driving in the car, drinking and driving. Those were the moments that made me feel like it was Seth Rogan and James Springo in Pineapple Express doing dumb things, and it was really cool to see a movie like this on an incredibly vast cinematic level, that vision combined with all the comedic elements and giving me things on screen that I've never seen before. Because while in somebody else's hands this could have been just another generic action movie, you truly see the vision take shape throughout every scene, having so much intent, all the storylines working together as one, a true cinematic experience that is one that you seek out movies like this in your life. And you realize now maybe more than ever, how much Hollywood right now is a director's game. But you see with the movies that have really impacted audiences this year, Sinners Weapons Now one battle after another. I'll even throw highest Lowis in there from Spike Lee. But it's these directors who are standing out more than just Ip. In my opinion, I think original stories are alive and well and they are right here in front of you. So I think that is the direction Hollywood needs to go. Invest more in directors, allow them to make the movies that they want to make, because boy, this was his most expensive movie ever, and it puts a lot of trust in him to create something that is also gonna make money. So that's the line you have to walk. The movie also had a fantastic score that was used so well throughout. You have this theme song almost driving all the action in one battle after another. Which the last movie where the score was so evident that it was distracting to me was Highest to Lois, and that is an example of when it is used correctly and when I believe it is used incorrectly. And highest to Lois, it was so distracting and it changed the feeling of every single because it was so overbearing with this orchestra. It made it feel so lesser than what was actually happening on the screen. But here it added to the intensity. It added to that franticness, It added to that feeling of anxiety, just that dun chugging all the way throughout the film. A lot of Auscar nominations are going to be thrown out for this movie. I don't think it is one that is going to warrant an automatic win for Leonardo DiCaprio. He'll probably be nominated, but I don't think he is giving Best Actor in this I think it's because Bob's character doesn't have the greatest amount of range. He does his comedic thing really well throughout, and there are moments where Leonardo shines in a way that he never has. But I don't think that warrants a win for Best Actor. I think Benicio del Toro will get Supporting Actor. If anybody is a clear winner here, I think Paul Thomas Anderson for Best Director and Best Score. Those were the two elements that really stood out to me. Cinematograph could also be one where they take home an oscar. Because this movie looked beautiful. They filmed a lot of it in California and El Paso. I love every single scene that took place in El Paso. They also use a lot of non actors, which I love it when directors use this because it adds to the level of authenticity. Where you have somebody like Sean Penn interacting with other people who are not actors. That gives you that taste of the community, a taste of that environment, that adds to that sense of realism. One of my favorite examples of this was No Country for Old Men, where the Coen Brothers use a lot of people throughout this small town in Texas as the actual people in that town. Paul Thomas Anderson did the same thing here, and it makes those interactions just feel that much more authentic. Chase Infinity was also great as Leonardo DiCaprio's daughter. She was fantastic and presumed innocent. I think she is somebody who is going to have a really great career in Hollywood. But my favorite thing about One Battle after Another is I believe it has the best chase scene in ten years. Before this, my number one chase scene in the last ten years was Penguin being chased by the Batman with Robert Pattinson and Colin Farrell. But without giving up too much, the chas sing in the third act is the best chasing I've seen since. Is it a masterpiece? No, but it's really close. And it's so hard for me to give out a perfect score because right now I believe that a perfect score comes with time. This does feel like a movie that has a great rewatchability factor, So quite possibly down the line, I could look back on this and think, oh, that truly was a masterpiece. But for now I give One Battle after Another a four point five out of five Bathrobes.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie Mike.

00:40:46
Speaker 1: Trey Lar Paul for the first time in seven years Star Wars. Why am I saying that weird. I think it's because my dad says it as Star Wars. Star Wars is returning to the box office next year May twenty second, twenty twenty six, we are getting the Mandalorian and gro Good. I feel like the fan base is pretty split on this movie, and I think it's the fans who have been there since day one, maybe not even day one, back in the seventies. It is those people who have a hard time accepting that Star Wars has and always will be aimed towards a younger audience, making movies that sell toys and inspiring young people with these stories. That is overall what Star Wars has done. If you were a kid when the original trilogy came out, that is probably the best memories you associate with the franchise. That is your baby. If you were a kid in the late nineties, early two thousands, the prequel trilogy, oh those are your babies. If now you are somebody who just discovered Star Wars in the last saga that so many people hate, that's still going to be your baby. And in ten years that is what is going to be recognized as some of the best Star Wars films. Not right now, because people still hate on it a lot, and I think that's why people are so split on this show. And I call it a show because it has roots on Disney Plus, and to those people, I think this feels like just season four of The Mandalorian on the big screen, and we'll get into all the things that Disney has going on right now with their Disney Plus model. But I still think the majority of the hate is those people who still want these movies to be the films of their childhood and it is never going to be like that. But whenever the sequel trilogy came out, that is where I started to go see all of them in theaters and then went back and revisited all the Star Wars movies and did a deep dive. It is those movies that were the conduit to me even being able to associate myself with the Star Wars fandom. Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker. I love those movies, and you can't really say that in Star Wars culture, it seems because for the most part, everybody believes that the writing was so terrible. A lot of people hate Ray I found them to be really enjoyable. And that is what got me into The Mandalorian, because without those movies, I don't think I would have been interested in a show about a character I had no idea about. Is because of those movies, whenever The Mandalorian first premiered, I was like, I'm going to check that out, And to date, it is my favorite of all the Star Wars shows because I feel it is the perfect balance of the original trilogy and what it needs to evolve to in order to survive. Season one came out back in twenty nineteen, Season two came out in twenty twenty, and season three was already a couple of years ago, came out in twenty twenty three was what I believe to be the weakest of all the seasons, And now it all kind of makes sense because I think that was the bridge to get us to this movie. But I think now it makes sense. The official description of the movie reads, the Evil Empire has fallen and the Imperial Warlreds remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledging New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for. They have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter played by Pedro Pascal and his young apprentice Grogu. So Pedro Pascal is returning, Jeremy Allen White is going to play job of the hutsun Rata I believe that you pronounce it. Sigourney Weaver is also in this movie. So before we talk about this more and why everybody is so split on this, here's just a little bit of the Mandalorian and Grogu trailer.

00:44:51
Speaker 3: Progressive fuck good shot David.

00:45:10
Speaker 1: So not a whole lot of dialogue in this trailer. Overall. The trailer is pretty short, under two minutes. I think it's like a minute and a half. You see some fighting, you see a big lizard monster, you see the ataighties go down, you see the Mandalorian fighting, some people flying, all the things you would expect in a Mandalorian trailer. You do get that first glimpse of Jeremy Allen White voicing Rata, which I think that scene was pretty cool. Aside from that, they're not giving us too many specific details about what is going on where the Mandalorian is in his journey where they're trying to break into. You do see Grogu try out a couple of different things, which I think that is probably the most entertaining part of the Mandalorian is just seeing Grogu be cute and do silly little things like here you see him trying to use the force to get a snack. You see him swimming, which I was like, oh man, you gotta put the little guy in some water and make him swim. And then you also see what I believe is going to be the GIF or meme worthy moment of Grogu kind of eating some kind of popcorn like snack. It looks like it's in a popcorn tin and he's just munching on it. You kind of heard it in the clip there, But that just tells me the man who eating Grogu is going to have a sick popcorn bucket. I want a Rod of the Hut popcorn bucket right now. I'm already putting myself on the pre order list for that. I would love something like that of Grogu holding a popcorn bucket. I have to imagine that has to be the tie in now, because I think the thing to have is a cool popcorn bucket in twenty twenty five, so definitely in twenty twenty six. My main issue with this trailer. Is it looks exactly like the TV show visually? And I have to think about it because I don't want to be an I rational fan. Here. Is it that this movie looks just like a TV show or the TV show looks so good that it looks like a movie. I actually think the TV show looks so good that it looks like a movie, and this just looks I don't know if they can make it look any better without changing the aesthetic. Because as much as I would love some film green on this to make it look more like a seventy Star Wars film, to have that rich, bold look, they filmed this for IMAX. They wanted to look big. They wanted to look crystal clear. The way they make these shows and Star Wars movies is using that big led screen for a lot of these backgrounds. So I think they have to look a very specific way because obviously they're not going to some planet outside of this world to film these movies. They're doing it in a studio with a big screen that they could project anything on to give it that depth. But I think that requires a specific kind of camera that you can't really make it look like those practical effects and how they feel in the original trill where everything most everything was something tangible. But if you look at how much they spend on seasons of The Mandalorian, to make season one costs about one hundred to one hundred and twenty million dollars, which is pretty expensive. Episodes range from about fifteen to twenty million dollars alone. That is a small movie budget in itself, and this movie cost about one hundred and sixty six million dollars, So I feel like it's a little bit comparable, adding a little bit there to maybe make it more cinematic, maybe do some things that they haven't done in the TV show. I think that is the issue I'm having with watching this trailer, is that it just doesn't feel as epic to me. And then you have to think about the Disney Plus model, which it's also releasing on Memorial Day weekend, the same weekend that this year Leelo and Stitch came out. Leilo and Stitch was initially going to be a Disney Plus series, not the first time they've done that. Also with Mwana two was also gonna be a Disney Plus series. But they put those movies out in theaters, and what did they do. They made a lot of money Leilo and Stitch highest grossing movie of the year, hitting that billion mark. I think they are trying that again because if they are spending so much money on The Mandalorian and the return on investment is okay on Disney, it is a big exclusive for them. Probably a big reason that people subscribe to Disney Plus is to watch The Mandalorian. It is that big of a show. But if they could create a movie instead that goes to the box office and brings home a billion dollars, that is worth so much more. You create a moment like Lelo and Stitch did this year where people were filling on the theaters, But do audiences want that from a Star Wars film or we already conditioned to watching this at home. I think that is the difference here because Mawana came out in theaters. First, came out in theaters again, so that is what we were conditioned to. Same with Leelo and Stitch with a movie back in the day came out in theaters. No real difference there. This is a show that only exists on Disney Plus. If it feels exactly the same, even though it could be great and I think a lot of people who have a problem with that will still go watch it in theaters and still love it. Even if it's great, people are still gonna say that was exactly like the TV show that was just season four on the big screen. But you made me pay more money for it. You made me driving my car to the theater, You made me buy the popcorn bucket. Look at all these extra things you made me buy. That is going to be the difference here. And when this movie comes out, it'll be the first Star Wars movie in theaters in seven years. How is that going to be received? Because they've had some hits, they've had some misses. Solo didn't do so well. Even though I love Donald Glover Eslando, Rogue One was probably the best out of all those movies. Even though I loved the sequel trilogy, Rogue One is just a fantastic movie on its own. You don't have to know anything else about Star Wars. It is just a great movie. And then the other thing, Pedro Pascal. I feel like his reception among audiences is a little bit different now. I feel like this doesn't have as much of an effect on people's Pedro fatigue because He's not really seen a whole lot. Unless the Mandalorian takes off his helmet, you hear his voice, but he does it so differently that you could honestly disassociate and not realize that you were at a Pedro Pascal movie another time. Because apparently, if he doesn't make a movie that comes out in theaters every three months, he like turns back into a pumpkin or something. I don't think that'll be a major issue here, but that is another bit of rumblings that I hear from the split fan base right now. And then it is directed by John Favreau, who created The Mandalorian, who was a fantastic director. Obviously, we know him for the Iron Man movies, for directing those, for being happy, but I kind of feel like The Mandalorian is his baby, and I trust him with making something worthy of the big screen that it's going to be epic, even though everything right now telling me this doesn't feel like it warrants a movie. It almost feels like a meeting that could have been an email, but I want to be proven wrong. The other really weird thing that I'll critique about this is I hate the font I am all about a good movie poster font, but I hate the font that the title of the movie is in. It almost looks like a reused font that Disney has already used before. Just the color scheme of it doesn't feel right to me. It doesn't feel like it looks good on the poster. And they did release like a kind of hand drawn, hand painted looking poster that's supposed to look a little bit nostalgic. But I just can't get over the font. These little things that I'm finding that I'm hoping in the end just mean nothing. But The Mandalorian comes out in theaters next year on May twenty second, twenty twenty six. PA head that for us.

00:53:01
Speaker 2: This week's edition of Movie by Framer.

00:53:04
Speaker 1: Bar and that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I got to give my listener shout out of the week this week. I'm going over to Instagram. I posted a reel for my Zach Kregor interview that I did last week the director of Weapons, and I said comment with the hot dog emoji, and I will pick somebody as next week's listener shout out of the Week. So this week's listener shout out goes to Gina, who commented with four hot dog emojis and said, Mike, quick question, does it help your ratings more if we access your podcast directly on the iHeart app versus accessing it on the BBS link in the app? I try to go to your podcast directly because it seems that would be better for you. Question mark shrug it emoji. Thank you Gina first of all for listening to last week's episode, for commenting on the reel, and for asking that question, because it's a great question. The answer is, wherever you listen, it helps. Doesn't matter if it's directly subscribed to the movie Mike's Movie podcast feed or if you listen on the Bobby Bone Show feed, which I know a lot of people do. It all helps put gas in the car. So wherever you're listening, I don't want to change your habits. What I prefer is that you are subscribed to the actual movie Mike's Movie podcast feed, whether it be on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, wherever you get your podcast, just because that ensures that you get every single brand new episode. So if you are subscribed there, it means like we're friends, like we're good like, oh, you you're a writer. Die. You are in this for the long run. If I put up a bonus episode, you're gonna get that on that feed, because sometimes it won't go up on the BBS feed because you know, my favorite thing is somebody who posts on Twitter or Instagram listening and it's a screenshot that way. I know I see my logo down there, so I love that. But wherever you listen means the world to me, no matter how you do it. So appreciate you Gena for asking that question. It makes to everybody for listening this week and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.