5 Most Important Superhero Films + Movie Review: Captain America: Brave New World + Trailer Park: Jurassic World: Rebirth

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. We have a new Marvel movie out this week, so in honor of that, I want to tell you, in my opinion, what I think are the five most important superhero films of all time. In the movie review, we'll be talked about that Marvel movie, Captain America, Brave New World? Is Marvel back? Is Marvel taking a backstep? Is this just the filler movie? Are we gonna get to something great soon? We'll talk about that. And in the trailer park we'll break down Jurassic Park Rebirth and why I both love and hate this trailer. Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. Love that you subscribed. If you listen on release day, which is Monday Extra, shout out to you. And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network and this is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. I came up with a list of what I think are the five most important films in superhero history. These are not my five favorite, they're what I believe to be the most important to the development and history of the genre. And I feel that these movies are the stepping stones that paved the way. Without these movies, we would not be where we are today. They not only influenced the comic book genre, but also I feel most of these influence movies as a whole in creating big spectacles and blockbusters. So let's get right into this list at number one, going back to nineteen eighty nine. I'm gonna do these in order, by the way, so in order that they came out in order of their history. To get to one, you got to get to the other. These I feel are the most influential, and number one is Batman nineteen eighty nine. Why I believe this is the first most important superhero film is it created a new public perception of Batman and it legitimized the genre and took Batman from being a comedic character to a greedy character even by nineteen eighty standards. And this was a big deal, more so than Superman that came the decade before it. This is the one that I feel, without its success would not have led to any other superhero movie being made. Before this, Batman hadn't been a gritty character. And even if you look at nineteen eighty nine. Now it's not as gritty as what we know to be now as a gritty Batman, But at the time it was revolutionary because everybody associated Batman with Adam West's depiction of him, which was great at the time, but that show was a comedy. It made him really zany. It made the fight scenes overly cheesy with the bam zap Powell. It made Robin a very just one dimensional character. And for the longest time this movie was trying to be made in this way. Michael Uson, who is somebody who was fighting for this. He had the rights to Batman for a decade, maybe even longer than a decade, and he was fighting for the depiction of the character that he knew was out there. He was a fan of Batman from when he was a kid, and he was the person whenever that TV show debuted he was like, Oh no, this is wrong, this is bad, this is not the Batman I love. So he bought the rights for such a little amount and kept trying to find producers, kept trying to get a movie like this Green Wit, And it wasn't until nineteen eighty nine's Batman that his love of Batman, his complete Nerdom actually came to life and he was able to do it. So he was this driving force trying to bring this darker, more serious version of the character to life. And then you combine that with Tim Burton and we finally got it, and it changed the public perspective of not only what Batman could be, but what superhero movies could be as a whole. Now, even in nineteen eighty nine, these movies were still being geared towards kids, with the idea of being you put out a movie and then you sell a bunch of merchandise, which has always been the model. Star Wars was the one who really made that a thing, like, oh, you put out the movie, then you sell a buttload of toys. That was the model. So we weren't there quite yet, but it did show that you can make something for kids because it is a superhero movie, but also that would appeal to the older audience. If you look at this one at times, it doesn't feel like a kid's movie. This movie moved on to Batman Returns, and that one you had a public outcry from parents saying, this is not a kid's movie. Whatsoever. You have penguin biting at people's noses causing them to be all bloody, and there was a big problem with that. But the reason I believe that this movie was so important is because it was the first movie to really usher in this new era of superhero film and say, a movie like this can be made and you can change what everybody believes these characters to be. And you're gonna see this theme throughout my list because whenever you set a standard, everybody starts following that and then it almost takes somebody else to break that mold yet again to re revolutionize the genre. But this movie did that. It gave us not only the gritty hero, but also the gritty villain. Jack Nicholson set the standard for creating a villain like this made everybody who played the Joker after him have some really big shoes to fill. So at number one, I have Batman nineteen eighty nine. At number two, it would come almost ten years after this in nineteen ninety eight. My next most important superhero film of all time is Blade from nineteen ninety eight. Why this movie is so important one I feel it's underappreciated, it's underrated, and how revolutionary this movie was and how important it was for Marvel's success. It proved that you could make a superhero movie a comic book character for adults. Because this movie is R rated, it's bloody, it's violent, and it's cool. And at the time, Blade wasn't even a popular character were in the comic books. Even after this movie came out, his comics still struggled and they readapted them to fit the movie character. More so, he wasn't even a top tier character, not even the second stream character. Even now, the character of Blade isn't as popular as all these other Marvel characters, and you look at their model now, and this is what later Marvel would bank on because there had been attempts to make other character movies before this be successful. You had pretty much made for TV movie with Captain America Spider Man, and those just never quite worked out. This was the first successful Marvel movie ever. It was the second one because before this, back in nineteen eighty six, they made a Howard the Duck movie. I don't know why they decided to go with Howard the Duck first, but that movie was awful, terrible, and it was a long time until Marvel had success. So this movie was important, not only for Marvel because without its success, it was right there at the brink of bankert It had been fighting bankruptcy for so long because they just didn't have a successful movie. This was their first big hit, their first big taste of success, and it also inspired and was the stepping stone for a lot of R rated movies to come. If there wasn't Blade, we would have never got Deadpool, we would have never got Logan, we would have never got other comic book movies outside of Marvel, like Watchmen and kick Ass or even Suicide Squad. All of those movies' success had to come from proving that you could make an R rated superhero movie, even more so that you could do it without a popular character. Now, at the time, Wesley Snipes was a very popular actor, so that brought in some fans. Vampires in the nineties were all so hot as well, so that helped. And I believe this is what Marvel started to do whenever they sold all the rights to their main characters to Sony and to Fox, and later when they're trying to build things, they decided, okay, okay, well we can't use our most popular characters. Let's build a team of all of our second string and third stringers and see if we can make something out of this, and that proved to be successful, So it's working with what you have and also ahead of its time because you had a black lead in this movie in a superhero film. He was the first successful black superhero in mainstream cinema. Paved the way for Black Panther. And I know X Men was already in development that would come out in the year two thousand, but if it wasn't for the success of Blade, that wouldn't have set up the X Men. And it made one hundred and thirty one million dollars worldwide on a forty five million dollars budget, and Wesley Snipe said it best in Dead Pull and Wolverine. There will only be one Blade, so hopefully they still bring this character back to life at number two from nineteen ninety eight, I have Blade at number three. We're moving forward just about four years. I have two thousand and two's Spider Man. And this movie solidified what Blade started in nineteen ninety eight, dropping a flag into the modern era and saying superhero films are here to be a thing. Without the success of this movie, Marvel would have fallen off. It was also the first big budget superhero movie. It cost one hundred and thirty nine million dollars to make, which was a lot of money at the time to spend on any blockbuster movie, let alone a superhero movie. But it went on to make eight hundred and twenty one million dollars at the box office. It made a star of Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunns, who was already a star made or an even bigger star, and then it brought Willem to foe in the mix as one of the best villains of the modern era in the two thousands. It also was the first Marvel movie to be nominated for an oscar. It got a nomination for Sound and Visual Effects, which these visual effects were cutting edge at the time and a big problem with every Spider Man movie and TV show that was attempted to be made before this is they never got the web swinging downright. And if you don't get that downright, if it looks awkward for Spider Man to be climbing and scaling buildings, it just doesn't work. But Sam Raimi got it down in this one, so it looked great. It also brought the comics to life in a way that no other superhero movie had done before this, because with Batman and Blade being more dark and gritty, and of course you had the other not so great Batman movies of the nineties happening before this, but it was bright and colorful and it really popped. And not only did you have the great action and the great web swinging, you had a true love story and a very relatable character, which is something we hadn't had before this, and it's something that Spider Man has always been that he has been the most relatable character. Somebody who is just a nerd, doesn't have things go his way, can't get the girl. You truly believe in this story and you're truly right there with him all throughout. Spider Man one as one of the best kissing scenes in cinema of all time, and even looking past my bias of Spider Man being my favorite character, I feel this was the catalyst to create that superhero film explosion of the two thousands. It laid the groundwork for not only the MCU which would come later, of course, but also for the X Men series that was already happening at the time. It's also obviously important for laying the groundwork for all the Spider Man movies to come. Which the reason we've had so many Spider Man movies is because of the film rights. They have to make a movie in a certain amount of time or else they have to surrender the film rights. So that is why we have so many projects coming out at any given time. But we've had Toby maguire Spider Man, Andrew Garfield's Tom holland Miles Morales on the animated side, But neither of those would have existed if it wouldn't have been for the success of this movie that was also so relevant in pop culture. You had the music videos connection. It was a big deal to get your song into a Spider Man movie. So that is why I have it at number three. At number four, I could have gone a couple of different ways here, and I had to think about the two thousands as a whole and which movie really was the most important. So I'm going with two thousand and fives. Batman begins, and it's again going back to what I was stating earlier. It's all about breaking the mold. And even back in the two thousands, we started to get into a little bit of a formula when it came to what we thought about superhero movies as an audience, and Batman Begins totally broke the mold, and it was a bit of a risk. Yeah, Christopher Nolan, who was relatively unknown as a director at the time. He had done movies like Memento and Insomnia, which were both the great movies, but him taking on a Batman movie was an interesting choice. And you have to think about the fall off of Batman in the late nineties with movies like Batman and Robin Batman forever. When you think about these movies, I enjoyed them as a kid. I wasn't thinking about plot holes, thinking about cheesy things that the older critics at the time I feel would point out and rip these movies to shreds. To me, I still enjoyed these movies, But when you look at how they kind of fit in with all the other ones. They were fun, they were colorful, they were for the most part, comic book accurate, at least when it came to the costume design. I think overall it was the plot of these movies that maybe make them not the most rewatchable. Maybe they got a little bit too campy and goofy, which was kind of reverting what Batman was. And now we just keep getting darker and darker and darker. So it's all sick, little baby. But when Batman Begins came along, it saved Batman, changed his perception yet again, and it introduced this new realm of realism which all the other superhero movies of the two thousands didn't really have. They were still very fantastical, still not really say in reality, you didn't really have that base level crime. You were always fighting still over the top villains with very supernatural powers. But then comes Batman Begins, and suddenly the crime feels a little bit more real. When you think of these villains, you think they are actually people that could exist in some world. Even though it is Gotham, it still feels like New York City, it feels like Chicago, it feels like Pittsburgh. Ushering in of what DC as a whole would try to hold on to. This movie walked so the Dark Knight could run. Because I remember when this movie came out, I didn't entirely love it. I thought it was a little bit boring. I was fourteen years old at the time, and I didn't fully get it. It felt so different to me. I was like, what do you mean. These characters aren't colorful and they're not running around causing a muck, And it took a little bit for me to appreciate Batman Begins. The Dark Knight I loved instantly in two thousand and eight. But if it wasn't for the success of Batman Begins laying that groundwork and changing the perception, that movie wouldn't have been as successful. You couldn't have started with The Dark Knight. You had to have this one to usher it in and to set it up, and it began what other movies would try to emulate, where if you take out all the superhero elements at its core, it is still a good movie. Batman Begins did that. The Dark Knight was an even better example of that. But if you peel away the fact that he's Batman and you just look at the story and the characters, that on its own is a recipe for a great movie. And it started to change the way yet again that we thought about superhero movies, where this was the first time that it didn't feel at all that these movies were made for kids. It started to become that you thought about the kid back in nineteen eighty nine who watched that movie as a kid now is much older and you kind of age with your fan. This was the first time you really had that, and now that's something we see happening a lot more. It also set the new standard for playing Batman, which before this it was kind of like, all right, you get the best looking actor that you can find and you throw them in the Batman suit. Now you really had to have acting chops. You couldn't just be Val Kilmer or George Clooney to give a very sometimes flat performance. Just because of your name doesn't mean you have the right to wear that suit. Christian Bale is a top tier actor, a method actor, a dude who goes to extreme links to be the characters that he portrays on the big screen, and he gave that to Batman. Was he the best overall Batman? No? Was he the best Bruce Wayne? I think so. Much like Jack Nicholson did with The Joker, Christian Bale did that with the character of Bruce Wayne. This movie is important because you start looking at the biggest superhero movies to fail. A lot of those came on the DC side. A lot of those would still come from the DC side, But when it came to anything Christopher Nolan touched and later anything that James Gun touched on the DC side, those proved to be successful. And I think all of the successes of those movies comes back and lands into the hands of Batman begins. That's why I have it at number four, and finally we arrive at number five. I'm going back to two thousand and eight. It is Ironman. This movie started the MCU. If Ironman wasn't successful, the entire MCU just wouldn't have happened. And again, Marvel was not yet what it is today at the time that Ironman came out. But Kevin Figy had this plan, Let's start making these movies that all start to interconnect. You create this synergy among your films, and eventually we are going to build up to the Avengers, which is something you said early on at a comic con. He's like, you know, there's a possibility we can make the Avengers. And that was before there was any success of any of these Marvel movies, which they were only working with the rights of the characters they had left. Of course, we were talking about the success of the Spider Man movies. Sony owned those rights, they couldn't do anything with Spider Man. Fox owned the rights to X Men the Fantastic Four, So this was them trying to build their own studio. And even these early films weren't distributed by Marvel. They had partnerships with Paramount and Universal Pictures before they were the Marvel we know today. And it was this movie that laid the groundwork for the entire phase. One you had Ironman. Then you had The Incredible Hulk, which didn't do as well as they wanted to. The Incredible Hulk as a whole on the big screen just hasn't been well received, and I don't understand it. He is one of my top five Marvel characters. And the fact that he doesn't have a film that truly defines him that people love, oh, that hurts me and my soul. But then you had Iron Man two, so Captain America, the First Avenger, all leading up to The Avengers in twenty twelve. But if it wouldn't have been for the success of this movie, none of that stuff would have mattered. This was the movie that kickstarted a multi billion dollar success of the mcu. Ironman had a budget of one hundred and forty million dollars went on to make five hundred and eighty five million dollars worldwide, which was a lot of money. Wasn't quite what we know today to be the standard of a billion dollars. But what led to the success of that the charisma of Robert Downey Junior as iron Man, because before him, iron Man wasn't that beloved of a character. Again, it is Marvel dipping back into the second stringers. If you look at the sale of Ironman comics before this, it wasn't like he was a bestseller overall. Tony Stark wasn't seen as the best guy on his own. But then you have Robert Downey Junior playing them. That brings a whole new life to the character. It makes them more relatable. Of course, it gives them that smugness that we all grew to love him. But it truly defined the character unlike anything we had seen before, much like Wesley Snipes did with Blade back in nineteen ninety eight. You see a theme here how important casting is. It could have been Tom Cruise, which was rumored to have been the person who was gonna be playing iron Man. It all comes down to who you pick on these roles, and if you look at some of the successful and unsuccessful superhero movies in time, a lot of times it comes down to casting. You could say Robert Downey Junior was one of the most successful casting stories of all time, and people had doubts about him. He had gone through a lot of stuff, a lot of legal troubles leading up to this that it was a bit of a risk just to pick him to be Tony Stark. And again in two thousand and eight, Marvel was still struggling. They were working with a loan that they would get to make these movies, which is how the first phase of the MCU was funded, and they were just trying to stay afloat. They were clawing, just trying to have something that would resonate with fans. And finally we had that with iron Man. And it still wasn't a golden paved road from here because they still had to set up all these movies to lead up to The Avengers. And even though Ironman did really well and was successful, it didn't instantly make every Marvel movie you hit. I would say it wasn't until the Avengers came out that people really took notice of everything and sometimes went back and rewatched those movies for the first time, and that is really what I feel started it. But you wouldn't have had that if it wouldn't have been for the success of Iron Man, who was essentially the mascot for Marvel all the way leading up to Endgame. If it wouldn't have been for Tony Stark, a lot of those movies wouldn't have been as successful. And it was this movie that put the idea into everybody else's heads, not just DC but anybody with ip like this, that you got to create your own cinematic universe. You have to have why not these movies that interconnect, because the great business model if you can get one person to see one movie and then also see all these other three four five movies leading up to another one, that is how you create a very profitable franchise. So not only did it impact comic book movies, but it impacted movies like Fast and the Furious, all the teen dystopian novels adaptations to come into twenty tens, which you also had Harry Potter. Obviously, before this Twilight was happening around the same time, but this proved how successful that could be. And even now with Robert Downey Junior coming back as Doctor Doom, the influence of this movie continues to this day. That is why I have it at number five. A couple honorable mentions. One I mentioned at the very beginning of this episode. Superman nineteen seventy eight. Some would say this movie created the mold. Did it really create the mold? Or was it just the first movie? And maybe it's because I've just never been the biggest fan of the Superman character. He has always felt like quote unquote generic superhero to me, the one everybody knows. He's a little two boy, scoaled, he fly, he does all these noble things, but he doesn't have any flaws. That's why I've always been drawn to the Marvel characters who do have flaws, who feel more like real humans that happened to have superpowers. Superman just always felt too polish to me. And the movies of the seventies and all the sequels that came were a little bit ahead of my time, and they are great for what they are. But when it comes to what I enjoy about superhero characters, what I enjoy about my comic book films. It just isn't in the dna of those first movies, And I feel that if those movies wouldn't have happened, we still could have had Batman nineteen eighty nine and got to where we are today because Superman came out in seventy eight and nothing else really significant came out until Batman nineteen eighty nine. So in a way, did that movie actually hurt comic book films? Was it groundbreaking at the time to see Superman fly? Yeah? Was it a serious, compelling and commercially successful movie. Yeah, But I still think we could have got to where we are today without that movie. Someone else just would have been first. First. Other honorable mention was one I just touched on was The Avengers. The idea of synergy. It made The Avengers a household name, leading to other movie franchises wanting to create a team of heroes, whether it be DC or whether it be anybody else. It's that idea of making a team. The Avengers was Marvel's first billion dollar movie. You had all the sequels leading up to Endgame, which is the highest grossing Marvel movie. My only thing with The Avengers is it was a great run from twenty twelve to twenty nineteen. But if you think about Marvel now and what they continue to chase, is it also a bad thing what they did because they had so much success with creating all of these crossovers, all of these movies that you have to watch, is it now kind of a hard thing to replicate and still be chasing because it was so successful and now I feel audiences have kind of grown tired of that. You don't have people as invested in wanting to watch every single Marvel movie, and when they do continue to connect, it feels like everybody has to do a lot of homework in order to do so. Even hearing that now with the new Captain America movie of people who didn't watch the TV show and are a little bit lost. So by creating something so great that they want to hold on to, is that more now detrimental to their health? Should we get rid of that altogether, throw that out the window and just create singular movies? Will that model even work anymore? So? While I do feel it is an important movie, I think even without the Avengers we could have still had successful singular movies. The movie Landscape would have looked much different, maybe for the best or maybe for the worst. Maybe if we didn't have The Avengers, all the other sequels that followed, if they didn't interconnect, wouldn't have worked. Maybe it's just me looking back on history now and what everything continues to be that I think, oh man, maybe it was good while it lasted, but now it's hurting us a little bit more than it should. So that is my list, my opinion. If you have a different opinion on one that should have been included, one that shouldn't have been on this list, let me know. Hit me up on socials at Mike Destro or you can always email me Moviemike d at gmail dot com. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Captain America Brave New World. I feel like Jim Brewer's character in Half Baked, where he's like, I'm not gonna do what everybody thinks I'm gonna do. I'm not gonna freak out with any Marvel movie. The hate is gonna be real right now. And I try to avoid any other reviews going into any movie just because I don't want to be influenced with this. When it was hard to do. It was everywhere, and whenever a Marvel movie comes out now, or even a DC movie, any superhero movie, unless it's top tier, it's gonna get ripped to shreds. And you always have to kind of look through all the things that people are saying and are people really mad because the movie is bad or are people just looking for that hate for that rage clickbait. I'm here to tell you I am not in any way good a rage bait. In this review. I'm gonna give you my fair, honest opinion as a Marvel fan. If you're watching on YouTube, you can see behind me all of the influence I have with every review that I do. I have an Incredible Hulk comic right next to me. I have the first appearance of Wolverine in a whole comic right here behind me. I'm a huge fan of the Incredible Hulk, and his portrayal on the big screen just hasn't been up to expectation. And this movie was using a lot of the Red Hulk and its marketing. If you look at the poster, the first teaser we got is the Red Hulk hand holding the Captain America shield. Just now, I just got home from the gym after watching this movie, and I'm still seeing the trailer and that's all embedded in there. It is Harrison Ford turning into the Red Hulk fighting Sam Wilson, and this is what that is. It is Sam Wilson's introduction as a lead in the MCU going into this. I love what Anthony Mackie had to say in the press tour on a red carpet. Somebody asked him and he said, this feels amazing to me because it is the first time audiences are going to see my movie, not just his first movie in the MCU, but him as an actor. That is a big deal. As I was rooting for Anthony Mackie, as I was rooting for the Incredible Hulk Red Hulk in this there were a lot of problems. There were a lot of things that this movie drew influence from and drew inspiration from. That was kind of like picking off the good pieces of something you burned in the oven, like, oh no, I could still manage it. I could still make a meal out of this. Let me pick off some things from two thousand and eighth Incredible Holk, which I love, but a lot of people hate that movie. I will defend that movie as being a great Marvel movie, But I don't think you should be going back to that movie to pick apart the pieces from it to sell your new Captain America. That's what they did. You have Thunderbolt Ross from that movie. Now the actor who played him in that original movie has passed away, so they recast them with Harrison Ford. There's a lot of disconnect there because in order to get his whole story arc, you have to know that movie. Otherwise they don't really do a good job in selling you what is going on with his character. And not only that, they go to one of the worst Marvel movies of all time, I would say the worst ever, The Eternals, and they pick apart the little piece that we were all asking about the end of the Eternals. This it's like this big white thing in the middle of the ocean, and then we haven't talked about it since. You know what, Let's pull apart that little bird piece and put it in this movie. And what is going on here? It is still Sam Wilson struggling with can I be Captain America without have taken the serum Do I have what it takes? The themes we already kind of discussed and went over in the Disney Plus show are still at the forefront of this movie, which I found to be weird. We've already been there. I just want to see you being Captain America. I don't want to see you questioning it anymore. Like, just put on the suit and do the thing, because that is a hero we need. The other really hard part about getting over the marketing of this movie. In that trailer, it is Thunderbolt Ross telling them I want you to rebuild the Avengers, and he's like, all right, let's rebuild the Avengers. It's supposed to be them working together. Then something goes down where his inner circle has been compromised, and all of a sudden, somebody tries to kill the president, and now he doesn't see eye to eye with Captain America anymore so doing the Captain America thing. He wants to do what is right. Even though the US government doesn't want him a part of this. He is still going to lead this investigation and try to figure out who was pulling the strings here, who was behind this attack, and who is trying to stop Thunderbolt Ross's plan of signing this treaty to make them look like a good president. That is essentially the plot of this movie. I won't get into any other details because I don't want to reveal too much about what exactly happens. But there was so little action in this movie that it made it hard to watch. And not only that the action there was, it was very slow. The choreography just isn't there. The Captain America movies, out of all the MCU movies, always had the best action. That was their bread and butter, Quick fast paced action, amazing fights, shootouts, chases. That is what I went to Captain America for. Think back to Chris Evans running barefoot down the street. Those are the moments I think about. Not only were they great superhero movies, but they were great crime thrillers. And the biggest problem I had with Brave New World is it's just uninteresting. It doesn't get your heart rate up. There's no Marvel magic. It's not a bad movie, it's just why is this happening right now? Why are we trying to rehash all this old stuff? And why don't I believe in Sam Wilson as a superhero? And I found myself to be entertained for the most part, but nothing really exciting happened. And when you think about it, was like the Captain America Shield is a bigger star than Anthony Mackie is right now as Captain America, so much so that I found myself just questioning all these minor details because of how uninteresting the plotline was. It was not only cliched for a Marvel movie, it was just riddled with cliches from every Spice thriller that has come out in the last five years, and all of the superhero elements were just kind of sprinkled in there and everything that they teased and the trailer, all the marketing. Not only was that pushed all the way to the third act, a lot of it was the last ten minutes before the ten minute epilogue. That was it. That's all you got. So it kind of felt like a bait and switch, and it was Marvel to me, felt like they knew what they had, They knew they didn't have a whole lot, so let's sell what is coming at the end of it and just get the butts into seats, and that's what they did. They made one hundred million dollars over President's Day weekend, They got the butts in the seats. They will break even on this movie probably and it will do what it needs to do to advance the MCU right now. But it's just leaving a lot of people feeling ugh, kind of underwhelmed, and I think that is what has led to such poor reviews from audiences. Again, it's not that it's all out terrible, it's just that we've come to expect a lot from the MCU. We've come to expect a nice tailored suit, and what we got out of this movie was something straight off the racket Zaras And if we have to keep going back talking about that, the visual effects aren't there, What are we doing here? This movie costs two hundred million plus. But God'szilla minus one, with the budget of about fifteen million dollars had much better action sequences at sea than this movie did. It was more believable. So they need to just find a different way to make these movies look more appealing. That should be basic, be day one. Things. We should not be questioning a movie with this budget of it having CGI anymore. And there was a scene in particular that happened towards the end of the movie where you see Harrison Ford and you see Sam Wilson standing there and it just looked like a big green or blue screen that they were looking at. There was it was like two dimensional, no depth whatsoever, and it makes the scenes just not connect. There's nothing there. You don't get a performance out of them because they're just obviously standing in front of this blue or green screen and there's no connection. There's no emotion, and a movie like this needs that. I never felt invested in Sam's story. I never believed him as Captain America. At times, I felt I could probably beat him up, and I can't beat up many people. I was so uninterested with the plot. At a certain point, I found myself questioning what shoes he was wearing. I was so upset about the shoes Sam Wilson was wearing that I was like Captain America. I wouldn't wear those shoes, those elevated, cool, expensive sneakers like he would wear those. He would always be ready to go have to chase somebody down if we needed to. He couldn't do that in that bomber jacket and those shoes. It is unbelievable to me, and his character is so reliant on the technology of the suit. And maybe that's another thing I'm kind of getting tired of in the MCU is the stark influence that all the suits have this technology where they don't have superpowers, they have super technology. All the people with superpowers have kind of gone on. We don't have those people anymore. It almost feels like all the seniors have graduated and now we're left with that freshman class that are still trying to push this narrative. But they're still talking about their acts, still talking about the person who saved the world and questioning whether or not they can do that. Just forget about your ex stop talking about them, and move on and show me why you can save the world. The question comes down to do you need superpowers to be a hero. That is what this movie is trying to say. Did we need a two hour movie to say that. I don't think so. I think we got that in the series before this. There's nothing really brave. There's nothing new about Brave New World. It just feels like a bunch of rehashed plotlines slapped together. At times, it feels like I was watching one of the parody movies that they do on the Boys, the TV show. Whenever they're making their superhero movies, it kind of felt like watching one of those. We still have a lot of villain problems. This entire movie just kind of felt like a two hour post credit scene. If you look at kind of the pattern that we have in the MCU, it's the MCU is back dead, Pull a Wolverine. Next movie comes out, Brave New World. Ah, the MCU is dead. But then before this, the trailer for Fantastic four played, and we're gonna say the same thing again. The M two was back. So maybe they're just doing this pattern of good movie, mediocre movie. Good movie, mediocre movie. And I think it's just that my standards and all of our standards have become so high and expecting every movie to be great, expecting every movie to be the level of The Avengers. With all that said, again, I was entertained enough, but I was also irritated a little bit at what this movie could have been. Am I excited to see more of Captain America? Not really, not really at all. It was more of a Thunderbolt Ross movie than it was a Captain America movie. I think if they can get that down right, give Sam some confidence. Now, maybe they could do it in a second movie before Captain America Brave New World. I give it three out of five shields. It's time to head down to movie Mike trailer, Paul, Is it possible to like something even though you know it's not gonna be that good? Now, that's kind of how I feel about Jurassic World rebirth. We've all been waiting for a glimpse of this. There have been a lot of rumors about Jurassic World and it was gonna be R rated. It's not R rated. After seeing this trailer, though, I kind of wish it was R rated because the weird thing about Jurassic World is this feel like a reboot of the reboot, which we had the reboot with Jurassic World back in twenty fifteen with Chris Pratt. It was a reboot of the original Jurassic Park that we grew up with, one of the best, not only sci fi movies of all time, one of the best movies of the nineties, spawned a fantastic franchise that got rebooted in twenty fifteen, So a long time in between the last Jurassic Park movie from that franchise until the end, it felt like very big and impactful. But now, about ten years after they rebooted it the first time in twenty fifteen, twenty twenty five, we're getting another reboot. And the thing I feel about this trailer after watching it is they are trying to make it seem so different but also so connected to that one and to the original one, that they are almost trying too hard. I almost feel that I hope that this movie didn't have any DNA of what we've seen before it, and it's kind of using that same formula. And while I'm looking at this trailer and thinking, I don't think this is gonna be good, I don't really think it's gonna be bad, but I don't think it's gonna be the quote unquote rebirth that we were looking for that I think this franchise needed this. I can feel that is already gonna be one of those movies you go to the theaters to watch. It's fine, probably appeals to a mass amount of people, which is what they go for in these Jurassic Park movies now, But I feel as soon as I leave that theater and as soon as I record the review for that movie, I'm not gonna think about it again. And that's a bit of a bummer. Now with Jurassic World dominion that we just had most recently, that movie left a bad taste in my mouth. And that movie banked on a lot of nostalgia bringing back the original cast member at least most of them, to say Okay, they're coming back. That felt like an event, and that movie fell flat. This movie feels like, Okay, we're getting rid of all those people, we're not connecting it anymore, but we're still gonna have a little bit of remnants holding onto things that I don't think then to hold on to anymore. Let's move past it. I don't need to see the Jurassic World banner anymore. I don't need references to all the initial experiments, to Park gone wrong, all that. Just get away from it entirely and bring us something new. And I feel that way on the one end, But then on the other end, I watched this trailer. I'm like dinosaurs running around and attacking people. That's awesome. So just from a pure lover of summer blockbusters, this is a movie I'm gonna go watch and I'm gonna enjoy it. But as somebody who wants to see a franchise that has kind of been beaten the crab at this point, Have something new, have something fresh. It's just not doing it for me on all those levels. It's just not quite what I was expecting it to be. It's almost like when your parents say, I'm not mad at you, I'm disappointed. That's kind of how I feel about this. I'm not thinking this is gonna be an awful movie, but I just wanted something different. It just kind of feels like it's gonna be a very fast action type movie. That being said, get into the trailers talk about what is going on here. Before I get into more of my love and grievances with this trailer, here's just a little bit of Jurassic World rebirth. This island was the research facility for the original Jurassic Park. We need DNA from the three biggest dinosaurs. Do we have to get a sample from an egg? These dinosaurs we're too dangerous for the original park, The worst of the worst. We're left here. Come doggad. So what it looks like is happening in this movie. You still have some dinosaurs that are living in this very remote island. We've seen that time and time again. And these creatures, specifically three different creatures, hold the key to a potentially saving drug. So you have Scarlett Johansson teaming up with some other scientists, some other nerds. I love me a good scientist, nerd that knows a lot about dinosaurs. That is why we love these movies. She takes them there and they have to get not one, not two, but three samples from three different dinosaurs. I can already see this movie playing out on my head of like, the first one, oh man, how are we gonna get this one? They get it. Second one is a little bit harder, maybe they fail a little bit, and they try again. Then they get the second one, and then the third one is gonna be the Big Boy, the one we all come to see. It's gonna be the t Rex, because how is it not? Really the reason we go to these movies is to see the raptors, which get referenced in this trailer that I just played you, and we go for the t Rex, the big logo on every single Jurassic Park movie. That is the big Boy. That is the big one that draws, that is the star. That is the one we go to to see. So. Scarlett Johansson plays a character named Zora Bennett. She's a covert operations expert. Essentially, she is black widow but for dinosaurs. You see her in this trailer scaling mountains, telling them she can take them there and can guarantee their safety. That is what she is to this group of scientists. You'll say, have maherschel Ali. The problem I have after watching this trailer is the dialogue feels so bad. It feels like I'm playing a Jurassic Park video game and this is the dialogue, and not even a modern video game. I'm talking about a video game from the two thousands where their lips don't quite match up with what they are saying. I'm talking about graphics where the guys are basically these big three D polygons and there's not a lot going on there. That is how I feel about this dialogue. It feels very cheesy, formulaic, almost AI generated at times, so much so I pull three examples of the three worst lines of dialogue just from this trailer. Here is bad line number one. Can you do ready tomorrow? I can guarantee your safety, I mean more or less, more or less What is that I guarantee your safety more or less. It's so tongue in cheek and like, ah, like if your grandma on Facebook writing this dialogue, that's bad line number one. Here's bad line number two. No one's dumb enough to go where we're going, Like just by saying, why do you need to say that? In the trailer, no one's dumb enough to go where we are going. We're just the ragtag group of individuals go and chase the dinosaurs. It just feels like they are over explaining everything. And finally, here is bad line number three. They're helping the mostazor defend territory, stalk hunt. None of what you just said is good that line from Scarlett Johansson all over dialogue in this trailer, it feels very much what people hate on superhero movies for being that type of humor. They are one step away from saying, oh no, the dinosaur's right behind me, isn't it so? Overall, when it comes to the DNA of this movie, I just feel like it has very weak bones. That being said, the movie itself, the way it looks and the way it's shot in this trailer, I actually enjoy it feels like a movie that demands the big screen in the summer. Again, it's coming out on July second. Any Jurassic Park movie just has that summer blockbuster feel to me. I still get that vibe from this Jurassic Park movies now, to me are starting to feel more like the Fast and the Furious movies. And maybe it's a universal thing. There was a period of time where they were saying, it's not out of the realm, the possibility that we could combine these two franchises, and based upon the ending and the dialogue I'm seeing in this trailer, I feel like they're actually not too far off from that. It seemed like a crazy idea at the time, but I'm kind of hoping for some bloodshed. I'm even at the point where I'm kind of rooting for the dinosaurs take out a few humans. There are moments, especially in Jurassic Park Lost World, where the dinosaurs would actually kill humans that those are the most memorable for me. Sometimes I root for villains and movies when it comes to the Dress Park movie, especially right now, I am rooting for the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs doing nothing wrong, They're just living their life. It's the crazy scientists who brought them back to life. Now they have to deal with it. But going back to that dialogue of them even explaining that this is the island that they sent all the dinosaurs that weren't cut out to be in the theme parks, that really makes no sense to me, because we're any of the dinosaurs that were in the theme park really supposed to be there, because we all saw what happened. It all went to hell in a handbasket. There was total mayhem. You shouldn't have had a t rex in a theme park. That animal species was not cut out to be in a theme park. They're trying to make it seem like, oh, we're gonna be really up against something we've never been up against before on this island because these are the rejects on the rejects. All these dinosaurs are hardcore. I do think the addition of the underwater dinosaurs is pretty cool. Whenever they're in the boat towards the end of this trailer and you see all of the dinosaurs swimming towards them, that is a part where I'm like, how are they going to get out of that one? Because those dinosaurs are massive and that boat looks so tiny and The big question I asked myself is does this feel like a billion dollar movie? Because pretty much every single Jurassic Park movie has made a billion dollars. The first one back in ninety three one point one billion with a sixty three million dollar budget, which is astonishing. Jurassic Park The Lost World didn't quite make it. I think people didn't give this movie a chance. Made six hundred and eighteen million dollars. Then they kept going down. Jurassic Park three three hundred and sixty nine. That's probably what they stopped making these for a while. They stopped becoming as profitable as that first one. But Jurassic World in twenty fifteen one point sixty seven billion, We're back Baby Fallen Kingdom one point three one billion. Even Dominions still crossed that one billion dollar mark, just barely, just barely, kind of lipped across that finish line. But that was with the budget of a hundred and eighty five million, And if we're looking at the budget of Jurassic World Rebirth, it is the most expensive one at two hundred and sixty five million dollars. This trailer does not look like a two hundred and sixty five million dollar budget movie, and it does not feel to me like it is going to be a billion dollar movie. It looks like it's gonna be fun, but it kind of looks like it's gonna be forgettable. Doesn't scream to me like it's gonna give audiences a reason to go back to the theater to watch this, because there's not enough time that it's passed to make people feel like, oh, this is something new. It's gonna feel like a continuation of that. Even the name of it Jurassic World Rebirth, it still has the world, which they kind of changed a little bit from calling it a Jurassic Park to calling it Jurassic World, making it feel bigger. Don't come back to me until it's Jurassic World outer space. We just need to go a step further, put them in space, or even do a movie like Planet of the Apes, but with dinosaurs, where the dinosaurs become sophistic catered and smart. They're speaking English to each other, and it is the humans who are the minority. Could you imagine a dinosaur like a raptor, capturing a human and then putting them in an amusement park. That is the movie I want to see. I want to see a human escaping the park and then all the dinosaurs freak out, like the human is loose, it's gonna kill us. It has opposable thumbs. They grab that gun, put that gun down. Human. That is the movie I want to see. That would have been Jurassic World Rebirth. But again, this movie is coming out on July second. I'm still going to watch it. I'm still gonna enjoy it, but I'm just not as excited about it. And that was this week's edition of Movie min Framer par and that is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week this week. I'm going over to tic Tac and it's a comment from one of my last posts from last week's episode, where Kelsey and I talked about Harry Potter. I reranked all of the movies and we got into a debate over a death in Harry Potter that I thought was overrated, and maybe I picked the one comment that actually agreed with me, because man, people let me have it online last week. So I'm shouting out Henry Ochoa on TikTok, who said Dobby's death was way sadder in my opinion, than Dumbledore exactly, Henry, That's what I was saying, And later in that episode I did say that that is the death that affected me the most, poor Dobby, because I feel like Dobby was good the entire time. Dumbledore was always like, oh, I forgot to tell you, Harry. Oh I forgot to tell you this, Harry. That's right, I haven't told you. Dumbledore was withholding all this information. Dumbledore kind of set up Harry Potter. So maybe that's the reason why his death wasn't as impactful to me. I'd go Dobby and then I'd probably go Snape after that, But still Dumbledore's death not that memorable. If you missed that episode, just go back one in the feed, and if you miss let me have it on Instagram, TikTok or Facebook or YouTube. Go comment over there and maybe I'll pick you in next week's Listener shout out of the week. Thank you Henry for listening, and thank you for commenting. Thank you everybody part of the movie crew listening to this week's episode sharing it with a friend. Until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.