Movies To Watch After a 10 Year Coma + Movie Review: Emily the Criminal + Trailer Park: The Greatest Beer Run Ever

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast. I am your host movie Mike, and today we have a listener inspired topic. We are covering the subject that's gonna appeal to so many people, movies to watch after you just woke up from a tenure coma. I'll explain the rules on the topic. Today. In the movie review, we'll talk about one of the most exhilarating movies I've seen the last five years, Emily the Criminals during Aubrey Plaza, who I feel is an underrated actress, and I'll get more into that. And then in the trailer park, we have a new zac Efron movie coming to Apple TV plus called the Greatest Beer Run Ever, and the premise sounds completely ridiculous, but it is based on a true story, so has me a little bit more curious to see what old zac Efron is up to. Thanks everybody for being subscribed to the podcast, listening every single Monday. Shout out to the Monday Morning movie crew. Let's talk movies. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never both or in a movie podcast, a man with so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking aud M David with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network Movie Movie Podcast. So I love it when you send in questions. And this week's topic is inspired by a tweet I got from at my father Hates Me, which is an excellent Twitter handle. I would love to impact the psychology behind that Twitter handle, but that's probably for a different podcast. But they wrote from at my father Hates Me Movie mic, someone comes out of a tenure coma, what five movies do you recommend they see? Now? Not only was it hard for me to do just five, but I thought this would be a great podcast topic, so I decided to extend it to ten. The rules I put into place for this list is, hypothetically this person who went into a coma, I'm having them go in on January one, so they didn't see any movie we that came out in twenty twelve and they woke up yesterday. Those are the rules I made up and I'm playing by. So basically it goes January one, this person goes into a coma and then yesterday woke up, Oh man, what a coma? I should probably catch up on a lot of life things, but Hey, movie, Mike, what movie should I watch? This is what I would recommend. And when I put this list together, I didn't just want to include my favorite movies. I thought of this person who just woke up and missed out on ten years of film. So this list isn't necessarily my top ten movies of the last ten years. It's more if I was curating a list, if I was stacking up literal like blue rays or queuing up a streaming playlist for movies, these are the movies I would pick to take them on the entire wave of emotions I felt in the last ten years. You gotta have the big triumphant cinematic moments. You have to have some of the emotional moments. You have to have some of the heartwarming moments. Gotta throw in some scares in there. So I put this from ten to one as kind of how I would curate this movie watching playlist. Without a doubt, there will be some honorable mentions, and I even pulled some that you submitted in on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook. So let's get into the list. At number ten, I'm gonna put top Gun Maverick, which came out this year. I feel like, that's a good place to start at number ten, because this is a movie that came almost thirty years after the original one, and it was just such a big moment in cinematic history this year, grossing so much money at the box office, but just the impact that's had on people getting back into the movie theater and just the impact that this movie has had bringing in all different types of movie fans. You have the older crowd, the younger crowd being exposed to this franchise, and then you just have people who just want to go experience something with a lot of thrills, a lot of fun. And I think this movie just really nailed it this year. And I think that's what this movie did for a lot of people. It was reinvigorating of like those classic movie moments, and it was one of the first movies in a long time that so many people have just talked about how much they loved it, how almost everybody I know that I went to go see this movie in theaters didn't have anything bad to say about it. And I also just think it would be a really nice street to wake up to an unexpected thing, to come out of a coma and there be a Top Gun sequel and one you didn't have to wait through all the delays like we did. So at number ten, I'm going with Top Gun Maverick. At number nine, I'm going back to and I'm putting in Blade Runner. This is one of the most aesthetically pleasing, practical effects using and best sci fi thriller I've seen in a very long time. It kind of took away all my feelings that I had before of Blade Runner, and I think a lot of that is due to how slick this movie looks. The cinematography in this is exquisite, and I love that they used a lot of practical effects. They actually built the sets for this movie, so it has just overall a more authentic feel. It doesn't feel like I'm watching a movie that was just manufactured in a warehouse. There's just some realness to it. There's some grit to it. I really like Ryan Gosling as Officer K in this. I think this is the type of role that he does really well, and he's really good at playing the stoic but also dominant action star and I think perfect casting with him. You have another Artemus Mackenzie Davis and also Jared Leto, who plays a really weird character in this movie, and overall, I just feel like it's a pretty weird person, so a perfect casting there as well. And then you also have Harrison Ford back from the original Blade Runner, which came out in two and I just felt like, this is when this movie should have been made now. To make a movie like this back in the eighties was very em shouts, and I know the eighties were kind of obsessed with this dystopian type future and kind of predicting what everything was going to look like. So I just felt like coming out in seventeen, the technology was there. So if I was curating this list for this person coming out of this coma and they were coming down off the high of Top Gun Maverick, I think that's where you slide in a movie like this because it's just so different. I feel like it's the perfect blend of sci fi. It's the perfect blend of action and a movie I think that came out in the last ten years that probably everybody should see. A number eight. I am already anticipating the hate I'm going to get for putting this movie on my list, but for how this movie made me feel. For what it did for the franchise and all the hype leading into this movie. There was nothing bad I felt watching this movie. It was all the negative reviews and the fandom coming out later of how much they hated this entire trilogy. But at number eight, I'm going with Star Wars. The Force Awakens from this movie felt so nostalgic to me, and I am a what I would say, a casual Star Wars fan. I love the original trilogy Star Wars A New Hope is my favorite Star Wars movie, and The Force Awakens, I felt was so nostalgic and to me did a really great job at kind of being an ode to that movie. Out of all of the movies in the last trilogy, I felt like The Force Awakens did the best job out of capturing that original energy in that movie. And I just think you can't deny seeing Chewbacca and seeing Han Solo come back in this movie. That is a movie memory that I just haven't forgotten. There are maybe ten overall in my life that I just remember the moment I experienced that for the first time and seeing them come back, even as a pretty casual Star Wars fan, that meant something to me seeing those original characters, seeing R two, D two and C three p O, seeing Princess Leia, but then also introducing a new cast of characters with Ray and Finn and then Adam Driver as Kylo Wren. I just felt like this movie had a lot of heart, It had a lot of nostalgia, It has that big Star Wars energy, and it played out so well on the big screen. So I think, to this person waking up from this coma, they would appreciate seeing a new Star Wars movie. And I'll leave it to this coma patient to decide how they feel about it. But I just think it's such a noteworthy movie. It's one I think doesn't get the credit it deserves because there is just so much hate from the fandom. But at number eight, I'm going with Star Wars The Force Awakens and number seven. Now, I think it's time for a horror movie. And I addled between two movies to put on the list here. The Conjuring From is one of my favorite horror movies, not just in the last ten years, but probably of all time. I just love things that deal with the paranormal, things that deal with the undead, and I thought that movie did a really great job at building suspense and actually scaring me, which is very hard to do. That movie has stuck with me, but maybe it's because I've been on such a Jordan Peel kick and you're probably getting tired of me talking about Jordan Peel. But I'm gonna put at number seven from sen get Out because I think this movie has horror, but it also kind of transcends that and even if you're not a fan of the horror genre, you can enjoy this movie. And I think, to this coma patient who is waking up, I'm trying to curate this list giving you things you haven't seen before. You've probably seen something similar to a conjuring in the other years you were alive and watching movies. And but if I was the one coming out of a coma, I think I would want something a little bit more novel, a little bit more groundbreaking and thought provoking, also provide me with some scares, which I think get Out does do pretty well. Not full on gory, violent scares, but it's a little bit more suspense and thriller, and it's a movie that I feel audiences, for the most part, really enjoyed. It also did really well with the critics and set Jordan Peel up for having the career he is having now. So at number seven, I am going with get Out. From moving on now to number six, I think it's time for something a little bit more uplifting, a little bit more cheerful and heartwarming. I am going to go and keep it in and give you Pixars Coco. I think this is the most important Pixar film in the last ten years, which I kind of have this maybe rose colored glasses when it comes to Pixar because I associated with my childhood, I associated so much with their early on hits. But just looking at the Pixar movies from the last ten years, Coco was without a doubt the best one. But I don't feel like they've had another really strong, stone cold hit in the last ten years. And I just find myself generally enjoying every single Pixar movie that comes out. They don't make bad movies, well maybe except one on this less than the last ten years, but I feel like in the last ten years they've been a little bit mediocre. Going back from twelve, they had Brave the Monsters University Inside Out, which I feel like is the second best also probably could have qualified on this list, but Coco just beats it out. The Good Dinosaur, which was a rare flop for Pixar, and then you have Finding Dory, Cars three, Coco, which I have here on my list, The Incredibles too, that was another good one and one that came way way after the original Toy Story four, which probably didn't need to happen. And then in you had Onward, which was probably the weakest aside from the Good Dinosaur movie. I was expecting to like a lot more than I did. And then you have Soul, which they kind of got away from making movies for kids, Luca which was good, but I don't feel like we'll really care about that movie in ten years. Turning Red, which was a bright spot this year, and I feel like it kind of got screwed over just being put on Disney. Plus that movie should have had a full theater release, and then you have light Year. So just looking at all those movies, combining them all together, it looks like, yeah, a bunch of great Pixar movies, But when you kind of pick apart one by one, none of those are really that long lasting. I feel like we associate pis are a lot more with the early two thousand's. But out of that list, Coco was a movie that maybe it was because it had Mexican heritage in it, and I saw a lot of my family, I saw my culture rippers in it in a Pixar movie. It had music, it had imagery from the Day of the Dead, but also just really built some of the funnest and most unique Pixar characters in a very long time. And even though yes, it was speaking to somebody who is from my culture as a Mexican American, but I think it also just transcended that and just provided a really good story. So I think if this person was waking up out of a coma, they need to see Coco. They need to have those feelings, they need to feel those emotions. Maybe they need to cry a little, get it all out of their system because it's been just built up there for so long. So I think if there was one Pixar movie because I needed one on my list, I will easily go with Coco. From now, we've made it to the top five. So, going back to this original question from at my father Hates Me, the five movies I would recommend to this person who just came out of a ten year coma and we are looking into two and I'm putting The Batman and for five. I was talking earlier about movie moments that I have experienced in the last ten years that have just become a part of me, a part of me that I just remember and have kind of stored in my brain as these are moments that something like you know when you learn something, there's a wrinkle that is created in your brain. I have that with movies, and The Batman provided me with another movie moment this year, and it's that's chasing between the Batman and the Penguin and seeing the Batmobile rise from the flames, and it's just the most heroic part out of that entire movie, where the penguin thinks he's getting away, looks in his review mirror and there's the Batman. That scene got me so hype that at that point in that movie got turned to my wife and said, this is the best thing I've ever seen. And I know it was in the moment of that, but that's truly how I felt. It created this movie memory for me that I will never forget, and I want this person coming out of this tenure Coma to experience that, and that it's also a movie that I didn't realize not everybody was going to love. I had this feeling of like, everybody's gonna love this, It's gonna make so much money, be number one, and I can't see it any other way. And it felt like it wasn't as well received, and I still find that mind blowing. I feel like that was the perfect movie. It was taking Batman unlike we've seen him ever. I mean, maybe a little bit like The Dark Guy, but it was just so re and fighting to the franchise and created something different and it had a reason to be made. And I loved it so much that I find it crazy that people didn't love it as much as I did, that people had problems with it. But I still think, to this person coming out of this tanure Coma, they have to experience that movie moment. So I'm putting The Batman at number five. At number four, I haven't put a Marvel movie on this list yet, and it's hard to do because there are so many Marvel movies that came out in the last ten years. Basically the entire phase like leading up to End Game. So what do you put on here? Do you put the original Avengers from? Do you put a solo movie so this person waking up doesn't have to watch every other movie to get it. Or do you go with the biggest and the best. And in my heart, I wanted to go with the Avengers from, which is the one that really kicked off what Marvel came to be. But again, I'm thinking about movie moments here. I'm thinking about great things in cinema, and I just couldn't not put Avengers Endgame at number four from nineteen and I get that this person is going to be a little confused if they didn't see the first Avengers up to they've only really seen Thor Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk. And then you also come in halfway between Infinity War, which is actually my favorite Avengers movie. But I think in this three and a half hour movie, you're gonna get it. I hope you get it. I just think, even without seeing all the previous movies, that moment where all the Avengers come out to help Captain America, I need you to feel that. So I needed to put this on my list. So at number four, I'm going Within Game at number three. We're staying in one of my favorite years of movies, nineteen, and I'm going to put the most important foreign film in the last ten years. I'm going with Parasite. Assuming this person waking up from this comma is American and only speaks English will have to read the subtitles to understand this movie. But I think that will provide this person with an unexpected treat And I think now when I watch a movie from another country and I have to read and pay attention to subtitles, it makes me understand the cont x more. It allows me to not miss things that maybe sometimes I would in a normal movie because I am paying attention to not only every single sentence that is read of dialogue, but sometimes down to the word. And you kind of see a script on the screen and it makes a little bit more sense of how important every word and a movie is, which is something you don't really think about. Every word in a script should have some importance when it's a really good movie like that is just a sign of great writing. And I think that's what Parasite did really well. This movie shattered so many records when it came out, and very much deserved the Best Picture Award, so it's one I would have to include on this list, putting it at number three. At number two, we're going to and I wasn't putting a whole lot of Marvel on this list, like I said earlier, because they are so interconnected, but this movie is a standalone movie. If you missed out on the other Spider Man movies that happened in the last ten years, you don't really need them. At number two, I'm going with spider Man into the Spider Verse, which is personally my favorite spider Man film. Even though I think spider Man two is the best spider Man film, I can differentiate the two and knowing that spider Man two checks off all the boxes for me more of what makes a great spider Man film. But I just love spider Man Into the spider Verse so much because it is so different, because it creates this really fun world to explore. The artistic direction and the attention to detail in this movie is unreal. The voice acting is top notch. And I know Spider Man sometimes gets criticized for having so many reincarnations, like how many more Spider Man films do we need? How many more Batman films do we need, well, we need as many as we can get, as long as they keep reinventing themselves. I'm down for all the reincarnations of any super a hero. But this movie did something that I really wasn't expecting it to do in being so well received among the critics, which is a hard thing to do. I feel like fans love this movie so much, but it's often just held to such a higher standard of being an Oscar nominated and an Oscar winning film. It won Best Animated Feature in nineteen and is one of the Spider Man movies that I've rewatched the most, especially in the last ten years. So I feel really good putting this one at number two, especially in this slot, coming down from a foreign film, providing you with a little bit more fun in an animated movie, and especially getting to what I'm about to put at number one. But before I get to that, some honorable mentions I want to throw out. I almost thought of putting everything everywhere, all at once from this year. I thought of throwing a musical from seventeen La La Land. Baby Driver was another great movie in seventeen, Really close to making it was all so the suicide Squad, which I really enjoyed. Another great movie from d C. Wolf of Wall Street almost made the list. I debated on uncut gems, Ready Player one, and Black Panther is probably one that if it wouldn't have been for Top Gun coming out this year, I would have put yet another Marvel movie towards the bottom of my list. I do have some picks from listeners. Justin Words tweeted me and his five movies are Joker, from which I rewatched recently, and that movie is a pretty big bummer, and I just thought, for this person coming out of this coma, I couldn't do that to him. He also has trained to boost On from seventeen, a great zombie movie. Dave made a maze from Crushed the Skull from and Coco at twenty seventeen make Justin's list. And then Robert Herrick on Facebook just came at me with the Marvel movies, putting The Avengers from twelve and then Age of Ultron, Black Panther, Infinity War, and and Game all on his list, which I could have easily done, but I didn't want to bombard this person with just hey, here are the great Marvel movies I love watch these, but thank you Justin and Robert for your five movie pick submissions. And now we've made it to number one, and from I am going with Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Interstellar is a movie that I've lived with now for eight years. I rewatched it earlier this year and had a new fascination with it. There are very few movies that do that for me, and I credit that to Christopher Nolan. He is so ambitious in his filmmaking of creating things that we've never seen before, and usually the first time we watch them don't fully understand, whether it be Inception, whether it be Tenant, which came out and a lot of people didn't really like. Maybe in another years I'll fully get that one, or even Memento back in the day. There's just something about a Christopher Nolan film that invokes a lot of thought, and Interstellar is one of the most important sci fi movies ever made. It has all my favorite things, timelines, wormholes, space travel, Matthew McConaughey, pickup trucks, and it takes you on an emotional journey. It takes you on this sci fi journey and raises so many questions about our existence about life itself, about science, and I felt like there was a lot of science in this movie and a lot of pretty complex theories and concepts. And I think the reason I rewatched this movie this year because it gets referenced in thor Love and Thunder, and it made me think about it again, and rewatching it kind of brought back all those same feelings. It even led me to do another deep dive this year and read some more theories about this movie and what kind of a movie does that? Like? What kind of a movie could you watch back in and still be thinking about in So to this person coming out of this coma who missed out on this, I'll leave them with that movie at number one to shatter their mind and make them think about the world differently. And they'll probably watch this movie and like myself, and not fully get it. Maybe revisit it back and watch it again, maybe have to do a little Google search and find some theories on the movie and then get into a whole another discussion and thread of science and time and space. And that's all from a movie. So that is my number one that has been my list. If there are any you think I should have added or should have included hit me up at Mike Destro on Twitter or send me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. Thanks again to my father hates me for that question. If you have a question or topic idea for an epis so it hit me up to send them my way. Let's get into a movie review now. I want to talk about Emily The Criminal, which stars Aubrey Plaza. You may know her from Parks and Wreck. She's also been in Ingrid Goes West, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, and she is one of my favorite late night talk show guests because she is so quirky and weird and just feels very authentic and also isn't like fully in the Hollywood machine, at least it feels that way. So I find that she picks projects that means something to her, and I'll go as far as saying that I think she is in the prime of her career right now. In this movie, she plays a character named Emily who has a staggering amount of student debt about seventy k which is a lot, and she is trying to find a job to help her pay off that debt, but she also has a criminal history. She has some things on her record that make it very difficult to get a higher paying job, and then all kind of changes when she gets involved in this organization and involved in a bit of organized crime that has to do with buying things with stolen credit cards. We'll get into this full spoiler free review, but here's just a little bit of the Emily the Criminal trailer. How are you I need a real job just to like pay my loans. Emily, let me hook you up in the next hour. You will make two cash, but you have to do something in won't be in danger, but you will be breaking the law. Yo, you gotta pay for that. Sorry, let's say, are you gonna pay for that? Oh my god? Sorry? Man? Tomorrow you have the option to do another job. Okay, what do I have to do? So what you heard in that trailer was the very start of the movie. I love that the movie opens up explaining how crippling this debt is, and I think what this movie was trying to do was, in a very kind of exaggerated way, show how some people deal with desperation, how some people deal with this issue in society of the unwillingness to give some people a second chance. And her character has these things on her record that she's not proud of that every employer she goes to just can't really look past. And she has this seventy K student debt that she's struggling to pay off. It keeps building more and more interest on it, and it's getting to a point that it's going to breakers. She has reached a breaking point in this movie, and she's also struggling with trying to land her dream job. So we kind of find her struggling in every area of her life. She's not living in the best situation. She has even an issue with her friend who works at her dream company doing her dream job of working in design. So then she stumbles upon this business to where what you heard in there was she was offered two hundred dollars to go to the store and purchase something with an illegal credit card. And then after coming off of that thrill, she realizes, well, if everybody else has kind of counted me out, no one's really given me a chance. I'm going now to force my own future and force my way out of this debt. And the entire movie kind of shows all the highs and lows that come with working in a business like this and follows along Emily as she goes from somebody who was down on her luck to now maybe being able to get out of her financial struggles. What I really enjoyed about this movie is it felt very authentic. It didn't have this Hollywood style approach to a movie like this, a crime thriller that felt just a little bit more authentic. It was really just the telling of a story of somebody down on their luck, a person who was is unable to get their second chance from society. So it's a commentary on how we don't offer somebody like this with a criminal past a second chance. And yes, the movie is a little bit exaggerated, and I feel like if you're looking at this movie just on the plot points and picking apart the little details about it, like, yes, is seventy K in student debt a lot? Yeah, that's a lot. That's enough to stress you out and something that a lot of people in this country deal with. Is that enough to drive somebody to a life of crime? Probably not, But for the sake of the movie, it provides a pretty good plot point to see how in Emily's case, yeah, that was enough to kind of push her over the edge and want to do something like this. So some of the actions of her character in this movie are a little bit exaggerated and maybe come out of nowhere, but I think that ramps up and builds to the tension in this movie that it was trying to create. It was trying to create a good thriller, so sometimes you do have to over exaggerate things, and I think one of my favorite things that this movie does is build that tension. I think this was the most stressed I felt in a movie theater since Uncut Gems. If you've seen Uncut Gems, you remember it was a character just making bad decision after bad decision, and in your mind watching this, you're like, why are you doing that? Like this is gonna all blow up in your face. Just stop while you're ahead. That is also how I felt while watching Emily the Criminal. So it's like watching something like that unfold and it's just beautiful and entertaining to watch and kind of a sick and twisted way. And Emily the Criminal is this character who just gets pushed to her limits, she can't take it anymore. And I think Aubrey Plaza just plays that character so well and for somebody who's known primarily as a comedic actor, which I really don't see her as that anymore. She's kind of shown me her performances in Ingrid Goes West, in Black Bear, and then this movie really solidifying that is that she does have a darker side to her acting abilities. And there's a moment in this movie where you just kind of see her snap and I see her go into this level of acting that I've never really seen in her before. So I think she does darker roles really well. She is not only on my list of underrated actors but also one now that I will watch any movie that she's in. There are very few actors that I just follow along to their career, doesn't really matter what the project is they're taking on. I just know that I'm going to watch it because I'm such a fan of their work, and Aubrey Plaza is one of those actors for me. And I do think this movie is worth seeing in theaters because of that thrill that it provides. Now, this is an independent movie, had a lower budget. I think it's maybe cross the million dollar mark at this point, so it may not be going around you, but if it is showing at a small local theater around you. I had to go to my local theater to watch this movie, and I just found myself really enjoying the experience. So if you like so, if you're a fan of thrillers, I think this is one you will really enjoy. It's a movie that has really great pacing. I think a large part of that is due to it's ninety minute runtime. I think that's the final thing I'll leave you. One that I loved about this movie is it cut out all the fat that a normal movie like this may have. Like that's why I felt it was the most un Hollywood thriller that I've seen. It just gets right to the action, and instead of providing backstory on Emily, it just showed me through her actions. Do you see this character grow throughout the movie that you don't need to provide any additional backstory of how she got all this debt, how she got all those things on a record, which a normal movie probably would provide and think, oh we need to set all these things up. You just get a glimpse at her life right when this is all happening. So that probably eliminated a good twenty thirty minutes that didn't need to exist. So at ninety minutes has the perfect amount of action, the perfect amount of suspense, and the perfect amount of I can't believe this is happening? And how is she going to get out of this one? I will give Emily the Criminal easily four point five out of five credit cards. It's time to head down to movie Mike La Paul. Yes, it is today. I want to talk about a new movie coming out on Apple and in theaters this fall. It's called the Greatest Beer Run Ever. And the plot of this movie sounds pretty ridiculous, and you think, I can't believe they're making a movie about this, But it's actually based on a true story. It follows the real life journey of a guy named Chickie Donohue played by Efron, who wants to support his friends fighting in the Vietnam War. So he gets this idea to do something crazy, and that crazy thing is go and deliver them American beer. Yeah, sounds completely made up. I've never heard of this story before, and I've been reading about it now and it almost feels like such a Zac Efron movie to me that I just assumed it was fictional. But knowing that this actually happened based on a true story really has my curiosity. And the fact that it's coming from Apple and we'll be streaming on Apple TV Plus excites me also for a couple of reasons. So before I get into this full breakdown of the trailer, here's just a little bit of it. I'd like to go over Vietnam, track down all the boys in the neighborhood and give him. I could do that. What he's not serious. He's hammered looking at him. The man stone sober, that's his fifth beer. Maybe talks I'm going to Vietnam and I'm bringing a beer. Yeah, a chief, no chance you have a ship had to Vietnam tonight. It's not gonna be easy, but I'm gonna show him that this country is still behind her. You're gonna get yourself killed over there. It's like you said, everyone's doing something, I'm doing nothing. So this movie is about this guy named Chickie Donahue, a real person who wanted to give his friends fighting in Vietnam more than beer. He wanted to give them hope. So he went over delivered them beer in the hopes that someday they would all be able to return home once the war was over. That's a great premise for a movie, even if it was fictional, But the fact that this is based on a real life person makes it that much better. And I guess why. I thought it was fictional and didn't pay too much attention to the trailer when it first came out, and it just kind of felt like another zac Efron roll to me. It reminded me of movies I've seen him in, like Mike and David, Wedding Dates, Neighbors, that awkward moment we are your friend. Zac Efron plays a really good, overly confident, good looking party guy like That's kind of how I have him typecast sometimes, so I felt like this was just the perfect film for him. I'm not necessarily a fan of zac Efron. I don't dislike him. I just find his movies usually have such ridiculous premises that those plot lines alone keep me from wanting to watch the movie. But when I do end up doing so, I think to myself, Hey, that was actually a pretty good movie. A little dumb, yes, but it provided me with some laughs. He always just has a really good on screen energy that makes it entertaining and makes me want to watch, and in my head, I just hold him to be like a higher level actor, But just looking at some of the movies he's been in, I don't know why I have that respect for him, not that he's really earned it, especially after seeing him in bay Watch, which is a movie that I didn't walk out on, but I started to stream it and couldn't finish it. So that is kind of the level of actor. I have zac Efron down ass. He really crushed it in the tens playing characters like this, But I feel like watching this trailer, it does have that fun element to it, but I think he has a chance to show a little bit more of his acting abilities. Maybe he's really leaning now into his thirties, which he is thirty four now, but could probably still play a college frat boy if he really wanted to. But I feel like this movie has a little bit more of an emotional side that we kind of heard in the trailer. There he plays the guy who feels like he's not really doing anything with his life. All his friends are over fighting in a war, their wives means something, and to him, he feels like he's not doing anything. So he thinks that delivering them beer, as ridiculous as it sounds, will provide them with some hope. And it's the one thing that he can do to have something significant and do something positive in his life. Acting alongside zac Efron in this movie, you have Russell Row Bill Murray, who you actually heard in that trailer, but he had an unrecognizable accident playing a bartender. So three pretty well known actors and this will be coming out on Apple TV Plus and in theaters on September. And I think that's an important thing too. I keep bringing up Apple TV Plus it's kind of being the underdog when it comes to movies or content in general, and where they really excel at is getting high profile actors to do movies on their streaming service. Bill Murray, he's already done a couple of movies over on Apple TV Plus. They have movies with Tom Hanks, and I just feel like, even though they don't have the quantity of content over there, when it comes to their movies, they have the name recognition, but they also have really unique stories and also just really visually appealing movies. And I know that's a weird thing to really be invested in in a streaming service. But when you watch a show or movie v on Apple TV Plus, it looks stunning. I feel like they just have a higher quality standard when it comes to the cameras they use, the colors are that much more rich. I know, I'm really kind of geeking out here, but they look more stunning than anything on Netflix, Hulu or HBO Max. So I feel like where they really take pride in is providing us with really crisp, beautiful looking films, beautiful looking TV shows, And that means something to me, especially in two where as much as our technology has advanced, quality is kind of going out the window a little bit. We're kind of fine and used to like zoom quality calls, used to just iPhone footage on TikTok. It just means something a little bit more, at least to me, when the art of the cinematography, the art of the quality is shown to be a priority, and I get that on Apple TV Plus, and I feel like they're looking out for us there. Now. They just need like a really solid hit all around to really kind of solidify them in the game. Will this one be it? Probably not, but I think it looks like a pretty good bright spot for them. I did watch a movie on there recently called Chascha Real Smooth with Dakota Johnson kind of the same deal. Felt like a high profile actor in a really crisp film. So if you're looking for one to watch now over there, I recommend that one. And that is a bonus movie recommendation here inside the Trailer Park. But again, the Greatest Beer Run ever comes out on September in theaters and streaming on Apple TV plus. This makes a dish of movie bar and that's gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, every single week I give my listeners shout out to one of you who tweets me, sends me a d M on Instagram, or shoots me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. If you ever forget any of that, or just want to click a link, just scroll down into the episode notes of this podcast and you can get it there. But today I am shouting out Connor, whose mom Danny tweeted me a screenshot of a text message, and Connor wrote and his text message to his mom. If you want to watch Thor without watching it, listen to movie Mike spoiler review. It's a perfect take. That is the best screenshot I've ever seen of a text message. So I appreciate you listening, Connor, and you did a couple of things there. You gave a unsolicited recommendation to a podcast, which I love anytime anybody shares this with a friend or family member or in this case, your mom. I love that also that you're recommending a spoiler episode. But I would also say at the start of those that if you didn't have any plans on watching this movie and enjoy having a movie spoiled, those episodes are great for you too, so be like Connor and recommend that to those people in your life. Essentially, the spoiler episodes are saving you the twelve or four cheating bugs at the movies. So shout out this week goes to Connor, who listens on his bus ride to school. Have a great school year, you know what will ensure that you have a great school year listening to every episode of the podcast. Thank you all for listening this week, and I will talk to you next time here on the podcast. And until then, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.