The Biggest Summer Blockbusters of the 2000s with Mike and Kelsey + Movie Review:  Where the Crawdads Sing + Trailer Park: Halloween Ends

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today. Joining me is my wife, Kelsey. How are you. We're back with our summer series. Today we were talking about the top ten summer blockbusters of the two thousand's. We'll get into a movie review of Where the craw Dad Sing and you are a big reader, and you will be the perspective of the person who actually read the book before watching this movie, right yes, And then in the trailer park I'll talk about why I hope I'm not disappointed by the final installment of Halloween. Thanks everybody for clicking play, clicking download, sharing this podcast with a friend. If you're a part of the movie crew, you already know what this is. Let's talk movies in a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast. One man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking on mt which glasses From the Nashville Podcast Networking Movie Movie Podcast. All right, we're in part two of this series talking about summer blockbusters. We did part well in the last month with the biggest blockbusters of the twenty tents, and today we're doing the two thousands, which I feel are kind of having a resurgence right now. A lot of two thousands pop culture is popular again, and I feel like these are always kind of my comfort movies, Like the two thousands is really where I feel like identified what I was going to like as a movie fan, because I was like a teenager throughout the most of the two thousand, So a lot of these movies kind of built my foundation of what I like today. So I think going through this list of seeing the biggest summer movies will kind of be a good snapshot of that. So what we're gonna do is, I will give you three movies from a year in the early two thousands, and you tell me which one you think made the most at the box office? All right? Got it? Starting first with the year two thousand making the most at the box office? Was it Gladiator, Mission Impossible To or The Perfect Storm? Which one do you think made the most money? Mission Impossible To come in? At number three was The Perfect Store making one two million. At number two was Gladiator making one and eighty six million dollars, And that number one was Mission impossible to making two hundred and fifteen million dollars that year, and since inflation is a bit of a thing that we're all talking about right now, you want to know how much you would have made accounting for inflation three and sixty million dollars, So still pretty good. I never really got into the Mission Impossible movies. You don't like Tom Curse, Yeah, but that kind of went away when we watched Top Gun two. I was able to separate my pre existing feelings for him. About him, I guess I feel like in that one, he's like almost the furthest he is from himself. I don't know, it feels kind of like a cartoon character in that movie. To me, I just think him as an action star in that type of role I don't buy into. So he's not my brand of action star. And watching him on screen running and doing kind of deifying things isn't isn't what I really go to when I want to watch an action movie. So I never really got into them overall, kind of in the same vein of me never really getting into the James Bond movies. I feel like some people, these are your favorite movies, but for me, not really what I'm into moving on now to the year two thousand one. This was a great year for movies at the box office that summer. Which movie do you think made the most money? Shrek, Rush Hour two or The Mummy Returns. I'm gonna go Rush Hour too. But Shrek was great. But I don't know if people realized Shrek's greatness right away. That's a good point. It did dominate DVD sales. Did it do the same at the box office? I had the DVD for sure of Shrek. I think everybody did. There was one. Maybe it was Shrek To where it had like karaoke on the bonus DVD. Yeah. I don't think people realize the impact that Shrek had on America. It's a great I miss DVDs with like bonus content, okay, and DVD menus getting sidetracked. Okay, I'm gonna go with Rush Hour too. Coming in at number three is The Mummy Returns making two two millillion. Coming in at number two is Rush Hour to making two and twenty six million. But not that far away was Shrek with two hundred and sixties seven million. Pretty close, pretty close. Adjusted for inflation, Shrek would have made four hundred and twenty six million dollars. I think when so we see you by that number, that Shrek did also have an impact at the box office. But I think Shrek really benefited from DVD sales. I remember watching that movie so much in school, and I think it was because of the accessibility of DVDs in those early two thousand's. The most mind blowing thing for me was he didn't have to fast forward. You could pick it up at any point. I just remember scene selection being mind blowing of like, I can just pick it up wherever I want. I can click to this scene and not have to fast forward or rewind or not have to do the tracking thing. Did you ever experience the tracking thing? Probably when you put in a VHS and it would be kind of fuzzy, so you'd have to mess with the tracking to get the picture like fine in tune. I made my mom deal with the VHS more like I would just put them in. I don't feel like I was old enough to like because DVD started to come out, like when I was putting movies on for myself. I also saw a TikTok earlier about how like the peak excitement of a road trip was like getting your like portable DVD players set up or like the DVD player in a car, and I'm like, those were the days when you had like a DVD player in the car. I wanted one so bad, like built into our car. I think my parents had one. They had one when they had my younger brother, um, and so we would watch a lot of Elmo in the car. I haven't thought about portable DVD players in a very long time. Yeah, well this was built in, But yeah, I had a portable DVD player and that thing was Chef's kiss. Those I've had, like a really low budget one I think I got from the Dollar Store, which didn't work well. The screen resolution was terrible, it had zero battery live but I remember how groundbreaking that was and how luxurious it failed to take movies with you anywhere. I remember goinging on our yearly vacation, not even a vacation, but going from Texas to Mexico. Was that really wasn't really a vacation, but I remember a big part of that was taking the portable DVD player and then getting bootleg DVDs in Mexico, which they were usually like screen records, like somebody going in with the video camera and filming the movie. Either that or they were just entirely in Spanish, which was fine for me. I think I watched I remember watching the movie Gothica with Halle Berry in Spanish. I remember watching Spider Man two in Spanish. There's the first time I ever portable DVD players in the early two thousand that totally forgot about that. It was a nostalgic throwback. I think I watched Shrek a lot, which is also how that ties on track a lot in the car. I think I had the DVD menu memorized for Shrek. Moving on now to the year two thousand and two, which movie you think made the most at the box office? Was it Signs, Star Wars Episode two, Attack of the Clones, or Spider Man? All says in the category two thousand and two, either Star Wars or Spider Man. I'm gonna go with Spidy going with Spider Man, all right, we'll lock that one in. At number three was Signs, making two hundred and twenty seven million. At number two was Star Wars Episode two and making three and two million, and a number one was Spider Man, making four hundred and three million dollars adjusted for inflation, that would be six hundred and twenty six million dollars, which is pretty comparable to Marvel movies now. But at this time there were nothing like what they are now. I really think Spider Man was the one that laid the groundwork for them to be kind of more accepted in the mainstream tour. They weren't just the comic bookie movies from the nineties like the Batman movies. They were said more. They had just a more realistic tone. If it wouldn't have been for the Spider Man movies, I don't think we would have got Dark Night, and we definitely wouldn't have any of the iterations of Marvel characters now. I think that was largely due to Spider Man and also x end which I feel doesn't get enough credit that it deserves. Even though a lot of those movies weren't the best, I think just the characters in those dynamics in those movies were kind of set the groundwork for everybody. So you're two thousand and two pretty solid. I also really love Signs, and I think that's the perfect example of how to make a monster or horror movie where you don't see the actual monster that often, and just that one scene of the alien walking across the screen for like a very brief moment was one of the scariest things I've ever experienced in the two thousand's in a horror movie. And I think it was all because you hardly see the aliens in that movie, and for that reason alone, I've never seen something alright. Moving on now to the year two thousand and three, Which movie made the most at the box office? Was it Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl, or was it Matrix Reloaded? Pirates of the Caribbean coming in at number three? Was the Matrix Reloaded making two and eighty one million dollars of the box office? At number two was Pirate of the Caribbean making three five million dollars, And at number one three and eighty million dollars is Finding Nemo? Adjusted for inflation, that would be five and fifty four million. You remember what we learned in the last time we did this, cartoons, don't outroll the cartoon. See finding Nemo in my heart was the answer, But I feel like I remember and maybe it was later as the Pirates franchise gained traction that it always made so much money. Fun fact, never seen an entire Pirates of the Caribbean movie. And I don't say that as like a superiority of like I've never seen this moment in pop culture. I just don't really like Johnny Depp and I don't care for Pirates. I'm kind of surprised at how popular those movies were. I get the scale of them of like, oh, it's a big, fun pirate adventure movie, but the actual like storyline in those movies, I don't see how they made so many and how they continued to make as much money as they did. I just never and I mean, you know me now, I'll go see anything. Never had a desire to sit down and watch one like I think if they were even out now and the options were like stay home and do nothing or go see parts of the Caribbean, I would stay Tuesday home and do nothing. I think there was just an odd infatuation with Pirates into two thousand's. I remember having kind of a thing for the Pirates, and you had a thing for pirates, I did, I remember. I think my first band was named the Apple Pirates, and I remember just the Pirate imagery kind of being interesting and fun to me, wearing like schooling crossbones, that kind of idea was something I was into. So maybe that just coincided with the early two thousands. Did you get those crossbones at Hot Topic with your train wallet? I think I got it at Walmart. All right, we'll move on now to the year two thousand and four. We have some sequels here, was it Shrek to Spider Man two? Or Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This is a very hard one. These are all just monster movies. Which one do you think made the most? Harry Potter coming in at number three is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban made two forty nine million dollars. At number two is Spider Man Too, making three hundred and seventy three million dollars, and then Shrek two at number one, making four hundred and forty one million dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that would be six hundred and forty It's at this time where Shrek was at the height of its popularity. Did so well with the first one at the box office, which we saw earlier, crushed it in DVD sales. I think if nothing else is Dethroned. It is the number one grossing DVD of all time. But those movies were just so impactful everybody freaking watched them. I feel like parents could enjoy it because the humor was like almost like an adult level humor for some things. That was like the first time I remember an animated movie putting in jokes for adults, maybe even some a little bit questionable. Yeah, could you put that in a kids movie? Like the Innuendows and you're gonna say the innuendo? It's like I think constantly about the Welcome to Dulok song where it's like, please stay off with the grass wire face or Donkey hooking up with the dragon and having little dragon donkey babies. Yeah, that was it went there. Questionable. So that is the year two thousand and four. Moving on now to two thousand and five, which I thought was a great year in movies. You've said that about every single one of these, just like every year beside every year besides and maybe was a great year for movies. And the two thousand's, if I had to pick one, will be two thousand seven. We'll get too later. But I distinctly remember a lot of DVDs that came out in two thousand and five, so on that list, and some are blockbusters we have or The World's Wedding Crashers or Star Wars Episode three, Revenge of the Sith. Which one do you think made the most? I feel like not Star Wars, because I feel like people started to kind of come after these started to go downhill by two thousand and five. Okay, Wedding Crashers or War of the World's That was Tom Cruise, right correct, I'm gonna go World the World. War of the World's coming in at number three was Wedding Crashers making two nine million, making two hundred and thirty four million. At number two was or the World's and then at number one was Star Wars Episode three, making three and eighty million dollars or today would be five hundred and thirty four million dollars. The thing I remember most about the Star Wars movies this trilogy was all the promotion, which I think was the majority of how memorable those movies were. I remember them doing promotions with Taco Bell, and my mom worked the Taco Bell so she would bring home like the Star Wars cups, and I remember thinking jar Jar Binks was going to be a great character and he wasn't, and this whole kind of reintroduction of Star Wars just not being the greatest. I think it's having a moment now because it's been twenty years since these movies came out that people go back and kind of I feel like it's more of a nostalgic thing of like those characters now getting their time and being cool again. But other than that, I don't really love these movie movies. I still get confused about the sequence because it wasn't the first ones that came out Episodes four or five and six, Yes, and then we did one two three, So one, two and three were a prequel to four or five and six which came out in the seventies. Like my brain, like George Lucas, brilliant. I don't get it, but brilliant. Yeah. It was an entire vision that if these movies would have been more well received, I think would have been completely genius. But still it's an ambitious thing. Yeah. Moving on now to the year two thousand and six. Was it Pirates of the Caribbean, dead Man's Chest, Cars or X Men The Last Stand? Which one made the most at the box office, and I'm between Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm gonna go cars and watch It'll be Pirates of the Caribbean this time, but I'll go Car's final answer well, coming in at number three is X Men The Last Dan making two and thirty four million dollars. Making ten million more is Cars. Sang it. See this is why in school I would always I had to trust my first gut. You gotta go with the gut. But at number one, prior to the Caribbean dead Man's Chest making four hundred and twenty three or now, that would be five hundred and eighty two million dollars two million too much if you think about that way. Yeah, yeah, I'm surprised Cars didn't make more than that. I feel like they made more off of merchandise sales over the years because every kid wanted a Lightning the Queen bed. Yeah, I think they almost made that movie for the intention of selling the merchandom merch and then Life is the Highway. Moving on. Now, I'm going to annoy you my favorite year of the two thousand's. This is the only one I'll say is my favorite favorite two thousand and seven. Was it Spider Man three, Shrek the Third or Transformers, which is the first one, So you have some of the three parts and one introduction of a new franchise. Which one made the most. It's not gonna be Struck three. Struck three was great, but kind of like Hangover three, and that like we could have done without it. Trilogy is hard to do. Third one usually sucks. Transformers. Michael Bay spider Man three. I'm gonna go with Spidy, going with Spider Man three. Locking it in at number three is Transformers making three nineteen million. At number two is Shrek the Third making three d and thirty six million dollars and making only point five more million? Is spider Man three at number one? Back on my game, back on it. Trilogies are hard to do. And even though spider Man three is often viewed as the worst spider Man, I still feel like it's a pretty solid movie, except for the whole Peter Parker turning into a jerk segment in that movie and the whole dance thing. But even rewatching that movie, it's not as bad as I remember. I still think the overall story in that the overall development of where Peter Parker's character went in the entire trilogy. I still think it's pretty strong. Shrek the Third not very memorable to me, and I think as much as I loved One and two, was maybe getting older and start thought they weren't as funny anymore and kind of checked out at that point. But Transformers, I feel like that movie really changed action movies and really kind of kick started Megan Fox's career and made child a buff an all out movie star with that movie. Of those three movies, if you can only keep one, which one would you keep? That's tough, Spidy, Shrek, the Transformers. I'm gonna go with my loyalty to Spidy. There you go, and that's why I married you. Let's move on now to two thousand and eight. You have some big superhero movies here, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull. Oh, this is so hard. This might be the hardest year. Yet it's a good year. These are all good years. Which one made the most I've already forgotten the first one. The Dark Knight, Dark Knight, Okay, iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Dark Knight going with a Dark Knight locking it in at number three would be Indiana Jones making seventeen meal million dollars, at number two, Iron Man making three hundred and eighteen million dollars, and at number one The Dark Night with over half a billion, making five hundred and thirty five point two million dollars, And that would be six hundred and seventy one million dollars right now. That's a crazy amount of money for that movie. As I was saying earlier, Spider Man one laid the groundwork for a movie like this to exist. This movie changed everything of making it more realistic, making it even more gritty, and I feel like every other superhero movie try to emulate that. Every time they would make a darker character, whether it be in d C or in Marvel, it always feels like people compare it to The Dark Knight. So I think that is largely due to the success of this movie of why superhero movies are still popular now to the scale that it's on. So if I ever have to say my favorite movie, I usually say The Dark Knight because I can rewatch that one the most and I can't find one single thing I don't like about it, So that's always my go to answer for my favorite movie. Are you more of a Dark Knight fan or an Iron Man fan? Dark Knight? I had into Iron Man later and more so, like when the Avengers were all together. I felt like he was stronger in the Avengers than he was in his solo movies Iron alone, iron Man One's great, iron Man two is okay, iron Man three not very good. But you put Tony Stark in with all the Avengers movies, he is the star of all those. Really carried a lot of the other franchises, But as far as his solo movies, I don't think they're as great as some people remember. I also feel like Robert Downey Jr. Is an actor that kind of works well when he has like other like good supporting or like other main characters, like in the Avengers, like his humor and his like wit works better when there's like other people to bounce it off of it. That's a good point to two thousand and eight, we went with Dark Knight winning at the box office and winning in Our Hearts, and finally two thousand and nine, the year I graduated high school, How did I know you were going to preface two thousand nine with that. It's a significant thing because it's the summer before my entire life changed, before I went off to college and then nothing was ever the same. This was my last summer of innocence where I could just go to the movies without thinking about the real world. So in a sense, these are the movies that ended my young adult life. And it was the summer your mom celebrated because you were all out of the house exactly. The movies that made the most at the box office that year were Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter, and The Half Blood Prince. And up, out of those three, which one do you think was the winner? Harry Potter? Harry Potter, You locking that in It's My Loyalty, Always loyalty to Harry Potter. Well, at number three was Up making two and ninety three million dollars and a movie I saw twice in theater, so I gave them double my money, even though I didn't make it to number one. At number two Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince making one million dollars. Justice for Harry Potter, I agree, because at number one is Transformers, Revenge of the Fall and making four hundred and two million dollars. Good grief, just that for inflation would be about four hundred and eighty five million dollars. That's insane for a Transformers movie. And I think the most surprising thing for me is I always felt like the Harry Potter movies just kept making more and more money. And I remember the midnight releases and just the buzz of like those for my favorite they would they would be insane, like people would wait in line to watch these Harry Potter movies. But then Transformers. Where are the Transformers fans now? I literally was just saying to you the other day that I can't wait for fall, when it's like cold outside and there's football and TV and it's time to rebatch all the Harry Potters, which we will do, all right. But those are the two thousand's. Again, if I were to pick one year out of this entire list, I would probably pick two thousand and seven hands down. If you were to pick just one year, what would you go with? I need to see the list. I've already forgotten. This was we talked about thirty movies. Let me see either two thousand eight or two thousand nine. We'll do two thousand nine because it had Harry Potter, and up two thousand and nine and two tho nine. Girl a, yeah, all right, well, next up we're going to talk about Where the Crawdad Saying would do a spoiler free review after this. All right, now, we're gonna do a spoiler free review of Where the Crawdad Saying. My perspective is, I did not read the book before watching this movie. How long ago did you read the book? I think it was like early, miss Catherine Clark. He was charged with the murder of Chase Andrew. Prosecution has announced it will sink the death penalty. I'm going to get out of here one way or the other. And we'll preface this by saying, you read at an alarming speed, more than anybody I've ever met or anybody I will ever know. You had three three books this week, two whole ones. I guess only two whole ones this week, and I finished one last weekend. So you're coming from somebody who reads a lot, and you read this book and didn't entirely love it. It was slow. I just kept waiting for it to get better. And you tell me about so many books that you read some of them. I can't wait until they turn them into movies. I feel like you would be a great person to like, Hey, what was your favorite book that you think could be turned into a movie? You just read so many I would really be curious to know what you think about that interesting. Do you want an answer that maybe that's a whole other episode. Okay, but anyway, we're here to talk about where the craw Dad saying. When you read that book, was the movie already in development? Or did you read it and everything this would be a good movie. Now. I read it like right when it came out, and I remember it being pretty popular, a lot of people reading it around that time. I think it might have been it was like Oprah's Book Club reached Weatherspoon's book Club pick. And I also just tried to read like all the new ones that have buzz, which that makes a little bit more sense. She's an executive producer on this movie, Reese Witherspoon. So let's get into what we thought about this movie. For me not knowing anything about it aside from what I saw on the trailer, aside from the couple of things that you told me about it, I really knew nothing, and I felt like that kind of enhanced my experience. What usually happens when you do read a book before watching the movie is you're comparing it. You're thinking of what you felt reading that book and thinking of all the things they left out, thinking of how you picture these characters different in your head. It's almost hard to live up to that expectation, because our imaginations are greater than anything that could be done with a camera. It's just that's the nature of it. So what you're going to get in the movie is the more easily digestible version of that. And I think with this movie, I didn't feel like anything was missing on my end, but I didn't have anything to compare it to you. Doesn't say you didn't know if there was anything missing, But sometimes I just feel like, Oh, I think they didn't do a whole lot year this needed more explanation. I felt like the entire story was there for me to be able to watch it and judge it. For you, how did you feel about the movie versus the book. I liked the movie way better than I liked the book. And why is that? The book just kind of dragged on? Yeah, And I feel like the movie was able to portray that better because there are parts of the movie that we're a little slow. But I also think because the book kind of goes back between, and so does the movie, but present and then past, I think it's easier to see that and read it and comprehend and do a mental timeline. I think the movie is better, but I do have some questions about just the fact that this isn't a spoiler, but like her house like is old in the middle of nowhere, and girl looked phenomenal all the time, Like her hair was always curled, her skin looked great, and I'm like, you don't have power, how are you curling your hair? Which I know it's a movie, but I just want to say that was a little bit of an inconsistency that she is Dubs is this march girl who lives out by yourself, but yet is able to look like she does in the movie, although Daisy Edgar Jones is just gorgeous, so she couldn't really look ugly. She tried, but I'm just imagining that, Like she doesn't shower every day in a marsh, how did she look that good? That is the thing I think about a lot when watching period pieces or anything where yeah, character is being portrayed as somebody who lives out somewhere remotely, or even just like an adventure movie to where you know these characters haven't taken a shower in a while, like how do they look like this? But as you mentioned, I did like the back and forth between the president and the past. Sometimes that can feel a little bit confusing. I feel like this movie did a pretty good job at keeping the main story along in the present going and then also going back to what you needed to see from the past. This is a movie I felt like got some pretty hard criticism early on, and I think that's tough because people always compare anything like this to Twilight, and I'm kind of tired of that take of people saying that the romance to or is the same, or something was missing from the movie. To just compare it to Twilight to kind of be little the movie terrible thing to compare something to very different genres, it's very different. Also, Twilight didn't even do the best job at putting together and I read all the Twilight books like the books were better than the movies, So I don't think that's a fair comparison, but this movie had a thirty five percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. When it comes up, the old man is going to like this movie. And the criticism, to me, it just made no sense, especially when it's sitting next to a nine audience score. This is why Rotten Tomatoes doesn't want you, because you'll bring down I change the narrative, you'll change their narrative. And I don't think we should review bomb movies for the sake of just watching something like this and thinking this is something I shouldn't like. I think that's what I hate about real movie critics. I don't really consider myself a movie critic, Like I'm passionate about movies. I'm a film movie enthusiast, but I'm just a fan at the core of it. And I feel like some critics have this like thing that they have to like certain movies, like a movie or something from a certain director, and if they give that kind of movie a bad review, they're losing some credibility. And if they were to watch something like Where the Crowd at Seeing and give it a great review, it would have the opposite effect of like, oh, you like that movie, you must not be that good. Of a critic, just like something if you enjoy it. And I think it's because I had, I guess, so low expectations going into this movie. It was more a movie that you wanted to watch that I would just go to go into it and enjoy it for what it was, and I found myself liking it more. There were less things that I could pick out from it that I didn't like than I did. I will say, and if people have listened to this podcast long enough, you know I did not get up once to compete during this movie. That's how into it I was. That is, Yeah, you have to be pretty into. That's the barometer. It was like two and a half hours and I did not get up. Oddly, a lot of people got up during this movie, and it was really annoying to me. Yeah, I didn't noticed that a lot. At like one point, with like ten minutes left, this lady came back with like a full slushy and a popcorn and I was like, there's ten minutes left of the movie, how are you leaving now? Also during this movie, was this the one where the lights came up. Yeah, that was weird. They turned the lights on like ten minutes to at least we watched the end of the movie with the lights up. That was a little annoying. One of the most dramatic parts of the entire movie, which we won't spoil, happened while the lights were up. But you can't turn up the lights. Yeah, that was annoying. That was really annoying. That reminded me of when I was watching Endgame and the most emotional part in that movie. This girl next to me was on her phone. I'm over here trying to have a moment and she's on her phone texting somebody. Yeah, you can't be doing that people if you want to text. But going back to the ratings into criticism on this movie, I still think that now the movie has found its audience, Like the audience score shows that. I think even most of the people that I know read the book and we're a fan of the book, still enjoyed this movie. You enjoyed the movie more so. I think it's finding the right people that it needs to find, and I think even with me, it's finding people that weren't expecting to like a book like this turned into a movie. This is also the first movie which is like a roman. It's not a romantic drama, but like a drama that's not like an action or a sci fi or dystopian like. This is the first one in a while of something of that nature, and it's kind of a nice break and not your average summer in blockbuster movie. It's not really your typical come out in July type movie, right, And I think, I mean think about like little lies. There was little fires every around Hulu, like those kinds of like book to TV or film adaptation. It's been a while since they've had one of those. With the acting in this, did you ever feel it was a little soap opera ish or like teen drama issue at all or little c w ish? Not because I've watched both soap operas and z W teen dramas. Not really. I didn't think so either. That a criticism that it's yeah, that it's that it has this kind of soap opera over the dramatic times. Not another old man saying that because I probably ever watched The Young in the Wrestlers or The Days of Our Lives, because that was nothing like that. I didn't get that at all. Like I thought the emotion in it was warranted. That they did a really good job at showing her character as a kid and kind of building that foundation of where she came from and the struggle she had. It made it pretty emotional for me. That's the stupidest criticism I'm just thinking about. I'm calling it soap opera ish. No, soap operash is like the OC or One Tree Hill, where every episode something like terrible happens and they have these like tangled love lives. No, Okay, let's dumb criticism. I'm shooting the one down. So now we will give our rating for where the crow Dad saying me coming from a place of This was a movie I was interested in watching. It did make my most anticipated of the summer, but also it not being something that's completely in the genre I love. I found myself enjoying it a lot more than I thought I did, and I would give it four out of five marsh Girls. I was going to give it four out of five bags of Grits. Yeah, I would write that higher than I would like rate the book if I was writing it on the good Reads. All. Right after this, I'm gonna talk about a scary movie. So you're not gonna be here right now. I'm leaving your office Okay, thanks for joining me. By everyone, have a great week whenever you're listening to this. Alright, bye. Now it's time for the part of the podcast where I break down a movie trailer of a movie coming to you very soon in theaters or streaming online. If you're new to the podcast and say there's a movie trailer you think I should talk about, you can always send them to me via email movie Mike d at gmail dot com, or tweet them to me. Let me know if there's a new movie coming out you think I should cover. But here we go talking about Halloween Ends. It's time to head down to movie Mike Ty Laura Paul. This is supposed to be the final chapter in this yet another reboot of Halloween, which started out strong. Really disappointed me with the last movie, so I'm hoping they can go out on a note here. But before I get into all the things I think about Halloween Ends, here's just a little bit of the trailer, which is actually a very highly visual trailer. But here's just a quick little sneak peek at it. Come on, let's go. So that's just the taste of Halloween Ends. It's supposed to be the conclusion of this new trilogy, and the main point of it is Michael Myers facing off with Laurie Strode in a final battle. It looks like one of them is going to die. And this Halloween reiteration started out so great in I thought that movie worked really well to recreate that original feeling that the first one gave us, give us back some of that nostalgia, and making Michael Myers cool again, which he really has a been in a very long time, even though they've been cracking out this movie's I mean since they first came out back in the seventies, and I felt like the rob zombie Halloween one and two left a bad taste in everybody's mouth, and maybe by the time halloweenen rolled around, people weren't really willing to give it a chance. But I think if you were a fan of the original Michael Myers movies, which the first one is one of my top five, if not my favorite horror movie of all time because it's so classic and I just loved the character of Michael Myers, I think that movie gave me a lot of hope that it would bring back those original vibes throughout the entire trilogy here that we have, but as we saw last year with Halloween Kills, that movie was just so lame. And I find myself remembering when that trailer came out and now comparing it to this trailer, because the Halloween Kills trailer from last year went really hardcore, leaning into all the graphic nature of it. There was so many kills within the trailer that some people are saying that this movie is gonna be too violent, they're giving everything away, and I was like, no, if they're giving you that much horror and gore in the trailer, that just means that the movie is going to be even better. And I found that I got more than I wanted. And why I think that didn't work in that movie. It was too much Michael Myers on screen. It just seems like when he's there all the time, it takes away that suspense, and the brutal killing just got stale and repetitive, and the plot line was pretty stupid. It felt like that entire movie was being made as it went and there was no clear thought. And it also felt like they were doing that movie to set up Halloween Ends. They were holding so much back in movie to get to hear, so that has me hopeful, at least now, even after seeing this trailer for Halloween Ends, that this will be the movie that goes out with a bang, and it needs to be. It needs to be that final down between Lorie Strode and Michael Myers that's gonna make us want to see this and finally and hopefully not get rebooted again in another decade or so. The bad thing that the previous movie did for me is it made me not root for any of the good guys in the Halloween franchise now because I want Michael Myers to win at the end of this, and I think he will. I mean, we've seen her die in these movies before. She died at the very beginning of Halloween Resurrection, which they probably regretted a little bit. So the overarching story of the Halloween movies doesn't really make sense. And it's weird getting glimpses and little clips of the original movie in this trailer and making it feel like this is going to be where it ends from those very first movies because of all the things that have happened in between. They're basically saying, hey, remember the first two movies, forget about everything else in the middle and just remember what we are doing now. So as an overarching timeline doesn't really work, that vision is shot. But I think you have to finish it off with her dying, you thinking Michael Myers is dead, and then he twitches a little bit and he's still alive. Like, I think that's we're gonna get here. And it might be a little bit lame, but I'm just hoping as a die hard Halloween fan, and as much as people were not satisfied with the last one, that they really give us something here, that little glimmer that we saw in that attention to detail of making it feel suspenseful and making it a little bit self aware, of knowing that some of these elements are a little bit cheesy at this point, and bringing back some real drama and some real steaks into this one. I think they can go out on a high note, can't really go out on much of a lower note than the last one. It can really only go up from there. So I think for that reason, I am hopeful. But Halloween Ends comes out this Halloween season on October four, and yeah, we'll probably have to deal with another iteration of Halloween and probably whether we like it or not, flakes a dish and that's gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. Thanks for listening, Thanks for making me a part of your week. And this is the portion of the episode where I give my listeners shout out. That's just my thank you to one of you who tweets at me, sends me a d m or sends me an email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. And today I'm going over to my Twitter and we are shouting out Beanie who is at UTI Flyer eight on Twitter, who tweeted me a screenshot listening to last week's episode and wrote, so excited to hear Mike Destro feature the Clerks three trailer in the trailer park. Love me some at that Kevin Smith can't wait for this one to come out hashtag I wasn't even supposed to be here today. Appreciate that Beanie. That says a couple of things to me. Is one you listen to the episode all the way through, which is always something I wondered about. Sometimes I feel like people get tired of me in the first ten minutes, and the more I see people tweeting things like the secret emoji whenever I do interviews and I give it us at the end of the episode, or you make it to the trailer park, that means a lot to me, Benny, So anybody who does that an extra thank you to you. And also that you tagged Kevin Smith, the director of Clerks three. Whenever you tag somebody that I talk about, I think that helps me out because maybe they see it and they wonder, well, what are they talking about? What are they listening to? Maybe somewhere down the line it comes up and I get to interview a person like that. So if you ever have a thought like that and you want to tweet me and you include a director in that, I'll for sure hit that heart button on that tweet and maybe they'll see it too, and maybe down the line you can hear them here on the podcast. So hope you have a great rest of your week. Next week, I'll be talking about the new Jordan Peel movie Nope, as we continue our talk here over horror movies. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I'll talk to you later.