Best and Worst of October + Movie Review: Bugonia + Trailer Park: Send Help

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

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Speaker 2: Except the ring light is a grassive tonight, and I don't know if it's just because I've been in my dark office in front of the computer all day, but I feel like I need sunglasses for this.

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Speaker 1: But we are here to do our best and worst of October?

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Speaker 2: How is it? We're like it's Christmas now.

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Speaker 1: And then in the movie review we'll be talking about Bogonia.

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Speaker 2: It's a very hard first syllable.

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Speaker 1: Bogunia Baghani, Bogonia with you're just saying about a couple of dudes who are really into conspiracy theories, so they capture a CEO and they think she's an alien. And in the trailer park we'll talk about Send Help with Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams, which I'm really enjoying Dylan O'Brien right now.

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Speaker 2: It's a Dylan O'Brien resurgence.

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Speaker 1: It's a big year for him.

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Speaker 2: That was actually the first trailer that we hadn't seen before. It was like a fresh trailer because we see all of the trailers because we go the so much. But we sat down and saw that one and we were like, oh, I haven't seen this one.

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Speaker 1: We'll break it into the trailer. We'll break that down in the trailer park. Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shat to the Monday Morning Movie Crew. And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This movie Mike Movie Podas. Let's hop right into it. Best and worse for October. What do you have is your best?

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Speaker 2: Best? Was The Lost Bus?

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Speaker 1: Do you think we both enjoyed this movie so much because we love disaster movies?

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Speaker 2: Yes, But then I was also like bummed to know that they did dramatize.

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Speaker 1: A lot of it, a lot of it, which is kind of expected when you have a disaster movie that is based on true events. Normally it's not, but if you think of the disaster genre, it has to go to big links to make it entertaining.

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Speaker 2: The next level. So I understand, and I'm glad all of that didn't happen in real life. Let me be clear, very glad. There were not a bunch of school children on a bus in like active flames.

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Speaker 1: That is true, but you do feel more for them, thinking that it was true, which it was based on the Paradise Fires.

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Speaker 3: Yes, in twenty eighteen, which is weird that there was another one this year the Palisades.

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Speaker 1: Very similar. Yes, but it was a true story about a bus driver who got some children to safety. But some of the things that happened that were really heroic did not actually happen in real life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, glad for the children, but was like, oh man, this dude's a real hero. Still a hero. Oh my gosh, like traumatizing. But Matthew mcconnor, he was great. I think that was the perfect role for him. Oh absolutely, where he.

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Speaker 1: Is somebody who could do like an Oscar level performance right now, but then he can also do a really good just straight ahead. I'm your leading man. I'm gonna take this bus where no one else can take. This bus? Is a bus ever lost? That's kind of turning into like Bill Clinton. He's like right in the middle of Bill Clinton and like a stoner. But I really enjoyed it. But I also love disaster movies.

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Speaker 2: We do love a disaster.

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Speaker 1: I don't think The Day After Tomorrow is seen as a good movie. I don't think Twister is up there in most people's like, this is just a great movie. It's not there Volcano. I don't think people think, oh, that is cinema.

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Speaker 3: When watching Volcano, you're just like saying fantastic films.

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Speaker 1: Dante's peak. It's like, oh, my great disaster movies, Geo Storm, good one, the San Andreas with the Rock, like any disaster movie and Slaps, those are all great, and it's another.

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Speaker 2: One with Rock.

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Speaker 3: I watched multiple Rock. Yeah, there was a whole period of rock disaster films. Yeah, Rampage really wasn't a disaster film. It was like a video game that nobody really felt was a great adaptation. But I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was cool how his son was actually in the movie and his mom was in the movie. And then by the end of it, I was like, man, I just feel like I went on that ride with them. I feel like I came out of change person. And it was one of those where I think my raid was just a little bit too high, because I do love the disaster genre that much. What did you give it?

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Speaker 2: Did I give it?

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Speaker 1: I think you said like a perfect score.

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Speaker 2: I did not say it perfect.

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Speaker 1: You were like five after we watched it, which there's always that period of right after you watch it.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go four and a half.

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Speaker 1: Buzzes probably coming down from it. I will give it four out of five.

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Speaker 2: America Ferrera was also great.

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Speaker 1: Now I won't even say it never.

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Speaker 2: Mind, don't ruin it. It's still a good movie.

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Speaker 1: But it's on Apple Plus, which is no longer Apple TV Plus, which is confusing. Everybody keeps changing their names brands, HBO Max, I still have the old app from before they changed to just Max, keep changing. I have both, so I don't know. They're gonna keep everything and keep changing it. Eventually everything is just gonna be one service. It's gonna be cable again. It's all getting confusing. And I got tricked into getting Paramount Plus. It's all annoying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I did say that eighty dollar charge.

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Speaker 1: That was annoying. I got bamboozled. But now I'm gonna go back and wae.

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Speaker 2: Now you have to explain why you got bamboozled. You can't just say you got well.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't get the Cowboys game, and they were like, get Paramount Plus and watch the cowboysting on the Broncos. I was like right, let me get Paramount Plus. But it's still same with like Hulu, where if you're not in the region, you can't watch it. But the big banner showed Dak Prescott's face that you could watch.

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Speaker 2: It now after having seen the game? Are we really that sad we couldn't get it?

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Speaker 1: I was even more annoying because it was so the game was terrible. I wasted eight dollars. But now I can watch old Nickelodeon shows because that's really all. Like, I see that everyone want to watch on Paramount Plus.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, did don't they have Fly on us?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Really good Taylor Sheridan shows.

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Speaker 2: We should watch that.

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Speaker 1: Well, we got a month to watch it, okay. I also canceled a crunchy role.

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Speaker 2: You enjoyed that, Yeah, but actually haven't watched it.

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Speaker 1: I haven't watched it. That's like six bucks. I had to justify the bank for Paramount Plus.

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Speaker 2: I think it was actually the same price.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we need a clean house and all of our streaming services, but but there's nothing else we could get rid of.

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Speaker 2: No, we watch a lot of TV.

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Speaker 1: We use them and movies of course from this podcasts.

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Speaker 2: We actually we spend money there because it's too expensive tole pouse and do anything else.

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Speaker 1: We just watch things for my best of the month. I'm gonna go Roofman. It was so good and I think this is one that I would go back and maybe bump it up a little bit. I gave it a four out of five initially.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I gave it a four and a half.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm going four and a half now because it is a movie that I've told other people to go watch. They have gone to see it and enjoyed it, which is really hard to do McDonald Tosh Browns. I think because it made me feel compassion for somebody who isn't necessarily a good person, isn't really a hero, but I was rooting for them. And I've had this really weird thing lately where I start to root for the bad person in the movies that we've been watching.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I have a layer to add to that, Okay, hit me with it. So I think it was on Kate Kennedy's podcast this week, she was talking to some friends about the heist at the Louver.

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Speaker 1: The Louver and she taught them, but she was like.

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Speaker 2: No one was hurt, So like, do you kind of root or like find entertainment in this.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what's happening right now, is I think we saw that as a fictional situation. So I was rooting for them to get away for some reason, because nobody was harmed, at least to my knowledge.

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Speaker 2: Also, weren't all of those things probably stolen from someone before they ended?

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Speaker 1: They were steel, That's what they.

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Speaker 2: Were talking about. They were like, weren't those all like colonized from someone else?

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Speaker 1: I mean in fact that they did it in seven minutes before anybody knew what was going on with security. They didn't hold anybody hostage in the loop. Like they got away on scooters scooters, scooters and just came out. They got away on scooters and then they got caught trying to hop a flight.

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Speaker 2: I mean that that is a bad form of transportation to take when you're like on the LAMB because.

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Speaker 1: Scooter, no a flight?

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Speaker 2: Oh like a scooter no, Like I don't they're in Europe, take a train.

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Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, there's too many things you have to go.

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Speaker 2: Through, so much facial recognition.

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Speaker 1: Oh that too. I just think of like booking the flight.

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Speaker 2: No, but like your passport and doesn't something flag in the system, probably when you're on it for robbing a famous museum.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't fly, dumb way to get out? Take a boat. Yeah. I always thought a good way to get away from a crime.

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Speaker 2: I think allegedly you gotta say allegedly.

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Speaker 1: Allegedly get away from a crime. Yeah, well, because I run. I always thought if you fled a scene of the crime in running clothes, would they think that you were escaping? You gotta blend in, Like if you just saw somebody in like Nike shorts, the tank top with a running hat and headphones and running shoes.

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Speaker 2: But if there's no one else, yeah, you're getting implicated.

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Speaker 1: It depends where it is, Like downtown, a busy downtown and you just see somebody running, Do you automatically think that person is running for just committing a crime. No, there you go. It's an easy not an easy way, but it could help because if you just see a guy in normal clothes running down the street, you're gonna think, why is that guy running? It raises some red flags. If you see a guy in workout clothes going for a jog.

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Speaker 2: Look like picking up your pace and looking over your shoulder, then you look, you got a slow girl, and then you're just like looking over the shoulder for safety.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like, that's a that's a normal thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But that is my best of the month. I think it's because it was based on a true story. I like Channing Tatum.

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Speaker 2: Listen, that was That was a good Chanting Tatum movie. I've been a Channing Tatum van since two thousand and six.

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Speaker 1: That's true. I'm a late adopter, not until twenty one, Jump Street.

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Speaker 2: Step Up, She's the Man, two of my favorite films of all time.

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Speaker 1: I think he's happen. I don't want to say a renaissance, because I don't really think he ever went away. But he's entering a really good pocket of movies right now.

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Speaker 2: He's entering a pocket where he's showcasing seeing his acting skills more than his body. I'll magic mic because.

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Speaker 1: He I mean, he lost seventy pounds for this movie, which that one scene where he's like almost naked, that's really the only time you can tell he looks just a little bit more like I.

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Speaker 2: Think he said he's like he can't do a big I read an article where he said, like big transformations like that are just too hard.

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Speaker 1: That's why I say people who do that should be up for oscars because I don't think people realize how hard that is. And some people say they're own, you tried losing five pounds, it's not really to put on muscle to play a superhero, which he is. Gambit Now, I think it is just as hard as anything else enacting when it comes to transforming your body for a role.

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Speaker 2: But I will also say they have the resources. Yeah, I mean if you wait, the trainer, you have the chef, like, that's your job is getting in shape that you're not doing a nine to five, and then also go into the gym and then make yourself a dinner. You're got to the store for yourself. So I do think you have if you have all the resources at your disposal, and that is your job is to get in shape for your role.

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Speaker 1: Dang, you just took away the oscar. Well, it's part of the job description. I forgot about that part. That's all they have to do, yeah, which I think we forget with actors sometimes that's their entire job to do these things for these roles.

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Speaker 2: And I understand it's still physically demanding.

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Speaker 1: But you have still not easy.

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Speaker 2: You give someone making a meal plan and being like, this is how much protein you need, this is how many calories. You have a trainer watching your form, guiding you, being like today we're doing this, Like you're being led to the goal. You're the one doing the physical work, but you have someone like providing you all of the other things needed to reach the goal.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about anything else. Yeah, you don't have the grocery shop for yourself. Could you imagine not having a grocery shop?

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Speaker 2: Love, I think that every week when we're like, what day should we go to the grocery store? Listen, We've become Friday evening grocery shoppers.

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Speaker 1: This is the weirdest thing that guys.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of great.

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Speaker 1: It is amazing.

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Speaker 2: I would do that in grad school, mostly because I would have run out of food by Friday, and I would stop and get like frozen pizza and a bottle of wine and like my groceries for the week, and then it was done.

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Speaker 1: Our perfect Friday night now is eating at home, getting groceries and getting in a Friday night movie.

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Speaker 2: But it's like the other we go to the store, then we eat because we will have maybe gotten something that we wanted for dinner. True, and then we go to a movie and then we're home by like nine pm.

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Speaker 1: The best Friday night in your thirties, it really is.

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Speaker 2: It's so nice. Yeah, it's great, but it is kind of funny because you look around the other grocery shoppers or like people in town for like Bachelor Bchelotte party is buying like so much white claw and like bags of tortilla chips. We've got like tofu and blueberries in the cart.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that the best grocery run the Friday night on a trip in a grocery store that feels foreign.

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Speaker 2: To you, Yes, we love doing that.

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Speaker 1: In scott Stick, you buy all these things that you're probably not gonna eat, and you're like, this is so fun. We buy so much to look at this straight at these snacks, and then by the end of your trip you're like, why did we get these?

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Speaker 2: We did that a couple of years ago the first time we went to Scott's Stone. We bought way too much and then we were like walking around the resort on our last day, Hey, does anyone want this cooler full of stuff? We promise it's not weird. We just bought too.

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Speaker 1: Much, too much stuff that is a rare aesthetic the grocery store run at the start of a trip. I remember that as a.

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Speaker 2: Kid, possibilities are endless.

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Speaker 1: You have all the fun on the hurd, all the anticipation, and then by the end of it you're like so sad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get the special snacks that you can only have on vacation.

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Speaker 1: Good times, all right, our worst than the month? What do you got?

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Speaker 2: I fear I'm going to offend people with this.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm ready for this. I think we're gonna be different these because both of us saw some movies that the other did not see. I have to preface this, Okay.

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Speaker 2: I don't necessarily I don't want to say books are bad, because I think anything that gets you into reading it's great. I personally don't find anything from the Colleen Hoover books, and I think the movie adaptations have just been rough. And I saw regretting you this weekend, and I am indeed regretting seeing that film, not regretting. I go with two of my friends. We've made it a thing now to see all of her movie adaptations. When I tell you, we were audibly giggling it wasn't a comedy. It was, in fact a drama. It got to the point where like people were just making out loud commentary in the theater, Like one of the characters said something and a girl next to us just goes, oh God, Like it was that level.

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Speaker 1: That's the next level. I haven't experienced something like that and forever.

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Speaker 2: It was a theater of mostly women and then the significant others that got dragged to.

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Speaker 1: It, which I would have gone to see this movie. I saw the trailer and I was like, yeah, already it's interesting. Yeah you're but you were already booked.

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Speaker 2: I was booked, booked and busy this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It just left so much to it, just was so full of tropes, and like the dialogue was bad, and they did the thing where like when the characters text each other, they not only put the text bubble on the screen, but then the character reads it, so it's like, hey, what's up and then the guy's like not much? What about You like that level of like dumb dialogue. If you like Colleen Hoover books, I think you might enjoy the film. Maybe not. I feel like seeing it on screen is different than reading it because reading it. You can kind of make characters in your head m but then once you see it play out, I would say it was making money, but it's actually not. The budget was like thirty million, and I think it made under thirteen. It had a fifteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Speaker 1: That's see. I thought it was gonna be one of those movies that maybe I wouldn't like, but there is an audience for well, I feel like you are the closer to the audience and you still don't like it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I went in critical and it was like I knew it wasn't going to be great, but I was like lower than I expected. I looked over one of my friends at one point only with people watching this on YouTube see, but she was just like like we were just what is happening?

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Speaker 1: Was it ever good? Like did it start out promising or was it bad? From the beginning.

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Speaker 2: It was one of those where it was like I had to go the bathroom in a certain point and I was like, oh, I don't really want to miss what comes, just because it was kind of like what's gonna happen? But now from the beginning, yeah, it's kind of like who what bills did Dave Franco have to pay to do this film.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's about to get that now you see me.

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Speaker 2: About to get now you see me three. Yeah, it just I can't say anything without giving it away. It's just so tropy. I mean I think by watching if you watch the trailer, you'll immediately pick up on the trope.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What I picked up from the trailer is it's people talking like nobody would talk in real.

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Speaker 2: Life, correct, and just the plot of like what it's about. And I made a joke at one point about like what if this turns out to be this? And I came back from the bathroom. My friend leaned over and she was like, you were right, this turned out to be this And I was like, oh god, that was like a bad joke. Can't believe that actually happened. So yeah, just.

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Speaker 1: Overly dramatic, bad acting, unbelievable, all the bad things. What do you rate it? You've given things a zero before.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, it kept my interest. It was not Eddington, so.

00:16:05
Speaker 1: It had some entertainment value.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was kind of like, so bad, it's good.

00:16:10
Speaker 1: Oh that's that's rough. Though I don't feel like that should be so bad it's good movie.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think it was supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: I think it was supposed to be so good. It's good they were trying to make a good movie.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go one point five lollipops.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty low.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: For my worst of the month, I'm going to go with Good Fortune, which is the Asison Sorry, Seth Rogan, Keanu Reeves.

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Speaker 2: Movie where you were excited to see that.

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Speaker 1: I was. It has a bunch of people that I like. I'm a fan of all three of those people. The movie would have been good if it came out in like twenty eleven. Oh, it just felt like those it's an insult.

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Speaker 2: It felt like it's almost as bad of an insult is so bad it's good.

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Speaker 1: I guess so I didn't think it was. That's exactly how that movie made me feel, where it was like the remnants of a Judd Appetito movie. And I think I was just so surprised for Azi's I'm Sorry directorial debut. Why make this movie like there was? The story itself was like his character down on his luck, was trying to be like a documentary editor that wasn't working out. So he's working as like a door dasher is living in his car, and then he meets Seth Rogan's character, who is like a tech bro lives in a giant mansion, has a bunch of family money. And then at his lowest point, he gets a guardian angel, which is Keanu Reeves and he's like kind of an entry level angel and he switches bodies of disease and Seth Rogan. So now Seth Rogan's broke and AZ's character is rich and then he's like, Okay, now you live this life and you're gonna see it's not as glamorous as it is now that you're rich. Turns out it solved all of his problems, and that's really the whole movie. And it tried to make like a lot of commentary on like how hard it is for people right now door dashing and economy. Yeah, basically that's what the whole movie was, but it just didn't really land on any element, Like the comedy wasn't that funny with Seth Rogen. Yeah, Seth Rogan was basically the same thing he's been in the studio platonic. It was like all this he's been a lot. It's I feel like he forgot like what character he was supposed to be, just like I'm just gonna be seth rogen And it didn't really land on an emotional level like it's supposed to be it's a wonderful lifetime situation or something. It just didn't really have anything to it. And it was ninety minutes long and it felt so long. By about forty five minutes, I was like, I don't even really care how this movie ends. I just think it was because I went into it thinking it was gonna be a funny movie and left just kind of disappointed. I also went and had the entire theater to myself, so there was no camaraderie, camaraderie, no interaction, which has helped with comedies lately that we've gone to see, Like when you see can hear other people laughing and enjoying it? It kind of makes it more funny. And I think the fact that it was kind of like going to see stand up and being the only person in the crowd and it's like, WHOA, this is weird. This doesn't feel right.

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Speaker 2: I should also had regarding you was two hours two hours? Oh man, Yeah, it's two hours flat. At least this was ninety minutes. Yeah, it was. And it got to the point at the end where I just kept looking at my friend Courtney, and I was like, it's going to be over soon, right, Like I know it's two hours, but it has to be over seas, right.

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Speaker 1: I could wrap this up early. But yeah, I would give Good Fortune two point five out of five. I'm not even sure it's a streamer. I feel like the movie should have focused entirely on Keanu Reeves had just been from his point of view, because the other two guys just were not cutting it. Would you have been offended if I would have put the Taylor Swift party as my worst No.

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Speaker 2: Because I don't feel like our theater experience was what some people had in their parties, Like everyone sat and just kind of watched where it was like I wanted a little more like outer seats dancing. I honestly wouldn't have expected you to go. You kind of got roped into going.

00:19:43
Speaker 1: But I wanted to experience it. I just thought it was going to be more of a cinematic event.

00:19:48
Speaker 2: Which I think is what her docuseries is gonna be.

00:19:51
Speaker 1: This was more of a listening party. I think the thing that made me want to put it as my worst was that all the lyric music videos had had a loop.

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Speaker 2: It was a loo yeah, and it was a little like, I don't know, motion sickness.

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Speaker 1: They weren't even great visualizations.

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Speaker 2: No, yeah I didn't. I mean, it wasn't my favorite thing that I saw. It was more just to like go with Friends made me kind of like appreciate the album more. I liked the behind the scenes. I like tearing her explain the songs. If it had been any longer, I'd have been like, Okay, wrap this up. Now. The docu series I'm already sat for, but that.

00:20:21
Speaker 1: Won't be in theaters. That'll just be Disney.

00:20:23
Speaker 2: Plus come frove my own home.

00:20:25
Speaker 1: See. I wanted more of that. I think if we're going to go to the theater to watch something and pay money for it, which that was the one we had to actually pay for because our Regal and Limited doesn't cover some of those live events or the special events. Yeah, we did pay for that, and I was like man cash grab. Going through all the other movies of October, good Boy, I gave a three out of five. I still need to do my favorite movie Dogs episode. I think you should be on that one, but Good Boy is definitely up there. We talked about the Taylor Swift movie Smashing Machine. Four out of five is what I gave that one. You would give that lower?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:21:02
Speaker 1: How low?

00:21:03
Speaker 2: Three?

00:21:04
Speaker 1: Oh that sound not terrible.

00:21:07
Speaker 2: It's failing.

00:21:07
Speaker 1: The Lost Bus, which we talked about. I have it at a four out of five. I maybe could have bumped it up a little bit more, but then I was like, am I just two in two disaster films? Roof Man, which made my best of the month four point five out of five? The Woman in the Cabin ten or The Woman in Cabin The.

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Speaker 2: Woman in Cabin ten starring care Nightley on Netflix.

00:21:25
Speaker 1: Thank you. That was pretty good. That was like a Sunday night movie. We watched it. I loved the book A real cozy nothing too.

00:21:33
Speaker 3: I thought that movie was cozy because it was like different definitions, right, is a cozy thriller?

00:21:39
Speaker 1: You try to figure out why she feels like she's going crazy? But I gave that one three out of five. After The Hunt.

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Speaker 3: The Julia roberts IOA Debris, I thought it was gonna be better.

00:21:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, listening the Dark Academia, it's too long. There was too much talking.

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Speaker 1: It was the delivery of that movie, the style of which everybody spoke and all the all the sequences together just fell a little bit weird.

00:22:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't. It's the same director that did Challengers, and it wasn't as action packed, Like you couldn't have that kind of style without the action of Challengers.

00:22:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, it felt like watching like the paints of a masterpiece dry, where I was like, I know, this is a really good painting, but I'm just watching it dry, and then by the end of it you're like, Okay, I get the story. That was good, but the delivery was just a little bit boring and drawn out.

00:22:23
Speaker 2: I need to know where she taught how to get that apartment they lived in.

00:22:27
Speaker 1: Because that was amazing, fantastic. They had a room where all they do is listen to music. You know how much money you have to have to have a room where you just listen to music. They also didn't have kids, that's true.

00:22:38
Speaker 2: They have a lot of rooms in the house.

00:22:40
Speaker 1: They have a swinging door to their kitchen. That was so cool. These little things that I noticed about fancy people in rich people's houses. I watched Play Dirty on Amazon, which is a mark Wahlberg movie kind of the opposite of Good Fortune. I went into it with really low expectations, thinking Mark Wahlberg were just gonna play the same Mark Wahlberg again and again. It's actually no bad three out of five on that one. I watched Honey Don't on Peacock, which was the Margaret Quayley Aubrey Plaza movie, same director who did Driveaway Dolls. It almost feels like a sequel to that movie, same kind of style, even though it's set in modern day. It feels like a fifties detective movie. Not as bad as people were saying. I give that one a three out of five. I tried to watch Megan two point oh also on Peacock, so bad I couldn't finish it.

00:23:28
Speaker 2: Alison Williams was also in that. She's the common factor regretting you and I love Alison Williams.

00:23:33
Speaker 1: I started Megan two point oh twice and couldn't get past fifteen minutes because it was so bad.

00:23:38
Speaker 2: You started Megan two point oh two point oh times.

00:23:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it still can't get there and then deliver me from nowhere. Bruce Springsteen movie three point five out of five Your TV show for the month, I'm gonna go.

00:23:49
Speaker 2: Mister Glenn Powell in Chad Powers.

00:23:51
Speaker 1: Could you call that one a cozy comedy? Yes, cause it's not so hilarious that you're like, oh my gosh, you have to watch this show.

00:23:58
Speaker 2: It is so funny, like slapstick humor, but it's it's an elevated humor, which is almost harder to do.

00:24:04
Speaker 1: It's as close as you can get to great comedy in twenty twenty five when it comes to a series, Yes, where the writing is good, the performances are good, but maybe the story is a little bit too crazy to be believable. Therefore you could find it a little bit cornball at times.

00:24:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's He's funny, He's great as Chad Powers. Steve Soon's hilarious.

00:24:26
Speaker 1: I like that they actually use real college football teams and it's not they're not all made up. It makes it feel a little bit more realistic where they're actually playing Georgia and all those kind of little pieces that are like, Okay, maybe this could exist in this world for TV show. I have Peacemaker season two. I love the entire series up until the end because I think what is happening now is James Gunn is starting to do with DC what Marvel does and has everything connect to each other. And I felt like towards the end of the season, it was just queuing up the next Superman movie. So it almost felt like, oh man, we did not get the best entire season because this is building towards something now. But very rarely do I watch a superhero show and have real emotions. But there's one scene in particular where I felt like crying because Peacemaker goes through so much turmoil, has so much trauma, and there was this moment where John Cena just kind of let it all out, and I've never seen that side of John Cena, and I felt so bad for his character. I was like, wow, Like I did not expect something to have this much emotional depth.

00:25:27
Speaker 2: It is really hard to get you to cry.

00:25:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, you usually take superhero movies though, like Endgame, That'll give me Spider Man, no Way home, That'll get me real life.

00:25:38
Speaker 2: Man.

00:25:38
Speaker 1: I'm good your book for the month.

00:25:41
Speaker 2: I read a lot of books this month. I read like ten or eleven. I've alread hit My goal for the year I was seventy five and I'm in seventy six. I'm Going to Go My Friends by Frederick Bachman, who is wrote A Man called Ove, which is what a man called Auto with Thommas Banks, was based on My Friends. Was so good. And maybe it was just I was in like a emotional mood when I read it, But it just made me feel so many things. It's not oh yeah, I remember you reading me an excerpt from it. It's not super like plot driven necessarily, it's the characters. But I had started it. I was reading it each night and then I picked up on page like one thirty a couple of weeks ago and read it until eleven PM and finished because I was like, I can't put this down, So I'm gonna go with that one. But I read a lot of good ones.

00:26:27
Speaker 1: What was it called again, my Friends?

00:26:28
Speaker 2: Read a lot of good ones? So there was another one.

00:26:31
Speaker 1: Oh.

00:26:31
Speaker 2: I also read The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, which it's about this older woman named Sybil and she like writes and emails people, and the whole book is like her letters and emails. It just was really good. It was one of those characters that you're like, oh, I'm gonna think about this for a long time after I read it. Some books I read, and then the next day somebody's like, what was that about? I don't know, check out the synopsis. I'm gotta readn't tell you.

00:26:52
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel that way about movies sometimes.

00:26:54
Speaker 2: When you said I don't even remember what the Bruce Springsteen movie was called, I remember the name. When you said that earlier, I was like, what was that movie?

00:27:02
Speaker 1: The way that I do reviews, I get so invested in one movie for a very brief period of time, like two days, that is all I'm consumed with, and then after those two days, it just kind of leaves my head until, like I randomly think of another movie it connects to you.

00:27:17
Speaker 2: I've been reading a lot of good books lately, though. There's been quite a few, and I think I've updated my good Reads with all of them for those who follow.

00:27:24
Speaker 1: Should we put that in the notes? Yes, we'll put that in there.

00:27:28
Speaker 2: Anything else, No, I gotta go put her Christmas Tree up? Yeah, so early listen it brings me joy.

00:27:36
Speaker 1: It's November and you're like, Christmas Tree.

00:27:38
Speaker 2: Do you not remember during the pandemic when we put it up in April and left it up for.

00:27:42
Speaker 1: Quite some time. We're very depressed at that time. But yes, that was very early.

00:27:48
Speaker 2: I'm just saying it brings joy sparks joy especially it's like so gray this week here, I need just like twinkle lights.

00:27:55
Speaker 1: All right, I'll come back and I'll give my spoiler free review of ill On. Yeah, now you're saying differently Boganya.

00:28:02
Speaker 3: No.

00:28:02
Speaker 2: Earlier it was Bougonia. Now you're saying Bogonia, Bogonia. Which syllable are you renunciating Bogona? All right? Please tell me.

00:28:14
Speaker 1: Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Bogonia, one of my most anticipated movies of the year from director Yorgoslante Moos, Starring Emma Stone Jesse Plemons. What this movie is about. Emma Stone plays a high profile CEO at a pharmaceutical company. Jesse Plemons plays a guy who is obsessed with conspiracy theories. He has been just diving into all of these theories about Emma Stone's character and why he believes that she is an alien hiding in plane site and what does he decide to do? He decides to take action. He along with his cousin, capture Emma Stone at the beginning of the movie and then hold her hostage. The movie is adapted from a two thousand three movie from South Korea called Save the Green Planet. And that's really all you need to know. This movie was truly something special. And sometimes I'm guarded a little bit when talking about a movie that I love so much because I worry about overhyping it to you. This is the case. I'm gonna tell you right now, I am going to over hype the crap out of this movie because I loved it so much. Great movies suspend you in time and make you feel truly like you have escaped this world that we are living in. Just so happens to be a movie about somebody being accused of being an alien and wanting to contact their mother's ship. But that is truly something so special if you just think about what watching a movie is, which I've had a really weird just realization as everything's gone to digital, you're really just watching a file being put on the screen. Although in this case, we saw it at the Bellcourt here in Nashville on thirty five millimeters, so I did get that level of warm to it. I love that Right at the beginning of the movie, you see that little circle in the right corner of the screen wherever they put that film real on, so it did have that level of warmth to it seeing it in thirty five millimeters, which I would highly recommend you get all those rich colors, And I think, what the Yorgoslantinos movie that really benefits from it. But when you just think about what watching a movie is, as you're sitting in front of a screen and you're having information put into your eyeballs, it is very rare to be sitting in that seat having that process done where you truly feel something that makes you question your morals. And I was talking about earlier how I've been going through this thing recently where I start to feel for the bad person in the movie. I don't want to call them villains, because I don't think they're always villains, but Jesse Plemmon's character is an anti hero, and throughout this movie it will have you questioning who you believe and who you are rooting for. And I found myself feeling very empathetic towards this character learning all the details about why he is doing this that I started rooting for him. But then I thought if this happened in the real world, I would not be rooting for this guy. And the question this movie raises is jesse Plemmon's character a madman or is he somebody that is seeing something that nobody else can see? And then you have Emma Stone, who did nothing wrong. She's just a high profile CEO. Some people have problems with those types of people because of how rich she is, because in order to get to that level of power, you probably have to do some shady things. Very rarely you don't, but in this case you get to know her character and then suddenly she is being kidnapped, so she did nothing wrong. But I also found myself rooting for him more, rooting for her more. It'll have you just questioning your entire reality when it comes to who is in the right here? Who is in the wrong. Do you believe that she is an alien like jesse Plemon's character thinks that she is, or is he somebody who has just been in this echo chamber? That is a result of him spending so much time online reading all these theories, only having the negative thoughts in his head reinforced, therefore making it build up so much in his head that he thought kidnapping a CEO was actually the right thing. To do because he's just trying to save the world. When it comes to Yorgoslantio's movies, he is a director that is an acquired taste, but his movies feel so authentically him, and I think of his most recent movies, this is the most easily digestible where I couldn't really recommend you of Poor Things unless you're into really weird movies with a lot of nudity. Kinds of Kindness was even a bit of a hard sell on me. My introduction to him was back with the Lobster. I didn't entirely love that one, but then when I saw the Favorite, I was like, Okay, I understand this guy. Now, I get it. Which he has been working with Emma Stone now for a while, so I feel like there there's a lot of trust there. And to do a movie like this, to do any of his previous movies, you need to have a lot of trust. Because Emma Stone actually shaved her head for Begonia. You actually see it happen in this movie when she is captured, which was also in the trailer, they shave her head. That is Emma Stone committing to this role for lack of a better word, That is Oscar stuff right there. I wish I could curse. I'm not going to curse. But that is what that level of acting is. That is why she is an Academy Award winner because it takes that level of dedication. She didn't know what was going to be hiding for her underneath her head once she shaved it. And I did see that after she shaved her head, she realized she had these two moles that she got removed because she couldn't live with it. I could not shave my head fully because I know, I know I have a weird head underneath this hair that is just lopsided. Probably a role. I probably have some mold or some weird things going on there. I know I have some scars I got when I was a kid. I know it's probably not as crazy for a guy to have to shave their head for a role, but that is next level stuff. It is the thing she is willing to do to change her body for a role. But not only that, she is somebody who is such a dial in actor. Her and Jesse Plemmons together was so magnificent to watch their back and forth on screen, where there are these two forces just butting heads against each other, where her character is so great at communicating and so great at diffusing a situation. She portrays a CEO in a way I haven't seen done before, where you know, every conversation she has has to end the way that she wants it to. And this was probably the first time in her life as a character where she was met with resistance, where she didn't know what to say. She didn't know how to get out of this situation, but she didn't have this catalog of how to work with somebody who was not mentally stable. That was a really interesting dynamic to watch when it comes to asking for this movie completely nailed it. And I know your Ghosts has been working with both of those actors for a very long time. And you may think, well, he just went to his muses and put them two together in a movie, so maybe not the most adventurous casting, but you realize why it works so well because they were just having these conversations and it felt like you were watching a bomb go off. And quite possibly one of the most surprising things is that Bogonia didn't have any crazy nudity, and that is quite the accomplishment coming off of poor things and kinds of kindness, which was loaded chock full of it. I would say, that's your ghost's calling card is hey, you know, would make this scene better. Let's make these two people naked. Not the case with Bogonia. This movie is so absurd in the best way. And there was this one particular moment where I felt it go next level where there was this switch in my brain that said, Okay, this is a good movie. This is a good movie, and this scene in particular flip that switch and went to a great movie. Because I look at everybody involved in this they're just all on a different playing field when it comes to storytelling, when it comes to acting, when it comes to dedication, when it comes to just treating every scene like this is the scene. There were so many instances of that throughout the entire film, where this is a movie that I feel is going to have a high rewatchability for me because there are gonna be things that I want to go back and see that I missed. I also think this movie proposes so many questions that you can dive into and have your own theories on. Even the title of the movie itself is a little bit ambiguous, where they named it this for a particular reason, but it can also be open to interpretation, especially once you watch the film, you find out what happens, you get all these questions answered, then you can ask more questions, and that is a sign of a great film, a movie that stays with you and leaves some things open for your own interpretation, which I think lately a lot of films have been playing it so safe, where they tell you every single thing, every single detail, every little thing ends up with a nice little bow, want it by the end of it, And I think that is boring, and some people want every single question answered. I'm not one of those people. I think great art should be open ended, and I wish more directors took that risk. And I think sometimes because of maybe that Marvel movie mentality where we don't have all these questions answered by the end of it, we don't get a post credit scene teeing up the next movie, we feel a little bit ripped off. I love those instances. Use your imagination, people. I only think the hard sell of this movie is the fact that it is kind of a weird concept, even though it is what I believe to be your goss at least of this decade his most digestible work. I still think this movie will be a little bit off putting to some, but these are the types of movies I seek out. I have to have at least one of these every single year to inspire me again, to make it feel like I'm not watching the same thing over and over and talking about the same types of movies again and again. This movie is a full course meal to me. It has the appetizer, the amazing entree, the wonderful dessert, maybe even a little cup of cappuccino at the end. This movie has it all. And if you end up watching it or have seen it already and didn't enjoy it, what do you enjoy it? I really want to know. Maybe you are not into the idea of conspiracy theories, maybe you don't like aliens, maybe you just don't like this form of storytelling. For me, I feel this movie had it all. It was so close to perfection. I even got this little commemorative film strip, which is really cool with some big scenes from the movie. If you're watching on YouTube, you can see me holding it, although it doesn't show up that great on camera. But I was such a nerd for this movie. Going into it that I saw they were gonna have these limited editions and you know, anything collectible I got to get my hands on. We got there probably twenty minutes early, and I was like, man, I hope they don't run out of those strips. They still had a lot of them. I think I was the only one excited for this, but pretty cool. I love any kind of little piece of memorabilia now that we don't have ticket stubs, like all my ticket stubs that are in my regal lamp, since we don't have those, and I don't buy a whole lot of popcorn buckets just because I have the big stitch one in the studio and it kind of takes up all to space. I love these little things that they can do to give you something to take home from the movie. So for Begonia, it is rare for me to give out of five. I'm not gonna do it here. It is really close. But I am just so hype coming off this movie. The fact that I went in with such high expectations and those expectations were not only met, but I feel like even exceeded at moments because it took it to the next level. For Bogonia. I give it four point five out of five shaved heads. It's time to head down to movie mics. Traylor Paul. What if you survived a plane crash ended up on a desert island. On that desert island, there was one other person, But it is the person in life that you hate the most. That is the premise of this new movie starring Rachel McAdams Dylan O'Brien. It's called Send Help because their relationship is not good in this and they are coworkers. Dylan O'Brien plays her boss. He is a jerk. He belittles her at work, makes fun of her appearance, makes fun of the way that she smells. She hates this guy. They go on a work trip together. He's even a jerk on the plane to other people. Plane goes down. They are the only two survivors end up on a desert island, and suddenly there is now a shift in who is in power because Rachel McAdams's character is really good at surviving. She can hunt, she can fish, she can do all these things in order to survive on this island by herself and need his help because he gets injured in this plane crash, and then he still thinks that this is just the office. I can treat her the exact same way I am her boss. But suddenly she's like, out here, you're not my boss. I'm the one keeping us alive. Now you have to listen to me. What would you do in that situation? I am lucky enough. If I was trapped on a desert island with my boss, I would not be in a nightmare situation. Aside from not having Wi Fi and air conditioning, we would have a good time. But before we get into more about why I love these two actors coming together, it's from director Sam Raimi, who I'm also a big fan of. Here's just a little bit of the Send Help trailer coming out on January thirtieth, The Coach join the Land of the Living? How long keep it out?

00:41:51
Speaker 2: Day and a half? If you tried making a distress signal or a bigger.

00:41:54
Speaker 1: Fire, I was busy trying to keep us alive, but getting us out of here.

00:42:01
Speaker 2: That should be your focus, not being Susie homemaker over here. What did you just said to me?

00:42:06
Speaker 1: Let's not forget I'm your boss, you work for me.

00:42:09
Speaker 2: We're not in the office anymore. Bradley.

00:42:13
Speaker 1: That line goes hard right there. We're not in the office anymore, Bradley, and you can hear the shift in her character right there, and then you see her get really dark and you start wondering, how did she learn all these skills? How does she know how to cut the head off of a bore? How does she know how to hunt with this spear that she just built herself. There has to be some kind of crazy backstory to her and something that makes her snap to now quite possibly being a person who has taking out their boss on their radar. Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams look great together. I feel like they are both underappreciated actors. What I always like to do is go over to IMDb and see what they list as their top four movies, which I think the way they kind of determined those is the ones that people search for the most on their website. But for Rachel McAdams it is The Notebook, obviously, Mean Girls, Regina George, obviously Red Eye, and the Vow. For Dylan O'Brien. First one is actually not a movie, Teen Wolf, the TV show which I was not that big a fan of. I feel like I'm more of a twenty twenties fan of Dylan O'Brien, especially what he's doing now with this movie coming out next year, and Twin List was one of my favorite just hidden gems that I found earlier this year. So I don't really associate him with Teen Wolf The Maze Runner, I think is what the most people associate Dylan O'Brien with, even though when it comes to dystopian science fiction movies, those aren't my go to. I'm more of a Hunger Games guy, and I know those movies aren't entirely the same, completely different franchises, but during that period of time where I feel like all those movie rights got bottom and they all got released in the twenty tens, those kind of run to get other with all those But I'm definitely more of a Hunger Games guy. But I know he made a lot of money and gained a lot of recognition through those movies. I associate him more with the year of twenty twenty. Love and Monsters was probably my favorite movie to come out of the COVID era. I got into this period of my life where every Saturday morning I would look forward to a new movie that I could watch at home that was not coming out in theaters, and that became my kind of comfort during that time where I looked forward to it. I so greatly missed that in theater experience, and that was the closest thing I had to go into the movies where I kept my phone out of the room, had the soundbar on as loud as it could go, much like it would in the movies, and I was just so appreciative of having a new movie. This movie in particular, I felt kind of just did not register with most much like everything that came out pretty much between the year twenty twenty and twenty twenty two, that is kind of a weird time period. It wasn't really until No Way Home that it kind of broke all that. We kind of started going back to normal after that movie came out. But this movie, I feel, really got me through a terrible mental state and I love Dylan O'Brien in it. So if you haven't seen Love in Monsters and you like post apocalyptic adventure action movies, I highly recommend it. Although probably the association I have with it makes the movie a lot better in my book than it actually is, so I think it is one that I probably wouldn't revisit for that reason, but it is on Paramount Plus, and now that I got suckered into a Paramount Plus subscription, maybe I'll finally go back and rewatch that. But it is good just to see him back on the big screen. Twin List was a movie starring him that I saw earlier this year. I think could be one of my favorite performances of twenty twenty five. It was one that I went into with very little expectation and very rarely do I not watch a trailer at all before going to see a movie, and that was one of them. I only read the description. It's about two guys that meet in a support group and become friends, and then one of them has a dark secret that you learn about. That movie had a little bit of comedy, it had a little bit of drama. It also had like this weird turn where it almost turned into a thriller, had some suspense in there. Overall, just quite the journey. So it's cool to see Dylan O'Brien back on the big screen. Also for Rachel McAdams, who was so huge in the mid two thousands, so much so that she had to take a couple of years off, and she turned down roles in The Devilware's Prada and Iron Man. She needed a little bit of time away from the fame and the public scrutiny. And I feel like she has also taken some really great roles in the twenty twenties. But then, when you think about this movie, you have Dylan O'Brien and Rachel McAdams, and if this were any other director, this would have turned into a homecom. They would have crash landed, try to survive on this desert island, and they probably would have fallen in love. Except you have Sam Raimi behind the camera, who notoriously got to start in horror with the movie The Evil Dead, which is a low budget cult classic in the horror world. Also went on to do Evil Dead too, an Army of Darkness. But then what he became the most famous for, at least in my eyes, was the Spider Man trilogy in the two thousands, a lot different than what he did in his horror era and his Western era, and that just kind of took him on an entirely different level. He also did Drag Me in a Hell in two thousand and nine, Oz the Great and Powerful in twenty thirteen, which was the Wizard of Oz prequel starring James Franco, which was actually not bad. I remember seeing that one in theaters, and I also just have a big fascination with anything Wizard of Oz. The original is just such a mysterious movie to me, and such an odd piece in movie history because of how significant it is to culture. But how there's this weird dark side behind the making of that movie. I've always just been fascinated with anything Wizard of Oz, so probably to most people that wasn't a great movie, But in twenty thirteen, I was really a big fan of James Franco as well, so that movie hit with me. He also did Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness back in twenty twenty two, which was essentially a horror Marvel movie, and he had all of his trademarks in there, the big eye inside of Doctor Strange's forehead, which he always has close ups on eyes. If you look at all of his movies, from Spider Man to even in the trailer to Send Help, there is one scene where you see Rachel McAdams almost entirely covered in blood. Her face is all messed up and it looks like she's missing an eye, so he always has this signature shot a big zoom man on a character's eye in Doctor Strange. A lot of people do refer to that one as one of the worst moments in CGI in the Marvel Cinematic Use universe. So to me, this movie feels like a little bit of Castaway, a little bit of Lord of the Flies. There was also a movie that came out in twenty twenty two, and like I mentioned, that was also one of those forgotten years, Triangle of Sadness, where this kind of happens. It's about these really rich people who go out on an excursion on a yacht and then they get caught in a big storm. The boat goes down and all of the survivors end up on a desert island much like here, and send help. And it almost feels, just by watching this trailer like they took the third act of that movie and made an entire, big budget movie out of it. A Triangle of Sadness was a little bit of a niche movie, but that is another movie to check out if you missed it, and you have no problem watching scenes of people vomiting profusely that is a major part of that movie. So two movies you might have missed in the last five years just based on the time that they came out that we've talked about Love and Monsters with Dylan O'Brien from twenty twenty and Triangle a Sadness from twenty twenty two, which you can watch on Hulu. Watch those movies and then go see Send Help in theaters on January thirtieth. Head that Bar was this week's edition of Movie by Framer Bar and that is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. Before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week this week. I'm going over to Instagram and shouting out Megwin as this week's listener shout out of the Week because she posted in her story last week screenshot over listening to the episode about the ten actors who were totally hated by their entire cast, along with the Springsteen movie review. I reposted because she tagged me in her Instagram story and said Michael Jackson picks up Thor's hammer a bunch of crying emojis, which was a quote from that episode, and said thanks Mike d Stroper. The laugh to start the week. I got a lot of pushback on that idea. Nobody likes that, especially over on YouTube. People on YouTube do not hesitate to call you an idiot. I just thought that would be interesting. I still stand by that I want a musician multiverse. But thanks Meg Win for listening every single week, and thank you right now wherever you are listening to this week's episode. Hope you have a great rest of your week, and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.