Ranking All 8 Harry Potter Movies  + Movie Review: Anora +  Trailer Park: Sinners

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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. It is the Harry Potter episode. We rewatched all eight movies. I reranked them. We're gonna be very passionate about this because you are a huge Harry Potter fan.

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Speaker 2: I am.

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Speaker 1: I am a huge fan of the movies, but I haven't read the books, and I did want to say spoiler warning because the last movie is over ten years old. But we go into all the details, all the deaths.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, we'll talk about every single death.

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Speaker 1: So if for some reason you haven't watched Harry Potter and don't want to hear all that, I will just say spoiler warning. But I feel for the most part, everybody you've seen these movies, so they're fair game to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: And if you're not gonna watch it before now, you're probably.

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Speaker 1: Not gonna Yeah, you're probably just like not for me, But.

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Speaker 2: Still listen to the episode because we do get into some disagreements about how we feel about certain parts of the movie.

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Speaker 1: In the movie review, I'll be talking about Honora, which has some Oscar nominations, and then in the trailer park talk about the new Michael B. Jordan movie where he plays him well, not himself, but he plays two versions of himself.

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Speaker 2: That trailer it freak.

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Speaker 1: You're like, why are there two of him?

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Speaker 2: Well, and I thought it was a commercial. Came undering football and I was like, is this commercial?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know it's a movie.

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Speaker 2: And then you you told me we saw the trailer in theaters. I'm not believing that we did.

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Speaker 1: We saw when we went to go see one of their Days.

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Speaker 2: I don't believe you.

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. I know, with all this scrutiny from the Nashville Podcast Network, this is movie Mike movie Potter. All right, we're going to talk about rewatching all the Harry Potter movies. Let's talk about first you read the books. I did.

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Speaker 2: I read the books so many times as a kid. I fell in love with them. They were the first like big series that changed my life. I would order the book and pick it up at midnight at Barnes and Noble. And I think I've told the story in here before about when the final book came out in we hear? Did the final one come out?

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Perfect? So I was thirteen and I was a bit of a smart ass as a child, and as a child I talked back and instead of being grounded from like computer TV, my mom took my Harry Potter book away devastated, got it back the next day. So what does one do. They stayed till two am finishing it in case they get grounded again. And that's how much I love the books. And I've seen all the movies over the years, rewatched them a ton of times. But something about rewatching them this break made me just like fall in love with them again. So I'm rereading the books again.

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Speaker 1: Did you see them all in theaters. Oh yeah, Oh so everything midnight? Oh yeah, what a time when you could go to midnight releases. I don't think I ever went to a midnight release of a book, a video game, or a movie. Maybe I went to the Jackass three D midnight showing. That might have been the only thing I ever went to a midnight release. But those are that's kind of gone, and I think for I remember it being cool for video games, like whenever the New Call of Duty would come out and there'd be like a line of people outside of game stop. That is nostalgic to me. I never read the books, which would have been perfect for me because I was like the same age as them as they were coming out, but I wasn't too into reading when I was younger, still not that into reading.

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Speaker 2: But you're gonna start. I thought you said you had read at least a couple of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I read maybe the first two to three of them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you've read some of them. Yeah, I'm going to reread them.

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Speaker 1: Now because I was able to check the first, second, and maybe third one out of the library, and then after that it became too popular and they were never in stock, so I just never read them, and then I remember always looking at them. Whenever this is the last the book bear came around, I'm like, oh, they got the Harry Potter books. I was always fascinated by the covers, fantastic.

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Speaker 2: I really wish that I had kept my original ones, but I gave them to my brother and then they probably got sold or donated, so.

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Speaker 1: I haven't read all the books, which now I'm going to. I want to read them now. And then when it came to the movies, I also I didn't see them all in theaters, and I also didn't see them all probably until like a few years after the last one came out. I think it was twenty thirteen or twenty twelve, where I had the blu ray of all the movies, like the full pack of every single one, and I sat down and just watched them all and that was kind of how I really took in the story. But I kind of feel like I missed out on that a little bit. I feel if I would have kept up with at least watching the movies the year they came out, I would have been a bigger Harry Potter fan. But I feel like you are the level of Harry Potter fan that I am like a Marvel Oh absolutely, and it is like the quintessential millennial franchise.

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Speaker 2: It really is. Yeah, I love it. I still love like merch. Like my mom got me Quark sickle. She loves getting us themed cork sickles, and she like went ham On Harry Potter collection for me last year. I've got a Gryffindor water bottle. I have a Golden Snitch cup. I have a Headwick the Owl cup. Love them.

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Speaker 1: So before I get into my ranking of all of the movies, what is your favorite and what is your least favorite? So, and this has to be after we rewatched them all, because I think it's let me see how many hours all the Harry Potter movies are. There is nineteen hours and thirty nine minutes. And we did it all one Thanksgiving week and then the rest during Christmas break, which five days, like five days. So we did all that. After that rewatch, what's your favorite and your least favorite favorite.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Prisoner of ask Man least favorite. Yes, I will go Chamber of Secrets because I love them all so much, so it's hard to pick.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I feel like you.

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Speaker 2: Get more of the story and the complexity of Harry and the other characters and their history as they go along. And I can't say the first one is my least favorite because that's what started my love of the films. It's iconic, so I feel like it has to be Chamber of Secrets. Okay, now we're just talking movies.

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Speaker 1: Yes, movies.

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Speaker 2: Books. It's been too long since I've read.

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Speaker 1: Them, and you're how far into rereading them now?

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Speaker 2: Halfway through the second one? Okay, I forget how quick of a read they are because they're designed for kids.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so much more at my reading level when I get back into it. Yes, all right, we'll get into my ranking. At number eight from two thousand and nine, I have Harry Butt, Harry Butter. I just gonna leave that in. I have Harry Potter and the Half Blood Princes, which I could just say the second part of the title. I don't know why I'm gonna say Harry Potter every time. Yeah, half Blood Prince is my least favorite, okay, And I think it's just because the tone of this one, this one feels like the bridge to get us to the end. Yeah, some cool stuff happens in this one, but it almost felt like a filler movie to me. Rewatching that, I felt that more because when you go from one to another to another to another, you kind of ride that wave of their story. It's building, it's coming down, it's building up, it's ramping up. This very much kind of plateaus the story before it ramps up and gets to the best part. So I feel, out of all the movies, this one is the most forgettable to me, which I feel all of them have like encompassing scenes that I associate with all of them and I think, oh, this happens in this one. This happens in this one, And that's how I am able to tell them apart, especially after rewatching them, and this one I feel has doesn't have that. I don't think it does.

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Speaker 2: You're nuts.

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Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about, which you can say it's is it spoiling it this point it came out in two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 2: You're nuts if you think Dumbledore dying is not a memorable iconic scene.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so compared to all the other things that happen in this I when we rewatched it, I forgot that he dies.

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Speaker 2: I will not stand for this, which We'll.

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Speaker 1: Put a spoiler word in at the beginning of this, but it's it's everybody's seen these movies. Nobody's gonna watch Harry Potter for the I haven't like, if you haven't talked it's ten years old, that there's a ten year.

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Speaker 2: Role all these movies more than fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying every movie on this list is ten years old. The last one came out in twenty eleven. They're all ten years old. So spoiler free spoiler zone because it's the whole Harry Potter episode. But going into rewatching this, I forgot that he dies. And maybe it's because I'm not the biggest Harry Potter fan, but I was like, oh, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think it's because you're not the biggest Harry Potter fan.

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Speaker 1: I'm more familiar with the moment. The fact that the actor who played him died in between the second and the third movie. That is what I associate more with. People don't the original actor. Yeah, the original actor, so they change. That is what my brain went to first. And then I was like, oh, yeah, he does die, So I know it's a big part as far as the story, probably a big part of the books. But when it comes to memorable moments out of the entire series of movies, that one doesn't resonate with me.

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Speaker 2: God, And then at the end when like his body is laying there in front of the school and they all raise their wands and like do the lights.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I didn't see it in theaters. I don't feel that sad in that moment. Other big characters have died in movies that have hit me emotionally, But I wasn't that sad when he died.

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Speaker 2: And this is literally sl under right now.

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Speaker 1: I was it. There are other moments in this, in all the Harry Potter.

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Speaker 2: Movies, dying is tragic, tragic.

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Speaker 1: I just don't feel that. There are a lot of tragic deaths in movies. I wouldn't even put it in the top ten. I would it because I forgot he died.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we gotta move on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that is what I have at number eight.

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Speaker 2: For marriage is going to make it all of this episode. We got to move on.

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Speaker 1: At number seven, I have the Order of the Phoenix from two thousand and seven, directed by David Yates, who also did Half Blood Prince.

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Speaker 2: And definitely Hallows right he did Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He did the back half of the movies, which I thought they took a different tone. Whenever David Yates took over darker they were darker, which you can shed a little bit more light on this, no pun intended. But did the books just get darker towards the end?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you think about the fact he's literally trying to defeat the most like evil person to ever exists. Like the tone of it's just darker, and yeah, people started dying more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the whole plot.

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Speaker 2: Is that he's lived because this evil wizard tried to kill his parents when he was a baby, and he sat there watching men. It's a pretty depressing story to start, and then he gets locked in the cupboard he.

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Speaker 1: Had down beneath the stairs. But I like this one just a little bit more than Half Blood Prints.

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Speaker 2: So even though there's a sad death in this one, too serious black see again, Bellatrix runs around, I'm killing serious black. I'm killed serious Black. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I hate her character, probably one of the worst characters in movies and all these book adaptation movies. But this one good but not one of my top five. At number six, I have the Goblet of Fire two thousand and five. Mike Newell directed this one. This one's great.

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Speaker 2: Can you name the said death in this one?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Cedric, my boy Robert Pattinson, see that I remember his death. That one hit me. Didn't make me cry, didn't make me too emotional. Well, when his dad does come over that one, it's very sad because you think about what is happening in the games and he comes back and they all cheer.

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Speaker 2: Because they think that like he's managed to like bring him back, and then it like gets really quiet and everyone realizes and.

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Speaker 1: Then yeah, once they realize what happens, I think rewatching it this time, I was able to take the emotion from that scene, like Harry is there like bawling over his body and it was just these games and it turns out now somebody has died. And then whenever his dad realizes it and he comes over and he's like, that's my boy, like dang, that sucks. Yeah, and him bringing his body back and then Voldemore in that scene. That's a great scene.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a good one.

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of memorable moments from these games, like whenever he's underwater with the dragons. There are a lot of just big action moments. That the fact that this one came out in two thousand and five, only four years after the first one. The visual effects greatly improved, which is another thing we saw while rewatching these movies. They go from looking like video game characters and some of the flying scenes to a becoming a little bit more and more refined to where you go back to the very first one and it looks like how did we buy this? Like how did we take this in? As like looking good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like the tech got better in the budget got.

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Speaker 1: Bigger that too, so they became more expensive looking. Yeah. I'd say everything from six to one is top not that the seven and eight are bad. It is my least favorite. That's what I have at number six. At number five, I have the Chamber of Secrets from two thousand and two. This was Chris Columbus, which this movie dropped a lot. This used to be my second favorite and the movies I put above it now.

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Speaker 2: Because of the rewatch.

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Speaker 1: Because of the rewatch, it went down. I think I enjoyed. I had this one as my second favorite for a long time. Is because I loved the tone early on in the movies. Where they felt like individual stories, where it was just here they are, this is what's going on in this movie, and they don't necessarily connect, see.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I love the later ones, because.

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Speaker 1: It all builds up. And I guess maybe because I've only read the first two, maybe the third one I don't remember, but I feel like they encompassed what the books were more like I read those and then watched these movies, and I feel like it translated how I pictured it in my head reading them.

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Speaker 2: The first two books are a lot short too, though they get exponentially longer.

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Speaker 1: That's also what I remember seeing them at the Scholastic book Fair. I'm like, oh, the last one is huge.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to compare the pages they are.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But I think it was because I also love Chris Columbus, who I think is a great director, and he really brought that fun, vibrant, wizardry vibe to both of the first movies. He's really good at working with child actors. There's also something about seeing them much younger that I feel there's more innocence to it, and as you see them become teenagers go through more not totally adult things, I feel it changes the tone of it, and I kind of like the idea of Hogwarts being that just where these kids go to be wizards, and it has a little bit more like a magical vibe to it, and then later just gets kind of more serious and dark.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I found this like random website stuff. This isn't right. First book has three hundred and nine pages, second three forty one, the third four to thirty five, the fourth seven thirty.

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Speaker 1: Four, Oh my gosh, the fifth.

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Speaker 2: Eight seventy, the sixth six point fifty two, and the seventh seven fifty nine, with a total of four thy one hundred pages.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of pages. That's why they split the last one into two movies. So yeah, Chamber of Secrets really dip for me, but it is a top five to one.

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Speaker 2: This other website has a different statistics.

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Speaker 1: So well, we have a general idea. They got bigger and bigger, almost doubled in size by the end of it. Right.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you could really hurt someone with those last few hardbacks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. If I needed to have a fight in school, I just grab a Harry Potter buck knock somebody out A number four I have from twenty ten Deathly Hallow's Part one, directed by David Yates. This one sets the stage and it went up on my list.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you weren't the biggest Deathly Howard. No.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's because when we do rewatch them, we don't typically rewatch the last two, maybe because they are heavier. Maybe it's because the conclusion of the story. It's not one that I think like, hey, let's put that one on the.

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Speaker 2: Way light, family friendly film.

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Speaker 1: But the way we rewatched them all and where I was able to see it build up towards the end and like really find out the true story, I almost feel like for the first time again because it's been a while since we sat down and rewatched them all.

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Speaker 2: Now imagine like having to wait a year even though I'd read the book.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. Like I put myself in that position of when these movies came out and thinking like going to a theater and not knowing what was going to happen, even though you probably read the book, you knew what was going to happen, but that level of excitement had to be wild.

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Speaker 2: Oh it was unmatched.

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Speaker 1: So that one went up and at number three. This one also went up and I put them together. It's a deathly Hollo's Part two from twenty eleven, the conclusion to all of it. I don't remember the scene whenever Harry finds out the whole story of how it all connects and with Snape.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: They go to the big exposition of what does he dips his head in like that water thing like that fountain, and then he's able to.

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Speaker 2: Like to well, Harry dips his head in the water and sees he puts like Snape's tears.

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Speaker 1: That's what head that was sad.

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Speaker 2: Sees all of Dumbledore telling Snape like you must be the one to kill me, and how Snape, like all along is tried to protect Harry and he wasn't the bad guy. I remember reading that and my mind was blown. Life was changed. I was like, oh my god, he wasn't the bad guy because in the books it's the same like you think for six books that Snape hates Harry and that he's responsible for Dumbledore's death. You think that and then like you find out in the book truly changed me.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that Voldemort has been a part of him, like he lives inside of him. That whole connection of when he what happened when he tried to kill a and it just for the first time I was able to like really connect it all and feel the gravity of it and think, oh, like how well designed this story was and all the pieces that ended up connecting. This is the only movie franchise that I feel wraps up perfectly because I guess because it is based on the book. But there was nothing, no questions unanswered, there was no emotions that you were lacking.

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Speaker 2: It had it all Yeah, And then they give you the scene in like twenty years when everyone's like Marry didn't have their own kids going out.

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Speaker 1: That hits you emotionally. I also love whenever they go into whatever that white space is wherever he sees him again Dumbledore again and he like you think he's dead, but then he's not really dead. Then he comes back to life. Long Bottom has his moment where he shines. So there are so many great conclusions for different characters in this final movie that I found myself loving it more. And now I feel like I could just go back and watch part two yeah and enjoy it and feel like, oh yeah, that is one. Now I want to go back and rewatch that is why I have it at number three now, but at number two has stayed here pretty steadily. I'd say before Chamber of Secrets was in that number two spot forever. I just love those so much. But it's Prisoner of Azkaban came out in two thousand and four. The we've watched this one, I feel like the most.

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Speaker 2: Because we've seen it anytime it's on TV. And then we did one of our outdoor movie nights they showed that one.

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Speaker 1: And this one. It's pretty It has a lot of vivid memories. Obviously the introduction of serious.

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Speaker 2: Black Hermione has the like time travel thing. It's the first one where they look more like great older they don't look like tiny kids.

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Speaker 1: There are children in the first two, but this one they get older.

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Speaker 2: And it starts to get a little darker.

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Speaker 1: The tone the bus scene at the beginning, yes, which I think is the most iconic, one of the most iconic things out of all of these movies. Boss that is very memorable and overall has just become one that I feel is a really good centerpiece of the entire story. And I think it's the fact that we have rewatched it so much that it has great rewatchability. It has crept up into my number two slot, all right, and at number one Sorcerer's Stone two thousand and one, Chris Columbus. I just feel that this one embodies everything that I love about Harry Potter.

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Speaker 2: I had it on VHS.

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Speaker 1: That is amazing. I wish I had, But it's I hate to pick the first one in a franchise because which you don't normally. I don't because I feel like the first one is still setting the stage, but this one sets the stage. The best of him not knowing is a wizard Haggard, Haggard coming. Yeah. The best line, That whole interaction with all them trying to get the no to him, the mail to him post doesn't come on Sunday, him living beneath the stairs, them leaving and then still finding them and him finding out about the platform nine and three quarter like they're just is the best.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And it also the reason we associate these movies, at least for us, with Christmas time is because there is Christmas in this one, Happy Christmas, Harry, and it just has like that warm, cozy vibe that even though it's not a Christmas movie. I think that's why anytime November December roll around. I want to rewatch these movies. And I also feel this was the first time that you're introduced to not knowing whether Snape is a good or a bad guy. You think he's the bad guy the entire time.

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Speaker 2: You think he's the bad guy for six movies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is the one where like, oh, he's the bad guy. He's doing it, He's the one messing up the quidditge man.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, one he's doing the curse and it turns out it's Quirrel and Snape's like trying to counteract it, and Hermione sets Snape's robes on fire.

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Speaker 1: So I I think nothing will ever knock this one out of being my favorite Harry Potter movie. It has everything I want from every single character, and to me, it just feels the most magical And I feel kind of like a kid again when I watched this movie, and I think this is the only one that makes me want to go to Hogwarts because they do the sorting hat they That's what I wondered, like, did every other kid who came to Hogwarts after Harry Potter not have the traditional experience because things just got crazy No, they still do it, But that was like the last good year to come, because then it's just like, oh, Harry Potter's always here, already here. We don't care about any new students.

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Speaker 2: No, they introduce new students in the books.

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Speaker 1: Oh they do. I guess I gotta read the books.

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Speaker 2: I guess you have to read them.

00:22:43
Speaker 1: Any other thoughts you have After rewatching all the Harry Potter movies.

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Speaker 2: I forgot how much I hate de Laura's Umbridge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's pretty awful.

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Speaker 2: God, Emelda Stanton does a great job as being a hateable character.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but she is one of the worst characters in the entire branch.

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Speaker 2: Bellatrix Strange, the entire Malfoy family.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Like, how did they not murder them or get rid of them earlier? How did they still allow Malfoy to go to Hogwarts?

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Speaker 2: It's a great question.

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Speaker 1: It's like, he's a criminal.

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Speaker 2: He's a criminal. He sucks.

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Speaker 1: It made me want to, yeah, punch him in the face a lot of times, which he does get punched in the face by Hermione.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he does a good one. Hermione Granger is my icon, smart, nerdy kind of see a lot of myself and her just the know it all hand raised in class all the time, Like, didn't you mean to assign his homework?

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Speaker 1: It's not when Godi and Leviosa.

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Speaker 2: It's when Gudi and Leveosa.

00:23:42
Speaker 1: I think that's the only spell I've learned.

00:23:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know the death spell. I don't say it aloud.

00:23:47
Speaker 1: Though Patronis is one m ex Really that's the other one I know. Yeah, and now you want to go to Harry Potter World.

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: That's in Orlando. Yeah, I'd love to go, because we've been to the one in California. Yeah, but it's smaller, it's not the same. You want to get a wand two, one of the ones the Wane chooses you, No, you become a part of the wand.

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Speaker 2: It has to I want one with like Unicorn hair.

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Speaker 1: I find after watching this one that I would put Voldemort in a top ten movie villains of all time. Oh my god, I don't think I felt that before the worst, But the way the entire story connected, and his just relentless wanting to kill Harry Potter, like, yeah, he's top ten.

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Speaker 2: For me now, yeah, and everyone else he kills along the way.

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Speaker 1: He'd Yeah, I realize how many more casualties there were of all the people who ended up dying because of him. Yeah, there's some pretty sad deaths. I still don't put your favorite in there, Dobby. Oh my gosh, we didn't talk about Dobby. This rewatch made me love Dobby Moore.

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Speaker 2: I will say, I know I put Chamber of Secret. It's my Lea's favorite. But it is the intro to Dobby when he's like banging his head on the wall at the beginning of the movie. He's shut up, shut up, He's I've made master Harry Mudd I.

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Speaker 1: Love How did we go this else whole rewatch and not talk about Dobby. I would say top three character for me in the whole movie franchise Dobby.

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Speaker 2: The elf is a good one.

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Speaker 1: So you're we'll just declare it here. You're not favorite death, but the death that hit you the most.

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Speaker 2: Ooh.

00:25:27
Speaker 1: I think for me it's Dobby because he is trying to save them, He's trying to break them out, and in doing that elf teleport thing, he gets knifed, he gets shanked.

00:25:38
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go serious serious because it was Harry's dad's best friend. He came back into Harry's life he's been locked up as a prisoner. He didn't do it. He comes back. He's the closest thing Harry has to take a dad again. And then Bellatrix kills him and it's taken away, and it's almost like Harry gets another parent taken away from him.

00:26:00
Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't think about it like that. It's the only other person who was that close.

00:26:04
Speaker 2: It's the person who knows his dad, And I like put myself in that shoes as someone who's lost a parent, like you think of like their friends that have stepped in and like to lose that. It's like he's losing the last piece of his parents.

00:26:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty sad. I guess when I think about Dobby, I just think that the fact that he was going there just to save him. He ends up dying in the process.

00:26:29
Speaker 2: And then when they close his eyes and then they put hair lies, Dobby a free elf.

00:26:34
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Whenever Harry Potter does the trick of putting the sock in the book.

00:26:38
Speaker 2: No on his gravestone, it's a hair.

00:26:40
Speaker 1: Livesbel Yeah, but yeah, that's how he got yes, yes, yes, he gives them the book and.

00:26:46
Speaker 2: Then Lucier's mouth was like I did not give you a sock, And he's like, well, let's hear and I'm free.

00:26:50
Speaker 1: Ah, pye's a free elf.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: Yeah that's a sad one. Yeah, I'm gonna go serious.

00:26:55
Speaker 1: If you could eat or drink one thing from the franchise, would you eat or drink?

00:27:02
Speaker 2: I mean I would try butter beer.

00:27:04
Speaker 1: Yeah. That was when I forget which movie. That was when Hermione got a little tipsy? Did she Yeah, there's a scene where she she drinks beer and she gets a little tipsy.

00:27:14
Speaker 2: But butter beer is an alcoholic it's not.

00:27:17
Speaker 1: No, Maybe I'm thinking of a different scene. I don't think, go to like a pub and she gets what Harry Potter did I watch?

00:27:25
Speaker 2: Am I forgetting something?

00:27:26
Speaker 1: Look it up? Hermione tipsy?

00:27:28
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you're right. Okay, Okay, I guess butter beer is.

00:27:33
Speaker 1: Alcoholic in that there's different versions of it. I guess I was gonna say I would eat the cake that Hagrid bought for Harry whenever he first went to get him and his cousin starts eating that cake did look good. I can't blame him, and turned into a little pigs.

00:27:49
Speaker 2: Good old Dudley. Okay, Well, I'm looking up if butter beer is actually supposed to be alcoholic.

00:27:57
Speaker 1: The Google says butter beer is to have a slight alcohol content but in but I don't think the version you get at Harry Potter World has alcohol correct if I.

00:28:09
Speaker 2: I okay, I didn't remember that she gets drunk in that one.

00:28:13
Speaker 1: You're right, and that's what I rewatch does for you see.

00:28:15
Speaker 2: And now it's like we've rewatched them all, but then I'm rereading them all, so now there's too much in my head and I forgot that. But yeah, you're right, I was wrong. I stand corrected.

00:28:23
Speaker 1: It's all good. Just the movie. Anything else about Harry Potter, I just love it so much. Yeah, we were sad once we were done.

00:28:31
Speaker 2: And I'm like, these have been done for fourteen years, But it was something about we hadn't done a full rewatch that concentrated, like in that short of amount of time and so long that then finishing them, I'm like, what do I do with my life now, which is why I'm rereading them.

00:28:45
Speaker 1: So now we just have the Mac Show to look forward to. Don't really know all the details on that. We could dip into Fantastic Beasts, which I like the first Fantastic Beasts.

00:28:56
Speaker 2: There's Laura in my family about that, so I put it on one year on bag. Everyone hated it and then I was scrolling my phone and they were like, this movie sucks and you're not even paying attention. So now any time it comes up, I like.

00:29:08
Speaker 1: The first one, but not the same. So I don't think I ever want them to be remade, even though those early movies do suffer a little bit from the CGI. I just think it.

00:29:19
Speaker 2: I just see I want the TV show.

00:29:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the idea of doing one book into a season of a show is great because you can explore more. I think it all comes down to casting with that. But yeah, I'll watch that all day.

00:29:35
Speaker 2: Adam Driver for snape. It's not gonna happen.

00:29:38
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I see that campaign. Yeah, you got to just get some get some good people in that, which I don't know if they'll break the Noamerica or break the American rule, which they didn't want Americans cast into the movies. I guess because they wanted yeah, and they didn't want to promote I guess they wanted to promote British actors more than American actors, which I think in the first one, Chris Columbus's daughter is in it. I think that was one of the only exceptions. But she wasn't She didn't never role. She was just like an extra in it. Interesting, but that is our Harry Potter recap and reranking.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a nerdy episode.

00:30:18
Speaker 1: Let's get into it now. Another spoiler free review talking about a movie nominated for Best Picture. Honora has six nominations, including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actress, just to name a few, And this is a movie I feel that if you look at all the nominees in the Best Picture category, I feel like it has the most interesting character and I don't think it's going to win, but I think it's one of those movies that is gonna stand the test of time. Out of all the movies in this category, probably second on the list would still be the Substance. But I feel sometimes there are these movies that they get nominated and they have a good chance of winning. Obviously, anybody in that category has a good chance of winning, but it feels like it has a little bit more of a fan base that people actually went to go see it. The movie cost six million dollars to make, has made about thirty million dollars, which if you look at a lot of these best pictures, sometimes they don't make a whole lot, they're not very profitable, and it sometimes those movies that go on to win Best Picture. So I feel I do like the fact that anybody has a chance to win. No matter how much you make at the box office. It's about how much of an impact you can make. It's about how novel your movie is, which I think some people don't understand that it's a movie that the most people saw. It's the movie that came out that defines that gear that really pushed cinema. That's the reason this category exists. But I think Anora will go on to be a movie that people discover more once the Oscars happen and you see Mikey Madison out there just being so charming on the red carpet talking about it. I think it's the movie that people will give a chance and end up enjoying more and will be on more people's lists some of their favorite movies of all time. You have director Sean Baker, so let's get into what this movie is actually about. I pulled the description straight from IMDb because again it's a spoiler free review, and I didn't want to give away all these details that I feel like you learned as the viewer. But even selling this movie, I guess is a little bit hard because they kind of put a lot of it here. In the description, it says a Nora, a young woman from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as the parents set out for New York. They get the marriage annulled. So Anora is working as a stripper turned escort when she meets this dude. And the reason she meets him is the club owner says, hey, this guy's looking for somebody who speaks Russian. Anora happens to understand Russian, can speak it a little bit, but they send her to deal with him so she can communicate with this guy. Turns out this dude is worth a lot of money. He was at the club just throwing money around. They hit it off, obviously, I feel like most situations like this with the dude with a lot of money, she realized that she capitalized on that, and then he asks her if she works outside of the club. She goes to his big, fancy house, and that's where you get the Cinderella story of her seeing man. This dude is loaded, has an amazing house with an amazing view. Annie has a lot of money, so given her line of work, she capitalizes on that. And it goes from them just spending an hour together to spending a week together and then, like the description says, eventually getting married. And I feel like that is a lot of the story. But just knowing all that, you don't know all of the story because so much happens and so much unfolds, And I feel, out of all the characters and all the Best Picture nominees, everybody up for Best Actress, I think Anora is the most interesting character on her own, And maybe it's just because it dives into this world that I don't know a whole lot about. Like I've never been to a strip club. I don't know what this is, like, I really only know from watching movies. But I feel like this was a very raw and accurate representation. And I really felt the evolution of Mikey Madison's character where it starts out with her just being kind of curious about this guy to kind of developing a relationship with him and then seeing it as her opportunity to get out of a really hectic life. And I really felt this from the very beginning of the movie. After they spend that night at the club, it cuts to her being at home in this house that isn't the best living situation. She has a roommate, and it really allows you to see into the life where you just saw her at night, kind of being in control over world and having to do a really tough job. Which that is what I felt while watching this movie. I feel like sometimes people think that it's just an easy job. I mean people say this jokingly, but you hear people say like, well, thing else works out, I'll just go be a stripper. I feel like this job is incredibly draining. After watching this movie, having to deal with some of the grossest dudes, you know, I just have more respect for the profession after watching this movie. That is how I felt, because then it cuts to her life at home and you see that it's not easy. You see that, Okay, maybe you are making a lot of money the night before, there's a big toll that it takes on your mental state, and for Anura, she's really just trying to find her way out of this and she sees this guy, sees this opportunity. As they're take it out her Cinderella story, I guess they're comparing it to a Cinderella story. I feel like this is what really would have happened in Pretty Woman, because if you think about Pretty Woman Julia Roberts, Richard Greer, that would have never happened that way. It wouldn't have had that rom com feel. That movie, to me, isn't really set in reality. It is a classic movie, it is a great story, but it's very it doesn't feel well. Maybe at the time. I think that movie came out in nineteen ninety, probably shot in the late eighties, so maybe at that time it was a little bit more wholesome. I have to imagine it was not, but for something going on right now in the twenty twenties, I feel like this is the only way you could tell this story. This shows what would actually happen, what would be the implications. And I think I just really enjoyed seeing her character go through so much and really become a different person by the end of it, and the entire movie takes place in about two weeks, and to see Mikey kind of go through this evolution of being just this kind of naive person and then having all these people just pile on her when they get so outraged that they get married and they just keep calling her a stripper, a night bad, all these awful things that make it feel really degrading. I will say, if you are somebody who doesn't like a lot of screaming and yelling in a movie, might not be the movie for you, because they are all out screaming matches in this movie. There are moments where they're trying to calm her down and she just all out belting out and yelling by yelling and screaming and kicking and doing all these things which I would do too. I would be kicking and screaming too, if somebody was trying to take me out of this mansion that I just came to with my new husband. There are moments of this movie that reminded me of how I felt during Uncut Gems and how just nervous and anxious that movie made me feel. Where I was literally on the edge of my seat while watching Uncut Gems. It had that chaotic energy where you have all these things going on at once, people yelling and screaming, people getting into fights, and you just kind of had this feeling of something bad is about it happened, something is going to go down. So if you aren't a fan of movies that have chaotic energy, also might not be the movie for you. And I know some people just get annoyed by people screaming, but I think that is part of it, that is part of understanding her character. And I will say this movie has a lot of nudity, and I think Hollywood is kind of getting back into showing not just nudity, but people actually doing it. I think there was a time where I feel Hollywood scaled back with all that was going on to people being accused of stuff. Everybody wanted to make sure that sets were safe. I honestly think that is why we saw a reduction in scenes like this. However, a Nora really just goes all out for it. I'd probably put it on the same scale of euphoria on HBO, Like an HBO show just goes full out showing you everything, and it is really polarizing and shocking. At the beginning of this movie, so This might take some other people out of consideration of watching this movie if you don't like a lot of nudity, a lot of people hooking up, because that is a big part of the first act, showing you what she has to do for this guy. I think it is put there not so much as a shock value, but as Sean Baker really committing to this, making it something that is a spectacle, is something that you remember, and throughout the course of the movie it does get away from that, and I think that's honestly where I started to enjoy it more, because the first act is all of them just kind of living in a fantasy world. Crap hits the fan in the second act, and then of course you have your falling action like you normally would in the third act, where I guess I was expecting a little bit more to happen, because even if you read that description that I read earlier, that really tells you the entire story. And it was not that I got bored in the third act. It just got a little bit less interesting to me. It'd be like going to a road trip. You were going to see like a big monument, and you expect to see something really big and grand at the end of it, and then you just kind of drive by like a big tumbleweed and like, oh, that was it, okay. But then I had to look back on it, think about it and think, well, I think that was just my anticipation of it. I think it was all of the building action that I thought it was going to build up to something wild and something just like, oh, this is why this movie was nominated for Best Picture. I never really got that, but I did get a story about a girl who went through a really crazy couple of weeks, and it ended up just kind of breaking my heart. So this movie was much more of a case of it's not the destination, it is the journey for a noura. I give it four out of five. Ooh, I have to be careful here. I give it four out of five. Mansions.

00:40:24
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor, Paul Well.

00:40:28
Speaker 1: Four months ago, they dropped the first teaser to Sinners. It's a new movie starring Michael B. Jordan director Ryan Kugler. They've worked together a lot on Creed, Black Panther, Fruitville Station. I was in Michael B. Jordan anything, Ryan Kugler directing anything I am in, but I didn't really know what the movie was gonna be about based on that quick little teaser. But now the full trailer is out and it looks really good. It's gonna be one of those movies that does risingly well without a whole lot of hype going into it. But I hope after this trailer dropped it has like five million views now on YouTube, more people are gonna be interested. The hype is gonna build, so it won't just kind of go under the radar.

00:41:14
Speaker 2: Good.

00:41:15
Speaker 1: I want this movie to be massive because I love both people in front and behind the camera. But what this movie is about. Michael B. Jordan plays twins, So in this trailer, not one, but to Michael B. Jordan's, which I think is a dream for a lot of people. He plays twin brothers who are trying to leave their trouble pass behind them. They return to their home for a fresh start, but there's a greater evil living there. This is actually a vampire movie. The entire movie takes place in one day, which I love me a movie that takes place entirely in one day. It is set back in nineteen thirty two during the Prohibition era, a lot going on, like how do you go from two brothers reuniting trying to get their life back on track, essentially starting a gang becoming bootleggers, to a vampire film. I have some theories based on them talking about this movie and doing some research on it. The movie has a budget of about ninety million dollars. It's coming out on April eighteenth this year. Before I get into more about sinners, here's a little bit of the trailer. You twins, now we cousins listen here. This ain't no house party. Y'all ready to drink. Y'all are ready to sweat to y'all s Thank you ansome who we gonna kill every last morning?

00:42:35
Speaker 2: You?

00:42:39
Speaker 1: Hey, I ain't mean to scare of you. Thought, I don't forgot about me? A call?

00:42:46
Speaker 2: Open doling on out here.

00:42:48
Speaker 1: Stay there's you closes me, open the door. That ain't your brother. I love the soundtrack, The little rootles always freak you out. The tag to this movie keep dancing with the Devil. One day he's gonna follow you home. So I have my theories on how this goes from just a normal period piece to a horror movie with vampires. So what you see in this trailer, you see Michael B. Jordan, who plays two different characters. They're twins. Elijah whose nickname is Stack, he's gonna be dressed in red in this movie, and then you have Elias Smoke, who is gonna be dressed in blue in this movie. That's how you're gonna tell them apart. Elijah is probably more, at least described by Michael B. Jordan what he would be like in real life, a little bit more fun and light hearted, and Smoke, who was dressed in blue, is way more serious. He's supposed to be the scarier one in this trailer. It sounds like at the end what you heard there was Smoke turning into a vampire. So he's gonna be probably a second antagonist here. So my theory on this movie, based on the trailer, I think they become bootleggers and start selling beer and alcohol. There's one point in the trailer where they open up a back of a truck. They have a bunch of bottles there. There's a creepy rattlesnake chilling there as well, and then they have this big party where you can go and they're gonna drink. They're gonna party which is ban during this time during prohibition. One of Michael B. Jordan's characters invites Hailey Steinfeld to this party filled with a bunch of their family and friends. And then you have the main antagonist, Jack O'Connell, who is playing a character named Remick and is the leader of the vampires. He finds out about Hailey Steinfeld white girl going over to party with them, doesn't like it, and it looks like things escalate from there were you think it's just a race thing at first, but then you find out that this dude, like I said, is the leader of the vampires. It kind of reminds me from Dust Till Dawn, whenever George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino try to go meet this guy at a bar and then they find out that this bar is actually full of vampires built on a burial ground. I think something similar like this is going to happen. They're going to get into a fight that's just going to be race fueled, and then one of them is either going to die or the other main antagonist is going to pull out his vampire powers and bite some people. Because what you see throughout the course of this trailer is people start turning into vampires. And I love the way that this movie feels because it is a period piece, but it has this modern feel to it too, And I think there are some period pieces that kind of turn me off in the sense that it's just so hard for me to get into the way people would speak even back in the twenties and thirties, going back even further before that time period, it is really hard for me to grasp onto the dialogue. But this one still has kind of a modern feel to it, which I like that juxtaposition of a movie being set back in the day, but it kind of breaks a little bit of the barrier to make it feel a little bit fresh, a little bit modern, that you can kind of break those rules if you're intentional and purposeful about it. Not so much like, oh, you're going back to the thirties, but you're gonna have people on cell phones, Like that's a little bit too far. But there are some things, even the way Michael B. Jordan's character speaks in this movie, that you can have a little bit of a modern edge to make it feel fresh and to not make it feel so boring. I think one of the biggest problems I had with No Sat was the fact that they talked so boring and drawn out. It was really hard for me to care about any of that dialogue. Even the way that The Sinner's trailer looks, it has a very cinematic feel that feels new to me. It doesn't feel like I'm watching a really old movie, so I think that gives it that fresh face lift to make it seem like something special. And then the fact that it shifts into an all out horror movie, I think is gonna go another level because there's almost this supernatural feeling to it where it seems so normal set in reality, and then all of a sudden, you have Michael B. Jordan looking like a vampire. You have Hailey Steinfeld with blood all over her face, also looking like a vampire. Everybody's turning into vampires, I sound like Seinfeld. Everybody's turning into vampires drinking blood? Huh. And I think also the fact, sadly that a lot of the issues it looks like they're gonna address in this movie are still gonna be the same modern day complications that we still deal with in American society. Hailey Steinfeld's character, in particular, who says she needs to be saved, but it ends up being not in the way you think. So I think there is gonna be a lot of commentary in this film. Much like a lot of Ryan Coogler films, Black Panther decreed that theme has always been there. There are also some fantastic shots that I always look for. I don't always expect to find them in a trailer, but when I do, it's a real treat. There's one of Michael B. Jordan looking real distress with his look on his face. He's all sweaty. There's also a really great shot where Michael B. Jordan's walking out and he has like this old school atomic gun and he's firing it off. That is also a fantastic shot. So so many things I like about this trailer. You have two Michael B. Jordan's why I have one when you can have two. You have Ryan Coogler, who is a great, fantastic director, maybe in my top ten directors right now, pretty close to I mean, because Black Panther is amazing. He's working on Black Panther three. I love all the Creed movies, even though he didn't direct all of them, he has had a hand in one, two, and three. If this movie ends up living up to my expectations, I could easily put them in my top ten modern day directors. You have Hailey Steinfeld, who is fantastic, and it reminds me of more period pieces that have felt modern. I'm talking movies like Jango Unchained Once upon a Time in Hollywood. Maybe it's a Quentin Tarantino thing, because Quentin Tarantino is famous for rewriting history where he goes back to a time period and skews things a little bit because you don't have to play to any rules. Yeah, some things can be historically accurate. But when you're able to just do whatever you want and make a great movie and create a spectacle, well that's what it's all about. But again, this movie is called Sinners. It is coming out on April eighteenth, and I am hype at that.

00:49:08
Speaker 2: For was this week's edition of Movie Line Tramler.

00:49:11
Speaker 1: Bar and that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. And if you're wondering why didn't Mike talk about all of the great Super Bowl trailers that dropped on Sunday. If you're listening to this on Monday, which is released day. Well, spoiler alert, I was actually at the super Bowl, So if you didn't hear about that, we haven't been watching my socials, go back and watch that and I will get to all of the super Bowl trailers. That was the downfall, I know, right, Champagne problem. I guess that I did not get to stay home and watch it with Kelsey and enjoy all the movie trailers in real time. I guess, not a bad problem to have, but I had to record this ahead of time before seeing those trailers. I will get to those next week because I know they were epic and I know they were fantastic, So that is why I didn't include those on this week's episodisode. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm going over to my YouTube channel. I think out of all my favorite places for people to comment, YouTube is number one, primarily because most people are awful on YouTube. YouTube is the only platform where people poke at my appearance. They don't even care what I say. They will just poke at things that irritate me in a way that I can't really control. Because it's my face, because it's my teeth, because it's my glasses, because it's my hair, because it's maybe I wasn't having the best day to be on camera that day. YouTube is the most ruthless when it comes to that. But even with that, it's still my favorite place to go read comments because I'll take the bed. I can take it doing anything in this capacity. You're gonna get those haters, You're gonna get those trolls. But I also feel like I find the best comments on YouTube, whether it's people giving me actual constructive criticism which I learned from, or genuine feedback countering one of my points, and then every now and then people are like, hey, you made a good point there. Second place would be TikTok comments. Most people are pretty nice over there, and third would be Instagram. But this week's listener shout out of the Week goes to ma Toira on YouTube, who said, such well thought out points, I love your style of commentary. Just found your channel and subscribe. Well, thank you, Matra. I think that's how you say your name. It could just be your username Muhtrya. And I didn't just pick that comment because like, hey, somebody actually being nice to me. I just feel like this was somebody who stumbled upon the podcast, stumbled upon the videos and now is going to stick around. And I love people coming over for the first time and actually sticking around. That means a lot to me. So thank you Matra for commenting, for being subscribed on YouTube. You listening right now. If you want to be like Matra, go over to my YouTube page YouTube dot com slash Mike destro. If you know somebody who loves YouTube, what are your friends and is looking for a new channel to subscribe to, tell them to go check it out, or tell them to subscribe to the podcast. Wherever you're listening right now Spotify, iHeart Apple podcasts, or maybe you're listening outside my window right now, tell them to subscribe. Come on over follow me. Thank you, 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