Ranking All 9 Spider-Man Solo Movies + Spoiler Free Movie Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home + Trailer Park: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast, your go to source for all things movies. I am your host, Movie Mike. I'm a huge Spider Man fan, so I've been waiting for this episode for a very long time. I am ranking all nine Spider Man solo movies plus a spoiler free review of Spider Man No Way Home. I just can't wait to get into this episode. So let's just get right into it. Let's get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast, A man with so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking on MTV with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Networks Movie Mi Movie Podcast. Alright, so I've put in about twenty hours of prep into this podcast today because I rewatched every single Spider Man solo film, starting with the Toby mcguires into the Andrew Garfields, the Tom Holland movies. Also watched Spider Man into the Spider Verse, and then just coming off of seeing Spider Man No Way Home in theaters. So I started watching all these movies about a month ago because leading up to Spider Man, No Way Home. I just wanted to come up with a definite list of which ones I think are the best. And don't get me wrong, I don't think there is a bad spider Man movie now. Spider Man is my favorite superhero, been my favorite superhero my entire life, starting back when I would watch the cartoon in the nineties, and then the first Toby McGuire movie changed my life. I don't even think that Andrew Garfield movies deserve the hate the kind of guy which I'll get into it on this list. And then I really love what's happening now with Tom Holland and No Way Home. So so before we get into this, it did take about twenty hours to watch all these movies. And why do I think Spider Man is the best superhero one. I think he has the best superpower. I think it's a superpower that we all wish we could have, and it's just more unique than Superman, It's more unique than Batman, and I think growing up that's why I always wanted to be If there could be any superheroes hours that I could take, it would be Spider Man. I think he has the best origin story, the best characters around, him the conflicting thing with him being Peter Parker and wanting to be Spider Man at the same time. It's a battle that I don't really see as such a big deal with any other superhero of their identity getting revealed. It's such a major plot point with Spider Man that I feel like it makes him just that much more of a relatable character. I also think he has the best villains. The only person who probably write with him a little bit is Batman. But I just think when it comes down to what makes a great comic book movie Man, they just transferred so well on the screen. And then before I get into the breakdown of all the nine Spider Man films, I'll just talk about the big three. First of all, I think Tobey maguire his Spider Man has always had the best story and the best villains. And despite what other people say, I think Andrew Garfield had the best Spider Man when he was actually in the suit. I thought he captured that really great the humor, everything that wouldn't who is acting in that performance I thought was the best at any Spider Man. And then when it comes to Tom Holland, I think he is the best Peter Parker, which I think has made his franchise stronger because we really get to spend a lot more time with Peter Parker as the person, and it's really able to have more of an impact when he is Spider Man. And then with Miles Morales into the Spider Verse, that gave us something totally different. So so we'll factor in all those characteristics into this list, but let's get started at number nine. I went with Sam Raimi's Spider Man three from two thousand and seven, and I think arguably people view this as the worst Spider Man out of every Spider Man movie, and I would agree, putting at the bottom of the list. But I also don't think it's that bad of a movie. I think there's maybe one series of events in that movie that we all know, when you know Spider Man is being overtaken by Venom and he does the dance, he goes and does this really weird scene at the jazz club trying to make Mary Jane jealous. But I think aside from that, everything else in the movie is actually still pretty good. I think Part three does start out a little weak. There's a little bit less story to be told here. I feel like they were struggling with Part three and trying to rehash the story of Uncle Ben again, and one and two did such a good job at telling the entire story. I really don't think there was a need for number three. There was a demand for number three, but I don't think there was enough story in this trilogy to really justify this three, which is why I think it really fell flat. They kind of just tried to cram in some villains. There get some hype around Venom being in the movie, but I think that all felt a little bit tacked on. I felt like he was highly forgettable after watching Spiderman three. I also think Sandman as a villain in this movie is a little bit weak, and when it comes to Toford Grace playing him, it just didn't really do it for me. I felt like Peter Parker kind of lost the qualities of what made him Peter Parker, and this was even before his suit was possessed by Venom. And I even felt Harry's performance is a little bit over the top end this movie. So at number nine, the very bottom of the list, with Spider Man three at number eight, I went with the Amazing Spider Man from twelve. This is the first Andrew Garfield movie directed by Mark Webb, And the reason I put this one here is because I feel like the amazing Spider Man had to do this job where it had to be so different than the original trilogy that it ended up hurting the movie and this movie in particular, because it was trying to be so different from the origin story. It took a long time to actually get to Spider Man being Spider Man, and there's a lot more backstory on Peter Parker's parents, which is trying to be completely different from the original one. But I just really wasn't that big of a fan in this movie kind of exploring that plot line. And I think this is why a lot of people didn't like this movie, because we had already seen it. We had already heard this origin story. We've seen it time and time again from you know, the first one, that we were a little bit tired of that, And I honestly think that's the reason why people didn't like this movie so much, because they felt it was so soon after the first trilogy and they were it was is Hollywood kind of rehashing, not having an original idea. So I think the amazing Spider Man gets. You know that held against it a lot, but when you really watch him breakdown this movie, don't consider the Tobey Maguire Spider Man. There's some really great stuff about this movie. I think the suit is a plus. I think Andrew has that real Spider Man quirk to him when it comes to the comedic timing. When it comes to Spider Man always have this kind of wise cracking quirkiness to him. I think that was really kind of what Andrew Garfield did best in this movie, better than I would say any other Spider Man, and it only suffered out of the necessity to be different. The only problem I had was Andrew Garfield Peter Parker is that I felt he was a little too smooth, a little too good looking, not enough nerdy to me. He skateboarded, which made him cool, and then he also got Glenn pretty easily in that like within like the first act, he was already making out with Gwen Stacy, So that's what took me a little bit out of him being Peter Parker. Another thing I loved about this one is the injuries were more realistic, like him actually getting a toll taken on his body from going out and fighting crime. I felt it was also more realistic and that people realizing that Andrew Garfield was Spider Man in the first trilogy, you know, I felt like people were a little oblivious, like, oh, I wouldn't even consider him to be Toby McGuire. I feel like it's a little more how it would happen in the real world in The Amazing Spider Man. So at number eight I'm going with the Amazing Spider Man Andrew Garfield in, and then right above that at number seven, I'm going the Amazing Spider Man too. From this movie is not as bad again as people think it is. There's some really great moments in this movie. I just think, again, when it's trying to be so different than the original trilogy, they're bringing in villains that they haven't used or introduced before. They didn't quite get him right. Jamie Foxx's Electro had the potential to be great in this movie. Paul Giamati as Rhino was kind of just thrown in there randomly say it was Harry Osborne turning into the Green Goblet at the end of this movie. But after going back and rewatching this movie, what I did love about it is that it gets right to the action and you really kind of feel the emotional arc that Andrew Garfield Spider Man takes in this movie. And the theme that comes back in every Spider Man movie is the moment they realize that they can't have at all, that you can't be Spider Man trying to save people and still have your normal, everyday life. It's the struggle that they all face, and you really get to see that in The Amazing Spider Man Too. I was really hurt by going back and rewatching this movie and realizing that there should have been The Amazing Spider Man three, because where it really shines is the ending and going back to, you know, the moment you realize you can't have everything, and also dealing with loss. But Andrew Garfield suffered the greatest loss out of this movie, and then the franchise just went away. So I think there's a lot of great storytelling in this one. Not completely there with the villains still kind of strays away on the story, and I still think Andrew Garfield is underrated in this role. But at number seven is The Amazing Spider Man Too. From moving on to number six, now we're going with Spider Man far from Home. Now, this movie takes place post end Game. It's really Spider Man and Peter Parker dealing with the loss of Iron Man, and in this one, it's Peter Parker trying to decide that he just wants to be a teenager and doesn't want to be Spider Man anymore, at least for right now, and going back and rewatching this one. I also felt like it was an approach to almost a commentary on what superhero movies were and just what the Avengers kind of meant, because mysterious character in here is so over everybody having to be a superhero in order to get noticed, in order to be kind of have a tension in the world, in order to be a significant person, you have to be an Iron Man, you have to be a Superman. And it was almost a take on, like, man, there's so many superhero movies right now, how can we make this one different? I felt like there was that little underlying theme when there. And I also just really love Jake Jillen Hall as Mysterio. They stepped up the action in this movie, and I remember really loving this movie in theaters and loved how it set up the New Spider Man now, and I almost thought I would have ranked this one higher than Homecoming, But after going back and rewatching all of these, I still think it's perfect. Right here. I think maybe why I loved it more at the time is because it was coming off endgame and endgame ending on this super high just level of emotion. We were all kind of anticipating what was coming next, So it was so emotional going into it because you're going from one of the biggest superhero movies of all time, the biggest moments, and we just want to find out what was happening next, and this one just kind of rode that wave of excitement. So I think maybe at the time I enjoyed it a little bit more. Still a great movie, but I think that's why I find it coming behind number five now, So we'll get right into that one. At number five is Spider Man Homecoming from the first movie from director John Watts, and this one really changed what Spider Man was and where Andrew Garfield Spider Man. We all felt like we were kind of getting the same thing again. They made Peter Parker younger, they made him more innocent, and they were really able to recapture that energy and bring something totally fresh and new, which is why I think everybody loved it. Again, they also skipped the origin story, got right to it. He's already Spider Man. It's coming off of Captain America Civil War, and by taking out that origin story, I felt like we were able to really just get right into a fun new Spider Man movie. So you have Tom Holland, who's at the right age, at the right level of nerdy. It's a lot more believable and it's just a lot more fun. Bright. Spider Man is less moody and emo. Michael Keaton plays a great villain, and it just really becomes its own franchise again. Aside from the fact that this one still kind of relied heavily on Robert Downey Jr. Is iron Man, and unlike the other Spider Man movies, this one is in e m c U. It lives in the world of the Avengers, so at times it doesn't feel like Spider Man's own solo movie, kind of just like an Ironman Junior in a way. But the great thing about this is you really get to see Peter Parker like at the start of really becoming spider Man unlike in the other movies, because he's actually learning how to be a superhero being a fourteen year old kid. So I thought it was a fresh take really made me love Spider Man again. So at number five we have Spider Man Homecoming from Get Into number four now, which this is actually my personal favorite Spider Man movie, but I can see kind of through that and rank it subjectively to is it the best Spider Man movie. No, but there's reasons I love this one more than other Spider Man movies. And the movie I'm talking about is spider Man into the spider Verse Fromen It's just a very unique origin story on Spider Man and the fact that it's animated, it really just took any rules out of the Spider Man franchise that had ever been set in place. And it almost felt as a long time Spider Man fan being able to make a movie that was made exactly for me of being a fan of all the movies and I've never been done before. And then you have my own morales, who is more representative of race, you have a supporting cast that's the same way, and stylistically it looks like no other movie I've ever seen before, and out of all these movies, it's still my favorite one to go back and rewatch. So it's my favorite because it is so different. But again, as I was rewatching every single Spider Man movie, I felt like there are different elements that all the other movies have that this one doesn't because it's so different, so I feel like it doesn't mean those exact same criterias. So for that reason, I put it at number four on the list. Spider Man into the Spider Verse from all right, and here's where it gets difficult. The top three Spider Man movies of all time. I will get into that after the break, because even now I'm still debating on what to put at number one, So I'll be right back with that. All right, back here with the top three. Now at number three, I'm putting Spider Man from two thousand into the original one with Tobey maguire, And this was often the one I cited as my favorite Spider Man movie because it's the one where you know it started at all It's one of the most iconic superhero film, is one of the most influential superhero films, and back in the two thousands, where we didn't have you know, all these superheroes with their solo movies. And rewatching this movie, I love the fact that it's a world where superheroes aren't normal because now with the m c U, it's created this whole big world where you know, everybody just references the Avengers, references all these other superheroes like it's nothing. But in Spider Man from two thousand and two, it's in a world where, like what, there's some vigilante out there swinging from buildings like this is unusual, And I love that. And also while rewatching this movie, kind of realized how the acting is a little cheesy, a little campy in this, you know, first Spider Man movie. I don't think that's a bad thing. I think it has kind of qualities of what a comic book is like when you bring it to life. But I remember that being a lot different when I watched this movie as the kid. One thing that remains the same is the Green Goblin is amazing, and going back and watching William Dafoe's performance as the Green Goblin, like he did such a good job in that I can see why they brought him back. And that's not a spoiler. He's in the trailer, by the way, and I also kind of realized what made these movies so different than the ones now. It really felt more like a comic book movie to me, everything from like the big close ups and just the cinematography in the Sam Raimi Spider Man movies. I think that alone really has a voice unlike any of the other Spider Man movies, because just by looking at a single frame, it looks completely different to me, and it really kind of captures the feeling of New York City, and the shots of Spider Man, I just feel like are more impactful, the way he just kind of pops and it's a little less cartoony than Tom Holland's suit. Now. It just has this kind of realistic but also comic book feeling to it, which I love. And there's just something so great about what I think it really comes down to, and making this one so great is the cast. Tobey Maguire Spiderman, Kirsten Dunns Is Mary Jane, William Dafoe as the Green Goblin, but James franco Is, Harry Osborn, j K. Simmons. I just think the cast is the strongest cast out of any Spider Man trilogy, and I also think, and considering it's about the Spider Man you grew up with. You know, I was born in the nineties and these movies came out when I was a kid, very impressionable. He was already my favorite superhero, so of course I'm gonna love these movies a little bit more. People who were born in the two thousand's they probably identified more with Andrew Garfield Spider Man, and kids now all their favorite Spider Man is probably Tom Hollands, So I think I'll always hold the original Spider Man is closer to my heart for that reason. But when it comes to what makes a Spider Man story great, what makes a movie great, I think this one has everything, and compared to the top two, it's almost perfect. I think the top two here are perfect Spider Man movies. So at number three, going with Spider Man from two thousand and two, And at number two this was hard for me because I'm coming off of just watching Spider Man No Way Home, and I kind of want to save my full review after this list, so I won't get into fully why I'm putting this one here now. But at number two, I'm going Spider Man No Way home. The only thing I'll say about it is I know every time after I watch a new superhero movie in theaters, it's automatically my favorite, because a good superhero movie does that to you. It feels like you just went on a roller coaster and you're coming off and you're so excited, and you look at any other movie and you're like, no, that was better because this emotion I'm feeling now I've never felt before, and wildife feel that, and it's really hard for me to, you know, find anything bad about that movie and go back and think, like, how could that not be the greatest. I think I am still running off that a little bit, but it was a perfect movie to me. And I'll get into my full review spoiler free here in a bit. But I also think it's so close to it just coming out last week that calling it number one, I have to give it a little bit more time because the one I put at number one I think is undeniable. It's been out for almost twenty years now, which is crazy, and even going back and rewatching the next one, which you probably already guess by now, I think it's held up. I also think it greatly influenced No Way Home because you have the villain returning. So at number two I'm putting Spider Man No Way Home from and at number one, I'm going with Spider Man two from two thousand and four. And why I think this one is a perfect movie over the original Spider Man from two thousand and two is it starts out great, you don't need to tell the origin story again and get straight to the action. And what Spider Man Too does so well, is it goes beyond just being a comic book superhero movie too. At the core of it, Spider Man is a love story. It is Peter Parker trying to be a normal person and be with the person he loves, Mary Jane, but also trying to be Spider Man. And at the core of Spider Man movies, that's what it's all about. And rewatching this movie, I realized how I was just watching a great love story play out with these superhero elements. And in this when you have Peter Parker basically not wanting to be Spider Man, he gets rid of the suits, just starts being a normal person again and then has that moment that he realizes that he you know, he can't have that he has to be and has an obligation how to be Spider Man. And a scene that was so impactful to me that I realized now is when his glasses go down. After you know, he's gone back to being Peter Parker, but once they go down, this time, he's never Peter Parker again, and he's only Spider Man, and he had to overcome that real dilemma of being a normal human being and wanting just everyday normal things to being a hero. And not only that, you have the best supporting cast out of any Spider Man movie. James Franco gives his best performance as Harry Osborne in this movie. Kirsten Dunns gives her best performance as Mary Jane, and then you have Alfred Molina as what I think now is the best Spider Man villain. Again, that's just the personal preference to me. I just find Doc Ox so fascinating, and I think the great Spider Man villains are, you know, the mad scientists, which is what makes them all great. You know, William Dafoe had the same thing with Green Goblin. But there's something just so unique about Doc Cock to the Spider Man franchise, and his performance in this movie, and the action sequences between Spider Man and Doc I think are the best. And being it that it was part two, they had the bigger budget and they were able to take all those scenes to the higher level. And for one scene in particular is why I think this is the best Spider Man. When he saves all those people on that train, it's the most heroic moment out of almost any superhero movie that's ever been made. You know, Toby Maguire using all of his energy to save these people with his mask off. And what I think this movie captured that none of the other movies really did the same way is that sense of like New York owning Spider Man. In New York being behind Spider Man and fighting with him and looking out after him. There's such an energy to New York that's hard to capture, and I felt it was really done in this movie. So an even bigger level to the supporting cast is New York City itself. So this one has it all. It's a perfect movie from beginning to end. So number one, the best Spider Man movie of all time. I'm going with Spider Man two from two thousand and four. That is the top nine. Come back and give my spoiler free review of No Way Home next. All right, the review I've been waiting to do all year long. About to get into my spoiler free review. Yes, no spoilers will be revealed in this review of Spider Man No Way Home. I don't even think I need to play the trailer again, so let's get right into it. First. I'll set the scene with what it was like going into this movie. I had to avoid every single spoiler online because I went to see it on Friday night when it opened on Thursday night, and I was basically not on my phone the entire day. And I'm glad that I was able to avoid any spoilers. So I also fully am considerate if you don't want to hear any of yourself. And I didn't want to see reviews. I saw the rotten Tomato score and that was it. I didn't want to read anything. So if you want to stop listening to this podcast now, even though I won't comment on any of the main plot points that will reveal spoilers, I get it. If you just don't want to know anything about it, come back and listen to this later, but I will just give you my thoughts on what I thought about the movie without revealing any spoilers. So what this movie did to me is it completely encapsulated everything I love about going to the movies, and I don't think I was more excited about a movie since nineteen End Game, and it kind of felt like that for me. And this movie was NonStop action. It takes place right after Spider Man far from Home and really waste no time getting into the plot of this movie, and that's what I loved. And the other thing about it, I almost didn't feel like I was watching a movie. I know that sounds weird to say, but it's so hard for a movie to kind of encapsulate an entire world where I didn't think of anything else in my life while I was watching this movie. I've never been that kind of entertained by something and totally focusing on something ever before even Endgame. At the three plus run time, I was a little like, all right, we could probably wrap this up a little bit more, but this one two and a half hours, felt like twenty minutes NonStop action. I felt it was genuinely funny, some parts a little bit campy, but all in all it worked together. So what this movie is about again without revealing any spoilers, takes place right after Far from Home. Peter's identity has been revealed by Magneto, and now he is trying to make it to where nobody knows who he is. He goes to the Doctor Strange to try to see if he can cast a spell to make this happen. Dr Strange says, all right, I'll do it. In doing so, brings back all these villains from different multiverses, and you get them all, all the ones I was talking about earlier, William Dafoe's Green Goblin, Jamie Foxx's Electro, Alfred Molina's doc Cock, you got Sandman, Lizard. They all come back and that's where you have your problem in the movie. And when I really loved about this movie is it really had this darker tone and you see Tom Holland get a little bit grittier, and like I was talking about in all the other Spider Man movies, I feel like for the first time he actually kind of struggles with this two different lives. One is Peter Parker and one is Spider Man, which you hadn't really seen before. Like he's kind of had that a little bit easy in all the other movies to where he can kind of be two people. Aside from having to keep it a secret, he never really had the personal struggles per se of battling that, and in this movie you really get to see that. And Tom Holland's performance is so strong in that that it really makes it come to life and I kind of respect him a little bit more as an actor. I'd always thought he was the best Peter Parker after seeing Homecoming, and it just takes it to another level of being an all out well rounded Spider Man. And this movie did so many things for me emotionally. I found myself cheering a lot of the time. I'll be completely honest. I cried three times in this movie. Not full outbawling, but there was moments so emotional and I find it hard for me to cry, Like I would love to be able to cry more, to share my emotions. I feel things, but sometimes it's just hard for me to express them. And I've never really cried at happy things. I can only cry like really sad things. And it was something about this movie that, like I felt like a part my brain kind of shifted a little bit and I legit teared up that's what a great movie is. It's so hard, especially in this day and age, to evoke emotion and any kind of movie. But I feel the fan base and Spider Man is so strong, and we invest so much in these movies, invest so much in these characters, that being able to do that, to me, to anybody watching this movie is the ultimate goal. And it is why I think this is a perfect Spider Man movie. And there was nothing bad I could say about this movie. There was nothing I didn't like. So I feel like if you really had to dive deep and pick apart like little thing you didn't like about watching this movie, you know you wouldn't find anything. The hard part now is I have on social media hyped it up so much, and in this review hyping it up even more. I feel like what we're about to start experiencing is people going to see it after the hype is out and then being like, oh, it's not that great. People are hyping it up so much. And that's the problem with overrated movies is there is that initial hype, like it doesn't come out of nowhere. You don't overhype a bad movie, but it's going into it now with that expectation of it being great that I feel like that's the only thing that's gonna hurt this movie now, because it is a perfect movie to me. I love the theater going experience with this because it's unlike any other superhero movies like this are meant to be watched in the crowd in the theater, and I love going to the movies above seeing a movie at home. I've talked about that a lot. I feel like there is a little bit difference when it comes to, you know, the theater going experience to be that experience. Some movies maybe don't require it as much. I get that, but for me personally being in that theater with a big sound, with the big screen. But on this level, you have the audience reaction. And I've seen different kind of clips from different theaters, which I'll get into that here in a little bit. But in the crowd I was in, people were cheering. It just added that extra level of a feeling of community. And it's what the Spider Man movies, all the m c U movies have created in that community that really makes them. I feel like, even above just being a normal movie, so I already rate and higher just going into having that experience because it felt like I was going to a theme park. It felt like I was going to a performance or a concert aside from just watching a movie. So it's really unmatched by any other theater going experience. So it's already gonna be rated higher for me, and I was debating on whether or not, you know what to rate it. But before I get into that, I have to say I'm glad I did go see it on Friday out and not any later because people were posting spoilers on TikTok like it was nobody's business, and I think that's awful. One, why are you filming inside a theater Like that's illegal, Like don't do that, But also don't post on TikTok where somebody could just open up the app and then immediately see spoilers from the movie. If this one is hard because I feel like there's everybody wants to talk about it and reveal all the spoilers, but you've got to give people enough time to watch it. And I am going to release a bonus spoiler episode with just my spoiler reviews that will get more into it as more people see it, So probably next week I'll drop that here on the feed, so you can check that out, and if you've seen it, you can go in with spoilers and hear all my thoughts on it. But I was kind of upset at seeing people's post to spoilers. But I thought the crowd in my theater was, you know, pretty like loud and clapped and cheered a lot, to the point to where my wife, who watched it with me, was like, man, there's a bunch of nerds in here. I'm like, yeah, you're next to the biggest one. And I found myself, you know, shouting at the screen to involuntarily, and that's a quality in me that doesn't really come out a whole lot. You know. I think there was like a theater in Germany where people were going all out losing their minds. That's a little bit much, but again that's what you get going into this kind of movie. But when it comes to rating this movie, I couldn't find anything I didn't like unless I was really like splitting hairs. And for the sake of just criticizing a movie, I can't give this movie any less than a five out of five. And I haven't readed a movie that probably since twenty nineteens Joker. And when it comes to everything I felt in this movie, everything I was hyping up going into this movie, there's nothing bad I can find to say about it. So Spider Man, No Way Home uneasy five out of five for me. Remember I am a huge Spider Man fan. He's my favorite superhero. But again, I believe in the hype. There's nothing I would have done differently. Five out of five multi verses for Spider Man No Way Home. All right, now it's time for the part of the podcast where a breakdown new movie trailers of movies coming to you soon in theaters and I'm streaming in a segment we call it's time to head down to movie Mike Trail Laura Paul. All right, First up in the trailer park, we have a movie called The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. It is a movie starring Nicholas Cage where he plays a fictionalized version of himself. It looks utterly ridiculous but somehow pretty good at the same time. Here's just a little bit of that trailer. Who got another offer? What's it about You? Head to southern Spain and attends a wealthy gentleman's birthday party. I would never do that. It's a million bucks nixt, I'll take it. The guy that owns this house, what's his name, Hobby, wants me to watch me watch him because no girl, can you understand? That's no point. So this movie looks pretty good to me. It looks pretty funny. And what's kind of different about this movie is that I feel like recently, Nicolas Cage hasn't really been in a big Hollywood production like this in a while. He's done a lot of smaller movies. I saw him in the movie Pig earlier, which is a great movie, but it's almost felt to me like it's been Nicolas Cage and smaller rules now taking on these weirder projects, stuff you wouldn't really expect to see him in, And that's kind of been the appeal of Nicolas Cage movies recently, and in this movie, while the plotline still seems like that same level of ridiculousness, I feel like the production in this movie, just by looking at it and seeing this trailer is almost back to that big Hollywood level that I'm used to seeing Nicolas cajun. And I love that he's playing this fictionalized version of himself, because I think now we kind of know Nicolas Cage to be this really weird dude, the guy who gets married and divorced in like a week, who you know, spends money on these weird fossils and just seems like all out kind of bizarre. You to be self aware so much that he would play himself in a movie kind of addressing all those things. It is a rated R movie. You notice. Had to believe something in that trailer. But the trailer looks promising. That comes out on April two. I will be checking that one out next up in the trailer park. If you're a Harry Potter fan like I am, and you've been into the Fantastic Beast movie, the new one is coming out on April two. It's called Fantastic Beast The Secret of Dumbledore. And here's a little bit of that trailer. If you listen carefully enough, the past whispers to you. We're here to see I was double Door. That would be my brother. The world as we know it is coming undone Brenda folks pulling it apart with hate. If we're to defeat him, you have to trust me. I really love the first Fantastic Beast movie, I love the kind of being in that same Wizarding world, but it had a different feel to me. I wasn't expecting a Harry Potter going into that movie. Wasn't expecting a movie like that at all. But the second one I didn't really like at all. So when it comes to the third one, just by that trailer alone, I'm not that interested in it yet. I know they're kind of starting to reference a little bit more of the Harry Potter world that we know and becoming less of a prequel of like kind of trying to get us to that point because I think as Harry Potter fans, that's really what we want to see. I'm looking probably more forward to the Reunion coming out on HBO Max at the start of next month, then I am to The Fantastic Beast three, but I will check it out because I've seen the other two and I kind of want to see if this trilogy has some life to it. Funny thing enough, though, this trailer also played as the previews to Spider Man noa Home, and the sound wasn't working for the trailers in that movie, and just by watching this trailer without any sound. I felt like it was a little bit ridiculous, and I don't know if that's a good or bad, but sometimes when you watch something without sound, you just kind of take here for what it is. And I was like, this looks actually kind of dune. So I'm not fully into wanting to see this one. I do like the idea of exploring the Wizarding World more. I just don't think this trilogy is exactly it, but that comes out on April. I felt like we covered a lot on this podcast, so a quicker trailer park for you this week and next week there will be an episode where I feature my favorite interviews from the year. But before I hop out of here, every single week, I gotta give my shout out to one of you who listened to the podcast. And if you wonder how do I get a shout out, well, it's really simple. All you have to do is send me a d M on Instagram, Tag me in your Instagram story wherever you're listening, whether it be a screenshot from your phone, a picture of your dashboard in your car, Tweet me at Mike Destro comment on my Facebook page is Facebook dot com slash Mike Destro. But today, I'm going over to the email, which is movie Mike d at gmail dot com. 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