Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 + Movie Review: One of Them Days + Trailer Park: Novocaine

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's Movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. I love doing this episode every single year my top ten most anticipated movies of the year. I'm gonna do it a little bit differently. I'm really gonna go off of motion on this list, so we'll get into that. In the movie review, we'll be talking about a new comedy called One of Them Days. And in the trailer Partner's a new action comedy movie starring Jack Wade, who you may know from the Boys. We'll talk about his acting career. We'll talk about Nepo babies. Thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed, shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the nast Trolle podcast network. And this is movie Mike's Movie Podcasts. So I mentioned I wanted to do this episode a little bit different this year. I've been doing this every year since I've been doing this podcast going on. This will be the sixth year, and usually I pick my movies based upon how good I think the movie is going to be. I'm gonna do it different this time. I was thinking about movies last year that I went to go see that I just enjoyed the idea of going to watch this movie. I was just excited to see these movies in theaters, whether or not I had this podcast. It was just fun for me. It took me back to my days of weird to say, before I turned this into a job, turned this into any kind of legit outlet that I do an episode every single week. Before all that, where I would just be excited to go to a movie for the sake of seeing a movie. Still love movies with all my heart, but sometimes the process feels a little bit differently because in my head I'm thinking of how to review this movie, what to all those things. But still, even at this stage of my life, there are still movies that I'm just genuinely excited to go see. When I go see in theaters, I'm not going to see them for screening. There's just no reason that I need to go see that movie. I just want to see that movie that still happens. So when that does happen to make me back, I feel good about it. I make less notes on those movies because I can really go off of motion and what I already know about that film. So that is what I decided to do when making this list, I thought, what movies of all the movies coming out in twenty twenty five, am I just going to be genuinely excited as I walk down that long hallway. When you go to the movies, you can go into all these different worlds just by opening up a door. That is what I love about movies. That feeling for me, not even the Some of it is the anticipate anticipation of going to the movie. But then I think that best feeling is right when that movie's done, Not because I get to go home, but right when that movie is done, I walk back out into that hallway and I just have that feeling that I'm still in the movie. I'm still in that world. If it was a really good movie, anything in that four point five even before, give me that feeling that you walk out and you still feel like a part of it. If it was a thriller, you kind of still are looking over back over your shoulder they you know, oh no, the bad guy's going to come get me. If it's a horror movie, you genuinely feel creeped out. Superhero movie, I feel like I'm ready to take on the world, and I think in that moment superheroes still exist. I'm talking about movies that give me that feeling when I leave the theater, I ride that excitement on the entire drive home. So that is what I did when coming up with this list, the ten films that I am anticipating the most and will genuinely be the most excited to see that. I still will use my own money to watch these movies, which I do no matter what I had that regal unlimited. So let's get into the list now. At number ten, I have Mickey seventeen, directed by Bung June Hoe, starring the one and only Robert Pattinson. The reason I had this movie lower on my list is because it was on my list last year. This movie's been delayed quite a bit. Part of it was the writer strike, and then part of it was them shifting around lease dates and schedules and things not lining up. So for that reason, it has dropped in my list. But I love Bung Ju Hoo. He is a fantastic director. You would probably know him best for his movie Parasite, which was the last movie he put out back in twenty nineteen, won the Oscar for Best Picture, won the Oscar for Best Director. That is my favorite movie of his. I also love snow Piercer and Oakja, but when it comes to Mickey seventeen. It is a sci fi movie based on a book. Robert Panson plays this expendable guy who signed up for this experiment where he just keeps dying over and over. They're trying to colonize this world, and after each iteration of him dies, they essentially throw him into like this incinerator. Then he regenerates. He still has most of his memories. In tact, he talks about how much it hurts to die, until one day they are set to kill him like a do just as part of the routine, and he doesn't die. He wakes up next to the next one. So then they have to decide what do you do with this duplicate now that two of them exists when the other one was supposed to die. So something goes wrong in that human printing process and then all crap breaks loose. It has a little bit more of the wackier tone that Mon June Ho is known for. I tend to like more of his straight ahead drama or even his horror stuff. He has such a creative vision when it comes to anything sci fi. That is why I put Mickey seventeen at number ten. It comes out on March seventh. At number nine, I have Avatar, Fire and Ash. It is coming out on December nineteenth. It is directed by James Cameron. It stars Sam Worthington. It's always held Donna, It's a gourney weaver pretty much everybody who's been a part of all of these Avatar movies and whenever the last one came out Way in the Water, and it was three plus hours long, and that was the first one since two thousand and nine. At the time when Avatar came out, I didn't really get it. It really wasn't until Way the Water came out that I went back rewatched that movie maybe for the third time. At that point that I really started to understand it. I started to leaning more into the work of James Cameron, and by no means was I diving into the deep cuns. But I watched first Avatar, rewatch Titanic, and I started to realize how hard it is to make a movie on the scale of a James Cameron film. For some to say that I don't really care about all these Avatar movies. They have so many lined up for the next I think ten years these will continue to come out. And for me, if you had have told me five years ago that I would be anticipating a new Avatar movie, I would have said you were crazy. But now, after watching Way of the Water in theaters with as long as a runtime as it had, I love that movie. James Cameron knows action, he knows how to develop a story, he knows how to create a world. Yes, they might be a little bit long, but James Cameron is a director who I believe warrants those long run times because he knows how to utilize it. What I love about the Avatar movies is how huge these fight scenes are. They are massive, There's so many things going on. So this one's gonna make it on my list this year because I usually have a little bit of hesitation when going to watch any movie that's over three hours, But now to go into an Avatar movie, I'm all invested in it. I won't second guess it. And after leaving a movie like this, it makes me feel excited. They haven't really said a whole lot about what this movie is going to be about. First Avatar movie we were introduced to the world of Pandora, all about those people and the humans fighting with each other. Way of the Water was then leaving that place, going to find these new people and assimilating into their culture, and then again fighting the humans. So this one is probably going to lead more into the Fire. You had a Way of the Water, which was all based in water, has some really fantastic visuals with all those underwater creatures and underwater battle scenes. This one, the theme is no longer blue. The theme is red. So maybe they just do a different element in each of these installments. But again, this movie is coming out on December nineteenth, Avatar Fire and Ash. I put this one at number nine, at number eight, another movie that I'd kind of written off this franchise, but with the Last Mission Impossible movie, I'm heavily invested. At number eight, I had Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning. It is coming out this summer May twenty third. When I think summer now, I think Tom Cruise And this one is picking up right where the Last Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning left off. They were trying to fight these villains who had this artificial intelligence program called the Entity. There's this key they're trying to assemble that it comes into different parts, and this one is said to kind of feel like they haven't fully said it's going to be the end of the franchise, but at least that is what they are selling it as right now. And that trailer, Tom Cruise says all like, I need you guys to trust me one last time. I love the shot of him the bottom of the ocean, and like his tighty whities was probably like boxer briefs or some kind of swimming shorts, but it's him floating that is fantastic visual. You see him running a lot, which is trademark Tom Cruise. Will it be the sendoff to his character or is he gonna pull Harrison Ford still be in his seventies and still cashing in on the Mission Impossible movies. I don't think so. These movies are pretty physically demanding. He's broken his ankles before jumping from building the building. He has to take out big insurance policies to drive motorcycles off of cliffs. I don't think he's gonna be able to keep up with that scale. Much like my favorite film franchise, Jackass, those guys have just kind of aged out of being able to put their body through some of those things. They get new guys to come in and do the more physical stunts. So I feel that that rumor that was swirling around at Glenn Powell will step into the role and keep this franchise going. But at number eight, I have Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning. At number seven, I have Jurassic Park Rebirth. It's coming out on July second, twenty twenty five. Stars Scarlett Johansson. It's about her and a family getting stranded on the island that's home to these dinosaurs. So this is kind of a rebranding of Jurassic Park. You have the originals from back in the nineties. You have the reboot with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. Those characters are gone. Last movie Jurassic Park Dominion, that was the end of them. You had Jurassic World in twenty fifteen, which I really enjoyed. These are movies that I loved going to experience in the theater. That's why it makes it onto this list. I felt that over the course of those movies it became less about the dinosaurs so much so that the last one wasn't even really about the dinosaurs. It was about the dang bugs. How are you gonna make a Jurassic Park World movie about not dinosaur being the main focal point? So I think this is gonna kind of take it back to I hate it when people say we're taking it back to our roots because that kind of means you've run out of ideas and you want to go back to do what was working and what was making you the most amount of money. But I think bringing in Scarlett Johansson and changing it so it's not about the park anymore. They just get stranded on this island, and so far, what's out about the plot is that's kind of It doesn't really say that there was somebody there putting all the dinosaurs there. There weren't people going to visit it like they did in the first movie, So it feels like it's gonna be a little bit different. It brings up a big question for me of why are there no other really prominent dinosaur franchises. Why does Jurassic Park have the only rights to making dinosaur movies? And you may say Godzilla Land before time, Pixar and Disney had made some dinosaur movies, But when it comes to something so captivating us dinosaurs that everybody, especially kids love. Why aren't there other dinosaur movies that work? It's only Jurassic Park. That sixty five movie with Adam Driver was one of the worst movies of all time. Really wasn't a dinosaur movie. There was a t Rex in it. But I just wonder, like, why is nobody else trying to make these movies? Is it too expensive? Does Steven Spielberg have the rights to every single dinosaur? Does he have the rights to t Rex? Which, by the way, Steven Spielberg is still an executive producer on this movie. He's not directing him anymore, which I think if he came back to direct him and started using practical effects again, oh, I think that could kind of work. But there was a rumor swirling around the internet, which rumors never swirl around the internet. This is the first I've ever heard of a rumor coming from the Internet that's false. But people were saying that this movie was said to be rated R. Somebody put out a poster and said radedar. It's not raded Ar, which I think would be fantastic. But I think as long as Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment are involved in any way, You're never going to get an R rated Jurassic Park movie, which I think is at least what I want. I don't think it's what kids want, who are probably going to be the most excited outside of me to go see a movie like this. But if you could think about the blood that you have seen throughout the franchise, still one of those images that stays in my head from my early childhood of watching movies was from the Jurassic Park Lost World, which was my favorite Jurassic Park movie because I saw that one as a kid before I saw the original. But there's a scene where they're running from the t Rex. They get caught and they have to hide behind this waterfall. They're like on this little rock sliver and they are jumping through water to get to like behind this waterfall so the t Rex can't catch them. And somebody he gets eaten up by the t Rex and you see the water changed from clear to blood red as the bones crunch, and you no longer hear the person screaming and it's just that blood coming down through the water. That image is stuck in my head, and that's a PG. Thirteen movie could you imagine the crazy violent things that they could do? Which I think now that I think about it, there are some straight to Amazon really low budget dinosaur movies that probably have that. So maybe there's some type of balance that Jurassic Park movies have figured out where people don't really want that bloody of a dinosaur movie. In the title Jurassic World Rebirth, Hopefully this also serves as a rebirth of the entire franchise that are able to make these movies exciting again, which is what is great about the Jurassic Park movies is they are exciting, they are captivating. But how do you recreate that feeling that you built in the nineties where we're still limited technology. It was so entry level cgi with those shots. How do you recapture that now where we're so used to seeing everything and being able to create anything with digital images. As long as they don't make it anything like Jurassic World Dominion, I think we're good. That's why I have Jurassic World Rebirth coming out on July second at number seven. At number six, I have twenty eight years Later coming out on June twentieth. It's about a group of survivors of the rage virus living on this small island. One of the people from the group believes the island to go on a mission into this mainland, and while he's there, he discovers some secrets, some wonders, some horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. When this trailer came out at the end of last year, I thought, this is the movie I've been waiting for for so long. This falls under the category of a legacy sequel and a soft reboot, because I think if this movie is six successful, which I have seen the excitement and demand their online people were so hype about this movie. They also faced some issues that I was talking about back when this trailer came out, of people just not being able to access that for the longest time, it wasn't on a streaming service and wasn't even available for you to rent. And right after I talked about it in the trailer park, they announced that, Hey, we're finally gonna make it available for you to watch it home so you could read it. They're banking on the fact that people going to pay and rewatch this movie. The original line talking about leading up to twenty eight years later. But at number six, I can't wait for this one, twenty eight years later coming out on June twentieth, into the top five. Now you think this one would be higher, but there are some hesitations I have going into it. But at number five, I have Lilo and Stitch coming out on May twenty third. It is the live action Lelo and Stitch. If you are a longtime listener of the podcast, you already know. If you're new here, Leelo and Stitch is my favorite Disney movie of all time. I don't think it's the best, but if I had to pick one Disney movie to save and not go into the Disney vault forever, it would be Leelow and Stitch. The story just resonates with me. I think Stitch is the best Disney character since it came out hasn't been matched. The reason it's not higher is because I haven't fully been a fan of all of these Disney reboot live action movies, and there have been a lot of them. We hadn't moved Fossil last year. Some of the worst movies I've ever seen have been these Disney live action movies. Pinocchio with Tom Hanks was awful, And the only thing that made those movies like it even watchable was the fact that I was familiar with the story and they were classics, and I just wanted to watch it all the way through to see what they did. But they're very lifeless, they're very cold, and they feel very much like cash grabs. Like definition of cash grab. If you look at cash Grab in the movie dictionary, you'll see Tom Hanks's face right there next to him as Jeppetto and Pinocchio. That is just the definition of it, because most of them aren't providing anything new, is just doing it quote unquote live action, which sometimes they're not even live action. M Foss is not a live action movie. It's an animated movie, just different animation that makes it look somewhat real. But I love Leelo and Stitch. I've had Chris Sanders on this podcast, the creator of Lelo and Stitch. He's also the voice of Stitch and returning in this movie. They haven't said if it's a direct remake of the first one. They're following the story exactly, but it's about Stitch meeting Lelo, who is an orphan child living with their sister so that full plot isn't out, but I have to imagine it'll be something similar. Chris Sanders is returning as the voice of Stitch, who has had an amazing twenty twenty four with the Wild Robot being so successful. Well that is turning into its own franchise. So after watching the teaser trailer and by seeing the poster and some other still images, it looks a lot better than I was expecting. So it comes down to how all these characters look, and just looking at some of the things Disney has done recently with their CGI. I'm talking about the snow White trailer where the seven doors look pretty terrifying. It's not a showing to say that they're gonna get it right. So that is my hesitation going into this movie. But me being such a big fan of Lee Low and Stitch still keeps me in. I'm gonna go enjoy this movie for what it is and not be overly critical because it is my favorite character in the Disney world. So that is why I have it at number five, because I wasn't fully into them thinking that they needed to remake this movie, but now that I see more details about it, I'm easing myself more into enjoying it without worrying about it ruining the reputation of the first one. So at number five, even though it sound a little bit head, I'm not. I'm excited about it. I have Leelo and Stitch coming out on May twenty third at number four. Getting into some really good stuff here. Top five is great. The Fantastic Four First Steps coming out on July twenty fifth, Pedro, Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Evan Moss Backack. That is your Fantastic Four. This will launch Marvel into Phase six, which a lot of people have been saying the Multiverse saga has been pretty trash. I'm not really in that camp. I've still enjoyed a lot of the movies in the Multiverse saga. I'm all about the Multiverse. I think we had a lot of fun moments in it. I just think it kind of ran its course and we need to move on. But Fantastic four in history hasn't been the best as far as just being good movie. There are some iterations of it that people love based on nostalgia. I was just never fully into the Fantastic Four and didn't really understand the hype around them. Now, as I learn more about comic books and how impactful they were to Marvel's success the first real superhero team, I understand more of why people want these movies to be successful. But this will be the third reboot of the Fantastic Four. If this one doesn't work, they might be done. But this movie will be set in the nineteen sixties in an alternative Earth. It's gonna be retro futuristic, follows the Fantastic Four on a mission to protect Earth from Galactys and the Silver Surfer. And then you gotta remember, we have Robert Downey Junior on deck to play Doctor Doom, the Fantastic Four's biggest villain. So will this movie tease them at all? Will it be in that post credit scene queuing up what's gonna happen in Secret Wars? These new Avengers movies that are coming out that Robert Downey Junior will be a part of. So he's gonna be tied into this world. That is why the success of this movie, Well, it's gonna be so impactful on Marvel in their years to come. And if this movie flops, it could start to tank Phase six. Hey, third time to charm right. That is why I have Fantastic Four at number four. Actually did that on purpose because I wanted the Force to match up at number three coming out on November twenty First, I have Wicked for Good. This one is gonna take place directly after Wicked Part one, So in part one we already had our big songs, we had popular, we had defined gravity. This one is definitely going to rink up in the level of action, but it will also have songs like as Long as Your Mind, which I'll admit I'm not familiar with it. I hadn't seen or known anything about Wicked going into it, but I think as a whole, whether you had not seen Wicked or had seen Wicked, I think everybody loved this movie. For Good is I believe, also a song in Wicked, and that is why they decided to add it to the title. Instead of calling it Wicked Part two, it's called Wicked for Good. I can't wait to see the transformation of alphabave because we all knew it was coming. The way Part one starts is with her death and Glinda the Goodwitch telling us the story. We find out she was friends with her, and then it goes all the way back to the beginning. I like movies where you know somebody is going to die at the very beginning, where it opens up and that person is dead, and then it's all the things leading up to that death. In my heart, I'm still thinking, she's not gonna die. They're gonna change that. She's gonna be fine. How could she die? I also love the fact that it comes out the next year. We don't have to wait two years because they did film these movies at the same time, so it's not like this movie is gonna suddenly look better and everybody's gonna look different. It's gonna be more polished, it's gonna feel the same way, which I think is fine as long as it still comes out as scheduled on November twenty first, which would just be a year after the first one. I love that idea. Now. I don't always love when movies get split into two, where it's like this part one and this part two, the Mission Impossible movies we were talking about earlier, where they've split some of those ending movies into two. But I think this case is a little bit different because they could have just as easily made this movie and waited on the success of it to decide whether or not they were going to make a part two, But now you know they're already both in the can. I didn't think this one would make my most anticipated movies of the year, But when I think about that feeling I was describing at the beginning of this episode, I want that again. I felt that in Wicked. I was completely tuned in the entire time while watching that movie. I want that feeling again. At number three, I have Wicked for Good coming out on November twenty first. At number two, even more so than the Fantastic four movie. Is the other Marvel movie coming out this year that I'm excited for. Captain America Brave New World, coming out on Valentine's Day, February fourteenth. This one's right around the corner. We have our new Captain America Anthony Mackie, which if you missed the Disney Plus show, I feel they kind of wasted it there. You learn so much about his character in that show, but I feel like not a whole lot of people watch that show, so hopefully they don't base a whole lot of this plot on that show, which I think that's something Disney is trying to get away from of not making the movies connect with the TV shows. I think those should be completely separate. And I know Kevin Figy has always just kind of drilled that mentality of thinking about the bigger picture making things inner lock. But I think and hope that he learned that we don't really want the TV shows to connect with the movies. I think we should kept us separate. I really think that Disney Plus shows should be entire side quests and not involved with the main MCU storyline. Do it with some side characters, do more animated shows, do more things like X Men ninety seven. They give us a reason to go to Disney Plus, but not a reason to have to go see things in theaters and go back to you. So hopefully by making that show, it didn't take away from the impact of Sam Wilson taking over for Steve Rodgers, which is huge, and I really feel like that reveal on the big screen would have been more impactful because now we've already seen it on Disney Plus, so there's not gonna be that big off factor because we kind of have already seen it. We've kind of wasted that already. I get why they wanted to make that show. But if you think of how Endgame finished with those two characters, if that was the last thing we saw with Chris Evans giving him the Shield and then moving on to this movie, which I guess would have been hard to do because that movie came out like five years ago. At this point, I think over that now, it would have been a long time to wait. But still the trailer does give me some chills. Moments where he says, I'm not Steve Rodgers. I feel like it's really gonna be Sam coming into his zone, taking over this role, taking on Harrison Ford, who's gonna go from being President Thunderbolt Ross into the Red Hulk. Hopefully we get some good cameos in this, which I hate the idea of chasing cameos in Marvel movies. It just feels a little bit twenty tens to me to be like, oh, I hope somebody shows up. All they showed up, All right, cool cameo. I would like the cool cameo only because of who I feel could be involved in this story. But ultimately that's what I want. I want a good story. I want to be able to root for his character and buy into the fact that he is Captain America, which I have some doubts about. He doesn't have the serum, he has the suit, he has the shield, But what makes him Captain America? What makes him able to take on the Red Hulk, who by all means is stronger than Green Hulk. That's who I really wanted this movie. All want some Green Olk action. Overall. I hate the way that Hulk has been portrayed in the later half of the Infinity saga. Hasn't really been used much in the Multiverse saga except for Sheet Hulk, But the Hulk is supposed to be just this rage monster, the person they were so afraid of in the first Avengers movie that overtime was smart Hulk, which I hate that whole trajectory for his character. I want to go back to that Hulk, the Hulk that people fear that you don't want to make Bruce better, angry and that can be powerful, not the Hulk that gets his ass kicked by Thanos and then as PTSD from that. So can they make Sam Wilson a viable threat and somebody to root for? Visually the movie looks amazing. They've already done the suit reveal, but he looks good in it. Again, that could have been something that was so impactful on the screen. But the action looks up to par with those early Captain America movies, which I think out of any movie in the MCU, it had the best fight scenes first one Captain America Civil War. That is what I feel was the krem de la creme of the MCU, the fight scenes and the Captain American movies. But can you do that without Chris Evans at the helm. But I'm so excited for this movie. It's coming out soon. I'm not really that interested of how it's going to play into the timeline. I don't care what this movie sets up. I really don't care about what all these things are building to at this point. I just want individual good movies, even if the Avengers movies are completely separate from the plot line. I don't really care at this point. I just want to have fun and feel excitement when going to Marvel movies now. But at number two, I have Captain America Brave New World coming out soon on February fourteenth. At number one, I have Superman coming out on July eleventh. This is the new launch at least on the film side. Of James Gunn taking over for DC, he is going to be the new person much like Kevin Figy is for Marvel, who is the president of Marvel and is responsible for keeping everything cohesive and for having things connect and building a big brand. He is the person now who is going to direct movies like Superman, but also make sure that every film that they put out is in line with values, has continuity, feels like the same from one movie to another, which is something that the EMCU did really well. They had a whole system in place that no matter what director was directing each particular movie, they all felt the same way. You have cameos from one to another, and it's all the same actors, all the same people. He is going to be that now for DC. Just the trailer came out, I think I've thought about this movie every single day, and the movie just feels so warm and inviting and fresh that every shot just on its own looks like a page out of a comic book. It's so perfectly framed, and I feel like this is really going to dive into what makes Superman such a great character, the og superhero, the most famous superhero and really give us that best version of him since Christopher Reeves back in the day introducing the character on the big screen. I also love that James Gunn is so heavily invested in stories from comics with the Superman character, that is going to bring a lot of that to life. And overall all the characters just look really fun and vibrant and cosmic at times where they need to be. And I just feel like this is going to be one of those movies that once it starts from one second up there when you see that DC logo, to the very end, it's gonna feel like a perfect movie. And it's the one I'm just the most excited to be in the theater to watch because I think it's gonna be one of those core movie memories for me. And I've had maybe three of those since twenty nineteen, probably since Endgame, I would say that have really popped and I just remember that moment of watching them for the first time. I think that is gonna be inside of Superman. And that's why I put it at number one, because as much as I can't wait to see the new Captain American movie, I don't think that or anything below it is gonna have one of those memories. So I think this is the one I'm the most excited to see because I think it could be one of my next favorite superhero movies and I feel that, and I think also it is one that's gonna have to win me over a little bit because I wouldn't even put Superman in my top five superheroes of all time. So I think it's gonna be having my first iteration that I could fully be in love with Superman. Oh as much passion as it is, there is Superman and going to win my heart? Am I good to fall in love for those blue eyes and slick back hair and red trunks could be? So maybe that's why I'm so excited about this is I'm ready to hook up a Superman to me in love with them. But that is the list. There are a bunch of honorable mentions. I'll go through these quickly. I have a category of almost made in my list. There is an untitled Trey Parker movie coming out. Not a whole lot of details out as far as what it's about, what it's called, but Trey Parker is one of the creators of South Park and Kendrick Lamar is going to be in it. Elio was also a movie on my list. It is a Pixar movie coming out on June thirteenth. That movie has also been delayed for a while, so my excitement has also weighed down just a little bit. Marvel also has The Thunderbolts coming out later this year. Brad Pitt is going to be in a racing movie called f one. We have a live action How to Train Your Dragon Zootopia two, which I think I might just do an episode on just straight sequels coming out this year, because we also have Freaking Your Friday, Happy Gilmour too. Allegedly there is a fourth Friday movie coming out this year. Not a whole lot of details on that either, So I know I did include some sequels in my top ten, but I think I want to do an episode where I just think and raise the question what will be the best sequel this year? Movies that I'm the least interested in would have to be Snow White and the New Tron movie because Jared Leto's in it and I think everything he touches turns to the crap right now, So that is the list. Those are my honorable mentions. If you want to let me know what you were anticipating this year, hit me up on socials or hey, send me an email. Moviemke d at gmail dot com. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free review of One of Them Days for the people who say, why don't they make good comedies anymore? Well, if you didn't go see One of Them Days or have no plans to, you're missing out. I was laughing throughout this entire movie. Such a great chemistry between Keiki Palmer and and Sizza, who this is her acting debut. They play two best friends trying to make back this money because Sizza gave her boyfriend fifteen hundred bucks to go pay the rent, but her boyfriend very untrustworthy. Instead, he blows it on some fake Gucci shirts. In this get rich Quick scheme he has landlord is upset banging on their door and telling them, if you don't have my money by five o'clock today, you guys are gonna get evicted. I'm gonna throw all your stuff out and leave it on the curb. So Keithi Palmer's character, this is a big blow to her. She's going through a lot right now. At the start of the movie, she is getting off work from an overnight shift. She works at a fast food restaurant and is just trying to get back on her feet, and what she has playing for this day is just to go home, go to sleep, and get ready for this big job interview that she has later in the day, and this totally derails it, therefore bringing back the title of the movie, It's gonna be one of them days. So instead of being able to sleep get all prepared for this job interview, she now has to find a way long with their best friends Sizza, to make this money and then trying to make it to her job interview on time, because if you can get that job, it'll change the course of her life and get everything back on track. So that is the dream. Sizza is a little bit opposite of her in the fact that she is an artist. She has all these paintings all around their apartment, which is this really runn down apartment. It's not even a nice apartment, which I think if you're like me, or really like anybody who grew up going through hard times not having a lot, you have lived in an apartment, a trailer park or something that resembles this. So I very much identified with that. So what I enjoyed about this movie is I think it came down to Keiki Palmer and Sissa's chemistry, and I thought they worked really well together. As best friends. You need that chemistry. And it is hard to recommend a comedy because this movie was funny to me, it could not be funny to you. And I think this is one of those movies that I went into it wanting to enjoy it, wanting to have a good time, and I allowed myself to open up to some of the more ridiculous things that did feel a little bit ninety sitcom here and there. But I think the style of overall physical comedy and some of the wacky things that were very heightened reminded me of something of that time period. So if you don't really like that type of cheesy, over at the top humor, I think you could watch this movie and think that is stupid. How did you even find that funny? Why do you recommend that? But I leaned into that it reminded me of watching episodes of Home Improvement, episodes of Martin, where it's so ridiculous and so dumb, but it is funny when it comes to all the random things and fights and ways they try to make money in this movie. I found it funny. There's one scene in particular where they go to a blood bank. This was also in the trailer. She's trying to make money for all this blood. It's the first day of the worker there, played by Janelle James, who is also in Abbot Elementary, who plays the principal in that show. It's her first dage. You can't really find the vein and then they end up getting covered in blood. And then they did it all for a free biscuit coupon to go to churches and get some food. Which, man, that reminded me of back in the day where I was living in an apartment and I would rely so heavily on fast food coupons, the ones they would just send to you for free, that I would not only take the ones mailed to my apartment, but I would go through the trash and find the ones that other people threw away, because a lot of people see that at junk mail, you're just gonna throw it away. But I would stock up on those stings and I would hit lunch on Silvers, taco bell, Jack in the box, water Burger, I'd go and get all those because sometimes you don't have a whole lot of money saving a buck two bucks getting two for one, and that makes all the difference. So it reminded me of that. That whole bit there was one of my favorites that of the entire movie. And even though at times this movie did feel predictable, I called a lot of the things, and I'm trying to get better at that because I know that's annoying, but predictability isn't always bad. Whatever happened to predictability, I think when it comes to a comedy like this, you're not gonna write a whole lot of twists and turns and things that come out of nowhere they make you go, oh, man, I can't believe they did that. It kind of goes beat by beat of what you would expect in a ninety minute comedy, so much so that a lot of this plot, given that it also takes place in one day, very much reminded me of Friday. And I thought that back when I broke it down in the trailer park, because essentially, you have two best friends, you have them trying to pay somebody back. By the end of the day and if they don't, something bad is going to happen. You also have Kat Williams who plays a guy named Lucky in this movie that very much reminded me of the comedic relief Ezell in Friday. I would say Kat Williams was a little bit more of a guardian angel here where whenever they are trying to go to one of those payday loan places to get the money and they have like an astronomical interest rate, he is the one outside also in the trailer telling them don't do it. If you don't have the money this month, you're not going to have the money next month. And I think that is another commentary that this movie had where it was a comedy, you're not supposed to take it too seriously. It's about two best friends and how you kind of hate each other at times, but you remember all the things you've been through, you remember they're the most supportive person in your life. It is also a commentary on the cycle of being broke and how expensive it is to be poor and how sometimes you fall into that and can't get yourself out because it's so cyclical, because you do things to try to pull yourself out of debt that puts you more in debt. You take some money at a payday long place, and suddenly you're paying back all this interest on it. So not only was it the money that you needed to make your rent, but now you have to pay this place back for all the interests. It is something that is tough in this country, where once you are in a hole, it is so hard to dig yourself out of. And I enjoyed that they work that into the plot of talking about their characters and how much they have to work just to make ends meet, talking about their credit scores and how low they are, and how sometimes people just laugh at them for the situation they are in. The movie also did pretty well at the box office. It had a fourteen million dollar budget and made fourteen million dollars over MLK weekend, so a big win for Sony. I don't think they were expecting it to make that much. Then again, you have Keki Palmer and Sissa. Keky Palmer is a big movie star. Sizza hasn't done a whole lot of acting. This is her debut, but she's obviously a massive musician, so there's obviously that star power there so to be able to already make in your first weekend all of the production budget. Is a big win for them, especially for a comedy, especially where it is so hard to get people to go to the theater to watch a comedy. I feel like comedies almost have that streaming quality to them that people feel like, oh, I could just wait to watch that at home. Doesn't really ac a whole lot to go see it in theaters, but this one did. It was a pretty full theater when we went to go see it. I think it adds something when you hear other people laughing and enjoying it. It makes it feel more fluid and makes it feel more like, oh, this is the bonding experience of a lot of random strangers in a theater having a good time laughing at these ridiculous things. So I think this is a big win for everybody involved, for Siza, for Kiky Palmer, and for Sony that you can put out a comedy like this with two female leads. At times, this movie did feel like it had a female director as well, but it's actually from director Lawrence Lamont who this is pretty much his entry into film. That is a big win for him too, not his entire injury into film. But as far as making a movie on this scale for everybody involved, this is a sign of good things to come. I think we see how well it does in its entire box office run. This also feels like a movie that would do really well once it goes to streaming, so you could be potentially talking seek here. So for one of them days, I give it four out of five free biscuit coupons. It's time to head down to movie Mike trailer Paul Insane in The Nova Caine. Let's talk about Jack Quaid in a new action movie called Novacane. He plays a guy who can feel pain. You're always looking for pain, he can't feel it, which I think. Jack Quaid is a really good actor and this is his first real step into being a leading man. He has done fantastic work as Hugheye on The Boys. I've beenhralled in that show since it came out. Problem with that show and how many people are involved in the cast of that hard to stand out, and now seeing him in this trailer, I'm like, oh, it is a much different feeling when jack Quaid is just by himself. Even if you look at his history in film, he was in the first Hunger Games back in the day, had a very small role in that I kind of forgot he was in. That wasn't until he got famous with the Boys that I went back and realized, oh, he was also in Hunger Games. Most recently, he was in Scream that came out in twenty twenty two, but again not a lead there. But here he is doing a what looks to be a really fun action movie, a movie after watching the trailer, I pretty much know what I'm gonna get going into this movie. I don't think it's gonna be anything that we haven't seen before, but sometimes you just need a fun, shoot him up action movie, and I love the premise. So before I get into more about this story about a guy who can't feel pain, here's just a little bit of the Nova Caine trailer. Why don't you just call the police? Please can't take I'm in honest man, slaughter, grand theft Auto. Do you noticed like to wait your whole life to meet someone somebody finally gives your life? Meaning? Would you wait around for someone else to save her? Would you do it yourself? You've gotta be careful, dude, you can still die. You're not Wolverine. Do you understand pain? Oh? Oh go no stop it? Ah? I mean, oh wow, that hurt. That won't hurt the most. So what happens in this movie. He is just a regular guy working a regular job at a bank until that bank gets robbed. Robbers are holding everybody up trying to get the money, and then the police arrive early, so they decide to take somebody hostage. And right before you see that scene, he meets this girl. They hook up and apparently he can feel stuff there even though he can't feel pain, they take her as hostage, so he wants to be a hero. Earlier she called him a superhero, so he tries to go and save her. But remember, just because he can't feel pain doesn't mean that he has all these skills of fighting. The only benefit he has against these criminals is that nothing is going to It's still gonna hurt him, but he's not going to feel it. So he steals a police car it looks like, tracks these guys down and starts fighting them, trying to get her back. But then, as you heard in the clip, cops thinks he was a part of it, thinks he's involved with these criminals. So not only does he have to save her, he also has to clear his name now. So just by watching this trailer, just what I've been able to infer after watching it, you kind of already know it. And sometimes I say, whenever you watch a trailer and it feels like you've already watched the entire movie, that's a sign of it's going to be a bad movie. But I think in this case, the difference is, this feels like it's going to be a roller coaster ride. Sometimes action movies are predictable, Sometimes rom coms are predictable. Sometimes even superhero movies are predictable, but that doesn't make them bad. So I kind of know the journey we're gonna go on with this character, just because they really laid out all the cards by telling us all these things. I do love the reference there to Wolverine. That was from co star Jacob Badelon, who is also ned in the Tom Holland Spider Man movies. But he's the one who raises that question and tells them, hey, just because you can't feel these bullets going through you, these blades going through you. One of my favorite scenes is when he's fighting a guy trying to get a gun from him, and the gun falls into a fryer, and since he can't feel pain, he puts his hand into the fryer like where you put the fries and his hand comes out crisp. I just thought that was a fun moment. I want to see more stuff like that. It does get into almost that uncomfortable feeling like I can do ooh, I can do gunshot wounds. But whenever you get into people getting stabbed and just that sound ooh, it's for some reason to me that strikes a nerve in me that it makes it uncomfortable for me to watch somebody getting stabbed. Is just like, oh, that hurts me a little bit. If somebody gets stabbed or breaks a bone, that is gonna make me feel uncomfortable. And again, like you said, he's not Wolverine, so we can't regenerate. I wonder how they're gonna address how much blood he is losing and how much these injuries are actually affecting him. But again, at the end of the day, it is just a movie, so I don't think they'll spend too much time on that. Maybe in the third act where he becomes probably just so bloodied up and broken and bruised where he can't even fight anymore. But you also see a little bit of him and the trailer taking some adrenaline, so maybe they'll kind of supplement it with that. The other thing I enjoy about Jack Quaid is he's always been really open and honest about being a neple baby. His dad is Dennis Quaid, his mom is Meg Ryan, so I feel that it would be impossible for him to not be an actor. Having two alist actors as parents, it's kind of hard not to follow the family business. My dad is a truck driver. Nobody would have bat it deny if I became a truck driver and started driving for my dad. It just seems to be since it's Hollywood and those jobs are harder to get. It feels like everybody is trying to be an actor and it takes so much to make it. Same thing like being an athlete. It is so hard to make it in anything at that professional level where we see and idolize these people, because there are very few people actually cut out to do it. I think that is why people give celebrity kids such a hard time, because you think I would want that job. I want to be an actor because it is a dream come true, and some people really try to not bring attention to that. They'll low key use one of their parents' last names, but never bring them up in interviews, never really go out in public with them because they don't want that negative connotation on their name and for people to think that they only got to where they are because of who their parents are. Really, anything in entertainment is who you know doesn't matter. Even at my level, it's still who do you know and what relationships can you form. So having parents who have worked in the industry and just being able to put you in touch with directors, put you in touch with casting agents, it is a lot easier to do. But that would be the same thing of your dad helping you get a job, your mom helping you get a job, anybody in your family. When you call your cousin and be like, hey, man, could you give me an interview? I feel it is that same thing, And if I was in that position, I would do it. Why wouldn't you use the resources around you? But I also get when they try to hide it a little bit and they are so secretive about it and it becomes taboo. You don't have to hide it, embrace it. And that's what Jackway does. He'll talk about an interview, He's like, yeah, I've had a little easier route because of who my parents are. I'm not going to deny that. I think you have to own it and then let your work stand on its own, because just because you have two A list parents. I even think of somebody like Maya Hank as Ethan Hank and Uma Thurman's parents. Just because she has those parents doesn't mean that she's gonna be a great actor and that audiences are going to embrace her. It will get her foot in the door, it will get her into some projects. But unless she does a good job, connects with her co stars, has good relationships with directors on her own, they aren't going to have the same career. It's not guaranteed. There aren't some NEPO babies who haven't worked out who as much money as their parents spend on them, not just in movies, but in music as well. I see even more in music where I say, hey, my parents are rich, They're gonna pay for all the studio time and do all these things, and I don't have to work as far as have a nine to five job to grind to make it, and it's a lot easier when there's money there to grease the wheels and you have those connections. So I think even for me, who I grew up didn't have a whole lot, I can see why you would respect somebody who has had to grind for it more from the bottom up, and why you connect with those people more. But I still think we shouldn't hold it against people when it comes to movies, when it comes to even music, just because who their parents are, and they use those connections because you got to think about you would probably use them as well. It's just different because it's an entertainment. So this will be I feel, one of the first big tests of Jack Kwaid. I don't think this is a make or break role. If this movie ends up bombing at the box office, I don't think his career is done because The Boys is still going on. He can fall back on that series. But I think he's starting to get at that point where he knows The Boys won't go on forever. He doesn't want to be typecast as Hueye. And when you see some other people in like the MCU or on the DC side who have had success with something. I compare him to Superhero movie just because he is in that world. You don't want you just have your entire work set in that world and be typecast and not be able to go do projects that you really want to see yourself grow in. So I think this will be one of his first big adventures out. I think it'll actually do pretty well. If you look at the comments in the YouTube section, there are a lot of fans of the boys there saying can't wait to see how he does, a lot of Huey comments, So I think he has that audience there who is gonna carry over to watch him on the big screen. So the movie is called Novakane. It comes out in theaters on March fourteenth. Geez at that on was this week's edition of movie Line tram or Bar. It's not as going to do it for another episode here of the podcast, but before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week this week. I'm going over to TikTok because at the moment of recording this episode, TikTok still alive and thriving, but by the time this episode actually posts, it could be gone. Y'all. It's not going to get immediately deleted from our phones. They are going to take it away from the app store, essentially suffocating the app because it won't be able to update anymore. So I wanted to feature somebody from TikTok because we might not have it forever and that makes me sad. But this week's listener Chad of the Week goes to Chad dub who actually commented with the question I addressed earlier in the episode, wanting to know if the R rated Jurassic Park rumor was actually true. Chad was actually the one who even turned me on too that because I didn't see the fake poster until I saw Chad's message. Also sent a follow up message saying he loves the podcast, so appreciate you, Chad. Thank you for sending me things like that. And when it comes to any kind of fake poster, sometimes I just dismissed him altogether and don't think about it. And usually they are so bad that I feel that, ah, nobody's falling for this. But sometimes you got to address those because if I would have seen it, maybe I would have believed that one a little bit. So thank you, Chad. Thank you to everybody listening right now and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you. Letter