10 Actors Who Were Totally Hated by Their Entire Casts + Movie Review: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere + Trailer Park: Jay Kelly

00:00:00
Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today it is the three hundredth episode Spectacular. Can you believe it? Three hundred episodes of this crap? You think that would be better at this boy, But I'm not to celebrate. I want to count down my three hundred favorite movies, starting at number three hundred with Max Keeble's Big Move. Just kidding, I'm not doing that. We'd be here, I don't know over three hundred hours. But I do want to talk about the ten actors who were reportedly hated by their entire cast what they did. In the movie review, we'll be talking about Springsteen Delivered Me from Nowhere, how well did Jeremy Allen do portraying the Boss? And did this movie make me a Bruce Springsteen lover because going into it, I would call myself a below average fan of his music. And in the trailer Park, we'll talk about a new dramaedy that could honestly be one of my favorite dramas of the year, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler. It's called Jay Kelly, and it is a story about an actor who is going through a bit of an identity crisis. But again, thank you for listening to this podcast, for continuing to come back every single Monday, especially those who have been here since the very beginning episode one now at episode three hundred. Even if you've just joined this year and just gotten into becoming a part of the movie crew, thank you as well. It means the world to me if you spend a part of your week listening to this podcast, So thank you very much. And to celebrate, let's get into another episode. Let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network, and this is Movie Mike Movie Podcast. I have a list of ten actors who are totally hated by their entire cast. And what I want to know by diving into each of these is where each of these actors just jerks or in some cases, were they just trying to make the best movie and they showed up on set wanting to make art and didn't care about making friends. Because I think sometimes there can be a difference. Some people can just be difficult to work with, especially depending on what phase of their career that you get them in. Are they on the rise, did they just have a big hit and now kind of have an inflated ego or are they on the way down. Maybe at one point they were the biggest thing in Hollywood, but now we're just kind of scraping by trying to get roles to pay the bills or to continue to be able to live a certain lifestyle. That could be a factor of somebody being a nightmare to work with, or in some cases, do certain actors just go to an extreme when it comes to taking on some roles that maybe require some method acting And were they so into their work that they were insufferable to be around? So let's get right into this list. At number ten is Bill Murray on the set of Charlie's Angels back in the year two thousand. He was reportedly so antagonistic that Lucy Lou and him reportedly threw some punches. This is now a famous story, but he was so bad on the set of Charlie's Angels that he was replaced by Bernie Mack for the sequel, and nobody was sad about it. So Bill Murray is a guy who has very dry, sarcastic humor, and sometimes that doesn't land well with everybody, And Lucy Lou was one of those people that his style of comedy did not land well with Bill Murray is also historically late to set. You don't really know when Bill is going to be there. Bill gets there when Bill wants to get there, and then once he is there, he's like, all right, let's knock this thing out. I Am not going to be the easiest to work with. But reports say that he criticized her acting mid scene. Could you imagine that as an actor? I bet it's one thing for somebody like Lucy Lou to get, you know, a note from a director, not in the middle of it, maybe after a scene, but to be here working with one of your peers, and even though that person is somebody as famous as Bill Murray and has the work to back it up, to be criticized, it's seen stopping you what you were doing, making you feel like you were one inch from the ground, so small, belittling your process. I almost don't blame Lucy Loo for throwing punches at him for being such a jerk. And even though he was replaced in the sequel with Bernie mag Bill Murray still says that the entire incident was overblown. Either way, it is clear that Bill Murray was not fun to be around on set. He comes in at number ten. Next up at number nine is Lindsay Lohan in The Canyons. Back in twenty thirteen. Lindsay Lohan was not in the best season of her life when this movie was being made. I think this is something she has moved past now. She has had a renaissance in the last couple of years, especially this year with Freaky Your Friday. But director Paul Schrader said that she was such a nightmare to work with on this movie. He reportedly almost fired her multiple times, stating that she was unreliable late, was very argumentative, and she would also disappear for hours, demand control over the final cut, which is a huge thing to demand, and often just brought in chaos wherever she went on set. This was also a smaller movie. The entire budget was only a quarter of a million dollars, with a lot of the funding coming through online donations. This was a kickstarter movie, back when people were still experimenting with using that resource to make movies. This is what Paul Schrader was trying to do. He was trying this as an experiment and was able to make the movie at a really low cost. Paid the actors a flat daily rate, So maybe that also had a little bit to play into her demeanor on set and some of her actions. Maybe she was used to getting paid a lot more. Maybe at this point in her life she needed to make more money. And then you think of where her career went from the early two thousands to making a lot of money on movies to now doing a smaller independent movie just trying to get some work. Here, you could see how all of these factors play into the perfect storm of somebody who was not the best person to work with with all she had going on in her personal life. And I don't think I would have included this one on the list if she was not in a better place now. It seems like time has been healing for her. She is somebody who I greatly root for because a lot of her work early on in her career was a very big part of my childhood and young adult wife that I think it is inspiring to see somebody come back from some dark times. She has a story of redemption. In America, we love to see people come back from that. The bad part about that is we also love to tear people down. I think society and tabloid culture was such a big part of her mental struggles, and how much she was criticized and scrutinized during that time, and how everything was magnified because when you have somebody going through that and she is a public person, those things get amplified so much that it probably caused so much more chaos in her life. So I think this would be something that even she would admit to and own up to and now say, I am in a much better place in my life. But at number nine is Lindsay Lohan on the set of the Canyons. At number eight is Burt Reynolds in Boogie Knights back in nineteen ninety seven, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who was only like twenty six or twenty seven when he directed this movie. He was just in the early stages of his career and then went on to direct movies like There Will Be Blood and This Year One Battle after another. He also did punch drunk love movies like that. Burt Reynolds, on the other hand, was probably more in the tail end of his career, and I guess he just needed the money because he reportedly hated the material of Boogie Knights because it is about the adult film industry. He thought the role and the movie was beneath him, and the script was disgusting and translated to how he treated everybody on set. The ironic thing was he ended up getting an Oscar nomination for this movie, and that was even though him and Paul Thomas Anderson clashed so much during the filming of this movie. And I have to imagine that was probably the biggest learning lesson for Paul Thomas Anderson, who was just getting his start. I bet he thought it was one of those situations where it was going to be so cool to work with such an iconic actor, and then he gets on set and the guy is just a jerk. He refused to do any press for the movie. Reportedly, Bert Reynolds fired his agent after it, but since it did get him his first ever Oscar nomination, he later admitted I should have trusted Paul Thomas Anderson more. This was a case where I think he was just terrible to work with and he probably was more what we were talking about earlier on the way down of his career, and that is where you just start finding people that you can punge to blame for all of the problems that you were dealing with. This also kind of reminds me of Marlon Brando later in his career, where he would show up on set late. He would have it in his contract where he could only work a certain amount of hours and if he was on set for longer than those amount of hours, they had to pay him more. And I have to imagine this is what they are talking about when they say never meet your heroes. But Burt Reynolds is at number eight from Boogie Knights. At number seven is Jared Leto on the set of The Suicide Squad back in twenty sixteen. He really wanted the rest of the cast to be freaked out by his portrayal of the Joker because that was supposed to be the big selling point of this movie. We had just had the greatest Joker ever in The Dark Knight just eight years before this in two thousand and eight with Heath Ledger. We had Jack Nicholson, obviously, but the Joker was one of those roles that somebody takes him on and it's going to be a big noteworthy performance. Therefore it has to be iconic. So Jared Leto, I wanted to create this really punk rock, mysterious, highly sensational version of the Joker. He had had twos. He was a little bit too weird and mob Boss liked for my liking, but I thought maybe if it's just so over the top, it could work. But Jared Leto took it so seriously that he started to send his co stars quote unquote gifts like used condoms, bullets, and dead animals, which is really weird. But he really wanted to play into what he thinks the Joker was, which I don't really think that the Joker would do something like that. I think this was just a dumb idea to get a rise out of his co stars. To me, he comes across as somebody who is very artsy and maybe thinks that he is a next level thinker by doing something like this, when it turns out it just kind of a jerk. And Margot, Robbie Byola, Davis, will Smith all admitted that they were all weirded out, so it probably got what he was looking for there, but it didn't translate to a good performance. If he would have done that, and the version of the Joker that he did would have been more dynamic, would have been more memorable. If that entire movie would have been carried more by the seven minutes he was on screen, for which he was paid seven million dollars, I would have said, Okay, dead Rat in My Mailbox is worth it. But the fact that there were so many problems and that a lot of his scenes were cut from the movie, it seems like all of that pain and chaos that he caused his co stars were not worth it. So this was the case of somebody who took method acting a little bit too far. But it was a fail. Even though he was trying to do good by giving a great performance and a great character, he still failed. And number seven is Jared Leto in Suicide Squad. At number six we have Shilabuff in Fury from twenty fourteen. He also reportedly went full method actor. This is one of my favorite war movies. I also love movies set in World War Two. It is a great drama. What Shilabuff did. He cut his face, he had an actual tooth pulled, and he also refused to shower because he wanted to be like a real soldier in World War Two. And his co stars, including Brad Pitt, were not happy with this because in this movie, they have to spend a lot of time in a tank, really close quarters. And if you have somebody in there who has not showered all through filming, which you have to imagine just somebody not showering for a week, you're gonna get pretty musty. But add on to that that you were in a lot of action sequences in a tank that you were just sweating profusely every single time you were in there on a movie set with big lights and doing a lot of physical things, you have to smell so ripe. And because of all these things that he was doing, but I have to imagine that it was the smell that really pushed everybody to the edge that created a lot of tension on the set, especially on the scenes that took place in the tank, which is a good chunk of the movie. Shila Buff is historically an actor who butts heads not only with his co stars, but also with directors. I think if you were to ask me three hundred episodes ago, when I was a bigger fan of Shila Buff on the first ever episode of this podcast, the first movie I reviewed was his movie honey Boy. If you would have asked me this question three hundred episodes ago, I probably would have made more of a case for him just trying to be a great method actor. Now, seeing the roles in between these three hundred episodes that I've done, I feel like he is somebody who is really passionate, but a little blind to reality. So at number six, we have Shila buff on the set of Fury. They wanted to kill him because he was thinking. At number five, Richard Pryor on the set of Blue Collar back in nineteen seventy eight. Richard Pryor is one of my top ten comedians of all time. At this point in his life, he was struggling with addiction, paranoia, and that alone was making the set pretty toxic. But then the big moment came, the thing that blew the doors off of this set. He reportedly, because he was in such a bad mental state, he pulled a gun on the director, a director we've already talked about on this list, Paul Schrader, the guy who did the Lindsay Lohan movie we were talking about. Paul Schrader once called the filming of Blue Collar the most unpleasant experience of my life because of all the things that Richard Pryor was struggling with. He was so erratic and so hostile that it made the movie set insufferable. Allegedly, in a drug fueled rage, he held the gun at him and stated that he would not do any more than three takes of any scene. That is an excellent level chaos on set. That's when it gets real. That's when you almost want to shoot. If the entire thing that you were filming this is no longer the set of Blue Collar. We're just going to film a behind the scenes documentary and that is our story. There was a lot of tension between all the lead actors that resulted in him in actual physical altercations with other people in the movie. At one point, Richard Pryor and his bodyguard pinned another actor to the floor and pummeled them, just straight up beat them up. This is the most violent set that I've ever heard about, not just the fighting. If it was just that incident of him and his bodyguard getting somebody, pulling them to the ground and beating them up, that would be an extremely violent set. But the fact that he pulled out a gun on the director. Oh boy, Richard Pryor not good man. He comes in at number five on the set of Blue Collar at number four. Christian Bale on the set of American Psycho back in two thousand. I think this is a case of just somebody taking method act to an extreme, which is something that Christian Bale does. But he was reportedly just as intense when the cameras stopped rolling as he was when they were on. Because I think, out of all the movies on this list, pound for pound, American Psycho is the best movie, the most iconic one that actually benefited from the method acting, but all the people around him did not enjoy it. He rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Even though his portrayal and performance as Patrick Bateman is so iconic and terrifying, he was actually terrifying the other people he was working with. Many people said that they avoided him entirely between takes because he was too convincing as the narcissistic killer that they actually thought, maybe this guy is actually going to kill me. He is a little bit unstable, and I do not want to be around Patrick Bateman, even though I know it is Christian Bale acting as Patrick Bateman. And while I think, okay, maybe this was just him taking method acting to an extreme. He's just really passionate about his work. Was just years later that the whole outburst on the Terminator Salvation set happened, the infamous one where he said this, oh good for you and how was it? So maybe I don't know. He is not the easiest to work with, but maybe that's the price you pay with some people, because Christian Bale is a great actor. The Dark Knight, the Prestige, vice Ford b. Ferrari, the Fighter, has been in a lot of good movies, but he's also probably yelled at a lot of people. At number four is Christian Bale in American Psycho. At number three Wesley Snipes in Blade Trinity. Back in two thousand and four. He was reportedly so unhappy that his character was being sidelined in the franchise in favor for the people who were being added to the movie, Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel. He was intimidated by that. He didn't like that, so he made the set pretty miserable because of that. Legend has it that one scene Wesley Snipes refuse he used to open his eyes. He was in an argument with the director and he was so petty that he would not open his eyes during this scene, and they had to go back in and give him CGI eyeballs because he never opened his eyes. On the set of Blade Trinity, he allegedly stayed in his trailer, communicated only through post it notes, and refused to work with the film's director in that scene, costing them so much money because it would be so easy for him just to open his eyes. They get it on camera, but instead they had to use the shot and go and spend money to put the CGI eyeballs in. Maybe that's why they decided to kill the Blade franchise that ended the trilogy, although he did make his return in Deadpool and Wolverine, where he said the infamous line, there's only one Blade. They were supposed to make another Blade with myhersche law Ali. I don't think that movie will ever get made now. Maybe we're just not ready for another Blade. I would have loved to have seen maherschel Ali in this role. I bet he would have kept his eyes open. But at number three we have Wesley Snipes in Blade Trinity. At number two, Mike Myers on the set of The Cat in the Hat back in two thousand and three, where he was reportedly controlling, humorless, and prone to tantrums, so much so that the movie tanked. Crew members said that Mike Myers dictated every creative choice and made everybody around him miserable, from people working on the crew, to the director to the co stars, which were also young actors, everybody from camera operators to extras. Could you imagine being an extra on The Cat in the Hat and you're like, man, this is gonna be cool. I get to stand around, make a little bit of money and see one of the funniest actors of all time from Saturday Night Live, Mike Myers. And here you have Mike Myers who is yelling at you, dressed like the Cat in the Hat. That had to be a wildly traumatic experience. Why is this Doctor Seue's character trying to run me over with this golf cart? The experience was so bad that Doctor Seuss, sorry, my ban Margeria came out there that Doctor Seuss's widow refused to allow any more live action adaptations of his books Cat and the Hat killed It. Mike Myers was also contractually obligated to do The Cat in the Hat, and I think that probably was a big contributing factor to the reason that he was so awful to be around on this set. Because Mike Myers had backed out of a movie called Sprockets, which was based on an SNL character, and as part of the legal settlement with the Universal Pictures, he was obligated to make another film for the studio and that role ended up being The Cat in the Hat. So he didn't want to do this movie. He didn't want to be attached to this franchise, so he showed up on set and was a miserable Cat in the Hat. Although I do think now over twenty years removed from this movie, it has become one of those that is so bad that it is good. And I think the people who grew up with this movie and experienced it as a kid now say that The Cat in the Hat is an underappreciated movie. I didn't much care for it when it came out. There was that entire run in the early and mid two thousands, in late two thousands where all the Doctor Seuss movies just started getting spit out, And I have to say, I'm just the bigger fan of the books. But at number two is Mike Myers and The Cat and the Hat. Before we get to number one, I have an honorable mention. It is ed Norton on the set of The Incredible Hulk back in two thousand and eight. I honestly think that ed Norton was too good of an actor for this role and he wanted to bring something different to Bruce Banner, and I think it was just not met creatively where he wanted this movie to be. But because of that, he was really controlling. He reportedly rewrote huge chunks of the script. He fought with Marvel over the creative decisions, and that is why now Ed Norton is no longer Bruce Banner, no longer the Hulk. It is now Mark Ruffalo. So I don't entirely blame him, because if you saw the first Hulk movie that came out in the early two thousands, Eric banna O was not good and the Hulk has just not been given a great run at the box office, hasn't had the best interpretation of the character. And I still think the Incredible Hulk from two thousand and eight was the best look we've had. Now. I think overall, Mark Ruffalo embodies Bruce Banner better than Edward Norton did. But I don't think we've still seen the best depiction of the Hulk. I want somebody who is more fueled with anger, somebody who is stronger and more powerful and has all those capabilities that we love the Hulk for that has made him an iconic comic book character. We still haven't got that yet, and unfortunately Universal still has the rights to him, so we're never going to see him. But I will settle for a cameo, hopefully a bigger storyline in Doomsday and Secret Wars. But at number one, we have Jim Carrey. On the set of A Man on the Moon from nineteen ninety nine. Jim Carrey stayed in character as Andy Kaufman the entire time and alienated pretty much everybody on the set. He insisted that everybody on the set A Man on the Moon call him Andy, or they could call him Andy Kaufman's alter ego, Tony Clifton whenever he was doing that character, but couldn't call him Jim. The crew said it was like working with a ghost, and his behavior was so intense that it inspired its own documentary, which is a fantastic documentary. If you enjoyed this movie, or if you're a fan of Jim Carrey. It is called Jim and Andy the Great Beyond, and that documentary shows how uncomfortable everybody really was while making this movie, and I think out of everybody on this list, he is the one who took their role the most serious but also had the best results, so it wasn't wasted. And I think Jim Carrey probably also felt bad treating people poorly, making people uncomfortable, but that was the price he was willing to pay to do a great Andy Coffin because if you watch that documentary, he was a huge fan of his work, and if you think about how great of a comedic actor Jim Carrey is, that is one role where I truly saw him become Andy Kaufman, because I wasn't that familiar with Andy Kaufman when he was alive. So this is one of those movies for me where it feels like I really got to know him, and to me, Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman is my best reference for how he really was, because I don't really remember a time when Andy Coffin was on TV doing all those storylines of like wrestling women getting into a fight on late night TV with Jerry the King Lawler, I don't remember any of that. For me, it is seeing Jim Carrey portray him in this movie that makes me feel like this is where he lives. This is the association I have with Andy Kaufman as a person. Much like for me, when I think of Selena Quintania, I think of Jennifer Lopez's performance in that movie that she to me is Selena. Same thing with lou Diamond Phillips. I don't know a whole lot of live footage that exists of Richie Vallens before that, So for me, seeing him in that movie is my best depiction and understanding of what they were like in real life. So those are three examples of people I feel were preserved perfectly in film through fantastic portrayals and fantastic performances from all of those actors. But that type of performance requires some intensity and is gonna rub people the wrong way. So at number one, you have Jim Carrey on the set of The Man on the Moon. I'll come back and I'll give my review of Springsteen Liver Me from nowhere. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Springsteen Delivered Me from nowhere. I will say at the top of this review, when it comes to the level of Bruce Springsteen fan, I am out of ten. I'm about a two going into this movie. If you ask me how many Bruce Springsteen songs that I know, I probably would have said too. And sometimes I sit here and I listen to a bunch of music while I'm working on things, while I'm going through my notes, and I will say, in the course of the last year, I will just randomly put on the two songs that I know because I do enjoy them. But I feel like the people who love Bruce Springsteen really love Bruce Springsteen, and his music just never spoke to me was a little bit ahead of my time. I was more into the bands that were influenced by Bruce Springsteen, bands like Against Me, the Gaslight Anthem, Flatliners, this sound that kind of developed in the mid to late two thousands early twenty tens that had his style of songwriting, the echo and the voice, the big anthems. I got into that for a very brief period, but he is just not one of my favorite artists, so going into it I knew I was coming from. I don't want to say a negative place, but a place that the movie was going to have to win me over as a fan. And when I go watch a biopick about somebody who I'm not the biggest fan of, my sign of it being successful is do I leave that theater and want to go listen to their music. It happened with Bohemian Rhapsody, It happened just last year with the Bob Dylan movie with Timothy Shallome. To me, that is a sign of a good music bio pick. But this one is a lot different because it doesn't attempt to tell his entire life story. It is based on a book and is really only focused on the time between nineteen eighty one to about nineteen eighty two where he was recording his album Nebraska, which was still early in his career. He had Born to Run already, but this album was a huge departure from what he was already known for, seeing as a big risk. If you were to ask me before I went to go see this, I couldn't even name you one song from it. But now I know a whole lot about it. So instead of this movie trying to show you his entire life why he is the way he is, his ups and downs, his highest moments. It doesn't show that at all. It really just focuses on that one period of time where he's starting to get that taste of fame. He has success. He's still not global superstar Bruce Springsteen, but he is recognizable. He is a bankable name. He is somebody that the record label now knows what they have, and he is struggling with that. With that taste of fame, he feels a lot of guilt. He doesn't know how to form relationships with women. He's also dealing with a lot of depressions. So it starts with him closing a tour, getting away from the city, going back home to record what he thinks is just going to be the demos to his album Nebraska super Low five. He has a four track recorder, which at this time was seen as something really experimental. Not many artists, if any, were recording things at their home, which now is just the norm people recording hiro albums never even have to leave their house and they have studio quality, but at that time wasn't something that you did. But he wanted these songs to breathe, He wanted them to really capture the emotion and he didn't really set out to make an album this way, where Bruce knew he needed to make this album this way in order to get this message across, and his manager had to challenge him a little bit because he is his manager. But also ultimately, at the end of the day, know that I'm here because of Bruce Springsteen. We are in the business of Springsteen, and whatever he says, I'm going to commit myself to as long as I know he is committed to one hundred percent. And surprise, throughout the entire almost two hours of this movie, there is very little music. It starts with him opening up a big concert, so you get that feel. And Jeremy ellen White did all the singing in this movie, which is really hard to believe. I almost believe they weren't telling us the full truth in that because he sounds so much like him. He has that rasp, he has that on stage presence that really captures Bruce Springsteen. So I was like, man, he did a really good job at that because that really sells he wanted. But you see those performances at the beginning a little bit sprinkle in throughout with them going back into the recording studio, him recording it at home. But I would say out of the entire almost two hour runtime, twenty percent of it is music, a lot of it is a character study, and it ended up feeling like the most slice of life biopic that I've ever watched, And at times that was hard because if this movie was not based on Bruce Springsteen's life, and it was just a movie out of context, just here you go, just watch this movie about somebody you have no idea about. If I were just watching this not knowing this was based on real events, which it does stick pretty close to his real life because it is based on the book, where I think the only real liberty that they took was the love interest in this movie. In his real life wasn't just one person. I think there were multiple women and they decided just to take all those relationships and just put it into one character to have it fit into the story. Aside from that, all the things that he went through, it is exactly how it happened in real life. If I just looked at the events of this story, I don't think it is strong enough for a movie. There was not that big climax moment, and a thing that biopics that does get annoying, And now I'm realizing there's a fine balance in between, because sometimes you watch a movie and they just embellish so much they make them look like the biggest rock stars. They can't leave their house without getting swarm by fans, They're getting hounded down everywhere. It makes it feel like the entire world is talking about this one person, where that's probably not the reality. I always find that really annoying, where it's like everybody's talking about what the next Bruce Springsteen album. I enjoyed that they made him feel like just a normal person, where I know he wasn't as famous as he is now at this time in nineteen eighty one, nineteen eighty two, but he was able to walk down the street normally, he goes to a restaurant with his manager, normally, even goes back home, and has pretty normal interactions where you can tell that people around him are still like in all of him just a little bit, but it's not so much like, oh my gosh, there's Bruce Springsteen, so it doesn't really embellish in a way to make it so larger than life. I enjoyed that part of it, but also I found myself saying maybe they should have embellished just a little bit. Because I love Jeremy Allen White. He's a fantastic actor, is so committed in every scene. I think it is his performance that really draws me into the character of Bruce Springsteen. And although I didn't leave this movie a bigger Springsteen fan, I did leave this movie a bigger Bruce or Bruce ye fan as him as a person, because I think it was a vulnerable story to put out there. All the demons he was fighting, his relationship with his father was really powerful, and I think this movie almost could have come later, which is weird to say, I know, but I almost want the entire Bruce Springsteen's story told with Jeremy ellen White, so maybe we could create two versions. I also think we're getting at a point where we need to create a music biopic cinematic universe where eventually, much like the Avengers, all these musical icons just meet up for one movie. We had the Bob Dylan movie, now we have the Springsteen movie. We had the Elvis movie a few years ago. We have four individual Beatles movie coming. We also have a Michael Jackson movie coming. So I know all their careers probably don't line up, but it's a cinematic universe. We can break some rules here. We get to a point where all these musicians end up coming together, much like the Avengers, and you have all these amazing actors portraying these icons for a big team up. Maybe we make a We Are the World movie where everybody's in one room together and it's much like the Avengers coming together, like Avengers assembol. All you rock stars get into this room and take down the musical walls. I don't know, do something heroic, Yeah, Michael Jackson picking up Thor's hammer. That would be fantastic. I feel like I wish all of these biopics existed in one studio so we could get something like that. And I know that's probably what a lot of people would hate to see because the Marvel method to making movies, A lot of people have a problem with it, saying it's destroyed Hollywood, even though I feel like it has kept it afloat for the last fifteen years. That would be amazing to see because I almost want a deliver me from nowhere to where we do get him going into his superstardom era. I think there is more story to be told here. So even though I enjoyed the movie for what it was, I thought it was going to be a little bit more next level. I also thought maybe Jeremy Allen White would be in the conversation for Best Actor. I don't think his performance was enough to even have a look at that. I think this movie is more for the really big Bruce Springsteen fan who knows the lore behind his career. But I think for somebody who like me, maybe only knows a couple of songs wouldn't be in your top maybe even fifty artists, maybe even one hundred artists. I don't think it was enough to win us over right now. I also don't know if this story really demanded the big screen for Springsteen delivered me from nowhere. I give it three point five out of five. It's time to head down to movie mikes. Traylor Pauls. There aren't many things that I crave in this world. I'm not a cravings person. I probably used to be, back when I was a chunkier fella. I would get a craving or like a fried cherry pie that was my aw maybe like a water Burger taco bell. Oh. I used to have a lot of Taco Bell cravings. But now the things that I crave are movies, and we have a movie coming out this December. It's a dramedy with Adam Sandler and George Clooney. That is something that I crave. Both of those two people together in a dramedy. It's quite possibly my favorite thing. I crave it. I need it. Because Adam Sandler, we get the Who's Jeeves, that's all fine, But when he's steps away from that and does something dramatic, I'm not even talking about uncut jams. I am talking about when he does something that is straight ahead and character driven, I love it. Same thing with George Clooney. It's very versatile, legacy actor, if you will. But when he does something that is so centered around life, centered around one person struggling with an issue, I love it. Both of these two people together. You got Laura Dernan here too, directed by Noah Bamback, who also did Marriage Story, who is really great at making big life dramas. Here we have George Clooney playing a famous movie star who decides to go on a European journey after he has a bit of a breakdown. Adam Sandler is playing his manager, who ends up going with him because he does everything with him. The movie is about the journey of self discovery as Jay Kelly is confronting his past, looking back on his career, and struggling with his identity. There are so many things to un hack from this trailer. I want to get all into it, but before we do again, this movie is coming out on Netflix on December fifth. It'll also come out in se LEC theaters on November fourteenth. That usually means that Netflix is saying this is gonna be the movie we push during award season, and it is starting to give those vibes. So before I get into more, here is just a little bit of the j. Kelly trailer. When I look at you, I see my whole life. Lately, I feel like my life doesn't really feel real. Suddenly remembering things and what is that memory? That's like a movie where I'm playing myself. I just want you to come with me to see what I did. Yeah, it's got to immense something. What if it didn't. All my memories are movies. That's what movies are for us. Pieces of time, nieces of time. I feel like George Clooney is playing a version of himself, because what we heard in that trailer is he is struggling with the idea that all of his memories are rooted in the movies where he was playing other people. That is a crazy concept to think about. George Clooney, somebody who has been acting basically my entire life forever, one of the most famous actors in all the land. When he starts looking back on his life and he's thinking about all his favorite memories, they are all rooted in movies. I mean, I'm sure he has some life stuff, but are they really his memories or are they the memories of his characters? And if they are the memories of his characters, does that count? And I think that is what he is asking there at the end of the trailer where he says, all of my memories are movies. And I think that is a beautifully written line, something that really just sparks something in me, because I'm not an actor, not trying to be an actor, but I love movies more than any thing. The way I relate to this is me watching movies and the memories I have from that are my life. Because I feel such a close connection with the things that I watch. But I've learned so much from movies. I think I become more open minded because of movies. That is why I value them so much. And when I think back on all of my life, I can usually find a movie that coincides with that. And I think that is why I love doing this podcast and why I have been able to do this podcast now since twenty nineteen is because it's not just talking about movies. It is talking about life. And in every review I try to do, or every trailer park, I try to find a piece of myself that I can share with you, because that is what I always try to look. I try to find that piece of humanity in every movie that I cover, because I think that is the only thing I have real expertise in is the way that movie make me feel. I'm not going to really try to break down a whole lot of things about I mean, I get into a little bit of cinematography, but I can't break it down like a real film analyst can. I didn't go to school for it. But I can tell you how movies make me feel and how they relate to my own personal relationships, my views on the world, my understanding of humanity. So if I think back on all of my memories, I also have to think back on all the movies that I have watched, because I feel like the great ones really become a part of me, and there are certain movies that alter my brain's chemistry. And I never really thought about it from the perspective of the actor, like Jake Kelly in this, if you spent your entire life being famous and putting your all into these roles, which memories are yours and which memories belong to your characters? So I think this is going to be a fantastic way for a big Hollywood actor to have a mental breakdown. The other line that stuck out to me was at the beginning of the trailer, I'll play it again for you. When I look at you, I see my whole life. Talking about movies the actor that when I look at them, I see my whole life, it has to be Leonardo DiCaprio. I thought about this a lot, and I kind of feel like that's a basic answer, because, like George Clody, he is one of the most famous actors has been for a very long time now, got to start back in the eighties, but If I look back on all of his roles, starting from his TV show that he was on Growing Pains all through the nineties, What's Eating Gilbert Great Titanic is incredible run in the two thousands and the twenty tens, I feel like he became even more refined with movies like Conception, finally won his first oscar with The Revenant, and now is still giving us incredible looks at what he can do with movies like one battle after another. And I think if there was one person that I would say that to, it would be Leonardo DiCaprio. And that's what happens in the trailer to Jay Kelly Is is George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern are getting on a train for their big European vacation, and all these people start to recognize him because he is also that level of famous in this movie. And that is what that person tells him that when he sees j Kelly, he sees his entire life. And I think that is what I would feel like if I were ever to see Leonardo DiCaprio, because I feel like he is one of those actors who still has a little bit of mystery to him. I don't know what Leonardo DiCaprio does on a random Tuesday afternoon. He's not trying to sell me things on Instagram that aren't his movies. So there is still that bit of mystery to him where I don't really know a whole lot about him that if I saw him, I would still be starstruck, and I would look back on all the movies I have seen him in over my life, from Catch Me. If you can all these incredible roles with all these different iconic characters, he is the only person I think I think could embody that sentiment. Maybe runner up would be Robert Downey Junior, but that's largely due to the MCU and that starts in twenty and eight to twenty nineteen, so I don't think I would feel as big of a oh, I see my entire life with you. I see a big chunk of my life, a really significant part of my life. But I think the one actor would be Leonardo DiCaprio. I always like to look at the last five films of directors and actors. When it comes to director Noah Bomback. His last five films include White Noise, which I feel a lot of people did not enjoy that movie, but it is another Netflix movie. Marriage Story was before that. I love that movie. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson yelling at each other. I thought that was fantastic. The Myrowitz Stories, which also starred Adam Sandler from twenty seventeen. I think if you like Adam Sandler's more dramatic performances, that is a good one if you haven't seen it. Mistress America in twenty fifteen and While We Were Young from twenty four That one had Ben Stiller in it. When it comes to George Clooney's last five films, last year he did Wolfs which I was so disappointed in that movie and thinking back on how it relates to this movie now is you also had two big A list stars that movie was George Clooney and Brad Pitt. I feel like I was led a bit astray from the trailer, which the entire trailer was probably two and a half minutes, and that translated to about the first thirty minutes of the movie. I think that movie kind of imploded because there was supposed to be a Wolf's two and with the unsuccessfulness of that movie on Apple We're never gonna get it. Before that was a movie that he didn't star in, but he did direct The Boys in the Boat in twenty twenty three, So that's probably where he is in his career right now, where if he's not starring in a movie, he is making a movie. But The Boys in the Boat for me, revitalized the sports movie genre. Boys in the Boat feels like one that if it came came out back in two thousand and two, it would have been a movie that I watched in school all the time because it has a little bit of history in, it has some drama in, it just has a really good formula from beginning to end that I feel like that should be in the curriculum of movies that we forced kids to watch at school. Before that was another movie he started, Take It to Paradise. Him and Julia Roberts in twenty twenty two. Saw that movie in theaters, and it's rare for me to be excited about going to see a rom com in theaters. But if there are two people who can do that and get butts in the seats, it is Julia Roberts and George Clooney for a rom com, said and Bali had a good amount of comedy in it. It was very predictable. From when that movie started, you knew exactly how it was going to finish, but that did not matter if you miss that one, A fantastic rom com Take It to Paradise. Before that, another movie, I was let down by The Midnight Sky because it had George Clooney kind of a sci fi vibe, but that movie just did not have any real meaning to it. It came out in twenty twenty, so I was just happy to get a new movie that year, but it being a sci fi thriller, I thought there was gonna be a lot more to it, but overall the movie was kind of boring. And before that was Money Monster in twenty sixteen, so last five years not that many big starring roles for him. I feel like this movie it will be a big one on his resume, especially if it gets him an Oscar nomination, which given the time this movie is coming out, given the fact that it will have a small theatrical run, even though I don't really think they care about that, They're really not going to push it in theaters a whole lot. But in order for a movie to be nominated for Best Picture, it must have a qualifying theatrical run which includes at least a one week run in a major US market and expand into ten of the top fifty US markets. And that is primarily to support movie theaters. I think that is important, and really, when it comes to movies that get nominated for Best Picture, they are not often movies that make a lot of money at the box office. I think this is a rule set in place to make sure that the industry doesn't go entirely to streaming, and it keeps those small little theaters afloat even just giving them that one theatrical week. But the big release for it will be December fifth on Netflix. I cannot wait to cry uncontrollably hopefully by the end of this movie. The only thing that was distracting from the trailer is the entire trailer is really beautiful, but there's this song that is playing and to me, it sounds like Adam Sandler singing in one of his characters' voices, and I just can't see it any other way. Now. Said that was this week's edition of Movie b Framer par and that is 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. We are climbing over on YouTube, so thank you everybody who has subscribed in the last two weeks. Really appreciate that I am going over there right now to pull my listener shout out of the week, because over there you will get individual movie reviews. A lot of the movies that came out earlier this year that I reviewed after seeing them in theaters that are now on streaming services. Movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer. Weapons is also out now on HBO Max. The Substance is also on HBO Max, which came out last year. But if you are now watching those for the first time and want to go back and see my reviews on each of those movies, you can just go right there on YouTube, and it's so easy to find. Speaking to Weapons, you can also see my interview with director Zach Kreiger. So all of that stuff is over on my YouTube channel, YouTube dot com, slash Mike Distro or click the link in the episode notes. This week's shout out goes to Juan Fayes, who commented on my review of roof Man and said thank you for bringing this movie to my attention. I am actually a fan of Channing Tatum because of twenty one Jump Street, and I think he is an underrated actor. Juan, I don't know how underrated Channing Tatum is, maybe because people don't take him seriously. So I can get with you here, Jue, I see where you're coming from, because he is highly successful. His movies do pretty well most of the time, even though I wish Rufman would have done better so far at the box office. But I think it's because people don't take him entirely serious because of the way that he looks, even though I believe he is so dedicated to his craft that I could see why some people would consider him an underrated actor. I think he also just puts out solid movies like Roofman that doesn't feel like the same thing over and over again. I don't think I would fully commit myself to calling him an underrated actor, probably in that mid range, because I think he is pretty well celebrated. Or maybe it's just me celebrating him. But Juan, I'm glad you found that YouTube video and now have a new Channing Tatum movie to watch. And I think that was one of those movies that just went a little bit under the radar, came a kind of a weird time. Wish it would have done a lot better. So thank you, Juan, Thank you now for listening wherever you are at the gym and your car. Maybe you're on the toilet right now. I don't care who you're listening. I appreciate it. Thank you for being a part of the movie crew. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later. I'll leave you, guess.