Movies That Didn't Age Well and Would Be Problematic Today + Top 10 Streaming Movies + Movie Review: On The Rocks (Apple TV)

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Speaker 1: I want you to think about your favorite movie. You have that one in your head. One maybe he watches a kid or a teenager and just loved, maybe laughed out loud with with some of your friends. And now I'm going to ruin that movie for you, because on this episode, I'm talking about movies that would be problematic if they were put out today. I want to talk about the plot lines are just overall themes of certain movies that just wouldn't fly by today's standards, and even just when we look back and think like, how did they get away with making this movie? We'll also get into the highest streaming movies this year. Got some recommendations there and a movie review of the new Bill Murray movie on Apple TV. Plus. Needless to say, I think this episode is gonna get interesting. So thanks for hitting play, thanks for hidden download. Without any further ado, let's get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking Audi MTV with classes from the night strel Just movie. I recently rewatched a couple of my favorite movies, and as I was watching these movies, I thought to myself, well, these didn't age so well. There were some plot lines in this that I was like, how did they get away with doing this back in the day? And I can't even believe that they're kind of reputting these out now on streaming services and really nobody has had that big of an issue with them. One in particular, I was just like, I had no idea what was going on with this movie as a kid, and it was all in good fun. But now looking back, I'm like, they could never make that movie again today. So that's what I want to talk about. I'll start with those two movies first, and then I'll get into some other ones that you guys suggested on Twitter and Instagram, where it's just things that at the time maybe seemed normal for what was going on in the world and just our values at that time. And you also have to think of some of these cases. Movies have some creative liberty. Movies are a form of art, and you can express yourself in different ways to get points across. You can poke fun at things sometimes you know it's satirical, but also you have to really think and consider that sometimes maybe the right call wasn't made for a joke or a character, or are certain plot lines. So so, I don't think it's so much that we've become so sensitive now. Then, it's just like, Okay, we've actually grown so much since then. We've learned a lot about what you can and can't say, or how you can and cannot represent people. So in no way could you depict these characters or these plot lines the same as you could in a movie that would come out now. In with that said, I do think a couple of my favorite movies are now kind of ruined after going back and watching them. And I'll start with Never Been Kissed Now. I've Never Been Kissed came out in and it was probably my first favorite romantic comedy. And I think why I didn't really find any kind of problem with it watching it because I was about eight years old when I saw this movie, and everybody in the movie seemed elder to me, and I just didn't really get what that meant yet. But what actually happens and Never Been Kissed when you go back and watch it now, is the main character played by Drew Barrymore is Josie Geller, and she's twenty five years old working at a newspaper. She's like the youngest editor, and they assign her this story to go back to high school. So she's twenty five and goes back and plays a seventeen eighteen year old in high school who is there to kind of infiltrate the popular kids and kind of find out what they do. It's kind of a really bizarre plotline and topic for a movie when you think about it. The whole kind of premise of it is a little weird. But not only that nobody knows or catches onto the fact that she's twenty five years old in the movie, and just some kind of creepy things end up happening, because what the entire movie is about is her at the very end kissing her much older teacher. Now, her older teacher in the movie seems like a really nice guy. She you know, starts to develop feelings for him. They have this whole exchange like the school fair, and it starts to get a little creepy when you think about it, because he is an older guy. Not only that, but he is her teacher in the movie, and the entire time he is thinking that she is a teenager looking back. Now, if you did that movie today, this would be a news story, like teacher hooks up an eighteen year old student. It wouldn't be everybody goes to a baseball game and waits for him to show up to kiss him. Another kind of weird plot line in this is she has a younger brother in the movie, played by David Arquette, and he sees his sister Josie in this movie going back and having fun in high school. So he decides, Hey, I'm gonna go back to school and get my baseball career back up and running and joins the team. But then he starts dating a sixteen year old girl in the movie. There's a whole lot of weirdness here, and the whole big scene happens when they're at the prom and she reveals to everybody that she is in five years old, and also that her brother has been posing the same at the same time, and no one is really all that outrage. They're more just kind of caught off guard that she isn't who she says she was. But I don't think anybody starts throwing out accusations of like, oh, Rob has been lying to be on this baseball team, but he also has a sixteen year old girlfriend. Now, no one brought that up. Other than that, I think the movie still holds up as far as being an entertaining movie. It's just a little weird to think about if you really kind of break down that relationship. But I think that movie is mild in comparison to the movie Blank Check, which was one of my favorite movies as a kid. And it's a very wacky movie, and I think that's why I liked it so much. If you're not familiar with it, it's the story about a kid named Preston Waters, and Preston Waters pretty much gets ragged on the entire movie for not having a whole lot of money, kind of being a nerdy kid, not having any friends. I could relate to that, And all he wants to do is have his own room him and have his own stuff. But his older brothers are jerks, and not only that, but his parents are kind of like giving him a hard time throughout the entire movie. Basically, this kid is being tormented by everybody in his life. His dad sends him to a birthday party without any real money and it's at an amusement part, so basically everybody's just making this twelve year old life a living hell, to say the least. But here's where it gets interesting and it gets creepier. Later, he gets a blank check from his grandma and he's like, what's a blank check? And his dad kind of described it to him, and he goes about it by writing it in for ten dollars. So he had a chance to give his son a little bit more money for his birthday and he's short changed him to ten bucks. That's fine, so Preston goes to the bank to try to cash it. So there's a whole lot of just kind of plot holes in this movie. To sum it up pretty quickly, he ends up getting run over by a guy who had earlier in the movie found a way to steal a million dollars and then goes to a bank to pressure or the banker to launder the money for him, and he's like, I'm gonna send a guy the next day to come pick up the clean money. But in that whole exchange, he ends up running over Preston's bike and he offers him he's gonna write him a check, but then the police come and before he can finish writing the check, he just bails gives Preston the blank check, hence the name of the movie. And then from there, Preston, being the twelve year old that he is, writes in a million dollars, goes to the bank the next day and tries to cash it. It ends up working because the banker thinks that the convict guy sent a kid in to cash the check and pick up his money. But the creepy part comes in when he met a teller at the bank who is this older, attractive, thirty something year old woman, and somehow it turns out that she is working for the CIA and doing some undercover situation there, and being the twelve year old boy that he is, he develops a crush on her and basically tries to use the money to impress her. But he has the cover story the whole time is that it's working for his boss named McIntosh, which he got from the computer that I mentioned earlier. So he's using that as like, Oh, my boss wants me to take you out to dinner, he wants to pay for things to give you this gift. It all just starts to get weird that she agrees to go essentially on a date with a twelve year old kid. They run around in a fountain together, like him holding her hand. There's just a lot of weirdness here with the older woman and a younger kid that she would just, even if it is her job, agree to go out with him, and even so much that she calls it a date, like it's a date is what she tells him. So if that's not weird enough. When all the crap hits the fan, he ends up getting busted by police. The convicts get arrested, but then it's Preston and this older, attractive woman and she straight up kisses him like it's in the movie. If you go watching that on Disney Plus, that scene is still left in there, an you think maybe it's innocent enough she kisses him on the cheek or maybe kisses them on the forehead. No, she straight up kisses him on the lips. It's a pretty disturbing screen, Johnny. You just look at that scene, and I don't know what was going through the writer's heads when they made that scene and it got approved. I just don't know what the logic is there, because the entire movie seems innocent enough. The whole idea is pretty perplexed. And it's supposed to be a fun kids movie. I mean, it's a Disney movie of all things. I just think if you were going to reboot blank check in, there's no way you could even get this movie pitched. It's just astounding. Now, there's another very famous movie that has kind of a similar thing in the movie Big with Tom Hanks. Elizabeth Perkins, who plays Susanne Lawrence in the movie, ends up being attracted to Tom Hanks's character Josh because he looks like the handsome Tom Hanks, but he's actually a kid. But he's actually a kid even though he looks like an adult. Like this is still in a moral relationship going on here. But again, in the world of movies, maybe not the oddest thing is which you've kind of learned here. Another major plotline in a classic comedy was a spinter pet detective, the original one. We're plain and Simple. The whole final joke of the entire movie just wouldn't fly today because it's pretty transphobic. So the way Ace Ntera cracks the case is he finds out that Finkel is iron Horn and iron Horn is Finkel, and then he has discussed it at the fact that he had kissed her, and all the other guys who find out at the same time as he reveals it act in a similar way. Now, again, this was the nineties. A lot has changed since then. We've all kind of learned a lot more since then, and I just see in no way that this movie could be made today. I'll stay in the comedy genre for the next one. One of my favorite actors, just kind of celebrities in general, is Johnny Knoxville. I was a big fan of Jackass and all the Checkass movies, and I liked when he kind of stepped aside from that world and did his own comedies. I really think Johnny Knoxville is a great actor. Maybe it doesn't pick all the best movies. And he did a movie in the early two thousands called The Ringer, which is one of his first really big steps into being a lead actor in the movie in a movie. I went to the movie theater and enjoyed it. Now, looking back on that movie, the whole kind of plot line could be pretty problematic today because in the movie he poses as a mentally disabled person in order to get into the special Olympics, and he does that so his uncle can place a bet on him, thinking that he could go in and pretty much beat anybody. Now that sounds kind of bad looking back on it, like you can't really do that. But the other thing about this movie is I felt like it did have some heart, Like you learned some things in the movie, and the way his character kind of changes throughout, which he starts out pretty insensitive, but I think after getting to know the people in the movie and the actors and what they actually go through, he has a change and he becomes friends with everybody. So I don't think the movie has a bad nature about it. I think the only thing that's kind of problematic today is that you have actors who are not mentally challenged or mentally disabled playing characters who are. And while I don't think they really come out and are just poking fun or making fun of people, I think that's a fine line to walk. Another movie I saw you guys treating me a lot about was Tropics Thunder. Now, the thing about Tropic Thunder is there's a lot of things you could be offended by in this movie, and I agree that you could probably not make this movie today. But I also think that Tropic Thunder was very self aware of the jokes they were making, and there was also something they were trying to say and all the crazy, outlandish things they did in this movie. So obviously the Robert Downey Junior character is highly offensive, but they were also trying to make a statement of how there's not a whole lot of diversity in Hollywood and how things like that in parts were given to actors representing people who they were not. So without a doubt, you couldn't do that character today. You couldn't do that plot line. But overall, I think when it comes to comedy sometimes you have to go to radical extremes to make a statement, whether or not you agree it's appropriate or not. And I'm not saying that you can't be offended by that character. You can't be offended by that movie. You could easily watch this and feel that way. I'm not saying that, but I think that's the kind of line you play with a comedy like this. It's gonna go over the top, it's going to do something crazy. And also kind of sparked a conversation afterwards, and then Robert Downey Jr. Is still doing interviews about this movie saying whether or not he regrets playing that character, and he doesn't, kind of along the same lines of that ideology. I have a few more of these I want to run through, and one that I'm kind of interested to see how they're gonna do the reboot of it is the news She's All That, which they're flipping it and making it He's all that. So the roles are kind of reversed here, But when you think about the first one, it's a little kind of insensitive and could also be viewed as bullying. Now he's essentially making over a girl who they depict as being nerdy and uncool and unattractive, and when you think about it, the whole plot line is kind of cruel. It's basically a modern take on My Fair Lady, And now they're taking She's All that and switching the roles and making the guy the nerdy one, and the girl is the one who makes him over into being prom king. So I guess the issue here is if they can depict bullying like that, But also it's just kind of offensive to the actor supposedly playing the person who is unattractive, like just flat out in any kind of movie where you're showing somebody who is seen is not attractive, and the other thing for me, I'm not an attractive person, and they're showing these actors who are actually really attractive, and they're just putting them in glasses and not so cool clothes and being like, oh, look they're nerdy. I'm like, I'll show you nerdy. You think that's nerdy, they're straight up a movie star. What do they think of me? That's where I find offense in this whole plot line. Another great comedy classic is Animal House. But there's a whole lot of things here that you think, like, yeah, that's actually pretty creepy. Not only creepy, but it's a crime. There's a scene where John Belucci's character is climbing up a ladder and just is spying on girls and basic their underwear and in some cases just not wearing anything. A very creepy scene where it kind of breaks that fourth wall of when he's looking in on the girl and then looks back at the camera kind of gives it a weird wink and then goes back to watching her. I don't think you could do that scene anymore. And going back and realizing that that was in that movie. Yeah, that that's not good. Even worse than that was in the eighties, the movie Revenge of the Nerds, which is basically the classic tale of David triumphing over Goliath, and one of the ways the quote unquote Nerds has a win in the movie is really a disgusting crime when you think about it, and probably didn't really realize it at the time when you watch this movie, but they're at a Halloween party and he dresses as the jock. But they're at a Halloween party and the nerd dresses in one of the jock's costumes and then basically hooks up with his girlfriend her not knowing that it wasn't her boyfriend, it was actually the nerd, So this is literally only a crime, and then she ends up staying with that character after that encounters. So all in all, pretty creepy. There Also in the world a creepy was American Pie. Basically the scene everybody knew that movie for and the reason all privy teenagers wanted to watch that movie you could never do today because they straight up put Shannon Elizabeth's character on a webcam and stream it for all the high school to see. But not only that. What we know about the internet now is that's gonna live forever and people are gonna see that for years to come. So they just straight up put her on blast and there would be lawsuits after lawsuits after lawsuits. Did that actually happened in her life? American Pie two and three would not have happened because they all would have been in jail. Now. A lot of the movies I've talked about so far had been in the eighties and the nineties, and I think we've come a long way since then. But even more recently, in like the early two thousands, mid two thousands, there were movies like The Four Year Old Virgin, even like The Hangover, Wedding Crashers, like that whole kind of genre of comedies. Some of the language they used in those movies and the words they said that we're not offensive at the time, And I remember watching these movies, you know, you know they're gonna be crude, and you know they're gonna say things that are a little raunchy and have cursing in them. Going back and watching that they basically just used slurs feels a little bit cringe E And I don't think when they made these movies that was an intentional thing. They were just saying things that people, probably everybody was kind of using in their everyday language. But we've kind of learned over time that you probably shouldn't use those words to describe people. So I would like to say that all these movies were so long ago that we've grown so much since then, But even just as recently as like The Hangover, like straight up in that movie trailer, they used a word that you could never say today and it's just awful. So again, there's just that fine line of saying things for comedic effect but also being like, Okay, come on, we have to be a little bit better than that, but don't gonna be wrong. The great thing about Comedy two is kind of pushing those lines and pushing those boundaries. Now, I'm a Mexican guy, and sometimes I don't like the way Mexican people are portrayed in movies, even movies that I love, like Board in the st L. A would teach Martin there's stuff about that and I don't like. So you can never talk down to somebody about being offended, Like if somebody takes something a certain way, you can't really know how that feels or how it affects them. I think in some cases we just all have to get better at the things we put into movies and know that maybe in ten years, yeah, that might not be the best decision. What I want to talk about now is the list that Variety put out of the most streamed movies of the year. With all of us being at home and movie theaters being shut down for the majority of the year, it's basically led to bigger streaming numbers some of these. I was kind of surprised by of them reaching so many people, and it kind of shows you the power of Netflix, but now a little bit of Disney Plus, and I kind of want to rate a little bit of all the different services because I've actually used all of them. I've can of the couple of them because I didn't think they had enough to offer to me for what I wanted to watch, So they put out this list. There's thirty movies on it, and all of them come from Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO, Max, Hulu, and Amazon. Those are basically all the places where we can go and either pay a subscription to watch these movies or in some cases you still have to pay the twenty bucks to stream them. At number one is Hamilton's the movie, the most stream movie of all and it's on Disney Plus. And I remember when this movie came out that I struggle with just the idea of is it actually a movie? Like should I review it on the podcast because it's a live recording of the actual play with all the original cast. And after watching it, I was fully convinced that yes, this has everything that really defines a movie, just done in a different way. And I think the reason it comes in at number one is because they had a lot of things going for it. It was still towards the earlier of the year, and it was kind of an event when it came out right around on July four. They came out on July three, but I think everybody was at a point where they just wanted to stay home and want something new. There was nothing really new out up to this point for a while. And also Hamilton's just reaches a really broad audience, so there was a big demand there. And I think Disney Plus also kind of played their cards just right to where they took away there one week try leading up to this, so you basically had to sign up and pay for Disney Plus just to watch Hamilton's and it paid off for them. So if you haven't seen this yet, I do think it deserves the number one slot here. It is a pretty long movie, but surprisingly keeps your attention throughout the entire thing. So that's number one. Disney Plus gets to win there. At number two is a movie I reviewed just a couple of weeks ago, bore At to the subsequent movie film, which Amazon now has their just highest stream movie of all time. And I think why this one has been so successful is the first one was so beloved and even though it came out so many years years ago, what it's actually about just translates so well into today's world, and just that character of Borat has kind of remained a pop culture icon over the years that people were ready for this movie. Now, they don't say exactly how many people watch this movie. Amazon just describes it as quote unquote millions. I kind of wish it was like YouTube, and when you go watch a movie on the streaming service it says, actually, how many people have watched that movie? That would be an interesting feature. Netflix does have the top ten, but I kind of feel like they control that a little bit, like they can put out all their new movies and work them in there, like we don't see those actual numbers, so I feel like they manipulate that top ten a little bit. I think if anyone was to put their view count on their actually movies, it would be Amazon, but I don't think they'll do that. Running through the top ten, here at number three, you have My Spy, which is also on Amazon. Number four extraction with Netflix, which is one of my favorite action movies of the year, and I think that's kind of where Netflix has shined a lot this year. They put out a pretty good action movie. They know what people want, blood guns, violence, and hunky leads. At number five you have Phineas and ferb the movie on Disney Plus. And I think family movies just had a really big year this year because families aren't going to the movie theater right now, and have found that you can really save a lot of money by even paying that thirty dollar rental at home. You don't have to buy all your kids the ticket, you don't have to pay for all the snacks at the overpriced cost. You can rent the movie at home. Yeah, you don't get that experience of getting out of the house, but in the end comes out a little bit cheaper. At number six you have Mulan, which I spent the thirty bucks on to rent. Looking back, don't really think it was worth it because since I watched that movie, haven't really thought about it since. At number seven you have The Old Guard on Netflix, another big action movie for them. Again you're seeing a theme here. Netflix really brings it with the action. And number eight you have The Trial of the Chicago Seven also on Netflix. Really great powerful movie. At number one you have The Witches on HBO Max, and at number ten you have The Lovebirds on Netflix. Now I kind of just want to go through some highlights here on the list. At number twenty you have an American Pickle on HBO Max, which was with Seth Rogan. I wanted to be more impressed by HBO Max. I had a trial just to watch this movie, and I spent a little bit of time on that streaming service, and there was just nothing that really stood out to me as far their original content. I think the main appeal in the beginning was them having all the Harry Potter movies, a lot of the d C stuff, but a lot of that has since gone away. Even the Harry Potter movies are about to be completely eliminated from any streaming service because they had this whole deal worked out to where you can't even watch them on cable. They have kind of looped them together with the Fantastic Beast movies, so all those rights have been acquired, so basically there will be nowhere else to watch the Harry Potter movies unless you pay to rent them or buy them. Also at number twenty six was a movie called Palm Springs, which I loved with Andy Sandberg, and this one was on Hulu, which who only had two movies that made the top thirty. I don't think they're quite there yet with their original movies, and for this one to be their second most successful one this year, I think they have a long way to go. But fantastic one here and number twenty eight you have Cloud, which is the movie we reviewed here last week. And another kind of highlight here another movie we reviewed last week. At number twenty five, It's Holiday, which is on Netflix. Now that movie has only been out for a couple of weeks, and for it to already be in the top thirty just kind of shows you the power of Netflix of putting something there to where it already has all these built in subscribers. So right out of this entire top thirty streaming list, it's pretty clear that Netflix still has a pretty good hole on all of streaming movies. But coming up there, I think Disney Plus is right behind them because Disney just has that big name altogether and that umbrella of now to be able to put their own movies on their own streaming service. That's really the only major network that can actually do that. Amazon Prime is kind of up there too, but I just don't think they really have their kind of style of movie down yet. But if you want to check out this list, I'll put it up in the show notes. You can click on that and check out all these movies. All right. Got to get into a movie review now, talking about On the Rocks starring Bill Murray and Roshda Jones, and it's only available to watch on Apple Plus. Before we get into this review, which will be spoiler free, here's just a little bit of On the Rocks. So Dean's going away a lot. We're playing business rich dad. Raise your hand if that sounds Fisher. He's not like you. He's a good guy, great dad. I'm sure it's nature males are forced to fight to dominate and to impregnate the mold female. Maybe he's just not interested in anymore impossible. But woman, is that are most beautiful between the ages of during nine great so I have a many months left. So Rashida Jones and Bill Murray is a duel that I didn't know I needed. And I gotta say, at the very beginning of this movie, I kind of instantly loved it and fell in love with them two together. And you don't really get funny Bill Murray like Hattie Shack leading man, But what you get in this movie is Bill Murray being his charming self. So he's basically playing himself. But that's something only Bill Murray can do. And I found that really enjoyable. Just watching Bill Murray b Bill Murray now pairing him with Rashida Jones, I think is a really great pairing in this movie. And what I liked about it is that it didn't feel like anything over the top, anything super special, But there was just something warm about this movie that I enjoyed from the very beginning. And just to get something like that right at the start. I think men a lot to me going into this and made me want to watch the entire movie, not only those two together, but you get Marlon Wains, who you really know for his comedy stuff, but in this one you kind of get him being a normal person and really kind of showing his acting chops. So what this movie is about is Rashida Jones has kind of on herself in a rut with her marriage with Marlon Wayans, and she starts suspecting that he is cheating on her because he's just started this business where he's doing a lot of traveling. He's hanging around with this coworkers, some who are other attractive females, and she starts to feel just a little bit suspicious about him, you know, being gone all the time or just hiding his phone sometimes. And then he goes on a trip and comes back and she's unpacking his bag and finds a woman's toiletry bag And after that she kind of confronts him and he says, you know, it was another coworkers. She put it in his bag because it didn't fit in hers. At the airport. He'll give it back to her the next day. So he's very kind of cool, common collective when he tells her, you don't really suspect anything. But where it kind of comes into play with Bill Murray coming back is he's kind of been in and out of her life. He's like this real kind of playboy kind of guy and hasn't been super involved or just not there all the time. So he kind of comes back to her life. She tells him what's going on, and he instantly becomes desistent, suspicious, like, hey, we need to start tailing this guy. We need to start getting a private investigator on him and see what's going on with him, because he believes that he is cheating on her. There was even an instance at the very start of the movie where he gets home from that trip, goes to kiss her and you know, they're making out in bed or whatever, and there's like a point where he thinks that she feels like he thought she was another woman because he just kind of stops and she's like, was that weird? And that's where it kind of goes. So the whole movie starts with her finding out more about her husband and if she's cheating on him. It's her dealing with her trying to write a book and be creative while still being a being a mom and having two kids. So it's a lot of learning kind of how to balance that life and how to balance the initial stages of if you think someone in your relationship is being unfaithful, and not only that, but how to deal with that with your career and with your kids. Just kind of feeling like overall you're in a rut, like what did you do to make this happen? Or was this actually going on? And it kind of escalates from there. But what I liked about this movie is that it starts out you think it's gonna be about one thing, and it ends up being about another thing, because once Bill Murray's character comes in, you learn a lot more about him and the effect that his life has had on her, kind of how he is he is as a dad, and how he kind of treats women, and just his whole approach to life, to where it's a really great story of a dad and daughter relationship that I haven't really seen done like this in a while, And you have some really great actors here doing a really great job. It's also written and directed by Sophia coppolav who also worked with Bill Murray and Lost in Translation, so you're getting something really great here. It's also an A four film, which, if you're not familiar with this production studio, it's a very highly rated independent movie studio, where to the point, if I see it's an A twenty four film, I am most likely just to watch it matter who's in it, because I know they have some pretty high standards when it comes to the plots in their movies and just overall production in it. I know if I'm gonna watch film, it's going to be a pretty good movie. So this movie had a lot going into it. I'd say the only thing that's holding anything against it is that it's only on Apple Plus TV, and I just happen to have a subscription because when I bought my new iPhone, I got like a year free subscription for some reason, and I used it to watch the Morning Show TV show and pretty much just this movie and that other Greyhound Tom Hanks movie that came out earlier this year had been the only really good or even decent original movies of the Tom Hanks movie wasn't that great. This one, I think is up there, but I don't think it's something that would really move me to getting a straight on Apple Plus subscription just to watch this movie maybe like a free trial, and then deleting it afterwards. Apple really isn't there with the original movies yet, how I kind of talked about in those top ten streaming list, you know, they're not really there yet with their original content. They have some pretty like heavy hitters, it seems like with actors, but it's just not anything or enough there to want to have a subscription or keep me there. So I did enjoy this movie. It's a pretty easy watch, only about an hour and a half, and it's a really nice story, had a great ending, and just overall kind of good message there at the end. If it were only in theaters, I don't think it would be anything that I would tell you to rush to the theater now to see. But if you happen to have an Apple subscription or you're thinking about maybe trying it out and getting that seven day or trial or whatever, it's a good maybe date night movie, or just something to watch when you need something to clean your palette. Very well done overall. I would give it four out of five. Private investigators give it four out of five. Private Investigators. That is my review of On the Rocks. Let's take a look now at movie news. One of the headlines I was most excited about this week was that it was announced that Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson are in talks with the director of Wedding Crasher is at a possible sequel. It's kind of looking like it's going to happen at the time of recording this and what I've read so far, and I just wanted to be known that a few episodes ago I put out my idea for a movie on wedding crashers too. It was all kind of based on this year what happened with weddings during the coronavirus. So I have on record my movie idea for this, and they are in talks of this now. Now, if the new plot of this movie has anything to do with the thoughts I said are out there, I just want to say, I don't need any credit, I don't need any money. I just want a cameo in the movie. That's all I'm gonna say. It just reminds me of a funny TikTok that I saw of this guy who was showing this book that he made when he was a kid. That was kind of the plot line what ended up being Finding Nemo. And he says that he sent this book to LaVar Burton, who sent him a letter back, and then years later he discovered that they were making the movie Finding Nemo. I don't know how real that was. Maybe he made up the whole thing. It's still kind of funny though, Like that would be hilarious if they ended up actually making the Wedding Crashers movie and use my idea. Not that they probably saw my idea and not that it's just some crazy original idea, but it would get me to thinking. The other kind of crazy and interesting thing that I saw is that Johnny Depp is being forced to exit the Fantastic Beast franchise. It was on Friday that he announced that he would no longer be a part of it, saying that Warner Brothers actually asked him to resign from his role and and that was all because of the outcome of his recent trial where he lost his libel case against the Sun, which is a British tabloid that published an article back in ten claiming that he was a wife beater. And now Johnny Depp is saying that he plans to appeal the ruling, but he has lost his job on the Fantastic Beast franchise, and it's kind of talks now what they're going to do with it, how to kind of take his character out and even if like Colin Farrell, will still be a part of it. So Warner Brothers announced that he is out and his role will be recast before they filmed the third movie, which they're still saying it's going to come out in theaters. It was originally supposed to hit in November, and now they're saying it will premiere in the summer of two. That's a long ways away. All right, that's gonna do it for this episode. Thanks so much for listening, for telling a friend, for hitting that five star rating, for leaving a review that means a lot to me and really helped me out. I like to show my appreciation to you guys listening by finding one of you guys who's been tweeting about the podcast or sends me a d M on Instagram or a comment on my Facebook page, and just giving you guys a shout out. And this week I'm going over to my Instagram d m S. And my shout out is to at Molly Kate eight nine, who actually had a question about the intro of this podcast and wondered if it's Raymundo from the Bobby Bones Show doing the voice, and I want to confirm it is Raymundo. When I first started this podcast, I hit him up. I was like, hey, could you voice this for me? I gave him all the lines to record and he did an excellent job with it. So thanks Raymundo for being the voice of Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. Molly also said in her message, great job doing a movie podcast when there aren't a whole lot of movies going on right now. Enjoy listening and keep it going. Thanks Molly, and I will keep it going because I will be back here next Monday and every single Monday for that matter. So I'll talk to you guys then on that episode and until then later