Top 5 New Movies To Stream at Home  + Movie Review: Young Woman and the Sea + Trailer Park: Venom: The Last Dance

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to share with you five new movies you can stream at home, because my favorite movie of twenty twenty three, after six months, is now available to watch you at home, and I was so inspired and so excited. I want to share with you more movies that maybe you missed in theaters, but now you have a chance to either watch them at home for free or for pretty cheap anyway, So we'll do that. In the movie review, we'll be talking about Young Woman in the Seas starring Daisy Ridley, the true story about Trudy Etterly, who was the first woman to ever swim the English Channel back in the twenties, not the twenty twenties, but the nineteen twenties. And in the trailer park we'll talk about the final installment of Venom. The Last Dance is coming out in theaters in October. It looks like it could be a beautiful disaster. So thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies in a.

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Speaker 1: From the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike. Movie Podcast Today has finally come. My favorite movie in the last year. Godzilla minus one is now available to watch on Netflix, and I am ecstatic. I've been waiting to tell you guys when this movie was going to be available since I saw it in theaters last December, which anytime I watch a movie towards the end of the year, I always fear I have recency biased because I just watched it. I'm doing my end of the gear list and I think, oh, I have to put this on my list, but it's putting it at number one, over hyping it. But I didn't have any other movie that came close to the theater experience that I had for Godzilla minus one, so I kept it there and I am proud of it, and I have now rewatched it on Netflix since it came out, and I still stand by it. It is so good. I'll get into more about why I love this movie, but I wanted to share with you a total of five movies you can now stream at home. All of these came out in theaters within the last year, except for one. I decided to include a documentary that I just watched. It's movie related, and I don't really get a whole lot of chances to talk about documentaries on this podcast, So that is the only movie on this list that didn't actually come out in theaters. But let's kick it off now with number five. I'm going with American Fiction. This is another movie that kind of slided through the cracks, coming out in December of last year, but it stars Jeffrey Wright. He plays this frustrated writer who has had a little bit of success. He put out one book, became a little bit famous in the book world, but has been trying to find his next big hit. He is a black author, and what he's struggling with is all the publishers are looking for quote unquot black books by black authors, looking for a very specific style, and he hates that because he thinks anything that I write is a black book, because that is who I get him, that is who is making it. But they want more of the influence and the identity to be put in the books that are now kind of seeing success. They want more of that, so he decides to write a book that is almost a slap in the face to them. It kind of reminds me of the Sarah Barrella song love Song, which you hear that and you think it is telling somebody that they either have a relationship with or was trying to hook up with them, that I'm not going to write you a love song, But that is actually her telling her record label who wanted another love song from her, that hey, I'm not going to write you a love song. That is kind of what I feel like Jeffrey Wright's character did in this movie, because he went and said, Okay, this is what you want. You want a black book by a black author. I'll give you that. I'm going to turn everything up to a liv and make it such a hyperbole and make it feel like it is such a blatant joke and essentially spitting in your face. This is gonna be terrible. Nobody's ever going to read it, and it ends up being that book that they want and turns him into the star that he has been trying to be for his entire career. So that is really what I thought was going to be the a story, the main plotline of this entire movie, but underneath it is really just the story about family and all of the hardships that his family is going through, his sister, his brother played by Sterling K. Brown, and his mom who is suffering from dementia. And it was just this really unexpected slice of life movie that had a lot of humor, a lot of dark humor rooted in things that are essentially just sad, and you have to laugh at these situations otherwise you're going to cry. A lot of raw emotion and really great performances and the style in which this story was told, going back and forth between the plot point of his book being successful and him having to fake being this author that wrote this book and changing his entire persona, to going back to his family life and him trying to keep things normal and running smoothly at home when that's just as chaotic as his professional life. You also have Adam Brody in this movie playing a ridiculous character, and it's a really big commentary on hypocrisy and overall artist integrity of how you can struggle to even hate the work you end up producing, and sometimes it is the thing that you are the least proud of that the most people grasp onto and I feel like a lot of artists struggle with that. So this is a movie I felt when really under the radar. At the end of the year. It was an OSCAR nominated film. Jeffrey Wright was nominated for Best Actor. He didn't win, although I thought he had a fantastic performance. That is why I put it at number five on the list. Check it out on Prime Video at number four. Is a movie you have to rent, but I think if you love horror movies, you're gonna enjoy. It's worth the money. It's six bucks on Amazon, or if you have AMC Plus, which I don't know anybody who has AMC Plus. Maybe if you have Cable and you have the AMC channel, they give you AMC Plus. Also, if you have Shutter, which is a horror movie streaming service, you can watch it on there too. It came out in theaters earlier this year. It's called Late Night with the Devil. I actually tried to go watch it in theaters, but they only had really late night showings at the theaters here, so I missed it in theaters, but I rented it at home, and that is why I'm saying it is worth the six dollars. What this movie is about. I just love the format of the movie because it takes place in nineteen seventy seven and it is a fictional late night talk show and which you are watching. It's not a full on found footage movie, but it goes back and forth between the live TV broadcast and the behind the scenes of what is happening throughout the show where all these really evil events occur. You have people being possessed. And the main character in this movie is a late night TV host who is trying to get to number one, but he just can't quite get there. But where you find him at the start of this movie is he just lost his wife and he is going through some really hard times. His show has also tanked, so he is way down there in the ratings, and he decides to come back after losing his wife pretty soon after that and do a Halloween broadcast. And what he wants to do is how the most epic Halloween show ever in order to boost ratings because it's happening during sweeps week, which is so important for a TV show to crush and to be able to keep their advertisers and to get all those ratings and hopefully propel him into number one. But hes a lot of unorthodox things to really captivate people watching at home and also people in the audience. So he brings a lot of people who can talk to the dead, he brings somebody who claims to be possessed, and underneath the entire story there's this really sinister vibe. And I think the fact that it takes place in the seventies and it has that old school feel to it. They did a really good job making it feel like that time period, and for some reason, Exorcism or any kind of possession movie to me, probably because of the Exorcist, just feels so much more sinister to me. But overall of the movie is just really simple and well done. The movie was made for a relatively low budget and did pretty well at the box office, so has the recipe for a really great horror movie. That is why I put it at number four. Again. You can rent that on Amazon for six bucks, which really isn't that bad. I know a lot of the stream at home movies tend to be twenty bucks. Whenever something just leaves theaters so I felt really good about paying six bucks for that one at number three on Max. This is the non movie on the list, but I just watched it and found it really fascinating. It is called Movie Pass Movie Crash. It is a documentary on movie Pass, which, if you remember, back in twenty sixteen, movie Pass took the world by storm because you could go watch any movie, anytime, any theater for the low price of nine to ninety nine and for about maybe a year, people just went wild, and myself, I did not get a movie Pass card. And I will tell you why. I knew back in twenty sixteen that this card was going to fail. It did not seem sustainable to me because at that time I already knew how the box office worked, how movies make money, and for a company to be covering the charge of a movie ticket losing money every single time somebody used that because they're only paying ten bucks a month, but that's even less than what a ticket costs. So if you go watch just one movie a week, you're losing like forty dollars thirty dollars on one person. And that is not even what people were doing. People were going to multiple movies in a day. In this documentary, they talk all about how this company was created by two entirely different people who ended up running it into the ground, which is the part I had no idea about Movie Past. It was created by these two people who were just trying to keep it small. When it first came out it was forty bucks. But then you have these two other dudes who are essentially scam artists, take over the company and run everything they built in ten years and to the ground. And that's really all I'll say, because I learned a lot by watching this documentary, But it's all the shady things that these two guys who took over the company did. And I'll just speak on the effects of Movie Pass and how many movies were affected by more people being able to see them, because when you give people that price of ten dollars to watch as many movies as you want, I think it was so great for movies then because you had people going to see things that they never would have watched otherwise. You had people saying in this documentary that they would go watch The Avengers, watch half of it, leave and try to just come back the next day or later in the day and pick it up halfway through. I have never thought about doing that. For the theater experience to be that cheap where you could just make your own schedule on how you want to start and finish your movie. That would be great for me if I could just go in the week to watch forty five minutes of a movie, and then later go watch another forty five minutes and then go wrap it up later. It is essentially your own personal theater at that point. But I knew back when everybody was talking about Movie Pass that there's no way it was going to last. And if I had a ten dollars a month movie subscription, then had it taken away from me to go back and paying full price, I feel like that would have hurt my feelings on movies because I hate going from getting a great deal to going back and having to pay full price. So that's why I never did it. And since then you've maybe seen some stories here and there a movie past returning. I don't think that model for ten dollars a month will ever happen. It's just not sustainable for anybody. I think we're better off the theaters themselves having their own subscription planes like I have Regal Unlimited. I love that, and it is a much more fair price, and it's also not as crazy as you basically being able to run wild in the theater like Movie Pass allowed you to be. But I do think it's kind of interesting to go back and look get all the movies that benefited from that time. But if you want to have your mind blown and you love movies, which obviously because you listen to this podcast, you do, check out Movie Past Movie Crash on Max. I have that one at number three, also on Max at number two. I know I've talked about it a fair amount on the podcast, but for anybody new here or anybody who hasn't heard me go on and on about The Iron Claw, this is the movie that I recommend to anybody. The number one question I get when I either see people I haven't seen in a while, or I just meet somebody who doesn't know what I do and I tell them I have a movie podcast. They always ask me what do I watch? What do you recommend? My go to answer right now is The Iron Claw, because I think even though it is a sports based movie, it's the story of the Van Eric brothers, their tragic story, all about their rise and fall in wrestling. I don't think you have to enjoy sports movies. I really think the only pre equisite to enjoy the Iron Claw is do you like to feel feelings? And for me, when I go into a movie, more so than the special effects, more so than the actor in it, any other bells and whistles, cinematography, that all goes out the window, the thing I look for and really movies, music, or anything reading something is the emotion. I want to feel something while watching a movie, happiness, sadness, and sometimes for me, I searched that sadness my music taste, my movie taste. I love sad movies just because I think in my real life it is hard for me to feel sad. Sometimes it's like my body can't process that emotion. Sometimes I feel like a robot, like my heart is made of stone. But whenever I watch a really good movie that hits me right in the fields, that makes me like this movie did cry, that is powerful. So that is why I'm recommending this movie to everybody, and so far everybody that is reported back without knowing a whole lot going into it, said, man, that was really sad. So I don't do that to inherently recommend something that is so sad and a bummer, but because it's based on a true story, because you do learn but also feel something by the end of this movie. That is why it's been That is why, as of late, since it was added to MAX, has been my go to recommendation for people. It is also a movie I feel was really ripped off not being nominated for Best Picture. I think it should have won. Zach Effron, not even a single nod or anything for this movie, I feel like more people need to see it because the reason I like movies to win awards is because when people go back like I do and look at the history of what was nominated and what won over different years, this movie isn't going to be on those lists for twenty twenty three, and I think it should be. So I think you have to the fact that it didn't win all the awards, didn't get all the glory, but hopefully by people watching it now that it's available to stream at home, more people will see it. The legacy of the von Eric Brothers will live on and we'll all get to see a really ripped up Zach Efron. So I have the iron claw at number two. At number one, you knew what it was going to be now on Netflix Godzilla minus one. When this movie first came out in theaters, I knew it was going to be good because whenever Godzilla goes back in the hands of the people who created the character, if a Japanese studio attached to it, that is who is going to do Godzilla justice. And I feel like it's also just so refreshing to watch a Japanese style of storytelling that is different from the American style of storytelling when it comes to Godzilla, because there are polar opposites here. You have the American version who is teaming up with King Kong right now running a muck. It's a cgi mess, really big dumb action, which is enjoyable. I like those movies for what they are, but again, you're not going to go in there and see the most stop provoking, the most character driven. It is a popcorn movie, which every now and then you just need a movie like that. Some people enjoy their Godzilla like that. You also have the kind of in between, which would be Monarch, the TV show on Apple TV Plus, which is still Americanized but has a little bit more of a story. You have a little bit more emotional depth, but still a lot of the focus is waiting for those big action scenes with the big monsters in that On the complete opposite end is where I would put Gonzilla minus one, which is so much more character and story driven. It is about Japan after World War Two. It's in just disarray. The city of Tokyo is in shambles. The reason it's called Godzilla minus one is because Japan's ground zero after World War Two, and then you have Godzilla rearing his ugly head and taking them from ground zero to a step below that, so it is Godzilla minus one. It follows the story of a failed Kama Kazi pilot who at the beginning of the movie goes and stops at this base where you're supposed to go if you're experiencing problems with your plane. They check out his plane and they realize, hey, there's nothing wrong with your plane. We think you were just trying to get out of the war. And right in that moment you see Godzilla make his first appearance, and throughout the entire movie it follows this fail Kama Kazi pilot who keeps encountering Godzilla, and it is his struggle of wanting to fight but also wanting to live, but also has PTSD from the war, but now he is trying to find a way to redeem himself, and that is what the entire story really is about. And whenever I popped it on on Netflix, was so excited. It's surprise dropped at midnight one Friday night, so I watched it Saturday morning, right as I saw hit Click on Netflix. So in its original form that I watch it in theaters, you have Japanese actors speaking in Japanese. When Netflix did on default was switch their dialogue and just have somebody speaking an American overdubbed. And I tried to watch it for ten minutes just to see the difference because I had already seen it in Japanese with subtitles, and I found that it took the emotion out of all of it because there really wasn't any inflection on any of the speaking lines, and it just felt like there was somebody in a room with the script reading it line for line, just like you would like this, So you don't really get that emotion, you don't get that inflection, you don't get the real actors interactions and exchanges. You really just get somebody in a booth over dubble it with English for the sake of you being able to understand it. So I highly encourage you when you go watch this to watch it with the Japanese audio and American English subtitles. I think you will get so much out of it. And I get some people have problems watching movies in another language. I get it. I think I was like that maybe even just ten years ago. The movie that really obliterated my entire hesitancy with that was Parasite. So now I'm all about it, and I think I'm also in a place where I just want to watch a movie the way it was intended to be seen, and I'll adapt myself so I can learn. And I just feel like there's so much more emphasis on everything, and the performances are done so well that you just pick up on it even though you don't know the language. You get it more with their facial expressions and the inflections on their voices. So I know it may be weird if you're not used to watching movies like that, just give it a chance. I think this movie is worth it. There is a reason that I don't really hand out A whole lot of five out of fives has to be that good. That is why I put Godzilla minus one at number one. So happy that it's now on Netflix. I do have some honorable mentions. Again, this entire list was all movies that came out in the last year. One movie I wanted to mention because I've entered in the dragon Ball phase of my recapturing moments of my childhood, which I was a really big dragon Ball the fan back in the day. I used to watch it with my cousins in Mexico in Spanish and have been dipping my toes back into the series. But there are so many episodes, so I find myself gravitating towards the movies. The one I would recommend is one you actually have to pay for, dragon Ball Super Superhero, which was the first one I went and watched and completely loved it. It's almost a dragon Ball z take on a traditional superhero story. I thought that would was fantastic, but I think you have to pay at least three bucks to rent it. But Hulu did just add dragon Ball Super roy which came out back in twenty eighteen. This movie is kind of along those same lines. I just like the emotion in Dragonball Z of just like this feeling of having all this pent up anger and then go full super Saiyan, just unleashing all your power. I also love the way they incorporate comedy so effortlessly, which I remember that as a kid, but now watching it as an adult, the comedy in Dragon Ball is just next level. Another movie I would recommend, which is now on Hulu that we watched in theaters, was Ferrari. Because this is a movie that was an okay watch in theaters, but I told myself, I want to watch this at home, I probably would have enjoyed it more. It's about the inventor of the Ferrari and how that car was entirely embodied in race culture, and really the primary reason that he even had a company it was really to be able to to go and race cars, win and be able to sell Ferraris to the average person, which you're an average person. I don't think you're buying a Ferrari, but a pretty good Adam Driver performance wasn't one I really recommended to see in theaters, But now that it's available at home to check out on Hulu if you like. I mean, not a whole lot of people really know a whole lot about Ferrari. But if you like biographical dramas with a hint of racing, that it's a pretty good watch. Also on Hulu. If you never saw Poor Things with Emma Stone, it is really weird, a lot of nudity, but I find myself really gravitating now towards director Yorgos Lantimos. I'm also excited to see his new movie later this year. So this is a movie. If you don't enjoy after about twenty twenty five minutes, you're probably not going to enjoy the rest of the movie. So now that it's available to watch on Hulu, give it that first twenty minutes, and if you're completely repulsed or think it's garbage, just turn it off. And there are surprisingly a lot of good movies on Prime. The Boys in the Boat, which we'll get into a little bit here during the movie review, was a really great inspirational sports drama about a sport I didn't really know I cared about, or was that interesting rowing on Prime, you also have The Holdovers, which was really heartwarming and moving movie that I saw last year. Even though the movie is rooted in Christmas. It's not a Christmas movie, so I think you would be okay watching it now if you didn't have a chance to watch it in theaters last year. You also had one of my favorite comedies that came out in twenty twenty three now on Prime bottoms, And i'd also put Asteroid City on the list, which was from one of my favorite directors, Wes Anderson. Again, I don't think Wes Anderson movies are for everybody, and this movie is quintessential Wes Anderson, very kooky, very odd, a lot of dead pan comedies, so much like I said about Poor Things, if you don't enjoy this movie after about twenty minutes, just shut it off for you probably wouldn't get any better. And that's that type of movie that I really wouldn't recommend going to see in theaters unless, like me, you are a huge Wes Anderson fan. But if you're just curious wanting to dip your toes in it, check out about twenty minutes of the movie. If it's still not your thing, it's okay. It's also just beautifully shot, so if you just like watching scenes that are just so well framed and colored, so perfectly. Asteroid City might just be the movie for you. So those are my top five movies you can stream at home right now with some honorable mentions. We'll come back and talk about Young Women in the Sea starring Daisy Really Kelsey will hop in for that review. I never know what to do with my hand. Let's get into a spoiler free movie review of Young Women in the Sea. I have not been this inspired by a movie that we went to go see in theaters and they really like time.

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Speaker 3: I should have read the book.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's so unlike you. Not well, I guess I really know a whole lot about this story.

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Speaker 3: We just went to see it because it was I was like, Oh, a movie we haven't seen on a Friday night.

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Speaker 1: We love Daisy Ridley. I kind of forgot that it was a Disney movie going into it, but right when you walked in and you see the Disney logo, you're like, oh, we're about to be in for one of those types of movies. And it reminded me that when it comes to inspirational sports movies, Disney does it the best. They really don't make them all that often anymore.

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Speaker 3: They didn't do the boys in the Boat. No Clooney did that though. Yeah, so Clooney does a good inspirational sports movie.

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Speaker 1: This movie kind of feels in a way like Boys in the Boat was, so I thought a little bit similar, maybe because they're both in water the time period. Although that one was in World War Two, this one takes place in the nineteen twenties, so it just has that similar type of vibe. But what this movie is about Trudy Itterly or her real name, Gertrude Italy, which you don't really hear a lot of people named Gertrude anymore. And I was hoping this movie would come out and people would be so inspired to name their kids Gertrude. Did you imagine a baby now named Gertrude?

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Speaker 3: Imagine if you had a kid Gertrude, Rodriguez.

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Speaker 1: Gertrude, get over here. Gertrude with the knipepad just doesn't really flow together. But her story is I feel like it's a little bit of a spoiler because in the description of the movies it's.

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Speaker 3: Not a spoiler, it's based on a true story.

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Speaker 1: Because I feel that if you go watch something that you have no idea about, you have to kind of present it the same way you would any type of movie. But the literal description of this movie is Trudy Utterly overcomes adversity and she becomes the first woman to complete the twenty mile track from France to England aka the English Channel. So in the description of the movie, you know what it's about. But here's how I feel about these types of spoilers. In particular, if they give it away, it's okay to talk about it.

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Speaker 3: But also, history isn't a spoiler.

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Speaker 1: It's true like some things in history I don't know about and I don't want it, got it.

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Speaker 3: It can't be a spoiler if it really happened, like if you could have learned about it at some point in time, whether it be.

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Speaker 1: A book, it can still be a spoiler, but you can't be upset about it. Much like the way your younger brother ruined the end of Ford to be ferrari for you. He's like, it's it really happened, but still you didn't know how it happened.

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Speaker 3: This is true. Okay, I forgot about that, but still.

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Speaker 1: This is something like the whole premise of the movie. And the reason they made a movie about Trudy Utterly is because what she accomplished. So you're watching this movie knowing how it's going to and knowing that she's going to cross the English Channel and complete it. You don't know all the hardships, all the hardships, so you don't know all that. So for me, even if somebody spoils a movie for me, if it's a good movie, I'm going to enjoy the journey. But what this movie is about. You have Trudy at a very young age, who is six. She has measles. They think she is going to die, and she ends up pulling.

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Speaker 3: Through, which is one of the funniest scenes.

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Speaker 1: And then after she has measles, they tell her that she's not gonna be able to swim because if she gets in the water she could lose her which measles is just a wild disease.

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Speaker 3: Measles is coming back.

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Speaker 1: That's sad because I won't.

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Speaker 3: Get on my public health tangent. But there is a vaccine for it, It's all I'll say.

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Speaker 1: But then she wants to swim, and even though her parents are so scared what would happen if she gets sick again or if she loses their hearing, she is able to convince her parents, to her mom, her mom.

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Speaker 3: Her mom was awesome.

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Speaker 1: Her mom was great. Her dad was the one that was more hesitant of her swimming, not just because she was sick, but also because she's a woman, so classic that was the first hardship she had to overcome. And what I like about movies like this that are about a character who overcomes something, and really the main headline is her crossing crossing the English Channel and all the training she has to do from not being able to swim finding a coach, and the movie is also a story about two sisters, so I always like to find that underlying story. It kind of reminded me of the first time I watched La Bamba, which is the story of Richie Vallen's and his rights to fame. And if you just look at that trailer of that movie, look at the description, you think that's what it's going to be about about it, while it is about him, and it's a biopic and it gets all into how he became famous and how he died. At the core of that movie, it's really a story about two brothers. One brother who is destined for greatness. His mom is kind of pushing his career he's like the star child, he's the favorite, and the other brother is kind of the degenerate, doesn't really get a whole lot of attention. He's messed up a lot. And it's how even though they love each other, they butt heads a lot because they are so opposite and because one gets more love from the mom and the other doesn't. Kind Of in that same way is the parallels between Trudy and her sister, of Trudy ends up being the one who is the elite swimmer, even though her sister was also a swimmer, and her sister goes through these other kind of hardships of how she is going to find somebody to marry, find a career, and it's just really hard for both of them. And even though they are kind of on these opposite trajectories in life, it is their bond as sisters and how close they are, how much they look out for each other, and how much they love each other is really almost a foundation of this movie. So aside from me being inspired to want to go out into the sea and learn how to do the long distance swimming did not make me want to, uh, there were some parts like whenever she swims at night, that's literally one of my worst nightmares, being in open water at night. No, thank you, that seems terrifying to me.

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Speaker 3: Also, just like her sense of and she has a kind of not a guide boat but alongside her, but her sense of directionality, which I won't give any spoilers, there's a part where it's like, oh, no, but I just you're really good at directions. I could stand in the ocean, you turn me around a couple times, and I don't know which way is land it's hot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't. I don't even know where to look. I don't even know what to look for. And not only the part of just like knowing where you are and knowing where to go, I think just the level of exhaustion. Oh you have the same much experience.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I could relate to in that regard is I run a lot. I do long distance running. But I can't imagine being in a place where you're just in the middle of the ocean. It's just like you keep pushing yourself. You can't stop, you.

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Speaker 3: Can't take a break in the stand. Yeah, you like float on your back from if you run.

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Speaker 1: For that same amount for twenty one miles you can stop, you can take a break, and you don't risk death just by slowing down. And it's also the fact that you're just in open water and there are no rules. The things in the ocean don't know that you're going for a record here. They don't care about you. You're not in like a controlled environment. You are just in the open water. There are no rules. The sea is unforgiving. It's gonna do what it wants to you. And that's why this was such a dangerous thing to attempt, why so many people have failed, and why she was seen as like, you're not gonna do this. You're a woman, There's no way you could possibly achieve this.

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Speaker 3: Also, I love that they use what was it, like lard and like porpoise fat. She seems a little unethical. Probably to keep me warm, Yeah, And then I guess the lard is to be able to move. Is the lard also to keep them warm? Yeah, some of it to keep move through the water better.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that too, But I think what I read is they put it on to keep them warm because she's in just the swimsuit. Because I'm freezing water.

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Speaker 3: I can't even swim underwater without holding my nose that's the other day gets embarrassing, diggession.

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Speaker 1: Freezing cold, and then all the salt, which I did. This is one of those movies you watch and go research a little bit about afterwards, and I'm happy to report that pretty much everything that happens in the movie actually happened in real life. I think they changed some of the timeline as far as when things happen, just to move it along.

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Speaker 3: Also sometimes in movies, because I've listened to a podcast recently where an author of fiction was talking about how her movies are gonna be made, movies are gonna be made from her books, and she was saying, like, audiences don't necessarily want to see the exact same thing in the movie, like if you wanted the same thing read the book. But like a movie, adaptation is meant to keep people entertained and keep the story moving, and there's a little bit of like creative liberties that come with turning a true story or a book into a movie.

00:34:13
Speaker 1: I do like some subtle plot changes. I think of whenever I read all the Hunger Game books and then went to go watch those movies in theaters. It's a little bit less exciting to see it play out exactly how it did in the book and take it beat from beat because you know what is going to come. So it's a little less like oh yeah, that was cool. It's like, oh yeah, then this happens. Then this happens. I already read all this. It was almost like you've already seen the movie before going to see the movie, right, So I do like some changes, And obviously they're going to hollywood up it a little Did I say that right? They're going to hollywood it up a little bit. There you go, because to take a movie adaptation, you kind of make some more inspiring moments, to change a little bit of things, you embellish here and there, and you still hold the integrity of the story, but also make it a little bit more entertaining, exciting and uplifting. And I think Disney has done that pretty well over just all the inspirational sports movies that they've done.

00:35:07
Speaker 3: Were you saying something about the salt? Is that what we were? What started this?

00:35:10
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was researching coming back after. I just wanted to see how accurate everything was. And the one thing they actually didn't include in the movie is due to the fact that she was submerged in salt water for so long, her tongue was swollen by the end of it. Because just imagine you're just and you're taking in all the salt water, just your I mean, I just imagine what it does to your skin. But then your mouth is open, so your tongue just flowed up. Like you probably changed like this, much like people criticize my podcast because I have a little lisp because of my braces, So that's probably, well, you don't like what I make fun of myself.

00:35:46
Speaker 3: It makes me mad. Fun of me, I know right here on YouTube, and I don't like that.

00:35:50
Speaker 1: But I'm getting them off soon so people can relax.

00:35:54
Speaker 3: That's okay. Somebody wants on your Instagram ast if I was pregnant, so.

00:35:58
Speaker 1: People on the internet can get it. They did ask whatever, I just if they have a thought. You know.

00:36:03
Speaker 3: It's like when you think things, maybe don't ask. People on the internet are just like, you know what I'm gonna ask, And.

00:36:08
Speaker 1: It's a lose lose situation. Like with me with my braces, it's either hey, why don't you smile when I do smile? Hey, when are you getting those things off?

00:36:15
Speaker 2: Hey?

00:36:15
Speaker 1: You talk like I don't know what to do.

00:36:18
Speaker 3: I did see people asking Taylor Swift if Taylor Shift was pregnant, and I was like, the woman does a three and a half hour show and is in the best shape ever. Like we just we can't win as women.

00:36:27
Speaker 1: But this was a movie that I got more and more inspired as it went along.

00:36:31
Speaker 3: It was so good.

00:36:32
Speaker 1: It was just I think it was also that we went into it not expecting a whole lot. I'm also I think we're both now kind of on a Daisy Ridley kick.

00:36:38
Speaker 3: Such a big fan of Daisy Ridley. Her acting, her range is incredible.

00:36:42
Speaker 1: I also went and saw some of the behind the scenes and to see her actually in the water filming this movie. Like I don't know if they went to the English channel exactly, but they actually went out into open water and filmed some of these scenes, and she was saying that she became a better swimmer as filming went on, so it kind of was like the progression of her character in the movie. I think that's a pretty big level of commitment because you could easily just shoot this all in a tank and not have to go out and actually swim, or you could just get a stunt double to do it all, and.

00:37:13
Speaker 3: Then they showed pictures at the end of like the Real.

00:37:17
Speaker 1: Pretty part of a True Story movie.

00:37:19
Speaker 3: And again this isn't a spoiler, but she eventually did loose her hearing due to swimming and having had measles. But then she devoted her life to teaching deaf kids how to swim, and it was so sweet and cute, and they had like pictures and I'm shocked that they had the footage of her like making it like they had like video footage of that from the nineteen twenties.

00:37:40
Speaker 1: I don't even have memories of me from like two thousand to two thousand and seven, and they have stuff from back in the twenties.

00:37:45
Speaker 3: I don't know what I did yesterday, So to have footage of I don't even know that I wear any of my like VHS videos of me as a child are so the fact that they had that, that's like seventeen precursors to the VHS.

00:37:58
Speaker 1: Tape, Like that is important. Better roll on us here, all right. So overall, for Young Woman in the Sea, what would you rate it?

00:38:06
Speaker 3: Doing it five out of five jellyfish.

00:38:09
Speaker 1: I would give it a strong four point five out of five pairs.

00:38:14
Speaker 3: Of goggles, but I think I might read the book. Now.

00:38:16
Speaker 1: I like to say I'd go and read the book, but I know i'd read like two pages and be like, I'm going to read something else.

00:38:22
Speaker 3: I'll read the book for everyone and report back.

00:38:24
Speaker 1: There we go, It's time to head down to movie.

00:38:31
Speaker 3: Mic Treylar Paul.

00:38:33
Speaker 1: The Sony Spider Versus like that ex boyfriend, You've taken back time and time again. You've given them a second chance, given them a third chance, because every time they've told you, I promise I can change, I'll be better. You keep going back, But what do they keep doing? Giving you the same old thing? I keep going back to the Sony Spider Verse. Well, if you're not familiar with how Marvel is different, you have the MCU, which is on Todasney side, and then you have the Sony side, which really they just have all the villains. It's your more biases, it's your Madam webs. It is that entire side of Sony that, unless it's the animated into the Spider Verse series, it is just sub sub par. And I think for most people who really don't know or care to know the difference between the two, it really diminishes the value of Marvel as a whole when you have a movie come out last year like Madam Webb and everybody rip it to shreds. But when it comes to the Venom franchise within this Sony Spider Verse, the reason I keep going back to this one so much and expecting something so different is because I am such a huge fan of the character Venom. Venom was my first favorite villain because I was a kid watching Spider Man the animated series, and to me, Venom was always the coolest because Spider Man is my favorite superhero and rarely do you have a villain that that exactly mirrors what the hero is like, and that is what Venom is. He is a black and white, extra charged up version of Spider Man, even though he doesn't really have the Spider capabilities. He is a symbiot, so it's this alien creature that in the origin story from the comics, he overtook Spider Man's suit, so Peter Parker had the black Spider Man suit, and then he had his first full appearance later when he inhabited Eddie Brock instead of Peter Parker. So because I was such a big fan of him, in the comics Him and the animated show. I was so hyped up for that first Venom movie, and I think it's because I had such high expectations for that film that it really let me down. Really comes down to the look of Venom that I am just not a big fan of, and from one to two to now part three, they haven't really changed a whole lot about it, and that really bums me up, because when it comes down to it, I think me as being such a big fan of the original character and design in the animated show, I want to see a more comic accurate version of Venom, and instead what we get is this big, glossy character that doesn't really have all those same distinct features that I feel made Venom who he is, and I would rather him have a matt finish on his skin, a bigger emphasis on the muscles, and making the teeth look really jinky and a little bit scary, which is really what I get from Venom's character in the comic books is he had more attitude. There was more of a sinister quality to Venom, and in this movie he really has more of a comedic tone. They do that for Venom in that combined with Tom Hardy's performance, who I think does a pretty good job as Eddie Brock. He has really committed himself to this role now doing a third movie, that is a win within itself. But I just feel like overall the tone of the character is just a little bit off. So you've talked a lot here so far about I feel about Venom overall. Will get into exactly what is going on in this final chapter of this story, but before we do that, here's a little bit of Venom the last Dance that is coming out in October. There's an army coming that cannot be beaten.

00:42:15
Speaker 3: As long as the Venom last everything, we may not make it out of this alive.

00:42:23
Speaker 1: Buddy, your time is come.

00:42:27
Speaker 3: Be honest.

00:42:27
Speaker 1: I mean, how fast do you think you can get that thing you go without killing it on? So I think that is the big thing you heard there at the end of the trailer that everybody is talking about is Venom taking over this horse his body and they ride off together on this symbio horse, Which that tells you overall what the tone is going to be in this movie. It is very campy. It is very fun, very comical, and I don't like the direction that came book movies tend to go in when they take that route, Hey, we're gonna make this fun We're gonna make all these little jokes. I don't want my comic book movies to be funny anymore. I think that was so much of a reflection of the twenty tens that really should have ended with Endgame, And I know that was something that Marvel became known for. They're funny and action packed at the same time, but now it just feels so dated to me, and I just want to see a straight ahead finally to this movie. You take away all the jokes and it comes down to who is going to live by the end of this film. Is it gonna be Eddie Brock, Is it gonna be Venom? Are they gonna go down together? Is one going to survive? Is one not? Because in this movie they are both being hunted. Venom is being hunted by the symbiotes who live back on his planet. It looks like they come down to Earth and they are just so overpowered and crazy looking, so he is trying to take them on. And then you have Eddie Brock being pursued dude by military and scientists you have Juno Temple playing one of the scientists. You probably know her as Keighley from ted Lasso. You also have Danny Rojas from ted Lasso, who, if you remember from the No Way Home post credit scene, it was a Venom post credit scene for some reason in that movie, which is really weird to connect these two. And the big rumor is Andrew Garfield going to be and have a cameo in this? Before I put those two together, I would have said no. And I was so hell bent on him or Toby Maguire not being in No Way Home, and we all found out they were. So do I think Andrew Garfield is going to be in this one? I kind of hope so, mainly because I need this movie to have something else going for it. But at the end of No Way Home, the post credit scene was Eddie Brock going to a bar and Danny Rojas is his bartender, And pretty much what you take away from that is, well, it kind of had a confused because they reference all the things in the MCU, But you have Eddie Brock there who is not in the MCU. He is in the Sony Spider Verse, and those characters already don't go together. But then at the start of this trailer you see both Daniel Rojas and Eddie Brock wearing the exact same outfit that they were wearing in that post credit scene, So that leads me to believe that the Last Dance is taking place right after the events, at least in some weird They had to have some kind of plan that these two movies were going to bleed into each other. So if it wasn't for those details of them wearing the same shirts of Andrew Garfield being in No Way Home, I would have said, no, probably not a chance. But now I think he's open to it. I think he saw all the love he got after doing that movie. So I lowered my expectations going into two. I really have even lower expectations going into three. I'm going to take it for what it is. This isn't a movie I'm going to go in and want to ripped to shreds for the sake of ripping it to shreds. Because I love the character. I want it to be better than Part two. But by the looks of this trailer kind of feels like they're pulling out tricks from the same bag, doing all the same gags, The action doesn't really look to be advancing much. The sound design is really the same. There's nothing really exciting to me about this trailer, and the one real moment that I think they were expecting people to really grasp onto them riding away on that symbiote horse, even that was, oh man, this is really what they're going with here. But as long as Eddie Brock doesn't say the line he was in the Amazon with my mom researching spiders right before he died, I think will be okay. Venom the Last Dance is coming out in theaters on October twenty fifth. I will be there, And again I have to predict that I'm gonna say that Eddie Brock is going to die because Tom Hardy had that big post saying goodbye to the character, and I really don't think he would do that if one like you said he is done playing Venom. But also that we're going to have a really definite end, So I think Eddie Brock will die. But then they'll do that thing like they did in the No Way Home post credit scene where you just see the little black blob start moving at the end of the movie, So then that would open it up for the symbiote to take over another person and you go into another trilogy with another actor. So hey, we have that to look forward to.

00:47:31
Speaker 2: If that was this week's edition of Movie lin Framer par and.

00:47:35
Speaker 1: That is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I got to give my listener shout out of the week. How do you get one of these and comment one of my videos on YouTube, on my TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, all those things you can find always the links to those in the episode notes of this podcast. But this week I'm going over to my letterbox, and you're not familiar letterbox. It is essentially social media for movie lovers. So much like Facebook is for your grandma, TikTok is for gen Z, you have Letterbox, which is just a place for film enthusiast, film nerds, movie buffs, pretty much anybody who listens to this podcast at any level of movie fan that you are, and you can go on there and log every single movie you watch. So I have been making it a point this year to categorize and list all the movies that I watch, not only the ones that I review on this podcast, but even movies I go back and Rewatch, I log it all there, I give my thoughts, I give my star rating. So ifever you miss an episode and you don't want to watch it on YouTube. Like individual movie reviews that I post there, you can go over to my letterbox and just see my written reviews. And this week I'm going over to the comments there. I got a comment on letterbox from Luke Who, who said, does this qualify for the listener shout out of the week. I really look forward to your episodes every week, Mike, so Luke Who, thank you for following me there. Thank you for listening every single week. I'm gonna follow you back on letterbox and see what you watch the look who you are this week's listener of the week. Thank you for listening in your car, in your earbuds right now. Appreciate you. Until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later