Unreleased Movies and Shocking Reasons Why! + Movie Review: Bullet Train + Trailer Park: Samaritan

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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 talk about movies that never saw the light of day and the reasons why you may have seen some controversy going around with a new Backgirl movie and d C and Warner Brothers completely shelving the product. We'll talk all about that, and then in the movie review I'll talk about the new Brad Pitt action movie called Bullet Train. And in the trailer park there is another superhero movie, this time with Sylvester Stallone. It's a very Sylvester Stallone role and I think I'm here for it. Thanks everybody for being subscribed to the podcast, listening every single week. Movie Crew, you guys know what this is. Let's talk movies. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking on MTV with glasses. From the Nashville Podcast Network. Movie mis Movie Podcast. Unreleased never before seen movies and the shocking reasons why I got completely obsessed with this topic in the last week and It all started because of what happened with the new Batgirl movie. And maybe you haven't heard about this, but what has happened is that Warner Brothers and d C have decided to completely shelve the product. Warner Brothers is going through a lot right now, a lot of big changes that they are making for their streaming platform, HBO Max, and they have made the decision to not release this ninety million dollar film. It won't go to theaters, it won't even go up on HBO Max. And there are a lot of reasons why, and none of them really make that much sense to me. Something that the director, the actors in this movie have been working on for the last couple of years to get this movie made. You can only imagine how excited you are to release this movie. And now nobody's gonna see it. And this isn't the first time this has happened. This has happened a lot in history, and each of these cases we'll talk about it's pretty mind blowing. So on the Back Girl case, it had a production budget of ninety million dollars. They say they started screen testing it, which is where they bring in audiences. They watched the movie, they give their thoughts on it, and the movie is supposedly tested pretty badly, and they were gonna, you know, a movie that was already complete, they would have to go in and maybe make some changes, reshoot some things. But instead of that, they have just decided that they are not going to put out a movie unless they completely believe in it. And I think this has to do a lot with d C wanting to rival Marvel right now, and they have since said that they have this tenure plan that's along the same lines of what Marvel does. Every movie comes out, it's part of their DC universe and it all has to fit together and every piece has to be up to their standards because in the past, DC has been, you know, just said that they don't put out the best movies. They get ridiculed when some of these movies come out, and they are always kind of seen as the ones who can't get it together. So for them, it would be worth it more to take the ninety mill llion dollar hit and not put this movie out, not have that image on their movies. And there's another report saying that the movie is essentially not coming out because there is this tax loophole and in order for Warner Brothers to take advantage of this tax loophole that they'll make their money back from this movie. As being able to completely write it off is that it can't exist anywhere. They can't even throw it up on their streaming services because if they do, that loophole no longer exists. There's also a specific window where they can take this loophole in, and that time is now. I guess the sad thing for me is seeing Leslie Grace, who was a newer actress, and she put up this whole message saying that they had filmed this movie over seven months, put a lot into it, created a lot of good memories, but now it's sad that it's not actually coming out. She played the character back Girl in this movie. She was supposed to team up with Batman played by Michael Keaton, who was reprising the role from back in the Tim Burton days, and they were supposed to team up together and fight the super villain Firefly played by Brendan Fraser, who was also having a bit of a resurgence right now, kind of a comeback in his career, and this also sucks for him too. He's still gonna be in some other movies coming out that I'm excited about. But all these characters in this movie, you have Michael Keaton backs Batman, which he's also still supposed to be in the upcoming Flash movie. No definitive word yet on that movie even coming out, but it's still set for June. So I'm curious to see what this new tenure plan is and how the new Chazanne movie and how Black Adam is going to play into that. Is that now going to be the book end on this or is that the new kickoff for it. I don't really know at this point. And I talked about fairly recently how I was saying that I was more excited about the upcoming DC projects and maybe some of the stuff in Marvel, and I had so much faith in them. I think in the last few years, my favorite superhero was that have really stayed with me have been DC films. The Batman and The Suicide Squad have been some that have left this kind of imprint in my head of being some of my favorite movies because they were so different, because I felt like the quality was a lot stronger. I found those movies to have a longer impression on me and as the type of film fan that I am, they kind of spoke to me a little more than some of the Marvel movies, even though I love those as well, But there was just a little bit more to the style of those two movies, and they just happened to be DC movies. And in the back of my head, I'm just wondering, is this some kind of marketing plan, because if it is, that would be amazing. If they canceled this movie, create all this uproar, create all this rising in their fandoms, that would be one of the smartest moves ever. And then come another couple of months they're like, you know what, We're gonna put it out on HBO Max. Anyway, here it is, and then it becomes the highest streaming movie ever on the platform. If they do that, kudos to them, because I think so many people would be following along to this plot line. That would be the only way we get to see this if they end up making that decision, or somebody hacks into Warner Brothers and leaks the footage, which a lot of these movies I'm gonna talk about, even though they never came out in theaters, some of them are still available on YouTube, so who knows, maybe in ten years we'll get to at least see a few scenes or maybe some clips from the back Girl movie. And the last thing I'll say about that is I did see more about this announcement they made and some changes to HBO Max that are upcoming next year that they are going to merge with Discovery Plus, which is interesting. Of the shows they are bringing over, I'm not sure exactly what's going to happen with all the movies. As we've seen in the last week that HBO Max has quietly removed some of their original movies, which was another thing I hadn't really seen before. I feel like once movies go onto streaming services, they just exist there forever. And this kind of goes back to me wanting to own some of my favorite movies as actual physical copies because you can't take those away. And I know sometimes people make fun of people who will still buy blue rays. They're still collect DVDs because there is something to having something tangible, and you think, why collect them when you can just watch them on your favorite streaming service. Well that's why. Because they're not guaranteed to be there, even the originals that they spend so much money on that they put on there, they can take those away too. So if you really love something and you never want to go away, have that physical copy unless somebody comes to your house and melts it or steals it. At least you own that. But let's continue on with the topic. While we're talking about superhero movies. Did you know there was a Fantastic Four movie made that was never released in theaters. Some say it was because it was never supposed to be released, that they only made this movie so they could keep the film rights. Stan Lee says, one thing that they made this movie with the intention of just that it never actually coming out. The director who was a known B movie director, and what that means is kind of like cheesier, less quality type movies, movies just not up to that Hollywood standard. He was like, no, I put my entire creative process and my entire being into making this movie. But this is back in long before the Marvel we know now, when they did make movies that weren't guaranteed hits, whether it be this Fantastic Four movie or even movies like Howard the Duck, they weren't as mainstream as they are now, But after watching some clips of this movie on YouTube, I honestly think that it never saw the light of day because it is so bad. It is so cheesy. It does have that B movie feel to it. The special effects aren't there, especially when it comes to the character the Thing. It kind of just looks like a parody of a superhero movie. And just to give you a feel for this movie, here's just a clip of the Fantastic Four. This is the moment where the character the Ing sees what he has become for the first time. And listen to this clip and visualize that the thing, even though he sounds like Patrick Starr from SpongeBob SquarePants. Then we're all gonna go get some help. So it seems that we didn't really miss a whole lot not seeing that Fantastic Four movie, a movie that Marvel is still yet to get down perfectly. Maybe hopefully in the oncoming phases, Maybe hopefully in the upcoming phase five and phase six where we get that superhero movie, they'll actually do it some justice. But if you want to see clips of that movie, or want to watch the entire thing, you can just search Fantastic four on YouTube and there's even a documentary called Doomed, the Untold Story of Roger your Corman's The Fantastic Four, which is all about the making of that movie and how it never got released. Let's move on now to a movie called Empires of the Deep was supposed to come out in This is probably the most expensive movie on this list to never be released. At the end of production, this movie ended up costing a hundred and thirty million dollars. A lot of these other movies did not cost the fraction of this a hundred and thirty million dollars. This movie was said to be a movie that was going to rival James Cameron's Avatar, which came out a few years before in two thousand and nine. This was an American and China joint adventure. It's supposed to be this movie about this war happens under water between these two different kingdoms of mermaids and crabs. So many three D special effects were supposed to be in this movie, but if you go and watch the trailer, it doesn't even look up to quality as like a cable TV movie. It actually looks more like a bad sci fi movie from the eighties instead of a movie being produced in the twenty tens. Just to give you a little taste of this, here is a little bit of the Empires of the Deep trailer. Thousand years have passed since kest lies in the prophecy and the power of the sacred. So the reason this movie never came out, even though there was a trailer out it was being shown in theaters. That trailer was at least and the movie went through forty drafts of the script over five years, eight different screenwriters. It went through so many directors. You had actors who were there at the beginning of the movie and then we're either fired or quit halfway through. So the entire thing was just a disaster. So on top of that, the cast ended up being made up primarily by unknown actors, and they were supposed to really be banging on all these special effects, but with all those delays, all those changes, they never really got to the quality that they were looking for when it came to using this three D technology. Once that trailer finally came out, it was released, as you can imagine, fairly poorly. People ripped it to shreds, and therefore this movie never came out. Aside from this trailer will probably never get to see it up. Next is a movie called Dark Blood, which is supposed to come out in nineteen three. Dark Blood is the story of this young man known only as the Boy, and this boy believes that the end of the world is near, so he lives in this self imposed exile out in the desert. And this boy is played by no other than River Phoenix, who you may remember died in the nineties and he passed away when roughly eight of this movie was already done, So what a tragic death. In Hollywood. Sometimes we forget about River Phoenix passing away. And after his death, the director was really set on finishing the movie because yeah, eighty cent of it was already done, so he even approached his brother, Joaquin Phoenix, but his family rejected the idea of his younger brother being in the film. And essentially what he did to complete the movie was he filled in not having River Phoenix with some narration, put that over some of the missing scenes, but again at the request of the family, at them just rejecting the idea of completing the movie without River Phoenix. The movie was never fully released, although it has been screened a handful of times at Film festivals, most recently in twelve, which was almost twenty years after the movie was originally filmed. Out of all the movies on this list, I think this is one that actually would have done well, and it was shelled more due to a real life situation, a real tragedy, other than it just being a bad movie not deserving to see the light of day, starring an actor that we just lost too soon. Next up, I want to talk about a movie called Don's Plum from two thousand and one, and this movie is about a group of Los Angeles teenagers and they meet every week at this local diner and the movie is shot in black and white. It's a very jarring movie to look at, but it's all these pretty well known actors now. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a character named Derek, Toby Maguire as Ian, and Kevin Connolly, who you may remember from Entourage, as another character named Jeremy. And the movie Dawn's Plum is centered around this group of friends, all twenty something year old and they meet at this restaurant which is called Don's Plum every single Saturday night. It's them hanging out with girls. They get into a lot of verbal and physical altercations, and there was really very little of a plot at all. It was kind of just the hangout movie supposed to be a lot of improv. Just to give you kind of a feel for it, here's the clip of the movie that's actually posted on YouTube. I want you guys right whatever this is all about ten years from now, you know what I'm saying, And that just happens to be one of the best clips of the movie because much of the movie is improvised. A lot of it I heard and from my research was saying that you're not a DiCaprio and Toby maguire just kind of pulled a lot from their real life and got into their characters. But we're really kind of portraying some things. Maybe they went through some of their own feelings, but it's all improv. That's what you do in improv. You pull from your real life experiences and bring that out through a character. But I think once the movie was done, they realized maybe it didn't show them in the best light. And when they signed up for the movie it was only supposed to be a short. They had no idea it was actually going to be a feature linked movie. They were only paid five and seventy five dollars per day to appear in this film, so one of the producers on the movie actually allegedly said that Toby aguire didn't want the movie to come out because he felt his improvised performance just revealed too much about him, and this producer named David Stuttman actually filed a lawsuit in nineteen against dicabrio and McGuire and they were able to settle on allowing the film to be released outside of the US outside of Canada after some of the scenes were removed, but the movie is available on YouTube. But it is kind of interesting to see them that young, especially because Toby maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio have been friends since they were young, and Don's Plum was actually the second movie they did together. They did another movie in nine called This Boy's Life, and they would do their third movie together in with The Great Gatsby. I think they actually have a lot of great on screen chemistry because they are friends. Aside from that, there's nothing really making me want to sit down and watch Don's Plum. Now, you probably know the movie Revenge of the Nerds, which came out in nineteen eighty four, but it was supposed to be revived and rebooted in the two thousands. In two thousand and six, there was a movie starring Adam Brody and Jenna Dewan, directed by Kyle Newman, who also did a movie in two thousand and nine later called Fanboys, and it was actually filmed partially in two thousand and six, but production was quickly put to a stop, and the movie had issues right off the bat. First of all, they were filming on Emory University, and they ended up objecting to the script and forced the filmmakers to go out and find a new location because they didn't want them anymore. And that all happened on pretty short notice. And then about two weeks after filming, the executives at the studio felt the movie look too small and decided the entire project wasn't coming together how they had hoped, so they completely shut down filming. The cast and crew did end up getting paid, but they all just ended up having to go their separate ways. If you look back on the original Revenge of the Nerds, there are some things in that movie you probably couldn't make today. So I think when they were making this movie. Maybe they were going a little bit harder at some of those themes, some of those topics, some of those scenes, and it was seen maybe as inappropriate, maybe as something that maybe something so bad or just at times to progress in the two thousands that they didn't want to be a part of that college just didn't want to be associated with that. Maybe it's just the movie that didn't really need to be rebooted. There's a really interesting case of a movie from nineteen seventy two called The Day of the Clown Died. There's quite an interesting urban legend surrounding this movie, which stars Jerry Lewis who plays a clown at a Nazi interment camp. Sounds like a pretty wild premise, and Jerry Lewis, who was known primarily for comedy, he was reluctant to take on this role of a clown, but agreed to star in and direct the movie. I think in the beginning stages of this movie while they were writing it, while he agreed to direct it, he fell like he was doing something that would be exposing the horrors of the Holocaust. And then as production started and they're filming this movie kind of realized that they were doing something that they weren't really going to be proud of. The message wasn't getting out there, and even right off the bat, and the movie had financial problems. They disagreed on parts of the script. They had some arguments with the writer of the movie. Jerry Lewis had made some changes to the script to make the clown more sympathetic instead of being this cowardly and selfish character that was written. And then the rights of the film got ripped to shreds. But what ended up happening is that Jerry Lewis himself was able to secure the rights to this movie. He had the rough cut, and at the end of it he was just embarrassed by it and didn't want this movie to come out. And in the end he was embarrassed by the little quality of the film and was happy when it never saw the light of day. But before he died in August of seventeen, he donated the incomplete copy of the movie to the lie Bury of Congress. He did this in and it was under the stipulation that the movie not be screen before June, so we have a couple of years until we can actually see this movie. And then finally I want to talk about a movie called one hundred Years, which was filmed and advertised back in two thousand and five with the tagline of the movie you will never see. This movie hasn't been seen by anybody because it's supposed to be released on November. That is correct, two thousand, one hundred and fifteen is when this movie is supposed to be released, a hundred years after it was filmed. Now why is that, you may ask, Well, the movie A hundred years is this experimental sci fi movie written by John Malkovich and directed by Robert Rodriguez. And what it seems on the surface of this movie, it was all kind of a marketing thing for this alcohol that I won't even mention the name of, but that they say takes a hundred in years to make a bottle of this. So paired with that advertisement on this alcohol, there's this short film that exists that they say was actually filmed, that it is a real thing that was locked away in this safe that will somehow automatically open on November and that's when we can finally see this movie. So what the whole thing just kind of feels like a commercial because they say the entire plot of this movie is completely secret. They put out some trailers of the movie which you see this safe and this alcohol in it, and there's some exterior shots of this very futuristic world. I guess what they envisioned the world will look like. But none of us will be around to see the premiere, and it's being kept in this really high tech safe behind bullet proof glass. I think there's probably nothing in there. I guess that same year we'll also get the Backgirl movie. But I hope you enjoyed that those are movies that have never seen the light of day. Coming up, i'll give my review of Bullet Train, and then we'll talk about a new Sylvestor stallone movie where you played a superhero. Let's get into a movie review. Let's talk about Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt. It's an action thriller, but really not one of your typical action movies. It really wasn't what I was expecting at all. It's about these five assassins. They all get on board this fast moving bullet train, so it's kind of like a bottle movie. And then the entire thing is a little bit mystery. You're trying to figure out how all of their lives intertwined, which I really like that aspect to it. Before I get into my full review, here's just a little taste of Bullet Train. Just men, nurse, do I my stop? Something else going on here? Hi? You don't remember me? You look like everyone home this man I've ever saying, really, you don't remember me? So maybe that trailer paints a little bit more of a picture of what this movie is about, what the style is. I think it took me about twenty maybe even twenty five minutes to get into this movie. It's a little bit of an acquired taste, and I think that may take some people out of this movie. But once you get into it, you realize the comedic style, you realize the over the top action style. It really is a fun ride because the movie is part murder mystery, part action, part comedy, so it's all these things kind of working together. But the jokes are very exaggerated, the action is very exaggerated, and the movie is based on a Japanese novel. It takes place on this bullet train in Japan, so I almost feel like it borrows from that kind of anime style where you know, it's very expressive, which on the service level may feel a little bit corny, especially when you go into it just expecting, oh, it's Brad Pitt in an action movie. But once you allow yourself to understand what is going on, know that it's supposed to be over exaggerated for a reason, to realize there's something a little bit more there. And what I really liked about this is the direction on the action. It's very practical, and I think that's because it's directed by David Leach. She also did movies like Deadpool too. He worked on the first John Wick movie, so I know that's why a lot of people are comparing it to that he has a relationship with Brad Pitt. He was a stunt double in movies like Fight Club, Troy, Mr and Mrs Smith, and he worked with Brad Pitt to get him to be able to do his own stunts in this movie, and I thought that added a pretty good touch to it. It's not like he's jumping off of buildings or doing anything too out there, but the fact that it is Brad Pitt, who is almost sixty, which I found pretty surprising doing about of his stunts. I think that shows his commitment at his point in his career where he could just hop out and have a stunt double do this, and within that action, it kind of feels like part kill bill, part anime, part comedy. And at moments it does kind of feel like it's trying a little bit too hard to have that tarantino esque style to it, but it's not as artsy, it's not as cinematic enough to be a Quentin Tarantino movie. But I do think it is the overexaggeration of these characters of the comedy that gives this movie a little bit of charm. I ended up enjoying that all the senses were overheightened, all the facial expressions were very kind of comical, cartoon like, but I can see where that may lose some people. I think I actually saw a couple get up at one point during the movie and leave and never come back. And maybe it's because it is over the top violent. I'm talking people getting stabbed, sliced in half, that kind of thing where it doesn't really feel completely realistic. But if you're not comfortable with a lot of blood and guts, maybe really not your thing. Even though it happens so frequently throughout the entire movie. It's not really shocking, it's just kind of like, oh, that's what this movie is. So it's kind of in that same John Wick. We're going for a lot of blood, a lot of death in this movie. But I think where this movie really shines is with the movie star, Brad Pitt. If it wouldn't have been for Brad Pitt, I'm not sure I would have liked this movie at all. I kind of realize why he is a movie star, and because he is so captivating to watch. There's something about Brad Pitt being on screen that really just pulls me into the movie. And he knows what it takes to create a character to live in that character, and I really enjoyed seeing this performance of playing this assassin who is kind of on the road to recovery. He is very in touch with his emotions and wanting to get to a place where he doesn't have to do this type of work. So he almost has this very chills and like attitude throughout the movie while he's getting into fights and trying to avoid being killed. And from an interview I saw with the director that was largely due to Brad Pitt putting that into his own character, so you have Brad Pitt really carrying this movie. But it's also just a really great cast all the way around, from Bad Bunny to Joey King. And I thought Brian Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor Johnson were a really great duo. I almost feel like they could have had a movie on their own. The other parts of this that I liked. It did all take place within one location, which you think could get boring after a while, and you think of movies like Murder on the Orient Express or Death on the Nile, where it's not something that hasn't been done before. But I thought, unlike other movies where it just takes place primarily in one location, there was so much going on because it goes between all the five Assassin storylines, there's flashbacks, so it always feels like it's moving along, and as far as only really seeing the bullet train in the entire movie, doesn't really feel like I gets stale at any point. And I guess what I was expecting was a little bit more straight on of an action movie, a little bit more of a darker tone, and this movie just has a lot of bright comedic spots and it's pretty hard to get me to laugh during a movie, but I did find myself maybe not like dying laughing, but a couple of outward chuckles. This movie got out of me so almost hesitant to say that it is a comedy, because you could go into this and think that wasn't funny at all. I found it kind of stupid. That's kind of the line that this movie walks. You could either totally be in the mood for this. It's a very good Friday night almost reminiscent of like the nineties action comedy movie. But if you're not in the mood for that, you could think this is one of the dumbest movies you'll see all year, because even though it has the star power, it has some fun action, it doesn't do anything particularly well. There's not one quality of this movie that I felt really defined this that created something long lasting with me. It kind of just felt like, oh, that was a fun, entertaining ride. Nothing completely novel. Nothing. I think that it's going to change the way action movies are made. It almost kind of felt like riding the wave down and all the summer action we've had so far, but it's a pretty fun way down. So I think if you're a fan of movies like Kill Bill, if you like very campy animated things and over the top blood and viole lens, I think this could be in the movie for you. But if you're going in expecting to be wowed by Brad Pitt being an action star, I don't really think that movie will meet those needs for you. So it's not one I would say to rush to the theater and watch right now. Unless you have very low expectations on what you take from an action movie, then you might find this one as enjoyable as I did. So if I had to write Bullet Train, I would give it three point five out of five man buns. And that is a reference to a moment in the movie where Brad Pitt puts his hair up into a man bun and I realized, man, dude still has it. It's time to head down the movie, Mike Paul. This week we're talking about Samaritan, which is a new superhero movie starring Sylvester Stallone. He plays the character Samaritan, who apparently died many many years ago, has gone into hiding is now working picking up garbage. But there is this kid who is thirteen years old and suspects him to be a superhero. So before we get into what we think about this trailer, here's just a little bit of Samaritan. I found him Samaritan. Samaritan died years ago. That's what do they say. Do you think you live across from a superhero? Do you have a therapist? Kid? Good? Samaritans is dead. I picked up garbage. We're living about. Samaritan cleaned up the streets. You mind your business on my mind. So what you here there at the end of the trailer is Sylvester Sloan's character, who is Joe Smith, a k a. Samaritan getting hit by a car and totally gets annihilated, taken out by this car, is all bruised up and broken bone and then is able to pop all those bones back into place because he is a superhero. And the kid in that clip is Sam Cleary, who is played by the same actor who is Ashtray in Euphoria. And you also hear Martin Starr in that who is in Freaks and Geeks back in the day, is also in Silicon Valley, a very funny actor. And what this movie is about is twenty four years ago there was this superpowered vigilante named Samaritan. He supposedly died in a warehouse battle with his rival. The whole thing went up in flames. He was taken out by Nemesis, but he has stayed living in secret, and now crime is coming back up, and you have this kid Sam who wants him to come out of hiding to save the city. And it kind of feels like an old school eighties action movie, very similar to what we have seen Sylvester Stallone in before. But I'm kind of all about it. I like the idea of an age superhero. It kind of reminds me of one of my favorite animated bat Man movies called The Dark Knight Returns, which came out has nothing to do really with the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight. That movie is about Batman coming out of retirement. He's in his fifties now and he fights the Joker, he fights to face and then gets involved in this battle to the death against Superman. There is a part one and part two on HBO Max if you haven't seen that, But that is what this new Sylvestor Stalone movie kind of reminds me of. This idea of a superhero who isn't as strong or fast, or doesn't even recover as quickly as he used to. I think that's a pretty interesting premise. And if you put him against his old arch nemesis, I think even if it's a little bit cheesy, even if it's a little bit cliche, at least there's something a little bit more here to chew on. This movie was actually supposed to come out in theaters and has been delayed time after time. They filmed it back in and it was supposed to be released in November, and that got pushed back all the way to June fourth of last year, never came out in theaters. But now it's coming out on August two after Amazon bought MGM, and they're like, you know what, let's just put it out on prime video. And I just got to say shout out to Sylvester Stallone who is seventy six years old and still doing this type of action movie. He doesn't have to do this at seventy six years old. I'm just gonna be chilling. I'm not trying to fight anybody anymore. I don't know if he's still just enjoys making movies that much, or this was just something that he really believed in. I feel like he's still a very passionate actor who I feel like he will keep making movies probably until his eighties. So this is one I'm curious to check out on Amazon. This makes ad and that's gonna do it for another episode here on the podcast and from my listeners shout out this week, I am going over to my Instagram M d M S and I got a d M from Basto Ovayl and he wrote, Hey Mike, I am learning English and practicing while listening to Movie mis Movie Podcast. I'm a Venezuelan actor living in Mexico City and I appreciate the content that you were doing. By the way, Leela and Stitch is my favorite animated film. I think it's amazing you're trying to learn English. I may not be the best example as the one to listen to to learn how to speak English, but I remember this is something I experienced as well. My parents were both born and raised in Mehicol. They moved to the United States and had to learn English primarily by watching TV. My older brother and sister learned so much by watching Sesame Street, and I think my parents watched it with them too and picked up on things because they didn't speak any English. So later once I was born, I also learned a lot from Sesame Street because still now to this day, my parents will speak Spanish to me and we just kind of have this way of communicating. Of sometimes I speak a half in English half in Spanish. But I do owe a lot of learning English to television. I think if maybe podcasts where a thing back in the day, I would have taken this approach to But appreciate that message, pastor and all the luck into learning English. It's a very weird language. A lot of things don't make sense, so I will do my best in representing the language as best as I can. Thanks everybody for listening. 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