Best and Worst of Feb with Mike and Kelsey + Movie Review: Riff Raff + Trailer Park: Warfare

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host. Movie Mike joined today with my wife and co host Kelsey Hya Lolan. Ooh, that sounds so good. That's a great sound. Can you identify that sound if you're listening at home at the gym and your car? What does that sound? One more time? Will you now reveal the sound? Everybody have your answers in what is that sound?

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Speaker 2: It's a nice almond milklawte with honey, cinnamon and an extra shot of espresso.

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Speaker 1: You always have to shake a nice coffee to get that get that mixture down. Yeah, I'm also having a coffee, but there's no sound. It is a can and I already opened it because I need a caffeine right now.

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Speaker 2: Sam. That's why I went to get a coffee.

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Speaker 1: But this week we are doing our best and worst of the month. February was a pretty slow month, so we'll give you that.

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Speaker 2: Slow in terms of movies. The month itself went by so fast.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I never really experienced February. It was here and it was gone gone. I have my top three movie news stories of the month. We'll give our TV show recommend in the movie review I'll be talking about the new Bill Murray and Pete Davidson movie called Riff Raff. And in the trailer park, there's a new very realistic war movie coming out. All unfold in real time and is written by real life veteran who served in the Iraq War. He's also co directing this movie. It is called Warfare. We'll get into that. Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the Nustville Podcast Network. This is movie Mike Movie all right. I am gonna kick us off this week. Like we mentioned earlier, February was a pretty slow month. It is the last of the dump months in movies, so hopefully by March we'll ramp up. We have Mickey seventeen coming out, so I feel like some good stuff will come out in March, but for the best in February, I am going with the Monkey. The Primate family has had quite the run at the box office lately. You love a movie about a monkey, think with a monkey or a primate. Some people called me out for saying that certain primates were monkeys. They're not all monkeys. I just see it as monkeys.

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Speaker 2: It's giving all squares are rectangles a rectangles a.

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Speaker 1: Square like, I get it. But you see a big furry creatures like is a monkey And I think there's something animalistic in me to like movies with monkeys. They're just funny. In the nineties, I feel like there were a lot of those dumb comedies that just had a monkey in them, like the Georgia of the Jungle movie had primates it.

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Speaker 2: Have you not ever seen my personal favorite Dunston checks in?

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Speaker 1: No, I have not seen that.

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Speaker 2: You've never seen Dunston checks in. No.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: It's about a monkey or an ape gorilla whatever that lives at a hotel. It's so good.

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Speaker 1: Wait, let me look this up.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I feel like this is one of those ones that I've seen saw at the video store. A lot growing around owned it. It came out and oh, I recognized this cover. I've never saw this movie. Dunst then checks in from nineteen ninety six. Yeah great, it's an orangutang.

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Speaker 2: Yeah so good.

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Speaker 1: Oh I should do an episode about my favorite monkey movies and by watching this movie so you can only rent it for three seventy nine.

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Speaker 2: I think we can afford that.

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Speaker 1: Oh this looks right up my ass. See. I'm going to get into later in the movie review why you can't have mid movies anymore, But Dunstan checks in as a great example of that. We don't have dumb, ridiculous comedies like that anymore that exist that we grew up with in our childhood.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we grew up in like the golden age of movies that had no purpose other than to entertain us. I mean, have you seen a Mary Kay Nashley film.

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Speaker 1: That's the other thing, because I instantly recognized this movie from seeing the poster of it.

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Speaker 2: Let me see the cover again.

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Speaker 1: Here you go. Yep, what I heard? That is. As soon as you started talking about it more, I'm like, Okay, I know I've seen this at least at the video store back in the day.

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Speaker 2: Who's the main actor in it? Did it go on to do anything else?

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Speaker 1: Eric Lloyd? I don't recognize him from anything else, but Jason Alexander is also in this movie.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: Paul Rubens is in this movie. I'm gonna go watch this right after. Okay, the kid. It also was in the Santa Claus two, which I remember that and in the Santa Claus one. I think he's a kid, so he was in some mother ston.

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Speaker 2: That's a good movie. I loved them, And.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. I miss movies like that, movies I just remember because we never rented movies at Blockbuster. We would only go to there was a video store inside a Walmart that we would rent movies from, or the video station, which was really old school. But there was always these movies that I remember seeing that we just never ran and I couldn't convince my parents. And this was one I always wanted to watch but never did.

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Speaker 2: I owned it on VHS.

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Speaker 1: God, that's a classic. Well, I mean I haven't seen it, but just the image of it is a classic. So I will watch this movie. Maybe I'll do my best monkey movies.

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Speaker 2: There are so many movies that I had on VHS that I wish I had, just for like the Relics, but they were at my grandparents and they lost their house on a fire when I was in high school. And so like all of like my childhood movies that I had in my books, and I feel so sad about those because I'm like I had Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on VHS.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I know that was even in the age of DVDs.

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Speaker 2: I know, well Sorcerer's Stone came out two thousand and one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean that's that's early Yeah, that's early days of DVDs.

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Speaker 2: That was when you could still buy both and my grandparents didn't have a DVD player at the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my parents still have all the old Disney VHS cartridge like the big thick ones like those are classics. I don't think they're worth anything because they're open if they were sealed, but just like being able to hold and feel a movie like that that takes you back.

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Speaker 2: I wish I had all those. I also I was part of the Hello.

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Speaker 1: Kiddy Craft Club Tell Me More.

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Speaker 2: Every month you got like a book and it walked you through like a step by step craft. And my grandma was an elementary school teacher and we loved doing crafts and so we would get I was just I talked to my grandparents earlier and my grandma sent me a sweet text after and she's like, we had so much fun when you were growing up, and like I would go to my grandparents for any new like d com premiering, and my grandma would watch every single Disney Channel movie with me and we do like Craft of the Month.

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Speaker 1: Your favorite d com?

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Speaker 2: High School School?

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Speaker 1: That's later. Yeah, that's kind of passed where I was super into Dcom's twelve it was two and six. Yeah, I was fifteen. Yeah, I was kind of past that phase. But Johnny Tsunami for me, loved that movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I what else did I love? Yeah? High School? Mu School, smart.

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Speaker 1: House That's yeah, that's more than the my.

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Speaker 2: Toss up, but I love I mean, I still love the soundtrack.

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Speaker 1: It's like bigger than a d com, but it was. It was a d coom.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: That kind of reminds me of something I always wanted as a kid but never got, was a subscription to the Nickelodeon magazine. Do you remember those commercials?

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Speaker 2: I might have had it.

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Speaker 1: You had Nickelodeon Magazine.

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Speaker 2: I might have Oh, I had a lot of magazine subscriptions.

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Speaker 1: You were so lucky. I remember the commercials, like trying to convince your parents to get It's like Nickelodeon magazine. Please.

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Speaker 2: I had, oh, what was it Zoo lights or something?

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Speaker 1: Oh the Zoo, Yeah, the Zoo magazine. Yeah, I remember those we.

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Speaker 2: Had highlights, which was a kid when I kime the Zoom one. Now it was Zoo books. Zoo books, that's what it had, Zuo books at a highlight. I might have had the Nickelodeon. I don't know what as a kid, I was an only child for twelve years, Like what did you want for me?

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Speaker 1: Spoiled ultimate thing? I hope I can describe it accurately. It was like that art kit where you could make art and it like it was like these sponges.

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Speaker 2: What we were talking about. I don't know what it's called, yes, and it was the it was almost like the magnet thing. You'd put it down and you'd turn them different.

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Speaker 1: And it was like it's cleanup. It's so easy, you just wipe it away. That was like the ultimate thing of like, oh I want.

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Speaker 2: That commercials on like Nicked Night. There was the do you remember the one? It was the hair tool and it had four different plates and one crimped hair, one straightened your hair, and one major hair wavy.

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Speaker 1: I vaguely remember that I did.

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Speaker 2: Ask for that for Christmas when you're didn't really do my hair though well, And a Nickelodeon infomercial got me, You're.

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Speaker 1: A kid who actually got stuff from the television. I know, I feel like a No. I mean I was I envied those kids, like, man, you actually order something from a catalog.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I think my mom and my grandparents just feel bad thing because my dad died, so they just spoiled me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I would take having my dad over that over some new books.

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Speaker 2: I just got a lot of things. Is that where my obsession material possessions came from? God? Am I about to unpack my.

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Speaker 1: Whole joo therapy? But anyway, like I was saying, but a monkey and anything, and I'm gonna watch that movie. The Monkey was my favorite.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forgot what we were talking about.

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Speaker 1: That was my favorite of the month because I enjoy a horror movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, I think, And no, I would say, I think even if you watched it, you would find some parts about it that you enjoyed. But it was pretty bloody and gory because it all centers around people dying in really unique ways. I'm good like getting in Pale a lot of wild things.

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Speaker 2: I can't do impalement. I can't hate it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could do in Pale I can do everything I can. The weird thing is I can watch a horror movie like this.

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Speaker 2: You can't watch a medical show.

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Speaker 1: But I can't watch a medical show.

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Speaker 2: When I'm watching Er or Grays or The Pit and somebody's impaled on something, you're.

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Speaker 1: Like or like bones breaking, Yeah, you don't do good with that. Oh boy?

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Speaker 2: See and that I can. If it's on a medical show, I can handle it. But if it's like a horror movie for some reason, I can't because it's less like clinical to me.

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Speaker 1: Anyway. That is my best of the month. It's still in theaters, but I don't feel like it's one you have to see in theaters, especially if you're kind of on the fence about it. But I think it isn't one that you'll lose that scary. It's not really super scary, but you'll lose that vibe by watching it at home, because sometimes I feel like a horror movie when you experience it in a dark theater, it adds to that level. Sometimes I get at a point five for me, this one. I think you could wait at home and watch it. What about you? For your best?

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Speaker 2: So I only saw one movie in theaters this month. Low number so it's gonna be my best and my worst. So it was Captain America, Brave, New World best because it was entertaining. A Marvel movie could be bottom of the barrel, and I'm probably still entertained.

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Speaker 1: Marvel, even at its worst, is still better than most movies.

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Speaker 2: And it was also the worst of the month because I did want it to feel better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it lacked a lot of is how I describe it, because I wanted the action to be more throughout and almost felt like everything that kind of happened was very predictable. It kind of just went through the motions of like a Marvel movie, and it didn't even feel like it's setting up the next space. But I have forgotten about that movie after seeing it. I am more excited for the Fantastic Four movie coming out later this summer.

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Speaker 2: Except for that that looks good, I'm except for Thunderbolts.

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Speaker 1: I kind of forget about Thunderbolts. I think it's just because I don't have an attachment to any of those characters.

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Speaker 2: I love Florence Pugh, I like the cast.

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Speaker 1: It just feels that we've already had like the ragtag group of heroes inside of all Marvel and DC or we've had like three iterations or two iterations of the Suicide Squad. It kind of feels like Marvel Suicide Squad.

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Speaker 2: Good point.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if people are gonna go watch that and it's really going to cut through, but I think it'll be good. I think it's going to be better than Captain America actually, because I do think the villains in that movie will liketually be a little bit more of a threat and maybe play a bigger part in the phases that follow. But best and worst Captain America, Brave New World, My Worst. I went with Presents, which I guess. I went both horror movies for my best and worst, and it was almost.

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Speaker 2: Want to see those alone. Yeah, you went to like a ten am movie on the Saturday.

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Speaker 1: For both of these. I went to really early Lotdat because I almost thought that I could get an entire theater by myself and with regal. Since we pay monthly to go to one movie, it only costs US fifty five cents. I guess we pay like what some surcharge or.

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Speaker 2: Some it's those stupid like processing fees. Don't even get me started on fees.

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Speaker 1: But all we have to do to get a booking is paid fifty five cents, and I wanted to do a video like this is how I rent it out of a theater for fifty five cents. You go to an eleven am screening and I went and there was like a lot of people lay in the monkey. There was only like one other person for presents. But I was like, man, I thought that would I feel like to do that. I can't go opening weekend. I would have to go like at least a second or third week of.

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Speaker 2: A last week in theaters.

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Speaker 1: Like that's how you could get a movie theater for fifty five cents.

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Speaker 2: But you've just told everyone that your video is gonna be clickbait.

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Speaker 1: Well, I can't make the video if you ever do, you literally just admitted that it's gonna be. Everybody listening could be in on them. I'm just trying to scam everybody on the internet for clickbait. Okay, can't you see that TikTok video? This is how I read it out of video for fifty five or a theater for fifty five cents.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that would be the one that goes like viral like BuzzFeed Man explains that he got a movie theater to himself for fifty five cents.

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Speaker 1: And then everybody in the comments complaining like this is this.

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Speaker 2: Is truting, This isn't really fifty per cents, it's subscription.

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Speaker 1: Actually painting thirty dollars them. Yeah whatever, that's.

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Speaker 2: How we imitate people who annoy us online.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but Presence, I just thought there was gonna be a little bit more to it. I like the idea of it, especially when I covered it in the trailer park, where it is a horror movie but it's from the perspective of the demonic force inside of the house. Hell no, which exactly like I thought it was gonna be scarier, And the trailer made it seem so much more intense because they use a lot of like these hovering shots and then like people like the camera running up on characters and the camera shaking and like the whole house is gonna go. But there wasn't that much of that action inside the actual movie. It was really just the story about this family going through a traumatic time in their life, and the Presence was kind of just watching their story unfold but doesn't really mess with them a whole lot.

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Speaker 2: Presence would take me out, I hear a scary noise and I just think I hear like the floor creak in the house, and I'm like, well, it's my time. I'm gonna lay here and wait, and then like five minutes go by and I'm like, okay, I think that was just the floor.

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Speaker 1: I have my top three movie news stories of the last couple weeks or so. I have Zendeia has joined Shrek five. I saw not and Shrek five is coming out in twenty twenty six. Not a whole lot that they put out about the plot, but it looks like it takes place maybe twelve fifteen years after the last Shrek movie.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it, I don't think we needed a Shrek five.

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Speaker 1: Got there were Shrek four To.

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Speaker 2: Be honest, you don't think we needed to continue the franchise. But Cameron Diaz said, I'm back to acting, so.

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Speaker 1: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, They're all back and to love Donkey. Zn Deya is playing their daughter, who in the last movie they had triplets. She was a baby in that movie. Now they're grown up. They made Shrek and Fiona and even even Donkey look older, which it kind of looks like Shrek had work done, like in the I watched the little teaser of it, and I'm like, dang, did Shrek get botox? Because they like aged them up a little bit, but they also kind of changed the animation and it kind of looks like it looks like Shrek but also looks like a different version of Shrek. And it almost feels like they regressed in the animation. Botox for ores, Yeah, everybody getting botogs in Hollywood. There's a little clip of the Shrek teaser. Hey, Magic Mayram, who's the fairest of them all? Why Shrek? Of course.

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Speaker 2: You?

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Speaker 1: Dad, mom Light, who's making this stuff? Fuck me? So it kind of seems like all the same jokes that you come to expect from a Shrek movie. Shrek wanted to were great. After that, I feel like it became too much of a It was such a beast that they continued to make them because they continued to make a lot of money. Talking about DVD sales earlier, like that was a dominant DVD Shrek too.

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Speaker 2: The karaoke game I talk about this often. It's memorable because it had had the DVD menu back then, and if you couldn't find the remote to the DVD player. You couldn't play special features, you.

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Speaker 1: Could just play Oh yeah, that was a sad times on the.

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Speaker 2: DVD remote was always a real bummer.

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Speaker 1: And then the menu just keep playing over and over again. You're like, I know all these jokes, get it off of hair.

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Speaker 2: Oh you go to a sleepover and you all like fall asleep, and then you wake up and it's just the music blaring on the menu, and you're.

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Speaker 1: Like, oh, but Shrek five.

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Speaker 2: Too many.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of Shrek.

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Speaker 2: It's too many. We didn't need. We didn't need that.

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Speaker 1: Shrek is I feel pretty beloved in the Elder not even Elder Milan, just a millennial movie. I feel like gen Z is pretty big on Shrek because of the memes that have kind of come back in the last I mean really in the last decade. Shrek has been still a part of pop culture. But I feel like a Shrek five is a little bit too much. And after seeing the animation, I'm like, I don't know, it's gonna be very good, but it will probably still make a lot of money. The crazy thing about Zendea, She's going to be in four major movie releases in twenty twenty six. She's going to be in the Odyssey, which is the new Christopher Nolan movie that also has Tom Holland in it, that comes out on July seventeenth, Spider Man four which comes out on July thirty first, and this is all twenty twenty six, twenty twenty six. After that it is Dude Messiah that comes out on December eighteenth.

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Speaker 2: Twenty other Dune, Oh God.

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Speaker 1: And then this will be the fourth release in twenty twenty six, Shrek five on December twenty third.

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Speaker 2: This is how you break the news to me that there's another Dune. I thought we were done with the Dunes.

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Speaker 1: I mean good for the day of though.

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Speaker 2: I just saw footage online of they are actually filming Euphoria, so it's actually happening. It's filming right now. It's happening, I.

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Speaker 1: Believe when I see it, Like, what did they get halfway through? And we don't have anything else?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I am gonna have to go back and watch the first two seasons.

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Speaker 1: Number two on my list. Speaking of Zendia and Tom Holland, Spider Man four is has been delayed. Well, it's all. I got pushed back a week because they're trying to space it out between Yeah, Odyssey, which is I feel like that's hard on Tom Holland and they in particular because they're going to be promoting Spider Man. I feel more both in both of those movies. So it's hard for an actor to promote two movies at the same time. I don't know how. I mean, there has to be some kind of contract issue there, but I guess what's happening. But they haven't started filming Spider Man for yet. They have started filming the Odyssey movie. I've seen a few stills out of it, and people are already rippingneath to shred, saying that it's not historically accurate. It's like, come on, it's a movie.

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Speaker 2: It is meant for entertainment.

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Speaker 1: My favorite quote is the director of Gladiator to basically say Regally Scott, like were you there? Like what were you there about the sharks? Yeah, But that gets pushed back a little bit. I think I was just of the mindset of I honestly didn't think they were gonna make another Spider Man after the last one.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad they are.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad they are. They start filming this summer. Hopefully that continues and goes down and it actually comes out when they're saying it's gonna come out now. But I almost feel like Tom Holland is ready to move past that. I feel like he could have said, you know what, after the last one, all we accomplished with that made a lot of money, was really impactful, one of the best Marvel movies of the twenty twenties, if not the best one. He could have ended on that. Look at all the other roles he's getting. He's booked NonStop, being in a Christopher Nolan movie. That's like, that's the next level.

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Speaker 2: I love Sandaya. Give me more of them on the screen, Give me every movie that's all agree to real they officially engaged?

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Speaker 1: Did they ever say there?

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Speaker 2: And it didn't. But it's an engagement ring, okay. I think their families confirmed it. And she also kept wearing that ring on that finger like multiple times. She wouldn't do if it was just a costume.

00:19:16
Speaker 1: Jury makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Great for them, love them together. I hope they have the most blissfully happy life. They seem adorable. They seem very supportive.

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Speaker 1: Because he also said that once he has kids, he's stop acting. Yeah, so maybe that's why he's doing all these movies. Good for him, Yeah, make the money. Now get us Spider Man four, maybe a couple appearances and Avengers and then I'm good. Go live your life, do what you want to do.

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Speaker 2: Go forth.

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Speaker 1: And my third movie news story is Aoadbris from the Bear is going to write and start in a movie about Barney. Yes, the movie he is coming to us from A twenty four It has been in development since twenty nineteen. There's not a lot of details on what it's going to entail.

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Speaker 2: Like is it a movie about the creation of Barney the show?

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Speaker 1: It kind of sound like it's going to be about the creation of the show. So I have to imagine it's going to be like a drama of maybe them filming it, maybe some kind of story surrounding Barney, because it doesn't feel like it's going to be just a Barney movie like made for kids. I have to imagine it's going to be about the making of the show. If it's a very a twenty four s type of movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I.

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Speaker 1: Know that they are trying to partner more with like Mattel and everybody's trying to create like their own kind of universe. So I feel like this could be a movie in that kind of era of like, Okay, let's make movies about childhood shows. Were you a Barney kid growing up?

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 1: I was a Barney kid growing up.

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Speaker 2: Barney Baby Bop b J.

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Speaker 1: I remember watching it pretty much NonStop my entire entire childhood. I had the Barney stuffed animal.

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Speaker 2: That's cute.

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Speaker 1: I had. I think I had like Barney slippers that were very popular in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: That's so cute because you were tricky kid.

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Speaker 1: Where it was like the ones where like the tops of them are kind of like sock material, so you would exactly what you're talking. They had those in like every character in the nineties where you would just put your foot through the character's head and then it had like the little socks on the end of it. But I love Barney. I think I probably stopped watching whenever Selena Gomez was on this show.

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Speaker 2: It's like I stopped watching yesterday. I just got a new episode this week. Yeah, I was never into it, and Selena and Demi were on it, I don't think not. I thought I would have known who they were as kids. So I actually can't confirm her deny when I stopped yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Can't remember all of the I mean, I don't know any of the cast on there. There were just the kids on Barn.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's not like Sasame Street where it was like memorable humans.

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Speaker 1: I guess they just swapped kids out right. There wasn't like a continuing storyline with the kids like there is in any kid shows.

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Speaker 2: Kids show I loved. I'm totally derailing this, but this is good. What snow You weren't a Disney Channel kid though?

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Speaker 1: Nah?

00:21:55
Speaker 2: Do you ever watch out of the Box.

00:21:57
Speaker 1: I don't even think I know what that is. Let me look it up.

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Speaker 2: Out of the Box. They would literally take like a cardboard box and create worlds with it.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen this show. I don't even recognize it. What about I remember Ly Short and Round because it came on in the mornings, and I think I wasn't into those shows at that time when I was watching Disney Channel, and I was like, I gotta wait for this show to finish so I can watch some of the other Disney programming. I remember that one. You were a straight up Disney kid, huh.

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Speaker 2: I loved it all. I was one thing about me, I'm a TV person since I was a child.

00:22:34
Speaker 1: I was more of a Nickelodeon kid. So my TV shows I grew up with very young. It was a shining time station. I love Thomas the Tank Engine, We know that, which was another cool thing of being able to recently meet Ringo Starr because he was the narrator and conductor on the first two seasons of that show.

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Speaker 2: Your mom tells stories about she wouldn't be able to go to the grocery store in the morning because you'd be like, no, I'm watching Thomas.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking early childhood that was up there. Number one, Number two was probably Barney, and then number three was Bananas and Pajamas. Oh my god, you love that sh That was my jam and for I think my fifth or sixth birthday, probably fifth birthday, I got B two, which was the second banana in pajama. It was like a stuffed animal. He was wearing his blue and white striped pajamas and I get that thing forever.

00:23:21
Speaker 2: That's so cute.

00:23:22
Speaker 1: I think eventually we sold a yard sale.

00:23:24
Speaker 2: I love the stories about your childhood.

00:23:26
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:23:26
Speaker 2: I was a speak kind of TV early on anything, and I would like to say I probably had a lot of screen time and I turned out fine.

00:23:34
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I watched the lot.

00:23:36
Speaker 2: I like the silence there.

00:23:37
Speaker 1: You were really well. I was just I was I was thinking how we talk about kids' screen time now we don't have kids, obviously, and how much that affects people. We watched a lot of TV growing up, Like I remember random commercials from the nineties, like the Seer's commercial about the wife trying to get the husband to call about the air conditioner. Why do I remember that?

00:23:56
Speaker 2: I wonder though, if it's because we were watching a TV. It wasn't like a tablet or a phone where you're doing like a lot of different things in different tasks. Like we were just seated and we had to watch commercials. Nothing was instant. You had to wait for something to be on.

00:24:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I still remember that commercial I'll call tomorrow, you'll call now, I'll call now. I remember that too, Like that can't be good for my brain. I remember more commercials than anything.

00:24:24
Speaker 2: I remember all the infomercials easy Bake, oven light bright, the little art thing we were talking about.

00:24:30
Speaker 1: But that was my early childhood TV. When it came to like more elementary school level, I was like rug Rats all on Nickelodeon. Hey, Arnold, anything on Nickelodeon.

00:24:41
Speaker 2: I was all about that's one of those things that I know. I loved those things. But I don't really have I don't really know when I have the first memory. I don't know. I don't I can't really put my finger on what my first memory as a kid is.

00:24:52
Speaker 1: Really. Yeah, I feel like my earliest memory is probably going to kindergarten for the first time.

00:24:58
Speaker 2: I think again, it's the whole Dad Diane childhood trauma. Yeah, yeah, I do remember. I don't know if I've told the story in here. I think I did that. I could read really early, and my kindergarten teacher didn't like that because I'd get bored.

00:25:13
Speaker 1: Your way had all the kids, Yeah.

00:25:15
Speaker 2: And I was like, no, my phone, everyone else is stupid. She'd be like, Kelsey, are you paying attention. I've read the whole book. She's like, we're on page one. I've read the whole book. You're like, I read all the books on your desk, read them all. Do we want to do our normal TV recommendation of the month. I'm already off the rails.

00:25:32
Speaker 1: We've already done our childhood recap from the nineties and early two thousands.

00:25:37
Speaker 2: Hope that unlocks something and someone's brain. I love being reminded of nostalgia.

00:25:41
Speaker 1: Your favorite TV show of the last month, we.

00:25:45
Speaker 2: Watched a lot. We've been doing this thing called enjoying our rent.

00:25:48
Speaker 1: Staying home, not going out, where we don't leave the.

00:25:50
Speaker 2: House because the outside world is expensive. Well, I did watch forty two episodes of Summer House in six days. Can't decide if I'm proud of that, but I did catch up the new season IVO. Overall, I don't remember if you mentioned Paradise last month that we're watching on Hulu. I don't think one of the greatest shows ever made, not over yet at the phenomena in this prime. Target's a really good one on Apple. And then we binged to Zero Day on Netflix, which was a like political kind of conspiracy. Internet power grids get shut off.

00:26:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a cyber attack that shuts down all technology for like it was like a minute, right, but in that minute, thousands of people died. Robert Niro is a former US president and then kind of leads the investigation of figuring out what happens and trying to stop it before it happens again.

00:26:36
Speaker 2: So good. I'm loving the like intense dramas.

00:26:39
Speaker 1: There's a lot of CIA crime d I feel like they're maybe a little bit cheaper to produce, so maybe that's why studios are leaning into them right now. I feel like everybody kind of jumps on a genre for a minute, But.

00:26:50
Speaker 2: If you're not watching Paradise, you're missing out truly on one of the best shows that will be winning awards. They're getting a second season. Sterling K. Brown is phenomenal in it. I think we did talk about it because I remember now saying that it's from the creator of This is Us Any Yeah, yeah, for Stirling K. Brown.

00:27:05
Speaker 1: That was way early. That was lifetimes ago.

00:27:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gotten even better. So I'm trying to think if I've watched anything else. You know, I'm all about a cheesy Netflix show. But I'm watching season four of Sweet Agnolias, and it is so painfully cheesy that I paused the TV. When you walk in the room because I am embarrassed that I'm.

00:27:21
Speaker 1: Watching it, You're like, I'm gonna go ahead and pause this.

00:27:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's everything for me.

00:27:27
Speaker 1: I finished Dragon Ball Super All one hundred and thirty plus one hundred and thirty one episodes. I was not able to finish on Hulu like I thought it was because they took it off of Hulus. We know have another subscription, Crunchy Roll, which I finished it there, and I've now started dragonball Z, but that's like two hundred and thirty episodes two hundred and fifty, so that's gonna take me a while. But I did watch Your Friendly Neighborhood spider Man, which is the animated show on Disney Plus. It is focused more on the science version of Peter Parker, highly in fluenced by the comics, and not even the nineties spider Man TV show, but more so the nineteen sixties version of Spider Man, and I thought it was pretty good. The animation style was a little bit weird because I thought it looked kind of cheap whenever they first put out the trailer, because it's kind of supposed to look like a comic book art, but I feel like the comic book art they tried to make looks really cheap and like they were trying to cut corners. But as the season went along, I got a little bit more used to it in the story and it's actually really good, so I feel like overall it won me over. I wouldn't say it's my favorite Spider Man project yet, but I feel like it's good to have a balance of having something that's not really connected to anything else, and probably like a lot of young kids are watching that, that's like their introduction to this level of Spider Man. For that, it's like great quality. But that has been my nerdy TV show watching your book.

00:28:51
Speaker 2: Why did I read this month? I'm still going through Harry Potter on my book club. Read The Favorites by Lane Fargo, which was good, So I give that. It was like these two like teenage ice dancers, basically a soap oper book. It was good. It was a little longer than it needed to be, could have cut some things out, but overall I enjoyed that, so I'd give that. The ANSWER's been a lot of me reading Harry Potter at night.

00:29:13
Speaker 1: Well, book are you on?

00:29:14
Speaker 2: I am? According to my Kendle, sixty seven percent of the way done with Order of the Phoenix.

00:29:18
Speaker 1: You're almost deltable, I know, but six.

00:29:20
Speaker 2: And seven are really long. It's taking me a while.

00:29:22
Speaker 1: I forget. It's basically like a dictionary encyclopedia.

00:29:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this one's even taking me a while because I roll over read with my kindle and I make it through about a chapter and then I get sleepy.

00:29:32
Speaker 1: For my book. You gifted me a few graphic novels for Christmas, and I read The Killing Joke, which is all about the origin story of the Joker. It cover scares me and how one bad day could change your entire life, and it was interesting because I've never seen this origin story of the Joker, and it makes a statement on how Joker's life had one bad day and he chose the path of being evil. Batman's life had one and bad day and he chose a life of being a vigilanti trying to do good. So it's showing how similar they are in ways, and how it's not what happens to you, it's how you react to it which impacts your life, which is a pretty profound thing for a graphic novel, especially as they came out as long ago as it did.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I feel like it's getting at the like nature versus nurture.

00:30:20
Speaker 1: Which when it comes watching or reading comics, I feel like I lean more towards Batman's stuff because I feel like it does have quote unquote adult themes that you could actually learn things from like that. When it comes to Marvel stuff, it's a little bit more like fluffy and fun, shiny, easy breezy. I'm like way into that right now. But that has been one of my favorite It's not my favorite Batman graphic novel. It'll always be The Dark Knight Returns. But it's not there. It's good.

00:30:51
Speaker 2: There's so many good books coming out in March. The so the TV show We Were the Lucky Ones that I watched on Hulu, World War two book that they made into a show. The author has another book coming out this week, and then Hunger Games, Sunraise on the Reaping comes out this month.

00:31:09
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I cannot wait for that.

00:31:12
Speaker 2: And that's been your book report. I do remember, also, to anyone listening, I did promise to start doing like reels about books I read. I forget to record them when I actually look decent to be on camera, like my hair and makeup done. So I owe people We'll start with February. It's coming, I promise. I just you know, my editor is really busy.

00:31:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you do want to watch clips that we do, you can subscribe on YouTube. Yes, YouTube dot com slash Mike Distro or find the link in the episode notes anything else.

00:31:45
Speaker 2: No, I need to finish my coffee.

00:31:46
Speaker 1: Stah me too. I'm starting to wake up over here. All right, we'll come back. I'll give my spoiler free review of Riffraff. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Riffraff, not to be confused with the rapper riff Raff tiptoeing in My Jordan's No. This is a movie starring Bill Murray, Pete Davidson, Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Harris. It is an ensemble cast. And sometimes when I see ensemble cast, that is like a red flag to me, like, oh, they're really selling this movie with all the big names attached to it, There's no way it could be good. In this case, I don't think it was a victim of that. What Riffraff is about. You have Ed Harris, who plays a character named Vincent. Used to be involved in some crime, doing some shady things with Bill Murray, and then he wants out of the business. He has to get out. He marries a new person, moves away, goes under the radar. They can't find him, living a quiet peaceful life all up until this day where his son shows up on his doorstep and he's in trouble, and suddenly these two bad guys played by Bill Murray and Pete Davidson, who are murderers, are now on the trace to find his son and to find Ed Harris, and that is what the movie is about. This movie reminded me of a lot of things, and the big question I want to talk about is why can't mid movies exist anymore. I'll be very upfront about this movie. Is it the best thing I've ever seen? Now? Is it a terrible movie? By no means, But sometimes you watch a movie and you think that was pretty good. Okay, I enjoyed parts of it. I don't feel like it changed me as a person. I don't think this is going to become one of my favorite movies. But I feel like we've gotten to a point in the world where mid movies can't exist anymore. You either have to have something that is so great on a level of life changing makes millions of dollars at the box office, regardless of its budget. But the problem is we can't have mid movies anymore because if a movie like this doesn't do well in the box office, doesn't have the biggest word of mouth, and even with those A list actors at the top of the bill, if you don't get people going to see it in theaters, it is seen as a failure. And a big problem that movies have right now is initial reviews come out and that influences people going to see them. And I know I'm saying that as somebody who reviews movies on his podcast on YouTube right here, maybe at times I'm part of the problem. But that's why I like doing reviews and long form on a podcast is because there is nuance to it when you see a written review, when you see a Rotten Tomatoes score, that is it. When I talk about what I like and don't like about a movie, and maybe if it didn't move me in a way that I thought was something that you need to rush to the theater to see, I do talk about the things that other people might enjoy about that movie, but it takes another layer for somebody to find a review like that. That's why I enjoy sharing my thoughts with you, hearing what you have to say, because it builds a film community and it's more important, and it resonates more because not every movie has to be life changing. But the problem is if a movie gets bad reviews, doesn't do well opening weekend, it just flutters into this category of I'm not even going to watch that once it hits streaming. But it's becoming harder and harder for a movie like Riff Raff to just be mid. And back in the nineties and early two thousands, a movie could be mid, come out in theaters and you know, be recepted, Okay, it's kind of all right, but then make its money on the back end. There is a vast history of movies that bombed in theaters but then had this second life once it found its audience on DVD rentals, on VHS rentals, going back even further, and there are some movies that have become cult classics that way. But movies don't have that anymore. And you have directors like the director of Anora out here saying we need this. It is such a hard time for indie directors right now because of that, we don't have that luxury of something having success post its theater run, and you think, well, what does that even matter anyway, It's because these filmmakers spend two, three, four, five years of their life making these movies, spending at times their own money. And even if they are not spending their own money, they're not really making a whole lot of money off of these movies because they aren't doing that well at the box office and they have nothing on the back end. There's no physical media anymore like there used to be to bring movies like this back to life. Even the director of The Brutalists was saying he made zero dollars from that movie. He made nothing. It's getting hard to have just a mid movie that you can't even watch on Saturday Mattinees on television, which I used to watch a lot of movies that way, movies I didn't have a chance to see in theaters, would never think to rent. But they don't even have a second life there. All you get is streaming and there's no return on that. And you say, oh, well, that is a victim of their own product. Movie studios didn't ask for streaming services. Netflix came changed the game. They've made a lot of money off of that. But I feel that even Netflix at times and a lot of the other streaming services are losing money. But you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube. We have come accustomed to being a to watch anything with the click instantly and not having to pay any more for it, And now whenever I do have to pay five bucks to rent a movie, even that is like, oh man, even though I could just go down the street buy a drink and a snack for like seven to eight bucks at the gas station, and that I have no problem spending money with, but sometimes just clicking a button and thinking this should be free. So I think we need to start thinking about the value of art moving forward, because we just think of it as things that we consume and things that should just be readily available for us, and it just kind of changes over time. Same way with music. When's the last time you bought music. I try to support artists as much as I can. If I have an artist I really love, I'll get their record, Like you see behind me on YouTube right now if you're watching, I buy actual physical copies of things so I can show those artists support. As much as I love movies, it's very rare that I get to do that. Would I like to collect more Blu rays? Yeah? But I think I unlike records. You can't really display blu rays like you would a record. I used to keep a couple in here of my favorite movie that i'd take them down. I still have the Batman up there. Yeah, it is harder to display things like that, so I try to buy merch. I try to support in some way aside from just going to the theater to watch these movies. But when I watched riff Raff, I know I got into a big exposition there on movies, but I felt that while watching riff rafft because it reminded me of some of my favorite eighties crime movies, movies like See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Something Wild with ray Li Yoda and Jeff Daniels, even crime comedies from the two thousands like Double Whammy with Dennis Leary. Those are all movies I was exposed to because I would watch them on TV at times when there was nothing else to watch and I was a loner. I had no friends, so I'd watched a lot of movies on Saturday matinees and that's where I was exposed to a lot of these movies that again, I would never probably call any of those movies some of my favorite movies of all time, but they have this unique place in my heart and my memory that I associate with, Oh, those are actually pretty good movies. Not a lot of people have seen them or would call them their favorite movies, but there's this high tier level of mid movies that become parts of our DNA that when we find somebody else who's actually watched those movies and enjoys those movies, you have this bond with because they might not be the biggest movies of all time, but it's this level of mid movie that doesn't exist anymore that I worry what is going to be that in ten years? Is it just going to be the straight to streaming movie? Which not every straight to streaming movie is bad. It just feels sometimes when a movie doesn't have a theater run, you think a little less than of it. But back to Riff Raff. It is directed by Dido Montielle, who I am fascinated with. He was part of an eighties hardcore band back in the day. It was also in a band called gutter Boy, and I very much felt the punk rock eighties influence in this film. There were a couple of songs that I was like, ah, that's definitely his taste in there, and it really adds to it. And I feel like there is this level of punk rock authenticity to this movie that comes through in an indie film. When it comes to our stars of the movie, you have Bill Murray, who, surprisingly, at age seventy four, I felt he put a lot more effort into this character. He plays one of the hit man he is paired with Pete Davidson. Pete Davidson, for the most part, has played himself in about every single movie from King of Staten Island, Bodies, Body's Bodies, even in the romantic comedy he did with Glenn Powell Set it Up. But in this one he gave a slightly different look. It was like whenever Coke came out with new Coke. Still tastes like coke, but the packaging is a little bit different. So you could kind of convince me that he played a little bit of a different character. But there was something just unique about him and Bill Murray together, which when you think about one comedy legend, one maybe future comedy legend working together, I had to imagine, or I want to believe that a lot of that was improv because Bill Murray is a person who, according to legend on the internet, doesn't even have a cell phone, doesn't have a manager. You have to contact him via a one eight hundred number. He is also historically late or doesn't show up, or you never know when he's going to show up on set. This was the case even with the last Ghostbusters movie. It was kind of like, I don't know when Bill's gonna show up, but we'll kind of wait around for him because he is Bill Murray. So I feel that the days they actually had with him and Pete Davidson were probably very few because I feel like he rolls in, he knows what he's gonna do. He probably takes some direction to set him up a little bit, but I kind of feel at this point in his career that is what you get. You get Bill Murray. He's gonna be Bill Murray. He's gonna follow along with the script, but he's going to give you what he wants to give you. But even though I felt like his time was limited on this movie, I still feel like he actually gave a crap, which is big for Bill Murray. I actually feel like he cared about it. He was as menacing as Bill Murray can be. At seventy four, the person I wanted to see more of was Jennifer Coolidge, who has had a resurgence due to White Lotus that everybody is reminded of how funny and awesome she is. So overall of the movie was a game of cat and mouse. He had some comedy sprinkled here and there, some crimes sprinkled here and there, some violence and shooting and blood here and there. It had a mixture of everything. I wouldn't call this movie a slow burn. I would say overall there are a lot of lulls here and there, but I almost think or hope that was intentional because it allows the movie to breathe. And the lulls that kind of happened where it's just people hanging out, talking, driving around, I almost feel like that is a representation of life, especially considering the circumstances of them possibly being tracked down by two murderers. It has time to breathe, and the interactions between the characters are pretty authentic to where I feel that the director almost probably gave them little direction. I don't know if that's an insult to him, but I feel like it was more of a representation of how humans actually talk to each other, which was interesting in the dialogue the Sun in this movie set some things and deliver them in a way that I hadn't really seen before, and it felt kind of refreshing. I don't know if that was on purpose or just a result of it being a smaller film, but I enjoyed that the characters had time to breathe, and I feel that the director just kind of let them go and the interactions unfold. Maybe that could have been changed with some of the editing to tighten up those moments a bit, but like I said, I enjoyed that aspect of it. It felt like one of those movies I would watch on a Saturday afternoon where it's crisp and sunny outside and you just kind of get lost sitting on the couch watching a movie without any expectation. And that is the experience we're kind of being robbed of. We can't just sit down and watch a movie and think, ah, that was actually pretty good. And I experienced that from a reviewer standpoint, where if I find myself enjoying a movie that other people are ripping the shreds, and I shared that I will share that I do know straight away from that, I don't have any agenda. I don't feel like I need to come off anyway. If I like a movie, I'm gonna tell you about it. But when I posted about it, you got people meter stretch like, how could you recommend this movie? You're in near to it? I don't believe you anymore. And then on the other end, when I don't like a movie that most people like, I can't win because people are like, you're only bashing this movie because of this. All you movie reviewers are the same, So there's no winning right now. I'm just happy that a movie like this can exist because it's so hard for a movie to get made nowadays. It is so much harder for smaller budget movies to even see the light of day, to even make it to theaters. We need to bring back mid movies. Otherwise those movies that formed us, even though we didn't know it at the time, are gonna go away. But overall, for riff Raff, I give it three out of five assassins.

00:44:43
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie.

00:44:45
Speaker 3: Mike Trey lar Pard, Warfair looks awesome, and I feel a little bit conflicted in saying that this is my favorite type of war movie because this movie is set in two thousand and six the Iraq War, and I think it's beca.

00:45:00
Speaker 1: Because I was alive during that time, so I feel a connection to it because I was aware of what was going on. And the reason it's my favorite type of war movie is because it has a sense of realism. Sometimes when I watch war movies from back in the day, the plot feels a little bit like they center on one character and it's a little bit larger than life. And I think for me, I enjoy war movies that are closer to what actually happened, especially when they're from real accounts of people who experience that, and that is what you have in warfare. The writer of this movie is named Raymondoza. He's an actual veteran. These are all real life accounts from him. He wrote this script based on memory. The movie unfolds in real time. He also co directed it with Alex Garland, who last year did Civil War, which is another A twenty four movie that I also loved. And I think the reason I enjoy a war movie like this is because it takes away the glitz and the glamour of Hollywood and just gives you the story. When you watch this trailer, you feel that there's not a whole lot of music whatsoever, very little score. What you hear and what you see is gunfire, you see planes flying through the sky, you see explosions. You feel it. But it allows me to place it into real world terms and see somebody who could be my neighbor, who could be a relative, in that moment, in that scene. So the reason I feel conflicted in saying that is because I imagine making a movie like this is really tough for Raymondoza, who lived it. I think he wanted to make this to show people like me who don't have the guts to go to war, what it's actually like, because I think we don't know. We don't see it. We've had friends and family, husbands and wives go over there and fight for this country, but unless you're there experiencing it, you have no idea what it's really like. And I guess I feel bad in saying that I find entertainment value in it, but it's because I want to know what actually happened. I want to feel this so I can be even more appreciative of the people who have done this. I look at it even though it's not a documentary, it is a real life tale and depiction of what that life is like. So I applaud it for bringing that to light and sharing it with people and putting it in a form in a medium, in film, in art, in a way that we can accept and understand. So I think there is a major power in a war movie like this. Even just the title Warfare shows you this movie is gonna have a lot of grit to it. You feel it in this trailer, the moments where you see characters faces covered in blood, covered and dirt. The posters for this movie have been fantastic. So I just feel a little bit guilty and saying like, oh, I love a movie like this because I could just go to the theater, watch it and experience it and walk out. And I imagine for somebody who is a veteran in this country, this could even be a movie that it could be hard for you to go watch because just like we could just stroll in watch a movie like this and leave without any attachment, I imagine seeing that, hearing that, putting yourself back into that position to recount these things might not be the healthiest thing for some veterans. But I think it's the power of the film to share this story, to get it across to people who maybe don't know about some of these accounts. Is why a movie like this is important. But it's coming out in theaters on April eleventh. Want to talk more about it before I do. Here's just a little bit of the warfare trailer wing activity converging on your north and south. This is progmst six Romeo. We need a defact at our last known position. We have severely wounded. Got you one word marketing too coming to you or you coming to us? We'll let you know where we're inbound.

00:49:10
Speaker 2: There's a plant ea five minute doba.

00:49:12
Speaker 1: The scouts are gonna lead us out, and I'm bringing up the rear clap.

00:49:15
Speaker 2: Smoke smoke out. We are all.

00:49:17
Speaker 1: Coming back to this. So this movie follows a team of seals in the Iraq War, set in two thousand and six. The entire movie, as they say, unfolds in real time, which I have to imagine was probably a hard thing to do. You can kind of get a sense of how you're gonna feel as the viewer dropped into this situation, which I think is gonna invoke a lot of anxiety, But that ability to put you there and make you feel it is already when I'm getting across in this trailer, So it looks like it's all gonna take place in one day from the memories of actual American service members who fought their way out of an insurgent attack. Like I mentioned earlier, Raymondoza is the writer of this movie. He co directed it with Alex Garland. Mendoza is a former US Navy seal. He served in the Iraq War, and the movie is following his accounts of what happened that day. I have to imagine writing that and then directing somebody to play you has to feel like quite the euphoric experience, and having to put yourself back into that day over and over while filming, I have to imagine was quite taxing. I can only imagine leaving the set and just being completely drained on some of these days where you're having to relive some of the most vicious memories you have in your life and one of the hardest days. Because by the looks of this trailer, it looks like it's going to get pretty intense. The thing that always gets me about a movie like this is the scenes where it shows everybody hanging out having a good time, and they do this at the end of the trailer, and then it cuts it in between shots of them going through probably one of the worst days of their life, where people are wounded, people are bloody, they have people shooting at them. But it keeps going back and forth between all them having a good time and knowing that some of them aren't going to make it. That moment hit me, and this trailer alone, that moment hit me, that idea, that theme came across of how much, for granted, we take just everyday life and having a job where you don't know what is going to happen on a day to day basis, you're going into some of the most hostile environments. I can only imagine looking back on a movie like this about your life and seeing those good moments where you were bonding and at times having to find joy in a situation where there really is not any where. There are no colors in the world. It's all just black and white and just awful. But forming a bond with these people that you're having to work with every day and have to watch each other's back. So you see that scene of them all happy, having a good time and then just going through it. Will Poulter is in this movie, who maybe you know from where the miller's You also have Joseph Quinn, who has has been in a lot of movies lately Send Stranger Things, and I feel like he's one of those actors who's kind of being forced upon us right now. Every five years or so, Hollywood really doubles down on a couple of actors and puts them in everything and says, Okay, we're gonna make these people work. We're gonna put them in everything, and it's up to us as an audience whether they're gonna stick or not do we accept them. I think right now it's working out for Joseph Quinn. He's gonna be in this movie, he's gonna be in the Fantastic Four movie. He was just a gladiator too. He was also in the Quiet Place prequel, So I think he's getting there as far as being validated by audiences, because sometimes they just keep forcing people down our throats and we never accept them and they never really click and they never really last. And there's always those movies you look back on like John Carter, like man, they really try to make that guy happen just didn't work. I think, above all, I am just really fascinated with Raymond Doozes, who after he got out of the military, he did serve as an advisor in Hollywood to present a more accurate portrayal of the military on movies like Loan Survivor. He also did the series The Terminal List, where he was an advisor as well, and I think it's important for TV shows and movies like that to feel authentic. But now for him to be able to tell his own story of this battle that happened in two thousand and six, I think it's a way for him to bring everything full circle. And I'm also curious to see how a movie like this pans out for a twenty four who put in a lot of money in marketing into Civil War. Last year, they spent fifty million dollars to make that movie. I think another twenty five million dollars to market that movie. The movie ended up making over one hundred and twenty six million dollars worldwide, so one of their biggest successes so far. And I don't really consider them to be that small of a studio anymore, because they are getting up there and starting to play in the big leagues, focusing on movies like this that have a bit of a wider appeal. They'll always put out their little more in dependent style, just what you come to expect from A twenty four, but I like that they are putting out more movies like this that have that same authentic feel that you can't really get in every single big budget Hollywood movie. So it still feels very A twenty four, but also feels like something that my parents could go watch. They're not watching your typical every A twenty four movie, but I think a movie like this they would be more interested in watching. So I don't know if they're going to go as heavily on the marketing for warfare that they did with Civil War, but I think if they do, I honestly think this movie could do better at the box office, because while I enjoyed Civil War, I feel like the marketing kind of painted that movie in a different light. What we ended up getting was more a story of war journalism and some of the moral dilemmas that arise from that. This one feels like a much more realistic movie actually focused on well the warfare, which is what it's called. But again it's coming out in theaters.

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Speaker 1: Framer Bar and that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm going over to Instagram. I got a DM from Rachel Mason who said, have you watched the movie Amber Alert from twenty twenty four with Hayden Penetier. I don't know why, but I immediately thought of you, but in my opinion, it was really great four point five out of five ride shares. If you've seen it, I'd love to know your thoughts, Rachel. Not only did I watch Amber Alert, I also interviewed the director and producer who our husband and wife on this podcast on an episode back in September when it came out. So I'm glad you said that because maybe some other people have missed episodes here and there, but that one was one I really enjoyed. If you want to find that episode, you can just google movie Mike Amber Alert. And the wild thing about AI now is that gives you that overview when you google something and they have everything detail about what went down in this interview. Here's the overview, it says. Mike Distro interviewed Carrie in Summer Blessa, the director and producer of the twenty twenty four Amberlert movie, on his podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast. The movie is about two people who spot a kidnappers car after receiving an Amberler on their phones. What's in the interview? Ai asks how the movie came to be, including the inspiration from seeing an Amberler on the highway, the challenges of working together as a husband and wife, and the hopes that this movie will start a conversation. AI out here doing a bunch for a small podcaster like me. It's the work of an intern right there. I don't have any interns. It's all me recording and writing this entire podcast. So I appreciate that. But if you do want to listen to that episode, all you have to do is google movie Mike Amberler. It shows up before you're right there with that overview, click it on iHeartRadio, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts. So I appreciate that message. Rachel. I'm sure you watch that movie on Hulu because it did get added rather recently. So if you want to go watch that, check it out on Hulu, check out the interview. Thank you for listening, thank you for being subscribed, and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later