Actors Who HATE Movies That Made Them Famous + Movie Review: Wuthering Heights + Trailer Park: Disclosure Day

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Speaker 1: Bra Brera, Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I'm your host Movie Mike. Today, I want to talk about actors who threw shade at the roles that made them famous, biding the hand that feeds them. Why did they do this where they justified? Were some of these roles terrible? In the movie review, we'll be talking about Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie and Jacob BELORDI. Something happened in our theater that I've never seen or heard before from an audience, especially when it comes to a romance movie, So we'll talk about that. In the trailer park, we'll talk about the Disclosure Day trailer that aired at the Super Bowl. How excited are we for Steven Spielberg returning to making a movie about aliens? Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. I'm a little hyped up. I just chugged a coffee, So let's get going. Let's talk movies podcast Network Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. As you can tell, the caffeine has entered my veins. It is pumping through my blood straight out my mouth. To talk about movies. I have a list of actors who don't necessarily love the roles and projects that launched their career. Sometimes an actor will just take a job because they need a job.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they're working in TV.

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Speaker 1: Not quite cutting through yet, and you take a movie role just in the hopes of maybe this could be the one that launches my career to a level that I've been dreaming about since I was a kid. In some cases, some of these people on this list are actually children when they got cast in these movies. But for some reason or another, these actors look at these roles with embarrassment, frustration, or just have some complicated, mixed feelings. Maybe they had some beef with a director and they just did not like how these movies turned out, and they feel like these are a bit of a blemish on their resume. So let's get right into the list, Starting with Jennifer Aniston in nineteen ninety three. The role that made her famous long before well not too long before Friends, was Lepper. This was Jennifer Aniston's debut film in what is now a cult horror movie. I love the Leprechaun franchise. When I first watched this back in the nineties as a kid, I didn't see it as being comical. I was terrified of Leprechaun. Granted I was coming off of being terrified of other little demonic creatures like Chucky. But I found the first one and two Leprechaun movies to be pretty terrifying. But now when you watch these, you see how campy it is. You see how comical these movies are and why they weren't the most successful when they came out. And while at the time, Jennifer Aniston thought this was her big break. She felt like she arrived in Hollywood when she got this movie in nineteen ninety three, and then one year later would be on the biggest show on the face of the planet, Friends. But now when she looks back on her career, she calls this project embarrassing. She talked about it on Howard Stern. He calls it the bane of her existence. She agreed. She said her ex husband, Justin Thireau, forced her to watch it, and she tried to, really tried to, but was unsuccessful. She had to grab the remote and turn it off and ended up cringing while leaving and then re entering the room. She even later said while promoting the Morning Show that it just straight up not her favorite, but she acknowledged that it is a cult classic, and then for the first time actually admitted that she is proud of it in a weird way. So maybe now she's fully coming around to it, because I think it has entered that level of cult classic now in twenty twenty six where all the people like me who watched this when they were younger and have a lot of good things attached to it, fun memories of watching horror movies late at night. This was always a part of my horror binge watch going into Halloween. Whenever October hit. This was part of the franchises that I would dive into every single year. So maybe at that time, back in the nineties, where she was really coming out and starting her career at the time was probably a hard thing to get over because you think about she goes from doing this in ninety three to Friends in ninety four, stays on that show for a very long time, and it's not until the later part of her career with Friends where she wanted to branch out again and do movies. But then you think about talking to people, talking to producers, talking to directors, wanting to go be on TV, which is what everybody wanted to do back in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: You do TV, but.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately you want to be in the movies. You want to make a picture, and if you have Leprechaun on your resume as your debut in film, it is probably harder to pitch yourself for more serious roles. But granted, when you look at people's early roles, a lot of them come from horror because it's a little budget. You need a good lead. So if you look back on all your favorite actors, they have done some questionable horror movies back early on in their career. And I think in Jennifer Andison's case, to have Leprechaun be your debut, she should not be as embarrassed as she is. But I'm glad she is finally coming around to this movie. There is a scene in Leprechaun that has forever just burned into my head. And again, I don't remember this movie being so comical when I watched it as a kid. But there is a scene where Jennifer Aniston and some of the other people in the cast are trying to escape go get help. They have a jeeb and they want to leave this farmhouse to go find somebody else to help them defeat this Leprechaun. So they come up with this plan to distract the Leprechaun, and they find this loophole where if you throw shoes at him, a leprechaun, by instinct, just has to shine those shoes because he can't see dirty shoes. He's gonna pick them up and start shining them, and that would give them enough time to distract him and allow Jennifer Aniston to leave and go find help. Here is that scene that I just think about all the time. For some odd reason, He's like, how dare you you found my one weakness. I just can't help but shine any shoe that is thrown at me. So if ever I have to clean my shoes a little bit, I always default to that voice. Shine shine me, shiny as I shine my shoes. But Jennifer Aniston embarrassed of her first role in Leprechaun from nineteen ninety three. Next up on the list Alec Baldwin. His first major breakout role was in Beetlejuice. This cemented him in Hollywood playing the character Adam, which he was more of a TV actor before this movie, but right after the success of Beetlejuice boom main stream stardom. He went on to be in other movies like The Hunt for Red October in nineteen ninety. But Alec Baldwin, back when he made Beetlejuice with Tim Burton, he said he was convinced that this movie would end everyone's career involved. He said, when we did Beetlejuice, I had no idea what it was about. I thought my and all of our careers were going to end with the release of this film.

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Speaker 2: How wrong he was.

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Speaker 1: But I could see where Alec Baldwin was coming from because Tim Burton was still a new director. Peewee's Big Adventure came out in nineteen eighty five, but that was so unlike what he was doing with Beetlejuice, where I felt Beatlejuice was the first real Tim Burton film that had that look, that had that humor, had that stop motion where he really put his artistic vision into Beetlejuice. That would become the style that we know Tim Burton for to this day. But if you are working on a movie like this where this guy is still relatively untested, you don't know how audiences are going to receive this. I could see how you think, man, this is gonna be awful. Alec Baldwin also said that he felt completely sidelined. He said quote, I remember walking through that movie and thinking I got nothing. I was a set piece, a prison sentence. And he even tried to model his character after another nineteen fifties actor to make it more interesting, but Tim Burton shut it down, and that was the only direction tim Burton ever gave him, Just don't do that. And despite not understanding it at the time and not being super proud of his work in that moment, Alec Baldwin did later on praise tim Burton, calling him a mad genius and praising Michael Keaton's comedic brilliance. This could have been an instance where any other actor might have walked away from this project thinking this is not going to work. But props to Alec Baldwin for sticking it out and sticking with your director. At number two, we have Alec Baldwin in Beetlejuice, Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Knights. This was the role that launched his career into acting. He'd already been doing music, but it was this movie, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who also did one Battle after another.

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Speaker 2: Just this last year.

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Speaker 1: That helped establish Mark Wahlberg as a legitimate leading man, paving the way for future roles like The Departed, like the Transformers movies he was in, even though those were terrible, or movies like Ted. Just name any more Walberg movie. It all goes back to him having success with Boogie Knights, and in this case, he didn't shade it so much so because he didn't like the film or he thought it was bad in any way. He expressed a lot of regrets about doing Boogie Knights because of the subject matter, especially later in life, where even though he did have some troubles early on in his career as a teenager, in his young adult wife, he has really changed, becoming more of a family man, becoming more dedicated to his faith, and he said later in life he just felt like, oh, man, why didn't I do that movie? He later said at a church he was speaking at, I just always hope that God is a movie fan and also forgiving because I've made some poor choices in my past. Boogie Knights is up there at the top of my list. It is a very rated movie about the adult industry. But I think at that time was the perfect role for him to transition into being a legitimate actor after having a background of being a model being a rapper. This was kind of best case scenario for him. He had a hit right out of the gate, made him famous. Next up, John Cusack was not a fan of his movie Better Off Dead Now. Early on in his career, he had a couple of different movies that put him on the map. You could say say anything, but Better Off Dead is highly regarded as one of his most defying early performances. Director Savage Steve Holland claimed that John Cusack once stormed out of a screening and told him this is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life, and adding that he felt used and made fun of. Years later, John Cusack softened his stands for being so brash in that response. In a Reddit ama, he said, I didn't hate it. I just thought it could have been better. He said that he feels that way but most of his movies, and explain that much of that perceived anger came from being endlessly asked about the movie during press tours for unrelated projects. I was seventeen years old, he said, I was just onto the next thing. I think this is probably the case for a lot of people on this list. You have that breakout role, the one that people just come back to time after time again. Because us as movie fans, we get attached to the first thing we saw you in. It's what we love the most because we associated with a very fun part of our time where everything was bright and shiny. There are a lot of actors I think about, Oh, man, I watched this movie when I was a kid. If I ever got to interview them, I would have to ask them a question about that movie. In John q s X's case, he did this movie when he was seventeen, I think could just start to get annoyed. But I also understand as an actor there are worse things people could ask you about in an interview. If somebody wants to celebrate you for your work, you kind of have to do it. It's kind of like an artist who has a hit early on in their career, and then later on in life they get sick of it, they don't want to play it anymore. I'm sorry, but if you have a hit, you gotta play the hits. That's what puts you on the map. That's what people want to hear. So in that same sense, if you put out a movie that a lot of people love, even though it's early on, you gotta play the hits. You gotta talk about those early roles. While I do understand how it can be annoying, we just want to know about it. We're gonna keep asking you questions about Better Off Dead, about say anything. So John Cusack on the list with Better Off Dead and why he publicly shaded it. Next up on the list Natalie Portman. She was in a movie at twelve years old called Leon the Professional. This launched her career into acting. Natalie Portman was chosen from over two thousand candidates to play the role in this movie about a young girl mentored by a hit man, and this movie established her as a rising talent and so influential on her early success. She went on to do movies like Star Wars, which just went She also got an oscar for Black Swan in twenty ten. But it was this movie that launched her career. But why she hated it? But she publicly shaded this movie for a very legitimate reason. Again, she was only twelve years old when she made this movie. And she describes her feelings with it to be deeply conflicted. She said it gave me my career, but when you watch it now, it definitely has some cringey aspects, to say the least. She later said that the allegations against the director were devastating and emphasized I was a kid working. I really didn't know. I saw some interviews where she said that the director's behavior on set was very creepy, in particular when it came to her costuming. Some described it similar to the way Quentin Tarantino focuses on feet. That's how this director was focused on some of the costuming with her character. Some of the things he wanted to portray, they were deeply concerning and disturbing because she was twelve years old. So if you go back and watch this movie, some of it is a little bit questionable.

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Speaker 2: She said.

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Speaker 1: It's still a movie that's beloved and people come up to me about it more than almost anything I've ever made. But yes, it is very complicated for me. And then you throw in what the director was accused of in twenty eighteen, which was not good. The case against him was dismissed in twenty twenty one after an investigation. So in this case I could see that as being a movie she doesn't really want to talk about anymore. Next up on the list Sean Connery, who became internationally famous with his role of James Bond in the movie Doctor No. Back in nineteen sixty two. He went on to play James Bond in movies from nineteen sixty two to nineteen sixty seven and return for two more, defining the character's style, wit, and global popularity so much so that it is still a thing to play James Bond, and we're still waiting on who is going to play him next. Before playing Bond, he had only appeared in small theater and TV productions, but this was the role that turned him into a sex symbol and a global superstar in what appeared to be overnight, We're talking Doctor No from Russia, with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You'll Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, and Never Say Never Again in nineteen eighty three. But he famously hated playing the character. He once said that the films don't tax one as an actor, adding that all you really need is the constitution of a rugby player. So because of his theater and TV background. He thought, man, this character takes no effort to play. It doesn't fulfill me. Therefore it is bad, and if you like it, you are bad. He described James Bond as a cross, a privilege, a joke, a challenge, and as bloody, intrusive as a nightmare. At one point, bluntly stated, I hate James Bond. I'd like to kill him. I hear in his description of this character he felt like playing James Bond was beneath him. And sometimes I hear stories of people who maybe write a joke that they think, ah, this isn't gonna be any good, but I'll try it, and it's your lowest common denominator, throwaway joke that some people find to be the funniest. It works the best in your set. Some musicians they write a song and think this is a stupid song, but let's put it out anyway, and that ends up being their biggest hit. Sometimes it's the things that you don't have to think that much about that people end up loving. That's the only way I can see his disdain for this character is he thinks it's so easy. I can just walk in and just not even think about these lines, don't even have to read them, and I can play this character and people just eat it up. Which I don't even see James Bond to be that dumb down of a character. But I guess if you are so sophisticated as a mister Sean Connery, you want to doing things that maybe show more of your range or are a little bit more challenging, and not just you in a suit with the gun doing the same.

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Speaker 2: Thing movie after movie.

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Speaker 1: But that is harsh to say straight up that you hate this character who has brought you so much fame, brought you so much funny that even though you don't love it, is adored by millions and millions of people. That's kind of a durbal move. So I just don't see the disdain here for this character. Or I'm not even the biggest James Bond fan. I could be on the side of Sean Connery saying, yeah, it's a terrible role, But I know how many people love these movies. They are just not for me. So for him to be so outwardly angry bashing these movies, that just seems like a wild thing to do. Biting the hand that feeds man. But we have Sean Connery as James Bond. Next up on the list, Jacob Belordie had a breakout role in The Kissing Booth on Netflix. That is the only thing I think about now when I watch The Kissing Booth or think about The Kissing Booth. Not that I watched The Kissing Booth anymore than the first times I watched it on Netflix. I think it wasn't until the last one final movie of the series came out that Kelsey and I watched all the movies. So this was very much just me just being thrown into The Kissing Booth and the movies are what they are. I wasn't expecting the most in depth thing when watching a movie called The Kissing Booth. But in a way that a Disney show or a Nickelodeon show could put you on the map as a young actor. The same thing with movies like The Kissing Booth on Netflix that find that young audience. It launched these people into stardom. Jacob Elordi being one of those people who is now starting to become a household name. From The Kissing Booth, he went on to do Euphoria, which two completely different projects where he gets to be more of an actor there, still kind of in the teen world. Still not the most like, Okay, I'm gonna be the most defined actor here, but a big stepping stone from The Kissing Booth and now is doing movies like Frankenstein Withering Heights, starring alongside Margot Robbie. I feel like he is now in that upper tier of actor on just pure acting abilities, and the fact that he is so tall and good looking only helps push his star that much higher. But he hates these movies. He has been so shockingly upfront about not liking The Kissing Booth. He said, I didn't want to make those movies. Before I made those movies, he has called them ridiculous and not universal. He also warned against doing too many projects like that and said it can become fifteen of them, none for you. You have no original ideas and.

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Speaker 2: You're dead inside.

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Speaker 1: So I think, more so than just hating the content of these movies, maybe hating his character in The Kissing Booth, I think he hated the idea of being attached to a franchise like that where you get so sucked into it. You are doing these movies only because it's steady work. Early on in your career. But then you want to go to other things you could have probably done. If you're Jacob Blordi, five of these movies easy could have kept cranking them out, even though by the second one the plot was holding on for dear life. So I just think it's so interesting for him to bash this movie so hard. This is a case where I really don't know what he gets about showing his hate for these movies. But if you are a fan of The Kissing Booth, just know Jacob Elordi thinks less of you if you're watching enjoy those movies. Next up Richard Gear and Pretty Woman. He was already a well established star in the nineteen eighties, but it was Pretty Woman in nineteen ninety that re cemented his A list status, making him not just famous in America but famous worldwide as the romantic lead in this film. He'd been in movies like American Jigglow in nineteen eighty, An Officer and a Gentleman in nineteen eighty two, but it was Pretty Woman that just made him even more popular. But he hated it, and he shaded it publicly. He said, Pretty Woman is his least favorite thing. Your least favorite thing, Richard Gear. The movie I would consider, well, maybe this in Runaway Bride, which also has Julia Roberts. Those two are my favorite Richard Gear movies and the only ones to me that come to mind when I think about them. He dismissed Pretty Woman as being a silly romantic comedy. This is where I get angry. This is where I'm standing up now in the studio. I hate it when actors talk so bad about their projects and call things silly. It's just a silly rom com It's just a dumb comedy, a stupid horror movie. You should not be acting if you talk about your projects this way. You just shouldn't. Because people find enjoyment in all different types of things. And for you to say or call somebody out for enjoying something silly, not even that it's silly, that you think it's silly, Come on, Richard Gear. That is so annoying. He also criticized the movie's portrayal of wealthy corporate raiders and it said it made those guys seem dashing, which was wrong.

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Speaker 2: So needless to.

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Speaker 1: Say, at seventy six years old, doesn't sound like Richard Gear would be down for another Pretty Woman, Pretty Woman Too. This sounds like one of those fake Facebook movies where if you get on Facebook you just get slammed with these AI images and chat GBT descriptions of new movies coming to theaters that are just announced, and for some reason, all you have is a crappy poster on Facebook to announce it. But I could see this on Facebook, Pretty Woman to a Second Chance, and you see an AI image of Richard Gear and Julia Roberts together again, and you see all the comments like I can't wait for this, or people being like this is so bad, I can't believe this is coming out. But then you have the one voice of reason down there saying, doesn't everybody know this is AI? That's what Pretty Woman two sounds to me. So will never be made. I think Julia Roberts could come back, and we forget Richard Gear if he thinks so less of these movies. One of the best rom columns of the nineties and of all time. Get out of here. You don't deserve to act. Richard Gear. Next up on the list, Anya Taylor Joy. Her breakout role was in The Witch. She saw a lot of success in her career after this twenty fifteen horror movie, which is a fantastic horror movie.

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Speaker 2: It is a slow.

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Speaker 1: Burn, A lot of the scary elements are subtle, but it is one if you put it on I would say late at night, although late at night to me now as a thirty four year old almost thirty five year old.

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Speaker 2: Is like eight thirty.

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Speaker 1: You turn off all the lights and really allow yourself sink into this story because it's one of those horror movies where there's not a lot of crazy action, not a whole lot of things that are just gonna pop out of nowhere and scare you. It is a very subtle type of horror, so you have to be in the right space for it, have to be quiet, not on your phone. But it is one of my favorite horror movies of the twenty tens and was her breakout film role. And Anya Taylor Joy actually chose to do this movie instead of another Disney Channel pilot that she could have done in its place. Made a great choice there. And when she shaded this movie in public, it wasn't the film itself, it was her performance in it. So she was a lot younger in this role, and she said she felt devastated, believing that she let everyone down and questioning whether or not she was right for the role at all. So that's the best way you share a movie that you were in early on in your career that gave you your start, that you think, man, I just didn't try hard enough. They made a mistake in hiring me. So maybe that gets you out of talking about it to some people because like Ah, she doesn't really want to talk about her performance than that because she doesn't think she was that good, instead of being like, I hated doing them movie. It was terrible, but a really great breakout role for her. If that was my first movie as an actor, I would be set. And she's gone on to do shows like The Queen's Gambit. The Menu was a really great movie a few years ago, still kind of in that horror space, although it's more of a thriller and suspense. Anya Taylor Joy as an actor just elevates any project that she is in. The Witch is one of those. I'm glad she didn't rip it too hard. But next though, we got a couple of people who did rip their movies pretty hard. Shia Labuff and Megan Fox both reached international fame with Transformers, and both of them really hate looking back on both of these movies. Although I think it's time to reboot Transformers with Shila Buff and Megan Fox, I think they're both in a good place now. I think it's been far enough from them being so public about their relationship with Michael Bay, which was more so Megan Fox beefing with him because she was not in the later movies, which greatly suffered without having Megan Fox. Because if you think about these movies and the real reason that Shila Buff didn't like them, even though they famous made him a lot of money, is it was those two together that sold the story. It was their relationship and their dynamic that made those movies work. And that's what Shila Buff said. He said because he loved the human element and that's what he wanted, because otherwise it just would have been a bunch of robots fighting each other. But he did call the movies later irrelevant and dated af He criticized their lack of heart, saying, unless you have relationships, the movie doesn't matter. They're just robots fighting each other. So he was right because if you look at the later films minus him and minus Megan Fox, that is why they lacked that same impact is because you didn't have those great relationships. Although I would say Bumblebee with Hailey Steinfeld went back to that that is a great installment in the franchise, but overall, by the time we got to when Mark Wahlberg was introduced into this franchise, it was pretty much dead. They are kind of coming back with the Rise of the Beasts and Transformers won the animated movie, but it is really hard to replicate the Transformers movies of the late two thousands. Shila buff also said that the second movie was made without a finished script, adding that they were essentially making it up as they went just to meet a deadline. So that just kind of proves to you the movies got so big and successful that there was such a demand to just get these movies out in time to make that money. While the iron was hount that they really just stopped caring about the story and just throwing on whatever could make it work by the time that they needed it. Megan Fox did acknowledge and say that she was terrible in these movies, but said I can't crap on this movie because it did give me my career, but also that this movie is not about the acting. She said the experience taught her a lot, even though she isn't proud of her performance, and she was famously in a big battle with Michael Bay a lot of controversy there, So I can imagine it would be really hard to get these two back together.

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Speaker 2: But if we could.

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Speaker 1: Get Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson back in The Hunger Games, why can't we get Shia La Buff and Megan Fox back in Transformers?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: A couple more to wrap up the list. Robert Pattinson just hates Twilight. He really does, even though the movie made him a household name. He had been in the Harry Potter movies before this as Cedric Diggery in The Goblet of Fire. Robert Pattinson called Edward Cohen ridiculous. He said he's a one hundred and eight year old version, so obviously he's got some issues. He also said that reading the books sometimes made him uncomfortable, describing them as feeling like someone's sexual fantasy, which the Twilight movies did end up being fifty shades of gray because of the fan turned into that. So I think overall, He just hates the fact that people still associate him with Twilight. They see him as Edward Colan has become such a renowned actor with movies like Good Time, Tenant The Lighthouse. When he was announced to be the next Bruce Wayne and The Batman, people just said, I cannot see Edward Colan as the Batman. Kristin Stewart doesn't hate them as much. I think primarily she has shaded the pregnancy storyline and said, really, you just had a child. Really. She also admitted that she initially did not want to play Bella, saying that she didn't want to push a very unrealistic love onto young girls, and she failed in that because I remember so many girls in high school being all about finding their Edward Colin. And finally, Harrison Ford has been pretty upfront of not liking his breakout role in Star Wars. He just doesn't seem to be a fan of the character Han Solo. He did have a small role in George Lucas's movie American Graffiti in nineteen seventy three. It was an odd coincidence how he even got this job. He was working as a carpenter building cabinets for George Lucas's office. He was brought in to read lines with other actors auditioning for Star Wars, and he ended up impressing George Lucas, who thought, man, this guy has a lot of natural charisma, a lot of wit, and that led George Lucas into casting him as Hans Solo. That's how he got the role and has now played him for over forty years, most recently in The Force Awakens back in twenty fifteen, which seeing him for the very first time in a long time as Hans Solo just kind of healed something in my soul. But throughout the course of the movies he hated the character. He even urged them to kill him off in Return of the Jedi, believing that Han Solo had reached his full potential and his death would be more dramatic and carry more of an emotional weight into the storyline. He just thinks Han Solo is not interesting. So maybe it's not so much that he hates Han Solo. Kind of like we've been talking about in this episode, he just feels like the character lacks some kind of depth. He wanted him to have a little bit more character development, especially when he's looking at some of his co stars, Princess Lea and Luke Skywalker have a lot more development. But if I were ever to meet Harrison Ford, which I do remember now, I think one time we were in Vegas, he was at the same casino we were at, and other people saw him. I think I saw like a group of people walking down through the casino, all following Harrison Ford. He was there on a promotional tour. I never actually saw him because there were so many people around him. But if I did have the chance to talk to him, I would not bring up Han solo. But that is the list. I'll come back, Kelsey will hop in and we'll give our spoiler free movie review of Wuthering Heights. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Wuthering Heights. Thank you for coaching me on how to say that. I kept saying withering.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was like, there's no eye and it's watheringly, almost like a Werther's original, but that has an E. So it's like a really like Wathering Heights.

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Speaker 1: Very whimsical movie, is how I look at it.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Directed by Emerald Fanell who this is their third movie. Great run of films came out of the gate with Promising Young Woman, which I think didn't get enough credit.

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Speaker 3: We were talking about that. I feel like it was one of those that got lost in the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: Came out was really good when nobody talked about it. Saltburn, though, that got a lot of attention.

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Speaker 3: Everyone talked about that movie that came.

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Speaker 1: Out at the right time, straight to streaming or.

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Speaker 3: Did it come out in theaters.

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Speaker 1: I did come out in theaters thea that was one of those that had such a big impact. When it came out on streaming that that's when people started talking about it more. But now with Weathering Heights, I feel like there was a big hype around this one. I didn't really think about the associate with Valentine's dad and how big that was going to be. Yeah, I mean, because it's romance. How would you describe this movie?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, it's based on a book by Emily Bronte. Did you read the book maybe in high school?

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Speaker 1: It's a very old book. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I didn't feel the need to reread this one before the movie. I was like, I'm good without without reading the book.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: So it's a love story over the years between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff if he has a last name, didn't.

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Speaker 1: Catch it, Heath Cliff, that's a great name.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's supposed to be this like great romance, but I feel like romance back then like had a different interpretation. It's a love story.

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Speaker 1: They meet when their kids. Her dad brings them in. Yes, he's really poor. I mean I guess her family had money. Her family had money, but her dad has some problems. You see them as kids and then it flash forwards to them as adults.

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Speaker 3: Yes, was it a.

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Speaker 1: Really good love story or was it just the fact that these two people are like the most attractive in Hollywood right now.

00:34:00
Speaker 3: No, it's just two really hot people. Now, I have to say, Okay, one of my biggest problems was so she has a companion, Nelly, it's roughly her same age.

00:34:12
Speaker 1: Yes, when they're kids, they're about the same age.

00:34:14
Speaker 3: Okay, they get older, and they made Hong Chow look so much older and wrinkled. And I guess that's supposed to be the comparison of like when you have money, you look younger. But I was like, these two people are supposed to be the same age, and they did her dirty they did her, They did her real dirty. Yeah, this is not a movie for your children.

00:34:32
Speaker 1: To see, which I don't think any Emerald Fannel movies are correct. They're pretty are all of them really are.

00:34:38
Speaker 3: There's there's a word I'm thinking of to describe this movie. You can't say it on here because it's family friendly podcast. But just it's just two people who find each other very attractive, and there's a lot of lusting if you catch my dress.

00:34:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I was saying, like, is it a really good love story or are they just too incredibly attractive people, because I feel a lot of it is on how breathtaking Jacob E'LORDI is, how big and masculine he is, how much he can just like lift her up with like a pinky.

00:35:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, that scene she talked about. She was like, there's a scene where he like lifts me up with one hand. Yeah, I am not on the Jacob Elordi train.

00:35:19
Speaker 1: You're not, I am, But no, I said that.

00:35:22
Speaker 3: I was like, not on the like full like I think he's the hottest man alive. Whatever. Okay, then my algorithm fed me a video okay, and somebody asked him about his dog and it's him talking about his dog and then he goes, she's doing so well, thank you for asking, And I was like, he just thanked a reporter for asking about his dog, Like, damn it. I mean, I'll have to say, damnit, damn it. That's cute.

00:35:45
Speaker 1: He has dogs too. He's a good person behind all this.

00:35:48
Speaker 3: He's a dog named Layla.

00:35:49
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's a really good actor. I was talking about earlier in this episode how he doesn't care for the Kissing Booth movies anymore and he's like separated himself from that, but.

00:35:59
Speaker 3: Again it launched him. I mean, I hate when people bite the hand that fed them.

00:36:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, but how far he's come since those movieshaps and now this movie a whole other level. I think, just on acting abilities alone with both of them.

00:36:14
Speaker 3: Was he in Sulburn, Yes, it's him and Barry Keekan so.

00:36:16
Speaker 1: Both of this this past weekend, they were both in movies that came out in theaters.

00:36:19
Speaker 3: I was like, I think that was crime went on Jacob Alardi's Bathwater. That's right, Yeah, that's.

00:36:24
Speaker 1: What I'm saying. An Emerald film movie it has that one moment. I don't know if this one had that though. Ah, maybe it did. I won't say what it is, but yeah, yeah, something close to that. Yeah, it goes there, But there was something I don't want to give the moment away. Let me talk about the crowd. There was a lot of audience participation which I wasn't expecting.

00:36:44
Speaker 3: Where I mean it was like ninety five percent women.

00:36:47
Speaker 2: Yes, it was.

00:36:48
Speaker 1: People were applauding at times I didn't think were applauseworthy moments that I wasn't expecting. It felt like at times a Marvel movie where there was one scene in particular where a character appeers on screen and there was like a big round of applause. Oh yeah, and it felt like Thor came down, or like whenever an Avengers endgame where you see the them like on your left and everybody appears. It felt like that moment. Yeah, I was not expecting that in a movie like this, where it was like this big moment where everybody in the crowd was like, yes, waiting for that.

00:37:22
Speaker 3: It was just a lot of women wanting to see Jacob Belordi and Marco Robbie, which I want to talk about the like costume and set design.

00:37:31
Speaker 1: The overall aesthetic of this movie.

00:37:33
Speaker 3: Color grading phenomenal.

00:37:35
Speaker 1: Why I'm wearing red right now.

00:37:36
Speaker 3: Phenomenal color grading and just like I mean, Marco Robbie is breath taking the stunning added the fact that they both have Australian accents in real life, Like I was watching a clip of them on The Graham Norton Show in the UK with Amanda Seyfried and I was just like, the two of them with their Australian accents being that good looking, It's just it's rude. It's rude to the rest of us, Like it's just incredibly rude. But they just like they made her look even better these outfits, and just like the makeup, The makeup phenomenal, and like the color of the bedrooms in one of the houses, and just like the depth of the colors.

00:38:20
Speaker 1: The set design was next level all throughout that I felt like every single detail was accounted for.

00:38:26
Speaker 3: Like I already feel like that has to be ostrominyd for set design and costume.

00:38:30
Speaker 1: From the bed frames to the wallpaper, to the artwork, to every little trinket in the background, all of the land, like the landscape of like just the where all the houses were, all those things, and then you talk about all the locations in the set, like where this movie was placed was perfect, like on that cliff and the water and all the smoke they used to make the fog. That's what gave this movie like that whimsical feeling I was talking about where it felt like you were reading like a real old fairy tale where people emerge from the fog.

00:39:03
Speaker 3: And the music.

00:39:04
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Charlie XCX killed it.

00:39:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just like well then there, Yeah, there's that song in the beginning that like went like TikTok viral where it's like I think I'm gonna die in this house and it just like really sets the scene. I also loved the mister act at the beginning. But the opening scene oh yeah, and I won't say, but there's like as the title is rolling, there's like sounds in the background and you think it's one thing and it's not, and so I just yeah, I felt like that was great. And like the actress that played the young Margot Robbie looked so much like a young Margot Robbie.

00:39:40
Speaker 1: Where are they finding all these amazing young actors?

00:39:43
Speaker 3: I know, between that and like Hamlet, yes, yeah, phenomenal. I feel like in other countries.

00:39:49
Speaker 1: Actually here we just get Disney Channel kids. But yeah, like you were saying about the music and the score, how it felt modern, but then you have this period piece. It complimented each other really great, and there were just so many little things that I liked. But I think overall, well, I guess I went into this movie thinking I wasn't going to enjoy it at all. I think the trailer didn't do it justice.

00:40:13
Speaker 3: I don't think so much.

00:40:14
Speaker 1: The trailer made it feel like entire something entirely different, even with the Charlie XCX song Fallen Love Again and again fall Again, And I feel like we've been seeing this trailer for four to five months already.

00:40:24
Speaker 2: We have, I have.

00:40:26
Speaker 1: We've seen it so much that I had this entirely different movie in my head.

00:40:31
Speaker 3: I just want to see the movie to be done with it, honestly. So I was like, I've seen the trailer so many times because.

00:40:35
Speaker 1: It is a period piece. Sometimes I have trouble with those because I'm dumb.

00:40:39
Speaker 2: And usually not true.

00:40:41
Speaker 1: Usually the dialogue is really like, is it Saint Swiven's day already? And hega like that. It wasn't like that.

00:40:49
Speaker 3: It wasn't like yie old English and it was really easy to understand for me that they modernized it.

00:40:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I have trouble with with period pieces, where it's like I I have to pay attention to the dialogue so much that I forget what's happening because I'm trying to listen to all these weird names.

00:41:03
Speaker 3: That's why when people were like, are you going to read the book first, I was like, no, I'm not reading anything for fun that would have been a signed to me in grades ninth or twelve or beyond. Yeah, I'm not going to reread it. If it's a modern book, sure, I'm not rereading Weather Nights.

00:41:22
Speaker 1: I feel like this could be a modern day romance classic. It just felt really intentional all the way through, really great acting, really great characters, and has an amazing backdrop that I think this is.

00:41:35
Speaker 2: Going to be a movie.

00:41:36
Speaker 1: I do want to revisit when it comes to streaming. I would degree because I think there are probably some things that I missed, and I think it's one that with rewatchability it could get better.

00:41:46
Speaker 3: I honestly feel like seeing it on a Friday night after the end of a very long week, it was not the move because it was a little bit slow at times.

00:41:54
Speaker 1: I would say it took thirty minutes to settle into.

00:41:56
Speaker 3: It, and I think we should have seen it on like a Saturday.

00:41:59
Speaker 1: But I think overall, I am putting Emerald Fennel on my Listelle Fanelle, Emerald Fanelle on my list of directors that I'm going to see every single movie. Oh yeah, because three really noteworthy movies. Maybe not for everybody, you have to be into. They're not raunchy, there just really are and they are so polarizing.

00:42:21
Speaker 3: Salburn was a little raaunchy.

00:42:23
Speaker 1: But I think it's it's an artistic choice to make it that raunchy. It's not smut for being the sake of being smut. There's intention behind it, there's artistry behind it. I would agree with that where it has to be that explicit and that over the top to cut through everything else. It's kind of like how HBO has a fascination which is showing like mail button Wiener because it gets your attention. That's what you have to do to get people's attention nowadays.

00:42:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's not really there's no full frontal in this one that there wasn't. There's one like full frontal scene in Saltburn. Yeah, so memorable. There's not that, but there is a lot of two people. Yeah, two adults getting adult things, doing adult things.

00:43:04
Speaker 2: Yes, what would you rate it?

00:43:05
Speaker 1: Final thoughts here?

00:43:07
Speaker 3: I mean, even saying all of that, I would probably still give it a four.

00:43:11
Speaker 1: Oh really, Yeah, I'm in between a four and a four point five. I think because I ended up thinking about it a lot post and like I said earlier, it is a movie I want to revisit, and I think that says a lot. So I'm gonna go four point five out of five. Ooh, what's the rating system here?

00:43:31
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go four out of five dollhouses.

00:43:33
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go four point five out of five red dresses. And that is our thoughts on Wuering Heights.

00:43:41
Speaker 3: Whether we did practice that, We did the whole way.

00:43:45
Speaker 1: Home, and I still almost got it wrong, but you didn't. I didn't.

00:43:49
Speaker 3: There we go.

00:43:52
Speaker 1: Time to head down to movie Mike Trailer Park. If somebody told you you were not alone on this planet, and they showed you, they proved it to you, would that frighten you? That is the question behind Disclosure Day, directed by Steven Spielberg, coming out in theaters on June twelfth. I am so excited for this movie. When the trailer played at the Super Bowl, I had an entirely different perspective on what this movie is going to be. I think this movie is going to be massive on a scale that I've been waiting for an alien movie like this. Steven Spielberg and aliens go together like peanut, butter and jelly, like Ham and Berger. I love hearing him talk about this movie and how it just came from his curiosity of the sky at night. But it has a fantastic cast. It reminds me of one of my favorite alien movies. I think a movie we all watched in the early two thousands and were scarred by signs Because in this trailer, now we are seeing some of the things that the aliens are doing on Earth, and the whole thing is that the world, the powers that being, the government is finally going to let people know that we are not alone. But we see crop circles forming. We also see animals acting in really strange ways. Before we talk about it more, here is just a little bit of the Disclosure Day trailer.

00:45:20
Speaker 3: We are interrupting our coverage. There has been a threat to publicly release government material long shrouded in secrecy.

00:45:29
Speaker 1: Are they people people have a rdy to know the truth? What are you gonna do?

00:45:40
Speaker 3: Full disclosure to the whole world all at once?

00:45:45
Speaker 1: There will be no other day like tomorrow. It's going to be good. So Steven Spielberg has a fascination with the sky at night, and I think as humans, we've been so used to the idea of looking up at the sky and not thinking anything about it. It just is normal to us when we go out at night and we see the moon. That is normal to us. But I think it's so normal to us because we've experienced it our entire lives that we don't realize how bizarre it is if you really think about it. The fact that you can go out and see something that is so far like the moon and the sun and the stars, to me, that tells me we are not alone on this planet. And I have had this fascination with aliens since I was a kid, probably in fifth and sixth grade. I remember reading books about this, listening to people's theories about this. And this was back in the early two thousands, where if you were interested in aliens and thought they were real, you were seen as just being kind of crazy, where it's just like, ah, you think aliens are real. It has become so much more normal now. The government has kind of soft launched it with releasing more and more data, with the Pentagon being more upfront about things and what this movie is about. This could be a reason we are getting this movie now is because we are probably closer to whether or not they want to let us know what they have found out about life outside of Earth. If you pull a scope outside of Earth and see how small we are, I think it is ridiculous, crazy to believe that we are the only living things in this universe. Now, I don't think that aliens look the way that they have been depicted in movies and in TV shows, and I think that has changed a lot of people's perspectives on it to make.

00:47:38
Speaker 2: It a little bit unbelievable.

00:47:40
Speaker 1: But what this movie is setting out to do is how people are going to react to that. Are you going to be frightened? I don't think I would be frightened because I don't think there's ever going to be one event now that we're going to know the existence of aliens and it's going to be proven because We've had all these little things, whether it's a tic tac like object that can move and stop on a dime, unlike any kind of technology we have. It's not a plane, it's not a drone. It can move so fast. We've seen that the Pentagon has released things that prove that has actually happened from real, legit people, and even with things like that, there hasn't been a moment for everybody in the general public to believe or feel like, oh, they just hit aliens are real. We're just never gonna believe it. There's not gonna be one event unless they come down and it's televised and we have all these different angles, We're never gonna believe it. I don't think that moment is going to happen because we've had all these little things happen and people are still skeptical whether or not aliens are real. The moment I always go back to not knowing what happened was the incident at the mall in Miami where they shut it down completely, sent every cop there because there were reports of these big alien like creatures that essentially came out of some kind of portal and they shut that entire thing down, and it was a big news story for a second, and then everybody just stopped talking about it.

00:49:11
Speaker 2: Where's the footage, where.

00:49:12
Speaker 1: Are those accounts, those interviews with people who were there.

00:49:15
Speaker 2: It just kind of happened.

00:49:17
Speaker 1: Was really weird, no explanation, and we just and then we just stopped thinking about it. So I am so excited for this movie because to me, here's my theory here, movies have been a tool by the government in the past to push an agenda, be a form of propaganda. Back in the nineteen fifties and the nineteen sixties, the government used film to criticize the Soviet Union and they spread anti communist messages through American films. And we've seen this even in our lifetime. They've used movies to push ideas out there or even encourage people to join the army. If you look back on franchises we all love, like the Transformer, there is a big emphasis on the military presence in those movies, and the filmmakers actually worked with the military to make things accurate. But if you're gonna work with the military to make things accurate, they're kind of pushing some ideas onto the public. If you go back and watch some of the early Marvel movies, which also had some people from the government working on those movies to get things accurate. You kind of see the influence of them pushing the idea of the military and maybe encouraging some people to sign up. So if you look back in history, there have been instances where they pushed ideas through movies to make them seem a little bit more digestible, like taking Flintstone's vitamins. It's a little bit easier to chew, it doesn't taste as bad. And then the idea is there, what if this movie is meant to do that launching that idea, seeing how people feel if we had a disclosure day where they just decide one day, hey, we're gonna let people know, and after this day nothing is going to be the same. Or is this all fictional? Is this all just a high up a Hollywood movie. But it just leads me to believe like this could be great timing because we've been asking now more than ever, what is going on in the world in the news, what is happening here? Are we alone? Are we not alone? Why have we not been told? What are they keeping from us? Do they want us to not freak out and go crazy. But could quite possibly they be soft launching the idea through a Steven Spielberg movie. I mean, if there's anyone I would want to get to soft launch this idea, I would get Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg is cinema. The thing I love about him is he doesn't have to do these movies for money anymore. He even takes a lower upfront fee. Has been known now to take about ten million dollars and instead get money on the back end, because oftentimes he could get one hundred million dollars on the back end from just taking that ten million dollars salary. His most famous payday was over two hundred and fifty million dollars for Jurassic Park. And he is also working with the same writer who did the screenplay for a Jurassic Park, The Lost World, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones, and The Kingdom of Crystal Skull. So this is going to have that classic Steven Spielberg feel. Dude has generated over three billion dollars at the box office. He is a billionaire, one of the only few director billionaires because he has done so many movies that are just essential to the fabric of film where you think, how could one person be responsible for hit after hit, franchise after franchise. So many iconic characters have been pushed through the lens of Steven Spielberg, and I think it is a really important decision for him to make a movie like this right now. So I can't help but going there in my brain. But it also has a fantastic Emily Blunt plays at Kansas City TV meteorologist. You have Josh O'Connor, who is really having a moment in his career right now. I feel like after Challengers his star has just risen so fast, so quickly, and he's just a really good actor. I think of his last few movies he was really good and Knives Out the last installment of that, I thought he was fantastic, and I think that probably pushed him on too people who haven't watched some more of his films as of late. So I think this is a great time for him to be in a movie like this that is gonna get a lot of attention. You also have Colin Firth, Coleman Domingo, which we heard there in that trailer, and also Wyatt Russell, who is the son of Kurt Russell. He is also a part of the THUNDERBOWLT So he's also having a moment right now for being a NEPO baby. But I'm so excited for it. I think it's gonna be one of those you need to see on the biggest screen possible. I can't wait to not only see this movie, but feel this movie in my guts. So Disclosure Day is coming out in theaters on June twelfth. And that was this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer Bar and that is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. Before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week this week. I'm going over to my email, which you can always email me Movie Mike d at gmail dot com. You can always find that in the episode notes, along with all of my socials. But I'm really just Mike Dshro on Everything YouTube dot com slash Mike Dstro. But I love a good old fashioned email every now and then. And I'm shouting out Garrett Mgrab who sent me an email and said, Mike, I saw to my book The Only Plane in the Sky actually made it onto Kelsey's Top Books of the year list, which was featured on your podcast. Her comments were so kind. I just wanted to say thank you. So sometimes I forget that people listen and cool people listen, like so thanks Garrett for reaching out. Kelsey was geeking out over that, but that was genuinely one of her favorite books that she read and shared about the audiobook, which book update with me. I'm still chugging along reading Project Hill Mary. It is a lot longer than I thought. Whenever I said a while ago that I thought I was almost halfway through, I went and looked at the actual page count and I'm like, oh man, now I'm really just almost halfway through. But I'm still chugging along. We just got our tickets to see Project Hill Mary in IMAX next month, so I'm excited for that. And now i have a real deadline. But I'm getting there. I'm really into the book. I am just a slow reader, but I do appreciate Garrett for reaching out sending us that email. That means a lot when anybody listens, but when somebody listens to we talk about that's awesome. So thank you Garrett for connecting and totally making Kelsey's day. Kelsey also started on Instagram just for her book recommendations. A lot of people were asking about that because of that episode we did, so I'll also link that in the episode notes of this podcast. But it's Kelsey rod Reads on Instagram. If you want to go follow her there. She's gonna be posting more of her book recommendations and stuff you here on the podcast where we do our recaps every single month and talks about the best things you read. If you like books and read them faster than I do, definitely go follow her there. So thanks for being here, and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.