Top 10 Movies I’ve Seen The Most + Movie Review: Twisters + Trailer Park: Captain America: Brave New World

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to share with you the top ten movies I have seen the most in my lifetime, because this week I have my review for the new Twisters movie, which the original from nineteen ninety six. Well, spoiler alert, it's the movie I've seen the most, but I've talked about it a lot in this podcast over fifty times. What else is going to come on that list that I've seen a comparable amount of times? And then in the trailer Park, we'll be talking about the new Captain America trailer. Is this going to be the run of movies that the MCU needs to revive it? I don't really I think it needs a revival. I've been here, I haven't jumped ship yet, but this trailer has a much different tone that I was expecting. Tease is a great villain in this movie, So I'm excited for the MCU right now. Is the rest of America? 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 in a.

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Speaker 1: I've put together a list of the top ten movies I've seen the most in my lifetime and how many times I've seen them each. Some of these are a rough guestimate based on the year they came out and how many times I decided to revisit each of these movies every single year, every single couple of years, and we'll get into how all those things factor into this list. Most of these are going to be around the decade I was born in. I came into this world in the beautiful year of nineteen ninety one, so obviously there will be movies from my childhood that I obviously rewatched again and again that make this list. And when a movie has been out for two to three decades, obviously I'm gonna have more time with those. The latest entry on this list is going to be from two thousand and nine, So just to give you a range of the years of movies, we'll be looking at here. What I feel makes a movie rewatchable for me. Obviously, it has a lot to do with my first experience watching these movies. If I see something as a kid that resonates with me, and then as an adult it becomes a very nostalgic movie. I oftentimes just rewatch those movies when I need to watch something that feels very familiar, I need to just clear my head. A lot of these movies are that for me. There are other movies on this list that not necessarily I sought out to watch these as many times as I have, and it's either through school or just being on cable all the time back when I had cable. Those things factor in as well. But the movies, at least in the top three on this list are ones that I still go back and revisit for a very specific reason. I also have a bunch of honorable mentions that are right there on the cusp of making this list and possibly overtake some of these movies on the list. So let's get right into it. At number ten from two thousand and eight, I have The Dark Night, and depending on the time you catch me, this could arguably be my favorite movie of all time. I've seen it fifteen times from what I can calculate, and I watched this movie in theaters totally blew my mind. And when I started putting together this list, I thought this was going to be higher for me because it is one of my favorite movies of all time, not only in the superhero genre, but just out of any genre. But I find that I'm a lot more specific on when I decide to rewatch this movie. I just think I have to have a specific reason now to go and rewatch this movie. I think the last time I did is whenever Oppenheimer was coming out and I wanted to revisit some Christopher Nolan movies and I had to go and watch this. But it's a movie that from the opening scene, I have to finish it. If I see that opening scene, which is one of my favorites, ever, it just inspires me to go back and rewatch every single moment in that movie. It is a hard movie to start just a little bit and not finish. So I thought it would be higher just because it's one of my favorites. But I feel like, out of all the movies in my favorites list, it kind of lacks a little bit of rewatchability, and I think it's because it has a much more serious tone that it's not one that really evokes a fun emotion in me to sit down and watch like some of the other movies on this list. So I also have to kind of be in the right headspace to go back and rewatch The Dark Knight, but at fifteen times, it has made my list at number ten. At number nine is The Original Spider Man from two thousand and two with Toby Maguire that I've seen twenty times. This movie was big for me as a kid, obviously, with Spider Man being my favorite superhero at the time. When I first watched this movie, it felt like such a gift to watch because in two thousand I was nine years old, and I remember the feeling of not really having a superhero movie like this growing up in the nineties. A lot of what we got was DC Batman movies, and those early on had a more serious tone with the Tim Burton movies, but then towards the end of the nineties got very comical and a little bit cringe worthy with performances from Arnold Swarzenegger as mister Free. So I feel like as a whole of the country didn't really have a grasp on what a superhero movie was. They were still leaning more comedic, and we didn't really have what we have now of more serious tone superhero movies. I think a big influence on that was not only the Spider Man movie, which made my list, but the X Men movies that I feel don't get enough credit for shifting the country's opinion on what these movies could be. I also think when it comes to at least the X Men movies, the reason those weren't so comic accurate and the depictions of the characters that now we want is because they had to make it a little bit more serious and not so corny and cartoon like to be able to appeal to more people and to show people that we're trying to do something a little bit different here. But I remember watching Spider Man for the first time and kind of having the best of both worlds, seeing a comic accurate suit but also with a real storyline in it. One of the best progressions of a superhero at the time, especially when it came to Marvel, who was doing movies like Blade at the time. But really they were struggling as a studio because at that time just haven't had the success that they have now. All together, every single Spider Man movie has a heavy rewatchability for me, and it all depends the mood I'm in. Do I want to go back and rewatch the Tom Holland ones, Do I want to go watch the Andrew Garfield Run, Or do I want to rewatch the animated ones? So every year I at numb rewatching all of these movies, but it all goes back to the original from two thousand and two at number nine. Is Spider Man at number eight, tied for about the same amount of times, But somehow I think I've probably seen this movie more than Spider Man from two thousand and nine. It is The Hangover. I think I actually ended up seeing this movie twice in theaters when it came out in two thousand and nine, which was a really important year for me. I was graduating high school, about to move from Wantsahatchie to Austin, and over the summer it was kind of my free for all, do whatever I want. All revolved for me around going to the movies. So I'm pretty sure I watched The Hangover at least twice that summer when it came out in June of two thousand and nine. And this is another one that I revisit, the Hangover franchise, I would say at least once a year. Just this past vacation, when Kelsey and I went to Arizona, the Hangover two was on TV, and I started watching that movie and then ended up coming home from that trip and finished the rest of that which inspires me to now want to go watch one again and want to go watch three again. Hands down, one is the best of that trilogy. But there's a special place in my heart for each of these movies because I think they are all funny in their own right, and now that we're a little bit removed from them, I think if you rewatch them now, you would appreciate them a little bit more, because I think the complaints with these movies when they came out one after another is that two is essentially the same thing as one, because the exact same plot happens just in a different country. And then when they did the Hangover three, it was revisiting one and again. There is just something about the formula of these movies, the cast which is phenomenal, the unforgettable quotes that we really haven't had since a movie like The Hangover Part one in two thousand and nine, that these movies, even though they're dumb, even though they're pretty much the same movie over and over again, I love them so much. And the first one just happens to be on TBS all the time. And back when I had cable, i'd be flipping through I would see The Hangover and I would stop and rewatch it. And this is a movie, unlike The Dark Night for me, that I could pick it up at any time, it doesn't matter, and I will sit there and watch it till the end. So at number eight, I have The Hangover. At number seven is another comedy from nineteen ninety five, a movie that I've seen twenty five times. At least. It is Friday. This is a movie that I did not get to see in theaters because at that time I was four years old, although I don't think it was much too longer after nineteen ninety five that I watched this. Maybe it ended up being in ninety eight or ninety nine, when I was like seven or eight when I first watched this movie. Obviously, it's a movie that a kid my age at that time should not see. It's righted r. There's a lot of bad words, no nudity in it, some violence in it, so I don't think it is terrible. I I have an older brother and an older sister that I am seven and nine years younger than, so I think for me, I was always exposed to things that they were watching as teenagers that I probably shouldn't have been watching in my age. My parents were cool with it for the most part. I think when it came to language they were fine with. It was just words to them. I think, coming from Hispanic parents who curse a lot pretty openly, they didn't see that as such a big deal. They were more concerned about nudity than language. So Friday was actually a movie. I mean, there are some sexual themes in the movie, but it's not anybody doing it or you're not seeing anything. It is just some crude jokes in there, and I think they were okay with it because even my mom loves Friday. She will quote this movie at work and her younger coworkers will crack up because they're like, how do you know Friday? My mom knows so many lines from this movie, and oddly it is a movie that we would watch as a family because it was so funny. And I think a big thing that comes into play with this one and some of the other movies on this list was having it on VHS. And we wouldn't get our movies from Walmart or any big box store. We would go to the flea market to get our VHS tapes because we had a guy who sold them pretty discounted and maybe he got them off the truck. I'd never questioned it, but it was so much cheaper than buying them from Walmart. I remember getting Friday on VHS, and I also think our VHS guy, Yeah, we had a VHS guy, that's what we called him. He maybe got different versions for cheaper, because whenever we got Dumb and Dumber, we had like the Canadian cover where they looked different. Maybe they were bootleg I don't know. I wasn't questioning it. We were broke at the time, so we weren't going to the theater very often. We would spring for the VHS because we got more out of it. We could rewatch it over and over again. Friday was one we got. Still remember the VHS tape with the blue lettering logo the yellow cover iconic movie. I've seen it twenty five times. It comes in at number seven. At number six from two thousand and four. A movie that I've seen twenty five plus times is National Treasure with Nicholas Cage two thousand and four DVD was King And the reason I've seen this movie so much is because of that. And I was in middle school at the time, and what do you do in middle school when you need to learn about history You watch something on DVD. I have the DVD menu of this movie remembered and burned into my head because from two thousand and four to when I graduated in two thousand and nine, every history teacher I had would show this movie at some point, at least twice a year. Sometimes I would watch this in different classes. So if they could have eighty correlation between what they were teaching us and what this movie showed, we would be watching National Treasure. So a movie I actually never saw in theaters, but have seen so many times throughout my academic career that alone has landed it on this list. But because of that, having watched it so many times in middle and high school, it is a very nostalgic movie for me. So now anytime I'm kind of itching to relive those DVD days of Glory, I hop over on Disney Plus and rewatch it. And the reason I love this movie so much is because you do learn. I learned a lot about history by watching it, and for the most part, is historically accurate. Obviously they take some liberties on exactly how the Declaration of Independence is stored, but for the most part you're not learning a whole lot of fake facts. They just Hollywood up the entire story a lot, which is fun. And Disney really doesn't make fun, grounded adventure movies like this anymore that I don't have a whole lot of special effects or big fight and action sequences, or aren't remakes of animated movies. And I wish that they would go back to making a National Treasure movie because they are just, at the core just fun for everybody. You learn a lot, which I think is something that Disney has gotten a little bit away from. They do make a really good sports inspirational drama now, which, by the way, Young Women in the Sea is now available on Disney Plus. The Daisy Ridley movie about Gertrude Etterly, the first woman to ever cross the English Channel by swimming. It highly recommend that one, which is a movie that gave me that same type of feeling that I got the first time I watched National Treasure, but on a different level, but kind of in that same category of historical drama, even though National Treasure isn't based on a true story whatsoever. But I feel like for a period of time in the two thousands, that was Disney's bread and butter. If you go back and look at their best sports dramas, like remember the Titans, they all came out in the two thousands, So maybe this could be a revival in that. Maybe eventually we do get another National Treasure movie, which they did make a sequel. They did do the series on Disney plus that did get canceled, But we really need Nicholas Cage back to make it work. Maybe coming off Long Legs, he wants to do something a little bit more family friendly. I would love to see it. It comes in my list at number six, National Treasure with twenty five times getting into the top five, staying in the Disney category, but moving down to Pixar at number five. Having seen it thirty times from two thousand and three is Finding Nemo. And the reason these are back to back is again the watching them in school factor. Not only do I have Finding Nemo memorized in English, but I also have it memorized in Spanish because I watched this movie probably three or four times a year after it came out in two thousand and three. Because not only would we watch it in just like English class or just anytime we had movie day in high school, we would watch it in Spanish class to learn Spanish, which was kind of a cheat code that my Spanish teacher had at the time in high school, because he would throw it on, change the language, change the subtitles, and force us to write down lines that we remembered from the movie and translate it, and supposed to be quizzing us on it, although I don't think he ever did. But out of it, we were able to watch it Pixar movie, and for me, because I was bilingual, I knew how to speak and write Spanish, it didn't really make much a difference.

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Speaker 2: To me.

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Speaker 1: I could understand it all the same. Other people probably hated it because they couldn't understand what they were saying. But I think I've never really had a problem watching anything in Spanish and being able to take it in. Kind of funny how your brain works that way. But for that reason, this movie also makes my list, and because I watched it in multiple places in different classes, probably more so than National Treasure. It is also a movie that I will go back and revisit. Not too often anymore, but whenever I'm doing a deep dive into my favorite Pixar movies, I go back and watch Finding Nemo. Having seen it thirty times, it makes it at number five. At number four. One of my favorite music movies of all time, probably at number one would be I was making that list, it is La Bamba, which came out in nineteen eighty seven. I've seen it at least thirty five times. This one probably goes back to it not only being one of my favorite movies, but one of my favorite movies as a family to watch, because how many movies do we have about Mexican American characters, and in this case being based on a real life person, Richie Allens, who was only seventeen years old when he died. But not only that, his career was only months long, less than a year from when he got a record deal to the height of his fame to ultimately his death all happened within a year, which is mind blowing to me. And this is a movie that is really not only mine, but a lot of people's really only tangible evidence of his life because with his career all being in the fifties, he died on February third, nineteen fifty nine. There really isn't a whole lot of video footage that you can go back and watch performances of There are a handful on YouTube, but I think for the most part, we all have the image of lou Diamond Phillips in this movie more so than we do the actual Richie Valens, and that is a powerful thing. And I'm glad this movie exists because otherwise he could have been a person in history that we would have forgotten about a little bit. We would have had the music, obviously, but having this movie and depiction of him and the telling of his entire life and his career, this film was able to immortalize his story and immortalize his music. So I think that is a powerful thing. And again, going back to the Mexican American care characters and real life figures. We don't really have a whole lot of these movies. We have La Bamba, we have Celina, and those were kind of our bible of movies with characters that look like us growing up. And again another movie I had on VHS that anytime we really couldn't decide as a family on what to watch, we would just throw on LaBamba. It is another one that there are countless quotes, there are countless moments and gestures, and the ending that all had us gutted collectively. That memory still lives ingrained in my mind. Bob shouting Richie at the top of his lungs with that slide guitar playing underneath them. Oh, what a crushing movie moment, What a great film. At number four is La Bamba at number three from nineteen ninety four. It is the Lion King that I've seen over forty times. This is the original animated movie and could quite possibly be the first movie I ever saw in theaters, although I have no recollect it because I was three years old at the time. Maybe maybe not my parents should have even taken me along to the theater to watch this movie. But the story I really know from that because I don't recall anything from being three years old, but I remember everybody's saying that my dad fell asleep watching this movie in theaters, which is kind of a thing to do every now and then as a family when we would go watch a movie in theaters. My dad would get a drink, get some popcorn, and as soon as he was done eating, he was out snoring through the rest of the movie. So maybe he made it up to win Mufasa dies. Maybe so I remember nothing of this, but that is a trait that he has continued even till now. I think probably in the last five years, we've convinced him to go back to the theater, but still hasn't finished a movie. He still has that calling card of falling to sleep right after he's done eating. So I was a little bit too young to remember seeing this in theaters, although I was there, so I can say I saw The Lion King in theaters at three years old. But as soon as this movie hit VHS, I feel like I drove my parents insane over how many times I watched this movie. It just existed in our VCR, and I remember those old school Disney VHS tapes that had that big plastic casing, just hearing those things pop open, being able to pull out the little insert and read that. Just the feeling of having a tangible thing that you're watching just helps you remember it so much more. But I remember popping open those VHS cartridges and throwing that VHS in is something that we're not going to have anymore because now we just open up Netflix and click play and that is it. But I would say just throughout the nineties alone, I probably watched this movie thirty to thirty five times, and since then I don't revisit it that often. And I think the five times out of the nineties that I probably rewatched this movie, we're leading up to the live action movie in twenty nineteen, so I could have a grasp on it. And there've also been a couple of times this year being one of them, that they've celebrated some anniversary in theaters and I've actually gone to rewatch it in theaters. It is a classic. I'm not sure now with how many great movies that have entered my top ten of all time recently, that it would still make my top ten, but for sure top twenty, if not top fifteen, because it is a Classic from nineteen ninety four at number three. Is The Lion King with forty times on my watch count at number two from nineteen ninety one, having seen it at least forty five times. Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Secret of the Ooz so not the original part two that came after the original live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. And I think the reason I've seen this one more is because it was my favorite growing up, And I think because as a kid, I was drawn more to the comedic tone of the Ninja Turtles in this movie, so more so than the first one, which I feel has a much more serious tone at times doesn't even feel like a kid's movie. This one was a little bit more cartoony. The overall tone and colors were a little bit more bright. The Ninja Turtles themselves were more comedic, and they didn't really use their weapons so much in this one. They would find different things like sausages or mustard or other ways to defeat the villains. In this movie, even the villains Toka and Raizar are much more comedic. Shredder looks a little bit more comic book cartoon accurate, and then you have Vanella eyes, so I feel overall this was a more fan favorite at the time, but now looking back on these movies as an adult, I lean way more towards Part one and have rewatched that one more in the last five years. Then I have Secret of the Us because now I can appreciate the grid of that movie, the emotion of that movie. So I think over time now part one will catch up in total rewatch a well. For right now TMNT, Secret of the US is at number two, and of course at number one, having seen it now at least fifty one times. I got a little fuzzy after I watched it for the fiftieth time, but we did just rewatch it again anticipation for this week's Twisters. It is Twitter from nineteen ninety six. A friend of mine just told me they had never seen this movie, but saw me talking about it so much they decided to watch it for the first time and completely loved it. My friend was on a flight and actually had some turbulence during the tornado scene at the drive in theater and felt like he was in the movie, which is a similar feeling I've seen a lot of people experience watching the new one. In forty X where you have the wind spitted Natcha. Some people says it feels like they've been in a car wreck after watching it in forty X. So I feel like the old me would be surprised that somebody had never seen this movie. But I think now I'm starting to understand more that there are so many things to watch when it comes to TV shows and movies that I'm not as shocked now when people say they haven't seen classics. I will always encourage you to go check out some of the classics that are my favorites. But I'll never be mad at you for not seeing a movie that I love and have seen as many times as Twister. I did ask you guys on social media some of the movies that you have seen the most. Tanya Horton said Finding Nemo every day for fourteen years. Her sixteen year old has autism, and they able to watch it at least once a day when he was with her. I love that there was a movie that you bonded over and Finding Nemo also making my list. This comment resonated with me, and there is something comforting about a really well made animated movie. It also looks like your watch Cout definitely has me beat on that one. Mark Stutsman said Galaxy Quest. I saw it six times in theaters and at least fifteen to twenty times since then. Galaxy Quest isn't really a movie that I would anticipate somebody seeing not only that many times outside of the theater, but seeing any movie in theaters for six times is an impressive feat. The most I've seen a movie in theaters is probably three times, and that has to be if I saw a movie twice when it came out during its first run and then it comes back out as a re release. Very few times that that has happened. I pretty much max out at two, and that is usually when I go watch a movie and then have to go take my mom to watch it because I know she would love it. So an impressive total count for you there, Mark, But I think what is even more impressive is seeing one movie in theaters six times. And Caro on Facebook also said Titanic, which is one I've probably seen without even trying a pretty good amount of times, maybe right under ten, because that is a long movie, that is a three hour movie. I wouldn't count the times that I've seen that movie impartially because it is a movie that get shown on TV a lot, but I would always catch it at different random times and have probably collectively added up to one or two times total. But there are some movies like that that I have seen a good amount of times without even trying. I would also put Mean Girls in that category. Shrek and the Wizard of Oz, which is a movie I just revisit from time and time again because I'm so infatuated with how that movie was made and how it probably blew everybody's mind back in the thirties. Other movies that almost made the list were Avengers Infinity War that are probably seen eight to ten times at the most, but that is another longer movie and also one that has come out fairly recently, so obviously haven't had as much time to rewatch that one. Heavyweights is also on my list Billy Madison, Dumb and Dummer, which I think comedies just have a great rewatchability, and they're often movies, at least from the nineties that I didn't necessarily see in theaters but have seen so many times again on VHS, DVD and rewatching those a lot on cable. Another one that almost made my list was the original Willy Wonka was probably my favorite movie as a kid, non animated, and most recently, Detective Peak at You has really been creeping up in my total watch count because for some reason it's always available on every Southwest or any flight I take. It's an inflying movie, so even if I don't finish it on the plane, I'll end up coming home and rewatching it on Hulu or Netflix, whoever has it at the time. And even though it wasn't exactly the Pokemon movie I wanted back when it came out, it's the best we have so far. Still hoping we get another installment fairly soon. So that is the list. A little bit from what you guys said on social media. If you want to share the movie with me that you've seen the most, just go comment on my Facebook or x You can find all the links to that in the episode notes of this podcast. Well come back and I'll give my spoiler free review of a movie I've been waiting for for so long, Twisters. If you feel it, chase it.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't country.

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Speaker 1: How would you do it? You do it?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm not doing it?

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Speaker 1: Do it? You were just doing it? Before we starry recordable.

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Speaker 3: No no, no, if you feel it, chase it. There we go.

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Speaker 1: Okay, better, all right, we're here to review Twisters. Obviously, we've talked about this movie in depth of how much we were both anticipating it. We saw it in IMAX, and I'll just say at the start of this review, this is a movie you have to see in theaters. If you have an IMAX around you. It's the way to see it, I think. And I got to DM somebody asking me if you need to see it in forty X. I've heard some conflicting things about that.

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Speaker 3: Heard it feels like you're in a car accident.

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Speaker 1: I think if there's one movie that you had to watch in the forty X, I don't really recommend it because I don't really think that experience adds to me enjoying the movie anymore. I've never benefited from watching a movie in three D. But they have the wind, they have the water, they have all the things that I feel.

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Speaker 3: It sounds miserable though it does. I don't want to be like cold and wet during a movie.

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Speaker 1: But if you're into it, this would be the movie for that because you get to utilize all those things that they offer, but I just wouldn't recommend it because I've never had the best experience with it. While we were watching this movie, somebody like kicked the back of our seat and I was like, hey, we got the forty X.

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Speaker 3: I heard that it's really about if you get motion sick easily, which I do.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be fine for maybe ten fifteen minutes, but for the entire almost two hour movie, I don't know that I could do it. And it's also a little bit expensive. So unless you are just die hard into wanting thrills and feeling like you're on a roller coaster, I think just seeing it in Imax is enough if you have one. If not, I think just the biggest screen you can find, because this movie utilizes every inch of the screen. And we're only going to talk briefly about what the movie is about, because I feel like not knowing much about the plot is a lot better going into this movie, I would agree. So it's essentially Daisy Edgar Jones' character was a storm chaser. Something tragic happens in her life and she leaves storm chasing behind. She moves to New York City and just starts working at like a place where they I mean they still work in weather and predict things.

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Speaker 3: I think she probably works like the National weather S.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a place. I think that's what.

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Speaker 3: I think that's at a place where they do the leather.

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Speaker 1: They don't really say, I don't really say like, oh, this is their job. I think I did see it like on a laptop or something, their logo. But she goes there and then she gets sucked back into storm chasing.

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Speaker 3: Good.

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Speaker 1: Good, I'm gonna keep using those throughout the review.

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Speaker 3: Great.

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Speaker 1: And then Glenn Powell is like the charming but kind of a villain type guy who has a YouTube channel. He's like a hardcorese tornado wrangler.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not a storm chaser tornado.

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Speaker 1: So then Wrangler they start they kind of cross past, start butting heads, and that's kind of where the story unfolds. Can they coexist? Can they you under together? They work together, and they're essentially unlike in the first one, instead of trying to throw all the sensors into it, they're kind of past that and they're trying to find a way to just eliminate.

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Speaker 3: Tornadoes, disrupt the tornado.

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Speaker 1: Shut it down. I will say that as somebody who loved the original. Obviously, I am glad that they didn't try to remake the original story. It is a standalone sequel. The only real references you get to the original is in the opening scene you see Dorothy. They still have it around, and the only other nods to the original I would say Daisy Edgar Jones. Her wardrobe at times looks very much like Joe, like the white tank top and the khakis. Kind of a small little probably o to Ellen Hunt. And then Bill Paxson's son does make a cameo. If you watch it, there's a scene with an angry hotel customer and that's his son. Aside from that, there's no references to any past characters. And I guess since it takes place in Oklahoma, that's the other thing tying this one to the original, and I'm glad that they did that. The entire dynamics are different. There's not any moment that they try to replicate anything from the original or think, hey, hey, remember that.

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Speaker 3: There's no callbacks yes.

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Speaker 1: Which I always find annoying because I want something to stand on its own. Being almost thirty years after the original, I think if we went into it and got a lot of the same it wouldn't have worked, So I enjoyed that aspect of it. And not only did it have just some great just visuals, one of the best openings in a movie I've seen all year.

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Speaker 3: I was shocked by the opening, Like I looked over you and I was like, why isn't he expressing emotion? Turns out you were just also shocked in your hart was racing.

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Speaker 1: And I don't really have that happen to me in movies anymore, where I would just glued into that opening sequence.

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Speaker 3: My jaw dropped.

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Speaker 1: There was so many just like twist and turns and just that opening sequence. There's another one, but I loved it, and I was kind of like going into it, like, oh, this is gonna be good. What's the tone gonna be like? And it came to play in the opening sequence.

00:34:14
Speaker 3: There were people that walked in like ten minutes late, and I'm like, you just missed the best opening sequence. And then they tried to sit in like four different areas of the theater and I was like, I was very confused by it. I was like, you missed a great opening.

00:34:26
Speaker 1: They have meant to the movie since ninety six apparently, but I love the opening sequence and then once the story starts to unfold and you see their dynamic work together. What I started to notice is this one didn't focus so much on the team's chemistry. I feel like it was Daisy Edgar Jones and Glenn Powell and their chemistry which was which was fantastical, But this one really just highlights their story, their romance there well they won't they their entire working together relationship, and it didn't have that same overall team dynamic which I thought the first one was about, like the bonding of the team with the storm Chasers.

00:35:06
Speaker 3: I would kind of disagree, okay why I would say there was still team dynamic, but it was more about like the other team, the one like Anthony Ramos's team that she kind of worked with, and it was about their dynamic and like what they were doing. So I still think there was team dynamic, but it was a different dynamic this time not involving There was still dynamic, maybe it was secondary to the rest of the plot, but there was still good dynamic team dynamic.

00:35:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just feel like in the first one, like that is what the whole story is about. Like them all bonding together all the now cast, the characters like Rabbit and Dusty.

00:35:42
Speaker 3: But it's also about Helena Hunt and Bill Paxton not getting divorced and then him bringing along his new fiance.

00:35:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of the by the way, Melissa got robbed in the first one, Like she did nothing wrong.

00:35:54
Speaker 3: She did nothing wrong, but you are like meant to hate her because you want Joe.

00:35:57
Speaker 1: I don't remember hating or well, maybe it's the.

00:36:00
Speaker 3: Movie Bill, it's Bill. Okay. I was like, okay, yeah, Joe and Bill. You want them to be together because all she does is.

00:36:07
Speaker 1: Tag along for him to get the divorce papers signed, and.

00:36:10
Speaker 3: She ends up on getting flipped around, almost dies.

00:36:13
Speaker 1: There's howls, he's into it, and then that scene at the motel wherever. She's like, hey, I'm I'm leaving, I'm not coming back. I feel bad for her.

00:36:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were Listen, Hollywood loves to meat. The woman is the villain.

00:36:27
Speaker 1: I don't think he was. I mean I think if anybody it's kind of Bill, like, oh, it's like you're back with your new fiance.

00:36:35
Speaker 3: And your current wife who you're still din divorced.

00:36:37
Speaker 1: From, technically fall back in love with her and then leave.

00:36:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's the bad guy in that one, but we.

00:36:43
Speaker 1: Don't have that kind of flood in this one. I guess. I'm glad though that they didn't have that same dynamic or try to replicate it, because it made it feel a little bit fresh.

00:36:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't like we said, it wasn't a remake.

00:36:52
Speaker 1: The only other thing that I thought was a little bit weird, Like I think the tornadoes themselves looked a lot better.

00:36:58
Speaker 3: The like tech advancements and like the CGI and stuff. The tornadoes were cool.

00:37:03
Speaker 1: And I think also because we saw it in IMAX, I felt like we were right there in it. Maybe it was also like the cinematography that had like a more emphasis like on going into it. I think all the shots were just really great, even like when they used the drones and the go pros. I was curious to see how that was going to mix together, because I think overall it looked good.

00:37:24
Speaker 3: It was so realistic. There was one scene where I was squeezing your hand so hard because I was so anxious because the storms looked so real.

00:37:32
Speaker 1: The storms did. There was some questionable CGI. I felt like with some of the windmills, it still looked almost like video game graphics.

00:37:40
Speaker 3: I have nothing bad to say about this film. I already want to go see it again. I actually, well, they asked you if you wanted to go see it again today, It's true a little too soon.

00:37:47
Speaker 1: These are my odd critiques. The other one I had was I feel like the dialogue wasn't as memorable because the first one is so quotable. There's so many moments that just live with me over the years. I don't really feel like there was that moment, and maybe if they were fishing for it it would feel a little bit forced. There were a couple of funny moments I felt more so on the Glenn Powell side, but I don't think there was those big memorable quotes that I was expecting and one of the biggest reasons that I love Twister. Those are my odd critiques. What were some of your other favorite parts of it?

00:38:18
Speaker 3: I love Daisy Edgar Jones. I thought she was so good in it, and it's like the first big I feel like Action disaster Blockbuster we've seen her in and I think it's just the start for her. I thought it was great. I'm glad that it did well at the box office.

00:38:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, it opened to eighty point five million dollars in the United States. It cost about two hundred million dollars to make. Had the biggest weekend opening ever for a disaster film, which is awesome. Like you and I are our favorite category. We love disaster films and people.

00:38:49
Speaker 3: I don't want to be in one, but I love to watch the film.

00:38:52
Speaker 1: I feel like in critically acclaim there usually are not even at the box office. Sometimes they flop and they're like straight to cable.

00:39:01
Speaker 3: There was no flopping like in the forecast for this.

00:39:04
Speaker 1: It also had the second biggest opening for a live action movie from this year, and right now it is the third biggest opening weekend only behind Inside Out and Dune Part two. So I think overall it's gonna do really well in the run at the theater. I think it came out at a good time, coming out after Minions and before Dead pulling Wolverine. But I think people are going to continue to see it. How'd you feel about Glenn Powell.

00:39:28
Speaker 3: Putting me on the spot here? I thought he was great in it. They gave the audience what they wanted.

00:39:33
Speaker 1: They gave me what I wanted, Like my ovaries were tingling. By watching this, I almost felt like Glenn Powell was too good looking in some of the scenes, the white T shirt and I seeing that in the trailer, but even seeing it on the big screen in Imax, I was like, man, now that is the scene. That is your trailer, that is your movie poster. I mean, he's already on the trajectory of being the next big movie star. He's like part Matthew McConaughey, part Tom Cruise, and I think this movie kind of slid him and he's on a great run right now from anyone but you hit Man on Netflix and now Twisters. I think he's gonna be undeniable.

00:40:08
Speaker 3: He also just I feel like he seems really genuine, Like his parents make a cameo in every movie. His parents are like always going to like press with him. He brings his dog. What did I ask you the other day? I was like, do you feel secure enough in our marriage to be fine with the fact that I'm drooling over Gunpound? You were like yeah, whatever. It was like great, thank you.

00:40:24
Speaker 1: Whatever gets people back into the theater, That's all I care about. We need a movie start like him. So overall, what would you rate Twisters?

00:40:32
Speaker 3: Five out of five tornadoes, ten out of ten tornadoes. I mean, I know that's the same that's taking it too a higher scale. I mean it's perfect. I truly am kind of mad that you don't want to go see it again today, But it's fine. We'll take that off her.

00:40:45
Speaker 1: Well, watch it eventually again in theaters. I would give it a strong four point five out of five cowboy hats or even Texas hats that I'm wearing right now. And I think it's because the original for me is a five out of five. It's never gonna move out of that slot. This one came very close. I think it comes down to rewatchability, and I would rewatch this movie right now. I don't know if it's gonna have that same effect that I'm gonna rewatch it as many times as I have the original.

00:41:14
Speaker 3: This is I said it on the way home last night. This is my new Step Up. And I've told that story about where I watched Step Up every day for a month. This is. I will be watching Twisters two every day when it comes out on streaming.

00:41:24
Speaker 1: But here's how I feel different after watching the original and watching this one. I would rather have a sequel now to this one than I would rewatch it again fifty times, and I think they're gonna do it.

00:41:35
Speaker 3: You think there's gonna be another one?

00:41:37
Speaker 1: I think so. It's made really good money. I think, depending on how it does for the rest of its run. I think it's kind of hard not to do a sequel at this point with if you have the success, if you still have the cast, them all them really being like their biggest movie right now for everybody, I feel like it's gonna be hard to deny doing another one. My mind, I'm all in for it. I think it was a great theater experience because full theater, big action.

00:42:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like one of the I feel like that was the first one this year that we've seen that's been like the full theater sold out. It was quiet, there was no disruptions, like no one was talking, no one was on their phone. It was that's like the perfect movie atmosphere when everyone is so excited for something. I love that. I love that. It's the word I'm looking for, Terie. Yes, thank you. I was like community now starts with the category.

00:42:34
Speaker 1: Yes, if you haven't seen it yet, highly recommend it. If it wouldn't have been for the original. I'd have given it a perfect score, but just having that one in my heart, I just can't give it that.

00:42:45
Speaker 3: I give them both the five.

00:42:46
Speaker 1: But it's phenomenal, A big win for disaster movies.

00:42:51
Speaker 3: Make more like that, Make more disaster movies like that.

00:42:54
Speaker 1: Justice for disaster movies.

00:42:55
Speaker 3: Justice for disaster films. I am such a weather nerd too. Like I also liked I feel like they talked a little bit more about like they did the tornado itself.

00:43:05
Speaker 1: They also like debunk some tornado miss.

00:43:07
Speaker 3: That was interesting to me because I love leather. Like anytime there's a hurricane, you come home and I'm watching like the Weather channel while I work. It just is an odd fascination to me that I love understanding weather, like following the weather. I love following like when the thunderstorm's developing, and I kind of wish I was like Kate in this movie. She's just like looks at the sky and she's like tornado developing over there.

00:43:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is the way that she also kind of emulated Bill Paxton in a little bit.

00:43:36
Speaker 3: She knows just by like a natural instincts.

00:43:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, she has like that gift, and they all want to follow her.

00:43:42
Speaker 3: They did bring I feel like the tornadoes into scarier areas. I don't want to give any spoilers, but it wasn't just like tornadoes and like the wide open fields, like there were some more like she don't really want a tornado to hit there. Yeah, there was a lot more destruction.

00:43:58
Speaker 1: More casualties, which was also like, yeah, they're going for it.

00:44:01
Speaker 3: I watched a behind the scenes clip of them filming one of them, and I was like, they used this like huge high powered fan to like emulate it, and that was kind of funny watching them all get blown around.

00:44:12
Speaker 1: Well, there we go, there's a review. It's time to head down to movie Mike. Trailer paus the new Captain America movie looks way better than I was anticipating. Captain America Brave New World coming out February twelve, twenty twenty five, so we don't really have a whole lot of time to wait until this one. And after watching this trailer for me, February can't come soon enough. So Anthony Mackie is finally getting his own solo Captain America movie. We did get the Falcon in the Winter Soldier Disney Plus show. That was a little bit lackluster. That TV show probably should have been a movie, but even then didn't really move the along, So we really haven't had a chance to see Anthony Mackie really take over this role. But now in this trailer we see it all in its full red, white and blue glory. The wings look fantastic, the action looks really stellar. But I think for me the thing that was most unexpected about this trailer was the tone. It looks completely different than anything we've seen from Marvel, I would say in the last five years, because we're getting away from anything cosmic, anything too overly comedic, which is something they really leaned into a little bit too much. That all the Marvel movies have to be fun and lighthearted and for everybody, this is going back to the days of the early MCU Captain America movies like Civil War The Winners Soldier that were really just straight ahead action, which is what the core integrity of the MCU was back in the day. Maybe you have missed it, didn't watch it. Back in twenty nineteen, Avengers Endgame came out. Maybe you've heard of it, But in that movie, Chris Evans character Steve Rodgers Captain America goes back to spend time with Peggy Carter and then gives up being Captain America gives his vibranium shield to Sam Wilson played by Anthony Mackie, who's to take over the role of Captain America. We have some new people in this movie, like Harrison Ford taking over as Thunderbolt Ross. In this movie, his character is running for president and one of his positions is that he wants to make Captain America an official military position. So before we get into more about what this movie is about why I think it's actually going to be really good, here's just a little bit of the Brave New World trailer. I have to admit I'm still getting used to the new look. He said to the must lose the election. You and I I haven't always agreed in the past, but I want to make another run at making Captain America an official military position.

00:47:01
Speaker 3: And if we disagree on how to manage this situation, then what happens.

00:47:06
Speaker 1: You may be Captain America, but you're not Steve Rogers.

00:47:11
Speaker 3: You're right, I'm not.

00:47:16
Speaker 1: And that statement there, spoken by Harrison Ford is how I felt before this trailer that Anthony Mackie ask, Captain America can never live up to what Chris Evans did with that character, and Captain America hasn't even been my favorite character in the MCU. I often thought he's a little bit vanilla. I don't really like my superheroes to be boy scouts, to be so predictable and just like all about doing the right thing. I like my superheroes to be a little bit flawed, to have more of just human qualities. That's why Spider Man has been my favorite. He has a lot more personal conflict going on that goes into play on how he approaches being a superhero. Sometimes he doesn't always do the right thing. Captain America. At the other hand, Steve Rodgers is always doing the right thing and noble and all American super soldier, which he is great for. I think he shined more an Infinity War an Endgame than I ever loved him in any of the solo movies, really, but it was really Infinity War and then Endgame War. I really grew to love him, and at the height of loving him, Chris Evans decided, well, probably because it went along with everything going on, that he is not going to be Captain America and passed it on to Anthony Mackie slash Sam Wilson, and I thought in my head that, well, he's not really gonna cut it. It's not really good to be the same because a lot of what made Captain America great was Chris Evans' performance. But now seeing this trailer and seeing them address that just a little bit and seeing how this is going to feel like his real introduction into being the character, I'm excited for it. I think the action in this movie looks slick. All suit design is growing on me. I think the thing that I've had trouble with when it comes to Falcon is that he doesn't really have any super ability. Because Captain America has the super serum makes them fast, which makes them strong, which makes him the super soldier that he is. And Anthony McKee's character was really only trained by Chris Evans in the movie, so he does have that. He also has the same military background, but when it comes to his superhero abilities, he relies on the fact that he has the wings, which were made with Wakandan technology, so the Black Panther designed his wings. They're detachable, they can fly, they can glide with them. But I always just felt he was a little bit vulnerable, even though Iron Man is kind of along the same lines of being the same thing. I just feel like that technology is a lot more advanced and this Captain America is a little bit more exposed to the real big threats. You know, he has the goggles with the infrared vision and the sight enhancement. Obviously, he has the fighting skills from being in the US Armed Forces. And the other thing he had in the comic books that they really haven't showcased in the movies or the TV show yet is that he has a telepathic bond with birds. So maybe that'll come into play here, or maybe they'll lean away from that because they'll make them look a little bit like ant Man, which a lot of people find that a little bit cheeseball, So I am curious to see how they address that, or at least how that plays into him defeating the villain in this movie, which y'all addressed in a bit. But before that, the other thing that really stood out to me as looking and working pretty well at least in this trailer is Harrison Ford taking over as Thunderbolt. Ross William Hurt played the character before first in the Incredible Hulk movie from two thousand and eight, which I really enjoyed. I would say is one of the best movies in the MCU in that first phase, even though everybody has collectively just not loved any of the solo Incredible Hulk movies. But he's just one of my favorite common characters of all time that I just have these rose colored glasses when I go watch those movies. But William Hurt was Thunderbolt Ross in that movie. He did pass away in twenty twenty two, but Harrison Ford in the role works really well. Even at eighty two years old, still find him really believable. And hey goes right together right now with the people running for president, so his character is trying to run for president. Obviously in Civil War they butted heads because they did not see things the same way with how he was trying to control the superheroes, so it looks like those tensions are going to arise again. We see somebody trying to take out Harrison Ford in the middle of this trailer by shattering some bulletproof glass, so at some point they will be against each other, and Thunderbolt Ross in the comics turns into the villain known as Red Hulk. Not sure he's going to have the same origin story, but in the comics he was exposed to gamma radiation, much like the Orige Incredible Hulk, but the Red Hulk is bigger, stronger, faster, His skin is obviously red and has the ability to get fire red hot and burst into flames. So he is a force to be reckoned with. And I know there was speculation about Red Hulk being teased in this trailer, and I was still surprised to see it. I love the poster for this movie, which is Captain America's shield being held by the big Red Hand, which is just a fantastic poster, one of the better ones that they have done. I hope that that is the lead one they used to promote this movie and we get away from the floating head redundancy, because just that image alone really shows you the story of this movie. So with the Red Hulk's introduction, they could be teeing that up for the Thunderbolts movie, which will probably still come out after this, although I really hope the MCU gets away from doing that of tying together all the movies teasing. Getting the post credits scene means I think that era is over, and I think by getting away from that and just making solid standalone stories, let them be trilogies. That is fine. They could make three Captain America movies with Anthony McGee's story beginning, middle, and inn in those three part I think is how they need to do it. And obviously they're going to build to another Avengers movies, which it looks like the Russo brothers will be directing Avengers five and they have to be building and the synergy all the ways that they have reached the level they have now. I just think that formula has kind of exhausted itself and they should take a break from it. They should just focus on just making great action movies like some of the classics, and I think this movie, after seeing this trailer, has the potential for that. You also have John Carlo Esposito, who you put them in any movie as a villain and he just makes it better. It hasn't really been solidified on what role he is playing in this movie, but as the dark shades, you know he's playing a bad guy and he just elevates every movie because he is such a great and convincing villain going all the way back to his days and breaking bad. So if I had to look and predict the trajectory of the MCU, I would say it's about it be on the rise. With Deadpool and Wolverine coming out this week, I think that movie is going to crush it at the box office. It's gonna be the next billion dollar movie of the year, and that will win back some people. If that movie is good in its first week inspires other people to see it, we will see an upward trajectory and change the opinion a little bit on how people feel about the MCU. And I'm not expecting Brave New World to be the best Captain American movie or even one of the best Marvel movies ever. But I think with it not being what we kind of have expected in the last few years and having a different tone again, will continue that upward trajecttory leading up to a next Avengers movie. So I think if they can make more movies grounded in reality, with real life characters, more focused on the action, and introducing some great villains like Red Hulk, which may be confusing a little bit for some people who aren't familiar with the comics and thinking why is the Hulk of Villain now. But I think if there is any real serious threat to throw into play, I think the Red Hulk is great and gives me a little bit of hope that we will have the return of Green Hulk. Not sure if Bruce Banner would still be played by Mark Ruffalo, but like I was saying earlier, I still love the Edward Norton iteration. Even going back to the two thousands Hulk, there is something still good you can find in the mediocrity of that movie. I just think his character hasn't been done justice. He's always kind of been a side piece in all of the Avengers movies. So I was hoping that and maybe still will get a Bruce Banner or Wholt cameo in Dead Pull and Wolverine. But if we don't get him, then I hope we get him in Brave New World, coming out on February twelfth, twenty twenty five.

00:56:12
Speaker 2: At that for was this week's edition of Movie Line Tramer Bar and that.

00:56:17
Speaker 1: 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 Instagram. On the real I posted with Kelsey and I talking about a quiet place day one. This comment comes to us from Gina, who is this week's listener shout Out of the Week, who said, thanks for the June recap. I always love it when Kelsey is on the podcast with you. She has great insight and input and I love how you work together. Thanks for another great podcast. Appreciate that Gina Kelsey will be returning soon because July has flown by and we'll have another recap episode coming to you very soon. So appreciate you Gina for listening. Appreciate you listening now wherever you are. Thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed, Thanks for telling a friend. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.