Movies of the Month (August) with Mike and Kelsey + Movie Review: Sing Sing + Trailer Park: Y2K

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and co host Kelsey. How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: We're back doing our movies of the month for August. In the movie review, we'll be talking about Sing Sing, which was a movie that moved us both yes, and then in the trailer Park, we'll be talking about a movie called Y two K that is all about if Y two K actually happened and all the technology went down. Were you a little bit too young for Y two K?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: I remember you remember the craze of people thinking that once they went to two thousand that all the computers were going to shut down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I was almost six, because my birthday is right after the New Year, so it was five going on six. I feel like I remember that.

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Speaker 1: Did you and your mom do anything to prepare?

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Speaker 2: I feel like my mom probably did. I remember the craze, but she wasn't like talking to me about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we did anything because we didn't have anything technological in our house that we were like worried about. I guess we were more worried about bank shutting down.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say I feel like the biggest concern was banks. My mom worked at a bank for a long time, so I feel like she was relatively confident that the banks wouldn't just completely crap out.

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Speaker 1: But that's what that movie's about. What if it did happen? Well, thank you for this.

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Speaker 2: Was actually kind of like when the Delta system shut down.

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Speaker 1: It's true, it's like Southwest right now, still running on a rolodex.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was like, Actually, what why two K would have been because their system shut down and they're like, well, can't get you anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Movies of the Month for August. I feel like it's been one of the best months of the summer.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, you don't what was your favorite month? July?

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Speaker 1: Oh, July, I think was my least favorite.

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Speaker 2: July had Twisters and Deadpool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was two and fly Me to the Moon. I feel like there's so many more in August. I'm looking at my list here and there's like eight movies.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, that's a hot take.

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Speaker 1: I thought August was way stronger, which August is usually the decline of the summer blockbuster season. But I felt like there were more hidden gems. I have more floors in August than I did for July.

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Speaker 2: I don't agree with that. But the last time I told you that your take was stupid, someone on the internet called me a not nice name.

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Speaker 1: Is it because you love Twisters so much that we've now seen twice? Possibly we'll see first third time in theaters. We have a code now to watch it at home, thanks to everybody at Universal who send us awesome box if you didn't watch that on TikTok.

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Speaker 2: The greatest package we've ever received.

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Speaker 1: But is it because you loved that movie so much?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: There was just always something to see. It was like the first weekend we saw just pick well me for and there was fly Me to the Moon, and there's Twisters. Then there was Deadpool and Twisters again, like there was great stuff in July. There was always something. I feel like this month we kind of had to be like, Okay, what's coming out this week? What are we going to see?

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Speaker 1: And I think it's because we had lower expectations going into the movies this month that I felt like, oh, this is a really solid month and more. Before we get into our favorite and our least favorite, I'll go through all the movies we saw, and we did see some movies apart. You saw one without me, I saw one without you.

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Speaker 2: This is correct, suisfactual.

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Speaker 1: So going through the list, Trap which you didn't see with me, the Instigator, which was an at home one, Dedie Gunner, which was also I watched that one at home. I had a screener for that alien Romulus, which you didn't see with me, Sing Sing, and then we closed it out with Blink twice. I feel like those all together is a solid month.

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Speaker 2: And then I saw it ends with us true.

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Speaker 1: I think that's better for me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I still disagree, but.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into our best and the worst. You kick it off. What was the best thing out of all these for August?

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go one that surprised me, Blink twice.

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Speaker 1: I was saying that I feel like this is a movie people are either going to love or hate.

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Speaker 2: TikTok is a buzz.

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Speaker 1: It's right, it's kind of pull our opposites.

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Speaker 2: I think any movie, if you are concerned that you're not gonna like it, you need to watch the trailer. Were trigger warnings even the trailer, Like I didn't watch the trailer thinking this is gonna be funny, like you know that it's gonna be kind of like a creepy psychological thriller. Reviews compared it to Get Out Before and people are like, what did I just watch? This was terrible? There were no warnings, like no, there was a literal full screen warning before the movie.

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Speaker 1: That leads me to believe there is still a select group of people that would just go watch a movie based on the A List star, based on the lead.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The lady in the TikTok was like, I just wanted to watch Channing Tatum. It's like okay, which is.

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Speaker 1: A bizarre way to go into a movie just because Channing Tatum, who you probably know from Magic Mic and maybe haven't seen a Channing Tatum movie since or like twenty two Jump Street twenty one, Jump Street, Step Up, and you think, oh, yeah, that movie, you forgot.

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Speaker 2: My favorite movie all the time.

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Speaker 1: I feel like he's had such an evolution as an actor, primarily being in the rom coms. Then he kind of shifted into being like the action star, which never really kicked off. He kind of transitioned into being the comedic star, which I think was kind of a juxtaposition of you see him and you don't think comedy, but then he's really good at comedy at comedy, and now I feel like he's just making really good movies, having one of the best years out of any actor.

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Speaker 2: He's having a summer.

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Speaker 1: So it's weird for me to see somebody go into just watching a movie and thinking it's gonna be everything he's done maybe ten fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I think that, Yeah, you just need to watch the trailer, like if you're concerned at all about the movie. I also think it was raded R, wasn't it?

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Speaker 1: It was raded R.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that tells you all you need, That tells you all you need to know. And yeah, it was disturbing. That's why there were trigger warnings.

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Speaker 1: And if you go into the movie, you see the trigger warning and think, I don't know if this is for me. You can go get a refund. I think a lot of people don't know that. I think it's within the first twenty to thirty minutes, probably different based on the theater you go to. You can still get a refund.

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Speaker 2: Should have done that when I took my grandma to Talladay Nights.

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Speaker 1: So if you see that at the beginning and think, huh, I don't know if I'm in for that. I also feel like that was a little bit rage bait. What were the other things you enjoyed about this one that made it your favorite?

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Speaker 2: I thought the acting was really good. It was a great cast. Had Adria Ariona from Hitman. She's also having a great summer. Her and Glenn pal both just movie after movie.

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Speaker 1: You knew Hollywood creeping in there.

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Speaker 2: Zoe Kravitz was a great director. I feel like the storytelling was just really good, and it wasn't It wasn't creepy the whole time. It's kind of a slow burn, which I enjoyed because, like I do get scared easily. I've mentioned that I didn't want to watch a psychological thriller and have my blood pressure up the whole time. But the first hour kind of built wasn't too scary.

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Speaker 1: This was one I was worried for you in the sense that you don't like anything scary whatsoever. He suspense, and I thought it was going to be a little bit too on that more in the get out Us Jordan Peele type horror that you were not going to be a fan of. But once we got going into it, I think this is something you can handle. It's no crazier than I would say any kind of murdered Netflix show or anything like that. And I feel like as an audience, as Americans, we're getting really desensitized to anything that's overly graphic. Yeah, which is good and bad. I guess to think, like, oh, we're just so used to blood and guts and all these things happening on TV shows and movies that were kind of past that.

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Speaker 2: I just thought it was really good overall. I enjoyed it. It kept me kind of wondering what was happening. It was like I read a lot of thrillers and I was just talking to you about this because I read one that was called it mid But I was like, I read so many thrillers that like reading a thriller, it's kind of hard to shock me these days, like I can see the plot twist coming, but a movie like that, I was like, oh, I didn't see that coming.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which is also rare for me. I started to I just do this, I start calling things, I pick up on little thing, just because I know it's that type of movie. But there were some moments that were still surprises even to me. So I think Zoe Kravitz did an amazing job making their first movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was my best of the month.

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Speaker 1: My best of the month comes down to two movies, Alien Romulus and De Dy, Which Alien Romulus was the most surprising to me because, like we've been talking about this month, I went in with pretty low expectations and ended up really enjoying it, even though I'm not the biggest fan of the Alien franchise as a whole. But I think when it comes down to my favorite of the month, it goes to DD just because I haven't seen a movie take place in that time period done that well, to just so good, like two thousand and nine. Two thousand and eight to two thousand and nine is like a golden year for me, and seeing all those things that Dedie went through and realizing that also the director is like my age. So I feel like that movie was made for somebody exactly my age, also somebody who their parents migrated from another country. And it was also just I won't call it a straight on comedy. There were some funny parts, but it was kind of a dramedy. Yeah, where I wouldn't tell somebody go watch this movie because it's hilarious, but there are funny parts in it. And I feel like that movie is relatable to anybody who's ever been a teenager. That's really the prerequisite for it.

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Speaker 2: I mean it captured similar to what we talked about, like eighth grade. It captured which you probably related to this one more because it was a teenage boy, whereas I already in eighth grade. But it was like it captures the essence of that awkward time of being like thirteen fourteen, eighth grade into ninth grade and my trauma. But I still haven't forgiven my parents for is that they moved me in the middle of eighth grade.

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Speaker 1: Eighth grade was my worst year ever.

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Speaker 2: They moved me in the middle of it, which was incredibly rude and difficult. But I did meet my best friend, who is still my best friend this day on the bus and we were like the two weird kids, and we've been best friends ever since, so that was the only good thing. But that was some trauma.

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Speaker 1: I think I lost any friend I made from six to seventh grade in eighth grade.

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Speaker 2: Eighth grade is brutal.

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Speaker 1: It is so and I don't even know why. It just got to a point where I just stopped talking to people because they stopped talking to me.

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Speaker 2: Everyone thinks that they're better, and then you get to ninth grade and it's like everyone who was terrible to you in eighth grade is like, hey, happy first day of school, and you're like.

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Speaker 1: Me, I still have the blade of my back from last year.

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Speaker 2: You're like, you've literally spit on me, Like why are you being nice to me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember eating lunch alone a lot in eighth grade, making friends with people I did not want to be associated with, just because they'd be the only ones who would sit around me at lunch, and I just remember that time being awful.

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Speaker 2: I also apparently got a lot of hate because I came in and I was really smart and I would like raise my hand and answer questions, and I didn't know. I didn't really fully realize that being smart would put a target on your back. But sucks to be all of them because I was smarter than all of them, and I did graduate third in my class in high school.

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Speaker 1: So that's a fun thing to talk about. What were the things that put a target on your back in let's just say seventh and eighth grade? You said that one. For me, one of the big ones was just me wearing all black all the time, which people associated me with being emo coth and I would get made fun of that all the time because I wore all black.

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Speaker 2: Having a hard to pronounce last name.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know why that just makes you a.

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Speaker 1: Target because would they make fun of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was telling my younger brother the story the other day, and one time somebody made fun of my last name, and I was like, sorry, take it up with my dad, dad and shut them up. Ooh, that was a good cum.

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Speaker 1: That's always like the una reverse card.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that like being smart, having a hard to pronounce last name, and then weirdly like I had a hot mom, which makes it really difficult to be a teenage.

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Speaker 1: Girl from the teenage boy or the teenage girl.

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Speaker 2: The teenage boy, like, my mom would come have lunch with me at school and everyone be like, oh man, who's that. I like, it's my mom. Wait. I could tell they found my mom more attractive than they found me. So that was all so difficult.

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Speaker 1: That's quite the top three there.

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Speaker 2: It was pretty rough for me.

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Speaker 1: It was an all black clothing goes hand in hands being into punk rock. Number two was being chunky. That's just an easy target. Number three, I guess being Mexican, just because people expect things out of me or assume stereotypes about me.

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Speaker 2: I guess my top was above all those was just being the new kid, new kid, smart, hard pronounced last name. I wore glasses. People mocked that.

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Speaker 1: Hardy never got made fun of for my glasses.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Yeah, I was the new kid a lot. That was really difficult.

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Speaker 1: I was the quiet kid, and I hated it.

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Speaker 2: I was the new kid often. I think I changed schools like nine times throughout the course of K through twelve.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's rough, all right. Now, they were through all of our trauma.

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Speaker 2: Now that we're through Kelsey's childhood trauma, I thank you for joining if anyone is a psychologist listening, Please let me know what's wrong with me.

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Speaker 1: But there you godd was my best. Now getting into our worst. What was the worst thing you saw in August?

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Speaker 2: Am I going the opposite ento the Spectrum, also done by one of Taylor Shift's best friends. It ends with Us, which.

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Speaker 1: You love book adaptations.

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Speaker 2: I hated that book. I am not a Colleen Hoover fan. I'm so sorry to anyone. I am not trying to yuck your yum. If Colleen Hoover is what gets you into reading, I'm all for that. Read what makes you happy. I just there were so many things that I didn't like about the book, and then going into the movie, I had very low expectations. So the movie was fine. I didn't hate it, it just was the not my worst, my least favorite. The wardrobe was terrible. That was so distracting. The clothes were awful, Like I don't know how you make it like lively look bad, but they did.

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Speaker 1: People think that doesn't matter. That matters a lot to me. And you can tell the when it's bad. Sometimes you can't always tell when it's good, but when it's bad, you know that it's bad.

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Speaker 2: It was like, when they started filming, photos were getting leaked and everyone's like, maybe this is to throw us off. No, those were her outfits. I'm like, was this sponsored by Carhart? That's truly Jenny Slay was great in it.

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Speaker 1: I love her, great comedian.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just didn't. That was one of those that I was like, this is gonna be h and I'll I'll give a trigger warning if you It does deal with some heavy topics, so if you haven't seen it, you haven't read the book. And that one didn't have a trigger warning, So I think that was also people's issue with it, where it's like Blink twice had one, it ends with us didn't. And I did kind of market it a little bit as a rom com, which a rom comment is not, so I think the marketing went astray.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot there, So probably only the people who either watched the trailer or read the book kind of knew that was coming.

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Speaker 2: And I don't even feel like it was that much in the trailer.

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Speaker 1: Oh really Yeah, I don't feel like it was really so kind of with the Chanting Tatum case, maybe some people were just going to watch it because Blake Lively was in it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I there's a lot of like hate surrounding Lively on the internet, and I mean everyone says things and interviews people like digging up interviews from like two thousand and four, everyone stunder said something. But I the most like statement she was like, grab your girls, where your florals go see it. And I was like, there's a lot more to this movie than your girlfriends and your florals.

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Speaker 1: I could see that. I saw that more in the marketing of just marketing towards the female demographic, like kind of like you said, like a outing movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I did go see it with some friends, but one of them had read the book and the other she was like, I don't care, you can tell me what happens. So yeah, you had no interest in seeing them.

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Speaker 1: Now, how do you feel about Blake Lively as an A list actor? Because for me, I don't feel like she has that one defining role in film. Course she's gossip girl. I think that's primarily where she became a star. But as far as when it comes to movies, I like her celebrity almost is bigger than what she has done in movies.

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Speaker 2: I would agree with that. Yeah, I feel like she's an obviously gossip girl, but then just like being a celebrity, being a fashion icon, having businesses, friends.

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Speaker 1: With Taylor Swift married to Ryan Reynolds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a simple favor would probably be one of her.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed that one bigger ones she.

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Speaker 2: Did Sister to the Traveling Pants. She was so young when she did that, but that's like the first thing I ever saw her. And then yeah, she since Mother's Age of Adeline was a really good movie.

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Speaker 1: Because I feel like her movies do pretty well.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, she is, in my opinion, an A list celebrity, not an A list actress.

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Speaker 1: For me, my worst of August I think it comes down to it at home one. I had great experiences. Out of all the movies we saw in theaters, didn't rate anything below a three, which is wild. Usually in the summer, there's one we want to walk out of. Hasn't happened yet.

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Speaker 2: Because there wasn't straight this summer.

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Speaker 1: It could possibly happened in September, which is often referred to as dump months, where studios are just throwing out titles out there to see what happens. But as far as August, nothing below a zero and that was traping below a three, nothing below a three. I've never rated anything at zero you look at three. Trap was the three, but I think I had to go with an at home one. The Instigator was probably the worst movie I saw an August New movie, that is, and that's just because I feel like Casey Affleck and Matt Damon were kind of wasted in that, which Apple is historic with getting these movies with big actors and they don't know what to do with them.

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Speaker 2: They keep doing this, and I'm like, Apple, stick to the TV series because you make some great TV series, market those like you market your movies because your TV shows have a better plot line than your movies.

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Speaker 1: They have a great show like Presumed Innocent and the actors do maybe one or two interviews and it's the best show probably. I'd say it's up there for the best of the year.

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Speaker 2: Or the funny one with Rose Burn and Seth Rogen Platonic.

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Speaker 1: Yes, But yet they put out movies like this and they have them doing the rounds and they are pretty subpart I was looking recently at the top ten movies on Apple right now, and it's like, man, these were such waste of time movies. They just keep giving movies to Mark Wahlberg.

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Speaker 2: They do.

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Speaker 1: They don't really have an identity when it comes to what kind of movies they make. They always just feel like these action, family friendly movies that have no grit to them whatsoever, and they're very bland. And that is how I felt about The Instigator, where there was enough in this movie to keep my attention to want to finish it, but nothing really happened by the end of it. It was just like, Okay, what was the point of all that? And the acting was just flat out terrible to really well established actors OSCAR nominated and OSCAR winners in this and we had Jack Harlowe barely giving a crab in this movie. I forgot he's really trying to make it as an actor, and I feel like this was a bigger role for him, but I just don't really think he has that. Also, don't feel like he's that famous anymore. Had like that moment for a little while.

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's a thirty year old I don't enjoy Jack Harlow the way gen Z does. Is that where his fan base is, Yeah, my brothers enjoy his music.

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't get into it.

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Speaker 2: And I love a trend. But yeah, I can't get into Jack Carlow.

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Speaker 1: And I can't really get into him as an actor, so that one was a bit of a leatdown. But I'm glad that we didn't see that one in theaters because that would have been a possible walk out of the theater moment. We always do a TV show, What was the best TV show for you? In August?

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Speaker 2: I'm tuned back into the Real Housewives of Orange County this season?

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Speaker 1: What happens in that I don't watch any of these except for the Salt Lake City one for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: It's just them all arguing with each other. You would hate it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't do the shows where they just yell at each other and argue in over little things.

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Speaker 2: But I think Orange County has been on for like eighteen years now.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Beverly Hills are the OG?

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Speaker 2: Right? No, OC is the OG?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Okay, that's how much I know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, OC is the OG? Yeah, eighteen seasons.

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Speaker 1: I think what is the plot point in it? Right now?

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Speaker 2: Two f are feuding because one of them is a realtor and she rented a house to her friend and then her friend didn't make payments. And then you also have two cast members who are dating the same man. Well one of them dated him previously and then another one is dating him now and claims that he's like the love of her life. She also claimed that he didn't want to be back on reality television, so when she was invited back on the show, that he said he would pay her salary, which I don't believe. So, yeah, that's the.

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Speaker 1: Drama, which is the one we watched where she was talking about she has glam everywhere.

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Speaker 2: That's Salt Lake City. I have Glama every day. I have glamed Monaco. Yeah, that's Lisa Barlowe who we saw at them all one time here. Oh y in head to Toe Gucci.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that. He seemed like he'd be on a reality show.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that's all I'm watching right now. I was finishing The Resident which went downhill, and I was like, see why this got canceled that there's a lot of good stuff coming out in September. I am ready to be glued to the Better the Couch. There's tell Me Lie is season two on Hulu. They're selling Sunset season.

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Speaker 1: They don't do any sales anymore.

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Speaker 2: There's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives coming to Hulu, and then there's a show called English Teacher coming to Fax. So it's funny. It's a lot of great stuff come out for me.

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Speaker 1: The show I just started watching that I'm the most interested in is called Kevin kin f Himself. It's on Netflix, but I think it's originally an AMC show and it has Annie Murphy from Shit's Creek. The thing I like about the show is I'm always looking for some show that does things differently. I just kind of itch for somebody breaking the format. And the way I was turned onto this show was TikTok. Somebody made a video about it and I was like, oh, I've seen and heard of that show, but I've never actually sat down and watched an episode. And what it is is for I would say maybe fifty percent of the episode. It is a cheesy two thousand sitcom, like a single camera, very bright, colorful laugh track, and then it will transition into her perspective and it is a very dark, very sad drama because the husband sees their marriage as one way, like it would be like in a King of Queens. Everybody loves Raymond type situation because like the family lives right next door to them, but she is so miserable in this that it almost has more of like a breaking bad feel to it. So for me, I like it because I also enjoy those very cheesy two thousand sitcoms, like according to Jim.

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Speaker 2: See, and I would like the dark, miserable drama of it.

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Speaker 1: And I just like that it keeps going back and forth between the two because it kind of keeps my attention of like, oh, it's gonna switch over and then you'll see it differently. But I don't know if you would fully be into it because of that cheesiness of the sitcom. You walked in on me watching and you're like, what is this.

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Speaker 2: The few times I've been in the room, it's been the cheesy sitcom, and I'm like, I can't do this.

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Speaker 1: So it's almost like if they just cut the parts of the drama which would stand on its own, it would be an entirely different show, but it would lose that novel aspect of it. This has been a month where I haven't really had my go to show alone, which you usually have shows we watch together and shows we watch a part, and I don't really have one that I'm watching alone right now, but I think this one will probably be my go to. There are two seasons of it. It started in twenty twenty two, so I haven't even looked up if they're like canceled or anything, just because I don't want it ruined for me yet.

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Speaker 2: There you go. I love that you found something.

00:22:17
Speaker 1: What about your book of the month?

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Speaker 2: I have two this month, very similar vibe. They are both about kids go missing in the woods, multiple perspective, shifting timelines, but two like very different stories. One is All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker, which I gave five stars. I think it's gonna be on like every bestseller list. Flew through that one really good. And then the other is The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, which I think I gave four point seven to five out of five. So there are both almost like perfect reads in my opinion, very good. All the Colors of the Dark I enjoyed reading on my kindle because it was like six hundred pages, so it was easy to just like read a couple chapters. God of the Woods I read in print, also short chapters and long, but I read it in like three nights with my trusty book life.

00:23:00
Speaker 1: Have you ever readed a book of zero?

00:23:02
Speaker 2: So funny you ask my book club book this month. I gave it a point five, and I gave it a point five because the author did write words on a page. And I can imagine that publishing a book is difficult. And I'm not going to slander books. But if you haven't read The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley, save yourself. At the time, it was I have no words. That was how bad it was.

00:23:24
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever reated a movie a zero. I think point five if we have left a movie. I just haven't given it a rating because I was like, it didn't complete. But that's how bad it is.

00:23:34
Speaker 2: She wrote words on a page, turned it in about all I can give it credit for. It was I think the worst book that we've read in book club. And the worst part is I recommended it because I was like new thriller. But yeah, that that was a bad one.

00:23:46
Speaker 1: Since you had a book that you did not enjoy, I'm gonna do a movie I don't recommend that. I came out earlier this year at Night Swim. I thought it was gonna be a lot scarier than it was, and it threw me into a fit of rage. In some times, Hulu adds new movies and I'm like, ah, I didn't watch this one in theaters. I gotta watch it now. Don't waste your time on that one. I would probably rate that one.

00:24:07
Speaker 3: Eh.

00:24:07
Speaker 1: I guess I gave it a two point five just because thirty minutes were good and then the rest of the movie was trash.

00:24:13
Speaker 2: In two point five, that's still a fifty percent.

00:24:16
Speaker 1: I feel like if a movie like that was a movie, I wasn't even going to finish. But it got to a point that I was like, I need to see how this is. Sometimes you just have to know just for the sake of it, and I was disappointed by it. So two point five.

00:24:27
Speaker 2: Oh, that's another thing we watched. You watch the Era's tour for the first one.

00:24:30
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I'm glad that I watched it. I feel like I went to the concert without actually going to the concert. The production on just the Concert Special alone was top tier, and it made me feel like I was there.

00:24:42
Speaker 2: And that could also because I performed half of it for you.

00:24:44
Speaker 1: Could be the added dancer in the living room. But I was surprised at how much I felt all the sentiments from the reviews of you and everybody who went to that tour saying how amazing it is, then how great of a performer she is. That that actually came through on Disney Plus because we did split it up over three nights, because it is three hours long.

00:25:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, because every night you really I'm tired.

00:25:07
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:25:08
Speaker 2: It's also just it wasn't me. It's think to not watch it. Let's make that clear.

00:25:11
Speaker 1: So I would say it's hard. It would be hard for me to sit down and watch it all in when sitting like a three hour movie.

00:25:17
Speaker 2: It was fun in theaters, but it would.

00:25:18
Speaker 1: Be yeah, probably different in theaters and way different if you're actually there. So the fact that we broke it up over three days and like our increments, I still enjoyed every single era in that and it made me appreciate her more as an artist. It also made me like some of the music more that I didn't know. I like, like songs out the Lover album m hmm, which probably spent the least amount of time with Now, I like a lot of those songs a lot more seeing them perform like that.

00:25:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I slit see. I went to the tour. That's not in my life aside from marrying you, but close close sucon. I went to see it in theaters. I watched it with my best friend New York over Christmas, watched half of it with my best friend in Denver earlier this year, and then we watched it and then I I've watched like every night on TikTok when she's live, so seen it quite a bit.

00:26:05
Speaker 1: All in my head is just seeing all the cash symbols of every time she's cashed in on all of her fans, from in person, in theaters at home.

00:26:12
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've given her all my money and that's fine.

00:26:15
Speaker 1: Well, I would rate that concert special. I mean, I don't have anything I didn't enjoy about it. I feel like it's a different five out of five, just because it's not the way I would rate a movie. But it as a concert special five out of five. How do you get better than that? I mean, all right, we'll come back and give our spoiler free review of Sing Sing. I'm going to get into a spoiler free movie review now. Sing Sing, starring Coleman Domingo. It's about him being in prison for a crime He didn't commit. While he's in prison, he forms a theater group, and through this theater group, all these men bond acting. And this was a really powerful movie, a really powerful story. And you think prison movie, it's gonna be a gritty, dark, violent prison movie, but it's not that whatsoever. Now I don't think that's what I really enjoyed about. This movie doesn't really focus on the crimes they committed. Some of them you find out about, some of them you have no idea about. But it was really focused on the power of art, the fact that men have a really hard time communicating their feelings and expressing them to other people, the prison system, and just the art of doing something where you're not really supposed to find beauty and finding something special, like hey, community through theater with these people who you wouldn't think would be enjoying acting.

00:27:43
Speaker 2: I have a couple notes. One of the coolest parts is that most of the cast was portrayed by formally incarcerated actors, which I thought was a really cool ads just like depth and truth to the performance. And then at the end they showed actual footage through program. It was called I think Rehabilitation through the Arts RTA, and they showed them doing these plays and like who some of these characters were based on. Overall, just a really emotional movie. I think I cried a couple times. So well done. The storytelling was incredible, the visuals of just this like very sterile, cold prison, and then like their costumes and the work they put into it. I also enjoyed it because it wasn't glorifying anything or trying to say that like they didn't commit crimes, which obviously he was there. He was wrongly accused and acquitted or tried. But it wasn't saying like, oh, these men are all angels, none of them have ever done anything. It kind of was like they're this and now they are turning their lives around. So I just thought it was incredibly well done.

00:28:53
Speaker 1: So what happens at the beginning of the movie, it is them meeting trying to decide what play they want to do. Is a writer he has like a book that was very well known. At the beginning of the movie, like another prisoner asked him if he could sign his book. But essentially he is primarily the one who writes these plays that they do. And then another prisoner decides that instead of doing a drama which there experienced drama every day in their life being in there, He's like, let's do a comedy because we need to laugh, we need to do something fun. So the guy that they're working with, who oversees the group, goes home in a weekend and writes this entire just wacky play.

00:29:30
Speaker 2: That like they were throwing out ideas, they were like Egyptians time traveler. He wrote a play that encompasses everything, and so it's so out there.

00:29:40
Speaker 1: For me as a writer. That was the only unbelievable part.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: That he wrote whole plane he wrote, or that he managed to fit everything in.

00:29:46
Speaker 1: There, all the things he wrote. And I think just the fact that he wrote an entire play in a weekend with lines and everything for everybody incorporated everything, and then there the entire movie is them just rehearsing the play. I was like, how did he do that all the weekend with nothing else to do? But that was the only portion of the movie. Like, I'm gonna suspend belief a little bit.

00:30:05
Speaker 2: Also, we should a it's called Sing Sing because it is based at the prison in New York called Sing Sing.

00:30:10
Speaker 1: So the entire movie is them rehearsing this play, you find out more about their backstories.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: And then you have Common Domingo trying to appeal his prison sentence. So that's the other like interwoven plot line.

00:30:23
Speaker 1: And it's almost like that is that is the b plot line because it's so focused on the play, them trying to get their characters downright, them trying to teach acting to people who are not trained in acting whatsoever. And then throughout I would say the second and third act is that more raw human emotion coming out of everybody dealing with things that prisoners deal with, wanting to get outside, worrying what life will be like once they get outside, worrying that they are so just used to this everyday life that that is all that they should deserve in life. And there are some moments that hit me and the gut. I didn't cry like you did, but I wanted to.

00:31:02
Speaker 2: It was It's very nuanced, and I enjoyed the range of emotions because it showed the human side and you have to kind of grapple with Okay, they have done bad things, they're there for a reason, but also just this idea of second chances and rehabilitation and who were we to play judge like if somebody appeals and it's like actually able to get out, like that's a judge has determined that. Like it just was. I truly just had a lot of emotions and I can't articulate well how it made me feel.

00:31:36
Speaker 1: I think it was also probably recently watching Presumed Innocent and thinking more about the legal system of thinking how sometimes you don't have all the facts.

00:31:45
Speaker 2: You just have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, Like.

00:31:47
Speaker 1: It's just proving that that you could be wrong, but you could have the better case and put somebody in prison just because you had a better lawyer, you had more.

00:31:58
Speaker 2: Jess Mercy with Vie Jordan just based on a true story.

00:32:02
Speaker 1: Which reminds me of a time where I was so paranoid that I would have to prove my whereabouts for a period of my life just because I was like, what if somebody tries to say I was at this time when a crime took place, that I was very vigilant about getting receipts or I would like smile at like security cameras just to know, ay, I was there at that time at two point fifty one PM, I am on that seven to eleven camera just because you never know when you have to prove it.

00:32:28
Speaker 2: Or the fact that you do have a name that is I don't know some criminals.

00:32:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, the same name anytime I go to Mexico, or anytime I go to Canada, or on even an American Idol.

00:32:38
Speaker 2: Lot or even when we came back from Costa Rica.

00:32:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, anytime I leave the country.

00:32:42
Speaker 2: Try to why my wife helped you.

00:32:44
Speaker 1: Honestly, they're like, okay, but I have such a common name, or somebody who has my name has done some awful things and is on some list.

00:32:52
Speaker 2: But it's so weird because it's like you have a passport and like a social Security number and you're not that person.

00:32:58
Speaker 1: But I get flagged every single That's what's so weird. It has happened for the last at least eight years, and it keeps happening, and I don't know what I can do. Sometimes I want to give them a warning, saying like hey, this may be good flag, but then I feel like that's more of a mmm.

00:33:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, suspicious to like flag the flag.

00:33:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's harder to explain. But maybe that's where al somewhere someone this is rooted in. But back to the movie, Coleman Domingo has one of the best voices in Hollywood, Like just his hearing his voice to me vocal to just his tone. I could listen to him like I want an audiobook that he narrates, just because he has a really good deep voice. He does, and I don't really hear people talk and think I want their voice, But I wish I had his voice. This podcast would sound much better. I could get voice work, I'd be more because he has a voice that just sucks you in and draws you into every single line that he is saying.

00:33:48
Speaker 2: He's also done theater before.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: And it comes out in this movie.

00:33:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I feel like you see that he's very as an actor, like meticulous with this speech.

00:33:57
Speaker 1: And I think my favorite thing, hands down, was, like were saying earlier, the fact that they use the real people because it adds this extra layer of authenticity, which I love it when any director just finds regular, common people to act in movies, because you get that genuine interaction. It's not super polished, but it doesn't in this case really doesn't need to be. But even like Martin Scorsese using regular everyday people and Killers of the Flower Moon, it just feels more natural, feels more authentic, and if you have a really good director who is able to get a performance out of somebody who isn't trained, it's just so much better. So I think out of any part of this film making process, I think that is really what made this movie stand out, because you feel this bond between them as well, knowing that they've all gone through this.

00:34:47
Speaker 2: In real life and they're now they're acting it out for you.

00:34:50
Speaker 1: And then you can see their skills that they learn, probably through that in prison, actually come out now in a real movie. So I I just loved every aspect of that. Just great cast chemistry that I haven't seen done at this level.

00:35:06
Speaker 2: It was phenomenal.

00:35:07
Speaker 1: What would you rate, Sing Sing Oh, I'm going to give it a five, given it a five.

00:35:12
Speaker 2: I felt all the feelings.

00:35:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, no notes, I would give it a strong four point five at a five. And I think this will this will be a movie that if you go into with a really open mind, without thinking of the world and all the other aspects of what it means to be incarcerated, I think you will really enjoy it. And also bonus points for Coleman Domingo's voice tone and that is our review of Sing Sing.

00:35:39
Speaker 3: It's time to head down to movie Mike Treylor Paul hey.

00:35:44
Speaker 1: Man, what if Way TK really brought the robot apocalyps? Yeah, man, soone should make that movie. That's how I feel Kylo Mooney's thought process was when hitching the idea of why two K. If you're not familiar with Kyle Mooney, he is making his directorial debut in this movie called Y two K. He was an SNL cast member that I feel never really had his moment to shine. And I think he's a funny guy. He had a lot of good digital shorts, but I almost feel like his ideas weren't really prime for television for everybody to find funny. I almost feel like his brand of comedy are only things that he finds funny. But after watching the trailer for this movie, I kind of feel like it's going to come through a little bit better in such a wacky, zany comedy. But of course he put himself in this movie, and what does he play. He plays a stoner. That is just how I feel about his brand of humor. You almost have to be somebody who is doing Bond grips to really understand I don't want to say the greatness that is Kyle Mooney, but his brand of comedy. But when you look at what type of movie this is, it takes place New Year's Eve nineteen ninety nine at a party where everything that had been worrying about that year when the year changes from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand, that all machines are gonna shut down. We're going to have this computer flaw that causes the entire world to go berserk. We thought we were going to lose power, We thought all of our records were going to go out the window just because we were going from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand. So this movie is going to say, hekay, that actually happened. All of our technology started revolting. Not only did they shut down, but now they are trying to kill us. So that is the premise of this movie. It is an ensemble comedy. It is packing in a nostalgia punch in the late nineties, well really late nineties, right at the cusp of the two thousands. And I actually like that type of nostalgia, the nostalgia that is much more rooted in the years. All the references of that time more so than just bringing back a franchise from nineteen ninety nine or early two thousands, I think this is the way to go to hook in in our generation right now, millennials. So we'll get into more about this movie, but right now, here's just a little bit of the Y two K trailer, which is coming out in theaters this December. In a few.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: Hours, you have an excuse to kiss the girl of your dreams.

00:38:15
Speaker 1: White two K is real selfas on the net, tomagotcha just drilled towards chick's heads. Come on, we gotta go. We're experiencing major problems as a result of the watching Fay.

00:38:30
Speaker 2: Right down, Bye bye Human Race. We're talking global computer apocalypse.

00:38:36
Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, I guess you're so. This movie reminds me of this is the end from the early twenty tens, which I feel of That movie was kind of the book end to all of those late two thousands, mid two thousands comedies that starred Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan, James Franco. They were all in that movie playing themselves and it kind of had the same remis they all go to a party and then the zombie apocalypse in that movie starts happening, and they all try to survive, some of them die, and it is a different level in that movie because they are all so famous and also funny. But here you're working with a relatively unknown cast. You would recognize a lot of their faces before you recognize their name. You have Jaden Martel playing the lead in this movie, who if you've seen it, he was one of the kids who grew up to be Bill Hayter. You also have Rachel Zegler, who was going to be in the new snow White movie. She was last year in the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. And then you also have Julian Dennison, who was the kid in Deadpool two. He was also in a really great Tako Ytt movie, Hunt for the Wilder People with Sam Neil, which came out also in the early twenty tens. If you haven't seen that one, I do feel like that is one of Taiko Watt's batter movies. He's the guy who did thora Ragnarok, thlor Love and Thunder. Some people hate that movie. I still enjoy that one, although I haven't gone back and revisited that movie, so maybe it was just because I was itching for a Marvel movie back when that one came out. The only real injustice I thought that movie did was wasting Christian Bale as Gore the god Butcher. We got Christian Baale batman himself, Academy Award winning Christian Bale, and that villain would just so lackluster. But enough of the Marvel rant here. It also reminds me of like twenty tens party movies, which were a thing. I feel like everybody in the twenty tens were just partying. Whether it was the music of just hey, let's party tonight because we're not gonna get tomorrow. The movies also echoed that of let's hang out, have big house parties and go crazy. You get a little bit of a glimpse of that in this movie where our lead here is going to this party trying to kiss the girl of his dreams, and then midnight strikes and all the technology starts revolting and killing people. When that started happening, I was like, Okay, it started reminding me of this is the end. It started reminding me of Project X. Also that my name is Earl episode also called White Whenever kind of along the same lines. This thing happens when really, it's just I think somebody forgot to pay the electricity bill, but they think that the world has shut down and they all go live in the Superstore. Hilarious episode. My Name Is Earl is such an underrated TV show. Whenever I'm feeling like I just need to pick me up, I go watch episodes of My Name Is Earl. And this movie is essentially that episode in a longer format. But once the toys started revolting, once they referenced the Tamagatchi there, which is an excellent late nineties reference, it reminded me of that final battle scene in Small Soldiers where you have the toys with the nail gun shooting people throwing flaming tennis balls. If there is a late nineties nostalgia movie for me that I feel should be remade, I think it is Small Soldiers. It came out in nineteen ninety eight. I ate up that VHS. I wanted the toys but couldn't afford the toys. I see them every now and then at the thrift shop and I'm like, oh, I really wish I could get one of those, but they're still expensive. Because anything from our childhood now people are trying to make money off of so I feel like if they were to remake that movie with the technology now, they would look so much better. You'd get the tie in with the toys now, and you'd be banking much like this. Why two K movie on the nostalgia of all those millennials who grew up with that movie but now have adult money. So I know people keep saying that Hollywood is out of ideas. They keep remaking everything. We got Beatle, just Beatle just coming out. Why can't we get a small Soldier's reboot. The other interesting cast member in Y two K is Fred Durst, the lead singer olymp Biscuit. I feel like he is slowly trying to get back into acting. I know he acted for a little bit here and there. I saw him earlier this year and I saw the TV Glow. He had a very small role in that you couldn't even tell it was him. And the only way I knew it was him going into it because I looked up the cast and saw Fred Durst is in this movie, and he plays like a dad who's a deadbeat kind of a jerk, and you really only get a quick glance of his side. But he's like in the shadows for the majority of his scenes, so I wouldn't really say that was like a big acting role for him. It was really more of a small cameo. It kind of looks like he has more of a role here. He is in his classic limbiscuit hat turned around that read one that we all knew him for. I feel like, since this movie is taking place in nineteen ninety nine, he is going to be full on fred Durst. This movie cost an estimated ten million dollars, which is surprisingly low, so I feel like they were able to get the cast pretty cheap, maybe spent the majority of the money on some of these special effects or actually building some of these killer robots. This movie feels to me like if it came out in nineteen ninety nine when it is set, it wouldn't have done that well in theaters, but once it went to VHS and DVD, it would be one of those movies that would get passed around and watched and quoted and laughed at and had some just astronomical DVD sails, much like a movie like Grandma's Boy that I saw. Nick Schwartz to the comedian and he's also has I would say a pretty major role in that movie on how people riped that movie to shreds when it first came out, and how the majority of that cast was really unknown unless you were super into all the Adam Sandler movies, but the fact that it was produced by Adam Sandler and he's not actually in it. It just got terrible, terrible reviews, bombed at the box office, but once it went to DVD and VHS, it crushed dominated made millions of dollars there, And I think that is kind of the thing that box office bombs don't have anymore. They don't have that ability to make the money on the back end. They don't have the physical media sales, which was a big deal back in the day, because when you did bomb in theaters, if it ended up doing well through word of mouth, that people actually watching it once they had the time to didn't spend the money to go see it in theaters, but maybe rented it from a blockbuster, a rat box. People would then start going to buy the actual DVD so they could watch it again at home. You don't really get that anymore, and I don't really think the numbers are as generous when it comes to people renting movies that just came out in theaters at home, that price is still a little bit expensive unless you're just itching to watch it right in that moment. I think that is who it's for. But I feel like most people wait until it's on a streaming service that they pay for, because we feel like I'm already paying for Netflix, I'm paying for Hulu, I'm paying for Max. I'm not gonna pay on top of that to watch this again. I'm gonna wait until it falls into one of those subscription services that I already pay for because I'm not adding more to this bill. And with all the streaming services that we are subscribed to, we don't really go out of our way to find movies that don't exist on one of these, which is a tough scenario for movies to be in, because if you come out in theaters and then don't fall on one of them streamers, where do your movies go? Do they even exist if they're not on one of those? Because every now and then I'll search a movie and when it's not on one of those streaming services and I have to pay two three dollars, I'm like, WHOA, this is so weird, But then I wouldn't have hesitated fifteen years ago to walk into a store and rent or buy a movie. It just feels weird paying that little amount of money on a digital purchase because you don't really feel like you're getting anything when you could just go to Netflix and watch it for free and I don't care if it's ninety nine cents, seventy nine cents, or just one cent. It just feels like I have much more of a thought process when I have to pay any sort of money. So for a movie like this coming out, original comedy is not attached to a franchise. If a movie like this comes out in theaters and doesn't do well, then studios are gonna say more and more that we can't make comedies because they don't make money. The good thing about this one is that it is an a twenty four movie that does take risks on smaller budget movies. They also have a partnership now with Max, so this movie probably will drop on their services two three months after it comes out in theaters. But I would say, as always, if you want to see more movies like this, if you're somebody who has said why don't they make great comedies anymore. We got to support more movies like this, and hopefully Kyle Mooney does a good job in his directorial debut and doesn't leave us thinking what did I just watch?

00:47:29
Speaker 2: And that was this week's edition of Movie min Framer par.

00:47:33
Speaker 1: And that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I got to give my listeners shout out of the week, and this week's listeners shout out is Gina Center six six to two. Oh hopefully I said your last name there correctly, but she commented on Instagram of a real I posted from last week's episode with my top ten movie pet peeves. If you miss that episode, just go back one in the feed because I was deaf only on one during that. But she wrote, great podcast as usual. We saw Blink twice yesterday and did not enjoy it. Way too strange for me shocked faced emoji, and I said in my review it is a movie I believe you're either going to love or you're gonna hate. Anything in the psychological thriller genre, especially with really dark and sinister images, is going to have that effect on people and split audiences in two. But that is why I love movies is because two people can go watch the exact same movie and feel differently about it. You can come on a podcast and talk about it. So thank you Gina. Here this week's listener shout out of the week. Thank you right now listening on your earbuds, you're on a drive, if you're at the gym, Appreciate you sharing the podcast with a friend. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.