Hidden Gems and Major Letdowns in Sept Recap with Mike and Kelsey  + Movie Review: Good Boy + Movie Poster Wall: The Simpsons Movie 2

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Speaker 1: That is the sound of a coffee kracking as we start this episode. Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike, joined by my wife and caffeine drinking co host Kelsey. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I've been better.

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Speaker 1: It's been a day, it's been a week, it's been a year.

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Speaker 2: It's been a day though in particular.

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Speaker 1: But we're here to talk about good things, yes, and bad things. I say, We're sure to talk about things. It is the best and worst of September. In the movie review, I'll be talking about Good Boy, the horror movie from the perspective of the dog sounds terrible. But in the trailer park, I'm gonna switch it up and instead of talking about a movie trailer, I want to talk about a movie poster because they announced the Simpsons movie and I'm breaking down all the excitement I have going into the Simpsons movie two, which I thought was fake when it first was announced.

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Speaker 2: I will excuse myself from this recording when you decide to record that pors.

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Speaker 1: But thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew, and now let's talk movies.

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Speaker 2: Podcast Network and this is Movie Mike Movie Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Let's hop right into it. Best thing you watched in September, which was still a pretty busy month. I think August is gonna be the biggest month I've ever had going to see new movies in theaters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you saw so many movies in our I went hard in August.

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Speaker 1: September was like a bunch of random things.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. October feels pretty packed between like big theatrical releases and then all the ones that we've seen the trailers for at the Bell Court.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're getting into like early oscarish season.

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Speaker 2: Like we actually don't have time to do all the things like we were trying to plot out, like when to see movies. It's most like good movies that have come out on Apple between that and football, and he shows trying to leave the house every once in a while.

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Speaker 1: And then I got this wild thing of like wanting to go do things this month. You sent out a pocket for me, but we should go to this event.

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Speaker 2: You send me something the other day and you were like, do you want to go? And I responded, I can't tell if you're joking or not, because why would you suggest leaving the house on a weeknight.

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Speaker 1: It is a Wednesday night opening of a bar. Can I say who it is? I don't know if it's like an announced thing. But by the time this airs, it wouldn't have happened yet. So if you see it on social media that we would to a bar during the week, you'd be like, this is so weird, but it'll also make sense.

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Speaker 2: And then we have like I have the Jonas Brothers this month, got a couple of concerts. We just have so much to do. And but also by the time this comes out, I will have chopped my hair. I'm getting whole new person, whole new person.

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Speaker 1: But September to me was kind of like whenever I try to clean out food from the fridge and I put together a meal of a bunch of random things that don't really go together, but some of them are about to expire, and I'm just trying to make a meal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but then you feel like crap, and I have to listen to you lay on the floor and go and go. I shouldn't have mixed beans, fake vegan chicken, rice and some carrots, and I'm like, in what universe did that go together?

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Speaker 1: It was a bad choice.

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Speaker 2: I thought you were about to say, like cleaning out things that are fired, which I did do this morning while you're not home now.

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Speaker 1: September just felt like a bunch of random movies that didn't really go together. It was it's a dumb month. So it's a lot of just like, okay, here, let's put this out because it doesn't really make sense anywhere else. But we had some really good ones, some that I felt when under the Radar that are not going to get the attention they deserve. So I want to go through every single movie, But for you, what was the best thing you saw?

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Speaker 2: And under the Radar one Twinless that's yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think that is the biggest underrated movie of the year. Where I pulled the log line because it is almost a movie that if you don't know anything going into it, it's better so that I'll just tell you what they say about it. Two men who each lost their respective twin brothers develop a growing friendship after meeting in a support group. That's really all you need to know, yep, because it has like part almost psychological thriller, drama, comedy, a little bit of everything. The way the movie is shot is very cinematic. There are some just beautiful look shots throughout this movie. You're like, man, it just feels different from beginning to end, and it has a lot of interesting character development. It's all I'll say, yes.

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Speaker 2: And it has Lauren Graham as the mom, which.

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Speaker 1: Is and Dylan O'Brien who gets confused with the guy from Perks of a Wald Logan Luhrman, which I never really thought about them looking that much alike, but whenever he was doing press for this movie, he was like, yeah, we get told that all the time, and I always have to correct them.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, just like attractive white guy with brown hair. Yeah, that's really the only similarity. Yeah, that was my favorite. I thought it was unexpectedly funny. We saw that one at the Bellcourt one place to see it. A good indie film.

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Speaker 1: I think this is a good example of how we say they're not great original movies anymore. This is one of the best I've seen this year of just not knowing a whole lot about it felt super original, and it's one that's just not going to get a lot of attention, doesn't have a big promotional push. It's also hard to sell this movie without telling you everything about it. So I think that is another big part of why people don't go see original movies, is because it's become harder and harder to sell them.

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Speaker 2: I also think for a lot of people, like movies are expensive. Much to us, we have invested in like subscriptions and memberships, so it makes it worth the cost, and it's like kind of the only thing we leave the house to do. But yeah, going to the movies is expensive. Tickets, snacks, sometimes you gotta pay for parking.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know what the solution is because I know more people I think now are comfortable watching them at home than ever before, but the best things are still going to theaters first. We just don't get great movies directly at home first run. It just doesn't happen. And that's not really a sustainable way to keep the movie industry alive if everybody's got to wait until it comes to be able to be watching at home. Like Superman came out recently at home, twenty eight years later came out recently at home. But if those movies don't have any success when they come out in theaters, it's not going to make it to you at home.

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Speaker 2: I will also just use this as a reminder, like if you have small like Indie theater or anything in your area, like to support them because they're also like nonprofit and they depend on lot on donations and people going.

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Speaker 1: And I will also say on that front is I know we do talk about how we do take our snacks into the theater, mostly because I'm vegan. I can't find anything the bell Court. That's what I was gonna say, not at the bell Court. When we do go to smaller theaters, which that's the only one we have around here, we make it a point to buy concessions there because of that reason.

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Speaker 2: Also, their popcorn is delicious.

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Speaker 1: It's great. If you ever come to Nashville and you want to go see a movie and experience it in the best way, go to the Bellcourt. My favorite and best movie I saw in September. I think it has to go to One Battle after Another, Absolutely, which we also saw at the Bellcourt.

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Speaker 2: You also get like a sellout crowd there. That feels the most nostalgic to me because back before the days of preserving your tickets we were growing up, you bought tickets, you had to get there early, and if you were late, you got crappy scenes and that's the same model there, and I'm like, it gives me the thrill of like having to get there early, Like I get there while they're still cleaning and the door's open and I'm beelining for my seats.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing about us. We go to a lot of movies, as you can tell, and we usually go to Regal, which we love. We have Regal down to a science that we know there's at least twenty minutes of trailers beforehand at least, and there's at least that eight to ten minute window of commercials before that, so comfortably we could get there twenty five minutes after the time it is advertised. We do often and roll right into that last trailer and watch the movie. That is what we like to do because we go to so many movies. We don't want to see the same trailers over and over again that we've already seen for every movie we go see that I've seen breaking down here on this podcast. We have that down to a science. We sacrifice that so much as we go to Bellcourt because we want to get one a parking spot and then two a good place to sit our usual seat in the Bell Court that we don't care about the trailers. And also when you go to a smaller independent theater they show different trailers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the trailers are We've seen a lot of good ones that I keep adding to our list of like I want to see that, I want to see that. And that's how I find out about these movies because they're not like promoted, They're not like a wider scale.

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Speaker 1: And I would never I would never know about some of these movies, whether they're like smaller documentaries or lower budget movies or like Sun Dance Tiff movies. That is where we learn about them, and that I always love when we go watch a movie like Twin Lists and then we see the trailers beforehand and then we just kind of look at each other and like not.

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Speaker 2: Like, oh, we got to come back for that, we do, We just like yeah.

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Speaker 1: And that's such an old school thing of going to the theater and being finding yeah about movies, because now with everything online or just seeing new stories or you hear when a movie gets announced and when the cast gets it, we just get inundated with all of the information that that feels like the most old school experience to be in a theater and persuade to come back because of the trailer. But I also love seeing things in actual film because it ads like that level of warm to it. Although for one battle after another it was shot in VistaVision, which is like a really old big camera, and there were only four theaters in the entire world that were showing it that way, and unfortunately Nashville wasn't. But still it was like as close as I could get to how it was intended to be seen.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes we get like, they're only showing this here. Yeah, we've had that before.

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Speaker 1: Because luckily in Nashville we do have one of the only theaters that can show seventy milimeter imax that Christopher Nolan himself paid for the theater to get it fixed because it's such an expensive piece of equipment, really hard to operate and really expensive to upkeep. That whenever Oppenheimer came out, he said, I know you guys have one. It's not working. I'm going to pay to get it fixed so you can show Oppenheimer in seventy milimeters imax, which is.

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Speaker 2: Like, is the Odyssey being filmed the same way? Yes, so we'll see it.

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Speaker 1: There, yeah, which is like the only just a film reel alone for that is like massive, takes up an entire room, and I feel like that really added to our experience when we went to go see Oppenheimer. But I love one battle after another. I thought the action was great. I thought the comedy was great throughout. And for such a big, expensive movie to be about something that I didn't think any studio would want to put out let a know let alone in today'sly climate, I thought that was a big risk and also is inspiring to me to know that an original film like this can still come out and be successful and hopefully make some of the money back.

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Speaker 2: Leo Oscar No.

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Speaker 1: I would say they tend to snub Leo a little bit, especially when he's not doing a full on drama. It took him so much to win that first Oscar that I almost think that The Revenant wasn't the movie he deserved to win for it was just.

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Speaker 2: He finally they were like, oh, we've really It.

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Speaker 1: Was more so like a political thing, like I think we finally have to give it to him here because I don't think The Revenant is his best performance of his career, but I think the timing worked out the best for him to finally get his Oscar. But I think when it comes to what they want in Best Actor, it rarely goes to a comedic role. So I don't think he's gonna win. I think he will kind of have to fight to get nominated.

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Speaker 2: You know who deserves to win, Sean Pinn's neck vein.

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Speaker 1: Sean Finn was awesome in this. I think him and Benicio will get Supporting Actor nominations more easily than Leo will Best Actor.

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Speaker 2: Venisio was Altur was so funny in it, so funny.

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Speaker 1: I still think about his little dance that he does when he gets pulled over. He was incredible. Them together, I could have just watched an entire movie of just that.

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Speaker 2: I want, like the behind the scenes of them having to film some of that, like did they ever break character? And like because they're both like such accomplished actors, but some of those scenes were just so like, yeah, not out there but funny.

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Speaker 1: That is a movie that if we had time in this next busy month, I would want to go back and watch again in theaters.

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Speaker 2: We don't have two hours and forty minutes to spare.

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Speaker 1: But there's no time so far this year We've only rewatched one movie in theaters, Leila and Stitch, and other than that it was impossible to get back to do a double tap.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's sure. The only thing we watched twice was Twisters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, usually one movie gets the Hoder event, either Stitch or Glen Powell rightfully, So you're wors for the month of September.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I know this isn't necessarily an original movie because it was like a remake, but it's highest to lowest on Apple.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a remake of a really old I believe, Japanese film, Chrisa. So I almost feel like when you remake such an old movie, it doesn't feel the same as when you're remaking something from twenty years ago. People don't get as up in arms because a lot of people probably haven't seen the original. When it feels new, it's almost like if an artist covers a song that nobody really heard and makes it their own. It's like, oh, I just thought that was your song.

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Speaker 2: It didn't keep my attention, And I will say it is harder to keep my attention at home because my phone distracts me, but like things that are really good can keep my attention. That was not one of them.

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Speaker 1: That is another thing that people are battling when making movies, when making TV shows, is there is that distraction of you are fighting people looking at their second screen, which is a major reason why I still love going to theaters because I totally shut it out. Unless I'm making a note about the movie, which I usually only do really quickly, I am not looking at my phone. And that is the only place, not only when it comes to watching things, but I think in my entire existence when I'm not consumed with my phone.

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Speaker 2: Mine is the movie's meetings at work in person and working out.

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Speaker 1: That's a good point, right they go to classes, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And so I don't take my phone. Sometimes people do bring their phones into the studio, which I understand, like there could be something they need to keep it on, but it is distracting. Like in a workout studio and you see like someone pick up their phone, I'm like, what are we doing? No no phones.

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Speaker 1: If it's something like highest to lowis, I was pretty zoned in. I treated that as if we were going to see it in theaters.

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Speaker 2: I zoned out because it was boring.

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Speaker 1: It got to a point where the plot really wasn't going anywhere. The music was so distracting the really weird score.

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Speaker 2: It was like orchestral music whole time, almost like slightly better elevator music over a whole movie.

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Speaker 1: Which he got like an orchestra to score the whole thing. But I almost thought, like.

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Speaker 2: So, no shade to the orchestra. You were all very talented. It was.

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Speaker 1: It sounded good, but it didn't fit the movie. It did not. It was almost like I felt he hired this orchestra that was probably so expensive that he thought, I need to use this about the entire movie. Like I got to use this the entire time. It almost became like a musical thriller because it was so closely connected to the plot of music.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's like almost like one of the scary movie in the music kind of like.

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Speaker 1: Pains him running a record label. So that one scene where there's the band playing and it was just so loud, and I was like, Okay, I've had a little bit too much of this. I also wasn't the biggest fan of Denzel's performance in that, which I know he likes to add lib. He's at that point in his career where he can kind of do whatever he wants. And even though you know he could really do whatever he wants, even with a legary director like Spike Lee, what are you going to tell Denzel like, hey man, you need to do that again. You can do it better. I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: Unrelated to the movie, but another thing Spike Lee did was the Hurricane Katrina docuseries on Netflix, which that was phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: That was fantastic. He executive produced the whole thing and I think directed the last episode, which was interesting to see how Spike Lee does a documentary versus when he does a movie. It still has like that creative spark to it, where even just like the titles, the way he would showcase the people he was interviewing, his use of photos, it's very stylistic. You can tell like, oh man, this is a really great director putting this together.

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Speaker 2: If you haven't watched that yet, highly recommend.

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Speaker 1: That was a very powerful documentary. I would rather watch that over Heist to Lois, even though it's like sad, which is weird.

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Speaker 2: Because it's such good storytelling.

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Speaker 1: It was just the fact that it was something that I remember from twenty years but don't remember all the small details about it's weird to say it was entertaining because of all all the awful things that happened, But that is the power of filmmaking.

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Speaker 2: I would say captivating, not as much as entertaining.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's captivating. Like it's hard to recommend it though, like all you gotta watch this, it's so good.

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Speaker 2: It's the storytelling of it. It tells it better than people have and he really put the whole puzzle together of all of the events surrounding it. That's what I think he did really well.

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Speaker 1: And I've learned from doing this podcast that sometimes it's hard to interview directors of documentaries and real people involved in them because when I interview people involved in movies, it's all fake stuff. You can ask them anything about their characters, and it's all fake stuff that they played. When you ask people about a documentary that's their life, that's asking them real things that have affected them, real things about trauma. That you have to treat it differently, where I'm so used to being able to like just go in on plot points.

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Speaker 2: You know from a documentary Kendro Lacari from What the High School Catfish?

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Speaker 1: Oh and gosh, could you imagine that I.

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Speaker 2: Mean she was basically interviewed in that documentary. Yeah, if you haven't watched that, it's called Unknown Number of the High School Catfish Story. I feel like we talked about it.

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Speaker 1: I feel like last month. Yeah, I feel like everybody's probably seen that at this point, and even I knew going into it.

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Speaker 2: What happened wild the amount of people that I made watch it, and then I've waited till they got to a certain part, and then just the like flood of text messages that would come in. The reactions are good, Okay, anyways, anything else to say about hihest tell us?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, that's all that one. Don't recommend it. Apple Plus just doesn't really strike it well with the movies.

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Speaker 2: It's like, you know what was better than that The Wrong Paris on Netflix. It wasn't even like worst movie contender.

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Speaker 1: It was for me, I'm in between two for my worst movie, I have the Wrong Paris, which was the Miranda Costro movie on Netflix.

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Speaker 2: But you enjoyed that one.

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Speaker 1: But it's if I look at all the things that I've gone through, it's still the worst. Doesn't have it's a bad movie. It just happens to be the worst.

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Speaker 2: In the moment that I guess I've done the same before.

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Speaker 1: And my second is Him two different situations because I was anticipating. I love horror movies. It's a Jordan Peele produce movie. I thought it was going to be good. In my exit, I thought my expectations were not met. It ended up being enjoyable enough, but it struck me in a way that I was like, oh, man, I'm kind of let down. The Wrong Paris was different because I didn't really expect it to be good and it wasn't bad, and it wasn't bad. So it's almost like that two. Him went all the way down in my book and the Wrong Paris rose up in my book, but they kind of met at that same level because I feel like the Wrong Paris is at the very top of how good that type of movie can be, and Him is just kind of missing the mark on what I was anticipating, because I feel like a Netflix movie like The Wrong Paris, it's not going to really move the needle for me in a way that like, man, that was the best thing I've ever seen given the plot point, it's pretty fluffy.

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Speaker 2: Love how you're explaining this with your hands.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I talk on my hands all the time on this thing.

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Speaker 2: I know, it's just funny when I watch it or watch you and then I'm like, this is audio format.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's done YouTube, but yeah, the up and down is going on. That's always going on in my brain. But I like Miranda Cosgrove, I think because I feel like she is somebody I've watched since she was my age, when she was in the School of Rock and that was like her first big role, and then from there it's like I'm just kind of growing up with this actor throughout all their projects, from School of Rock to The Wrong Paris, all the stuff in between. Like I Carly, She's even done Drake and Josh. She was a movie called North Hollywood that I really like. So I like her more now in this phase of her career. I would love to see an I Carly reunion movie.

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Speaker 2: Didn't they reboot the show?

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Speaker 1: They did, but I feel like you need to bring back Jeanette McCurdy. Oh yeah, I have an idea for a movie which will never get made, but it's an I Carly reboot where it's a horror movie where it's a fan. Maybe this is inspired in my real life. It's so obsessed with Miranda Cosgrove that they decide to break into her house to try to like kidnap her or something to bring back I Carly. And then they find out that Miranda Cosgrove is actually like a psycho killer and they hold that rabbit fan in her basement hostage, so the kind of role reversal, and then she gets back Freddy and Sam to help her out one last time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, next topic, that's what idea for the movie.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Carle, I get kidnapped, so they got to get Sam bag or Janelle mccurty, who probably probably wants nothing to do with it. She's putting out books now, she's all good. But if I had to go with one, I would probably go him, just because I don't like being let down. And the wrong parents just surprised me a little bit more. Yea, if that wasn't a let down, Yeah, it was good. It was surprising, So I'll go worst of the month him. Run through all the movies we saw, started out with highest to lowess. Then we went to go see Hamilton in theaters, which you've seen in person. What year did you see it?

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four?

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Speaker 1: And I think I first saw it on Disney Plus, so it's essentially that version that came out in twenty twenty, but we got to go see it in theaters.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was great. It was so much fun to see on the big screen. And I just love Hamilton so much, which I actually was going to tell you it's a great reminder that Whitney, one of the Mormon wives, is apparently doing a dance to the room where it happens from Hamilton for Disney Night, because now that Hamilton's like on Disney Plus, that's part of that which I listened to the Hamilton Hamilton's soundtrack at work sometimes just like top to bottom, the full thing. It's delightful.

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Speaker 1: I forgot how good some of the songs were, how memorable they are that you sing him around the house a lot, and I kind of forgot what they're from and sell me out, and then I was like, oh, that's what I just thought. The song was so good they would.

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Speaker 2: Wait for it, in particular yeah, by Leslie Otam Junior, which if I could see him on Broadway back in his role as Erin Burr, should have sold a kidney because that's how much those tickets cost.

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Speaker 1: And after Hamilton I went to go see Spinal Tap two, which I wasn't really thinking it was gonna be good. It just kind of felt like a really long SNL sketch, which I loved the original movie, but this one was just them older and sitting down all the time and being like, we don't have what it takes anymore. So there were some interesting cameos from other musicians, but overall it was just kind of like a this was made to be made, and now it's out so people could stop asking if you're gonna make another Spinal Tab movie. Gave that one a three out of five. We talked about twin lists. The Long Walk was really close to making my favorite of the month. I just kind of didn't really have that much of an impact as far as after I watched it, and I think about it a whole lot. We went to go see A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey, which is so hard for me to say.

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Speaker 2: I will be fine if I never you have to say.

00:22:43
Speaker 1: That title Margo, Robbie and Colin Farrell, and it's about them meeting at a wedding randomly and going on a big journey and with some moves they go through doors and it takes them to different places in their past.

00:22:57
Speaker 2: This movie could have been done better, Oh.

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Speaker 1: You thought so? I enjoyed it. I thought it represented what I love about going to sleep. It is dreaming and having really vivid dreams taking you back to very specific parts in your life that that is the only place where you can experience it. I think we all have the dream of waking up in like high school and we're like, oh man, I'm back in school. Just feels so weird. They experience that in this movie. So there was all these elements of what I love about my second life and my dreams that I was like, they made a movie about it. But I could see.

00:23:29
Speaker 2: How you do live another life in your Yeah, I do.

00:23:33
Speaker 1: But I could see at the very beginning of this movie it was kind of weird the way their characters interacted. It's a very hyper realistic form of reality where their characters are so over the top.

00:23:46
Speaker 2: Sounds so meta.

00:23:47
Speaker 1: It It is a weird way for them to communicate in a weird way for all the action to take place, because it doesn't really feel like real life but also doesn't fully feel like fantasy.

00:23:58
Speaker 2: I was more excited for it then I was watching it.

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Speaker 1: I thought it looked really good too, like all the colors and the costume changes and all the set designed and where they put the doors in the middle of nowhere. So I think the death of mid movies is what this is about. Like if it's something isn't like so good that it moves you in a way that you're like, I got to tell everybody about this. We can't really experience the mediums the way we used to be able to.

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Speaker 2: I found the TikTok comments about it funnier the movie itself.

00:24:25
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a movie that people could go in and just hate and want to walk out of you you did on TikTok. I could see that if you don't allow yourself to be like, Okay, I want to take the journey with these people, you could find each of their characters really insufferable and the overall premise dum. But for some people like me, it's just kind of what I needed to that moment. And then we also went to go see Spider Man two point one, Yes, which was Spider Man two but with added footage a lot of deleted scenes that got worked back into the movie. It was interesting for me to remember what was in the actual Spider Man two and what they added back in, because there were some moments I remember just from watching it, like on TikTok, like here's a deleted scene, like the scene of JK. Simmons putting on the Spidy suit and wearing it after Peter Parker decided he didn't want to be Spider Man anymore and got rid of his suit. Ja Jonah Jamison got a hold of it, and then there's a scene where he in his office wearing it, and I was like, that's interesting that that didn't make the movie. But then when you see them put all these outtakes in the movie, you realize it changes the tone of it. And I found myself thinking like, oh, it kind of makes sense why they take out certain things when it just kind of changes the momentum of a movie. It changed the overall feeling, which seeing some of these scenes in Spider Man two point one made it feel a little bit more comical, which I feel like when I just watched Spider Man two, all I think about is all the action. Having those little moments of levity added in felt like an entirely different movie in a way.

00:25:47
Speaker 2: Agree it made me want to watch Spider Man three whenever we have the time.

00:25:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do want to watch that. Now, what about your TV show for the.

00:25:53
Speaker 2: Month, Dancing with the Stars, which I talked about last week?

00:25:57
Speaker 1: We stillly just started a bunch. I've only finished one show.

00:26:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've were watching a bunch of things platonic on Apple but still marvelous Miss Maisel. I have one season left of that and I love it and I'm savoring it. Then my ultimate comfort show was.

00:26:10
Speaker 1: Er Oh, yeah, you do your annual rewatch?

00:26:13
Speaker 2: Not even annual. I've I'm on season three. I started at like some point last year.

00:26:17
Speaker 1: When do you start Gilmour girls.

00:26:19
Speaker 2: I started on the first day of fall. I watched two episodes. I turned it no wal I was working.

00:26:24
Speaker 1: The only show I have finished so far is Wednesday season two. I am a bigger fan of Wednesday season one. This one had some really good episodes. I would say had Lady Gaga. It did have Lady Gaga two episodes that I thought those were two of the best of the entire series. But overall, I don't fully loved this story. It was good, but I feel like this was the best representation of the character of Wednesday. I think Jenna Ortega fully locked in on this season, and at the very end they're like, she's coming back for season three. I'm like, man, but that's going to take another three years. That's what's so hard about these Netflix shows is a take forever and then everybody gets older in them. Because their brother Pugsley, from season one to season two, season one, he was like a little kid.

00:27:06
Speaker 2: It's the same thing with Jenny and Georgia.

00:27:07
Speaker 1: And now they're full grown adults.

00:27:09
Speaker 2: That was the same thing. You know what's coming out on Netflix this month that you're gonna be so excited about. What selling Sunset season nine?

00:27:15
Speaker 1: Oh my, how did that show get nine seasons?

00:27:17
Speaker 2: Because people like me are still watching it.

00:27:19
Speaker 1: Season one and two was about what I got through. Whenever they stopped showing the houses, I'm like, this makes no sense anymore.

00:27:26
Speaker 2: That was a reality drama.

00:27:28
Speaker 1: That was the only reason I enjoyed that show because we love watching house hunters, and I was like, this is like extreme house Hunters with famous people in houses that we could never afford.

00:27:37
Speaker 2: I've fallen off on a lot of my reality shows, like I stopped watching Real Housewives of Orange County of the season I'm behind on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City got to a point where I was just kind of like, I can't watch people yell at each other right now. It feels too stressful.

00:27:50
Speaker 1: What about your book of the month?

00:27:51
Speaker 2: Okay, so I read twelve books in September. Goodness, I know, apparently, and that's why I have no time to watch TV.

00:27:56
Speaker 1: Best one will be I don't think I've read twelve books in my life life.

00:28:02
Speaker 2: It kind of along the same lines of the Hurricane Katrina thing, being sad but captivating. It is called The Only Plane in the Sky and it's an oral history of nine to eleven. I listened to it on audiobook. It's on Spotify Premium, but it is over fifteen hours and you get fifteen hours a month, so you got to like kind of listen to like one point three. It was incredible. So it was a full cast, which I really appreciated because it wasn't the actual like people of that day, so the author was not exploiting anyone's trauma. I appreciated that You're not like having someone come tell a story about the worst day of their life. It was that people had given interviews and or maybe written it down and then they transcribed it and had a cast member like it was a cast for even like Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Kitty Kirk. They had an actor read that. But it was stories of that day, putting together the whole day, from start of the day to the end of the day. And it's called the Only Plane in the Sky because I'm sure a lot of people know this. At one point, Air Force one was the only plane in the sky. So it just has I mean, it has the dispatch recordings of people on the planes. It had interviews with people whose loved ones were on the plane, loved ones who worked, has interviews with firefighters, interviews with government people. It just was so well done. And you even listened to some of it in the car with me one day.

00:29:11
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like the that it went back and forth between a lot of different voices.

00:29:16
Speaker 2: It did yeah, and they would say like their name and yeah. It was just it was phenomenal. I can't recommend it enough. I do believe even though it's an oral history, like there is still a print version to read, but I really do recommend the audiobook version. I think it does such a good job.

00:29:31
Speaker 1: I feel like I should get into audio books. But I still need to read Project Hill Mary. I saw it on the shelf the other day. I'm like, I need to start that book.

00:29:38
Speaker 2: People in my book club said the audiobook was good.

00:29:41
Speaker 1: M nah, I feel like I have to read that one though. Okay, I will start that. I gotta start that. A movie comes out in March. I gotta start that.

00:29:48
Speaker 2: You have plenty of time, all right, anything else? I can't believe it's already October.

00:29:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, Spooky season next week. I do have Freddy Krueger on the podcast again. Oh, Robert England is returning to the podcast, as well as a couple of the directors of some of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.

00:30:04
Speaker 2: Is he the only returning guest besides me?

00:30:06
Speaker 1: He is the only returning guest. Yeah, oh, but that's next week, just in time for spooky season. Because October is a straight up horror movie month. No, thank you, I don't do scary all right. We'll come back with the spoiler free review of good Boy. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of good Boy. It is a horror movie from the perspective of a dog. One of the most original ideas of the year so much so that Good Boy built up a lot of hype just because of that premise. And I think when you have a movie like this where it's so easy to pitch it to somebody, because I was telling everybody who asked me going into this week and what are you going to go watch this week, which is a question I get often because I do this podcast and people just want to know what new is coming out. And I love it when I can pitch somebody a movie that you know from one sentence when it's going to be about out, and not only do you know from that one sentence, but you're interested even if you don't like horror movies. It has you curious. And I watch a lot of horror movies, and something that always happens at the beginning whenever somebody moves into a new house, Because I would say my favorite subgenre inside the horror genre are the haunted house stories. I just love them. I crave them. And in these horror movies, something that always happens is whenever the family moves in, or whenever the person moves in, the dog is always the first one to know. They'll either start barking at something and the owner's like, hey, it'stop barking. There's nothing there. Oh, but the dog knows. The dog always knows. Dogs are smart. They can sense illness inside of people, they can sniff for drugs, they can sniff for bombs, they can do so many things. And this movie takes that idea of the dog being the first one to know and just giving you the dog's perspective as he investigates these things. And this movie is pretty low budget. It was shot by the director who is the owner of the dog, who in real life is also named Indie, and the crew was pretty minimal. The director and his wife was a producer. So actually inside this film you see the director acting with his own dog. So those genuine reactions that they have of Indie running up to him being so excited, them getting along and bonding together, that is because you see a man bonding with his own dog, So all of that is authentic. What they did was they had actors go back in and overdub the voices, so you see the director ben in the shot, but you hear a different actor's voice. And I will have to say that was a little bit distracting because the acting felt so stiff and I didn't realize it at the time of watching this that that is what they did, but that steed out to me so much that I had to go investigate. And I have to imagine they did that because of how hard it is to film with a dog, which was what made this movie so hard to make, because he did not want to force his dog to do anything that Indy did not want to do. And that is a big part of this, because you as the viewer, are so worried about Indy, and him as the filmmaker and also the owner of Indy, didn't want to put him into situations that were going to harm him. Didn't want to make Indie feel uncomfortable, so at times they would just wait around for hours until Indy felt comfortable doing something. And the crazy part about this is the dog never felt scared. Indy was never scared. It is through the power of filmmaking and the way this movie is shot, which was really well done, looked very cinematic, was a lot more beautiful looking than I was anticipating because of how low budget this was, and really the reason that it was available at a movie theater down my street was because of how viral the trailer went, but I was so surprised how everything good looked, minus maybe one or two shots with the CGI. But aside from that, anytime Indy was on the screen, just staring into your soul, looking up at something that he saw, it looks so beautiful. And Indy is such a good looking dog. And I was like, that is a movie star right here. He deserves an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. And it's wild to think that a dog can't act. A dog doesn't even know what a movie is. He has no idea he is starring in one of the most original movies of the year. The director said, the only thing that Indy started to pick up on was whenever he got the camera out. He kind of was like, okay, I'm starting to associate things whenever he pulls out the camera, much like a dog wood whenever you grab the leash and they know, oh it's time for a walk. If they hear a rapper, they instantly get up and think, all right, you're about to feed me. Something along those same lines. Whenever he started to see the camera, he thought, okay, you guys are about to act a little weird. But everything is implied because you as the viewer know what is going on. You are aware that you're watching a horror movie, and through the lighting and the sound design, you feel scared because you are seeing it from the perspective of Indie and you know there is something lurking, but Indy has no idea. So the fact that they were able to make him feel comfortable not put him in any situations where it was animal abuse. I think that's what made this performance feel really authentic, because that is what makes this movie novel. Now, when it comes to how scary this movie actually is, I didn't really find it frightening at any moment. It was more so that I was invested in Indie. And obviously I won't give any spoilers here, but before this movie even came out, and the reason it went so viral is that people want to know what happens to Indy, and I won't say what happens in the ending, but I think that's what made this movie so engaging and entertaining, is you feel so much for this dog and us as humans. That is how we are. We can watch any horror movie and we don't care about people getting their throat slash, getting crush it and paled by Michael Myers or killed in their dreams by Freddy Krueger. But if ever a horror movie messes with a dog, that is kind of where we're out of it. We don't want to see that. So that is what you are feeling while watching this movie. You want nothing bad to happen to Indy, especially because he is so adorable and so lovable and stands by his owner while he's going through all of these crazy things. And I think that is the real message here, And I think this movie is a metaphor for something of how loyal a dog is and how they will be there by your side no matter what. If you are a good owner to them, they are your friend till the end. But there are some things that your pet cannot protect you from as much as they want to. They can only play a certain role in your life. And I think that is what this movie was trying to say. Because the owner is going through something personally. He has some hardships, he has a reason that he went out to this new house. He has a lot of things going on in his life, but the one consistent thing is his dog, and his dog wants to help him as he sees these dark entities ruining his life, making him act out of character. But a dog's love can only go so far until you have to pick yourself up and you have to be the responsible one. And I think that is what this movie was trying to say, or maybe I was just reading so much into it, because I will say the plot is pretty bare, but the movie is also only about an hour and eleven minutes, so it doesn't oversay it's welcome, and I think that is a powerful thing. And I hate to complain about run times, but when you have a story like this that isn't a huge story, it doesn't need a whole lot of time to develop these characters because you can't really develop a character who can't talk or is really aware of the situation. This movie could only be so long, and the fact that it is under an hour and fifteen minutes is an incredible feat. So as soon as you're getting invested in, the story already starting to wrap itself up. But that being said, not a whole lot of stuff happens, so you almost have to allow yourself to let it be a little bit scary to really get into it. And even watching this in a fully dark theater with the sound blasting. There weren't any moments that really stick out to me. It's like, oh, that's creepy, or oh, man, I'm really worried here, which I don't really feel that way in horror movies anymore. But I think to even the more casual horror fan, you're not really gonna find those moments. So I think that's probably the hardest sell of showing it to somebody, pitching it as a horror movie and saying, this movie's gonna freak you out, and really it's probably not. But I love how novel it is. I love that this movie made waves on the mainstream, and I love that through the power of the Internet, finally doing something good that because it went so viral, it was able to go out into more theaters and have more people experience this and get people talking. And I think that is the power of filmmaking. That is why I love the horror genre so much, is because a small movie like this has a chance to compete with some of these gladiators. Was out there competing this weekend with the Taylor Swift album release with the Rock with the second week of Leonardo DiCaprio and here you have this little movie that could making waves. So I'll admit about halfway through, I was like, when is this thing gonna pick up a little bit more, because even though it is a short movie, it still takes its time to expand on things, and I just thought it was gonna be a little bit more leaning into the paranormal elements. But I got the feeling that they just didn't have the budget for that. But I got to give it up for Indy. I boost it just for his performance and now the fact that I really want a dog. So for good boy, I give it three out of five pats on the head. Who's a good boy?

00:39:48
Speaker 2: It's time to head down to movie Mike Traylor.

00:39:52
Speaker 1: Paul, I am flipping the format here a little bit. Instead of a trailer, I am breaking down the poster for the Simpsons movie who, quite possibly, at least in my humble opinion, the biggest movie news of the year. Simpsons making a sequel to the movie that came out in two thousand and seven. It is coming out in theaters July twenty third, twenty twenty seven. Oh man, that's a bit of ways almost two years from now. Here's why this is such a big deal, and let's do a little history of The Simpsons. First of all, my favorite show of all time. Out of any show scripted, animated, it is my number one show. I started watching it as a kid. It's shaped my taste in comedy. If I am even one percent funny at all, depending on how you feel about some of the things I say on this podcast, if you think I'm funny or not, you think, like, man, this guy thinks he's funny. If I even have one percent of comedic timing, it is all due to The Simpsons. I learned everything about jokes from watching The Simpsons, from listening to commentary interviews, even having people on this podcast from the Simpsons world. Ever since I was a young boy, I love the Simpsons. My parents didn't want me to watch it because in the nineties apparently the worst thing you could say on TV was eat my shorts, And now it's like, all right, a lot more crazy things you could be exposed to just on TikTok and YouTube, but it has always been my favorite show. Going to see the Simpsons movie in theaters in two thousand and seven was a core movie memory for me, one I will never forget. All of the Simpsons manias surrounding it from seven to eleven, transforming locations into Quickie Marts, which is the convenience store on the show. I hope they do that again, all the tie in promotions and cereal boxes and foods. So that is why I'm so excited about this, to be able to experience that again. Here is some history on the show. I've read a lot of books, I've watched a lot of documentaries, a lot of YouTube videos, but The Simpsons started as an animated short on The Tracy Omen Show back on April nineteenth, nineteen eighty seven, and it wasn't even a full show. There were one minute bumpers essentially that they needed to get between sketches on The Tracy Omen Show, kind of a throwaway thing. Matt Greening was known at the time who was the creator of The Simpsons for a comic called Life as Hell, and he originally went to pitch a cartoon about that comic, but then he realized that if he'd turned that comic into a cartoon, the studio was going to have the rights to that, and that was his life's work. That is what he was known for. He was a punk rock cartoonist, and he thought, man, I don't want them to have the rights to this. Let me drop something really quick based it on his family. He modeled Bart after his older brother, but he wanted an anagram for the word brat because that is what Bart Simpson is. And he sketched this family together all based on his own family, win in and pitch that, and that is what got turned into the Simpsons. It became so popular on the Tracy Omens Show that it was getting more lapsed than the actual sketches inside of the show that two years later it became its own series, and within a few years of that, going into the nineties, it debuted on Fox in nineteen eighty nine and within just a few seasons went on to be a global phenomenon and is currently in its thirty seventh season and has been renewed through its fortieth season, which would be in twenty twenty eight to twenty twenty nine. The interesting thing about the season thirty seven premiere, which just happened and I was just watching it before the announcement came out, is they actually poked fun at this at the way movies have changed. Initially, the Simpsons were driving to the Aztec Theater in Springfield, going to see a movie, and then they make a joke of saying, why would we go pay and see this in theaters now when it's just going to be streaming at home in a couple of days. So they turn around and go home, and a few days later it cuts to them watching it from the comfort of their living room on a streaming service, and then make fun of the idea now that it is riddled with ads, so you're watching it and having an entirely different experience. I didn't think anything of it watching that episode, but when the announcement came out, I was like they were trying to tell us that this was coming back. In twenty nineteen, Disney acquired The Simpsons for seventy one point three billion dollars. They got the rights to all of the seasons of the show and the movie rights, and have just been waiting and sitting on this, and I just didn't think it was ever going to happen, because this was one of those things. If you are a long time Simpsons fan, I follow a lot of accounts, and every now and then, I would say every few months, somebody always posts like, oh, look the Simpsons two movie was announced, and then you click into it and it's like, just kidding, but that would be cool, right. I've been seeing this for the last ten years, and to finally see this poster pop up on my feed from the official Disney account and Simpsons account, I about near lost my mind, as you can hear in my voice, because if you look at the timeline of all these things, from when the TV show premiered to when we got the first movie in two thousand and seven, that was twenty years and now by the time this second movie comes out is another twenty years. So from the very first introduction of the Simpsons to the world until this movie comes out will be forty years of the Simpsons. I would have thought that this is how they were going to end the show, because that is something that has always been talked about. They kind of flirted with the idea during a previous season finale where they used AI to generate how the show would end. But if it wasn't for the fact that they are still renewed through twenty twenty eight, I would have thought that this would be a way to end it, And it really wasn't until me watching the season seven premiere that I thought this show could go on forever because I thought there would come a time for them to finally hang it up, or because of some of the original cast members who have been voicing these characters since the very beginning. They get a little bit older, maybe they don't want to do the show anymore, or maybe some of them start to pass and then you start to have to wonder how do they carry on doing the show. But there have been some people that they've recasted here and there that I still think it could happen without them. And to think that they're going to recast some of the Marvel characters at some point, like Robert Downey Junior or Chris Evans, I could see them get to a point if this show is still successful and a big property with a lot of money attached to it, they could eventually recast everybody on The Simpsons. But as a lifelong fan, I almost hoped that this would be how they would close it out. Just by looking at this poster, which is so reminiscent of the first movie poster back in two thousand and seven, the poster is almost entirely white. In the classic Simpsons text, it says Homer's coming back for seconds, and you see his yellow hand and going up to grab a pink classic Simpson's donut covered in number two sprinkles. And then you see the kind of grease stand hanging up on the wall. All it says on the bottom is in theater seven twenty three, twenty twenty seven. Matt Graning's name is right there at the bottom. That is a great poster. That is one that I think I'm gonna have to put up on this wall because it looks so classic. It's not doing a lot. It didn't try to over explain everything. It was just nice, clear and cut, artistic and to the point. But the Simpsons movie is coming out in theaters. On July twenty third, twenty twenty seven.

00:47:36
Speaker 2: Said that was this week's edition of movie Line tram or Bar and.

00:47:41
Speaker 1: That is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listener shout out of the week. I did review one battle after another on last week's episode, and I would have to say is probably the warmest response to a review I've had all year. And I think it's because whenever I get that review and I had my shades on and my beanie on in my bathrobe. It really mellowed me out, and I did that to get into character for the review and really commit to the bit of being Leonardo DiCaprio's character Bob in that movie that I found myself just kind of feeling a little bit more chill, not getting so riled up about things. And it also allowed me to not be as pretentious as some of the film bros who have been talking about this movie be in a masterpiece. I wanted to approach it from just my own perspective without trying to sound cool or trying to sound like I really needed to understand this film, So I think that really helped me. And reading all the comments from you guys on YouTube and Facebook made me realize that they did come through in that review. So appreciate all the nice comments I got this week. But this week I'm going over to TikTok and I'm shouting out somebody named old Enough to Know who had the one big contrary and I saw into my review last week and said the chase scene went on too long. Leo simply played the same character he played in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Old Enough to know, I have to completely disagree with you here. To me, there was not one scene in one battle after another that went on too long. I thought the movie was a pretty tight two and a half hours, and that scene had perfect pacing, the right amount of anticipation, and gave you that feeling of anxiety, also showing you the beautiful landscape, the way it just captured the motion, and the way it felt like you were on that road driving in one of those cars. I did not think that scene went on too long. And I also don't think Leo's character was the exact same person that he played in Once upon a Time in Hollywood. I feel the complete opposite way about that as well, because I think Bob would actually haint Rick Dalton and Once upon a Time in Hollywood. They would not get along. They have entirely different viewpoints on the world. I don't think Rick Dalton was that comedic, so I find them to be completely different. Old enough to know I do disagree with you, but I respect your opinion. So thank you for listening, Thank you for watching clips on TikTok and YouTube. If you ever want to see full reviews, they are up on my YouTube channel. I'm climbing up there on the subscriber count like slowly but surely, I am trying to get people to join the YouTube train. So if you don't mind, YouTube dot com slash Mike dizhdro full individual movie reviews and sometimes I wear costumes like I did on last week's reviews, so check that out. Subscribe hit the bell so you get new episodes every single Monday, much like you do here. Thank you for listening, thank you for watching, and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later