Greatest Movies turning 30, 20 and 10 Years Old + Movie Review: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple + Trailer Park: The Wrecking Crew

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to talk about movies turning thirty, twenty, and ten years old. This episode is either going to make you feel really good if you love nostalgia, which I do. If nostalgia were a pill, I would take two in the morning and two every single night just to make me feel good, or it's going to make you feel old. In the movie review, we'll be talking about twenty eight years later to the Bone Temple, how do we feel about these movies coming out so close to each other? And in the trailer park we'll be talking about a new movie called The Wrecking Cruise starring Jason Momoa and Dave Batista that looks ridiculous but looks like it could be a lot of fun. So thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed, Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the podcast network. This is movie Mike's Movie Podcast. Come with me and you'll be you know world up, You're nostalgia Nation. As we go back to nineteen ninety six to kick off the list, movies thirty years old in nineteen ninety six. Where was I I was five years old? My favorite TV show was probably Barney. When I go back and think what I watched the most, I just love Barney. Power Rangers were already out at the time. Obviously had a big fascination with Power Rangers like any kid who grew up in the mid nineties. My other favorite TV show that I watched all the time was Shining Time Station. I love me some Thomas the Tank Engine, and also I still had a big love for The Lion King from nineteen ninety four, which came out a couple of years before this. I remember having a matching set, which that was the best thing about the nineties is all the matching clothing for kids. You would have the T shirt that matched, the shorts that matched, the socks that matched the shoes. You'd have the pillowcase. The pillowcases of the nineties were amazing, and I remember having a Power Rangers pillowcase and I think Lion King bed sheets. So that's where I was mentally as a five year old. And when I think about movies, I think about my cousin's VHS closet. That was blockbuster to me because we didn't go to Blockbuster a whole lot as a family. My mom did not want to pay for rentals, but also if we would ever have a light fee, she couldn't handle it, so we never had a Blockbuster card. To me, it was going to my cousin's house, who had every VHS I could imagine. He would get new ones all the time. I'd go over to his house and just look at this closet full of VHS's, but he would let me borrow them. I'd take them home, and that was my version of Blockbuster. The other thing I loved about nineteen ninety six in the mid nineties were all the movie tie ins with happy meals. But more specifically, for me, I was a Burger King kid. I know everybody else's happy meal McDonald's kids, Burger King was far superior to me. Not only the food. I love the chicken nuggets, the small ah. I love me some Burger King French fries. I think they have a better taste than McDonald's french fries. To me, they taste more like potatoes. So I think I'm the only person who will fight for Burger King. But also when it came to the movie tie ins, in the nineties, they had Rugrats toys, which were probably my favorite. When that movie came out, the Pokemon line was fantastic. It doesn't get anything better than that. I was at a flea market recently over the holiday break and somebody was selling those old school Poke balls that they had with the gold plated cards inside. There was no better fast food tie in than those Pokemon balls with the gold cards. But they had dragon balls ze. They had a lot of Nickelodeon stuff, which I was much more of a Nickelodeon kid growing up. My biggest dilemma growing up was I remember this when I was five years old, I'm like, what am I gonna eat after? I'm too big for a kid's meal? And luckily Burger King came through and they invented the Big Kids Meal, and I was like, oh, I'm set for another four or five years. But not only that, they had the Burger King Kids Club, which was all their marketing in the nineties. They had all these different characters that would pop up on the cups and on the back I remember I always wanted to be Kid Vid, who was the kid with the backwards red hat, the big yellow bangs and the cool, almost like cyclop sunglasses. I wanted to be that kid so bad, but to me, it did not get any better than the Burger King Kids Club. I think you could actually like write in to be a part of it. But that is where I was in nineteen ninety six looking at the highest grossing films of the year. At number ten was Space Jam, which this movie blew my mind and I think to a lot of people who did not grow up with the Looney Tunes in the nineties, this was our introduction because obviously the Looney Tunes have been around for such a long time, and it almost feels like the Looney Tunes are always fighting for their life to be relevant. But Space Jam was such a classic. It does not get more Nineties than Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan together. I remember also I had a tune squad Jersey, which was huge for me. I had to beg my parents so much much to get me one of these. I'm pretty sure we went to J. C. Penny and I got the tune squad Jersey. I don't think I had a specific character. They might have just been blanks, but everybody had one. I remember my cousin, my different cousin had one, and I was like, someday, I'm going to get one of those, and I think I ended up getting one for my birthday. So Space Jam at number ten, making two hundred and fifty million dollars. Back in ninety six, at number nine we had Jerry McGuire, which made two hundred and seventy three million dollars at the box office. If only Tom Cruise could go back to doing movies like Jerry McGuire At this point, why not just do Jerry McGuire two. I think there's a demand for it. A lot of people would be upset, but I would rather have Jerry McGuire two than another Mission Impossible where he's trying to do all these crazy stunts. At one time he was trying to go to space. Apparently that has been shut down. So I don't think we're ever going to get the Tom Cruise movie where he actually filmed something in space. But he is always just trying to push all these limits. But I think we also forget how good of an hector Tom Cruise is because that has almost come secondary in all of his movies recently, where he's just running at full speed all the time. I want to see rom com Tom Cruise again doing movies like Jerry Maguire. If he went back to doing that, I still think he would make a lot of money. At number eight, we have The Nutty Professor, which also made two hundred and seventy three million dollars and some change at the box office this year. This to me was prime Eddie Murphy, which I didn't grow up in the eighties, obviously, and I do remember going back and watching his time on SNL, which was hilarious. Raw and Delirious are two of my favorite comedy specials, but that wasn't relevant when I was growing up. The things that were relevant were The Nutty Professor, all the scenes at the table, everybody farting. There's so many iconic scenes from The Nutty Professor. But yes, you probably could not do this movie too day. And even though I just said I would like a Jerry Maguire too, that's more so because I want to see Tom Cruise doing something that's not so physically demanding. Eddie Murphy has gone back and done things like another Beverly Hills cop movie that just didn't work out, So I didn't really like that one, so I don't think reviving this franchise is in the cards of something I would actually want to see. So as much as I love this back in the nineties, I think we have to kind of keep it there. At number eight was the Nutty Professor. At number seven was Ransom making three hundred and nine million dollars at the box office. Got to say, in the nineties, I did not watch Ransom. I was more on the line of what is at number six, one hundred and one Dalmatians making three hundred and twenty million dollars at the box office, one that I really remember watching on VHS at school, which I don't really think you learned anything from one hundred and one Dalmatians, but that is very much it's movie day. We need to watch a movie that doesn't have any bad words that we can show it to the entire class. One hundred and one Dalmatians a perfect movie day movie. At number five we have The Hunchback of Notre Dame making three hundred and twenty five million dollars at the box office. I know I raved earlier about Burger King, but what I remember most aside from the actual movie was the McDonald's tie in with the Hunchback of Notre Dame toys. I actually think that I got the toys before I even watched the movie, because I didn't watch it in theaters. I really didn't go to the movies a lot as a five year old. I don't know if that's a normal thing, but I remember watching a lot of these movies on VHS. But I would still go to McDonald's from time to time, and I remember the Quasi Moto pen I think there was, and the Little Gargoyle guys. I remember getting those toys and being like, I don't really know what these are, but they're kind of cool toys. And then eventually when I saw the movie, I was like, oh, yeah, Quasi motos morelda, I get it now, but had pretty good line of toys. Still not better than the Burger King stuff, but man, that is what I remembered so much about watching a lot of these movies. At number four, you have The Rock, which made three hundred and thirty five million dollars at the box office. Speaking to Tom Cruise, he is at number three this year with Mission Impossible making four hundred and fifty seven million dollars at the box office. How much this changed action movies in the nineties. Just that scene of Tom Cruise repelling down and stopping at the last second, That right there defined the franchise. I would say, not one moment has topped that stunt out of anything, and that was one that Tom Cruise actually did not a stunt double, and they did that so many times to get it right. At number three, you have Mission Impossible. At number two one of my favorite movies of all time, Twister, which made almost five hundred million dollars at the box office. I guess the thing I don't think about is this movie being so financially successful, because that really didn't matter to me as a five year old in ninety six. I just remember watching this movie on VHS so much and it becoming one of my favorite movies. The only thing I remember now thinking back is we tried to go watch this movie on opening night and it was sold out. I remember my hometown walked to Hagie, Texas had a movie theater Buffalo Creek with six screens in it, and we went. I remember being so disappointed when you would have to call ahead and find out the times. You'd literally call a phone number, and at Buffalo Creek they just had an employee who would every week or maybe even every day, update all the times they tell you the movie, and they tell you all the times, and you'd have to sit there on the phone to hear every single movie, and you're like, oh man, when you're gonna get to Twister. It's all the way at the end. But I remember walking up to Buffalo Creek and looking up at the Marquee sign where they used to have well, we don't really look at that anymore. I buy all my movie tickets on the app. At the very most, I'll go to the kiosk, but the actual place where you walk up and you see the little times and the movie names, I never go there anymore. But I remember walking up to that and seeing that it was sold out, So me and my family all went back home and didn't get to see Twister, but got it on VHS and is now the movie I've probably seen the most in my lifetime, at least over fifty five times at this point. But at number two is Twister, and at number one, the highest grossing movie of nineteen ninety six, making eight hundred and seventeen million dollars, turning thirty this year is Independence. Day, Welcome to Earth. What a great movie. This movie blew my mind so much as a youngin that I kind of thought it was real. It was one of those movies that I thought, Oh, man, they're predicting the future and aliens are actually going to come down one day and Will Smith is going to have to defeat them all. Crazy to think that this movie is thirty years old. Some other movies turning thirty this year, Happy Gilmore, that's a big one. You think they could have waited one more year to put out Happy Gilmore two on its thirtieth anniversary, although Adam Sandler will probably do something special for that this year. Far Transpotting sling Blade. Also turning thirty this year, Scream, which I was way too young to watch it. But the crazy thing about Scream is how heavily Drew Barrymore was used in all the promotion that you thought, oh, she's going to be such a big part of the movie. There were posters with just Drew Barrymore's face, and then Wes Craven did the thing that threw everybody off, killing her in the opening scene, letting you know that Okay, this movie is here to play. There are no rules. Anybody can go down at any time, I don't care who you are. And they're still making scream movies. There's another one coming out this year. You also have James and the Giant Peach, which was a movie that I really remember from the VHS previews where before you'd buy VHS, you put it in and you'd have to watch trailers before you watch your actual movie about coming attractions coming next to DVD and video, which at the time in ninety six was just video. But I remember seeing this trailer and I was like, man, I really got to see that movie. The animation blew my mind. But what a perfect relic of the nineties, because you really don't get animation that way anymore. You also have Waiting for Guffman, The Craft, The Birdcage, Mars Attacks from Dust Till Dawn, one of my favorite vampire movies of all time. Matilda. Now that is a great movie. That is one if I just need a comforting movie that I could start at any single point, no matter if it's at the very beginning or even towards the very end, Miss trunch Bull and the Chokey Man. If I could have some of that cake, that big old piece of chocolate cake. I feel like I could eat a good chunk of that. Matilda is a great movie. Primal Fear, Romeo and Juliet Black Sheep, Jingle All the Way, and Bottle Rocket all came out in ninety six and are turning thirty. The highest grossing actors of the year. At number ten was Robert de Niro, and number nine was Bruce Willis. At number eight was Denzel Washington. At number seven Sandra b Sandra Bullock in thirteen million dollars. At number six was Brad Pitt. At number five was John Travolta, kind of surprised to see him so high up there at fifteen million dollars for ninety six. At number four is Mel Gibson making twenty million dollars. At number three, thought he'd be a little bit higher. Jim Carrey, also making twenty million dollars, and number two was Tom Cruise with thirty million, and at number one, the highest paid actor of the year in ninety six Arnold Schwarzenhagger at seventy four million. And if you look at the highest paid actors now, or even just the most relevant, all those are still pretty much right up there. If they all put out a movie today, I still think it would do well. Bruce willis a much different story, just because of all of his health problems. I think the one person who I can't remember the last time I saw a good movie with him in it is John Travolta. But I think everybody else would have a chance of putting out a movie that people actually cared about. I also found this list that I thought was interesting who made their debut thirty years ago? In ninety six, Edward Norton made his big screen debut in Primal Fear. Of this year, Ryan Gosling made his debut in movies with a movie called Frankenstein and Me. Jamie Presley made her debut with Mercenary, which I think I told you guys this story. I went to go see a movie one Saturday, and I was walking into my theater and I have to go down an escalator and I see this woman who looks so much like Jamie Presley. But I thought to myself, why would Jamie Presley be at the movies so early? And I was going to watch the Last Conjuring movie. Why would she be here this early? Because it was my Saturday morning early cinema time and I sat in my seat and I thought that had to be her. Because I have a great sense of spotting celebrities. I wouldn't just think that woman looks like Jamie Presley and it not actually be her. So I happened to Google and she was in town for the Nashville Film Festival, and I'm like, that's her. And when I walked out again, I saw her and confirmed it was her. I was gonna go say hi to her, but right as I was walking up to talk to her, she headed off and I followed her. But then I realized she went into the bathroom, and I'm like, there's no way I'm gonna wait for somebody to come out of the bathroom to say I was such a huge fan back in the day. My Name Is Earol is one of my favorite comedies, and I think it doesn't get enough credit. But I'm like, I can't be that person. Cool that I saw her, but I wasn't about to put myself in a position of having to explain I've been waiting for you outside of this bathroom. But she made her acting debut in ninety six. Colin Hanks, tom Hanks's son, made his debut in That Thing You Do, had a really really small part You blink and you miss him. Wes Anderson, the director, had his debut with Bottle Rocket, which also featured the on screen debut for Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson. I still really enjoyed Bottle Rocket, even though it doesn't really feel like Wes Anderson yet. But it was that big stepping stone giving him the ability to make a movie like that with a low budget that led to the Wes Anderson we know today. Will Arnett also had his debut in ninety six with a movie called Close Up. Viola Davis was in the Substance of Fire. Anna Faris was in Eden, Ben Foster was in Counterfeit. Nicholas Holt way back in the day, was in a movie called Intimate Relations. I haven't seen that one. Patton Oswald made his debut in Down Periscope. Freddie Prince Junior made his debut into Gilligan on her thirty seventh birthday. I haven't even heard of that movie. Adam Scott also made his debut in hell Raiser Bloodline. Octavia Spencer made her debut and A Time to Kill Julius Stiles made her debut and I Love You, I Love You Not, and Donnie Wahlberg also made his debut in a movie called Bullet. Moving on now to two thousand and six movies turning twenty. Where was I in two thousand and six. I was fifteen years old. I was in high school. I was probably insufferable at this point. I was at that age where I thought I knew everything. I thought I listened to the best music. I thought that if a girl just gave me a chance, she would see that I am the person she is supposed to be with. Looking back, I was an idiot. I had nothing to offer. But I was also watching a lot of DVDs, still not going to the movies that much even then, still really couldn't afford it. But the thing about two thousand and six, it was the era of burned DVDs. I had a friend who would just bring over stacks and snacks and DVDs. That is how I want so many. Back in the day, I also remember, aside from burned DVDs, we would go to a place and walk to ATCHI called the video station, and they had dollar rentals. And this place was so old school. I think It had been around for probably at least a decade before this. I think ever since I was a kid. I remember the video station being there. It is gone now, rip but they had dollar rentals, and this movie rental place was so old school. You would go to the wall and there would just be all these DVDs on a shelf and they'd have like a little chip on little hangar underneath it, and you would just pick up that chip, take it up to the counter and they would take that. And I don't know what system they had, but the chips had some kind of number on it, and they would just give you the DVD from behind the counter. And that was the system. You go take the chip, you take it up there, and if there wasn't a chip there, that means they didn't have it available for you to rent. But that is also how we watched a lot of movies. The highest grossing movies of two thousand and six at number ten was Happy Feet at number nine, with Superman returns at number eight. Missioned Impossible three so ten years after the first one came out again it landed on the top ten list at number seven. X Men the Last Stand, making four hundred and sixty million dollars at the box office. I really enjoyed this movie. I do remember going to see this one in theaters and a lot of people thought that this was the worst one in the trilogy, and some would say the beginning of the end of quality when it came to the X Men movies. But at that time, when this movie came out, I was so heavily invested. I didn't see one or two in theaters, but I remember I'm going to see this one and being so blown away, especially at the final battle scene, the quote unquote last stand. I really enjoy this one. I think the X Men first three movies is a great trilogy and I can't wait to see them again. In Avengers Doomsday at number six was Cars dominated. I didn't love it at the time. I think, like I was mentioning earlier at fifteen years old, this was kind of where I started to see animated movies as being dom and being that I didn't want to be a kid anymore, so I probably at the time refused to watch Cars. I still don't think it is a top tier Pixar movie when it comes to what I would put in the mount rushmore of Pixar movies Lightning McQueen would not be on my Mount Rushmore even if we added a fifth head, even if we added a mini Mount Rushmore. At the bottom of this one. As good as it is, I do think cars a little bit overrated. At number five nine at the Museum. Another one I remember watching in school because it's kind of educational, even though really is it. At number four is Casino Royale. At number three is Ice Age The Meltdown. At number two is The Da Vinci Code, which made seven hundred and sixty million dollars at the box office. I never really got on the Da Vinci cod train, and again, at that time, much like right now, I was not reading books and going to watch the movies unless it was required reading, so I never really got too into those movies. I wonder if I revisited them now as an adult, that I would find them more entertaining. But at number one was Pirates of the Caribbean, dead Man's Chest being the only movie this year to make one billion dollars at the box office. Looking at some other movies, turning twenty years old, High School Musical premiered on the Disney Channel in two thousand and six, and again I was more of a Nickelodeon kid. This was also at a time where I probably dipped out from Disney Channel fifteen years old. Probably it was that cool anymore. Even though I never really stopped watching Nickelodeon, I would still watch SpongeBob well into my teens, and I would still obviously watch Nick and Knight. But that's a bit different. But high school musical turning thirty this year, could we get zach Efron back into The Long Hair two thousand The Wig to do a reunion for that movie. You also had The Prestige and The Illusionists, where a couple of twin films, Because this tends to happen not a whole lot anymore. I don't think that studios would want to go through that headache of the competition. But back in the day, we'd have these twin films. We have two movies that are very similar to each other come out around the same time, and sometimes it's because competing studios get wind of another studio getting a script and they want to get a leg up on that studio. Maybe they were both fighting for one, or there was two out there and they realize both of them have this script that is similar to the other, so they want a race to get their movie to the market first, because if you have a movie that is similar, you want to get it out first in or to make the most money. When it came to both of these movies, they were actually both solid. I think the better of the two is The Prestige, which is the one directed by Christopher Nolan. But The Illusionists also not a bad movie. So sometimes it is a good thing because you end up getting two pretty decent movies, but usually there's one that is worse that doesn't do as well, which in this case, the Prestige outperformed the Illusionists at the box office, making one oh nine million dollars compared to The Illusionists, which made eighty seven million dollars, which is pretty close. But the Illusionists actually had a smaller budget, so it ended up having a higher profit margin. But the Prestige had Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. Meanwhile, the Illusionists had Ed Norton. Also in two thousand and six, you had Little Miss Sunshine, The Pursuit of Happiness, Blood Diamon, Tenacious D and the Picadestiny Letters from Ewojima, Black Snake Moan, Dreamgirls, The Devil Wears Prada, which we are getting a sequel later this year. That one actually got it right doing it on a big anniversary, being the twentieth year Rocky Balboa. Sylvester Staloone tried to return it as a Rocky the Host, which is a great movie by Bong June Hoe grid Iron Gang with the rock The Hills Have Eyes, which that movie terrified me when it first came out. Idiocracy, which Connor predicted the future, which my favorite story about Idiocracy is director Mike Judge, who also created King of the Hill and Beavis and butt Head. He needed some dumb footwear and he wanted something that looks so stupid that it would make sense in this film, because it's all about how humanity just gets dumber and dumber to a point that everybody just has no brain cells whatsoever, and the entire world is just like a big landfill run really poorly. Everybody eats terribly. But he needed to show that fit, that aesthetic that looks so ridiculous, and he found crocs and he thought, man, these are so ugly, so stupid looking. I think a majority of the crocs in the movie are a very bright orange, and he thought, there's no way that these shoes catch on. They are too atrocious that nobody would wear them seriously, so he put them in the movie. And then what happens, Crocs end up getting really popular. So if you go back and watch that movie now, you probably just think, oh, they're all just wearing crocs. But at the time nobody was wearing crocs because they look so ridiculous, but now have become the norm. Also, this year you also have Clerks two, which I loved, Maybe at times I enjoy it more than Clerks one. Clerk's One was revolutionarying in black and white, gave a lot of independent filmmakers aspirations of being able to put out a movie of their own. But as far as just quality story and overall emotional impact, I like Clerks too a lot better. You also have a lot of movies that I feel like if you were what I was in ninety six five years old, probably watched and loved movies like Flushed Away, Over the Hedge and Monster House and Open Season. And then you had saw three Failure to Launch, Employee of the Month, Final Destination three, Tokyo Drift, Lady in the Water, from m Night Shyamalan and My Super Ex Girlfriend, which is an underrated movie of two thousand and six with Owen Wilson and Uma Thurman. I also do remember going to see that movie in theaters where Luke Wilson goes out with Uma Thurman finds out she's a superhero. He thought, man, this girl is awesome. Then they break up and she kind of ruins his life. Highest paid actors of the year include Naomi Watts at number ten, Cameron Diaz at number nine, Jennifer Gardner at number eight, Nicole Kidman at number seven, j Low at number six, Jennifer Aniston at number five, Drew Barrymore at number four, Willi Smith at number three, Johnny Depp at number two with thirty seven million, and at number one again on the list, the highest paid actor of two thousand and six Tom Cruise with sixty seven million dollars. Tom Cruise has to have so much money at this point. Not as many actors made their debut in two thousand and six that we would know, but Dave Batista did come off of wrestling and did his debut with Relative Strangers. Anna the Ottamas had her debut with Virgin Rose. Scott Eastwood made his debut with a movie called Flags of Our Fathers. Greta Gerwick, who directed Barbie, also started out as an actor, was making her debut with LOL And those are our debuts for two thousand and six. Moving on now to movies Turning ten That all came out in twenty sixteen. Where was I in twenty sixteen. I was at the beginning of the year living on my own because my brother was slowly moving out of our apartment. I was finishing up college. I graduated in May and then moved to Nashville immediately after. So twenty sixteen was a very defining year for me where my entire world changed. But it was also the year that I reviewed my first movie professionally. And this was back when snapchat was really popular, and I still remember going to see Batman v. Superman Dawn of Justice. I went to Regal Theaters on Little Texas Lane in South Austin, which wasn't even my go to theater, I think just because it was close to where I lived, and maybe they had the best showtime whenever I went to go see it, but I went, I watched it, and I got on my Snapchat afterward, which is where I did all my reviews, probably for three years before I started this podcast, and I just gave my thoughts on it, and Bobby hit me up and said, hey, good review, send me the audio and I'll play it on the show. And that goes down in history as my first ever movie review. But that is what I remember the most about twenty sixteen. The highest grossing movies of the year, which at this point I was going to the movies all the time, not as much as I do now because we didn't have Regal Limited at the time, but I was going a lot and reviewing a lot of movies. At number ten, you have sing At number nine, you have Suicide Squad, which I hated that movie when it came out. At number eight, like I mentioned earlier, the highest grossing movie of the year year was Batman Versus Superman Dawn of Justice At number seven was Zutopia, blew my mind when it came out back in twenty sixteen, and we did get that new one last year that was just as good as the original, still not better than the original. And I saw that movie twice in theater, so I can say that now. At number six, Deadpool which really rocked the ecosystem of superhero movies back in twenty sixteen, where it was crazy that at that time, after debuting in two thousand and eight with the MCU with Iron Man, that it needed a little shakeup. It was R rated, it was very meta, and it changed what we thought about what superhero movies could be. At number five was The Jungle Book. At number four was The Secret Life of Pets. A lot of animate movies on the list for this year, which is kind of the norm now, the movies people still pay money to go see in theaters. At number three Captain America Civil War. The biggest thing I was excited about going to see this movie in theaters for the first time. The debut of Spider Man in the MCU. I remember going to watch it and later running a tweet. They finally got Spider Man and Peter Parker Wright because Tom Holland came in as the younger, fresher Peter Parker that we needed because even though I love Andrew Garfield, he was a little bit moody. He was also just too good looking. But that was a great in theater experience. At number two you have Finding Dory, which I think I've only seen that movie once. I saw it in theaters and thought, well, I don't know if that was entirely necessary, felt pretty underwhelmed leaving the theater after watching that one and at number one. The highest grossing movie of the year with five hundred and thirty two million dollars at the box office in the US was Rogue One, a Star Wars story. This was still at a time where I fully wasn't into the world of Star Wars as far as even considering myself a fan. This movie changed that because even if you didn't know anything about Star Wars going into this one, I feel like this movie can stand alone where it has great action. Really by the end of it, it doesn't leave you thinking I wonder what they're going to do next. There is a definite end. This is just one story, pretty much all self contained. Other movies that came out in twenty sixteen Moonlight, Arrival, La La Land, a lot of great Oscar Worthy movies here. Manchester by the Sea, which is a depressing movie that is one that I can't really recommend. And also if you say, oh, you're gonna cry if you watch Manchester by the Sea, I don't think you will at this point, because that has been a big selling point. If you missed out on that initial window of not having any influence of this movie going to make you feel a certain way. It is sad, but I think just on its own, if you go into it knowing it's going to be sad, you're prepared and you probably won't cry by watching it. Hell or High Water was another great underrated movie of twenty sixteen. Mowana, The Nice Guys, Fences, The Edge of seventeen, Doctor Strange also debuted this year. Ten Cloverfield, Lane, Sully, Don't Breathe, Star Trek, Beyond the Life, Roster, and Hacksaw Ridge all came out in twenty sixteen, and the highest paid actors of the year. You have Adam Sandler at thirty million, Mark Wahlberg also at thirty million. At number eight, you have Brad Pitt. At number seven, you have Robert Downey Junior. At number six, you have Ben Diesel at number five, you have Ben Affleck at number four, you have Johnny Depp at number three, you have Tom Cruise at number two, you have Matt Damon at fifty five million, and at number one you have Dwayne Johnson at sixty four point five million dollars. Not a whole lot of actors made their debut in twenty sixteen, and it has only been ten years since then, so maybe looking back at another five years will think, oh, man, this person had their debut, but maybe they're just not at that level of fame yet. The only person I could really find who had their debut in twenty sixteen was Anya Taylor Joy in The Witch, which came out in theaters that year. Everybody else I found was pretty much just to cast the Stranger Things, but they didn't make their feel debut, just made their debut on Netflix in that show. So that is the list movies that turn thirty, twenty and ten years old. I'll come back and give my spoiler free review of twenty eight years later, The Bone Temple. Let's Get into It Now. A spoiler free movie review of twenty eight years later, The Bone Temple. This one picks up immediately. We're the last one left off, which I didn't know how I was going to like that, because I don't really like it when movies get split up into two when there's really just one story and they try to get more out of it. And there was a lot more anticipation for me going into twenty eight years later, because I've been waiting a long time for this franchise to come back. And these movies were both filmed at the exact same time, back in the summer of twenty twenty four, but the first one was directed by Alex Garland. This one was directed by Nina da Costa, and they actually feel like completely different movies, at least to me. The Bone Temple feels unlike anything else in the franchise. So I will say that before getting into this review that I won't talk too much about the plot, but even just talking about the initial plot is going to tell you a little bit where the first one left off. So while it's still spoiler free in the world of the Bone Temple, but anything I say really isn't going to ruin anything for you, because just knowing that this movie even exists lets you know a little bit about how the last one ends. So I will say that on the beginning, just because I like to be as completely upfront with you with any spoilers. But I was so surprised how much this actually felt different than the first movie, where that movie I felt still had very much the same DNA as those first two movies. Now, if you haven't seen any of the twenty eight years or twenty eight Days Later franchise, you don't necessarily have to start with those first two movies. So as long as you watch twenty eight years Later from last Year, you will know what is going on with the Bone Temple. If you really want to, you can go all the way back and start with twenty eight days Later and then twenty eight weeks later. But just seeing twenty eight years Later, I know it gets a little bit an amusing. Just watching the movie from Last Year twenty twenty five before you see the Bone Temple, you would be good in that scenario. Really, all you need to know is this rage virus is spread through blood and it is entirely contained in the UK. You won't go into twenty eight years Later thinking I'm completely lost what is this story about, because it does a really good job at resetting the storyline, and this is supposed to be a part of an entirely new trilogy while it is still in the same world dealing with those same effects that happened in that indititional twenty eight days Later movie. You don't necessarily have to watch those movies to understand it, but it does add to the emotional impact. But what you have in this movie is ray Find's character in the most insane look I have ever seen him, and he finds himself interacting with a new friend that could change the entire world, and that whole relationship and dynamic. This movie is really what fell unlike anything else that I've seen in this franchise or any other quote unquote zombie movie, which I really don't feel like twenty eight years later is really in that same category. While most people would say they are zombies, to me, they act completely different like anything else from Donna the Dead or any other depiction of a zombie. But it's all about ray Fine's character trying to understand these creatures and because he is a doctor, trying to do something that could change his life and everybody else's life. You also have Spike returning in this movie, who was the kid in the first one, has found himself in the Jimmy Gang and is trying to also get out of that really bad situation. This movie is less about the infected and more about the real enemy, which is humans and how humans the need for survival, the need for power, and in this one there are really no remnants of the world that we know that is completely gone, which in twenty eight years later you do get more of that, you get more of the sense of building a civilization in this post apocalyptic world, but here it feels like an entirely different world that is so far removed from that, and the effect it kind of becomes secondary. Which some people might say, why am I going to go watch a twenty eight years later movie where it's not about people being chased down by zombies? And I think it was once it really settled into that plot line, probably in the second act, maybe even almost an hour into the movie, where I wasn't completely convinced that I was enjoying it as much as the first one. Once I really settled into that idea and realized that this movie became something completely different than I was expecting, had so much emotional depth, had incredible performances. There was a moment in the movie where it just kind of clicked for me, where everything started working so well and I could tell that this entire story was crafted in a way to get you to this point. And Ray Finds did an amazing job at portraying this character who I just wanted to be friends with. He was so smart and elegant in a way that only Ray Finds could be, and also was able to transform into a completely different person where it was even hard for me to believe that there was a human being inside there acting like that, giving an amazing interpretive dance that was so sinister haired with one of the best songs that you could quite possibly use in this dance that he was doing, where he transcended what it was to be a human being on screen and gave something that was so disturbing, probably to some because the character he is portraying seems like a madman. And you have flames and you have bones. This is what Avatar Fire and Nash should have been. This is the real Fire and Nash, and that set design on its own deserves an award. Seeing that tower of all these skulls that he has been cleaning and putting together and the fire, it was just perfect. I love that scene. And then you also have Jack O'Connell, who plays a really good person that you want to hate. You hate him so much that you kind of love them because you need a good villain like that. You need a force inside of a story like this where he has no regard for human life, even the people who are supposed to be his friends and followers. In this movie, he doesn't care about him. His look alone, with the blonde hair and the teeth, he was fantastic in this, probably still a better villain in Sinners, but he is somebody who now I'm really starting to pay attention to because the dude brings it when he is on the screen. And that is also what sets this movie apart. Is the acting is a plus. I mean, Ray Finds Alone brings any credibility that you need to this franchise. But not only does it get the big things right like the acting and the direction and the set design, but even things that seem a little bit smaller in comparison, from makeup and wardrobe and the score. They all come together to create this really great composition that has so many different layers to it. And then you're watching it thinking, I'm just supposed to be watching something that is often seeing to some as being a lower form of entertainment, and I'm talking about horror, where some people just dismiss it for no other reason than they don't like being scared, or they think a horror movie can only convey one emotion. The twenty eight years later franchise or twenty eight days later Franchise blows that out of the water. And I think the only reason this is even in the horror genre is because it has some scary images because it is associated with zombies. But to me, this isn't a traditional horror movie. It feels so much more than that because of the message of this movie, even just the politics of survival and what this would look like if this actually happened today. I also want to go see this movie at eleven am. It does take a special type of person to go see a movie like this so early. That is what I love. Though dark theater early in the morning, and it wasn't a super pac theater. I would say maybe twelve fifteen other people in there with me. But even with that little amount of people for an early showing, it was still getting reactions from people. There were moments where it was just one or two people. They gasped, they clapped, they were excited, and I could only imagine how much this movie would have hit more in those apexes of the story if I would have seen it in a crowdit theater on say a Friday or a Saturday night. That is a sign of a good movie if it is so good that you have a small sample size and there is still somebody bold enough to react in that way that tells you this movie is gonna hit you on an emotional level. Scariness level, not so much. There are surprisingly a couple of jump scares in there that I maybe hopped up a little bit out of my seat. More so it is the level of violence and seeing people in situations that make you cringe a little bit because of how bloody it is, the use of blades and the use of just tearing human flesh, and also the infected do run some people down, so there is a little bit of that brutality as well, but not necessarily a movie that is gonna leave you having nightmares, but it will make you feel uncomfortable. I don't think I can rank this movie above the original. The original to me is still the best, even though probably doesn't look the best, is the most low budget, but it is what started it all, and with Killy and Murphy in that first one, I just feel like you can't get better than what started this entire franchise, but it is right up there next to that one. I ended up enjoying it more than twenty eight years later. For The Bone Temple, I give it four point five out of five. Human Skulls Tide to head down to Movie Mike Trailer park our eighties and nineties action movies trying to make a comeback, because after watching this trailer for The Wrecking Crew, which stars Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa, that is the vibe I'm getting from this movie in a good way, because the chemistry between them two seems really good in this trailer, and I think that is important. You can't just put two big, muscly guys on screen together and get a good product. But I think seeing them to play half brothers in this it just makes sense. It takes place in Hawaii. They fit in perfectly. You also have a great director here. I'm hen Manuel Soto, who also directed Blue Beetle, which I love that movie. I watched it again in the last month. I probably revisit that movie now at least once a year. And I know it's not everybody's favorite DC movie. I think it just came out at the wrong time. Also, for me, being Mexican American in that movie means so much to me. I've also had on on this podcast talking about that movie. So from that interview I left really liking him and have now followed him on Instagram and just kept up with all the things he has been up to. And once I saw this trailer dropped, I was so excited that the movie actually look good because I don't just like him because he came here. We had a great conversation. If the trailer would have looked bad, I would have said, I'm not even gonna talk about that. But I think I'm so surprised because he does a really good job in Justice trailer of capturing that aesthetic of an eighties or nineties action movie with two guys just teaming up and taking down bad guys. They play two brothers who reunite after their father dies, and they're a little bit suspicious about it. They say it was a hit and run, but they think there is something more to that. They are also wanted by the members of the Yakuza gang. It is coming out on Prime pretty soon, actually, on January twenty eighth. Before I get into more about the wrecking crew. Here is just a little bit of the trailer. I can't have two guys who look like they steroid pancakes for breakfast turning my island into very room detective. That is uncalled for. You guess lending this. You want to tell me why the Yakuza want you dead, you have to ask them yakuza. That's what that was. He blew up my car, I blew up their car and then it landed on yours. Here's blew up your car again. I think it all comes down to chemistry, because I think two of them separately could carry a movie, and bringing them both together surprisingly works really well. Dave Batista is in my top five, if not my top three, of favorite wrestlers turned actors because I believe he is somebody who has really taken the time to hone in this craft and has been somebody who has taken roles that have pushed the boundaries of what a wrestler turned actor really can be where there are several road maps laid down before you. When you see people like The Rock, when you see people like John Cena, he is somebody who I felt has not always chased the money, not always chased the biggest roles. Sometimes has taken fairly small roles in major movies, but through those roles has shown me a lot of different sides of him. And sometimes I forget that he is drags in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, which is so comedic, and you forget how good he is at having comedic timing. So knowing that for Dave Batista pairing him up with Jason Momoa, who also has some pretty I don't want to say great comedic timing, but in this trailer it works really well. I enjoyed him in the Minecraft movie, even though that was a little bit too over the top, and I don't really feel to me Jason Momoa has that one flagship role. I think back to him on Game of Thrones way back in the day, which was my introduction to him. His best movie to me is probably the first Aquaman, which was really good, but I think the fact that those movies got worse and that character kind of got worse as it went along that I forget how much of an impact and how much money that first movie made. But seeing them two together just makes sense. The idea to make them have brothers where it's like, oh yeah, they kind of look like each other. I also just tend to like the look of Amazon movies more than I do Netflix movies because I feel like all these different services when it comes to their originals, they have like a different filter on them. Over on the Netflix side, they're very bright and orange. Over on the Prime Video side, I feel like they have these rich blues and greens in this movie. Being set in Hawaii, even though they filmed a lot of it in New Zealand, just has that warm summer day feeling to me. Just by the trailer, the water looks really fresh when they're out in the ocean. I just want to jump into that pool of water, maybe just because I'm so cold right now and just hate being cold. That I watched this trailer and I think of warmer times. But throughout this trailer, that is what you get. You get there back and forth of Batista being a little bit more of the serious guy, Jason Momoa being the one who is a little bit more comedic. So you have the two opposites there. They're going to be beating up a bunch of people in some shootouts, in some car chases. In one scene, Jason Momoa has a laid to his throat. He is in a towel and then yells out sword fight and shakes his wiener at the bad guy. So that is the level of comedy you are getting here. There is also just a big overarching superhero connection among the cast. Like I mentioned, Dave Bautista was Dracks the Destroyer in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and the Avengers movies. Jason Momoa is Aquaman Jacob Batalon, who was ned in the Spider Man movies, which there is another one coming out this year. He was also pretty good as the friend in Novacane and Modena Backer is also in this movie, and she played Vanessa in the Deadpool movies. Stephen Root you also heard in that trailer clip that I played earlier he was Milton in Office Space. So a really unique cast that just looks like it's gonna work really well together. I love the scene at the end of the trailer where they are all riding in Batista's car and just gets shot up. And ultimately, what I love about this movie, not just the director, not just the cast, is that this feels like a movie that I'm always searching for when I go home to visit my parents because my dad is the hardest person to get to sit down and watch a movie. And if we do watch a movie, you have to put on something that he's not going to fall asleep within the first ten to fifteen minutes. And what does it take to not put my dad to sleep. You need some action, and you need a really easy plot to fall along to. You need people also doing kind of ridiculous things like Jason Momoa is doing that are almost Three Stooges esque, where my dad and I always bonded over The Three Stooges even though they were way before both of our times, but they would come on Saturdays and we would just sit there and watch Stooges after Stooges episode, and anytime a movie can implicate some of that physical humor, has gun violence, has a really easy plot, and has two dudes basically just taken down a bunch of random bad guys. I want to take this movie and say, hey, Dad, let's sit down and watch a movie. Don't think about work or anything else you need to do around the house for ninety minutes. It's to two hours, and we're gonna watch this and you're gonna sit there and you're gonna like it. But it takes a movie like this to convince him that watching a movie is not a waste of time, because I think that is how he sees it. He is a fan of nothing when it comes to movies and TV shows, doesn't even watch sports. The only thing he likes is pretty much music and working. So if you're like me and you have a father figure in your life or maybe a husband boyfriend, maybe this movie can help you bond like it's gonna help you bond with my dad. But again, The Wrecking Crew comes out on Prime on January twenty eighth, And that was this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer Barr And that is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week. But this week I'm shouting out Garrett, who is really adamant on me starting Project Hill Mary. Send me a couple of dms. Actually here's what he said, get to work on your book, man. I just read Project Hill Mary and I love it. I recommend getting the large print version and think me later. Seriously, I need to talk about this book with someone because I'm the only person I know who has read it and can't talk about it. So much to talk about And then he followed up with that maybe a couple of days later, probably after the last episode where I talked about not reading it yet and said, read the book. Read the book, stop procrastinating. There are spoilers for the book in the trailer, so dumb read the book book emoji rock on hands. I've already seen the trailer. I've talked about the trailer. I even warned people that I knew there were spoilers inside the trailer before I did it in the trailer park, because that is what everybody was saying. But I'm okay with it. I kind of already know what is going to happen. It's in the back of my brain. I haven't put a whole lot of thought into it, but I don't really mind it being spoiled at this point. I don't think it's going to take away from me reading the book. But here's the update on that. I have started reading Project Hill Mayer. I am about one fourth of the way through the book now, which is huge for me. I am such a slow reader where it doesn't feel to me that I'm taking a long time as I'm reading it. I just really like to digest all the information. And this book did hook me in from the very beginning. But by the time I finished one chapter, I'm like, how has so much time passed? So I think I'm on the right track. It is not hard for me, now that I have started reading the book to pick it back up. Once I was through that first chapter, I was so invested. I need to know what happens. There are a lot of scientific terms and ideas in the book that I'm really wrapping my head around. And I think it's because it takes so much time to try to understand it that it takes me longer to read. But I'm gonna get there. If i'm a fourth of the way through it now, I'll have no problem finishing it by the time the movie comes out on March twentieth. So thank you, Garrett for that encouragement for me to start the book. I'm happy to report that I'm in it now. I'm not gonna let you down. So thank you for listening, thank you for being subscribed, And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.