Unpopular Movie Opinions + Does Anyone Really Miss Blockbuster? + Movie Review: Bad Trip

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Speaker 1: And that's when I said, I didn't think it was infected the entire time. Hey, welcome back to Movie Mix, movie podcast, your go to source for all things movies. I just want to be your movie guy. And this is a podcast I do every single week and I'm joined by my co host and fiance Kelsey. How are you? How are you? I'm great? This is one of the confused way you just started that way, not one of the last few times. But we're getting closer to the end where I can call you my fiance. We're getting married pretty soon. What that's my face of, like, Wow, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. But anyway, today we were talking about unpopular movie opinions. I'm gonna rattle off a budget that I have and you're gonna stop me until I get an angle. Okay, got it? And then we'll also talk about does anybody really miss Blockbuster? We just watched the last Blockbuster and I have some feelings on that, so we'll get into that discussion. We'll also do a movie review on a movie called Bad Trip on Netflix, and then we'll talk movie news. A lot to talk about on this week's episode. You ready to go. I'm ready. Let's get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast, A man with so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking on mtvt with classes from the Nashville Podcast Network Movie Movie Podcast. Alright, so unpopular movie opinion is what we're talking about today. My first one that I want to get into is that romantic comedies are the worst genre of movies. Interesting. I think that this opinion, this is my opinion, so this is what I like. The first one that came to my mind is that I don't like romantic comedies. I think that's the worst genre, and I don't think they're anybody's favorite. But I can name a few romantic comedies that you like. Which one, yes, Okay, name another one. Serendipity is kind of a romantic comedy. Yeah, But I just think that on a romantic comedy, Never Been Kissed, I don't even think consider that a romantic comedy because I think really romantic comedies they're neither romantic or there or neither. States. I don't like that movie. I don't I just think that if somebody says their favorite genre a movie is romantic comedies, they don't actually like movies at all. It's kind of like somebody saying that their favorite genre of music is soft rock. Nobody's like, man, I love me some soft rock, Like my go to is playing soft rock. It's nobody's favorite. What would constitute soft rock something you would hear on what they call adult contemporary radio dolls. They're moral, I would say alternative, but yeah, a little bit. Do you know anybody whose favorite band is the Google Dolls, depending on one day of the week, sometimes mine. Okay, I would never consider your favorite band of the Google Dolls. Your favorite genre of music is not soft rock. Same way I don't think your favorite genre of movie is romantic comedy. It's up there, okay. I just when it comes to all of the genres of movies, it's a movie genre that I never sit down and I'm like excited to dive into one. I'll watch it because it's on TV or if something you want to watch. I just don't trust anybody whose favorite genre is romantic comedy. That is my and it's an unpopular opinion. My next one is that movie popcorn is the worst movie snack? Do you agree on that one? I would agree because when we go to the movies, I just feel like, of all the things I would want to eat while watching a movie, I don't want to eat popcorn. Okay, but you also don't eat anything other than like a quest bar that you're sneaking and my personally go to a movie, So you're not really the best judge of movie snacks now, Okay, then for you who loves a good movie snack, why is it not your favorite? If you agree with me on this, well, it just makes you really thirsty. I just feel like, if it's fresh, can go for some movie theater popcorn, but if you go at an off time, it's stale. Yeah, it's very rare to get a good tub of popcorn. And I think the really thing that I even like it for is all the butter. It's like extra, you gotta throw on so much butter and salt, Like, what's the point of the popcorn? There's better snacks the candy or if you go to a movie theater with like actual food, tater tots is a great movie snack. No, they were in like a takeout. I would eat a tube of tater talk um Alamo Drafthouse. What you're talking about all the time? Miss it so much. Chips in CA so they have a big soft pretzel that comes with mustard and beer cheese. There's great movie snacks. I just don't know where when they were deciding what would be the staple movie snack to sell in movie theaters that popcorn became king? Like? Was it just because it was like the thing that wouldn't sell otherwise they can only sell that in movie theaters. I wouldn't go to a restaurant in order popcorn trip, but I will say we eat popcorn a lot at home. Yeah, but it's different at home. We love popcorn. I just feel like you can you don't have to pay ten dollars for a tub of it at home. I'm gonna get stuck in your teeth. You can go deal with it in me. You're not trying the whole movie focusing on a kernel. It stuck in the back of your throat. That's the worst. And then you get thirsty and then you have to go pay another ten dollars to get a drink, buying like the extra arch have you not paid for movie snacks. It's like ten bucks for a drink. The last few times I went to a movie, it's with you, So I think you paid for my movie. My next What would people call a popular opinion about movies is that the beginning of Up is not that sad. I just think that when that movie first came out, everybody was like, you gotta go see this movie because it's so sad, and I saw it. I think the first weekend it came out. I think one of the few movies I've actually seen twice in theaters. But either it's because I'm a monster and don't feel anything. I just never thought it was that sad. Now, you don't always get emotions staring movies, like you're not a monster, I do, I know, I don't know. Like sometimes people ask me like, hey, I want to watch a movie that will make me sad. I need to cry. Nothing has done that for me, like very rarely have I ever cried or gotten cry. Yeah, they don't real life stuff. I've seen you cry, yeah, yeah, but movies, I don't know. Movie just don't make me crying. You know, I'm an emotional person, Like I'll cry over like sweet video on Instagram. I follow like the good News movement account any story of like people being reunited, like just like cute little puppies. That makes me cry. But movies don't make me cry, which is weird. So there's something about movies. I think that's a very hard emotion to get out of somebody when watching a movie, to make them cry. It's like a dog dies. Yeah, I'm probably crying at that. Yeah, but it's very rare that something will move me so much to the point of tears. I'll feel sad. You got really sad during um oh, what was the one, Jake Almizon, we watched it. Yes, you got really sad during that that you were super emotional after. That's as close as I've come to crying very long feelings. You have emotions. You're not a monster and would be marrying you. That one was because it was very realistic and you had time to get to know those characters and feel what they were feeling. And it was a situation I'd never thought of before, and I placed myself in that if I had to go through that with you. I think that's why that one hit me. Yeah, I think relatable movies, Yeah, it has to be super relatable. So I think before that maybe the closest thing was an Avengers Endgame, but that was ruined because I watched it in theaters and the person next to me was like fumbling with their phone and at the point you're supposed to be the most out in the movie, they were like trying to take a call and walking up out of the seat, and I was like, you're ruining my moment here, lady. But yeah, that's the only time I've come close to crying. My next what would be unpopular movie opinion is that I don't mind spoilers. And I know I do this podcast where I keep it spoiler free and that's mainly because people get so upset about spoilers. But I feel like, if you're ruining a movie, the really the only thing you can say is a spoiler is that somebody's gonna die in the movie. And I don't think that's that'd be a good a deal. If the movie was a really good movie, the fact that you know that somebody's gonna die shouldn't ruin it for you. You should still be able to enjoy it. But what if you know the exact person that does, it's still fine. Interesting I've known several movies that have been spoiled for me because they come out and either I don't have a chance to watch them right away, or there's such a big movie that you find out what happens because everybody talking about it, and it doesn't take anything away. So what somebody died, that's probably gonna happen in a major movie that people are going to see, so I don't think it takes anything away from that experience, except like the dead thing doesn't bother me if somebody dies, so what they were gonna die? I think when it comes to maybe ruining a twist, but even telling somebody that there's gonna be a twist in the movie is spoiling in itself. But if it's a really good twist, I don't think it matters. So they don't really bother me. But for the sake of people who are bothered by them, and the fact there is kind of a thing around ruining things for other people that are going to watch them and want to enjoy them to the full ability, that's why keep this podcast spoil it for you. But for me, I would listen to anything with spoilers because if they talk about it in a way that's interesting to me and reveal a plot point it would make me want to go watch that more. So that's why I don't mind spoilers. Have you ever had a movie ruined? I guess your brother right recently on my youngest brother ruined Ford v. Ferrari for me and I don't ruin it here, but he it's not a spoiler. And I was like, dude, and he just he's very just like a matter of fact, and he looked at me and he was like, it's based on a true story. It happened. You should know. That's the other thing when you spoil. He had a fair point. The rule goes straight out the window, and it's a movie based on a true story. But I don't know why that's the thing, because just because it is a true story, it actually happened. If you don't know the story, then it's still ruining for you. And a lot of movies they're told are telling stories that a lot of people haven't heard. You spotlight them, so you're still ruining a movie there, So again for me, I don't really care. On that same kind of note is I don't mind predictable movies. I know some people, mainly critics, when they rip into movies about being predictable. I don't think that's a bad thing. I like the comfortability of watching a movie and within the first ten minutes knowing exactly how it's going to happen if it's done well. There's a reason that formulas work for sitting with books. I read a lot and I'll kind of predict the ending and it's still good, like because you don't know, you know, point A to point B, what's going to happen, but you don't know what I'll is going to happen to get to point bach, you know how it's going to end, but you don't know the twist and turns. And movies, like books, are like anything. They have formulas that are proven to work and just when it comes when it comes to storytelling, that's how it works. Here's the characters, here's the scenario, here's the problem. This is where it all goes wrong. This is where everybody gets I mean, movies, are you predictable? Sometimes? Every and these are both books and movies. Every Nicholas Spark books and movie. You know they're going to fall in love, something's going to happen. Am I still gonna pay fifteen dollars to buy the book and probably twelve dollars from movie ticket to go see the movie. Absolutely, do I know what's gonna happen? Yes? Is it still entertaining? Yeah, That's how I feel about those. Um My other one is that I'm not that excited for Phase four of Marvel movies. And it was kind of after Endgame and Spider Man Far from Home that all the really characters that I care about aren't in the Marvel universe anymore. And there first of all, the movies have been delayed so long that it's hard for me to get excited again about going to watch Marvel movies. What about the next Spider Man movie? Yeah, but not even that much. Really, like, oh, I'm hyped for that? What about Black Widow? If it was a year ago, I would have been more excited about it. It's I wasn't super excited when it was coming out to begin with. I thought you were. I got a little bit like, Okay, I've had kind of my feel of Marvel movies. I mean I've been watching I mean since the first one came out in two thousand and eight. That's what twelve years of Marvel movies, I felt like they should have taken a little bit more of like. I think that's also why we like the TV show so much more now. Like One Division, I loved One Division, Falcon and Winter Soldier. I'm undecended and not quite there yet, but i just love those characters so much that I'm not ready to dive into all these other new characters that they're rolling out, and also the characters that they are keeping. It's like, I'm just not that excited. I would agree to disagree about Spider Man. At least you really liked the last one. It was so good, it was really good. It's just hard for me to be excited about them again the same way I was while the Avengers were still happening. So I think that's where I met on those movies. My other unpopular opinion is that movie trailers are kind of dumb. You know, I don't watch movie trailers. We'll sit down to watch a movie and you're like, have you watched the trailer for this? And I mean no. And I went for a very long time not watching movie trailers, but once I started doing this podcast, I had to start watching them more. I just think that people get overhyped on the idea of a movie trailer so much, and they're picking out I get annoyed by theories early on. And somebody will watch a movie trailer and come out with all these theories of what's going to happen, and then they don't happen, and I just get annoyed of Like I don't read anyone's series. Oh, I see a lot of those, And I just think that trailers are a very brief kind of indication of whether the movie will be good or not. And I don't really buy into the hype at the beginning, or if it's a comedy, they show all of the funny boats on the trailers. That's annoying. That is very annoying. So I just don't see the appeal of trailers and like, oh, the trailer is gonna drop on this day, Like I'm good with it. I'll read about it, I'll get to know what's going to happen beforehand. But I kind of rather just go and experience the movie without the trailer. I will say, and we're going to talk about this movie later, the one we watched last night, that trip. Yeah, I kind of wish i'd watched the trailer for that one. Yeah, probably for that movie. I guess sometimes if if I'm undecided on a movie, the trailer will work because you can kind of tell a little bit more of like, will this even be up to quality of my time? So in that case, yes, But when it's to like a really highly anticipated movie, I don't need to watch the trailer. I'll just go watch it. Along those same lines, the trailer I did watch and was excited for it was a new Suicide Squad movie, and I love that movie, and people hate that movie. I think people just hate DC in general, and I don't even consider myself a d C fan, but I was one of the very few people who actually enjoyed Suicide Squad. And every time I talk about Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn or Wonder Woman, everybody thinks I'm an idiot and deserved did not have a movie podcast because I don't know what I'm talking about. And along those same lines of like liking sometimes predictable movies or a movie doesn't have to be up to I don't even know how to explain it. I just liked it. It was enjoyable. I got out of it what I wanted it felt like a roller coaster, and I felt like those movies are just so different than the Marvel movies that there's a little bit of a charm to them, aside from maybe Batman versus Superman, which was boring. That was very bad. I agree with that one. I saw some people fighting for that one. I won't get on board with that one, but I think the Suicide Squad has some potential to be good. I've never seen Suicide Squad. I like Charlie quinnough. Yeah, so again I get ripped for that. The other movie I get ripped for liking was Gravity, and I think that was a great movie. I don't even remember what happened. It's Sandra Bull like, basically what the movie because I just don't remember the plot. I think it's just because I love space movies. But my other unpopular opinion is that I didn't like Interstellar with Matthew McConaughey. It was so long, it was like and really confusing. Yeah, and the thing is that movie has all the things that I love, warmholes, astronauts, space time travel, Matt McConaughey, but I found that movie so boring. I think in general, Christopher Nolan is an overrated director, Like I love what he did with the Dark Knight trilogy, but aside from that, I think he makes very pretentious movies. They're so confusing. Tenant. Yeah, Like, I don't like watching movies to where after I watched it, I'm confused by what I just watched. I don't want to have to ask questions during the movie and be so confused. Like if I'm confused in the first ten minutes, I'm done. Yeah. I think at one point while I was watching that movie, you asked me what was going on. I was like, I don't know, I'm trying to figure it out. I did, and then I was like, I'm out. My final opinion unpopular opinion before I get to when the listener sent in was that I don't get Meryl Streep. Do you love Meryl Streep. I do love Meryl Street. I've just I think it's because whenever award season rolls around and if she's nominated for something, she clears house because she's Meryl Streep. I've never watched the Meryl Streep movie that I enjoy, and I just don't get her. That is my I guess I'm the one person who doesn't like Meryl Streep or any of her movies. I don't know some ones that listeners sent in. I think the main one I saw was that Quentin Tarantino is overrated, which I was surprised by, but I kind of get that. I feel like Quentin Tarantino makes movies almost like just for him, Like I kind of like he's such a cinophile that he makes movies for the sake of like preserving the history of the Golden Age of Hollywood. He does movies that he would want to watch, and if you like them or don't like them, he really doesn't care. That's kind of how I feel like he makes movies, and it will also make them so long that you're either invested in him and love him or you won't like his work. So I could see where people come from. I do like Quentin Tarantino's movies, and anyone that he puts out, I'll go watch it. So but I can see where people stand on that one. The second most popular unpopular opinion, that's the weird thing to say. The second one I saw the most was that Will ferrell movies are not funny. Uh. I mean, his early stuff was when he got his big hits and was kind of became a household name, and then later I felt like he was just putting out a bunch of movies that nobody really cared for. But I still think he's funny. I just think that over time, what we find funny changes and if you watch his movies when you're younger, you probably found him a lot more funny. Now he's kind of doing the same thing he was doing ten years ago, but it's just not as funny. Do you find him funny? I think the most recent one that he's been in that I laughed. I was like, Daddy's Home and Daddy's Home to those are pretty funny and it's a ridiculous premise. Yeah, so stupid. Yeah. Other than that, I'm like, I mean, you get what you get with Will Ferrell. He acts like a man child is a great way to describe it, and that is that is Will Ferrell. So I could see where people think that. At number three was a lot of people saying they can't get into Star Wars movies or I've never watched them and don't get them. And I was kind of on this camp when it came to the original movies. I didn't go back and watch those until the newer movies came out into two thousand tens, And when those came out and I was like, well, I actually enjoy these. I went back and watched the originals and like them, but I do feel like they're a bit overhyped. Like I don't consider myself still now a Star Wars fan. I'll go watch the new Star Wars movies, but I don't get super into like knowing all the plot points and all the characters. There's just so much on that and there's a lot and if you really want to call yourself a Star Wars fan, I feel like you have to be way more knowledgeable than I have time to invest in that franchise. So I've seen them all. Now, I wouldn't say they're my favorite. I wouldn't even put them in my top five, So I get why people don't like them or want to invest the time in them. Have you seen all the Star Wars. I don't think I've seen all of the original I think i've seen most of them though, and yeah, I like them, but it's also hard to keep track because they came out in such like spurts. I can't go back and watch the original ones I've tried, and it's also just something about watching older movies that I just can't get that into. But then I think about when we have kids, are gonna watch movies that we love now and they're gonna be like, why does that. I've been thinking about that too, because I'm gonna be watching the Marvel movies for till I'm old, and imagine our kids, like, these graphics are bad? Who are these actors? Care? Kids are gonna use Lord graphics? Our kids are? You probably probably what do you mean? This is in four K? But anyway, yeah, I could see that one. And then one of the biggest ones I saw was that Forrest Gump is overrated, And for the time that Forrest Gump came out, I really only watched it because it was known. It's such a great movie, but I don't think it's one of my favorites, and I could see it being people calling it overrated and dull. So I kind of agree with that one. I just think it's such an older movie and it's kind of like people's default again talking about like romantic comedies earlier if you haven't seen a lot of movies, but you've seen Forrest Gump, you'll probably put that one as your favorite. We could be friends if your favorite movie is Forrest Gump. But I'll just know that about you. So, but I just don't think that's Tom hanks best movie v in my opinion, So I could see why that one is a little bit overrated anyway, that has been unpopular opinions. Don't roast me on Twitter or Instagram. Don't send me mean messages. If there's one you agreed with, let me know. If there's one you think I missed out on, let me know. Up next, we'll talk about The Last Blockbuster, all right, So now I want to talk about The Last Blockbuster, which came out last year, but it just came out on Netflix this past month, and the whole premise of the movie is the very last existing Blockbuster, which is in band, Oregon, and the whole documentary is kind of reliving the time that Blockbuster was king and everybody would go to Blockbuster to rent movies and kind of missing that experience now with having Netflix. And I guess the thing I found the most interesting about this was that the reason Blockbuster failed that they get to in the documentary wasn't exactly because Netflix came around. It was kind of because Blockbuster just didn't have that great of a business plan once they did have a competitor, Like they talked about how they were kind of right on par with Netflix when everythings were going to streaming whenever people were just getting DVDs delivered at home and just finding an easier way to have movies without having to go into an actual store. So they were really kind of right on par with Netflix at that time, but overall just fell through as a business. So it wasn't exactly Netflix that took them out. And then they kind of get into the whole deal of like when Netflix came to them and wanted to partner up and they basically laughed him out of the room. And I think that's what kind of people kind of hang up on a lot now. I think, oh, that's why Blockbuster went away. But they get into more about how like below the Blockbuster was, And for me, I never really went to Blockbuster as a kid. We never really got into renting movies, and I think it was because one we didn't have a lot of money to spend on renting movies, and I still felt like to us that was kind of expensive to go to Blockbuster and pay the what five six bucks to rent a movie for a night or two, and to have like a I guess I get this from my parents, of having like another open account or just having different things of like you have to sign up for a card to rent these, Like my parents were weird about that, and I think I'm still weird about having like different accounts on things and having like open tabs. I don't know I'm weird about that. I'm nodding my head, but I guess I get that from them. So we never got a Blockbuster card. And the only time I really remember renting movies as a kid was one there was a video rental store inside of the Walmart we lived in, I mean inside of the Walmart in the town we lived in, Texas, walksa hatchie. I don't even remember the name of it, but we would occasionally go in there and rent movies if somebody came to town and was visiting our house our trailer and we're like, oh, we needed some movies to entertain them. And then we also had a small mom and pop shop called the Video Station, and watsa hatchie where you could go and rent a movie for a dollar, and that's what we would do. And their system was so old school that you would literally go up to the VHS tape on the wall, pick up a little like like a little tab off the thing, go up and take that tab to the cashier and they would bring that movie to you. So it was a very mom and pop shop, which they talked about actually in a documentary about how those were kind of the first to go whenever a blockbuster came around. But I was just never really a big blockbuster person. Were you I was? We were a blockbuster family, really loved blockbust What was the experience like for you? We would go ran like four or five movies. My dad loved Blockbuster. I liked going and then getting like a dr Pepper and some snacks at the check out. But I loved Blockbuster too. I think I can only remember going in the store once or twice, and we would go like every week really, so it was a full on experience for you. It was the full on classic Suburbia blockbuster experience. So watching this documentary, would you have anything inside of you that would want to go visit this last Blockbuster in Bend Oregon, because that's what they're kind of doing in this like people are like going, they're specific to it. Yeah, Like I feel like, I don't know, Blackbuster, just give us big corporation vibes off to me. We've moved onto bigger and better things with streaming, Like we don't need to revisit like having to go. I mean, we already spent like forty five minutes trying to pick something to watch on a streaming service. I can't imagine walking again. I think the only point they kind of made that it kind of resonated with me was that people would go in there and ask for recommendations from somebody working there, and that interaction you get with somebody talking about a movie and then recommending something to you, taking that movie home, watching it, and then coming back and be like, oh, great, pick on that one, or oh I didn't like that. Like that's kind of cool. As an introvert, I don't really want to have to gonna say you would never do, but just the idea of people doing that. I would never ask a question in a movie theater. I would never ask or tell them that you hated it. You'd just be like, uh, I watched it and they'd be like, you want another seven movies like this, and you wouldn't, I know, And then I would watch ten movies that I didn't like. But I just think that kind of human experience when it comes to movies, it's kind of a powerful thing. But I just don't think it's anything we need to have back. Like when it comes to me getting that experience, it's actually going to the movie theater. It's not going to rent a movie. And now people have things like your podcast to listen to and get movie recommendation. You don't really need the Blockbuster person. You don't need the guy yeah at the Blockbuster telling you what to watch. And I think the convenience is having everything at home. I don't really need a physical copy of something. But family that works At the last Blockbuster, they're very passionate, very passionate about Blockbuster. It's a whole family ordeal. They've all worked there. I like that aspect of it. It's because, like I said, that Blockbuster has that kind of big corporation feel. To me, this is essentially a mom and pop shop that's just using the Blockbuster name to stay afloat, and that's they're not really a blockbuster. They're kind of owned by that and using their license, but it feels like a mom and pop operation, which is which is why I would like to see them continue. But other than that, I have no desire to ever go into a video story again to rent something. I still want to go see movies in the movie theater, but I don't need the rental experience. I never really had a bond with that, not because I wasn't around at the time where it was popular. I think the only thing I ever really got kind of into it was a red box. It was because they had those at gas stations and you could go get gas, pick up a movie, and take it back to any location and it was easier. I got really into that for a minute, and it was a lot cheaper. It was like a dollar or two dollars. Red box was a lot. That was a but they had such limited quantity and select same thing. I never got super into, like that's where I would watch all my movies. But when it came to some new movies, when streaming was still a little bit newer and they weren't getting new things, I would use that. But yeah, I don't have no desire to go to the last Blockbuster. But I do think it's an interesting documentary. I would give it about three point five out of five Blockbuster cards. It's entertaining. I think it's cool to kind of look back on that time and realize what went on with Blockbuster. And I think the idea of it is kind of cool. Of like going into a place and seeing all these movies, seeing the movie posters in the memorabilia. But I wouldn't be sad if this blast Blockbuster clothes. I just think it's kind of cool. All right. Let's get into a movie review now, talking about Bad Trip, which was on Netflix. It's a well, how do you explain in this movie? It's basically a comedy with real life interactions in the style of kind of a boor rat or a bad Grandpa with stars Eric Andre. Before we get into this review, here's just a little bit of the trailer. She's crazy, he will cull us, keep your mouth, snitches, get stuches. It's described with a ride. We got four whole days, we can keep bad, relax and breathe in America. We are the only black people in it. Like to make it to you doing that, So I'll just say about this movie. I like the idea about it more than I like the actual movie. I think Eric Andre is pretty funny. He's very over the top, very ridiculous. His style of comedy is like make you feel cringe and also make you feel just overall just very uncomfortable, and it's very raunchy and almost just for a shock value, um when it comes to what he would do on the show. And then I was interested in watching this movie because I did see people say it was funny. But like we were talking about earlier, we didn't want the trailer for this movie before watching it. What people I saw some people Instagram who said it was funny when it first came out. That's where we're getting hurt. That's recommendations. So what this movie is. It's a scripted movie, but it's shot in a style of like, like I said, like a boll Rat or a bad Grandpa, where the people's reactions are real people, they don't they're in a movie. I think the thing that kind of threw me off at the beginning was that it doesn't look like a movie. It looks like a hidden camera show. It was so bad that was hard for me to get into and just the shooting style of it, and the fact that I never really felt like I was watching a movie aside from the scenes where they're just having character dialogue. It felt like I was watching Jackass, which you love, which I love. But I don't know. Like I said, I like the idea of doing a movie like this and having real life reactions. I just don't think this is it. It was definitely not it. It was so bad that I asked you to change the movie like three times before just giving up and reading a book. I was like, I can't stand this, and I feel like you and I have both kind of been wanting to watch funnier things lately. That was not it. You were like, let's watch a funny movie, and I'm like, all right, I got the thing, and you were into it. It was into the idea of funny movie, not the movie. I was not into that. Let me tell you what. The ship researched a little more that it wasn't a straight on I just thought it would be a straight up comedy. Wasn't what we were expecting, which sometimes that bodes are well for Like if you're watching something and it's not what you expected, you end up liking it more. This did not bode well in this case. Maybe not so much so. It's very raunchy, it's very dirty, and the overall plot is pretty ridiculous. It has for me being a guy who does enjoy that type of humor sometimes I don't think I loved all of it, and even me, I felt a little bit uncomfortable, and I was like, I don't really feel like watching this right now, But for the sake of kind of watching the entire movie and judging afterwards, I sat through the whole thing. I think if there was an equivalent of walking out of a streaming movie, I would have been a little close on this one. You even got on your phone Friday night movies. I think the equivalent to walking out of a movie now is starting a movie and then never coming back and finishing it, or just being on your phone the entire time. And there was points in this movie where I was just like, Okay, wrap it up, and it's only it's less than an hour and a half. I'm gonna give this movie one out of five broken iPhones. Okay, I would give it one point seven five crashed cars okay. Um. Aside from the like the asthetic of watching a hidden camera show with some moose scripting, no real desire to watch anything else like this. I think the people who do this best is Johnny Knoxville, like Bad Grandpa. While it does have elements of people reacting to things that are happening and not knowing they're in a movie, those also actually feel like movies. I did actually laugh about Grandpa. Yeah, but Grandpa's funny. Johnny knox Fell's funny. I'll give him that. He does it well when it comes to Eric Andre, who's just so much more ridiculous than Raunchier than Johnny Knoxville. Tiffany Hatt was funny. She was funny. She was probably my favorite party. I would even consider giving it a one point to five. That is why I gave it a little bit higher rating, because Tiffany had was funny in this, and I was kind of surprised she did a movie like this. She's hilarious. She was great. Other than that, not so much. So I put it on your to watch list. Yeah, I also expected it. Well, I guess I got a little bit of like, huh, it wasn't in the top ten anymore. We went to go watch it. I no longer wonder why that was a brief indicator. So, if you're looking for something funny to watch and you're coming here across Bad Trip on Netflix, let's skip it. Watch it something else, Watch an old classic, watch Bad Grandpa. There you go. All right, get into some movie news now. First up is that to Tom Cruise movies have been officially pushed back. Top Gun, Maverick now comes out on November, and Mission Impossible Seven Moves to Mayo. I just don't know why they're pushing things back now. At this point, I feel like we're seeing concerts getting announced and things going back to normal there. I don't know what the hesitation is on movie theaters to kind of delay a release dates, like if they want. I don't know. I feel like they're in the beginning. It was so that the most people would be in the theaters when these movies came out, and the numbers would reflect that. With the Tom Cruise movies, I kind of feel like that's him. I feel like he has an overall saying when those movies come out, and he's so passionate about getting people back in theaters, which I am too. I just I don't know. I'm still seeing things getting delayed. It's frustrating to me. At this point, I just want to watch the movie. I was talking about last week how Warner Brothers just putting them out. Seeing what happens and they're doing well, I'd say just put them out. At this point, I don't think we're gonna want to wait anymore for these Tom Cruise movies. Also in movie news is that Netflix struck a deal with Sony, which basically they're getting the streaming rights to some of Sony's biggest movies like Spider Man and Jumanji, which is important because Sony, like all the other studios, they don't have their own streaming service. So like Disney Disney Plus, you have HBO Max, which is all the Warner Brothers movies, but Sony doesn't have anything where they're exclusively putting all of their movies. They kind of go in between all the other streaming services. So for Netflix to strike this deal, it's a pretty big deal. They're going to get like the sequel to Spiderman, the Spider Verse, and they'll have kind of first DIBs on all these Sony movies, which normally they would go to I believe Cable companies, which is also not being so much of a thing because that used to be like the way they would get their kind of secondary income is going to and giving the rights to a certain cable network for re airing. But now it's kind of just like everybody wants to be on a certain streaming service. So for Sony to land on Netflix, I think it is a good idea and will help them a lot when it comes to competing with all these other streaming services. And then finally in movie news, is that rapper and actor DMX passed away, which I thought was pretty sad. He was in movies like Belly Exit Wounds, but not only that, his music was in a lot of movies that you don't really we think about. Even We just watched Bad Trip and it was so weird. We watched that on the day he died. In the very last scene, they're singing along to a d m X song, which I thought was a little eerie. It was a little weird like and for some reason when that scene came on, I was like, I bet they'll sing a d MX song. I almost said it right before that scene, and then they were singing DMX and it just felt so weird that we decided to watch that movie on that day, even for them, like that movie coming out now and having the kind of attention on it that it does right now, it's weird that that scene is in there, them singing along to d m X. That's also why I gave that movie a slightly higher rating. It just kind of it resonated with me when that happened in memorium, so r I P to d m X and personal news. We were talking about earlier how we're so kind of close to getting married now we're what a couple of months away now less than a couple of months, and when we were looking at kind of our last year, this past weekend was a pretty big milestone in our relationship. It was the weekend that I traveled to Texas to pick you up when we were living long distance and the whole pandemic happened, which looking back on that was such a weird time, and we've never told the story of what happened during that weekend, held the story of either of our road trip, because it was such a crazy time to where we didn't know what was going to happen. Then looking back on it now, it seems so kind of crazy, how uncertain things were and how kind of things have kind of gotten back to normal now and we're better than ever than we've been, But at that time feeling so weird, like I was almost in a movie going to rescue somebody. That's what it felt like. And it was kind of split online of like was it even a good idea at the time. People weren't nice? People were not nicebook. So I drove to Texas and pick you up in a weekend. Drove twelve hours there. I peed on the side of the road. I didn't stop for food or anything. I had food, load it up, had water. That was at a time where you want to go into a different bathroom and we didn't. Masks weren't like readily available. You had like a bandana. Yeah. I had gloves to pump gas and then tons of hand sanitizer. Yeah. So the only time I would stop was to get gas, which I can remember every exit. I stopped bad because it was the most hidden, but at the time there was nobody on the road. It was so empty. I made record time getting there, got to your place, stay there at night, woke up very early the next day, and we drove back, and I will say a lot of people were like, why couldn't she just drive to you. I wasn't comfortable making a twelve and a half hour road trip by myself, Like I'd never driven outside of Texas. You weren't comfortable with me making that. So I feel like a lot of people were like, she's selfish for making you drive. You offered, so just put that out there. I wanted to come get you. Yeah, and then yeah, we got up early early. I packed like a random assortment of things, didn't know how long I was going to be here, and a year later, you've never left. Still here. We also peet on side of the road on that trip back. It's really fun. You're a trooper on that. I was a trooper on that. I think of all the things I've been most impressed by you, that's top five. Thank you. The ability to just go on the side of the road, which it's a lot easier for me to do. We just opened the car doors. You just kind of do what you have to do in that moment, and you're just like, all right, yeah, I wasn't. I would rather be on side of the road than use a gas station bathroom. And especially that like stretch of road. There's not great places, there's not a whole lot of places to stop. But here we are, year later since engaged, about to get married, and at the time of recording this, I am twenty four hours out from getting my second dose of the vaccine. Looking back on that now feels like so long ago. Yeah, it does. I mean we thought we had another year of long distance left. We I think we would barely be at the point right now of like possibly just now getting engaged. And you think we still would have maybe gotten engaged. Yeah, I guess in my head, I figured it would all happened like at this time. Now, that would have been a lot of I guess it's just as much change. Yeah, that would have been like we get engaged, I finished grad school, and then I move and now it's I finished grad school, we get married, a new job. There's still a lot of change happening, a lot of kings. But that has been our one year anniversary of that of a crazy time. Things look like they're getting back to normal now. I'm kind of starting to feel normal now in certain aspects. In certain aspects I'm still not there. But yeah, that is our when your anniversary of that, restaurants are finally open again. Remember we got back that night. We were so hungry because we're just eating like snacks again on the road, and we're like, well do uber eats. Well the restaurant we wanted didn't do your reads and we did not want to get back in the car, but we were like, we have no food here. There's so many places were still closed because they haven't hadn't pivoted to take out, and we went and got a place here. I won't call them out because people love them, but we got chips in guacamole and it was like three like tostadas that we were expected to break ourselves, that is, not chips in guacamole and a scoop of walk. Yeah, that was that was a fail. The only thing that place had going for them was that they had margarite is to go, which I needed after thirteen hours in a car. Yeah, that was like the most time we'd ever spent in a car together too, very first. Yeah, our longest road trip. We still liked each other. We still liked each other after that. We still liked each other. After a year of basically being the only other human we interact with. Yeah, you're literally the only human I see most of the time, most of the time, so we learned how to live together. That was an adjustment. Yeah, that's a whole other podcast. The first like six weeks were like this is so fun, and then like six weeks in, I'm like, why don't you do the dishes? Like ever ever, that was just how I felt in the moment. There we go. Well, now that I've aired our laundry, we've learned a lot about each other. But it started to wrap up the podcast. Anything else do you want to say? Thanks for having me back on a couple of weeks off. Yeah, that's the unpaid in turn. Good to have you back and needed some time. We're glad to have you back. I think everybody listening is probably happy to have you back and hanging out on the podcast. Make sure you subscribe, make sure you listen every single Monday, and tell a friend that not only do you get movie news, but you also get Dirty Laundry aired. All right, we'll talk to you guys next Monday here on the podcast, and until then later