The Biggest Summer Blockbusters of the 2010s with Mike and Kelsey + Movie Review: Jurassic World: Dominion + Trailer Park: Black Adam

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast. I am your host movie Mike, and today I want to talk about the top ten summer blockbusters of the two thousand and tens. I have my wife Kelsey here, how are you. We both love summer blockbuster movies. We're right in the middle of summer blockbuster season, so I felt like this was the perfect time to do this topic. In the movie review, we'll talk about the new Jurassic Park movie, and in the Trailer Park we finally got the first look at The Rock as Black Adam. So, a lot of good movies coming out this summer, a lot of good movies coming out for the rest of the year. I'm excited. Are you excited? I'm excited? Why am I so excited? Well? All right, shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew for listening, Thanks for being subscribed to the podcast. You guys already know what this is. Let's talk movies 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 Audi mtvie who's blaster from the Nashville podcast networkinges MO Movie Podters. So I've been going off on summer blockbuster season for a while. Now on the podcast, we've got now two big summer blockbuster movies and a little history lesson. The first ever summer blockbuster was in nineteen seventy five. You know what it was, Steven Spielberg movie about a big creature wreaking havoc on a beach. You know that movie Jaws that is credited as the first one. Other people credit Star Wars in nineteen seventy seven is also being one of the first big ones. But now we every summer, we just come to expect big summer blockbuster movies, and not only are they movies making a bunch of money during the summer, but oftentimes they're the number one movie out of the entire year. So what will be doing on this episode of this new summer series is this week we'll be looking at the top highest grossing movies of the tents. And if you listening to this enjoy this series, we'll go back and do the two thousands, and then if you really enjoy the series, we'll do the nineties and as far back as we could go, it would be the eighties, because if it started in the mid seventies, that's all we really have to go. And for the purpose of this list, we are going to defund the summer blockbuster season as kicking off on the first weekend of May and then wrapping up on the first weekend of September. Starting it out first. Now with the year, I'm gonna give you three movies. All you have to do is name which one you think made the most of the box office? All right, first movie is Toy Story three, second movie is iron Man two, and third movie is Twilight Eclipse. Which one do you think made the most at the box office? Iron Man too, It is not iron Man two. That comes in at number two with three and twelve million. Below that is Twilight with three hundred million. At number one was Toy Story three, making four hundred and eighty million dollars adjusted for inflation. That is so. I remember how big Toy Story three was, and I think it was a combination of the original one coming out in the nineties. So everybody that was a kid either had kids of their own now or they were just at that point in their life where they wanted to go back and relive their childhood. So you had the people who loved it way back in the day, and then of course everybody taking their kids, and you can never really roll out a kid's movie at the box office. Which I think is we go through this entire list, we're gonna see a lot of superhero movies, big action movies. Kids movies just dominate, and then the occasional comedy will make the list. But Toy Story three, I think, out of these three movies, if I can only keep one, that would be the one. I feel like you kind of just gave away some answers. She told me, kids movies and superheroes do well. How am I supposed to guess? Well, they're all gonna be in there just looking at the different types of movies. That's what we're going to see. You'll still have to pick which one. Which one would you keep? If you can only pick one of those, why for the rest of your life, I mean, neither of them, you can pick none. No, I'm deciding between iron Man and Toy Story. Iron Man two wasn't the best one, but I think it was because it was coming off of Iron Man, which was so good. Iron Man two was pretty forgettable. I guess Toy Story because someday when we have kids like we can watch Toy Story with them, all four of them, all four No, No, all four of the Toy Story movies for the kids. I wish everyone could have just seen my face. No, all four Toy Story movies that all four children. All right, let's move on to eleven. I'll give you the three movies you tell me the highest grossing one? Was it Transformers? Dark of the Moon? Was it Harry Potter and the Deathly Hellos Part two? Or was it Hangover Part two? For sure? Not Hangover Part two? Okay, for sure? Not it is Harry Potter. At number one was Harry Potter, which made four and thirty two point six million dollars almost half a billion. At number two, Dark Sides of the Moon made three eighty one million, and then at number three, The Hangover Part two made two four million, which is a lot of money for a comedy. For a comedy sequel, yeah, I shouldn't have even been made. I agree. Well, Hangover two is basically the exact same thing as The Hangover. Hangover was a little bit more of a unexpected success. It was just so big and everybody loved it when it came out that the demand was so high to make a sequel. So I think those numbers are just reflective on everybody loving the first one and wanted to go see the second one. Regardless they sold out and just wanted money. I mean, look at Christin Wiggs, she refuses to write a Bridesmaids too. Yeah, but I don't think they sold out. I think they bought in. They made so much money off of that trilogy. But yes, a trilogy that probably didn't deserve to be made. But I still enjoy every single Hangover movie. I don't think they're all. I think the first one is the best first and it you know, thing else can really touch that one. But every one that came after that, two and three I still enjoy. I think it's because of the characters. It's still entertaining. Would I recommend them to anybody if you haven't seen them, not two or three one. But I just think as a trilogy, it's a it's weak, it's very just Hangover one, do it two more times? Make your money. Yeah, Transformers, those movies dominated so much of the box office when they came out. Were these stole the ones? With Schila Buff and Fox. Yes, Dark of the Moon still had Megan Fox and Shila Buff and these movies were so popular, but now kind of forgotten about. I think it's because later they stopped being good and either Mark Wahlberg in there and people stopped caring. Amazing how popular they were at the height of everybody's interest, but now I don't really go back and want to watch your Transformers movie. And then Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part two, that's the final one, Like obviously it's gonna dominate the box office with the final one came out in two thousand eleven. Yes, when we were looking at this list version, we're gonna go back twenty years and you were like, that's two thousand and two. Eiphany, that twenty years ago was two thousand and two, and I feel old. Let's move on now to twelve. I'll give you the three movies Great summer graduated high school. Do you think it was The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider Man or The Avengers Dark Knight Rises. The answer is at number one, making six hundred and ninety two million dollars domestically The Avengers and then coming in Right below that at four hundred and forty eight million was The Dark Knight Rises, and then at number three was The Amazing Spider Man two d and sixty two million. Looking at twelve, I feel like this is pretty representative of what has been successful at the box office for a very long time. You have three superhero movies in the top three summer blockbuster movies, one basically being a compilation album of all the best superheroes and the first time we've ever seen a movie like that, Dark Knight Rises being a follow up to one of the I would say, the greatest comic book movie ever made. And then The Amazing Spider Man, which wasn't as well received by critics, but I felt like die hard Spider Man fans like myself still enjoyed it, but still made two d and sixty two million dollars. That's still a lot of money, so kind of proving that even if you make a movie that everybody doesn't love, you'll still go out to see it because it is Spider Man. Of those three, I think the one I go back to the most it's probably Dark Knight Rises. Yeah, it's like one of your favorite movies, and Dark Knight Dark Knight is my all time favorite, but I feel like Dark Knight Rises is right up there as well. I was getting them confused. I forgot that there's just a Dark Knight and then a Dark Knight Rises, And I remember seeing that one in theaters for the first time and thinking that Bain was such a more ferocious villain than Joker was. I felt like Joker was so unique based on the way that Heath Ledger played him and everything surrounding him. But as far as the movie going experience, like I had such a I want Bain to fail so much in Dark Knight Rises, and it kind of got something a little bit out of me more than I did when I watched The Dark Knight for the first time. Going back now and rewatching both of them, I still think that Dark Knight Heath Letters performance can't be touched. So that is moving on now to which one do you think made the most iron Man three, Despicable Me Too or Man of Steel Despicable Mean Too? That would be incorrect. At number one. It's iron Man three, making four and forty million dollars at the box office that summer. Despicable Wade came in two three and seventy six million, and then at number three would be Man of Steel with two d and nine million. Yeah, I didn't love Man of Steel when it first came out. I found myself rewatching it now and being a little bit more in the Superman and character now that Henry Cowell is not even going to play him anymore. It's kind of weird to go back and enjoy that now. And I know so many people love that Man is Steel movie, but I just failed to get into that hype. I'm a little bit more into the DC hype right now, and I find myself liking a lot more of the animated stuff with you have seen me get into recently. I just find it a little bit more entertaining. I find the stories better in the animated stuff, But as far as the on screen newer Batman and Superman stuff, they have not been my favorite. Despicab will be too, however, I love that movie. There's something about minions that just makes me happy, and I think makes everybody happy. And then iron Man three was probably the biggest let down for me because iron Man was so popular in he was basically carrying the Avengers. Iron Man three just left a lot to be desired. I feel like Iron Man three is probably one of the weakest Marvel movies all together. So it's kind of weird of Iron Man being so high up there and then two and three kind of being in my lower tier of Marvel movies. But as Iron Man going on, Now you have is it Guardians of the Galaxy, Is it Maleficent or is it Transformers Age of Extinction? Guardians of the Galaxy hands town That is correct, not only the number one highest grossing movie of the summer, but also the highest grossing movie of the entire year, making three hundred and seventy one million dollars at the box office. Transformers Age of Extinction made two forty five million, and Maleficent made two hundred and forty one million dollars. Never really got into the live action Disney Maleficent, all those kind of movies. I've still never seen it. I always just see the trailers and they look so boring to me. I don't really like period pieces, and I don't really like old Disney movies placed in like weird fairy tale times. I just had no desire to see it. And then you have Transformer Man. I was checked out of it by then and then Guarding into the Galaxy one of the top tier Marvel movies. Unexpectedly funny, Yes, yes, and especially at a time where all the other solo movies were just so serious, it was fun and refreshing. And I think that's kind of what made me love James Gunn and he did such a great job in those and I can't wait to see what he's gonna do with volume three. I didn't think I would love that going into it. I was like a green girl like trees don't name groot and a raccoon like that's stupid. And now I love those movies. I felt like a lot of people had that similar feeling going into it of you know, Bradley Cooper playing a raccoon, but there's so much that goes into that character. Vin Diesel saying one word and getting paid millions to do that. I am moving on now to do you think the highest grossing movie was Avengers, Age of Ultron Inside Out or Jurassic War Old Avengers Age of Ultron came in at number two, four hundred and fifty nine million, and right above it is Jurassic World, making seven hundred and twelve million dollars at the box office. At number three was Inside Out with three d and fifty six million. Seven told. That's even more than Avejurs made. It's a lot of money. Yeah, And I find it pretty surprising how much the Jurassic World and the original Jurassic Park movies make. I think what they have going for them is kind of what we saw some other parts of this list of you have the people who are just fans of Jurassic Park. It's a big franchise. Yeah, it's a continuation of that, So there's a lot more people already invested in it and gonna go see it, kind of like we saw with Top Gun. Now everybody who loves that movie in the eighties went back and flocks to see it now. So I think it's also one of the most perfect types of summer blockbuster movies. Big dinosaurs on the screen, running around chasing humans. You don't really need to understand a whole lot, like that's all you need. And I think for me, that's what I kind of go to the movies in the summer looking for. I want to turn my brain off. I don't want to think about the problems of the outside world. I want to see something completely out there and not think about it for two hours. So I think that's why those Jurassic Park movies do so well. And later in the movie review, we'll see if it helds up two expectations this time around. Moving on to sixteen, do you think it was Finding Dory, Captain America Civil War or the Secret Life of Pets. I'm gonna go Captain America Civil War that came in at number two, making four hundred and eight million dollars. At number one making five hundred and six million dollars, was Finding Dorry. Yeah, I guess I shouldn't know that kids movies. You can't movies the last time and it was wrong. So I give up on this game. But it's a follow up to Finding Nemo, which came out in two thousand and three. You kind of have the same thing going here thirteen years later. And three podcast just making me feel like I need to go like put on my wrinkle cream. Out of those three, most surprising is the Secret Life of Pets number three with three and sixty eight million dollars. That is shocking because it is a new movie, and I guess it's maybe the Pet Angle. It's from DreamWorks who is Hit or Miss on their animated movies. I did go see that movie in theaters mainly because Louis c. K was a voice in it and Kevin Hart, so it had that aspect of comedians doing voices in that. Okay, so it still had grown men going to see it, So we still had a factor there. Yeah, moving on now to seventeen. Do you think it was Spider Man Homecoming, Guardians of the Galaxy Too, or Wonder Woman? All three superhero movies? Which one do you think made the most? Spider Man to Homecoming was second? Andrew Garfield one is this is the first Tom Holland one. That's right, That's right, okay, and then Guardians of the Galaxy Too? And Wonder Woman? Which one made the most in seventeen. I'm gonna go Guardians of the Galaxy Too. That one came in at number two, nine million. Below that was Spider Man Homecoming with three thirty four million. At number one with four hundred and fifteen million dollars was a wonder Woman and this was the first big win for d C. This movie put gal Gadot on the map, put director Patty Jenkins runton center. And I think it kind of gave everybody, Uh, I guess younger girls who haven't had a movie to look at a character and be like, hey, that's me, Like that could be me. I think this was that first glimpse at that, and I loved it so much because after Batman Versus Superman, which was such a bad movie, she was the only kind of glimmering hope to come from that, like, oh, wonder Woman is actually awesome. So I loved Wonder Woman and was kind of taken back at how much people didn't like Wonder Woman and how that movie was one of the ones that came out streaming and in theaters but at a time where theaters weren't really happening anymore. So they lost a lot of money on that movie. So it's kind of a big drastic fall to go from having the number one movie of the summer to having one that people now regard as one of the worst superhero movies of all time. So that kind of sucks. But yeah, Guardians of the Galaxy to was another great addition, and then Spider Man Homecoming was awesome because I felt like they finally got Peter Parker right, and I remember having that emotion coming out of it like he's back. I guess after the Andrew Garfield movies, a lot of people were checked out of people making Spider Man movies. I still like Andrew Garfields too. I like him more now than I did when he was doing those movies. Like going back now seeing him in that role, it kind of makes me a little bit like I should have given him more credit back then. But I'm sure he doesn't sleep at night because yeah him credit, he knows. Alright. Moving on now to which one do you think made the most? Was it Incredibles Too, Deadpool two, or Jurassic World fall in Kingdom? Okay, see here we've got Jurassic World, which is a nostalgia, but we also have Incredible too. I'm gonna Incredible two is everyone was excited for that to come out. Well, at number three would be Deadpool two eighteen million, and then at number two making four hundred and seventeen million was Jurassic World Falling Kingdom. So you were correct. Number one was Incredibles To, making six hundred and eight million dollars at the box office according to box office Mojo, and that is Yeah, that's an nostalgia factor and also a sequel that people were asking for forever the Incredibles, and Pixar rarely does sequels. Took forever for Finding Dory, took forever for The Incredibles too, So when they do make a sequel, they know that people are going to want a story that lives up to the original, and they're gonna spend time to get that right, spend time to make the animation worthy of how being an updated version, and then also know whenever they put it out is just going to dominate. So that's a pretty big win for pick Sary having the biggest movie of the summer going against Jurassic World making also half a billion dollars, and we've made it to the final year. On the list ten, which movie made the most? Was it The Lion King, the live action version, Toy Story four, or Spider Man Far From Home? Which one made the most in twenty nineteen. Spider Man Spider Man came in at number three. Far From Home made three and ninety million dollars, Toy Story four made four hundred and thirty four million dollars, and at number one, You Don't Roll Out Disney making five hundred and forty three million dollars. Was The Lion King. You have a face of disgust. I just don't think that should have been number one. Yeah, I feel like that was a very forgettable live action Disney movie. But I think The Lion King is arguably so many people's favorite Disney movie of all time. And there was so much hype around this from the soundtrack, from everybody who they cast to voice it, and also it was a relatively I mean, it wasn't a brand new concept, but I remember a lot of people wondering what does a live action Lion King movie even mean? Like are they going to get real animals and Mike com up? But it was basically just paid more to see that. I would have paid more to see that. I mean, can Zoo do that? I'm sure there's like YouTube videos like that where people would just record animals and overdub. That probably would have been a little bit more entertaining. Because the weird thing about it is they made the exact same movie, didn't really change a whole lot about it, but it was just like they gave it an h D feel. So what it lost for me was the charm of the original. It didn't have a warmth to it. It didn't really have a connection to the characters. You just had like these animated, realistic looking animals acting out basically a big dramatic I think something like that, where like you have people like voicing The Lion King does better on Broadway. Yeah, like the Lion King on Broadway. I've heard it's phenomenal. I would like to see that someday. So I feel like, couldn't we have cast those people and done it like Broadway a little more theatrical? You say yes? And number two with Toy Story four, I didn't love that one. I felt like it was a movie that didn't really need to be made. Toy Story three left a perfect ending to a trilogy. There is some fun elements to Toy Story four, but that's probably everybody just kind of wanting a little bit more of the characters to go back and watch that one, to make that with such a bag success. And then Spider Man Far from Home. I mean, you know how much I love all those movies. So we saw it together. We was like one of the first like summer blockbusters we have to see because things when we were still long distance A great one to see together. And now if you're wondering where does Avengers Endgame rank in nineteen It came out in April, so it is the summer blockbuster day. But that one made eight hundred and fifty eight million dollars, so almost a billion dollars in the United States alone, So that is insane. And then since we are here at the end of the twenty tens and it would be a long time before we could do the twenties, we'll look at what do you think the highest grossing movie of summer was? Nothing really came out that summer. Yeah, everything kind of stopped around March. There's like one movie that came out in the summer but only made fifty eight million dollars. What do you think it was? I'm trying to remember what came out. Did Tennant come out that year? It is Tenant? And that was kind of weird because it came out on HBO Max and then very few theaters, and that's mainly because Christopher Nolan just wanted to see it shown in theaters. I felt like they should have held that movie a little bit, probably would have done better. Probably would have done better because we didn't really get that feeling of it. I would have paid more attention if I was in the theater and couldn't have used phone, I got lost in the first ten minutes and checked out. It's already a difficult movie to understand, and when you're at home and watching a movie that's difficult to understand, it's very easy to to now. I feel like I would have at least maybe enjoyed it a little bit more seeing it in the theater, But it's also one I haven't revisited since, so who knows. And then in one what do you think? The number one highest grossing movie was of the summer, Black Widow, that is correct, making a hundred and eighty three million dollars at the box office. At number two was the first movie we saw back in theaters, and it was nine f nine making a hundred and seventy three million dollars. And then at number three, just about closing out the summer, coming out in August, was Free Guy, making a twenty one million dollars. This is kind of where stuff started to come back, but it was mainly all the movies that got delayed from starting to release. So I feel like one is a weird year because it should have been twenties basically, and nothing really felt like it had rhyme and reason to the release schedule. It was just like, what can come out, what feels comfortable releasing on this weekend, what's going to keep getting delayed? What's going to come out on Disney Plus at the same time or HBO Max at the same time. So that's also a really weird year to look at, and I feel like, looking at two now, this is going to be the comeback year where everything looks a little bit normal. So far, dominating the box office is dr Strange. Top Gun is right below it, but it's also just had less of a theatrical run so far. So I feel like that maybe the number one movie of the summer for the year. They've got Jurassic Jurassic coming out, Jurassic World, Durrassical the names, Jurassic thor Thor coming out. But I feel out of all the summer movies, the one that will probably win his Top Gun and that has the ability to be the number one highest grossing movie of the year. Great movie. I would see it again. I would too, and not just because my teller takes us right now, Okay, that's what you liked in that movie. All right, if you enjoyed that, let us know and maybe next week or the following week we'll do the two thousand's. Ye'll see what works in my schedule. All right, we'll see. And now it's time for a spoiler free movie review talking about Jurassic World Dominion, which was one of my most anticipated movies of the summer. The trailer really banked in on the nostalgia factor, bringing back Jeff Goldbloom, Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and that's why I was excited about it. So did it live up to those expectations? Let's talk about that. But before we get into this review, here's just a little bit of the Jurassic World Dominion trailer. If our world is gonna survives, matters is what we do? Now? How can you use your expertise? You come out on what a baby raptor. I made a promise we would bear home. You've made a promise toward dinosaur. Yeah, boy. So let's talk about what this movie is about. It is the finale of the saga of the Jurassic World movies, and you find yourself back with the old characters from the original movie. So Sam Neil and Laura Derner back, you have Jeff gold Bloom back and it's kind of like the Old School meets the New School with Chris Pratt. They are again trying to save the world. It takes place four years after the last Jurassic Park movie, and now that that island has been destroyed, all of the dinosaurs are kind of living among the humans, which I thought was cool and I actually wanted to see more of. You have the O G Jurassic Park crew trying to save the world from this evil corporation, and then you have Chris Pratt, as you heard in that trailer, trying to reunite the raptor named Blue with their child. So it's those two stories coming together informing in this movie, and I gotta say that plot left a lot to be desired. It felt very disjointed at times, where you have two completely different things going on at the same time, you don't really get invested in either one of them. Laura Dern and Sam Neil are cool to see back together again, but banking off the nostalgia factor, it didn't really cash in at any point, which we've seen movies do this fairly recently, just earlier this year. Also from the nineties Scream came out, and it was kind of like that team getting back together for one last mission. That's what you kind of find here, But it didn't really feel like much of a reason to get them back together, and the whole thing just kind of came together quickly, so when they first came on screen, I didn't really have that feeling of like, oh, they're back like I have in other movies. Some people gave a little like one to clap, like a failed big cheering moment, so that didn't feel completely like a big moment to me, and there were a lot of nostalgic moment It's little easter eggs as an ode to the original movie, but for a movie that's almost two and a half hours long, it's not going to keep my interests by just telling me and reminding me how cool the original one was. So it got us all back there to relive that kind of original movie, but didn't really form enough to kind of update it. And they're trying to kind of really force this plot of the old school meets the news school, and I just didn't really find it working for a movie that's almost two and a half hours long. I found myself bored at moments, and I don't think this is a bad movie. Like I don't leave the theater after seeing this movie thinking, I, you know, got ripped off. It's still a fairly entertaining movie. But for it's something that had so much action and so many things happening, cool visuals, and I'll get into the more about the dinosaurs, you just don't really care and never really get invested in the story. And I think that's what the original Jurassic Park did so well, also what The Lost World did so well. And I think the problem I had with this movie is there was no imagination when it came to how they showed the action with the dinosaurs. The original movie, it was so much more of a treat when you actually had the dinosaurs on screen. And I know that's a little bit more because that movie came out in the nineties. The technology was still so new they basically developed it to make that movie. That they also couldn't afford to put the dinosaurs on the screen the whole time. But what that created was some tension because when the t Rex is on screen, it's very important, and he's not there all the time, So when he is on screen, you pay attention, and I think that's what I love about some you know, monster movies. Anything to that aspect, is you can't give everything away the entire time because they're just gonna be coming another character on screen. It's not really going to be a treat when they pop out, because they're just they're kind of thrown in in this movie, so there was no tension, there was no suspense, and that led to it just kind of feeling like a bunch of action thrown together and the dinosaur has just happened to be there. Although in this movie they do look the best they have ever looked. The c g I has greatly advanced since the nineties. I think they definitely did some research on more of what dinosaurs really would have looked like. I like the you know, the scaly look with the feathers, the talents, the the clause. I thought the dinosaur visuals were really great, but it wasn't enough to keep me interested in the entire time they get chased. It's kind of just running through the exact same motions of all the other ones. But the scenes didn't really carry any weight. I never really found myself carrying like, how are they going to get out of this situation. Things that just happened, and I'd be like, Oh, that's fine, and it's not a terrible movie. I think it's because I had such high expectations going into it that I don't think I enjoyed it as much as I thought I would. But I went with my wife, who hasn't seen all of the Jurassic Park or Jurassic World movies. She had very low expectations going into this, and she enjoyed it way more than she thought she was going to. Probably liked it more than I did. So if you go into it with low expectations, maybe you'll like it a little bit more. But still, yes, it's not a terrible movie. I don't think it deserves to get dragged as much as it has been. Calling it the worst dressing World movie of all time not gonna be wrong. It's still fun and entertaining to see dinosaurs on the screen attacking people, biting people's limbs off. The big action sequences are still fun. It just doesn't have that same charm that I was expecting from something that's supposed to be the conclusion to this saga. I just think because literally on the poster it says the epic conclusion to the saga, and I was like, all right, I'm ready to see this. I'm ready for them to kind of bring back all those cool moments, do something very innovative. Do it something that brings out all the imagination and makes these dinosaurs come to life. And I didn't get that. So there's no epic nous to this that they are boasting. So maybe I overhyped this one for myself and is why I found myself a little bit bored and interested in it. I think what they made this movie for were the hardcore fans of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, who were going to love all the little easter eggs and love seeing all those characters back together again. So I think if you're a die hard fan of the Jurassic Park series, you'll still find some enjoyment in this and probably like it more than I did. I wouldn't call myself the most hardcore fan. If I had to rank all my favorite Jurassic Park movies, I probably put The Lost World at number one, followed by the Original and number two, But then at number three I would have put Jurassic World, which I felt was a really good way to reboot the series. And I think I just find the plot in those so much more interesting because it's built around the actual old park and having you know, being reaped at the park and real people having to deal with these dinosaurs they just went to see them, Like, that's a lot more entertaining. The visuals that come back to me from the originals is like in the Lost World, whenever the t Rex is loose in California and he goes and is terrorizing the city, and I just have that visual of the t Rex going down the street going to a gas station in the seventies six ball, just rolling down the street, Like I like seeing dinosaurs in the real world, in real life situations. And I think that's what made those movies so great. It was because it was a little bit more like what if dinosaurs existed in our world. We did see that a little bit here in Dominion, and there was no scenes like that that really stood out to me in this movie. But I do have a glimmer of hope here in that there's some kid out there who this will be their favorite movie and they'll watch this and want to go watch all the original ones and become a fan of Jurassic Park, and maybe thirty years down the line be directing the new reincarnated reboot of this franchise again, and I'll be back to watch that one. I will say, though, I think the best part of the entire movie is Jeff gold Bloom's performance. He is the comic relief in this and he has some pretty good lines, and it's just so very Jeff gold Bloom that without him I probably would have gave it an even lower rating. But for me Jurassic World dominion, I give it three at a five raptor clause. It is now time for the part of the podcast where I break down a movie trailer of a film coming to you very soon in theaters or streaming online in a segment called It's time to Head down to Movie, and today we are looking at the new d C movie called Black Adam. It starts Dwayne the Rock Johnson. He plays an anti hero, and after getting a bigger glimpse at not only what the Rock as a superhero is going to look like in this, but also getting to know more about the character who I am not that familiar with, I have to say I think this is the DC movie that I'm anticipating the most. I'll get into all that here in a second, but here's some of the Black Adam trailer. I was a slave until I died. Then I was reborn to God. My son sacrificed his life to save me. Now I kneel before no one. Heroes don't kill people, well I do so. The first thing after watching this trailer, I thought to myself, Man, if it would have had the treatment that the Rock wanted and it got an R rating, this movie would be amazing. But it has the PG thirteen rating, so I still think it's going to be good. It does have a grittier feel. So what I learned now about Black Adam the movie is about his character, who is called test Adam. He is born into enslavement sometime it kind of takes place in the distant past, and then he gets killed by the people who capture him, brought back to life by his son with this bolt of lightning and turns into Black Adam. His son actually dies from the ritual. But now Black Adom has these powers that are basically the qualities of Superman. He has a super strength, he can fly, but he doesn't have the same moral structure, as you heard in that trailer is heroes don't kill people, but Black Adam does. So that's where I feel like this is gonna have a little bit more of a grittier feel. The trailer has a little bit of humor mixed in with that, so to me, this movie almost feels like a grittier Superman movie, which I am told lead into and I think the Rock was made for this role. I'm surprised he hasn't been in a title superhero role like this before. And I think from being able to watch the entire journey of the movie on his Instagram has really led to me having such high interest in it because literally from when he got the role, to his training for the role, getting super ripped up for it, all the behind the scenes photos, it makes me a little bit more invested in just seeing him and seeing all the hard work he puts into this, because even though he's in so many movies and it feels like we always see the Rock in something, you forget how hard that guy works. And when I see him in this suit, it's insane looking of how bulky and strong he is and how much of a god he looks like. And then mix that with the black suit that's super skin tight. It basically looks like it's painted on him, And I'm curious to see how his acting abilities change a little bit in the superhero role. He's a little bit or serious. How he takes on a grid year role. If he's going to essentially be the Rock like he is in every other movie, or he's going to show us something different. By this trailer, I don't get a big glimpse of his acting capabilities in this and how he's going to play the character. It's a little bit ominous, doesn't give a whole lot about the story, but it does build interest in the action, and it does build interest in the character. So I am excited about that. This movie, Black Adam, comes out October twenty one and is the DC movie that I'm most excited about seeing up on the DC slate. They also have coming out Chasm Theory of the Gods later this year. Further down the line, we're gonna get a Batgirl movie, the New Aquaman, The Flash, and then Blue Beetlee And before this, I think the DC movie I was most excited about it ended up delivering was Joker in nineteen, which I felt existed in an entirely different universe that was such a darker and grittier world that I don't think Black Adam will go there. I think it'll kind of stay in the world, appealing to most people who want to go see a superhero movie and not the depressing movie that Joker was. The other exciting thing I do want to mention is the Joker sequel has been confirmed. Todd Phillips posted a picture of the front of the script. He posted a picture of Joaquin Phoenix reading the script. No other details about it except that it's called Joker Fully a dou I think it's how you say it. I think it's French, and that translates to an identical or similar mental disorder affecting two or more individuals. So it sounds like it's Joaquin Phoenix's character, Arthur Fleck dealing with multiple personalities here, dealing with him as the Joker and also dealing with him as Arthur, and maybe we see a big clash between those two people, which sounds like a recipe for a great movie. There's been rumors that Harley Quinn will make an appearance in this movie, probably not the Margot Robbie Harley Quinn. So I am curious to see how they follow up Joker, which really wasn't going to get a sequel. It was supposed to be a standalone film, but I think because it was so successful in being the highest grossing R rated movie of all time, it's really hard to leave that money on the table. And if Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips, the director, both believe there's more story to be told, which I really want to believe that is the reason they decided to do another movie and not just take away from the masterpiece that I believe that Joker was. I try not to use that title very often. There maybe two or three films in the last ten years that I would consider masterpieces. Joker would be one of them. So that's some cool stuff coming up soon from d C. This makes edition and that's going to do it for another week here on the podcast. But before I hop out of here, every single week, I gotta give my listeners shout out, And on this episode, I'm going over to my Twitter Tammy see tweeted listen to your latest podcast yesterday. And the only movie I haven't seen was Uncut Gems because I wasn't sure about serious Adam Sandler. I watched it. I loved it. Thanks for putting me onto this love the podcast. Keep up the good work. Appreciate that. Tammy C. Thanks for listening to last week's Adam Sandler episode. If you missed that one, just go one back in the feed and see what movies I ranked as my top five best and worst Adam Sandler movies in my opinion. Hope you have a great rest of your week, and until next time, go out and watch good movies. I'll talk to you later.