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Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike. Today I want to talk about 10 movies I believe belong in the National Film Registry. They just released the movies going into it this year but there are some major movies from our lifetime and that are not in this registry yet. Some of them I can't believe it. Big injustice here. So I want to give my 10 list of movies I think deserve to be preserved forever. We'll talk about what the National Film Registry even is in the movie review. I'll be talking about Sam Raimi's Send help, starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'. Brien. And in the Trailer park breaking down The Devil Wears Prada 2. Could it be the best number two movie coming out this year? A lot of big sequels from legacy movies. So we'll talk about that. 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 Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. The Library of Congress just announced its latest entries into the National Film Registry. What is this exactly? Well, here's the statement they gave. When we preserve films, we preserve American culture for generations to come. These selections for the National Film Registry show us the films that are instrumental in capturing important parts of our nation's story. So essentially, when a movie gets put into this National Film Registry, it means it's being recognized as being culturally, historically and aesthetically significant. The criteria is these movies must be at least 10 years old to ensure that they are protected for generations to come. The Library of Congress actually stores millions of films, videos, TV recordings, and they have a collection of about 150,000 titles. And they do hold some of these titles on Capitol Hill. But most of the physical film collections are actually stored off site at the Packard Campus for Audiovisual Conservation in Culpepper, Virginia. In this collection, they have really, really old movies dating back to 1985. Some of them are on film that could essentially burst into flames because they are so old and so sensitive. So they house these in a special climate controlled environment. And every year they pick 25 movies to go in. Your big ones already there, your Casablanca is your wizard of Oz, your Lion Kings, all those major movies that you think about are probably already on this list. But there were a lot that when I started thinking of the movies that I feel are pillars of American culture, especially if you grew up in the 90s and early 2000, that I could not believe in, that they were not in there already. And the only thing they have to do is be at least 10 years old. And some of these are 20, 30 years old at this point. But before we do that, I'll go through the 25 movies that just made the cut this year and are going in, I would say probably not until we get to the movies from the 80s. I have not even seen these. So Maybe I need to do some research and go back and see why some of these are so relevant and important to be stored. But from 1896, the oldest movie on this list. The Tramp and the Dog. Have not seen that movie. The Oath and the sword from 1914. The maid of Macmillan from 1916. The lady from 1925. Sparrows from 1926. Ten Nights in a Bar Room from 26. White Christmas from 54. High Society from 56. Brooklyn Bridge from 1981. We're getting a little bit more relevant now and actually know some of these movies. So say AMEN Somebody from 1982. The thing from 1982, that is one I believe should have already been on this list. So I think that is the burst best entry to go into this registry. You also have the big chill from 1983. Karate kid from 84. What a great movie. I'm glad that movie finally got its justice going in this year. Glory from 1989. Philadelphia from 1993, a great Tom Hanks pick going in there. Before sunrise from 1995. I wonder if that entire collection of movies will end up being in the registry or they only pick the first one. Clueless from 1995. That is what I'm talking about because I feel that category of movie is underrepresented on this registry, where it's not just movies that are the most well reviewed or have the most awards or even have the best rating online. It has to be about that cultural relevance. And that is such an essential movie to the 90s. I'm glad that movie is finally going in. Also from the 90s you have the Truman Show, a top five Jim Carrey movie. And I think later on my list I have another Jim Carrey movie. So it's going to have to be a lot of Jim Carrey inside of this registry. Getting into the 2000. Now you have Frieda from 2002. The Hours also from 2002. The Incredibles from 2004. As I was going through all the movies in the Registry, I also think animation is also really underrepresented on movies we need to preserve. The wrecking crew from 2008, not the wrecking Crew that I reviewed last week from Amazon Prime, a much different the Wrecking Crew. And I have to imagine the movie I reviewed last week will probably not end up on this registry at any point, but still pretty good action movie. And then the most recent movies from the 2010s, you have Inception from 2010. I think this will influence my 10 movies later on. But A great pick going into the registry. The loving story from 2011. And the final and most recent movie on the list is the Grand Budapest Hotel from director WES Anderson from 2014. So overall, I would rate this class about a B plus. Some of those early ones I'm just not familiar with, but I think you have some really big players here with movies like the Karate Kid, Philadelphia, Clueless, the Truman show, the Incredibles, I think is a big win here. Inception, one of the best movies of the 2010s. I also love the Grand Budapest Hotel in there as well. Arguably Wes Anderson's best movie of all time. But now let's get into the 10 movies I believe belong in the National Film Registry, starting with my first pick. I just cannot believe this movie is not in there. From 1993, the sandlot. This is one of the most pivotal movies of the 90s. You could argue that this is one of the greatest sports movies of all time, but it captures 1960s America. One of the best. Also coming of age movies that you might not realize that the Sandlot is a coming of age movie because it's so focused on baseball. About a kid who moves to a new town, doesn't know anybody, doesn't know anything about baseball. He is just trying to make friends. He is socially awkward and he finds the best group of friends who are also misfits, but they all love baseball and take him in as one of their own. It's about childhood. It's about friendship and the love of baseball. It does not get more American than the Sandlot. I think one of the most important movies of a lot of our childhoods. A movie with so much re watchability, so iconic in so many ways that you can't get through any Halloween without somebody dressing up like somebody from the sandlot. And this movie made all those actors famous forever, where they still go around to baseball games or any sporting event and people still care about the cast from the Sandlot. What a wild thing it must be not just to be a child actor, but to be a part of a movie that is so iconic that it stays with you for the rest of your life. Where a lot of them, this is their one major credit in their acting career. To think you did something when you were 10, 12. 11 years old. 12 years old. However they all were during the time of making this movie that you go into it just wanting to do something fun. What kid wouldn't want to be a part of a movie? And now that movie is a part of you for the rest of your Life. But this movie has now been eligible for over 20 years. And the fact that it's not in there already, I put that as my number one movie that needs to go in right now. And number two, another movie from my childhood that is one that I think has built up relevance over time. It is probably more relevant now in people's lives than when it was when it came out back in 1995. And that movie is a goofy movie because it's a cult classic. This movie has taken on a life of its own where it's not only relevant because it's such a core movie for millennials, but also millennials who are of different races that somehow saw themselves in Max and in Goofy, even though Goofy isn't a sign of race. But I think through that 90s nostalgia, the R and B infused soundtrack and songs, that is why people who never really felt represented in a movie felt a connection with these characters because they acted cool, they sounded cool and we all wanted to be like them. And it's through this cult classic culture that we found other people who also love this movie that we didn't realize at the time because there was no social media. We did not realize when we were watching this movie on VHS how much it was impacting us. That that is why I think now the movie is more relevant now than ever. And something like that deserves to be preserved because of how much it means to so many people. Every single year you see a deep dive into it. A documentary last year that came out. Not just the goof. I had the filmmakers on this podcast talking about why this movie was so culturally relevant. So for a movie now over 30 years after it came out, oh boy. 95 is over 30 years now in 2026, a movie about a father bonding with this son, fearing of him growing up through the eyes of goofy. As ridiculous as it sounds, it is so meaningful to so many people. A goofy movie deserves to be in the registry at number three. Also from 1995, I have Friday kind of along the same lines of a goofy movie. I still think this movie is more relevant now than ever. It is one of the most quotable movies of the 90s. It shifted the way we looked at this genre of movies in the 90s where oftentimes these neighborhoods were portrayed as something being only violent and tragic. And the entire plotline of this movie was a different take on that. While it is still about two people going to be killed over a very low amount of money because of some drug business gone wrong, it is done through a Humorous lens and meant to find the humor in everyday life of South Central Los Angeles. And it is such a celebrated movie and has such a deep fan base that even now, people are still begging and wanting to know when another installment in this franchise is going to come out. Because this movie was kind of a cultural hit and unexpectedly, a little bit. It only cost $3.5 million to make, but went on to make over $27 million at the box office. Did really well also on VHS. Sparked so many memes. Had really great representation, such a great soundtrack as well, when that was still more important back in the 90s. But it's a movie with such a long legacy and enduring popularity that we still talk about this movie much like we do a goofy movie from 95. It is a pop culture pillar that I cannot believe it's not already in this registry. At number three, I have Friday. At number four, moving into the 2000s, I have Napoleon Dynamite. Much like Friday is another movie that was made for a relatively low budget, $400,000, went on to make over $46 million worldwide. And also did really well on home video, making $130 million from that alone. This movie is so influential on indie comedy, fashion, and created a moment in the 2000s that could never be replicated. I do believe that Napoleon Dynamite was a movie you had to experience and live it in that moment to understand it. I don't think a kid growing up now could go back and watch this movie and find it as funny as we did in the 2000s, where it was so cutting. It just didn't compare and stood out so much between everything else that came out not only in 2004, but for much of the 2000s before that, where it set a whole new standard on what a comedy could be. It could be dry, ridiculous, and still be a hit. It felt nostalgic, even though it never really says at what time this movie takes place. But you think about Kip Internet dating. So obviously it was kind of taking place in the 2000s, even though it had that 1980s aesthetic. It also paved the way for more quotable comedies of the 2000s. Highly influential, I believe, on the success of movies like Juno. I mean, you had lines like, vote for Pedro, you get to eat your tots. Gosh, Tina, you fat lord. All of those great quotes that are such a part of movie vernacular now. It turned John Heater into a Star in the 2000s. It put Idaho on the map. It is such a big representation of a very specific time in American culture. That is why I believe Napoleon Dynamite deserves to go into the registry at number five. I wanted to include a horror movie on the list. And when I thought about all the movies I thought had the most impact in the 2000s and the 90s, I had to go back to 1996 and scream, where it brought new blood into the slasher genre that peaked in the 80s. And horror movies as a whole moving into the 90s just became the same thing again and again. But here you have Scream that introduced this meta fictional awareness that they still do to this day. It really embraced the 90s by mixing those elements of horror with satire and a critique on American culture. It gave us one of the most iconic masks of all time, with Ghostface. But most importantly, it changed the way that us as an audience engage with a horror movie and have a better understanding of the genre by laying out all the rules of how to survive a horror movie and making that a core part of this movie's DNA, where maybe it does end up hurting it later on down in the franchise, where it becomes a little bit too meta and. And at times it becomes a parody inside a parody, which, by the way, it did spark one of the best parody movies of all time. Scary Movie and being the main source material for that franchise. But it all goes back to Scream. Wes Craven, rip I think he truly was one of horror's brightest lights and greatest visionaries. So at number five on my list, I have Scream from 1996. At number six from 2009, I have the Hangover, which I believe is the definitive raunchy comedy of my lifetime. And I think at that time, in the late 2000s, right before we got into the 2010s, going into a decade that would change how we approach comedies, this was almost the last time you can make a movie this raunchy and not politically correct. If you go back and even just watch the trailer that aired on TV for the Hangover, you couldn't get away with that in a movie, let alone a trailer that's supposed to be advertising your movie. But this movie embraced chaos that I think we really had an appetite for going into the 2010s, where it spawned a whole genre of raunchy, ridiculous comedies where people were just partying, causing destruction, acting like children, ignoring all your adult responsibilities for the sake of a great comedic movie, and did it all with the fantastic cast with Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, and also, to me, became the most relevant Las Vegas movie that there's not a time that I go to Vegas now. And don't think about the Hangover. Alan at Caesar's palace, asking if this is the real Caesar's Palace. And the only other movie I felt was in contention for taking my big comedy slot on my list was super bad from 2007. But I just think the Hangover had a much more impact on the movies set to come in the 2010s. I think it's more quotable, has more memorable characters. So at number six, I have the hangover from 2009. At number seven, getting into the 2000 and tens now, which I will go back to the 2000s. But I think this movie is important because when it came out in 2013, it felt a little bit ahead of its time. Even though we were already living in the world of smartphones. I do believe it predicted what is happening now. And the movie is her from director Spike Jonze. And this movie was all about the exploration of human interaction with AI, where Joaquin Phoenix's character gets a new operating system that has AI that communicates with you. It's supposed to help you out in your everyday life with emails. He is a writer at a greeting card company and he just needs some help and he uses AI, but then he ends up falling in love with this AI. And like I said, we were already living in the era of the smartphone in Siri, but it somehow predicted what is happening now with ChatGPT and people falling in love with their AI assistants, which at the time still sounded super ridiculous. And this movie, when it came out, was set in the near distant future. I still think even now, if you go back and watch it, it still looks like it's maybe in the2030s. So we're not quite there yet as far as what this movie looks like, but what they are experiencing in her, we are already living in it. So I think that is reason enough to include this movie, to show how movies can be innovative in predicting the future. And it was such a big commentary on that psychological impact on us having relationships with our screens that now I think we are starting to see how damaging that can be to our attention spans, to our relationships, whether they be romantic or family or personal or business, and how much being on our phones all the time and keeps us from experiencing life and love at times. And now it doesn't seem so crazy for somebody to have this relationship that Joaquin Phoenix's character had back in 2013 in her. It's also wild to me that Spike Jonze just drops a movie like her. And also movies like where the Wild things are. But then sometimes just wants to say, hey, let me go film all my friends on Jackass or go do a music video for the Beastie Boys. So at number seven, I have her. At number eight, I have remember the Titans from 2000. I would not argue with you if you were to say this was your favorite sports movie of all time, your favorite football movie. I mean, even if you said Remember the Titans is your favorite movie of all time. If you ask anybody now who plays football in college or in the NFL, what's your favorite sports movie, I bet you from my experience of traveling around to different colleges and talking to head coaches and players in our YouTube series, too much Access, we also do a podcast called 25 Whistles, where we have a lot of coaches on and a lot of players on, and we ask them what is their favorite football movie or just what is their favorite sports movie. And I would say a good 60 to even 70% of them always say remember the Titans. Because the movie not only being a football movie, also is the true story of racial integration in the 1970s and just happens to do it through the lens of a high school football team and how to overcome systemic racism and bridge those cultural divides. And then it's also, just on top of that, a really great sports movie. A movie that I watched very early on in school where it feels like at least once a year, this would be the movie we would sit down and watch on movie day because it teaches you all these things and it's inspiring and it's just a great movie. And that I cannot believe is not in this registry already being eligible now for over 15 years, it's gotta go in. At number eight, I have Remember the Titans. At number nine, I have 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind starring Jim Carrey. My favorite romance sci fi movie, where you don't get many movies that can blend romance and sci fi, but this movie does it so well. And for the longest time it was in my top 10 movies of all time. Maybe now in 2026, where I would say that top 10 has shifted greatly in the last three years because there have been such amazing movies that have really rocked me. It has probably dropped down into the top 15, maybe top 20 at this point. But it was so impactful on me as a 13 year old who watched this movie for the first time as it explores in such a profound way heartbreak. And what some would say is the easy way out of dealing with that heartbreak. Just erase the person from your memory. You were in a really bad relationship. Why not just erase them all together so you never have to think about them and you never have to feel that pain again. Even me at 13, who never experienced real heartbreak, was so moved by this movie. And Jim Carrey's character, who felt so isolated and moody and dark and was just so inside of his head. I identified with him so much, just being a moody teenager who was trying to understand why girls didn't like me. But I think this movie teaches you so much about why those painful experiences make you who you need to be to be a human, where you can't just erase those things because they make you uncomfortable, because it pains you to feel that way. It is an essential part of life. And I think it's even more important now as a society where we start to try and find more easy ways out to situations. I do this too, even now, where it's a whole lot easier now to ignore things or to get out of things that make you feel uncomfortable. But I think these situations are things we need to experience. So in the same way that we try to curate our feeds and our algorithms to make them perfect, life is not perfect. It's going to be messy. We can put on the best version of ourselves on an Instagram feed or even on a TikTok feed, but it's all those things underneath that have made you who you are that maybe have put you in the most uncomfortable and painful situations in your life that are going to be the things that connect you with other people. And I think that is what I took away from that movie back in 2004, even though I didn't realize it. But probably take it away more now in 2026 when I do revisit it. And that is why I think this movie deserves to be in at number nine on my list. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Especially because Jim Carrey just got in this year that we mentioned earlier with the Truman Show. I do believe that movie deserved to go in first, but Eternal Sunshine should be right behind that at number 10. This was really tough because I wanted to have a top 10 list and there were others that almost made the cut. The usual suspects. But then when I think about the director and Kevin Spacey in that movie, maybe that is why it has not been entered in maybe some controversy there that you don't want to include people who maybe don't deserve this honor of being remembered forever. Interstellar was also on my list, but with Inception just going in this year, maybe a little bit too early for Interstellar, maybe in the next five we get it in there. But I do believe it is one of the best sci fi movies of all time. Inglourious Basterds, where Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is already in the registry. Maybe it's because some of the things Quentin Tarantino has said recently that has changed the way some people think about him. I still think this is one of his best movies. My personal favorite movie of his, but Pulp Fiction went in back in 2013 so maybe not quite time for Inglourious Basterds to go in. There were some other just personal favorites that I felt were a little bit too selfish to my list, but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Lilo and Stitch, Juno almost went in there over Napoleon Dynamite, but I still think Napoleon Dynamite was before it and also a little bit more culturally relevant. Could have been really selfish and put movies in like the Avengers, which is now within that out of 10 year range. Spider Man, Avatar, that was really close. I think that will be in there eventually, but it could be another 10 years before we see Avatar from 2009 entered in there. And then I thought of some really great comedies from the 2000s like Super Troopers that I feel is underrepresented in the registry as a whole, Great sports movies like Moneyball, and there were some others that I was really happy had already made it in, like Selena, Iron man which was added back in 2022, Toy Story was also added back in 2005 and La Bamba was added back in 2017. So what I decided to go with as my 10th movie that deserves to be in the National Film Registry. I am going with mean girls from 2004, which I believe is a perfect movie, not just a perfect comedy, a perfect movie from beginning to end. As soon as you hit play on Mean Girls, you realize you are watching an instant classic and it still remains culturally relevant at portraying what high school is like with clicks. And maybe it's changed a little bit as Gen Z becomes a little bit more accepting of people who aren't in your clique. But if you still look at the dynamics between the popular kids, the less popular kids, the jocks, the nerds, the band, all those different types of people that you encounter in high school. I still think it is an accurate portrayal of teenage social hierarchies, clicks, the toxic effects of bullying. It still has a long lasting list of memorable quotes which I think is important for movies being entered into this registry. It deserves to be preserved for that. It is also a great exploration on feminism, aggression, a cautionary tale unconformity. All those things that you experience in high school. A movie that's so relevant, you could still walk into a Walmart, a Target and find a T shirt or something with the saying on Wednesdays we wear pink. You still see Mean Girls memes all the time. The movie itself is now over 20 years old, so not only still relevant today, but will probably be relevant for another 20 or 30 years. At number 10 on my list, I have Mean Girls. So that is my list that I'll recap of. All movies I believe should be entered into the National Film Registry. The Sandlot, A Goofy Movie Friday, Napoleon Dynamite, Scream, the Hangover, Her Remember the Titans, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Mean Girls. All right, I'll come back and give my spoiler free review of Send help and the winner of the I Heart Podcast Award is. 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She is not with.
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Great, great, great way to start. So this is a great beginning, and hopefully you'll be able to. I don't know, maybe you will cry. Amanda Seyfried. Life is so short. If you feel something like that, you.
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Have that fire in you for this experience.
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It's not for a guy. It's for the experience of being in love. And, like, it's bigger than a guy. Elizabeth Olsen. I love swimming naked so much. And I know you love taking pictures of yourself naked. I love to be naked. I just want to be in my bra underwear all the time. Ross Matthews.
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Are you a boy or a girl? Oh, my God.
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All the time. I know. So I'm always like, hi. I try to butch it up for kids, you know, so they're not confused.
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No, I turn into be Arthur.
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Let's get into it now. A split spoiler free movie review of Send help, starring Rachel McAdams, Dylan O', Brien, directed by Sam Raimi, who not only gave us one of the best superhero trilogies of all time when he directed the OG Spider man movies with Toby Maguire, but is also responsible for horror classics like the Evil Dead. And out of Nowhere gave us one of the best horror comedies in a long time. And I am somebody who struggles. If somebody tells me, just go watch this movie. It's gonna be a lot of fun. For some reason, I don't like that sentiment going into it because to me, that says, ah, it's not gonna be that good. I don't want to go watch something that's just said to be fun because to me, that means my standards are lowered a little bit. But when it comes to Sam Raimi and his vision, his Campiness, which he is really famous for. It works. And I had, surprisingly, a lot of fun watching this movie. And it's about Rachel McAdams character who has been working at this company. The CEO of this company passes away and his son, played by Dylan o', Brien, comes into the picture. And his son is kind of a jerk. Not just kind of a jerk, he is a horrible boss. So she is a strategist working at this financial management company in the planning and strategy department. She is really good at her job. He just has a problem with her personality and finds her a little bit off putting. Basically. He's just being a really big jerk and being awful towards her. But outside of work, she is obsessed with the idea of survival. She reads books on it, on how to build fires, how to find food. Also a major fan of the show Survivor. It is her dream to go on that show and compete on it. So outside of work, that is where all these skills come from that come into play later on because they go on this work trip where the plane goes down. So now they are on this island and the roles start to get reversed a little bit because she has all these skills on how to keep them alive. And suddenly where he feels like, I'm still your boss, I'm still in charge of you. You have to do what I say. Not so fast. Because Rachel McAdams is like, well, out here, we're not at the office. You would probably be dead if it wasn't for me keeping you alive with all my survival skills. Let's see what happens now. And that's the foundation of this movie. How do they navigate those dynamics between employee and boss and how do they survive on this island? I love both of these actors together. Rachel McAdams is so charming in the way that she is so uncomfortable at the very beginning doing things that a socially awkward person would do. I identified with that where she is so good at her job, at being detail oriented. She's a workhorse. She. She is so good at it. But other people take credit for her work and they don't realize how good she is, but she just lacks those social skills and awareness when it comes to interacting with the superior. It is also interesting to see how much they had to make her look, quote unquote, ugly at the beginning of this movie, which is always a weird thing in Hollywood. They get one of the most beautiful people in the business and suddenly have to make her look unattractive when she is just so stunning no matter what. So they mess up her hair a Little bit. But I think that was the hardest thing for me. Like, okay, just because you maybe put glasses on her and some clothes that she maybe normally wouldn't wear, it is really hard to believe that she, in this office, would be the quote, unquote, ugly one. I don't even like calling people that word because people call me that word. So that is the most unbelievable part in this movie. But. But it's seeing how she becomes more comfortable and kind of gets more beautiful as the movie goes along. She gets more into her element and really allows herself to be her own unique self and you kind of see the beauty come out in her. So I thought that was a really great way to show this character's growth. And then you have Dylan o', Brien, who for me has been on a bit of a hot streak lately. If you did not see Twin List last year, I think his best role in a long time, where I've really become a big Dylan o' Brien fan. And he is so good in this, at being so unlikable. So in the same way it was hard for me to see Rachel McAdams as being unattractive, it was also hard for me to see Dylan o' Brien be a jerk. And at times his character seems so turned up to a 10 that I thought this kind of feels fake. There couldn't possibly be a person in the real world who is so insufferable, who is such a bad boss, who treats people with such disrespect, could there in the business world. And the more I started to think about it, I thought, no, there are real people like this in positions of power who are essentially grown up frat boys and just taking over a company, trying to do it and run it in a way that they would have run in college. The fact of the matter is, in America, this happens all the time in corporate America. So even though the way his character is portrayed is a little bit cartoonish and feels like a caricature of what a CEO would be like in this situation. There is probably somebody just like this sitting in an office right now who doesn't realize how ridiculous they are. But it was hard for me to see him as a jerk, as somebody you do not like. But the thing about this movie is you go through so many different emotions, feeling different ways about these two characters, and as you realize their intentions, as you realize as things get darker and darker. But the foundation of it, like we've been talking about here, is the fact that it is rooted in Sam Raimi's campiness where he does like exploring the cartoonish aspects of characters and of filmmaking. And I think that might be something that would deter some people from the meaning behind this movie. Because some of the elements are just that very campy, cartoonish. For example, there is a boar that they hunt while trying to find food. And the boar itself is rather fake looking. You don't look at that board and think, oh, that thing is a real threat. It's very cartoonish in the way it moves around. It's kind of like a more hardcore Pumbaa from the Lion King. And I think if you were going into this expecting a serious movie and expecting everything to have a sense of realism, Sam Raimi might not be the director for you because he likes creating a surreal environment to give it that cinematic feel. So much so that this movie was initially supposed to go to Sony. Sony was going to put this out, but they didn't want it to have a theatrical release. They wanted it to be a straight to streaming movie. And Sam Raimi says, I don't do that. I create an environment for a theater experience. That is the vision I have for this movie. So he took it away from Sony and said 20th century for this movie is now yours and is now having great success doing that. So Sam Raimi knows his vision, know how he wants to see his movie play out. And I'm so grateful that he fought for this movie because it made for a great in theater experience. It was fun. People were laughing. Where if you are somebody who doesn't like horror movies, like Kelsey, who went with me, surprisingly she didn't want to go see this movie, but she likes Rachel McAdams, she likes Dylan O'. Brien. And I told her it wasn't going to be your traditional horror movie, much more of a thriller. Some elements of suspense and all the horror elements were going to be so exaggerated that it's not going to give you nightmares. And that proved to be true. There are some bloody moments, but it's so over the top and exaggerated. It's not the same thing like watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's more like watching Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which Sam Raimi also directed. I think some people might even forget that Rachel McAdams was in both Doctor Strange movies. So that is the relationship there. But you get a sense that this isn't quite taking place in our reality. It feels very cinematic, very intentional. But if you don't realize that that all the stylistic choices when it comes to the visual effects, that all the visual effects aren't meant to look realistic. And Sam Raimi has been doing this since the Evil Dead of making things so over the top and outlandish. He is somebody who really emphasizes big close ups and visuals on people's eyes. That is something that has become his signature throughout his history of filmmaking. And you see all those elements here, and it feels very much like a Sam Raimi movie. And I think when it comes to really seeing his style in its perfect form, this is it. Even though I wasn't a big fan of what he did in the Multiverse of Madness, it didn't quite fit there, because I think we expect in the world of Marvel, a different level of visual effects that didn't work in that sense of storytelling. Here it does. It's not building upon some other world. It's not a sequel, it's not a reboot. Going into it, I know the context, so I feel that I'm much easier accepting of his campiness when it just comes in his own world, in his own universe. I love a Sam Raimi universe, and I just love seeing the return of Rachel McAdams on the big screen. She famously took a break back in the mid-2000s at the height of her fame. I'm talking Mean Girls level of fame. She said, I need to take a break. She moved back to Canada. She turned down roles in Iron Man, Casino Royale, the Devil Wears Prada, and then returned back in 2015 with Spotlight and said she had no regrets. And now it's crushing it again. She stole the show in Send Help. It was essentially the Rachel McAdams Show. She showed me so much that she understood this character and how to make you root for her, but also make you fearful of her. You are questioning her intentions from beginning to end. Rachel McAdams can really do it all. But the only thing I couldn't help think about is man. We were robbed of a spider. Man 4, directed by Sam Raimi, starring Toby Maguire. It had a Release date anytime. May 6th comes around on the calendar, I think. Man, back in 2011, we were supposed to get Spider Man 4. It was supposed to have Vulture. It was supposed to have Black Cat. It was supposed to fix all the problems that Sam Raimi didn't like with what happened with Spider Man 3, because a lot of that was studio pressure of wanting to squeeze Venom in there, wanting to get these characters in there that didn't quite fit. Ah, Spider Man 4 was gonna be amazing. Development was happening back in 2008, but ultimately in 2011, Sam Raimi walked away because he had so many creative differences with Sony, they couldn't land on a final script. And even with Toby Maguire coming back in no Way Home, Sam Raimi still says no. It would be wrong to bring back his version of Spider Man. He is passing the torch along to new filmmakers. So sadly, we're never getting that Spider Man 4. But that is okay with me as long as Sam Raimi continues to be true to himself, which is something I highly respect in him as a director for. Send help. I give it 4 out of 5. Islands. It's time to head down to Movie Mike's Trailer Park. I have nostalgia fomo, guys, because everybody is flipping out about the Devil Wears Prada too. The trailer got 2.8 million views within the first nine hours on YouTube. At the time time of recording this, now it's sitting at about 11 million views. So people want to see this movie, which is rare. Usually people feel like, ah, don't mess with the legacy. We don't want to see what these characters are up to. But that doesn't seem to be the sentiment online. Even the studio themselves wrote it in the description on YouTube saying everybody wants this. Which most often people say, nobody asked for this when it comes to a movie coming 20 years after the original. But it seems like people want to know what Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway, and Stanley Tucci have been up to since the first movie. There are some reasons that I believe this isn't just a cash grab. We'll get into all that. But before I do, here is just a little bit of the Devil Wears Prada trailer coming out in theaters on May 1st. Hello. Well, look what TJ Maxx dragged in.
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Sorry, who is this?
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Do you know her? Do I know her?
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I'm Andy Sachs.
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Andrea. She was one of the Emilys. One of the what?
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Am I having a hallucination?
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Hi, Emily.
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You also know her. We were at Runway at the same time. Miranda. Really? How was I?
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Meryl Streep acting like she does not remember everybody from the first movie, but she is back as Miranda, Stanley Tucci is back as Nigel, and Hathaway is back as Andy, and Emily Blunt is back as Emily. The most surprising thing to me about the devil wears Prada 2 is the fact that Meryl Streep is actually doing a sequel. She notoriously has turned down sequels her entire career. The only other time I've seen her be a part of a sequel in recent history, she was in the sequel to Mamma Mia. But she had about a five minute cameo. She really wasn't in the entire thing. The whole movie is about two hours. She is in maybe five minutes of that. So that's really not her coming back to do a full on sequel. The reason I think she agreed to do a sequel is the difference is the Devil Wears Prada movies are based on a book. The second movie is going to be based on the book called Revenge. Where's Prada? The Devil Returns, which came out in 2013. In the book, it follows Andy 10 years later as a successful bridal magazine editor whose life, marriage and career are threatened when her past intersects with her former boss, Miranda. Andy is preparing to marry the son of a media mogul, but her past comes back to Hunter when Miranda reenters her life. Miranda is also suffering with a decline of print. So that is where you're going to find her character. And we see all throughout this trailer her not remembering anybody. So you don't know if she's suffering from actual memory loss or she is being so petty because of what happened at the end of Devil Wears Prada. 1. There is also a third book in the series called When Life gives you Lululemons, which is mostly based on the character Emily. That book came out in 2018. So if you go back to the original movie based on the book, it follows Andy, Anne Hathaway's character who just graduated college. She's trying to get a career in journalism, so she ends up being a junior assistant to Miranda, who is the editor in chief of Runway, which is a highly successful fashion magazine. And all throughout that movie, Andy struggles to meet the demands of a really, really terrible boss. She is also trying to maintain her relationship with her boyfriend and and then enters in Emily Blunt's character and Stanley Tucci's character. So in this movie, Emily Blunt's character is now a high powered executive working for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Meryl Streep is looking for because the print business just isn't what it used to be. So I think the reason it doesn't feel like a cash grab to me is none of these three leads need to do this movie right now. Anne Hathaway doesn't need to do it. Emily Blunt is having, I would say, the apex of her career right now. She's also going to be in Disclosure Day later this year, which is the Steven Spielberg Alien movie. Meryl Streep could just retire. She does not need to be working anymore. But I really think deep down she still loves it because she still gets nominated for awards and that is what she does. She puts out roles and then scoops up all of her trophies at the Golden Globes or at the Oscars. I don't know if this one is going to be on the level of the first because back at the 2007 Oscars, the movie did scoop up two nominations. Meryl Streep was up for best Actress. She did not win it. Was also up for Best Costume Design. They still did not win there and I don't think they're really trying to go for those awards again just by watching the trailer. It really looks like they are super serving the fans of the original movie and of the books because all these little references you would really only get if you are a really big fan of the first one. And it is a movie that has had a long lasting history and I think that's why we've seen people just swarm to watching this trailer online and creating a buzz about it. Some actors joining the cast are Kenneth Branagh, who is going to be Meryl Streep's new boyfriend. And the most surprising, but also not that surprising, is that Sydney Sweeney is going to be in this sequel. I would say the most surprising casting just because I don't know how she's going to fit into this cast, but not surprising because she is in everything right now. You also have Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, BJ Novak and Lady Gaga will make a cameo in this movie. And my question is, will it be the best number two to come out in 2006? So let's talk about sequels here. Not part threes or part fours or part Fives. I'm talking about all the big number twos coming out in 2026. You have the Devil Wears Prada. You have Fall 2 coming out, which the original came out back in 2022, which was about two girls who climbed this really tall radio tower and then get stuck up there. Which sounds crazy in itself because if you think about putting yourself in that situation, those things are really tall and really scary. But then you find out all the crazy details of their backstory and oh, it gets wild. So I think that's a movie that came out back in 2022 that I love the concept of it. Overall execution of it was okay, but I still think it is just a really solid thriller and suspense movie. It's one of those movies with such a great premise that you know it's going to be entertaining even though the acting probably isn't going to be the best thing you've ever seen and probably border along the lines of being a little bit cheesy, but it's a good movie that if you go watch it in theaters and bond with the people sitting around you, it could be a really fun time. But I don't think that'll be the best number two. We also have Violent Night two coming out this year, which is the David Harbour movie where he plays Santa and kills a bunch of criminals. The first one was pretty good, but I don't think that is going to be the best number two of the year because the first one is kind of forgettable. I don't really need to see a sequel in that situation, but David Harbour is doing a lot of big movies right now. Mortal Kombat 2, the original came out back in 2021. I have been waiting for this movie. It is the modern reboot of Mortal Kombat. So not a continuation of the two movies from back in the 90s, but it is reintroducing Mortal Kombat to a new generation. A lot more depth to the story, maybe a little bit too much for my liking where I just want to see a bunch of people fighting in the style of the first movies because the actual character design and the action is a lot better. It is so much less cheesy than those original movies, but there's still just something lacking to these movies that I want them to be a little bit better. So hopefully they get those things right in the sequel. Right now, out of all the ones we've been talking about, I still think Devil Wears Prada is up there at the top, But Mortal Kombat 2 is probably right underneath that. We also have Practical Magic 2 coming out, which the original came out back in 1998. It has been a while since I've seen Nicole Kidman, her and Sandra Bullock together. I think in recent history I've been more of a fan of Sandra Bullock's movies, but more a fan of Nicole Kidman's miniseries. Nicole Kidman in a miniseries is always a plus when it comes to her most recent, most memorable movies. Baby Girl was really good, but then I feel like sometimes she just picks up a paycheck for doing a sequel to Aquaman. So another movie I don't really feel the nostalgia for, but I'm excited to see two actors at their level putting out a sequel like that. I hope that one does really well. Ready or not to here I come. I think the first movie is highly underrated. Samara Weaving is my go to actor right now in the horror genre. I'll watch anything with her. And the first one was so unexpectedly good that if it could somehow continue that same momentum from 2019, I have really high hopes for Ready or Not to Here I Come. So I think that's at the top of my list now because you also have the Super Mario Galaxy movie. It's not really the Super Mario Brothers movie 2 because they're going to make so many more of these movies and probably have spin offs. So I don't know if I can technically count that because it doesn't have two in the title. We also have the Social Reckoning coming out later this year, which is not a direct sequel to the Social Network, which is the Facebook movie. Instead. It's pretty much an entirely different cast. A whole different situation takes place at a different time. Really going to be unrelated from the first movie because Jesse Eisenberg is no longer playing Mark Zuckerberg. So out of all the twos, the devil wears Prada to fall to violent night two, Mortal Kombat 2 practical magic to and ready or Not To Here I Come. I'm going to say my favorite of all these and one that I will probably rate the highest is Going to be Ready or Not 2. And that movie is coming out in theaters on March 20th. Again, we've been talking about the Devil Wears Prada too. That is coming out on May 1st. So a lot of great number twos coming out this year. And that was this week's edition of Movie Mike's Trailer park 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. This week I'm going over to my YouTube channel where you can watch individual movie reviews. If there's any movie you missed from January, December or November, just go to YouTube.com mikedistro and you can see just those segments of the podcast there. And I get just random comments all the time on old videos because I always review the movie when it comes out in theaters and then when it goes to streaming, I see the people who have trickled in started watching it at home. So I went over to my review of Hamnet that I did with Kelsey and Shouting out flipping Iowa7868 who said I love this review with a bunch of heart emojis. Hamnet, you can watch it at home. You do have to rent it. It is 20 bucks right now. But going into the Oscars, if there is one movie you really need to see that went a little bit under the radar and maybe you saw the trailer and thought that looks a little bit too artsy and emotional. I think Hamnet is the dark horse because the Oscars are coming up on March 15th and Hamnet still doesn't have a proper release date on Peacock. It still says March 2026. So hopefully it ends up being before the Oscars. But I even looked today and there are still some theaters actually showing it. So that's my dark horse for the Oscars if you missed that one. So thank you flipping Iowa for watching reviews over there on YouTube. Thank you for listening wherever you are. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.
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