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MOVIE MIKE: Actors Who HATE Movies That Made Them Famous + Movie Review: Wuthering Heights + Trailer Park: Disclosure Day
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Visit lowe's.com terms. For details subject to change, visit your nearby Lowe's on Colorado street in Kennewick. Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I'm your host, Movie Mike. Today I want to talk about actors who threw shade at the roles that made them famous, biting the hand that feeds them. Why did they do this? Were they justified? Were some of these roles terrible? In the movie review, we'll be talking about Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. Something happened in our theater that I've never seen or heard before from an audience, especially when it comes to a romance movie. So we'll talk about that in the trailer park. We'll talk about the Disclosure Day trailer that aired at the Super Bowl. How excited are we for Steven Spielberg returning to making a movie about aliens? Thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. I'm a little hyped up. I just chugged a coffee. So let's get going. Let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. As you can tell, the caffeine has entered my veins. It is pumping through my blood, straight out my mouth. To talk about movies, I have a list of actors who don't necessarily love the roles and projects that launch their career. Sometimes an actor will just take a job because they need a job. Maybe they're working in tv, not quite cutting through yet, and you take a movie role just in the hopes of maybe this could be the one that launches my career to a level that I've been dreaming about since I was a kid. And in some cases, some of these people on this list are actually children when they got cast in these movies. But for some reason or another, these actors look at these roles with embarrassment, frustration, or just have some complicated mixed feelings. Maybe they had some beef with a director and they just did not like how these movies turned out. And they feel like these are a bit of a blemish on their resume. So let's get right into the list, starting with Jennifer Aniston in 1993. The role that made her famous long before, well, not too long before Friends was Leprechaun. This was Jennifer Aniston's debut film in what is now a cult horror movie. I love the Leprechaun franchise. When I first watched this back in the 90s as a kid, I didn't see it as being comical. I was terrified of leprechaun. Granted, I was coming off of being terrified of other little demonic creatures like Chucky But I found the first one and two leprechaun movies to be pretty terrifying. But now when you watch these, you see how campy it is. You see how comical these movies are and why they weren't the most successful when they came out. And while at the time Jennifer Aniston thought this was her big break, she felt like she arrived in Hollywood when she got this movie in 1993 and then one year later would be on the biggest show on the face of the planet, Friends. But now when she looks back on her career, she calls this project embarrassing. She talked about it on Howard Stern. He calls it the bane of her existence. She agreed. She said her ex husband Justin Theroux forced her to watch it. And she tried to really try to, but was unsuccessful. She had to grab the remote and turn it off and ended up cringing with while leaving and then re entering the room. She even later said while promoting the morning show that it just straight up not her favorite. But she acknowledged that it is a cult classic and then for the first time actually admitted that she is proud of it in a weird way. So maybe now she's fully coming around to it because I think it has entered that level of cult classic now in 2026, where all the people like me who watched this when they were younger and and have a lot of good things attached to it. Fun memories of watching horror movies late at night. This was always a part of my horror binge watch going into Halloween whenever October hit. This was part of the franchises that I would dive into every single year. So maybe at that time, back in the 90s where she was really coming out and starting her career at the time was probably a hard thing to get over because you think about she goes from doing this in 93 to friends in 94, stays on that show for a very long time. And it's not until the later part of her career with Friends where she wanted to branch out again and do movies. But then you think about talking to people, talking to producers, talking to directors, wanting to go be on tv, which is what everybody wanted to do back in the 90s. You do TV, but ultimately you want to be in the movies, you want to make a picture. And if you have leprechaun on your resume and as your debut in film, it is probably harder to pitch yourself for more serious roles. But granted, when you look at people's early roles, a lot of them come from horror because it's low budget, you need a good lead. So if you look back on all your favorite Actors, they have done some questionable horror movies back early on in their career. And I think in Jennifer Aniston's case, to have Leprechaun be your debut, she should not be as embarrassed as she is. But I'm glad she is finally coming around to this movie. There is a scene in Leprechaun that is forever just burned into my head. And again, I don't remember this movie being so comical when I watched it as a kid. But there is a scene where Jennifer Aniston and some of the other people in the cast are trying to escape, go get help. They have a jeep and they want to leave this farmhouse to go find somebody else to help them defeat this leprechaun. So they come up with this plan to distract the leprechaun and they find this loophole where if you throw shoes at him, a leprechaun by instinct just has to shine those shoes because he can't see dirty shoes. He's going to pick them up and start shining them. And that would give them enough time to distract him and allow Jennifer Aniston to leave and go find help. Here is that scene that I just think about all the time for some odd reason. Hello, love.
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Ryan Seacrest
Yeah.
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Kelsey
Shiny, shiny.
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Mike D. Shiro
He's like, how dare you? You found my one weakness. I just can't help but shine any shoe that is thrown at me. So if ever I have to clean my shoes a little bit, I always default to that voice, Shiny, shiny, shiny, as I shine my shoes. But Jennifer Aniston, embarrassed of her first role in Leprechaun from 1993. Next up on the list, Alec Baldwin. His first major breakout role was in Beetlejuice. This cemented him in Hollywood playing the character Adam, which he was more of a TV actor before this movie, but right after the success of Beetlejuice, boom, mainstream stardom. He went on to be in other movies like the Hunt for red October in 1990. But Alec Baldwin, back when he made Beetlejuice with Tim Burton, he said he was convinced that this movie would end everyone's career involved.
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Bowen Yang
He.
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Mike D. Shiro
He said when we did Beetlejuice, I had no idea what it was about. I thought my and all of our careers were going to end with the release of this film. How wrong he was. But I could see where Alec Baldwin was coming from because Tim Burton was still a new director. Pee Wee's Big Adventure came out in 1985, but that was so unlike what he was doing with Beetlejuice, where I felt Beetlejuice was the first real Tim Burton film that had that look that, had that humor, had that stop motion where he really put his artistic vision into Beetlejuice. That would become the style that we know Tim Burton for to this day. But if you are working on a movie like this, where this guy is still relatively untested, you don't know how audiences are going to receive this. I could see how you think, man, this is going to be awful. Alec Baldwin also said that he felt completely sidelined. He said, quote, I remember walking through that movie and thinking, I got nothing. I was a set piece, a prison sentence. And he even tried to model his character after another 1950s actor to make it more interesting. But Tim Burton shut it down. And that was the only direction Tim Burton ever gave him. Just don't do that. And despite not understanding it at the time and not being super proud of his work in that moment, Alec Baldwin did later on praise Tim Burton, calling him a mad genius and, and praising Michael Keaton's comedic brilliance. This could have been an instance where any other actor might have walked away from this project thinking, this is not going to work. But props to Alec Baldwin for sticking it out and sticking with your director. At number two, we have Alec Baldwin in Beetlejuice, Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights. This was the role that launched his career into acting. He'd already been doing music, but it was this movie, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who also did one battle after another just this last year, that helped establish Mark Wahlberg as a legitimate leading man, paving the way for future roles like the Departed, like the Transformers movies he was in, even though those were terrible. Or movies like Ted. Just name any Mark Wahlberg movie. It all goes back to him having success with Boogie Nights. And in this case, he didn't shade it so much. So because he didn't like the film or he thought it was bad in any way. He expressed a lot of regrets about doing Boogie Nights because of the subject matter, especially later in life where even though he did have some troubles early on in his career as a teenager, in his young adult life, he has really changed, becoming more of a family man, becoming more dedicated to his faith. And he said later in life he just felt like, oh, man, why didn't I do that movie? He later said at a church he was speaking at. I just always hope that God is a movie fan and also forgiving because I've made some poor choices in my past. Boogie Nights is up there at the top of my list. It is a very R rated movie about the adult industry. But I think at that Time was the perfect role for him to transition into being a legitimate actor. And after having a background of being a model, being a rapper, this was kind of best case scenario for him. He had a hit right out of the gate, made him famous. Next up, John Cusack was not a fan of his movie Better Off Dead. Now, early on in his career, he had a couple of different movies that put him on the map. You could say, say anything, but Better Off Dead is highly regarded as one of his most defying early performances. Director Savage Steve Holland claimed that John Cusack once stormed out of a screening and told him, this is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life, and adding that he felt used and made fun of. Years later, John Cusack softened his stance for being so brash in that response. In a Reddit ama, he said, I didn't hate it, I just thought it could have been better. He said that he feels that way about most of his movies and explained that much of that perceived anger came from being endlessly asked about the movie during press tours for Unreal related projects. I was 17 years old, he said. I was just on to the next thing. I think this is probably the case for a lot of people on this list. You have that breakout role, the one that people just come back to time after time again. Because us as movie fans, we get attached to the first thing we saw you in. It's what we love the most because we associate it with a very fun part of our time where everything was bright and shiny. There are a lot of actors I think about. Oh man, I watched this movie when I was a kid. If I ever got to interview them, I would have to ask them a question about that movie. In John Cusack's case, he did this movie when he was 17. I think you just start to get annoyed. But I also understand as an actor, there are worse things people could ask you about in an interview. If somebody wants to celebrate you for your work, you kind of have to do it. It's kind of like an artist who has a hit early on in their career and then later on in life they get sick of it. They don't want to play it anymore. I'm sorry, but if you have a hit, you got to play the hits. That's what puts you on the map. That's what people want to hear. So in that same sense, if you put out a movie that a lot of people love, even though it's early on, you got to play the hits. You got to talk about those early roles while I do understand how it can be annoying. We just want to know about it. We're going to keep asking you questions about Better Off Dead about say anything. So John Cusack on the list with Better Off Dead and why he publicly shaded it. Next up on the list, Natalie Portman. She was in a movie at 12 years old called Leon the Professional. This launched her career into acting. Natalie Portman was chosen from over 2, 000 candidates to play the role in this movie about a young girl mentored by a hitman. And this movie established her as a rising talent and is so influential on her early success. She went on to do movies like Star wars, which just went. She also got an Oscar for Black Swan in 2010, but it was this movie that launched her career. But why? She hated it. But she publicly shaded this movie for a very legitimate reason. Again, she was only 12 years old when she made this movie, and. And she describes her feelings with it to be deeply conflicted. She said, it gave me my career, but when you watch it now, it definitely has some cringy aspects, to say the least. She later said that the allegations against the director were devastating and emphasized. I was a kid working, I really didn't know. I saw some interviews where she said that the director's behavior on set was very creepy, in particular, when it came to her costuming. Some described it similar to the way Quentin Tarantino focuses on feet. That's how this director was focused on some of the costuming with her character. Some of the things he wanted to portray were deeply concerning and disturbing because she was 12 years old. So if you go back and watch this movie, some of it is a little bit questionable. She said, it's still a movie that's beloved and people come up to me about it more than almost anything I've ever made. But, yes, it is very complicated for me. And then you throw in what the director was accused of in 2018, which was not good. The case against him was dismissed in 2021 after an investigation. So in this case, I could see that as being a movie she doesn't really want to talk about anymore. Next up on the list, Sean Connery, who became internationally famous with his role of James Bond in the movie Dr. No back in 1962. He went on to play James Bond in movies from 1962 to 1967 and returned for two more, defining the character's style, wit and global popularity. So much so that it is still a thing to play James Bond. And we're still waiting on who is going to Play him next. Before playing Bond, he had only appeared in small theater and TV productions. But this was the role that turned him into a sex symbol and a global superstar. And what appeared to be overnight, we're talking Dr. No, from Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, you Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, and Never say Never Again in 1983. But he famously hated playing the character. He once said that the films don't tax one as an actor, adding that all you really need is the constitution of a rugby player. So because of his theater and TV background, he thought, man, this character takes no effort to play. It doesn't fulfill me. Therefore it is bad, and if you like it, you are bad. He described James Bond as a cross, a privilege, a joke, a challenge, and as bloody intrusive as a nightmare. At one point, bluntly stated, I hate James Bond. I'd like to kill him. I hear in his description of this character he felt like playing James Bond with was beneath him. And sometimes I hear stories of people who maybe write a joke that they think, ah, this isn't going to be any good, but I'll try it. And it's your lowest common denominator throwaway joke that some people find to be the funniest. It works the best in your set. Some musicians, they write a song and think, this is a stupid song, but let's put it out anyway, and that ends up being their biggest hit. Sometimes it's the things that you don't have to think that much about that people end up loving. That's the only way I can see his disdain for this character is he thinks it's so easy. I can just walk in and just not even think about these lines, don't even have to read them, and I can play this character and people just eat it up. Which I don't even see James Bond to be that dumbed down of a character. But I guess if you are so sophisticated as a Mr. Sean Connery, you want to be doing things that maybe show more of your range or are a little bit more challenging. And not just you in a suit with the gun doing the same thing movie after movie. But that is harsh to say it straight up that you hate this character who has brought you so much fame, brought you so much funny, that even though you don't love it, is adored by millions and millions of people. That's kind of a dirt ball move. So I just don't see the disdain here for this character where I'm not even the biggest James Bond fan. I could be on the side of Sean Connery saying, yeah, it's a terrible role, but I know how many people love these movies. They are just not for me. So for him to be so outwardly angry, bashing these movies, that just seems like a wild thing to do. Biting the hand that feeds, man. But we have Sean Connery as James Bond next up on the list. Jacob Elordi had a breakout role in the Kissing Booth on Netflix. That is the only thing I think about now when I watch the Kissing Booth or think about the Kissing Booth. Not that I watched the Kissing Booth any more than the first times I watched it on Netflix. I think it wasn't until the last one final movie of the series came out that Kelsey and I watched all the movies. So this was very much just me just being thrown into the Kissing Booth and the movies are what they are. I wasn't expecting the most in depth thing when watching a movie called the Kissing Booth, but in a way that a Disney show or a Nickelodeon show could put you on the map as a young actor. The same thing with movies like the Kissing Booth on Netflix that find that young audience, it launched these people into stardom. Jacob Elordi being one of those people who, who is now starting to become a household name from the Kissing Booth. He went on to do Euphoria, which two completely different projects where he gets to be more of an actor. There still kind of in the teen world, still not the most like, okay, I'm going to be the most defined actor here. But a big stepping stone from the Kissing Booth and now is doing movies like Frankenstein, Withering Heights, starring alongside Margot Robbie. I feel like he is now in that upper tier of actor on just pure acting abilities. And the fact that he is so tall and good looking only helps push his star that much higher. But he hates these movies. He has been so shockingly upfront about not liking the Kissing Booth. He said, I didn't want to make those movies before I made those movies. He has called them ridiculous and not universal. He also warned against doing too many projects like that and said it can become 15 of them and none for you. You have no original ideas and you're dead inside. So I think more so than just hating the content of these movies, maybe hating his character in the Kissing Booth, I think he hated the idea of being attached to a franchise like that where you get so sucked into it. You are doing these movies only because it's steady work early on in your career, but then you want to go to other things. You, you could have probably done. If you're Jacob Elordi, five of these movies easy could have kept cranking them out even though by the second one the plot was holding on for dear life. So I just think it's so interesting for him to bash this movie so hard. This is a case where I really don't know what he gets about showing his hate for these movies. But if you are a fan of the kissing booth, just know Jacob Elordi thinks less of you if you watch and enjoy those movies. Next up, Richard Gere and Pretty Woman. He was already a well established star in the 1980s, but it was Pretty Woman in 1990 that re cemented his A list status, making him not just famous in America, but famous worldwide as the romantic lead in this film. He had been in movies like American Gigolo in 1980, An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982, but it was Pretty Woman that just made him even more popular. But he hated it and he shaded it publicly. He said Pretty Woman is his least favorite thing. Your least favorite thing. Richard Gere, the movie I would consider. Well, maybe this in Runaway Bride, which also has Julia Roberts. Those two are my favorite Richard Gere movies and the only ones to me that come to mind when I think about him. He dismissed Pretty Woman as being a silly romantic comedy. This is where I get angry. This is where I'm standing up now in the studio. I hate it when actors talk so bad about their projects and call things silly. It's just a silly romcom. It's just a dumb comedy, a stupid horror movie. You should not be acting if you talk about your projects this way. You just shouldn't. Because people find enjoyment in all different types of things. And for you to say or call somebody out for enjoying something silly, not even that it's silly that you think it's silly. Come on, Richard Gear. That is so annoying. He also criticized the movie's portrayal of wealthy corporate raiders and it said it made those guys seem dashing, which was wrong. So needless to say, at 76 years old, doesn't sound like Richard Gere would be down for another Pretty Woman. Pretty Woman too. This sounds like one of those fake Facebook movies where if you get on Facebook, you just get slammed with these AI images and chat GPT descriptions of new movies coming to theaters that were just announced. And for some reason all you have is a crappy poster on Facebook to announce it. But I could see this on Facebook. Pretty Woman 2 A Second Chance and you see an AI image of Richard Gere and Julia Roberts together again. And you see all the comments like, I can't wait for this. Or people being like, this is so bad, I can't believe this is coming out. But then you have the one voice of reason down there saying, doesn't everybody know this is AI? That's what Pretty Woman 2 sounds to me. So will never be made. I think Julia Roberts could come back and we forget Richard Gere if he thinks so. Less of these movies. One of the best rom coms of the 90s and of all time. Get out of here. You don't deserve to act. Richard Gere. Next up on the list, Anya Taylor Joy. Her breakout role was in the Witch. She saw a lot of success in her career after this 2015 horror movie, which is a fantastic horror movie. It is a slow burn. A lot of the scary elements are subtle, but it is one if you put it on, I would say late at night. Although late at night to me now as a 34 year old, almost 35 year old is like 8:30. You turn off all the lights and really allow yourself to sink into this story. Because it's one of those horror movies where there's not a lot of crazy action, not a whole lot of things that are just gonna pop out of nowhere and scare you. It is a very subtle type of horror. So you have to be in the right space for it, have to be quiet, not on your phone. But it is one of my favorite horror movies of the 2010s and was her breakout film role. And Anya Taylor Joy actually chose to do this movie instead of another Disney Channel pilot that she could have done in its place. Made a great choice there. And when she shaded this movie in public, it wasn't the film itself, it was her performance in it. So she was a lot younger in this role. She and she said she felt devastated, believing that she let everyone down and questioning whether or not she was right for the role at all. So that's the best way you shade a movie that you were in early on in your career that gave you your start, that you think, man, I just didn't try hard enough. They made a mistake in hiring me. So maybe that gets you out of talking about it to some people because like, she doesn't really want to talk about her performance in that because she doesn't think she was that good. Instead of being like, I hated doing that movie, it was terrible. But a really great breakout role for her. If that was my first movie as an actor, I would be set. And she's gone on to do shows like the Queen's Gambit. The Menu was a really great movie a few years ago. Still kind of in that horror space, although it's more of a thriller and suspense. Anya Taylor Joy as an actor just elevates any project that she is in. The Witch is one of those. I'm glad she didn't rip it too hard. But next up, we got a couple of people who did rip their movies pretty hard. Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox both reached international fame with Transformers, and both of them really hate looking back on both of these movies. Although I think it's time to reboot transformers with Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, I think they're both in a good place now. I think it's been far enough from them being so public about their relationship with Michael Bay, which was more so Megan Fox beefing with him because she was not in the later movies, which greatly suffered without having Megan Fox. Because if you think about these movies and the real reason that Shia LaBeouf didn't like them, even though they made him famous, made him a lot of money, is it was those two together that sold the story. It was their relationship and their dynamic that made those movies work. And that's what Shia LaBeouf said. He said because he loved the human element and that's what he wanted because otherwise it just would have been a bunch of robots fighting each other. But he did call the movies later irrelevant and dated af. He criticized their lack of heart, saying, unless you have relationships, the movie doesn't matter. They're just robots fighting each other. So he was right. Because if you look at the later films, minus him and minus Megan Fox, that is why they lack that same impact, is because you didn't have those great relationships. Although I would say Bumblebee with Haley Steinfeld went back to that. That is a great installment in the franchise. But overall, by the time we got to when Mark Wahlberg was introduced into this franchise, it was pretty much dead. They are kind of coming back with the Rise of The Beasts and Transformers 1, the Animated Movie. But. But it is really hard to replicate the Transformers movies of the late 2000s. Shia LaBeouf also said that the second movie was made without a finished script, adding that they were essentially making it up as they went just to meet a deadline. So that just kind of proves to you the movies got so big and successful that there was such a demand to just get these movies out in time to make that money while the iron was hot, that they really just stopped caring about the story and just throwing on whatever could make it work by the time that they needed it. Megan Fox did acknowledge and say that she was terrible in these movies, but said, I can't crap on this movie because it did give me my career. But also that this movie is not about the acting. She said the experience taught her a lot, even though she isn't proud of her performance. And she was famously in a big battle with Michael Bay. A lot of controversy there. So I can imagine it would be really hard to get these two back together. But if we could get Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson back in the Hunger Games, why can't we get Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox back in Transformers? All right, a couple more to wrap up the list. Robert Pattinson just hates Twilight. He really does. Even though the movie made him a household name. He had been in the Harry Potter movies before this as Cedric Diggory and the Goblet of Fire. Robert Pattinson called Edward Cullen ridiculous. He said he's a 108 year old virgin, so obviously he's got some issues. He also said that reading the book sometimes made him uncomfortable, describing them as feeling like someone's sexual fantasy. Which the Twilight movies did end up being 50 shades of gray because the fan fiction turned into that. So I think overall he just hates the fact that people still associate him with Twilight. They see him as Edward. Colon has become such a renowned actor with movies like Good Time, Tenet, the Lighthouse. When he was announced to be the next Bruce Wayne in the Batman, people just said, I cannot see Edward Cullen as the Batman. Kristen Stewart doesn't hate them as much. I think primarily she has shaded the pregnancy storyline and said, really? You just had a child? Really? She also admitted that she initially did not want to play Bella, saying that she didn't want to push a very unrealistic love onto young girls. And she failed in that because I remember so many girls in high school being all about finding their Edward Cullen. And finally, Harrison Ford has been pretty upfront of not liking his breakout role in Star Wars. He just doesn't seem to be a fan of the character Han Solo. He did have a small role in George Lucas's movie American Graffiti in 1973. It was an odd coincidence how he even got this job. He was working as a carpenter building cabinets for George Lucas's office. He was brought in to read lines with other actors auditioning for Star wars and he ended up impressing George Lucas. We thought, man, this guy has a lot of natural charisma. A lot of wit. And that led George Lucas into casting him as Han Solo. That's how he got the role and has now played him for over 40 years, most recently in the Force Awakens back in 2015, which seeing him for the very first time in a long time as Han Solo just kind of healed something in my soul. But throughout the course of the movies, he hated the character. He even urged them to kill him off in Return of the Jedi, believing that Han Solo had reached his full potential and his death would be more dramatic and carry more of an emotional weight into the storyline. He just thinks Han Solo is not interesting. So maybe it's not so much that he hates Han Solo kind of like we've been talking about in this episode. He just feels like the character lacks some kind of depth. He wanted him to have a little bit more character development, especially when he's looking at some of his co stars. Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker have a lot more development. But if I were ever to meet Harrison Ford, which I do remember now, I think one time we were in Vegas and he was at the same casino we were at and other people saw him. I think I saw like a group of people walking down through the casino, all following Harrison Ford. He was there on a promotional tour. I never actually saw him because there were so many people around him. But if I did have the chance to talk to him, I would not bring up Han Solo. But that is the list. I'll come back, Kelsey will hop in and we'll give our spoiler free movie review of Wuthering Heights.
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Matt Rogers
This is Matt Rogers from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.
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Bowen Yang
This is Bowen Yang from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. What if your WI fi was more than just WI fi? What if your WI fi made everything in your whole house just work together better?
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Matt Rogers
Well, Xfinity WI Fi pretty much does exactly that. It's powered by their best, most elite, high performing tech.
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Bowen Yang
Allow us to paint a very realistic example. Everyone in your house, everyone is on their devices at the exact same time. Gaming, working, swiping. Right. Because of course they are. And the finale of your favorite show
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Mike D. Shiro
of all time of the week is
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Bowen Yang
on at the exact same moment.
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Mike D. Shiro
Well, you can boost the WI fi
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Bowen Yang
to your device with Xfinity.
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Matt Rogers
And have you ever asked yourself, what if my WI fi could keep watch over my kids for me? Well, probably not, because that's a weird thing to ask yourself. But Xfinity WI fi has parenting skills. Even if you sometimes forget yours. Xfinity's like, don't worry, I'll monitor the WI fi.
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Bowen Yang
It's completely proactive, fixing issues before they even happen. Bottom line, Xfinity is smart and reliable. You deserve the peace of mind of having WI fi that's got your back.
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Matt Rogers
Xfinity. Imagine that.
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Mike D. Shiro
Hello, Malcolm Glabel here. We're here in New York City with T Mobile for business recording another episode of Revisionist history about how 5G network slices slicing strengthens trust and connections across worldwide industries.
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Siemens Energy Representative
Slicing can be used for so many different things. We're here with our friends from cnn from Siemens Energy. The ways that it can be used, frankly, are limitless and are really, really built to think through. How can T Mobile understand the pain points that our customers have? Smash those pain points and help you deliver very specific outcomes.
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Ryan Seacrest
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Mike D. Shiro
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Ryan Seacrest
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Jenna Kim Jones
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Ryan Seacrest
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Jenna Kim Jones
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Siemens Energy Representative
I think what people recognized is that the 10 year old son of the shooter is also a victim. The widow is also a victim. So it is 9,500 people and a lot of them are giving $5, $10, $20.
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Jenna Kim Jones
It's like magic, you guys. So put down your doom scroller and pick up your faith in humanity and join me, Jenna, for the Ripple Effect. It's a reminder that you can start a ripple that changes everything. You really can. Listen to the Ripple Effect with Jenna Kim Jones on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [38:08]
Mike D. Shiro
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Wuthering Heights. Thank you for coaching me on how to say that. I kept saying withering.
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Kelsey
Yeah. And I was like, there's no eye. And it. It's Wuthering. We go weather almost like a Werther's original, but that has an E. So it's like a really, like, Wuthering Heights.
- [38:22]
Mike D. Shiro
Very Wuthering Heights. Whimsical movie is how I look at it.
- [38:25]
Kelsey
Yes.
- [38:25]
Mike D. Shiro
Directed by Emerald Fennell, who this is her third movie.
- [38:29]
Kelsey
Great run of films.
- [38:30]
Mike D. Shiro
Came out of the gate with Promising Young Woman, which I think didn't get enough credit.
- [38:33]
Kelsey
We were talking about that. I feel like it was one of those that got lost in the pandemic.
- [38:39]
Mike D. Shiro
Came out, was really good, but nobody talked about it. Saltburn, though, that got a lot of attention.
- [38:45]
Kelsey
Everyone talked about that movie that came
- [38:46]
Mike D. Shiro
out at the right time straight to streaming or did it come out in theaters?
- [38:51]
Kelsey
No, that was theaters.
- [38:51]
Mike D. Shiro
That did come out in theaters, but I think that was one of those that had such a big impact when it came out on streaming that that's when people started talking about it more. But now with Withering Heights, I feel like there was a big hype around this one. I didn't really think about the association with Valentine's Day and how big that was going to be.
- [39:09]
Kelsey
Yeah.
- [39:09]
Mike D. Shiro
I mean, because it's romance. How would you describe this movie?
- [39:14]
Kelsey
Okay, well, it's based on a book by Emily Bronte.
- [39:17]
Mike D. Shiro
Did you read the book?
- [39:19]
Kelsey
Maybe in high school.
- [39:20]
Mike D. Shiro
It's a very old book.
- [39:21]
Kelsey
Yeah. I didn't feel the need to reread this one before the movie. I was like, I'm good without. Without reading the book. Okay, so it's a love story over the years between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, if he has a last name. Didn't catch it.
- [39:37]
Mike D. Shiro
Heathcliff. That's a great name.
- [39:38]
Kelsey
Yeah. It's supposed to be this, like, great romance, but I feel like romance back then, like, had a different interpretation. It's a love story.
- [39:47]
Mike D. Shiro
They meet when they're kids. Her dad brings them in.
- [39:50]
Kelsey
Yes.
- [39:50]
Mike D. Shiro
He's really poor. I mean, I guess their. Her family had money. Her family had money, but her dad has some problems. You see them as kids, and then it flash forwards to them as adults.
- [40:00]
Kelsey
Yes.
- [40:00]
Mike D. Shiro
Was it a really good love story or was it just the fact that these two people are, like, the most attractive in Hollywood right now?
- [40:07]
Kelsey
No, it's just two really hot people now, I have to say.
- [40:10]
Mike D. Shiro
Okay.
- [40:11]
Kelsey
One of my biggest problems was. So she has a companion. Nelly.
- [40:16]
Mike D. Shiro
Yes.
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Kelsey
Roughly her same age.
- [40:18]
Mike D. Shiro
Yes. When they're kids, they're about the same age.
- [40:20]
Kelsey
Okay. They get older, and they made Hong Chow look so much older and wrinkled. And I guess that's supposed to be the comparison of, like, when you have money, you look younger. But I was like, these two people are supposed to be the same age. And they did her dirty.
- [40:32]
Mike D. Shiro
They did her.
- [40:33]
Kelsey
They did her real dirty. Yeah. This is not a movie for your children to see, which I don't think
- [40:39]
Mike D. Shiro
any Emerald Fennel movies are Correct. They're pretty. Are. All of them really are.
- [40:44]
Kelsey
There's. There's a word I'm thinking of to describe this movie. Can't say it on here because it's family friendly podcast, but just. It's just two people who find each other very attractive and there's a lot of lusting, if you catch my drift. Yeah.
- [40:59]
Mike D. Shiro
That's why I was saying, like, is it a really good love story or are they just two incredibly attractive people? Because I feel a lot of it is built on how breathtaking Jacob Elordi is, how big and masculine he is, how much he can just, like, lift her up with, like, a pinky.
- [41:16]
Kelsey
Yeah, that scene she talked about, she was like, there's a scene where he, like, lifts me up with one hand.
- [41:21]
Mike D. Shiro
Yeah.
- [41:22]
Kelsey
I am not on the Jacob Elordi train.
- [41:25]
Mike D. Shiro
You're not? I am.
- [41:27]
Kelsey
But no, I said that I was like, not on the, like, full. Like, I think he's the hottest man alive. Whatever. Okay. Then my algorithm fed me a video.
- [41:36]
Mike D. Shiro
Okay.
- [41:37]
Kelsey
And somebody asked him about his dog. And it's him talking about his dog. And then he goes, she's doing so well. Thank you for asking. And I was like, he just thanked a reporter for asking about his dog. Like, damn it. Am I allowed to say damn it on this podcast? Damn it. That's cute.
- [41:51]
Mike D. Shiro
He has dogs too. He's a good person behind all this.
- [41:54]
Kelsey
He has a dog named Layla.
- [41:55]
Mike D. Shiro
I mean, I think he's a really good actor. I was talking about earlier on this episode how he doesn't care for the kissing booth movies. Anymore. And he's like separated himself from that.
- [42:05]
Kelsey
But again, it launched him. And I hate when people bite the hand that fed him.
- [42:09]
Matt Rogers
Yeah.
- [42:09]
Mike D. Shiro
But how far he's come since those movies and now this movie, a whole other level, I think, just on acting abilities along with both of them.
- [42:20]
Kelsey
Was he in Saltburn? Yes, it's him and Barry Keegan.
- [42:22]
Mike D. Shiro
So both of this, this past weekend, they were both in movies that came out in theaters.
- [42:26]
Kelsey
I was like, I think that was crime 101.
- [42:28]
Mike D. Shiro
Yeah.
- [42:28]
Kelsey
Jacob Elordi's Bathwater. That's right.
- [42:29]
Mike D. Shiro
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. An Emerald film movie. It has that one moment. I don't know if this one had that though. Maybe it did. I won't say what it is, but yeah, yeah, something close to that. Yeah, it goes there. But there was something. I don't want to give the moment away. Let me talk about the. The crowd. There was a lot of audience participation which I wasn't expecting.
- [42:50]
Kelsey
Where, I mean, it was like 95% women.
- [42:53]
Mike D. Shiro
Yes, it was. People were applauding at times I didn't think were applause worthy moments that I wasn't expecting. It felt like at times a Marvel movie where there was one scene in particular where a character appears on screen and there was like a big round of applause.
- [43:10]
Kelsey
Oh, yeah.
- [43:11]
Mike D. Shiro
And it felt like Thor came down or like whenever in Avengers Endgame where you see the, the them like on your left and everybody appears. It felt like that moment. Yeah, I was not expecting that in a movie like this where it was like this big moment where everybody in the crowd was like, yes. Waiting for that.
- [43:29]
Kelsey
It was just a lot of women wanting to see Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, which I want to talk about the like costume and set design, the
- [43:37]
Mike D. Shiro
overall aesthetic of this movie, the color grading, phenomenal. That's why I'm wearing red right now.
- [43:42]
Kelsey
Phenomenal. Color grading. And just like, I mean, Margot Robbie is breathtaking, takingly stunning. Add in the fact that they both have Australian accents in real life. Like I was watching a clip of them on the Graham Norton show in the UK with Amanda Seyfried and I was just like the two of them with their Australian accents being that good looking, it's just, it's rude. It's rude to the rest of us. Like, it's just incredibly rude. But they just like, they made her look even better. These outfits. And just like the makeup, the makeup, phenomenal. And like the color of the bedrooms in one of the houses and just like the depth of the colors, the
- [44:27]
Mike D. Shiro
Set design was next level. All throughout that, I felt like every single detail was accounted for.
- [44:32]
Kelsey
Like, I already feel like that has to be Oscar nominated for set design and costume.
- [44:36]
Mike D. Shiro
From the bed frames to the wallpaper to the artwork to every little trinket in the background, all of the land, like, the landscape of, like, just the. Where all the houses were, all those things. And then you talk about all the locations in the set. Like, where this movie was placed was perfect. Like on that cliff in the water. And all the smoke they used to make the fog. That's what gave this movie, like, that whimsical feeling I was talking about where it felt like you were reading, like, a really old fairy tale where people emerge from the fog.
- [45:09]
Kelsey
And the music.
- [45:11]
Mike D. Shiro
Oh, yeah. Charlie XCX killed it.
- [45:13]
Kelsey
Yeah. And just like. Well, then there. Yeah, there's that song in the beginning that, like, went like, TikTok viral where it's like, I think I'm gonna die in this house. And it just, like, really sets the scene. I also loved the misdirect at the beginning with the opening scene.
- [45:29]
Mike D. Shiro
Oh, yeah.
- [45:30]
Kelsey
And I won't say, but there's like. As the title is rolling, there's, like, sounds in the background and you think it's one thing and it's not. And so I just. Yeah, I felt like that was great. And like, the actress that played the young Margot Robbie looked so much like a young Margot Robbie.
- [45:46]
Mike D. Shiro
Where are they finding all these amazing young actors?
- [45:49]
Kelsey
I know between that and, like, Hamlet.
- [45:51]
Mike D. Shiro
Yes.
- [45:51]
Kelsey
Yeah. Phenomenal. I feel like in other countries
- [45:57]
Mike D. Shiro
here we just get Disney Channel kids. But, yeah, like you were saying about the music and the score, how it felt modern. But then you have this period piece. It complemented each other really great. And there were just so many little things that I liked. But I think overall, well, I guess I went into this movie thinking I wasn't gonna enjoy it at all. I think the trailer didn't do it justice.
- [46:19]
Kelsey
I don't think so.
- [46:20]
Mike D. Shiro
The trailer made it feel like entire. Something entirely different. Even with the Charlie XCX song Fall in Love Again and again.
- [46:26]
Kelsey
Fall in love Again and again.
- [46:27]
Mike D. Shiro
I feel like we've been seeing this trailer for four to five months already.
- [46:30]
Kelsey
We have. I think we have.
- [46:32]
Mike D. Shiro
We've seen it so much that I had this entirely different movie in my head.
- [46:37]
Kelsey
I just want to see the movie to be done with it, honestly, because I was like, I've seen the trailer
- [46:40]
Mike D. Shiro
so many times because it is a period piece. Sometimes I have trouble with those because I'm dumb. And usually not true. Usually the dialogue is really like, is it St. Swiven's day already? And Helga. Like that. It wasn't like that.
- [46:55]
Kelsey
It wasn't like Ye olde English.
- [46:57]
Mike D. Shiro
And it was really easy to understand for me that they modernized it. Yeah, that's what I have trouble with with period pieces where it's like I. I have to pay attention to the dialogue so much that I forget what's happening because I'm trying to listen to all these weird names.
- [47:09]
Kelsey
That's why when people were like, are you going to read the book first? I was like, no, I'm not. I'm not reading anything for fun. That would have been assigned to me in grades nine through 12 or beyond. I'm not going to reread it. If it's a modern book. Sure. I'm not rereading Wuthering Heights.
- [47:28]
Mike D. Shiro
I feel like this could be a modern day romance classic. It just felt really intentional all the way through. Really great acting, really great characters, and has an amazing backdrop that I think this is going to be a movie I do want to revisit. When it comes to streaming, I would agree because I think there are probably some things that I missed. And I think it's one that with rewatch ability, it could get better.
- [47:52]
Kelsey
I honestly feel like seeing it on a Friday night after the end of a very long week was not the move because it was a little bit slow at times.
- [48:00]
Mike D. Shiro
I would say it took 30 minutes to settle into it.
- [48:02]
Kelsey
And I think we should have seen it on like a Saturday.
- [48:06]
Mike D. Shiro
But I think overall I am putting Emerald Fennel on my list now. Fennel. Emerald Fennell, Fennel on my list of directors that I'm going to see every single movie.
- [48:16]
Kelsey
Oh, yeah.
- [48:17]
Mike D. Shiro
Because three really noteworthy movies, maybe not for everybody you have to be into. They're not raunchy. They're just really are. And they are so polarizing.
- [48:27]
Kelsey
Salburn was a little raunchy, but I think it's.
- [48:30]
Mike D. Shiro
It's an artistic choice to make it that raunchy. It's not smut for being the sake of being smart. There's intention behind it. There's artistry behind it.
- [48:39]
Kelsey
I would agree with that.
- [48:39]
Mike D. Shiro
Where it has to be that explicit and that over the top to cut through everything else. It's kind of like how HBO has a fascination with just showing like male button wiener because it gets your attention. That's what you have to do to get people's attention nowadays.
- [48:54]
Kelsey
Yeah. And there's not really. There's no full frontal in this one. Like, there wasn't. There's one, like, full frontal scene in Saltburn. Like, so memorable. There's not that, but there is a lot of two people. Yeah.
- [49:07]
Mike D. Shiro
Two adults getting adult things.
- [49:09]
Kelsey
Doing adult things. Yes.
- [49:11]
Mike D. Shiro
What would you rate it? Final thoughts here?
- [49:13]
Kelsey
I mean, even saying all of that, I would probably still give it a 4.
- [49:17]
Mike D. Shiro
Oh, really?
- [49:18]
Kelsey
Yeah.
- [49:19]
Mike D. Shiro
I'm in between a 4 and a 4.5, I think, because I ended up thinking about it a lot post. And like I said earlier, it is a movie I want to revisit and I think that says a lot. So I'm going to go 4.5 out of 5. Ooh, what's the rating system here?
- [49:37]
Kelsey
I'm going to go four out of five dollhouses.
- [49:40]
Mike D. Shiro
I'm going to go 4.5 out of five red dresses. And that is our thoughts on Wuthering Heights.
- [49:47]
Kelsey
Wuthering. We did practice that. We did the whole way home.
- [49:51]
Mike D. Shiro
And I still almost got it wrong.
- [49:54]
Kelsey
But you didn't.
- [49:54]
Mike D. Shiro
I didn't.
- [49:55]
Ryan Seacrest
There we go.
- [49:57]
Matt Rogers
This is Matt Rogers from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.
- [50:01]
Bowen Yang
This is Bowen Yang from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. What if your WI fi was more than just WI fi? What if your WI fi made everything in your whole house just work together better?
- [50:11]
Matt Rogers
Well, Xfinity WI fi pretty much does exactly that. It's powered by their best, most elite high performing tech.
- [50:18]
Bowen Yang
Allow us to paint a very realistic example. And everyone in your house, everyone is on their devices at the exact same time. Gaming, working, swiping. Right. Because of course they are. And the finale of your favorite show of all time of the week is on at the exact same moment.
- [50:34]
Mike D. Shiro
Well, you can boost the WI fi
- [50:36]
Bowen Yang
to your device with Xfinity.
- [50:37]
Matt Rogers
And have you ever asked yourself, what if my WI fi could keep watch over my kids for me? Well, probably not, because that's a weird thing to ask yourself. But Xfinity WI fi has parenting skills. And even if you sometimes forget yours, Xfinity's like, don't worry, I'll monitor the WI fi.
- [50:53]
Bowen Yang
It's completely proactive, fixing issues before they even happen. Bottom line, Xfinity is smart and reliable. You deserve the peace of mind of having WI fi that's got your back.
- [51:02]
Matt Rogers
Xfinity. Imagine that.
- [51:05]
Mike D. Shiro
Hello, Malcolm Glabel here. We're here in New York City with T Mobile for business, recording another episode of Revisionist history about how 5G network slices strengthens trust and connections across worldwide industries.
- [51:17]
Siemens Energy Representative
Slicing can be used for so many different things. We're here with our friends from cnn from Siemens Energy. The ways that it can be used, frankly, are limitless and are really, really built to think through. How can T mobile understand the pain points that our customers have? Smash those pain points and help you deliver very specific outcomes.
- [51:41]
Ryan Seacrest
Hey, this is Ryan Seacrest from On Air with Ryan Seacrest. This message brought to you by Pizza Hut. Have you heard about Pizza Hut's a big New Yorker? We're talking slices so big you have
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Mike D. Shiro
to fold them and right now it's only 10 bucks.
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Ryan Seacrest
They're big, but I also can't get into my mouth fast enough. So I fold all those slices. It doubles the awesome somehow.
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Jenna Kim Jones
That is crazy.
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Ryan Seacrest
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Jenna Kim Jones
Breaking news, everybody. Not everything is terrible. I repeat, not everything is terrible. The ripple effect with Jenna Kim Jones is proof that the Internet, it hasn't ruined humanity entirely. Author and member of the church Dave Butler looked at what had happened and realized that there were other victims in this tragedy and did something completely unexpected. He set up a fundraiser for the family of the shooter who had left behind a wife and a child.
- [53:02]
Siemens Energy Representative
I think what people recognized is that the 10 year old son of the shooter is also a victim. The widow is also a victim. So it is 9,500 people and a lot of them are giving $5, $10, $20.
- [53:17]
Jenna Kim Jones
It's like magic, you guys. So put down your doom scroller and pick up your faith in humanity and join me, Jenna, for the ripple effect. It's a reminder that you can start a ripple that changes everything. You really can. Listen to the ripple effect with Jenna Kim Jones on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [53:39]
Mike D. Shiro
It's time to head down to Movie Mike's Trailer Park. If somebody told you you were not alone on this planet, and they showed you. They proved it to you. Would that frighten you? That is the question behind Disclosure Day, directed by Steven Spielberg, coming out in theaters on June 12th. I am so excited for this movie. When the trailer played at the Super Bowl, I had an entirely different perspective on what this movie is going to be. I think this movie is going to be massive on a scale that I've been waiting for. An alien movie like this. Steven Spielberg and aliens go together like peanut butter and jelly, like ham and burger. I love hearing him talk about this movie and how it just came from his curiosity of the sky at night. But it has a fantastic cast. It reminds me of one of my favorite Alien movies, I think a movie we all watched in the early 2000s and were scarred by signs. Because in this trailer now, we are seeing some of the things that the aliens are doing on Earth. And the whole thing is that the world, the powers that be, the government, is finally going to let people know that we are not alone. But we see crop circles forming. We also see animals acting in really strange ways. Before we talk about it more, here is just a little bit of the Disclosure Day trailer.
- [55:07]
Jenna Kim Jones
We are interrupting our coverage. There has been a threat to publicly
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Mike D. Shiro
release government material long shrouded in secrecy. Are they people? No. People have a right to know the truth. What are you going to do? Full disclosure to the whole world all at once. There will be no other day like tomorrow. Oh, it's going to be good. So Steven Spielberg has a fascination with the sky at night. And I think as humans, we've been so used to the idea of looking up at the sky and not thinking anything about it. It just is normal to us. When we go out at night and we see the moon, that is normal to us. But I think it's so normal to us because we've experienced it our entire lives, that we don't realize how bizarre it is. If you really think about it, the fact that you can go out and see something that is so far, like the moon and the sun and the stars, to me, that tells me we are not alone on this planet. And I have had this fascination with aliens since I was a kid, probably in fifth and sixth grade. I remember reading books about this, listening to people's theories about this. And this was back in the early 2000s, where if you were interested in aliens and thought they were real, you were seen as just being kind of crazy, where it's just like, you think aliens are real. It has become so much more normal now. The government has kind of soft launched it with releasing more and more data, with the Pentagon being more upfront about things and what this movie is about. This could be a reason we are getting this movie now is because we are probably closer to whether or not they want to let us know what they have found out about life outside of Earth. If you pull a scope outside of Earth and see how small we are, I think it is ridiculous, crazy to believe that we are the only living things in this universe now. I don't think that aliens look the way that they have been depicted in movies and in TV shows. And I think that has changed a lot of people's perspectives on it to make it a little bit unbelievable. But what this movie is setting out to do is how people are going to react to that. Are you going to be frightened? I don't think I would be frightened because I don't think there's ever going to be one event now that we're going to know the existence of aliens and it's going to be proven because we've had all these little things, whether it's a Tic Tac like object that can move and stop on a dime unlike any kind of technology we have. It's not a plane, it's not a drone, it can move so fast. We've seen that the Pentagon has released things that prove that has actually happened from real legit people. And even with things like that, there hasn't been a moment for everybody in the general public to believe or feel like, oh, they just said aliens are real. We're just never going to believe it. There's not going to be one event unless they come down and it's televised and we have all these different angles. We're never going to believe it. I don't think that moment is going to happen because we've had all these little things happen and people are still skeptical of whether or not aliens are real. The moment I always go back to not knowing what happened was the incident at the mall in Miami where they shut it down completely, sent every cop there because there were reports of these big alien like creatures that essentially came out of some kind of portal and they shut that entire thing down. And it was a big news story for a second and then everybody just stopped talking about it. Where's the footage? Where are those accounts? Those interviews with people who were there? It just kind of happened, was really weird. No explanation. And then they would.
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Kelsey
We just.
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Mike D. Shiro
And then we just stopped thinking about it. So I am so excited for this movie because to me here's my theory here. Movies have been a tool by the government in the past to push an agenda, be a form of propaganda. Back in the 1950s and the 1960s, the government used film to criticize the Soviet Union and they spread anti communist messages through American films. And we've seen this even in our lifetime. They've used movies to push ideas out there or even encourage people to join the army. If you look back on franchises we all love like the Transformers, there is a big emphasis on the military presence in those movies. And the filmmakers actually worked with the military to make things accurate. But if you're going to work with the military to make things accurate, they're kind of pushing some ideas onto the public. If you go back and watch some of the early Marvel movies, which also had some people from the government working on those movies to get things accurate, you kind of see the influence of them pushing the idea of the military and maybe encouraging some people to sign up. So if you look back in history, there have been instances where they pushed ideas through movies to make them seem a little bit more digestible. Like taking Flintstones vitamins. It's a little bit easier to chew, it doesn't taste as bad. And then the idea is there. What if this movie is meant to do that? Launching that idea, seeing how people feel. If we had a disclosure day where they just decide one day, hey, we're going to let people know and after this day nothing is going to be the same. Or is this all fictional? Is this all just the hype up a Hollywood movie? But it just leads me to believe, like this could be great timing because we've been asking now more than ever what is going on in the world, in the news. What is happening here? Are we alone? Are we not alone? Why have we not been told? What are they keeping from us? Do they want us to not freak out and go crazy? But could quite possibly they be soft launching the idea through a Steven Spielberg movie? I mean, if there's anyone I would want to get to soft launch this idea, I would get Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg is cinema. The thing I love about him is he doesn't have to do these movies for money anymore. He even takes a lower upfront fee. Has been known now to take about $10 million and instead get money on the back end. Because oftentimes he could get a hundred million dollars on the back end from just taking that 10 million dollar salary. His most famous payday was over 250 million dollars for Jurassic Park. And he is also working with the Same writer who did the screenplay for Jurassic park, the Lost World, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull. So this is gonna have that classic Steven Spielberg feel. Dude has generated over $3 billion at the box office. He is a billionaire, one of the only few director billionaires because he has done so many movies that are just essential to the fabric of film, where you think how could one person be responsible for hit after hit, franchise after franchise? So many iconic characters have been pushed through the lens of Steven Spielberg and I think it is a really important decision for him to make a movie like this right now. So I can't help but go in there in my brain. But it also has a fantastic cast and Emily Blunt plays a Kansas City TV meteorologist. You have Josh o' Connor, who is really having a moment in his career right now. I feel like after Challengers his star has just risen so fast so quickly and he is just a really good actor. I think of his last few movies he was really good in Knives out, the last installment of that. I thought he was fantastic and I think that probably pushed him on to people who haven't watched some more of his films as of late. So I think this is a great time for him to be in a movie like this. That is gonna get a lot of attention. You also have Colin Firth, Coleman Domingo, which we heard there in that trailer, and also Wyatt Russell, who is the son of Kurt Russell. He is also a part of the Thunderbolt. So he's also having a moment right now for being a Nepo baby. But I'm so excited for it. I think it's going to be one of those you need to see on the biggest screen possible. I can't wait to not only see this movie but feel this movie in my guts. So Disclosure Day is coming out in theaters on June 12th and that was this week's edition of Movie Mike's Trailer park and that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. Before I go, I got to give my listeners shout out of the week this week I'm going over to my email which you can always email me Movie mike d@gmail.com. you can always find that in the episode notes along with all of my socials. But I'm really just Mike D. Shiro on everything YouTube.com mikedishero but I love a good old fashioned email every now and then. And I'm shouting out Garrett M. Grab who sent me an email and said, mike, I saw that my book the Only Plane in The sky actually made it onto Kelsey's Top Books of the Year list, which was featured on your podcast. Her comments were so kind. I just wanted to say thank you. So sometimes I forget that people listen and cool people listen like authors. So thanks, Garrett, for reaching out. Kelsey was geeking out over that, but that was genuinely one of her favorite books that she read and shared about the audiobook, which book update with me. I'm still chugging along reading Project Hail Mary. It is a lot longer than I thought. Whenever I said a while ago that I thought I was almost halfway through, I went and looked at the actual page count and I'm like, oh man. Now I'm really just almost halfway through, but I'm still chugging along. We just got our tickets to see Project Hail Mary in IMAX next month, so I'm excited for that. And now I have a real deadline, but I'm getting there. I'm really into the book. I am just a slow reader, but I do appreciate Garrett for reaching out, sending us that email. That means a lot when anybody listens, but when somebody listens who we actually talk about, that's awesome. So thank you, Garrett, for connecting and totally making Kelsey's day. Kelsey also started an Instagram just for her book recommendations. A lot of people were asking about that because of that episode we did. So I'll also link that in the episode notes of this podcast. But it's Kelsey Rod reads on Instagram. If you want to go follow her there. She's going to be posting more of her book recommendations and stuff you hear on the podcast, where we do our recaps every single month and talks about the best things she read. If you like books and read them faster than I do, definitely go follow her there. So thanks for being here and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.
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Mike D. Shiro
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Kelsey
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Kelsey
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