MOVIE MIKE: Best and Worst of October + Movie Review: Bugonia + Trailer Park: Send Help

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – Movie Mike: Best and Worst of October + Movie Review: Begonia + Trailer Park: Send Help

Date: November 8, 2025
Host: Movie Mike
Co-Host: Kelsey
Podcast Network: Nashville Podcast Network / Premiere Networks

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Episode Overview

This episode of Movie Mike’s Movie Podcast, a segment from The Bobby Bones Show, delivers a lively and insightful discussion of the best and worst movies and shows from October 2025, a spoiler-free review of the much-anticipated film Begonia, and a breakdown of the trailer for Send Help. Mike and co-host Kelsey mix personal anecdotes and playful banter with sharp commentary on movie trends, acting, and streaming culture.

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Best and Worst of October

(Start: 03:06)

Disaster Movie Love: The Lost Bus

• Best Movie (Mike): The Lost Bus

  • Both hosts are disaster movie enthusiasts and admit their ratings might be biased due to genre nostalgia.
  • Mike: “We do love a disaster.” (06:04)
  • Acknowledgment that the movie, inspired by true events (the 2018 Paradise fires), dramatizes several events for entertainment.
  • Kelsey: “Very glad there were not a bunch of school children on a bus in active flames.” (05:04)
  • Matthew McConaughey praised as perfectly cast: “Where he is somebody who could do like an Oscar level performance right now, but then he can also do a really good. Just straight ahead. I'm your leading man.” (05:40)
  • Ratings: Mike gives it 4/5, Kelsey originally gave a perfect score, revises to 4.5.

• Genre Shout-Outs:

  • Affection for other disaster classics like Twister, Volcano, Dante’s Peak, Geostorm, San Andreas: “San Andreas with the rock. Slaps.” (06:33, Mike)

Streaming Service Overload and Movie Discovery

• Humorous side-thread about being overwhelmed by streaming service subscriptions and accidental purchases. (07:41–08:49)
• Mike laments paying for Paramount Plus to watch a disappointing Cowboys game but making the best of it with Nickelodeon reruns.

Surprise Hit: Roofman

• Best Movie (Kelsey): Roofman
  • Praised for eliciting empathy for ambiguous/bad protagonists and sparking reflection on why we root for them.
  • Mike: “I've had this weird thing lately where I start to root for the bad person in the movies we've been watching.” (09:27)
  • Discussion on recent media (Kate Kennedy’s podcast, Louvre heist) about rooting for “harmless” criminals.
  • Commentary on escapism and narratives that flip expected moral alignments.

Acting & Transformation

• The hosts debate the dedication of actors who undergo major physical changes for roles (specifically Channing Tatum in Roofman), questioning whether their resources make such feats less impressive.
• Kelsey: “But you have the trainer, you have the chef... that’s your job is getting in shape.” (13:24)

Cozy Life and Moviegoing Habits

• Amusing chat about ideal Friday nights in their thirties: groceries, home-cooked dinner, and a movie.
• Nostalgic and humorous memories of overbuying vacation snacks. (14:17–15:55)

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October’s Biggest Disappointments

(16:01)

Regretting You – Colleen Hoover Adaptation (Kelsey’s Worst)

• Kelsey: “It got to the point where people were just making out loud commentary in the theater... one of the characters said something, and a girl next to us just goes, oh, God.” (16:44)
• Critiques the movie for being full of clichés and artificial dialogue, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 15%: “It was so full of tropes… the dialogue was bad.” (16:49)
• Rates it 1.5 lollipops out of 5. (19:25)
• “So bad it’s good, but I don’t think it was supposed to be.” (19:20, Mike)

Good Fortune – Star-Studded Letdown (Mike’s Worst)

• Movie Mike: “The movie would have been good if it came out in, like, 2011.” (19:50)
• A body-swap/comedy with Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves that “just didn’t really land on any element”—neither funny, nor emotional, nor original.
• “It was 90 minutes long, and it felt so long by about 45 minutes.” (21:12)
• Scores it 2.5/5.
• Mike suggests the movie would have worked better centered on Keanu Reeves’ quirky angel character.

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Rapid Fire: October Movie Mentions & Ratings

(23:44–26:54)

• Good Boy: Mike – 3/5
• Smashing Machine: Mike – 4/5 (Kelsey: “Way too high.”)
• The Woman in Cabin 10: Mike – 3/5 (“A cozy thriller.”)
• After the Hunt: Mike and Kelsey expected more from the Julia Roberts and Iowa Debris “dark academia,” found it too slow.
• Play Dirty (Mark Wahlberg): Mike – 3/5 (“Not bad.”)
• Honey Don’t (Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza): Mike – 3/5
• Megan 2.0: Tried twice, “so bad I couldn’t finish it.”

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TV and Book Recommendations

(26:54–30:30)

• TV, Kelsey: Chad Powers (Glen Powell), described as a “cozy comedy, elevated humor.” (26:57)
• TV, Mike: Peacemaker Season 2 (“John Cena let it all out... I did not expect something to have this much emotional depth.”) (28:33)
• Book, Kelsey:
  • My Friends by Frederick Bachman — “Made me feel so many things.” (29:11)
  • The Correspondent by Virginia Evans — “One of those characters that you’re like, oh, I’m going to think about this for a long time after I read it.” (29:34)

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Spoiler-Free Movie Review: Begonia

(Main Review: 34:51–46:32)

Overview

• Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
• Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons
• Adapted from South Korean film Save the Green Planet (2003).

Plot Premise

• Emma Stone plays a pharmaceutical CEO. Jesse Plemons plays a conspiracy theorist convinced that Stone’s character is an alien, leading to her abduction. The tension is psychological, ambiguous, and morally complex.

Detailed Impressions & Insights

• Mike calls Begonia “something special,” gushing over its ability to generate empathy for both captor and captive, blurring lines between hero and villain.

• Movie Mike: “Great movies suspend you in time and make you feel truly like you have escaped this world that we are living in… this movie will have you questioning who you believe and who you are rooting for.” (35:14)

• The movie examines echo chambers, conspiracy thinking, and empathy for the ‘anti-hero’.

• On Emma Stone’s Commitment:
  “Emma Stone actually shaved her head for Begonia. You actually see it happen in this movie when she is captured… That is Oscar stuff right there.” (36:25)

• On Lanthimos:
  “He is a director that is an acquired taste. But his movies feel so authentically him. And I think of his most recent movies, this is the most easily digestible.” (36:50)

  • Notes this one is more accessible than Poor Things or Kinds of Kindness; reminiscent of The Favourite.

• On Ambiguity:
  “Great art should be open ended. And I wish more directors took that risk.” (39:56)

  • Praises the film for resisting the modern urge to over-explain, giving viewers questions to debate long after.

• Memorable Moment:
  “There was this one particular moment where I felt it go next level, where there was this switch in my brain that said, okay, this is a good movie, this is a good movie. And this scene in particular flipped that switch and went to a great movie.” (40:45)

Rating & Closing Thoughts on Begonia

• “It is rare for me to give out a five. I'm not gonna do it here. It is really close. But I am just so hyped coming off this movie… I give it 4.5 out of 5. Shaved heads.” (46:32)

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Trailer Park: Send Help

(50:09–60:18)

Trailer Break Down

Starring: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien
Director: Sam Raimi

Premise

• Workplace enemies are the only survivors of a plane crash, stranded on a desert island. Rachel McAdams’ character (“amazingly capable at survival”) must protect the pair; power dynamics flip as the former boss becomes the helpless one.

Notable Moments

• “That line goes hard right there. We're not in the office anymore, Bradley.” (52:19)
• Mike anticipates the characters’ backstories and ponders the darker undertones: “How does she know how to cut the head off of a boar? How does she know how to hunt with this spear that she just built herself?”

Dylan O'Brien & Rachel McAdams Appreciation

• Mike details his “Dylan O'Brien resurgence,” citing Twin List as one of his favorite performances of 2025.
• On McAdams: “So huge in the mid 2000s, so much so that she had to take a couple years off and turned down major roles…”

Raimi’s Style and Inspirations

• Sam Raimi's horror background (Evil Dead) and comic book legacy discussed at length, with nods to “signature shots” and interest in subverting romantic comedy expectations for the survival genre.

Movie Contextual Recommendations

• For fans of Cast Away, Lord of the Flies, or the “yacht-to-island” third act of Triangle of Sadness (2022).
• “If you have no problem watching scenes of people vomiting profusely, that is a major part of that movie.” (58:45)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Exchanges

• On Disaster Movies:
  “Is a bus ever really lost? That's... kind of turning into like Bill Clinton. He's like right in the middle of Bill Clinton and like a stoner.” (05:40, Movie Mike, joking about Matthew McConaughey's performance)

• On Bad Book Adaptations:
  “When I tell you we were audibly giggling. It wasn't a comedy. It was, in fact, a drama.” (16:17, Kelsey on Regretting You)

• On Begonia:
  “If you end up watching it or have seen it already and didn't enjoy it—what do you enjoy? I really want to know.” (41:52, Movie Mike closing his review of Begonia)

• On TV and Emotion:
  “Very rarely do I watch a superhero show and have real emotions… [but] John Cena just let it all out. I’ve never seen that side of John Cena.” (28:33, Movie Mike on Peacemaker S2)

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Segment Timestamps

• 03:06 – Main content begins: Best & Worst of October
• 04:31 – Best movie of the month discussion
• 16:01 – Worst movie of the month
• 23:44 – Rapid-fire reviews and ratings for other October films
• 26:54 – TV & book recommendations
• 34:51 – Begonia spoiler-free review
• 50:09 – Send Help trailer breakdown
• 60:23 – Listener shoutout, end of content

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Tone & Style Notes

The episode is filled with friendly ribbing, humor, deep dives on acting and filmmaking craft, and personal, relatable reflections on the simple joys of staying home with movies. Mike’s reviewing style is energetic, passionate, and self-aware, unafraid both to critique and to hype.

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Summary for New Listeners

Whether you're chasing the latest cinema releases, seeking comfort recommendations for a cozy weekend, or hankering for OSCar-level analysis of new indie darlings, this episode offers accessible opinions and fun banter. Mike and Kelsey balance unfiltered hot takes with genuine affection for movies, the moviegoing experience, and each other.

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For Further Exploration

• Begonia (in theaters); if you enjoy ambiguous, character-driven, morally complex films.
• Send Help (release: January 30), for a survival drama twist with gravitas, humor, and horror pedigree.
• For lighter viewing: catch Chad Powers or Peacemaker S2. For readers, Kelsey recommends My Friends (Bachman) and The Correspondent (Virginia Evans).

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[Mike]

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[Movie Mike]

I hate to say it, but I.

[Mike]

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[Doug]

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[Movie Mike]

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[Movie Mike]

Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike, joined by my wife and co host, Kelsey. How are you?

[Mike]

I'm good, except the ring light is aggressive tonight, and I don't know if it's just because I've been in my dark office in front of the computer all day, but I feel like I need sunglasses for this.

[Movie Mike]

But we are here to do our best and worst of October.

[Mike]

How is it? We're like, it's Christmas now.

[Movie Mike]

And then in the movie review, we'll be talking about begonia.

[Mike]

Is it begonia?

[Movie Mike]

Bogonia.

[Mike]

It's a very hard first syllable.

[Movie Mike]

Begonia. Okay, now you're just saying words about a couple of dudes who are really into conspiracy theories. So they capture a CEO and they think she's an alien. And in the trailer park, we'll talk about. Send help with Dylan O' Brien and Rachel McAdams, which I'm really enjoying. Dylan O' Brien right now.

[Mike]

It's a Dylan O' Brien resurgence.

[Movie Mike]

It's a big year for him.

[Mike]

That was actually the first trailer that we hadn't seen before. It was like a fresh trailer because we see all of the trailers because we go the movie so much, but we sat down and saw that one and we were like, haven't seen this one.

[Movie Mike]

We'll break it in the trailer. We'll break that down in the trailer park. 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. Let's hop right into it. Best and worst for October. What do you have as your best?

[Mike]

Best was the Lost Bus.

[Movie Mike]

Do you think we both enjoyed this movie so much because we love disaster movies?

[Mike]

Yes. But then I was also, like, bummed to know that they did dramatize a lot of it. A lot of it.

[Movie Mike]

Which is kind of expected when you have a disaster movie that is based on true events. Normally it's not, but if you think of the disaster genre, it has to go to big links to make it entertaining.

[Mike]

So next level. So I understand, and I'm glad all of that didn't happen in real life. Let me be clear. Very glad there were not a bunch of school children on a bus in, like, active flames.

[Movie Mike]

That is true. But you do feel more for them thinking that it was true, which it was based on. The paradise fires.

[Mike]

Yes. In 2018.

[Movie Mike]

Which is weird that there was another one this year, the Palisades. Very similar.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Movie Mike]

But it was a true story about a bus driver who got some children to safety. But some of the things that happened that were really heroic did not actually happen in real life.

[Mike]

Yeah. Again, glad for the children, but was like, oh, man, this dude's a real hero. Still a hero. Oh, my gosh.

[Movie Mike]

Like, still traumatizing.

[Mike]

But Matthew McConaughey was great.

[Movie Mike]

I think that was the perfect role for him.

[Mike]

Oh, absolutely.

[Movie Mike]

Where he is somebody who could do like an Oscar level performance right now, but then he can also do a really good. Just straight ahead. I'm your leading man. I'm going to take this bus where no one else can take this bus. Is a bus ever really lost that's kind of turning into like Bill Clinton. He's like right in the middle of Bill Clinton and like a stoner. But I really enjoyed it. But I also love disaster movies.

[Mike]

We do love a disaster.

[Movie Mike]

Like, I don't think the Day After Tomorrow is seen as a good movie. I don't think Twister is up there in most people's like, this is just a great movie.

[Mike]

It's not in there.

[Movie Mike]

Volcano. I don't think people think, oh, that is cinema. When watching Volcano, you're just like saying fantastic films. Dante's Peak. It's like all these great disaster movies. Geostorm, a good one. The San Andreas with the rock. Like any disaster movie.

[Mike]

San Andreas with the rock. Slaps.

[Movie Mike]

Those are all great.

[Mike]

There's another one with the rock. We watched multiple with the rock.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah. There was a whole period of rock disaster films. Yeah. Rampage really wasn't a disaster film. It was like a video game that nobody really felt was a great adaptation. But I really enjoyed it. I thought it was cool how his son was actually in the movie and his mom was in the movie. And then by the end of it, I was like, man, I just feel like I went on that ride with them. I feel like I came out a change person. And it was one of those where I think my rating was just a little bit too high because I do love the disaster genre that much.

[Mike]

Which.

[Movie Mike]

What did you give it?

[Mike]

Did I give it?

[Movie Mike]

I think you said like a perfect score.

[Mike]

I did not say a perfect.

[Movie Mike]

You were like five out of after we watched it, which there's always that period of right after you watch it.

[Mike]

I'm going to go four And a.

[Movie Mike]

Half hours is probably coming down from it. I will give it 4 out of 5.

[Mike]

America Ferrero was also great.

[Movie Mike]

Now I won't even say it. Never mind.

[Mike]

Don't ruin it.

[Movie Mike]

It's still a good movie, but it's on Apple plus, which is no longer Apple TV plus, which is confusing. Everybody keeps changing their names, the rebrands, hbo, Max. I still have the old app from before they change to just Max, Keep it.

[Mike]

They'll change it.

[Movie Mike]

I have both, so I don't know. They're going to keep everything and keep changing it. Eventually, everything is just going to be one service. It's going to be cable again. It's all getting confusing. And I got tricked into getting Paramount Plus. It's all annoying.

[Mike]

Yeah, I did see that $8 charge.

[Movie Mike]

That was annoying. I got bamboozled, but now I'm going to go back and watch.

[Mike]

Now you have to explain why you got Bamboozled. You can't just say you got.

[Movie Mike]

Well, I couldn't get the Cowboys game, and they were like, get Paramount plus and watch the Cowboys take on the Broncos. I was like, all right, let me get Paramount Plus. But it's still same with, like, Hulu, where if you're not in the region, you can't watch it. But the big banner showed Dak Prescott's face so you could watch it.

[Mike]

Now, after having seen the game, are we really that sad we couldn't get.

[Movie Mike]

I was even more annoyed because it was so. The game was terrible. I wasted $8. But now I can watch old Nickelodeon shows because that's really all I see that I would want to watch on Paramount plus from.

[Mike]

Oh, wait, did don't they have flyness? You started that show. I heard it's really good.

[Movie Mike]

Taylor Sheridan shows.

[Mike]

I feel like we should watch that.

[Movie Mike]

Well, we got a month to watch it.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Movie Mike]

I also canceled Crunchyroll.

[Mike]

Sad that was. You enjoyed that? Yeah, but I actually haven't watched it.

[Movie Mike]

I haven't watched it. That's like six bucks. I had to justify the paying for Paramount Plus.

[Mike]

I think it was actually the same price.

[Movie Mike]

I feel like we need a clean house and all of our streaming services. But there's nothing else we could get rid of?

[Mike]

No. We watch a lot of tv. We use them.

[Movie Mike]

And movies, of course, from this podcast, we actually.

[Mike]

We spend money there because it's too expensive to leave the house and do anything else.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah, just watch things at home. For my best of the month. I'm going to go Roofman.

[Mike]

It was so good.

[Movie Mike]

And I think this Is one that I would go back and maybe bump it up a little bit. I gave it a four out of five initially.

[Mike]

Oh, I gave it a four and a half.

[Movie Mike]

I think I'm going four and a half now because it is a movie that I've told other people to go watch. They have gone to see it and enjoyed it, which is really hard to do. McDonald/Browns, I think, because it made me feel compassion for somebody who isn't necessarily a good person, isn't really a hero. But I was rooting for them, and I've had this really weird thing lately where I start to root for the bad person in the movies that we've been watching.

[Mike]

Okay. I have a layer to add to that.

[Movie Mike]

Okay, Hit me with it.

[Mike]

So I think it was on Kate Kennedy's podcast this week. She was talking to some friends about the heist at the Louvre.

[Movie Mike]

The Louvre.

[Mike]

And she was at them, but she was like. No one was hurt. So, like, do you kind of root or, like, find entertainment in the.

[Movie Mike]

I think that's. That's what's happening right now is. I think we saw that as a fictional situation. So I was rooting for them to get away for some reason, because nobody was harmed, at least to my knowledge.

[Mike]

Also, weren't all of those things probably stolen from someone before they.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah, they were still.

[Mike]

That's what they were talking about. They were like. Weren't those all, like, colonized from someone else?

[Movie Mike]

I mean, the fact that they did it in seven minutes before anybody knew what was going on with security. They didn't hold anybody hostage in the Louvre. Like, they got away on scooters.

[Mike]

Scooters.

[Movie Mike]

Scooters.

[Mike]

Jackson just came out. They got away on scooters, and.

[Movie Mike]

And then they got caught trying to hop a flight.

[Mike]

H. I mean, that. That is a bad form of transportation to take when you're, like, on the lamb. Because.

[Movie Mike]

Scooter.

[Mike]

No, A flight.

[Movie Mike]

Oh, like a scooter.

[Mike]

No. Like, I don't. They're in Europe. Take a train.

[Movie Mike]

That's true. Yeah. There's too many things you have to. To go through.

[Mike]

There's so much facial recognition.

[Movie Mike]

Oh, that too. I just think of, like, booking the flight.

[Mike]

No, but, like, your passport. And doesn't something flag in the system? Probably when you're wanted for robbing a famous museum.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah. Don't fly.

[Mike]

Dumb way to get out.

[Movie Mike]

Take a boat.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Movie Mike]

Take a train. I always thought a good way to get away from a crime. I think allegedly.

[Mike]

You got to say. Allegedly.

[Movie Mike]

Allegedly. Get away from a crime.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Movie Mike]

Well, Because I run. I always thought if you fled a scene of the crime in running clothes, would they think that you were escaping? You got to blend in. Like, if you just saw somebody in, like, Nike shorts, a tank top, with a running hat and headphones and running shoes.

[Mike]

But if there's no one else, you wouldn't.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You're getting implicated.

[Movie Mike]

It depends where it is. Like downtown. A busy downtown. And you just see somebody running, do you automatically think that person is running for just committing a crime?

[Mike]

No.

[Movie Mike]

There you go. It's an easy. Not an easy way, but it.

[Mike]

It.

[Movie Mike]

It could help because if you just see a guy in normal clothes running down the street, you're going to think, why is that guy running? It raises some red flags. If you see a guy in workout clothes going for a jog, look like.

[Mike]

You'Re picking up your pace and looking over your shoulder. Then you look.

[Movie Mike]

You got to slow.

[Mike]

Unless you're a girl. And then you're just, like, looking over the shoulder for safety.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah. You're like, that's a normal thing. But that is my best of the month. I think it's because it was based on a true story. I like Channing Tatum.

[Mike]

Listen, that was. That was a good Channing Tatum movie. I've been a Channing Tatum fan since 2006.

[Movie Mike]

That's true. I'm a late adopter. Not until 21 Jump Street.

[Mike]

Step up. She's the Man. Two of my favorite films of all time.

[Movie Mike]

I think he's having. I don't want to say a renaissance, because I don't really think he ever went away, but he's entering a really good pocket of movies right now.

[Mike]

He's entering a pocket where he's showcasing his acting skills more than his body. Magic Mike, because he.

[Movie Mike]

I mean, he lost £70 for this.

[Mike]

That's insane.

[Movie Mike]

Which. That one scene where he's, like, almost naked, that's really the only time you can tell he looks just a little bit more like.

[Mike]

I think he said he's like, he can't do big. I read an article where he said, like, big transformations like that are just too hard.

[Movie Mike]

That's why I say people who do that should be up for Oscars, because I don't think people realize how hard that is. And some people say their own.

[Mike]

Have you tried losing five pounds?

[Movie Mike]

It's really easy to put on muscle to play a superhero hero, which he is. Gambit. Now, I think it is just as hard as anything else in acting when it comes to transforming your body for a role.

[Mike]

But I Will also say they have the resources.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah. I mean, if you wake up, you.

[Mike]

Have the trainer, you have the chef. Like, that's your job is getting in shape. You're not doing a 9 to 5 and then also going to the gym and then making yourself a dinner. You're not even going to the store for yourself. So I do think you have, if you have all the resources at your disposal, and that is your job, is to get in shape for your role. Dang.

[Movie Mike]

You just took away the Oscar.

[Mike]

Well, that's. It's part of the job description.

[Movie Mike]

I didn't. I forgot about that part. That's all they have to do.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Movie Mike]

Which I think we forget with actors sometimes. That's their entire job to do these things for these roles.

[Mike]

And I understand it's still physically demanding.

[Movie Mike]

But you have still not easy.

[Mike]

Someone making a meal plan and being like, this is how much protein you need. This is how many calories you have a trainer watching your form, guiding you, being like, today we're doing this. Like, you're being led to the goal. You're the one doing the physical work, but you have someone like, providing you all of the other things needed to reach the goal.

[Movie Mike]

You know how to worry about anything else.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Movie Mike]

You don't have the grocery shop for your. Could you imagine not having a grocery shop?

[Mike]

I love that. I think that every week when we're like, what day should we go to the grocery store? Listen, we've become Friday evening grocery shoppers.

[Movie Mike]

Is the weirdest thing that guys.

[Mike]

It's kind of great.

[Movie Mike]

It is amazing.

[Mike]

I would do that in grad school mostly because I would have run out of food by Friday and I would stop and get like frozen pizza and a bottle of wine and like my groceries for the week. Then it was done.

[Movie Mike]

Our perfect Friday night now is eating at home, getting groceries and getting in a Friday night movie.

[Mike]

But it's like the other. We go to the store, then we eat because we will have maybe gotten something that we wanted for dinner.

[Movie Mike]

True.

[Mike]

And then we go to a movie and then we're home by like 9pm.

[Movie Mike]

The best Friday night in your 30s.

[Mike]

It really is. It's so nice. Yeah, it's great. But it is kind of funny because you look around the other grocery shoppers or like people in town for like bachelor bachelorette parties buying, like so much white claw and like bags of tortilla chips. We've got like tofu and blueberries in the cart.

[Movie Mike]

Isn't that the best grocery run? The Friday night on a trip in A grocery store that feels foreign to you.

[Mike]

Yes. We love doing that in Scottsdale.

[Movie Mike]

You buy all these things that you're probably not gonna eat, and you're like, this is so fun.

[Mike]

We buy so much.

[Movie Mike]

Look at this drink. Look at these snacks. And then by the end of your trip, you're like, why do we.

[Mike]

We get these? We did that a couple years ago. The first time we went to Scottsdale, we bought way too much. And then we were, like, walking around the resort on our last day, hey, does anyone want this cooler full stuff? We promise it's not weird. We just bought too much.

[Movie Mike]

Too much stuff. That is a rare aesthetic. The grocery store run at the start of a trip. I remember that as a kid.

[Mike]

Possibilities are endless. You have all the fun on the.

[Movie Mike]

Hermit, all the anticipation, and then by the end of it, you're like, this is so sad.

[Mike]

Yeah. You get the special snacks that you can only have on vacation. Good times.

[Movie Mike]

All right, our worst of the month. What do you got?

[Mike]

I fear I'm going to offend people with this.

[Movie Mike]

Okay, I'm ready for this. I think we're going to be different on these because both of us saw some movies that the other did not see.

[Mike]

I have to preface this.

[Movie Mike]

Okay.

[Mike]

I don't necessarily. I don't want to say books are bad, because I think anything that gets you into reading is great. I personally don't find anything from the Colleen Hoover books, and I think the movie adaptations have just been rough. And I saw regretting you this weekend and. And I am indeed regretting seeing that film. Not regretting. I go with two of my friends. We've, like, made it a thing now to see all of her movie adaptations. When I tell you we were audibly giggling. It wasn't a comedy. It was, in fact, a drama. It got to the point where, like, people were just making out loud commentary in the theater. Like, one of the characters said something, and a girl next to us just goes, oh, God. Like, it was that level.

[Movie Mike]

That's next level. I haven't experienced something like that in forever.

[Mike]

It was a theater of mostly women and then the significant others that got dragged to it, which I would have.

[Movie Mike]

Gone to see this movie. I saw the trailer and I was like, looks interesting. Yeah, you're. But you were already booked.

[Mike]

I was booked, booked and busy this weekend. Yeah, it just. It left so much to be. It just was so full of tropes and, like, the dialogue was bad. And they did the thing where, like, when the characters text each other, they not only put the text bubble on the screen, but then the character reads it, so it's like, hey, what's up? And then the guy's like, not much. What about you? Like, that level of, like, dumb dialog? If you like Colleen Hoover books, I think you might enjoy the film. Maybe not. I feel like seeing it on screen is different than reading it, because reading it, you can kind of make characters in your head. But then once you see it play out, I would say it is making money, but it's actually not. The budget was like 30 million, and I think it made under 13. It had a 15% on rotten tomatoes. That's.

[Movie Mike]

See, I thought it was going to be one of those movies that maybe I wouldn't like, but there is an audience for. But I feel like you are the closer to the audience and you still don't like it.

[Mike]

Yeah, I went in critical and it was like. I knew it wasn't gonna be great, but I was, like, lower than I expected. I looked over one of my friends at one point. Only the people watching this on YouTube will see it, but she was just like. Like, we were just. What is happening?

[Movie Mike]

Was it ever good? Like, did it start out promising or was it bad from the beginning?

[Mike]

It was one of those where it was like, I had to go to the bathroom at a certain point and I was like, oh, I don't really want to miss what comes. Just because it was kind of like, what's gonna happen? But now, from the beginning, yeah, it's kind of like, who. What bills did Dave Franco have to pay to do this film?

[Movie Mike]

I mean, he's about to get that. Now you see me.

[Mike]

I was just about to say, about to get. Now you see me. Three. Yeah, it just. I can't say anything without giving it away. It's just so tropey. I mean, I think by watch. If you watch the trailer, you'll immediately pick up on the trope.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah. What I picked up from the trailer is it's people talking. Like, nobody would talk in real life.

[Mike]

Correct. And just the plot of, like, what it's about. And I made a joke at one point about, like, what if this turns out to be this? And I came back from the bathroom, my friend leaned over and she was like, you were right. This turned out to be this. And I was like, oh, God, that was like a bad joke. Can't believe that actually happened. So, yeah.

[Movie Mike]

So just overly dramatic, bad acting. Unbelievable. All the bad things. What do you rate it? You've given things a zero before.

[Mike]

I mean, like, I Said it kept my interest. It was not Eddington.

[Movie Mike]

So it had some entertainment value.

[Mike]

Yeah, it was kind of like so bad. It's good.

[Movie Mike]

Oh, that's. That's rough, though. I don't feel like that should be a so bad. It's good movie.

[Mike]

I mean, I don't think it was supposed to be. I think it was supposed to be so good. It's good.

[Movie Mike]

They were trying to make a good movie.

[Mike]

I'm gonna go 1.5 lollipops.

[Movie Mike]

It's pretty low.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Movie Mike]

For my worst of the month, I'm gonna go with Good Fortune, which is the Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves.

[Mike]

Movie where you were excited to see that one?

[Movie Mike]

I was. It has a bunch of people that I like. I'm a fan of all three of those people. The movie would have been good if it came out in, like, 2011.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Movie Mike]

It just felt like those.

[Mike]

That's an insult.

[Movie Mike]

It felt like that's almost as bad.

[Mike]

Of an insult as so bad it's good.

[Movie Mike]

I guess so. I didn't think it was. That's exactly how that movie made me feel, where it was like the remnants of a Judd Apatow movie. And I think I was just so surprised for Aziz Ansari's directorial debut. Why make this movie? Like, there was. The story itself was like his character down on his luck, was trying to be, like, a documentary editor. That wasn't working out. So he's working as, like, a doordasher, is living in his car. And then he meets Seth Rogen's character, who is like a tech bro, lives in a giant mansion, has a bunch of family money. And then at his lowest point, he gets a guardian angel, which is Keanu Reeves, and he's like kind of an entry level angel, and he switches bodies of Aziz and Seth Rogen. So now Seth Rogen's broke and Aziz character is rich. And then he's like, okay, now you live this life and you're going to see it's not as glamorous as it is now that you're rich. Turns out it solved all of his problems, and that's really the whole movie. And it tried to make, like, a lot of commentary on, like, how hard it is for people right now. Doordashing and economy. Yeah, basically that's what the whole movie was, but it just didn't really land on any element. Like, the comedy wasn't that funny for.

[Mike]

A comedy with Seth Rogen.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah, Seth Rogen was basically the same thing. He's been in the studio platonic it was like, all this.

[Mike]

He's been in a lot.

[Movie Mike]

He's been. I feel like he forgot, like, what character he was supposed to be. Just like, I'm just going to be Seth Rogen. And it didn't really land on an emotional level. Like it's supposed to be, it's a wonderful lifetime situation or something. It just didn't really have anything to it. And it was 90 minutes long, and it felt so long by about 45 minutes. I was like, I don't even really care how this movie ends. I just think it was because I went into it thinking it was going to be a funny movie and left just kind of disappointed. I also went and had the entire theater to myself. So there was no camaraderie, Camaraderie. No interaction, which has helped with comedies lately that we've gone to see. Like, when you see and hear other people laughing and enjoying it, it kind of makes it more funny. And I think the fact that it was kind of like going to see stand up and being the only person in the crowd, and it's like, well, this is weird. This doesn't feel right.

[Mike]

I should also add, regretting you was two hours.

[Movie Mike]

Two hours.

[Mike]

It was two hours.

[Movie Mike]

Oh, man. Yeah, two hours flat, at least. This was 90 minutes.

[Mike]

It was. And I. It got to the point at the end where I just kept looking at my friend Courtney and I was like, it's going to be over soon. Right? Like, I know it's two hours, but it has to be over soon. Right?

[Movie Mike]

They could wrap this up early, but, yeah, I would give good fortune. 2.5 out of 5. I'm not even sure it's a streamer.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Movie Mike]

I feel like the movie should have focused entirely on Keanu Reeves and just been from his point of view because the other two guys just were not cutting it. Would you have been offended if I would have put the Taylor Swift party as my worst?

[Mike]

No, because I don't feel like our theater experience was what some people had in their parties. Like, everyone sat and just kind of watched where it was like, I wanted a little more, like, out your seats dancing. I honestly wouldn't have expected you to go. You kind of got roped into going.

[Movie Mike]

But I wanted to experience it. I just thought it was going to be more of a cinematic event, which.

[Mike]

I think is what her docu series is going to be.

[Movie Mike]

This was more of a listening party. I think the thing that made me want to put it as my worst was that all the lyric music videos had a loop. It was a loop.

[Mike]

Yeah. And it was a little like, I don't know, motion sickness.

[Movie Mike]

They weren't even great visualizations.

[Mike]

No. Yeah, I didn't. I mean, it wasn't my favorite thing that I saw. It was more just to, like, go with friends. Made me kind of, like, appreciate the album more. I liked the behind the scenes. I liked hearing her explain the songs. If it had been any longer, I'd have been like, okay, wrap this up now. The docu series I'm already sat for.

[Movie Mike]

But that won't be in theaters. That'll just be Disney plus comfort of my own home. See, I wanted more of that. I think if you're going to go to the theater to watch something and pay money for it, which that was one we had to actually pay for because our Regal Unlimited doesn't cover some of those live events or the special events.

[Mike]

Yeah, we did pay for that.

[Movie Mike]

And I was like, man, cash grab, going through all the other movies of October. Good Boy. I give a three out of five. I still need to do my favorite movie Dogs episode. I think you should be on that one. But Good Boy is definitely up there. We talked about the Taylor Swift movie Smashing Machine. Four out of five is what I gave that one.

[Mike]

That's way too high.

[Movie Mike]

You would give that lower?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Movie Mike]

How low?

[Mike]

Three.

[Movie Mike]

Oh, that's still not terrible.

[Mike]

It's failing.

[Movie Mike]

The Lost Bus, which we talked about. I have it at a four out of five. I maybe could have bumped it up a little bit more, but then I was like, am I just too into disaster films? Roofman, which made my Best of the month, 4.5 out of 5. The Woman in the Cabin 10 or the Woman in Kevin?

[Mike]

The Woman in Cabin 10, starring Keira Knightley on Netflix.

[Movie Mike]

Thank you. That was pretty good. That was like a Sunday night movie we watched.

[Mike]

I loved the book.

[Movie Mike]

A real cozy nothing too. I thought that movie was cozy.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Movie Mike]

Because it was like different definitions. It's a cozy thriller. You try to figure out why she feels like she's going crazy. But I gave that one three out of five. After the Hunt, the Julia Roberts, Iowa debris. I thought it was gonna be better.

[Mike]

Yeah. Listen, I love a dark academia. It's too long. There was too much talking.

[Movie Mike]

It was the. The delivery of that movie. The style which everybody spoke and all the. All the sequences together just felt a little bit weird.

[Mike]

Yeah, it wasn't. It's the same director that did Challengers and it wasn't as action packed. Like, you couldn't have that kind of style without the Action of challengers.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah. It felt like watching, like, the paints of a masterpiece dry, where I was like, I know this is a really good painting, but I'm just watching it dry. And then by the end of it, you're like, okay, I get the story. That was good. But the delivery was just a little bit boring and drawn out.

[Mike]

I need to know where she taught how to get that apartment they lived.

[Movie Mike]

In, because that was amazing. They had a room where all they do is listen to music. You know how much money you have to have to have a room where you just listen to music?

[Mike]

They also didn't have kids.

[Movie Mike]

That's true.

[Mike]

They have a lot of rooms in the house.

[Movie Mike]

They have a swinging door to their kitchen. That was so cool.

[Mike]

That was nice.

[Movie Mike]

Oh, these little things that I notice about fancy people. Enriched people's houses. I watched Play Dirty on Amazon, which is a Mark Wahlberg movie, kind of the opposite of good fortune. I went into it with really low expectations, thinking Mark Wahlberg was just gonna play the same Mark Wahlberg again and again. Actually, not bad. Three out of five on that one. I watched Honey don't on Peacock, which was the Margaret Qualy Aubrey Plaza movie. Same director who did Drive Away Dolls. It almost feels like a sequel to that movie. Same kind of style. Even though it's set in modern day, it feels like a 50s detective movie. Not as bad as people were saying. I give that one a three out of five. I tried to watch Megan 2.0, also on Peacock. So bad I couldn't finish it.

[Mike]

Allison Williams was also in that. She's the common factor between that and regretting you. And I love Allison Williams.

[Movie Mike]

I started Megan 2.0 twice and couldn't get past 15 minutes because it was so bad.

[Mike]

You started Megan 2.0 2.0 times.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah. And it still can't get there. And then Deliver Me from Nowhere. Bruce Springsteen movie. 3.5 out of 5. Your TV show for the month.

[Mike]

I'm gonna go Mr. Glen Powell in Chad Powers.

[Movie Mike]

Could you call that one a cozy comedy? Yes, because it's not so hilarious that you're like, oh, my gosh, you have to watch this show. It is so funny.

[Mike]

It's not like slapstick humor, but it's. It's an elevated humor, which is almost harder to do.

[Movie Mike]

It's as close as you can get to great comedy in 2025 when it comes to a series. Yes. Where the writing is good, the performances are good, but maybe the story is a little bit too crazy to be believable. Therefore, you could find it a little bit cornball at times.

[Mike]

Yeah. But it's. He's funny. He's great as Chad Powers. Steve Zahn's hilarious.

[Movie Mike]

I like that they actually use real college football teams and it's. They're not all made up. It makes it feel a little bit more realistic where they're actually playing Georgia and all those kind of little pieces that are like, okay, maybe this could exist in this world. For TV show, I have Peacemaker Season 2. I love the entire series up until the end because I think what is happening now is James Gunn is starting to do a DC what Marvel does and has everything connect to each other. And I felt like towards the end of the season, it was just queuing up the next Superman movie. So it almost felt like, oh, man, we did not get the best entire season because this is building towards something now. But very rarely do I watch a superhero show and have real emotions. But there's one scene in particular where I felt like crying because Peacemaker goes through so much turmoil, has so much trauma. And there was this moment where John Cena just kind of let it all out. And I've never seen that side of John Cena. And I felt so bad for his character. I was like, wow. Like, I did not expect something to have this much emotional depth.

[Mike]

It is really hard to get you to cry.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It doesn't happen easily.

[Movie Mike]

Usually take superhero movies, though, like End Game. That'll give me that is Spider man, no Way Home. That'll get me real life. And I'm good. Your book for the month?

[Mike]

I read a lot of books this month. I read like 10 or 11. I've already hit my goal for the year. My goal was 75, and I'm at 76. I'm going to go My Friends by Frederick Bachman, who is. He wrote A Man Called Ove, which is what A Man Called Otto was based on. My friends was so good. And maybe it was just I was in, like, a emotional mood when I read it, but it just made me feel so many things. It's not.

[Movie Mike]

Oh, yeah. I remember you reading me an excerpt from it.

[Mike]

It's not super, like, plot driven necessarily. It's the characters. But I had started it, was reading it each night, and then I picked up on page, like 1:30 a couple weekends ago and read it until like 11pm and finished. Because I was like, I can't put this down. So I'm gonna go with that one. But I read a lot of good ones.

[Movie Mike]

What was it called again?

[Mike]

My Friends read a lot of good ones. There was another one. Oh, I also read the Correspondent by Virginia Evans, which. It's about this older woman named Sybil, and she like, writes and emails people, and the whole book is like her letters and emails. It just was really good. It was one of those characters that you're like, oh, I'm gonna think about this for a long time after I read it. Some books I read, and then the next day somebody's like, what was that about? Like, I don't know. Check out the synopsis on Goodreads. Couldn't tell you.

[Movie Mike]

But yeah, I feel that way about movies sometimes.

[Mike]

When you said, I don't even remember what the Bruce Springsteen movie was called.

[Movie Mike]

I Deliver Me From Nowhere.

[Mike]

The name. When you said that earlier, I was like, what was that movie?

[Movie Mike]

The way that I do reviews, I get so invested in one movie for a very brief period of time, like two days, that is all I'm consumed with. And then after those two days, it just kind of leaves my head until, like, I randomly think of another movie it connects to.

[Mike]

I've been reading a lot of good books lately, though. There's been quite a few and I think I've updated my Goodreads with all of them for those who follow.

[Movie Mike]

Should we put that in the notes? Yes, put that in there. Anything else?

[Mike]

No, I gotta go put our Christmas tree up.

[Movie Mike]

Yeah. So early.

[Mike]

Listen, it brings me joy.

[Movie Mike]

Hits November and you're like, Christmas tree.

[Mike]

Do you not remember during the pandemic when we put it up in April and left it up for quite some time?

[Movie Mike]

We were very depressed at that time. But yes, that was very early.

[Mike]

I'm just saying it brings joy. Sparks, joy especially. It's like so gray this week here. I need just like twinkle lights.

[Movie Mike]

All right, I'll come back and I'll give my spoiler free review of Begonia.

[Mike]

Now you're saying it differently.

[Movie Mike]

Began.

[Mike]

No, earlier it was Bogonia. Now you're saying begonia.

[Movie Mike]

Bogonia.

[Mike]

Which syllable are you enunciating?

[Movie Mike]

Begonia.

[Mike]

Okay, all right. Please don't.

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[Movie Mike]

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[Mike]

I turned off news altogether.

[Movie Mike]

I hate to say it, but I.

[Mike]

Don'T trust much of anything.

[Doug]

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[Movie Mike]

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[Movie Mike]

Let's get into it now. A Spoiler Free movie review of Begonia, one of my most anticipated movies of the the year from director Yorgos Lantimos starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons what this movie is About Emma Stone plays a high profile CEO at a pharmaceutical company. Jesse Plemons plays a guy who is obsessed with conspiracy theories. He has been just diving into all of these theories about Emma Stone's character and why he believes that she is an alien hiding in plain sight. And, and what does he decide to do? He decides to take action. He, along with his cousin, capture Emma Stone at the beginning of the movie and then hold her hostage. The movie is Adapted from a 2003 movie from South Korea called Save the Green Planet. And that's really all you need to know. This movie was truly something special and sometimes I'm guarded a little bit when talking about a movie that I love so much because I worry about overhyping it to you. This is the case. I'm going to tell you right now. I am going to overhype the crap out of this movie because I loved it so much. Great movies suspend you in time and make you feel truly like you have escaped. This world that we are living in. Just so happens to be a movie about somebody being accused of being an alien and wanting to contact their mothership. But that is truly something so special. If you just think about what watching a movie is, which I've had a really weird just realization as everything's gone to digital. You're really just watching a file being put on the screen. Although in this case we saw it at the Bell Court here in Nashville on 35 millimeters. So I did get that level of warmth to it. I love that right at the beginning of the movie you see that little circle in the right corner of the screen wherever they put that film reel on. So it did have that level of warmth to it. Seeing it in 35 millimeters, which I would highly recommend you get all those rich colors. And I think with the Yorgos Lantimos movie that really benefits from it. But when you just think about what watching a movie is is you're sitting in front of a screen and you're having information put into your eyeballs. It is very rare to be sitting in that seat having that process done where you truly feel Something that makes you question your morals. And I was talking about earlier how I've been going through this thing recently where I start to feel for the bad person in the movie. I don't want to call them villains because I don't think they're always villains. But Jesse Plemon's character is an anti hero. And throughout this movie it will have you questioning who you believe and who you are rooting for. And I found myself feeling very empathetic towards his character, learning all the details about why he is doing this, that I started rooting for him. But then I thought if this happened in the real world, I would not be rooting for this guy. And the question this movie raises, is Jesse Plen's character a madman or is he somebody that is seeing something that nobody else can see? And then you have Emma Stone, who did nothing wrong. She's just a high profile CEO. Some people have problems with those types of people because of how rich she is. Because in order to get to that level of power you probably have to do some shady things. Very rarely you don't. But in this case you get to know her character and then suddenly she is being kidnapped. So she did nothing wrong. But I also found myself rooting for him more. Rooting for her more. It'll have you just questioning your entire reality when it comes to who is in the right here, who is in the wrong. Do you believe that she is an alien like Jesse Plemon's character thinks that she is? Or is he somebody who has just been in this echo chamber that is a result of him spending so much time online reading all these theories, only having the negative thoughts in his head reinforced, therefore making it build up so much in his head that he thought kidnapping a CEO was actually the right thing to do because he's just trying to save the world. When it comes to Yorgos Lanthimos movies, he is a director that is an acquired taste. But his movies feel so authentically him. And I think of his most recent movies, this is the most easily digestible. Where I couldn't really recommend you a poor things unless you're into really weird movies with a lot of nudity. Kinds of kindness was even a bit of a hard sell on me. My introduction to him was Back with the Lobster and I didn't entirely love that one. But then when I saw the favorite I was like, okay, I understand this guy now. I get it. Which he has been working with Emma Stone now for a while. So I feel like there is a lot of trust there. And to do a movie like this, to do any of his previous movies, you need to have a lot of trust because Emma Stone actually shaved her head for Begonia. You actually see it happen in this movie when she is captured, which was also in the trailer in they Shave Her Head. That is Emma Stone committing to this role, for lack of a better word. That is Oscar stuff right there. I wish I could curse. I'm not gonna curse. But that is what that level of acting is. That is why she is an Academy Award winner, because it takes that level of dedication. She didn't know it was going to be hiding for her underneath her head once she shaved it. And I did see that after she shaved her head, she realized she had these two moles that she got removed because she couldn't live with it. I could not shave my head fully because I know, I know I have a weird head underneath this hair that it's just lopsided. Probably a roll. I probably have some mold or some weird things going on there. I know I have some scars, which I got when I was a kid. I know it's probably not as crazy for a guy to have to shave their head for a role, but that is next level stuff. It is the thing she is willing to do to change her body for a role. But not only that, you. She is somebody who is such a dialed in actor. Her and Jesse Plemons together was so magnificent to watch their back and forth on screen where they're these two forces just butting heads against each other, where her character is so great at communicating and so great at diffusing a situation. She portrays a CEO in a way I haven't seen done before, where, you know, every conversation she has has to end the way that she wants it to. And this was probably the first time in her life as a character where she was met with resistance, where she didn't know what to say, she didn't know how to get out of the situation, but she didn't have this catalog of how to work with somebody who was not mentally stable. That was a really interesting dynamic to watch when it comes to casting for this movie. Completely nailed it. And I know Yorgos has been working with both of those actors for a very long time and you may think, well, he just went to his muses and put them two together in a movie. So maybe not the most adventurous casting. But you realize why it works so well because they were just having these conversations and it felt like you were watching a bomb go off. And quite possibly one of the Most surprising things is that Begonia didn't have any crazy nudity. And that is quite the accomplishment. Coming off of poor things and kinds of kindness, which was loaded, chock full of it. I would say that's your ghost's calling card, is, hey, you know what would make this scene better? Let's make these two people naked. Not the case with Begonia. This movie is so absurd in the best way. And there was this one particular moment where I felt it go next level where there was this switch in my brain that said, okay, this is a good movie, this is a good movie. And this scene in particular flipped that switch and went to a great movie. Because if you look at everybody involved in this, they're just all on a different playing field when it comes to storytelling, when it comes to acting, when it comes to dedication, when it comes to just treating every scene like this is the scene. There were so many instances of that throughout the entire film where this is a movie that I feel is going to have a high rewatch ability for me because there are going to be things that I want to go back and see that I missed. I also think this movie proposes so many questions that you can dive into and have your own theories on. Even the title of the movie itself is a little bit ambiguous, where they named it this for a particular reason. But it can also be open to interpretation, especially once you watch the film. You find out what happens, you get all these questions answered, then you can ask more questions. And that is the sign of a great film. A movie that stays with you and leaves some things open for your own interpretation. Which I think lately a lot of films have been playing it so safe where they tell you every single thing, every single detail, every little thing ends up with a nice little bow on it by the end of it. And I think that is boring. And some people want every single question answered. I'm not one of those people. I think great art should be open ended. And I wish more directors took that risk. And I think sometimes because of maybe that Marvel movie mentality where we don't have all these question answered by the end of it, we don't get a post credit scene teeing up the next movie, we feel a little bit ripped off. I love those instances. Use your imagination, people. I only think the hard sell of this movie is the fact that it is kind of a weird concept. Even though it is what I believe to be Yorgos is at least of this decade, his most digestible work, I still think this movie will be a little Bit off putting to some, but these are the types of movies I seek out. I have to have at least one of these every single year to just inspire me again to make it feel like I'm not watching the same thing over and over and talking about the same types of movies again and again. This movie is a full course meal to me. It has the appetizer, the amazing entree, the wonderful dessert, maybe even a little cup of cappuccino at the end. This movie has it all. And if you end up watching it or have seen it already and didn't enjoy it, what do you enjoy? I really want to know. Maybe you're not into the idea of conspiracy theories. Maybe you don't like aliens. Maybe you just don't like this form of storytelling. For me, I feel this movie had it all. It was so close to perfection. And I even got this little commemorative film strip which is really cool with some big scenes from the movie. If you're watching on YouTube, you can see me holding it. Although it doesn't show up that great on camera. But I was such a nerd for this movie going into it that I saw they were going to have these limited edition and, you know, anything collectible I got to get my hands on. We got there probably 20 minutes early and I was like, man, I hope they don't run out of those strips. They still had a lot of them. I think I was the only one excited for this, but pretty cool. I love any kind of little piece of memorabilia now that we don't have ticket stubs. Like all my ticket stubs that are in my Regal app, since we don't have those and I don't buy a whole lot of popcorn buckets just because I had the big stitch one in the studio and it kind of takes up all the space. I love these little things that they can do to give you something to take home from the movie. So for Begonia, it is rare for me to give out a five. I'm not gonna do it here. It is really close. But I am just so hyped coming off this movie. The fact that I went in with such high expectations and those expectations were not only met, but I feel like even exceeded at moments because it took it to the next level. For Begonia, I give it 4.5 out of 5. Shaved heads.

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[Movie Mike]

What if you survived a plane crash, ended up on a desert island? On that desert island, there was one other person, but it is the person in life that you hate the most. That is the premise of this new movie starring Rachel McAdams. Dylan O'. Brien. It's called Send Help. Because their relationship is not good in this and they are co workers. Dylan o' Brien plays her boss. He is a jerk. He belittles her at work, makes fun of her appearance with makes fun of the way that she smells. She hates this guy. They go on a work trip together. He's even a jerk on the plane to other people. Plane goes down, they are the only two survivors. End up on a desert island and suddenly there is now a shift in who is in power because Rachel McAdams character is really good at surviving. She can hunt, she can fish. She can do all these things in order to survive on this island by herself. She doesn't need his because he gets injured in this plane crash and then he still thinks that this is just the office. I can treat her the exact same way. I am her boss. But suddenly she's like, out here, you're not my boss. I'm the one keeping us alive. Now you have to listen to me. What would you do in that situation? I am lucky enough if I was trapped on a desert island with my boss, I would not be in a nightmare situation. Aside from not having wi fi and air conditioning, we would have a good time. But before we get into more about why I love these two actors coming together, it's from director Sam Raimi, who I'm also a big fan of. Here's just a little bit of the Send Help trailer coming out. On January 30, the coast joined the land of the living. How long have you been out? Day and a half.

[Doug]

Have you tried making a distress signal.

[Movie Mike]

Or a bigger fire? I was busy trying to keep us alive. But getting us out of here, that should be your focus, not being Susie Homemaker over here.

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[Movie Mike]

We're not in the office anymore, Bradley. That line goes hard right there. We're not in the office anymore, Bradley. And you can hear the shift in her character right there. And then you see her get really dark and you start wondering, how did she learn all these skills? How does she know how to cut the head off of a boar? How does she know how to hunt with this spear that she just built herself? There has to be some kind of crazy backstory to her and something that makes her snap to now quite possibly being a person who has taken out their boss on their radar. Dylan O' Brien and Rachel McAdams look great together. I feel like they are both underappreciated actors. What I always like to do is go over to IMDb and see what they list as their top four movies, which I think the way they kind of determine those is the ones that people search for the most on their website. But for Rachel McAdams it is the Notebook, obviously Mean Girls, Regina George, obviously Red Eye and the Vow. For Dylan o', Brien, first one's actually not a movie. Teen Wolf, the TV show, which I was not that big a fan of. I feel like I'm more of a 2020s fan of Dylan O', Brien, especially what he's doing now with this movie coming out next year. And Twin List was one of my favorite just hidden gems that I found earlier this year, so I don't really associate him with Teen Wolf. The Maze Runner, I think is what the most people associate Dylan o' Brien with. Even though when it comes to dystopian science fiction movies, those aren't my go to. I'm more of a Hunger Games guy. And I know those movies aren't entirely the same, completely different franchises. But during that period of time where I feel like all those movie rights got bought up and they all got released in the 2010s, those kind of run together with all those. But I'm definitely more of a Hunger Games guy, but I know he made a lot of money and gained a lot of recognition through those movies. I associate him more with the year of 2020. Love and Monsters was probably my favorite movie to come out of the COVID era. I got into this period of my life where every Saturday morning I would look forward to a new movie that I could watch at home that was not coming out in theaters. And that became my kind of comfort during that time where I looked forward to it. I so greatly missed that in theater experience. And that was the closest Thing I had to going to the movies where kept my phone out of the room, had the sound bar on as loud as it could go, much like it would in the movies. And I was just so appreciative of having a new movie. This movie in particular I felt kind of just did not register with most much like everything that came out pretty much between the year 2020 and 2022. That is kind of a weird time period. It wasn't really until no Way Home that it kind of broke all that. We kind of started go going back to normal after that movie came out. But this movie I feel really got me through a terrible mental state and I love Dylan o' Brien in it. So if you haven't seen Love and Monsters and you like post apocalyptic adventure action movies, I highly recommend it. Although probably the association I have with it makes the movie a lot better in my book than it actually is. So I think it is one that I probably wouldn't revisit for that reason. But it is on Paramount plus and now that I got suckered into a Paramount plus subscription, maybe I'll finally go back and rewatch that. But it is good just to see him back on the big screen. Twin list was a movie starring him that I saw earlier this year. I think could be one of my favorite performances of 2025. It was one that I went into with very little expectation and very rarely do I not watch a trailer at all before going to see a movie. And. And that was one of them. I only read the description. It's about two guys that meet in a support group and become friends and then one of them has a dark secret that you learn about. But that movie had a little bit of comedy, it had a little bit of drama. It also had like this weird turn where it almost turned into a thriller. Had some suspense in there. Overall, just quite the journey. So it's cool to see Dylan O' Brien back on the big screen. Also for Rachel McAdams, who was so huge in the mid 2000s, so much so that she had to take a couple of years off and she turned down roles in the Devil Wears Prada and Iron man, she needed a little bit of time away from the fame and the public scrutiny. And I feel like she has also taken some really great roles in the 2000s. But then when you think about this movie, you have Dylan O' Brien and Rachel McAdams and if this were any other director, this would have turned into a rom com. They would have crash landed try to survive on this Desert island. And they probably would have fallen in love, except you have Sam Raimi behind the camera, who notoriously got his start in horror with the movie the Evil Dead, which is a low budget cult classic in the horror world. Also went on to do Evil Dead 2 and army of Darkness. But then what he became the most famous for, at least in my eyes, was the Spider man trilogy in the 2000s. A lot different than what he did in his horror era and his Western era. And that just kind of took him on an entirely different level. He also did Drag Me to hell in 2009. Oz the Great and Powerful in 2013, which was the wizard of Oz prequel starring James Franco, which was actually not bad. I remember seeing that one in theaters. And I also just have a big fascination with anything. Wizard of Oz, the original is just such a mysterious movie to me and such an odd piece in movie history because of how significant it is to culture, but how there's this weird dark side behind the making of that movie. I've always just been fascinated with anything wizard of Oz. So probably to most people, that wasn't a great movie. But in 2013, I was really a big fan of James Franco as well, so that movie hit with me. He also did Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness back in 2022, which was essentially a horror Marvel movie. And he had all of his trademarks in there. The big eye inside of Dr. Strange's forehead, which he always has close ups on eyes. If you look at all of his movies, from Spider man to. Even in the trailer to send help, there is one scene where you see Rachel McAdams almost entirely covered in blood. Her face is all messed up and it looks like she's missing an eye. So he always has this signature shot, a big zoom in on a character's eye. In Doctor Strange, a lot of people do refer to that one as one of the worst moments in CGI in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So to me, this movie feels like a little bit of Castaway, a little bit of Lord of the Flies. There was also a movie that came out in 2022, and like I mentioned, that was also one of those forgotten years, Triangle of Sadness, where this kind of happens. It's about these really rich people who go out on an excursion on a yacht, and then they get caught in a big storm. The boat goes down and all the survivors end up on a desert island, much like here, and send help. And it almost feels, just by watching this trailer, like they took the third act of that movie and made an entire big budget movie out of it. But Triangle of Sadness was a little bit of a niche movie, but that is another movie to check out if you missed it and you have no problem watching scenes of people vomiting profusely. That is a major part of that movie. So two movies you might have missed in the last five years just based on the time that they came out, that we've talked about Love and Monsters with Dylan O' Brien from 2020 and Triangle of Sadness from 2022, which you can watch on Hulu. Watch those movies and then go see Send Help in theaters on January 30th.

[Doug]

And that was this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer park.

[Movie Mike]

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 Instagram and shouting out Megwin as this week's listener shout out of the week because she posted in her story last week screenshot of her listening to the episode about the 10 actors who were totally hated by their entire cast along with the Springsteen movie review. I reposted because she tagged me in her Instagram story and said Michael Jackson picks up Thor's hammer, bunch of crying emojis, which was a quote from that episode and said thanks Mike Distro for the laugh. To start the week, I got a lot of pushback on that idea. Nobody likes that, especially over on YouTube. People on YouTube do not hesitate to call you an idiot. I just thought that would be interesting. I still stand by that. I want a musician multiverse. Thanks Megwyn for listening every single week and thank you. Right now, wherever you are listening to this week's episode. Hope you have a great rest of your week. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.

[Doug]

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