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MOVIE MIKE: Hidden Gems and Major Letdowns in Sept Recap with Mike and Kelsey + Movie Review: Good Boy + Movie Poster Wall: The Simpsons Movie 2
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Kelsey
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Movie Mike
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Kelsey
Yay.
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Movie Mike
We're rewatching the series from start to finish and getting into all the fashions, the drama and the behind the scenes moments that you've never heard before, but you were still bartending. I didn't know that. The bar pack is like, is that you and I? And it's a commercial for Betty and I was like, I gotta go. I quit. Listen to Viva Betty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, it's Stephanie, Beatriz and Melissa Fumaro. And this is more better. We are jumping right in and ready to hear from you, your thoughts, your questions, your feelings about socks with sandals. And we're ready to share some possibly questionable advice. And hot takes.
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Kelsey
God, that sucks so hard though. I'm so sorry.
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Movie Mike
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Kelsey
I ended up having anorexia issues, bulimia issues, by talking to the models, the.
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Movie Mike
Producers and the people who profited from it. All we basically sold our souls and they got rich.
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Kelsey
If you were so rooting for her.
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Movie Mike
And saw her drowning, why don't you.
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Kelsey
Help her listen to the curse of.
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Movie Mike
America's Next top model on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. That is the sound of a coffee cracking as we start this episode. Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike, joined by my wife and caffeine drinking co host, Kelsey. How are you?
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Kelsey
I've been better.
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Movie Mike
It's been a day. It's been a week. It's been a year.
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Kelsey
It's been a day though, in particular.
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Movie Mike
But we're here to talk about good things. Yes, and bad things.
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Kelsey
I was gonna say we're just here to talk about things.
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Movie Mike
It is the best and worst of September. In the movie review, I'll be talking about Good Boy, the horror movie from the perspective of the dog. Sounds terrible, but in the trailer park, I am gonna switch it up and instead of talking about a movie trailer, I'll talk about a movie poster. Because they announced the Simpsons movie and I'm breaking down all the excitement I have going into The Simpsons Movie 2, which I thought was fake when it first was announced.
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Kelsey
I will excuse myself from this recording when you decide to record that portion.
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Movie Mike
But 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 national podcast network. This is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. Let's hop right into it. Best thing you watched in September, which was still a pretty busy month. I think August is going to be the biggest month I've ever had. Going to see new movies in theaters.
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Kelsey
Yeah, because you saw so many movies in August.
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Movie Mike
I went hard in August. September was like a bunch of random things.
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Kelsey
I don't know. October feels pretty packed between, like, big theatrical releases and then all the ones that we've seen the trailers for at the Bell Court.
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Movie Mike
Yeah, we're getting into, like early Oscar ish season.
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Kelsey
Like, we actually don't have time to do all the things like we were trying to plot out, like when to see movies and good movies that have come out on Apple, but between that and football TV shows, trying to leave the house every once in a while.
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Movie Mike
And then I got this wild thing of like, wanting to go do things. This month is going to sound out of pocket for me, but we should go to this event.
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Kelsey
You sent me something the other day and you were like, do you want to Go. And I responded. I can't tell if you're joking or not because why would you suggest leaving the house on a weeknight?
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Movie Mike
It is a Wednesday night opening of a bar. Can I say who it is? I don't know if it's like an announced thing, but by the time this airs, it wouldn't have happened yet. So if you see it on social media that we went to a bar during the week, you're going to be like, this is so weird, but it'll also make sense.
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Kelsey
And then we have like, I have the Jonas Brothers this month, got a couple concerts. We just have so much to do. And by. Also by the time this comes out, I will have chopped my hair. I'm getting Bob.
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Movie Mike
Whole new person.
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Kelsey
Whole new person.
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Movie Mike
But September to me was kind of like whenever I try to clean out food from the fridge and I put together a meal of a bunch of random things that don't really go together, but some of them are about to expire and I'm just trying to make a meal.
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Kelsey
Yeah, but then you feel like crap and I have to listen. You lay on the floor and go and go, I shouldn't have. Mixed beans, fake vegan chicken, rice and some carrots. And I'm like, in what universe did that go together?
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Movie Mike
It was a bad choice.
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Kelsey
I thought you were about to say, like, cleaning out things that are expired, which I did do this morning.
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Movie Mike
While you're not home now, September just felt like a bunch of random movies that didn't really go together. It was. It's a dump month. So it's a lot of just like, okay, here, let's put this out because it doesn't really make sense anywhere else, but we had some really good ones. Some that I felt went under the radar that are not going to get the attention they deserve. So I want to go through every single movie. But for you, what was the best thing you saw?
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Kelsey
And under the radar? One Twin list.
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Movie Mike
Yeah. I think that is the biggest underrated movie of the year. Where I pulled the logline because it is almost a movie that if you don't know anything going into it, it's better so that I'll just tell you what they say about it. Two men who each lost their respective twin brothers develop a growing friendship after meeting in a support group. That's really all you need to know.
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Kelsey
Yep.
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Movie Mike
Because it has like part almost psychological thriller, drama, comedy, a little bit of everything. The way the movie is shot is very cinematic. There are some just beautiful looking shots throughout this movie. You're like, man, it just feels different from beginning to end. And it has a lot of interesting character development is all I'll say.
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Kelsey
Yes. And it has Lauren Graham as the mom, which is.
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Movie Mike
And Dylan o', Brien, who gets confused with the guy from Perks of a Wall, Logan Lerman, which I never really thought about them looking that much alike. But whenever he was doing press for this movie, he was like, yeah, we get told that all the time and I always have to correct them.
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Kelsey
Honestly. Just like, attractive white guy with brown hair.
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Movie Mike
It's.
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Kelsey
Yeah, that's really the only similarity. But yeah, that was my favorite. I thought it was unexpectedly funny. We saw that one at the Bell Court. Fun place to see it. Good indie film.
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Movie Mike
I think this is a good example of how we say they're not great original movies anymore. This is one of the best I've seen this year of just not knowing a whole lot about it. Felt super original. And it's one that's just not going to get a lot of attention, doesn't have a big promotional push. It's also hard to sell this movie without telling you everything about it. So I think that is another big part of why people don't go see original movies is because it's become harder and harder to sell them.
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Kelsey
I also think for a lot of people, like, movies are expensive to us, we have invested in, like, subscriptions and memberships, so it makes it worth the cost. And that's like, kind of the only thing we leave the house to do. But yeah, going to the movies is expensive. Tickets, snacks, sometimes you got to pay for parking.
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Movie Mike
And I don't know what the solution is because I know more people, I think now are comfortable watching them at home than ever before. But the best things are still going to theaters first. We just don't get great movies directly at home. First run, it just doesn't happen. And that's not really a sustainable way to keep the movie industry alive. If everybody's going to wait until it comes to be able to be watched at home. Like Superman came out recently at home, 28 years later came out recently at home. But if those movies don't have any success when they come out in theaters, it's not going to make it to you at home.
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Kelsey
I will also just use this as a reminder, like if you have small, like indie theater or anything in your area, like, to support them because they're also like, nonprofit and they depend a lot on donations and people going.
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Movie Mike
And I will also say on that front is, I know we do talk about how we do take our snacks into the theater. Mostly because I'm vegan. I can't find anything.
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Kelsey
Not at the Bell Court.
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Movie Mike
Not. That's what I was gonna say. Not at the Belcourt. When we do go to smaller theaters, which. That's the only one we have around here, we make it a point to buy concessions there because of that reason.
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Kelsey
Also, their popcorn is delicious.
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Movie Mike
It's great. If you ever come to Nashville and you want to go see a movie and experience it in the best way, go to the Bell Court. My favorite and best movie I saw in September. I think it has to go to one battle after another.
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Kelsey
Absolutely.
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Movie Mike
Which we also saw at the Bell Court.
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Kelsey
You also get like a sellout crowd there. That feels the most nostalgic to me because back before the days of reserving your tickets, we were growing up, you bought tickets, you had to get there early, and if you were late, you got crappy seats. And that's the same model there. And I'm like. It gives me the thrill of, like, having to get there early. Like, I get there while they're still cleaning and the doors open and I'm beelining for my seats.
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Movie Mike
Here's the thing about us. We go to a lot of movies, as you can tell, and we usually go to Regal, which we love. We have Regal down to a science that we know. There's at least 20 minutes of trailers beforehand, at least. And there's at least that 8 to 10 minute window of commercials before that. So comfortably, we could get there 25 minutes after the time that is advertised. We do often and roll right into that last trailer and watch the movie. That is what we like to do because we go to so many movies, we don't want to see the same trailers over and over again that we've already seen. For every movie we go see that I've seen Breaking it down here on this podcast, we have that down to a science. We sacrifice that so much when we go to Belcourt because we want to get one. A parking spot and then to a good place to sit, our usual seat in the Bell Court. That we don't care about the trailers. And also when you go to a smaller independent theater, they show different trailers.
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Kelsey
Yeah, the trailers are. We've seen a lot of good ones that I keep adding to our list of like, I want to see that. I want to see that.
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Movie Mike
And it's.
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Kelsey
And that's how I find out about these movies because they're not like, promoted.
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Movie Mike
Thank you.
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Kelsey
On like, a wider scale.
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Movie Mike
And I would never. I would never know about some of these movies. Whether they're like smaller duck documentaries or lower budget movies or like Sundance Tiff movies. That is where we learn about them. And that I always love. When we go watch a movie, like twin lists, and then we see the trailers beforehand and then we just kind of look at each other and like, nod like, oh, we gotta come back for that.
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Kelsey
We do. We just like, yeah.
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Movie Mike
And that's such an old school thing of going to the theater and being. Finding out.
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Kelsey
Yeah. About movies.
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Movie Mike
Because now with everything online or just seeing news stories or you hear when a movie gets announced and when the cast gets it, we just get inundated with all of the information that. That feels like the most old school experience to be in a theater and persuade to come back because of the trailer. But I also love seeing things in actual film because it adds like that level of warmth to it. Although for one battle after another, it was shot in VistaVision, which is like a really old big camera. And there were only four theaters in the entire world that were showing it that way. And unfortunately Nashville wasn't. But still it was like as close as I could get to how it was intended to be seen.
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Kelsey
But sometimes we get like, they're only showing this here.
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Movie Mike
And we've had that before because luckily in Nashville we do have one of the only theaters that can show 70 millimeter IMAX that Christopher Nolan himself paid for the theater to get it fixed because it's such an expensive piece of equipment. Really hard to operate and really expensive to upkeep that. Whenever Oppenheimer came out, he said, I know you guys have one. It's not working. I'm going to pay to get it fixed so you can Show Oppenheimer in 70 millimeter IMAX, which is like.
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Kelsey
Is the Odyssey being filmed the same way?
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Movie Mike
Yes.
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Kelsey
So we'll see it there.
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Movie Mike
Yeah. Which is like the only. Just a film reel alone for that is like massive. Takes up an entire room. And I feel like that really added to our experience when we went to go see Oppenheimer. But I love one battle after another. I thought the action was great. I thought the comedy was great throughout. And for such a big, expensive movie to be about something that I didn't think any studio would want to put out, let it know, let alone in today's like, climate, I thought that was a big risk. And also is inspiring to me to know that an original film like this can still come out and be successful and hopefully make some of the money back. Leo Oscar Nom, I would say they tend to snub Leo a little bit, especially when he's not doing a full on drama. It took him so much to win that first Oscar that I almost think that the Revenant wasn't the movie he deserved to win for. It was just he finally.
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Kelsey
They were like, oh, we've really.
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Movie Mike
It was more so like a political thing. Like, I think we finally have to give it to him here because I don't think the Revenant is his best performance of his career, but I think the timing worked out the best for him to finally get his Oscar. But I think when it comes to what they want in Best Actor, it rarely goes to a comedic role. So I don't think he's going to win. I think he will kind of have to fight to get nominated.
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Kelsey
You know who deserves to win? Sean Penn's neck vein.
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Movie Mike
Sean Penn was awesome in this. I think him and Benicio will get supporting actor nominations more easily than Leo will. Best Actor.
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Kelsey
Benicio Del Toro was so funny in it. So funny.
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Movie Mike
I still think about his little dance that he does when he gets pulled over. He was incredible. Them together. I could have just watched an entire movie of just that.
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Kelsey
I want like the behind the scenes of them having to film some of that. Like did they ever break character and like, because they're both like such accomplished actors. But some of those scenes were just so like, yeah, not out there, but funny.
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Movie Mike
That is a movie that if we had time in this next busy month, I would want to go back and watch again in theaters.
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Kelsey
We don't have two hours and 40.
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Movie Mike
Minutes to spare, but there's no time. So far this year, we've only rewatched one movie in theaters, Lilo and Stitch. And other than that, like it was impossible to get back to do a double tap last year.
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Kelsey
The only thing we watched twice was Twisters.
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Movie Mike
Yeah. Usually one movie gets the honor of that. Either Stitch or Glenn Powell.
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Kelsey
Rightfully so.
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Movie Mike
Your worst for the month of September.
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Kelsey
Okay. I know this isn't necessarily an original movie because it was like a remake, but it's highest to lowest on Apple.
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Movie Mike
Yeah, it's a remake of a really old, I believe, Japanese film, Kurosawa. So I almost feel like when you remake such an old movie, it doesn't feel the same as when you're remaking something from 20 years ago. People don't get as up in arms because a lot of people probably haven't seen the original and it feels new. It's almost like if an artist Covers a song that nobody really heard and makes it their own. It's like, oh, I just thought that was your song.
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Kelsey
It didn't keep my attention. And I will say it is harder to keep my attention at home because my phone distracts me. But, like, things that are really good can keep my attention. And that was not one of them.
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Movie Mike
That is another thing that people are battling when making movies, when making TV shows is there is that distraction of you are fighting people looking at their second screen. Which is a major reason why I still love going to theaters. Because I totally shut it out. Unless I'm making a note about the movie, which I usually only do really quickly, I am not looking at my phone. And that is the only place, not only when it comes to watching things, but I think in my entire existence, when I'm not consumed with my phone.
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Kelsey
Mine is the movies. Meetings at work, in person and working out.
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Movie Mike
That's a good point. Right?
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Kelsey
I go to classes.
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Movie Mike
Yeah.
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Kelsey
And so I don't take my phone. Sometimes people do bring their phones into the studio, which I understand. Like, there could be something they need to keep it on. But it is distracting. Like in a workout studio, when you see, like, someone pick up their phone, I'm like, what are we doing? No, no phones.
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Movie Mike
If it's something like highest to lowest, I was pretty zoned in. I treated that as if we were going to see it in theaters.
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Kelsey
I zoned out because it was boring.
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Movie Mike
It got to a point where the plot really wasn't going anywhere. The music was so distracting. The really weird score.
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Kelsey
It was like orchestral music the whole time. Almost like slightly better elevator music over a whole movie.
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Movie Mike
Which he got, like, an orchestra to score the whole thing. But I almost thought, like, so no.
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Kelsey
Shade to the orchestra. You were all very talented.
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Movie Mike
It was. It sounded good, but it didn't fit the movie. It did not. It was almost like I felt he hired this orchestra that was probably so expensive that he thought, I need to use this throughout the entire movie. Like, I gotta use this the entire time. It almost became like a musical thriller because it was so closely connected to the plot of music.
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Kelsey
And, yeah, it's like almost like one of the scary movie. The music kind of like picks up.
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Movie Mike
Him running a record label. So that one scene where there's the band playing and it was just so loud. And I was like, okay, I've had a little bit too much of this. I also wasn't the biggest fan of Denzel's performance in that. Which I know he likes to ad lib he's at that point in his career where he can kind of do whatever he wants. And even though you can do whatever you want, he can really do whatever he wants. Even with a legendary director like Spike Lee. What are you going to tell Denzel? Like, hey, man, you need to do that again. You can do it better? I don't think so.
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Kelsey
Unrelated to the movie, but another thing Spike Lee did was the Hurricane Katrina docu series on Netflix, which. That was phenomenal.
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Movie Mike
That was fantastic. He executive produced the whole thing and I think directed the last episode. Episode, which was interesting to see how Spike Lee does a documentary versus when he does a movie. It still has, like, that creative spark to it, where even just, like the titles, the way he would showcase the people he was interviewing, his use of photos, it's very stylistic. You can tell, like, oh, man, this is a really great director putting this together.
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Kelsey
If you haven't watched that yet, Highly recommend.
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Movie Mike
That was a very powerful documentary. I would rather watch that over Highest to Lows. Even though it's, like, sad, which is.
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Kelsey
Weird because it's such good storytelling.
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Movie Mike
It was just the fact that it was something that I remember from 20 years, but don't remember all the small details about. It's weird to say it was entertaining because of all the awful things that happened, but that is the power of filmmaking.
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Kelsey
I would say captivating, not so much as entertaining.
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Movie Mike
Okay, it's captivating.
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Kelsey
Like, it's.
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Movie Mike
It's hard to recommend it, though. Like, oh, you got to watch this. It's so good.
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Kelsey
It's the storytelling of it. It tells better than people have. And he really put the whole puzzle together of all of the events surrounding it. That's what I think he did really well.
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Movie Mike
And I've learned from doing this podcast that sometimes it's hard to interview directors of documentaries and real people involved in them. Because when I interview people involved in movies, it's all fake stuff. You can ask them anything about their characters, and it's all fake stuff that they played. When you ask people about a documentary, that's their life. That's asking them real things that have affected them, real things about trauma, that you have to treat it differently. Where I'm so used to being able to, like, just go in on plot points, you know, I'd love to Point.
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Kelsey
Is their life from a documentary? Kendra Lakari.
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Movie Mike
From what?
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Kelsey
The High School Catfish.
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Movie Mike
Oh, Kendra. Gosh, could you imagine that?
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Kelsey
I mean, she was basically interviewing that documentary.
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Movie Mike
Yeah.
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Kelsey
If you haven't watched that, it's called Unknown Number the high school catfish story. I feel like we talked about it.
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Movie Mike
I feel like last month maybe. I feel like everybody's probably seen that at this point. And even I knew going into it what happened.
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Kelsey
Wild. The amount of people that I made watch it. And then I waited till they got to a certain part and then just the, like, flood of text messages that would come in. The reactions are good. Okay. Anyways, anything else to say about highest to low?
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Movie Mike
Sorry, that's all on that one. Don't recommend it. Apple plus just doesn't really strike it well with the movies.
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Kelsey
It's like, you know what was better than that? The Wrong Paris on Netflix. That wasn't even, like, worst movie contender.
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Movie Mike
It was for me. I have. I'm in between two for my worst movie. I have the Wrong Paris, which was the Miranda Cosgrove movie on Netflix.
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Kelsey
But you enjoyed that one.
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Movie Mike
But it's. If I look at all the things that I've gone through, it's still the worst. Doesn't have. It's a bad movie. It just happens to be the worst in the month.
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Kelsey
I guess I've done the same before.
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Movie Mike
And my second is him. Two different situations because him I was anticipating. I love horror movies. It's a Jordan Peele produce movie. I thought it was going to be good. In my ex.
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Kelsey
I thought it was going to be good.
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Movie Mike
My expectations were not met. It ended up being enjoyable enough, but it struck me in a way that I was like, oh, man, I'm kind of let down. The Wrong Paris was different because I didn't really expect it to be good. And it wasn't bad and it wasn't bad. So it's almost like the two him went all the way down in my book and the Wrong Paris rose up in my book, but they kind of met at that same level because I feel like the Wrong Paris is at the very top of how good that type of movie can be. And him is just kind of missing the mark on what I was anticipating because I feel like a Netflix movie. Like, the Wrong Paris. It's not gonna really move the needle for me in a way that, like, man, that was the best thing I've ever seen. Given the plot point, it's pretty fluffy.
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Kelsey
Love how you're explaining this with your hands.
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Movie Mike
I talk with my hands all the time on this thing.
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Kelsey
I know. It's just funny when I watch it or watch you. And then I'm like, this is an audio format.
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Movie Mike
Sometimes it's on YouTube. But yeah, the up and down is going on that's always going on in my brain. But I like Miranda Cosgrove, I think, because I feel like she is somebody I've watched you love Maria. She was. She was my age when she was in the School of Rock, and that was, like, her first big role. And then from there, it's like I'm just kind of growing up with this actor. Throughout all their projects, from School of Rock to the Wrong Paris, all the stuff in between, like, icarly, she's even done Josh Drake and Josh. She was in American, a movie called North Hollywood that I really like. So I like her more now in this phase of her career. I would love to see an icarly reunion movie.
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Kelsey
Didn't they reboot the show?
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Movie Mike
They did, but I feel like you need to bring back Jennette McCurdy.
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Kelsey
Oh, yeah.
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Movie Mike
I have an idea for a movie which will never get made, but it's an icarly reboot where it's a horror movie, where it's a fan, maybe this is inspired by real life, is so obsessed with Miranda Cosgrove that they decide to break into her house to try to, like, kidnap her or something to bring back icarly. And then they find out that Miranda Cosgrove is actually, like, a psycho killer. And they hold that rabid fan in her basement hostage. So the kind of role reversal. And then she gets back Freddy and Sam to help her out one last time.
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Kelsey
Okay, next topic.
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Movie Mike
That's my idea for the movie. Icarly. I get kidnapped. So they got to get Sam back. Janelle McCurdy, who probably wants nothing to do with it.
- [23:17]
Kelsey
We're done with this.
- [23:17]
Movie Mike
She's putting out books now. She's all good. But if I had to go with one, I would probably go him. Just because I don't like being let down and the wrong parents just surprised me a little bit more.
- [23:27]
Kelsey
Yeah, that wasn't a letdown.
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Movie Mike
Yeah, it was good. It was surprising. So I'll go worst of the month. Him run through all the movies we saw. Started out with highest to lowest. Then we went to go see Hamilton in theaters, which you've seen in person. What year did you see it?
- [23:43]
Kelsey
2024.
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Movie Mike
And I think I first saw it on Disney. So it's essentially that version that came out in 2020, but we got to go see it in theaters.
- [23:51]
Kelsey
Yes, it was great. It was so much fun to see on the big screen. And I just love Hamilton so much, which I actually was going to tell you. This is a great reminder that Whitney, one of the Mormon wives is apparently doing a dance to the room where it happens from Hamilton for Disney Night. Because now that Hamilton's on Disney, that's part of that. Which I listened to the Hamilton, the soundtrack at work sometimes. Just like, top to bottom, the full thing. It's delightful.
- [24:18]
Movie Mike
I forgot how good some of the songs were, how memorable they are, that you sing them around the house a lot. And I kind of forgot what they're from. And then I was like, oh, that's what they're from. I just thought the song was so good that it was.
- [24:30]
Kelsey
Wait for it. In particular, yeah. By Leslie Odom Jr. Which, if I could see him on Broadway back in his role as Aaron Burr, I should have sold a kidney, because that's how much those tickets cost.
- [24:42]
Movie Mike
In the. After Hamilton, I went to go see Spinal Tap 2, which I wasn't really thinking it was gonna be good. It just kind of felt like a really long SNL sketch. Which I love the original movie, but this one was just them older and sitting down all the time and being like, we don't have what it takes anymore. So there were some interesting cameos from other musicians, but overall, it was just kind of like this was made to be made and now it's out so people could stop asking if you're gonna make another Spinal Tap movie. Gave that one a three out of five. We talked about twin lists. The Long Walk was really close to making my favorite of the month. I just kind of didn't really have that much of an impact as far as, after I watched it, didn't really think about it a whole lot. We went to go see a big, bold, beautiful journey, which is so hard for me to say.
- [25:28]
Kelsey
I will be fine if I never have to say that title.
- [25:31]
Movie Mike
Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell. And it's about them meeting at a wedding randomly and going on a big journey. And with some more adjectives. They go through doors and it takes them to different places in their past.
- [25:44]
Kelsey
This movie could have been done better.
- [25:46]
Movie Mike
Oh, you thought so? I enjoyed it. I thought it represented what I love about going to sleep. It is dreaming and having really vivid dreams, taking you back to very specific parts in your life that that is the only place where you can experience it. I think we all have the dream of waking up in, like, high school, and we're like, oh, man, I'm back in school. This feels so weird. They experienced that in this movie. So there was all these elements of what I love about my second life and my dreams that I was like, they made a movie about it. But I could see how you do.
- [26:17]
Kelsey
Live another life in your.
- [26:18]
Movie Mike
Yeah, I do. But I could see at the very beginning of this movie it was kind of weird the way their characters interacted. It's a very hyper realistic form of reality where their characters are so over.
- [26:32]
Kelsey
The top, sounds so meta.
- [26:34]
Movie Mike
It does. It is a weird way for them to communicate and a weird way for all the action to take place because it doesn't really feel like real life, but also doesn't fully feel like fantasy.
- [26:45]
Kelsey
I was more excited for it than I was watching it.
- [26:48]
Movie Mike
I thought it looked really good too. Like all the colors and the costume changes and all the set designs and where they put the doors in the middle of nowhere. So I think the death of mid movies is what this is about. Like if it's something isn't like so good that it's moves you in a way that you're like, I gotta tell everybody about this. We can't really experience the mediums the way we used to be able to.
- [27:08]
Kelsey
I found the tick tock comments about it funnier. The movie itself, I feel like this.
- [27:12]
Movie Mike
Is a movie that people could go in and just hate and want to walk out of.
- [27:15]
Kelsey
They did on TikTok.
- [27:16]
Movie Mike
I could see that if you don't allow yourself to be like, okay, I want to take the journey with these people. You could find each of their characters really insufferable and the overall premise dumb. But for some people like me, it's just kind of what I needed at that moment. And then we also went to go see Spider Man 2.1.
- [27:33]
Kelsey
Yes.
- [27:33]
Movie Mike
Which was Spider Man 2, but with added footage. A lot of deleted scenes that got worked back into the movie. It was interesting for me to remember what was in the actual Spider Man 2 and what they added back in. Because there were some moments I remember just from watching it, like on TikTok, like, here's this deleted scene. Like the scene of J.K. simmons putting on the Spidey suit and wearing it after Peter Parker decided he didn't want to be Spider man anymore and got rid of his suit. J. Jonah Jameson got a hold of it and then there's a scene where he's in his office wearing it. And I was like, that's interesting that they didn't make the movie. But then when you see them put all these outtakes in the movie, you realize it changes the tone of it. And I found myself thinking like, oh, it kind of makes sense why they take out certain things when it just kind of changes the momentum of a movie. It changes the overall feeling, which seeing some of these scenes in Spider Man 2.1 made it feel a little bit more comical, which I feel like when I just watch Spider Man 2, all I think about is all the action. Having those little moments of levity added in felt like an entirely different movie. In a way. I agree.
- [28:34]
Kelsey
It made me want to watch Spider Man 3 Whenever we have the time.
- [28:37]
Movie Mike
Yeah, I do want to watch that now. What about your TV show for the.
- [28:40]
Kelsey
Month, Dancing with the Stars, which I talked about last week?
- [28:43]
Movie Mike
We really just started a bunch. I've only finished one show.
- [28:46]
Kelsey
Yeah, we're watching a bunch of things. Platonic, an apple, but still marvelous. Ms. Maisel? I have one season left of that and I love it and I'm savoring it. Then my ultimate comfort show is er.
- [28:58]
Movie Mike
Oh, yeah. You do your annual rewatch?
- [29:00]
Kelsey
Not even annual.
- [29:01]
Movie Mike
I've.
- [29:02]
Kelsey
I'm on season three. I started like some point last year.
- [29:04]
Movie Mike
When do you start Gilmore Girls?
- [29:06]
Kelsey
I started on the first day of fall. I watched two episodes. I turned it on while I was working.
- [29:11]
Movie Mike
The only show I have finished so far is Wednesday Season 2. I am a bigger fan of Wednesday Season 1. This one had some really good episodes. I would say had Lady Gaga. It did have Lady Gaga. Two episodes that. I thought those were two of the best of the entire series. But overall I didn't fully love this story. It was good, but I feel like this was the best representation of the character of Wednesday. I think Jenna Ortega fully locked in on this season and at the very end, they're like, she's coming back for season three. I'm like, man, but that's gonna take another three years. That's what's so hard about these Netflix shows is they take forever and then everybody gets older in them. Because her brother Pugsley, from season one to season two, season one, he was like a little kid.
- [29:53]
Kelsey
It's the same thing with Jenny and.
- [29:54]
Movie Mike
Georgia and now they're full grown adults.
- [29:56]
Kelsey
That was the same thing. You know what's coming out on Netflix this month that you're gonna be so excited about?
- [29:59]
Movie Mike
What?
- [30:00]
Kelsey
Selling Sunset Season 9.
- [30:02]
Movie Mike
Oh, my God. How did that show get nine seasons?
- [30:04]
Kelsey
Because people like me are still watching it.
- [30:06]
Movie Mike
Season one and two was about what I got through. Whenever they stopped showing the houses, I'm like, this makes no sense anymore.
- [30:13]
Kelsey
That's a reality drama.
- [30:14]
Movie Mike
That was the only reason I enjoyed that show, because we love watching House Hunters. And I was like, this is like extreme House Hunters with famous people and houses that we could Never afford.
- [30:23]
Kelsey
I've fallen off on a lot of my reality shows. Like, I stopped watching Real Housewives of Orange county this season. I'm behind on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Got to a point where I was just kind of like, I can't watch people yell at each other right now. It feels too stressful.
- [30:37]
Movie Mike
What about your book of the month?
- [30:38]
Kelsey
Okay, So I read 12 books in September.
- [30:40]
Movie Mike
Goodness.
- [30:40]
Kelsey
I know. Apparently that's why I have no time to watch TV. Best one will be.
- [30:45]
Movie Mike
I don't think I've read 12 books in my life.
- [30:48]
Kelsey
It kind of along the same lines of the Hurricane Katrina thing being sad but captivating. It is called the Only Plane in the sky. And it's an oral history of 9, 11. I listened to it on audiobook. It's on Spotify Premium. But it is over 15 hours. And you get 15 hours a month. So you gotta like, kind of listen to like 1.3. It was incredible. So it was a full cast, which I really appreciated because it wasn't the actual, like, people of that day. So the author was not exploiting anyone's trauma drama. I appreciated that. You're not like, having someone come tell a story about the worst day of their life. It was that people had given interviews and. Or maybe written it down and then they transcribed it and had a cast member, like it was a cast for even like Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Katie Kirk. They had an actor read that. But it was stories of that day putting together the whole day from start of the day to the end of the day. And it's called the Only Plane in the sky because I'm sure a lot of people know this. At one point, Air Force One was the only plane in the sky. So it just has. I mean, it has the dispatch recordings of people on the planes. It had interviews with people who's loved ones were on the plane, loved ones who worked, has interviews with firefighters, interviews with government people. It just was so well done. And you even listened to some of it in the car with me one day.
- [31:58]
Movie Mike
Yeah, I like the. That it went back and forth between a lot of different voices.
- [32:02]
Kelsey
It did. Yeah. And they would say, like, their name and. Yeah, it was just. It was phenomenal. I can't recommend it enough. I do believe even though it's an oral history, like there is still a print version to read. But I really do recommend the audiobook version. I think it does such a good job.
- [32:17]
Movie Mike
I feel like I should get into audiobooks, but I still need to read Project Hail Mary I saw it on the shelf the other day. I'm like, I need to start that book.
- [32:25]
Kelsey
People in my book club said the audiobook was good.
- [32:28]
Movie Mike
Nah, I feel like I have to read that one, though. Okay, I will start that. I gotta start that. The movie comes out in March. I gotta start that.
- [32:35]
Kelsey
You have plenty of time. All right.
- [32:37]
Movie Mike
Anything else?
- [32:37]
Kelsey
I can't believe it's already October.
- [32:39]
Movie Mike
Yeah. Spooky season. Next week, I do have Freddy Krueger on the podcast again. Ooh. Robert England is returning to the podcast, as well as a couple of the directors of some of the Nightmare on Elm street movies.
- [32:51]
Kelsey
Is he the only returning guest besides me?
- [32:53]
Movie Mike
He is the only returning guest, yeah.
- [32:54]
Kelsey
Wow.
- [32:55]
Movie Mike
But that's next week, just in time for spooky season, because October is just straight up horror movie month.
- [33:01]
Kelsey
No, thank you. I don't do scary.
- [33:03]
Movie Mike
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- [35:44]
Kelsey
We were getting a little bit older and it just kind of felt like the window could be closing.
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Health and fertility care.
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Kelsey
Don't be fooled by what all the bright and shiny.
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Kelsey
It's a freaking war zone.
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Movie Mike
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Kelsey
Let's get models in, let's get them out.
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And the models themselves, they carried scars that never fully healed till this day. Honestly, if I see a measuring tape, I freak out. The Model wars podcast peels back the glossy cover and reveals a high stakes game where survival meant more than beauty. Hosted by me, Vanessa Gregoriadis, this is the untold story of an industry built on ruthless ambition. Listen to Model wars on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Good Boy. It is a horror movie from the perspective of A dog. One of the most original ideas of the year. So much so, that Good Boy built up a lot of hype just because of that premise. And I think when you have a movie like this, where it's so easy to pitch it to somebody, because I was telling everybody who asked me going into this weekend, what are you gonna go watch this week? Which is a question I get often because I do this podcast and people just want to know what new is coming out. And I love it when I can pitch somebody a moving that you know from one sentence what it's going to be about. And not only do you know from that one sentence, but you're interested. Even if you don't like horror movies, it has you curious. And I watch a lot of horror movies and something that always happens at the beginning whenever somebody moves into a new house, because I would say my favorite sub genre, inside the horror genre, are the haunted house stories. I just love them. I crave them. And in these horror movies, something that always happens is whenever the family moves in or whenever the person moves in, the dog is always the first one to know. They'll either start barking at something, and the owner's like, hey, stop barking. There's nothing there. Oh, but the dog knows. The dog always knows. Dogs are smart. They can sense illness inside of people. They can sniff for drugs, they can sniff for bombs. They can do so many things. And this movie takes that idea of the dog being the first one to know and just giving you the dog's perspective as he investigates these things. And this movie is pretty low budget. It was shot by the director, who is the owner of the dog, who in real life is also named Indy. And the crew was pretty minimal. The director and his wife was a producer. So actually, inside this film, you see the director acting with his own dog. So those genuine reactions that they have of Indy running up to him, being so excited, them getting along and bonding together, that is because you see a man bonding with his own dog. So all of that is authentic. What they did was they had actors go back in and overdub the voices. So you see the director, Ben, in the shot, but you hear a different actor's voice. And I will have to say that was a little bit distracting because the acting felt so stiff. And I didn't realize it at the time of watching this that that is what they did, but that stood out to me so much that I had to go investigate. And I have to imagine they did that because of how hard it is to film with a dog. Which was what made this movie so hard to make, because he did not want to force his dog to do anything that Indy did not want to do. And that is a big part of this, because you as the viewer are so worried about Indy. And him as the filmmaker and also the owner of Indy, didn't want to put him in situations that were going to harm him. Didn't want to make Indy feel uncomfortable. So at times they would just wait around for hours until Indy felt comfortable doing something. And the crazy part about this is the dog never felt scared. Indy was never scared. It is through the power of filmmaking. And the way this movie is shot, which was really well done, looked very cinematic, was a lot more beautiful looking than I was anticipating because of how low budget this was. And really the reason that it was available at a movie theater down my street was because of how viral the trailer went. But I was so surprised how everything good looked, minus maybe one or two shots with the cgi. But aside from that, anytime Indy was on screen, just staring into your soul, looking up at something that he saw, it looks so beautiful. And Indy is such a good looking dog. And I was like, that is a movie star right here. He deserves an Oscar nomination for best actor. And it's wild to think that a dog can act. A dog doesn't even know what a movie is. He has no idea he is starring in one of the most original movies of the year. The director said the only thing that Indy started to pick up on was whenever he got the camera out, he kind of was like, okay, I'm starting to associate things. Whenever he pulls out the camera, much like a dog would, whenever you grab the leash and they know, oh, it's time for a walk, if they hear a rapper, they instantly get up and think, all right, you're about to feed me something. Along those same lines, whenever he started to see the camera, he thought, okay, you guys are about to act a little weird. But everything is implied because you as the viewer know what is going on. You are aware that you're watching a horror movie. And through the lighting and the sound design, you feel scared because you are seeing it from the perspective of Indy and you know there is something lurking. But Indy has no idea. So the fact that they were able to make him feel comfortable, not put him in any situations where it was animal abuse, I think that's what made this performance feel really authentic, because that is what makes this movie novel. Now, when it comes to how scary this movie actually is, I didn't really find it Frightening at any moment. It was more so that I was invested in Indie. And obviously I won't give any spoilers here, but before this movie even came out, and the reason it went so viral is that people want to know what happens to Indy. And I won't say what happens in the ending, but I think that's what made this movie so engaging and entertaining, is you feel so much for this dog. And us as humans, that is how we are. We can watch any horror movie and we don't care about people getting their throat slashed, getting crushed and impaled by Michael Myers, or killed in their dreams by Freddy Krueger. But if ever a horror movie messes with a dog, that is kind of where we're at it. We don't want to see that. So that is what you are feeling while watching this movie. You want nothing bad to happen to Indie, especially because he is so adorable and so lovable and stands by his owner while he is going through all of these crazy things. And I think that is the real message here. And I think this movie is a metaphor for something of how loyal a dog is and how they will be there by your side no matter what. If you are a good owner to them. They are your friends till the end. But there are some things that your pet cannot protect you from as much as they want to. They can only play a certain role in your life. And I think that is what this movie was trying to say. Because the owner is going through something personally. He has some hardships. He has a reason that he went out to this new house. He has a lot of things going on in his life, but the one consistent thing is his dog. And his dog wants to help him as he sees these dark entities ruining his life, making him act out of character. But a dog's love can only go so far until you have to pick yourself up and you have to be the responsible one. And I think that is what this movie was trying to say. Or maybe I was just reading so much into it. Because I will say the plot is pretty bare. But the movie is also only about an hour and 11 minutes, so it doesn't overstay its welcome. And I think that is a powerful thing. And I hate to complain about run times, but when you have a story like this that isn't a huge story, it doesn't need a whole lot of time to develop these characters because you can't really develop a character who can't talk or is really aware of the situation. This movie could only be so Long. And the fact that it is under an hour and 15 minutes is an incredible feat. So as soon as you're getting invested in the story, it's already starting to wrap itself up.
- [45:18]
Kelsey
Up.
- [45:19]
Movie Mike
But that being said, not a whole lot of stuff happens. So you almost have to allow yourself to let it be a little bit scary to really get into it. And even watching this in a fully dark theater with the sound blasting, there weren't any moments that really stick out. To me it's like, oh, that's creepy. Or oh man, I'm really worried here. Which I don't really feel that way in horror movies anymore. But I think to even the more casual horror fan, you're not really going to find those moments. So I think that's probably the hardest sell of showing it to somebody, pitching it as a horror movie and saying this movie is going to freak you out. And really it's probably not. But I love how novel it is. I love that this movie made waves on the mainstream and I love that through the power of the Internet, finally doing something good, that because it went so viral, it was able to go out into more theaters and have more people experience this and get people talking. And I think that is the power of filmmaking. That is why I love the horror genre so much, is because a small movie like this has a chance to compete with some of these gladiators. Was out there competing this weekend with the Taylor Swift album release, with the rock, with the second week of Leonardo DiCaprio. And here you have this little movie that could making waves. So I'll admit about halfway through I was like, when is this thing gonna pick up a little bit more? Because even though it is a short movie, it still takes its time to expand on things. And I just thought it was going to be a little bit more leaning into the paranormal elements. But I got the feeling that they just didn't have the budget for that. But I got to give it up for Indy. I boosted just for his performance. And now the fact that I really want a dog. So for Good Boy, I give it 3 out of 5 Pats on the head. Who's a good boy? This October, you can earn up to 2% back when you deposit a thousand dollars or more on Kraken, the crypto plus platform. With over 400 assets to buy and trade. The bonus is uncapped, so if you deposit $50,000, you could earn up to $1,000 back, download the Kraken app in the App Store or Google Play and deposit by October 31st. Not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss and is offered to US customers through PayWord Interactive Incorporated. Terms apply. Run a business and not thinking about radio. Think again. Cause more people are listening to the radio on iHeart today than they were 20 years ago. And only iHeart broadcast radio connects with more Americans than TV, digital, social, any other media, even twice as many teens than TikTok. And that reach means everything. Just think about the universal marketing formula. The number of consumers who hear your message times the response rate equals the results. Now let's get those results growing for your business. Radio's here now more than ever. And iheart's leading the way. Think radio can help your business. Think iheart streaming, podcasting and radio where the reach is real. Let us show you@iheartadvertising.com that's iheartadvertising.com or call 844-844. Iheart one more time. Just call 844-844-Iheart and get radio working for you. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with the one, the only cardi b my marriage. I felt the love dying. I was crying every day. I felt in the deepest depression that I had ever had. How do you think you're misunderstood? I'm not this evil, mean person that people think that I am. I'm too compassionate. I have sympathy for that. My man, you put so much heart and soul into your work. What's the hardest part for you to take that criticism? This was not given to me. I worked my ass off from it even when I was a stripper. I'mma be the best pole dancer in here. When was the moment you felt I did it? I still to this day don't feel comfortable. I fight every day to keep this level of success because people want to take it from you so bad. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I started trying to get pregnant about four years ago.
- [49:38]
Kelsey
Now we're getting a little bit older and it just kind of felt like the window could be closing.
- [49:44]
Movie Mike
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Kelsey
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Movie Mike
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Kelsey
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Movie Mike
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Kelsey
Don't be fooled by what all the.
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Movie Mike
Bright and shiny listen to.
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Kelsey
IVF disrupted the kind body story starting.
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Movie Mike
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Kelsey
It's a freaking war zone.
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Movie Mike
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Movie Mike
And the models themselves, they carried scars that never fully healed till this day. Honestly, if I see a measuring tape, I freak out. The Model wars podcast peels back the glossy cover and reveals a high stakes game where survival meant more than beauty. Hosted by me, Vanessa Gregoriadis, this is the untold story of an an industry built on ruthless ambition. Listen to Model wars on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's time to head down to Movie Mike's Trailer Park. I am flipping the format here a little bit. Instead of a trailer, I am breaking down the poster for The Simpsons Movie 2. Quite possibly, at least in my humble opinion, the biggest movie news of the year, Simpsons making a sequel to the movie that came out in 2007. It is coming out in theaters July 23rd, 2027. Oh, man, that's a bit away. It's almost two years from now. Here is why this is such a big deal and let's do a little history of the Simpsons. First of all, my favorite show of all time out of any show, scripted, animated, it is my number one show. I started watching it as a kid. It shaped my taste in comedy. If I am even 1% funny at all. Depending on how you feel about some of the things I say on this podcast, if you think I'm funny or not, you think like, man, this guy thinks he's funny. If I even have 1% of comedic timing, it is all due to the Simpsons. I learned everything about jokes from watching the Simpsons. From listening to commentary, interviews, even having people on this podcast from the Simpsons world. Ever since I was a young boy, I love the Simpsons. My parents didn't want me to watch it because in the 90s, apparently the worst thing you could say on TV was eat my shorts. And now it's like, all right, a lot more crazy things. You could be exposed to just on tick tock and YouTube. But it has always been my favorite show. Going to see the simpsons movie in theaters in 2007 was a core movie memory for me. One I will never forget. All of the simpsons mania surrounding it from 7 11, transforming locations into Kwik E Marts, which is the convenience store on the show. I hope they do that again. All the tie in promotions and cereal boxes and foods. So that is why I'm so excited about this, to be able to experience that again. Here is some history on the show. I've read a lot of books, I've watched a lot of documentaries, a lot of YouTube videos. But the simpsons started as an animated short on the Tracy ullman Show back on April 19, 1987, and it wasn't even a full show. There were one minute bumpers essentially that they needed to get between sketches on the Tracy ullman show. Kind of a throwaway thing. Matt groening was known at the time who was the creator of the simpsons for a comic called life is hell. And he originally went to pitch a cartoon about that comic. But then he realized that if he turned that comic into a cartoon, the studio was going to have the rights to that. And that was his life's work. That is what he was known for. He was a punk rock cartoonist. And he thought, man, I don't want them to have the rights to this. Let me drop something really quick. Based it on his family. He modeled bart after his older brother, but he wanted an anagram for the word brat because that is what bart simpson is. And he sketched this family together, all based on his own family. Went in and pitched that. And that is what got turned into the simpsons. It became so popular on the Tracy ullman show that it was getting more laughs than the actual sketches inside of the show. That two years later it became its own series. And within a few years of that, going into the 90s, it debuted on Fox in 1989 and within just a few seasons went on to be a global phenomenon. And is currently in its 37th season and has been renewed through its 40th season, which would be in 2028-2029. The interesting thing about the season 37 premiere, which just happened and I was just watching it before the announcement came out, Is they actually poked fun at this, at the way movies have changed. Initially, the simpsons were driving to the aztec theater in springfield, going to see a movie. And then they make a joke of saying, why would we go pay and see this in theaters now? When it's just going to be streaming at home in a couple of days. So they turn around and go home. And a few days later, it cuts to them watching it from the comfort of their living room on a streaming service. And they make fun of the idea now that it is riddled with ads. So you're watching it and having an entirely different experience. I didn't think anything of it watching that episode, but when the announcement came out, I was like, they were trying to tell us that this was coming back. In 2019, Disney acquired the Simpsons for $71.3 billion. They got the rights to all of the seasons of the show and the movie rights and have just been waiting and sitting on this. And I just didn't think it was ever going to happen because this was one of those things. If you are a long time Simpsons fan, I follow a lot of accounts and every now and then I would say every few months, somebody always posts like, oh, look, the Simpsons 2 movie was announced. And then you click into it and it's like, just kidding. But that would be cool, right? I have been seeing this for the last 10 years, and to finally see this poster pop up on my feed from the official Disney account and Simpsons account, I about near lost my mind, as you can hear in my voice. Because if you look at the timeline of all these things, from when the TV show premiered to when we got the first movie in 2007, that was 20 years. And now by the time this second movie comes out, is another 20 years. So from the very first introduction of the Simpsons to the world until this movie comes out, will be 40 years of the Simpsons. I would have thought that this is how they were going to end the show, because that is something that has always been talked about. They kind of flirted with the idea during a previous season finale where they used AI to generate how the show would end. But if it wasn't for the fact that they are still renewed through 2028, I would have thought that this would be a way to end it. And it really wasn't until me watching the season seven premiere that I thought this show could go on forever. Because I thought there would come a time for them to finally hang it up. Or because of some of the original cast members who have been voicing these characters since the very beginning, they get a little bit older. Maybe they don't want to do the show anymore, or maybe some of them start to pass and then you start to have to wonder, how do they carry on doing the show? But there have been some people that they've recasted here and there that I still think it could happen without them. And to think that they're going to recast some of the Marvel characters at some point, like Robert Downey Jr. Or Chris Evans. I could see them get to a point. If this show is still successful and a big property with a lot of money attached to it, they could eventually recast everybody on the Simpsons. But as a lifelong fan, I almost hoped that this would be how they would close it out just by looking at this poster, which is so reminiscent of the first movie poster back in 2007. The poster is almost entirely white. In the classic Simpsons text, it says, homer's coming back for seconds. And you see his yellow hand going up to grab a pink classic Simpsons donut covered in number two sprinkles. And then you see the kind of grease stain hanging up on the wall. All it says on the bottom is in theater 7 23, 2027. Matt Groening's name is right there at the bottom. That is a great poster. That is one that I think I'm gonna have to put up on this wall because it looks so classic. It's not doing a lot. It didn't try to over explain everything. It was just nice, clear and cut, artistic and to the point. But the Simpsons movie is coming out in theaters on July 23, 2027. And that was this week's edition of Movie Minds Trailer Park. And that is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listener shout out of the week. I did review one battle after another on last week's episode, and I would have to say is probably the warmest response to a review I've had all year. And I think it's because whenever I did that review and I had my shades on and my beanie on in my bathrobe, it really mellowed me out. And I did that to get into character for the review and really commit to the bit of being Leonardo DiCaprio's character Bob in that movie that I found myself just kind of feeling a little bit more chill, not getting so riled up about things. And it also allowed me to not be as pretentious as some of the film bros who have been talking about this movie being a masterpiece. I wanted to approach it from just my own perspective without trying to sound cool or trying to sound like I really needed to understand this film. So I think that really helped me. And reading all the comments from you guys on YouTube and Facebook made me realize that they did come through in that review. So appreciate all the nice comments I got this week. But this week I'm going over to Tick Tock and I'm shouting out somebody named Old Enough to Know who had the one big contrary opinion. I saw to my review last week and said the chase scene went on too long. Leo simply played the same character he played in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Hollywood Old Enough to Know I have to completely disagree with you here. To me there was not one scene in one battle after another that went on too long. I thought the movie was a pretty tight two and a half hours and that scene had perfect pacing, the right amount of anticipation and gave you that feeling of anxiety. Also showing you the beautiful landscape, the way it just captured the motion and the way it felt like you were on that road driving in one of those cars. I did not think that scene went on too long. And I also don't think Leo's character was the exact same person that he played in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I feel the complete opposite way about that as well, because I think Bob would actually hate Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. They would not get along. They have entirely different viewpoints on the world. I don't think Rick Dalton was that comedic, so I find them to be completely different. Old Enough to know I do disagree with you, but I respect your opinion, so I so thank you for listening. Thank you for watching clips on tick tock and YouTube. If you ever want to see full reviews, they are up on my YouTube channel. I'm climbing up there on the subscriber count like slowly but surely. I am trying to get people to join the YouTube train, so if you don't mind YouTube.com mikedishero full individual movie reviews and sometimes I wear costumes like I did on last week's review, so check that out. Subscribe Hit the bell so you get new episodes every single Monday, much like you do here. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching and until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later. This October you can earn up to 2% back when you deposit a thousand dollars or more on Kraken, the crypto platform with over 400 assets assets to buy and trade. 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Kelsey
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