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on Paramount plus 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 tired.
Kelsey
I just looked at myself in the camera.
Mike
That's a very honest.
Kelsey
If you're only listening to this. We also posted on YouTube and I said, man, I'm looking rough. You ever get that when you open up your phone and you have the camera on and it has that angle from you from the, like, bottom, and you're like, oh, my gosh, it just ruined my day every Tuesday.
Mike
Have you heard of the concept of office air?
Kelsey
Yes.
Mike
It's a thing where, like, the air in your office and being in an office all day can make you look uglier. And who I am Tuesday morning at 8am When I go into the office is not who I am Tuesday at 4pm When I leave, I am a different version of myself. She has been through it. She's been through the ringer. We also have, like two different mirrors in our bathroom at my office. And one of them, I look good, and then the other I'm like, yeah,
Kelsey
sometimes just looking at myself in the mirror ruins my day. And I also just got a haircut and it's a little too fresh right now, so I feel like more of my face is exposed. So if you want to watch on
Mike
YouTube, you want to see how absolutely ugly and tired we look today. Check it out.
Kelsey
You look great. I do not.
Mike
But I don't look great. The back of my head is going to be honest.
Kelsey
That's why it's front facing camera.
Mike
It's hair wash day, and I have a lot of dry shampoo in. And the women watching are probably like. Yeah, we can tell.
Kelsey
We're, like held together with clothespins behind our heads, basically.
Mike
Just. It's like held together by, like, duct tape. It's the end of the month.
Kelsey
Yeah. Another month. We're gonna talk about the best and worst movies of April after we're done trashing ourselves. In the movie review, we'll be talking about the Devil Wears Prada too, which I got more excited for because you were really excited for it because we.
Mike
And then we rewatched the original. It's a great movie.
Kelsey
It's a great Anne Hathaway year. And then in the trailer park, I'll be talking about trailer for the final Jackass movie, which you'll be seeing solo.
Mike
Yeah, I'm not.
Kelsey
I'm all good with that.
Mike
I went to the last one. I had a lot of regrets.
Kelsey
I think I'll enjoy it. Being able to go see it by myself. Because when we watched it with. When I watched it with you, I was like, maybe she'll like it. Maybe.
Mike
You know, there's a lot of things that I will watch with you or be in the vicinity of, and I just can't do it. It's too gross. It's like some of the physical stuff is just really gross.
Kelsey
Yeah. Well, I'll go watch about myself. Well, thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network.
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Kelsey
Kicking it off now, in April, what was the best movie you saw?
Mike
I got to say, April was a bit of a dud month. It's not my favorite movie of the year. It's not anything that I'm like, oh, my gosh, I have to see that again. But I will go with the drama.
Kelsey
Well, I do think that is one of my favorite movies of the year. Not unexpected, because I love Robert Pattinson and love Zendaya. It was a really hard movie to talk about that. I didn't even do a review here on the podcast because it's kind of hard to mention without giving the spoiler.
Mike
And we both saw the spoiler before we saw the movie.
Kelsey
Yeah. The news story came out and I was like, man, I didn't want to know. But I still think if, you know, going into it, it, it's still a good movie.
Mike
Yes. I loved that. Alana Heim's character is actually maybe the worst character of the movie. Like, I don't think it's. And this isn't any spoiler. I don't think it's. Zendaya's character. I think it is a lot of
Kelsey
Heim's character, which is funny. I feel like she is the modern villain when it comes to creating new characters that you just hate on screen every time they appear.
Mike
Yes.
Kelsey
I love movies that kind of split the audience where you're. That is a movie that you go into. You either love it or you hate it. You don't just feel like, oh, it was okay. It was good. It's so divisive. And in the plot, in the imagery, in what the movie. Again, I don't want to say a lot about it. What. Just what the movie is about is going to split you either way. And at times, you even feel bad enjoying it for the subject matter, because it's nothing that I take lightly whatsoever. Which I also think where we saw it at the Bell Court here in Nashville, the audience was a little like, even for me, like, guys, too much laughter.
Mike
Yeah. I was like. I also thought I got crapped on by a bird before we went into the movie. It did impact. I. It was probably SAP from a tree, but we were trying to buy lemonade from this kid's stand, and all of a sudden I just felt something on me, like near my eye and on my arm. And it was brown. And it was questionable, but because I am basically an adult girl scout, I have everything in my purse. And so I just used like a shower wipe and called it a day.
Kelsey
I do really do think it was sat because on my run yesterday, I ran under some trees and I saw it falling and it looked the exact same way.
Mike
It just. When something falls out of a tree on you and is like, brown, your first thought isn't sa app.
Kelsey
Yeah, you're. It's bird poop.
Mike
Yeah. And then I didn't get to buy lemonade from the kid, and I actually felt the worst about that.
Kelsey
I've also seen some kids set up like that, selling Pokemon cars. I gotta find those kids.
Mike
So that does sound like a scam in which you get thrown into a van and that is how they'll get you. I do actually. I don't know that that's legit. I kind of think they just have like a big adult come along and throw you in the van after.
Kelsey
What would be your thing? They're selling this on the side of the road. This is how they kidnap you. Mine is Pokemon cards.
Mike
Okay, well, is it like brand new? Some things.
Kelsey
Anything you could sell on the side of the road. Pokemon car is not the most conventional thing to sell on the side of the road. But I saw one kid doing it.
Mike
Mine was about to be dark. I was about to say iced coffee, but then they're gonna like, lace it with things different for women. I don't think I'm buying anything on the side of the road.
Kelsey
Really. Didn't we have we stopped for strawberries?
Mike
Did we?
Kelsey
Or is that a movie? I think that was oh, hey. Or Ohio.
Mike
That's Ohio Movie.
Kelsey
You ever watch a movie and then think that was your own memory? That just happened to me. I was like, no. That one time we were going out, I was like, oh, no, that was a movie.
Mike
We don't go out that many. That was like a road trip.
Kelsey
I really thought we bought fresh fruit on the side of the road, but that was a movie.
Mike
I bought peaches from the peach truck when they had the drive thru location here. But that's not on the Side of the road. So I think I'm going to pass on buying anything on the side of the road as a woman. And again, there's that one. If that one listener is listening that hates how much I talk about being a woman and how things are hard. I'm sorry.
Kelsey
You should try being a woman.
Mike
Should try being a woman. Try it, sir.
Kelsey
For my best of the month, it goes to Super Mario Galaxy.
Mike
You did love it.
Kelsey
Out of everything in April. And we'll go through the entire list at the end of the. At the end of this. But that was the only movie I was really excited to go and see in theaters because. Although I was excited for the drama because it was Robert Pattinson and Zendaya, not in the same way that I'm excited for a movie that I am part of a fandom and have been for a very long time. And even though those movies aren't the most complicated, not even those movies aren't made for me anymore.
Mike
But I think they are.
Kelsey
I think they kind of are. I was just genuinely excited to go see that movie. That out of everything we saw, that was my favorite in theater experience. Even though I rated the drama higher. I just enjoyed even going. Trying to get a Yoshi popcorn bucket before which I knew they were going to be sold out.
Mike
And then, okay, my friend Mandy did offer to get you on.
Kelsey
At that point, I was like, you know what? I think spending almost $50 on a Yoshi popcorn bucket probably wasn't the best idea. It's kind of one of those things. If it's not in the moment, I'm over it.
Mike
The Stitch bucket store. Yeah.
Kelsey
I feel like it's kind of my rule with collectibles, too. Like, I could easily go online and just order things off of, like, ebay, but it's not the same to me. I like the search and the hunt for it. That's more exciting to me than just owning the item.
Mike
See, I love the dopamine of buying an item, tracking it, and then it gets here. Yeah.
Kelsey
Different experiences. But out of everything we saw in April, that was just my favorite experience. Met with what I believe to be a movie that was better than the original one. Also would be excited if Glenn Powell got his own movie.
Mike
Yeah.
Kelsey
And did a Star Fox movie. But still no word on that.
Mike
I'd watch that.
Kelsey
All right. The worst movie you saw in April.
Mike
Easy. Was it the outcome? Outcome. Whatever that Apple movie outcome. Keanu Reeves was. That's me watching it.
Kelsey
It felt bad from the beginning.
Mike
It started, and I was like, oh, Apple, your shows are better than your movies. Stop making movies. I said it. Keep making shows. Your shows are phenomenal. They're great. I will wait a year to watch the seasons. Stop making movies.
Kelsey
There hasn't been one definitive Apple movie. I will say. I'm going to say this, and I already know what you're going to say, but Coda is probably their best movie. One for best picture.
Mike
I'm looking right into the camera. Would you like to tell the people why I'm.
Kelsey
I watched it without you? But that is the best Apple movie.
Mike
I wouldn't know.
Kelsey
And there hasn't been one that I feel has defined a platform. Anything that has made somebody want to buy a subscription. They have big stars, but they don't have any good movies that I would really recommend to people.
Mike
And F1 count or no, because it was in theaters, but it was an Apple.
Kelsey
I only count the ones that went directly.
Mike
That's what I was thinking.
Kelsey
Because even Eternity is now an app like Apple. But I don't really count that one because it came out in theaters. I mean, they're straight to platform movies that have been a hit.
Mike
That's what I was thinking. I was just confirming that.
Kelsey
Yeah, some of those are like ranking partnerships. And it's like other studios involved too. But I'm talking just a straight up Apple movie. But I don't know why they keep giving Mark Wahlberg movies. Is on that platform.
Mike
Way too much contract with them.
Kelsey
Yeah. But the movie is basically. Which is weird that they did another movie so soon after the George Clooney movie. He plays a fictionalized version of himself. Same thing.
Mike
But Jay Kelly was Netflix.
Kelsey
Yes. So maybe they were already their version of it. Like, we got to get this out. And they got it out like maybe six months later. He's at the risk of getting canceled. Much like Keanu Reeves. He's like the most like, celebrity. He's won a couple of Oscars.
Mike
He was a kid star.
Kelsey
And then he gets blackmailed, essentially. If he doesn't pay a bunch of money, somebody is going to release some footage of him doing something really incriminating. So he goes on an apology tour to try to find who is doing this. He's like, who in my life hates me? Let me go say I'm sorry to everybody around me. And then maybe it can stop this video from coming out.
Mike
I also feel like when a movie. A movie's runtime is not that much longer than an HBO episode. I'm like, I kind of think they got to the cutting room and they like cut so much and then they were like, well, we still have to put something out. It was like an hour and 24 minutes. That's like a Euphoria episode.
Kelsey
Yeah. And that's with credits too. It could have been like one episode of a show movie.
Mike
Could have been an email.
Kelsey
But that was your worst of the month for my worst of the month. Speaking of straight to streaming movies, I'm gonna go with Thrash on Netflix, which
Mike
was not as bad as I expected.
Kelsey
I. I guess technically it is a disaster movie because you have a Category 5 hurricane coming towards a fictional town in South Carolina and then all the waters that floods the town are filled with sharks. And now it's not the rising waters that you have to worry about. It is all the sharks that want to eat you.
Mike
It's the sharks in the rising waters.
Kelsey
So it was kind of like a modern day Jaws. They even use the iconic jaw shot inside of the movie. Which the level of acting in this was just wild that this is acceptable.
Mike
It was giving Sci Fi, which I
Kelsey
saw somebody ask recently if I think that streaming movies are killing theaters. I. I really don't think so anymore. Like I think there was that threat a little bit coming out of COVID when movies were going to streaming at the same time and you could pay the 20 bucks. I don't think it's that that is the case anymore. I think there is still a demand for movies to come out in theaters that people are paying money to go see. And I don't think there's that battle because of the quality where on Netflix you get a movie like Thrash, which is a. Still a fun movie. I could see why people would be entertained by it doesn't take itself too seriously. But it's not something you're going to watch and want to rewatch again. It just feels like content to me.
Mike
It's like saying it's like a Sci Fi movie. Did you ever watch movies on the Sci Fi Channel? Yeah, it felt like a, like a disaster. It felt like Sharknado.
Kelsey
But it's not like the Day After Tomorrow coming out in theaters. Level a movie.
Mike
No, that was. That movie can't be replicated.
Kelsey
I don't think that anything that has come out straight to streaming in the last, I'd say even in the 2000 and twenties has even threatened the attention, the money and the overall impact that a movie in theaters has had. I wouldn't hate it if it did. It's just not at that level of the same quality Thrash. It's one of those movies you watch and it's so ridiculous that you kind of have a good time at because you didn't really set out to watch it with me. It's just kind of on in the background and it's so over the top and so ridiculous that it's kind of like watching a dumpster fire when my
Mike
best friend was in town when you watched it and we like all got our coffee and just kind of sat on the couch and then after 30 minutes she and I were both like, why are we watching this with you? Like this isn't even good.
Kelsey
Nope, not at all.
Mike
But sucks you in.
Kelsey
Well, that was our best and worst of the month. We'll go through all the April movies now. We did start it off with the drama, which I gave a 4.5 out of 5. What would you be giving that 3.75 Super Mario Galaxy? I gave it a 4 out of 5. For outcome. I gave a 2.5 out of 5 and I feel that's a little bit generous.
Mike
One we.
Kelsey
Oh one. One we finished it. It had some redeeming qualities. Towards the end of it.
Mike
I had ice cream to eat while I was watching it and that's the only thing that redeemed that experience.
Kelsey
And then I saw Lee Cronin's the Mummy in theaters and I sat front row, which some people were saying that I'm a psychopath for loving the front row.
Mike
I concur.
Kelsey
But it made me enjoy it more because I was that for you. Completely just surrounded by screen. I that one a 3.5 out of five. Thrash. I gave the two out of five. We saw Michael, which I ended up enjoying way more than I thought I was going to. Being that I'm not a Michael Jackson fan whatsoever. Same I gave that one a four out of five. What you think of it?
Mike
3.5.
Kelsey
Did you like it?
Mike
I did. I love Coleman Domingo. Coleman Domingo in anything I'll watch.
Kelsey
Even as a villain.
Mike
Even as a villain with those scary gray eyed contacts. I just. I love Coleman Domingo.
Kelsey
I kind of forgot that it was him at times because I knew going into obviously he was in the movie and then you kind of forget it once you see him because he looks so different with all. There was a lot of great prosthetics in this movie and I did look up a lot of the things as far as like accuracy as far as to what really happened. There were some things that were embellished a little bit. Some characters, creative liberties, some characters who were meant or made out to Be bigger parts of Michael Jackson's life than they actually were. Like Miles Teller's lawyer in the movie who he's like, that's my guy. Apparently in real life, they weren't. I guess they kind of had a falling out, and he didn't really have as much of an impact as they made it seem in the movie.
Mike
What about his driver, Billy?
Kelsey
He was. Yeah, I saw the real picture of him. His head is security. Looked exactly like him.
Mike
Okay.
Kelsey
But as far as, like, Miles Teller's character, I think it was because, like, the guy owned some part of his, like, estate or had some kind of. And wrote that part to be bigger than it was. So that's kind of weird when you think about it.
Mike
Interesting.
Kelsey
But overall, I enjoyed that. I historically don't like music biopics, but I think of the ones we've seen recently, like Elvis, man. A complete unknown. Better. Bruce Springsteen movie. Pretty boring.
Mike
Which, like, when I look back, I'm like, it's kind of tragic to make a movie about Bruce Springsteen boring, because Bruce Springsteen is not a boring person, and his career is not boring and his accomplishments are not boring. But how did you make a movie that was so boring?
Kelsey
There was just no story in it. What I liked about Michael is it had a beginning, middle and end. It also had a villain. So there was that constant friction of Michael Jackson and his dad. That was the overall theme of the movie. The overall. Here's what this story is about. Bruce Springsteen movie. There's no real plot.
Mike
No.
Kelsey
There was some things that he went through that was sad. I didn't know about him. But overall, there wasn't any kind of action or tension throughout the movie that made it feel like, okay, I learned something about him after watching this. A few songs here and there, and that was it. Not even really a whole lot of performances, which I liked about Michael Jackson. They didn't have, like, specific songs at every single point of the movie, really. Just the big performance at the end. Sometimes just too much music.
Mike
Yeah, I'm. If I wanted that much, I'd watch, like, a concert documentary or I'd watch a concert on YouTube.
Kelsey
Oh. Which I do want to see the Billie Eilish concert, because James Cameron directed it. I'm not even the biggest fan of her music. But if James Cameron directs your concert movie, that's crazy.
Mike
Yeah. I want to see that one as well.
Kelsey
Our TV show of the month. I think we might have the same one. Unless you watch another show.
Mike
Oh, do you want to say that in California?
Kelsey
1, 2, 3, love spectrum. Oh, we haven't finished Margot though.
Mike
It doesn't have to be one that we finished. We haven't finished Shrinking. When we said shrinking was our best for finished season one, we didn't finish the whole show.
Kelsey
I only do shows that I'm completely finished on.
Mike
Oh, I don't.
Kelsey
Well, we did finish Love on The Spectrum, Season 4. Yes, quite possibly my favorite season.
Mike
I love this show. And I watched a clip of an interview with Madison from Love on the Spectrum. She and her dad were on the Taylor Lautner's podcast the Squeeze. And Madison's dad said that one of the reasons that Madison agreed to do the show and one of the reasons they love the show is that it has fun, but it is never making fun of the individuals on it. And that's exactly what it is. It's lighthearted and it is just the perils of dating and which I think everyone experiences. Whether you're neurotypical or not, I think that everyone has those experiences and it just. The cast members are so fun and full of life and I love it. Dylan is obviously the star of the season.
Kelsey
It's dating in its purest form, where I don't even like reality TV shows, much less dating reality TV shows. I watch none of them because it's usually people who have an angle who want to get famous from a TV show. Yeah, it all feels fake and like they're manipulating it, but this feels more like less like a reality TV show and more just like a documentary, which really what it is and just a
Mike
way to like put stories out there of what dating looks like when you are on the spectrum and like that there are things that some people, there are very similar things and maybe there are some things that are a bigger challenge and a harder thing to get through. And yeah, I love that it is fun, but it is never making fun of the individuals on the show.
Kelsey
For probably the two weeks after we finished it, it was my entire tick tock feed where I would even see cast members popping up by like popping up on Tick Tock Lives. And that was just my entire life for like two weeks.
Mike
I'm still on Dylan Tick tock with Dylan's mannerisms.
Kelsey
But I love this show. Even if you, I guess you don't have to watch all the seasons. It helps because some people recur. Yes. But I feel like if you have never seen the show and you just wanted to hop right in, you could just start at season four.
Mike
And I think, yeah, season four has quite a few new people as well.
Kelsey
I Feel like all the storylines are kind of carried over. I guess some of the people from like two seasons ago, you might be like, who are these people? I still think if you hop in now and enjoy it, go back and rewatch the rest.
Mike
Yeah. Because we started with season two and then we went back to one and then watched three and four when they came out.
Kelsey
Shows are just getting. Seasons are just getting shorter and shorter. I don't like it. It's just like we watch it and then we're done in a weekend. What happened to 26 episode seasons, 45 minutes apiece?
Mike
They don't make them like that anymore. No, but mine is. Margot's got money troubles, which we're watching on Apple.
Kelsey
And you read the book? I did read the book a long time ago.
Mike
No, last month.
Kelsey
Oh, okay. But it's been out a while.
Mike
March. Yeah. It was my book club's book for maybe February.
Kelsey
Yeah. The TV show is really good. I love. The entire cast is so good.
Mike
Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman again is on Apple.
Kelsey
Makes great TV shows, not great.
Mike
Pidman was in this week's episode. Greg Kinnear.
Kelsey
Yeah.
Mike
Phenomenal cast. Just funny. Like, Elle Fanning does such a good job. Highly recommend.
Kelsey
Very R rated. But yeah, it is about a woman who gets pregnant and then turns to only fans to provide for a kid.
Mike
Yeah.
Kelsey
But I feel like the way they handle all the nudity, it doesn't feel like we're watching Euphoria.
Mike
No. And you'll. The idea of her doing only fans to provide for her kid if they follow the book becomes more of a plotline as it goes on. And like that bias or just like the narrative of what Jobs moms should or shouldn't have to provide for their kids. It's a bigger plot line in the book, so I'd anticipate that it kind of unfolds.
Kelsey
I feel like Elle Fanning is becoming one of my favorite actors.
Mike
The Fanning sisters can do no wrong. They're perfect. They have remained unfazed by Hollywood. I feel like they're so normal. They are just like. They just seem like very kind people.
Kelsey
I mean, if you look at sentimental value, Predator, Badlands. She's also going to be in the new Hunger Games movie.
Mike
They're both going to be in the Nightingale.
Kelsey
Yes.
Mike
Kristen, Hannah.
Kelsey
There's a lot of good stuff.
Mike
So much good stuff. And I watched an interview that Michelle Pfeiffer. So Dakota Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Penn were in I AM SAM Early 2000s.
Kelsey
Oh, yeah.
Mike
ELLE Fanning was probably a baby at the time. And Michelle Pfeiffer's like, I've known her since then because I worked with Dakota Fanning and now I'm working with her in a role. And so I'm just like, they have literally stood the test of time in Hollywood and, like, really just seem like normal people. And they're so supportive of each other with, like, Oscar nominations and just all these things. And I'm like, I'm constantly rooting for them. So I love it. But, yeah, it doesn't feel like we're watching Euphoria, which. Why are we watching the season of Euphoria?
Kelsey
I love the first episode. Second episode was okay. The last one is a little too much. They're just going, pure shock value at this point.
Mike
It's just shock value. And it's just. It's gross. It's not even, like, provocative anymore. It's literally just gross.
Kelsey
Yeah. I don't know why I'm defending it so much.
Mike
Yeah, why are you defending it?
Kelsey
I think I just like the cinematic nature of it. Every episode feels like a movie. It's shot unlike anything else to wear. Just the style of the show, I feel, keeps my attention, but I feel like the writing is starting to get worse and worse.
Mike
I don't like it. I don't like it. I'll watch it to the end, but I don't like it.
Kelsey
And I just got to know how it finishes up. And because this is all we're gonna get after this, it's over.
Mike
Thank God.
Kelsey
Your book of the month.
Mike
Okay, I'm gonna go with, I technically read it last month, but it just published this month. It is Yesteryear by Carol Claire Burke. And if you follow my reading Instagram at Kelsey Rod Reads.
Kelsey
There you go.
Mike
You'll know I haven't shut up about it. I'm making everyone in my life read it. It is so good. It is about a kind of trad wife influencer, and she runs this, like, multimillion dollar Instagram, and she has this perfect family, and then she wakes up one day and she's back in, like, the 1800s, living in this world that she's like, kind of cosplaying in. Like, she wakes up and instead of, like, having appliances hidden behind the camera, she, like, really has to heat everything over the stove. And there's no microwave and there's no conveniences, and you have to figure out, like, how did she get back here in time? And I love it. I think it's Phenomenal. I read it on my Kindle and then my friend went to a book signing event with the author and I was like, I have to have this, like, physical copy because I want to reread it. And for me to want to reread a book with as long as my TBR list is, is really something. But I listened to an interview that Kate Kennedy on Be There in Five did with the author. And Carol Burke talks about how it is meant to, like, when you get to the end, she wants you to almost reread it and then find all the Easter eggs that she left along the way and, like, see if there's things that you read in a different light after you finished reading it once. So I need to go back and reread it.
Kelsey
And then isn't Anne Hathaway going to be a part of the movie they're making up?
Mike
Yeah, Anne Hathaway bought the rights and. Or yeah, I think her production company bought the rights and she's going to star in it. And that was like, before the book was even released.
Kelsey
Which reminds me, a movie. I forgot to mention the recap, Mother Mary.
Mike
Oh, yes. In our Anne Hathaway movie marathon, where
Kelsey
I'm trying to see all Anne Hathaway movies that come out this year, there are five of them. Mother Mary. I think I probably enjoyed it a little bit more. Near more than you.
Mike
Well, I missed the first 15 minutes
Kelsey
because I was a mine so long, guys.
Mike
I stood in line for 35 minutes for. It was one of those things where I was like, I'm committed. You also can't really get out of that line.
Kelsey
Yeah, you're kind of.
Mike
Once you're in it, you're in it
Kelsey
and you got to go upstream to get out of it.
Mike
And they had like, not. Not this person's fault. They had one person taking orders by the time I got up there. And I was like, guys, it's a Saturday night at 7pm what are we doing?
Kelsey
She plays a pop star that's kind of going through crisis, goes back to reconnect with her old friend who is a dress designer. She needs the perfect dress for a big performance. And then you kind of learn all about their history, why they stop talking. And then there's this kind of supernatural element to it, which I enjoyed. Yeah, it felt like watching one of my dreams or nightmares, my adventures that I go on at night. That's what it felt like to me. I just have a big fascination with dreams.
Mike
I'm just laughing. That you just reveal to everyone that you call them adventures.
Kelsey
Yeah. Like going on. It's like jumping aboard a ship to go on an adventure in my subconscious.
Mike
He really does everyone. He gets in bed, and he's like, time for my adventure.
Kelsey
End it with some movie questions.
Mike
Yes.
Kelsey
We have five movie questions to finish out the episode.
Mike
What's your Marvel hot take?
Kelsey
My Marvel hot take is that the Incredible Hulk is the best movie of the MCU Phase 1. It is historically known as the worst movie of Phase one, but I think when it comes to overall, just it being the best story structure, having the best hero, which I still think the Incredible Hulk is the strongest and best avenger. His movies have just not been well received, even though I've loved each iteration for different reasons. I thought Edward Norton did a really great job as Bruce Banner. So I think it has what I love both. What I love best about both sides of the character. Great Bruce Banner, Great Hulk. And now. I just don't like that Mark Ruffalo's Incredible Hulk is so comical and not as intense. I think it's the best movie in the MCU Phase one.
Mike
All right, I don't think I have a hot take, so I won't answer that one. What's a remake that's better than the original?
Kelsey
I think the Parent Trap, which. I remember watching the original parent trap from 1961.
Mike
That's a great one.
Kelsey
I had a music teacher in elementary school who. She's like, we're gonna watch the Parent Trap today. And we were all excited and then
Mike
put on the original.
Kelsey
And then it was the original Parent Trap in black and white. I'm like, who does this?
Mike
Sounds like something Eddie would enjoy.
Kelsey
Yeah. I don't know.
Mike
Don't tell him I said that.
Kelsey
Yeah. That is easily better than the original.
Mike
I'm gonna go Cheaper by the Dozen.
Kelsey
I forgot about that being a remake.
Mike
What was the original year? I don't even remember.
Kelsey
I'm also gonna assume the 60s, 1950. Oh, my gosh. That is an old movie. Yeah. Both of those movies were greatly improved.
Mike
I love. We rewatched both of those a couple years ago. By the Dozen. They stand the test of time.
Kelsey
I like them both.
Mike
I love when Steve Martin does the funeral for Beans the Frog. He hipped and he hopped. He loved to hip hop. That's just. It's a quotable movie. It's great. Okay, next question. Movie that made you cry unexpectedly.
Kelsey
Blue Beetle. And we saw it twice in theaters, and it got me both times.
Mike
And you've watched it so many times since.
Kelsey
And Even though the scene itself is sad, I wasn't expecting that in a DC superhero movie where once it hit, I was like, why am I getting so emotional right now? And I was like, surely by the time we go watch it again, take my mom to go see it, I won't feel the exact same way. But no, it hit me again. Even rewatched it, I think earlier this year still hit me.
Mike
Yeah. Here's the thing. I know this is so weird. I don't cry at movies. I cry at TikToks about animals and elderly people. It is really nice things.
Kelsey
It is really hard for a movie to make me cry.
Mike
I just don't really cry at movies. And I. I don't know why, but, yeah, I'll. I'll cry at like, seven TikToks in a row. And you'll look over and you're like, are you good? And I'm like, this puppy got adopted from the side of the road.
Kelsey
Another one that kind of got me was my old ass with Aubrey Plaza. There's a moment of that one that's like, oh, my.
Mike
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, That's a good one.
Kelsey
Not full on tears, but I mean, up, up. Yeah. In theaters.
Mike
Okay. A movie you walked out of Strays,
Kelsey
which was the animal. They were animated. Ish. But it was celebrities doing voices to dogs, and it was really crude when
Mike
we described the premise. People are probably like. And you thought that was gonna be good. It was a summer movie.
Kelsey
Ferrell was in it.
Mike
We'll go see anything in the summer because it's free ac.
Kelsey
I think that was the week that we didn't have AC, probably. And we still left during that one.
Mike
Mine would be. I've told the story before. I may or may not have taken my grandma to see Talladega Nights, the Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and we left.
Kelsey
We also left during Babylon.
Mike
We did leave during Babylon.
Kelsey
There was a big gross scene, and we didn't see the movie getting any better. Some people love that movie. I still see it pop up, and I'm like, nah, I'm good.
Mike
Yeah. That's the nice thing about the Regal Unlimited is if we don't like a
Kelsey
movie, we're like, yeah, I'm out after 20 minutes. I'm like, I just don't see this getting any better. Let's. Let's save us some time.
Mike
All right, Your celebrity crush growing up.
Kelsey
Final question. I think if it's movie related, it's Emma Watson because of Harry Potter. And I was the same age as all of them. Growing up. So it was kind of like I went to school with them.
Mike
Yeah.
Kelsey
So I think easily Emma Watson. If it's TV shows, it was Miley Cyrus because of Hannah Montana. Also about the same age.
Mike
Mine is so easy. It is chaining Tatum and Step Up. Like, do I need to say more? I have no more to say because that. That it was my favorite movie.
Kelsey
Channing Tatum Step up or Channing Tatum now as an adult Training Tatum step
Mike
Up, which I was just texting a friend earlier. The concept of Zoe Kravitz being engaged to Channing Tatum a year and a half ago and now being engaged to Harry Styles, like, my brain, it's not computing to me.
Kelsey
I guess I never saw Zoe Kravitz and Channing Tatum out in public that much that I kind of forgot. Or it's been that long.
Mike
Yeah, I think it's just been that long. They were always out in public together.
Kelsey
Because I've seen so much of Zoe Kravitz and Harry Styles out because it's
Mike
only been eight months.
Kelsey
Yeah. Maybe they're apparently engaged.
Mike
Like the concept of Harry Styles getting down on a knee and asking Zoe Kravitz to marry him. Like, it could fry my brain right now.
Kelsey
Well, there you go. Anything else?
Mike
No, that's all I got in me.
Kelsey
All right, come back and give my spoiler free review of the Devil Wears Prada too.
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Kelsey
Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review you of the Devil Wears Prada 2. Kelsey has hopped into this because I think one of your most anticipated movies of the year.
Mike
Absolutely.
Kelsey
What did you think about it?
Mike
It didn't disappoint.
Kelsey
I was really worried about it because whenever you have a legacy sequel that comes 20 years after the original, sometimes it's just nostalgia bait. And there were enough things that felt familiar, but not that they were just like reminding you of all the things from the first one.
Mike
It wasn't entire callbacks.
Kelsey
Yeah, I would say in the first maybe 10 to 15 minutes there were some callbacks. What was your favorite callback because mine was when they go to the cafeteria.
Mike
Cafeteria.
Kelsey
Stanley Tucci go. And she gets the soup again. And that was kind of like that. Oh, yeah. Remember that from the first one. But that was really the only time they did that.
Mike
Yeah. Or even talking about, like, how, like, the second assistant has to take the book to her house every night. And then you remember, and she's like, whatever you do, don't go upstairs.
Kelsey
Oh, the. Throwing the coat at the. Yeah, that was good, too. But I would say even if you didn't see the first one, you would be completely lost.
Mike
It stands alone. I think it is. I described it. There is enough nostalgia to make you feel like you are seeing a sequel to one of your favorite movies. But it is not entirely carried by the nostalgia.
Kelsey
Exactly. It doesn't stand on the legs of the other movie. It's kind of its own thing where there are a lot of little Easter eggs. Obviously, you're going to know the characters more if you've seen the original, but I think they knew that some people were just gonna go watch this one.
Mike
I have to say, it is hard to make Justin throw ugly.
Kelsey
And they did it.
Mike
And they did it, ladies and gentlemen.
Kelsey
They turned him into basically a Jeff Bezos.
Mike
Yes.
Kelsey
Where he's a billionaire. Yeah, billionaire. Right. But they make him unlike him. So I thought that was funny.
Mike
He was, like, formerly chunky and then has, like, gone through his transformation.
Kelsey
But what this movie is about, it is essentially Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt all back together again.
Mike
I'm sorry, you're forgetting my king, Stanley Tucci. Thank you. How could you forget Stanley?
Kelsey
You got the big three, though.
Mike
He's. No, it's the big four in this.
Kelsey
The big Four.
Mike
It's the big four.
Kelsey
So you think they could have done this movie? They couldn't have done it without Stanley Tucci.
Mike
The fact that you are suggesting otherwise is insane.
Kelsey
But I feel like it was hard for them to get them all back. They're all massive stars now.
Mike
Yeah, but Stanley Tucci is, like.
Kelsey
He is the heart of this movie
Mike
is the heart of the movie.
Kelsey
We all need a Stanley Tucci character in this movie in our.
Mike
So walk it back.
Kelsey
Okay. The Big Four and Stanley Tucci. It is modern day where magazines are not what they were back when this first movie came out back in 2005.
Mike
Which is true.
Kelsey
Is it weird that I saw this as a horror movie? Like, I watch a lot of scary movies, and it was this movie that scared me because the digitization how much our World is changing because we find Miranda adapting to social media, adapting to people not reading Runway like they used to. I found this more horrific because of what is happening right now in the real world, where I feel that everything is being taken away from us that we grew up loving.
Mike
Listen, I still love a magazine. I stopped buying them because they were taking up a lot of space on the coffee table. And I do read them digitally. I'll still buy them in an airport. Like, when we go to the airport, I go to. I don't want to give away my spots, but I want them to have business in the airport.
Kelsey
You don't want to give away your hidden spot in the airport for what
Mike
I'm about to say. The Parnassus in the Nashville airport has the best selection of magazines. And their drinks are always cold. Now, if I go to the Parnassus in the Nashville airport next time and there's not a cold diet Dr. Pepper, I'm gonna be mad for giving that away.
Kelsey
I think us catching our 5am flight, you're gonna be.
Mike
I'm just saying, sometimes you go and drinks are hot. Hot at Parnassus, the drinks are always cold. The magazine selection is superb. They're always so nice. Yeah. I'll still buy magazines. I love a magazine. And I love, like. I'm talking, like, I want to read, like, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Vanity Fair.
Kelsey
What did you read growing up?
Mike
17. Cosmo Girl, I think.
Kelsey
Did you read J14 at all?
Mike
Did I read J14? Tiger Beat. Yeah. 17. 17 was a good one. All the quizzes and it's like, how to survive your first day of high school. Throwing it back to. As a kid.
Kelsey
Don't say it. Did you have Nickelodeon magazine?
Mike
I don't remember if I had that. I was gonna say Zoo Books.
Kelsey
Oh, Zoo Book. I thought you're gonna say you had Nickelodeon magazine. I saw those commercials so much. Nickelodeon magazine, please.
Mike
Man. Those would have been really cool.
Kelsey
But there is something to holding something physical. Physical media. But that is what this movie is dealing with.
Mike
That's why I still buy books.
Kelsey
Yeah. That is why it's declining. You have Anne Hathaway's character, Andy, lose her job at the beginning, which. That's the part that struck me like, gosh, people, like, jobs are just going away.
Mike
Yeah. And we won't say how.
Kelsey
Yeah.
Mike
She found out. Because that's kind of.
Kelsey
Yeah. You find out about that, and then that leads to everybody getting back together. What you think about, man, 20 years ago. Crazy.
Mike
Okay. I know this is going to sound dumb because it was 20 years ago. And Hathway and Emily Blunt were 23 when that movie was filmed.
Kelsey
That is wild.
Mike
Cuz an Hathway was 18 when she did Princess Diaries, her first movie, which is crazy. We've been on a big halfway kick.
Kelsey
We're trying to complete the five an Hathway movies this year.
Mike
Is there a punch card for that?
Kelsey
We should make one cuz we saw Mother Mary, Devil Wears Cra. The Odyssey comes out on July 17th, the end of Oak street comes out on August 14th and Verity comes out on October 2nd. Which. Which we saw the trailer before this movie. I'm in.
Mike
I'm actually scared that my two friends who see Colleen Hoover movies with me aren't gonna wanna see way different.
Kelsey
It kind of reminded me of the housemaid a little bit. Yes, that's what the trailer made me feel like. But yes, I do want to complete the five and Hathaway movies coming out this year. So there were a lot of great callbacks. I will say my favorite character in this one was Stanley Tucci and you
Mike
just said they couldn't have made the movie without him.
Kelsey
I know, I know. But I think he was the heart and the glue of this movie. And his character arc I think is my favorite. Where Anne Hathaway did a really fantastic job as Andy. How well she just adapts to that personality.
Mike
Anne Hathaway can do no wrong. She's beautiful, she's stunning. She looks so good. I see why they put her in five movies. It's the Anne Hathaway renaissance. Also, can we talk about I want to be fly on the wall of a family dinner that includes Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt because they are related. Because Stanley met his wife because she's Emily's sister. And so it's like Stanley, Emily, John Krasinski, Stanley's wife.
Kelsey
Like gosh, can you imagine that?
Mike
Literally, can you imagine those vacations? I just watched a clip and she, it was her joking and she's like, I'm over related to Stanley now. She's like, I see him too much. And then she was like, but it's not bad if he's cooking you dinner, shaking up a martini. And I'm like, I want to be friends with Stanley Tucci. I want to be family with Stanley Tucci.
Kelsey
That was kind of cool when they go to the Hamptons. Just that I would just want to go to the Hamptons as a rich
Mike
person and then think about like their kids. Like not only are your parents Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, but Stanley Tucci's your uncle.
Kelsey
That's pretty cool.
Mike
That's legit.
Kelsey
How did you feel about the fashion in this movie?
Mike
I saw something online that said the styling was terrible and the fashion was awful. 100 disagree. I feel like it had to be rage bait, because.
Kelsey
That's right.
Mike
I thought the style was amazing.
Kelsey
I don't know anything about women's fashion, but some of Anne Hathaway's outfits perfection.
Mike
The tailored pants and, like, the crisp, like, the blazer and just. Oh, so good.
Kelsey
There was one where she was, like, basically an all black with, like, a collar that had, like, studs or something. Yeah, that was. I was like, that's such a cool outfit.
Mike
Yeah. And then. Oh, they take you inside the, like, fashion closet at the magazine.
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Kelsey
Yeah. I would say also, Emily Blunt's character has a really good style evolution throughout the entire thing. Her changing her hair and all these things.
Mike
I loved where they're in Milan and it's just kind of like a montage sequence of them arriving to each new, like, fashion event. And they're all in such a stunning look. It's just them getting out of the car and you're like, oh. Because it's like high fashion.
Kelsey
They did film a lot of this movie, like, in those actual cities.
Mike
Yeah.
Kelsey
Did you notice in some of the New York scenes you saw the people of New York reacting to seeing Anne Hathaway in Meryl Streep?
Mike
No, I don't think I noticed. I think I was looking, being like, oh, I know where that is in New York.
Kelsey
Because I hyper pay attention to extras to see if there's any extras acting extra. But since they were filming this actually in New York City and they kept a lot of it under wraps at times. If you just have Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway on a street in New York City, people are going to be just.
Mike
I would stumble and probably end up in front of a cab. Like, I would be, like, not paying attention.
Kelsey
But I noticed some people who actually made the movie that you kind of see them react to them. I think even in the trailer, you see somebody take a picture of Anne Hathaway.
Mike
I love that. That's so good. It made me excited to go back to New York.
Kelsey
I know which we are gonna go back.
Mike
We are going back this summer. It made me be like, I know where that is, and I can't wait to go there in Central Park.
Kelsey
And as many times as. As we've seen New York City in a movie, it's still. I love it when a movie is able to recapture that energy. And that is what the Devil Wears Prada does with, like, the score behind it.
Mike
And that shot of Central Park. That shot of Central park was so cool. I love looking out of the plane window as you're leaving New York and you still see all of Central Park.
Kelsey
Did you think that this movie dragged a little at all in the second act, or were you entertained? Because it's a bit of a longer movie at about two hours.
Mike
Yeah, the Regal app said 143. And I was like, I think this movie's longer. But they also said it was not rated. So I think they just didn't update the Regal app. No, I didn't think it dragged. I. I wanted more. They could have left. Give me everything that was left on the cutting room floor. Give me the director. Give me the. What is it, Zack Snyder.
Kelsey
Snyder. Cut our.
Mike
I want our Devil Wears Prada. I want Meryl Streep just being Meryl Streep.
Kelsey
Is it weird that I find Meryl Streep sexy? No, because I thought she looked stunning in this movie, and I did not. I mean, I realized that she's in her 70s.
Mike
No, I think Meryl Streep is a goddess. I. Her daughters are all phenomenal actors, too. Like, no, the whole gene pool of Meryl Streep. Like, she's Meryl Streep. She's not look like she's in her 70s.
Kelsey
She does not at all. Do you think that there were too many cameos in this movie? No, there were a lot of cameos, though. That was the only part, to me that felt that it suffered from. What a Legacy sequel does is obviously you have a lot of people who grew up with this movie and now are famous and they have this attachment to it, which it is kind of cool to think that you were a kid watching this and now you're being asked to do a cameo in this. So not all of them were like, kids, but there were some.
Mike
No, I don't think so. Because I think it was also representative of, like, what media is now. And you have a lot of people involved in media and as the media landscape changes, like, so. No, I don't think there were too many.
Kelsey
I guess it is a movie that lends itself to having celebrity cameos because they are interacting with real people in New York. So they're just like, you're so and so. Yeah.
Mike
Like, I felt like it was people that would be at those events.
Kelsey
I was trying to find wherever they cut Sydney Sweeney's cameo.
Mike
I Think the Hamptons.
Kelsey
I read that it actually might have been. There was a completely different scene that was like, three minutes where she goes to Emily Blunt's character, and they have. She's like, a client, and it was. Sydney Sweeney was her client.
Mike
Oh, thank God they cut that and
Kelsey
they took all that out because they said it didn't make sense to the rest of the movie, which is weird that they would cut Sydney Sweeney out.
Mike
I don't think they're missing anything. It sounds like it wouldn't have done anything.
Kelsey
I guess not. They decided we don't really need this anymore.
Mike
I'm fine with that. And I'm not. I'm not trying to, like, hate on Sydney Sweeney. I just. There's enough of her.
Kelsey
Does that kind of suck, though? You're like, I'm gonna be in the devil. Worse product, too. She's probably a huge fan of the original. And you're seeing gets cut.
Mike
I can't say I have any sympathy for her.
Kelsey
I think it's a little unfortunate.
Mike
She's just everywhere right now.
Kelsey
So do you want to see a the devil wears Prada 3? No, you don't. No, you're good.
Mike
I think I'm good.
Kelsey
Even if this movie makes so much money that they're like, how about another one?
Mike
I think that ruins the integrity of it because I was scared for a second one. It's the who, like, why they won't do a second Bridesmaids. If a movie is perfect, let it be.
Kelsey
I think. Yeah. I think they close it out here, they end on top. They make their money. We unfortunately didn't get the Devil Wears Prada popcorn bucket. We didn't even see them.
Mike
Somebody called it the Butter Birkin.
Kelsey
It looked cool.
Mike
It did look cool.
Kelsey
We did see the Mortal Kombat one that they already have out $50.
Mike
You're getting crazy how much your stitch popcorn bucket was.
Kelsey
Yeah, but that's a full stitch. That's just the helmet that goes over the top of a popcorn bucket. Play theater's got to make their money.
Mike
They have somehow.
Kelsey
What would you give the Devil wears Prada to?
Mike
4.5 out of five. Brunello Cuccinelli pants.
Kelsey
Oh, I like the rating system.
Mike
Thank you.
Kelsey
I'm gonna go four out of five stilettos. Where? I really enjoyed it, but I'm not as big of a fan of the original as you are, but I really enjoyed the theater experience because it was a packed house. We had people cheering before the movie even started.
Mike
And I for annoying, though.
Kelsey
Okay. I like Reactions.
Mike
And then we somehow ended up driving home next to them. The whole time, I looked over and
Kelsey
I was like, ah, I'm okay with reactions in a movie. You paid your money. Enjoy it how you want. I'm not okay with conversations.
Mike
Like, yeah, that's what they were having.
Kelsey
They were having too much conversation about the movie, about every single trailer going into it. And then throughout the movie where I'm like, you can cheer, you can laugh, you can clap, you can do whatever you want in that movie theater. You paid your money, you do it. But having a conversation is just rude.
Mike
It is rude. It's incredibly rude. I looked over and gave her the side eye at one point too, because
Kelsey
at some point you're like, my conversation is more important than everybody else in enjoying this movie.
Mike
Right. And when it's quiet and all is the sound from the movie, you can hear someone talking even if they're whispering.
Kelsey
I'd rather somebody be on their phone next 100 than talking. Be on your phone scroll. I don't care. Just do not open your mouth and have a conversation.
Mike
Yeah, agree.
Kelsey
So, yes, we both enjoyed the Devil Wears prior to anything else about the movie.
Mike
I think it kicked off the summer movie season.
Kelsey
We're ready to go.
Mike
I'm ready to go. I'm ready to see movies. I'm ready to go to New York. I did see that they had a pop up in New York, and it was like a Runway magazine vending machine where you could, like, get. But the line was apparently around the block. And I'm like, that's a pop up. I would stand in line for in New York. That's cool.
Kelsey
Yeah, there's not many things I would wait in line for, but that sounds cool.
Mike
That's really cool.
Kelsey
I mean, I'm sitting here wearing my Pokemon button.
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Thank you.
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All right, we'll be back.
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to Movie Mike's Trailer Park. Hey, Schmoovy Mike. Welcome to the trailer park. Today we are talking about Jackass Best and Last. That was my very poor impression of Bam Margera, who is going to be in this movie, but only through archive footage which when the title of this movie was released, knowing it was going to be the last Jackass movie, I didn't think too much about it. Best and Last, I thought that meant it is going to be the best Jackass movie ever and the last Jackass movie ever. And by the looks of this trailer, now that some people are a little bit upset, it is also going to be some of the best moments, the best of the Jackass TV show and the Jackass movies. And it set in with me once I hit play on this trailer and I was like, oh yeah, all those great old scenes that they interwove within the trailer moments like Steve O. Being hurled into the air on bungee cords while sitting in a porta potty. Johnny Knoxville getting annihilated by a bull flying off in a rocket. All these moments I've witnessed in movie theaters and on MTV when it premiered back in the year 2000. And I thought this is just the way they are doing this to promote the movie, showing you all the best moments. And then I realized that they are actually going to include this in what we are going to pay money to go see in theaters. And some people are upset about this and I think those aren't the real fans. That is all I'm going to say right now. But Jackass Best and Last is coming out in theaters on June 26th. Before I get into more, here is just a little bit of the Jackass trailer.
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Looks like at 50. You see the finger on that thing? That's not a finger, it's a claw. Let's let it RIP baby. So here is the timeline of this movie. It was announced just earlier this year. On January 7th, Johnny Knoxville made a post on Instagram saying this movie was coming out this year. I got excited along with all the rest of the Jackass fandom. He later indicated in February of this year that filming for this final movie would start that same month. And then in April, when I covered Cinemacon, I talked about Johnny Knoxville debuting this trailer that we just now finally got to see, saying that filming had concluded. So by the time they started filming in February to when he went to CinemaCon in April 16 and already had the trailer ready to go to debut there, the movie was already filmed and edited, at least as far as enough to have a trailer to show people. And the movie is coming out pretty quick. Whenever it was announced in January that it was coming out in June, I thought, oh, they already filmed this thing. But then I started to hear Steve O. Talking about, we haven't started filming yet. And I thought that was interesting because most of these movies take at least six months to film. The last movie, Jackass Forever, which came out back in 2022, did take longer to film, but that was because it was filmed during the Pandemic. So it got shut down a lot because of COVID But from my investigation picture me sitting in this studio putting up all these details on a wall and connecting it with yarn. It looks like they maybe only film for a week. And to some, that is an indicator of cash grab. And I am one to call out a cash grab. I will be so upfront with you whenever a movie just feels like it's trying to get my money. And this is one of those franchises. And I'm going to have a little bit of bias just because I am such a huge Johnny Knoxville, Andrew Hack s fan that I'm going to deny it. But a little bit, it does feel a little bit cash grabby. What this movie started out was a concept back in 2025. They got on a bunch of zoom calls and said we should find a way to make a 25th anniversary celebration because the TV show aired 25 years ago and oftentimes they come together for a special Jackass. The franchise is also known to do zero point fives to their movies, which means they'll put out a movie and then maybe six months or a year later put out some of the unused footage and call it a 0.5 and it feels more like a documentary. That is what this movie is starting to feel like me now, which has me maybe 20 less excited just because I wanted all new footage. But by the looks of this trailer, it really looks like it's going to be a celebration of what this franchise has done over 25 years with some new stuff in there. So I am thinking it's gonna feel more like a documentary than a new movie. And why I say that it's only non fans who are upset by this is because the Jackass franchise has always had an unorthodox format. Since the beginning. It never felt like a TV show because it was just a bunch of clips put together with five second bumpers, sometimes in there of some very obscure random thing with the sole intention of making you disgusted or making you laugh. So the TV show had a format unlike anything else. It was just a clip show with a cast of characters that you grew to love and they were able to take that same format and turn it into a movie. And if it didn't make sense on tv, which of course there are clip shows, while that's maybe not the most novel to something on tv, it is so crazy to take that concept and put it into theaters and think people are gonna go spend their money to watch that on a big screen. But it has worked for a very long time. These movies have made a lot of money with a relatively low budget. But you know what they have paid for them with? Their bodies. Johnny Knoxville says he can't take another concussion. He suffered one for the last movie, so he couldn't put himself in that position to hurt himself in a way that would be lights out for him. And if you look at the ages of the original OG Jackass cast, Knoxville's 55, Steve O. Is 51, Pontius is 51, Wee man is 52, Preston Lacey is 56, Dave England is 55, and Aaron McGahey is 49 years old. As much as we want to believe that these guys are invincible and they get paid to do this, there is no possible way of all the injuries that they have suffered that they could go full balls to the wall for another movie. That is in part of why they have brought in this new fresh blood that you see, for the most part, doing the heavy lifting. The original Jackass crew still does a lot of the really funny stuff. Johnny Knoxville is still the ringleader and the host and brings this entire creative concept together. But then you have this new cast of characters who are in their 30s and they can do some of the things that they can no longer do. So I don't really feel ripped off by the idea that they are going to Incorporate some of the old footage. As the title says, the best stuff. It felt a little bit weird to see it interwoven in there, but if you look at my TikTok feed and clips that I just never skipped past on YouTube, I love going back and watching those moments. And if there's maybe a different angle, some bonus footage that maybe never aired on the 0.5 or anywhere else, if it's done in a documentary style way, that it brings new perspective to those clips, I am still excited about seeing those clips again on the big screen. Because the first Jackass movie I ever saw in theaters was Jackass 3. When that movie came out, I went to the midnight premiere. That was still when 3D movies were huge after Avatar. And man, to think going to a midnight movie right now, I couldn't do it. Sometimes the local theater here will have these midnight screenings of movies I grew up watching, but they're on 35 millimeter, but they're always at midnight. And I'm like, I don't think I could go watch a movie at midnight and make it through. So maybe that is me, much like the Jackass crew, getting a little bit older. And then part of me wonders, is there something else going on here, something that they are not telling us? Because while there is all this outrage of this being a cash grab and being thrown together really quickly, what could inspire somebody to put together something so quickly when for the most part, every time a Jackass movie has come out, it has been a much bigger production, a much bigger rollout, and there's been a little bit more anticipation. Is there something else going on with Knoxville that he's not telling us about his health? Again, this is pure speculation, but at times in recent history when we've seen other people come out with something really quickly or announce a tour that comes out really quickly, it could mean that they are about to retire. Sometimes you'll hear about artists or musicians or actors dealing with some things behind the scenes that they don't owe it to us to tell us about. But it gets to a point where they realize they're going to have to take a step back and not do some of these things that they are known for. So they want to do one thing while they are still healthy and able to go out and promote it and do things and be out in front of people before they decide it is time to step away. So is this Johnny Knoxville saying, although I did see that he did get announced that he's going to do another season of Fear Factor, or is this just a way after 25 years for them to fully say this is the time to end it now. You also think about the climate of movies right now and release dates. Maybe they only had this window in this summer to get this movie in or it would have been delayed much longer. So sometimes it just comes down to a timing thing. I did see Steve O. Talking about on his podcast that he is a little bit nervous that people are overhyping the movie, thinking it's going to be a completely new movie. Which you kind of have to expect that because if you hear new movie in theaters, and maybe that's even why they're not calling it Jackass 5, even though the last one wasn't called Jackass 4, you're going to have those people thinking it's all new footage unless you dive into it a little bit more. So that worries me just a little bit of how much actual new footage is going to be included. I am really pushing and I hope this isn't way too much to ask for, but at least 80% of new footage is that asking for too much for roughly five days of filming? I don't know, because every movie has just pushed the limits a little bit more. Even in the last film, Johnny Knoxville still gave it his all to give us one final performance. So we're not going to get that here. So I'm curious to see what is going to be the big finale in this movie. That is what every Jackass movie has had, that one big scene at the end that wins you over. I hope the opening is just as epic as all the Jackass movies have been, because that is what they are known for as well. Because even in Jackass 3D at the end where the credits hit, that was the 10 year anniversary. And that kind of felt like the real goodbye, where they still went out on a high note, where they were still, for the most part at least in perfect health, at least on screen to where they could do the more dangerous things and not worry about them further injuring their heads like they have to worry about now. That really felt like the end to me. Everything else to me has been a bonus. So never expected to get Jackass Forever. Really didn't expect this movie. A little bit of a letdown that it's not as much new footage as we hope for this final movie. But I'm gonna be excited. I will be there in theaters to watch Jackass Best and last on June 26th.
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Kelsey
And that is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta get my listener shout out of the week. Which thanks to everybody who commented and messaged me about last week's interviews with the director and producers of they Will Kill youl. I actually got a message from the stunt coordinator on that movie, Cary Greg and I posted a clip about the director talking about how they pulled off the big scene with fire using actual fire. And Carrie wrote me and said, hey, I was the stunt coordinator on that movie. It was a tricky one, especially that sequence. We developed a new way of doing fire gags and used a new material that allowed the performers to be on fire and for up to 180 seconds and cut the re prep time to 2 minutes instead of 10 minutes. Also a massive shout out to Zazie. She was absolutely amazing. Mike here, that is the main actress in that movie. Back to his message. I will never stop singing her praises. She came in on weekends to practice more. She did two hours of training every day. She did 95% of her own stunts. She is a machine and such an amazing person. Thank you, Carrie, for that insight of how that was done, which that kind of makes sense because for the most part, in other movies I've seen, you basically are able to put somebody on fire and then you have to put them out almost immediately because they have this gel on them for them not to get burned. Sometimes they wear some wraps. But for them to find a way to be able to have the performers be on fire for 180 seconds over two minutes, that is crazy. And that is why that scene looks so authentic and looks so dangerous. Even though they found the safest way to do it was supposed to be the most dangerous scene in that movie. Ended up being the easiest for them to pull off. Also crazy that she did 95% of her own stunts. Which one of my favorite things to do while watching a movie is try to pick out when the stunt performer comes in. Because usually they flip it to where you see the back of them. It's a quick scene. You never see their face. The hair sometimes changes just ever so slightly. And I always notice. It's also a lot easier to notice when there's a kid and then it cuts to what is obviously an adult hopping in as their stunt performer. But that's some cool insight there. If you missed that episode, just go back one in the feed. And if you love horror movies with a lot of crazy stunts with fire and practical effects, check out. They will kill you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. Thank you for telling a friend. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later. I'm U.S. transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. We all get distracted when we drive,
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Date: May 9, 2026
Hosts: Movie Mike & Kelsey
This episode of Movie Mike’s Movie Podcast (a segment of The Bobby Bones Show) delivers a lively discussion between Movie Mike and his wife/co-host, Kelsey, covering their favorite and least favorite movies from April, a deep-dive spoiler-free review of "The Devil Wears Prada 2," a rundown of the trailer for "Jackass Best and Last," MCU hot takes, and several rapid-fire movie questions. The couple’s candid, playful banter and thoughtful pop culture insights provide a fun listen for film lovers.
Kelsey: Super Mario Galaxy
Mike: The Drama
Notable Quote:
Mike: Outcome (Apple TV, starring Keanu Reeves)
Kelsey: Thrash (Netflix)
Both: Love on the Spectrum (Season 4) [19:42]
Also highlighted: Margot’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV+, Elle Fanning) [22:32]
Marvel Hot Take:
Remake Better than Original:
Movie That Made You Cry Unexpectedly:
Movie Walkouts:
Celebrity Crush Growing Up:
Stanley Tucci:
On Fashion:
Mike on Stanley Tucci & Emily Blunt’s real-life relation:
“I want to be a fly on the wall at a family dinner with Stanley Tucci, Emily Blunt, and John Krasinski.” [43:10]
On theater etiquette:
Mike: “Some people are upset… those aren’t the real fans. The franchise has always had an unorthodox format… it never felt like a TV show because it was just a bunch of clips put together…” [55:51]
Discussion about this installment being a mix of classic highlights and new footage. Acknowledges cash-grab concerns, but argues nostalgia and aging original cast make it feel like a fitting sendoff.
Cast ages: “Knoxville’s 55, Steve O. is 51, Pontius is 51, Wee man is 52…” [56:47]
Mike: “A little bit of a letdown that it’s not as much new footage… but I’m gonna be excited. I will be there in theaters.” [66:14]
The episode brims with Movie Mike and Kelsey’s candid, personable chemistry, full of humorous self-deprecation, deep-cut pop culture references, and nostalgic reflections. Whether debating Marvel rankings or dissecting the emotional resonance of movies, they maintain an accessible, lighthearted, and occasionally insightful tone.
If you want a fun, frank breakdown of recent pop culture in film (especially with an eye on legacy sequels and streaming-vs-theater debates), this episode is a strong pick—delivering plenty of theater story anecdotes, real-world reflections, and a highly anticipated, spoiler-free review of "The Devil Wears Prada 2." For fans of the Jackass franchise, the context on their final movie and “best-of” approach is insightful and reassuring.