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MOVIE MIKE: Top 10 Movies of the Summer + Denzel Takes a L in ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ + Trailer Park: Bugonia and Why Mike Believe in Aliens
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Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike. Today the question is, what was the movie of the summer? I have my top 10 summer blockbusters. What will take the number one slot in the movie review? We'll be talking about Spike Lee's new movie on Apple tv. Plus starring the one and only Denzel Washington called Highest to lowest and in the Trailer Park. I love how Emma Stone has committed to the bit, shaved her head for the new Yorgos Lanthimos movie Begonia. We'll get into that. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie Crew. And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network.
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What started on Memorial Day weekend came to a close on Labor Day weekend. It is the summer blockbuster season. The sun has now set on my favorite time of the year for movies. Why I love summer blockbuster season. It's what gets me the most excited. I think my passion for summer blockbusters is really what fuels this podcast and why I love them so much is because they are the movies that come out every year that have an energy to them, that have an aura. And that is what I'm using to judge this list. It's not just box office numbers. It's not just overall how good the movie is. It's how much impact did it have in pop culture? What was the vibe in the lobby? What were the emotions like in that theater? And also how did that translate into the real world after? Did it create a moment on TikTok? Was I still thinking about this movie two, three weeks later after I saw it in theaters? Did I go see it again? It is movies that demand the big screen, movies that had a lot of expectation and anticipation going into them. And, and overall, this summer blockbuster season financially did all right. It matched the $3.67 billion that was collected in 2024, did that again in 2025. So studios probably aren't ecstatic. But if you're not going too much in the opposite direction, I think we're still okay. Well, let's get into my list of my top 10 movies of the summer. Also give my top five disappointments, which I don't believe are the worst Movies of the summer, but the ones that I was looking forward to that didn't quite live up to my expectations. And. But let's get right into the list. At number 10, I have nobody to. This should have been a bigger movie. I think in five, maybe 10 years, this is going to be a cult classic franchise that we look back on and think, man, why didn't we give Bob Odenkirk more of a chance? This one also came out in kind of a lull of the summer season where it's kind of starting to taper off. It also followed the weekend after Weapons, which weapons had such a big splash on opening weekend. This movie really went under the radar and I think heard it overall. It had a budget of $25 million and has only made $36 million worldwide. So in order for a movie to be profitable, for the most part, you have to double your production budget. So for this movie to break even, it would have needed to make $50 million. So I don't know where we stand on the state of another Nobody movie in the franchise, which, man, that sucks because I really think we need at least a third because it's just a really great, solid action movie. This one a little bit more into the comedy, but you get more of that family aspect as well. It just kind of had a weird window to operate in, but a real standout in the action franchise. If you haven't watched nobody one, definitely check that one out before you check out nobody two. But that's what I have at number 10. At number nine, materialists. With only a $20 million budget, it went on to make $85 million worldwide and is number 19 ranked in the summer blockbusters. I think this is what a rom com needs to evolve to in order to survive. But I think people did have problems with the fact that it didn't feel like your conventional rom com that we knew from the early 2000s. But if you look at the DNA of this movie, it is a rom com. But I think the comedy is a little bit darker and drier. You're not going to fall out of your seat laughing at materialists. And for me, where the movie won me over was with the three leads, Chris Evans, Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal together, I thought were fantastic. Those three names alone got people into the theater. I remember going to see it on opening night, and there was an energy to that crowd. And I think it's because Pedro Pascal is having quite the summer. Dakota Johnson, even though has had some missteps in her career in her last Five films or so. I still enjoy her in a movie like this. I think this is her bread and butter. And Chris Evans is just fantastic in everything. I don't really care what he does right now. I'm gonna go see it and I'm gonna enjoy it. But without those three leads, this movie wouldn't have had a fraction of the success that it did. So that proves to me that a list names still have a lot of weight to them. Because overall, I don't think the story itself is anything groundbreaking in the genre. But it's bringing those three actors together on screen that really made this movie work. Quite possibly the most charismatic trio of the year. At number nine, I have materialists and. And number eight is a big surprise for me. It is Freakier Friday had a budget of $45 million, has made so far $116 million worldwide, coming in at number 15 in the blockbusters of the summer. Financially, for me, this one had me at the very beginning whenever I saw the popcorn bucket reveal, because that has been a big thing this year. And I believe it was on an episode maybe late last year, early this year, I talked about how theaters need to give people an incentive to go to the theater, something you can take away, some way to monetize that experience. And I think this year theaters have really leaned in to creative popcorn buckets. And Freaky Year Friday had the second best popcorn bucket of the year, in my opinion, because the popcorn bucket was disguised as the drink. So when you got the popcorn bucket, it looks like there's already a drink in there with the ice. But you pull that top off and that's where your popcorn goes. And then you get the popcorn bucket, but you pop that lid off and that is where your drink goes. And that is taking the concept of your movie of two people switching places and applying it to your popcorn bucket. Whoever came up with that idea needs a raise. Because I have to imagine a lot of these studios now in their advertising, in their marketing department, they have somebody designated or maybe a team to creating interesting popcorn buckets that are going to make people want to go to the theater, not just to see the movie, but to buy it. And sometimes at least one movie on this list had people just going to the theater for the popcorn bucket alone. So there is money to be made there, even though some of these this year just haven't really hit. And now when I go to Regal, it's almost this graveyard of all the movies this year that had popcorn buckets that just didn't quite hit with the audience, you got to be more creative. You got to nail it like Freaky or Friday did. But this movie was perfectly nostalgic, but also updated in just the right way. I would watch a Freaky Friday 3 at this point. I definitely think they set themselves up for one. And if it's Disney, you know they're gonna keep cranking these out. So at number eight, I have Freakier Friday. At number seven, I thought this movie would be a little bit higher on my list, but when I was working through all of my order here, I remember being really hyped to go see this movie. But afterwards, my overall love for it kind of fizzled out a little bit. So I had to dig through my notes and find how excited I was leaving the theater in that moment, because I do remember really enjoying it. And that's why I put 28 Years later at number seven. The movie had a $60 million budget and went on to make $150 million worldwide. This is a legacy sequel done right because it came in at number 13 overall in the summer blockbuster season. Arguably, 28 years later could be the best in the franchise. And I say that because Overall, I think 28 years later has the best world building. 28 days later, of course, sets the stage. I still feel like that zombie genre was kind of in its renaissance in the 2000s, and that was a big part of it. That movie in particular, and 28 weeks later was really just a continuation of that. Didn't try anything new. But with 28 years later, it has an entirely different artistic palette and vision, that even if you didn't watch part one or part two going into this, you wouldn't be lost, and you would be so much more invested in this world now that those would just serve as the prequels and not the starting point. This could be the new starting point. And I see the vision where they want to take this franchise, building out more characters, really fleshing out this world. And I think the performances in this movie are just so much stronger. Aaron Taylor, Johnson, Ralph Fiennes. You have all these great actors to work with that are very unique. This movie left me with a lot of curiosity and anticipation going into this franchise deeper. They've already dropped another trailer, so I will get into that in an episode later on. But at number seven, I have 28 Years Later. At number six is another movie I thought would have been number one list for the summer. But I have Fantastic Four, which had a budget of about $200 million and made $492 million worldwide. So not the hit that Marvel was expecting. Just barely breaking even on this one. And Fantastic Four had really good momentum going in, but what happened is it just lost all of that after opening weekend, took the wind out of the sails going into weekend two, and then just never reached that destination by paddling this giant ship because it was really just fighting for every single dollar it earned after opening weekend. And why I think that is because it is a good movie at its core, but it didn't really create a moment like another superhero movie did on this list. Later it came, and it was good and we all enjoyed it. And as much as I wanted to go see it in theaters for a second time, which I normally do, all the big summer movies, I just never was motivated to go back. And I think all of the discussion around this movie really fizzled going into that second week where there were other movies this summer where everybody was talking about it for two to three weeks straight. For the mcu, this movie was good, but right now, it needed to be great going into all of the new Avengers movies and really pushing that momentum forward. So I still think they are looking for that film that is really going to reignite the fan base. And. And for me, I just never really felt like Fantastic Four became a team. I never really felt the chemistry between the entire cast that I needed to really make me feel like I was watching something special here. But I also haven't been the biggest fan of all the Fantastic Four movies, so I kind of knew that it wasn't going to be the best Marvel movie ever, just given its history. What I know from these characters from those films, what I know from them from the comics, I thought it was interesting that Marvel was investing so much in this movie being a bigger hit. I just never saw that being the outcome. I just think the MCU needs to take more risks. And I'm hoping with all the things I'm seeing so far about Avengers, Doomsday is we are going to see that. Me seeing Channing Tatum talk about his character of Gambit and how in Doomsday, he is kind of scaling back the Cajun accent, which I think is going to be a good move. I think his character was a little bit too comedic in Deadpool and Wolverine, and that joke was almost for just a very specific comic book fan. He looked fantastic in that. But I think in order to make that character a little bit more three dimensional, he's gonna have to talk a little bit more regular. And that Cajun accent can only come out in, like, big, important parts. And that is what he was talking about doing. I also didn't know channing Tatum was 45 years old because he said he kind of injured himself on set. He says in his mind he's still 26, 30 years old, but he has to rely now more on his stunt double to do some of the things that his body cannot push himself to do. So overall for that movie, I'm just hoping that the action is a little bit more substantial and that Dr. Doom is just the intense villain that we've been looking for since Thanos. So at number six, I have Fantastic Four. Getting into the top five now I have K Pop Demon Hunters and and this is the first time a Netflix movie has ever made it into my top 10 movies of the summer. And it would have made it even if it were just limited to a Netflix release. But they did do the sing along versions in theaters, which also created a moment and I think that added to me putting this movie higher on the list. But when you look at movies that made an impact this summer, it is hard to deny. K Pop Demon Hunters at the time of recording this golden is still number one on the Billboard charts. It is very rare for a Netflix movie to create a fandom, but now you have a K Pop Demon Hunters fandom that ranges from young kids to 34 year olds like me. This proves to you how an original animated movie can still have an impact. And I think how this movie did it, going back and looking at what exactly worked in K Pop Demon Hunters is that it didn't spend a lot of time over explaining things. It set up the story at the very beginning. Here's who they are, here's their history of the line of people that they come from and here's what they are trying to do. And then just showed you all the fun, showed you all the cool stuff, introduced things and they just existed in this world. They didn't need to over explain every single character in every single detail. It gave you the fun, it gave you the action, and it gave you the music and then left you wanting more, therefore enticing this entire fan base. So at number five, I have K Pop Demon Hunters. At number four, I have weapons. This has been for me the year of horror. The year that I really feel like horror has solidified itself as being the most original genre. The movie had a budget of only $38 million and went on to make $210 million worldwide. Weapons owned August. So much so that after dipping out of the number one spot, it went back to Being number one Labor Day weekend. That is the power of this movie. It came out right place, right time, crushed everything else in its month, and it really had a lasting impact from the memes. I had so much anticipation going into this movie. Just based off of all the buzz that came in the two to three days leading up to when I saw it just in that little short window. This became a movie that I could not wait another minute to go and see. And that rarely happens now. I watch new movies every single week because I want to share with you my thoughts on all the latest things. But this was one that even if I didn't have this podcast, my desire to see it would have been so high that I would have found a time, no matter how busy my schedule was, to go see Weapons in theaters. This was the phenom of the summer because not only did it make a lot of money at the box office, it also had one of the highest ratings on all review sites going into it and has maintained it. So a rare case of a movie that has also won over the audience, but also won over the critics and made money. That is three for three. And checking off the boxes of what a new movie needs to do from a great director. An original story, not a part of a franchise. That is why horror is king and that is why Weapons is going to be the horror movie of the year. And it's only September. We haven't even got to Halloween season, but I don't see anything else coming close to the energy that was captured in Weapons. What a fantastic theater experience. Like those jump scares got me a little bit. Didn't have nightmares after this one because I don't think it was too over the top. But at number four, I have weapons getting into the top three. Now at number three, I have F1. I believe this is what a summer blockbuster should be. Your A list star Brad Pitt, who still looks fantastic, still has all of the qualities about his acting performance that I love, just has charisma oozing out of every pore in his body. Just his cadence of delivering dialogue draws me into every single word. And everything from his wardrobe to his hairstyle just screams a list movie star that I'm going to pay no matter what amount to go see his movie in theaters. And then it just has all the great qualities of a sports movie, even though it doesn't reinvent the genre. The format of a sports movie, in this case being a motorsports movie, the formula of it, no pun intended, is just all the emotions that I want to be Taken through in a summer blockbuster. You have your drama, you have your story of redemption. You have your butt sweat and tears. You have your victories, you have your losses, you have your controversies. All those things together is what makes the perfect blockbuster, in my opinion. You also have the big score, the big soundtracks, the great action. The sound design of this movie was fantastic because we saw this movie in Scottsdale in a theater that was much larger than the theater we are normally used to going. Even though it wasn't an IMAX screen, it was as close as you can get without seeing it on imax and just having that feeling of a car taking up the entire screen, having that first person perspective, making you feel like it's you inside of that car, driving it. And then you pair that with the sound design, which at times during the races, there are no other musical elements, no score. You just hear the sound of the car, the revving engine, the tire screeching, all those things that really make you feel like you are in that car yourself. That is what I want to feel going to a theater in the summer. I not only want to see something great, I want to feel. Feel it in the pit of my stomach, have me on the edge of my seat. And maybe to some, this is kind of one of the biggest surprises of the year. Now that it's the highest grossing auto racing movie of all time. It is Apple Studios top theatrical release of all time and also Brad Pitt's highest grossing movie of all time of his entire career. Opening weekend alone made $56 million at the box office with a budget of 200 to 300 million. Went on to make over $613 million worldwide, making it the number four highest grossing movie of the summer. At number three, I have F1 at number two, one of my personal favorites of the year already. It is now available on Disney plus. If you haven't seen it, which at this point, how did you not see it in theaters? Because it even went back into theaters on Labor Day weekend. But at number two, I have Lilo and Stitch. This movie dominated and I feel like Disney didn't know how big of a movie this was going to be. You talk about one of my most anticipated movies of the year that lived up to my expectations. It is the only movie this summer that I saw twice in theaters. I had to because the first time when I went to go see it, I was really just paying attention to all the changes they made from the animated movie, which is my favorite Disney movie of all time. And I was watching it a little Bit too analytically because I was like, oh, they changed this a little bit. Are they gonna have time to get to this scene? And although I still enjoyed it my first time, I felt like I needed to go see it again now that I knew what was coming and now that I knew what to expect and I could have a much different perspective on it. And I loved it even more the second time. It also had the best popcorn bucket of the summer that now sits in this studio. And it still brings me joy every time I see that Stitch popcorn bucket walking in here looking so cute and lifelike. And talk about movie merch. That really just crushed this year where you had people who weren't even going to watch Lilo and Stitch, Kelsey included, just going to the theater before the movie even came out to make sure they could get their hands on one of these viral popcorn buckets. And there were so many exclusives at all different theaters, which also just shows you the power of the character of Stitch and how well he is marketed and how well he translates into merchandise. But the movie had a 100 million dollar budget, which for a summer blockbuster really isn't that much. And I know it was supposed to be a Disney plus series originally, but it went on to make over $1 billion worldwide and is the number one highest grossing movie of the summer. You had all the millennials like me who just needed to have that nostalgic, it scratched with our favorite Disney character. You had all the families who maybe kids were just introduced to Lilo and Stitch because of Disney plus. I just love the theater experience of seeing everybody dressed in stitched shirts, some people dressed in Stitch sweatpants, all the things. Because there is Stitch everything right now. And I know now that it's out on Disney plus this is going to be a movie that parents get sick of their kids watching. Soon after it started dominating in theaters, they announced, yeah, we're making this Lilo and Stitch 2. So I'm hoping they spend a little bit more money on that one. Maybe get us some more characters that we didn't get in the first movie. At number two, I have Lilo and Stitch. My honorable mentions before I get to number one, how to train your dragon, which was a little bit early on. I just felt like it didn't have as much lasting power for me. But I am excited to see them do more live action movies. The Naked Gun was also a big surprise for me. Bring her back, which is so far the only horror movie to actually give me nightmares, was also a highlight of the summer. Caught Stealing and the Toxic Avenger came out on Labor Day weekend, which were both solid entries. But August is also just kind of a weird month where I feel like some of these movies just feel a little bit tacked on to the summer blockbuster season. So those did not quite make my top 10. But at number one, the movie that dominated my social media for about two weeks, it had what I believe to be the biggest moment of the summer. It is Superman. It had a budget of $225 million and went on to make over $611 million worldwide, putting it at the number five highest grossing movie of the summer. And I feel like this movie is the reason that Fantastic Four didn't do as well as they had hoped, because this took all the energy. This is what made everybody excited. It made the superhero film fun again with the bright and vibrant colors. And I know there was a lot of controversy over how Superman acted in this movie, how some people felt like he needed to be more of an intense character. He needed to be stronger and more buff. But I think to the people that this version of Superman is something that we really needed in our lives, because Superman is a beacon of hope. He is doing good for the sake of doing good, and always is of a sound and just mind. I think that is exactly what we need in a superhero character right now. Just what we need in the world in general. And unlike Fantastic Four, it held really strongly going into week two. Only had a 54% drop. And I attribute that a lot to James Gunn, because when he is proud of something, he continues to promote it. He's still posting set pictures not only a week after, but almost a month after. He was still telling people, go see Superman in theaters. Which I think that is something that directors and actors need to do a little bit of a better job of, is they go on this big promotional run that sometimes just kind of sparks the interest of the average moviegoer. It takes maybe those two weeks of promotion for people to see maybe an interview clip here and there and think, oh, that movie is coming out soon. Maybe I want to get tickets to that. You got to keep that momentum going. Because if you create a piece of art that you are proud of that is a pinnacle of your acting career or your directorial career. You gotta continue to be proud of that even when it seems like people are sick of it a month after, two months after, still take pride in your work and still promote that work. Where it's not all about that opening weekend, which is important, especially for movies, and how financially successful they are going to be in their theatrical run. But if you continue to show people that that thing is out and how proud you are of it, I think that goes a long way. It is just so weird to me when a movie or even an album comes out and people only promote it on its release day. And then this thing that they have been creating for two to three years, they're just like, I'm not going to promote this thing anymore. I'm no longer going to make this a main talking point because now I feel like it's a little bit old. No, I would still be promoting Superman right now. And then James Gunn also announced that Mana Tomorrow is coming out in theaters on July 9, 2027. That's in addition to Supergirl coming out next year. DC is about to crush it. Superman was, in my opinion, the movie of the summer. And since it came in at number one on my summer list, it has earned its spot already in my top 10 movies of the year. It is the only pick that automatically qualifies. But before I wrap it up, let's talk about my top five biggest disappointments. I don't believe that these are the worst movies of the summer, but these are the five movies that I was dying to see. There was a lot of anticipation on my side that I remember sitting down in the theater for each of these five movies and thinking, oh, man, I can't wait to see how good this movie is going to be. And then, like a kid being told, there will be no Christmas this year, I was let down at number five. I know what you did last summer. And maybe unfairly, I started to give myself a little bit of hope going into this that it was going to be something substantial, that it was going to be a legacy horror sequel worthy of my time. This movie just fell flat. And aside from Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prince Jr. I hated pretty much every one of the performances. So much so that I was rooting for the villain in this one. At number four, I have Eddington, and that is because two of my favorite actors, Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix, together in kind of a grittier, lower budget movie that I thought was going to have a lot of great action and a really great story. You also have Austin Butler and Emma Stone. But this movie spent an hour reminding us how much the Pandemic sucked and overall was just one of the most boring movies so far of the year. So I have that one at number four. At number three, Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning, the last in the franchise. I love the film that came before this. It reignited my love of the Mission Impossible movies that really committed to big action sequences, big expensive stunts, Tom Cruise going to extraordinary links to give us something that we haven't seen before in this franchise. And this one just felt like the entire Mission Impossible franchise just kind of sputtering out and ending on such a low note that there was really nothing exciting about it. It was fine, but I thought it was going to be so much better. But at number three I have Mission Impossible the final reckoning. At number two, Happy Gilmore 2. I was holding on to hope that there was going to be a real story here, there was going to be a reason to make a happy Gilmore 2, but it turned into cameo fest. I think this is one. Maybe in another couple of months I could go back and revisit and maybe enjoy it for what it is. But I think for me, when it comes to legacy sequels, I just hate comedy ones the most because it never really captures that same energy. Maybe it's because my brain is no longer 10 years old, but I just could not co sign on Happy Gilmore 2 even though it had a lot of people that I love in it. From Post Malone to Bad Bunny, it was just too many cameos. But at number one, my most disappointing movie of the summer is Jurassic World Rebirth. Even though out of all the movies on this list was one of the highest grossing movies. This story was so generic, the dialogue was at times just unwatchable and I came here for the dinosaurs and didn't get my dinosaur fix. This entire movie felt rushed and just kind of slapped together and was my worst theater experience of the summer. When you factor in how much I was expecting to love this movie. Although it did look good as far as cinematically, there was some technical aspects that I enjoyed about it, but I was so let down by the story. I was so let down by Scarlett Johansson. My most disappointing movie of the summer goes to Jurassic World Rebirth. I'll come back and I'll give my spoiler free review of Highest to lowest. You can make a difference in someone's.
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Danielle Fishel
Danielle Fishel from Pod Meets World. Parents, let's talk snacks. If your mornings look anything like mine, one kid's trying to pile drive a pillow and the other is trying to zip themselves into a backpack. Meanwhile, I'm trying to sign a permission slip with an eyeliner pencil because that's all I could find. That's why Mott's no Sugar Added applesauce pouches are perfect to have nearby. These things are clutch and are perfect for moments of stress. Made with real apples, no sugar added. And the pouch? Genius. It's mess free and perfect for the car, the lunchbox, or after school activities. This is a snack you can feel good about and a good source of vitamin C too. Just tasty applesauce your kids will actually want to eat. The other day I handed one to my son mid meltdown. He took a deep breath, squeezed the pouch and suddenly he was calm. He had a tiny apple powered moment of Zen. Trust me, your future self will. Thank you Motts. Real apples make real good applesauce. Learn more@mots.com foreign let's get into it now.
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Movie Mike
A spoiler free Movie review of Highest to lowest the new Spike Lee joint starring Denzel Washington. It is the fifth time that they have collaborated together, but the first time in 19 years what this movie is about. Denzel Washington plays a music mogul with the best ears in the business. He is responsible for the careers of so many Grammy Award winning artists. But times are a changing. It's 2025. The music industry is vastly different. Where he is so old school based in okay, we need to get artists who really create this great music and we build up their careers and I take them from nothing into something great. But now you have the world of streaming, you have the world of social media and he is trying to adapt to that. He is also in a position in his life where his business is kind of failing and there's a rival record company down the street that wants to acquire his business. And he is in the middle of trying to figure out where he wants to go next in his life. Does he want to take a step back from this life that has made him who he is, this king in New York City, continue to go on that journey to discover more artists and continue his legacy? Or does he want to take a step back and focus on his wife and his kid who is an aspiring basketball player? What does he want to do? That is where we find our character. The stage was set and I was all ready for a new Spike Lee joint. I think he is a true visionary, somebody who has done movies that are so uniquely him. Him and Denzel washed in. It's like peanut butter and jelly. This is going to be great. Very opening scene. You see Denzel Washington at the top of his penthouse overlooking New York City. Looks fantastic. There is an absence of music in this moment. You just hear him having a conversation on the cell phone and and you're like, I'm about to get it from every angle here. I'm gonna get great direction, excellent cinematography. New York City, Denzel Washington, this crime thriller that's supposed to be fantastic because what happens to his character? His kid gets kidnapped while he's going through all these business decisions and suddenly he has a whole Other dilemma on his hands. How is he going to get his kid back? And is he going to put up everything that he has worked for in order to do that? So you hear all these elements, you think, okay, how could you make this movie uninteresting? This movie is called Highest to Lowest. I had high expectations going in, and I left with a low result. And it started just happening little by little. Spike Lee has a very unique perspective on film, always incorporating music and these elements that for the viewer, take you into this almost fantasy land, I want to say, or moments that don't really exist in reality in order to bring a message home. And the unique thing about Highest to Lowest is it had an original score all the way throughout. You just hear this really beautiful orchestra music at the most intense moments. There is underneath it this very beautiful soundtrack. And in the beginning, I thought it fit well when everything was going right and his world seemed a little bit more bright and sunny. You had this beautiful score underneath that made it feel a little bit like a 90s or early 2000s, almost family drama. And I was just waiting for that to shift a little bit. I think the entire time in this movie, I was just waiting for crap to hit the fan and a switch to turn and things to feel a little bit more intense. And maybe it's my personal taste of when I see a story like this on paper, I wanted to have a little bit more of a sense of realism because there were things happening throughout this story that should have been intense to anybody else and in any other situation. And I start to feel this a little bit in my brain of maybe I'm so used to everything being so dark in movies and television shows where when somebody gets kidnapped, I want emotions to be high. I want people to be freaking out. Whenever Denzel Washington's character first gets the call that his son has been kidnapped, he is so cool, calm, and collected that I'm like, your son has just been kidnapped. And you reacted like somebody said, your Uber Eats Order has been canceled. I think us of humans probably would have shown more emotion if our Uber Eats Order was canceled than Denzel Washington did. In that moment, I truly think that Spike Lee had his vision come to life. But underneath all of these intense moments and all of these twists and turns, which they're not even that many twists and turns that this story takes you on. There's just this music that doesn't fit the situation. And if you ever wanted an example of the power of music in a film, this is a great example because you have These things happening that should feel so much more intense. But it never comes across that way because of that music that makes you feel cheerful at times. It's like if you got a call from your vet and said, unfortunately, there's nothing we can do. We have to put your pet down. But underneath you had this very, like, bright, shiny music. You're like, oh, I'm really sad in this moment. But this music that you're playing just kind of makes me want to move to the beat. And it almost felt like they were acting out a play where nobody felt like they were really based in reality. The law enforcement in this movie was probably the most frustrating because none of them seemed to have a clear or sound mind. They were terrible at their jobs. And it was really, really frustrating to watch people just obliterate an investigation. People being angry for no reason because this is actually a remake of a Japanese movie. Because I think in the original it's like a national shoes executive. Here you have this music mogul and suddenly you take that story, you place them into New York City, and it's really about somebody struggling with their identity, struggling with a sense of responsibility, doing what is right, but also doing what is right for you. You have a father fig trying to do right by his son. Show him a great example, but also be an authoritarian. But in doing that, I feel Denzel created probably one of the most unlikable characters that he has ever portrayed on screen. And that is saying a lot because I never really felt like there were any true intentions to his character. Nobody learned anything in this movie, and it was overall just really frustrating to watch every single performance. And Denzel Washington is somebody who is great at improvising. One of his famous movie lines of all time, King Kong Ain't Got Crap on Me from Training Day, was improvised. So he also improvised a lot of the dialogue in this movie. And it just wasn't it almost cringe worthy at times. Which is wild to say for Denzel Washington at a time in his career where he says, I got maybe three movies left of me and then I'm retiring. I can't believe he's going out on such a low note, like highest to lowest. And maybe you saw the clip of him talking about how he doesn't watch movies anymore. I'm not entirely sure that he still reads the scripts before going to film some of these movies because between this and the little things that came out earlier this decade, he has been kind of a misstep so far. I think a true test of if you have a good story is could you take this story elements, place it into another setting and would it still be interesting when it comes to this one? New York City is such a big staple in this film, they almost over show all of the elements of the New York setting that if you took this story and placed it into somewhere in Delaware or Wyoming, it would suddenly become so less interesting because so much of it is surrounded in the fact that it's New York City. It's cool, but the story itself is not substantial enough to carry an almost 2 hour and 20 minute film that if you took out the elements of New York City, you would just have this boring story where I would say maybe three big scenes happen throughout the entire film and everything else just feels like filler and exposition and by the end of falls off so hard you're like, what exactly were we doing here? What was the intention of this story? And out of everybody's performance, Jeffrey Wright was the only one who understood the assignment. He is the only character I felt any sort of connection to. So much so that I think the movie would have been much stronger if it would have focused on his character because I felt like there was so much more mystery to him, there was so much more intent behind his actions. I think he's also just a fantastic actor going back to movies like the Hunger Games or American Fiction or of course him and the Batman. I think he has fantastic, fantastic range. I think if you completely shifted the story from Denzel Washington's character to Jeffrey Wright's character, it would be a much more interesting film. But I think the story was just drawn out. Too many things thrown in there that nothing really resonated with me. For highest to lowest, I give it 2.5 out of 5 headphones.
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Danielle Fishel
Danielle Fishel from Pod Meats World. Parents, let's talk snacks. If your mornings look anything like mine, one kid's trying to pile drive a pillow and the other is trying to zip themselves into a backpack. Meanwhile, I'm trying to sign a permission slip with an eyeliner pencil because that's all I could find. That's why Mott's no Sugar Added applesauce pouches are perfect to have nearby. These things are clutch and are perfect for moments of stress. Made with real apples, no sugar added. And the pouch? Genius. It's mess free and perfect for the car, the lunchbox, or after school activities. This is a snack you can feel good about and a good source of vitamin C too. Just tasty applesauce your kids will actually want to eat. The other day I handed one to my son mid meltdown. He took a deep breath, squeezed the pouch and suddenly he was calm. He had a tiny apple powered moment of Zen. Trust me, your future self will thank you. Motts. Real apples make real good applesauce learn.
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Movie Mike
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Movie Mike's Trailer Park.
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Movie Mike
I love it when actors go to extremes for a role. That is exactly what Emma Stone did for Begonia. She shaved her head late last year. That is commitment and that is something you get from somebody like Emma Stone who does have two Oscars to her name. That level of dedication, that passion for her craft. This is another movie where she is pairing up with Yorgos Lanthimos who is just a wild director, incredibly creative. I love how weird he is and how mainstream enough he is able to be at the level of weirdness that he is because that is hard to do. Here he is with a brand new movie about two conspiracy obsessed men who kidnapped the CEO of a major company when they become convinced that she is an alien who wants to destroy Earth. This movie also stars Jesse Plemons. So Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons together are fantastic. They are two of the best working actors in Hollywood right now. And the thing about both of them is they don't really feel like part of the machine that is Hollywood. They are taking these roles that are so obscure, feeling so unique, and they are so comfortable where they are right now in their careers. They don't feel the need in between these movies to go and do a really big Hollywood blockbuster movie where they feel the need to paint by numbers just for a paycheck. So that I respect from each of them. They probably have some of the best agents in Hollywood who keep getting them these fantastic roles. But it's not on all the agent of what roles you can get. It's about how you show up on set, what you're able to deliver, and how you're able to bring attention to each of these projects. This one is a movie just from the plot alone. It'll have you hooked in and hopefully it will bring some people who maybe aren't in the Yorgos Landimos fan club right now because his movies are pretty polarizing. Poor things. It's an acquired taste. It is weird. It takes a little bit. It's almost like when you get in a pool where it's a little bit too cold. You're like, I don't know if I'm gonna like this. I feel uncomfortable. I want to get out. But eventually your body warms up to it and you're like, okay, I get this now. I get the hype. I understand why everybody's been jumping in this pool. So maybe it'll bring some of those people over into his camp and start believing in him. He's also done movies recently like Kinds of Kindness, which Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone did together. That movie was a little bit more unconventional. It was three stories put into one. I really love the third story in that movie. The first two were a little bit too weird even for me, but I respected the artistic vision. Yorgos Lanthimos is also known for movies like the favorite the Lobster, which was the first movie of his I saw. So before I get into more of his work and more about this movie, here is just a little bit of the Begonia trailer, which is coming out on Halloween of this year. Greetings. Welcome to the headquarters of the Human Resistance. Where is my hair? Your hair has been destroyed to prevent you from contacting your ship. What ship? Your mother ship. In the next 48 hours, the police and the FBI will begin a statewide manhunt. I'm a high profile female corporate executive. I am crucial in all humility. I can say that think of it like you abducted the governor, but worse. I believe the Begonia trailer is a cinematic feat in itself because I found myself watching this trailer so intently, paying attention to the cinematography. I always love the color scale in Yorgos Landimos's movies, where poor things really leaned into the blue palette. This one feels more red to me and vibrant. But here it's not only about what you see in the trailer, it's also what you heard there in that clip, those little sound effects, that little chilling indie movie sound that is in almost every Left of Center film. Then you have the score laying the foundation, the glue that brings it all together. And I found myself watching it so intently like I was already watching the movie. And that really doesn't happen to me when watching a trailer because when I do it every week for this podcast, I'm taking notes. I'm thinking about what is going on, how I'm going to talk about this. I found myself about halfway through completely forgetting all about that. I wasn't even jotting notes down at one point because I was so just, just enthralled in this trailer and already living in this world where I want to know what happens. And I know this movie is actually a remake of a South Korean movie called Save the Green Planet, but I haven't seen that movie. I also didn't look anything up about that movie because I want to be surprised going into Begonia. I don't want to know how it ends. Although if I had to make an educated guess, I think what people are starting to Speculate. And what you kind of start to see happen towards the end of this trailer, as Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone talk a little bit more, you start to see the complexity of their relationship. Maybe she knows a little bit more about him than he even has an idea of because she starts to say, oh, I know who you are. And you just shave by hand. Because you think I'm an alien and that's how I communicate with my mothership. So I think where your mind wants to go is you think the reveal is going to be that Jesse Plemon's character was actually right and she is an alien. But I almost think that's a little bit too simple here. I feel like if it was a normal sci fi movie, which this does lean into the sci fi comedy realm, which I think some people who aren't familiar with this director's work would have no idea how you kind of walk that line. Because you watch this trailer and you feel all different types of ways. It feels a little bit comedic. It also feels really dark at times. Then you have this other sci fi layer I think that speaks to Yorgo's style is you can't really put him in one box. So it's going to have a little bit of sci fi, it's going to have some comedy, it's going to have some action, and it's probably going to have some nudity at some point because most of his movies do. Poor thing went really heavy on that. So maybe that's another reason why some people find his movies a little bit uncomfortable. But I really think it's all for an artistic reason. There is intent behind all of those dude scenes. When asked about this movie, the two time best actress winner said, I believe in aliens. Emma Stone said, I don't know about looking down on us, but one of my favorite people who has ever lived is Carl Sagan. And I fell madly in love with his philosophy in science and how brilliant he is. And he believed the idea that we are not alone in this vastly expansive universe. Not that we're being watched because that's a pretty narcissistic thing. But she is coming out and saying, I believe in aliens. So what she is saying is that we are not alone. But it's almost pretentious to think that aliens would want to watch us, which is something I do think about. My head always goes to the comparison of an ant hill that you and I as humans aren't really going to mess with an ant hill. Maybe when you were a kid you would kick one and then you'd see them all, like, disperse and you totally wreck their world. But otherwise, you're not just going to go kick an anthill. And that anthill is living in its entirely own universe. There's a queen ant. Us as humans aren't going to go and study this anthill unless you're some ant scientist, and that's your job. But we have no real purpose to monitor them. We have no real reason to mess with them. We could be their aliens. That's kind of how I think about aliens, that we are so concerned that one day there's going to be this moment where they just beam down and say, we are aliens. We've been watching you this entire time and now take us to your leader. I don't think that is ever going to happen. I think if there are aliens, which I do believe that there are aliens. And I've been believing this since I was probably in third grade. I've been fascinated with aliens since it was just the thing in the tabloids. Those really weird ones that used to be at the grocery store checkout line. Headlines like Bat Boy. Back in those days, I was all about aliens. So I'm still here saying I believe in aliens. But I think us as humans, we are always in this mindset that everybody is thinking about us. We have main character energy when it comes to our existence, that it's all about us, that people are wanting to come here. So I do believe in aliens, and I do believe that in this movie, Emma Stone is probably not going to be just a normal CEO. She's gonna have some skeletons in her closet, maybe in her mothership, maybe, just maybe, we see the end of the world in this movie. That would be awesome. But again, Begonia is coming out in theaters on October 31st, and that was this week's edition of Movie Mike's Trailer Park. And that is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listener shout out of the week. This week I'm going over to my Instagram dms. I had so much reaction from just my clip of my caught stealing trailer where I talked about Austin Butler and his acting abilities. So many people reached out to me and said, dude, what is your problem with Austin Butler? Didn't even realize it at the time that it sounded like I was just dogging on the guy. But I think sometimes, whenever there is somebody deemed by the Hollywood machine that they are next up, whether they are a male or female, I always have this trial run with them. Could be two to three years where I follow their work very closely, watch all of their films if they branch into tv. I also watch their TV shows to really get a feel for how much range they have and how I see them actually succeeding. Because we see this every two to three years where an actor almost out of nowhere. Even though I don't believe in overnight successes, but to us it feels that way that one day they're just in everything. Every movie gets announced and that actor is in it. So it starts to feel like a little bit of over saturation. And I try to balance that over saturation with the actual quality of their work. And again, it is my opinion how their movies make me feel. But this is a DM I got from Jason last week who said, being an American leading man has nothing to do with acting chops though. It's about cultivating a specific personality and exaggerating it and then playing that person in every movie a la Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, etc. American audiences don't care about acting chops. That's more of a British thing. But I would agree that Austin Butler seems to have a shorter Runway than others with his particular personality. Am I the only one who cares about how good an actor someone is? I didn't think that was a non American thing. Maybe when I think about it a little bit more intently, I do think us as American viewers care more about the way movies make us feel. I think that is why we form a really deep relationship with movies we see as kids and teenagers and in our early 20s where our brains are still forming. And that is really the formation of our taste. But I do believe that the foundation of that is good acting. And sometimes good acting doesn't come across as somebody giving an Academy Award worthy performance. I think sometimes acting is so good that you don't even realize it. It doesn't always have to be really dramatic, over the top acting. Comedic acting to me is probably the hardest thing to do. And if somebody is a good comedic actor, I can still put them on the same tier as a Brad Pitt, as a Leonardo DiCaprio. It's all about how good you are at connecting with whoever is watching it. That is how I see acting. So it doesn't have to be somebody who is classically trained and knows all the mechanics. It's about how can they make this story come to life. And so far, all the characters that Austin Butler has played have not resonated with me emotionally. Caught stealing got close before that. Bike riders got close as well. But to me he is somebody in that next up category, that actor to watch and the next two to three films for him are going to be really important on whether or not we accept him into our rotation of actors that we enjoy. Will he ever reach that level of Chris Pratt where we get so sick of him? Maybe, and I think that'd probably be a good thing for him. That is what actors want. But appreciate that. DM Jason thank you all for listening this week, especially if you listen on release day, which is Mondays. That is why I call you the Monday Morning Movie Crew. Thank you all 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.
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Danielle Fishel
This is Danielle Fishel from Pod Meets World. Parents, quick question. When is the last time you won snack time? The other day I handed my son a perfectly portioned Pinterest level snack and he traded it for a Mott's applesauce pouch. I'm not mad, just impressed. And that's why Mott's no Sugar added Applesauce pouches are perfect to keep on hand. They're made with real apples packed in a super easy pouch. Perfect for tossing in a lunchbox, keeping in the car, or grabbing as you're running out the door. Plus, they're a good source of vitamin C and kids love them. Win win. Make sure your kid wins. Snack time with Motts. Real apples make real good applesauce. Learn more@motts.com this is an I Heart podcast.