The 2025 Year in Review / Our Top 10 Films and More!
We presour top picks for 2025, showcasing the films that made us laugh, cry, and contemplate life as we face the end of days. We’ll chat about everything from popcorn flicks to thought-provoking dramas, and even throw in some honorable mentions for good measure. Think of it as our cinematic Last Supper—where we’re not just feasting on popcorn but also on the essence of storytelling itself. So, grab your favorite snack, kick back, and let’s dissect what made 2025 a year to remember in cinema!
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In the dying embers of human existence.
Speaker A:As the asteroid, a behemoth the sides of Texas hurdles relentlessly toward Earth, the world braces for an apocalyptic end.
Speaker A:Deep beneath the bunker, a refuge plunges into the bowels of the earth.
Speaker A:Here, the chosen gather their purpose clear to preserve the very soul of our civilization.
Speaker A:The 35 and 70 millimeter prints that encapsulate the magic, the emotion, and the dreams of generations past.
Speaker A:These masterpieces, each frame a testament to the human spirit, are carefully cataloged and cradled in the cavernous confines of the bunker.
Speaker A:Perhaps there was room for more, for friends and family yearning for salvation.
Speaker A:But sacrifices must be made.
Speaker A:The movie nerds stand united, the keepers of a flame promising a future where the art of storytelling endures, transcending the boundaries of time and space.
Speaker A:God help us all.
Speaker B:Welcome to Back to the Frame Rate, a proud production of the Westin Media Podcast Network.
Speaker B:In this cinematic crusade, we journey through films on VOD and streaming platforms, deciding their fate.
Speaker B:Salvation in our vault of legends, or eternal banishment to the flames of the coming asteroid apocalypse.
Speaker B:You can find all episodes of our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Speaker B:Or find us on social media at Back to the Frame Rate.
Speaker B:I am Nathan Shore, and accompany me as always as Sam Cole.
Speaker B:Good evening, Sam.
Speaker C:Good evening, Nathan.
Speaker C: on this fine winter, January: Speaker B: where we are going to wrap up: Speaker B: Are you ready to put: Speaker C: I'm ready to put: Speaker C:And then we'll discuss it and we'll put it to sleep in a nice Holiday Inn in Brainerd in Fargo from the movie, because I just saw that.
Speaker C:Because it's been on HBO every single night recently in honor of its 30th anniversary, I believe.
Speaker C:1996.
Speaker C:2026.
Speaker C:How about that?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:I haven't seen Fargo in a while.
Speaker C:It's a good un.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's a good un.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker B:So for those tuning in tonight, we have a pack show.
Speaker B: of: Speaker B:And maybe.
Speaker B:You know, Sam, I didn't even.
Speaker B:I was.
Speaker B:We were going over the show before we began tonight.
Speaker B: t we're looking forward to in: Speaker B:I was going to mention this before.
Speaker B:I like to throw things at you, Sam, without you being ready for it.
Speaker B:That's what makes this fun.
Speaker C:You know, I. I am always ready.
Speaker C:I on a military base and I trained with the CIA as a three year old.
Speaker C:It was tough.
Speaker C:I met aliens, I went to space.
Speaker C:But I am prepared for this podcast and I'm ready to give it my all tonight, whatever comes my way.
Speaker B:Well, we'll get to that in a minute.
Speaker B:But you know, Sam, I apologize.
Speaker B:You know, last week we were.
Speaker B:This was on the agenda and I forgot to get to it.
Speaker B:But some of you may know this if you follow Sam on the YouTubes.
Speaker B:But Sam, you have a YouTube channel and there's an announcement you, I think wanted to make about it.
Speaker B:And I want to give you a moment here to talk about that because it's pretty exciting.
Speaker C:Oh, sure, no problem.
Speaker C:So the.
Speaker C:I used to have a YouTube channel that was named Walks of World and it's a traveling adventure show.
Speaker C:The show is still going on, but I rebranded the channel.
Speaker C:So the new title of the show is Sam's Real World Adventures.
Speaker C:Real spelled R E E L. Get it.
Speaker C:You know, like movies, but rebranding, just more like focused and on.
Speaker C:And many new adventures are on the way.
Speaker C:The first up soon is an episode of the filming locations of JAWS 2.
Speaker C:The majority of that movie shot on Navarre beach in Florida, even though it takes place on Martha's Vineyard.
Speaker C:There's a few Martha's Vineyard shots that are peppered in, but that is a like 80 to 90% Floridian shot movie.
Speaker C:And I went down there and visited the location.
Speaker C:So long story short, to wrap it up, the show continues.
Speaker C:The show goes on on my YouTube channel.
Speaker C:It is now rebranded as Sam's Real World Adventures.
Speaker C:Used to be called Walks of World.
Speaker C:Check it out.
Speaker C: Sam's Real World,: Speaker C:And yes, the adventure goes on.
Speaker C:Woo.
Speaker B:That's great.
Speaker B:We will put that link to that in the show notes.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:Yeah, sounds great.
Speaker B:Fantastic.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker C:Magical.
Speaker C:By the way, we were supposed to keep the secret, but we were actually flying to New Zealand next week.
Speaker C:Both Nathan and I were doing an episode there.
Speaker C:Just kidding.
Speaker C:That's a joke.
Speaker B:Joke.
Speaker C:Sorry to get your hopes up.
Speaker C:2026 has hope, but it's not that hopeful.
Speaker B:I was hoping that we'd be trekking through trying to find Mordor or something.
Speaker C:You know, but yeah, that would be, that'd be, that would be good.
Speaker C:Yeah, except if we ran into orcs, that would suck.
Speaker C:But, you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker C:What are you gonna do?
Speaker B:I gotta.
Speaker B:I got a little cloak that will keep me invisible, so.
Speaker C:Oh, nice.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker B:It'll warn me, you know.
Speaker B:Anyways.
Speaker B: films of: Speaker B:First thing I want to ask you, Sam, how do you.
Speaker B:How do you.
Speaker B: When you look at: Speaker B:Do you feel like there, you know, compared.
Speaker C:If.
Speaker C:I would.
Speaker C:I would say if it was a good year for movie, a solid good year, like not the most amazing year in the world, but I. I liked it.
Speaker C: ore robust cinematically than: Speaker C:So that might be a part of it, but I don't know.
Speaker C:I would say.
Speaker C:I'd say decent.
Speaker C: relatively positively towards: Speaker C:I think there's a lot of good ones in the ultimate, like Echelon Mountain.
Speaker C:It's like somewhere in like the mid slopes, like at a nice place, like having a drink, you know.
Speaker B:All right, all right, well, we're gonna go be counting down from 10 to 1.
Speaker B:And we.
Speaker B:We talked beforehand.
Speaker B:If any of the movies double up on our list, we will both bring them up at that point as well.
Speaker B:So that way we don't have to keep like talking about it over and over.
Speaker B:So who would like to begin?
Speaker B:You want me to go first?
Speaker B:Would you like to go first, Sam?
Speaker B:How should we.
Speaker B:I think.
Speaker C:I think you should go first as it will set the epic tone for the future.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C: at all, but all the hopes of: Speaker C:And our planet and society as a future are on you in this moment, Nathan.
Speaker B:So this very moment, your best?
Speaker B:Yeah, this is my number 10.
Speaker B:So there's always at least one big popcorn movie that sneaks into my top 10 every year.
Speaker B:And this year that spot belongs to F1, the movie.
Speaker B:A lot of people have joked that this is basically Top Gun Maverick on four wheels.
Speaker B:And yeah, I can.
Speaker B:I can't argue with that.
Speaker B:But when I look back at, you know, a lot of the action movies that came out that promised it excitement and adrenaline and, you know, a lot of great stunt work and that.
Speaker B:That full body like, theater rattling sound, F1 is the movie that I think about the most that delivered that and I think was a real return to action star mode for Brad Pitt in this.
Speaker B:In in fully leading man action movie territory.
Speaker B:And I realized I missed him in this role.
Speaker B:It's been a long time.
Speaker B:He's done a lot of indie stuff.
Speaker B:He's kind of disappeared for periods of time.
Speaker B:So it was really wonderful scene in this movie.
Speaker B:Is this movie perfect?
Speaker B:No, not at all.
Speaker B:It is a very conventional story.
Speaker B:But I had a great time.
Speaker B:It was the.
Speaker B:One of the most fun times I had in a theater all year.
Speaker B:So yes, it was the most fun I probably had in a packed movie house all year.
Speaker B:So that is.
Speaker B:That is my number 10.
Speaker C:Oh, man, that is awesome.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:Damn, I loved that movie.
Speaker C:And it came so close to like being in my top 10.
Speaker C:And like, I, I hear you, like, I. I'm on the similar page.
Speaker C:It was a tough, like, that's an honorable mention for me because I, I highly enjoyed that as well.
Speaker C:I saw an IMAX just like the sound and the, the races.
Speaker C:Like, it was just like such feel good, like, like joyous entertainment, you know, Even though you said like Cobra and.
Speaker B:It makes you just want to buy a lot of Apple products, doesn't it?
Speaker C:It does, absolutely.
Speaker B:Sam, what's your number?
Speaker B:10.
Speaker C:So my 10 and this and this just squeezed in.
Speaker C:There's actually a battle.
Speaker C:An honorable mention to the Conjuring Last rites, which I really liked.
Speaker C:That would be number 11.
Speaker C:But 10, just beating it out by inches for the 10 spot was actually Jurassic World Rebirth.
Speaker C:And I really enjoyed it.
Speaker C:I think Gareth Edwards is like really good with dynamic action scenes.
Speaker C:I was not a huge, the hugest fan of the Climax, but I liked the majority of the movie.
Speaker C:And I thought Jurassic World Dominion was terrible.
Speaker C:Like probably the worst.
Speaker C:And so I thought the franchise was dead.
Speaker C:So I am a sucker for dinosaurs chasing people and that kind of action.
Speaker C:I just, I've always enjoyed that franchise.
Speaker C:So this was more back to form, even though it was not perfect, but like it inched into the top 10 list because like you were saying in terms of popcorn movies, it just delivered dinosaur action and some ocean action and jungle action and like sneaking around bases action.
Speaker C:So I, I would give it a thumbs up.
Speaker C:So Jurassic World, number 10 on my list.
Speaker B:Yeah, I agree, Sam.
Speaker B:This was Rebirth.
Speaker B:Yeah, I was impressed with this film and I was not looking forward to it.
Speaker B:I didn't see this in the theater.
Speaker B:I waited to see this on video, man.
Speaker B:But I actually, after Fallen Kingdom, I did not like Fallen Kingdom.
Speaker B:I tapped out of this franchise.
Speaker B:But I started hearing good buzz about Rebirth.
Speaker B:But I figured I had to catch up and I watched Jurassic Park, Dominion oh, my God.
Speaker B:Kind of like.
Speaker B:Like, well, I got to watch Dominion before I watch Rebirth.
Speaker B:And I'm like, oh, my God, this is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker B:It was worse than Fallen Kingdom, and.
Speaker C:I'm like, much worse.
Speaker B:This can't get worse.
Speaker B:And I'm like, I dreaded going into Rebirth because I'm like, oh, I was horrified.
Speaker C:Like, if I was stuck on a desert island, give me Fallen Kingdom over Dominion any day.
Speaker C:Like, not that you defended Falling Kingdom, but Dominion.
Speaker C:And Dominion, I will say, briefly committed the sin of assembling that amazing cast and wasting them in the stupidest story.
Speaker C:Like, we won't get into it, but.
Speaker C:But, like, damn.
Speaker C:You know, I feel like, like bringing.
Speaker B:Laura Dirt and Sam Neill back for that was just a crime, what they did with those characters.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:Just unbelievable.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:But Jurassic World, maybe it's because I hated Fallen Kingdom, and in fact, I did not like any of the.
Speaker B:That trilogy that much, but seeing how low that that franchise sank, my expectations were so low would Rebirth that maybe it is not a great movie, but, wow, it's so much better than what came before it.
Speaker B:So it might be the second best Jurassic movie, actually.
Speaker C:And it was its own good, like, standalone movie, too.
Speaker C:It wasn't, like, related to the, you know, in, like, detail.
Speaker C:I totally hear you.
Speaker C:I like the first, like, I really like Jurassic World a lot, but I'm with you on the.
Speaker C:I. Yeah, it, like.
Speaker C:Yeah, true that.
Speaker B:Okay, we're going on to number nine.
Speaker B: So my number nine film of: Speaker B:Have you seen the Sam.
Speaker C:I have not seen it.
Speaker C:I've wanted to see it.
Speaker C:I haven't seen it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So he was also the co writer on last year's phenomenal Sing Sing, which I think a lot of people did not see.
Speaker B:It kind of flew under the radar.
Speaker B:So Train Dreams is a.
Speaker B:It's this really quiet, beautiful film starring Joel Edgerton as.
Speaker B:He's like a frontiersman living in the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century.
Speaker B:And Bentley, he's very clearly reaching for something in the vein of like, a classic Terrence Malick type film like Days of Heaven or Badlands.
Speaker B:And for me, it's.
Speaker B:It's very meditative, poetic, you know, approach to filmmaking.
Speaker B:And the film just really struck this deep chord because this.
Speaker B:This winter, I've been reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau, actually, and both works share this preoccupation with solitude and nature and the human cost of modern progress.
Speaker B:And from very different vantage points.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:So this movie is very slow, meandering, and it's.
Speaker B:But it's really heartfelt.
Speaker B:And I mean.
Speaker B:Oh, by the way, huge shout out to William H. Macy as this fellow logger and friend to the Joel Edgerton character.
Speaker B:He's incredible in the few scenes that he's in, but, you know, I generally don't understand how there aren't.
Speaker B:There isn't more Best Supporting Actor buzz for William H. Macy, but.
Speaker B:So his performance is just wonderful.
Speaker B:But this is a great film.
Speaker B:Slow and.
Speaker B:But just really heartfelt.
Speaker B:I really recommend it.
Speaker B:I hope it gets some nominations.
Speaker B:We'll see.
Speaker B:We'll know in a couple of weeks.
Speaker C:That's.
Speaker C:I really want to see that.
Speaker C:I've seen the poster.
Speaker C:Intrigued me too.
Speaker C:Like, I've heard a lot about it.
Speaker C:Where is that, like, Netflix?
Speaker C:It's on that.
Speaker C:Excellent.
Speaker B:Excellent.
Speaker C:Yeah, I'm going to check that out.
Speaker C:I may even watch that tonight.
Speaker C:That's how much I want to see that movie.
Speaker B:Sam, what is your number nine?
Speaker C:So my number nine is the original eerie horror film.
Speaker C:Good Boy.
Speaker C:I just watched it recently.
Speaker C:It's all told from the dog's perspective and quite frankly, there are a lot of long shots on the dog.
Speaker C:Like, I'm amazed by the dog's quote unquote acting, even though I'm sure it's like, not aware it's that it's in an actual movie.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:But I was impressed.
Speaker C:Not like perfect.
Speaker C:But the concept was so original and I found it very eerie.
Speaker C:Like, I will not give away, like, what happens, but I will just say that, like, the dog is tuned in to like, sixth sense that his human, like, companion, slash owner is not.
Speaker C:So the dog is, like, noticing strange sounds and, like, connects with the spirit of this other dog and like, something wrong and haunted is going on where they live and the dog is noticing it and is terrified.
Speaker C:But really well done.
Speaker C:Suspenseful.
Speaker C:Just unique, original.
Speaker C:Like, I just.
Speaker C:I just kind of applaud its, like, original concept and it was very effective.
Speaker C:So, yeah, good boy.
Speaker C:For sure.
Speaker C:Number nine.
Speaker B:So good.
Speaker B:The dog's name is Indy.
Speaker B:He plays himself.
Speaker B:Indy has actually won awards.
Speaker C:Yes, that's true.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:Amazing.
Speaker B:I didn't.
Speaker B:I know this was a thing.
Speaker B:Animals can win awards.
Speaker B:Is the Astra Film Awards won best performance in a horror or thriller.
Speaker B:The Austin Film Critics association special award in the Boston Society of Film Critics Best in Show for best animal performance.
Speaker B:And this answers my question, how much of Indy's performances is real or cg, you know, but you know what?
Speaker C:I Think I.
Speaker C:My guess, and I have no idea, but my guess is it's like, it's all real.
Speaker C:But I bet there was a ton of, like, added layers of sound editing because I feel like people off camera are like, guiding him or making sounds or like, I have no idea how he was trained, but, like, the dog does a lot.
Speaker C:Like, if there is CG on the dog, I didn't notice it unless it's like an over his shoulder shot when he's like, going up some stairs or something.
Speaker C:But, like, it looked pretty real.
Speaker B:I wanna.
Speaker B:I really do want to see this.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's good.
Speaker C:It's enjoyable.
Speaker C:I liked it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Original for sure.
Speaker B:All right, we're gonna go to our number eight movies.
Speaker B:My number eight movie of the year is Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives out mystery.
Speaker B:So this is the third installment in the mystery series starring Daniel Craig as the.
Speaker B:I think is a very entertaining performance as private detective Benoit Blanc.
Speaker B:I still think the first Knives out is.
Speaker B:Might be my favorite of the trilogy, but this one is running almost neck and neck with it.
Speaker B:So as with all these films, I think the cast is always absolutely stacked in these, but for me, it just feels like a. I think a star turning performance for Josh o', Connor, who is the.
Speaker B:The really the.
Speaker B:The star of this movie, he's has.
Speaker B:He's having an unbelievable run right now.
Speaker B:Last year he was in Challengers.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:There's this movie and also the Mastermind he was in this year as well, which I saw recently.
Speaker B:It's a new Kelly Reichardt movie.
Speaker B:But what really elevates, I think, Wake Up Dead man over some of the other Knives out films is that the central mystery, is this true, like Puzzle Box, it's more than just a clever whodunit.
Speaker B:It really is digging into questions of faith and hypocrisy and like, moral corruption in ways that I think just are surprisingly weighty for such a.
Speaker B:An entertaining genre exercise.
Speaker B:So it is really funny this movie.
Speaker B:And Josh Brolin is so good in this playing like Monsignor.
Speaker B:What was this?
Speaker B:I forget.
Speaker C:Monsignor Wicks, is it?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:Like, I loved it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So had a great time with this movie and I did not know where this movie was going at all.
Speaker B:So this was very entertaining.
Speaker B:Ride my number eight.
Speaker B:Did you now?
Speaker B:You saw this?
Speaker C:It is.
Speaker C:Yes, this is.
Speaker C:This is actually on my list.
Speaker C:Should I say what number it is?
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker C:That was my number five, actually.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah, I. I loved it and yeah, I enjoy it as well.
Speaker C:I. I don't Know, I would have to see the first one again.
Speaker C:I, I, I love the first one.
Speaker C:I think it might be like a close second to the first one, but I definitely think I like this one.
Speaker C:Wake Up Dead Men.
Speaker C:Better than Glass Onion, I believe it was called.
Speaker C:I can't.
Speaker C:I saw the second film only once in the theater.
Speaker C:I remember liking it, but it's been a little while and I don't remember it as well.
Speaker B:I think Glass Iron was hampered by it being a Covid shoot as well.
Speaker C:Oh, that's right.
Speaker B:Yeah, I remember that was a story, that Ryan John interview he gave that there was there.
Speaker B:It was hard to shoot it because it was shot during the middle of COVID Yeah.
Speaker B:But yeah, this, this.
Speaker B:And I've seen this movie now twice as well, so.
Speaker C:Yeah, me too.
Speaker C:Yeah, I love it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:There's so much detail, like.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:But like in terms of just like the script and like plants and payoff and all that stuff.
Speaker C:Like, it's good stuff.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:All right, we're gonna go on to our number seven movie.
Speaker B:Mine is.
Speaker C:Wait, I did not do my eight.
Speaker B:Sorry, sorry.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker B:I, I kept your kept talking.
Speaker C:But eight is great.
Speaker C:Can you relate?
Speaker C:No, sorry.
Speaker C:My number eight would be Bob Odenkirk in Nobody 2.
Speaker C:I love this movie.
Speaker C:The first one, Nobody is just like ultra violent.
Speaker C:Just like it's, it's sort of like Bob Odenkirk's own sort of John Wickish movie, but like totally different but humorous.
Speaker C:Second one, a little bit sillier, but just over the top action.
Speaker C:Like, just super brutal.
Speaker C:Like bitingly funny.
Speaker C:Perfect, like action summer R rated comedy.
Speaker C:When I saw the trailer for this back in the spring, I was very excited for the film and it did not disappoint.
Speaker C:So, yeah, that is my number eight.
Speaker C:Nobody to check it out.
Speaker B:I'm going to, I want to get to this.
Speaker B:Have you seen the any of the marketing for the next one coming out Normal, which I think is in a similar type of movie?
Speaker B:Well, it's a crime thriller with Bob Odenkirk, so he's really kind of leading into the, the old man, like, action movie type thing.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:It might be the next Liam Neeson.
Speaker B:Who knows?
Speaker C:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker C:Yeah, he, he is, was just great in the, like, he's just.
Speaker C:His character gets pissed off.
Speaker C:It's hilarious.
Speaker B:And speaking of Bob Odenkirk, I finally, I don't know if I've talked about this on the show before.
Speaker B:It has taken me years and years in years, but I finally finished Better Call Saul, which I was very rewarding to find.
Speaker C:That show is incredible.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:I just finished it in the last week.
Speaker C:Oh, nice.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker B:Very happy about that journey.
Speaker B:It was a journey.
Speaker B:But I get through TV shows so slowly.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker C:Yeah, me too.
Speaker B:Yeah, I will.
Speaker B:I did watch Nobody this past summer, so I do want to get to Nobody, too.
Speaker C:Yeah, I think you'll like it.
Speaker C:It's sillier.
Speaker C:It goes over the top in a silly way, but it's fun.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B: My number seven film of: Speaker B:And interestingly, Linklater released two films theatrically in the US Just weeks apart this fall.
Speaker B:The other was Nouvelle Vogue.
Speaker B:Both center on eccentric artists in very different points of their creative lives.
Speaker B:And that Nouvelle Vogue follows John Luke Godard at the dawn of his revolutionary career just while he's making Breathless.
Speaker B:But this one is.
Speaker B:Focuses on Loren's heart, portrayed by Ethan Hawke at the moment of kind of like a reckoning for him.
Speaker B:Now, Loren's heart might not immediately ring a bell.
Speaker B:He's a real person.
Speaker B:But you most certainly heard of the work that followed him.
Speaker B:You know, you've heard of Richard Rogers, who would later form Rogers and Hammerstein, giving us, like, Oklahoma.
Speaker B:The Sound of Music, and many others you probably heard of.
Speaker B:But before Rogers and Hammerstein, there was Rogers and Hart.
Speaker B:And that collaboration, you know, had some brilliant output, but left.
Speaker B:But he left Hart behind.
Speaker B:And Hart really had a tragic life after that.
Speaker B:So what makes Blue Moon really fascinating is that this film plays like a stage production.
Speaker B:It's unfolding nearly all in real time.
Speaker B:And in one location at this restaurant in Sardis, on the opening night of Oklahoma.
Speaker B:So over the course of the evening, Hart, you know, Ethan Hawke's character, is wrestling with the jealousy and insecurity and, like, loneliness and all the regrets.
Speaker B:Seeing his friend who's moved on to this great success.
Speaker B:And it's just this really amazing character study.
Speaker B:And Ethan Hawke delivers, I think, one of the performances of the year in a role that I've.
Speaker B:You've really never seen him in before.
Speaker B:It's of a real life character.
Speaker B:So you've seen Ethan Hawke play, like, I think, very similar roles in movies.
Speaker B:And this is something completely different.
Speaker B:So I think it's a fantastic performance.
Speaker B:He's playing against type in many ways.
Speaker B:So I highly recommend this.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's very sad, tragic movie in a lot of ways, but I highly recommend it.
Speaker C:I love Richard Linkletter.
Speaker C:I have not seen this yet.
Speaker C:So I was just making sure, that's on my list because I have some catch up films to watch.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Okay, onto you, Sam.
Speaker B:You're number seven.
Speaker C:So my number seven would be Marty Supreme.
Speaker C:I just saw that last year, last night actually.
Speaker C:And highly entertaining.
Speaker C:What's fascinating to me is like Timothy Chalamet's, who he's portraying is kind of a jerk, like a hustling, like, like compulsive liar, like, but just a fascinating character.
Speaker C:And like I.
Speaker C:The tonality of the film kind of reminded me in moments of uncut gems a little bit with Adam Sandler when there's like frantic yelling and chaos.
Speaker C:I enjoyed the movie.
Speaker C:It was certainly unpredictable and it's just like, just its narrative nature.
Speaker C:I thought Gwyneth Paltrow was great and I'd heard, I mean I actually, honestly, to be honest, wasn't that interested in it.
Speaker C:And I heard a lot of buzz and just very positive reviews.
Speaker C:So I went and saw it and it was definitely a fun, strange, unique ride.
Speaker C:And like it's one of those movies where like I see it but I'm still thinking about it like days later and may watch it again.
Speaker C:It's definitely not one of those films that you watch and you enjoy and it evaporates right after.
Speaker C:So I recommend Marty supreme in theaters now.
Speaker B:I saw it about a week ago as well.
Speaker B:I was much more lukewarm on it, I think.
Speaker B:And I heard a lot of people really liked it.
Speaker B:I think it's.
Speaker B:I had a hard time.
Speaker B:I mean Marty, the character of Marty, you know, not.
Speaker B:I don't know how to be nice about it, but he's an.
Speaker B:And no, that's.
Speaker C:He is, he totally is.
Speaker B:Like, I, I didn't, I couldn't root for him.
Speaker B:In fact, the person I wanted to root for was like everybody else who he treats, he treats like crap in this, in this movie.
Speaker B:And it's, it's.
Speaker B:It was difficult to sit through two and a half hours of this film when I don't know where my allegiance is, were with this.
Speaker B:And I, I'm not going to spoil anything about this movie, but I've, I'm still kind of grappling with what is this movie really saying at the end of it.
Speaker B:I think it is.
Speaker B:We're supposed to me, we're supposed to think something about has he, has he grown at all at the very end of this?
Speaker B:Because there is, I think it's trying to make us think that there's some sort of reckoning that he's had, that he's gone through in the last shot of this movie and.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:I don't know if I, if I buy it.
Speaker B:That's the thing.
Speaker B:And I felt like I sat through a lot and I don't know if he really is a changed person.
Speaker B:So I won't say anything more because there's, I don't want to teeter on any spoilers, but I am not sure if I buy what I'm being sold in that.
Speaker B:And it's, I think there's some other people that I've read reviews that I've seen that sentiment as well.
Speaker B:But anyways, yeah, it was, it was hard to watch a movie about some, A terrible person for two and a half hours, treat people terribly.
Speaker C:See, that's interesting because I, I, I thought the, I don't think the end was.
Speaker C:And I won't give it away necessarily a reckoning.
Speaker C:I just think he was, like, overcome with emotion in the situation.
Speaker C:But I think it was also a really good film because it was like a character study sort of of him.
Speaker C:And I thought it made it unique because he was an, that's what made the movie, like, stand out.
Speaker C:Otherwise it would have been more felt to me like a standard biopic of, you know, a, a nice guy.
Speaker C:And, and I've sort of like, seen a lot of those films before.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:And so it was this weird, unique blend that did that.
Speaker C:And there are, like.
Speaker C:I didn't think it was amazing, but I found it entertaining and there was enough shock value moments in it.
Speaker C:Yeah, I will simply say that like a bathtub, like, crashes through and I just was, could not believe, like, this movie's wild.
Speaker B:There are some crazy moments and I, I thought it was amazingly well done.
Speaker B:I think Timothee Chalamet was fantastic in it.
Speaker B:The coat, the, the cast is great, the performances, the filmmaking is fantastic.
Speaker B:Oh, by the way, what did you think of the soundtrack?
Speaker B:Like the 80s soundtrack?
Speaker C:It was fascinating.
Speaker C:It just, it did in, in a good way.
Speaker C:It drew attention to itself because it's like, wait a minute, this is the 50s and the music is from the 80s.
Speaker C:Of course you can do that because it's done all the time, but it was just sort of like, strange.
Speaker C:But I did like the soundtrack.
Speaker C:I thought it helped.
Speaker C:Like, I actually enjoyed it as, as odd or unique of a choice as it was.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, it's, it's worth it.
Speaker B:I think it's, it's great filmmaking on display in this movie, that's for sure.
Speaker B:I just heard a room.
Speaker C:I don't know if this article is True.
Speaker C:And I won't get it away.
Speaker C:But you will get this.
Speaker C:I heard that the director actually planned for one of the characters to be an actual vampire and the movie cuts to the 80s and then like he runs into the vampire again and gets bit and the studio was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker C:That's ridiculous.
Speaker C:Yeah, I totally read that somewhere.
Speaker B:I know that.
Speaker B:I know who you're talking about.
Speaker B:Who it's not.
Speaker B:We won't get into, we never really got into this movie as.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Review.
Speaker B:Actually this would have been a wonderful review if we ever, if we haven't ever done it because this, this movie has a lot of multitudes.
Speaker C:But anyways, for sure.
Speaker B:Anyways, we'll move on.
Speaker B:We'll move on.
Speaker B:But we'll get to our number six picks here.
Speaker B: My number six film of: Speaker B:Now there's something about baseball movies that speak to me.
Speaker B:I think one of my all time favorite movies is the Natural.
Speaker B:And I hold a lot of others close to me too.
Speaker B:I like Bull Durham and Field of Dreams, Major League.
Speaker B:These are movies I grew up on.
Speaker B:And honestly I'm even a sucker for plenty of lesser regarded baseball movies like I think Mr.
Speaker B:Baseball I've seen like 10 times growing up.
Speaker B:So it's, you know, if baseball is the hook, I'm probably in.
Speaker B:But what I've always loved about great baseball films is that the drama is never really about the game itself because you know, it's, it's a slow sport.
Speaker B:The emotional weight lives in the margins.
Speaker B:It's, it's in the pauses, the silences.
Speaker B:It's, it's what's going through the players heads between the pitches.
Speaker B:It's not about the balls and the strikes.
Speaker B:It's about their lives and the, the players regrets and hopes and time slipping by.
Speaker B:And ES taps right into this idea better than any baseball movie I've ever seen.
Speaker B:And the film follows these two teams of mostly middle aged men playing one final game on a field that's about to be demolished, turned into a parking lot.
Speaker B:And this knowledge that, that this is the last game that they ever play together and for some the last, the last game they may ever, ever play again as in their lives brings these themes of mortality, you know, quietly into focus.
Speaker B:And it's, and it's really heavy in that sense.
Speaker B:And it's.
Speaker B:But it's never indulgent in this and it's a.
Speaker B:And, and it's just feels very like a genuine very in a funny movie.
Speaker B:And it just really understands baseball in life and it's very bittersweet and it's also ridiculous at times.
Speaker B:And I will say that I know people that were in this movie and it made it to.
Speaker B:So I will have to put that out there as well because it was shot locally, but it was.
Speaker B:I really enjoyed this movie.
Speaker B:It felt like home to me seeing this.
Speaker B:So shout out to.
Speaker B:I'm not going to name names, but shout out to the.
Speaker B:My friends.
Speaker B:And that worked on this, but it was wonderful seeing this.
Speaker C:I got to check that out.
Speaker C:I've heard good things.
Speaker C:I have not seen the film.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Your number six.
Speaker C:So my number six would be none other than Avatar, Fire and Ash.
Speaker C:I. I love the three and a.
Speaker B:Half star movie for you.
Speaker B:Barely Sam.
Speaker C:It was a three, three and a half star.
Speaker C:Yeah, but.
Speaker C:But it's.
Speaker C:It's on a different value scale.
Speaker C:But yeah, my number six would definitely be Avatar, Fire and Ash.
Speaker C:I, I love the franchise.
Speaker C:I do.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:At this moment, I mean, I still like the Way of Water more and there was definitely some repetitive elements in the story.
Speaker C:But like, overall I enjoyed it and I really, really want the franchise to continue because I wish very much to get to Avatar 4.
Speaker C:Fascinated by the story, by that, like the direction that that story is headed in.
Speaker C:But yeah, this would be my number six.
Speaker C:Still unbelievably spectacular visuals and emotion as always.
Speaker C:And I would definitely recommend seeing it in IMAX 3D, the format it is intended for.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:I have nothing else to add.
Speaker B:Solid pick.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:My.
Speaker C:Yeah, because when I before, when.
Speaker C:When I mentioned IMAX 3D.
Speaker B:Well, you guys.
Speaker C:Yeah, no, you, you.
Speaker C:You threw me under the bus.
Speaker C:You're like, well, I watch it for the story.
Speaker C:But like all filmmakers were.
Speaker C:Were watching, you know, value technical stuff.
Speaker C:So I didn't really appreciate that disrespectful comment.
Speaker B:All right, all right.
Speaker B:My number.
Speaker C:Apologize.
Speaker C:You're just gonna fucking laugh over there.
Speaker B:What are.
Speaker B:My number five is what I'm going to do.
Speaker C:How about an apology first?
Speaker B:Number five.
Speaker B:I'm going to number five.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:See you later.
Speaker C:So I know had I asked for it in a more respectful manner, I probably would have gotten apology, but yeah.
Speaker C:So you're saying that IMAX 3D is not necessary for watching that film?
Speaker B:I wish I saw an IMAX 3D.
Speaker C:Okay, cool.
Speaker C:That's all I had to say.
Speaker C:We could have avoided this whole thing.
Speaker B:No, I would like to.
Speaker B:I just had a free ticket.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, I hear that.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B: So my number five of: Speaker B:One of my biggest regrets of the year, I, I, I was saying, is not seeing this in the theater.
Speaker B:Why couldn't this be an IMAX 3D?
Speaker B:I've been, that would have been cool.
Speaker B:I, I adored this film.
Speaker B:Del Toro has always thrived in this gothic sandbox.
Speaker B:You know, Crimson Peak, we, we reviewed a couple years ago.
Speaker C:That's right.
Speaker C:I remember that.
Speaker B:Water, Nightmare Alley, I think even Pan's Labyrinth might tap into this a little bit.
Speaker B:But I think this story was, truly feels destined for him.
Speaker B:You know, Frankenstein, probably the original gothic tale.
Speaker B:You can feel, you know, his, yeah.
Speaker B:You know, reverence for the original novel.
Speaker B:And there's Mary Shelley's novel.
Speaker B:It's been decades since I read the book.
Speaker B:I think I had to read it and I probably read it in college or high school.
Speaker B:I don't, I don't know.
Speaker B:But he really draws from the source material well, but still kind of makes his own choices in it as well.
Speaker B:Sam, did you see this?
Speaker B:I don't know if we ever talked about it.
Speaker C:Frankenstein.
Speaker B:Yeah, I haven't.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker C:I really want to.
Speaker B:So this Jacob Elordi plays the, the monster himself in this.
Speaker B:And it's kind of comical because Jacob already.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:He's got the stature for, he's, he's like six five or six four.
Speaker B:He's, he's a tall actor, but he is way too good looking, I think, to play the, the monster.
Speaker B:He's a, he's a, he's a handsome man.
Speaker B:So I always think of him as like the hot emo Frankenstein monster.
Speaker B:It's, it's hysterical.
Speaker B:They don't really do much to hide his, his attractiveness in this.
Speaker B:So it's, it's pretty funny.
Speaker B:But anyway, so Del Toro, but he kind of leans into it in this movie a lot.
Speaker B:So he's, it's, but it's, it's, he gives a really good performance already.
Speaker C:It looks really good.
Speaker C:Yeah, I got to see it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:The whole movie is just drenched in atmosphere and, you know, it's lush, it's moody, it's almost painterly, and it's just a visual feast.
Speaker B:I would have loved to have seen this on a massive screen.
Speaker B:That's the thing.
Speaker B:I, when I, when I think about this and I think about how was a year or two ago Robert Eggers, Nosferatu, that got a gigantic release.
Speaker B:And it makes me sad, you know, that Netflix, because the way they strike deals with directors.
Speaker B:Del Toro, this Tony, got a really limited theatrical reason.
Speaker B:It did go to some theaters.
Speaker B:I know it was showing at some.
Speaker B:But movie like Nosferatu, great theatrical experience.
Speaker B:But I would love to have had a more opportunities to have seen this on the big screen because it deserved it.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker C:Sounds like it'd be perfect for the big screen.
Speaker B:Like a.
Speaker C:No, no brainer visually like Del Toro.
Speaker C:He's amazing.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And it's sad that like a director like Del Toro now is kind of locked in with these Netflix deals and.
Speaker C:I know it's opening a can of worms.
Speaker C:I will only say that like Netflix and their release schedule window to theaters just like kills my soul.
Speaker B:I. I have, I'm holding out hope that with the.
Speaker B:The purchase of Warner Brothers maybe they will do some sort of limited, at least limited four week window.
Speaker B:I think actually next year there's a movie coming out that they say will have a four week exclusive window.
Speaker B:I have to look at my notes here.
Speaker B:I forget which one it is.
Speaker B:I'm not sure I have to go back to it again.
Speaker B:But there is, there's.
Speaker B:I think there is gonna be like a four week window.
Speaker B:The Netflix released then it's going straight to Netflix.
Speaker B:But I'll get back to.
Speaker B:To that anyways.
Speaker B:Frankenstein.
Speaker B:Excellent.
Speaker B:Sam, what's your number five?
Speaker C:My number five was Wake Up Dead man, which we have discussed.
Speaker C:Thumbs up to Wake Up Dead Man.
Speaker C:Arguably the best in the French in the three.
Speaker C:Even though I might like the first the best, but I don't know.
Speaker C:The third one's impressive.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Number four for me is Sinners from Ryan Coogler.
Speaker B:And I think Sinners is very close to a perfect movie.
Speaker B:Maybe 90% and easily one of the best times I had in the theater all year.
Speaker B:It's got everything I want firing in all cylinders.
Speaker B:A fantastic cast, incredible soundtrack, great cinematography.
Speaker B:It's got this confident filmmaking going on with it.
Speaker B:Big budget genre movie, you know, with real intention, smart writing, thematic way.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:It's the kind of, you know, how should I put it?
Speaker B:Like, I know it just reminds me of, you know, how powerful the scale of filmmaking can be when it's done right.
Speaker B:That said, this probably would have ranked higher for me if not for the final five to 10 minutes.
Speaker B:I'm not going to spoil anything in this movie, but the way the central conflict ultimately resolves, I feel was a little too conventional.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:I could not agree more.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker B:That is the only thing everybody knows by now.
Speaker B:This is a vampire movie.
Speaker B:It.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:But I feel like the way that the central conflict is resolved and there's an epilogue sort of in this movie that I don't, I don't like, that takes us to a different time period that I just kind of like I didn't need.
Speaker B:Would have been better if it was maybe like something like a post credit scene perhaps.
Speaker B:But those two things right there took it down a few notches for me.
Speaker B:I love it as strictly a period piece and I wish it was equally as inventive about how it wrapped up the main conflict and, and it, it just, yeah, it kind of left me feeling like, ugh, it's conventional vampire thing happened.
Speaker B:So that's my only real gripe with it.
Speaker B:But I love Michael B. Jordan in this.
Speaker B:Playing two roles, Smokes and Stack and all the ensemble cast.
Speaker B:And this is fantastic.
Speaker B:Love all of it.
Speaker B:Love everything that happens in this.
Speaker B:But that's ending a little bit underwhelming.
Speaker C:I totally agree a thousand percent on the ending, even though it is my.
Speaker C:It wobbled in spaces.
Speaker C:But Sinners is my number two, actually.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:May have almost been three, but they go back and forth.
Speaker C:But yeah, I, I 100 agree.
Speaker C:Amazing movie.
Speaker C:The ending was like you said, not bad, but just like standard, like standard vampire.
Speaker C:Like it just was like after all that build up, it just, I thought it was kind of abrupt, kind of.
Speaker B:Hit typical beats of, of what I thought was gonna happen.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, I hear that.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:I'm sorry, I keep stealing a thunder on these, some of these picks here, so.
Speaker C:No, it's, it's all good.
Speaker B:All right, are we on to your number four?
Speaker C:My number four would be the documentary film the Age of Disclosure.
Speaker C:I was fascinated by this mov.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:I, you know, it's funny, I just looked it up and on Rotten tomatoes it has 28%.
Speaker C:But I think that's some literally type of like smear campaign or something because this movie is all about like the disclosure of like UFOs and in, in all of those documentaries that I've seen about that subject, which I'm fascinated by.
Speaker C:This one for many reasons had the most like legitimacy and I was very like impressed.
Speaker C:Like I, I'd heard about it on CNN when they were like interviewing the director and stuff.
Speaker C:And so I would recommend.
Speaker C:And it's kind of if you believe you'll in.
Speaker C:In what they're talking about, you'll love it.
Speaker C:If you won't, it.
Speaker C:If you don't, it doesn't change your mind at all.
Speaker C:But I found it fascinated because I'm, I love that type of thing.
Speaker C:So that was my number four too enthusiastic Thumbs up.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I've never even heard of this.
Speaker B:Where is there.
Speaker C:Where is this stream you have to rent it on?
Speaker C:On.
Speaker C:I think you have to rent it, like pay for it on street.
Speaker C:Whatever.
Speaker C:It's whatever streaming service, but Amazon.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Perhaps.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker B: e're on to my number three of: Speaker B:And so did mine.
Speaker B:Awesome, right?
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:I. I even.
Speaker B:I'm a little shocked that how high this landed on my list because this was off my radar completely until like it started, like everybody was talking about it at the end of the summer.
Speaker B:I'm not the biggest horror fan and it usually takes something truly special for horror to even crack my top 10, let alone end up at number three.
Speaker B:But weapons is doing far more than just jump scares and creepy imagery.
Speaker B:And what really stayed with me is that this film is grappling with shared trauma and I think the failure of institutions of public schools and law enforcement and authority figures and how these systems, you know, collapse when faced with, you know, I. I guess like unanswered questions.
Speaker B:The real horror isn't here.
Speaker B:In here isn't just what happens, but how people are forced to reckon with the trauma when there's no clean resolution.
Speaker B:I love the ending of this movie, by the way.
Speaker B:There's no explanation, no comforting answers.
Speaker B:And that, yeah, the way that lingers is what makes this film creepy and generally haunting to me.
Speaker B:And I'm not trying to get heady with all this, but it's honestly, I think it's just why this movie is so powerful.
Speaker B:It worked for me.
Speaker B:So Zach Kreger is the director.
Speaker B:He previously did Barbarian, which I thought was a pretty well made horror film.
Speaker B:Not my favorite, but.
Speaker B:But I think this movie's a lot more confident, more ambitious, more unsettling.
Speaker B:I will never again look at just like an empty black door frame doorway again when I get creeped out.
Speaker B:Now he's doing the new Resident Evil reboot also later this year.
Speaker C:Oh, wow.
Speaker B:Cool.
Speaker B:I'm looking forward to what he does with that.
Speaker B:So, yeah, Weapons.
Speaker B:I could talk a long time about weapons.
Speaker B:I think there's a lot to this film.
Speaker C:But yeah, I loved it.
Speaker C:I like the like, it's narrative style of how it like told the story from different people's perspectives and like skipped around in time.
Speaker C:Like it worked for that.
Speaker C:I love the ending too.
Speaker C:And just the tone of the mo.
Speaker C:The movie was like disturbingly unsettling too, like you said, not just jump scares and like terrifying moments.
Speaker C:So yeah, thumbs up, Weapons.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Both number three how about that?
Speaker B:Great.
Speaker B:All right, number two.
Speaker B:We already, you already talked about your number two.
Speaker C:It was Sinners.
Speaker C:And it was honestly a tough choice between that and weapons.
Speaker C:And honestly I'm not going to change it, but that may switch in time.
Speaker B:So number two is one battle after another.
Speaker B:And Sam, I think you and I, I think we already gushed about this movie a couple episodes ago.
Speaker B:So I won't waste too much time in this because we, we talked extensively about this a couple episodes ago.
Speaker B:But this I think is a masterpiece in every sense of the word.
Speaker B:I've, I've seen this movie twice in the theater.
Speaker B:It was even better the second time watching it.
Speaker B:I'm willing to go as far as say I think this is PTA's best movie as I've sat with this.
Speaker B:But sadly I'm not a completist.
Speaker B:I'm yet to still see Inherent Vice.
Speaker B:I need to watch that at some point.
Speaker B:But as far as other films go, this is taken over the top spot, I think away from the Master, which was my favorite one prior to this.
Speaker C:But I love the Master.
Speaker C:Yeah, I love this movie too.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker B:So I'm not going to go any on any more about this.
Speaker B:I, we, we Talked for like 15 minutes the last time about this.
Speaker B:So one battle after that is my number two.
Speaker B:So my number one.
Speaker B: ed this, but my number one of: Speaker B:This might surprise you, Sam, but it's a film that no one is really talking about anymore.
Speaker B:And it came out early in the year after multiple delays.
Speaker B:Talk about Mickey 17.
Speaker C:That is your number one.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:No way.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:We saw that.
Speaker B:Yeah, I, I gave this five out of five when I saw it in the theater back then.
Speaker B:And I'm a staunch defender of this movie.
Speaker B:And I'll, you know, I'll admit that the messaging can be of this movie is heavy handed at times, but I find it completely forgivable.
Speaker B:This is a science fiction.
Speaker B:It's, it's satire, it's comedy.
Speaker B:It's supposed to be strange, absurd and occasionally ridiculous.
Speaker B:And you know, this movie stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey versions 1 through 17.
Speaker B:I think he's phenomenal in this.
Speaker B:And it features two of my favorite supporting performances of the year.
Speaker B:Mark Ruffalo and Tony Collette as these pair of eagle maniacal spouses, political figures.
Speaker B:And I found them endlessly entertaining.
Speaker B:And I think the story is completely wild and ironically very prescient and drawing some very pointed parallels to Our current political landscape, you know, I'll kind of leave it at that.
Speaker B:And it's bombastic and bizarre and surreal and it's funny.
Speaker B:I just wish more people have seen the brilliance in this movie because I think that this movie has just been forgotten.
Speaker B:There's no awards, attention, no real conversation.
Speaker B:I think this movie is.
Speaker B:Is wonderful.
Speaker B:I. I don't know.
Speaker B:That's it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:It's stuck with me all year.
Speaker B:I can't help it.
Speaker B:It is my.
Speaker B:My number one.
Speaker B:And I'm on my island alone with my.
Speaker B:My 4k of Mickey 17.
Speaker B: n to your number one movie of: Speaker C: My number one movie of: Speaker B:This.
Speaker C:This might come as a shock, but it was the remake.
Speaker C:No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker C:It was one battle after another.
Speaker C:We've already discussed that movie.
Speaker C:Into the Ground.
Speaker C:So, yeah, that was my number one one.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Woohoo.
Speaker C:PT Great job.
Speaker C:Woo.
Speaker C:I've seen it three times now and twice in the theater.
Speaker C:Then I showed it to my dad at home.
Speaker C:He loved it.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:Yeah, just well made.
Speaker C:Very, like, good.
Speaker C:Terrifyingly accurate social commentary.
Speaker C:Epic.
Speaker C:A father searches for a daughter.
Speaker C:Like, I just.
Speaker C:I love the scale of the movie.
Speaker C:Ambitious, crazy soundtrack.
Speaker C:And Benicio Del Toro's performance is amazing as well.
Speaker B:Yes, thought.
Speaker C:Two thumbs up.
Speaker C:Enthusiastic.
Speaker C:Chicago Sun Times.
Speaker C:Approved.
Speaker C:That was the.
Speaker B: movies of: Speaker B:If you, like, send us in your top 10 movies, we would love to know what yours were and compare it to ours.
Speaker B:Let us know what you think of our top 10.
Speaker B:You know, are we way off base?
Speaker B:Are our picks completely insane?
Speaker B:They probably are, but we want to know.
Speaker B:All right, we're gonna take a quick little break.
Speaker B:We're gonna come back with a few honorable mentions and some superlatives, and we'll continue the show.
Speaker C:Rise and shine.
Speaker B:Hi.
Speaker D:What's up?
Speaker D:What's up, homie?
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker D:It's me again.
Speaker D:Bob Ferguson.
Speaker D:I don't know if you remember, but we spoke earlier on the phone.
Speaker D:I think we had a little misunderstanding.
Speaker D:I think we got off on the wrong foot.
Speaker D:I was trying to get the rendezvous point for my daughter.
Speaker C:Willa, if you can't answer.
Speaker C:What time is it?
Speaker C:I cannot give you the rendezvous point.
Speaker C:This is a key tenet of the rebellion.
Speaker C:I'm surprised you can't name it.
Speaker B:I don't know if you are who you say you are.
Speaker D:Okay, well, look, look, maybe I can.
Speaker D:Maybe I can give you some information and then you give me Some information, all right?
Speaker D:We'll just share a little bit.
Speaker A:Information.
Speaker D:My name is Bob Ferguson.
Speaker A:I don't know if you've ever heard.
Speaker D:Of me, all right?
Speaker D:I was part of French 75 for years, years and years, all right?
Speaker D:They used to call me Ghetto Pat, Rocket man, stuff like that.
Speaker D:Only problem is I. I fried my brain.
Speaker D:Since then, man, I. I have abused drugs and alcohol for the past 30 years, man.
Speaker D:I'm a drug and alcohol lover.
Speaker D:And I cannot remember for the life of me or the life of my only child the answer to your question.
Speaker D:What time is it?
Speaker C:8:15.
Speaker D:Now, I. I need this rendezvous point.
Speaker D:You understand what I'm saying?
Speaker D:I need it.
Speaker C:I understand.
Speaker C:And the question is, what time is this?
Speaker D:If you don't give me the rendezvous point, I swear to God, I will hunt you down and stick a loaded fucking hot piece of dynamite right up your fucking asshole.
Speaker B:All right, Sam, we're gonna do a few honorable mentions and a couple superlative categories.
Speaker B:Sam, what did not make your list?
Speaker B:I know you mentioned a few while we were going through our top 10.
Speaker C:Any other movies you mentioned Conjuring, Last Rites.
Speaker C:I mentioned that briefly.
Speaker C:I enjoyed that.
Speaker C:Was not blown away by it, but I love the characters so much that it's definitely, definitely worth watching.
Speaker C:Almost made the list, but not quite.
Speaker B:I am so behind on the controverse.
Speaker B:I will have to catch up at some point.
Speaker C:You'll enjoy.
Speaker C:I like the tone.
Speaker C:It's not like slasher horror.
Speaker C:It's more like spooky, demonic undertow terror.
Speaker C:But, like, great, great, great performances.
Speaker B:I have two or three I'll mention.
Speaker B:I'll mention one here.
Speaker B:One of them is if I had legs, I'd kick you.
Speaker B:Have you heard of this?
Speaker C:I have not.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker B:Not sure this is.
Speaker B:It's this.
Speaker B:I'd say it's an impactful little film from.
Speaker B:Mary Bronstein is the director and features maybe the best female acting performance of the year I saw from Rose Byrne.
Speaker B:She plays a single mother raising a daughter who has this serious health issue, and she's doing everything in her power to keep it together.
Speaker B:Rose Byrne actually just won a Golden Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy.
Speaker B:So, yeah, she's really good in this.
Speaker B:Also, be in the lookout for Conan o', Brien, who has a rare dramatic cameo.
Speaker C:I've seen that clip.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So this is not an easy watch, but it's worth it for Rose Byrne's performance in this.
Speaker B:So, yeah, I had a really.
Speaker B:I won't say I had a good time with this, but it was a really good film and it just missed my list.
Speaker C:I will honorably mention briefly the how to Train youn Dragon live action movie.
Speaker C:I had no expectations.
Speaker C:It was actually like halfway decent.
Speaker C:Big fan of Gerard Butler.
Speaker C:But yeah, now they're moving on to the second one.
Speaker C:So that'll be.
Speaker C:I'll be watching that for sure.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:One other.
Speaker B:Another honorable mention that barely missed.
Speaker B:And I think the criteria for, you know, my top these honorable mentions is that any one of these could have been my number 10.
Speaker B:And it was really hard.
Speaker B:This one is the Roses from director Jay Roach and writer Tony McNamara.
Speaker B:Now, Jay Roach, where.
Speaker B:I don't know where he's been.
Speaker B: I think his last film was: Speaker B:What I think is great about this film is that it's a meeting of two really talented individuals who are really working in their wheelhouse.
Speaker B:You've got Jay Roach's experience with his comedic sensibilities.
Speaker B:You know, he's did all those Austin Powers movies and the Meet the Parents franchise.
Speaker B:But this film is written by Tony McNamara, who is the force behind, I think, some of the best year Ghostly Anthem films, in my opinion, like the Favor and Poor Things.
Speaker B:And his dialogue is often very, you know, economical and laced with a lot of sarcasm and cruelty and like a lot of biting humor.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B: hich is a loose remake of the: Speaker B:But it's also.
Speaker B: Yeah, there was a: Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:That's the.
Speaker B:What is actually really based on.
Speaker B:So it stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as the married couple in this movie, which their marriage is collapsing.
Speaker B:And it's.
Speaker B:It's really funny.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's got some scenes in it that are really difficult to watch, but it's hysterical.
Speaker B:There's a dinner party scene that is by far the scene of the year for me where I laugh so hard I was crying.
Speaker B:I. I do recommend the Roses.
Speaker B:It just missed my list.
Speaker C:I gotta see that.
Speaker C: rd good things and I love the: Speaker B:I got one last one I'll mention, and it's John Candy.
Speaker B:I like Me.
Speaker B:Which I really wanted to fit onto my list because I like to kind of get a documentary in there.
Speaker B:Makes me feel maybe a little more hoity toity if I could get a documentary on there.
Speaker B:But I didn't this year.
Speaker B:But this is it's.
Speaker B:Directed by Colin Hanks and this is a documentary about the.
Speaker B:The life and career of John Candy.
Speaker B:As as expected title would say it's who by all accounts was an incredible human being and deserved a far better fate.
Speaker B:Sad film.
Speaker B:You know, it's.
Speaker B:It's packed with interviews from in a roster of people that worked with him, you know, the members of his family.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's got Mel Brooks, you know, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Catherine o', Hara, many more.
Speaker B:All telling these really warm, tender stories of, you know, of John Candy.
Speaker B:It's deeply moving, it's sad, but this movie wrecked me.
Speaker B:It really did.
Speaker B:It's a hard watch because you can see how difficult his life was and how the industry kind of took advantage of him.
Speaker B:So it's, it was, it was difficult but very, very good documentary using a lot of archival footage of course.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:But yeah, John Candy, I like me very well made documentary about his life.
Speaker B:Sam, do you have a movie that you would say was your biggest disappointment of this year?
Speaker C:It wasn't the biggest disappointment.
Speaker C:I was expecting more from Conjuring Last Rites.
Speaker C:I liked it a lot.
Speaker C:I thought the like focus on the characters the were great.
Speaker C:I did not think the story was as scary so.
Speaker C:But it wasn't a huge disappointment.
Speaker C:But I was just like mildly disappointed.
Speaker C:I can't think of anything this year that I had expectations for that I was like oh man, that was terrible.
Speaker C:But that would come close to disappointment, I guess.
Speaker B:I have several candidates for this.
Speaker B:One of them could be Mission Impossible.
Speaker B:Dead Reckoning was, I thought, disappointed, but.
Speaker C:I will say Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning.
Speaker C:Yeah, I, I enjoyed that but that would.
Speaker C:I didn't even consider that for a 10 list.
Speaker C:Just the editing style but spectacular.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Uneven.
Speaker B:Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker B:Yeah, well that's not my pick but it was a runner up to most disappointing.
Speaker B:I think it's a movie that a few episodes ago was something that we said we were looking forward to and that was the Running man, the Edgar.
Speaker C:Wright movie that came and went and I missed it.
Speaker C:Like I wish I had seen it.
Speaker C:But you're.
Speaker C:I remember you didn't like it that much and I kind of was like.
Speaker C:And I.
Speaker C:The Rotten Tomatoes score was kind of like middling.
Speaker B:As time has passed, this movie I've soured more and more in this movie.
Speaker B:I walked out of it being like eh, it was okay.
Speaker B:It just was like.
Speaker B:But I realized that this movie has no soul at all.
Speaker B:I don't really understand why Edgar Wright wanted to make this movie.
Speaker B:I've listened to interviews about him.
Speaker B:He was like, I'm a huge fan of the first one.
Speaker B:And he wanted to put his.
Speaker B:His make his version of this.
Speaker B:But this does not.
Speaker B:There's nothing about this movie that felt like an Edgar Wright movie.
Speaker B:He has this very distinct style of filmmaking and there's nothing about this movie that felt like it was an Edgar Wright film.
Speaker C:Did you feel like a generic action movie?
Speaker B:Yes, it felt very generic action movie.
Speaker B:And I think of like, you know, I thought he did a great job with like Baby Driver, you know, or.
Speaker C:Yeah, I liked Baby Driver and there.
Speaker B:I could point to other ones out World's End or there's.
Speaker B:There's a combination of.
Speaker B:Of humor and action and great writing that he has that this is just void of.
Speaker B:I'm not going to get too much into this because it's.
Speaker B:It really.
Speaker B:There's so much that I think is wrong with this movie.
Speaker B:I think Glenn Powell is miscast in this movie as the world's angriest man.
Speaker B:Glen Powell I think has.
Speaker B:Elaine that he is good.
Speaker B:We disagreed a little bit on Twisters.
Speaker B:I remember you were a little disappointed.
Speaker B:I thought it was a fun ride.
Speaker B:But I think Glenn Powell comes off as somebody who is like, he brings the party.
Speaker C:I liked him in Twisters.
Speaker C:I mean, I.
Speaker C:When he met in Top Gun, he was awesome.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:But he is like, he a happy guy, but he's the happy bringing the party.
Speaker B:And in the Running man, he is playing the world's most angriest person.
Speaker B:And I don't think that he was the right choice for the role.
Speaker C:Interesting.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I'd like you to see the movie at some point, Sam, and.
Speaker B:And give me your opinion on it because I. I think I wanted to see it.
Speaker C:I can't believe I missed it, to be honest.
Speaker C:Like, I will watch it soon, by the way.
Speaker C:Honorable ment the World's End.
Speaker C:I love that.
Speaker C:That's my favorite of the three.
Speaker C:Like, I absolutely love that movie.
Speaker C:Yeah, I.
Speaker B:Hot Fuzz is my favorite of those three.
Speaker C:Hot Fuzz is awesome.
Speaker C:They're all great.
Speaker C:Like I just.
Speaker C:Hot Fuzz is amazing.
Speaker C:But I hear you.
Speaker C:I got.
Speaker C:Damn.
Speaker C:Maybe it's like.
Speaker C:Sounds like he wanted to do a different style but didn't quite succeed because it's not his signature style.
Speaker B:All interviews he made the movie he wanted to.
Speaker C:Interesting.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Anyways, that is my biggest disappointment.
Speaker B:Sam, do you have a biggest surprise Weapons.
Speaker C:That movie came out of nowhere and I was like, what is this and then I heard the buzz and I went and I saw it, oddly enough, on imax and it was like this cool Friday night and I was like, wait a minute, this movie is excellent.
Speaker C:Like, I was so into it.
Speaker C:That is a cinematic experience I won't forget even.
Speaker C:I'll just say.
Speaker C:And this gives nothing away but like, when the witch is, like, running through, like, people's houses and the kids are, like, jumping through glass.
Speaker B:Spoil it, though.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's like shocking and hilarious at the same time.
Speaker C:Like, it's a weird tone in parts.
Speaker B:I, I, that could have been my pick as well.
Speaker B:I didn't think about that.
Speaker B:But, yeah, my biggest surprise.
Speaker B:This was hard for me because it wasn't anything that really, like, blew me away.
Speaker B:Like, came out nowhere.
Speaker B:But I guess what I thought was just going to be a generic, run of the mill, low budget sci fi movie really did impress me.
Speaker B:And that was the movie companion.
Speaker C:Interesting.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Have you, have you seen that one?
Speaker C:I haven't seen it, no.
Speaker B:Okay, so compare.
Speaker C:Have you seen 65?
Speaker B:She's 64.
Speaker B:I can't wait.
Speaker B:So that was my pick for biggest surprise of the year.
Speaker B:All right, we're gonna take one more break.
Speaker B: lms that we're excited for in: Speaker B:If you found out we weren't alone.
Speaker C:If someone showed you, proved it to.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker C:Would that frighten you?
Speaker B:Good morning, Kansas City.
Speaker B:Let's take a look at today.
Speaker B:Let's, let's.
Speaker C:Today is.
Speaker B:Today'S.
Speaker C:People have a right to know the truth.
Speaker C:It belongs to 7 billion people.
Speaker B:What is it?
Speaker C:You wouldn't believe me if I told.
Speaker B:You, so I'm gonna show you.
Speaker C:What are you gonna do?
Speaker C:Full disclosure to the whole world all at once.
Speaker B:All right, Sam, last segment of the night.
Speaker B: we are looking forward to in: Speaker B:Do you have a list or do you want to kind of go through it in chronological order?
Speaker B:Or do you have movies or how do you do that?
Speaker C:I have movies that they're not numbered, but I do have a few of them.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Okay, let me just throw one out there.
Speaker B:Throw one out there.
Speaker B:Throw one out there.
Speaker B:Tell me.
Speaker B:Maybe it'll hit with me too.
Speaker B:Go for it.
Speaker C:I am very interested in seeing Dune Part three.
Speaker C:And one particularly thing that I'm interested in that it just pertains to me is that I read Dune, the novel.
Speaker C:I love it.
Speaker C:And that's what Film One and Film Two are based on.
Speaker C:There is a Second book called Dune Messiah.
Speaker C:And for understandable reasons, the movie is going to be named Dune Part 3 instead.
Speaker C:I am wondering if this time I should not read that book and just go see Denis Villeneuve's Dune three Point Blank with no knowledge and just watch it.
Speaker C:Because I'm going to read that book anyway and I want to.
Speaker C:I just hadn't yet and so I might.
Speaker C:It might be.
Speaker C:I think he's going to do something unique with that third film.
Speaker C:And though the second book I've heard is like thinner than the first book and not quite as good, just in general views, I don't think that will pertain any way to his film.
Speaker C:I. I think that like, whatever his vision is For Dune Part 3 could.
Speaker C:Could have the potential to be like an awesome trilogy ender interest.
Speaker C:I'm interested in it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:I have not read any of these books, but is Dune Messiah.
Speaker B:Is it a direct sequel in.
Speaker B:In the novel to Dune or 100 direct sequel?
Speaker C:Yeah, it like skips ahead a little bit, but it's a sequel.
Speaker C:It's with Paul again, you know, Timothy Chalamet, his rule and like his.
Speaker C:The war and his like it's direct continuation even.
Speaker C:I think it skips ahead in time, but sequel for sure.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:I am.
Speaker B:Yeah, I haven't read.
Speaker B:I haven't read these.
Speaker B:Do you feel that, well, do you feel that reading the first book somehow affected your experience with the first two Dune movies?
Speaker C:It will in some ways in.
Speaker C:In it.
Speaker C:Usually in good ways.
Speaker C:But whenever I read a book beforehand, there's always an oscillation with the viewing experience where I'm watching the movie and thinking about what the book was like and kind of comparing them back and forth in my mind.
Speaker C:I did that when it.
Speaker C:When I was a kid, when I saw Jurassic Park.
Speaker C:I'd read the book beforehand and I'd never done that before at that age.
Speaker C:And so that was like a kind of jarring thing.
Speaker C:But I'm glad I read the book.
Speaker C:I mean, I love the book.
Speaker C:I think it's excellent.
Speaker C:But yeah, I think.
Speaker C:I mean, I'm.
Speaker C:One way or the other, I might not read the next one until after his film because I just kind of want to go into the movie.
Speaker C:I feel like.
Speaker C:What I'm saying is I feel like knowing nothing about it and just going Into Dune Part 3 Having no idea what will happen might make for a better cinematic experience.
Speaker B:I'm gonna throw out a movie that I am looking forward to.
Speaker B:Oh, by the way.
Speaker B:So Dune.
Speaker B:By the way, Dune Part 3 comes out in November, December 18, same day as Avengers Doomsday.
Speaker B:That doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker B:I don't know how that's going to work out.
Speaker C:That's crazy.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Robert Downey Jr.
Speaker C:Commented on that because, you know, the whole Barbenheimer thing, he's like, guys, I just want to get this started now.
Speaker C:Dunesday.
Speaker B:One of those two movies has to budge.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It's like they're going after the same audience too.
Speaker C:It's like, that's kind of crazy.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:A movie that I'm going to put out there is Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg's next movie on June 12th.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And written by David Kep as well.
Speaker B:Jurassic World, Rebirth.
Speaker B:He wrote that.
Speaker B:Actually, we were just talking about that.
Speaker B:Did also wrote some recent Soderbergh films.
Speaker B:Presence Black Bag did the.
Speaker B:Some of the newer Indiana Jones films.
Speaker B:Style Destiny and Kingdom, the Crystal Skull, War, the Worlds.
Speaker B:But we got Emily Blunt, we got Josh o' Connor again, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo.
Speaker C:We.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's Steven Spielberg returning to science fiction and, yeah, UFOs.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:I think all we really know about it right now, but I'm in.
Speaker C:I'm in.
Speaker C:I'm excited.
Speaker C:I'm hopeful.
Speaker C:Yeah, the trailer is fascinating.
Speaker C:Very strange trailer.
Speaker C:Hard to know, like, what to make of it, but that's the point of the trailer, I think.
Speaker B:So we got.
Speaker B:Until.
Speaker B:We got six months, Sam.
Speaker B:Till Disclosure Day.
Speaker C:I'm looking.
Speaker C:I'm excited for it.
Speaker C: eling more optimistic towards: Speaker C:But I was gonna.
Speaker C:I will say, I will add with a bit more reservations, but cautiously optimistic.
Speaker C:I hope the Mandalorian and Grogu is fun.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:There hasn't been a Star wars film in theaters in six years, and this is the first one in six years.
Speaker C:And I just hope it's.
Speaker C:I hope it's entertaining.
Speaker C:I hope it's good.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker B:Yeah, I.
Speaker B:That trailer does not give me hope, though.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker C:Yeah, well, it looks like not.
Speaker C:It doesn't look like revolutionary.
Speaker B:Yeah, it looks like just another episode to me.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I was not.
Speaker B:The last season of the Mandalorian did not land well with me, so I am not running out to the theater right now unless I feel something different.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker C:I wasn't a huge fan of season three.
Speaker C:I love season two, but I agree.
Speaker C:Season three was.
Speaker C:This will probably.
Speaker C:I'm sure this will be its own separate story after that, but I don't know.
Speaker C:I'm cautiously optimistic, you know, because I just.
Speaker C:I want there to be good Star wars movies again.
Speaker B:Yeah, me too.
Speaker B:Me too.
Speaker B:Yeah, there's some obvious ones here, but I will.
Speaker C:Like the Odyssey.
Speaker B:Yeah, I mean I could say like.
Speaker B:Like the whole world is.
Speaker B:But I. I'm gonna try to do something some that aren't as obvious here, here's one the Dog Stars, which is the new Ridley Scott movie.
Speaker B:This dude, this guy is 88 years old.
Speaker B:Jesus Christ.
Speaker B:Like either retire or just make that last Alien movie because I just want him to wrap up that story.
Speaker B:We're never gonna know that.
Speaker C:Oh, the one that was supposed to come after Alien.
Speaker C:Covenant.
Speaker B:I know, but anyways, I want that movie.
Speaker C:I was that talk about it like being left hanging like Jesus, you know?
Speaker C:I agree.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:This is.
Speaker B:This is his seventh movie in 10 years or like his 10th movie in 14.
Speaker B:This guy does not stop.
Speaker B:And this is.
Speaker B:This isn't.
Speaker B:This is not just a small movie.
Speaker B:This he does.
Speaker B:He does big budget epics still at this age.
Speaker B:It's crazy.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:This has Jacob Elordi again, Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, Guy Pierce.
Speaker B:He's working with Guy Pierce again.
Speaker B:Benedict Wong.
Speaker B:This is a post apocalyptic science fiction film set in the aftermath of a catastrophic flu virus that nearly wipes out humanity.
Speaker B:And it follows Jacob Elordi character who's a civilian pilot and an ex marine played by Josh Brolin who face invaders and hope for a better life outside their current dwelling.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:It's this.
Speaker B:I think it's a little vague what this is about, but I'm really curious by this.
Speaker B:It seems like something a little different for release.
Speaker C:Count me in.
Speaker C:Yeah, I didn't even.
Speaker C:I had no.
Speaker C:Knew very little about that.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:What's it called again?
Speaker C:The Dog Stars.
Speaker B:The Dog Stars comes out on August 20th.
Speaker B:Can I throw one out there?
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, please do.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:I want to give a shout out to the Social Reckoning.
Speaker B:Social Reckoning is a sequel to the.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:The Social Network and this is actually directed by Aaron Sorkin.
Speaker C:Really?
Speaker C:That's.
Speaker C:That's coming out this year.
Speaker C:Oh my God.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:So I mean written and directed by Aaron Sorkin.
Speaker B:You know, the last one was a David Fincher film who is great filmmaker.
Speaker B:So I'm looking forward to this.
Speaker B:I have cautious optimism because Aaron Sorkin as a director, you know, his passion writing efforts are being the Ricardo's the Trial of the Chicago 7 and Molly's game.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm going to pass judgment yet.
Speaker B:But I feel from past experiences, his stories seem to be much better conveyed when they.
Speaker B:When the writing is left to him.
Speaker B:And experienced directors that know how to share, you know, know how to share his voice, which is why was such a perfect match for the Social Network.
Speaker B:Now we know he wasn't available because he was busy working.
Speaker B:I think he was busy working on the Adventures of Cliff Booth, which I am.
Speaker B:Another thing I'm going to mention in a moment, but I could have.
Speaker B:I could have envisioned somebody like Adam McKay or a Bennett Miller who did Moneyball or, you know, somebody like that would have been a perfect type of directive for this.
Speaker B:So I'm a little concerned that Aaron Sorkin, like, you know, it.
Speaker B:I'm gonna direct my own thing.
Speaker B:And I'm a little concerned because this is not get.
Speaker B:I feel like this is not getting the same buzz.
Speaker B:It's not going to have the Trent Reznor or Attica Ross score.
Speaker B:You know, it's not.
Speaker B:It's gonna be lesser than.
Speaker C:Yeah, I. I share the same concern.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Because David Fincher is incredible director and like his visual style and, and his, Their writing, it just, they.
Speaker C:The team they made was amazing.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So I don't know.
Speaker C:When does that come out?
Speaker B:This comes out on October 9th.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker C:Interesting.
Speaker B:So it looks like it's gonna be a theatrical release.
Speaker B:And so we'll see.
Speaker B:I. I just.
Speaker B:I'm a little con.
Speaker B:A little like.
Speaker B:We'll see.
Speaker B:I. I already mentioned it before.
Speaker B:Adventures of Cliff.
Speaker B:Cliff Booth, David Fincher film.
Speaker B:He.
Speaker B:This was written also by Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker B:So yeah, I'm interested in this.
Speaker B:However, this is a direct to Netflix release.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker B:July, which is just bizarre to me.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I mean, we got Brad Pitt reprising his role as Cliff Booth from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker B:I loved that film.
Speaker B:And we got Scott in this.
Speaker B:Elizabeth.
Speaker B:Elizabeth Debicki, Timothy Oliphant, Peter Weller in this.
Speaker B:Like Peter Weller, you know, it's interesting period comedy drama, you know, sequel to that film.
Speaker B:So, again, cautiously optimistic, but with the Netflix release, I. I don't know.
Speaker B:And there is no release date for this other than they say it's coming out in July.
Speaker B:So we will shall see.
Speaker C:Interesting.
Speaker C:Yeah, I really.
Speaker C:What was the last film that he did with that Fincher directed?
Speaker C:Was it Killer?
Speaker B:The Killer, yeah.
Speaker C:Love that movie.
Speaker C:I would have liked to have seen that in the theater as well.
Speaker C:But like, yeah, two or three more.
Speaker B:I'll just mention really quickly.
Speaker B:Digger coming out.
Speaker B:The trailers have started hitting.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker C:With Tom Cruise and.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Alejandro Inito.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:That looks amazing.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I don't know what it looks like.
Speaker C:I don't know what it looks like, but it could be, like, with that.
Speaker C:With that vague, like, teaser trailer, it piqued my interest, like.
Speaker B:Yeah, but the people that are behind this movie is what really has me excited.
Speaker B:You got the director.
Speaker B:You got Tom Cruise, Sandra Huller, John Goodman, Michael Sterberg, Jesse Plemon, Sophie Wilde, and Riz Ahmad.
Speaker B:The cinematographer is Emmanuel Ubeski.
Speaker B:You know, he did the Revenant and Birdman.
Speaker B:The Tree of Life Burn.
Speaker B:After reading Children of Men, Sleepy Hollow, Meet Joe Black.
Speaker B:I mean, this is like one of the premier cinematographers, and it looks like a dark comedy.
Speaker B:So I. I mean, I can't wait for this.
Speaker B:I just.
Speaker B:Just don't know what it's gonna be, but I. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Excited.
Speaker B:So we'll.
Speaker B:We'll see.
Speaker B:This is his first.
Speaker B:This is his first.
Speaker B:Alejandro Inirito's, like, first, like, big release in like, 10 years since the revenant.
Speaker B:He did Bardo like, four years ago, which was like a kind of a small release.
Speaker B:Not many people saw that.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:I liked it a lot, but, yeah, he hasn't.
Speaker B:He's been quiet of late.
Speaker C:Interesting.
Speaker C:I haven't seen Bardo.
Speaker C:Would you recommend it?
Speaker C:It was good.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's about the film industry as well, so it was cool.
Speaker B:It was good.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:One or two more I just want to mention here, because I'm on a roll here.
Speaker B:Let me just kind of go through my list here.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:No, I'm not gonna talk about the Odyssey.
Speaker B:Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Christopher Nolan.
Speaker B:July 17th.
Speaker B:Get your tickets now.
Speaker B:Toy Story 5 comes out June 19th.
Speaker C:Yeah, it does.
Speaker B: a Pixar animated movie since: Speaker B:And he did, you know, direct John Carter and Wally, Finding Nemo.
Speaker B:So he, you know, he's one of the OG Pixar, you know, directors.
Speaker B:So this is.
Speaker B:I'm excited to see him come back and do something.
Speaker B:And he got the.
Speaker B:The main cast back coming to do this.
Speaker B:Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack.
Speaker B:Some new people added to the ensemble.
Speaker B:Greta Lee as Lily Pad, Blake Clark as Slinky Dog, famously voiced by Jim Varney.
Speaker C:Good old Jim Varney.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker B:Ernie Hudson as Combat Carl.
Speaker B:Craig Robinson as Atlas, and Conan o'.
Speaker B:Brien.
Speaker B:Coming up twice now in this podcast as Smarty pants.
Speaker C:So, yeah, that will be successful.
Speaker C:I'm guessing.
Speaker B:That's gonna make bank big time.
Speaker B:I will say.
Speaker B:Let's see if there's anything else here.
Speaker B:I'm just looking at my list of Scream 7 comes out this year, and I don't know, Kevin Williamson is actually directing this.
Speaker B:Oh, cool.
Speaker B:Yeah, interesting.
Speaker B: time directing a movie since: Speaker B:He wrote.
Speaker B:He's been writing all these movies, but he hasn't.
Speaker B:But he has.
Speaker B:He hasn't been directing them.
Speaker B:So that's interesting.
Speaker B:And the last thing I will say.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B: One of my favorite movies of: Speaker B:They just announced this in the last week that a sequel to Godzilla minus one, titled Godzilla minus zero.
Speaker C:Nice.
Speaker B:Has a date for November 6th.
Speaker B:Same directing.
Speaker B:Written.
Speaker B:Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who did Godzilla -1.
Speaker B:I loved that movie so much.
Speaker C:And that movie was great.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:When did that come out?
Speaker C: Is that: Speaker B: It was: Speaker C:Gotcha.
Speaker B:Narnia.
Speaker B:The Magician's Nephew, the new Greta Gerwig movie.
Speaker B:She's going for the big IP now.
Speaker B:That's coming out.
Speaker B:I saw and I already mentioned their new Resident Evil movie.
Speaker B:Yeah, Devil Wears Prada, too.
Speaker B:Are you first in line for that, Sam?
Speaker C:The first one was.
Speaker C:I loved it.
Speaker C:I mean, I don't know if.
Speaker C:I don't know what the story will be the second one.
Speaker C:But first film, Meryl Streep, that was great.
Speaker B:The Bride, that was another thing I. I was gonna mention.
Speaker B:That's Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's kind of a weird retelling of the Bride of Frankenstein with the bride, exclamation point.
Speaker B:So it's the Bride.
Speaker C:The Bride.
Speaker B:The Bride movie is.
Speaker B:It's got Christian Bale and Jesse Buckley.
Speaker B:So Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Benning, Jake Gyllenhaal, Penelope Cruz.
Speaker B:This looks interesting.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:You should check out the trailer for this if you haven't seen this yet.
Speaker C:It looks bizarre, but I haven't seen the trailer.
Speaker C:I'll check it out.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So, yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I think we can end it there.
Speaker B:A lot of movies.
Speaker B:And I have one other category here that I will say, Sam, that I want to talk to you about.
Speaker B: t what your favorite movie of: Speaker C:That's so Future Sam.
Speaker C:Future Sam.
Speaker C:I. I have no way to connect to future Sam because so many, like, marketed indie films will come out, especially in the fall that, like, have no marketing yet, and they'll be, like, all these titles that we're not even aware of at this point, which is the case.
Speaker C:So I don't know.
Speaker C:I will say Toy Story 5.
Speaker C:That'll be my favorite.
Speaker C:No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker C:It'd probably.
Speaker C:Honestly, Closer to reality, it would probably be Dune Part 3, but it has to be really damn good.
Speaker C:But again, I don't know.
Speaker B:I'm gonna.
Speaker B:I. I'm gonna mention a movie that I haven't even said yet, and that's gonna be Project Hail Mary is gonna be my number one movie of the year.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker B:Ryan Gosling movie?
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, that's right.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Outer Space movie.
Speaker B:I didn't even mention it yet.
Speaker B:But that is a. Lord Miller directed it.
Speaker B:It's written by Drew Goddard as well.
Speaker B:That comes out only two months from now.
Speaker B:I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker C:Yeah, that comes out soon.
Speaker C:I just.
Speaker C:I literally walked past a poster of that last night.
Speaker B:That's gonna be my number one movie.
Speaker B:Set it now.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:And this is always a fun one.
Speaker B:Sam, what film is going to win the domestic box office this year?
Speaker C:Oh, I'm gonna be.
Speaker C:I was about to say.
Speaker C:I was gonna say the Odyssey, but then Doomsday.
Speaker C:I'm just trying to think, like.
Speaker C:Which is, like, predisposition to make a lot.
Speaker C:I'm gonna go with.
Speaker C:I'll go with the Odyssey, even though it's probably gonna be Doomsday.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:I have no idea.
Speaker B:Domestic box office.
Speaker C:Domestic box office, yeah.
Speaker B:Domestic box office, yeah.
Speaker C:Probably Doomsday.
Speaker C:How much is it going to make domestic?
Speaker C:I would say 400 something.
Speaker B:Give me a number.
Speaker B:I know we're going on the record.
Speaker C:415,000,000.3.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:My.
Speaker B:I think the film that will win the domestic box office this year will be Super Mario Galaxy.
Speaker B:Easily.
Speaker C:That's coming out this year.
Speaker C:I didn't.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Damn it.
Speaker C:You're probably right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Too late.
Speaker B:Too late.
Speaker B:And that's gonna make 580 million domestic, domestic.
Speaker C:I'm sure it will.
Speaker C:The first one was huge.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's it.
Speaker B:It's locked in.
Speaker B:Loser buys around.
Speaker B:All right, I think we're.
Speaker B:We're good tonight.
Speaker B:Let's wrap it up.
Speaker C:I'll buy a round.
Speaker C:Actually, it's.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:If.
Speaker C:I don't know if you're going to Vegas this summer, but it's the 30th anniversary of broken Arrow.
Speaker C:And Nick Cage is going to be there, and John Woo is going to be there.
Speaker C:It's going to be on the top of the Bellagio.
Speaker C:I can get you in.
Speaker C:It's going to be amazing.
Speaker B:John Woo.
Speaker C:That's where I'll buy the drinks of the round that I just lost.
Speaker C:I did not pick Super Mario Galaxy, which, which is, like, pretty much you're guaranteed to, like, swim in gold.
Speaker B:Will Delroy Lindo be there?
Speaker C:Yes, he will be there.
Speaker C:Okay, good.
Speaker B:Then I'll be there.
Speaker B:All right, let's.
Speaker B: Let's put a fork in: Speaker B:2026, here we come.
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