The Bride! review

Like they say, behind every good Frankenstein’s monster is a great Frankenstein’s monster’s girlfriend??? If you’re scratching the bolts that are on both sides of your neck in confusion, fear not. Perhaps this week’s movie “The Bride” exclamation point will educate you and raise awareness as to what’s going on. This movie could, quite possibly, save lives! One of the lifesavers is Christian Bale, playing Frankenstein’s monster and the other is Jessie Buckley as The Bride exclamation point. They join forces as a sort of grotesque Bonnie and Clyde or Mickey and Mallory from “Natural Born Killers” in director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “reimagining” of Mary Shelley’s classic story. Is it worth watching at the theater to find out what happens? Check out this episode of Movies Merica to find out! “The Bride!” also stars Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Matthew Maher, Julianne Hough, Jeannie Berlin and Zlatko Buric.

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Like they say, behind every good Frankenstein's monster is a great Frankenstein's monster's girlfriend. If you're scratching the bolts that are on both sides of your necks in confusion, fear not. Perhaps this week's movie, The Bride exclamation point, will educate you and raise awareness as to what's going on. This movie could quite possibly save lives. One of the lifesavers is Christian Bale, playing Frankenstein's monster, and the other is Jesse Buckley as the bride exclamation point. Get ready to get set straight on this episode of Movies America Live. Welcome to this latest episode of Movies America Live. And as always, I'm your humble host, Van Ebert, otherwise known as Movies America. I can be called either one. I will not sue anybody for calling me Movies America or Van Ebert. So it's all good. But I want to welcome you on this Sunday afternoon here. And since it is technically still the weekend here, and we are talking about a really heavy, heavy subject like movies, okay, I want you to be able to kick back, relax, and uh just uh just take it easy during this Movie's America Live episode where we are talking about the Bride exclamation points this week. And this is a spoiler-free uh review, so we don't have to worry about uh any uh you know being crushed emotionally and psychologically by me uh you know unleashing any spoilers or anything like that, okay? And also it's your chance here, real quick, uh, since we're live, you can live chat with me about the bride exclamation point or any movie or really anything uh that you want to live chat about. Okay, I can't stop you from uh live chatting about what you want to. So there you go. But you can live chat on Rumble or YouTube. But uh, so let's get into uh the bride exclamation point there. And uh it's directed by Maggie Gyllenhall, and she's a sister of Jake Gyllenhaal here, who appears in this uh movie. And uh also it stars uh Jesse Buckley as the bride exclamation point. And then we get a uh Maggie Gyllenhall uh Christian Bale reunion after uh they were both on the Dark Knights, where Maggie Gyllenhaal uh, you know, played uh was it Rachel Dawes in that movie there, and uh she gets killed. Spoilers for the Dark Knight, you know, hey, it came out in 2008. All right, so there you go. But I promise you, that's the only spoiler I'm gonna put have in this episode. A spoiler about a movie that came out almost 20 years ago, okay. Um, and then we also have in this movie we have Maggie Gyllenhall's husband, Peter Sarsgaard, in this, who's a character actor that, you know, you've seen in many other movies as well. Uh you get Penelope Cruz, uh, that's uh Mrs. Javier Bardem there, or I'm sure she'd prefer just being known as Penelope Cruz there. Uh I get Annette Benning, uh, that's Mrs. Warren Beatty. See, I keep doing that, right? I keep like doing that right there. These are females, they want to be known for themselves. Okay, so Annette Benning. Uh, and then you have Angelica Houston there. Uh, and uh, she's obviously you probably know her more for playing uh Morticia Adams and the Adams family movies there back in the day. So um, but uh the plot of the bride exclamation point. Let's get into that a little bit without spoiling it. And this has to do with it starts off with Frank or Frankenstein, uh, of course, played by uh Christian Bile. And he he basically taken on the namesake of his creator, Dr. Frankenstein, so that's why he introduces himself as Frank or Frankenstein. And he hears about this doctor in Chicago, okay. So this doesn't take place in Europe, okay? This takes place like uh like a hundred years after he's created, and he hears about this doctor in Chicago that can uh re- you know, like it who can bring people back from the dead, or as this movie calls it, reinvigorate. They I guess they they they term or they describe like bringing people back from the dead, like digging up a dead body and bringing them back from the dead, uh, just like you would uh you know would describe someone uh going and get a triple espresso so they can reinvigorate themselves in the morning, right? But they called it reinvigoration in this movie for some reason. I think it's kind of retarded, but anyway. Uh but so he goes in there and he wants this doctor played by Annette Benning to uh reinvigorate, or I'm just gonna call it, but bring back from the dead and create this bride of Frankenstein for him because uh, you know, he's been wandering around this earth for over a hundred years now, and he's getting a little lonely, okay? Uh he's so lonesome, he's a lonesome dove, and uh he wants a little companionship. Uh, I think we all know what that's code for, right? And so yeah, he just wants his doctor to create this uh this basically, you know, a girlfriend, okay? Um, I guess he wants his doctor to go full weird science and you know, basically make a girl, okay, uh, for him right there. Um unfortunately for him, the girl uh doesn't look like the girl from weird science uh there. So not he's not quite uh that lucky right there. It's uh what was her what was her name uh back in the back in the day with uh Weird Science? Uh God, I completely well completely whiffing her, because she was married to Stephen Segal uh back in the day. I'm I'm I'm ashamed as a uh as a heterosexual man uh that I can't uh can't remember the actress's name from Weird Science back in 1985. But anyway, so that's that's what he's uh Frank or Frankenstein uh starts out the movie with, starts out the plot with in this. And eventually, of course, obviously, since the the movie's called The Bride exclamation point, of course, the doctor eventually agrees to uh create him a girlfriend, and then uh no unbeknownst to them, uh the the the corpse that they use uh for his girlfriend is the body of a mob uh call girl, okay, and she's killed by the mob. And so she she you know, she's reinvigorated, okay. She's uh she's brought back to life, and she's um, yeah, she's she's she's a real handful, okay? Okay, she was uh she's a real handful before she got uh murdered, you know, because she's just like, you know, I am woman, hear me roar, you know, and uh she hates all men. Um and she hates pretty much just she's like this uh over-the-top, you know, bombastic, uh try-hard kind of like uh the lady that, you know, even you know, no matter how drunk he got the bar, you know, she'd be up on the bar dancing around for three hours. And eventually, even you would be like, okay, get off the bar. Come on, it's it's it's it's a play it out, it's lame at this point. It was fun for the first hour and a half, but come on, come down off the bar. She's kind of that that kind of woman, okay? And uh, so then that shocks the crap out of the doctor. Um and then, of course, Christian Bale, since he wants a girlfriend, you know, he's willing to put up with whatever uh from her. And so they they go out in public and they have a good time, and you know, eventually something happens where Frank has to take care of business, and that sets off this whole chain of events where they're on the lamb and all of that stuff right there, and it turns into, you know, uh, you know, Frankenstein version of Body and Bonnie and Clyde, right? And they got the they got the law, they got the long arm and the law after them. And uh so it's uh it gets a little gets a little sticky uh in this movie. But that's the plot there. Um I'm not gonna go into it any more uh than that right there. Quite frankly, because you know, it's boring uh the plot. I just it's it's it's uh it it's a plot where Maggie Gyllenhaal, the director, does try to take a lot of chances and try to do a lot of new things, but they just fall splat like boy, you know, this it's instead of instead of uh radiating and being this great success of these things that she's trying in this movie, uh, they just you know fall fall dead with a thud. Okay, and that's why just explaining the plot is just kind of boring and dull and all of that stuff uh there. So I'm it's just not anything that I'm really that excited uh to be going over or anything like that. And plus, if you really want to know about uh the plot, well, you'll you'll watch the movie here, whether I I I recommend you watching this this movie or not. Okay, so there you go. But uh let's move on real quick, all right? We've got uh some more uh the bride exclamation point to uh talk about right here. But before I do that here, let me double check something real quick. There we go. All right, and first thing I'll say about the bride exclamation point is I always have, at the very least, a little respect for creators who take a risk and you know, just take a swing and go for it all and go for something unique. And I will say director Maggie Gillinall does, you know, did go for something distinct with the bride exclamation point. So she does have a drop of respect from me, but that is just one drop and a lake of disrespect for everything else about this movie. All right. I mean, to be quite frank, this movie is an example of why Paramount buying Warner Brothers is a good thing, because Warner Brothers is the movie that is the is a studio that made the bride exclamation point, you know. And again, it's it's not a good thing, you know, because Donald Trump and Paramount and the Paramount CEO uh there, David Ellison, are friends or anything like that. But because the people at Paramount know the mindset of most of America and know what kind of movies most of America wants. Now, that's one reason that soy boys like this are scrambling for their safe space after news of this buyout.

SPEAKER_03 11:21

You already have David Zaslov out here celebrating, saying this is tremendous value for shareholders. That's all he cares about, shareholders. Now, on one hand, Paramount buying WB is good for movie theaters, but that's really it. That's the only good thing to come out of this because Paramount now has ties to Home Alone two-star Donald Trump, and he's made it very clear that he was going to basically control everything.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

So, yeah, as you see, uh, you know, this guy, he's the kind of beta boy who a movie like The Bride exclamation point is catnip for. I mean, you know, as you saw him right there, old Soy Roy over there, he's thinking suddenly the new season of House of the Dragon is going to now include House MAGA, and Trump is now going to be the king of the Seven Kingdoms, among other Trumpy additions to movies in TV. Now, us grown-ups, us adults, you know, we know that that won't happen, and that all this buyout means is that maybe we'll have less transmissions in Star Trek shows, and CNN will be told they're no longer Pravda for the Democrat Party. Okay, they're CNN, sorry, but you're just gonna have to go back to the neutral news provider that they were back, you know, in the late 80s and 90s, when anyone, you know, when anyone out there still respected them. Also, there will be no the bride exclamation point too, but that was going to happen anyway. That had nothing to do with the buyout or anything like that. I mean, there's there's not going to be the bride exclamation to since this movie costs 90 million uh to make. So it needs to, if because if you take the the rule is uh in order to break even, I mean, I'm not I'm not even talking about making a profit, I'm talking about just breaking even. Your movie needs to make 2.5% or two and a half times what the budget of the movie was, because you have to make back the budget of the movie, and you also have to make back the money that you use to promote uh the movie. So, you know, two and a half times 90 million, that's 225 million. So this movie, since its budget was 90 million, that's pretty, that's pretty high for a time for a movie like this. It needs to make 225 million to break even, and it only made 7.3 million its opening weekend. I mean, that's pretty that's terrible. That's a forecast that uh yeah, this movie is gonna bomb spectacularly. Matter of fact, it's already the biggest bomb of 2026 so far. And I know we're not that far into 2026 right there. Um, but it actually might hold that place, you know, into 2026 for a while. There is the biggest bomb of this year. Maggie Gyllenhall will be in director's jail for a while after this bomb. And in case you know you guys, if there's anybody out there that doesn't know what the director's uh jail is, basically that's where you go if you make a movie that costs the studio a boatload of cash. Okay, you get you get grounded basically, okay? It's like you get you get sent to your room for timeout, okay, as a director. You're like, you're a very bad director, all right? Uh you did the the Hollywood version, the directoral version of you know, throwing your spaghettios, you know, across the room and you know, up against the wall, and you know, now you're reprimanded up to your room for a little time out there. So Maggie Gillen Hall is gonna have to do a little uh director's time out there for a while. And you know what? And it's you know, she she did it to herself. She made this bomb of a movie, and you know, that's why limousine liberals can't have nice things, everybody. It's just that's why, right there. Okay, so let that be a lesson there, Maggie Gyllenhaal. All right. Next time, uh, you know, do it better. Alrighty then. So remember the movie True Romance? Remember that? The Tony Scott movie from back in like 1993, you know, Quentin Tarantino wrote it. Uh it was like the first time, or one of the first times people saw Brad Pitt uh there in a movie. It was before he was a big star. And, you know, and the reason I bring up that movie True Romance is because True Romance had the characters, they had the main characters, Clarence and Alabama. Um, and then of course you had the movie Bonnie and Clyde. They had, well, Bonnie and Clyde. And then we had, you know, Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, you know, it had Mickey and Mallory. Well, the Bride exclamation point has Frank as in Frankenstein again, of course. And Ida, Ida is the, I guess, the human name, I guess they give to the bride of Frankenstein here. So, but um, but so you have Frank and you have Ida, and they are played again by Christian Bale and Jesse Buckley, respective, respectively. Now, these are couples, you know, all these couples that I mentioned right there, these are couples that are in extraordinary circumstances. We have Frank and Ida, or the bride, exclamation point, fall more into the Bonnie and Clyde and Mickey and Mallory category, where you really aren't given anything to make you want to root for them to make it out alive. I mean, you know, Bonnie and Clyde, they go out and they go out there, they rob banks, and you know, they're not neither of them are particularly like likable characters or anything like that. Uh, then Mickey and Mallory from Natural Born Killers, they're really unlikable. I mean, they go around just shoot, you know, people uh, you know, uh indiscriminately just because they feel like doing it there. So it's kind of hard to root for, although Natural Born Killers, the movie, portrays it like people are rooting for them right there. So um, but uh, you know, it just you just there's nothing that that they do, there's nothing that nothing how they portray Frank and the bride in this that make you want to root for them to make it out alive. Oh, you're just basically like I almost just want them to be killed so this movie can, you know, can can end and the lights can go back on and I can leave, right? Uh right there. So, but when Frank is first, you know, on his own, you know, early on in this movie before you know he gets his girlfriend created for him, uh, he's a mild-mannered, sympathetic character who you know just likes to go to the movies and you know doesn't want to hurt anyone or anything like that. So he's and he's easy to root for, right? Then enter Jesse Buckley's bride, you know, with her try-hard, over-eager, screeching banshee of a performance. She creates that dynamic of, well, okay, like, have you ever known a couple where the husband shows up to the neighborhood barbecue and everyone is glad to see him? You know, they're all like, hey, hey, Bill, how are you doing here, Bill? How you doing? Hey, good to see you, man. Hey, Bill, hey, hey, come on over here, man. Hey, let me tell you about this uh thing we were doing over. Hey, Bill, great, great to see you, Bill. Man, how are you doing? Hey, hey, who's that? Bill, oh, we love Bill. Bill's awesome, all right? And then, and then everyone is, you know, like I said, they're glad to see him. And then a few minutes later, is stumbling, bumbling, shrieking, the view loving, Merlo-marinated Feminazi wife shows up chastising people.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

You know, I hope you're all loving your your little party eating a living, breathing thing, and stuffing your faces when there's starving Palestinian families, you know.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

I mean, and and you know, just the just the the spouse, the the like the the friggin' like the uh harlot wife, the the annoying biatch of a wife right there. Nobody nobody likes them, right? Whatsoever right here. And personally, halfway into the movie with these two, I just wanted them to be caught and riddled with bullets like Sonny Corleone style, or or like like you know, Bonnie and Clyde there. And then also in this movie here, there's another couple of characters, characters in this movie here. Obviously, there's a lot of characters in this movie, but these next two characters are like kind of down one rung from the main characters. And that is the characters of the two detectives that are chasing them. And those two detectives are Jake, uh, played by Peter Sarsgaard, and Myrna, played by Penelope Cruz. And Jake is essentially, he's like the Harvey Keitel character from the movie Thelma and Louise, uh, you know, where he's like the one man portrayed uh in the movie as somewhat empathetic to the woman's plight. However, no, no, no, we can't have him portrayed as all good. I mean, that's where Myrna comes in, Penelope Cruz's uh character. Uh Myrna, she's there so that Jake can be the more inept out of the two, while Myrna is the brains out the of the operation, but Jake doesn't give her the credit uh, you know, for that uh, you know, whatsoever. Message. So that's uh, you know, this that's you know, that's one of some of the features of the movie uh right there here. So uh so as you can tell, um, you know, I'm giving my final thoughts away on this movie here. You can tell that yeah, I'm not recommending you check it out this movie whatsoever. I mean, unless you know, you want to, you know, like at first roll your eyes repeatedly until your eyes are gonna roll into the back of your head, and then followed uh by a by a nice little nap, by a nice little power nap right there, because that's what I got through a lot of this movie right there. I mean, I'll be honest with you guys. Uh, I quite, you know, I quite honestly, uh there's a lot of, there's probably like a probably five or six parts of this movie where I can't really recollect a whole lot uh from the movie there, uh, because I just couldn't keep my eyes open through a lot of this movie here. And and and what also works against that and and and creates that situation is this movie, there's a lot of darkness in this movie. This movie is takes up place at night a lot. It's in a lot of dark environments and all of that stuff right there. So that's uh so you know that's uh you know what I have to say for now about uh the the the bride exclamation point. But I'm going to be talking more about the bright exclamation point, but not until after we do a little brew review time. All right. Let me introduce you to today's brew here. And I, you know what? I ran out of time to do the, you know, the needed research for this brew here for today's brew review time here. So I am quite frankly, quite honestly, because I want to be honest with you, my my movie maniacs and my fellow Freedom Fueled film fanatics, about you know, everything with the show right here. And so I am uh kind of phoning it in here, to be honest with you, with the brew review time, because I'm gonna have to like uh just pretty much read off the internet about this brew uh right here. But again, so the double-bladed Axe Man refers to uh a high gravity imperial IPA uh brewed by Surly Brewing Company, and that's out of the Twin Cities uh there. So they haven't burned everything down uh there in uh in the Twin Cities right there. They we they do they do still have at least one beer brewing company called uh Surly there. And this style of beer is a uh American double Imperial IPA. Um and its alcohol content is 10.8% alcohol by volume or ABV here. And it's actually double dry hopped with uh citra and mosaic hops right there, with uh warrior hops uh used for uh bittering right there. And then also it's got a malt base, it's brewed with Golden Promise and two row malts, providing a rich bready foundation foundation, bready foundation? Let's try it again, a bready foundation, okay? Um and I gotta be honest with you, I think that's the first time I've ever heard the word bready there, but I like it. I like it. Uh, and then we have uh as far as the flavor and aroma, uh the flavor uh includes like intense notes of mango, melon, and cantaloupe, okay? And then it finishes with a high lingering bitterness. And some have say that it has like this dry mouthfeel to it right there. So uh, but let's do this here real quick. I just want to uh call an audible right here. I'm gonna put this down right here because I also like to let you guys know what foods uh does the beer pair well with. Yeah, let's do this. Pair with foods pair well with. There you go. Uh so let's see uh what the uh what the god of AI says right here. So, okay, here we go. So uh so it basically pairs well with rich and fatty foods, okay. And just some examples are smoked beef, brisket, or barbecue. All right, that's uh rich and fatty foods uh right there. Uh gourmet burgers, okay. So you have like a good juicy burger with the toppings like bacon or mushrooms uh right there, help balance the beer's intense resinous profile. And I totally came up with that off the top of my head. Totally, totally. Um fried foods, okay. So you got traditional fried foods like you know, beer battered fish or fried chicken. Um works well as the carbonation refreshes the mouth between bites right there. So I would have to add one word to that. Um spicy fried chicken. Okay, so I love me some spicy fried chicken there or some Nashville hot uh fried chicken. Ooh, so good, so good. Um, and speaking of spicy, uh, some other spicy foods that it pairs well with is uh Thai green curry, all right. Um and it's spicy chicken wings. I'm making myself hungry uh talking about this. I gotta stop doing this right here because my stomach is growling as I read through this. Uh Mexican dishes, okay, so like fish tacos, uh, you know, uh would go very, very well with this. Um, and then, you know, if you live up in Wisconsin, uh, sharp cheeses uh goes well with this particular uh double blade uh double IPA right here, like sharp age cheddar and blue cheese. God, blue cheese, my God. It's the the bane of my appetite's existence right there. Blue cheese is just nasty. Uh and then like snacks and charcuterie there. Um, like a like a spicy snack mix that goes good with this brew. And then uh last but not least, a charcuterie board uh there. So, you know, like uh, you know, if your wife is uh nagging you, you know, to go out and get a charcuterie board, and you're like, I hate I hate charcuterie boards, well, at least you have a beer to uh help uh kind of take the edge off uh you having to go out there and get a charcuterie board, which is uh kind of like the uh kind of the trendy thing that people do the last few years. You gotta get, honey, you've gotta get a charcuterie board for the party, okay? Uh kind of like back in the 70s, you know, like uh, you know, Fondue, you know, was a food fad there. Now, you know, recently in the last few years, charcuterie has been a fad, uh, has been a food fad right there. But uh yeah, so that is uh the surly double-bladed axe man uh brew right there. Again, it's an Imperial IPA or an American double IPA right there. And so instead of me talking about it, I'm gonna uh take a take a tug off this uh bad boy right here. Oh yeah. So um where am I at with this brew? Where am I with this brew? So I would, I would, I would, I would actually recommend getting this brew. Um, I think the major thing that pushed me over the recommended as opposed to not recommended finish line is all the foods that it pairs well with right there that are just read off to you there. Um, because now it makes me want to go down the list and start trying all these foods that are recommended right here, especially like the gourmet burgers uh that's talking about. Like by gourmet, it just doesn't have to be a gourmet burger, it just has to be a burger with savory toppings like bacon or mushrooms right there. So I just picture getting like a nice, greasy, sizzling, medium rare cheeseburger with some bacon and mushrooms on there. It's gotta be enough the fried mushrooms right there with that that crispiness on the edges of the mushrooms right there. Ooh, so good. So good. And like sauteed and butter and all that. Ooh. So because I'm picturing myself drinking this brew with the burger like that, yeah, that gets my gets my gets my vote as far as recommending this particular brew there for you. And you know, as you know, like surly, uh, you know, it's not a common brand. It's not like, you know, Bud Light, Tranny Fluid, or Coors Light or Dosa Kiss or Tacate or, you know, like mass-produced beers like that. So you're probably gonna need something if you don't live in on the Twin Cities, uh, you're probably gonna need something like the open bar app on your phone to get something like Surly here, since it's not uh a common beer. Uh they got gopuff.com. Uh that's out there. That's that website, I believe, uh specializes in the ability to deliver beer that you have nowhere near your area. It can be thousands of miles away from your area, but it will it will deliver that beer to you. It's just gonna cost you something. It's gonna cost you some scratch to do that. Also, Uber Eats, uh, you know, if you happen to have this beer in your area, Uber Eats that doesn't just Uber Eats doesn't just deliver, you know, your chicken wings and your tacos, it doesn't just deliver food, it does deliver booze now. So thank God there's sometimes I forget how much I love America, and then I I I remember Uber Eats delivers booze. And I thank God I live in a country like America. Uh, even though there's so many people that hate this country and take it for granted, I appreciate uh America and I can I'm smart enough to remember great things like that. Like Uber Eats will deliver you uh booze here at, you know, up to your doorstep, that's for sure, right there. But uh, so yeah, check that out here as I recommend this particular brew. And with that news, let's close out this brew. Review time. All right, so we got some technical difficulties on my end with the software that I use right here. Because uh, yeah, like every single time I try to play a video on here, it it hesitates uh there. So it's uh pain in the butt right there. But uh it's it's it's just Rumble Studio here. Um I think it's free, or maybe it's not, but uh I you know, I think it's I think it's free. So basically you get what you pay for. So all right, and now for some random thoughts here about uh this here movie uh that we are talking about uh with the Boride exclamation point. And I got a couple of random thoughts. And my first random thought is Christian Bale is just wasted in this reunion between him and his Dark Knight co-star, Maggie Jell and Hall. I have no idea. I mean, quite frankly, I have no idea what Christian Bale was thinking doing this movie. Maybe he just wanted to do it as a favor to Maggie Jell and Hall, because maybe they've been friends since the Dark Knights or something like that. But uh, you know, you may have not even realized this, but we haven't seen Christian Bale in anything. Anything. Like no movies, no TV shows, nothing in three years. Okay. And if you take away his uh I think he did his brief appearance in this thing that like nobody's nobody saw. It's actually been four years uh since he's been in anything that people that anybody would have seen for the most part, right there. So I'm just gonna round, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna increase the number. We haven't seen him in anything in four years. And right before he took that break, that four-year break, he had three straight movie failures. Okay, he had Thor, Love and Thunder, Amsterdam, and the pale blue eye, which was like just some weak ass Netflix movie there. And then he has all these three failures before he takes that four-year break, and he comes back with this. He's fallen quite a bit from his last good performance in Ford v. Ferrari, okay? And that came out what 2018, 2019, something like that. It's been a while, it's been a minute, okay? But you know what? You know, uh Hope Springs Eternal because Christian Bale, at least he'll be in Heat too soon there. So Michael Mann is making the the sequel uh to his classic uh you know heist movie, Heat, and Christian Bale is supposed to play either supposed to play uh Vincent Hanna, the Al Pacino character, or uh Chris Chaharlis, the the the the uh the role that uh the late great Val Kilmer uh made famous from the first Heat movie. So I don't know. We'll see uh if Christian Bale can uh revive his career uh with being in Heat 2. I don't know. I mean, and and again, you have to think Heat 2's gotta be a good movie, okay, because hopefully it doesn't go the doesn't go the path of Gladiator 2, because obviously Gladiator, you know, just like Heat is a beloved movie, and and just like uh Gladiator 2, Heat 2 will be a sequel that comes decades and decades after the beloved original movie. And uh and as we as we as we can tell from you know, as we know from Gladiator 2, man, just because it's the same director and uh you know and and uh it doesn't mean it's gonna be a good sequel, okay? I mean, because Gladiator 2 was a set of cinematic turd, okay. So hopefully uh Heat 2 uh you know isn't number two, okay, when that comes out right there. But we'll we'll we'll see. We'll see what how that all turns out. Uh but another random thought I had about the bride exclamation point is this movie is not only sucking at the box office, but even the film Twitter lefty lemmings that you'd think would be fangirling over a message movie like this are turning on it. Even the shrillest bag of win in the film critic universe, Grace Randolph, said the bride exclamation point is unwatchable and is a huge misfire. What? From Grace Randolph? My God. I mean, you got the critic's percentage on Rotten Tomatoes is even lower than the audience score, okay, about a movie like this. And this movie is chum in the water for the man-hating sharks that swim around Hollywood, or so Maggie Gillenhall thought. She'll have plenty of time to ponder this mistake on the Hollywood version of the Tree of Woe. All right. And if you know what that is a that what uh movie that's a reference to, let me know in the old live chat uh right there, the what the Tree of Woe reference uh comes from as far as movies go. Uh as far as movies go in the live chat on Rumble or YouTube right there. Okay, so because uh it's a famous movie. It's a famous, famous, famous movie there. And uh just just let's just say it's stars and Austrian. There we go. And I'm sure that that gave it away right there. All right, everybody. What should we do next here uh in this in this episode, this latest episode of Movies America Live here as I scratch my nose over here? I got like a little itchy, itchy, itchy going on with my nose right there. Um, I know what I should do. I should let you know that uh I do have another show coming up this week here. Uh it's every week. I have a show on Thursday night as well. Not just the show that's on Sunday afternoon. All right, I got the Thursday night show uh called Movies America Spoiler Warning. Okay. And as you can tell from the title, uh yes, spoilers might be mentioned in the Thursday show, on the Thursday show right there. Okay. Uh I say it that way because I don't go out of my way to drop spoilers on the Thursday show, but I don't like, you know, walk on eggshells and like chew off my fingernails, you know, worrying about if I'm gonna drop a spoiler. Like I do on this show. Okay. So if you can tell my fingernails are all gone because I'm I'm chewing them out of nervousness that I might drop a spoiler about uh this movie here, the Batman. Obviously, I got Christian Bale on the brain right there. Uh so let's try that again. The bride exclamation point there, okay. Um but yeah, again, all that to say is I have a Thursday night show called The Movies, uh called Movies America Spoiler Warning, and uh I will be talking about the Bride exclamation point in more detail, okay? Uh and that show is typically longer, uh, or at least a little longer than this Sunday show right there, because I try to go more in depth into the movie. And then how how in-depth I go into the movie is almost entirely dependent on how much feedback or how much I hear from you through the live chat uh right there, because I'm not doing this movie this show just for myself. I do the show so that viewers can get in a live chat and we could talk about the movie of the episode. Okay, there. And you can let me know if you hate the movie, love the movie, uh, you know, thought it was somewhere in the middle, kind of meh, uh, or if you want to talk about another movie, or live chat about really anything uh you want, because uh, I mean, I know I'm not the only movie maniac out there. I know I'm not the only uh, you know, uh freedom-fueled film fanatic out there. And uh, and so this show is a perfect show that if you love movies, you can get in into this show and watch it, watch it live and get in the live chat and talk about said movie. You can rip it to shreds or sing its praises from the mountaintops, whatever you want to talk about right there, okay? Um, and so the Thursday show lets you do that. I suppose I should probably let you know what time that show comes on on Thursday night. Probably not the worst idea in the world. So that comes on at 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Mountain Time, and 4 p.m. Pacific time on Thursday night. And all you gotta do on Thursday is just search, you know, just search Movies America and then the name of the movie, and I'm going over going over, and then you'll see the link there on Thursday morning. That's usually when we have the links out first on Thursday morning, and you'll find the links to that. Or you can go to my ex account under at Movies America on Thursday morning or sometime on Thursday, and you can uh get the links to watch the show that way as well. So there you go. So all you movie maniacs and all you all my fellow Freedom Fueled film fanatics, don't say I never gave you a chance uh to talk in-depth about you know this movie and that movie and all of that stuff uh right there because uh this is this is a show where movie nerds need to unite and talk ad nauseum about movies and all that stuff. So I know like right now, I know. I mean, we're we're coming into an age where maybe we're just already fully embedded in the age where where video games is where it's at, and movies are are play second fiddle to video games, okay, right there. And I I know that movies did it to themselves because in the last 15, 20 years, we've had you know so many like uh woke message movies, uh, and that's that's basically sullied you know the movie waters. It's it's it's uh it's poisoned the movie waters right there, where people uh uh they rightfully think that there's no good movies anymore, or there's very few good movies, but there's a lot of but they think there's a lot of good video games coming out. But uh, you know what, I gotta warn you, that whole you know, woke messaging, uh, you know, and that whole woke worldview, that's in video games as well. But anyway, but the reality is what it is. Video games, number one up here, and movies are number two down here. Okay, there we go. And so, yeah, it's uh so if I was a smart guy, I'd be doing a show about video games right now, or or or having a show where I'm just playing video games. Or I don't know why I'm doing the keyboard thing, where I'm playing video games and letting people watch me play video games. That would be the smart play, you know, as far as having a show uh there to get the viewers. But I love movies so much that I'm like, I don't give a crap. You know, I'm really I'm not a gamer, so it would be disingenuous for me to start a video game show uh right there. But anyway, enough about that. I just wanted to take a few minutes to uh let you know about my Thursday show, the Movies America spoiler warning show, right there. All right, and let's move on, shall we? Okay, and I was just mentioning woke here a little earlier, right there. And of course, this is uh the time of the show for uh my segment that I do on my Sunday show only. And uh that segment is the Is This a Woke After School Special? Uh, referring to the movie that I'm uh talking about today is the movie that I'm talking about, a woke after school special. Now, I realize we may have some younger viewers uh watching this show uh right here, okay? We might have a gaggle of viewers that are in their 20s or teens or whatever. And right now they're rightfully asking, what the hell is an after-school special? You know, much less a woke after school special. And you know what? Hey, I am going to allow me to educate you, okay, uh, here about what an after-school special is. So an after school special is this thing that came out like in the late 70s and early 80s, okay? And uh it would come on, obviously after school, okay? So you know like 3:30, you know, central time or whatever. And it would come on where so here's how it went down for me.

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So I would come home from school at 3:30 or whatever, and I'd run in the in the in the house and say, Hey, Mom, Mom, hey, can I watch Gilligan's Island or uh, you know, the Dukes of Hazard?

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And hey, can all my friends have some sunny day? You know, and you sit down in front of the TV, you're gonna watch the Gilligan's Island, or so you think. And instead, what comes on instead of Gilligan's Island is a after-school special, okay? And it's usually like a half-hour show, and it teaches kids about hey, don't smoke cigarettes or don't drink, or, you know, some creepy guy uh, you know, that comes up and drives up in a van with no windows and says, Hey kids, I got plenty of ice cream and candy in here. Come on and shine. Like, don't get in a van, especially if the guy looks like Joe Biden, okay? Uh so it's like it's it's uh, you know, shows that teach you, teach kids valuable lessons like that. Okay, it's so it's it's in the right place, all right. It's trying to, you know, uh teach kids not to smoke and drink and all of that stuff right there. But it does in a very, very corny, cheesy way, okay? It's they were so cheesy and corny even back then. I can't imagine how corny and cheesy it would look now if I watch one. But uh so that's the context. That's like what an after school special is right there. And they don't have them on anymore, as far as I know, there. But um, but I call the segment, you know, is this movie a woke after school special? Because we have had a plethora of movies, okay, uh, in the last, you know, 20 or 15, 20 years where a move where a movie hasn't really been a movie, okay. Okay, it's not something that's been meant to entertain you or anything like that. It's more of a woke after school special. Okay. It's the kind of thing that makes the vast majority of people that watch it uh just roll their eyes, okay, uh, there. And so let's get to it. Is the bride exclamation point a woke after school special? Okay. I mean, is I mean, is it indeed a woke after school special there? And to that, I'll say just watch this and see if you can tell just from this if it is or not.

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You have two daughters. Yeah. How old are yours? 12 and 13. Okay. Okay. I have 19 and almost 14. Oh my gosh. Okay. Advice. Well, you know what? I'll tell you this. Here's a little piece of advice that can also segue to the movie. Like, I made this movie because of my daughters. I made the first movie also because of my daughters, but this one is about the parts of all of us that will not get in the box that everyone tells us we're supposed to get into. And my daughters like fundamentally will not get in their boxes. And at first I thought, no, no, no, guys, get in the box. It's just gonna be easier for you. You're gonna have an easier time. Like I was wishing for them that they would fit more easily. And then I was like, no, no. Like I had a kind of an epiphany. And and the truth is, like, then I wrote this movie.

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All right. So this is the type of movie that the is this a woke after school special segment was born for. All right. Uh, the moment I heard that this was a reimagining of the bride of Frankenstein, just like any time I hear one of Woke Hollywood's fave words, reimagining, a little pee came out of me. All right. And I stole that line from Guardians of the Galaxy, okay? And the Bride exclamation point is an unneeded feminism after school special. Okay. I mean, there's a reason that this is set in the 1930s. Um, you know, it's because the demand for the level of misogyny portrayed here is far greater than the supply in this day and age, okay? So Gyllen Hall had to go back almost a hundred years to find, you know, the type of misogyny that you wanted to portray right there. And most of the men in the bride exclamation point are just outright caricatures, okay? Pretty much every man in the bride exclamation point, except for Frank, are portrayed as disgusting, handsy, you know, assaulting Neanderthals. It's like getting a peek into the warped mind of a militant feminist. And this movie is so pretentious, so sloppy. I mean, it just makes me wonder what are the names of the men who Gyllen Hall is just so mad at, uh, you know, that, you know, that that that that made her make this movie. I you know, I know you heard her uh say there that you know her daughters inspired her to make this movie, but I guarantee you there's like a man or some men that, you know, that that jilted her, right? Uh, that jaded her, that that she made this movie for. Like, and and to that I'm like, yeah, who did Jillan Hall wrong? I mean, she's uh she's uh she's she's angry, she's mean, and she needed to make this movie uh for them right there, and and and her daughters, as she said. Uh and I hope that you know Maggie uh you know got some catharsis from this movie because she'll have plenty, plenty of time between now and the next time any studio gives her even one red cent to make another movie. Because I'm sure Warner Brothers didn't want to spend$90 million on Jillian Hole's feminist therapy session. I guarantee uh they did not uh want that movie. They did not want a message movie, all right? And they didn't want to spend$90 million on that. Or maybe they did want a message movie uh for$90 million, but they wanted it to make some bank uh there. But again, that's why I say that good old, that paramount buyout of Warner Brothers, that's why that's a good thing, because not that I want, you know, as all the Soy boys are afraid of, not that I want, you know, Trump to have any control over anything or movies or TV to have that Trump flavor to them or anything like that. I don't want that either. And I voted for Trump three times, and I don't want that. I just want um, you know, because Warner Brothers being bought out by Paramount, I want the seemingly smarter than Warner Brothers executives at Paramount about like what the vast majority of America wants to see in their movies and TV. I want them to take that knowledge and make more movies and TV shows that, again, the vast majority of America wants to see. Okay, not the 1.5% of people that that just eat up movies like the Bride exclamation point, you know, or or watch the view religiously or anything like that. So actually, with the view is a bad example because there's a whole nation of Merlot marinated, you know, cul-de-sac, you know, housewives that watch the view. Uh there's a bad example, but you get my point right there. Okay. There you go. Oh, right there. Okay. All right. Let's move on there, people. All right, here we go. If I get my crap straight here, I blame my mouse. It's my mouse's fault. That's it. I'm gonna blame my mouse for uh my technical difficulties right there. But uh, so my final thoughts on the bride exclamation point. Uh, you know, you know, if you've been listening, of course, you know, I'm totally recommending this movie. No, no. Far from it, people. Far from it. All right. Like I said, this movie is the reason that I created the is this movie awoke after school special segment. Okay, not really, it's uh, but it it's a perfect movie for that segment right there. Okay, so yeah, if you uh don't want to spend, you know, 18, you know, 18 bucks a person, you know, plus snacks and candy uh, you know, on that, you know, if you don't want to watch a message movie there where you're just basically just getting lectured, you know, after you paid$18 and then paid$15 for popcorn and soda, uh, yeah, do not go to this movie whatsoever. Okay, so it's it's it's it's a it's a lecture fest, it's a sermon, uh, it's just you know, Wolk Hollywood looking down their nose at you, uh preaching at you the proper way to to to act and all that stuff and that kind of thing. So uh so and it's like technically, like, like as far as from a uh God, just just from a look standpoint, it is like it's technically uh it is done very, very well. It's got some good uh it's got a good look to it right there. Okay, the cinematography is pretty good, uh, but but other than that, I can't say really anything good about it whatsoever. So, but but yeah, again, like I said, Maggie Gyllenhall, enjoy uh you know your 10 years uh you know in director's purgatory. So because you're not getting to direct the movie anytime soon. That is uh for sure. Okay, well, I just want to thank everybody for watching this episode right here. I know this is a movie that's not really popular. I mean, like I said, it only made like 7.3 million at the box, but they're domestic. It didn't make much more like internationally uh as well. So this movie is gonna bum pretty heavily right there. So I am not surprised that not a whole lot of people are joining me for this episode uh there because I think the I think the word is out, all right, that this movie is a woke after school special. So they sure as hell don't want to watch a YouTube or a rumble show about it uh there. So but the reason I'm doing this show though is I'm I'm I'm here exactly for that reason to warn you and and to give you a heads up. Don't jump in the car, don't go to the theater, don't spend one red cent on this pile of dog turd of a movie right there. Don't do it, all right? Don't do it whatsoever. So uh, but real quick, I just want to uh ask you if you would, uh if you would follow me, okay, because Movies America is on a bunch of different social media platforms there. 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Just let me know that you follow me on a platform or multiple platforms, and I will follow you back. There you go. So uh that's just you know trying to help you out because you helped me out. All right, so there you go uh with that. Uh so all right, let's get it ready to wrap up this show here. But again, in short, if you haven't picked up uh what I'm saying here about the broad exclamation point, don't bother watching it. Definitely don't go to the theater and go see it. I wouldn't even watch it on streaming. Okay. Hell, I wouldn't even watch it if, you know, in a in a couple years, if you're you know laying on a couch at 3 a.m. just scratching your nuts, and you uh and you basically you open your eyes because you fell asleep and you you see like uh the the bride exclamation point playing on HBO or something like that. I wouldn't even watch it then. I'd just like, hell, I'd I'd turn it to C-SPAN for something more entertaining to watch uh than the bride exclamation point. So there you go. Uh so as you can tell, I love this movie. All right. But uh with that here, real quick here, just yeah, feel free to share the link to this episode to any family or friends out there. Don't don't hog all the all the all the premium movies America for yourself. Don't be don't be stingy hogs, okay? Give the gift of movies America and uh share the link to uh this episode or the link uh to uh my my Rumble and YouTube uh channels there with all the episodes with anybody and your any of your friends or family. There you go. But we're getting ready to wrap up this episode. But first, get out there, people. Those movies aren't gonna watch themselves. See ya.