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F1: The Movie
Brad Pitt roars back to the screen in a high-octane thrill ride that proves age is just a number when passion drives you forward. As veteran racer Sonny Hayes, Pitt brings a magnetic charisma to a character whose superstitious quirks – including his refusal to touch winning trophies – hint at a complicated past filled with triumph and regret.
When struggling team owner Ruben Cervantes (perfectly cast Javier Bardem) recruits Sonny to mentor rising star Joshua Pierce (Damson Idris), the stage is set for a classic tale of redemption that transcends typical sports movie formulas. Their chemistry crackles with authentic tension – the seasoned veteran who races for the pure art of it versus the young hotshot chasing fame and fortune. What begins as rivalry gradually transforms into mutual respect through white-knuckle racing sequences that put viewers directly into the driver's seat.
Director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) brings his technical mastery to the world of Formula 1, creating racing sequences that feel heart-stoppingly real. The camera work deserves special mention – innovative angles and drone shots capture the visceral thrill of racing at 200 MPH. Hans Zimmer's score perfectly complements these moments, building tension and emotional resonance throughout the 2.5-hour journey. While some subplots could have been trimmed, the core relationship between Sonny and Pierce provides the emotional engine that powers this film to its satisfying conclusion.
For racing enthusiasts, F1 delivers authentic details and cameos from real drivers that enhance the experience. Yet it remains accessible to newcomers, explaining the sport's complexities without patronizing its audience. Beyond the spectacular racing sequences lies a universal story about finding purpose, mentoring the next generation, and pursuing excellence for its own sake rather than glory. Don't miss this pulse-pounding celebration of second chances and the relentless pursuit of perfection – experience F1 in IMAX for the full immersive journey.
excuse me, is anybody sitting here? Sorry, this is taken. Sorry, you know what? I've been stuck binge watching this whole entire weekend. What's that?
Speaker 1:um, the bear on hulu yes, season four season four just came out, but I I'm behind. I'm literally in the middle of season two right now and I'm trying to catch up in time. This show is so addicting, brandon, like I cannot stop watching it. It's so good. I mean, if I I just try looking right now when you join the zoom uh, you call me. I was looking up the bear that the actress, ayo I don't even know how to say her name, ayo uh, in barbary, I don't know how to say her last name. I'm obsessed with her. I love her in everything she does, everything she touches. She's a producer now. I have a huge crush on her. She's our age too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, she's fantastic. She's got that quirky. Like Bob, you want to hang out with her, but for me she stresses me out. But I love her anyway.
Speaker 1:She's on TikTok too. She only has one up there right now, but she must have deleted all her other ones because she's been on it for a while. She's so funny, she seems so relatable. And to think that, like we, she was supposed to be the mcu by now. Did you know that? No, no, what was she supposed to be? She was supposed to be in the thunderbolts. She was supposed to be the. Uh.
Speaker 1:Julia ladroff is uh assistant, okay, but then the actor strike happened and it kind of pushed back her schedule and she couldn't do it then. So she was going to be in there. Well, she's blowing up too, like she's literally everywhere now, yeah, yeah. So I mean, do you think she would have done good in that role as the assistant in the Thunderbolts?
Speaker 2:Listen. I think she'd be great in anything she does. For that one she's too big of a star like you need someone who can kind of fade into the background like character actor type. I think she would have, in a good way, stole every scene I 100 agree with that.
Speaker 1:She's she. They could find her better role for her in the mcu. I would like to see you in the mcu. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2:I honestly see her more of a dc role kind of person though yeah, I well, if she does like mcu, I kind of see her voice acting like obviously she did really good at inside out, um. So I think that there's her like you can kind of find her in a guardians of the galaxy type movie I'm trying to think of any voice acting thing that might be coming up soon.
Speaker 1:Um, I don't think they have anything going on mcu. Maybe she can be, please. Oh god, this is another one I wanted to bring up on the podcast. Um, I hope she does not join ironheart. Have you started watching that show? No, I'm going to. I have hot takes on that.
Speaker 2:I want her in a full movie, like she deserves.
Speaker 1:I have. I'm in the middle of the third episode, because the first three episodes are out right now. It's not for me, man. It is not for me. It is getting a lot of hate. Honestly, it's mostly the actor, the villain. I can't remember his name.
Speaker 2:He was in transformers, um it's not to be from hamilton, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, I just hate him, I just don't like him. I just don't like him in anything he does.
Speaker 1:Oh, my god, yeah, he's so distracting to me and everything like in a bad way, almost like, and he's like the villain in this one. I don't know if he's the villain, yet he's a character in there and I just the whole storyline okay. The only reason I'm giving it the chance is because ryan cuckoo is attached to it as a producer, um, and he even stated, said like this is gonna lead directly into doomsday. I'm not complaining about the production or anything like that, I'm mostly hating just the story itself. Like it's kind of boring and distracting not distracting, but like off-putting, like why do we care about some of this stuff?
Speaker 2:you know, like she was by far my least favorite part of wakanda forever. Um, like I like that. I understand what they were trying to do.
Speaker 1:It just didn't necessarily there was nothing in there that said I need to see a tv series after this and well, the cool thing, it's based in chicago, south side chicago so I mean we're seeing a lot of landmarks that mean you would be familiar with um, but then some of it's like almost like the one of the points in the second episode is like chicago's building, almost like an underground city Not city, but like roads for people to cross through easily. It looks very much like Wakanda underground. I was like there's no way Chicago's going to do this. It's ridiculous with some of the plot points and her motives and she makes her own suit and AI is her best friend that passed away, and so she's dealing with trying to get over her friend that passed away. And it's exactly so. She's dealing with like trying to get over a friend too. I was like trauma, yeah, I was like well, we already covered the trauma part in Wakanda too. I mean like give me something inspiring.
Speaker 2:Trauma is a journey. You know, I guess my whole thing is for the culture. I'm going to watch it. Right, I'm going in happy there's unhappy. There's a lot of haters out there who are hating it for the wrong reasons. So I'm gonna give it a try. I just don't as a as a marvel fan. It didn't scream um watch on first day to me yeah, I think there's only six episodes.
Speaker 1:The first three came out already. I think the second three are coming out already next week, okay, so?
Speaker 2:it's easily bingeable.
Speaker 1:That's good though yeah, yeah, um, it just doesn't scream original to me like the story plot, plot points are just very cliche. I feel like it's kind of weird because I think there are I saw a couple um conspiracy theories that they're gonna bleed out to mephesto and there are hints of it so far that's been the cat like fan theory sinceandaVision.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but this one's more likely. There's definitely someone a cape that he was stole from a demon. All things are pointing to Mephisto. There's a lot of MCU references, though, in this movie, in this show. This is what I like about it a lot, but anyone listening, if you want to watch Ironheart, I would probably say watch the Bear instead.
Speaker 2:The Bear is easy, it's, the bear is also inspiring, not in there, the literal, probably best show on tv right now. They're both in chicago. Oh my goodness, that's actually crazy. Everybody was saying, speaking of fan cast, and jeremy, uh, alan white, like, uh, they were floating the idea for him for Wolverine, which was kind of hilarious to me. He's got that short angry vibe going, but I think that might be a little bit outside his range still if you, if man maybe more Cyclops than Wolverine oh ew, I need him like I think I need somebody a little bit more put together for my cyclops.
Speaker 2:Who is that.
Speaker 1:Who is that? Um actor banshee, the one who screams? Maybe, yeah, maybe I don't know, I don't know we'll do an episode of fan casting x-men one day. Yeah, that'll be pretty cool. Um man, this has been a crazy week for movies, like um we, but we're going to talk about f1, this episode. I'm excited to bring that back, um, but there's also several. Did you, did you watch elio? No, no, the new pixar one, the new pixar one? I haven't. It's well. First of all, it's flopping hard right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely gonna give it a watch, mostly because I heard that they brought back the disney pixar bloopers at the end of the movie, like how they used to do in the early 2000s, so I'm excited for that. There's a new movie called like bride wars or something like that, with um what's that?
Speaker 1:yeah, it's perfect wilson rebel wilson, not rebel wilson. Yeah, yeah, rebel wilson. Um, I'm gonna go see that tomorrow. I'm still trying to see, 28 years later, um, what else is coming out. Um, I saw megan 2.0 watch. I'll tell you about in a minute. Um, it's, it's, it's picking up, it's picking up. I'm glad we're getting like three or four yeah, similar.
Speaker 2:I already have like my next five movie tickets bought. I think I'm also going to see rebel on monday, but then I'm doing it early screening of jurassic world, just a day early, nothing crazy. And then of course I got that early screening of superman coming up, so like it's just all stacking up for me let's talk about that, because I wanted to bring up on the podcast, okay.
Speaker 1:So f1 came out official release dates on friday. As everyone knows especially if you're a lister they always do early preview nights on a Thursday. Well, this week, for whatever reason, they decided to do an early preview preview night on a Wednesday and I saw an AMC wanted to go buy my ticket. I was like, is that a mistake? Like I thought maybe it was a private screening or something. But no, I bought my ticket for a Wednesday and you, you also bought on Wednesday. I know you also mentioned how you're gonna go see it on, I think, on Wednesday too, for Superman. I do not like this. I do not like that they're showing it so, so early. I was like, where do we draw the line? Where? Why are we showing it this early?
Speaker 2:I, I'm very similar. I like it, um, but I only like it for special events like I don't even know, I just I like it for like long weekends, like funny enough, even the Jurassic World. Like obviously Thursday or Friday is going to be 4th of July, so Thursday is going to be a little great. I can. I can buy the excuse of giving it Wednesday. They do that for Thanksgiving, memorial Day, like stuff like that. This random. Like I'm with you, it's already hard enough to avoid spoilers. I'm trying to avoid like more like leaks coming out every second. So people who are watching it tuesday, wednesday, that's just makes my life way more stressful.
Speaker 1:Keep it on the original thursday release and I'm also thinking like that's kind of cheating in the box office too, like for opening weekend you know, because you have a whole extra day well, I think, like the, I would assume the logic behind it is let's say, you and I go on wednesday, we were obviously going to be counted in that thursday group anyway, right?
Speaker 2:so I don't know if they're getting like you get multiple chances at that, I guess but maybe.
Speaker 1:But I went to go. I think there was only one showing. I'll give them that like it wasn't like on the whole thing thing. There's only one showing at 7 pm. That's near me at least, um, but it was packed. I've seen it in imax and there was a lot of people there.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's that's definitely like another, probably 100 grand right there, like uh and you know already talking about it, you already see the the boost that it gets, because I didn't even think about this. They did what? 144 million opening, you know, one of the highest, like uh, opening weekends for an original movie in a long, a long time. So it didn't really do that. Or did they get that little wednesday boost in there now you're?
Speaker 1:now you're uh getting a little bit behind the scenes there yeah, I mean I wouldn't say like the best opening weekend this year, I mean sinners is probably still the best one, I think. Um, I don't. I think something did beat it recently. I can't remember what it was what did, did Sinners do?
Speaker 2:opening weekend.
Speaker 1:Off the top of my head, I don't know, but I would say Sinners. I'll predict Sinners is probably the top four of the year. It's going to have the best opening weekends, Speaking of which.
Speaker 2:Specifically with these originals, because obviously these multi-movie franchises have a little bit of a leg up, but like a true original it's pretty pretty, uh pretty fantastic to see like I snuck in fantastic there.
Speaker 1:Uh, we're gonna be also doing a draft of the second half of this episode. We're gonna be doing the best. Our predictions for the best opening weekends for the remaining movies of the second half of the year and, um, for the fun of it, we'll probably do the ones that we predict are going to flop as well. At least I have one. Do you have one for that, louis, for that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got my big three. I got my big three, ooh, I got more than three.
Speaker 1:I'm such a hater. I'm a hater. But we're going to talk about F1 of this movie. First of all, the marketing for this movie was pretty great. I mean it's. I loved it. Did you see the popcorn buckets for this movie?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the helmets, badass.
Speaker 1:It looked very similar to the Captain America one, the aviator helmet, almost Just different black and gold. Basically they were very cool, but they were kind of tiny. I wish they were a little bit bigger.
Speaker 2:They, um, they were very cool, but they were kind of tiny. I was a little bit bigger. They were very small, um, but they they're gonna look great together on a shelf like the right next to each other yeah, also megan 2.0 had a popcorn bucket come out this week too.
Speaker 1:Have you seen those? Those look creepy no, is it.
Speaker 2:Is it a megan?
Speaker 1:doll, it's a megan's head, and also the face is removable too, so you can see like the mechanics underneath her face. Oh, I hate that with everything in me. It was like it was bigger than the f1, like the helmet. It was bigger than that. I was like it was. And then you just open up the top of her head like a popcorn bucket. It was so ugly I. Well, before we get an f1, I'll tell you about megan 2. You, it's a good, as you expect it to be from being a sequel to megan one. The first one is a little bit better because it makes more sense. Uh, because, like it's an ai turning evil. Basically, this one megan comes back, but she's not evil, no more. And they're explaining for that is like she. I was a kid then I grew up. I'm not like that anymore. I was like that's that, you're a, literally a machine. Like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:you're not a real. You're not real at all.
Speaker 1:And they are fighting this group of people who go around the world to stop ai production have from happening because they are scared of megan, something like megan to happen again. So anything technological advances like if there's anything like, uh, there's a they, they build a machine to help, like with people who have muscle disabilities or something like that like you attach it to your skeleton, not like you wear almost like a second skeleton, and uh, you can lift things like three times as much as your weight. And it's like they end up stealing that or destroying all the properties for that and uh, the reason is because, like, we don't like that's obviously because they're going to be used as the army, like they're going to take that and use it for their advances. So they try to stop any advancements. And they see Megan and they try to stop.
Speaker 2:Megan, basically.
Speaker 1:It's ridiculous, it's stupid. Even more stupid than the first one, I would say. And the first one was pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Alright, on the spot question who handled AI better, mission Impossible, final Reckoning, or Megan?
Speaker 1:As the terms of actually seeing ai being used. Megan, mission impossible yeah, like I think they did a better uh use of ai in the first part of mission impossible. And the final reckoning part one yes, the second part, like, yeah, you see the final reckoning part one. There's the second part, like yeah, you see its presence from the very beginning in this. Like the last hour 50 minutes is them just running and chasing, trying to get like this algorithm, like a physical? I don't know, they didn't do it well, they didn't really. You're gonna give me workup again, but I want to talk about more grounded story. Then we'll go to f1.
Speaker 1:Brad pitt is the fucking man. He is the man and I think he's in the 60s, right, yes, sir, this guy is kicking out man. I was looking at his hairline. I'm jealous that, even as a 30 year old or not 29 year old, I'm jealous of this hairline. Literally, he I didn't realize how big of a f1 fan he really is in real life like he's been trying to get like a racing movie off the ground for years I'm like a couple decades, he said. And then this one came along and he fell in love with the thing.
Speaker 1:He's his producer as well yeah, yeah uh, for those you don't know, it's a formula one driver comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver. The star is Brad Pitt. This is also a big one. I'm introduced to is Dampson Idris, directed by Joseph Kwasinski, who directed the Top Gun Maverick. Did you know they're making a Top Gun Maverick 3?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the, the, the best movie of that year hands that's what they said man, I don't think it's gonna happen. I I, I know tom cruise wants it to I there's. There's no movement on the production side. I don't want it unless tom come average is a perfect movie. I do not need more. I don't want them to mess up the legacy of two fantastic movies yeah, what?
Speaker 1:do they wait like 30 years for the sequel to come out? Yeah, I'm good. I'm good right now. I'm not saying like I deserve one or anything like that. It's it was perfect. Let it be for a while At least. Like you know, I get a Tom Cruise getting older and you don't know you have miles toller who's who's doing great.
Speaker 2:so, um, I was thinking about tom cruise or you can do it with uh glenn powell hitman or hitman, like a spin-off.
Speaker 1:He's the guy. That's what I need. I was thinking about tom cruise hard the other day. Um, dude, I I think of roles for him, him and johnny depp. I was like I don't, I cannot in my mind, I can't see other scenarios of where they started in another movie. That isn't well for Tom Cruise. Like, isn't action packed, you know, like he he's done rom-coms before. I was like I don't see him doing that ever again. Um, tom, I mean, uh, johnny, back powers of the caribbean with him and, if I'm not mistaken, I don't see him doing anything else than that. Like I don't see him doing heartthrob movies or anything or anything like that anytime soon.
Speaker 2:So I know that. Um, his latest one that he's trying to get made is were you a tropic thunder guy? Yes, okay, he's trying to get a less grossman movie made, uh, based off his character, obviously, in uh, tropic thunder.
Speaker 1:So really that would be fun. That would be, I mean, if he were to do it. I hope to god he brings ben stiller back I don't care if he's in it, but at least to direct it.
Speaker 2:You know that, man well so he he's actually partnering um with the dude who did, uh um the mission impossible movies like they were working on the screen together, of course.
Speaker 1:I think there was a question Brad Pitt had in the red carpet because Tom Cruise did show up to the premiere for this movie with Brad Pitt, and there's two where they work together again Because they did work in a movie. I forget what movie it was. I think it was a rom-com too In the 80s.
Speaker 2:Oh, the interview with the vampire.
Speaker 1:Yes, and Brad Pitt goes. You know what? I would love to work with him again, but I don't want to be jumping on a goddamn plane like he has been doing.
Speaker 2:And that's what everyone was saying, because originally I think Tom Cruise was supposed to have the lead in this one and the director was like thank god we didn't get tom cruise to do it because we were already stressed with them driving it.
Speaker 1:Tom cruise would have wanted to flip it himself, like yeah, um, there's also talks a lot a sequel for this movie already with a potential crossover with tom cruise's movie he does. He also did a racing driving movie in the 80s like thunder road, something like that days of thunder, days of thunder. There's talks about doing a crossover movie with that, and that's when it led to the question like, would you work with him again? Um, same thing with this movie. Just let it be for a while. I don't think I need a sequel.
Speaker 1:Like, I feel like he had a pretty good ending for this character. Um, unless I don't know, I don't see anything. Yeah, the ending movie is like him picking up a new challenge. We'll get into that in a little while, but I think just let it be for a while. Like, let like and suck up the enjoyment. Um, I think this is, if anything is, more about opening new doors for damson. Um, for, you know, future action roles, not even as action drama roles too like he was good in this movie yeah, I think I told you, but he's my pick to be the.
Speaker 2:Uh, if they recast t'challa like he would be my perfect black panther pick yeah, I was thinking about that the entire time I seen him on screen.
Speaker 1:I was trying to envision him in and I could totally do it. He's he's a good guy. He's's a handsome guy too, and he definitely could pull off physically, because he looks fit in this movie too. Let's talk about opening day. We both went to go see it on a Wednesday. How was your theater?
Speaker 2:It was good. It was packed dude Similar to yours. I was shocked. I don't know about you. I didn't hear about this opening until two days beforehand. I don't know how the word got out, but people were very excited to see it. What about you?
Speaker 1:you say anything. Yeah, I didn't hear about it till about two days, like you think you texted me like hey, did you know this is early? Yeah, I just saw it. Um, and once they go see in our imax and you know how big our imax is the theater and it was probably about like 75 packed. It was pretty good. Um, I don't think any crazy stories that I can remember off the top of my head. I did see like a few couple in front of me were like talking a lot during their previews, but they were mostly was gawking over the. They bought the popcorn bucket and that's how I was gonna go look at it. Um, yeah, it was a great theater. Reaction got an applause at the end of it, which is awesome. Did you see it in imax 2 or no?
Speaker 2:yeah, I had to. Actually I started going to the cinema because it's a little bit closer for like my, you know, just convenience sake but no regular, like imax movies will be seen with amc obviously. Uh, bonus to the a-list.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, man, we would be so broke if we didn't have the a-list membership no one, because I'm still going to see I was talking to a co-worker who's I told him about like my marathon day, like I've seen four movies in one day, and he goes, like I did that once. It was one of the transformers came out like one of the michael bay ones and speaking of which they're making another michael bay movie, transforms movie. Um, but the difference is he went to go see transformers four times in one day. I was like that is ridiculous guy. He said he was gonna go see it and he was talking to a friend of his like I wouldn't mind seeing that again. So they turned around, went to go see it again. I think I was gonna go see with other people the second time, third time. I was like ain't no way that boy was that good to go see it four times, even a little bit.
Speaker 2:That's how you end up on the list. You can't spend that much time with Transformers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I haven't done a Hollywood updates thing in a couple episodes. We've got to do it soon, yeah, but they're going to be making another two new Transformers movies. Michael Bay is doing one. I forgot who's doing the other one. Is it the same director from Transformers 1? They also canceled the Transformers one sequel, which I'm very disappointed about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, cause that movie was way better than had any right to be um, or is it? It's not the Bumblebee director, right? No Cause that was James but yeah, I don't know if the second.
Speaker 1:I can't remember what it was. A big name too, but I don't know. I'm kind of over transformers. Actually, I'll I'm in the wrong for saying this. I'm kind of over transformers.
Speaker 2:Dude, I've been over transformers since, like the third one.
Speaker 1:Yes, I think I've seen one of my Mark Wahlberg's one transformer movies, but after that I just did not care for them, like to transformers. One did bring me back it, though.
Speaker 2:I'll give him that absolutely, and I'm like and I think that's the whole key of us being movie fans like I'm most likely gonna go watch it because I will if it works out like there's only a benefit there, but it just is like what is my excitement towards it not?
Speaker 1:non, almost non-existent all right, let's go through the transform. I mean not transformer. Let's go through the f1 movie. Um, I mean, it opens up immediately with action, immediately with racing, like he's waking up like a morning routine. He wakes up like nothing. I was like, oh, you guys kind of interrupted my nap because he's napping on the like a race. It was, uh, totona racing. It was like a 24-hour race. First of all, I don't know why. What's the point of racing 24 hours? Like? What is the? I? I mean, I, I saw, I, I listened to brad pitt's interview on um dax shepard's podcast. Have you heard that one?
Speaker 2:okay, yeah, not even listen to the interview, but I saw he went on you.
Speaker 1:You should listen to it. He talks he's talked a lot a great about the movie. Um, damn fraud's gonna go with that. But I mean it opens up with a. He's a big f1 fan. That's what I'm saying he. He said the big, that's what it was. The biggest challenge of this movie is how do you make people who don't know the sport, f1 or racing at all, come to the theaters, come see this F1 movie, and I thought, felt like they did a very great balance. This is almost. This is, would you, would you say this movie is great, better than Gran Turismo that came out last year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I have it like this Ford versus Ferrari. This is in the middle, and then Gran Turismo.
Speaker 1:I think you should for people listening. If you haven't seen this movie, I think you should watch Gran Turismo a little bit, or watch that movie before you watch F1, just because F1 went over my head with some of the rules and stuff like that. Gran Turismo did me like understand the sport a little bit better, um, but he said yeah, that was the biggest challenge of this movie. Like, how do you balance that to make people want to come see it? For, like, first of all, you're brad pitt. I think people are gonna come see you, no matter what. So that um, he you know it opens with 24 racing. He wins like it's nothing, doesn't even want the trophy, he doesn't want to touch the trophy. This guy is very superstitious throughout the whole movie. I loved it. I thought it was a very cool quirk of his um. And then he's recruited by ruben cervantes cervantes played by harry arbertum perfect casting for this kind of role. He their chemistry was great they, they, they, perfectly like.
Speaker 2:If I don't see my best friend for 10 years, I know I'll still have that relationship. That's exactly what they Just that dude vibe of being like, you know, being able to pick up where you left off and have that rivalry, competitiveness and love for each other.
Speaker 1:He comes into Recruit Sonny Hayes. That's his name in the movies. He comes to recruit Sonny Hayes because he has a loser team. He's in the hole like what is it like?
Speaker 1:38 billion dollars or something like that crazy amount of money so he's like I need someone to help my team win, to get them on the map, basically because on the verge of losing the team and he goes, he brings them on the team. This movie is almost like if you think about it in like a Disney Channel way like, oh, like the Bad News Bears, or something like that you know, like the team sucks, you know they bring in ringers to help them come in and win. It's kind of like that, but with more drama attached to it. So he comes on board. This is a new kid, joshua Pierce, who was played by Dayton D Dampson-Adrius, who we've been talking about.
Speaker 1:Who's a new kid? I think he's a rookie and he's just tired of being on a losing team. He doesn't really. He's a talented kid but he's more about the fame and glory of the part of the sport. So, yeah, that one, the one who's more about fame and younger blood versus the old and inexperienced who's winning versus, like, the olden, experience who's winning. I don't want to get too much, it's a two and a half hour movie.
Speaker 2:There's a lot to cover this movie long, long.
Speaker 1:I really want to see this movie again, but that's the only thing. Holding me back is like I don't want to sit in a theater for three hours yeah, especially with the 30 minutes of trailers.
Speaker 2:Don't even get me started about that yeah, this is a full-time commitment yeah.
Speaker 1:So let's go through the good and bads throughout this movie, because I have a list of bads and I have a list of goods in this movie. They're not even bad, there's just like more things I think they could have improved on what. So the good thing is I like the chemistry between the casting. That soundtrack was amazing. I mean, you could definitely tell it was the camera work from the guys who brought you to taco maverick. Matter of fact, my favorite shot in the whole movie was it was like the third act, the final race, like when he's about to cross the finish line. I thought first I thought they had a camera attached to the car racing, but then I think it was a drone. That was the way they made it look. It was so fast and it was covering everything and it was, yeah, phenomenal. That was my favorite shot throughout the whole movie. Um, you see that, like the progression, there's crazy character development in this movie.
Speaker 1:Loved it between both characters, actually all the characters in this movie, from the the owner absolutely yeah, yeah, um, it's just that like, and brad pitt's the man, I man, I love Brad Pitt. He's definitely the best part of this movie. What about you? What's something that gets for?
Speaker 2:you. Yeah, I mean the score by Hans Zimmer, like you feel it, the sound design alone. Like I don't know about you that I was so tense, like I could feel the tension of every race, like every, every decision. My heart was going as the music's picking up. Absolutely, love that. Um, I hate to call it action, but yeah, just the way that they shot. You know the whole pitch of having the guy who did Maverick is like how do you put the camera in the cockpit? And that's what it felt. Like I was, like we were the drivers, we were right there in the vehicles with them just going as fast as possible and yeah, man, the character works. Some people just say like, oh, this is brad, pitch is being cool again, don't care. All right, that's the vibe. That's what I bought my ticket for. I got to see it and again, like you, he had some good character development, but just a very simple story gave me, gave me everything I wanted to see on screen. Definitely worth an imax definitely.
Speaker 1:I would even go as far as probably one of those 4D theaters too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'd be badass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a lot of the driving is done by the actors in this movie too. Yeah, of course they have stunt drivers for the more dangerous ones, but for the most not for the I don't know how much percentage wise they did, but they did a good handful of those driving scenes, they said, and they did it. Doing actual races too. They had a 15 minute window to go on the uh laps with a real crowd there too. There's also a lot of cameos from real drivers in this movie too, which is awesome.
Speaker 1:I think I didn't recognize any of them, but there's people yeah, there was people in the audience that were like, oh, that's so and so, and that's so and so. You know, it was pretty cool to see that a little bit yeah, I was like to the point about the actual races.
Speaker 2:I know the one, uh, I think the final race that they did in vegas or the one, whatever one, that was in vegas, like I very like, distinctly remember looking at that and being like that's real, like I just know that that race happened two years ago or last year and I was like you can absolutely tell that they gave them time well, in the interview I mentioned with doug shepherd he talked about like yeah, they filmed.
Speaker 1:One of their first scenes was, um, what I can't remember which race, and it was hard one. They finished it. And then thank god they'd finished it because like the next day they went on strike as they couldn't work again for like another was like four or five months probably longer than that yeah, um.
Speaker 1:So we probably could have got this movie last year if wasn't for that strike. I would say, um, I do have the last things I didn't like in this movie. One I couldn't stand brad pitt's random laugh in this movie. It's his real laugh. He's laughing like a regular conversation like, and it's his real laugh. He doesn't laugh with dachshund, it's his real laugh.
Speaker 2:That's what, I think, made me like it so much it was just like random placement of his laugh.
Speaker 1:I was like I don't think, I don't know if you'll be really laughing at it right here. It was just weird. It was kind of like preppy boy kind of laugh. Uh, there's been. I have a lot of things that could have been cut out of this movie and that these are the hot pick, hot takes. I think that I think good to get. I don't remember her name, but the pig crew one who messes up in the beginning. I feel like her whole character art could have been cut out. Like she did nothing towards you, like I thought there would maybe at least be a romance between her and, um, that one guy, that pierce yeah, no, they didn't. They'd never brought up again. Um, the reporter who had a feud with Sonny, that could have been cut out.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:I like the first interaction, when he's a dick and he points out all of his flaws from his past. Because we needed to know about that, I felt like, and that was a good way to bring that up. You actually didn't even have to do that. I think you could have just done a montage of reports like oh, sonny Hayes from 1996 or whatever it was like you know he had a trouble pass like show me, like a documentary, like style, almost thing.
Speaker 2:this guy was a scene was cool in itself, because you just got brad pitt going yeah yeah, yeah, that was pretty cool like that, but yeah, didn't need it um, this is also even hotter.
Speaker 1:Take sunny's love interest. I think that whole thing could have been cut out. You didn't need that.
Speaker 2:You didn't need I hear people, I don't know, man, I think it still works you.
Speaker 1:I mean, it was cool that was in there. You did not need it though. Uh, I feel like that was definitely like mimicking top gun maverick, someone who was on the team. Well, she wasn't on the team, but someone who just happens to be there, is his love interest like she? I don't know this movie.
Speaker 2:I think it anchored, so for me, like, I think it just ain't like yes, they could have had that same relationship without it being like romantic. But I think the whole point of him is he's this suave guy, so watching him, him win her over in that way for me worked a little bit more.
Speaker 1:So I mean the whole thing about the biggest. Well, I want to say the biggest reason why they're losers is because they have a lot of females for the first time in the whole league. I think the first she was like the. She was on building the robot, not the robot, the car, basically.
Speaker 2:She was an engineer, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then also the first pit crew. She was also like, uh, I don't know she's the first one on their team as a female or what, but they definitely were rookies and they were definitely being watched more throughout the whole league just to see how they do. Basically, yeah, and the first time you're on the team you're automatically dating the driver.
Speaker 2:I was like I don't know how I feel I hear you, I hear you doesn't lend well, but you know what? It wouldn't be different if it was dude, who you know, and the opposite one. So I mean I would have.
Speaker 1:I would have liked it if they were just tight, they were just good friends. You know, that's what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like I think that you still needed her character and his to form that he likes straight talk and have her be the one to get them to sit at the table. I think that she was important. I do agree that it didn't necessarily have to be a romantic Leigh involved, yeah.
Speaker 1:I did like that scene a lot at the bar, though, when they were like who was kind of hitting on her? But then he was like then he shut it down, like down, like a shot straight, like all right, this is what the car needs. Like he was talking shop with it, like he is very knowledgeable about the sport and he loves it and that's mostly brad pitt too. He just loves that too. Um, and she was like that can't be safe, what we were doing. It's like I didn't have to be safe.
Speaker 1:And then you find out about his whole accident and that was a pretty. You saw a pov from his accident. That was pretty cool to see in this movie. It was intense, it was scary. Um, you see a couple accidents, man, when pierce flipped that or went over that car and you know the first accident, it got quiet in the theater. But then someone the guy right in front of me is like oh my god, it's like grant to use them all over again. I was like come on, and everyone laughed, everyone busted out laughing it was crazy.
Speaker 2:I, I had the same thing, because I think the music cuts out. But there was like some teenager there and he was like oh man, he's cooked. And then like somebody was like literally he's on fire and I was just like shut up. Yeah, it was kind of funny, but I was like you just took, you gotta just cut that, cut that scene for me.
Speaker 1:Um, man bill I think it was paul rudd went on amy poehler's podcast and they were talking about dirty dancing and there's a scene you know like have you seen dirty dancing?
Speaker 1:yeah of course, okay, there's a scene like where he hits his dog, that the dad hits the daughter and he goes like, oh my god, I'm so sorry I didn't. I never put my hands on you or anyone or something like that or any woman. Paul rutt, someone in the theater yells like liar, um, another hot. Take that scene. The texas hold'em scene at the end of the movie where they finally bond like kind of accept each other as their peers. I love that scene. It happens way too late in the movie.
Speaker 1:I wish I was in the more towards the middle of the movie Cause, like you finally learn how to work as a team on the very last race there's nine races in total I was like you did it, he they did work well as a team, like in the first couple of years, like when they were he was Brad Pitt was like, or Sonny was helping him advances by knocking out the other team players, um, but they still have that rivalry rivalry. They didn't really see each other eye to eye until the very last race. I wish that happened, at least, like the three or four races left, you know maybe the first race.
Speaker 1:The problem with that, though, was that he was out right, so yeah yeah, limited time frame yeah, and I guess the crew just did not give a fuck about the subs because they didn't.
Speaker 2:They got no camera time in the whole movie they just got like here's the next man up and they're like smile yeah, I wanted to think out of the scenes cut out and the actors just didn't know.
Speaker 1:But I wish that. That was a great scene. They they played it three way. Um it's. It reminds me a lot of an iconic scene that I'm sure they mimicked a little bit. I can't remember what I'm thinking of from, but it was a great scene and they should have done it a little bit sooner because they had this two and a half hour movie. That scene probably happens at two hour minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:How about the social media manager? Or his manager? Who's like? He was funny. He was like a little quirky. I think he could have been a little bit more quirky to me in this movie, but he did the definition of like you know you're you're trying to get your friends on too right, just get them on payroll, like.
Speaker 2:But it's not that he was bad at his job, he just and they locked in later, but yeah he was even at the club. He was like man, we turn it up brother I gotta go I liked how they included them.
Speaker 1:Uh, pierce's mother in this movie too, she did get in Sonny's face about the accident because she blamed him. And then, as soon as it happened and Sonny overheard that conversation his mom had with Sonny, I thought there was going to be a scene. Well, there was a scene where he admits it, like he Sonny wasn't in the fault. There I thought there was going to do at least a press release, because everyone in the media blamed Sonny too, it wasn't just his mother, and I thought there was going to be a moment where the mother was going to apologize to Sonny. But no, you never see that happen again. I don't know, maybe there was a deleted scene, I don't know, but that was a powerful scene too. Like when he finally comes to realization, like oh, sonny is, he starts learning from Sonny.
Speaker 1:I wish that happened a little bit sooner too too. Like when he finally comes to realization like, oh, sunny is, he starts learning from sunny. I wish that happened a little bit sooner, sooner too. But it mostly happens during his accident, when he seems running. He's like pierce has all this fancy equipment, kind of like lebron james kind of style, and sunny's just doing it. Old school. He's actually running the track, which I wish they had done in like a scene where he asked him why he does that like, so he's like, so I can learn the track, or something like that yeah, I and I think that's where I am with this movie, because talk about the explanations.
Speaker 2:Even that scene like I and I'm sure you also we watched it and we got it. So I'm like I don't know if I necessarily needed it to be spelled out to me, but I do wish that there was a conversation like that's how, that's how much attention and detail he has yeah, yeah, and the same thing with the tennis balls, like he mimicked that too.
Speaker 1:Um, the prayer sonny does a little bit of prayer right before he goes in the car every single time. I thought he would ask about that. He doesn't, which it's kind of self-explanatory why he does it. But I thought pierce would start doing that too. But I don't know. I like how the progression of the team starting to run with him too, it's kind of hard to say like is this a sunny movie? Is this a sunny pierce movie? Is this the whole team movie? Um, because they do touch on a lot of it and to me it's a lot going on. Like, if you're gonna do a sunny movie, just just give me sunny the sunny pierce, just give me those two. Like I don't care about, like the team. Like forming a bondage too, like I'm already assuming they're, they're an f1, I'm assuming they're already.
Speaker 2:Actually I take it back because, let me tell you when they, when watching sunny, win them over. Like even the c stands for combat or, like you know, the c stands for chaos, and they're like all chanting like that was another scene where I'm like pumping my fist in the movie I don't know I, I ate that up. That was right on my wheelhouse. Yeah, yeah, that was another scene where I'm like pumping my fist in the movie theater like I don't know I, I ate that up. That was right on my wheelhouse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that was pretty tight. Um, what else do I? I got some here things that I wish they included a little bit more. I wish we seen a little bit more rivalry between the teams like uh from like um yeah what's from? What's some of the other teams out?
Speaker 2:ferrari not for yard ferrari, um, I don't know the other, that's how.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, to that point I, I only remember ferrari being up there but I wish I was like lewis hamilton, whoever he was racing for I mean they do, they do sell them, like the team like flicking them off, and I saw like, oh, you guys suck and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Nah, like I wish there was like an actual it would be a little bit more too, because even in the beginning, when the guy was like I'm going to catch up to you one day. Sonny, like how's that going to come into play Like it didn the time where, uh, uh he like his first race back when he was doing all the shady stuff, when he was getting interviewed like another driver like pat him on the back and was like, hey, you know, good job on there.
Speaker 2:I was like, all right, he's getting a lot of praise like where is that? Very, very much with you some more competitiveness?
Speaker 1:I'm not sure about this, but someone in the comments can let us know. But like I think that was just a cameo from a real driver, that's probably why they did that oh, that makes sense um, but I wish, yeah, like there's another two, two, two drivers and another team that they were like talk shit to them basically and then like at the end, like it's like top gun, maverick, almost, you know like they just like give them respects at the end of it.
Speaker 2:I wish I was very hot take, similar to what you're saying about needing more. I like, I like this movie. I think I love this movie. This is a sequel to a movie that we've never seen. I like very much in the spiritual vein of like how top gun maverick. Like you get top gun. 30 years later. There you get top gun maverick and it just kind of picks up. This movie there is a movie about brad pitt's character where all of this happens we learn about, like you know the prayer. We learn about like the luck we see his fall. And this movie there is a movie about Brad Pitt's character where all of this happens we learn about, like you know the prayer we learn about, like the luck we see his fall. And like this movie comes out 30 years later. Like that is how I feel, like I'm just missing something, like I miss that edge that Top Gun gave me that being said do you think we'll get a prequel?
Speaker 2:It's too late now. Like that's what I mean. Like that that's I was. I was genuinely almost baffled that this is kind of the order that this came out, because you want to learn so much more, Like there's clearly a lot to say here, a lot more to do, and then leaning into, like this is a bro movie, this is a dad movie, Like it is supposed to be that way.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm like I just feel like there was another movie missing and that that would have elevated this Cause he he does have such a huge past Like he was always like the star prodigy in this, in this sport, but he also went through, like, several marriages. He had a gambling addiction, you know. He lost his father at a young age. Yeah, there's a lot to this character then. Like you said, we are meeting him way past his prime in this movie, even though he does win the f1 at the end. Um, yeah, I, I definitely could benefit from seeing a different movie from this too, and also he could have had a character kind of like we would be able to see him see himself in pierce more than that way too, you know exactly it's being back and to that point too.
Speaker 2:Like yeah, I get it, they had a little rivalry. I 100 understood where pierce was coming from, like I wouldn't have followed his you know train of thought the whole way. But if you're the best driver on a team that's about to like get disbanded. I'm gonna be a little weary of the guy who shows no like, like constraint, like just kind of does his own thing, who's knocking me off, like won't, let me pass him on my first race. Like don't. I fully get that. I'm not like. I guess what I'm saying is he wasn't like a bad guy in the movie, he just had his own you know thing going on I think this is more of like a younger person thing too, like where they don't necessarily show their respect for older people as much as they should like because, yeah, like the first thing I thought of, like oh, he definitely could be learning from this person, like that's what you don't think of.
Speaker 1:You know, um, and matter of fact, one of the things I have on here listed, I wish we literally got a little bit more of a background of the kid too. Um, specifically, it would have been a perfect chance to do from that scene where brad pitt finally calls up um, calls up ruben, and he's like all right, tell me about the kid. And like ruben could have went into, like well, I found him on this track. You know he shows promises. He's a lot like you in some ways. You know he's a hothead, but he shows promise. He just needs to know the ropes. And you know you could have went to his background just a little bit, because otherwise he even says like he, uh, sunny asked him, why are you even racing? He's like for the fame and glory. I think he does say that. Um, I was like well, at some point you didn't always think that I'm I'm sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wish we had to get here first and he like I mean, and this is like the balance right, because I didn't need a really preaching movie, that's like you know, my struggle was like this like I kind of liked seeing him at the top and being proud of himself and like you know, he put his mom on, got her a house like brad Pitt, made fun of him about it. Like you still live with your mom, but like having like his own social circle and having brad pitt at the end of each race. What you smiling about?
Speaker 1:like that's what I mean, like there was there was a lot there, I.
Speaker 1:I do think it just kind of went one one extra more detail they do go back and forth a lot with her, like like just bashing on each other, to the point like the people in front of you were so actual with it, like there was a scene from the trailer where he goes like oh so you never wanted an f1, or when's the last time you wanted an f1? And the guy goes same as you and the guy in front of me like oh snap, I was like shut up, shut up, we. We've seen this scene already. Like what are you doing?
Speaker 2:the person I watch with. We always um, I was a little like that's a bar that goes so hard. I don't care, it's such a good they were.
Speaker 1:They were good slams in this movie for sure put me down to stuff like that. There's also like a lot of motivation in this movie. This is so people ask me all the time, because I do this podcast what makes a good movie for me. And the biggest thing is like I don't care if the movie's good or bad. If I'm walking out the theater feeling something, whether I'm feeling angry, mad or inspired. This is definitely one of those movies I definitely felt inspired kind of thing like not to go racing or anything like that, just like find a passion, passion or something like that. You know, yeah, this is great. Same thing with the bear bears like inspiring as fuck too. I'm not going to go out there and cook, but it definitely got me off my ass. They were like sorry, getting this podcast ready to get my notes. Yeah, definitely Great movie. Would you like to see a sequel to this movie?
Speaker 2:it goes back. It goes back to what you said. Do I want to see a sequel of this movie with this team? Not, really, don't care. Would I like to see a movie with uh j uh, jp? Yeah, I can be down movie with um uh sunny absolutely so, I guess it just depends on the direction. Uh, but not like soon. I I can wait like four, five years and uh be excited about that so we didn't.
Speaker 1:Well, sunny does win the f1 of this one too, like to the point where, like, he doesn't touch the trophy before, which is cool I like that cork about him, but he, I think he's at a point in his life like, all right, what next? And you see him driving in the desert with like a flyer so isn't drivers needed and I don't know what. I forgot what that racing is called like, where you're racing like those dune buggies, basically throughout the sand and, um, he's starting that journey of his life. Now, too, I was like that's pretty sick to be starting something brand new that dangerous at like the age of 62 or whatever he is. You know, yeah, it's, he's. If we were gonna see him again, it'll probably be a movie like that. So I think we're done seeing him for a while, like if not permanently, like he's. I don't know, maybe he's a cameo in a second movie for pierce or like he could, very similar to this.
Speaker 2:He could be that coach right then, like I know, they offered him the thing the the spot. You know, not really getting into the spoilers, but he can be that guy who isn't racing, like who's teaching someone else, or like really elevating jp, which will be a fun, like dynamic, to see him come back, you know yeah, I mean, but then that will turn into cars three, you know I'm getting started about that uh, I had a fun time watching this movie.
Speaker 1:Like I said, there's a couple things I would have cut out of this movie, but the fact that it's in there, I'm not hating on this movie at all. It's phenomenal. I'm probably giving this like a. I'll give this a 9 out of 10. I give this 9 out of 10. I had fun watching it. The soundtrack was great. I walked out of theater feeling great. Um, a lot of the everyone cheered at the end of it, which is awesome yeah, yeah, what would you give this one out of 10?
Speaker 2:agreed. I think I gave it an 8 out of 10 purely because it's it's about 15 minutes too long for me. Like, not in a bad way, but that was like I I just simply remember looking at my clock, man like how much time is left? Um, I think that man very similar to you. As long as I'm invested, I'm in the best mood of my life. I left this movie excited. I wanted to go watch f1 race don't care about f1 at all but it really got me like how do I get into the pocket? Like he was like it.
Speaker 1:It really yeah, yeah, I mean, man, the adrenaline was up almost every race that they showed. You felt the adrenaline, which is cool. Especially the last race I had goosebumps, which is kind of rare, that I'll get like, if that isn't marvel, you know, um, yeah, anything else they had on f1.
Speaker 2:Before we go to our next subject, no, but I um you know this movie. I think it was produced by amazon 200 million dollars, it's actually apple oh, that's what I meant. Yeah, apple, um, thank you. Uh, yeah, 200 million dollar budget, um, and just an original script and for everybody who's like you know, hollywood doesn't make originals anymore, like everything has to be a sequel or prequel.
Speaker 2:We got sinners, we got this, like there is still room for it as long as we go see it. So this is just that other call to action get back until the movie did I think saw yesterday.
Speaker 1:I saw yesterday um that already made back over half of its budget, so it's on the track to do very good in the box office. I think what's going to help it yeah, you can do tons of marketing, but what's going to help it all, ultimately, is the word of mouth, and I think a lot of people are walking out of the seat are telling everyone to go see it. So I think that it will do. What place do you think will be the year for box office?
Speaker 2:I would say probably as of right now, maybe third or fourth. See, I got it. There's so many third or fourth dude as of right now. I don't know about the draft, but I think I got it like in six, seven.
Speaker 1:I'll be happy if it lands there yeah, there's too many great things like coming out this year like yeah, so I'll say that as of right now, though, sixth, third or fourth um, yeah, we still have a lot coming out to that. You know that's gonna lead a perfect into our draft right now. Yeah, let third or fourth, um, yeah, we still have a lot coming out to that.
Speaker 1:You know that's gonna lead a perfect into our draft right now yeah, let's do it but you just drive right into it and, like you said you, you gave this idea like let's do a draft for the top opening weekends for the new movies coming out though up front. I think we have like june 1st till the rest of the year yep, there's a june or july something like that or Something like that July 1st.
Speaker 1:July 1st. I have some potential. I think we said six each, right? Yep, we're both going to pick them and we can pick each other's. You just cross off the board. If that is, I'll let you go first. Since you came up with this, Alright, then I am going.
Speaker 2:Fantastic Four.
Speaker 1:Fantastic Four. I was so curious to see what your number one is gonna be. I didn't know if I thought you were to pick superman.
Speaker 2:Honestly, yeah yeah, I, as you know, that's the movie I'm most excited about. But if I'm going pure, what's gonna have? This one has the mcu's backing of it. Like I know are going to see it, even if they didn't love where Marvel is. I just know that this should be the highest grossing box office of the year.
Speaker 1:Even though Superman is having an early, early premiere date on a Wednesday you think? Fantastic Force is going to win. Okay, well, that's the game. I'm picking Superman. I'll pick Superman.
Speaker 2:Alright, fair enough. Fair enough Again. That was like these were my top two, so I was really stressed going there um in my third one dude, or my second slot, or actually you can go back to back we'll see.
Speaker 1:Okay, um, I'll take wicked part two and that's why I shouldn't wait.
Speaker 2:All right, all right. Yeah, I mean, the first one did buku bucks. This one's gonna be absolutely all right. Sleeper hit on here for you, and by sleeper I mean the right answer. I'm going avatar. Uh, that was my next one. It's december, but it counts, avatar for sure you're trying to get and then going to kind of go a weird one here, oh wait. No, I'm not Jurassic, the new Jurassic.
Speaker 1:That's on my. That's on my flop list.
Speaker 2:I flop for overall box office. That's why it's going to have a strong opening weekend. I'm calling it.
Speaker 1:This is my fourth pick now. Yep, I'm going to go. Tron eras, tron eras, is that what they said? Tron eras, yeah, I didn't. I mean, honestly, I've never seen the first one and I didn't think we were. I don't think we, I would have ever expected to see a sequel. But then disney did that whole, uh, the disney world did the whole thing with a attraction, the ride and stuff like that. I was like, all right, this is picking up traction. Oh, and my next one, uh, I'll go zootopia 2. Is that one coming out this year? Uh, november 26, I missed that one love it, I died.
Speaker 2:All right, yeah, all right so that's my fourth one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got two more all right, that is fam.
Speaker 2:That's a. That's a really good pick, and I'll actually follow you on your animated vibe and I'm gonna go the bad guys too, okay, okay now I I thought about that one hard.
Speaker 1:I tried hard. I could have looked it up to see how the first one did in the box office. Uh, but yeah, that's a good pick. That's a good pick, I'll give you that, yeah it did fine.
Speaker 2:You know nothing. Nothing too crazy there, but I think in a year where we're lacking on animated movies, like you said, um, obviously when zootopia comes out, that's gonna rule the world. So I'll give you that one there, but should be good, um, and then I'm gonna go the uh man, you really stole my pick there is this this your last one. Yeah, I believe, so I'm going Now, you See Me.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay.
Speaker 2:That's a good one.
Speaker 1:I can't believe you didn't pick this one, but I'm going to go with him. The new Jordan Peele.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, oh my god, sports horror.
Speaker 1:And then for my last one of it's going a horror movie uh, I'm going to a final conjuring movie. Okay, oh, that's yeah, I mean the. Every time I see the trailer I have to close my eyes.
Speaker 2:Even it looks terrifying okay, all right, and I actually I think I do have one more. Uh, since I picked first, so going last, I'm gonna go a smaller one. But uh, nobody too, I think is gonna have a pretty, but I think a nice 60 mil, 70 mil I never seen the first one and, to the point, I don't even remember the first one coming out oh my god, dude, dude, it's fantastic that's with uh david um.
Speaker 1:What's his name um?
Speaker 2:no better call solve. That's um, um. I'm blanking on his name dude, he's great in comedy.
Speaker 1:I just don't buy him as a tough guy like that.
Speaker 2:You you should have saw him in nobody. He was fantastic it's the point.
Speaker 1:It's like liam neeson, you know, like in taken kind of thing, you know I almost took uh, what's that?
Speaker 2:uh, the the naked gun yeah, I almost took that, but that movie looks. Yeah, it looks rough. Um or happy gilmore, I was also gonna pick happy gilmore.
Speaker 1:That's is it. I don't think that's theatrical release, but I would have took. Oh no, it can't be box office release. If it's not theatrical, that's not on netflix. Yeah, yeah, that's fair, all right all right, you want to move into the biggest flops of the year? Absolutely, actually, you only have three. You said right, yeah, we can, just we do. You think we should do a draft or just list them?
Speaker 2:yeah, we can we can I can find I can find more this is.
Speaker 1:This is a hot take, but every time I see this trailer in the theaters, I keep forgetting oh yeah, I forgot that movie's coming out. It's one battle after another.
Speaker 2:The new leonardo the caprio movie it's oh okay, all right, four score. It will not make any money, that's fine, it's going to be great. I had a great feeling about this Paul Thomas Anderson, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think that's why it's going to flop. It's like it's not Leo with Martin Scorsese, this one Exactly.
Speaker 2:That is exactly where I am, like they almost like under marketing it, like it's like not his original vibe, it's like an artsy movie. People are gonna feel that not like a oh leo's in here, like let's go, like, support it.
Speaker 1:I don't even know what the movie's about. I just know it's about a like a rebellion yeah, it's really really weird all right uh, you can go next.
Speaker 2:Um, so for flopping, I actually have the. I know the trailer came out. It looked really, really great and speaking of the bear, he's on one, the Springsteen movie.
Speaker 1:I had it on my list too. I'll give you that. The only reason I had it on my list is because of the Timothy Chamblee movie last year with Bob Dylan's movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, complete unknown and that listen, I got one for an Oscar, but I think, even looking at the online discourse, I think people are going to like it. I do not think it's gonna. It's no. No one asked for this movie and I have a hard time thinking that the the typical movie going on audience will flock to the theaters I mean the trailer looks okay, but bruce bing's thing he's.
Speaker 1:They should have made this movie a long time ago if they were going to make it more towards his prime, a little bit closer to his prime. I mean they really have a chance with Jeremy Allen White playing it. But we'll see. You can go to the second one the third.
Speaker 2:This is a movie that I'm very excited for. I'm pumped. I think it's going to help him out a lot. It will flop. I'm going the smashing machine with the rock.
Speaker 1:Oh no, you don't. I think it's going to help them out a lot. It will flop. I'm going the smashing machine With the rock.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you don't think it's going to be the iron claw. No, I and. Well, and this is the thing, no matter how good it is that's what iron claw taught me it's not. It's going to live on Like. People are going to hear about it very, very late, late. They're gonna wait for it to get on streaming because it's 824, it's a lower budget like, and then it's gonna blow up. But I think, box office wise, unfortunately, this is probably gonna be his best performance ever complete dud calling it now interesting, interesting.
Speaker 1:Uh, for my second pick, I got the naked gun. We kind of talked about this already, not? Saying it deserves to be on the flop list. Um, I think this is made way too late, because those movies are hilarious. Those movies are fantastic. We are as a america. We're just not in the same comedy places we were back then, and that's what's gonna be hard to sell it on him dressing up as a little girl 12 year old girl, it's.
Speaker 2:It doesn't hit the same way as it did in the 90s, especially as you put it on the trailer too. You know, the funniest, funniest joke in that trailer was when they made it a spirit halloween like that was the humor that works now, not like the over the top and also, it's liam neeson too.
Speaker 1:Didn't he just get canceled? He's coming back from being canceled, not from not too long ago for the third time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They should have picked somebody else um for my third pick. I got freakier friday. It looks bad. It looks bad to me at least.
Speaker 2:I agreed. I actually completely forgot that that movie existed and I did just see the trailer for that as I was watching the movie.
Speaker 1:Trash.
Speaker 2:Trash.
Speaker 1:What else you got?
Speaker 2:And then I'll go one more I had. I'm actually going to switch. I'm going to go Spongebob, the Spongebob movie. It's coming out at the end of the year. I know they just had a similar one come out maybe last year or two years ago and it did terrible. Because who's the audience? We grew up with Spongebob and we do not care about this movie at all and the younger kids aren't going to go pay money to see a movie about it all right, and um the last one, more um, yeah I actually got two more listed, but I will go with more combat too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was. I was flip-flopping. I think I think it will be strong either a strong start and then fizzle out, or opposite. I think it'll either grow over time, depending on how it is um, I'll throw this one as an honorable mention.
Speaker 1:Uh, because every time I see the trailer in the theaters, it just doesn't look that good to me. I think they think it's funnier than what it is.
Speaker 2:I'm going with the roses front of the cumberbatch okay, that one, it looks like made for our parents age and I don't see them going to theaters to see this. Well, this I it has the girl who was on snl forever um, um, katherine. No, I know who you're talking about and also has a family samberg to um hate something yeah, yeah, I that one's the time to do it.
Speaker 2:I'll do one more too, just to round out the five. Um, frankenstein, I think that's gonna flop. I do only because it's these artsy movie man like it. It's gilmore del toro would uh or uh yeah, that's all right, yeah um, I think that he's going to make a fantastic movie. I just don't think enough people are gonna see, I disagree.
Speaker 1:I think this is gonna be our new nosferatu. Really, yeah, yeah, I'm excited, yeah, yeah I I was between.
Speaker 2:As you know, I only watch, if I can help it, one horror movie a year this is gonna change with this podcast. I hope you know that we're gonna see other movies, but I want to go see the black phone when it came out and black phone 2 comes out this year. I'm hyped for that dude I just watched the black phone, the other day, yeah, and for the.
Speaker 1:I love that movie dude that movie.
Speaker 2:I was on a date when I watched that movie and I quite literally threw my popcorn like on that poor girl because I'm scared to scare me was it like pop-up scenes with the kids, like he turns yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, so we we're friends and I she'll make fun of me to this day, but uh, yeah, that movie stressed me out, but it was good.
Speaker 1:I I actually liked that so the one reason, biggest reason I like that movie is because it's such an interesting concept like yeah, it's a horror movie, but the idea, that's why I like the conjuring movies a lot like I'm terrified of them, but they're so great at storytelling. And the black phone too. Have you like heard or read the premises of those two? No, um, so people are wondering how he's gonna come back. He is dead. I can't remember his name, but the guy is dead, but the kid he's a little bit older now both the kids are coming back for this movie. He sees another payphone, something like that, and it's the guy calling him now saying he think he can get rid of me, or something like that. And I guess he's torturing those kids on the other side of the world now or the other side of life now yeah, see, now you're stressing me out again, man yeah yeah, it's, it's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 1:So I've heard people say this is the year for horror. See, now you're stressing me out again, man. Yeah, it's going to be a good one. I've heard people say this is the year for horror movies. I was like I don't know if I buy that quite yet.
Speaker 2:Well, now that I'm thinking about it, from Sinners to Him, to the Conjuring to Megan, there's at least a lot of horror coming out this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think we're close to an hour.
Speaker 2:But if you could recommend something for anybody to watch tonight, what would it be? Only because we are in the mood of F1. I think it's time to throw it back to the original Cars movie.
Speaker 1:I think it's the original Cars movie.
Speaker 2:If you haven't watched it recently, if you haven't watched it in the last few years, go ahead and throw it back on. Let life remind you of the good old days.
Speaker 1:You know I'm going to a Disney um this November and I always watch all the Disney movies before, like to get myself high for it. And cars is definitely gonna be on that list. I we do a cars trilogy one day, cause I did not. I think it's popular opinion. The second one just sucked to me. But the third one was very good, like it kind of gives F1 vibes. I thought it was good, like him handing off the torch.
Speaker 1:I don't know, man. One of my favorite scenes, too, was like Brad Pitt. He's about to cross the line and he's like what is he doing? He's like he's flying. That was a pretty good scene dude, yeah, that's what I mean in the pocket. I'll go gran turismo if you know you want a racing movie too. That's a pretty good movie.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen that in like I don't think, this whole year, but it was great yeah, look at it, those three in a row, you will be ready to ready to be a rider yourself yeah yeah uh, next week we're tackling jurassic world rebirth, I think that's what it's called.
Speaker 1:How hyped are you for that? Are you hyped at all for that? Not even a little bit. But I will watch anything, scarlett johansson is in, so I hear like pretty bad reviews, so we'll see how it goes that's that.
Speaker 2:That's why you genuinely make me excited, because, even though I know it's probably gonna be terrible, I'm excited to talk about it with you?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Um, yeah, I think that's all we got. I think I well, I know we both at least got one new follower from letterboxd. That was pretty cool, um so follow us on letterboxd and our instagrams and tiktoks and everything like that and, uh, we'll see you guys next week. Stay tuned, we'll see you soon. Bye.
