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This podcast is all about movies! Rob Miranda and Brandon Cole come to you with weekly reviews on the newest reviews in theaters. We keep you up to date with the latest Hollywood news. And every once in a while there will be bonus episodes of just older classic movies and just movie, tv, and pop culture updates.
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Freakier Friday
We dive into first impressions of Spider-Man 4, breaking down the newly revealed suit and what it represents for Tom Holland's character, while exploring how Sony is managing leaks and building anticipation a year before release.
• The blended Spider-Man suit incorporates elements from both the original and Amazing Spider-Man designs
• Tom Holland's excitement about returning to the role alongside Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton
• Sony's strategy of officially releasing images to counter unofficial set photos
• Speculation about villains and potential connections to Jon Bernthal's character
After discussing recent streaming platform preferences and the decline of Netflix as our go-to service, we review several recent films including The Naked Gun, Freakier Friday, Weapons, and Together.
• The surprising effectiveness of Liam Neeson's deadpan delivery in The Naked Gun
• Why Freakier Friday works as a sequel 20+ years later with returning stars Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis
• The standout performance from Jamie Lee Curtis embodying teenage mannerisms in an older body
• The creative popcorn bucket design that perfectly ties into the body-switching theme
• The effective mix of nostalgia through cameos from the original cast while telling a fresh story
Check out our Letterboxd pages to see our complete movie rankings as we've both watched over 80 films so far this year!
excuse me, is anybody sitting here? Sorry, this is taken. Sorry, how do you feel about the first look of spider-man 4?
Speaker 2:I am loving everything that I'm seeing. This is how you build anticipation a year out, for everything from the suit to the set pieces. Uh, I'm not a fan of the that all the leaks so far but I think they're controlling it. What about you?
Speaker 1:I? Well, first of all, the spider-man suit looks awesome. I'm really happy with it. It looks really cool. Tom holland looks like he's he's excited for it. He's excited. He just came with a video today with him like um buddying up with a director and everything that who is also the director of shang chi. It looks good. It looks good. I'm excited for it. Yeah, like there are. There is a lot of releases like um hinting about who the villain may be, and we also see john bernthal's character a little bit um in his new show. So there's a lot going on, but I'm excited for it. It's a year out from now. I would say like four or five months. We're not even gonna remember any of this stuff. Wait, that's why I I'm not really upset that they're releasing some stuff now and I really thought that was really cool and smart for Sony for like to release the official look of the Spider-Man suit, because day one people were out there recording which I was so jealous. That was really cool to see Spider-Man in action.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I felt the exact same way, like genuinely, and I don't think, think they. Maybe they announced it a little bit beforehand, but I just remember opening up twitter and being like holy, here. It is like in it I don't know if you noticed, but it obviously blends like a lot of the original spider-man with the amazing spider-man suit, which is like how I feel about tom holland, like he's a perfect blend of spider-man and peter parker. So I am all here for it yeah, I'm very excited for it.
Speaker 1:Um, it's been a minute since we talked about movies, so we weren't here last week, but, um, this, this episode's gonna be jam-packed with movies like, we're gonna be talking about freakier friday, we're gonna talk about the naked gun, uh, together weapons and the new number one netflix movie in the world I think it broke records for netflix itself is is K-pop Demon Slayers. I know you haven't seen it, but I know you're dying to go see it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to see it right when we end this.
Speaker 1:I've been streaming a lot of throwback movies. I like to watch 80 movies I just watched this morning see no evil, hear no evil. Richard Pryor hilarious my first time watching it was hilarious great throwback yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been trying to look for stuff to watch on netflix because netflix is probably my least when I go on my streaming system. What about you?
Speaker 2:isn't that crazy. It used to be the go-to. Like that's where obviously netflix and chill comes from, because, like everybody always's where obviously netflix and chill comes from, because, like everybody always had access to netflix. But obviously with the crackdown on password sharing and just overall content, I still think if you're looking at like overall quality, I'm turning into like a apple right now hbo for sure, um, but I'm a big peacock guy for like my day-to-day shows I 100 agree with peacock and apple does have, like um, better underrated quality, uh, quantity of those stuff.
Speaker 1:You know, what I just watched, an apple tv, was the grunge. For the first time is that what it's called the grunge, with miles teller and um?
Speaker 2:oh my god, uh, dude, and uh, uh uh anna taylor joy an Joy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is Okay, just very quick. What'd you think?
Speaker 1:That was interesting. They had a lot. I feel like it was not a good balance at all between the sci-fi and the romantic side of the story. It wasn't a good blend for me. Like, all right, and I don't know, like these creatures and monsters coming up from this trench that they signed up for I had no idea about, I was like I don't know. I don't know. I love seeing them together acting. I thought they were like a really, really believable couple. Um, the number one rule was don't talk to the other side. The first thing they do was start talking to each other.
Speaker 2:Because and that was like my whole gorge, I think it was called um I I did, I liked it enough where it didn't like I didn't leave angry, but it was. It should be a case study on when a movie can't make up what it wants to be, like it genuinely couldn't make up its mind. When it was doing like the love stuff, I was like all right, the little knot to him playing uh drums like a whiplash and her doing the little chest like in uh queen's gambit. But then, like the random, I said what is this underworld shit? It actually caught me off guard I never even put this together.
Speaker 1:the whiplash and the queen's gambit together that was a pretty smart uh connection, good goodies. I just love my host toddler. He's such a good actor, and then I'm. I was like I haven't seen him in a while, too much new, so I threw that on. I think I see new. He's coming out with a movie soon With Scarlet Witch, elizabeth Olsen. Have you seen the trailers for that? I can't remember what it's called.
Speaker 2:I haven't done it.
Speaker 1:But the concept looks so interesting to me. For those who don't know, is this movie coming out?
Speaker 2:I know I'll be sad.
Speaker 1:You know what it's about right.
Speaker 2:I know about it, but I haven't looked into it at all.
Speaker 1:So Miles Teller I can't remember the other gentleman's name who was starring in it Scarlett Johansson lost her husband, her first husband, Like he died tragically when they were young.
Speaker 2:Scarlett Johansson or Elizabeth.
Speaker 1:Olsen, elizabeth Olsen, young, um, starla johansson, elizabeth, elizabeth olsen, sorry. And then so she decides to move on in her life, like later in life, and she ends up meeting miles teller's character and they get married eventually, okay, so then, um, they die. I forgot, I don't know how they die, if it was an accident or what, because they do look young in heaven or something like that. Now the choice is you can only spend the rest of eternity with one person, and she is the whole movie is deciding if she wants to spend it with her first husband or her newer husband, like it's a definitely Sophie's Choice kind of movie. But I don't know, that is tough, especially I think it's relatable for people who are married more than once like, what do you do in that situation? It's kind of going to be like the materialist, where they have to pick one. So that's what kind of vibes? It's going to be like the materialist where they have to pick one. That's the kind of vibes I'm going to get Dude, funny enough.
Speaker 2:the reason why I didn't remember it is because I saw it on TikTok first. I was like scrolling and I saw the little ad and like genuine hey, the job of a trailer is what To increase your anticipation or awareness of a movie. So I was like locked in and I was like this feels fake. This movie doesn't seem like it's actually going to come out, but I'm going to be sat in the theater. It looks right up my alley. Not really a rom-com, just straight rom, and I'm here for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think this is like a biggest year for romance movies. More recently, I mean last year, I can only remember like two that I've seen, at least I should say um, but there's one between the materialist and, like you know, a lot of netflix movies. There are a lot more romance movies. I would say this year um, I know you haven't seen a lot of it'll be better than the materials yeah, yeah, just for this.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't know because I'll say I was gonna say because miles holland elizabeth, but he also had peter pascal and chris evans. Um, I would say yeah still, I just couldn't get over the cheesy writing with dakota johnson. I just don't like her I, I.
Speaker 2:It keeps me up at night that you haven't seen the end of that movie. I think about it at least every three days.
Speaker 1:I like wake up in a cold sweat and I'm like we gotta get them back yeah, I don't know, maybe once it starts streaming I'll check it out um, but I you know big news, movie news, like I just crossed over 100 episodes for um movies this year so far I did see that it's it's pretty late.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say I like that. It wasn't even a celebration.
Speaker 1:It was like damn, I'm falling behind, like usually, I'll hit the 100 mark around june. I would say, yep, june is a go-to, but I've been way more selective this year picking which movies I watch because, uh, I remember the first year I did this podcast, I watched every single movie that came out and I was like more than half of them sucked. So I was like I want to be more selective what I watch. Um, yeah, yeah. So do you have tracks of where, how far you are yet?
Speaker 2:I think I'm at 86 oh damn, so I'm still trailing behind you. Yeah, yeah, but I I same as you. I think you remember me and Danny did that big movie competition, um, and once I hit over 300, like it's, it's hard, like I am now very selective about what I watch and very intentional with that, but I'm also busier at work and stuff. I mean I mean this weekend I've already seen like three or four movies that I haven't even logged yet. So you know it, just when I have the time I go crazy.
Speaker 1:That is another thing. I keep falling behind and logging some of these movies, dude. Well, what I'm talking about first is the Naked Gun. We didn't talk about this movie.
Speaker 2:Well, we didn't do an episode last week, but we both want to go see the Naked Gun, liam nissen nissen and pamela anderson, who are um, I guess a couple now.
Speaker 1:Did you see that? Dating in real life, hell yeah. Dating like um dating um doesn't mean to say but like dating a supermodel after a prime is like I don't know listen, man, I remember uh, I don't know if you know this kid Brandon Cavins.
Speaker 2:He went to middle school, high school, with him In his game room. I'll never forget it. First time I've ever spent the night at a friend's house, he had this game room, had the TV, had a little arcade and right in the middle was a throwback calendar beach calendar with Pamela Anderson. And that was during my formative years. So you know what she can be in, whatever she wants, I I'll, I'll be next to her at any stage in her life. She's still fine and she still, uh, can bring it she looked good in the movie.
Speaker 1:I'll give her that she looked good in the movie. But then I see a set like pictures of her off camera, like with her private lives, like, oh, like you definitely could tell like she had paid hollywood makeup, um, but then it was fun. It was a fun watch. Like I went in there like if you go in there zero expectation for plot, like just wanting to go in there for jokes. Seth mcfarland was a producer on there. I can 1000 which jokes he had his input in, because it was very much like a family guy movie, I mean a family guy show episode. Um. But how do you feel about liam? This one, like I know we talked about, like I talked about like how I don't know if I could see him in that funny role, like that. But, um, yeah, he surprised me like how serious it was, like, oh, how funny he was.
Speaker 2:Just say well, and you just you nailed it exactly because of how serious he was is how he knows. You know what? I was talking to somebody else about this and obviously he makes like a cameo in ted or ted. Yeah, I think, um, and he's hilarious. He brings that exact same vibe, like his deadpan humor. The reason why it works is because he's taking this so seriously and like he commits to the bit, and other other actors obviously would have tried to ham it up or tried to be funny. He's just like literal deadpan humor works for me. What about you?
Speaker 1:he was yeah, a thousand percent. But I think most of the what I found was funny was like a supporting cast like there was. There was a lot of cameos in this movie that was so hilarious. Uh, the guy who just played moment excuse me, I'm sorry. I love this actor, but uh paul walter hauser so funny and everything he does.
Speaker 1:I love him. I love the scene in the musket show, um, I think you should leave now. He's funny in that episode. Um, he was just fantastic, for he was. He was one of the highlights of the movie. Such a hilarious guy. I wish he got a little bit more screen time in this movie, but um, liam nissen stole the show. Pamela anderson was great in it. The props were great, the funny gags. It was, I would say, almost clean. There are some stuff jokes like reused from past movies, like the, the scene where the night vision goggles where like it looked like they were doing something sexual and it just let them clean the oven or something like that that was easily.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say I was gonna ask you uh later about your top moments, top three moments for me. After that movie I was actually dying the entire time yeah, he was, it was.
Speaker 1:It was such a fun one. I went to go see with my dad and, um, he had a great time with it because we just I will we started watching the first one together, like, um, re-watching it, um, I've seen the second one by myself. I mean, this movie is just as funny as the originals. I would say, like it's nothing, not as funny or nothing less. The plot I don't even know, can't remember what the plot was, honestly it was, but I just remember having a good time watching the movie, which is all that matters and it, it knows what it's trying to be like.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. Like, obviously, that we just kind of sat on the gorge for for not understanding the you know, committing to the bit of the of the movie type, but this one, like they said, we're just gonna throw a thousand jokes in here. If they hit, they hit, if they don't, they don't. We're already moving on to the next one. Like, you're not here to see character development, they're here to have, like, have a good time. And for that instance it worked for me me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think they addressed it in the movie, but it's been 20 years since the last one, maybe even longer than that. I think I did predict. I didn't think it was going to do well, because I don't think that kind of comedy exists anymore in movies. I don't know, I can't remember the numbers off that movie, but I don't hear a lot of people talking about that movie. I should say, uh, liam Neeson did also come out and say, like he doesn't plan on doing a sequel, like he thinks it's going to be a one-off. But that's what he says. That's not what the studio says.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wait till that paycheck comes. He he's in his late 70s or mid-70s. He can't do action anymore. I watched a movie with him like the Protege a few years ago, two or three years ago. The amount of cuts even in this movie that it takes for him to try to look like he's moving quick. He can't do that anymore. Lean into what's easiest for you, what you're good at, and I think he found a road here.
Speaker 1:Do you think this movie would have been better or worked better if they casted someone for, let's say, his, the original guy's grandson, and it's like a totally young cast?
Speaker 2:No, I think, like I don't know how else to say it Like it's Liam Neeson, like obviously they, you know they they put all the ingredients in like a good cast, like a decent but simple script, that humor style. I think it kind of worked, because he's so out of touch.
Speaker 1:If it would have been younger, I think it just would have been a lot goofier. Yeah, yeah, goofy.
Speaker 2:I think we ended up something with Workaholics and at that point, we could have been there done that that's so funny. What's Adam Devine? Yeah, adam Devine, that's who I'm thinking when you said that, like I was, like he just would have it would have been more slapstick.
Speaker 1:Uh like, really, really cheesy you could not have done that. You could not done almost any comedy actor. Uh, just because, like, like you said, it would have been too cheesy, it would have been like they needed someone straight forward, like we didn't need something to pull off these jokes. That's what worked for the original you know guy excuse me for not remember his name, but uh, that's what worked for him. Like he's an old guy, like you wouldn't think that kind of stuff him and watching him an airplane. And he was the goat. He was funny with that stuff and I like that. But um, leonison, I'll give him the flowers. He did great. Pamela anderson was also funny herself. She was great. She looked great. Like you said, I had a great time watching it. Um, I think I would get this movie like out of 10, probably like a 7.5 out of 10 in comedy that's we are.
Speaker 2:We are correctly aligned there. That's exactly what I think. I uh did see someone say like I realized though year that this, the original movie, came out, was the year schindler's list came out, so he obviously lost the oscar there too. I think tom hanks and forrest Gump. Maybe if you would have told everybody in that theater at the time that that guy is about to go do a naked gun sequel in 30 plus years, like you would have been laughed off the stage. But here we are, and I am so happy we got it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you know, it was not even a reboot. I would consider like a sequel, because it's part of the same world and, um, that's kind of going to be the theme of this episode, because our big movie we're talking about is freakier friday, which the original came out, I'm not mistaken. Oh for uh, disney channel. Um 20 years later, 20 over 20, a little over 20 years later, um, do you think we needed this? Were you expecting this? Were you shocked when you heard the news? Do you remember?
Speaker 2:same exact feeling I had. Um, for naked gun, don't need it, didn't ask for it, but intrigued I was like okay, I know everyone has been waiting for lindsey loham to like do something. You know, I think we're all rooting for it. Uh, I would not have I. You could have gave me a million guesses. I wouldn't have thought that this would ever get a sequel. Here we are.
Speaker 1:I mean she was. She did have a cameo in Mean Girls.
Speaker 2:I just came out, not too long ago.
Speaker 1:She was like a 40-second cameo. You could totally tell she wasn't even filmed with anyone else there, because she was by herself.
Speaker 2:She came out with a couple netflix specials. I don't know if you remember those like um holiday ones, cheesy as acting, it was a hallmark top movie, I remember. I do remember the hallmark one, uh, or the hallmark light, but yeah, very forgettable. I didn't watch them.
Speaker 1:You know like I was just like oh, that looks ass but when I heard like they're making a freaking friday too, I instantly like, no, it's not gonna work. It's why like, like, those kind of plots don't work in today's world. I feel like you know, it's very different. But man did. I ended up biting my tongue with that because this movie freakier friday that just came out I was like how can they take the same idea and make it fresh? And I feel like they. They did find a good balance for that.
Speaker 1:They did find a way to honor the original movie and make it into today's world there are a lot of cheesy writing, don't get me wrong, a lot of cheesy jokes and stuff like that, but I had fun along the way um lindsey lohan and um her mother jamie lee curtis.
Speaker 1:Jamie lee curtis excuse me, I'm so bad with names today jamie lee curtis. Like it was just fun seeing them screen together, together, interacting. They were so funny. They look like they had so much fun and, I think, a big reason to indicate how much fun they were having on set. No one does this anymore, but they have bloopers at the end of those credits oh man, I loved every.
Speaker 1:I wish I could have more yeah, they don't do that in any movie. I mean it would have been cool to see the bloopers in Naked Gun. Yeah, that would have been hilarious. I mean they do want to save stuff for the DVD special and stuff like that, but seeing it at the end credits scene I was like that's what you're going to leave. That's the last thing you're thinking of in the movie. Oh, it was a fun time making the movie because they're all laughing. I think that was genius. I love when movies do that. They didn't need to do that a little bit more. You know what they did do. I think they did that on um. I don't know if you ever seen it.
Speaker 2:I think it's called deep water, with ben affleck and um uh uh, anna de armas anna de armas.
Speaker 1:Like they did something at the blue. I don't think it was bloopers at the end, but it was like a slick around random outtake with um, their child actor, singing a song at the end of it, like kind of in a totally fun tone. But that movie was so dark and like it was random it didn't work with that no, I I do know.
Speaker 2:The one that it did work for me was with, uh, deadpool versus wolf parade, when they had like all the behind the scenes, like from all the like fox movies, like during the credits, like that's something I liked.
Speaker 1:That was, that was a good, heartfelt like one like from all the like Fox movies, like during the credits, like that's something I liked, that was, that was a good, heartfelt, like one like saying that was like a really good buy, really, um, popcorn buckets let's talk about that real quick, because we talked about a little bit on this podcast. I didn't think it was as cool until I started seeing videos of it and I see it in a person. I really did want to buy it, but I'm not.
Speaker 2:I was no, I, I knew you'd come around. I said it then. I'll say it now best popcorn buckets of the year by far.
Speaker 1:It was so I lean into the cheese man it was so simple but so creative at the same time. For those of you who don't know, it's a set, it's a popcorn bucket. It's a popcorn bucket that's actually your cup and you drink from it. It's like a little straw that pops up out of it and then the cup is actually your popcorn bucket. It has like a lid that looks like ice and soda in there, but you take it off and there's a popcorn in there. Genius, genius like to symbolize, like the switching of the bodies in this movie. It was fun, it was a good movie. Um theater experience. Did you go see this opening day?
Speaker 2:I did, uh, that was I kept making the joke. Freaky friday on a thursday, uh. But I did, uh, I did go up there at 7pm screening.
Speaker 1:And how was it?
Speaker 2:It was full, not like as packed as it usually is, but a nice little crowd of people my age, which I think really was the differentiator. I looked around and I was like there's not a person that you're younger than 18, that's not someone older than 35, you know 35. Like it was that era which I don't know if it's going to help or hurt, but yeah, because of that no distractions kind of just was able to lock in and have a good time. How about yourself?
Speaker 1:I hadn't seen this on Friday because I want to go see weapons on Thursday. That was so many day because I went to go see Weapons on Thursday because that was the opening day. I did have one of my friends she's been on the podcast before Tori, who does movie reviews as well she reached out to me and she said she's going to go see it on Wednesday because Disney+ if you had a Disney Plus subscription, I believe you can see it on Wednesday. Oh my God, here we go again. On top of that, she did a double feature because they were showing the original freaky friday and freaky friday back to back, with intermission in between. I thought that was pretty cool. I wish I could do that, because I did.
Speaker 1:I haven't re-watched freaky friday prior to seeing this again, like in a while, but after watching I came on. The first thing I did was watch the original freaky friday. Um, but it was my theater was friday and I went there and I like a later. No, I didn't. No, I'm sorry, I didn't go friday. I was gonna go friday originally, but I went saturday and was set in the afternoon and, um, I was sitting in the parking lot waiting to go in. I'd seen like a family, a single mom with like five kids, and I was like, oh, that's pretty cool, like you know, making memories with the family, and I was like, oh man, that was a heartfelt moment. I was like, oh, that's pretty cool, like you know, making memories with the family, and I was like, oh man, that was a heartfelt moment. I was like, oh shit, they're walking in my theater. I was like I immediately changed tone. I was like, damn dude, these kids are going to be all wild and shit. They were like less than 10.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:I walked in my theater. It was not packed packed, but it was a good handful of people there, all mixed ages, like some way older than me, some way younger than me, like it was a good mix in them. There was moments where everybody laughed a lot, which is awesome. Uh, overall, I I cannot say good enough good thing. I don't think I have anything negative to say about this movie. Really freakier friday. The only thing negative I have is the ending with the original song they made for this movie. I kind of wish they would have made it another rock and roll song instead of like a like a pop mom and daughter song.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know what, let them have it. You know, that's how I felt, like I think I'm similar to you when you said like you had to bite your tongue. I did go into this and I hate, like trying to put my expectations on movies Like this is going to be terrible. You know, like I was like ready to make fun of it and I remember halfway through I like turned to my person I was watching with and I was just like this shit's winning me over man. It's genuinely charming, like I'm having fun, like absolutely enjoyed it, I mean enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's a lot of cameos from the original movie. A lot of people did come back for this like um, the probably my favorite cameo that I I wish they had a bigger part in the movie was the younger brother. He was in there for like a little bit.
Speaker 2:He looks the same he was the same, but with a receding hairline. Crazy and so crazy this. This movie made me feel so fucking old too, so old for a lot of moments when they're talking about like the knees crack and I was like damn, like that is my life now but I also like think that was that one of my favorite jokes in the movie was like uh, lindsey lowen and jamie lee curtis, like they're in the younger bodies, like, oh, we can eat whatever we want now.
Speaker 1:So they, instead of trying to figure out how to get back, they take advantage of it. They go on a buffet like um, eating a ton of stuff everything.
Speaker 2:Or when, like again, they uh crash the scooters and they're like nothing's broken. I'm invincible, like 100 can uh, can go back and feel that. But I think the most important thing that works for me in this movie is it. It stands on its own, like obviously it helps, and like, yeah, it's good if you watch it, but like this is its own movie. And it it stands on its own, like obviously it helps, and like, yeah, it's good if you watch it, but like this is its own movie and it like builds on the themes of the first one. So I, I was, I was a massive fan, I I liked it way more than I did.
Speaker 1:I thought it deserved or like that I thought it would even uh be on my scale one of the things that really impressed me is like um, the first one it's just in the. In the first one it's Anna and her mom, tess, who switch bodies. And this one they're switching bodies with Lindsay Lohan's daughter and her future daughter-in-law or stepdaughter sorry, her future stepdaughter. And I was like, ok, now we're going to have four people stories to follow. That's going to be too much, it's going to be too confusing. I'm only going to want to follow Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, but that definitely won me over.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was genuinely interested in what these other people were doing too. It wasn't just about Jamie Lee Curtis feeling young again or feeling good in the younger body, it's also Lily's character as well who was switched with Jamie Lee Curtis. She was Lily's character as well who was switched with Jamie Curtis, like she is just like feeling old. She also was one of those people. I think a lot of the younger people they don't give a fuck about old people and like this kind of helped her understand a little bit. You know, it was a good mix. Like I was, I was happy with the balance going back and forth.
Speaker 2:Actually, I was kind of worried about that going in very much and two big things for me too were obviously like I don't know with you. I have a huge issue with kids and movies like typically they piss me off because they always make them like so, like characterized like so, like all the way to extreme, at least here. Like they were annoying but like for the 90 of it I was like I could see how a teenager would make that decision or you know, like I could see them being like stupid, like that, but by far and away standout performance. Give her another oscar, jamie lee curtis, bro, embodying this teenage vibe when they were doing like the mirror shit and she's just like freaking out.
Speaker 2:I was actually laughing out loud, like ripping my seat, like belly laughing, like she did such a. I always compare like to me the gold standard of like body switch movies is funny enough. Jumanji with like the rocking kevin hart, like I don't know why, but they, they really did this like. This is right up there for me, like I really love when I can genuinely believe that yeah, there's a teenager in that body and they absolutely crush it there I also think this is jamie lee curtis.
Speaker 1:Now, like she's at the age where she just has a lot of fun, like I've seen watching her doing the press tour uh, you know, going to these concerts and stuff like that. You see her just living her best life, like laughing, joking. You even see in the last halloween movie too, where, like with her personality comes out a little bit more versus the traditional character that's always scared, like she's definitely a badass and she embrace. It's like she's embracing being a woman, being an older woman, just being a female, um, just being human at all. Like she's just embracing it and like really owning what she does. And that's just her characters and a lot of her movies anymore. Like even in um, I just told you I finished watching the bear, she she kills it in the bear. It's way different kind of tone, like she's very emotional and she's good at it, um, but that's like the throw, what that throws me off, but like really living.
Speaker 2:When you say range, this is what I mean. Like I'm watching her in the bear two weeks ago being like this crazy, like distraught, emotional, toxic, manipulative mom, and then in this one I see her being the support of crazy, like yes and grandmother, and like then a teenager version of herself, like genuinely, this is like. You know, some people I might be like getting tired of them. I can't.
Speaker 1:She refreshes it every time yeah, I mean, she plays like a traditional grandmother in this one too, like undermining the parent. You know lindsey law and she's trying to parent, but she's like, oh, it's okay, you can come live with me instead, or something like that. You know she definitely it's a totally different character from the first one, but that's how that's real. That's like, uh, it's something relatable, like all of our parents become a lot easier with the grandchild and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:My mom does it with my niece all the time and um, I do it with my, my sister's kids like I, 100 get that yeah, I and I mean also what helps her have fun in the set is just being together with Lindsay Loewen.
Speaker 1:They know that what they're doing is going to be something special and it's a lot of pressure on them. So, I mean they not that I know of, I don't think they acted together since then and they knew when, like the first one, I wouldn't say it was not until, like it started coming on disney plus I mean not disney plus like a disney channel a lot that it caught a lot of traction. I mean lindsey lion, it was hot with disney at the point, but they didn't have streaming. They really didn't know how big it could have gotten back then because, like, the only thing you had to go rent them a dvd. Now we can just watch them on our phones on our bus or something, um. So they knew they had something special here, like something that could definitely bring that back, and I think I would love to see the numbers on the original one, how much those numbers went up too. Um, because I definitely, like I said, it made me want to watch it right away.
Speaker 1:Genius, genius, all the way around. Like I said, we weren't expecting it, it did. I think I said the same thing. I think we have to get more, too, like I hate movies that wait so long to make a sequel with it. Just it's because it just seems like a cash grab kind of thing, like they knew that the first one was very successful. And adam sandler, I don't see him doing a sequel unless he really believes in the script, and I should have trusted a little bit more because that movie was great. And the same thing with this one too. Like I, I was doubting it all the way until, like even the trailers. I kind of doubted some of it, but I had such a good time.
Speaker 2:I had such a good time to just to that point too, like I also. You know, the longer the the wait for the sequel, the more irks me or stresses me out. But then you have this other zone where you wait so long it makes sense because, like this one, it made sense like, oh, she would have a daughter by now. Like you, you can actually do something more with that. Because what would a sequel look like for that five years later? Like nothing. Now, that's a cash grab. But same thing with, like a Top Gun, maverick, where it's like all right, let's see where Maverick is and like how you know the next group of Top Guns are.
Speaker 1:Like when you wait long enough. Where you hit this sweet spot, it's, it's. It's perfect for everyone. I mean this also, besides jamie lee curtis and, uh, lindsay lohan. Julia butters, who played the daughter, really surprised me how well she's doing, and it doesn't. I should be. She was also like a little girl in um once upon a time in hollywood and she was.
Speaker 1:I heard an interview. Lena lecarpio actually called the next meryl streep, which I'm sure he was just being nice, but what a compliment. And she did great in this movie. I liked her a lot better than the other one, sophia Hammonds. Yeah, mostly because of the accent. We talk about not liking child actors, but given the forced fake accent in the movie, I mean I guess that was part of the character too. She was trying to embody somebody else. That's what it was, but that just kind of annoyed me.
Speaker 2:But uh, did you ever watch the show Austin and Allie?
Speaker 2:no, but I was aware of it she has a very uncanny resemblance to the girl who plays that, to the point where I I looked at again I was like oh, that's, that's your mom's little nanny. And then I was like I'm wrong once upon a time in hollywood and I was like proud of her, like hell, yeah, I'm glad you're getting those roles. But I was also couldn't, like I, I had a screenshot like side by side, like the entire time it's. It's so weird to me, random, tangent, but yeah, very, very much so, uh, happy to see her. She was also in gray man. I think that's the first time I realized that she grew up, um, so I'm excited to see where she's gonna be definitely.
Speaker 1:I mean, she's still very young which I would give I don't know how old. Let me see she's 16.
Speaker 1:Oh really, I thought she's old now. I was like I'll say, like, um, she's definitely gonna have a good movie career. Then I would say, um, you gotta remember this movie. This movie was made by disney. So I'm like, oh man, this is gonna be disney channel actors or acting kind of thing. I was a little bit and you do see some of that, mostly with the kids um, but then you gotta remember, like the first one was disney too.
Speaker 1:Like our standards for a society, like what a teenager is, it has changed so much. I went back and re-watched the original lindsey lohan's, like in the grunge stage, like in the emo stage, and I can't with a band and stuff like that. This one is completely different. Like their problems are so much different than what we had back in the day. Like this her first problems were like she's in the band and she was meeting boys and stuff like that. You take all that out and replace those. I like how they just didn't replicate that, they just didn't, yeah, any of that.
Speaker 1:She's not, even though she's not even um a musician, but especially as a surfer. So you keep the hobby the same. I mean, like the idea of a hobby the same, but change the hobby. Um, that's how great idea to keep it fresh. And instead of like having her boy troubles, you get the trouble of having to move to a new city, new country, even like to start a new life and like leaving all your friends behind, like it's a totally different kind of decision-making. Um, she also Lindsay Lawrence character meets and gets engaged to a man, eric Rays, who plays by Manny Jacinto. Do you know who that is Like? Who he's from? The good place I don't know if you've ever seen that show.
Speaker 2:The good place, oh, okay, no, I missed that one oh, it was a good show, but that's.
Speaker 1:I've seen them on um chela for there. Um, I don't like how they met and got engaged within six months and we're getting married within six months and I also just didn't like there was a scene in the car like driving to school or something like that, and he's like already parenting. The lindsey lohan daughter, like tana, was like I don't like that. That's kind of weird dude.
Speaker 2:No, it was definitely a sped up, but I I ignored it 100 because when they were flipping through I turned and said watch the last date be october 3rd, like for me and girls. And I'm like sure as shit. I looked back and they did like the calendar october 3rd wedding, like for Mean Girls. And then, like sure as shit, I looked back and they did like the calendar October 3rd wedding date. I was like alright, if that's the plot device you need to do to throw a little Easter egg in there, fine.
Speaker 1:I mean, according to Lindsay Lohan, that was completely by accident. They didn't realize it was. Though.
Speaker 2:Okay, nobody in the writer's room, nobody noticed that. Shut that one.
Speaker 1:I'm still mad about the six month thing, but I was like you didn't have you could have said it was like a full year at least. Later I was like six months is kind of moving fast, like for you to be telling my kid what to do. I was like speeding through it actually yeah, and he was like seriously, I like how he did show how much he loved it, though like towards, like throughout the whole movie, I should say and that was like the whole thing, like just that unconditional, like well.
Speaker 2:But I also think that, like for two people who were hurt, like like widowers, basically like damn y'all quick, but when you know, you know, I guess yeah, mark carmen comes back to play ryan, which is the um jimmy lee curtis's husband in the movie.
Speaker 1:He looks just the same, just grayer very cool to see him in there. I went back and re-watched the first one. This guy's like the most chill, laid-back kind of guy and he's still that guy in this one. There's a scene at the end where, like jimmy lee curtis, she's still uh, sophia, sorry, she's still lily, and ryan sees him, her, crying. He's like, ah, I think you should handle this one. I'm good. I was like that's your wife crying. It's like, okay, there's a small, I get it for the plot, but like he was he was just having to play terrible, you know yeah, um, jake jake.
Speaker 1:In this movie played by chad michael murray. I liked how they brought his character back and I loved how it was so funny how he was way still more into the mom than lindsey long in trance, bro, and he was just like, hey, uh, hi, like he was just I.
Speaker 2:At first I was like, uh, do I need to see him again?
Speaker 1:but he did so good and you know what, lock in, everyone's got a type even like, um, his date I don't know if he caught that his date at the wedding was dressed up like her mom or in the first movie also who came back and I like I like how the they could have brought him back as a bum or something like that. I like how they kept him up like he was still handsome, he's still doing great business and stuff like that. Um, I and then it's like oh, it's your old boyfriend. I'm like I watched the first one, like did she end up with?
Speaker 1:like it's kind of weird, like if you were into my mom, like I don't want to be with you yeah, that's strange but then um, who also came back, was the teacher from the original, from the um original, and lindsey loin is like, oh, you're not retired yet, like you're still here and he still hates that family. For no reason? Well, because the mom wouldn't go out there. I'm trying to see who else is in this movie that I can remember, the two like the original lady with the cookie, she and her daughter over there yeah, yeah, I like that and I like that.
Speaker 2:It wasn't um, because you know what, at first I was like kind of not hurt, but like it kind of caught me off guard when they did the switch and it was like the palm reading lady. But I was like, yeah, you know what in this universe like canonically magic exists, so it doesn't really matter how it happens, like uh, I'm gonna go to the same fortune cookie shit I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go off on the ran that a little bit.
Speaker 1:But uh, um, one of the one of the, I just gotta highlight this actress because she was so funny for no reason in this movie and that's uh judy who plays in the agent for their interview where she would see if she was obviously hitting on the husband, and she was seen and everything. That blipper was my favorite too, like there's breaking when she was laughing. Um, sherry cola makes a cameo in this movie as one of the announcers in the pickleball game tournament thing. She lost a lot of weight, that's why I didn't recognize her at first. But she, she looked good, she looked good. I don't know if you know who can picture who that is right now, but um, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:I don't know where she's from.
Speaker 1:She's from Not Girl's Trip. Is it Girl's Trip? I don't know. She's a good funny comedy actress though I'm trying to look up that actress' name who plays the fortune teller.
Speaker 2:Vanessa Bayer Okay.
Speaker 1:She is funny. I did not like this character because she was very forced into the plot, her character. She literally pops up out of nowhere. He's like come on, guys, come in here and I'll read you a fortune. It's like, okay, that's kind of weird. I mean, I get it. That's a great way for them to reference the original, one like, oh you guys, lifeline has crossed before. It was great. But the original, like the waitress just notices a mother and daughter bickering and then she's like I'm gonna take it upon myself to do this and she gives me a fortune cookie. Great way, it was very simple and it was. It was done. Nice, this one.
Speaker 1:Like I felt very, very forced. Like it was like okay, like I get it, we're gonna end up here eventually and somehow and this is like a short, cheap way to get in there like she was on a hidden door. She also had to do several different businesses so you can have like different ways to reach her if you need to. It it would have been different issue, but like maybe it was the traveling fortune teller and you just don't know where she's gonna go and they have to go travel city to city or something like that to find her at carnivals or something. I think that would have been a little bit better. Um, and she didn't really even come back at the end. She's like at least the, the last one, like the, the older lady part of the solution.
Speaker 1:Like yeah, celebratory yeah, so I don't know. I just didn't like that part of the movie no, that's fair.
Speaker 2:Actually I didn't even think about that, like I, I do think it would have probably meant more if, like, even like, the jokes about the reviews were kind of worked for me, but after they switched back, like she would have been like around me, I'm like, leave me another review, like you know, tell, tell your friends. And then the irritation from mac had worked also.
Speaker 1:I mean, like the first one, it's just a fortune, it tells you what you need. And the second one she gets like possessed by like a demon or something like that with her voice and I was like that's crazy. Yeah, I was like what, what is this like? It's totally different kind of magic. It's dark magic maybe, and it's so. Why do the dark magic even care about these kind of problems? But I like how they do address like they didn't tell anybody what happened in that first movie, which is fucking awesome. I like it. They kept that secret. Uh, I wish they made a reference to the grandpa, because he was a big part of the first movie. He was obviously probably deceased by now, but it would have been cool if they mentioned him at least. The originals was not Spice Girls, they're not Spice the Spice something. The band, her old band, makes a big cameo Pink Slip. Sorry, yeah, they make a cool cameo in this movie. It's the original actress. Sorry, yeah, they make a cool cameo in this movie. It's the original actresses.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Okay, see, don't make me. This is the type of movie I like to put on a little box.
Speaker 1:It's like oh, it's good.
Speaker 2:If I think about it for more than three seconds, I'm going to tear it apart. Because it did aggravate me now that I'm thinking about it that you got this up-and-coming pop star this is like her debut not her debut, but her big coming out single and then she turns it over to just another band in the middle of it. For the rest of it, I was like that's not how that works. Why are they playing multiple stars? You could be my opener, but I'm the main event. They call me, but whatever, man.
Speaker 1:That didn't bother me as much, as much as like just a new actress, I mean the new pop singer. I mean like, yeah, she didn't look like a traditional pop singer, but I don't know I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'm going to a uh, big time rust concert. Um I'm jealous.
Speaker 2:I'm very jealous oh, hell, yeah, hell yeah. I didn't know if you're gonna make fun of it, but uh, it would be crazy, like I know, back in the day, I think, like one direction opened for them or something to make fun of it. But it would be crazy, like I know, back in the day, I think, like one direction open for them or something like which is still crazy, or but it was not like they would be playing and then introduce somebody else Like, oh, these are the OGs, backstreet boys come out.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what the crazy thing is? Hannah Montana's going on tour. I don't know if you've seen that. 25 and older, 25 and up, someone was saying someone predicted that Jonas Brothers is starting their tour soon. They're saying, like one of the concerts, maybe the first concert Hannah Montana's gonna open for them or come out with them, or something like that.
Speaker 2:That would be sick, right that would be a good one that would be a money maker.
Speaker 1:I like the the 25 and up. But I was like how can you prove that buying a ticket like just putting in your date of birth or or, or what? I'm only gonna id you there at the gates no, you'll probably.
Speaker 2:Um, there's, there's age verifications for stuff and hell yeah the idea I'm at the gate, hell yeah, whatever, I don't care, I gotta stay in line for an extra 20 minutes. Keep those kids at home. Honestly, they could have done like 21 and up and I would have been fine.
Speaker 1:No, no, someone made a video about it on TikTok. Honestly, I think it should be 21 because I grew up with it in 2000. I was like, no, no, that does not count.
Speaker 2:No, this is like the only socially acceptable, like gatekeeping, that just everybody's in line with. Like hell, no dude, like y'all. Y'all can go listen to it at home, y'all can go vibe, but not with us in person.
Speaker 1:This is for us yeah, they would be cool. Big time rush would be cool to see. Um, I have some people that I would like to go see still, but I like, I like the idea of throwing back and stuff like that. Yeah, I, I honestly just want my stars to come out with more music too. But if you come back as hannah montana, or maybe what if she does like an album as hannah montana, that'd be sick yeah, that would be crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, then I would like be more okay with like a younger, uh, like pop star with her, you know, but give me my nostalgia. Like I said, big time rush. I'm bopping to every song on there a thousand percent.
Speaker 1:You know I'm here for it, I'm not gonna feel bad yeah, yeah, I'm a big fan of them still, I still put them on every once in a while. Um, going back to the movie, we went away off. Like we talked about the beginning, like at the the end, the ending is a concert and, like the song, it was an original song for the movie, which it was a good song, don't get me wrong but like the last first movie ends with a rock song, and it was very good. I wish they did the same thing with this one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they did give us a little taste of the original song that I can't remember the name, but, um, they did play it for a little bit in this movie too. So, okay, this is pretty much just for us to get our our taste of it. I can't. Well, the ending was, you know, very good. Everyone switched back and stuff like that. There are a lot of things that I felt like they were just quick came. Like the dancing scene, like they're learning how to dance, was a very funny scene, but if you take that out, it doesn't change anything it doesn't.
Speaker 2:It does not because it's almost two hours. Yeah, you can shave off 10 minutes and be very inconsequential, like you know. But I don't know how long the first one was and I think, yeah, like similar, I think it did drag a little for the third, like not even actually I wouldn't even say it dragged in the last third. I think it just like kind of sped to the finish, like once they had the big fight, it was like bang, bang, beat, beat, beat, and then once they switched back wedding, it was like okay, movie's over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is how the first one was, though the first one ends like the wedding in the last two minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's fine by me. I always am super interested to be like what did the next day look like?
Speaker 1:all right. So if they read me this in 04, what's another movie you would like to see them redo?
Speaker 2:well, if they could do it good I'm not gonna say I don't want I just the rumblings are there's gonna be a second parent trap oh no, I wouldn't like that.
Speaker 1:This movie has a lot of parent chap feels to to it too.
Speaker 2:That's what, and I don't need to see Lindsay do both Like that. You know, maybe 17,. You know, scratch that itch for me or slingers. I don't think we need another one. But honestly, if it was up to me, genuinely, you ask me what nostalgic, like 2000 movie from Disney Channel era would I want to see back? 100% Lemonade Mouth.
Speaker 1:Lemonade Mouth from disney channel era what I want to see back 100 lemonade mouth how many mouth?
Speaker 2:I do remember hearing that title which one's about. That's the uh band with uh bridget, uh uh menderson, but now she's like a rocket scientist, whatever, but it's like just these grunge kids, but they have music in there that lasts timeless.
Speaker 1:So I could I mean, I don't know, it wouldn't work now because they're it's a teenage band and I don't need to see 30 year olds playing, but I would be very happy to bring that back I really liked on freaking friday, like when, like, yeah, the first one they were in a band and, um, this one they're still a band and, matter of fact, they have like fans like they tore and stuff like that with their legit band, which is very cool. Um, for me, just because it's lindsey lohan, um, I would like to see there were worse talks about this happening again. I'm not sure if it's true or not. Uh, but life size too, with tyra banks and lindsey lohan wow, okay, throwback yeah that just unlocked like a core memory.
Speaker 2:Huh, my grandmother loved that movie.
Speaker 1:Funny enough, uh oh, I remember I was a little kid. I was a little kid thinking, yeah, tyra banks is bad as fuck yeah, because she just did uh.
Speaker 2:Uh, america's next top model was her show, yeah, and I distinctly remember like my family loved that. So we saw tyra and I, she getting that disney money. Okay, all right, throw it back. That's how her big's been remembered.
Speaker 1:Um hell yeah yeah, uh, we just had a barbie movie come out too. Oh man, that would have been such a cool cameo, like she came in there as a barbie that would have been an interesting one. Yeah, yeah yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure. Um freak your friday. What'd you get? One of the 10? Now, you made me think about it.
Speaker 2:You changed. I actually started nitpicking it. I left the theater giving it like a 3.5 and I think that's.
Speaker 1:I think I gave it the same yeah, right around this.
Speaker 2:See, this is the hard part about movies, because in my head I'm like it's right up there with Naked Girl. I'm giving it an 8. I'm like it's right up there with Naked Girl, I squished it, I'm giving it an 8.
Speaker 1:I'm giving it an 8. I'm not mad at you. I'm not mad at you. I'll probably give it 7.5. I'm not mad at that at all. Actually, like you said, you left the theater having a good time. It did a lot better than I would have been more mad. Vice versa, I wish I would have seen some other stuff, versus not seeing enough. You know, 7.5 out of 10. I did want to go see a couple other movies that we're going to talk about too, and have you seen anything? What have you been watching lately?
Speaker 2:I've been doing TV man, I've been trying to catch up on all the shows. I've been in a Jon Hamm mood so I watch Friends with Neighbors or that neighbor show on Apple, and then I just finish the Tyler Sheridan Landman. He's in Landman. I just finished that.
Speaker 1:With Billy Bob Thorne.
Speaker 2:Is that the same universe? I did those. No, I call it that because he makes the same genre. Yeah, like you could tell me that they were connected and I would be like, yeah, that makes sense I did start watching that too, but um, I just have.
Speaker 1:I think I saw like um once I killed off. What's his name?
Speaker 2:um louise uh yeah, uh, yeah, louise yeah, yeah it's.
Speaker 1:It's a weird one man, I think, out of all the tyler sharon. Yeah, louise Michael Pena. I don't want to watch it anymore yeah, it's a weird one, man.
Speaker 2:I think out of all the Tyler, sheridan, yellowstone, lioness, all that genre, this is like the weakest one, but definitely I binged it in three days.
Speaker 1:I think it's a short series. If I'm not mistaken, I'm in the middle of Peacemaker, because I'm still trying to get ready for season 2. I think it's already started out, right? No, not yet. If I'm not mistaken, I'm in the middle of Peacemaker, because I'm still trying to get ready for season two. I think it's already started out, right? No, not yet. Yeah, I'm like more than halfway. Yeah, I'll definitely finish it by then. But there's some other shows that I want to start too. There's a Selena Gomez one on Hulu.
Speaker 2:I keep hearing good things about it.
Speaker 1:I want to start Murder in the History Book.
Speaker 2:Murder, murderers, only murderers. Yeah, only murderers in the building, or something like that. Yeah, yeah, the way you said it made me think it was new. That shows up on season five, yeah, yeah but hell yeah, man, I haven't watched it either. Maybe we can do something there?
Speaker 1:yeah for sure. Yeah, there's some other stuff on my list, but I caught up on the bear. It was great, we talked about that and there's just too much. There's too much shit to watch. There's just too much stuff to watch, um. But I do want to talk about weapons.
Speaker 1:I know you didn't want to see this movie, um, after watching it, I think you might have been able to handle it. I think you could have handled it. So the trailer looked very intriguing to me. It was josh brolin and julia gardner, so you can't really go wrong right there.
Speaker 1:Um, it's a darker movie, for those who don't know. One day in the middle of the night, like around 2.17 pm or 2.17, am sorry, in the middle of the night, all these kids a group, I think there's 17 kids they get up out of their beds, they run out the front door and they just go running until dark and they go missing. Nowhere to be found, nowhere to be found, nowhere to be heard, and it's suspicious because they were all in the same classroom taught by julia gardner. And, um, the whole town kind of blames her for it. Just because, like what? Why? Just your classroom? All the kids go missing, except for one kid, only one kid, shows up to the class the next day and I don't want to spoil too much, but I think I don't know what I was expecting from the trailer.
Speaker 1:The biggest thing that was intriguing to me was the mystery of it. Where did these kids go? Like? And I thought they were going to be more into like, maybe just child abducting kind of story, like a real, like basic story. That would have been great. But once they revealed what it was, I was like, oh, there's just that Like, and then, once you, once you reveal what it was, it's like you can literally do anything from here now, like, and it has to make sense, because it doesn't make sense in our world. You know it, that makes sense.
Speaker 2:It's kind of weird, but um, okay, no, no, no, I I like it. The setup that I also heard was obviously people are like this is one of the best movies of the year, like like this this is the horror movie for horror movies. And then the big one is Jordan Peele fired his team because they didn't give him the rights to this movie, like during the auction. So I'm like man, if Jordan Peele was that bad that he didn't get like able to put his name on this type of movie, this has to be crazy, you're saying overhyped.
Speaker 1:You know what? The ending? The first half was phenomenal, it was great. It did everything it needed to do. It's not really. There are a couple jump scares but, like, once you find out what it is, it's just more creepy versus scary. Like I don't think this is something that's going to keep me up at night. I let the theater kind of disappoint a little bit, especially the ending. The ending was more very comedic. This movie is funnier than what you think. It is too, um, but the ending was so comedic I was like, oh, I don't know if I like that and I didn't know if it was just me, if I was in the minority. And then I listened to a um, the happy, sad, confused podcast with josh boland. He was talking about the movie and the way he was talking about it is like you know what? That was a good movie, that the way he's describing it and playing it back and um, he describes it as a director telling him is that almost every character is is based on a different emotion or reaction that his like a somewhat as true buddy had, like um dealing with, like uh, one was, like josh ball 's character, angry. He's wanting the one to go out and solve the murder. Like the second, I was like the teacher's, like very innocent, like almost in denial what happened. And there's other characters, like the principal too, trying to stay calm. It's like that. The principal, who's also played by um wong from from dr strange um, um. And also before I watched this movie I also heard pager pascal was supposed to be josh brolin's character but because of the strikes it all got moved around. Um, so more than half the movie josh brolin did phenomenal in it. But the whole time I'm like I wonder how pedro would have handled. It would have been good. Can you imagine if he did do it between having this movie, fantastic four, eddington and the materialist come out all at once? What a big year for him. That would have been sick, um. But and then I listened to the podcast and I thought better of it. But then I started talking to a friend who recently saw it and we're talking. I was like, yeah, that didn't make sense or this they didn't need to know. Like we were poking holes in it left and right and I was like, oh man, that definitely lowered my score. And um, there are some easter eggs in there, there are some stuff down there like to make them. Um, that's confusing. The funniest thing. I don't amc must have did this on purpose. They had to have the movie I. I booked the movie in the afternoon. It was a two, the showing was 2 17. I was like that's weird oh, that's funny that's weird.
Speaker 1:Usually it's two fit like two o'clock, or 2 15, maybe 2 17. That's weird. And it's also the same exact time all the kids go missing in the movie 2 17 am. I was like I wonder they did that on purpose. If so, good for them. That was pretty funny. Easter egg.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they must have 100 percent.
Speaker 1:Done that on purpose, yeah I think if you, brandon, I know you're not into horror movies this is for anyone who's not in horror movies I think you can probably get away with seeing this and being okay with it. There are a lot of scenes that make you jump, but it's it's not because it's scary, it's more like cringy, almost like um, there's a scene where a cop pulls over a junkie and it's like is there anything in your pocket this is spoilers anything in your pocket that could prick me? He goes no, and of course he sticks his hand in there and the needle gets his finger. So that makes you jump, like because, like, exactly like that, like it's kind of gross, like so I mean it's, it's a lot of stuff like that. There are a couple jump scares. There is a nightmare scenario kind of thing that goes like kind of scary, I guess, if you're home alone, living by yourself. Uh, one of the things I didn't like about this movie is julia gardner and this. I thought this movie was set in the 70s. It's set now, so there's like ring camera footage and stuff like that and uh, that's what makes it more scary, because, like, how can you get away with something like this?
Speaker 1:Now, uh, josh brolin's character, one of the things I didn't like about the plot. Not him. He's very mad. He's to the point like he's sleeping in the son's bed trying to figure out what happened. He goes to the police. The police are kind of bothered by him because he checks in every single day and like, hey, we're working on this, relax. Just one decides to take it in his own hands and he he finds out where the kids are within like the first day. I was like, okay, the cops are fucking idiots. Then, if nobody, this guy can do it myself. Justin long makes a good cameo in this movie too, which is because this is the director. I can't remember his name off the top of my head, but this is the director who debuted with Barbarian. Justin Long was a big part of that movie, so I like how he brought him back. Also, justin Long is a big. Well, he's a comedy too, but he's a big horror fan, kind of like Jamie Lee Curtis in a way. Yep, so Josh Brolin finds out where the kids are working.
Speaker 1:There's another plot point that I didn't like, where Julia Garner's a teacher. They close down the school for a little bit, but now it's time to reopen because it's been so long and they have a meeting you see it in the trailers All the town gets together for the school. It's not to blame anybody, it's just a grief counseling thing. If anyone wants to talk, get their feelings out. But it turns into a hateful thing against Julie Garner because everyone thinks she has something to do with it, to the point where she gets literally chased out of that room like and they had, like the principal and like, helped them, keep away everybody. She fucking goes home. She goes home like you idiot. Like why would you do that? And of course people are messing with her. Someone wrote witch on her car and like ding dong. Ditching her place is like you fucking idiot.
Speaker 1:Go home or go somewhere else yeah, where everyone will suspect you to be her character was more drinky too, which is another emotion to deal with in this situation, but, uh it, it's a good movie. I'm glad I watched it. I could see jordan's appeal for, like, uh, anger for not getting this movie. I think you're gonna ask something a lot different to this movie if you were to talk. I think it would have been a little bit darker if you did it. This one had a lot more humor, which I don't think, uh, jordan peele, unfortunately, would have did. Uh, it definitely felt like the humor from barbarian. I don't know if you ever seen that movie, have you? Yeah, no, it's, it's. That movie still fucks me up. That movie still fucks me up, brandon, especially like you. Like, if you travel a lot of places and like you, stay at the airbnbs, you're gonna be, you can't see hell, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:Yeah um honestly, I'll probably give weapons like I still give it a seven out of ten because it is gonna stick with me for a minute, for a while all right interesting um, okay, I'm also going to talk about Together, dave Franco and Alison Brie, his real life wife.
Speaker 1:For those who don't know, this movie is about like A couple who not newly couple, but they newly moved away to the countryside. They're a codependent Couple. For those who don't know, it's really when you rely on your partner to basically help you get through the day, rely on, keep moving, you rely on this person to make you feel better, then you rely on yourself to feel better. And it gets to the point where this codependency becomes physical. Dave Franco does get sick when she leaves the house or goes more than 10 feet away from her, whatever it is. And it's all because they go hiking in this new place in her backyard. They fall into a hole. It's kind of weird and you get cult vibes out of it at one point and they realize they start changing their bodies. They really need each other. They try giving each other space, but something is calling them back together and, to the point, this movie is where they merge into one. It's weird. Like you could definitely handle this one, brandon. It's more gross than scary it's body horror.
Speaker 2:I don't do that man, that's like I. There's like a, you know all the levels. There's like the paranormal shit you know I'm not touching. I can do like a, you know, slasher film, not a huge jump scare guy, the creepy stuff. But body horror like human centipede, like oh no, absolutely not so I mean, this is another one.
Speaker 1:I listened to a podcast interview with dave franco on three questions. Um he, the way he talked about it, like is he? I think this uh, excuse me if I'm wrong, I think he might have directed this one too, but he'd started it with his real wife and he talked about the process of it. Yeah, and it's great, it's shot, awesome, it's really good. And he talked about the process Like it was really good working with his wife, because he couldn't do, like it's, a lot of physical touching in this movie.
Speaker 1:He couldn't do that with another person On. They actually live together because they're, you know, a couple, so they're allowed to be able to do. They were able to do a lot of rehearsing at home and they said that helped them in the long run because, like, because they were the worst at home, they had more time to actually get the shot perfectly in this movie and it it plays off well. You, when I say they merge together, you literally see them merging into one person. It's kind of gross. I don't like the ending because it just accepted at the end instead of trying to find a way out of it. I don't know what I was expecting. It was more gross than scary and I was like I probably get something like a 6.5 out of 10. I probably never going to watch this one again.
Speaker 2:That's fair. I was rooting for this one, like, obviously I'm not going to sugarcoat it, I don't watch that. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, I don't watch that. I'm not ever going to watch this. But this is more content for moviegoers, right, this keeps it like. This gives us more ideas, all that fun stuff. So I like when an actor turns a director, I think that's. You know, they bring a really cool perspective. Dave frantos seems like a really genuine chill dude. His wife, uh, alice. They look like they have great chemistry on and off screen. So happy to happy for them. Hope it does. Well, you know, give them other opportunities. Stop making this. Don't. Don't make this for me.
Speaker 1:I'm not watching this yeah, and a lot of people are saying this is the year for horror movies, a lot of great horror movies. You know what? I agree now, because like it's a lot of original horror movies, like together, weapons, sinners these are all original, they're fucking amazing, they're good, they're getting people in the theaters like um. So I will agree like it's a pretty big year for, uh, horror movies this year. Um, and like you said, some of the stuff like you just hear the word whore and like, like people like you like it just turns you away and I was like they don't want to do it. It was like, if I can do it, I don't.
Speaker 1:I think a lot of people could do it. You could definitely watch together. You just see them come, like, become one. It is, and the only the thing about this and um weapons together. They fall into this cave and see a bunch of bells with like a weird symbol on it and, um, I think they ring it or something like that, and that's how they started this whole thing. But you also see a bell in weapons too that had like a similar logo on it too. It was like I don't know if that was intentional or like a coincidence, a bad mistake. But uh, I was like, yeah, that's kind of a theme and you know what. You mentioned Jordan Peele, and I kind of wanted to bring this up too, because Jordan Peele did lose out on weapons and he was petty that he did it and so he released the trailer for him on the same day it premiered.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's actually. I didn't even put two and two together. That's really funny.
Speaker 1:And the new trailer came out and I'm more excited for it. We got a little bit more into the story and it looks good. Now that with fucking I don't know if you've just seen today or yesterday that real life accident happened with a football player, detroit on Detroit. I thought somebody died on the field no, I think they're still living but hurt real bad. You see him like seizing almost on the ground. I was like, oh, it's kind of bad timing for the movie, or is it good timing, who knows?
Speaker 2:I'm not touching that yeah, that's like fucking.
Speaker 1:When um twisters came out last year we had like that really bad tornado bad tornado yeah um, the last movie I want to talk about is k-pop demon hunter on netflix.
Speaker 1:This is the number one netflix movie in the world right now. It's breaking all kinds of records for original movies. I watched it just because of the hype and it lives up to it. If you're especially if you're anime fan or just like, like k-pop, the music soundtrack is amazing and it's fun, it's it's. There are complaints about the movie, but I think they're just setting up for sequels to come along. There's also talks about making this movie in live action, which I think would be a horrible idea because there's a lot of sequences that wouldn't work live action.
Speaker 1:Um, from the get-go, you're starting. You're starting off strongly with a lot of action and a lot of great music and a very like opening scene very awesome. Um, ken jong makes a uh, he's a voice, is one of the characters in there and he's he's pretty funny in this movie. One of the biggest things that the love uh complaints about is a love interest. Um, they don't kiss in this movie. Instead, he's the spoiler. He sacrifices himself, uh for the other one, and that was a big complaint a lot of people, but I was like it's, it's fucking anime.
Speaker 1:No one says dead, you know it's, it's, he's gonna come back yeah yeah, I don't know, there's uh talks about sequels yet, but I'm definitely gonna be lying to watch it. I'm honestly playing. Give us an eight out of ten okay, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2:I I think everything, everything that I've heard about it, leads me to believe that there will be sequels, even like the. The music in here is charting dude, no shit. The second time I heard about this movie was when I was at my army training and my, my uh executive officer like pulled me. He's like you're a movie guy, right. I was like yeah, yes, sir. And he's like what'd you think of hell is going on? He's like I have kids. They were listening to it. I was like, alright, man, I will, absolutely. I told him I was going to watch it before our next training, so it's on the list.
Speaker 1:We got to talk about what you did to our friend Danny, though you definitely bullied this guy about watching it.
Speaker 2:You got to think about it from my perspective. Okay, I don't know what this is. I came in, all right, I told rob the story earlier. Uh, danny, my roommate, he's a big movie guy, just like us, uh, but he's on the road so he comes home and we always fight over the tv, like you know, sibling drama uh. And I come out and I'm like all right, you can have a tv. But I turn around and I see like this movie it's pink, it's like little boy band going on. I was like you're not taking up the tv for this. So I like rustled him for the remote, turned it off, go to get the mail.
Speaker 2:He had it back on I ran back in the room, turned it off again. Absolutely. He's like you're not even in here anymore. It doesn't matter, we're not watching this in this house. It's like dude what the fuck no, you can definitely tell him you can definitely tell him he's.
Speaker 1:He's right. He was right in that argument. It was such a good movie. I would definitely watch it again. I would definitely watch it again. Um, are you being anime too, or not?
Speaker 2:really I love, I love anime, man, yeah yeah, you definitely give it a shot then.
Speaker 1:Um, all right, we talked about next episode. Nobody to. I don't know we will. We'll probably mix it in with, like this, like how we're doing it, but I'm really not looking forward to that movie. Bob odenkirk I like him as a comedy. He's so funny. He was supposed to be steve carell's character in the office, um, but to see this old man beat up like I don't buy it for context, to everyone listening, rob has not seen the original, nobody so everything he's saying.
Speaker 2:You gotta watch the person, man, and then you.
Speaker 1:It works so the part that like turns me off about the trailer too. There's a scene in there where, like some guy picks on his daughter at a carnival or something like that and he's like you know what? I'm gonna go back and say something to this got and he beats the shit out of him. Let this happen in real life. A white dad and a carnival like start going off on security, just beating up people. Like if you see that shit on twitter, you're not gonna think it looks cool, like how it does in the movie. Like you're gonna think it's like yeah, oh, just like a poor guy from portage, like fucking up shit that's fair, well.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what? And I'll give you this, I am slightly over this genre, right, it's the John Wick movie, like why a guy tries to be reserved.
Speaker 1:I would say it's more like Taken versus John Wick, like an older guy.
Speaker 2:When you watch the first one, you'll see what I mean Okay.
Speaker 2:It's very much so. Like he is a Baba Yaga, like he is this special forces, this Special Forces ex-assassin type really capable dude and he's chill until someone messes with him who shouldn't. Similar to In the first movie, they take his daughter's bracelet and they bring it to his house and that's where it goes. Same thing with John Wick the dog or Nicolas Cage. There's the movie the Pig, or Alright, guys, I get it, the gun-fu. Or like, uh, nicholas cage, there's a movie the pig, or like is that like? All right, guys, I get the the gun fu. Um, but I think that's what threw me off the most. Like I, I or violent night, uh, with uh, you know the new, uh, santa claus movie that goes the exact same way.
Speaker 1:Like that's different. That's santa claus, though it's like different copy my homework, but change it up a little like it's the same, but that's like like santa mixed with magic.
Speaker 2:I mean it's the different, copy my homework, but change it up a little like it's the same but that's like like santa mixed with magic.
Speaker 1:I mean it's the same thing with, uh, jk simmons and the red one. Like it's big as shit because but he's santa, but everybody's santa. I mean like it makes sense for him to do that and, funny enough, they're making that second uh violent night.
Speaker 2:But yeah, man, uh, overall I am excited about it, just because I think, um, not that we need another action movie, because actually, now that I'm thinking about it, we've had like a pretty decent blockbuster summer. But I think this is just going to be one of those uh popcorn movies.
Speaker 1:You get to see some people get beat that beat to hell, some explosions, a little family dynamic and you get to go home and enjoy your day I think, with the stunt coordinating and um just becoming part of the oscar nominations now, we're going to see a lot more movies like this now, just because they're going to try to get the nomination granted. I think this movie was probably made before that announcement, so I don't see them going out of their way, but I think it will change movies from here on forth, um biggest robbery in history has been.
Speaker 2:Announcing this after tom cruise makes the fifth final issue impossible, but I keep my comments to myself. I'm still mad, uh brandon.
Speaker 1:It was a good episode. There's a lot of good movie going on. Thank you for everyone being patient on this week's episode, but I'm still posting content. So follow the tiktok page, follow both of our letterboxes, because we said I just broke 100 brandon's almost there. A lot of more movies to come and um august, we're still in the middle of that.
Speaker 1:There's there's quite a big movies coming out that I'm excited for, but um half of the year to go yeah, we do plan on having guests pretty soon, so keep an eye out for that and um, subscribe to the instagram page as well and stay tuned. Next week we We'll be seeing you soon.
