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Ep 519 Best Films of the Mid Year
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In this episode the FilmBros discuss their favorite films as 2026 comes to a half way point
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What up, everybody? I'm your host, JP, and this is my co-host Josh.
SPEAKER_04Hey everybody.
SPEAKER_00And welcome back to another episode of the Film Bros Podcast. Alright, Josh. So it's time. It's the middle of the year. Uh you already probably had your 4th of July barbecues, okay? You had your hot dogs and your burgers, right? And while you were doing that, while you were scarfing them down, watching fireworks pop in the air, probably popping your own. Not popping other things, but popping fireworks. Maybe got a ticket. Maybe got a ticket if you wound up getting caught. And while you were over there arrested in jail, you were contemplating, hmm, I wonder what my list for 2026 is. At least the midway mark for our best movies that we've seen so far. And let me just tell you something, Josh. I'm gonna have to tell you something. 2026 has not been my year for movies. Unfortunately, on my side, uh, I want to hear your side in a second, but for me at least, it's not been a hundred percent. I've been here, I've been there, but I've just not been on top of it like you have. I know you've been on top of your movies. Hopefully, my end of the year one will look a lot better, but this one for sure is not my strongest year so far. So, I mean, so for me, I got about all together 16 in total movies that I've seen so far this year. You probably got way double that at this point, I'm pretty sure. And that's just fucking amazing, and I'm happy for you. I'm just saying mine's is not as beefy as yours, I'm pretty sure.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I don't I don't know, man. I think I'm I'm closer to a quarter at that point at that point. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00The good thing about the good thing for me is that I know that a good chunk of those were probably ass.
SPEAKER_05Oh, dude.
SPEAKER_01A good like ten of those were probably ass, and you you just watched it because you had to, and you just nah man.
SPEAKER_05If they like a lot of the streaming was, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I think but you know how much that brings to my heart. This is the first year that I can honestly say that I feel like you've actually done the part where I basically been doing where you watch every single thing that's been coming out, whether you love it, whether you hate it. Um obviously you're not a fucking uh you have you know you have a limited time in the day, so you're not gonna be able to get every single thing. But for the most part, I'm really uh as your film bro here, I'm really proud of the progress that you made this year. It's really showing off, and it's really it's amazing. So I'm hoping that I hear some good things on your list, and I'm hoping by the end of the year you have if if if we're not neck and neck, you got you got me beat for a second year in the row.
SPEAKER_04I know, I'm hoping.
SPEAKER_00Fingers crossed. Uh, but Josh, how are we feeling about 2026? Okay, obviously we've seen a few movies, you've seen a lot more than me. How do we feel about 2026 compared to 2025? Are we rocking better? Are we kind of sitting in the middle? Is there a lot of misses that you've been sitting through? Tell us.
SPEAKER_04I think we're I think we're doing pretty good. I think movie theater-wise, movie movie theater movies that I've seen, I think we're doing pretty good. Um, maybe a little bit better than 2025. I know 2025, they were like the year because you know we don't have to deal with COVID and all that stuff anymore. We're well into it. I think we're getting some bangers this year. I do think um some of some of some of them are kind of whack. Maybe you know that that comes with it. You know, one in every five is probably gonna be whack. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes, of course. Every year you're gonna have what? The goats, the universally loved, and then you're gonna have the maybe in the middle, a little bit misconstrued, and then you're gonna have those bottom of the barrel. What the fuck? Who gave you a budget? Who gave you a camera? Who said to start rolling? You know what I mean? Um, we're gonna talk about that in our next episode that we're gonna be recording here um pretty soon. Basically reflecting our worst movies, and we don't do top 10 when it comes to them, we do top five. We do top five. We cannot bear to just sit there, and then we also have you know our little punching bags on the side that we like to just you know hit it with a little drive-by once in a while, right? Uh, but first things first, we always like to knock out our mid-year, our best Josh's top ten, my top ten, because like we said, you guys we we for sure do not have the time to watch every single movie. We know your time is very much valuable to you. So hopefully this gives you a reflection, a little bit of an insight of what's good, what's bad, and hopefully you give it a try and it does not waste your time. Um, and that's uh basically the goal of this kind of episode. But with that being said, Josh, I want you to kick us off. What's your number 10? We'll go from 10 to 10. Obviously, these are still good movies, but they're just not as good as I would say maybe top five, top three, number one. Right. So we'll start with number 10. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_04All right. It's gonna sound a little crazy, and it's not that it's a good movie, it just was a good laugh. Oh my god, it's a scary movie, scary movie six. Stop saying Supergirl, and that shit ain't gonna appear in it.
SPEAKER_00It ain't gonna happen.
SPEAKER_04It ain't gonna happen.
SPEAKER_00It's gonna scare movie six out of here as quick as it is out of theaters. Anyway, absolutely. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_04Scary movie six, um, or scary movie, however we're calling it. Not like I said, not the best movie. It's not like I'm praising it because it's it's cinema and the acting and all that stuff. It was just funny. I just thought it was a good laugh. I really enjoyed it. That thing had me rolling from start to finish. I really think it was a good, like, while I don't think it's a good film, it is definitely a movie. You know what I mean? Like, that's kind of how I feel about it.
SPEAKER_00I I would like to say, I think every scary movie's like that, right? I mean, when you say scary movie, I believe you're not going in there to watch, you know, Interstellar. You're not going in there to watch, you know, Man of Steel, you're not going in there to watch, you know, uh 1917, you're not watching pure sit cinematic gold, but that shit's gonna keep you laughing for sure. And I'm pretty sure. And I'm happy to hear that because that's one of the movies that I gotta actually watch. And the fact that I know, wait, did they shy away from any of the old stuff that they used to be known for, like that crude humor? Are we back? Are we back in 2026 like we were in the early 2000s?
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, I I always say so, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay, because I we are grindlighting a few movies off the back of this one. Um what we got that 24 Jump Street that's supposed to come out, possibly a hot checks too, possibly another scary movie. If this one really oh well, it really made its money back. It's just basically sitting there still making money at the movie theaters, but it's it's doing what it needs to do. So hopefully that that era of raunchy comedy and you know, people not being so offended is gonna be back and we'll finally move forward. But scary movie is one of those that I gotta watch. Hopefully, you guys watch it too. But that's a good pick. A good pick. My number 10, Josh. It's a Netflix film, not not your cup of tea, probably not the best thing that you've seen in your life, but it's called Swap. Now, if you're wondering what is swap, well, just think about if you know Netflix stole an idea like Moana and then just made him into Birds. That's basically what basically happens. And it's you know, it works, it works. Michael B. Jordan's in this one. Um, he he voiced it, and they really loved to kind of promote him when uh when he won his Oscar, and basically they were like, Oh, Oscar winning, Michael B. Jordan, right? So they basically had him there. Tracy Morgan was there, uh Juno Temple. It was a it was a good movie. I really enjoyed it. I watched it with the kids, and I real I was just actually like, okay, Netflix can do animation. I haven't seen anything bad when it comes down to like Netflix animation, but with their movies, not so much. Maybe you have to take care of your animation a little bit more because it got to go through steps and movies, not so much. I don't know. Maybe there's a difference there. Have you seen swapped?
SPEAKER_04I have not. I think I've seen clips of it, I think, like you know, here and there, but I've never I never would have pegged this one on there, but that's pretty good. You know what I mean? I can't I can't be one of those people that like animation fucking like you know what I mean. No, yeah. I think this is a solid, this could be a solid pick.
SPEAKER_00If I give praises to any Netflix thing, even you know, even them picking up like a Sony movie, like you know, uh what is it, the K-pop demon hunters and all that stuff. That was a smart move on their end. I think one thing that streaming services do know how to do is obviously make something that's entertaining for children because it's like what do people say? They use some apps are used as babysitting stuff, so they you know they gotta keep it kind of entertained. And I feel like swapped was made not only for kids, but like if you're actually sitting with your family watching the movie, so it was pretty good, not too bad. Uh, but your number nine, Josh.
SPEAKER_04My number nine is The Iron Lung. We were talking about this one the other day a little bit. Um, this is a good movie. I do recommend it.
SPEAKER_00That was Mark, uh the YouTuber, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Markiplayer. The his that's his movie. Um it take it takes place of with him in a submarine all around him, uh, is like a blood ocean with creatures trying to basically get inside all that stuff. I would say it's pretty solid. I do think uh Markiplayer needs a little bit more acting uh chops because I know it's hard to, you know, even like the best of actors struggle to just like show just emotion and bring out what they can while only by themselves. I mean, we watched that Willem Dafoe one, and even I think that one was like mad questionable, you know what I mean? It's a hard watch, but but it's solid, it's a solid movie. I do think it is it's this low simply because of the like I said, Marketplayer needs a little bit more acting chops. And two, if you're not paying attention, it you you're you're off the boat, you know what I mean? You're off the ride.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so not so decent enough. I I can kind of I want to kind of relate that to maybe like what we saw with the Philippore brothers, right? With um, what is it, the first one with the hand. Uh talk to me. It was cool, it wasn't too crazy, but it just did not stick the landing as it was supposed to, right? Um, you know, these YouTubers obviously they make YouTube things, so they're they're kind of used to that. So maybe this one kind of shows them that path to like something better uh onward into the future. I've heard about this one, I haven't seen it. I I'm assuming it's pretty decent. I was hearing that this one was kind of thrown in with um what was that other one that came out like last year? Uh with Stuck Stuckerman's horror movie, right? Like they is basically being compared to him, Chris Stuckerman.
SPEAKER_04Oh, right. I I know what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that one movie. I never watched the that one either, but you know, that's one of them that they're kind of uh kind of putting them side by side. Like I said, we're gonna be doing a video, we're gonna have to watch those movies, uh, because this a YouTuber turned movie uh filmmaker. Obviously, this has been something that we've been talking about, and they a lot of YouTubers, it's their dream. This is something that they want to do. So we're gonna be talking about that. We'll actually make a video, watch a lot of these movies just to you know get an idea of what from what they go through, how they jump from here to there, and basically see if they should be actually picking up the big camera. Am I right? Uh, but we'll have to wait and see when it comes to that one. But I'm excited to watch this one. Hopefully, uh when we get to that video, it's it's well worth our time. Uh, my number nine though, Josh, I have to I have to give it to Chris Pratt. And uh you're not gonna you're not gonna know why I picked this movie, but I gotta give it to Mercy. Um Chris Pratt, and then I look, let me tell you something. Let me tell you, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Okay, this movie for me was kind of reminiscent of like minority report, but like in the future with like AI. Obviously, minority report kind of tackles that, but this one kind of tackled it in a in a different way. Did it get a little convoluted towards the end? Yes. Did it was it a little over the top kind of? Was the acting not a hundred percent? No. Was it a good pop conflict though? I gotta say, yeah. I gotta say it was worth probably popping in again if I wanted to. If I feel like just sitting there and watching another movie and just being like, hey, I'm just gonna put this one on. Mercy was Mercy's kind of it. I don't really like Chris Pratt in that way. But I gotta say, Mercy kinda had me.
SPEAKER_04I don't know, man. I don't know. This one's a little questionable. I ain't gonna lie. Maybe it's just my own vendetta with Chris Pratt, but I I I I can't get behind this one.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_04It's the only questionable one so far.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Only because especially because we've both seen what it is, and I'm pretty sure you saw better movies uh after this, and I've seen better movies after this too, but I will say I think this is one of those ones where like I think you've said well, you've said this plenty of times where you could just kind of shut your brain off and kind of watch it, and it it's kind of good, you know what I mean? So, and I kind of feel like that's what it was. I put it on, it kind of at first it was kind of like uh okay, do I take this seriously? And then once I just kind of sat back and let it happen, it wasn't that bad of a movie. It's just more of once you turn your brain on, you're like, mmm. Mmm. Pratt Prattinson, what are you doing? Am I right? Am I right? Yeah. Not on the list, I'm I take it, but that's okay. Yeah, no. That is okay. Josh, what is your number eight? Go ahead.
SPEAKER_04My number eight is Masters of the Universe.
SPEAKER_00Ooh, okay, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_04It was good. I really loved it. I think this movie is pretty fucking good. But I cannot ignore its flaws. You know what I mean? Like it, like it's flawed in the way that like it just doesn't take itself seriously. And I know that's like the charm of it, of like doing the whole universe and that stuff. But you put it up against real contenders, unfortunately, it's just gonna fall on its face. So I can like it for what it is, but I also have to acknowledge, like, hey, this movie's pretty fucking silly when you like think about it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. I would uh, you know, it kind of reminds me of Dungeons and Dragons. I know this movie has been kind of you know back to back with Dungeons and Dragons. They're kind of like, oh yeah, it's that kind of movie. Uh unfortunately, this movie did flop in the box office, so I don't think we're gonna be getting sequels unless uh there's rumors in the background saying that if it does really good on Prime, probably do better. This is one that I've been waiting to watch as well. Um I have to say, Josh, Joe, on a little side note, so far we're only on we're only on the third movie, and I already like your uh your diversity in your in your list already. So I just gotta keep giving you props because I really show I really seen the improvement of like your work ethic when it comes down to these films and everything. So and it shows within your list just off these first three. I'm really happy for or for this and for you, and I'm happy that you had fun with this movie because some people did not, but with according to the Rotten Tomatoes course, a lot more people had fun with it than those that did not. And I really feel like this is kind of like that Dungeons and Dragons movie where it was like, eh, people have fun, but once you think about it, you're like, uh Yeah. I wonder if the whole Jared Leto thing is the reason why I didn't make a lot of money.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. You think it's out of the curse? I don't know. It's not like you can tell it's him. I'm pretty sure if they didn't credit him, bro. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, if you if they didn't credit him, bro, that like you wouldn't even know. You couldn't tell.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. Well, not even in the voice, you didn't hear Jared Leto out of there.
SPEAKER_04No, I heard Skeletor. Like, like if they took him from the cartoon and dangled him in the movie, I that's what I heard.
unknownOkay. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Your number seven.
SPEAKER_00Josh supports Jared Leto. I don't know what to say. I don't know. I don't know. I like I like it. I support Jared Leto too. It is what it is. Um, but yeah, I'm excited for this one. I'm gonna be watching that one. My number eight, Josh, is the bride. Uh Jake Gyllenhaal, uh not uh Jake Gyllenhaal is in this movie. Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, uh Jesse Buckley the Bride. This one, I gotta say, and this is it kind of sucks to say it because if I you know Masters of the Universe is kind of like that movie where like it's built to not be taken too seriously. The bride is one where you where it really wants you to take it seriously. And there's moments where I really do, and that's why I really gotta put it to the top. Like Maggie, Christian Bale, like I feel like they um they have really good chemistry the way that they like work on screen. Not Maggie, sorry, uh the lead actress, uh Jesse Buckley. They really have really good chemistry, like when him and her were on screen. Do I feel like they did a good job like they did with Barbie in the messaging of this movie? No, a little heavy-handed, but did I enjoy the performances a hundred percent? I really did. And I mean everybody's seen it in the trailer, but that whole jumping down the stairs thing to see something like that and see the whole body like actually just contort and everything like that is insane. Uh, but I do I do acknowledge that this movie does have flaws, but it for me personally, I can overlook them for the powerful acting that comes from with Christian Bale and uh the lead actress in this film. So I enjoyed it.
SPEAKER_04Okay, okay. I still gotta get around to this one. Okay, I got around to like the all the other ones, but I still gotta get around to this one. I mean, I saw the fucking I told you I saw Lee Cronin's the movie way before, way before this one even like hit hit my radar, and they're on the same fucking app. So I don't understand, but I I will get around to this one. That sounds that sounds pretty good.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah, I do, I do, I do recommend this one. Um, like I said, little little you're gonna have to brace yourself a little bit because we're masters of the universe, you don't take it that seriously, and you know when you walk in you're not supposed to take it seriously. This one expects you to, and you know that they expect you to. So when certain scenes happen, you're just like, son of a bitch. Like, do you want me to laugh or not? You know what I'm saying? And that's just it's unfortunate sometimes, but I do enjoy the performances, and that's all I have to say. Josh, what is your number seven?
SPEAKER_04My number seven is they will kill you.
SPEAKER_00Oh, a little low for me, but I will take it from you. How okay, how was that one?
SPEAKER_04So I did like it, I enjoyed it. I I think they I think it's pretty solid action flick. I do think um if this were one of those like silent movies, you know what I mean, the ones that that are getting traction right now where like, oh, they're not saying a word and all that stuff, I think it probably would have hit better. Because I don't know if Zazie Beats is the kind of leading woman that she's trying to be. I I think I think I think I think it's good. I think the movie's pretty good. I just don't think I just think it's on her. I just think laying it all on her and knowing her chops and like what she's done. I don't know. I don't know if she gotta like that.
SPEAKER_00I think you're being a little harsh.
SPEAKER_04I didn't like it. I like the action. I think that's what the action and the camera work is exactly why it's up here where it's supposed to be.
SPEAKER_01What about Zazzy's like facial expression?
SPEAKER_00What about the work that she puts her body through to make this movie? Obviously, stun doubles were made. Also, obviously, they got paid for this movie as well. But what I'm saying is is that you could tell that she put some work in into this film. I feel like you're just not giving it its fair shake. I feel like even the ending, the the video game style ending that comes at the the very this is one that I can't I can't give it to you because we're on very two sides of different aisles here, sir. I can't believe it.
SPEAKER_04I don't know, man. I don't know. I'm just saying I Zazzy Beast was everywhere for a minute.
SPEAKER_00Go ahead.
SPEAKER_04I think it could have I think it could have been better. Especially when you compare it to like what it what's that one that's out right now? Um the the kung fu fighting one that's that's kind of like taking everything by storm.
SPEAKER_00Oh, the fighter?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that one. Something like that. Like that one, crazy shit, man. Like crazy shit. So there are there is variety in this kind of genre.
SPEAKER_00And I do think Zazi brings the heat.
SPEAKER_04I mean, she does what she can, man. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01What are you expecting out of this movie? An Oscar worthy performance? You want her to oh or for our thou as she's cutting the heads off while she didn't know. I mean it's crazy.
SPEAKER_04Why not? Why not? You know what I mean? I do like it for its wackiness. I'm telling you, the movie is so high, it but you gotta understand, it's also pretty low on a list as possible. To have like highs, you know what I mean? So I I think it's fine where it's at, you know.
SPEAKER_00I don't think so. But we'll talk about it later. Talk about it later. Uh moving on though. Uh, my number seven, I give it to Ready or Not Here I Cub, the sequel uh to Ready or Not itself. This one, I really enjoyed it. Um, did not enjoy it as much as the first one. Did get a little convoluted, had to ask a few questions towards the end, like you know. How the fuck does this whole leadership thing work? Like it just it just got a little too it got a little too crisscrossy for me there there at the end. But for the most part, I do enjoy uh where we left off. It I the fact that it started where we left off with the first one was kind of cool as well. Not a lot of movies do stuff like that. The fact that she had to do all this in the span of a week, right on to you, right on to you. Um, but like other than that, I mean performances, Samara Weaving can never go wrong. Catherine Newton has always been on the fence for me. She's always been one of those that I'm like, do I like her? Do I hate her? She's an At-Man, but then she's also in like, you know, that's what I'm saying. Like, she you just kind of forget her. And like, so I'm like, do I like her? I really enjoyed her in this one. I I feel like if she does more like this, where she lets go. Oh, I liked her in the Dylan Sprouse one, the one with the zombie, right? That's oh, yeah, okay, yeah. What was it called again? I forgot what it's called.
SPEAKER_04I I don't know what it's called. I just I know what you're gonna do talking about.
SPEAKER_00I liked her in that one, I liked her in Freaky. That one was cool too. So maybe she's better in like a Samara weaving role. Maybe like she needs to be a Scream Queen kind of thing. Like she needs to be one of those final girls, she needs to be in horror movies because she has like that energy where you know she's like boss as fuck, but like in this, like you know, in that way where like Courtney Cox or like you know, uh, what's her name? The the girl from Scream. I she used to have a high name, now it's all over the place. She plays Sydney, forgot her name.
SPEAKER_04Oh, fuck. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. The main the main one, the one that came back.
SPEAKER_00Um, so I feel like yeah, if she stays in this lane, perfect. But I think that's what really makes this movie this let's just be honest, the story not so much. I really like Elijah Wood in this one as well. It's nice.
SPEAKER_04Pretty good. I I I guess I still gotta get around to this one. I'm gonna check it out. We just I we just gotta watch the first one.
SPEAKER_00You haven't watched the first one yet either? No. Okay, well, just to give you a little heads up, connected. They literally, they both movies, if you watch them back to back, they're connected literally week. Yeah, it's really nice. So it's a good little way to kind of connect it. So uh I'm interested to hear your take when you get around to it. Um number six.
SPEAKER_04Number six. The Super Mario Galaxy movie.
unknownOoh.
SPEAKER_00How's that one?
SPEAKER_04I liked it. I was about to get around it.
SPEAKER_00I bought it on on physical, by the way.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay, cool. You know, you I think the you know, the boys will get a better kick out of it. You know what I mean? I think it's visually appealing. I think the story's fun and cute and all that stuff. I still don't know about Chris Prats Mario. Um, I think at most this movie probably has like a pacing issue, which like it goes by everything really fast just so we can get to like the oh hey, I know that from the game, I know this from the game, and then you know the third act um also kind of goes by pretty quickly. I mean I would say this movie could have stretched itself out a little bit, but I know it's a kids' movie, and I know I can't be too hard, but that's kind of where my issues lie. But I do think it's pretty fucking solid and deserves the praise.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm that's what I'm kind of afraid of. That uh that's what I was kind of like getting when I was hearing like what people were saying, because that it didn't seem like they were really putting it in the right way. I think pacing is one of the things that they were saying, but like it sounds like they try to put adapt a bunch of video games into one movie, and I mean if you even look right here, it's only an hour and 38 minutes of a movie and cut off like 10 minutes because of credits and whatnot, so it's probably like an hour and 28 move uh an hour and 28 minutes. So it's like either you're trying to get lore heavy with this like expanded world with Mario, so you gotta give it a little bit more chunk time, but then that's gonna cost you the kids because it's like okay, well, kids cannot sit through a two-hour movie, they could barely sit through an hour and a half movie, you know what I'm saying? So you could tell that they're trying to please the older audiences that are fans of Mario, but also trying to keep it to like where kids are at. And I'm like, uh, I don't think you can have it both with this once, you know what I mean? Right. I feel like you have to pick your lane and just kind of ride with that shit.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, this movie does a lot. I mean, it has Yoshi in it, it has Rosalina, it has a fucking like um it gives you Star Fox, which I mean he's cool, but there's really no reason for him to be here outside of like he saves Mario's ass, like right at the end of the movie, basically. They do baby Mario stuff for like a second, I'm telling you, like like literally like one or two seconds, and then it goes back to the regular Mario shenanigans. I I just think it could have really used another I don't know, 30 minutes. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I would have made it like two hours. But like I said, you can't have kids sit there for two hours. Well, you know, leave it for the older audiences to go to the box office, and then when the movie comes home, let the kids watch it there. I mean, at that point, that's where you can have your cake and eat it too. But it looks like they're they they want to do it a different way. But that's we're basically well, no, I'm at number six, right? So my number six before we round about to our top five, and that's where it's really gonna get juicy because I'm really interested to see what's there. And um, we're gonna we're debating if it's wrong, okay? Um, my number six is Mandalorian Angor Goo. I was really thinking whether or not this was gonna be smack in the middle, but it really just did not make that mark. For me personally, I enjoyed this movie because Star Wars. I love Star Wars, it is what it is. Is this movie perfect? Hell no. Is it super long? Hell yes. Two-hour movie for basically is what I would deem is a bunch of different Mando segments stitched up into one uh to make a movie, and then um let's just say it's not very much the best stitching either. Like it's possibly I feel like we probably got a better stitching with the Clone Wars movie when they just took episodes out of the animated show and just you know put it together for a movie. This one, you could tell that there was a bunch of hiccups, you could tell that there was a bunch of like let's kind of piece it together as quick as possible because we need to put this movie out there um to see if people are even interested in uh seeing Star Wars on the big screen again. And let's just be honest, uh if you're gonna build something to basically rush it out there, I I'm actually like I saw the Rotten Tomatoes score before we started recording, and I was like actually surprised it got to that point because I would have assumed that this movie would have been ripped to shreds and it it to be honest, it really should for like a movie in and itself, but it's Star Wars, and I feel like you know, seeing my kids watch it and they really lit up and like my second lit up, and he's really like intimate, like it's really shaping up what Darth Maul is to me, is hitting him for like what Mando Mando to him, what that is for me. So I'm just like, did this movie do something? Probably for the younger audiences. So I'm like, that's kind of makes me a little bit happy, but I'm just like, we gotta do a little bit better. But Star Wars has never been a perfect product. I've never seen a perfect Star Wars movie, is my problem, except for maybe The Last Jedi, but you guys ripped it to shreds, so maybe it's not perfect.
SPEAKER_04Alright, man. Don't don't go riling up people up.
SPEAKER_00That's what I said. I mean, uh I seen it and I was cool with it, but some people were like, no. So maybe it's not perfect. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna check this one out on Disney Plus whenever it gets there. I mean, I just heard it's kind of like it's not like bad, but it's also not great. So it's kind of just smack in the middle. So I mean, I gotta see it. I gotta see it. That's basically couldn't get around to it in theaters. So I gotta see it.
SPEAKER_00If they would have saved that whole reunion thing for maybe this movie, would have probably hit a lot better.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_00It is what it is. Uh, but Josh, back end, not too bad. Okay, obviously, like I said, we're gonna have some different opinion here. Um I really gotta just say they will kill you is probably just a little low for me, but everything else, it seems to be fitting um from what I'm hearing, and possibly from what I'm probably gonna when I watch it and actually get around to it, which I will get around to those movies. I'm basically gonna be probably on the same boat with you. Not really too much to argue, but they will kill you. I can't believe you said that about Zazzy Beats. Like I go to I say certain things, all right, about like Margot Robbie, Rachel Zegler, you know, I never really disrespect Gelgado like that, but you know, other people but for you to go at Zazzy that way, I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I'm just saying, bro. I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_00Something's off. You know what I'm saying? It's not okay for me. But what do you think about my back half?
SPEAKER_04I think it's pretty good. You know what I mean? I can't I can't vault you too much. I think it's pretty good. I I think from Mando and Grogu all the way down to was it swapped? That's pretty that's not bad. That's pretty good, it's pretty good odds.
SPEAKER_00I'll probably just send myself for the ghoul uh send myself to the gulag for like maybe a day or two just for just for putting a Netflix one at the tail end there, you know. I really debated to put that one there, but I can't deny that as like a maybe a at-home movie if you're watching it with family, nieces, kids, whatever. Like it's a good little movie to put on and just kind of sit there and just enjoy. You know, if you don't really want to sit through everything, you could just put it in the background because you know Netflix likes to repeat themselves multiple times, so it is what it is. But Josh, top five, here we are. I'm I'm really gonna surprise you right now. All right. There's some I will say recency bias was kind of hitting me, but at the same time, I had to keep it real. I had to keep it, I had to keep it a bean, okay? I had to keep it funky fresh with you. Alright.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_00I want you to kick us off though. What's your number five?
SPEAKER_04Oh, what okay. I thought, yeah, I thought that whole hype speech was the fucking So I can kick it off?
SPEAKER_00No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna I'm gonna pass it to you because I don't want to start it. I feel like I might as well have a longer conversation here.
SPEAKER_04Number five for me is the Bone Temple. Twenty years later, the Bone Temple. I liked it. But did I like it as much as the first one? Probably not. I think Niga De Costa.
SPEAKER_01Niga De Costa too. I knew it. Yeah. I knew it.
SPEAKER_04Niga de Costa is good. I think I think horror might be her her wheelhouse. But you can clearly tell that this was just they handed her the camera. Everything else was, you know, in the vein of uh Boyle. Yeah. Boyle and uh I think McBride. Danny McBride also helped write this one too.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So I mean you can tell. I think it deserves its praise though. I think for the most part, if you're watching this, you're watching it for Ralph Phineas. He was so fucking good with everything. The thing with Samson, the thing tying uh tying on with fucking uh the plot going on with the boy. Another weird negative is like they totally just ditch Aaron to the Johnson.
SPEAKER_00Which we thought he was gonna be kind of more prominent in the second one.
SPEAKER_04Right, right, and then they lead you off into a cliffhanger with the next one, and then that's where we're supposed to get uh back um the actor, the original actor, what's his name? Yeah, Celia Murphy. Yeah. So it's like we're in this weird spot where like the sequel's good, but it ain't that good, and we need a conclusion with the third already.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, which the sequel kind of put it on its ass because it wasn't that good, unfortunately. Maybe it's just filler that's supposed to set up the third one, and that's where it's really supposed to kind of hit home, but you know, you can't have all bangers, I guess. And I mean when you're just swinging around slong like that, what do you expect? That's what I gotta say. Um, but yeah, this is one that I I've been waiting to watch, but I mean it's just one of those that like I don't know what I know exactly what it is, and you guys are gonna think that I'm crazy. I wanna watch them all from the beginning, and I'm actively hunting for the original one. So I wanna watch the original, I want to watch the second one, then I want to watch the 28 years later, and then I wanna watch the the blow the bone temple. So like I kinda I've been actively looking, but I know that the first one has very limited amount, so I've been kind of like just waiting and putting it off. And I know what you guys are saying. Well, you could just watch the other ones and then you get around to that when you do. Well, no. I feel like I gotta do it this way. I feel like I won't feel complete if I do it the other way. So I have to do it this way.
SPEAKER_04Okay, alright, man. I mean good luck finding that first one. Now I feel like the first finding the first one's hard.
SPEAKER_00So I could watch it before the end of the year.
SPEAKER_04But let's hope.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna well, you know. I'll be in, you know, we're gonna be taking a trip pretty soon, so I'm gonna have different horizons to go and look to, so it's gonna be very nice. Okay. Okay, okay. We'll be talking about that. Josh, I can't wait. Uh let us know. You're number five. What'd you guys think? We're moving on, Josh. My number five, I have to tell you, I have to tell you. You're gonna hate me. My number five, Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling. Throw the whole list away. Uh Phil Lord, Christopher Miller directed this film. What I thought was gonna be phenomenal, which I can't deny, I can't lie, it was pretty good. It's unfortunate that it seems like a lot of their ideas are possibly being saved for other projects. I don't know. This one feels this one feels as though obviously this comes out of their head, but stop short with certain things. And in order to accommodate certain I what can I say? Certain lack of know how to follow through with said uh thread of thought, right? They go on to spectacle, which they're really good at, and I'm really happy that they're so freaking good at it because there were certain scenes I was just like, man, if I was in a movie theater watching this, I probably would have just been in super awe, it would have been amazing. But good thing I was watching it at home, so the wool wasn't over my eyes. It still was amazing, it still looked great. It just I knew for some reason it just did not obviously. I feel like in a theater, it would have probably distracted me a lot better. I like I was sitting there, I was like, man, this would have really distracted me if I was in a movie. And so but other than that, it was really it was really good scenes. I really loved everything about it. The movie was well made. Um, but I you could tell that there's certain things where they just could not uh finish up that thought, and they just were like, hey, you know, in this case it was sci-fi planets and things like that, but you know, in other cases it it could easily be a you know, oh look over here really quick. Look over there, oh look at this.
SPEAKER_04No, man, no. I simply think it's too low, bro. Cool that it's in top five, cool that it made it, but still too low.
SPEAKER_00Very fun movie, though. I thought it was fun, made me a lot of fun. Uh I like the Rocky scenes, I like Osling and Rocky, uh, the whole changing the voice stuff. Uh there were certain, like I said, just plot holes and stuff that I was just like, eh, you know. Alien Advanced Race. Why does it need the same fuel as him? You know, like certain questions you just gotta ask, right? Like why why are they using the same thing? And they knew how to stop paying attention, they knew how to stop it, but they still uh it's okay. I was paying attention. I watched it. How dare you? Oh my gosh, man. Oh my gosh. I'm not paying attention.
SPEAKER_02Wrong. Wrong.
SPEAKER_00Just because while you were watching it in the movie theater, which by the way, I'm very happy for you because like I said, I I think it would it would have been ten times better in the movie theater because of the visuals and stuff like that. But I do feel as though when they're trying to explain something to you, you get flashbanged hella hard with like these visuals, and you're just like, What? I don't I don't remember what I was talking about. I just want to look at whatever's on the screen.
SPEAKER_04No man, you're wrong, you're wrong. I I just think it's too low. I think it's too low and I think you're wrong.
SPEAKER_00Okay, too low and wrong, too low and too wrong for me. Um, this I'm what am I the sequel to Fast and the Furious? What is it? What is this? That's my stop. But let us know what you guys think. Where I mean, basically, I think Project Hail Mary is one of those that needs a conversation. Okay, do you find it to be a near perfect movie? Because Project Hail Mary was basically, I mean, looking at the Rotten Tomato score in and itself, 94% certified fresh, 95% um certified what popcorn meter, whatever it is. It's it's apparently really good. But I gotta know what you guys think because this is something that I was like, is this one of those where it's like I just you know, maybe if I was in a movie theater it would have been a lot better, but I feel like a lot of people are gonna look back at this and understand what I'm saying. Uh yeah. Josh, your number four?
SPEAKER_04My number four is send help.
SPEAKER_00Ooh. Okay. I would say a little high for me, but I I appreciate that from you.
SPEAKER_04I like it. I liked it. I think everybody I think everybody in this movie does great. I do think it suffers in the third act though. I think up until a certain point. I think basically after she has to like get rid of some people that show up on the island. I think after that it starts to derail a little bit. And I love Sam Raimi, I love everything. I still I'm I plan to go see Evil Dead, but I don't know. Something about the third act in this movie that really just stops it short. But everything else kind of really carries it for me, like the performances and all that. So it's kind of weird. I'm in a weird middle ground where I like it. Something about, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00Something in the way. Um no. I I would say the third act I can kind of understand. But I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it. I don't know. I can't I can't agree with you 100% there. Cannot agree. But fourth is fourth is a good spot, I think. Not not where I would have put it, but I mean it's a good spot. It's a good spot. My number four?
SPEAKER_03Right. Yes, your number four.
SPEAKER_00They will kill you. I put it up there. Listen. Yeah, and I put it before Project Hell Mary because it doesn't rely on flashy visuals. Even though I do think I really do like I really do like um the camera work that they were kind of doing, even though it was basically simple stuff where they were just kind of tilting it in Project Hill Mary, like it would just be like you know what I'm saying? So like that was cool too, and it and it made for good moments. But with they will kill you, let me tell you something. The camera work was amazing. I really liked everything about it. I think we got amazing acting out of it, not from the supporting cast. No, Zazzy Beats, though, I do think she has that. I I think the opposite than you, Josh. I think she has it in her to lead uh certain roles and actually make uh a star out of herself. Why she hasn't really reached those highs yet, especially being like in Deadpool and all that stuff, I don't know. Um maybe I'm just kind of like blinded myself. Maybe maybe I like her as an actress, and maybe you see her as like maybe not being a great actress or whatever, but I really think that she's good though. I like I I can't really put my finger on it. Like you kind of explained the movie, and I it's a good movie. It's pretty n I think it's so the plot is so small that it's pretty you know. It's pretty impenetrable. You know what I mean? There's not really much to pick at it. The most that you can really say is maybe the acting. But I really enjoyed it. I really don't. I'm trying to see where you think it's not really that good. That's why. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04Ah man, it's just like I said, I think it's just as he beats, man. This isn't like fucking, this isn't just like it's like it's oh, here's you know Jason Satham or whatever. No, it's Zazzy Beats of all people. I don't know. I don't know if she can I don't know if she had like that. That's the thing I'm saying.
SPEAKER_00Is it it w is it because like her name is her name, she's not a big one. She just doesn't act well, is my question.
SPEAKER_04I would say can it be a little bit of both? Her lack of name means she doesn't have that many projects, which means she's kind of out of work for a little bit. Right?
SPEAKER_00I mean, yeah. Hmm. I wonder, I wonder why. I I feel like because I always hear this argument, and I'm trying to see why, but I I really feel like she's a good actress. I'm trying to see where is a bad like you know, when somebody say Galga Dote's a bad actress, like you could see where that somebody can misconstrue that. Even though me and you think it's not true, right? Like we think that she's pretty decent or whatever, and blah blah blah blah. But when we look at um when we look at other what other people think, it's kind of a little bit different. Um that's the way I feel like we're looking at it here. You know what I mean? Is that I think one side, and I'm trying to get your side on like why she's probably a bad actress, but I just can't I can't see it. I don't understand why she's painted as a bad actress. Margot Robbie, you can give me you can give me a good argument with that, even though I feel like you'd lose with that one if you were trying to say she was bad. Um Rachel Zegler, I mean you can clearly make a definitive argument with that one.
SPEAKER_04I don't know, man. I don't know. I think I think you're focusing on people that aren't even in the movie.
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm I'm asking you a question, is what I'm telling you. You were asking me about you're you're barely giving me anything here. I'm trying to get something out of you.
SPEAKER_04Okay, well, you're asking me on if it's like her as like her chops, right?
SPEAKER_00And I would say like I said, I said you're listening to what I'm saying, I'm gonna repeat myself so you can understand. I'm trying to understand what's bad about it. I we we've identified that it's probably the acting chops. But like, kind of like we're in the same boat with like Galgado and all that stuff, right? Where we can be like, it's her accent, like some people are like, oh, the accent or whatever, that you know, it makes it sound like she's a bad actress, but we know that that's the basically, you know, she's giving a good performance, but the accent is what kind of comes with her, right? So we can make the argument that she's not a bad actress, it's just obviously an accent or whatever, and blah blah blah blah. She has to work through it, whatever. Fine. With Zazzy Beats, what is the issue? Like, what what brings her down as an actress? Like, is it just because she's just not no noticeable? Has she just not done something in like movies that like bring her to your attention where she's willing to be, you know, recognized as a good actress or whatever, or is it actually something that she does that's not good in her performances or stuff? That's what I'm trying to understand because that this is kind of like an argument where like I hear people talk about Zazzy beats, but she's not like she's always either really bad for some people or really good for some people. She's never like in between. I never hear the arguments for it. So I'm trying to you know what it is.
SPEAKER_04Okay, you know what it is? She's never been front and center before.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so it's the projects thing, okay. Yeah, because she's done invincible like side work and stuff like that. Like, she's been in Deadpool, she's done a lot of like side things, but she's never been a leader. Front and center.
SPEAKER_04Yes. And like I established earlier, I think I think we have quite a bit of a list here. So Mercy, right, and Iron Lung fall in the same category of like they're stuck in a place, they have to emote a lot and you know, deliver the story and all that stuff. This is kind of similar to that. And while I think Marketplayer is just novice and like can't do it, you get people like who are supposed to be more experienced, Zazzy Beats, and um Chris Pratt. Sorry, I didn't mean to space it out like that, but Chris Pratt, where they're like Chris Pratt's supposed to be more seasoned than Zazzy Beats, and Zazzy Beats makes an attempt and the action gets too along, and I mean there's just not much to her outside of that, and so it looks like it's lacking. It could be that it could be very much that like she's never been front and center before.
SPEAKER_00And so now that you're like actually seeing her front and center, maybe you're not used to acting or or to that her acting or her specific style or whatever, because I mean I didn't think she did badass domino in Deadpool.
SPEAKER_04No, but she was a side character. That's why. And then and crazy enough, only there for one movie. Uh, why did she come back for for the third one? I'll never understand.
SPEAKER_00She got too big, she's been doing a lot of like side projects and stuff, I think.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and this is technically I mean, what I've only seen her like I I know she you said he she did invincible, but like I've only this is probably maybe my third time seeing her. I saw her in Bullet Train, she died so fast, right? Joker 2, she was the love interest to Joker, and that's kind of where I think it stops for me. And that's like the major things that she's done. So this is like her first ever like thing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm trying to think of like a movie that she led. She was in Atlanta, she was in Joker. She was in good luck, have fun, don't die. Side character. She was in the bad guys too. I remember her. Invincible. She was in Joker 2. Remember in Joker 2?
SPEAKER_04Not was she in Joker 2? Probably for like a second. But she like I said, she was in the first one. She was the the neighbor that was crushing on her.
unknownWell they trained.
SPEAKER_04Or crushing she was crushing on her.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, everything she does is all side characters. Like nothing's ever like main. No, nothing's ever a main character. Yeah, even because I was like, man, she's a I've been thinking like she's in all kinds of movies this year. But to be honest, they she was like like I said, even in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, she was she was a side character. She wasn't she wasn't around. So it was kind of like Yeah, maybe I can understand that. Okay. I can understand the argument. But I don't think that has to do with her acting chops necessarily. I just think that she she's not front and center, so I don't think we're used to the way that she acts just yet. We'll have to wait and see.
SPEAKER_04I think you're biased now.
SPEAKER_00I I don't know, maybe, maybe. But what's your number three? We're already top three.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, top three.
SPEAKER_00How are we feeling about the list so far though? Come on.
SPEAKER_04Okay, we're good. We're I think we're good. I think we're good. A little confusion on they will kill you. Right. And then obsession. I mean not obsession, they will kill you. Sorry. I know I just gave away mine. But my number three is obsession.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_04I liked it. I think it was great. I think this movie deserves all the praise it is getting from you know everybody involved. I would say it's here because uh rewatchability. I think there's things that you w you see it the first time and you're not like what the fuck? Like there's things you missed, and it makes you want to go back and watch it. So the rewatchability is there. I think everyone involved very much does what they gotta do. I would say it falls short because there's not much there's no real answer to the mystery, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04He breaks the he breaks the stick, his wish goes off the rails. But where does the stick come from? And I know the director said, like, oh, it's meant to be a mystery, and he'll probably use other projects to tie that in or whatever, but what where did this thing come from? How how has it affected other people and all that stuff? Like, I don't know. I think a little bit more answers to the mystery would have helped me get there too.
SPEAKER_00Oh, so right now the stick is just a MacGuffin.
SPEAKER_04Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Interesting. Well, that makes sense. Um, I'm down I'm gonna I have to watch that one. I don't know with that one whether it's not it's overrated, because I know there's a lot of like, and this is one of those YouTuber ones too, so it's like we're gonna have to watch it and actually you know when we go into that video that I'm planning and all that stuff or that episode. But I do think that when I heard what the description was, I was like, oh, this probably is for like the younger audiences. So I'm I'm kind of curious if like I will appeal to that one.
SPEAKER_04I mean, it has all the makings that you like, bro. It has like horror and and it's I mean it's kind of a when you think about it, it's kind of like a dark comedy. Because this movie does make you chuckle in a very like, haha, that was so fucked up. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00It's because uh like it has that premise of like this toxic relationship kind of stuff, and it it if it if I'm not wrong, it reminds me a little bit of that you show that you like you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04And I always Yeah, but he didn't need a magic wish for that.
SPEAKER_00So like my thing is that like, oh, I think you know that show is for like younger people who see that kind of stuff, you know, toxic stuff, toxic relationships, and they relate to that kind of stuff. Because when I see stuff like that, I'm just like I should just leave. If they would have just walked away, this probably would have been over by now. I like obviously I I gotta watch the movie to see if that's even like a plausible thing. Obviously, I from what I hear about the movie, it's not probably not that easy, but I do think that that's my skepticism when it comes to that one. So I will watch it, but yeah.
SPEAKER_04Okay, well, yeah, I mean I I recommend it. I do think it's worth the watch, and then you should watch it a second time because like I said, there's some stuff in there that you miss on your first watch initially where you're just like, oh shit, like that's crazy that they that I missed that. You know what I mean? Right. So I think it's I think it's cool. I think it's a good movie. Uh uh well, no, I haven't. I would say I want to. That's the thing.
SPEAKER_00Gotcha, gotcha. Oh, well, I'm down to watch it. I'm gonna have to watch it, but my number You're number three. My number three. I give it to another Zazzy Beats film. Good luck, have fun, don't die. Uh, this one, great, the director of Pirates of the Caribbean does it again, smacks it out the park. Love the acting in here, love the actor himself, Sam Rockwell. He's I mean, I think he's just a charm, Josh. I know that you really love him. I I personally wouldn't uh go as far as be like, oh, I love him like as an actor, but I do like the energy he brings on screen whenever he's on there and all that stuff. Um I like the supporting cast, Michael Pina's in here. I really like Zazzy Beats as another supporting cast member. Um there there's so much in this movie that I I enjoyed. Um unfortunately it does get a little convoluted towards the end. Um I don't know how do you wrap up AI as quickly as you should. Um but I think I don't want to spoil it too much, but I think the way that he went about it towards the end, I think that that's something that you just you know, either you could really get along with it and be like, okay, yeah, that makes a little bit of sense, or you're just gonna be like, huh. That's a little it's a little too wacky for me. And I think that's where I kind of lied at. I was like, it's a little too wacky. Um I I don't really think the ending stuck itself as it was supposed to, but everything else that led up to it was really fun. I really enjoyed everything up until maybe like that little third act. And I mean, I can maybe think of my own ending, but for the most part, I really did enjoy this one for what it was.
SPEAKER_04Okay, okay. I do want to get to it. I do like Sam Rockwell. I I I think he's great, and I wish that project with the fucking war machine thing would have came into fruition just so I can get more of his hat Justin Hammer.
SPEAKER_00Spoiler, it's not.
SPEAKER_04I just said I wish I rude. But I do want to get to this one. I I that's why this one. And um, we were just we just talked about it. The fucking Ready or Not 2. Those ones I gotta get to.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, hopefully, I mean, I don't know if especially with like what we're gonna be seeing in the horizon here with Brand New Day and Dune part three and all these movies that are gonna be basically coming out in the second half. I don't think those two will make your top ten at the end of the year, but I really hope they one of them edges out to like maybe like 10 spot or something like that.
SPEAKER_04But it's crazy because even when I was making this one, I was like, I saw the backrooms and I was like, Did I enjoy it as much as I thought I did? And then, well, I mean, it didn't make the list, but I mean I it was there for a second, so I mean anything could change like last minute, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02Right, right.
SPEAKER_04When you like really think about it, you're like, did I enjoy this as much as I thought I did the first time? You know what I mean? Because there's there's the highs of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, and then like Yeah. Yeah, like I mean you like and like the scale is so different because it's like you know I love the fucking the dawn of the planet of the apes, you know what I mean, or the the fourth one. And I could not stop thinking about that movie, and then you get it, and then I go into other movies where that doesn't happen, and I'm like, that was kind of mid, you know what I mean? So it's like there's no in-between.
SPEAKER_00I get that, I get that. Um yeah, number two. Number two.
SPEAKER_04Okay, wait, you said this one doesn't like stick the landing for you? Is that why that's why it's a three?
SPEAKER_00I like I said, it c it can for some people if they're okay with it, but not for everybody. Cause like for me, it depends on how you like your AI handled, I guess. Because that's basically what this movie is touching on, and I think the ending kinds it tries to make it land delicately, but the route that he did in order to make it land delicately, I don't think it's gonna I think the ending's not for everybody, basically. It's not for everybody. Okay. Uh if you if you're watching it, if you are on one side, you're probably really gonna like it because you're like, okay, this makes sense. Natural conclusion says this is where it needs to end or whatever. And then if you are on the other side, you're just like, oh, that's just a little too much. You know what I mean? Like, oh, you could have made your point with just backing it out just a little bit. But the movie is so grand in nature that if if you go that route, it it's not too far-fetched to say, okay, that it makes sense. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_05So okay, okay, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so uh, but yeah, your number two, Josh. What where did it land?
SPEAKER_04My number two. This is gonna be crazy. You're gonna think it's insane that it ended up here, but Michael ended up as my number two, and now you know me. I'm a huge Michael Jackson fan. Okay, and it really came down to the film aspect of everything that was happening here. Because as much as I loved it, as much as I was singing along, as much as I was really enjoying um Jafar's performance, at the end of the day, I had to be like, it's just a biopic. We get biopics, a diamond doesn't know, you know what I mean? And as much as I loved it, it had to fall short. That's just that's just why it's there. Because it's a biopic.
SPEAKER_00I saw a lot of promo and stuff where like this guy looked exactly like Michael Jackson. They did him dirty with this picture right here.
SPEAKER_04I think yeah, I think that's like right after he gets like the nose job. And so it's not it's not very flattering, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um, it does have a 38% though. Is your number two? 97% of people liked it.
SPEAKER_04I thought it's because it's Michael fucking Jackson. It's it's that's the thing. It's not Michael himself, it's this guy, his nephew, like embodying his uncle. And it's like, it's cool, and the story's nice, but it's a lot of I think a lot of the critics' problems were that like it wasn't showing us stuff that we like know or that we haven't like heard of before. You know what I mean? We know that Michael was abused, we know he eventually cut ties with him and all that stuff. So I can get behind all that stuff, and I understand that it's just a biopic and things are gonna change. Pokemon Rhapsody changed stuff, NW uh Shadow Compton change stuff, like you're not gonna get 100% of their life under to be like on screen, because you know shit changes, and I'm pretty sure if you know if if the Shadow Compton one like stayed true to its colors, Dr. Dre and all of them would not be looked on favorably, you know what I mean? Yeah, so like same thing with this one. I didn't really give a fuck about the allegations that they said were missing. I thought that happened later in his life, not when bad and all that was coming out, because this was like height of his career, basically. So I I didn't understand that criticism, but like I said, it's only a number two because I understand at the end of the day, the film is just a biopic. I had to separate the love because I was like, it's just a biopic.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah. I mean, this is one that I've been was waiting for, but I was like, you know, where I was like, oh, I gotta go watch All Eyes on Me, or I gotta go watch the you know NWA movie when that one was coming out. Like this one, I was like, eh, I can wait for this one, and I I choose to wait. I can acknowledge that Michael Jackson is, you know, that you know phenomena that he's supposed to be, so I'm hoping that this movie lives up to that. Um I'm just I just think it's crazy that this man has been like passed away for so long, this movie comes out, and not any of obviously his songs from the movie trend or whatever, but there's one song that came out from his like post-humanist album that like skyrocketed on the charts that is like just off the back that this movie was born, and you know, they were listening to his old catalog, and this one popped up and it that one just went up all the time. I'm just like, dude, it's 2026, and he's still like making money moves like that. It's telling me I thought I was gonna say so. I mean, whatever Michael has that just pours out gold and makes money and all that stuff. I'm just hoping it bleeds into this movie and it's just amazing. So I'm taking your word on it. I hope it comes out good when I uh get around to watching it, but I haven't seen it yet. I will though. I will though. Uh does he give a good performance? I this is his first act.
SPEAKER_04I do too. I do believe he does.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because I mean that is you know, nepo Nepo shit, right? Like this is Nepo baby shit.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. His estate, his uncles that own the estate or his dad and all that stuff, were probably like, look, you got it, you know what I mean? You pour your heart into it and all that stuff, and we'll back you. Obviously, like I said, they leave out stuff and they do kind of like polish it, you know what I mean? Does he ever make sense?
SPEAKER_00Question Does he ever have to like give it like an emotional performance, like crying or anything like that, or is everything just more like upbeat?
SPEAKER_04It's not it's not like um it's not like crying, but you I think the scenes where like he's talking to um uh Coleman Domingo plays his dad, so I'm gonna call him Coleman when he like every scene that they're in together, you can feel like the intensity, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00But is that Coleman being able to do it all on his own? Or is that like can you recall? Is that like that that's that's was one of my worries before jumping into this movie is like, is his nephew given a good performance, or is like everybody else carrying the movie to basically Accommodation.
SPEAKER_04No, his nephew, his nephew carries. His nephew carries.
SPEAKER_00And like and like the only real ones that are like I don't think he carries because this is his first acting job. And Coleman Domingo's in there and all that stuff. We got a few good actors in here, I'm pretty sure. I wouldn't say he would carries, right? But like Miles Teller's in here.
SPEAKER_04Only for a little bit.
SPEAKER_00Neah Long.
SPEAKER_04Neah Long's in here, yeah. But like I said, only for a little bit. He's he probably shares scenes more with Coleman than like anybody else.
SPEAKER_00So Coleman's look has to be that guy then.
SPEAKER_04No, I'm telling you, it's gonna be him. It's him.
SPEAKER_00Alright. I'm gonna have to watch the movie. I'm over here a little skeptical about it still because I'm just like, I mean, what how much can a Nepple baby really deliver? We'll have to watch the movie.
SPEAKER_03He delivers good stuff, man. He delivers good stuff. You're number two.
SPEAKER_00My number two, actually, I had a debate, okay? So I'm gonna I'm gonna name two movies. I'm gonna name the one that actually won the slot. That's about how that works. I know. I'm gonna name the one that actually took the slot, but I'm gonna take I'm gonna name the other one that I had it as there, but I just wiped it completely away because of recency bias. And I don't wanna I don't wanna conflate is the movie good with recency bias. So the second slot is send help. I really love send help, uh Sam Raimi send help, Rachel McAdams, uh I fucking love Dylan O'Brien. I like seeing Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien together, I g this movie I was waiting for, but and it happened. Uh like this was everything that I ever wanted. They need to give Dylan O'Brien more acting gigs. I don't know why he's not in more movies. Rachel McAdams, she I think she's already worked to the point where she can pick wherever the fuck she wants, and uh it's always gonna be great for me. Um so I really don't care. Uh but she was amazing in this film. I know you were saying what you said about the ending. I per I think for me it lands pretty damn well. Like I I think it does good for what it's supposed to be and what Sam Raimi basically brings to the table. Um is it a little bit like Castaway, you know, and all that stuff? Yeah, yeah. And you can, you know, get away with certain things here and there with this movie if you wanna kind of nitpick it, but I do think for the most part everybody brings their A-game to the kit to the table, even Sam Raimi uh kind of putting on his horror hat. And this movie coming out in January really worried me. So I'm really happy that it panned out to be really good.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, one of the better in January movies, because you oh I gotta be fucking weary of them now, dude. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00But the one that it was fighting, and the only reason why I didn't put it there, because of recency bias, was the sheep detective. I gotta be honest, the sheep detective with Hugh Jagman was fucking good. I like was glued through to it the whole way. The movie made me laugh. Um, it's literally just a who done it with sheep, and I think like it works really well. I really like the acting, the characters, everything. And I I I was just like, man, do I really like it just because I'm like about a review it or we're about to talk about it or something? Or I'm like, do I actually like it? I gotta say I really liked it, but send help was kind of around a little bit longer, so I was like, okay, you gotta put it there. But I I will recommend Sheep Detect.
SPEAKER_04Crazy, crazy, because if we can I'm gonna have to find it.
SPEAKER_05But when you were like, oh, this is a dumb movie.
SPEAKER_04This is fucking this is dumb. Why is he doing this?
SPEAKER_00Like without yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't and now, you know, I was I was wrong. I have to say I was wrong because I mean he did do like I I mean this is what we talked about when we're talking about it too, but he did do like what that once singing one. He's done a lot of side projects that it become like cult or like fan favorites, I would say. Not necessarily like big box office like movies, but a movie like that. I mean, he I gotta say, he is really good at picking his movies because I mean you do movies like what Real Steel? Like who does a movie like that? And it's you know it's still low budget and it's still family friendly, and it's kind of like for everybody, so it's nice. Um, but I will say that that movie I will recommend. I think it's good. I think it's really actually so yeah. You if you get around to it, sir. I don't know if you're I want to get around to it.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna get around to it.
SPEAKER_00I don't know if you will, but I think you should, because I mean you said that you were, you know.
SPEAKER_04I am, I am. I didn't even know I was on streaming, I didn't I did not see like anywhere.
SPEAKER_00Should have watched it in theaters.
SPEAKER_04I like you were advocating. Whoa what was I doing? What else was coming out when that one was coming out that I missed it? I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Let me see. Sheep detective? When did that one drop? Let me see.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That one dropped.
SPEAKER_04It came out like like Mother's Day or something like that, right?
SPEAKER_00May six. It wasn't on May.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03May What else came out in May?
SPEAKER_00Mandalorian Grogu, Devil Wars Prada, Mortal Kombat 2. Oh, that's gonna go watch Mortal Kombat, but I was like, Well, you have time to go watch the sheep one in and then you and CJ, I remember, alright? You and your lady said we're gonna get around to it, I swear. After giving me a hard time, I'm shooting up the block. The block is getting I am spinning the block because it was only Mortal Kombat 2 that was in that month. Unless, I mean, you unless you want to look back in the month before. No, there wasn't much either. It was like the Devil Wars Prada and stuff like that. So, I mean, there wasn't movies that you were actually catching up on actively.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna watch it, okay? I'm gonna watch it.
SPEAKER_01Skipped it. You gave me a hard time to skip the movie.
SPEAKER_04I just said it looked good. And you were like, oh man, he should retire. He needs to stop doing shit like this. You were fucking going in on the human.
SPEAKER_00It was CJ who was like, oh yeah, we're gonna go watch it and stuff like that. So you she put you in hot water. You're gonna have to go talk to her about that. That was her. Uh, but yeah, send help. It wound up beating it ultimately. Like I said, I do think the sheep detective is worth a watch. I will put it on the mentions towards the end of this episode as well. Uh, but send help at the end of the day, Sam Raimi still got that horror gene in him, even that little like jump scare. Even though kind of out of place, I was like, oh my god, like that's just Sam Raimi, so it is what it is. Um, but yeah, Send Help landed it for me. Your number Okay, okay. Your number one.
SPEAKER_04My number one is Project Hail Mary. I need Ryan Gosling to get nominated and you know win an award for this movie. I cried so many times in this movie. I thought it was great. I don't know what you're smoking. I I think this movie does everything like polished from top to bottom. And like I think they said it was like little to no like CGI work, like that scene with the red, like when the uh they did that with light bulbs. Fucking insane. Creative motherfuckers behind this movie. I really loved it.
SPEAKER_00Little to no CGI fucking rock ball, rock, rock in a ball. They made him space.
SPEAKER_04They made him and they like puppeted him and everything.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they use him as a template, but what did they do with them? They erase the puppet and then they put CGI.
SPEAKER_04Little to no CGI.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know what you were I don't know. Maybe it's because you didn't get to see it in theaters. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00No, like I said, I mean, I don't think it's a bad movie. I don't I like I said, it's not a terrible movie, it's not the worst movie. I don't think it should be on the worst movies list. It's not a bad movie. But can I acknowledge that I wouldn't put it at number one because there's more like well-knit movies that actually make sense? Yeah, that one just it was good, like I said, it was good for what it was when probably when it was dropping of like how you know it looks and everything like that. Like I said, if I was in theaters, I'm jealous because the same thing with like Top Gun Maverick when you when you brought it home to me and everything like that. I should have watched that one in theaters. It probably would have looked immaculate in theaters. Same thing with this one, it would have looked immaculate in theaters too. But I feel as though they knew, like, when you know that something's gonna look beautiful and you know that they you can't you like you're like, I'm gonna have them by the fucking walls. I feel like they knew and they were like, okay, we can kind of not talk about this because we're gonna be able to get away with it with this. We're not gonna talk about this because we're not gonna get away with this. Now, will they be able to kind of explain it in Project Hell Mary 2 if they make another one? Yeah, they can probably explain it, and it'll be a little bit more thorough for the first one, but a movie that is supposed to be, in my opinion, the follow-up to like Spider-Ver, like the second Spider-Verse movie, the first one, like those two Spider-Man movies are more cohesive than what I felt this one was bringing to the table.
SPEAKER_04I don't even know what that I don't even know what what that means and how that gotta do with with the movie, man. I that movie was co the movie was coherent and understandable from top to bottom.
SPEAKER_00Because the directors is Christopher Miller and Phil Lord. It's the same people that made the Spider-Man movies. What I'm saying is Oh really? Yeah. Yeah. So you don't even know who made the damn movie, let me tell you. Um, so them two made the Across the Spider-Verse movies. They made this one. Um, they are, you know, they are really good. Didn't they split up two? Aren't they doing their own movies right now too?
SPEAKER_04Uh yeah, I think so.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so they're all also working on their own like little things on the side too. But these two, they're the ones that got like the first look deals and everything like that. They're good storytellers and they know how to they're they remind me a lot of like Sean Levy, if Sean Levy had a second person to help him with the visuals and stuff like that. Um which he doesn't.
SPEAKER_04If he took himself seriously.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, that too. But I do think that what he called, um I do think that this one has what it needs to be a really good movie, but I do think that this one, you know, were like a top gun maverick, like Tom Cruise wouldn't leave you with unan unanswered questions in a movie. He would want those answered questions and everything like that. He would make sure it's perfect. This one, like I said, it just felt like they they knew they could cut corners at certain spots, and they did. I don't know, and they were just like flashbang him with something nice. And I was like, oh my god.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no, man.
SPEAKER_04I don't know what you're talking about. No, I don't know what you're talking about, man. I thought it was cohesive and understandable and no fake fan. No, I it was understandable and cohesive. I'm talking about the movie, not the music. Shut up.
SPEAKER_00Um, but yeah, I mean, like I said, the story was uh, yeah, the McGuffin. The the I think that's what it was. The whole eating the planets thing, like the whole motive and how the way the aliens were able to meet and stuff, I think that was like the weird part for me. Certain questions arose. We're gonna have to do a review. We'll just do a review, an actual review of this movie, and we can really deep dive and we can talk about it. I don't want to take it too much away, but still a good movie, worth the watch. Let us know what you guys think. Josh, my number one, two different sides of the spectrum. And I think you can't argue with me with this one because I think it's one of not only the best made movie of the year so far, but it's a well-crafted movie. Calm down here, listen here. It's well crafted, there's no plot holes, okay, for the most part. Um, and it's just an all-around fun time to watch. I give it a Hoppers. Hoppers is my number one movie. Is it uh is a Run Tomato better than nope? Project Helm Mary beats it out by two on the popcorn meter. It goes 95% with the popcorn meter, but Hoppers I think is great. Funny, it has uh okay, the plot is kind of, you know, it's kind of it's not the the most eccentric plot. You're not gonna be getting like, you know, aliens in space and people are eating stuff and everything and blah blah blah blah. But I do think that they kind of take that whole it's like they make it into a joke where it's like Avatar and Beaver, whatever, blah blah blah. I think they really take that and really crank it up to 10. Dave Franco loved that man, 10, and I really like that you can really see that his acting chops, at least voice acting wise, is not like wasted. It's kind of like when you hear Seth Rogan, you know what I mean? And that like voice acting role, you're just like, you know, that's him. When you hear Dave Franco, you're just like, wow, that's nice. Um, everything from top to bottom, the story was great, this was emotional. I'm gonna be watching Toy Story 5 today as the time of recording, so I don't know if that one's gonna make it towards the end of my uh uh and and uh end of the year top 10 list. But for the most part, I think Disney's back. Pixar's kind of back with like their movies and stuff like that. Um I think Hoppers is a good step forward, and to be honest, they give us one of, I believe, a great quote to start the summer off, and that's Lizard. Lizard, Lizard, Lizard, Lizard, Lizard.
SPEAKER_04Oh my gosh. I don't know, man. Uh you might be right. Okay, I I gotta see this one too. This one's also on the list.
SPEAKER_05But I can't let you get away with a statement like I can't let you get away with a statement like best made movie so far and all that stuff, and then show up with hoppers.
SPEAKER_04You know how crazy that sounds? Like I like I have no doubt that it's good, and I'm not gonna be like, oh, it's an animated movie, whatever.
SPEAKER_05But you know, to anyone that was listening, that just sounds fucking crazy.
SPEAKER_00Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, are you telling me animated movies are not real movies and I shouldn't I be taking seriously?
SPEAKER_04No, no, I'm not I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the people that are listening and think that are gonna look at you sideways because they're gonna be like, what the fuck? A kid's movie better than you know so-and-so, whatever. Like, I think that's fucking hilarious.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, I think there's very mature themes in this movie.
SPEAKER_04I can't shade you, okay? I can't shade you too hard. Actually, you know what? You might be right. I think it could be pretty good. I mean, I saw the the adults that last stuff, like the shark scene. I saw that clip floating around as soon as this bitch hit digital. I was like, oh my god.
SPEAKER_00I I do like that this movie doesn't um shy away from that kind of stuff. Where like Pixar in Disney for like the past few years, especially like in 2020 and stuff like that, they've been kind of tiptoeing some things, but then full-on blasting other things, and it kind of makes you think, like, hmm, you know, who who picks and chooses what it is. I feel like this one it tiptoes that line perfectly and gives you that balance. And I'm not even just saying this for like for kids' side purposes, I'm saying like as a movie in general, this movie is well made, like from top to bottom. Like if uh like it's kind of like if you were to watch like Toy Story for the first time, or if you were gonna watch like the first frozen, not the second one, or like if you were gonna watch you know, like a good animated movie. What's a good animated movie that you know that's like actually really good and magnificent, like for you to watch?
SPEAKER_04Inside out, inside out too?
SPEAKER_00Inside out too. Wally. I think I I feel like Disney really kind of like knocks it out the park with these. Uh, I know like light year kind of let a lot of people down, but I mean if that one was really well made, I feel like that one could have had a little bit of a fighting chance here. Uh, but like this one doesn't feel like uh turning red or it doesn't feel like a soul or a Luca or anything like that. This one feels like a lot of things like that.
SPEAKER_04Oh, like it has like a like a vendetta or agenda. Sorry, not vendetta.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like it doesn't look like it's pushing something. It just feels like it's a great animated movie, like one of the great I feel like this one might be going down as like one of those great, great movies. If they leave it at this, I mean I'm pretty sure with the with they saw the the box office and they're like, okay, well, we gotta get that Hoppers 2. We're probably gonna get a Toy Story 6, more than likely getting a Toy Story 6. Um, so I mean Disney's gonna Disney, but as long as they're giving us products like this one, art like this one was actually really well made. The animation, there's the I really like the detail in this movie, just to kind of give you like a heads up of like why I like because you like animation, I love animation, we really go crazy about these little things, but the little detail about like when the animals are talking amongst each other and the humans are looking at them, even when the girl's like in the beaver body, it looks like a beaver, it has like the black eyes like a beaver and all that stuff, it looks like a like a like a beaver basically, and then when like they pan it to make it look like it's from her POV, it looks like this, like the character, like with the eyes, the white eyes, the blah blah boom, like all that stuff. Like the difference it makes is funny because they do it like in the background here and there, and you're just like you look at it, it's just little like cute moments like that that really make the movie worthwhile. So I really think like for me, this one's my number one. I know you like your Project Hail Mary. I'm down for it, but Josh, can we disagree or can we agree to disagree when it comes down to our list today?
SPEAKER_01Okay, sure.
SPEAKER_00Do you have any any nominated ones, any honorable mentions uh for today's list? Any ones that were about to make it but just could not make the cut?
SPEAKER_04Um, I didn't mention I did mention the backrooms. I would say watch it. I'd say give it a watch. You know what I mean? Uh like I don't think it's gonna be anything like crazy. It's not gonna be like the fucking cream of the crop, but I would say give it a watch.
SPEAKER_00Did you watch that fighter room? Would you recommend that one? Have you seen that one?
SPEAKER_04No, I haven't seen that one, but I want to. Oh my gosh, I want to.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I I put a question mark besides this one. Uh, we're gonna be w uh watching the trailer the next time we record, but I was like, Avatar Aing.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, because we totally didn't see it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. So I was like, I'm gonna just wait for that one. So that was that one that I put down there. But when that one comes out, you know, an insider tells me it's really good, so just you know, check it out whenever it drops out. Right, right, right. Wink. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um I think one that ended up being like unexpectedly really good. Um was the one that we in the blink of an eye. I actually like that one.
SPEAKER_00That one was good too, yeah.
SPEAKER_04And um I like the goat.
SPEAKER_00Which one?
SPEAKER_04The one the one with uh Steph Curry.
SPEAKER_00Oh, goat. Oh, you wanted to watch in that one too?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay. That one sound that one sounded pretty good too. Um, yeah, I think the the sheep detective was the only one that I have as an honorable mention. Um all the other ones were kind of like whatever. Yeah, I gotta save those because they're probably a few of these are gonna be making it on my worst list. Uh, but yeah. Let us know what you guys think though. We want to know what your guys' top ten is. Um let us know what you guys think about our list. Are we off? You know, some people look at animated movies and think, hey, they're not real movies. How can you even put them on this list? And I have two of them. What kind of my face? Uh anyways, with that being said though, let us know what you guys think. You want to hear your voice on one of these episodes, topics that we should be talking, movies you want us to review. Josh, let them know where they could do all that.
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