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I said, The Cinema Geeks. Thank you for joining

us for episode 56 of The Cinema Geeks. As we

teased, I am one of your hosts, Optimus Solo,

and joining me today is movie revolt Dan. Hello.

Hey, how's it going? Not too bad. And hard candy

Mandy. Hello. Hey. So yeah, I know we said episode

56, which might be throwing some people off since

we just changed our name and everything, but

I feel like we should at least total everything

up from all the different iterations to not lose

credit for doing those shows. So the second episode

of Cinema Geeks, I guess if you want to phrase

it that way, but actually we've been doing this

for 56 episodes, Dan, off and on with different

hosts and everything. I didn't realize there

was that many. I'm like, wow, that makes sense.

Right. So kind of go around and see how everybody's

week's going. So let's start with you, Dan. How's

your week been going this last week? It's going

pretty well. Pretty straightforward. Kind of

excited because I've been watching some of the

NHL playoffs and had two game sevens going on,

which is a good time. It's kind of rare. It's

good because like the last... NBA playoffs have

been kind of dud this year for a lot of them.

So I'm glad that, but I'm kind of a Rangers fan.

Like I don't follow them nearly as much, but

looking forward to Friday night. So by the time

this comes out, it's probably, we'll find out

that maybe the Rangers won, I'm hoping, but who

knows. And who are they playing? Tampa Bay Lightning,

which is, seems weird, like that, like a team

in Florida has a hockey team, but you know, what

are you going to do? Or that they're called Lightning?

Yes. I mean Tampa Bay has got got to get something.

I mean their double Rays or the Rays aren't very

good and Right, they got not much else going

for them except that they live in Florida So

who are you hoping to that the Rangers play in

the next round? I have no idea. I guess maybe

the Blackhawks. I have no idea We just forced

game seven, just saying. Amanda's a huge Blackhawks

fan. Oh, really? Yeah. See, I don't, like, I

only really follow hockey during playoffs, because

it doesn't really come down here. That's why

I'm with the NBA. I just like to play hockey

and watch it on TV when it's there. That's about

it. She doesn't care what the situation is, as

long as she can either play or watch. Yeah, I'm

the same way with the NBA. I don't watch until

the playoffs, and then if my team is not involved

or if they get out, then I stop watching. You're

her first fan, right? First. Yeah, they were

out early this year so I saved myself a lot of

time and money as far as going out to eat and

watch them. I think our week's been going somewhat

normal. It's an interesting situation at work

because I was training somebody, a new management

person and of course stuff happened as it always

does and people got switched around so I was

almost done training one person and I lost him

to another store and now I'm training somebody

else completely new. It's been eating into my

listening of podcast time because usually I'm

there by myself but now for the last like four

weeks I've had someone with me so I can't just

like put on the Bluetooth and listen to podcasts.

You can give them the other ear and you can work

together. Do like Amanda and I do right now so

connected by the ear. How about your week Amanda?

Same old same old. Work and host stuff and that's

about it. have gotten news that your work schedule

might be changing, so that's good. Yeah, actually

get some days off or something. She's been on

call six nights a week for the last, like, I

don't know, forever. So she finally is going

to get a second day off, and two of her night

shifts, or three of her night shifts are moving

to day shifts. Two of her night shifts are moving

to day shifts. Don't even try. I don't know,

she's going to be a happy camper. Happiest camper

at camp. Are we at camp? In my mind. Okay, what

kind of camp is that? Not being camp. Not being

camp, alright. As we do every week, we will start

off by looking at the box office, and last week,

since it was the all -new reveal of the Cinema

Geeks, and first of all, I guess before we get

anywhere, I would like to apologize for anybody

that had problem finding the feed, or finding

the episode, or that the episode might not have

been available when it should have been on Friday.

We promise that we had it all... in the can and

sent to the site by Friday, but I know that there

were some delays in coding and different things

with the name change. So apologies for that,

but it should be good to go. And I know a couple

of people have been asking if the show will have

its own Twitter handle or Twitter account. I

don't know what the proper terminology is for

that. Yeah, we will be getting that going, so

you'll be able to follow the show on Twitter

once we decide on a Twitter name. Actually, Cinema

Geeks is a Twitter account that already exists,

even though there's not been a tweet from that

account since 2010. So we have to choose something

else, I think. So, we'll let you... This could

be like an expiration on Twitter. Like, if you've

not done anything for five years, you know, maybe...

Yeah, you lose that. You lose the name, so...

It should be like that Workaholics episode and

we should go find where they are and delete their

account in their home. I think it was something

out of Minneapolis or something. It was like

a movie, like a... seemed like a newer, like,

movie. studio or some people that were trying

to do a movie studio or something like that or

a production company of some sort. Well, obviously

that would work out for them. But yeah, we'll

have to figure out what the Twitter name is going

to be. Like I said, apologies for any delays

or confusion from anybody, but we should be good

to go now. So if you are subscribed to the Cinema

Geeks or the old Weekend at the Movies feed,

you should be getting our episodes automatically

now every Friday. So like I said, last week we

tried something new at the box office. and we

continued with some predictions as far as what

we were going to predict for the next weekend

at the box office. Dan, do you remember what

your prediction was last week? Yeah, it was that

Poltergeist would not be in the top four, or

would be four below, basically. All right, so

you had Poltergeist being not in the top three,

but somewhere else, and Amanda, you were in the

same boat? No, I said that Poltergeist would

be in the top five. would be in the top five

all right so you guys win um holder guys did

come in in the fourth spot uh sandwich between

mad max and avengers by about a million or two

million on each side so um just barely comes

in at the fourth spot so you guys are up on me

on this week i believe i had uh predicted that

mad max would jump back up to the number two

spot um Thought it would overtake pitch perfect

in the second weekend, and I was wrong The top

five went something like this tomorrow land in

first with 33 million in its first week Just

barely by three million beating pitch perfect

two in its second week then mad max came in third

pulled to guys for an Avengers age of all trying

that came in fifth They all made over 20 million

so the top five all making over 20 million that

doesn't always happen and of course Avengers

age of all trying is now over 400 million domestically,

so I think it's doing all right. Any surprises

at the box office, Dan, or any comments on how

things turned out this last weekend? Well, a

little disappointed with Tomorrowland, because

when we did our top movies of the year box office

-wise, I had Tomorrowland in the top 15, and

it doesn't seem like that's happening. So a little

disappointed with that. I thought it would do

better, but I guess it did not. I have not seen

it. It seems to be the mocker lately, but I know

that critically it didn't do very well, so I

don't know if that killed it, but a little disappointed.

I know a lot of people had it not only as making

more money, but a lot of people had it as a movie

that they were very highly anticipating. I know

the guys over at Imp Session both had it in their

top five or three most anticipated films of the

year. I think that was probably a disappointment

to them, but I don't think I had it anywhere

in my list. I was free from being disappointed

from this one. I don't think there was much surprise.

Like I said, I thought Mad Max had a slight chance

in the second week to actually beat Pitch Perfect

as word of mouth spread. The love for Mad Max,

more people heard about it. I thought maybe it

would have a jump in the standings in the second

week, but it could not beat Pitch Perfect 2 again.

My prediction obviously was wrong now next week.

We have a couple of films actually coming out

We have the new Dwayne Johnson the rock film

San Andreas. We have Aloha from Cameron Crowe

And those are the main two we also have barely

lethal and a few other smaller ones coming out

So as far as trying to predict anything remember

doesn't have to be about what's going to be number

one It can just be anything about the box office

So a movie making a milestone, a movie dropping,

biggest drop, biggest jump, whatever it wants

to be. Dan, where are you going for this week's

prediction? My prediction is going to be another

kind of disappointing weekend. I'm guessing that

San Andreas will be number one, but it won't

do very well. I'm going to think it's going to

do around Tomorrowland numbers with like 30 million

or so, which, I mean, it's weird to make $30

million and be a disappointment, but I would

say that it's going to be another slower weekend.

when it comes to summer blockbuster standards.

Okay. What about you, Amanda? Well, I think we

should stop letting Dan go first. I'm sorry.

I think St. Andreas will sweep tomorrow and down

a number two, but I don't know how much it's

going to bring in bank wise, but I think it'll

be up there. So you got St. Andreas coming at

number one as your prediction? Yes. All right.

I don't know, this might be too easy of a prediction,

maybe, but I lost last week, so I feel like I

should try to do something easy. I will predict

that Avengers drops out of the top five for the

first time. I know it's at number five this week,

so there's two new movies, so it should be hopefully

a shoe -in, but you never know. Poltergeist might

drop pretty far, and Tomorrowland's not getting

good word of mouth, but I'll go ahead and say

that Avengers, for the first time, is going to

drop out of the top five. So, we'll have to wait

and see how Aloha and San Andreas mix things

up and what impact they have on the rest of the

group. So, that is a look at the box office.

We'll probably next week or the week after we'll

take a look again, revisit the yearly numbers

so far, but nothing really much has changed in

the last week, so we'll kind of skip over that.

uh... getting into the new segments which is

what we usually do after the box office and we

like to change things up here with uh... the

new change the new name everything is new so

we're going to keep doing different things and

uh... we'll see which things that uh... the listeners

like and which ones they dislike and if we have

some of the completely uh... fails will promise

we won't do it again so We got a bunch of news

this week, a whole slew of things across the

board for all kinds of different geeks, whether

it be comic books or Star Wars or all kinds of

different things. So what I'm going to do is

I'm going to read some headlines, all the different

headlines for the news and then each of the hosts

is going to get a chance to pick one of those

to delve into a little bit deeper. So here's

the headlines that are up for grabs for you guys

and we will go around the table and you'll each

get two choices. So first up we got X -Men character

reveal. We have a cans round up. We got Wonder

Woman, Doctor Strange, Harry Potter, League of

Extraordinary Gentlemen, Deadpool, Justice League,

Shazam, World War Z, Transformers, It, Legend

of Conan, DC castings, Johnny Quest, Megan Fox,

Star Wars, Or if you have something that you'd

like to talk about that is not involved with

any of those types of headlines, you can go ahead

and pick that. So, Dan, where do you want to

go? Well, let's keep the tradition going and

let's talk about Star Wars. All right. So, new

headline or news this week on the Star Wars front.

Something that's never happened apparently, and

I don't know if people would be able to predict,

but there was a certain country that the original

three Star Wars films have never been screened

in. And I think people might be surprised that

it's a big one, and that is China. China has

never shown the original three Star Wars films.

in the theater. They did show the prequels, which

that seems like it's a crime that they showed

those and not the originals, but they did screen,

obviously, the prequel trilogy in theaters, but

they've never shown the original three. So they're

going to do that this summer here, both being

kind of historical as it's the first time that

it's been shown, but they're also doing it in

a way to build up steam for Star Wars. Episode

7 The Force Awakens because there needs to be

more hype for that movie It's you know, it's

not enough on its own. So they're gonna try to

drum up some some hype by showing these films

In the country. So Dan, what would you think

about this new story? And do you think something

like this could have an impact as far as the

global box office for what? Is already gonna

be one of the biggest moneymakers of all time

against potential. I guess I mean the question

is like the star wars have a pop culture impact

in in china maybe it doesn't maybe that maybe

like if the only thing thing they got were the

prequels in theater they could probably be like

i don't get america and this whole star wars

thing but uh bring us more transformers exactly

um and considering yeah china makes like it's

their box office is, you know, basically causing

people to just throw in Chinese actors during,

like, Iron Man 3 or Transformers. I get to see

why they're doing it. I mean, do they need to?

No, but it's intriguing, because I had no idea

that was the case, so it's kind of an interesting

fact that they never got those movies, so it

does make you wonder, like... I think it's only

fair if they have only been exposed to the prequel

trilogy that... They should bring these back

to the theater so that people don't judge the

whole franchise just on those movies. And I wonder,

knowing that, can it have the same impact? Because

you're watching Star Wars when you have things

of today with the different special effects.

I mean, Star Wars obviously holds up, but if

you've already been exposed to stuff like Transformers,

will Star Wars have the same wow factor for them?

I'm curious if it will. That's true. If it has

any type of positive impact and makes... This

movie make any more money than I'm for it. So

I Want this movie to break all kinds of records

and actually be good on top of that. So Amanda,

what do you think? I think there's already enough

hype about it here So maybe it's time to to shift

gears and I mean if it's got Disney involved

and don't they have some kind of Disney? Attraction

park in China now, too. I mean it only makes

sense Yeah, I think they do. I don't know anything

about China though, so I am going to plead the

fifth. But like I said, Star Wars news is a requirement,

so I'm glad you went there, Dan. Amanda, where

do you want to go out of those headlines? I want

to go to the Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange.

I thought for sure you'd go Harry Potter. That's

because that's why I didn't, because... You're

trying to be unpredictable. I feel like too much

of my stuff that I'm going to have to talk about

today is going to be Harry Potter. Okay. So Dr.

Strange news story, obviously probably people

have seen the different reports. We've already

known that Benedict Cumberbatch is cast as part

of this film. And the rumors going around here

is that there will be a co -member here, a leading

lady, so to speak. I don't know, they haven't

really talked about what kind of role she might

play, but that would be Tilda Swinton. So putting

the words together here, Dr. Strange featuring

Benedict Cumberbatch. And Tilda Swinton, that

makes you excited or not? Yes, it does, because

everybody loves some Benedict Cumberbatch. And

I think this is going to be a really cool part

for her. I super loved her and Constantine as

Gabriel. I think she totally stole the show.

She's got like a suit at one point, and I'm like,

why not me? Why can't I wear that sweet suit?

But I think some of her other performances, like

in Snowpiercer, Think it'll gear up for for something

cool like this And of course I said like it hasn't

been completely said if she's gonna be in the

movie or who she plays with the rumors Yeah,

the rumors that she would be playing a character

called the ancient one Who is a Tibetan mystic

who provides counsel for potential sorcerers?

Dan, what do you feel about this? Yeah, I'm all

for it I mean, I would love to see Tilted Swin

play like a villain in the Marvel world, but

I don't know who should play but I think that

it's weird playing that role because like when

I remember in the comics it's usually like you

know a ancient monk of some sort so not necessarily

someone that you associate with Tilda Swinton

but you know she's a great actress and I would

be curious to see how like her and Cumberbatch

work together so definitely a good thing and

of course uh yeah like the character I think

in the comics is a male so um It would be a switch

as far as those people that don't like the source

material being switched, but I don't think there's

a big deal about it. I think she could definitely...

It's such a minute character. Right. So I think

so far everything that's come out about the Doctor

Strange film has been positive to most people.

I think it's been building some excitement as

far as this film goes. I think it seems like

they're making the right decisions so far. So

we'll have to wait and see what else happens

with that. All right, going into kind of my pick

and playing off of something that you kind of

talked about a little bit last week is dealing

with the world of the Transformers. We've got

to bring up Transformers. I mean, it's like a

Geocast Radio Network favorite topic. So we don't

get to talk about it probably as much as some

of our fans would like. Geocast Radio or Kevin

Thompson favorite? That's like both. goes together.

But then we were talking a little bit about the

whole, the people they're bringing on to kind

of brainstorm for this franchise and kind of

creating this whole universe that is centering

around Transformers. And obviously the films

that Michael Bay's done have gotten a lot of

hate and a lot of... People upset about what

he did and this and the other but it seems like

they're you know they're trying to create something

new now that they know that this franchise is

obviously a huge moneymaker and We talked about

the different people that might be involved But

then there was another article here this week

talking about the fact that there's potential

that the next movie is actually going to be a

prequel and That's not why I bring it up and

that's not why I would be excited. But the part

for me And this is coming, like I said, from

Andrew Barr, Gabriel Ferrari, like you said last

week, Akiva Goldsman, Robert Kerman. and Jeff

Pinkner who have connections with all kinds of

different stuff including Walking Dead and Lost

but the idea here is that not only would it be

a prequel but that it would be set on Cybertron

and that is the part that would be interesting

for me because that means less humans, more robots

and hopefully that would be something fun. It

kind of seemed like it had a potential to go

that way with the way the last Transformers ended.

But not that this is a sequel picking up from

there But I was kind of excited as to how the

last movie ended because it seemed like they

could do something that was going to their the

actual Transformers World so to speak But this

would be a prequel where it kind of goes back

to how it all starts and you know before they

ever get to Earth So this to me is intriguing

and something I would be more interested in more

interested in than just another kind of factory

Given Transformers Michael Bay film just in the

same vein as all the other four, so I don't I

don't know What do you feel about that Dan? It's

intriguing. I my worry is like sometimes with

the Transformers films. It's hard to distinguish

all the different Transformers, so a world of

Transformers, I'm worried that would it be impossible

to figure out what's going on. But I agree, the

benefit is that you don't have awful human characters,

so there's that. At least that would be the hope.

I almost wonder if something like that would

make more sense as an animated movie. I feel

like if you're doing that, it's basically gonna

be all CGI anyways, for the most part. I don't

know. I feel like it's not gonna happen, though.

I don't know, I just feel like the studios don't

think that they could do it without humans for

whatever reason. Yeah, and the article does speak

about the potential that it could be an animated

film, which I think people would be really interested

in, actually. I don't think necessarily it would

have to be something that was live action. Obviously,

you know, the old animated film is somewhat of

a cult favorite, I guess, amongst Transformers

fans, and I think that would kind of solve some

of the problems that you're alluding to. It seems

like one of the biggest problems with... the

Transformers films that got better as we went

through the different films but especially at

the beginning was trying to distinguish you know

metal from metal and if we're moving to a planet

that's made of metal that seems like it could

enhance the problems there but if it was live

action I think they would have to do it pretty

carefully but like you said at that point it's

all going to be CGI anyway so why not just make

it animated? Do you know anything about Cybertron

Amanda? It's where the Autobots lived. Alright.

So obviously there will be education in the household

here as we go back to the 1986 film and revisit

that. But I don't know, I'm intrigued by the

idea. I hope it actually does happen instead

of, like I said, just giving us another Transformer

film in the same vein as the ones we've already

gotten. All right, that swings it back to Dan.

What's another one of those headlines that you'd

like to delve into a little bit deeper? That's

alright. Was there a Spider -Man one in there?

No Spider -Man. You picked the one superhero

that there was not. The one superhero that there's

nothing on. I just assume there's been so much

Spider -Man stuff. There has been. We took a

week off from Spider -Man this week. You have,

as far as comic book characters, there's X -Men,

Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Shazam, Justice League.

DC casting. Let's go with the DC cast. Oh, I

think I think you'll love this one, Dan Give

us a give us a night option to Vent a little

maybe or show frustration I'll read you the real

headline and that is was Jaden Smith just confirmed

as static shock So, uh, you know, there's a apparently

gonna be a live -action web series based on static

shock. And apparently in an interview recently,

here's the quote from, I believe this was from

Tyler James Williams. He was responding to the

possibilities for young black actors possibly

playing either Spider -Man or static shock or

something like that. And he said, quote, I don't

know what you're talking about. But yeah, no,

it's great to see static shock is happening with

Jayden. So, I don't know if you were supposed

to say that or not, but Dan, your excitement

level at a live action web series or web film

with Jaden Smith as Static Shock. I would say

my excitement for a live action Static Shock

film was minute at best, the fact that you have

Jaden Smith in it as well as just, yeah, like

no, negative, can we go with negative points?

I'd probably go with that. It's just like...

Don't know he is like the craziest person ever

And I don't think he would have a career if wasn't

for his dad I mean there's some guys who like

or like you famous parents who end up being good

actors And maybe that's him one day, but it is

not currently so I don't know yeah I think it

was it was it on your show was it talking on

circle talking to circles where you guys? Read

the most crazy Jaden Smith quotes. Oh his tweets

are insane. It is like that like he is a crazy

person like literally like just Google his like

you wonder It is an example of like how Scientology

can basically destroy a kid's mind because it's

like It's insane. Yeah, I don't I don't I don't

understand though because Will Smith doesn't

seem that crazy Yeah, I don't know. I mean, he

doesn't always pick the greatest movies to be

in, but he doesn't come across as someone who's

out of touch with reality. I don't know. Maybe

he's adopted and we just don't know. He actually

has three kids and the oldest one's like normal,

so I don't know what's wrong with Jaden. Maybe

we're the only ones in this camp. Are you a Jaden

Smith fan, Amanda? I can take it or leave it.

I haven't delved too much in the world of Jaden

to really understand it. You're not a karate

kid. I didn't see karate kid with Jackie Chan.

Sixteen enthusiast? No, I did see, what, After

Earth or whatever, and he pissed me off the whole

time. I'm like, you little idiot. So I don't

know if anybody's in Jaden Smith camp. I've never

heard someone say anything good about the kid,

unfortunately. And I don't think there's a lot

of people dying for static shock. I mean, I'm

not... My knowledge about all the comic book

stuff is very limited, but I've never heard people

go crazy for static. No. I think it was a cartoon

first and then a comic. I'm not sure, but there's

people who like it. It was a decent character,

but I don't... I wouldn't mind seeing it, but

I don't know if Jaden Smith is your best option.

I feel like there's better actors out there.

I feel like it wasn't for the fact that Michael

B. Jordan is doing... Doing fantastic or he'd

be perfect for that role All right moving on

to our next news story Amanda. There's some headlines

left which one you want to go with Still staying

away from Harry Potter all right All right League

of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the main headline

here is Fox is Rebooting the League of Extraordinary

Gentlemen, so they're planning on taking another

shot Add in the adaptation of League of Extraordinary

Gentlemen. I will let you go first since you

picked it, but what are your thoughts on this

article? Because I'm a little bit, I don't know,

speechless, I guess. Well, whatever. I think

it's exciting. I really liked the first adaptation

that came out in 2013. I don't care if people

hate it or not. I really like the lore behind

all the characters. I thought it was really cool

to see them all together. And I thought just

the... The cinematography of it looked really

cool. I think it was visually striking. I really

dug it. I liked it. So it was a film back in

2003. Didn't get a hugely positive response to

that. It made $178 million at the box office.

All the plans for sequels and different things

for it were completely scrapped. Then it tried

to be a TV series in 2013 and that didn't go

over well. So now they're going to try once again

to do a film that apparently has absolutely no

tie -ins to the 2013 film. So Dan, is this a...

2003 film. Or 2003 film, excuse me. I think I

said 2013. Is this a failed effort from the beginning?

Um, I'm not... Don't just say it, Dan. Don't

just say it. No, actually, because I saw that

movie in the theaters. I was like one of the

13 people that did. I need like no money. And

I all meant I did like it at the time. I have

not seen it in years. But I just like the concept

of it, like the idea of all these literature

characters coming together. It makes sense to

kind of do that now, because that was like before

you had the Avengers and stuff like that. I've

never read the comics, but I know a lot of people

have, and a lot of people have a high respect

for them, so... And I kind of like the idea of

rebooting stuff that wasn't really good to begin

with, you know? Like, uh... I can't think of

anything. Like, Judge of Dread, for example.

Like, the 90s movie was awful, but the reboot

was good, so maybe the same thing could happen

here. I think Amanda's heart just broke. She

has a very distinct taste for crappy 80s movies.

Well, that was the 90s, though, so... Oh, jeez.

I think something else is this one isn't going

to tie into the 2003 film, so I think it'll be

cool to see a different storyline. Hopefully,

same characters. Can I get Sean Connery back?

I'd love to, man. He hasn't done a movie in like

15 years. I think he officially retired at some

point, didn't he? Yeah, yeah, he's done. I think

it was his last movie. I think it was League

of Victoria, the only gentleman in his last movie.

It's close to it, I know. He was fun to watch

in that. I don't hate that movie, actually. I

mean, I think it's a fun, it's a fun film. I

mean, I think it, like, the CGI wasn't where

it needed to be for, I think, for that to really

work completely. I'm sure if it went back now,

it would look really bad, but I think, I don't

know. It was, like I said, I was, I was young,

you know, back then, so I liked it. I don't know

if I would like it now if I saw it, like, 10

years later, 12 years later. Right. I think I've

seen it within this last year. Well, there you

go. I think. Or late last year. Yeah. I think

I've seen it within the last couple years. We

might have seen it together. But yeah, I don't

necessarily hate it. I mean, it's kind of something

that you got to take into consideration when

it's made and kind of the atmosphere that was

around. And I don't know. It just is one of those

that just didn't catch on for whatever reason.

I don't think there's necessarily a formula to

it. But I was kind of being mean on it. But I'm

not necessarily against the idea of doing this.

Again, depending on who gets involved and what

the cast is and that type of thing. So I think

there's some interesting characters there that

have played by the right person could make for

a good film. I've seen the original about half

a dozen times at least. I like it. Don't hate.

I'm not. All right. Going into my last news,

I'm going to try to class it up here. I'm going

to try to give us a little credit for not just

being complete geeky movie fans, but being movie

buffs through and through. So let's talk about

the... the summary and kind of the word of mouth

coming out of the Cannes Movie Festival. I'm

sure Amanda will be rolling her eyes this entire

time, but the reason I'm bringing it up is because

there may or may not be one or two people that

listen to this podcast that are also involved

in the fantasy film league. And part of that

league is scoring points for award nominations

or award wins. So there was a cool article out

here, kind of Going down a rundown of all the

different movies that that we're at can and basically

giving a summation of which actors movies actresses

directors etc might be in the conversation for

potential Award nominations and that type of

thing so I thought it was kind of interesting

so we'll kind of run down a little bit of it

The first thing, one of the first movies that

they said would possibly be in conversation for

a lot of films was a movie called Carol. And

the potential nods there were for director, actress,

best supporting actress, Cate Blanchett, which

is owned by, I believe, War Machine versus War

Horse. So that was one of them. The film Youth

is getting a whole bunch of buzz. Potential nods

there for director, actor Michael Caine, and

a bunch of the supporting actors and actresses.

The film Sicario, with potential nods for best

actress Emily Blunt, supporting actor Benicio

del Toro, best director Dennis Villanueva, I

don't know if that's the right pronunciation,

but we're going with it. And then Inside Out,

animated feature film for the screenplay and

the score. So that was something that was getting

a lot of buzz out of Cannes. And then wrapping

up, Son of Saul. That was being talked about

for possibly best picture nomination our best

picture for a foreign language film, excuse me

Deep hand foreign language film. I don't know

anything about that one the one I'm most excited

about the film chronic with apparently a potential

actor nomination for Tim Roth Who was my very

last pick in the fantasy film league? So maybe

I can get some points out of that They also talked

about the film The Lobster, and The Assassin,

and another animated film, The Little Prince.

Dan Macbeth is a possible supporting actor for

Michael Fassbender. There you go. And also actress

for Miriam... Cotillari? Yes, I like it when

other people just finish her name for me. We

talked about it last week, but Mad Max Fury Road,

potential talk about maybe director screenplay,

Charlize Theron for actress, or Best Picture.

So those were some of the rundowns. Dan, do you

keep up much with, I know you probably are somewhat

in tune with the reactions from Cannes. I usually

am. This year I have not been as much. I've looked

at a few like Macbeth because I was really curious

about that. So I'm happy to see inside out because

of having faith that that would redeem Pixar,

which it seems like it is. But yeah, I mean,

it's interesting because there's like last year,

I think after Cannes, everyone felt like... That

Fox catcher like everything I heard was like

Fox catchers like it's gonna win like every acting

award and you know got nominations But didn't

win so it's hard to tell I find that TIF is usually

a better indicator When it comes to like award

season, so hopefully that means that uh, I'm

hoping Michael Fassbender can get something because

I thank you I'm going to say he deserves it and

I haven't seen the movie yet. But as someone

in the podcast or film that needs to make up

a lot of points, he deserves it. He definitely

deserves it. I'm rooting for as many people to

get awards points as possible so that the Avengers

-Star Wars strategy does not pay off like it

seems to. All right, but there is news stories

that we did not talk about, so if you want to

click on the links and tell us why you feel like

they were interesting or what your opinions are,

we had a possible lead man casting for Wonder

Woman, like I said, an X -Men character reveal,

casting news for the spin -off for the Harry

Potter franchise, a hint at someone who might

be making a cameo in the Deadpool movie, talk

about the documentary for the Justice League

movie, Shazam! possibly being released early

and shifting everything in the D .C. calendar

because you know when you plan things for the

next seven years that's bound to happen where

all of a sudden stuff changes. Or the Rock is

involved. Yeah. A sequel date for World War Z.

Possible bad news for anybody that was looking

forward to the remake of Stephen King's It as

obviously one of the main people involved in

that is no longer involved and walked out so

that's kind of on on hiatus for now. The Legend

of Conan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. New film is

apparently going to be a sequel to the 1982 movie.

We have rumors about a live -action treatment

for Johnny Quest. Megan Fox apparently is trying

to ruin another childhood enjoyment for, you

know, she's already done The Turtles, she's already

done Transformers, now there was a buzz about

something involving Sailor Moon. so I think that

was more just talking while being interviewed

and that wasn't necessarily anything serious

but you can check out all those stories on the

website and let us know what you think about

those or what you think about the ones that we

actually talked about so next up we're going

to talk about some trailers so we had new trailers

we had an international trailer for me Earl and

the dying girl we had the trailer for the documentary

bat kid begins the first trailer for the horror

film the gallows the first trailer for the horror

film cooties The Red Band trailer for the comedy

drama Dope, the second trailer for the crime

drama Black Mass, first trailer for the remake

of Point Break, first trailer for the biographical

drama The End of the Tour, first trailer for

the drama The Diary of a Teenage Girl, and the

first trailer for the biographical drama Pawn

Sacrifice all landed in the last week. So like

we did last week, you guys can pick one trailer

and either praise it or... Send it off into the

garbage heap with your disdain for it. So, okay

Amanda I'll let you go first since you were complaining.

So which one are you gonna either yay or nay?

Point break yay. You're yaying point break. Yes

I don't even care that looks like a weird reboot.

I Really like the original like Patrick Swayze

Keanu Reeves I'm all about it. So I'm interested

to see what little nods this one's gonna have

to the first one besides the names Well, this

would fit what Dan was talking about earlier,

where he was saying that he's not necessarily

opposed to bad movies being remade. So... I'm

not getting hit. I'm not getting hit. So, apparently

not that bad of a dig. So, a yay for Point Break.

He got punched with my eyeballs. Didn't we already

get a remake of Point Break? Or seven of them?

Shut up. You're such a hater. Oh my, so... Stay

away from the Fast and the Furious movies. I

am going to try to after I see the seventh one.

Did you see it? Caught up. Yeah, that's the last

one on the list. All right, so she is given a

yay for Point Break. She might be in the minority

there, but maybe there is a huge group of people

that are looking forward to that. Darren, what's

your thoughts on Point Break? Actually, that

was gonna be mine, because I was actually...

I was gonna give it a yay, too. Let me preface

by saying, like, I had... Zero interest in this

like whatsoever I think I originally did when

I had like when the casting was announced and

forget who exactly was it but I had some interest

but then now it's like these guys have never

heard of but like the trailer like somewhat interesting

like By that I mean a movie I thought would be

like a three, might be a five out of ten, but

I don't know. I thought the action set pieces

looked like they're kind of intriguing. It is

kind of dated, but it's hard not to be when you're

making a movie like Point Rake, which is so much

a 90s movie, but I don't know. I love winged

suits, like the suits that the... Yeah, yeah,

yeah, I do I do enjoy those I think they're pretty

cool and I get some cool action set pieces so

I am NOT coordinated enough and I feel like I

would just fall straight They would not help

me. I just like hit the ground immediately Should

be fun, I think I think it'd be good like it

looks like you know, it's Like it's gonna be

like it does seem like it is just very much in

the vein of the Fast and Furious movies and whatnot,

but, you know, I'm not against it. It could be

better than I expected. We'll see. So it'll probably

make $200 million. I don't know. I wonder if

it'll do that well. That has to be curious, because

I don't know how much of a point break is, like,

how many fans are out there. Or how many people

have even seen the first one out there. But if

you've seen, like, XXX or something, those movies,

I feel like it's the same thing. Yeah. Yeah,

true. So if you get hyped about that, you might

get hyped about Point Break. But if they don't

know about the original, they're not going to

be any less excited about the new one. So we

got two yeas for Point Break. I'm going to scrap

my original plan of going with Point Break as

an A. I will regroup so we don't just talk about

Point Break. This was a hard one for me because

I read... I avoided the second trailer for Me

Earl and the Dying Girl as well as the second

trailer for Black Mask because those are films

I've already decided I'm going to see, so I don't

need to see any more of the trailers for either

of those films. So I skipped those, and then

we had two horrors involved, two horror films

involved, so clearly I'm not going to talk about

those. So I guess the one that I found maybe

the most intriguing for me personally would be

Between Two, and if I had to go with one I'd

probably talk about at the end of the tour. the

biographical drama there starring Jesse Eisenberg

and the guy from the Muppets. Jason Siegel. Yes,

Jason Siegel. Thank you. Why is that? Why? That's

the movie he's apparently now attached to in

my head. I don't know. I found that interesting

mostly for Jason Siegel. I'm not necessarily

a huge Jesse Eisenberg fan. Something about him...

Doesn't necessarily Appeal to me as much as I

know a lot of other people like him probably

more than I do I'm not opposed to him He's not

someone that I'm gonna go see just because he's

in the film, but I thought that was a that was

pretty intriguing It doesn't seem like it might

be a film for everybody But I like the drama

aspects to it and I'm a fan of Jason and Seagull

so that was one that I would didn't do nothing

about before this trailer so that's why I would

say that as a yay because It brought some interest

to a film. I knew nothing about So what did you

think of the end of the tour trailer, Amanda?

I think that it's going to be slightly more serious.

No, but I think it's going to have some subtle

awkward humor. And I think it might be worth

a watch. Subtle awkward humor with Jason Seale?

Yeah, it looked too serious for his normal, in

-your -face walking out and hanging out in the

man cave with his jerk -off station. I don't

think it's going to be that same thing from...

from that uh normal and jacqueline picture you

just painted there um haven't you ever seen um

yes or uh um what is it i love you man i love

you man i don't know actually he lives in like

a garage he's got the garage area and he's like

i jerk off there and then paul runs sitting there

we're trying to bring class to the podcast dan

did you see the trailer for the end of the tour

i did not honestly All right, so if you are interested

in any of those or have comments of which ones

you would give yeas or nays for whether it be

the ones that we talked about or not let us know

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Alright thanks for sticking with us and like

I said we are back for the main attraction but

before we get to meeting the cinema geeks we're

gonna do what we normally do which is talk about

movies that we've been watching over the last

week so let's start with Amanda Because it's

time to change things up and let someone else

go first so So what's a film that you saw this

week that you wanted to bring up I don't care

one that you saw by yourself by myself. I don't

watch anything really cool by myself. I revisited

bring both up My favorite films Queen of the

Damned Aliyah Stuart Townsend pretty great flick

Don't look at me like that. Also, Interview at

the Vampire. I did a little reverse Chronicles,

Vampire Chronicles, Revisiting, and always a

classic in my book, both of them. So, that was

a very brief way of saying you liked both of

them? Yes. Not much to say because I've seen

them so many times and I just love them, my gosh.

I think Interview at the Vampire has more complex

characters if you haven't read... the novels

you can still get pretty invested in those characters

more so than Queen of the Damned. You might have

to have a little bit of that backstory that comes

from the novel to fully enjoy it maybe. I did

see Queen of the Damned in the movie theaters.

Because you're old. I am old, yes. My memory

is that I was in college and my roommate, one

of my two roommates, wanted to go see a movie.

We actually had to drive a little bit to get

to the nearest theater. It wasn't necessarily

right on campus. And he's from downtown Chicago,

and apparently the thing they do when they went

to movie theaters is they would always go to

one early. We're talking about a 6 o 'clock showing

or 5 .30 or something like that. And then they...

As that movie was filing out, they would jump

into a line that was filing into another movie

and see a double feature, but only pay for one.

Classy. Yeah, it was pretty classy. And I didn't

realize that was what was going on. And we went

to see some other movie that I don't remember

that I was more interested in. And then apparently

on the way out, I got filed in with them to see

Queen of the Damned as the second part of the

double feature. So yeah. Sneaky bitch. I'm not

proud of it. I thought this was, you know, meet

the cinema geeks and let all of our true stories

come out so that people could know stuff about

us. I once snuck into Billy Madison with my mom

because we wanted to see one movie and we hated

it so we left and went into Billy Madison instead.

That's different though because you don't watch

both movies. You watched one and you paid for

one. I felt bad because I only paid for one and

I watched two. Anyways, we were broke and we

were in college and peer pressure. Yeah, but

I don't remember if I liked it or not. So that

was a completely pointless story. Score out of

ten for Queen of the Damned. I'm gonna give it

a seven and a half. And score out of ten for

Interview with the Vampire. Nine point five.

Nine point five. Yes. So it's like one of the

best films ever made. Ever made. In existence.

Alright, so everybody has just stopped listening

to Amanda's movie scores. I'm just kidding. Alright,

Dan, what's a movie you saw this last week? I

saw a movie called Blow Out, directed by Brian

De Palma starring John Travolta and John Lithgow

and a few others. For those that know, Brian

De Palma's Scarface fame and... I didn't know

he was still making movies. This is from 1982,

so... Okay. Yeah. So yeah, but like I said, starring

John Travolta and John Lithgow is like this crazy...

like, a psychotic villain, which actually was

kind of interesting, but... In the movie, Jonathan

DeVolta plays a sound editor for, like, a low

-budget horror movie production, and one day,

when he is out recording sounds, he kind of stumbles

across this accident that happens where a car

blows out his tire and goes into the river. He

dives in, saves the one girl who's in the car,

but the guy ends up being... ends up not living

through it later finds out the guy was actually

a candidate for president and a pretty like high

pretty good chance he was gonna win so there

ends up being this like um corruption possibly

and is it really an accident is it really not

and he had a tape a sound tape of the entire

thing so it's just like huge like conspiracy

kind of rabbit hole situation he finds himself

in and it was actually quite quite good it was

very Hitchcockian in a way. You can tell like

Brian De Palma took a lot from a lot of classic

thrillers of previous like it feels really so

much like North by Northwest and even Vertigo

and his directing style probably one of the better

directed Brian De Palma movies I've seen like

a lot of strong use of the camera a lot of like

single shot panning moments. There's actually

this really great car chase at the end right

in the middle, the heart of Philadelphia. And

there's this, which was a really impressive shot

of them going right through City Hall, which

was kind of cool. But I actually ended up enjoying

it quite a bit. It was a lot of fun. Really,

it was one of those situations where the plot

was kind of complex and it got more complex,

but it was never convoluted or hard to follow.

So I ended up enjoying it. quite a bit, and it

was a lot of, it was kind of an interesting reaction

to things like John F. Kennedy Conspiracy, like

the tape that Jamil Jamek sends up, very much

reminiscent of the Subparter film and things

of that nature. So if you like conspiracies and

that type of stuff, you may want to check it

out. And if you have Comcast, it's actually available

for free. I kind of just was going through the

free movies and ended up being there, so I watched

it one morning. Alright, so that intrigued me

on every level, so I have Comcast, so that's

free, so conspiracies on board, so I'll add it

to my list. Which means I get dragged into it

as well. Hopefully you don't hate it. I ended

up giving it like an eight out of eight eight

out of ten so nice So apparently we're all watching

a bunch of good movies this week. So Next one

I'll go with is a movie that we just revisited

in our Trek to go through all of them because

I don't think Amanda has seen all of them from

beginning to end and That would be a rewatching

of Raiders of the Lost Ark Because that's never

a bad idea So, we watched that the other day.

I love all three Indiana Jones films pretty equally.

Maybe we'll see how this latest rewatching, how

I come out on it. I remember Last Crusade was

the one that really got me into the Indiana Jones

franchise back when I was a kid. But I know Raiders

of the Lost Ark is the one that's probably most

loved out there. What? Except for Temple of Doom.

Except for, apparently, Amanda's love for Temple

of Doom. Um, you had not seen all of Raiders

of the Lost Ark, correct? No. No. There's some

pieces I remember, but other pieces I'm like,

I don't feel like I've seen this. So what was

your reaction afterwards? Did you like it? Did

you think it held up? Or how does it stack up?

Don't eat the dates. Don't eat the dates. Because

you could end up like that gangster little Nazi

monkey. Which apparently, according to DJ Valentine,

from the simplistic reviews... He outlined that

that monkey would be on the top three list of

most crazy evil monkeys moving monkeys So we

settled that it was really cool seeing a young

Harrison Ford And it had another strong female

lead, but it seemed like she always kept getting

captured so I'm like you're this strong woman

that's drinking dudes under the table and You

know throwing punches and all this stuff, but

then every time they turn around she's getting

captured Yeah I can see that. I completely forgot

that Alfred Molina was in this film. Oh, Doc

Ock? Yeah, I don't know how I missed that, but

I did not catch that until this viewing. Alfred

Molina plays one of the guys with Indiana Jones

at the very beginning of the movie as they're

going through all the different booby traps to

try to get the, I don't know, the golden monkey

or whatever they were going after. I forgot what

the artifact that they were going after, but

it comes to a very unfortunate end. I never realized

that that was Alfred Molina. So I love this film.

I would probably give it an eight and a half

out of 10 if I was scoring. What would you give

it a made of? I'd give it like a six and a half,

seven. That is blasphemy. You're absolutely off

your rocker. Oh my gosh. Six and a half or seven

for Raiders of the Lost Ark? Yeah. I don't want

to be too generous because I just gave something

that I lerved a 9 .5 and you're going to hate

on it. You just gave Interview with a Vampire

a 9 .5 and Raiders of the Lost Ark a 6 .5. You

bet your sweet baby I did. Alright, sorry. Relationship

problems here. I'm just kidding. I think 8 .5

is too low, so you know. That's what I was going

to say. I thought that was being too low. I was

just doing that because it's a rewatch and I

don't want to... box myself in a corner where

I can't give anything a better score than the

other two films that we're about to watch for

the Indiana Jones films. And I guess I only said

two. I didn't say three, folks. There's only

two films left to watch. But yeah, I don't know.

It's always a fun watch. So very much enjoyed

Raiders of the Lost Ark. Amanda, what's another

film you saw this week? Maggie. We did. We watched

the Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin. Zombie

film Maggie from this year on demand Dan you

haven't seen this one yet, or did you get a chance

to see it? I have not seen it Okay, so we won't

and I've heard nothing but bad things. I'm like

I'll wait on not pay for it Okay, well I will

try not to spoil anything with this I don't know

Amanda what you're feeling is let me you can

go first because I don't want to influence what

you're about to say so Without spoiling anything

about the film. What did you like or dislike

about it? In the whole world of zombies, I think

this is a really cool Take on it. It wasn't you

usually done storyline. It was really cool to

have the perspective of the film the surrounding

perspective of the girl Zombie turning into zombie

and not in a cheesy way like what happened warm

bodies. I think it was really well done and I

think that The ending I really liked, it was

kind of subtle but powerful and what happened

there and I think that that really tied everything

into the movie for me. I might have been a little

bit bored about it in a couple of spots, but

the ending kind of pulled it back in. This movie,

for people that don't know, it follows the character

that Abigail Breslin is playing. I can't remember

what, oh, Maggie, obviously. That was a dumb

statement. So it follows Maggie, played by Abigail

Breslin, and she obviously has been... infected

or bitten or whatever by this by zombie and the

interesting part is that in this world that we're

presented with there is like a six -week gestation

period so so by the time somebody gets infected

they have mostly on average they have six weeks

before they actually turn into a zombie so it's

kind of following the course of from when she's

infected through these six weeks and her father

is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and kind of

how he's dealing with it, how she's dealing with

it, how the rest of the people in the community

are dealing with that and other things. And that's

kind of the premise of the story. So it is kind

of interesting that it's not something that's

instant like we see with so many other films

where you're bitten and you're a zombie within

three seconds, like in World War Z or something

like that, or six seconds of however much Brad

Pitt counted to, I can't remember. So you have

that longer period. So it creates more of a human

element to the actual transition from human to

zombie. I never really used the Z word. They

don't give it. They just say it's like a S. Something

for yeah, sometimes a scientific breakdown. Um

Before I say anything else, what was your grade

on this? I Want to give it a four point five

for we're all about to have points today. So

So four and a half from Amanda. I will say that

that to me is is extremely high This film had

when Arnold Schwarzenegger and his acting is

the best part of the film that is very dangerous

for a film. I have an idea. How about you stop

hating on my ratings? What? Get off it. I'm just

saying, Arnold Schwarzenegger should not be the

best part of your film ever. I would love to

be surprised. I mean, he was good, but... There's

way too many holes in this writing. There's way

too many holes in the plot that don't get explained.

There's dialogue that is just absolutely terrible.

There's actions being taken by characters that

there's absolutely no motivation or reasoning

for why they would take those actions. So I had

way too many problems with this film. I enjoyed

it from a standpoint that it was so bad that

I was actually laughing and finding some enjoyment

from that standpoint, but I did not like this

film. And I actually, you know, I'm not someone

that's huge on zombie films and that type of

stuff But I liked World War Z and you know, I

was like, yeah, let's give it a shot, you know

Arnold and it should be fun, but There was I

if I would have been taking notes There probably

would have been at least like 30 things written

down that I had a problem with so I cannot recommend

this film I would probably give it two out of

ten and that I feel is being generous. So Will

be writing a review about this that will go into

spoilers and what exactly I dislike but man I

wish I could just go on a rant But I don't want

to ruin it because it is a 2015 film so people

might still be interested in viewing it So we'll

just leave it at that and I will say save your

time and money and watch something else Dan I

think you should still watch it. I will I probably

will apologize wait till it's on Netflix You're

creating fans everywhere out there. People are

melting into a pool of love for the sounds that

are coming out of your mic and the baby sounds.

Amanda's all about it. Yeah, you wouldn't go

to sleep. I think it's just adding fans for you.

Your Twitter followers are going to increase.

It's a cheap win, right? It's a cheap, valid

win. Did you get a chance to see anything else?

Yeah, I forgot to mention upfront, but my goal

now is to watch at least three films, like one

classic film, one... One current 2015 film and

whatever I've assigned but I've actually watched

two 2015 films, but it kind of a cheat sensor

on HBO Go And they're two documentaries. I'll

start with one and Get the other one later. The

first one I watched was a 2015 documentary called

Southern Rites it is this documentary that that

covers the town of in Montgomery, Georgia in

Montgomery County, Georgia and it's infamous

for this times of miss because it's Still having

or it had up to at least in 2012 had its problems

were segregated still and This documentary kind

of goes into the town. It kind of gives you an

aspect of what this area is really like but really

like the The prom aspect is not really touched

upon a great deal. The main focus is actually

this court case that occurs when This court case

that occurs when Regarding this this man who

ends up shooting this this young african -american

male who enters his home and Who enters his home

to basically visit this? man's daughter, and

after this murder, there's this court case in

this town. It's divided. It's kind of like a

microcosm of all the racial issues based upon

this situation that occurred. And it sets itself

up in a way where you figure, like, you know

all these pieces. Like, okay, here's this redneck

white guy who clearly had these, you know, malicious

attentions when this happened. But the more you

find out, it's It's not nearly as straightforward.

He's a little bit more complicated. And he's

actually probably the most intriguing aspect

of the entire documentary with this guy, because

he's very conflicted. At times, you want to hate

him. At times, you want to be sympathetic. And

it was actually a lot more interesting than I

anticipated. There's also another part of the

documentary which is covering another aspect

of the town where there is this sheriff race

going on and there's a guy trying to be the first

African -American sheriff and that was probably

the weakest aspect of the documentary because

it really it like and it brings that up occasionally

out of kind of nowhere at times and it doesn't

really really set the scope for that at all and

it ends it's really kind of uh underdeveloped

because you don't really know that people evolved

all that much it doesn't really kind of give

you an idea of why this is occurring or like

how close this race is really it just seems to

kind of come in and come out almost like a commercial

break but instead of going to commercial they're

just bringing in this other like side b story

which wasn't as as strong so it kind of took

it down a little bit for me but the overall you

know they did have a lot of interesting characters

and uh it wasn't an intriguing environment that

it was going into. So I think it could have been

better if it fleshed out some of that other side

stories and whatnot and really kind of delved

more into this town. But in a way, it either

needed to do less by not incorporating the other

side stories or just in focus on the main court

case or do more in kind of broadened the scope

to incorporate more of the town. But overall,

I did really enjoy it. I think it's kind of a

good look into a world that I knew nothing, that

I'm not a part of. And you kind of just have

to feel kind of embarrassed by in some ways,

and just some of these people. So like I said,

it's available on HBO Go. I gave it about a 7

out of 10, just because I think it's an intriguing

enough story that's worth watching. Interesting

yeah, I always find it interesting about the

parts of the of our country or the parts of just

the world in general that Haven't necessarily

progressed like you think everybody else has

or makes you wonder like can we just like you

know forget about the South is that like Yeah

Or at least cut a section out. I don't know but

yeah, it's just like when people are trying to

like deny the Holocaust happened or you know

people that think the Civil War still is going

on or all kinds of stuff so Definitely sounds

like an interesting documentary the other film

that we both watched outside of our homework,

which we'll be getting to shortly is 2015 film

in the theater. Not doing a main attraction on

it this week, but we will briefly touch on it

and that would be obviously Brad Bird's Disney

film Tomorrowland. So without spoilers Amanda,

what was your initial takeaway when you were

leaving the theater for Tomorrowland? I think

I was pretty underwhelmed. I was interested going

in. I mean I wasn't jumping up and down excited,

but the trailer made it look pretty interesting.

So I was ready for it, but then when I left,

you know, I did feel a little shorted What did

you feel short? Like what made you feel shorted

or why were you underwhelmed? What was the what

would you point that to? There was so much that

they tried to introduce that they never fleshed

out Just lots of things I felt had holes in it

Yeah, um, I was in a similar boat I was not one

of the ones that was necessarily toting this

as you know something and that I was super anticipating.

I think Red Bird's fine. I think he's done a

bunch of good stuff. Obviously, The Iron Giant

and The Incredibles and Mission Impossible Ghost

Protocol all have gotten a lot of praise. Most

people are saying that this guy's never done

a bad film. I can see where they're coming from,

but I still wasn't someone who was super high

on this. It was not something... I was looking

forward to a bunch of other films, but I was

going in kind of open -minded. I knew nothing

about it. I thought the trailer was somewhat

intriguing. I'm a huge George Clooney fan. I

liked a lot of the stuff that he's done, so I

was definitely on board. I wish we would have

gotten more of certain aspects of the film, delved

into more of the actual Tomorrowland to see...

Kind of more about that because I think that's

where the creativity was interesting. That's

where the the visuals were the most effective

and and that's kind of What was interesting to

me from from from a viewer standpoint? The other

things I liked and this is not a spoiler because

it's somewhat in the trailer But I think they

could have done a lot more on the actual hunt

for George Clooney and team where they're trying

to track him down and how the trailer showed

in their house and what he's doing to try to

avoid being captured. I thought that was probably

one of the best parts of the film, so I would

have loved seeing more of that. I would have

loved seeing more of the connections to real

American history or world history with the different

figures that they were talking about as far as

the founding of the group that brought Tomorrowland.

into being. I think those were kind of the intriguing

aspects of it, but then I think it got mucked

up with a lot of other stuff that was going on

that just wasn't as interesting. There are some

creepy parts to this. I disagree, and I don't

know how to talk about this without necessarily

spoiling things, but I don't necessarily think

it's spoiling things. Obviously, there is an

idea that George Clooney's character had a past.

I mean, he's the old crotchety guy that's in

the house in the trailer. So you can kind of

get the glimpse that there was some type of past

in his younger days where he was involved in

something. And the reason I don't think it's

necessarily creepy is... There's no way for me

to talk about that without without spawning it

But I disagree with all the podcasts that are

saying that's creepy I get why you're saying

it, but I think that's completely taking yourself

out of George Clooney's mind and character and

his past like if you are You know if a 12 year

old is in love with a 12 year old nothing can

necessarily be like fall full in love with it

at the age of 12 but okay if you're 15 and you're

in love with a 15 year old or if you're 12 and

you have a crush on someone like that is in your

psyche and that's like in your mind and You're

not gonna realize At any point that you're not

still that person if you're seeing what you saw

at that age like so to me it's not necessarily

creepy like he's He's seen something that in

his mind is the same as he saw it when he was

a kid. So To me, it's completely separated from

what a lot of people are taking away from that

scene. But I just feel like they could have gone

in certain directions that were interesting,

that would have been fine, and they just kind

of avoided it. Maybe they were trying to do too

much, so they never focused on certain things

to do it well enough. And certain motivations

of characters aren't necessarily logical, or

certain plot points. don't make sense as far

as the motivations of those characters. You know,

certain characters are completely, seem like

they're a central part at some points of the

film and then completely disappear and there's

no mention of them. I think you could question

some of the motives of, I guess what you could

call the quote unquote villains in this. I just

think there's a lot of holes, there's a lot of

stuff that doesn't make sense, and I think a

lot of it has been kind of pinpointed to the

writing, and I think that's where the biggest

fails of this film are. I will say that I was

super impressed with the young actress, and I'm

going to get her name wrong, but I think she

completely stole almost all of the scenes from

Britt, what's her name, Britt Roberson? I don't

know. Britt Roberson. You know, she's kind of

toted as the star of this film, and the younger

girl absolutely stole almost every scene that

they were involved in together. So I thought

that was kind of surprising. And I think George

Clooney was fine, but I'm with you. I was underwhelmed

with this one. I wasn't necessarily expecting

great things, but it definitely did not play

as well as I thought it would. So what about

you for a grade on this one? Hard. Let's see.

I think I'll give it a four. Four out of ten

for Tomorrowland from Amanda. I'm gonna give

it a slightly, just a very slightly higher grade

because I think the parts that were good were

good and I wouldn't have been opposed to seeing

more of that. And like I said, the performances

are fine. The visual aspect of the film's fine.

It's just the writing and the plot holes that

I had a major problem with. So you can give it

a four out of ten. I will give Tomorrowland a

five out of ten. So four from you, five from

me. I'm not that far off from where you're at.

You're a score one -upper. You'd have to go one

up or one down from me. I'm sorry. One day I'll

give the same score as you. I'm I'm right with

you. We're four and five. We're not that far.

We're not that far off each from each other So

not necessarily resounding reviews underwhelming

disappointment I guess are the best words to

sum up tomorrow land and I think that is all

the fault of the writing so Dan what was the

other documentary that you got to see I I got

to see Kurt Cobain montage of heck Are you guys

at all a fans of Nirvana bunny chance or yeah?

I mean, I'm not like, I don't know all their

stuff, but I enjoyed them back in the day, which

was a Wednesday. Little fun fact. Good to know,

good to know. Yeah, I mean, I'm not like, I'm

similar to you, Monty. I think I owned like one

CD back then, or I think it was a CD when I've

been a cassette player back then. But so I was

interested in this documentary I've heard a lot

of good things and it's currently available HBO

go and it very much like the title says it is

kind of a two -hour look into the mind of Kurt

Cobain and even if I would say if you hate hate

hate Nirvana you probably aren't gonna like this

because I mean it doesn't make him out to be

a saint or like it there's not like one of those

documentaries which is like he's this groundbreaking

great like it's just two hours of fluff it does

really showcase him as kind of not the Not the

greatest guy some of the stuff he did in the

past was questionable best especially in high

school but it gets into his entire life from

his childhood to his time in high school and

there's a lot of personal information it gets

into and I guess they found like a like a box

or some sort of You know closet or something

full of his past stuff including like tapes he

recorded and art he did and I didn't realize

he was along with like a singer he was an artist

and painter as well and and incorporates a lot

of that into the documentary so you really do

get like a look into his mind and he is this

intriguing figure and I Learned a lot more about

him than anticipated and the documentary itself

is very stylized. It feels a lot of that time

a lot of using a lot of that classic art and

Interweaving it with songs from nirvana but done

in by different artists and even like a child

choir at one time Which I thought was a little

a little pretentious, but it was all right But

I ended up really really enjoying it I do think

it it skips over like his his death like at the

end it kind of just is like a little bit of a

Like an entitled card and that was it which I

was not that I was trying to be morbid But I

don't know much about like what led up to that

and it I think it had the potential of doing

that because it It interviewed a lot of his friends,

the members of Nirvana, Courtney Love and such,

and he also had tons of home video footage, which

was, it was disturbing to watch, because you

see this guy who was clearly stoned out of his

mind with his kids, and he's completely out of

it. It does kind of give you an interesting look

into this dude who became like a voice of a generation

even though he was socially inept and Not at

all like interested in any of that So like he

had no interest in fame and you'd see what happens

to him and like when it was thrust upon him So

it's it's it's a good like looking to you know

that industry and what it once was and I would

definitely recommend it. Like I said, unless

you truly hate that band I know there's people

out there that do But the only thing I would

say, I wish it didn't involve Dave Nirvana, or

what's his name, the guy from Foo Fighters. David

Roll? Yeah, David Roll. He was not interviewed

at all, which I thought was kind of strange.

I don't know why that was. I would like to see

his perspective a little bit more. And I do think

at times there were a lot of these montages of

the music and art that kind of went on a little

bit too long, a little bit indulgent. But overall,

that was quite solid. So I gave it an 8 out of

10. Nice. So good scores for both of those. Documentaries

to check out for those people that are looking

for something and you said those were both available

on HBO? They're both available on HBO, yeah.

Alright, excellent. The only other thing that

we saw this week, I believe, would be our homework

assignment. So we can get into that and the homework

assignment you gave us last week was the film

Short Term 12 from 2013. And for those of you

that don't know, obviously that is about a supervisor

and some workers at a home for troubled teenagers.

And it kind of follows both the young supervisor

and her coworker slash long -term boyfriend and

kind of their... relationship and their life

as well as obviously the storylines involving

a variety of the different teenagers that are

living in this home. I'll start with Amanda.

What was your initial thoughts on short -term

12 and kind of what did you take away? Did you

overall like or dislike and why? I did like it.

I was a little surprised at first. I really wasn't

sure how I'd like it because of the filming style

I didn't know if I'd be able to be engaged by

it with the you know a little bit of the shaky

cam going on but I think that it was actually

a really powerful film and it was a little touching

and a lot of it did resonate home with me and

I thought that it was really incredibly sad but

also uplifting and I think it had some really

good points. I think I'm somewhat with you, if

not even, probably a little bit, I think I'll

come out a little bit higher on the film than

you do overall, but I think we're both going

to give it a positive review. Obviously this

won a bunch of stuff, South by Southwest Grand

Jury, an audience awards, a bunch of those types

of things. On Rotten Tomatoes it currently has

a 99 % from critics and a 92 % from the audiences.

I really like the fact that to me it finds a

good balance of like you said it's sad but at

times uplifting it's dramatic but at times funny

like it never goes so far in one direction for

too long of a time to you know completely make

you feel You know depressed or to completely

make you feel like you know, they're trying for

too much I just think it was a good blend of

both comedy trauma sadness uplifting Etc across

the board. I also did I didn't think I would

have a problem with with the shaky cam at first

but Luckily it gets it either gets better as

the film goes on or you get used to it as the

film goes on I'm not exactly sure what it was,

but it was not bothering me as much as time went

on but that first probably 15 to 20 minutes was

a little bit To the point where it was almost

taking me out of the film I guess maybe I'm an

old crotchety man, but I do not understand The

purpose of that film style unless you're doing

a found footage film, which I'm not saying I

like those either But to me that's the only reason

why you would do that like I don't understand

why we're What and I'm not I'm not talking about

this film. I'm just talking about films in general.

I don't understand why you would do something

in a style like that unless it's supposed to

be from the viewpoint of the lens. Like unless

you're telling the story from that viewpoint,

which this isn't necessarily doing that, so I

don't understand what the point of having an

unsteady cam is. And maybe that's just me being

narrow -minded or whatever, but it was so bouncy

at the beginning that... Like I said, it was

almost like unnerving from from just an unsettling

like on your stomach or on your head like So

that's the only gripe I have about him Like I

said, I either got used to it or it just wasn't

as prominent as you moved on I think the worst

scene that it was was the initial scene when

they're kind of outside and it's it's bouncing

around a little bit zooming in and out too much

and It definitely was not like that the rest

of the film. So that's my literally my only gripe

I thought there were some great performances

from some people that I'm not too super familiar

with. I thought John Gallagher Jr. as Mason was

great. I thought Brie Larson as Grace was pretty

decent. I was trying to figure out in the entire

movie why I recognized Caitlin Dever who played

one of the main teenagers at the home, Jaden

Cole. I just looked it up and I did not realize

that she was one of the girls that was on the

Tim Allen sitcom Last Man Standing that I watched

there for maybe the first season until it got

kind of old and not as funny for me but uh...

so that's where I recognize her from so I guess

if you're a huge uh... fan of Last Man Standing

you can check her out on this but uh... I think

that's maybe why I think she left this show possibly

at some point maybe this had something to do

with it but I could be getting my facts wrong

but uh... getting back to the film I really enjoyed

it I think uh... if I was to redo my my list

from 2013 this would have a very strong chance

of being in my top ten I liked it that much uh...

I just found Everything they did to be intriguing

Emotional and well -balanced I guess would be

the best way for me to sum it up So I would probably

give this a 8 out of 10 Did you give a score?

Not yet, no. What would you give it? I think

my only really gripe about it was it took me

a little bit to figure out why exactly these

kids were here. I mean, is this a halfway house?

Are they orphaned? What's going on? Why are they

getting to go home at certain points? So that

was a little confusing for me, but I don't think

I liked it as much as you. I would say I'd give

it about a six and a half, seven. Six and a half,

seven for you, eight for me. Dan, I don't remember,

I mean, obviously you recommended this one, so

I'm guessing you liked it, but what was your

level of, like, for this film? I was probably

somewhere around UK, but I never really had any,

even really noticed the handheld camera, honestly.

To me, I have to go back and watch it, but my

guess is probably just, maybe it could have been

just designed to either, A, establish, like,

intimacy, or sometimes, like, people try to go

for that documentary -esque feel just to kind

of make it, you know, seem... it more of a realistic

sense but I really couldn't tell you because

I didn't even notice it when I watched it but

yeah I just thought it was just a really small

honest and really like emotionally depth film

that like had a lot to say and was you know was

I thought all the performances are really really

good and I thought it like to me it was a movie

that is I mean I think it's known by a lot of

people but they still has a kid Is deserving

of a bigger audience and internally does so I

did I didn't make my top ten in that year But

it I didn't see it till afterwards so if I went

back and we did it it might but it's been a been

a while Since I kind of looked at all the movies

that came out that year. Yeah Yeah, so I'm definitely

glad that you you recommended that one very much

enjoyed that so Now, back to you. Did you see

anything else? I did. Also, the last one I had

I was saving for it, too, was the homework assignment

that I was given, which was the book Thief. I

guess as an HBO go, we should be sponsored because

that is also available on HBO. Which was kind

of good for me. And for those that don't know,

it is a movie that takes place in Germany, right?

Begins right in the precipice of World War two

starting a young girl from Russia is is adopted

by a German family who are played by Emily Watson

and Jeffrey Rush and basically it kind of follows

her journey with them during during kind of the

trials of World War two and There's been you

know, there's a ton of World War two movies There

are a lot you know and you wonder like can what's

the do you need another one but i think what's

interesting about this is that a lot of war or

two movies like you you see them from the american

perspective the british perspective but But we

don't really get a lot from kind of a German

civilian perspective. And we really don't see

much from that. I mean, the only really German

war war two movie I can even think of is right

now is like Downfall. So I think that's kind

of an interesting take to kind of see it, especially

through, you know, kind of the eyes of a child

and, you know, a child innocence compared, you

know, being kind of solid by that of a war. And

it's it's, you know, a classic tale, but it makes

sense. And I think the best thing that the book

thief has going for it. Well, there's two things.

One. or the performances, which are across the

board, pretty stellar. Starting with Sophie,

I think I'm gonna say this wrong, Elise, who

was pretty remarkable. I thought she held her

own really well, even in Jeffrey Rush, I thought

was delightful, and worked really well with Emily

Watson, who was this more... crotchety character

but of course like as it goes on you kind of

see her kind of crack that shell a little bit

and I think their dynamic together worked really

well and I thought their performances overall

make it make it worth the watch the other aspect

that that was really strong too what was the

score by John Williams and I didn't know it was

a John Williams score going in, but I'm like,

well, this is quite the good score, and I wonder

who did it. And I'm like, oh, John Williams,

and it's not his normal style, in the sense where

you can, like, there are certain John Williams

scores you hear, and you know it's him, and a

little bit more subtle, I would say, not as kind

of bombastic as something he does for Star Wars

or some of the more adventure films. It really

fits the setting really well. The only issues

I would say I had with it is that like I talked

about how there's a there's a huge This concept

here is intriguing because you have this idea

of you know this German girl or I guess Russian

girl with this you know this girl in Germany

and Seeing her kind of go through the process

of World War two and at one point I'm not this

isn't really giving anything why because it's

in the trailer they take in Jewish man to try

to hide him from the Nazis and I think they begin

this relationship which is interesting and I

think there was like potential here just to give

a little bit more for example there's a conversation

they're having and they're reading a newspaper

and he sees that the Germans are winning the

war and he seems kind of upset by that and she

responds it's like we're winning isn't that a

good thing so even though you know she clearly

has a relationship she feels fondly for this

guy it doesn't even dawn on her that you know

his date his being in danger is directly reflected

by the you know the country that she's living

in so she still has just you know based upon

being pumped with propaganda throughout the time,

still has admiration for the country and thinking

that we should be winning this war. I think that's

a really interesting dynamic when you have this

girl who's kind of... You know have has a conflict

there because you you know, you're being told

every day That this is the way you should think

but you obviously see this man that you're told

or is supposed to people is in your You have

a strong relationship with and I just wish it

went down that route It doesn't really kind of

that conversation ended and didn't go there and

I know this was based off a book and I feel like

They're like a lot of this probably What was

was better in the book just because you have

more room to flesh things out just by the nature

of it there's like a one of her friends is has

a admiration for jesse owens and there's at there's

it there's uh touches upon that I think that

was intriguing but again it like it Couldn't

only go so far with it And I just thought it

could do more to kind of show how much her innocence

was lost like I feel like I don't know if I really

saw her drastically impacted as much as I would

expect and I think it's hard it's a hard thing

to do because It is a movie meant to be both

heartwarming and family -friendly. It's so it's

hard to kind of really get that It's a hard balance

to strike and I think overall it handles it well

But that's like the only portion of it the only

other thing I wasn't the biggest fan of was during

throughout it there is a narration by asking

about the head by death and I just I don't know

if it was needed and I think it in a way it almost

made it seem Like like a fantasy or a little

bit more whimsical than it needed to be So, I

don't know if that was like in Part of the reason

when it was first going I thought it was jeffrey

rush during the narration. So i'm like I was

confused. I'm like wait No, so I mean I didn't

like take me out of the movie I just thought

maybe that wasn't something that had to go but

like overall I would say um I'm glad I watched

it. I'm glad I watched it. I think it's really

worth watching. I saw it was at 37 % on Rotten

Tomatoes, which I think is insane. It's way better

than that. Just for the performance. I was trying

to figure out why I was like am I literally one

of the only people that likes this film? Did

I miss something? I don't know if that's because

the book's so loved and that there are elements

that it doesn't really live up to, which is potential.

I have not read the book. My wife has and she

didn't see it with me, but she said she doesn't

want to watch it because she loves the book so

much. So I don't know if that's kind of the reaction

towards it. And I would say though like the book

thief I'm surprised that that was like one of

the smaller aspects of the movie. There's so

much else going on So it's kind of I don't know

if that's the way the book is as well But that

I found was kind of intriguing but I do think

like it is like I think it's a it's gonna start

sound weird but if you're like looking for like

a World War two movie to kind of watch with like

your family or you have kids and you want to

kind of Introduce them. I think it's a good movie

to start with because it I think it gets it sure

showcases what's happening, but not in a way

that I think that would be traumatizing to someone

who's a young child. So I think it's like a good

starting point, like a good movie for kids who

are like 12 or under who are kind of maybe curious

about that time and kind of want to see it. I

think they could probably relate to it a lot

of ways. So I would definitely recommend in that

end. So I ended up giving it like a seven out

of 10. And so I am, like I said, glad I didn't

watch it. You know, I was interested in what

your take was on the narration aspect of it,

because that was something that I was kind of

torn on it. The only reason I kind of gave it

a pass and didn't necessarily come down too hard

on that aspect was because I kind of liked the

last segment that involved that. Yeah, yeah.

I guess my worry was, like, I felt like that...

I don't want to... it tipped its hat a little

too much like I felt like yeah, what would have

been more of a shock ended up being like it like

embraced myself for that so I guess right and

that well, but I I could see that I could see

that it was probably the best use of it and Also

the line about him being the most faithful to

all the Nazis or something the most faithful

Nazi. Yeah That was a good. Yeah, at least a

good line. So I agree, though. I think that what

sold it for me the most was the performance.

Obviously, Jeffrey Rush, like you said, was awesome.

But I was completely blown away by the main two

children in this. Both the name that you already

pronounced way better than I could. And like

you said, her friend, the little blonde kid that

had the infatuation with Jesse Owens. I thought

both of those kids, for the material that they're

handling, were way more believable. and better

than I would have expected kids to do in those

roles. Like I think those were somewhat of hard

roles for, but like you said, I don't know, maybe

they're, being of a younger age, you're not necessarily

grasping what kind of material you're involved

with and kind of the historical aspects of it.

But I don't know, I was blown away by their performances

for sure. All right, so good scores from both

of us. So apparently we both recommended good

films for each other to see. Like I said, I was

one of the only ones touting that movie, and

I just don't understand why it only has a 37%.

I'm not saying it's the best film ever, but I

would think at least something in the 60s would

be reasonable. Yeah, I would say so. I would

say if you like that actress, she's actually

in another movie called... I'm probably pronouncing

that incorrectly. It was on Netflix, but it's

about this teacher in Canada. She's a main part

of that. She's covering tough material in that

too. It was on Netflix. I don't know if it still

is, but she's quite good in that as well. I have

to check that out. Any homework assignments for

next week for me, Dan? I was torn because I was

like, I gave you a really sad movie. So I was

trying to think of something fun and light, but

there aren't many great comedies right now on

Netflix. So the one I'm actually going to think

out, I'll preface this by saying I don't think

you're going to like this movie, but I think

it's important to see to do these lists because

if not just for the fact that when IndieWire

or CriticWire did their top. like a hundred of

the decades so far it was like their number one

movie um and uh so i think it's like i said i

don't know if you're gonna like it at all and

it's kind of a polarizing movie and there's people

who love it and i film spawning tens i really

love this movie and but there's people who kind

of think it's kind of uh pretensions is overrated

and that's uh the master uh i don't Have you

seen that? I'm assuming no. No, um, I have heard

all kinds of talk about this film though. So,

um I was definitely um, this is uh, paul thomas

anderson paul thomas anderson Yeah, I was hesitant

i'm like, I don't know if I want to assign this

but i'm thinking like If we do our end of list

it may come up again for some people so I think

it's at least At least uh something to watch

at least to give an opinion on because it might

be like It's overrated and you know, it might

be that you love it. I'm gonna go with your I'm

gonna guess maybe I don't know it's I would say

I like it more than uh his last movie uh I can't

think of it inherent vice I think it's um but

I think it's a little bit more there's more there

I would say and uh the performance is a little

bit more intriguing but uh I'm curious to hear

what you have to say so Well now I'm going to

have to do some digging and come up with a great

pick for you for next time because you've probably

completely outdone me with your pick on this

one. I'm not going to compete with that. I'm

not going to give you something that's well received

or that's been talked about a lot or that probably

has any potential to make any list, but I promise

next week I will do better. I am interested though

because there's so many movies about... about

zombies and about that type of thing going on

that seems to be the craze and you know we talked

about Maggie so I was kind of inspired by that

to to get your take on that movie kind of in

the similar vein you know there's talk about

a World War Z sequel coming out so I was going

kind of more on that route and I don't believe

you've seen this I gotta get better at doing

my homework here so if you've seen it I apologize

but I was gonna go for another kind of like zombie

type of film in that same vein and I believe

this is from I think this came out right at the

end of 2013 beginning of 2014 if I'm getting

my dates right and that is the film entitled

open grave I have not seen that okay I don't

necessarily Like we're both assigning, we both

liked each other's recommendations this week

and you're prefacing yours by saying I probably

won't like it. I don't know if you'll like this

film either. I think it had a couple intriguing

things about it. I think it made one of my top

lists at the end of that year with, I can't remember

if it was opening, ending or like a top scene

or something. I believe it was the ending if

I remember correctly. Yeah. Yeah, that is it.

I remember now, that's what it was. So, just

in the vein of, like I said, all the other zombie

films going out there, I would be interested

to see if you found anything good about this

film or kind of what your reaction was. I think

I kind of gave it somewhat of a decent grade,

but I never heard anybody else's opinions about

this movie, so I don't want to base it all on

my opinion, so I'd love to hear at least one

more person's opinion on Open Grave. Hopefully

it's accessible for you. If not, I will, uh...

Yeah, I can actually do it. No problem. Okay.

All right, so that does it for all the homework

assignments and what we've been watching this

week. And like I said earlier, we're going to

get into a little bit. Since we've changed our

name and our logo and everything, we thought

why not give you guys an insight into what kind

of cinema geeks we are, what kind of makes us

lovers of film, and what things we like about

film. That way you'll have a better idea when

we're creating stuff or that type of thing, what's

up our alley, what's not up our alley. I know

we've been doing this for technically 56 episodes,

but Amanda's... new to the podcast and it's probably

been a long time since Dan and I have actually

kind of broken down anything about our own movie

experiences and what we like. Although I'm sure

the long -time listeners have a little bit of

a glimpse of what we like and dislike. But we

thought this would be a fun discussion in lieu

of going over an actual 2015 release. And we

do have some special episodes coming up that

we will be getting into, like I said, our top

10 animated films. for the last half decade.

We also have a fun thing in relation to the release

of Pixel's plan that I think will be fun for

us to go over. So before we can do that, we obviously

have to introduce ourselves. So we are the Cinema

Geeks and I'm going to be acting, I guess, as

the interviewer and I'll be posing some questions

to you guys and then just kind of seeing where

we go from here. So let's start with Dan. Kind

of let's go back to your childhood first and

either your... earliest memories of going to

the theater or just watching movies maybe at

home or at a friend's house or at some type of

you know sleepover party what are some of your

childhood movie memories or first theater memories

that you remember well when i was interesting

because when i was a kid like my parents were

very strict when it came to like watching movies

um like i honestly for the longest time was not

allowed to actually go to the movies he watched

like movies at home but we didn't go to actual

theater the first movie And I remember finally

getting able to go see a movie in a theater,

and the first one was Lion King. Which is a good

one to start with. And then ironically, the second

movie I saw, because at the time, my mom was

not a big fan of my sister's boyfriend, so she

would make her watch me. And when she went out,

so I would basically have to tag along with them,

which was... Great as ever old I was so the second

movie ends up seeing then because they were they

went out and saw Schindler's List So I went from

seeing The Lion King to that and I just remember

the thing I remember from that is that my eyes

being covered on multiple occasions Like all

I could really remember from how old? See when

did that come out 1994? So I think that was it

was re -released though. So I probably was like

10 ish or so when i so and i you know obviously

way too young to really even understand what

was going on um and i think we ended up leaving

before it was over i think during the first it

was actually like in this really instagram pa

this like theater that was like very classically

made because it was like in a um What they called

like you're above everyone like the like, okay.

Yeah, it's a balcony So actually like it's all

balcony watching it was interesting. It was like

a really like old old theater so that was like

my first and most of my like Growing up as a

kid. The only things I really was able to watch

were like Disney movies So watch tons of Disney

movies family films like Homeward Bound and other

things that we really got into growing up or

like I look like during the 90s They had like

all those kid like sports films like Mighty Ducks

really was a big part of my life growing up as

a kid I had like many ducks backpacks and like

coats hats And I like Mighty Ducks to all that

stuff. That was huge a little giant Hulk in the

driveway exactly exactly You know little Giants

when that came out a little big wig wookie of

the year that like the big green like those movies

I grew up on very much as a kid Which I don't

feel like they make like those type of movies

anymore So that was kind of like the thing so

I was like I I think the most risque film I watched

as a kid was kindergarten cop because it was

like PG so and then Besides Shinra's List of

course, but yeah, so that was my my earliest

memories is just being a basically being very

sheltered which I think is why I go to the theater

so much as an adult because I have the opportunity

to go whenever I want so I think then that would

put you in a group of the minority of people

that have seen a Shinra's List more than once

then I assume you saw it again at some point.

I've seen it a few times, yeah. I watched it,

I think, one time in school. And I've watched

it as an adult a couple times when it came out

on Blu -ray. But yeah. A lot of people, I think,

that's a one -time watch and they never go back

to it. I think myself, I've seen it probably

at least four times. Actually, I re -watched

it again when I did, because I went through all

of Steven Spielberg's movies and reviewed those.

So that's the last time I saw it, which was like

two years ago. Alright, Amanda, what about you?

What are some of your earlier movie -going experiences?

What kind of stuff were you allowed to watch,

not allowed to watch? Do you remember the first

film you saw in theater? I do remember the first

film. It was actually The Hunchback of Notre

Dame. And my grandma, my dad's mom, took me and

gave me the little box of the kitty goodies and

I got to sit down and see them. I'm not mentioning

the first movie I saw in theater because I just

feel old now from both of your visits. I mean,

I grew up on a lot of the 90s action movies.

Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, all that good stuff.

City of My Grammys. Total Recall. Total Recall,

loved it. The Net, what have you. Sandra Bullock.

But also I did, you know, like Dan, I watched

anything Disney and I like the sports movie,

like Angels in the Outfield. things like that.

Kid in King Arthur's Court, what have you. In

and in the cupboard, that kind of thing. I really

dug that. But I think one of my favorite memories

is my parents watching the first Predator movie

in the living room and I wasn't allowed to watch

it because I was too young and I would have been

scared. So I ended up sneaking down the hallway

and hiding behind one of their chairs and watching

it from behind a recliner. I was hooked ever

since then. I honestly don't remember the first

movie I saw in theater. I would be lying to you

if I did. I don't have that good of a memory

from a billion years ago. But I do believe that

it was a... We grew up in a very small town.

And we didn't have any fast food places or anything

like that. So to do anything you had to drive

to the nearest town, which was a 30 minute drive.

And I remember just when kids had birthdays in

our towns, there was always a sleepover. It was

always anywhere from five to 15 people. And a

lot of times the birthday party was going to

do one of probably four things. You were either

going to go bowling. You were gonna go roller

skating skate land or you were gonna go to the

theater and see a movie together And I do remember

at one point going on a birthday party to see

the original live -action Teenage Mutant Ninja

Turtles film nice So that's probably one of my

earliest memories I want to say that I saw the

animated Transformers film in theater, but that

would honestly be me possibly just making that

up in my head, because I don't necessarily remember

that. But I do remember going and seeing the

earliest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie. I

do remember seeing the original Land Before Time

movie in the theaters. And Pizza Hut had the

little rubber puppet things for those that you

could put your hands in. They did that for Eureka's

Castle, too. Remember that show? And I had Ducky

from Land Before Time, back before there was

25 Land Before Time films. So that's like theater

wise, that's one of my earlier experiences. Similar

to Dan though, I wasn't allowed, I wasn't as

much censored in the movie realm as I was in

the music realm. Like I was not allowed to listen

to modern music when I was growing up until I

was like... I think in fifth grade I heard my

first rock and roll song and it wasn't until

junior high where I got to listen to anything

besides oldies and classic country music and

gospel and stuff like that. But they didn't quite

monitor my movie watching as much and I had a

half brother that's about 10 years older and

I remember one time he and two or three of his

friends were in our basement and they were watching

something and I actually snuck down Into the

basement like somehow went down the entire flight

of stairs with nobody hearing me and I hid behind

the couch and in a Vantage point where I could

actually see the movie And nobody knew I was

down there. They didn't know I was down there

My parents didn't know I was down there and that

is my first experience seeing the film die -hard

uh -huh, so that was something that I was probably

way too young to watch according to a lot of

parents, but That was awesome. And then what

really hooked me on movies was I remember seeing

in our TV room or living room or whatever, films

that a bunch of my friends had never seen. They

had never seen the Star Wars films. They had

never seen the Indiana Jones films. And I was

exposed to that because of probably the fact

that I had an older sister and an older brother.

And I remember having people over my house. And

I was the one to introduce them to Indiana Jones

or to Star Wars. And that was always kind of

fun. Some of the kids' films, like Dan was saying,

a lot of the sports films, Sandlot, I remember

the original Bad News Bears. I'm trying to think

of The Neverending Story, a whole bunch of the

Muppet films. We always had those on DVD, or

not DVD, obviously VHS, and watching those. So

that's kind of some of my early experiences with

films before I got into high school and started

going to the theater all the time. Alright, since

we're starting with when we were kids, Dan, if

you could kind of sum up how your tastes have

changed or how your movie -going experiences

have evolved. Have you changed which genres you've

liked since you were, obviously since you were

a kid, but since when you started actually going

to the theater on a relative, regular basis,

has anything kind of evolved for you as far as

your tastes go over the years? Yeah, I would

definitely say so. I mean, like, you know, definitely

like a kid in high school. I probably like just

like your normal action movie type of stuff.

Like, you know, wasn't into like. Classical movies

or drama and I've gotten into that a lot more

as I've gotten older I think in college like,

you know as I got older in high school in college

I think that's really I started getting into

older films I think that the first one that really

caught my interest was like 12 years and actually

slave but uh, just a couple years ago following

your men Which was I remember watching that and

thinking wow this like it didn't feel like an

old movie like my parents growing up we did also

watch a lot of classic films like in the sense

of like uh you know things like the pop hope

movies and like jerry lewis movies like that

type of comedy stuff and uh um so i watched a

lot of that and i kind of that was my picture

of classic films and i think uh 12 million ran

kind of changed that and i think it like the

so it like it evolved throughout the time and

i think um it really started changing and like

when i started listening to podcasts honestly

about like 2010 ish When I first listened to

part in the first ones I really got into were

actually I know it's like sacrilegious But we're

IGN podcast the IGN digit gods Which are weight

major and Mark Kaiser who are two LA film critics

and they really got me into like outside of my

norm which watching like foreign films and especially

documentaries and I think that's like that's

probably been the Two biggest areas that I've

really got into recently the mode like last,

you know six years or so is Documentaries and

in foreign films, which you know, I was one of

those people that's like no I don't want to watch

something with subtitles, but Like there are

certain films like I don't know if we'll get

to this later But this movie blue with the three

colors trilogy kind of opened my it was one of

them those movies that had really huge impact

on me that kind of has it have that ever since

so i think that's kind of just getting older

and wiser maybe and uh just learning about films

in that way and i've always like um i'm really

sad because i miss like at the movies like i

never really watched that growing up a great

deal but i always love like finding movie review

shows um and one of the i like later malton stuff

he had a few i remember watching the show we

had called like I forget what it was called,

but it was a hot or not or something like that

and which was kind of weird because like at the

end they would call a movie hot or not and Sometimes

not like a good movie like you won't like children's

list You don't want to find that as a hot movie

if you're gonna pay out there So wasn't was not

the best system in but uh, I was I was Florida

when I found a podcast So I think that's kind

of really what's really altered my overall movie

going experience as growing up is the kind of

Getting to learn more about movies besides just

like what's your your you know mainstream film?

Right you made me think of a couple things talking

about some of the some of the older films that

you were exposed to or some of the Classics maybe

that your parents watched or when I I kind of

forgot that One of the ones that I remember growing

up with my mom was a huge fan of all the Shirley

Temple films I was going to So I remember seeing

all the Shirley Temple films and some of the

older, I don't know if you'd consider them westerns

or not. I'm trying to think of the name. Was

it Quigley Down Under or something like that?

There was a bunch of kind of older stuff that

my mom watched like that. But I think probably

the most classic films are kind of... Like had

it maybe a similar effect as the one that you're

talking about with 12 million men well 12 million

men would be one of them it was 12 million men

the Philadelphia story and Casablanca, I know

that's kind of a whatever. I don't know if that's

cliche or if that's just a cheap movie to throw

out there, but those are three pretty early You

know classic films that I saw that and then had

an effect on me as like wow, that's a that's

Like you said, it's something that didn't seem

old. It was something that seemed like it stood

the test of time and still had an impact on me.

And it's like just starting to wrap your head

around, you know, the timeframe that that was

going out and what the motivations were and the

thought process and that could still have an

effect, you know, all these years later in either

a similar way or maybe a completely different

way was kind of mind -blowing to me outside of

obviously the impact that Star Wars and some

of the main films that I grew up with had. I

mean, that's what really made me a movie fan.

I started... In high school it just became a

thing with me and one of my best friends. We

just would go to the theater and a lot of times

we wouldn't even know what we were going to see.

We wouldn't even know necessarily what was out.

We just would go to the theater and we'd find

something that was playing in a relatively same

time frame as when we showed up and we would

just go. Ended with us going to some great movies

and ended up with us going to some terrible movies

But I think to it at the same time it exposed

us to a lot of different things and and that

was kind of cool and then obviously in college

I ended up kind of being friends with the whole

group. That was big time in the movies. We'd

watch You know the lethal weapons and the godfathers

and the good fellas on almost on repeat and have

conversations about all that type of stuff But

I think I'm a little bit with you too. Like it

wasn't until started doing a list way back when

you know where I would do like my you know top

films of the year just like everybody does but

you know I got in conversations with people I

don't remember if it was via Facebook or or you

know email or what where I'd get in conversations

with with a lot of people and they'd be mentioned

in movies that I had never heard of you know

movies that I didn't even know what they were

about you know almost similar to how the reaction

a lot of people have you know sometimes to the

Oscars where they feel like it's a bunch of films

that they've never heard of and that just really

got me interested in seeking out more stuff throughout

the year so that it not just so I could know

what everybody else was talking about but just

because hey there's other movies out there that

I'm not going to get exposed to via mainstream

marketing and I am interested in those films

and you know it's kind of like you is around

the same time where I started podcasting as well

so I wasn't necessarily listened to a lot of

movie podcasts but it just kind of got me involved

with other people that were having conversations

about that so that's probably had a big impact

on me as well. as well. Amanda, what was, if

you had to pick out a film that kind of, you

know, you talked about all the films that you

liked when you were a kid, but is there something

that really kind of sold you or a couple films

that really made it so that going to the movies

was something that you kind of sought out and

not just something that you just did here and

there for fun? I think I'm in an opposite boat

from you guys. I had a lot of access to really

any movie that I wanted. My family starting when

I was young and then what I continued on as I

was, you know, middle school, high school age.

I went to the video store a ton like every week.

So I mean, I got to watch anything and everything

that I wanted. So this led to me watching a ton

of weird crap. You watched a lot of weird crap

in your life. A lot of B -rated horror films,

C -rated horror films, what have you, anything.

And it's just always been a pastime of mine.

I don't care if I'm on the couch with a DVD in

or I'm in front of the big screen. I enjoy the

experience overall. Perfect match. Anyways. Alright,

well let's get into some specifics. in this next

little segment we'll talk about kind of now as

we're all these seasoned veteran moviegoers with

high -class taste and we'll get into just a little

bit of favorites and least favorites you don't

have to go super in -depth but just kind of a

snapshot for anybody that's listening so they

kind of get a feel for what kind of movies you

like and you don't like Dan what are favorite

and least favorite genres or favorite and least

favorite directors actors actresses whichever

way you want to go with this to give to give

the listening audience kind of a snapshot of

what you like and dislike in the movie world.

Usually what I like in Goodfellas, like mob films

tend to be my go -to. When I look at my favorite

movies of all time, there's a lot that fit into

that genre. I don't really have a least favorite

genre per se. I mean, I guess maybe romantic

comedies, but there are romantic comedies I do

like. Like I love 500 Days of Summer or something

like that. So I think there's just a lot of bad

romantic comedies, maybe that's why. i would

say the ones i'm probably the most ignorant towards

like i like i have there's huge holes in my like

uh some of the classics i haven't seen like i

haven't seen a lot of the best westerns i do

and probably horror like that i like both of

the genres i just like have not seen a lot of

the Films that like in those like I don't feeling

as well versed in other areas Well, the favorite

genres are probably be documentaries like I mentioned

and first it's not really a genre but for whatever

reason I always like movies that have like something

to do regarding like the news in a way like Network

is one of my all -time favorite films. Good night

and good luck broadcast news talk radio I don't

know why that is but like something that is evolving

the news tend to I find interesting or at least

that kind of showcases like a world in that way.

So When it comes to least favorite directors,

I mean, I'll see anything. I mean the easy go

to is like Michael Bay But I still like some

of his movies. I like The Rock. I like Armageddon.

But I mean, the only one I would say definitely

if I see his name on a movie, I'm not going to

see it is like Ewing Bull, like the guy who makes

like the really awful video game movies. If I

think something looks good, even if it's a remake

of Point Break, I'll see it, even if I don't

like the director. So I don't know. Like that's

kind of the way I am. I try to see everything.

And even if like I know I'm not going to like

it, like I know I'm probably not gonna like,

get hard, but I'm gonna go see it, or I'm gonna

rent it at least, just to say I saw it. I have

a sickness is what I'm trying to say. Don't we

all? Nice. Amanda, what about you? What would

you sum up as your taste as far as genres or

directors or anything like that, actors? Well,

since you won't get off my shit, of course everybody

knows I love horror, but I definitely... dig

fantasy genre a lot in animated films I'm gonna

like. But as far as what I don't, I would say

like dramas and romantic comedies and indie flicks

and things like that. But as far as directors

and things, I love Guillermo del Toro, Wes Craven,

Guy Ritchie. If their names attach to it, I'm

probably gonna be interested. Anything with Gary

Oldman or RDJ, I'm probably gonna dive into.

I'm going to get you past your indie film stigma

eventually. You didn't say anything about Kung

Fu crazy action movies. I do love some explosions

in the Kung Fu scene. You like to be entertained.

You like something that's going to be exhilarating,

keep you on the edge of your seat, and fast -paced.

I'm not saying you don't like slower stuff as

well, but you tend to like those scenes. Am I

right or wrong? I'm an adrenaline junkie. Adrenaline

junkie. I like to go fast. As for me, I guess

if I had to pick out a genre that I'm going to

probably stay away from, obviously most people

are going to know it's going to be horror films.

But I should qualify that because I like thrillers

and suspensions. I just don't like the gore films.

I don't like slasher films or anything that's

going to show me a... Exorbitant amount of blood

I'm not necessarily big on that or just like

the gross -out horror films like I'm not gonna

watch human centipede I don't know if that's

considered a horror film or not, but I'm not

gonna see any of the gross -out films I do I

am a complete sucker though for any type of film

that is about a contagion a virus an outbreak

or anything like that or any film that's about

like some type of mass danger whether it's like

killer ants or bees or cats or any type of bug

or animal like for some reason both of those

things intrigue me and I think it's more of the

problem -solving aspect of those films and the

strategy to like how are we gonna figure out

how to somehow contain this or how to somehow

beat this thing that's just going absolutely

crazy so I do have a saucepot for those and I

think most of those somehow loosely fit in the

maybe the horror genre or maybe thriller type

genre so I do like those if I was to pick out

my favorite Obviously, I'm a complete sucker

for historical pieces, anything that has to do

with real life time or events from the past,

period pieces, historical pieces, war films,

anything that has anything to do with the history

aspect of things I'm going to love. If I had

to pick a favorite genre, it would be sci -fi.

just because of, you know, Star Wars and everything

that got me into films originally. And right

after that, I would probably put dramas at the

top. I like dramas. I like an emotional reaction

to a film. That's always gonna be a film that

kind of rates high for me. It's something that

gets an actual emotional pull from me, whether

it be sadness or, you know, whatever it might

be. That's... what I react to the most and I

prefer that over just something that I'm not

necessarily a huge fan of just like a straight

action film like something like even as much

as it gets praised like action in the in the

vein of something like The Raid or something

like some of your like Kung Fu movies it's just

a lot of times doesn't do enough for me I want

something that I can chew on more I'm not saying

there's anything wrong with those films but that's

just kind of my own taste you know Dan you could

probably point out Seems like as far as a lot

of my movies that I dislike the most it's probably

more the I guess you'd call it non -conventional.

I Don't know I've been struggling to try to wrap

my head around exactly What that consists of

and and why it is or what it is, but I like stories

in a way that I like to I Like the dialogue.

I like the I like Lot of the story elements of

it like from a writer standpoint, so maybe that's

why I'm not as drawn to some stuff This seems

like it's a little bit more Unconventional or

hazard in the way that the story is actually

formed like obviously Terrence Malick is not

one of my favorite directors Not really a linear

story or a little more abstract where there's

no actual desire to make a plot or anything of

that nature. Right, and it's not that I'm necessarily

opposed to the idea of abstractness, but like

you said, it's something that has to have still

some type of way for me to kind of see the writing

or the storytelling in a way that, I don't know,

I think you know me better than I know myself.

when it comes to those things. But I am going

to give some Terrence Mack films a chance here,

even though I've only seen, I think, a thin red

line. I would say a good starting sport would

probably be his first movie, which is not straight

forward. Badlands, which is quite a good movie.

It's with Martin Sheen. It's not abstract. It's

kind of just shorter. I won't say it's stereotypical

because it's more than that, but it's a good

starting point because it's like, okay, you can

do your normal movie and then it kind of embraces

you for something like Tree of Life, which is,

you know, I've been in a theater where I heard

nothing but boos when people were watching that

movie. It's kind of an interesting film. Yeah,

and as far as directors that I like, I could

never mention them all. There's way too many.

I'm a fan of a lot of people. Obviously the easy

ones, Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino or

Scorsese. I could put all the obvious ones out

there, but I love a lot of directors. There's

not too many that would actually necessarily

make me avoid seeing a film. uh... can get into

our last segment here will uh... can go down

some hopefully some fun questions here that uh...

they can give people a little last insight into

what we like and dislike at the film so uh...

but ask each uh... each a question i don't know

if you have an answer or not but uh... but we'll

see here so dan uh... namely a movie that made

you cry uh... i'm trying to think i don't worry

about embarrassing yourself because i will embarrass

The first movie, when I hear this question, the

first movie that comes to mind is Dear Zachary,

which is a documentary. It's like the saddest

movie ever. I don't know if that's a cheat, because

it's kind of real life. I'm trying to think of

another movie that, Dear Zachary is one up there.

I would say Boyhood, in some ways, did. Most

recently. All right, Amanda, name a movie that

made you cry. That's too easy for you. I cry

in a lot of movies. I can't help it. I'm a woman.

I'm hormonal. I'm emotional. It just happens.

I can't even watch the news for the real world

without crying. But every time I see this movie,

I cry Armageddon. Every time. Bruce Willis is

going to die. I can't handle that. I cannot handle

it. Alright, well I'll go with the most off -the

-wall movie, and I have no idea. This is from

my childhood, but I remember it probably has

one of the first movies ever that made me cry,

and it's the Muppet movie. Rainbow Connection,

is it Rainbow Connection? No, there was, I don't

remember if that was the exact moment, but there's

a moment, maybe I have the wrong movie, maybe

it's a different one of the Muppet movies, but

in one of the Muppet movies, they all leave Kervant.

They... Yeah, yeah, they just they just abandoned

him and he's like on his own like they've all

left like they've given up on him And they leave

him and he's just left there by himself, and

I don't know what it was maybe I didn't Okay,

maybe I'd had like a fallout with some friends,

and maybe I was feeling alone But it was just

like Kermit was there by himself, and it was

so sad and everybody left him What about Muppets

from Space Gonzo was by himself? I didn't cry

at all Just just the one where they all leave

Kermit in the swamp or somewhere emotionally

tugged at my heartstrings You know what I was

going to say about the end of Sandlot, when the

kids are all disappearing? I think 50 -50 came

real close. I honestly think the most recent

one that almost did, even though I'm not saying

this movie was a great movie or that everybody

had the same reaction, but the judge had a close

call for me there. just for the relatability

aspect of that one. Alright, let's switch things

up and stop being sad. Dan, what's a movie you've

literally laughed out loud in the theater? I

laugh all the time, probably more than I should.

Last comedy that I saw that was quite good. I'm

thinking of this most recently. That's a hard

question. Probably, I mean, the 22 Jump Street

Neighbors are recent comedies that come to mind.

Geez, I don't know. I tend to laugh more than

I should so that's all of them in my mind, but

What about you Amanda? What's one of the ones

that you laugh most out loud at the theater?

I would say step brothers. I geeked over to that

movie. All right, you stole my pic So I'm gonna

go with with wedding crashers. That's what I

think of it It's probably 40 year old version

that or the hangover. I know the hangover is

kind of like You know, it's kind of got its detractors

like that, but like 40 year old virgins I just

find I don't know why I took me forever to think

of it Okay, how about a movie you're ashamed

you haven't seen yet I really should have done

some work on these before I started asking everybody

this but A movie that you are ashamed that you

have not seen yet in right now It's Mad Max Fury

Road because it's everyone's talking about and

I haven't seen so uh like classical um uh jeez

because i was actually just i just the sad thing

is i just did this list and i can't it was it

was lawrence of arabia but i just saw that this

year um next maybe uh uh man i can't think of

something that comes off my head jeez um I don't

know. Yeah, I'll go with Mad Max. Alright, Mad

Max, Fury Road, a movie that you're ashamed that

you have not seen. Uh, Judge Me, All You Want,

but Passion of the Christ. I have not seen this

and I feel like everybody's seen it and I just,

I don't know. I couldn't bring myself to watch

it when it came out and just haven't visited

it. Alright, that's fair enough. That's another

one that a lot of people don't see twice. Yeah.

Okay, let's see. A movie that I am ashamed I

haven't seen. I will go with one that I actually

own because I think that's more shameful the

fact that it is on my DVD shelf and I have not

seen it. And that would be Raging Bull. Wow.

Yeah, I have not seen raging bull even though.

It's on my DVD case, and I have no Reason for

why I have not seen that I don't know if I could

think of another one outside of that that I would

I haven't seen The graduate either so and the

graduate would probably be two of my biggest

blind spots as far as stuff I haven't seen. Alright,

name a movie, maybe it's a guilty pleasure or

maybe it's something you can go back to your

childhood and blame it on that, but maybe it's

something more recent. Name a movie you are embarrassed

to love. Amanda, we'll get you first on this

one. What's a movie you're either embarrassed

or ashamed to admit that you love? I'm going

to preface it with the actors that are involved.

Wesley Snipes, John Legolasamo, Patrick Swayze,

and Tu Wang Fu. Love it. Getting their drag queen

on. I probably saw it a little too young, but

I love all those actors and I think they're great.

Alright, fair enough. Dan, did I give you enough

time to think of one? The one that, I mean, love's

a strong word, but a movie I'm ashamed to like,

like, and because I know a lot of people hate

it, is probably Die Hard 4. I know a lot of people

hate that movie, but I kind of like it and I

for some reason really loved the movie accepted

and I don't know if it's just because I have

a thing for Justin Long or what it is, but I

really like it. A thing for Justin Long? I love

that movie when that dead body falls and then

he starts screaming Jonah Hill screams like a

girl. I lose it every time. Oh man, that means

I have to answer one. A movie I'm embarrassed

to love. Like I said, I should have done my research

for this beforehand. The easy one for me, but

I would choose this if everybody didn't also

seem to love it. I would have said Pitch Perfect,

but it seems like everybody else also loves that

movie, so maybe I'm not embarrassed to love Pitch

Perfect. You should be. But that's mean. You

put your little shame t -shirt on. That's just

cruel. Something else I'm embarrassed to love.

God, I'm sure there's so many sci -fi and fantasy

films that I should be embarrassed about that

I'm not coming up with. Just stick with Pitch

Perfect. All right, we'll go with Pitch Perfect.

All right. Anything else Dan something that you

feel like you haven't got to talk about last

last words on what kind of cinema geek you are

or To give anybody a better idea of things you

like dislike or your movie habits Give you your

closing thought to answer any question you want

I would say no I mean only thing is I think I'm

rather open to pretty much anything Like I try

to go in with an open mind as much as possible

I mean, I'm I find myself like The one thing

I always find it's weird is like I never like

hate a movie I would say that the closest I've

come to hating hating a movie was the last Transformers

movie because it was like four hours long and

it would not end and I kind of like the other

ones enough so but no I'd say too it's just like

my habits have drastically changed recently,

obviously, so I'm trying to figure out what that's

gonna be like, but I feel like it's gonna be

a lot of just watching stuff on demand and streaming,

and then waiting for the big stuff when I can.

And I would say, too, probably my favorite way

of seeing a movie is just in the drive -in. It's

maybe not, like, the pictures, not the baths,

but it's just, I just find it, like, it's a cool

time, you know, get, you know, sneak some food

in, and it's a, I don't know, I always enjoy

the drive -in. Nice. Amanda, anything else you

haven't got to talk about that would give people

a better idea of what kind of cinema geek you

are? I hated Birdman. I hated Whiplash. You're

so wrong. My favorite movies are the Blade trilogy.

I don't care if you think it's cheesy, but those

movies, I can watch them over and over again.

I think that's everything I wanted in a movie

is in the Blade trilogy, so judge me. You could

have said you hated Birdman, but you threw in

the whiplash part. I did hate whiplash. It bothered

me. Oh, man. All right. Which leads me to probably

the only other thing that's one of the favorite

things of why I enjoy movies. I mean, number

one, even though I do get vocal about movies

I have problems with, and I probably antagonize

a little bit, but not just with you, I'm just

saying with anybody, but I find myself liking

movies that... people are hard on just because

I like the experience I like going to see a movie

no matter what like even though some movies might

bore me a little bit or some movies you know

I might not like I just love the actual experience

of going to see a film and a lot of times I will

miss stuff just because I'm just in an escapist

mode where I'm just in their world and then someone

will be like oh this had this problem this problem

this problem and I'm like didn't even think about

any of that while I was in there but But I think

one of my favorite things nowadays about movies

is just the idea that it gives you so many opportunities

to discuss different things and to debate different

things and to learn more about yourself and to

learn more about the world and just kind of opens

doors to having bigger and better discussions

about things, whether it's something relevant

and... you know, related to the world or whether

it's something completely based in space and

science fiction fantasy. Like, it's just kind

of fun. And I'm still a sucker for just going

to see a movie in the theater. It doesn't need

to be a fancy theater, although there are some

that are very nice that make it super enjoyable,

but just something about going to see a movie

in the theater, getting my Dr. Pepper slash Mr.

Pibb and some popcorn, and I am a sucker because

I will buy the concessions even if they're expensive

almost every single time. it's just fun for me

and recently tickets aren't that bad so most

of the movies we go the tickets are only like

five bucks so like those are diehard and we go

see him at 10 in the morning yeah that's the

way to do it we have schedules we go when they're

five dollars and then we can afford the ten dollar

popcorn and pop so so that's probably it for

me as far as what kind of or what why i like

movies and kind of how it's evolving like i said

i just love having the discussions and and seeing

what other people's takes are on it and maybe

having them open my eyes to stuff I didn't see

or didn't notice or vice versa. All right, so

that will do it for this second session of Meet

the Cinema Geeks. So now you know what we're

about. So no holds barred going forward here.

As far as the coming attractions, last part that

we got to get through here today. Before we let

you all go there's some blu -ray releases for

Tuesday. There's some theater releases for As

you're listening to this this weekend. I'm gonna

ask each one of you you only get to have one

choice here you either get to pick a Movie that's

being released on DVD and it would be your only

chance in history to buy it You're never gonna

have another chance to buy it or You can choose

to go see one of these films that is being released

to theater and that this is your only chance

to see it. You can't both buy and see a film

in theater. You either have to pick to see one

in theater or to buy one. You only get one choice.

So for me, the Blu -ray releases Tuesday are

Focus, the SpongeBob movie, Sponge Outta Water,

McFarland USA, the complete series of The Wire,

Jupiter Ascending, Apollo 13, the 20th anniversary

edition. A John Wayne westerns film collection

which includes Ford Apache, The Searchers, Rio

Bravo, The Train Riders, and Cahill, United States

Marshall. And a film called Monsters, Dark Continent.

Those are all being released on DVD or Blu -ray.

And then of course we talked about the theater

releases, Aloha, San Andreas. The film with Hailey

Steinfeld, Barely Lethal. And then there's some

smaller ones that we'll won't get into for time

restraints here But you can either see one or

buy one down which would which would it be well?

My first thought is since you said the wire complete

series is going with that, but then that's a

TV show. That's kind of unfair So I won't I won't

count that I'd probably go go see one because

I none of the DVDs are blue rays really Catch

my interest. I did see focus and it was It was

fine. I kind of do want to see San Andreas. I

like myself a good disaster movie. And we haven't

had a really good disaster movie in some time.

I have hope for that movie. So I would choose

going to see San Andreas. Plus, you know, it's

The Rock. You can be fun. It is The Rock. How

can you beat him? All right, Amanda, what are

you going to do? Are you going to buy one of

those, or are you going to go see San Andreas

or Aloha or what? Um, I've seen quite a few of

those blu -ray releases already. It's your only

chance to buy it. Not feeling like I need to

buy them. I've seen a ton of them already. You're

not going to buy Jupiter Ascendant? You know,

I would. I actually would not buy that. But,

um, I'm going to go with the Dan and say that

I want to go see something. I'd see San Andreas,

but if I can't pick the same one that Dan's picking,

um, I'm going to go with Barely Lethal. Just

do it. Isn't that with, um... What did you just

say? Sansa Stark and Sam Jackson and... I don't

know, it's Hailey Steinfeld and Jessica Alba

and Sam Jackson. Yeah, yeah. We cheesed on this

movie a little bit, but I'm gonna watch it. Alright,

so you guys have picked to see St. Andreas and

Bailey Leto and you can pick the same thing if

you want to do, but I'm gonna go with... I'm

gonna go with a weird pick here. I would... I

will buy McFarland USA. I can smell that coming.

I haven't seen it. I've heard good things about

it. So if it's my only chance to buy it, I don't

want to miss the chance. Maybe I'd be missing

out on something that I would like. So I'll buy

my front in USA. But that being said, I will

be in the theater to see both San Andreas and

probably Aloha sometime in the next 7 to 10 days.

All right. So that does it for this week. For

the Cinnamon Geeks, the only thing we have left

to do is pose a question to you guys. I'll go

around the table and see who has a question.

Dan, do you got a question? Oh, jeez. Well, I

think the... The one question you asked is a

pretty good one. And the one, the last movie,

The Major Cry, I think that's always a good reveal.

It's hard to, you know, people are willing to.

Don't be embarrassed. Don't be ashamed. We let

it out there. I talked about the Muffin Movie

making me cry. Which movies out there have made

you guys shed a tear? That's a great question.

Let us know what the answer to that question

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give you our personal Twitter's. So Amanda. What's

your Twitter hard candy Mandy eyes? No, why Dan?

What's your Twitter at movie revolts? And mine

is at Optimus Solo, so if you tweet us, we will

respond that way as well. And you can let us

know your answer to the question there. If you'd

rather do that, then go to the website. So, alright,

that's it for us for this week. Be sure to check

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