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Hello Hey, how's it going? Not too shabby and

hard candy Mandy word word She says and we are

back at it again with another February themed

episode for you the last that we'll be doing

and We'll get into that a little bit more later,

but kind of similar to what we did last week

similar, but different But before that, we'll

get into a little bit of the news from this last

little bit. As we teased in the opening, yes,

there is another video game, film, or franchise

that's going to be trying to make the transition

into a major motion picture. Amanda, any guess

as to what video game that is? Well, we are No

Angry Birds. Not talking about this year, not

talking about the ones for this year, so No Ratchet

and Clank or Angry Birds. Ah, shit, I don't know.

It's a very famous franchise. Dan, have you seen

it? Tetris? Not Tetris. That would be an interesting

feat to pull off, though, I believe. They'd find

a way, you know. Hey, they've made the Lego movie

work, right? Nope, the next franchise that's

going to be trying to make its way to the silver

screen is none other than a live -action Sonic

the Hedgehog movie coming in 2018, courtesy of

a partnership between Sony Pictures and Sega.

Calling the film a hybrid of live -action and

CG, so maybe a little less Angry Birds and Ratchet

and Clank like we're getting this year and a

little more like the Smurfs, Garfield, or Elvin

and the Chipmunks maybe? Oh, yay. Dan, are you

excited about Sonic the Hedgehog becoming a movie?

Well, I mean, if we can get something more like

Elvin and the Chipmunks and Smurfs, why not?

It'll make money, probably. Yeah, I don't...

Don't know like I think I'd be more excited if

it was going just straight animation trying to

do that live -action I don't even know how that

would work exactly. I don't know I'm I would

say I'm hesitant on this being any good so I

Think hesitant at best is a good way to describe

my feelings on that one as well Amanda Are you

going to be the one that's excited for Sonic?

I wouldn't say excited is the right word. Intrigued.

I'll watch it. Yeah. All right. So you'll have

to let us know what your thoughts are on Sonic

the Hedgehog film. If I can remember in 2018

to watch the show. And if you agree or disagree

on the route of a hybrid between animation and

CG, should it be full animation or what would

be your thoughts on a Sonic film? Moving on to

the next headline here. This is going to be just

the first, probably, of many headlines like this.

And I'm just calling this one the Don't Mess

With Star Wars headline. And we've had our first

move already as far as vacating any type of relationship

with Episode 8. Episode 8, if you haven't been

keeping track, is slated to open December of

2017. So far, we've already had one person move

out of that month. They've vacated the December

2017 spot, and they're now slated to open in

March of 2018, and that is the Steven Spielberg

joint Ready Player One. They were scheduled to

open two days after Star Wars Episode 8, and

they decided that is not a good plan. So my question,

Dan, is will there be any films released outside

of Star Wars in that entire month? Would say

mostly animated or like completely the opposite

of like you might get some you'll get some like

it perceived film like we had with the hateful

eat or something like that, but nothing that's

gonna be like a like a major try to Winter blockbuster

or what have you it's gonna definitely not gonna

even try to Compete with it for sure. It's gonna

be Star Wars for an entire month. Probably nothing

really getting released again until like March

So, yeah. Right. Which is when Ready Player One

comes out. So I think definitely a smart move

for another science fiction film to vacate that

territory. Amanda, if you were a film producer,

if you were the one calling the shots, do you

let your film be released the same month as Star

Wars? Hell no. All right. I think that's just

the first. We'll probably see some other moves,

just like we saw with Episode 7 when Mission

Impossible vacated. Talking about sequel news,

there's two sequels that have been announced

recent times. Not necessarily that we need a

ton of reaction about it, but in case you are

interested, we have a Deadpool 2, which has already

been greenlit, as well as the confirmation of

a Saw 8. Saw 8. Amanda, you are the resident

horror film guru. Indeed. Saw 8. Necessary? I've

seen quite a few of the saws even in theaters

and That I can only imagine Where they would

take it so I'm not really sure if I want to see

this movie just like any of the human centipedes

I have never seen any of those nor do I care

to ever this might be along the same kind of

line So I'm good. I'm gonna know that all right

Dan Deadpool 2 We're already we're already set

for one. Is it a little early to be doing that

or is it a sure bet? Well, you know, we also

had a fantastic for two and that never happened

So just because they announced I see they I feel

like they do this move where they announced a

sequel the week before The movie comes out just

as like hey, it's you know, we have we have this

confidence in a beat But if they end up they

go see it because there'll be more coming. Yeah.

Yeah, they try to like Oh, I gotta get in now

before because this will be my only shot to watch

it, if I don't get it this weekend. So hopefully

it's a good sign, I mean, but like I said, it's

happened before, where there's been sequels and

never happened, but I don't know, I've heard

a lot of early reviews already for it, we're

recording this, it hasn't been out yet, but I

will be going to see it, so I'm super excited

for it. My only question so much is how well

it's gonna do, and hopefully it can do at least

well enough to get that sequel. Yeah, that would

be one of the questions. Amanda, you're excited

already, even without seeing it. Are you glad

that you have the hopes of a second one as well?

Well, thanks for ruining it. We know he doesn't

get blown up or send him to space where he can't

come back or anything. Or do you? Maybe they're

just pulling our chain. They could be. I'll be

excited after I see this Deadpool. Okay. In the

last little bit of news, outside of just clarification,

because there has been now a title dropped for

the next Bourne film, and it's not Bourne Identity,

Supremacy, or anything like that. It's simply

going to be titled Jason Bourne. So it doesn't

get more simple than that, does it Dan? It does

not. Is that just like the ultimate move to try

to distance themselves or clarify to everybody

that this is about Matt Damon? I'm surprised

they didn't just call it Matt Damon. Jason Bourne

without. I guess they ran out of things. Once

you hit ultimatum, I guess you can't have...

I thought it was funny because I thought after

pulling an ultimatum I think Matt Damon said

if they ever made another one it would be the

born redundancy and I guess they decided not

to go with that one. That's awesome. I think

they just wanted to let you know that Jeremy

Renner was not going to be here. Yes, I think

that's the main thing they're going for on that

one. Last piece of news here, I just came up

here on my movie news app here, which is... That's

your technology over here. I guess. My phone's

good for one thing. And that is along the same

lines of what we've seen with the Expendables

and some other franchises that have done that.

Apparently, the next type of lineup that we're

going to be seeing here is a horror film lineup.

in relation to, or I guess similar to what the

Expendables did. It's going to be called Death

House, and what it's doing is it's basically

putting as many horror icons as possible. Now,

horror fans are going to know these names more

than I might, but we have the cast at this point

is being said to include Robert Englund, Danny

Trejo, Michael Berryman, Kane... Hotter, Dee

Wallace, Bill Mosley, Barbara Crampton, Doug

Bradley, Ken Forry, Camille Keaton, and Don Shanks.

I only know like two of those people. But it's

supposed to be, I guess, a who's who of actors

that have appeared in different horror franchises.

Amanda, are you excited about the idea of expendables

in the horror genre? Hell yeah. I know that there's

been talk for a while trying to get a bunch of

big players thrown together in one horror movie,

and I super dig that. I feel like it could be

the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Expendables

of the horror genre. Alright, so one vote in

favor. Dan, what do you think? I guess my question

is, are they playing the characters that they're

known for? because you mean like is that what

they're gonna be doing or yeah i'm not i'm not

sure i didn't say much about what the the i would

assume not though like i feel like robert england

has pretty much become uh freddy but i mean i

thought that was that's what it was i thought

it was supposed to be like freddy and you know

And I don't even know which way it works better.

Does it work better like that or does it work

better just having all these faces that you'd

know were in these other things but being playing

some type of other... A lot of them, like the

one guy I think was the guy who plays Jason so

it wouldn't like it just like, hey, that's the

guy that's behind the mask. Like, oh. I don't

know. It'd be, sure. I know like the, like, Guillermo

del Toro was trying to do... something along

those lines with different comic book -like characters

that were horror -based as well. So this would

be, I guess, the next best thing. I mean, it

could work. I would rather see that than another

Expendables movie, so if that says anything.

Yeah, I think the only picture I can get in my

head when I'm thinking about this is that this

would be the live -action film version of A Royal

Rumble. I think it's supposed to be like Frankenstein

and Freddy and Jason and Dracula and bullshit

like that Alright, well we'll have to wait and

see what turns out of this Expendables version

of the horror genre. Alright, so that's it for

the news for today. We're going to take a quick

break and then we're going to be back with our

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gets a bad rap. We kind of explored a little

bit last week as to if that bad rap is justified

or not and we're going to take a kind of a flip

look in another direction to see once again,

is February just... Deserving of that bad rap

or is there some good stuff that it has offered

throughout the year? So we'll be right back after

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patience paid off? Alright, thanks for sticking

with us as we said like last week when we looked

at the which film which February release scored

better and Rotten Tomatoes we have something

somewhat similar to that that we're going to

do today and then once we're done with that we're

going to also follow that up with our favorite

films that have ever been released in February

to see if there's even enough films worthy of

making lists like that so Dan I think you have

all the material prepared for us so how exactly

are we going to be breaking this down? So yeah

so we did this game once before it's basically

called What Made More and what I'm going to be

doing there are two different ways this will

happen there's simply the versus matchup two

movies that are in a specific category head -to

-head and then there's ranking ones which are

three or more which and Kevin and Amanda will

be going head -to -head to see who has a better

idea of what month what movies made more money

so it's simply domestic not considering global

just domestic overall box office for movies that

came out in February and you'd be surprised there

was actually quite a few that made a good deal

money that came out this month when you don't

necessarily associate February with blockbusters

So, Amanda, you held your own last week with

Rotten Tomatoes and ended up tying Dan as far

as the February showdown for Rotten Tomatoes.

How are you feeling going up against me now in

the box office? Not so good because you're a

freaking nerd and you pay attention to that a

lot more than I do and you have all these little

spreadsheets and you have all this little data

locked in your brain here and I'm just going,

dude, I like this movie. So, we'll see. We'll

see how it goes. I'm going to feel very stupid

if I lose. I hope I come in and crush it. Remember,

these are February films. It might be hard to

predict what these actually made. But damn, I'll

let you lead the way. All right. So Amanda, ladies

first, as always, I'm going to give you two categories

here. You let me know which category you'd rather

go with, and then we'll go from there. So first

category. Chivalry is not dead. At least in podcast

form when it comes to fake games. Twitter is

dead. There's a lot of things dead in Twitter.

Alright, so the first category we have crappy

concert films. Crappy concept films? Crappy concert

films. Concert films, okay. And then animated

movies. Crappy concert movies. So, you have to

rank these three from, you know, greatest amount

of money to least greatest amount of money. There's

only three here, but we have Justin Bieber, Never

Say Never, Jonas Brothers, The 3D Concert Experience,

and Hannah Montana, and Miley Cyrus, Beth of

Best of Both Worlds Concert. Shit. Woo! Man.

Come on, you listen to all these people. I do

not listen to Jonas. I don't do anything with

Hannah Montana. Yes, I do rock the Biebs, though.

Don't want to go Bieber fever? Let's see, let's

do Justin Bieber, Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers.

You are correct. Woohoo! What? That's what I

get for having 8 year old listeners on the radio

station So yes, Justin Bieber never made 73 million

dollars Hannah Montana made 65 million dollars

and apparently no one likes the Jonas Brothers

because it only made 19 million dollars, so there

you go Alright, so that means more people saw

that Justin Bieber movie than I don't know, I

should be able to insert like a whole bunch of

good films. You should be able to, but you can't.

Yeah, we'll go through some of them as we get

through this. So, Kev, that's, well this works

for you, Kevin, because it gives you animation.

So these are the movies that are, a couple more,

but I figure some of these are obvious, but.

So the movies that you're ranking. The Lego movie.

The Croods. Rango. Nomeo and Juliet. And Coraline.

Geez, that's a lot. Yeah, okay. Well first. We'll

put Lego movie first Okay, so we got? Crudes

Rango Coraline and what no meo and Juliet I'm

gonna put crudes. I'm gonna go Lego movie number

one crudes number two You have Rango no meo and

Coraline yeah Um... Man, that's hard. That is

hard. Um... I will go... That's gonna be wrong,

but I'll go Nomeo and Juliet, then Rango, and

then Coraline. You should have went with your

gut. It is Lego movie, The Croods, Rango, Nomeo

and Juliet, and Coraline. God! I'd switch those

two at the last second. Yeah, so like a movie

made. Yeah tons of money with 200 over 257 million

dollars the crude's with over 187 million Rango

128 new meal and Juliet almost a hundred million

with 99 million dollars and lastly Coraline with

75 million dollars. So there you go. Damn you

know me when Juliet. Yeah, yeah So I mean this

are taking the early lead Yeah, so Amanda again,

I'll give you three categories here These will

be face -off films all in the romantic category.

These are all romantic films, but subcategories

So we have the romantic categories with too many

stars getting a paycheck the romantic romantic

category with serious drama films and Lastly

the romantic category with good actors making

bad movies Good actors making bad movies. All

right, so the two films facing off in this are

fool's gold and this means war Which made more

I'm gonna say Fool's gold was a Matthew McConaughey

joint. That is correct. Let's go. Let's bet on

the McConaughey You are correct. Yes fool's gold

made 70 million dollars and this means world

war made 54 million dollars It's unstoppable

right now. So Kevin, you have... I'll go with

the one with the serious. Serious drama, romantic

films. So we have Definitely Maybe and The Vow.

Definitely Maybe and The Vow. I will go with

Definitely Maybe and Make 'em Are. Because it

definitely may be made more. Well, it definitely

didn't make more. The vow came in with a hundred

and twenty five million dollars. Well, definitely

maybe only made thirty two million dollars. Oh,

gee, that wasn't even close. I don't even know

what the vow is. It's the movie with Channing

Tatum and Rachel McAdams. Oh, I'll ask that question

first. Where she loses her memory, but OK, beats

on a true story. I know too much about that movie.

Stop talking. You're admitted too much. All right.

Let's move it on over here. All right, Amanda,

we have another option for... Let's start with

Kevin and give you the first option this time.

Another ranking one. We have ranking horror films,

Nicholas Sparks movies, and notable directors.

Oh, man. Amanda's gonna knock it out of the park

with either horror films or with Nicholas Sparks.

I guess I guess I'll go with the directors. All

right directors only three in this one But we

have ranked these three films the Grand Budapest

Hotel The Ghost Rider which was done by Roman

Polanski our Grand Budapest Hotel obviously Ross

Anderson and lastly Shutter Island by Martin

Scorsese Scorsese films actually as good as they

are don't make a lot of money You're gonna put

a best hotel. I didn't make a ton of money either

What's the other one and? The ghost writer not

the movie based on the PBS show Oh God I'm doing

terrible at this um man I know Scorsese films

don't make a lot, but I think shutter island

did decent I Will go with shutter island first

Grand Budapest Hotel 2nd and Ghost Rider 3rd,

and that's wrong. You are on the board! That

is correct. Oh, sweet. Cheddar Island came in

first with 128 million dollars, Grand Budapest

Hotel with 59 million dollars, and the Ghost

Rider last with 15 million dollars. So, saying

there's a chance. There is a chance. Amanda,

so that leaves you with horror films or Nicholas

Sparch movies? Someone argue or they're both

scary. Let's go horror films just to see if I

can... Yeah, let's see. Prove myself here. So

we have four films in this category, starting

with Final Destination 3, Friday the 13th, the

remake from 2009. I wanted to specify that. The

Woman in Black, and lastly, The Crazies. Good

luck. So that's Final Destination 3, Friday the

13th, The Woman in Black, and The Crazies. Let's

go. Friday the 13th crazies Woman in black, what

was my other choice? Final Destination. Okay,

so let's do oh man Friday the 13th Final Destination

3 The crazies and woman in black I think you're

wrong because I think woman in black made way

more money than you think it goes Friday the

13th It was number one with 65 million dollars

next the woman in black with $54 ,300 ,000 very

closely followed by Final Destination 3 which

made $54 ,098 ,000 and lastly The Crazies which

made $39 ,000 ,000. Alright. I would have got

that wrong too though. At least I wasn't too

far off. You were not. Alright, so another face

off here. We're going to face off with two different

sets of Adam Sandler films. You have the first

set, which are Drew Barrymore films or early

Adam Sandler. Who's getting the choice? I'm sorry.

I should have said that. Amanda, I'll start with

you. I'll do the stink since Kevin got the first

choice. That's fine. So Drew Barrymore or early

Adam Sandler? Let's do early Adam Sandler. What

made more Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison? Let's

say Happy Gilmore. He was more established. You

are correct. Happy Gilmore made more. It made

38 million dollars, where Billy Madison only

made 25. Me and my mom snuck into Billy Madison

when I was little. That's why I didn't make more.

So if you hadn't snuck in, you would have got

that question wrong. That's how inflation works.

Alright, so that leaves you, Kevin, with... the

Drew Barrymore films. What made more 50 First

Dates or The Wedding Singer? Man, 50 First Dates,

a lot of people like, but Wedding Singer was

at like the peak. He had just done Billy Madison

and Happy Gilmore. Everybody loved him. Came

out with The Wedding Singer. 50 First Dates,

though. Man, I think they both did decent. I'm

gonna go with... The wedding singer It was actually

50 first dates it made a hundred and twenty million

dollars and the wedding singer made eighty million

dollars, so Geez blew it out of the water. All

right, Kevin We'll give you the opportunity to

make up some ground here though with another

ranking opportunity We have ranking of classic

comedies or ranking of comic book movies. I will

Definitely take the comic book movies. Alright,

so here are the comic book movies to rank. We

have Constantine, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, The

Spirit of Vengeance, and the original Ghost Rider.

Alright, well I will go with... Let's see, we

got Constantine, Ghost Rider, Ghost Rider, and

what was the other one? Daredevil. Daredevil.

I'll go with Constantine first. As the one that

made the most? Yes. Constantine is making the

most I don't know why I feel confident about

that. I'm probably wrong. But for some reason

I think people watch that Then we'll go with

First Shoot Constantine ghostwriter The first

one Daredevil and then ghostwriter the second

one. Okay The one coming in first was ghostwriter

with a hundred and fifteen million dollars then

daredevil with hundred and two Constantine the

75 and lastly ghostwriter spirit of vengeance

with 51 million dollars I picked comic book movies

way before I remembered which comic book films

came out Alright, so moving over to Amanda. So

you have the classic comedies. Which one of these,

again ranking four films again, we have Ace Ventura,

Pet Detective, Groundhog Day, Bill and Ted's

Excellent Adventure, and Wayne's World. Rank

those. I knew I didn't want to do that because

I had no freaking clue what order to put those

in. Wayne's World, Bill and Ted. Groundhog Day.

And what else? Ace Ventura. Ace Ventura? Shit.

Let's say... Wayne's World... Groundhog Day...

No, no, no. Groundhog Day, Wayne's World, Ace

Ventura... And what was the fight called again?

Bill and Ted? And then Bill and Ted. You were

so very close. Coming in first was Wayne's World

with 121 million dollars Next was Acer and Tura

Pet Detective with 72 million dollars then Groundhog

Day with 70 million dollars and lastly Bill and

Ted's Excellent Adventure with 40 million dollars

Alright, so we have two more face -offs here.

We have men in fat suits or wannabe comic book

movies One beat. No, let's do men in fat suits.

Men in fat suits. What made more Big Mama, Like

Father Like Son, or Madea Goes to Jail? Madea

Goes to Jail. You're correct. With 90 million

dollars, with Big Mama of four, I think it is.

I don't even know. They made 37 million dollars.

That is not fair. That was a Madea film. Oh man.

We have jumper or push Jumper made more jumper

did make more with 80 million dollars where push

me 30 million dollars So so we have Amanda with

four points Kevin with two points, but you get

to pick first in this round Let's see what we

have left here Okay, so we have franchises that

weren't. These again are face -off films or cult

comedies. What are the options? Franchises that

weren't or cult comedies. I'll go with cult comedies.

What made more Super Troopers or Office Space?

They were both kind of middling. Man, if we were

to be able to choose DVD sales. I gotta go with

Super Troopers, making more. You're correct.

Super Troopers made more with $18 million, where

Office Space made $10 million. So to put that

in perspective, Justin Bieber, never insane,

never made seven times more than Office Space

in the theater. That's embarrassing. All right

America. Well, so Kevin's making a comeback.

So the score is now four to three Amanda next

one is up to you. So we have franchises that

weren't what made more Vampire Academy or I am

number four You are correct. I Am Number Four

did make more. I Am Number Four made 45 million

dollars, where Vampire Academy made seven. Not

a good show. Million dollars. Not dollars. That

would be bad. Seven dollars. Alright, so we have

similar action films face off. Amanda, you can

choose from Old Man Kickin' Ass or True Life

Action Films, I guess, would be the category.

Old men kicking ass. Old men kicking ass. What

made more, From Paris With Love or Three Days

To Kill? From Paris With Love. That is incorrect.

Three Days To Kill made $30 million, where From

Paris With Love made $24 million. That was not

a bad movie. I own it. I like it. I rewatched

it. You let your personal feelings get in the

way of the country. I did. I blinded. Blinded

by love. Yeah. Um, yeah. Kevin Costner does that

to people. Alright. Kevin, this is your chance

to tie if you can get this one right. What made

Moore Act of Valor or Safe House? I want to say

that... This is going to be a total plot of your

ass guess, and if you tie this, I'm assuming

that... I want to say that both of these were

near the top for their year, huh, for that month.

Um... Act of Valor... Safe house not to be confused

with safe haven Sure a lot of people made that

mistake I Guess we'll go the whole patriotic

thing and active valor valor made 70 million

dollars for a safe house made a hundred and twenty

million dollars. Oh Amanda wins so Got one more

ranking we can do this one for fun or if yeah,

all right, so Well, we'll see if you end up tying

I do have a tiebreaker. So we'll see how that

okay Why you keep giving him chances to beat

me Dan I Don't know. I don't know All right,

Amanda you I think you have the choice again.

No, you just had the choice So it's Kevin's do

you have ranking of historical dramas or fantasy

films? Oh shit. Um, historical dramas. Alright,

we have The Other Borlind Girl, The Eagle, and

The Monuments Men. I don't think The Other Borlind

Girl made that much money, so I'm gonna put that

last. The Eagle, The Monuments Men. Monuments

Men. I will go with None of the both I Guess

I'll go with the eagle first and money this man

and then the other bowling girl It is the monuments

men's with one at 78 million dollars then the

other Berlin girl with 26 million and then the

eagle with 19 million I way overestimated you.

You did, you did. I'm gonna do that too because

he's got Tana in it. So, I mean, we'll just give

you this one for fun to see how well you do.

These are all fantasy films. We have Jack the

Giant Slayer, Oz the Great and Powerful, and

Army of Darkness. Let's do Oz the Great and Powerful.

What was the other one? Army of Darkness and

what? Jack the Giant Slayer. Let's do... Oz the

Green Powerful, Army of Darkness, then Jack the

Giant Slayer. It is Oz the Green Powerful with

234 million dollars, then Jack the Giant Slayer

with 65, lastly Army of Darkness with 11. So

forget that was way back in the day and people

didn't spend that much money, so... We are terrible

at this. I did beat you though. Speak for yourself,

sir. I don't think that's all I have. Yeah, that's

all the ones I have. but yeah so it's uh yeah

um i do have a couple extra ones if you wanted

to try them just for fun yeah let's let's add

insult to injury all right uh well this is you

can just both guess it's a disaster films what

made more dante's peak or pompey jesus god that's

a sad statement can we see pompey dante's peak

dante's peak made more with 67 million dollars

i just really want to see pompey i really don't

we've already told you that stop it uh what made

more Dear John or Safe Haven? Dear John. Yeah,

Dear John. It did. Dear John made $80 million,

Safe Haven made $71 million. I was boosted by

the amount of people trying to go to Safe House

though, probably. And the last one, Nights are

Worth Anthe or A Walk to Remember? A Walk to

Remember. Nights are Worth Anthe with $41 million.

I've never even heard of it. It's with Richard

Gere and someone else. Yeah, it's not important.

But yeah, that's all again So surprisingly there

were some movies in there that made a great deal

Like I didn't realize Wayne's world came out

in February, but mostly it is not very good Yeah,

apparently a month used to be it seems like a

month full of comedy releases. Yeah But it's

also interesting kind of looking through this

and we'll kind of get into this a little bit

with our list how February has changed over the

years and It didn't seem like it maybe necessarily

was as terrible back along you know a while back

Maybe a decade or two as it seems to have been

in the last Eight or nine ten years, but we'll

get into that a little bit as we get into our

next segment Which we're actually gonna be trying

to flip it. We've been looking at money We've

been looking at rotten tomatoes, which didn't

necessarily mean good rotten tomato scores But

now we're gonna try to pull out the best that

February had to offer now Let's you guys each

go over your criteria a little bit Dan. I don't

know how far back you went but for my purposes

I only really went back to the 80s like 1980

81 82 somewhere in that range Cause I kinda wanted

to look at it more of, you know, a time where...

the months start to mean something as far as

release dates and the strategy that goes into

it. And I really think the further you go back,

it probably didn't matter as much. So I did not

consider anything from the 70s or before. I don't

know what your criteria was, Dan. I was the same

way. I was kind of 90s and above because the

way like the release schedule happened back really

pre 90s, 80s before that was you had much slower

of a release schedule. Things would stay in theaters

a lot longer. So I figured this was back when

you had a lot of a lot more movies, or not necessarily

a lot more movies, but the shelf life of films,

once a video came out got somewhat shorter. So

I figured this, I went for those. And honestly,

also was using Wikipedia, and Wikipedia, after

like 1989, no longer lists them by month, so

that also... Gotcha. Gotcha. Alright, I made

anything that you wanted, I know you had lists

and lists of movies because apparently this is

one of your favorite months of the year. Apparently,

uh... Super hard for me. I did not think it was

gonna be this hard. I had to separate them in

all these Dumb little categories like I even

have Adam Sandler has its own category because

there's so many But then I also have action slash

comic book slash thriller slash sci -fi all as

one so yeah, I got I don't know. I'm not really

feeling good about my list whatsoever too many

good choices That's so apparently you're gonna

Spit in the face of people that say February

is a bad month for film Come into my camp and

you will no longer go that way. All right. Well,

we will let you go first then. As always, Shamori

continues here on The Cinema Geek. So what is

your first choice here for your top films of

February? I changed this like four times in the

past 15 minutes. My number five is going to be

The Wedding Singer, but could also be tied by

all other Adam Sandler movies. All other? Well,

all other February. I mean, we got Wedding Singer,

51st Days, Billy Madison, Happy Yilmore. I'm

choosing the Wedding Singer. Alright, so like

I said, it seems like at least once upon a time

there was a lot of comedy films that came out

in February and Adam Sandler was amongst a lot

of them. So Wedding Singer is your choice for

number five. Dan, where would you rank that amongst

the other Adam Sandler films she listed off there?

51st Dates, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore. I think

it might be his best movie to be honest with

you. I feel it's his most complete film. I mean,

I think Adam Sandler might be my favorite. I

don't want to say that. Happy Gilmore might be

my favorite, but I do really love... The Wedding

Singer, probably the most rewatchable of all

of his movies. And I think for me, the number

of Adam Sandler films that were on our list as

options cancelled each other out, so none of

them are going to make my list, but you've got

to have a little guilty pleasure for, and we

were the right age when those films were coming

out as well obviously, so I think you can't go

wrong with most of those picks. Alright, I'll

go up next, and for my number five, I will go

as far away from being similar to an Adam Sandler

movie as you possibly can, and I will go to my

only pick from the 2000s, the first decade of

the 2000s, I guess you can say, and that is from

2004, and I'll go with Passion of the Christ.

Amanda has given me an awful look. You haven't

even seen the film. I don't want to. I don't

blame you. But I don't know, it was like nothing

that had come before it and it was definitely...

Definitely something to watch. I wouldn't watch

it more than once probably religious beliefs

But yeah, I don't know I think out of all the

films that come out in February. It's not the

typical Type it's not the typical genre is not

the typical feel that you get from February films

So I have Passion of Christ at number five for

me Yeah, you're not gonna have a little bit of

whiplash movies the next wedding singer to the

passion of the Christ I don't know if I'm gonna

make it any easier, but I did try to look at

different categories with this too, surprisingly

enough, because it was a lot harder than I expected,

because there are a lot of good movies that have

come in February, they're just really scattered.

And so I first looked at, one thing I wanted

to look at was animation, there's a lot of great

animated movies, as we talked about with What

Made More, and some bad ones too. But I think

my favorite was actually ended up being Coraline.

I think it's kind of what made me fall in love

with the studio Laka and pretty much anything

they do I want to go see now. It's, you know,

based on the Neil Gaiman story. It is kind of

Neil Burton -esque, but I think so much better

than that. And I think it's certainly a film

that visually is rather spectacular and I am

a big fan of soft motion animation. And I think

this still might be Laka's best movie. So it's

like they're still probably... looking at everything

animation -wise, voice acting, story. They haven't

really gotten to that level again, but they still

have made pretty solid films, but that's why

I made my number five. I love this movie. I battle

with putting it on my list or not. It got beat

out in the category, but I own this. It's definitely

a rewatch. I've watched it several times already,

and like you said, it's amazing visually. Really

awesome voice cast, too. super freaking creepy

and dark really, if you think about it. I guess

you really don't have to think that hard, you

can see it's creepy, so I think that's a good

choice. I think this is one that I haven't seen,

so I need to correct that. So, because I like

most of their other stuff as well, so I would

like to check this one out. Well let's see if

we can get this done so we can go watch it. Alright

Amanda, what is your number four? Number four,

I had to throw in a horror pic. I... Begged Kevin

to let me do all horror on my list, and he said

no, because he was being a stick in the bud,

because I could pick five of my favorites out

of the list of horror movies that have come out

in February. I decided to pick probably the most

well -received, and that's Silence of the Lambs.

Alright. Yeah, I guess I'll just jump on here

with you, because it's on my list too. It's a

lot higher, but I'll just do it now. Makes sense.

It is you know an all -time classic. What are

the few films? That's what one best director

best actor actress And I think best script. I'm

not mistaken. You know Anthony Hopkins playing

one of the most iconic villains of all time,

though I think Matt Mickelson might be better

than him now in that role in the Hannibal TV

series, but it's a little bit different of a

character. It certainly set a tone, a new type

of crime film or horror film. However you want

to say it, we got a lot of Seven, which certainly

shares a lot of similarities with this idea of

kind of the serial killer and the... human cannibal

but it's just such a well -crafted movie probably

one of the best of the 90s for sure and I think

it's certainly deserving of its iconic status

based upon a lot of his performances and you

know it's been period so yeah and looking through

this I didn't even realize it came out in February

I was a little bit surprised but I guess maybe

it was a movie they did not have that much faith

in or they didn't or it was just simply like

hey you know it wasn't expected to do what it

did and it became an all -time classic. I'd love

to go back in time and see what How much of a

surprise it was that year like if anybody saw

that coming or if it was just something that

kind of like took everybody by surprise and then

ended up you know sticking around the whole year

and winning those awards because You wouldn't

have expected something like that to come out

of February at all Well, this is before bone

tomahawk. So people were still pretty freaking

disturbed by capitalism and things like that

Also, Gary Oldman playing a role that I didn't

even know that was Gary Oldman until Probably

a couple years ago. I was pretty shocked at that,

too. I mean, that guy can transform and play

some different stuff. That's for sure. Yeah.

And who isn't creeped out by Anthony Hopkins?

I mean, he was creepy in The Wolfman. And I have

him in my list three times for Silence of the

Lambs, Hannibal, and The Wolfman. All right.

Creepy dude. Good February, good month of the

year for Mr. Hopkins, I guess. I will go into

my number four next, and like Dan, I have an

animated feature as well. For my number four,

it's the only one from this most recent decade.

It's 2014's The Lego Movie. I couldn't not put

this on my list. It was one of my best picks

of that year. Probably one of my favorite animated

films of recent times. It's just so much fun,

and I think there's a lot of rewatchability for

it. And I think it was kind of the start, I think,

recently in the last couple years of this turn

where February doesn't necessarily mean nothing

good can come out of it. I think between 2014

and 2015, we had a couple hidden gems in there,

and I think this was the first one. So Lego Movie's

my number four. Dan? All right, well, my number

four. Is when we kind of talked about a little

bit already, I guess similar I guess you can

somewhat consider it a horror film But it is

from Martin Scorsese and it is shutter Island.

I remember this movie was coming out and it actually

got pushed back I think it was for like a few

months. It came out in February I was a little

worried about it because you know seeing this

movie get pushed back and especially getting

landed in February typically not a good sign,

but I ended up really like Watching it the first

time enjoying it, but the more I've seen it.

I've really come to appreciate it I love the

mystery behind it the ambiguity behind it. It's

also a beautiful film It's it's unique for Scorsese

like it's he gets kind of labeled with the different

types of films like the obviously the good fellows

and the crime and Departed but this shows just

how great of a technical director Scorsese can

be some great acting with Mark Ruffalo and DiCaprio

even better so when you go through and we watch

this movie again and see you know when you have

the when you have the twist in mind when you

know what's going on and you see the little touches

that they put into it and to really make it work

and it's actually really I think a underrated

film in that manner so and it feels like a classic

film like a classic movie of that time period

especially with a score so that's why I have

it at number four yeah I agree and we just actually

recently rewatched that I've never seen it before

so no I haven't seen it you haven't? I hadn't

seen it either. It was the first watch for both

of us. It wasn't a re -watch. But we both really

liked it. Honestly, I have about 25 films on

my list that I was thinking about for this Top

5. It's the only one I have written down between

the years of 2005 and 2013. I don't have anything

else from that time period. So it was a, I think

that's why February has had such a bad reputation.

It was for that stretch there of about almost

a good 10 years. I mean, in Shutter Island, definitely

that was a hidden gem back in 2010. So I think

that's a great pick. Amanda, you were going to

say something about it? Oh, just that I, this

was flew under my radar for a long time and I

wanted to see it, but I really wasn't sure how

good it would be. And I was. I saw the twist

coming. I think kind of it wasn't as hidden for

me. But now that I know the twist, I think it

would definitely be worth a re -watch to really

try to pick those elements out, like you said,

Dan. For sure. All right. That means it's back

to your turn, Amanda. What is your number three?

This movie, homeward bound. What? Hashtag the

feels. I love it so much. I think it's hilarious.

I think it's such a fun voice cast. Definitely

an epic journey. No, it's an incredible journey

actually. Okay, it's an incredibly epic journey.

And who hasn't seen this movie? Because you are

a heartless beast and you need to watch this.

I will admit that I have not seen this film since

I was... How old, what year did it come out?

You only saw it one time? I've only seen it one

time. You are a heartless animal. It was one

of my favorite movies growing up as a kid. Me

too! We wore that VHS out like no tomorrow and

I even loved the sequels that came out after

it. Yes! Yeah. I did like both of them, but I

just don't remember watching them more than once.

But I think that's a great pick. I would actually

re -watch that. It's been so long. I'd cry my

eyes out. That'd probably be awful. Like this.

I'd be like, I should not have done that. Let

the memory live. It's like when I try to re -watch

the original Mighty Tux. I'm like, no, I should

just let that memory stay. For my number three,

I'm going to go into the 90s, 1993, I guess appropriately,

and that would be for the film Groundhog Day.

I don't care what people say, what about it,

and what people want to hate on it these days.

I've heard it a couple different times on a couple

different podcasts, but Groundhog Day is a great

film. Bill Murray is awesome, and if he has a

movie on here, I'm not gonna leave it off. So

Groundhog Day from 1993 is my number three. I

didn't realize that that was from the 90s. I

thought it was earlier than that. Yeah, it has

the same feel of like a lot of those 80s John

Candy Bill Murray type film so I can see that

but yeah 1993 and I think there's a 90s there

was full full of comedy films in February so

that was one of the best I think Dan what you

got at number three? I have another comedy at

number three from the 90s with the late 90s and

It's one of like I said what a cult classic when

it comes to comedy and that's office space You

know, I like many people miss this movie when

I was in theaters caught it on TV. I Maybe Comedy

Central or something like that started watching

it and you know, we watched it many many times

since then now own it You know be living working

in an office space as it says it's so very accurate.

Well, it's elements of it I should say it's definitely

certainly a caricature of the office environment

but I think everyone now has that dream of kind

of going in and acting the way he does and Breaking

up in your cubicle. It's just you know, there's

it's so so many quotes. It's Ridiculously quoted,

you know from pieces of flair to the oh face

to you know, it's Exactly. Exactly. So it's a

Unendlessly be watchable movie. I mean, maybe

not be the technical achievement of something

like You know Silence of the Lambs, but I think

when it comes to comedies and you know, it's

incredibly talking about incredible journeys

It's interesting seeing a movie that was once

this failure become one of the most you know

notable films of its day Yeah For sure. I don't

think many people will say too much bad about

office space. So I think you'd have a lot of

agreement there Amanda number two It's me again.

That's what how this works. Yes. I thought you

have to do your number three stuff. No, what

did you pick? Oh Okay, we have to live that day

again I'm just too busy over here drawing Lady

Gaga. My number two is is Wayne's World. I actually

got to sing the Wayne's World theme song in real

life today. Somebody randomly said Wayne's World

and I had a button and scream Wayne's World part

-time. Excellent. Today? Today. Okay. How fitting.

To old people. Wayne's World on the mind. Yeah.

So you'd put that ahead of a lot of the other

comedies that we were listening off previously

like Ace Ventura and Villain Ted. You know I

was thinking about it and you know Chicago had

to bring it home and Bill and Ted super close

in there and Ace Ventura actually Huge fan of

that movie, but just a little bit more disturbing

with the Finkel Yeah, Wayne's World though. Dan,

how do you rank those Wayne's World, Bill and

Ted's and Ace Ventura? Wayne's World... Bill

and Ted though, I think Bogey Sturdy is better

and then probably Ace Ventura Okay, I love these

winter as a kid but as adult I'm like, I don't

know if I could Take it. I'm surprised they let

me watch that as a kid. Honestly, there's some

questionable shit in that It's okay. They had

a cartoon series on it as well, right? All right

for my number two It's already been talked about

so we don't need to spend too much time on it

But it would be silence at the lambs as well.

So obviously an agreement with you I don't necessarily

consider that a horror film. Yeah, that's what

hard does like when you Picking genres, that's

why it becomes difficult, because you get a movie

like Science of the Lambs, which could be four

different genres. It could be a drama, it could

be a crime film, it could be a horror film, it

could be a thriller. Suspense or something, yeah.

I'm just surprised Kevin had the stomach to watch

it. No, I love that movie. That's probably up

there on my all -time list. Have you seen Hannibal?

Have you seen Red Dragon? I would have to re

-watch Red Dragon to double -check to see if

I have seen it, but I know I've seen Hannibal

in Science of the Lambs. Well, Phineas or Fynes

or whatever. Ray Fynes. Ray Fynes, yeah. All

right, Dan, your number two. My number two is,

well, this one became challenging because there's

two Wes Anderson movies. I could have probably

put both on those lists, but I went with one,

though I think I loved them both a great deal,

and I went with Rushmore as my number two. I

think probably Wes Anderson's best film, though

Grand Budapest Hotel is very close. Bill Murray

again. Him, like Adam Sandler, apparently has

a lot of movies come out in February, but...

Such such I think it like it's Wes Anderson before

he got to Wes Anderson me, you know Like he was

just on the brink of getting into his love of

like, you know his niche type of style But it's

just endlessly funny great Bill Murray's just

excellent in it. It's Amazing characters and

it's I don't know. It's it's a movie I remember

watching it when I was a kid and like hating

it like I don't know what this thing is But as

an adult going back and seeing it again, it's

I greatly enjoy it. It's kind of what got me

into the Wes Anderson train and I've been in

there ever since. It became hard at times. Some

of his movies, like when you got to like Steve

Azou and the Darjeeling Unlimited, I'm like,

I don't know about this anymore. But then Fantastic

Fox came out and I'm like, okay, I'm back. I'm

bored. Back on track. All right. Yeah. Great

pick at Wes Anderson. I had a couple of choices,

obviously you could have taken from. So, um,

I need to, I need to, I don't know if I saw.

That one when I was little or younger or not,

but I need to rewatch that because I don't recall

as much from that one as I do most of his other

films. So I think that's one that definitely

needs to go up on my list for rewatch. It definitely

doesn't have the stylistic choices that you see.

It does to a certain extent, but certainly it's

not to the level of like Grand Budapest Hotel,

which is this big bombastic. Right. Well, after

Fantastic Mr. Fox and... Moonrise, Kingdom, and

Grand Budapest Hotel. We were going to go back

and rewatch all the Wes Anderson films. And we

started with Water Rocker, my roommate. No, we

started. I actually saw Bottle Rocker a long

time ago and loved it. But we started our trek

backwards, I guess. And we went with Steve Zizu

first, and that's where it stopped. Yeah. I could

continue that process. So I need to get back

to some of those other ones. But yeah, great

pick. Amanda. This is back to you. I don't know

if you're confused about that or not, but it's

back to you for your number one pick. You're

getting a throat punch, sir. I am going with

one of the greatest movies of all time, Footloose.

Representing. The remake? No. I thought you were

going to go with Dirty Dancing Havana Nights

here. It was a close call there on that one.

That could have been a pairing. So why Footloose?

Why Footloose? I did my first tap dance ever

to the Footloose theme and since then I have

been on board. You know how to tap dance? I took...

I was in tap ballet and jazz for like a ton of

years when I was little. You learned something

new every day. That's why I'm so coordinated.

Amazing. But I love me some Kevin Bacon in this.

Didn't you just break a plate all over the kitchen?

I did. Okay. Sorry. Look at this. I think it

was a great story. Some really good supporting

roles there. Who doesn't love that whole montage

where they're teaching that guy how to dance?

It's a really good, feel -good, let loose movie.

I like it. Alright. Footloose getting some love.

I don't know if I've seen it. You don't know

if you've seen Footloose? I don't think I've

seen it. I've seen the scenes. Are we friends

for real? We are. That's why you're here, to

represent films that I'm blind to. Alright, for

my number one pick, I'm going to go to my only

pick from the 80s, and that would be from 1984.

I'm probably not as good a film as The Science

of the Lambs, etc., but I guess I'll let my personal

bias get in the way of this one, just because

I have a soft spot for the film, and that would

be The Breakfast Club. from 1984. So I just think

there's a lot there to love. I call it classic

as well. I don't need to go into too much about

the Breakfast Club. So that is my number one

pick. Dan, what do you got? Yeah, great movie

for sure. I consider that. It's, you know, John

Hughes coming up already, really. But my number

one is actually one that's already been talked

about. For me, I... It's a near perfect film

one of the best comedies of all time and so much

more and that's Groundhog Day Apparently there's

people who don't like it now. I guess I don't

know that I think that's crazy It doesn't matter

to me because it is like communically brilliant

and in so many ways it's you know gets into some

rather dark places, but the way it's laid out,

I think it's, you know, script -wise, it's quite

amazing. Bill Murray on top of his game, and

it just, there's so much into that movie, especially

as it progresses and it becomes something so

much more than just this comedy when it starts

off being, and I think it says a lot, and there's

a lot you can take from it, there's a lot, there's

also, you know, a lot of different, I think,

themes people have that come from that movie

because of its setup. Because of what you see

this person go through and I know there's been

people who've like tried to estimate How long

he's really been there and all this crazy stuff,

but I just find it kind of a high concept that

works It's well executed and you know, it's it's

as a groundhog, you know Puxitani How can you

not love being stuck in Puxitani and it's also

that scenario I think that people kind of it's

become so synonymous with different things and

you know, we would We've seen it again repeated

in something like The Edge of Tomorrow, but I

think it's an interesting idea that could easily

be so hard to pull off because it could be so

boring. It could be so problematic. Nodding but

when you think when you have Bill Murray there's

just so many great moments from him like doing

the Jeopardy to It just gets your mind racing

get your idea like what would I do in that situation?

And then I don't know I can go to different directions

that you may not be expecting I think it's legitimately

one of the best comedies. It might be it's one

of my personal favorite movies of all time So

it's I think it's excellent Wasn't it filmed

in Woodstock, Illinois? It probably wasn't filmed

in Boston, but I think so. I'm a Woodstock all

the time and I'm always looking around like where

was this? I think it's probably a lot different

place now. Yeah, obviously I'm in agreement since

it was my number three and honestly whenever

I hear somebody say something bad about Groundhog

Day or like what about Bob? My brain dies a little

bit inside because I just can't understand it.

Definitely an agreement with Groundhog Bay there

as well. Amanda, you can't go through all 765

films that you have listed on these sheets of

paper in front of you. It's one sheet. But any

honorable mentions that you'd like to give a

shout out to? Hells yes. Queen of the Damned,

The Sphere, Constantine, Diary of the Dead. Just

a few horror choices to throw out there. But

Old School, love that movie to death. Also, a

little weird guilty pleasure of mine, that's

Monkey Bone with Brendan Fraser and... What's

his name? He was on Saturday Night Live and he

was in... Chris Catan? Chris Catan, yes. I love

that movie so much and it's ridiculous and raunchy,

but I had so much fun with it. That's just a

couple of my weird ones. Oh, Rollerball? What's

up? Sometimes I wonder how we ever go to a movie

together. Also Bloodsport, Running Scared, the

number 23, and a good day to die hard. Oh, don't

say that again. I just did. You just killed DJ.

Alright, Dan, any honorable mentions that you

got that you want to throw out there? Well, one's

a good mention. I actually really like The Crazies.

I think that's a rather underrated film. Some

of them we already brought up, but Super Troopers,

I like that a lot more in college. I don't know

how much it would hold up now. I do like Safe

House. I think that's a fun action film. Army

of Darkness. that I highly thought about placing

here, and any other ones that were not mentioned.

And that's pretty much it. Side effects as well.

I'd enjoy that a good amount. I have a couple

on my list, too, that haven't been mentioned.

I'll skip over the ones that have. Apparently,

it did not get reviewed very well when we went

over our Rotten Tomatoes last week when I was

doing the research. But I have a soft spot for

another cult classic from the 80s, which is the

Burbs. I don't know why. Oh, I know why. Perf.

What? Tom Hanks? Is that? Tom Hanks, yeah. Jennifer

Love Hewitt in her fat ass. She's not in the

burbs? Pretty sure she is. No, she's not. We'll

see. I think she was like eight when that came

out. Yeah, she was not even like... Like you

said, perv. But the burbs, I had... Let's see,

Reality Bites I like somewhat but I haven't seen

that except for once I think in the 90s so maybe

that's not a good film. Donnie Brasco I had listed

as a possible payback from 1999. The Life of

David Gale from 2003. And then how about the

resurgence or the trying to dismantle the February

mantra last year with Kingsman the Secret Service

and What We Do in the Shadows. Yeah, I figured

I've been talking a lot about what we do in the

shadows, so I left it off. That's why I crossed

off my number five, and I also had Kingsman at

my number five, and I crossed both of them off.

I gotta figure if that was really a February

release, because I feel like it was released

earlier than that in some locations, so it was

hard for me to figure out if that... qualified

or not. So Dan, we've been taking a two week

look at February. We've looked at Rotten Tomatoes.

We've looked at Box Office. We've looked and

done research for our favorite films that came

out in February. We've dissected this month more

than you possibly probably could in any other

way. Looking back now, does February deserve

the traditional motto of the movie kind of dumping

ground or what have you seen as far as how February

has changed over the years? Has it shifted or

has it always just been the same? What's your

viewpoint on February as a film release date?

I do think it is very much still a dumping ground

but I do think at least in the last couple years

we are seeing I think a broader season and we

are getting at least A couple films are in there

that are good. Even, you know, it's not impossible

to release one, but I do think for a long period

of there, from really from 2000 to maybe like

2010, 2009, it became really just like nothing.

But I think with the summer movie season kind

of expanding and you have movies coming out in

March now, like Batman or Superman, it's causing

people to be more strategic when they place their

films. And I think they're also realizing that

there is some benefit for a movie like Deadpool

to come out. February because there's you know

there's not nearly as competition you kind of

getting in that mode so I do think we are seeing

a shift but for a long period of time it was

it was like a Sahara Desert of crappiness so

I think the to the other thing that I kind of

noticed as going through here is that even though

it is kind of the still the dumping ground and

for a long time you know it's like you said especially

from the the first decade of the 2000s was basically

void of anything worth anything but I think what

you can see February as it does have an opportunity

for certain genres to shine a little bit. I think,

you know, we're coming off of the November, December

Oscar push and all that other type of stuff.

And what I notice is there's not a lot of dramas

we mentioned as far as favorite films that have

come out in February. Even if you look at our

honorable mentions, we weren't listening to a

whole bunch of dramas. So I think it's a situation

where you have a lot of people that have just

gone through and seen a whole bunch of really

good films and really good dramas, which opens

up the possibility for, like we saw, comedies,

horror films, and some of the other genres like

that to kind of shine for a little bit before

it gets into the summer blockbuster season. So

I did notice that. It seemed like a lot of comedies,

a lot of horror films, not really too much room

for dramas in February. I don't know if I was

the only one that was seeing that or not. But

Amanda obviously you're a horror fan film film

fan film fan of horror films. I can't talk Obviously

you're a fan of horror films Do you you know

typically October? You know September October

gets the credit for all the horror films coming

out You know as we build up to Halloween is February

the lost month for horror fans I think so because

isn't the witch coming out this month as well.

Yeah, so I mean Looking at all the awesome stuff

that's come out of February for horror from just

this list that I had. Plus, you know, I mean

things are coming out this year as far as horror

goes. Looks pretty quality. I think it's the

sleeper month for horror. And I just, I like

a lot of movies that came out in February apparently

and I'm on my own little island with loving all

these films apparently, so. All right, fair enough.

So you'll have to let us know what your thoughts

are on February as a month of film, now that

you've heard all these different films thrown

out there in different ways, and what you view

February as. What type of film should come out

in February? What's the best thing to see after

we're done with the holiday season? All right,

getting into our last segment here. Real quick,

we got what we've been watching and what's coming

out. So we have not seen very many films since

the last... Episode so I'll let Amanda go with

the one that's the only one that she saw by herself

You saw a film from last year Escobar Paradise

Lost with Benicio del Toro And Josh Hutcherson,

how'd you like it? I heard about this. I think

Barry was talking about it on true bromance and

I'd seen it and in the vichy store, so I had

to grab it for for just a leisurely watch and

I had high hopes because I really do love the

Benise. I think he's awesome in everything that

he does. And I was like, this is probably his

gear up for Sicario from last year. So I just

think that it was pretty watered down. I really

didn't believe the love story. I think that Pablo

Escobar was, he looked like a real dude, like

he was this fat guy with a nasty beard. One point

in these creepy little Adidas jogging shorts,

but they didn't I wasn't that scared of them

if they didn't really set up the stakes I mean,

you know, they showed how you don't get away

from Pablo and some of the things that he did

But I think it was it was just super watered

down and they couldn't really get into it. All

right, so out of ten I'll say three and a half

Three and a half out of ten for Escobar. Paradise

Lost. Apparently don't go run into the Vichy

store to rent that one. Dan, what did you see

this last week? I saw Clouds of Sils Maria. I

know you guys watched it last year. Weren't not

huge fans of it. I didn't even watch all of it.

I think I liked it a little bit more than you

did, but I was not the biggest fan, to be honest.

It's a movie I can recognize where people would

enjoy it, but I just kind of checked out. I tried

to... I just found their conversations, I could

hear them saying words, but none of it really,

really stuck with me all that much. It just,

it falls in line with movies like Certified Copy,

which I know a lot of people love. I just, I

just found it, they... were taking themselves

much more seriously than I did, and I just didn't

find the importance of what they were discussing

there. I just felt too self -important to me.

But I did appreciate the performances, and it's

interesting because I watched this not shortly

after seeing something like the end of the tour,

which is similar in that it's very conversation

-based, and I found that so much more captivating,

so much more interesting. I think mainly because

I enjoyed the characters a lot more than I did

with this, where I never felt I got to know.

who those characters were nearly enough. It's

a well -acted movie and I could see it's merits,

but for me personally, I just did not enjoy my

experience whatsoever. With that one, I did list

Kristen Stewart in my blog post as far as actress

performances from 2015. I do think the performances

were done well and I thought she was surprisingly

good. I think my biggest problem was that I had

just this adverse reaction because I felt like

I was investing time and effort to go through

the whole thing. You know, like you said, I wasn't

necessarily feeling connected to the characters

as much, but I still was, like, into it enough

to, like, I'm gonna invest my time, I'm gonna

see this to the end, and I still have hopes for

it. Like, I genuinely somewhat enjoyed most of

the film, but then had a very adverse reaction,

I guess, to maybe the last little bit where I

just felt like nothing... I just felt like there

was a letdown. There was no climactic ending,

whether from a thematic standpoint, whether from

an action standpoint, to feel like it was a payoff

for the time I had spent with these characters.

Maybe it was because, like you're saying, I didn't

get the connection with the characters, but I

just felt let down. I felt like there was pieces

there of a good -to -great movie, and I just

didn't get it. Yeah, it's on it's also made me

not been been the best time to watch it because

I was taking care of my sick kid when I was in

between him sleeping so it That could have affected

my view. Yeah, sure I just expected it to do

something that it didn't do I guess it didn't

do anything. Yeah. All right, I Am a man of my

word and I don't know if it was last episode

or the one before that where we had let out that

I had not seen true romance and We rectified

that this week. So I did get a chance to catch

up with true romance. I want to say that I'm

severely disappointed with Your I need to preface

that so these people need to know I'm seriously

disappointed you sir. Okay. Um, I First of all,

even if you say that I enjoyed the film You didn't

act like it. I like True Romance, and I think

there's some re -watchability there. There's

stuff to look for in second and third viewing

and stuff like that, obviously, with anything

somewhat connected to Tarantino. And I think

some of the characters are very enjoyable to

watch and get to know. I guess I was hoping to

be even more blown away. I was hoping to have

an experience closer to like Pulp Fiction and

Reservoir Dogs. He just wrote it. It's in direct.

I know. But what it ended up with instead is

I think I would put this one much more in the

realm of like where we place Jackie Brown as

far as the Tarantino films that we were listing

before. It just kind of felt like Maybe a slightly

better version of Jackie Brown, but I don't know.

There just seems to be a lot of similarities

between the two films. I don't know how you feel

about it, Dan, because we didn't necessarily

cover it when we did our Tantino retrospective.

So I mean, it's one where I'm saying I might

come across as if I didn't like it, but that's

like saying that, you know, it's the worst Tantino

film. It's still a good film, and I still liked

a lot about it. But I think ranking -wise, I

put it closer to the Jackie Brown. portion of

our rankings. I feel it feels more like a Tony

Scott movie than it does Tarantino. Yeah. So

a little bit more stylized than something like

Jackie Brown. I enjoy it too. I don't think I'm

in love with it like some of us who love that

movie. I think it's, you know, there's certainly

a lot there to enjoy. I think Tony Scott's one

of Tony Scott's best movies, but I don't know

if I was putting it in the... In the filmography

of Tarantino, where would I put it? I probably

would put it like mid -range, maybe below, you

know, Glorious Master, it's below Pulp Fiction,

What's for Our Dogs, Django, but above maybe

Kill Bill, Volume One, and Death Proof and stuff

like that. So it's about, yeah, I would say,

but again, it's a really, it's like mid -range

Steven Spielberg. It's still really good, you

know. Yeah, no, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

So I'm not necessarily dissing the movie. I think

there's a lot to love about it. I just don't

quite put it as high as some of the people I've

heard talk about this film. I'm right here. You

don't. It's been a long... I've only watched

it once and it was a long time ago. So like you,

I don't know if I can really fairly compare it

to films that I've seen multiple times. Right,

and I think I do need to see it again at some

point too, just to make sure it wasn't anything,

you know, as far as state of mind or anything

like that that took away from it, because I think

there is a lot to like here. So I would rank

it probably, I'm gonna give this one like a 7

out of 10. I'm still getting evil eyes over here.

What would you put it at, Amanda? I would give

it an 8. Okay, I gave it a 7. That's only one

number difference. And then Amanda caught up

with two films that she had not seen in their

entirety. So the last thing as far as what we've

been watching, Amanda, why don't you give your

thoughts on Dawn and Rise of the Planet of the

Apes? Okay, so I think that the first time I

watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes? Which

one was the first one? Just say the first one.

The first one? So we don't confuse anybody. Okay,

so the first one, I got to a certain point in

the movie and I was like, hell no, I'm not finishing

this because it makes me feel freakin' horrible

because of how this little dude gets treated

and right away it's like that Bambi thing where

his mom gets killed, spoiler alert, Caesar, so

it's just, it drags me down, super drags me down

and... Fuck you, Draco Malfoy, because I now

hate you even worse. That's not his real name.

It's his fucking real name to me, okay? Alright,

but this time you watched the whole thing. But

I got through the whole thing, and I still really

didn't feel good after I finished watching it.

It was a good movie, super solid film, had some

awesome moments. I think that the apes were super

well done in this, but... Right away. I was ready

to watch the second one and It was like past

our bedtime and you're like Like past when we

usually go to sleep and she was looking at the

clock to see if there's enough time to put the

second one in Yeah, I was I am still Raring to

go to see the rest of them. We are kind of stuck

stalled in the 1967 one But it's really cool

to see all these callbacks. As far as my ranking,

I would say maybe... Which one did you like better,

the first or the second? Let's say the first

one. Well, originally I thought it was the second

one because there's less tongue -in -it -your

-heart -strings moment for me. Moments. But now,

having a little bit of time to sit on it, I think

I'm gonna go with them in order, first and second.

And what would you rank them? Rate them? Rate

them? Out of 10, what would you rate them? Well,

let's give them a 7 and a 7 .5. So 7 .5 for the

first one and a 7 for the second one. Alright,

so she's on board with the Planet of the Apes

and now we're making our way through the five

original films followed once again by apparently

the Marky Mark film because that's the only one

she's seen and I need to re -watch it with her

so that she can realize how wrong she is. But

I like it! You won't after you watch them all.

Because who? All right, Dan, anything else that

you wanted to bring up that you've seen in the

last week? Nothing, really. I've watched half

of Cartelland, but that's about it. There we

go. All right, so as far as looking ahead here

at the weekend for theater releases as well as

Tuesday's upcoming Blu -ray releases, here are

our choices for this week. On limited video -on

-demand releases, we have a documentary called

Rolling Papers about some things going on in

Colorado. We have a film called Forsaken, which

is a western starring, get this, Kiefer and Donald

Sutherland, Brian Cox and Demi Moore. I don't

know what else needs to be said about that. As

far as wide releases, we have Race, the Jesse

Owens joint. We have Amanda's, one of her most

anticipated films of the year, The Witch. And

we have Risen coming out. Which was on my list

for most anticipated as well as far as blu -ray

releases coming up on Tuesday We have secret

in their eyes the good dinosaur and spotlights

Dan you could only watch one. Which one are you

going? I really want to see spotlight. So that's

right. Your chance is coming up, Amanda So I

really really really willing to see secret in

their eyes, but the witch Probably gonna disturb

me quite a bit. No love for the Sutherlands All

right, so you're going with the witch All right,

and even though I do want to see Riz and I will

join Dan and if I had to pick only one that I

could watch again I'll go with spotlight. You've

already seen spotlight. I know but I want to

own it so Alright, so that does it for this week.

You'll have to let us know a few things on the

website. You can react to our February films,

you can react to what you want to see from Sonic

the Hedgehog, as far as what type of film you

would like to see that be, and tell us how excited

you are for Deadpool 2, Saw 8, or the Expendables

version of a horror film. So, as far as other

ways to get in contact with us, you can email

us, feedback at geekcastradio .com. You can visit

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Network. The Twitter for the network is at GeekCastRadio.

The show Twitter is at CinemaGeekCast. Mine is

at OptimusSolo. Amanda, yours is? Heart Candy

Mandy, Eyes No Eyes. Dan, yours is? At Mover

of Olds. And if you haven't had a chance, go

back. It was released a little while back. Amanda

did have a chance to do a guest spot on the Pop

Culture Case Study podcast. And you guys talked

about what? In prep for Daredevil, or not Daredevil,

for Deadpool, we talked green lanterns. So you

can hear her as the first guest spot on Pop Culture

Case Study talking some green lantern. Go out

and search that out. But as for now, that is

it for us. Be sure to check in next week when

we're going to be doing our first series of things

that we'll be doing this year. Like we said,

we haven't been doing a lot as far as box office

or trailers because we're going to do it once

a month. And that's coming up next week as we

preview the film month that will be March. So

we'll get into our box office, trailer talk,

and all kinds of stuff for the month of March

next week. So that's what you can look forward

to when you have your next chance to listen to

The Cinema Geeks.