Summer 2014 Films Recap

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Hello and welcome to M wires summer of 2014 movie

rewind that's right Be kind rewind all that good

stuff, even though there are no such things as

video cassettes anymore I am one of your hosts

TFG on mic joining me is optimus solo. Hello.

You just dated yourself, sir I don't care. People

know I'm old. And movie remote Dan, hello. How's

it going? It's going. All right. So this was

kind of Dan's idea to bring the movie rewind

recap kind of thing back. So take it away, sir.

Well, we did something similar to this last year,

but this is gonna be a little bit different We're

not really gonna go over like the box office

and critics aspect of it like we did this time

last year mostly because Kevin's Weekend movies

already does a lot of the box office stuff. So

it'd be kind of redundant So we're just mostly

focusing on the movies themselves what we saw

what we thought of the summer Kind of breaking

it down and saying well, you know, how well did

the summer perform overall? You know, what did

we enjoy? What didn't we enjoy? You know that

what stands out what for negative reasons what

stands out for positive reasons? So it's kind

of like a grab bag of what you should see this

summer and what you should avoid As everything

hits DVDs or Redbox or Netflix, this is your

guide to what to purchase, what to click on,

what to avoid. Exactly. And stuff is coming out

already. A lot of the summer movie stuff is already

out on Blu -ray and digital and whatnot. Right.

So if you're trying to make a tough choice, just

tune in here and we'll tell you what to buy or

what not to watch. That's one thing I know we

have a whole plan here for this thing But that's

one thing I will say about about the releases

the summer releases and releases in general I

mean sometimes iTunes gets early releases like

a month and a half or three weeks before the

official DVD and wherever else comes out like

not technically a live -action film, but Batman

Assault on Arkham was released on iTunes early,

like two, three weeks before the DVD came out,

which is interesting because I think it's taking

a hold of that digital market and say, hey, you

can get it here before anywhere else. Yeah, I

mean like edges of Mario did that as well. And

I mean, uh, these are future paths captain america

there It's kind of becoming a norm and as a person

who collects blu -rays I kind of don't like that

honestly because I think it It kills the blu

-ray market because people aren't gonna You know,

it's it's a less of incentive to buy something

a physical copy of something if it comes out

on digitally two weeks before you can buy a physical

copy of it, even though like the price is about

the same, so it's just it If anything, I think

it would make more sense to do the opposite way,

but maybe that's my own bias. I'm with you. I

mean, for me, I'm to the point where I don't

collect DVDs anymore or Blu -rays. Blu -rays

are just too expensive for me. And I'd rather

have an instant access to it without having to

do multiple steps. Go get the DVD, put it in

my computer, blah, blah, blah, when I can just

click on iTunes and bam, there it is. Yeah. But

it's the beauty of the beast, I guess. Yep, pretty

much. All right, so what are we starting with,

Dan? Well, I guess before we get into what we

saw, we should maybe get into what our anticipation

levels were of the summer coming up. I know before

the summer hit, it seemed like all the talk was

already Squarely on 2015 and everyone talked

talking about 2015 even though we're a year away

from that so or 2016 or 2017 or That's all it

is now. No one in Hollywood or in the media in

general cares about the current year. They want

to talk about Star Wars. They want to talk about

the next Transformers film. They want to talk

about, oh, what's Captain America 3 going to

be like when the second one hadn't, well, by

May it had come out because it came out in April.

I mean, it's just one of those things where we

live in a society now where everybody doesn't

give a shit about the current year and they want

to talk about the next, you know. Next year we're

gonna be talking about 2016 2017 and how 2018

I don't necessarily think it's that they don't

care I think What we we look it's more of a we

live in a society that is very much obsessed

with getting information, finding out stuff about

things they're interested in, to where you're

wanting to find stuff out early. You're wanting

to know about who's cast here. You're wanting

to know about which franchise is going to have

a movie, et cetera. I'm not talking about us

specifically, but as a society in general. So

it's not that it gets to the year and they don't

care anymore. It's that it gets to that year

and now they've already discovered everything

about that movie. So now they calm down and then

they just wait for the movie to be released.

It's more of a We've spent the last two years

dissecting the casting, dissecting the director,

whatever it might be. Now it's the year of, we

don't have to go crazy. We can just sit back

now and wait for it to hit theaters and then

we'll, you know, I still think there is a buzz

about movies after they come out. There still

is. a billion people writing reviews and blogging

and talking about movies that just came out.

They're not ignoring the current year. It's just

they're not that hype in the months leading up

to it because the years before that, they've

already learned everything about that film. It's

all about that exclusive information. And with

that said, Kev, I know we talked about you guys

talked about this a lot on a weekend at the movies,

but coming into the summer, were you were there

a lot of movies you were looking forward to?

Was it kind of a mixed year for you? It was a

mixed bag this year. I would say that I well

before we get to that exactly it's it's almost

like a shift in release dates too I think that

we're dealing with not just this year but it

seems like it's highlighted this year where we

have a lot of front loading where stuff's coming

out in there in the spring or stuff's coming

out earlier than we would expect it like you

know the traditional Independence Day type films

you know the the June July into August Where

we just got used to that's when all the blockbusters

that's you know, the summer blockbuster the summer

popcorn flick That's where all that came from

Whereas this year it seemed like there was a

whole bunch of stuff between March and May Yeah,

even I mean even in April with camps in America

like it And I think technically The Amazing Spider

-Man 2 came out in America in May, but it was

released overseas in April, which is another

thing. So it's like, you know, like you said,

the summer is becoming larger and larger. And

in a way, it felt like one of the least exciting

months this past year was July. And that used

to be heavy loaded. And this year was like August

and May was really, really the months where everything

was in. Yeah, so I know we're talking about summer

films, but it's almost impossible for me to ignore

the March, April, May releases and just lump

it. It's like March to June was the summer films.

Exactly. I guess twofold, and why I said I'm

kind of on the fence on how my anticipation was

is number one, there was a ton of stuff coming

out. There is a ton of franchises that were having

movies this year. Everybody can be excited about

2015, 2016, etc. If you're thinking about the

fact that, you know, the Transformers franchise

is getting a film, the Turtles franchise is getting

a film, we're having, you know, four... There

are three comic book films. I'm forgetting now

how many we even had and let's see Spider -Man

X -Men Captain America Guardians of the Galaxy.

So we had four comic book films coming out. We

had you know the Godzilla which is another franchise.

We have Disney doing its thing with like Maleficent

and stuff like that. So I mean there was a Planet

of the Apes franchise having a film. So there's

a lot of different big -name geek franchises

that were doing stuff. So from that standpoint

I was thinking there's a lot of things here.

So there's bound to be some stuff I like. On

the other side of the fence, though, I knew that

some of these films were Transformers and Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles and stuff like that. And

easily, easily, easily could be terrible films.

Even OK. Hold on now. This is one of the reasons

why I wanted to have you on here, because I heard

the weekend at the movies Turtles discussion

and you hated that movie. Right. That movie is

easily better than Transformers four for me.

Don't know like I said in the episode I would

have to rewatch them both and I refuse to do

that No, even and I don't don't judge what I'm

about to say too quickly even something like

Guardians of the Galaxy going into the year Nobody

knew could have had the potential to be terrible

Obviously it isn't but I'm just saying like even

something like that you didn't know about so

So you're going into a year where there's all

kinds of stuff coming out where it seems like

man There's just a lot happening, but then you

take a step back and you say but it could be

a humongous pile of crap So that's what my anticipation

level I like was I anticipating a bunch of these

movies? Yes, was I? Assuming that I was gonna

see a bunch of good movies Knew I needed to bite

my tongue before I would say that It's always

good to temp your excitement. I Mean, you know,

there was some and there were some things that

could have majorly let me down that didn't so

I'm happy about that But you know as far as judging

my anticipation. Yes, I was anticipated for the

summer, but I was also Smart enough to know that

I there might be a bunch of eggs out there bad

ones Mike what about you? I mean my anticipation

for the summer wasn't that big because I'm one

of those I'm not like you guys I don't I'm not

like Kevin where I go see every single movie

every single summer I know he has a tendency

to do that and I know, Dan, you go see a lot

of movies as well. I reserve my movie theater

watching for the big franchises, all the franchises

Kevin just mentioned, with the exception of Guardians.

I still haven't seen that. It's not that I don't

like the movie. It's just I would rather wait

until I pay a buck on Redbox than go waste money

at a theater. You need to go see Guardians so

it can get to like $320 million now. Um, you

know, but for me, honestly, you know, like you

were saying, Dan, the summer really starts in

April at this point because April we had cap

two and I was really stoked for that. Um, I thought

that was an amazing, amazing movie. Um, and it

took everything from Avengers, you know, it,

it built upon it and I can't wait to see where

they go with it from here. Um, With amazing spider

-man 2 I'll say that I was excited for it. I

was interested to see how they were going to

Envelope all of the you know basically the spider

-man 3 curse into it And it wasn't as bad as

every for me It wasn't as bad as what everybody

said it was going to be it's like oh They're

throwing in way too many villains again blah

blah blah And then you know x -men was great

turtles was I like Transformers Age of... I almost

said Dark of the Moon. Age of Extinction. I liked

it because there was no Shia LaBeitch. I liked

it because it was an all -new human cast, but

the writing and the comedy style in Turtles was

far better. Like, Transformers was technically

the dark franchise movie this year out of the

ones that I had seen. I mean, hell, Optimus Prime

kills a guy, which he should never do. So and

then x -men was was amazing Yeah, I mean I was

kind of similar to kevin where I looked at it

like there are some When I was at the beginning

of the year, it's plotting out like my anticipated

films of the year I mean like I looked at the

summer. I'm like, I know everyone's talking about

2015 But 2014 has a great deal of potential and

potential can go different ways potential could

leave you Disappointed potential could leave

you even more excited There are a lot of question

marks. Like we mentioned guardians was still

that's a was a question mark because you didn't

know what it was going to be like. James Gunn

never really ever directed anything that size

before. Something even like X -Men is a future

past. Bryan Singer coming back to a franchise

he left. X -Men wasn't at the best place in the

world after X -Men 3, and it was kind of getting

its footing again. But still, that was a project

in the half trying to bring that all together.

You had something like Godzilla, again. I thought

the trailers looked amazing. I thought like I

had a lot of potential but again another director

who was only done a small indie film with monsters

and now he has a huge gigantic project where

he's You know literally having a budget like,

you know 100 million times bigger than anything

he's handled before and then turtles was a question

mark So there's all these things that was like,

okay, so this could either be really good There

was nothing that I looked at and like okay. I'm

really Like the only movie I felt like okay,

I'm pretty soft pretty solid and then what we're

gonna get was like 22 jump street because the

directors of it have proven themselves over and

over again and Game actors are figured, you know,

we probably get a solid sequel comedy there But

everything else was like it could be amazing

or we could we could end up disappointed I knew

there was a lot I was gonna see I know there

was a lot I was gonna go and hope it was gonna

be good, but I mean that stuff ended up being

better than I anticipated. Some hit my expectations

and then some, you know, left me as disappointed

as I expected. So, you know, unlike, you know,

like we'll get into that later, but there there

are a few movies here that I just there were

like, I think a lot of great movies, but a lot

a lot of really awful, awful movies. It's like

a bipolar summer, if anything. I agree with that.

Yeah, I mean, it was very up and down. I mean,

anything that wasn't a franchise film. That I'd

saw that I had seen a trailer for I was like,

yeah, I can wait on that I don't need to see

that in theaters like all the comedies this year

I Didn't didn't really care at all for any of

them And just It just seems like this summer

has gone by so fast and there hasn't been a lot

of hype behind it See, I don't know about that

because I would disagree because I think they

were Felt there in like May and especially in

August there were every month there was every

week There was a huge film and that's everyone

was talking about either positively or negatively

Spider -man came out then Godzilla came out and

then You know X -Men came out and you know, not

all the reaction to those movies was not negative

or positive But there was a lot of reaction either

way Like I felt like Godzilla was a very much

one of those movies where you had some people

who loved it Mean I was more in the middle and

you had those people who hated it and then similar

with like spider -man 2 so I don't know I felt

like there was a lot of reaction to a lot of

the films I mean something like transformers.

I think it left people exactly where they expected

I don't think it really made anyone a new transformer

strand. That wasn't transformers previously and

But yeah, I don't know I felt like there was

a good amount and then you have something like

Guardians which completely dominated in the month

of August and It's still you know, one of the

biggest movies out there right now. So I don't

know. I just feel like right now at this point

The biggest summer we've had in the last seven

years was 2008 because you had Iron Man and the

Dark Knight But then you didn't really have much

else like I would say yeah You maybe you didn't

have anything this summer that was Dark Knight

level Well, though you get our you guardians

was near that but I would say that you had Like

it's you maybe didn't have like two all -stars,

but you had a really solid team there because

you had x -men You had you know, there were yeah

those movie even smaller films like Lucy Lucy

made over a hundred million dollars and which

is you know, that's it. It's an okay movie It's

nothing fantastic, but it It was another movie

that showed it it surpassed expectations. So

I don't know I thought this summer was we'll

get that near the end, but I thought there was

Something there. There's a lot of really unique

movies But I guess that kind of we're getting

into you talked about comedy. I guess that's

a good transition into Sorry a good transition

into how we how well the different genres are

represented this summer I mean, I think you mean

you mentioned comedy Mike. I do agree this summer

didn't have a lot There wasn't really one great

comedy this summer. I mean, I thought I like

22 Jump Street. I liked You know sex tape was

pretty awful. That was like somebody on Facebook

shared somebody else's photo or something where

it said Transformers sex tape or something or

other That's the only thing I remember about

that movie. Yeah, it's that that movie was like

aggressively mediocre I didn't see million ways

to die in the West, but I know that was a at

least a financially disappointment But though

I did I thought Niebuhr's was enjoyable So I

don't know how well do we think comedy? Kevin

do whether any comedies you felt were actually

pretty good this summer that you saw I've seen

more comedies this year than I normally do I

would say just because I've actually with a lot

of the comedies I've watched them like on demand

or red box or whatever it's not usually something

I go see in the theater and I've had more opportunities

to do that so I've seen more comedies but I gotta

say I've really not been impressed I don't know

there's just not I need a film that's gonna genuinely

make me laugh and I feel like this whole last

decade has been void of the host for a lot of

Lot of things. I mean there's been your the other

guys and whatnot that that's been funny, but

I don't know I saw I saw right along because

there was you know, I was making lots of money

And I thought well, maybe I'm just missing out

on something. Maybe that's funny. That wasn't

funny Yes, the other woman hasn't been funny

since Friday. Yeah, I saw the other woman I saw

walk of shame. I saw sex tape. I saw Tammy I

just never really laughed much on any of them.

I mean they had their little funny moments and

their funny scenes But overall like I want a

film that's gonna just make me laugh from beginning

to end It's gonna do something like the first

hangover did or like wedding crashers or the

other guys or stepbrothers something like that

And I'm just not getting it Have you seen 21

or 22 Jump Street? I saw 21 Jump Street. I'd

somewhat enjoyed 21 Jump Street. I have not seen

22 I have heard it's the exact same movie I don't

know if I agree with it. I mean there's I mean,

it's a it's a sequel so there are elements of

it, but I Enjoyed the first one more I think

the second one gets into a little bit too much

of like it's a sequel and it's a little bit too

meta with that joke But yeah, I I don't know

if I agree with that. There's not been any great

comedies in the past 10 years I think I think

comedy is usually pretty steady and I think we

tend to When we're like away from a decade or

away from a few years remember all the good ones

and then We like a movie like ride along is gonna

go away. No one's ever gonna talk about it again,

right? I guess it's more for me like and I like

I said, I haven't seen 22 Trump Street I haven't

seen neighbors. So there's been a few that I've

missed but uh, it's more like instead of like

the traditional comedy Being the funny ones.

It seems like more at least with the last maybe

two three years. It's more of the I don't know

if it's it's not really fringe films or it's

not it's more of the unsuspecting films that

are the funnier ones The genuinely funny ones

and not so much the traditional. This is a comedy.

Here you go. And it's like genuinely funny Yeah,

I mean, I think that makes sense. Yeah, I think

the funniest film last year for me was probably

in Nebraska, right? Yeah stuff like that and

like today, honestly, I mean Grand Budapest Hotel

might have been the funniest film this year.

Good point. It's not necessarily a traditional

comedy type film. I don't know if you call all

of Wes Anderson's films comedies. They're not

really. They're like their own things. I mean,

yeah, I would. I don't know. It depends on which

one. I think that's what I'm saying. I find those

films funnier these days than the straight up

traditional. This is a comedy. Here you go. Yeah.

Yeah. We do have a lot of those like, you know,

very cookie cutter type of, you know, Same kind

of type of concept. Let's throw Kevin Hart in

there because he's popular or Muthlin McCarthy.

I'm surprised they haven't had their own movie

together yet. I'm just waiting for that to happen.

That'll be the heat, too. Maybe. I'll say one

movie that really did surprise me that was really

under my radar, like had no idea it was coming

out because. The last the last one that I had

seen him in was he was Jonathan Kent was Kevin

Costner in three days to kill. It's not like

it's not going to win awards, but it was one

of those movies where I hadn't expected it. And

I didn't even that three days to kill is one

of those movies where. I didn't even know it

was out until I got an email from Redbox saying,

hey, you can rent this now. And it was one of

those things where I rented it. I saw it. I watched

it. I'm like, OK, Kevin Costner is the next Batman.

Seriously, because in that movie, he has so much

gravel in his voice, he could be a double for

Christian Bale. Yeah, I have I have not seen

any of the Kevin Costner movies this year that

are draft day or like he had like a new movie

every week. in the beginning of the year. He's

been doing a lot of stuff lately and Three Days

to Kill outside of Man of Steel was the first

one I had seen in a long time by him. I mean,

you know, we live in an age now where everybody's

like, oh, let's do a sequel to a 20 or 30 year

old movie. Let's do this. I'm really surprised

he hasn't agreed to do Dances with Wolves 2 or

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves 2 or something like

that. Three days to kill it was an alright movie.

It was interesting. It was kind of cool It's

not like I said, it's not gonna win any awards

or make anybody's top lists I liked it for what

it was because it was something different that

I hadn't seen him in before So but that that

was one of the movies that surprised me because

like I said, I literally I had never seen a trailer

for it or anybody talking about it before I got

that email from Redbox I mean, if we're going

to go to surprises, I think there were a decent

amount of surprises this year. Kevin, were there

any movies for you that kind of snuck up on you?

I'm like, wow, I was not expecting much from

that. And it actually ended up being pretty good.

Yeah, I mean, for sure. Obviously, the most obvious

surprise would be without saying how Guardians

of the Galaxy turned out. You know that was a

film like we said none of us quite knew what

to think about it We were anticipating it, but

even when we did our like box office predictions

We didn't know what to make of Guardians of the

Galaxy. You know people didn't know about it

So, I mean obviously that's a surprise. Is it

like a huge surprise? No, because we all thought

it had the potential to be good We just didn't

know what to think of it There was a few though

that I didn't even think it had a chance of being

good that that genuinely surprised me And the

two that come to most to mind first for me would

be number one edge of tomorrow Yeah, that's actually

on my list as well You know, I had almost written

Tom Cruise off completely as far as you know,

putting out science fiction films and I know

I haven't seen a couple of them, which might

be good, but this one I genuinely enjoyed throughout

the entire thing. I thought it was a creative

concept, a unique way of telling the story. It

was a gimmick that didn't become gimmicky in

a way that it didn't annoy me or distract from

the actual story that was being told, so I was

thoroughly surprised by that. I actually saw

it in the theater by myself just on a whim one

day and was very pleased that I went to see it.

And then the second one would be the not not

the legend of Hercules just Hercules starring

Dwayne Johnson I thought that that had every

chance of being a completely terrible movie and

I'm not saying it's like Mike said I'm not saying

it's an award -winning movie or even something

that a lot of people are gonna list as their

number one film or in their top 15 films of the

year or anything like that but if you wanted

Just a good fantasy action film. Like, this gave

you everything you wanted. I really appreciated

what they did with it and the angles they went

and the way they decided to tell the story of

Hercules. Now, Dan, have you seen it? I have

not seen it, no. Okay. Well, I'm not trying to

ruin anything, but it was a clever way of avoiding

the whole... this guy can do these Impossible

feats and all kinds of crazy stuff like it's

not just about Hercules It's about Hercules and

his little group of people and there's even like

a basically a bard Involved it's like they have

their own little singing companion. That's gonna

narrate stuff and tell us about the story I don't

know there was a lot of stuff to like about what

they did with Hercules if you're just a fan of

fantasy or action type just epic films like that

You should check it out because it was way better

than it should have been so Hercules and edge

of tomorrow were my biggest positive surprises

outside of obviously guardians of the galaxy

and I was pleasantly surprised as well with a

grand Budapest hotel and Don of the planet of

the apes I thought both might disappoint me and

they both were better than I thought they would

be Yeah, I had edge of tomorrow as well. I have

not seen Hercules. I do hope to catch it I mentioned

like I'll go check it out and then those are

the other feeders. So When you see it, let me

know because I'm very interested in your take.

Yeah, it did look like I'm I must say like the

trailers never really grabbed my attention, but

I think it Seeing directed by Brett Ratner was

really what kind of threw me but maybe it was

good. I was not Thrilled by the trailers either.

My biggest suggestion would be to go see Legend

of Hercules Then see Hercules or There's another

hercules movie done by like one of the guys from

wwe or something like that. It looks oh, it looks

awful It's a year for hercules, but I had edge

of tomorrow on my surprise list as well. I just

actually saw that Couple days ago, I caught it

on digital download and yeah, I I had that on

like my top 30 most anticipated movies just because

I you know It looked like an interesting concept,

but it was a lot better than I anticipated It

was used well while directed and I think was

a shame that didn't do well in the box office

because it was actually quite quite a good movie

Another movie that I'd say is not a great movie

by any means or anything fantastic But I thought

it was gonna be awful and it ended up being okay

and that was million dollar arm With John Ham

that movie that it's him going to India. It's

like it's a completely a Disney movie It's like

in every way shape and form. It's very corny

in that sense But like in the line of something

like The Rookie or Miracle it you know that heartwarming

under underdog story. It was enjoyable enough

and Also, not necessarily a movie But an actor

that surprised me was what Robert Robert Pattinson

Patterson Pattinson from Twilight, you know the

guy people kill from being awful actor And he

was actually really good in this movie called

the Rover which came out this summer It's a small

one of the small indie films that just actually

came on available digitally download which is

it's kind of this dystopian future starring Guy

Pearce and it's him and Patents in in the desert

and they're trying to track down his car. It's

a really simple story, but he plays this like

yokel From texas that's somehow in australia,

but he's actually like, oh wow. He actually has

some acting chops So that was one of the bigger

surprises positive surprises for me and obviously

with positive surprises that then comes negative

Surprises or disappointments mike. Did you have

anything this summer that disappointed you at

all? Well, I will say that before we get to that

that I the the other one that I I know Kevin

and I are gonna fight over this because we don't

agree on this like we don't agree on a lot of

things but I gotta say Turtles really did surprise

me I think there was two moments where when in

the theater no there is no yeah don't be TV's

mr. Neil and use that line thank you I think

there was two moments in that movie that I actually,

you know, kind of cursed to myself or said boo

to myself in the theater. And it's like the moment

when I could actually hear Johnny Knoxville's

actual voice, like his real voice, not the put

upon Leo voice he's using. And the splinter in

the very beginning. I hated Tony Shaluba's splinter

in the very beginning. But as the movie went

on, I got used to it and I liked it. So that

was the other surprise. As far as disappointments,

like I said, I don't go to the theater unless

I know it's something I'm going to enjoy. So

I completely avoid all disappointments. Usually

where I get my disappointments, it was good.

I liked it. I enjoyed it. Usually where I get

my disappointments is from red box or you know

something like that Where it's like damn? I want

my dollar 27 back now. Oh This isn't summer related,

but I will say one movie that I did rent from

red box that I Couldn't I made it half an hour

into it Should have never had Hawkeye in it should

have had Matt Damon returning and it should have

never taken place at the same time as Ultimatum

was legacy. Oh my god, that movie is so horrible.

Yeah, I mean, if we were doing a retrospective

from two years ago, that'd be awesome. But Kevin,

what about you? Were there any disappointments

for you this year? Well, let's just start with

Turtles. Were you really disappointed with you

or did that just meet your worst expectations?

No, no, like I thought it might be bad. Thought

there would be some things that I was like I

don't like that or maybe I wouldn't be able to

get past like the visuals of the turtles Or maybe

I would have a problem with like a character.

It was literally bad in every facet I Thought

it could be bad. I didn't I didn't realize it

was gonna be awful It's easily one of the worst

films of the year so far And there's a whole

podcast episode where I go off on it so I won't

beat a dead horse you can find the NY Weekly

or Weekend at the Movies episode where we talk

about the turtles and you can hear all my complaints.

So that only disappointed me because it was worse

than I thought it even could be. Let me ask you

a question. Was it worse than Turtles 3? That's

a tough one. Yes or no? Was it worse than Turtles

1 and Turtles 2? No, I'm comparing two bad movies

to each other. They're both very bad. Okay, so

which one is worse then? Probably Turtles 3.

Okay, so then there were aspects of the new Turtles

that you liked, right? At least one aspect? I'd

have to dig pretty deep there. The other two

that probably disappointed me most, and I kind

of knew this was coming so I guess it shouldn't

be a huge disappointment, but Transcendence was

really bad. It was just really bad. Thought maybe

it was getting a bad rap. It's science fiction

seemingly an interesting story Johnny Depp, etc.

And That was just hard to even get through Like

I was watching that with I believe four people

in the room and at least at one point three of

them fell asleep So that was disappointing let's

hope Johnny Depp has a better film later on in

the year and into the woods and the other film

that super, super disappointed me because everybody

was going crazy about it. The trailers got everybody

going crazy about it. All my friends were can't

wait to see this movie. I'm going to see this

movie the first day it comes out. And then I

went with a whole group to see Godzilla and it

was all kinds of bad. So that super disappointed

me. I don't understand the cutting away from

every scene that in. includes Godzilla in actual

fighting and then flipping to see humans. See,

I didn't like I have Godzilla on my disappointed

disappointed list too, but the whole cutting

away thing I had, I think that's more modern

audiences lack of patience because that very

much falls in line with the original Godzilla

very much falls in line with Jaws, even even

Jurassic Park. I mean, I agree the human characters

in that were God awful, but I didn't like the

like building anticipation through the cutaways.

I thought was. I mean, I don't think it was a

patience issue as much as it was, look, we finally

have the technical ability to show these massive

iconic characters fighting and people wanted

to see Godzilla fight. It wasn't that you weren't

patient enough to wait for it. It's that it never

happened. I think the last 20 minutes is pretty

much all Godzilla fighting. Yeah, but I think

people wanted more than just 20 minutes. people

wanted a majority of their film to be that fighting

which what i would which i would say is why a

lot of modern blockbusters aren't very good is

because they do have too much of that like if

you look at the original well i mean if you had

a story to fall back on then that's fine yeah

i mean that's the biggest issue like i don't

i think the the amount of godzilla was fine like

if you look at jurassic park the total amount

of dinosaurs in that is 20 minutes if not 15

then you look at lost world which like tripled

that So just because you increase the amount

of that stuff doesn't mean it's gonna be a better

movie I think it's the fact that air challenge

on shit is like a lack has a charisma void in

an awful actor It made it stand out more when

you're going to this dude who's just like why

are we following this guy? I don't carry that

if he dies or not. I think that to me was a big

issue I think it would have been I think it was

more so that people were like look we can forgive

all of the story and all of the bad Acting and

human elements if you give us more fighting I

think it was people so like it just became a

thing where people were like we'll just give

us more fighting because yeah Screw the story

like if you're not gonna do a good story, then

forget it. Let's just let's just see fighting

Let's see monsters and then I'll still forgive

this film and it can still be something that

I like say Hey, that was fun to watch in the

theater. Yeah, I think that's like that's what

like Pacific Rim got right it like it It's up

a lot better. So unlike Godzilla, which was I

thought either we'd get a decent movie or we'd

get lots of fighting and instead we got some

fighting not really good. So it was just frustrating.

Yeah, I think it like I thought that movie had

a potential of being like one of my like it was

like in my top 10 most anticipated kiss of trailers.

It looked phenomenal. And I still think it overall

the overall look and cinematic aspect of it was

still really good. But like everything story

wise and character wise was just. a huge disappointment.

And I think there's enough there that I still

enjoyed it enough, but it's overall just gigantic

disappointment. And I think it, if you like the

Gareth Edwards, his first movie, Monsters, shares

a lot of the same issues where it's like, he

just doesn't know how to get good performances

from actors. He's great visual storyteller, but

he cannot produce a good actual story, so. But

yeah, I also had I had Turtles on my disappointment

list as well. I had little expectations for it.

I just thought it was just such a dud. Like I

thought maybe like, OK, maybe it'll be kind of

stupid and dumb, but there'll be some fun action

to it. But there really wasn't any interesting

action whatsoever. And honestly, I was a little

bit anticipating Transformers Age of Extinction.

I'm like, you have a better cast here. I mean,

Mark Wahlberg's an upgrade from Child of the

Buff. You know, you getting rid of a lot of the

fat. But it was just it it felt it was such a.

Easily my worst film of the year so far this

is so poorly done. None of the action was at

all interesting It was just nothing really stood

out at least for some of the other milk movies.

I could point to certain action sequences I'm

like, okay, this is well done and Mark Wahlberg

was awful in every way. He had no personality

He was just yeah on paper. He should be a better

performance. But in that movie he was just there's

nothing He just gave nothing the best character

played by GJ Miller was like gone way too soon.

So it was just That movie was freaking 18 hours

long, too, which made it even worse. I'll say

this for Wahlberg. If you're in a Michael Bay

movie, you pretty much do what's on the page.

And let's face it, I don't care what the writing

credits say. Michael Bay writes these damn movies

because he has final say on every frigging thing

like most directors do. Honestly, the only horror

outside of optimus killing Kelsey Grammer The

only really horrible thing about transformers

4 was the the insta transformations. Those were

just ugly and dumb Honestly, it wasn't I didn't

I wasn't even bothered by optimus prime killing

anybody that doesn't yeah I just thought it was

all pretty awesome the humor. Yeah, I was more

so bothered by the completely lack of Decepticons

and Transformers. I don't know. It's just weird

weird Autobots against a bounty hunter and a

bunch of humans I don't know. There was a lot

of stuff to worry about but Optimus Prime killing

someone was least least of my worries in that

film Yeah, yeah, and then like, you know Dinobots

show up and then that's like literally when you're

final climax is yeah When your final climax literally

involves you picking things up and dropping them

and like that's the extent of what's going on

I'm like, okay, clearly you have no new ideas

because that's it. That's all you got This is

weapon that picks things up and drops them because

that makes practical sense in what way possible,

but whatever But anyways, so we talked upon but

we touched upon comedy regarding that genre,

but I mean, obviously the summer has become the

time for superheroes and comic book movies and

whatnot. And this year we got our full. Do we,

you know, do I know, Mike, you talked about 2008

is obviously the like looked at as the banner

year for comic book movies because of Dark Knight

and Iron Man. Do we feel like this year kind

of stacks up to that with X -Men Days of Future

Past? You have Amazing Spider -Man 2, Guardians

of the Galaxy. Haven't seen Sin City 2 yet. I

know that's been kind of mixed, but how well

do we how well were comic books represented this

summer? I think they were represented well even

though I'm not into the whole Guardians of the

Galaxy thing like I said I will see it eventually

but I think it was one of those movies that and

everyone has said this you know Marvel took a

huge gamble trying to put something on the screen

as a full -on live -action comic book movie that

About a franchise that most people unless you

were reading the comics didn't know about like

most of the mainstream audience Knew nothing

about any of these characters or this this franchise

Guardians of the Galaxy, and I think it worked

out Just because I don't care to see it in the

theater doesn't mean that I'll be I mean obviously

the money is spoken for itself I mean, you know

I think we all have gotten All of us that are

from the, you know, born in the 80s, I think

even though some of us are disappointed with

some of the stuff, this summer has hit on franchises

more than superheroes. Sure, you've got the Spider

-Man, the X -Men, all that stuff, but I mean,

the only 80s franchise, well, two 80s franchises

that are missing movies at this point are Masters

of the Universe and My Little Pony. Yeah, it

seems like we're getting all of them here and

there I'm not using the word superhero here.

I would venture to say that 2014 is Without analyzing

every other year. I would say that it on just

a glance that it's the most diverse comic book

Movie year that possibly we've ever seen There's

literally something for every different type

of comic book fan you have your your darker a

little bit, not necessarily dark night type thing,

but X -Men was pretty dark in a lot of ways.

You're seeing a lot of death on screen, regardless

of the time travel aspect. You're seeing your

comedic side with Guardians of the Galaxy. You

got Spider -Man and Captain America, obviously.

You have 300, Rise of the Empire. You have Sin

City 2. That came out? Yeah, you have Sin City

2. I mean, you literally have a... Plethora of

different types of comic book films that if you're

a comic book fan you like comic book movies You're

gonna find at least a couple in this mix that

you enjoy And I don't know how many years have

had that big of a lineup of comic book films

Yeah, it seems like this year going forward the

summer is you know going to be the summer of

comic book based movies You know cuz At this

point, it's either comic -based movies or, like

I said a second ago, franchise -based movies.

And you're right. I mean, this is the most diverse

summer we've had because usually we have... In

the past, we've had, like I said, Iron Man, The

Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises, and... But it's

not just that, it's not even like, even if Marvel

had like, let's say that there was a year where

we had Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Hulk,

even if all four of those movies came out in

the same year, it's still not a diverse group

of comic book films. I mean, yeah, they all have

their different aspects. This one really separates

itself when you have something like X -Men on

one side and Guardians of the Galaxy on the other

end of the spectrum, and you can still throw

in Sin City and 300. Yet still have your just

your basic comic book film like a Captain America

or Amazing Spider -Man 2 like it's just it's

it's Every part of the spectrum is just about

covered So there's a there's a there's diversity

not just not just in your number of films, right?

So I would say it's good for that it's also was

a big you know, I've seen like I think I'm up

to like 40 Yeah, I would say I definitely agree

with you because I mean I think what we're seeing

a lot with comic book movies, too Is that I think

you guys mentioned this said, you know we can

add the movies where Comic book movies is really

just becoming like a like a template and then

we're becoming and then they're becoming something

else Like Captain America was very much a spy

movie Guardians of the Galaxy was the throwback

science fiction film So it's like a comic book

movie is really just becoming your starting point

and you're taking that and making a different

genre of film So I think that's becoming more

and more than darn I think they realize that

they can't, you know, there will be, I know a

lot of you have talked about it before, we've

talked about it before, like the whole superhero

fatigue. And I think they realize that that's

a possibility if they were continuing to do the

same thing. So they're really breaking the mold

with a few of these films this year. Very much,

very much. And then I was just going to say one

other thing, because we were talking about genres

and I think it kind of goes hand in hand with

that. If you expand it to the fantasy and science

fiction genres, literally, I think out of the

40 plus films I've seen this year, At least half

of them, at least 50%, are either science fiction,

fantasy, or superhero. There have been a decent

amount of really good science fiction films,

like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, I thought

was really good. Snowpiercer, which I guess you

would kind of like within science fiction. I

which is technically a summer movie, which I

would say is probably one of the one of the better

sign at summer films That thing that was a maybe

should have been on a surprise list, but that

if I would remember that it came out this year

Yeah, and that I saw it. I don't have it on my

letterbox yet. Dang it Yeah, you know if like

edge of tomorrow to like we mentioned So yeah,

there have been I think it's been a pretty solid

year for for science fiction There's been some

bad stuff in there like you mentioned transcendence

Which I would recommend if you didn't like transcendence

There's this movie called the machine which I

think is on Netflix now the UK film that covers

similar ideas Which I think does it a lot better

for like, you know one -tenth the budget of transcendence

But yeah, so I do agree. There's been a lot of

a good science fiction and fantasy Yeah, and

I mean in like I said, maybe it's not all good.

I'm not saying it's all good necessarily, but

there has been a mixture of everything. You know,

fantasy, science fiction, epic type films, even

like some stuff that we haven't mentioned that,

you know, not necessarily great films, but someone

might enjoy it that likes that genre. We've had

RoboCop, you had I, Frankenstein, you had both

Hercules films, Pompeii, Noah. You know not to

mention the stuff like we like you said Divergent

Edge of Tomorrow Giver all science fiction Earth

to Echo science fiction Maleficent, so I mean

there was a lot in that genre might not all be

good Everybody won't like all of them, but you

know if you're a fan of those genres You're gonna

find something this year that you like yeah,

and have you have you guys seen Earth to Echo?

I have I have not Would you say it's the 21st

century version of ET um no I would not It's

a lot closer to something like What was the film

the other year Super 8? I don't know. I don't

necessarily see it as as a ET type film. I guess

I mean I see the connections But maybe that's

maybe that's the trailers fault on it was fine.

It was fun I think kids that are growing up like

that It would be similar to like what we experienced

with like a goonies or you know an ET It'll have

that same type of effect maybe on a really young

audience. You know, it's an enjoyable film I'm

not jumping up and down about it, but I could

see kids liking it It didn't do super well Yeah,

I have not seen it myself. So I cannot speak

to that. I think it's actually been a pretty

good year We can then we can move off through

genres too for like indie films There have been

a lot of good smaller movies this year, which

seems to become more and more than normal as

well like boyhood Which was huge which actually

did pretty well in the in the box office to Lock

with Tom Hardy, which again, we mentioned snow

piercer and the rover already and Frank that

again none of like they're not like gigantic

like box office hits but interesting films that

are pretty good and worth seeing for sure. So

now that we kind of cover the genres, I guess

the question is, before we maybe wrap this thing

up, were there any certain standout moments or

characters this year, like certain scenes you

feel like will become those iconic scenes that

will go on, you know, that people will reference

from, you know, from till the dawn of time or

whatever, or standout characters that you think

really kind of took over the summer? Don't think

it's more so stand -up character. I think it's

more of a standout scene at least for me because

I Remember the old Bill Cosby bit that references

it but buck buck in turtles. I thought that was

hilarious That they would even think to write

that in there cuz not a lot of people know what

the hell buck fuck is It's It's a game that the

kids used to play in the olden days. It was something

that I had only heard from a Bill Cosby comedy

show a long time ago that I remember it from

that. And when it showed up in Turtles, I was

like, hey, it's Buck Buck. That's awesome. Interesting.

I'll say that seeing the Falcon in Captain America

kind of Surprised me and I think that's kind

of a standout moment how they were able to work

that into a real world Without having to do super

major effects. They you know real -worlded that

kind of I thought that was kind of interesting

What about you Kev? Were there any standout characters

or standout moments this year for you as scenes

or whatnot? Kevin, are you back? You said you

were back. I think he stepped away. Well, I'll

go to mine. So some of my standout scenes, I

mean, Guardians has definitely a ton. I mean,

you could probably you talk about characters

you can't not talk about. Rocky Raccoon and Groot,

I mean, those obviously were huge. Pretty much

all the characters from Guardians of the Galaxy,

Chris Pratt and Star -Lord. They kind of took

over the summer, no doubt. But some of the moments

in that movie that like really stuck out to me

and most of them. most of the best moments in

that movie were just conversations and the big

one was like wow the I have a plan moment which

was really humorous with rocket uh showing his

stuff and that uh there's also a really great

scene with rocket regarding him kind of uh having

more of an emotional breakdown which was surprising

and yeah rather effective with that film um Dawn

of the Planet of the Apes had a lot of standout

moments for me and a lot of standout characters

like uh Koba In that movie is to me the villain

of the summer maybe even year so far like a a

character I did not was you know introduced in

the last film and really came into his own in

his last movie It was a fantastic character and

had a really great stand -up moment i'll just

say it's a human work moment and people who've

seen the movie know what i'm referring to and

uh, it also has this really great shot and in

that film where you have a camera on top of the

turret of a tank and it's like the spinning shot,

which was fantastic, was like a really unexpected

moment that really stood out and was really well

done. And it shows you just how great of a director

like Matthew Wallen is, because I think he's

a guy who's been making a lot of great films.

And I think that really was like his coming out

party. And then X -Men is a future past. The

moment everyone went to was obviously the Quicksilver

breakout scene. Which was, you know, everyone

was worried about Quicksilver coming into the

summer because he looked kind of funky and kind

of dorky and a little bit over the top. But he

ended up really stealing the show in a lot of

ways. You know, it was really funny. And that

moment kind of encapsulated it all. So yeah,

you put time in a bottle is the soundtrack behind

Quicksilver. Everybody's going to love it. What

about you, Kev? Standout moments, scenes, characters,

any kind of thing from the summer? Yeah, there's

a few here and there. I think obviously the one

that Dan was talking about with Planet of the

Apes was one. That was really enjoyable. The

use of the different camera angles, especially

like you said in that tank rotating scene. I

think whether good or bad, there's a... Well,

not necessarily good or bad, but I think there's

definitely some scenes in Hercules with the Rock

that were pretty epic and pretty cool to see

on the big screen. I'm not going to give anything

away, so I'm not going to give what they were.

I believe also the exact scene that you talked

about in X -Men with Quicksilver, all the scenes

with Quicksilver were pretty memorable. There's

a scene in 300 rise of the Empire Whether you

like to film or don't like the film. There's

a there's a sex scene in there. That's I guess

somewhat memorable And then the amazing spider

-man 2 Would I be spoiling anything if I talked

about one of the end scenes no, it's been what

Four or five months since that movie came out

and people haven't seen it by now. If you haven't

seen it, jump ahead about 30 seconds. But obviously

the scene where his love interest, Gwen, takes

a plunge. She bounces off the brick. Just the

way that they did that and the way that she smacked

that ground was kind of jarring and not something.

I expected to see even if I was expecting to

see her die. I wasn't expecting to see her die

quite like that So those are just some just real

quick ones that jumped out at me not saying there's

not a bunch of other good scenes out there But

those are some yeah, I mean ones wouldn't just

kind of jump to my head Because the movie we

haven't mentioned yet, which I really want to

which is how to train your dragon too and that

like any like flying scene and that movie was

fantastic, especially with like There were these

new characters introduced called the alphas which

were I thought like Amazing like they were a

lot of great like battle sequences and the use

of scale and that was fantastic So that was that

had a lot of great Santa movements And I think

it's actually been quite a good year for animation

so far and with a couple movies coming out I

think it could be a really good year for animation

if big hero 6 and box box trolls end up being

as good as I think they can be so but uh All

right, so anything else before we kind of you

know wrap this guy up before anything any moments

or movies We wanted to briefly touch upon before

we kind of give her overall opinions of the summer

So if we were gonna if we were going to Grade

the summer, you know a to F give it comparing

to other summers. What kind of grade do you think

he would give? the summer of 2014 like You know,

like I said going into there was a whole lot

of films So there was a lot to anticipate but

you also knew that a bunch of them might be bad

I feel like the same even after the summers over

with a somewhat of a mixed feeling now Dan and

I talked about our predictions for the box office

back at the beginning of the year. And when we

were doing that and having that discussion, I

had mentioned that kind of a marker that you

kind of had to look at towards deciding if something

was going to crack the top 10 was breaking the

200 million mark. And I had looked back at a

bunch of different years in recent history to

see how many films a year break the 200 million

mark. And it seemed like in order to be top 10,

you kind of had to do that. Well, we've already

had nine films that have broken that this year.

And that's not counting stuff that hasn't come

out like The Hunger Games, The Hobbit, and Interstellar

that could have a chance or Big Hero 6 if it

got enough steam. So I mean we have the potential

to have 12 to 13 movies this year that break

the 200 million mark. So even though overall

the box office is down as a year, there are a

lot of individual films that have really been

successful. To me it's been a... somewhat of

an all or nothing year. You have these nine or

10 films that have made $200 million that have

had some good reception, et cetera. And there's

not much in the middle. It kind of goes from

that to a whole load of crap. And I'm not trying

to say that I'm not discounting films that are

good that... are necessarily going to make a

lot of money at the box office. I'm just saying

it seems like this year so far it's been hit

or miss. It's been you you have these films that

make a lot of money or these films that are really

good and then you have some films that are really

awful. I haven't had a bunch of films in the

middle where it's like it was good, not great,

not terrible. That's been the minority this year.

So I mean, I guess if I'm just judging it on

some of the films I was most anticipating, like

X -Men, Spider -Man, Planet of the Apes. Guardians

of the Galaxy and some of those expectations

are Hercules with Rock. I would say that the

summer did pretty good. If I'm going to look

at it from the standpoint of Transformers and

Turtles and Godzilla and a bunch of that stuff,

I'm going to say it was a pretty crappy summer.

So I guess I'll fall somewhere in the middle

and we'll give this one a C+. Mike, what about

yourself? See, I don't know. I mean, Transformers

overall, I enjoyed the movie. because it was

different actors than the other three films.

With, you know, stuff like Spider -Man and X

-Men, those were good. Spider -Man 2, Amazing

Spider -Man 2 was a vast improvement over the

first film. And X -Men, it's finally nice to

have Brian back in that seat because I really,

like, the best thing about first class for me

was go... Go f off pretty much. This is the wolverine

scene. Um For me though, I think overall to be

fair i'll i'll give it a solid b minus. Um out

of the movies that i've seen i've been impressed

with a lot of them, but Are they movies that

i'm gonna go and see again? I don't know Okay,

I guess i'll i'll maybe i'll be the the the least

harsh grader here because actually I thought

if I look at What worked as summer expend these

future paths? I'm gonna throw Captain America

in there because that is basically a summer movie

Guardians. I thought those are really great and

there are thought there were some movies that

were maybe not like Trips like fantastic, but

really solid. I thought Lucy was good I thought

like I mentioned like a movie like, you know

necessarily a summer blockbuster but films like

boyhood and I thought walk so I thought overall

there was a lot of really Really solid films

and calvary again another movie that came out

this year necessarily again summer blockbuster,

but came out released in the summer Uh, and I

thought 22 jump street was pretty good neighbors.

So there are a lot of like good movies I went

to a lot of awful films I would say that maybe

bring it down but comparing it to other summers

Like I think there is far much more to choose

from more diversity When it comes to the overall

films themselves, so I I'd give this movie this

summer b plus considering all the different kind

of genres that it hit and hit successfully. And

like I mentioned, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,

which I thought was did some remarkable stuff

when you had a movie that was about drama with

apes and ended up being a really good movie.

Even I think even better than The Rise of the

Planet of the Apes, which is another surprise

film. So I'd give this movie a B plus. So but

I guess before we go real quick, were there any

movies that we missed that we are? Hoping to

catch up with before first of all you win for

having the best explanation And I totally can

get what you're saying there as far as a diverse

summer and With a lot to choose from and a lot

of good films, so I'm not having an issue with

your grade I don't think you're far off I was

just too disappointed with a few of them kind

of left a sour taste in my mouth But as far as

like you're talking about films that we didn't

get a chance to see that We're still looking

forward to or just films. Yeah, you have to come

out. Yeah Those movies that were came on somewhere

that you didn't get to check out yet. Well, I

found that one problem with, you know, we made

these lists, Dan and I, our most anticipated

films of 2014. And I just went to review mine

and realized that half the films I haven't seen.

You know, I have not seen Nymphomaniac Maniac

yet. I haven't seen A Million Ways to Die in

the West. I've heard so many good things about

the chef and I haven't had a chance yet to finally.

get to see it. So those were Jersey Boys I missed

as it just flew through the theater and I missed

it without it without a chance to see that one

yet. So I mean there's been a bunch of stuff

that I had listed that I wanted to see that I

don't have any way I didn't see. So, I mean a

lot of them that I have yet to see I have faith

that I will catch them before the year's over

Especially now that I've reminded myself that

I wanted to see that Time gets in the way sometimes

I guess so those are those ones that I mentioned

were probably the main ones Most everything in

the top 10 that's come out I've seen but it was

that 20 or 10 to 20 range that I've missed a

lot that I just Didn't have time to fit it in

the schedule yet Mike, what about you? I mean

for me I haven't Well, I think you can say guardians

because I think you definitely need to know no,

I mean, yeah, I will see it eventually I just

haven't Like I haven't seen Robocop and I have

I think that was on my list and I just I don't

care enough I guess It's just one of those things

I just don't don't care that much for it I honestly

think the only one that what that was on my list

that I have yet to see is Gone Girl. And the

trailers, I don't know, it's coming, but that's

what I'm saying. It's like, that's the only one

that I had put on my list for anticipated movies

that I haven't had a chance to see yet. Because

obviously, as you said, it doesn't come out till,

you know, October 3rd, but it's one of those

ones where now that I'm seeing more of the trailers,

I'm not sure if I'm going to see it. Like that

first trailer really like got me in and now that

they're ramping up the marketing on and it's

like I'm not sure if I really want to waste my

money on this movie. I trust Fincher. So I It's

not that I don't trust him. It's just I don't

know It's good. It's it got pretty good reviews

out of tiff I didn't read them specifically,

but I know overall the buzz is pretty positive

So, I don't know if it's gonna be like, you know

a word worthy year big, you know best movie the

year worthy but I'm definitely gonna see it but

uh for some of the summer film is movies that

I missed I I didn't see since 32 like I mentioned

the fault of our stars, which I heard good things

about I didn't get a chance to see Magic in the

Moonlight, which is like, you know, Woody Allen's,

you know annual film the get on up the James

Brown Biopic which I heard was pretty good and

like the drop which came out last week or two

weeks ago, which I really want to see it's a

based upon a book by Dennis Lehan, who's one

of my favorite noir artists. Mike, you mentioned

Gone Girl for movies that are coming out. Is

there anything else we're looking at now that

summer's over? What are we looking forward to

for the rest of the year? For me, that's it,

honestly. I'm just not one of the people that

go to the theater all that much, seriously. Yeah,

I get that. Kevin, what about you? There's still

obviously a lot of stuff yet to come this this

year that I'm that I'm anticipating Obviously

interstellar is coming out into the woods Christmas

Day. I'm super looking forward to that What else

here I know that dumb and number two I had you

know just kind of a passing interest in and seeing

that to see see how good that is. Let's see,

there's two more that are slipping my mind at

the moment. Box Trolls, which comes out this

weekend, and Exodus, another December release,

Exodus, to see how Ridley Scott and Christian

Bale do with that story. So those are probably

the ones I'm most at the top of my brain. Yeah,

I mean, Box Trolls looks so good. I just can't

wait to see the movie. Um some other ones i'm

looking forward to rip whip whiplash with miles

teller that got and also jcain simmons, which

I heard a lot of good things about foxcatcher

and fury with uh Mike's favorite actor shy little

buff I think he's only a small part in that big

hero 6 looks like a lot of fun. Oh judge too

Yeah judge looks good birdman. I'm looking forward

to that Don't know if this is actually gonna

come out this year, but American sniper by Clint

Eastwood Starting Bradley Cooper and then Cooper's

been doing like amazing stuff recently and you

mentioned interstellar Rosewater, which is John

Stewart's movie that he directed like two years

ago about the guy who was basically Arrested

after doing an interview in The Daily Show in

Iran, which looks like it could be kind of cool

I mean not cool, but looks like a very interesting

movie and also the imitation game because that's

actually what one tiff A few weeks ago, uh, which

usually is a good sign of that It's gonna get

nominated for best picture not necessarily gonna

be a great movie But it has benedict cummerbatch

in it. So that's always a plus. Oh and lastly

nightcrawler, which looks Really interesting.

Yeah, uh jake jillan hall being weird, which

i'm always for so But all right anything else

before yeah You know, going through, I kind of

went through the list, and I'll say I do have

three. You mentioned The Judge. I saw the, I

saw promotional stuff for that on Facebook, and

that looks really interesting. Gone Girl, as

I already mentioned, and the other one. Only

because I think it's super weird seeing The Punisher

wear or have his hair look like it's a wig. Him

and John Cusack in Drive Hard. I don't know why

they, that is such an unfortunate title for that

movie. I'll say this for me personally this the

animation this year. I just don't care. I Haven't

liked a lot of the animated stuff that's come

out this year. I Just have zero interest in it.

See I'd have to say there I mean you had a how

to train your dragon to Lego movie you have box

trolls big hero 6 I feel like there's some other

movies I'm forgetting box trolls and big hero

6 delivery. It will be looked at as a good animated

animation year I think it's one of those things

where one is gonna outdo the other and The other

one is going to flop majorly Well, I and I think

I think big hero 6 is gonna be the success and

box trolls is just gonna go away whimpering Well,

I don't think box trolls necessarily gonna it's

ever designed to be a big blockbuster hit I mean

like the the studios nothing compared to that

does Box roles is nothing compared to Marvel.

So I mean if it does like, you know, say six

seven million It's it's the project's not a huge

on that film. So doesn't have to do tremendously

for that to be you know, I mean Coraline which

they did and paranormal which were, you know

decent hits, but they weren't you know, nothing

Marvel level so I do agree that big hero six

is probably gonna be bigger financial success

because When you have Disney behind you, you

know, you really can't yeah No Alright, does

anybody have any final thoughts before I close

it out? I do not. Nope. Just interested to see

what happens the rest of the year so that we

can start formulating our top ten list and what

not. Oh Lord. Alright, that's going to do it

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