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Yes! Today on Weekend at the Movies, we talk

about more Beauty and the Beast castings, what's

possibly in store for fans of horror films, we

look at a trailer that had everybody talking

this week, and for our main attraction, we will

do our first ever Actor Spotlight. All that and

more coming up on Weekend at the Movies. That's

right. It's a weekend at the movies and I am

one of your hosts optimus solo and with me today

is movie revolt Dan. Hello Hey, man, how's it

going? not too bad just the two of us today not

will Smith style, but Just just the two of us

today Matt is under the weather so he will not

be joining us But how is your week been going

man? It's better now. I started off the week

rather sick. I had a really awful stomach bug,

but got better. I've been watching some basketball

and celebrating St. Patrick's Day, but how about

yourself? I wish I was watching basketball, but

I kind of completely forgot that that was even

happening. I guess I've just been busy. I don't

know. Our work's been crazy because we've been

going from weather -wise, we had a day this week

that was 75 degrees, and then the next day it

was 42. and it's just been bouncing all around,

so it's a lot of calling people off, calling

people late, then asking people to come in early.

We're changing with the weather, and now it's

calling for a slight snow, I think, on Monday.

Yeah, we're supposed to get snow tomorrow, too,

and we just had 70s a week ago. I hate, March

is the worst. Yeah. Other than that, everything

else is somewhat normal. doing a bunch of stuff.

Mike and I wrapped up our He -Man, the original

1980 series podcast. So we got through all 130

episodes of that. So we did our wrap -up show

just today, actually, this morning. So I've been

busy doing a bunch of podcasts today. Hey got

to do what you got to do love talking movies

So that's what we're gonna do now and we're gonna

take a quick look at the box office first I don't

think there's too much of a surprise from this

last weekend If you guys had missed it coming

in at number one was of course Cinderella with

the weekend gross of 67 almost 68 million run

all night the other new one came in at 11 Kingsman

number three actually came up a spot up to 6

million more Focus went from the second place

down to the fourth place with just under six

million and Chappie rounds out the top five at

about the same amount that Focus did actually.

Any surprises for you at the box office? No,

it's pretty much what we thought. I mean, running

all night didn't do as well as maybe I thought.

Maybe we talked about last week or two weeks

ago about how Liam Easton won't be doing action

movies in two years, and maybe that will be even

sooner, because it seems like they're not getting

the pox office they once were when they're not

called taken. Yeah, I think you said two years,

because he's probably still filming stuff that's

coming out in two years, so you have to give

that buffer nowadays. But a little surprised

that, well I guess I'm not surprised, but Kingsman

leapfrogged back over Focus, so that's kind of

interesting. And Kingsman now is also over 100

million for the year, so that's good for those

involved in the fantasy league. An extra point

for Colin Firth and company. Looking at it next

week, what do you think is your prediction as

far as is something going to unseat Cinderella

or what are the chances of Cinderella staying

number one two weekends in a row? I don't see

it happening. I see Insurgent, which is what

they're calling it, right? Divergent Insurgent.

I don't know. I see that possibly having the

biggest opening weekend of the year so far. Possibly,

maybe not as big as... what was 50 shades of

gray it was up there but yeah it was up there

and then it made no more money exactly uh uh

but yeah i don't think cinderella it'll probably

i think take a decent size hit maybe drop 50

or so but i feel like that you think it has any

shot of coming in at number two or i think one

of the other definitely be number two i think

the other one is with the gunman coming out i

don't think That'll probably do around what the

run all night did this week. It's not getting

a buzz. I don't know if Sean Penn has the action

fans really all that, all that enthused. So I

would - It's his turn though with the Taken genre,

so. Yeah, I mean, I mean, it could be a surprise

hit. It could be, but I don't, I don't feel like

it has the trailer Taken did. I think that's

a big part of what would be Taken great in Gunman

trailer. I even saw a lot of - No, I haven't

seen hardly any advertisement for it. Even going

to other movies they haven't been showing. Even

before other films I haven't seen much. It's

weird, I mean you think with Sean Penn and Idris

Elba and the people involved that you get at

least some marketing behind it. Yeah, the only

thing I saw was Sean Penn and Bill Maher last

week. That's about it. It's clearly going to

be Cinderella 2 and Insurgent number 1 next week.

And my guess is Insurgent will probably hold

that spot for at least a week or two, depending,

until Fast comes out maybe. Right. Alright, well

we will have to wait and see. I wanted to add

one little quick thing that we do when we look

at the box office and to go along with our fantasy

draft league and everything that we score on

I thought we might as well not just talk about

box office but talk about what stuff is looking

at as far as Rotten Tomatoes for the recent releases.

So I have some information for that too if you're

not aware. Not only giving you the box office

but also the scores there. So Cinderella not

just won the box office they're also certified

fresh right now at 84%. And Run All Night, the

other new opener, is at 59%. A little bit lesser

of a release, but the other new one that I know

you said that you were planning on hopefully

seeing it follows at 94 % certified fresh. So

it follows as the top one Rotten Tomatoes as

far as the releases this week at 94. Then we

have Cinderella at 84 and Run All Night at 59.

Are you surprised at Cinderella? Is that high?

Yeah, I did not expect it to be that high. Don't

know I guess I would Assume it would be around

around like what Maleficent was but I guess it's

it did a little bit better So I haven't seen

it, but maybe we can talk about that in a little

bit Right and I'm happy because Haley Atwell

was in that and for the first time this year

so far I have somebody involved in a movie that's

not tanking at Rotten Tomatoes So I appreciate

that as far as what you said with the movies

that are coming out this weekend And just in

case people are trying to decide what to see

I just saw a message from Hiro on Twitter from

True Bromance asking what he should see this

weekend. Looking at the Rotten Tomatoes early

reviews so far, Insurgent is at 35%. The Gunman

is at 16%. So not good opening numbers for either

of those. I know you had this on your most anticipated

list, but Kumiko the Treasure Hunter? Am right

that was on your most anticipated list, right?

It may have been I don't remember that one I

think you had it somewhere but Kumiko the treasure

hunter or maybe I've heard some other people

talking about it is at 89 % certified fresh So

maybe that is somehow I doubt a lot of people

have access to go see that but Definitely scoring

better than the gunman and insurgent the other

one that I'm surprised. It's not getting a bigger

release Maybe as Danny Collins That's supposed

to be opening to with Al Pacino Annette Benning

Christopher Plummer and I believe Jennifer Garner

That's at 56 % so not great numbers, but better

than insurgent or the gunman so Seems like go

see it follows if it's in a theater near you

writer I guess if you haven't seen Cinderella,

maybe you should I don't know but so those are

the Rotten Tomato numbers as well getting into

the news real quickly or do you want to Do you

want to talk about the movies you've watched

first? Since we're in box office, let's make

sense to go to the news. Alright, so what is

your first news story today? Well, you know,

we have to talk each week about... Obviously

Star Wars, right? I mean, it's a rule It's a

new new story each week and the one that I kind

of picked out was Regarding who's gonna be scoring

the next Star Wars film and I don't know who

it's gonna be but it will not be John Williams

so Kind of almost like an end of an era a little

bit that Star Wars Rogue One will not be scored

by Williams if you think about any movie out

there that's More known for their score Star

Wars is up there. So that's I mean, that's a

tough challenge for anyone and they go along

with that John Williams will also not be scoring

the upcoming movie by Steven Spielberg, A Bridge

of Spies, which is the last time a movie wasn't

scored by, a Spielberg movie wasn't scored by

Williams was back when he did A Color Purple,

and it's the only movie not scored by. Square

by Williams by Spielberg so kind of crazy that

these two Iconic franchises or directors that

have always been partnered with him Well, you

know will not be using him for these new movies

So it was it's kind of a kind of sad bittersweet

in some ways Yeah, two things that this made

me think of first number one. I I guess I didn't

realize that John Williams was aging I He's just

one of those guys that I guess for me just seemed

like he was just forever the same age. Yeah,

I didn't realize he was 83 Wow, yeah, so I guess

I understand maybe Why he might not be scoring

as many movies or you know? I don't know exactly

what his reasoning was. Well the reasoning for

at least the Bridge of Spies was because he had

a minor health issues that caused some scheduling

conflicts But apparently he will be scoring the

next Spielberg film, but just not the most recent

one So maybe you're going to have to pick which

ones he does better off or more selectively.

And the other thing that it made me think of

was, is the person that takes over the next Star

Wars score simply just going to use one of his

scores with a slight variation? I mean, that's

tough. I don't know if they would get someone,

say like a Hans Zimmer or Horner or someone like

that that's established or go more so with someone

who Give them an opportunity like a more lesser

-known name because it's tough. How do you how

do you do star wars and do it differently? I

guess you wouldn't use the normal music would

you since it's it's a different take. I don't

know. That's a big question I know at one point

they were talking about that he would do the,

and it kind of talks about this a little bit

in the article, that he would do the main ones,

the episode seven, eight, nine, et cetera, and

let other people do the spin -off movies to kind

of even more establish that those are different,

that those are their own thing, and that it's

not necessarily as connected, which I can totally

see. It's still gonna come off weird. I mean

I get the idea behind that and I think it would

be I think it's smart in a way, but I think it's

still gonna be weird for People that are just

used to Star Wars music hearing anything if it

comes across as different. Yeah So I don't know.

Hopefully people are open to it. It would be

it would be I think I think people would be.

I mean, I'm guessing it's going to be scrutinized

and probably I'm sure run by Williams to make

sure he's OK with it. So it's going to be interesting.

I think that's really going to make make Rogue

One stand out differently for sure. So I guess

it's also another thing to anticipate or to be

excited about when. December 2016 rolls around

to see not just what's gonna happen with the

spinoff movies what they're gonna be focused

on what the plots gonna be What the character

is gonna be but now we can also be interested

in what's the music gonna sound like yeah? Another

element to if there needs to be another element

for excitement for Star Wars We'll give you one

there for my first news story a lot of people

were talking about it And I'm talking about one

of the trailers that I wanted to mention Pretty

sure you saw this one because I think I saw a

couple tweets from you as well. The trailer for

Pixels dropped this week and a lot of people

on Twitter were talking about it, Dan. What did

you think? I think it was rather intriguing.

I mean, it's I was. When I saw the premise, I'm

like, how does it even work? So I was really

interested in seeing the trailer and seeing what

it's going to be like. And I'm liking it for

the most part. I wonder if it's going to be sustainable

or if it's going to just go for the cheap blast.

But I thought it looked kind of interesting.

And it looked kind of fun. It definitely has

a huge amount of nostalgia there. But I kind

of enjoyed it. And it feels weird to have faith

in an Adam Sandler movie. And I'll talk about

one in not too long. But I think it could be

good. It could be good. I do. I do don't. I wish

Kevin James wasn't in it because that makes me

fear that he's going to resort to the same jokes

over and over again. But I don't know. Maybe

they can find something interesting and different.

You know, this movie has gone through so many

different phases for me because originally I

maybe read something wrong back a year, year

and a half ago or whenever the first rumors about

this movie came out. But originally, I thought

this was a hundred percent animated film. Yeah.

You know, I thought it was just an animated film

that was going to somehow take on video games,

do something similar that Wreck -It Ralph and

the LEGO movie kind of in that same vein. And

then, you know, later on I was like, oh, it's

going to be part animated and part live action

and that always scares me. And especially when

Adam Sandler and company are in there, you know,

you always kind of have a little hesitation these

days just because it's not... It's not the Adam

Sandler of old, I guess. I guess that's a whole

different discussion for another day, though.

But so I was a little skeptical there, and I

wasn't sure what kind of blend they were gonna

do between live -action and animation, but that

first trailer, I'm back on board, I think. I'm

not as skeptical as I was. I like the feel of

it. I thought I had potential there, but I, too,

worry about... It's almost like the same type

of thing, you know, when you get a bunch of these

guys together like you did with grown -ups or...

Grown Ups 2, I think those were the two names

of those films. But you just kind of worry sometimes.

You put a bunch of those comedians together and

it doesn't always work. But so far, based on

the trailer, I'm somewhat on board. So I don't

know. I'll probably still see it right away.

I don't know if it'll be like opening weekend

type thing. It's not something I'm going to line

up for or anything like that. But I'm definitely

worth. are willing to give it a chance. Yeah,

I guess the fact that at least it seems like

Adam Sandler is at least trying with this movie.

You're going with a script that's not just him

on vacation. Right, I think that's the key is

the setting. So if the setting's not in an island

territory or the Bahamas, then you have a chance

of it also being a good movie. It's not just

him traveling. So yeah, but I thought that was

interesting definitely a lot of people talking

about it and a lot of people Seem to agree with

us from what I've read on Twitter that they're

interested in this one more than they were so

I see yes I see a lot of apprehension people

are like could this be good I don't want to it's

like you burn me once saying they're relaxing

more than once but you know, right You've burned

me ten times We're way past the fool me once

or fool me twice thing. So Dan, what do you got

for your next new story? My next story, you tease

it up front and that's the idea that the horror

fans might be getting in expendables of their

own. Recently Bruce Campbell was interviewed

and talked about that he would have a lot of

interest in doing a horror film that was in the

model of expendables. Apparently it's been long

discussed and he mentioned that like he's friends

with a lot of people from the horror genre and

think it'd be a great way to get together and

part of it was based upon a supposed sequel to

2008 Bruce Campbell film My Name is Bruce where

like he played a version of himself that gets

kind of stuck into a horror film and the sequel

to that was supposed to be Bruce versus Frankenstein

and the idea is like kind of expanding on that

even further so getting different horror Infamous

horror creatures and infamous horror characters

and putting them into some sort of movie My guess

is if it's Bruce Campbell, it's gonna be more

comedy horror Which you know, I feel like a lot

of ways a lot of those horror franchises went

that route anyways You think of something like

Freddy vs. Jason. So even someone who's not a

huge horror fan I do really like Bruce Campbell

and I do really love Evil Dead and you know that

franchise so I'd be somewhat, you know, think

intrigued if they could actually pull this off

I don't know about you Yeah, I mean, I'm not

a huge horror fan either, but I think something

like this would at least get me interested I'd

be curious to see which direction they go because

you could go we have a horror film mashup of

more of like the the undead or the monster type

things, you know if you're talking about like

a You know Frankenstein or you know Godzilla

Wolfman those types of things or if you're going

more like a Freddy a Jason and you know some

of the more Like I don't know. I don't want to

call them real people, but yeah, you know what

I mean at which direction they go I would probably

be more interested in and the Freddy and the

Jason and some of those other just like classic

human more human characters But either way, I

think it's I think it'd be something that I'd

at least give a give a shot to even from someone

that doesn't like a horror genre usually I found

it interesting. I didn't see this in the article

right away, but They're also apparently developing

an Expendables TV show Which I? Didn't realize

that either I I don't know yes, that's the loan

is developing an Expendables TV show with starring

Ken Lutz because That just sounds awful yeah,

I he might be developing it. I don't know that

anyone's gonna be buying it right, but yeah,

I mean my only thought is though like Cabin in

the woods kind of almost gave us an expendables,

you know, franchise when it comes to horror.

So could you do anything like that? I mean, there

have been comics, like there have been comics

that have combined a lot of the horror in like

Ash has been one of them. He even appeared in

like the Marvel zombie universe. So there have

been crossovers there that you can pull from.

So it, I mean, it could be, it could work. I

mean, there's been worse things, I guess. Yeah,

no, that's that's for sure. I guess like I like

most things it comes down to execution But I

think the idea alone is something that's intriguing

that most people would at least be interested

to see what direction they take it so yeah To

see if we get more more on that throughout the

year or or early next year if they Start to go

into some conventions and talking to each other

never know definitely For my other news story.

I know we just talked about beating the beast

a little bit ago a week or two ago, but there

has been some more casting alongside that film.

And I thought it was interesting just based on

the people and in lieu of Cinderella just coming

out, et cetera. So we had already talked about

Emma Watson being cast as the lead Belle and

that Downtown Abbey star slash the main star

and the guest Dan Stevens would be the beast.

And that Luke Evans was going to play Gaston.

But now we also know that Emma Thompson apparently

will be taking the role of the teapot. Mrs. Potts

and that Kevin Kline will be the inventor, Bell's

father, the inventor, Maurice, and that Josh

Gad will be the bumbling servant Lefeu. And I

didn't know this, but apparently they've got

the original music people too. Oscar -winning

composer Alan Menken and Tim Rice will be re

-recording songs from the original as well as

doing some fresh new material. And we also got

information on the writer, Stephen, I want to

say that last name wrong, but Chosky, but there's

a B in there. I don't know how to say that, but

he worked on the perks of being a wallflower.

So he's writing the script. So apparently they're

going to be shooting soon and that is set for

a release date of approximately two years. from

now so March of 2017 so we're continuing down

the Disney live -action Road Maleficent Cinderella

now Beauty and the Beast and obviously we're

still we last we talked about Dumbo and We know

already know that Jungle Book is on is in the

pipeline. So Beauty and the Beast What's your

level of interest with all this information with

you know? It's getting a lot of really talented

people attached to it and it's I'm getting more

and more intrigued last week is like, okay, but

like You know the writer. I love Perksbury and

Wallfeller. I'm a huge Josh Gad fan. I think

he's really funny great, you know, he has a lot

of experience with musicals obviously with the

book of Mormon and getting those composers. I

mean that's that's also huge. So I don't know

this and especially since Cinderella did really

well even critically. So I think it's the possibilities

of this being good is becoming higher and higher.

Yeah and then we'll I'll talk about Cinderella

in a bit, but I think The thing that has me most

interested is the composers that are getting

on board with it as well. Because I really think

that the music is an important part to these

films. I'm not saying you have to have the same

songs that everybody knows. You can have variations,

you can have new songs or whatever, but I think

that's one thing. Obviously that's one of the

main elements that kind of drove the frozen craze

with the animated side of things. So I think

it's good that they're trying to maybe put a

little of that into the live action as well.

Alright, so that's it for our news stories for

this week. Some trailers that came out just in

case anybody's interested in watching them, they'll

be linked to at the webpage. Infinitely Polar

Bear, which we talked about a couple weeks ago

as far as the name goes. They had their first

trailer drop. And then a bunch of horror films.

The Vatican Tapes, Insidious Chapter 3, and Before

I Wake had trailers come out. Ride, a comedy

starring Helen Hunt and Alex. of venice so those

are some trailers that uh you may or may not

be interested in i will say i found the trailer

for infinitely polar bear to be pretty interesting

or pretty intriguing so i'm i'm not uh i'm not

writing that one off just based off the name

uh did you see any of the trailers i saw in city

of chapter three which looks like makes me sad

because that franchise just keeps going or series

keeps going downhill further and further and

in cities or Infant ball bear and I agree it

does look kind of the spike to name does have

some premise does have some promise All right.

So before we take a break and get into our main

attraction We can talk about what movies we saw

this week. So I saw This is this sections become

somewhat weird because I see way more movies

than what I'm saying each week because Like you,

I think we've been doing some some homework and

some research into our top 10 list that we've

started and we're going to do throughout the

year for the half decade. And our next couple

of lists coming up are comic book movies and

animated movies. And I've been watching a bunch

of those, but I just keep not mentioning them

here so I can withhold my opinions or thoughts.

I don't want to give anything away, so to speak.

But I have seen we watched. Book of Life, Puss

in Boots, I rewatched Wreck -It Ralph, we've

watched Hotel Transylvania, and we're just getting

ready to start Big Hero 6 tonight, but we ran

out of time. So I have watched some of these

movies, but I'm not commenting on them one way

or the other. As far as movies I can comment

on, I'll start with, we're going to, I bought

my girlfriend tickets to... the Wizarding World

of Harry Potter and Universal in coming up in

about a month that we're going on that I bought

her those for Christmas and she's a huge Harry

Potter fan so as part of the preparation for

going down there we're actually spending three

days in the Tampa area just kind of chilling

on the beach and whatnot and then we're gonna

spend the last two days over in Orlando at the

at the Universal Studios but to get ready for

that we're starting our whole trek through the

Harry Potter film so this last week we watched

the Sorcerer's Stone and I've seen them all once

and I think I've said it before in the podcast

that it's very hard for me to kind of distinguish

between each film and figure out which is which

because I saw them all once and they all kind

of blend together. So yeah so maybe doing it

through this time I'll be able to separate them

a little bit more but just looking at the Harry

Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone the first one

kind of say I really like it you know I know

a lot of people don't like the actor that or

the that first version of Dumbledore and a lot

of people prefer the later version but being

a huge fan of the Count of Monte Cristo it's

the same guy that plays the old priest in that

movie plays the original Dumbledore and I really

enjoyed him in that I enjoyed the movie overall

I think the only problem I have with it and I

don't believe I can spoil Harry Potter so if

you are planning on watching it for the first

time I guess put your thing on mute for another

minute but the only problem I have is towards

the end of the film and you have a altercation

there with with Harry Potter and the Voldemort

character as far as I guess you can call him

that since he's part of the other character at

least the back of his head but I don't have a

problem with that altercation for a point and

Harry Potter uses his hands on, at one point

uses his hands and touches the professor and

it kind of burns his flesh and there's a couple

other things that you kind of don't understand

as you're watching it but then there's a meeting

with Harry Potter and Dumbledore afterwards as

Harry Potter's laying in the bed and recuperating

and they kind of explain some of that away and

I guess my only problem with the whole issue

is his one explanation for why his hands burned

the other guy's face was because his mom had

left a mark on Harry and kind of explains it

away as the mark of true love. And that because

he had been marked with true love, his hands

were able to burn this guy's body. I don't know.

I have a problem when cartoons and movies overplay

the whole. power, I can hear Huey Nuis, is it

Huey Nuis and the Luz? And then Nuz? The Power

of Luz song from, anyways, that's what I hear

in my mind whenever I see that on screen, but

I don't know, I have somewhat of a problem with

that being the explanation for why that happened,

but outside of that, I think it's a pretty solid

first entry to the franchise, so I'd probably

give it a four out of five. I think it's enough

to get you intrigued in the whole setting and

in that world. I think it does enough world -building,

but not making it boring. You've watched all

those films, correct? Yeah, definitely. Definitely

the first two, which I think are done by Columbus,

they're certainly more kid -friendly, obviously,

because they're younger and they get a lot different

as they grow older. I think it works as a kid's

movie, for sure. I think that issue that you're

having, I think... when it gets to the later

films and gets into like the reasoning behind

it, it makes a little bit more sense than, you

know, he loved, your mom loved you type of stuff.

So I think it does set the groundwork a little

bit. But yeah, it's been a while since I saw

it. I remember thinking after watching like Prisoner

Azakman and all those that it's so weird watching

those two since they're so different tonally

than the later films that they definitely like

almost Like the production design and everything

are nearly identical, but just they feel a lot

more, you know, kin movie, which it makes sense

considering the age of the people that are in

the movie. Interesting well I'll have to I'll

have to look for those types of things and as

as we make our journey through here watching

hopefully getting through all of them before

we before we head down there and that way everything

will make a lot more sense to me and I won't

just be the the person following them along blindly

as we look at all the stuff from the movie. What

was one of the first films that you saw this

week? Well I kind of hinted to it earlier and

we were talking about Adam Sandler and he already

had movie that came out this year I guess it's

technically 2015 film it was I think released

in some festivals last year at TEF. And it's

The Cobbler. And I think we talked about the

trailer, or you guys talked about the trailer,

previously in Weekend in the Movies. It's a film

starring Adam Sandler written directed by Thomas

McCarthy and in the film Sandler plays a cobbler

for those that don't know that's a person who

basically Fits fix his shoes. He's like He's

a middle -aged man living in New York City and

he's running the shop that basically has been

passed down to him from his grandparents His

dad worked there his grandparents grandfather.

It's just kind of tradition. Well To make things

a little bit more complicated or magical as you

would say, one day he finds out that there's

this hidden shoe mending machine that if he uses

it on a shoe, when he puts those shoes on, he

can then literally become that person. He's literally

walking in their shoes per se. You know that

old fable. So he can kind of become that person

in every way. People look at them and they think

he over owned those shoes. He looks and acts,

sounds just like them. So that leads him on these

different adventures and the different things

go on. This movie's getting hugely panned. I

think it has like an 8 % on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ouch. And you would think, oh, it's because it's

Adam Sandler. And actually, Adam Sandler is one

of the better things about the film, honestly.

it's like the understated samler performance

where he's not doing his crazy characters he's

really just kind of playing the slob of a character

he gives and i think he does at least give a

decent performance it's not his best by far but

i think he fits the character well and he at

least is doing something different and is you

know at least showing that he's putting an effort

in like you know he's not just walking through

it and I guess I didn't nearly had hated as much

as a lot of people did I I thought I thought

the premise had potential and I like the idea

and I think it started decently strong at least

within the first third the last half or last

third gets completely crazy this ends up getting

in this gangster plot and it becomes purposeless

near the end and the motivations behind what

he's doing are really weak and it's kind of ridiculous

and mostly I felt like it didn't use its concept

all that well or do much interesting things with

it and This is coming from Thomas McCarthy, and

I didn't realize that going in. Maybe that was

issue. Like I was going into it thinking it's

an Adam Sandler movie, not Thomas McCarthy. And

he's done nothing like huge hits wise, but he

directed and written When When, which is a movie

I really adore. It came out a few years ago starting

about Paul Giamatti playing like the wrestling

coach. He also did the station agent. about about

a decade ago which stars peter jinklage is another

movie i really like and interesting like those

movies are like dope a really small concept and

kind of just about drama and he hits them really

well his characters are always really well written

and well made and this one like everyone besides

sandler is just kind of ridiculous and kind of

a cartoon it It reminded me a lot of like tonally

kind of something like click or bedtime stories

in a way It felt at times like a kid's movie

but then there are some changes and some humor

it goes for just feels out of place and just

Just kind of mean or just I don't know. It just

doesn't really work. It it's such an odd movie

and such a Some I don't know. It just it doesn't

know what it wants to be. I feel I hate that.

I hate that Criticism of a movie, but I think

that's certainly fits here And I don't know it

just it just falls apart in the last third it

it has all these connecting dots and I think

mostly it it doesn't really give a really great

conflict for Sandler in Situation he's placed

into is just is this kind of weak and it's almost

like we didn't know where to take this character

we want him to learn a lesson and so we're gonna

put him in a situation that is so mangled and

so force -fed. It's just a disappointment in

that end. So I didn't hate it. I gave it a two

out of five because I think there are some things

alike there, but it's just weird that his Adam

Sandler film fails, but it has nothing to do

with Sandler. It has to do with everything else

that's around him. That is interesting because

that's not usually the case when people pan one

of his films. So, alright, so cross that one

off the list of things I don't need to watch

in 2015? Yeah, I mean, unless you're desperate

or have nothing else to watch, maybe it's on

Netflix, but I don't think it's something you

really need to seek out. I would say save your

money, go see Pixels. Alright, well I will try

to give you the same advice for a movie I saw

this week, which I believe is also a 2015 film.

I actually just finished watching it today, started

it yesterday. We have a weird schedule because

my girlfriend has a job where she's on call at

night. So there's a lot of times where we start

stuff and then she gets a call and she has to

leave. So then we pause the movie and come back

to it at a later time, which can lead to some

interesting viewings. And I don't think it would

have mattered if we would have watched this straight

through in pieces or what. But I'm talking about

the movie called Vice starring Bruce Willis and

Thomas Jane. It's not it's not a taking off of

Miami Vice President chance No, no, no it is

instead a combination of surrogates gamers Robocop

and Something horrible and then if you put all

that together and then add Thomas Jane's expertise

in the acting field Man, okay, so The basic synopsis

here is that Bruce Willis is like this this business

technology mogul, I guess And he's created this

company called vice because that's a great name

for a company And the company is basically like

a virtual reality type entertainment Company

where you can go to this. I don't know if you

really want to call it a building. It's like

a freaking complex and you go in here and Apparently

you it's pretty expensive. I'm guessing so I'm

guessing you have to put down some Pretty penny

there and you get to experience these things

with these other like AI individuals who they

call like Replicants or replications or something.

I wasn't paying that much attention what they

were called and basically you're just experiencing

like stuff you can do it almost has like I guess

a sense of like the purge almost to it because

you can just do whatever you want you can kill

these people there's lots of you know sexual

connotations to what's going on in this place

almost like it's a brothel slash I don't know

like party slash bar but basically you can do

whatever you want and you're not gonna get in

trouble for it kind of like let out all your

your steam or your your crazy whatever feelings

or thoughts and then you can leave supposedly

a better place a better person and not have to

do that in real life because that's a thing and

then these uh these ai characters i guess i'll

call them every day they're reset so they have

no memory of what happened to them that day because

otherwise they basically have emotions and feelings

and whatnot but they basically reset their memories

so they they don't Remember any of the bad stuff

that happened to him during the day and if they

were shot or beat up or whatever there's like

this team of people that repair them and fix

them so they look back to normal and You know

Bruce Willis's concept is that he's the one leading

this and he obviously wants a you know He has

ulterior motives. He wants it to eventually be

used as like, you know police There's police

ways that you could use it. There's military,

you know types of things that you could do with

these things. So he's So he's trying to basically

hedge his bets and protect his investments so

that it could possibly be used down the line

for, you know, military purposes, police purposes,

or whatever. And then you have Thomas Jane who

is playing a kind of rogue cop who hates this

place because he's saying instead of people going

into it and getting everything off out of their

system and coming out better people that they're

going in here and becoming slaves to this and

doing it over and over again to the point when

they come out. they're not separating the line

of reality and this virtual reality and then

they're doing things that he has to clean up

the mess for in real life. Anyway... Wow, that's

a lot. That's a lot for one movie. Yeah, and

what happens is one of the replicants, I guess,

escapes. So then there's just this mad hunt to

try to track her down because if she's loose

in the real population... they could be exposed

for this that and the other and she eventually

comes across the programmer that programmed her

and that built the whole system before he kind

of got on doubts with the company and he apparently

created this individual based on his dead wife

to the point that she even looks like her this

movie has so many problems it's ridiculous first

of all this technology company apparently has

also hired like a SWAT team to protect their

investments and go rogue throughout the city

and kill people whenever they want to and it's

it's so ridiculous like there's this police or

these these whatever we'll call them the SWAT

team here that's that's trying to hunt this lady

down and they'll be like in a chase and some

random like totally innocent citizen will just

be on the same area Not even in the way. And

they'll just shoot them, too. It's like, grab

that auto, just kill them wherever you want.

Yeah, so they'll just shoot them, too, yet this

girl could be running in the complete open and

they cannot hit her with a gun. So, I don't know.

This movie is awful. Thomas Jane is an awful

actor in this movie. I haven't seen much else

of what he's done in his life. He had the TV

show hung for a while, which is pretty good I

do like him in the Punisher from 2004 I knew

a lot of people liked him from the Punisher and

I don't remember if I've seen that or not But

he is bad in this film and I don't know if it's

him or if it's just the dialogue that was written

for every character in this film Because whoever

wrote the dialogue should never be allowed to

write again I honestly can't decide if I would

give this movie a zero or a one out of five It's

that bad. I don't know why Bruce Willis signed

up for this but don't watch this unless you are

the biggest sci -fi fan in the world and they

even do i'm just gonna spoiler alert they even

do a robocop where she's about to kill somebody

and she physically can't because it's in her

program that she can't pull the trigger so that'd

be cool and clever if it hadn't been done before

but it's literally straight out of robocop so

I'm I don't know. This movie is terrible. So

what else have you seen? I'll get another 2015

movie I saw and it is I guess I can lightly recommend

I would say I'll get into it, but it's called

road hard and It's starring Adam Carolla and

I don't know if you're familiar at all with Adam

Carolla in any way Yeah, I remember him from

some TV stuff. I mean, I don't know much for

what he's been doing the last five or ten years

But I know who he is. Yeah I mean a lot of people

know him from the man show and this is like the

road hard kind of follows Like is very much based

on his real life and I've listened to his podcast

here and there I can I can kind of take him in

small doses and What this is road hard is obviously

it's kind of like Inspired by his life in a lot

of ways So if you if you know him at all you've

kind of heard a lot of this before and in it

He plays a comedian who is kind of in like the

downward spiral role of his career He was once

famous for this show called the bro show obviously

reference to the man show and His partner in

that show was played by Jay Moore has become

the headliner of a type of a network talk show,

his career has taken off while Adam Kroll is

is kind of struggling and he's having to basically

make ends meet by doing road shows and being

a comic and he's living in his garage because

he divorced his wife and his wife has the house

so he's you know he's he's seeing the polar opposite

of success as his once friend and once counterpart

and it it goes Through some tribulations where

you see him trying to basically, you know Find

out what he wants to be and I guess the issue

with the film a major issue with it is that I

think Corolla is funny and he can you know, he

has some interesting takes on things but the

movie itself almost like it he's just a person

of circumstance like nothing that bad like there's

He has she's almost like powerless in his success.

He's powerless in his His failures like he you

know, is he failing because he's a narcissistic

and he takes himself too seriously So he won't

get these roles or is he? You know, is it just

not there anymore for him? Like it doesn't really

seem to want to take a stance on why he is where

he is like Or is he just it I don't know like

it feels like Being the fact that he is making

a story about himself like he's almost unwilling

to look at Himself in a negative light all that

much like he'll look at some faults, but not

them all so it just seems like Like everything

that happens has nothing to do with him They're

just outside forces that are controlling him

in some ways like he's gonna get this tv show

He didn't do anything for it. He it's not like

he learned a lesson or he did something It's

just because it came up and someone else said

he should do it. So it's just it feels like it

because of that there's almost no stakes there

because like what are you looking for but that

changes a little bit in the third act where he

has like a choice to make and the issue it ends

up devolving into like a romantic comedy because

he starts this relationship up with a actress

played with a character played by um i lost a

dian far who does her best to try to lift up

the gorilla in this relationship in the fact

that Grohl can be a decent comedian, he can work

as an actor in that realm, but once he enters

into... Trying to be a romantic lead it doesn't

work. He just it's just really awkward There's

this montage this romantic montage where if I

just showed you it I've just showed you that

clip you would think it was like a parody from

the man show because it just it just feels so

just Awkward and not genuine and that's I guess

maybe the my biggest takeaway from it is that

this is a real life story This is his story But

it doesn't feel like he comes from a personal

place It feels very generic and the movie I was

kind of reminded of when I was when I was watching

it was from a few years ago done by mike with

billy but big leah He did a movie called sleepwalk

with me, which is similar where it's based upon

his stand -up career in his life And there's

some similarities there, but I felt like his

film was much More interesting and superior in

the way it approached the topic and it felt more

honest where it feels like This one is a little

bit more unwilling to kind of go into the more

difficult places or say anything that would be

like Recognize the faults of its own characters

and the other thing that kind of bugged me too

was that like everyone that is in the film is

played by Like someone that's somewhat famous

or something like that. But uh, yeah, but I mean

I thought like there were some funny parts I

do Corolla does have some good comedic beats

and there's a few scenes in the diner between

David Alan Greer and him and some other actors

which are pretty funny and I think they're at

least when it comes to Looking in insight to

the business and what it's like to be famous

in that situation. It's kind of funny and it's

it's kind of a interesting uh angle to take but

overall it just feels like It could have been

a better movie There's he actually said like

did a bit or not saying like but adam carlo did

a better movie in the hammer Which came out a

few years ago, which was similar based upon like

inspired by his life but a lot different it's

about like a boxer and that was actually quite

good and he was much better in it than this and

he was part writer and director for the uh for

road hard and i don't know i just maybe it would

have been better if there were if it was taken

by someone else and someone else took the material

it just it feels like the personal touch almost

hindered it its success rather than helped it

in this situation though. I mean, I could recommend

it if you're at all a Corolla fan. If you're

not, I probably would say maybe stay away because

I don't think it's going to change your mind

or really give you anything that you were going

to think, oh, this is worth me watching. But

if you like the story, you know the story, at

least it falls in line with what you expect in

Corolla. And you said you'd slightly recommend

it. So what does that translate? I give it I

give it like a three out of five a very light

three out of five It's like like a two point

seven five Out of five so it I gave it a three

out of sorry three out of five So yeah, it it's

an average film that could have been better But

I honestly instead of watching that I would say

watch sleep walk with me Which if you're a fan

of like Santa movies about stand -up, there's

also like, you know some other classics, but

more recently like I think that's the movie I

kept thinking about and kept thinking about well

that did it so much better and handled the material

in a much more interesting way. Gotcha. All right

good information there. My final one for this

week outside of the ones I can't talk about would

have been the one I saw in the theater which

was in fact Cinderella. Obviously I don't need

to tell you what the story is about. or anything

like that. Obviously, it's a reinterpretation

or it's a live action version, but I really shouldn't

say that it's a reinterpretation because it is

probably about the closest you can possibly come

to just creating a live action version of the

animated movie. It was directed by Kenneth Branagh,

who probably a lot of people are familiar with,

and I think he does a really good job of directing

it. I think he balances things very well and

he paces things pretty well so that it doesn't

feel slow because I think that's one thing that

is hard to do when you take an animated something

that's famous for being animated obviously it

was you know a lot of these stories are based

on other things whether it be fairy tales or

books or different things like that that Disney's

adapted but when it's most known for an animated

version that includes a lot of humor that sometimes

includes songs. I'm not just talking about Cinderella,

but just Disney stuff in general. I think one

of the hard things to do when you turn that into

live action is to control the pacing and to make

it as entertaining and as interesting as people

are probably expecting, whether it consciously

or subconsciously. And I think that's a big hurdle,

and I think kind of Brenna does a decent job

with that. He does a pretty good job of... Creating

the pace and the interest level so that you're

not ever bored or looking at your clock and stuff

like that If you are looking for a movie that

is basically a retelling of the animated film

I think you're gonna like this if you're looking

for any type of like new interpretation or different

type of like backstory or You know more development

on a certain character that you didn't get from

that or just some type of completely different

Take then you're gonna be disappointed So I guess

it completely depends on what you're wanting

and what you're expecting from the film. Most

people are giving it rave reviews, obviously,

and right after I saw it, I said that I would

probably be at like a 3 .5 out of 5. My only

issues really is that the only, and I'm not saying

that I need an all -out musical or I need the

actual actors to be singing or anything like

that. but they don't even use like instrumentally

in the background any of the music from the original

Cinderella and I'm I don't know if that needed

to be like a main thing but I think just subtly

in the background it could have been used at

some point or even like variations of it they

wait until the credits are rolling and then they

start playing the main song from the animated

film And to me, I think it would have just helped

to add another level to the film if the music

would have played a bigger part into it. So I

guess that's nitpicking, but that's like one

of my only complaints. Lily James is a great

casting for Cinderella. I think she fits that

perfect. Cate Blanchett, I think, is great as

the stepmother. Richard Madden as the prince.

I think that's one of the most entertaining princes

I've seen from a Disney film because so often

they're just completely... cardboard characters,

so I liked what he brought to that role and the

interaction and the chemistry between Lily James

and Richard Madden is believable from the get

-go, so I liked that. I know some people had

a problem with Helena Bonham Carter as the fairy

godmother just because I think it was jarring

for them to see her in a non -Tim Burton film.

She's not all black, so it's going to be kind

of weird. Right, but I think she pulled off the

fairy godmother rather well and I think they

did a lot of interesting things from a visual

standpoint with the, because obviously you're

dealing with a situation where in the animated

film you have a pumpkin transformed into a carriage

and mice and various animals. transformed into

people or things that are usable to that plot.

So you had to deal with that. And I think the

way they did that in this film worked perfectly.

That's probably the highlight of the film for

me is that whole scene with the fairy godmother

turning everything into the carriage and the

horses and everything, the coachmen, et cetera.

I think that worked really well. I think there

were some really brilliant touches to that part.

Obviously the glass slipper was done really well

as we saw from the first teaser that came out

for this film so You know a lot of stuff worked

for it. I Personally would have given it a higher

score if I would have gotten Maybe a slightly

different interpretation or maybe something added

to At least one part of the story or one part

or a character or something to give me a little

bit more than just A retelling of the entire

animated story. I'm not saying it's bad for doing

that, but me personally I would have liked that

so do you Because of that, do you enjoy Maleficent

more since it does give you a little different

interpretation than Cinderella? I enjoy parts

of Maleficent more. I enjoy the idea that what

they were going for in Maleficent maybe more

and kind of the risk that they were taking. But

there was a lot of stuff that was handled better

in this one than it was in Maleficent. Even like

the mice and like I'm saying like the fairy godmother

and that type of thing. You know, the mice were

some of the better parts of the animated film.

Gus and Jacques or whatever, they were funny,

they were humorous and entertaining part. Even

those are handled well in this film. Whereas

in Maleficent, you have the fairies which are

god -awful here. That's still gotta be one of

the worst parts about that entire movie, among

other things. So I mean, I think stuff was handled,

like if you were going across the board, more

consistently well done in this one than it is

in Maleficent, but I do respect the risk that

they went for there. I would like a combination,

honestly. I would like the risk of giving a new

interpretation on something, but handling it

like Kenneth Branagh did with this. I did think

Gisela and Anna are easily able to hate, not

that you can't hate those characters, but I think

it could have gone even a little bit more to

the extreme on this film. But uh, but really

that's my only nitpicks maybe a little bit of

a different interpretation I would have got me

a higher score and maybe a little bit more use

of the themes in the music But overall like I

said three and a half which if you're scoring

on a ten scale would be a seven Which is higher

than I've given most films this year It's it's

rising to the top or towards the top of my top

ten so far. So If you're a fan of the animated

film, I would say go see it. If you're a fan

of fairy tales, go see it. If you're looking

for anything that's gonna be like Maleficent

or Alice in Wonderland or anything like that,

I would say you probably are going in with the

wrong expectations. Already I have one more movie

that I watched as well and it was one based upon

Kind of a recommendation or assignment that you

gave last week as we're trying to get geared

up for our final list and kind of a watching

a movie that I've yet to see that came out from

2010 to 2014 that Kevin recommended last week.

You haven't heard it was August Osage County,

which I always feel like I say this name wrong.

I just I don't know why. I mean, I'm like, is

it Osage, Osage? No, August Osage County. And

actually. Interesting interesting enough. I ended

up picking it up at my local library. It was

oh, yeah I ended up going there and they have

a lot of movies that you can get for free and

well, you know bar unlock something. Yeah. Yeah,

whoever thought libraries I know I know and my

wife's like only you would go to the library

and get movies. I'm like, yeah But they ended

up working out well because there was some animated

films I wanted to watch for a list that We're

not streaming that were available there. So it's

actually a very well worth it trip So for those

that don't know also Oshet County is written

direct is based upon a play by Tracy Letts and

it stars Meryl Streep, Julie Roberts, Ewing McGregor

and a trillion other different people and It's

based upon this family that ends up getting together

after their the father is goes missing Meryl

Streep plays the mother who is Has cancer is

a drug addict is pretty much all worse for wear

The first thing that's really noticeable about

the movie is that it is chock full of really

great performances, for sure. It was nominated

for two Oscars, Julie Roberts and Merle. Meryl

Streep both were nominated for supporting actress

and I think deservingly so. I know it's like

almost a cliche when it comes to Streep when

it comes to nominating for Oscars and but I think

in this one it was deserved. I mean both of their

characters are big. These are big performances

but I feel it fits in what they're doing and

really the cast in itself is really strong and

like everyone tends to get a scene or a moment

where they really get to kind of show their stuff

and it's The one thing though with this movie,

it is a tough watch in the sense that a lot of

bad things happen and these people are not very

likeable. You know it no not at all. No, they're

they're like The thing I kept feeling like it's

like if you go over a friend's house and your

friend's parents are arguing And you just feel

that awkward feeling that's like the entire movies.

That's a perfect explanation of that It's that

awkward feeling throughout. You're just like

I don't feel like I should I should probably

leave I should probably go so it and So we it's

hard like I guess like there is a lot feels like

Tracy let's who he the only thing he's done bug

and the play bug and this is also based upon

a play and He also did killer Joe. I did see

killer Joe and I like killer Joe a lot I think

I like killer Joe more killer Joe has one of

the most disturbing scenes I've ever seen involving

a chicken bone and if you saw the movie, you

know exactly what I'm talking about But even

with that scene, I think August Osage County

is a tougher watch in the sense that it's just

it is very very Depressing in that way. It's

very it's not you're not gonna feel uplifted

throughout and Not necessarily a bad thing. It's

definitely handled some really dramatic material

and I think it's I'm glad I saw it it's The performances

in itself are worth seeing I guess my only like

real issue was like I I just wish there was something

I could lash on to and or something where I felt

like All these arguments and all these like horrible

things were worth it. And all I could think of

the entire time is like, these people should

just never talk to one another ever again. They

should just go away. It just felt like there's

a lot. And it keeps kind of like... There's more

and more as it goes on it like it's almost like

a season worth of like uh storylines of a soap

opera in like Two hours, I mean handled much

more astutely and a much more fine hand, but

it's a lot like there's a lot going on Um it

so it's it's tough like it's it's not a movie.

You're gonna necessarily enjoy. I respect it

uh, I think the execution's well, I think the

the performance uh, but script is pretty strong

i just i just wish there was something there

that made it felt like this was all for something

like it felt like all this all this heartache

and all this uh grief like it led to something

and i don't know if i necessarily got that it

just i needed some sort of reprieve i mean i'm

glad i didn't like try to be like some sort of

like cheap comic relief but I don't know just

something where it felt like okay like there's

a family unit in here even despite all the craziness

it just I didn't have that but uh I gave it I

ended up with 3 .5 out of 5 4 out of 5 around

that range uh definitely a good movie uh like

I said not a movie you're gonna you know see

on a Friday night with all your friends but it's

if you're looking for like to see why Meryl Streep's

such a respected actress. And I was glad to see

Julia Roberts doing a great performance again.

Like she tends to go back and forth, but I thought

she was fantastic. I thought in all around really,

it was quite good. Like everyone was like, these

are really big characters, but I don't think

that's necessarily a bad thing in this situation.

I think it fits the material. And I think that

everything you're describing and explaining is

also why I'm so on the fence of this one when

I'm trying to decide where it falls for me. Because

I think there's a lot that I, like you said,

respect about the film. But it is, I agree, it's

a tough watch. I think for me, it's weird because

if you're looking at an extended family, this

couldn't be further from my extended family.

I somehow have been blessed with an extended

family that had literally... not one member has

ever fought with another member like we get along

scarily well and you know everybody enjoys family

get together it's not like something like oh

god I gotta go spend you know whatever with my

in -laws or my uncles or aunts or whatever but

at the same time that's when I'm talking about

my extended family when I'm talking about my

immediate family I did grow up in a household

where the dad was obviously gone at one point.

I'm not saying we were ever like the people in

this film, but I can relate to some of the stuff

between myself and my siblings growing up in

a one -parent household and dealing with some

of this. Some of that I could connect to. Even

if it was on a much more extreme and exaggerated

level But I guess I did respect the the idea

I think what I came away the most with this film

is was a sense that Like you said, it wasn't

trying to do some cliched thing. It wasn't trying

to take an easy way out the The thing that kept

going through my mind after I saw this back the

year It came out was that that was a real movie.

Like it was about real Like there was no hollywood

ending there was no happy ever after like it

was like real whether that's Good for the view,

you know for the audience or bad That's kind

of what I came away with. Yeah, it definitely

doesn't pull its punches that that's for sure,

right? um, I guess maybe my only issue with like

the wheelness was that maybe like one or two

of the like storylines or plot developments maybe

they they could have held back on those that

go for more the real angle thinking of some of

the Surprises near the end of the movie. Yeah,

but I do like I agree I think it's not at all

your typically Hollywood film. It's it's bleak.

It's a and it's a it's bleak With a purpose,

I guess Right, and I don't want the listeners

to think that I have ignored your homework that

you gave me and Matt you had wanted us to watch

the secret of Kells and That is something that

we will be talking about, but since Matt is out

sick this week, I wanted to be able to talk about

it when he's here. So we're going to save that

conversation for a week. So I will have double

homework because I believe you have another film

for us or for me. Yeah, for you. I don't know

if Matt would like this as much. And you. It's

currently streaming on Amazon Prime, so it should

be for free, so it should be easy to get, and

it's my favorite film, or at least my number

one film from last year as of right now. I haven't

gone back and redone my list, but it's starred

up, starring Jack O 'Connell. Like I when I even

I talked about the movie I said I probably like

it a lot more than I should just because it has

what I like from movies but I'd be curious to

hear what you have to say about that again another

movie that's that's a pretty tough watch but

uh I enjoyed it so I'd be here I'd be looking

forward to hearing if uh if you like it or not

I'm glad you gave me that one, because it's been

on my list for so long to watch. And I don't

know what's been causing it to keep getting passed

over. So this will give me a firm reason to watch

it here in this next week. So I enjoy that. So

I will definitely be giving that one a watch.

You've said that you've watched a lot of animated

films in preparation for... Our list coming up

and I know you were trying to make sure you had

seen a bunch of things So I was gonna try to

give you an animated film But I'm not sure if

within the last couple weeks you've seen this

or not So if I say something that you've already

seen I apologize and I will pick something else

but the first one that came to my mind Which

is available again, sorry, but it's available

on redbox currently and That was just from this

last year. So if you've seen it Let me know but

I wanted to get your take on Book of Life. I

have yet to see the Book of Life. Okay, I always

say his name wrong, but we call him Gizmo del

Toro because it's easier to say. Alright, so

Gizmo del Toro and I know that you are somewhat

of a fan of some of his other stuff and again,

I saw this one and I'm still debating with myself

on where it falls for me. I think it was better

than I expected it to be. and it's definitely

a different type of animated film so I just you

know if you're if you're used to which obviously

you're you're more well versed but if you're

like the typical person these days that all you're

exposed to is Disney or Pixar or DreamWorks type

stuff it's going to be a little bit different

feel so I was wondering if you would watch that

and give me your take on Book of Life. Definitely

that too was on my list of watches I'm trying

to go through all the animated films so I will

definitely check it out. Perfect. Alright, so

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week our actor spotlight is going to be on Will

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in our top 10 list after we do all our genre

list is We're going to be looking back at our

top actors and top actresses from the last five

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It also just gives us a fun way to look at some

actors and actresses and kind of break down their

careers and the good, the bad, and the ugly about

them. And it's an idea that Dan and I had that

we're finally getting to explore a little bit.

The way we're going to do this that we came up

with here is we're going to look at Will Ferrell.

We're going to kind of go through his career

a little bit, kind of his filmography, not in

like a lot of detail, but briefly. And then together

the two of us, we're going to try to come up

with, see if we can come up with a consensus

of his top three films and his bottom three films

over the course of his career. Then we're going

to finish it up just real quick to tie back into

that list that we're going to do. We're going

to look at what he's done in the 2010 to 2014

range. And then we are going to give basically

a percentage chance or kind of like an over under

odds of if he has what it takes to possibly be

in consideration for the top list for the decade.

So, Dan, any thoughts about Will Ferrell before

we get into his filmography? Kind of just what

your general opinion or biases towards him? I

will say I am a fan of Will Ferrell. I do find

him funny. Beyond just like his movie career

like I thought he was great in SNL. I a lot I

like a lot of what he does like Skit wise and

stuff with funny or die. So I will say I will

say going in I am a fan I know some people aren't

some people don't find it funny, but I am one

that tends to You know enjoy nearly mostly what

everything he does Okay, well real quick then

we'll just kind of obviously everybody knows

so we don't need to go over a lot of detail but

obviously SNL background. You know, one of the

guys from Saturday Night Live that really kind

of found his groove there and was involved with

a lot of the different Saturday Night Live films

in smaller roles. We're talking about, you know,

with Mike Myers in some of the Austin Power films,

Night at the Roxbury, Superstar, The Ladies Man,

all those types of things. So that was kind of

his earlier career. Then probably the first thing

that really got him out there... I don't remember

how big a role, because I haven't, I actually

haven't seen this film. How big a role was he

in Zoolander? Is that just a bit role? Yeah,

he was like, his character certainly was a standout,

but he was like, you know, he was a side character.

He wasn't, you know, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson

are the more leads and he was more of a, like,

everyone's odd in that film, but he was more

of an, even more of an oddball in the situation.

So, yeah. Right. Okay, so that means basically

he really burst onto the scene then in 2003 as

far as a lead actor and that was with a duo of

films there with Elf and Old School that he appeared

in both in 2003, more of a lead obviously in

Elf. And then he got into the Anchorman franchise

as he started that off. appeared in Bewitched

and Kicking and Screaming in 2005. Then we had

Wedding Crashers, Voice Work for a couple different

things and we had the Tale of Day and Night,

Stranger Than Fiction, Blades of Glory. He got

into a whole athletic thing there with Blades

of Glory and Semi -Pro. And then later on in

the 2000s, Step Brothers, Land of the Lost, Voice

Work for Megamind. and then more recently the

other guys some dramatic role in everything must

go and then uh... the campaign the internship

more voice work in the lego movie overall he's

stuck mostly to comedy with exception of a couple

of animated films i don't know if you've done

anything more s kind of just drama wise other

than uh... stranger than fiction and Everything

must go. Have you seen him in any of the in any

other like non comedic roles? He was in I mean

Geez anyway, I think those are probably the most

notable and like you've had some side Things

here and there winter passing in 2005. He was

that wasn't as communicate was a little bit more

serious, but it That was a really it was more

of an ensemble cast. He wasn't like the main

actor in that film Gotcha. All right. Well, let's

just look at it here and throw out some films

that we might be in consideration for. Let's

start with the bad side of things so we can end

on a positive note. So with the bad, what's the

film that you would throw out there for consideration

that you think at least we should consider for

one of his worst films? One of the first ones

that comes to my mind is one that just I don't

think necessarily I don't know if bad is the

right word maybe bad is the right word but it's

it was I think I could see maybe where they were

trying to go with it but it was just a rather

big failure and that was Bewitched. it was just

playing, it was such a weird idea where you were

doing the TV show inside of the movie and it

just, I don't know, it just to me was all over

all just a failure and he wasn't really a great

fit for that role and it just, I mean him trying

to do something a little bit different but overall

it was just kind of a forgettable film and something

that just I think was one of the biggest like,

Early flops of his career or one of the biggest

detractors when he first started that was like

his first major Roadblock and he was kind of

hitting his stride Yeah, that be which told a

25 % over at Rotten Tomatoes So they agree with

you somewhat it did make sixty two point three

million But I don't think that's probably what

it was hoping for back in 2005 So I think that's

a good one to consider. I'll throw one out there,

too maybe the first one that comes to uh... my

mind would be uh... from two thousand nine land

of the lost uh... yes uh... that one is real

close to what you just suggested since uh...

uh... be which is a twenty five percent land

of the losses twenty six percent it only made

forty nine million which for a comedy is i don't

know that's that's probably not what they were

hoping for again in two thousand nine and i just

that year we had year one and we have land of

the lost and Man, I watched the TV show back

in the day with my sister and brother and cousins.

So I'm familiar with the TV show and I knew it

was a comedy, but I don't know. That was hard

to watch. Yeah, yeah, it was. I remember watching

there was a man versus wild episode where like

he went on the show with Bear Grylls to promote

when. land of loss for some reason so like I

mean I don't know it was I just heard that's

the first thing I think of when I think of that

movie but yeah that movie was just a similar

to bewitched it just didn't work at all and then

it was he didn't really fit that character or

it was just too oddball and didn't like it just

wasn't funny it just was just really just a poor

execution all over the place and just I think

it was again the name Like any time he's done

a movie that has a huge name recognition or is

based upon an old property, it tends not to go

well for him. Yeah, he needs to stay away from

things that were TV shows back prior to the 80s.

What else do you think we should throw out there

for consideration? It's kind of cheap, but it

was one of his first major roles, and it was

an SNL film based upon popular characters, and

it's Night at the Roxbury. I think it's just

an example of sometimes not some SNL characters

don't warrant movies and that was the case there.

I get what they were trying to do, but like those

characters, you know, they don't talk at all

and try to build a movie around them and didn't

really work. It's not awful. I don't think it's

as bad as Linda the Lost or Be Witch, but it

just if you're looking at roles that like it

was maybe him trying to stretch a character too

far. I felt like that was an example of that.

All right, I think I can agree with you on that

one another one. I'd like to throw out there

for consideration Kind of put these two together,

but I'll just throw out one of them here and

that would be the the internship From just a

little that was just recently 2013 And I think

that's another one that just didn't work up like

it like it could have or like it should have

I don't did you see the internship? Yeah, I don't

even remember him in that like it can't even

think of What character you played because I

know Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn were the Were

the main leads. I don't know if you played a

side character. I can't even place him in there

Yeah, he was a very big character. I guess that's

kind of falls into the night at the Roxbury motif

a little bit so maybe we'll put a land of the

lost and Be witched ahead of those. So if we're

still looking for a third one What else would

we consider? I got uh, I got semi -pro that like

semi -pro and blaze of glory were Two that I

considered and it was like you said that sports

phase he went through I I think blades of glory

is a better movie than set my set my pro is just

I don't know. It just I don't know what he was

thinking in that one it It Like you can see me

we came from an idea of like loving the aba basketball,

but it just it was such a mess and uh, so So

TV shows from prior to the 80s and sports themes

shows or movies. He should stay away. Yeah, I

I too think I would put blades of glory as a

slightly better movie not that Rotten Tomatoes

is the end all be all and they don't want to

become a broken record with it, but they agree

with us because Semi Pro is at 21 % and Blades

of Glory is at 69%. Yeah, I mean, I thought Blades

of Glory had some moments that I thought were

funny. Like, Blades of Glory was a disappointment

and I thought it could be funnier where I thought

Semi Pro was just not, it was just unwatchable

in some certain spots. So we have we have land

of the lost bewitched and semi -pro anything

else that can compete for one of those spots

The only other thing I thought I don't think

it says bad because it's just it's just kind

of it's It's just forgettable with some trying

to do in a kid's movie and it was kicking and

screaming Yeah, I had that again another sports

film where he plays a coach of a soccer team

or son soccer team Yeah, I consider that one

too. I had it written down as a possibility.

I also had the campaign written down. I I don't

Kicking and screaming is bad. And campaign is

just, I don't know. Campaign to me is similar

to that of Blades of Glory where I don't think

it's as funny as it could have been, but I don't

think it's awful. So I would say no. I would

think the other ones are worse than, I think

Semipro and Bewitched and Linda Lost are far

worse than those other films. Alright, so I think

we found our bottom three there for Will Ferrell

You let us know if you agree or disagree, but

we got land of the lost semi pro and bewitched

so Let's switch modes here. Let's talk good about

Will Ferrell and the movies He's been in so those

things are the things that haven't worked, you

know old TV shows and sports themed movies What

has worked? What's what's one that you'd want

to throw out there right away for top three?

Well, I guess I'll start with maybe his most

I guess it's hard to say what's most iconic character

is but to me one of his best characters at least

and One of my favorite comedies and that's anchorman.

I Know there's been a lot of backlash to that

movie and I can I can't see it It's kind of it's

weird wacky. You know, the sequel wasn't as good,

but I don't know I still have a soft spot for

the first thing command I think it's rather hilarious

and I thought that was him kind of Will Ferro

at his best being like showing his range as a

comedian and doing a lot of just crazy wacky

and unique things and having I think his performance

as Rick Burgundy is pretty spot -on and pretty

fun so I think as like on the comedy side at

least it's one of my favorites it's interesting

that Rotten Tomatoes actually scores the sequel

better than the original one which is but obviously

weird go ahead which is just weird But obviously

it was successful enough and had a good enough

following and people liked it enough that it

had a second film, so that does speak to it.

I'll go with another character that always comes

to my mind right away when I think of Will Ferrell,

and it's a movie I didn't see right away when

it came out, but I saw it years later and then

I understood why people liked it so much. It's

actually, I believe, his highest rated Rotten

Tomatoes film, take that back, his second highest

rated Rotten Tomatoes film, and that would be

the movie Elf. As far as like a instant Christmas

classic for some people, I think this one falls

into that category as something that a lot of

people in our generation do watch now on a yearly

basis at Christmas. Do you like Elf? I do, I

do. There's a lot of Greek culture from that

movie and really from a lot of his movies, but

yeah, I do. His ability to be so gleeful and

just so genuine. It just it just crazy. He does

work as this like oversized kid. It's I don't

know. I do like else. I would not want to be

an actor that's trying to film any scenes with

him. Ask Jimmy Fallon. It just I would I would

be that guy that's just constantly laughing.

Like how could we take this guy serious? All

right. So we're considering Anchorman and we're

considering Elf so far. What else do we want

to throw in the mix? I think for me, if you're

going to ask me what his best movie is, best

overall performance. It's more of on the dramatic

side and that's Stranger Than Fiction. I think

he's definitely more, you know, low -key in that

film. It's really just the movie itself that's

kind of off the wall. I think it's a really interesting

idea and I think it works really well and he

just plays like a normal guy, but I think he

brings a little bit of charisma to it as well.

So to me that is one of his top three best performances

and best films is Stranger Than Fiction. And

I do think that it's a good thing to try to include

another side of his films rather than all of

just the straight comedies. And obviously, like

I said, the two that come to mind are Stranger

Than Fiction and Everything Must Go. And I would

say that Stranger Than Fiction is the superior

of the two. So I would be in complete agreement

with Stranger Than Fiction. I love that film.

So that's definitely one that I would put up

there. Another one that I think... Well, I'd

like to throw two out there that... Are maybe

fan favorites and I want to get your opinion

on where they fall in the films that we're talking

about and that would be both Step brothers and

the other guys Where do you feel like those fit

in? My first watch for other guys. I liked it

a lot Second watch it kind of went down a little

bit step brothers the first time I watched it

was like, okay but the more I watched step brothers

the funny in front of that movie becomes and

Just John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell would play

together. It's just it's a combination that it's

just magical so it's it but I like I like both

of them, but I find that step brothers has more

rewatchability and I think it's more reliant

upon Will Ferrell and I guess I find the the

relationship between him, Farrell, and Riley,

more interesting than Farrell and Mark Wahlberg,

though I did like that movie. I just, I find

myself gravitating towards Step Brothers more.

I don't know about you. Maybe it's a kind of

a symptom of me not re -watching the other guys

yet. I don't think I've seen that a second time.

I really did enjoy it the first time, but for

some reason I don't think I've ever re -watched

that film. So maybe that's why I still kind of

hold it in high esteem, because I haven't had

it go down on a rewatch. It's currently his third

highest rated film with a 79%. But I do agree

with you when you're talking about the rewatchability

of Step Brothers. That's something that you can

throw in time and time again, and like you talked

about Elf being quotable, Step Brothers is definitely

quotable. I think it's hard because then you

get into, like, Elf is different because it's

more of a family -friendly, you know, it's a

holiday -type movie, and obviously Stranger Than

Fiction shows the drama side. And then we have

to start comparing, like, Step Brothers, the

other guys, and like what you said before, Anchorman,

because they're all kind of similar as far as

what they're going for in the comedy. So I don't

know how me personally I probably put stepbrothers

above the other two But I think you you were

saying that you can I have more of a personal

connection to anchorman Yeah, I do and the question

like I mean part of it is other people in that

film as well Just like if you're looking at performance

wise like I think You know, he's a huge part

of it too, but it's also that ensemble cast is

great. It's right So if you're looking at like

which one is more reliant on feral in his performance,

I would say step brothers I mean, I think it's

equal part, you know him and john c riley. Um,

so I would probably put that I open personally

anchorman as a my More preferred film, but if

i'm going based upon role I don't know. It's

tough. I I think wrong. We're getting I think

it's such a great character. So it's But I don't

know, I could go either way. I was almost trying

to lean towards Step Brothers, but the more I

think about it, I think Anchorman, but I don't

know. So do we have it down to those four, or

is there any movie that we're missing? I mean,

the only one I can think of when you're talking

about fan favorites, I know Old School is out

there, definitely for sure. Taladay to Night's

Bell to Rick and Bobby, I don't think that's

as prevalent. I think that's, you know, it's

respected, it's liked, but I think the other

films tend to be... ranked higher um personally

i think that's when the relationship with riley

and uh feral started and that blossom and a lot

of feral films like i think get funnier on rewatch

because they pack so much into them um right

but yeah to me it's down between anchorman step

brothers everything uh stranger the fiction and

elf an elf yeah should we uh should we ignore

his highest rated uh rotten tomatoes film which

would be The Lego movie? I mean, I guess voice

work, because he's done a lot of voice work,

but I don't know. I feel like yes, I would, because

that... That's not one that comes to my mind

when I'm thinking Will Ferrell movies. Well,

if I think the Lego movie, what's great about

it, Will Ferrell's like 50th on the list on that.

Not that it's a bad performance, but there's

just so much else that go into it than him. Okay,

so I don't know if we'll be able to get down

to a top three, but I think we've for sure gotten

down to a top four with Step Brothers, Anchorman,

Stranger Than Fiction, and Elf. You'd be happy

with that as a top four, right? Yeah, I mean

if I had to I would probably... It'd be between

Elf and Step Brothers. That's hard. I was thinking

I probably... Take off step brother since elf

is really all feral in a lot of ways, but it's

I don't know. It's tough I'd there I like them

all So we'll have to have the fans help us out

on there because I I go back and forth on that

too I'm probably not as big on anchorman as you

are but I still understand why and I don't argue

with that at all So I think it becomes down to

which which performance personally you like the

best out of those But maybe the fans can help

us out of the listeners and tell us what the

top three should be out of those four stepbrothers

stranger than fiction elf and anchorman Looking

at his most recent films and the way I wanted

to do this was basically just kind of treated

as stock here at the Will Ferrell stock and As

we're looking at the last five years and then

his chances of you know being on our list later

on or his just His future as an actor. Do you

feel like the Will Ferrell stock is on decline?

Is it rising or are we stuck in neutral the last

five years here? We've had We had the other guys

and everything must go, but that was as far back

as we went. Then we had Megamind, The Campaign,

Internship, Anchorman 2, and then most recently

The Lego Movie. So what do you feel with Will

Ferrell's stock? On the decline, rising, or stuck

in neutral? He's also been cast with David Padre,

which was, I feel like was an interesting experiment.

Doesn't necessarily work out all that well. Is

it on the decline? I don't know it's it's hard

because I feel like a lot of what he does is

outside of movies So for you know, like I think

like he's he's got a lot going on besides that

But if you're looking straightly at film in the

last five years, you know, Anchorman 2 was a

somewhat disappointment You know the campaign

to live up to what it could be You know everything

was good was enjoyable, but I don't think it

like hit the level of something like Let me talk

about Strangers in Fiction So probably the best

movie in the last five years was The Other Guys.

So he hasn't had like a movie that was both financially

successful and critically successful since then.

So I would say if anything, it's probably on

the decline if you're strictly looking at movies

that might change this year with Get Hard coming

out. Though I I've heard mixed reviews though.

I kind of I don't know. I think it could be funny.

I don't know. I don't know. It feels weird. It's

like having faith in the Adam Salem movie and

Kevin Hart movie just doesn't seem like I should

do that. It just doesn't seem. No, it seems like

it's risky. And again, like that's another reason

why we picked him as our first one with get hard

come about to come out and also with his his

news stories recently with the spring training

baseball. Oh, yeah. making all the rounds there.

So I mean, he's doing a lot of stuff. He's actually

producing a lot of stuff now. And I don't know

if maybe he's switching more to that mode and

going to do less films or what he's going to

do. But I'm kind of with you. I'm looking at

what we were picking here. And you know, Stepbrothers,

Stranger Than Fiction, Elf, and Anchorman are

all outside of the last five years. That's all

older stuff. And like you said, outside of the

other guys, and if you want to count his role

in the Lego movie, he hasn't done as much here

recently. I guess if I have to pick, I'm going

the same way you did. I'm kind of teetering between

the kind of stuck in neutral and on the decline

here. So like you said, maybe things will change,

but maybe we've seen the best we're going to

see of Will Ferrell. I don't know. So as far

as that goes, anything else on him or his film

career, anything that you think, is there a role

out there that you think he'd be dying for him

to play? I couldn't come up with one. No, I can't

really think of one. I do see in his film, or

his IMD page, that there's a potential that he'd

be in a Shakespeare project, which would be interesting.

I don't know. I wouldn't mind him doing maybe

not specifically a role, but... doing something

along the lines of everything must go again,

where it's more of a tragic character. I would

like to see that, because I think everything

must go was an issue. It had potential to be

something, and I thought he was good in it, but

it just didn't completely come together. I do

like that movie overall, but I would like to

maybe see him try to go the dramatic route, maybe

once or twice again. Or partner again with John

C. Reilly, because I tend to like everything

they have done together. Yeah, I can support

both of those either either more drama or kind

of going back with some of the people that has

worked well with him I also see that he's listed

as a producer for the Flintstones in 2016 as

Is that an actual film or is that the long? Rumored

TV show I believe it's supposed to be the TV

show, but I don't know I know that WWE films

just released Flintstones directed DVD movie

cartoon movie that if you really want to see

you can Sorry, they also did a scooby -doo movie

last year to WWE. They're getting they're making

the rounds. Yeah All right. Well looking ahead

then to the weekend Like we said as far as movies

that are coming out this weekend. It's insurgent

and the gunman Maybe you'll be able to see Danny

Collins if you're in certain areas or maybe you

can go back and see Some of the films that are

getting better reviews from this past week like

Cinderella or what's the horror film name again?

It follows. Yeah Right as for blu -ray and DVD

releases coming out this next Tuesday so right

after this weekend's over you have a bunch of

stuff actually coming out The Hobbit the battle

of the five armies combo pack you have the unbroken

combo pack And you have into the woods Along

with song one which I did not see so I'm not

sure About that one, but out of those anything

that you think's willing to put money towards

well now I I'm kind of glad though because they're

movies. I didn't see in theaters. I haven't seen

a lot It's the first time I haven't seen a Lord

of the Rings movie or Hobbit movie in theaters

I skipped the last one so I will be at least

renting it and I will be I wanted to see unbroken,

but I ended up missing it out I ended up choosing

other films, so I will check that out, but I've

heard it I was hoping it'd be better, but it

seems like it got panned pretty hard, so I'm

not having high expectations. Yeah, I can see

what you're going for for that. And then I don't

want to completely ignore it. There are some

other smaller films that are being released.

I'm guessing a lot of them are going to be released

on demand or straight to video or some type of

streaming service. So you have Accidental Love

starring Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal. Tracy

Morgan, yep, that's currently available on demand.

Okay, and you have tracers, which I believe is

starring the dude from Twilight Yes, yes, yeah

It's available on demand too if you hate yourself

Alright, so some other stuff that's probably

available the walking deceased. I don't know

what that is I think that is a scary movie type

thing on the walking dead Great. So that sounds

terrible She's lost control. That played at a

bunch of festivals. There's one that we couldn't

pronounce when we were talking about the trailer

way back when, a couple weeks ago, but Viggo

Mortensen in Waha? J -A -U -J -A? I don't know

how to say that word. So if you're a Viggo Mortensen

fan, you got that. From the creators of God's

Not Dead, you have Do You Believe, starring Sean

Astin. A couple other people. I didn't mean to

laugh, but I did. You didn't, but you did. A

movie called Spring, which actually has a great

Rotten Tomatoes rating. It's in the 90s, I think,

or maybe even 100. The question is, is that based

upon, like, two reviews? It was based off of

13. That's not that bad. That's pretty good.

So I got to say these next couple here. Zombievers.

Wow. I don't know what that's about, but I just

like the name of that. And I guess if you're

a horror fan, there's also one called Ghoul out

there that you can seek out. So have fun perusing

your on -demand services for any of those titles.

As far as a question for next week, I wanted

to ask I had something for him and basically

since we did our first actor spotlight on Will

Ferrell I just wanted to ask ask the people out

there that are listening who else would you like

us to cover? We're gonna do this off and on throughout

the year So if there's someone that you'd really

like to see us kind of break down the good and

the bad We'd be all for it. Obviously. Hopefully

it's somebody that has a Somewhat of a filmography

that allows us to do that and not somebody that's

only been in like three or four films. Yeah It's

like Lincoln and that's right and be a harder

one to go through so So give us your thoughts

on what you would like us to cover in future

actor Spotlights anything else from you Dan?

No, I got nothing. Oh, no. Yeah, I'm good Are

you sure? Yeah, we did the recommendations already,

so we're good to go. Alright, so we will look

forward to possibly covering some of those movies

that I said are coming out. I don't know what

we'll see this next week. There's so many good

options according to Rotten Tomatoes, so we'll

see what we come up with for next week. But thanks

as always for joining us this week here on Weekend

at the Movies. Obviously you can go to geekcastradio

.com, find the episode post, and comment on there.

We did have a bunch of comments last week regarding

our Star Wars question as far as what you would

like to see or hear for the next... Spinoff movies

a lot of book references there some character

references film for fun and Jedi disaster talking

about Darth Maul and some more stuff covering

him a Jedi disaster specifically talking about

Dark Nest broken from Star Wars legacy Darth

Maul Shadowhunter those are obviously all books

and I Jedi There was another Justin Washington

talking about doing genre films. Maybe like a

horror film based in the Star Wars universe And

then that got off onto the zombie Zombies and

Star Wars you said you had bought a book about

that and yeah, it was a Death troopers or something

like that. It's about it's supposed to be like

a random Star Wars story of a Spaceship that

with stormtroopers were zombie virus gets broken

into or something like that I don't I bought

it at a for bargain for like five dollars, but

if you have to read it so Interesting. Um, it

sounds like a video game. That's already out

there. Yeah The cover looked interesting and

as I say judge book by covers, so I bought it

That's that is the thing I believe and then Brian

Jackson also talking about maybe something along

the lines of the Knights of the Old Republic

storylines Yeah, so that's definitely a good

game there Nobody mentioned anything necessarily

specifically about Boba Fett or anything like

that So apparently some love out there for something

concerning Darth Maul And one other person did

say anything anything involved in Jedi's so as

long as we were talking about some of maybe the

history or the future Of the Jedi's that would

be something they'd be into So, like I said,

good stuff there from everybody and hopefully

we can get some input as far as what actors you'd

like us to talk about on a future episode. You

can also visit the Facebook page by searching

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mine is at optimus solo and i think that does

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