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Episode 2 - 2023's Most Anticipated Movies Pt. 1
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Get ready to mark your calendars as The Study Pipe brings you an exciting preview of 2023's most anticipated movies! In this thrilling second episode, we'll delve into the buzz surrounding Christopher Nolan's enigmatic biopic, "Oppenheimer," and explore the intriguing allure of Greta Gerwig's fresh take on the iconic "Barbie." We'll discuss our guesses for how critics and audiences will receive some of the biggest films to be released this year. So join us for a tantalizing glimpse into the future of film, and let The Study Pipe be your trusty compass guiding you through the must-see movies of 2023. Hit play and ignite your excitement!
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Anticipated Movies of 2023
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Awesome. So today, we are going through the, I guess, most anticipated movies for the remainder of the year, 2023. Yes. And most anticipated based off of the same Rotten Tomatoes 2023 article that we read. Yeah, that's right. The per Rotten Tomatoes, which, I don't know, maybe they are missing quite a few films.
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Yeah, so if we did this, your most anticipated movie, The Witch Hunt will be directed at Rotten Tomatoes, not at us. Amen. So I think kind of where we're at, right? End of April, going into May, the first one here is Guardians of the Galaxy, volume three. What do you think? Oh, man.
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Uh, yeah, I'm really, I'm, I'm excited. I know it's not like cool to say that you're excited about an MCU movie, especially right now. It's everything that's going on, but I really liked James Gunn movies. I really liked the first two guardians of the galaxy. I cannot wait to see this movie.
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Yeah, I do not want to see this movie. I'm not excited for this movie. I do not think this movie is going to be good. I am. I mean, I don't think I'm fed up with the MCU. I just volume two didn't do it for me, man. It really didn't. I mean.
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the third act with ego and all that. I just, I wasn't vibing with it. You know, I appreciate James Gunn kind of, kind of, um, you know, suicide squad was, it was all right. It was pretty good. I mean, I dug it for what it was, but I just, I don't know. I don't have any hype for this. Oh man. I know that there are people who are,
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are totally going to be like, what is this guy talking about? Uh, especially some of our closest friends, but I can't vibe with it. And I
Predicting Movie Outcomes and Bet Discussions
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think, you know, as we go through this list, what is, I dunno, what, what can be fun is whether we think critics are going to be, you know, into the flick, what the users are going to think like the user score on rotten tomatoes.
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And then whether we think we'll like it. So given that, where do you think critics are going to fall? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I guess just to really hit it home, we kind of buried the lead here, jumping first into our movie. This is going to be a segment that we do on an annual basis. So if you don't like it, you have another year to skip this episode.
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Yeah, that's right. And so what this is going to be is Zach and I are going to go over a list of movies that are going to be coming out for the year. We're going to be predicting whether or not the movie is going to be fresh on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on Rotten on R
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Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. We're going to keep track. We're going to keep score. And Andrew doesn't know this, but he's about to find out right now. The loser, so whoever is completely
Doubts About Franchise Longevity
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off or is the most off from critics of audiences alike.
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The loser has to watch a three-film marathon selected by the winner. And if I win, I'm picking the shittiest three movies I can think of that are just torture or three movies that I really like that I know you don't like, but you have to watch them or something like that.
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Oh man, there's so much. Three movies. I mean, at least that's six, seven hours. That's a work day of your time going to be eaten up. So pick carefully, choose carefully. And then I will do one brother better. If I win, I'm going to let the audience choose the three months that you have to watch. I got to watch Guardians of the Galaxy three times in a row.
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Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, sober, no beer. Okay, so where do you think critics are going to fall? I think this one's open to shut. It's going to be fresh. I think the audience is going to be fresh. And I think I'm going to love it.
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Okay. I think it'll be fresh. I think audience fresh. I will see it, but I do not think I'll like it, but I would be happy to be proven wrong. Is this going to be part of the score? What if I say I don't like it and I end up liking it, do I lose the point? No. I'm saying I don't think I'll like it, but if I do like it, that's still a point against me. It means I'm wrong.
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All right. Fair enough. Fair enough. You know, you have to, it has to be all three, I think. All right. All right. So next up on, on the list here is fast 10 fast X. I don't know what they're calling it. I, uh, I'm not a part of this family. I'm not down for it at all. I'm not hyped.
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I remember going way back to high school, we were talking about Fast and the Furious 4. That's how a lot of these movies have been going on. Yeah. There has to have been kids who've grown up, went to high school, college, worked 40-year career, got retirement, collecting Social Security at this point. They don't know anything about Fast and the Furious.
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All they know is like launching cars in a space. I guess duct tape, space suits. Although, you know, anyone who's listening, I, I liked that sequence in the last movie. I did. I did. I mean, I'm talking a bunch of crap, but I did enjoy that sequence. The first one, right? There were still, were they still in VCRs? I can't remember. I didn't see the first one in a while.
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It's impressive how far they've come. We talk a lot of shit, but it's like the modern day James Bond. Just movies have been going on forever. Yeah, it's like mixing, I guess, James Bond, Mission Impossible with street racing. It works. Universal's collecting checks. They bring a relative and then the next movie, that villain's not part of the family.
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Yeah, that's right. It's John Cena, The Rock. You got a bunch of wrestlers, I guess, who've appeared now. And then you got Momoa coming up, right? I like him. Murmer Conan. Yeah, I like Momoa. He's got that groups, but I like him. Yeah, although in the trailer, he seems a little goofy, like a little corny. And that's kind of what's turning me off from this one. But we'll see.
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Rotten, fresh, where you at with it? I'm going to say fresh, fresh, no. Because I mean, I will say there are sequences I really like in these movies, but every time I watch a Fast and Furious movie, at the end of it, I feel like I'm like, what did I just do for the last two hours?
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Yeah. And sometimes it's a good thing though. Sometimes you need that. But yeah, I, I enjoy a lot of like stupid action movies too. So I'm not saying that like you can't like these movies or is anything wrong. I'm not going to be the lead just like that. But I just, when I get out of it, I'm like, I'm not sure I wanted to be here for the last two hours. There, there at least needs to be something you take home, you know, something, some nugget of wisdom or, or something that impacted you.
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in the slightest that you carry on. For me, it was duct tape, spacesuits, and a rocket launch for the last one. So if they're able to replicate something like that, then I might dig it. But I think it's going to be rotten from the critic standpoint. I think audiences love it. I think it'll be fresh. I don't think I'm going to like it, though. That's
Expectations for Animated and Live-Action Films
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where I fall on it. All right. Yeah, we agree.
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You know, I do see something from every time I get out, I'm like, I need to call my parents. It's a lot of talking about family. Yeah, right. Family. What's my dad doing right now? I need to talk to that guy. That is some of these cheese. Yeah. OK, next up, I guess, is Little Mermaid, which there have been a lot of vocal critics, haters on the interwebs.
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Don't I? You know, I don't know. The live action remakes that Disney has been pursuing. I don't think they have a good track record so far. So I'm like not optimistic. And I like the Little Mermaid. I like, you know, the original. I think it's awesome. But I just I feel like they've been dropping the ball. Man, this is a tough one. I mean, there's a lot.
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We saw the trailer dropped and all the dislikes that were just spammed on it. I don't want to get into that. On YouTube, how many dislike? 1.8 million? 300,000 likes, yeah. That's insane. Yeah, so obviously this is getting dragged into a culture war that's way beyond my pay grade. Yeah, it's unfortunate too. It is unfortunate. People need to be able to justify whether or not movies good or not.
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without based on how they feel politically at the time. It should go into open minds and judge it based on the merits of the work that went into it. Yeah. If you can't escape a movie theater or a movie, you can't escape anywhere. Yeah. I don't know though. Javier Bardem is, what is it, King Triton? Is that his name?
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Poseidon or whatever. I watched a little mermaid on repeat when I was a kid. I probably saw it 150 times by the time I'm six. I'm not sure I've seen it since then, but it's going to be a big nostalgia hit for me for sure. I'm really excited about this movie. Yeah. Melissa McCarthy is Ursula too, right? Yeah. I really like her.
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Yeah, she goes hard, man. Every movie she loves. Yeah, especially like Spy. That was a great movie. Oh, that was. That was a low key, great movie. Did not even expect to like that. And then I was like, damn, this is good. Spy. Yeah, man. Wow. That was a good one.
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That had some jokes that just hit. It hits super hard. And I feel like everything I've watched her in, she's committed like all the way. You know what I mean? She cares. She's a true professional. She's a professional.
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Damn. I mean, I don't know if I'm changing my mind here after talking about Melissa McCarthy, but- You guys, have you ever done McCarthy? Come on. Join me. No, no. I think it's going to be Rodden. Critics are going to call it Rodden. Audiences are not going to like it. And I want to like it, but I don't think I'm going to like it. You know, I think I'm using Peter Pan that just came out and has
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a fresh tomato, tomato reading and a rotten audience as a barometer for this film. So if that new Peter Pan can be fresh and we are, we know that, I mean, you sell the trailers, people are, they're not even going to see the movie. They're going to say it's rotten regardless of whether or not it's bad or not. Yeah. They're going to review bomb it for sure. Yeah. Like it doesn't stand a chance, but I think it's going to be good. It's got a great cast.
00:13:58
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I don't know how Barry's going to be, but I'm sure she's going to be great if she won the casting. So it sounds like you think it will be fresh, but user rotten, but you're going to like it.
00:14:11
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Yeah. Yeah. I'm a sucker for mermaid movies, pirate movies, how to see movies. I think Disney handles them well. She can sing too. Um, so she's probably going to kill all the, all the songs. She seems like a really like sweet person too. I think she, like when she was in the Oscars person to that award, she said like that sweet person energy, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I could see it. I hope it does well. I mean, she probably worked her ass off for it, you know? Oh, a hundred percent.
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All right. The next here is Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse, which is going to be awesome. Probably a 10 out of 10. The first was incredible. Probably the best Spider-Man movie they've made ever. Yeah. You know, I agree with you on that one. Yeah. I mean, Toby is my Spider-Man, of course, but like that movie was the best Spider-Man movie that's been made. Sorry. I said it.
00:15:09
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If it's not, it's close behind Spider-Man 2. Oh, God. I knew you were going there. I knew you were going there. I mean, that's fair. That's fair. Spider-Man 2 is great. That's the nostalgia I grew up on in this movie. I'm biased. I'll never be able to leave those alone. The power of the sun in the palm of my hand. When he's looking at it as electronic arms, he's like, listen to me now. That was powerful.
00:15:38
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I like all the memes with Dr. Rock and it's like, you know, the baby's crying. It's like my mind drown into the river when he's telling him to throw, you know, the fusion, the mini sun at the end of the film, drown into the river. People have really put, I really actually all like the whole Toby trilogy. There are so many memes that have come out of that.
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Oh yeah, something of a scientist myself. Yeah. Hey, he even made a comeback in, what is it, far from home? Was that the last one? Oh yeah, yeah. Was it far from home? Is that the third one? No way home. Mm-hmm. That's right. Yeah, he brought it back. Willem Dafoe, man. He's a boss.
00:16:36
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Yeah, we should do an episode just on one of the phone movies one day. Oh my God. Yes, we should. The man deserves it. Just a lot of like, I don't know, like some minds to move around on that, you know, just like the boondock said about what you and I used to do in that movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's been, he's done some crazy stuff.
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So I think we both are fresh, fresh. People are going to love it. We're going to love it. Spider-Man, the Spider-Verse. It's going to be a banger. I feel like we should each have to watch a marathon if by chance that movie is rotten. I think that's fair. That's how certain I am that this movie is going to be fresh. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. Now this next one, I think it's going to be straight garbage.
00:17:31
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Transformers Rise of Beasts. Maybe I'm just not the target audience anymore. I'm just vibing. I'm trying to think, how old were we when the first Transformer movie came out? With Shia. Yeah, with Shia. We had to be like 14. No, I feel like maybe 15, 16, no? I don't even know about that.
00:18:00
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Maybe 14. 14 seems a little young. I feel like we were too old though, even when the first one came out to be that audience. Really? I felt like the first Transformers, like everyone was hyped. I remember like, you know, adults, kids, teenagers, like all across, you know, the spectrum. People were about it. Yeah. And it slayed, man. The first Transformers was awesome.
00:18:27
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But it got rotten. Did it? Was it officially rotten? It's officially rotten. What the hell is rotten tomatoes? Fuck those guys. Right? Yeah, I liked the first. Second was OK. I didn't like the third. I haven't really.
00:18:53
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been invested in, you know, Bumblebee and the Mark Wahlberg. I can't, man, Mark Wahlberg, he's so hit or miss with me and it's hard for me to get behind a film he's in lately. It just is, ever since I read about his 9-11 comments, I'm not gonna get into it here, but I just, I can't. Yeah, he essentially said if he was on one of those planes, 9-11 wouldn't happen. I can't watch a movie with that guy. It's gonna be a pool of blood.
00:19:23
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Yeah. For anyone who's listening, who's like, there's no way he said that. Google it. He will be surprised. And maybe your opinion of Mark Wahlberg will be shared with us. You'll think he's a silly goose. There's worse crimes than that he's done. Yeah, there's a lot worse that he's done to dislike him for. He hasn't redeemed himself at all.
00:19:52
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So Transformers Rise of Beasts, I think it'll be rotten from the critics. I think audiences, I think they'll dig it, but I don't think I'll like it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to agree with you on that one. I think it's going to be, I'm pretty sure it's going to be rotten. Um, I'm right on the fence. I'm going to say audiences are fresh. I don't think I'm going to like it, but I think if I was like 12 years old, I would love that movie.
00:20:23
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Yeah, I think that's fair. Same with fast and fairs too. If I was 12, I would be like, yeah, this is the best. I don't know, man. I know we're both going to see it, so you might be surprised. That should be a rule. Any movie on this list we have to see. Yeah, we have to see all of them. We have to verify whether we're right or not about whether we thought we'd like them.
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So the next is Pixar's newest film, Elemental. Oh man. How far has Pixar followed? I don't know. I saw the trailer. I think the animation, it's thrown me off. I don't think it's animation immediately threw me off watching the trailer. It left a bad taste in my mouth. It left the worst taste in my mouth. I love Pixar movies. I have a higher opinion of a studio on how they do film.
00:21:21
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They started off with such a string of great movies, just going from Toy Story 1, Toy Story 2, Bugs Life, all the way up through Wall-E, The Credibles, even Cars was great. I liked the Buzz Lightyear movie and a lot of people didn't like it. I enjoyed it. I liked it. Yeah. But you watch this trailer, it's almost like
00:21:49
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It's like if someone were to use AI or chat GPT to come up with a Pixar movie, this is what they get. So in a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go with the flow guy discovers something elemental, how much they actually have in common.
00:22:15
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I wonder where that that's going to go. I wonder what the overall theme is. It seemed like, uh, like an animated version of look who's coming to dinner with like Cindy pony. Yeah, I don't see that. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, I mean, honestly, like the idea of that, like what we're just talking about now and not watching the trailer, I think that's a really powerful message to bring to a kid's movie as well. So I'll probably, you know,
00:22:45
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I'm probably going to end up being wrong when I say I don't like it. It's probably going to come out and I'd be like, wow, this is one of the best movies of the year. Because Pixar usually makes one of the best movies of the year. Yeah. You know, I think you're exactly right, actually, because I think, well, I think that it's going to be rotten. Critics are going to, it'll be in the 50%. I think audiences aren't going to like it.
00:23:15
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And I think I won't like it, but if it does have a message like that, I think I obviously would come around to it. I think, you know, I'd walk away saying, wow, you know, like soul, you know, they did soul and that was a great movie. Also, it was great. And honestly, like, once last time Pixar made a bad movie. What, Cars 3, maybe? Yeah, they were pretty sure of that one.
00:23:43
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They're obligated to make that movie and continue that franchise. Yeah. I mean, it makes money. There's a whole lane for it.
Anticipation for DC and Wes Anderson Films
00:23:55
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Back to space balls. Exactly. The car's lunchbox. Yeah. I mean, they have the whole theme blend. You know, everything it's, it's insane. Yeah. So, all right, I'm going to go.
00:24:13
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I'm going to change it up a little bit. I want to say fresh, fresh, fresh. I talked myself into it, changed my mind. Okay. All right. I respect that. So elemental. Um, all right. We, we have some disagreement there, but that's good. This next one, I think the next one, I think we both agree across the board. It's DC's the flash.
00:24:43
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Ezra, I guess the movie has to be so good that they did not get rid of that. That guy, you know, they threw it through back. The Batwoman movie just straight into the closet. Really never. Yeah. Ezra Miller. I mean, running around, I don't even know what the allegations were, but crazy news cycle. But he started he started a cult like Greenland or something. Wow. Oh, my gosh.
00:25:14
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But, you know, the trailer has Michael Keaton back, his Batman. That is awesome. I didn't think I'd ever see that again. But, you know, and I guess the timeline we live in with all the different Spider-Man's never say never, right? Exactly. Yeah. And Michael Keaton, man, he's going to kill it. He's going to kill it. He was training for this with Birdman. He was bringing it back. Yeah. He was finding that voice.
00:25:45
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For sure. That was 100% an audition for a bad movie. I mean, not really, but yeah. And I really wonder what, like, is there continuity from this new Flash film into what James Gunn is doing as the new head of DC? I don't know. I don't think so, right? I did a little research and there is. It seems more like Gunn saw this as a jumping off point for the new DC universe.
00:26:14
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Okay. Very explicitly when he came out, he gave his speech to the DC fans. He said, the Flash movie is going to reset the DC universe, which kind of, spoiler alert, if you just think about logically what that means, because this is the Flashpoint retelling, which is where
00:26:35
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Flash runs so fast, he goes back in time to attempt to stop his mom from being murdered. And then the event of doing so, he has some butterfly effects down the line and basically just causes the whole universe to be upended. It, you know, I can see why God would just run with this. This is a great way to just upend everything. Yeah. Love with the playing field. Yeah, man. And in this you get,
00:27:03
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Michael Keaton as Batman, you get Supergirl, right? She's in the trailer. She looks cool. Supergirl looks awesome. I saw that Zod is back. Yeah. I don't know if you're left with the modern use of Supergirl and the comics. I'm not. Yeah. It's been a minute since I was reading up on it, but I'm pretty sure
00:27:30
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It's much darker. She basically watched her entire planet get destroyed. She's not as hopeful as Superman is. She spends a lot of time in medical facilities for mental health. It's kind of a mess. It's a much different take on the character. Clark Kent is a boring character. I'll say it. This optimistic, not often discouraged
00:28:00
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So I'm, I'm down for that. That sounds super interesting. And it's, um, how do you say the guy's name, the director? That it's, uh, Andy is it. Was I saying? Yeah. He did. He did it, right? Didn't he? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's, you know, he killed those. It was a great dude. Uh, the movie mama mama was awesome. Yeah. That was, that was great. Yep. Yep. So I mean, it's a good dance.
00:28:30
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Yeah, I have respect for this guy. I think he can make it happen. Yeah, I agree. That's another guy that came under the wing of Guillermo del Toro and we've seen like a whole slew of directors come through under his wing and to win best director. Yeah. Yep. All right. Yeah. Flash. I think it's going to be good across the board. People are going to love it. Critics. We're going to love it. Next up, asteroid city.
00:29:00
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Oh. This is, I think you're what? Most anticipated? This will be my most anticipated. I am a big Wes Anderson fan. I love Wes Anderson movies. I'd say I am too. I'm probably not as big of a fan as you are. I mean, I dig him, love him. Grand Budapest is one of my favorite films of all time.
00:29:21
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Um, but that's not to say that, you know, I'm not excited. I'm, I'm super excited. It's not a competition. Yeah. If it was, I'd win. You love him. I like him. I'm, I flirt with him, you know, you're trying to put a ring on it. I'm ready. Yes. I know what he brings to the table. I'm about it. So what is this about, you know, off the top of your head?
00:29:51
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Yeah. Obviously, it's going to be like an ensemble cast. It takes place out in the New Mexico desert, and you're flirting with things like a UFO showing up, a space camp happening at the same time, and all these events are transpiring out there. With that being said, you're going to be having your typical
00:30:18
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It's basically, you get the Grand Budapest Hotel, but instead of having the purple and red palette, you're going to be having the orange of the desert palette. They got some people in this, man. I mean, the usual bunch for sure, but I see Bryan Cranston is going to make an appearance. That's cool. You about it, Maya Hawk. Oh yeah. Our boy Willem.
00:30:48
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Willem Dafoe. Of course, he's a usual suspect. Jeff Goldblum. Yeah, then you have a, it's kind of interesting to see you have Tom Hanks at the top of the cast. I know, man. Tom Hanks, that kind of, not in a bad way. I was like surprised, like, okay, cool. Mr. Hanks is in the mix. I can only imagine that's because Bruce Willis had his,
00:31:18
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uh, condition, the speaking condition. Was he tied to like being involved? He tied to the film. You look back to, um, Moonrise kingdom and yeah, that's right. Yeah. Good point. And what's Anderson typically goes back and dips from the, you know, from the same well. Yeah. Yeah.
Mixed Predictions for Franchise Films
00:31:38
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Maybe, maybe he would have been involved in, in that role instead of Hanks, but I'm ready to see Hanks in a film like this.
00:31:48
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Yeah, but I'm looking at some people that aren't, that wouldn't normally expect to be in this movie. So you got Matt Dillon. Okay. Matt Dillon. Steve Correll. Very nice. Yes. Yeah. I mean, you got the Margot Robbie who wasn't in the trailer. So I think the suspicion and I hope this is a spoiler is that her and Edward Norton are going to be the aliens. Wow. That'd be cool. Ed Norton. He's already like an alien.
00:32:20
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So, no, I mean, I could not, like, you know what you're going to get? And Wes Anderson, he isn't trying to reinvent the wheel. He doesn't have to. He invented this type of style for mass production. Yeah. He can live in this and just master it. It's almost like watching a stop motion.
00:32:43
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Yeah, he's in his element. This is what he does best. I think it's going to be great. He makes great movies. I think everyone's going to love it. I'm excited. The next one, I think the worst aspect. So we're both fresh, fresh, fresh, right? Yeah, fresh, fresh. We both think we're going to like it. Yeah, I'd be super surprised if audiences don't like it.
00:33:12
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Yeah, I couldn't imagine the audience was not liking it. Every once in a while, for some reason, he gets like a life aquatic with Steve's zoo type of chronic response. Yeah. So it's like they just have to sacrifice it. What's the Anderson movie? Like what's every eight years?
00:33:30
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Yeah, maybe that's like his blood offering to keep making films, you know, they already did that to the French dispatch. So this is going to be like, I love French. I love that. It's one of my favorites of this. Yeah, it was great. That was, that was a great movie. Okay. The next though, this one, I mean the worst aspect of fandom, the worst corners of the internet people will be
00:34:01
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jumping, roaring, raving lunatics. It is Indiana Jones five
00:34:09
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of destiny. Yes. And he's back. He's 98 years old. Then drop kicks in type one. Go with bullets. He's dodging them. Um, I love Indy. They could make five shitty Indy movies and I'd go see every single one of them. I love Harrison Ford. They could kill him and I wouldn't be upset.
00:34:36
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I would see, I love the property. I love the character, the universe they've built, whatever. I'm buying the ticket every time. I think I'm going to love it. I think critics will dig it. I actually, you know, they didn't like the fourth kingdom of the crystal skull, but
00:35:02
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I think this one will pull it off, but I do not think users, you know, the audience is going to like it. I think people are going to review bomb it, tear it apart. It's going to be. Oh, you know, but you know, I agree with you a hundred percent, but the critics did like the crystal school. Did they? That was fresh. Wow. But you're right. The audience. They just have trauma. The audience really is, that is rotten.
00:35:32
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Um, that was before, that was before review bombing. So yeah, there's people logging in 15 years later saying, I hate this movie. I hate this damn movie. You know, and I like small, you know, thank you very much. I get in arguments with people all the time. I'm, I love watching someone get in a fridge and get nuked. That's super cool. Yeah. Yeah. I'm about it.
00:36:01
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I like Crystal Skull. I appreciate when Spielberg came out and said, hey, you know, we're doing, you know, the first ones like thirties movies. And he's talking about how we're doing a different generation with each film. And Crystal Skull was, you know, fifties and you're incorporating the sci-fi of that era. I appreciate that. I'm excited to see what a new director does with it. Yeah, man. I think, uh, I think this one's gonna be, oh yeah, he's really good. He's really good.
00:36:29
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Yeah, we were going over movies before. And it's in great hands. The cast is great. Horvors, Ferrari, Logan. Oh, no, it's great. Yeah. No, he's a heavy hitter. He's a heavy hitter. Even Wolverine. Wasn't that it? Yeah, the Wolverine in Japan. Yeah, that was us. Yeah. And no, no, the movie's in great hands.
00:36:56
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What I think this is going to, what's going to happen. I think you're going to agree. Is this, is this going to fall prey to the same type of crowd? That's not going to like the little mermaid. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to justify it with the, the crystal skull or whatever they want to justify it with, but they're, they're going to come in with their hate, their hate hats on like from day one. They're not really going to give it a chance.
00:37:24
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Yeah, it's going to be brutal. It's going to be a bloodbath, which people just need to go in and be happy that they're getting some Indiana Jones again. That's how I feel about it. How many people are really watching Indiana Jones like four times a year? We need new content. Yeah. We're lucky to have Harrison Ford still alive when it's like 98.
00:37:52
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He's still going hard, man. I'm happy he's back. I'm happy he's doing another one. I hope it's good. I hope people love it. I just feel like they're going to come out. They're going to review bomb it. It won't be good enough. We'll see. I have a sidebar question real quick. Now that we're on Harrison Ford, we're on Indiana Jones, right?
00:38:21
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Because I think there's going to be a large crowd that people like watching Indiana Jones. And they like watching Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford's just screaming on camera, you know? Yeah. And so a little sidebar question. Let's not get too deep into it. But do you think if they didn't kill off Han Solo in the new trilogy, that just having his presence in the second and third movie would have changed how people felt? About the Star Wars sequel trilogy? Yeah.
00:38:50
Speaker
Like if they did not kill Han Solo and he appeared in- Yeah, if he was still mucking around in the Last Jedi and he was out there, you know, going out to Rey to rescue her and a Millennium Falcon and going up to Luke Skywalker and being like, if you made a bitch, I'm smacking him.
00:39:11
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I think it would have helped because you did not really get to see the characters reunite. I mean, you saw Han Solo and Leia, but Luke did not reunite with Han, you know? And I think if he was in the rest of that trilogy, it would have improved it.
00:39:37
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That's a whole rabbit hole. We should know how much me, someone who has three Star Wars tattoos, absolutely despises the sequel trilogy. Yeah, me who's watching your three tattoos. Yeah, exactly.
00:39:55
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All right. Indiana Jones, please. James Mangold, please. I, my faith is in you. You're going to do it. I know it. The next is like a complete flip and genre tone, scale, um, insidious, the red door. Oh, now we're getting into your deck of the woods. Yeah. Horror is my, uh, my forte.
00:40:23
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Well, I will let you start this one off, then. I think it's going to be super dope, man. I do. I think it's been... How long has it been since the last Insidious movie? It's been a couple of years, at least. There's been some breathing room, I feel like. It's good to come back to this world, I think. I'm excited the trailer looked cool.
00:40:53
Speaker
What's the last key? Was that the last one? That sounds right. Yeah, I think that's right. So you have the last key. At least we see what the key goes to now. We have the red door. That's right. Last key to the red door. But I think I'm just excited to be back in a
00:41:17
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series of films where the mythos, the mythology, the astral projections and all that. To me, it's a fun playground. It's a cool sandbox to be in. I'm all for it. I don't know that it's going to be the best horror movie of the year or even the best of the last couple of years, but I do think it'll be entertaining enough where it'll be fresh, people are going to dig it, and I think I'll dig it.
00:41:47
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So this is Patrick Wilson's first movie as a director, right? Is he directing? He is directing this one. Oh, man. Nice. Yeah, dude. I love Patrick Wilson too. I feel like he's a good guy. He is a good guy within the business, the industry, like an honest broker. Yeah. I think you and I are also very nostalgic about this guy going back to Watchmen.
00:42:16
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Yeah, I was afraid you're going to say that. Because he killed it in Watchmen. He did, didn't he? That's a little bit of a crush. I can't separate him from Watchmen. Yeah. Maybe that's it, man, but so be it. I'm not ashamed. I feel like when you see an actor coming in for that first time when they're directing, and especially on
00:42:44
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I feel franchised with a group of people that they've been involved with so much. We really see an increase in quality. Yeah. I think that's right. I don't know if he'll be enough to move it in that direction of positive, but I think the fans are going to love it. If you're an Insidious fan, I feel like you're going to really want to see this one.
00:43:09
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Yeah, I agree. Yeah, and that's a good point, like the personal investment. He's been involved in, you know, all the films before. He's probably carrying something into this as like a passion project, you know? I'm looking right now. He's never directed anything besides this. Nice. That gives me, wow, that actually kind of hypes me up a little bit more than I was.
00:43:37
Speaker
But I know you, you're the biggest horror fan I know of anyone I've ever met. Damn, I really want this to do well, you know. For him. I agree with you. When I see Patrick Wilson or something, if it's something like TNT or something, I'll just leave it on. You know? Out of respect.
High Hopes for Upcoming Blockbusters
00:43:54
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Yeah. Give the man his flowers. Give him that bouquet. All right, so what are you calling it? I think fresh across the board. I'm gonna...
00:44:08
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I'm going to say a rotten fresh, fresh. Okay. Okay. But I'm going to say, I'm going to put a, I'm going to say it'll be like a 58%. It's going to be close. You know, 58% of the horror movie, that's like an 80% for the other film. Yeah, that's true. Horror gets beat up, man. Oh yeah, it's a punching bag.
00:44:30
Speaker
I don't know why. There's a lot of people like me watching through their fingers, so that's why I'm the worst. That's probably why. Take me to a horror movie. I'm like, how are we going to get a soda and back it up? Yeah, let me go to the bathroom for the fourth time, you know? I got to go pee. I still see you. Can you go pee five minutes ago? I still go with you. Yeah. Okay, cool. Insidious, the red door. I'm super pumped.
00:44:59
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Patrick Wilson directing. Hell yeah. The next one. Ooh, man. This might be in my top three most anticipated. I don't know, mate. It's close. Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, The Goat of Stunts, Tom Cruise coming back again, going hard. It's part one of two, right? Yeah.
00:45:25
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You know, you said it, and when we were going over the list the other day of just the movies for the year, you know, just kind of checking them off and so we could start to think about what we wanted to write these things. And we kind of each gave our like three most anticipated movies of the year. And neither of us said it at the time, this film, I think we both, when we went back through the list the second time and saw that movie, we were like, fuck.
00:45:52
Speaker
It's, I mean, it's hard. There's some heavy hitters on this list that are coming up. Um, but it, I mean, top five, at least for sure. I mean, I'll be there opening weekend. I would say top gun was top three last year. No problem. Yeah. And then you just kind of regardless of all the Tom Cruise and what you think about his life and any of that kind of stuff, you know, the guy is the best actress started playing it right now.
00:46:22
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He is a, he's the definition of a professional in his field. Yes. Take all the personal stuff out. He is doing it with 100% effort, showing up day in, day out, caring about what the audience is going to get, killing it. Yeah. I mean, he's doing it. He's making good films that people want to go and see. I mean, top gun, man. Maverick made over a billion dollars. 1.5 billion.
00:46:51
Speaker
It's insane. Yeah. If it wasn't for avatar though, we would still be talking about the top gun box office on house. Same film. That's right. I mean, people were talking about it all the way up until December. No one thought that no one thought it was going to make more than 400 million. Yeah. That movie was so well done. So his mission impossible. You thinking of break that billion dollar threshold, get up there near top. No problem. No problem. I hope so, man.
00:47:22
Speaker
I want to just keep making them until he's like Harrison Ford, 90 years old, outside, you know, holding out to a plane, maybe even crashing planes like here's four dozen real life, you know, all that. Put that in the movie in Mission Impossible 15. I hate to say it, but I think he's going to die in one of these stunts one day. Man, probably he does. He's doing what? Dirt bikes off into.
00:47:50
Speaker
you know, off cliffs with parachute. He's 60 years old. And he did it like eight times. You know, he crashed like eight dirt bikes or whatever trying to maybe even more. I have to like, you know, take a breath when I go to the gym. I'm like, all right, we're doing this. Right. And he's like, Oh, give me another four bikes. I'm gonna crash four before lunch.
00:48:14
Speaker
And I'm going to go learn how to fly a helicopter. Do you see that making up when they're doing that scene? And the director was like, I don't think we should do another one. I'm worried. Tom Cruise just gave him that, like, duster. Yeah, he's like, back down, boy. You don't know what I'm about. Yeah. I think fresh across the board, obviously. And I think this will be the first mission possible movie to break a billion. I think they're all, I think the last one
00:48:42
Speaker
He'll be looking up. Your last one made 791 million. Nice. They deserve to make more, man. Those are so well done. Yeah. He, I mean, he really revived that franchise. Yeah, for sure. For sure. I mean, they did so well that they were better than James Bond over the past couple of entries. That, that franchise is why, um, JJ Abrams got to Star Wars movies. Yeah.
00:49:13
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, can't wait. All right, next one, Barbie. What do you think? I'm excited. This looks good. I'm excited too. I think it will be fresh. I think critics will dig it. I think audiences won't understand it. That's going to be my bold prediction. I think that the movie is not quite what we all think it's going to be. I think the trailers are misleading. I think it's going to be something
00:49:43
Speaker
that maybe it's like over the top or out there and people are gonna, you know, complain. People are gonna not like it. Yeah, it's a heavy, I mean, you can see it from the director's right. This is, was it Greta Gerwig, is that her name? Mm-hmm, yep. She makes good movies. She's great. Yeah, she does, yeah. I've liked all her films. And, you know, I'm thinking,
00:50:12
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This has got the Nolan effect with the trailer where you only show the first act in the trailer. Yeah. Which is smart. Because this is very definitely going to be a Barbie in real life movie. And the humor is going to be about her interacting with real life people but having come from a Barbie world.
00:50:37
Speaker
I think everything we saw in the trailer is just from the first act and people are going to expect this Whoville type movie is not going to be that. I kind of get that vibe too. What's that one movie with Tyra Banks where she was, wasn't she a doll when she came alive? Something like a Disney movie way back in the day. Yeah, it's Life Science. Is that what it is? Life Science? Yeah, back in 2000. Yeah, that kind of film. I wonder if you're going to go that route.
00:51:09
Speaker
You know? Yeah. I mean, she like, I was listening to a podcast. What's in that? Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. And Lindsay Lohan fond memories of that movie. Watching that. So she, her and her husband and her husband, um, it's the guy that directed, uh, was an airborne toxic event with a Adam driver. Oh, okay.
00:51:38
Speaker
And so they wrote these screenplays in tandem while they're in lockdown during the pandemic. And I don't know, I just, the humor, like happy-go-lucky vibe with what they showed in the trailer, I agree with you. I feel like there's a big curveball coming that we don't know about. It's a bait and switch, man. Yeah, because I know Ryan Gosling was a hard no on this movie until they showed him what the rest of the film was going to be like.
00:52:10
Speaker
Hmm. Intriguing. Intriguing. Yeah. So I think it'll be fresh. I think people are not going to vibe with it, but I think I'm going to vibe with it. I agree. I agree. I agree. I think. I thought you thought it was going to be fresh across the board. Yeah. I was wrestling at the time. I'm going to stick with my initial. I'm going to be a fresh across the board.
00:52:39
Speaker
I think people appreciate it, but man, this could be the one that makes me have to watch that marathon. Yeah. Could be. I think like we talked about before, I think this is going to have to be a part one. Yeah. What month are we in right now? When's Barbie supposed to come out?
00:53:08
Speaker
We're getting, yeah, middle of the year, July, a couple months in. All right. So the last film then, last film that we will talk about, which is, I think my most anticipated film of this year, Oppenheimer.
00:53:25
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Oh, man. Nolan's back, baby. And he's back with special new Kodak IMAX film made just for him in this film. I'm about it. It looks incredible. I have like a special place, my heart for the Manhattan Project, nuclear energy and weapons in general.
00:53:53
Speaker
I'm super excited to see this on the big screen. I'm super excited to see it on IMAX. I think this is going to just blow people's minds. He built his own atomic bomb and blew it up for the movie, or something like that. Yeah. Of course, this is a top three for me as well. It's easy top three.
00:54:18
Speaker
Nolan makes great movies. Yeah, he does. He is as certain as he can be. Man, I agree with you. I mean, some background on the Manhattan Project, right? It is the most intensive project of intellectual development that we've had as the human race, arguably. There's 130,000 workers at the peak. They spent $2.2 billion in 1942 money, which might as well be all the money we have in the world right now for inflation.
00:54:49
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Like that is a tense amount of human intellect being put at one specific type of device.
00:54:57
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Yeah, and the stakes were so high, right? There was a fear that Germany was going to get the bomb before the United States, that there were scientists who came over who escaped basically Europe at that time and got recruited over the years into the Manhattan Project. Einstein wrote a letter about his concern.
00:55:21
Speaker
with a nuclear power Germany in the future. It's a huge, I mean, one of the most profound moments in the history of civilization was the creation of this weapon that still dictates global politics to this day. Everything. It's the first time that we reached into the hat of technology and pulled out a ball of technology that can destroy everything. Yeah.
00:55:50
Speaker
And the thing too that I think is going to be really interesting about this movie is Oppenheimer and not the later part of his career, but after the Manhattan Project when they were going and investigating the creation of basically the fusion bomb
00:56:15
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He was kind of like against it. And there was a, I'd say like a witch hunt that really got him his security clearance revoked, you know, and he was like an outcast for a portion of time. And actually in December of last year.
00:56:32
Speaker
the Secretary of Energy for the US issued somewhat of an apology about how his security clearance was revoked and basically said it shouldn't have been. So this film is going to explore, I think, what he did, but also the reservations he had after the fact, after the creation of the bomb, which I think is
00:57:00
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Very interesting. They don't really teach you that in school, you know, growing up, it's just America got the bomb. We won World War II. There's a lot. But it was very nuanced, you know? That was the 54th security hearing career. Basically just thrown over the, and handled, but it just tossed aside. That guy was, this could be a very interesting movie.
00:57:30
Speaker
I was thinking back to a book I read back in college about him. He was upset with one of his professors when he was going to school and poisoned them. Wow. It was well known. It was like he got caught and admitted to it. He was supposedly having an extramarital affair with this lady, was it Gene Tatlock? He was getting a movie.
00:57:58
Speaker
Flora Plue, that's how you say her name, right? Flora Plue. Flora Plue, there you go. And pretty sure she commits suicide before the bomb is committed, like completed. Wow. So he was going through the ringer during the entire time of that development, not to mention the stress of having that type of weapon that you're developing. Yeah, wow. It's going to be epic, man. Got a scene on IMAX, of course, opening weekend.
00:58:29
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True IMAX, too. Got to find a true IMAX screen for that. We got one in Arizona. Yep. A couple here in California, but. It's not in San Diego, right? I don't think any in San Diego. Not true. I think I have to go up north to LA to see it. So weird. I know. San Diego's slightly. Can IMAX? Come on, guys. I know. Maybe I should do a GoFundMe for an IMAX. But what IMAX movies can get the podcast is, can IMAX now?
00:59:00
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All right, so you think fresh, fresh all across the board? Oh, easy. That's up there with Spiderman.
00:59:10
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All right. Sweet. Yeah. Oppenheimer. That's a good one to end on. I mean, there are several left to get through. They made it through July. You have to do a part two on this, but you know, others that are coming up, the remake of the exorcist huge whores in the Oscar. Napoleon. Oh yeah. So much. Yeah. It's a good year. It's going to be a good year for film.
00:59:39
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I agree. We're finally getting back over the kind of like the downturn caused by the pandemic. Yeah. We're finally getting back into the full swing. Yeah. The box office is like returning to 2019 numbers. Exactly. 18. Hopefully some assets too. I hope so. I think that concludes this episode. Yeah. We'll continue part two and very shortly.
01:00:10
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