Hello, everybody.Welcome back to another episode of the Santee Time podcast, where no matter if it's Easter time, Western time, or Pacific time, it will always be Santee time.
Returning guests, John Griffin and AJ Ford are here to discuss the mid-year recap of the movies that we saw this year.How's it going, guys?
Hey, how's it going?We are back.
I am so tired. you're always tired john it's called working that is true i've been working pretty much all week i have sorry um i was gonna say i have been awake for 14 hours so far today the other day i had to clean my
little indie theater from top to bottom because the night theater didn't show up and I was the only one in the building who could clean it.That must have been a fucking bitch, dude.Anyway, I feel like I should share some good news.Sure.
We pretty much made this kind of official in our little DMs. The three of us are going to make it a tradition to share mid-year and end-of-the-year lists on this pod.Yes, sir.That's right.
We've officially made it a sanctity tradition for all three of us to do a mid-year recap and an end-of-the-year recap as well.
Then go full red-letter media on your asses.
My involvement depends on if I fall out of love with movies or not in the next three years.
We will make you fall back in love with movies, even if that means like kidnapping you, tying you up and fucking making you watch every single movie possible, like fucking Clockwork Orange style.
That would suck.It could be the blast.Anyway, so anyway, so, uh, So to discuss the weekend I had, I was away in Spain and I had a pretty good week.So during the third week of June, my parents renewed their vows.
We had a lovely ceremony in which we invited our friends and all of our extended family.My siblings partner met in our extended family, which was really nice.I celebrated my birthday.I am 25 years old.Sometimes I forget I'm 25, so.Same here.
And I'm the grandpa.I'm 27.
I'm going to be 28 on August.
Oh, man.Yeah, like you're the you're the older guy like of this trio, man.
I was born in the mid 90s while you guys were born during fucking Y2K.I don't even exist.
1996 was the most mid-year for movies, so... And 99 was crazy, man.
I was born the same year.The Matrix, Eyes Wide Shut, uh... Me too, me too, yeah.What else came out that year?Did Fight Club come out that year?Yeah, yeah, yeah, Fight Club came out that year.SpongeBob first aired that year.
Like, I was just living it up back then.
Yeah.1996, what'd I have?I had fuckin' Independence Day, Space Jam.
Okay, that movie is so fun though, low-key. Mission Impossible.
Like movies that are trying to be classics, but... Well, actually, Mission Impossible 1 is indeed a classic.
Split diopter heaven, man.Thank God.
Oh, I mean, we did have Fargo in 96.Yeah, yeah, yeah.We did have it.God bless us with Fargo.Yeah, yeah, yeah.And Scream.And Scream.There we go.Yep, we did.It wasn't all bad.
And David Cronenberg's crash.
Fuck yeah, anyway, anyway, uh, so oh, so yeah, the trip to Spain was lovely.
I'm back and I had to like fly back with with my sister like my parents came into town and my sibling is flying back as we speak so pretty soon we're all gonna be together and Seems like you go to Spain pretty often.Yeah.Yeah, I do like Yeah, I do.
Like my extended family is there.So like we basically go every summer to like see them once in a while.So and I love it there.You know, like it's it's basically my second home.
My extended family from England.
All my extended family is here.And it sucks.
You goddamn American, red, white, and blue-skinned American.
I'm actually like extremely Irish, but go off.I'm just, it's just been a couple generations since my family's been there.
Right.Okay.All right, guys.So, to discuss the, So to discuss the year of 2024, what do you guys think about this year so far?Do you think we've had a good run of movies?Do you think that we've had a mid-year of movies, AJ?
I think we've honestly had a pretty mid-year so far, but the movies that we have gotten that are good, I do... really, really love.
But it's not like to the extent where I consider movies like Come On, Come On and The Worst Person in the World to be the best movies of the 2020 so far.And the movies that I have in my top five of 2024 are not movies that I would even put close
to those movies.So I'm hoping that the fall becomes better, but it's kind of paling in comparison to the year that we had last year.
You know, it's interesting that you say that because we're kind of on the opposite ends of the spectrum here.
I also think this year has been kind of meh for the most part, even though I've only seen 15 movie, 15 new releases this year, unless I forgot to rank one.But Everything I've seen has been either.
Well, I have this that I got so drained out last year that I just don't want to see movies I don't think look good in theaters anymore.Like it's I just find it a waste of money now at this point.
But the flash pretty trick.
It fucked me up.The flash really fucked me up. No, but I'll reveal what it is later, but this year we did get the release of what I think is the best movie of the 2020s so far.And it's not Dune Part 2.But yeah, we'll get to that later.
Duneheads are going to come for you.
I will say, like... Anyone sensible will agree with me.
As an indie movie buff, Sundance did go kind of hard this year.
Oh, fuck yeah.We're going to get into that, man.
I didn't get a ticket, but I did actually just watch something that premiered there.Wait, no.Was it Sundance?When was Sundance again?
Okay, yeah.I think it was something from Sundance I did watch recently that did make my honorable mentions.My 10 through 6, if you want to call it that.
Right, yeah, so after what I think about 2024, I feel like 2024 had a pretty amazing, had a pretty good start, because last year when the strikes were happening, we had this really promising slate of movies coming out, and they got pushed back because the studios refused to pay their workers, and now,
And now the movies that were supposed to come out last year came out months prior.And it's had this big boom of success with film lovers and all that.
And also, we're kind of going to discuss one movie in particular that didn't make as much money as we thought it would.And it's a pretty damn shame that it did.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
The discourse behind it is infuriating.
And I feel like after June we're going to get a lot of exciting movies coming out this year, especially when we share our most anticipated.
so so yeah so like uh so let's uh so let's get into our top 10 this is going to be a rapid fire top 10 this is going to rapid fire top 10 through six okay so let's do it like uh santi goes first and then john then me okay are we just are we just gonna like do like one person does 10 through six right away and then
yeah move on to the next person yeah i think if you want to add like little bullet points you can but yeah okay okay all right so my number 10 so uh my number 10 is a movie that i watched at that I watched from Sundance called Tenderberry.
It is a semi-autobiographical kind of documentary style narrative feature about this woman whose boyfriend went to Ukraine and he gets killed.
So this woman has to fend for herself when she's living in Brighton Beach as she's trying to learn to be her own woman. how could she live without her boyfriend?
It's a really, really beautiful movie set during a time, set during between 2020 and 2021 when the modern political landscape was changing, that how people were How people interacted changing.Like how people interacting were changing.
It's really beautiful.And I can't wait for it to come out eventually.I hope it comes out because there was no release date in sight for Tenderberry.
I actually almost saw Tenderberry at Sundance but I ended up just getting tickets for Deedee.
Yeah, yeah, so it looks good.
I got the trailer for it the other night.Oh my God, I love I love the DD trailer so much.Anyway, my number nine is Curiosa.
This is this is George Miller at his most maximalist at his most expressionist like it is one of the most creative action movies I've ever seen in theaters on a Taylor Joyce.Excellent.
The car chase sequences are amazing, especially the Warwick sequence. Like, Chris Hemsworth's performance in that movie is phenomenal.Like, he deserves an Oscar nomination for that performance alone.The editing is crisp.
Like, George Miller is a fucking god making this movie, and I'm really pissed off that it didn't do well in theaters.
That's what I was assuming you meant earlier.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.Yeah, yeah, because, like, yeah, because, like, a follow-up to Fury Road, like Furiosa, like, Like, shouldn't even do that poorly at a box office, but then again, Fury Road didn't do that much.
I was going to suggest the problem is how far after Fury Road that that came out.Like, the hype of Fury Road had kind of died down because it has been almost 10 years.
I guarantee if Furiosa came out in 2018 or 2019, it would have been a guaranteed hit.It probably would have outdone Fury Road.
Another thing is and and like what actually like infuriated me was like I was watching like a couple tick tocks like specifically Owens tick tock shout out the oh yeah.
And then and then like people in the comments section were saying Furioso looked like a Netflix movie.The trailer for Furioso looked terrible.I'm going to become the Joker.Jesus Christ.
How can you watch both trailers of Furiosa and say that movie looks terrible?
How can you watch those trailers and not get fucking pumped up?
That man who sold the world fucking Needle Drop in the second trailer man, with like the orchestra version of it, it's incredible.
And what part of Furiosa looks like a Netflix movie?
What looks like a Netflix movie is my question.
Yeah, you know what does look like a Netflix movie?The Red One trailer that came out.That fucking Christmas action movie with Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans.
I have no interest.Me neither.No, no.
Chris Evans needs a new agent.Like, I swear to God.
Chris Evans is a great actor, by the way.It's just he needs to find a good fucking role.
I yeah.Yeah.John, I agree with you on that.
I just watched Alex Garland's Sunshine not too long ago, and he is so good in it.
I still need to watch Sunshine.
I've heard great things.I want to watch it soon, soon.At number eight is Richard Linklater's Hitman.Glenn Powell is a goddamn movie star.Yes, sir.I have never been more pumped for Twisters in my life.
I am going to see it at the Q&A like two days before the movie comes out. like two days before the movie comes out, which will have Glenn Powell, Daisy Edgar Jones, and the director in attendance.I'm super pumped.
Yeah.And, like, Hitman, believe it or not, is the first Linklater movie I've seen in theaters.And I've had such a hell of a time watching it at the Paris Theatre.
My dog just walked in.He's so big, right?You're really big, by the way.You know that?Okay.Anyway, I really had such a fun time watching Hitman with four of my online friends.Shout out to Brian Suffield.
Shout out to Brian Sutfield who was in attendance with me.We had a great time.The movie is just a good old fashioned type of movie that you would watch in theaters.
It's such a shame that it got dumped on Netflix because it deserves to be in theaters for as long as possible.I'm talking Top Gun Maverick level. run in the theater.Like, like, Hitman is so funny.Glenn Powell's terrific.Adria, Jorna is so gorgeous.
Their chemistry radiates the screen.And, and the script is just great.The screenplay is phenomenal.So, and, and like, and like, I would be so happy if Glenn Powell was nominated for an Oscar for, for the screenplay because like he, he co-wrote it.
And yeah, that's what I gotta say about Hitman.Go watch Hitman.It's amazing.
Hitman would have done great if it premiered at my little indie theater.I would love that.
Cool.Okay, so my number seven is Snack Shack.I finally watched Snack Shack yesterday.It is... it's... It is such a wholesome- It is a summer vibe.That is how I can describe Snapchat.It is a summer vibe.
Uh, Gabriel- John, Gabriel Abel is like really good.So, like, if you're- If you want to see more of Gabriel Labelle post-fablements, he's really good at it.I'm convinced that this guy could be a movie star in the future.
And Nick Robinson, who plays the older brother of the main character, is great too, which makes me wonder where this guy has been for most of my life.
And it just also has that Linklater vibe of a summer being set in a small town during a period setting like the 90s, except it's not Texas.It's set in Nebraska City.So yeah, go watch Snatch Shack.My last one, my number six, Love Lies Bleeding.
And I just rewatched it before before I sent you guys the link.On second watch, Love, Lies, Bleeding is... It's still amazing.Excuse me.I still love the movie.Rose Glass is a promising filmmaker to watch.Kristen Stewart is great.
Katie O'Brien steals the whole goddamn show.Ed Harris is so disgusting with his ugly haircut. this ugly haircut.Dave Franco is also amazing with the limited screen time that he gets.The whole porn The whole port stash that he has on him, it's great.
And I love the 80s vibes, the score is great, the soundtrack, crisp as hell.And the ending, it works for me.This whole 80s lesbian Thelma Louise type movie is amazing.So yeah, that's my 10 through six.AJ, your turn.
Actually, it's John's turn.
All right, my number 10 is Monkey Man.Dave Patel's directorial debut.Liked it a lot, even though I did kind of think it was just, it kind of just felt like another John Wick clone, but it did have a little bit more sauce than all those other ones.
And I also was a little tipsy the only time I saw it because I wasn't driving and I had like a couple of cocktails before the movie started, but. It was it was it's a great movie.Yeah, I don't really have my eye.
Like I said, I only saw all these movies in theaters once also.So and I haven't seen them since.Well, not all of them, but we'll get to that in a bit.But no, yeah.Monkey Man's my number ten.My number nine I just saw on Thursday.It's bike riders.
I really liked it.I have not seen any other Jeff Nichols movies, shockingly, but I do want to check them out after seeing this.I didn't think the movie was perfect, but I do think it was very, very watchable.Like, it's just one of those movies.
It feels like a good hangout movie.Like, it's just a bunch of guys, just a bunch of guys hanging out.Like, it's already like, oh, I'm already watching Austin Butler and Tom Hardy hanging out.Who comes up?Norman fucking Reedus.Oh, my God.
This movie's got everyone!Hideo Kojima loves this movie, probably.
I'm sure he does.I'm sure Kojima likes the movie, so...
Yeah.Number seven.I'm not seven.Number eight.This is probably going to shock a few people because a lot of people didn't really like this movie.But Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
Yeah.I do agree with a lot of people that it is the weakest movie of like the modern apes movies, but it is still a pretty very solid coming of age story.I really like the main villain in this movie played by Kevin Durant.
Exactly, he's one of the best villains of this year.He's in like the trio of guys I fucking love and those guys that their movies are from are also later on this list, but.But no, yeah, obviously it was weird.
I felt weird watching a modern day apes movie without my boy Matt Reeves in the director's chair, because his sauce is just like one of the things that make Don and War work for me so well, but. Yeah, I think Wes has got potential.
Yeah.I'm kind of interested in that Zelda movie he's apparently doing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too.Yeah, for sure.
John, you said that he's in that trio of guys you fucking love.Are you sure that isn't your trios of guys you fuck?Oh, you got him.
I mean, guys, I wish I could fuck.No, I'm kidding.
John said it here first.He would fucking ape.
crazy um all right uh my number seven is the uh Rachel Lambert film sometimes i think about dying i just watched this recently um i want to watch that yeah i just watched this like last week and um
I thought it was phenomenal as someone who grew up like mostly as an introvert that didn't really know how to fit in with people or how to pursue a possible love connection.I thought this was like the perfect representation of that.
And Daisy Ridley is just it's just so so good in it.
She doesn't have that many lines, but like Star Wars, like she's a great actress, man.
Like even when she is in Star Wars, she's great. But Star Wars fans won't let you say that because she's a woman.
Don't forget, boys.That is unfortunately true.
Yeah.No, but like she doesn't have that many lines in the movie, but her body language, like all her reactions and stuff, it's like perfect.She is.She plays the perfect introverted woman in this film.And just yeah, it's only 90 minutes long.
If you haven't seen it, like, please do yourself a favor.But yeah, it's like ninety nine cents to rent on Amazon Prime.At least it was last week.
Oh, I need to do a rewatch.
And my number six is Linklater's Hitman.Come on.
I love the before.I love the before trilogy.I love Dazed and Confused.Of course, I was going to love this fucking movie and I still cannot get that.I won't spoil it, but that one scene that involves notes on the phone.
Oh yeah, I love that scene so much.
Probably one of my favorite scenes of the year.Cannot get it out of my head ever since I saw the movie.
It also has one of my favorite lines of all time.Who the fuck is Gary?
Me!I'm Gary!It fucking blows my mind how people actually think that movie is boring.
Which people?Or one particular person that will listen to this and be like, Hey!
I'm talking like they're I've read some like letterbox reviews and like fucking comments under ads of hitman saying oh It was so boring.I shut it off.
What part of that was boring.
I mean I'm gonna be talking about hitman soon, but yeah Anyway, yeah, okay, so so AJ you're 10 through 6 Alrighty, I want to I want to give my number 11 real quick because I know it'll, uh, it'll piss you two off.
Cause I know you guys love this movie.So, uh, I just want to get a reaction.Number 11 challengers.Oh, I mean, to be fair, you have seen a lot of movies this year.I have seen a lot of movies.
So there's a lot of competition we probably don't know about.
Challengers is very, very good.I love me some.I'm going to say guaca.I love me some guaca.I love me some guaca and some Luca.Um, yeah, I love Luca Quattro Dino. But I just think he's made better movies.And I love Josh O'Connor's ass, anyway.
Number 10.Word.Number 10, another pretty low placement for a movie I know you guys love, Dune II.
And it may just be because I'm not the biggest sci-fi guy around, but I will admit that Dune II is probably the best sci-fi movie in the past almost 10 years.
Blade Runner 2049 might be better.
Yeah, that's what I was referring to.That and Annihilation.I honestly like Annihilation a little bit better than Dune 2.
Both of those are less than 10 years ago, by the way.I just want to clear that up.Yeah, yeah.
I said almost 10 years ago.Okay.Anyway, Dune 2.Spectacle with a capital S. The knee is definitely a genius.Number 9. A movie that we mentioned briefly, Didi.I really love Didi.
As someone who has grown up in my teenage years, kind of exposed to the internet, you know, I was always on AIM chat rooms, always Skyping my friends, and... Just always filming everything in sight, like filming skaters.
This movie struck a chord with me.And also, I have a close relationship with my mom.And that speech that the mom gives at the end of the movie, it took in my heart strains.
Wish I knew what it was. because I have not seen the movie yet.
I'm not going to give you context.I'm not giving you context.
Yeah, it's going to be released in a month.
Good, I will be there.Mom, if for whatever reason you're listening to this, I know you're not, you're cool.
Yeah, mom, you're cool too.By the way, she just walked in to get my dog.
Yeah, mom, you're not listening to this because you don't care about all my podcast adventures because you don't have time for that. If you're doing your laundry right by my room right now, hi!Happy that you're here.
Are you gonna say she's cool?Is she not cool or something?She's very cool.Okay, cool.
Moms are cool.Anyway, number eight.I have a movie that closed out the Boston Film Festival when I attended.Sing Sing.I talked about this briefly in our Discord.You guys are gonna eat this shit up.
I'm just gonna say right now, you guys are gonna eat this shit up.It's like, imagine Shawshank Redemption, but the prisoners are doing, like, a play.
Like, they're all auditioning for a play, and two of the leads in that play form a very close bond, and that is Coleman Domingo and newcomer Clarence Macklin.I think I said that right? Yep, Clarence Macklin.
And they are both absolutely fucking fantastic.I think if Coleman Domingo were to win Best Actor by the time March comes around, I would not be upset.I'm, fingers crossed, fingers crossed he at least gets nominated.
But yeah, you guys are absolutely gonna eat this shit up.It made me cry.Number 11.
I'm itching, I'm itching to watch it.Okay, sorry.I think it comes out in August.
Number seven, a movie that John and I saw together, a movie that John had not even heard of until I mentioned that we should see it together because it was playing near us.
Does this count as a 2024 release?Because this is nowhere.
I'm going to, I'm going to count it.I'm going to count it because it just did like film festival runs in 2023 and did a wide release in 2024. Hundreds of Beavers.
I just watched that also today.
Probably the funniest movie of the decade.
So hard is the hardest I've laughed in the theater in a hot minute.And AJ can, of course, can, of course, testify to that because he was sitting next to me.
Yeah, I was also laughing really hard at that movie, too.Like it's like it's like if it's like if evil it's like evil dead.
Evil Dead 2, that's what I said.That's what I said.I said this is what Evil Dead 2 would be if Ash escaped the cabin.
It would be Evil Dead 2 if Bugs Bunny was the one fucking with Ash.Oh yeah!What's up, Williams?Groovy, Doc. Anyway, it's actually kind of insane how this movie got made with the budget that it had.
There was also, I want to shout this out, there was a really really amazing running gag involving some prospector spitting, like all he has to do.Oh my god.Oh yeah. And, uh, it's funny every single time.No spoilers, but I'm just gonna say that.
There's a hilarious censor beep gag that I think is one of the funniest jokes of the year, by the way.
Anyway, number six, a movie that I find to be probably the most charming and maybe question mark funniest movie of 2024.
I'm kind of like picking between this and hundreds of beavers, but I'm putting this slightly above it because I just find this more charming.Thelma!I'll see you tomorrow! Dude, you're gonna love it.You're absolutely gonna love it.I can't wait.
I'm obsessed with Thelma.As someone who is very, very close with my grandmother, I only have one grandmother left, and just, I don't mean to make this sad, but I just recently lost my grandmother on my mom's side, and we're close.Oh, man, I'm sorry.
I know she would love this.This movie's fucking hilarious.John, I think you should make a theater trip to see Thelma.Do you want, you know what it's about?
Um, I'm looking at the synopsis right now and it looks, it looks like punch drunk love, but like funny.
Fucking hilarious.Basically to those watching who don't know who Thelma is, what Thelma is, basically it's based on the director's actual grandmother who he's very close with. June Squibb plays a 90-year-old grandma who gets scammed out of $10,000.
And so she goes on a revenge quest to get her money back.It is the ultimate tribute to grandmas.It is endlessly entertaining.
If Beekeeper was an indie movie, basically.
Oh, yeah.It premiered at my indie theater that I work at.And it's been blowing us up.Like, people have been loving it. Like there was applause at the end of each show.We broke over 100 people for a few shows.
It's been an absolute delight and I can't get enough of Delma.Anyway, now for the moment we've been, we've all been late.I can't talk. The moment we've all been waiting for.
Yep, yep, yep.We are now in our top.Yeah, we have now entered our top five movies of this year.So far, I can go first.My number five. is Didi.I, woo, yeah.
Yeah, I saw the movie, like both me and AJ, like I watched it from Sundance Online and I didn't know what to expect from Didi.All I knew that it was a coming of age, like, movie, like a set, set in 2008 and, and like,
and like I was so I was pleasantly surprised by like what this movie turned out to be and like I was it's such a it's basically a mid 2000s it's basically a mid 2000s like vibe like it's like it's like a like set during the internet a
like set during like the beginning stages of the internet with Skype, Myspace, the early stages of Facebook and like you like basically a semi-autobiographical like story like based on the director's life like growing up in 2008 and like it's about this about this like young boy named Chris goes by Weng Weng and like and it's just him like trying to like
trying to figure out how he'll be able to be ready for freshman year.And not to spoil too much, but it is kind of a masterwork on how cringe humor is done.Basically, it's like eighth grade, but in the perspective of a boy.Like you've said, AJ.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.That speech at the end,
at the end like with his mother is like genuinely like sweet and the soundtrack is really good too and like the trailer for DD like plays like an MGMT like oops yeah yeah yeah it plays like an MGMT song and and like it's so good like it gets people excited to like get into DD and I can't wait for the rest of the world to watch this movie when it's out on Jet
when it's out on July 26th.So, yeah.
I can't wait to watch it again.It really is.
I'm going to watch it again.
Yeah, I'm going to see it again and I'm going to invite some friends to come see it with me, you know, just to like, yeah, yeah.We're going to have such a good time.My number five is Love Lies Bleeding.
I remember when this came out AJ told me that I would probably fuck with it because of its vibes and I could not be more right because this feels like a that this feels like Cronenberg's drama era type thing.
Like, like it feels like that wrote that Rose Glass, like watched like Eastern Promises or like a history of violence.
And it was like, what if I did like a really fucked up Thelma and Louise, but in this style and like and obviously Kirsten Stewart's great.Katie O'Brien is the MVP of the film. And I could not believe how ripped she was actually.I was like, whoa!
Also, I think it's admirable that she got the role in this movie for replying to a tweet about how they're looking for someone to cast in this movie that will be Christian Stewart's partner.That needs to be a very muscular
female and then she like posted a fucking photo of her doing curls with a bar and then just said, just said, I forgot what the tweet was but then like apparently she got a call because of that.
So it's like, you know, that's that's just the prime example of shoot your shot boys, it might work. No, but yeah, I love the film.Ed Harris is it looks like Jon Voight in heat with that disgusting ass haircut.
And yeah, and I mean, like, just it was awesome.It's awesome.It's a fucking great movie.I can't I do got to watch it again some point soon.I only saw it the one time in theaters back in what was it, February when it came out?
March.Yeah, it came out in March.OK, guys talking about it's out on max in a month.
You guys are talking about Love Lies Bleeding and you're not even talking about the actual best performance of the entire movie.Yeah!I'll get to once I talk about Love Lies Bleeding.
Right, right, right.Yeah, yeah.
Okay.Tsk, tsk.Anyway.Number five is a movie that I think will probably go higher. by the time I watch it more, because I've only seen it once.And this is a movie on Hulu right now, actually.
And I'm debating with Bell Discord member, Mr. Michael Marino.Okay.To think, sorry. If this is a 2023 release or not, I'm considering it 2024 because it only did film festival runs in 2023.Then there's Perfect Days.
This came out the same weekend as Dune 2 fun fact and when the fucking Dune 2 early IMAX screening was happening I went and I I went to the nearest indie theater that showed perfect days and watched perfect days and I couldn't have been happier of my decision.
This is a egregiously beautiful film.Vin Vendors made one of my top five favorite movies ever made, Paris, Texas.And with Perfect Days and with Paris, Texas, it seems like he really just understands just the human connection.
He really just understands people. And with this movie, he basically just makes his own version of Patterson, which is another one of my favorite movies.And I feel like if I watch Perfect Days more often, I might think it's better than Patterson.
I don't know.But to me, like. It feels just very cathartic and heartwarming just to see how much this guy just loves his life.He loves waking up every day.He loves driving to his job where he cleans toilets.He loves listening to classic rock.
Like all of those needle drops that are in the movie feels like I'm hearing these songs for the very first time.They're like actually perfectly placed within this movie.It sounds like
House of the Rising Sun by the Animals and one of my personal favorite use of Pale Blue Eyes by the Velvet Underground, which is my favorite Velvet Underground song.
and yeah the only sort of issue i have is that they choose to have the main actor not speak as much and at times only at times it can come across a little bit goofy but it's never distractingly goofy i i still
adore this movie with every fiber of my being.It's gonna be a comfort watch from days on end.It got me through my hospital stay.I watched it one night while I was on my hospital bed.To those listening, I'm fine.
But yeah, it's just like the definition of a comfort movie. And I recommend you guys check it out.Anyway, Santee.
I'm really, I am really sad that I missed out on Perfect Days.Cause like, cause like I had a shot to like, to like watch it.
to like watch it one weekend and then I didn't because like it was raining because it was like a northern downpour that day and I just didn't go and then and then and then they pulled it like out of theaters and and I'm really sad but I'll watch it one day I love when I love like Vim Vendors so yeah.
What's a date when a theater hits?
completely different like it works completely in the theater but it also works on digital too oh man okay uh my number four is look at Guadagnino's challengers baby this is my number four too we talked beforehand so I'm kidding
Okay, so I was really excited for Challengers when it was originally going to come out in September, but Hollywood, being the stupid fucks that they are, delayed it indefinitely because of the strikes.
And it chaotic April, and I was so ready for it, I went to the IMAX screening of it, and
man like it blew me away you know like uh Luca basically made like tennis like so cinematic he made the actor he made like the actor trio like so charming so charming charismatic like serving face cards all around and like you got josh o'connor and mike face like giving such
charismatic, and ultimately scummy performances ever.
LIAM Super homoerotic angle.
ZACH I know, yeah.Yeah, like the homoeroticism was beaming out of the screen, the sweat was beaming out of the screen, like, uh, like... Like, the score, the score, man, it is my favorite score of the year.It's booming.
I listen to it, like, when I'm at the gym.And, like, I'm sure, like, and, John, like, you listen to it, like, at the gym as well.I know that.
And, and, like, that, that final, like, tennis match, like, during the new Rochelle Challenger, peak cinema, baby.And that third, and that, like, triple diopter shot.Oh, my God.
in a museum man like i believe i said on twitter that when that triple diopter shot came up i almost acted like that guy in that one video when andrew garfield showed up in no way home just like you can see a guy do a backflip in the theater that was a triple diopter shot like
Also, anyone who thinks that the tennis ball POV shot or POV sequence is stupid, is so fucking boring, that rules so hard.That made me go like this in the theater.
I was like... I literally have no idea how they did that.
Yeah, I don't know either.There's no way you can precision putting a GoPro on something so small and hitting it with tennis rackets.Like how the fuck did they do that?
Yeah.Like, yeah, yeah, exactly.Like how how did they do that?
You know, like you said, like the whole like obviously we're kind of like bleeding the same because this is also my number four entry.So I'm also talking about it.But
um the entire final match at the end of the challenger is like uh that the last like what is that the last like 15 minutes of the movie essentially is like some of some of the one of the best sequences i've seen in a film in like the last 10 years like it's so the the anxiety you feel it's tense it's fucking to have my palms sweating yeah and like
yeah and like that one bit happens where he touches the middle of the tennis racket which i saw coming from a mile away but when it happened it was like oh let's also not forget uh zendaya's crazy eye oh my god yeah and also like if you ask me it doesn't matter if um if patrick or uh
If Patrick or Art won the match, they played a damn good game of tennis.
That's why she fucking screamed at the end.She was into the game.So she's like, come on.It really makes you wonder the ending of the film.Spoilers, obviously. But it really makes you think about how open-ended the ending of the film is.
You could actually think that Zendaya's character actually did take up Josh O'Connor's on her becoming his coach because Art wanted to retire after that challenger.So that's the way I like to view it.That's the optimistic way of viewing it.
So, but yeah, I don't know.Could go up to any interpretation, really.Maybe they all hate each other after that.Maybe after it cut to black, Art just picked up Patrick and like John Cena attitude adjustment him onto the fucking pavement.I don't know.
Oh, man.AJ, what's your number four?
Yeah.Uh, good talk guys.Good talk.Um, my number four was a movie that I saw at Sundance and I consider it to be my favorite movie that I saw at Sundance.Uh, this is from a director in which I hated their first movie.
I hated his first movie, but, and I almost didn't see this and I'm pretty sure you guys know what I'm talking about right now.But, um, By the time, like, reactions came out and tickets came on sale, I bought that, like, no one's fucking business.
Uh, Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain is my- Ooh.Yep.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I also watched that at Sundance.
Yeah.And do you want to throw in your two cents for a second?
Yeah, I never, I didn't watch.I didn't watch.When we're finished, I'm saving the world because like it wasn't really because it didn't really play anywhere near me.And like I didn't really like watching on digital, but, but,
but uh but i had the chance to like watch it on sunday so i was like oh okay cool like uh akira colton like jesse eisenberg movie like set in poland this uh this could be a good watch and it was so yeah aj back to you yes um so basically uh this is this is pretty much an aj ford movie like to to those watching basically i just call movies that are like tender made for me aj ford movies those are like
really cathartic, really funny movies that also have a lot of heart to them.And A Real Pain does just that.It is a lot more devastating than I expected it to be.
Um, basically what this is about is these two cousins, they decide to go to Poland to do a Holocaust, uh, concentration camp tour.And basically they just start to learn more about each other.
And basically they start to find out like, um, a lot more dark I don't want to say secrets, but like a lot more dark traits within them.
And it's honestly like, I can't believe that Jesse Eisenberg went from a really bad movie, like When You Finish Saving the World, which is like one of the most pretentious movies that I've ever seen, to one of the best written movies, I think, maybe of the decade.
Because these characters are written, I think, super, super well.And Kieran Culkin gives one of the best performances of the year.And I'm so happy that they're releasing this in award season.
Because A, that means, you know, more chance for the Oscar.And B, that means a bigger chance that Kieran Culkin could get Best Supporting Actor.Like, at least a nominee.
Like, he is so fucking fierce in this movie, he balances that humor, but that heartbreak, seamlessly. And when he has those moments to be really, really emotional, it really works.Like you really do feel that.
And I can say the same about Jesse Eisenberg.I'm not the biggest Jesse Eisenberg fan.I like him.
I think he's been very, very good in some movies, but then other movies, it just feels like, you know, they just cast him because they just needed somebody.You know what I mean?And But with this movie, he compliments his character super, super well.
And I just love watching these interactions that these characters make with these Polish people, people in this tour guide.And I also just love the soundtrack.The soundtrack is basically 100% Chopin.
For those who don't know, Chopin was a classical composer from the Romantic era.He was mainly just a pianist and he was like a very, very, very tortured soul.And I feel like his music just fits the tone of the movie like perfectly.
I can't wait to see this movie again.It honestly just blew me away.And also, Poland just looks so damn beautiful.
And how it makes you want to go to Poland.
Exactly.And how they and how they handle like, the Holocaust, like the whole Holocaust tour is handled so tastefully.Like it's handled with such respect and care.
And it's honestly, that whole sequence, like, during the concentration camp tour, like, it might be one of my favorite sequences of the year.
Like, it's mainly done through silence, it's done through, like, the character's facial expressions, and one tour guide just explaining, like, what exactly we're looking at.Like, it almost feels just educational.
I just love this movie.Yeah, I can't wait for it.I'm out in October.I can't wait for you guys to see it.Yeah, good job, Jesse.Yeah, yeah.
Good on you, Jesse.And you know what?And you know what?When Jesse releases a movie every Sundance, I'm there, you know?
Yeah, fuck it. He grew from when he finished saving the world.That movie stinks.
I'm sure it does.Anyway, our number three is Hunters of Beavers.Yeah, we basically talked about it as well.So this movie, I'm going to be hyperbolic here, it basically re-invents cinema.
to me, like to me at least, because like, like, like, like with the budget that I had, it is shot so perfectly, like, it's done, like, it's like Adobe After, like Adobe After Effects, like, like visual effects to, from the slapstick comedy to it's like,
I got to its horror tone, to that brilliant third act, to its almost silent dialogue, it's just really amazing to me.It's so perfect to me.This makes me believe that silence...
This makes me kind of believe that silent films could make a comeback because of it.Oh yeah, like the lead actor is so funny.It is the most I've laughed at, at a movie. It's such a long time.It's honestly my favorite comedy of the year so far.
So yeah, if you haven't seen Hundreds of Beavers yet, what are you doing?If you're a fan of Looney Tunes, if you're a fan of Tom and Jerry, or any type of slapstick comedy, go watch Hundreds of Beavers.It's worth your time.
It is an easy, breezy watch.It's So fun.You should watch it.
We also forgot to mention most epic title drop of the entire year.
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My number three of the year is Dune Part 2.I mean... I thought that was going to be a bit higher. Yeah, well, there's just two other movies and you're not going to blame me after.
But I mean, obviously, you guys know how much I love Dune, not just like the Denny Villeneuve movie, the first Denny Villeneuve movie, just in general.I read Dune in high school and it's still my probably my favorite novel of all time.
But like this movie, I mean, this movie is like Wow.
It's like the thing that really cemented for me that the Dune, when we do eventually get Dune Messiah, it's going to be like looked back on in the same way that the original Star Wars trilogy or like the Lord of the Rings trilogy was for those generations.
It's going to be like our, well, I don't want to say our generations because all of us are in our 20s as these movies are coming out.But I mean, I love the cast in this one.
I love the additions from like, obviously, I love everyone from the first one, but I love the new characters, though, even though they're not new characters, but they're they're from that half of the book.
I mean, Austin Butler's fate, Rautha, is one of my fucking guys that I was mentioning earlier, like like that dude is just awesome.He's like Randy Orton, but in a sci fi film.
that whole entire thing like I love when he kills that one guy then just goes like wow and he's walking away.
yeah that's like what Randy Orton does after he hits an RKO out of nowhere but no and I mean like Florence Pugh even though she's not in the movie too much I think she services their character well especially knowing who her character is my cuckold queen princess Yreland yeah but
Just wait, when you guys read the books, you'll understand.I mean, Walken, barely in the movie, but like his entire appearance is just worth it for that one bit where he just goes, Baron, you haven't done anything about this, Muad'Dib.
Come on, how can you not?Yeah, just your father was a weak man.
Yeah, and like, I can't believe- I also can't believe that- Bruce Wayne, why are you dressed up like Batman?Because- I thought the boa- I thought, Paul Atreides, why are you mo- Why are you dressed like Fremen?Because he is Muad'Dib, you moron.
Did you just do it as this, like, fucking click character?Like, you're like, Paul, you don't understand.I'm not the emperor.
He just like if if like he if he didn't get the SATA card to do like to help the Harkonnens out to like wipe out the Atreides family like Leto Atreides would have just been like chilling in a car that he would have looked up and then walking would have been there with a fucking shotgun and blown his head off.
That's a reference to Abel Ferreros King in New York.If anyone doesn't know.
But yeah, fucking Paul wants to. marry the princess Florence Pugh, like Christopher Walken's daughter, and then- Just so he can get the throne.No.But I wanna marry her.I said no.I don't care.I don't want to, I'm gonna do it anyway.Too bad.
This sounds like a bad scene.
But yeah, I mean also that final duel between Paul and fade is like awesome like it's It's one of my favorite fights and like any piece of literature ever and what I really do love about the movie unless you're completely fucking illiterate to media like someone I know might be
that I won't talk about.The movie makes it very clear that Paul Atreides is not a good guy.And like everything like that, the lead him to paradise line is not like, fuck, yeah, let's go.
That's a oh my God, this man is about to commit like galactic genocide.Like it is.There is a line. in Dune Messiah, where Paul Atreides compares himself to Adolf Hitler.And he also proceeds to say his numbers were weak.
So Paul Atreides is not a good care.Well, I mean, he's a great character, but he's not a good guy.And when Messiah eventually does get made, everyone's going to see that clearly, even though a lot of people did pick up on it that this time.
So it's basically all of TikTok and all of Twitter that's media illiterate because I've seen, that's basically where I've seen that come from.
Well, I've seen, the thing on Twitter I've seen are people that are like, wow, these people on TikTok are fucking stupid.Like my, my cousin is a big Tim Cham fan and she, her father who's read the books.
Timothee Chalamet, but her father, who's read the books, had to have to have to explain to her that no, Paul Atreides is basically a fucking dictator.
Now there's and also I think the movie the movie changed a lot from the book also, especially for its ending, which is for the better.If you want to see without reading it, what happens at the end of the book, just read the Lynch version.
But I'm not read the Lynch version.Watch the like last 20 minutes of the Lynch version. But the big change of the book is the character Chani.Usually she's all for Paul's genocidal thoughts, but in the movie they change it to have her oppose him.
So you as the audience member can foot herself in your shoes.And that's why I think the more people realizing Paul's a bad person worked really well in this film.
I feel like it's not it wouldn't have been like clear enough if it they did what the book does where she's like all over him, no matter what and she's even supports him like marrying the Empress.
I didn't I didn't even know that.I also I also can't believe that like Timothee Chalamet of all people got Christopher Walken to kiss his fucking ring like.
Yeah.And I like that little like five year old tantrum thing he did like before that where he just like stomped on the ground to get him to get him to do it.Yeah.Yeah.
Yeah.I'm going to talk about my experience like in a bit, like what's like once I eventually talk about it, it's it's it's it's high up there.So, yeah, that's true.
Yeah, I loved it.That's my number three.
yeah yeah you're crazy if you don't love Dune 2. like come on.
oh oh oh just one more thing sorry.black and white arena scene on Giddy Prime.my favorite scene of the decade so far.
oh yeah man for sure.so good.alright AJ back to you.
I love Thalmander Austin Butler.my numéro trois. Um, I'm very sad that I had to put this at number three, but when making this list, I just kind of realized that there were just two other movies that I like just a little bit better.
But I adore this movie with all of my heart.It is a five out of five movie for me.And it's a movie that I have knocked out and out of my head.I know this is higher for you too.Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow.For a while, this was my number one.
For a hot minute, this was my number one.And maybe eventually, maybe eventually, it could restore that position.But for now, there are two other movies that I just like better.I saw the TV glow is the definition of an enigma.
It is something it's like this entire movie is like trying to explain what color is to a blind person.It's something that just can't be done.
And I think Jane Schoenbrun is one of the most exciting directors that we have working right now, simply because they have fucking guts.They took a huge, huge risk with this. And especially just releasing it to the general public.
I'm actually surprised that this movie didn't get shit on as much from the general audience.And I'm actually pretty happy that it didn't get shit on by the general audience.Like, this movie, genuinely, like,
is so fucking thought-provoking and how it handles its themes is something that I personally have never seen dealt with before.
I've never seen a director deal with these themes such as coming out, like in a way that James Schoenbrun does with I Saw the TV Glow.And they make it honestly kind of horrifying
There are scenes in this movie that are just permanently, like, burned into my memory.Oh, we'll be talking about them soon, don't worry.I know.Especially, like, the ending scene at the birthday party.
And, like, during that scene, like, that scene is just like the fucking Justice Smith show.I haven't been the biggest Justice Smith fan, like, I haven't been the biggest Justice Smith fan, period.Like, to me, he was always just a guy that was there.
It's kind of like what I said about Jesse Eisenberg.It just felt like someone that they cast when they feel like they just need someone else in the movie and they just don't know who else to cast.
Here, he's like fucking perfectly placed in this movie. He absolutely embodied that character to a T. And he made himself work in Jane Schoenbrun's completely bizarre universe. And just how he reacts to certain things, and how he just uses his voice.
At first, like, watching the trailer for I Saw the TV Glow, I was like, oh Jesus, is that gonna be his voice, like, the entire movie?That's really annoying.Somehow he makes it fucking work.
Like, I don't know how he made it work so well, but he just did. But also Bridget Lundy Payne probably gets my favorite performance of the entire movie.
Like she has this monologue where she just keeps going and going and going and going and going and she's talking about like again utterly bizarre shit but they just make it work. They just make it work and it's unsettling.
And yeah, I honestly don't know what else to really say about I Saw the TV Glow.It's one of the hardest movies I think I've ever had to review because quite literally there's nothing out there like it.
Like, just connecting like TV shows and just making it an analogy for just coming out and like coming out as trans.Like, it was seamless.It really was seamless.And it was such a huge fucking risk for Jayne Schaumbraun.
I have no fucking idea what other director could have made this movie work.This is a miracle movie. Whatever Jane Shonbrun has in store for us, I'm set.Like, you don't even have to explain anything to me.I'm set.Alright?
Cool.I agree.I agree with all of that, and I will definitely talk about TV Glow in a bit.So now we are on to our number twos!My number two is...
Yeah.Tune two, two. To Dune, to Fredman.
Okay, basically, Dune Part 2 was my most anticipated year.Like, my most anticipated movie of my goddamn life.And I was distraught, angry, and upset that Warner Brothers pushed it back from November.
It makes no fucking sense why.
Yeah, they really thought that no one was going to go see the part two to a movie.That was a huge hit, even though it didn't make a lot of money.It still did really well with the streaming, though, because it was on the same day as HBO Max.
A lot of people were talking about it.A lot of people were loving it, that it would have made the same amount of money without the press tour.
I still believe that challenges I can kind of understand pushing back.Do not have no idea why they did that anyway.Yeah.On Sandy.
yeah so yeah so uh so my experience with like first seeing dune um i didn't really have the opportunity to watch it the weekend before it came out because yeah yeah yeah yeah because like tickets were already sold out and i had work that day which was on a saturday and uh and like my boss like asked me to come in on friday night because usually i don't work
because usually I don't work Fridays.So he asked me to come in.I told him no, because I wasn't going to miss out on Dune 2.So I got to the IMAX screening.The place was packed.All seats were filled.And like all of those seats were filled up.
People were coming to the theater to see Dune.And you could tell that this was like a pretty You can tell that this was a pretty big deal at Regal Cinemas, since the employees didn't have any posters left for the theater goers to take home.
And after I saw Doom Part II, I basically I basically tweeted with a video of Kendall Roy walking very slowly, and it's a season three clip by the way, and the tweet blew up overnight.So safe to say, Dune II basically impacted my parasocial life.
The, the Dune fever was going crazy I had like three or four tweets that fucking exploded that were related to Dune and I had like five that were related to what my number two is but
I wanted to say real quick, because I forgot to say this when I was talking about Dune 2, when the day that Dune Part 2 came out on 4K and my Steelbook came in the mail, I did the double feature of both of them, Part 1 and 2.
It took me about five and a half hours.Hits like crack, dude. Watching them back to back, it's like you're watching one five hour long epic, it was beautiful.
Oh yeah, man.Like, oh yeah, for sure, man, for sure.And, like, And yeah, everything you said about Dune II, John, I'm just going to copy off of you.This is another masterpiece from the man Dindy Villeneuve.It's more grander in scope.
It improves upon the first part. I think, like, everybody, like, everyone was so good, and yes, I do mean everyone.Everyone in this cast had their A game on.Even Lea Seydoux, who didn't have enough screen time, did so well with what she had.
And Christopher Walken as well.What?
That's so crazy, I forgot to tell him. I forgot to say, Leah's in the movie for less than five minutes, and then she's just fucking like, boom, I'm going to be the MVP.I'm going to just fucking steal this scene real quick.
And then you never see her again.Remarkable.Brilliant.I love her.I love Leia Seydoux.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.She deserves so much.And I still have yet to watch The Beast, which is another like 2024 release.
Yeah.And and like, look, if she if she asked me to to put my hand in the box, I would do it.No question.
You know, this weakness is being flirted with.
Teenagers in the movie theater.I've dealt with the worst pain possible.
Yeah, and of course, with Greg Fraser being the cinematographer, you're gonna have a lot of incredible, already instant iconic shots in the movie.The beginning is so...
Like, the beginning scene with the lunar eclipse is exquisite, it is euphoric, and the Katy Pryme sequence, phenomenal.It's so amazing.
I think we can like fair I think it's fair to say that Greg Frazier is probably one of the best cinematographers working today because like I I'm the best I rewatched I rewatched the Batman earlier this year and there was like I like the entire time I was watching it I was just like
This movie looks fucking stunning.
Like, do you guys remember the scene in that where he sends Selena Kyle into the club with the eyepieces in and like her like perfectly vibrant red wig is like there in the room where everything else is all stingy and gross and stuff?
I'm like, that is such an amazing contrast of a fucking shot.Like this movie is beautiful.And then I feel that way when I watch both the Dune movies like God.
Yeah. Just letting everyone know, Batman is another guy that John would definitely fuck.Not all of them though.
Just George Clooney.And of course the actor that steals the show is Austin Butler's Faye and Ratha. I mean, he was incredible in this.And also, I don't get the Joker comparisons.Can we fucking stop, please?He's not... Come on.
And of course, the Paula Fade-Rotha fight is amazing. It transcends cinema.It transcends cinema.It's art itself.And it just gets you so excited for Messiah.And it leaves the door open for the world of Dune to be expanded.
And it's just... God, I can't... I just can't get enough of this movie, man.I want to watch it again, dude.Yeah, I know.
Did you get the 4K, Santi? Yeah, I got the 4k.It's sitting in my apartment right now.And one more thing about dude, I watched it again when I when I flew back into America.
And guys, let me tell you, watching Dune 2 on an airplane is basically a 40x experience.I'm telling you.
Yeah, you know, it's a 40x experience watching flight 93 See that in the catalog I'd be like, oh I'm seeing cast away in a catalog Season 1 episode 4 of the boys.
Anyway, yeah, if you want if you want to like if you want to hear me like gush about doing to like you can listen to my You can listen my discussion on it on the pod with With one of my good friends Aaron.So yeah It's my number two.
my number two um it's george miller's furiosa boys i mean yeah oh my god yeah it's like then so you have this higher than doom too my god oh my well you guys got to understand something about me i love the mad max franchise i always have um since i saw fury road i didn't even know what mad max was
Yeah, I didn't even know what Mad Max was until my friend's father took us to see Fury Road because we thought it looked cool.
And that movie meant means a lot to me, not only is it like in my top 20 favorite movies of all time, but it was the movie that changed how I look at films and what basically made me the pretentious asshole I am now.
And because it changed me, it changed how I look at blockbusters.It changed how I looked at fucking use of CG, which I'll get into in a second.I, well, I don't think the CG use in Furiosa is as bad as everyone bitches about, but
No, I mean, just like, I was so excited for this movie.Like, I legit, I remember I was following, I was following that it was getting made.I was like, oh, what are they going to do?
There was like, they were going to de-age Charlize at one point, which I think Miller probably could have pulled off, not going to lie.But then they were like, no, no, no, it's too long.We're going to recast now.And then who do you get?
You get who I think is probably one of the biggest future movie stars around, Anya Taylor-Joy, to play the character.And now I'm just like, holy fucking shit.
And then that first trailer came out, and when I saw that it had the same visual aesthetic as Fury Road, I was like, okay, we have locked the fuck in, boys.
To put into perspective how much this guy loves Fury Road, Fury Road was playing, like, in Boston at this place called the Museum of Science, and the Museum of Science has this IMAX dome, and it was playing on a Saturday,
This guy tells me to take work off on that Saturday so I can watch Fury Road with him and his girlfriend and his friend Greg, our friend Greg, and just watch Fury Road in this IMAX dome.
I worked only half of my shift and then I yeeted out of there at five o'clock because I was not gonna miss fucking Fury Road in that IMAX dome. And John, how would you view it in that IMAX dome?
SEAN It was, like... I don't believe in heaven and hell, but... I imagine heaven looks something like that. No, I loved Furiosa.Like, I really did.
Like, I think the choice to have not have Anya show up until an hour into the film was actually genius because it really pushes the, this is the story of Furiosa's life.And you, the first hour of the film is, how did she leave the Green Place?
Like, what did the Green Place look like?That was so cool to see.Furiosa's mom was magnificent, as she says.And it's true.She is. It's amazing.She only has two film roles and one is Furiosa and the other one is anyone but you.
Remarkable.No, but I mean, I love Hemsworth.Hemsworth, I think this is the best performance in his whole career.And that's saying that as someone that is a massive black hat defender.But, um. What the hell else was I going to say?
I don't think the overuse to see, I don't think the use of CGI is bad.I know there's a lot of people that think CG, the CG is overused and I get it.
The movie does not look as visually good as Fury Road, but there's been this clip going around on Twitter lately of one of the Mortifier guys, like getting on their like paraglider thing.
And it's like the camera follows them on the ground and then follows them going up.And someone said it perfectly. I felt like I levitated out of my seat when I saw that in the theater.
And by the way, this is the only one of two movies in 2024 that I have seen in theaters twice.It was this and Dune part two.Everything else.In fact, I don't see movies in theaters twice that often anymore.
Like the only movie I saw in theaters twice in 2023 was Godzilla minus one.
So one of the smartest movie going experiences I've ever had was seeing Furioso opening day at my premium theater.Now it's the only one in that theater.
Oh, yeah, I had a decent I was shocked that the movie wasn't doing well because I had like a I actually had a packed theater for my I went the Thursday night because I was going away from Memorial Day.
So I went to the Thursday night preview showing and there I don't think there was a single empty seat in my theater like every bit like people were in like But and then I went and then I went again a week later and the theater was packed again.
So I'm like, what the fuck?How is this movie bombing my mainstream theater?
You know, it did OK with Furiosa.It did fine, but it only lasted like a week there.
Yeah. The thing that makes me really sad is I know some people, I'm obviously not going to name names in case they watch this, but I know some people that were interested in seeing Furiosa.They were like, yeah, I think I kind of want to see it.
I was like, go see it.Go fucking see it.Let the movie make money.So movies that are, you know, are original and look that good will fucking get made.
But yeah, we're never getting another Mad Max movie, I don't think, and it's unfortunate to say that, but hey, if you need a Mad Max fix, please go play the 2015 video game from Avalanche Studios on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
As sad as this is gonna sound, I think the failure of Furiosa at the box office is gonna make George Miller retire.
I don't know about that.I think he might try to pull one more thing.
It won't be a Mad Max movie unless he really, really wants to do one and just drops everything he has left on it because he did say he wants to do a prequel about Max before Fury Road so he can have that trilogy of that Max movie, Furiosa and Fury Road, which I would love.
I'd marathon that fucking shit fucking every weekend, man.Every weekend. But no, yeah, Furiosa is my number two.What a fucking movie, man.Anya Taylor-Joy, I love you.
Especially after you got your arm torn off and there's that one bit where you just look like the most beautiful person alive for like 10 minutes.It's the bit before she shaves her head.Like, holy shit.
I love her reaction to getting her arm cut off.She's just like, ah!
Yeah, it's just like, ah, and then you just make a single sound after.It's great.So badass.I love that she barely has any lines.I actually really love that.
I mean, Hemsworth's fucking like, um, half of Hemsworth's lines are still live like rent free in my head.Oh yeah.
I mean, his first appearance where he just turns around and goes, who do we have here?I love that.It's the most Aussie that Chris Hemsworth has ever been.Finally, they allowed him to be himself.
Exactly, he allowed him to be Australian.
Yeah, and it's also exciting for Chris Hemsworth because he's finally shedding his Thor image, and it could give him the opportunity to seek other different types of roles, whether villains or morally grey characters and all that.
I don't know how hot of a take this is to you guys, but I think Chris Hemsworth is the best Hollywood Chris.
Oh, yeah.After Furiosa, I agree.Beforehand, I would have said Pine, but now I'm more on Hemsworth.I think Hemsworth has the edge. Uh, I like Pine.I like Pine mainly because of those, uh, three Star Trek movies that he plays Kirk in.
I think he's great in those.Yeah.But, yeah, but, uh, no, Hemsworth is definitely the best Chris right now.But no, yeah, Furiosa's my number two.Can't say any more that hasn't already been said about it.
Okay, all right.Now let's get down to our honorable mentions.
I gotta do AJ's number two.Oh, fuck, fuck.
My number two is a movie that you guys have heard me obsess over.And another shout out to Mike Marino, because this movie came out pretty early on in the year.And I said it was the best movie of the year.And he would always just say, it's March.
It's March.Love lies bleeding, motherfucker.Oh, hell yeah. right when I got my early screening of this movie, like right when it ended, I felt the most hell yeah that I have ever hell yeahed.
Like I mentioned that in the AJ Ford movie was just like a comfortably cathartic movie that's funny but also has a ton of emotion.Another Another A.J.Ford movie that is eligible are movies that feel extremely retroactive.
Movies that feel extremely retroactive and have fucking balls and love lies bleeding Has fucking balls.Oh, yeah in my opinion is the most non 80s 80s movie that we have had since it follows.Oh, yeah, and
A lot of that, and I'm shocked you guys didn't mention this when going through your honorable mentions, a lot of that has to do with the score.A lot of that has to do with, I believe it was Cliff Martinez who did the score.
Hold on, let me look it up.If it is, then I'm happy about that.Was it Cliff Martinez or Clint Mansell? Anyway, like, as soon as that score starts bumping, and it has that 80s techno-y vibe, I was automatically hooked.
And then we get introduced to Christian Stewart's character, and she's unclogging a really shitty toilet.The only character introduction that I can think of.And we also get introduced, it's Clint Mansell.
Um, we also get introduced to what I think is not only the best performance of the movie, but probably my favorite performance of the entire year.Anna Barsinov.
Who plays Kristen Stewart's stalker?This is such a throwaway character.But Anna just makes her so goddamn funny.She just makes her so goddamn weird. And I could not get enough of her.
She was- That felt like a role that was low-key written for Mia Goth, but she wasn't available.
That's true.Oh yeah!That is actually true.Every time Anna was on screen, I was immediately so fucking hooked on the movie. Like of course the movie lies on the chemistry between Kristen Stewart and Katie O'Brien who are both absolutely phenomenal.
But my favorite aspect of this movie is just how far they take the violence. Like, I didn't expect this movie to be, like, Cronenberg-tier.I didn't expect this movie to be, like, Cronenberg-tier gluesomeness.
The second that Katie O'Brien fucking, um, I don't want to say curb stomps. Dave Franco, because that's not what he does.He fucking like, has him bite like the coffee table and then just, like, splits it in half.
Like, that is one of the most gruesome things I think I may have seen in quite a while.
It would honestly be so funny if it was James Franco instead.
Oh yeah, honestly.And then it could have been in real life, too.That would have been even better.
Yeah, exactly.Exactly. But yeah, that scene was one of the most gruesome scenes I've seen in years.But right after that, you get unexpected deaths, unexpected shootouts, unexpected fucking bloodbaths.
And then Ed Harris also shows up with that really fucking disgusting haircut, and he's fucking incredible in the movie.
It also has like one of the best trip out sequences that I've seen in the movie and it goes on for so fucking long it's basically just like Katie O'Brien just like on steroids and it has some of the most.
creepy, gruesome imagery that I have ever seen.
Like when she gets out of that car and she can like fucking barely move, she looks up and these group of men just like have really distorted faces when she like fucking throws up on the stage performing.
And then she looks back and like these women have all these distorted faces and it, It just amazes me that Rose Glass just did not have any kind of filter with this movie.I saw her previous movie, Saint Maud, and I love that movie too.
I don't think she'll ever top Love, Life's Bleeding for me.That movie just completely rocked my world.It is the most gnarly movie of the entire year.
And maybe one of my favorites of the decade.I don't know.I need to watch it again.But.
Oh, my review ever for love lies bleeding on my end, but I'm sorry, like I've already gushed about this movie so many times on a tick tock and a YouTube video.Just check that out.But I can't get enough of it.
I don't like to be one of those people that instantly wants to fancast someone for a fucking comic book movie role, but I'm just saying, Katie O'Brien as Wonder Woman would fix me.
Oh, yeah, for sure.Get that fucking- My fancast is- Get that fucking Zionist Gal Gadot.
She's already out, man.Gun fucking kicked her to the curb.Get someone over.
He kicked Designers to the curb.
He's a terrible actress.Fuck that bitch.You.
Yeah.And yeah, you made like really good points here, Aja.Yeah, like Love Lights Meeting is like that type of movie.
It's like that type of movie that has a lot of like unexpected scenes, you know, like it's like successful sophomore debut feature from an exciting filmmaker.
and it's just so much fun to me it's so fun to me and it's like darkly hilarious like when they like reunite like first off the ending i thought was hilarious on it oh yeah most unexpected thing amazing i i've seen in quite a while but like the fucking scene where they're on that like tennis court and they reunite and katie o'brien
Katie O'Brien just goes like, what's wrong with me?And Kristen Stewart just goes like, oh, sweetheart, there's nothing wrong with you.Like without any context, like that would not be funny at all.
But like everything like leading up to that line, there's definitely a lot fucking wrong with her.Like that's why that line is so fucking funny.But yeah. I gushed enough about Love Life's Bleeding.I wanna buy the Blu-ray.I'm going to buy the Blu-ray.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanna buy the Blu-ray, too.And a 4K if it exists.
Oh, you got the Blu-ray, Santi?
No, no, no, no.I was saying, like, I was saying, like, I want the Blu-ray or a 4K for sure.So, unless there's no 4K?Uh.
And that's all I gotta say about Lovelife's bleeding, at least for now.So, drumroll please.Santee, what is your numeral uno?
Okay, before we get to our number ones, we're just gonna... I just wanna like, go through like, rapid-fire all of them at once first.So, okay, um... I don't really have a lot.Okay, how to have sex.
Molly Manning Walker's like, debut feature, it's basically Spring Breakers, but It's basically Spring Breakers, but set in the UK, and it's better than Spring Breakers.The first Omen, probably the best horror prequel ever made.
It is the perfect homage to an 80s horror film, like Possession.A Real Pain, which we've discussed earlier, it's really good.Can't wait to watch it again in October. Monkey Man, Dev Patel killed it with his directorial feature.
I can't wait to see what he does next by choreography.Excellent.And the process of it being made was really good.And fuck, hold on. Ah, Robot Dreams, which I saw.Oh, yeah.Yeah.Yeah.
Robot Dreams is like one of the sweetest, like, unexpectedly heartbreaking and just all around, like, really down to earth movies I've ever seen.Basically, La La Land and Past Lives mixed together, but it's animated and
And there's basically no dialogue.
It's such a sad movie.It really is.
It's, like, it's so... It basically throws you a curveball 30 minutes in, because...
Consider that one of my favorite movies.
Yeah, because it does well with hiding the plot really well.Okay, anyway, and The Bike Riders, which I saw the other day with my sister, thought it was really good.I like Jeff Nichols' movies so far.
I love Take Shelter, I like Mudd, and I get to see his other works too.So yeah, Bike Riders, excellent.Excellent, excellent.Our numero unos.
guys uh my number one is i saw the tv glow fucking knew it yeah oh my god okay i that's all the hype around i saw the tv glow just had me itching it had me itching to watch i saw the tv glow and
And like, and like James Charmont's like second feature after we're all going to the World's Fair was really promising.And I didn't like we're all going to the World's Fair at first, but then I gave it another shot.
And I and and now I really fuck with we're all going to World's Fair at first, it might be on par with I Saw the TV Glow the more I think about it.And like, And like I saw the TV and so TV Glow just blew me away.Just it blew me away.I saw it twice.
And just because like I had to like just because I had to like see it again to like get my thoughts together.And like it's just such it's just such a beautiful and also it's just also a gut-wrenching horror story.And what do you?
Okay, anyway, um, and like Justice Smith and Bridget Lundy Page were incredible.Like, Bridget Lundy's... Like, Bridget Lundy Page's, like, monologue specifically is, like, Mia Gott's Pearl monologue.
And, like, the visuals were incredible, the trans coming out, allegories.Fucking phenomenal, man.And of course, like, it speaks a lot on how our nostalgia
nostalgia can like negatively like impact our lives and how like time and how time like moves pretty fast and like we make her older but we don't like feel older as well and And we feel like older as well.
The soundtrack, I fucking love the soundtrack for this movie.It's probably like my favorite soundtrack of the year.And and of course, like the ending, the ending with like the birthday party is so God smacking, like gut wrenching.It is horrifying.
It is horrifying, but also but also immensely, immensely dreadful as well.And like, and like, I don't know.And like, and like, I don't know like how
I don't know how you felt about your theater experiences when you guys saw I Saw the TV Globe, because I have friends who had pretty bad experiences with that.
With some people just laughing at the movie at some parts and not really understanding it, sometimes talking through it. But yeah, but the couple of times I saw the movie, I had no problems, really.I had no problems, really.
I saw it, I sat down, I let the movie consume me, and it just changed my life, man.It's beautiful.Every time I think about it, it makes me more sad.It's so devastating to me.
OK.Anyway, back to you, John.Is your number one also TV glow, man?
I guess my number one is also I saw the TV.Not only the best movie of twenty twenty four, I would go as far to say this is the best film of the decade so far. I like everything you guys just said.
I mean, it's entire messaging about how nostalgia can blind us in so many ways or like make us remember things very differently.Like that whole scene where he's like, I rewatched the I wanted to start rewatching the pink OPEC.
And then it was nothing like I remembered as someone who grew up like watching reruns of like 90s TV.I completely got that.Like, I remember I went to go watch a compilation of frickin
Sabrina, the teenage witch, and I was like, I remember a lot of this looking better.
It's like when, yeah, it's like when you go back and like you watch something and you're like, oh, that like looked more real when I was a kid or something like that.Like Salem, the cat looked like a real cat when I was a kid.
And now I can clearly tell he's a puppet.
This acting full house is pretty subpar.
Uncle Jesse is not realistic.
Yeah. But then there's also people that use nostalgia for stupid reason, use nostalgia, use nostalgia blindness for stupid reasons or use that term for stupid reasons I won't get into.
But no, the entire movie being like a massive allegory on coming out as trans, I think is one of the things that makes the movie really powerful, especially since it's directed by a trans woman who probably faced a lot of like conflict within herself to figure out when she was going to do it, when she would start transitioning.
But yeah, and like we said, the monologue from, what's their name, I completely forgot.Yeah, from Bridget Lundy Page, that whole monologue about, I asked this guy to bury me, I paid him 50 bucks.
That was my favorite scene in the movie, but the scene that has stuck with me so much, and I saw this movie. One second.I saw this movie on May 18th, and there has not been a single day where I have not thought about the Mr. Melancholy scene.
what might actually be the scariest scene I've seen in years and that's the one where they get buried alive right yeah and like it's so I think it's amazing how when you like see all this stuff on the show like Mr. Melancholy is seen as like this stupid like um we're a trip to the moon looking fucking uh moon thing that looks dumb Majora's Mask ass looking bitch
But then like you get that scene where it's just a close up of him saying all this sinister shit and you're like, this is the scariest fucking thing I've seen in God knows how long. And yeah, I mean, you guys fucking talked an earful about it.
So it's like so hard for me to come up with like fresher things to say.But I mean, Justice Smith, I always thought that he was just the franchise guy.Like I liked Dungeons and Dragons, I thought.And he was in that.And I was like, OK.
But then I see him in this and I'm like, whoa, this dude actually knows how to act.OK.
gotcha also fred durst plays his dad i don't know let's talk about that yeah yeah yeah especially like that scene where he's like sitting on the couch and he's staring at oh my god that made me laugh so hard when i saw the movie oh really such a fred durst response to a can i watch a pink opaque isn't that a girl's show yeah yeah fred durst response yeah yeah isn't that a show for girls yeah
Isn't that a show for girls?It's just one of those days.
Fred Durst, you mean lead singer of Limp Bizkit, a.k.a.WWE's favorite band in the whole world?A.k.a.
the most mid band of all time.
They have some bangers, though.Yeah, yeah.
I'll stand by it.They have some bangers.I don't like Fred Durst in real life, but holy God, he was scary.
Yeah.What is Fred Durst's career like now?I need to know, because he makes this brief.Yeah, but he makes this brief appearance.And I saw the TV glow.
He's in that one CarMax commercial where it's like, who would want to buy a used car that's stuck playing Limp Bizkit?And then Fred Durst is walking across the street while Nookie plays.And he looks like, what the fuck?
record The Fanatic with John Travolta.
yeah the less we talk about that one the better.also I mean like Phoebe Bridgers is also in this movie for like two seconds which I had to double take multiple times.
anyway John do you want to hear a fun fact that I think you'll like about I Saw TV Glo?
I would love to.makes me love this movie even more.
Jane Schoenbrun? Her inspiration for the aesthetic of the movie was melancholy in the infinite sadness.
That would explain the needle drop of a cover of Tonight Tonight that plays about halfway through the movie.
Oh, I noticed it right away.I heard the I heard the the instrumental of it.And then like I was like, oh, I know that song.You know, my favorite album of all time.Also, you can tell you guys know me.You guys know what kind of movies I like.
There's a lot of like lynching and shit like this.And Jane is a very big Lynch fan.She did the Criterion closet video and she like picked up like Blue Velvet and like talks about how like much of an inspiration he is.So like.
I think if we were to pick who this generation's David Lynch are, it would be either Jane Schoenbrun or Ari Aster.
Lynchian elements still feel more straightforward as opposed to what Lynchian as opposed to what Lynch's films are.I think I think give Jane like maybe like three or four more movies or maybe just one more.
But I think by the time she calls it quits, hopefully not anytime soon.It'll be like it'll be the modern it'll be like the 21st century David Lynch.
John, they like James Cameron has like they've been pronounced.
I just OK, I just thought that they went to her.My bad.
That's OK.That's OK.Don't worry about it.And yeah, yeah, I'm excited for like there are the third movie that's coming out.
So it's going to be a novel.She's writing.
Yeah, they're writing a novel.Yeah.
Writing a novel and then making a movie of the novel.I believe so.Yeah, that's a cool idea.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, you better believe that I'm going to buy that novel like as soon as it's out.So, yeah, true.
Yeah.OK, OK.Seriously, that will be a filmography that we could call the the 21st century David Lynch.Yeah, it will rock.
All right.All right, guys.So shall we?
I haven't done my number one.
We're just going too crazy into it.
We are we are by the way, I want to mention real quick.
Jane is a Boston University alumni.
Stuck at New York anyway.I want you guys to take a guess on what my number one is.
OK, what movie have I been obsessed with recently? It's gotta be Hitman, yeah.I am ride or die Linklater.The amount of people that I have said that Hitman is my movie of the year so far have been like, what?Really?What's so special about that?
What's so special about Hitman?First off, it is an AJ Ford movie. Second off, I'm ride or die Linklater.I think that no one writes dialogue like he does.
He knows exactly how to portray human connection, but with Hitman, he manages to make an action movie where no one pulls the trigger.He uses dialogue. as a way to build his tension.You liked Roy!I liked Roy!No, it was Ron.It was Ron, fuck.Was it Ron?
Okay.Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was Ron.
And in order to have someone deliver that dialogue as if it were an action movie, to build that tension, you... better get the best damn actor for the job.
And thankfully, he landed with Glenn Powell, who I think is one of the best actors who just started.And right now people are hating on him saying he seems like a douchebag.Fuck off.That guy has charisma up the wazoo. He seems like a sweetheart too.
So yeah, he seems so cool.
He is the epitome of charming in this movie.This entire movie honestly is the epitome of charming, but the beginning of the movie where he's like doing this fake hitman persona for the very first time on this guy, like,
It goes on for a while and at first you start to believe it.You start to believe that he is actually this hitman and he's not performing some act.
And that just goes to show, like, how much, like, how well written this dialogue is, and how well Glenn just performs it.And then when he, you know, does the other personas, it becomes increasingly more believable as it goes on.
Fucking like people were complaining that we didn't spend enough time with those personas and I can see where they're coming from.But for me, the personas were not what the movie was about.
What the movie was about was the romance, like the romance between Gary and Madison, played brilliantly by Adria Arjona.I hope I said her name correctly.
Yeah, yeah, you got it right.
Yeah.And their chemistry is some of the best that I've seen in a long time.Like, we know Linklater is a master at chemistry at this point.And I'm just right here.
I just wanted to quickly say, you know, that Linklater is a master of conversations and chemistry when I think that his best movie is literally just two people walking around in Paris.Exactly.Yeah.
My favorite Linklater movie is just people walking around Houston, Texas and talking.And he just makes it so interesting.This guy knows how to start an engaging conversation and he knows exactly how to end it.
With the relationship with Gary and Madison, Like, that entire buildup, I thought was phenomenal.It was phenomenal, and it was funny.Like, you bring up the who the fuck is Gary line, but my favorite line delivery from Adria was, um...
when they're leaving the bar, and she runs into her ex-boyfriend, and then Glenn just, like, fucking pulls out the gun on her ex-boyfriend, and he goes, like, apologize, motherfucker.
And then Adria just goes, like, yeah, he should apologize, motherfucker.Like, I love that so much.Like, he is so adorable in that moment.And really, like,
We talk about something like challengers being incredibly sexy and it is, but I would argue that Hitman is a lot more sexy.Oh yeah.It has everything to do with the fact that these people are just like a match made in heaven.
I fully, fully, fully, fully believe everything that's going on here.The ending,
sure it can be a bit too goofy and unbelievable i didn't care i was satisfied at the end by it and i didn't care and they literally have that joke at the end where like this is inspired by a truth by a true story except for the murder we made that part up yeah i think my favorite joke
At least they, like, put that in there.There are people, there are dumbasses who are going like, this movie is anti-police.Like, fucking people in, like, Letterboxd and fucking Rotten Tomatoes audience reviews, like, this movie is anti-police.
It glorifies killing a police officer.Fuck you.You are completely media illiterate. And yeah, this is also a movie that got me to my hospital stay.I'm not gonna sit here and act like Hitman is like the funniest movie of the year.
It did give me some laughs, but I would say that it kept me engaged. just by this essence of an action movie where no one pulls the trigger.
An action movie from the perspective of someone who does not want to pull the trigger but acts like he will pull the trigger.
But like an action movie just completely driven by dialogue and you get a master of conversation to write the script along with the actor.
Your favorite joke from the movie, like what was it?
the bit where one of his characters is doing a Patrick Bateman impression.Oh, that was really that really caught me off guard.I thought that was really funny.
I was like looking at his outfit during that scene and I saw the slicked back hair and I was like, he's supposed to look like Bale, an American psycho.And then he starts talking exactly like that.
I can't remember the exact line, but it did make me laugh really hard.
And I really also got My favorite persona is his Tilda Swinton persona.He's so good in that scene.It just goes to show that Glenn can play any type of character, even in this movie.You're basically watching a bunch of different characters at once.
I know there's like nothing spectacular going on in terms of like the filmmaking or anything and people might call this predictable, but I don't give a shit.Like honestly, I don't give a shit.Like I was engaged.I love the chemistry.
I love the performances.I love just the dialogue.I loved everything about this movie.I would go as far to say it's one of my favorites of the decade.And if people don't like that, then fuck you.I don't know.
I apologize, motherfucker.
Yeah.OK.All right.So.So I got.So do you guys have any like honorable mentions before we get to our worst of the year?
I guess I'll just shout out The Sweet East, which is the first independent movie that I saw this year.I really like that one.Technically, it's a 2023 release.You know, IMDb doesn't even back me on that, but I saw in 2024.I'll shout that out.
And also the greatest hits. I find Emily to be pretty underrated.
Starring Superman, by the way.Yeah.Looks, by the way, we're recording this the day after the set photos.That suit looks awesome.
And the day that we got our first look at, like, that we got the first look at the Clark Kent persona, like, incredible.
Loved it.He looked like a fucking dork.
It's perfect. Oh, trust me, dude.I used to watch the Adventures of Superman cartoon when I was a kid.I even have like the fucking Batman versus Superman cartoon movie.Like, I have that over there.I used to eat that shit up as a kid.
You mean like Superman, the animated series?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.My Adventures of Superman is the recent show.
I need to watch that. It's good.You'd like it.It's really cute.But I just want to give one honorable mention because sorry, in a violent nature, what just barely made my top 10.For those of you that don't know what that is, that might be listening.
It is a slot is a throwback to like 80 slasher films, but it's entirely from the killer's point of view, except for the last 30, not except for the last 15 minutes.But
But besides that, it's kind of like the perfect Friday the 13th movie without Jason Voorhees.But you can clearly tell the director wanted to make a Friday the 13th movie, but just couldn't because of rights.
But if you need that Friday the 13th itch scratched, you should definitely check that out.I believe it's going to be on Shudder.It's probably already on there now that I'm thinking about it.I know it's a theater release wasn't that long.
But no, yeah, that's my only honorable mention.
okay okay nice guys let's move on to our rapid fire worst of the year uh only got one okay all right so so so the five movies that i have well technically six because like i have like because the top spot is tied um damsel the uh
The Millie Bobby Brown Netflix fantasy movie.Lift, which is the Kevin Hart heist movie.Atlas, the Jennifer Lopez sci-fi movie where she falls in love with AI.It's hyperbole, I know.Madame Web.
So, it's one of the worst Spider-Man spin-off movies I've ever seen, but it's also kinda funny.And my number one spot is a tie between Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate and the...
And the Zionist, pro-capitalist Netflix movie, Unfrosted, the Jerry Seinfeld... Oh, Jesus.The Jerry Seinfeld Pop-Tart movie.
I just wanted to say real quick, I completely forgot to put Bad Boys Ride or Die on my fucking ranked list.Oh, no!But just know that would be one of my honorable mentions.It's probably in the top ten.Reggie is the MVP.Yeah, we love Reggie.
Okay, I only have one worst of the year.Well, as I'm quickly checking my diary to make sure I didn't see any new releases that I fucking hated.But um, the only
the only movie that the lowest rated movie I saw this year I still gave three stars to but it's still not very good.
Godzilla x Kong the new empire is a movie that came out that I saw had a good time watching at least and I don't remember a fucking thing that happened in it
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that also happened with me I came to see the movie had a good time and then I don't remember shit about it yeah I mean Dan Stevens was good
yeah but Dan Stevens is always good like I need that dude around more no but that's just like a movie where it was like you I releasing that in like a post minus one climate was just like a lol nice one but um I didn't think I don't I remember thinking it wasn't terrible but like I don't go to the movies to see the movies I think are gonna be bad anymore so it's been a pretty good year I've liked everything I've seen in theaters at least
John, I'm gonna encourage you to watch more indies.You gotta watch some more indies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.You gotta watch more indies.It's been a rough year.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Watch Thelma.You would like Thelma.I will watch Thelma.Yeah, man.Anyway, my two worst of the year.First one is Argyle.Jesus Christ.
Fuck that movie.Then watch it.
Fuck that fucking piece of stupid, unfunny piece of diarrhea fucking gorilla shit.Um, it's not funny.Amazing cast wasted.Bryce Dallas Howard is so fucking annoying in that movie.
And like just recently Matthew Vaughn, this was like, just went like, why do people hate Argyle?I mean, We didn't make Shane, but like, we had fun with it.The movie was bad, little bro.Exactly.Yeah, yeah.You're not fucking funny.
There's a difference between being ridiculous and being stupid.I can deal with ridiculousness.Some of my favorite fucking movies of all time are absolutely fucking ridiculous.
But like, just doing shit, but just like doing shit and just like implying that you know that it's ridiculous, it's just gonna make me think that you're fucking stupid. Yeah.Yeah.
Yeah.Yeah.I even like posted on my Instagram story about about Matthew Vaughn, like say, like, why don't people like Argyle?And I think I typed because your movie sucked, man.
Really did.Matthew Vaughn. How The Mighty Have Fallen, I love the first kickass movie.I really like Kingsman The Secret Service, X-Men First Class is really cool.
He was like, he was like round two Edgar Wright, but then he just fucking went completely absolutely fucking stupid.
X-Men First Class is legitimately one of the best comic book movies ever made, and I'm just like, how the fuck did Matthew Vaughn make that and then go on to do... Okay, I'm gonna be honest, I don't like the Kingsman movies, even the first one, that's just not my thing.
The first one's a little overrated, but I enjoy it.
It's not my thing is basically what I'm saying, but like, I just, I, I'm, I liked the first kick ass movie.I don't think it's anything special, but I do think it's pretty okay.But, um, no first class, it's like, man, where did that bond go?
That Matthew Vaughn is wanted to make a Superman movie that he never got to make.And I'm just like, okay, if Matthew Vaughn brought the first class energy to a Superman movie, fuck me. Now we got Argyle.
Yeah.Fucking Argyle, man.
And what I consider to be the worst movie of the year.Santee already said it.I'm a big comedy guy.I'm always watching comedies.I will defend comedies to my grave, but I will never you'll never catch me defending this guy.
Jerry Seinfeld's unfrosted the most unfunny movie of the decade.
guys keep in mind that i wasn't planning on watching unfrosted but since that i had like a last minute paper to do i had to put it on for background noise and probably probably and also probably one of the worst and also i was gonna put it on like uh
I was gonna put it on, just for like 30 minutes, and then I'm gonna switch it off, but then the paper lasted longer than I did, and I watched it until the end.It was a miserable experience.
Oh yeah, it was absolutely fucking painful.You guys remember when I was on the Discord and I was saying I was watching it, and every so often I was like, this is painful. This is painful.
And fucking, like, the thing is what's so fucking frustrating about this movie is that there are good ideas here.There are good setups for jokes that could be funny.
It's just that Jerry fucking Seinfeld doesn't understand how to fucking set up those jokes.Like fucking January 6th with the serial mascots, like that's something that could be like genuinely funny.
But no, like the fucking way that Jerry Seinfeld does it, it's just absolutely fucking stupid.And it comes out of fucking nowhere.And this is the same guy that just goes like, oh, comedy is way too political nowadays.
Oh, everything's so politically correct.Hey, guess what, motherfucker?You just did a January 6 reference. Also, guess what, motherfucker?
You dated a fucking 17-year-old when you were 38.Exactly.
And he sings the song, like, that Broadway song, like, when I was 17.And all I could think was, like, okay, replace I with she.Like, what's the deal with you fucking dating 17-year-olds when you were 38?
I saw a video that was a dub over of that American Express commercial with Jerry Seinfeld and Superman, like walking through the streets.It's like, Jerry, I'm serious.You can't be dating a 17 year old when you're 38.
Then he just goes, hold on, Superman, 17, 38.And then you just hear, hey, I'm like, hey, what's up?
Hey, what's the deal with this woke agenda?
But that's the thing.It's like Jerry Seinfeld went out of his fucking way to make the unfunniest jokes possible with ideas for jokes that are actually Like, that could be pretty funny.Like, there's a guy that dies in the movie.
He dies from, like, the fucking Pop-Tart experiment going wrong.And the joke is that there's, like, fucking serial mascots at his funeral.Like, again, with proper setup and proper punchline, that could be funny.
It's also that Jared Steinfeld does not understand proper setup and proper punchline.You can't just have fucking Snap, Crackle, and Pop just show up at the funeral just folding the American flag.
You can't have the fucking like Corn Flakes bird just show up just standing there at the funeral.It's not doing anything.It's the fucking Corn Flakes bird.
I'm so happy I didn't watch this movie because you're just selling it as the worst thing I've ever heard.
absolute fucking torture and and then like the fucking beginning of the movie Jerry Seinfeld is like testing these products that we know and and like fucking Tony the Tiger the joke is that oh Tony the Tiger just says the wrong slogan
And he just goes like, um, I figured it was like, they're so right.Like that's the joke.Like the joke being, Oh, that's not the frosted flake slogan.The frosted flake slogan is there.Great.
It's just like, is that really the fucking best you could do?And then, and then like most of them fucking most of McCarthy gets Jerry like a, like a juice.And then. Jerry Tasty goes like, oh, it's got Tang to it.
And Melissa McCarthy goes like, oh, that's a great name.Tang.You guys know Tang, right?And then fucking like the guy from Saturday Night Live plays Chef Boyardee and he's got nothing funny to do.
They think he's being funny just by having him as Chef Boyardee going like, uh-oh, SpaghettiOs.But no, like, no, fuck off.
Sounds like fucking food fight and sausage party all over again.Live action food fight and sausage party.
Oh, yeah, for sure.It's just it was just like one giant, like giant, like a Super Bowl ad that lasts for almost two hours.Like it's it's it's misery.It's it's misery porn, basically.I don't I don't.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.And you know what, Jerry?
If you don't think you're funny, then you're not funny.OK, that's it. Okay, I'm done talking about this movie now.
And can you believe that Kramer got cancelled for saying a racial slur?What kind of woke world are we living in?
And then he goes on like a fucking interview and has the gall to say like... Oh yeah, there's a big level of sophistication in my Pop-Tar movie, in terms of the humor.I got a lot of my humor from fucking Monty Python.
Like, dude, you fucking wish you were Eric Idle.You fucking wish you were John Cleese.Like, fucking get those guys' names out of your fucking mouth. Yeah, you wish you were drunk.
I do too.Also, ask for Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate.Don't watch it.Just watch the 2010 film instead.
Forgot that even came out.Not gonna lie to you.Yeah, I'm gonna watch it probably drunk.
And look, I was excited for a Megamind sequel, but to have the movie intentionally look like shit and not have the main cast come back, it feels like a kick in the balls.Like, come on.
Will Ferrell must have been busy filming his quick cameo in The Boys this season.
Oh, yeah.Yeah, yeah, yeah.Yeah, yeah.That's probably it.
And also like Tina Fey like hasn't been like getting that much roles like anyway, so like and David Cross who knows what he's doing, but anyway Yeah, and yeah, do you guys have any and like I got to AJ do you have any disappointed movies you have or
Any disappointments?Oh god, I didn't prepare for this one.Let me go find another box.Because I have one.Yeah, go ahead.
Because I have, like, two movies.It's gonna shock you.Actually three.It's gonna be three movies.It's gonna shock you.Well, four.Four movies.Like, four quick movies.So, first movie.I'm gonna shout out Abigail. I hate you.Get out of here.
Listen, AJ, you have to understand.Listen, Matt and Tyler are my guys, they're one of my favorite horror directors Like, horror director duos ever.I love Ready or Not.I thought their Scream movies were pretty good.
And I was excited for another original horror movie from this duo.And then I saw it, and I just couldn't find any enjoyment.I don't know what's wrong with me, okay?I love Mrs. Barrera.I thought she was good.I just...
maybe it's the fact that I didn't like the fact that Giancarlo Esposito keeps getting typecast to play bad guys but and also like there were just so much fun okay okay you know what I'll give it another shot maybe I'll give it another shot and I'll get back to you I just didn't fuck with it you know and also like to have like and also like I think the marketing
just kind of spoils the movie, because the movie plays out that you don't know that the girl is the vampire, and then about 30 or 40 minutes in, she's revealed to be the vampire.We didn't already know that.
We didn't already know that from the trailer.It just kind of pissed me off, you know?
i guess yeah and and yeah again melissa barretta was great i hope she gets more roles you know because like because she's great for like speaking her voice for palestine and dot dot fuck spyglass for firing from hiring her like screams yep like scream seven can go right the fuck off so yeah not gonna be seeing that movie neither am i and um
I have Immaculate, the Sydney Sweeney nun movie.Yeah.
Yeah.Like it wasn't I thought it wasn't anything special.I like the I mean, like I mean, like she wasn't really I don't think she gave like that good of a performance either.
But like but like, you know, I like I thought it like it had some pretty good shots and and kind of a good commentary on religion and abortion. And how like abortion is sin or whatever.It's just like the ending just kind of confused me.Yeah.
Um, The Watchers, the debut from M. Night's daughter.I forgot about it.
Yeah, I didn't I didn't really It doesn't suck, it's just disappointing.
As one of the biggest M. Night Defenders, I was excited.And the watchers, unfortunately, didn't do it for me.And it's based on a book, and I'm sure the book is great.And it was clear that the movie was trying to adapt beat for beat from the book.
And it didn't really do that well, like Dakota Fanning wasn't good, I thought most of the horror stuff was really cheap, the jumpscares weren't, like the jumpscares were pretty cheap, the creature designs were just, I don't know, and I just like,
It had like two different endings happening, and it kinda had a good twist, I don't know.And it just kinda bored me, I don't know.But yeah, AJ, you saw The Watchers, right?
I did, yeah.I would consider that pretty disappointing.I thought that had a great first trailer.Yeah, it did.The first trailer for that movie, that got my blood pumping.Yeah.
Yeah, and the last movie that I want to shout out is a movie I watched from Sundance called Handling the Undead.
Oh, I didn't see I missed that one.
Yeah, it's this upcoming horror movie that's that's gonna that I think it's already out, but like basically it stars Renate Renzi. It stars Renate Redziv, one of my favorite actresses right now.And it also has Anders Danielsen-Lee.I love him too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.I love both of those actors, hence why I was excited.And then what I got was that the movie was so... It was just so boring.And it did well with capturing the atmosphere of what the movie was giving off.
but it just dragged on, but it just really dragged on and I don't really remember most of it and it made the one scene like there's one scene that stood out to me that evolved there was just one scene that stood out to me that I thought was so disturbing that it gave me a panic attack
Like I might just skip out on it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.Because like I could.Yeah, yeah.From watching that.Yeah, AJ, from watching that movie, I could tell that it wasn't really for you.So, yeah.
You guys know me well enough to know which movies are for me and which movies aren't.
And I feel I feel that way.Like I've hung out with John enough times to have the same opinion.
of what movies are for Jon and what aren't.Anyway, if I had to pick a most disappointing movie of the year, I'd probably say the first Omen.There you go.Whoa!AJ!Yeah, I didn't love it.I didn't love it.It's running on thin ice, my friend.Sorry.
Owen's gonna be mad, dude.
Owen's gonna be mad. Yeah, I just didn't really vibe with, like, people were just praising it and praising it.I just thought it was every other exorcism movie that I've ever seen.
And then, like, the final, like... There's no exorcism, what are you talking about?I'm sorry, not exorcism, like, possession movie.Got it, yeah, okay, okay.Sorry, I don't know why I said exorcism.
Except for, like, the birthing scene, that was pretty gnarly.Oh, yeah. And then, like, the last, like, one or two minutes, it's just, hey, remember the omen?Remember the original omen?Hey!Oh, yeah, that's the one that I'm gonna pick and add with it.
Um... People were praising Nell Tigerfree, and I think... She's amazing.She's so good.I thought she was very good, but the only amazing aspect of her performance was just, like, her impression of Isabella Ajani from Possession.
I think it's a perfect impression.
I thought that was very good.But like throughout most of the movies, she just plays like the stereotypical like person witnessing this possession until she actually becomes possessed herself.Performance.I don't know.Right.
I'm sure she's a great actress in other movies.And she is certainly like very good here.It's just like I don't understand people saying that she's awards worthy. She is.Don't get me wrong, she is very good.
I wouldn't say she's awards worthy, but she's great, not gonna lie.But I'm really excited for her career going forward.She's gonna be taking job offers off the Like out the wazoo, so, yeah.
Yeah, exactly.I'm excited to see what the director does next.I thought she nailed it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.Yeah, yeah, yeah.What's interesting about the horror prequel is that it's made by a woman.So, yeah.
I don't know.I just found the movie to be just dull and predictable.
Not entirely for me.That's your opinion.We can move on, though.
That's your opinion.All right.All right.To move on to our anticipated, I have a few. Gladiator 2, Lord of the Rings, War of the Rohirrim, Twisters, Trap, M. Night's next movie, Long Legs, which I'm so fucking excited about.Give it to me.
Show it to me, please!I want it.The Substance, which is... The Substance, which is the body horror film that came out of Cannes from director Coralie Fargeot, in which she previously did Revenge, which kicks ass.
I highly recommend that you guys watch it.Oh, yeah, man.
Oh, it kicks ass, man.It's so good.Watch it.OK, and Maxine.
Yeah.The first reactions came out of it.I'm so excited.It's heavily positive right now, which is so promising.
I just love Ty West, man.
Me too, man.Love Ty West.Onora, Sean Baker's next movie.Listen, bring on Mikey Madison, man.Bring on Sean Baker.Give it to me.And my most anticipated, Robert Eggers' Nosferatu.Listen, all I want for Christmas is Robert Eggers' Nosferatu.
tell me about it.Um, I most anticipated right now.Um, you guys are going to be shocked what my most anticipated for the rest of the year is.And yeah, it's going to make me look like a franchisee soy boy, but I don't care.
Um, but um, uh, twisters obviously looks like a ton of fun.We'll probably we'll probably be this year's top gun Maverick.I hope I will. Yeah, I would fucking love if that thing makes a shitload of money.
Um, I shot Milan's trap, you know, we're in the Josh Hartnett resident renaissance dude, and I'm all here for it.Long legs.What, of course, who doesn't fucking who has not talked about that movie at all.Everyone's got to go see that man.
I heard it's like what if silence of the lambs was 10 times more fucked up and I'm like, oh jeez.Yeah, Robert Eggers is no Nosferatu.Watching the trailer for that in front of bike riders was fucking monumental for me.Big deal.Gladiator 2.
I'm not as excited as everyone else, but I think it probably will be good, so I'll definitely see it.That's for sure.And what else was there hard?I said long legs.I said twisters.
I can't really remember what much else is coming out this year except for what I wanted to save for last because I just know fucking no one talks about this when the trailer was so good the teaser was so good and the trailer they just released recently which I haven't watched because I'm trying to avoid it is also apparently really good alien Romulus looks fucking awesome dude it really oh yeah I am a massive fan of the alien franchise
Alien one is in my top 20 of all time.Aliens is my third favorite Cameron film.I think Alien three is underrated as fuck.I have not rewatched Alien Resurrection, so I cannot tell you anything about that.Prometheus fucking rules.
Anyone can fight me on that.I fucking love Prometheus.And Alien Covenant is also good.I don't care what anyone says to me.I'm so excited for Romulus.
Yeah.And Yeah, yeah, yeah.And it's just like the hype around Ramel is just like, it's pretty exciting.And for Fede Alvarez to say like, oh, like, say, oh, like, like everything is practical.We didn't use visual effects.
There's actually, there's actually a guy like wearing the xenomorph.
So yeah, and also there's a fucking video of them fucking around with a face hugger like RC on a set on the set.And I'm like, dude, I got to get me one of those.
Yeah.And like. And me, not being the biggest fan of Fede Alves' work, he has me pretty excited for Romulus, just as long as it feels like a traditional alien movie, all the way back to the original and all that.
That is definitely what it feels like it's going to go for.Oh yeah, for sure.The Ridley Scott original one.
Yeah, and when I went to see the Alien re-release, Ridley Scott had a conversation with Fede and it just sounds like Fede knows what he's going to do with Romulus.Sounds like he's excited about it.
What?He sounds like he's passionate about it.Oh yeah, yeah, for sure.
I think he's made it clear he's a massive fan of the Alien franchise, and like especially the original one.So he wants, I wouldn't, I would imagine he wants to make something closer to that tone.
I don't love Evil Dead 2013.I fucking adore Don't Breathe though.
I particularly do not like Evil Dead 2013, as most people.And I've gotten so much flack for not liking Evil Dead 2013, but you know what?That's my opinion.You gotta deal with it, guys. And I thought Don't Breathe was fine.It's a watchable movie.
It's fun.You know, like the old blind guy fucks up a bunch of people.It's cool.
You know, like... Stephen Lang, man.We love Stephen Lang.Stephen Lang, man.
I love how his fucking idea of game revenge is just putting his fucking sperm into a turkey baster.
I need to watch this movie.Holy shit.
Oh god, okay.John, I'm not gonna say anything.
Wait, you've never seen Don't Breathe?No, I've never seen Don't Breathe.
I'm so sorry, John.I went too far explaining that.What turkey baster?
That's no turkey baster.What are you talking about?
I might watch this fucking tomorrow.Anyway, yeah.
Anyway, yeah.That was our mid-year recap.Dude, that's the third time.Holy fuck.
Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck.Sorry, Jared.Most anticipated.I'm so sorry.
I'll do it.I'll do it quickly.
tweezers yeah i especially love the second trailer with when they make country music actually sound fucking good i will admit i'm not a country fan and i do not like the song they use in that trailer but it's fucking guitar riff with the title card goes hard as shit i do that yeah um maxine
Um, I love Ty West.Pearl is my favorite movie of 2022.X was one of my favorite movies of 2022.Um, this looks fucking awesome.You guys know I love retroactive shit.
Uh, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. The Lord of the Rings animated movie, fuck it.
Yeah, I forgot to mention that.I like the pictures.
War of the Rohirrim looks so incredible.Like, I adore how the animation looks.It's like, it's like, it reminds me a lot of Vinland Saga, but the backgrounds like look like, look like something from a Studio Ghibli movie.
Anyway, we live in time, the outrun, just throwing some indies out there. Uh, fricking... Um... Alien Romulus looks fucking awesome.We already talked about that.I am also... Robert Eggers Nosferatu?
What's that?Let me add We Live in Time to my most anticipated.I think the concept of that movie sounds great and I love the two leads.
It does.Robert Eggers Nosferatu is probably my second most anticipated.But my most anticipated is Long. I think the visual aesthetic of that movie is so fucking pleasing to me.That shit just looks unsettling.I love those posters so much.
That teaser that they showed exclusively in theaters for like a month that was in front of Night Swim is one of the most horrifying trailers in recent memory.
Yeah, and so far the marketing is doing really well with hiding Nicolas Cage, specifically what he looks like.And I think that's genius marketing.They're saving his actual appearance for when the movie comes out.I think that's great.
Yeah.I'm also looking forward to The Substance and Andrea Arnold's Bird.
Oh my god, Bird!I didn't shout out Bird.I'm so excited for Bird. Come on, like Barry Keoghan, like covered in tattoos?Give me that shit, man.
Holy fuck.Yeah, man.I can't wait for it, guys.The remake of The Crow.No, I'm kidding.Fuck The Crow.
That's my least anticipated.Did you guys hear about- It's trailer.
Funniest trailer of the year, though.
Did you guys hear about the test screenings?
Oh yeah, awful, unwatchable apparently.
Yep, exactly.It'd be so funny if they just can't it.I'm mutuals with someone on TikTok who is defending the Koran.
If they just can't it at the 11th hour, hey guys, we have no movie.
imagine imagine they try to connect it to Robert Eggers Nosferatu.
How the fuck would you even do that?I would kill myself.What is wrong with you?You guys will never understand how hard I laughed when I first watched that trailer.
That made me laugh so fucking hard because that song was like, me and Michael Chu had an inside joke with that song because it was on the WWE 2K23 soundtrack and him and I would play that together and chill and then we'd be waiting for the match to start and that'd be playing and then one of us would just start singing it into the mic.
So I texted him right after the trailer dropped, all caps, bruh, you are not gonna believe what plays in the trailer for The Crow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.I'm excited to watch The Crow.I'm gonna pop in the 4K.At home!At home!Yeah, at home!
During one of our mid-year or end-of-the-year lists, we should have Michael Chu on with us.
Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Get him on here.We love you, Michael.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's definitely gonna be in future talks for sure.But yeah, that is the mid-year recap of 2024 so far.
I wanna thank you guys again for coming on to discuss movies, what we loved, what we didn't like, and what we hated, and what we're most excited for.And yeah, that's the end of Santee Time.
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