The Josh Innes Show - Y2k Movie Review

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

Jilly and I are fresh off another successful Movies and Mexican Night in St. Louis! We saw "Y2K". I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. It was nothing special, but I enjoyed it. This leads me down a Rotten Tomatoes wormhole. I'm amazed by the shitty movies that get great reviews. How times a year did you go to the movies as a kid? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, I went to the movies last night for Movie and Mexican Tuesday. That's right, we get to spend $6 on movie tickets that are normally like $12, $13, $14. Speaking of that, can I say something that pisses me off? So I read about this Wicked, which I refuse to see because I'm really annoyed by both Ariana Grande and the other gal with the nose ring. And I was going to go see it. I was all into it, watching the trailers, and I'm defying gravity and I was all about it until I heard that the gal playing the wicked witch the green one got all offended because somebody made a fan-made wicked poster that looked more like the theater poster and that this woman lost her mind and said it was racist that they were covering up her face and I I'm like, ma'am, you're a fucking lunatic. And my $6 on movie and Mexican night will not go to you

because you're a lunatic. Of course, that didn't hurt them because now it's the number one movie musical of all time. But that's what annoys me. Saw a story and it was like, Wicked has now surpassed Grease as the biggest movie musical adaptation of all time. I said, yeah, because when you went to see Grease, it cost a dollar. It now cost you $20. And if you want to

go see Wicked with like 3D glasses on, it's like $25. And if you want to see it in like the DLX super duper sound system, it's like $20. When you went to see Grease and you went to see Danny Zuko and Sandy doing their little dances, it probably costs $2. And you might say, well, Josh, they've adjusted that for inflation and it's higher. There's no way to truly adjust shit for inflation. Doesn't work that way. Like you can literally look at what you're getting out of the wicked box office and be like, wow, that's a shitload of money. Just adjusting for inflation is an assumption.

If Grease, now Grease has also been re-released like eight times and I've seen it in the theater. That movie came out a decade before I was born. I've seen it in the theater three times at least because I am gay. Not quite, but I have gay tendencies. And one of them is I really enjoy a nice musical and I am a big grease guy. You better shape up. Cause you need a man. I need a man who will keep me satisfied. Look, I like grease. I like grease too, as well. I like the music and grease too more than I like the music in Grease 1. That's what you might consider a hot take.

I think Cool Rider might be the most badass song in either of the Grease movies. You got hot ass Michelle Pfeiffer. If you really want to know what I want in a guy. You know what she wanted? A cool, woo, woo, woo rider. That's what she wanted but i get i and i don't know why i'm irrationally annoyed by this like very few things really take me to that level of annoyance but when i read that this shitty wicked movie is the highest grossing movie musical of all time surpassing greece nothing surpasses greece that movie came out 40 some odd years ago come to think of it that movie's almost 50 years old so when you've got dope spending 25 to go see a movie these days not going on movie in mexican

night going on just a normal night where they're watching 3d and also fun fact i think this will probably piss off my buddy demir who runs the movie theater and that's fine i would never tell you to not go to the movies i go to the movies movies. I enjoy it. But it's like, go see it in this super duper theater where the sound is better. I'm like, well, why don't you just make every fucking theater have better sound? Like you can spend like five extra dollars and get really nothing. It's on a super giant screen. And I'm like, so fucking what? Like, it looks like the same fucking movie to me. Like, again, I'm not telling you to not do that. If you want to go and you might be someone who finds that kind of shit interesting.

Like, I can understand if you watched a movie in 3D and you're like, well, this is certainly different. But there to me is no difference between like super duper DLX hyper screen 5000 and the normal movie screen. It's just I'm going to see a goddamn movie. And another thing, while I'm bitching about the cinema, is I feel like this is going to sound like an old man move. That's totally fine. I'm 38 years old. I'm not quite an old man, but I'm fucking getting there. I think the screens are too dark.

I'm watching the movie last night, and I feel like it's not bright. Why is the screen so dark? Maybe it's just my movie theater and the dopes that run the projector at my theater. It's too damn dark. And I refuse to be the guy that like goes down to the concession stand and be like, hey, I'm over here in Y2K and screen's a little dark. Could you brighten it up? And I don't do that because my damn dad used to make me do that.

If there was something wrong in the theater, my dad wouldn't get his ass up and go. He'd send like eight-year-old Josh out to the concession stand to be like, yeah, we're in Angels in the Outfield and the sound is really low. Could you turn that up, please? My dad would make me do that shit. So I have post-traumatic stress disorder from having to do that. so i don't feel like going to the concession stand and talking to some slapdick kid making eight dollars an hour to come in and fix the movie so i just sit there and i stew over it like a real asshole like it's this screen's too goddamn dark this is a dark ass screen make it brighter all that said last night was movie in Mexican night.

A special night for any boy and his lady. When they go out and eat food that's going to make you have diarrhea for the next three days. And you get to see a film for $6. And you get to buy the popcorns and the sody pops for cheaper. And it's a party. Last night, we went to see a film called Y2K Y2K is the name I think it's produced by Jonah Hill which usually scares me off because I hate Jonah Hill because Jonah Hill is insufferable he wasn't always insufferable I mean Superbad is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen like fat Jonah Hill

was the most elite of Jonah Hills and even skinny Jonah Hill like sort of skinny Jonah Hill was the most elite of Jonah Hills. And even skinny Jonah Hill, like sort of skinny Jonah Hill in like 21 Jump Street, which is a great movie, counts. Or Wolf of Wall Street Jonah Hill. But somewhere along the line where like Jonah Hill makes documentaries about his therapist that are on Netflix. Like, you're too weird for me, bro. Like, chill the fuck out. You and your buddy Seth Rogen, who used to be funny, who is. And all you Judd Apatow dudes who used to be fucking hysterical, and now you're just weird post-Trump era weirdos that aren't interesting or funny anymore. I just don't like you as much. years old laughing my dick off at super bad laughing my dick off at the 40 year old virgin

laughing my dick off at knocked up laughing my dick off at just friends laughing my dick off at the greatest comedy maybe ever a film called wedding crashers now i go to the movies and i'm like i don't really laugh at movies anymore and that might make me sound like an elitist or a snob or whatever i just don't find a lot of movies to be that funny anymore. Like, and the ones I even want to be funny, I go in with an open mind. Like I go into Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with an open mind thinking, holy shit, it's Michael Keaton. How could it go wrong? And then you watch it and you're like, no, all the shit was in the trailer. And you look, I know I rant on that all the time. Like I try to zone out of the trailers when I'm at the, at the cinema, because I don't want to see all the time like I try to zone out of the trailers when I'm at the at the cinema because

I don't want to see all the shit that's going to be in the movie I don't want to sit there that's why I'm on my phone during the trailers because every damn trailer shows you everything particularly comedies like like like I like I just watched this trailer it's a movie with uh Kiki Palmer it's something about like a bad day or some shit, some wacky movie where they got to pay the rent. She and this other chick got to pay the rent. SZA has to, they have to pay the rent. And I'm like, I need to zone out of this trailer because I just know that everything in this trailer, in this comedy is going to be in this trailer. So like I'm sticking fingers in my ears and la,

so I don't see everything and hear everything that's gonna be in this movie because I hate going to the movie and everything's in the trailer. And as we've discussed before, two of the biggest culprits for that I've ever seen were a movie called Good Boys, which was like pre-teen super bad where literally every single joke was in the trailer.

And another one called book smart which was lady uh smarter superbad everything was in the trailer although i was surprised by the movie because i thought i was just going to get some kind of raunchy fun comedy and it turned out to be like coming of age lesbian discovering you're a lesbian comedy and it was like serious and shit and i wasn't here for that but whatever that's neither here nor there so i went to see y2k last night uh let's uh talk a little bit about that after these words from whoever the fuck is sponsoring this train wreck all right if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs, you got to check out Pick 6 from DraftKings. When it comes to basketball payouts, DraftKings Pick 6 posterizes the competition, including prize picks. It's a very simple concept. Hit all your picks and score higher minimum payouts on Pick 6, plus even more cash if you outscore the competition.

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See terms at pick6.draftkings.com slash promos. All right, so I went into Y2K assuming that everything was going to be in the trailer, but it was a solid movie to go see, relatively short, didn't really have to do a lot of thinking when you went to see this movie, so I'm like, okay, cool, let me tell you I was pleasantly surprised by this film is it the best movie I've ever seen no is a lot of the humor kind of rooted around reference humor

like dated reference humor yes but I'm kind of a sucker for that kind of dumb shit. You know, it takes place 1999. That's 13-year-old Josh. When you get internet references, I'm like, that's my heyday. That's like the apex. When he's talking to his girl on AIM, I'm like, AIM, dude. My AIM handle was PantherRadio45, man. It was great when you'd see your buddy get on there and you'd send a message, be like almost right away, like, hey, what's up? Listen, man, I'm only just getting on here for just a second. I got to go, bro. And then you talk for like 40 minutes.

Or like there's chicks in school that you'd never talk to in person, but you talk to on AIM because why the fuck not? You know, like, hey, I'm on AIM. Let's talk on AIM. And like you could say whatever. Dude, I was a fucking Casanova on AIM. Shit that I couldn't say in person at all. let's talk on aim and like you could say whatever dude i was a fucking casanova on aim shit that i couldn't say in person at all shit that after i said it i felt weird when i'd be at school the next day be like i think you're beautiful anyway like i don't even know what your boyfriend like

i don't understand what your boyfriend does like i think you're better look you're better than him i'm just gonna let you know you're better than him and like oh my god you're so sweet and she's like what are you doing oh not much i'm just watching my favorite rom-com, Dirty Dancing. You like Dirty Dancing? So do I. Like, yes. Then you go to school the next day and you're like, boy, I feel really weird having this conversation.

But that's how it used to be on AIM. So when you get references to AIM and you get references to Y2K and you get references to singers and movies of that era, video stores, like I'm a sucker for that kind of shit. It's low-hanging fruit, but I like it. Sue me, right? And that's what a lot of this movie was. The plot itself was dumb and all that, but I enjoyed it. Sometimes it's nice to just go to the cinema and watch something that just has very little meaning and just kind of is what it is, and it's fun.

I'm not going to go deep into the details on the movie, right? Because there's some fun stuff in there that I'm not going to blow for you. But I enjoyed it. A lot of times I go to the movie and I'm like let down. Like when I saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, it was one of the great let downs I've had in the last X number of years because I've been waiting for this movie forever. And then I go see it and I realized that every damn thing was in the trailer. That was a letdown, right? So I try to go into movies not overly hyped up, right?

Like not expecting too much. This movie I went into it with very low expectations. And I found myself laughing a lot. When we walked out of the theater, Jilly goes, oh, it seems like you enjoyed that. You kept laughing. I'm like, yeah, I fucking did. I enjoyed it. I like the frivolity of this film. oh uh you i mean it seems like you enjoyed that you kept laughing i'm like yeah i fucking did i enjoyed it i like the frivolity of this film let me see if my uh sentiments are echoed by the

critics let's see what rotten tomatoes thinks about this movie y2k which i would tell you go see uh let's see y2k y2k made two million in its opening weekend and oh that's box office mojo let me go to rotten tomatoes okay let's see here rotten tomatoes let's go to top box office for rotten tomatoes 44 from. 44% from the critics, huh? Well, again, critics are dipshits. Critics are the ones that tell you that Booksmart is a funny movie. Listen, critics tend to be wrong. Critics are going to give all these shitty movies great reviews because it makes them feel elite about themselves. Then they realize that nobody really gives a shit what movie critics have to say anymore.

But another thing, it only got a 50% on the popcorn rating, which is the people. So apparently the people didn't like this movie either. I beg to differ. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Let's look at some of the other movies that are out and see what the critics give them. The Order gets 89%. Well, of course, The Order is going to get 89% from critics it's about white nationalists and shit so like that's the kind of shit they have to like it's like when Spike Lee puts out Black Klansmen they're not going to be let me tell you what sucked was Black Klansmen they're going to go fuck this is the greatest movie I've ever seen which by the way it was a pretty good movie let me see what the top movies of the year were. And then we can compare the Rotten Tomatoes score to them.

I wonder how many of these I've seen. It used to be a time where if you looked at the top 50 movies at the box office, I probably saw 40 of them in the theater. Like back in my day when I was a kid, I used to have a pass to go to the movies for free. So I'd get a buddy, two buddies, whatever. And then of course I'd see some movies four or five times because my other buddies hadn't seen them but like let me scroll through some of these and see these are the top grossing movies

of the year um let's say that was the weekend hold on let me go to the year top grossing movies of the year 2024 let's see how many of these we saw in the theater all right Deadpool and Wolverine I saw that's one Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2 uh Twisters 3 so I saw three of the top 10 movies in the theater what a boss uh let's see so I've seen three uh I haven't I've seen three of the top 20 I didn't see any of these other ones. What is it ends with us? Did I see it ends with us? I did not see it ends with us. That's something with, uh, Ryan Reynolds wife. Uh, let's see. God damn. I haven't seen any of these damn movies. Holy shit. So I saw three of the top 20 movies of the year, but that's the thing is I go see a lot of

movies that like, I'm not trying to sound like some elitist snob is I go see a lot of movies that like I'm not trying to sound like some elitist snob but I see a lot of movies that just don't make a lot of money uh let's see Mean Girls no I didn't see that Civil War no so through the first 30 movies I've seen 10 of them uh let's see Joker I saw that so there's four so I've seen four of the top 35 movies. Let's see. Four. Let's see. Conclave. No, I didn't see that. Reagan. I didn't see that. Heretic. I saw that. So there's five. Let's see. So I've seen five of the top. Well, I saw the Iron Claw, which is number 68 on the year so i've seen six in the theater let's see am i racist number 82 i saw that so what is that seven um saturday night i saw that so that's eight

uh a real pain i saw that in the theater it made six million dollars i saw that in the theater. It made $6 million. I saw that in the theater. Let's see. My Old Ass. Saw that in the theater, which is number 119 on the year. Killer's Game, which I thought was spectacular, by the way. I saw that. That is number 118.

Driveaway Dolls. I saw that. That's number 123. Let's see i've lost count of how many movies but it ain't that many that i've seen in the theater so that gives you kind of the idea of where i am i used to go all the fucking time to the movies now when i go i go see the ones in the small theater like the a24 movies you know i mean i'm a snob as it relates to the cinema but yeah i'm sure there were some i missed in there because i go we go to the movies for a stretch we were going once a week so i'm sure i saw more movies in the theater than that i'm sure i missed some as i was

trying to pound through this but let's do an exercise here's an exercise kiddos god i miss being a kid so much i like miss being like all right guys let's all get together and go to the cinema then again i basically am a kid because i'm an adult man who does nothing uh how far back does box office mojo go here we go all right i'm gonna look at the top movies from the year 2000 we're gonna go 2005 when i was 19 years of age. Let's see how many of the top movies of 2005 I saw in the theater. Chronicles of Narnia. Saw that in the theater. Bang. That was number four. War of the Worlds. That was number three. Saw that too. Wedding Crashers. Three. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Four. Batman Begins. Five. Mr. and Mrs. Smith. six. Hitch, seven. Let's see, The Longest Yard, eight.

Meet the Fockers, nine. Chicken Little, ten. The Pacifier, there's one for you. Number 11, 40-Year-Old Virgin, 12. Walk the Line, 13. Saw II, 14. Are We There Yet, 15. Dukes of Hazzard, 16.

Aviator, 17. Let's see, Sin City, The Interpreter, like Coach Carter, Herbie, Fully Loaded, I saw in the theater. And what's weird is I can almost remember what theaters I saw these fucking movies in and who I saw them with. It's fucked up.

Red Eye. Like if you look at the top 50 movies of the year 2005, as a kid, 19 years of age, out of the top 50, I saw more than half of those movies at the theater. This year, I haven't seen a tenth of the movies that were released. The world's changed when it comes to going to the cinema. Kicking and Screaming, Crash, Be Cool, I saw all these at the theater. God, what a life. What a life I used to live.

2004, really, when I really started cooking with the cinema, was probably like, I would say like 05, 06, was probably like my cinema going like apex. Da Vinci Code, I remember who I saw that with. Talladega Nights. Click. Borat. Breakup. Scary Movie 4. Failure to Launch.

The Santa Claus 3. The Escape Clause. The Chronicles of Narnia again. Saw 3. Nacho Libre. You, Me, and Dupree. Jackass No. 2. It's a different world, man.

So I really thought I had seen more movies this year than that I think I have there I have to have seen them but I guess I just scrolled through a little fast but then you look at the movies that I've seen and you look at the reviews like I want to compare some of these really quick that the critics give them like I thought twisters sucked I was bored I didn't get any fucking Helen Hunt. I thought it was a boring movie, right? But Rotten Tomatoes says that Twisters gets a 75% certified fresh. Why does Twisters get a certified fresh? It's a regurgitation. It's a remake of the same fucking movie except it pluralized the title it's the same shit somebody dies instead of the mom dying or the dad dying at the beginning of the movie it's

her friend that dies at the beginning of the movie instead of like the love story being with a guy she already knew it's a guy that she just met it was the same fucking movie oh 75 and then these dipshit viewers 90 90 come on don't be dumb uh let's see so twisters i disagree with that let's see what the critics and the people gave beetlejuice beetlejuice which i would give a mid review at best let's see beetlejuice beetlejuice, which I would give a mid-review at best. Let's see, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. The critics gave Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice 76%. Why? Give the trailer 100%. The trailer was killer.

The movie was the trailer. And the people gave it 79%. I found it to be blah. Thought it was a blah movie. There's a remake of Death Becomes Her coming out? Oh, it's a muse. No shit, huh? All right, one more.

Let's look up a Royal Pain, a movie that I just, not a Royal Pain, a real pain is what it was called. So I went to see this the other day. Again, it was just blah. It to see this the other day again it was just you know blah it was fine watchable nothing special they probably gave it a 97 fresh sorry 95 fresh nothing happened in this movie it was a blah movie it was watchable but it was fine 95 but let's look at Josh's film of the year, a film called Killer's Game starring Batista. The Killer's Game, Josh's number one most enjoyable cinematic adventure of the year.

What did the critics give that? 46%, you schmucks. So you mean to tell me a real pain, 96% of the critics gave that snoozer a good review, but the killers game where we got guns and shit, that movie with Batista and he thinks he's going to die, but then he's not going to die, but he's got to get away from the killers. That gets 46%. I say bullshit to that. Absolute hogwash. Anyway, all that to tell you um i think you should go see a film called y2k it was a solid film i think you guys will enjoy it and we shall reconvene