The Kristian Harloff Show - Top Gun: Maverick Reaches 1 Billion Dollars! (Part 3 Incoming?)

Episode Date: June 27, 2022

Top Gun: Maverick reached 1 billion dollars and becomes Tom Cruise's first movie to do so. Will part 3 happen? Stranger Things will have a spin off show, what will it be about? Disney will let Deadpool be Deadpool in the MCU, Black Hole remake, Elvis and The Black Phone over perform. This and more on this Kristian Harloff solo episode of The Big Thing. ATHLETIC GREENS: http://www.athleticgreens.com/Bigthing Follow the crew on Twitter! Kristian Harloff https://twitter.com/KristianHarloff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back. And happy Monday to everybody. Welcome back to the big thing. Soul episode today. But it's a good episode. A lot of stuff to cover. Maverick, top gun. One billion dollars.

Wanted it to happen. A couple times I said it would. A couple times I said it wouldn't. Well, when I said I wouldn't, when I said it wouldn't, I was wrong because it hit a billion dollars. And we'll talk about that. For sure, this is the first billion dollar movie that Tom Cruise ever did. That's big news. speaking of Top Gun Maverick, director Kaczynski,

he's talking about his Black Hole remake. That was interesting to hear about because he's got, you know, it's got the movie out on Netflix, and he's got some heat on him. So get the projects moving. Deadpool 3. Writers talk about how to incorporate Deadpool into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Can be talking about that.

Duffer Brothers talking about a stranger thing, spin-off, Elvis and Blackphone do pretty good at the box office. A lot of stuff to cover this weekend already on a Monday. And if you're brand new to the channel, do me a favor, will you? Subscribe to that channel. We're almost there, man. We're like 49,000, 49,000, 50 or something right now. We're almost at that 50,000.

So get us there if you can. We got the big thing. It is going to be a good show here today. I'm excited to talk about it. Let's do it. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back. Happy Monday.

Good week here today. Got some stuff going on. Got some things going on. Right now on the channel, did a Thor, Love and Thunder, right out of the theater reaction. Full review on that coming next week. Bar goes up on that.

So we can't do a full review yet. So that'll be out next week, but you can see the out of the theater reaction. That's up on the channel at the moment. I saw The Boys season one, and I put a review up on that. I am, I'm so stupid. on season two and I'm I don't know I'm like five episodes in right now and I'll have a I'll have a

review spoiler heavy episode a spoiler heavy season for two coming up pretty soon I ideally I would want to get that tomorrow I just don't know if I can finish the rest of the episodes by them but I'm gonna try but I started why I love the show by the way it just absolutely love it and I was watching season two in the beginning of it as I'm not going to spoil it for anybody but I'm but as I'm watching it. I'm like, okay, this is an interesting take on how to start it. And then I'm like, oh, I didn't know that happened. When did that, that, well, they didn't even show us how that happened. That's silly. You have to figure that's, that happened during the off season. Okay. That's interesting writing, but whatever. And then so I watch episode, I watched that way. Then I watch

another one. And as I looked at, I'm like, I'm already on four episodes. I feel like I just watched three. Totally missed the first episode. Totally missed the first episode. So I went back and watched episode one of season two. It almost felt like a prequel to the first two had watched. It was fine. It was a little confused. But otherwise, I'm all cut up on continuity in season two at the moment.

So I'll be doing a review of that. That'll be coming up. I'm excited to talk about that. I never once doubted. Everybody telling me how hyped and how great the show was. It was just a matter of time and getting to it. And I finally did. My goal is to be able to,

watch the season three and get either right to the finale by the time it airs or at least put out a season three review when it's still relevant for when it comes out. So just to give everybody a heads up where I'm at with that. All right, big news. Big news, big news. Top Gun Maverick, man. One billion dollars in this time. was smart move by Tom Cruise not putting it out on streaming, right?

People were talking about if he was going to do it or not. You know Paramount Plus wanted it on, or Paramount Plus for sure. And he's like, no way, man. We're putting it out in the theater. And what a smart move it was. This is from Dark Horizons. Paramount Sky, Skydance's Blockbuster Top Gun Maverick.

It has crossed the one billion global box office mark over the weekend. is the first film of the year to do so, and only the second since the pandemic began. The other one was, of course, Spider-Man No Way Home, which made it to $1.9 billion. Jurassic World Dominion has hit $750 million. That's pretty big and could join them in a few weeks. Maverick achieved it in the space of a one-month period, and without the aid of both Chinese or Russian box office, it's pretty impressive. It is the fifth weekend for the film, a further $30.5 million to its domestic tally, now stands at 521 million.

Wow. It's also neck and neck with Elvis for the top spot this weekend and both estimated to gross 30.5 million for the three days. The final numbers will be known tomorrow. That's so big on so many different levels because the last part of it was the most impressive to me that it's neck to neck with Elvis right now, not Jurassic World Dominion.

What was the other ones? Not Lightyear. Lightyear is getting annihilated. it's the king of the summer. It's the king. And it's not a Marvel film. It's not a Star Wars film. It's not a DC film.

It's still a legacy film and it's a recognizable IP, obviously. But it's the reason why this movie is doing good is not just because of the top gun name. And not just because, oh, I want to go see Tom Cruise in a movie. It's a great movie. And it doesn't rely on any, it relies on character. It relies on emotion. It, of course, has big, big set pieces. or big, big moments and, and they use their budget wisely.

I mean, the movie costs, what was it, $180 million to make? Something like that, or maybe more. I don't, I don't remember. It's a big number, how much it costs. But they spent it wisely. I spent it wisely, and it's paying off in hand over fist. And you look at it, I do worry that they're going to push for a third one. And I don't know if that's necessarily a terrible thing.

it just makes me nervous because a lot of times when a movie makes a lot of money, oh, well, it was supposed to be the end. Let's just make another one because people want to see this. Now, Tom Cruise has proven, though, when it comes to sequels and the Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise does not put out stuff that he does not give his all at. I mean, I think everybody, whether you like Tom Cruise or don't like Tom Cruise, you cannot deny that the man puts in 150 percent every single time. that he is doing something every time.

And I think he'll do it again for the third one. It's just this movie had, what, 30 somewhat years to really develop, push through. If you put a sequel out, you're going to have two, three years. And I don't know if it was meant for a third. And if it is, who does it focus on? Do you focus on Rooster with Miles Teller's character? Do you focus on some of the other pilots? Do you focus back on Maverick again?

I feel like his arc is pretty complete after the last one. I think you stay away from it. I know that's harder. That's easier said than done, especially if you're Paramount, you don't really have a lot of, you're trying to compete with Disney and Warner Brothers and Universal at this point. And that's, what do you have? You got Mission Impossible, right?

But that's it. You got Tom Cruise. You get him twice with a franchise. So I get the, I get the, the lure. I get the, hey, man, we got to try to do this because we need to make some more cash and look at a billion dollars. People want to see it. And I'm not going to lie to.

I'm going to be right in the theater ready to watch it, so I get it. But a billion dollars, man, that's a lot of money. And that's, and especially, and as they mentioned in that report, without the help of those other countries, imagine if you did have those countries. You know, well, what would, how much more? more would it push towards and helping get to that Spider-Man number. This is a, this is a massive, massive movie and a big, big accomplishment for Cruz. So Top Gun doing that is, and it's also, I think that, as I've mentioned many times over,

it's my favorite movie of the year thus far. And yes, I've seen everything, everywhere all at once. and I think that movie is fantastic, but I wanted to rush back into the theater and see Top Gun Maverick immediately afterwards and it had nothing to do with nostalgia. It has nothing to do. I'm a Top Gun fan, but it's not like,

I don't have the same type of attachment to it that I do Rocky or Star Wars or any of those types of things. This was just, I was excited to see it because I loved the first movie, but it wasn't, oh man, this is going to be the best movie all time, and I can't wait. I'm like, all right, we'll see what Top Gun. Maverick is going to be fun to watch Maverick again,

and just being in awe of the film. And it seems like a lot of people now, I mean, there were a lot of people who wrote, I can't tell you how many tweets I got that people were saying, look, I thought you were hyping the movie up. I thought you were hyping it just because you were a fan of it, and you were right, it's great. I haven't seen a lot of people.

You go to the review, whether it's the spoiler review, that Mark Ellis and I did together, or it's my non-spoiler review, you can go through the comments. There are very few. There are some, but there are very few comments of people who didn't like the movie.

There's some, for sure. But the majority that I've seen, it's the least divisive film that I've seen in quite a bit. Everything ever all at once certainly has a lot of people. I mean, it's just not as big of a movie. As far as, you know,

as far as reach as far as all that goes but that's another movie that people really love anyway congratulations to uh to tom cruise and everybody over there it's a it's a well-deserved feat to do and um and moving on to speak keeping in the top gun realm keeping with the uh the director himself that's there it is where it is black hole this was a movie i never really i never really watched it as a kid i heard about it a million times over and people really talk about it. It's an old-school Disney film, I think, right? I think so.

Yeah, it didn't do very well, but I remember people talking about it. Anyway, let me tell you the story. Again, all these stories come from dark horizons.com. Top Gun Maverick filmmaker, Joseph Kaczynski, first arrived on the feature filmmaking scene over a decade ago with Tron Legacy. The film serving as a follow-up

to the Disney's costly in 1982 flop. Okay, never mind. though not making enough to justify a sequel, the film was regarded enough that he went on to do Oblivion, only the Brave Maverick, and Spiderhead. Spiderhead, I just started to watch it. I haven't finished yet. Back in the early 2010s, though,

he and producer Sean Bailey were also toying with the idea of a remake of another Disney sci-fi flop from decades ago. Gary Nelson's 1979 featured the Black Hole. In the original film, the crew of a space exploration vessel come into contact with Cray's scientist, Dr. Hans Reinhart, the sole human aboard a giant ship that he plans on flying into a black hole.

Robots man, Reinhardt ship, but the U.S. has Palumbo's team, discover a dark secret about them and Reinhardt's past. At the time, Dune, Prometheus, and Passengers scribe, John Spadus, was hired to pen a rewrite of the script for the remake. The script was apparently completed and well regarded, but the studio canceled any plans for it. In 2016, Spate's told, I believe that said, Spades told slash film, I love that script.

It sits uneasily, and Disney was rolled as a dark epic, and Disney is in a very colorful place. It's very faithful to the original, but clever in all the ways that the first film was silly, I hope. Cut to this week, and Kaczynski spoke with the rap about his various works when the topic of the long-forgotten black hole remake came up. Kaczynski revealed that the film shared too many similarities to Christopher Nolan's space drama Interstellar, which ultimately killed it at the mouse house. That's silly. However, he still says he loves the property, even if he's not sure how he about doing the project. I still feel like that movie is one of the most unique that Disney's ever made. The original, I mean, it's wild.

The idea of a journey to a black hole is still one of those things that is very intriguing because it's not science fiction. They do exist, and all the effects that happen around them are real physics. So there is a great story to be told about that journey. I just at this point haven't figured out what that would be for me. Zinski has already set his next film. It's the racing movie Formula One, starring Brad Pitt, which will get theatrical release, and then Apple TV.

The original Black Hole is available. on the Disney Plus service. A lot there for a lot of people, it's not like a massive, massive story because there's nothing actually confirmed. It's just him saying, yeah, I'd love to do that movie. I think the silly note is, it drives me crazy, man, when studios,

it's too similar to this, or it's exactly that, so we have to do more of that, but make it more exactly like the other movie. I mean, I guess if it's too confusing and, you know, it's too, dark, maybe they scrap it, but I think from the sounds of it might be a good Disney Plus movie.

I love that stuff. I mean, if you're brand new to this channel and brand new to me, I am fascinated with the idea of parallel universes and other timelines and black holes and all of that. So anytime, and then I am also very aware. and it's not just this town in general of Los Angeles, but it's how we are as movie fans. We are a, what have you done for me lately culture? And I'm not telling you that, especially with entertainment,

but, and I don't mean you don't have a high regard for somebody, let's say somebody put out a hit movie years ago, oh, I love that guy, it was great. Of course we do that. But what I'm talking about is from the last movie, that the person made, that's what you think of, and you say, okay, wait a minute. I saw that, it didn't like that, and didn't like that. I don't know, it could be a stinker.

And I was feeling that a little bit for Kaczynski, right? Tron, I thought, was fine. Gorgeous looked great. Certainly better than the original, and the deaf punk score was unreal. But I wasn't, after I saw the movie, I didn't, like, oh, man, I got to see a third one. It was just kind of a forgotten thing, and that was it. Oblivion, same thing, looked gorgeous, didn't care enough about the story, and didn't really dig it. I never saw the firefighter movie, which everybody said was amazing.

Some people say it's his best, even with Top Gun Maverick, but I haven't seen that one, so I couldn't judge that one. But going into this movie, I didn't, and Top Gun Maverick, I didn't go into it thinking, oh man, I'm such a massive fan of Joseph Kaczynski. But, as I mentioned with the, what have you done for me lately? when you now the reason I tuned in to Spiderhead and started watching it was because he had just done Top Gun Maverick, which is my favorite movie the year. And I want to see me, oh, maybe he's kind of doing something else. And he's changed his directing style up a little bit or whatever the writing is. And I will say from what I've seen in Spiderhead so far, that was very intriguing.

I don't know where it goes. I've watched me 45 minutes of it because I've been so entrenched in the boys right now. So it was that. And what do we do? We watched something else. There's another movie that we watched. Oh, it was a hustle. It was hustle that I watched last week because we were watching Spiderhead.

And then we turned on hustle. And that was it. I loved hustle. But anyway, I love what, I love what Gazzi's doing right now. So an idea of Black Hole, but he's working on this other movie, this racing movie with Brad Pitt. So probably wants to see Black Hole for a while. That's the news for that movie in them. sticking to it.

All right, moving on, which we get to next. I want to talk about Stranger Things, because that's coming around. The new one, the new season's coming up real soon. And I'm pretty, I'm pretty pumped about it like everybody else is. It's, what, July 1st? And that's one I'm going to have to, I got to binge that. I got to binge it. I'm so excited for that series.

And that's another one where season one I loved. Two, I thought was fine. Three, I thought was, I like three better than most, I think. but I wasn't like couldn't wait, could not wait until four came out. I was like, all right, season four, I'll watch it. And now I'm just like chomping at the bed for the next one

because it was such a fantastic, fantastic season. And it's not over yet because volume two releases in a few days. So this is a report, Stranger Things co-creators and showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer have confirmed that a stranger of things spin-off is in development. Well, why wouldn't you if you're Netflix? Of course. As fans of the fantasy series await the supersized final two episodes of the fourth season this coming Friday, they're also bracing for the fact that the show's currently in the works for the fifth season, which will be the last.

The Duffers haven't officially announced a spinoff, but they have previously teased there are still many more exciting stories to tell within the world of stranger things, new mysteries, new unexpected heroes. Now, through speaking with deadline, the pair confirms that they're working on it, and tease won't be anything like you expect. Ross Duffer says, this was his quote. Ross Duffer says that there's a version of it developing in parallel to season five, but they would never shoot it parallel. I think we're going to start delving into that as soon as you start winding down and finishing these visual effects, Matt and I are going to start getting into it.

Matt Duffer says the reason we haven't done anything is just because you don't want to be doing it for the wrong reasons, and it was just like, is this something I would want to make regardless of it being related to stranger things or not? and the answer is definitely. Even if we took Stranger Things title off of it, I'm so excited about it, but it's not, it's going to be different than when everyone's expecting, including Netflix. Interesting. The comments come as the first volume of the fourth season has dominated the Netflix top 10 for weeks and has only been knocked off on it.

It's perched by the third season of the Umbrella Academy, which arrived this week on the service. Even so, that run released in late May has broken all manner of English language records for the service and has put Kate Bush's famed 1985. running up that hill to the top of the charts globally following its key role in the fourth episode's emotional ending and into the trailer as well. Now, this makes sense on a lot of different reasons, right? Obviously, when you look at the heat that season four has right now, there's always talk about, I remember hearing about spin-off stuff, and as they mentioned in the beginning of that article,

the Defer Brothers were always talking about, well, there's other stories to tell inside of this world and what we can do, and then you throw that out there for obvious reasons. one of you really do have that, plus the idea that you want to continue on, you want to continue working, you want to continue moving and doing more things and selling some more stuff to Netflix. So you're always talking about those type of things. We've got to be excited about doing it too. You look at someone like David Chase, who was like, I'm done telling stories after this. And he even came back to do many saints, right?

But from what they say is this is something they really want to do. Now the question is, are they going to do something along what I would assume or what I would not assume, But what I would guess is maybe they dive into getting past the 80s. However, season 5 ends will end in the 80s, whether it's the 90s or the 2000s or current. One of the big draws for Stranger Things was the nostalgia fact. It was a different type of nostalgia than say like a Top Gun or a Cobra Kai. But there was a lot of nostalgia that was involved in Stranger Things because of the 80s genre. and the authentic 80s feel.

It wasn't, oh, this just feels like someone who's trying to make an 80 show. The costuming, the feel, like when they would throw certain references in there, even music in the background, it felt authentic and not they were just trying to do an 80s show. But that was one of the draws. And they still continue to do that now. I mean, even like, as we just mentioned with Kate Bush and how they're able to do things like that, like that's a, that is a big draw of what makes Stranger things so special. And that's not to say that they need that for the spinoff.

They could do something completely different and bring into a different realm. Or they might even, I don't know if they're going to do a prequel series and do stuff in the, I think that's a lot of times people do that. And I don't know if that'll necessarily work. And I shouldn't say that it wouldn't work because you look at like Yellowstone. And Yellowstone keeps going back into the past. And they doing the, there's, what's it, 1888? I can't remember.

I don't watch the show yet. And then they're going to do 1932 or 1923, whatever the hell it is. So yeah, so you definitely could do the past, but who knows what these guys are going to do? And another thing that they did very well, I thought, and some people complained about it up top, but I don't think anybody's really complaining about it now. They talked about how they're going to, season four anyway, was going to go more into that, really lean into the horror aspect. And they do.

And there were certain horror aspects in one, two, and three, but four really dives into it and has that nightmare in Elm Street, hellraiser feel and what what does the genre look like in the spin-off is it more horror is it less horror more science fiction kind of family is it based more on kids is it based on adults there's a lot you can do and I mentioned Cobra-Kai and the same thing when I was talking to the creators of Cobra Kai a few months ago whenever it was when we were talking about the last season they talked about their they're thinking of spin-off stuff inside of their their show and why wouldn't you If you can do it the right way and it makes sense and it's not just the grab and you have stories to tell, you should absolutely do it.

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There's something. Oh, Duffers say that they're going to, this is a small storyline, but Duffer Brothers also talked about that they're going to retroactively fix a continuity error with Will's birthday, following events in the show's first volume of its fourth season. During the first part of this fourth run, part of the plot took place on March 22nd. Yet a second season episode had Winona Ryder's character, Joyce, indicate that March 22nd was Will's birthday. None of the characters ever acknowledged it in the new season.

The Duffers have been asked about it in recent times, and they said continuity error. They're honest. As a result, Matt Duffer has told Variety that they're going to consider going back in retroactively dubbing Joyce's line in that second season to May 22nd. Make and fit in Winona's mouth. It's too sad and it doesn't make any narrative sense. But we're talking about it yesterday. I think we're going to George Lucas that.

Lucas, of course, has famously gone back and digitally altered scenes throughout the original Star Wars trilogy in the years in its initial release. The comments come ahead of the show's second volume, Emmy look. I appreciate very much so how they were honest. And obviously, people pick that up. I didn't pick it up right over my head. but people picked it up who are hardcore fans and said, hey, wait a minute, that's not Will's birthday.

Or his friends are dicks? They didn't say anything. And they said, now we messed up. We go back and we'll change it. Good for them. I love the fact that they said, we got to, we screwed up. It happens.

That's why you get coffee cups in Game of Thrones. It happens. And the audience is going to point it out. This isn't as big as the coffee cup, but it's pretty big, though. mess up the carriage's birthday, but they said, hey, what do you want us to do? I gave you a Vecna, let me a break. So they're going to change that.

And I think that's good. That's good. Change it. Who cares? So it's birthday's May now. Kids need a haircut. If we move on here, I want to talk about Elvis and the black phone. Because that's a pretty big story as well.

Where are we? There we are. Both these movies did good, man. And it's so funny, I said somebody the other day, like, do you like any movie? Because I guess, and my out of the theater reaction for Thor, people weren't exactly sure what I felt about it. Do you like any movie? And I said, I literally just posted three movie reviews back to back to back where I scored them higher than a four. Like, come on.

It's because I didn't like the movie you wanted me to like. Give me a break. It's noxious. Anyway, the weekend box office estimates are coming in, and both newcomers are performing better than expected. It's good news. Baz Lerman. It's not Baz. It's Bazz. Take it easy. Baz Lerman, over-the-top biopic Elvis, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, is on track for a 30 to 32 million opening following a 12.7 million Friday Hall. I'm going to check in a second what they actually did. That's on par slightly above early estimates was predicted with coming around 25 to 30. It's also seeing older female audiences turn out the demographic that has been the hardest to lure back to cinemas.

That's interesting for Elvis. I guess that makes sense. Elvis is set to duke it out for the top spot with Top Gun Maverick, which continues to do considerable business. We talked about that. That movie is pissed. Pissed everybody else. I don't know.

Just talking about that. Jurassic World will take third place for its weekend with a 56 drop, 26 million. Fourth place is Black Phone, which is coming in considerably above estimates. The movie was projected to debut with 15 million earlier this week, but now it's on track to cover 23. It's so funny. I want to talk about that movie in a second, too. Strange. Lightyear will, and I loved it, by the way, Lightyear will round up the top five with a steep 64% drop in its second weekend or a further 18 to 20 million weekend hall. It gives us four, possibly five films catering to different audiences, putting each one to 20 million.

That's the kind of numbers exhibitors are very happy about. The rest of the top 10 climbs in with Dr. Strange. Dr. Strange is still out in the theater. I'm going to do something real. I want to bring up box office mojo while I talk about this stuff. There's a lot of interesting news here in general. This is a very strong weekend for the theater in general, right? Okay, Top Gun Maverick. Actually, Top Gun Maverick and Elvis were tied from what this says at 30.5. Very strong for Top Gun. I mean, come on, that movie's been out.

You know what the hell? I was going to see a screening of Elvis, I believe. And this guy and his wife come in and they're like, where do you get the tickets? This is tickets for Elvis? I'm like, no, no, no, no, we're here for C Top Gun. I'm like, oh, you got to just buy a ticket over the thing. But people are still coming in to see Top Gun.

And this was an older, this was an older couple that was coming in to see it. And it's just because that word of mouth is tearing up. And it's just, it's a massive, massive movie. So the fact that that movie is still tied at number one and overtook Dominion and overtook light year. That's, that's big. But Elvis at 30.5, that's a big opening for that movie. Like, what did that movie cost overall to make?

They never show the budget anymore. So what's the Elvis movie budget? I mean, movies budgets are so big now, even bigger than I. I mean, Elvis budget, 2022, let's see. 85 million. That movie never gets made for 85 million, like 5 or 10 years. That's like a 20 or $30 million movie. But 85, I guess, is the new 30 million.

It's still cheaper for most, but 85 million. And I really enjoyed Elvis, the movie a lot, a lot. It was I was hoping it was going to be good and I was kind of blown away by it Seeing not mixed reviews I see a lot of people who liked it and then I see some people who So some people say they were bored with it I don't know how you're bored with that movie I think that it is pure energy But hey teats her own let's see I want to see I want to see Elvis what the runtime was Run time was was it 240?

Wow it didn't feel like 240 It didn't feel like 240. I was locked in. I was locked in. But maybe it was 240. I was locked into it, man. Jurassic World Dominion. That movie has done pretty well overall,

as we knew it would. Lightyear, though, is the biggest. It's only made $152 million worldwide. Wow. Wow. 80, not even $100 million yet, domestic. Oof. That's a big, that's a big, that's a big, that's a big bomb.

Not bomb, but it's a big disappointment. Big disappointment for Pixar. for sure. I was just talking to somebody, a friend of mine who has kids and was watching it and said what they, this is kind of a mild spoiler, but I'm not going to give the full, not a full spoiler on light year. He said what they did with Zerg just didn't work for her kids because her kids were these massive Zerg light year fans of how it worked out.

And she made a good point. I really liked Lightyear, by the way, but she made a good point. And she said that as complicated as this movie was that the movie inside of, you know, the Toy Story universe, the story of the story of Buzz Lightyear, Andy was supposed to be what, a seven-year-old kid or eight-year, or whatever he was when he got the toy, that this wouldn't be a movie that Andy would be jumping over the moon about because it was more like interstellar. This movie was made for the kids, us, the kids grew, like this movie, the interstellar crowd. It's kind of complex where like a four or five year old watching it is like my four year old when she watches this is not going to pick up a lot of the stuff. And even the stuff that with Zerg. And so it was it was a good point that she had made. And her kids were, they were super excited to see it.

And the kids were kind of bummed by it. And they had to like, they had to basically lie to their children and tell them like, oh, no, no, no, the writers messed that, the people who made this movie kind of messed that part up because it negates some of the stuff that happened in Toy Story two or three. So, and I hear a lot of people kind of complaining about that stuff too. So it's not really a surprise.

Again, I enjoy the film, but it's one of those movies that I'm not, there's sometimes when I see a movie that I love and people are like on the opposite side of it. I'm like, I don't understand that point. I don't get it. It's your point, but I don't get it. I understand all the criticisms that I understand their, why, you know, for the story,

for the story points of, like, especially the ending, why people thought it was a little too complex, these other things. Anyway, that was that, but Elvis and Black Phone, Black Phone is, again, a movie that, and this is why I was going to talk about how I'm so confused by it. And I always, I can look at, when I put a trailer reaction out, or when I put a review out, I can usually tell,

And maybe it's a little different now too where when Ellis and I would do reviews, there was, like, we would put reviews out of certain movies and even the big release movies. There were certain, like the smaller movies, anytime we did reviews on them, you would see the lesser engagement and whether it was views or comments or any of those things.

You would see that because not a lot of people knew about them and it wasn't the big releases. The big releases always got a lot of, like, hype behind them or interaction with them. And I'm noticing that also with comparison to my channel now with the out of the theater reactions. So if I put an out of the theater. And by the way, I hear all the stuff you guys are saying. People, you seem to really like those.

I'm going to do more of them. No matter what I see, I will do the out of theater reactions because you look at something like Elvis. And Elvis even though it's smaller as compared to it. Like I put the Thor one out and that one does like 90,000 views. I put the Elvis one out. It does like 20,000, which is a decent number for that movie. and the Black Phone does barely 10 or 10 or 12 or whatever it did. And then the review itself did like 4,000.

I'm like, oh, maybe people just don't want to see this movie. Maybe people just want to see me talk about this movie. Who knows? But I don't see a lot of, even when the trailer reaction hit, I thought everybody was going to be talking about this movie. The trailer reaction didn't do jack shit. And I was like, again, thinking maybe it was people just don't want to see me talking about horror. But it didn't catch a lot of traction on a lot of different channels.

a lot of different things. And there wasn't a lot of interest behind it. I thought, but it's doing really well. And it should be doing well because it's a really good movie. There's just a couple things that I had a few issues with in the movie with like fights. But it's a nitpick. I really enjoyed the movie. Because I had three movies back to back to back.

I watched Black Phone. I watched Elvis and then I watched Thor. and again, I can't review. I'll just tell you, like, in how I enjoyed them and seen them again, right now, out of the three, it would be Elvis, Blackphone, and then Thor. Those are my, those are my three out of the three that I saw. And I wasn't expecting that ranking at all, seeing that the Black phone was, black phone was, was, it's talking about before when I was talking about with the stranger things,

the nostalgia inside of the 80s and having like an authentic tone to it, making it feel like 80s. They do that very well in the 70s for Black Phone. So I'm glad that both those movies did well and Elvis. That awesome Butler kid, man, this is, it's an incredible performance. And I hope he's, I hope he's recognized that he'll at least get nominated for Elvis. At least he should. He really should. Now, if he wins, I don't know. The problem is that the movie's coming out in, the movie is out now in June. And then it's usually between like the end of September until December, start firing all the Oscar performances at you. So I hope he doesn't get lost.

But I think that Bohemian Rhapsody, I think that came out in the summertime. Am I wrong? I might be. It might come out in October. Let me see. Let's see, Bohemian Rhapsody release date. Let's see what that is.

I think maybe, more I said, I think it was in October or something. Oh, we got to put the movie. Sorry. It was November. Yeah, it was November. So November 2nd. Right, right.

went in the sweet spot when you put things out. So he might not get a nomination, I think, but I don't think he's going to win because I think there's going to be so many people firing out performances that people are going to remember. But I thought Austin Butler was incredible. And people are giving Tom Hanks some crap about Colonel Tom Parker.

I thought he was great. I don't know. I mean, I don't know, maybe the makeup. I thought, it's just, anytime you have such a recognizing, actor like Tom Hanks putting on that kind of makeup and the suit. Maybe it's jarring for them. It wasn't, though.

It blended in for me. But Austin Butler was Austin Butler and Lerman, were the two that stole the show. All right, what else we got? We got some more stuff to talk about before I scoot on out of here. We got this one. Oh, I talked about Deadpool. She should bring Deadpool up.

What the hell happened to Deadpool? I got rid of the Deadpool. What the hell? Wait a minute. I thought a Deadpool image. I didn't have one. That's stupid. Anyway.

All right, Deadpool. I'll tell you about what the writer said in the second here. Deadpool as the MCU is, Deadpool 3 is moving on. And they're basically, here it is. I got it. Sorry, everybody. It's one of those days.

Boom, there's Deadpool. I thought I'd put that in there before. I guess not. All right, Deadpool is now going to be part of the MCU. We know that. And the writers had an interview, and the third film in the Deadpool franchise, it's been in development now for years.

There's fans curious about how it's going to integrate itself with the new owners of the Disney brand. The film is an official part of the decidedly not R-rated MCU, which begs the question of how is that going to work with Deadpool's style of self-awareness, parody, abrasiveness, and lewdness. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick spoke to post-cred productions, or pod, excuse me, post-cred pod about adapting to the MCU, and they seem to be playing it straight,

not changing Deadpool himself so much as the world around him to be the regular MCU. Reese says it's a wonderful opportunity for a fish-out-of-water comedy. Deadpool is a lunatic at the center of a movie to drop a lunatic into a very sane world. It's straight butter. It's going to be really fun. We're absolutely finding the serendipy. and the gold in that situation, or at least we're trying to. Deadpool is going to be Deadpool. Now, whether it comes to a particular joke, if we cross the line, maybe we'll hear it at some

point. Maybe not that joke, but I think that Disney has been incredibly supportive of what we're doing. Marvel Studios still hasn't set a release date for the third Deadpool, though it's widely respected to be coming out in 2024. That gives you some time to develop out a little bit more. Yeah, I think that they're going to absolutely, it gives time for a lot of different things. And this is why it drives me crazy when I see these comments a lot on, on whether it's, it happens a lot on Star Wars.

Or people like, well, Disney Star Wars, Disney doesn't know how to make Star Wars. But it's not, it's not Disney that's making Star Wars. Now, they're certainly giving notes. But, and there's certain things that Lucas film is making Star Wars. The same way, like, because you get, you can't pick and choose. Because if you like, if you like the Mandalorian, if you like, If you like, if you like Mail, if you like Rogue One, if you like those movies, is that, did you give Disney credit for that?

No, you give Lucasfilm and Favreau. And of course, you give Disney should get, they give money, they give notes, they have ideas, they have these things. And as you look at it with Deadpool, there are things like, hey, remember, we're, we're a family brand, but look, we understand what you guys have came before. Let's figure out a way to make that work. And then they give notes, they do their thing. And as they said, if you cross the line,

there's certain things you can't put on the platform because of the Disney brand, of course. But they're not the ones making the creative thing. If Deadpool's a hit and it's massive, you're not going to give Disney. Oh, Disney did a great job with this. But if it's not good, you're going to blame it on Disney for the creative side of it, no matter what it is.

And it's like the same thing when it comes to like Star Wars. It's like, I keep seeing like, well, Disney has no idea how to make Star Wars. It's not Disney making it. It's Lucasfilm making it. They're giving them the money. And again, give notes. So it's end game. Did you like Endgame? Did you like, um, did you like, um, did you like infinity war? Did you like any of the Marvel movies? Did you give, Disney credit for that? No, you didn't.

You gave five, you credit for it. And he should. It's him and his team and, and, and, and Disney gave him the money. Unless there's a report that says like, well, no, no, no, there was a full movie and there's a full TV show shot. Disney pulled all of that and gave them their script and said, shoot that. Then 100% go after it. But I just, you just, you just be. and you got to be picking and choosy. You can't be picking and choosy on what you, on what you blame and what you give credit for. But, and I'm also being very clear,

there's a lot of stuff, and I'm getting, I trust my, I hear it, too negative on Obi-One. It's a lot of stuff I didn't like about everyone. A lot of stuff I liked, a lot of stuff I didn't like. But I blame the stuff I didn't like. I blame Lucasfilm and the creators on the side of the, and there's a lot of people.

The stuff I didn't like? I loved it. So they did a great job for those people. And that's the, but again, I say, well, I didn't necessarily like, I shouldn't say blame.

I don't necessarily love a lot of the creative choices that were made on particular episodes. A lot of people love them. But I say I didn't like the choices that were made by Lucasfilm. I don't like the choices that were made by Deborah Chow in the writing team. I don't know what the hell Disney had to do with that.

They give it money. Maybe, maybe I could, what I could say is, I wish they would have given a little more money for, and if they did, maybe they'd give them some more money to, to change up the, the volume sometimes looked a little too, um, CWish. So anyway, it's just, it's just a little pet peeve that drives me nuts. Um, yeah, it's the same, same reason, like, you know, when, when you want, when you watch, um,

like, you know, like for, if you're watching, uh, Zach Snyder's, um, um, justly. And after everything that, that, that, he did for that movie clearly like i love i love the snider cut love it and when you watch it you clearly don't say oh wonder brothers did a great job there he gives zach snyn to the credit it was the full version of everything he wanted to do and put everything in there but like when you but it's like this is oh that was all it was all water brothers of course it wasn't they give him the money they let them they let them do it at the very end they let them put together that cut and release

it but it wasn't it was it was his vision it was his writing it was all that stuff too So that's, that's what I meant by it. It's not Warner Brothers. They own the properties. It's there. It's their, they own the properties themselves. But the creative,

that's what you bring in. The same reason, like you go back in time, it's like it's not Paramount's godfather. They didn't, it's, they had producers and stuff that worked on the godfather and work,

but it was Coppola and Mario Puzzo and all these people that put in all the work. And that's why you got the product that you got. Because Paramount has the money. It's like, oh, Paramount's godfather. I mean, yeah,

sure, you certainly gave him the credit for owning it, but you give the, but you give the, anytime. And it's something, like, we just talked about Kaczynski. When you, when you look at a movie like, Oblivion, which I didn't love, I don't blame, I don't remember, I guess Paramount made it, I don't blame paramount for it. I blame, again, I look at it and I go, I didn't like what Kaczynski did there. It looked beautiful, but the writing didn't work for me. Tarentino films, do you give it to the studio, when you, when you like a Tarantino film, you say, Tarantino. Anyway, I know it's, well, it's different. It's not.

It's just because it's, it's, it's a lot of, there's a lot of money involved. Um, not saying you don't criticize. And that's, that's the other thing that drives me crazy. Just accept what, what, what you, what you, what you, what you, what you, what you, give in and just enjoy what you give it. I love the people can do that. I don't want to do that. If I don't like something, I want to say I don't like something.

I'm not telling you, that, that's the difference though. There are people who say like, well, it sucks. And if you like it, then you're not. a real fan and you like this, that's wrong. But I should also be able to say that something sucks, that I think something sucks, and not have someone go, just be positive and accept what you got. No, I don't want to do that. You can do that, and I love that you do that. And I love that you do that. And I don't think anybody should give you shit for doing that. I think that's incredible. And I don't think you're a, I don't think you're a shill for doing it. I don't think that you're,

you're someone who is, who just loves everything and, oh, I can't listen to you because you love everything. I love that you can do that. I think you should do that. But like when I see people commenting going, oh, just, just accepted, it just, instead of saying like, oh, you know, like, I wish we would have gotten this, why not just love what we got? I'm glad that you did that.

I don't want to do that. I don't think I should have to do that if I don't want to do that. I just, like, there are certain things that I can watch and say, holy shit, I love that. That was great. I love what they did there. I would have been great if they did that. But I'm not protesting. I'm not angry about it.

But I should be 100% be able to say whatever the hell I want to say about it without you or somebody else saying, well, you should just be more positive about it. Because I can't even tell you. It was hilarious, like not even too long ago or whatever, what it was. It was the Obi-Wan thing. I posted out my instant reaction. And within minutes, some people writing,

Oh, Arnold's a show that just likes to go to premieres. I hate going to premiere. By the way. So that's something that, to let you let you all know. I go, I, like not,

not the premieres, the premieres themselves are fun. They are exciting. I'm, I am grateful for the fact that we able to go there and talk to people and have some fun and all that. I am tired all of the time. Do you understand that?

This movie started like eight o'clock. They end at like 11. And it's in, and I don't care about CN's library. I know. I went to the third point. I had a great time and I'm super grateful that I get the able to go and all that stuff. But when I go there, it's like, it's also, I want to get the, the reaction out to you guys.

I want to get the, I want to make sure that, like, I cover it and I have the, and I have the experience to do that and to get it out, to get it out faster and to a hundred percent. And, and that was the other thing. On the, on the instant reaction, people could make up their minds. was I a show that liked going to to premieres or was I someone that was negative that was looking for something that I didn't get within seconds. You can't please everybody though too

and that's the thing. I'm not upset about it. It's just the same thing. You just, I just feel you should let people react however they're going to, but don't force your point of view on it, no matter what it is.

Like there are tons of these, there are tons of channels that I think that you can be honest about if you don't like something, you should be able to say it and I don't think you should get shit for not liking something. something. I do think that you should get shit for not liking someone and forcing someone else

to feel that way because they're, because they're wrong or they're not a real fan if they like what they're getting now. That's bullshit. That's bullshit. Because I'll tell you what, inside this little community that we're in and it's small, it's not as big as you think it is, it's small. There are people outside in the regular world who don't give a shit about this stuff. And they're like, whatever the fuck they do, I don't care about being, like, tell Matt, terror that he's a shill for liking, for, for, for liking the movies that he likes. Go ahead. Tell him face to face. I dare you. Have a blast with that. He didn't give a shit. He, he, he, he likes movies that he likes and he doesn't like what he doesn't like. And that's the type of stuff that,

in the, like the regular world, the regular worldview people is the type of stuff that I'm really responding to more. And I listen, I talk to my friends who are not connected to this business. I call my buddies in New York and I listen to them and hear what they're saying about. the movies and it's just it's it's refreshing because I don't have this it's the social media thing too about how people just yelling at each other and how it's like you have to do this you can't do that you have to do this you can't do that just watch the movie and you'll like it you don't like it and say it you don't like it you don't love it you love it you love it cares you mean people guilty about what they like or don't like so silly and self-righteous anyway

else? That went off on a thing. I'm going to see this anymore. Oh, a Deadpool. Did we even talk about Deadpool at all? Not really. No, I don't think I talked about him at all. I love the idea that Deadpool, I like how he reminded me. Hey, talk about me. I think that they can, as long as they have the team behind it and they're allowed to do it. Now, again, after I had that whole speech, we will be able to see that this is a different situation now. We will be able to see because of the transfer over from what Deadpool is in Deadpool 3, if there's a significant change in how he is and with the jokes that they're able to get away with and it doesn't feel like one or two at all, well, then that's clearly going to seem like a Disney note.

Now, they're not going to, they're not ones that aren't going to write the script, but they're going to be responsible for that if it's clearly, like, like you look at like Batman and Robin, uh, when you look at the difference between Batman 89 and Batman. and Batman and Robin, that's Warner Brothers. That's Warner Brothers involving themselves, replacing directors, giving specific notes to Joel Schumacher. That's 100% when you go, okay, well, that's a lot of meddling by the studio in general.

I'm not saying that doesn't happen. That happens a lot. It just doesn't happen all of the time. You can't constantly put the blame. But Disney will be in that position if Deadpool 3 is significantly different. However, from what the writers are saying, it doesn't seem to be the case. And we'll find out. 2024 probably sounds realistic.

I don't know. I think that's it. I'm going to look if there's anything else. Is there anything else? I think I covered everything. That's it. All right, I had a blast here today. I had a lot of fun.

The episode came out a little later than I wanted to. But either way, make sure if you haven't already, subscribe to the channel. We're almost there, man. We're almost there, 50,000. We should be there. hopefully I want to get there by July 1st. We'll see. June 1st was supposed to be pie in the face, so that won't happen.

I got to come up with something else. I hope that you enjoyed the show. Please comment. Let me know. And once again, please, please, please get yourself some athletic reins. It would really helpful for the show. All right, I appreciate you. We'll see you on the flip side.

All right, peace.