Join the movie chaos as we team up with Kevin from The Reel For Real Podcast to dissect the vibrant world of movies and the fine art of content creation. It's a feast for the cinephile's soul, packed with self-reflection on our journey from movie buffs to podcasters and TikTok influencers, and a sprinkling of tips on how to juggle a film obsession with the daily grind. Revel in our exploration of hidden gems with the aid of IMDb and Letterbox'd, and listen closely as we compare our lists from our favorite films last year!
Prepare to be captivated by our trials and triumphs in the bustling realm of short-form content on TikTok, where brevity is king and every opinion packs a punch. We're peeling back the curtain on the craft of distilling film discussions into bite-sized morsels that resonate with viewers and foster vibrant exchanges. And as our podcast evolves, we navigate the delicate balance of adapting to our audience's needs with changes to our recording schedule, all the while keeping our sights set on the films that stir the pot.
As the episode crescendos, we throw down the gauntlet in a movie trivia showdown called 'This or That', which spans from box office juggernauts to revered director-actor pairings. Our guest Kevin not only enriches the conversation with his insights but also squares off in a riveting game of "Fact or Bluff," which focuses on box office and movie lore. Don't miss out on the action—tune in for a rollercoaster ride of film fanaticism and laughter!
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Join the movie chaos as we team up with Kevin from The Reel For Real Podcast to dissect the vibrant world of movies and the fine art of content creation. It's a feast for the cinephile's soul, packed with self-reflection on our journey from movie buffs to podcasters and TikTok influencers, and a sprinkling of tips on how to juggle a film obsession with the daily grind. Revel in our exploration of hidden gems with the aid of IMDb and Letterbox'd, and listen closely as we compare our lists from our favorite films last year!
Prepare to be captivated by our trials and triumphs in the bustling realm of short-form content on TikTok, where brevity is king and every opinion packs a punch. We're peeling back the curtain on the craft of distilling film discussions into bite-sized morsels that resonate with viewers and foster vibrant exchanges. And as our podcast evolves, we navigate the delicate balance of adapting to our audience's needs with changes to our recording schedule, all the while keeping our sights set on the films that stir the pot.
As the episode crescendos, we throw down the gauntlet in a movie trivia showdown called 'This or That', which spans from box office juggernauts to revered director-actor pairings. Our guest Kevin not only enriches the conversation with his insights but also squares off in a riveting game of "Fact or Bluff," which focuses on box office and movie lore. Don't miss out on the action—tune in for a rollercoaster ride of film fanaticism and laughter!
Find The Reel For Real Podcast here!
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Speaker 2:Mr Eric, almighty and Phil the Filipino yeah, they've got you covered, and all you gotta do is wait for it. This is the Wait For it. Podcast.
Speaker 3:Hey everyone, welcome back to the Wait For it Podcast. I am your co-host, phil Smith, aka Phil the Filipino, and joining us, as always, is your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty. And Eric, we're saying this every single month and it's getting repetitive, but we are here with another exciting episode of Creator Spotlight, and you know we have yourself to thank for today's guest, as we have gotten more and more familiar with their content over the last few months, and it's always so much fun, and you know know us being in this cinematic journey. You know right now where we're exposing ourselves to films that we probably wouldn't have like even, I don't know, three years ago, um, which is the reason I'm very excited to talk to our guest here today and have a, you know, a great conversation about movies and film, but also just pop culture in general yeah, and I think you know, like, like you mentioned, it's perfect.
Speaker 2:It's the inspiration for this series Finding like-minded people not only in podcasting but in pop culture as well, and those two things combine for our next guest, which we are really excited to talk to here today. You may know him on TikTok that's how I found him and have been a fan ever since. Kevin from the Real For Real podcast. Welcome on. How are you doing tonight and are you ready? Hopefully I think this is our third try to get into it and talk to pop culture.
Speaker 1:Man, what's up? Eric and Phil? I appreciate y'all having me on man, my bad on my end. Technical difficulties, you know, yeah, first time on Riverside, but you know, hopefully not the last and hopefully I get it right next time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I think you said it best the real for real bringing the real problems to us. But I think I think what's going to happen is we're going to have a real discussion about a lot of great stuff here on this episode. If you've been a fan of the show so far, you pretty much know how the show works. We're going to talk a little bit about the Real For Real podcast and Kevin as a content creator. We're also going to dive into a lot of pop culture discussion here and then I've got two games for us to play at the end to liven it up and end it with a little bit of fun. But, phil, for those that are listening to the podcast for the first time, maybe some friends of the Real For Real are checking us out to hear Kevin. Why don't you let everybody know where they could find some of our stuff before we get started and what we're going to be doing? As far as our first question, if you want to jump into that, yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 3:For those of you that are checking out the podcast for the first time, or if you're a longtime listener, we want to welcome you in and thank you so much for all the support through the March episodes, which have been an absolute blast. April is not going to slow down whatsoever, so if you want to keep up to date with everything, make sure you hit the Linktree link in the show notes of this episode. You'll not only find our links, but also Kevin's as well. So everything is nice and compact right there in the show notes of the episode. So, with that being said, Eric, you know I'm just ready to dive right in again, excited to ask Kevin some questions about some films and also play you know, getting to play interviewer as we always do and maybe also get his opinion on some of our poor takes that we've blessed the Internet with over the last few months.
Speaker 2:That's always so much.
Speaker 1:I love some hot takes, though. I love that that, that's right.
Speaker 2:I'm hoping we're gonna get all the uh drama put on kevin instead of us because, if you don't know, uh, phil is usually the one for not being the tiktok guy. He's the one that incites the most rage with his takes, specifically around studio ghibli, which is why I wore the shirt in honor a little spirited away. So, kevin, let's talk a little bit about you and your co-host over at the Real For Real podcast. Obviously, we are very passionate about podcasting. We have a podcast. We've been running it for a little over five years now I think going on six now, phil, I keep losing count. Can you tell us a little bit about what got you into podcasting and specifically your journey so far with the Real Furgo?
Speaker 1:Yeah, man. So we started off on YouTube first as my boy Isaiah and I. We started October of 2021 and you know we just love movies, man. We've known each other since the sixth grade and you know my boy, trevor too, who is now with us. He joined October 2021.
Speaker 1:You know, all three of us were like we always talk in movies. You know, like, why don't we explore this whole podcast thing and just express ourselves and have an outlet so people can hear us? Because I'm like, I feel like we have interesting conversations all the time. So they're like all right, that's cool. Now, trevor, at first he first he was like, nah, I don't think I want to do that. I don't want people to openly hear my hot takes or my opinions. I'm like, nah, man, it's all good.
Speaker 1:So we, uh, you know, we ended up getting on YouTube. We did that for a while and then, um, eventually just decided with our format to go ahead and just keep it audio. You know, put a couple things on YouTube, but nothing big. So, um, it's been cool, man, I've just always loved movies growing up. Uh, I'm a physical media collector as well. Uh, love buying 4k blu-ray, geeking out, looking at the uh, the audio and visual, compared to the blu-ray, to the 4k and doing all that kind of stuff. So yeah, man, it's just. Movies has just always been a passion of mine. So and now here we are, and now I'm on Tik TOK. So just you know, bullshitting on there.
Speaker 2:No, don't worry, we're definitely going to talk about Tik TOK Cause again. That's definitely something you and me share in common as far as content creation. Figuring it out and I also love your content, not just on TikTok, but getting to listen to a couple of your episodes definitely a lot of fun and a great conversation. Over at the Real For Real, Phil, I introduced you to some of Kevin's content. Why don't you talk a little bit about your first impressions and then, if you want to jump into any questions, I'll throw it over to you?
Speaker 3:I think one thing that's just so impressive about your content, kevin, is like Eric, and I feel, like you know, there are moments where it's, like you know, I feel like my library is expanding. Like man. I watch a lot of films and then you talk about movies that, like I've never heard of, that are like revolutionary or, you know, just life changing. I'm like I don't know anything about film, I guess, and that's also that's always just really impressive.
Speaker 3:So I guess my question is you know, how do you kind of balance your watch list? You know, because not only are we watching you know, eric and I are watching films and trying to keep up with stuff, but we're also watching TV shows, we're watching anime, we're playing video games on the side, you know, obviously we have families and all that stuff. How do you balance such a massive library of films? I mean, you said, obviously you know we've all been watching film for a long time but it seems to have kind of really prioritized with you. How do you kind of balance just a huge library and you know, on content when it comes to films, yeah, so I'm one of those people, man, where I like to watch in the evening.
Speaker 1:I like to watch a movie, right, if I'm not watching basketball or football, then I'm going to be watching something, you know, shortly before I go to bed if I and I hope, I hope not to fall asleep on the movie, right. So, um, but it's, you know it gets tougher, man. You know, having a wife, having a daughter, a little toddler running around, but, man, with me I'm always trying to find something new now to watch. I used to get in this whole thing of just watching what I owned and kind of re-watching stuff, and you know, watching these, you know 90s action movies that I love and I'm like you know what I gotta, you know, kind of expand the palette a little bit. So for me, I like going down the IMD, imdb top 250 or you know, letterboxd 150 and just kind of going through that and knocking those out, man, and kind of Letterboxd has helped me out quite a bit as well, as far as you know, seeing what others have seen. And you know, I think I love movies, man. And then I get on TikTok and I hear some obscure titles. I'm like goodness, what is this, you know. So yeah, I'm just constantly always trying to just watch something different, man. So it's kind of crazy. I feel like I've been doing like a movie a day almost. You know, I know some people do two, three a day and I don't have time for that, so I just try to do one a day.
Speaker 1:I know you mentioned TV shows. I love shows, right, but I don't always get to them quick. I'm one of those people where I'm kind of a late bloomer with shows like Game of Thrones took me two years later, right. So the Wire, I caught on to that late. I mean just a bunch of stuff, sons of Anarchy, all that kind of stuff I caught on to a little bit later. There's a show right now called Shogun that I want to check out, which I should have checked that out immediately, but you know I'm a little slow on that. So I just try to just keep ahead with the movies, man, and just stay on top of, like what's releasing and also try to, you know, watch these classics as well. So you know diversify.
Speaker 3:The shogun is excellent. Yeah, yeah, just started showing that's what I hear it is so good.
Speaker 3:I I've watched the first two episodes and it is. It's great. You know, with uh, kind of a resurgence a little bit when it comes to the those stories like from the east as far as like live action goes, I think that's been really really great. So, and also with gaming as well as in movies, has been really fun. So, yeah, um, you mentioned letterboxd, like eric and I, like I had always kind of like circled letterboxd a little bit, but we really got into it in 2023. So, yeah, like you said, that's a great resource. I mean, even if, for those of you listening, even if, like, you're not going to make a list or leave ratings or anything like that, it's a great resource to find, like Kevin mentioned finding those films that, like, you've never heard of. So I'm glad you mentioned that because, yeah, letterboxd has been really helpful for us. Eric.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it has, and I think it's been. It's definitely changed our like just view on films in general, just something as simple as going down to a five star rating system we were doing like out of tens, I think, for the longest time, but I don't know, I've gotten really comfortable with doing that. Kevin, I'm curious. You know, obviously, seeing so many films, it's going to be hard to maybe answer this question. But what is your ideal section or subsection of film? Like what specifically gets you excited in the morning to get up or in the evening to stay up and watch a movie? Like what's that genre or medium for you that you can kind of pinpoint? And if you can't, you know, pick one, give us a couple out there that are in your top tier?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So for me, I would say I really like crime dramas. Um, I would say I really like crime dramas, um, I really really like crime dramas, man. And so anything that kind of falls into I mean, you know, goodfellas, that's kind of whatever you know, but anything that kind of deals with that uh, mafia mob stuff going on or just anything like 824 is a most violent year but also dramas as well. I love dramas, man. Dramas. I eat that shit up. Obviously I'm a fan of action, but I would definitely say dramas 100%. I just I love dramas. I feel like you get all the best emotions, you get some of the best acting, you get some of the best performances that you'll see all year. So I love dramas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's amazing. I think that's great. It's always, again, a hard question to answer because you have such a diversity of films that you watch, but I definitely am curious how you feel going through making content, especially on a platform like TikTok, assuming we're going to have it for a while Fingers crossed, I don't know, we'll find out together, but I'm definitely curious what's your process from podcasting to TikTok? And I'll give you an example for me. You know, we're still kind of getting our feet wet on what we want to do for us. We have a lot of like existing content. I'm trying to make work on TikTok, so.
Speaker 2:So then I find myself struggling to get in front of the camera. But Kevin, you're on the camera every single day. We were going to record the first time you had a family member get sick and you were like I'm going to find two seconds to step away and go record this real quick. I envy you for that because I really want to get to that point. So I'm really curious, just from you know, tiktok, short form content perspective how do you get through that when you're just like I'm going to record this, throw it out there and put it on the internet, like what goes through that in your process day to day.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, um, man, I really just need an outlet to talk about movies, right, like I have friends and my friends like movies, right, but they're not going to talk about movies all the time, you know, they're just not going to. And then things that I watch they're not going to have seen. So I'm like I got to get this out here. If it's something that I watched yesterday and I really liked it, I want to say something about it.
Speaker 1:Boom, you're going to get a short snippet, whatever and I think TikTok does a great job of giving us this short form and boom, we could just shoot it out there and get it done, right. And so I think that really helps. And sometimes it's tough because, you know, I'm kind of long winded too. If you listen to our episodes, you'll be able to see like we talk a lot, we can get a little long winded. So, being able to take all this stuff that we have in our head and just get it out there in a short form two minutes, bam, get it out there, we're done. So, um, I love it, man, I love doing it.
Speaker 2:I'm hoping you can get my co-host to, uh, all of a sudden love TikTok Cause again. He is just well, I was going, he is just I always see Eric on there.
Speaker 1:I don't ever see Phil. You know we are very similar though because it's just me. Like there's people, like I've had people say I'm like my name is the real. It's the real for real podcast. Oh, I didn't know you was a podcast. Somebody told me that before I didn't know you was a podcast. I said that's the name. Oh, so you just saw real for real. You ain't see the podcast part. Okay, that's real. Well, yeah, it's three of us, it's three of us.
Speaker 1:So you know, but somebody's got to be on there doing stuff, man. And you know, with me it's interesting because most podcasts a movie podcast um, the formula is kind of just to put snippets of your podcast episode to promote yourself, right, and I think that's a good thing. But I think, with TikTok, to succeed, or not even really succeed, but just to grab people's attention and kind of build that fan base, I felt like for me I have to just start just talking, man, and not necessarily episode related, but just find a way to try to grab an audience and just talk about movie news, actors, movie reviews, and just do it and just hopefully have them gravitate to the podcast by being a fan of what I'm doing there, you know. So that's kind of what I've been trying to do this whole time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you know, podcasting is also in like a totally different space than it was three years ago. You know, like obviously a few, you know, three, four years ago we were all inside People were discovering these shows that they had, you know, obviously never listened to. They were flocking to this, that type of content. And then now you know that things are regulating and getting a little bit back to normal. You know we're back to a little bit more shorter form content, with people having less free time and also smaller attention span. So I just have not. I was really into Vine. I got really, really into Vine.
Speaker 1:And obviously that's really short content Right.
Speaker 3:RIP, shout out to Vine. And then now I just have not been able to fully grasp tiktok. Like I definitely understand its value and I'm glad that eric has like stepped out into the forefront of this, but like for me, obviously, because, well, for one, I am just endlessly attacked on tiktok again for some of the things, and you know what that's good. Listen, like eric always says feed the algorithm, give us the I need to hear those stories.
Speaker 1:I need to hear that because I just be seeing eric, I need to see y'all send me these videos I'll send you.
Speaker 2:It's all the boy in the heron it's all studio ghibli dude, he just got boy in the heron. Uh, what was the?
Speaker 3:other, what's the other? Spirited away, so, like it, just, they just weren't for me, and people refuse to understand that maybe somebody? Yeah, trevor's the same way. Let me, trevor's the same way. Look, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something. Trevor and Isaiah are diehard anime fans, okay, and the director, trevor's not a fan of him. Just for some reason he's like Miyazaki, he's like everybody gravitates to his stuff and I just cannot get like I don't get it. And I was like, how do you not like Speed of the Way? And that, get it. And I was like I'm like how do you not like spirit away? And that, look, I'm not a diehard anime fan, but I'm like how you don't like spirit away? Like what? Like what are we talking about? I don't know to me.
Speaker 1:All his movies are bangers. I don't know. I like them, the Boy in the. Heron was good. As I was telling people, I was like look, man, I know y'all are upset about Across the Spider-Verse, but let me tell you something. Across the Spider-Verse left us on a cliffhanger and that movie gave us a complete story, and it's Miyazaki Like, come on.
Speaker 3:You know, yeah, and here's the thing, so like, and everyone is like, well, there is a. Well, some people are like, well, there's a Ghibli film for everybody. And but at some point it's just like, well, how am I how many of the, how many more of these am I going to watch? Just for you guys to get upset with me?
Speaker 2:Because I am.
Speaker 3:I enjoy. You know I'm a I'm a much more avid watcher of anime than I used to be. So but and I was excited to go into these, I was like, all right, I've been putting them off for a long time, let me go into them. And then, like it just was not for me and I can acknowledge that, spirited away, culturally, artistically obviously outstanding, but like it just didn't resonate with me the way that I wanted it to. And you know, I went in with, I think, understandably really high expectations because I've never heard that he misses. So I went into it and I was like it just was not, it just wasn't for me, and I got destroyed for it. Still to this day, actually, I'm still getting well, I'm gonna say, look, look.
Speaker 1:I haven't been an anime fan for very long, but I do know one thing the anime fans are toxic as hell, just as bad as star wars, from what I've seen, yeah I can.
Speaker 3:I'm like bro, like star wars fans and anime fans.
Speaker 1:I'm like look, I don't want that smoke. Y'all keep that reddit energy over there, all right, I don't want none of that yeah.
Speaker 3:So shout out to. I do want to acknowledge and shout out to the people that were in the comments or also have come up to me in person and said you know, hey, it's okay, like it just wasn't for you. But they, they are confident that there is something out there for me and I'm willing to give it a shot. But like, not right now, like I'm going to step away. I feel like and I'd be interested to see your opinion on this, kevin, because I think a lot of people are now starting to like we're now seeing this ridiculous discourse with everything everywhere all at once and I think A24 in general, do you think that like? A24 is kind of like the studio and studio ghibli are kind of like the same thing where people kind of like are what's the word that I'm looking for here? Like yeah, but some people now people are using it against them like oh, a24 is just like the the film bros studio and like it's not really that good.
Speaker 3:I'm like, come on come on now I I may not like the studio ghibli films, but I can acknowledge that they're well done, even though if they're not for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, man, I love, I love A24. I love what they're doing and I think that it's really cool that they're really building themselves up into being a bigger budget studio. Now, like we're going to get Civil War, and I think that's cool, man. I think they'll still be able to release their you know, low key independent films like they do. I mean, they have some very strange titles, you know, and I like what they do, man, I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't think they're the film, bro. I think that they've everybody just gravitated to it. You know, it's just so unique, it's so different. I mean hell they've got movies like Tusk have y'all seen.
Speaker 3:Tusk.
Speaker 2:Not, not, not great. No, I've seen enough clips to know I don't want to watch, and that's that's where that actually kind of brings us to a good conversation point, kevin, because Phil is on his journey to watch like 50 movies this year. I will never hit that number because I know when I see a film like Tusk, I know I'm not going to enjoy it. I don't need to watch it in order to critique film. I'm curious what your thoughts are, do you? What is your mindset when it comes to watching movies? Let's just take this year. What is your approach to watching movies in 2024? Because again, you're looking at two ends of the spectrum. Phil wants to get to a certain number. I'm only watching films that are like compelling and interesting to me, and if they're not, I'm not going to go watch it for the sake of watching it. So where do you fall on that?
Speaker 1:No, so that, no, so that that's so. I'm like that too, to be honest with you. Um, I like I really wanted to try to see every new release I could this year, man, but you know, january and february are kind of slow months and I just haven't found anything that just really spoke to me, man. Um, in january I ended up going to go see Book of Clarence, and I think Book of Clarence is a great film, super, slept on and I was calling out all my black people. I'm like, look man, y'all the ones, y'all want to have films, and then you don't support it. You know what I'm saying? Like it's here, we got Lakeith Stanfield and, I think, book of Clarence I'm sorry I'm getting off on a tangent with this, but Book of Clarence made a mistake by making it look like it's a mockery of Jesus, when it wasn't that kind of film. And you know, you can't, black people, you can't play with us like that, you can't, we don't play with Jesus like that. So that was, that was bad, and I think that was a film that should have gone straight to Netflix, like the Harder they Fall. That's the same director the Bullets, samuel James Samuel, he's the director.
Speaker 1:So, but yeah, as far as I mean, they've got these silly movies like Imaginary and people are punishing themselves to go see stuff like that. I'm like y'all know that's gonna be trash, why you know? So, like a lot of that stuff, I'm waiting for it to fall streaming and I'm gonna see it eventually. I'm just not gonna just go to the movies to go see that just because I'm checking it off the you know like I'm not going to do that. But I am eventually going to get to the point of all the ones that are trash right now that were in the theater. I'm going to go ahead and just watch them as the streaming, you know, and do it that way.
Speaker 3:So Eric just wanted to like and do it that way Eric just wanted to bring that up because I saw Argyle and Madam Web.
Speaker 2:You would never catch me.
Speaker 1:Hold on. So okay, argyle I want to see. I do want to see Argyle. I did not watch Madam Web based off of everybody ripping it apart and I was like, okay, no, it'll be there in a month, it'll be streaming in a month or two.
Speaker 1:Like, let me just wait, like I don't have to, you know but no, it's cool, though, like no, but like, if you're, if you're a Marvel fan and like, and you're curious and you, you know, you just see, I mean, you just see it, you know, like I just, you know, like I just there were so many bad reviews from everybody and everybody's saying that and there may be people saying it's not even funny, like so bad it's funny, or so bad, it's so good, like it's. Nobody said that, everybody just said like you're gonna waste your time, don't do it.
Speaker 3:So I was like okay, I'll just stream it, no problem yeah, and to be fair, we did see it on a tuesday night, you know, which is the cinemark five dollar movie night. So like I wasn't gonna get an xd showing and we did we did go to see it solely for the fact that we knew it was going to be awful, and again it was an experience and there are parts where it's so bad that is funny.
Speaker 3:It's funny because, like some of the, the line delivery and the dubbing it's like so strange it was, it really truly has to be seen to be believed. Like an, argyle really came down to me, trusting matthew vaughn I just like matthew vaughn, you know, I like the series and and I thought maybe it could be good and I think, in theory, the, the premise of the film works, but the, the execution was incredibly fumbled. So it's definitely, you know, if you like that style, I think it's worth a watch. But there's just some at certain points. I never felt like kingsman got too over the top, but argyle is completely over the top, almost from beginning to end, and that's where it really like messed up.
Speaker 1:So all now seems like it's gonna be fun it's really really good film.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, I'm glad y'all like that one.
Speaker 1:that's what's up. I mean, all y'all seems like it's going to be fun. It's a really, really good film. Yeah, okay, I'm glad y'all like that one. That's what's up. I mean, all Y'all looks like fun. I mean Bryce Dallas Howard, dua Lipa, henry Cavill, I mean it's Sam Rockwell. I mean it's got a stat cast. I'm sure I'll have fun with it. I'm just going to fall under streaming until we start getting the dead pools and the you know the big heavy hitters, the ones that are really gonna, you know, do something Joker.
Speaker 3:So yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I think that's awesome. I think that's a. That's that's a good way to approach it. Obviously, I'm way to approach it. Obviously I'm biased. Again, it's got a. I knew those two movies, madame webb argyle. I don't care what hype around them was if it was so bad I'm not gonna watch it, no I'm not gonna watch lift and that's on streaming, so I have like a limit certain is that the kevin hart one?
Speaker 3:yeah yeah, it's awful.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'll check out a streaming movie but some of them on streaming, like lift I'm, I'm never going to watch it.
Speaker 1:And that's just the way it is. I'm tired of Kevin Hart and movies. I need a break. I need a break. It's too much yeah.
Speaker 3:I just don't understand who told Kevin Hart he could be an action star. You're really good at what you do Like he is very good. I watched the movie with him and Bryan Cranston last year. I mean it was a remake, but I thought he was very good in that, like in a dramatic role. Yeah, so like, why are you trying to be this action hero man?
Speaker 1:It was bad, I don't know and I really like the series that he did with Wesley Snipes. I thought that was good too. I think it was called True Story.
Speaker 2:That was really good, so I don't know he took those dramatic performances and said you know what I want to do? I'm going to go be in the Borderlands movie for some reason Like that's and be lift.
Speaker 3:Those are the decisions which I am going to see. I know you are.
Speaker 2:You're a pawn. I swear hey.
Speaker 1:Phil, I'm going to see it when it's streaming.
Speaker 3:Again, that's fair, that's okay, wouldn't blame you. The right approach.
Speaker 2:No, I'm playing. But, Kevin, you know, as we kind of wrap up the conversation on the kind of content creation and the podcast and we're going to also jump into some games here in just a little bit just to kind of encompass everything Like, what are some of your goals as you come into the next year as a content creator? Obviously there's always more that can be done. Uh, we have not stopped trying to grow pretty much each and every year. You know this first started out as a hobby for us and then, once we really took it seriously, a lot of things have improved. So we really appreciate your kind words about our content, because that that goes miles with us. So, just with yours. It's already so great what you're doing. What are you looking to do in the next year, whether it's on a platform like TikTok, on the podcast, Instagram, whatever what's kind of those goals that you have for the upcoming year?
Speaker 1:So some goals I have now.
Speaker 1:So luckily last year I was able to join the African American Film Critic Association, so with that I was able to get a lot of like screeners and promotional materials and things like that.
Speaker 1:It was kind of like a four year consideration type thing, which which actually did help me with watching movies last year that I did not think I was going to get to like zone of interest and things like that a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1:I think I was going to get to like zone of interest and things like that a little bit earlier. So, seeing that the possibility is there to be able to do these kind of things, I want to really make it a goal to attend, you know, film festivals and, you know, get a more direct contact with PR at studios and just shed more light on our podcast and also, from TikTok, be able to convert more of the followers that we have to our podcast, to grow that even more man and hopefully also get a little bit more consistent with the podcast I'm recording, because you know we do every two weeks. We had a little bit of a break starting out the beginning of the year but you know we've been doing every two weeks, but probably get a little bit more consistent with that as well. How often do you guys record? If you don't mind me asking phil, you want to.
Speaker 2:You want to break the news well that that changed recently.
Speaker 3:Uh, so up until what?
Speaker 3:september of last year we did two episodes a week for like three years yeah, and we finally had to have a a moment where, like, all right, we need to cut back. So now we are down to just one a week, um, which has been going very, very well, but yeah, two a week. I don't know how we did that for so long. There are a lot of mini series and we did a lot of movie reviews and eventually, you know, we just had to analyze what's working, what's not. You know, it didn't really benefit us to do a movie review for a film in which you know, like, say, a marvel movie would come out, obviously on a thursday or a friday, and then our, and then our review comes out on monday, like, but people want to know in the moment, like, what our thoughts are of that film.
Speaker 1:So we're like you know what?
Speaker 3:yeah let's move that to tiktok. You know we'll do that in tiktok right out of the theater, we do that right out of the movie theater. We usually share our thoughts, so we had to pick and choose what was working and what was worth our time, and also just for the sake of our sanity, like rolling back on editing and all that kind of stuff and promotion. So yeah, up until recently it was somehow two, now it's just once and what a great change, much better, what a great change.
Speaker 2:That was because, again, people look at my life back no, every time we bring it up they're like mondays and wednesdays every week, excuse me, I also.
Speaker 3:I also run a jaguars podcast too, so I was putting, I was editing sometimes three episodes a week. So yeah, geez.
Speaker 2:You're not allowed to listen to that. We don't need any insider information going Sure, but this.
Speaker 3:Houston Texans teacher was supposed to be friends.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I was doing, yeah, doing that. And then at one point in time in 2022, I had a third podcast I was doing. So I don't know how I did it, and I didn't do it for very long, since that one's not longer, it's on a kind of a hiatus. So, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:But I asked him to make a couple TikToks and he's like nah, not feeling it, I don't get it, I don't understand, it doesn't makes sense, the math ain't mathing.
Speaker 1:But hey, phil, you know what's funny, dude, I did not want to get on TikTok at first. One of my buddies his name is Ted the toy collector on TikTok, he's a Funko collector. I see you, a Funko collector as well. He's big into that, big time on TikTok, right? He was telling me he's like dude, y'all like movies, y'all need to get on TikTok. I'm like you talking about the app where everybody be dancing and doing all that silly stuff for like 30 seconds. I'm like I ain't doing that. He's like no, they got like a whole community, like there's a film community.
Speaker 1:I'm like eh whatever, I'll check it out and then, yeah, that's kind of how that worked.
Speaker 3:I love that you know everything about I can discuss and then just like stick to that Maybe that'll be my man. Do a series yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited that you brought up Ted, because I've been a big fan of him before I got introduced to your content. Ted the toy collector is one of my favorite content creators.
Speaker 3:I love his content and like he looks up on my Instagram, on my Instagram algorithm, all the time.
Speaker 2:So funny. He's great. I love everything. I was definitely introduced on that Star Wars run he was doing where he watched Star Wars for the first time.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And then just been a fan ever since. So I definitely, I definitely get that and that's why I ended up joining. Honestly, we probably joined. I joined probably a year too late. I had been like sitting on it for a whole year and even now I'm still kind of feeling like I've just gotten my feet wet. So the sky is the limit. I think it's going to be great, uh, finding a way to get all this on Tik TOK and then also add more like it's going to be a wild ride. But you know, kevin, is there anything else that our audience should know about anything that you've got going on, uh, next couple months or any upcoming episodes? We'd love to have you kind of plug that for the podcast and for your channels. Uh, before we kind of uh jump into the next portion of our episode, which are a couple pop culture games, well, yeah, uh, upcoming.
Speaker 1:Um, later this week we'll have a episode on denis villeneuve where we're talking about his sci-fi films, so y'all be on the lookout for that. We on Apple Spotify Anchor all that good stuff. Give us a follow on there, also on Instagram and TikTok. So, yeah, we'll just be planning and doing stuff every two weeks, so I'll be posting on Instagram. Instagram's usually why I do like a lot of hey, this episode's coming out soon and stuff like that. So are y'all on Instagram pretty heavy, or.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah we're definitely on.
Speaker 2:Instagram, tiktok those are probably our two biggest platforms and you know, obviously links to the show notes everybody for all of that. You know we're gonna make sure we have everything easily accessible Before we jump into that game. I think I'd be remiss if we don't talk a little Dune just because you know you did your review. I put out a review on TikTok Phil finally saw it for the first time and I wanted to give a public update because I haven't done it yet. On my Dune review. I had time to sleep on it upon a second rewatch and I'm giving that bad boy a five out of five. I walked out of it not finding a thing I didn't like about it and wanting to watch it another time, so I just feel like that's a five out of five film. I'm just kind of curious, kevin, like when you walked into dune, if you could give our audiences a little bit of a snippet of how you were feeling going into dune part two and then how you felt coming out.
Speaker 1:Going into it, I said this shit better be better than number one, because number one was damn near a snooze fest. But no, what happened was for part one. The first time I watched it was unfortunate. I watched it on Max, which was called HBO Max. At the time I didn't go to the theater to see it or anything, I just wasn't, you know. I ended up watching it there and I said, damn, that was a big mistake. I really messed up, like look, how beautiful this is. And also me being a Denevo New fan, I don't even know why I did that to myself. I'm like I don't know anything about Dune. Oh well, I messed up.
Speaker 1:So the first time I watched it I was like, eh, it's okay, you know, whatever you know, trying to learn the characters and all that kind of stuff. So I watched it again leading up to part two the week of, and I was like, dang okay, this is much better. Like I have a better grasp of the world, the characters. All right, I'm ready for part two. I watched part two. I was like, damn, that made part one a little bit better, you know. So I gave it four and a half out of five. There's some things I had little problems with, but nothing. I couldn't give it the full five, I just four and a half. I was good, you know. So there were some things as far as the fight, choreography and things like that, I was kind of like mm-mm-mm. But that's okay, I think, if I remember it's solid, though I like it a lot.
Speaker 2:If I remember your review, I think you had some issues with the last fight right Between Freya and Paul. Yeah, the last fight.
Speaker 1:Also Dave Batista's character. The way he just got killed so quick by Josh Brolin, I was like mm-mm, that beef has been building up for a while, you just going to do it like that. Also Drew B b's movies. He, he responded to that. He stitched, he said I agree with you, he's a big dune fan as well. Um, he responded and he said he agrees with me and he thinks that the point of that of killing dave patisa's character that fast was to show how strong, how strong, uh, josh barron's character is and how weak of a fighter dave patisa is. Basically Sorry, I'm not calling them by the characters' names, but you know, whatever.
Speaker 3:That's okay.
Speaker 1:But part two, that last fight dude, I was like, come on, man, that's. I thought it could have been better. I get it, though Everybody you know thought it was a you know 10 out of 10 fight scene. But I just, you know, that's fine.
Speaker 2:I think I liked what, what it stood for, more than the actual fight. I thought the fight was really cool. The elements I liked were when they do and I love this in movies in general is when they do that very uh, light, light background to a dark like character shading. So like you see them fighting but you don't, yes, see their features. I love that. I eat that up all the time in movies. Skyfall, the bookie eli are like two movies that can't come into my mind recently. Oh, um good examples yeah, love that.
Speaker 2:That's like my favorite thing in fight scenes. I felt like once we moved away from that it did kind of become anticlimactic. But again, everything that happened in the movie, I totally agree with you. We talked about austin butler getting like all this praise for being in like three scenes. Phil, that was like one of your first reactions I'm like now he's.
Speaker 1:He thought now he's ledger joker, come on now y'all better stop yeah, I think that was one of your reactions.
Speaker 2:coming out of the theater was like, yeah, this movie was really good, but like he was in like three scenes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's like barely in it.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Everyone's like losing their shit.
Speaker 3:And I'm like it's a good performance, but I'm like, well, that's it, he's not. He didn't, he didn't do more. And this is what we were talking about outside of the theater is, you know, the joker was an absolute menace and he was always. We were always keeping up with him and what was going on with, you know, on his side of things, without batman, you know, and while we got that a little bit in in dune part two, it wasn't enough, like if and it's already a three-hour film. So, like, what are you going to take out to give him more? Um, I'd be interested to see what kind of was left on the cutting room floor for him that's, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Also, from what I understand, his character is supposed to be extremely intelligent and that's why he ends up climbing the ranks. And I was like, in the film you don't even see his intelligence. You see how more of a menace he is, you know. So I was like they weren't really able to build that up, so so, but you know, I mean, for Denia is building up a lot of stuff, cramming a lot of things into the story, so what I saw was amazing, regardless, you know, yeah, I think there was talks of that Dune being like a three-parter and now they're going to just do part three as a Dune, messiah.
Speaker 2:So it'll be really curious to see where they go. I never thought I would be so obsessed with it. And, yeah, I was right there with you. The first one, I will tell you. Rewatching the first one after seeing the second one gave me a greater appreciation for the first one and for Phil. He actually I thought he was not going to keep up with it, but, phil, kudos to you for keeping up with the story, because you kept looking at me like when is this supposed to confuse me? Keeping up with the story because you kept looking at me like when is this supposed to confuse me?
Speaker 3:and that was a different experience than I had in part one. Yeah, I was pretty proud of myself. That was that had always been my my thing. As far as being a little standoffish towards the franchise because I knew it just had such in-depth lore and like such a huge fan base, I was like man, I don't want to go into this and like not understand what's happening. But yeah, I I followed it very well and again, seeing them both in the same day was incredibly beneficial, for sure, and I do want to see dune part two again one more time and maybe an imax if we get the opportunity, uh, one more time, before it does leave it, because, uh, yeah, it's definitely something that 70 millimeter was a yeah, we gotta, we gotta make.
Speaker 3:That was a beast man yeah, if we don't.
Speaker 2:If we don't, it sounds like we have imax plans for when interstellar re-releases, which is pretty cool, yeah, yeah, yeah super exciting stuff. But yeah, let's jump in let's jump into the fun part of our episode.
Speaker 2:I've got a couple of things, a couple of games two games in fact to play, all pop culture based. So, phil, this is usually your thing on our what did I miss series. So you're gonna have to forgive me, but I'm gonna figure out where I share my screen. I see it okay, so let me go ahead here and jump in while eric does that?
Speaker 3:kevin, I did want to uh shout out uh, one of your tiktoks I saw from a few weeks ago when you were uh, you were highlighting black films for black history month and you unlocked a core memory when you brought up the wood. I saw that in high school and I haven't seen it since then. So I was like, oh my god, I forgot about this movie. Yeah, I gotta go back and re-watch it now, man, what a great film I loved that movie when, uh, when, I saw it.
Speaker 1:Yeah oh, man, yeah, I love it, man, that's um, you know, for the younger kids, man, I say what atl was for y'all the?
Speaker 3:wood is for us man. That's a great example like this is yeah, yeah yeah, I love the wood.
Speaker 1:I can re-watch this, pure comedy.
Speaker 3:Love those flashbacks man, that's a great movie. Eric, that might be a you need to check out. It's a great film.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, check out the Wood as you're starting that, eric. Do y'all have top three or top five films from last year?
Speaker 3:from 2023? We do Now. We're going to.
Speaker 2:We're all about the list now we're going to need yours too. So I hope. Is it in the brain, is it in the dome? Give it to us.
Speaker 1:It is, yeah, it is, it's there.
Speaker 3:We'll have you go. It's there.
Speaker 1:So my number one was Oppenheimer, my second one was Killers of the Flower Moon. Number three was the Holdovers, four was Past Lives, five was Across the Spider-Verse. I'll just give you my whole ten. Six was Poor Things, 6 was poor thing, 7 was a thousand and one. 9, anatomy of a Fall. 10, may December.
Speaker 2:That's a killer list, Phil. I'll leave mine for last. I know there's going to be at least one that I'm going to get roasted on, so I'm just going to let you take it.
Speaker 3:Oh, my god, that's right, I forgot about it oh my gosh, there is a film in Eric's. Okay, all right. So with the premise of saying that there are some of those on your list that we have not seen yet, so we didn't get to see Killers of Flower Moon yet.
Speaker 2:Past Lives, the Holdovers, those are all on our Anatomy of a Falls on Hulu now and Poor Things. So I'm going to be watching both of those bad babies soon.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I'll put in. I'll take out my number 10 right now, or as it is on letterbox, was waitress, the musical, but I'll take that out because that wasn't necessarily like a film film. So I'll put in my number 11, which was hunger game, songbirds and snakes. Number nine was extraction two. Uh, number eight was oppenheimer, number seven was barbie. Number six was guardians of the galaxy, volume three. Number five was they clone tyrone. Number four was past lives. Number Number three was Nimona, number two was Across the Spider-Verse and number one was Godzilla Minus One.
Speaker 1:And you know I feel foolish for not putting Godzilla Minus One there. I just man it's dude. It was so many films, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Wait before Eric says this, Phil. Have you seen all of the Godzilla films, or a majority of them?
Speaker 3:No, I haven't seen like the, like the, the originals, like we've seen Shin Godzilla. Obviously, I've seen all the Monsterverse films but, yeah, I have not seen like the classic Godzilla's other than maybe Shin yeah.
Speaker 1:OK, well, yeah, well, all the ones you've seen, this is the best one, clearly, right.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's my favorite by far. Yeah, and I, and I listen. I watched the monster verse godzillas for different reasons than I saw. Uh, godzilla minus one, right, those are. Those can exist in two different planes and you know, I got my. I got my little godzilla right here. I got my.
Speaker 1:So though there you go.
Speaker 3:Those can, both those can both exist and all and be and be good for different reasons. But yeah, Minus One was.
Speaker 1:For sure yeah.
Speaker 3:Minus One was incredible. We saw the original and then we also saw the Minus Color version in theaters, so it was great I did too.
Speaker 2:Fantastic.
Speaker 1:Amazing.
Speaker 2:So here's my. Again. There's a couple movies I haven't seen, but it's fine. So number 10 is Barbie. Number nine is an animated film called Nimona. Guardians of the Galaxy, volume 3 is number eight. John Wick, chapter 4, is number seven. Past Lives is number six. Oppenheimer is number five. So listen, I understand what's about to happen. Next, I'm going to stand by it. Elemental, the Pixar film. Elemental is number four for me. I love that film. I watched it so many times. It is a unique take.
Speaker 2:My third movie was not here in 2023, but we watched it earlier this year and I have updated my rankings. Phil Hainana, the Telugu film that we watched on Netflix, is number three Huge recommendation it is so good. Godzilla minus number one is number two and across the spider versus number one. So out of all those films, kevin, only my top three had a four and a half. I did not have a five last year where, phil, I think that was the case for both of us. Neither of us, or did you give Godzilla minus one of five?
Speaker 3:I, after seeing minus one for the second time, I gave it. I upped it to a five, I think. Oh no, it's a four and a half, it's four.
Speaker 1:I don't think either of us walked away with a, so both of y'all updated it to a five you said right.
Speaker 3:No, I still have it at a four and a half. I just checked, oh.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, okay, I got you. The only thing with Godzilla minus one was oh girl, spoiler if nobody saw it. But oh girl left alive like that. I was like yeah.
Speaker 2:That was part of the reason for the rating.
Speaker 1:The second time it bothered me just as much yeah, as I was like I would you know, I would have felt more of that emotion if she had just you know passed, but that's also come on.
Speaker 3:She got wiped out man.
Speaker 1:We saw what happened yeah, like no way you're surviving that, but I get it we're getting a sequel, I guess yeah, all right, let's jump into still a fire ass movie regardless let's jump into our first game.
Speaker 2:so I'm gonna go ahead here and share my screen. Okay, cool, it lets me pick exactly which tab I want to share. I don't need to share the audio. We are good, all right, cool, all right, guys. So we are going to jump into a game called this or that. So I'm assuming you guys can see it. Yep, it looks like you can. All right, so, this or that? The rules are pretty simple. Each person has a chance to answer before the actual answers revealed, so this isn't really a race to the clock game. Both of you guys will get a shot. There are five questions total, the points increase by question and the person with the most points at the end wins. So keep track of your own points because, as Phil will tell you, I'm not really a math guy. All right, your first. This or that is bigger box office. So we have two films from one of our favorite directors, bong Joon-ho Memories of Murder and Snowpiercer. Which one do you think has the bigger box office? And Kevin, I'll let you go first as our guest in this game.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say Snowpiercer, Okay film. I also think to say Snowpiercer.
Speaker 2:Okay, Phil.
Speaker 3:I also think it's Snowpiercer.
Speaker 2:It is in fact Snowpiercer, which made $86 million, compared to Memories of Murder, only making $1.2 million, one of Bong Joon-ho's lowest grossing films, yeah.
Speaker 3:I wonder how long it was in theaters.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely a shocker. In fact, phil Okja doubled this box office amount later on, so again one of his lowest ranking films. I thought that was surprising. I guess Chris Evans really is a draw. So there you go. Go figure. All right, we have two films here, two films here that had Oscar nominations and won Oscars. I'm just focusing on the nominations. Which Christopher Nolan film had more nominations for the Oscars? Interstellar or the Dark Knight and Kevin, you go first.
Speaker 1:Interstellar.
Speaker 2:I, I'm gonna go with the Dark Knight you may be shocked to know that the Dark Knight had 8 nominations compared to Interstellar's 5, and the Dark Knight won 2 Oscars compared to Interstellar's 1. Alright, dang, I sure did. We have a lot of director actor combos in Hollywood. Leo and Scorsese is a big one, but Chris Evans and the Russos I sure did. Okay, we have a lot of director-actor combos in Hollywood. Leo and Scorsese is a big one, but Chris Evans and the Russos. If you think of those Marvel movies, which combo is bigger, leo and Scorsese or Evans and the Russos? Kevin, you're up first.
Speaker 1:Which combo is bigger?
Speaker 2:Like box office-wise which one has had the most films together.
Speaker 1:Damn it, leo Scorsese.
Speaker 2:Phil.
Speaker 3:I am also going to go Leo and Scorsese. No, I'm going to go Evans and Russo.
Speaker 2:Sometimes the obvious answer is the right one. Of course it's Leo and Scorsese, but not by a lot. Seven movies now, including Killers of the Flower Moon and Evans and Russo, five for Marvel films and the Gray man which, phil, I think only you have seen yeah, yeah, alright we have a similar question.
Speaker 2:Similar question here is who has had the most actor actress combos between Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan Not just romantic films, films in general, adam Sandler, drew Barrymore or Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in films together? And Kevin, you're first.
Speaker 1:Um geez, I think Sandler and Barrymore um geez, I think sandler and barrymore.
Speaker 3:Yeah, sandler and barrymore, because there's that theory that adam sandler is secretly in love with drew barrymore, so he keeps casting her well, listen, you can absolutely double check this afterwards.
Speaker 2:I tried to look it up twice. Apparently adam sandler and drew barrymore have only been in three films together. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks have been in four.
Speaker 2:Wow, I knew it was close, man the Wedding Singer 51st Dates and a movie called Blended oh, blended, yeah, that movie and you've got Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and the classic films they're in together. And then there was one that I think Meg Ryan either directed or produced, that I never heard of, so that was news to me. All right, and we're on our last one for this or that. And hopefully you've been keeping track of your scores, because if not, we're just going to give it to Kevin. Kevin, you're first which one has the higher that's rude which one has the higher letterboxd rating.
Speaker 2:So out of Goodfellas, godfather Part 2. Kevin says Godfather, part 2. Phil.
Speaker 3:We're tied I think it's two to two.
Speaker 2:So just for the sake of having a winner, I'll go. Goodfellas, it is the Godfather, part 2, by just a simple decimal point. I like to think that my rating and I maybe Kevin's uh, it actually impacted the score. So you know, that's a second. That's a second call out there, kevin. Uh, how, how do you feel about good fellas?
Speaker 1:I love it. It's one of my favorite films of all time. Easily as as cliche as that is, I don't care. I love it, everything about it.
Speaker 2:I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:I think it's one of the best R-rated movies ever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I really enjoyed it. Phil, it's your top three. It's in your top three. I just found it to be crazy. It's really good, but where does it rank in all time for you? Is it up there, like Phil, or do you just have a deep appreciation for it?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, oh yeah it's.
Speaker 3:I think it's like number two or three for me, okay, hey, kevin, the same person that showed me the wood also introduced me to goodfellas, so I rely, I, I rely on that. So yeah, it's my number two favorite film, just slightly behind jurassic park, because Jurassic Park is like one of my first core memories, like I saw that in theaters in 1993, and it's like one of the first things I remember from being a kid I was like four or five.
Speaker 3:So between those two honestly, depending on like the day, that can flip flop, but they're both films that I can just put on at any time. So yeah, but Goodfellas.
Speaker 1:Yeah 100%.
Speaker 3:I was a little worried Eric wasn't going to enjoy it, but I mean, at least he enjoyed it. But yeah, because he didn't watch it until last year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was one of our late to the party. That's one of our series that we do and it was a great movie. I definitely see why people love it. All-timer was crazy to me, uh, but again, I have a lot of hot takes like that. I just had an argument in anime, cowboy bebop being an all-timer. That's not. It was just not my cup of tea. So I think there is something to say about being removed from the film for so long. Uh, except for the shining phil, that movie sucks oh god, I hate the shining I just wanted that in case we clip it so great.
Speaker 2:Let me go ahead and jump to our next game, which is called Fact or Bluff. This will be our final game for the episode, as we kind of round it out All right, so you guys should see on the screen Fact or Bluff and Phil, again be very proud of me. I had multiple games for us to play that are new, so I'm testing these out as we go first one was pretty successful.
Speaker 2:I think this one will be too. It works a little bit different, uh, simpler, and also has a couple changes. So for this one, there are going to be three rounds and each round will have three questions related to the film topics. I'll show that in a minute. Each player, just like the last one, will have a chance to answer. Is the statement or information on the screen a fact or is it a bluff? Is it fake? Before the answer is revealed, don't use Google. You have time to answer, but don't cheat. And then, with every correct answer, it's just a point, so the player with the most wins at the end. So it's really easy to keep track of.
Speaker 2:For this one, our categories round one three questions around comedy movies. Round two three questions around horror movies. And round three three questions around superhero films. We move into round one for comedy. Is it a fact or a bluff? That Sausage Party? Yes, the movie with Seth Rogen was the highest grossing R-rated animated film of all time, until it was surpassed in 2020 by the anime film Demon Slayer, mugen Train. Kevin, as our guest, you're going to go first. Is this a fact or a bluff? Fact Okay, phil, I'm going to go with. Is this a fact or a bluff Fact?
Speaker 3:Okay, phil, I'm going to go with bluff. I think it was a different animated, oh R-rated, r-rated Mugen Train was rated R. I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I always forget, because kids cosplay as it, I always forget that it's like there's a lot of bad periods out there, I'm aware uh, yeah, we'll r rated, yeah, we'll go with fact point for each of you guys.
Speaker 2:This is a fact. Sausage party actually took the title from south park, which was held uh that record was held for 17 years before then losing it uh, losing it to demon slayer. Well, I know all right factor bluff. At one time quentin tarantino listed friday. I know All right Factor Bluff. At one time Quentin Tarantino listed Friday, shaun of the Dead and Team America World Police in his list of 20 favorite movies since 1992. Kevin, is this a fact or a bluff Bluff? All right, kevin's going bluff Phil.
Speaker 3:I think it's a fact. Isn't there like a scene in Team American War Police with feet? That's probably a fact.
Speaker 2:All right, I feel like you had some deep digging in there, deep factual knowledge that you went for. But it's a good thing you went there because it is a fact. This is true. He actually also states that the Japanese film Battle Royale is his top choice. The Matrix would have been number. He refers to M Night Shyamalan as M Night Shyamalan Ding Dong and I just thought that was funny. So here we are.
Speaker 3:That's your fact of the day Dude, that Quentin Tarantino man, he's a freak dude, he's a sicko, he's crazy man.
Speaker 2:All right, fact or bluff. Blazing Saddles currently has a 98% tomato meter and an 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Kevin, is this a fact or a bluff?
Speaker 1:Currently. That's a bluff.
Speaker 3:Okay, phil, I think it is a fact.
Speaker 2:It is in fact a bluff. It is an 89% tomato meter, 91% audience score. All right, there ain't no way.
Speaker 1:People got too many problems with it now.
Speaker 3:That makes sense.
Speaker 2:All right, we're moving to round two, which is horror movies. Kevin fun fact. One of the first pieces of content I started running into, I think, was back in October you were watching a bunch of the Friday the 13th movies. So little fun fact there. Factor Bluff Get Out was released weeks ahead of two popular films that year. That is true, factor Bluff. Those movies were Jumanji, welcome to the Jungle and Wonder Woman. Kevin, Factor Bluff.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say fact because, yeah, those came out in 2017, I believe.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm going to also go with fact. I saw Wonder Woman and Jumanji in Dallas when I was living out there and I believe Get Out came out around the same time.
Speaker 2:Yep, they did, but not weeks ahead. In fact, the two movies that were there were Logan and Kong.
Speaker 3:Skull Island.
Speaker 2:Damn yeah, so Get Out. In its second weekend lost to Logan, and then in its third weekend lost to Kong Skull Island.
Speaker 3:All three really great movies Really great yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:Factor Bluff great yeah, all right. Fact or bluff anya taylor joy, who starred in robert egger's directorial debut. The witch, was eager to work with him again and asked if she could play the mermaid that is in the lighthouse. Kevin, is this a fact or a bluff?
Speaker 1:um, hold on dang, uh, hold on Dang. Now I'm going to say fact.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:Phil, I'll also go fact yeah, because yeah.
Speaker 2:It is a fact. Eggers replied that there was not a role for her. She shouldn't be this particular mermaid. That did not happen. She did also try to be a seagull. That did not work either. That did not happen. She did also try to be a seagull. That did not work either. That is a fact. All right, fact or bluff? The film Megan was released in 2022 and it received a D cinema score. Kevin, is this a fact or a bluff?
Speaker 1:Bluff.
Speaker 2:Film.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think people like Megan for some reason.
Speaker 2:I'll go fact. It is a bluff. It did release in 2022, and it received a B cinema score. Yeah, people for some reason like that movie.
Speaker 3:My daughter. That was one of the ones I was never going to watch. My daughter hated that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was never going to watch that All right round, three, three, final round. Uh, hopefully you guys are keeping track. I think you guys are close, fact or bluff? Marvel films are in each spot of the top five single day grosses of all time. Kevin, is this a fact or a?
Speaker 1:bluff.
Speaker 3:Fact, I'm going to go bluff. I bet you there's something surprising in there like Fast and the Furious or something.
Speaker 2:Fast and the Furious would never, but Star Wars would. It is a bluff. There we go. It is four out of the five spots. The only non-Marvel film is one of my favorite films, star Wars, episode 7.
Speaker 3:Let's also not act like Fast and the Furious doesn't have a billion dollar grossing film, so it's not that outlandish. That's because you watch it all the time. It's you. I didn't say it was good, I just said I could see a bunch of people flocking to go see it in the first weekend.
Speaker 2:And nobody's seeing that in a single day. You gotta, you gotta give it some time before you go watch fast and furious I don't think so. Day one for me all right, uh, again, make sure you keep track of your score, because we're gonna see if that's gonna be important here in a minute. Uh, fact or bluff? Before landing on ben affleck, these actors were either considered, held discussions or even auditioned for the role. Those actors are Ryan Gosling, josh Brolin and Jason Momoa. Kevin, is this a fact or a bluff?
Speaker 1:I'm going to say my fact.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go bluff. I don't remember hearing Brolin's name, but I'm probably wrong.
Speaker 2:You are. It is a fact. Gosling was considered for the role. Discussions actually took place with Brolin at one point and Momoa actually auditioned which everybody pretty much knows that one and he eventually became Aquaman. All right, we're at our final question. Where are we? How are we feeling? How many points are we at? Does anybody know? That's the great question.
Speaker 3:Uh-oh, phil, have you been keeping track? I believe I've gotten four.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're going to say this is going to win it.
Speaker 3:So factor bluff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like dang, how many do I have?
Speaker 2:Yeah, factor bluff, han have.
Speaker 1:yeah, um factor bluff, hancock starring will smith was reported to have a budget of 125 million dollars.
Speaker 3:Is this a fact or a bluff, kevin? Uh?
Speaker 2:bluff okay, and phil, I will go. Fact Okay, kevin, for the win. It actually was $150 million.
Speaker 1:So quite expensive. I think this is like a little higher, a little bit higher than that.
Speaker 2:I think it came out. Yeah, it was a while ago, but yeah, great job, guys. Thank you guys for playing both of our games. That worked out really really well. And yeah, kevin, you are our winner. Bragging rights, you've got those. But yeah, that worked out really well. Let's go All right, guys. Well, we are wrapping up the episode, so it sounds like this is perfect timing. Kevin, we have all of your information for the Real For Real podcast. Anything else you want to shout out before we head and wrap this episode?
Speaker 1:Oh man, podcast anything else you want to shout out before, uh, we head and wrap this episode. Oh man, I just want to say appreciate y'all having me on, man. I had a good time, enjoyed the games y'all organized we gotta get like y'all, y'all organized man, I like y'all. Y'all run a smooth operation here. I like that. Yes, sir really enjoyed it. Man, that's a huge compliment yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 3:It took time.
Speaker 2:It took time yeah, so taking a lot of time, but yeah, let's, uh, let's run into the end of these, uh, this episode, phil, if you'll close us out. Uh, we are at the end of the creator spotlight. Make sure to check out the real for real podcast and phil. If people want to check out more of our content, where can they do that?
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