Our 2025 Film Predictions!

In the first episode of the New Year, hosts Aaron and Sam sit down and go through the most anticipated films of 2025 and make three predictions: How many stars will they rate it? Will it win any Oscars? Will it make a billion dollars? From Snow White to Dirty Dancing 2 to The Brutalist, 2025 is looking like another exciting year to be a film fan! 

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Yeah, I like that she started. Action! Welcome, everybody, to 2025. Yeah. I wish you a happy new year. Happy new year. We are currently still in 2020 for the. We're speaking to you from the past, but we hope it's been brilliant. Hopefully like a Y2K wasn't 25 years too late or some nonsense. Yeah. Hopefully. Yeah. Hopefully. If you are listening to this. Yeah. Not in a nuclear bunker where we're all still here. Yeah. My name is Aaron. I am one of the host and the director of today's episode, and I'm joined by the wonderful talent Sam. It gets better every week. Hello? Yes. Hello, everyone. Happy new year. Happy new year. And together we make up the Hollywood Scholars. We are a film podcast, I believe, Sam said last week. Made by film lovers. For film lovers. We still are. We still. I mean, it's not original, like we stole it from everybody else, but I'm a fan of the idea of the yoink and twist. Have you heard of this? No, but it sounds sexy. Oh, it's got an insight into Lana's life a little. It's the idea of, like, taking an idea, but then twisting it slightly so that it's different enough where you can make it your own. Yeah. We're here we are a podcast for film lovers by film lovers. Yeah, that is the Hollywood Scarlett effect. That's what you get with us. You just fucking crane the Hollywood Scarlett effect. Christ, you meant to let me have the zingers. As I mentioned last week, we are not going to be doing a weekly rushes, which is a segment we normally do, but in the rest of 2025, you can expect to hear that. But for the first episode of 2025, we wanted to do the most anticipated. So we want to talk about films that are coming out this year that we know about, and what we're going to do is we're going to create a time capsule. Basically, I have a list of like 34 odd films, not all the films that are going to release next year, let's be honest. No, you know, that would be a long yes. There's going to be hundreds, probably thousands of films released next year and we're going to miss some, unfortunately. But there we are. Maybe we'll do like a half year review. Yeah, maybe a year. But that's what that's also what I'm excited for because there's going to be films on that you have on this list that we will watch, and we're like, where the hell did that come from? Yeah, I cannot wait for that. Yeah, I'm very excited about that. But what are we going to do? Is I'm going to talk about the film. I'm going to give a brief synopsis, and then meantime we're going to give our predicted ratings out of five. We're going to say, do we think it will win an Oscar? And if so, maybe which one? And then do we think will make $1 billion? Quick disclaimer I didn't ask you before we started. When you say win an Oscar, are we talking the 2025 Oscars? Are we talking about. Yeah, his films are going to be released in July. Not, I should say, win an Oscar. Any Oscar. Just genuinely. Yeah, like you'll be nominated. And so, for example, I know that like, spoiler that one of the films on this list is Better Man, which is the Robbie Williams biopic. Oh yeah, which has been already receiving nods for the Oscars. So like, yeah, we don't. As it currently stands, we don't know what the nominations are. We know the shortlist, but we don't know the nominations. So we're not really cheating by saying yes or no. No. Okay. Understood. Yeah. All right. And if you guys, listen, I want to play along as well. Please do. I know this is like a really quick opener. Hopefully you've had a fantastic new year. Hopefully you didn't get too drunk. Is this recent? On the second I got? It is releasing on the second. Are you going to predict that you got something? Oh, I got absolutely steaming it. I know I did, I know I did, which is why I'm so glad we pre-record. I ever had a fabulous night, or I ate chocolate in my house alone and cried. One of the two is going to happen. Okay, I will make sure to check in on you. Thanks man. I will be pissed. Are you sure you're up? So I'm getting very soppy. Where do you get started? Did I do I really do? He went out on the weekend, and he messaged me like, oh my God, I love this podcast we're doing. It's great. And I was like, us, you're so cute when you joined it, did I do I love this podcast. I do anyway, so let's just get into it. We have a lot of films to go through. This is probably going to be a. Why are you laughing? Because Lola has no idea what message of that audition. No, no, no, it's the toilet. Welcome to message Darren. Right now, I just want to message you. I've forgotten where I was. Jesus fucking Christ. Okay, so, yeah, we've got like, 32 films on this list, so we're just going to go into it right now. We're going to crack it. Crack. So these are put in rough release date order. Now obviously I'm kind of going off UK release date a little bit more than anything else. But if it sounds weird that I've said this film at this point, it's just because the release dates are weird. Unfortunately, I can't do much about that. Yeah. So, for example, the first film that I'm starting with, which has been released technically is No Separators for after I finished, I saw yeah, yeah, so directed by Robert Eggers, starring Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bill Skarsgard, Willem Dafoe to name a few. Nicholas Hoult as well, who is having a phenomenal run in film at the moment. It's a horror film. Rough release date for us is the first of genre, and it is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with the infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. We all know the story of. That's right. Well, I would like to put a very quick disclaimer out on the Hollywood Scarlett episode that we did a few weeks ago. If I can okay, second or like first, second, third. So calmer. Which one it was. We said that Nosferatu or Count Orlok. Yes. Was not played since 1922. 22. That is a lie. Yeah, that's a misinformation. We apologize. Funnily enough, the reason I found this out was because Willem Dafoe played the character Count Orlok in a film in, like, 2005 because someone asked him in an interview, how does it feel to have played Count Orlok and now you're playing, like, against him kind of thing? And I was like, oh, wait, obviously it wasn't a film that was a Nosferatu film. It was a film that had, you know what? I fucking knew that as well, because I've watched his iconic character series on, on. Oh, I bastard. All right. Yeah. For polish of misinformation. But Nosferatu now we're cheating a little bit here because we already kind of know how well received this film is, but I actually have been avoiding reviews. I've been avoiding I have you not you. I've not been. No, it's not so much for phone reviews. I follow a lot of, like, a lot of my Twitter or actual, we want to call it is film. And one of my favorite, favorite Twitter accounts is called discussing film there. Literally it is literally just film news. Here it is. Here is or isn't. Something they do is that this film has debuted with this amount of Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah. And then they and I, but they also do film reviews. And obviously Nosferatu was one of them because do not tell me the score like that's fine okay. Yeah. No that's fine. I'll leave it. Okay. In the interest obviously wanted to keep you kind of blind to it and stuff. Yeah, yeah I just I won't go too much into it but expect it to be good. I do anyway. Like. Yes. Straight off the bat. My expected rating of this film is five stars. I think I am going to fucking love it. I loved the witch, I love the lighthouse. I didn't enjoy Northman as much, but I respected what it did. Yeah, I think Nosferatu, especially when the trailers are going to adore that film. Have you seen any clips at all or have you been avoiding those I've been avoiding? I've literally. I've seen the trailers. That's it. Fair enough. They released a clip of his voice. Oh, it's Scott voice. Yeah, just. Yeah, yeah. So what is your rating, do you think? Oh, predicted a rating like predicted, right? Yeah. Predicted rating. My predicted rating, I think is definitely five star. Yeah, I can a five. Yes. Do we think it's going to win an Oscar? I don't think it's going to win a Grammy nominated. Okay. More because films based in that era are sucker for the costume design. Yeah, I kind of like that. Or like I think, Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, poor thing. Supporting, four things. I'm pretty sure that got nominated for a lot of, like, costume design and hair and makeup starting and stuff. So I don't know why I went to that film. It's just the first one I saw that went back to that maybe not win, because I don't really know what else he could be up against, but I yeah, 100 point nominate. I don't even think it's gonna be nominated. You really don't know. It's a horror. We know how horror does at the Oscars you know. So no. You think you make a billion. No, no, no, I, I don't think it will. Unfortunately. Not that it's a bad thing. That film doesn't make a billion, by the way. But that does seem to be becoming more and more of a benchmark. Yeah, but horrors are so niche. And to a particular audience, especially if it's like an 18, there's only so many people that watch. I think it would do. I think it would do well streaming. I think it would do well, yeah, from that side. But I think in terms of cinema, a box office. Yeah. I thought unfortunately, no. But we seem to be a very positive about them. Yes. So moving on to the next one, Better Man, which is directed by Michael Gracey. Leading stars Robbie Williams probably gives you an example of what that film is. And genre. Davis, is a biopic releasing in January follows Robbie Williams, his journey from childhood to being the youngest member of chart topping boy band chart topping, immediate, chart topping boyband Take That Through to his unparalleled achievements as a record breaking solo artist, all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring. I'm probably one of few people that actually like Robbie Williams. I do like, I didn't care for a Robbie Williams biopic when it was when and when I heard about it, I didn't care. Then it was like, he's going to be played by CG chimp. I'm like, that's an interesting take. I'm not bothered. It's all betrayal. I was like, oh, he's got some tunes and he's got some good songs. And then but then I saw it. So obviously director of Great Showman, which was and they released a clip quite recently of him on Regent Street, rock deejay with him doing the and the dancing. I'm like, oh, this actually looks quite good. So I actually really I mean, I'm excited to see it. Yeah. Your style you're going to for star. Oh no for think I'm agree with you that I think it will surprise a lot of people. Yeah. I think a four star is good. I think like I think it's that and that in the Pharrell Williams biopic, I think are really demonstrating this need for a fresh take on the biopic. We have a lot. Yes. Yeah. You know, we did the 2024 episode, last week we didn't mention Maria because it flew under the radar. I was Angelina Jolie's take on a famous opera singer called Maria. But I think if you had had Pharrell Williams or a Robbie Williams documentary documentary biopic and it was just normal, no one would give a shit. It wouldn't have been made. But because they've both been like, oh, let's make it Lego, let's make me a chimp. Yeah. Not make up. Yeah. And now. But it worked because I'm a it's interesting Oscar I reckon nominated. See, the only reason I can think of it being nominated is visual effects. I mean, it's it's right in the wheelhouse. I guess. So, yeah. I still don't think so. I still don't think it'll be nominated or anything. Okay. I think it's too niche. I don't it's not play to an American audience. I don't think. No. But the niche films are normally what do better not necessarily niche films, but like the oh my God, the would you say con? I wouldn't even go as far as independent. It's the it's it's not the fan favorite films. They're not the ones that win Oscars. As evidenced when they tried to create a fucking fan favorite category. Do you remember that? And they tried to put like, Black Panther on it. I think I did in a flash win for the sex, the Snyder Cut. Let me get rid of it is does that still exist? I thought they got a moment of the year or something. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I'm pretty sure like the Snyder for this. Yeah. Like the overtook it and then the flash reversing time. Yeah. Yeah. Well one that's stupid anyway. Brilliant. Not. No. Brilliant. No, I don't think so. Even that's better, man. We're going to go through these quite quick, but, hopefully you're getting a rough vibe of what we're going to be saying about these films. And give us your opinions as well, please. Until next, Baby Go, directed by Helena Rain, starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. Oh, yes, it is a drama. A high powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern that is not describing this film, by the way, all of these descriptions have been pulled from that box. The film is the tagline is This Christmas, get what you want. It's about. It's essentially about an older woman and younger guy, and he is more of like a dominating in the sexual sense. It is 50 Shades of Gray done in a realistic way, I think is the way I'm going to say it. Like in an actual domination submissive way, written not as Twilight fan fiction. No, no, it's not this I don't know. I don't know because I think if we're going, critics. Yes. Putting it in a two star wheelhouse, if we're going on audience, it sounds like a film that's going to get about four. I would said the other way. Would you really? Would you? I think critics are going to love this film. I think critics are going to hail it. As Nicole Kidman's best and all that nonsense. I guess you she sounds like a role that she'll throw a so like, yeah, I kind of got to go all in on. Yeah, yeah. And like judging from the trailers and what I've seen in interviews of her, like she does seem to really be going for this role in like three then three for you three. I'm gonna give it a two. Oh you I said two. And I think the reason why is because the whole film is about the central character who has an affair and ruins her family. I don't think I'm going to vibe with that character and care enough about her journey where I'm going to actually invest in it, but this is all assumptions. I'm actually going to wait. I'm going to go along and watch a circle Oscar. It wins an Oscar 100% with an Oscar for Best Actress. Minimum nod. I can see Nicole Kidman winning 100% best Actress. I think, like, best screenplay will get it. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. Okay, maybe I don't know enough about it. Killian. No, no. Okay. We're starting to have some differing opinions here. I'm liking it. All right. Next film is A Real Pain, directed by Jesse Eisenberg, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin. Yeah, it is a comedy drama. Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. So have a trailer for this before conclave, didn't we? We did. And I actually was like, oh, actually, look, I think it looks really good. Yeah. Feels good. Didn't realize like it was. It's Jesse Eisenberg, debut director. Yeah, obviously he's written the film, so it's a very personal film. So I'm, I'm Go for four stars. I think I agree with you on four. I think Kieran Culkin, I think he's been a real, like, a stratospheric rise. Yeah. He was a slow burn, wasn't he? But then, yeah, suddenly I think it was the TV show and I'm power of a job in succession. I think he's, he was in the West, which I think is my Sean in succession. And then now like he just seems to really be finding he's the coal. Yeah. I'm for sure he's such a boy this time out of it. But he is now the Culkin. Yeah, it's funny because I've been watching Home Alone at the moment because it's the Christmas period still for us. But like seeing him in that and now seeing him now is so weird. Have you seen Home Alone for no reason that. No, no, no. Okay. It is so bad. It's just. Anyway. Yeah. Carol. Oscars? Maybe. Screenplay. I think he could get it of his screenplay. Yeah, I think it's it's. I think it's got a screenplay written on it. Yeah, yeah. We'll put noms for both was, billion. No, no. Next one is, Wolf Man, directed by Ley 100, Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth. It is a horror. With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home. As the creature prowls the perimeter. As the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable. The whole film is much the whole film. So for those of you who don't know your horror as much, Leigh Whannell obviously saw icon. He also directed the recent, Invisible Man. Yeah, and he's now kind of tackling the same MonsterVerse icon with the Wolf Man eye horrors that were released in like, January February never do. Well. Interestingly, no nuns. I really respect layer one. I think he's got he's a good screenwriter. And I said The Invisible Man was something that he really brought into. He made me like, it's realistic in a weird way. Yeah. It was because of this high tech girl. Whatever he was. Yeah. I'm worried that the wolf mash is going to turn into like, kind of another monster film. So reading interviews with him and this one makes me really excited about it. The way he approached Invisible Man was he didn't think about the monster, he thought about the situation it creates. And so with like, you know, it's this domestic abuse of the situation, the way he's approach Wolf Man, he's basically got this idea of what is it like when you watch someone you love cage and like, that's real strong for him. Yeah. And so I think the way he's approaching it, he's he's going to focus on the emotional horror, I think more than the physical horror. Okay. I think I'm going to stick because I always had to sit on my gut. Whenever I change my mind, it always goes wrong. And unfortunately, my gut saying to, wow, I know, and I don't want it to be to disclaim, I really don't. But there's just something about the Wolf Man that I don't think is going to resonate with people or critics. It's the invisible man with that domestic violence thing was so, well, well done. I think I'm just concerned that The Wolf Man is going to be a monster film that people. It becomes predictable. It becomes, I don't know, I really don't want it to be a two, I really don't, but I, I just have a feeling that's just maybe where it's going to go. All right. So a little bit about me to kind of perhaps explain what I'm about to say. The monster that I enjoy the most, the typical MonsterVerse monster is the werewolf. Fucking love werewolf. Fair enough. Love them. I think that, like, I want to see more werewolf films whenever I see a werewolf film, I'm excited. Okay, and judging from how I reacted to Invisible Man, I'm putting this as a five star. I think I'm going to adore this film. And I think it's going to be one of my favorite horrors of the year. Yeah. Oscar nom. No, no, no, I'm brilliant. Not. No. Unfortunately, there are some films that are just now. All right, moving on to some, more probably well known ones here. First one, ironically, the title here where I said more known a complete unknown oh, was directed by James Mangold, starring Timothy Shalom, Edward Norton, Eddie Fanning. It is a biopic. Yeah, yeah. New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19 year old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent destined to change the course of American music. You say Bob Newhart? No. What do you say, Bob Dylan? Oh, no. Paul, no, that's not the guy. So I think this will get for 4 to 5. I'm going to stick with four. Okay? I think this is what this is going to get. So when you say this one is going to get are you saying you're writing. No I'm saying what I thought this was. What. No, it's what you think. You're going to write the film? Oh, you fucking saw again? God. Okay. Oh, let's. Quick fire. Let's quick fire! These one. This quick fire. Okay, Nosferatu. You're rating. What did I say? Five. Five. Yeah, yeah. Better man your rating. You said. Oh, yeah. Shoot with that fire, baby girl. You said 302. Okay. Yeah, that's like six up. Okay, a real pain. You said four, which remind me that a real pain is the Jesse Eisenberg when I shoot a four figure like that. Yeah, right. Wolf man. Oh. For, What? Yeah, for an animal man. When I said that, I wanted to like it, I. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. So a complete unknown three. I think I'm a hit with a 2.5. I don't think we can do point five. We can do point five. No. Fucking. Did you know anything I explained this episode the way the writing system five I did. Anyway I don't think this film is going to be for me. No I'm not a big Bob Dylan fan and I'm kind of tired of biopics. Yes. Yeah, I think everything you just sit there, reply in my voice. I'm not whoever the editor is, good luck. But that's what that is exactly how I feel. Oscar nom a I mean, it's got Best actor written all over it, isn't it? Whenever someone plays someone in a biopic, they're always nominated. It's going to win something. Yeah, I don't know. I it's how are we going to win Best Actor? Which to be fair, I can see it winning because I think Timothee Chalamet is Jude. Oh it's just about the 17 Robert 18 actor yeah he is a brilliant billion no no no no. All right next one I'll go big quicker here by Robert Zemeckis starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. An odyssey through time and memory centered around a place in New England where from wilderness and then later from a home. Love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations. Again, that does not do this film justice. We have spoken about this film on the podcast before. This is the one where it's entirely shot from a single static camera angle. Yes, we think I'm thinking three for you. For me, I'm thinking you get the game, I get I get it now I'm with you. Now I'm following you. I'm following, I'm thinking through. I think from a technical point of view, I do. I'm excited to see how that work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think I'm just worried that it. It might get not boring. I don't want to because I don't want that to sound like anything against what they're trying to do here. But I think from my point of view, I just think there needs to be enough going on in that frame. Keep me and I'm just concerned for an hour and a half or two hours, whatever it is that it might get a bit, it might come a bit. They may say, yeah, yeah, I think I'm going to go for a 3.5. And the only reason I'm point five and above yours is because it's Tom Hanks and Robin. Right. And Forrest Gump. Yeah, it's the Forrest Gump reunion. Yeah. So I think that bias is going to creep in. Yeah. No. Good. Yeah. This is an interesting one Oscar. Oh would it technically class is edited. Are you. No no, no, I don't think it would because there's no editing. No, but technically, I think visual effects should have visual effects. Yeah, I think it could get some. I think you get numbs. I don't think it's going to work. It's definitely got one nomination because. Don't they de-aged them as well? During the film. Yeah, they do. And, you know, I journey. Yeah. And then maybe set maybe design set design because yeah, that frame has to change constantly. And I think you've got to make it realistic. Like it's you're in that household I think would be best director just for the, the the craft, the audacious, the audacious. Yeah. The way that he's kind of trying to push the the craft of it I think. Yeah I think he yeah norm wins I don't see no, no, no no one of these is going to be really I can if they I can think of one film on your list as apps. Are you going to be. Oh there are a couple I think are a couple. So, the next film is called The Brutalist. Now, this film was directed by Brady Corbet. It stars Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. It is a drama fleeing from postwar Europe in 1947, a visionary architect and his wife set up in Pennsylvania, where a wealthy and mysterious client changes their lives forever. It's funny you say this because we will have an Oscar special. Yeah, of course, of course, of course. And I'm currently toying between two films as Best Picture. This is one. And this is at 100%. Actually. One of them. Yeah. Yep. One's an hour. Oh. Oh. Oh, okay. Yeah. So. Yes. So when are going to say is you're going to win Oscar. You're jumping the gun. Yeah. Jump. Sorry. Oh you're writing first of all me it doesn't it doesn't sound like something that I, it's going to be something that we will watch probably. Oh of course. Yeah. I mean we're like we for those of you who listen to the podcast, you know this. We have a target of 156 new films, new films next year. Yep. And there are only three films on this list. Yes, yes. Yeah. So, I'm going to stick. I'm going to be very Switzerland and I'm going to go middle hundred neutral three because I, I could be surprised by it. But also I don't want to just go into the film going, oh, this is my film, I like it. I never want to do that. Obviously with three, I think the performances are what's going to make it. Yes, 100%. And I mean Adrien Brody, he's such a good actor in these types of roles. Yes. Felicity Jones Jones as well. I mean, yeah, I genuinely think this is going to be a five star film for me. Wow. Okay. In terms of Oscars, yeah. It wins. Yes, yes. It's winning Oscars. Yeah. It sweeps Oscars. Let's be honest. Remember as well though in terms of Best Picture, Dune part two is included. Yes, but this is sci fi. Dune part one. What? Yeah, but it wasn't didn't win. It did not win best picture. Oh, was Oppenheimer was it? Yeah. It's biopic. Lee. Yeah. Won best actor. Yeah, yeah. If Tiffany Fisher were like, congratulations on your best, billion. No, interestingly, I agree. I don't think it will. I don't think it's a wide enough net. Next film. This one I'm not sure if you know, it's called companion. It's directed by Drew Hancock. It's starring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid and Lucas Cage. To throw the sci fi. This is the synopsis. Hey, you tired of swiping? Sick of getting ghosted. Are you feeling like a part of you is missing? Find your companion. Dot com is guaranteed to find you a companion who's made for you was the trailer for this release the other day, and it's like them sat across the table and looks really fucking weird. I've not seen the trailer, but when you said Jack Quaid, I was like, oh, I think, are you thinking of Novocaine? You might be thinking of no Kane companion is it looks like a very strange, borderline horror film, like there's a part of it where you, like, aims the gun at her in the names of going to himself. And it looks really interesting. It's not getting a lot of attention at the moment. No, no, I, I try to include like some really well-known films on there and then some lesser known films on it. Yeah. So companion rating on again, I'm going to stick with three purely because you're fucking you've got commitment issues. Yeah. Well no, but I don't know. As you rightly said, I don't really know much about it. So I don't want to just lowball it or highball it. And then we come back to this a year later, like you gave this shit film five. Oh, do you every kind of thing. So I guess I just want to be a bit. I will watch it and say this. I think I'm going to give it a four. Okay. I think I'm going to really enjoy it. Sophie Thatcher was in heretic. She was grand heretic. Oh, okay. Cool. Jack Quaid, I think he's a, he's such a fun actor at the moment. Yeah. I mean, Oscar and Billion neither for. Yeah. No no no, no. All right. Thanks for the seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohamed Resolution. I hope I'm saying that right. Sorry. I'm not. And I hope I'm saying these. Right. Missiles are so highly released on Amazon. Ross. Dami. Apologies. I said any of those wrong. An investigative judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears. Suspecting the involvement of his wife and their two daughters, he imposes drastic measures at home, causing tensions to rise step by step. Social norms and the rules of family life are being suspended. We saw a trailer for this before. Just about to say, I'm pretty sure we should have a trailer for that, and I'm pretty sure I was like that. Yes, we both said like, Holy shit, that looks actually really good. 4.50.5 I'm I'm gonna join you on a 4.5 Oscars. No, it wins all like foreign, like foreign language film. I know there's a best international. That's the one. Yeah, I think that I think honestly, it could be in for a tipping of best Picture maybe. Okay. I think it wins something. Okay. Interesting. You're sticking with. No, I'm gonna stick with. No. Okay. Billion. No. No. Thanks, Bob. And here's where we get into the interesting. Well, there we go. Captain America, Brave New World, directed by Julius Owen, starring Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez. After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red. Yeah. That's what I did when I read that, too. I'm sorry, I, I enjoyed the trailer for it. I did, I enjoyed the trailer because it was like, interesting. I just, I didn't like is a bit of a strong word. I mean, I didn't care for Falcon and the Winter soldier. I didn't, okay, I didn't mind it, but it wasn't for me, I think I didn't, I Sam Wilson's Captain America, I think is great and I love the suit. I you can't see the audience. I've just reacted very strongly to that. Yeah. Okay. I love the suit in the wings and like, in the shield. I think it looks brilliant. Yeah, I think Harrison Ford has the Red Hulk. I just think it's great casting. Harrison Ford just does not give a shit anymore. And I just think that's what makes that casting so good. However, I just, I don't I personally, I just I'm not bothered I'm not bothered by it. Yeah. I mean Captain America is like my favorite MCU hero. He's been great. The Winter soldier is my favorite MCU film. I actually like Falcon and the Winter soldier, and I think the reason I'm not excited about Brave New World is because it doesn't seem to honor that series. Like, you know, his suit in that series, it was like this really cool white suit. Yeah, yeah it was. He doesn't have it in the film. And it's like, why did you do that? Why did you establish his character, establish this moment? Yeah, because when he came out into that, it was a moment. Yes. Yeah, I know he's got some blue suit again I, you just like. But also there's a whole controversy of the fact that this film has a superhero in it who is, an Israeli superhero that people think is quite tone deaf. I think that's good to hear a little bit and make it suffer. I'm giving it a 2.5. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Fair enough. Oscars? Possibly visual effects, but I don't I don't think it well, I don't know, billion or so this is, this is different. This is where we get into it. This is difficult. Because it should I don't think why should it? It's a marvel superhero film. It's a, it's a Captain America marvel film that screams brilliant, but. And I mean, I don't mean to get political. Here it is a black Captain America, and I do genuinely think that affects it. Which is why, unfortunately, you know, and it's a it's a sad world that we live in is just focus on the fact that that's the reason why this film won't be successful. Yes. There's I saw a comment on when he is wearing a mask in the film because he's going supersonic speed. It's like, is that the reason he's wearing a mask in the film? I mean, I would say yes because he's not a super soldier, but I see your point. Yeah, I saw you see the arguments that people are like that. I just think the fact that that's even an argument for me is ridiculous. It's just I just seeing how people reacted to the Marvel's to Eternals. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think we've the MCU fan base has already shown is it can be a bunch of assholes. And I think we're going to see that unfortunately with this film and oh, no, no, no, it is a very in every fan base, there are also and there are good people. Yes, Star Wars I will. Star Wars breach is a horrible fan. But yeah, but I just think the people who base their their enjoyment of something off of preconceived notions of the people who are in them. Yeah. Why are they black? Are they are they not a cisgender, straight white man? Essentially, stop listening to this podcast and go, yeah, yeah, essentially you can all fuck off anyway. So yeah, I don't think it's going to make it better. Yeah. I don't think that film is going to be good because I don't think it's I don't think it honors Captain America at all. Like the whole point of Winter soldier was that he didn't want and Civil War, he didn't want to be political. And then he's working for him because he's worked in all of it and he's working for it, I want it, I I'd be interesting to see because as I say it as well, I know Marvel's in a little bit of a I mean Deadpool pointed that out. Yes it did. Yeah. And if this is the film that kind of makes people go, oh, okay, Marvel's quite cool. Captain America is quite cool. Yeah, I'm all for it. Yeah. But yeah, I'm not. Yeah. Next film, The Monkey by Oscar Kidd, starring Theo James, Elijah Wood, Tatiana maslany. It is a horror when twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start occurring all around them. This film, by the way, as Ozzie Perkins directed long Legs and wrote Long Legs. He's also directing this. This is a Stephen King adaptation. I'm fucking so excited for this film, I am. I don't think it's going to be. Yeah. So we've been to many a film, over the course of 2024 where a lot of them. Horrors. Yes. And the only trailer we've ever seen of this Is a monkey clapping. It's seeing a clap in the symbols, and then all of a sudden it cuts to a guy with blood on his face. God. And then it's done. Yeah, so that's fine. It's based on the Stephen King adaptation, obviously, of a short. I don't know why you just repeat everything I just said it was mine. Not good enough. You know, I'm. I think I'm trying to convince myself. I try to convince myself. The thing is about Stephen King adaptations. They are so hit or miss, 5050. They are hard to get right. And it's a short one. It's basically making short story. Yeah. So you're making a short story into a feature length of an already 5050, adaptation potential. Potential. Yeah. And I just don't think it's going to be good. Okay. So what, you're giving it one and a half? Wow. I don't know. I'm gonna go for. Wow. Okay, nice a different the reason why is because one, I think Theo James is on a phenomenal run right now. Yeah, I think he's doing really well. And then, Oz Perkins, I think as a director, he's shown that he can do horror in such an interesting way. And I think he's going to bring that into this. I'm excited for it. I mean, yeah, I mean, I'm excited to go see it go. So I have but yeah. All right. We're going to get into a couple of controversial ones now. You ready? Oh no. Oscar. No. Brilliant. No Oscar in the brilliant. Oh yeah. Sorry. Yeah I honestly it went without saying. Oh yeah. Fair enough. I just, I just, you know, just in case people are like, what about you? Yeah. All right. Next one, Disney's Snow White. Oh, man. Directed by Marc Webb, starring Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot and Andrew. It's fantasy. It is directed by Marc Webb. A live action musical reimagining of the classic 1937 film, the magical music adventure journeys back to the timeless story with beloved characters bashful Doc, dopey, grumpy, happy, Sleepy and sneezy. Not Snow White, by the way. Let's be honest. Let's be honest. Frostbite is going to make a billion. Yeah, it's going to make a billion. Snow white Disney film. That's the first film I think we can predict. Yeah, it makes a billion. Yes. Now, what is your rating? I know you're already sighing in the Russian War one. I, I have my history with Disney live action adaptation. It's not been great is not great. I haven't enjoyed them. I've not enjoyed more than I've enjoyed. Okay. The Little Mermaid I didn't mind I didn't like the Little Mermaid. No, that's for personally. I'm struggling to think of another one that I actually did like. Maybe I maybe I didn't like, the beast was was actually. Yeah, I saw it, to be fair. Just. I'm with you, by the way. I'm, 1.5. There's my writing. There's already so much going against it. Yes. And worthy. Obviously. I very, very much like to keep politics out of everything that we do. Okay, as much as we come. I mean, film inherently is a political. No, I know what you mean. No, no. But like, obviously, you know, Gallagher does already quite controversial. Well Gallagher though and Rachel, the way the Rachel Zegler character. Okay. She was brave. Obviously calc dough is very pro-Israel. Yes. And Rachel's Helga is very pro-Palestine. And so she and so their marketing I'm really looking forward to because it's interesting to me how they're going to do this. Gal Gadot I think she's great. I thought she was good Wonder Woman at the first one. Anyway, the trailer did nothing for me. I was hoping I kept an open mind for the trailer, I thought, or maybe, maybe her is this Harris evil? Which does nothing for me and Rachel? Oh gosh, no, I hate to say it. She can sing. Ziegler. Now, why do I keep saying Zeljko secular? Oh, it's the other way, right? My apologies. Rachel, if you're listening to tell Your friends. Yeah, we just shitting all over your film. Yeah, I tell you, friend. No, no, but I just. I think she can sing, but I'm not entirely sure her, look and persona of Snow White and the, Or do we call them the Seven Dwarfs? What do we call them? I honestly don't know. I'm unsure. So I'm not going to comment, but, I mean, they look awful. I haven't seen them. Oh, they look awful. They really do look awful. So I just think I think this film, unfortunately, will make a billion, but I just think it's due to the nominations now. No, I don't think it wins any Oscars. So we are not looking forward to that one. And, you know, ironically and probably maybe ironically, that one's time. March, by the way, in 21st, I don't think it's one that we're going to put on our list of 150 to watch. Yeah, probably end up on that list. We will watch it the next one. Probably even fucking a minecraft movie directed by Jared has starring job like Jason Momoa, Jennifer Coolidge. It's fantasy out in April for misfits. Find them. Find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the overworld, a bizarre cubic wonderland that thrives in the imagination. You get back home, they'll have to master this world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected expert crafter. Steve, Steve, I'm gonna just kick it off. That's a that's a 0.5 film for me. I don't know what. Fair enough. I'll go one. I don't think it wins any Oscars. No way. However, it does make a better than 100%. It makes it better. I mean, this is an audience that is unlike any other that so far hasn't been tapped into in the movie market. It looks terrible. I think it's going to get terrible reviews. Good. Does it? Yeah, no it doesn't. And even the teaser try it out. It's like And then let's wait for the fall trailer and the full trailers. I just like Jason Momoa doing, I don't know. And I don't understand why we didn't have the characters in that Minecraft form. I don't understand why it wasn't like a CGI animation does not make sense. I'm positive though. I like Jack black. I do like Jack black, yes. However, he's been on a bad run later. He's been on a bad run lately. He did this and, that wasn't well-received. The sites. Yeah, this I think the premise for that film. No, it's a great premise. It's like an execution. Yes. Kung Fu Panda four wasn't received very well anyway. Again, another thing we're not excited about. Are we gonna make it him? Let's go on to a film we are excited about because I know we are. They may. Mickey 17. I don't wait for that. Bong Joon Ho Robert Pattinson stars with Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun it's comedy, sci fi. Mickey Barnes has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job to die for a living as a Post Office five star as opposed to five star for me. Yeah, yeah, I'm very excited about it. Oscar nominees I'd love to see an Oscar nom for a visual. For visual effects. Could Robert Pattinson looks great in it and maybe director because. Right. Yeah I mean he won parasite. He worked for parasite. So he's already got a really good relationship with them. I think he'll get nominations. I don't think it will win. No, no I don't think it would. Fortunately I don't think it cracks a billion. No, I think it I think it does. Well I think it I think it would do really well. I mean, Robert Pattinson at the moment he's on a really good streak. Yes. And Bong Joon Ho, I think is one of the few international directors who is really resonating with American audiences right now. So I think he's in a good position. I'm excited about it. Oh, wait, next film until dawn now come on out next year. This is one of the one of the many apparently fucking video game adaptations we've got next year, directed by David Sandberg, starring Peter Stormare and Rubin Michael Simoneau, It Is a Horror is a film adaptation of the 2015 video game of the same name that follows eight friends who are trapped together on a remote mountain retreat and discover they're not alone. Gripped by dread with tensions running high, they must fight their way through fear. If they all hope to make it through the night and want peace now. I fucking love that game. So yes, I do. I love that game. The first time I played it was in university.

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00. We stayed up until 6 a.m. playing it. I had the controller, I love it, I love Wendigo as well as in folklore. They're phenomenal. I love when that goes. However, I was thank you. I was I was about to say, unfortunately, I think it's going to be I'm going I'm only going to give it a two because I like the game. Yeah, but my issue with this film is that the game has about 50, 60 different endings. Yes, the film has to go with one of them. Yes. I have no idea what one it's going to go with. And yeah, that's it. Stick it and it I just, I don't think it will. No I don't and they didn't bring the original cast back you know. And I think if they had brought the original cast back in just almost like a fan film of it, I would have respected that. I would have been like, you know, more excited. But it's a whole new cast. It doesn't capture what the magic of the game is going to be. Sam just kicked me raw. I'm not excited about it now. It doesn't win an Oscar. It doesn't make a billion. Let's be honest. Yeah. No, I also rate it too. I think it too as well. Yeah. Only because my you like it's it's a game that we like and I think. Yeah. And I'm interested in seeing the Wendigo. Yeah. And seeing it live action. It's quite correct. And the set pieces might look quite good and. Yeah. But yeah because it's so many different endings. Yeah. Let's go on to another Marvel film, Thunderbolts, directed by Jake Schreier, starring David Harbor, Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, to name a few. Yeah, superhero and the Reverend team up featuring the pressed assassin Yelena Belova alongside the MCU's least anticipated band of misfits, so you can see who's leading the film. Yeah, I it's weird because this has this has a James Gunn formula written all over it, taken little known like people. It's almost like a Suicide Squad ish. I mean, it is a marvel suicide Squad. Yeah. Which is why I don't think it's kind of because, you know, I don't I'll go to because I think I like. It's weird. I like the characters, like Eleanor and Sebastian, Stan and Thunderbolt. I like them, and I quite liked the teaser poster, you know, where they're all kind of squashed on together? I like that, yeah. It's good. Yeah, I, I don't, I don't know, I hope it surprises me, but I don't think you will. I think I'm going to go with three. I think it's going to be very Black Widow vibe. I think Florence Pugh is going to carry. Yeah, no disrespect to the rest of them, but I just think her character is the best of them all. Yeah, like she was the best in Black Widow. She was the best in Hawkeye. Yeah, I think she's going to carry. So I'm going to I'm going to go with three. I'm going to go one above. Oscar's billion. No, 1,000,000,000 billion. I'm thinking I don't think it will, but that would be it's it's most likely. But no, I don't think it would. Oh right. Right. Mission impossible The Final Reckoning. This is set to release in May as directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who directed the previous one starred Tom cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, to name a few. After the usual yeah, the Usual Suspects. After escaping a calamitous train crash, Ethan realizes the entity is stashed aboard an old Russian submarine, but a foe from his past named Gabriel is also on the trail. Oh, I forgot, that's literally the thing I think this is going to be, I reckon 4.55 for you. Five for life. I love the last one. And if it's going to be if you can, if it's a continuation on on literally directly after that one, I think it will be, just, I think it. Oh yeah. Five star. Now the interesting. I don't think it was Oscars. Do you do. You're kind of shaking your head about that. The try it. From what I seen in the trailer, what I've heard and apologies for viewers, listeners, apologies, listeners, if this is complete misinformation, please don't take my word for it. Do your own research. Think there's a set piece in space? I wouldn't be surprised. I would not be surprised. And that is why I think maybe if they do a set piece in space that's got to win something, just give them an Oscar for just that mean. Just like, there you go. You watched it for like, you're a kid. Nom. Then maybe you I think I think, you know, because the set pieces in the film think of so good it'll be like visual effects. I think it makes better. Which is weird because the last one didn't do that well in the box office release. You know, it didn't really. It didn't do as well as they expected it to. I know the Henry Cavill well. I'm sure that cracked a billion. I think maybe. Yeah. But I don't know. I think it's I think it's a question mark, but I do think it could be a wild card to crack a billion. Yeah. All right, we're getting into, a few interesting ones here. Okay. First of all, Lilo and Stitch. Ooh. Directed by Ian. Pleasure camp. Sorry if I said that. Wrong. Starring Mark lower, Chris Sanders, Sydney Eigen dong. It is a fantasy. It's, fugitive alien. Helps to mend a lonely Hawaiian girl's broken family. It's a live action Lilo and Stitch. So this is one of the live action Disney's that I'm actually quite looking forward to. Same now. I think they're marked in it very well at the moment because I don't. Lilo, you know what happens. Obviously Lilo and Stitch is obviously a film that exists. You're watching on Disney Plus. How they're marked at the moment is that he's kind of their marketing stitch. Well, here's the thing about marketing. They're doing it exactly how they did it with the animated. The most recent one was The Lion King. So obviously, yeah, that's the move fast. It's just coming out. So let's just throw stitch in there. Yeah. And which is exactly what they did. Yeah. And before that he was like on a beach. A sand castle was just destroying them. Yeah. And then before that I think he was just I think at Disney D3, I think yeah, he ran that that was his reveal wasn't it. Yeah. He ran through and then he licked the screen away. There was so that marketing stitch enhancing. That's brilliant. In the poster he's got the coconut from the water in his mouth. Yes. Yeah. Oh yes I saw that one. Yeah. This is exactly what he did in the original because like in the in the animated, there's the marketing. Was him pulling up alongside Aladdin. Oh, I know in beauty and the beast. Isn't he on the chandelier with the dancing it was. Yes. Yeah. It's brilliant. It's. I think I really love the fact that they've gone back to that marketing, because it was one of the best things about. Yeah Lilo Stitch where those really. So I really want to give it for you're going to give it for I don't give a for because I just I love Lilo and Stitch. Lilo and stitch is my favorite animated Disney film of all time. Yeah it is, I would argue, my favorite animated film of all time. So I have very high hopes for this one. And honestly, I feel like I'm in the minority. I think stitch looks good. I think the the live action range, I think he looks really fucking good. He sounds exactly the same. That's always a good thing. Yeah, I, I, I'm gonna go oh here in a but here I'm here in a I, something is stopping me saying it's going to be a five and I don't know what I don't know what year is it. Because it's a Disney live action. It might be my bear. It might be sticking by us in the stigma. Yeah, I'm going to go for I'm hoping it's I hope I'm wrong. Yes. Yeah, yeah, I hope it's a five. But, Oscars. Nah, I don't think it wins. Also be best visual effects. Possibly. I guess I'm a good number. Well, I guess because obviously in the in the film you have got the aliens that are like spaceship in through fucking Hawaii, aren't they? Yeah, they do that again. I don't we haven't even thought about Alien Jumbo. We haven't seen De Niro. I mean, we've not seen any of that. No, I've only seen stitch. So yeah, I guess if that happens in the film, then. Sure. But I mean, Yeah. Yeah, I'm here now. Billion year break. So I think so. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, 100% breaks a billion and I'm very excited for it to do that. Yeah. Next up on the on again, the controversial live action remake vibe that we're in. Oh by the way, it's released in May. This one in June. How to Train Your Dragon Whoo-Hoo! Directed by dim W.R. starring Mason Thames, Knickerbocker, Gerard Butler and Nick Frost. Interestingly, there's a big old fucking synopsis. It's a live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon. So I, Dreamworks, approached the director or the original writer of How to Train Your Dragon. Okay. And they said, we're going to do this live action. We're going to we want to remake it, want to build out okay, he said. If you're going to do it, you're going to do it right. So I'm going to do it. So the director and writer of the animated film is also the director and writer of the live action. Okay. Because he said, if you're going to do it, let me do it because, all right, that makes me excited. Interesting. Because that it's the animators view. But he's viewing it. It's his story but he's making it live action. So he's going to tell. So he's still telling the same story. Yeah. Yeah. But from a different lens. So obviously you had the animation where you got a bit more freedom. Obviously you haven't quite got that with a live action. I think the trailer thing looked okay. I think I liked toothless, I think he looked really, really dirty. He was like bang on. Yeah. Gerard Butler is obviously reprising his role as he did in the animated. Yeah. So I don't know if I'm going to be in the minority, but I'm quite looking forward to this. So I'm going to go for, okay. Now, if it was a different director and a different writer and Dreamworks were just wanting to do it, I'd probably put it to a to the fact that you suck. Same person. And he was like, oh, I'm doing it. Yeah. That's what makes me excited for it. I'm gonna blow your mind. Okay? I've never seen How to train Dragon. Oh, that's blowing my mind a little bit. Okay. Fair enough. I, I don't know, I just it kind of passed by me. I never watched it, and I was like, I think I've read the book. Okay. Weirdly, I think people don't even realize there is a fucking vocabulary. I, I so, so I'm kind of going into this not really having an opinion. I don't know anything about it. It looks cool. I think I'm going to use a you tactic. Go for three minutes for free when we go and watch it. Are you going to watch the animated first? Yes. Okay. Yes I think I am. I am because I debated then I was like, do I want to just watch the live action? But no, I think I want to get the real experience, quote unquote, of knowing it before and then seeing it after. Yeah, yeah, no Oscars, maybe visual effects. You're kind of yeah, no visual effects because there's a spoiler alert. There's a lot of dragons in the film. So, I don't I don't think you will get anything. I think a no strap do do do do I know what the next question is? Do I think it will make you think I'll make a billion? Yes, so do I. Yes. I was about to say, is this the first one we're going to disagree on? This film makes a billion. It's a Dreamworks animated kids film. Yeah. No, no. And you will have the original audiences who watched the animated, and then you'll have the new the new audience. I think it makes a billion next film. One I know that you're probably going to enjoy, but I don't know if you know much about it because we haven't spoken about it. It's called Elio. Oh, Pixar. It's the new Pixar film. Yeah, it's directed by Madeline Sharifi. And she, Adrian Molina, starring Jonas Cabrera, Zoe Saldana and Jameela Jamil. Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be. Basically, he wants to be abducted by aliens, and he is then abducted by aliens, and then the aliens think he's the leader of Earth. Yes, it's you know what? And on a generic, it's my I'm a throw a curveball. But I think Pixar who I, I mean, Pixar, I think it's the visuals and I think the story and the humor. I think it will. I'm going five for me on that one. You're going to five. I love Pixar and I have four because there was a few Pixar films over the, you know, Covid era. Luca, I think was one. So I love it wasn't it didn't it wasn't I think it received well, but it just kind of seemed to just go by. Yeah. Even though I think it's one of their strongest. There was turning red and there was a I fucking love turning red. Turning red was I did I know Lorna adored it. Yeah. When we're watching it for different. Yeah. I mean of course. However, I did really like the message. I loved the theme of it. And there was another one as well. That was before Luca. Oh, onward. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's it. Yeah. So and I watched those trailers and films. I was, I don't know when I watched the trailer for Ellie, I'm like, oh, this are getting a Pixar vibe. I didn't get a Pixar five from Luca and and, onward and stuff, and I was one of the very few people that actually, like. Like you. I thought it was good. Yeah, they really like it. Yeah, it was good. So yeah, I've watched it with Pixar Vibe and I love Pixar. So I know five Oscars. Would be nominated for best. It's a Pixar film. Probably the best. It went something. Yeah. It wins. It would win best. It would win best animated film. Yeah. Billion. Interestingly, no reason why I say no because I think Disney Plus is going to kill it. Yeah, true to be perfect. But inside out made in the inside out too. Yeah. But that inside that too. Okay I'm going to go with. Yes. Because this is the film after Inside Out too. I think that and then carrying on the fact that it's a Pixar film or if you can have a rustling, that's been me, I think. Yeah, I think, I think it could. I think it definitely could. I think it definitely could. Yeah. But I don't know, I just feel like it's because it's not a known franchise or it's not this. I think a lot of people might go away for Disney Plus. Which, yeah, just a shout out to the audience here if you're still with us. Hello. Thank you. This is going to be a longer episode today. You've probably already realized you probably know because you'll see the runtime before you click play, because, yeah, halfway through the runtime, we've been recording for about an hour. Have we were we really? We're not done. So here we go. Oh, I like the voice. The next film I know is one we're very excited about 28 years later, directed by Danny Boyle, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer. It's a horror. It's a sequel to 28 years and 28 days later. Eight weeks in 28. Fuck you. Sorry. You said it was a sequel to its own film. We have been recording a while. We are, we are not. We've recorded like, I reckon by the end of this, we will have recorded like three hours worth of content, which is crazy. Anyway. Yeah, writing for 28 years. I'm five. Are you're going to go five. I love, love, love the first one. And I love, love this. The second one. I still think the second one is great that the opening, the opening. It was great. Yeah. So a lot. But I also like I like the fact that they're back into London and obviously there's areas that I kind of cut off and then it goes mental again. The score to that film, the trailer, the trailer freaked the hell you know that poem. Yeah. But I, I read into that woke me. That's a scary post about war. It's about. Yeah, I wrote did you know that they actually use that a recording of it or like new Army people to get them prepped for the horrors of war? Yeah. Like psychologically prep. That's mental. That's crazy. You can always tell how captivating something is, is if Alana puts her phone down, essentially, and it starts off like, you know, boots worn like that and then like. And then he's screaming all throughout two second clips of the film. Yeah. Interestingly, everyone thought they saw Killian Murphy. Turns out it wasn't him. In the film he's dead trailer. He's surely dead. That character. Well, he's he's dead. He signed on for two films order like he signed on for the sequel. The second one was he was one. It was for 28 weeks. But then he's he's in this one. Is it. Yeah. It's. No no no genuinely he didn't. Yeah. He's in this and he's crazy. He signed up. He also signed up for the second one I know what happens or what he's done. But interestingly there's someone a very brief clip of a zombie not a zombie. They're not zombies. Yeah. Kind of sitting up or whatever it was. Yes. Spitting image, Kelly Murphy I, along with the rest of the internet, was like, oh my God, Kelly Murphy's a, rage infected or it must be a dream sequence. But then the actual actor that was that character went, that's not Killian, that's me, that's me. And then he kind of showed a picture of, like, himself. I'm like, oh, oh, that is him. Yeah. But scary. Looks like Killian Murphy. And it so interestingly on the poster it's Jodie Coma and Tyler Johnson. Mouth finds there's no mention of Killian. No. But I think I messaged you. I said, have you seen the trailer for it? You did a New York. You're you're literally your first reaction was, wow, that's Danny Boyle. It's such a Danny Boyle. It's so Danny Boyle angle. Which, it's the rough and ready vibe just to say, like the filters, the color coding of the film. Oh, I got I'm excited by star. I don't forget where it goes. I don't think it does if I get my rating. Or do you just want to move on? No. Sorry. Read through. Sorry, but I was just. I'm very posh. I love those films, I really do, but I'm going to. I'm going to read your day 3.5 okay was I so I respect 28 days and 28 years for what they did. I didn't write them as highly as everyone else seemed to, just because I think that, like Danny Boyle's directorial vibe, doesn't gel as much with me. Okay, okay. You know, like and I think, like, I know it's just like it's a bit it's a bit too, visceral for me, but it works for what it is. Shut down London a lot, 4:00 in the morning for those eight. I mean. Yeah, that's why I respect it. And and he got, when they're doing the trip to Manchester, he had cars behind him. Stop the traffic. It's crazy. So he had his staff just stop the traffic while he quickly filmed them. And then he let everyone go, which again, is absolutely crazy. Yeah, yeah. No, they I love them and they make zombies all the rage. Run. Which. Oh, yeah. For like, clarification. I'm very excited about the film. That's right. It was brilliant. I just I think I'm going to come out and be like, that was all right. Now moving on to another horror which you may not even know exists. Megan 2.0. Oh. It's our next year, is it? Oh. Fair enough. You're all this year. Sorry. Oh, yeah. This year. Hello, everybody. Gerard Johnstone is directing. Allison Williams is returning. Gina Davis, Violet McGraw. And the only synopsis so far, it's a sequel to 2022 is making. It's a cash grab. I think it's cash grab. Yes. It's they've they've seen that the character obviously it was went very viral. It did with the dance. And obviously they've gone, oh, there's a character there that we can make a lot more money off of. Yeah. Go to because I do think there will be some things in there I do quite like maybe I've gone for two as well. I wasn't actually a big fan of the first one. It was all wrong. It was all wrong. But, I just think it was it was also very cringe at times. Like a little cringe, baby. And I was like, now am. Anyway, now this is a film which kind of, oh, no, Oscar. No. Brilliant. Yeah, yeah. I guess it goes without saying because it says this, this next film is a film which I didn't even know about until about a month ago, but it's releasing in July. Jurassic World Rebirth, Scarlett Johansson's. And it is directed by Gareth Edwards. Yes, starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali. Yeah. And Jonathan Bailey. It's got a big ass fucking synopsis. It's set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion. We're going to go there. That's all we need to say about it, I think to really go into it. What are we thinking for? This is the issue is you've got a tremendous cast. You've got Gareth Edwards taking the directorial chair, you know, like Godzilla. And he did Godzilla. He did Rogue One one. He did the recent The Creator, you know, scale. That's what he knows. And he knows sci fi. Yes. And he knows creatures. Yes, yes. Yeah. Even though they're technically real. Because dinosaurs are real. Yeah. They're not monsters are. Those are real great. Well, I think you want me to read the synopsis. No. You sure? Because it might give you a hint. Okay. Yeah. Go for them. Okay. It's a long one. Apologies. Let's go. So, so the reason I was, like, five years after covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face to face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades. Tell me that doesn't sound like Jurassic Park three. Do you know what I was just about? So yeah, pretty sure I've seen this film now. This has been my issue with every single Jurassic World film. We've seen them. Yes, they are all just carbon copies of each. And it's just going to be another, hybrid dinosaur. It will be. Oh, look, they've created it in a lab. I don't care anymore. They've created. They've created a t uv rex. And I just think, okay, they've created a dinosaur that shoots lasers of each five star. Five star. That's that's great. Okay, this is the issue. This is a sequel of a of a franchise that was a sequel that it was like ended poorly. But it's got Gareth Edwards, it's got Scarlett Johnson, it's got Mahershala Ali, Bugsy I don't know what. I really don't know. I really don't know. The synopsis makes me go three backflip but everything out 3.53.5 I'm a hit. Yeah. The three okay. Oscars maybe. Visual maybe. Yeah. I don't think it one's billion. Do you think it makes a big. I think it makes a massive part for. Yeah, I do moving swiftly on to a film that I know you're very excited about. A trailer was released today for it. Oh, just to time stamp when we recording five star all the Oscars. Billion dollar. Yeah. This film is Superman, directed by James Gunn, starring David Corin Sweat, Rachel Brosnahan, Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult. It's, it's a new Superman. So this new Superman film, Superman, it's. It starts in the middle of the action. Lex Luthor already hates Superman. Lois and Clark already know each other and obviously buried an intimate relationship. Looking at the trailer, I think David Corn set looks amazing to Superman. I love this. I think he does. He does? Yeah, I love the suit. I think the suit is brilliant. It's a very throwback kind of suit, but done in a believable in today. Yep. Crypto the dogs in it. It's called dog. Yes I the dogs at it. Obviously you've got there was a lot going on in the trailer like. Yes like creature wise I was like who the hell is this. So what's going on here? There's a lot of characters. Yes. So but James Gunn, he can handle a lot of character. It's James Gunn and James Gunn, given the reign of, you know, I think the one of, if not the most iconic superhero in the world. Yeah, yeah. I suggest you do that. I think he will absolutely treat it with love, respect. And I think we're going to get a Superman. That is very, very Christopher Reeve. Ask. Not now. I loved Henry Cavill Superman interpretation. I think what he what he did for the raft, it was great. But he's very like the synopsis is very much like Superman is trying to find his way to, you know, find good in all the human like, kind of anything like that. All right. Yes. That Superman that, you know, it's a it's going to get far from me. It's a James Gunn Superman film. I've run down five already. I don't even need to ask. You know, for me, I'm thinking it's. Oh, yeah. Just because I think you have more of an attachment to the Superman character than I do. I was always a Batman guy. I mean, I you you're right, you know, but I'm Batman. Superman. Same. Yeah. But you I think you grew up and you've watched the Christopher Reeve films. I didn't I didn't watch this film fair enough, I yeah. The first introduction to Superman I really had was Out of Steel. See, that's fair enough. Not sure if that's your initial introduction to the to the supermarket. Yeah. Understand your feelings? Oscar's probably, like visual. You're going to numb. Yeah, definitely a not 100%. Yeah. They'll do something. Yeah. Or score like because. Yeah. Score. Actually that's a really good to do something good for score. So yeah it does. Of course it I reckon it makes absolutely brilliant. Keeping with the superhero films. The Fantastic Four first step. Okay. Rented by a Matt Shakman, starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and even Moss Bacharach. It's, it's Fantastic Four films in the MCU. The 60s, I think. Is it is it set against the 1960s inspired, retro futuristic world? Yeah, I think it's after they've got the powers that they're established. Yeah. The synopsis is Marvel's First Family is forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, while fending off from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his an enigmatic herald, Silver Surfer. Galactus is a marvel villain. I've been very excited to see in. We didn't get it very good. In Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer cloud was it was it was a big gas. It was a big cloud. Doctor Doom, oh, he's Robert Downey junior, but obviously whenever he shows up in this movie, I think he'll make a cameo. I think his the ending of that film will be him introduced, but I mean, it's Doctor Doom. He kind of has to run with the Joker. Yeah, it's that kind of idea. So I'm hoping Galactus isn't a one and done villain and, they defeat him. And then it kind of goes like they've kind of done previously with some iconic I think they will because I think they think he should be the next Thanos. He's a world, you know, exists is doom I know, but like and I'm excited for that. In all fairness, I'm excited to to for doom to get the respect he deserves because he's a fucking terrifying villain. I hope so, I think he's just going to be I think he's a Tony Stark very I think you start is that. And I'm hoping they'll kill him and then bring the actual doom on. I think he's a red herring, I hope I hope it would be an interesting movie, but it would be a boozy movie if they do that. Robert Downey Jr but I think they need to. I don't think you can have Robert Downey Jr also. I don't I just don't think you can do it. But Chris Evans is also coming back for I heard this, I was devastated, I genuinely was sad. That's why I don't think it's going to be ready if they're bringing him back, but sorry. Anyway. Great cast all okay. Yeah, I think for I think this will be fantastic four has notoriously not done very well in any way. The first live action oh no I like it is not it's never been. No. They don't ever seem to have been well received, especially the most recent one like that. Again, fantastic. I, I'm going for I'm in it for five. It's just not fair enough. It's got some of my favorite actors working at about 100%. And I love fantastical. They're actually like my first introduction into Marvel. Oh, I like the other characters. Yeah. And I think Chris Evans and and and all of them nominations, you get visual effects, Marvel visual effects. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it will win. But I mean, we get noms billion. Yeah, I like some of them moving on to a film which, we haven't spoken about. And I'm surprised because I think you're going to be really interested in this one now. The Naked gun. Yeah, directed by Akiva Schaffer, starring Liam Neeson. Yes. Kevin Durant and Pamela Anderson. Yes, it is apparently a sequel to Naked Gun 33. And a third, the final. And so, follow the misadventures of detective Frank de Brin's son, detective Frank, the bread of Heaven. Drebin. Sorry, I can't say these words. So now, for those of you who may be joining in today or just don't remember the Naked Gun is one of Sam's top four films of all time. It is one of his favorites, so I think this one's hitting a nerve. I like the director. And for those that haven't seen, a clip, there's a clip of Liam Neeson in a show called Life's Too Short where he plays himself, but he plays a very great version of himself in a comedy scene. Yeah. Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Warwick Davis. It is hilarious because he plays it so straight, which is why I think he could be good in this. There's also the clip of him in Atlanta. Have you ever seen. Oh, yes. Yes. And Ted two and he and the millionaire is trying to. Yes, yes. I think he's good at playing serious and comedy. He need and this, this type of comedy needs that. Yeah, it needs that straight man that thinks he's in a serious film. A straight man, you know, fucking homophobic. Oh, wow. Wow, wow. Okay, why gay person call play it. Oh, I'm hitting you with Hollywood terms and you're just hating me. Were homophobic. Wow. Okay. So it needs. Yeah. So it needs to be. It needs to be played like that. And I think Liam Neeson does that. Well, yeah, I think he does. I think it does. And I think the director is very, very good. I think he's I think he's funny. Director. He's, half of the Lonely Island. Yeah. So, Yeah, yeah. And he directed pop stars. Nova Go, which is never say never or whatever. Yeah, but like, it's a, it's a mockumentary or whatever is basically very funny. What are we writing us somewhere? What we writing a long gestating sequel to one of your favorite film franchises of all time. If it's a sequel, it is a sequel. Three oh, if it's if it's a remake one it's not a remake. It's a sequel. If it's a sequel, it's the son of the carrot. Yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna give it the benefit. Because three is a benefit. No, because it's a sequel. It's not. It's not a straight. They're not remaking my favorite film. They're they're adding to it. So that's fine. But just if it can capture the original but yeah it's, it doesn't crack a billion. I'm joining you on three. No Oscars, no billion. Like I think I don't have as much of a connection to The Naked Gun. So I don't think I'm going to be as invested. Oh did you, did you see my puberty? Did you believe in that? Moving on. Saw 11. Oh, directed by Kevin Guru, who directed saw ten. Yeah. Starring so far. Tobin Bell and cost Desmond Law. Of course. It's time. He needs to eat. It's all for coming. It's releasing in September. It is. The synopsis is the 11th installment in the Saul franchise. Now, the 10th one was the stronger of the last seven. At six, I rated at the lowest I've ever rated. This film. I thought it was the wrong one. You are in the majority. Like, maybe could surprise us. Maybe could be another. Oh, you know what? On his saw coming back. But also I hope, I reckon they've just gone. Oh, hold on, let's go again. People have liked it and then it's just going to fail. So I'm going to go one. I'm going to go 1.5. Unfair. My hope is that they will actually do more traps in this one than they did in ten. Ten was very trap loss. Yeah. For which I don't no Oscars. Let's be honest. I'm nobody. Let's be honest, I think of all the horrors this has the most chance of cracking a billion. Yeah, because there's, like, there's marketing in, like, the jigsaw that believe whatever. He's the pig on a bike. We're strict sort of. Bill. Yeah. And then. No, Billy the puppet. Silly puppet. That's the one. Yeah. And obviously like in Chessington or whatever. All intelligent. They do soul mazes and stuff. So yeah, there's, there's a lot enough around it that yeah, should say can make a billion. All right. The 11 six films left to discuss. Right. We're in the homestretch, right. Should we speedrun it? You're not going to want to, because we got some very interesting films. Oh, okay. Then right, here we go. So let's start out with the Running Man. You're right. Next film starring Glen Powell, Katie O'Brien, Daniel Ezra, a man joins a gameshow in which the contestants are allowed to go anywhere in the world, are chased by hunters employed to kill them. This is a remake of a film that was made. I can't remember who directed the original. Arnold Schwarzenegger was in it, though. He was? Yeah, it was like it was a Ridley Scott movie for some reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, obviously Edgar Wright is helming it. Edgar Wright is a great director. Everyone knows this. And we really picked up Glen Powell in the last episode. I'm going for I'm going five five while yeah, I think Glen Powell is on a hot streak, is no one expected twisters to be as good as it was. But you know was hit man was a storm in success with him. Yeah he was phenomenal. And you anyone but you I think really did wonders for the rom com genre. I feel like we may see the like a rehash of these kind of, films, which I'm really excited about. The Oscars, you could get a visual effects. Well, from what I remember, it's a very sci fi and yeah, yeah, Disney where like all yellow. Oh fucking. Oh. So, I reckon nums no wins. Brilliant. You don't think. I don't think it makes a billion. I don't think so either. However, I do think it'll be in like 700, 800,000 territory. Thousand billion. So it's good. I also I don't know if you've, I don't know how much research you did with these films or any of these straight to Netflix or any of these straight to promo, some of them. So they're not going to crack any box office and all that. Well, yeah, because that's something they'll still make money. Oh I guess if so, make money. But I thought right, in terms of box office, most of these are theoretical, theatrical, theoretical, theatrical, theatrical releases. But some of them are Netflix specials. Yeah. It's hard to know at this stage what they're going to be, because they're not often advertised as that. But yeah, I know, for example, that one, which is the second to last we'll discuss is in Netflix film. Okay. Also discuss it. Yeah. Yeah. I think the billion thing is like, is it going to do really well for audiences kind of vibe. No. That's Johannson or is that's the running man. I'm actually really excited for that. Yeah, yeah. Glen Powell seems super excited about that project. It was like something that I think he was very much like, I want to make this. I want to make this, I wanna make this. So I think that's a really, really good sign. Yes. I love that word. Yes. There we are. Next film Zootopia two releasing in November. Directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore. I think it says it's gone off my screen for some reason. Starring Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin. They were both in the original. Yes. Yeah. Detectives. Nick and Judy find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootopia and turns the mammal metropolis upside down. Utopia made a billion. Oscar sighs. I love Zootopia. It's a great film. Oh, brilliant. I think I'm going to go for sequel. I'm leaving for really strong. It'll be nominated, I think. I think it wins Best Animated. Interesting. When it's up against Elio, why are we not paying attention I think I read Crocs billion. Yeah I reckon so. I mean the first one cracked it. So there's no reason why. Sequel to the next one avatar fire and ash. All James Cameron is directing is Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver to name a few, are starring in it. It is the third film in the avatar nonsense. Yes, yes, yeah. And it just makes it very clear that James Cameron is 100% copying Avatar The Last Airbender, because book three in that series was fire, book two was water, book one was Earth. Oh, it is all our direct rip off. We see you, Cameron. I can see now. I'm. I'm not going to lie, I'm not a big fan of avatar. I don't like the first one and I've not seen the second one. I did like the first one. It's. It's a lot of the same. Yeah. Obviously visually. Wow. Amazing. I don't want just. Yeah, exactly. I think as a especially for 2009. You mean the first one? Oh, yeah. I agree it was groundbreaking, but the story of how I was like, it's an important story, but we've seen it before. Yeah. It didn't get me. So that's why I've not really gone for the second one. So I'm going to go to I've gone to I didn't I didn't really vibe with them however however. Oh it's going to crack a billion and it's going to win Oscar. It's going to win Oscars. Yeah. Yeah it's going to win. It's going to crack a billion. Yeah. This is like one of the most anticipated films, I'd say of next year, just because avatar itself has been a huge fucking cultural, a staple. But you know what's interesting about avatar? You don't see any much of it. You can't name me the main character. Oh, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. This is the weird thing about avatar is it's like this huge film. It's the the highest grossing film ever now, because they rereleased it, the price. Yeah. And yeah, I think people would even struggle to name the alien species even in it does, you know, the Navy. I only know that because I was researching the film. Well, for. But, like, it's so interesting that this film is so culturally impactful and yet it's not cool. Yeah. It's not. It's in pop culture, whatever it is, it's quote it. I know how they I know how they get intimate. Well yeah, that says a lot about it. But like you never you never quote that film. No, no. You know, you never it's just such a weird film. Whereas like, it's so not memorable and yet so impactful. Yeah, yeah. And the third one is going to fall the next one I know you're excited about, I'm excited about Wake Up Dead Mad and Knives Out Mystery. Oh yes. The third film in that series, Rian Johnson, is directing it. Daniel Craig is returning. Cailee Spaeny is coming in. Andrew Scott. Oh, the pass to name a few. Yeah, the the plot is to be confirmed. It just says that Ben Benoit Blanc returns in his most dangerous case. Yes, sir, I said, oh, sir Oscar, I said, that has been a murder. Daniel Craig, one of his best roles. It's so good. So I know and I can't. I loved you with regards to Benoit Blanc. I'd love to know if that was his choice, would you? Brian Johnson said, I want you to put on. Oh, yeah? Yeah. You know that chicken from Looney Tunes? I think you'd be good know Sanders. Yeah, I think it would be a good detective is I give me your best asset. So, I mean, you have every good detective has that thing, you know, you've got, I mean, what's the one that that Kenneth Branagh played recently? Oh. Is it, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hercule Poirot, he you know, he's a French guy. Sure. Yeah. Iconic Sherlock Holmes. He's the British guy's iconic. He's the, I think, American accent guy. I think Memoir Blanc is up there. I think he's becoming up there for me of like, yeah, that kind of movie because it's a Knives Out film. And immediately, you know, when you think Knives Out, you straight away you you Daniel Craig CSI case. Yeah. Yes. It's like I actually and I just, I think it's brilliant that it just continues to make them on Netflix. I, I love it I love it. Yeah I'm really excited to see again another one in there. And I hope he gets a theatrical release again. I think Ryan Johnson is a brilliant storyteller as well, which is interesting because he did the most some of the most hated Star Wars sequels ever. Now, I'm not getting into it because I know what you're going to fucking. You're going to go on a massive tangent. I might oh, I'm going to keep my tangent to a minimum. I think The Last Jedi is overheated. Okay. We'll leave it there until May the 4th. You got four months to wait, guys. Just give me a rating. I'll set a set a five. I'm a go for. Just because I think the second one wasn't as good. It was still great. Yeah, it wasn't as good as the first one. So I don't think we're. I just don't think we're going to capture that magic donut. Muskets are set. I said no, I ran the screenplay. Nom. Oh, yeah. No. But would it be adapted or would it be discounted up to this point? Do sequels count the sequels adapted screenplay based off of this material is sort of be written will pin it, but it was still kind of lost. Yeah. Screenwriting. Yeah. Yeah, I can yeah, definitely. And I'll say, I'll say yes, I like that. You found it's dark and you like it, billion. I said no, no, no, no, that wasn't look good. Batman. It's okay. It's all right now. No. Two films left, darling. Two films left, and then we're done. All right. Now, these are two sequels and the two of probably the most unlikely sequels that I thought we'd get. Now, both of these and the Knives Out mystery, they have to be confirmed on their dates. They might not even be released in 2025, but they are slated to be the first one. Happy Gilmore two oh, that's a that's a Netflix film. It is a Netflix film directed by Kyle New, which starring Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Ben Stiller, Margaret Qualley, Eminem and Benny Safdie, to name a few. Awesome in there is Kid Cudi, Bad Bunny, hypocrite. He was in trap, by the way. If you don't remember. Oh my God, here is one. This obsesses revisit Happy Gilmore's golf career after his one two I'm gonna to. I just think nostalgia is the only thing that's making this film. I, I like the Happy Gilmore, and I hope it's good, but they're only making it because it is. Well, first of all, I think a Happy Gilmore is like one of my favorite Adam Sandler films. Yes, my favorite is clip, which may be controversial. Yeah, okay. But I think it's a banger. The one thing I will say is I've seen them talk about in an interview, and he said he would only ever return to this film and Billy Madison, if there was a script he thought was worth it. I trust his judgment that I don't know, because he is he has some. He has some sort of contract with Netflix, and I just think it's mean he has to make Happy Gilmore. Oh, I just think if Netflix are saying we're making a Happy Gilmore with or without you, I think you'd rather be with him. There's no way he would be. He would be like, yeah, gone. And he wrote it. No. Right. No, I just think, I don't know, I just think it's one of those sequels that is just there to be a sequel. There's no I don't think he's going to add anything. I just think he's going to rehash a lot of the stuff that happened before. And, and but they're going to then they're going to make it a bit more pop culture because Eminem's in it. Kid Cudi and I just we don't see a lot of Adam Sandler sequels. We have no grown ups Turn Us two, which I don't think was very well received, no new murders, someone was great, Hotel Transylvania two and three he was in, which apparently are very good. I love them, yeah. Have oh, not the fourth one. Not the most recent one, but I love all three of them. Yeah, I'm going to go with 3.5. I don't think it's going to be great. But I do think that like I think it's going to be worth something. They'll be okay. There will be there will be a moment on that in that film that'll be all over TikTok for weeks. 100%. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm doing something right. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Eminem being in that 100% and it's a no no. Isn't it for the Oscar and, yes. Yeah. The Oscar. Yeah. All right. Last film, Dirty Dancing two. Well, yeah. Dirty dancing two, directed by Jonathan Levin. Jennifer Gray is returning, and the synopsis is baby takes us back to Kellerman's resort for a story of summer, young romance and dancing. Young? The young. I had absolutely no idea that was even a thing I dancing to is apparently slated for a 2025 release. We know nothing about it yet, but They Dancing is one of the most iconic films of all time. It is. But just why? No, not why you don't know. But why? Why like, why is it coming back? Yeah. Why question why? Obviously Patrick Swayze you know R.I.P. nails what they going to do with that. I think obviously she's probably going to go back and her daughter's going to be sons going to be this you know someone mentioned this 2025 book kind of links him with the dancing is the new Bridget Jones. Oh yeah. Bridget Jones is coming out next year. Well, there is like this I should have disclaim this at the beginning. We love our disclaimers. There was no way in how we were going to cover every what time we were on. At the moment, I think we've been recording for about an hour and a half, and we've only done a bit of of them, and there are going to be films which maybe you are very excited about listeners, which we haven't covered. We will talk about them in 2025 or 100%, but we just like I took a random selection, some of the most hotly anticipated, some of the ones which I know me and you were going to be really excited about. So sorry we didn't cover everything down to one. I reckon. Like right here, I do this. I don't think it wins anythink. Does it break a billion? I don't think it breaks a brilliant I don't it's a see. Here's the thing though. Bobby did and that was a film predominantly marketed. A woman thing died dancing at the same vibe. And I think it could succeed. Because if you ask any woman what film they like, Dirty Dancing is like top of the fucking list all the time. And that's fair because it's a good film. It's a very good film. I'm not saying that like, you know, oh, it's a chick flick. No, it's a good film, but it is. It was a film that was marketed towards women, and I think they dance in two. Could hit the same mark. Yeah, no I do you can say no. No. Oh yeah. Definitely not. No. Let's say yes. I think it could break a billion. And that is one of the few we disagree on on billions. Now first, ladies and gentlemen, this is 10:45 at night. We have we have work tomorrow. We are what, tomorrow. We have just gone through 34 films and given them ratings. You may disagree. Please let us know which one you disagreed with the most. Please let us know what your your thoughts are. What film are you most anticipating for this year? What for me, most excited about? Let us know and I hope you're excited for 2025 because we fucking are. Who? It's going to be a good year. I think I'm very excited for what this year is going to hold for cinema. I think we're a very interesting point in cinema right now where we've got a lot of live action remakes, a lot of sequels, but we're also got a lot of these independent companies coming up from the back and really shaking the tree, and I'm excited to see more of A24. There was a film we didn't talk about, death of the unicorn. Oh yes, which is one of my hotly anticipated films. So we didn't talk about it, but that was our time capsule. We're going to return to this at the end of 2025. We're going to look back on our predictions. We were correct. See, we agreed with all of you. Yeah, all that good stuff. If Dirty Dancing two was good, even though maybe just because it doesn't get released. But first of all, we want to thank you for your support in 2024 and also for your support on this episode and hopefully through 2025. We mentioned in the last episode that we've got a lot more plans for this podcast and this brand. You'll see more of our content, so follow us on TikTok. Follow us on blue Sky the other one if you want to as well, but also most importantly, follow us on Letterboxd System Map. And because we have a target of 156, we do films for this year. Hopefully by now we've already ticked one off. It's the 2nd of January. I think this comes out. Nosferatu is coming out by the time we've recorded. That's true. That's true. Yes. So hopefully we'll have already seen one. Yes, hopefully. And then you will see our litter box review. Our tick tock review. Yes, I do it. I think we're both very tired. Yes, yes. Yeah we saw it. But but this is exciting for the new year. The fact that this is the first episode we're releasing, I got it fucking so I don't anyway. Yeah. Was that the last 2024. So you did. We love you all. Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting us. Please give us a rating. Please let us know what you think. Drop comments, let us know. Just interact with us. We want to talk to you guys more less a film for you to go and watch. The first recommendation of 2025. We haven't done a film club in a long time. Let's do it. Oh, what film shall we start with? I think you should go first. Okay. Me and my friends have a tradition of what we do. As a new year comes in, as it hits midnight, we each choose a song that we want to play to kind of define our year, the Truman Show. And the reason why I'm recommending this is my 2025 film is because I think I want to wake up a bit, okay, okay. And I think in the film community, I think we need to wake up a bit, okay. And I might be a bit deep for right now, but hopefully makes sense. And that is my recommendation for you to start 2025 with us. A lovely recommendation. No no. Yeah. You guys still one. Oh no no you can't I can't follow that can't I. Oh yeah. Watch fucking Ted. It's hilarious. Oh don't follow following that I follow in that I think that's what I think. It's a lovely sentiment. I'd like to. I'd like to hear that. Okay. Happy New Year, everybody. Happy New year. I hope you have a fantastic 2025 and see you there. We will see you there. We're not even there yet. Yeah, but we'll see that up.