My Top 5 Summer Movies of 2026 + Summer Box Office Breakdown

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go on everybody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So today, I'm going to be breaking down my top five best movies of the summer room.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I also have some movie breakdown news as well for like box office, chicken and give you my top five summer movie list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is actually movies that I just had fun with over the summer and just have good popcorn fun stuff up on your base and just enjoy a movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to go off the bat and just say this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is my honorable mention.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is the movie, Michael.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just think this movie is fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really love this movie for what it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that Jafari Jackson and body Michael Jackson.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like that I wasn't even watching Jafari Jackson.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually felt like I was watching Michael Jackson perform.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it felt like more like a concert than a movie, whenever I was watching it, then also to the also to just the acting ability of Coleman, the Mingo as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this movie, play him Michael Jackson's father, I thought that was really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I had a great time seeing Michael.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was a fantastic movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad that it made the money that it did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about that in a few minutes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: then I want to go on ahead and talk about some of my other movies that I've seen this summer and man was at a stacked summer because I just had a great time at the dinner this year and that is none other than

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[SPEAKER_00]: model combat too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is just one of those movies that knew exactly what it was, knew exactly what it wanted to be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just had fun just stuffing popcorn in my face, charting my brain off for five, for about an hour and just enjoying Johnny Cage.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Call Urban as Johnny Cage.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and just having a great time watching Marocombat 2.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, this is just one of those popcorn movies that you just have a great time watching.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was here for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really enjoyed myself in the theater watching Marocombat 2.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So my question for you is, did you guys enjoy Marocombat 2?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is your top 5?

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[SPEAKER_00]: summer movies.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would like to actually know because I think that you know this was a great stacked year for movies as far as the summertime goes and also too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just happy that some of these movies made about a billion dollars and also made its money back so that's something else to be praising about as well for this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go ahead let's move on to my number four.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I gave this movie like a 3.5 out of 5, but here's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually had a great time watching Masters of the Universe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually felt like I was actually in a tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: through this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't laugh at some of the jokes, but here's the thing, I love the action sequences.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I also thought that Jared Leto, as Skeletor did a fantastic job of playing Skeletor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that he should just go on ahead and just do voice acting from now on because he knocked it out of the park as far as Skeletor being sarcastic and just, he just knew what to do with this character.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I definitely had a great time watching Masters in the universe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's a good movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just one of those movies that you can just turn your brain off for about an hour or two and enjoy Being in the internet and rooting for him man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's gonna be my number four So let's go ahead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go to my number three my number three is actually going to be

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[SPEAKER_00]: Spider-Man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought Spider-Man was a great movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that they did a good job with this Tom Holland once again coming back for for the for the for the Spider-Man movie and It was everything that I wanted and I just thought the fight sequences with this was really good Not only was it was the fight sequences good I thought it was also the relatability of the fact that his friends don't remember who he is and now he's trying to figure out the way to make them remember because of the fact that

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's been Spider-Man for so long to the point where he's losing himself within doing these jobs and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just trying to take down these crimp and taking down different criminals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And also thought that the case sack of did a fantastic job.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Plainching gray.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought she did a really good job with it with her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: have no complaints as far as performance wise with this movie and then of course who could actually forget Black Widow in a hot tub with Spider-Man and Spider-Man refusing to take off his mask.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was a great bit between them too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, Black Widow, my question for you is that you guys enjoy Spider-Man, that you're not enjoy Spider-Man,

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[SPEAKER_00]: For this because that was something that I'm wondering about if you guys enjoyed the performances with Tom Holland and, you know, I, you know, I just thought it was a good movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So now we're going to go over to my number two to a matter of fact, my number two that I had a great time seeing in theaters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: was the Odyssey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know that it's weird coming off of this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know what you guys are thinking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, shouldn't Odyssey be your number one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love the Odyssey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was a great epic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That Christopher Nolan did a great job directing this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the 2 and a half hour runtime was actually reasonable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't feel the runtime for this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the action sequences were really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All in what was that, but the cinematography and then actually building

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[SPEAKER_00]: the horse that the that the that mad Damon and the care and the other characters have the hiding I thought they did a really good job with the biggest this horse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I definitely liked that and then of course seeing the which in the in that movie was very creepy and then the Cyclops and then the other thing that I really liked in this movie was was the was that big role pull in the ocean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was really cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: to actually see, so this visuals were really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The plot line was really good as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And also two jobs like Xamo does a really good job in this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody does a good, great job in the Odyssey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I gotta say, give it up to the Odyssey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me what you guys think, did you like the Odyssey?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did you not like the Odyssey?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like to actually know in the comments.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And tell me what you guys think about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: then I'm going to go over to my narrow one pick, which is the house at the end of Oak Street.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's the thing guys, I love dinosaur movies, I love Jurassic Park, but this movie was so good, so original.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And also too, you have in half the way in this movie, but here's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jurassic World, this is when I wanted a Jurassic World dominion to be, and it wasn't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted people to learn how to survive with dinosaurs and have those moments of, how am I gonna get to the grocery store to get rations and stuff like that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we didn't get that with Dominion or you got was a parallel crap.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all you got.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But with the house at the end of Oak Street, man, I loved this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the dinosaurs were really terrifying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that in had the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: did a really good job in this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was only a 90-minute movie and knew what it wanted to be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It made me be afraid of dinosaurs all over again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like I was a kid back in the 90s again, watching Jurassic Park one for the very first time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And also, too, I love the time travel element in this movie, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What does she figure certain things out in this movie?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I thought the time traveling thing actually works in this movie and in a new way it wanted to be as far as this movie goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, my number one would be the house at the end of Oak Street for this and it's one of my favorite movies of the year and not to mention like the other honorable mention I want to meant that I want to talk about is also obsession.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but which I thought was a great horror movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But now let's look at the audience actually.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's been there money on because this summer brought in about 4.77 billion domestically that made 226 the biggest summer ever in raw on adjustment box office dollars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now that does not mean more tickets weren't necessarily sold than ever before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Take a price is our higher today, but this year's measure summer period was longer than the comparable 2013 period, but it's strictly in box office dollars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you had Spider-Man brand new day here about 923.5 million domestic during summer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Spider-Man brand new day was the monster of the summer, bringing it around 123.5 million domestically, during the summer period.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you see the numbers guys, like that, I have a hard time saying, audiences are simply tired of superhero movies.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe audiences are tired of superhero movies that are not interested in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: because when they are excited about one, they clearly still show up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Odyssey is another one about 589 million domestic during the summer time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then you have it ended up being like what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: 589 million domestically during the summer at this point, I think that we have to ask

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[SPEAKER_00]: whether Chris Vanola and himself has become the franchise name, you do not necessarily need Batman or establish cinematic universe, you put Chris Vanola's name on a huge movie and people are going to come out to pay attention because here's the thing, one thing about Chris Vanola and that you can actually bank on is the fact that this guy uses practical effects, not only does he use practical effects, but he also knows how to make a movie and knows how to connect with audiences.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, how are you doing her real review?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How are you doing, man?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's good to see you in the live chat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My question for you, though, man, for you her real is what was your number one or top five movies of the summer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like to actually know because I already gave up my top five, but I would like to actually know your top five.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you can't in the comments, tell me what you think and I'll give you got so now we're going to go on ahead and like I said, I think that

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[SPEAKER_00]: Christopher Nolan is actually at this table when it comes down to franchises.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually the box office straw.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You already know what you're getting with the Christopher Nolan film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You already know that this man is going to go on ahead and put everything he has into a movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know that he's going to be a great set of a target for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You also know that he's going to get someone to do great scoring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You already know that the action sequences are going to be really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You already know

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[SPEAKER_00]: that he's going to get the top tier actors to be able to perform the performances that he needs out of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, Christopher Nolan to meet is actually the staple of what cinema is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you also have Toy Story 5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It made around 480 million to basically join the summer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And anytime you have kids, these types of movies are going to make money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A family movie is not

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[SPEAKER_00]: Parents are taking their kids.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes multiple kids, then you have the adults who grew up like me watching toy story who are now taking their own children.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So as much as we complain about Hollywood, continue franchises, it's family keeps showing up for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why should the studio stop at this point because of the fact that like I said, number one, we have kit, you're going to end up bringing your kids to see this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We also grew up with this franchise and also to our kids are going to bring our grandkids to go see a toy story because of the fact that it has an nostalgia field that we made them feel

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[SPEAKER_00]: when we when our parents first brought us where we ended up bringing our parents to see Toy Story and now we're bringing tradition into the movie theater and also nostalgia and I think that's just something special to celebrate as far as that goes because I think that you know sequels for nostalgia factor it works for Toy Story and you cannot go wrong whenever you have to bring your kids

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[SPEAKER_00]: into the theater to see this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So now, the other thing I want to talk about is the originality behind certain movies that don't have IPs attached to them, like for instance, you have obsession, which made 263 million domestically, and this one is interesting for me personally, when I first watched it, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did not really care for it, and that was reflected in my Letterbox review,

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[SPEAKER_00]: But once Rossi and I sat down and discussed the movie further, I really, it really made me change my mind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I came away appreciating it a lot more than I did initially.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the things I enjoy about talk.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the things why I enjoy sometimes talking about movies and having conversations can make you look at movie differently.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the originality behind obsession to me,

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[SPEAKER_00]: was a great idea taken of wish and that wish turning somebody into something that they're not and not having their own control over their own body and then seeing if that other person who made that wish is going to change

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[SPEAKER_00]: or what is gonna happen with these two characters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So her real review says, my top five is Odyssey, brand new day, and then you have Has Town, Pro Shot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I never see, I didn't see that one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love Boosters, End of Oak Street.

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[SPEAKER_00]: End of Oak Street was really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was actually surprised by that movie on how much I really enjoy that movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was actually my number one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: of the summer for me as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I need to see a lot of boosters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I still need to see hate's town pro shot because that's another movie that it's on my radar, but I haven't got it around seeing it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I definitely love your top five reviews.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's actually pretty cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So now we're going to go into Michael.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This movie, like I said, while my

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I, I said this to one of my friends who has a podcast as well for, and I told him I said I feel like people are going to end up forgetting Michael by the time Oscar season comes and I think that you need to have audiences to remind them that Michael is still around you need to do what you did with sinners and actually promoted again and rerelease Michael so people can so we can get nominated, but what I want to say is this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Michael is probably one of my favorite movies of the year, and Michael is a little different because it opened before the official summer period, but it also earned around 242.5 million domestically during the summer window, and obviously it also made me may my article mention so that this was one of the where the box office audiences, and I were both showing it more love, some love.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this movie made a billion dollars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's still making money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just happy that Jeff Ar Jackson gave us the performance that he gave us from his uncle and put it onto the screen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it made me forget that I was even watching and actor playing Michael Jackson.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like I was actually at a concert.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like I was actually there back in the 80s and 90s watching on Michael Jackson concert.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then watching through his lenses and seeing stuff that home in the minco,

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[SPEAKER_00]: dead to Michael, which is also Joe Jackson.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was a great movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was really good in entertaining.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had fun with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So now we're going to go on ahead and talk about the Devil Wears product too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm going to be honest with you guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I watched the Devil Wears product one and I'm like, I don't really need to go out and see the Devil Wears product.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Two, my wife was actually interested in this movie, which is also why I watched part one, but at that

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, we're not going to go ahead and see that one was part of two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, but there is something to celebrate with this because of the fact it's very interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When you have a sequel that came out years later, and sometimes when movies come out like 30 plus years later or 20 years later, there's nothing there and there's an nostalgia factor, but you're also wondering out of the curiosity of how are these characters,

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[SPEAKER_00]: are doing in 2026, are they going to be the same characters that we knew from back then and where are the changes and also to turn that time of devil ways part of one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't have social media.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't have any of that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the fact that they're going to put that into part two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and see a reflection on that, and also seeing in half the way and how she handles certain things with a shell streep again, that was interesting to me, but not for me to be able to go out and see it, but it's on streaming, so I might actually check it out later on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that's something that I just want to mention.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Devil Wears product, too, brought in around 220.6 million domestically during the summer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was another example of how to stouture and familiar properties with a big part of the summer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was just not, it was not just a superhero movies or animation doing business.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's,

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[SPEAKER_00]: other things from 20, 30 years ago, making money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm happy that people are going out to the movie theaters to celebrate this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you'll also have another movie that's not here's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These horror movies are not tied to any IP.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These are original horror movies making money and I'm celebrating that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because finally, we actually have a originality and horror is not remakes, it's not reboots.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually knowing the audience and seeing what the audience thinks of their originality and what back rooms.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That movie made around $197.5 million domestically during the summer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that is important because it shows the record's summer was not powered only by the biggest traditional franchises audiences we're willing to show up for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Something outside that usually

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[SPEAKER_00]: that's usual blockbusters lane two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Minions of monsters about 183.2 million domestic during summer minions and monsters made around 183.2 million domestic major in the summer that is still a lot of money by compare that with Toy Story 5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did being a family movie alone does not guarantee the same level of success.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Families still have to actually want to see the movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's that and not everybody one that's another thing I want to mention not everybody won the summer box office now this is where the 4.7 million dollar billion record needs some context Hollywood had a record breaking summer overall but everybody did not win the Mandalorian

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[SPEAKER_00]: For example, the Mandalorian Grogu made around 177.7 million domestically during the summer, and roughly 345.8 million worldwide.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For Star Wars movie, returning the franchise to theaters, I did not think that this is the kind of performance people expected.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So even during a record summer, having Star Wars attached to the title was not

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[SPEAKER_00]: automatically enough and also to we haven't had a Star Wars movie since 2019 and they just decided oh let's go ahead and make a grow-go movie and Mandalorian movie and all they did was take the scripts from the the season that they were going to make and made a movie out of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I understand where they're coming from from business sense, it's like, okay, while we need a movie, we need something to make money and doing this on TV is not going to go ahead and make us generate money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go ahead and put this out at the there, but come on, you need to have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some other kind of Star Wars movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, you are making announcements that we're going to make more Star Wars movies, but this is not the type of movie that people want to sing in theaters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just a generic movie that that's made for streaming or it's just a TV show that you guys just basically decided, hey, we're just going to put this out in theaters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now I want to talk about Moana, okay?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So then there is Moana, which made around 126.2 million domestically during the summer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that makes the toy story conversation even more interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We cannot save a million or stop going to the people's stop going to theirs because toy story five made huge money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Families will show up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They just did not automatically show up for this one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And also too, this movie's not even that old

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[SPEAKER_00]: live action adaptation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no nostalgia for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No one's clamoring for a live action.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All you did was put a wig on the wing Johnson's head and said, hey, do everything that you did in the animated movie be Maui and then get paid for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all they did was put a wig on them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But still, I didn't, but I didn't see the sense of even having this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: then this is actually a movie that I was really rooting for but it fell short of me celebrating it because of the fact it was just so generic the villain was very what very one-dimensional the script writing was very one-dimensional I gave this a 2.5 out of 5 and I still will hold on to that

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is super girl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when you have super girl, another movie that is struggling during the same summer that Spider-Man was putting up, you know, numerous numbers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is why I think that super, you care of a antique argument is more complicated than just saying people are tired of superheroes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One superhero movie can struggle with, well, another becomes one of the biggest movies of the year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's just sad because I was rooting for Supergirl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I loved seeing Jason and Moa in this movie, but at the same time though, you don't have any good structure with this film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, but, and also to the only reason why Jason and Moa was even in this movie to begin with, and yes, I have wanted him as Lobo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but the only reason why that they were even probably put him in this movie was because of the fact is like, okay, let's get some females in the in the seats.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go and have generated towards women and no women should have for this movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's go ahead and get some sex appeal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's put Jason a moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No one showed up for Jason.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It also cost them studios over 200 million dollars and that's a really bad thing and I love James going as a director.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I feel like that this should have been, even though this is somebody else's movie, you can definitely tell there's some James Gunnisms in this movie, and it looks like a guardian of the galaxy movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to be honest with you, but it's not a strong movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Supergirl needed something more for her to be able to shine and put a shine on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that you, she should just team up with some of the other DC characters to actually give her a little extra boost, but that's just my opinion, but what do you guys think?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, let's see, we should have three other live actions before Moana.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You see, thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad that you brought that up for real review.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because here's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Moana, look, I love the anime of movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's no nostalgia behind it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even the kids that grew up with Moana of the animated movie, they're in their probably in their early 20s right now and it's not even enough for them to even probably bring out their kids if they have kids at this moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I love the animated movie, but this is, this is a sad Tina Rapunzel you see I wouldn't mind a Rapunzel movie for live action because I think that they can actually do a lot with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, I, I'm always root for movies, but if it's not good or and it's not on my list of movies that I would want to go see, I'm not going to go out and see it, but I also want to put down disclosure day was also disappointed movie for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was excited for Steven Spielberg, but by the time we get towards the end of it, I've actually felt the runtime towards the end of the theater.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, okay, Steven, can we please wrap this up?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm tired of being in the theater now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I finished my popcorn about an hour ago, and now we're still having another two hours and something minutes to get through.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, okay, aliens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And even by the time you get towards the climax of it and you get your Steven Spielberg thing where it has like an ET field to it, it just was just dried out for me by the towards the end of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But this is my super girl needed to be coming of age.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We would be just by the man this fell to model.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with you, but I also felt feel like this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can actually have super girl going through those dark moments of her going through the drinking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the whole time montage in the first 10 minutes was nothing but that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, look, we get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's going through a dark period in her life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's drinking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to have that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what I thought was going to happen was I thought there was going to be a counterbalance where

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, Lobo is actually the last person on his or alien being part of his planet, and he makes up a car as like, look, I'm actually the last person as well, and they're both going through some dark stuff, and what other better person to go through is like another drunkard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's going through the same things that cars going through.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if that's something that I wish that they would have actually pounded out a lot more because it actually makes sense on paper, but what they did with this way, way too generic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And movie again to Spider-Man, this felt too muddle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Coming up each movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: to Spider-Man, that's okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely agree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Putting the summer together, that what makes the summer, 206 so interesting to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Spider-Man was enormous.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Odyssey showed how powerful Chris Monroeland's name has become.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Toy Story proved family's will still come out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Obsession became a surprise, success, but Star Wars, Moana, and Supergirl also show they have a recognizable name, does not automatically generate a hit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yes, Hollywood had a record breaking summer, but they were still a clear winner when there's some losers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now here's where I'm going to close out a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I also want to ask you this, uh, her real.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is some of the movies that you're anticipated for for the fall?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I have a list,

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, I'm just excited about the false schedule now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: room with that looks like so let's go ahead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we started with my top five because those are the movies that stood out to me personally then we looked at what audiences actually spent their money on and that is the difference.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Box office tells us what people paid to see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It does not automatically tell us what the best movies were.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So now I want to hear from you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What are your

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[SPEAKER_00]: completely leave off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I want to know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And also, too, we also have some people inside the live chat on Instagram as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Chris, I haven't watched any movies this summer, so just wanted to just come by and say, I thank you so much, Chris.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do appreciate that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate the love and support that you show me on here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: from time to time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really do appreciate that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have to do another show together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a little too long.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that's going to be it as far as this goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But her real please, if you have any any questions for me, or if you want to go ahead and give me your top five list, just email me at movielovesgenitedgmail.com and we'll do it that way as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But tell me what you guys think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you like my list, you're not like my list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's my list stand out a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: more on your side or not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be it as first show goes guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for real review.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do appreciate it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I sure hope that you come back again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really enjoyed talking with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do appreciate it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad that you enjoyed my lesson.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And everyone have a great safe night and take care of yourselves.