say to start with is basically almost without
fail if I see a Stephen King adapted work that
is not a horror film right it's pretty much guaranteed
to be a banger right like it's gonna be awesome
let's run through the list shall we stand by
me Shawshank Green Mile right just Just go down
those lows. OK. So when I heard that Tom Hiddleston
was starring in a Stephen King adapted work called
The Life of Chuck. Right. I was like, oh, I got
to see this. This looks interesting. And I watched
the trailers and I was like, huh, this is these
are interesting, but I can't quite tell what
this movie is about. Right. I can't I can't quite
get there, but I'm going to go see it because
again. Non -horror Stephen King. Adapt it. Yep.
Like I'm going to give it a shot. Right. Why?
Because everything else has been so good. Right.
And I went and saw Life of Chuck and I texted
Jay after I saw it. And Jay, I don't think has
still seen it yet, but I will tell you this right
now. It is one of the top 10 movies I've seen
in the last five years. without breaking a sweat.
Right? It's called Life of Chuck. That's right.
Somebody in the chat named Chuck. Right? And
it is absolutely fucking phenomenal. It's got
a great cast. Chiwetel Ejiofor. Karen Gillian.
Mark Hamill. Right? Who is playing a role that
you wouldn't see. Right? Nick Offerman doing
the narration of the film. Right like it is Start
to finish just a great movie and it's one of
those ones You got to sit with you're gonna sit
there and watch it be like what did I just watch?
right now to be fair to the moviegoing audience
because I'm about to yell at you in a minute
movie going audience I Don't know how you market
this movie, right for me a big movie fan. I go,
okay Stephen King, Tom Hiddleston, good looking
cast, I'm gonna go see this movie, right? I don't
know what it's about, but I got a good feeling.
And I got a good feeling, and I was like, oh,
it'll be good. And even like, Green Mile was
good, wasn't great, but it was good. This movie
was fucking phenomenal. It was so fucking good.
Like, I still am thinking about how good this
movie is, right? Is Hiddleston as good as he
is in all the other stuff? Better. Even though
he doesn't come in until the second act of the
movie. It's and you watch this movie in the first
third, you're like, what is happening? Oh, Matthew
Lillard's in this movie. Like, it's just got
just stacked with people. And there's so many
little details as you go through it. You're like,
oh, oh, I wanted to go see it. I just haven't
had time. I was going to go see it again to see
What I missed the first time I watched it because
what the end I was like, I'm sure I missed stuff
I'm a hundred percent positive. I missed stuff
Here's where I'm gonna get mad Okay, because
I hear movie fans and movie pilots, but movie
fans, too, all the time. Everything's a Marvel
movie. Everything's this. Everything's that.
Everything's this. Why can't you guys do something
new? Why can't we do something different? It's
not Marvel. That's not an action. It's not fast.
Mission impossible. Derivative, derivative, derivative.
Motherfucker. This movie made eight point four
million dollars. Which let me explain to you
in this in the world of movies, that is nothing.
Nothing. Right. They lost their buttholes on
this movie. OK. It's made squat. Everybody gripes
about nothing new, nothing original, everything's
derivative, everything's crap. It all has to
be this big action blockbuster. Right. This is
the opposite of an action blockbuster This is
the opposite of a Marvel MCU DC you direct all
this shit you people complain about but nobody
saw the fucking movie Except for like me and
like four other people right So I'll say we get
these great movies, right? Why do you think Jay?
Nobody fucking watches them? Well few things
one Marketing it's like you said, it's very easy
to market a Marvel movie or even wicked Superman
Superman anything that you can have like a display
of Like at Target is kind of like what I'm thinking
if you can create merch and sell it It's probably
gonna be pretty good and then also I mean The
reason why Marvel movies do so well is that's
just like what the general population really
is like looking for Like I don't know no one
I think like one. Yes, it's marketing and then
second The majority of people do you want these
like action films? That they can take their children
to and like you can take your daughter to a Marvel
movie and you're going to enjoy the Marvel movie
I'm aware you might not really enjoy the my little
pony princess movie. I don't know but Yeah, I
I Mean I could get into like a whole kind of
rabbit hole of like that's where we're at. Let's
rabbit hole We got time you guys and while we're
rabbit hole they go and throw in those topics
folks Because I I love somebody in the twitch
chat just did a great jane silent bob quote Right
from James Silent Bob strike back. You got to
do the safe picture. Then you do the art picture.
Then sometimes you got to do the paycheck picture
because your friend says you owe him. Love that.
Love that quote. Absolutely love that. So thank
you for throwing that in there. Nice. Go down
your rabbit hole. Here we go. I I think we have
fucked ourselves. Sorry. Put the children away.
Go ahead and pause this if you're We're demonetized.
We're demonetized. I think we have fucked ourselves.
Our attention span is getting shorter and shorter.
No one can sit or I can't say no one. The majority
of people can not sit through a hour and a half
or two and a half hour movie. That's a super
deep movie that doesn't have like, I don't know.
Fucking explosions and transformers coming out
of. You know someone's tits. I'm sorry But yeah,
I think that's why kind of where we're at is
the majority of people do not have the attention
span to sit through these like really in -depth
like movies that make you question and go holy
shit like Am I an alien? You know like I don't
know that's that's my like personal personal
thought because we're all Conditioning ourselves
every single day to scroll on social media And
I think the majority of people don't realize
it, but you're doing it to yourselves and you
think it's making yourself happy and it's fucking
not. And here's the thing. I am one of those
people. I spend a lot of time on social media.
I spend a lot of time on the TikToks and the
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And yes,
I do. I have in recent months found myself getting
bored at movies where I'm like, come on, speed
it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. But when I
think about like when I went and saw Life of
Chuck, right? It was the first time I'd been
to a movie in a long time and not once did I
go How much longer is this movie, right? Like
it I was riveted the whole fucking film, right?
And the best way I can describe it is it is a
meditation on life Right, but it doesn't feel
preachy and it's also not negative. It's a positive
meditation on life That makes you feel better
about life and death Like And again, I wasn't
bored at all Right. What I'm saying is is how
do you convince people to go back? I don't necessarily
think you're wrong. But again, I think that there
are great films out there that That I think would
would bring people back to the cinema. How do
we get them back in the fucking door? I don't
know. I mean, that that is a probably a multimillion
dollar question. Other question. Now, I will
say this, to be fair, for this year's box office
stuff, I'm actually a little surprised. So, by
this point last year, we had movies joining the
billion dollar club, right? Now, most of them
are all derivative. This year, we have not, right?
That Nezha 2's box office is very much in question
because it's not independently verified. So,
while Box Office Mojo is reporting it as reported,
please note that Nezha 2 is not verified. So
let's go to our top one after that. Minecraft
movie didn't hit a billion. Did well, extremely
well. Lilo and Stitch. I'm surprised that hasn't
hit a billion, but it's only 50 million away.
It's still in theaters. I think it's gonna break
it. And then it's a big jump down. Mission Impossible,
563. How to Train Your Dragon's still out. I
think it'll get to six. Captain America really
underperformed Thunderbolts for as good as it
was. And it was a great fucking movie. Probably
the best MCU movie in the last couple of years.
It really underperformed sinners. I think did
about what it was supposed to. But again, you're
talking Snow White is the top 10 in the top 10
this year so far. Like it's going to fall out
because of F1. It's going to jump over it. But
Mickey 17 came out this year again. Newer stuff
different things and nobody fucking saw it Karate
Kid legends derivative, but getting good Elio,
I think Elio we're gonna see what kind of wings
what kind of sorry what kind of legs Elio has
that's gonna be interesting Somebody in the in
the Twitch chat mentioned the episode three re
-release, which did very, very well for them.
It made fifty five million dollars. And I too
went to see it, mostly because I wanted my daughter
to see Star Wars in a movie theater because it's
a different experience in the movie theater.
Yeah. I don't know. But here's the other thing.
Again, I'm going to come back to this. If you
are out there griping about people about what
Hollywood's making, Hollywood's going to make
what you're paying them to make. And if all you
pay them to make is the Minecraft movie, that's
all they're going to make. Right. You you you
you you have to go see the other ones. It reminds
me of the Zemeckis one I saw last year that nobody
else saw. It was Tom Hanks and Robin Penn or
Robin Wright. Right. Reuniting for the first
time since Forrest Gump. Great cast, all this
thing. Robert Zemeckis. It was a great movie
and nobody saw it. What did that movie make last
year? I'm now curious. It made fuck all. Probably
made more than Life of Chuck. Yes, but not by
much. It made drum roll, please. This is Robert
Zemeckis. Doing Tom Hanks and Robin right it
made 16 million dollars 16 million dollars for
a Tom Hanks movie Stop saying Hollywood's not
making original movies. They're making great
movies. They make lots of movies. Nobody fucking
sees them Go watch movies people. They're good.
And if you haven't seen it in fact, I'm gonna
do this right now, right? What is it gonna come
to streaming probably soon Trying to see when
no word on when it's gonna come straight when
it comes to streaming, please watch it. Please
watch it Okay, I'm telling you. Oh wait, maybe
you can watch it now. I think you can get it
on Apple now On iTunes Yeah, so great go go rent
that movie pay to rent that movie cuz it's a
that good and be give them some of that money
back So The entire country's in a depression,
possibly. They're all sad. This is why you need
to watch movies like Life of Chuck, because it's
life affirming and happy.