MOVIE MIKE'S MOVIE PODCAST - Are Hollywood Nepo Babies Getting Out of Hand? + Movie Review: Insidious: Out of the Further + Trailer Park: Clayface

The Bobby Bones Show

Mike and Kelsey return for another installment of Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, diving into their thoughts on August's film releases. They discuss the controversy around 'nepo babies'

Key takeaways

• The debate over nepo babies in Hollywood continues to spark controversy, especially when family connections lead to roles without proven merit.
• Adam Sandler's daughter being cast in 'Don't Stay Good Luck' is cited as an example of nepotism in the industry.

Main topics

• Hollywood nepotism
• Insidious: Out of the Further movie review

Notable quotes

"It's about Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further."

Conclusion

Mike and Kelsey conclude that while August offered some standout films, especially in genre evolution

Transcript preview

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It's about the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks. What's in the tunnels? Gold bars, silver ingots. It could be worth half a billion. starring Steve Sciarrappa, Ray Abruzzo, and me, Michael Imperioli. How far are you prepared to go? Depends how far you are. Listen to Underground Zero on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 7 (1:46) Self-Care September is your reminder to slow down, check in with yourself, get off your phone, and maybe ask... Why am I like this? I'm Gemma Spegg, host of the Psychology of Your 20s podcast, and this month we're helping you make sense of the person that you are becoming, from setting boundaries and navigating friendships, to understanding anxiety, confidence, relationships, and attachment. Sometimes our biggest decisions, without us even realizing it, aren't driven by what we truly want, but by what will prevent us from feeling lonely or being alone. Listen to The Psychology of Your 20s on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 3 (2:28) Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Poynter, Chair of Women's Health and Gynecology at the Adria Health Institute in New York City. I'll be talking to top researchers and clinicians and bringing vital information about midlife women's health directly to you. A hundred percent Speaker 1 (2:45) of women go through menopause. Speaker 3 (2:47) Even Speaker 1 (2:47) if it's natural, why should we suffer through it? Speaker 3 (2:50) Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Poynter on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 4 (2:58) Welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host, Movie Mike, joined by my wife and co-host, Kelsey. You were making fun of me before we started. Yeah. Speaker 2 (3:05) Because Speaker 4 (3:06) I was dying. I have my water here because I oftentimes just... Okay, Speaker 2 (3:09) but like, you don't keep any water by your side of the bed. I get the iPad kid cough. So you'll wake yourself up and I'll be like... passing my water bottle over, you take a sip out of the straw like a kid in the middle of the night and then you just go back to sleep and you have no recollection of it. Speaker 4 (3:25) No, there's some stuff you tell me that I do in the middle of the night. No idea. You Speaker 2 (3:29) once hissed Speaker 4 (3:29) at Speaker 2 (3:29) me in the middle of the night. I have a note of weird things that you do in your sleep. And it was saying skadoosh one time and hissing at me. Speaker 4 (3:41) Ah, yes. Quoting Kung Fu Panda in the middle of the night. One time, I have one thing in my notes of things you've done. You were asleep and you said... Well, that's not my fault. Clear as day scared the hell out of me. OK, Speaker 2 (3:54) does anyone else ever do that where you're having a dream and you're having a conversation with someone, but you say it out loud? Like I was like coherent enough, like lucid, said it what I thought was in my head. But I like woke myself up because I was like, oh, I think I just said that out loud. It Speaker 4 (4:08) was so loud and crystal clear and out of nowhere. I was like, who's that? Speaker 4 (4:13) We are here to talk about the best and worst movies of August. In the movie review, I'll be talking about Insidious out of the further, the sixth installment in that franchise and why it needs to die. And then in the trailer park, I'll be talking about Clayface, the new DC movie that's a standalone villain origin story. So all that to get to without any further ado, let's talk movies. Speaker 1 (4:37) Nashville Podcast Network, this is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. Speaker 4 (4:41) Best and worst movies of August. Overall, I thought it was a really great month. The debate here is, do we include Brand New Day? Because Speaker 2 (4:50) we saw it July 31st. July Speaker 4 (4:51) 31st. We did that recap without including it. Is it a part of our best and worst? I hate when movies come out at the end of the year and also on the very last day of the month. Speaker 2 (5:02) Well, if it was, it would be both of our best. So I kind of feel like we just don't include it. Speaker 4 (5:05) Yeah, I think it stands on its own. It would be Speaker 2 (5:07) one of those where it's just both of our. We both picked the Speaker 4 (5:09) same movie. It's made over two billion dollars. It's insane. I almost saw it for a third time. So for you, the best movie you saw in August. Speaker 2 (5:19) I'm going to go with One Night Only. Speaker 4 (5:20) Did you feel like that was going to be more of a rom-com? Speaker 2 (5:23) It was a rom-com. Did Speaker 4 (5:24) you expect it to be as politically charged as it was? Could you describe the movie? Speaker 2 (5:29) Well, one of my friends texted me before and said, because he saw it early, and he was like, the movie was more politically charged than I thought. So it is essentially The Purge, but for... Speaker 4 (5:42) But single people can't do it. You can't do it unless you're married. Speaker 2 (5:46) Correct. And there's one night of the year that you can do it. And like everyone has this like not a chip in them. It's kind of like a tattoo. Yeah. And then it like disappears. Speaker 4 (5:57) Very Hunger Games-esque as far as like the markers they have on them. And then for that one night only, they basically go to town for like what, six hours? I Speaker 2 (6:05) think it was longer than that. Eight hours maybe? They were all over the city. That couldn't have been six hours. If I hadn't have had that heads up, no, I wouldn't have expected it. But I thought it was really good. I love Callum Turner. He was Speaker 4 (6:17) really good. I Speaker 2 (6:18) love him. Like he and Dua Lipa together. Beautiful couple. And Monica, Monica Barbaro. Phenomenal. I Speaker 4 (6:26) also like movies that take place usually in one day or in this case, one evening, just because it kind of has like that Friday night feel to me because we did go see this on a Friday night. And it was in New York. And so it's like we were just there. You kind of recognize Speaker 2 (6:39) the areas. Speaker 4 (6:39) It kind of reminded me of like going to the theater on a Friday night as like a teenager. Yes. Speaker 2 (6:45) Where Speaker 4 (6:45) I remember how cool it was to go to the movie theaters on a Friday night. Everybody would go. All the cool kids would hang out like out front of the theater. That is what this movie kind of made me feel again, because it kind of had that 2000s ish kind of. rom-com feel to me and I feel like the rom-com genre is kind of making a comeback and by the looks of this trailer it was supposed to be like an ode to that where it was cut very like kind of tongue-in-cheek very light very fluffy that's why I was kind of surprised because there was a lot of political undertones inside of the story kind of got a little bit dark there in places but then it was like rom-com mode again Maya Speaker 2 (7:28) Hawke one of your favorites yes Speaker 4 (7:29) I think I ended up enjoying the movie towards the end of it, but kind of in the middle, I was like, where is this going exactly? Speaker 2 (7:39) It was a nice change of pace from seeing action movies for the summer. We've seen a lot of those, a lot of action movies for the summer. So it was like, okay, something to like giggle at. I Speaker 4 (7:52) feel like some people are being robbed of like still a traditional rom-com because I think that. Those don't really work in theaters as much anymore. It primarily now goes to Netflix. And I feel like people go into a movie like this or maybe even like the materialist thinking like, oh, this is being dubbed as a rom-com. But I love how the rom-com has evolved. Speaker 2 (8:13) Yes. Where it's Speaker 4 (8:14) not exactly what you think of a rom-com being like one of those 2000s movies with like Matthew McConaughey anymore. It's a little bit more sophisticated. Speaker 2 (8:21) Have you seen that clip going around where he talks about how how to lose a guy in 10 days makes him the most money? Mailbox Speaker 4 (8:26) money. Still gets a ton Speaker 2 (8:28) of residuals. Speaker 4 (8:29) Because of Valentine's Day. Yes. He's like every time around March, boom, big check. Speaker 2 (8:33) And I feel like it was always on like TBS and like E, those sorts of things. I will say, I wonder if the shift to rom-com on streaming is, it's a great like girls night movie. Yeah. And, you know, you get in your comfy clothes, you get a bottle of wine, you have some takeout, you have all your friends over. I feel like some environments, like some movies are meant to be enjoyed more at home. Yeah, Speaker 4 (8:59) I think even, I think that's why the comedy genre has shifted to streaming. But Speaker 2 (9:04) I wish that we put more rom-coms because I feel like when you put them in theaters, you have a bigger budget. You sometimes get a little bit bigger names. Speaker 2 (9:14) Yeah, and I just, I really enjoyed this. Like, I just wanted to laugh. It was funny. I loved the singing medication commercials. That's what she does. Oh, she's like a jingle singer. But she turns like, um... Speaker 2 (9:30) pop songs like a thousand miles by sarah borealis into like a psoriasis commercial yeah and it kind of reminds me of the like sky rizzy commercial you know what i'm talking about oh Speaker 4 (9:39) yeah yeah yeah for plaque psoriasis so yeah what would you rate that one for Speaker 2 (9:44) pure entertainment i'm gonna give it i'm gonna give it four trojans there Speaker 4 (9:49) you go see i was close on that i give it a 3.5 out of 5 i would say dating apps Speaker 2 (9:56) Okay, that's a little bit Speaker 4 (9:56) more Speaker 2 (9:57) appropriate than mine. Mine's relevant. There's a scene, though. Yeah, Speaker 4 (10:01) I know what you're talking about. Out of nowhere. For my best of August, would it be weird to pick something I did not see in theaters for maybe the first time ever? No. I think I'm going to go with the Travis Barker documentary. Speaker 2 (10:15) It was so good. I was hooked. Speaker 4 (10:19) It's called Louder Than Fear. It was on Hulu. Speaker 2 (10:22) Filmed over like nine years. I Speaker 4 (10:24) will say I am a huge Blink-182 fan. Like they are my favorite band. And I knew a lot about the history of the band. And it was cool seeing it all compiled into one story. And it was also fun that like I got to experience something that I'm such a huge fan of, but that you enjoyed it too. Speaker 2 (10:42) Yeah, I'm a big Travis Barker fan. I think he's talented. And of course I love like. pop culture crossover. But I remembered when he had his show with like Shanna Moakler and now he's married to Kourtney Kardashian, which is crazy. Like, I mean, I remember when he got in that plane crash and survived. And so just those huge moments and listening to him talk about it. Cause I don't feel like he's talked a ton about it publicly. He's talked about like never flying again, but you get to hear like what happened right before. And like the weird kind of like ominous. warnings and just all of this surrounding it. And he's gone through so much and like how extensive the burns were and that he is back at this level doing what he loves, like after something as tragic as that. Yeah. Speaker 4 (11:30) I don't know how he got back to being able to run and like hosting running events across the country. I feel kind of bad for him now because the documentary is out and everybody wants to ask him about the plane crash. Like having to relive that time and time again in all these interviews. I'm surprised he's not at a point of saying he probably will now of like, I don't want to talk about it again. Like it's out there. Like don't ask me any questions about it. Like I don't want to be like somebody who's having these kind of like rules on my interviews. But I think at that point people would understand because the documentary is out there. If you want to know about it, watch the documentary. I don't think there's anything else you can possibly ask him that he hasn't talked about already. I feel like people need to stop asking him about it. Cause I just see like this glaze in his eyes when he has to, he like has to tell the story and talk about it again. Speaker 2 (12:16) That's literally like the worst, worst thing you could ever go through. And then yeah, to have to relive it and talk about it and just like put yourself emotionally back there. And I'm sure he's done tons of therapy. Like he talked about that, but even, I mean, we saw him in concert. And so like to get to see him at that level and then knowing what it took to get back there because. Splint crashes, the substance issues. He had to overcome a lot. Speaker 4 (12:40) I didn't realize how much drugs affected his life because the interesting thing about the documentary for me is I saw all of his points of his life through music. I saw the transplants at Warped Tour in 2005 and then knowing what was going on behind the scenes is crazy to me. And then I was a fan of the Aquabats back in the day and I remember that lore of him being the drummer in that band. But just all these evolutions that he's had and this documentary played out to me like a movie. That's why I put it as my best is because there was like, even though it's real life, there was like character development and you couldn't really write this story any better. And you think like this has to be made up, but that's all his life. And Speaker 2 (13:24) seeing seeing the person behind like the musician, like seeing what an incredible dad he is and how much his kids mean to him. And like. how much joy that brings him in his life. And so to see that he's not just this famous person, like he just wants to make breakfast with his kids on a Saturday and like his kids are his world. And so I think getting like a peek behind the curtain of this person whose personality and his persona, I mean, he's tatted head to toe. Literally. You see this person and you think this like probably like hard exterior. And then like he talks with such like emotion about. his family and like what Courtney means to him and just kind of this like second chance on life. And you're like, Oh my gosh, he's just like a giant teddy bear inside. And his dad was so sweet and their relationship, like, and like you see his sisters and they just kind of seem this like normal, like everyday suburban family. And then there's Travis Barker with like a thousand tattoos. Yeah. Speaker 4 (14:20) But that's why I put that one as my best of the month. I gave it 4.5 out of five drumsticks. What do you give it? Speaker 2 (14:26) I honestly think I'd give it five. I Speaker 4 (14:28) think it's one of the best music documentaries I've ever seen, but I'm also a huge Blink-182 fan. Speaker 2 (14:32) Just one of the best documentaries. I mean, nine years of footage. We were like how, they had Taylor Hawkins interviews. So we were like, how long ago was this filmed? For your worst of August, what do you have? I'm going to go, and again. I'm going to say it's my least favorite. It's not the worst. It wasn't a bad movie, but I liked other things. I'm going to go the rivals of Amaziah King. The Speaker 4 (14:56) Matthew McConaughey movie? That was up close to my top. I know. You got to see Matthew McConaughey. Speaker 2 (15:03) I know, but if you think about all the other movies we saw, I really enjoyed them more. And even the Netflix don't say good luck with Melanie Alinsky and Adam Sandler's daughter. It just was like so emotional. That one just like got me. I will say there were a couple graphic injury scenes and rivals that took it down for me that were at the beginning. And I was a little like, whoa, what are we, what am I about to watch? So there was a little, little graphic for my taste. Speaker 4 (15:34) Something I feel like we've experienced recently that is maybe only unique to us is we've seen some of these movies at the Bell Court, which is our local theater here in Nashville, our nonprofit theater. I feel like the crowd kind of influences a little bit as far as how funny movies are made out to be. And Speaker 2 (15:50) I will say, I think especially because, was it the director? Yeah. Speaker 4 (15:54) The Speaker 2 (15:55) director was in the audience. And I feel like there were funny parts, but there were some parts of people. People were rolling. People were laughing out loud. And I was a little like, I don't know that that was meant to be funny. Speaker 4 (16:06) Yes. And it kind of had what I call like the film festival effect. Whenever you see a movie debut, like maybe overseas. or at like the Toronto Film Festival and the actors and directors are in attendance and then you hear it gets a 10 minute standing ovation, you're like, this must be the best movie ever. It's oftentimes because they are in the room that other people glaze it a little bit. The Rock. Exactly. That got a huge standing ovation that we all saw. And we're like, what Speaker 2 (16:34) was that? It was just for the physical transformation. Speaker 4 (16:37) So I feel like we're starting to experience that a little bit here, not even just at a screening with the director and Matthew McConaughey there. The Speaker 2 (16:44) drama. Yes, but there's people were rolling on the floor for the drama. And I was like, this isn't like, oh, well, funny. And Speaker 4 (16:50) I'll talk about another movie I saw there that I kind of felt the exact same thing. So even with all that. It did take me a little bit to settle into the movie because I wasn't expecting it to be funny and everybody else was rolling around us that I found it more funny. I thought it was going to be a little bit more of a thriller, more focused on the crime. It's not. Yeah, it wasn't. But I ended up really enjoying it because I thought Matthew McConaughey's character was really good. And I just, I guess I'm kind of reigniting my love for Matthew McConaughey. Speaker 2 (17:22) Are you influenced by the fact that he's our minister of culture at the University of Texas at Austin? I mean, it's not just that college football Speaker 4 (17:26) is starting back up. It's like, oh yeah, I'm ready to roll with McConaughey again. Speaker 2 (17:30) Yeah. I saw him in person. I like brushed past him one time at a football game. Not like right next to him, but he was with his kid. But people were like, this is when his kids were so young. I was in college and people were like following him with his kid. And he was like, hey, I'm just trying to get my kid a snow cone. Could you not like follow me? That was before he had an official position. Now he's just kind of always on the field. We've Speaker 4 (17:49) seen him at games. This was the closest. We've probably been to him recently. Yes. And it was cool to see him perform afterwards where I wouldn't say he's a great singer. I feel like he's developed a style that kind of works. Yes. Speaker 2 (18:01) He Speaker 4 (18:01) kind of like yell sings and he's very passionate. I think because he is so charismatic, he can kind of get away with it. Now, am I going to buy a Matthew McConaughey album? Nah, I'm good. But it is kind of interesting to see some more actors kind of dip their toes. In music, like I saw The Rock put out a single. It's like he's really trying to sing, though. I think he did. Mally is like, I'm a singer now. Oh, Speaker 2 (18:25) no. Is this going to bring you back to making me listen to the Vin Diesel song? But Speaker 4 (18:29) Vin Diesel knows his capabilities as a singer. That's a dance driven song. But Speaker 2 (18:33) you make me listen to that song unironically. But Speaker 4 (18:36) I feel like I do. But The Rock wrote a song like about his kids. And it's like kind of emotional. All I hear is The Rock singing. And he's like. I remember when he did rap songs back in the WWF days. Before they were WWE, he did a song about pie. So he maybe just wants to be this country singer now or something. Speaker 2 (18:55) World Wrestling Federation? Yeah. And Speaker 4 (18:57) then Speaker 2 (18:57) we went to entertainment? Yeah. Speaker 4 (18:58) I think they got sued by the World Wildlife Foundation. So they had to change it to WWE. That's Speaker 2 (19:05) right. Speaker 4 (19:05) That panel was like, no, you got to drop the F. Speaking Speaker 2 (19:07) of The Rock, you made me a bet last week. And you were like, I bet $20. that you can't name five professional wrestlers. I named nine, and with that $20, I bought a new lip gloss at Sephora, so thank you so much. Very Speaker 4 (19:18) good. Speaker 2 (19:19) And then I asked you if you could name five books that I'd read recently, and you failed so spectacularly. You went Speaker 4 (19:24) like deep cuts, too, on the wrestlers. You're like, Stacy Keebler. I'm like, interesting. I did. Speaker 2 (19:29) Thank you. I might have spent more than that, but... Speaker 4 (19:32) $20 that you spent. So that was your worst. Yes. Speaker 1 (19:38) For Speaker 4 (19:38) my worst of August. Hmm. I think I'm going to have to go with Super Troopers 3. They'd Speaker 2 (19:45) be so devastated to hear that. Which I Speaker 4 (19:47) gave a 2 out of 5. Oof. Yeah, I think that is the lowest of the month. And I think I was excited because I love the original one. I've interviewed the guys from Super Troopers. I think they are brilliant guys. I think they know comedy. But this movie was not it. I still think that they made the movie they wanted to make. But it's within the Super Troopers box that only has so much space to expand on that it felt like maybe if I was 20 years younger, I would have found funny. I don't take pride in not liking that movie. I was actually getting roasted a lot for not liking that movie on TikTok and YouTube. But. I just had a little bit higher expectations and it was just not that good. Not that funny. Speaker 2 (20:30) Speaking of getting roasted on TikTok, the TikTok comments on your videos are a very scary place. I Speaker 4 (20:37) don't look anymore. I just kind of post and go. Speaker 2 (20:40) They are not nice. Speaker 2 (20:42) I don't even venture to the YouTubes. Yeah, Speaker 4 (20:44) YouTube is even worse. So I wouldn't go to YouTube at all. TikTok used to be kind of like decent. And then I would say in the last two years has just become as toxic as any other platform. I Speaker 2 (20:55) think as a society, we've just gotten too comfortable being mean to each other on the internet because you hide behind a keyboard and a username and a fake profile picture. We had a lot of hate for not liking Dune. And I was prepared for that. I was prepared for that. Speaker 4 (21:11) I knew posting that one. Now, Speaker 2 (21:13) we will rewatch them. We will revisit. We have Speaker 4 (21:15) it on the docket. Speaker 2 (21:17) But it's okay to not like things. It is okay that we don't like Dune. It's like when I give book, I don't even call them book recommendations. I give my book reviews. This is something I enjoyed. I love