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Follow us on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/therankedpodcast#oppenheimer #oppenheimermovie #christophernolanFollow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.Previous Episode 2023 RANKED List:1. Beau Is Afraid2. Infinity Pool3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 34. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One5. John Wick: Chapter 46. Tetris7. Air8. Creed III9. Sound of Freedom10. The Flash11. Fast X12. Asteroid City13. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse14. Shazam! Fury of the Gods15. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves16. M3GAN17. missing18. The Machine19. Barbie20. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny21. Scream VI22. The Super Mario Bros. Movie23. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania24. Renfield25. Evil Dead Rise26. The Pope’s Exorcist27. Magic Mike’s Last Dance28. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts29. Knock at the Cabin30. Insidious: The Red Door31. Plane32. Cocaine Bear33. Knights of the ZodiacAfter Dunkirk and Tenet it seemed like maybe Christopher Nolan was losing his edge, but now we know that’s not the case because Oppenheimer is not just a masterful film but an incredible achievement. But it’s also the least Christopher Nolan movie of his movies because this is his first biographical picture.No IMAX-level action set pieces. No major revelations or twists. No cross-cutting between 30 different plot points all converging on one big moment of truth. Instead the movie is 99% people talking in rooms in a massive and admittedly sometimes confusing web of he-said she-said.Spanning decades, the film lays out the life and times of J. Robert Oppenheimer from his days as a student to being appointed director of the Manhattan Project and inventing and dropping the atomic bomb to becoming world famous but feeling really bad about all of it and eventually being investigated by the United States government for connections to communists and Soviet Union spies.But all in all it is the single greatest expression of the Promethean myth in modern history: the man who stole fire from the gods (in this case harnessed the power of the universe) and presented this great technology to mankind, a tool which was immediately reformed into a weapon that to this day threatens to end human existence itself, and how he was persecuted and punished for this deed by the government he did it for and himself.Support the show by using these affiliate links:GET A BUG-A-SALT HERE: https://amzn.to/3Cya379GET ALL THE BOND MOVIES HERE: https://amzn.to/2Vo1JWPIf you enjoy our work,here's our crypto tip jar:BTC: bc1qz6s04aw2qdkl946uttpqgtqv06utfd287vmu90Dogecoin: DKzAwyN3neSeWfSwTBPcDp1NJafypqWooeOur individual channels:Charles: https://www.youtube.com/@Flavorful_Chunt https://www.youtube.com/@FilmHackerMcCurdy: https://www.youtube.com/@ryanmccurdy9423

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I would say that Barbie is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life, but I think labelling it as a movie would be giving it too much credit. Torture device would be more accurate. In fact until now I never sat in a movie theater and actively prayed to be the victim of a mass shooting. What should have been a celebration of the beloved children’s doll, you know, a movie vehicle by which young girls would be inspired to get into Barbies and increase Mattel’s share price, instead bombarded those young girls with feminist indoctrination that probably confused the hell out of them with words like patriarchy and gynecologist and fascist.

This movie doesn’t showcase the brand of feminism that simply says pursue a career if you want, but the kind that blames everything that’s possibly negative in the world on men, something that would never be tolerated if the opposite was expressed in a film or anything else.

And I get it, I get the core idea here, this is a gender swap idealistic feminist utopia fantasy movie where Barbieland is the polar opposite of the “real world” where women run everything and men sit around seeking the eyeballs and approval of women, the status quo feminists perceive themselves to be a victim of today.

But I guess I just don’t understand why this movie was made for adults. It only serves as a pathetic but not surprising revelation that our generation is not only plagued with an overabundance of man-children, but an equal number of woman-children. Frankly I feel really bad for actual children that didn’t receive a proper Barbie movie in the same way that earlier this year Nintendo fans finally got a proper Mario movie that both kids and adults could enjoy.

There is a bitterness at the core of this film, and that’s precisely why I can’t stand it. What could have been fun for everyone turned into the cinematic equivalent of the phrase “I hate men, they’re so sexist!” If you can’t understand the irony of such a statement, maybe I should string off a list of cheap complaints in your face until your brainwashing evaporates.

But I guess it’s okay because right at the end the creator of Barbie says it’s all right not to be special and to just be a normal mom or whatever.

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Follow us on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/therankedpodcast#soundoffreedom #soundoffreedommovie #jimcaviezelFollow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.Previous Episode 2023 RANKED List:1. Beau Is Afraid2. Infinity Pool3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 34. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One5. John Wick: Chapter 46. Tetris7. Air8. Creed III9. The Flash10. Fast X11. Asteroid City12. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse13. Shazam! Fury of the Gods14. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves15. M3GAN16. missing17. The Machine18. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny19. Scream VI20. The Super Mario Bros. Movie21. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania22. Renfield23. Evil Dead Rise24. The Pope’s Exorcist25. Magic Mike’s Last Dance26. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts27. Knock at the Cabin28. Insidious: The Red Door29. Plane30. Cocaine Bear31. Knights of the ZodiacSound of Freedom is a difficult movie to watch, not because it is poorly produced (quite the opposite in fact), but because it is about the international issue of human trafficking, specifically that of children, a problem that is certainly not new and has been going on since the beginning of time.This movie does my favorite thing in the world: it shoves the darkness of humanity into the faces of those who would rather turn a blind eye and puts the audience in the difficult position of asking themselves that if they could do something about this problem, would they?Tim Ballard, played by Jim Caviezel (who is excellent as always), is a professional pedophile hunter who quits his job as a Homeland Security agent in order to rescue kidnapped children in Central and South America.We’ll talk about what’s fact and what’s fiction, but as for the quality and tone of this film, it’s not the ra-ra-America-USAchantingfratboy-rightwing-Fox News-QAnon-conspiracytheorist-propaganda fantasy the establishment media has claimed it to be (in fact there’s nothing political about it whatsoever) but is rather the simple story of a single man having the courage to do the right thing at whatever the cost, and you should go see it and courageously face this darkness yourself.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------LINKS: Angel Studios:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_StudiosFact & Fiction:https://www.angel.com/blog/angel-studios/posts/sound-of-freedom-true-story-discovering-the-truth-behind-the-moviehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Freedom_(film)USA Human Trafficking Stats:https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statisticsCreepy stuff: https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/ex-cnn-producer-john-griffin-sentenced-for-child-sex-abuse/https://www.nmn.com/news/an-injection-of-new-blood-rejuvenates-older-ratshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33161876/#:~:text=We%20found%20that%20old%20rats,responsible%20for%20the%20observed%20effects.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Support the show by using these affiliate links:GET A BUG-A-SALT HERE: https://amzn.to/3Cya379GET ALL THE BOND MOVIES HERE: https://amzn.to/2Vo1JWPIf you enjoy our work,here's our crypto tip jar:BTC: bc1qz6s04aw2qdkl946uttpqgtqv06utfd287vmu90Dogecoin: DKzAwyN3neSeWfSwTBPcDp1NJafypqWooeOur individual channels:Charles: https://www.youtube.com/@Flavorful_Chunt https://www.youtube.com/@FilmHackerMcCurdy: https://www.youtube.com/@ryanmccurdy9423Nanz: https://www.youtube.com/@hiro5449

Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.Follow us on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/therankedpodcastPrevious Episode 2023 RANKED List:1. Beau Is Afraid2. Infinity Pool3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 34. John Wick: Chapter 45. Tetris6. Air7. Creed III8. The Flash9. Fast X10. Asteroid City11. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse12. Shazam! Fury of the Gods13. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves14. M3GAN15. missing16. The Machine17. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny18. Scream VI19. The Super Mario Bros. Movie20. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania21. Renfield22. Evil Dead Rise23. The Pope’s Exorcist24. Magic Mike’s Last Dance25. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts26. Knock at the Cabin27. Insidious: The Red Door28. Plane29. Cocaine Bear30. Knights of the ZodiacMission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One continues the franchise’s excellent track record of pure entertainment. The obvious critique here is that this movie is just half of the Dead Reckoning story, but at least we knew that going into it.It’s easily the most complex plot in the franchise, but simultaneously it is the most confusing, with lots of fast-paced info-dumps about the main bad guy (an AI construct called “The Entity”) and a cruciform key McGuffin frequently changing hands between members of varying intelligence agencies, bad guys and brokers. However, the filmmakers realized that a computer program can’t throw punches at Tom Cruise, so they give us Gabriel, some guy from Ethan Hunt’s past that has just now come back and is somehow in cahoots with The Entity.On that note, the film raises more questions than it answers, but that’s to be expected of a part one. As of now it’s done its job of setting up what will hopefully be Ethan’s most impossible mission yet: taking down a sentient AI that can almost perfectly predict the future and will always be a million steps ahead.Support the show by using these affiliate links:GET A BUG-A-SALT HERE: https://amzn.to/3Cya379GET ALL THE BOND MOVIES HERE: https://amzn.to/2Vo1JWPIf you enjoy our work,here's our crypto tip jar:BTC: bc1qz6s04aw2qdkl946uttpqgtqv06utfd287vmu90Dogecoin: DKzAwyN3neSeWfSwTBPcDp1NJafypqWooeOur individual channels:Charles: https://www.youtube.com/@Flavorful_Chunt https://www.youtube.com/@FilmHackerMcCurdy: https://www.youtube.com/@ryanmccurdy9423Nanz: https://www.youtube.com/@hiro5449

Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.#insidious #insidiousthereddoor #insidious5 Follow us on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/therankedpodcastPrevious Episode 2023 RANKED List:1. Beau Is Afraid2. Infinity Pool3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 34. John Wick: Chapter 45. Tetris6. Air7. Creed III8. The Flash9. Fast X10. Asteroid City11. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse12. Shazam! Fury of the Gods13. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves14. M3GAN15. missing16. The Machine17. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny18. Scream VI19. The Super Mario Bros. Movie20. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania21. Renfield22. Evil Dead Rise23. The Pope’s Exorcist24. Magic Mike’s Last Dance25. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts26. Knock at the Cabin27. Plane28. Cocaine Bear29. Knights of the ZodiacCharge your lanterns and fill up for your fog machines because Insidious is back!Once again people wander around in The Legend of Zelda’s dark world so things can jump out at them, only this time we revisit the original characters but the same old themes of memory and trauma and how it’s actually best NOT to forget the bad things that happen to us because it is those negative experiences that actually make us wiser and stronger. In fact, it kinda highlights how stupid the ending of film 2 is because if the father and son leads were smart enough to NOT have had their memories wiped we wouldn’t have to watch this follow-up about them remembering that they had their memories wiped so they could return to a red door in purgatory and slam it in the face of some Darth Maul lookin’ demon that’s been chasing everyone for 5 films.These Insidious movies consist of parts one and two that are basically one complete and compelling story, and everything that has come after has been a loose plot that acts as an excuse to showcase jump scares. No wonder James Wan bailed on the director’s chair after the first two. I’m gonna count backwards from five and hopefully we’ll all forget about Insidious 3, 4, and 5… 4… 3…Support the show by using these affiliate links:GET A BUG-A-SALT HERE: https://amzn.to/3Cya379GET ALL THE BOND MOVIES HERE: https://amzn.to/2Vo1JWPIf you enjoy our work,here's our crypto tip jar:BTC: bc1qz6s04aw2qdkl946uttpqgtqv06utfd287vmu90Dogecoin: DKzAwyN3neSeWfSwTBPcDp1NJafypqWooeOur individual channels:Charles: https://www.youtube.com/@Flavorful_Chunt https://www.youtube.com/@FilmHackerMcCurdy: https://www.youtube.com/@ryanmccurdy9423Nanz: https://www.youtube.com/@hiro5449

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#indianajones #indianajonesandthedialofdestiny #indianajones5 Previous Episode 2023 RANKED List:1. Beau Is Afraid2. Infinity Pool3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 34. John Wick: Chapter 45. Tetris6. Air7. Creed III8. The Flash9. Fast X10. Asteroid City11. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse12. Shazam! Fury of the Gods13. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves14. M3GAN15. missing16. The Machine17. Scream VI18. The Super Mario Bros. Movie19. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania20. Renfield21. Evil Dead Rise22. The Pope’s Exorcist23. Magic Mike’s Last Dance24. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts25. Knock at the Cabin26. Plane27. Cocaine Bear28. Knights of the ZodiacIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny opens with the Disney logo and at first I thought I was in the wrong theater. But then I remembered, oh yeaaaaa, Disney bought Lucas film and Lucas film is more than just Star Wars. I gotta say overall, this movie is not bad. But it’s like teaching your grandma how to drive a car again after her latest stroke: it’s far from the greatest ride of your life, and in the end you’re just glad she pulled it off without killing herself or anyone else. I’m willing to bet you won’t hate this movie, in fact you might love parts of it, like when your dementia-ridden grandma has a sudden moment of clarity and it feels like old times again, but then that’s overtaken by the shiny shimmering disni-fication of the whole thing, like when your grandma gets plastic surgery in her face and she looks like some inhuman ghoulish freakazoid, an odd and unnatural mixture of young and old that highlights her inability to give up the past. But you weigh that against the alternative, the one where she no longer exists at all and you figure, okay, this is fine, I’d rather have more days with her than none, but if she makes one shitty movie and we gotta start buying diapers she’s gonna eat pillow.Support the show by using these affiliate links:GET A BUG-A-SALT HERE: https://amzn.to/3Cya379GET ALL THE BOND MOVIES HERE: https://amzn.to/2Vo1JWPIf you enjoy our work,here's our crypto tip jar:BTC: bc1qz6s04aw2qdkl946uttpqgtqv06utfd287vmu90Dogecoin: DKzAwyN3neSeWfSwTBPcDp1NJafypqWooeOur individual channels:Charles: https://www.youtube.com/@Flavorful_Chunt https://www.youtube.com/@FilmHackerMcCurdy: https://www.youtube.com/@ryanmccurdy9423Nanz: https://www.youtube.com/@hiro5449

Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.Follow us on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/therankedpodcastPrevious Episode 2023 RANKED List:1. Beau Is Afraid2. Infinity Pool3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 34. John Wick: Chapter 45. Tetris6. Air7. Creed III8. The Flash9. Fast X10. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse11. Shazam! Fury of the Gods12. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves13. M3GAN14. missing15. The Machine16. Scream VI17. The Super Mario Bros. Movie18. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania19. Renfield20. Evil Dead Rise21. The Pope’s Exorcist22. Magic Mike’s Last Dance23. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts24. Knock at the Cabin25. Plane26. Cocaine Bear27. Knights of the ZodiacAsteroid City may in fact be Wes Anderson’s most Wes Anderson film yet, not just because every character has his trademarked idiosyncrasies and awkwardness while his camera behaves like another quirky character in the story, but specifically because it is a movie about a hyper-realized stage play (titled “Asteroid City”) which is what most of his movies have been up to this point, only this time he’s admitting it outright by building it into a play/meta-play story structure. This also makes it his most self-indulgent film because not only is it dripping in his style, but ultimately the movie is about himself, represented by the writer and the director of the play.Several times in the film a character literally exits the play to go ask him what the meaning of the play is, and he says he has no idea. He just writes things and then they happen. I guess this is one of those “life is about the journey not the destination” types of movies. Meh. It’s certainly an enjoyable film so if you REALLY need a grand purpose to it all, Asteroid City exists to serve as an excuse for Wes to once again get all of his favorite actors together to have a good time and deliver humor as dry as the desert they’re all trapped in, so I guess just accept it and try to enjoy the ride.Unfortunately, it’s not that simple, because all of the aforementioned meta-stuff that specifically makes the movie about Mr. Anderson is precisely what weighs it down, making it, and I hate to say it, an undercooked story. I would have much preferred Mr. Anderson leave himself, and the meta play stuff, out of it and focus the story solely on the events of Asteroid City itself.Support the show by using these affiliate links:GET A BUG-A-SALT HERE: https://amzn.to/3Cya379GET ALL THE BOND MOVIES HERE: https://amzn.to/2Vo1JWPIf you enjoy our work,here's our crypto tip jar:BTC: bc1qz6s04aw2qdkl946uttpqgtqv06utfd287vmu90Dogecoin: DKzAwyN3neSeWfSwTBPcDp1NJafypqWooeOur individual channels:Charles: https://www.youtube.com/@Flavorful_Chunt https://www.youtube.com/@FilmHackerMcCurdy: https://www.youtube.com/@ryanmccurdy9423Nanz: https://www.youtube.com/@hiro5449

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Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.Follow us on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/therankedpodcastPrevious Episode 2023 RANKED List:1. Beau Is Afraid2. Infinity Pool3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 34. John Wick: Chapter 45. Tetris6. Air7. Creed III8. Fast X9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse10. Shazam! Fury of the Gods11. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves12. M3GAN13. missing14. The Machine15. Scream VI16. The Super Mario Bros. Movie17. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania18. Renfield19. Evil Dead Rise20. The Pope’s Exorcist21. Magic Mike’s Last Dance22. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts23. Knock at the Cabin24. Plane25. Cocaine Bear26. Knights of the ZodiacThe Flash is a good movie. But is it also a complete mess? Yes. But that’s not really its fault since the entire DCEU is a complete train wreck. And the special effects look like The Flash had to time travel back to 2001 to get them made (probably because Marvel is hogging all of the good visual effects houses), but as I’ve said before, I don’t really care about that stuff if the story is on point so I gotta admit, I’m kinda shocked, no pun intended.Remember when I said I was annoyed that the spider-verse sequel didn’t have a story going on and instead just leaned into the whole multiverse thing and HEY LOOK HOW GOOD THE ANIMATION IS with nothing else to say? Yea well I hate that multiverse crap for that exact reason, it makes for a pointlessly confusing and uninteresting story if that IS the story. Well here that’s not the case. The multiverse stuff is just the setting, the backdrop, just as it should be, while the real story is about Barry Allen, AKA the Flash, repeatedly going back in time to correct certain events in his past to repair his life in the present before finally learning to let go of the past and accept that certain things cannot be changed and in fact it is those traumas, tragedies and mistakes that make us who we are. They even managed to rope in his never-before-seen origin story in a fresh and fun way by reliving it with a younger Barry.GREAT! I can’t believe I’m saying this, but good job DC. If you keep this up I might just leave Marvel and get back in bed with you, you and creepy ass Ezra Miller, I guess.Support the show by using these affiliate links:GET A BUG-A-SALT HERE: https://amzn.to/3Cya379GET ALL THE BOND MOVIES HERE: https://amzn.to/2Vo1JWPIf you enjoy our work,here's our crypto tip jar:BTC: bc1qz6s04aw2qdkl946uttpqgtqv06utfd287vmu90Dogecoin: DKzAwyN3neSeWfSwTBPcDp1NJafypqWooeOur individual channels:Charles: https://www.youtube.com/@Flavorful_Chunt https://www.youtube.com/@FilmHackerMcCurdy: https://www.youtube.com/@ryanmccurdy9423Nanz: https://www.youtube.com/@hiro5449