My Most (And Least) Anticipated Movies Of 2025
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
165.8966
Summary
On this episode of The Top 3 Things I'm Looking Forward to in 2025, we discuss the 3 movies I'm most looking forward to in the coming decade, and the 3 that I'm least excited about. We also discuss our favorite and least favorite movies of the decade.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
All right, today we're going to talk about some of the top three movies I'm most looking forward to in 2025.
00:00:06.240
And then also, because we can't just, I can't do a video that's only positive.
00:00:11.120
And so we're also going to do the three movies I'm least looking forward to in 2025.
00:00:14.840
So these are the three best movies of 2025 coming up and the three worst.
00:00:19.040
I can already declare that, even though I haven't seen them.
00:00:21.720
I have already determined what the best and worst are going to be.
00:00:26.460
We'll put our best foot forward and keep things positive to start with.
00:00:31.120
So we just got a trailer for the first one a few days ago.
00:00:37.360
This is one of the movies I'm looking forward to.
00:00:56.460
Honey, the new neighbor invited you over for a drink at eight tonight.
00:01:10.280
It might be nice to have a pal, you know, a bud.
00:02:11.580
But I think it best that we go our separate ways
00:06:26.540
so just uh just a great trailer um and uh the utilizing that's the rudyard uh kipling poem
00:06:39.720
boots and a radio broadcast of that poem from i don't know when that radio broadcast was but
00:06:45.740
they pulled the actual audio from it from many years ago it's very inspired use of that poem i
00:06:50.540
mean whoever thought of that is a creative genius and um i have a little experience making trailers
00:06:55.900
you know i was heavily involved in in creating both trailers for uh our our films what is a woman
00:07:01.620
and am i racist and um really developed a respect for the craft of making trailers it's not easy
00:07:06.760
it is not easy to tell the story of the film at least give people enough information about what
00:07:12.440
it is so that they would want to see it but not too much information you know and you got to do it
00:07:17.100
all in two minutes you also have to capture the tone and the feel of the film without explaining
00:07:21.140
too much and you have to leave enough mystery that people have to go see it to fully understand
00:07:26.120
but they know enough of it that they know it's something they're interested in seeing very hard
00:07:30.780
to do that in 120 seconds or 180 seconds uh which is why most trailers are just awful you know most
00:07:35.740
trailers are bad most trailers are just a a a a summary of the movie that shows you everything
00:07:42.720
that happens um and this doesn't do that at all it doesn't show you much of the movie at all really
00:07:47.860
and you have very you've only a kind of all you know of the plot is basically the what's in the
00:07:55.000
title which is that this is 28 years after the zombie apocalypse but just with the way it's cut
00:08:01.580
together and using the poem and the music you just get a sense of the feel and tone of the film
00:08:05.620
uh in a way that i think is very clever and uh so i i you know maybe the movie doesn't live up
00:08:13.840
to the trailer i don't know i'm gonna see it plus i love a good zombie movie like any uh red-blooded
00:08:18.840
american would so i'm looking forward to that my finally anticipated movie has no trailer yet
00:08:23.500
and this one's going to be a curveball this is going to be controversial okay uh but there is
00:08:28.880
apparently a remake of the 1997 movie anaconda which in 1997 was starring jennifer lopez and john voight
00:08:37.320
and this one's going to come out around christmas i think and the new one is will be starring paul
00:08:43.520
rudd and jack black and the old one if you ever saw the one from 1997 is like a thriller action
00:08:50.900
about a giant snake obviously an anaconda in the amazon uh eating people like a man-eating snake
00:08:57.180
and john voight who i if i remember correctly is the villain in the movie uh spoiler alert but he gets
00:09:03.060
eaten at the end and then the snake spits him out and then eats him again so one of the great moments
00:09:10.520
in cinematic history uh it was a bad movie like very bad movie but wonderfully bad so that it was
00:09:17.660
also entertaining and the remake is supposed to be a comedy and i'll tell you why so they're going for
00:09:22.840
a different feel with the move with with the remake i'll tell you why i'm looking forward to it
00:09:26.640
because well first of all it's a movie about a giant snake in the amazon eating people like who
00:09:30.980
wouldn't want to see that but also more importantly this to me is what remakes should be okay this is
00:09:36.220
exact this is the proper utilization of the remake they are remaking a bad movie that had kind of a
00:09:43.840
fun premise and but it was not executed well and plus it was 1997 the cgi was really bad so
00:09:50.700
update the cgi but also take the the fun premise okay you got a giant snake in the amazon people are
00:09:57.340
lost in the amazon being hunted by a snake that's a cool premise was not executed well jennifer lopez
00:10:02.300
is a terrible actress uh and just take that and try it again that's exactly what you should be doing
00:10:07.600
with remakes don't remake the good movies we the good movies are good you don't need to they don't
00:10:13.320
need you don't need to do them over they've they've been done well uh find the movies that are bad but
00:10:19.380
there's a but the premise is good and remake it so i'm looking forward to that again probably not that
00:10:26.000
many people will be looking forward to that one but i am anyway now that the gym memberships the
00:10:30.160
diets the new year plans have likely already faded away there's still one plan worth keeping growing
00:10:35.800
closer to god meet hallow world's number one prayer app with over 10 000 guided prayers and
00:10:40.960
meditations hallow makes spiritual growth simple and accessible right from your phone start your day
00:10:45.960
with the groundbreaking bible in a year podcast featuring father mike schmitz who brings scripture
00:10:50.520
to life in ways that you've never experienced join jonathan rumy from the chosen for daily gospel
00:10:55.380
reflections accompanied by insights from biblical scholar jeff cavins short on time we'll try the
00:11:00.220
daily minute prayer need help winding down explore their nightly sleep prayers whatever your schedule
00:11:05.280
hallow fits into your life with customizable reminders schedules and supportive community to keep
00:11:10.320
you accountable this year put your relationship with god first let hallow guide you on your
00:11:14.340
spiritual journey one prayer at a time go to hallow.com matt walsh for three months free
00:11:19.100
of hallow today let's get to the part that everyone's really waiting for where i complain about the
00:11:23.780
bad stuff that i don't like so here are my least anticipated movies uh the movies that i absolutely
00:11:28.840
will not see and first we have another jack black vehicle so both jack black and paul rudd appear in this
00:11:36.320
on this list twice i didn't plan it that way it's just how it happens um this is the uh
00:11:47.180
i am steve as a child i yearned for the mines but something always got in the way
00:12:00.680
but the call of the mines was too strong so one day i started digging and digging
00:12:21.080
a wonderland where anything you can imagine is possible
00:12:27.560
as long as what you imagine can be built out of blocks
00:12:45.020
garrett the garbage man garrison gamer of the year 1989
00:12:48.700
whatever uh that's coming out i don't know when that's coming out i think what did it say april so
00:12:54.640
who cares it's just everything i hate about modern hollywood utterly soulless just totally soulless cash
00:13:00.740
grab a movie that exists just purely to cash in on an ip nobody really wanted to tell this story
00:13:08.760
you know nobody saw the minecraft game and thought to themselves wow there's a there's a great story to
00:13:14.140
tell here nobody thought that not one single person did instead some suits in an office somewhere in
00:13:21.580
hollywood were sitting around and had projections on how much a movie based on this ip could make
00:13:27.680
and they went out and they found someone to write
00:13:30.580
this movie and a bunch of actors with standards low enough to appear in it
00:13:35.180
and that's how this movie came about there's just zero chance that a film with that starting point
00:13:40.280
can be good okay when the genesis of the film begins with some corporate guys looking at charts
00:13:50.820
you know you can't make real art that way it just doesn't it doesn't work that way and so i hate
00:13:56.980
this i give it zero stars i don't need to see it zero stars is what it gets uh next speaking of
00:14:03.420
soulless tripe this summer we will have another installment in the endless uh jurassic park or i
00:14:08.280
guess jurassic world now franchise this one is called jurassic world rebirth
00:14:14.040
he's your guy we're the best at moving things and people in and out of places they shouldn't be
00:14:22.340
we'll avoid government patrol but there aren't that many anymore why's that okay we've already
00:14:28.360
seen enough of this we don't even need to play anymore uh it's it's if you've seen any of these
00:14:32.640
movies you've that it's just that again it's just the same thing again um once again i hate everything
00:14:37.780
about it and i can state with absolute certainty that this movie will be trash and i don't need to see it
00:14:44.040
and people will say oh how can you judge you without seeing it how can you i don't know if
00:14:48.880
i invited you over to my house uh to come uh eat cat poop out of the litter box would you need to
00:14:57.160
actually do it in order to make a judgment call okay would you need to say well you know i can't
00:15:02.320
knock it till i try it it doesn't sound appealing but who knows maybe it'll taste good no it is possible
00:15:08.500
to know that to know what a thing is before experiencing it it is possible sometimes if
00:15:15.140
you have a vaguely human level intellect you can project out with near certainty about certain things
00:15:22.260
and this is one of those things um so i can say this movie is just pure excrement without actually
00:15:29.540
seeing it and they keep making these damn jurassic world things this is the 90th one nobody has liked
00:15:36.220
any of them since the first one no one likes them no one cares about them the actors in the films
00:15:43.100
care about them and like them least of all which is very which is readily apparent if you watch them
00:15:47.760
they have to keep churning them out they keep cashing in you know here is what what made the
00:15:53.400
original jurassic park a good film well first of all the special effects at the time were mind-blowing
00:15:58.340
uh these days we are not impressed with that anymore and also somehow the special effects now
00:16:04.740
are worse than they were 30 years ago that's maybe the most mind-boggling thing about these
00:16:09.600
jurassic park special effects jurassic park films is that the special effects keep getting worse each
00:16:14.980
time uh so how does that happen but even more so jurassic park is a great film and
00:16:22.640
it was a tightly constructed efficiently told story with a relatively small cast of characters that we
00:16:31.480
as the audience felt like we knew and liked and cared about and we were able to know and like and
00:16:38.480
care about these characters because they were well written and performed and also because the story
00:16:43.400
was pretty small in scale and intimate it was just a few people trapped on an island right and they had
00:16:50.340
to get off the island so it's a very simple objective on an island you got to get off of it because
00:16:54.340
there there are dinosaurs and that was the plot very simple small scale but the stakes were high
00:16:59.940
and the reason the stakes were high is not because the fate of the world hung in the balance it really
00:17:06.320
didn't it was because we cared about the characters and the fate of the characters hung in the balance
00:17:14.560
that's how you raise stakes in a story not by increasing the number of people who are in danger
00:17:20.840
not by you know making it so now the whole world's in danger but by making us care about the characters
00:17:26.480
who are in the dangerous situation which is why you actually get kind of diminishing returns there's
00:17:30.760
this inverse effect where often and this is sequel itis this is what they do with sequels
00:17:36.340
they just make it bigger and bigger and bigger so that in the first movie a few people on an island
00:17:41.680
were threatened and then the next movie that they made it was like there's a dinosaur lost in a city
00:17:46.140
and now a whole city is threatened and now you get to Jurassic World I mean it's the world you know
00:17:50.400
it's not Jurassic Park anymore the whole world now is is there's an apocalypse happening um and and
00:17:56.580
this is this is how lazy writers think that they can raise the stakes but it doesn't just because
00:18:01.860
more people are now in harm's way doesn't raise the stakes because we care less about the characters
00:18:08.560
because there's so many of them and they're poorly written and lazily performed but there's so many of
00:18:14.740
them now that it's like I can't connect with any one of them so I don't care anymore like sure just
00:18:19.760
have everybody in in the Jurassic Park world world die what do I care have in the next movie just
00:18:27.240
have an asteroid hit and everybody dies like I don't care at all it makes no difference to me
00:18:31.240
because nobody cares about these characters we don't know them and um but that requires actual uh
00:18:37.300
you know talent in writing the movies and directing them and performing them which the people involved in
00:18:43.120
these films don't have finally my third least anticipated movie is the new Fantastic Four movie which um
00:18:48.820
comes out in uh I don't know when but here's the trailer
00:18:53.920
welcome to the Baxter building we make a point to do family dinner every week
00:19:01.440
sunday at seven on the dot no matter what we're all here
00:19:06.140
T minus five before we went up the first time you couldn't turn invisible
00:19:14.320
Ben wasn't a rock the best pilot in the world right here yeah best looking he means
00:19:42.440
all right yeah yeah okay uh so the truth is that there's like a hundred other movies i could have
00:19:52.420
put here but 90 of the movies coming out in 2025 i i are very unanticipated by me but
00:19:58.400
i'm putting Fantastic Four in this spot because firstly we just don't need any more superhero movies
00:20:03.360
you know we just we just don't need any more of them we we have our full that we've reached
00:20:07.660
capacity we're well past capacity uh these stories have been told now a million times it's always
00:20:13.840
basically the same story every i don't care what you tell i don't care what you say every superhero
00:20:19.220
movie it's basically just the same story and this and not just the same story but the same story
00:20:24.800
beats it's just the same damn thing it's the same outline you know uh every time and so we've seen it
00:20:32.320
but also they've tried several times to make Fantastic Four movies and it never works and now
00:20:39.560
they're trying it again and this won't work either and the reason okay is that the Fantastic Four
00:20:44.500
and i know i'm no superhero expert but the Fantastic Four are just lame they just are okay Fantastic Four
00:20:52.860
they were prototype superheroes right they first appeared in comic books i don't know when but i assume
00:20:58.820
in the 50s or early 60s they were rough drafts they were not finished products and they're just lame
00:21:04.980
i mean the one guy right isn't the one guy who's the main guy he's isn't he stretchy that's his thing
00:21:11.280
is stretchy the one guy's a stretchy guy uh i mean you can't make a movie about a guy who's stretchy and
00:21:18.780
expect anyone to take it seriously when would that power even be practically useful especially in a world
00:21:24.340
where the bad bad guys can just shoot your stretchy ass and all you've done is given them more of a
00:21:30.160
target right then the other guy's a rock and the other guy the other one lights on fire i mean these
00:21:36.540
are superheroes that every five-year-old invents independently without even knowing about Fantastic
00:21:42.920
Four so they're quaint and all that but they're fun little relics of the 60s but there just isn't
00:21:48.980
enough here for an actual compelling story and that's why these movies don't work because the
00:21:54.360
superheroes suck they just suck i don't know what to tell you like okay if if you were about to be
00:22:00.500
killed by a supervillain with a laser or whatever and you called out for a superhero to help you
00:22:07.680
you would be extremely disappointed if the stretchy guy showed up right you would be saying really i
00:22:15.100
this stretchy i can't get spider-man or like iron man you sent this stretchy son of a what is he
00:22:23.240
gonna do is he gonna stretch the guy to death he's gonna wrap himself around the guy like what
00:22:27.460
if the guy has a knife just cut out the knife you cut this guy in half
00:22:32.420
um so that's why the movies don't work and uh i won't see them and so there you go those are the
00:22:40.620
movies that you should see and the movies that you are forbidden from seeing by law on penalty of death