The Matt Walsh Show - My Most (And Least) Anticipated Movies Of 2025

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.

00:00:09.460 It wouldn't be right. It wouldn't feel right.

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.

00:00:25.540 We'll start with the positive.

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.

00:00:34.460 This will be released in May from A24.

00:00:37.360 This is one of the movies I'm looking forward to.

00:00:39.800 Starring Tim Robbins and Paul Rudd.

00:00:41.880 It's called Friendship.

00:00:43.620 Here's the trailer.

00:00:50.800 Hello.

00:00:56.460 Honey, the new neighbor invited you over for a drink at eight tonight.

00:01:05.320 I said you'd go.

00:01:06.780 You don't know my schedule.

00:01:08.760 You sit there every night.

00:01:10.280 It might be nice to have a pal, you know, a bud.

00:01:14.500 Hey guys, this is my neighbor Craig.

00:01:16.840 He's the best.

00:01:19.000 I was just spiraling.

00:01:20.220 I mean, I see the way the guys look at her.

00:01:22.080 I'm just, I'm scared.

00:01:24.800 Sheila's lucky to have a dad like you.

00:01:28.820 Boy, you should know that

00:01:31.760 I've got you on my mind

00:01:36.840 Your secret admirer

00:01:40.520 I've been watching you

00:01:44.040 At night I think of you

00:01:47.920 I want to be your baby

00:01:51.740 If your game is on

00:01:54.300 If your love is strong

00:01:58.020 I can see the future

00:01:59.220 It's full of pals

00:02:01.440 I'm on the edge of life

00:02:03.520 And the view is gorgeous

00:02:07.040 Look, we had a couple of really nice hangs

00:02:11.580 But I think it best that we go our separate ways

00:02:15.300 I don't wish to continue this friendship

00:02:17.660 You all accepted me way too fast

00:02:25.380 You can't do that

00:02:26.320 You made me feel too free

00:02:29.080 People need rules 1.00

00:02:30.440 You should be dead, you psycho 1.00

00:02:33.820 Who are you? 1.00

00:02:35.420 Give me a second chance

00:02:36.760 Get to know me

00:02:38.780 Okay

00:02:38.980 So you're either the kind of person

00:02:41.020 Who thinks the line

00:02:42.160 I see the future

00:02:43.700 And it's full of pals

00:02:45.000 Is hilarious

00:02:46.380 Or you don't

00:02:48.080 You either think that's a funny line

00:02:49.980 Or you don't

00:02:50.440 And if you see the humor

00:02:51.880 In just that line alone

00:02:53.040 Or when he says

00:02:54.620 You don't know my schedule

00:02:55.860 And the way that it was delivered

00:02:57.200 It's like you either get that

00:02:59.040 Humor or you don't

00:03:00.100 If you don't

00:03:00.600 Then you probably are not

00:03:01.340 Going to like this movie

00:03:01.920 It's the most tonally confusing trailer

00:03:04.040 I've ever seen

00:03:04.760 But in a good way

00:03:06.680 It straddles between funny and creepy

00:03:09.020 But just does it masterfully

00:03:10.560 It's not entirely clear

00:03:12.260 Whether you're supposed to think

00:03:13.220 This is funny

00:03:13.780 Or be scared by it

00:03:14.840 I think it's a little bit of both

00:03:16.100 It appears to be

00:03:17.600 The perfect vehicle for Tim Robbins

00:03:19.720 Who I think is hilarious

00:03:20.420 In the show

00:03:21.500 The sketch show

00:03:22.280 I think you should leave on Netflix

00:03:23.380 Looks like a very dark comedy

00:03:26.520 Which is exactly my speed

00:03:27.680 And it subverts expectations

00:03:29.540 In a way that

00:03:30.240 That I think is pretty fascinating

00:03:31.720 It reminds me of

00:03:33.120 The Banshees of Inishirin 0.86

00:03:35.680 Or however that's pronounced

00:03:36.680 Which I thought was a great film

00:03:39.640 But it's like a darker

00:03:41.560 Americanized

00:03:42.820 Tim Robbins-ized

00:03:45.100 Version of that kind of

00:03:47.000 Of that kind of movie

00:03:49.900 And I'll definitely see it

00:03:52.380 I will certainly see it

00:03:53.560 It might be me

00:03:54.680 And like five other people

00:03:55.560 But we're going to watch that movie

00:03:57.120 This next one is not a title

00:03:59.920 That I necessarily

00:04:00.700 Would be overly excited to check out

00:04:02.360 Just based on the

00:04:03.440 Like when I heard

00:04:04.320 They were making this movie

00:04:05.160 I thought well

00:04:06.640 I'll probably watch it

00:04:07.540 But I wasn't super excited about it

00:04:08.920 But the trailer is

00:04:12.020 Maybe one of the best trailers

00:04:14.360 I've seen in a long time

00:04:16.360 So this is 28 years later

00:04:18.480 It's a sequel to 28 days later

00:04:20.240 And what was the other one

00:04:21.060 28 weeks later I think

00:04:22.060 And so this is the

00:04:24.200 I guess conclusion of the trilogy

00:04:26.640 Although of course nothing ends

00:04:27.680 So I'm sure they'll keep making them

00:04:28.920 It's coming out this summer

00:04:30.480 And here's the trailer

00:04:32.800 Wait, sit here

00:04:43.140 Andy, what's going on?

00:04:45.380 Do me, sit still

00:04:46.160 Keep quiet

00:04:46.640 And do not move from this far

00:05:02.800 7, 6, 11, 5, 9 and 20 miles today

00:05:10.980 4, 11, 17, 32 the day before

00:05:15.080 Boot, boot, boot, boot

00:05:18.560 Moving up and down again

00:05:20.580 There's no discharge in the war

00:05:23.360 Don't, don't, don't, don't

00:05:27.320 Look at what's in front of you

00:05:29.020 Boot, boot, boot, boot

00:05:32.420 Moving up and down again

00:05:34.460 Men, men, men, men

00:05:37.820 Men go mad with watching them

00:05:39.860 There's no discharge in the war

00:05:42.440 If your eyes drop

00:05:51.920 They will get the top of you 0.79

00:05:54.060 Boot, boot, boot, boot

00:05:57.420 Moving up and down again

00:05:59.380 There's no discharge in the war

00:06:02.060 Don't, don't, don't, don't

00:06:07.040 Try, try, try, try

00:06:10.640 To think of something different

00:06:12.500 Don't, don't, don't, don't

00:06:15.320 Keep people going lunatic

00:06:17.340 Walk, walk, walk, walk 0.94

00:06:20.820 Pulling up and down again

00:06:23.580 There's no discharge in the war

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 0.83

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 0.98

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

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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

00:11:42.620 the minecraft movie minecraft trailer take two

00:11:47.180 i am steve as a child i yearned for the mines but something always got in the way

00:11:58.400 go on get out of here

00:12:00.680 but the call of the mines was too strong so one day i started digging and digging

00:12:14.360 until i found

00:12:17.400 this

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

00:12:33.000 where are we wait who are you again

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 0.96

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 0.95

00:13:46.920 it will be a crap movie it can't be good 0.78

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 0.92

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 0.71

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 0.96

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 0.93

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 0.94

00:15:22.260 and this is one of those things um so i can say this movie is just pure excrement without actually 0.91

00:15:29.540 seeing it and they keep making these damn jurassic world things this is the 90th one nobody has liked 0.89

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 0.93

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

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00:19:14.320 Ben wasn't a rock the best pilot in the world right here yeah best looking he means

00:19:22.060 and johnny never caught fire

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00:19:39.660 we'll face it together

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 0.99

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 0.98

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 0.99

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 0.86

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 0.96

00:22:00.500 killed by a supervillain with a laser or whatever and you called out for a superhero to help you 0.99

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 0.92

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

00:22:48.540 that's it

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 17, 2025

My Most (And Least) Anticipated Movies Of 2025

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