Topic: Hit and Run Through Current Topics and Stop! That! Train! mini review

This week Topher Mac not only briefly discusses Stop! That! Train! but also continues to touch on current event topics related mostly to Obsession. 

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Hey hey, it's me Tovra Mac, and this week's gonna be a little bit different. We're just gonna jump into it and get going. You're listening to Shadows of Time, a movie podcast. What are we dealing with here today, ladies and gentlemen? We're talking uh just very briefly today um on uh a couple little things that have caught my attention before we do that. I saw Stop That Train, and I thought as I watched stop that movie. Um, you all might remember I was very excited to see this movie. Um, I the trailer was hilarious. The problem is that the joke wears thin really quick. Now it might be a really good movie. I think this could be one of those things where I'm not the audience for it. Okay, I really think that I'm not the audience for a drag queen movie, which I think is fair uh to say. So, you know, didn't like it much. Um I kind of rated it a little bit higher than I really feel about it, just because I'm trying to filter it through. Well, my complaints probably just have to do with not being able to relate to the culture of the movie, not being able to relate to some of the punchlines of the movie. Um, there I mean, there was humor in it, and there was interesting performances in it. So it's not like it was an altogether bad movie, but it didn't work out for me. Uh though it stopped that train. So let's uh jump right into let's jump right into the weekend. What was the weekend? Uh well here's how everyone did. Disclosure day got 44 million dollars. Uh that was the leader, Steven Spielberg. Obsession continuing to kick Tushy, 19 million dollars. Scary Movie also did very well, 14.5 million. Um, backrooms 11.3 million. I liked all those movies. I have not seen Disclosure Day yet. You know what else I didn't see? Masters of the Universe, it was 8.7 million. Uh, there's no reason. I think. Yeah, okay. Um the world I'm just gonna say the worldwide totals for the five, because um this is just a weird time for me right now, so I kind of have to get through this episode quick. Um 92.9 million dollars for disclosure day. And that is not good based on its budget. Um, not good. But hey, you know, maybe it'll maybe it'll ultimately do well. But you know what has been great is 286.5 million dollars for obsession, and that was for focus features. By the way, I forgot to mention that disclosure day was Universal Pictures. Scary Movie for Paramount Pictures brought in 173.2 million backrooms for A24 uh has so far brought in 248.5 million. Uh Masters of the Universe for Amazon MGM 86.1. And yep, that da da da da da da da da da da da da da da gotta double check something. Uh Star Wars uh Mandalorian and Grogu was at sixth place. Like it's not terrible numbers, 4.7 million that it added. Michael's still making good money. Um BTS uh World Tour did a pretty strong weekend uh domestically, the Furious um did very small numbers, but it beat stop that train, which was at 10. Um, so you know, there's that. I'm just realizing as I look that I'm missing a statistic that I'm going to have to pull up. Please be patient with me. Uh how are you doing? You doing well? That's a funny you obviously can't answer that. I'm Tover Mack, and oh, you know what? While I'm looking this up, uh I was uh on another podcast this week. I returned to JP uh Zach and JP's burnt out hijinks. So you can check me out on there. They we ended up talking about movies, uh, had some hot takes. All of us did. Um, you know, there it is. This was uh what I was trying to find is how did this weekend do? Everyone thought this was gonna be a strong weekend because of Spielberg. Well, guess what? It was down negative 33.7%. Um that was for the the top 10 gross. I'm sorry, so ignore that number. Uh the overall gross for the weekend, negative 32.1%. How does that make sense? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Uh that's what it was down. That's what it was down. So it was uh uh not a strong weekend. It's almost like, you know, Spielberg might be. I can't say that, I didn't see it, but he's certainly not uh a fixture on the public's eyes, and a lot of people have strong opinions right now that probably um are leading into that. I think people are just tired of I don't know. Like I'll I'll put it this way. I was really getting into Quentin Tarantino, and then he started running his mouth with opinions uh about the movie business that didn't match anywhere near mine, but they all seemed sort of punching down when it comes from him. It's one thing when he's talking about movies from before he was directing, but now he's talking about his peers, and I'm like, it's a bad look. Spielberg said some things too. Um, I'm trying to think of what they are right now, and I can't, so there we are. Now, um uh coming attractions. That's the next thing. You listen to Shadows That Shine, the movie podcast. I am Tophra Mac. Uh, this is gonna be a very competitive, a very competitive week coming up. June 19th. We're looking at Toy Story 5. We're looking at the Death of Hollywood, we're looking at Leviticus, we're looking at girls like girls. Uh there's a movie I don't know much about called Citizen Villa Villa Vigilante. I know words. Um, I think it got all the major ones. Well, I um obviously Toy Story 5 is gonna do the best out of that. I mean, there hasn't been a strong family film to come out in a little bit, and it is the summertime, and I've heard good things about Toy Story 5. Uh this podcast will be covering Leviticus in our next episode. I'm bringing uh I'm bringing back one of the people who have come through, one of our guest co-hosts. Um Girls Light Girls, I think it's gonna do pretty decent numbers. Like I think it'll do better than Leviticus will. Um, both Leviticus and Girls Light Girls are both uh gay-themed movies. One is a horror film about being a gay man. Um, the other one, uh I didn't see what genre that is, but girls like girls is about lesbianism. Lesbianism. Uh the trailers look interesting, but I don't think we're gonna go see that. But the Death of Robin Hood's trailer keeps winning me over, and I wonder if it's going to get swallowed up with so much competition. You know? And then of course the week after that, we're gonna end up with uh we're gonna end up with Supergirl. And uh the jungle. Wait, what oh sorry, I got confused for a second. Supergirl and Jackass uh is two weeks away. Alright, so that was this uh that's what's coming forward. Now on to the topics of today. First one, everyone is still talking about obsession, and there was controversy that came out. I think I mentioned it on the podcast last week. I don't know, because I've had a lot of private conversation uh conversations related to this. Um, there are people that are upset that the director, um, I guess it would help to say his name, huh? Yeah. Uh obsessions director said that uh Curry Barker was called out because this movie was massively popular. $750,000 budget, as you heard a few minutes ago, a quarter of a billion dollars. And there are some uh there's somebody in the crew who is very upset, very upset. And I'm talking, of course, about um talking about uh the art director, and she's she's like, Oh, we should be getting more money, and I I think I said it last week, I'll say it again in case I uh haven't said it publicly. You you have to within reason, you have to make these deals up front. You have to, you know, I'm already like I'm working on a project right now, and we're having conversations about uh trying to work out a back-end deal, uh you know, and if it makes a bunch of money, then that's good news for them. But you know, you're also like, are you taking a big risk or are you getting a big fat paycheck up front? And she got paid. And the thing is, is when you are in a hit film, if you just push forward and say, Hey, I I worked on this, you're gonna make a whole bunch more money the next time out. But if you sit there and you sit there and say, Oh, I want more money, I want more money, people are going to hesitate to work with you. I'm hesitant to work with this person because it's this is now just because something's a tradition doesn't mean that it's the way to go, but this is a tradition that makes sense. Like it's it's been that way for a reason. A lot of risk is taken when you're making movies. Like a a lot of some people are literally like, I mean, look at Kevin Smith, for example. I mean, that's a movie that has made way more money than was put into it. Well, he's the one that risked his entire future with all them credit cards. So, I don't know. I'm blah blah blah, and I feel like. But the reason I bring it up is just one of two other things. Like, they're already talking about Oscars, which I think is stupid, and I'm not even gonna give much attention to that, but they're saying that um the starring actress, uh, that she should be nominated for an Oscar. We're so far away, and there's so many movies gonna come out. Maybe she will, maybe she won't. Then there's an argument about is she a supporting actress or is she a lead actress? Well, she's a supporting actress in the same way that Heath Ledger was a supporting actor. Um you might be able to say that she's a lead actress, but I mean, she's not a fleshed-out character. She's there to tell the story about the main character. She she supports his journey, and she does so brilliantly and uh with great skill. Uh, and I do kind of hope that she gets a nomination so that it it helps her. Um, hey, you might notice that there was a little hiccup there. Uh, I sneezed really loud into the microphone, and uh so I I backed up a few seconds. Um the point uh I was trying to make, she gave a great performance. Um, but what has also come out, and it is the main purpose of what I want to talk about before I got you guys out of here today. What is a YouTuber? Because Barker, no, not Barker's not the guy's name. I was just looking at it. I'm so bad with names. I can't wait to like have someone that's oh, it is Barker. Ha ha! Who's bad at names now? Uh Barker and also Kane, uh, not Pixels, but uh oh, I can't remember his real name either. But his YouTube channel's name is Kane Pixels, and both of them have in the last week said that they're not YouTubers. And it made me want to bring this up and address it now. Because maybe one day uh my dreams come true. I direct a hit film, and I'm in this conversation, and somebody is uh bringing up my thing. I'm a YouTuber too, like I don't put a lot of stuff in YouTube, and it's not the main thing I am, and I'm not a YouTuber like Mr. Beast is a YouTuber, but I do participate in YouTube in the same way that like let's see, um, in the same way that uh Roseanne Barr this is a weird way to Roseanne Barr. Roseanne Barr is a stand-up comedian, that's her main thing, but she's also a TV actress, so you can say that Roseanne Barr is a TV star or a TV personality, when in reality her career as a stand-up far outweighs her career as that. And these people are trying to distance themselves from something, but it's like that's the thing that got you to the dance. That's that's the uh in the case of uh Barker, that's that plus social media is how you chose to distribute your works up until this uh up until you were able to get the attention of a producer. Kane, uh, very, very young. But the only reason anyone knows who he is is because of YouTube. Period. Now both of them are brilliant, and I hope uh I can't wait to see more work from both of them. Uh not just backrooms from Kane. Uh it's it's it's just wild to me that that they're doing that and that they're trying to distance themselves from part of who they are. Well, I'm a I have a YouTube channel, uh, it's Topher House. I haven't put anything on there in a while, and I still think of myself as someone that on occasion is a YouTuber. And if I, you know, once once this podcast starts doing stuff on there, it's the same thing there. Like we are technically like that makes me a YouTuber for participating in it, but you know, as other things become more prominent, it's really about what are you pursuing at that time. You know, I'm a stand-up comic. But in relationship to my career in entertainment, being a stand-up comic is uh very minimal. I mean, a combined three or four years maybe of doing stand-up comedy, and that's being generous. Um I did more improv than that. And I I was an actor for much longer than that, and I obviously I was a stage hand for much longer than that. Um I don't know. It's interesting how identity is is such a uh such uh sensitive thing. Yeah. Speaking of which, happy pride. Identity. That's a good movie. Anywho, uh, I'm not gonna hold y'all past this point. This is like literally gonna be it for us today. Uh I have a whole bunch of stuff I'm working on. I have um I'm working on a movie and I'm working on a uh a magic show. I'm collaborating with the people at Topher House for both of those projects. And um we'll see how it goes. Y'all take care of yourself. Thank you for tuning in. I've been Topher Mac. This is Shadows That Shine, a movie podcast. Bye