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Good morning, Roy. It's great to be back on the fastest month of all time. Well, it was for me because I'd be counting down the minutes till I'd be back on the show again and we get loads of movies to talk about and it's an exciting time for the cinema and I'm here with my minion friends, as you can see. I see that. You really go all out, don't you? I blend in. It's not a coincidence that they went for the colors. I feel it was based on me, but we will get to minions anyway because let's face it, they are everywhere. You see the ads everywhere. It's all about the minions, of course it's all about the minions. But I suppose first, let's look after a little bit of an old audience. Now, when we finished last week, or last week, last month, what we were talking about was Elvis. We were both kind of looking forward to and excited about Elvis. But I know myself that I was kind of hesitant a little bit about what sort of movie it was because we heard all these rumors and it's made by Baz Lerman, who's never made just a straight movie in his life. When his musical was Moulin Rouge, his version of a classic Shakespeare drama was Romeo and Juliet with rock music. So we weren't quite sure what sort of Elvis movie we were going to get. So we got it. We got it last week and I have to say, I thought it was terrific. Absolutely brilliant. All the fears, because you know, you want things to be good. I always try and look for a reason to like something rather than reason to knock it. But it really works. And I think if I'd known at the start how different it was going to be. So for example, we did know that a little bit of it, or quite a lot of it is, Elvis through the eyes of Colonel Tom Parker, much more than the Elvis story. And I think it's all the better for it. We've had movies before that are very much, you know, your classic biopic of he was born here. This is what happened when he was 13. This is what happened when he's 18. I think we've seen that before and we kind of know, I think most people know the Elvis Presley story. So this is much more about how exciting it was. The opening scenes. Now, I don't know about you. I'm a big concert goer. I love to go to concerts. And the last couple of years have been tough without concerts. Like that's why, you know, when you're interviewing the the chapter beforehand, just that bit of being out on the road again. That if you were from a small town in the south of America to see Elvis Presley come and he was like forth on the bill with, you know, traditional country artists and see this guy stand up there. And just the way he sang and the way he moved. And he took all the influences from the sort of African American stars that all of these young people wouldn't have seen because of segregation, except that they were kept away from it. And it reminded me of my first ever gig, which was probably slightly less cool, Bon Jovi in the audience. But I remember standing there at 15 years old, just looking up going, oh my, why did nobody tell me about this before? Standing there looking at Rockstar going, I'm going to do that all the time, which I have. Some were better than others. I won't lie to you. But you know, that feeling, that electricity in the air. Yeah. And that's what it captures. And I don't know how accurate all of it is, but the spirit of all of it is accurate. And one of the funny things about it was, I was saying to you last month that Priscilla Presley and Lisa Brie Presley both gave it a big thumbs up. Yeah, I got the big endorsement from the family, which is always, it's always a good sign. And the family come out and say, you know, this is bang on. This is exactly what we expected. This is what we wanted. Yeah. But what was really interesting about that, I heard since an interview with Tom Hanks, where he said, so they're going to make the movie and everyone got COVID. So they had to stop. And in that time, his wife, his pals with Priscilla Presley, and they got talking. And she said, what can I see the script? And she read the script and she goes, look, Colonel Tom Parker, I understand he did steal a load of Elvis's money, et cetera. I think we're safe to say that now on the radio. But she said, you're playing him as a bad guy, but he wasn't a bad guy. There was a reason everyone trusted him with their money, et cetera, because he charmed everyone when he was in the room. Everyone loved him. He was everyone's favorite uncle. Now he was siphoning money out the door, but he was, he was that guy. So they went and we wrote the whole movie based on that. And it's a much more interesting take than he, you know, we've seen evil pop star manager before. I think every movie, Bohemian Rhapsody, John's movie, all of them have that. So it's much, it's much more interesting. But what I loved most is the concert scenes. And even in that, he mixes in a bit of Jack White. He mixes in a bit of Eminem. This stuff should not work. It should not work in the scenes. And it's absolutely electric. So exciting, so much fun. And we said this about Top Gun 2. And I didn't think it'd be this close that I'd be repeating myself about it. It was working for all audiences. So obviously there's lots of people who are Elvis fans and Elvis traditionalists. Well, that's, that's what I was going to say to you. So this obviously it has, you know, something for the hardcore Elvis fans, you know, the true Elvis fans, but it also has something for the casual moviegoer, the casual Elvis fan. Absolutely. The hardcore fans are going to love the comeback special. That is shot for shot. That's amazing. But I think, you know, and there was a lot of young people who finally got it. They saw those early concert scenes. And of course, they know Austin Butler from Disney. And they saw the early concert scenes, right? I get it now. I get why he was so fun and excited. So absolutely well worth going. The only thing I would say is it's quite long. I maybe I found the last 10 minutes, you know, because you know where it's going. Yeah. And it was a bit sad and I found it a little bit long. I would definitely go for a pee beforehand. There's my expert advice. Okay. All right. Julie noted. Right. So that that's Elvis. Okay. So that's been out now for a while. One week. That's been a week. Okay. And it's doing well at the box office as well. Oh, it's absolutely. I think forming a both aspects. Because I think they knew Elvis is a brand, you know, we'll always get hardcore fans, even just to go and give out about it. Yeah. But I think it's the widespread appeal has really surprised them and it's great. Brilliant. Okay. So that's Elvis. Top Gun still flying high. Pardon the poem. Still flying high. Should be out of cinemas now, or at least on a sort of a lower schedule. A wind down. Yeah. It's still going. And it's great because we've got those for, you know, for the older ones. And at the end, we're going to talk about movies for, maybe slightly older audiences. But we've also got, you know, my pals here in the background. Ha ha. It's the DSA. So let's get to the minions because there's families all around going. Hurry up and get to the minions. No, I think they're going, oh God, it's inevitable. I'm going to have to see the minions. And I was thinking about this. I said, look, I can just talk about the minions. I don't have to see it. It's kids movies. I want to run. Well, I'm a, I'm a professional. Before you say anything about the minions, let's have a listen to what's in store. Nothing is more important than this. You can't do anything alone. Ha ha. Find your tribe. And never, ever, ever let them go. Good night. Good night. Yes, yes, yes. Good night. But that shouldn't work either. No. You win the rise of groove in Cinema's Friday. But that shouldn't work either. But you know, it does work, doesn't it? I guess it's something really controversial now. I think the soundtrack to the minions too is better than the Elvis soundtrack. And I love the Elvis soundtrack. But I will get to that. I said, I'm a professional. I should go. Look, Rory has asked me to come on and talk about movies. I shouldn't talk about stuff that I could have seen, but I didn't. So I said, right, I don't see it. And I went to see it at 8 a.m. And you know, that's not the time to see the movie. And I went, look, what my review was going to be. Already in my head, I said, what my review is going to be. Ah, look, it's the minions. It's lovely. If you've got kids, they're going to like it. So I was in there for about two minutes and it's opening credits, right? And there's a character who's a French-speaking character who has a lobster claw for an arm. And his name is Jean-Claude. I went, OK, I like this already. And then I realized he's played by Jean-Claude Van Damme. And I was going, OK, all right. That's what I'm sold. I'm sold. I'm sold. I'm in. I'm in. From there on in, it's 1976. And they're having fun with it. This is the movie. Awesome Power's Gold Member wishes it was. They're having so much fun. There's a bad guy called Bell Bottoms. They're just enjoying themselves so much. As you said about the minions singing along, you think it'd be kind of like when I was a little kid, I loved pink and perky. But this stuff would annoy me now. The funny voice is not that. No, all the way through the movie. Singing the Carpenters. Singing Cecilia by Simon R Garfunkel. I was like, how do I buy that version of it? They're just funny silly. Love it. The other thing that's important is, they don't outstage a welcome. I said all this is long. This is an hour and 20 minutes, which is just the right time. It means little people could go, but very little people who aren't used to the cinema could also enjoy it. Yeah, for the limited attention spans. For the mommies and daddies, with the limited attention spans. Yeah, I think there's a lot of that. We haven't slept properly since 2016. Exactly. They're a good joke, but they're also going to laugh their faces off. And as I said, there's jokes for the parents, but it's not above the jokes. It's not like a snarky joke or a rude joke. It's just jokes everyone can enjoy in the way of, you know, from Laurel and Hardy to SpongeBob. Certain things are just funny. And like a little yellow creature slamming his head into the door is just funny. And the other thing is, that's not easily done to so many bad comedies out there. You have to be very clever to be this stupid. Like Stan Laurel was a genius, but he also was the idiot on the screen. And they really thought about this. I loved it. And it was the biggest surprise of the month since I talked to you that how much I enjoyed Minions. It's great fun. A good clean phone, I think, is probably the verdict there. Absolutely. And I would imagine now, I will only have to see it once. There'll be people out there going, Oh God, it's good. That means I'm going to have to go and see it five times over the summer. And they were going to, you know, I don't buy DVDs anymore, but it'll be on streaming. And I'll have the pajamas and the whole lot. Yes, we're going to be living with Minions for a long time, but it's way better off the summer film so far. Like Lightyear is pretty good, but it's no toy story. This is by far the best we've had, Major. It's just great, great family phone, perfect for the summer months, especially if the weather stays like the summer months at the moment. Yeah. And Minions is in theaters now. Right now, yeah. And it's going to be here for a long time. When we're on next month, Minions will still be in the theatre. Absolutely. I'll probably top go in the way things are going. Right. OK, it's nine minutes to midday. We're going to go for a quick commercial break and we're going to come back. We're going to talk about Thor and where the crawdads sing as well. We're going to talk about that. OK, time for a quick commercial break. Back after this. The wait is over. Chris Norman, the original voice of Smokey, plays Lennon Festival Remelton on the 9th of July. Here, Chris and his band playing all the hits. Oh, Carol, Mexican girl, don't play your rock and roll to me. Alice plus many more hits. Tickets on sale from universe.com and local outlets. For full details, follow Lennon Festival Remelton on Facebook. That's Chris Norman and his band presented by Joe Gallagher Entertainment. It's eight minutes to midday. We are talking movies on the Saturday Rewind. Carly McFadgin is with me and we are now talking Thor, making a return to cinemas on July 7th, I think. Yes, certainly is on Thor's Day, of course. They wouldn't wait until Friday. It's Thor's Day. It has to be Thor's Day. Yeah, they're on brand right there. So now, whatever about minions and Elvis having cold followings. There are some people now listening going, fantastic, there's another Marvel movie out and there's other people going, oh god, there's another Marvel movie out. Because we're at movie 29. This is the fourth standalone Thor movie. I think it's like the 10th time. Chris Hemsworth has played Thor. So I think if you're not in by now, you're probably never going to be in. Although when you look at the cast for this, it is something stunning. There's five Oscar winners in the cast alone. So we've got Christian Bale, who said he was never going to do a comic book movie again and got sent the script to this one and went, yeah, okay, he plays the bad guy. So after the Avengers, Thor is retired. He's not interested anymore. He's all zen and hippie-ish. And next thing, this guy called Gore, who is a god killer and he's rampaging through the universe. Again, there's people now going, you're either rolling the rise or putting up their sleeves to book online. So, but it's also made by Tycho Attiti, who made the last one, the genius behind things like what we do in the shadows and so on. And brought this sort of, I know we shouldn't mention New Zealand today because of the rugby and so on, but he brought this sort of key, yeah, so we move over that. But we brought that sort of dry Kiwi wit that works so well. So you've got all the spectacular Disney Marvel spectacular stuff, and then you've just got really good jokes that an executive of Disney would never come up with. It's going to be massive, no matter what anyone says. And I think the thing about Thor and all the Marvel movies is, people are so interested about where the story is going to go. There's going to be some secret reveal. There always is in a Marvel movie. It's the very clever of that. So everyone wishes to see it the first week or two because they don't want spoilers. Spoilers are verboteness. The worst thing you could do to a Thor fan. Well, you said it's movie number 29 in this Marvel expanded universe or whatever it's called, or cinematic universe. Is there is there a little bit of Marvel fatigue starting to creep in? We saw it with Star Wars. And, you know, there was nowhere near 29. Well, there's a lot of Star Wars. But, you know, there is Star Wars fatigue out there now where it just doesn't pack the same punch as it did 15, 20 years ago. Is that happening with Marvel? I agree. But I think one of the things they've done that's really clever. And it hasn't always worked is they've got in all of these left field choices. So we had the Eternals. It was made by the same person who made Nomadland. That is a mad choice as a director. This is much a comedy, but also the guys from Guardians of the Galaxy are in. So it's kind of an Avengers-like movie. So they keep on bringing all these people in. They brought that one of the last movies, Shang-Chi. One of the, you know, it was the first time there was a mostly Asian cast, American Asian cast in a big blockbuster. So what they're doing is they're trying to avoid Marvel fatigue. Now, I think for just your cinema goer, there might be a little bit of that. One of the, they keep on mixing up the stories. They keep on bringing in new people all the time. So it's not just like, as a kid, I loved James Bond. But even I knew when I went to see Octopussy in the cinema going, Roger Moore probably isn't a superhero anymore. You know, so what they keep on doing is mixing it up. People have gone. And the other thing that's important, I think, which didn't happen enough in Star Wars, big characters die in the Marvel universe. Yeah, everyone is disposable and dispensable. Yeah, especially when their wage bill gets really high. I think you can get much more in this book. There's a tip for you the next time you negotiate your contract for a real pilot. It was just because you're gone, stroke of a plant, goodbye. And I think that is the way they've kept it up. The one thing is, they hit the ground like the Pixar people. The more movies you make, the more chance there is of the odd dud. But it has to be said, the worst Marvel movies, Bobby, Iron Man 2, and so on, as when Little Collie was running around Annegret on his summer holidays, he would have killed with no shoes on. He would have killed to see the worst of these movies because I loved comic books. And we couldn't make something like this. So I think maybe for the general public, and I definitely would think for the critics. That's why Doctor Strange did not do well in the critics choices. They got very bad reviews. Audiences loved it. Because critics are looking for something different, whereas this is part of an ongoing story for other people. Also, the TV shows have done very well. Yeah, they have. Loki, particularly with Thor. So I think this, I think it'll be a mega hit. We have two minutes left. Very quickly we'll talk about where the crawdads sing. Okay, so a huge novel, which I must admit, I'm a big reader, but I haven't read. This is a story. It's a young woman played by Daisy Edgar Jones, who we know from normal people. She kind of raised herself in the swamps of Louisiana. She's an outsider. She's considered a weirdo, but she gets involved with a local boy who's very popular. Suddenly, he's found dead, and of course the town folk all turn to blame it on her. It's been a huge novel. And they're expecting it to be a massive book. I can't wait to see it. I'm just not sure whether I should read the book or not first. And finally, just as an, also an Irish movie, because I love the plug guy who's called Joyride. It stars Olivia Coleman as a young woman who has just had a baby. Isn't sure what to do. Ends up in a taxi that's been stolen by a young 12-year-old, and they head off around Ireland. I've just seen the trailer this morning, and I just thought it looks brilliant. And we've had a good time for Irish movies. Stuff like them, Colleen Kuhn and Arocks have done really well in Irish cinemas, and so it'd be brilliant to see another Irish movie. As much as we love Thor, as much as we love Minions, it would be great to see an Irish movie doing any work. Of course, of course. That's what we want to see. Collie, thanks as always. We will talk to you next month. Can you believe it? We'll be into August. No. We will, I know, I know. Well, listen, we'll talk to you next month. We'll talk about Thor and how it's doing at the theaters and Minions, of course. We'll still be talking about Minions. And we'll talk about what's coming up between August and September as well. Collie McFadgeen, thank you so much for joining me this morning. See you at the movies. All right, take care. Bye-bye, Collie McFadgeen there. And that's where we wrap up the Saturday Morning Rewind for this Saturday morning. Daniel Brennan is up next with a news update for you. And Paul McDevitt is here with the Saturday Shuffle You Don't Want to Miss It. B&B and Bank of Ireland customers can now lodge and withdraw money at any of our 900 post offices across Ireland six days a week. That's right, your bank is in your post office for personal and business banking alike, meaning you can bank wherever you live or work.