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Are these the movies that will save 2026? Join us in this new episode of MO'JO with Kit Lazer. We'll dive deep into his journey, the state of the movie industry, his thoughts on WatchMojo's Top 5 Movies that will save 2026, and to close it out, Kit will share his personal Top 5 Movies to look out for this year!
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00:00I don't think you can convince yourself you didn't like something that you did like,
00:05but you can, I can hate a movie and then be convinced to like it because I don't think
00:11a good movie has to be like a fun watch every time, you know?
00:15Hi, welcome to Mojo. My name is Ivan Zapata and I'll be your host for this week.
00:20Now, 2026 feels like one of those years where the movie industry has to look itself in the
00:25proverbial mirror. Big franchises and familiar IPs are either proving they still matter or
00:31quietly confirming that their moment has passed. There's a lot riding on sequels, reboots,
00:37one last try installments. Meanwhile, smaller budget, independent genre films are just trying
00:43to break through the noise, find an audience and become our next cult following. This year is
00:49shaping up to be less about hype and more about confirming what works, what doesn't and where
00:54movies go from here. To help us dive a bit deeper into the industry's do's and don'ts,
00:59my guest this week is Kit Lazor from Movies Are Therapy. He's a content creator, a reviewer,
01:06hell-bent on delivering movie and TV content that is on point, personal, but overall genuine.
01:17So, Kit, how you doing, man? Welcome to Mojo.
01:20Thank you so much for having me. I'm doing wonderful and I'm excited to be here.
01:24Yeah, welcome, welcome. So, straight into the meat of things. We're going to focus on movies for this
01:29one. I know you also do TV, but I want to focus on movies because 2026, like I mentioned, is
01:34going
01:34to be an interesting year with a lot of things coming out and a lot of things kind of, maybe
01:40not
01:40a last hurrah, but things that are riding on some of the movies that are coming out this year. So,
01:46we'll go over the WatchMojo top five movies that will save, I guess, 2026. But first, I want to know
01:52a
01:52little bit about your relationship with movies overall. You know, why start a review channel?
01:58Where does this come from?
02:01I've always loved movies. I've always loved stories specifically. You know, the short version
02:05of the story that I've told many times and I love talking about myself, so it's no big deal.
02:11So, you know, I grew up pretty poor and I was one of those kids raised by a TV and
02:17I adopted
02:19a love of reading early on from my dad. He was always sitting on the couch, you know,
02:22reading the newspaper, reading the TV guide. And my mom would take me to the library every
02:26week and I'd get these big sci-fi fantasy novels. And, you know, I read so much that she
02:31had to yell at me to go outside. You know, that's why you always get this headache. Like,
02:36I don't know how many kids got yelled at for reading too much, but I was one of them.
02:39Yeah, not that many, I guess.
02:40No, probably not. Yeah, I was never an athletic kid or a sporty kid. I didn't go outside much
02:46and you can still tell. Still don't. But so that's how it started. Just a love of stories,
02:52right? I was obsessed with like going to Blockbuster in my neighborhood. It was actually a place
02:57called Movie Warehouse. And, you know, I love these big, dumb action flicks, you know, all the
03:04Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, the early Schwarzenegger movies and Dolph Lundgren and
03:09real big into martial arts and action. So that's how it all started. I'm in recovery. I've been
03:15sober for 14 years almost now. And that's a huge part of my journey. Thank you. Is, you know,
03:21sitting in an abandoned apartment with an extension cord to another apartment's electricity,
03:26you know, watching Good Will Hunting or like the Lord of the Rings behind the scenes over and over
03:29and over, you know. So in that way, movies have saved my life a few times, right? That's just like
03:36the last thread of kind of empathy and emotion that I was hanging on to for a few years. But
03:42prior to
03:42that, you know, as a teenager, as a kid, I always wanted to be a screenwriter and write novels. And
03:47I
03:48had all these, you know, I read all these like Sid Field and Blake Snyder books. And then I read,
03:53you know, Stephen King's on writing and I wanted to be published and worked so hard at that for so
04:00long. I have like, you know, it's like the serial killer in Seven when they find all those notebooks
04:04like that. I had so many notebooks. Hopefully just the notebooks. No other, no other through line to
04:11that part. Just a ridiculous amount of scribbles and plans for different books and movies and things
04:19like that. And yeah, man, so that, you know, I've always had that love. And after a few years sober,
04:25you know, I had a kid and life was starting to kind of stabilize. And I, you know, I had
04:30food in the
04:30fridge and bills paid. And it's that itch started coming back of like, you know, being an artist,
04:37being creative in some way. So I started writing these reviews that seemed more like approachable than
04:43selling my screenplay, you know, out of Kentucky, where I was at the time. And I kept applying
04:49for jobs that, you know, Screen Rant and Vulture. And, you know, I had the gall to even try like
04:55Slate and, you know, everywhere and never even got a response, man. You know, I started a bunch of
05:00YouTube channels that never got any views, a couple of podcasts that never got any downloads.
05:06Back then it was like all on SoundCloud, you know, it's like early podcast days.
05:10But I was delighted when I did have 38 or 50 listeners on an episode, you know, and I did
05:15that for a long time until TikTok. I ran home to my wife and she was like, yeah, yeah, that's
05:21cool.
05:22And I'm like, no, you don't understand. Like, this is new. This is it. I saw a TikToker on the
05:28red
05:28carpet for the Batman interviewing Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson. And I was in Paul Dano. And I was
05:35like, this is crazy. The access that these TikTokers are being afforded right now. Right.
05:40So I immediately, and I still had a podcast at the time that was doing moderately well,
05:45but it was like, this was something different. So I started making these TikTok videos.
05:49It took years, but you know, a couple of years in, I started getting like major
05:53traction and for, I made videos every day, uh, just like with different goals, you know, like,
05:58I just want to get like a DVD from a studio sent to my house. You know what I mean?
06:03Like, and then I got that and I was like, nevermind. Yeah. Nevermind an invitation.
06:08Just send me out a movie, man. I just want to watch it. Yeah. I, I, I, I journal a
06:12lot and I
06:12still have a journal entries from like four years ago. Like TikTok changed everything for so many
06:18people, but that's how it is for me. I mean, I've been doing this for over a decade and nobody
06:22cared
06:23until TikTok came around as far as I'm concerned, as far as my work goes. And, um, it's been crazy.
06:28I mean, I've been all over the world. The accessibility afforded by TikTok and, and for
06:33everyone who's trying to make content and stuff like that. And, and the, the, the easier it gets
06:38to, to, you know, to create and to make and to, to tell stories and stuff like that. But, you
06:42know,
06:43going into that as well, um, uh, I was telling you one of the reasons that I wanted to talk
06:47to you
06:47is your, your TikTok, one of your pinned videos on TikTok talks a little bit about how you manage,
06:53uh, that channel as well. Cause obviously there is a power that comes with being able to review and
07:00reach people with your opinion about movies and TV shows and stuff like that. And you make it more
07:07personal. You make it more genuine. You try to make it about your take on, on, on things and not
07:13really about what the general aura, uh, uh, what the general aura of, or opinion is around an actor
07:20or a creator or, or, or a project itself, be it Marvel, be it DZ and DC and stuff like
07:25that.
07:25So what was that decision? Like, what was that? Was that just putting yourself out there or how do
07:31you arrive at that type of content specifically, which resonates with a lot of people? You see it
07:36in your comments as well.
07:37I realized early on that the, the most valuable and authentic contribution I could make to any space,
07:46but especially this one is my own personal perspective. That's the only thing that no one
07:53else can do as good as I can, which is, you know, my perspective. Cause I'm, I'm me. Right. And
07:58I think
07:58that that's the beauty of art and movies are empathy machines. And that's the whole point of art is how
08:05does this, in what ways is this about me? And in what ways is this so alien to me that
08:11I can learn
08:11about other people and grow as a person. That's what movies are to me. What do you look for in
08:16movies? What do you look for in, in, is it just the way they make you feel or how do
08:21you approach
08:22a review or, or, you know, a critique of a, of a, of a movie? Yeah. I've thought about this
08:28a lot
08:28because I think the process just feels so natural and kind of automatic, but I, I, so I start with
08:36the
08:36most basic, you know, how do I feel when I'm leaving the theater? I'm thinking, am I happy?
08:41Am I sad? Was I bored? Was I sleepy? Was I engaged? Uh, was I angry? Um, did I laugh
08:49a lot? Did I cry a
08:50lot? Right? Like I just, the most basic kind of taking note of my own emotions that, you know,
08:56a child could do. And then I reverse engineer that I go from there. Okay. So what caused that anger
09:01or why,
09:02why do I think I was bored? And then I can start getting into, you know, the, the three act
09:06structure
09:07or, or plot points. So I can think about the performances, the score, the cinematography.
09:12Oh yeah. They used a split diopter there. They, a Snorri cam there. That was really cool. Or there
09:17was a lot of homage to John Carpenter and that I think. And that's when I start getting a little
09:22deeper into that kind of stuff, but that's way later, right? Like initially did I, you can,
09:27you know, if you'd liked it or not heading out of a movie, you know, and, and I don't think,
09:32you can convince yourself you didn't like something that you did like, but you can,
09:38I can hate a movie and then be convinced to like it because I don't think a good movie has
09:43to be
09:44like a fun watch every time. Yeah. I agree. Um, I think about movies like any, almost anything
09:49David Lowery makes, you know, like those can be kind of excruciating experiences that are just so
09:54life-changing and beautiful. And anyway, I'm rambling a lot, but yeah, no, no, it's, it's fine.
09:59It's great to, it's great to hear because I mean, me personally, I usually, I have a positivity
10:05scale that I try to implement when I, whenever I watch a movie, it can be, it can be like
10:10a very
10:10movie probably got trashed somewhere and people don't like, and I always try to find the positive
10:17aspect to any movie. Like, okay, I like the music. I like the cinematography. I like to focus on,
10:22on that. And it's, I think it's more a mental health issue for me because I want to feel good
10:27about
10:28watching movies and, and, and, and, and stuff that I like that it's, you know, usually the first
10:34headline you read about any project is usually the bad one. Like this is what's wrong with this movie
10:39or this project. So I tried to steer it the, the, the other way. And it, it comes back to
10:44like the
10:44personal aspect of, of the way you see movies and the way you enjoy them. Um, which brings me to
10:502026,
10:512026 is going to be interesting because a lot, a lot of things moved around the industry, you know,
10:57the Netflix, a Warner deal, and then you have Marvel doing like doomsday and that kind of
11:05expectation of like, is this going to be it? Is this going to happen? So how do you perceive
11:112026 and, uh, in like in maybe not industry-wide cause it's huge, but what are your take on 2026?
11:18What do you think they're doing right or wrong? Or how should we approach this?
11:23I don't know, man. I mean, there's a, I'm excited for a, I'm excited for a lot of movies.
11:29You know, I, I try not, it all looks really bad on a macro scale. Yeah. Like the, the trend
11:35of how
11:35often people go to theaters, the things that studios are doing to combat that AI, uh, you know,
11:41streamers and how they pay the crew, the state of LA's film industry. And, and, you know,
11:46how many people are out of work because they're putting all the, they're filming all the movies
11:50in London and, and, and Canada and places that give them tax breaks. And, um, you know, it's,
11:56it's a nightmare if you look at all that stuff and I have control over zero of it. Um, I
12:02don't think
12:02they're doing anything super well. I like the, at the industry level of the studio level, you know,
12:08executive level. Um, but also it's not, people are going to hate this, but cause it's like never
12:14blamed the audience. Right. But if you look at a lot of people say, Oh, I hate how often they,
12:21they, they make sequels and IP and blah, blah, blah, blah. Dude. I don't think these people are
12:27aware. Thousands of movies come out every year. Uh, you know, I watched 250 plus 2025 releases.
12:35And that was like, yeah, I saw that tick tock where you like list them out. Yeah. Yeah. No,
12:38I saw a lot of work and I still missed hundreds and hundreds of big ones, much less. Like if
12:44you
12:44think about all the tiny, tiny Indies, so they're there, you just got to seek them out. Nobody
12:49chooses to do that. Very few people choose to do that. If you look at all of the highest grossing
12:52movies of the last 20 years, they're all sequels or IP driven for the most part. Yeah. And so it's
12:59like, can you blame a bottom line driven company from looking at what sells and making more of these
13:06kinds of things, you know? Um, you just, these live action Disney remakes that are literally
13:11just almost shot for shot. The same movie that came out a couple of years ago, it'll make over
13:15a billion dollars every time. If I hate it, but if I was them, I would, I'd be making those
13:22every
13:22week. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. I mean, end of the day, end of the day, I think
13:26it's,
13:26it's business, but it's, it's a good, one thing that you really like do that I like is, is you
13:31propose
13:32these like out of, out of left field kind of movies? Like, okay, go watch this and, and see
13:38what you think. Go watch this horror or go watch this, you know, kind of like, um, coming of age
13:44film or whatever that are a little bit indie. I know you love a 24. I love a 24. Like
13:50I haven't
13:50watched all of them, but I do like a lot of a 24 and then the way they're doing their,
13:54um, their,
13:55the, um, their work. So, uh, is that, is that one way to maybe not combat this, but can those
14:02two
14:02live together? Like try and if you, you know, if you're tired of IPs go, you know, go to your
14:07local
14:08store, I guess, or find it on YouTube or do what Markiplier is doing right now and just fund it
14:14yourself. That dude is nuts, man. He got like 2,500 screens for, for, for iron lung and, and he
14:20just did
14:20it himself. So that's one way to disrupt, I guess, the, the, the industry, right?
14:25Yeah. I mean, if you're going to look for some, some W's around it, you could look at Markiplier
14:29or a couple of YouTubers, like, like Raka Raka, you know, the Philippou brothers, uh, you know,
14:34I love their movies and their style and, uh, you know, Chris Stockman gets, I love what Neon's
14:40doing. You talked about a 24 cause I wear that hat all the time, but honestly, Neon's the true,
14:45the true trailblazer here. You know, they've got like what, six Palm door winners in a row.
14:50And they don't have that same commercial flavor to their indie style yet. Like a 24,
14:58a 24 is all about the merch and the idea more than, you know, nowadays, which I think kind of
15:03sucks, but, um, you know, there's some good indie studios and that's just the way of things, you
15:08know, Lionsgate used to be a, an indie studio. It'll probably be 10 years at the most before a 24
15:14is the
15:16big studio. That's probably owned by Disney. And it'll be someone else that we're like championing
15:21as like the little engine. Yeah. As long as they keep making originals, I'm not, you know, I'm not
15:25because they're doing really good stuff. They do green light scripts and projects and that's
15:29important. And, uh, that's to be, to be applauded for sure. Yeah. And there's even the big streamers,
15:34like especially HBO max has always had a really robust, like classic film library and, and,
15:40and international cinema. There's a lot of Bergman and stuff on HBO max. They're, they're great for
15:45that stuff. And, but if you look at again, man, to point it back at the audience, cause we already
15:50know everything the studios are doing that's whack and, but, and their men in suits have been
15:55ruining the world as long as since they've invented suits. Right. And it's like, okay, but also look at
16:00the audience and look at the, you know, the decline in literacy levels and, and, you know, just lack of
16:06curiosity in general nowadays, look at the top 10 on Netflix or HBO max at any given time.
16:12You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a bunch of garbage for the most part,
16:17um, that everybody's making fun of while they watch it. And so what the guys in suits do is go,
16:23well, this got 13 billion streams. Let's, let's make another one. Let's bring suits back.
16:28You know, let's bring suits back now that we're talking about suits, you know, let's just put it
16:34out there. Yeah. Let's just put it, let's make it obvious, I guess. No, I get you. I get you.
16:39I
16:39get you. But, and, and yeah, yeah. I mean, it, it's, it's a decline in, in, in the wow factor
16:44and
16:45not just that, but like the, wow, there, there's a specific term for that. There's all
16:51people are not surprised. They don't want to be surprised anymore. It's weird. It's a weird
16:57take. It's a weird take. Yeah. Lack of curiosity. Yeah. No, I get you. I get you. Well, on that
17:03end,
17:03I do want to go through our top five. Uh, I mean, we, we put out a top 10, um,
17:10um, this is coming
17:10out later. So we do, uh, we put out a top 10 of movies that will probably save 2026. Obviously
17:17most
17:18of these are big franchises. Most of these are big IPs. However, a lot of, I think sadly enough,
17:25a lot of the industry rides on the success or failure of most of these, right? Because that's,
17:30we're going to, that's where the decisions are going to come from to see what happens in the,
17:35in the movie industry. So I want to go through the top five movies that will save 2026. According
17:40to watch Mojo, this is according to us. I want to go through each one and see how you feel
17:45about them.
17:45And, uh, if you think they might go in that spot or not. All right. So number five is the
17:51Mandalorian and Grogu. This is coming out of, uh, you know, a successful TV run, a lot of,
17:57uh, you know, ups and downs in that, in that, um, in that franchise, but they're capping it off with
18:03a movie and people are, you know, seemingly excited about this one. I don't know. How do you feel?
18:09I'm excited. I'm not the biggest star Wars guy, uh, but I liked the Mandalorian. Um,
18:15um, I didn't like some of the, you know, book of Boba Fett and stuff that much. And we don't
18:20talk
18:20about book of Boba Fett. I think we need more and or than we do much, you know, those kinds
18:26of
18:26things, those kinds of stories, but yeah, I mean, I'll watch it day one, day one and be excited.
18:31It's not on my list, but it's, it's an exciting thing. It's going to do well. It's, it's star Wars,
18:35you know, it's star Wars. Yeah. You know, the, the, the marketing for that one's going to be a
18:39little bit insane. All right. So number four, we have Dune part three. So now we're talking.
18:45Yeah. Dune's day. They're calling it cause it's coming out the same day as Avengers doomsday.
18:50So do part three, how is that coming along? Cause didn't even know, right? He, this dude
18:58knows his sci-fi and I think they are big budget films, but they don't feel. And like, obviously
19:06the scale is, is enormous, but they don't feel I've never felt Dune is like a huge franchise
19:12like Avengers or, or anything like that, but they've quietly made the rounds in sci-fi and
19:16they're built huge, but they feel like really, you know, kind of homey and comfortable for a lot of
19:22people. Do you, do you kind of feel that way? I mean, that's, that's kind of my take on, on
19:27Dune
19:28and how I've enjoyed the, the, the two movies so far.
19:31No, I know what you mean. I think, you know, Dune is very similar to star Wars in many ways.
19:37In fact,
19:37star Wars borrowed a lot from Dune and it's DNA. Right. But Dune's weird. Right. And even though
19:44it's a really popular like book IP, it's weird. And, and I think Denis Villeneuve was the perfect
19:51director because the movies are weird. They're not, it's this giant successful blockbuster
19:55that's really not in any way made to have mass appeal, you know, exactly. Yeah. This is something
20:03for the nerds, the nerdiest of the nerds that now you've got Zendaya and Chalamet. And so
20:09everyone's watching like the nerdiest of the nerd stuff, you know, uh, is that the drive
20:14of the cast? That's, that's gotta be it. That's bringing all the audiences, right?
20:18Full cross sections of people that typically wouldn't watch sandworm, you know, movies,
20:24but in general, it's just a really good movie. And, uh, you know, Dune one and two are fantastic.
20:31And, and I think sometimes you sneak one of those in, in blockbuster form and then, and
20:37that's an impressive thing to, to, to accomplish. And that's what Denis Villeneuve and his team
20:41managed to do. And I'm so excited for doing three. I think that's an incredible choice.
20:45I mean, it probably is not related apart from the sand, but I, I did compare the first one,
20:50at least in my mind to, to, um, to, to Fury Road, right. To Mad Max, because you can tell
20:57that
20:58they were making like a movie, you can tell they enjoy doing that and the big spectacle,
21:03and it's just, you know, down, maybe not down and dirty, but it's, it's like really it's
21:10filmmaking, right. And it's what Denis Villeneuve does. And it's what George Miller did with,
21:14with, with Fury Road. And it felt like really genuine. And I think that's what drove me into
21:19the, the, into the world of Dune. So I enjoy that a lot when films look like they were made
21:26to, if that makes sense, right. Yeah. A thousand percent. I think, uh, Ethan Hawke said it best,
21:32and I'm going to paraphrase, but you know, it really doesn't matter how big the budget is or
21:36whether or not, whether or not it's a sequel or whether or not it's an IP, or if it's an
21:40indie film,
21:41you can tell no matter what it is, when something was made with heart and passion and when something
21:49was just trying to be cashed in on, you know, I think that's, that's the difference. And you can
21:55tell that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Dune part three, number three here is Spider-Man brand new day.
22:02Um, is Spider-Man the best run in the MCU? Uh, by what metric does it have?
22:11Is that the, the, the, the one that like it's been constantly good or most consistent quality,
22:18most consistent quality. Yeah. Ah, I guess you could say that. I mean, it wouldn't be the
22:23craziest thing to say. Um, a lot of people don't, I like all the Spider-Man movies. I like Tom
22:28Holland.
22:28I think they're, they're really fun. Even the ones that people don't typically like
22:31or say they don't, and I don't believe them like no way home or like, um, what is it? Um,
22:38what's the one with Jake Gyllenhaal that, uh, yeah. Uh, far from home. Far from home. Yeah. I know
22:44it's home in there somewhere. I knew that. Yeah. Everybody has like far from home is a really bad
22:48movie. I guess I don't see that. You know what I mean? Like those are all really, so yeah,
22:52I wouldn't fight you for saying that, uh, brand new day. Uh, for some reason I just, I'm not like
22:57thinking about that movie a lot, you know, I have, I have no interest, but I'll be there day one.
23:02And I, you know, I'm interested with Sadie Sink being in it and all that stuff, but I have no
23:07real
23:07hype. Yeah. It's been an interesting one. Cause they've hidden a lot of things, but then they
23:12put out a lot of things like to try and make it like grounded, you know, they put out the
23:17stunts
23:17and they put out the, you know, the, for those first images and videos of Tom Holland in the suit
23:22and going down the, the, the, the street and swing around and everything's practical now and stuff
23:27like that. So I think they're kind of shifting away from the cosmic and everything and just going
23:32back down to earth and having the punisher in there. And we don't know what Sadie Sink is going
23:37to do. So I think Spider-Man, I think it's, it's there at number three. Personally, I would have put
23:43it a little bit lower, um, maybe six or something like that. Cause I don't, but it is going to
23:47be an
23:48interesting, an interesting take on, on a Marvel franchise that, that, you know, it's, it's kind
23:53of finding its way back. So maybe, I don't know, maybe Spider-Man is the one to, to, to kind
23:58of
23:58bring people in before, before Doomsday, you know? And number two, go for it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
24:06Number two, we have the Odyssey. See this one, I would have had number one, but number two,
24:13the Odyssey, this one's interesting. How do you feel about the Odyssey right now with Chris Nolan?
24:18I mean, you can't help, but just kind of marvel at what Chris Nolan's able to do nowadays in a,
24:23in a world where it seems like a lot of people aren't that excited about most movies. You know,
24:29you've got a guy who is able to put butts in seats just based on his name as a director,
24:34you know,
24:34and that's something you haven't seen in a long time. And, you know, only a couple, you know,
24:40Tarantino kind of has that quality, but not anywhere near the magnitude that, that Nolan, I mean,
24:45he sold tickets to this thing over a year out and sold out, you know, sold out. Yeah. And that
24:50was
24:50just a flex for, there's no reason to do that. And yeah, so I'm, I'm stunned by that. I'm so
24:58excited
24:59to see, you know, what it is. I really liked Oppenheimer, my favorite Nolan movies, the
25:03prestige. So I'm not your typical like Nolan fan, but I love all, all of his movies for the most
25:08part
25:08and really excited for this one. Great cast. Yeah. No, it's super stacked. Yeah. I completely agree.
25:14And I think also the, the, the, the legends and the, and the behind the scenes of, of, of every
25:22Christopher Nolan movie, like he crashed the plane. And so we're even more excited to, to see what
25:27he's going to do for, for this one, for the Trojan horse, for the big, uh, that everybody's
25:34criticizing the historical accuracy, but everybody's like, we don't care about this. This looks like
25:38insane. This looks awesome. And we'll see how much of the Odyssey it covers and stuff like that. So
25:43I don't know. I, I feel this one is, is, it's, it's very much set for this year and to
25:49kind
25:49of establish Chris Nolan as the legend that he is. So I am also very excited about this
25:54one. And number one, I think, uh, is no nonsense is Avengers Doomsday. People say they don't care,
26:05but they so do care about this movie. The amount of content about theories and, and everything
26:14that's coming out of Ben Avengers Doomsday makes me think that people are excited to go back to
26:19theaters to watch, you know, watch the Avengers again and watch whatever combination of, I don't
26:24know, whatever happened in the MCU in the past, like eight years, it's going to come down to. So
26:29what's your take on Avengers Doomsday at number one for, for movies that will probably save 2026?
26:35Yeah. I mean, it's going to do, it's going to make money, you know, but I, I, I'm not super
26:42into the comic lore. I don't, I don't, I've never, I haven't read that many superhero comics. I'm
26:47really not the guy anybody comes to for this, but you know, I have seen all of the MCU movies
26:51and
26:51all of the shows. And, uh, you know, I was one of the many, many millions of people that was
26:57really
26:57invested in those, in the infinity saga and all that stuff. And, uh, I personally feel like
27:04Marvel has been floundering every time they do make a unique, like Thunderbolts was really good.
27:09You know what I mean? Yes. No, didn't do that well. So it's like, and now they're kind of
27:14embarrassing themselves with the marketing for doomsday and like, Oh, we got this Chris Evans
27:18and everybody's like, come on, man. You're just, so you're just panicking and going back
27:24to what was successful that you ended in a perfect way. You got no new ideas. You're done. You're
27:30cooked. Right. I do have this suspicion that the heyday of Marvel is over and the time of
27:37the time of DC has begun. And, and I didn't mean to make a pun with James Gunn's name there,
27:43but
27:44I did and I'll stick to it. Yeah. Got it. We'll clip it and we'll put it up. Yeah. No,
27:49perfect. But okay. Going back to Thunderbolts though, cause Thunderbolts was a great movie.
27:53I think I enjoyed Thunderbolts a lot. What happened? Was it the audience? Cause I think
27:59it was mostly the audience that kind of brought it down, but I'm not, I'm not sure about that
28:04one because I, you know, everyone I talked to, they really enjoyed it and it went up in the
28:09charts and, and, and, and, and streaming. And, but people didn't care to see it in the
28:16movies. Was it just like a marketing thing? Yeah. I think, you know, you got all these,
28:20I guess you could say, you know, they're kind of like C tier characters to, to most average
28:24people. And, and, but that shouldn't matter. You know, I think people forget like with guardians
28:31of the galaxy, only the nerdiest of the nerds knew who those characters were. You know what I mean?
28:36Like just kind of word traveled fast that it was a really fun, good movie. And now they're
28:41legendary heroes, you know, everyone, everyone acts like they always knew who Drax was and,
28:46you know, and maybe they did, but yeah, nobody had the star Lord t-shirt in 2003 and nobody had
28:55the star Lord pajamas when they were kids, you know, it just came back into style, you know?
29:00Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, but then that, that's kind of, it's not really apples to apples because
29:06the MCU in general was just in a different place then. But, um, I don't know, man, I really liked
29:11that movie. Everybody I know liked that movie, you know, I expected it to do better than it did.
29:16Yeah. I don't know. I, it's also like the bar is really set at a, at a point where it's
29:22almost
29:23unreachable now because like the, the, the peak of the MCU was nuts. So trying to build back up to
29:30there, I think is the worst mistake that they're trying to do instead of really banking on their
29:35heroes, their characters, and the amazing actors that they have on their, you know, on their,
29:40in their movies. So yeah, definitely. All right, man, let's close it out. I want to know what your
29:46top five, uh, movies that got you excited for 2026 hour. If you have them off the top of your
29:51head
29:51or you want to look at your, your letterbox, go for it. Yeah. I've got them. There's a bunch of
29:56stuff
29:56that we didn't get to talk about. Um, uh, had the odyssey there was the only crossover. So I can
30:01take that off. Cause we talked about that and I'll, I'll substitute it. Hmm. I'm going to put
30:05super girl in there. Uh, I think if I want to go for like straight hype, I mean, that's the
30:10movie
30:10that I really, really want to see right now. I'm really, I like Millie Alcock. I'm a huge house of
30:14the dragon fan and game of Thrones fan in general. You can see the swords and stuff back there, but
30:18yeah. Um, yeah. Uh, you know, big DC guy. So I'm, I'm hyped for that. Um, Maggie Gyllenhaal's
30:24the bride, I think looks incredibly interesting working with her brother, all kinds of good
30:29stuff. You know, Jesse Buckley probably be fresh off an Oscar win when that comes out. Um, werewolf,
30:34the new Robert Eggers film. Uh, I love the Northman. I love the witch lighthouse is great. Uh, big
30:42fan of Nosferatu. I mean, the guy just has an impeccable aura, I think as the kids would say,
30:46and I don't know anything about what's going on with that movie other than I really want to see
30:50it. Um, and then two more real quick, of course, Steven Spielberg. Anytime that guy drops a movie,
30:55you got to pay attention. Disclosure days coming out. Um, the cast looks really interesting for a
31:00Spielberg movie. You got Wyatt Russell and you know, just some, some interesting characters there. So
31:06that's probably the number one for me, but I do, uh, have to mention the new Inuritu film with Tom
31:11Cruz, Digger, you know, whatever they got cooking, haven't seen Cruz and anything that wasn't a
31:15mission impossible movie for a while. So it's, it's, I got to know what got him to get out of,
31:21you know, get out of doing the stunts and, and, and see what they've been working on. I mean,
31:25that's going to be amazing. I think so. Those, those would be my five. Um, there's all kinds of
31:31good stuff coming out this year, man. Yeah, no, this year is going to be, this year is going to
31:34be crazy. Thank you for putting that Mexican director in there. I always appreciate it.
31:38I'm a huge fan and Del Toro is probably my goat. So there you go. There you go. Perfect.
31:42That's one interview. Like I met him once, like face to face. I almost cried. It happens a lot
31:47here in Mexico. Yeah. Yeah. It happens a lot here in Mexico and like people see him and they kind
31:52of
31:52automatically cry, which is an interesting take. He's going to be at Kronos is playing at Sundance
31:57and he's going to be there. Oh, that's awesome. And so I might run into him. There's an opportunity.
32:01So yeah, I have a lot of fun. All right, Kit, thank you so much for talking with us today,
32:07man. Thanks for having me. It's an honor. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much.
32:10And we'll see you on the next one. Please tell people where they can find you on the internet.
32:16I'm on Tik TOK at movies are therapy. I'm on YouTube and Instagram at the same name. I have
32:20a podcast called streaming things. That's where it's what my hat is, where we talk about, uh,
32:24shows episode by episode, get into really deep dives. Um, people have a lot of fun over there.
32:29So check that out. That's mainly it. All right, perfect. So follow kit laser in, uh, movies,
32:34our therapy, and we will see you here on the next episode of mojo. Talk to you later. Bye guys.
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