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A to Z Quick Tok 72 | What's your favorite Disney movie?

Nov 12, 2023

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In this episode of the podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss their favorite Disney movies.

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00:00:00

Jack

You're listening to the A-Z English podcast.

00:00:12

Jack

Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are going to do a quick talk episode and the question is what is your favorite?

00:00:25

Jack

Disney movie what is your favorite Disney movie?

00:00:30

Xochitl

Yeah, that's a hard one.

00:00:32

Jack

Yeah, I'll let you jump in first.

00:00:34

Xochitl

Well, I guess Pixar was bought by Disney.

00:00:40

Xochitl

So I'm gonna go against the grain just because so many of the classics battle it out for the first place in my heart.

00:00:48

Xochitl

And say.

00:00:51

Xochitl

Luca from Pixar?

00:00:53

Xochitl

Is one of my favorite.

00:00:55

Xochitl

Have you seen that one?

00:00:55

Jack

Really, no, I haven't seen it yet.

00:00:58

Xochitl

I feel like you have to see it because I love all the classics. There's so much nostalgia there. I can't just pick one.

00:01:06

발표자

There's the new.

00:01:07

Xochitl

Movies that have come.

00:01:09

Xochitl

Luca is the first movie I saw in a long time I saw. I think it came out in like 2019 or 2020.

00:01:18

Xochitl

That made me feel.

00:01:19

Xochitl

Like I was a child again.

00:01:22

Xochitl

It had so much like nostalgic feel.

00:01:26

Xochitl

And so much like.

00:01:30

Xochitl

It just it was a beautiful original story and it was very nostalgic and it made me feel like a child again. And it was full.

00:01:36

Xochitl

Of so.

00:01:37

Xochitl

Much childlike wonder, and it was beautiful. I just loved it. And.

00:01:44

Xochitl

Yeah, I think.

00:01:48

Xochitl

I I think that's gonna have to be my favorite for that reason.

00:01:51

Jack

OK. Well, I'm just surprised you chose. You chose a rather new movie, like Lucas pretty.

00:01:52

Xochitl

How about you, Jeff?

00:01:57

Xochitl

I know.

00:01:58

Jack

And it's also maybe one of the one of the lesser known Star Movies.

00:02:03

Xochitl

No new ones. Yeah, it's like an underrated thing, but it's beautiful. It's a beautiful movie. You have to watch.

00:02:07

Jack

Right.

00:02:10

발표자

I think it got good.

00:02:11

Xochitl

It but yeah.

00:02:12

Jack

Reviews, you know, critics liked it. I just think it just didn't resonate with people. Probably.

00:02:19

Jack

You know, maybe sometimes it's something as as simple as just the name. They probably looked at it. Look, they don't know what it's about. It's not, you know, it's not like Toy Story, which is a story about toys, you know, it's.

00:02:31

Jack

Like what's Luke? What is?

00:02:31

Xochitl

Right. Well.

00:02:34

Jack

A Luca. I don't know what that is. I'm not gonna, you know, watch it.

00:02:38

Xochitl

Think it was released like in a bad time like theaters had just shut down because of COVID 2 and like I believe part of the the animation and like voice acting and stuff had to be done from home because of the virus.

00:02:53

Jack

OK.

00:02:54

Xochitl

Because I think it came out in like 2020 and it like was.

00:02:57

Xochitl

Finished. You know, they finished working on it in 2019. I'm not 100% on that, but it was something like that. So it was difficult.

00:03:06

Jack

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a lot of stuff. Got lost in the shuffle of COVID-19. Just maybe some classics kind of slipped under the radar and people missed out on them. And so, I mean, this is good. Like, you're giving it a good endorsement here.

00:03:08

Xochitl

But it was.

00:03:24

Xochitl

Yeah, watch it.

00:03:25

Jack

Audience members check out Luca. Yeah.

00:03:29

Xochitl

Yeah. How about you, Jack?

00:03:31

Jack

I'm going to go.

00:03:33

Jack

I've got a couple deep cuts here these.

00:03:36

Jack

Are I'm torn between 2:00. The first one is the black cauldron. Have you ever heard of this movie? The black cauldron?

00:03:46

Xochitl

No, I think this is before my time, Jack.

00:03:49

Jack

This came out in 1985.

00:03:52

Xochitl

Yeah, that's like 10. That's eleven years before I was even born.

00:03:57

Jack

This is when they used to still draw draw the uh movies. You know, they had one guy in an office drawing all the the all the, you know, pictures.

00:03:57

발표자

OK.

00:04:08

발표자

I don't know.

00:04:10

Jack

But yeah, this was very much kind of like.

00:04:15

Jack

Kind of like a dungeons and Dragons. Kind of a story. You know, elves and and witches. And, you know, obviously called right. And the cauldron was black as far as I remember.

00:04:24

발표자

Right.

00:04:29

Jack

I don't really remember this movie at all, like I can't remember the story, but I it is the first movie that I ever saw in a movie theater.

00:04:40

Jack

So 8 years old, seven or eight, and it's the first time I had ever gone to the cinema. And so that was the I, I I as soon as I walked out of that movie theater, I'm like, turned to my cousin. And I said that's my favorite movie I've ever. That's the best movie I've ever seen in my life.

00:05:00

Jack

You know well it was.

00:05:02

Jack

The only movie I've ever.

00:05:03

Xochitl

That's it.

00:05:03

Jack

Seen. Yeah, in a movie theater. But yeah. But it was. It has a special place in my heart for, and it's not considered a Disney classic at all. As a matter of fact.

00:05:14

Jack

UM, it got a lot of bad press or publicity because it was said to be demonic and you know, like.

00:05:24

Jack

You know, witches and all this. Yeah, yeah.

00:05:25

Xochitl

Witchcraft and all that.

00:05:28

Jack

All that sort of stuff.

00:05:31

Jack

The second one that I really enjoyed, I saw when I was in my mid 20s.

00:05:37

Jack

Our early 20s and it was called the Emperor's New Groove.

00:05:42

Xochitl

Oh my God, I loved that. That was like one of my. That was my other contender for top. I was like, you know, this is my favorite. I love this one. It's updated. I was about when you were done. Just telling your second one I was gonna be. I was gonna go and be like if we can do 2 then emperors new groove is up there and it's so funny because you just said I'm for his.

00:05:46

Jack

Yes, in such an underrated movie.

00:05:50

Jack

Right.

00:06:01

Xochitl

New groove and that's definitely one of my favorites.

00:06:03

Xochitl

Alright, go ahead and explain.

00:06:04

Jack

Why you I love it. Because it's so weird.

00:06:08

Jack

Weird. It's like it's wickedly strange, right? It's way. It's weird. Funny. It's absolutely weird. Funny. Like the there's just. It's so punchy. Like, there's so many jokes. It just one after the other. And the old lady character, the Eartha Kitt, is the voice is so.

00:06:10

Xochitl

Anything funny?

00:06:26

Xochitl

Yeah, yeah.

00:06:28

Xochitl

8-9.

00:06:29

Jack

Over the top and her like man, slave kind of guy. It's so funny.

00:06:33

Xochitl

Yeah, crunch. Yeah.

00:06:37

Xochitl

It was funny because, like I've seen, I rewatched this movie periodically. I've seen all the classics, but emperors. New groove is like on the top of.

00:06:44

Xochitl

Ones that I rewatched.

00:06:47

Xochitl

And it's so funny. And there's, like, so many things that as an adult, because I I saw it as a little kid, I saw this in theaters. I saw them, this new group in theaters.

00:06:56

Xochitl

The little kid, really little kid I was.

00:06:58

Xochitl

Like less than six years.

00:07:00

Xochitl

Old when it came out.

00:07:02

Jack

That's so funny.

00:07:02

Xochitl

And I found it.

00:07:04

Xochitl

To be so funny. Yeah. And you're in your 20s. Yeah, that makes sense. I was like, I found it to be very funny.

00:07:12

Xochitl

And as an adult, there's so many.

00:07:15

Xochitl

Things about being.

00:07:15

Xochitl

A pick up on.

00:07:18

Jack

Yeah. It's not a kids movie. I mean, it's a kids movie, but there are a lot of, like, a lot of jokes.

00:07:24

Jack

In there for.

00:07:24

Jack

Adults see we when I saw my my roommate.

00:07:28

Jack

Was a worked for a worked for Fox.

00:07:33

Jack

On the fox.

00:07:33

Jack

Lot in Los Angeles, so she would get boxes of movies before they're released, you know, so that people could watch them. The Academy could vote. So you know, because they're some of the people in her office were Academy members.

00:07:34

Xochitl

Ohh cool.

00:07:50

Jack

And so they get to vote for the best movies, but they don't watch the movies in the movie theater. They have to watch them at home. And at that time it was all on tapes. So she would come home with three or four brand new movies that weren't even in the theater.

00:08:06

Jack

That and we would like watch them on TV. And so we she's like, let's watch the Emperor's new.

00:08:13

Jack

Groove and I was like.

00:08:14

Jack

Want to watch this stupid Disney movie? This is going to be ridiculous, and then we popped it in and we were just howling like it was so funny. Ohh my gosh, it's such a funny movie and I think people that don't know about it. But if you watch it, you will.

00:08:18

Xochitl

Right.

00:08:24

Xochitl

That's fine.

00:08:35

Jack

Find it funny. It is just funny. Yeah.

00:08:36

Xochitl

You don't like it?

00:08:39

Xochitl

It was like on the edge of the Disney Renaissance or something like that. And it was like they gave. They greenlit it because they the studio didn't really know what to do. I read about this at some point and I, and I'm gonna misquote a lot of information because I don't remember.

00:08:56

Xochitl

It fully what?

00:08:57

Xochitl

They said, but it was something like they.

00:09:00

Xochitl

It the project because the studio didn't really have a direction at the time and.

00:09:08

Xochitl

They just went ham with it. Basically they were allowed to do all the jokes and all the crazy characters and everything and the characters are so different from any Disney.

00:09:21

Xochitl

Movie because, uh, Cisco, the Emperor is not.

00:09:28

Xochitl

Really a great guy at the beginning. He's a horrible guy. Yeah, and.

00:09:32

Jack

Right, right.

00:09:35

Jack

He's not likeable. He's a David spade. He's the the, he's a comedian and he's a sarcastic comedian. Like, that's his whole stick. Yeah.

00:09:44

Xochitl

Yeah, he's very unlikable.

00:09:49

Xochitl

And Isma has kind of like a.

00:09:53

Xochitl

A man, save Cronk.

00:09:55

Xochitl

And umm, it's just a funny kind of premise, especially if you're older and and they color out cause like, oh, is this your new one?

00:10:03

Xochitl

You guys. Yeah, I did.

00:10:05

Jack

Right. It's like the it's like a May may December relationship you know the the old woman has this like young, you know, muscle muscular guy.

00:10:12

Xochitl

Young guy, he was 28 years old and he's like, really muscular and young and like, it's just a funny.

00:10:20

Xochitl

It's a funny premise because.

00:10:23

Xochitl

Everything about the movie is just like bizarre, but yeah, this is definitely one of my up there with my favorites and it's an underrated thing too.

00:10:31

Xochitl

Definitely underrated fave.

00:10:34

Xochitl

Yeah. Well, let us know. UM, what your favorite Disney movie is and give our favorite to try. I guess. Jack and I both recommend the Emperor's New Groove. I recommend Luca and Jack recommends a black coloring, which I'll have to go watch now because I honestly haven't heard of it.

00:10:49

Xochitl

So yeah, and we will see you guys next time.

00:10:54

Jack

Alright, bye bye.

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