WEBVTT - Mini Crush #8 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:29.520 Hey, everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush. Many Crush, Many Crush. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.240 It's the little crush. It's the tiniest, littlest, cutest damn 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:39.400 crush on the Internet. Yet it still crushes you. That 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.959 isn't about baby goats. How are you doing all? I'm 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:45.760 doing okay, man, I'm about about the same as when 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.640 we recorded a few minutes ago. Um beak behind the 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:53.920 curtain or ruining the magic? Call it what you will, man, 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.840 I'm sweating. It is hot in here. How do you 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.960 have on that coat? I don't know. I'm not feeling 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.000 it like you are, Chuck. Jeez. Alright, I don't know 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.880 what's going on. Um, Welcome everyone. I hope these many 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.880 crushes are going well for you. I am certainly enjoying them. 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.520 And I think Nola is how big time. I don't 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.960 want to speak for you, No speak away, all right. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.120 My name is Nolan. I'm super hot too, and I 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.760 just don't support Chuck lies. All right. This week we're 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:30.120 gonna start with segment one, social studies. And as you know, 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:36.360 social studies is when I ask you on Facebook on 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:41.640 the movie Crush page a little question and everybody answers. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.120 And this week We're going to go with this question, 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.840 what actor or actress will make you see a movie 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.880 just because they're in it? And why how about that 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.280 it's making It's making me think, Yeah, um, I'm going 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.800 to go, well, I have a couple of answers. As 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.240 you usual, that's so cheat when it comes to these things. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:08.200 Part of me says Michael Shannon just because he's so 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.600 awesome and I will see anything that he's in for sure. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.880 I recently heard him describe on NPR as as constantly 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.000 playing bug eyed psychopaths, and I was like, that's not 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:20.840 very nice. That's just how he looks. But then I 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.839 looked at pictures of him and he doesn't always look 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.640 like that. He can totally put on the bug eyed expression, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.680 and that is like a thing that he does. He's 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.040 a very attractive man. He's acting. Um sonal has a 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.079 rush on Michael Shannon, which is great. But then part 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.800 of me also says, um, like, you know, like George 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.919 Clooney because of this reason, is George Clooney the best 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.240 actor ever? No? But he's really solid. And my deal 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:51.280 with Cloones is if I'm talking about, well I see 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.360 a movie if he's in it, I know it's gonna 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.400 be a good movie because people like George Clooney can 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.760 be super selective. Now, the George Clooney's and the Julia 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.080 rob Birds of the world are super selective in their movies. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.160 So nine times out of ten, a George Clooney movie 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.120 is gonna be a really good movie. Michael Clayton is 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.400 gonna be a great movie. Syriana is gonna be a 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.880 great movie. Um Oh, brother, Where Art Thou is gonna 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:19.040 be a great movie. Um So, if you're asking what 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.480 movie would I see just because they're in it, Clooney's 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.919 pretty solid choice for me for that reason. Minus Nicolas Cage. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.839 Come on, don't no one alive has seen every movie 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.239 Nicolas cages and makes so many. I don't know. I 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.440 I think he's a delight. I'm really excited about his 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.280 new movie Mandy coming out. Apparently he I've heard about 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.600 that Chainsaw Fight and yeah, yeah, like it's the guy 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.440 that directed that movie Beyond the Black Rainbow that was 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.240 kind of this throwback VHS style like Cynth the eighties, 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.560 you know, sci fi, and this one is apparently Nicolas 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.400 Cage at his most batshit and unhinged and used properly, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.280 because Nicolas Cage is like a deadly weapon in the 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.200 wrong hands. Yes, you're gonna burn the town down, which 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.080 is to say, his own hands. Yeah. Uh, I don't know. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.560 I I think he's a fascinating character. I'm only half joking. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.040 I love saying his bad movies. You know, the Wickerman 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.960 Is is insanely bad. I would not I didn't see that, 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.040 you know, or we're on two opposite sides of the 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.840 spectrum here in shock. I like the original though. Um 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.640 all right, I'm gonna go ahead and start listing some 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.360 of these. Erica Winter says Richard Jenkins. Boy, he's great. Uh. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.400 He's an incredible actor, elevates even a mediocre script with 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.640 his interpretation. Um, I agree with that. I don't know. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.560 You said you didn't love Shape of Water, but didn't 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.800 you think he was fantastic? I mean he's great now 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.080 six ft under his is one of my top three 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.039 all time shows, and he's just every time he appears 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:44.599 as the uh, the ghost Father, the ghost Father, ghost Dad. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:49.240 He is ghost Dad, um fox Rain Matthews, says Gene Wilder. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.240 I was raising Foster Care growing up and always imagine 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.680 him as my long lost father. That's how it started. Anyway. Boy, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.320 that's a great reason we have a lot of Tom 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.480 Hanks's in here. Uh Brett well said, says Tom Hanks, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.120 because he's been in a variety of roles in film 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:10.440 genres comedy, drama, crime, suspense, dark, rom com, sci fi, animation. Um, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.880 that is true. Tom Hanks is solid. He doesn't really 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.000 pick a stinker either. Usually. I mean, I'm not usual 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.920 about those Da Vinci movies. Those are just not my thing. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.880 But not into that either. I'm sure they're fine. Did 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.880 you see Cloud Atlas. That's one of those ones that 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.320 people either said was fucking amazing or unwatchably bad, and 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:27.680 I have not seen it, so I have yet to 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.000 make a determination. Now I need to check that out. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.920 Quite a few Tom Hardy's as well. Uh Kayla m 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.960 h says Tom Hardy. Not only is he gorgeous, but 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.279 I love the intensity he brings to his roles. That 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.760 is certainly true. He's great. Have you seen Bronson? Oh? Yeah, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.360 so so good. That's where he's Yeah, that's started for me, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.400 at least one where he's all beefed up. It's like 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.520 a clockwork orange in a lot of ways, like the 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.520 story to that movie, and just the way it's that's 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.680 a true story, the way it's shot, and like the 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.920 way that character progresses reminds me a lot of of 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.119 of Kubrick and Orange for sure. Blaine Turner says, Tilda 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.919 Swinton so captivating and really vanishes into her characters. That 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.719 is certainly true. She's wonderful. Nick Kelly, I'll see anything 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.600 Ryan Gosling since Drive came out mainly to see if 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.560 he's playing dark Side Ryan or Lars Ryan. Yeah. Man, 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:24.920 he's really versatile. I like Gosling. Same man Crush Avalon Rector. Hey, 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.400 we heard from Avalon on listener, mail on the last one. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.040 Dame Maggie Smith, She's a powerhouse and rocks everything she does. 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.440 Her stint on doubt and Abbey as a startastic, sarcastic 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:40.440 Dowager is tops. Boy, you are right there, Greta Coning, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.480 says Daniel day Lewis. Of course, yeah, I just saw 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.480 Fantom Thread. I have not seen it yet. I'm very 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.240 much looking forward to it. Man, what a movie. Jason 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:54.120 Hancock again with Daniel day Lewis and anything Um. Vanessa 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.120 Lopez is Steve ba Shimmy. Sometimes the movies isn't aren't 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.600 great like con Aaron Armageddon, but he's a great character actor, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.479 always entertaining. Conn Air is a masterpiece. I don't know 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:10.520 what you're talking about, uh Rene Chevez. John Cusack, So 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.600 I'll say anything. When I was an impressionable thirteen year old, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:15.559 when my home life was a wreck and I escaped 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.600 to the movies with movies and music, He's been a 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.280 part of my movie going life since then. Uh yeah, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.400 I like John Cusack. But boy, you want to read 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.720 some stories read about crazy John Cusack stories in Chicago. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.840 Apparently not the not the nicest fellow. Yeah, he sounds 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:41.680 like a real piece of work. Jennifer fitz Fee says 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:47.360 Robert Daval, Wayne Hickson says Jason Statham, Dan Stillheart Brody 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.960 says Gary Oldman, Shannon Lambert. Tom Cruise In any action movie, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.160 Tom Cruise can rock the action picture. He's really good 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.920 at running. I will say I'll say that. Oh man, 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.400 I saw a thing the other day where showed the 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.920 real you know, he's famous for doing his own stunts, 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.280 and they showed the behind the scenes. Um, I guess 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.200 this is new mention impossible where he jumps from one 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.800 building to another, and it's really him, and he has 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.240 of course wires and stuff. But he runs and jumps 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.520 off of a building to another one and slams into 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.800 the wall, comes up short and it shows it in 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.120 slow mo and like cracks his ankle sideways. So he's 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.840 wired and stuff, but he got like legit injured. And 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.000 it's crazy. Even if I had wires, I don't know 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.160 if I would do that. Well, he's like obviously some 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.440 kind of magical ageless pixie creature because he looks like 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.320 he's twenty years old. He's got to be pushing like fifties. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.440 I don't know, how do you think he is? Dude, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.520 I'm forty six and he's at least ten or twelve 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.280 years older than me. Crazy. I think you think he's 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.240 drinking children's blood or something to keep looking like that. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:54.800 He's drinking that scientology juice. Uh. Annabelle Sutton says Benedict 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:59.520 Cumberbatch and Kristen Bell two great picks. I love me some. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.240 Kristen Bell, She's great. Oh Man, Mary Lydia, the late 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:09.520 great Philip Seymour Hoffman. Absolutely heartbreaking. Rob. Speaking of heartbreaking, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.960 Rob Dickinson says Bill Paxton, always so grounded and relatable. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.480 That is certainly true. I really enjoyed a big love 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.720 a lot. I think that wasn't a lot of people's 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.840 number one HBO show, but I watched at every moment 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.440 of that, and I think he is such a grounded, 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:28.120 interesting character, like flawed, but also just very human and 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.240 relatable in that show as unrelatable a situation as that, 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.000 you know show, I think we saw that. I never 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.200 saw that. It's great about the you know, polygamy in Utah. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.240 Debbie Huntsman dropped, says Meryl Streep. Well, I know that's 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.800 a bit of an obvious answer, but you can't go 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:48.480 wrong with Meryl Streep. Tim Curry from Lisa Matta Bond interesting. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:52.000 Tim Curry is great. Um, it's pretty sad that he is, 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.440 uh not gonna be acting anymore. I think he's making 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.600 appearances though. Someone said that he was at a con. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.200 They saw him at a con recently, and that he is, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.240 you know, with it enough to like do those appearances. Yeah, 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.240 he had a pretty severe stroke. Wasn't that what it was? 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.360 That was what it was. Yeah, very sad. The great 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.960 Tim Tim Curry and his best work is in the 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.200 movie Congo. If you haven't seen Congo at some serious 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.200 scenery chewing character at you know, I'm talking about one 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.920 with the monkeys shooting the lasers. Yeah, it was like, 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.360 you know, a cash grab after Jurassic Park did so well. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.079 It is Jurassic Park, it is not, I tell you right. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:30.200 Kristen Glenn kissed her, says Helen Mirren. Always totally agree. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.920 I have the biggest crush on here and Helen Mirren. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.079 That's me talking. By the way, Katherine Burwit's You and 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.960 McGregor you went was pretty great. Robert lamb our own 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:41.600 Robert lamb and the stuff to plow your mind, says 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.680 Brad Dorriff, because you know he's always going to breathe 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.200 the right level of wide eyes insanity into the part. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.360 And now I google Brad Dorriff. He was the voice 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.480 of Chucky tell you that. Oh he's also the dock 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.719 and uh in Deadwood and yeah, well he was, and 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.720 he was I remember him from one floor of the 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.480 Cuckoo's Nest. Oh my god, I didn't even remember that, 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.160 but yeah, he was one of the asylum mates. Like yeah, 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.360 and the kind of the main A lot of the 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.880 story revolves around what happens to him, which I won't spoil, 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.680 even though the movie is like a hundred years old. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.959 Jessica Foley says Julia Roberts. Yeah, that's true what I 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.720 mentioned earlier. She doesn't act much anymore, and you can 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.280 bet if she does, it's going to be a pretty 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.520 good movie. Remembering your tig guitar interview, she was talking 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.760 about Share not Share. It was only you know dozen 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.720 movie Once in a Blue Moon, and they're all super high. Caliper, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.120 I think that's an interesting one too, totally. Brian Throckmorton, No, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.680 what's up Brian and O'Brian from way back? Sally Hawkins 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:47.920 and Sam Rockwell. Sam Rockwell for sure, all right, I 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.720 guess that probably winds it up that I read enough. Yeah, 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.520 that was a good number. Eve Elliott, Vigo Mortenson. Oh, yes, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.760 is good history of violence. I watched that again for 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.760 the first time in years recently, and excellent excellence. Did 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.400 you see Captain Fantastic? I loved it so great. I 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.400 think I got a bad rap for being too overly 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.760 smalty or you know, I thought it was just amazing. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.360 It just got me. Caleb Wyant says Bill Murray and 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.079 Michael Sarah Hey there's a there's a Nick Cage fan 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:21.959 in here. Adam Balkovic, my boy. Nice. All right, So 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.760 we're gonna move on. Thanks for those answers. That was great. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.120 We're gonna move on a segment to and we're gonna 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:32.000 do Highlight Reel this week. And so for Highlight Reel, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.320 as you know, I just highlight whatever I feel like highlighting, 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.000 whether it's a movie or an actor or a director, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.160 or maybe a a few movies from a director. And 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.200 this week I'm gonna go with the wonderful actor Amy 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.760 Adams Um one of my favorites. Um her career, you know, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.040 she started in TV, did a bunch of TV small 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.080 roles for a few years, kind of the traditional path, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.800 and then the first thing I saw her in was 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.960 Catch Me if you can, the great Steven Spielberg. Move 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.640 Me with Leo DiCaprio is the I can't remember his name, 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.960 but the true story of the guy who wrote fake 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:11.440 checks to great success, just like an expert grifter. Yes, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.600 expert grifter. That's a good way to I like that too, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.679 because it's you know, it's a period pieces like seventies. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.760 I got her late late sixties, and there's a part 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.640 in Atlanta. That's always interesting. Yeah, yeah, when there's this 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.080 party pad in midtown or something. Yeah. Well, actually that 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.040 party pad was a was a party pad near the 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:32.040 Chattahoochee River and it was a legendary apartment complex on 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.640 the on the hooch for um singles only, like no kids, 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.280 and it was pretty I had looked it up, I 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.480 remember at the time, and it was just kind of 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.040 one of those places that existed only in that time. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.360 That's awesome. That's a good, good bit of trivia there 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.839 key party every night. Um. So she wasn't catch me 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.439 if you can, and she played the kind of dough 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.640 i'de um, well, young wife. He married her. I think 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.120 she had even braces at the beginning of the role. Um, 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.320 and she was just so long at the time. And 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.200 then she kind of broke out from there in two 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.920 thousand five with the great as a critic, starling in 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.800 the great independent film June Bug Um. That really put 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.600 her on the map. And then she had a really 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.840 terrific run over the next few years and Sunshine Cleaning. 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.080 Um in doubt, doubt did you see that? That's a 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.720 great one now I should though I know people it's 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.640 pretty hard yeah. Um, Julie and Julia of course. In 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.840 two thousand ten, David or Russell's The Fighter and the 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.240 Master in two thousand twelve, pretty heavy year for her. Uh, 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:37.640 two thousand thirteen American Hustle and then Arrival and Nocturnal Animals. Um, 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.360 just a couple of years ago. Have you seen Nocturnal Animals? 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.720 I love not Colonel an Daddy. It's intense, but it's perfect. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:49.680 Hits all the boxes for me. It's like, yep, creepy, atmospheric, surreal, yep, violent, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.480 amazing performances. It's got that kind of unreliable narrator quality 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.880 to which, yeah, like it's a really cool movie. Yeah. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.280 I saw Not Turnal Animals without knowing anything about it, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:02.440 which is wonderful when that happens, because the name doesn't 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.280 really tell you much and uh, you're really not sure 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.600 where the story is going when you start watching that movie. Yeah. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.320 And Michael Shannon like doesn't play a bug eyed sociopath 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.040 and that one. I think he's like the sheriff, like 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.880 a kind of a good guy character. That's right, so 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:19.200 he can do it. Um. Anyway, She's just great. She's 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.640 been a lot of movies in between obviously in Big Eyes, 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.440 which I did not like, but she's great. Um. She 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.840 had a small part in the Spike Jones movie Her, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.480 which I just saw giving me in the Night Good movie, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.760 and of course played Lowis Lane, probably the best thing 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.840 about those Superman movies to me. Uh. And she's just 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.760 so versatile. When Amy Adams shows up, you know you're 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.360 gonna get a great performance. UM. She has ability to 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.080 be so natural no matter what role she's playing. UM. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.440 And that's really like the mark of a great actor 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.480 to me, is when they're just you can never tell 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.840 that she's acting. She's just so effortless and everything that 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.600 she's in UM physically she's really or she's like a 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:01.800 casting director's dream because she can play the plane, Jane 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:06.400 next Door or um like an American Hustle. She can 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.760 you can glamor her up because she's very beautiful obviously, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.640 but she can run the gamut on who she plays. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.400 She can play anything. UM. And again, it's just so effortless. 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.240 She's there's really no role that I don't think that 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.120 she could tackle UM successfully, and you can tell. In 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.920 the past few years, obviously, everything from American Hustle, which 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.400 she just chewed through that movie, um tow Arrival, which 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:35.560 was a very um kind of an internal performance. I think, 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:37.880 is that a fair way of saying it? I think so, Yeah, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.560 it's not big, no, but there's exactly there's a lot 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.280 of emotional complexity in that that reveals itself kind of 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.400 gradually throughout the movie, and then there's a big kind 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.040 of reveal. Yeah, big, big stuff. I love that movie. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.280 That movie really got me. Yeah, me too. If you're 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.400 not like Shedding Tears and Arrival, then again you're dead inside. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.960 Uh So that's my high real for the week, Amy 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.240 adams Man. Maybe one day the show can get to 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:04.800 the point where I'm sitting down with people like her. 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:12.000 You didn't like Big Eyes, No, how come? I thought 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.360 the movie just wasn't very good. And Christoph Waltz Um. 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:20.280 The casting of Christoph Waltz really bugged me. Yeah, because 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.960 he was from Oklahoma and christof Foltz comes in there. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.960 He didn't he can't hide his accent and he is 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:32.679 just the man from Oklahoma nunciates everything yeah, and he 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.520 didn't even try. It was so weird. It just threw me. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.159 It threw me from the whole movie because I was 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.480 just like, why why why cast a German guy to 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.960 play dude from Oklahoma? I can see that. I guess 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.840 I didn't. It wasn't made real clear in the movie 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.240 that he was from Oklahoma to me, and I didn't 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.080 know anything about the story, and I just thought I 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.159 probably thought he was Austrie in Ergot. Yeah, but to me, 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.480 that didn't really playing into the into the movie. But 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.159 I I quite enjoyed it. But it's a real cloying, awful, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.880 awful character. Yeah, he's just like the worst he steals 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.800 you know, his uh he basically like kind of marries 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.199 this woman who is a really talented painter, he himself 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.439 is like a hack painter, and then ends up like 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:17.720 stealing her work and almost like keeping her enslaved, almost 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.639 for it's such a crazy story that it kind of 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.920 kept me invested in. I like a small Tim Burton 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.640 movie too, so that it had me in that respect. 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.600 But alright, I can see what you're saying. Chuck thumbs 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:33.560 up from Noel and Big Guys thumbs down from me down. 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.479 Although Amy Adams was great, and I think I remember 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.280 just feeling like that true story deserved better than what 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:45.720 it got. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.679 but not literally because we're it worked all right, and uh, 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:54.560 finally we finished with stream this and comment card stream this. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:00.320 I yesterday in real time watched the rich A Wowl. 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:05.480 Have you seen it yet? Horror? Yes, isn't Netflix original? 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:10.840 Well that's not true. Netflix bought it. But Atlantic guys 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:12.920 that had something to do with it. Yeah. David Bruckner. Okay, 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.119 So David Bruckner is a local Atlanta filmmaker. He made 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.320 his name originally with his his part to the anthology 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.000 horror movie The Signal. Um it was a three part 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.679 and he on He went on to do three anthology 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.879 movies in a row. So he did segments of The Signal, 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:34.720 VHS and Southbound and um, I personally think he was 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:36.600 probably the best part of all three of those movies. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.159 But Bruckner is super talented and it took him a 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.400 long time to get his first feature under his belt. 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.760 He was he he really made a name for himself. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.919 So he was attached to the Friday reboot for a 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.600 while and as it goes in Hollywood, it kind of 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.760 wanted to turn around, hell, I think, and he never 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.320 got that off the ground. Um, you know, not his 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.240 fault of course, and uh, it just took a while 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.480 for for David and to get in there and get 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.080 his first feature going. And I think this one came 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.920 together pretty quick. Um. In the end, it was based 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:12.600 on a novel, um, maybe a novella short novel. Uh. 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.200 And it's called The Ritual. Just released in real time 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.280 here uh this week, so that would be kind of 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:23.440 early mid February, and it's it's really good, it's unnerving. Um. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.640 And actually got in touch with David and he's gonna 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.320 be on the show, which is gonna be great. Cool. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.080 He's in l A now, so it's gonna have to 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.720 be out there. So the Dan Bush just kind of 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.840 in that world too, write correct. Dan also directed one 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:40.640 of the signal pieces in Our Illustrious Boss, Conald Byrne 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.000 is in those movies often that's right, that that is 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:49.080 it comes weirdly full circle here. Um. But The Ritual 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:54.399 is story about these four friends, um and uh. I 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:58.600 guess they're in London at the beginning of the movie. Um, 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.199 but they're they're British do and I don't want to 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.399 spoil anything, but the friends end up going on a 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:10.240 hiking trip through Sweden to honor their friend um. And 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.560 they take a shortcut through the forest to get to 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:17.399 the wherever they're going to end up like a lodge 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.480 to get there quicker. Uh. And as you know, when 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.480 you take a shortcut through the forest, bad things happen 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.800 every single time. Every single time, I'm like, how do 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.640 these people not know they're in a horror movie? Don't 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.440 do it? Don't go that well. In fact, one of 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:36.160 the characters even has a line that says, uh, shortcuts 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:39.920 like aren't even real or something, because if if they were, 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:45.000 they would just be called the route, you know, the 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:49.080 exactly the trudge. So the ritual is great. It's um 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.640 genuinely unnerving and spooky and creepy. And David does an 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.440 exceptional job of my favorite thing in these kind of movies, 0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:00.119 which is called dread building, um, not giving you too 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:05.360 much really anticipate, like building up this anticipation of oh shit, 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.000 what is going on here? What is going to happen 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:10.920 with these guys? What is this thing in the woods 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:16.320 that is haunting slash stalking them? Uh? Really really terrific 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:19.359 job there. And the hardest part of these movies to 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.320 me is the payoff that that end, you know, fifteen 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:25.240 or twenty minutes or so. The third act is really 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.359 tough in a movie like this because there's always the 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:30.080 choice of like, if there is a creature, do you 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:31.879 how much do you show of the creature? Do you 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.639 give it all away? Do you explain it or not? Um? 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:37.080 And I just think David did a great job wrapping 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:39.679 this one up. It was satisfying to me on all levels. 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:42.600 Just hearing you describe it kind of makes me think 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.360