Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush. Many Crush, Many Crush.
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Speaker 1: crush on the Internet. Yet it still crushes you. That
Speaker 1: isn't about baby goats. How are you doing all? I'm
Speaker 1: doing okay, man, I'm about about the same as when
Speaker 1: we recorded a few minutes ago. Um beak behind the
Speaker 1: curtain or ruining the magic? Call it what you will, man,
Speaker 1: I'm sweating. It is hot in here. How do you
Speaker 1: have on that coat? I don't know. I'm not feeling
Speaker 1: it like you are, Chuck. Jeez. Alright, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. Um, Welcome everyone. I hope these many
Speaker 1: crushes are going well for you. I am certainly enjoying them.
Speaker 1: And I think Nola is how big time. I don't
Speaker 1: want to speak for you, No speak away, all right.
Speaker 1: My name is Nolan. I'm super hot too, and I
Speaker 1: just don't support Chuck lies. All right. This week we're
Speaker 1: gonna start with segment one, social studies. And as you know,
Speaker 1: social studies is when I ask you on Facebook on
Speaker 1: the movie Crush page a little question and everybody answers.
Speaker 1: And this week We're going to go with this question,
Speaker 1: what actor or actress will make you see a movie
Speaker 1: just because they're in it? And why how about that
Speaker 1: it's making It's making me think, Yeah, um, I'm going
Speaker 1: to go, well, I have a couple of answers. As
Speaker 1: you usual, that's so cheat when it comes to these things.
Speaker 1: Part of me says Michael Shannon just because he's so
Speaker 1: awesome and I will see anything that he's in for sure.
Speaker 1: I recently heard him describe on NPR as as constantly
Speaker 1: playing bug eyed psychopaths, and I was like, that's not
Speaker 1: very nice. That's just how he looks. But then I
Speaker 1: looked at pictures of him and he doesn't always look
Speaker 1: like that. He can totally put on the bug eyed expression,
Speaker 1: and that is like a thing that he does. He's
Speaker 1: a very attractive man. He's acting. Um sonal has a
Speaker 1: rush on Michael Shannon, which is great. But then part
Speaker 1: of me also says, um, like, you know, like George
Speaker 1: Clooney because of this reason, is George Clooney the best
Speaker 1: actor ever? No? But he's really solid. And my deal
Speaker 1: with Cloones is if I'm talking about, well I see
Speaker 1: a movie if he's in it, I know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good movie because people like George Clooney can
Speaker 1: be super selective. Now, the George Clooney's and the Julia
Speaker 1: rob Birds of the world are super selective in their movies.
Speaker 1: So nine times out of ten, a George Clooney movie
Speaker 1: is gonna be a really good movie. Michael Clayton is
Speaker 1: gonna be a great movie. Syriana is gonna be a
Speaker 1: great movie. Um Oh, brother, Where Art Thou is gonna
Speaker 1: be a great movie. Um So, if you're asking what
Speaker 1: movie would I see just because they're in it, Clooney's
Speaker 1: pretty solid choice for me for that reason. Minus Nicolas Cage.
Speaker 1: Come on, don't no one alive has seen every movie
Speaker 1: Nicolas cages and makes so many. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: I think he's a delight. I'm really excited about his
Speaker 1: new movie Mandy coming out. Apparently he I've heard about
Speaker 1: that Chainsaw Fight and yeah, yeah, like it's the guy
Speaker 1: that directed that movie Beyond the Black Rainbow that was
Speaker 1: kind of this throwback VHS style like Cynth the eighties,
Speaker 1: you know, sci fi, and this one is apparently Nicolas
Speaker 1: Cage at his most batshit and unhinged and used properly,
Speaker 1: because Nicolas Cage is like a deadly weapon in the
Speaker 1: wrong hands. Yes, you're gonna burn the town down, which
Speaker 1: is to say, his own hands. Yeah. Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I think he's a fascinating character. I'm only half joking.
Speaker 1: I love saying his bad movies. You know, the Wickerman
Speaker 1: Is is insanely bad. I would not I didn't see that,
Speaker 1: you know, or we're on two opposite sides of the
Speaker 1: spectrum here in shock. I like the original though. Um
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna go ahead and start listing some
Speaker 1: of these. Erica Winter says Richard Jenkins. Boy, he's great. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's an incredible actor, elevates even a mediocre script with
Speaker 1: his interpretation. Um, I agree with that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You said you didn't love Shape of Water, but didn't
Speaker 1: you think he was fantastic? I mean he's great now
Speaker 1: six ft under his is one of my top three
Speaker 1: all time shows, and he's just every time he appears
Speaker 1: as the uh, the ghost Father, the ghost Father, ghost Dad.
Speaker 1: He is ghost Dad, um fox Rain Matthews, says Gene Wilder.
Speaker 1: I was raising Foster Care growing up and always imagine
Speaker 1: him as my long lost father. That's how it started. Anyway. Boy,
Speaker 1: that's a great reason we have a lot of Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks's in here. Uh Brett well said, says Tom Hanks,
Speaker 1: because he's been in a variety of roles in film
Speaker 1: genres comedy, drama, crime, suspense, dark, rom com, sci fi, animation. Um,
Speaker 1: that is true. Tom Hanks is solid. He doesn't really
Speaker 1: pick a stinker either. Usually. I mean, I'm not usual
Speaker 1: about those Da Vinci movies. Those are just not my thing.
Speaker 1: But not into that either. I'm sure they're fine. Did
Speaker 1: you see Cloud Atlas. That's one of those ones that
Speaker 1: people either said was fucking amazing or unwatchably bad, and
Speaker 1: I have not seen it, so I have yet to
Speaker 1: make a determination. Now I need to check that out.
Speaker 1: Quite a few Tom Hardy's as well. Uh Kayla m
Speaker 1: h says Tom Hardy. Not only is he gorgeous, but
Speaker 1: I love the intensity he brings to his roles. That
Speaker 1: is certainly true. He's great. Have you seen Bronson? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so so good. That's where he's Yeah, that's started for me,
Speaker 1: at least one where he's all beefed up. It's like
Speaker 1: a clockwork orange in a lot of ways, like the
Speaker 1: story to that movie, and just the way it's that's
Speaker 1: a true story, the way it's shot, and like the
Speaker 1: way that character progresses reminds me a lot of of
Speaker 1: of Kubrick and Orange for sure. Blaine Turner says, Tilda
Speaker 1: Swinton so captivating and really vanishes into her characters. That
Speaker 1: is certainly true. She's wonderful. Nick Kelly, I'll see anything
Speaker 1: Ryan Gosling since Drive came out mainly to see if
Speaker 1: he's playing dark Side Ryan or Lars Ryan. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: he's really versatile. I like Gosling. Same man Crush Avalon Rector. Hey,
Speaker 1: we heard from Avalon on listener, mail on the last one.
Speaker 1: Dame Maggie Smith, She's a powerhouse and rocks everything she does.
Speaker 1: Her stint on doubt and Abbey as a startastic, sarcastic
Speaker 1: Dowager is tops. Boy, you are right there, Greta Coning,
Speaker 1: says Daniel day Lewis. Of course, yeah, I just saw
Speaker 1: Fantom Thread. I have not seen it yet. I'm very
Speaker 1: much looking forward to it. Man, what a movie. Jason
Speaker 1: Hancock again with Daniel day Lewis and anything Um. Vanessa
Speaker 1: Lopez is Steve ba Shimmy. Sometimes the movies isn't aren't
Speaker 1: great like con Aaron Armageddon, but he's a great character actor,
Speaker 1: always entertaining. Conn Air is a masterpiece. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, uh Rene Chevez. John Cusack, So
Speaker 1: I'll say anything. When I was an impressionable thirteen year old,
Speaker 1: when my home life was a wreck and I escaped
Speaker 1: to the movies with movies and music, He's been a
Speaker 1: part of my movie going life since then. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I like John Cusack. But boy, you want to read
Speaker 1: some stories read about crazy John Cusack stories in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Apparently not the not the nicest fellow. Yeah, he sounds
Speaker 1: like a real piece of work. Jennifer fitz Fee says
Speaker 1: Robert Daval, Wayne Hickson says Jason Statham, Dan Stillheart Brody
Speaker 1: says Gary Oldman, Shannon Lambert. Tom Cruise In any action movie,
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise can rock the action picture. He's really good
Speaker 1: at running. I will say I'll say that. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I saw a thing the other day where showed the
Speaker 1: real you know, he's famous for doing his own stunts,
Speaker 1: and they showed the behind the scenes. Um, I guess
Speaker 1: this is new mention impossible where he jumps from one
Speaker 1: building to another, and it's really him, and he has
Speaker 1: of course wires and stuff. But he runs and jumps
Speaker 1: off of a building to another one and slams into
Speaker 1: the wall, comes up short and it shows it in
Speaker 1: slow mo and like cracks his ankle sideways. So he's
Speaker 1: wired and stuff, but he got like legit injured. And
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Even if I had wires, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I would do that. Well, he's like obviously some
Speaker 1: kind of magical ageless pixie creature because he looks like
Speaker 1: he's twenty years old. He's got to be pushing like fifties.
Speaker 1: I don't know, how do you think he is? Dude,
Speaker 1: I'm forty six and he's at least ten or twelve
Speaker 1: years older than me. Crazy. I think you think he's
Speaker 1: drinking children's blood or something to keep looking like that.
Speaker 1: He's drinking that scientology juice. Uh. Annabelle Sutton says Benedict
Speaker 1: Cumberbatch and Kristen Bell two great picks. I love me some.
Speaker 1: Kristen Bell, She's great. Oh Man, Mary Lydia, the late
Speaker 1: great Philip Seymour Hoffman. Absolutely heartbreaking. Rob. Speaking of heartbreaking,
Speaker 1: Rob Dickinson says Bill Paxton, always so grounded and relatable.
Speaker 1: That is certainly true. I really enjoyed a big love
Speaker 1: a lot. I think that wasn't a lot of people's
Speaker 1: number one HBO show, but I watched at every moment
Speaker 1: of that, and I think he is such a grounded,
Speaker 1: interesting character, like flawed, but also just very human and
Speaker 1: relatable in that show as unrelatable a situation as that,
Speaker 1: you know show, I think we saw that. I never
Speaker 1: saw that. It's great about the you know, polygamy in Utah.
Speaker 1: Debbie Huntsman dropped, says Meryl Streep. Well, I know that's
Speaker 1: a bit of an obvious answer, but you can't go
Speaker 1: wrong with Meryl Streep. Tim Curry from Lisa Matta Bond interesting.
Speaker 1: Tim Curry is great. Um, it's pretty sad that he is,
Speaker 1: uh not gonna be acting anymore. I think he's making
Speaker 1: appearances though. Someone said that he was at a con.
Speaker 1: They saw him at a con recently, and that he is,
Speaker 1: you know, with it enough to like do those appearances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a pretty severe stroke. Wasn't that what it was?
Speaker 1: That was what it was. Yeah, very sad. The great
Speaker 1: Tim Tim Curry and his best work is in the
Speaker 1: movie Congo. If you haven't seen Congo at some serious
Speaker 1: scenery chewing character at you know, I'm talking about one
Speaker 1: with the monkeys shooting the lasers. Yeah, it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, a cash grab after Jurassic Park did so well.
Speaker 1: It is Jurassic Park, it is not, I tell you right.
Speaker 1: Kristen Glenn kissed her, says Helen Mirren. Always totally agree.
Speaker 1: I have the biggest crush on here and Helen Mirren.
Speaker 1: That's me talking. By the way, Katherine Burwit's You and
Speaker 1: McGregor you went was pretty great. Robert lamb our own
Speaker 1: Robert lamb and the stuff to plow your mind, says
Speaker 1: Brad Dorriff, because you know he's always going to breathe
Speaker 1: the right level of wide eyes insanity into the part.
Speaker 1: And now I google Brad Dorriff. He was the voice
Speaker 1: of Chucky tell you that. Oh he's also the dock
Speaker 1: and uh in Deadwood and yeah, well he was, and
Speaker 1: he was I remember him from one floor of the
Speaker 1: Cuckoo's Nest. Oh my god, I didn't even remember that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he was one of the asylum mates. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: and the kind of the main A lot of the
Speaker 1: story revolves around what happens to him, which I won't spoil,
Speaker 1: even though the movie is like a hundred years old.
Speaker 1: Jessica Foley says Julia Roberts. Yeah, that's true what I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. She doesn't act much anymore, and you can
Speaker 1: bet if she does, it's going to be a pretty
Speaker 1: good movie. Remembering your tig guitar interview, she was talking
Speaker 1: about Share not Share. It was only you know dozen
Speaker 1: movie Once in a Blue Moon, and they're all super high. Caliper,
Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting one too, totally. Brian Throckmorton, No,
Speaker 1: what's up Brian and O'Brian from way back? Sally Hawkins
Speaker 1: and Sam Rockwell. Sam Rockwell for sure, all right, I
Speaker 1: guess that probably winds it up that I read enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a good number. Eve Elliott, Vigo Mortenson. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: is good history of violence. I watched that again for
Speaker 1: the first time in years recently, and excellent excellence. Did
Speaker 1: you see Captain Fantastic? I loved it so great. I
Speaker 1: think I got a bad rap for being too overly
Speaker 1: smalty or you know, I thought it was just amazing.
Speaker 1: It just got me. Caleb Wyant says Bill Murray and
Speaker 1: Michael Sarah Hey there's a there's a Nick Cage fan
Speaker 1: in here. Adam Balkovic, my boy. Nice. All right, So
Speaker 1: we're gonna move on. Thanks for those answers. That was great.
Speaker 1: We're gonna move on a segment to and we're gonna
Speaker 1: do Highlight Reel this week. And so for Highlight Reel,
Speaker 1: as you know, I just highlight whatever I feel like highlighting,
Speaker 1: whether it's a movie or an actor or a director,
Speaker 1: or maybe a a few movies from a director. And
Speaker 1: this week I'm gonna go with the wonderful actor Amy
Speaker 1: Adams Um one of my favorites. Um her career, you know,
Speaker 1: she started in TV, did a bunch of TV small
Speaker 1: roles for a few years, kind of the traditional path,
Speaker 1: and then the first thing I saw her in was
Speaker 1: Catch Me if you can, the great Steven Spielberg. Move
Speaker 1: Me with Leo DiCaprio is the I can't remember his name,
Speaker 1: but the true story of the guy who wrote fake
Speaker 1: checks to great success, just like an expert grifter. Yes,
Speaker 1: expert grifter. That's a good way to I like that too,
Speaker 1: because it's you know, it's a period pieces like seventies.
Speaker 1: I got her late late sixties, and there's a part
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. That's always interesting. Yeah, yeah, when there's this
Speaker 1: party pad in midtown or something. Yeah. Well, actually that
Speaker 1: party pad was a was a party pad near the
Speaker 1: Chattahoochee River and it was a legendary apartment complex on
Speaker 1: the on the hooch for um singles only, like no kids,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty I had looked it up, I
Speaker 1: remember at the time, and it was just kind of
Speaker 1: one of those places that existed only in that time.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's a good, good bit of trivia there
Speaker 1: key party every night. Um. So she wasn't catch me
Speaker 1: if you can, and she played the kind of dough
Speaker 1: i'de um, well, young wife. He married her. I think
Speaker 1: she had even braces at the beginning of the role. Um,
Speaker 1: and she was just so long at the time. And
Speaker 1: then she kind of broke out from there in two
Speaker 1: thousand five with the great as a critic, starling in
Speaker 1: the great independent film June Bug Um. That really put
Speaker 1: her on the map. And then she had a really
Speaker 1: terrific run over the next few years and Sunshine Cleaning.
Speaker 1: Um in doubt, doubt did you see that? That's a
Speaker 1: great one now I should though I know people it's
Speaker 1: pretty hard yeah. Um, Julie and Julia of course. In
Speaker 1: two thousand ten, David or Russell's The Fighter and the
Speaker 1: Master in two thousand twelve, pretty heavy year for her. Uh,
Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen American Hustle and then Arrival and Nocturnal Animals. Um,
Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago. Have you seen Nocturnal Animals?
Speaker 1: I love not Colonel an Daddy. It's intense, but it's perfect.
Speaker 1: Hits all the boxes for me. It's like, yep, creepy, atmospheric, surreal, yep, violent,
Speaker 1: amazing performances. It's got that kind of unreliable narrator quality
Speaker 1: to which, yeah, like it's a really cool movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw Not Turnal Animals without knowing anything about it,
Speaker 1: which is wonderful when that happens, because the name doesn't
Speaker 1: really tell you much and uh, you're really not sure
Speaker 1: where the story is going when you start watching that movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Michael Shannon like doesn't play a bug eyed sociopath
Speaker 1: and that one. I think he's like the sheriff, like
Speaker 1: a kind of a good guy character. That's right, so
Speaker 1: he can do it. Um. Anyway, She's just great. She's
Speaker 1: been a lot of movies in between obviously in Big Eyes,
Speaker 1: which I did not like, but she's great. Um. She
Speaker 1: had a small part in the Spike Jones movie Her,
Speaker 1: which I just saw giving me in the Night Good movie,
Speaker 1: and of course played Lowis Lane, probably the best thing
Speaker 1: about those Superman movies to me. Uh. And she's just
Speaker 1: so versatile. When Amy Adams shows up, you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a great performance. UM. She has ability to
Speaker 1: be so natural no matter what role she's playing. UM.
Speaker 1: And that's really like the mark of a great actor
Speaker 1: to me, is when they're just you can never tell
Speaker 1: that she's acting. She's just so effortless and everything that
Speaker 1: she's in UM physically she's really or she's like a
Speaker 1: casting director's dream because she can play the plane, Jane
Speaker 1: next Door or um like an American Hustle. She can
Speaker 1: you can glamor her up because she's very beautiful obviously,
Speaker 1: but she can run the gamut on who she plays.
Speaker 1: She can play anything. UM. And again, it's just so effortless.
Speaker 1: She's there's really no role that I don't think that
Speaker 1: she could tackle UM successfully, and you can tell. In
Speaker 1: the past few years, obviously, everything from American Hustle, which
Speaker 1: she just chewed through that movie, um tow Arrival, which
Speaker 1: was a very um kind of an internal performance. I think,
Speaker 1: is that a fair way of saying it? I think so, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not big, no, but there's exactly there's a lot
Speaker 1: of emotional complexity in that that reveals itself kind of
Speaker 1: gradually throughout the movie, and then there's a big kind
Speaker 1: of reveal. Yeah, big, big stuff. I love that movie.
Speaker 1: That movie really got me. Yeah, me too. If you're
Speaker 1: not like Shedding Tears and Arrival, then again you're dead inside.
Speaker 1: Uh So that's my high real for the week, Amy
Speaker 1: adams Man. Maybe one day the show can get to
Speaker 1: the point where I'm sitting down with people like her.
Speaker 1: You didn't like Big Eyes, No, how come? I thought
Speaker 1: the movie just wasn't very good. And Christoph Waltz Um.
Speaker 1: The casting of Christoph Waltz really bugged me. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: he was from Oklahoma and christof Foltz comes in there.
Speaker 1: He didn't he can't hide his accent and he is
Speaker 1: just the man from Oklahoma nunciates everything yeah, and he
Speaker 1: didn't even try. It was so weird. It just threw me.
Speaker 1: It threw me from the whole movie because I was
Speaker 1: just like, why why why cast a German guy to
Speaker 1: play dude from Oklahoma? I can see that. I guess
Speaker 1: I didn't. It wasn't made real clear in the movie
Speaker 1: that he was from Oklahoma to me, and I didn't
Speaker 1: know anything about the story, and I just thought I
Speaker 1: probably thought he was Austrie in Ergot. Yeah, but to me,
Speaker 1: that didn't really playing into the into the movie. But
Speaker 1: I I quite enjoyed it. But it's a real cloying, awful,
Speaker 1: awful character. Yeah, he's just like the worst he steals
Speaker 1: you know, his uh he basically like kind of marries
Speaker 1: this woman who is a really talented painter, he himself
Speaker 1: is like a hack painter, and then ends up like
Speaker 1: stealing her work and almost like keeping her enslaved, almost
Speaker 1: for it's such a crazy story that it kind of
Speaker 1: kept me invested in. I like a small Tim Burton
Speaker 1: movie too, so that it had me in that respect.
Speaker 1: But alright, I can see what you're saying. Chuck thumbs
Speaker 1: up from Noel and Big Guys thumbs down from me down.
Speaker 1: Although Amy Adams was great, and I think I remember
Speaker 1: just feeling like that true story deserved better than what
Speaker 1: it got. So put that in your pipe and smoke it,
Speaker 1: but not literally because we're it worked all right, and uh,
Speaker 1: finally we finished with stream this and comment card stream this.
Speaker 1: I yesterday in real time watched the rich A Wowl.
Speaker 1: Have you seen it yet? Horror? Yes, isn't Netflix original?
Speaker 1: Well that's not true. Netflix bought it. But Atlantic guys
Speaker 1: that had something to do with it. Yeah. David Bruckner. Okay,
Speaker 1: So David Bruckner is a local Atlanta filmmaker. He made
Speaker 1: his name originally with his his part to the anthology
Speaker 1: horror movie The Signal. Um it was a three part
Speaker 1: and he on He went on to do three anthology
Speaker 1: movies in a row. So he did segments of The Signal,
Speaker 1: VHS and Southbound and um, I personally think he was
Speaker 1: probably the best part of all three of those movies.
Speaker 1: But Bruckner is super talented and it took him a
Speaker 1: long time to get his first feature under his belt.
Speaker 1: He was he he really made a name for himself.
Speaker 1: So he was attached to the Friday reboot for a
Speaker 1: while and as it goes in Hollywood, it kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to turn around, hell, I think, and he never
Speaker 1: got that off the ground. Um, you know, not his
Speaker 1: fault of course, and uh, it just took a while
Speaker 1: for for David and to get in there and get
Speaker 1: his first feature going. And I think this one came
Speaker 1: together pretty quick. Um. In the end, it was based
Speaker 1: on a novel, um, maybe a novella short novel. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's called The Ritual. Just released in real time
Speaker 1: here uh this week, so that would be kind of
Speaker 1: early mid February, and it's it's really good, it's unnerving. Um.
Speaker 1: And actually got in touch with David and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be on the show, which is gonna be great. Cool.
Speaker 1: He's in l A now, so it's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be out there. So the Dan Bush just kind of
Speaker 1: in that world too, write correct. Dan also directed one
Speaker 1: of the signal pieces in Our Illustrious Boss, Conald Byrne
Speaker 1: is in those movies often that's right, that that is
Speaker 1: it comes weirdly full circle here. Um. But The Ritual
Speaker 1: is story about these four friends, um and uh. I
Speaker 1: guess they're in London at the beginning of the movie. Um,
Speaker 1: but they're they're British do and I don't want to
Speaker 1: spoil anything, but the friends end up going on a
Speaker 1: hiking trip through Sweden to honor their friend um. And
Speaker 1: they take a shortcut through the forest to get to
Speaker 1: the wherever they're going to end up like a lodge
Speaker 1: to get there quicker. Uh. And as you know, when
Speaker 1: you take a shortcut through the forest, bad things happen
Speaker 1: every single time. Every single time, I'm like, how do
Speaker 1: these people not know they're in a horror movie? Don't
Speaker 1: do it? Don't go that well. In fact, one of
Speaker 1: the characters even has a line that says, uh, shortcuts
Speaker 1: like aren't even real or something, because if if they were,
Speaker 1: they would just be called the route, you know, the
Speaker 1: exactly the trudge. So the ritual is great. It's um
Speaker 1: genuinely unnerving and spooky and creepy. And David does an
Speaker 1: exceptional job of my favorite thing in these kind of movies,
Speaker 1: which is called dread building, um, not giving you too
Speaker 1: much really anticipate, like building up this anticipation of oh shit,
Speaker 1: what is going on here? What is going to happen
Speaker 1: with these guys? What is this thing in the woods
Speaker 1: that is haunting slash stalking them? Uh? Really really terrific
Speaker 1: job there. And the hardest part of these movies to
Speaker 1: me is the payoff that that end, you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: or twenty minutes or so. The third act is really
Speaker 1: tough in a movie like this because there's always the
Speaker 1: choice of like, if there is a creature, do you
Speaker 1: how much do you show of the creature? Do you
Speaker 1: give it all away? Do you explain it or not? Um?
Speaker 1: And I just think David did a great job wrapping
Speaker 1: this one up. It was satisfying to me on all levels.
Speaker 1: Just hearing you describe it kind of makes me think
Speaker 1: of it comes at night maybe seeing that or it's
Speaker 1: sort of like I have not yet there in the
Speaker 1: woods cabin and you know the threat of a creature
Speaker 1: or this idea of this existential dread is as much
Speaker 1: the thing that built the tension as any actual reveal
Speaker 1: of creature or Yeah, you know, I mean that's the
Speaker 1: That's what I want, at least out of my movies
Speaker 1: like this. Um, you can take your your hostels. I
Speaker 1: saw The Green Inferno the other day. Finally have you
Speaker 1: seen that? That's like the kind of cannibal Holocaust type
Speaker 1: of line. Yeah, Eli Ross kind of homage to those
Speaker 1: movies too much. It was just bad. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: went any good. The only over the over the top
Speaker 1: gore I like is stuff like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive
Speaker 1: or Units of Humor to kind of weird schlocky Japanese
Speaker 1: gangster movies and stuff. But when the torture points, stuff
Speaker 1: just just I don't see the point. Yeah. I actually
Speaker 1: fast forwarded through much of Green Inferno. I just kind
Speaker 1: of wanted to finally see what the deal was. And
Speaker 1: I know the deal and it's not the great of
Speaker 1: a deal anyway. The ritual you can get on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Uh David made this himself and then uh sold it
Speaker 1: to Netflix, so that's where it will live forever. So
Speaker 1: go check it out and support David Bruckner. Um, great guy. Finally,
Speaker 1: we finish up here with comic cards, some emails from
Speaker 1: you guys, and this one is from Aaron Burke. What
Speaker 1: is a book you want to make into a movie?
Speaker 1: You would want made into a movie. Um, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with my first instinct here, Aaron, and say the
Speaker 1: book Middlesex. I've been long on record is saying it's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite books, if not my favorite, from
Speaker 1: the great Jeffrey Eugenites. And he also wrote The Virgin Suicides,
Speaker 1: which made a great movie, and um, it's just really
Speaker 1: really terrific it's a wonderful story Middlesex. However, it would
Speaker 1: be tough to make into a two hour film. And
Speaker 1: so the last thing I saw which would be great
Speaker 1: is that somebody I think Showtime might have been developing
Speaker 1: it for a limited run series, which is the perfect
Speaker 1: way to tell the story of Middlesex. And I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a few years ago, so clearly
Speaker 1: there some problems um in development with it because I
Speaker 1: don't think it's like right around the corner. But hopefully
Speaker 1: Showtime still has her eyes on the prize with Middlesex,
Speaker 1: because that would be just just great to see that
Speaker 1: on the small big screen. You got one, knoll, I
Speaker 1: don't read nearly enough as I should chuck all right,
Speaker 1: fair enough, Oh, I will say though, I'd love to
Speaker 1: see uh a modern adaptation of the Grapes of Wrath.
Speaker 1: And I know it's a classic of the kind of
Speaker 1: the film, but I just would love to see it
Speaker 1: like Allah p. T Anderson or big sweeping you know,
Speaker 1: modern Grapes of Wrath. Yeah, I hear you, like with
Speaker 1: cell phones and now laser tech with you know, Ryan
Speaker 1: Gosling and Amy Adam oh Man alright sold casting directors
Speaker 1: hit me up alright, Number two, Carrie Gray best and
Speaker 1: worst remake. Um, I am going to go. I mentioned
Speaker 1: this in the last episode. Arthur is the worst remake.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to bad remakes, it's probably because
Speaker 1: that first movie was important to you. The original Arthur
Speaker 1: was very warded to me as a movie. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'll do a whole segment on Arthur at some point. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I only saw a little bit of the remake.
Speaker 1: I just I didn't even want to see a little
Speaker 1: bit of it, even though our pal John Hodgeman is
Speaker 1: in it briefly. It's just it was a bad idea.
Speaker 1: The great credit Gerwigs in it. Russell Brand is great,
Speaker 1: and on paper I would have thought, you know, Russell Brand,
Speaker 1: perfect casting to replace Deadly Moore. But in the end,
Speaker 1: just don't remake Arthur. Russell Brands a bit much. Sometimes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a bad remake, bad remake. I just I
Speaker 1: don't go for I don't. I try not to watch
Speaker 1: bad movies if possible, unless they're ness. No, nothing comes
Speaker 1: to mind right off the Nicolas that this is becoming
Speaker 1: a bit now. I like it. I'm a fan. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then the best remakes, I'm just gonna list a
Speaker 1: few of them. Here are some of my favorites. Uh, Scarface,
Speaker 1: the Brian De Palma version, Um with al Pacino, one
Speaker 1: of the great great remakes of all time. Cape Fear,
Speaker 1: the Martin Scorsese Robert de Niro, Nick Nolty, Jessica Lange
Speaker 1: version and Juliet Lewis one of the great great remakes
Speaker 1: of all time. Uh. And I'm gonna stick with Scorsese
Speaker 1: with The Departed. That was a remake of a foreign
Speaker 1: film called Infernal Affairs, and The Departed is was one
Speaker 1: of my favorite movies of that year. Uh. Some people
Speaker 1: don't like that movie. I don't get it. I think
Speaker 1: it's just terrific. I think it's excellent. And this one
Speaker 1: came up, Um in your interview with John Ronson to
Speaker 1: let the right one in remake is excellent, I would argue,
Speaker 1: a little unnecessary, but very very good. Yep, agreed, let
Speaker 1: me in. Very good job with that one. Good question,
Speaker 1: Carrie Gray. And then finally Shannon Lee asks Chuck and
Speaker 1: nol you can watch only one genre for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life, which would it be one genre of
Speaker 1: movie that is tough? Uh, Shannon, I'm gonna go I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let nol think and I'm gonna go with I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go I think with drama, just straight up drama. UM,
Speaker 1: And drama is on a bit on a spectrum, so
Speaker 1: that includes um, that includes a lot. So maybe that's
Speaker 1: why I'm picking it. I wouldn't you know. I love
Speaker 1: to laugh and I love comedies, but there are so
Speaker 1: few really great comedies these days. I feel like I
Speaker 1: would be wasting my time. Um, Romantic comedy is certainly
Speaker 1: not If I was going to pick a genre, sci
Speaker 1: Fi I love for sure, Horror I like, but I
Speaker 1: don't think I could diet only on those movies. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with just straight up drama. I think
Speaker 1: that's a bit of a cheat, chuck, because drama can
Speaker 1: include sci Fi, and drama has comedy. Drama has, you know,
Speaker 1: if it's a good, but if it's got sci Fi
Speaker 1: in it, it will be called sci fi. And that's
Speaker 1: the rules of this exercise. I think, So, okay, what
Speaker 1: are you picking? I think drama as well. Only I
Speaker 1: was gonna say comedy, but I feel like so much
Speaker 1: good drama has comedy in it, and like these days,
Speaker 1: like stuff that's build as a straight comedy, it's not
Speaker 1: usually great, you know what I mean. Like, so, if
Speaker 1: it's a good film like Ladybird, for example, which I
Speaker 1: have not seen but apparently has a lot of humor
Speaker 1: in it, but you know it's not a comedy Lady Bird,
Speaker 1: I would call it coming of age drama. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I think encapsulated within drama you kind of get all
Speaker 1: of the uh the tasty bits that you need for
Speaker 1: your movie diet. So I think that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Talk tasty bits from nol So that's another mini crush
Speaker 1: in the can right now. It is, in fact in
Speaker 1: the can like a film can. Is that what we're
Speaker 1: talking about? That's where it comes from. Cool, if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, you learned something new every day that you
Speaker 1: probably already should have known. That's right. Uh, great subtitle
Speaker 1: for this show. So your homework this week Everybody is
Speaker 1: the great independent film Party Girl, starring Parker Posey. This
Speaker 1: week's guest is gonna be Guy Brand Him wonderful, awesome,
Speaker 1: super smart, just great guy. Um, great guy. See what
Speaker 1: I did there. Guy's a comedian. He uh he does
Speaker 1: this great show called talk show, The Game Show, and
Speaker 1: he's just a great dude. It was good to have
Speaker 1: the men here, and I wanted to do I wanted
Speaker 1: to start my own podcast with Guy after we uh
Speaker 1: we did that episode and so we talked about Party Girl.
Speaker 1: Watch it this week and thanks a lot for listening.