Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to miny Crush many Crush. I said that,
Speaker 1: like m A n y. Yeah, we're having a bunch
Speaker 1: of these crushes today. How are you doing? I'm good
Speaker 1: Man Chuck the Marathon Man Bryant. It's a movie reference.
Speaker 1: You want to explain what you mean by that, and
Speaker 1: also a reference to Chuck's uh, what's the word I'm
Speaker 1: looking for, um stamina? That's exactly the word podcast stamina.
Speaker 1: Chuck friends Um recorded I think somewhere the neighborhood of
Speaker 1: eighteen hours. I'm gonna call it just to round up
Speaker 1: of podcast content over a like three day span. And
Speaker 1: he's still standing Lee sitting right now. But you know
Speaker 1: I can tell the tale, So why don't you tell
Speaker 1: the tale? Check? Yeah, So it was seventeen podcast episodes
Speaker 1: over like six or seven days because I just got
Speaker 1: back from my l a trip where I squeezed in
Speaker 1: seven movie crush interviews and then stuff he should knows
Speaker 1: we do these minis. A couple of other little things brewing,
Speaker 1: and I was like, why am I burnout? And I
Speaker 1: started counting my head. I was like, oh, that's why,
Speaker 1: And you were like trying to do one more thing
Speaker 1: and your mouth couldn't make words anymore. Right. Well, what's
Speaker 1: funny is after I did five movie crushes back to
Speaker 1: back in l A one day, and at the end
Speaker 1: of it, I was doing two different intro ultra parts
Speaker 1: and I literally started like like I couldn't make words
Speaker 1: doing the brand. Oh yeah. And I didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to eat anything all day because I was just
Speaker 1: in the studio. So I was like, man, I'm mouth fatigue. Yep,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a real phenomenon industry. Oh yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it was weird. Man. I was like, man, I can't
Speaker 1: make words. I hope you got yourself some nice sushi
Speaker 1: or something after that as a as a reward, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I walked right across the street from
Speaker 1: the studio because I was just dying in bellied up
Speaker 1: to a bar and had a cheeseburger. Cool. Nothing like
Speaker 1: a good l A cheeseburger. L A is a burger town,
Speaker 1: oh man, great burgers all over the place. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then I went and took a dip in the hotel
Speaker 1: pool indoor outdoor outdoor. And then later that night, when
Speaker 1: it was proper dinner time, I went and had dinner
Speaker 1: with my friend ban Acker from the Miller's Crossing episode.
Speaker 1: I liked him. Where'd you guys go? Well, Ben and
Speaker 1: I are we always get some sort of Asian cuisine
Speaker 1: because he's way down with that, and we went to
Speaker 1: Chinatown and just went nuts on some delicious Chinese. It's awesome,
Speaker 1: like old school. I'm glad you had a good time.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the plum Tree in I'm trying to
Speaker 1: put that on my list. So I'm back. Things are
Speaker 1: calming down, although I do have a regular movie crush
Speaker 1: later this afternoon, and I'm delighted. Uh miss Casey Wilson,
Speaker 1: who if you typed her name in and googled her,
Speaker 1: you would recognize her. She was a Saturday Night Live
Speaker 1: cast member for a couple of years, has been in
Speaker 1: a bunch of comedy stuff. She's hysterical and wonderful. And
Speaker 1: she just emailed me. She's a friend of Janet Varney's
Speaker 1: and the stuff you should know fan and like asked
Speaker 1: for my email just to say, like, Hey, I think
Speaker 1: you guys are great and I've always been a fan.
Speaker 1: I want to let you know that. And I'm you know,
Speaker 1: in Atlanta shooting stuff and that made me think of you,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, let's get you in here
Speaker 1: for movie crush. So Casey's coming in this afternoon. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about clue. She was in the last episode
Speaker 1: of the most recent Curb Your Enthusiasm season as a
Speaker 1: character named Marie who I can't rightly place, but I
Speaker 1: love that season, so I'm sure I loved her in it.
Speaker 1: She's great. So anyway, finishing this week's strong Noll, let's
Speaker 1: get going here. I'm gonna start out with Hollywood history
Speaker 1: and the story of Alan Smithy. Yes, the infamous Alan Smithy.
Speaker 1: Do you know about this? I just know it's like
Speaker 1: a well, I don't know, yes, but I want to
Speaker 1: hear them. I want to I want to hear the
Speaker 1: I know the broad strokes, Well, the broad strokes either
Speaker 1: a L A N or a L L E N.
Speaker 1: Usually a L A N. Smithy S M I T
Speaker 1: H E is. If you've seen this on a movie
Speaker 1: credit for director. It is a pseudonym for film directors
Speaker 1: who don't want their name on a project. So if
Speaker 1: you've directed a movie, you don't feel like, um, like,
Speaker 1: there's gotta be a reason. It can't just be like
Speaker 1: unscrewed up and made a bad movie, it has to
Speaker 1: be like you have to present a case to the
Speaker 1: d g A and they have to uh like like
Speaker 1: a panel and they have to not ratify but just
Speaker 1: give it the okay. But you have to present a
Speaker 1: case basically that you it was sort of out of
Speaker 1: your hands to such a degree that you could not
Speaker 1: get your vision out there, and then they invoke the
Speaker 1: Alan Smithy rule, invoke the Allen Smithy Smithy rule. So
Speaker 1: if you're dissatisfied with your film and you can prove
Speaker 1: that you lost creative control at some point and it
Speaker 1: was not your fault, supposedly, uh, you can get Alan
Speaker 1: Smithy or what rather. You could That is until about
Speaker 1: eighteen years ago, so for n to the year two thousand,
Speaker 1: you could invoke Alan Smithy to take the place of
Speaker 1: your real name. So your name is an attached to
Speaker 1: a stinker. Really interesting. Trying to look up some recent entries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got a few down here, but pre ninety you
Speaker 1: could not do this. The first movie that the pseudonym
Speaker 1: was used was on a movie called Death of a
Speaker 1: gun Fighter, And interestingly, Death of a Gunfighter supposedly is
Speaker 1: not some terrible movie. It even got decent reviews, but
Speaker 1: director was replaced uh, And it ended up being directed
Speaker 1: by two dudes, and neither one of them they thought,
Speaker 1: I guess they didn't think like this movie is awful,
Speaker 1: but neither one of them thought that they had their
Speaker 1: own vision on screen, so neither one of them wanted
Speaker 1: their name on it. It ended up getting okay reviews,
Speaker 1: and I believe even Roger Ebert said something in his
Speaker 1: review about director Alan Smithy a name I'm not familiar
Speaker 1: with yet, which is kind of funny. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what's funny, Chuck, And it makes perfect sense. There is
Speaker 1: a page for Alan Smithy on IMDb and it has
Speaker 1: a hundred and eight entries. Yeah, because some of them.
Speaker 1: I think some writers have been able to use the
Speaker 1: name here and there, but it's generally thought of as
Speaker 1: a as a director's trick. So part of the deal, though,
Speaker 1: is is you are not allowed to talk about it again.
Speaker 1: You're not allowed to like go out and tell your
Speaker 1: story to the press. Um. It's it's sort of like
Speaker 1: a court case where you just have to shut up
Speaker 1: about it. A lot of them though on the page,
Speaker 1: do you have um up in part the season really,
Speaker 1: Kevin Yeager or like, yeah, you know exactly it is known, right,
Speaker 1: so it's sort of like, what's the point even, uh.
Speaker 1: And then finally it sort of jumped the shark in
Speaker 1: a weird meta way because Arthur Hiller, who was a
Speaker 1: great director, directed a film called an Alan Smithy Film
Speaker 1: Colin Burne Hollywood burn which was about a man named
Speaker 1: Alan Smithy who was a director who wanted to disavow
Speaker 1: his own film but couldn't do so because his name
Speaker 1: was Alan Smithy. Get it. This is a joke, right, No,
Speaker 1: it was a real movie. What I mean? This is
Speaker 1: this is a this is a documentary. No, it was
Speaker 1: a movie. Guess what I'm saying. It's like it's a fiction.
Speaker 1: That's that's funny. Yeah. And to add another meta layer
Speaker 1: on top of this. And by the way, he'd even
Speaker 1: saying meta, but that's you know, people know what I
Speaker 1: mean saying meta, So meta, Chuck. I'm just so tired
Speaker 1: of that. I was tired of it when it started.
Speaker 1: But Arthur Hiller said it his producer interfered such that
Speaker 1: he didn't even have creative control over his Alan smith
Speaker 1: the movie. So he Alan Smithy the Allen Smithy movie.
Speaker 1: And that may have been the last draw to where
Speaker 1: the director's skuilld was like, fuck this, no more. Did
Speaker 1: you find where the actual name came from? The where
Speaker 1: they lifted that name from. Yeah, I believe it was
Speaker 1: originally Alan smith and they said that's too common. There
Speaker 1: are allan smith out there. Uh, and so they changed
Speaker 1: it at first two uh Smithy with one E and
Speaker 1: I guess that wasn't even bizarre enough. So finally they
Speaker 1: made at Smithy with two ease, which is just not
Speaker 1: even a name that's right, because that's the kicker. You
Speaker 1: gotta have a name that's not floating out there all
Speaker 1: over the place, otherwise it's gonna piss people off. Right interesting, chuck.
Speaker 1: So that's the story of Alan Smithy. Here's a few,
Speaker 1: I mean, most of the movies you haven't heard of
Speaker 1: because they're truly dogshit. But uh, Dennis Hopper directed a
Speaker 1: movie called catch Fire thriller with Jodie Foster. He had
Speaker 1: his name removed from Hell Razor Bloodline, clearly one of
Speaker 1: the lesser hell Razors. Yeah, there's like fifteen of those,
Speaker 1: and like most of them are directed video. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe that's one of them. They just had that
Speaker 1: mask lining around. They're like, we might as well use it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And eventually the guy that they made that role famous
Speaker 1: of Pinhead wasn't even involved anymore. Mighty Ducks the movie
Speaker 1: Colin the first face off. This is like some kind
Speaker 1: of weird Mighty Ducks prequel. Why would you call your
Speaker 1: movie Mighty Ducks the movie as opposed to what Mighty Ducks?
Speaker 1: The other movie kee for Sutherland and two thousand he
Speaker 1: just got in under the Wire, directed a movie called
Speaker 1: Woman Wanted that he wanted his name taken off of.
Speaker 1: And then there was one called Let's Get Harry In
Speaker 1: that actually saw. I think it was sort of like
Speaker 1: a uh an m I a soldier recovery, like these
Speaker 1: dudes go back and get their buddy from a prison camp.
Speaker 1: And I believe it started one of the Eagles. I
Speaker 1: think Glynn Fry was in that movie. One on the
Speaker 1: list that I've seen. I remember seeing it was on TV.
Speaker 1: It was called The Birds to Land's End. Really you
Speaker 1: saw that. I saw it and I remember it as
Speaker 1: a kid, saw at my grandfather's house. It was on TV.
Speaker 1: How do you get how do you get away with
Speaker 1: doing a sequel to a Hitchcock film? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess it's one of those things like, um, that
Speaker 1: Bad Lieutenant port of Call in New Orleans where they
Speaker 1: had the rights to the name and they just were like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's make a movie. That movie is great, by the way,
Speaker 1: That Lieutenant port of Call. Yeah, it's awesome. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a Werner Hearstok movie. Oh really, it's just a
Speaker 1: weird branding kind of that the Nick Cage. So he
Speaker 1: played the bad Lieutenant. Interesting, it's it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: whole different movie, not connected to the first one at all,
Speaker 1: but it's really good but weird. But was it was
Speaker 1: it the same deal though? He was a cop that
Speaker 1: was like masturbate on cars, that like robbed pharmacies and
Speaker 1: was just like a total pill head jump psychopath. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that first one with Harvey Kitell. Not jeez,
Speaker 1: what a movie. Very upsetting film. Alright, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: move on. We're gonna keep the trope time run going because,
Speaker 1: as I said, we are, we're gonna use everyone's tropes
Speaker 1: that that mailed in and by mailed in like a
Speaker 1: forty seven year old I mean Facebook. They didn't seen
Speaker 1: an actual letters in the post. No more snail mail alright,
Speaker 1: so Lee Dallas says, more of a TV thing. But
Speaker 1: a three hour car ride in l a traffic from
Speaker 1: the police station to the person of interest house. But
Speaker 1: all of the exposition is saved for the thirty second
Speaker 1: walk from the car to the front door. Interesting. Maybe
Speaker 1: they'll listen to podcast the rest of the time. Yeah. Sure,
Speaker 1: there's lots of things you can do to pass the
Speaker 1: time in a car ride, but you would think exposition
Speaker 1: would be first on the list. Yeah, for sure, Mike Burdette,
Speaker 1: when stuff only happens in the microwave after the timer
Speaker 1: hit zero, Uh example, I can think of the explosive
Speaker 1: and gross point blank. I don't know is that? Oh?
Speaker 1: I guess to see what he means. He says, you know,
Speaker 1: in microwave is heating the entire time? You know what?
Speaker 1: I got a really nasty one that came to mind.
Speaker 1: There was a movie called The Willie's Remember this movie.
Speaker 1: It was like an anthology horror, gross out thing from
Speaker 1: the eighties, And there's one story about a woman who
Speaker 1: puts her dog in the microwave to dry it off,
Speaker 1: and as soon as it hits zero, the dog explodes
Speaker 1: really right when it hits zero, though, so that's right
Speaker 1: on point there, all right, Jeez, I don't want to
Speaker 1: see that. No, you definitely don't. What an awful thing
Speaker 1: was that? Directed by Alan Smithy. Probably Sean Aston was
Speaker 1: in one of the bits though, really huh. You know
Speaker 1: he's coming to Atlanta for a con con. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'd love to get him in here and we can
Speaker 1: con him into it. Sorry, sorry, dead jokes. Mike Sam says,
Speaker 1: what about when they you go to shoot a handgun,
Speaker 1: nothing happens. Then someone else tries one more time to
Speaker 1: shoot the gun when this shot is not in the
Speaker 1: did and then the gunfires like oh this thing's out
Speaker 1: of bullets, and then they like aim it at the ceiling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's not one that I can think of an
Speaker 1: example of right off the bat. Well, interestingly, it's in
Speaker 1: the movie Clue that I just watched last night. Okay, see,
Speaker 1: so I guess it does happen. Alan Bush says the
Speaker 1: heroes are about to be captured or eaten by villains, predators, etcetera.
Speaker 1: But the last minute one of them throws a rock,
Speaker 1: distracting them, who all go to see what the noise was.
Speaker 1: The hero escapes. Is that a trope? The old rock throw.
Speaker 1: I mean, I could see it could be anything though,
Speaker 1: could be a rock, could be a piece of metal,
Speaker 1: it could be any you know, I'm not to put
Speaker 1: a pin in that one. I'm not sure about that one,
Speaker 1: all right, Nina Forbes says, um, the classic move where
Speaker 1: the driver of the car is not clearly not paying
Speaker 1: attention at all to driving. And it's also clearly like
Speaker 1: some kind of bad green screen job where they're not
Speaker 1: driving at all, the old rear screen projection. They're talking
Speaker 1: to each other and just like, dude, come on, you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna. Yeah. I think that's a skill that
Speaker 1: an actor forgets, Like a good actor will make it
Speaker 1: appear like they're driving and make it realistic. Because nine
Speaker 1: times out of tend that cars on a trailer being pulled,
Speaker 1: it's called a camera car. And um, although when we
Speaker 1: shot stuff, you should know, there were quite a few
Speaker 1: driving scenes and we just you know, rigged cameras in
Speaker 1: the car and really drove, which helps. And nowadays you've
Speaker 1: got like go pros and stuff, you know, if you're
Speaker 1: doing like an indie, I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of people use those. What was funny is
Speaker 1: There was one scene and stuff you should know TV
Speaker 1: when we we were driving and we were actually in
Speaker 1: the scene and acting, and I pulled up to a
Speaker 1: stoplight and in the middle of the scene, this guy
Speaker 1: at the corner yells at us, Hey, are those HD
Speaker 1: cameras the glorious early atts. Yeah? We're like, uh, yes
Speaker 1: they are, sir, And now you've been on television. H
Speaker 1: laire Allison, beautiful name, says The character, which is usually
Speaker 1: kid in a horror movie. UM always ignores that don't
Speaker 1: go in there or don't open that door trope. Sure,
Speaker 1: of course, not to mention running upstairs to escape as
Speaker 1: opposed to out the fucking door. Right, I get what
Speaker 1: you mean. Sure, like, let's get out of here. And
Speaker 1: they run upstairs. Oh my god, there's no exit, Rachel
Speaker 1: O'Reilly says, jumping down from a bridge onto a moving
Speaker 1: train and sticking the landing, no problem. You think it
Speaker 1: would just fly your fly out from under you. There's
Speaker 1: no way. It's funny. Many years ago, at the very beginning.
Speaker 1: In fact, I remember the date actually because it was
Speaker 1: nine o two one oh. It was September two, two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten. Was the day I hung out with
Speaker 1: Luke Perry, oh wow, ironically is a dreamboat. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: he was a very cool guy. He he was in
Speaker 1: town for one of the for Dragon Con and my
Speaker 1: friend jim Issa had directed him in a in a
Speaker 1: movie and came to town and Luke Perry wanted to
Speaker 1: hang out, so we all hung out nice one one
Speaker 1: oh day. Isn't that funny? What do you mean on
Speaker 1: nine day? It was September two two ten nine o
Speaker 1: two one. Oh, Oh my gosh, that's it's very meta. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the reason I mentioned this is because he
Speaker 1: was making at the time and he may still be
Speaker 1: these lifetime westerns. And he was like, you know what, man,
Speaker 1: it's great. He's like, I'm still acting. I have a
Speaker 1: good time. They pay me, okay, and I get like,
Speaker 1: last week I got to have a fight scene on
Speaker 1: top of a train and he's like, I've always wanted
Speaker 1: to do that. Who wouldn't you know? Good attitude. That
Speaker 1: was pretty cool. He was. He was in some series
Speaker 1: like called Jericho or something or I don't know. It
Speaker 1: was like a post apocalyptic TV series. I think I've
Speaker 1: heard of that kind of liked. I didn't see it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good one, all right, Morgan Wheat says in older scary movies,
Speaker 1: as a monster killer is approaching the woman, she just
Speaker 1: screams in terror as they zoom in on her face.
Speaker 1: She doesn't run away, she just stands there screaming because
Speaker 1: her mind is broken, Chuck, she's been shattered by existential dread.
Speaker 1: That's true, and you know she just ran off screaming.
Speaker 1: The scene would be over to Christine Tompkins. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it's a trope, but I love watching cop
Speaker 1: mystery shows and movies when detectives walk into a crime
Speaker 1: scene with coffee and sometimes even food. No, I think
Speaker 1: that's totally a trope. You know, the detective like walking
Speaker 1: in a crime scene with like a bagel and okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like I mean that's like set dressing one oh
Speaker 1: one kind of stuff for like like like the bag
Speaker 1: of the grocery bag with the with the lettuce hanging
Speaker 1: out or whatever. I think that gets in the letter.
Speaker 1: It's literally like that, Yes, absolutely, and he's all and
Speaker 1: it's it's almost to imply that he's done this so much,
Speaker 1: he's so grizzled, and he's not shaken by it at all.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go on eating his bagel, you know, drinking
Speaker 1: his coffee and his Dad of the Year mug or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, he's just just like number one cop. It's
Speaker 1: just another day in the life of Lieutenant McNulty. Christine
Speaker 1: points out that she's pretty sure this probably isn't even
Speaker 1: allowed because it would contaminate the crime scene, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure she's probably right. What's your bagel crumbs
Speaker 1: on the floor because the evidence got some cream cheese? No,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll do one more, Abby Zachos. What is
Speaker 1: up with these great names? No, they're just great names.
Speaker 1: Are we boring? No, it's not up to us, Jock,
Speaker 1: We just like good names. I wish I had a
Speaker 1: great name like Abby Zachos. Do you're Charles W Chuck
Speaker 1: Bryant Man? Come on, come on, she says. The classic
Speaker 1: group of friends in a horror movie that would never
Speaker 1: exist in real life. The jock, the popular girl, that her,
Speaker 1: the stoner in the quiet one. Yeah, that's true, but
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's for you know, diversity sake of character.
Speaker 1: I guess it's like a Dungeons and Dragons party. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone has to have their own little specialization, and it's
Speaker 1: for story, and everything comes into play. Everyone's special gift
Speaker 1: comes into play at some point, right exactly like I mean,
Speaker 1: the football player throws a vase the perfect spiral, the
Speaker 1: secretly has a heart of gold. All right, So that's
Speaker 1: trope time for the week. Another good effort from you guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your help. These are getting
Speaker 1: fun alright. Segment three before we move on to questions
Speaker 1: and ol stream Thats so, Emily and I watched a
Speaker 1: movie a couple of nights ago called Game Night. Did
Speaker 1: you see this? Is this some kind of weird like
Speaker 1: saw torture porn horror movie? Okay, yeah, Emily's way into
Speaker 1: those cool cool No, I don't know then, No, it was.
Speaker 1: It was just out jeez, maybe even earlier this year,
Speaker 1: starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Jesse Plemons,
Speaker 1: and more, directed by John Francis Daily and Jonathan Goldstein.
Speaker 1: John Francis Day, by the way, was Sam on Freaks
Speaker 1: and Geeks, so he's a director now and a writer.
Speaker 1: Uh And this was written by Mark Perez and I
Speaker 1: think it may have been one of those cases where
Speaker 1: Emily and I really needed a good laugh. We were
Speaker 1: have been some stress in our life lately, and we
Speaker 1: ended up really liking this movie. Um it's no Academy
Speaker 1: Award winner, I'm not saying that, but it turned out
Speaker 1: to be a very fun and funny movie. The plot
Speaker 1: is that these friends always get together for game nights,
Speaker 1: is sort of what they do in their social life,
Speaker 1: and uh, Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams are married, and
Speaker 1: then another couple of couples always come over and play
Speaker 1: game night, and um, Jason Bateman's older brother is Kyle
Speaker 1: Chandler from Friday Night Lights, a very rich, successful dude
Speaker 1: kind of overshadowing his brother, and he sets up a
Speaker 1: game night, comes into town, sets up a game night. Um.
Speaker 1: Wherein it's a murder mystery, like when you hire people
Speaker 1: to like kidnap one of your friends and then figure
Speaker 1: out clues to to figure this whole thing out. It
Speaker 1: all goes awry because, Uh, it turns out that a
Speaker 1: real kidnapping happens. Everyone thinks it's fake, turns out it's real,
Speaker 1: and then it's a game of sort of uh uh
Speaker 1: who done it? And cat and mouse for the rest
Speaker 1: of the game, and you don't know if it's real.
Speaker 1: Still or if it's part of this elaborate game. But
Speaker 1: it turned out to be really kind of funny. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of just a lot of little subtle
Speaker 1: creative director's choices and lines, writer's lines, and like funny
Speaker 1: shots that made the movie much better than we expected
Speaker 1: it to be. Cool. It was good stuff. So I
Speaker 1: feel like, um, is it horror ish? No, it's more
Speaker 1: thriller ish and comedy ish. Definitely a comedy, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's about kidnapping and stuff, had that
Speaker 1: thrillery angle, you know what I'm saying. Yea, yeah, that
Speaker 1: sounds interesting. It's good. It's sort of a hybrid, but
Speaker 1: definitely a comedy of course. You know, Jason Bateman can
Speaker 1: do no wrong to me. What's its streaming on? Well,
Speaker 1: we it's new onto, like on demand, so you can
Speaker 1: get it on like Apple Movies or wherever you get
Speaker 1: new movies. But it's not streamable on like Netflix yet. Cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds worth a couple of bucks. Yeah, I totally
Speaker 1: recommend it. It's again, it's not gonna win Best Picture
Speaker 1: or anything. But if you're in the mood for just
Speaker 1: something sort of light ah and and uh funny, then
Speaker 1: I recommend Game Night, good flick. All right, now we're
Speaker 1: gonna finish up with comic Card the questions from you
Speaker 1: to us. We'll do five as is our blood packed
Speaker 1: that we made. We did. Indeed, I'm still my thumbs
Speaker 1: is a little sore from that. So Sue Robins says,
Speaker 1: what film would you like to have? Start in a
Speaker 1: movie that's already been made? Like would you want to
Speaker 1: be John Travolta and Saturday Night Fever or Al Pacino
Speaker 1: and The Devil's Advocate? You got one? Who would I
Speaker 1: want to be? That's a big one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's usually bad things happen to people in movies, yet
Speaker 1: some point sound like the selfish part of me says like,
Speaker 1: oh someone who was super rich? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: For some reason, Marty McFly pops into my head. That
Speaker 1: seemed like a rollicking good time. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll go with um, I'll go with Indiana Jones.
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds cool too, because why not? Why not?
Speaker 1: He gets out of it alive? You know he does,
Speaker 1: because you've seen the movies, So why not just I know,
Speaker 1: a live forever. Yeah, Mike Ireland. Oireland says, what's a
Speaker 1: really great movie that you love. I have the hardest
Speaker 1: time recommending due to controversial things like too gory, too strange. Um, well,
Speaker 1: I don't really ever not recommend something like that, but
Speaker 1: I will caveat it and say, this is a really
Speaker 1: tough movie to get through, but it's worth watching for
Speaker 1: sure if you can stomach it. You also know some
Speaker 1: people are just like super against horror or like scary
Speaker 1: stuff at all, and if you know that they're that person,
Speaker 1: then maybe you wouldn't recommend it to them because you
Speaker 1: already know for sure. You know, so, Mike, we didn't
Speaker 1: answer your question at all. Have you seen Hereditary? Have you? Yes?
Speaker 1: I have not, and I've heard it's it's like upset,
Speaker 1: like so genuinely upsetting. It's it's really hard, very much.
Speaker 1: The closes thing I can compare it to in that
Speaker 1: way is pet Cemetery. It's got that kind of mean
Speaker 1: like use of family trauma and his loss and grief,
Speaker 1: and it just twisted around into this perfect, like gut
Speaker 1: punch of horror. I've heard it's amazing, it's wonderful, and
Speaker 1: wonderful is the wrong word. It's horrible. Yeah, I literally
Speaker 1: couldn't sleep the whole night. Really, I really really, and
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I was confused about why I
Speaker 1: couldn't sleep, and I realized it was because of the movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my friend on I saw her in Facebook say like,
Speaker 1: don't watch it. She was like, it's literally that upsetting
Speaker 1: it is. I love Tony Colette though she kills it.
Speaker 1: It's so good. I've heard like Oscar buzz even for
Speaker 1: this awful movie. It's very very good. So I have
Speaker 1: to see it. I'm not gonna let Himily see it.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because it's like it's one of those movies
Speaker 1: that has a disconnect between the you know, the cinema
Speaker 1: score thing where they pull the audience and they leave.
Speaker 1: This one got a D for audience, but like nine
Speaker 1: percent on Rotten Tomatoes or something, so it's like this
Speaker 1: critical darling. But I think audiences leave because it's such
Speaker 1: a gut punch of an ending. They're like fuck that movie,
Speaker 1: like literally, you know. Interesting. And by the way, when
Speaker 1: I say I won't let Emily watch it, clearly she
Speaker 1: can watch whatever she wants. But she would never want to. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You don't want to be
Speaker 1: responsible for her exactly having seen it. She wouldn't she
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it. She's not She's like, why, Like, why
Speaker 1: would I want to be that upset? I agree? But
Speaker 1: I am the kind of person that I enjoy a
Speaker 1: movie that will do that to me occasionally because the
Speaker 1: power of films and an art like I don't mind
Speaker 1: it distrbing me. Sometimes you want to see what you're
Speaker 1: made of too, you know, and I can I take it? Uh?
Speaker 1: John Hoskins says, why did the production companies need to
Speaker 1: be named twice at the beginning of a movie? Uh?
Speaker 1: For example, like a title card that says DreamWorks Production
Speaker 1: and then once the titles start properly a fancier animated
Speaker 1: DreamWorks logo. Geez, John, I don't know. I mean there
Speaker 1: are rules that dictate that stuff. Um. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: remember seeing redundant production company logos. Sometimes I feel like
Speaker 1: there's ones that are stylized to match the movie kind
Speaker 1: of so like they'll be like the paramount logo and
Speaker 1: if it's for like it or whatever whatever the production
Speaker 1: company for it was had a little balloon creepy floating
Speaker 1: in the background of the logo and it was animated
Speaker 1: specifically for that movie. Or I wonder if he's talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, at the beginning of a twentieth century Fox production,
Speaker 1: you have the lion and that iconic um thing. And
Speaker 1: it also says the twenty century Fox production in the
Speaker 1: proper titles. I don't know clarify alright, A couple of
Speaker 1: more nol Amanda Conley Powers will Beetlejuice sequel ever happen.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite movie, and I go back and forth
Speaker 1: on it. As long as Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder
Speaker 1: are there, I'd give it a shot. Well, clearly, Amanda,
Speaker 1: I don't we don't know if it will happen, but
Speaker 1: you're probably just asking what do we think about that?
Speaker 1: I'd be down. Yeah, I know, Tim Burton's not batting
Speaker 1: a hundred of these days this so and he feels
Speaker 1: like he's he feels like he's kind of on the
Speaker 1: cash grab train a lot of the time, So this,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd be I'd be interested to see
Speaker 1: if he could really bring the same energy to it
Speaker 1: that he brought to the original. You know, well, Michael Keaton,
Speaker 1: I would certainly love like and with non Winona Rider
Speaker 1: grown up as um like the older character. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's probably what the story would be, like her
Speaker 1: goth daughter. Then yeah, in Folkes Beetlejuice or something. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm into it. I just uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Burton has been letting me down lately. I'm such a fan,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like he's been kind of phoning
Speaker 1: it in for years. Yeah kind of, Yeah, Amanda, I'd
Speaker 1: like to see that. Actually, get get Michael Keaton in
Speaker 1: that makeup and stripe suit again, is what I say.
Speaker 1: He looked the same, you know, totally. That's the great
Speaker 1: thing about it. He'd look exactly the same. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite parts in that movie is when they're in
Speaker 1: the when he's in the waiting room and there's the legs,
Speaker 1: well that well that but the tiny the head shrinkers,
Speaker 1: and he goes, hey, let me ask you something. How
Speaker 1: do you get them down so small? Like he just
Speaker 1: wants a tip, head shrinking tip? All right. Finally, Robert S.
Speaker 1: Eldred says, what movie do you wish they would remake?
Speaker 1: Maybe something where technology is better equipped to help to
Speaker 1: help tell the story. Um. Boy, that's tough, because I
Speaker 1: feel like they're they're sort of remaking all of them
Speaker 1: these days. I always wonder like what drives that decision though,
Speaker 1: because it seems like they're weird ones that come out
Speaker 1: of the woodwork where it's like, um, now I'm having
Speaker 1: a hard time thinking of one. But there's one that
Speaker 1: I saw recently where I was like why now, Like
Speaker 1: what market research you know, leads you to want to
Speaker 1: make this remake? Now? Yeah, Like I could see them
Speaker 1: remaking a beloved classic like war Games. I mean they
Speaker 1: did that with Red Dawn. Um, I don't know what
Speaker 1: technology what would uh, what would actually help a movie
Speaker 1: with poor technology, because it seems like they're they're on
Speaker 1: that train like they're doing a new Dune, even though
Speaker 1: the first Dune was pretty great in its own weird
Speaker 1: David lynche In way, I think that that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's that that is actually a really good example, Chuck,
Speaker 1: because I feel like they ran of money on the
Speaker 1: original Dune. Um it was a little all over the place, Uh,
Speaker 1: what's the word? Totally and it was not perfect. The
Speaker 1: technology wasn't that great. If you look at it now,
Speaker 1: it looks super dated. And Denny Villeneuve, who has done
Speaker 1: like so many iconic sci fi movies at this point,
Speaker 1: the Blade Runner nine. He did Arrival. Think he's gonna
Speaker 1: knock that movie out of your park. So that's a
Speaker 1: I think that's a great example. Oh I've got one,
Speaker 1: you know what. Give me a new Flash Gordon would
Speaker 1: be fun. As much as I love the camp the original,
Speaker 1: I think a Flash Gordon, a new Flash Gordon movie,
Speaker 1: and it's probably gonna happen at some point. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's one in development right now, but that would be
Speaker 1: pretty great. They're remaking an American werewolf in London. M M.
Speaker 1: That seems unnecessary. There's so many great stories out there
Speaker 1: that are just languishing on the desks of executives. Do
Speaker 1: something new. They were making big trouble in Little China,
Speaker 1: you know that with like the Rocks or something. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: I did. We talked about that actually when Kyle Knane
Speaker 1: was in here. But that seems harresy. Just don't do it,
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Speaker 1: Hills Cop. Everybody, You're welcome and you can thank Mr
Speaker 1: Paul Sheer for that one. Uh Paul Sheer, you know
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Speaker 1: with Rob Hubill and a zz and sorry and Paul
Speaker 1: is just awesome. He um. He has a new show. Well.
Speaker 1: First of all, he has a couple of podcasts, movie
Speaker 1: podcast one called how Did This Get Made? The Great
Speaker 1: Great Show with his lovely wife June, Diane Raphael and
Speaker 1: uh Jason Manzukas a longtime fan of that show, and
Speaker 1: a brand new podcast called Unspooled where he and movie
Speaker 1: critics sit down and talk about I believe it's a
Speaker 1: f I S Top one movies. And Paul ended up
Speaker 1: just being a great, great guy. I'm a huge fan
Speaker 1: of his work, and he wanted to come in and
Speaker 1: talk Beverly Hills Cop very very classic Eddie Murphy movie,
Speaker 1: sort of pique Eddie Murphy, like I say in the podcast.
Speaker 1: So we had a great time talking about it, and
Speaker 1: I'm happy to report that Paul shere is just a
Speaker 1: great dude and was super, super friendly and very generous
Speaker 1: with this time. So thanks for Paul Sheer Watch, Beverly
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Speaker 1: we say, for this Friday. And thanks a lot for listening. Everybody,