WEBVTT - Mini Crush #20 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:30.639 Hey, everybody, welcome to miny Crush many Crush. I said that, 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.000 like m A n y. Yeah, we're having a bunch 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.880 of these crushes today. How are you doing? I'm good 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:41.080 Man Chuck the Marathon Man Bryant. It's a movie reference. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.120 You want to explain what you mean by that, and 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.120 also a reference to Chuck's uh, what's the word I'm 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:51.720 looking for, um stamina? That's exactly the word podcast stamina. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.840 Chuck friends Um recorded I think somewhere the neighborhood of 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.800 eighteen hours. I'm gonna call it just to round up 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.840 of podcast content over a like three day span. And 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.400 he's still standing Lee sitting right now. But you know 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:06.920 I can tell the tale, So why don't you tell 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.640 the tale? Check? Yeah, So it was seventeen podcast episodes 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.040 over like six or seven days because I just got 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.000 back from my l a trip where I squeezed in 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:22.240 seven movie crush interviews and then stuff he should knows 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.600 we do these minis. A couple of other little things brewing, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.039 and I was like, why am I burnout? And I 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.000 started counting my head. I was like, oh, that's why, 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.040 And you were like trying to do one more thing 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.800 and your mouth couldn't make words anymore. Right. Well, what's 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.000 funny is after I did five movie crushes back to 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.399 back in l A one day, and at the end 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.959 of it, I was doing two different intro ultra parts 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:52.960 and I literally started like like I couldn't make words 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:54.920 doing the brand. Oh yeah. And I didn't get a 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:56.920 chance to eat anything all day because I was just 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:01.480 in the studio. So I was like, man, I'm mouth fatigue. Yep, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:06.080 it's a it's a real phenomenon industry. Oh yeah, absolutely, 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.600 it was weird. Man. I was like, man, I can't 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.680 make words. I hope you got yourself some nice sushi 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.919 or something after that as a as a reward, well, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.880 you know what, I walked right across the street from 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.120 the studio because I was just dying in bellied up 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.800 to a bar and had a cheeseburger. Cool. Nothing like 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.920 a good l A cheeseburger. L A is a burger town, 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.680 oh man, great burgers all over the place. Uh. And 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.959 then I went and took a dip in the hotel 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:37.920 pool indoor outdoor outdoor. And then later that night, when 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.480 it was proper dinner time, I went and had dinner 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.640 with my friend ban Acker from the Miller's Crossing episode. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.720 I liked him. Where'd you guys go? Well, Ben and 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.400 I are we always get some sort of Asian cuisine 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.079 because he's way down with that, and we went to 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:58.600 Chinatown and just went nuts on some delicious Chinese. It's awesome, 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.919 like old school. I'm glad you had a good time. 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.919 Shout out to the plum Tree in I'm trying to 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:08.480 put that on my list. So I'm back. Things are 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.280 calming down, although I do have a regular movie crush 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.920 later this afternoon, and I'm delighted. Uh miss Casey Wilson, 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.360 who if you typed her name in and googled her, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.720 you would recognize her. She was a Saturday Night Live 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.160 cast member for a couple of years, has been in 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:28.920 a bunch of comedy stuff. She's hysterical and wonderful. And 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.280 she just emailed me. She's a friend of Janet Varney's 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.720 and the stuff you should know fan and like asked 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.760 for my email just to say, like, Hey, I think 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.040 you guys are great and I've always been a fan. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.520 I want to let you know that. And I'm you know, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.800 in Atlanta shooting stuff and that made me think of you, 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:45.960 and I was like, well, let's get you in here 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.840 for movie crush. So Casey's coming in this afternoon. We're 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.360 gonna talk about clue. She was in the last episode 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.880 of the most recent Curb Your Enthusiasm season as a 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.680 character named Marie who I can't rightly place, but I 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.600 love that season, so I'm sure I loved her in it. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:05.360 She's great. So anyway, finishing this week's strong Noll, let's 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:10.880 get going here. I'm gonna start out with Hollywood history 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.799 and the story of Alan Smithy. Yes, the infamous Alan Smithy. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.560 Do you know about this? I just know it's like 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.599 a well, I don't know, yes, but I want to 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:21.640 hear them. I want to I want to hear the 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.119 I know the broad strokes, Well, the broad strokes either 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.760 a L A N or a L L E N. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.760 Usually a L A N. Smithy S M I T 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.880 H E is. If you've seen this on a movie 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:40.760 credit for director. It is a pseudonym for film directors 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.600 who don't want their name on a project. So if 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.480 you've directed a movie, you don't feel like, um, like, 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.240 there's gotta be a reason. It can't just be like 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.120 unscrewed up and made a bad movie, it has to 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.000 be like you have to present a case to the 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.840 d g A and they have to uh like like 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.159 a panel and they have to not ratify but just 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.640 give it the okay. But you have to present a 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.760 case basically that you it was sort of out of 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.680 your hands to such a degree that you could not 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.120 get your vision out there, and then they invoke the 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.560 Alan Smithy rule, invoke the Allen Smithy Smithy rule. So 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.920 if you're dissatisfied with your film and you can prove 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.120 that you lost creative control at some point and it 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:25.400 was not your fault, supposedly, uh, you can get Alan 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.440 Smithy or what rather. You could That is until about 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.880 eighteen years ago, so for n to the year two thousand, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.960 you could invoke Alan Smithy to take the place of 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.880 your real name. So your name is an attached to 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:45.200 a stinker. Really interesting. Trying to look up some recent entries. Yeah, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.880 I've got a few down here, but pre ninety you 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.600 could not do this. The first movie that the pseudonym 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.120 was used was on a movie called Death of a 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.680 gun Fighter, And interestingly, Death of a Gunfighter supposedly is 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.839 not some terrible movie. It even got decent reviews, but 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:05.479 director was replaced uh, And it ended up being directed 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.640 by two dudes, and neither one of them they thought, 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:11.760 I guess they didn't think like this movie is awful, 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.960 but neither one of them thought that they had their 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.040 own vision on screen, so neither one of them wanted 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.440 their name on it. It ended up getting okay reviews, 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.479 and I believe even Roger Ebert said something in his 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.680 review about director Alan Smithy a name I'm not familiar 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.359 with yet, which is kind of funny. I'll tell you 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.960 what's funny, Chuck, And it makes perfect sense. There is 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.920 a page for Alan Smithy on IMDb and it has 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.000 a hundred and eight entries. Yeah, because some of them. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.120 I think some writers have been able to use the 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.640 name here and there, but it's generally thought of as 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.599 a as a director's trick. So part of the deal, though, 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.680 is is you are not allowed to talk about it again. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.280 You're not allowed to like go out and tell your 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.320 story to the press. Um. It's it's sort of like 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.120 a court case where you just have to shut up 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.680 about it. A lot of them though on the page, 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.040 do you have um up in part the season really, 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:07.680 Kevin Yeager or like, yeah, you know exactly it is known, right, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.640 so it's sort of like, what's the point even, uh. 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.440 And then finally it sort of jumped the shark in 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.840 a weird meta way because Arthur Hiller, who was a 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.920 great director, directed a film called an Alan Smithy Film 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:25.119 Colin Burne Hollywood burn which was about a man named 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:30.000 Alan Smithy who was a director who wanted to disavow 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.360 his own film but couldn't do so because his name 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.760 was Alan Smithy. Get it. This is a joke, right, No, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:38.640 it was a real movie. What I mean? This is 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.280 this is a this is a documentary. No, it was 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.080 a movie. Guess what I'm saying. It's like it's a fiction. 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.880 That's that's funny. Yeah. And to add another meta layer 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.120 on top of this. And by the way, he'd even 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.440 saying meta, but that's you know, people know what I 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.160 mean saying meta, So meta, Chuck. I'm just so tired 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.160 of that. I was tired of it when it started. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:03.080 But Arthur Hiller said it his producer interfered such that 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.480 he didn't even have creative control over his Alan smith 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.800 the movie. So he Alan Smithy the Allen Smithy movie. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.040 And that may have been the last draw to where 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:16.760 the director's skuilld was like, fuck this, no more. Did 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.080 you find where the actual name came from? The where 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.440 they lifted that name from. Yeah, I believe it was 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.560 originally Alan smith and they said that's too common. There 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.120 are allan smith out there. Uh, and so they changed 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:34.360 it at first two uh Smithy with one E and 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.280 I guess that wasn't even bizarre enough. So finally they 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.880 made at Smithy with two ease, which is just not 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:41.800 even a name that's right, because that's the kicker. You 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.199 gotta have a name that's not floating out there all 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.560 over the place, otherwise it's gonna piss people off. Right interesting, chuck. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.800 So that's the story of Alan Smithy. Here's a few, 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.160 I mean, most of the movies you haven't heard of 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:59.040 because they're truly dogshit. But uh, Dennis Hopper directed a 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.079 movie called catch Fire thriller with Jodie Foster. He had 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:07.280 his name removed from Hell Razor Bloodline, clearly one of 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.680 the lesser hell Razors. Yeah, there's like fifteen of those, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.040 and like most of them are directed video. That's yeah, 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:13.800 I believe that's one of them. They just had that 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.240 mask lining around. They're like, we might as well use it. Yeah, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.559 And eventually the guy that they made that role famous 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.960 of Pinhead wasn't even involved anymore. Mighty Ducks the movie 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.440 Colin the first face off. This is like some kind 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.679 of weird Mighty Ducks prequel. Why would you call your 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:38.160 movie Mighty Ducks the movie as opposed to what Mighty Ducks? 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.520 The other movie kee for Sutherland and two thousand he 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.640 just got in under the Wire, directed a movie called 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.480 Woman Wanted that he wanted his name taken off of. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.120 And then there was one called Let's Get Harry In 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.600 that actually saw. I think it was sort of like 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:59.520 a uh an m I a soldier recovery, like these 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.480 dudes go back and get their buddy from a prison camp. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.360 And I believe it started one of the Eagles. I 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.520 think Glynn Fry was in that movie. One on the 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.400 list that I've seen. I remember seeing it was on TV. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:14.120 It was called The Birds to Land's End. Really you 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:15.520 saw that. I saw it and I remember it as 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.360 a kid, saw at my grandfather's house. It was on TV. 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.880 How do you get how do you get away with 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.440 doing a sequel to a Hitchcock film? I don't know. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.560 I guess it's one of those things like, um, that 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.520 Bad Lieutenant port of Call in New Orleans where they 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.960 had the rights to the name and they just were like, hey, 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.360 let's make a movie. That movie is great, by the way, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.400 That Lieutenant port of Call. Yeah, it's awesome. It's a 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.200 it's a Werner Hearstok movie. Oh really, it's just a 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.280 weird branding kind of that the Nick Cage. So he 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.200 played the bad Lieutenant. Interesting, it's it's it's it's a 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.120 whole different movie, not connected to the first one at all, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.640 but it's really good but weird. But was it was 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.439 it the same deal though? He was a cop that 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.320 was like masturbate on cars, that like robbed pharmacies and 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.400 was just like a total pill head jump psychopath. Yeah, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.600 I remember that first one with Harvey Kitell. Not jeez, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:10.839 what a movie. Very upsetting film. Alright, so we're gonna 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:15.720 move on. We're gonna keep the trope time run going because, 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.560 as I said, we are, we're gonna use everyone's tropes 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.040 that that mailed in and by mailed in like a 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.559 forty seven year old I mean Facebook. They didn't seen 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.400 an actual letters in the post. No more snail mail alright, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.920 so Lee Dallas says, more of a TV thing. But 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.560 a three hour car ride in l a traffic from 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.960 the police station to the person of interest house. But 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.400 all of the exposition is saved for the thirty second 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:45.680 walk from the car to the front door. Interesting. Maybe 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.200 they'll listen to podcast the rest of the time. Yeah. Sure, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.120 there's lots of things you can do to pass the 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.319 time in a car ride, but you would think exposition 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.600 would be first on the list. Yeah, for sure, Mike Burdette, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.280 when stuff only happens in the microwave after the timer 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:03.000 hit zero, Uh example, I can think of the explosive 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.200 and gross point blank. I don't know is that? Oh? 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.199 I guess to see what he means. He says, you know, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.760 in microwave is heating the entire time? You know what? 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.600 I got a really nasty one that came to mind. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.680 There was a movie called The Willie's Remember this movie. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.679 It was like an anthology horror, gross out thing from 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.080 the eighties, And there's one story about a woman who 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.280 puts her dog in the microwave to dry it off, 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.200 and as soon as it hits zero, the dog explodes 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.000 really right when it hits zero, though, so that's right 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.480 on point there, all right, Jeez, I don't want to 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.800 see that. No, you definitely don't. What an awful thing 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.600 was that? Directed by Alan Smithy. Probably Sean Aston was 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.080 in one of the bits though, really huh. You know 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.240 he's coming to Atlanta for a con con. Yeah, and 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:47.760 I'd love to get him in here and we can 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.920 con him into it. Sorry, sorry, dead jokes. Mike Sam says, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.160 what about when they you go to shoot a handgun, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.280 nothing happens. Then someone else tries one more time to 0:12:58.280 --> 0:12:59.880 shoot the gun when this shot is not in the 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.600 did and then the gunfires like oh this thing's out 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.880 of bullets, and then they like aim it at the ceiling. Yeah, 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.480 that's that's not one that I can think of an 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.720 example of right off the bat. Well, interestingly, it's in 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.320 the movie Clue that I just watched last night. Okay, see, 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.720 so I guess it does happen. Alan Bush says the 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.600 heroes are about to be captured or eaten by villains, predators, etcetera. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.360 But the last minute one of them throws a rock, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.520 distracting them, who all go to see what the noise was. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:32.760 The hero escapes. Is that a trope? The old rock throw. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.120 I mean, I could see it could be anything though, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:38.800 could be a rock, could be a piece of metal, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.760 it could be any you know, I'm not to put 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.280 a pin in that one. I'm not sure about that one, 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.880 all right, Nina Forbes says, um, the classic move where 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.920 the driver of the car is not clearly not paying 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.160 attention at all to driving. And it's also clearly like 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.199 some kind of bad green screen job where they're not 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.839 driving at all, the old rear screen projection. They're talking 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.199 to each other and just like, dude, come on, you're 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.439 gonna you're gonna. Yeah. I think that's a skill that 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.800 an actor forgets, Like a good actor will make it 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.880 appear like they're driving and make it realistic. Because nine 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.480 times out of tend that cars on a trailer being pulled, 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.960 it's called a camera car. And um, although when we 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.280 shot stuff, you should know, there were quite a few 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.120 driving scenes and we just you know, rigged cameras in 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:26.200 the car and really drove, which helps. And nowadays you've 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.160 got like go pros and stuff, you know, if you're 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:29.920 doing like an indie, I mean, there's a lot of 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:34.240 a lot of people use those. What was funny is 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.040 There was one scene and stuff you should know TV 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.240 when we we were driving and we were actually in 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:40.960 the scene and acting, and I pulled up to a 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.520 stoplight and in the middle of the scene, this guy 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.280 at the corner yells at us, Hey, are those HD 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:53.160 cameras the glorious early atts. Yeah? We're like, uh, yes 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:57.320 they are, sir, And now you've been on television. H 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:02.000 laire Allison, beautiful name, says The character, which is usually 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.560 kid in a horror movie. UM always ignores that don't 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.080 go in there or don't open that door trope. Sure, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:13.800 of course, not to mention running upstairs to escape as 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.960 opposed to out the fucking door. Right, I get what 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.800 you mean. Sure, like, let's get out of here. And 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.960 they run upstairs. Oh my god, there's no exit, Rachel 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.280 O'Reilly says, jumping down from a bridge onto a moving 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.720 train and sticking the landing, no problem. You think it 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.000 would just fly your fly out from under you. There's 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:38.720 no way. It's funny. Many years ago, at the very beginning. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.800 In fact, I remember the date actually because it was 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.760 nine o two one oh. It was September two, two 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.520 thousand and ten. Was the day I hung out with 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.840 Luke Perry, oh wow, ironically is a dreamboat. Uh you know, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.640 he was a very cool guy. He he was in 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.520 town for one of the for Dragon Con and my 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.520 friend jim Issa had directed him in a in a 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.440 movie and came to town and Luke Perry wanted to 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.840 hang out, so we all hung out nice one one 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.920 oh day. Isn't that funny? What do you mean on 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.400 nine day? It was September two two ten nine o 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.880 two one. Oh, Oh my gosh, that's it's very meta. Yeah. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.440 But anyway, the reason I mentioned this is because he 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.400 was making at the time and he may still be 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:25.440 these lifetime westerns. And he was like, you know what, man, 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.600 it's great. He's like, I'm still acting. I have a 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.480 good time. They pay me, okay, and I get like, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.240 last week I got to have a fight scene on 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.520 top of a train and he's like, I've always wanted 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.080 to do that. Who wouldn't you know? Good attitude. That 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.640 was pretty cool. He was. He was in some series 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.080 like called Jericho or something or I don't know. It 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.760 was like a post apocalyptic TV series. I think I've 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.720 heard of that kind of liked. I didn't see it. Yeah, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.920 good one, all right, Morgan Wheat says in older scary movies, 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.440 as a monster killer is approaching the woman, she just 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.400 screams in terror as they zoom in on her face. 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.200 She doesn't run away, she just stands there screaming because 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:06.159 her mind is broken, Chuck, she's been shattered by existential dread. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.200 That's true, and you know she just ran off screaming. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.960 The scene would be over to Christine Tompkins. I'm not 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.320 sure if it's a trope, but I love watching cop 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.920 mystery shows and movies when detectives walk into a crime 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.960 scene with coffee and sometimes even food. No, I think 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.800 that's totally a trope. You know, the detective like walking 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.960 in a crime scene with like a bagel and okay, yeah, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.160 that's like I mean that's like set dressing one oh 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:35.880 one kind of stuff for like like like the bag 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.280 of the grocery bag with the with the lettuce hanging 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.240 out or whatever. I think that gets in the letter. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.720 It's literally like that, Yes, absolutely, and he's all and 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.840 it's it's almost to imply that he's done this so much, 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.040 he's so grizzled, and he's not shaken by it at all. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.280 He's gonna go on eating his bagel, you know, drinking 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.840 his coffee and his Dad of the Year mug or whatever. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.520 You know, he's just just like number one cop. It's 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:03.440 just another day in the life of Lieutenant McNulty. Christine 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.240 points out that she's pretty sure this probably isn't even 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.479 allowed because it would contaminate the crime scene, you know, 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.840 and I'm sure she's probably right. What's your bagel crumbs 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.520 on the floor because the evidence got some cream cheese? No, 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.920 all right, we'll do one more, Abby Zachos. What is 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.479 up with these great names? No, they're just great names. 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:28.000 Are we boring? No, it's not up to us, Jock, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.560 We just like good names. I wish I had a 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.400 great name like Abby Zachos. Do you're Charles W Chuck 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.520 Bryant Man? Come on, come on, she says. The classic 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.360 group of friends in a horror movie that would never 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.479 exist in real life. The jock, the popular girl, that her, 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.480 the stoner in the quiet one. Yeah, that's true, but 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.520 it's you know, it's for you know, diversity sake of character. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.080 I guess it's like a Dungeons and Dragons party. You know, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.480 everyone has to have their own little specialization, and it's 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.880 for story, and everything comes into play. Everyone's special gift 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.840 comes into play at some point, right exactly like I mean, 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.440 the football player throws a vase the perfect spiral, the 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.400 secretly has a heart of gold. All right, So that's 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.800 trope time for the week. Another good effort from you guys. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.520 Thank you so much for your help. These are getting 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:28.760 fun alright. Segment three before we move on to questions 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:33.480 and ol stream Thats so, Emily and I watched a 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.080 movie a couple of nights ago called Game Night. Did 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.040 you see this? Is this some kind of weird like 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.600 saw torture porn horror movie? Okay, yeah, Emily's way into 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.159 those cool cool No, I don't know then, No, it was. 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.760 It was just out jeez, maybe even earlier this year, 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:52.080 starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Jesse Plemons, 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.760 and more, directed by John Francis Daily and Jonathan Goldstein. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.040 John Francis Day, by the way, was Sam on Freaks 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.920 and Geeks, so he's a director now and a writer. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.520 Uh And this was written by Mark Perez and I 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.640 think it may have been one of those cases where 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.800 Emily and I really needed a good laugh. We were 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.439 have been some stress in our life lately, and we 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:17.320 ended up really liking this movie. Um it's no Academy 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.560 Award winner, I'm not saying that, but it turned out 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.679 to be a very fun and funny movie. The plot 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.120 is that these friends always get together for game nights, 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.040 is sort of what they do in their social life, 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.919 and uh, Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams are married, and 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.760 then another couple of couples always come over and play 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:40.440 game night, and um, Jason Bateman's older brother is Kyle 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.639 Chandler from Friday Night Lights, a very rich, successful dude 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.840 kind of overshadowing his brother, and he sets up a 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:52.160 game night, comes into town, sets up a game night. Um. 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.480 Wherein it's a murder mystery, like when you hire people 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.399 to like kidnap one of your friends and then figure 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.399 out clues to to figure this whole thing out. It 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:07.159 all goes awry because, Uh, it turns out that a 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.960 real kidnapping happens. Everyone thinks it's fake, turns out it's real, 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:16.320 and then it's a game of sort of uh uh 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:18.960 who done it? And cat and mouse for the rest 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:20.640 of the game, and you don't know if it's real. 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:24.439 Still or if it's part of this elaborate game. But 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.200 it turned out to be really kind of funny. There 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:28.919 was a lot of just a lot of little subtle 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:33.480 creative director's choices and lines, writer's lines, and like funny 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:37.200 shots that made the movie much better than we expected 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.720 it to be. Cool. It was good stuff. So I 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:45.120 feel like, um, is it horror ish? No, it's more 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:50.560 thriller ish and comedy ish. Definitely a comedy, but um, 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.000 you know, because it's about kidnapping and stuff, had that 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.919 thrillery angle, you know what I'm saying. Yea, yeah, that 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:58.040 sounds interesting. It's good. It's sort of a hybrid, but 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:00.560 definitely a comedy of course. You know, Jason Bateman can 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.520 do no wrong to me. What's its streaming on? Well, 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.680