Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to Mini Crush Monday with Charles W.
Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant speaking. And I have uh Noel Briant on
Speaker 1: the line. Noel, Old Brian, Noel Briant. I love this.
Speaker 1: I just say, Old Brian, you kind of did God
Speaker 1: damn it. No, It's okay. And I'll tell you that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say this often. Sometimes you're opening has a certain
Speaker 1: cadence to it. Today it had the cadence of an auctioneer, like, Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: money Monday, I talk about it all alone. So have
Speaker 1: you ever made to an auction like that? I have
Speaker 1: been to an auction of horse sperm? Oh all right,
Speaker 1: let's talk. It was Augusta, Georgia, my my hometown. I
Speaker 1: used to work for the public radio and I would
Speaker 1: I would cover various things, and the we have this
Speaker 1: a very popular event called the Augusta Futurity, which is
Speaker 1: a horse event or they you know, jump over ship.
Speaker 1: And then there's all these like adjacent events, and one
Speaker 1: of them was a horse auction for not actual horses,
Speaker 1: but breeding rights to horses. And what you're actually buying
Speaker 1: is semen mm hmm interesting. All right, Okay, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I thought it would be. Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just for funzies. It was definitely like and
Speaker 1: the ship was you know, expensive, because it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, the semen of a prized ball or sure.
Speaker 1: Well that's amazing, Noel Brian, I love it. Thanks Chuck Brown.
Speaker 1: And since you brought up horses, I might as well
Speaker 1: plug my friends a new project called heart Horse. My
Speaker 1: dear friend Meredith from College and Beyond is uh or
Speaker 1: college forward is what I mean by that. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: is uh an equestrian and loves horses since she was
Speaker 1: a little girl, and they have helped during her life.
Speaker 1: So she launched this website called heart Horse where they
Speaker 1: tell these great stories about people in their horses. And
Speaker 1: if you're into horses, you should go to hard Horse.
Speaker 1: Check it out. It's really lovely stuff and a cool
Speaker 1: one of my great great friends. All Right, so nol,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get it going. We're gonna jump right on in. Today.
Speaker 1: We have a couple of segments. I asked the crushers yesterday,
Speaker 1: what is your favorite New York movie or TV show? Uh?
Speaker 1: And that it really just nails what New York is
Speaker 1: all about. And like uh and as also said, if
Speaker 1: you haven't been to New York, maybe let us know
Speaker 1: if your pick is the New York you might imagine
Speaker 1: is what New York is does? That makes sense, it does.
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, because it's like New York is easier
Speaker 1: to kind of sum up in a movie. I think,
Speaker 1: then say l A, because l A is just so
Speaker 1: sprawling and all over the place. I feel like there's
Speaker 1: not one l A and there's not one New York either,
Speaker 1: But New York is a little more encapsulatable. That's a word.
Speaker 1: I just I think I agree with you l A movies,
Speaker 1: like you can have your get short Ease in your
Speaker 1: l A stories and your movies that kind of skewer
Speaker 1: Hollywood and that whole l A thing. But then you
Speaker 1: can do Paul Thomas Anderson in the Valley a completely
Speaker 1: different l A it is, or you know, movies. You know,
Speaker 1: it kind of depends on like you said, it's so
Speaker 1: spread out on where you are in l A because
Speaker 1: it can be very different. But New York, New York's
Speaker 1: New York. You know, it's true, It's true. Um gosh,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I'm trying to think, Um, do
Speaker 1: you have one that pops to mind, Chuck, Well, I
Speaker 1: know one that we both agree on, Um is high maintenance.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Well that's that's such a good Uh
Speaker 1: what's the word. I'm looking for a good kind of
Speaker 1: like frame for just like exploring different aspects of the
Speaker 1: city and different types of people that live there. And
Speaker 1: that's that's a good one for sure. I love it.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna start with Catherine Brunet says, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I'd try to describe a city half the size
Speaker 1: with one movie, but Panic and Needle Parker Taxi Driver
Speaker 1: seems accurate for the time period based on what I've
Speaker 1: heard from people who grew up there. Yeah, I could
Speaker 1: definitely see that. And one one that comes to mind
Speaker 1: for me is, um, the movie Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Kitel. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's, it's, it's it's very bleak. But but I'll
Speaker 1: tell you it's interesting because it's a movie that came
Speaker 1: out in the nineties, but in the nineties, New York
Speaker 1: still looked like the New York of like the seventies.
Speaker 1: It was very graffitied up and like kind of like
Speaker 1: raunchy and edgy and now been a lot more sanitized
Speaker 1: and kind of cleaned up. And um so when you
Speaker 1: see Bad Lieutenant, even though you're watching a movie that
Speaker 1: looks like, you know, that feels very seventies, it was
Speaker 1: absolutely shot in the nineties. Um, which I think is
Speaker 1: interesting because I I think I've mentioned I grew up
Speaker 1: going to New York a lot and having a lot
Speaker 1: of free reign and like explore it as a very
Speaker 1: young kid. Looking back on it now, I'm like, God,
Speaker 1: that's that crazy. But um, yeah, so I very special
Speaker 1: place in my heart in my life that city. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. Miss I remember that. I remember that era,
Speaker 1: um when it was much more sketchy. But yeah, god,
Speaker 1: I miss it too so much. Yeah, my first sit
Speaker 1: to New York was in uh nineteen ninety one, I think,
Speaker 1: and uh in college. I think like sophomore year in
Speaker 1: college or maybe junior year. And uh, it was it
Speaker 1: was everything I thought it would be. And that was
Speaker 1: still when it was sort of you know, the meatpacking
Speaker 1: district and the that side of town was really kind
Speaker 1: of run down and gross, and the Times Square still
Speaker 1: had shows and it was not cleaned up yet, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's one. It's interesting when people sort of
Speaker 1: yearned for the days when the place was kind of
Speaker 1: a ship hole. I think there's a middle period, like
Speaker 1: the eighties in New York we're truly dangerous and and
Speaker 1: kind of gross and awful, and then I think the
Speaker 1: nineties it was better but still had some of the
Speaker 1: grit before it was completely cleaned up. I get what
Speaker 1: people mean by losing its character, but also it's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's great when it was had more rats and crime.
Speaker 1: That's also kind of silly. You know, love rats and crime,
Speaker 1: but not not You're like charming ratitui rats. These are legs,
Speaker 1: seriously gnarly uh rabies and infected rats. That's right. Michael
Speaker 1: Johnson's Goodfellas the most mostly suburban and outer borough New
Speaker 1: York City. As a native, I can honestly say no,
Speaker 1: their movie is quite has gotten it quite as right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: where where was good Felas? Was that long island? Staten Island?
Speaker 1: It's a good quite shin. You know, I feel like
Speaker 1: it had to a band, No, does it not? Jersey?
Speaker 1: I really don't know. It's not something that they make
Speaker 1: a big to do about times. I should know this.
Speaker 1: What's the zoo that they go to with the alligator.
Speaker 1: Is that like the Brooklyn Zoo Brooklyn or the Bronx Zoo.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that scene. They just there's like a lion.
Speaker 1: They throw a guy in the lion. They feed a
Speaker 1: body too, Zoo alligators something like that anyway, But I'm
Speaker 1: blanking on all of it now. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: the Bronx Zoo. Yes, I bet you're right. Teresa Barker says,
Speaker 1: not a movie, but Pretend It's a City with brand
Speaker 1: Lee Bowitz quintessential New York City and makes me ache
Speaker 1: to be there. Yes, Teresa, I have been. We have
Speaker 1: watched a couple of episodes of Pretend It's a City,
Speaker 1: and I like it quite a bit. Brand Lee Bowitz
Speaker 1: is great national treasure. She's the I'd love to see
Speaker 1: her and Larry, her and Larry David sit down and
Speaker 1: have a conversation. Oh god, you're right, she is very
Speaker 1: Larry David, Uh, Chuck. Have you seen painting with John? No?
Speaker 1: I still have not seen that. I would recommend that.
Speaker 1: I think you'd you'd enjoy. It's this guy John, John Louie,
Speaker 1: who was in a lot of the Jim Jarmish films,
Speaker 1: and he's just kind of this like weird out there
Speaker 1: cool kind of like almost like a proto beat nick
Speaker 1: type dude. And he's just hanging out in his crazy
Speaker 1: pad in the Caribbean somewhere, painting and talking about life.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's very like, you know, meta and self
Speaker 1: referential and um, probably should never have come to exist,
Speaker 1: but he happened to make it just for his own
Speaker 1: edification and showed it to uh somebody, I think it
Speaker 1: was Will Ferrell's producing partner, who's the director whose name
Speaker 1: is escaping me right now? Um, and he like loved
Speaker 1: it and showed it Adam McKay and then HBO is like,
Speaker 1: here are you got yourself a show? Um? And it
Speaker 1: feels very much like that, like it just was kind
Speaker 1: of willed into existence by this guy's own just like creativity.
Speaker 1: Well if you do like that, Nolan, I don't know
Speaker 1: why I haven't, uh when you mentioned that before, not
Speaker 1: mentioned this in return. Uh. That is a take on
Speaker 1: the series he had called Fishing with John. I've heard
Speaker 1: of it, I've not seen it, which is fantastic, where
Speaker 1: John Laurie would literally just take one person fishing. Uh.
Speaker 1: Tom Waits, Dennis Hopper, Willem Dafoe. I think Matt Dillon
Speaker 1: was on one of them, very very very fun show.
Speaker 1: Jim Jarmers was in one. Got It good stuff, Get
Speaker 1: two dudes in a boat, and that's sort of the premise,
Speaker 1: a small boat. All right, let's move on here to
Speaker 1: New York again. Dan truebat true body. I always say
Speaker 1: your name wrong, Dan, Sorry, I've never been to New York. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I know it was filmed in l A. But
Speaker 1: I personally to refuse to believe that the New York
Speaker 1: and Seinfeld isn't und accurate even now. That's funny. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things too, where it's like, how does
Speaker 1: how does the stand up comedian afford this apartment? Or like,
Speaker 1: you know, like all of them, all of the friends, yeah,
Speaker 1: friends the same. I think that was one of their.
Speaker 1: I think it was Monica's grandmother's apartment, though at least
Speaker 1: they tried to explain it because this in a way,
Speaker 1: you know, in the West Village. Uh, in a stress
Speaker 1: one of our old princes. Uh. I love the weird,
Speaker 1: quirky version that Broad City shows. Yeah, totally, totally, totally.
Speaker 1: Jennifer Mudge has never been But when I think of
Speaker 1: New York. It's got a sex in the city vibe,
Speaker 1: and I know the apartments are way smaller. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: definitely are kids A good one. Kids is a very raw,
Speaker 1: like real Those are all actual, you know kids that
Speaker 1: like ran in those circles and all kind of guerilla
Speaker 1: style shot and very much an accurate depiction of New
Speaker 1: York during those those those times that could have been
Speaker 1: you know, old scampering around as a teenager, gamping around,
Speaker 1: breaking into swimming pools, trying to make out. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: making out, making out. Angelo Buckle says, movie wise, maybe
Speaker 1: some of Spike Lee's old stuff, like she's gotta have
Speaker 1: it or do the right thing. Yeah, I do the
Speaker 1: right thing. I think was a pretty good depiction of
Speaker 1: Brooklyn of the day. Gail the Dangerubin says, Ghostbusters never
Speaker 1: been to New York. But since I grew up watching
Speaker 1: that movie, if New York isn't like that, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be real piste off. Yeah, that was a pretty
Speaker 1: realistic New York. I think for what it was, New
Speaker 1: York absolutely overflowing with ghosts, no question about it. Brittany Story,
Speaker 1: one of our old friends, says, Brittany runs a marathon
Speaker 1: has been pretty similar to my own experience of a
Speaker 1: Youngish person finding their way in New York named Brittany. Yes,
Speaker 1: the city can be harsh and a bit brutal, especially
Speaker 1: when you feel lost, but it also feels full of
Speaker 1: possibility and wonder. Sure, yes, totally, Chuck. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you feel about that. Did you you lived in
Speaker 1: New York? No? No, maybe not? You'd lived in l
Speaker 1: a that lived in Jersey for three years and spot
Speaker 1: all my time in New York for sure. And I
Speaker 1: grew up, like I said, going to New York all
Speaker 1: the time, and I had, you know, this like aspirational
Speaker 1: thing where I was like, I want to live in
Speaker 1: New York and that didn't happen, but you know, for work. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: I've been able to travel there a lot before you know,
Speaker 1: covid um, and I've realized and completely made peace with
Speaker 1: the fact that I do not want to live in
Speaker 1: New York anymore. I just want to go there for
Speaker 1: a while and then come back home to my my
Speaker 1: home in Atlanta, which is much more my speed. Because
Speaker 1: it's a it is brutal, and it is like a
Speaker 1: grind like it. It really feels like you're just scrapping
Speaker 1: just to like get from the store back to your apartment,
Speaker 1: or like it's a tough city. And I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I think there's a certain age you reach where you
Speaker 1: give up on that dream of living in New York
Speaker 1: for kind of the reasons you mentioned where you're like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm good to visit, and hey, we get
Speaker 1: to visit, you know during normal times, you know, or
Speaker 1: five six times a year for work, which is the
Speaker 1: best someone mels pace for it totally. I mean there
Speaker 1: was a time, you know, k I was going like
Speaker 1: twice a month, you know, like before COVID, like just
Speaker 1: because of taking meetings and stuff. And I think it'll
Speaker 1: probably not return to that cadence, but I do hope
Speaker 1: it does come back because I have a I basically
Speaker 1: have a whole New York family of like a friend
Speaker 1: group now and it's I missed them. I love it.
Speaker 1: I miss them to my my niece Reagan is there
Speaker 1: and I miss seeing her for sure. Uh let me
Speaker 1: see here. Aaron Cooper said Ghostbusters as well, we got
Speaker 1: Matthew fober chimed in with high maintenance faith and reminiscent
Speaker 1: of the times I spent visiting friends from the Midwest
Speaker 1: who had relocated there. Erica Z says Lena Dunham series
Speaker 1: Girls to be fair whenever I went to visit friends
Speaker 1: all at in Brooklyn, so they had similar living situations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Girls was sort of like high maintenance. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a really accurate version of that New York I
Speaker 1: love that show. I'm always on record as saying Girls
Speaker 1: was one of the great great shows, one of the
Speaker 1: most well written shows ever. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: get back on people don't like Lena Dunham. I think
Speaker 1: she just did some stuff in the press that was
Speaker 1: a little abrasive. But I I think that either can
Speaker 1: you can totally be annoyed at her for that stuff
Speaker 1: or be like, yeah, you go and and don't be
Speaker 1: like a predictable kind of wallflower. So, um, I respect
Speaker 1: her as a as a as an artist and as
Speaker 1: a as a person, but sometimes she does rub me
Speaker 1: a little bit the wrong way. But um, I think
Speaker 1: she's very talented. Yeah, I mean I get it, and
Speaker 1: I think she Uh. I think it seems like some
Speaker 1: of this, like genuinely more controversial things that happened. We're
Speaker 1: after Girls, yes, or maybe I'm wrong. No, I think
Speaker 1: that's about right anyway. I will say the thing about
Speaker 1: girls that always bugged me, and I thought it was
Speaker 1: good and I enjoyed watching it, but it just felt
Speaker 1: like a very privileged perspective, you know, of like what
Speaker 1: it's like to live in New York. And a lot
Speaker 1: of those characters I just found particularly not very um relatable,
Speaker 1: you know, are not very uh sympathetic because they're just
Speaker 1: kind of like their problems are very you know, characters
Speaker 1: still love sometimes for sure. I get it, Jake Dingler,
Speaker 1: I don't think we know, Jake Kai Jakes says it Yes,
Speaker 1: originally a play, Yes, the play was better. And now
Speaker 1: I've never been to New York, but that movie made
Speaker 1: my fifteen year old queer self believe there was something
Speaker 1: better than the rural outskirts of Cincinnati. I love that, Jake.
Speaker 1: It's good stuff when a movie can give someone uh
Speaker 1: I feel like they have a place that they fit
Speaker 1: in when they might not fit in where they are.
Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Power of movies and plays, uh kanam
Speaker 1: true acts, says Russian Doll. Yeah, parks in Bodega's, eccentric people,
Speaker 1: artists in jerks, it's all there. Yea, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I love that show. That's when I didn't finish what
Speaker 1: I very much liked what I saw. It was it just,
Speaker 1: you know, it has a certain repetition to that sort
Speaker 1: of the point. But I just died for some reason
Speaker 1: that it didn't I love it, didn't bring me in
Speaker 1: to to finish it. But I think I saw like
Speaker 1: four or five episodes. Yeah, I can't wait for the
Speaker 1: next stuff. And I finished Search Party. By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't think you've ever followed up on that. I
Speaker 1: blazed through Search Party one of my fastest binges because
Speaker 1: Emily Um bailed on it after a little bit, but
Speaker 1: she wanted to know still what was happening, so I
Speaker 1: was kind of just recapping. But I loved it, man,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a little fun. Our old friend
Speaker 1: Ethan Anastasio says, and Ghostbusters, when Lewis Tully has chased
Speaker 1: them all by the Hellhound at Tavern on the Green,
Speaker 1: all those diners look up for a moment and then
Speaker 1: go right back to their meals. Most New York moment
Speaker 1: and cinema history. That's a good point. That's Ethan Yavine.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm just kidding about Unshakable unflappable New Yorkers.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna ruin my hundred dollar meal. Alex Press
Speaker 1: is the Warriors during during COVID nineteen times. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: still a struggle to commute safely on the subway. I mean,
Speaker 1: New York had the crime has gone up. It's been
Speaker 1: a little crazy to see some of the stuff that's
Speaker 1: happened over the past year, like these sort of random
Speaker 1: attacks and things that you didn't see for a long
Speaker 1: time in New York. It's little scary and disheartening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. Ryan Lee says, what we do in the Shadows,
Speaker 1: they really nailed Mannahatta in Stetin Island, good stuff. Steve
Speaker 1: McGrath says, sweaty Bruce Willis and Sam Jackson and that
Speaker 1: die Hard movie they did their memories of riding the
Speaker 1: trains in the summer totally. Man, that's a very summary
Speaker 1: New York movie. And I have a really distinctive memory
Speaker 1: because that was, you know, around the time that I
Speaker 1: was there all the time, and I believe I even
Speaker 1: maybe saw that while it was in New York. There's
Speaker 1: a place I don't think it's there anymore. It's called
Speaker 1: something different, but it was called Gray's Papaya and as
Speaker 1: a hot dogs place, and they and they put like
Speaker 1: papaya on the on the hot dogs, and uh, I
Speaker 1: remember it was underneath a mattress place called Sleepy's, which
Speaker 1: maybe is still there's something somewhere off the time square,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's very distinctly featured in the movie.
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking how cool I was because I
Speaker 1: knew that location at the time. Our old friend Jimmy
Speaker 1: Caykendall agrees with us on high maintenance. Don't think there's
Speaker 1: a show that better represents itty city or diverse population
Speaker 1: I praise indeed. Indeed, Matthew Hunter says, I just watched
Speaker 1: Dog Day Afternoon. Definitely part of the gritty seventies genre.
Speaker 1: Michael mcgree says, I like The New York from Arthur Well,
Speaker 1: Michael Arthur is one of my favorite all time comedies.
Speaker 1: I'm just dying for someone to pick that on movie
Speaker 1: Crush that's with Dudley Moore. Yeah, it was a very
Speaker 1: big movie for me as a kid. Saw it over
Speaker 1: and over and over and over on HBO. Got it.
Speaker 1: Joshua Hall says Escape from New York. Yeah, another high
Speaker 1: maintenance vote from Zach Low. Uh, and let me finish
Speaker 1: up here with this. Andrew Cottney says Master of None
Speaker 1: the ass and sorry Netflix show was pretty good. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think they might be doing more of those now.
Speaker 1: I think it was just announced after a long breaks.
Speaker 1: I think they're coming back for a new season, which
Speaker 1: makes me really happy because Master of None is one
Speaker 1: of the great great shows. All right, nol Uh, We're
Speaker 1: gonna wrap it up with a little segment called Chucks Hole.
Speaker 1: I get a chance to redeem myself from that debacle.
Speaker 1: And you you know you have to keep score too.
Speaker 1: Oh god, damn difficult part of this whole experience. I
Speaker 1: don't have my handy dandy score sheet. Um, I'll just okay,
Speaker 1: it's fine, Okay, you don't have your custom made scored
Speaker 1: keep hold on. No, no, I don't. I don't have
Speaker 1: it on me right now. But I'm gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put I've got it. I've got my Chuck's Holes
Speaker 1: list in the notes app. So what I'm gonna do is, uh,
Speaker 1: put the little checkbox next to him, and if you
Speaker 1: get one, I'm gonna check it. If you don't, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna check in them, gonna count ot the check marks.
Speaker 1: Does that work? Yes? Great? Making sure I understand the
Speaker 1: concept of keeping score. Sometimes I just have to keep
Speaker 1: myself honest. You alright, Chuck, this is Chuck's Holes eight
Speaker 1: eighties schlocky sci fi edition. Oh okay, that could possibly do? Okay,
Speaker 1: this one, I think you You definitely could, and I
Speaker 1: likely will. But I think it's uh, I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty fair, and I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: really honest with the audience because that's just how we
Speaker 1: do on movie crush. Um. I did not get the
Speaker 1: memo that you wanted me to prepare this, so right
Speaker 1: before we recorded this, I took about fifteen minutes and
Speaker 1: made this list, Um, and I stand by it. Thanks
Speaker 1: for doing that work at the last minute. All of course, dude,
Speaker 1: that's that's what I do. Um. I maybe would put
Speaker 1: them in a different order, but we don't have time
Speaker 1: for that. So let's go starting the clock. There's no
Speaker 1: clock on this. Um. How about this? This was an
Speaker 1: early Jim Carey performance in a little movie called Earth
Speaker 1: Girls Are Easy. I never saw that, Okay, I know,
Speaker 1: I know the movie, never saw it. I believe it's
Speaker 1: got Gina Davis. Yeah, Jeff Gold looms in it. Uh.
Speaker 1: Gina Davis, Um, sort of a little raunchy. I think
Speaker 1: there's some raunch and it might have been a boober too.
Speaker 1: Um and yeah, that came out in nineteen I believe
Speaker 1: the very first Jim Carey, um, you know film performance.
Speaker 1: And he's an alien and he's covered in like blue fur. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If I should have seen that, I was in junior
Speaker 1: in high school. That was right at my alley. Did
Speaker 1: not see it? Yep, Gina Davis and Jeff Cold. I
Speaker 1: forgot Jeff Cold. It's an out of this world, down
Speaker 1: to earth romantic comedy. That's that's fun. Uh. Oh, I
Speaker 1: did I see exactly what they did? All right? Moving on,
Speaker 1: no check mark for you. Uh. A little movie that
Speaker 1: was obviously riding the wave of a lot of Critter
Speaker 1: movies that were, um, you know, very much influenced by Gremlin's.
Speaker 1: A little movie called Munchy. Did not see Munchy. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's Munchy's. Let me just double check. I didn't either one, Okay, didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't see Critters either. I was called Munches. Uh.
Speaker 1: It was a Roger Corman production. Um, and it's seven
Speaker 1: comedy horror film. Starring Harvey Corman, Charlie Stratton and Nadine
Speaker 1: Van der Veld, directed by Tina Hirsch, and it very
Speaker 1: much oh Tina Hirsch, who actually was the editor for Gremlins.
Speaker 1: So and it says even here in the Wikipedia the
Speaker 1: film features a remarkably similar plot line. Um, it's all
Speaker 1: about the creatures Gremlin's trip off. Okay, no check mark there, um,
Speaker 1: but thanks for not picking Gremlins though, the movie that
Speaker 1: everyone saw. Well, of course that would that wouldn't be fair. Um,
Speaker 1: how about Critters? I did not see Critters either. Did
Speaker 1: you see Critters too? Because that's what I actually put on,
Speaker 1: what was going on? That's probably true, I think if
Speaker 1: I'm that mistaken. Young, young, young Leonardo DiCaprio was in
Speaker 1: one of those cripps. Really yeah, let's see growing uh.
Speaker 1: He was in Critters three, Yes, Pritters three, very young
Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio was in Critters three, which there is some
Speaker 1: kind of time travel plotline. A lot of these movies
Speaker 1: were simultaneously influenced by Gremlins and Terminator because there's time
Speaker 1: travel in this one, and there's the gremlin Z kind
Speaker 1: of little creatures. But it's a lot more gory. These
Speaker 1: are these creatures like um, they can combine their powers
Speaker 1: into a giant ball and they just roll over like
Speaker 1: herds of cattle and they just like pick them clean.
Speaker 1: It's very uh, it's all about the guts in the
Speaker 1: in the gore. It's very r rated. Okay, well, there's
Speaker 1: still plenty of plenty of time here. Yeah. A little
Speaker 1: movie from the very early eighties called raw Head Rex.
Speaker 1: Never heard of raw Head Rex um was written by
Speaker 1: Clive Barker, And that's really the only reason I know
Speaker 1: about it. It's a monster movie from six raw Head Rex,
Speaker 1: directed by George Pavlou and written by Clive Barker, a
Speaker 1: very young Clive Barker. Okay, here we go. How about
Speaker 1: Howard the Duck? Yeah, I saw Howard the Duck. How
Speaker 1: are the Duck notoriously panned? Yeah? Yeah, not not a
Speaker 1: good movie. Weird, not a good movie. Weird movie based
Speaker 1: on the Marvel cinematic universe. Actually, yeah, I did not
Speaker 1: know that until later on. I think it was a
Speaker 1: comic book, right, it was a comic book. And then
Speaker 1: actually I believe in one of those famous post credit
Speaker 1: Marvel movie scenes, I believe in one of the Guardians
Speaker 1: of the Galaxies movies. The character of the Benicio del
Speaker 1: Toro plays, who was like called the Collector. He has
Speaker 1: Howard the Duck in his collection. I don't think I
Speaker 1: remember that. That's funny, all right, Chuck. We've got plenty
Speaker 1: of time. We've got maximum overdrive, Stephen King, Stephen Amelia Estebez. Yes,
Speaker 1: machines come to life, machines, specifically the trucks, but also
Speaker 1: vending machines, lawn mower. There's one of those turkey car
Speaker 1: being knives, the electric carving knives, you know, um famously, Uh.
Speaker 1: The King made the trailer for this where he's in
Speaker 1: it and is clearly very coked up. And he goes,
Speaker 1: they've told me for years, Uh, you should direct one
Speaker 1: of your own movie, or for years they've been saying, Stephen,
Speaker 1: why don't you direct one of your own books or whatever?
Speaker 1: And he goes, I just I finally decided. If you
Speaker 1: want to do something right, do it yourself. He's got
Speaker 1: this like wild eyed, like crazy look in his eyes.
Speaker 1: Very bad, very bad movie, Mamelia. It wasn't great, but
Speaker 1: I did see it. Okay. Next, we have a movie
Speaker 1: more famous for its rip off in this and product
Speaker 1: placement than anything. Mac and me, uh no, but you know, no,
Speaker 1: Paul Rudd and Conan O'Brien's appearances. So that's all. You know, that,
Speaker 1: that's all you need to see. The famous seeing I
Speaker 1: saw when I was a kid. It was one of
Speaker 1: those movies that Blockbuster when you pick movies just based
Speaker 1: on the cover. They probably got a lot of business
Speaker 1: from people like thinking it, well, this looks a lot
Speaker 1: like et um. So yeah, that's that's that's that's what
Speaker 1: it was, totally U banking on. How about Killer Clowns
Speaker 1: from Outer Space, Chuck, I did see that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's a sort of a classic B movie
Speaker 1: cult movie. It is, it is, it's it still comes
Speaker 1: up on the Netflix recommendations quite often. Yeah these days. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, we are moving on. Oh this was actually
Speaker 1: remade recently. That's pretty funny. Hold on a second. There's
Speaker 1: a version of this, But I can't say for sure
Speaker 1: if if this was in fact a remake, But there
Speaker 1: is a movie with the same exact name starring Zendea
Speaker 1: put up by Disney called Zapped. Yeah, Zapped. That was
Speaker 1: a movie. I believe Scott Baio was in that correct,
Speaker 1: and it was one of sort of those teen skin
Speaker 1: flicks where he had a superpower where he basically used
Speaker 1: it to two take clothes off of girls something. You know,
Speaker 1: it's exactly I mean, shuck. The poster says it all. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's got like it's like one of those amazing illustrated
Speaker 1: posters where it's Scott bo and whoever Willie Ames is
Speaker 1: leaning in through a window with a woman leaning out
Speaker 1: of frame and him using his like magic psychic hand
Speaker 1: to lift up her skirt. They remade that, But how
Speaker 1: in the world do you remake that movie? It obviously
Speaker 1: has a woman as the lead, which maybe that was
Speaker 1: they just decided we're going to take this sexist eighties
Speaker 1: comedy and flip the script. Um and but I know
Speaker 1: nothing about it. But it is spelled the same. It
Speaker 1: even has an exclamation mark at the end um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the tagline for the movie is They're getting a little
Speaker 1: behind and there's class work. Good god, it's pretty rough again,
Speaker 1: just if you couldn't guess already, it's about you know,
Speaker 1: Scott Bo's aacter develops telekinetic abilities and uses it to
Speaker 1: basically sexually harassed women. I mean, is the news app
Speaker 1: a remake? Of that or does it just have the
Speaker 1: same thing. Let's see Zapped Zenda. It's spelled zapp. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: let's see American television film average sixteen year old whose
Speaker 1: mother is just remarried, they moved. Let's see where is
Speaker 1: the thing about? Oh no, it looks more like she's
Speaker 1: got a magic remote control. It may just I don't
Speaker 1: know that it's necessarily considered a remake at all. Oh
Speaker 1: it's uh an app and zapped as highlighted, and I
Speaker 1: think it also has to do with an app. Ye,
Speaker 1: it does sound just as bad, but surely yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a little a little bit different way. Okay, alright, you're back, Chuck,
Speaker 1: you're back. We've got your check mark for zap. Here's
Speaker 1: another eighties rom com, Unleist was app wasn't really a
Speaker 1: rom com, but an eight rom com which I recently
Speaker 1: saw and quite enjoyed, also starring uh, the formidable Jeff
Speaker 1: goldbloom at his Jeff goldbloom Ey ist. A little movie
Speaker 1: called Vibes. Uh yeah, Cindy Lawper Vibe Cindy Lauper psychic abilities.
Speaker 1: They go to Machu Picchu to search for some sort
Speaker 1: of like ancient relic uh and That's about all I remember,
Speaker 1: but it was a lot of fun. Cindy Lauper is
Speaker 1: actually quite a delight in in the movies. She's great,
Speaker 1: she's fun, all right, good deal vibes is a check mark.
Speaker 1: How about a little movie called Chud. I never saw Chud,
Speaker 1: cannibalistic human humanoid, underground dwellers, underground dwellers. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: it's never saw Shud either, chuck um, but it's one
Speaker 1: that always comes up, all right, Moving on, how about
Speaker 1: an early trauma film that I saw on TV all
Speaker 1: the time back in the day called The Toxic Avenger. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I think that might be the only trauma film
Speaker 1: I've seen the same. Yeah, not never, not not not
Speaker 1: really my bad, but they used to play the movie
Speaker 1: on TV all the time. And it's the saddest sequence
Speaker 1: when the poor little janitor uh he was just bullied
Speaker 1: like mercilessly um turns into the Toxic Avenger. He ends
Speaker 1: up like falling into a vat of toxic waste after
Speaker 1: being chased and beaten and bullied. Like I remember being
Speaker 1: kind of troubled by it when I was young. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is a lot was reanimator trauma? It
Speaker 1: was not that. That's a different guy. I forget his name,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's somebody who's kind of in that
Speaker 1: vein who made a few other real, you know, schlucky
Speaker 1: kind of pictures like I did see that one though. Alright, Chuck.
Speaker 1: How about a little movie uh starring a guy who
Speaker 1: who we shall not name, uh called Leonard Part six
Speaker 1: Bill Cosby's Leonard Part six. Um no, no, I never
Speaker 1: saw that. I didn't either, but it was a notorious flop,
Speaker 1: very bad movie supposedly, and it sure as heck seems
Speaker 1: to me like that plue know nash movie that um
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy did that also famously flopped. Had to have
Speaker 1: taken some cues from this movie, because it's about like
Speaker 1: a space ranger type character. Uh. And it really seemed
Speaker 1: very similar and similarly absolutely tanked. Garbage movie, garbage human. Indeed,
Speaker 1: how about the Stuff? Have you seen the stuff? Stuff?
Speaker 1: It's like kind of like the Blob, but a little
Speaker 1: more dory, a little more yet. It's some kind of
Speaker 1: product uh that like is like a skin cream or something. Um.
Speaker 1: The Stuff also known as Larry Coh. It's a satirical
Speaker 1: science fiction horror film. Uh and It stars Paul Sorvino
Speaker 1: and um let's see a private detective investigates a new
Speaker 1: consumer taste treat that's absolutely delicious and just possibly lethal.
Speaker 1: It's called which means very possibly, very possibly lethal, in
Speaker 1: fact guaranteed. All right, Chuck, how about Flash whoa Master
Speaker 1: of the Universe? Oh no, yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Speaker 1: Is that eighties or is that still late seventies? Just
Speaker 1: a man, the man? You know who? Nothing but a man?
Speaker 1: What a great song? I love this queen right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had that soundtrack LP and I saw that movie
Speaker 1: a lot. I first was aware of that song from
Speaker 1: Tenacious D. They did a cover up. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know what, that movie holds up really well
Speaker 1: in the way that it holds up you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, explain a little bit what you mean, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not it's obviously got all the effects
Speaker 1: of the day, so it's not gonna hold up in
Speaker 1: that way, but it holds up for what it was
Speaker 1: and when it was supposed to be, and it's great.
Speaker 1: It's still great. I love the love that movie. I yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to see it again. He's a football player, right,
Speaker 1: isn't that the Deal's quarterback for the Jets. I think
Speaker 1: the New York Jets, if I'm not mistaken in this version.
Speaker 1: I think for the longest time, I was always confused
Speaker 1: thinking that Flash Gordon and the Flash were the same thing.
Speaker 1: But they're definitely not. Yeah, and there was some genuinely
Speaker 1: good I mean, there was some schlock, but Max mon
Speaker 1: Cito is mean. The Merciless was great, and the Leader, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was great. The lead was kind of corny, but
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, it's good. I like it. I think
Speaker 1: it holds up. Timothy Dalton was in it. That's right,
Speaker 1: Timothy Dalton was in it. Okay, alright, Chuck, I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna So you're actually right now at one two,
Speaker 1: three four five six seven, Um, out of we've got
Speaker 1: one too, three four five left to go, so you've
Speaker 1: got you've got a chance to to beat the ratio.
Speaker 1: How about piranhah? Yeah, I saw that first Paranha. There
Speaker 1: you go, there you go? Um? Was that the one
Speaker 1: John Sales roade or was he? Uh? Is that a
Speaker 1: different one? I don't know, but I know they made
Speaker 1: quite a few other ones. Um. And let's see, oh,
Speaker 1: Paranha's eight, So that sort of breaks my pad in
Speaker 1: a little bit. But it was directed by Joe Dante,
Speaker 1: who directed Yeah, yeah, about the sort of creature feature
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Okay, isn't it funny how you get
Speaker 1: a rep for that and then that's kind of what
Speaker 1: you do. What else did Joe Dante do? He did
Speaker 1: some other stuff that wasn't creature e um, Joe Dante. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Howling, Yeah, he did the Burbs, The Burbs, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks, it's small Soldiers. Remember a weird
Speaker 1: movie Mattenee with John Goodman enjoyed that. Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: It's a weird one, right, I mean it's sort of
Speaker 1: a homage picture too, uh the time in cinema right
Speaker 1: in like the movie sort of Spiders. Yeah, looks like
Speaker 1: he also directed Inner Space, which is one about like
Speaker 1: shrinking people down sticking him in a body. One wonderful
Speaker 1: movie in a movie. I don't often call for remakes,
Speaker 1: but I think they could do a great, great version
Speaker 1: of Inner Space if they kept that same tone and
Speaker 1: just had some modern day effects. And he directed uh,
Speaker 1: one portion of the twilight Zone movie. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if it was the one where the people got hacked
Speaker 1: up by that helicopter that kind of made that a
Speaker 1: cursed movie. That was John Landis, that's right. I am
Speaker 1: curious what Joe Dante did though, because I loved that
Speaker 1: movie a lot. I bet you his was the the
Speaker 1: kid would be the third segment, is what they're they're
Speaker 1: saying in Wikipedia. But I don't know which kicked the
Speaker 1: can so pro so it looked like um. Steven Spielberg
Speaker 1: directed the second set, Matt Joe Dante the third segment,
Speaker 1: and George Miller the final act, and then Landis directed
Speaker 1: the prologue, the first segment, and the epilogue. I think
Speaker 1: Joe Dantes was the kid. Um. I love that movie.
Speaker 1: It was great. Spielberg, of course did kicked the can.
Speaker 1: That was the sort of more magical, feel good segment.
Speaker 1: I've actually never seen it. I'm gonna check. It's good.
Speaker 1: It's really good. Have you seen the new uh, the
Speaker 1: new the new Twilight Zone that Jordan's peel did. No
Speaker 1: alreaty canceled though, I don't think it did too well.
Speaker 1: Well that's because it was only on that like paywall
Speaker 1: app there was to get it. Yeah, all I all
Speaker 1: Access or whatever it was called. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a smart move how many how many knows do I have?
Speaker 1: And how many yeses do I have? Yeah? Yeah, let's see,
Speaker 1: so so far you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight yeses and one to three, four, five, six, seven
Speaker 1: eight knows. Okay, with four to go? Great? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: All right. Next, we've got and I know this is seventies,
Speaker 1: so it's fine. We're just we're like on the cusp
Speaker 1: uh silent running. Uh. I don't think I ever saw that.
Speaker 1: I know the movie sci fi film. I don't think
Speaker 1: I can honestly say that I saw that. Bruce Dern
Speaker 1: he's on sort of like a colony in space um
Speaker 1: with like some like droids and sort of a biodome
Speaker 1: spaceship experiment and something about like home Base is gonna
Speaker 1: blow it up or something like that, because there since
Speaker 1: far out. Yeah, okay, I haven't seen it either, but
Speaker 1: I've I've heard it's very sci fi, like cynthy kind
Speaker 1: of vibes and from that era. Alright, you know there's
Speaker 1: still there's still a chance here, Chuck. How about scanners? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: of course. In fact, that's what Lauren and I covered
Speaker 1: on this show. If I'm not Oh no, no, we
Speaker 1: did uh oh ship Now I'm just totally blanking. Uh
Speaker 1: we did the other one another another Cronenberg? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: did we do? What's the other Cronenberg movie? Back on here? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's great. It looks like you did video drone video drone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I saw scanner Scanners was Uh. My brother
Speaker 1: and I were sort of into that fangoria magazine kind
Speaker 1: of early um gore effects stuff when we could sneak it,
Speaker 1: and I snug Scanners. And now it's just a perfectly
Speaker 1: appropriate gift for like a blowing your mind kind of moment.
Speaker 1: You know, when that guy's head explodes. Is that a
Speaker 1: good gift? Yeah, it's a good gift, just the head
Speaker 1: exploiting one. Alright, Chuck, we got two left Swamp Thing
Speaker 1: the West Craven swamp Thing, Yes, very much so. Adrian Barbo,
Speaker 1: who was the guy and that the guy from the
Speaker 1: Bond movies? Is it? Who is it? I don't even
Speaker 1: I just think I don't even think of that. I
Speaker 1: don't even think of there as being a person under that.
Speaker 1: He wasn't the swamp thing. He was. He was the
Speaker 1: creepy guy. Timothy Dalton, No, we're Louis Louis Jordan. Oh,
Speaker 1: I see, yeah, in nine two. I really think that
Speaker 1: that was a really cool uh creature costume, the makeup
Speaker 1: and the practicals, and that we're pretty good. Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 1: Adrian Barboa was the prettiest lady in the world, I thought,
Speaker 1: and she went on to do some interesting stuff, like
Speaker 1: she was in the Fog and escape from New York.
Speaker 1: She's kind of a staming queen, uhha. But then she
Speaker 1: was also in um the much beloved and uh dead,
Speaker 1: killed out, killed off too soon Carnival on HBO, right,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I heard they were going to make a
Speaker 1: graphic novel picking up you know, the huge cliffhanger that
Speaker 1: like ended Carnival left a lot of people kind of irritated.
Speaker 1: But I have to follow up on that and see
Speaker 1: if that exists. All right, Chuck, I see you. I
Speaker 1: think if I'm not mistaken, you can count. I think
Speaker 1: I'm one up with one to go. So good, is that? Right?
Speaker 1: I think c LSSC. So with the nose, you got
Speaker 1: one two three, four five, sorry one two three, four, five, six,
Speaker 1: seven eight nine nose And yep, that's right, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. The worst the worst I'll do is
Speaker 1: Tin and Tin. That's exactly right. But I think I
Speaker 1: think you might you might clinch. Let's hear it all right.
Speaker 1: A little known movie okay, directed by a tour It's
Speaker 1: not a little know what I'm joking. It's very very known,
Speaker 1: but it was a much maligned and a guy never
Speaker 1: really did anything like this ever. Again, it's definitely outside
Speaker 1: of his particular cannon and something that he kind of
Speaker 1: talks about very negatively, if at all. A movie called Dune. Dude,
Speaker 1: I never saw Dude. You never saw Dune. I never
Speaker 1: saw Dune. I never saw Dune. I'll say it. I'm
Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. I have a movie podcast, and I've never
Speaker 1: seen doing It's it's not I mean, it's look, it's
Speaker 1: it's interesting. It was. It's very clear they ran out
Speaker 1: of money and the movie kind of and it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where you immediately have a red flag
Speaker 1: because there's all of this voice over exposition at the
Speaker 1: beginning where you're like, this was clearly added in post uh,
Speaker 1: and you know they obviously were like because it's a
Speaker 1: it's a complex world where there's a lot of weird
Speaker 1: politics and a lot of words that you have to
Speaker 1: kind of you know, buy into like the language of
Speaker 1: the different things that exists in this world. So they
Speaker 1: you know, the very beginning of the movie, there's this
Speaker 1: whole massive exposition that's with voiceover over like just shots
Speaker 1: of the kind of planet. Um. But yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of interesting things that happened in it. Uh.
Speaker 1: Lynch obviously gave it as all, but it wasn't the
Speaker 1: kind of movie you'd think he would do, and I'm
Speaker 1: not quite sure why he did it. But yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to the Villaineuve version that hopefully
Speaker 1: will definitely see that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: at the at the time, I there were just so
Speaker 1: many bad reviews of it. As a kid, I just
Speaker 1: remember thinking like, I don't I don't need to see this.
Speaker 1: But it was really boring for a sci fi movie,
Speaker 1: and I think that turned me off of it, and
Speaker 1: I just never did it, and I have no I
Speaker 1: never read the book or anything, so it wasn't like
Speaker 1: a Dune guy. So yeah, definitely gonna see the new
Speaker 1: and the it is boring. It's it's absolutely boring, and
Speaker 1: even the book is kind of boring. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of like you know, like I said, like world building,
Speaker 1: but there's not always a ton of action, and if
Speaker 1: there is, there's a lot of dead space in between
Speaker 1: the actions. So um, I think villaineu is probably gonna
Speaker 1: knock it up a notch because I just loved what
Speaker 1: he did with the Late Runner universe and it it
Speaker 1: reminds me of that kind of vibe Chuck you did,
Speaker 1: and I'll take it. That's not bad. I will take it. Dude,
Speaker 1: thank you for doing those on the fly. Of course,
Speaker 1: I think that was a quality list. I wish I
Speaker 1: could say I have some movies to add to my
Speaker 1: list to watch, but I don't know if Munchie's and
Speaker 1: and Critters we're gonna I'm kind of ashamed. I saw Zapped.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna run out and see Mac and Me
Speaker 1: right now? I don't think so. I think all you
Speaker 1: need is does that those Paul rud clips really gonna
Speaker 1: give you the whole picture? Yeah? The whole thing about
Speaker 1: that movie is it famously was like sponsored by McDonald's,
Speaker 1: Like it's got all this McDonald's problect. Even his name
Speaker 1: is Mac. He's named after the Big Mac, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's pretty is his last name, Donald Uh, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a last name. Check he's a space alien
Speaker 1: well ship. I didn't sorry, I didn't know they only
Speaker 1: had first names. It was just the nickname that the
Speaker 1: kid gave him, you know, like et the last names. Extra.
Speaker 1: That's fair, that's fair, you'll come here extra. Hey, don't
Speaker 1: remember how they said that all the time. Alright, Well,
Speaker 1: that was a lot of funnel tin for tin. I'll
Speaker 1: take it, and that'll wrap it up for this one,
Speaker 1: so we'll see everyone next week. Movie Crash is produced
Speaker 1: and written by Charles Bryant and Roll Brown, edited an
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