Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey Everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush, the Monday Mini
Speaker 1: Edition with Noel Brown and Charles W. Chuck Bryant, your
Speaker 1: co host for the week it is we for all Time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for the week, the week for all time. How are
Speaker 1: you doing, Noel, I'm pretty good, man. Um. We were
Speaker 1: talking off air a little bit about how I upgraded
Speaker 1: my my recording studio and I've I've actually got a
Speaker 1: drum kid in here. And you know, I've been recording
Speaker 1: my own bands for for many years, and uh, I
Speaker 1: always ended up to make the final record going to
Speaker 1: a studio because I could just never get things like
Speaker 1: the drum sound to really slap the way you know,
Speaker 1: records that I listened to did, And so I would
Speaker 1: go to like the studio and Athenes called Chase Park Transductions,
Speaker 1: where I worked with this guy David Barbie, who I
Speaker 1: think you know the band Sugar and he produces all
Speaker 1: the by Trucker's record So I learned so much from
Speaker 1: him just working in that studio. But I just got
Speaker 1: thanks to dear friend Stephen Banister at a place called
Speaker 1: Westlake Pro Audio in l A I got the most
Speaker 1: amazing deal on a Universal Audio Apollo, which is like
Speaker 1: the industry standard audio interface. It's got eight mic inputs.
Speaker 1: I've got my drums miked up, and I swear chuck,
Speaker 1: I have achieved that slapping drum sound that I have
Speaker 1: only thus far dreamed of or it felt like I
Speaker 1: had to go into a studio and pay lots of
Speaker 1: money to achieve. So I love feeling pretty stoked. That's great.
Speaker 1: Noll you a good drummer. I'm not bad, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm competent. I can play with a click very well.
Speaker 1: I'm not like acrobatic, but I like and do a
Speaker 1: good backbeat and um and then I also like, you know,
Speaker 1: I like to make loops of myself and go in
Speaker 1: and kind of a jet time adjust things or make
Speaker 1: little you know, uh stutters and things in my edits.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I enjoy playing drums very much to have
Speaker 1: for I've had a drum kits since I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I guess, probably like twelve or thirteen years old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, it's fun, it is. I'm not
Speaker 1: very card but I'm I'm I'm better than someone who's
Speaker 1: never picked up drumsticks. But um, I'm not very good,
Speaker 1: but I can do a basic little beat and you know,
Speaker 1: I can hold the fort down for a minute. How
Speaker 1: you like in that new uh, that new gifts and
Speaker 1: guitar you got, Well, I took it in to get
Speaker 1: a pickup installed, so I haven't had it. I wanted
Speaker 1: to go ahead and just get it fully squared away,
Speaker 1: so getting a pickup installed and a strap button on
Speaker 1: the neck, on the base of the neck instead of
Speaker 1: you know, the tradition is to tie it over at
Speaker 1: the headstock on one end with an act of guitar.
Speaker 1: But I'm not a fan of that, so no, it
Speaker 1: feels weird. It like feels like it gets in the
Speaker 1: way of your hand even right like kind of just
Speaker 1: I don't like it, so I am. It is definitely
Speaker 1: altering the guitar, which some people say is heresy, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a big deal to my guitar. Sure,
Speaker 1: try could do whatever you want, chuck. Uh, It's funny, man.
Speaker 1: There was a um, I was at the lake last
Speaker 1: weekend and I Emily went to bed super early because
Speaker 1: she had a rough day, and I was I found
Speaker 1: myself at like eight thirty at night, hanging out alone,
Speaker 1: beautiful woodland setting, feeling good, if you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a couple of drinks. Some great things were happening. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know, these late these lake things, and I I
Speaker 1: told I got on Facebook and got you know, Ethan,
Speaker 1: you even one of our listeners who's been badgering me
Speaker 1: about Fish forever. I said, all right, yeah, and this
Speaker 1: is it. I'm ready to give Fish a fair audition.
Speaker 1: Where do I start? He kind of commented, too late,
Speaker 1: A bunch of people said, here's what you should do. Um,
Speaker 1: I only wanted to hear from Ethan about this, So
Speaker 1: I never listened to Fish, But I did listen to
Speaker 1: The Dead Knel because I just, you know, I like
Speaker 1: a couple of the you know, the two big albums
Speaker 1: that were are known as like good studio albums. Sure,
Speaker 1: like The Empire of the Sun is one that people
Speaker 1: always talk about as being a big psychedelic opus. Well,
Speaker 1: I know, as far as just accessibility American made and
Speaker 1: or no American beauty, and uh, what's the other one.
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's another one that's uh it's sort
Speaker 1: of you know a little more mainstream or whatever, not
Speaker 1: quite as like Jammie, but there's one with a very
Speaker 1: clever title. It has to be a live album. What
Speaker 1: it's called Live Dead, which I think is very clever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I listened to some of that and then I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I need to just dive in
Speaker 1: to what the Dead is really all about. So I
Speaker 1: listened to a thirty minute version of dark Star, which
Speaker 1: is their big you know, live jam you believe is
Speaker 1: off Empire of the Sun, one of the many. But
Speaker 1: it was like, if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: really dive in there, and I'll tell you what, dude,
Speaker 1: in my head space, I really enjoyed it for a while.
Speaker 1: It's very groovy and I got it, but I had
Speaker 1: to turn it off after like halfway, like fifteen minutes in.
Speaker 1: I stopped it. You know why, Well, here's what I
Speaker 1: figured out, and see if you agree. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm a rock and roll guy. I am used. I
Speaker 1: don't mind jamming, but it's something has to build to
Speaker 1: a musical resolution, and I felt like it never built
Speaker 1: to a musical resolution. It would build and build, and
Speaker 1: then I'm used to the resolution happening, and then it
Speaker 1: would just start over with something kind of new and
Speaker 1: it just kept doing that over and over and I
Speaker 1: was like, I need that resolution. I think that's why.
Speaker 1: Of the bands that maybe get lumped in with this
Speaker 1: jam band category, Pink Floyd, to me is the one
Speaker 1: that really does it because they have these big long
Speaker 1: interludes or big long intros and these stretches, but it
Speaker 1: always builds to some like new idea and then like
Speaker 1: or or it goes back it yourself. Yeah, we're just
Speaker 1: all the silver like yeah, exactly, like like shine on you,
Speaker 1: Crazy Diamond. Every time. I know that Dark Star does
Speaker 1: do that. It has a main theme that it kind
Speaker 1: of repeats, but it takes a real long time for
Speaker 1: him to get there. And I know that they, you know,
Speaker 1: have very very long, extended versions of that. I've I've
Speaker 1: never gotten to them myself, but I keep wanting to
Speaker 1: try Empire of the Sun and I keep saying that,
Speaker 1: but that's the one. Like bands like Animal Collective and
Speaker 1: you know, bands that I really respect reference that that
Speaker 1: record a lot. So yeah, I mean, listen, man, I
Speaker 1: I love the Almond Brothers band a lot, and they
Speaker 1: are jammy as fun, but they I feel like, bring
Speaker 1: it around to a place there's more structure. It makes
Speaker 1: sense to me, And you know, it's a shame I
Speaker 1: tried it it. Uh. I did like what I was hearing, though,
Speaker 1: Like it's not like I was like, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: like the sound of these notes. Like it was super
Speaker 1: fucking groovy and like kind of jasy and very mellow
Speaker 1: and cool, and I was digging it for a while
Speaker 1: and then it just I was like, man, I need
Speaker 1: I need the music to resolve itself. I'm used to
Speaker 1: things building to a place, Chuck, I, I feel like
Speaker 1: I've mentioned them on the show before, But have you
Speaker 1: listened much to the band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I know, I know I need to. I
Speaker 1: hate the name so much it is really hard for
Speaker 1: me to get over it. I know that's a dumb
Speaker 1: reason to not listen. It's not a dumb reason. It's
Speaker 1: the reason I didn't listen to forever. And I maybe
Speaker 1: have told the story already. But like a friend of
Speaker 1: mine who was in town had extra ticket and like,
Speaker 1: I like to heard of this band. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard of him, but it sounds ridiculous. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go anywhere near him. And it's the kind
Speaker 1: of band that's so good you give him a pass
Speaker 1: on the dumb name and all. Also the dumb name
Speaker 1: even starts to be feel a little charming because they're
Speaker 1: all really, they're all yeah, because they're just they're these
Speaker 1: like Australian kind of like they're very young. They're like
Speaker 1: in there, like you know, mid twenties. And they literally
Speaker 1: made like seven records in seventeen and they make them
Speaker 1: all themselves. They were why is that what? The fact
Speaker 1: that they're prolific and talented and young. Seven records in
Speaker 1: a year seems a little much to me. But they're good.
Speaker 1: They're good, and they're each very different, and they produce
Speaker 1: them themselves and record them themselves, and they like own
Speaker 1: all their own means of production and like they have
Speaker 1: their own little label and you know, and they've year
Speaker 1: over year gotten more and more popular. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll try it. I'll send you a couple of res Okay.
Speaker 1: I think they're a band that you have. They have
Speaker 1: so much stuff out there, you gotta know where to start.
Speaker 1: If you start the wrong place, it might be a
Speaker 1: turn off. You have this one record that's genuinely like
Speaker 1: an eighties Metallica thrash album and it's like just spot
Speaker 1: on but still very much them. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: big fan, Now, is this the kind of thing though?
Speaker 1: Where in? I mean, are they gonna keep doing this
Speaker 1: in eight years? Are you gonna be like, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: King Gizzard has you know, sixty seven albums. It's awesome. Now.
Speaker 1: To be fair, they only may six albums that one year. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what I was. It's not like this is a
Speaker 1: thing they do. They do make a lot of records.
Speaker 1: But I think this year they've made three. No, last year,
Speaker 1: excuse me, last year they made Last year they made three.
Speaker 1: This year already they've come out with two. This is
Speaker 1: a very skeptical moll. I gotta give it a try.
Speaker 1: I think you should go. I'm gonna I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: you a playlist, Chuck, let make you mixtape. I'm also
Speaker 1: skeptical with bands that are like, here's our metal album
Speaker 1: and here's a bluegrass album. Like, is it like that? Chuck?
Speaker 1: This is me? I know, I know, I know, I
Speaker 1: know you're no Ethan. I don't. I don't fawn I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't, I really don't. But these guys are fawn
Speaker 1: worthy and in my opinion, all right, I trust you know.
Speaker 1: I'm a skeptical grump today. It's also less about their
Speaker 1: albums than it is about their live show. I don't
Speaker 1: really listen to their albums a lot, but live they're
Speaker 1: one of the most spectacularly just like dynamic, and they
Speaker 1: just like it's like your why watching magicians or something like.
Speaker 1: They just have the like it's like they're sparks coming
Speaker 1: off of them, like you're seeing people in their purest
Speaker 1: form doing the thing that they were meant to do.
Speaker 1: And and it's something very special about seeing them live.
Speaker 1: All right. Uh and by the way, looping back to
Speaker 1: the dead and the Fish, who haven't heard a little
Speaker 1: bit of By the way, I think I've said this
Speaker 1: before though. My other issue with these bands is I
Speaker 1: am very much into singing and vocalists, and none of
Speaker 1: those groups have good singers that they all are adequate
Speaker 1: and you know, and can do okay, but widespread panic.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we're being honest, none of them have
Speaker 1: like consider like great vocalists. And Fish for me is
Speaker 1: it's always been too jokey. I just don't like it.
Speaker 1: They're they're it's like they're too silly. Hung in cheek
Speaker 1: or or like, you know, not clever, not in a
Speaker 1: wien way at all. Uh, even though they are largely
Speaker 1: and I know you know that's largely responsible for why
Speaker 1: Ween became so big in the hippie set. And then
Speaker 1: the jam band said, I always thought Ween was so
Speaker 1: weird and edgy and strange, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: when I went and saw them live, I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are all these wooks doing here? I don't understand. What's
Speaker 1: what's going on? Well, the wook is as they call
Speaker 1: hippie type crunchy folks, wookies or wooks. Okay, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. I wouldn't have known that term at the time.
Speaker 1: Is it because they smell like wookies? I don't know
Speaker 1: why they call him that, Chuck, I don't question it.
Speaker 1: It just seems to apply. It just seems to make.
Speaker 1: And again with Almond Brothers, they had a great vocalist,
Speaker 1: Greg Allman, one of the great blues singers in rock history.
Speaker 1: Big time, so big time. That's where I stand. I'm
Speaker 1: with you to where we're not. We're not that far
Speaker 1: out of each other's garages. I am going to give
Speaker 1: the fish to try, though because Ethan finally did comment
Speaker 1: the fish gonna try I'm gonna try the fish, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'll take the I'll take the fish. I'll have the fish, please.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get with one of his recommendations. But
Speaker 1: I'm always a little leary when people are like, oh man,
Speaker 1: it's studiobums aren't so good, but you gotta see him live.
Speaker 1: I'm like, if you're a good band, you should be
Speaker 1: able to make a good album. No, No, I agree
Speaker 1: the people's people say, Billy. I saw a friend of
Speaker 1: mine who's a metal guy or like kind of more
Speaker 1: of like he does all kinds of stuff. He's got
Speaker 1: this project called dream Tent that um is very like
Speaker 1: Tears for Fears, kind of like gothy new wave. It's
Speaker 1: really good. I think you dig it. But he used
Speaker 1: to be in like more hardcore, punky type bands and
Speaker 1: he was literally the quintessential athens hipster sound guy who
Speaker 1: like you know, looks at you pissy when you asked
Speaker 1: for more guitar in the mom I'm kidd he's he's
Speaker 1: the best. But you know what I'm saying, That guy
Speaker 1: um And he recently posted about how he listened to
Speaker 1: the album Billy Breathes by fish and and un ironically
Speaker 1: really liked it. And this is a dude that is
Speaker 1: the grumpiest of curmudgeon ley type music snobs. Uh. So
Speaker 1: I was very surprised to see that, and it it made
Speaker 1: me kind of want to check it out. I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: what is what does jeans seeing this? That was one
Speaker 1: of the records that a lot of people recommended as
Speaker 1: a good entry point. By the way, Billy breaths h
Speaker 1: and No, before we get going on the actual movie content,
Speaker 1: I do want to commend you. I was really listening
Speaker 1: to an episode from a couple of weeks ago with
Speaker 1: you and me, and you made a really funny joke
Speaker 1: that went right over my head. But I must commend
Speaker 1: you on it's when you were talking about uh, your
Speaker 1: um ex wife's young daughter. Yeah, talks about spooky uh
Speaker 1: instead of spooky. And then you were saying, and I
Speaker 1: just didn't get it at the time. You were talking
Speaker 1: about Atticus Ross I think in and Trent Resiner and
Speaker 1: their scores. Instead of saying spooky scores, he said spooky
Speaker 1: spores were great, And I just went by me and
Speaker 1: then I heard it in the car and was just
Speaker 1: like legit, laughing out loud. Spooky sports. Spooky Sports is
Speaker 1: fun to say, isn't it. And I feel like that
Speaker 1: should be a band name. It should be like, you know,
Speaker 1: Spenny's Spinkleton and the spoopy Sports. You know. Now see,
Speaker 1: you're going king Gizzard just less is more less, all right?
Speaker 1: So we're gonna move on to the crushers page because
Speaker 1: old pal Joshua Fish not fish with a p pH,
Speaker 1: God forbid, He's He's the real deal. He's a real fish. Uh.
Speaker 1: He says, this an a little twist on an unpopular opinion.
Speaker 1: What movie do you really want to like but don't?
Speaker 1: And he said mine was what about Bob? I love
Speaker 1: Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. My family thinks it's hilarious,
Speaker 1: but it just doesn't land for me. I think we
Speaker 1: all have those movies that, by all accounts, we should
Speaker 1: love that we don't. Yep. I I've made mine very clear,
Speaker 1: and it's just the one that comes to mind immediately,
Speaker 1: and uh it's uh la la land I was. I
Speaker 1: had all the right things for me going in. I
Speaker 1: love musicals, I love Los Angeles, I love that cast,
Speaker 1: I love the idea of it. I love some of
Speaker 1: the songs, but as a whole it did not hold
Speaker 1: together for me and had some good sequences. But I'd
Speaker 1: love to give another chance. But I remember being really
Speaker 1: kind of uh just I was. I was surprised at
Speaker 1: how little it connected with me, and I really wanted
Speaker 1: it to and I really disappointed, right, very disappointed, because
Speaker 1: I was like, this looks so cool, a magical l
Speaker 1: a musical romp, you know, with like flying around and
Speaker 1: dancing and Buzby Berkeley kind of choreography. Everything about it
Speaker 1: like hit from me. But I just I just didn't
Speaker 1: do it for him, do it all right? No, we're
Speaker 1: gonna start out with old pal Caroline Guest and says,
Speaker 1: I wanted to like Pixar's Soul. I still haven't seen that,
Speaker 1: by the way, a lot more than I did. I
Speaker 1: was expecting to have some sort of earth shaking existential
Speaker 1: crisis at the end. Well, people overhyped those movies, and
Speaker 1: people talked about that one as though that was going
Speaker 1: to happen. That one hit for me because it is
Speaker 1: about like it's about following your dreams and maybe letting
Speaker 1: them go. Wow, It's it's kind of it's a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's very human, real stuff, especially with like what's going
Speaker 1: on in the world right now. And it's also about, like,
Speaker 1: you know, a musician, like do I choose music as
Speaker 1: a passion career, like you know, I'm gonna be a
Speaker 1: professional musician, or do I choose the job that pays
Speaker 1: the bills? And maybe it isn't the thing that I
Speaker 1: thought I was destined for, but maybe really is the
Speaker 1: thing that I was destined for. And then and then
Speaker 1: they're like, uh, and I'm not even that good of
Speaker 1: a singer. And someone said, we'll just be in a
Speaker 1: jam band exactly, Chuck, what's a movie like this for you?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, man, uh, nothing's coming to mind.
Speaker 1: I'll see if one of these something, yeah, because I
Speaker 1: really can't think of anything. Um. Shannon Panell Carter though,
Speaker 1: says Lord of the Rings, any of them duck and cover,
Speaker 1: like she's afraid that people are going to come after
Speaker 1: and you know it's not loving them. There you go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a thing. I was actually on The Daily's
Speaker 1: I iced yesterday as a guest and it was great. Um.
Speaker 1: They do a thing though, where you have to talk
Speaker 1: bring in something you think is overrated and something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated. And I had a hard time coming
Speaker 1: up with something overrated because I didn't want to like,
Speaker 1: you know what, is it yuck? Anyone's yum? Well, that's sure,
Speaker 1: but I didn't think of it until now. But my friend, uh,
Speaker 1: who's a real professional curmudgeon, recommended James Cameron, and I realized,
Speaker 1: I absolutely feel like James Cameron is overrated. So we
Speaker 1: had a discussion around that. I agree. David Hook to
Speaker 1: b r Old pels Is The Matrix. Tried it three
Speaker 1: times and it still bores me, all right, not for everyone.
Speaker 1: Rochelle Bracy says The Big Lebowski. I don't know at
Speaker 1: the time. It just wasn't able to hold my interest
Speaker 1: at the time. That's a movie that changes with age.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, like, I think you can come
Speaker 1: back to that movie a little later in life, maybe
Speaker 1: you've lived a little more and seen some ship and
Speaker 1: then and then you go back and that one. Because
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I didn't get it when I first
Speaker 1: saw it. I was too young. I did not get it.
Speaker 1: I'm not presuming to know the age of this person
Speaker 1: or their experience, but I swear that movie really aged
Speaker 1: well for me personally, and now it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's cannon for me, all right, Brent A Price, one
Speaker 1: of her old prince says, Big Trouble in Little China.
Speaker 1: My friends won't let me off the hook for this one.
Speaker 1: I know you love that one, Chuck, and I still
Speaker 1: have yet to see it. I mean, I love it,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly a movie that I get not being
Speaker 1: everyone's cup of tea, you know. But you know, if
Speaker 1: Brent is playing by the rules here, then uh he
Speaker 1: he should like it, you know. Kurt Russell, sorry about that,
Speaker 1: and uh. In The Gang Kitchi eighties m hm, David
Speaker 1: Wilder says, it's not that I don't like it, but
Speaker 1: can't figure out why. Every time I's wry, I went
Speaker 1: Spiderman into the Spider Verse, I fall asleep. That's an
Speaker 1: interesting movie to fall asleep too. Yeah, it's really kinetic,
Speaker 1: like kind of like you know, what's the word, like
Speaker 1: sensory overload totally you know, yeah, interesting? All right. That's
Speaker 1: another one that got a lot of big hip though,
Speaker 1: but I personally felt like it lived up to it,
Speaker 1: if not exceeded it a little bit. I thought it
Speaker 1: was wonderful. This is a good one here. James Taggert says,
Speaker 1: The Godfather didn't see it until later in life. It
Speaker 1: was already accustomed to more modern mafia movies like Casino
Speaker 1: and Goodfellows. Maybe I'm missing something, but I've barely made
Speaker 1: it through the whole movie. I'm sorry, Internet. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the Godfathers did of the slower burn. Not. Actually
Speaker 1: I rewatched it very very recently, and I just thought
Speaker 1: it it utterly held up. It's it feels real. It
Speaker 1: feels like you're watching real life, and real life is
Speaker 1: long takes. That's what real life is, you know. Oh
Speaker 1: interesting hot take here, Absalom Bittner, I don't believe we
Speaker 1: met you, Absalom. Welcome, good morning, he says dni Villa
Speaker 1: new movies in general, but Arrival specifically, the twist was
Speaker 1: really obvious and ham fisted. Me. All movies are manipulative,
Speaker 1: but I could feel the manipulation in a way that
Speaker 1: maybe not enjoy it. Interesting. Yeah, I mean you, I
Speaker 1: get it totally with that one, for sure. I do
Speaker 1: think that saying his movies in general, they're so varied.
Speaker 1: I don't think he even has like one thing that
Speaker 1: he does, so it's interesting to throw them all in
Speaker 1: like a bucket. Like that. Joel Krantz says everything by
Speaker 1: mel brooks. Okay, there's an interesting thread here about Greta
Speaker 1: Gerwigs Little Women here and in another post. This is
Speaker 1: from Sarah Irons and I think Sarah actually instigated a
Speaker 1: post or not instigated, but posted a post on the
Speaker 1: Crusher Spades about Little Women and how much she wanted
Speaker 1: to love it, and uh, quite a few people agreed.
Speaker 1: I mean, have you seen the new one? I really
Speaker 1: really want to um it seems right up my alley,
Speaker 1: but I have not yet. I enjoyed it, but it
Speaker 1: does a time jump thing that is a little jarring,
Speaker 1: I will admit, especially if you don't know the material
Speaker 1: as well like I did going into it. I did
Speaker 1: end up liking it, but I definitely see why people
Speaker 1: may have more love for the Winona writer verse and
Speaker 1: a little more true to the source material, right, I
Speaker 1: think as far as just the linear quality of the story,
Speaker 1: I was I read a lot about the credit Girlwig
Speaker 1: one and and and uh it seems like people either
Speaker 1: loved or hated whatever stylistic choice she made. That that
Speaker 1: was different. But you know, aside from that, it's wonderful acting,
Speaker 1: beautiful costuming, like everything about it was really top notch.
Speaker 1: And Emily and I saw in the theater, and uh,
Speaker 1: we don't get to a lot of movies together. It
Speaker 1: was a movie night date and that can influence you.
Speaker 1: Like we had a drink beforehand. We had a really
Speaker 1: good experience with it, you know. The googe David Gooch says,
Speaker 1: I really want to like Blade Runner, but just couldn't
Speaker 1: get into any version of it. This souf. It's almost
Speaker 1: like you're a soprano hitting a high note but kind
Speaker 1: of faltering castrato. YEA, yeah, I can understand that. I mean,
Speaker 1: to me, the original Blade Runner is kind of boring.
Speaker 1: It's just so stalistically important and beautiful. I found the
Speaker 1: second one, that the Villeneuve one, to be more engaging
Speaker 1: in terms of story. Uh, and it really expanded that world.
Speaker 1: So I have said it before. I think the second
Speaker 1: one is a better movie. The first one is just
Speaker 1: so important for so many things that came after it.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, I mean I like them both. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen the I only saw that second one once.
Speaker 1: I need to see that again. I saw it in
Speaker 1: the theater, but it gave me away. Uh, Karrie v
Speaker 1: mcquaye had one of our oldest friends, says Citizen Kane.
Speaker 1: I love a lot of old movies, but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I thought it was dumb and I just hated that character.
Speaker 1: He's a she's he's he's to be hated. Isn't the point?
Speaker 1: Karen Patrick, It's not like groundhog Day and likes loves
Speaker 1: all things Bill Murray ordinarily. Yeah, I didn't love groundhog Day.
Speaker 1: I watched it with the family recently, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was cute, but he's such an asshole and he
Speaker 1: really is like gas lighting the ship out of hers
Speaker 1: a little aggressive. It's like, dude, she's not interested. Back off. Uh,
Speaker 1: It's okay. I mean I like I like groundhog Day
Speaker 1: a lot, but is it's not like one of my
Speaker 1: favorite all time movies like it is for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. I did like what about Bob though? What
Speaker 1: about Bob? I have? I like? I have? I saw
Speaker 1: that in the theater when I was Yeah, Josh Taco
Speaker 1: not Taco Toco to c c O s talk Taco
Speaker 1: could go either way. Super bad not the biggest fan
Speaker 1: of that Riff comedy and Jonahill and Seth Rogan that
Speaker 1: they made so popular thinking at some funny moments like
Speaker 1: most of the actors, but it just never landed like
Speaker 1: it did for literally everyone else that saw it. Riff comedy.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that before. Is it just like snappy
Speaker 1: kind of like I'm clever dialogue kind of thing, or
Speaker 1: I guess, like you smart alacky smart ALACKI maybe, or
Speaker 1: it seems like they're improving and just sort of ripping
Speaker 1: on stuff. Who knows? Interesting? Gil concernled pal the danger
Speaker 1: of and says, uh, the Lighthouse, I hate that movie. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a pleasant movie, but it's I
Speaker 1: get it well executed, you know, I mean, we both
Speaker 1: love that movie. But if there ever is a movie
Speaker 1: that you get that people can't sit through, it's The Laightouts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or Mandy is another one on the people that love
Speaker 1: it love I know you were a little on the
Speaker 1: Fencer in the middle, but people that love it really
Speaker 1: love it. And then there are people who I know
Speaker 1: have great taste of music who just fucking hate that movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's uh, what's his name? Your ghosts the most
Speaker 1: and the most like a lot of people have a
Speaker 1: hard time with the lobster and killing the sacred deer
Speaker 1: and I get it. I loved him, but I get it, well,
Speaker 1: he has this like unease about his work that is
Speaker 1: just like you're always kind of on the edge of
Speaker 1: your seat, but not in like a suspensey way, more
Speaker 1: in like I'm about to crawl out of my skin
Speaker 1: kind of way. You know. Yeah, um, Karen, avoid and all.
Speaker 1: This is a hot take, Karen Dromboski says mad Max
Speaker 1: fury Road. I thought it was so boring. I couldn't
Speaker 1: even tell you the plot. Well that's okay. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say anyone's opinion is wrong, but I just boring.
Speaker 1: That's weird. That sonalized interesting. Not for Karen though, That's fine,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, uh, Karen had Petra Caitlin
Speaker 1: said same. So you know, when people agree, some people
Speaker 1: give hearts, some people give gasping emoji faces. There was
Speaker 1: a thread on the Crushers page about people who were
Speaker 1: mad about in and of itself, which you and I
Speaker 1: both thought was like life changingly wonderful. So it just
Speaker 1: goes you know, it's everything's not for everybody. Yeah, here's
Speaker 1: my take on that. And that's not to say that
Speaker 1: people can't not like it. Even if they do invest.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those that you really have to.
Speaker 1: I mean they even say at the beginning, like run
Speaker 1: off your phone. And I made the comment on the page.
Speaker 1: I was like, if your second screening or cooking dinner
Speaker 1: and trying to watch this thing, it's going to be
Speaker 1: lost on you. Like you, you really have to block
Speaker 1: everything out and really kind of give some thoughtful attention
Speaker 1: to uh. And if you do that and you still
Speaker 1: don't like it, fine, but you're certainly not gonna like
Speaker 1: it if you're half casually watching. It's just not something
Speaker 1: you can have casually watch and get all the down.
Speaker 1: You gotta really do the buy in, you know, at
Speaker 1: least let you know, treat it like it's intended. Treat
Speaker 1: it like you're in that theater and then you and
Speaker 1: you and you're a captive audience and you really, you know,
Speaker 1: need to just sit there. And it's not that long.
Speaker 1: And and I actually found that it just it felt
Speaker 1: even shorter than it actually was, you know, because it
Speaker 1: just moves from me. But yeah, I give another shot.
Speaker 1: I think if you found that you were casually watching
Speaker 1: and or watching while doing other things, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: make sense because so many things connect over time, you know,
Speaker 1: and totally you want to hear Schnide's hot take. We
Speaker 1: loved it. We were texting about it because you kind
Speaker 1: of up an NPR interview into my text with UH
Speaker 1: with Derek Uh, and I was like, well, did you
Speaker 1: watch it? And he said I did. And I was like,
Speaker 1: this is like when someone doesn't text you back after
Speaker 1: you recommend something to say, Oh man, I loved it.
Speaker 1: It was like, so Schnides has got an issue and
Speaker 1: he said, there's a lot I liked about it. The
Speaker 1: bit where he goes through the audience at the end,
Speaker 1: that was great. I really like the narrative with his mom.
Speaker 1: But his sad guy shoegazer I'm not performing performance style
Speaker 1: was weird for me. And by weird, I mean I
Speaker 1: didn't like it. And I was like, I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: I love you. I said, that's so funny and he said,
Speaker 1: but hey, I applaud anyone who writes the show and
Speaker 1: performs it. Discipline is more important than talent, and boy,
Speaker 1: that is a great piece of advice from a professional actor, like,
Speaker 1: if you don't have discipline, you have all the talent
Speaker 1: in the world. You're not gonna go anywhere, Absolutely no,
Speaker 1: And you just have to keep doing it, like I mean,
Speaker 1: luckily we're in it, said Stuation with you know, podcasting
Speaker 1: onever whatever you think that requires talent or whatever it requires.
Speaker 1: Where we do it every single week without fail, we
Speaker 1: are going to get better at it. We have gotten
Speaker 1: better at it over time, dude. It's because we do
Speaker 1: it every single week, twice, three times, four times, five
Speaker 1: times a week, and it just happens to be built
Speaker 1: into our life and our schedule and our delivery thing
Speaker 1: because of our jobs. But yeah, I look back years
Speaker 1: ago and listen to my stuff and I just didn't
Speaker 1: have the same level of confidence or or whatever. And
Speaker 1: it's because of what you're saying, you know totally. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you weren't making you weren't dropping jokes like spoopy
Speaker 1: spores five years ago. That's a that's an even newer development,
Speaker 1: spoopy sports, the whole other ball game. I texted Schneider,
Speaker 1: he's that knows you mean. Schneider sort of had a
Speaker 1: little text friendly text exchange about music and stuff, and
Speaker 1: I I texted him I was going to send him
Speaker 1: some tracks I was working on that were kind of
Speaker 1: in the vein of the stuff he was recommending, and
Speaker 1: he goes, yeah, man, i'd love to hear something. I've
Speaker 1: got a few auditions that I'm got to knock out
Speaker 1: and then I'd love to hear it. And um, I
Speaker 1: had to break a leg. And I also mentioned that
Speaker 1: I had no idea he was in this show that
Speaker 1: I really love but didn't finish, called Tales from the
Speaker 1: Loop on Amazon. It's like a sci fi dystopian thing
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Price. He was he's in like a later episode.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a mini series anthology or each episodes
Speaker 1: kind of its own thing. And I just didn't get
Speaker 1: to his and I realized he was in and I
Speaker 1: told him and I was like, oh, and I can't.
Speaker 1: I just realized you were in the show that I love,
Speaker 1: but I didn't get your episode. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: get to it immediately get back into it. And he
Speaker 1: just was like, yeah, cool man, things, Yeah, I heard
Speaker 1: that show was great. I needed Uh, it's nice to
Speaker 1: check that out. It's nice. It's it's the kind of
Speaker 1: dystopian sci fi future thing that isn't like mean spirited
Speaker 1: in the way that Black Mirror is. It's a little
Speaker 1: kinder and gentler. There's definitely weird things happening beneath the
Speaker 1: surface and kind of sinister stuff at play, but it's
Speaker 1: a lot less like, oh God, I want to kill myself,
Speaker 1: you know, I hear you. All Right, We're gonna kind
Speaker 1: of just buzz through some of these here to finish
Speaker 1: up this thread. Old friend Genevan Valence as Midsummer pretty
Speaker 1: visually all right. She said it was like an influencer
Speaker 1: influencers insta feed, but mostly I hated everyone in the film.
Speaker 1: Thought it was long and boring. Dave Taylor says The Godfather.
Speaker 1: Joseph Bell says the Original Dune. Sarah Stanislav says Casablanca
Speaker 1: interesting still, I haven't seen it, uh, And Sarah also
Speaker 1: says I love anything old and or World War two adjacent,
Speaker 1: so uh interesting. Another vote for Citizen Kane from Shane Hill.
Speaker 1: Grant Woody says, Gone Girl. It's my least favorite Fincher film,
Speaker 1: but I really wanted to like it. Afflecks performance didn't
Speaker 1: go over well for me. I like Gone Girl. I
Speaker 1: liked quite a bit. I liked it a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, no, I think it was it was
Speaker 1: a combination you know the source material and the directing.
Speaker 1: Oh the score is so good too, like the there
Speaker 1: it was spooky as spuck. I read that book to
Speaker 1: actually done. Girl, that's good reading a book, Chuck, what's
Speaker 1: it like reading a book. I'm about to start the
Speaker 1: Sammy Hagar book. You know, I'm buddies with online, buddies
Speaker 1: with Sammy Hagar son. Aaron, you told me that, and
Speaker 1: so we text and stuff and uh, I had his
Speaker 1: dad's book delivered. He was like, you're gonna love it,
Speaker 1: and he said, it's pretty fun read. And you read
Speaker 1: the Eddie van Halen biography prior to that just recently,
Speaker 1: didn't you. Well, there is no Eddie van Halen biography
Speaker 1: that I know of. This is uh. It was a
Speaker 1: book called van Halen Rising, and it covered van Halen
Speaker 1: from there, you know, pre van Halen days up through
Speaker 1: their first album, but in a great, great detail. It
Speaker 1: was really pretty intense. Did they step backyard parties and
Speaker 1: pasted DNA when they were you know, playing in the
Speaker 1: early days of in Halen with like three thousand people
Speaker 1: at these mansions that the cops were shut down, like
Speaker 1: full on concerts with piro and spotlights and ship that
Speaker 1: crazy burned down the whole neighborhood like they were a
Speaker 1: well honed band by playing these parties before they even
Speaker 1: started to play these dive bars. Really amazing. Um, I
Speaker 1: think this is an offline conversation. But Sunset Sound that
Speaker 1: that that really storied reporting studio in Los Angeles. They
Speaker 1: have a really good Instagram account where they're always posting
Speaker 1: like archival pictures. It's been around since like the I
Speaker 1: think the fifties at the very least the early sixties,
Speaker 1: so like you know, Frank Zappa Hot Rats was made there.
Speaker 1: A lot of early Van Halen stuff was made there.
Speaker 1: It's like they're in the control room like smoking cigs.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like stuff that like would make an
Speaker 1: engineer clutch their pearls today. But really cool, um, slice
Speaker 1: of the past and in that Instagram feed. Highly recommend
Speaker 1: if you're into Sunset Sound Records. Sunset Sound Records, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: all right, final right now and all better be good?
Speaker 1: Okay now I'm just kidding. Um, all right, let's finish
Speaker 1: up with a little stream this we watch Spirited Away
Speaker 1: that was our second uh studio is it Ghibli or
Speaker 1: Ghibli Ghibili is what I've heard Americans say, Okay, so
Speaker 1: that was our first second venture uh into that with
Speaker 1: our daughter, and I gotta say it was a little
Speaker 1: more intense than I thought it would be. Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: some of it was sort of nightmare fuel ish. Yes,
Speaker 1: But she's cool, man, she can handle hit. Um I
Speaker 1: did mention that, didn't I that it was a little
Speaker 1: so you know, we dove in and she she was
Speaker 1: she was fine with it. Um. She's always been good
Speaker 1: with with content. I think I've said this before about
Speaker 1: not getting super scared or freaked out or knowing that
Speaker 1: it's faker real Like I've always explained to her that like,
Speaker 1: people make these movies and that's all it is. And uh,
Speaker 1: it was. It was good man. I mean, ultimately I
Speaker 1: liked uh Totoro better as far as just you know,
Speaker 1: a sweet, fun family movie to watch, but um, I
Speaker 1: certainly loved Spirited Away. It was complete crazy dude. Yeah, dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very through the looking glass right, It's very like
Speaker 1: very druggy, very druggy, like the way that Baba Yaga
Speaker 1: which morphs in her fate like I mean spirit and
Speaker 1: that whole it was. I mean there's a lot going on,
Speaker 1: Familace and Yeah, it's great, man. It's a special stuff
Speaker 1: and um I would yeah, there's a there's a lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff in that cattle is next for us.
Speaker 1: Panio is not that Panio is My kid like loved
Speaker 1: Panio when she was like six, I mean really really
Speaker 1: truly loved it. So yeah, I can't wait. And I
Speaker 1: bought Ruby a Totoro love e um who she now
Speaker 1: just like sleeps with and cuddles with. It's very good.
Speaker 1: That's Are you familiar. Are you aware of these things
Speaker 1: that the kids are into these days called squish mellows. Nope.
Speaker 1: They're basically stuffed animals that are stuffed with like memory foam,
Speaker 1: so they kind of squish and then expand slowly, and
Speaker 1: it is it is all the rage they sell them
Speaker 1: at like CVS and Walgreens and places like that, and
Speaker 1: they're like they're becoming a commodity like beanie babies, where
Speaker 1: the kids are like buying up all the limited edition
Speaker 1: ones and then like reselling them on eBay and you
Speaker 1: gotta run and get them before they get all bought up.
Speaker 1: So Eden is obsessed with them, and they're really you
Speaker 1: can put them on the couch and use them as
Speaker 1: a pillow. They're so comfortable. Actually squish mellows like a marshmallow,
Speaker 1: but squish squish mellows. Oh look at those coming all
Speaker 1: all shapes and sizes and creature types. And yeah, very
Speaker 1: very Japanese Kawaii influence. Yeah, yeah, I love it. Uh
Speaker 1: So the other thing we've been watching is uh and
Speaker 1: I posted about this today, Bluey. Have you ever seen Blueie?
Speaker 1: I don't know Bluey Blue as a kid show, but
Speaker 1: if you the post I made today was like, you
Speaker 1: don't need kids to watch Bluey, Like, please understand that people.
Speaker 1: It is Australian. It is a cartoon. They are seven
Speaker 1: minutes long. It's about a family of dogs, a mom
Speaker 1: and a dad and two little girls named Mingo and Bluey.
Speaker 1: And uh. It is profound and sweet and hysterical and clever.
Speaker 1: And I just can't speak highly enough of Bluey. It
Speaker 1: is really really great and it is a Emily and
Speaker 1: I watched one every night before we go to bed,
Speaker 1: and Ruby's already watched them all, so we watch them
Speaker 1: on our own. Um, it's just great. What's the target audience? Like?
Speaker 1: Little kids? Five six year olds? Got it? Oh? It's interesting,
Speaker 1: But I mean so many of the jokes are aimed
Speaker 1: at adults. Uh, it's you know, it's it's clearly a
Speaker 1: very clever show. It looks cool like Eden's baby sister,
Speaker 1: you know, is that well she's a little younger maybe,
Speaker 1: but like it looks something she's three, she'd like Blueie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, some of the jokes she wouldn't get.
Speaker 1: But it's very, very cute. The visual style is very cute.
Speaker 1: I mean I like it already. Yeah, it's cool. I
Speaker 1: love it. You would like it all. It is a
Speaker 1: very profound show, like every episode almost And you know,
Speaker 1: I read some back background articles about the guy who
Speaker 1: made it, and another one about how Blue's dad, bandit
Speaker 1: Um is a really great TV model for a father,
Speaker 1: and you don't see a lot of those usually. I
Speaker 1: love Homer Simpson, but you know, that's sort of the
Speaker 1: model in cartoon Land is the father. The father is
Speaker 1: a bumbling idiot and can't do anything right, whether it's
Speaker 1: Family Guy or the Simpsons or whatever. And in this case,
Speaker 1: Bandit is like a good dad. And they're like great
Speaker 1: lessons and parenting lessons to be learned too. But again,
Speaker 1: I don't have to have kids. It's really wonderful no,
Speaker 1: you gotta have kids first. You can't watch You gotta
Speaker 1: go get the pregnant immediately so that you can watch
Speaker 1: Blueie gilt free. Uh what. I finally got around to
Speaker 1: watching the new Miranda July movie Cajillionaire. Have you seen this?
Speaker 1: I have not seen that yet. I do love her
Speaker 1: though I love her too, if I'm not mistaken. It's
Speaker 1: the first one of her films that she herself has
Speaker 1: not been in. Um. Uh, Me and You and Everyone
Speaker 1: We Know was like a really formative movie for me.
Speaker 1: Another really great l a movie. All her movies are
Speaker 1: very l a. Um this one. It's got Rachel Evan,
Speaker 1: Rachel Evan Woods, Chel Evan, Rachel Wood. Yeah, excuse me. Um.
Speaker 1: And she obviously is a very beautiful woman. Um and
Speaker 1: uh plays the like most awkward uh just kind of gangly,
Speaker 1: very just like socially bizarre character in this movie. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's just wonderful. Her performances incredible. Uh. Deborah Winger
Speaker 1: I didn't even recognize as as as her mother. So
Speaker 1: it's Deborah Winger. And um oh, the guy who played
Speaker 1: the father in six Ft Under, who's a great character actor.
Speaker 1: Who's Richard Jenkins. Richard Jenkins, and they are basically this
Speaker 1: is not spoilers, the basic set up. They are just
Speaker 1: these lifelong grifters who have raised their daughter to be
Speaker 1: there like assistant and and and they've done it in
Speaker 1: a very specific way so that she's just like so
Speaker 1: socially stunted, but like everything she does is just about
Speaker 1: these different grifts, these very elaborate grifts. They live in
Speaker 1: a rented room that's attached to a car wash that
Speaker 1: the wall leaks pink sudsy foam at a certain time
Speaker 1: every day and they have to like scoop it up
Speaker 1: with buckets, and it's just it's very Miranda July. It's
Speaker 1: very whimsical. It has a really beautiful suite ending. Um,
Speaker 1: I can't recommend it. It's the kind of you gotta
Speaker 1: sit with and it's sort of like weeds its way
Speaker 1: back into your thoughts or you sort of learned things
Speaker 1: about it after, like when you've thought on it a
Speaker 1: little bit, HI recommend I am. I'm gonna watch that,
Speaker 1: uh next week. It's a rental It was one that
Speaker 1: was originally like released for like full movie price. Now
Speaker 1: it's down to just Amazon rental price. I think it
Speaker 1: was like thanks for the Emily. We we both, like
Speaker 1: Miranda July said this one. You guys will love this
Speaker 1: movie together. It's very good, wonderful. Alright, dude, Well that's
Speaker 1: it for this week. We are going to morph ourselves
Speaker 1: into next week in just a minute. That's editing. That
Speaker 1: was the sound of us morphing into next week. And
Speaker 1: thanks to everyone for listening. We'll see you. Movie Crash
Speaker 1: is produced and written by Charles Bryant and Meel Brown,
Speaker 1: edited and engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson, and scored by
Speaker 1: Noel Brown here in our home studio at Pontsty Market, Atlanta, Georgia.
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