Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to movie Crush. Charles W. Chuck
Speaker 1: Bryant here in the studio at Pont City Market along
Speaker 1: with Noel. Good morning, Chuck, Good morning the rods to
Speaker 1: my frasier. Uh it is it is morning peep behind
Speaker 1: the curtain. Yeah, so far we've we've recorded these kind
Speaker 1: of first thing in the morning, which is I'm not
Speaker 1: used to that. I kind of like it. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit fresher in the morning than i am
Speaker 1: later in the day. Sometimes we are not nearly as stoned,
Speaker 1: just just a little bit getting everyone of course. Um,
Speaker 1: so welcome too many Crush number three. Uh. Judging from
Speaker 1: the feedback on Facebook and and Twitter, you guys are
Speaker 1: liking these, which that just delights me to know end
Speaker 1: because the whole idea was to do something fan centric
Speaker 1: and we are super glad and the decision to get
Speaker 1: Nol on the mic was almost last minute, and I
Speaker 1: think it's key. So I'm just not here talking to
Speaker 1: myself like a goober. I think you pull it off,
Speaker 1: you know, but it's it's nice to have a human
Speaker 1: to bounce things off of. And I'm honored to be
Speaker 1: your your bouncing platform. Well, You're as close to a
Speaker 1: human as we're gonna get. So that's that's the nicest
Speaker 1: thing anyone said to me all week. Uh And if
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Speaker 1: because that is where you're going to be interacting with
Speaker 1: this show, with your remarks and your what I throw
Speaker 1: out questions and stuff. And it's really kind of one
Speaker 1: of the most fun parts of this job so far.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. It's the least fun is booking guests.
Speaker 1: That is no fun. I had people write someone who
Speaker 1: wrote any the other day. It was like, I really
Speaker 1: think you should um have people someone like this and
Speaker 1: someone like this and like a Neil deGrasse Tyson cool
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, I would love that. Get
Speaker 1: him for me. Go get him for me. That'd be great.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna do a couple of um corrections here,
Speaker 1: not corrections to additions to to past shows, and feel
Speaker 1: free to write him with corrections, but these are my own. UM.
Speaker 1: When we were talking about digital versus film, and I
Speaker 1: was talking about my friend Scottie the cinematographer, who um
Speaker 1: sort of, I was talking about how a lot of
Speaker 1: not so talented directors these days, We'll just set up
Speaker 1: a ton of cameras and shoot everything. They call that
Speaker 1: spray and pray. That's the lingo. That's awesome. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that makes sense, so he said, yeah, you should clear
Speaker 1: that up. Um. Also, I mentioned when I was talking
Speaker 1: about how hardly the sad story of Adrian Shelley uh,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned, you know, because she was murdered in
Speaker 1: her apartment in New York, that she was in the
Speaker 1: movie Waitress. True, so not quite a action, but I
Speaker 1: want to give full credit. Adrian Shelley Um wrote and
Speaker 1: directed and starred and produced in Waitress. So that was
Speaker 1: her creation, and we want to give her because you know,
Speaker 1: especially at that time there you don't see a lot
Speaker 1: of women writing and directing and producing and starring in
Speaker 1: their own movies. And that is the source material for
Speaker 1: the the hit Broadway show yes right now, which I
Speaker 1: am almost positive was after her death. I think, I
Speaker 1: mean it was. It wasn't last handful of years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he was murdered. I looked up I think eleven
Speaker 1: or twelve years ago, so it's very sad story. I
Speaker 1: looked into that crime and it was a a I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if I said it on the last show.
Speaker 1: But he he was a worker, undocumented um Guatemalan construction worker.
Speaker 1: And the story changed a few times from this guy.
Speaker 1: He said that she came down and they got into
Speaker 1: an argument because the noise, and she um hit him
Speaker 1: and he hit her and she died and he freaked
Speaker 1: out and then made took her upstairs and made it
Speaker 1: look like she had been hanged in her shower. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is what they initially thought. Like They're like, you know,
Speaker 1: she died from throat asphyxiation, said the word, and um,
Speaker 1: the husband was like, no way, Like, she definitely did
Speaker 1: not kill herself. She was not. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: one of those where there was like literally there wasn't
Speaker 1: even a hint of anything going on. She had a
Speaker 1: young daughter, and uh, the story changed such to where
Speaker 1: we eventually find out that he went into her. He
Speaker 1: kind of stalked out the apartment and her went in
Speaker 1: to rob her, and she caught him red handed and
Speaker 1: he he hit her, and I think he thought she
Speaker 1: was dead and very sadly, she was probably still alive,
Speaker 1: they think when he made it look like she was
Speaker 1: being hanged and she ended up dying because of being
Speaker 1: hanged in her I know, but the husband is now, um,
Speaker 1: come out as a as a big criminal um not
Speaker 1: uh advocate but the opposite of advocacy. Yeah, well like
Speaker 1: victim advocacy advocacy sorry like I said, it's morning, uh,
Speaker 1: but but also at the same time as an advocate
Speaker 1: um for for not not running the story that Hey,
Speaker 1: this is what's important here is that this guy was
Speaker 1: an undocumented immigrant. Um. He doesn't want that narrative to
Speaker 1: be used because he said, it doesn't matter that he
Speaker 1: was undocumented. What matters that this guy was a cold
Speaker 1: blooded killer, absolutely, and that that really is a problematic
Speaker 1: way to tell that story, and it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: way that could be like jumped on by folks that
Speaker 1: are trying to it out against iteration, and that's just
Speaker 1: it totally irrelevant, totally irrelevant. Quickly setting up the Oscar shows,
Speaker 1: most of you know by now, I'm going to do
Speaker 1: a pre Oscars and post Oscar show over some red
Speaker 1: wine with only my wife at home after we put
Speaker 1: the kid to bed. And those are going to be
Speaker 1: pretty fun. So look for those coming up. And this
Speaker 1: week segment one, go ahead and get into it with
Speaker 1: another social studies. So social studies. The question I threw
Speaker 1: out this week on Facebook. Um, actually it's a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, but you know, you know how that goes.
Speaker 1: What was the first movie to legitimately make you scared
Speaker 1: long after it was over. I had to think about
Speaker 1: this one, um, and my answer is a bit of
Speaker 1: a cop out, and that I could not remember a
Speaker 1: specific movie, although I'm sure it's happened, But I am
Speaker 1: going to go with the combo of Exorcist and Omen
Speaker 1: before I saw them. When you grow up, like everyone
Speaker 1: knows I did, when you grow up a little Southern
Speaker 1: Baptist boy, there's no scarier boogeyman on planet Earth than Satan.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Jesus, that comes later, uh, then
Speaker 1: the Devil himself. And I remember I was a little
Speaker 1: kid when those came out, so I was just the
Speaker 1: right age to really have a lot of fear in
Speaker 1: me about that. And I just remember seeing the previews
Speaker 1: and the trailers for the Antichrist, Omen Kid and the Exorcist,
Speaker 1: and those those movies without seeing them stayed with me,
Speaker 1: and that maybe that was part of it. Is the unknown,
Speaker 1: but I was scared for a year straight, probably around
Speaker 1: the release of those movies, and I don't even remember
Speaker 1: when I saw them. It was much much later, and
Speaker 1: they they're, you know, pretty legit scary movies. The trailer
Speaker 1: for the Exorcist is fucking horrifying. It's got that black
Speaker 1: that white face that kind of like twitches around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like the demon or like the possessed version of whatever.
Speaker 1: Twitchy faces that'll do it. Uh, do you have one? Well,
Speaker 1: I have, I have to. The one that um I
Speaker 1: remember keeping me awake at night was the horrible TV
Speaker 1: version of it, just because the clown and like weird
Speaker 1: stuff happening to kids and all that. Like, I just
Speaker 1: remember legitimately having nightmares and being laying awake in bed
Speaker 1: being scared about that. But a movie that I had
Speaker 1: no business seeing at the age I saw it was
Speaker 1: Pet Cemetery. Yeah, and that movie was scary, dude. And
Speaker 1: it's it's not only scary, it's it's utterly mean spirited, nasty,
Speaker 1: and nothing good happens to any of those characters. I
Speaker 1: remember being really scared at that. There's the sister Zelda.
Speaker 1: It's all like skinny. It's actually a man, like a
Speaker 1: really tall, gangly man that's playing a woman and she's like,
Speaker 1: I'll twist your spy. So it's oh my god. That
Speaker 1: was that that ruined me. Yeah, that one freaked me out.
Speaker 1: And they shot that near my house. I don't know
Speaker 1: about all of it, but parts of it they shot
Speaker 1: at um what you well, you know Stone Mountain here.
Speaker 1: There's also a Panola Mountain which is out toward where
Speaker 1: I grew up in ridan Uh suburban Dekab County, and
Speaker 1: that's part of the same granite slabs on mountain. But
Speaker 1: there's a big area where they shot pet cemetery where
Speaker 1: these big light granite outcroppings, and it was near me.
Speaker 1: So I remember being scared of being like, I'm not
Speaker 1: because we used to go like play around in hike
Speaker 1: over there. Sometimes I'd be interested to see what parts
Speaker 1: were shot there. I wonder if it was the house
Speaker 1: or if it was the actual cemetery. I can't remember
Speaker 1: spen No, I've been like, yeah, I can't imagine knowing
Speaker 1: that any of that was shot anywhere where I live,
Speaker 1: but that that was a bad one for me. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and I was still at the age where it's like
Speaker 1: they shot that there, didn't there was no like oh
Speaker 1: neat a movie was shot there. It was like, no,
Speaker 1: that happened there. You know that's the spot, all right,
Speaker 1: So let's get through some of these boys. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of them, so I'll get too as many as
Speaker 1: I can. Mitchell Page first player Witch Project from the nineties,
Speaker 1: because my younger self foolishly believed it was real when
Speaker 1: I saw it. Mitchell, don't feel bad, because that was
Speaker 1: the whole point. Um. I remember the getting hip to
Speaker 1: that viral campaign way early on and seeing the trailer
Speaker 1: and the internet stuff and thinking either that this was
Speaker 1: real or this is one of the most revolutionary like
Speaker 1: marketing campaigns in movie history and turned out to be
Speaker 1: number two. Eric Knight, oh man, I have a couple
Speaker 1: of I'm gonna say fire in the Sky because the
Speaker 1: movie I was terrified of being I was terrified of
Speaker 1: being abducted by aliens. The scene where he's in zero
Speaker 1: gravity and breaks through that pod and lands in the
Speaker 1: middle of the decaying body. Nope, nope, nope, that's a
Speaker 1: good one. Melissa Lynn also says fire in the Sky
Speaker 1: she saw when she was seven years old, lived in
Speaker 1: northwest Georgia amongst the tall, tall pine trees. Okay, that
Speaker 1: makes sense, Um, Scott Stevens, the original Jurassic Park really
Speaker 1: stayed with him. Like most kids in the early nineties,
Speaker 1: I was dinosaur mad and thought the movie would be
Speaker 1: the coolest thing ever. Finally saw it and it scared
Speaker 1: me out of my mind. Melanie Kaufman The Descent, That
Speaker 1: movie was pretty scary. I haven't seen it, but I've
Speaker 1: I've heard good things from horror buffs friends of mine.
Speaker 1: It was good. I couldn't sleep that night without music
Speaker 1: playing in a light on. I was a tad claustrophobic
Speaker 1: only for a year or two after. But you will
Speaker 1: never never convince me to go speed lunking. Um. I
Speaker 1: actually went spelunking once, Melanie, and it was awesome, awesome,
Speaker 1: awesome and a little creepy. Is that where you repel,
Speaker 1: like down the side of a cliff or something or No,
Speaker 1: that's just repelling. Speed lunking is caving. Yeah, going into
Speaker 1: the belly of the earth. Yeah, it's it's a little unsettling,
Speaker 1: trust me, because you get the feeling that, like, I
Speaker 1: could die down here. And it's such a silly word
Speaker 1: for such a scale. Well, people also call it caving.
Speaker 1: Amber Robertson first movie that scared me was alien. Here's
Speaker 1: a setup we watched on what I assume was VHS
Speaker 1: my aunt uncle in the wood panel the blue shag
Speaker 1: carpeted reck room of our basement. I'm the same age
Speaker 1: as you, so that means you're old as hell. Uh,
Speaker 1: Debbie Ranka, my friend The Shining, Debbie, I did not
Speaker 1: know that this movie stayed with you, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: surprise me about you. My parents went out for the
Speaker 1: evening and told me my parents, my parents, I know
Speaker 1: your parents. They went out for the evening and told
Speaker 1: me I could watch anything on television except for The Shining,
Speaker 1: So of course I watched it. That is so you.
Speaker 1: I was terrified and couldn't sleep for two days. Also
Speaker 1: couldn't admit to my parents while I was afraid to
Speaker 1: go to sleep. Ah, that is also so you. I
Speaker 1: love that, Debbie, and I'm glad you're listening. Nathan David,
Speaker 1: the first paralnormal Activity movie is the only movie to
Speaker 1: truly scared me to the point of running inside and
Speaker 1: shutting the door behind me. My girlfriend, that's hers, she said,
Speaker 1: she totally I rolled about about it going in, but
Speaker 1: then it like freaked her out to the point of
Speaker 1: behaving in a certain way after it was over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's something about a movie that literally makes your bedroom
Speaker 1: this scary place and going to sleep scary. That's because
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be your safe place. Well done, paranormal activity.
Speaker 1: I think I saw that first one, but none of
Speaker 1: the other ones. There's like nine of them or something.
Speaker 1: I think keep that cash tr en rolling Laura Laura Dickinson.
Speaker 1: The Hills Have Eyes. Yeah, that's a good one. I
Speaker 1: went him after seeing at a friend's house, but I
Speaker 1: was home alone and freaked out and had to call
Speaker 1: my friends mom to pick me back up because I
Speaker 1: didn't know when my parents would come home. That is
Speaker 1: very sweet. Jesse Kidder Silent Hill. Never saw it, but
Speaker 1: that video game is scary. The siren used in the
Speaker 1: movies is very similar as many weather sirens around here.
Speaker 1: It's not often that I hear it, but every time
Speaker 1: I do, I'm immediately taken back to Silent Hill, and
Speaker 1: it's terrifyingly awesome. Jody Neville or Neville, Sorry, Jody's around
Speaker 1: on the page a lot. I think for me it
Speaker 1: was The Creeping Flesh. Did not see this one, an
Speaker 1: old British movie starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Well,
Speaker 1: Christopher Lee is that's all you need to say. Very
Speaker 1: scary looking, dude. I bet this is one our buddies
Speaker 1: Joe McCormick and Robert lamb over a stuff to blow
Speaker 1: your mind, would know about their their buffs of the
Speaker 1: older schlocky weird horse. Yeah, I'm trying to see. I
Speaker 1: bet you Robert has a comment in here. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: see here. Um. Brendan Majetski twilights on the movie. Oh
Speaker 1: you know what, dude, that one scared me towards because
Speaker 1: I was the perfect age to be creeped out by
Speaker 1: that movie. It's not the one where like a bunch
Speaker 1: of people died in the helicopter or something that three
Speaker 1: people died Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Lee's father, uh died
Speaker 1: on a on a set with with two young Vietnamese.
Speaker 1: I believe they're Vietnamese kids. Um, they were decapitated in
Speaker 1: a John Landis went to court. It was. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: of the more horrifying stories of all time. When people say,
Speaker 1: I like that movie is cursed or something like that, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it was. I wouldn't recommend it, but you can actually
Speaker 1: go see the original footage of that, and it's and
Speaker 1: the cameras way far back, so it's not some close up,
Speaker 1: but they slow it down and you can see the
Speaker 1: helicopter blade coming down and Mike heads popping off. Yea,
Speaker 1: again not recommended, um, but anyway, Twilight Zone for Brandon,
Speaker 1: that particularly the grimlin on the wing of the plane
Speaker 1: and John Lithgow's segment. I was seven years old at
Speaker 1: a friend's house and it was terrifying. Agreed, Crystal South.
Speaker 1: The nineteen seventy two version of The Last House on
Speaker 1: the Left was way too young and it was horrifying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's not one for the faint of heart. Uh,
Speaker 1: Trish Wallace Trilogy of Terror. The scene with the knife
Speaker 1: still makes me uncomfortable. I don't even know what that means,
Speaker 1: but scene with the knife is all you gotta say.
Speaker 1: Nicole Park's The Ring was absolutely the first movie to
Speaker 1: leave me feeling uneasy afterward. Yeah. That was a spooky one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was a good one too, and well made, you know,
Speaker 1: really really better than the original. I have to say
Speaker 1: the American remake was scarier than the original. I don't
Speaker 1: think I saw Ring goo. Yeah, I think the American
Speaker 1: is better Kate Bagot the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I didn't
Speaker 1: sleep for about a week and kept thinking of saw
Speaker 1: leather Face hiding in the bushes. Oh, my dear lord,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I don't I don't know if I
Speaker 1: ever have even seen that original movie, come to think
Speaker 1: of it. Oh, and here we go. Look at this,
Speaker 1: Joe mccarmick and Robert Lamb. That's great, Joe said, I'd
Speaker 1: like to be able to name a great horror movie,
Speaker 1: but I think the true answer is probably River of Death,
Speaker 1: which is an unsanitary cannon film slog starring Michael Dudakov
Speaker 1: as jungle adventure man Donald Pleasants is a creepy, soft
Speaker 1: spoken Nazi. Uh. And then of course I printed this
Speaker 1: out from Facebook, and there's more to it that I
Speaker 1: can't see. Yea, but exactly that's the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: those dudes that are in love with well, Robert said
Speaker 1: Poulter guys. Uh watched it way too young and on
Speaker 1: my aunt's VHS tape. She'd ripped a bunch of films
Speaker 1: off of HBO, and I think this was one following
Speaker 1: some cartoons that's got a creepy clown Uh. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a clown doll, which is almost even scarier than a clown.
Speaker 1: I love that. Robert sounds like he was almost duped
Speaker 1: into watching it after cartoons. Uh, and we'll finish up
Speaker 1: here with mikels Are what's up, Mike? I know, Mike.
Speaker 1: One of the nightmare on Elm Streets. I can't even
Speaker 1: say which one. I couldn't go into long dark hallways
Speaker 1: without quake for years afterwards. That's right, because one to
Speaker 1: Freddy's coming for you. This little girls. That the scariest
Speaker 1: part for me. That's that stuck with me. When she
Speaker 1: gets pulled through the the door wind, the tiny window
Speaker 1: at the end, it was very violent. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: it was all herkey jerky and like you knew she
Speaker 1: shouldn't fit through there. Yeah, it was very creepy. Magical
Speaker 1: realism is apparently what that is, I really, I mean,
Speaker 1: just the idea of like something that nonsensical happens. Like
Speaker 1: she didn't explode into like this ra She just kind
Speaker 1: of magically popped through there, you know, inexplicably because of
Speaker 1: the magic of of Freddy. All right, everybody, we're gonna
Speaker 1: move on to a segment of recommended viewing, and as
Speaker 1: you know, when I do recommended viewing, I do a
Speaker 1: foreign film, a documentary, and an independent film. And for
Speaker 1: foreign film not born in the USA, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go with City of God from two thousand to UH,
Speaker 1: the Brazilian film. It's a I guess I mean, I
Speaker 1: think online they classified as a crime drama, but it's
Speaker 1: really sort of more like just gritty realism life on
Speaker 1: the streets. UH tells the story of the rise of
Speaker 1: crime to through about a twenty year period in a
Speaker 1: housing project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, you know, the
Speaker 1: outskirts of Rio. UH nominated for four Oscars Director, which
Speaker 1: was and is still pretty unusual for a foreign film
Speaker 1: to be nominated for Best Director, Cinematography, Editing, and Adapted Screenplay.
Speaker 1: And it's about as hard hitting as a movie as
Speaker 1: you can imagine seeing UH, and especially for like a
Speaker 1: white suburban dude in Georgia. UH. It was a a
Speaker 1: face punch of reality to what it's like in some
Speaker 1: parts of the world, UH, compared to the little, cooshy
Speaker 1: life that I grew up with. UH. It's it's one
Speaker 1: of those good movies to give you some perspective on things. UM.
Speaker 1: And also just a really well made, awsome, some awesome movie.
Speaker 1: So City of God all you've seen that or from sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's definitely got that gritty realism. It's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of stylization to it, like it almost has some
Speaker 1: of that Tarantino like zippy editing or whatever. But um,
Speaker 1: that's not really like the feature. It's really just the
Speaker 1: characters and like Rocket, Yeah, that was so good, so
Speaker 1: so good. I think he made a multi part TV
Speaker 1: miniseries that was kind of based on that later called
Speaker 1: I think it's called City of Men. I saw something
Speaker 1: about that. Is that what it is? I think it is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I haven't seen that, but I bet it's great.
Speaker 1: I'm gotta check that up. Then, documentary I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Winnebago Man from two thousand nine, directed by Ben Steinbauer. Um,
Speaker 1: this is the story of Jack Rebney and Jack Redney
Speaker 1: was a Winnebago salesman and jeez, I wanted to say eighties.
Speaker 1: I think it's from the eighties or maybe early nineties
Speaker 1: where he did these local TV commercials. And the way
Speaker 1: the story goes is is someone eventually posted the behind
Speaker 1: the scenes outtakes of shooting these local TV commercials selling
Speaker 1: these winnebagos onto YouTube, and it became a viral sensation
Speaker 1: because Jack Redney was henceforth known as the Angriest Man Alive.
Speaker 1: The outtakes are all Redney, um cursing out the crew,
Speaker 1: angry about everything from the heat to the flies to
Speaker 1: the script. Uh. And it's really really funny to see
Speaker 1: this dude melting down over and over. And I think
Speaker 1: it's just like a shoot over the course of a
Speaker 1: couple of days that they called all these outtakes, right,
Speaker 1: I just remember a kutramm. He has a real problem
Speaker 1: with that word in the script. It's it's delightful and
Speaker 1: it's a great story. I mean, they've they've tracked this
Speaker 1: guy down. He's got a really interesting backstory. It's got
Speaker 1: a lot of heart to it. Like it's a great film,
Speaker 1: hilarious because he's not the Angriest Man Alive and he
Speaker 1: he had a lot of the issues with the fact
Speaker 1: that that's what he became known for. It. But we
Speaker 1: won't give it away, but it kind of comes full circle,
Speaker 1: like you said, and has a has a lovely ending
Speaker 1: when they finally find him. Uh. And of course since then,
Speaker 1: the phrase do me a kindness has sort of swept
Speaker 1: swept the land. I try to work it in. I've
Speaker 1: said it on stuff you should know before. But instead
Speaker 1: of like do me a favor, Jack Rebney said, do
Speaker 1: me a kindness, but it's a sort of stat of anger.
Speaker 1: It's sort of like, you know, you are really inconvenient
Speaker 1: to do me a kindness and quit jerking me around,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh. And and definitely like even if you
Speaker 1: can't get winnebego man right away, just go to go
Speaker 1: to YouTube and and type in Jack Rebini, R E
Speaker 1: P and E Y and just be delighted. And finally,
Speaker 1: my independent recommendation, which I'm I'm now calling Independence Day.
Speaker 1: It's every day chuck as in D E N t Apostrophes.
Speaker 1: It looks more clever on the beach. I'm going with
Speaker 1: all the real girls. And I'm just now realizing this
Speaker 1: is uh my second recommendation out of two that are
Speaker 1: um independent romance dramatic romances, because I did um spectacular now,
Speaker 1: so I guess I gotta thing for that for love
Speaker 1: stories told well look at me. Uh. This is from
Speaker 1: two thousand three. It was the second to movie from
Speaker 1: David Gordon Green, who wrote and directed it. His first movie,
Speaker 1: also highly recommend, called George Washington was his first feature,
Speaker 1: and he went on I think his third was called Undertow,
Speaker 1: which was great, and then there was a fourth it
Speaker 1: was another kind of gritty uh indie, and then he
Speaker 1: and probably dove into comedy in a in a strange
Speaker 1: left turn of his career and directed Pineapple Express and
Speaker 1: The Sitter that the Babysitter movie, and it really went
Speaker 1: kind of whacking, and he started directing all these different
Speaker 1: kinds of movies. And now David Gordon Green is actually
Speaker 1: directing the New Halloween movie. Have you heard about that
Speaker 1: one yet? I just saw it on Wikipedia just now
Speaker 1: as I was looking at this guy's resume up and
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with him at all. Well, the story is, um,
Speaker 1: the new with the New Halloween is Danny McBride, who
Speaker 1: he well, I want to say, discovered he was a
Speaker 1: friend of his. And Danny McBride was in George Washington
Speaker 1: and All the Real Girls and they were his first movies,
Speaker 1: long before he was known as Danny McBride. But Danny
Speaker 1: McBride co wrote the New Halloween with him, and what
Speaker 1: they've done is basically ignored every movie that came after
Speaker 1: the First Halloween, and this is a direct, forty years
Speaker 1: later sequel to the First Halloween. I think ignoring most
Speaker 1: of those movies is probably a smart choice, although I
Speaker 1: really like the one that doesn't have Michael Myers in
Speaker 1: it at all. Season of the Witch. It's really dumb
Speaker 1: and absurd, but it's no one likes that. It's fun.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, Joe and Robert really like it.
Speaker 1: And it has an amazing John Carpenter he synth soundtrack,
Speaker 1: which is my thing. And it's just a dumb, schlocky
Speaker 1: seventies movie that has nothing to do with Michael Myers,
Speaker 1: which I just like that. That's very pal. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, everyone Noll does the music for this show,
Speaker 1: and I know I say it at the end, but
Speaker 1: people might not hang around. And I went to Know
Speaker 1: at the beginning, because I know he's a a sent guru,
Speaker 1: and said, hey, I'm kind of looking for something eighties
Speaker 1: horror movie ish John Carpenter, and he just sort of
Speaker 1: like nodded his head like, don't you worry. I'm more
Speaker 1: of an enthusiast than a guru. Chuck. But you're very kind,
Speaker 1: So all the real girls. Back to that um two
Speaker 1: thousand three second feature film, another romantic drama. It's a
Speaker 1: story of a guy future movie. Crush guest because I
Speaker 1: just heard from the great Paul Schneider last night that
Speaker 1: I booked him for New York City when I go there. Uh.
Speaker 1: Paul is a great dude, and I've gotten to know
Speaker 1: him a little bit through the years via email, and
Speaker 1: uh I met a couple of times. You can do
Speaker 1: a stuff you should know show in New York. It's
Speaker 1: just a great guy. He um. Weirdly, he's probably best
Speaker 1: known for being on a couple of seasons of Parks
Speaker 1: and Wreck, which there's nothing like TV to put you
Speaker 1: on the map, especially a big hit like that. I
Speaker 1: jumping off of the success of the Office and that
Speaker 1: show just nailed that tone and kind of took it
Speaker 1: new places. Well. I loved the Parks and Wreck, but um,
Speaker 1: Paul is just uh he he's better than that. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm sure, no, but I that's that's where I know
Speaker 1: him from. But that sounds mean to say. Parking Wreck
Speaker 1: was great. I don't want to slag it at all,
Speaker 1: but but he was in one of my other favorite movies,
Speaker 1: The Assassination of Jesse James Um and he's just a
Speaker 1: really good guy and a great actor. So Paulo's in
Speaker 1: New York, he's gonna be on the show. And he
Speaker 1: starred in All the Real Girls as a kind of
Speaker 1: a the womanizer, get around guy in this small southern
Speaker 1: town with his group of buds, including the aforementioned Danny
Speaker 1: Masterson and uh, the great great Shay Wigham, who you
Speaker 1: probably don't know by name, but if you look up
Speaker 1: Shay character actor, he's in a lot of the David
Speaker 1: Gordon Green movies and he's just terrific. And Schneider starts
Speaker 1: dating his his friend's younger sister when she comes on
Speaker 1: from boarding school, who was a very young Zoe Deschanelle
Speaker 1: one of her first movies and maybe her first I'm
Speaker 1: not quite sure, but obviously this causes friction with the
Speaker 1: with the brother and the best friend. And Zoe Deschanel's
Speaker 1: character is um as a virgin and he does not
Speaker 1: want his womanizing friend uh dating his younger virgin sister,
Speaker 1: of course, but they fall in love and it's like
Speaker 1: a real romance and very much It won the Special
Speaker 1: Jury Prize at Sundance and it very much recalls early
Speaker 1: Terence Malick, very poetic, dreamy feel. Uh and and at
Speaker 1: the time I was like, David Gordon Green, He's he
Speaker 1: is the next Terrence Malick, because George Washington had the
Speaker 1: same feel and he was clearly influenced by him. And
Speaker 1: I think Malick even went on to produce one of
Speaker 1: his next movies. That's why it was so weird to
Speaker 1: me when David Gordon Green took all these turns in
Speaker 1: his career to do wacky comedies and now horror. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's branching out. It's so good for him.
Speaker 1: It's just a real, great romance, a real love story,
Speaker 1: very realistic, all the ups and downs and and pathos
Speaker 1: of relationships at that age. Highly recommended, all the Real Girls,
Speaker 1: and it's weird. Paul Schneider was also in Lars and
Speaker 1: The Real Girl. That's right. He plays the the brother
Speaker 1: to to uh face, the handsome most handsome an alife
Speaker 1: Rye Rye, which that the real girl. That one is
Speaker 1: like a sex doll. Yes, great movie though, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 1: We were talking about Anama Lisa being so real as
Speaker 1: a stop motion picture. A couple of weeks ago and
Speaker 1: and Lars and the Real Girl has one of the
Speaker 1: best love stories, and it's between a guy and a
Speaker 1: sex doll. Doesn't sound like it would work on paper.
Speaker 1: Takes all kinds and casting around costling. It's like, what
Speaker 1: you're gonna guss him to play a guy that is
Speaker 1: removed and can only have a relationship with a with
Speaker 1: a blow up doll? And I say blow up dollar.
Speaker 1: They aren't blow up dolls. They're very expensive, Chuck, I'm
Speaker 1: sure they are all right. So now we move on
Speaker 1: to our our final cup with segments stream this and
Speaker 1: comment card which our listener mails. Stream this. I will
Speaker 1: talk about something that Emily and I have watched lately
Speaker 1: on TV, and I am going to go with Better
Speaker 1: Things season two. This stars the great Pamela ad Lawn,
Speaker 1: who I have the biggest crush on. Uh so does Emily.
Speaker 1: We both do. She's so wonderful, she writes, She produces,
Speaker 1: she directed every episode, which again is so rare to
Speaker 1: see a woman given the reins of of a show
Speaker 1: like this these days. Um. It is a little problematic
Speaker 1: in that Louis c k started the show with her,
Speaker 1: and he and Pamela are old friends. And um he
Speaker 1: he writes a lot of these episodes and produced the show.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to, Um, I don't want to
Speaker 1: hold that against Pamela ad Laon because she does such
Speaker 1: a great job on the show, and it would be
Speaker 1: unfair to say, well, I'm not going to support this
Speaker 1: because Louis c K had his fingerprints on it, know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Such a tough situation with all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I know some of it's so cut and dry, but
Speaker 1: like this conversation of art versus the artists is more
Speaker 1: front and center now I think that, Yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: really everyone is having to take a good hard look
Speaker 1: at uh themselves and the kind of art they support
Speaker 1: these days. So anyway, Better Things is great. Pamela Adlon
Speaker 1: is wonderful. It's about a middle aged actress, a single
Speaker 1: mother of three girls. Um her her looney British mom
Speaker 1: lives across the street. Uh, and it's just just great.
Speaker 1: It's funny, it's warm, full of heart, has a message
Speaker 1: of family overall, warts and all, and that's just my
Speaker 1: kind of story. I'm such a sucker for these real
Speaker 1: shows like that, um that that aren't sappy, but just
Speaker 1: show the real ins and outs of a family life
Speaker 1: and she's just so funny. It's great. She was on
Speaker 1: she played Louie's wife in the original Lucky Louie sitcom,
Speaker 1: which was I thought was great, but it's a weird
Speaker 1: show for people. I liked it too. It was it
Speaker 1: was a little the whole laugh track sit Commy thing
Speaker 1: was was a little awesome thing. She's I know her
Speaker 1: in love for most for being the voice of Bobby Hill,
Speaker 1: I'm King of the Hill. Of course, she has a
Speaker 1: great and in better things. She is largely a voice actor.
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of autobiographical largely, but um. She
Speaker 1: also for say Anything fans. She had a very small
Speaker 1: part when she was very young as one of John
Speaker 1: Cusack's buddies. There's that scene in the music Store and
Speaker 1: the Guitar Store where John Cusack is walking around strumming
Speaker 1: on a Gibson s G and she plays one of
Speaker 1: the two girls in there that he's talking about Ione
Speaker 1: Sky with um. So that's just a little shout to
Speaker 1: one of her early cameos. And then she was also
Speaker 1: on Louise Show as well, playing a his good friend
Speaker 1: and some and almost love interest over the years. So
Speaker 1: Pamela Adlon is great. She was nominated for a Golden
Speaker 1: Globe this year. It really wanted her to win, um,
Speaker 1: but she did not. But I just I can't wait
Speaker 1: for season three of Better Things. Go out and watch it,
Speaker 1: highly recommended. And finally comment guard. Gonna go through a
Speaker 1: couple of listener mails here. This first one is from
Speaker 1: Buck Wheat Young and Buck Wheat, I hope you know
Speaker 1: I picked you because your name is Buck Wheat Young,
Speaker 1: and I pray that that's your real name and not
Speaker 1: some weird Facebook thing. That's a good one. Hello, Chuck
Speaker 1: and Nole. I've really been enjoying the new podcast. You
Speaker 1: said one of your previous episodes you had a list
Speaker 1: of potential guests you wanted to have on the show.
Speaker 1: Do you think you will ever have two guests at once?
Speaker 1: And who would you like to have as two guests? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do that, Buck Wheat, for sure. At
Speaker 1: some point, I think it makes sense for them to
Speaker 1: be a couple. Uh, not necessarily romantic or married couple,
Speaker 1: but just a pair of people. UM. I know one
Speaker 1: real life couple, the comedian Kurt Brownholer and his wife
Speaker 1: Lauren Cook are great and wonderful and funny, and Lauren
Speaker 1: is an actress and has a weekly comedy show she
Speaker 1: does in l A. And I know them a little bit,
Speaker 1: so I would love to get Lauren and Kurt on
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of fun. They have a
Speaker 1: podcast called Wedlock that they do together. UM also Cameron
Speaker 1: Esposito and Ria Butcher Um. They are two comedians in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and I know them a little bit as well,
Speaker 1: and I think they would be fun. And Ria is well,
Speaker 1: they're both great, but I know Ria would probably almost
Speaker 1: certainly pick back to the future. So I'd like to
Speaker 1: have them on, and I have reached out, but I
Speaker 1: have not heard back from them, which is uh disappointing. UM.
Speaker 1: In New York, I talked about Tony Shalub. His wife
Speaker 1: is Brooke Adams Um from the great UM movie Days
Speaker 1: of Heaven, which I probably mentioned a couple of episodes ago.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if there's a communication breakdown or
Speaker 1: if I'm just not understanding, but Brooke is also going
Speaker 1: to be a guest in New York, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna do it together not. They may
Speaker 1: be deferring to me on that, so maybe I'll get
Speaker 1: them in there together together can be tough. Um, Holly
Speaker 1: Fry and I are working on a History of Animation
Speaker 1: show and we interviewed Seth Green and Matt Sinrich who
Speaker 1: were the creators of Robot Chicken, and they were fantastic,
Speaker 1: but they couldn't be more different. Seth is just like
Speaker 1: kind of this like grizzled Hollywood Hollywood lifer, and Matt Sinwrich,
Speaker 1: who like was the editor of Wizard Magazine, is just
Speaker 1: this brilliant, delightful nerd U combo of them was interesting,
Speaker 1: but it was really easy for Seth to kind of
Speaker 1: just like plow. Yeah, that's true. He's been at it
Speaker 1: for a while. Man, he was in Uh. He was
Speaker 1: a little brothren Can't Buy Me Love shout out to
Speaker 1: that movie. Uh. And then finally, UM, I really really
Speaker 1: want to get Georgia and Karen on from My Favorite Murder.
Speaker 1: I've finally gotten in touch with Georgia after trying all
Speaker 1: different sorts of ways, because they were coming to Atlanta
Speaker 1: and I wanted to meet them and talk a little
Speaker 1: business about some stuff and talk about being on the show.
Speaker 1: And Georgia finally got touch with me and now we
Speaker 1: are I have her her number, and we are texting,
Speaker 1: and she texted me about two hours before their Atlanta
Speaker 1: show and said, Hey, do you want to come down
Speaker 1: here and get on stage and tell the story of
Speaker 1: an Atlanta murder that you love? And I've never wanted
Speaker 1: to do anything more in my life because I am
Speaker 1: a legit fanboy of them in that show. But I
Speaker 1: was at my in law's house for a birthday celebration
Speaker 1: and I was like, Georgia, you're killing me here with
Speaker 1: this late notice. Uh. And she apologized, and she actually
Speaker 1: texted back fuck in all caps, which if you listen
Speaker 1: to my favorite murder just to get a text from
Speaker 1: Georgia hard Stark that says fuck was a thrill for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah I should So anyway, Georgia and Karen, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get on and uh, that would be a murder movie
Speaker 1: special and I think that I just can't wait to
Speaker 1: do that, So I'm gonna make that happen. Uh. And
Speaker 1: Ace Gardner says, Hey, guys, enjoy the podcast and the
Speaker 1: humor and information found therein and he spelled humor with
Speaker 1: an oh you are so at aces uh. From the UK,
Speaker 1: here's a question for you. We all know how important
Speaker 1: soundtrack and music in a movie? Is what would be
Speaker 1: your favorite most notable use of silence? Good question. So
Speaker 1: I approached this from a couple of angles. One is, um,
Speaker 1: no dialogue scenes, um, but maybe there might be some
Speaker 1: score going on. But then there's also times where there's
Speaker 1: just not no sound whatsoever, which is kind of unique.
Speaker 1: So I have a few examples here. Um the movie Gravity,
Speaker 1: which was problematic in some ways for me, but it
Speaker 1: looked so amazing with such a technical achievement that I
Speaker 1: ended up liking it. Your anti three D? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you see that one in three D? No? It
Speaker 1: was good. Yeah, they made good use of it. I
Speaker 1: thought that was one I am too. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a rare example of like, okay, three D works here.
Speaker 1: They shot it with that in mind. I could see
Speaker 1: that there's not a lot of stuff in that movie too, too,
Speaker 1: because that's one of my problems with three D is
Speaker 1: just too much future. There's this thing coming at you
Speaker 1: and that one it's like everything's floating in space, so
Speaker 1: kind of everything's coming at you, right, But Gravity had
Speaker 1: a lot of great silent sequences in that movie. Um,
Speaker 1: spoiler for the new Star Wars movie. So I'm counting
Speaker 1: down three, two, one to give everyone a chance to
Speaker 1: not listen. The new Star Wars movie, to me has
Speaker 1: one of the greatest all time uses of silence. When, um,
Speaker 1: Laura Dern, what you remember the character's name. I can
Speaker 1: never remember the Star Wars he names. I know, don't
Speaker 1: don't kill us people. But Laura Dern's character she uh,
Speaker 1: she gives up her own life. Uh. In in Battle
Speaker 1: with the I keep wanting to say the Empire, but
Speaker 1: it's the not New Order, that's the band, it's the
Speaker 1: First Order. And she she goes through hyperspace and rips
Speaker 1: through a one of the big ships of the First Order,
Speaker 1: and uh. And Ryan Johnson plays that out in complete
Speaker 1: silence for about ten or twelfth to the point where
Speaker 1: a lot of theaters I don't know if you saw this,
Speaker 1: had to put up signs when you're buying your tickets saying, hey,
Speaker 1: there's a part in this movie that's totally silent. Nothing's wrong.
Speaker 1: The sound isn't broken. Yeah, don't get up. And because
Speaker 1: it's one of the better scenes, you don't want to
Speaker 1: get up and run out and say it's not working. Um.
Speaker 1: Really really great use of silence. Uh. And then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go through a few more here quickly. No Country
Speaker 1: for Old Men has a lot of great no dialogue
Speaker 1: sequences in that movie. It's just the wind well or
Speaker 1: or um uh, Josh Brolin, you know, all that stuff
Speaker 1: in the hotel when he's trying to get the money
Speaker 1: in the in the air conditioning events and the tracking
Speaker 1: things being that's like the only sound. It's so good.
Speaker 1: That's that's probably one of my favorite movies of all time. Actually,
Speaker 1: oh man, it's so good, excellent. Did you read the book.
Speaker 1: I did not read the book. Now, the book is great,
Speaker 1: and it's one of those I know that will handle
Speaker 1: this question later. But someone did ask about books being
Speaker 1: better than movies. Um, and that's an example. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: just save that Silence of the Lambs, the ending one
Speaker 1: of the great and the no dialogue sequences of all time,
Speaker 1: when Jodie Foster is creeping around Buffalo Bill's basement with
Speaker 1: the night vision goggles. Uh. The end of the Graduate
Speaker 1: when Benjamin and Elaine run out after he pulls her
Speaker 1: out of her wedding and run out to the bus,
Speaker 1: and also one of the most unsettling endings of all time,
Speaker 1: because you know the Graduate is such a good movie.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorites. And he finally gets Alane
Speaker 1: and convinces her to not marry the guy and pulls
Speaker 1: her out and they get on this bus and they
Speaker 1: go to the back and they're sitting there and she's
Speaker 1: in her wedding dress and they laugh for a minute
Speaker 1: and then they just kind of go dead pan and
Speaker 1: it's silent and they're not looking at each other, and
Speaker 1: it's what you would think would just be this wonderful,
Speaker 1: happy ending all of a sudden goes to this weird
Speaker 1: model in like, wow, so now we've done this. Now
Speaker 1: what now? What? It's great? Have you seen Good Time?
Speaker 1: Good Time? It's it's a recent kind of crime movie
Speaker 1: directed by the Softie Brothers um with Robert Pattinson. It
Speaker 1: is incredible, and it has this entitle sequence where it's
Speaker 1: just the static shot of one of the main characters
Speaker 1: just having this dead eyed emotive look where he's just
Speaker 1: dead eyed and emotives are kind of antithetical, but no,
Speaker 1: he it's just like he's very he's kind of crushed
Speaker 1: and you're looking at him and you just you see
Speaker 1: so much in his face. And then this amazing Iggy
Speaker 1: Pop song. The soundtrack is done by this guy, Daniel Lupton,
Speaker 1: who's got a project called on a Trick's Point Never,
Speaker 1: And there's a song with Iggy Pop doing this real
Speaker 1: brooding vocal and that kind of it's just nat sound
Speaker 1: for a while and him looking at the camera and
Speaker 1: then that song comes on and the credits roll and
Speaker 1: it just keeps holding on this shot of the it's
Speaker 1: just see that movie. Yeah, I didn't recognize it by title.
Speaker 1: And then finally the beginning of Punch Drunk Love. You
Speaker 1: heard me talk with Tony Hale on stage about this,
Speaker 1: but the whole opening sequence of Punch Drunk Love is
Speaker 1: this great, great silent and no dialogue sequence, very quiet
Speaker 1: and well done by p. T. Anderson. So that is
Speaker 1: it for number three. Thanks nol. So what's in store
Speaker 1: for Friday? Chuck Friday? Heads up? Everyone to watch RoboCop
Speaker 1: Twist your arm not uh boy, that was very eighties
Speaker 1: way to say that. I haven't said not since the
Speaker 1: Let's bring it back all right, all right, we'll bring
Speaker 1: that back. U. Joe Randazzo my my good friend, Joe,
Speaker 1: who used to be editor in chief of The Onion
Speaker 1: then was the head writer of at midnight uh and
Speaker 1: now is working on various other projects in Hollywood. Um.
Speaker 1: Joe is one of my good good friends. UM. I
Speaker 1: adore Joe and his family, so this is one of
Speaker 1: those where it's a close pal, which those are always
Speaker 1: the best. And Joe picked RoboCop, which is awesome and
Speaker 1: I had not seen it, I think all the way
Speaker 1: through before, which was remark comably weird, and we talked
Speaker 1: about that on the show. So uh uh brush up
Speaker 1: so you can crush out on RoboCop for this Friday.
Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in this week for many Crush number
Speaker 1: three and we'll see you all next week.