Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Movie Crush. The minist, the dish,
Speaker 1: the mini ist of the mini, the littlest guy you
Speaker 1: could imagine. He's so tiny, but he's adorable and he
Speaker 1: does a really good job he does. How's it going,
Speaker 1: buddy man, It's great, It's really good. Things are going well.
Speaker 1: I finished the the kind of heavy true crime podcast
Speaker 1: that I was grinding away at for so long, wrapped up,
Speaker 1: wrapped it up, and uh was very It made some
Speaker 1: cool year end lists and um, it did well and
Speaker 1: it was congratulates a real learning experience and aoid working
Speaker 1: on it. But it was a lot of heaviness to
Speaker 1: be uh and entrenched in for so long. It's nice
Speaker 1: to have a little breath, you know. We made a
Speaker 1: year in list. We did. Yeah. It was a guy
Speaker 1: named Rick Breida who writes for Seen net get. He
Speaker 1: must be the cheap skate because there's a column and
Speaker 1: this was the end of the year Cheap Skates, best
Speaker 1: deals and discoveries of and all these things are mostly
Speaker 1: like gadgets and kind of fun stuff. But he included
Speaker 1: Movie Crush as the loan podcast. He said we were affable.
Speaker 1: I love it. He said we were affable. Chuck. Very
Speaker 1: very nice to get some recognition. It is very nice.
Speaker 1: This is such a fun show for us to do.
Speaker 1: And um, I am running to people occasionally who listened
Speaker 1: to the show and really enjoy it. So I've never
Speaker 1: run into anyone, really, I'm just kidding. We'll not really
Speaker 1: run into anyone, but well, I know there's sometimes that
Speaker 1: I'll have friends of friends who have found the show
Speaker 1: usually three stuff you should know, and then they're surprised
Speaker 1: that they didn't realize that I was on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's kind of neat, but I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I would I always say this, but this is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts me too, of the week,
Speaker 1: doing this in particular because it's just such a nice
Speaker 1: way to unload and relax, and you know, it's obviously
Speaker 1: a bit of a light lift show for us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We just thank you guys for farting around with us
Speaker 1: out there in podcasts. Right, fat your beans? Everyone? All right, Uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start off this week Mr nol with um,
Speaker 1: Well here's what we do. Um, I've asked everyone, ah
Speaker 1: in social studies and go ahead and queue up the
Speaker 1: social studies. Queue there, Mr Ramsey, Social studies. All right,
Speaker 1: we're ready for social studies. I asked everyone, Hey, I'd
Speaker 1: love to hear any movie related things that happen to
Speaker 1: you over the holidays. And I said, anything really, from
Speaker 1: seeing a great film to a weird or awesome movie
Speaker 1: experience in the theater, to forcing your parents to watch
Speaker 1: a movie that they hated or fell asleep too. That's
Speaker 1: always fun over the days. You gotta see this, mom,
Speaker 1: you gotta see it. I've been doing well with my
Speaker 1: mom and making her watch movies. She always fights me
Speaker 1: on it up front, because she's not really a movie person.
Speaker 1: But I usually pick something that I really think she's
Speaker 1: going to connect with in some way, and I'm usually right.
Speaker 1: I love it. She really loved Buster Scrugs. And that
Speaker 1: made me so happy because I enjoyed it so much too.
Speaker 1: And it's nice to bond with my mom because sometimes
Speaker 1: we you know, we have we we were at odds
Speaker 1: at times. You know. Well that's called having a parent. Indeed,
Speaker 1: everyone is at odds with their parents at some point
Speaker 1: or another. All right, we're gonna start this one off
Speaker 1: with Darryl Murphy, and he says, my wife was away
Speaker 1: from just after Christmas to just after New Year, and
Speaker 1: my kids are adults now doing their own thing usually,
Speaker 1: so I went to see Spider Verse on my own.
Speaker 1: Uh the island front of me, A young couple came
Speaker 1: in with a daughter who looked about ten. She was
Speaker 1: in a wheelchair, and dad picked her up, put her
Speaker 1: into a theater seat, and mom tucked a blanket in
Speaker 1: over her legs, and then he went and got them
Speaker 1: all snacks. About two hours later, the little girl was
Speaker 1: vibrating with joy and bliss and had so many things
Speaker 1: to tell her mom and doubt about what she'd seen.
Speaker 1: That is wonderful, very very sweet story. I want to
Speaker 1: see that movie. No, everyone says Spider Verse is great, great, great,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's fantastic. You saw it? Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. Yeah. I saw it with
Speaker 1: my girlfriend and the kiddo, and everyone loved it for
Speaker 1: different reasons. There's something in it for everyone, because it's
Speaker 1: like it's got it mixes and matches animation styles in
Speaker 1: this really frenetic, incredible way where it'll be like an
Speaker 1: edit and like you'll see it flash from like anime
Speaker 1: style to like c G I too hand drawn and
Speaker 1: then back and it's really like psychedelic in that way.
Speaker 1: And and it's also the story is super trippy because
Speaker 1: it's all about like multiverse with different Spiderman and different
Speaker 1: universes all kind of coming together. It's the story that
Speaker 1: on paper just seemed like, what the funk? How did
Speaker 1: you even pitch this? How did you come up with this?
Speaker 1: But it works, and it's got heart and it's funny,
Speaker 1: like John mullaney does the voice of Spider Oh really,
Speaker 1: it's so good, dude, it's so good man. I can't wait. Uh.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know much about it, and then when
Speaker 1: it came out, I was like, okay, but every like
Speaker 1: I've heard people say it's the best Spider Man movie.
Speaker 1: It's just it's because of that heart. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 1: it just kind of like it retreads the Spiderman origin
Speaker 1: story and it's very self aware, so it kind of
Speaker 1: keeps doing it and like doubling back on itself. And
Speaker 1: it's very meta in like a really clever way and
Speaker 1: not like a heavy handed, kind of annoying way. Oh god,
Speaker 1: it's good, Chuck, you'd like it a lot. It's right,
Speaker 1: I'm all in everyone. Vanessa Lopez our old friends, says
Speaker 1: this I was in Scotland with Friends of the Holidays.
Speaker 1: That's a great thing in and of itself. And I
Speaker 1: got to visit several shooting locations for different movies. Edinburgh
Speaker 1: where the opening fight sequence for Avengers Infinity War with
Speaker 1: Scarlet Witch in Division. Uh, yeah, for sure, that was
Speaker 1: a great scene. Rennick Moore where they shut the driving
Speaker 1: scene in Skyfall when Double O seven takes m to
Speaker 1: his family home and Glenn co I know you know
Speaker 1: this one, Noel. It's where the Forbidden Forest and Hagrid's
Speaker 1: Hut were set for Harry Potter and their prisoner of
Speaker 1: as caban and it's pronounced as kaban ash. And then
Speaker 1: finally the cloisters at Durham Cathedral which served as the
Speaker 1: hallways of Hogwarts and Professor mcgonnah gal's classroom. It's mcgonagal
Speaker 1: mcgonna gal for several of the Harry Potter movies um,
Speaker 1: as well as the Palace halls and Elizabeth Man. That's great,
Speaker 1: very cool. Vanessa, that is pretty cool. Was this like
Speaker 1: some sort of tour package. I think she was just
Speaker 1: there the she just popped around. She like her homemark.
Speaker 1: That's smart man. I love Scotland. Yeah, my, my girlfriend's
Speaker 1: stepfather has a house on the Isle of Aaron in Scotland,
Speaker 1: and like they go there, he and as her mom
Speaker 1: go there like once or twice a year, and I'm
Speaker 1: really hoping this thing works out so I get to
Speaker 1: go to Scotland. That's great, such good people. Brent Price says,
Speaker 1: I watched my twelve year daughter become a twelve year
Speaker 1: old daughter become indoctrinated into comedy greatness by watching Monty
Speaker 1: Python and the Holy Grail with her, and now she's
Speaker 1: into Fawlty Towers. It's fantastic. You love Faulty Towers so fun.
Speaker 1: It is great. I haven't seen that in a long time.
Speaker 1: That my favorite episodes, I think it's a lot of
Speaker 1: people's saorite was is the Germans the one where he
Speaker 1: gets hit on her head and he ends up like
Speaker 1: goose stepping around the place and like, don't mention the
Speaker 1: wall opens in the war classic uh, Katie Rowlands is
Speaker 1: every time my family. Every year, my family and I
Speaker 1: watch Mumppet Family Christmas great tradition in our copy has
Speaker 1: all the old commercials on it, like Oshkosh bagotch. That's great.
Speaker 1: The whole family was not able to get together this Christmas,
Speaker 1: but we still texted each other with some quotes from
Speaker 1: the movie, like mind the icy patch, this is a
Speaker 1: Muppet Christmas, Carol, no Muppet Family Christmas. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not even aware of this. I haven't seen it. Has
Speaker 1: to add that one to this, the live action Muppet film.
Speaker 1: I guess. I don't know. I never seen how I
Speaker 1: heard of this. I don't interesting you know what we did. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna share my own story. Uh. This Christmas was
Speaker 1: my daughter's first viewing of Elf, and I thought, I
Speaker 1: think she can handle it. She's three and a half,
Speaker 1: and she totally loved it. There was just enough, like
Speaker 1: just enough visual stuff in silliness with the animations for
Speaker 1: a three and a half year old to not be like,
Speaker 1: why am I watching something that's not animated? Oh? You
Speaker 1: know animation? Are we talking about? Well, she's generally at
Speaker 1: this age the animation and doesn't watch a lot of
Speaker 1: like live action stuff, but there was just enough comedy.
Speaker 1: She totally kind of got it and loved it. That's cool.
Speaker 1: I have not seen I know, Noel, I'll do it
Speaker 1: for you, Chuck, if it's gonna if you're gonna make
Speaker 1: a face at me every time day. I haven't seen ELF.
Speaker 1: It's really great. I'm sure it is. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's great. Rebecca Pasco says, it's the summer of tennis
Speaker 1: in Australia. I don't even know what that means. So
Speaker 1: I was inspired to watch Battle of the Sexes, Borg
Speaker 1: McEnroe and Seven Days in Hell. I don't know. Seven
Speaker 1: Days in Hell. Battle of the Sexes was great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thoroughly enjoyed that. Steve Carell, they were both great.
Speaker 1: Emma Stone she was wonderful. She's in the Favorite by
Speaker 1: the way, and she's fantastic. I really like her. She's
Speaker 1: very versatile. She's one of those actresses that maybe on
Speaker 1: first glance you might think of as being this kind
Speaker 1: of teen queen type actress or whatever. But the man
Speaker 1: she's versatile and has so much range and like really nuanced,
Speaker 1: and she's so good. I think so um and she
Speaker 1: I watched The Maniac. Did you want? Have had a
Speaker 1: hard time getting into it? Okay, so you're having a
Speaker 1: hard time. What episode do you want to? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a weird show. I know, I like
Speaker 1: I like weird shows. Yeah, I mean I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was great. I stuck through it though. I saw
Speaker 1: it through to the end as I just sort of
Speaker 1: had to. But there were times where I was just
Speaker 1: I didn't want to finish it, and Emily was like,
Speaker 1: come on, no, we gotta finish it because it's not
Speaker 1: that long. I think. I don't even know his ten
Speaker 1: episodes was eight. It's pretty pretty short. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: because that like guy Carrie Fukanaga like directed every episode
Speaker 1: and I believe he wrote it and he did that
Speaker 1: first season I'm True Detective. That was so fucking incredible
Speaker 1: weird show. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep keep keep rolling.
Speaker 1: Just In throws awesome, man, I love him. I haven't
Speaker 1: even made it to him yet. Actually, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I may have only watched the first episode. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: he pops up. Just keep watching it gets it takes
Speaker 1: turns that you're not expecting, dude. Crazy Emma Stone is
Speaker 1: going to play Cruella de Ville and then Cruella Deville movie.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's Cruella. What made her cruel? I guess
Speaker 1: maybe she would have to be pretty cool? Yeah? Why
Speaker 1: is she so angry? Yeah? Maybe why she want to
Speaker 1: kill puppies. Yeah, they never really explained that, dude. They
Speaker 1: know she's just just pure evil. Yeah, uh yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: go see that on my TV at home. Let me
Speaker 1: see here. Jeff Knowles says, The Lovely Catherine and I
Speaker 1: got terribly hammered playing the official Hallmark Hallmark Christmas Movie
Speaker 1: Drinking Game. Is that a real thing? I mean, you
Speaker 1: can make a drinking game out of it anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a movie crush drinking game. Like every
Speaker 1: time you hear the word whole or health or Harry
Speaker 1: or Potter. Let me see here. Jasmine Spearing says, I
Speaker 1: put on the Shining at midnight on Christmas Eve ended
Speaker 1: up being awake until three am watching It's fantastic. That's
Speaker 1: an interesting move. Is it really three hours long? No? No,
Speaker 1: not quite. A math doesn't add up. Yeah, but give
Speaker 1: her a break now. Okay, it's Christmas. People should take
Speaker 1: a drink every time I get fake mad at you.
Speaker 1: Let's become a running exasperated all right, we'll finish up
Speaker 1: with a couple of more here or Jack. Colin Searan says,
Speaker 1: I watched The Blue Right Criterion, a dish of the
Speaker 1: thin red line right before you hit play at a
Speaker 1: special note from Terence Malick to play the movie loud.
Speaker 1: Probably the coolest tip I've ever experienced. I've seen that
Speaker 1: a couple of times. This movie is meant to be
Speaker 1: played loud. I have not. You haven't. No, yeah, a
Speaker 1: couple of movies have done that that I've seen. It's
Speaker 1: always good. I've got a good surround sound system. It
Speaker 1: sounds nice. That's cool. I crank that. Shut up? How
Speaker 1: a bet you do? Yeah, I need to get mine
Speaker 1: hooked up. I only have front speakers, but I need
Speaker 1: to get some backspeakers and then I've got a system
Speaker 1: that we'll do it. I just don't have the backspeakers. Well,
Speaker 1: the one I have does this, uh, just a bit
Speaker 1: of a magic trick. It simulates surround sound like there
Speaker 1: are no speakers behind me. But it does that weird
Speaker 1: thing where you it knows the room you're in. You
Speaker 1: calibrate it and just so it's crazy. No, well no,
Speaker 1: no it's not it. I do have a sons because
Speaker 1: we got one for free for if you should know,
Speaker 1: and they sent me the TV unit. But the sound bar, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh, but it's it's more like a sound cabinet.
Speaker 1: Um but I have not hooked that up yet. No,
Speaker 1: it's sitting in my house. Why do you want it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Let me think about that. Okay, Okay, can I give
Speaker 1: that to you? I might not, but that's fair. I
Speaker 1: will not press you on it. Okay, I'll think about it.
Speaker 1: I think the problem is is it doesn't hook up
Speaker 1: to the TV on my other TV that I don't
Speaker 1: have the sound bar on, Like it won't connect somehow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I recently got an Amazon Fire TV, which I love.
Speaker 1: I love it. They're a sponsor for this show, are
Speaker 1: they really? Yeah? I've read Fire ads. I didn't know that. Well,
Speaker 1: they're fans fantastic. I bought it and it was super
Speaker 1: affordable and it's four K and it's like the biggest
Speaker 1: TV I've ever had. And it's because I got this
Speaker 1: Red Dead Redemption two game and the TV I have good.
Speaker 1: Oh it's incredible, dude, got it? I need to get that.
Speaker 1: It's insane. Yes, yes, it's so good. But the t
Speaker 1: V I had before was so small that like, this
Speaker 1: game has got so much d tale. I literally couldn't
Speaker 1: read the text on the screen. I couldn't see ship
Speaker 1: in the distance. I was like, I've got to get
Speaker 1: a better TV, and so I did. And then I
Speaker 1: also got the Alexa, the little Echo dot, so I
Speaker 1: can control like I can say, Alexa, switched to PlayStation Alexa,
Speaker 1: turn the TV off, Alexa. I can do everything with you.
Speaker 1: I am now is super convenient. Also, I've got it
Speaker 1: linked to my Spotify, so i can say, Alexa, play
Speaker 1: the music of Gary Newman on Spotify and it'll do it.
Speaker 1: And it'll just like she'll say, are you sure? Are
Speaker 1: you sure, Dave, I'm going to kill you? Um? Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it actually sounds halfway decent. This a little tiny speaker.
Speaker 1: It's pretty great. I'm a bit of a curmudgeon with
Speaker 1: that stuff. I can understand. You should probably just get
Speaker 1: over it. I just I had a friend in New
Speaker 1: York who had them and he used them to control
Speaker 1: like lights and stuff, and I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So now I want to get like one of those
Speaker 1: huge smart light kits. And yeah, I'm into it. I'm
Speaker 1: into it. It's it's very functional if you use it
Speaker 1: to suit your needs, you know what I mean. You
Speaker 1: don't feel like a slave to Alexa or anything as
Speaker 1: a slave to you. Oh yeah, right, I'm all about that.
Speaker 1: Robot slaves. Gail Kuns they're old friend from Ohio says, uh,
Speaker 1: no cool movie stories. But it was our first Christmas
Speaker 1: with our kiddy, Jamie Lee Purtis. See what she did there?
Speaker 1: What's was there? A pun? There? Oh? Per like cats pers?
Speaker 1: There's three rs even Jamie Lee Purtis. So that was
Speaker 1: awesome and made for a happier holiday. And uh, Gail,
Speaker 1: we're thinking about you. She let me know that very
Speaker 1: sadly she lost one of her beloved dogs. And I'm
Speaker 1: just so sad to hear that. Yeah, it's the worst.
Speaker 1: All right, let's finish up here with um Jamie Hart,
Speaker 1: my family and are big Dick Van Dyke fans. Uh,
Speaker 1: thank you Netflix. We went to see the Mary Poppins
Speaker 1: movie on New Year's Eve without reading spoilers. Uh so
Speaker 1: when I saw one of the greatest entertainers of all
Speaker 1: time singing and dancing in his nineties, we all freaked out,
Speaker 1: nearly stood up and whoop, whooped so much fun. I
Speaker 1: know he was in it, that's spoiler. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think he's been. He was on like the Golden
Speaker 1: Globes with Emily Blunt. I didn't watch the Golden globes.
Speaker 1: It's out there all right. I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: big spoiler. It's fair, but how cool. I also know
Speaker 1: nothing about the Harry Harry Harry Poppins. I know it's
Speaker 1: it's just it's part of who I am. Chuck is
Speaker 1: part of who I am. Um, Yeah, no, I would
Speaker 1: like to see that. I didn't realize Lin Manuel Miranda
Speaker 1: has had a hand. Yeah, I really I heard. It's
Speaker 1: pretty great. Cool because I actually my kid did a
Speaker 1: theater camp over the summer where she did Mary Poppin
Speaker 1: stuff and learned a bunch of us. We watched the movie, um,
Speaker 1: and I hadn't seen it a long time, and some
Speaker 1: of the stuff they did with like the rotoscoping early
Speaker 1: kind of like you know, mixing animation with live action
Speaker 1: and stuff. Yes, it looks kind of bad, but it's
Speaker 1: so innovative considering that they had to invent, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: the way of doing that. They had to invent these
Speaker 1: like techniques to like get that stuff done. Well. It
Speaker 1: was cool watching, uh, the Rebecca the Hitchcock movie because
Speaker 1: it was released in nineteen forty, so made in the
Speaker 1: nineteen thirties, so really really early days of filmmaking and
Speaker 1: all the all the old school filmmaking tricks are in
Speaker 1: that movie, all the practical stuff, and it's really kind
Speaker 1: of something to see, and just at a time when
Speaker 1: filmmaking was in its uh nascent stages and they were
Speaker 1: just figuring out how to do ship using models and
Speaker 1: and Matt paintings. Just really cool. I love it so
Speaker 1: and I think I maybe have talked about this, but
Speaker 1: I got to go to Lucasfilm a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago when I was working on the Animation podcast, and
Speaker 1: they have like the one of the earliest UM it's
Speaker 1: called optical printer, which is what they used to composite
Speaker 1: you know, different backgrounds with foreground stuff. And it was
Speaker 1: like a huge giant film based machine that they you know,
Speaker 1: was invented, I believe by Eye Works for Disney, who
Speaker 1: was like Disney's like right hand man, who also invented
Speaker 1: the multiplane camera, which is how they had did all
Speaker 1: the UM separating the four ground, midground and background and
Speaker 1: animation plates and they could actually have the camera zoom in,
Speaker 1: move through the scene or whatever. So cool man. And
Speaker 1: also at at Lucasfilm, they have all these Matt paintings
Speaker 1: all hung on the wall, and they're all done on
Speaker 1: shower doors. Oh, because they had like a it was
Speaker 1: cheaper to go next door to this hardware store and
Speaker 1: buy the shower doors, and they painted on them and
Speaker 1: it was the right kind of like texture that it
Speaker 1: took the paint really well. And then they lit them
Speaker 1: from the back so it would give them depth or whatever.
Speaker 1: And they had like ones from Blade Runner, and they
Speaker 1: had ones from Et and die Hard and like all
Speaker 1: these things you wouldn't even have thought were Matt paintings,
Speaker 1: and you realize that when you pull back, they just
Speaker 1: look completely believable. You know. Yeah, you should go to
Speaker 1: uh next time you're in New York, you should make
Speaker 1: a trip out to the Museum of the Moving Image. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to get It's cool. They have some
Speaker 1: cool Blade Runner stuff there, including the Terrell headquarters. Nice model. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when you see it, it's right there there, it is.
Speaker 1: That's the one there it is, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: as big as this little table and sitting on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely want to do that. That's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the wreck. All right, We're we are going
Speaker 1: to do one more because I just happened to see
Speaker 1: this one on my way out to the Facebook door. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was pretty cool. Alex Klasnovik or
Speaker 1: Glasnovich says, I finished a project. Uh, project that okay project.
Speaker 1: On the end of project, you did that. It sounds
Speaker 1: like I just did. It's okay. Sometimes you say words weird.
Speaker 1: It's a living language. Check it is. I finished a
Speaker 1: project to watch three hundred and sixty five movies, uh
Speaker 1: in a year that I haven't seen before. Talk about
Speaker 1: filling holes. He said a lot of obvious holes that
Speaker 1: I got plugged, and it was quite the experience. That
Speaker 1: is really interesting. Three d and sixty five new movies nol.
Speaker 1: That's a new movie a day day, which and obviously
Speaker 1: I mean maybe he had to take a couple of
Speaker 1: days off and double up or what I thought. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. Did he give you a list? Nope?
Speaker 1: But I think that's kind of neat that. That's pretty cool. Boy,
Speaker 1: I can't that's all. It's funny. You talk about the holes,
Speaker 1: and I'm always going on about like I'm gonna die
Speaker 1: not having seeing Casablanca. Just do this. See, I bet
Speaker 1: I don't have three hundred sixty five holes. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of movies out there. They make a lot of
Speaker 1: movies every year. Well, you're always always new holes are
Speaker 1: popping up. It's sort of like whack a mole, you know,
Speaker 1: and knock one down, pops up somewhere else. That's very true.
Speaker 1: Don't condescend to me. No, hey man, listen, don't do it.
Speaker 1: Drink everybody girl friends here. All right, we are going
Speaker 1: to move on to stream this where I talk about
Speaker 1: what I've been watching here lately. And I am late
Speaker 1: on this, but I, Emily and I have been watching Catastrophe.
Speaker 1: Have you seen that? No? Do you know what that is? No? No,
Speaker 1: it is a show. Do you know Rob Delaney the comedian?
Speaker 1: Vaguely the name sounds familiar, but all those comedians names
Speaker 1: just kind of blur together in my head. Did you
Speaker 1: see uh, Deadpool two? Yeah, he was in Deadpool too.
Speaker 1: He played Peter. He was sort of the schlu been
Speaker 1: the members only jacket and the mustache in Deadpool too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him on the internet. I don't recognize
Speaker 1: him from that movie or anything else. Well, he's a
Speaker 1: stand up comedian and I know the name. Just a
Speaker 1: really really funny guy, has a very interesting uh and
Speaker 1: at times tragic real life story of his own. And um,
Speaker 1: he does a show uh called Catastrophe that I believe
Speaker 1: season three or is it season four is coming out soon.
Speaker 1: I think it's only gonna be four seasons. And uh
Speaker 1: he he does it with in partnership, uh, with his
Speaker 1: on screen wife who is brilliant and hysterical. Her name
Speaker 1: is Sharon Horgan and I believe she is Scottish if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, or is she Irish? No, she's Irish. Uh,
Speaker 1: and she's just great and they play a couple that
Speaker 1: um he is a an American traveling in England and
Speaker 1: has a a one week fling with this Irish woman
Speaker 1: in London wherein she gets pregnant and they kind of
Speaker 1: decide like fuck it, man, let's let's like, uh, I
Speaker 1: like you and is like enough to get married and
Speaker 1: raise a kid. And it turns out it is Canby.
Speaker 1: So it's a very real show and a very messy
Speaker 1: show about coupling up and marriage and parenthood as the
Speaker 1: show goes on, because they end up having more than
Speaker 1: one kid. Um. And it's just fucking funny man and
Speaker 1: touching and heartwarming and it's just brilliantly written. I think
Speaker 1: they both collaborate on the writing. I think they both
Speaker 1: co created the show. Um. And it's just I could
Speaker 1: not recommend it enough. I know it's old news to
Speaker 1: a lot of people because I think it came out
Speaker 1: the first season maybe in um Catastrophe streaming on Amazon.
Speaker 1: It's an Amazon shows. Just really really funny. That sounds
Speaker 1: like a winner, wonderful stuff to see. Since are short,
Speaker 1: I think they're either six or eight episodes, um, so
Speaker 1: you can kind of blast through it. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a model I like a lot is like a six
Speaker 1: six episode season, two or three seasons, like give me,
Speaker 1: give me eighteen four shows period. Well, I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of like British comedies too, because like they'll have
Speaker 1: they do that about six episodes or seven episodes. This season,
Speaker 1: I've been revisiting peep Show. It's on Hulu. Now have
Speaker 1: you seen peep Show? What's that? It's an incredible, incredibly funny, witty,
Speaker 1: sardonic British comedy with um, oh my gosh, David Mitchell
Speaker 1: and Mark Webb and they and also uh Mark Webb
Speaker 1: as an actor or the director guy the actor. They're there,
Speaker 1: they're two comedians. There are a lot of Mark I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: David Mitchell is on a lot of those British quiz
Speaker 1: panel shows with like Richard died Iwadi and like a
Speaker 1: lot of the guys from like Mighty Bush and a
Speaker 1: lot of those kind weirdo British comedies. But um it's
Speaker 1: it has sort of a gimmick where it takes a
Speaker 1: first person um I perspective, like it'll all of a
Speaker 1: sudden be through the eyes of the character and you're
Speaker 1: hearing their internal monologue as they go through and you know,
Speaker 1: navigate life or whatever. Yeah. And the woman who plays
Speaker 1: the love interest, Olivia Coleman and Peep Show, is the
Speaker 1: Queen Queen Anne in the Favorite and she is just
Speaker 1: a powerhouse actress. But this is her early, very early work.
Speaker 1: I think it was like from the I want to say,
Speaker 1: early two thousands. There's about seven seasons of it and
Speaker 1: it's just it's so funny. Actually really recommended. It's on
Speaker 1: Hulu as of pretty recently. I'm looking at this David
Speaker 1: Mitchell guy. Does he have black eyes? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Look at these pictures, man, I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen an eye color like that. Have
Speaker 1: you It looks kind of more brown. Oh look here,
Speaker 1: what does anyone have black eyes? It is a forum.
Speaker 1: This is the nearest thing to black eyes would be
Speaker 1: an optical addition called in a ridia. And David Mitchell
Speaker 1: has it no way interesting, he does have black eyes.
Speaker 1: You're crazy, that's crazy. He's really funny. Though. He has
Speaker 1: a YouTube series called David Mitchell's Soapbox that's also really funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I com man, I think you'd like it. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch all this stuff, so check that out.
Speaker 1: Everyone check out Catastrophe and it's interesting. No, now that
Speaker 1: I see Catastrophe. Actually, um is considered a British television
Speaker 1: sitcom on Channel four, So I guess it was Beep
Speaker 1: Shows Channel four as well. Yeah, I guess they. I
Speaker 1: guess it is a British show that Amazon has co opted.
Speaker 1: So that explains to the kind of short seasons and
Speaker 1: only four seasons interesting or series four series wonderful shows.
Speaker 1: Everyone check those out. Finally, No, we're gonna finish up
Speaker 1: this week with comment card. You're dodging the holes this week.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll fall into them eventually. Chuck, Well, I
Speaker 1: had it planned to do a sci fi edition, but um,
Speaker 1: I think we're just gonna hold onto that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hold on to that. That seg all right. Here we
Speaker 1: go with some questions. Um logan course sought says, what
Speaker 1: has been your best and worst non sober film experiences?
Speaker 1: So I guess asking what being inebriated at a movie
Speaker 1: best time and worst time? I think maybe the best
Speaker 1: time I can remember, and I think I talked about
Speaker 1: this was when I saw Days and Confused the first
Speaker 1: time in college at the Georgia Theater and Athens, and
Speaker 1: that whole place was just a party and it was
Speaker 1: just great man, great film experience. Everyone was drinking and
Speaker 1: smoking weed and it was just like fantastic. I can
Speaker 1: think of that experience and they've been like, oh, I'm drunk.
Speaker 1: I gotta get out of it. Like I usually don't
Speaker 1: drink before a movie. It's just not my thing. I've got.
Speaker 1: I've got one that I don't think I want to
Speaker 1: talk about on the show, but a good one was
Speaker 1: when our local kind of old school twin cinema art
Speaker 1: house theater the plaza um the movie Mandy that I
Speaker 1: just keep raving about with Nicholas caves, drink panos, because
Speaker 1: Mato's films like this phantasmagoric, beautiful, psychedelic, very hybrid, weird horror,
Speaker 1: slash drama, slash comedy, slash schlock piece. It's just great. Um.
Speaker 1: Anyway they did. It was a movie that got released
Speaker 1: in very few theaters, if hardly any, and then it
Speaker 1: got released on demand, and then it was there was
Speaker 1: there was such a groundswell of like, we need this
Speaker 1: movie in theaters that they started divvying it up to
Speaker 1: smaller theaters who would do screenings of it. And it
Speaker 1: was already like a midnight movie kind of cult thing.
Speaker 1: So I saw it at the Plaza and um had
Speaker 1: some assistance from some you know, drinks and such, just
Speaker 1: room beforehand, a little righteous room beforehand. And it was
Speaker 1: just so fun because everyone already knew the movie because
Speaker 1: they've seen it on demand, and so everyone was like
Speaker 1: in it. Like every beat there was like these crazy
Speaker 1: reactions and it was it was so fun. It was
Speaker 1: so packed and it was just it was great. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that. Yeah, if you guys, uh for unan
Speaker 1: at Lantern's out there, there's a wonderful old theater from
Speaker 1: when was the plaza. What is it fifties? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think so nineteen fifties, And it's in this little chopping plaza,
Speaker 1: and um, right next door to it, practically attached is
Speaker 1: the par of the Righteous Room. So it's a it's
Speaker 1: a great kind of thing where you can just go
Speaker 1: have a couple of beers if you want, and then
Speaker 1: slip right into the movie. But they actually serve beer
Speaker 1: at the plaza too, so you just keep that party
Speaker 1: going if you're into that. My whole problem is I
Speaker 1: gotta bladder the size of a peanut, so I just
Speaker 1: can't like drink a lot because I'm gonna be up
Speaker 1: in pean. Yeah, and I usually see matinee's peanut bladder.
Speaker 1: What kind of dad would I be if I was
Speaker 1: getting hammered and go into a matinee? Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1: A great one, A great one. Yeah, it's true. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I it's I like, I like
Speaker 1: the modern age thing of being able to get a
Speaker 1: beer at a movie. Remember in Pulp Fiction where it
Speaker 1: was like like, uh, Vincent, Vincent, whatever is last Vegas? Vegas?
Speaker 1: Characters coming back from Europe and he's saying at a movie,
Speaker 1: it's crazy yeah, it was a little more of a novel.
Speaker 1: And now it's like, especially at the some of those
Speaker 1: smaller indie theaters, you could definitely do it. But even
Speaker 1: now I think, no, I don't think the big chain
Speaker 1: ones do it. The big chain ones onto it. No, Like,
Speaker 1: if it's a big chain it will have to be
Speaker 1: one of the dine in things. Alto Drafthouse is great,
Speaker 1: they'll do it. But then like the smaller indie theaters
Speaker 1: totally do it. And it's great you can just because
Speaker 1: it used to be you had to get the dinner
Speaker 1: theater thing going. But then at a certain point they
Speaker 1: just started saying, no concession stand will just have like
Speaker 1: a beer and wine. It's great. Uh, let me see,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do Mario Alexander Rott sides great name. What
Speaker 1: are your top three underappreciated Cohen Brothers films. We talked
Speaker 1: a lot about the Cohens on this show. That's a
Speaker 1: good question. Uh. I'm on record as being a big
Speaker 1: fan of Burn. After reading which a lot of people
Speaker 1: didn't like, I think it's great. I saw it recently
Speaker 1: again just on TV or something, and yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: really fun. It's really funny. It is a fun movie,
Speaker 1: but I think definitely viewed as lesser Cohen's. And you
Speaker 1: said the only Cohen that you don't care for is
Speaker 1: Lady Killers, right, Yeah, but even that has its redeeming quality.
Speaker 1: So stupid, but it's fun, you know, It's like, get
Speaker 1: your fingers out my man's nose. It was pretty silly.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Intolerable Cruelty. I think that movie.
Speaker 1: It was fun and funny, and it a lot of
Speaker 1: people really don't like that film. I have not seen
Speaker 1: that since it was out in theaters. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: liking it fine and it feeling a little strange for
Speaker 1: a Cohen Brothers movie, but then when you actually saw it,
Speaker 1: it actually very much felt like a Coen Brothers movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: totally agree. Uh, what's another good one? No, what's the
Speaker 1: third underappreciated Cohen's. I think probably Hudsucker Proxies one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a weird one and a fun one. And I
Speaker 1: think people get turned by the name or they think
Speaker 1: they're confused by what is this movie? But it's very
Speaker 1: much a fun, weird period kind of like d S
Speaker 1: X Makanna Like it's one of it's one of the
Speaker 1: Cohen's more uh, screwball kind of wacky ones. It's it's
Speaker 1: almost more like Big Lebowski in some ways. It has
Speaker 1: these like spiritual forces or like raising Arizona or something
Speaker 1: sort of in that genre. Good film. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: it in a while. I'm check that out again. Um
Speaker 1: let me see here, all right, Mike Sam's. I think
Speaker 1: we'll finish with Mike Sam's. Aside from time constraints and
Speaker 1: production costs, why does so many movies we are so
Speaker 1: far off course from the books that they are based on.
Speaker 1: The source material was right there? Why take such creative licensing?
Speaker 1: That's a really good question, Mike. Uh, I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess the easiest answer is what what makes for a
Speaker 1: great book doesn't often make for a great movie because
Speaker 1: there are two different mediums. And books you can take
Speaker 1: a lot of time to tell the story. Movies you
Speaker 1: have a pretty condensed timeframe. Um. Yeah, you just you
Speaker 1: have to kind of retrofit it almost. I think that's
Speaker 1: why you know, it's we're kind of in the age
Speaker 1: of TV, the new Golden age of TV, because you
Speaker 1: can take a lot longer and a lot more care
Speaker 1: in telling a big story. Yeah, for sure, you know,
Speaker 1: And um, I think a lot of big name actors
Speaker 1: are more interested in telling stories in that way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but and not only just having to cut stuff out.
Speaker 1: I think what he may be talking about two is
Speaker 1: like like a major plot change that works really well
Speaker 1: in a book, they will change that for the movie,
Speaker 1: like an ending or something, or a character that lives
Speaker 1: or dies instead of the opposite in the in the book. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes I guess they just think that
Speaker 1: makes for a more powerful story maybe, or sometimes they
Speaker 1: screw it up. Yeah. I mean a good example is
Speaker 1: like even like with TV like Game of Thrones, because
Speaker 1: like those books are so dense and and long, even
Speaker 1: to fit one of them into a season of television,
Speaker 1: they had to kind of like make some concessions. And
Speaker 1: sometimes they'll combine the actions of different characters and do
Speaker 1: a single character and get rid of some like kind
Speaker 1: of ancillary characters and maybe only served a little bit
Speaker 1: of a plot purpose and like kind of give somebody
Speaker 1: else the thing that they did, and and it works.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're not like that tied to the character,
Speaker 1: then it's not a big deal and you don't really say, oh,
Speaker 1: heresy they got rid of whoever? You know, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: can It can actually serve filmmaking to do that, because agreed,
Speaker 1: because a book you can get caught up in the
Speaker 1: minutia and description and detail. Films kind of have to
Speaker 1: move a little more, you know. Yeah, it is always
Speaker 1: funny when if you're a love love a book a lot,
Speaker 1: and there would be like some sort of really great
Speaker 1: long passage in a book about something in the movie
Speaker 1: it's literally like two seconds. But you know, it can
Speaker 1: still be a rich experience in the movie if you
Speaker 1: kind of have that book knowledge, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because you bring that to it. Very interesting. Good question, Mike, Uh,
Speaker 1: all right, that's it. That's all I got. Old. Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll get back to your holes next week with a
Speaker 1: sci fi edition and some other new fund segments. We
Speaker 1: might get to up with fuck Again. I love it
Speaker 1: my new favorite. All right, So thanks for tuning in everyone,
Speaker 1: and we will get back with you in the screening
Speaker 1: room next to Monday. Allay,