WEBVTT - Mini Crush #2 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.120 Hey, everybody, Welcome to Movie Crush Charles W. Chuck Bryant 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.280 here with nol say hello, no Chuck uh and I 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.559 said say hello, no hello no right here in pot 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.360 City Market at our home studio in Atlanta, Georgia, and 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.720 welcome to episode two of the shorter mini episodes. I 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:45.720 think we should have probably had of a name at 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.640 this point, so just ignore this part. I want to 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.080 welcome everyone, though. Uh. One thing I'm gonna do with 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.760 the onset of each episode is recap what you heard 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.320 the week before on the interview, so um, hopefully you 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.800 heard on Friday. Um, wonderful Tony Hale live at San 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.880 Francisco's Sketch Vest. Could not have gone better with so 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.880 much fun. Big thanks to Tony Hale for that, and 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.399 I hope you guys enjoyed that live version and look 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.080 for more of those in the future. I'm not gonna 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:13.880 I'm not gonna hit the road quite like I do 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.400 with stuff you should know, but every now and then 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:18.679 I'm gonna try and get some shows together in some 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.840 smaller rooms a lot of fun. Uh. This week we 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.240 are going to do a few different segments. Oh. Also 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:28.320 want to preview upcoming Oscar Show. If you aren't on 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.119 the Facebook page, you might not have seen this. But 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.280 I had the idea to get some recording gear taken 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.880 home with me, break out some wine, and sit down 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.880 with my lovely wife Emily, and do a pre Oscar 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.480 show where we kind of go over the nominees and 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.280 what we're expecting and what we saw and what we 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.000 liked and didn't like, and then we're gonna record a 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:54.920 post Oscar special. So I would reckon that. The Oscars 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.720 are in March fourth, So the Monday before that Sunday, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.640 we'll do the pre show and then if all goes well, 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.480 the morning after, or let's be real, the afternoon after 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.680 on the next Monday, the fifth, we'll do our post 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.800 Oscars wrap up. You guys gonna place bets unlike who 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.040 the winner is, have your picks and then like argue 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.720 about it and maybe see who the winner is. There 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.160 may be some arguing and was a once you get 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.560 into the penut grease. Yeah, people have seemed pretty excited 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.040 about this. They're like Emily plus y and plus Chuck 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.040 equals fun. Every time we're gonna put Ruby to bed 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.600 and they'll probably dogs barking at some point, but I'm 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.799 just gonna leave all that stuff in because give you 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.080 a peek behind the curtain. So look forward to that. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.080 And like I said in the first shorter episode, we 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.960 are are calling for people on Facebook to interact here 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.800 and that's where most of these segments are coming from. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.920 And everyone's really pretty excited about all this stuff, and 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.760 that makes me excited. And I can Knowll is awake, 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.640 so that means he's excited. And this week we're gonna 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.360 do a few different segments. We're gonna to start off 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:04.600 like we usually do with social studies. So so this 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.240 week I put out the question, um, what is your 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:12.240 favorite romantic comedy? And this is a romantic comedies are 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:17.359 tough because a lot of times they wouldn't necessarily qualify 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.919 as great film or great cinema. Not to get too snooty, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.080 but people love them and that's kind of what the 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.680 show is about. It's not um, it's it's not a 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.720 snotty look at the deepest films on the planet. Sometimes 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.000 they're just movies we love. And romantic comedies, you know, 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.880 there's there's some good ones out there. And I'm gonna 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.320 go ahead and chime in with mine and This was 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.280 tough because I thought about going with some offbeat romantic 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.680 comedies like this movie Happy Accidents, which is wonderful with 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.360 Vincent Dinafrio and Marissa Tomay that had a weird sci 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.560 fi angle, or or on that same note, one called 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.600 Safety Not Guaranteed um that also had a weird sort 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.680 of side five angle at the time traveling one with 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.800 Aubrey Plaza. Yes, but there are romantic comedies and that 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.000 did love those movies. But I'm gonna go super tradition here, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.400 and I'm gonna throw out one of the all time 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.760 greats When Harry met Sally. Uh, just one of the best. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.760 The great Nora Ephron just wrote the ship out of 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.000 that movie, one of the best romantic comedy scripts of 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:26.040 all time. And um just wonderfully acted by Billy Crystal 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.280 and Meg Ryan and Bruno Kirby and the wonderful late 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.839 Carrie Fisher. Just a really good, solid, solid movie, tells 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.440 a great love story. It's just sappy and sweet and 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:43.920 all the right ways. Not seen it? Oh another hole? Really? Yeah? Uh? 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.599 Are you a little cynical romantic comedies? My girlfriend is 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.440 really into them, so I've kind of gotten a little 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.080 bit of schooling and rom coms of of late, but 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.080 no they're not. There've never been something I sought out. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.800 Um is Harold and Maudo romantic comedy. See that's the problem, right, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.520 because it's almost the term of like a derision. Almost agreed, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.760 but yeah, it a weird way. I think Harold and 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.880 maud Is was definitely supposed to be a sort of 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.320 romantic comedy. That's probably. I'm not alone. I'm saying probably, 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.200 that's one of my favorite movies at the time. So 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.200 how Ashby, Great al Ashby, So that's mine, That's Knolls, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.720 And let's take through some of these on Facebook. Karrie Bernstein, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.960 So I married an ax murderer. So funny and so 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:30.640 realistic in human and roses in behavior. Sure that counts 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:35.400 stranger than fiction. From Caleb Omar Elizondo, great name. A 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.720 lot of people put this one. They said, I love 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.320 it when comedy actors play more serious roles. And Will 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:46.200 Ferrell was amazing playing off Maggie Gyllenhall agreed. A bunch 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.920 of people said, love Actually, I have not seen that movie. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.719 That's the one with like the signs right where it comes. Yeah, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.719 it's it's troupe almost it's so it's like he comes 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.320 to the door and doesn't say anything and just holds 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.720 up these signs that's say different like romantic kind of 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.039 tongue and shape stuff. And I forget the actor that 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.760 played um, the main dude and walking dead. Um what 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.800 tankes his name? He's an English actor, Anye he's the sheriff. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.040 I can remember the actor's name I Love Actually was 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:13.800 Hugh Grant. Am I thinking he's in that too, But 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.520 this is this is the part where he he walks 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.400 up to the door and like holds up these signs. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.320 And there's actually a cut of it that makes it 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.440 look like a horror movie. There's a bunch of those, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.200 like for different stuff, but that one is particularly good. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:24.600 If you want to check I Love Actually as a 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.039 horror movie. That's a fun one. Oh I will and 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.599 no no trust me. A lot of people love this movie. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:34.400 And I'm in the in the rare company of Noel 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.800 and I neither one of us having seen it, but 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.880 Trish Wallace's Love Actually. When the planes hit the twin towers, 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.200 as far as I know, none of the phone calls 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.760 were from people on board, were messages of hate or revenge. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.280 They were all messages of love. That must be a 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.480 quote from the movie No Idea. There was a nine 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.760 eleven angle to love. Actually, I don't know. Uh Kuby 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.719 don Kuby Cubs one of our good old friends, she 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.880 says when I hear him at Sally rewatch it every 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.000 year and it's a perfect combination of funny and sweet, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.160 and the secondary characters Bruno, Kirby and carry Fisher make 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:10.520 the whole movie for me hilarious, agreed, Gobs. Matt Jones 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.240 says Shaun of the Dead probably more for us Brits, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.040 but the mix of horror, comedy, romance and British pub 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.680 culture was awesome. Also very quotable, Heather Miller. We had 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:24.080 a bunch of these for Nodding Hill. So Heather Miller says, 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.640 Hugh Grant's best movie for sure. Everything feels authentic and 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.400 it doesn't feel forced like most romcoms do. Did you 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.080 see that one? You don't see any romantic comedies And 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.120 I guess I'm kind of getting roped in more and 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.240 more lately. But Tyler Murphy Murph, one of another one 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.160 of our good old faithful listeners, says, Sleepless in Seattle, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.200 there isn't anything more cute yet more hilarious than your 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:47.840 kid trying to hook you up with someone by calling 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.400 a radio talk show without you knowing. I have seen that. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.720 I saw that in the theater. Actually, I've never seen 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.280 that all the way through. That was like right, and 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.160 then you got mail was like the next next one. Yeah, 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.239 I saw both of those in the theater. Don't remember 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.520 much about them, but well, the classic pairing of Tom 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.040 Hanks and Meg Ryan. Uh. And I see if I 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.320 can find it someone. Oh, here, it is right here. Uh. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.280 Jason Wortham, I agree, sir, Joe Versus the Volcano. It's 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.080 one of my favorite all time movies, and I think 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.280 one of the great underrated movies of all time. We've 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.480 said it before over the years and stuff you should know, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.440 but Jason, I totally agree, he says, in part because 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.200 repeating themes, overt symbolism, and a unique comic comedic tone 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.200 make it much more than a run of the mill 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:30.160 rom com. Also because a pagoda, he says, You're corrects 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.520 are on all accounts. That's great, Oh, Vanessa Lopez. Also 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.400 with Joe Versus Volcano, I'll beat quirkiness and a pagoda 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:43.840 who knew a pagoda all these fans. Another for nodding 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.160 Hill from carry O'Neil. Another for when Harry met Sally 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.319 Kelly Zaliga. I believe it's how you pronounced that name, 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.280 Um Joe herndon five d Days of Summer. I think 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.800 it accurately portrays the way some young men can literally 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.400 torture themselves after they get their hearts ripped out by 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.640 someone they thought were a perfect match. I like that one. Yeah, 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.319 I remember that one. It's a good one. I actually 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.720 worked with Mark Webb, the director of that movie. He 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.920 was a music video guy, and he may still be 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:13.600 doing some of that. But when I was at PA 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.080 in Los Angeles and Emily was just my friend at 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.160 that point, she was a producer and produced music videos, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.360 and I worked a lot of jobs with her and Mark. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.720 We worked on probably five or six Mark Web jobs 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.640 on music videos. And then he did this movie and 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.240 we were both like what. And then he did the 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:33.360 Spider Man movie. We're like what. So congratulations to Mark 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.520 for up in your anti in your career. People give 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.720 it so much ship, But I really like Garden State. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.040 I haven't seen it in years, but I quite enjoyed 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.400 that when it came out, and then it just became 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.640 this like trope of like hipsterd um awfulness kind of. Yeah, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.720 we may need to do a special segment on Garden 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.760 State at one point, because I really liked it when 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.520 it came out, but I also have been a victim 0:09:55.600 --> 0:10:00.280 I think to the ah the recategorization of that movie 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.120 over the years as being awful. We'll also spawned the 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.280 whole manic pixie dream girl troupe, which is problematic in 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.800 and of itself, sort of a bummer, you know, with 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.600 for those you don't know what that is. That's the 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.440 sort of the notion that the little girl in the movie, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.480 and I say little girl because that's usually how it's portrayed, 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.240 is like this little little sort of pixie sue girl 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.200 who's only there to serve the romantic whims of the 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.680 man and to change him in some way. He's a 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.120 quirky way, he's he's in the duld rooms, and she 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.960 lifts him up out of his sadness and he becomes 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.560 a whole person, right while she has not much of 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.280 a character arc of her right exactly. And and guy, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.000 we never need to hear that Shin's song ever again 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:48.360 because of that movie. Great song, but yeah, kind of 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.200 corny when I look back on it. And boy, Zach Brath, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.480 he's taken a beating over the years because of that movie. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.439 I kind of feel bad for him a little bit. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.000 But should I I don't know. I mean, I thought 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.920 Scrubs was wonderful. I really like that show a lot. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.200 It's really fun. It's it's it's really really fun show. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.800 And he's a new talented guy. He has. Have you 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.439 seen the new one about the podcast? You posted that 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.080 and I was just like, you can we have jumped? 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.040 You said it, You said that our industry is officially 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.880 jumped the show if you guys haven't seen it. Zach 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.720 Brath is coming out with a new show where he 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.320 plays uh. I think it's a story of gimblet if 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.840 I'm not mistaken, where he plays a dude who starts 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.280 his own podcast network against all odds and it, oh god, 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.839 it looks bad. It looks really bad, fledgling rags to 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:39.120 riches podcasting, and it had to be Zach Brath of course, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.560 like anyone else. And well it's still look bad no 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:47.840 matter what. Uh, let me see here, does rushmore count 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:52.200 from Edwin Forrest Glenn. There's romance and there's certainly comedy. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:57.920 Um it is a in a way, not the traditional 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.839 rom com, because when you say rom com, it definitely 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.480 brings to mind certain types of things. It takes the 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.520 boxes a little bit when you have like a rom com. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.199 You know, yeah, it sort of I guess Wes Anderson's 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.640 version of a rom com. Tyler Watts, I love you man. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.000 It can be difficult in this culture for men to 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.600 have close relationships with other men. This movie shows how 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.120 rewarding it can be. Uh and not care what the 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.240 culture of toxic masculinity dictates. That's a good point, Tyler. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.360 And I actually like that movie because you can put 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.800 Paul Rudd and Jason Siegel and anything, and I'll watch it. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.120 Love those dudes. All right, let me take through a 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.800 few more of these. Uh Sweet Home Alabama from Melanie Kaufman. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.120 The relationships feel real. There are no pointless misunderstandings to 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.760 further the plot. It all seems to happen naturally. All right. 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.480 I'll buy that, and we'll finish up here with Susie Buttress, 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.880 pretty Woman. It's problematic now in many ways, but I 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.200 still enjoy watching it for the strong character of Vivian 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.719 achieving her dreams. Yeah, you know, looking at movies the 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.559 current lens, these past movies, it's and be tough. Uh. 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.840 A lot of movies are problematic now some of them know, well, yeah, 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:16.280 what can you do? All right? So that's social studies 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.400 for the week. Uh, And now we will move on 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.280 to a new, brand new segment called recommended Viewing. For 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.520 recommended viewing, what I'm gonna do is go through a 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:31.000 recommendation for a foreign film, a documentary, and an independent film, 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.600 because I love those types of movies and not everyone does. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.600 So maybe broaden your horizons a bit um, always looking 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:42.000 for recommendations from you about these two. So uh, for 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.360 foreign film, which I will call Not Born in the USA, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:51.120 City of Lost Children from the writing directing team of 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.800 Juneau and Caro of Amili fame. That was the movie 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.520 that kind of put them on the mainstream map. But 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.600 before Emily they did City Lost Children starring Ron Pearlman 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:07.959 and a whole host of FRENCHIESE And it's about this 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.160 creepy old guy who is aging prematurely because he can't 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.800 dream any longer, so he steals. He invents a machine 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.800 where he steals the dreams of children. Have you seen it? 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.880 I love him great love. People dog on it a 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.320 little bit because I mean it is kind of like 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.880 a fairytale. He kind of you know, idealized yet dark 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.560 tim burtony kind of thing, and I think some people 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.920 think it's a little overwraw, but I adore it. And 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:36.880 Delicatessen too, which came before it, similar quirky vibe kind 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.840 of went balls to the walls with on Emily, but like, yeah, 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.200 they're fantastic. I love those guys well, and it's funny 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.040 when you see Emily such a sweet story and like 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.720 Delicatessen and City Bells Children were so not Yeah, I 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.520 guess what I mean is like just the quirk factor 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.920 that was like up to it to the roof for Emily. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:54.960 Kind of it was all that and none of the 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.240 darkness or much much less of it. What have those 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.680 guys done lately? Well, they did one of the alien movies, 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.640 Alien Resurrection, and they kind of split up, like I think. Actually, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.520 there was another movie that one of them did on 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.960 their own, um about like a wartime movie. I can't 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.760 remember what it's called now, but um but one of 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.640 them did one of the Aliens, right, correct? Do you 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.280 think it was alien resurrection? Interesting? All right, So I'm 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.560 gonna move on. I think Noel might be looking that up. 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.200 But I'm gonna move on to my documentary recommendation. And 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.200 this is one of my favorite documentaries of all time, 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.200 if not my favorite, and it is the Great Vernon, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:35.280 Florida from um Errol Morris, one of, you know, one 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.880 of the best there is, and it was I think 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:42.800 his second documentary after Gates of Evan, and I would 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.720 recommend All Vernon. I'm sorry, all Aeron Morris Docks. Vernon, 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.480 Florida is a story of Vernon, Florida. It is this 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.800 um small town in the Florida Panhandle and not on 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.880 the beach. You move inland from the beach on the 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.560 Panhandle and you get some read Florida going on there. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.600 And the whole idea of this movie was there was 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.800 an insurance scam going on in this town where people 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:14.400 were cutting off limbs to claim insurance, like literally cutting 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:19.200 off hands and feet so they could claim insurance money. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.920 Errol Morris heard about this went down there and it 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.520 ended up not being about that. I'm not sure. I 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.880 think no one would talk about it. Maybe but he 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.360 ended up just being like, Wow, I gotta stay in 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.960 this town because these people are a story unto themselves. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.240 Florida man cuts off limb for insurance money. Have you 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.680 seen No, I just know about Florida man down there. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:47.360 I cannot say what's stronger words for you, especially to 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.520 see burn in Florida. As soon as you can, I will. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.360 I've only seen the thin blue line. That's the only 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.720 one I've seen of his. I've man, well, while we're 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.440 on Errol Morrison after burning Florida fast, cheap and out 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:04.320 of control is unbelievable and what I would say, you 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.840 should go two seconds. But vernon Florida is great. Um, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.560 anyone who's seen it three slow moving, but he just 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:12.959 does the Errol Morris thing and sets the camera up 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:17.840 and talks to these people who, Uh. I don't want 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:23.840 to disparage them in anyway. Just watch it. Uh. There 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.000 are a bunch of different characters, from the local sheriff 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.679 to the turkey Hunter. Uh. Turkey Hunter is one of 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:35.639 the most beloved characters I've ever seen on on a 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:40.000 film screen, and weirdly, my friend Mike in real life 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.399 Mike Anderson ended up kind of making friends with the 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.920 Turkey Hunter by calling the guy and he just looked 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.840 him up and called him and was gonna do a 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.040 little follow up documentary on him, and he sadly passed 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:52.760 away while they were kind of talking about this, but 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.320 he would play me voice messages from this dude. And 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.679 if you're a fan of Vernon, Florida, then you know, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.000 to actually get on the phone with the Turkey Hunter 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.159 is quite a treat. So go check that out. And 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:09.080 then finally my independent film recommendation, I'm going with one 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.240 from just a few years ago called The Spectacular Now 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:16.400 and it is a romantic Uh it's not a romantic comedy. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:21.919 It's a romance movie. Uh. Filmed entirely in Athens, Georgia. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:23.760 I remember I lived there actually when that was happening. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:29.360 I remember that local Athens filmmaker. His name is James 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.600 pon Sult And it starred I was well. It was 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.159 written by Scott new Stat new Statter and Michael Webber, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.720 but it starred Miles Teller and Shane Woodley. Bree Larson 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.320 had a part, Jennifer Jason Lee and Bob Odin Kirk 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:47.080 were great in supporting roles. But it's really just a great, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:52.320 great coming of age romance, so so real, one of 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:57.560 the most real movies about teenage love that I've ever seen. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.320 Miles Teller plays kind of a uh, straight up party 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:07.280 guy in his senior year. Um, super popular, clearly has 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.960 an alcohol problem even at that young age. And he 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.040 meets a nice girl in Shine Woodley, Um, but a 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.560 different kind of nice girl. And there are no tropes, 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.679 there are no uh, there's no schmaltz. It's just really 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.760 real and very sweet, and I just couldn't recommend it more. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.600 It's called The Spectacular now and I'm not sure if 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.159 you can stream this, but I hope you can. And 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:31.800 you said you did not see it at all. I 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:33.720 have not seen it. No. I just remember when I 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.040 was in production and it was on the shelf of 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.840 the local video store. R I P. Vision Video. By 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.000 the way, they're all gone now in Athens, you know 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.119 the right. I did not, but that was definitely the 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.359 cool spot to work. Yeah, how all the band folks 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.600 worked a vision like that was best recommendations. And I 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.800 worked at the downtown Vision Video and I think I've 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:52.879 told the story on the show, but it was the 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.159 cool video store in Athens. So where my eyes were 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.040 really opened two different kinds of movies thanks to the 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.399 dudes that worked there. And uh yeah I read that 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.640 they were closing down very sad. Anyway, check it out 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.000 spectacular now and now we move on to our final segments. 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:13.320 As always, stream this and comment card. And this week 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.000 I'm just now finishing up with my wife. We're a 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.280 little late on this, but we're watching The Handmad's Tale 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.800 on Hulu. Did you see it? I started, um it, 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.800 It's it's tough, and it was not in the mood 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:32.960 for something quite that. Yeah. It is obviously the story 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:37.000 from the great novel by Margaret Atwood. It is a 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:44.920 dystopian ah drama h slash. It's almost a horror movie 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.960 in some ways, or a horror you know tale. Uh. 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:50.680 It's a very tough thing to watch. It's not the 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:52.560 kind of thing you watch you're like, oh this, you know, 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.680 I look forward to watching it every night. But it's 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.080 so good and well made that it's almost required viewing, 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.400 I think see in this day and age. Uh, it's 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.479 amazing that this book was written in the mid nineteen eighties, 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.639 although I guess it was written during the height of 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.520 the Cold War and the Reagan administration, so that's probably 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.160 where that came from. But all these years later, it's 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:19.000 it seemed more relevant than ever. Starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:24.880 Joseph Fines, and Yvon Strahovsky, among many others. It is depressing, 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.600 and like Noel said, it's a tough watch. Ultimately, it 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:34.119 is a great show, though, And um, I believe they're 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.240 furthering the story with the season two. Um, and I 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:39.840 just read last night. Sadly, Margaret Outwood isn't really making 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:43.800 any much dough on this. She had sold the film 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:47.840 rights back in the either eighties or early nineties and 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.159 they made a pretty dumb, bad movie version of the 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.240 Handmade s Tale. But when you sell I mean she 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:56.200 signed the paper, but when you sell the rights like that, 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.120 it wasn't for like a few years or if they 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:01.520 make this it's wherever I think. I heard an interview 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:03.600 with her NPR though, where like, the sales of that 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.040 book are up so much because of it, and she's 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.840 obviously getting residuals. Yeah, she said the book sales are up, 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.360 which is good, and that she did get paid some 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.720 as a consultant on the on the TV show, but 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:17.680 it's not some big windfall of cash for her. Do 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:19.439