Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Movie Crush Charles W. Chuck Bryant
Speaker 1: here with nol say hello, no Chuck uh and I
Speaker 1: said say hello, no hello no right here in pot
Speaker 1: City Market at our home studio in Atlanta, Georgia, and
Speaker 1: welcome to episode two of the shorter mini episodes. I
Speaker 1: think we should have probably had of a name at
Speaker 1: this point, so just ignore this part. I want to
Speaker 1: welcome everyone, though. Uh. One thing I'm gonna do with
Speaker 1: the onset of each episode is recap what you heard
Speaker 1: the week before on the interview, so um, hopefully you
Speaker 1: heard on Friday. Um, wonderful Tony Hale live at San
Speaker 1: Francisco's Sketch Vest. Could not have gone better with so
Speaker 1: much fun. Big thanks to Tony Hale for that, and
Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoyed that live version and look
Speaker 1: for more of those in the future. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hit the road quite like I do
Speaker 1: with stuff you should know, but every now and then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and get some shows together in some
Speaker 1: smaller rooms a lot of fun. Uh. This week we
Speaker 1: are going to do a few different segments. Oh. Also
Speaker 1: want to preview upcoming Oscar Show. If you aren't on
Speaker 1: the Facebook page, you might not have seen this. But
Speaker 1: I had the idea to get some recording gear taken
Speaker 1: home with me, break out some wine, and sit down
Speaker 1: with my lovely wife Emily, and do a pre Oscar
Speaker 1: show where we kind of go over the nominees and
Speaker 1: what we're expecting and what we saw and what we
Speaker 1: liked and didn't like, and then we're gonna record a
Speaker 1: post Oscar special. So I would reckon that. The Oscars
Speaker 1: are in March fourth, So the Monday before that Sunday,
Speaker 1: we'll do the pre show and then if all goes well,
Speaker 1: the morning after, or let's be real, the afternoon after
Speaker 1: on the next Monday, the fifth, we'll do our post
Speaker 1: Oscars wrap up. You guys gonna place bets unlike who
Speaker 1: the winner is, have your picks and then like argue
Speaker 1: about it and maybe see who the winner is. There
Speaker 1: may be some arguing and was a once you get
Speaker 1: into the penut grease. Yeah, people have seemed pretty excited
Speaker 1: about this. They're like Emily plus y and plus Chuck
Speaker 1: equals fun. Every time we're gonna put Ruby to bed
Speaker 1: and they'll probably dogs barking at some point, but I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna leave all that stuff in because give you
Speaker 1: a peek behind the curtain. So look forward to that.
Speaker 1: And like I said in the first shorter episode, we
Speaker 1: are are calling for people on Facebook to interact here
Speaker 1: and that's where most of these segments are coming from.
Speaker 1: And everyone's really pretty excited about all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: that makes me excited. And I can Knowll is awake,
Speaker 1: so that means he's excited. And this week we're gonna
Speaker 1: do a few different segments. We're gonna to start off
Speaker 1: like we usually do with social studies. So so this
Speaker 1: week I put out the question, um, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite romantic comedy? And this is a romantic comedies are
Speaker 1: tough because a lot of times they wouldn't necessarily qualify
Speaker 1: as great film or great cinema. Not to get too snooty,
Speaker 1: but people love them and that's kind of what the
Speaker 1: show is about. It's not um, it's it's not a
Speaker 1: snotty look at the deepest films on the planet. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they're just movies we love. And romantic comedies, you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's some good ones out there. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and chime in with mine and This was
Speaker 1: tough because I thought about going with some offbeat romantic
Speaker 1: comedies like this movie Happy Accidents, which is wonderful with
Speaker 1: Vincent Dinafrio and Marissa Tomay that had a weird sci
Speaker 1: fi angle, or or on that same note, one called
Speaker 1: Safety Not Guaranteed um that also had a weird sort
Speaker 1: of side five angle at the time traveling one with
Speaker 1: Aubrey Plaza. Yes, but there are romantic comedies and that
Speaker 1: did love those movies. But I'm gonna go super tradition here,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna throw out one of the all time
Speaker 1: greats When Harry met Sally. Uh, just one of the best.
Speaker 1: The great Nora Ephron just wrote the ship out of
Speaker 1: that movie, one of the best romantic comedy scripts of
Speaker 1: all time. And um just wonderfully acted by Billy Crystal
Speaker 1: and Meg Ryan and Bruno Kirby and the wonderful late
Speaker 1: Carrie Fisher. Just a really good, solid, solid movie, tells
Speaker 1: a great love story. It's just sappy and sweet and
Speaker 1: all the right ways. Not seen it? Oh another hole? Really? Yeah? Uh?
Speaker 1: Are you a little cynical romantic comedies? My girlfriend is
Speaker 1: really into them, so I've kind of gotten a little
Speaker 1: bit of schooling and rom coms of of late, but
Speaker 1: no they're not. There've never been something I sought out.
Speaker 1: Um is Harold and Maudo romantic comedy. See that's the problem, right,
Speaker 1: because it's almost the term of like a derision. Almost agreed,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it a weird way. I think Harold and
Speaker 1: maud Is was definitely supposed to be a sort of
Speaker 1: romantic comedy. That's probably. I'm not alone. I'm saying probably,
Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite movies at the time. So
Speaker 1: how Ashby, Great al Ashby, So that's mine, That's Knolls,
Speaker 1: And let's take through some of these on Facebook. Karrie Bernstein,
Speaker 1: So I married an ax murderer. So funny and so
Speaker 1: realistic in human and roses in behavior. Sure that counts
Speaker 1: stranger than fiction. From Caleb Omar Elizondo, great name. A
Speaker 1: lot of people put this one. They said, I love
Speaker 1: it when comedy actors play more serious roles. And Will
Speaker 1: Ferrell was amazing playing off Maggie Gyllenhall agreed. A bunch
Speaker 1: of people said, love Actually, I have not seen that movie.
Speaker 1: That's the one with like the signs right where it comes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's troupe almost it's so it's like he comes
Speaker 1: to the door and doesn't say anything and just holds
Speaker 1: up these signs that's say different like romantic kind of
Speaker 1: tongue and shape stuff. And I forget the actor that
Speaker 1: played um, the main dude and walking dead. Um what
Speaker 1: tankes his name? He's an English actor, Anye he's the sheriff.
Speaker 1: I can remember the actor's name I Love Actually was
Speaker 1: Hugh Grant. Am I thinking he's in that too, But
Speaker 1: this is this is the part where he he walks
Speaker 1: up to the door and like holds up these signs.
Speaker 1: And there's actually a cut of it that makes it
Speaker 1: look like a horror movie. There's a bunch of those,
Speaker 1: like for different stuff, but that one is particularly good.
Speaker 1: If you want to check I Love Actually as a
Speaker 1: horror movie. That's a fun one. Oh I will and
Speaker 1: no no trust me. A lot of people love this movie.
Speaker 1: And I'm in the in the rare company of Noel
Speaker 1: and I neither one of us having seen it, but
Speaker 1: Trish Wallace's Love Actually. When the planes hit the twin towers,
Speaker 1: as far as I know, none of the phone calls
Speaker 1: were from people on board, were messages of hate or revenge.
Speaker 1: They were all messages of love. That must be a
Speaker 1: quote from the movie No Idea. There was a nine
Speaker 1: eleven angle to love. Actually, I don't know. Uh Kuby
Speaker 1: don Kuby Cubs one of our good old friends, she
Speaker 1: says when I hear him at Sally rewatch it every
Speaker 1: year and it's a perfect combination of funny and sweet,
Speaker 1: and the secondary characters Bruno, Kirby and carry Fisher make
Speaker 1: the whole movie for me hilarious, agreed, Gobs. Matt Jones
Speaker 1: says Shaun of the Dead probably more for us Brits,
Speaker 1: but the mix of horror, comedy, romance and British pub
Speaker 1: culture was awesome. Also very quotable, Heather Miller. We had
Speaker 1: a bunch of these for Nodding Hill. So Heather Miller says,
Speaker 1: Hugh Grant's best movie for sure. Everything feels authentic and
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel forced like most romcoms do. Did you
Speaker 1: see that one? You don't see any romantic comedies And
Speaker 1: I guess I'm kind of getting roped in more and
Speaker 1: more lately. But Tyler Murphy Murph, one of another one
Speaker 1: of our good old faithful listeners, says, Sleepless in Seattle,
Speaker 1: there isn't anything more cute yet more hilarious than your
Speaker 1: kid trying to hook you up with someone by calling
Speaker 1: a radio talk show without you knowing. I have seen that.
Speaker 1: I saw that in the theater. Actually, I've never seen
Speaker 1: that all the way through. That was like right, and
Speaker 1: then you got mail was like the next next one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw both of those in the theater. Don't remember
Speaker 1: much about them, but well, the classic pairing of Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks and Meg Ryan. Uh. And I see if I
Speaker 1: can find it someone. Oh, here, it is right here. Uh.
Speaker 1: Jason Wortham, I agree, sir, Joe Versus the Volcano. It's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite all time movies, and I think
Speaker 1: one of the great underrated movies of all time. We've
Speaker 1: said it before over the years and stuff you should know,
Speaker 1: but Jason, I totally agree, he says, in part because
Speaker 1: repeating themes, overt symbolism, and a unique comic comedic tone
Speaker 1: make it much more than a run of the mill
Speaker 1: rom com. Also because a pagoda, he says, You're corrects
Speaker 1: are on all accounts. That's great, Oh, Vanessa Lopez. Also
Speaker 1: with Joe Versus Volcano, I'll beat quirkiness and a pagoda
Speaker 1: who knew a pagoda all these fans. Another for nodding
Speaker 1: Hill from carry O'Neil. Another for when Harry met Sally
Speaker 1: Kelly Zaliga. I believe it's how you pronounced that name,
Speaker 1: Um Joe herndon five d Days of Summer. I think
Speaker 1: it accurately portrays the way some young men can literally
Speaker 1: torture themselves after they get their hearts ripped out by
Speaker 1: someone they thought were a perfect match. I like that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that one. It's a good one. I actually
Speaker 1: worked with Mark Webb, the director of that movie. He
Speaker 1: was a music video guy, and he may still be
Speaker 1: doing some of that. But when I was at PA
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and Emily was just my friend at
Speaker 1: that point, she was a producer and produced music videos,
Speaker 1: and I worked a lot of jobs with her and Mark.
Speaker 1: We worked on probably five or six Mark Web jobs
Speaker 1: on music videos. And then he did this movie and
Speaker 1: we were both like what. And then he did the
Speaker 1: Spider Man movie. We're like what. So congratulations to Mark
Speaker 1: for up in your anti in your career. People give
Speaker 1: it so much ship, But I really like Garden State.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it in years, but I quite enjoyed
Speaker 1: that when it came out, and then it just became
Speaker 1: this like trope of like hipsterd um awfulness kind of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we may need to do a special segment on Garden
Speaker 1: State at one point, because I really liked it when
Speaker 1: it came out, but I also have been a victim
Speaker 1: I think to the ah the recategorization of that movie
Speaker 1: over the years as being awful. We'll also spawned the
Speaker 1: whole manic pixie dream girl troupe, which is problematic in
Speaker 1: and of itself, sort of a bummer, you know, with
Speaker 1: for those you don't know what that is. That's the
Speaker 1: sort of the notion that the little girl in the movie,
Speaker 1: and I say little girl because that's usually how it's portrayed,
Speaker 1: is like this little little sort of pixie sue girl
Speaker 1: who's only there to serve the romantic whims of the
Speaker 1: man and to change him in some way. He's a
Speaker 1: quirky way, he's he's in the duld rooms, and she
Speaker 1: lifts him up out of his sadness and he becomes
Speaker 1: a whole person, right while she has not much of
Speaker 1: a character arc of her right exactly. And and guy,
Speaker 1: we never need to hear that Shin's song ever again
Speaker 1: because of that movie. Great song, but yeah, kind of
Speaker 1: corny when I look back on it. And boy, Zach Brath,
Speaker 1: he's taken a beating over the years because of that movie.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel bad for him a little bit.
Speaker 1: But should I I don't know. I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: Scrubs was wonderful. I really like that show a lot.
Speaker 1: It's really fun. It's it's it's really really fun show.
Speaker 1: And he's a new talented guy. He has. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the new one about the podcast? You posted that
Speaker 1: and I was just like, you can we have jumped?
Speaker 1: You said it, You said that our industry is officially
Speaker 1: jumped the show if you guys haven't seen it. Zach
Speaker 1: Brath is coming out with a new show where he
Speaker 1: plays uh. I think it's a story of gimblet if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, where he plays a dude who starts
Speaker 1: his own podcast network against all odds and it, oh god,
Speaker 1: it looks bad. It looks really bad, fledgling rags to
Speaker 1: riches podcasting, and it had to be Zach Brath of course,
Speaker 1: like anyone else. And well it's still look bad no
Speaker 1: matter what. Uh, let me see here, does rushmore count
Speaker 1: from Edwin Forrest Glenn. There's romance and there's certainly comedy.
Speaker 1: Um it is a in a way, not the traditional
Speaker 1: rom com, because when you say rom com, it definitely
Speaker 1: brings to mind certain types of things. It takes the
Speaker 1: boxes a little bit when you have like a rom com.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, it sort of I guess Wes Anderson's
Speaker 1: version of a rom com. Tyler Watts, I love you man.
Speaker 1: It can be difficult in this culture for men to
Speaker 1: have close relationships with other men. This movie shows how
Speaker 1: rewarding it can be. Uh and not care what the
Speaker 1: culture of toxic masculinity dictates. That's a good point, Tyler.
Speaker 1: And I actually like that movie because you can put
Speaker 1: Paul Rudd and Jason Siegel and anything, and I'll watch it.
Speaker 1: Love those dudes. All right, let me take through a
Speaker 1: few more of these. Uh Sweet Home Alabama from Melanie Kaufman.
Speaker 1: The relationships feel real. There are no pointless misunderstandings to
Speaker 1: further the plot. It all seems to happen naturally. All right.
Speaker 1: I'll buy that, and we'll finish up here with Susie Buttress,
Speaker 1: pretty Woman. It's problematic now in many ways, but I
Speaker 1: still enjoy watching it for the strong character of Vivian
Speaker 1: achieving her dreams. Yeah, you know, looking at movies the
Speaker 1: current lens, these past movies, it's and be tough. Uh.
Speaker 1: A lot of movies are problematic now some of them know, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: what can you do? All right? So that's social studies
Speaker 1: for the week. Uh, And now we will move on
Speaker 1: to a new, brand new segment called recommended Viewing. For
Speaker 1: recommended viewing, what I'm gonna do is go through a
Speaker 1: recommendation for a foreign film, a documentary, and an independent film,
Speaker 1: because I love those types of movies and not everyone does.
Speaker 1: So maybe broaden your horizons a bit um, always looking
Speaker 1: for recommendations from you about these two. So uh, for
Speaker 1: foreign film, which I will call Not Born in the USA,
Speaker 1: City of Lost Children from the writing directing team of
Speaker 1: Juneau and Caro of Amili fame. That was the movie
Speaker 1: that kind of put them on the mainstream map. But
Speaker 1: before Emily they did City Lost Children starring Ron Pearlman
Speaker 1: and a whole host of FRENCHIESE And it's about this
Speaker 1: creepy old guy who is aging prematurely because he can't
Speaker 1: dream any longer, so he steals. He invents a machine
Speaker 1: where he steals the dreams of children. Have you seen it?
Speaker 1: I love him great love. People dog on it a
Speaker 1: little bit because I mean it is kind of like
Speaker 1: a fairytale. He kind of you know, idealized yet dark
Speaker 1: tim burtony kind of thing, and I think some people
Speaker 1: think it's a little overwraw, but I adore it. And
Speaker 1: Delicatessen too, which came before it, similar quirky vibe kind
Speaker 1: of went balls to the walls with on Emily, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're fantastic. I love those guys well, and it's funny
Speaker 1: when you see Emily such a sweet story and like
Speaker 1: Delicatessen and City Bells Children were so not Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess what I mean is like just the quirk factor
Speaker 1: that was like up to it to the roof for Emily.
Speaker 1: Kind of it was all that and none of the
Speaker 1: darkness or much much less of it. What have those
Speaker 1: guys done lately? Well, they did one of the alien movies,
Speaker 1: Alien Resurrection, and they kind of split up, like I think. Actually,
Speaker 1: there was another movie that one of them did on
Speaker 1: their own, um about like a wartime movie. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what it's called now, but um but one of
Speaker 1: them did one of the Aliens, right, correct? Do you
Speaker 1: think it was alien resurrection? Interesting? All right, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna move on. I think Noel might be looking that up.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna move on to my documentary recommendation. And
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite documentaries of all time,
Speaker 1: if not my favorite, and it is the Great Vernon,
Speaker 1: Florida from um Errol Morris, one of, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the best there is, and it was I think
Speaker 1: his second documentary after Gates of Evan, and I would
Speaker 1: recommend All Vernon. I'm sorry, all Aeron Morris Docks. Vernon,
Speaker 1: Florida is a story of Vernon, Florida. It is this
Speaker 1: um small town in the Florida Panhandle and not on
Speaker 1: the beach. You move inland from the beach on the
Speaker 1: Panhandle and you get some read Florida going on there.
Speaker 1: And the whole idea of this movie was there was
Speaker 1: an insurance scam going on in this town where people
Speaker 1: were cutting off limbs to claim insurance, like literally cutting
Speaker 1: off hands and feet so they could claim insurance money.
Speaker 1: Errol Morris heard about this went down there and it
Speaker 1: ended up not being about that. I'm not sure. I
Speaker 1: think no one would talk about it. Maybe but he
Speaker 1: ended up just being like, Wow, I gotta stay in
Speaker 1: this town because these people are a story unto themselves.
Speaker 1: Florida man cuts off limb for insurance money. Have you
Speaker 1: seen No, I just know about Florida man down there.
Speaker 1: I cannot say what's stronger words for you, especially to
Speaker 1: see burn in Florida. As soon as you can, I will.
Speaker 1: I've only seen the thin blue line. That's the only
Speaker 1: one I've seen of his. I've man, well, while we're
Speaker 1: on Errol Morrison after burning Florida fast, cheap and out
Speaker 1: of control is unbelievable and what I would say, you
Speaker 1: should go two seconds. But vernon Florida is great. Um,
Speaker 1: anyone who's seen it three slow moving, but he just
Speaker 1: does the Errol Morris thing and sets the camera up
Speaker 1: and talks to these people who, Uh. I don't want
Speaker 1: to disparage them in anyway. Just watch it. Uh. There
Speaker 1: are a bunch of different characters, from the local sheriff
Speaker 1: to the turkey Hunter. Uh. Turkey Hunter is one of
Speaker 1: the most beloved characters I've ever seen on on a
Speaker 1: film screen, and weirdly, my friend Mike in real life
Speaker 1: Mike Anderson ended up kind of making friends with the
Speaker 1: Turkey Hunter by calling the guy and he just looked
Speaker 1: him up and called him and was gonna do a
Speaker 1: little follow up documentary on him, and he sadly passed
Speaker 1: away while they were kind of talking about this, but
Speaker 1: he would play me voice messages from this dude. And
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of Vernon, Florida, then you know,
Speaker 1: to actually get on the phone with the Turkey Hunter
Speaker 1: is quite a treat. So go check that out. And
Speaker 1: then finally my independent film recommendation, I'm going with one
Speaker 1: from just a few years ago called The Spectacular Now
Speaker 1: and it is a romantic Uh it's not a romantic comedy.
Speaker 1: It's a romance movie. Uh. Filmed entirely in Athens, Georgia.
Speaker 1: I remember I lived there actually when that was happening.
Speaker 1: I remember that local Athens filmmaker. His name is James
Speaker 1: pon Sult And it starred I was well. It was
Speaker 1: written by Scott new Stat new Statter and Michael Webber,
Speaker 1: but it starred Miles Teller and Shane Woodley. Bree Larson
Speaker 1: had a part, Jennifer Jason Lee and Bob Odin Kirk
Speaker 1: were great in supporting roles. But it's really just a great,
Speaker 1: great coming of age romance, so so real, one of
Speaker 1: the most real movies about teenage love that I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Miles Teller plays kind of a uh, straight up party
Speaker 1: guy in his senior year. Um, super popular, clearly has
Speaker 1: an alcohol problem even at that young age. And he
Speaker 1: meets a nice girl in Shine Woodley, Um, but a
Speaker 1: different kind of nice girl. And there are no tropes,
Speaker 1: there are no uh, there's no schmaltz. It's just really
Speaker 1: real and very sweet, and I just couldn't recommend it more.
Speaker 1: It's called The Spectacular now and I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you can stream this, but I hope you can. And
Speaker 1: you said you did not see it at all. I
Speaker 1: have not seen it. No. I just remember when I
Speaker 1: was in production and it was on the shelf of
Speaker 1: the local video store. R I P. Vision Video. By
Speaker 1: the way, they're all gone now in Athens, you know
Speaker 1: the right. I did not, but that was definitely the
Speaker 1: cool spot to work. Yeah, how all the band folks
Speaker 1: worked a vision like that was best recommendations. And I
Speaker 1: worked at the downtown Vision Video and I think I've
Speaker 1: told the story on the show, but it was the
Speaker 1: cool video store in Athens. So where my eyes were
Speaker 1: really opened two different kinds of movies thanks to the
Speaker 1: dudes that worked there. And uh yeah I read that
Speaker 1: they were closing down very sad. Anyway, check it out
Speaker 1: spectacular now and now we move on to our final segments.
Speaker 1: As always, stream this and comment card. And this week
Speaker 1: I'm just now finishing up with my wife. We're a
Speaker 1: little late on this, but we're watching The Handmad's Tale
Speaker 1: on Hulu. Did you see it? I started, um it,
Speaker 1: It's it's tough, and it was not in the mood
Speaker 1: for something quite that. Yeah. It is obviously the story
Speaker 1: from the great novel by Margaret Atwood. It is a
Speaker 1: dystopian ah drama h slash. It's almost a horror movie
Speaker 1: in some ways, or a horror you know tale. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's a very tough thing to watch. It's not the
Speaker 1: kind of thing you watch you're like, oh this, you know,
Speaker 1: I look forward to watching it every night. But it's
Speaker 1: so good and well made that it's almost required viewing,
Speaker 1: I think see in this day and age. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: amazing that this book was written in the mid nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: although I guess it was written during the height of
Speaker 1: the Cold War and the Reagan administration, so that's probably
Speaker 1: where that came from. But all these years later, it's
Speaker 1: it seemed more relevant than ever. Starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley,
Speaker 1: Joseph Fines, and Yvon Strahovsky, among many others. It is depressing,
Speaker 1: and like Noel said, it's a tough watch. Ultimately, it
Speaker 1: is a great show, though, And um, I believe they're
Speaker 1: furthering the story with the season two. Um, and I
Speaker 1: just read last night. Sadly, Margaret Outwood isn't really making
Speaker 1: any much dough on this. She had sold the film
Speaker 1: rights back in the either eighties or early nineties and
Speaker 1: they made a pretty dumb, bad movie version of the
Speaker 1: Handmade s Tale. But when you sell I mean she
Speaker 1: signed the paper, but when you sell the rights like that,
Speaker 1: it wasn't for like a few years or if they
Speaker 1: make this it's wherever I think. I heard an interview
Speaker 1: with her NPR though, where like, the sales of that
Speaker 1: book are up so much because of it, and she's
Speaker 1: obviously getting residuals. Yeah, she said the book sales are up,
Speaker 1: which is good, and that she did get paid some
Speaker 1: as a consultant on the on the TV show, but
Speaker 1: it's not some big windfall of cash for her. Do
Speaker 1: you know if it's like, are they expanding on the
Speaker 1: book because it seems to stretch it out as much
Speaker 1: as they have. It couldn't be exactly time read the
Speaker 1: long book. But if they're doing a season two, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that it's um that they're expanding on. But yeah,
Speaker 1: tough show, but ultimately, um, like I said, worth worth watching.
Speaker 1: Then finally, we're gonna finish up with a comic card
Speaker 1: segment where I read through some of these emails called
Speaker 1: from Facebook, so they're not really emails, but you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. This is from Jonas Billy Utt. Do
Speaker 1: you have any deep thoughts on the film versus digital debate? Well, Jonas,
Speaker 1: I do. I'm gonna getting old thoughts in a minute too.
Speaker 1: Um here's my thing. When it first started out, I
Speaker 1: was a bit of a film purist thought, now stick
Speaker 1: with film, it's richer, it looks better. I do have
Speaker 1: a bit of nostalgia for that clickity click in the
Speaker 1: world of the projector in the background. Um. However, things
Speaker 1: have progressed such that digital is looks amazing all of
Speaker 1: even movies shot on film, that there aren't a ton
Speaker 1: these days are being shown in theaters and on television
Speaker 1: digitally anyway, So I say digital is the way to go.
Speaker 1: For sure. It has opened up, Um, it's opened up
Speaker 1: filmmaking so many more people that would not have that access, because,
Speaker 1: let's face it, if you're a small, little indie filmmaker,
Speaker 1: the days of spending tens of thousands of dollars on
Speaker 1: cans of film and transfer and develop developing this film
Speaker 1: and processing it, it's just it made it very cost prohibitive.
Speaker 1: And now you can go shoot a movie on your iPhone,
Speaker 1: which uh Steven Soderberg did and saw the trailer for
Speaker 1: that thing. Yeah. I think the guy that did the
Speaker 1: that movie, the Florida Project that made Big Splash down here,
Speaker 1: Um his first movie. I think it's called Tangerine shot
Speaker 1: on knife. I haven't seen that. I've heard great thing.
Speaker 1: I haven't even seen either of those, but I know
Speaker 1: he shot Florida Project on film. So it's an interesting
Speaker 1: like dichotomy there or whatever, you know. But anything to
Speaker 1: me that broadens filmmaking and democratizes it so people that
Speaker 1: normally could not make movies can make movies, I am
Speaker 1: all about it. I am glad that there are people
Speaker 1: that are going out there and shooting film still that
Speaker 1: uh have deep pockets backing them. That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: But overall, I don't think there is any debate any longer.
Speaker 1: Digital is just fine. I think for me, it makes
Speaker 1: me really appreciate the craft of like those movies that
Speaker 1: were shot and edited entirely on film, because you your
Speaker 1: choices are so much more limited. It's like you have
Speaker 1: to get it, get the shot, get the take, and
Speaker 1: then cut it by hand or splice it with like
Speaker 1: on on a block or whatever. Today it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: we can shoot iNFiNiT it takes and you know, pick
Speaker 1: our selects and make you know, so many different versions
Speaker 1: of things. So it really makes me appreciate the way
Speaker 1: things used to be done. But that being said, the
Speaker 1: medium isn't limiting the way you behave. I mean, people
Speaker 1: that worked on film still maybe just do one or
Speaker 1: two takes and on digital and and you still have
Speaker 1: that like artistry in that craft. But it just kind
Speaker 1: of makes me think back and like how amazing was
Speaker 1: it that like The Godfather, you know, it was all
Speaker 1: shot on film and edited by hand, and the sounds
Speaker 1: every all that stuff blows my mind. But digital is
Speaker 1: so adaptable when you can make it look however you
Speaker 1: want because you wanted to look really clean like video,
Speaker 1: or you can make it look like film. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of options there, which I think is
Speaker 1: ultimately super cool. Yeah, I'm with you for sure. And
Speaker 1: the notion of you know, twenty four little pictures in
Speaker 1: a second, Um, it's just I kind of romanticize a
Speaker 1: little bit. And my my friend, uh, Scotty Appolito, who
Speaker 1: named movie Crush big shout out, one of my best friends.
Speaker 1: He's a cameraman here in town and a director of photography,
Speaker 1: and he will uh he certainly loves digital, but being
Speaker 1: on set, he does poop poo the fact that there
Speaker 1: are a lot of um directors now that he doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like probably are the most talented people because they're
Speaker 1: just like, set up five cameras and shoot it all
Speaker 1: forever and we'll figure it out later. It's not a
Speaker 1: great approach, um, Like you said, the to have to
Speaker 1: make choices like that's really what you test your metal
Speaker 1: as a filmmaker. I think, Um, but ultimately I do
Speaker 1: think it's a good thing. It's the same in music
Speaker 1: with like recording to tape, versus recording digital. It's like,
Speaker 1: when you're recording on tape, your take is your take,
Speaker 1: that's it. And when you're recording on digital you can
Speaker 1: do just splice things together and do infinite takes and
Speaker 1: all that. So it's like now in the same way
Speaker 1: the film, Like when people record in studio, a lot
Speaker 1: of times they'll record some stuff on tape, like drums,
Speaker 1: they'll record it on tape, and then everything else they'll
Speaker 1: record in pro tools on digital or whatever. So it's
Speaker 1: like a hybrid of the two. You know. It's interesting,
Speaker 1: very interesting. All right, So thanks Jonas for that great question. Um,
Speaker 1: Colin made all here's your question. Any thoughts on the
Speaker 1: potential Tarantino star Trek movie And did you see Colossal?
Speaker 1: I'll go backwards here. I did not see Colossal yet,
Speaker 1: but I've heard it's really really great and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see it. Um. For those you don't know,
Speaker 1: it's the uh Ann Hathaway movie that kind of flew
Speaker 1: under the radar. Um and the premise sounds really kind
Speaker 1: of nuts that there's this, um, this giant monster terrorizing
Speaker 1: some other part of the world that she is seeing
Speaker 1: on television on the news and somehow she links up
Speaker 1: and is able to control that monster. It sounds nutty.
Speaker 1: It's a weird concept, did you know. I just I
Speaker 1: heard the concept alone just kind of made me, you know,
Speaker 1: turn my head. That's that's's an interesting one. Never heard
Speaker 1: anything quite like that. Yeah, but I mean all the
Speaker 1: reviews are just off the chart, so I definitely want
Speaker 1: to see it. Um. As far as Tarantino Star Trek movie,
Speaker 1: I think everyone knows my stance on Tarantino, which is
Speaker 1: I loved him, um and now I'm a little wary
Speaker 1: of him. I think his movies are way too long
Speaker 1: now and pretty indulgent, um with the scripts. Having said that,
Speaker 1: I will still see anything Tarantino puts out because I
Speaker 1: feel like I should and have to. H he is
Speaker 1: one of the essential filmmakers of our day. Um, but
Speaker 1: you know his past few movies, I just haven't loved.
Speaker 1: As far as Star Trek goes, I am not. I've
Speaker 1: never been a Star Trek dude. Didn't watch the TV show.
Speaker 1: I've only seen a couple of the various iterations of
Speaker 1: the films over the years. Um that we're fine, But
Speaker 1: as a non Star Trek person, it's hard to really
Speaker 1: get super into it. So I don't really have a
Speaker 1: take as far as no, you can't do that to
Speaker 1: Star Trek because I don't. It's not a beloved thing
Speaker 1: like that. I think it is a very interesting idea
Speaker 1: to see what Tarantino would do with any any iconic
Speaker 1: property and franchise like this. Um, he's never done sci
Speaker 1: fi at all? Of course, do you think he's just
Speaker 1: getting bored or do you think he just like really
Speaker 1: just had a bang up idea that he just like,
Speaker 1: I've got to do this, this has to be done.
Speaker 1: I never knew that he was a treky. That's interesting. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, but is this literally going to be a
Speaker 1: Star Trek movie where they're having these long Tarantino asked
Speaker 1: digressions about uh food menus. Star Trek is a talkie show,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Not a whole lot of
Speaker 1: action on like next Gear. People are gonna dang me
Speaker 1: for that. I'm sure there's way more. I don't really
Speaker 1: I don't watch the show, but it always seemed to
Speaker 1: me to be a bit more of like a people
Speaker 1: having conversations in space. You know, maybe it'll work. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know, Well I will I will
Speaker 1: certainly check that out. Um, I'm a Star Wars guy,
Speaker 1: not that you have to be one or the other,
Speaker 1: but obviously way into Star Wars. So Tarantino did a
Speaker 1: Star Wars movie, I would be super worried. Actually. Yeah. Finally,
Speaker 1: Simon Workman, this is Simon. Oh do you really he's
Speaker 1: We met him. Actually we went for car stuff. We
Speaker 1: went to Ohio and uh, he took us out to
Speaker 1: dinner and yeah, he gave us to each a bag
Speaker 1: of coffee from the coffee roaster. He works out. He
Speaker 1: just got his like PhD in Sherlock Holmes mythos or
Speaker 1: whatever the thing. Yeah, yeah, it's like the the um
Speaker 1: like things like the poisons and like remedies that are
Speaker 1: in Sherlock Holmes. He wrote like his doctoral thesis on
Speaker 1: that that sounds like a rap l a PhD in
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes. Yeah, he's a cool guy. Hi, Hi, Simon.
Speaker 1: Well that's awesome. Um, there's a great question too, al,
Speaker 1: So you think about this while I answer, what do
Speaker 1: you think is the best use of a song in
Speaker 1: a movie? So not what he's asking about is the
Speaker 1: best music que essentially, Uh, and if you're not down
Speaker 1: with the lingo music que is when you know something
Speaker 1: happens in the movie and that song turns on. Um,
Speaker 1: so he's not talking about just the soundtrack. This is tough,
Speaker 1: but I have a few I want to lay out there.
Speaker 1: I really thought about this long and hard last night. Um.
Speaker 1: We we just talked about it with the Dave Willis
Speaker 1: episode on Bottle Rocket two thousand man the Rolling Stone
Speaker 1: song and Bottle Rocket at the end when they're they've
Speaker 1: done the break in at the at the warehouse. Just
Speaker 1: one of the great music cues of all times. UM,
Speaker 1: really really good one. I'm also gonna go with These
Speaker 1: Days from the Royal Tannon Bombs, great great music cue
Speaker 1: when it ramps into that SlowMo Gwyneth Paltrow gets off
Speaker 1: the bus and that sweet song by Velvet Underground and Nico,
Speaker 1: or maybe that was just Nico. That's just nice. I
Speaker 1: think he wrote that song. I don't Jackson Brown. I
Speaker 1: did not know that. Yeah, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: great versions of that song, including Jackson Brown and Greg
Speaker 1: Allman has a really great, great version, but for my money,
Speaker 1: Nico's is the best. And that's a great music queue. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then a few more here. Uh. The Triumvirate from
Speaker 1: Boogie Nights, the Sister Christian Jesse's Girl loof Balloons sequence
Speaker 1: and Boogie Nights. We're throwing the firecrack and like that
Speaker 1: is the tensest shit I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: So great Alfred Molina, what a great, great scene. And
Speaker 1: that's like a triple music queue just nailed by p T. Anderson.
Speaker 1: Um tiny dancer and almost famous little schmalsey yea with
Speaker 1: a sing along in the bus. But I buy you
Speaker 1: know why those those that one similar to the Boogie
Speaker 1: Nights one, and that the music is in the scene.
Speaker 1: It's like interacted with you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: it's not just like on the soundtrack, like the character
Speaker 1: is singing the song. It's playing on the stereo. They're
Speaker 1: singing in in the in the bus or whatever. I like.
Speaker 1: I like that. That's like music as a character, almost,
Speaker 1: you know. Absolutely. Um. I just bought my own John tickets.
Speaker 1: Was farewell to her, by the way, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Uh Layla and Goodfellas from Derek and the Domino's Air
Speaker 1: Clapton's Band. Such a great great music que and good Fellas.
Speaker 1: I have a more favorite one from Good Fellas it's
Speaker 1: when they're being chased by the helicopter and it's Harry
Speaker 1: Nelson jump into the fire. That's amazing. That is well,
Speaker 1: Martin Scorsese is one of the all time great mus
Speaker 1: master artists, big time of all time. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: finally um from Fight Club at the very end, Where's
Speaker 1: My Mind by the Pixies, just a great song. And
Speaker 1: when I first saw a Fight Club in the theater
Speaker 1: it I was one of those dudes. It blew my mind. Uh.
Speaker 1: And at the very end when they come back together
Speaker 1: and those buildings are exploding and they had that great
Speaker 1: shot from behind and Where's my Mind starts, It's just
Speaker 1: fucking fantastic. I have friends to say that one doesn't
Speaker 1: hold up, but I loved it so much. Club or
Speaker 1: the Club. So I have some friends that just don't.
Speaker 1: They say it's a little they give them the machismo
Speaker 1: of it is a little Colin of its day for sure,
Speaker 1: But I will still watch it and enjoy it. I hadn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't know the Pixies. So I heard that song
Speaker 1: and I was like, what the fund is this? I
Speaker 1: have to find what this is immediately, And then I
Speaker 1: got all the Pixies because of that song. Awesome, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: very cool. All right, thank you Simon Workman and hello
Speaker 1: again from NOL. But uh, that wraps it up for
Speaker 1: this week everyone, So as always, you wanna let you
Speaker 1: know about this Friday show so you can watch it
Speaker 1: this week. Ben Acker on Miller's Crossing, Ben as as
Speaker 1: you will as you will find as one of my
Speaker 1: good friends out in Los Angeles, and uh we had
Speaker 1: a long, long conversation about one of my favorite movies
Speaker 1: of all time, Miller's Crossing, And the only reason Ben
Speaker 1: and I didn't talk for eight hours about this because
Speaker 1: we wanted to go to dinner and continue talking about
Speaker 1: Miller's Crossing. We should have just kept the microphones going
Speaker 1: the whole time. But look forward to Ben Acker on
Speaker 1: Miller's Crossing Coen Brothers movie. Check it out this week
Speaker 1: so you can crush out on Friday with us. Thanks
Speaker 1: Noel for everything, yeah man, and we will see you
Speaker 1: all next week.