Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to the Mini Crush Podcast, Movie Crush Light,
Speaker 1: Movie Crush Heavy. I like that though you said it
Speaker 1: as O or its own thing. It's the Mini Crush podcasts,
Speaker 1: you know. No, we're approaching episode one of the Mini
Speaker 1: Crush podcast. Yeah, that's wild. It'll be in January. Oh man,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do? We're gonna have some cake
Speaker 1: where party hats? I don't know we should we drink lemonade?
Speaker 1: Should we? Uh? Should we do? I don't know? Man,
Speaker 1: something special? We should do some special? T b D
Speaker 1: T b D. I did some special last night, chuck,
Speaker 1: Oh boy, what I watched Elf? Oh? Did you really?
Speaker 1: I sure did? What do you think? I watched it
Speaker 1: with my kid, who had also never seen it, and
Speaker 1: my girlfriend who was an ELF fan an ead an
Speaker 1: elf head? Uh? Did you like it? I loved it? Right?
Speaker 1: Isn't it funny? And he made me happy and warmed
Speaker 1: the cockles of my cold dead heart? Is great? Yeah,
Speaker 1: gave me new life. I laughed like a geek a
Speaker 1: lot of it. I felt things. I teared up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Um. It was just great. Great man makes
Speaker 1: me so happy. I told Courtney about how you know
Speaker 1: the whole joke was, and the last time we recorded
Speaker 1: it was everyone who beloved film people writing in and
Speaker 1: I was just like, no, that means nothing to me.
Speaker 1: It goes right over my head. And a couple of
Speaker 1: days before that I watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles because
Speaker 1: you didn't see that one, right, I hadn't seen that one.
Speaker 1: Loved it. Okay, it's hard to tell what a modern
Speaker 1: gent like yourself. No, it's funny, alright. I love all
Speaker 1: the John Hughes movies. He's got a thing that I
Speaker 1: that I like. It's wonderful. Um. I bet your daughter
Speaker 1: loved ELF. She loved ALF. Yeah, I'd tell you. The
Speaker 1: thing about Planes Trains that I thought was really interesting
Speaker 1: is it's basically a PG thirteen movie until he says
Speaker 1: I want a fucking car and I want it right
Speaker 1: fucking now. Oh yeah, it would have totally been maybe
Speaker 1: even PG. That part has just played for shocks and
Speaker 1: it really works. It delivers man stands up. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I love that movie. My finger has a heartbeat. You
Speaker 1: know what line Emily and I always say from Elf
Speaker 1: is when the great scene with Peter Dinklige in the office.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, say elf one more time that
Speaker 1: whole thing. He jumps upon the table and starts to
Speaker 1: charge him. Well, Ferrell throws his arms out and goes,
Speaker 1: look at you, Emily, and I do that a lot.
Speaker 1: I loved it alright, fantastic. Yeah. So, by the way, everyone,
Speaker 1: I haven't been plugging this on the worst a plugging
Speaker 1: stuf uf. But I'm gonna be an SF Sketch Fest
Speaker 1: again this year for a Sunday night. Uh when is
Speaker 1: this thing? Anyway? Let me look here. That would be
Speaker 1: January nine for a Sunday night show. And I think
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do this year is, instead of interviewing
Speaker 1: one person on stage about a movie, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: everyone involved. I'm gonna get a couple of people, I think,
Speaker 1: and the asks are out to Janet Varney on these people,
Speaker 1: and instead of interviewing about a movie, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: some just fun stuff. We're gonna get the crowd involved.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do some live hikups. See if I can
Speaker 1: get Uh. I wish I knew who it was, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure whoever it is are gonna be game. That
Speaker 1: sounds fun shock. It's gonna be wonderful. So please, because
Speaker 1: this is going to be a different kind of show.
Speaker 1: I really need an audience because to do something like
Speaker 1: this with like twelve people, it's yeah, that is. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be in l A with my kid. Actually I'm
Speaker 1: bringing her to the I Heart High Cast Awards plus
Speaker 1: one and then going to see Billie Eilish the next
Speaker 1: night fantastic And then then did you get hooked up
Speaker 1: through my heart? Did take care of you? Yeah? But
Speaker 1: then the next next night, I just found out a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine in l A who I work with,
Speaker 1: who's got the hook up, is taking us to the
Speaker 1: Magic Castle for brunch and two shows for a very
Speaker 1: fun experience. I'm so excited. The Magic Castle is wonderful.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about and it's a very uh, it's
Speaker 1: very special insider thing like he can't just go. You
Speaker 1: gotta get invited, Yeah, I remember, yeah exactly, or get
Speaker 1: hooked up somehow. And this guy knows somebody from I
Speaker 1: think he had a magician at his son's bar mitzvah
Speaker 1: and hit it off and gave him a nice tip
Speaker 1: or something. Got the got the connects for for life.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty great and beyond pumped, and it is
Speaker 1: indeed a magical place. I'm not even magic guy. Here's
Speaker 1: my advice to knowl they're the the big shows quote
Speaker 1: unquote big, meaning like their big room. It's probably like
Speaker 1: are your fifty people? If I remember correctly, it's not huge.
Speaker 1: But my advice too is to go into the little
Speaker 1: parlor rooms for these really intimate, close up sleight of
Speaker 1: hand shows. That's what I'm pumped about. That's where you're
Speaker 1: gonna get some really great card tricks, some good old
Speaker 1: school non illusion type magic, some disappearings of like coin.
Speaker 1: Sure you want to coin pull out of your ear? Yes?
Speaker 1: Or do I ever get the to a parlor room? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm really excited. So you got anything else you want
Speaker 1: to plug? Since we're plugging, No, listen to Murder in
Speaker 1: Oregon if you want to check out a cool noir
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, a non depressing true crime
Speaker 1: story that actually has like kind of a cool arc
Speaker 1: and is more about justice and uh doing the right
Speaker 1: thing and corruption than it is about just misery. Um,
Speaker 1: I recommend it. I have been working on it for
Speaker 1: a long time and we're about halfway through the season. Um,
Speaker 1: so check that out and leave us a nice review.
Speaker 1: You know what also we need to plug is Finding Fred.
Speaker 1: That is from our colleagues here. Um who actually ended?
Speaker 1: Was Dylan on that? Not on that one? No, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's I think it's mainly the New York crew,
Speaker 1: but it's fatherly because as the partnership with who also
Speaker 1: did I believe m was it family Secrets? Does that happen? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah. Um My main Gash, who is
Speaker 1: our kind of chief of content over there in the
Speaker 1: New York offices. That was on his slate. Yeah, Finding
Speaker 1: Fred about Fred Rogers, it's a great companion piece to
Speaker 1: the films and the documentary and uh, if you're interested
Speaker 1: in Mr. Rogers, it's a great listen. Been neck and
Speaker 1: neck with them on the charts Murdering Oregon and Finding Fred. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been flipping back and forth for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Though sometimes I'll go to the TV and film ratings
Speaker 1: and check that out to see if movie crushes charting,
Speaker 1: and uh, we're pretty consistently like top fifty. Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always forget, like I mean, you know, it's so
Speaker 1: easy to get caught up in like the the top
Speaker 1: top of all podcasts when you think about their seven
Speaker 1: hundred thousand podcasts. But it's nice to really look at
Speaker 1: the little individual categories because we're always in really good company.
Speaker 1: There's so much fighting. Fred I think is the number
Speaker 1: one TV and film podcast right now. Exactly. It's great.
Speaker 1: I'm very very happy to be in the top fifty
Speaker 1: and all same, dude, Top fifty is great of anything.
Speaker 1: You're in the top fifty of anything, unless it's top
Speaker 1: fifty dickheads, worst human garbage fire people. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go with some non Christmas stuff, um quite honestly,
Speaker 1: because I screwed up the calendar and thought that, uh,
Speaker 1: the episode that just published was gonna published on and
Speaker 1: so it turns out we have a hole right in
Speaker 1: the middle of the calendar. I'm like, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna We're not going to overload the Christmas content. We
Speaker 1: did two great Christmas episodes, so we're gonna veer off
Speaker 1: course here and do a bit of a movie crusher special. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it starts off ol. Have you seen the Irishman yet? Yes, Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it for a minute. I put a
Speaker 1: pole because it's turns out it's a very divisive the
Speaker 1: movie I could see. Why did you see the pole?
Speaker 1: I didn't see the three and seventy nine votes, and
Speaker 1: it's hard to you know, as we all know, designed
Speaker 1: a binary pole for something like film criticism because it
Speaker 1: is nuance gray, not black and white. But overall, I said,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about the movie? Disappointed, missed the mark?
Speaker 1: Or satisfied? Right on target? That's the fairest way I
Speaker 1: could do it, and it is pretty evenly split. Were
Speaker 1: satisfied and felt it was right on target. Were disappointed
Speaker 1: and felt it missed the mark? Right on target for
Speaker 1: what a Scorsesey pick. Chok, yeah, I mean just whatever
Speaker 1: your expectations, like, made a really good movie. Got um,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to like back away on the super superlatives
Speaker 1: for these poles and just make it like that's great.
Speaker 1: Were satisfied or not? So what do you what? What's
Speaker 1: your deal? Um? I thought it was a Scorsesean movie.
Speaker 1: I thought it reminded me very much of Casino, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, just in terms of the ensemble cast, in
Speaker 1: terms of the use of voice, so ship Man, it
Speaker 1: reminded me a lot of Good Fellas I mean, it's like,
Speaker 1: here's here's a beef that I have with Scorsese, and
Speaker 1: it's just because he talks ship. He was saying how
Speaker 1: Marvel movies are not cinema, how Marvel movies are like
Speaker 1: some sort of lesser but like Homeboys been making the
Speaker 1: same gangster picture for like a long time, you know,
Speaker 1: especially see like I would argue that Taxi Driver Raging Bull,
Speaker 1: those are different. But once he started getting into the
Speaker 1: good Fellas thing with the big seventies pastiche soundtrack and
Speaker 1: the voiceover and the stylized freeze frames and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: he started like really leaning into that, uh that vibe,
Speaker 1: and to me, that's the Guardians of the Galaxy would
Speaker 1: not exist if it weren't for the Scorsese you know,
Speaker 1: montage kind of vibe and the soundtrack. So I just
Speaker 1: think I don't understand what he's complaining about. It seems
Speaker 1: like an okay boomer moment where he's like, oh, these
Speaker 1: movies are making all this money. No one's financing my
Speaker 1: movies anymore. I'm bitter. That's but that being said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think he would have preferred for it to
Speaker 1: have been a giant tent pole wide release. Instead, they
Speaker 1: released it for a couple of months in limited theaters
Speaker 1: and then the Netflix thing. I think that was largely
Speaker 1: probably because he couldn't get the money he wanted from
Speaker 1: big students. Well probably so beef aside, it was great,
Speaker 1: oh you think so? Yeah, it was fun. It was
Speaker 1: It's a good movie, I mean like it performance while
Speaker 1: the c g I threw me for a damn shure.
Speaker 1: Uh it was uncanny Valley as hell, and I started
Speaker 1: to finally start to forget about it. But it really
Speaker 1: took me out of it for a little while. All right,
Speaker 1: So here's my deal, um, and I finally figured it
Speaker 1: out last night because it was bothering me how much
Speaker 1: I did not really like it that or connect with
Speaker 1: it that much. Let me say it better that way.
Speaker 1: Did not connect with it. It did not draw me in. Um,
Speaker 1: it did not. There was something off about it that
Speaker 1: I couldn't pinpoint. And it was the c g I
Speaker 1: for me, and not just like no, it didn't look
Speaker 1: good like That was what the disconnect was for me.
Speaker 1: It broke my brain because I know how old these
Speaker 1: guys are. Um, we have spent a lifetime watching these
Speaker 1: people age throughout film. History, and I think very much.
Speaker 1: For me, that was the disconnect. That's why I couldn't
Speaker 1: connect with these characters because it wasn't real. It was
Speaker 1: a trick because you know what, I liked the last
Speaker 1: hour and that's when it finally clicked. I was like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, that was the difference. Um, they're these
Speaker 1: sort of plastic y looking faces pasted on clearly old men,
Speaker 1: still moving around like old men. I just don't get
Speaker 1: how they couldn't make it look better. I mean, it
Speaker 1: looked okay, didn't look great though, Chuck. It looked like
Speaker 1: a cut scene in a video game. Some of it
Speaker 1: looked better than others, for sure. Some parts looked really bad.
Speaker 1: But to me, like it just uh, I wanted to accomplish.
Speaker 1: I wanted Scorsese to like it was a stunt to me,
Speaker 1: and like I want him to be better than that. Right. Scorsese,
Speaker 1: to me, isn't the guy that pulls a cinematic stunt.
Speaker 1: You should have just cast younger actors like we've always
Speaker 1: done in films, to play the younger versions, and it
Speaker 1: would have been much much better to me, especially since
Speaker 1: what he's doing. I was talking to a filmmaker friend
Speaker 1: of mine who lived in l a rund around the
Speaker 1: same time you did. Um about how he found this
Speaker 1: to be. He found comfort in the fact that this
Speaker 1: is a style of filmmaking that is probably going to
Speaker 1: go away eventually, this kind of classic, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: The pace of this movie was, the way he made it,
Speaker 1: the way he told the story, the ensemble cast, the
Speaker 1: bigness of it all, that's sort of not long for
Speaker 1: this world, that kind of filmmaking. It's a very like, maybe,
Speaker 1: well that's his position, and it's ironic for that to
Speaker 1: be his position, and it also to be really trying
Speaker 1: hard to like make use of all this modern stuff,
Speaker 1: and it just felt like play and it was a disconnect.
Speaker 1: And then you hear him talking trash about Marvel movies
Speaker 1: and you're like, I don't think you know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. You know, when you go in there and
Speaker 1: use a c G I stunt essentially. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is my take on it, and that's I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people felt to disconnect for that reason. But
Speaker 1: I'm speaking out of my ask there. I know. I
Speaker 1: know it did that for me. No I said, I
Speaker 1: said the same thing when I say I liked the movie.
Speaker 1: That was when I could shove that aside and just
Speaker 1: judge it on, like, yeah, it's a fun movie. Um.
Speaker 1: It also also had some melancholy tones about aging and
Speaker 1: you know that's what being a remnant of a bygone
Speaker 1: era and no longer being relevant and that. But I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I also thought it was just far
Speaker 1: too long. It was. I mean, you got to keep
Speaker 1: an audience in mind, and you don't need a three
Speaker 1: and a half hour movie to's all that story. Not
Speaker 1: to mention, I'm sorry I keep harping on the Scorsese
Speaker 1: old man stuff, but he was also complaining about like
Speaker 1: you you're not meant to watch it. It's not a
Speaker 1: TV series. You gotta watch it in one sitting. It's
Speaker 1: like Scorsese, don't put it on Netflix. Then, you know,
Speaker 1: like people are gonna watch it the way they're gonna
Speaker 1: watch it. Don't complain about a spreadsheet, don't insult people
Speaker 1: for what for consuming stuff the way that is convenient
Speaker 1: makes sense for them, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: that kind of purest mentality is sort of bullshit to me.
Speaker 1: This might have been better if it was an hour
Speaker 1: longer and divide it into five parts. You know, just uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are all these memes of people that are like
Speaker 1: giving you time codes of like if you want to
Speaker 1: watch it like a series, watch part one is from
Speaker 1: here to here too, is here to Hear, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Just imagine if fade to black, that's right. And then
Speaker 1: Scorsese responded to that saying no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: that's not what I want. That's not how I want
Speaker 1: you to watch it. It's not up to you anymore, dude.
Speaker 1: You know, like I know, man, I'm with you because
Speaker 1: it bothered me because I love Scorsese, and I was like,
Speaker 1: why didn't I love this movie? And uh, I really
Speaker 1: had to look within. I liked Ray Romano. He was
Speaker 1: fun as the lawyer. He was it's nice to see
Speaker 1: a little underdeveloped. I feel like that's true. Harvey Kitell,
Speaker 1: Like I would have loved more kitel Man. I had
Speaker 1: a lot of problems with It's hard though when there's
Speaker 1: that many characters. But then that argument kind of gets
Speaker 1: flipped when you're like, you had fucking four hours to
Speaker 1: do it. You know, you could have given a little
Speaker 1: more attention to some of these second characters. I think
Speaker 1: Good Fellas and Casino did far more story wise in
Speaker 1: less time. All right, some of the acting was great.
Speaker 1: It looked great. You know, it's not like I hated it.
Speaker 1: I liked it. I stand by. Uh. If I had
Speaker 1: to give it thumbs, I would probably give it how
Speaker 1: many thumbs? I would give it three and a half thumbs.
Speaker 1: I would give it two thumbs. Okay, yeah, alright, So
Speaker 1: now we're gonna jump over the crushers page and a
Speaker 1: gentleman named David Wilder posed a very good question that
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about here. What video game would you
Speaker 1: like to see made into a movie? Very simple? You're
Speaker 1: a gamer? What's your what's your take? Fallout? Yeah? Right,
Speaker 1: the Fallout games would be great as a series of movies.
Speaker 1: So okay, in each town, sure whatever. They all have
Speaker 1: really good stories. The writing is really good in those games.
Speaker 1: Four four was great in Boston. Yeah, Boston was cool. Um,
Speaker 1: even the little the little d lcs, a little extras
Speaker 1: or whatever. Great writing, great stories, really cool sci fi fun.
Speaker 1: There's there's funny characters I would love to see that
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even have to like so often the Shoehorn
Speaker 1: video games in the movies. This one, it's like it's
Speaker 1: there for you. It's right for the picking the Last
Speaker 1: of Us as well, which I'm pretty sure is already
Speaker 1: a thing. I don't know the current status. I know
Speaker 1: that they were trying for sure to make it. You
Speaker 1: know that that's my jam, that's my game. It's a
Speaker 1: great game. Uh and it is. It's like playing a movie,
Speaker 1: and then all the new ones coming out soon, I
Speaker 1: believe in February. So here's my conundrum. NOL Last of
Speaker 1: Us two comes out February. PS five comes out in November.
Speaker 1: I hear it's backwards compatible because I asked on the
Speaker 1: page and people are like, just get it and you'll
Speaker 1: be able to play it in your PS five. But
Speaker 1: then I'm like, do I even need a PS five?
Speaker 1: I usually wait. I usually wait until there's a title
Speaker 1: that I really really need that's exclusive to the new machine.
Speaker 1: That's what I did for four. I didn't get a
Speaker 1: four for years. It wasn't until literally Fallout four that
Speaker 1: I decided to finally get one. And I you wait
Speaker 1: until the next Christmas, and then there's like packages you
Speaker 1: know that are a lot cheaper and they come with games.
Speaker 1: You know, when you get it on day one, it's expensive,
Speaker 1: and it's like why there's the launch titles are never
Speaker 1: that exciting. All right, good advice. So we're gonna go
Speaker 1: with James G. Woodbeck. He says, Half Life ever played it?
Speaker 1: I I know of it, and I agree there's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun mythology there. I would probably make a
Speaker 1: good one. Baldimar Rodriguez Jr. Says Space Invaders. He says,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, think about it. A nice eighties
Speaker 1: period piece with the right vision, in the right direction.
Speaker 1: I think it could work. What what is there to
Speaker 1: Space Invaders other than little ships on a grid. Well,
Speaker 1: they've done more with less, that's fair, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you see the Adam Sandler thing Pixel? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be terrible. It looked real dumb,
Speaker 1: but really good concept. It seems like they really screwed
Speaker 1: up what could have been a good idea. Well, it
Speaker 1: was kind of like wreck it. Ralph was it a
Speaker 1: little bit? I think it was about like I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's not. It just it just felt like it
Speaker 1: was like there was that crossover between like, oh, video
Speaker 1: game characters are actually real and they inhabit this other
Speaker 1: world and now they're invading our world, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's sort of how it struck me. All Right, I
Speaker 1: haven't heard of this game, but Ian lyons Uh, one
Speaker 1: of our old friends says, Bubble Bubble. That's a that's
Speaker 1: like an old Neo Geo game. A little Neo Geo
Speaker 1: was like, you know, all this ship. I think Neo
Speaker 1: Gio was a home system, but I think of it
Speaker 1: as being an arcade. It's just like that. That was
Speaker 1: what you'd always have the Neo Geo. Um they call
Speaker 1: it cabinets, you know, the arcade Cabinets over and it
Speaker 1: would have Samurai Showdown, Bubble Bubble and then like two
Speaker 1: other titles. No, that was its own thing. Niogia was
Speaker 1: a Japanese kind of flash in the Pan system sort of,
Speaker 1: I believe. But Bubble Bubble is a cool game. Mary
Speaker 1: Lux has missed. Yeah, it's really lost. Old pal Zack
Speaker 1: Poiner says, Zelda, why hasn't that happened? Interesting? It'd be
Speaker 1: such a good fantasy, uh fantasy movie. Yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: last of us on the page. And then there were
Speaker 1: some folks casting at our old pal Mike Burdett says
Speaker 1: Josh Brolin and Ellen Page, which I get Broland for sure,
Speaker 1: and I get Ellen Page because she looks like Ellie,
Speaker 1: but Ellie was fourteen. Yeah, like you gotta cast a kid.
Speaker 1: You can't cast someone in their mid thirties. She's aged
Speaker 1: out of that one at this point. Uh. He also
Speaker 1: suggested Sarsha Ronan and same thing, just too old. Yep,
Speaker 1: you got to get a kid in there. It have
Speaker 1: to be like an unknown, like a new like I
Speaker 1: think so like an introducing yeah, because I can't think
Speaker 1: of any fourteen year old actors. No, and the ones
Speaker 1: we're thinking of, we're thinking of them ten years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean? Would have been great, yeah,
Speaker 1: like in like uh uh what is it um Juno
Speaker 1: era earlier than that even, Yeah, you know she could
Speaker 1: have played fourteen or fifteen probably uh Mike Burdette, same
Speaker 1: old pell says the correct answer is BioShock. Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's cool. It's like a steampunk kind of dystopian future
Speaker 1: past kind of thing. It's based on like inspired by
Speaker 1: Atlas Shrugged, by rand Um, was there like circusy stuff
Speaker 1: that was in the Yes, yes, I might have played bio.
Speaker 1: Actually there are people in creepy rabbit masks like wandering
Speaker 1: around like like what's your n and they're these big,
Speaker 1: kind of mech creatures, and they're these little creepy girls
Speaker 1: that look like the Shining Twins. They have like no eyes,
Speaker 1: and they have like all these powers and stuff. It's
Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful there's two of them, and they're both
Speaker 1: really smart, really great games that those would be fantastic movies. Well,
Speaker 1: you know my deal. I've said it before. I usually
Speaker 1: we'll get a game and obsess about it for about
Speaker 1: four months and then I won't play again for two years.
Speaker 1: Same same. I don't have the time, you know, I
Speaker 1: just can't do it anymore. I never even finished Red
Speaker 1: Dead Redemption too, and it's fantastic. Yeah, that's the one
Speaker 1: on my list that I need to get. Daniel Jordan
Speaker 1: says Portal could be interesting if done properly. So you've
Speaker 1: played all these himes I have. Matt Blumenfield says Banjo
Speaker 1: Kazoo KAZOOI Yeah, that's an older game. Yeah, he's like, uh,
Speaker 1: what is the uh Wallaby or something? I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know much about it. He's
Speaker 1: a So that's crash Bandicoot, didn't it that? Well, they're
Speaker 1: they're similar, No, Banjo Kazoo is a bear. Okay, that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Crash Bandicoot, they're they're they're very similar and around the
Speaker 1: same time, easy to confuse for each other. All right, Uh,
Speaker 1: how do you pronounce this? D n Em Widner, interesting name,
Speaker 1: says Kingdom Hearts. Never heard of it. Yeah, that's one
Speaker 1: of those like a Disney mash up game where it's
Speaker 1: got all the Disney characters, has a lot of like
Speaker 1: Final Fantasy like Sony characters, and it's like a big
Speaker 1: role playing RPRPG, kind of like sweeping epic fantasy game. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: Diana Ratliffe is BioShock had a theatrical field. Jessica Warley says,
Speaker 1: red Dead. Let me see here? What else? Duck Hunt
Speaker 1: from Christopher Steiner, Come on, that's the worst. Been Cleverer
Speaker 1: mentioned something called God of War. Yeah, yeah, God of
Speaker 1: War is great. He says, you gotta get the right cast.
Speaker 1: Just don't use the Rock. Someone else a chance. Seriously. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know a friend who just worked with the Rock.
Speaker 1: I know who'd be good. Who's that big burly guy
Speaker 1: that's in He's been a lot of stupid comedies lately,
Speaker 1: like Stupor and he was the the guy in Guardians
Speaker 1: the Galaxy with the Knives who has the funny comic
Speaker 1: relief lines. But he's oh yeah, the big, huge Dave Batista.
Speaker 1: He'd be a good Crets. It's interesting he's in a
Speaker 1: new comedy and he looks weird as human. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: His proportions are all when he has that little like
Speaker 1: g I Joe Scrubby hair, it's odd looking at me.
Speaker 1: Keith Edward says there's an old sig of Genesis game
Speaker 1: called Eternal Champions, one I've always thought would make an
Speaker 1: awesome movie the premise of the game because all these
Speaker 1: fighters from all of history are plucked right before their
Speaker 1: death to fight against each other. I do remember that. Interesting.
Speaker 1: It's a fighting game. You get to be like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Zeus or like Cleopatra, And yeah, I do
Speaker 1: remember that game. John Richards says Unchartered, Uncharted, Uncharted, unchartered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's sort of an Indiana Jones type swash bunckling adventure.
Speaker 1: And Nathan Fillion ye would be the guy. He would
Speaker 1: be great. I think I remember seeing that he kind
Speaker 1: of looks like Nathan he does he does. You gotta
Speaker 1: wonder sometimes, like do they model these after actors and
Speaker 1: don't and ask permission. And what's the I P situation there?
Speaker 1: Imagine you can't veer too close because you could probably
Speaker 1: bring a case against it. Um, but I imagine they
Speaker 1: dance around that line, you know. All right, So that's
Speaker 1: a great question. Thank you David Wilder for that. We're
Speaker 1: gonna move on to Julia Lurch from the Crushers page.
Speaker 1: She posed a great one. What TV I'm sorry, what
Speaker 1: movies would you like to be c adapted into a
Speaker 1: TV series kind of like Fargo has done to great
Speaker 1: success among others. And Emily McGuire says, Harry Potter series,
Speaker 1: Oh sure, just do it. Yeah, there's I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's something that's I mean, you know it's money.
Speaker 1: I guess they're they're gonna do it. You think, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean at some point I would think too much
Speaker 1: money at stake? You're right, who owns Harry Potter? That's Warner,
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's what's the big property, one of the
Speaker 1: big properties that Warner owns. I believe so because it's
Speaker 1: all in the No, it's universal, excuse me, it's not
Speaker 1: one at all. It's universal because it's that's in the
Speaker 1: it's an the Universal Studios. It's the big Harry Potter
Speaker 1: world and the rides and stuff, Sarah Hopkins's Indiana Jones.
Speaker 1: They could just revive young Indiana Jones. That was a
Speaker 1: fun show. It was fun. Yeah, I remember that. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that. That was good. Yvonne Boudette says, clover
Speaker 1: Field or Unbreakable. Yeah's your clover Field show. I've enjoyed
Speaker 1: a lot of what they've done with that franchise. I
Speaker 1: always thought it was a really clever not all of it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean, what what what? What did you
Speaker 1: don enjoy like parts of I think, uh, the first movie,
Speaker 1: I didn't like parts of it, but overall I liked it.
Speaker 1: What I did like was that other one, the one
Speaker 1: Cloverfield Lane. Yeah, that was that was pretty good. John
Speaker 1: Goodman playing a baddie. Yeah. I thoroughly enjoyed that movie.
Speaker 1: But there's more there. I think they're going to do
Speaker 1: another movie, right because that one and no, no spoilt Man,
Speaker 1: slight Spook, I don't know, doesn't matter. Like that movie
Speaker 1: largely has nothing to do with what's going on in
Speaker 1: the clover Field universe. It's more of just like a
Speaker 1: bottle movie about like worrying about what's going on out
Speaker 1: is it really happening, is it not really happening, etcetera.
Speaker 1: And then there ends up being a connection to the
Speaker 1: events of right the First clover Field. Yeah. I like
Speaker 1: how they tied that together. Old friend Minal Data says
Speaker 1: Interstellar a limited series where they go to a different
Speaker 1: planet each episode. Not fair enough? Why not? Tom Billions
Speaker 1: says Clan of the Cave Bear not familiar. That is
Speaker 1: a movie from the I don't think it was nineties.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was eighties with Um Darryl Hannah
Speaker 1: starred and it was you know, I think prehistoric h
Speaker 1: wandering clans, Cave Bears, Cave Bears. Okay. Patrick Gorman says
Speaker 1: Midsomer Uh, they already made it into a twelve hour
Speaker 1: TV series. He just put it in a movie theater, zing,
Speaker 1: you know. John Hodgman says that was his favorite movie
Speaker 1: the year. I know we talked about respect his opinion.
Speaker 1: I respect his opinion too. So a buddy of mine
Speaker 1: I was I went home for the holidays, and a
Speaker 1: buddy of Mike says, he was talking about my work stuff,
Speaker 1: and he was like Hodgemen really likes The Avengers. That's
Speaker 1: his favorite movie of all time. Like that's crazy. I'm like,
Speaker 1: he stands by it. It's not his favorite, but he
Speaker 1: just likes to talk about it. He really enjoys it
Speaker 1: though the whole. He speaks of it with such reverence.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, yeah, he's not. I mean, I'd like
Speaker 1: to see him take to take Scorsese to task, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, you know, I think he could absolutely
Speaker 1: defend his position very eloquently. You know, old friend Nick
Speaker 1: Kelly says, Rogue one would have been a really good
Speaker 1: TV series. I think now that we're seeing Mandalorian play out,
Speaker 1: we see the possibilities. Oh for sure. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tony Hernandez's World war Z. That's the that's one of
Speaker 1: those zombie things, right yeah. Uh And from what I've
Speaker 1: seen of the book, it probably would have been a
Speaker 1: better series if they had stuck with the book, because
Speaker 1: they changed it a lot. They went they went off
Speaker 1: the off the the rails for the movie. Hu. I think,
Speaker 1: so did you not see it and see him? Not great?
Speaker 1: I think it's so interesting, just really quickly that, like
Speaker 1: Jon Favre's career has been so varied, like he went
Speaker 1: from doing like a kind of a schlucky indie film
Speaker 1: like like Swingers U to do an Elf. By the way,
Speaker 1: I rented Elf on Amazon, and at the end it
Speaker 1: had all this behind the scenes stuff. I learned more
Speaker 1: about the um jobs of every department in the movie
Speaker 1: crew than I ever have anywhere else. It was so
Speaker 1: in depth that went into like every single position and
Speaker 1: then through production through post, through sounds, escaping and um
Speaker 1: folly ing and looping and all that stuff. It was
Speaker 1: probably about an hour of like behind the scenes. It
Speaker 1: was so good because I bought it on iTunes, so
Speaker 1: I'm sure that it was so good. It showed that
Speaker 1: how they built all the sets and perspective, and they
Speaker 1: showed all that they did all those tricks, how they
Speaker 1: replaced them little kids from the shots. They had like
Speaker 1: a scale old version of the set that they called
Speaker 1: it the Buddy sized one and the Elf sized one,
Speaker 1: So they had doubles of every prop where it was
Speaker 1: like a big etch of sketch and then a little sketch.
Speaker 1: It was so cool to see how much organization and
Speaker 1: like you know, uh, just innovation goes into doing all
Speaker 1: those in camera effects. It's crazy. Yeah, it's tough to
Speaker 1: make a new classic Christmas film, and I think they
Speaker 1: succeeded on all levels. Also, love the party gets me
Speaker 1: every time when that fucking cab hits him. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just great pratfalls. He's a great physical comedy. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love that he turned down a
Speaker 1: sequel to Good for You Will Fair. It makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1: Let it be its own thing. Yep, let me see.
Speaker 1: We'll finish up here with our old friend with a
Speaker 1: switched out name. Culver Matthew says, a Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings adaptation that sticks to the books and dialogue would
Speaker 1: be great. They're doing that. I think pretty sure there's
Speaker 1: something like that in the works for some kind of
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings uh series. I'm pretty sure. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: John Richard comments time will tell, but the Amazon series
Speaker 1: purportedly fits your description, and then Culvert Matthew uh said
Speaker 1: he just checked and he thinks it's a prequel. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll have to see what that's all about. All right. Now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna finish up with a little streaming of this.
Speaker 1: What have you been watching lately? Watchman, my boy? Well,
Speaker 1: that's what's on my list. I'm almost it's is it
Speaker 1: only eight eight total? All right? So I just finished
Speaker 1: episode seven last night, so I'm almost done. I think
Speaker 1: it's great. It is really good. Um, I'm amazed at
Speaker 1: how they've it was. It was a smart plan to
Speaker 1: begin with, and I liked it early on, but once
Speaker 1: they started bringing in the cannon, it really got interesting.
Speaker 1: Were you a fan of the of the graphic novel? Yes,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a graphic novel guy, but I did
Speaker 1: read that that's the one everyone says. I'm not a
Speaker 1: graphic novel guy, but Watchman it was incredible. Uh. There
Speaker 1: is a really cool companion podcast that I recommend everyone
Speaker 1: check out if you're into the show. It's just called
Speaker 1: the Official Watchman Podcast, and it's with Craig Mazin, who
Speaker 1: is the creator of Chernobyl, which also had a companion
Speaker 1: podcast that was hosted by Peter Segel interviewing Craig Mazin
Speaker 1: about Chernobyl, and this one it's Craig Mason interviewing Damon
Speaker 1: Lindeloff about Watchman. And it's only three episodes total. First
Speaker 1: episode handles episodes one through three, second three through six,
Speaker 1: third six through nine episodes. I believe um. But he
Speaker 1: talks about how he was offered the project several times
Speaker 1: turned it down. He revered the source material so much
Speaker 1: he didn't want to suck it up. Um. It was
Speaker 1: right around the time of that Zack Snyder movie, which
Speaker 1: is divisive. I did not care for it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought it was okay. I didn't love it, but
Speaker 1: I don't think they like destroyed it or anything. It
Speaker 1: was it was it was very respectful of the source material,
Speaker 1: but almost to me, it was almost like two respectful.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a little bit like why bother
Speaker 1: kind of you know, with this one. He was like,
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna do it if I can check these
Speaker 1: boxes for like making a new thing that still holds
Speaker 1: true to what I loved about the original Watchman, right,
Speaker 1: And that's what he's done, I think. So I think
Speaker 1: that's really what he's done. Yeah. I mean, even before
Speaker 1: they started bringing in the old characters totally, it felt
Speaker 1: very Watchman. And if it would have just stuck with that,
Speaker 1: I would have been fine with all new storylines. But
Speaker 1: when they started bringing back some of these older characters,
Speaker 1: like when Jeane Smart shows up his Silk Specter, I
Speaker 1: was just like oh boy, this is where we're going.
Speaker 1: And I gotta say, man, I mean I love uh,
Speaker 1: I told you have. We both have a bunch of
Speaker 1: frinds that have worked on it, and I got some
Speaker 1: more insider scoop um. Regina King is fantastic, apparently just
Speaker 1: a good person as a human, great to work with,
Speaker 1: Tim black Nelson great, Uh, Jeremy Irons fantastic, Like he
Speaker 1: had a really great experience with most of these acts.
Speaker 1: He said there was one that was a pill though, yeah,
Speaker 1: which you know, I think we already know who that is.
Speaker 1: But um, what I I mean, I love all this
Speaker 1: stuff with Regina King and the calvary Um Cavalry Cavalia
Speaker 1: the seventh Um. But what has really been getting me
Speaker 1: going is the Azzi Mandius stuff. It's wonderful that the
Speaker 1: one episode I think it was where they finally launched
Speaker 1: him into space on its other and he's and all
Speaker 1: of the fucking I can't remember the names of the
Speaker 1: people he's cloned, Crookshanks and yeah whatever the other guy
Speaker 1: the guy's name, yeah, yeah, yeah, all of them. Should
Speaker 1: we do a spoiler alert for this? Do you think
Speaker 1: I mean it's too late if we're talking about the Watchman.
Speaker 1: People are gonna, okay, now we're talking about watch right,
Speaker 1: You're right, all right, that's true. But all of them
Speaker 1: up there like dead and frozen. And then he cracks
Speaker 1: them up and then spells out what saved me? Save me?
Speaker 1: But then there's another letter that that you don't see.
Speaker 1: It's yes, and then they yanked him back, Like all
Speaker 1: of that ship is so like weird in the best way.
Speaker 1: The thing that's so cool too is I could picture
Speaker 1: I could picture this in comic book form, Like it's
Speaker 1: such a bizarre, weird world where the rules don't apply.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of thing you could just see communicated
Speaker 1: in comic book form, but it's in a it's in
Speaker 1: TV show to start with. And you know, Alan Moore
Speaker 1: is notoriously cranky about any of his ship being adapted
Speaker 1: into movies. Is he like this? He has not said
Speaker 1: anything about it. His daughter has said has just spoken
Speaker 1: out defending his position on being cranky because basically, because
Speaker 1: like I think I understand this to a degree, because
Speaker 1: like you know, Vertigo is the comic the sort of
Speaker 1: adult weird offshoot of I want to say, d C.
Speaker 1: I think that's right, and it's one of these things
Speaker 1: where in those days they're writers and artists were essentially
Speaker 1: indentured servants. They don't own any of their I P.
Speaker 1: They make all this ship and then it just goes
Speaker 1: out and they don't it's gone. They have no control
Speaker 1: over it anymore. But that's also what you sign up for,
Speaker 1: so you kind of gotta know they're gonna So is
Speaker 1: that why he's cranky. I think he's cranky. He just
Speaker 1: feels like he his medium is comics. He doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like it should ever be adapted. But think that's really
Speaker 1: short sighted, because what is a comic if not a
Speaker 1: perfect story board for a goddamn movie. You should go bowling.
Speaker 1: They really should. But I love Alan Moore, I love
Speaker 1: well to be fair, though they've done some pretty shitty
Speaker 1: adaptations of some of his stuff, like The League of
Speaker 1: Extraordinary Gentleman is garbage, and that that should have been amazing.
Speaker 1: It's like, what a cool story, It's so a cool story,
Speaker 1: but it was just really not good at all. It
Speaker 1: didn't capture any of the weirdness and coolness of the
Speaker 1: of the comic. So yeah, but I would I would argue,
Speaker 1: and if he pulled his head out of his own
Speaker 1: ass a little bit. He could see the genius in
Speaker 1: this and recognize that it is being very respectful of
Speaker 1: his work. Yeah. Boy, I loved the looking Glass episode
Speaker 1: so good. Yeah. Well, that's when you first realize they're
Speaker 1: using the squid. Yeah, because that was the thing in
Speaker 1: the zack Steiner there was no squid. There was no squid,
Speaker 1: and that was the weird great like the way Watchman
Speaker 1: and the graphic novel ended was so bizarre with the
Speaker 1: squid that like, how could you not take advantage? And
Speaker 1: now in this version we get to hear it, see
Speaker 1: the aftermath of the whole thing thirty years later and like,
Speaker 1: you know, get to hear Jeremy irons A is azamandius
Speaker 1: or justify what he did and the fact that he
Speaker 1: never got quote unquote credit for it. You know, so
Speaker 1: much cool. Uh. Well, the PTSD that the survivors are suffering,
Speaker 1: it's like nine eleven times a million, you know, it's
Speaker 1: exactly Yeah. Yeah, man, I'm just blown away. I think
Speaker 1: it's amazing. I think it's fantastic. I'm sad that there's
Speaker 1: only eight episodes. It is a bummer, But it's also
Speaker 1: clearly a very expensive show. Yeah, they're they're it looks great.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they there is there, has it been announced,
Speaker 1: if they've picked it up for another season. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I hope they haven't heard. But I mean, they're already
Speaker 1: shooting it. So it's very critically acclaimed, it seems. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder what theewing numbers are though, I wonder if
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't know, I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people are talking about it, then I know. So speaking
Speaker 1: of viewing numbers, The Irishman and this is sort of
Speaker 1: one of the beef with how To. I mean, I
Speaker 1: hate that Box Office is a rating system, but it
Speaker 1: sort of is for better or for worse. How's it
Speaker 1: doing well? I mean, it's kind of hard to tell. Uh.
Speaker 1: They listed out however, many millions of people streamed it
Speaker 1: over the first week, and it was a ton But
Speaker 1: then they also said eighteen percent of people finished it. Wow,
Speaker 1: So like, I don't know, does that count? Someone watches
Speaker 1: two hours of The Irishman and it's like, I can't
Speaker 1: turn it off. Yeah, eight percent, But apparently eighteen percent
Speaker 1: is sort of right along the standard of when people
Speaker 1: bail on Netflix, which is surprising. That seems very low.
Speaker 1: It seems very low. Alright, No, you got anything else
Speaker 1: streaming now? But loving that one? Um, yeah, Mandalorian we
Speaker 1: talked about. Um, I'm not up to date on that one,
Speaker 1: but I think it's still strong. I'm pretty close. I
Speaker 1: think I'm one behind good stuff. I just saw the
Speaker 1: one episode that some people were a little disappointed in,
Speaker 1: was that the Village one. I don't liked it. I
Speaker 1: liked it too, but I heard some some A buddy
Speaker 1: of mine who's a huge fan of Star Wars in particular,
Speaker 1: was like it felt kind of forced, kind of like
Speaker 1: it felt like one of those it was too self contained,
Speaker 1: like like he feels like it's becoming this adventure of
Speaker 1: the week kind of show as opposed to Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. I think it
Speaker 1: very much is and it kind of reminds me of
Speaker 1: TV shows in the eighties exactly, but with a new
Speaker 1: like spin on it. Yeah, and it has a through line,
Speaker 1: you know, with the baby Yoda and the fact that
Speaker 1: he's being you know, hunted and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: of course he's like jumping around the galaxy trying to
Speaker 1: find refuge. He's gonna have new adventures, right, do you
Speaker 1: know Why because bounty hunting dangerous profession. All right, everyone,
Speaker 1: thanks for sitting in with us, and sorry we're not
Speaker 1: doing Christmas content exclusively, but I hope you enjoyed this
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