WEBVTT - Mini Crush #96 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.640 Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:35.240 Hey everybody, welcome to the Mini Crush Podcast, Movie Crush Light, 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:37.879 Movie Crush Heavy. I like that though you said it 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.680 as O or its own thing. It's the Mini Crush podcasts, 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.200 you know. No, we're approaching episode one of the Mini 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.320 Crush podcast. Yeah, that's wild. It'll be in January. Oh man, 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:48.720 what are we gonna do? We're gonna have some cake 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.960 where party hats? I don't know we should we drink lemonade? 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.440 Should we? Uh? Should we do? I don't know? Man, 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.880 something special? We should do some special? T b D 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.440 T b D. I did some special last night, chuck, 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.920 Oh boy, what I watched Elf? Oh? Did you really? 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:07.679 I sure did? What do you think? I watched it 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.160 with my kid, who had also never seen it, and 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.120 my girlfriend who was an ELF fan an ead an 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.440 elf head? Uh? Did you like it? I loved it? Right? 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.720 Isn't it funny? And he made me happy and warmed 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.720 the cockles of my cold dead heart? Is great? Yeah, 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.120 gave me new life. I laughed like a geek a 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.560 lot of it. I felt things. I teared up a 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.680 little bit. Um. It was just great. Great man makes 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.200 me so happy. I told Courtney about how you know 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.520 the whole joke was, and the last time we recorded 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.920 it was everyone who beloved film people writing in and 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.000 I was just like, no, that means nothing to me. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.280 It goes right over my head. And a couple of 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.400 days before that I watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles because 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.200 you didn't see that one, right, I hadn't seen that one. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.480 Loved it. Okay, it's hard to tell what a modern 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:03.120 gent like yourself. No, it's funny, alright. I love all 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.120 the John Hughes movies. He's got a thing that I 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.360 that I like. It's wonderful. Um. I bet your daughter 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.519 loved ELF. She loved ALF. Yeah, I'd tell you. The 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.320 thing about Planes Trains that I thought was really interesting 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:16.200 is it's basically a PG thirteen movie until he says 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.240 I want a fucking car and I want it right 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.399 fucking now. Oh yeah, it would have totally been maybe 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.880 even PG. That part has just played for shocks and 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.880 it really works. It delivers man stands up. Yeah, well 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.880 I love that movie. My finger has a heartbeat. You 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.040 know what line Emily and I always say from Elf 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.840 is when the great scene with Peter Dinklige in the office. 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.359 You know, you know, say elf one more time that 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.800 whole thing. He jumps upon the table and starts to 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.480 charge him. Well, Ferrell throws his arms out and goes, 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.160 look at you, Emily, and I do that a lot. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.640 I loved it alright, fantastic. Yeah. So, by the way, everyone, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.760 I haven't been plugging this on the worst a plugging 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.919 stuf uf. But I'm gonna be an SF Sketch Fest 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.600 again this year for a Sunday night. Uh when is 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.480 this thing? Anyway? Let me look here. That would be 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.960 January nine for a Sunday night show. And I think 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.639 what I'm gonna do this year is, instead of interviewing 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.080 one person on stage about a movie, I'm gonna get 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.760 everyone involved. I'm gonna get a couple of people, I think, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.680 and the asks are out to Janet Varney on these people, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.840 and instead of interviewing about a movie, we're gonna do 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.680 some just fun stuff. We're gonna get the crowd involved. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.240 We're gonna do some live hikups. See if I can 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.920 get Uh. I wish I knew who it was, but 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.760 I'm sure whoever it is are gonna be game. That 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.040 sounds fun shock. It's gonna be wonderful. So please, because 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:47.720 this is going to be a different kind of show. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.880 I really need an audience because to do something like 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.960 this with like twelve people, it's yeah, that is. I'm 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.320 gonna be in l A with my kid. Actually I'm 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.800 bringing her to the I Heart High Cast Awards plus 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.280 one and then going to see Billie Eilish the next 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.920 night fantastic And then then did you get hooked up 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.360 through my heart? Did take care of you? Yeah? But 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.280 then the next next night, I just found out a 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.800 buddy of mine in l A who I work with, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.840 who's got the hook up, is taking us to the 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:22.360 Magic Castle for brunch and two shows for a very 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.400 fun experience. I'm so excited. The Magic Castle is wonderful. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.600 I'm so excited about and it's a very uh, it's 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.880 very special insider thing like he can't just go. You 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.480 gotta get invited, Yeah, I remember, yeah exactly, or get 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.800 hooked up somehow. And this guy knows somebody from I 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.440 think he had a magician at his son's bar mitzvah 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.479 and hit it off and gave him a nice tip 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.440 or something. Got the got the connects for for life. 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.200 So it's pretty great and beyond pumped, and it is 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.119 indeed a magical place. I'm not even magic guy. Here's 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.560 my advice to knowl they're the the big shows quote 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.640 unquote big, meaning like their big room. It's probably like 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.559 are your fifty people? If I remember correctly, it's not huge. 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:04.839 But my advice too is to go into the little 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.760 parlor rooms for these really intimate, close up sleight of 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.600 hand shows. That's what I'm pumped about. That's where you're 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.440 gonna get some really great card tricks, some good old 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:18.040 school non illusion type magic, some disappearings of like coin. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.480 Sure you want to coin pull out of your ear? Yes? 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.240 Or do I ever get the to a parlor room? Yeah? 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.920 I'm really excited. So you got anything else you want 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.760 to plug? Since we're plugging, No, listen to Murder in 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.040 Oregon if you want to check out a cool noir 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.679 kind of like, you know, a non depressing true crime 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.720 story that actually has like kind of a cool arc 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.000 and is more about justice and uh doing the right 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.160 thing and corruption than it is about just misery. Um, 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.320 I recommend it. I have been working on it for 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.039 a long time and we're about halfway through the season. Um, 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.040 so check that out and leave us a nice review. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.000 You know what also we need to plug is Finding Fred. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.880 That is from our colleagues here. Um who actually ended? 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.960 Was Dylan on that? Not on that one? No, it's 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.719 it's it's I think it's mainly the New York crew, 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.239 but it's fatherly because as the partnership with who also 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:11.400 did I believe m was it family Secrets? Does that happen? Yeah? 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.680 I think so. Yeah. Um My main Gash, who is 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.039 our kind of chief of content over there in the 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.559 New York offices. That was on his slate. Yeah, Finding 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.840 Fred about Fred Rogers, it's a great companion piece to 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.719 the films and the documentary and uh, if you're interested 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.000 in Mr. Rogers, it's a great listen. Been neck and 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.760 neck with them on the charts Murdering Oregon and Finding Fred. Yeah. Yeah, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.839 we've been flipping back and forth for a couple of weeks. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.800 Though sometimes I'll go to the TV and film ratings 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.560 and check that out to see if movie crushes charting, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.120 and uh, we're pretty consistently like top fifty. Absolutely. Yeah. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:47.719 I always forget, like I mean, you know, it's so 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.680 easy to get caught up in like the the top 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.280 top of all podcasts when you think about their seven 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.080 hundred thousand podcasts. But it's nice to really look at 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.080 the little individual categories because we're always in really good company. 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.280 There's so much fighting. Fred I think is the number 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.719 one TV and film podcast right now. Exactly. It's great. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.480 I'm very very happy to be in the top fifty 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.480 and all same, dude, Top fifty is great of anything. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.520 You're in the top fifty of anything, unless it's top 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:26.840 fifty dickheads, worst human garbage fire people. All right, we're 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.720 gonna go with some non Christmas stuff, um quite honestly, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.560 because I screwed up the calendar and thought that, uh, 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.960 the episode that just published was gonna published on and 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.840 so it turns out we have a hole right in 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.880 the middle of the calendar. I'm like, man, I'm not 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.920 gonna We're not going to overload the Christmas content. We 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.920 did two great Christmas episodes, so we're gonna veer off 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.720 course here and do a bit of a movie crusher special. Uh. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.800 And it starts off ol. Have you seen the Irishman yet? Yes, Well, 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.480 let's talk about it for a minute. I put a 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.120 pole because it's turns out it's a very divisive the 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.360 movie I could see. Why did you see the pole? 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.600 I didn't see the three and seventy nine votes, and 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.320 it's hard to you know, as we all know, designed 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.840 a binary pole for something like film criticism because it 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:17.520 is nuance gray, not black and white. But overall, I said, 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.560 how do you feel about the movie? Disappointed, missed the mark? 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.360 Or satisfied? Right on target? That's the fairest way I 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.520 could do it, and it is pretty evenly split. Were 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.440 satisfied and felt it was right on target. Were disappointed 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.560 and felt it missed the mark? Right on target for 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.280 what a Scorsesey pick. Chok, yeah, I mean just whatever 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.079 your expectations, like, made a really good movie. Got um, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.319 I'm trying to like back away on the super superlatives 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.400 for these poles and just make it like that's great. 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.080 Were satisfied or not? So what do you what? What's 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.959 your deal? Um? I thought it was a Scorsesean movie. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.800 I thought it reminded me very much of Casino, Okay, 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.160 you know, just in terms of the ensemble cast, in 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.520 terms of the use of voice, so ship Man, it 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.080 reminded me a lot of Good Fellas I mean, it's like, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.120 here's here's a beef that I have with Scorsese, and 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.600 it's just because he talks ship. He was saying how 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.920 Marvel movies are not cinema, how Marvel movies are like 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:15.200 some sort of lesser but like Homeboys been making the 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:19.440 same gangster picture for like a long time, you know, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.200 especially see like I would argue that Taxi Driver Raging Bull, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.599 those are different. But once he started getting into the 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.400 good Fellas thing with the big seventies pastiche soundtrack and 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.880 the voiceover and the stylized freeze frames and all that stuff, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.400 he started like really leaning into that, uh that vibe, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.840 and to me, that's the Guardians of the Galaxy would 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.440 not exist if it weren't for the Scorsese you know, 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.959 montage kind of vibe and the soundtrack. So I just 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.400 think I don't understand what he's complaining about. It seems 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.079 like an okay boomer moment where he's like, oh, these 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.720 movies are making all this money. No one's financing my 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:56.440 movies anymore. I'm bitter. That's but that being said, well, yeah, 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.920 but I think he would have preferred for it to 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.360 have been a giant tent pole wide release. Instead, they 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.920 released it for a couple of months in limited theaters 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.439 and then the Netflix thing. I think that was largely 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.400 probably because he couldn't get the money he wanted from 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.040 big students. Well probably so beef aside, it was great, 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.560 oh you think so? Yeah, it was fun. It was 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.480 It's a good movie, I mean like it performance while 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.120 the c g I threw me for a damn shure. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.040 Uh it was uncanny Valley as hell, and I started 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.280 to finally start to forget about it. But it really 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.280 took me out of it for a little while. All right, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.559 So here's my deal, um, and I finally figured it 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.680 out last night because it was bothering me how much 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.120 I did not really like it that or connect with 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.960 it that much. Let me say it better that way. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.280 Did not connect with it. It did not draw me in. Um, 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.520 it did not. There was something off about it that 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.040 I couldn't pinpoint. And it was the c g I 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.600 for me, and not just like no, it didn't look 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:01.559 good like That was what the disconnect was for me. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.679 It broke my brain because I know how old these 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:10.280 guys are. Um, we have spent a lifetime watching these 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:15.800 people age throughout film. History, and I think very much. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.000 For me, that was the disconnect. That's why I couldn't 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.439 connect with these characters because it wasn't real. It was 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.240 a trick because you know what, I liked the last 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:30.760 hour and that's when it finally clicked. I was like, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.600 wait a minute, that was the difference. Um, they're these 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.920 sort of plastic y looking faces pasted on clearly old men, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.080 still moving around like old men. I just don't get 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.600 how they couldn't make it look better. I mean, it 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.120 looked okay, didn't look great though, Chuck. It looked like 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.400 a cut scene in a video game. Some of it 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.120 looked better than others, for sure. Some parts looked really bad. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.440 But to me, like it just uh, I wanted to accomplish. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.480 I wanted Scorsese to like it was a stunt to me, 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.920 and like I want him to be better than that. Right. Scorsese, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.320 to me, isn't the guy that pulls a cinematic stunt. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.280 You should have just cast younger actors like we've always 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.679 done in films, to play the younger versions, and it 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.960 would have been much much better to me, especially since 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.160 what he's doing. I was talking to a filmmaker friend 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.800 of mine who lived in l a rund around the 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.320 same time you did. Um about how he found this 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.760 to be. He found comfort in the fact that this 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.880 is a style of filmmaking that is probably going to 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.800 go away eventually, this kind of classic, you know whatever. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.920 The pace of this movie was, the way he made it, 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.640 the way he told the story, the ensemble cast, the 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.440 bigness of it all, that's sort of not long for 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.520 this world, that kind of filmmaking. It's a very like, maybe, 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:51.080 well that's his position, and it's ironic for that to 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.400 be his position, and it also to be really trying 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.840 hard to like make use of all this modern stuff, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.520 and it just felt like play and it was a disconnect. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.720 And then you hear him talking trash about Marvel movies 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.839 and you're like, I don't think you know what you're 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.440 talking about. You know, when you go in there and 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.640 use a c G I stunt essentially. I mean, this 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.880 is my take on it, and that's I think a 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.120 lot of people felt to disconnect for that reason. But 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.520 I'm speaking out of my ask there. I know. I 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.199 know it did that for me. No I said, I 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.000 said the same thing when I say I liked the movie. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.960 That was when I could shove that aside and just 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.640 judge it on, like, yeah, it's a fun movie. Um. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:35.040 It also also had some melancholy tones about aging and 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.720 you know that's what being a remnant of a bygone 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:44.480 era and no longer being relevant and that. But I 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.080 don't know, man, I also thought it was just far 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.839 too long. It was. I mean, you got to keep 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:51.840 an audience in mind, and you don't need a three 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.120 and a half hour movie to's all that story. Not 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.320 to mention, I'm sorry I keep harping on the Scorsese 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.720 old man stuff, but he was also complaining about like 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.160 you you're not meant to watch it. It's not a 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.600 TV series. You gotta watch it in one sitting. It's 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.760 like Scorsese, don't put it on Netflix. Then, you know, 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.120 like people are gonna watch it the way they're gonna 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:15.200 watch it. Don't complain about a spreadsheet, don't insult people 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.440 for what for consuming stuff the way that is convenient 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:19.720 makes sense for them, you know what I mean? Like 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.480 that kind of purest mentality is sort of bullshit to me. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.680 This might have been better if it was an hour 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:32.720 longer and divide it into five parts. You know, just uh, yeah, 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.240 there are all these memes of people that are like 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.480 giving you time codes of like if you want to 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.040 watch it like a series, watch part one is from 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.840 here to here too, is here to Hear, et cetera. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.880 Just imagine if fade to black, that's right. And then 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.480 Scorsese responded to that saying no, no, no, no no, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.320 that's not what I want. That's not how I want 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.680 you to watch it. It's not up to you anymore, dude. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.640 You know, like I know, man, I'm with you because 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.760 it bothered me because I love Scorsese, and I was like, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.680 why didn't I love this movie? And uh, I really 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.720 had to look within. I liked Ray Romano. He was 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.040 fun as the lawyer. He was it's nice to see 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.680 a little underdeveloped. I feel like that's true. Harvey Kitell, 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.240 Like I would have loved more kitel Man. I had 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:14.840 a lot of problems with It's hard though when there's 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.880 that many characters. But then that argument kind of gets 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.920 flipped when you're like, you had fucking four hours to 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.400 do it. You know, you could have given a little 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.960 more attention to some of these second characters. I think 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.800 Good Fellas and Casino did far more story wise in 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:35.080 less time. All right, some of the acting was great. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.320 It looked great. You know, it's not like I hated it. 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.240 I liked it. I stand by. Uh. If I had 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.200 to give it thumbs, I would probably give it how 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.600 many thumbs? I would give it three and a half thumbs. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.000 I would give it two thumbs. Okay, yeah, alright, So 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.760 now we're gonna jump over the crushers page and a 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.200 gentleman named David Wilder posed a very good question that 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.360 we're gonna talk about here. What video game would you 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.360 like to see made into a movie? Very simple? You're 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:07.320 a gamer? What's your what's your take? Fallout? Yeah? Right, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.320 the Fallout games would be great as a series of movies. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:15.640 So okay, in each town, sure whatever. They all have 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.040 really good stories. The writing is really good in those games. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.200 Four four was great in Boston. Yeah, Boston was cool. Um, 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.840 even the little the little d lcs, a little extras 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:30.480 or whatever. Great writing, great stories, really cool sci fi fun. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.760 There's there's funny characters I would love to see that 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.080 you wouldn't even have to like so often the Shoehorn 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.000 video games in the movies. This one, it's like it's 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.280 there for you. It's right for the picking the Last 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:41.920 of Us as well, which I'm pretty sure is already 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.320 a thing. I don't know the current status. I know 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.960 that they were trying for sure to make it. You 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.160 know that that's my jam, that's my game. It's a 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.680 great game. Uh and it is. It's like playing a movie, 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.920 and then all the new ones coming out soon, I 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:59.240 believe in February. So here's my conundrum. NOL Last of 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.920 Us two comes out February. PS five comes out in November. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.000 I hear it's backwards compatible because I asked on the 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.040 page and people are like, just get it and you'll 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.840 be able to play it in your PS five. But 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.440 then I'm like, do I even need a PS five? 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.800 I usually wait. I usually wait until there's a title 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.879 that I really really need that's exclusive to the new machine. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.399 That's what I did for four. I didn't get a 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.879 four for years. It wasn't until literally Fallout four that 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.160 I decided to finally get one. And I you wait 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.000 until the next Christmas, and then there's like packages you 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.359 know that are a lot cheaper and they come with games. 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.639 You know, when you get it on day one, it's expensive, 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.720 and it's like why there's the launch titles are never 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.359 that exciting. All right, good advice. So we're gonna go 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.080 with James G. Woodbeck. He says, Half Life ever played it? 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.240 I I know of it, and I agree there's a 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.320 lot of fun mythology there. I would probably make a 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:54.160 good one. Baldimar Rodriguez Jr. Says Space Invaders. He says, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.399 hold on a second, think about it. A nice eighties 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.919 period piece with the right vision, in the right direction. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.440 I think it could work. What what is there to 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.240 Space Invaders other than little ships on a grid. Well, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:08.280 they've done more with less, that's fair, you know. Yeah. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.840 Did you see the Adam Sandler thing Pixel? Yeah? No, 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.280 it was supposed to be terrible. It looked real dumb, 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.399 but really good concept. It seems like they really screwed 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.040 up what could have been a good idea. Well, it 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.479 was kind of like wreck it. Ralph was it a 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.199 little bit? I think it was about like I don't know, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:25.840 maybe it's not. It just it just felt like it 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.920 was like there was that crossover between like, oh, video 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.600 game characters are actually real and they inhabit this other 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.159 world and now they're invading our world, and I don't know, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.480 that's sort of how it struck me. All Right, I 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.520 haven't heard of this game, but Ian lyons Uh, one 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.160 of our old friends says, Bubble Bubble. That's a that's 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.480 like an old Neo Geo game. A little Neo Geo 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.160 was like, you know, all this ship. I think Neo 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.480 Gio was a home system, but I think of it 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.600 as being an arcade. It's just like that. That was 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.959 what you'd always have the Neo Geo. Um they call 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.119 it cabinets, you know, the arcade Cabinets over and it 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.760 would have Samurai Showdown, Bubble Bubble and then like two 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.440 other titles. No, that was its own thing. Niogia was 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.920 a Japanese kind of flash in the Pan system sort of, 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.800 I believe. But Bubble Bubble is a cool game. Mary 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.760 Lux has missed. Yeah, it's really lost. Old pal Zack 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:22.760 Poiner says, Zelda, why hasn't that happened? Interesting? It'd be 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.880 such a good fantasy, uh fantasy movie. Yeah, I said, 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.320 last of us on the page. And then there were 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.359 some folks casting at our old pal Mike Burdett says 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:36.160 Josh Brolin and Ellen Page, which I get Broland for sure, 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.320 and I get Ellen Page because she looks like Ellie, 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.400 but Ellie was fourteen. Yeah, like you gotta cast a kid. 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.560 You can't cast someone in their mid thirties. She's aged 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.280 out of that one at this point. Uh. He also 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.440 suggested Sarsha Ronan and same thing, just too old. Yep, 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:52.679 you got to get a kid in there. It have 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.960 to be like an unknown, like a new like I 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.160 think so like an introducing yeah, because I can't think 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.760 of any fourteen year old actors. No, and the ones 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.639 we're thinking of, we're thinking of them ten years ago. Yeah, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:05.840 like you know what I mean? Would have been great, yeah, 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.399 like in like uh uh what is it um Juno 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.440 era earlier than that even, Yeah, you know she could 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.600 have played fourteen or fifteen probably uh Mike Burdette, same 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:21.640 old pell says the correct answer is BioShock. Yeah, wonderful. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:27.960 It's cool. It's like a steampunk kind of dystopian future 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.080 past kind of thing. It's based on like inspired by 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:37.479 Atlas Shrugged, by rand Um, was there like circusy stuff 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.720 that was in the Yes, yes, I might have played bio. 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.120 Actually there are people in creepy rabbit masks like wandering 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.040 around like like what's your n and they're these big, 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.600 kind of mech creatures, and they're these little creepy girls 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.600 that look like the Shining Twins. They have like no eyes, 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.080 and they have like all these powers and stuff. It's 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.120 a wonderful, wonderful there's two of them, and they're both 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.640 really smart, really great games that those would be fantastic movies. Well, 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.600 you know my deal. I've said it before. I usually 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:05.520 we'll get a game and obsess about it for about 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:07.959 four months and then I won't play again for two years. 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:09.639 Same same. I don't have the time, you know, I 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:11.600 just can't do it anymore. I never even finished Red 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:15.840 Dead Redemption too, and it's fantastic. Yeah, that's the one 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.080