Speaker 1: How do you everybody? Welcome to movie Crush Miny Crushed style,
Speaker 1: the routiness, stuteness, Rambles, rambles show on the internet. We
Speaker 1: all riding rope, some movies riding ropes, some movies riding
Speaker 1: ropes and movie is that's the waynes world reference? Is it? Really? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're doing the green screen bit and it's like
Speaker 1: I'm in textas's go riding rope and broncos. And then
Speaker 1: it's like I'm in New York. I got a gun,
Speaker 1: Let's go to a Broadway show. And then it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm in Delaware. Look, it's Delaware. You ever been to Delaware?
Speaker 1: Poor Delaware? Hi? No, I have been to Delaware. In fact,
Speaker 1: I broke down on the side of the road in
Speaker 1: Delaware and uh, well, I'm not gonna finish this story.
Speaker 1: That's fine, that's fine. We can use their imagination. You know,
Speaker 1: Delaware is where most big corporations have their corporate address
Speaker 1: because of some tax loophole or like interesting, so a
Speaker 1: lot of places will have like a po box or
Speaker 1: incorporated business address in Delaware because of some kind of
Speaker 1: tax loophole. That's all I can tell you about that. Boy.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna say, and this is controversial,
Speaker 1: Delaware maybe the most forgotten state, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: except it's on It's where all your credit card bills
Speaker 1: come from. Chuck, take a look. Really, I'm telling you, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: every one of them. But it's right there, like next
Speaker 1: to everything that gets so much more press yea, and
Speaker 1: Delaware is just Rhode Island. Though Rhode Island. Uh well,
Speaker 1: I feel like Rhode Island gets a little bit more
Speaker 1: love because it's uh so tiny. Yeah, and because it's
Speaker 1: on the shore line and Newport and is all wonderful
Speaker 1: and folk festival there. It's of I'm not dissing Delaware,
Speaker 1: but I feel bad for Delaware sometimes. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't think Delaware gets and I don't I don't even
Speaker 1: know the name of a city in Dela Dover. That's
Speaker 1: a thing, right, Delaware crushers right in give us the
Speaker 1: scoop on why Delaware rules and maybe why there's tax
Speaker 1: loopholes or a thing there. Yeah, they're like, you guys
Speaker 1: just don't know. We're living large. And I used to
Speaker 1: go camping at the Delaware water Gap at Sunfish Pond,
Speaker 1: but that is in New Jersey and it sounds nice though,
Speaker 1: Sunfish Pond, it's lovely. I took it was just you
Speaker 1: were just holding back on the juice checkers. I had
Speaker 1: a good time there one time, A few times. Alright,
Speaker 1: moving on, geez hey, it's a rough start, was it?
Speaker 1: I thought it was delightful. All right, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: with social studies right out of the gate here everyone,
Speaker 1: social movie crosh because I posed this question to you
Speaker 1: last night. Uh and no, this was inspired by you,
Speaker 1: sirs um. I'm gonna call this deal breaker movies. Remember
Speaker 1: when you talked about true stories. But here's how I
Speaker 1: posed it. You're on a date, a blind date. It's
Speaker 1: going great, you're having a good time. You're at dinner,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned one of your favorite films in your
Speaker 1: date not only hates the movie, but like makes fun
Speaker 1: of it, actively chides the movie. Yeah, what movie of
Speaker 1: your favorites would make you in the date right there?
Speaker 1: Like mm hmm, gotta go yeah check please yeah? No, No,
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I mind mind is always
Speaker 1: one of those like you know, something like a being
Speaker 1: John Malkovich or anything that has like an absurd kind
Speaker 1: of Brazil quality. If they don't get that down with
Speaker 1: that kind of weird, wacky filmmaking. Then I'm it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen, not gonna happen, and it's God forbid they
Speaker 1: make a crack about that's where Eternal Sunshine or something.
Speaker 1: I will stupid movie. Just get over the girl already.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you are a horrible person. All right, here
Speaker 1: we go. We're gonna read through all these. Rick Broyder
Speaker 1: says Shaw Shank. If you don't like that movie, we
Speaker 1: can't be friends. Lisa Pott says rocket Man. If you
Speaker 1: can't enjoy the silly, stupid comedy, then hit the road.
Speaker 1: Jack Megan Broyle says polar opposites, but probably the pianist
Speaker 1: or step brothers. They either have no idea what a
Speaker 1: good film is or a very different sense of humor.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm done with that. Ian Tyson says Princess
Speaker 1: Bride star wars with the Dark Knight. Movies are too important.
Speaker 1: Jeff Horowitz says, I'm gonna go with a relatively new
Speaker 1: and but grand Budapest hotel. The pastel backdrops contrast with
Speaker 1: a dark humor was so comforting to me. All Right,
Speaker 1: I'm done with that. I love that movie. Monica Voth says,
Speaker 1: The Fifth Element my favorite all time movie in my family,
Speaker 1: and I quote it constantly. My husband and I had
Speaker 1: a bit of a standoff when we first dated over
Speaker 1: Seinfeld versus Friends, because Friends is my favorite show. But
Speaker 1: we spent two years watching every episode of Seinfeld in
Speaker 1: order then every episode of Friends and helps smooth things over. Clearly,
Speaker 1: Seinfeld is the superior show. Just putting that out there
Speaker 1: right now. I like Friends. I like them both. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of both. You like Friends? I
Speaker 1: still watch Friends? Yeah, yeah, okay, you didn't like Friends.
Speaker 1: I take I did not like Friends. Just so basic.
Speaker 1: It's like an espresso versus a super double chi vanilla latte.
Speaker 1: Oh no, millennials. Kindle Appell says, I'm not just saying
Speaker 1: this honestly, but Harry Potter the movies. Yeah, just trying
Speaker 1: to stoke the old fire here, I guess our Harry
Speaker 1: Potter fire. Well. A big sentiment on the Harry Potter
Speaker 1: h Perma thread that that is a thing on the
Speaker 1: Facebook group the Movie Crushers. You also check it out
Speaker 1: if you haven't already. Um is a lot of people
Speaker 1: saying love the books the movies were mad and I
Speaker 1: haven't read the books, so I have no nothing to
Speaker 1: compare them. So you read all the books, and I
Speaker 1: have not read all the books. I haven't read any
Speaker 1: of the books, Chuck, I haven't even seen all the movies.
Speaker 1: You keep doing this, you and you keep being surprised.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I've never read any of the books, and
Speaker 1: I've only seen some of the movies. But the reason
Speaker 1: I didn't like make it to the end was because
Speaker 1: I thought the movies were just kind of mad as
Speaker 1: movies and again explained the lower back tattoo of of
Speaker 1: uh dim dimbl Edar Griffin ditch. You know it was.
Speaker 1: It was a wild time in my youth. Ye, yeah,
Speaker 1: late nights. Jessica Lynn Dialbo. She's back, She says hot
Speaker 1: Rod certainly not the best movie, but a good indication
Speaker 1: of my humor. All right, that's The Lonely Island dudes,
Speaker 1: She's oh sure, I never saw it though I haven't either,
Speaker 1: but I've heard that I had someone a friend just
Speaker 1: screaming the praises of this movie. And I really really
Speaker 1: like The Lonely Island guys, So I'm sure it's funny. Well,
Speaker 1: Jessica says, her husband likes it, so they're a good match.
Speaker 1: Let me see here. Patricia Caffrey says, I dumped my
Speaker 1: crush on John Cusack due to his pretentious dissing of
Speaker 1: Better Off Dead. He is now dead to me. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that John Kusack himself, just his own movie.
Speaker 1: Well he remember we've talked about how problematic he is,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that's true. He has come out and talked
Speaker 1: trash about that movie, which is so short sighted because
Speaker 1: it's like, it's obviously an artifact of the time, and
Speaker 1: it's a delightful movie. And he's made so many shitty movies.
Speaker 1: Why don't you diss the Edgar Allan Poe movie or
Speaker 1: Hot Tub Time issues, the Room seven there was one
Speaker 1: that was about Oh my god, all right, I think
Speaker 1: this has officially started what will become a long standing
Speaker 1: John Cusack thread in this show. Yeah funk that guy.
Speaker 1: Victoria Miller ten Drn says, Uh, my partner is a
Speaker 1: bit older than me from a different country, so there'll
Speaker 1: be times, and we have no idea what the others
Speaker 1: references are. However, if when we met he hated all
Speaker 1: female reboots, we wouldn't be here today. So I guess
Speaker 1: you're talking about like the Ghostbusters thing. May It's my
Speaker 1: question is is there a longstanding tradition of female reboots
Speaker 1: or is it sort of a more recently it's a
Speaker 1: more recent that I think so too. Yeah, because there
Speaker 1: was the Oceans uh female reboot or whatever, and then
Speaker 1: there's the Ghostbusters and I'm all for it. Why not?
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, is this like really form firmly established
Speaker 1: or is it Hollywood just kind of testing the waters. Well,
Speaker 1: the only reason I'm cynical is because it's Hollywood never
Speaker 1: has like it's trying to put their best foot forward
Speaker 1: as a as a people. Um, it's just a money
Speaker 1: thing to Hollywood, as it as always, so they're probably
Speaker 1: trying to take advantage of the female empowerment movement to
Speaker 1: make some money. You know, there's an article I just
Speaker 1: found on The Guardian called Lord of the Flies two
Speaker 1: Oceans eight how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender. So apparently
Speaker 1: it's a new thing. They're doing a Lord of the
Speaker 1: Flies all all female reboot, which could be super interesting totally.
Speaker 1: Why not. Why not have boys and girls on the
Speaker 1: island fighting each other? You know, it has to be
Speaker 1: all girls. Okay, that's fine. Uh, William Angus says, normally
Speaker 1: I would say die Hard. However, my first full date
Speaker 1: with my new girlfriend was die Hard five. Well, that's
Speaker 1: not the original die Hard. Greta Coney, this says the
Speaker 1: wedding singer. Carry mcquaide says, probably Emily or spirited away.
Speaker 1: Jack Colin Sarah, Noh, boy, this is a controversial in
Speaker 1: my house last night. If she liked Boyhood, then we're done.
Speaker 1: Oh if she liked it, Boyhood is not the worst
Speaker 1: movie I've seen, but it's totally obnoxious and I barely
Speaker 1: consider it a film. Uh yeah, And my wife saw
Speaker 1: this last night on the Facebook, and she wanted to
Speaker 1: call Jack out and say, Jack, you should not be
Speaker 1: allowed to be on the internet. Interesting. Interesting, your your
Speaker 1: internet licenses revoked, sir, That's what she said. See. I
Speaker 1: think that's a bridge too far, though, Chuck that level
Speaker 1: of of that level of just ire. Yeah about Boyhood,
Speaker 1: about Boyhood, because again I haven't even seen it, and
Speaker 1: I've heard people on both sides of the of the
Speaker 1: aisle on that one. But but to hate it well,
Speaker 1: and also on I thing too, This whole this whole
Speaker 1: question was about a movie where if someone didn't like it,
Speaker 1: then you'd be done with this. Guy is going so
Speaker 1: far as to say, if you like this movie, She's like,
Speaker 1: I really like Boyhood. It was very sweet, tender movie
Speaker 1: about a family. Fuck get out. Yeah, Internet privileges revoked. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Jack Close that laptop, Ted McDonald. If a girl was
Speaker 1: seeing the sand Loot and she didn't, at least I
Speaker 1: think it was funny. If not a classic, there would
Speaker 1: forever be a rift that I can't build a bridge across.
Speaker 1: My brother worked on that movie, Holly Lancaster Memoirs of
Speaker 1: a Geisha. She said, maybe if they've never seen it
Speaker 1: or even and I loved it, but if the downright
Speaker 1: hate it and make fun of it, we're done. J
Speaker 1: b Ray says, for me, it would be either Evil
Speaker 1: Dead Too or The Warriors JV. That's those are good movies,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, not every I wouldn't say every woman
Speaker 1: on Earth loves The Warriors. Yeah. I haven't seen The Warriors. Um,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's kind of a dudes movie. Kind
Speaker 1: of it seems that way from the trailers area are
Speaker 1: the clips I've seen. But Evil Dead Too certainly does
Speaker 1: point to the appreciation of a certain schlocky splattery aesthetic. Agreed. So,
Speaker 1: I mean I would be down, you know what, I
Speaker 1: would be pleasantly surprised and super stoked if if a
Speaker 1: woman that I was seeing was really into like evil
Speaker 1: dead to through the Army of Darkness or whatever. I
Speaker 1: feel like we did we have some stuff to talk about. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Uh Summer west Woodward Um, Forrest Gump shawshankin Silence of
Speaker 1: the Lambs, Kia, Chrisostom, Crisostomo, Um, if it didn't get
Speaker 1: any money, Python movie, or I would know that our
Speaker 1: sense of humor would not jibe. Although she says jive
Speaker 1: not to call you out, think you mean job. You know,
Speaker 1: I had a moment the other day where I almost
Speaker 1: used jib instead of jibe. Caught myself last minute. Yep.
Speaker 1: Would it looked like a fool? Now? I think so
Speaker 1: many people say jib and don't even know jibs word.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, It's exactly right. Yeah. Uh. Duncan Creamer says, well,
Speaker 1: it would be one thing if they didn't like it,
Speaker 1: no harm, no foul, but if they actually made fun
Speaker 1: of Blade Runner, Bye bye. I'm gonna go through some
Speaker 1: of these really quickly. Here Abigail Gonzalez as the Princess Bride.
Speaker 1: Dale Nakagawa says the goonies agree there. Vicky Mahoney says
Speaker 1: White Christmas. Lisa Pott says love Actually. Peter Middleton Jr. Crookland, Oh, Peter,
Speaker 1: he said it is so nostalgic for me in a
Speaker 1: pretty simple message of families sticking together through thick and thin,
Speaker 1: and gets me every time at the end. Peter, Uh, dude,
Speaker 1: I love that movie so much. You and I park
Speaker 1: our cars in the same garage. My friend, big, big
Speaker 1: fan of Krookland Susan Fairchild Smith Breakfast at Tiffany's. Tyler
Speaker 1: Alton says the pest with John Leguizamo were Sir Ninja's interesting.
Speaker 1: Serf Ninja Alright. Not not a good movie. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I love it. I mean, I haven't seen that, but
Speaker 1: I just love Tyler's. No, it's cool but pretty well established.
Speaker 1: It's not a good movie, but it's one of those
Speaker 1: bad movies that's maybe so bad that it's fun. They've
Speaker 1: actually done it. On how to this get made? Before
Speaker 1: with your buddy Paul Shear, Huh, I have to check
Speaker 1: that one out. Jill sort of Vinden says The Outsiders
Speaker 1: for sure. Isabelle calledwell, says Mama Mia, I actually like
Speaker 1: like that movie. Lee Dallas as Princess Bride, Lynn bob Um.
Speaker 1: She says, it doesn't matter the movie. Anyone who makes
Speaker 1: fun of something you love on a first date is
Speaker 1: a past Lynn. That is a great point. I'm with
Speaker 1: you there. Richard Memorris has Pixar films in general. Uh.
Speaker 1: Cameron McPhail says Ghostbusters the original, Ashley Reynolds, Dead Poets Society,
Speaker 1: Lee Less Stovica, Star Wars the original three of course. Uh.
Speaker 1: Jean Sharp, Casablanca. I haven't seen Casablanca. I haven't either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. That was one of the ones on the
Speaker 1: list that we were supposed to watch. Yeah, we should
Speaker 1: watch it together. And my girlfriend has never seen any
Speaker 1: Star Wars movie, and she holds it as a point
Speaker 1: of pride. She's saving them for like her dying days,
Speaker 1: when she can just marathon all of them. Be a
Speaker 1: lot of movies by that, and I think, so movies, Well,
Speaker 1: she can just watch the good ones, the first three.
Speaker 1: Al Right, A couple more here, Uh, my buddy, Debbie says.
Speaker 1: My roommate says, almost famous, I say say anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree with both of those. Hi, Debbie Kristin
Speaker 1: Fordham says The Lost Boys. Tim Durante says Bill and
Speaker 1: Ted's excellent Adventure. Karina Kingtana Ferris Bueller or any Hughes movie.
Speaker 1: Justin Ritter coming to America. Melanie Pearson star wars, Gary
Speaker 1: Garon Schuler Lonesome Dove. Al Right, Tyler Mink has to
Speaker 1: be RoboCop, Dale Fontaine, Forrest Gump or the original die Hard.
Speaker 1: And let me finish up with one more here, let
Speaker 1: me see here. Ian Lyons has punch drunk Love. That's
Speaker 1: a classic. Al Right, everyone, I appreciate those. Sorry if
Speaker 1: you didn't get read, but we're moving on to segment
Speaker 1: two now, another edition of Almost Famous, wherein we go
Speaker 1: over actors famous or not to turn down what could
Speaker 1: have been roles of a lifetime. We're gonna start out
Speaker 1: with John Lithgow. He almost played the Joker twice apparently
Speaker 1: um in the original Joe Dante version of the movie
Speaker 1: that never got made, Joe Dante was gonna make Batman,
Speaker 1: and then again in Tim Burton's first movie he uh
Speaker 1: was gonna play the Joker. I think John Lithgow would
Speaker 1: have been a great Joker Man. It's almost like more
Speaker 1: of a classic Joker And now I don't know that
Speaker 1: that it's it's an odd choice. I wonder how they
Speaker 1: would have done him up. I wonder if they would
Speaker 1: have like given him the the wig and the green
Speaker 1: hair and everything, or if they would have kind of
Speaker 1: leaned more on the way he actually looks that. That's interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: if it would have been Tim Burton, I think he
Speaker 1: would have gone with the same yea, the same kind
Speaker 1: of book he look But Jack was great in it.
Speaker 1: But I could totally see John Leftgow. I'd been down
Speaker 1: with that Emma Stone one for La La Land. But
Speaker 1: originally that movie was gonna be Emma Watson. In fact,
Speaker 1: it was gonna be Emma Watson and Miles Teller in
Speaker 1: La La Land a movie you hate you mean Hermione
Speaker 1: from the Harry Potter films. Harry what um is that?
Speaker 1: A movie about a Potter that's Harry? Yeah, that'd be funny.
Speaker 1: H A. I r y Potter. Yeah, the here suit Potter.
Speaker 1: I love that word. Here suits wonderful. Uh. Mark Wahlberg,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna call him out on this because he
Speaker 1: originally read for Brokeback Mountain I believe in the Jake
Speaker 1: Jillenhall part, and he has admitted to quote being a
Speaker 1: little creeped out after reading the script. What's all those
Speaker 1: we're gonna kiss the dude? Yeah, exactly, as that's how
Speaker 1: Mark Wahlberg talks. Uh. He said it was very graphic
Speaker 1: and descriptive. I told Angley, I like you, you're a
Speaker 1: challenge to guy, and if you want to talk about
Speaker 1: it more, but thankfully he didn't, So Mark Wahlberg, Uh
Speaker 1: g f y, sir, seriously, and good for you Jake
Speaker 1: jillen Hall for not being a homophobe. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Back two steps. Did you hear that Joaquin Phoenix is
Speaker 1: going to play the Joker in the new Joker only
Speaker 1: Joker centric movie? Oh? Really? And I like it so not?
Speaker 1: Uh what's his face? From? No? God? That Jared leto?
Speaker 1: Now they're done with that guy. I thought that he
Speaker 1: didn't see that movie, but I thought that was supposed
Speaker 1: to be like the only good thing was his Joker
Speaker 1: was good. He was only in the movie for like
Speaker 1: five seconds and then the real makeup of the Joker,
Speaker 1: it was like he was we had like gold teeth
Speaker 1: and like dumb face. Tattoos, and it was just it
Speaker 1: was a weird choice. Did you see that movie? I did.
Speaker 1: It's that It's not good. It's just like you could
Speaker 1: tell it was a movie. They had to like fix,
Speaker 1: they had to triage that and and and post and
Speaker 1: every scene was just a big set piece song with
Speaker 1: very little like dialogue, and then the stuff that did
Speaker 1: have dialogue was like painful. Not do you make a
Speaker 1: movie that bad? I mean, it's that that's that big,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, no exactly, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean it definitely, it's it's it's a movie. It's a movie,
Speaker 1: but it's I don't know, it's it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a good popcorn kind of bullshit movie. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Jared Leto's Joker is only in it like for a
Speaker 1: few minutes at the beginning and then at the end.
Speaker 1: So Joaquin Phoenix, huh, yeah, I can see that he's
Speaker 1: a he's a good actor. Boy. It's hard to beat
Speaker 1: to Heath Ledger, though he was fantastic. El Woods from
Speaker 1: Legally Blonde, who Reese Witherspoon played up almost went to
Speaker 1: Christina Applegate, and I believe she said that she felt
Speaker 1: like she was getting typecast a little bit. I could
Speaker 1: have seen her in that role though from Married with
Speaker 1: Children and Anchorman. Yeah, she would have been good. Will
Speaker 1: Smith almost played Neo in The Matrix. Interesting. I totally
Speaker 1: could see that. Absolutely uh. And he says that he
Speaker 1: does not regret it. He said, I don't think I
Speaker 1: would have been right for it anyway. He said, I
Speaker 1: didn't fully get it. The Matrix was a difficult concept
Speaker 1: to pick to pitch, and in the pitch, I just
Speaker 1: didn't see it. But when I saw Ki and his performance,
Speaker 1: and I rarely say this, but I would have really
Speaker 1: messed it up. I wasn't smart enough as an actor
Speaker 1: to let the movie be Yeah. Interesting, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Will Smith, Yeah, uh, let me see here. Leonardo DiCaprio's
Speaker 1: originally cast as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights, but he
Speaker 1: turned it down to appear in Titanic and recommended his
Speaker 1: friend Mark Wahlberg, who had been in The Basketball Diaries
Speaker 1: with him, to Pete Anderson and I remember reading about Leo.
Speaker 1: He said that he, uh, not so much regrets it,
Speaker 1: but really wishes he could have done both movies. He's like,
Speaker 1: I really wish I could have been Dirk Diggler. Sure
Speaker 1: he would have been. It would have been great. I
Speaker 1: saw the first stills from the new Terrance you know movie,
Speaker 1: How Did Too? Yeah, with the DiCaprio and Brad Pitt
Speaker 1: looking like Paul newmanan and Robert Redford's right, and DiCaprio
Speaker 1: still a weirdly ageless. He still looks like he's fifteen
Speaker 1: years old. To me, I don't know, you think he's
Speaker 1: getting there? Well, he's filled out as a man, I guess.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to say he's puffy, no, because
Speaker 1: I'm the puffiest. Well, you know, I guess that is mean.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just a nostalgia thing. It's just that face.
Speaker 1: He's just got such a baby face. You know, that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is weird because every remember when he first started
Speaker 1: getting cast in like really adult roles. I was kind
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, but he's a kid. He didn't can
Speaker 1: he pull this off? But I think he does. He's
Speaker 1: got the chops. Man, I'm looking. I'm I don't know.
Speaker 1: Tarantino has a little problematic these days, but I am
Speaker 1: This movie is intriguing, kind of doing a big Hollywood
Speaker 1: story with the Manson murders kind of at the center.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting idea. Yeah, I can't wait. And I'm
Speaker 1: a jump a fan of like l A and old
Speaker 1: l A history and yeah, me too. I'm sure it'll
Speaker 1: look super cool and as much trash as I talked
Speaker 1: about Tarantino. I'm going to go see every one of
Speaker 1: his movies. Still he still has me wrapped around his
Speaker 1: his grubby little finger. I just mean the way he
Speaker 1: kind of defend didn't defend Weinstein, but it kind of
Speaker 1: came out that like he knew more than that on
Speaker 1: and maybe you know what most of Hollywood did. You know?
Speaker 1: It was a big ugly secret out in public or
Speaker 1: not public, but you know, yeah what they call it
Speaker 1: an open secret? Yeah, all right. Trueman Capody, the author
Speaker 1: of Breakfast at Tiffany's, wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly
Speaker 1: Golite golightly, but she turned it down because she was
Speaker 1: warned it would be bad for her image. Classic movie.
Speaker 1: You ever seen Breakfast at Tiffany's Only clips I've ever
Speaker 1: seen the whole thing. Good movie, not what you think,
Speaker 1: or maybe it is, but it wasn't what I thought.
Speaker 1: It's actually a very kind of depressing movie. Jerry McGuire,
Speaker 1: imagine Tom Hanks shouting show me the money is what
Speaker 1: this website says. Uh. Cameron Crow had Tom Hanks in
Speaker 1: mind when he wrote it, but he was directing his
Speaker 1: other movie, That Thing You Do. I to believe the
Speaker 1: first movie he directed. So Tom, the Beatles esk kind
Speaker 1: of boy band. Yet I don't know, man, That's sort
Speaker 1: of what Tom Hanks is about. He can kind of
Speaker 1: fall into a lot of different roles. I think he
Speaker 1: would have been good. Jerry McGuire think so. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I like the Cruise though, as much as I want
Speaker 1: to punch his face. Yeah, Like that's a very punchable face. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But like usually, like most of his roles, he's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's good. Uh, Tom Cruise. Once again, he was almost
Speaker 1: in Footloose. He almost played Ran and Footloose after Risky Business,
Speaker 1: but he did all the right moves instead. Uh. And coincidentally,
Speaker 1: Rob Low also apparently auditioned three times for Footloose, but
Speaker 1: in the end had an injury so he couldn't dance,
Speaker 1: and so Ran became Kevin Bacon for life. Molly Ringwald
Speaker 1: was going to play the lead in Pretty Woman evidently
Speaker 1: and turned it down, and she says that she does
Speaker 1: not regret it. She said in a Reddit a m A.
Speaker 1: She said, Julie Roberts is what makes that movie. It
Speaker 1: was her part, and every actor hopes for a film
Speaker 1: that lets them shine like that. So great attitude. Mully Ringwald.
Speaker 1: It's weird. We we talked about all this stuff. You
Speaker 1: you think about a thing that maybe you don't typically
Speaker 1: when you're just watching movies. Is the idea of like
Speaker 1: walking into a room to audition for a part and
Speaker 1: they're being fifty other people in there that look just
Speaker 1: like you and that are wearing the same you know,
Speaker 1: piece of clothing that they ask you to wear, have
Speaker 1: their hair done in a certain way. It's a very
Speaker 1: weird world. Hollywood. Yeah, I used to occasionally I would
Speaker 1: be in charge of videotaping casting sessions. Uh only did
Speaker 1: that like four or five times, but it was always
Speaker 1: interesting and I always felt not bad because these people
Speaker 1: are there there by their own choice or doing what
Speaker 1: they want to do. But it's such an intimidating, awful
Speaker 1: process to audition for a part. Um. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I always just felt like, man, I'm glad I'm not
Speaker 1: on that side of camera. Totally, man, I don't think
Speaker 1: I've got the stones for it. Yeah. And then on
Speaker 1: the Stuff You Should Know TV show, I was actively
Speaker 1: involved in the casting, and UM, let me just say this,
Speaker 1: there was one actor who really blew us away in
Speaker 1: casting that ended up not being very good. And it
Speaker 1: was one of those things where I was like, Wow, interesting,
Speaker 1: how that can happen like great in the casting room,
Speaker 1: not good on set in real life. And I guess
Speaker 1: a good casting director kind of knows when to record,
Speaker 1: how to recognize and to mitigate that kind of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's certainly not me. I tried though. All right, stream
Speaker 1: this everyone, and then comment card. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: a movie I watched recently that you can stream now
Speaker 1: from last year Academy Award nominee Hostiles. Did you see that,
Speaker 1: Noel Christi in Bale Western? Oh Hosta. I thought you
Speaker 1: met the one with the chainsaws and the drills and
Speaker 1: the European tourists. Hostile. Oh no, not Hostiles. No. Do
Speaker 1: you like Westerns? I do? All right, I would check
Speaker 1: it out if I were you. Um, if you don't
Speaker 1: like Westerns, then just go ahead and tune out. But
Speaker 1: this is a different kind of Western it's um. The
Speaker 1: story is Christian Bale is a a soldier, I guess
Speaker 1: a Union soldier post war who is been tasked by
Speaker 1: the president orders from the President of the United States
Speaker 1: himself to take a a dying Native American chief and
Speaker 1: a warrior I believe, a Cheyenne warrior and his family
Speaker 1: back to his homeland in Montana. Uh. And it is
Speaker 1: said at a time this movie where you are, and
Speaker 1: the movie has a lot it's it's sort of kind
Speaker 1: of the point of the movie in a lot of
Speaker 1: ways of the reparations to what we had done to
Speaker 1: the Native Americans, and even back then an early understanding
Speaker 1: of like, wow, this was really fucked up what happened,
Speaker 1: and we need to sort of try and repair this
Speaker 1: in certain ways. One of the ways is returning this
Speaker 1: chief to his homeland. Christian Bale is very much um,
Speaker 1: which you would call a hater of Native Americans because
Speaker 1: he fought in many wars against them and saw many
Speaker 1: of his friends brutally murdered in battle by Native Americans.
Speaker 1: Although it's very complicated movie because it's not black and white.
Speaker 1: He himself, he said, at one time took more scalps
Speaker 1: than sitting bull because Christian Bale was a fierce warrior
Speaker 1: in battle. So it's there's a lot wrapped up here
Speaker 1: and a lot to unpack. Rosamund Pike is great in it. Um.
Speaker 1: She comes along in the journey. I won't spoil how
Speaker 1: they get hooked up, but she ends up on this
Speaker 1: journey with the six or seven American soldiers taking this family.
Speaker 1: I think it's the warrior chief played by West Study,
Speaker 1: who was great in this movie. And I think his
Speaker 1: son and may be daughter in law and grandkids. I
Speaker 1: think there were like four or five of them. And um,
Speaker 1: it's just the treatment. It also stars Rory Cochrane, Jesse Plemons,
Speaker 1: Ben Foster, some of my favorite character actors, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's just interesting. It's interesting how they portray the relationship
Speaker 1: of these soldiers to the task at hand, which they
Speaker 1: initially don't want to do. Um. Things kind of change
Speaker 1: over the course of the movie. The relationship evolves. It's
Speaker 1: brutally violent. Um, and it's a backdrop of the American
Speaker 1: West where kind of anything goes. They could be attacked
Speaker 1: by a Native Americans, they could be attacked by fur traders,
Speaker 1: they could be attacked by anybody at any moment and
Speaker 1: our and um it covers PTSD and you know, like
Speaker 1: you never think of PTSD in these old school like
Speaker 1: Civil War Native American War films, and one of the characters,
Speaker 1: Rory Cochrane, is clearly experiencing PTSD from his time in
Speaker 1: the Native American Wars, and it's kind of rare to
Speaker 1: see that kind of thing covered in a Western, not
Speaker 1: a I mean, i'd say, not a ton of dialogue.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of dialogue, but a lot goes unset in
Speaker 1: the movie, a lot of quiet moments. It's not it's
Speaker 1: spoon feedee. I just found it to be a very
Speaker 1: very interesting, different kind of Western, So I highly recommend Hostiles,
Speaker 1: especially if you're into Westerns. Have you been watching Westworld? Nope? Cool?
Speaker 1: Do you like it? Yeah? I do. It's one of
Speaker 1: those shows though that like you almost have to listen
Speaker 1: to some sort of supplementary material the Yeah, there really is.
Speaker 1: There's one particular podcast I like called Decoding Westworld that
Speaker 1: gives you an episode by episode kind of breakdown and
Speaker 1: some questions and some things they think are bullshits and
Speaker 1: some things they think are interesting Easter eggs. But it
Speaker 1: is a show that rewards you if you give it
Speaker 1: a chance. But I'm not quite sure where it's heading.
Speaker 1: And it has some things in it that are kind
Speaker 1: of ridiculous, but there are a few moments of just
Speaker 1: poetry in that show. It's it's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: cool things about it. Yeah, it's good. I've been holding out.
Speaker 1: I watched the first episode when it came out and
Speaker 1: liked it, okay, and then just sort of got busy.
Speaker 1: But how it happens and on tipe back. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: We're gonna finish up with five questions on the comic
Speaker 1: card BINGI Jazak says, what do the initials A C
Speaker 1: and other initials at the end of people's names during
Speaker 1: the credit mean? Well, Benji, good question. Um, those are
Speaker 1: those are unions? Uh, that's sort of the easy answer.
Speaker 1: And I think we had uh kind of talked about
Speaker 1: this before right now. Yeah, I think I asked something
Speaker 1: about it because like there's not some of those that
Speaker 1: are really long and convoluted, like they're more than just
Speaker 1: a C. There's a bunch of different letters for different positions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a C as American Cinema editors, So it's just a
Speaker 1: union thing. Good question, though, Benji Uh, Laura Lynn like
Speaker 1: the singer you said that before too. Yeah, yeah, she's
Speaker 1: written in which movie placement? Uh? Which movie product placement
Speaker 1: did you find the most obvious or awkward? Well, Loretta,
Speaker 1: any car stuff usually makes me cringe. Really yeah? Well
Speaker 1: how so, like how how how would it be really
Speaker 1: obvious that it was this certain car? Uh? Having the
Speaker 1: camera set low and the car going right up to
Speaker 1: the front of it with the Mercedes ben symbol perfectly,
Speaker 1: or any just really obvious framing of the car logo
Speaker 1: or flat out mentioning the car. That's true. The one
Speaker 1: for me is always like soda cans or or beers
Speaker 1: that are turned just perfectly label facing the camera. You know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious that that's that's for the opposite of
Speaker 1: that is if you don't have any clearance and you
Speaker 1: are clearly covering it. Yeah, that's also funny. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: any any of the the car stuff really bums me
Speaker 1: out because it's sometimes it's just so obvious and gross
Speaker 1: and it takes me out of the movie immediately. Amanda
Speaker 1: Harris says, sorry if you've discussed this before, but what
Speaker 1: is your ideal role on a movie set? Amanda, We
Speaker 1: have not discussed that. I don't think or maybe we have,
Speaker 1: but I think my ideal role would be either two
Speaker 1: jobs um writer, director, which is two roles. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's face it, yeah I want to make a movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but if I'm not gonna if I'm gonna give up
Speaker 1: the reins and and not to be the director, I
Speaker 1: would say editor. I would love to edit a film.
Speaker 1: I always loved editing when I made short films. Was
Speaker 1: my favorite part of the process, and I was pretty
Speaker 1: good at it. I think do you feel like the
Speaker 1: high level editors are like kind of verbally like telling
Speaker 1: people what to do. Are they actually clicking the mouse
Speaker 1: and doing the doing the work. Well, I think they're
Speaker 1: totally clicking the mouse. Yeah. I think editors really get
Speaker 1: into that work, get in there, and they have assistance
Speaker 1: that log footage and cull things, do that kind of
Speaker 1: grunt work. But I think the editors still very much
Speaker 1: like if like just back in the old days they
Speaker 1: sat there with their white gloves on and taped film together.
Speaker 1: But there are probably situations is where a director might
Speaker 1: be more directly involved with an editing pure where they're
Speaker 1: out over their shoulder, almost sitting in the room sitting
Speaker 1: in the room. Yeah, and hopefully in that situation it's
Speaker 1: a collaboration, you know, Yeah, Because I mean the thing
Speaker 1: about editing too is if you it's a it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a specialized skill. But it's also one of the
Speaker 1: first things you kind of have to understand when if
Speaker 1: you're making a film. So even if you're a director,
Speaker 1: you've got to shoot with the edit in mind and
Speaker 1: in a certain way. But like a lot of times,
Speaker 1: like that we're talking about it with Suicide Squad, if
Speaker 1: you end up having to fix problems in the edit,
Speaker 1: you probably weren't that good of a director in the
Speaker 1: first place. Yeah, And it's hard to fix in an edit. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think a good director knows when to defer,
Speaker 1: or good director knows when to defer to an editor,
Speaker 1: you know for sure. Oh and nowadays too, Um, a
Speaker 1: lot of times there they're doing a little rough cuts
Speaker 1: on set. Sometimes with the advances in digital filmmaking, they
Speaker 1: probably have like a cart and of just like like
Speaker 1: an editing a mini editing suite. Sometimes you can put
Speaker 1: together a little rough kind of whatever that day. It's crazy, uh,
Speaker 1: just to give the director and idea of what's going on,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. All right, Alejandro Mehia green
Speaker 1: beautiful name. Do you own and still buy physical media? Well, Alejandro,
Speaker 1: I still own physical media. I still own CDs that
Speaker 1: are in a box in my attic and DVDs that
Speaker 1: are in a box in my attic. I don't generally
Speaker 1: buy physical media anymore. I I'm a hold out in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. And I was hold out on
Speaker 1: cassettes from records, hold out on CDs from cassettes, then
Speaker 1: to hold out on m P three's from CDs. I
Speaker 1: was usually a late adopter of things, but I have
Speaker 1: fully kind of switched over. Now what about you know? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a drawer of DVDs that I very rarely
Speaker 1: pull out anymore because I can usually find what I'm
Speaker 1: looking for elsewhere. And uh, I know, our buddy Casey
Speaker 1: pegram Um is an avid collector of Criterion Blue Rays
Speaker 1: or four K Prince and he's just sort of a
Speaker 1: classicist in that respect where he really likes to have
Speaker 1: that shelf of respect all his favorite films, which I
Speaker 1: respect as well. And there's amazing stuff they're doing with
Speaker 1: restorations and Blu Ray or four K restorations of like
Speaker 1: Prince and the whole Janie Films library and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's totally worthwhile. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then finally, Brandy McCabe, what are your favorite heist and
Speaker 1: or grifter movies? Brandy, I made a small list. The
Speaker 1: original Oceans eleven and by original, I don't mean the original,
Speaker 1: I mean the remake, the first remake, the Soderberg I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that one. Reservoir Dogs, of course we've talked
Speaker 1: about on the show Heat. We talked about on the
Speaker 1: show Bottle Rocket, great heist movie. Uh. And The Underneath
Speaker 1: that I believe I've talked about during my Steven Soderberg
Speaker 1: highlight reel his second film. Highly recommend The Underneath. And
Speaker 1: then finally for heist movies, I think a movie that
Speaker 1: was a little underseen was Sexy Beast. Did you ever
Speaker 1: see that? With Ben Kingsley? Great movie and one of
Speaker 1: the great bank heist I've ever seen. Because you think
Speaker 1: you've seen it all until you've seen an underwater bank heist.
Speaker 1: And that's all I'll say. Yep, You're like, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? How could you do that? Here you go?
Speaker 1: Here it is love Sexy Beast, the great Ray Winstone too.
Speaker 1: And then for grifter movies. While the Grifters classic film
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw American Hustle on there. Highly enjoyed that one.
Speaker 1: Catch me if you can. Great great heist movie, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: grifter movie. And then a movie I think is underseen
Speaker 1: and underrated, The Brothers Bloom. Did you see that? No,
Speaker 1: that was the first movie of somebody interesting though, I believe,
Speaker 1: well the second movie it was Ryan Johnson. Ah, yes,
Speaker 1: after a brick and not. I mean a lot of
Speaker 1: people saw it, but it was I think underseen and undersold?
Speaker 1: Was it Adrian Brody? Okay, I haven't seen it, I'm
Speaker 1: just aware of it. You dig it? Very good grifter movie.
Speaker 1: Totally liked it. Uh. And then you know what I
Speaker 1: just thought it when dirty rotten scoundrels on the comedy
Speaker 1: side of classic. Al Right, everybody, that's it for this week.
Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in your homework. Oh boy, James
Speaker 1: Bond fans, get ready, I was gonna say your homework,
Speaker 1: should you choose to accept it that that would have
Speaker 1: been a mission impossible reference. Uh, we have a James
Speaker 1: Bond special coming up this week, So Bond fans, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be really excited because I had the wonderful and
Speaker 1: the charming and hysterical Matt gore Lean. Matt has a
Speaker 1: couple of He has several podcasts. He's a member of
Speaker 1: the Super Ego, au Quatrete, Quatrow Quartet, Quatrain Quartet of
Speaker 1: improv comedians alongside Jeremy Carter and Mark McConville and the
Speaker 1: great Paul Left Thompkins and Super Ego. If you have
Speaker 1: a little into it, it's one of the great great
Speaker 1: podcast comedy podcasts of all time. And they're doing stuff again,
Speaker 1: which is great. And uh, Matt Gorley also does I
Speaker 1: Was There Too, a wonderful podcast where he interviews very
Speaker 1: much side characters from movies, from famous movies and like
Speaker 1: not even the co star, like the eighth person down
Speaker 1: on the call sheet, which is why it's called I
Speaker 1: Was There Too. Pretty clever. And then his great James
Speaker 1: Bond podcast called James Bonding. He has a legit James
Speaker 1: Bond expert, very well known for his Bond knowledge and enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: And I said, hey, Matt, come into l A. Can
Speaker 1: we do a Bond special and uh, talk about Bond
Speaker 1: films in general. And then what what would be your
Speaker 1: choice for a favorite film? Did you guys Bond over Bond?
Speaker 1: Oh no, sorry, I love it. That's a great ten
Speaker 1: thirty am joke. Uh So he went with Casino Royal,
Speaker 1: the the first offering from Daniel Craig. It's in his
Speaker 1: Bond franchise history, and I got to watch it again
Speaker 1: and man, what a fucking great movie. That part where
Speaker 1: he gets whipped in the nuts by the rope and
Speaker 1: just that whole opening parkour chase. It's like, now it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a solid, solid picture. Yeah, really really good movie.
Speaker 1: So that's what Goreley went with, and we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about Bond everyone, so you will be delighted if
Speaker 1: you're a fan of James Bond. Well that's the thing too,
Speaker 1: It's like you can't talk about the new Bond without
Speaker 1: talking about the old Bond because it jumps off of
Speaker 1: a lot of the tropes of the old ones that
Speaker 1: kind of updates them, and there's a lot of the
Speaker 1: character becomes a little more complex and the newer ones
Speaker 1: a little more brooding. And anyway, yeah, that sounds like
Speaker 1: a fun conversation show. Yeah, it's a good one. So
Speaker 1: thanks everybody for listening and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 1: Right now, we will, indeed chucking