Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to Mini Crush. On Monday, Nolan and
Speaker 1: I were just talking about movies even before we recorded.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the funk are we doing? Chucky? Can
Speaker 1: you hear me? It is I Noel Brown. I've never
Speaker 1: seen the movie Tommy, so I'm probably doing this all wrong.
Speaker 1: You're doing it just right, thanks, Bud. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the Who's Tommy? Right? And it was corrected by a
Speaker 1: weirdo director, Ken russell Kin. I need to I'm digging
Speaker 1: into his uvra right now. And Altered States is the
Speaker 1: one that always pops out as like a very psychedelic
Speaker 1: take a shot movie. Yeah. I think Women in Love
Speaker 1: is also one of his kind of uh more well known,
Speaker 1: kind of signature films as well, if I'm not mistaken, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's still around. No, he died nine years ago.
Speaker 1: The world alright, p we hardly even knew that you
Speaker 1: were dead. Yeah, Tommy's cool, very uh weird seventies. You
Speaker 1: know the way those movies look back then was just
Speaker 1: so cool, that kind of rich yet faded color. I
Speaker 1: love it. M m mmm. And you were saying off
Speaker 1: My in a red hot take that you prefer. Elton
Speaker 1: John's version of Pinball Wizards featured in the movie to
Speaker 1: Theos's Pretty Killer Man, because I think, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love the that riff on the
Speaker 1: piano a lot better. And then he does a vocal
Speaker 1: Uh he does a little bit different vocal take on
Speaker 1: shore plays. I mean pinball. That that line that I
Speaker 1: like a lot? Now? Am I am? I correct in? Uh?
Speaker 1: Saying that he Elton John is playing the titular pinball
Speaker 1: wizard in the movie. Isn't that right? Uh? No, Tommy
Speaker 1: is the pinball Wizard. What Who's Elton John? He's like
Speaker 1: his he's his nemesis. Maybe yeah, is a pinball wizard
Speaker 1: actual role. It's been a while, but it's good and
Speaker 1: I thoroughly enjoy it. He adds more soul to that song,
Speaker 1: I think with the voice of his than Mr Adultery.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Chuck, I hate to tell you, but
Speaker 1: his role is the pinball wiz? Is he? That's what
Speaker 1: it says here on Wikipedia? So well, I thought Tommy
Speaker 1: was the pinball Wizard because he's the Johnny's the young
Speaker 1: upstart that's given the the the dark horse that's giving
Speaker 1: the pinball Wizard a run for his money. But in
Speaker 1: the song that deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays
Speaker 1: a mean pinball. He's a pinball wizard. It's a good point. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm all confused now. I'm just just looks stupid. Thanks
Speaker 1: for bringing this up. No no, no, look, I'm literally
Speaker 1: just googled Elton John and Tommy and it says Tommy
Speaker 1: Elton John character big text the pinball Wizard. So I
Speaker 1: I you have to take this one up with the internet, chuck,
Speaker 1: because I don't have the information in my brain to
Speaker 1: back it up. Stop the steel noll. Uh, let's spit
Speaker 1: my coffee all over my mic So I have a
Speaker 1: couple of catchup points here. I want to let everyone
Speaker 1: know that I up to my popcorn game. I was
Speaker 1: very shamefully just doing microwave popcorn. And that's just that's
Speaker 1: the garbage way to do it. If you don't want
Speaker 1: good popcorn, get microwave popcorn. And uh, I got a
Speaker 1: whorli pop on the advice of John Hodgman and the
Speaker 1: worldly pop is basically I think you can just get
Speaker 1: the lid, but I got the lid and the pot.
Speaker 1: Uh and it's uh. It's got a hand with a
Speaker 1: little crank and that's attached to a little rotary spinner
Speaker 1: and you put in your your stuff and you turn
Speaker 1: the little handle so it's interactive, like Ruby's gonna love
Speaker 1: this thing, and it spins the popcorn. Well, you cook
Speaker 1: it on the stove. Nice. I love a good crank, chuck, No, no, no.
Speaker 1: The things are a manual for you know what is
Speaker 1: wrong with you? What is wrong with you? I just
Speaker 1: said I like a good crank. I like a good
Speaker 1: physical thing that you put your hand on and turn. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be sincere here checking it's all coming
Speaker 1: out wrong because of your filthy gutter mind. But the
Speaker 1: Worldly pop have also kicked it up with the the
Speaker 1: orange coconut oil for the movie theater style. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, of course, the drippy drips, Yeah, the drippy drips,
Speaker 1: and then a little I do. I don't go like
Speaker 1: crazy with the different toppings. I know that people have
Speaker 1: their loves and their suggestions, including what is it yeast
Speaker 1: or something nutritionally? Nutritionally I just like the hippies. Hippies
Speaker 1: call it nootch, which sounds even worse. The hippies. I
Speaker 1: just used the movie sort of orange e popcorn salt
Speaker 1: can give it a good shake, and that's my game. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it would also be good chucking. This is
Speaker 1: not this is not over the top. Just get a
Speaker 1: nice seasoning salt, you know, get a nice like array
Speaker 1: of seasoned salts and you can have a different flavor
Speaker 1: melunge every time. I'll try that. I like them lunch,
Speaker 1: you know, I love a good lunch. I like this
Speaker 1: ide the idea of this, uh this analog you know
Speaker 1: of a stove popcorn crank situation. I'm gonna look into that.
Speaker 1: Jerry's texting me. You know, does everyone want to hear
Speaker 1: a text from Jerry? Yeahs is? Are you in trouble everything? Okay? Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm hearing weird that weird electrical noise in your track again?
Speaker 1: Uh that I used to hear in the recordings, but
Speaker 1: figured it was a one off as they seem pretty
Speaker 1: clean as anything changed in your space. It's not terrible.
Speaker 1: I can work around it, but it's definitely worse than
Speaker 1: it was before the last two to three home sessions.
Speaker 1: I had electrical interference and all what the hell he got?
Speaker 1: He got? You got gremlin's bro in your electricals. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know what I would do, Chuck, I would just
Speaker 1: unplug the cord and just just plug it back in.
Speaker 1: Make sure it's got a nice solid connect for the audition,
Speaker 1: just for the mic. You know, this is getting introduced somewhere,
Speaker 1: you know, in a chord. Uh. So it could be
Speaker 1: that maybe it's just gotten a little loose or something.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they work their way a little loose. But I
Speaker 1: don't hear it. Well, your mike is also feeding the zoom,
Speaker 1: so I would hear it, but I don't know. Um,
Speaker 1: maybe send me this track after we finished, and we
Speaker 1: can trouble shoot that business. This has been tech Talk
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Speaker 1: actually it used to be. When I went, it was
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Speaker 1: going to let you borrow it. It's pretty neat. So No,
Speaker 1: there's been talk loosely here and there about a crusher Fest,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking today how much fun that would be,
Speaker 1: and uh, I think it could take a lot of shapes.
Speaker 1: But what I thought would be fun is if let's
Speaker 1: say we rented out the place at theater here in
Speaker 1: Atlanta and had like an all day thing, basically like
Speaker 1: we gotta make it worth it if people are coming,
Speaker 1: and um, I have three movie screening throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the day, all decided on by the crushers, and
Speaker 1: then we in between have socials there in the theater
Speaker 1: and we could play games, we can do we can
Speaker 1: do whatever. We can have people chime in and talk
Speaker 1: about what might be fun to do, ice break your socials,
Speaker 1: get to know you stuff, and then maybe have it catered. Uh,
Speaker 1: have lunch and dinner catered and drinks and stuff. I
Speaker 1: think that would be a lot of fun when things
Speaker 1: returned to normal. Uh maybe late next year. I would
Speaker 1: absolutely love that. And the closest thing I could compare
Speaker 1: that to, um, I think I told you this. I
Speaker 1: went to an event at the i f C Center
Speaker 1: in in New York for John Cameron Mitchell's epic uh
Speaker 1: multipart podcast series Anthem Homunculous, And it was a sit
Speaker 1: down listening session for the whole thing. So it was
Speaker 1: literally a theater, you know, the size of the plaza,
Speaker 1: full of people, and there would be breaks where they
Speaker 1: would have like they had like a lunch break and
Speaker 1: then a dinner break and catering. People just came through. Um,
Speaker 1: this would be a great example. We could do like
Speaker 1: a six part screening fests, an all day kind of
Speaker 1: movie fest situation. That would be so much fun. And
Speaker 1: I think I could probably get a a block of
Speaker 1: hotel rooms that maybe the What's Highland in? Yeah, at
Speaker 1: the Highland in or the what's the one down the
Speaker 1: street next to Pont City Market with the Claremont Hotel
Speaker 1: the Claremont, and we could podcast in between the movies.
Speaker 1: We could watch the movie and then do like a
Speaker 1: like a podcast sash about the movie. We totally could
Speaker 1: take take you questions from the audience and have like
Speaker 1: a mic. This has got to happen, Chuck. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we could get a hundred people here, it would
Speaker 1: be worth it. And maybe, I don't know, we'll look
Speaker 1: into it. I don't like the expenses a thing that
Speaker 1: can keep people from going, So maybe I can just
Speaker 1: like try and fit the bill for everything but travel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds pretty awesome, man. It could be a lovely
Speaker 1: celebratory thing for a return to normalcy and to like
Speaker 1: people could drive if they're close enough, and if you
Speaker 1: could afford a plane ticket. Um, then maybe maybe we
Speaker 1: could just throw some of the main movie. Crush doesn't
Speaker 1: make much money, but I'm I'm happy to funnel that
Speaker 1: money into a big thing like this. That would be
Speaker 1: kind of cool. Count me and oh no you're you're
Speaker 1: not invited, No, damn it. It'd be funny. We could
Speaker 1: have Casey and Paul and Annie and Holly and like
Speaker 1: and you dummy and all the all the in house
Speaker 1: people like that would be so much fun. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm into it. All right, Crush your fest. We gotta
Speaker 1: make that happen everyone. All right, now we're gonna get
Speaker 1: going here with uh. We got a couple of little segments.
Speaker 1: One we're gonna take from the crushers, the great Austin Devski,
Speaker 1: one of the great crushers. He always has such great
Speaker 1: ideas he is talking about. He says, Okay, animation to
Speaker 1: lie back and usually doesn't work. He said, didn't work,
Speaker 1: but maybe sometimes it does. I mean, what are other
Speaker 1: examples of that? Okay, never mind that, I understand your
Speaker 1: mind question. But I guess the big ones these days
Speaker 1: are all the Disney live action kind of reboot things
Speaker 1: which I would before not great, right, correct, don't particularly work.
Speaker 1: He says, what live action to animation do you think
Speaker 1: could work? Like? What what movie would you want to
Speaker 1: see animated? Or something from that world animated. I think
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool question. It's such a cool question that
Speaker 1: my brain is just like whirling. I'm trying to lock
Speaker 1: onto something that would make sense. Well, something science fiction.
Speaker 1: He maybe like Dune. Dune would be a cool animated
Speaker 1: or like a blade Runner animated like in the style
Speaker 1: of anime, or something like a Kira kind of you know,
Speaker 1: the blade Runner. That would be cool. And I think
Speaker 1: the animation style, you can go with a lot of
Speaker 1: different directions with some of this stuff. So let's see
Speaker 1: what the crushers have to say. All right, Grant Woody says,
Speaker 1: I think they could be fairly successful with an animated
Speaker 1: Mad Max series, maybe in the same style as Adult Swims. Primal,
Speaker 1: which I have not seen. Oh dude, you gotta see.
Speaker 1: Prime was J Gindi Tarkakowski, who who did like Dexter's
Speaker 1: Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls and a lot of those
Speaker 1: early Cartoon Network originals. But um, it's called Primal and
Speaker 1: it's there's no dialogue, it's just a caveman look, and
Speaker 1: it's fucking brutal. It looks so sad and so violent
Speaker 1: and gorgeous. I'm with listener here. Um, Grant Woody's name,
Speaker 1: Grant Woody h big time Like seriously, all right, Lea
Speaker 1: Mitchell wants to see a Harry Potter animated series. I
Speaker 1: obviously we know where I lie there, but that is
Speaker 1: uh And I agree with John Kell. He commented that
Speaker 1: I'm surprised it doesn't already exist. That seems like a
Speaker 1: no brainer. You know, kids would eat that up and
Speaker 1: you could just be in that world and not even
Speaker 1: have it be the movies and the like the Further
Speaker 1: Adventures of the Boy Wizard totally. You see, they're doing
Speaker 1: a they're doing a series. Uh, they're developing a series
Speaker 1: for HBO Max. See that. Yeah, I made it, made
Speaker 1: a lot of news on all the nerd sites. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean whatever, you know, Like I like, I said, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not okay, guys, I'm gonna come clean. Not a
Speaker 1: huge Harry Potter fan coming clean first time ever on record.
Speaker 1: Not that I don't like it. I just like some
Speaker 1: of the movies are cool. Some of them are kind
Speaker 1: of too kitty and a little you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of a snooze. But I feel that way about a
Speaker 1: lot of the Star Wars movies, And yet I loved
Speaker 1: The Mandalorian. So I would I would be interested to
Speaker 1: see if for HBO Max they could do a grittier
Speaker 1: Harry Potter situation that could be like something that even
Speaker 1: if you're not intimately like all up in the movies
Speaker 1: and the books, that you could enjoy as standalone where
Speaker 1: he's like sucking people up totally shred and faces. Does
Speaker 1: he not do that in the movies? He does? He shred,
Speaker 1: not a face scenario, faces shredded. I don't think he
Speaker 1: you know, he definitely wizards out on some some mofos.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would love to see. You know, I
Speaker 1: can't imagine it would be all the same, you know kids,
Speaker 1: It would be like a different class, probably different stories. Right.
Speaker 1: Our old friend Zack Pointer says fight Club, and Austin
Speaker 1: Debski himself said fight Club would work pretty well as
Speaker 1: an anime. Yeah, that'd be cool. Huh. There is a
Speaker 1: comic book sequel to Fight Clubs, only as a graphic novel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. And Zach Pointer else says Rambo. I could
Speaker 1: see that. It's well interesting. Someone posted him. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: just a a little quick thing. But there is an
Speaker 1: animated Rambo. But it might have just been or maybe
Speaker 1: it was a full eighties cartoon. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if there was gonna be a time for that, it
Speaker 1: would have been the eighties when they were doing like
Speaker 1: you know, executives were just all, you know, geeked out
Speaker 1: in their boardrooms, green lighting every cartoon, you know, of
Speaker 1: every act and property, Like I mean, the g I.
Speaker 1: Joe cartoon existed exclusively to sell children's underpants. Uh. David
Speaker 1: Gooch commented on that. The Gooch said, the eighties, I
Speaker 1: don't remember these, he said, there was a RoboCop, a
Speaker 1: police academy, and a Toxic Avenger cartoon. Yeah, a Toxic
Speaker 1: Avenger card. I remember the action figures for the Toxic
Speaker 1: Avenger cartoon. They were kind of like Ninja Turtles, but grosser. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Mr. T cartoon, of course, I remember that. That
Speaker 1: was pretty fun. Lord of the Rings, Carrie Undil says,
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings. I think technically there was or
Speaker 1: was that just the Hobbit, No, there's there's act. She
Speaker 1: did the first one. He didn't. Only the Fellowship of
Speaker 1: the Ring. That was wrong. That's right, that's right. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta update that ship, and that stuff looks pretty
Speaker 1: dated now. I think it looks real bad. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would argue that the Hobbit looks better and the
Speaker 1: Lord than the Fellowship of the Ring one. The Dragon
Speaker 1: looks really cool in the Hobbit, agreed. The fifth Element
Speaker 1: that's from Ryan Townsen. That'd be pretty cool. I need
Speaker 1: to rewatch that because I didn't love it back in
Speaker 1: the day. I just thought it was okay, But I
Speaker 1: know it's so revered. I think maybe it deserves to rewatch.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those ones that's a little
Speaker 1: bit style over substance. Is so stylish and like cool
Speaker 1: looking that you sort of give the fact that the
Speaker 1: plot is a little flimsy a pass um. But I
Speaker 1: would love to do the same. That same director who
Speaker 1: I believe did the professional if I'm not mistaken, the
Speaker 1: one about with with young young Lolita esque Natalie Portman Um.
Speaker 1: He did those the Fifth Element, but he also did
Speaker 1: a one that came out pretty recently called Valerium The
Speaker 1: City of a Thousand some Things, and it was very
Speaker 1: much in the same you know, visual wheelhouse as Fifth Element,
Speaker 1: but also kind of a flimsy story, but really cool
Speaker 1: to look at to the point where I would say
Speaker 1: that I kind of liked it all right, Luca Lucan,
Speaker 1: Luca Bessa, Yes, if I'm not mistaken, Joseph BELLSS Predator, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be a pretty boss cartoon. I always see cartoon
Speaker 1: animated film. I'm fine with cartoon. I don't think anything
Speaker 1: wrong with that. I don't think it's somehow dismissive or diminutive.
Speaker 1: Rebecca Robe Killer admin, wonderful person, great human, says Alien
Speaker 1: franchise and Face Off, and Debsky said Alien franchise and
Speaker 1: stop motion would be kind of weird and scary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. A lot of work. Yeah, that stop motion
Speaker 1: I made, dude. I went to make a stop motion
Speaker 1: movie when I first got my high eight video camera
Speaker 1: and it could go frame by frame, and I got
Speaker 1: my Star Wars figures out and I did about sixteen
Speaker 1: seconds of movie and it took a day and a half.
Speaker 1: And it looked good because I was really going super
Speaker 1: slow frame by frame. It looked awesome. But I was
Speaker 1: just like, I'm gonna be I'm gonna die and not
Speaker 1: finish this. It takes so long. It's painstaking lye long. Well,
Speaker 1: you've seen that amazing little moment in Parks and wrec
Speaker 1: right where uh Adam Scott's character is depressed and unemployed
Speaker 1: and he like making the stop motion animation film. I
Speaker 1: don't remember that. Oh it's fabulous. He he's talking about
Speaker 1: it whatever his name, Roblow's character who's visiting him, and
Speaker 1: he's he's saying, oh my god, I'm working on my
Speaker 1: stop motion film. You show it to you and he
Speaker 1: shows it's like two seconds. It's a requiem for a
Speaker 1: Sunday or so a Monday or that, and it's it's
Speaker 1: the it's the R. E. M. Sung Stand and it's
Speaker 1: the intro and it's like a dude getting out of
Speaker 1: bed and it's just like the intro chords and then
Speaker 1: he goes stand and it's it. That's it, and he
Speaker 1: goes that was it. I worked on this for like
Speaker 1: a month and a half. It is really painstaking. And
Speaker 1: that's why you know, when you do fantastic, Mr Fox
Speaker 1: or Isle of Dogs are one of these modern um
Speaker 1: you know, Nick Park style stop motion, they have teams
Speaker 1: of people, you know, and it's much more I mean
Speaker 1: it still it's still painstaking, but they have a process
Speaker 1: in place. Obviously it's not. Yeah. Well also, like I
Speaker 1: mean I know that what's his name, Wes Anderson. He
Speaker 1: monitors a lot of the production, just like like like
Speaker 1: the Voice of God like on TV. Monitors from his apartment,
Speaker 1: you know, just like on a screen where you know,
Speaker 1: you can switch back and forth between the different sets
Speaker 1: and kind of you know, supervise a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you mean, like it's not like you gotta be there
Speaker 1: every second. You give them the vision and then they
Speaker 1: work on it for like three weeks or whatever to
Speaker 1: get the one sequence. You know, amazing, God bless him.
Speaker 1: Uh Menal Data, one of our favorites, says Dr Who.
Speaker 1: I've still never seen Doctor Who, but obviously I know
Speaker 1: enough about it to know it would probably be pretty
Speaker 1: cool animated. Mm hmmm. Midsomar. That's from Jonathan Cooley. I
Speaker 1: posted a really good meme where it was like midsummer
Speaker 1: Boat featuring the animaniacs. Um, you know, because it's like
Speaker 1: smashing heads with like mallets, you know, like cartoon style
Speaker 1: kind of it was. It was good. James G. Woodbeck
Speaker 1: says Army of Darkness. That would be cool, just the
Speaker 1: Evil Dead franchise animated. I mean, they've like milk that
Speaker 1: thing so much they might as well. Oh dude, that
Speaker 1: would be great. And and and and by the way, a
Speaker 1: quickly another example of eighties stuff like that. The Real
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters was a really cool Ghostbusters cartoon that I was
Speaker 1: hugely into. When I didn't see that, I think I
Speaker 1: remember knowing about it though. Kunz the Danger of And
Speaker 1: says the thing, Yeah, that would be cool. It would
Speaker 1: be cool. It's an animated movie. Folk show. Charles Martin
Speaker 1: Aakers agrees with you about Blade Runner anime. He said
Speaker 1: basically a Kira and he also says that Holy Ship
Speaker 1: we said the same thing. Yeah. He also says an
Speaker 1: interstellar series in cells shading style. Uh huh, what's cell shading?
Speaker 1: It's like, um, well, have you ever played the game
Speaker 1: Borderlands are seen stills from the game Borderlands. Nope. It's
Speaker 1: essentially where everything looks kind of flat, almost almost like
Speaker 1: uh those movies like Waking Life and um uh, it's
Speaker 1: sort of like rotoscope, but it's like where it kind
Speaker 1: of looks two D, but there's like it's like the
Speaker 1: cells are painted on. It's like they're real people, but
Speaker 1: the cells are kind of painted on and they have
Speaker 1: like sort of like feathered edges a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the stills from borderlandes. It looks really cool.
Speaker 1: It's a great game. It's a great series, really fun games.
Speaker 1: I'm still burning through that Spider Man game. Fun fun.
Speaker 1: I am well into Last of Us two and I
Speaker 1: can we play that game. I can only play that
Speaker 1: game for about thirty minutes of the time because it's
Speaker 1: very only because it's just it's kind of upsetting. I mean,
Speaker 1: like when you're your character gets killed, it's like visceral
Speaker 1: and like you feel it, and I can only go
Speaker 1: through that so many times afore I'm like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna move on. I'm with you. I'm at this part
Speaker 1: where they are all these like trip wires, and I
Speaker 1: just kept getting blown up like brutally, and it's very
Speaker 1: jarring when it happens because you don't see them because
Speaker 1: they're in like tall grass or something. You know, boy,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and pronounce his name nol. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what some of these little uh marks over
Speaker 1: the letters me and these are not new amouts. Oops.
Speaker 1: Sorry about that, John act Lee gon jian Son. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with that. Sorry, John, I know butchered that.
Speaker 1: But the reason I butchered is because you have a
Speaker 1: great idea, uh big trouble in Little China that would
Speaker 1: be killer as an animated film. Another one that I
Speaker 1: had that has just missed me, missed my radar gone
Speaker 1: under it? What im not now that I'm not aware
Speaker 1: of it? I just have never seen it. Um I
Speaker 1: know I would it does. It does look like a
Speaker 1: like a cartoonish kind of romp, almost like a you know,
Speaker 1: schlocky pulp kind of situation. Is that about right? It's
Speaker 1: it's great, a lot of fun, very funny as well.
Speaker 1: All right, now, well we're gonna move on. Thanks Austin
Speaker 1: for that. That's a lot of fun. You can go
Speaker 1: check it out on the movie Crusher's page if you
Speaker 1: want to submit your own animated movie idea. Uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna move on, Nol to something we haven't done in
Speaker 1: a while, a little game called knows. All right, it's
Speaker 1: been a minute, It has been a minute. Uh. I've
Speaker 1: been watching a lot of movies lately, though. I've been
Speaker 1: seeing this girl and hanging out a lot, and we
Speaker 1: watch a lot of movies together. Uh. And I've made
Speaker 1: a list. A lot of it is some of my favorites,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them are making the away from
Speaker 1: the Knowles whole segments onto this list, you know, because
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch things with somebody who hasn't seen
Speaker 1: it that you're intimately familiar with. It's also nice to
Speaker 1: watch something that neither of you have seen, agree and
Speaker 1: be completely surprised. I agreed. Uh, well, Nol. I got
Speaker 1: out my ven diagram, my abacus, I got out my
Speaker 1: any what else, my adding machine. I have a computer.
Speaker 1: I have a professional baseball Major League Baseball scoreboard. Chuck,
Speaker 1: Let's be real, your computer basically is all of those things.
Speaker 1: You know. We're living in a brave new world, my
Speaker 1: friend and my yes and my no column in my
Speaker 1: pin and handal. You've been watching a lot of movies.
Speaker 1: But have you been watching a lot of black and
Speaker 1: white movies? A few? Yeah? Few? All right, Well that's
Speaker 1: the category today, NOL black and white modern movies. Oh,
Speaker 1: I might do well. It took it easy on you
Speaker 1: because I know you don't refuse to see any movie
Speaker 1: pre that is not true. Check and you know that.
Speaker 1: But these are all and by modern, I mean you know,
Speaker 1: from the sort of eighties forward. Yeah, like black and
Speaker 1: white on purpose as a stylistic choice, exactly. Alright. No,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start it off with a little movie from
Speaker 1: Alexander Paine called Nebraska. I haven't seen it. No, we're
Speaker 1: gonna move on to number two here. This director will
Speaker 1: pop up a couple of times because he loves to
Speaker 1: shoot him black and white. A little noir modern revisionist
Speaker 1: western called dead Man. I have seen dead Man, Yes,
Speaker 1: one of my favorites, with the soundtrack by the Rizza.
Speaker 1: It's great. Neil Young Man, Oh wait, no, not the Rizza.
Speaker 1: Then wait is it a little No? Probably ghost Dog. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Nil Young you're right now, dead Man was. Neil young
Speaker 1: scored it, and it's one of my favorite movie scores.
Speaker 1: In fact, I was just listening to that the other
Speaker 1: day when it was raining in dark. A lot of
Speaker 1: just kind of solo guitar like loping, kind of like
Speaker 1: Reverby guitar, very Reverbi soundscape stuff. Uh, and he kind
Speaker 1: of plays a lot of the score is sort of
Speaker 1: based around this one main riff that is very simple
Speaker 1: but just so effective. Proof positive that you don't have
Speaker 1: to be super fancy with your with your music's I
Speaker 1: completely agree. And it's been a lot of times as
Speaker 1: I've seen I need to watch it again. I really
Speaker 1: don't remember a whole hell of a lot of what happens,
Speaker 1: but I've definitely seen it all the way through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great and weird. It's a very strange movie. I
Speaker 1: love it all right. Nol number three. Uh. Previous to
Speaker 1: him being a creep in this movie, looking even creepier,
Speaker 1: the movie Manhattan from Woody Allen was regarded as an
Speaker 1: all time great Have you seen Manhattan? No, We've talked
Speaker 1: about this. My Woody Allen. Uh, my Woody Allen repertory
Speaker 1: is pretty limited. Yeah, I've really only seen I've seen
Speaker 1: sleep Burn, which is a weird one, and I've seen
Speaker 1: A Midnight in Paris, and I've seen uh like one
Speaker 1: other one, um, but not not at the time. And
Speaker 1: it's it's not because I've like canceled Woody Allen. It's
Speaker 1: just something I's never gotten around to. He's one of
Speaker 1: those one of those filmmakers too, where he's got a lot,
Speaker 1: So it's hard to know where to start unless you're
Speaker 1: already kind of in in it, you know, or you're
Speaker 1: with someone who can give you some rex. So yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely not averse to it, but I have not seen it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Manhattan is is tough, especially now because of the subject
Speaker 1: matter of the film. He is a middle aged man
Speaker 1: dating a high school girl. And I know it was
Speaker 1: a different time and everything, but it's still like, uh,
Speaker 1: every every time I think about Manhattan, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: just you should have made her in college. It's still
Speaker 1: a made December? Is it made December? Yeah? Made December
Speaker 1: romance if that's what you're after. But it's like all
Speaker 1: he had to do. Is mak her nineteen instead of sixteen?
Speaker 1: You know, but he didn't. He made her sixteen, and
Speaker 1: that's really creepy given other you know, his real life. Alright, No,
Speaker 1: we're moving on. You have no comment on that, so
Speaker 1: that's I don't. I don't. I'm not armed with enough
Speaker 1: information to comment on. All right. Number four and ols
Speaker 1: a movie we've covered on this show from Uh jeez,
Speaker 1: was it Francis war Couppla the great movie rumble Fish.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. No, I've seen The Outsiders. Does
Speaker 1: that count? No? I could have put that on the
Speaker 1: list as going with rub Outsiders. Yes, you're right, it
Speaker 1: is not black and white, is it? No rumble Fish?
Speaker 1: I remember the book that was by the same writer
Speaker 1: as The Outsiders, se Hinton, that's right, Yeah, she was.
Speaker 1: I think she was from Tulsa, Oklahoma, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: and she greasers greasers in those movies, greasers and socialists,
Speaker 1: the socialists. Yes, rubble Fish is great, you'd like it? Good? Uh?
Speaker 1: Good score there too, Stewart Copeland did the score? Oh cool? Yeah? Alright, No,
Speaker 1: moving on to a great, great movie from the two thousand's.
Speaker 1: I think I don't think it was nineties. Good Night
Speaker 1: and good luck. Yeah, I love it. I have I've
Speaker 1: had that on had that on DVD. Actually, we'll look
Speaker 1: at you. Don't get bonus points for that. You know
Speaker 1: what's The guy's named David Strea, one of my favorites. Strath.
Speaker 1: He is briefly in The Sopranos in a later season
Speaker 1: where he plays like the guidance counselor at the at
Speaker 1: AJS High School, and he briefly gets embroiled in an
Speaker 1: affair with Carmela and then kind of really tactlessly breaks
Speaker 1: up with her after accusing her of kind of using
Speaker 1: him to get her son into a good college, which
Speaker 1: admittedly she kind of is. But he doesn't play it
Speaker 1: very well. Let's say that, and then he's done on
Speaker 1: the show. But she doesn't have him whacked, so she
Speaker 1: does not. He does not. She thinks better of it,
Speaker 1: She gives she's very angry for a minute, but then
Speaker 1: she uh, she thinks better of it. All right, Now
Speaker 1: we're gonna move on to a Cohen Brothers film called
Speaker 1: The Man Who Wasn't There? I love that one. It
Speaker 1: seemed like that one was It was such a under
Speaker 1: the radar kind of one like it didn't. I don't
Speaker 1: remember it getting a big theatrical release. I came across
Speaker 1: it on DVD as kind of like, what's this, Oh,
Speaker 1: a Cohen Brothers movie that I'm not familiar with it all. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you do a black and white movie,
Speaker 1: it's not going to perform as well. It's just that's
Speaker 1: why studios are like, no, I know you have an
Speaker 1: artistic vision, but they just don't perform as well the
Speaker 1: box office period. It is what it is. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love that people are still using that medium despite
Speaker 1: or in spite of those numbers. But that's why the
Speaker 1: Man who Wasn't There wasn't that big one. We've talked
Speaker 1: we we've talked about Yeah, it's a really weird one.
Speaker 1: It's a noir with twists and turns, and it goes
Speaker 1: places you're not expecting. And obviously Billy Bob Thornton's fabulous
Speaker 1: and perfect for that kind of tat what's the word,
Speaker 1: like laconic kind of I don't think he's a private
Speaker 1: detective because I don't remember exactly what he but it's
Speaker 1: it's a cool movie. Um. We talked about the fact
Speaker 1: that there is a black and white cut of Mad
Speaker 1: Max Fury Road, and that was what he really wanted
Speaker 1: to do. But but again studio was like the solid clips.
Speaker 1: It looks pretty awesome, but it's also so great in
Speaker 1: color totally, the color of the dust, the silver and
Speaker 1: all the well, the silver actually reads pretty well in
Speaker 1: black and white. But no, I I think it was
Speaker 1: the right stylistic choice to not go that route, and
Speaker 1: then we can have it in case you want it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agreed. Alright, No, we're gonna move on your your
Speaker 1: three to three right now, Okay, okay, okay. Number seven
Speaker 1: a movie, a biopic musician biopic which you know you
Speaker 1: don't love about Ian Curtis of Joy Division. A movie
Speaker 1: called Control. We talked about this, chuck. Um. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it because it seems really depressing and sad. I know.
Speaker 1: It's directed by the great Anton Corbin, who I love
Speaker 1: his music video work. I haven't really seen anybody direct features.
Speaker 1: I believe so very nice. It's a good movie, especially
Speaker 1: obviously if you love Joy Division. Um, it is Anton Corbin,
Speaker 1: very nice, Sam Riley, he did a great job, all right.
Speaker 1: Moving on to number eight. I know you've seen it,
Speaker 1: but I'm throwing you a bone. I had to be fair.
Speaker 1: A movie called The Lighthouse. M hmm. Not only is
Speaker 1: that black and white, it's also in like a weird
Speaker 1: square aspect ratio. Yeah. I love that square Yeah. And and
Speaker 1: and it makes sense because it really does kind of
Speaker 1: hem you into this like uh oh, what's the word,
Speaker 1: like kind of claustrophobic, uh feeling, you know, along with
Speaker 1: the characters. Yeah, and that verticality, you know, the Lighthouse.
Speaker 1: It just makes sense, alright. Number nine A wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 1: film called Frances Ha. It's another one that I wanted
Speaker 1: to see. Um, I really like that's no a bound
Speaker 1: back right, Yep, No, I haven't seen I've seen the now,
Speaker 1: I guess iconic sequence of her like ballet dancing through
Speaker 1: the streets and like a really amazing tracking shot in
Speaker 1: New York, But now I haven't seen it. Wonderful movie,
Speaker 1: co alright, No, old Number ten, I can't remember. You've
Speaker 1: either seen it or you haven't, but everything we talked
Speaker 1: about it. A little movie called Roma. It's another one
Speaker 1: I missed. Depressing. It seemed really depressing. Alright, No, yeah,
Speaker 1: would you would you would you say it's depressing? Or
Speaker 1: is it does it have uplifting qualities? I heard it's
Speaker 1: just really heavy. I mean it's not light, but it's
Speaker 1: not it's great, Okay, all right? I mean they can't
Speaker 1: all be Disney movies. No. On my list literally, I
Speaker 1: have a list literally adding it to it right now.
Speaker 1: And it looks I mean, it's one of the most
Speaker 1: amazing looking movies. That Black and White is magnificent. Have
Speaker 1: you done? Have you crushed that one with a guest? Now?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Casey and I did it. I
Speaker 1: don't think we did. Alright, No, old Moving on number eleven,
Speaker 1: we're halfway home. Another Jim Jarmish movie. It's a great
Speaker 1: it's called Stranger than Paradise. I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Down by Law. There's also Black and White, right,
Speaker 1: isn't Down by Law Black? Right? Now? I haven't seen those.
Speaker 1: I don't know way you hate Jim Jarmish, I don't
Speaker 1: you know. I guess I've seen Broken Flowers, which I enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I've seen The Ghost Dog, I've seen Dead Man. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's very like I mean, his movies are kind of
Speaker 1: a thing. They're specific, like kind of slow burn kind
Speaker 1: of thing, you know. I think Coffee and Cigarettes is
Speaker 1: black and white too. I saw Coffee and Cigarettes. He
Speaker 1: likes the medium. Alright. No, great, great first film from
Speaker 1: a great, great director Mr. Spike Lee called She's Got
Speaker 1: a Habit. No, I haven't seen it. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: do the Right Thing either, Dude. I am woefully behind
Speaker 1: on my Spike Lee. You're under spiked. I'm under spiked,
Speaker 1: all right, you're falling behind here. No, I think you've
Speaker 1: seen this next one, uh, wonderful foreign film German film
Speaker 1: called Wings of Desire Vings of Tessiah byas the greates
Speaker 1: Vim Vendors. Is that a yes? That's so, that's an
Speaker 1: ah yah all right, I thought, so that's a yah.
Speaker 1: Uh huh not a nine A resounding yeah. No. I
Speaker 1: don't think you've seen this, but you never know with you.
Speaker 1: It is a mockumentary from the nineties, I believe foreign
Speaker 1: film called Man Bites Dog. Absolutely, I've seen that, and
Speaker 1: I uh it's very disturbing, very funny, uh and really
Speaker 1: really great. Um it's about like a is. It does
Speaker 1: a really good job of kind of Um. I mentioned
Speaker 1: it recently. I think on stuff that stuff that I
Speaker 1: want you to know because we were talking about the
Speaker 1: idea of you know, fake news and cult of personality
Speaker 1: and all of that, and it basically, you know, follows
Speaker 1: around this total psychopath who serial killer, serial killer psychopath
Speaker 1: who actively you know is is murdering people on camera,
Speaker 1: and then the news crew or documentary crew ultimately inevitably
Speaker 1: becomes complicit in his acts, like to the point where
Speaker 1: they're helping him like hide bodies and ship And it's
Speaker 1: a really good metaphor for like what's going on with
Speaker 1: the media covering certain types, uh and giving them, you know,
Speaker 1: giving oxygen to their bullshit. It does, it does ultimately
Speaker 1: make them complicit in some ways. I agree. Good movie.
Speaker 1: Al Right, Well, this movie I actually have not seen
Speaker 1: it was She's did it win Best Picture? I think
Speaker 1: it might have, uh the artist, Yeah, it did. It
Speaker 1: did win Best Picture. And I think that's one of
Speaker 1: those Best Picture ones that people like immediately kind of
Speaker 1: forgot even though it's really great. But it's one of
Speaker 1: those like old Hollywood circle jerks, kind of like the
Speaker 1: the Academy just adores you know, um, and that's what
Speaker 1: it is. And it's but it's I mean, it's good,
Speaker 1: it's really good, but it's like I could see how
Speaker 1: in general audiences might not have been as into that
Speaker 1: as like Academy members were. Yeah, I hear you, circle jerk,
Speaker 1: very nice. No, uh, class it up, alright. The next one, No,
Speaker 1: I know you've seen a little black and white film
Speaker 1: called Schindler's List. Yeah, black and white except for that
Speaker 1: heartbreaker with the red dress. Red dress, that's it. Yeah, alright, boy,
Speaker 1: I'm curious because he's last four. You're tied at eight
Speaker 1: to eight and going into the final four. I love
Speaker 1: how close they always are with you. You never know, Nol.
Speaker 1: You're a conundrum wrapped in an enigma. That's me, all right.
Speaker 1: Number seventeen Christopher Nolan's first film, a little bity called Following. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time, but um, that's a great
Speaker 1: example of, like, I don't know, like Christopher Nolan love.
Speaker 1: I obviously I like his work a lot, But he's
Speaker 1: one of those directors that's gotten so far away from
Speaker 1: his scrappy early days that it's almost sad because his
Speaker 1: movies are so bombastic and huge now, whereas movies like
Speaker 1: Following a Memento are just more like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he took what he had and ran with it and
Speaker 1: made these really intense, beautiful movies that are really genuinely
Speaker 1: spooky and uh and intriguing. And now it's like all
Speaker 1: bluster and and and a lot less of that nuance
Speaker 1: in my opinion. I mean, he's still kind of uses
Speaker 1: the same as I was just reading somebody commenting on
Speaker 1: a message boards the other day saying that all of
Speaker 1: his movies kind of have a gimmick, which is sort
Speaker 1: of true, Like, you know, I forget what it isn't following,
Speaker 1: but there is a gimmick where it's like something that
Speaker 1: you think is happening isn't really happening. Um. Obviously with Memento,
Speaker 1: the movie goes in reverse. Obviously with dun Kirk, it's
Speaker 1: all one shot. He has little kind of gimmicks, but
Speaker 1: he uses them pretty well for storytelling. But I just
Speaker 1: love it when he's when a filmmakers like starting out
Speaker 1: and has to kind of like make do with what
Speaker 1: they have, and following is a great example of them. Agreed.
Speaker 1: By the way, don Kirk was not one shot. That
Speaker 1: was seventeen But Dunkirk had the time thing. It had
Speaker 1: time distortion as well, right, Excuse me? That was really
Speaker 1: that was a flub on my part. Rarely do we
Speaker 1: do in show corrections. No, but we would hear from
Speaker 1: somebody on that. I know we would all right, no,
Speaker 1: you're you're looking good. Now it's nine to eight. The
Speaker 1: first film from Darren Aronofski a movie called Pie. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And he saw that one on the shelves at Blockbuster
Speaker 1: Video or Hollywood Video or one of those video stores
Speaker 1: back in the day and was intrigued. I think it
Speaker 1: was in like a cult section because it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's so cool and weird, and it's all
Speaker 1: about the Kabbalah and numerology, and like it's one of
Speaker 1: those movies where you don't quite know what's going on,
Speaker 1: if there really is some sinister force at play, or
Speaker 1: if it's just this guy kind of losing his mind. Um,
Speaker 1: whatever happened to that actor. He never was in anything
Speaker 1: else really, and he was great, you know, a lead
Speaker 1: in Pie. Now that you're saying that, uh, I think
Speaker 1: you're right. I don't know that I've ever really seen
Speaker 1: that guy much. Who's his name? Very much experimental kind
Speaker 1: of student. First film, that ending boy who spoilers, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he does a thing he does with the thing to
Speaker 1: his thing. His name is Sean Galette, right, and the
Speaker 1: guy that plays his mentor is in a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: the old man who plays go with the the the
Speaker 1: ancient you know, chess like game. Um, he plays like
Speaker 1: the big bad uh in or one of the big
Speaker 1: bads in Breaking Bad. But let's see Sean Galette, what
Speaker 1: has he been in? Has he been in any other Aeronowski?
Speaker 1: He's got a great look. I'm sure he's been in
Speaker 1: some Uh, he's probably been in a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that we just haven't really seen. Apparently he was in
Speaker 1: Requiem for a Dream as a small part um. It
Speaker 1: looks like he hasn't been in anything since two thousand fourteen. Interesting,
Speaker 1: it looks like he's writing and directing some though. Oh
Speaker 1: there you go. That's cool. Yeah, good for him. Alright, No,
Speaker 1: it's really coming down to the wire. It is ten
Speaker 1: to eight with two more, so you can do no
Speaker 1: worse than fifty fifty, my friend, that's great, alright. Number
Speaker 1: nineteen a movie about vampires from Abel Farrar called The
Speaker 1: Addiction with Lily Taylor. Ah man, I thought you were
Speaker 1: gonna say a woman walks home alone at night. That
Speaker 1: was almost put that on there. Did you see that one?
Speaker 1: I did see that one, but now I haven't seen Addiction.
Speaker 1: All right, Well I'm sorry. Christopher Walkin, Annabela Siora, Eadie Falco,
Speaker 1: Lily Taylor, really good movie I could see. I I
Speaker 1: think vampire movies lend themselves nicely to black and white
Speaker 1: because the blood is just black. It's so creeping. Looks good.
Speaker 1: All right, So that was a no So Tim Den
Speaker 1: I Noel, you will uh you will either get fifty
Speaker 1: fifty where you will win the game by one. It's
Speaker 1: a little movie. I don't think you've seen this, feel
Speaker 1: bad about. Very Famously, John Lennon went on a vacation
Speaker 1: with with his manager who was gay, Brian Epstein, and
Speaker 1: there's there was always many rumors swirling about what happened
Speaker 1: on this vacation, I believe in Spain and whether or
Speaker 1: not John Lennon, whether or not they had a brief
Speaker 1: fling on that Spanish vacation or not. And there is
Speaker 1: a movie about that, speculative film about that called The
Speaker 1: Hours and the Times. That's chuck, you're you just that's
Speaker 1: like a steak in my in my heart. I never
Speaker 1: even heard of the thing, all right, well, I apologize
Speaker 1: for that really good movie. If you're into it, I
Speaker 1: know you're not big on Yeah, it's good ninety one,
Speaker 1: So that is a no. And all that is a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty. I'd say that's pretty good work, my friend. Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks man, that was a good list. And I'm I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, Chuck, I've got my running note pad of
Speaker 1: of movies to watch. I love it and I added
Speaker 1: a few of those two and I added Roma do
Speaker 1: the right thing and she's got to have it great.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll take that. Uh, And I think we
Speaker 1: should just wrap it up. Dude, we'll do uh, We'll
Speaker 1: do a stream this on the next one. Sounds good.
Speaker 1: So thanks for listening everyone, and thanks for playing along.
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