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Speaker 1: Crush edition minis Crush. So, Noel, you got on a
Speaker 1: Weird Tales shirted and then you said you got it
Speaker 1: at dragon Con Dragon to tell me about your great
Speaker 1: dragon Con, And I, like I usually do, put a
Speaker 1: sock in your mouth. You put it right in there
Speaker 1: until those mics were on. Let's hear about your looks
Speaker 1: deceptively like a sock. Though it's weird, there's like a
Speaker 1: sock on the mic. First of all, some people might
Speaker 1: not even know nol. What is dragon Con. It's like
Speaker 1: the comic Con of the South. I guess, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: but but but it leans really heavily into Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: less corporate, and it leans really heavily into the cosplay
Speaker 1: aspect of it. Like that's I think I think it's
Speaker 1: it's the one for that. Yeah, I mean, of course,
Speaker 1: comic cons are. Yeah, But I went to New York
Speaker 1: Comic Con and I remember being nonplussed by the quality
Speaker 1: of the costumes. Now is that big? It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The one I'm not sure. I mean, Dragon Con is
Speaker 1: well known for the parade that happens. Is it on
Speaker 1: Memorial or a Labor Day or the day before? Is
Speaker 1: it's Sunday your mother day before Saturday? Oh it's Saturday Saturday. Okay,
Speaker 1: because we went one year and I loved it. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I hate to be that guy now. But oh
Speaker 1: the crowds, the crowd it's hard to these days. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: the crowds are instead year old. You got to keep unleash.
Speaker 1: It's an absolute crush. And so I have a ten
Speaker 1: year old, as you may or may not know. I know,
Speaker 1: you know with the listening audience, may not I do,
Speaker 1: I do. You've met her, chuck, you know this don't
Speaker 1: be koy um. But she went full bore into cosplay
Speaker 1: this year. She's in the anime now and there's this
Speaker 1: really popular show called My Hero Academia um and she
Speaker 1: picked this one kind of villainous character and dressed up
Speaker 1: as her, and she took it the extra mile. Because
Speaker 1: there were a lot of kids dressed up as this
Speaker 1: costume and this as a character. But she had all
Speaker 1: these extra accessories that were kind of optional. We built them. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't human blood, but that she has this kind
Speaker 1: of neck like neck brace looking thing that has vampire
Speaker 1: teeth on it, and we cut it out of blue
Speaker 1: felt and then cut the teeth out of foam and
Speaker 1: you know, hot gluten on there. And then we made
Speaker 1: her a little ninja mask with like little tubes on
Speaker 1: it because she's a vampire and has to have blood
Speaker 1: coursing through these tubes. And we just cut off little
Speaker 1: pieces of like water bottle straws, you know, the bendy ones,
Speaker 1: and then spray painted them gray and howk glued them
Speaker 1: onto this ninja mask hot glue, baby, Oh man, it's hot,
Speaker 1: it's glooy, and it's crafty. It's really crafty. But she
Speaker 1: did most of the work and people just kept stopping
Speaker 1: to take I want to take pictures with her. So
Speaker 1: she felt like a million bucks. She won wonderful comic con. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that kind of stuff. And the
Speaker 1: character's name is Hemikotoga and people kept calling her tiny
Speaker 1: Toga that's multiple people called her that it was just
Speaker 1: a great day for dad and child. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: was the first half of the day. It was me
Speaker 1: and her and my old friend Harry from my hometown
Speaker 1: of Augusta came to visit, and I went to a
Speaker 1: strip club. Well no, we also had my daughters, one
Speaker 1: of my daughter's good friends and her dad, and we
Speaker 1: all did the comic con thing, sorry, the dragon Con thing,
Speaker 1: and then took them home and then me and Harry
Speaker 1: came back out and went to like adult stuff and
Speaker 1: saw shows and you know, went to parties and stuff.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of the band Bit Brigade, Chuck? Uh?
Speaker 1: No is it? Is it one of those uh chip tunes? No,
Speaker 1: it's not. So. It's an offshoot of a kind of
Speaker 1: a math rock speed metal band called Cinemachanic, who are
Speaker 1: from Athens. And what these guys do Bit Brigade is
Speaker 1: they cover the soundtracks to classic video games while someone
Speaker 1: speed beats the game live on stage and they play
Speaker 1: along with the game and it syncd up perfectly to
Speaker 1: everything that's happening in real time. Kill me, but great.
Speaker 1: It's the coolest thing ever. They did Mega Man too,
Speaker 1: all the little boss fights all the little stage songs
Speaker 1: everything was that has a lot to do with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but there's something for everybody because you can get
Speaker 1: fascinated by how like perfectly this guy beats the game.
Speaker 1: The music is great. They're kind of like mettled up
Speaker 1: versions of the songs. You know, I had pac Man Fever,
Speaker 1: that's all I had. Well, they couldn't do pac Man.
Speaker 1: They could do pac Man because if you think about it,
Speaker 1: a lot of those like kind of midi you know,
Speaker 1: chip tune things are pretty baroque because a lot going on.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of like are peggiated kind of business,
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, it's real music. Yeah, it's very
Speaker 1: good stuff. Very much enjoyed it. How many days are
Speaker 1: you there? Just the one just did Saturday? Just Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we something like fifteen miles tracked it, you know, on
Speaker 1: the on the app or whatever. Yeah. So did you
Speaker 1: have passes and stuff so you could get in everyone? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just had. We just about the one day passed,
Speaker 1: but that was that was plenty. People to do with
Speaker 1: the whole four days, five days or whatever. I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine. Sly like literally they need more power, more power.
Speaker 1: Energy drinks is what they call that. That's great. No,
Speaker 1: I was bummed because I, you know, tend to go
Speaker 1: away on Labor Day weekend, so I miss a lot
Speaker 1: of the high jinks now. And one thing I really
Speaker 1: miss is my good pal Janet Varney uh and her
Speaker 1: wonderful partner Brandon who all over the Instagram stories. I
Speaker 1: don't get to see him every year. They're coming to
Speaker 1: Atlanta now and I haven't gotten to see them. And
Speaker 1: not only that, but worked use improv who is who
Speaker 1: I was able to perform with? And Max fun con with,
Speaker 1: how Lubin and uh Gagliardi in the Gang. They were
Speaker 1: all here performing and so how is on Facebook sin
Speaker 1: it out pictures of Fox Brothers and like all these
Speaker 1: restaurants near me, and I was so mad that I
Speaker 1: wasn't here to hang and get interviews with us. Were
Speaker 1: you out of town? Yeah? I was in Uh. I
Speaker 1: mean it was great. We did shows of course Boston
Speaker 1: and Portland, Maine, and then the family came up. That's right,
Speaker 1: I knew my spent the weekend in May. That's right,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's been amazing. Yeah, you see Stephen
Speaker 1: King ridiculous? Do you see Rose Matter? Can you watched
Speaker 1: The Clown, but that was in Dairy. That's that's in
Speaker 1: Maine as well. Uh. It's a weird, cool, awesome place. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like I had a movie idea when I was there.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I need to write me and
Speaker 1: I had another movie idea this morning. I'm flowing with
Speaker 1: ideas and I love that. M all right. Speaking of ideas,
Speaker 1: we're going to the just put on his glasses. That
Speaker 1: was a That was a move right there. That was
Speaker 1: a move. Got this chair, I'm sinking. How do you
Speaker 1: keep this from You Gotta pull the lever and then
Speaker 1: your lift your butt up at the same time. I've
Speaker 1: never been a fan of the chair that just dips back.
Speaker 1: When you know you can also lock it, there's like
Speaker 1: a lock and loaded baby. All right. We're going with
Speaker 1: a bunch of social studies guys, social studies movie because
Speaker 1: I had some good ideas from some of you on
Speaker 1: the movie crush page when I asked for for ideas
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. And I'm using some of
Speaker 1: that stuff, but also just thought of some other stuff.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna go with favorite book adaptation followed by
Speaker 1: worst Book adaptation. And this had a lot of engagement
Speaker 1: because people, you know how it is with these books
Speaker 1: and old people get very these books. You know, you
Speaker 1: know these You read a great book and it's so like,
Speaker 1: uh so much more rich than a movie ever can, right,
Speaker 1: And it's a personal thing. You cast it in your
Speaker 1: brain and then a movie comes out and rarely, dare
Speaker 1: I say, rarely is it great? Great? And they nail
Speaker 1: it right. Well, it's just one of those things too.
Speaker 1: Sometimes maybe they get one of the casting bits right.
Speaker 1: You're like, I can see that that looks sort of
Speaker 1: like my imaginary character that I have been picturing in
Speaker 1: my mind, you know, these many years since a big
Speaker 1: part of it casting, you know, it really is, and
Speaker 1: it can really make or break it, for it can
Speaker 1: even make or break it for someone to even take
Speaker 1: the plunge of even bothering seeing the thing, because people
Speaker 1: just like that, Are you kidding me? No, I refuse boycotted,
Speaker 1: you know, like seriously. All right, so we're gonna go
Speaker 1: through these uh We'll start with will uh guitarists Perks
Speaker 1: of being a wallflower fantastic capture the heart of the book,
Speaker 1: and that was sort of the follow up question was like,
Speaker 1: you know, you really got to capture the spirit of
Speaker 1: the book. I think more than anything that in casting
Speaker 1: two biggest deals, Old pal John Millstap says a Lord
Speaker 1: of the Rings. He says, sorry, Chuck, but he said
Speaker 1: they did an amazing, amazing job of capturing the fantasy
Speaker 1: of the world that Tolkien created. I think so, yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally agree with And you know, Peter Jackson is
Speaker 1: a lifer Tolkien fan. I mean, he treated that material.
Speaker 1: He'd been thinking, he'd been dreaming this up. You know,
Speaker 1: his whole life probably was dead alive thinking about when
Speaker 1: he could work up totally, man, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're joking, but I really do think that, like this
Speaker 1: was something that was in his heart and in his
Speaker 1: mind the whole time. I don't think it's great he
Speaker 1: got to realize his vision in such a way. I
Speaker 1: really do. And when I saw that shire for the
Speaker 1: first time, I was like, it reminded me of childhood love.
Speaker 1: That I deal is though I just didn't read all
Speaker 1: that stuff, so I didn't have that connection. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's an interesting one. That's a really interesting point, Chuck,
Speaker 1: because you didn't enjoy it just on its own merits.
Speaker 1: You weren't a fan of the book. So you didn't
Speaker 1: even have that skin in the game, and then you
Speaker 1: just weren't into it as a movie either. I mean
Speaker 1: I beg on it a lot. The first one is okay.
Speaker 1: It's not like I stumped out of there and said
Speaker 1: I hated it. I just thought they were there was
Speaker 1: just too much of it all. It was just too long.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. All of it was a lot. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of material, and if you're not a big
Speaker 1: fan of the thing, it's just a lot to sit through.
Speaker 1: You know, as a medium fan, you're you're not. You
Speaker 1: never really were like a D and D guy, you know.
Speaker 1: I tried to play D and D and I never
Speaker 1: fully got into it, but I tried because it was
Speaker 1: such a cultural phenomenon in the mid eighties. Like I bought,
Speaker 1: I had the book and stuff, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's always too much work for me, probably sort of
Speaker 1: the way you tried to read the Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings books and just kind of gave up because it
Speaker 1: wasn't for you, believe it or not. I was an
Speaker 1: outdoor kid, like I was outside shooting basketball instead of
Speaker 1: and jumping my bikes. I was not an indoor kid.
Speaker 1: D and D kid No, I don't think that things
Speaker 1: have to be mutually exclusive, though a lot of times
Speaker 1: they are, maybe so, maybe so, not always though, you're right,
Speaker 1: but my mom was never like, oh, put that thing
Speaker 1: down and go out, and you know, put down that
Speaker 1: twelve side and died, Chuck and go Radja bike. I
Speaker 1: grew up in the woods, man. I grew up on
Speaker 1: a couple of acres with like a creek, like you know,
Speaker 1: we were in nature. I wasn't in a neighborhood. That
Speaker 1: would have been a big difference. Being a neighborhood, you
Speaker 1: got kids all over the place, come over and play
Speaker 1: D and D live on a cul de sac, you know,
Speaker 1: I've got I wanted to live in a call this
Speaker 1: sex so bad? It funny? Alright, Tina Achiever Old Pal
Speaker 1: A Time to Kill probably the best book adaptation I've seen,
Speaker 1: or Old Pal, Vanessa Lopez Master and Commander Vanessa. You
Speaker 1: were speaking my language? Do you ever see that one? No? No,
Speaker 1: you you're saying you're for it. Oh it's so great.
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't read the books, um so I'm
Speaker 1: just facing it on the movie. But I don't see
Speaker 1: how how anyone could have been disappointed in that as
Speaker 1: as a fan of the books. This is a Russell
Speaker 1: Crowe vehicle. Yes, yes, really really good. Is he the
Speaker 1: Master and the Commander? Are those two different characters? Master
Speaker 1: or commander? Oldest of pal Zack pointerss fight Club did
Speaker 1: a good job? Yeah, I read that book. Um, you
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna do Fight Club with Maddie. I know,
Speaker 1: he told me. And that's the our series is going
Speaker 1: to be hit movies with Maddie because people love the
Speaker 1: Matrix so much, because I think it was just so
Speaker 1: many people have seen and loved that film. So I
Speaker 1: was like, let's just do some big movies, hit movies.
Speaker 1: Movie Club was a hit movie. I'd argue a minor
Speaker 1: hit though, chuck minor hit. It wasn't a blockbuster, But
Speaker 1: it's not called blockbusters with Maddie. It's called hit movies
Speaker 1: with that. It's pretty good. And you know, we've talked
Speaker 1: about this to a fight Club, a movie that kind
Speaker 1: of has not aged well for some let us say
Speaker 1: in terms of it's uh, it's a display of what
Speaker 1: they now referred to as toxic masculinity. Um, and it's
Speaker 1: very much a thing that's that proto kind of in
Speaker 1: cell culture on display in that movie for sure. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of bummed. I'm not gonna be a part
Speaker 1: of it. Chuck, you can sit in you want to know,
Speaker 1: we can round. Maybe we're doing it like now, No,
Speaker 1: it's it's scheduled for a couple of weeks. Let's talk
Speaker 1: because that's boring. Um, maybe we should start a series
Speaker 1: tent poles with nol Knowles Knowles tent Pole Holes. That's
Speaker 1: also on the Playboy channel with No God Old Frand
Speaker 1: Dan Maynard says The Martian. If they tried to fit
Speaker 1: the whole book in, it would have been too much.
Speaker 1: They did a great job of finding the middle ground.
Speaker 1: It's also very keen. All you gotta you gotta know
Speaker 1: what to put in the movie and what to leave
Speaker 1: out of the movie. That is so important editing one
Speaker 1: oh one Chuck, Yeah, but I mean with a book,
Speaker 1: you can never put it all in there. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta really find the right stuff. Oh, for sure, because
Speaker 1: how many times have you left the book the film
Speaker 1: meditation of a book thinking, I can't believe they didn't
Speaker 1: even like, they just left out this whole subplot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a character famously left out of the Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings movie. Tom Bomba Dill, who was like a
Speaker 1: fan favorite character. People were very upset about that. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I didn't read books either. Chucks. I don't
Speaker 1: even know why people liked him so much, but he
Speaker 1: was apparently some reason. I just loved the movie. I
Speaker 1: just like I enjoyed the movies very much. I was
Speaker 1: a Peter Jackson fan, so I liked I liked his work.
Speaker 1: I liked what he did with them. I thought they
Speaker 1: were they were cool movies. I'm a fan of his two.
Speaker 1: He cares a lot about his work. Let me see here.
Speaker 1: Chris Previl says, Princess Bride hands down. I don't I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked about that with Molly Coffee, about the fact
Speaker 1: that that was a book, But I don't think I
Speaker 1: knew that previously. Try Alis Martin Acre says, Shawshank completely
Speaker 1: nailed it. I kind of forgot about that that was
Speaker 1: Stephen King and it was a short story, right, which
Speaker 1: which kind of means that they were able to include
Speaker 1: almost everything if you think about it. Because I ever
Speaker 1: read A bet you a bet, it was pretty close.
Speaker 1: It's very close if I remember correctly. All I'm saying
Speaker 1: is like, if you're adapting a giant, thousand page book
Speaker 1: or something like that, you're gonna have to pick and choose.
Speaker 1: But if you're just adapting, you know, a hundred pages
Speaker 1: or even fifty pages into a film, you can kind
Speaker 1: of pick at all. Sure that's a good idea. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Cooley says Jurassic Park, hands down. He loved the book
Speaker 1: and the movie changed everything. Oldest of friends Bennett Duckworth
Speaker 1: says the Green Mile. Another Rachel Corston old pal says
Speaker 1: Princess bride starting to get a lot of love here.
Speaker 1: Interesting mother night. John wilds, I have seen that. I
Speaker 1: think I forgot that was a Kurt vonn to get
Speaker 1: jam It's right, Nick Nolsey and Alan Arkin. Yes, now
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. Yeah that I need to read that.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I loved reading her comments because her name
Speaker 1: is Jenne van Valen, so close um the two strong
Speaker 1: as she says, our cuckoo's nest and mockingbird kill a
Speaker 1: mockingbird one fit of the cuckoosness and to kill a
Speaker 1: mong bird. Yeah, hard to argue. Great adaptations. Oh here
Speaker 1: we go, No old James G. Woodbeck for your unloading
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. I gotta say that was a favorite
Speaker 1: book of mine, and I did not think it was
Speaker 1: possible to make that to a movie. I mean, is
Speaker 1: it is the book more stream of consciousness? Ee kind
Speaker 1: of and it's it's really the same. I mean the
Speaker 1: voiceover is from the book, and um, it's just more
Speaker 1: Hunter s Thompson goodness, more detail, more interior monologue. Right,
Speaker 1: it's great. Another one the movie was really really good.
Speaker 1: I think another one that's in that psychedelic camp is
Speaker 1: Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows, who you know famously.
Speaker 1: That's just really all over the place and stream of
Speaker 1: consciousness and like I think he was even doing some
Speaker 1: up experiment where he would just like do random things
Speaker 1: and cut them up and put them together for parts
Speaker 1: of it. Uh. And so that movie, you know, the
Speaker 1: Cronenberg movie, I think is is very takes a lot
Speaker 1: of creative license because the material is just so bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was still crazy, but you gotta make
Speaker 1: it into something entertaining somehow, which is tough. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: we've talked about I did an episode with you where
Speaker 1: we talked about adaptation. That's a movie about adapting books,
Speaker 1: and it adapted a book called The Orchard Thief that
Speaker 1: was a much more straight. It was what I think,
Speaker 1: it's like a New Yorker piece, right, it was based
Speaker 1: on it was a book. It was the book was
Speaker 1: based on the New Yorker piece. And then Susan Susan
Speaker 1: Leon um what's her name? That was close if I
Speaker 1: felt wasn't quite right at forgive me um, but Susan Orlean.
Speaker 1: Susan Orlean then adapts her New Yorker piece into a book,
Speaker 1: which is what Charlie Kaufman was paid to adapt, and
Speaker 1: he can't figure out how to do it right, so
Speaker 1: he makes a weird sub kind of meta like psychedelic
Speaker 1: journey thing, which I love. It was our movie, No,
Speaker 1: it was. Benjamin Johnson says, No Country for Old Men.
Speaker 1: I one thousand percent degree. That was one of the
Speaker 1: best adaptations I've ever seen and had some really nailing
Speaker 1: it great polls, great like direct dialogue polls from the
Speaker 1: you know, the line about carrying the fire and a
Speaker 1: horn and all that stuff. And then just classic Corman
Speaker 1: McCarthy is like a biblical writer. He writes with this
Speaker 1: bravado that you you just can't file. Have you ever
Speaker 1: read Um Blood Meridian? I have? That's the one they
Speaker 1: say is like unfilmable, right, because it's just so bonkers
Speaker 1: in terms of like how epic everything is so violently
Speaker 1: and the Indian attacks, the all that stuff. It's rough.
Speaker 1: Another vote for Cormac McCarthy, but the Road that's from
Speaker 1: Steve Madrid. Yeah, man, Cormack McCarthy is a pretty good
Speaker 1: track record now that they think about it, of adaptations
Speaker 1: working out good stuff. So we didn't get through that
Speaker 1: many everyone, but there are several hundred comments. I encourage
Speaker 1: you to go to the Facebook post and interact because
Speaker 1: you're all always so great, and there were there was
Speaker 1: a post on the movie Crusher's page just about how
Speaker 1: how everyone loves this community. No, it's a good one.
Speaker 1: We talked about it here kind supportive people disagree very respectfully.
Speaker 1: Of course. Best case scenario you want to have discourse.
Speaker 1: You want to be able to disagree as we never agree.
Speaker 1: And still that's not true. See we disagree. He set
Speaker 1: me up for that one, chuck all right, followed by
Speaker 1: worst adaptation, totally did not get the book, spirit, bad casting,
Speaker 1: you name it. Jonathan Cooley says Ready Player one really
Speaker 1: loved the book, hated the movie. Matthew Oliver says Ready
Speaker 1: Player one there's a lot of people doing that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Stacy Margaret Jones as Wrinkling Time was terrible. It was
Speaker 1: so bad. I haven't seen it about it heard as bad.
Speaker 1: She refuses to watch because that was a very beloved book,
Speaker 1: very important and people she almost did just for curiosity,
Speaker 1: was like, no, I don't want to do it. I
Speaker 1: think I mean to me, it was a combination of
Speaker 1: just like the overly Sacharin earnestness of the performances and
Speaker 1: a lot of bad c g. I. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: just not good and it was confusing kind of. It
Speaker 1: was like, what what is this? I don't understand? And
Speaker 1: the book would have made it much more clear. I
Speaker 1: haven't read the book either, but it would have made
Speaker 1: it much more clear. It would have really immersed you
Speaker 1: in that world. It made you understand it internally, as
Speaker 1: opposed to shoving a bunch of c g I butterflies
Speaker 1: in front of you know what I mean, Like it
Speaker 1: just it just did not do the trick for sure. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: How do you miss something like that up that bad?
Speaker 1: Well it's hard just a colossal yeah, colossal failure on
Speaker 1: every level. But I mean it's the same with those
Speaker 1: stupid Alice in Wonderland movies that that that Tim Burton did.
Speaker 1: I think those are awful. Yeah, they're not good. You know,
Speaker 1: it's too much trying to cram this visual pastiche at
Speaker 1: you as opposed to like giving you a story that
Speaker 1: actually is meaningful. You know, my friend worked on on
Speaker 1: The Wrinkling Time. He's the one that hung up the
Speaker 1: green screen. No, I'm not even gonna say where she
Speaker 1: worked because I don't want to out her as anything
Speaker 1: because she did not have a very good experience on it.
Speaker 1: And it is no wonder it sucked. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: not a good production. Noope, troubled bad because that director too,
Speaker 1: of Advorne. She she had made this you know, historical
Speaker 1: like you know, period piece about Selma, which people seem
Speaker 1: to really like. But I gotta wonder going from that
Speaker 1: to a big set piece fantasy thing, is that a
Speaker 1: little a little bit of a jump, like they're two
Speaker 1: different kinds of things. I don't see how directors um.
Speaker 1: I think it's a very it's a big time skill
Speaker 1: to be able to direct C G. I S friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you really gotta because when you see the
Speaker 1: sets of all these people in there, what are the
Speaker 1: suits called little dots on them or whatever, uh, in
Speaker 1: front of green screens, Like it's tough. And for the
Speaker 1: actors too, Like I think it hats off to anyone
Speaker 1: that can really perform like that, just to keep a
Speaker 1: straight face, not crack up at the fact that you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be emoting at this weird dude and platform
Speaker 1: shoes and like covering so much out of the wardrobe
Speaker 1: in this in the set, and like feeling like you're
Speaker 1: in the moment. It's true, that's really hard. Our oldest
Speaker 1: of friends, Adam Pellettier, This is the Dark Tower, dear God,
Speaker 1: the Dark Tower. So disappointing. Yeah, I didn't see that.
Speaker 1: Seemed really rushed whatever whatever they did with it. I
Speaker 1: didn't see it either because I just I just didn't
Speaker 1: look good. I heard it wasn't good. But they are
Speaker 1: doing it properly as a mini series, as they always
Speaker 1: should have done, you know, at least with the IT movies.
Speaker 1: Say what you will about them, at least they made
Speaker 1: two movies. I'm looking forward to the other one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you first one I thought was just just fine,
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Didn't see that. I didn't read the book,
Speaker 1: but I really like the movie fun. It was good,
Speaker 1: well done, very fucking scary. Stephanie Mecklenburg Old Palace as
Speaker 1: Time Traveler's wife, the whole movie was a mess, even
Speaker 1: though she loves Eric Bana. How do you pronounce that
Speaker 1: bana Banna? Yeah, I don't know. I didn't know if
Speaker 1: it was a little uh, just Eric b Banna. Joe,
Speaker 1: he's missing out. He should be at Ekabanya exactly, says
Speaker 1: Cloud Atlas from Joe Burns. Yeah, that movie gets panned.
Speaker 1: That's so weird one because I know some people that
Speaker 1: really liked it. They say it's weird, but they're like,
Speaker 1: but it was kind of you gotta get past, get
Speaker 1: past it. It's pretty cool with voice thing. I think,
Speaker 1: like Tom Hanks, everyone had these weird accents and voices.
Speaker 1: Was really kind of hard to get past. Yeah, Ken
Speaker 1: Herbert says, the shining awesome movie, but the book is
Speaker 1: so much better. That's just one where the book is
Speaker 1: very different. The movie is the movie the book, because
Speaker 1: the book they're two different kind of works of art. Yeah,
Speaker 1: two different things. Old pal Vanessa Cashman agrees about the
Speaker 1: Time Traveler's wife. T J. Danny says, Running with Scissors
Speaker 1: wonderful book turned into a hateful, terribly acted bore uh
Speaker 1: t J. I disagree. I enjoyed Running with Scissors the
Speaker 1: book in the movie. Yeah maybe, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: liked it. Not familiar, it wasn't the best thing ever,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was pretty good. It's good. It's
Speaker 1: like a memoir. I can't remember who wrote it, but um,
Speaker 1: good film. Family thing isn't their family? And yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like a set in the seventies about a boy and
Speaker 1: his kind of crazy parents. Um, his mom is always like,
Speaker 1: you better not run with those scissors, I think coming
Speaker 1: in terms of this sexuality, I liked it Ender's Game
Speaker 1: from Vanessa Lopez. Total disaster. Uh. Kerry mcquad says, a
Speaker 1: Wrinkle in Time, the Hobbit from Old pal Kala mh. Yeah. Weird,
Speaker 1: weird choice to make it three movies for like a
Speaker 1: pretty short book. I think even big fans of that
Speaker 1: whole thing, uh, kind of had a hard time with
Speaker 1: that for sure, for sure. I mean, was it nine hours?
Speaker 1: Was it three hours? Yeah? Which is you would yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: because I mean the thing is like you know, The
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings movies are long, but those are
Speaker 1: long books and there's a lot of them, and this
Speaker 1: one was like a short book that was kind of
Speaker 1: written for children more more than the others. I think
Speaker 1: the Hobbit was I think more like a fantasy like
Speaker 1: for kids almost. And they I think it must have
Speaker 1: been studio meddlings. Things stretched the material and the waxen.
Speaker 1: He shot it in that that hyper realistic Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they they think they it was just a higher frame rate. Um,
Speaker 1: it was. They exhibited it like that though in certain markets.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and it's it's you know what it looks like.
Speaker 1: It looks like that horrible motions moothing. Which have you
Speaker 1: seen that? The thing? Um, A bunch of directors have
Speaker 1: come out, I think, um, and they came up with
Speaker 1: an algorithm to give him a filmmaker setting or filmmaker
Speaker 1: mode or whatever, and it literally like you put it
Speaker 1: on that mode it and it makes it as close
Speaker 1: to the right frame rate and aspect ratio that filmmakers.
Speaker 1: Because motion smoothing is the devil. It makes no sense
Speaker 1: that it makes everything look like a like a stage
Speaker 1: play or a weird soap operas and bizarre. The worst
Speaker 1: old pal Joe bamb Gartner says, World War Z both
Speaker 1: contain zombies and we're set on Earth. That's about where
Speaker 1: the similarities end. I didn't read the book by Max Brooks,
Speaker 1: Brooks's son, you know that, right, But I do know
Speaker 1: that it was very, very different, because that's all everyone
Speaker 1: talked about when it came out. Starship Troopers was a book.
Speaker 1: Knull Steven L. Coconakos great name, he knew. What did
Speaker 1: he think? He said, he loves Starship Troopers the book. Uh,
Speaker 1: the only thing he likes about the movie was the
Speaker 1: fact that it was so campy. Well that's what people
Speaker 1: like about that movie, I think so, including him. Old
Speaker 1: friend Mary Olsen says, I'm legend. Yeah, let's go through
Speaker 1: a few more of these. Rob Jewett says Shane Terry
Speaker 1: ca Hey, oklejo, excuse me. The Art of Racing in
Speaker 1: the Rain. Brilliant book, mediocre film. I think that one
Speaker 1: has just now come out. Yes, it does not look good.
Speaker 1: I have not seen anything about it. No, Michael Reid
Speaker 1: Bonfire to the Vanities. Yeah, that wasn't a very good movie. Um,
Speaker 1: and we'll finish up here with Rachel mckeachen. One for
Speaker 1: the Money, the absolute worst. Interesting prefer the sequel to
Speaker 1: for the show. I love the third three to get
Speaker 1: ready go ahead and I'll finish it, and then the
Speaker 1: the the, then the of course the final chapter for
Speaker 1: to go or to get Go to let Go Go Go. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh boy, all right, we're gonna finish up with a
Speaker 1: little fun bit and all about movie retitling. I think
Speaker 1: you've seen this stuff online before, like where you change
Speaker 1: one word of the movie changes it all, and it
Speaker 1: changes it all. And the example I gave was not funny,
Speaker 1: but it did sum it up. Raiders of the Lost Socks.
Speaker 1: That's funny, Not really, I I find it. It's like
Speaker 1: something it's a dad job. Yeah, I'm a dad though.
Speaker 1: It's right. Good works on me, man. These are always
Speaker 1: so good about three of these online, folks, So go
Speaker 1: check them out. Megan Broils, Harry Potter and the Kidney Stone.
Speaker 1: Martin Kidd fantastic breasts and where to find them? Is
Speaker 1: that a beast? Yep? That's good. That's good, Martin Kidd.
Speaker 1: The Coen Brothers take on Winnie the pooh Oh bother
Speaker 1: where art thou very creative because that's what Winnie the
Speaker 1: poo would say, right, You would say that when he
Speaker 1: gets stuck in a hole in a tree or anything
Speaker 1: goes wrong. Aaron Lee, the fashion of the Christ. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mike Dancy, how Harry pet Sally? Wait, isn't it when
Speaker 1: Harry pet Salo? When Harry pett Sally and a lot
Speaker 1: of these we're veering into like porn parody for a
Speaker 1: lot of we should do one of those porn parities,
Speaker 1: pulp friction, intercourse with the vampire. Yeah, we should just
Speaker 1: totally do that. That's always fun. Have friends who do
Speaker 1: like oscar parties where you have to submit your favorite
Speaker 1: ones for all that years got nominations. Holly Lallas says
Speaker 1: twenty seven seconds, Holly Lawless, Yeah, great name, that's fantastic. Yeah, Holly.
Speaker 1: If you're not a bass player in a band like
Speaker 1: a country Western, outlaw rock or punk as fuck, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well that's true. Ye yeah, either way,
Speaker 1: put his safety beIN through your nose and just make
Speaker 1: it happen. I don't really do that. Eric Steadman says
Speaker 1: Fast and Furious Presents, Calvin and Hobbs. Do you like that?
Speaker 1: I get picture of that? Um let me see here.
Speaker 1: Dan Maynard Old Friends says three men and a little mortgage.
Speaker 1: You know that's the too far down the dad joke
Speaker 1: rabbit hole for me. Yeah, but Dan's an old friend.
Speaker 1: I know we can do better. Give him a chance.
Speaker 1: We're counting on you. And that's it's a little mortgage
Speaker 1: than what's the problem? Aaron m Rossino. The Texas Chainsaw Museum.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That's pretty good. I don't know why
Speaker 1: that one really gets me. I'm picturing it and who
Speaker 1: asked for this? And be you know, like, what kind
Speaker 1: of person goes to that? Is it just like the
Speaker 1: history of chainsaws? Do I guarantee you there's a chainsaw
Speaker 1: music think so yeah, look it up? All right? Um
Speaker 1: of all of Baldo Braun says me myself, an iron Man.
Speaker 1: It's the Avengers, but iron Man played by Jim Carey
Speaker 1: with split personality. And also it's the villain. Hey, that's
Speaker 1: actually not bad. It's crazy. Um. There actually is a
Speaker 1: chainsaw museum and it's Main. I missed it, noll. It's
Speaker 1: called the Alley Gash Chainsaw Museum. Oh God, Main is
Speaker 1: so wonderful. Because of logging in the Alagash region. John
Speaker 1: Whitefield says that the Texas chainsaw accident whoops. Nick Kelly
Speaker 1: says Avengers Infinity scarf or Infinity pool that would work
Speaker 1: as well. Oh sure, uh, George Anderson Close Encounters of
Speaker 1: the third Grade. I'm surprised that's not a movie about,
Speaker 1: you know, coming of age elementary school thing. I wrote
Speaker 1: a movie like that once in all that should have
Speaker 1: called it that. Yeah, you know, I called ITYM what
Speaker 1: it's about a bunch of like sixth graders elementary My
Speaker 1: dear Watson, oldest friend, Stellen Carlson, three men, and an xbox.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're talking about college, oh, oldest of friends now
Speaker 1: Ethan Yavin. The Devil Wears not a I've I've always
Speaker 1: seen the Devil picture to sort of a Genitalia lists red,
Speaker 1: you know, creature. Sure, yeah, like a kindall very smooth
Speaker 1: Brian long fear and loathing in Uranus. Let's see what
Speaker 1: he did there? Alec? Oh God, why do I always
Speaker 1: do this? Glasdovich? You know why? Is because you get
Speaker 1: the sea at the end of your name. I always
Speaker 1: call Alex Alec. I do it every single time. It
Speaker 1: drives me crazy. I bet it drives him crazy too,
Speaker 1: he says, et the extra tenderloin. That's pretty good. I
Speaker 1: could do this all day. J Fraser Ferris Bueller's Day
Speaker 1: in Chris Kid Bone in the Barbarian. Oh, I gotta
Speaker 1: go back to fair because Fareris Bueler's Day in would
Speaker 1: have meant no movie. Well that's true because he just
Speaker 1: he stayed home. But but he he didn't have any adventures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he did stay home from school. That was a
Speaker 1: lot that was all lies, though he actually flew the
Speaker 1: coop and was out there. The most boring movie would
Speaker 1: be Ferris S. Bueler's Day in School There You Go,
Speaker 1: which is awkwardly titled Nicole Park's One of Earl Palace's
Speaker 1: Adventures in pet Sitting. What if we did matchups with
Speaker 1: what if it was like Ferris Bueller's Day of the Dead. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's fun too, that would have been cool. That's like
Speaker 1: a Jeopardy thing. Yeah, before and after. I like that.
Speaker 1: You should we should have someone write the stuff down
Speaker 1: for us. Uh, Melinda Backayo our old friends has dial
Speaker 1: in for Margharita's Hey I'm with you, that's my movie.
Speaker 1: Emily makes a great Margarita and all you into him
Speaker 1: of course. Yeah, it's so good, very minimal ingredients, just
Speaker 1: like a fresh squeeze line. A little Gabe nectar to
Speaker 1: take away that tart. That's what you do, and uh,
Speaker 1: maybe a splash of oj and some really nice tequila.
Speaker 1: We like that George Clooney stuff. By the way, I
Speaker 1: want to recommend really quickly on that there's a documentary
Speaker 1: called A Gave that if you are into mescal or tequila,
Speaker 1: or you're into artisan um distilling, or if you were
Speaker 1: into farming, or if you're into Mexico, or if you
Speaker 1: into stories about family and respecting the earth and doing
Speaker 1: the right thing ecologically, watch a highly recommended so good.
Speaker 1: You can watch it on Delta. I'm taking um take
Speaker 1: a Southwest this time. No, you don't have a kabe.
Speaker 1: Jade Anna Rosenberg says, twelve bitchy men instead of twelve
Speaker 1: angry men. All right, let's do a couple of more
Speaker 1: of these our oldest to pals once again. Adam Pelatier,
Speaker 1: Jason goes to Bed. That's a pretty boring movie. Cam
Speaker 1: Barfield American Hysterectomy X. That's fine, you like that one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and let's finish it up here with a couple from
Speaker 1: Cam Barfield Fishing Impossible and a time to grill. So
Speaker 1: I think Cam is at the lake right now, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's very very on brand for Labor Day. These are
Speaker 1: all very fun. I enjoyed this. Smite club Noel, that's
Speaker 1: not bad. It's that about God being upset and probably
Speaker 1: so people from One World Friends Debbie uh, Frank Gadakas,
Speaker 1: who looks like he's in a roller Derby. She's a
Speaker 1: Derby girl. I love Derby girls. Love it. They're great,
Speaker 1: so's my friend Debbie Ronka. All Right, that's it everyone.
Speaker 1: This felt like a tight ish thirty. It was a
Speaker 1: tight thirty five. Goodbye everyone. For more podcasts for my
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