WEBVTT - Mini Crush #84 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.680 Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.640 We're rolling? Are we rolling? Oh? We're rolling? Rolland rolland 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.120 rolland role? Is this the show? Might we might as 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.519 well be? Do I even need to introduce us? Is 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.839 this how we do it? Now? Isn't we've become We've 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.000 got lazy? Hello? Everyone, Welcome to Movie Crush. The Mini 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:50.760 Crush edition minis Crush. So, Noel, you got on a 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.480 Weird Tales shirted and then you said you got it 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.520 at dragon Con Dragon to tell me about your great 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.520 dragon Con, And I, like I usually do, put a 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.080 sock in your mouth. You put it right in there 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.440 until those mics were on. Let's hear about your looks 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:06.720 deceptively like a sock. Though it's weird, there's like a 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.160 sock on the mic. First of all, some people might 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.120 not even know nol. What is dragon Con. It's like 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.560 the comic Con of the South. I guess, yeah, I mean, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.120 but but but it leans really heavily into Yeah, it's 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.040 less corporate, and it leans really heavily into the cosplay 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.479 aspect of it. Like that's I think I think it's 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.880 it's the one for that. Yeah, I mean, of course, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.960 comic cons are. Yeah, But I went to New York 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.720 Comic Con and I remember being nonplussed by the quality 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.920 of the costumes. Now is that big? It's it's ridiculous. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.080 The one I'm not sure. I mean, Dragon Con is 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.120 well known for the parade that happens. Is it on 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.120 Memorial or a Labor Day or the day before? Is 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.280 it's Sunday your mother day before Saturday? Oh it's Saturday Saturday. Okay, 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.040 because we went one year and I loved it. Uh, 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:55.520 And I hate to be that guy now. But oh 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.640 the crowds, the crowd it's hard to these days. It's yeah, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.800 the crowds are instead year old. You got to keep unleash. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.040 It's an absolute crush. And so I have a ten 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.960 year old, as you may or may not know. I know, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.639 you know with the listening audience, may not I do, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.119 I do. You've met her, chuck, you know this don't 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.040 be koy um. But she went full bore into cosplay 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.200 this year. She's in the anime now and there's this 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.079 really popular show called My Hero Academia um and she 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.000 picked this one kind of villainous character and dressed up 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.120 as her, and she took it the extra mile. Because 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:27.680 there were a lot of kids dressed up as this 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.200 costume and this as a character. But she had all 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:34.160 these extra accessories that were kind of optional. We built them. No, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.680 it wasn't human blood, but that she has this kind 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.000 of neck like neck brace looking thing that has vampire 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.880 teeth on it, and we cut it out of blue 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.320 felt and then cut the teeth out of foam and 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.680 you know, hot gluten on there. And then we made 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.960 her a little ninja mask with like little tubes on 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.320 it because she's a vampire and has to have blood 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.080 coursing through these tubes. And we just cut off little 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.560 pieces of like water bottle straws, you know, the bendy ones, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.680 and then spray painted them gray and howk glued them 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.880 onto this ninja mask hot glue, baby, Oh man, it's hot, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.200 it's glooy, and it's crafty. It's really crafty. But she 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.040 did most of the work and people just kept stopping 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.360 to take I want to take pictures with her. So 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.440 she felt like a million bucks. She won wonderful comic con. Yeah, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.520 I can't wait for that kind of stuff. And the 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.280 character's name is Hemikotoga and people kept calling her tiny 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.320 Toga that's multiple people called her that it was just 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.400 a great day for dad and child. Yeah, and that 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:25.920 was the first half of the day. It was me 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.560 and her and my old friend Harry from my hometown 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.840 of Augusta came to visit, and I went to a 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:35.000 strip club. Well no, we also had my daughters, one 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.120 of my daughter's good friends and her dad, and we 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.360 all did the comic con thing, sorry, the dragon Con thing, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.600 and then took them home and then me and Harry 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.440 came back out and went to like adult stuff and 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.960 saw shows and you know, went to parties and stuff. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.280 Have you heard of the band Bit Brigade, Chuck? Uh? 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:54.480 No is it? Is it one of those uh chip tunes? No, 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.600 it's not. So. It's an offshoot of a kind of 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.800 a math rock speed metal band called Cinemachanic, who are 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.960 from Athens. And what these guys do Bit Brigade is 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.720 they cover the soundtracks to classic video games while someone 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.240 speed beats the game live on stage and they play 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.160 along with the game and it syncd up perfectly to 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.840 everything that's happening in real time. Kill me, but great. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.880 It's the coolest thing ever. They did Mega Man too, 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.320 all the little boss fights all the little stage songs 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.800 everything was that has a lot to do with it. Yeah, 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.520 but but there's something for everybody because you can get 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.680 fascinated by how like perfectly this guy beats the game. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.240 The music is great. They're kind of like mettled up 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.039 versions of the songs. You know, I had pac Man Fever, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.360 that's all I had. Well, they couldn't do pac Man. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:42.840 They could do pac Man because if you think about it, 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:44.840 a lot of those like kind of midi you know, 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.680 chip tune things are pretty baroque because a lot going on. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.240 It's a lot of like are peggiated kind of business, 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.280 you know. So yeah, it's real music. Yeah, it's very 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.560 good stuff. Very much enjoyed it. How many days are 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.680 you there? Just the one just did Saturday? Just Saturday. Yeah, 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.800 we something like fifteen miles tracked it, you know, on 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.640 the on the app or whatever. Yeah. So did you 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.400 have passes and stuff so you could get in everyone? Yeah, 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.039 we just had. We just about the one day passed, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.320 but that was that was plenty. People to do with 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.760 the whole four days, five days or whatever. I can't 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:17.680 even imagine. Sly like literally they need more power, more power. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.920 Energy drinks is what they call that. That's great. No, 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.839 I was bummed because I, you know, tend to go 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.760 away on Labor Day weekend, so I miss a lot 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.080 of the high jinks now. And one thing I really 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:33.560 miss is my good pal Janet Varney uh and her 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:39.400 wonderful partner Brandon who all over the Instagram stories. I 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:40.920 don't get to see him every year. They're coming to 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.400 Atlanta now and I haven't gotten to see them. And 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.719 not only that, but worked use improv who is who 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:50.880 I was able to perform with? And Max fun con with, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:55.320 how Lubin and uh Gagliardi in the Gang. They were 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.840 all here performing and so how is on Facebook sin 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.039 it out pictures of Fox Brothers and like all these 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.039 restaurants near me, and I was so mad that I 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.640 wasn't here to hang and get interviews with us. Were 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.880 you out of town? Yeah? I was in Uh. I 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.320 mean it was great. We did shows of course Boston 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.719 and Portland, Maine, and then the family came up. That's right, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.599 I knew my spent the weekend in May. That's right, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.680 by the way, it's been amazing. Yeah, you see Stephen 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.520 King ridiculous? Do you see Rose Matter? Can you watched 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.279 The Clown, but that was in Dairy. That's that's in 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.479 Maine as well. Uh. It's a weird, cool, awesome place. Yeah. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.480 Like I had a movie idea when I was there. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.279 I was like, man, I need to write me and 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.479 I had another movie idea this morning. I'm flowing with 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:47.360 ideas and I love that. M all right. Speaking of ideas, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.200 we're going to the just put on his glasses. That 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.080 was a That was a move right there. That was 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.080 a move. Got this chair, I'm sinking. How do you 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.840 keep this from You Gotta pull the lever and then 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.640 your lift your butt up at the same time. I've 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.720 never been a fan of the chair that just dips back. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.840 When you know you can also lock it, there's like 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.680 a lock and loaded baby. All right. We're going with 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:16.960 a bunch of social studies guys, social studies movie because 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.760 I had some good ideas from some of you on 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.760 the movie crush page when I asked for for ideas 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.360 a couple of weeks ago. And I'm using some of 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.560 that stuff, but also just thought of some other stuff. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.160 And we're gonna go with favorite book adaptation followed by 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.440 worst Book adaptation. And this had a lot of engagement 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.320 because people, you know how it is with these books 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.520 and old people get very these books. You know, you 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.640 know these You read a great book and it's so like, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.640 uh so much more rich than a movie ever can, right, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.120 And it's a personal thing. You cast it in your 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:55.480 brain and then a movie comes out and rarely, dare 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.200 I say, rarely is it great? Great? And they nail 0:07:58.240 --> 0:07:59.840 it right. Well, it's just one of those things too. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.440 Sometimes maybe they get one of the casting bits right. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.600 You're like, I can see that that looks sort of 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.360 like my imaginary character that I have been picturing in 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.840 my mind, you know, these many years since a big 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.000 part of it casting, you know, it really is, and 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.440 it can really make or break it, for it can 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.200 even make or break it for someone to even take 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.239 the plunge of even bothering seeing the thing, because people 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.280 just like that, Are you kidding me? No, I refuse boycotted, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.640 you know, like seriously. All right, so we're gonna go 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:33.080 through these uh We'll start with will uh guitarists Perks 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.280 of being a wallflower fantastic capture the heart of the book, 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:38.960 and that was sort of the follow up question was like, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.040 you know, you really got to capture the spirit of 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.439 the book. I think more than anything that in casting 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.720 two biggest deals, Old pal John Millstap says a Lord 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.840 of the Rings. He says, sorry, Chuck, but he said 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.280 they did an amazing, amazing job of capturing the fantasy 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.960 of the world that Tolkien created. I think so, yeah, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.839 I totally agree with And you know, Peter Jackson is 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.640 a lifer Tolkien fan. I mean, he treated that material. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.920 He'd been thinking, he'd been dreaming this up. You know, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.480 his whole life probably was dead alive thinking about when 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.640 he could work up totally, man, I mean, I mean, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.800 you're joking, but I really do think that, like this 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.800 was something that was in his heart and in his 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.679 mind the whole time. I don't think it's great he 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.920 got to realize his vision in such a way. I 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.760 really do. And when I saw that shire for the 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.320 first time, I was like, it reminded me of childhood love. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:26.960 That I deal is though I just didn't read all 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.120 that stuff, so I didn't have that connection. Yeah, and 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.360 that's an interesting one. That's a really interesting point, Chuck, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.240 because you didn't enjoy it just on its own merits. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:37.840 You weren't a fan of the book. So you didn't 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.280 even have that skin in the game, and then you 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.760 just weren't into it as a movie either. I mean 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.920 I beg on it a lot. The first one is okay. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.120 It's not like I stumped out of there and said 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.480 I hated it. I just thought they were there was 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.040 just too much of it all. It was just too long. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.320 It's a lot. All of it was a lot. It's 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:57.800 a lot of material, and if you're not a big 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.440 fan of the thing, it's just a lot to sit through. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.880 You know, as a medium fan, you're you're not. You 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.960 never really were like a D and D guy, you know. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.600 I tried to play D and D and I never 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.000 fully got into it, but I tried because it was 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:14.320 such a cultural phenomenon in the mid eighties. Like I bought, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.439 I had the book and stuff, but I don't know, 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.360 it's always too much work for me, probably sort of 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.599 the way you tried to read the Lord of the 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.520 Rings books and just kind of gave up because it 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.000 wasn't for you, believe it or not. I was an 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.600 outdoor kid, like I was outside shooting basketball instead of 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.000 and jumping my bikes. I was not an indoor kid. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:31.560 D and D kid No, I don't think that things 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.400 have to be mutually exclusive, though a lot of times 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.040 they are, maybe so, maybe so, not always though, you're right, 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.559 but my mom was never like, oh, put that thing 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.160 down and go out, and you know, put down that 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.320 twelve side and died, Chuck and go Radja bike. I 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:46.559 grew up in the woods, man. I grew up on 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.760 a couple of acres with like a creek, like you know, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.559 we were in nature. I wasn't in a neighborhood. That 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.240 would have been a big difference. Being a neighborhood, you 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.200 got kids all over the place, come over and play 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.480 D and D live on a cul de sac, you know, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.199 I've got I wanted to live in a call this 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:05.000 sex so bad? It funny? Alright, Tina Achiever Old Pal 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.080 A Time to Kill probably the best book adaptation I've seen, 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.720 or Old Pal, Vanessa Lopez Master and Commander Vanessa. You 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.600 were speaking my language? Do you ever see that one? No? No, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.319 you you're saying you're for it. Oh it's so great. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.079 I mean I didn't read the books, um so I'm 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.880 just facing it on the movie. But I don't see 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.040 how how anyone could have been disappointed in that as 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.200 as a fan of the books. This is a Russell 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:34.560 Crowe vehicle. Yes, yes, really really good. Is he the 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.800 Master and the Commander? Are those two different characters? Master 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.720 or commander? Oldest of pal Zack pointerss fight Club did 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.880 a good job? Yeah, I read that book. Um, you 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.920 know I'm gonna do Fight Club with Maddie. I know, 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.440 he told me. And that's the our series is going 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.120 to be hit movies with Maddie because people love the 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.000 Matrix so much, because I think it was just so 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.920 many people have seen and loved that film. So I 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.120 was like, let's just do some big movies, hit movies. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.120 Movie Club was a hit movie. I'd argue a minor 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.720 hit though, chuck minor hit. It wasn't a blockbuster, But 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.960 it's not called blockbusters with Maddie. It's called hit movies 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.840 with that. It's pretty good. And you know, we've talked 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.600 about this to a fight Club, a movie that kind 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.600 of has not aged well for some let us say 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.800 in terms of it's uh, it's a display of what 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.120 they now referred to as toxic masculinity. Um, and it's 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.640 very much a thing that's that proto kind of in 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.360 cell culture on display in that movie for sure. Well, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:32.800 I'm kind of bummed. I'm not gonna be a part 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.800 of it. Chuck, you can sit in you want to know, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.760 we can round. Maybe we're doing it like now, No, 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.760 it's it's scheduled for a couple of weeks. Let's talk 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.920 because that's boring. Um, maybe we should start a series 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:48.200 tent poles with nol Knowles Knowles tent Pole Holes. That's 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:53.040 also on the Playboy channel with No God Old Frand 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.240 Dan Maynard says The Martian. If they tried to fit 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:57.800 the whole book in, it would have been too much. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:59.959 They did a great job of finding the middle ground. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.440 It's also very keen. All you gotta you gotta know 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.000 what to put in the movie and what to leave 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.520 out of the movie. That is so important editing one 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.400 oh one Chuck, Yeah, but I mean with a book, 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.559 you can never put it all in there. Yeah, you 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.200 gotta really find the right stuff. Oh, for sure, because 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.000 how many times have you left the book the film 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.000 meditation of a book thinking, I can't believe they didn't 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.720 even like, they just left out this whole subplot. Yeah, 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.679 there's a character famously left out of the Lord of 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.480 the Rings movie. Tom Bomba Dill, who was like a 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.439 fan favorite character. People were very upset about that. I 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.160 don't know. I didn't read books either. Chucks. I don't 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.040 even know why people liked him so much, but he 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.240 was apparently some reason. I just loved the movie. I 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.000 just like I enjoyed the movies very much. I was 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.720 a Peter Jackson fan, so I liked I liked his work. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:41.960 I liked what he did with them. I thought they 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.880 were they were cool movies. I'm a fan of his two. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.480 He cares a lot about his work. Let me see here. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:54.520 Chris Previl says, Princess Bride hands down. I don't I think. Yeah, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.800 we talked about that with Molly Coffee, about the fact 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.280 that that was a book, But I don't think I 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:03.000 knew that previously. Try Alis Martin Acre says, Shawshank completely 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.760 nailed it. I kind of forgot about that that was 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.240 Stephen King and it was a short story, right, which 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.120 which kind of means that they were able to include 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.160 almost everything if you think about it. Because I ever 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:17.920 read A bet you a bet, it was pretty close. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.480 It's very close if I remember correctly. All I'm saying 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.080 is like, if you're adapting a giant, thousand page book 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.000 or something like that, you're gonna have to pick and choose. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.040 But if you're just adapting, you know, a hundred pages 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.040 or even fifty pages into a film, you can kind 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.400 of pick at all. Sure that's a good idea. Jonathan 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.600 Cooley says Jurassic Park, hands down. He loved the book 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.040 and the movie changed everything. Oldest of friends Bennett Duckworth 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.040 says the Green Mile. Another Rachel Corston old pal says 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.640 Princess bride starting to get a lot of love here. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:54.720 Interesting mother night. John wilds, I have seen that. I 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.520 think I forgot that was a Kurt vonn to get 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.120 jam It's right, Nick Nolsey and Alan Arkin. Yes, now 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.160 you're absolutely right. Yeah that I need to read that. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.640 Oh boy, I loved reading her comments because her name 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.040 is Jenne van Valen, so close um the two strong 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.760 as she says, our cuckoo's nest and mockingbird kill a 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.720 mockingbird one fit of the cuckoosness and to kill a 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:22.000 mong bird. Yeah, hard to argue. Great adaptations. Oh here 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.320 we go, No old James G. Woodbeck for your unloading 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.400 in Las Vegas. I gotta say that was a favorite 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.040 book of mine, and I did not think it was 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.000 possible to make that to a movie. I mean, is 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.840 it is the book more stream of consciousness? Ee kind 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.280 of and it's it's really the same. I mean the 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:40.880 voiceover is from the book, and um, it's just more 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:46.040 Hunter s Thompson goodness, more detail, more interior monologue. Right, 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.040 it's great. Another one the movie was really really good. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.600 I think another one that's in that psychedelic camp is 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.360 Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows, who you know famously. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.800 That's just really all over the place and stream of 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.760 consciousness and like I think he was even doing some 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.680 up experiment where he would just like do random things 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.760 and cut them up and put them together for parts 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.720 of it. Uh. And so that movie, you know, the 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.040 Cronenberg movie, I think is is very takes a lot 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.360 of creative license because the material is just so bad. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.200 I mean, it was still crazy, but you gotta make 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:19.920 it into something entertaining somehow, which is tough. Yeah, And 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.320 we've talked about I did an episode with you where 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:26.640 we talked about adaptation. That's a movie about adapting books, 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.960 and it adapted a book called The Orchard Thief that 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.960 was a much more straight. It was what I think, 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.600 it's like a New Yorker piece, right, it was based 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.560 on it was a book. It was the book was 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.000 based on the New Yorker piece. And then Susan Susan 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.520 Leon um what's her name? That was close if I 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.560 felt wasn't quite right at forgive me um, but Susan Orlean. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:51.000 Susan Orlean then adapts her New Yorker piece into a book, 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.400 which is what Charlie Kaufman was paid to adapt, and 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.280 he can't figure out how to do it right, so 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.640 he makes a weird sub kind of meta like psychedelic 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.240 journey thing, which I love. It was our movie, No, 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.840 it was. Benjamin Johnson says, No Country for Old Men. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:10.080 I one thousand percent degree. That was one of the 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.240 best adaptations I've ever seen and had some really nailing 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.639 it great polls, great like direct dialogue polls from the 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.320 you know, the line about carrying the fire and a 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.920 horn and all that stuff. And then just classic Corman 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.840 McCarthy is like a biblical writer. He writes with this 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.560 bravado that you you just can't file. Have you ever 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.959 read Um Blood Meridian? I have? That's the one they 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.879 say is like unfilmable, right, because it's just so bonkers 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.040 in terms of like how epic everything is so violently 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.760 and the Indian attacks, the all that stuff. It's rough. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.719 Another vote for Cormac McCarthy, but the Road that's from 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:52.080 Steve Madrid. Yeah, man, Cormack McCarthy is a pretty good 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.320 track record now that they think about it, of adaptations 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.199 working out good stuff. So we didn't get through that 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.520 many everyone, but there are several hundred comments. I encourage 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.199 you to go to the Facebook post and interact because 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.480 you're all always so great, and there were there was 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.440 a post on the movie Crusher's page just about how 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.040 how everyone loves this community. No, it's a good one. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:21.280 We talked about it here kind supportive people disagree very respectfully. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.320 Of course. Best case scenario you want to have discourse. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.439 You want to be able to disagree as we never agree. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:32.440 And still that's not true. See we disagree. He set 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:42.880 me up for that one, chuck all right, followed by 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:48.360 worst adaptation, totally did not get the book, spirit, bad casting, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.840 you name it. Jonathan Cooley says Ready Player one really 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.520 loved the book, hated the movie. Matthew Oliver says Ready 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.880 Player one there's a lot of people doing that. Uh. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.439 Stacy Margaret Jones as Wrinkling Time was terrible. It was 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.200 so bad. I haven't seen it about it heard as bad. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.760 She refuses to watch because that was a very beloved book, 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:11.480 very important and people she almost did just for curiosity, 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.040 was like, no, I don't want to do it. I 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.080 think I mean to me, it was a combination of 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:22.520 just like the overly Sacharin earnestness of the performances and 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.760 a lot of bad c g. I. Yeah, it was 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.919 just not good and it was confusing kind of. It 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.720 was like, what what is this? I don't understand? And 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.560 the book would have made it much more clear. I 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.719 haven't read the book either, but it would have made 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.280 it much more clear. It would have really immersed you 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.439 in that world. It made you understand it internally, as 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.440 opposed to shoving a bunch of c g I butterflies 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:46.359 in front of you know what I mean, Like it 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.440 just it just did not do the trick for sure. Yeah, totally. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.359 How do you miss something like that up that bad? 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.399 Well it's hard just a colossal yeah, colossal failure on 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:58.240 every level. But I mean it's the same with those 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.159 stupid Alice in Wonderland movies that that that Tim Burton did. 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.600 I think those are awful. Yeah, they're not good. You know, 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:08.760 it's too much trying to cram this visual pastiche at 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.560 you as opposed to like giving you a story that 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:15.720 actually is meaningful. You know, my friend worked on on 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.639 The Wrinkling Time. He's the one that hung up the 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:23.040 green screen. No, I'm not even gonna say where she 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.000 worked because I don't want to out her as anything 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.280