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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
(00:29):
Hey everybody, and welcome to Many Crush Monday. Chuck here.
Noel I hope is joining us. He is not answering
his skype call. So we're gonna go ahead and get
going because I am on a tight schedule. So. Uh.
I found this on the Movie Crushers page. This is
pretty great. This is from one of our oldest pals,
Alison Gallagher. She dug up an article from pop Sugar two. Well,
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let me qualify this. It does not say thest movies
of all time. It says these are twenty two of
the worst movies of all time. And this is from
Karne Sullivan from February of this year from pop Sugar
dot com. And I was kind of curious how they
qualified this, and then they said it kind of right
in the beginning, that these are films that have a
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zero rating on rotten Tomatoes, which is, uh, that's pretty bad.
Zero percent. Uh. And you know, we've talked about rotten
tomatoes on the show before and whether or not, uh,
anyone should pay attention to something like rotten tomatoes. You know,
here's what I think is rotten tomatoes is a you know,
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it's it's an O case starting point. It will give
you sort of a level set on generally what like
how good a movie might be. It is not scientific.
It is just a bunch of people's opinions. Um but
I will say this, they are not film critics. And
sometimes it's nice just to see what we all us
normies think about a movie. So sometimes I will go,
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if I'm not sure about a movie, check out a
little Rotten Tomatoes action and if it's really low, then
that probably means it's not great. So I will say that,
but I wouldn't put like the most stock in it.
Like it would never be the ultimate decider on whether
or not I watched a movie. Um but the number
one movie, well they're not in order, I guess because
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they obviously represent but number the first one on the
list is Mac and Me, a movie that I did
not see. And I'll go ahead, and we should just
go through all these and see which one's that I've
seen and I haven't seen. But I have not seen
Mac and Me at all, and I will not I
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can say that for sure. Is that nol. Hey dude,
welcome to the show. How's it going. Yes, I'm on
a tight schedule, so I got started and figured you
would join at some point. Everyone Noel is here. It's weird.
Oh so you're not recording, so Noel is will be
recording shortly. Hey, that's all right. This is great entertainment.
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So what we're talking about, Noel is the Rotten Tomatoes
twenty two movies of a zero percent rating? Are you
really truly telling me you've never seen mc and Me
and you refuse to see mac and Me? Why would
I see it now? I mean, because it's one of
the great product placement movies of all time. It's like
one of the great like McDonald's tie in movies of
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all time. And I guess all you really need to
see is that Paul Red clip. Though once you've seen that,
you've probably seen the whole movie. There's also a dance
off in McDonald's with really bad creature makeup with these
alien gritters. Um, but yeah, I support not seeing it.
It's probably fine. I'm not gonna do it. Number the
second one on the list is Problem Child, another movie
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I have not seen. This sorts my heart because John
Ritter is great and it's about to say and I
miss him being around but uh, he was in apparently
a pretty bad movie. What how did Problem Child to
do on Rotten Tomatoes? I have no idea. It says
there's also a problem Child three colin junior in love.
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What I've never even heard of that. I didn't know
there was a two. That's wild. Yeah, I remember in
the theaters. I mean that was those were like big,
Those were big theater movies. I remember seeing them when
I was a kid. But this is news to me.
Problem Child three junior in love. That's crazy. If you
have a colin in your movie, then that's a bad sign.
That's uh. You want to rethink that statement, which would
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name a good one? What about a colonoscope in your movie? Now? Okay, um?
What else? I love this? I love this game. The
third one is Look who's talking? Now? Not the original
but the sequel. Well that's the third one. Look who's
talking too? Was looking? Was talking? Also? A K A
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T O O? Looking? Now? What was this? What was
that was that? The babies? That was one with babies
right with with two children on the they're not babies there.
They look like to be about four or five. The
first one is babies. The second one they're a little older,
and I guess what's going on? Is there? There there's
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two dogs, and they added dogs to the mix. That's
exactly Yes, that's it. They added dogs. That's how they
spiced it up. Because then look who's talking to I
wonder if they should just do more sequels and be
look who's really talking now, and it'll be like the
appliances yep, and then the walls and then they all
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just drift slowly into insanity. Look who's also talking as well?
That's a good title, colin every everything in the house. Yes,
here's another Colon movie. This is proving my point very well.
Ballistic Colon X versus sever Okay, is this some kind
of action picture? Yeah? This was Antonio Benderis and Lucy Lou.
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I did not see this either. Turns out I have
pretty good taste. They should have just called it ballistic
because that's, you know, on the nose. But at least
it's a real movie title. It's ex spelled e c
K S. Yes, amazing. I have not heard of this. Yeah,
it was like I said, something I've never seen. I
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haven't seen any of these. Directed by someone named Wike
Chaos Sanada under the pseudonym chaos, Wow, chaos with a K. Yeah.
I bet the person directed music videos before that. I
bet you a thousand dollars. That's a music video director. One. Huh,
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I'll take that action, all right. Uh. Number five is Derailed,
a movie I've never heard of, but it has Jean
Claude van Dam in it. A train of course straight
to video. There you have it. Number six is Pinocchio,
and then on the Facebook page, people are like Pinocchio.
How could Pinocchio be on it? They're talking about the
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live action Roberto what's his name Roberto Banini version? Yeah,
which is crazy because that was like a real passion
project for him and obviously a life is beautiful, like
you know, Oscar City. And then his next big passion
project was a weird Pinocchio where he plays a small
child as an adult, weird Italian man and apparently unbearably bad.
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Just just like painful to watch is what I read. Yeah,
not interested. I have not seen any of these killing
me softly as on the on the seven Spot Heather
Graham erotic thriller. Well what they're wrong with that? Yeah,
that's not look good. The eighth one is Constellation has
Billy d Williams, Gabrielle Union, Hill Harper, and Zoe Saldana.
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Good cast. Yeah, movie, though says I made for TV
soap opera kind of thing with an A list cast,
So not about space at all. No, it's not. I
think it's probably about love. That's written in the stars
would be my guess. Ray Don Chong, she's she's in
it good. I mean, I haven't seen her in a while,
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but I'm glad you got work in two thousand five.
It's got two stars on IMDb. Okay, I guess is
about the equivalent of no stars on Rotten Tomato because
IMDb is all user generated. So if people that actually
watched the movie or this unkind to it, that's pretty bad.
Maybe that was just Stoner's who thought it was Tommy
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Chong and just gave it a star or two ray
Don Chong. The ninth one is one missed call. Another
movie I've never heard of. It's a remake of a
Japanese film starring ed Ed Burns. I don't know who
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that is. You know Ed Burns? Ed Burns, Mr Burns.
He was in uh he directed films early on and
wrote and directed these movies about you know kind of
young Catholic men. Um, but he he wasn't saving private
Ryan was kind of his biggest thing. You'd recognize him
if you saw him. He was hot ship for a while. Okay,
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handsome man, got it? Let me see here, Tin is homecoming.
Misha Barton in a so so I'm sorry, not so
scary horror movie. Yeah, yeah, these straight to video things,
I don't even know if you should count that. If
you're gonna make a worst movie list, that's yeah. I
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feel like there should be a caveat that this should
only include movies that actually were featured in cinemall cinemaar
like The Nutcracker and three D l Fanning and Nathan Lane.
I mean, come on, the Nutcracker is terrible anyway. Well, no,
whoa chuck. That is a hot take, my friends, that's
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a hot take. Have you ever gone and seen The
Nutcracker live and on stage? Now, Bob Ball, do you
one better. I've run theater tech for The Nutcracker many
years when I was when I was growing up, when
I was in college, I worked as a sound guy
at a theater, a local theater. And you know, if
you're the sound guy, you still have to like be
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kind of a stage hand when they're setting up the
sets and building all the stuff. And so, yes, I
have seen The Nutcracker many times in a row and full. Yeah,
I mean they do sort of an abbreviated version. So no,
it's not very abbreviated. It's just slightly shortened for like
school shows where they have like kids come for you know,
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the different elementary schools around town. Uh, and then they
do the full version for the evening performances. So yeah,
I've seen it in six different ways. Man. Yeah, My
problem with The Nutcracker is that it's so long. Also,
like the first the first half of it when they're
actually like, you know, when all the magic starts, that's
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pretty charming. But then the second half when it's just
all these bizarre dances and you know, it just goes
on and on and on and on, and there's just
it's just so meandering and boring. And yeah, I'm not
into it either, Chuck. I'm with you. I'm with you
on your hot take. The twelfth one on the list.
This was in the theater because I remember it being
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a thing. She's in here, Emily, she's under the table. Uh,
Bucky Larson Colin Born to be a star. That just
looks terrible. Christina Ricci and Nick Swardson and Don Johnson.
Uh thirteen is Dark Tide? My goodness, halle Berry, she's great,
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but dark tied. I think she kind of is is
described as a sexy Jaws starring halle Berry. It wasn't
Jaws sexy enough. Do we need a sexy Jaws? I mean,
Roy Scheider was absolutely soldering and Jaws and that shark,
I mean, talk about a sexy shark. We don't need
a sexy Jaws. Dark Tide is it? Is? It feature
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some sort of okay? So the cover is Holly Berry
in a bikini, and every still from the movie is
Holly Berry in a bikini, and I see a shark
fin So yeah, that's the sales point. It does appear
to be sexy Jaws, all right? Who is? Oh my god,
there's an amazing Japanese or a Korean cover where it's
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Holly Berry in the bikini and then the shark full
mouth open bearing. It's really bad looking. C G I
shark teeth toward her, away from her. Actually, but it's
like the scale is all wrong. She's sort of like
in the waves and the shark looks tiny in comparison
to how giant Holly Berry is. Well, you know, she'll
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sell a movie better than that shark. I guarantee it.
What happened to holly Berry? Chuck? She's around? What are
you talking about? I mean, I'm sure she's around, But
like you know, she went from Monster's Ball to Dark Tide,
you know, I mean, well, you know, uh, I would
agree that the quality of film that she's been in
has gone down some. But that movie, the call was
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seven years ago. That was pretty good. She was in
john Wick three. Oh, that's right. She was great in
john Wick three. She was like his assassin, kind of
ex flame. I believe, if I'm not mistaken, Yeah, I
think you know what, I think halle Berry has taken
work where she can get work. I I support that. No,
you you reminded me, Chuck, she was she wasn't john
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Wick three. I heard a great little, uh little uh
trivia about john Wick is that the only reason they
called it john Wick is because Counters could never remember
the actual name that they were going to give it,
and when he was doing press, he just kept calling
it john Wick. It was originally going to be called
like avenged or something really stupid like that. And now
you know, we can't imagine any other way. But that
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was literally why they changed the name of the movie
to John Wick, because he kept making press rounds and
referring to it as John Wick. Yeah, where you wonder?
I read it somewhere? Are you gonna? Are you gonna refute?
Do you have? No? I just I take that with
a grain of salt. That sounds to me like a
bit of a movie lore type of thing, but maybe not.
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You never know. I feel like it was kicking is
really dumb. You can't remember a one word title? No,
I don't know if he couldn't remember, that was the
way the article kind of hedged it. But to me,
he just I think he just liked the name of
the character and that's what he always referred to it.
Let's see John Wick name Kean remember? Uh, well press
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on while you're looking at Yeah we should. Fourteen is
a thousand words. It's Eddie Murphy movie that Initially when
I saw this, I did not remember, but now I do,
And I think the whole deal is is that he's
got a thousand words that he can say or something.
He's got a daily word count not a good idea
for a movie. Derek Colstead, who wrote the original John
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Wick as well as its two sequels, said that Reeves
kept referring to the original film by the wrong name.
It had previously been titled scorn Quote. The only reason
it's called john Wick, he said, is that Kanu kept
referring to it as John Wick. Okay, I can buy
that from the Independent. That's slightly different than he couldn't
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remember the title. Okay, that's fair. Uh. Number fifteen is
the Ridiculous six Yeah, that western Adam Sandler eight to
Netflix deals. Oh was Sandler in it? That's his thing.
It's one of his things. It's one of his uh
whatever contract that he has to make ten Netflix movies
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a year. Oh goodness me, that doesn't look good. Taylor
Lautner New Boy. Uh sixteen is Cabin Fever. And when
I I first saw Alison Gallagher's abridged version, which was
just the list typed out and not the link, I
thought Kevin Fever was Okay. I kind of like that movie.
The horror were people's skin sloughs off and stuff here. Yeah,
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but this is the remake, which I forgot. They did
a remake to Cabin Fever, and why on earth did
they remake Cabin Fever? That doesn't make any sense. No,
I mean it doesn't at all. I guess the original
was low budget and schlocky kind of But yeah, so
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I am realizing, Chuck, are these these are? Zero percent?
Was out of dere So I am seeing that every
one of these that I pull up on IMDb has
two stars. So the the equivalent of zero percent on
Rotten Tomatoes is two stars on IMDb. It would seem
but it could be an interesting false equivalence. I'm gonna
keep testing it, all right, we might have stumbled upon
something great here. NOL seventeen is the Disappointment's Room. First
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of all, does not roll off the tongue. No, not
at all. The disappointments Room. I will say this. So
it's from the director of Disturbia, and I thought distributor
was Okay, did you ever see that? I know what
you're talking about, but I'm sorry, I hate to keep
harping on this. Why not just call it the disappointment Room.
That's easier to say. Adding that s at the end
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it makes it sound really clunky, and I don't understand
what's going on that's weird. I'm sure that's explained in
the movie somehow, but we'll never know. Yeah, I thought
Distributor was all right. It wasn't great. I did a
little uh rabbit hole I have in this some iTunes
reviews the other day, and someone accused us of too
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often saying I haven't seen that, and that that's lazy
film commentary. Yes, you're right, this show is all about
lazy film commentary. Spot on four stars exactly, Uh, Max Steele,
I've never looked at our ratings on iTunes. I don't care. No,
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you shouldn't care. But it's occasionally a fun way to
either give yourself a nice little boost of confidence or
like poor salt in a wound. Ah, I never I
mean I used to read the Bad Ones and stuff
you should know, just for frenzies. That stuff doesn't bother me. No,
it doesn't bother me either. I'm totally joking. But it
is fun to kind of occasionally you realize, like, oh,
this is more about you than it is about me, buddy. Yeah,
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I think if I've learned one thing in life here
at my ripe old ages, the one thing that doesn't
bother me and shouldn't bother anyone is an internet opinion.
M hm, you're setting yourself up for a frustrating life
if that stuff gets to you. Max Steele Number eighteen.
I don't think I even know this movie says it
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wanted to be the next Transformers. Yeah, that is not
where I would have gone with that. It sounds to
me immediately you say that, and I think it's like
a porno assassin movie. Yeah, or or yeah exactly Max Steele. Okay,
I think it started off as an animated series that
was Transformers esque, and then they then made this into
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a movie that apparently did not do well again. Two
stars on IMDb. All right, check this one, Nold Precious Cargo.
Uh this straight to video starring Bruce Willis Claire for
Lonnie and oh goodness, the great great to Mark Paul.
How don't you know how to say his name? Casa Gossler, Gossler,
I'll take I'll say I would take any of those
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Chuck that looks precious Cargo. Is it at some sort
of treasure or is it about children? Like writing in
a van? It's thieves in a murderous showdown with a
lack of thrills and reliance on skimpy outfits Willis and
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his banana hammock. It's got to balance out. It can't
be all skimpy outfits. You gotta have some thrills to chuck.
You gotta have some thrills and some fully clothes humans,
at least clothes, or at least twenty center the people
with some clothes. Did you ever see Color of Night? No,
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I know the movie, never saw it. That was the
sexy one, right st e me. Let me tell you
all right, we're gonna finish this stuff. Dark Crimes with
Jim Carey when he did that dark sort of drama
misguided murder mystery is how it's described here on the
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Pop Sugar website. Poor Jim Carrey, that I mean, not
poor Jim Carrige. I'm curious. I'm not gonna feel too sorry, born,
but that does not look like a good movie or
a good choice. Oh. If you look at the poster, uh,
if you can chuck, I recommend you pulling it out,
because he's just making the most sad sack face you
could possibly make. He just looks really grumpy. It's probably
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because he was in that movie Dark Crimes. Oh, boy,
and the tagline is it takes a dark mind to
solve a twisted crime. Yet it's called dark crimes and
not dark minds. All right, nol. So we're gonna move
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on to something that's actually worthwhile. Uh, in these charged
times here in our country, I thought we would start
a thread on movies or documentaries that have educated people
on race relations and open their eyes on things. And
I thought this would just serve as a good list,
as a good reference point for people seeking this kind
of stuff out, which we should all be doing right now.
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So I'm just gonna read through a bunch of these
just to get as many of them out there as
we can. Alicia Deats, one of our old friends, says,
Hidden Figures focused on women of color and their struggle. Uh.
Great movie. Amanda Karen says, when they see us about
the Central Park five, I did. I don't what there
were there too, Central Park five documentaries, because that's the
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one that I'm familiar with. You may there may have
been an older one. I saw one, but I thought
it was just called the Central Park five. Uh, let
me look that up real quick. That I mean, that's
a harrowing story and one that also figures into our
current president. Yeah, there's one called the Central Park five.
That's the one I saw. Imagine they're both great, but no,
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Donald Trump, the current president, called for their you know,
uh he even when they're exonerated. He took out an
ad in the paper that basically, you know, this is
bullshit and they should be put away for life or worse.
I don't even remember exactly what he said because I
try not to pay attention. Let me see here, my
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kid watch Do the Right Thing as a teenager, and
the scene where Spike Lee points out John Taturo's hypocrisy
of being racist towards characters, towards least character but admiring
famous people of color like Prince and Carl Lewis really
stuck with me. H yeah, man, I remember. I mean
that movie is just as relevant today, if not more so,
than it ever was. That movie rocked my world. It
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comes up all the time. It could come up a
bunch with us. I've still not seen it. I am
going to see it. It's so so beloved by so
many different people, and it's been recommended to me like
ten times over. We gotta see it. Yeah, one of
the great movies of all time. Uh. Katie Scott says
it's not a movie, but the new HBO watch Man
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was the first time I've heard about the Tulsa race massacre.
I live in northeastern Oklahoma and went to Oklahoma public
school for twelve years, and it was never taught to us.
I never thought anything like that would ever happen in Oklahoma.
Very eye opening. Yeah, you know, even stuff like that
can can educate and open people's eyes to dive deeper.
Oh yeah, that's fabulous. Show. I just found out something
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pretty gross and weird and possibly not on purpose, but
if very tone deaf either way. Apparently Trump's first big
rally is going to be in Tulsa, and it's on
June tenth, which many folks might not know about. But
it's a big holiday, considered holiday in the African American community,
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and it celebrates the abolition of slavery. If I'm not mistaken, Uh,
I don't know if there's intention there, but it's sure
is a pretty bad choice if if there wasn't. Oh no,
it's dark time? What is dark time? Can I add
one real quick? You might already have it or I
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I have not seen this, but I was recommended me
to me just last night. It's called l a ninety
two UM documentary about the LA riots surrounding about the
Rodney King beating or the l A riots that were
kind of stoked as a result of the Rodney King beating,
which is sort of the one people most think about,
but also the shooting of a young black woman by
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a Korean grocery store owner that was also a big
catalyst for the l A rights. But apparently the documentary
it doesn't have a lot of voice over. It just
uses just like archival footage from you know, when it
actually happened, and that it's incredibly powerful. Yeah, my, uh
my brother was living in Hollywood at the time, and uh,
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former guest Raymond Carr also has a great story about that,
So go back and listen to his episode for that.
I'd like to get Raymond back in here. I wonder
if he has a recording set up at his house.
I'll shoot him a text. Uh, Lisa Romano whenever Old
Friends has twelve years of slave that comes up here
a lot. The raw realism had me alternating dissolving in
tears and recoiling and horror. Such a strong lead role
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performance too also a breakout role for the for the
lead actor. Yeah, for sure, absolutely. Uh he's He's popped
up in some pretty big movies since then. You could say,
here's one from Michael Rakowski. Rakowsky, he says, a little
lighter in tone, but a classic Guess Who's coming to dinner?
Great commentary on how we speak compared to how we
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feel about racism, still holds up today, more than fifty
years later. Alison Shallenberger says Gideon's Army follows public defenders
who work in the South. Quite a minimal doc with
hardly any narration or soundtrack, and it still hits hard
the truth about race, poverty, and the justice system. And
she also recommend whose streets about activists in Ferguson. Yeah,
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I gotta see both of those. I need to get
on a documentary run here, very recent in here from
Eliza Russell Black Klansman. Of course, great movie, Zaly. It's
it's an interesting combination of like just gut punch kind
of intense realism and also like some satire, and then
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when it incorporates all of the real footage at the end,
I mean, it's just a really kind of the perfect package.
I think it's one of Spike Lee's finest films. Yeah,
it was great and a great kind of comeback for
him too in a way. Although I think he's doing
some great work these days. She's got to have it
as fantastic the TV show. Zack Pointer, one of our
oldest friends, says the Old Roots with LaVar Burton. Yeah, certainly, Um,
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that is always worth watching and something that many of us,
including myself saw in school in history class. So uh
but uh, you know, it has that the vibe of
the eighties mini series. But it's still a great story.
Robin ronas his school days and do the right thing
great when they came out. Still love them today. Uh,
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let me see here. Dan Innis recommends l A ninety
two as well. It's on Netflix, by the way, everyone
streaming on Netflix. Uh. An old friend, Vanessa Lopez says
one that I have got in my queue and I'm
I'm gonna watch probably this weekend. Uh if Beale Street
could talk. Also want to see that. And I Am
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Not Your Negro, which was a really really good documentary.
Have you seen that one? Yes, it's about James Baldwin, um,
who I've really only seen like some interview clips with.
I really need to read some of his books. Um.
There's one called Notes from a Native Son that I
keep seeing recommended. Uh. That is about kind of just
his experience growing up, you know, under racist, uh society,
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really and just how he kind of interpreted a lot
of that stuff and really poignant. A smart dude. UM,
really would love to see that documentary as well. Yeah,
it's great. Megan Carroll, one of our old friends, says, tale,
I haven't heard of this one, Tales of the Grim Sleeper.
I was getting my grad degree in public administration when
I saw it. I believe that the government should be
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a force of good and to see the l a
municipal government just not care about a serial killer targeting
a certain population angered and shook me like little I
had seen before. Wow, that sounds interesting. I gotta check
that out. No, nothing I even know that story. No, Um,
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let's do a couple of more here. Another vote for roots.
Joanna Wicks says justin Mercy is absolutely required watching and
it's streaming for free on all platforms. She said, these
are movies that need to be watched because of how
recently the events took place. You think it was a
nine fifties or something. But nope, these events were happening
all after I was born and still happening today. A
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couple more votes for thirteenth on Netflix and do the
right thing, Uh, Desiree. Here's from a different part of
the world. Desiree Healed says, rabbit proof fence for all
really in Aboriginal history, particularly in my state of Western Australia. Yeah,
I haven't seen that. I've heard that was really just
history class in an episode about you know, the true
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story behind that? Uh, and they referenced that movie quite
a few times, and UM say, it's great. I'd look
to see it as well. So definitely not a story
people think of, UM often, it's not doesn't quite get
as much press as as it deserves. But yeah, really
really great interesting story. Yeah, and a reminder that the
race relations suffer all over the world. World. No, this
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is why so many people all over planet Earth right
now we're standing in Unison to protest is because it's not.
It's bad in America, but it's not. If I if
I could add an audio recommendation to this, UM we
my team UM just launched a show that we've been
developing for close to a year with really amazing team
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of hosts from Athens, Georgia, UM, one of whom is
a city council woman named Murray at Parker and her
rap name is Lingua Franca and she's an incredible performer
and rapper and activists and organizer. UM and her host,
Kedrick mac A k A Dope Knife, is a fantastic illustrator,
comic book artists, also activist, has a background and like
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UM diplomacy, his parents were in the Foreign service, and uh,
they just talk about the intersection between hip hop and politics.
And we pushed the launch up ever so slightly just
to give them a platform during this time, and they
we recorded the first you know, half of the first
season really UM, just to kind of threw it all
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out the window and you know, really reframed it around
their experiences surrounding this moment that we're in right now.
And it's just I couldn't I couldn't be more proud
of it. And it's notable now wherever you get podcasts
called Waiting on Reparations. Yeah, and that's doing very well too,
which is fantastic. Hey, Ruby, how you doing. I heard
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you were hiding into the table or are Is that true?
He asked, if you were hiding under the table that
didn't go well for you, did you did it? Yeah,
you can sit on my lap. Uh. We'll go with
Charles Martin Acres here, one of our old pals from St. Louis. Uh,
this is kind of cool. I really like hearing these
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recommendations of smaller documentaries. He said, two independent docs, can
you have this? Sure? Two independent docks about St. Louis
and the Divide here, Uh, the Pruitt I Go Myth
which is about public housing, and Spanish Lake, which is
about white flight. Totally. Yeah, that's good stuff. Uh. And
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let's finish up here with Derek Speedy, who recommends quite
a few movies, blind Spotting, America's Son, American Son, and
Sorry to Bother You, along with a couple of others.
But blind Spotting is great, you know. He had Divide
and his partner on the show and great, great great movie.
Everyone to check Outline Spotting on the show who directed
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and created uh, Sorry to Bother You with such a
great movie. Sorry to Bother You, man, I can't wait
to see what Boots does next. He's he's a filmmaker.
I'm excited, very excited about, so check these out. We
will lead this threat up everybody. Uh, if you're looking
to educate yourself, we've got a good list going here.
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And UH, I urge all of you to spend some
time with yourself and with documentaries and films like these,
because we can all take a closer look at our
lives and how we are part of the problem or
part of the solution. So get out there and do
the right thing. Dare I say? All right? Thanks everybody,
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We'll see you next week. For more podcasts for my
Heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
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you listen to your favorite shows.
Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
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Hey everybody, and welcome to Many Crush Monday. Chuck here.
Noel I hope is joining us. He is not answering
his skype call. So we're gonna go ahead and get
going because I am on a tight schedule. So. Uh.
I found this on the Movie Crushers page. This is
pretty great. This is from one of our oldest pals,
Alison Gallagher. She dug up an article from pop Sugar two. Well,
(00:57):
let me qualify this. It does not say thest movies
of all time. It says these are twenty two of
the worst movies of all time. And this is from
Karne Sullivan from February of this year from pop Sugar
dot com. And I was kind of curious how they
qualified this, and then they said it kind of right
in the beginning, that these are films that have a
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zero rating on rotten Tomatoes, which is, uh, that's pretty bad.
Zero percent. Uh. And you know, we've talked about rotten
tomatoes on the show before and whether or not, uh,
anyone should pay attention to something like rotten tomatoes. You know,
here's what I think is rotten tomatoes is a you know,
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it's it's an O case starting point. It will give
you sort of a level set on generally what like
how good a movie might be. It is not scientific.
It is just a bunch of people's opinions. Um but
I will say this, they are not film critics. And
sometimes it's nice just to see what we all us
normies think about a movie. So sometimes I will go,
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if I'm not sure about a movie, check out a
little Rotten Tomatoes action and if it's really low, then
that probably means it's not great. So I will say that,
but I wouldn't put like the most stock in it.
Like it would never be the ultimate decider on whether
or not I watched a movie. Um but the number
one movie, well they're not in order, I guess because
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they obviously represent but number the first one on the
list is Mac and Me, a movie that I did
not see. And I'll go ahead, and we should just
go through all these and see which one's that I've
seen and I haven't seen. But I have not seen
Mac and Me at all, and I will not I
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can say that for sure. Is that nol. Hey dude,
welcome to the show. How's it going. Yes, I'm on
a tight schedule, so I got started and figured you
would join at some point. Everyone Noel is here. It's weird.
Oh so you're not recording, so Noel is will be
recording shortly. Hey, that's all right. This is great entertainment.
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So what we're talking about, Noel is the Rotten Tomatoes
twenty two movies of a zero percent rating? Are you
really truly telling me you've never seen mc and Me
and you refuse to see mac and Me? Why would
I see it now? I mean, because it's one of
the great product placement movies of all time. It's like
one of the great like McDonald's tie in movies of
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all time. And I guess all you really need to
see is that Paul Red clip. Though once you've seen that,
you've probably seen the whole movie. There's also a dance
off in McDonald's with really bad creature makeup with these
alien gritters. Um, but yeah, I support not seeing it.
It's probably fine. I'm not gonna do it. Number the
second one on the list is Problem Child, another movie
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I have not seen. This sorts my heart because John
Ritter is great and it's about to say and I
miss him being around but uh, he was in apparently
a pretty bad movie. What how did Problem Child to
do on Rotten Tomatoes? I have no idea. It says
there's also a problem Child three colin junior in love.
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What I've never even heard of that. I didn't know
there was a two. That's wild. Yeah, I remember in
the theaters. I mean that was those were like big,
Those were big theater movies. I remember seeing them when
I was a kid. But this is news to me.
Problem Child three junior in love. That's crazy. If you
have a colin in your movie, then that's a bad sign.
That's uh. You want to rethink that statement, which would
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name a good one? What about a colonoscope in your movie? Now? Okay, um?
What else? I love this? I love this game. The
third one is Look who's talking? Now? Not the original
but the sequel. Well that's the third one. Look who's
talking too? Was looking? Was talking? Also? A K A
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T O O? Looking? Now? What was this? What was
that was that? The babies? That was one with babies
right with with two children on the they're not babies there.
They look like to be about four or five. The
first one is babies. The second one they're a little older,
and I guess what's going on? Is there? There there's
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two dogs, and they added dogs to the mix. That's
exactly Yes, that's it. They added dogs. That's how they
spiced it up. Because then look who's talking to I
wonder if they should just do more sequels and be
look who's really talking now, and it'll be like the
appliances yep, and then the walls and then they all
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just drift slowly into insanity. Look who's also talking as well?
That's a good title, colin every everything in the house. Yes,
here's another Colon movie. This is proving my point very well.
Ballistic Colon X versus sever Okay, is this some kind
of action picture? Yeah? This was Antonio Benderis and Lucy Lou.
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I did not see this either. Turns out I have
pretty good taste. They should have just called it ballistic
because that's, you know, on the nose. But at least
it's a real movie title. It's ex spelled e c
K S. Yes, amazing. I have not heard of this. Yeah,
it was like I said, something I've never seen. I
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haven't seen any of these. Directed by someone named Wike
Chaos Sanada under the pseudonym chaos, Wow, chaos with a K. Yeah.
I bet the person directed music videos before that. I
bet you a thousand dollars. That's a music video director. One. Huh,
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I'll take that action, all right. Uh. Number five is Derailed,
a movie I've never heard of, but it has Jean
Claude van Dam in it. A train of course straight
to video. There you have it. Number six is Pinocchio,
and then on the Facebook page, people are like Pinocchio.
How could Pinocchio be on it? They're talking about the
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live action Roberto what's his name Roberto Banini version? Yeah,
which is crazy because that was like a real passion
project for him and obviously a life is beautiful, like
you know, Oscar City. And then his next big passion
project was a weird Pinocchio where he plays a small
child as an adult, weird Italian man and apparently unbearably bad.
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Just just like painful to watch is what I read. Yeah,
not interested. I have not seen any of these killing
me softly as on the on the seven Spot Heather
Graham erotic thriller. Well what they're wrong with that? Yeah,
that's not look good. The eighth one is Constellation has
Billy d Williams, Gabrielle Union, Hill Harper, and Zoe Saldana.
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Good cast. Yeah, movie, though says I made for TV
soap opera kind of thing with an A list cast,
So not about space at all. No, it's not. I
think it's probably about love. That's written in the stars
would be my guess. Ray Don Chong, she's she's in
it good. I mean, I haven't seen her in a while,
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but I'm glad you got work in two thousand five.
It's got two stars on IMDb. Okay, I guess is
about the equivalent of no stars on Rotten Tomato because
IMDb is all user generated. So if people that actually
watched the movie or this unkind to it, that's pretty bad.
Maybe that was just Stoner's who thought it was Tommy
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Chong and just gave it a star or two ray
Don Chong. The ninth one is one missed call. Another
movie I've never heard of. It's a remake of a
Japanese film starring ed Ed Burns. I don't know who
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that is. You know Ed Burns? Ed Burns, Mr Burns.
He was in uh he directed films early on and
wrote and directed these movies about you know kind of
young Catholic men. Um, but he he wasn't saving private
Ryan was kind of his biggest thing. You'd recognize him
if you saw him. He was hot ship for a while. Okay,
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handsome man, got it? Let me see here, Tin is homecoming.
Misha Barton in a so so I'm sorry, not so
scary horror movie. Yeah, yeah, these straight to video things,
I don't even know if you should count that. If
you're gonna make a worst movie list, that's yeah. I
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feel like there should be a caveat that this should
only include movies that actually were featured in cinemall cinemaar
like The Nutcracker and three D l Fanning and Nathan Lane.
I mean, come on, the Nutcracker is terrible anyway. Well, no,
whoa chuck. That is a hot take, my friends, that's
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a hot take. Have you ever gone and seen The
Nutcracker live and on stage? Now, Bob Ball, do you
one better. I've run theater tech for The Nutcracker many
years when I was when I was growing up, when
I was in college, I worked as a sound guy
at a theater, a local theater. And you know, if
you're the sound guy, you still have to like be
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kind of a stage hand when they're setting up the
sets and building all the stuff. And so, yes, I
have seen The Nutcracker many times in a row and full. Yeah,
I mean they do sort of an abbreviated version. So no,
it's not very abbreviated. It's just slightly shortened for like
school shows where they have like kids come for you know,
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the different elementary schools around town. Uh, and then they
do the full version for the evening performances. So yeah,
I've seen it in six different ways. Man. Yeah, My
problem with The Nutcracker is that it's so long. Also,
like the first the first half of it when they're
actually like, you know, when all the magic starts, that's
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pretty charming. But then the second half when it's just
all these bizarre dances and you know, it just goes
on and on and on and on, and there's just
it's just so meandering and boring. And yeah, I'm not
into it either, Chuck. I'm with you. I'm with you
on your hot take. The twelfth one on the list.
This was in the theater because I remember it being
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a thing. She's in here, Emily, she's under the table. Uh,
Bucky Larson Colin Born to be a star. That just
looks terrible. Christina Ricci and Nick Swardson and Don Johnson.
Uh thirteen is Dark Tide? My goodness, halle Berry, she's great,
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but dark tied. I think she kind of is is
described as a sexy Jaws starring halle Berry. It wasn't
Jaws sexy enough. Do we need a sexy Jaws? I mean,
Roy Scheider was absolutely soldering and Jaws and that shark,
I mean, talk about a sexy shark. We don't need
a sexy Jaws. Dark Tide is it? Is? It feature
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some sort of okay? So the cover is Holly Berry
in a bikini, and every still from the movie is
Holly Berry in a bikini, and I see a shark
fin So yeah, that's the sales point. It does appear
to be sexy Jaws, all right? Who is? Oh my god,
there's an amazing Japanese or a Korean cover where it's
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Holly Berry in the bikini and then the shark full
mouth open bearing. It's really bad looking. C G I
shark teeth toward her, away from her. Actually, but it's
like the scale is all wrong. She's sort of like
in the waves and the shark looks tiny in comparison
to how giant Holly Berry is. Well, you know, she'll
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sell a movie better than that shark. I guarantee it.
What happened to holly Berry? Chuck? She's around? What are
you talking about? I mean, I'm sure she's around, But
like you know, she went from Monster's Ball to Dark Tide,
you know, I mean, well, you know, uh, I would
agree that the quality of film that she's been in
has gone down some. But that movie, the call was
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seven years ago. That was pretty good. She was in
john Wick three. Oh, that's right. She was great in
john Wick three. She was like his assassin, kind of
ex flame. I believe, if I'm not mistaken, Yeah, I
think you know what, I think halle Berry has taken
work where she can get work. I I support that. No,
you you reminded me, Chuck, she was she wasn't john
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Wick three. I heard a great little, uh little uh
trivia about john Wick is that the only reason they
called it john Wick is because Counters could never remember
the actual name that they were going to give it,
and when he was doing press, he just kept calling
it john Wick. It was originally going to be called
like avenged or something really stupid like that. And now
you know, we can't imagine any other way. But that
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was literally why they changed the name of the movie
to John Wick, because he kept making press rounds and
referring to it as John Wick. Yeah, where you wonder?
I read it somewhere? Are you gonna? Are you gonna refute?
Do you have? No? I just I take that with
a grain of salt. That sounds to me like a
bit of a movie lore type of thing, but maybe not.
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You never know. I feel like it was kicking is
really dumb. You can't remember a one word title? No,
I don't know if he couldn't remember, that was the
way the article kind of hedged it. But to me,
he just I think he just liked the name of
the character and that's what he always referred to it.
Let's see John Wick name Kean remember? Uh, well press
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on while you're looking at Yeah we should. Fourteen is
a thousand words. It's Eddie Murphy movie that Initially when
I saw this, I did not remember, but now I do,
And I think the whole deal is is that he's
got a thousand words that he can say or something.
He's got a daily word count not a good idea
for a movie. Derek Colstead, who wrote the original John
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Wick as well as its two sequels, said that Reeves
kept referring to the original film by the wrong name.
It had previously been titled scorn Quote. The only reason
it's called john Wick, he said, is that Kanu kept
referring to it as John Wick. Okay, I can buy
that from the Independent. That's slightly different than he couldn't
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remember the title. Okay, that's fair. Uh. Number fifteen is
the Ridiculous six Yeah, that western Adam Sandler eight to
Netflix deals. Oh was Sandler in it? That's his thing.
It's one of his things. It's one of his uh
whatever contract that he has to make ten Netflix movies
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a year. Oh goodness me, that doesn't look good. Taylor
Lautner New Boy. Uh sixteen is Cabin Fever. And when
I I first saw Alison Gallagher's abridged version, which was
just the list typed out and not the link, I
thought Kevin Fever was Okay. I kind of like that movie.
The horror were people's skin sloughs off and stuff here. Yeah,
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but this is the remake, which I forgot. They did
a remake to Cabin Fever, and why on earth did
they remake Cabin Fever? That doesn't make any sense. No,
I mean it doesn't at all. I guess the original
was low budget and schlocky kind of But yeah, so
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I am realizing, Chuck, are these these are? Zero percent?
Was out of dere So I am seeing that every
one of these that I pull up on IMDb has
two stars. So the the equivalent of zero percent on
Rotten Tomatoes is two stars on IMDb. It would seem
but it could be an interesting false equivalence. I'm gonna
keep testing it, all right, we might have stumbled upon
something great here. NOL seventeen is the Disappointment's Room. First
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of all, does not roll off the tongue. No, not
at all. The disappointments Room. I will say this. So
it's from the director of Disturbia, and I thought distributor
was Okay, did you ever see that? I know what
you're talking about, but I'm sorry, I hate to keep
harping on this. Why not just call it the disappointment Room.
That's easier to say. Adding that s at the end
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it makes it sound really clunky, and I don't understand
what's going on that's weird. I'm sure that's explained in
the movie somehow, but we'll never know. Yeah, I thought
Distributor was all right. It wasn't great. I did a
little uh rabbit hole I have in this some iTunes
reviews the other day, and someone accused us of too
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often saying I haven't seen that, and that that's lazy
film commentary. Yes, you're right, this show is all about
lazy film commentary. Spot on four stars exactly, Uh, Max Steele,
I've never looked at our ratings on iTunes. I don't care. No,
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you shouldn't care. But it's occasionally a fun way to
either give yourself a nice little boost of confidence or
like poor salt in a wound. Ah, I never I
mean I used to read the Bad Ones and stuff
you should know, just for frenzies. That stuff doesn't bother me. No,
it doesn't bother me either. I'm totally joking. But it
is fun to kind of occasionally you realize, like, oh,
this is more about you than it is about me, buddy. Yeah,
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I think if I've learned one thing in life here
at my ripe old ages, the one thing that doesn't
bother me and shouldn't bother anyone is an internet opinion.
M hm, you're setting yourself up for a frustrating life
if that stuff gets to you. Max Steele Number eighteen.
I don't think I even know this movie says it
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wanted to be the next Transformers. Yeah, that is not
where I would have gone with that. It sounds to
me immediately you say that, and I think it's like
a porno assassin movie. Yeah, or or yeah exactly Max Steele. Okay,
I think it started off as an animated series that
was Transformers esque, and then they then made this into
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a movie that apparently did not do well again. Two
stars on IMDb. All right, check this one, Nold Precious Cargo.
Uh this straight to video starring Bruce Willis Claire for
Lonnie and oh goodness, the great great to Mark Paul.
How don't you know how to say his name? Casa Gossler, Gossler,
I'll take I'll say I would take any of those
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Chuck that looks precious Cargo. Is it at some sort
of treasure or is it about children? Like writing in
a van? It's thieves in a murderous showdown with a
lack of thrills and reliance on skimpy outfits Willis and
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his banana hammock. It's got to balance out. It can't
be all skimpy outfits. You gotta have some thrills to chuck.
You gotta have some thrills and some fully clothes humans,
at least clothes, or at least twenty center the people
with some clothes. Did you ever see Color of Night? No,
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I know the movie, never saw it. That was the
sexy one, right st e me. Let me tell you
all right, we're gonna finish this stuff. Dark Crimes with
Jim Carey when he did that dark sort of drama
misguided murder mystery is how it's described here on the
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Pop Sugar website. Poor Jim Carrey, that I mean, not
poor Jim Carrige. I'm curious. I'm not gonna feel too sorry, born,
but that does not look like a good movie or
a good choice. Oh. If you look at the poster, uh,
if you can chuck, I recommend you pulling it out,
because he's just making the most sad sack face you
could possibly make. He just looks really grumpy. It's probably
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because he was in that movie Dark Crimes. Oh, boy,
and the tagline is it takes a dark mind to
solve a twisted crime. Yet it's called dark crimes and
not dark minds. All right, nol. So we're gonna move
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on to something that's actually worthwhile. Uh, in these charged
times here in our country, I thought we would start
a thread on movies or documentaries that have educated people
on race relations and open their eyes on things. And
I thought this would just serve as a good list,
as a good reference point for people seeking this kind
of stuff out, which we should all be doing right now.
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So I'm just gonna read through a bunch of these
just to get as many of them out there as
we can. Alicia Deats, one of our old friends, says,
Hidden Figures focused on women of color and their struggle. Uh.
Great movie. Amanda Karen says, when they see us about
the Central Park five, I did. I don't what there
were there too, Central Park five documentaries, because that's the
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one that I'm familiar with. You may there may have
been an older one. I saw one, but I thought
it was just called the Central Park five. Uh, let
me look that up real quick. That I mean, that's
a harrowing story and one that also figures into our
current president. Yeah, there's one called the Central Park five.
That's the one I saw. Imagine they're both great, but no,
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Donald Trump, the current president, called for their you know,
uh he even when they're exonerated. He took out an
ad in the paper that basically, you know, this is
bullshit and they should be put away for life or worse.
I don't even remember exactly what he said because I
try not to pay attention. Let me see here, my
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kid watch Do the Right Thing as a teenager, and
the scene where Spike Lee points out John Taturo's hypocrisy
of being racist towards characters, towards least character but admiring
famous people of color like Prince and Carl Lewis really
stuck with me. H yeah, man, I remember. I mean
that movie is just as relevant today, if not more so,
than it ever was. That movie rocked my world. It
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comes up all the time. It could come up a
bunch with us. I've still not seen it. I am
going to see it. It's so so beloved by so
many different people, and it's been recommended to me like
ten times over. We gotta see it. Yeah, one of
the great movies of all time. Uh. Katie Scott says
it's not a movie, but the new HBO watch Man
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was the first time I've heard about the Tulsa race massacre.
I live in northeastern Oklahoma and went to Oklahoma public
school for twelve years, and it was never taught to us.
I never thought anything like that would ever happen in Oklahoma.
Very eye opening. Yeah, you know, even stuff like that
can can educate and open people's eyes to dive deeper.
Oh yeah, that's fabulous. Show. I just found out something
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pretty gross and weird and possibly not on purpose, but
if very tone deaf either way. Apparently Trump's first big
rally is going to be in Tulsa, and it's on
June tenth, which many folks might not know about. But
it's a big holiday, considered holiday in the African American community,
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and it celebrates the abolition of slavery. If I'm not mistaken, Uh,
I don't know if there's intention there, but it's sure
is a pretty bad choice if if there wasn't. Oh no,
it's dark time? What is dark time? Can I add
one real quick? You might already have it or I
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I have not seen this, but I was recommended me
to me just last night. It's called l a ninety
two UM documentary about the LA riots surrounding about the
Rodney King beating or the l A riots that were
kind of stoked as a result of the Rodney King beating,
which is sort of the one people most think about,
but also the shooting of a young black woman by
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a Korean grocery store owner that was also a big
catalyst for the l A rights. But apparently the documentary
it doesn't have a lot of voice over. It just
uses just like archival footage from you know, when it
actually happened, and that it's incredibly powerful. Yeah, my, uh
my brother was living in Hollywood at the time, and uh,
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former guest Raymond Carr also has a great story about that,
So go back and listen to his episode for that.
I'd like to get Raymond back in here. I wonder
if he has a recording set up at his house.
I'll shoot him a text. Uh, Lisa Romano whenever Old
Friends has twelve years of slave that comes up here
a lot. The raw realism had me alternating dissolving in
tears and recoiling and horror. Such a strong lead role
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performance too also a breakout role for the for the
lead actor. Yeah, for sure, absolutely. Uh he's He's popped
up in some pretty big movies since then. You could say,
here's one from Michael Rakowski. Rakowsky, he says, a little
lighter in tone, but a classic Guess Who's coming to dinner?
Great commentary on how we speak compared to how we
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feel about racism, still holds up today, more than fifty
years later. Alison Shallenberger says Gideon's Army follows public defenders
who work in the South. Quite a minimal doc with
hardly any narration or soundtrack, and it still hits hard
the truth about race, poverty, and the justice system. And
she also recommend whose streets about activists in Ferguson. Yeah,
(26:55):
I gotta see both of those. I need to get
on a documentary run here, very recent in here from
Eliza Russell Black Klansman. Of course, great movie, Zaly. It's
it's an interesting combination of like just gut punch kind
of intense realism and also like some satire, and then
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when it incorporates all of the real footage at the end,
I mean, it's just a really kind of the perfect package.
I think it's one of Spike Lee's finest films. Yeah,
it was great and a great kind of comeback for
him too in a way. Although I think he's doing
some great work these days. She's got to have it
as fantastic the TV show. Zack Pointer, one of our
oldest friends, says the Old Roots with LaVar Burton. Yeah, certainly, Um,
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that is always worth watching and something that many of us,
including myself saw in school in history class. So uh
but uh, you know, it has that the vibe of
the eighties mini series. But it's still a great story.
Robin ronas his school days and do the right thing
great when they came out. Still love them today. Uh,
(28:00):
let me see here. Dan Innis recommends l A ninety
two as well. It's on Netflix, by the way, everyone
streaming on Netflix. Uh. An old friend, Vanessa Lopez says
one that I have got in my queue and I'm
I'm gonna watch probably this weekend. Uh if Beale Street
could talk. Also want to see that. And I Am
(28:20):
Not Your Negro, which was a really really good documentary.
Have you seen that one? Yes, it's about James Baldwin, um,
who I've really only seen like some interview clips with.
I really need to read some of his books. Um.
There's one called Notes from a Native Son that I
keep seeing recommended. Uh. That is about kind of just
his experience growing up, you know, under racist, uh society,
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really and just how he kind of interpreted a lot
of that stuff and really poignant. A smart dude. UM,
really would love to see that documentary as well. Yeah,
it's great. Megan Carroll, one of our old friends, says, tale,
I haven't heard of this one, Tales of the Grim Sleeper.
I was getting my grad degree in public administration when
I saw it. I believe that the government should be
(29:05):
a force of good and to see the l a
municipal government just not care about a serial killer targeting
a certain population angered and shook me like little I
had seen before. Wow, that sounds interesting. I gotta check
that out. No, nothing I even know that story. No, Um,
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let's do a couple of more here. Another vote for roots.
Joanna Wicks says justin Mercy is absolutely required watching and
it's streaming for free on all platforms. She said, these
are movies that need to be watched because of how
recently the events took place. You think it was a
nine fifties or something. But nope, these events were happening
all after I was born and still happening today. A
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couple more votes for thirteenth on Netflix and do the
right thing, Uh, Desiree. Here's from a different part of
the world. Desiree Healed says, rabbit proof fence for all
really in Aboriginal history, particularly in my state of Western Australia. Yeah,
I haven't seen that. I've heard that was really just
history class in an episode about you know, the true
(30:09):
story behind that? Uh, and they referenced that movie quite
a few times, and UM say, it's great. I'd look
to see it as well. So definitely not a story
people think of, UM often, it's not doesn't quite get
as much press as as it deserves. But yeah, really
really great interesting story. Yeah, and a reminder that the
race relations suffer all over the world. World. No, this
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is why so many people all over planet Earth right
now we're standing in Unison to protest is because it's not.
It's bad in America, but it's not. If I if
I could add an audio recommendation to this, UM we
my team UM just launched a show that we've been
developing for close to a year with really amazing team
(30:54):
of hosts from Athens, Georgia, UM, one of whom is
a city council woman named Murray at Parker and her
rap name is Lingua Franca and she's an incredible performer
and rapper and activists and organizer. UM and her host,
Kedrick mac A k A Dope Knife, is a fantastic illustrator,
comic book artists, also activist, has a background and like
(31:16):
UM diplomacy, his parents were in the Foreign service, and uh,
they just talk about the intersection between hip hop and politics.
And we pushed the launch up ever so slightly just
to give them a platform during this time, and they
we recorded the first you know, half of the first
season really UM, just to kind of threw it all
(31:37):
out the window and you know, really reframed it around
their experiences surrounding this moment that we're in right now.
And it's just I couldn't I couldn't be more proud
of it. And it's notable now wherever you get podcasts
called Waiting on Reparations. Yeah, and that's doing very well too,
which is fantastic. Hey, Ruby, how you doing. I heard
(31:58):
you were hiding into the table or are Is that true?
He asked, if you were hiding under the table that
didn't go well for you, did you did it? Yeah,
you can sit on my lap. Uh. We'll go with
Charles Martin Acres here, one of our old pals from St. Louis. Uh,
this is kind of cool. I really like hearing these
(32:20):
recommendations of smaller documentaries. He said, two independent docs, can
you have this? Sure? Two independent docks about St. Louis
and the Divide here, Uh, the Pruitt I Go Myth
which is about public housing, and Spanish Lake, which is
about white flight. Totally. Yeah, that's good stuff. Uh. And
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let's finish up here with Derek Speedy, who recommends quite
a few movies, blind Spotting, America's Son, American Son, and
Sorry to Bother You, along with a couple of others.
But blind Spotting is great, you know. He had Divide
and his partner on the show and great, great great movie.
Everyone to check Outline Spotting on the show who directed
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and created uh, Sorry to Bother You with such a
great movie. Sorry to Bother You, man, I can't wait
to see what Boots does next. He's he's a filmmaker.
I'm excited, very excited about, so check these out. We
will lead this threat up everybody. Uh, if you're looking
to educate yourself, we've got a good list going here.
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And UH, I urge all of you to spend some
time with yourself and with documentaries and films like these,
because we can all take a closer look at our
lives and how we are part of the problem or
part of the solution. So get out there and do
the right thing. Dare I say? All right? Thanks everybody,
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We'll see you next week. For more podcasts for my
Heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
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you listen to your favorite shows.
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