September 28, 2020 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
(00:28):
Hey everybody, and welcome to Mini Crush Monday. Noel in
the hissy in his hissym not in my hissy. Yeah,
it's drive. I mean, I've been there. It's a nice hissy,
but I got my own. This is the new way.
Get out of my hissy, get out of my head.
Are you fully accustomed to your new home, Noel. Yeah,
there's a couple of little bits and Bob's that I
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need to deal with, you know that, Just like a
couple of boxes that I just haven't messed with, or
I've seen a shove in the attic. It's just something
I just need to deal with. But also my studio.
I want to get some acoustic panels, but I haven't
gotten to that yet, and I've got a few pieces
of are I don't want to hang in here? But yeah,
mainly love it. Yes, it feels very cozy. Are there
any ghosts? Um No, But I will say this, there's
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like when I first moved in, there was this like
dead animal smell and it went away and I was like,
what is this. It's like that's something into the house
that died. And then it like really briefly, came back
and then went away really quickly. So you do have
a ghost. If there were a proper rotting animal, it
wouldn't just go away quickly. It would linger until the
thing was just disappeared. You know. Yeah, that's concerning. There
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is a cross space. Yes, you might have a dead
human under their knoll. I think it's possible, or at
the very least some sort of ghoul. You should call
up a um ghost hunter, an animal removal person, and
a mortuary attendant. So I should assemble a crack team
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of of of a ragtag band of yes you know, yeah, Okay,
I got it, and they should They should all be brothers,
they should be triplets. I support this, John, I think
this is a great idea. And then we'll make a
TV show about it. Let's do it. Count me in
all right. Now, we're gonna start it off this week
with a movie Crushers bit, because you know, those Crushers
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got some good stuff going every now and then, like
meaning every day. And this one comes and asked for
his permission. He said yes, so you can't sue me
for the no money that the show makes. But Jonathan
and I'm gonna do my best here, But Nol. This
is one of those names that starts out with one, two, three,
four consonants in a row? What which ones? What are they?
(02:40):
Which one? I can't even picture this scenario. S z
c z. That's just a sound. I'm sure Jonathan's having
fun with this, but I'm just gonna go with Jonathan.
P uh Zapanski, I'm just canceling out the s s
in the season, going with the zs only. I bet
that's right. I think I think it is. There's no
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way it's scissors Zepansky. No, no, I was wrong. I
was dead wrong. It's a great name, though, Jonathan, I
love that. Zapansky, Bryant, Brown, boring, Nol. That's what we are. Boring,
we're at. We shouldn't even exist. Your name has only
got nearly interesting enough. Too dumb syllables. What's your name?
(03:25):
You could? You could fart that sound that name out, NOL. Jeez, Chuck,
you can't fart sharing my legacy here, You can't fart,
Jonathan P. Sabanski, Well, Charles W. Chuck Bryant's pretty cool.
It's a lot of syllables there, Yeah, but I just
that's what we're counting. I guess he did up. I'm
just chuck. Okay, fair enough, you are just chucked, and
(03:47):
you can fart that out easily, you can. That's what
my farts all sound like, is just the chuck chuck, chuck. Alright, nol.
So this is what Jonathan said, and this is a
good one. This jumps off. You're prett woman review. He said,
after listening to many Crush number one thirty five, it
reminded me how long it took me to quote, forgive
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end quote Jason Alexander for that role. And I couldn't
separate him from that character in that movie. You know
that happens a lot. He said. Are there any actors
that you hold their roles against them? And I think
we've all been down this road before a hole, And
I'm gonna go ahead and name one. I have to
look up his name now because I can't remember. It
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is Tony Goldwin. And this is a movie I didn't
even like. It's not even one of my favorite movies,
but the movie Ghost with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze
Tony Goldman was the worst. And every time I saw
that guy in any movie for a long time, I
was just like, oh, that motherfucker. What else was he in?
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He's been in a bunch of stuff. I mean he
was He's kind of played the bad guy in a
couple of things. But you know character actor. He was
in a movie called Scandal. You know, I know him.
He's he has kind of the sunken, ghoulish face, which
I think makes him pretty well suited for for the
for the battie, Yeah, kiss the girls. You know. That's
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as much as I'll say about that divirgent Pelican brief.
He's been a lot of stuff, but he's one of
those guys that every time he turned up for a
while after that, I just wanted to punch him because
of what he did. And ghost. Oh, he's in the
new Lovecraft Country and he plays a ghoulish cult leader. Interview. Yeah,
I think you should give it a shot. It's interesting
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and Okay, this isn't a spoiler. I'm I'm just gonna
three to one non spoiler spoiler. It's the sort of
a secret anthology series like every appod Like you don't
know that at first, but then you realize, like it's
a little bit of like a it's Scooby Doo kind
of Monster of the week and it's cool. I need
to get back into it. It threw me for a
loop because I didn't think it was at first. And
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the second episode is just such a climax. It feels
like a season finale. And I was just like, wait
what they threw so much at the wall and like,
I don't understand where this is going. And then I realized, oh,
that was the culmination of this a story, and then
there's like a B story and at Centers. Yeah, that's
on the list. All right. Now we're gonna start it
off with we're going top down, but I'm gonna get
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through as many as he's as I can. Uh. Monica
Elizabeth says, not a movie. And I didn't see much
of this show, as you know. But noel I think
we can all agree that Jack Gleeson as Jeoffrey Barratian
will never be able to live that roll down. Well,
he knows that and he left. He quit acting basically
because of it. He really Oh my god, ye should
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I feel bad for him? I mean, look, it's the
role of a lifetime. Maybe he wasn't that into acting
in the first place. You mean, you could have fooled me.
He's fucking incredible, but yeah, he's such a little ship.
Yeah that's tough. Uh. Old pal Andrea do pui. Uh.
Crease says Denzel in Training Day. That was tough because
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we love Denzel and then to see him it's such
a monster in movie. You know, that was hard. I
was mad at him. He's great in that though, I said,
I'm sure, you know, he's so used to playing like
the righteous kind of good guy. I'm sure that was
a lot of fun for her. Oh yeah, I bet
he had a good time on that. Grant Woody, one
of her old friends, says, I disliked Joaquin Phoenix for
interrrationally long time after Gladiator. Yeah he was bad, bad man,
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but good at it. So good? Yeah, very good at it.
Um Okay, Randy Rodriguez says, my wife and Kevin Bacon,
she said she was such Uh. She said he was
such a creep in that movie Whitewater Summer. Uh was
it Whitewater Summer. I think the River wild maybe what
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he's thinking. Although I haven't seen Whitewater Summer. I thought
that was sort of a fun movie. River Wilde is
when he played the creep. Whitewater Summer sounds like a
lot of fun. Does want to have a movie about
a water park and all the long lasting friendships you
made over that one faithful summer. I haven't seen that
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Action Park documentary yet, but that's on the list too.
I can't wait to see that. If you heard called
class actions Traction Park was another fun name for that
park back then. Yeah, because it was all just mega
unsafe like water slides and rides and people just got
totally really jacked up there. There was a loop, a
water slide that went in a full loop. Knoll. Oh,
(08:27):
that seems like a great idea. There's no way that
can go wrong. Uh. Sarah Stapleton says I cannot separate
Lorraine Toussaint from the character she played in Orange is
the New Black. Every time I see her in something else,
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I just want to scream at all the other characters
to not trust her. Yeah. I watched Oranges the New
Black for the first couple of seasons and then we stopped.
But I liked it. I think it just kind of
overstate it's welcome in my opinion, kind of like Weeds.
I never saw Weeds. Yeah, that was like an eighteen
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seasons right, didn't that show go over it? Was a
lot and just you know, and it was never like
a great show to begin with. It was just fun.
And then the character uh whatever, Nancy whatever her name
is um played by the lovely Sarah Jessica No, uh,
Jennifer Jason Lee. No, who plays her? You mean the lead? Yeah?
What's her name? It was Mary Louise Parker. Louise Parker,
(09:29):
one of those three names gals. Yes, yes, she becomes
just like the just at first, she's just quirky and
kind of like, oh, I'm just doing this thing to
like take care of my family, and then she just
becomes progressively more and more irresponsible and brings her kids
into the situation. It's it's like that, but like not
even the steaks are low because it's just sort of
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a comedy. So it's just you just kind of can't
stand here because she's just sort of really selfish and
makes really stupid decisions. Looks like Weeds ran for eight seasons. Uh,
the great Kevin Nealon, isn't that. Oh Yeah, Yeah, he's great.
He's funny. He's the best thing about it. He plays
there like bungling lawyer kind of guy. Yeah, he's good.
He's like that show um Phyllis Martin Talent says, I've
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heard more than one person say Mary Tyler Moore is
not a nice person because of her role in Ordinary People.
He never mind that she was sweet Laurie Petrie or
Mary Richards for so many years. Yeah, that's true. Ordinary people,
ordinary people. It's good, it's tough. It's a divorce movie,
sort of through the lens of the child. Got it
(10:34):
very hard. Mike Sam's, one of her old friends, says,
it took me a long time to disassociate Rachel McAdams
from Regina George. Uh. And I still have issues with
David Strathern for his role in Dolores Claiborne. Yeah, I
hear that. Uh. Megan Broyle says, I used to loathe
you and McGregor, but I have no idea why. Okay,
(10:56):
that's a different kind of answer. Did you see uh
of Pray or whatever it was called, the Harley Quinn
movie Not Interested? Well, you and McGregor is in and
he plays like a battye and it's fun because he
doesn't get to do that very often. And uh, yeah,
I enjoyed it all right. Amy Roberts says, James Spader
will always be Steph and pretty and pink, and as
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an office fan, it was really hard for me to
like him. Yeah, pretty and pink. He was not a
good guy in that. Uh let me see here. John
Stockton says Steve Carrell because of Michael Scott, Jake gillen Hall,
because of how he was portrayed an entourage, Jake Jillen Hall.
Did he play himself? Was he like one of those
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like over the top versions of himself? I don't. I
don't recall him being an entourage. I don't know, man,
I don't think so someone's gonna have to clear that
up for me. Stockton, Come on, Stockton, let me know
what's up. Uh, let me see here. Batia Randy says
Brad Pitt and thumb On Louise Yeah, I was on
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a nice thing he did. Nicole Curly says, I'm still
kind of afraid of Anthony Hopkins. I don't know if
I'll ever be able to separate him from Hannibal Lector.
That is true. Christine Taylor is Marsha Brady. That's from
Keith Edward. She looks so much like Marsha Brady. It
was just hard to not think she was Marsha Brady,
great casting, perfect casting. Were you a Brady Bunch guy?
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Did it? Was that like important to you growing up?
Not that you were, that would have been before your time,
but reruns I'm sure right, No, old Brady Bunch was
very important to me. Yes, yeah, yeah, I watched that
movie religiously in reruns. It was part of this like
group of shows that was before my time but played
forever on like WTBS and stuff like I was watching
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Green Acres and Petticoat Junction and like all these old
black and white Gilligan's Island Dude Doobe gillis Man, Mr.
I watched all that ship on Nick at Night Like
that was huge for me. Yeah, pre Nick at Night.
It was just on the superstation. Uh Lynn Carlson one
of our oldest friends, he says Christian Bale. Because of
American Psycho. He played the role of sleazy Wall Street
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upper class douche too. Well, it's very good. Dermott Kennif
says Jude Law because of quite a few asshole roles,
but mostly because of Wild. I don't think I saw that, No,
I'd neither. Is that the Oscar Wild movie? Maybe he
did not play is spelled with an E on the end.
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It is indeed, nol, Then that's what it's gotta be.
Ben Master says Glenn Close from World. According to Garb,
her character, her character was so off putting it took
me a long time to come to appreciate her other performances.
I feel bad for these people. Sometimes they're so good
in something and being bad that people dislike them in
real life. You know, they're acting. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean,
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you know, it's it's like, here's a good example, like
that kid from the Harry Potter movies, that shitty little
blonde kid. Don't he plays, you know, Malfoy or whatever.
Have no idea like yeah, exactly, Well I thought you
were a huge Harry Potter. Stand I'm gonna read those
one day, nol. You know everyone's saying Ruby's gonna get
to an age where I can't avoid it. So I'm
just waiting on that day with abated breath. Even just
(14:15):
blasted right past that period. She has zero interests, all anime,
all the time. That's her thing. Well, maybe that'll happen
for me. Jamie Irman says, Jason Patrick and your friends
and neighbors, Oh yeah, dude is creepy and always tends
to have the creepy roles. Yeah, that was He was
such a fucking asshole in that movie champ Razado. One
of orl Pau says, j K. Simmons is a great actor,
(14:37):
but it took a lot of roles before I was
able to not see him as Schillinger. What is that
from Schillinger? Chilling? That's the joke. Yeah, he he always
everyone always pronounces it Schillinger and he always corrects them
chilling her. But yeah, he is. He's this neo Nazi
uh like leader who's been locked up and has control
(14:59):
over all these uh insane you know, racist white supremacists
in the prison, and he goes to war with this
one character and like has his does horrible things to
his family outside of the prison, and like, you know,
it's it's just yeah, he is a That is one
of the most um what's the word just despicable characters
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in all of television, I would say, which is interesting
because j K. Simmons is generally I think plays a
pretty good dude. Although he didn't in Whip Flash either.
He was pretty tough in that one. Did you like
that movie? I fucking loved Whip Flash. Someone told me
the other day that they hated it, and I was
really confused. It was it was kind of a film
snob person, so they may have had their issues, but
(15:45):
I haven't seen it. Isn't that the guy that did
um La La Land was not the same. Yeah, I
think so Chazelle was. Yeah. I think it was like
his first big oscar bait. It was Damien Giselle. I
really thought Whiplash was great, like I got it, really
loved it. Oh you did not see Whip Player. I
I haven't seene Whiplash now, Oh you should. It's right
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up pure alley as a music A Yeah, I've seen
some clips like there's just leewards like his hands were
bleeding or whatever because he's like playing the drums so
hard or whatever. Drummond so hard, so hard, so hard.
All Right, We're gonna finish with Earl pal. Austin Debski
says Wayne Knight in Jurassic Park, he will always be
Dennis Nedder to me. It's true. He's he's he's newman.
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But it's funny you say that shucks to him. I
saw Jurassic Park before I ever saw Seinfeld. So he
was neddury to me as well, even once I knew
him as Newman. But now over time I think of
him as Newman. Yeah, and not Neger. No, they're close
Newman Nidri, It's true. All right, Now we're gonna finish up, well,
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why don't you announce what we're gonna finish up with?
Oh boy, we're gonna finish up with a little edition
of Trucks. Hey. Nice work. Okay, Yes, I worked really
hard on this list, Chuck. I would. I didn't want
it to be too I didn't want to like totally
humiliate you. Um. I also, you know, didn't want to
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like insult your intelligence. So it was like a kind
of a delicate balance. And that's why I sent it
to Casey. Um vetted it, vetted for me a little bit.
And uh, I stand by this list. Um, this is
Chuck's holes weirdo foreign art house a dish. Oh Jesus,
(17:39):
all right, No, do you have the technology to keep score?
Meaning a pencil and a piece of paper? If by
technology you mean yes, I will absolutely uh keep score.
Do you need uh a few hours to figure out
I need? I need some grid paper and a compass
and uh t square pretty yeah, yeah, actually you know
(18:02):
what I got? I need my notepad open and then
I need something analog to write with. I wish everyone
could see this and all was just so flustered, you guys.
Anytime score keeping is happening just sends him into it dizzy.
I'm I'm more flustered than I don't have a pencil
right at arm's reach. Give me one second, sure, and
you know what, No, while you're off doing that, I
want to give my book a plug. The Stuff you
(18:25):
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the book isn't selling as well as they would like,
and uh we really needed to sell better. So if
you have it in your heart after all this great
free content over the years, to jump in in pre order,
(18:46):
it would mean a lot. Really, trust me, it would
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b l M. The very least support indie bookstores by
going to indie bound dot org and pre ordering the stuff.
(19:09):
You should know book nol was back and I've pre
ordered mine. Did you really? Yeah, of course I appreciate
that I should actually buy one two that would help,
every every little bit help. So yeah, look at this.
Look at this cool little I got a little little
diary with it's even got it's from Moogie. You ever
been to Moogie, New York. It's like it's sort of
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like Japanese Ikea. They still stationary and cool, like stuff
for the home and you know, duvet covers and ship.
But it's a really fun little store. So I have
my Moogie notepad and a pen that I've confirmed works.
And actually it's appropriate that I'm using this Moogie notepad
because a lot of Asian cinema represents it. In my
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last here and chuck, but not so much that it's egregious.
I tried to split it up. Um are you ready, sir?
This episode brought to you by Mouji, by Mougie. Yeah, dude,
to send us like once some of those cute little
toothbrush holders or when they have It's it's a fun store.
I always enjoyed going in there. Yeah, all right, I'm
(20:14):
ready nol okayes in the category of it's a Chuck's holes,
weirdo foreign art house, a dish, and I try to
keep it pretty weirdo and not just like asembled I'm
gonna get killed now. I I think there's something here
that No. Look, let's just okay. So we'll start off
with a little movie called The Holy Mountain. I have
(20:36):
not seen Holy Mountain. You're familiar with Holy Mountain. Yeah,
I haven't seen it. It's yeah, it's great, it's uh,
it's it's one of the weirdest what's that director's name,
He did El Topo and and all that stuff. Hang
on me. Some people can look him up him do Yeah,
Holy Mountains on the list. I've heard. It's quite a film. Yeah,
it's from the seventies and you sent me three. It's
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categorized as a fantasy drama, but it's really just like
a like a cinematic performance art piece. It's and then
beautifully shot. The director is um Alejandro Jodorowski, who famously
had a version of Doune that he did with the
artist Mobius that was like gonna be made, but then
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it didn't. Happen. And there's actually a documentary called Jodorowski's
Dune that's very good. Okay, I uh, my friend, by
the way, I have that DVD because my very good
friend Ryan McNeil sent me the Holy Mountain DVD. So
you have this. You just haven't watched it. I just
haven't watched it yet. Okay, Well I don't. You almost
should get have a point for owning it, but never
right now, okay. Uh. The next one is a very
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popular Japanese surrealist film called How Su or a k
A House. Yes, I did see that, actually, uh huh, yeah,
it's what were your impressions of How Sue? Well, it's
been a long time, but I do remember seeing that
movie back in the day. It's written it's almost like
a child wrote it or something, and if I'm not mistaken,
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it was the director of the creators. Children sort of
pieced together like this narrative of a dream they had
and that was the kind of fodder for like the
script or it may have even been more direct than that,
where they actually wrote some of it. But it's like
you think it's going to be a horror movie, and
it kind of is, but it's really just a weirdest
surrealist kind of fantasy comedy ROMP. Very very interesting movie. Okay,
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so you've seen how so we've gotta we gotta check
for house in the in the left column. How do
you spell that? H A U s U. Yeah, I'm
I'm looking now, just to uh the images iconic. It's
like a cat like kind of like a crazy orange cat.
I saw that when I in college, when I worked
at that video store, when we got watching more weird
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stuff like that. Some of these might be from those days. Um, Okay,
this next one, it's a little bit of a this
is a low blow, but um. It's even this director
who's very prolific and you've seen some of his films,
I know, but this one is someone that people don't
often talk about. But it's called The Happiness of the
Kata kuris never heard of it. It is from the
director of Audition, which I know you've seen and are
(23:12):
a fan of. But it's like a musical that is
somewhere between Bollywood and like the sound of music, but
it's all based around these murderers that keep happening in
this like mountain inn that this family opens. Um and
there's like supposed to be a highway that's going to
be built. But it has claymation at times. Uh, it
has hardcore violence and it also has songs and uh
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it's a beautiful, surreal little little movie. All right, okay,
all right. Um. Next we have the movie Fantastic Planet. No, no,
you've clearly designed this list to skunk me and and
I will remember just say just keep moving. I don't
I don't know that movie. Never heard of it. It's this,
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it's the sixties animated movie. It's like kind of like
alien creatures. It's it's it's it's pretty popular. Um okay. Uh.
Next we have eight and a half. Yes, I did
see that, the Fellini Filtain. I think that that qualifies
as a weirdo art house or an art house. All right, um.
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Next we have a movie called Tetsuo the Iron Man. Yes,
I did see that same college years. Uh. That movie
was fucked up. Yeah. It's like all black and white,
like crazy body horror metamorphosis into this like weird monster
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with this dude who was like a businessman and he
becomes this like aberration with tubes coming out of his body.
But it's it's it doesn't have a plot exactly. It's
it's almost like a weird nine inch Nails video or something. Yeah,
the Brothers Quay come to mind very much. So okay,
that's a good segue there. Next is a movie, one
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of the only there's a few, but one of the
few full feature link movies from a an animator and artist,
very in line with the Brothers Quay. Uh named um
oh gosh, why am I forgetting his names? I did?
I did the set up so well Brown, Oh stop,
it's it's uh he's uh, he's he's he's Scandinaviy and
(25:26):
he he did him. His name is Jan svenk Meyer
is his name. And the movie is called Alice and
it's like Alice in Wonderland, but with like stop motion
kind of weirdness. Um no, definitely, now it's good. I'd recommend.
There's a lot of like taxidermy little critters in it
that he animates. It's it's very surreal. Okay, how about
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Holy Motors. Have not seen that one yet, that's on
the list. That was the Justin McElroy that was on
his list to cover, but we ended up doing the
other movie instead. But Motor is cool. I've only seen
it once. Sinces been a while. I'd like to see
it again, but i'd really be I think you would
dig it. It would really be interested to hear your
(26:10):
take on that. Um okay, moving on. We have the
Saddest Music in the world. Never heard of it. It's
a Canadian movie with Isabella Roussellini in it, and um,
it's saddest, can't It's not super old. It came out
maybe in like the early two thousands, and it's about
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this competition, um to create the saddest music in the world.
And there's a part where, like her characters leg is
made out of a giant glass like beer. It's full
of beer. Like she's got like this false leg that's
full of beer. It's very very strange. Who else is in?
(26:51):
His name is Guy Madden? And I believe he did
The Cook, the Thief, the Wife? Oh sure, maybe that
movie did he do? That? Was that was Peter No? No,
that was Peter Greenaway. You're absolutely right, but I I
kind of connect them for some reason. He did a
movie called The Forbidden Room. What else did he do
that was really well known? Sounds familiar? He sure does.
(27:14):
And it's been a minute since I've seen this. I'm
trying to see what else he did. Okay, he's got
a lot of like like shorts and stuff. Um anyway, okay,
moving on. I'm sorry, Chuck, I didn't mean just I
didn't mean to Okay, this is not my genre, but
uh yeah, let's let's march on. Okay, al right, here
(27:36):
we go. How about the Science of Sleep? Oh sure, yeah, yeah,
that's the one of the lesser one of the lesser
known I think, Uh, what's Michelle Gondry films? Yes, but
a movie people have heard of, so I do appreciate that, Yeah,
for sure. And it's you know, and it had a
good theatrical run. Most of these have. Um, okay, here
we go. How about Suspiria? Yes, yeah, the original, the original. Yeah,
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I covered that on this very show. Oh whose movie
was that? Joe Garden came back on for a second appearance,
or maybe that was his first appearance. Uh to do
Uh you know, Joe comes on in October to do
scary movies because he is a It was our Gento's
birthday a couple of days ago. Actually, Um, that's a
that's a really special movie. It's interesting because it's like
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a lot of his movies are very cheesy, and this
one it succeeds despite sort of the canned the campiness
of the acting. It's just a really beautifully shot designed movie.
Are on our score and our number? Five? And how
many have we? Where are we on the let's we've
done one? Three? Sorry I went out of order a
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little bit, one to three, four, five, six, seven, eight ships.
I should have gone in order I needed. How do
you across these? So you're clearly not You don't have
a no column. You just have a yes column. Right,
(29:06):
you have a scenic column and not a not. Yeah. O, yeah,
you're right. Fuck. I did screw it up, didn't I?
This is great. You put me on the spot with
the scoring stuff. Chuck, this isn't my well we we
we we we got this, okay, Um, we're getting close. Uh. Next,
we have a very uh well known and respected animated
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Japanese anime film, uh called Akira. I never saw a Kira, Chuck,
you gotta see a Kira. I haven't seen any anime
really really, Yeah, there's something you know. There's the thing
about anime like it's it can be so niche and
so like some of it's really a little twee and
kind of like you know, over the over the top
(29:47):
and sort of silly, and you know there's huge fandoms
surrounding it, but there's a there's a handful that are
just classics, like all the Miyazaki pictures, which are all
on HBO Max. Now, by the way, would really recommend
watching some of those with Ruby, even as one called
p you know, sort of a retelling of the Little Mermaid,
and it's just that one really great. But Akira is
like when people talk about cyberpunk, you know, like that
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is a Kira. It along with I would say Ridley
Scott and Blade Runner kind of established the whole vibe
of like that cyberpunk neo Tokyo kind of situation. You know. Um,
really important movie for for that kind of style. Um, okay, cool,
we're getting close. Um we've got okay, how about un
Chien and Deliu? Uh No, I never saw that. I
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haven't either, But have you seen at least the slicing
up eyeballs ye worth their snuff? At least has seen
that clip. We're we're putting that in a yes because
that's all you need. Oh no, no, no, don't put
any yes. I haven't seen it. Well, I haven't seen
it either, but I still feel like I've seen enough
of it to say that I've seen it. But um,
(30:55):
you're right, okay, Uh, let's see. Now. We have a
movie called Cash, a French film that was was one
of Connall's big faves. I think he came on the
show to talk about it one time. Cache is super cool. Okay,
what's that director's name? Oh, to do like the White
Ribbon and stuff and Michael, uh what's his name is
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Michael something? Let's see it is Michael haneke hannecky hannek. Yeah,
he's German, that's right. Um. And yeah, the White Ribbon
is also great. I need to get more into his
catalog because that's a really cool movie. Cache. It's sort
of like Hitchcock e in where there's like a kind
of paranoid you know, perspective where you don't quite know
who the killer is and you keep kind of they
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keep second guessing you, and um, it's about surveillance and
sort of being like watched, and there's that. It's it's
very very well done. I really love Cash. Okay, great good?
Um yeah, okay, okay, where are we at? Uh? So?
Let's do Okay, how about this a movie, a Greek
movie that was the first movie by this filmmaker who's
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now become much more well known, called dog Tooth. Uh
did not see dog Tooth? Did you see his others? Though?
Like you're speaking of Lanthamos Lanthemos, your goes Lanthemos one
of the best names in cinema. Yeah, the favorite, go
back to dog Tooth. Yet, Yeah, dog Tooth is good.
It's a it's it's an interesting setup. It's like this
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family that lives off the grid and and they don't
know about normal things, and they have the different words
for things like television and toothbrushes, and it's that's weird,
isolated kind of thing. But it's it's what they call
um oh gosh, I can't remember exactly, but dog like
when you get your dog teeth, the dog tooth, it's
(32:45):
like becoming an adult or something like that. It's it's yeah, exactly,
that's exactly right. And there's a part where I think
the character like pulls out her teeth because she doesn't
want to grow up. Yeah, it's it's it's pretty intense. Alright,
we're almost we're almost done, and then I'll do the tally.
We can edit it out. I'll make it faster than
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the magic of editing. Um. Okay, how about a movie
called Salo Nope, I never heard of it. Salo is
is Uh. It's like based on the Marquet dissad stuff
and it's like supposed to be what it's like. There's
a Criterion release of it. It's supposed to be one
of the most disturbing movies ever where there's like really
(33:29):
like sadistic kind of hedonistic behavior and sex. I know, yeah,
I know what you're talking about. Now. I definitely didn't
see this, but I have heard about it. It's supposed
to be good. Christ, Now, why would anyone see this movie? Exactly?
I haven't seen it. I just I was looking at
surrealist cinema on the list and this one came up,
and I definitely remember it's called Salo or the one
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and twenty Days of Sodom. There you have it, all right,
I did a bad job, Chuck, how you're here? A
googe one we've talked about on the show before, the
Tarkovski film Stalker. Yes, I did see Stalker, saying college
visit video. Oh gosh, Yeah, that's vision video is huge
for me. R I P. All of those locations are
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not close. It is sad um Okay, we're almost done here,
we have just a few more um and you know,
he's the thing to chuck, i'd reckon. All of these
are movies that were important to me kind of as
I was getting more into weird cinema and then a
lot of Asian cinema. So I would I would stand
by all of these except for the few that I
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haven't seen that I just threw in to fill off
the list. But this one in particular was one that
I discovered when I was going through my kind of
Korean and Japanese cinema period. And it's called Save the
Green Planet. Never heard of it, okay. It's a Chinese
movie about like aliens kind of coming to Earth, but
also like is the guy just insane? Does he really
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know the aliens are coming? Or is he like absolutely
lee out of his mind? And then you kind of
decide whether he is or isn't. And it's a lot
of environmental kind of bent to it and conservation. But
it's very funny, very very interesting movie. Save the Green Planet. Okay.
Um last but not Okay, we got a couple more
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uh eachy The Killer It is another uh movie by
the guy that made Audition. It's like a comic book
kind of you know, like it's action, but it's also
like super heavy on the gore and like you know,
splattery kind of stuff. Very much like a Tarantino style movie,
but like even more bonkers. Um, it's not for everybody,
(35:42):
but it's it's it's one that this kind of makes
the list of like a lot of interesting Japanese movies
from the early two thousands. Um. And finally we have
a movie called Survive Style five plus Never al Right,
(36:03):
I think that's it five Style five five plus. Yeah,
it's it's it's it's really good. It's sort of like
almost like it's one of those movies where there's all
these different weird characters that sort of come come together
and cross paths in interesting ways, and it's really stylized,
and it's like there's like a lion tamer character and
(36:24):
there's like a like a wealthy kind of couple, and
there's all these like different and it's it's definitely got
like some surrealist qualities to it, but it's it's ultimately
it doesn't sound It's not what it sounds like. It
sounds like it would be like Battle Royale or some
kind of like you know, uh, murderer movie, and it's
not at all. It's very much like an interesting, weird,
kind of hyper edited, uh kind of story about Japan,
(36:48):
very interesting movie. I got a lot of work to do. No,
how do mean? Guys? Yeah, you did? You did seven?
Seven got seven out of twenty. Look, I didn't design
this to fail. I designed to to to engender conversation. Never,
You're never gonna ask me to do this segment ever again.
I totally will. It's that I don't mind failing miserably null.
(37:11):
I can. I can take it on the chin. So
don't don't you feel bad? Okay, I don't. But I've
I've I've never been a few that you've thrown at
me that I've that I've whipped on as well. But you,
you do tended to be a little more forgiving, and
I was trying to. I was trying to just you know,
these are movies that are important to me, and I
think you did almost all of them. I think even
the ones that that that seem a little intense um
(37:35):
because I think we have a lot of stuff in
common in terms of our musical well musical but also
cinematic obviously taste total agree, my friend. All right, all right,
well that is it for this week. Everyone. I love
that we got some new games going with that Casey
game last week and now filling up some chuck holes.
I got a lot of holes to fill down thele
I need to chuck. I think we all do. And
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thank you for listening everyone, and we'll see you next week.
This movie, Crash is produced and written by Charles Bryant
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Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
(00:28):
Hey everybody, and welcome to Mini Crush Monday. Noel in
the hissy in his hissym not in my hissy. Yeah,
it's drive. I mean, I've been there. It's a nice hissy,
but I got my own. This is the new way.
Get out of my hissy, get out of my head.
Are you fully accustomed to your new home, Noel. Yeah,
there's a couple of little bits and Bob's that I
(00:50):
need to deal with, you know that, Just like a
couple of boxes that I just haven't messed with, or
I've seen a shove in the attic. It's just something
I just need to deal with. But also my studio.
I want to get some acoustic panels, but I haven't
gotten to that yet, and I've got a few pieces
of are I don't want to hang in here? But yeah,
mainly love it. Yes, it feels very cozy. Are there
any ghosts? Um No, But I will say this, there's
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like when I first moved in, there was this like
dead animal smell and it went away and I was like,
what is this. It's like that's something into the house
that died. And then it like really briefly, came back
and then went away really quickly. So you do have
a ghost. If there were a proper rotting animal, it
wouldn't just go away quickly. It would linger until the
thing was just disappeared. You know. Yeah, that's concerning. There
(01:35):
is a cross space. Yes, you might have a dead
human under their knoll. I think it's possible, or at
the very least some sort of ghoul. You should call
up a um ghost hunter, an animal removal person, and
a mortuary attendant. So I should assemble a crack team
(01:57):
of of of a ragtag band of yes you know, yeah, Okay,
I got it, and they should They should all be brothers,
they should be triplets. I support this, John, I think
this is a great idea. And then we'll make a
TV show about it. Let's do it. Count me in
all right. Now, we're gonna start it off this week
with a movie Crushers bit, because you know, those Crushers
(02:18):
got some good stuff going every now and then, like
meaning every day. And this one comes and asked for
his permission. He said yes, so you can't sue me
for the no money that the show makes. But Jonathan
and I'm gonna do my best here, But Nol. This
is one of those names that starts out with one, two, three,
four consonants in a row? What which ones? What are they?
(02:40):
Which one? I can't even picture this scenario. S z
c z. That's just a sound. I'm sure Jonathan's having
fun with this, but I'm just gonna go with Jonathan.
P uh Zapanski, I'm just canceling out the s s
in the season, going with the zs only. I bet
that's right. I think I think it is. There's no
(03:01):
way it's scissors Zepansky. No, no, I was wrong. I
was dead wrong. It's a great name, though, Jonathan, I
love that. Zapansky, Bryant, Brown, boring, Nol. That's what we are. Boring,
we're at. We shouldn't even exist. Your name has only
got nearly interesting enough. Too dumb syllables. What's your name?
(03:25):
You could? You could fart that sound that name out, NOL. Jeez, Chuck,
you can't fart sharing my legacy here, You can't fart,
Jonathan P. Sabanski, Well, Charles W. Chuck Bryant's pretty cool.
It's a lot of syllables there, Yeah, but I just
that's what we're counting. I guess he did up. I'm
just chuck. Okay, fair enough, you are just chucked, and
(03:47):
you can fart that out easily, you can. That's what
my farts all sound like, is just the chuck chuck, chuck. Alright, nol.
So this is what Jonathan said, and this is a
good one. This jumps off. You're prett woman review. He said,
after listening to many Crush number one thirty five, it
reminded me how long it took me to quote, forgive
(04:08):
end quote Jason Alexander for that role. And I couldn't
separate him from that character in that movie. You know
that happens a lot. He said. Are there any actors
that you hold their roles against them? And I think
we've all been down this road before a hole, And
I'm gonna go ahead and name one. I have to
look up his name now because I can't remember. It
(04:28):
is Tony Goldwin. And this is a movie I didn't
even like. It's not even one of my favorite movies,
but the movie Ghost with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze
Tony Goldman was the worst. And every time I saw
that guy in any movie for a long time, I
was just like, oh, that motherfucker. What else was he in?
(04:50):
He's been in a bunch of stuff. I mean he
was He's kind of played the bad guy in a
couple of things. But you know character actor. He was
in a movie called Scandal. You know, I know him.
He's he has kind of the sunken, ghoulish face, which
I think makes him pretty well suited for for the
for the battie, Yeah, kiss the girls. You know. That's
(05:10):
as much as I'll say about that divirgent Pelican brief.
He's been a lot of stuff, but he's one of
those guys that every time he turned up for a
while after that, I just wanted to punch him because
of what he did. And ghost. Oh, he's in the
new Lovecraft Country and he plays a ghoulish cult leader. Interview. Yeah,
I think you should give it a shot. It's interesting
(05:32):
and Okay, this isn't a spoiler. I'm I'm just gonna
three to one non spoiler spoiler. It's the sort of
a secret anthology series like every appod Like you don't
know that at first, but then you realize, like it's
a little bit of like a it's Scooby Doo kind
of Monster of the week and it's cool. I need
to get back into it. It threw me for a
loop because I didn't think it was at first. And
(05:54):
the second episode is just such a climax. It feels
like a season finale. And I was just like, wait
what they threw so much at the wall and like,
I don't understand where this is going. And then I realized, oh,
that was the culmination of this a story, and then
there's like a B story and at Centers. Yeah, that's
on the list. All right. Now we're gonna start it
off with we're going top down, but I'm gonna get
(06:15):
through as many as he's as I can. Uh. Monica
Elizabeth says, not a movie. And I didn't see much
of this show, as you know. But noel I think
we can all agree that Jack Gleeson as Jeoffrey Barratian
will never be able to live that roll down. Well,
he knows that and he left. He quit acting basically
because of it. He really Oh my god, ye should
(06:35):
I feel bad for him? I mean, look, it's the
role of a lifetime. Maybe he wasn't that into acting
in the first place. You mean, you could have fooled me.
He's fucking incredible, but yeah, he's such a little ship.
Yeah that's tough. Uh. Old pal Andrea do pui. Uh.
Crease says Denzel in Training Day. That was tough because
(06:57):
we love Denzel and then to see him it's such
a monster in movie. You know, that was hard. I
was mad at him. He's great in that though, I said,
I'm sure, you know, he's so used to playing like
the righteous kind of good guy. I'm sure that was
a lot of fun for her. Oh yeah, I bet
he had a good time on that. Grant Woody, one
of her old friends, says, I disliked Joaquin Phoenix for
interrrationally long time after Gladiator. Yeah he was bad, bad man,
(07:22):
but good at it. So good? Yeah, very good at it.
Um Okay, Randy Rodriguez says, my wife and Kevin Bacon,
she said she was such Uh. She said he was
such a creep in that movie Whitewater Summer. Uh was
it Whitewater Summer. I think the River wild maybe what
(07:44):
he's thinking. Although I haven't seen Whitewater Summer. I thought
that was sort of a fun movie. River Wilde is
when he played the creep. Whitewater Summer sounds like a
lot of fun. Does want to have a movie about
a water park and all the long lasting friendships you
made over that one faithful summer. I haven't seen that
(08:05):
Action Park documentary yet, but that's on the list too.
I can't wait to see that. If you heard called
class actions Traction Park was another fun name for that
park back then. Yeah, because it was all just mega
unsafe like water slides and rides and people just got
totally really jacked up there. There was a loop, a
water slide that went in a full loop. Knoll. Oh,
(08:27):
that seems like a great idea. There's no way that
can go wrong. Uh. Sarah Stapleton says I cannot separate
Lorraine Toussaint from the character she played in Orange is
the New Black. Every time I see her in something else,
(08:47):
I just want to scream at all the other characters
to not trust her. Yeah. I watched Oranges the New
Black for the first couple of seasons and then we stopped.
But I liked it. I think it just kind of
overstate it's welcome in my opinion, kind of like Weeds.
I never saw Weeds. Yeah, that was like an eighteen
(09:07):
seasons right, didn't that show go over it? Was a
lot and just you know, and it was never like
a great show to begin with. It was just fun.
And then the character uh whatever, Nancy whatever her name
is um played by the lovely Sarah Jessica No, uh,
Jennifer Jason Lee. No, who plays her? You mean the lead? Yeah?
What's her name? It was Mary Louise Parker. Louise Parker,
(09:29):
one of those three names gals. Yes, yes, she becomes
just like the just at first, she's just quirky and
kind of like, oh, I'm just doing this thing to
like take care of my family, and then she just
becomes progressively more and more irresponsible and brings her kids
into the situation. It's it's like that, but like not
even the steaks are low because it's just sort of
(09:51):
a comedy. So it's just you just kind of can't
stand here because she's just sort of really selfish and
makes really stupid decisions. Looks like Weeds ran for eight seasons. Uh,
the great Kevin Nealon, isn't that. Oh Yeah, Yeah, he's great.
He's funny. He's the best thing about it. He plays
there like bungling lawyer kind of guy. Yeah, he's good.
He's like that show um Phyllis Martin Talent says, I've
(10:12):
heard more than one person say Mary Tyler Moore is
not a nice person because of her role in Ordinary People.
He never mind that she was sweet Laurie Petrie or
Mary Richards for so many years. Yeah, that's true. Ordinary people,
ordinary people. It's good, it's tough. It's a divorce movie,
sort of through the lens of the child. Got it
(10:34):
very hard. Mike Sam's, one of her old friends, says,
it took me a long time to disassociate Rachel McAdams
from Regina George. Uh. And I still have issues with
David Strathern for his role in Dolores Claiborne. Yeah, I
hear that. Uh. Megan Broyle says, I used to loathe
you and McGregor, but I have no idea why. Okay,
(10:56):
that's a different kind of answer. Did you see uh
of Pray or whatever it was called, the Harley Quinn
movie Not Interested? Well, you and McGregor is in and
he plays like a battye and it's fun because he
doesn't get to do that very often. And uh, yeah,
I enjoyed it all right. Amy Roberts says, James Spader
will always be Steph and pretty and pink, and as
(11:17):
an office fan, it was really hard for me to
like him. Yeah, pretty and pink. He was not a
good guy in that. Uh let me see here. John
Stockton says Steve Carrell because of Michael Scott, Jake gillen Hall,
because of how he was portrayed an entourage, Jake Jillen Hall.
Did he play himself? Was he like one of those
(11:38):
like over the top versions of himself? I don't. I
don't recall him being an entourage. I don't know, man,
I don't think so someone's gonna have to clear that
up for me. Stockton, Come on, Stockton, let me know
what's up. Uh, let me see here. Batia Randy says
Brad Pitt and thumb On Louise Yeah, I was on
(12:00):
a nice thing he did. Nicole Curly says, I'm still
kind of afraid of Anthony Hopkins. I don't know if
I'll ever be able to separate him from Hannibal Lector.
That is true. Christine Taylor is Marsha Brady. That's from
Keith Edward. She looks so much like Marsha Brady. It
was just hard to not think she was Marsha Brady,
great casting, perfect casting. Were you a Brady Bunch guy?
(12:23):
Did it? Was that like important to you growing up?
Not that you were, that would have been before your time,
but reruns I'm sure right, No, old Brady Bunch was
very important to me. Yes, yeah, yeah, I watched that
movie religiously in reruns. It was part of this like
group of shows that was before my time but played
forever on like WTBS and stuff like I was watching
(12:45):
Green Acres and Petticoat Junction and like all these old
black and white Gilligan's Island Dude Doobe gillis Man, Mr.
I watched all that ship on Nick at Night Like
that was huge for me. Yeah, pre Nick at Night.
It was just on the superstation. Uh Lynn Carlson one
of our oldest friends, he says Christian Bale. Because of
American Psycho. He played the role of sleazy Wall Street
(13:07):
upper class douche too. Well, it's very good. Dermott Kennif
says Jude Law because of quite a few asshole roles,
but mostly because of Wild. I don't think I saw that, No,
I'd neither. Is that the Oscar Wild movie? Maybe he
did not play is spelled with an E on the end.
(13:28):
It is indeed, nol, Then that's what it's gotta be.
Ben Master says Glenn Close from World. According to Garb,
her character, her character was so off putting it took
me a long time to come to appreciate her other performances.
I feel bad for these people. Sometimes they're so good
in something and being bad that people dislike them in
real life. You know, they're acting. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean,
(13:50):
you know, it's it's like, here's a good example, like
that kid from the Harry Potter movies, that shitty little
blonde kid. Don't he plays, you know, Malfoy or whatever.
Have no idea like yeah, exactly, Well I thought you
were a huge Harry Potter. Stand I'm gonna read those
one day, nol. You know everyone's saying Ruby's gonna get
to an age where I can't avoid it. So I'm
just waiting on that day with abated breath. Even just
(14:15):
blasted right past that period. She has zero interests, all anime,
all the time. That's her thing. Well, maybe that'll happen
for me. Jamie Irman says, Jason Patrick and your friends
and neighbors, Oh yeah, dude is creepy and always tends
to have the creepy roles. Yeah, that was He was
such a fucking asshole in that movie champ Razado. One
of orl Pau says, j K. Simmons is a great actor,
(14:37):
but it took a lot of roles before I was
able to not see him as Schillinger. What is that
from Schillinger? Chilling? That's the joke. Yeah, he he always
everyone always pronounces it Schillinger and he always corrects them
chilling her. But yeah, he is. He's this neo Nazi
uh like leader who's been locked up and has control
(14:59):
over all these uh insane you know, racist white supremacists
in the prison, and he goes to war with this
one character and like has his does horrible things to
his family outside of the prison, and like, you know,
it's it's just yeah, he is a That is one
of the most um what's the word just despicable characters
(15:22):
in all of television, I would say, which is interesting
because j K. Simmons is generally I think plays a
pretty good dude. Although he didn't in Whip Flash either.
He was pretty tough in that one. Did you like
that movie? I fucking loved Whip Flash. Someone told me
the other day that they hated it, and I was
really confused. It was it was kind of a film
snob person, so they may have had their issues, but
(15:45):
I haven't seen it. Isn't that the guy that did
um La La Land was not the same. Yeah, I
think so Chazelle was. Yeah. I think it was like
his first big oscar bait. It was Damien Giselle. I
really thought Whiplash was great, like I got it, really
loved it. Oh you did not see Whip Player. I
I haven't seene Whiplash now, Oh you should. It's right
(16:06):
up pure alley as a music A Yeah, I've seen
some clips like there's just leewards like his hands were
bleeding or whatever because he's like playing the drums so
hard or whatever. Drummond so hard, so hard, so hard.
All Right, We're gonna finish with Earl pal. Austin Debski
says Wayne Knight in Jurassic Park, he will always be
Dennis Nedder to me. It's true. He's he's he's newman.
(16:27):
But it's funny you say that shucks to him. I
saw Jurassic Park before I ever saw Seinfeld. So he
was neddury to me as well, even once I knew
him as Newman. But now over time I think of
him as Newman. Yeah, and not Neger. No, they're close
Newman Nidri, It's true. All right, Now we're gonna finish up, well,
(16:54):
why don't you announce what we're gonna finish up with?
Oh boy, we're gonna finish up with a little edition
of Trucks. Hey. Nice work. Okay, Yes, I worked really
hard on this list, Chuck. I would. I didn't want
it to be too I didn't want to like totally
humiliate you. Um. I also, you know, didn't want to
(17:17):
like insult your intelligence. So it was like a kind
of a delicate balance. And that's why I sent it
to Casey. Um vetted it, vetted for me a little bit.
And uh, I stand by this list. Um, this is
Chuck's holes weirdo foreign art house a dish. Oh Jesus,
(17:39):
all right, No, do you have the technology to keep score?
Meaning a pencil and a piece of paper? If by
technology you mean yes, I will absolutely uh keep score.
Do you need uh a few hours to figure out
I need? I need some grid paper and a compass
and uh t square pretty yeah, yeah, actually you know
(18:02):
what I got? I need my notepad open and then
I need something analog to write with. I wish everyone
could see this and all was just so flustered, you guys.
Anytime score keeping is happening just sends him into it dizzy.
I'm I'm more flustered than I don't have a pencil
right at arm's reach. Give me one second, sure, and
you know what, No, while you're off doing that, I
want to give my book a plug. The Stuff you
(18:25):
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(19:09):
You should know book nol was back and I've pre
ordered mine. Did you really? Yeah, of course I appreciate
that I should actually buy one two that would help,
every every little bit help. So yeah, look at this.
Look at this cool little I got a little little
diary with it's even got it's from Moogie. You ever
been to Moogie, New York. It's like it's sort of
(19:31):
like Japanese Ikea. They still stationary and cool, like stuff
for the home and you know, duvet covers and ship.
But it's a really fun little store. So I have
my Moogie notepad and a pen that I've confirmed works.
And actually it's appropriate that I'm using this Moogie notepad
because a lot of Asian cinema represents it. In my
(19:52):
last here and chuck, but not so much that it's egregious.
I tried to split it up. Um are you ready, sir?
This episode brought to you by Mouji, by Mougie. Yeah, dude,
to send us like once some of those cute little
toothbrush holders or when they have It's it's a fun store.
I always enjoyed going in there. Yeah, all right, I'm
(20:14):
ready nol okayes in the category of it's a Chuck's holes,
weirdo foreign art house, a dish, and I try to
keep it pretty weirdo and not just like asembled I'm
gonna get killed now. I I think there's something here
that No. Look, let's just okay. So we'll start off
with a little movie called The Holy Mountain. I have
(20:36):
not seen Holy Mountain. You're familiar with Holy Mountain. Yeah,
I haven't seen it. It's yeah, it's great, it's uh,
it's it's one of the weirdest what's that director's name,
He did El Topo and and all that stuff. Hang
on me. Some people can look him up him do Yeah,
Holy Mountains on the list. I've heard. It's quite a film. Yeah,
it's from the seventies and you sent me three. It's
(20:58):
categorized as a fantasy drama, but it's really just like
a like a cinematic performance art piece. It's and then
beautifully shot. The director is um Alejandro Jodorowski, who famously
had a version of Doune that he did with the
artist Mobius that was like gonna be made, but then
(21:19):
it didn't. Happen. And there's actually a documentary called Jodorowski's
Dune that's very good. Okay, I uh, my friend, by
the way, I have that DVD because my very good
friend Ryan McNeil sent me the Holy Mountain DVD. So
you have this. You just haven't watched it. I just
haven't watched it yet. Okay, Well I don't. You almost
should get have a point for owning it, but never
right now, okay. Uh. The next one is a very
(21:44):
popular Japanese surrealist film called How Su or a k
A House. Yes, I did see that, actually, uh huh, yeah,
it's what were your impressions of How Sue? Well, it's
been a long time, but I do remember seeing that
movie back in the day. It's written it's almost like
a child wrote it or something, and if I'm not mistaken,
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it was the director of the creators. Children sort of
pieced together like this narrative of a dream they had
and that was the kind of fodder for like the
script or it may have even been more direct than that,
where they actually wrote some of it. But it's like
you think it's going to be a horror movie, and
it kind of is, but it's really just a weirdest
surrealist kind of fantasy comedy ROMP. Very very interesting movie. Okay,
(22:27):
so you've seen how so we've gotta we gotta check
for house in the in the left column. How do
you spell that? H A U s U. Yeah, I'm
I'm looking now, just to uh the images iconic. It's
like a cat like kind of like a crazy orange cat.
I saw that when I in college, when I worked
at that video store, when we got watching more weird
(22:49):
stuff like that. Some of these might be from those days. Um, Okay,
this next one, it's a little bit of a this
is a low blow, but um. It's even this director
who's very prolific and you've seen some of his films,
I know, but this one is someone that people don't
often talk about. But it's called The Happiness of the
Kata kuris never heard of it. It is from the
director of Audition, which I know you've seen and are
(23:12):
a fan of. But it's like a musical that is
somewhere between Bollywood and like the sound of music, but
it's all based around these murderers that keep happening in
this like mountain inn that this family opens. Um and
there's like supposed to be a highway that's going to
be built. But it has claymation at times. Uh, it
has hardcore violence and it also has songs and uh
(23:36):
it's a beautiful, surreal little little movie. All right, okay,
all right. Um. Next we have the movie Fantastic Planet. No, no,
you've clearly designed this list to skunk me and and
I will remember just say just keep moving. I don't
I don't know that movie. Never heard of it. It's this,
(23:58):
it's the sixties animated movie. It's like kind of like
alien creatures. It's it's it's it's pretty popular. Um okay. Uh.
Next we have eight and a half. Yes, I did
see that, the Fellini Filtain. I think that that qualifies
as a weirdo art house or an art house. All right, um.
(24:19):
Next we have a movie called Tetsuo the Iron Man. Yes,
I did see that same college years. Uh. That movie
was fucked up. Yeah. It's like all black and white,
like crazy body horror metamorphosis into this like weird monster
(24:40):
with this dude who was like a businessman and he
becomes this like aberration with tubes coming out of his body.
But it's it's it doesn't have a plot exactly. It's
it's almost like a weird nine inch Nails video or something. Yeah,
the Brothers Quay come to mind very much. So okay,
that's a good segue there. Next is a movie, one
(25:02):
of the only there's a few, but one of the
few full feature link movies from a an animator and artist,
very in line with the Brothers Quay. Uh named um
oh gosh, why am I forgetting his names? I did?
I did the set up so well Brown, Oh stop,
it's it's uh he's uh, he's he's he's Scandinaviy and
(25:26):
he he did him. His name is Jan svenk Meyer
is his name. And the movie is called Alice and
it's like Alice in Wonderland, but with like stop motion
kind of weirdness. Um no, definitely, now it's good. I'd recommend.
There's a lot of like taxidermy little critters in it
that he animates. It's it's very surreal. Okay, how about
(25:50):
Holy Motors. Have not seen that one yet, that's on
the list. That was the Justin McElroy that was on
his list to cover, but we ended up doing the
other movie instead. But Motor is cool. I've only seen
it once. Sinces been a while. I'd like to see
it again, but i'd really be I think you would
dig it. It would really be interested to hear your
(26:10):
take on that. Um okay, moving on. We have the
Saddest Music in the world. Never heard of it. It's
a Canadian movie with Isabella Roussellini in it, and um,
it's saddest, can't It's not super old. It came out
maybe in like the early two thousands, and it's about
(26:31):
this competition, um to create the saddest music in the world.
And there's a part where, like her characters leg is
made out of a giant glass like beer. It's full
of beer. Like she's got like this false leg that's
full of beer. It's very very strange. Who else is in?
(26:51):
His name is Guy Madden? And I believe he did
The Cook, the Thief, the Wife? Oh sure, maybe that
movie did he do? That? Was that was Peter No? No,
that was Peter Greenaway. You're absolutely right, but I I
kind of connect them for some reason. He did a
movie called The Forbidden Room. What else did he do
that was really well known? Sounds familiar? He sure does.
(27:14):
And it's been a minute since I've seen this. I'm
trying to see what else he did. Okay, he's got
a lot of like like shorts and stuff. Um anyway, okay,
moving on. I'm sorry, Chuck, I didn't mean just I
didn't mean to Okay, this is not my genre, but
uh yeah, let's let's march on. Okay, al right, here
(27:36):
we go. How about the Science of Sleep? Oh sure, yeah, yeah,
that's the one of the lesser one of the lesser
known I think, Uh, what's Michelle Gondry films? Yes, but
a movie people have heard of, so I do appreciate that, Yeah,
for sure. And it's you know, and it had a
good theatrical run. Most of these have. Um, okay, here
we go. How about Suspiria? Yes, yeah, the original, the original. Yeah,
(28:01):
I covered that on this very show. Oh whose movie
was that? Joe Garden came back on for a second appearance,
or maybe that was his first appearance. Uh to do
Uh you know, Joe comes on in October to do
scary movies because he is a It was our Gento's
birthday a couple of days ago. Actually, Um, that's a
that's a really special movie. It's interesting because it's like
(28:23):
a lot of his movies are very cheesy, and this
one it succeeds despite sort of the canned the campiness
of the acting. It's just a really beautifully shot designed movie.
Are on our score and our number? Five? And how
many have we? Where are we on the let's we've
done one? Three? Sorry I went out of order a
(28:45):
little bit, one to three, four, five, six, seven, eight ships.
I should have gone in order I needed. How do
you across these? So you're clearly not You don't have
a no column. You just have a yes column. Right,
(29:06):
you have a scenic column and not a not. Yeah. O, yeah,
you're right. Fuck. I did screw it up, didn't I?
This is great. You put me on the spot with
the scoring stuff. Chuck, this isn't my well we we
we we we got this, okay, Um, we're getting close. Uh. Next,
we have a very uh well known and respected animated
(29:26):
Japanese anime film, uh called Akira. I never saw a Kira, Chuck,
you gotta see a Kira. I haven't seen any anime
really really, Yeah, there's something you know. There's the thing
about anime like it's it can be so niche and
so like some of it's really a little twee and
kind of like you know, over the over the top
(29:47):
and sort of silly, and you know there's huge fandoms
surrounding it, but there's a there's a handful that are
just classics, like all the Miyazaki pictures, which are all
on HBO Max. Now, by the way, would really recommend
watching some of those with Ruby, even as one called
p you know, sort of a retelling of the Little Mermaid,
and it's just that one really great. But Akira is
like when people talk about cyberpunk, you know, like that
(30:10):
is a Kira. It along with I would say Ridley
Scott and Blade Runner kind of established the whole vibe
of like that cyberpunk neo Tokyo kind of situation. You know. Um,
really important movie for for that kind of style. Um, okay, cool,
we're getting close. Um we've got okay, how about un
Chien and Deliu? Uh No, I never saw that. I
(30:35):
haven't either, But have you seen at least the slicing
up eyeballs ye worth their snuff? At least has seen
that clip. We're we're putting that in a yes because
that's all you need. Oh no, no, no, don't put
any yes. I haven't seen it. Well, I haven't seen
it either, but I still feel like I've seen enough
of it to say that I've seen it. But um,
(30:55):
you're right, okay, Uh, let's see. Now. We have a
movie called Cash, a French film that was was one
of Connall's big faves. I think he came on the
show to talk about it one time. Cache is super cool. Okay,
what's that director's name? Oh, to do like the White
Ribbon and stuff and Michael, uh what's his name is
(31:19):
Michael something? Let's see it is Michael haneke hannecky hannek. Yeah,
he's German, that's right. Um. And yeah, the White Ribbon
is also great. I need to get more into his
catalog because that's a really cool movie. Cache. It's sort
of like Hitchcock e in where there's like a kind
of paranoid you know, perspective where you don't quite know
who the killer is and you keep kind of they
(31:40):
keep second guessing you, and um, it's about surveillance and
sort of being like watched, and there's that. It's it's
very very well done. I really love Cash. Okay, great good?
Um yeah, okay, okay, where are we at? Uh? So?
Let's do Okay, how about this a movie, a Greek
movie that was the first movie by this filmmaker who's
(32:02):
now become much more well known, called dog Tooth. Uh
did not see dog Tooth? Did you see his others? Though?
Like you're speaking of Lanthamos Lanthemos, your goes Lanthemos one
of the best names in cinema. Yeah, the favorite, go
back to dog Tooth. Yet, Yeah, dog Tooth is good.
It's a it's it's an interesting setup. It's like this
(32:23):
family that lives off the grid and and they don't
know about normal things, and they have the different words
for things like television and toothbrushes, and it's that's weird,
isolated kind of thing. But it's it's what they call
um oh gosh, I can't remember exactly, but dog like
when you get your dog teeth, the dog tooth, it's
(32:45):
like becoming an adult or something like that. It's it's yeah, exactly,
that's exactly right. And there's a part where I think
the character like pulls out her teeth because she doesn't
want to grow up. Yeah, it's it's it's pretty intense. Alright,
we're almost we're almost done, and then I'll do the tally.
We can edit it out. I'll make it faster than
(33:07):
the magic of editing. Um. Okay, how about a movie
called Salo Nope, I never heard of it. Salo is
is Uh. It's like based on the Marquet dissad stuff
and it's like supposed to be what it's like. There's
a Criterion release of it. It's supposed to be one
of the most disturbing movies ever where there's like really
(33:29):
like sadistic kind of hedonistic behavior and sex. I know, yeah,
I know what you're talking about. Now. I definitely didn't
see this, but I have heard about it. It's supposed
to be good. Christ, Now, why would anyone see this movie? Exactly?
I haven't seen it. I just I was looking at
surrealist cinema on the list and this one came up,
and I definitely remember it's called Salo or the one
(33:52):
and twenty Days of Sodom. There you have it, all right,
I did a bad job, Chuck, how you're here? A
googe one we've talked about on the show before, the
Tarkovski film Stalker. Yes, I did see Stalker, saying college
visit video. Oh gosh, Yeah, that's vision video is huge
for me. R I P. All of those locations are
(34:15):
not close. It is sad um Okay, we're almost done here,
we have just a few more um and you know,
he's the thing to chuck, i'd reckon. All of these
are movies that were important to me kind of as
I was getting more into weird cinema and then a
lot of Asian cinema. So I would I would stand
by all of these except for the few that I
(34:35):
haven't seen that I just threw in to fill off
the list. But this one in particular was one that
I discovered when I was going through my kind of
Korean and Japanese cinema period. And it's called Save the
Green Planet. Never heard of it, okay. It's a Chinese
movie about like aliens kind of coming to Earth, but
also like is the guy just insane? Does he really
(34:57):
know the aliens are coming? Or is he like absolutely
lee out of his mind? And then you kind of
decide whether he is or isn't. And it's a lot
of environmental kind of bent to it and conservation. But
it's very funny, very very interesting movie. Save the Green Planet. Okay.
Um last but not Okay, we got a couple more
(35:18):
uh eachy The Killer It is another uh movie by
the guy that made Audition. It's like a comic book
kind of you know, like it's action, but it's also
like super heavy on the gore and like you know,
splattery kind of stuff. Very much like a Tarantino style movie,
but like even more bonkers. Um, it's not for everybody,
(35:42):
but it's it's it's one that this kind of makes
the list of like a lot of interesting Japanese movies
from the early two thousands. Um. And finally we have
a movie called Survive Style five plus Never al Right,
(36:03):
I think that's it five Style five five plus. Yeah,
it's it's it's it's really good. It's sort of like
almost like it's one of those movies where there's all
these different weird characters that sort of come come together
and cross paths in interesting ways, and it's really stylized,
and it's like there's like a lion tamer character and
(36:24):
there's like a like a wealthy kind of couple, and
there's all these like different and it's it's definitely got
like some surrealist qualities to it, but it's it's ultimately
it doesn't sound It's not what it sounds like. It
sounds like it would be like Battle Royale or some
kind of like you know, uh, murderer movie, and it's
not at all. It's very much like an interesting, weird,
kind of hyper edited, uh kind of story about Japan,
(36:48):
very interesting movie. I got a lot of work to do. No,
how do mean? Guys? Yeah, you did? You did seven?
Seven got seven out of twenty. Look, I didn't design
this to fail. I designed to to to engender conversation. Never,
You're never gonna ask me to do this segment ever again.
I totally will. It's that I don't mind failing miserably null.
(37:11):
I can. I can take it on the chin. So
don't don't you feel bad? Okay, I don't. But I've
I've I've never been a few that you've thrown at
me that I've that I've whipped on as well. But you,
you do tended to be a little more forgiving, and
I was trying to. I was trying to just you know,
these are movies that are important to me, and I
think you did almost all of them. I think even
the ones that that that seem a little intense um
(37:35):
because I think we have a lot of stuff in
common in terms of our musical well musical but also
cinematic obviously taste total agree, my friend. All right, all right,
well that is it for this week. Everyone. I love
that we got some new games going with that Casey
game last week and now filling up some chuck holes.
I got a lot of holes to fill down thele
I need to chuck. I think we all do. And
(37:56):
thank you for listening everyone, and we'll see you next week.
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