Mini Crush #173

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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 with me
Noel Brown. Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Take two. Hey, it's
Mini Crush Monday. Hey, no, how now Brown count I.
Take three? What's happening? Ready? Ready? Okay, hey, everybody, welcome

(00:49):
to Mini Crush Monday. It's me Josh Clark. Is this
that movie? Split switch? Okay? Clip? All right? Take what
is this for? Take four? That's the sound of a
new take. It's like a dream sequence. That's what we're

(01:10):
experiencing right now. Clearly. Al right. Take four? Ready, h Hey, everybody,
welcome to stuff you should watch. Watch things week. We
could go with that. Stuff you should watch is the
closest you've gotten. Alright. Take five? You ready? My alarms
going off? Everything's all askew. Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready. Hey, everybody,

(01:36):
welcome to Ah all right, this is it? Is it?
Come on? Come on, come on, come on. Twenty Dwarves
took turns doing push ups on the lawn. Twenty Dwarves
took turns doing push ups on the lawn. Okay, hey everybody,
and welcome to Mini Crush. This is the movie Crush
version on Monday that's very much shorter and it features

(01:57):
No Brown and me Chuck Bryant. Oh, it's so good
to be back, Chuck. He just did that over and
over like family guy style, for thirty minutes. What do
you call that? There's a name for that kind of joke. Uh,
that's the thing. But there's the shaggy Dog story, which
is just like the joke where it's all set up

(02:17):
and then the punch line is just a nothing, you know.
I think that's what a shaggy dog story is, like
the same thing, kind of like The Aristocrats. I think
The Aristocrats is a shaggy dog story. Did you ever
see that documentary on the Aristocrats? I did, and I
think that the thing that I remarked on that most
people did was that the filthiest version was done by
Bob Saget. So you think of as clean cut, you know,

(02:38):
Dad from Full House, but turns out he's a total scumbag. Yeah.
My brother worked with him and he was actually a
great guy to work with and um very much filthy
in real life. Yeah. I I when I say scumbag,
I mean humor wise. Yeah, Well I'm just gonna lovely. Well,
there you go. How you doing, man, I'm great, Noel, Uh,

(02:58):
we have catch up on our list is the first thing.
And there was some breaking news this morning in real
time Noll that Amazon acquired MGM Studios. Oh boy, what
does that mean? No, this is news to me. Yeah,
it's like eight points five six billion dollars at Amazon.
They just throw money around like it's money. Yeah. I

(03:21):
think they said. The big play here was the fact
that the James Bond franchise is now under the control
of Amazon. You know what, I saw a thing. It
was one of those hyperbolic kind of headlines where it's
like the studios no longer have control of the movie industry. Um,

(03:42):
and it's because of the streamers. They're the ones. Obviously
with the pandemic and the way, you know, theaters weren't
a thing anymore. There's always been this kind of tacit
understanding of the studios would defer to the theaters and
and that awards revolved around theatrical releases and that ship matters,
you know, to studios anyway. But now it's seems like
the streamers are in control. You've got your HBO Max,

(04:03):
you've got your Amazon and all that, and it seems
like they're the ones holding the keys now. And this
just kind of solidifies it, don't you think. Well, I'll
tell you what. No. I mean, they are a version
of the New Studio. And it's like anything else in media,
you adapt or you fucking die. It's true. You can't
stop it. You can you can't pout and sit on
your hands and say, well, this isn't fair. It's like

(04:23):
all those cab drivers that were upset about Uber and left.
You know, you gotta adapt. You gotta adapt. Things change, nol.
You can be left behind or you can roll with
it in and work in the new system. I think
I mentioned last episode. I think that I went and
saw a movie in the theater and I really liked it.
That's that's the sort of silly thing. I've obviously always

(04:47):
movies in the theaters are great, you know, I've always
really loved going to movies in the theater. And I
I just feel like the release schedule isn't back yet.
There's like been two movies kind of lingering in the
theaters this whole time. Today. There's nothing out that's worth it,
that's we hear um so hopefully that though coming soon,
I would like to continue that that tradition. Me sad

(05:07):
that I'm referring to it as a tradition, like it's
some sort of nostali Remember going to movies in the theater. Yeah,
I mean I'm ready. I uh, I'm feeling more confident
about stuff I went to. I don't know if I
mentioned this. Last time I went to a baseball game
and that was kind of nice. And uh, Emily and
I had our first dinner out on a patio last week.

(05:29):
That was wonderful. We're easing on out there a bit.
I hear you, man. I've got a couple of work
trips scheduled obviously, had that Seattle trip was a kind
of big first push. Um, but yeah, going to Nashville
for a conference and probably going out to l A
pretty soon. So I'm looking forward to. Like the work
isn't saying thou must travel, but they're like, hey, if

(05:50):
you've got a reason, don't hesitate to to not to
not do it, to do it, don't hesitate to do it.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it, Chuck do it. No,
I'm I'm gonna make somebody tell me to travel for work. Yeah,
I have no I'll do it. You want me to
do it, I have no interest in h I just
I don't want to. It's I mean, I'm fine to

(06:11):
get on a plane now because I' vaccinated, but I
just I don't want to. I've really enjoyed being at
home and not traveling and being a wait for my family.
Oh I have to chuck, But I've also reached the
kind of threshold and I am now sick of my
family entirely. Well that happens. I'm just kidding. That's a thing. Um, sure,
it's funny, you really. I know this has been rough

(06:33):
on some marriages. I've known a couple of people who
have gotten divorced during this pandemic. It's just it's a
real test of of your friendship as as a partner.
You know, like you gotta be friends with who you're
married to or you're not gonna get through it. Dude.
I mean, I'm not to play Dr Ruth here anything,
but I mean it's so important that you just enjoy,

(06:56):
you know, keeping company with this person, that you have
things in common that you can actually vibe. Uh. If
you don't or if it's all based on attraction or
like sex. Now all that ship goes away when you
get it doesn't have to go away, you know what
I'm saying. I just mean if you don't actually enjoy
the person's company and like just being lazy and sitting
around and bullshitting and bantering what, there's really not much else.

(07:19):
Everything else is kind of goes by the wayside eventually,
you know. So that's right, and not everyone is uh
is Sting and you know, in their sixties or whatever
he is can still get down with hot tantra fucking
for hours at a time. Good. That's what his new album.
That's what his new album is called, Chuck. That's called
Hot Tantuck with Sting HDF for the for Walmart and

(07:43):
the more conservative retailers. Yeah, and the subtitle is you
got stung by that dick? Good for you? Oh God,
good for you, Sting. My six life is better than
it's ever been and I'm approaching seventy. It's note is
this good for him? Oh? There are? You know, like

(08:05):
like movie crush, Mini crush, what's the show called again?
You got me all flummocks chucked? That opening really threw
me for a loop. I would say, that Mini Crush
is more important than hot tent trick fucking I think
that's probably true. It definitely gets better reviews than that
new Sting record. No, don'tody cared about it. They really
resented that. Apple just put it on their phones. You know.
It's like nobody wants that. Uh snol. Do you have

(08:27):
any more in the in the catchup department? I'm trying
to think. I got a new synthesizer that I'm really
excited about. Let's hear about it. That behind you? Is
that what I'm looking No, that's why I that's an
old one. That's an eighties Juno one or six from
Rolland and I got it repaired recently. I have Actually
our boss Connell gave that to me because he used
to play it in this band that he was in
called Adam, which I'm sure you're aware of. Um, and

(08:48):
I had another one and he saw it in the background.
I was like, well it doesn't work. Well, I have
this one in my attic. You could have it and
if it works, you know, then then you'll be in
a happy boy. And it didn't turn on. But I
got it repaired, and then I got my other one repairs.
Now I have one that I am keeping in one
that I'm selling, but I bought a Sequential Circuits Profit Rev. Two,
which is the sound chuck of like John Carpenter movie soundtracks.

(09:12):
So I might have to do like an augmented movie
crush bumper or some kind of little little diddy with it.
It sounds so cool, man, it's yeah. I'll tell you
what you should do, Nold is just just do some
sort of a thirty second jam audio soundscape and we'll
just throw it in here somewhere. Okay, all right here,
it is all right, Oh that's amazing. Well, you'll have

(10:04):
to make sure our our producer, Mike. Uh did we
have announce that Mike has taken over the show? Good
old Mike, love Mike. We maybe have been uh no,
we did. I pick uped him heavily. I pick up
him heavily. I'm certain about it about the NPR background
and and uh right club and all the things that
he does. Gets do we need to rerecord, have Lauren

(10:24):
re record our post credit sequence because our credit sequence,
because she still says Seth is a producer with two producers.
Ago asked around like yesterday's news. No, that's not what
happens with yesterday's news, Chuck, yesterday's news gets thrown away,
nobody passes it around. I get passed around like tomorrow's news,

(10:47):
tomorrow's sandwiches. I don't know what that means. I don't
know what any of it means, but I'm happy to
be here. Um. You had a nice little getaway as well,
didn't you, with like a family situation some uh some
camping of some sort. Uh yeah, well, the the family
camp is complete and all. We had a few friends
come up and help had a couple of big work days,

(11:10):
which was a lot of fun. It was funny when
we were all like they were some kids running around
and there were some people helping me, you know, those
all kinds of things to do to kind of finish
the camp out. And um, Emily was working on some
stuff and she said, you know, every it was very cute,
she said, anytime there are a bunch of people like
working like this in a big fun atmosphere and there's
music plan. I always think of foot Loose when they're

(11:32):
putting the prom together. You know, I've never seen Footloose.
Chuck on it. I'll get on it by by next week.
Is this so it's like a family, like a plot
of land or something like how do Yeah, yeah, I've
talked about a little bit on stuff. You should know.
I have some land in the mountains with a creek
on it, and uh my, my dream has always been

(11:52):
to have sort of a sort of a family camp,
family and friend camp, and uh, it's getting so crowded
in Atlanta over the years that it's it's hard to
go camping on the weekends. If you get up, like
if you're not up there in the North Torgia Mountains
on a Thursday, then forget about it. You come up,
you creep up there on a Friday after work. You
can't find a camping spot out in the wild unless

(12:15):
you want to camp right next to some schmucks. So
I got some land. We uh it was just last
year was a pop up tent with some stuff stored
under it. And this year I was finally able to
get a carpenter to build a pavilion with some shed
storage and firewood storage and an outhouse that I'm still
waiting on the composting toilet for it's not finished yet,

(12:38):
and we we've built a little outdoor kitchen in it
and picnic tables and we got everything you want. So
the idea NOL is that everything is kind of there,
all the cookware, all the stuff that you have to
tote to take camping. So if people want to go
camping there, all you do is bring your stuff to sleep,
your tent and your sleeping bag or whatever you're caught,

(13:00):
and then whatever food and booze you want to bring,
and everything else is there to make it super simple
to just sort of last minute say hey, let's go camping,
and uh, it's open to you know, if you ever
want to go camping up there, you can totally use it. Chuck,
I would love that. I would. I would mainly love to,
you know, I I would just I want to I
want to like hang with with with you guys man.
I want to come like vibe with the with the Bryants.

(13:20):
Do you want to come camping this weekend? Though? What
are you doing Memorial Day weekend? I don't actually have
any any major plans. We got a bunch of people.
There's like twenty five of us, like six or seven kids.
Is I will think about it. My kid is actually
doing a camping thing with her other friend in Tennessee.
But this weekend. Yeah for a Memorial Day. But let

(13:42):
me but let me let me think, let me think
about that. That's really the lovely, lovely thought. And all right,
really it's out there and there will be like the
whole band is going. So my drummer is bringing his
one of those drums that you sit on and play
and uh and we just you know, we sit around
by the campfire. All we make some more play guitar,
we drink. I'll bring my sin Well. We do have power.

(14:05):
We have solar power at the pavilion. I saw the
solar power panels on the roof that it's amazing. You
could bring your fucking synth if you want it. It's
like synth jam. The dream one day not was to
have a like a little get a few of my
musician friends and do a little like weekend hooting nanny
for real, hoot and a holler. I love it all right.
So it's out there and if if anyone I finally

(14:25):
posted some pictures, I'm very proud of it. It looks
the Chuck the podcaster Instagram. So we have the Bryant
family camp and it's very sweet that everyone wants to
go crash the camp and have a movie crushing So
if you should know events there, but it is closed
for those activities. God. Sorry, do you have a tent, Noel,
and sleeping bags and stuff? I don't. Actually I had extras.

(14:46):
I've even got you hooked up there, amazing. I do
need to. I want to be a camping guy. I
want that for myself, so I think I maybe need to.
I did just buy a really cool bike. I haven't
had a bike in a long time, and I bought
a nice trek bike off a dude off of craigs
or Facebook, uh marketplace nice, trying to try to get
get it back into shape. Check now that we're like,
you know, humans again. I ordered a bike to Nolan's
coming in. Uh it was back ordered, so it's coming

(15:08):
in like mid June, late Junice. Alright, Noel, what the
invite is out there? And if you don't come this weekend,
we we should just get together another weekend. Yeah, because
it's a lot of great fun. I can't wait. All right,
So Noel, we're gonna do a little something now called

(15:31):
nos Holes Star WHOA. I wasn't ready for this, Chuck,
I sprung it on you. I've been filling a lot
he sprung one of my wholes sprung a leak. Gross. Okay, Now,
of course I'm looking around. I don't even think I
have a pencil. That's okay. That is that is troublesome, though,

(15:54):
because that's my traditional way. I gotta have a pencil. No,
I'll just do it on the computer. That's fine. You
hate that, though, chuck um, No, I don't. Why don't
I have a pencil down here? What am I digital? Man?
That's what I'm saying. I like you an alright, no pencil,
all right, I'm looking all around this basement. Not a pencil,

(16:15):
behead all right. No, We're going with a category this
week that I don't know if we've done before. The
categories get thin with movies after a while, you know,
sometimes repeat. But we're gonna go with thrillers. No thriller
movies from all thrillers. Like the music the music video thriller.
That's what this is about. No, it's not about that thriller.

(16:36):
The genre, got it. Uh, And let's go ahead here.
Let me open up another document so I can worry
exactly keep scoring before we continue. Do you personally feel
like there is a distinction between the thriller and the
horror But but, but, but the movie featured in the

(17:01):
music video Thriller is clearly a horror horror. Yeah, that's
what you called it. But but don't you agree, don't
you know that's a little bit uh mixed sending mixed messages.
I think Michael Jackson sent a lot of mixed messages here,
and it's probably fair. That's probably fair, all right, Chuck,
I got that out of the way. I just had

(17:21):
to pull pull you there. I'm ready, all right, I've
got my yes column and my no column, and we're
gonna go ahead, Noll and start with a little movie
called Memento. Okay, oh yeah, I'm sorry. I forgot how
this game works. I've seen Momento, Yes, all right, I

(17:41):
figured that as as simple as that. Yes, there's some
gimmes here early on. No, but you know, as usual,
that's how you throw me off. And then all of
a sudden, The goal when I designed the game is
not to stump you entirely, when I designed the game, Noll,
is not to stump you into Now, Chuck, I really didn't.
I didn't cry, and the second time I did a
lot better. So I made up for my first horrible

(18:04):
almost entirely Japanese. Bless you a version, thank you. Let's
we should leave that in. Yeah, let's let's pick I'm
a human being. If you uh oh yeah, if you
prick me, I also believe, um, yeah, let's go all right.
Number two. No, it's a little thriller about a head
in a box bar bar. Wow, you just look so

(18:31):
much like Brad Pitt when you did that. Thanks Chuck.
It's a it's a thing I do. Um. That would
be the movie. I believe. It's called eight, uh not
quite seven eight nine the first set okay, seven go
backwards seven alright, No, that's two in the yes category.
Uh nol. Number three it's a little movies starring Mr

(18:53):
yake Yellenhall called Nightcrawler. Yeah. I love that one. He's
the he's like a crime scene paparazzi. Basically, one might
say a crime scene addict, a photog. There's a great
sequence in that movie where he like screams himself in
the mirror and I think he smashes the mirror and

(19:13):
I think that was improv and he actually hurt himself.
He also got real gaunt and weird looking for that role.
Don't you think yeah, I think Yake can. He can
change his appearance quite dressed. He can. He's quite He's
one of the he's one of the greats. I like
that guy. All right, No, we are going to move
on to another little movie about a girl that's gone

(19:36):
and it's called Gone Girl. Hmm good the Goodbye Girl.
Um yeah, yeah, that was that. That's a good one. Um. Okay,
there's that sequence at the end with what's his name,
Doogie Howser where he just gets yeah, just she bleeds
all over her. I know he was. I quite enjoyed
that movie. I read the book as well. That's good. Alright,

(19:58):
nol boy, you're smoking it. Mm hmmmm. Like a thriller.
We're gonna go back in time a bit to the
nineteen eighties. It's a little movie called Fatal Attraction. I
have not seen Fatal Attraction. We talked about this before.
That's the one, right, Glenn Close. Yes, And who's thee

(20:19):
who she fatally attracted to? Michael Douglas. That's why it's
confusing because he was also in basic instincts very true,
and those are both kind of erotic, you know, uh, thrillers,
erotic thrillers. That's yeah, they're sexy thrillers. Fatal Attraction better
than Basic Instinct if you're talking just quality movie. Basic

(20:41):
Instinct is still pretty fun though. All Right, all right, Noel,
that's your first. No Next up, Noel, we have a
movie about a band backstage being tormented Nazi skinheads. It's
called Green Room of It. I've I've watched a couple
of times. I think it's excellent. We I know you.

(21:03):
We both love that movie Blue Ruin that the filmmaker
made previously, correct, and I think that's a better film.
But I really like Green Room too. Agreed. Tough movies,
you know, if you're a little squeamish, Oh god, they're
both very taut, tense thrillers, and and they've got a
lot of a lot of a lot of nasty limb
damage and things happening to people, and limit image is tough. Yeah, alright, No,

(21:28):
you're doing great. Number seven's a movie that featured another
drastic body transformation, featuring Christian Bale as a gaunt mechanic.
It's called Gaunt Girl. It's called Very Nice the Machinist Chuck.
I have have spotty memories of this movie, which implies

(21:51):
to me that I watched it on TV and half
paid attention, So I think I get I gotta give
it a note, Chuck. If I'm getting completely honest, you know,
I want to honor the game, the game machine. This
is good. The one where he kind of doesn't know
what's real. He's sort of losing it and a paranoid,
schizophrenic kind of vibe. Is that the deal, Like he's

(22:12):
sort of you know what, I'm having trouble remembering now,
but yes, But I did see The Machinist and it
was one of those movies it's like, you know, it's
fairly disturbing, So I think you can put it out
of your brain in a certain way, and I think
that's what happened to me. You're having a topo, Chico.
I love a topo Chuck. Oh boy, the physiest of
all fizzy waters, the best level of fizz and fizz.

(22:36):
I love it. It's a good in a mixed drink.
Is a mixer? Well then then really quickly, not to
derail the game, but super quickly. There's a one of
the first bars that opened in a comfortable outdoor manner
as a local place called nine Storia here in Atlanta,
which we all love. But they have they have a
drink and Cabbage Town. They have a drink called ranch
Water and they literally take a Topo Chico and pour

(22:58):
a little bit of it out and and add tequila
and fresh lime. And that is my favorite drink right now.
And I've been making them at home. Um, and then
you should too, Crushers. It's a great, great movie drink. Yeah.
And you know, if you're you want a little alcoholic
beverage and you're trying to skimp on the calories, it's
a good way. That's what I'm doing. That said, I'm
doing no sugar. It's also keyto friendly if you're into

(23:21):
that vibe and very few carbs. So I love it.
That is my recommendation for a cocktail. All right. No, uh,
we are moving on to the next one on the list,
which is a movie that was kind of a smaller,
somewhat overlooked film, but it's quite a nice reputation on
the streaming services called The Invitation. Oh, I gotta google

(23:42):
this real quick because it doesn't ring a bell, which
probably means I haven't seen it. Uh. The Invitation from
directed by Karen Kusama. I do not know this film
at all. Yeah, it's listed as a horror film online,
but I take at you with that. It gets in
the thriller category. Even the cover looks thriller city. It's

(24:03):
like a glass of red wine and a dude standing
by himself. It's the back dinner party gone wrong. Uh.
And I don't want to give away anything else. No,
it sounds very good movie. I'll check it out, all right.
The invitation overlooked, all right, No it is five to three. Okay,
all right, we're gonna go back in time a little

(24:24):
bit more too, to a sort of a high class
thriller from director Anthony Mingela the talented Mr Ripley. Yeah.
I like that one quite a lot. Actually, Okay, I
remember I distinctly remember feeling irritated at Jude Law's character
and almost feeling like Ripley was justified in his retribution.

(24:45):
But then, you know, he sort of took it too far,
because it's like, you know, they like they brought him on,
they paid his way, they gave him everything and made
him feel like a million bucks, and then they totally
were like, you know what, we're kind of done with you.
And that's not a good feeling. And that's enough to
make anybody even not like verging on, you know, psychotic. Uh,
at least get their feelings hurt. Agreed, agreed? All right,

(25:08):
Now we're moving on two. Number ten. A movie that
was out I think last year, maybe the year before,
called A Simple Favor, My goodness, gracious, Chuck, I don't
believe so alright, features the very lovely Blake Lively and
the very lovely an A. Kendrick. Oh yeah, they're both

(25:29):
featured in full loveliness on the cover. Yep. Good movie.
Somewhat overlooked. Alright, No, it is uh six to four, uh,
six in my favor, right, six in my favor six
in year favorite. We have a movie starring Mr Jason
Bateman called The Gift well Ship, look it up. I

(25:52):
am a lot of these thrillers have very innocuous names. Yeah,
that's why. That's why I'm having to look them up.
The Gifts Wait, directed by Joel Edgerton, starring Joel Edgerton
as well. I see The Gift good movie, nol good
thriller Gordo. There's a character named Gordo in at which
I love. Alright, six to five. Things are evening out

(26:15):
here as oh boy, alright, next up number twelve. We
have a movie, a bit of a mystery, a bit
of a thriller, a bit of Clint Eastwood, a bit
of Sean Pinn. Mystic River, Yes, saw Mystic River. Saw
Wait a minute, wasn't there a flipping? Another movie called
The Gift with Blanchette and Giovanni Ribizi, and it was

(26:40):
directed by Sam Ramy Okay, Chuck, I saw that Gift,
was saw that The Gift, and that is to me,
the more known the Gift. I feel like you gotta
give me that one on a technicality. Yeah, that's not
the movie I was thinking about. Damn it all right.
It was a good movie, though, wasn't it. Yeah? Another
thriller Katie Holmes. I think I know I know Katie

(27:01):
Holmes because she goes full nude in that one. That
is the memory that I have with that film. I
forgot about that. Okey dokey. We are moving right along then,
noll to number thirteen. Another movie starring Sharon Stone, Sliver, Sliver,
the poor Man's Basic Instincts. That one was who was

(27:24):
in that what's the dude's name? I don't know? Was
that a what's his face? Because it definitely was what's
his face? Was that a Baldwin? It was a Baldwin.
Was it a Billy Baldwin? It was Billy Baldwin, b
B William Yeah, exactly. Remember Body of Evidence Chuck with

(27:47):
Madonna and Willem Dafoe. I do know, but have you
seen Sliver? I don't think I saw Sliver, Jeff, I
bet I watched it on like skinn a Max, just
like fast forwarding for like the steamy scenes. It holds.
It doesn't count. It holds a strong eleven percent on
Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, it was supposed to be pretty bad. Yeah, alright,

(28:09):
no old number fourteen. It's a movie called Body of Evidence.
Believe it or not? Oh shit, really real? Yeah, I
definitely saw that one. I the steamy scenes and that
one were so good at justified watching the whole movie.
Um yeah, there's like candle wax dripping and stuff and like,
you know, nothing sexier than candle wax, right O, God,
I know seriously, Uh yeah, I saw. I saw it

(28:31):
and I actually listened to they did. Um how did
this get made? On it? As well? Recently? And um
that's how I realized I know every single one of
these beats they're talking about because it's like, I think
she's a psychiatrist or something, and like is accused of
having murdered her husband. And William Dafoe is the detective

(28:51):
investigating in and he somehow gets wrapped up in her
very responsibly. Um, you know, in this trist and I
don't remember exactly what happens, but I don't. That's fine,
nobody remembers. There was also a Final Analysis, which is
another one of that crop of erotic thrillers around. There
was a spate of those in that era. Was in

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all of them, well except for Madonna's. Yeah, it could
have been Charon Stone, though Kim Basinger was in uh
Final Analysis. She should be in more movies. She's great,
all right, No, moving on. Number fifteen, political thriller, military thriller,
A little movie starring Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. Very

(29:36):
good movie called No Way Out. Damnit, Chuck. Why couldn't
it have been the General's Daughter or something like that,
because that's not good. No way, there's no like prerequisite
that these picks have to be good. Um No, I
haven't seen No Way Out, Chuck. Right, No, it's getting tight,
you am? I am I losing now notes eight to

(29:56):
seven in your favorite coming to the final stretch Here
for the last what do you do for five? Uh? Noel?
The next movie is a movie I've ragged on many,
many times because of the glaring list of plot holes,
wherein if any of these characters just picked up a
cell phone, there would be no movie. M wicker Park

(30:19):
they didn't have But they didn't have cell phones, did they? Well,
they did right on the cusp of that was like,
you know, Nokia brick type phones, probably wicker Park, Nycy,
wicker Park, check Park. It's funny. I looked it up
this morning because I was like, I'm not the only
one who thought this, right. If you just google Wickle Wickle,
wicker Park cell phone, there's so many articles in reviews.

(30:43):
All they had to do was makeuphone call. I mean
not none of you know what he cares about spoilers,
but can you briefly explain why it hinges on that
or how it would have solved? I can't even remember. Man,
it was so bad. It was like there was a
guy who liked a lady, but then she disappears and
there's another lady with the same name wearing the same clothes,
and it's like what reality is he in? And and

(31:04):
misconnections and stuff, but like it all falls apart because
of phone technology existing in the world and the whole
time you're going like, just make it that call and
you can make that call. Yeah, there's literally an article
it just says wicker Park characters need to answer their selves. Right,
there's a bunch of those so bad, so bad? Alright, no,

(31:27):
the final four. You are good at this. You are
good at this, my friend, I'm good at creating the
drama of love it right, go either way, could go
either way. A movie where in the classic iconic line
is it safe would be called Marathon Man. I've seen
the Marathon many Is that one with Arld Schwarzeneggerry gets

(31:49):
attacked with that dude with the hockey stick and the
flamethrower and all that. Right, No, no, that's the running Man.
God damn no. I've also seen the Marathon Man. Have
you who's in it? I have? It's Dustin Hoffman and
h Sir Lawrence Olivier, alright, who plays the dentist who
is like a Nazi war criminal dentist. Um, all right,

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it's been a long time, but Yeah, it's definitely alright,
No old last three, None of the Wire Hot classic
movie from frances Ford Coppola and Gene Heckman. It's called
The Conversation. Love It, Love It. Uh. I don't know
why I saw that when I was in college. Um,
that one really stuck with me. Something about it was
just I thought was really neat, Like, yeah, it's like

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it's one of those things where I think it's one
of those things where it's like an unreliable narrator type
situation where you're not sure. He gets so in his
head about surveillance and about he thinks he's being surveilled,
and then the movie kind of ends with him sort
of not knowing if he's like totally insane or not. Right.
Isn't that kind of the way it goes? I think
it is. Yeah, roughly excellent, excellent movie. Early early uh

(32:56):
Harrison Ford appearance was he I guess he's in it
for a minute. He plays somebody's like assistant or something
like that, but he's I believe it's pre Han solo.
He also had a very very small part in Apocalypse Now.
So Francis work Coppla he was on his radar early on. Alright, no,
last two. You're up ten to eight, so the worst

(33:19):
you can do is equalize if you with on these
final two. Let's see what happens. Number nineteen a movie
from Brian to Palma, very steamy, called a Body Double.
Mm hmmm, Nope, no, and I'm not sure again. All
of these movies have the most generic titles. Who is
in this one? Body double? Is? Is that? Is that

(33:41):
Michael Douglas? Nope? No, who is this? No? I haven't
seen body double, Chuck, I haven't seen Body double. Good movie, dude.
Even the poster is steamy. It's like a dude creeping through,
like a silhouette of a dude doing that classic peeking
through the blind situation, and a topless woman it appears
to inexplicably be in the throes of ecstasy. I'll buy
yourself just standing there kind of cradling her her bosom.

(34:06):
You should have your own show where you just like
described movie posters. Oh, it's funny. It's it's apparently a
direct homage to Alfred Hitchcock, were Window Vertigo and for
Murder all that very void? Just really coolly. Have you
heard about this new movie that apparently went through some
kind of development. Hell, and it's now on Netflix and
it's called Like the Woman in the Window and it

(34:27):
also is a homage to all this stuff. But apparently
it is hot garbage. It's got Amy Adams in it,
who I think we both love. But it's it's very,
very poorly reviewed. Um. I would like to see it
just to see if it lives up to the negative hype. Yeah,
negative hype. Good band name. That's a pretty good band name,
all right, nol last one, you either equalize or you win,

(34:48):
basically instinct. I have seen that one. All right, Look
at you can buy Squeaking by by the skin of
my teeth pants. I don't even know what that means. Well,
what is the skin of the teeth or seat of
the pants even mean, Chuck, I mean teeth don't have skin.
That's the gums. Okay, that's the gums. I never really

(35:11):
thought about that. That makes no sense, Chuck. That was
a very well designed game, my friend. It was a
very well designed game. It was a squeaker. But you
you did it. No, we're going to finish up this
week with stream this. I'll go first. We I believe

(35:34):
I mentioned that we started. I'll be Gone in the Dark.
We'd finished I'll Be Gone in the Dark two nights ago,
the great documentary on HBO Max about the Golden State
Killer and Michelle the late Michelle McNamara's dogged pursuit of
Said serial Killer and book un Said serial Killer, and
the way it weaves in her story with her experience

(35:57):
as well as the true crime piece is in rawling
and gripping and tragic in every way imaginable. Didn't she
have like a secret drug problem? Yeah, I mean, let's
let's go ahead and say if spoiler coming up here, Yes,
she she did. It was Patton Oswalt's wife, and um,

(36:17):
she she did. She had a largely because of this case.
She was taking things to get her up and to
get her motivated. She was taking things to bring her
down and allow her to sleep through the nightmares. And
it was an accidental overdose of drug cocktail and uh,
tragically she passed before the book was finished, and Patton

(36:38):
Oswalt helped to oversee the completion of that book. And uh,
it's just brutal in every way, and that story is
brutal in The Golden State Killer and really focusing, it's
a very victim focused True Crime Peace UH and seeing
the final episodes of that with the survivors coming together
after his arrest and conviction is just really touching, moving,

(37:01):
brutal stuff to watch. And I haven't seen it yet.
I obviously want to very much, especially knowing that detail.
But like the whole drug addiction side of it, I
think is really interesting because a loved one could have,
you know, a drug problem like that, and maybe you're
aware of it. It's not like they're completely hiding it,
but you're like, oh, it's under control, or oh they're
doing it for a reason, or this, that and the other.

(37:23):
But it's very easy to normalize that and let that go.
And I would just say look out for your loved ones.
If you see red flags, you know, I think, make
sure make sure they're okay. Exactly the case here. Uh
and pat nonsall even talked about it, like, you know,
who doesn't have friends are like, oh I need a
couple of Zanex to calm down, and I need an

(37:44):
uh an ambient and then you know, and or an
adderall to get me up or whatever. I might be
confusing the drugs, but Ada is up one, okay, um,
And it's very easy to normalize that and be like, oh, well,
someone's working on a book and then just need a
little extra help. And but then they're other secret drugs
because you get, um, the plateau and you need something

(38:05):
more and then it gets out of hand and it's uh,
it's very, very, very sad what happened to Michelle right on? Well,
I definitely will I'm gonna make some mental emotional space
for that one, because I know it's it sounds like
a lot, but I'm very fascinating with the case and
obviously that that part of the story is is fascinating

(38:26):
as well. Totally so we um. We also have been
doing a little palate cleansing because those episodes were so rough,
rewatching some of what we do in the shadows here
and there for some yucks. And then uh, last night,
nol I watched The Army of the Dead by myself
because Emily had to sleep super early. I watched it too.
It's so stupid. Um, it's fine, It's it is as advertised.

(38:48):
It is exactly what a movie called Army of the
Dead about a heist and a zombie ridden Las Vegas
would be. Um. I think I've mentioned my favorite online
movie review years are these dudes from Minnesota. You go
by Red Letter Media and they have a show called
half in the Bag and it's just great, super snarky. Um.
But they point out, and I would put this to

(39:09):
you Chuck and the Crushers, that it is very much
a one to one rip off of aliens. Oh really,
just not like obviously there's not aliens, but there's there.
It's aliens. I haven't seen it in a long time.
But it's like a rich financier pays them to go
to this place that's infested with aliens to get some

(39:30):
kind of payload. Um. And there's a you know, caretaker
situation with Newt and and Sigourney Weaver's character, as there
is with Drax and his daughter. Um, there's the same
rich person sending them into zombie infested thing, which is
the equivalent of the ship that they're going into to
get whatever payload it is. And there's the bad white

(39:50):
guy who double crosses everybody who is Paul Riser and
and aliens. And it's uh, that weird looking dude from
Deadwood in the and it's great, he's awesome, but you
know he's not going to be like a straight He's
got that he's got that cock eyed kind of like
you know, look to No, he's not um but I

(40:10):
would ask you to maybe like looking into that a
little bit. Maybe there's an article or something. But I
they make a side by side comparison, and it really
is even the way the helicopter rescues them at the end,
um uh. And they point out that, like where Aliens
gets all the tension building right and gets all the
character development right, you know, Army of the Dead really
doesn't have any of that. All the headshots land perfectly

(40:33):
every time. There's very little tension, there's very little concern
for the characters well being, you know what I mean. Yeah,
I'll tell you what. No, I it was fine. I
watched it. I like the Gore. I thought it was
totally some fun effective use of of gore. But you
know what, in the end, I don't know that I've
ever seen a filmmaker be more consistently just mediocre to

(40:57):
not rate is Zack Snyder. I That's what I've always thought,
and get really big, big movies. He is the very
definition of style over substance. Yeah, he's got this look
and he knows how to nail it. He's got this
SloMo hyper stylized, big music, sequence, set pieces and all
that ship, but like very little character development and very

(41:18):
little story and plot, like this is the you know,
you could you could sum this story up on the
back of a cocktail napkin. I means, yeah, yeah, I agreed,
and I hated the music. An Army of the Dead,
all the covers, all the little whimsical ethereal covers of
these classic songs did it. And then at the end
he literally used zombie bombie by being on the nose.

(41:43):
Who's the band the Cranberries, Yeah, the Cranberries. It was
just yeah, that was actually I didn't think it was
a waste of time or anything. I'm glad I watched it.
It was fun and I like a good heist. But
then you know, again, in the in the Red Letter
or the Half in the Bag, they talk about how
like Okay, Oceans eleven characters are fun and smart and funny,

(42:04):
and their challenges that they have to overcome and they
have to bob and weave and kind of figure out
their way through the next challenge. This one, there's very
little of that. You know, It's it's it's very and
when you're doing a heist movie. In a safe cracking movie,
part of the fun is designing a really sort of elaborate,
fun safe cracking sequence when they sort of did not

(42:24):
really traps, just like a guy that had to listen
to the safe and turn. There were the traps though
they were the traps. They had to use the zombie
to like trip the traps. But like that part. I
did like that part. That's what I'm saying that part.
That part was the dart shot in the zombie that
was exactly that part was pretty fun. So they had
had a few moments. But you know, it's because we're
so goddamn Star for Entertainment that we've been watching these movies.

(42:48):
Did you watch the Snyder cut the still haven't? It
was fine, very long, Um, But I'm with you, man,
I've always felt this way about Zack. He seems like
a really lovely guy. Though I will say that, like
every interview I watched him, he's just so purely, earnestly
into doing what he does, and I really appreciate that
about him. And obviously he had a you know, tragedy

(43:09):
with his his daughter's uh taking her own life. Um,
and that's what led to you know, him having to
depart from the Justice League movie in the first place.
But he just seems like a real good guy. Um,
did you work too? You know, if you're easy to
work with, the studios like you and his movies make money,
then maybe they don't care if they're not the most
well reviewed. You know. He's also weirdly best friends with

(43:32):
Christopher Nolan. Oh really, they like really really close and
like apparently Christopher. I think there's a family connection even
like Christopher is married to his sister or like somebody
who's he's related to. Um. But Christopher apparently told him
don't watch the Justice League cut that. What's his face? Did? Um?
Who's the the guy that did like Dido John Sweden? Yeah,

(43:55):
he said don't watch it, just don't do it, um,
because he apparently it just they took in a direction
that was not what he intended at all. But um, yeah,
I'm with you, Chuck. I definitely enjoyed it for what
it was. I like zombie tigers. That's pretty cool. Yeah.
I wonder if if Zack Snyder ever calls up Christopher
or maybe even text Christopher Nolan and says, hey, man,

(44:17):
how do you make a good movie? Yeah? That's pretty
poigny question. That'd be hard. Where do I? Where do
I start? Zachary, where do I start? What have you
been watching the whole You got anything to stream? Well? Uh? Yeah,
so I watched a movie on the plane, um, when
I was coming back from from Seattle. Uh. And it's
actually Christopher Nolan movie called tenant Um. So I have

(44:40):
no idea what that movie is about. That's whatever I mean, really,
and I tried, but but the thing that there were
some things about it they were cool, But it's one
of those things where there it's so cryptic and like
esoteric and like the whole device of what the movie is,
what the plot driving. Like technology, you know, you always
have to have some kind of like little little twisty
like time travel only device or whatever it like. It

(45:01):
like doesn't make sense to the point where you feel
like you missed something and that you're like stupid, And
that's not a good place to put your audience, John,
you know what I mean. I think it was Sherry
who used to work with in social media. I do too.
I love Sherry. Hi, Sherry you if you listen to
the show. Um. She pointed out that it's like keeping

(45:23):
your audience in the dark to this degree is like
damaging to to to the way people are able to
enjoy your movie. It's one thing if it's like Donnie
Darko or maybe that doesn't quite all add up, But
this one it was like none of it added up.
It's like, why is everyone backwards? I don't understand. Is
it like their doppelganger? I just don't get it, and

(45:45):
I wanted to, and it was all so long. Um,
I'll watch it. Uh, I'll try and get it in
before our next mini and maybe I can offer my perspective.
I'd love to grab with you, Chuck, because I feel
like you're gonna be roughly on the same page. But also,
when you watch a movie on a plane, you're not
really giving it your full You know it's full do
so I will give it that, but you know, I

(46:07):
still think I probably feel the same way. Yeah, that
seatback is not an ideal experience. All right, nol, you
got anything else, Let's let's move on to number two.
All right? Uh, Well that is it for us everyone,
And I hope you had an enjoyable experience listening to
this little episode, and hope everyone is doing great and
are being their best selves and uh and healthy and

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