December 23, 2019 • 30 mins
Mini Crush #97 is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, everybody,
(00:30):
welcome to Minny Crush the two Days Before Christmas edition.
It is December, is it? It's not really, we're doing
the podcast time thing. It's really December four? Did I
just ruin it for everyone? Man? Not really? Did you
like my Tim Allen? Ho ho ho ho? I don't
(00:52):
get that? Remember, uh, Tim Allen Home Improvement? Another guy
he would go, he would do that on home and
would do that. Yeah. I never saw an episode of
Home Improvement he would go. And I never saw the
Santa Claus movies, which you're gonna shame me for having
(01:14):
not seen Elf, and you haven't seen the Santa Claus.
The Santa Claus always struck me as a children's movie.
Isn't Elf kind of a children's movie? The Santa Claus?
That's a good question, Chuck that it was a Disney film, Okay.
I always thought of it as being kind of Elf, Like,
I know, it's not as funny or as revered, but
(01:34):
it's probably PG as well. I would say it had
some you know, Tim Allen wasn't really a children's entertainer
per se. Al Right, So the original Santa Claus movie
was in n I was in my fifth year of college,
so for me, it was not on my rate. For me,
it was part of the fabric of my reality. And
(01:55):
I think that may be the thing with me and Elf,
like maybe I don't know, it's not in the of
your reality. No, it is now clearly you've you've shoved
it into the fabric of my reality pretty aggressively, might
I add um? But no, I really want to see it.
But the Santa Claus U I saw it in the theater,
so I can't really speak to whether it's a good
movie or not. It probably isn't if I'm being honest,
(02:16):
be honest, No, I always try to be don't fucking lie.
Hey man, it's Christmas. I would never what happens when
you lie at Christmas? Does that? Does that not bode well?
You get that lump? Yeah. I asked Ruby this morning
and said, Ruby, so do you think you're going to
be in Santa Claus's uh, naughty list or nice list?
(02:37):
Because you know, sometimes you don't cooperate, and we're in
a big phase of trying to get cooperation. So we're
talking about a lot of the Santa card And she
said m M. I think I'd be in both, she said,
because sometimes I cooperate and sometimes I don't. So she's
in the middle. Yeah, and very stute. She's probably in
the naughty and nice list. How does that work? Though?
It's gotta it's gotta shake out one way or the other. Santa,
(03:00):
it's fake, no what she gets gifts, no matter what.
All right, that's true. Do you think there was ever
a parent that really went the full mile and like
put like coal and the stocking and gave no presents? Oh?
Probably in the old days, like in the thirties. Yeah, yeah,
although coal is expensive, that's true. That's true. They needed
(03:21):
to heat their homes. Well, then you just take it
and you know, it's more of the gift for the parents,
really right for the household. Just take it out of
the stock, out of the stocking, into the fire or
the furnace. Yeah. What's that shirt you got on? So
the shining doesn't say anything? Or is it just his face?
(03:42):
I can't see the bottom, Okay, but I got it
at the timber Line Lodge gift shop at the Portland,
Oregon Airport, because the timber Line Lodge is the external
uh for the at the timber Line Lodge store. They
sell a lot of shining memorabilia and we're sitting a
little key fobs for the over you know, like like
(04:02):
a hotel key for Overlook. I got a bunch of those. Um.
They have really great hats too. I always buy a
hat there. The Portland Airport is pretty great. All the
stuff they sell there is all super local. Even have
like a whiskey kiosk of like this really pricey local
whiskey and it's a really great airport duty free. I
don't think so. It was quite expensive. I love those
old motel key key chains. That's what it is. It's
(04:25):
sort of like a diamond shade, the old piece of
plastic or Buddy Gail the danger Oven. Coots sent me
one does I say Coots? You did cos it was
from Jaws and it referenced quint very It's very nice.
I'll check it out. It's one of my favorite gifts.
Digging through your drawers, No you're not, okay, fine, Well,
what I'm trying to think of is what key I
want to use it for because it can't fit in
(04:46):
my pocket. Would be my everyday key for me. I
used it as for an extra key that I would
maybe give to guests. Okay, that's a good idea. But
I don't have a key on my door anymore. You
don't have any friends, so that was that was a joke.
Obviously have all the friends in the world. Weirdly, harsh, No,
I have a digital entry now in my house, so
(05:07):
I don't have a key house key, and you don't
exactly you just give a code. I have it. Yeah,
I give a code. I have my key fob for
my car, and that's it. You don't even have a
single don't have a shed, kind of shed, not one key.
What are you gonna do with this is a fob? Well,
like you said, give a well I could attach the
(05:28):
code to a piece of paper. You need to buy
a second home and make it your old just so
you can use that key. That's a great idea. No,
we're trying this log line and thing again because I
screwed it up so bad last time. Oh wait, so
(05:48):
you you were a little more clear in your instructions.
I was this is what I said, mini crush. Okay,
let's try this log line thing again, but with a
Christmas angle, right, an original log line for a Christmas movie.
We haven't seen yet. That's that's gonna be fun two sentences. Max,
I was very specifically, that's that's how you do it there, Chuck,
well done. Jonathan Cooley says a jaded retail executive finds
(06:11):
himself perpetually reliving the same Christmas Eve. It's Christmas for ever.
That's very funny, not bad. It's sort of a combination
of uh ebenee'z are Scrooge wonderful Life and it's a
wonderful life and groundhog Day. Yeah, kind of coolie good idea.
(06:31):
Groundhog Day is kind of a Christmas movie, isn't it?
Uh not at all. It's not do on groundhog Day. No,
but isn't it that being Christmasy at some point? No? No,
it takes place. Yeah, that's right. It might feel that
way because because of the snow. There's a lot of snow,
and there's a isn't there like a like a snow
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globe situation in it or something? Now I'm thinking of
st elsewhere. I'm just gonna let you do this, Okay,
you know what go on with the with your game,
your reindeer game. Joshua Hall says Carol is the last
person on Earth who believes in Santa, and she's got
twelve days to keep Christmas alive. Twelve days of Christmas, Carol.
(07:13):
These are good. It's pretty good boy, Christmas Carol. Hollywood,
are you listening. Hollywood's always listening. They have spies, Mike
Mead says, dash or Dancer, Prancer and Vixen. Do you
know the story of Sprinter? Is this like sponsored content
for sprint? No? I think uh. I think it's just
(07:34):
maybe a new reindeer, new reindeer that no one knows about.
So here we go. This could be fun. We could
add a little bit of detail of these, so maybe Sprinter.
It's almost like an Elf type story where there's sort
of a fish out of water kind of situation where
Sprinter is the reindeer that was for the time for
good because Sprinter like took off and did his own thing,
and now sprinters back and wants a piece of the action. Okay,
(07:57):
not bad, something like that. Sure, I don't know. Just
spitball in here, chuck it all right. It's like Rudolph
the Red Nose Reindeer meets uh boondock Saints. I love that. Yes,
maybe Sprinter two. He's got a hard edge to him,
and the other reindeers kind of don't like his vibe
because he's a little aggressive. He smokes a lot, you know. Yeah,
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he harasses the female reindeer, he really does. He's a
real jerk. He's a real jerk. He's almost like a
Gordon Gecko type figure. Maybe that's it. He went off
and made his fortune on Wall Street, uh, and then
came back because maybe he went bust, but he doesn't.
But he's not telling anybody that that's what it is.
He lost everything because he was a jerk and he
had a real coke problem. But he comes back and
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he still got that one nice suit. He's got that
one nice suit, and he tries to make everyone think
that he's coming back you know, for his own for like,
you know, to to be part of the family. But
he's actually broke and he's got and now he's trying
to hustle his way into being one of the replace Rudolph.
Perhaps I don't know. Yeah, And Vixen finds him out
and he's like, you can't tell anybody like I need this. Yeah, yeah,
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well this is good. All right. Next let me see here.
I wanna the Seth Seth McFarland. Sean McFarland, top fan,
forget the naught of your nice list for this Killer
Santa that was Live or Die. It's more of a tagline.
But that's good. It's like Saw meets Santa Claus. That's good.
(09:25):
This is good. This is good stuff. Guys. David Gooch,
the Gooch, one of our oldest friends, says, okay, but
I got five words for you. Gritty Santa Claus origin story,
Santa Claus meets Joker. That's pretty good. What what what
would it be? Do you think? Mm hmm would it
be well, you'd have to make the North Pole sort
of a hard scrabble, which it would be. Let's be honest.
(09:48):
You know you don't live in the North Pole in
the lap of luxury, right, you know you're it's it's
a survival game. Yeah, yeah, people are. There's only so
much wood and coal to go around exactly. So the cartel,
the coal cartel, cole cartels get involved. That's when that's
when it gets crazy. Yeah. I like it in Santa.
And also what happens is, you know with the uh,
(10:08):
you only get so much sunlight, so everyone starts skill
crazy snow blind snow blind, snow Blind, the Santa Claus story,
the story of Chris Kringle, and that's spelled with Kay's right, Yeah,
Deutsche Santa Claus, which is the O G. Right, it's
the O G. Yeah. Uh. Let me see here. J
(10:33):
Fraser creepy Santa movie. He sees you when you're sleeping,
but other times too. I love that. Not No more
needs to be said about that. Not bad. Patrick Gorman,
one of our oldest friends, says, Santa's daughter has to
take over Christmas because her brother, who was supposed to
take over the family business, is missing. She learns the
(10:54):
darker side of Christmas by trying to find out trying
to find her rebellious brother. This is like all the
movies we've been talking about. Come mind, Yeah, why is
everyone going dark? There's a mystery here though, so I
love the mystery element to it. And yeah, I'm I'm
my imaginations running wild here, Chuck, Okay, let's keep going
with this. This is good. Mike interest, and I think
(11:15):
this first time we've heard from Mike Welcome. A screenwriter
crowd sources ideas for a movie through his podcast Influence
until the Spirit of Christmas changes his way. That's what
we're doing right now. That's what we're doing right now.
That's a good one. That's very meta. I like that.
Let me see this is not bad, har Old. Friend
Melinda Beclau says, careful with that ax, because this year
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Christmas trees are fighting back sentient evil Christmas trees. That's
pretty good. Like the trees from The Wizard of Oz
that's always scared the shift out of me as a kid.
Imagine them like rooting out of the ground and then
their big root feet coming at you. There's a new
Hulu show coming up about a creepy tree. Yeah, keep going,
(12:01):
I'll find it. Let me see here. Some of these
are taglines, but that's okay, Brian Long, The tradition of
Christmas is dying. A group of hip city dwellers rediscover
the magic of having a winter celebration. The burden of
shopping has gone, and a new level of life experiences
is discovered that includes their families that they're trying to escape. Okay,
(12:24):
not bad. Into the Dark uncovers the horrors of the
IDEs of March in Creepy Treehouse All this is the
same one I saw an ad like on Instagram where
it was literally a creepy tree kind of lurking over
a little girl. Interesting. I just it just struck me
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as like that hasn't been done. We did talk about
the tree in Evil Dad, which did not age well,
do not. Let's do a couple of more of these.
Tony Klutwik says, due to climate change, Santa has to
move to a colder place, so he relocates to the
heart of a ruthless politician. With Santa in his heart,
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the politician slowly becomes a better person and changes his
evil ways. That's pretty good. Interesting. What are the steaks though, Like,
does he have to kind of like, you know, is
he's wrestling with this this possession at first, like he's
not fully Probably he probably wakes up with heartburn. Yeah,
that's how you comically show it. And then he finds
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himself doing nice things and it's like, what the fun
is going on? Almost like a liar liar situation exactly.
It's kind of like this liar liar meets innerspace meets
the Santa Claus meets Interstellar. No, all right, let's do
one more. There's a lot of horror things that Santa
killing people. I don't like that. Everyone can we spoil
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Silent Night, Deadly Night real quick. Was it a Santa
character that was doing it? Was he dressed up as Santa?
I don't know he saw it though I thought no, no,
I saw black black Christmas. Was there a Santa figure
in that one? It was just Christmas, just Christmas time
in a sorority house. I don't know about Silent Night,
Deadly Night. I feel like there was a Santa esque
killer dressed up as Santa and that one. All right,
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we're gonna finish up with let me see here, Lisa Romana,
one of our oldest friends. In the year twenty two
twenty the newly Christmas established Mars Human Colony is having
its first Christmas. Not bad so far, and an unforeseen
twist to the usual preparations. An unusual red spacecraft lands
led by twelve very strange looking creatures. I love it, Lisa,
(14:36):
I like it too, fantastic. Somebody just occurred to me, Um,
there aren't a whole lot of really big budget Christmas movies.
I think they're sort of considered like throw away seasonal fair. Yeah,
like maybe we'll put fifteen million into this and then
maybe it'll, like, you know, make a little bit of
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money over the holidays. Maybe at the very best it'll
become like an ELF cult classic that has loved It
was like two million bucks and continues to which is rare.
Though for Christmas movies, they're usually a flash in the
pan and they're gone, right, it's rare to have a
smash hit. I think those Santa Claus movies were smashed it,
and they were there was a sequel, so that's, you know,
a good sign, Like there's one that just came out
that I've already. It's already. I think it's just called
(15:18):
Last Christmas, which is a reference to I think the
Wham song of the same name, gave you my very
next day, you gave it away, gave it away. But
it has a denarious targ Arian in it from a
Game of Thrones, and it it appeared to have fizzled. Yeah,
I think you might be right there. Will Ferrell was
(15:39):
offered about thirty million bucks to do an Elf sequel
and he said no because like he just wanted to
let it ride. I think he was like, yeah, I
think he just said, let's just not let's just not
do that. Yeah, I like I got all the respect
in the world for that job. I do too. I
think Jon Vava wanted to do it even he went, man, sorry,
I'm not doing it. No, it's really kind of a
perfect little little Christmas. Let it be what it is.
(16:01):
Let it be what it is. All right, We're gonna
finish up and all with what's the most overrated Christmas movie?
And why? I know your answer is elf, I can't.
I couldn't even do you have one? I don't know,
Like I know you don't like Christmas films in general,
so you probably find most of them overrated. I don't know,
like I don't. There's so few of them that I
(16:23):
even cross my radar. Like Christmas Story I find to
be fun. Um. It sure seems like they hold it
in really high esteem over there at TBS because they
had play it on a loop every year. Um. And
that's really the only way I've seen it. I think
I've said this before on the show. I've never seen
it in one sitting, from beginning to end. I've just
seen it piecemeal, like in a weird kind of jigsaw
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puzzle order. You know you're not into Christmas movies? Are
you into Christmas? I like Christmas, but are you into Christmas? Okay,
I like Christma. I'm just trying to get you know.
I enjoy Christmas here, I enjoy Christmas. Just wondering if
there was any any deep feelings that where you're like,
you know, I really don't love it. I don't not
love it. I especially love it with the kids and stuff. No,
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and then you're making me question my my, my. No,
I'm not not trying to do that. I just want
to make sure everyone knows everything about you, all of
everything in my deepest, darkest Christmas secrets. Grant what he says.
Polar Express digital Animation's best example of uh, why not
to lean too hard into the realm of realistic characters
(17:30):
creepy and off putting. I didn't see it speaking of that,
if you watched The Irishman, yeah, uh not yet. It's
very good, but there's a couple of moments where you're
too weird with a very early on and then and
then you forget about it or they start being much
more subtle about it. But when the characters are like
meant to be super young, it looks like a video
game cut scene. It's a little weird, and it's like
a Scorsese directed video game cut scene. It's very good though.
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It's very very good film, and and y'all movie crushers
call me on that if you think it was a
non issue. Obviously didn't affect my enjoyment of the overall picture.
Case he's seen it four times. Yeah, so that's like
fourteen hours of watching that. I don't fully understand. I
thought it was good, but I thought it was just
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very Scorsese like, because he's kind of got a formula
guy's got, and that's why I thought it was kind
of like bullshit when he's like calling out the Marvel
movies for not being cinema when they take a lot
of cues from his formula. Guardians of the Galaxy with
all the seventies music and the big you know, um
you know scenes and montages using all of like seventies music,
(18:37):
totally a nod Discorssy. I don't understand where he's coming
from when he's saying that, when he himself has made
the same kind of gangster picture over and over and
over again. They're all great, but I just think it's
a little bit of the pot calling the kettle black. Alright,
hot take contake everybody, uh. Nick Kelly says it's a
wonderful life. It's only popular because of a copyright issue
(18:57):
that granted its exposure. Didn't you point that out recently?
I learned that recently. It's maybe, but what the deal
was was like it got buried and then it didn't
get good reviews. At the time, it wasn't a success,
and then it got I think it like it's copyright
had expired or it was in the public domain, and
so a television station and started playing it every year
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for Christmas, and it became this because it's not even
a Christmas set story. I think there's Christmas in it,
isn't there. I don't know. This guy said it's not
even a Christmas movie, but that's that's basically He's absolutely right.
There is a like the copyright it entered into the
public domain, I think, and then uh TV station was
able to play it without paying for it, and it
and it became kind of this like new cult kind
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of thing. Mike Burdette says, this thread breaks my heart.
Ha ha ha. It's definitely the Santa clause. Tim Allen
is not and has never been funny. It's a miracle
he didn't ruin Galaxy Quest well, Mike, I'm kind of
with you. I never thought Tim Allen was very funny,
but that's my cold heart, Lisa. To share a one
(20:09):
of our old friends is love. Actually it's boring and
neither romantic nor heartwarming. Okay, people as your love it
them holding up those cards. They hold up those cards.
That's all I know about. I don't know anything, but
there's a thing about holding up cards with things written
on them. That's it. Yeah. That guy that plays the
dude in The Walking Dead is in it. Um who
plays Rick in the Walking the Sheriff, Yeah, Lucas something. Anyway,
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he's good. He's good. He would de Porchfest one year.
He's around all over town. Let me see here, A
bunch of people are saying it's a wonderful life. Ah.
Rachel mccafee says, truly overrated is and everyone talks about
them being so good and musties, but they're actually boring
and underwhelming. Wonderful life and White Christmas. I haven't seen
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White Christmas. Which one is that I haven't seen a
lot of these old school ones. Yeah, what about Miracle
On I haven't seen that either. Yeah, that one involves
like the Santa Claus you don't think is real, but
then spoiler alerties he's real. I have no I think
that's the deal. They remade that one a couple of
times too, I believe. Kayla mh one of our oldest friends,
says a Christmas Story, I don't like a single character
(21:19):
in the whole movie, and I don't understand why people
love it. You know you like what you like. Everyone
another vote. Maria Basquez A Christmas Story. I hate that
god damn movie so much. Makes me want to rip
my hair out when they play it for twenty four hours. Wow,
all right. Patrick Gorman, one of our old friends, is
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Nightmare before Christmas. No, that's a good one. That's one.
That's that's one that I I love. I love it.
He says. This is his crit the hot topicization of
that movie took it further into the zeitgeists and ever
deserved on its own merits. I don't think that's true.
I don't like the hot topic ization of it, don't
get me wrong, but it's a feat of animation, uh genius.
(22:04):
I mean just the fact that they chose to do
a movie that way and sort of set the tone
for all of the cool like like a Studios and
you know, Henry Selleck is the animator that did all that,
you know, based on Tim Burton's vision. And the music
is great. It's a fun movie. It's a romp. I've
never seen it, what are you kidding me? It's great watch.
There are a lot of Christmas movies I haven't seen
(22:25):
now that I think of it. It's beautiful too, because
it's a hybrid. It's if you don't like Christmas, you
got your Halloween. Yeah, do you know what my deal is?
And all is I can't. I really love Christmas and
I get into the spirit of it, but I can't
watch fifteen of those movies. You know, that's too much.
Like I watch a three Christmas movies a year, and
(22:45):
they're always elf a Christmas story and uh maybe one
of the healthy green stool Christmas. I just think I
can't take too much of it. Ruby's a little too
young for a Nightmare because it's a little dark at times.
But I think she'll really like it when she turns
maybe like six or something like. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
really cool. Well, there's a whole world awaiting her, big
(23:07):
time of movies. You can't wait. You guys got Disney
plus yet Oh yeah, yeah, we've been We've been watching
a lot of Disney contin a lot of good content there.
It is. It's good, you know. I'm I'm all in favorite.
Say what you will about Disney, but um, they do
have a lot of good stuff, true, even if they
just bought some of it. Our old friend Debbie Franga
(23:32):
Duka says, they're all kind of the pits. It's time
for some new, better holiday movies. WELLI Gennevan Valen, one
of our old friends. Live Action Grinch, the original cartoon
is pretty flawless. Uh, and it didn't need a remake
or reimagining. I like the live action Grinch with Jim Carey. Yeah,
I'm a big fan. My my daughter's baby sister. Um
(23:54):
sounds confusing. Uh, they call me Uncle Nolan, my daughter's
mom's uh new baby. Um. They she calls that movie
Spooky Grinch, spooky Grinch, spooky Grinch because he's he's a
little creepy. Sure. Stelln Carlson's has Die Hard for sure
gets a lot of quaint eighties and the Salzer point
nostalgia points, but the end is just a basic trope
(24:15):
filled action movie, nothing more. Oh my god Stelen. I
don't want to say our relationship is over, but that
puts a dent into First of all, I think it's
still up for debate as to whether that's a Christmas
movie or not. Well, I think we settled that last
year when we had the writer say it's a Christmas
(24:35):
he said it. Well, he did say that. Yeah, on
your show he read a letter. That's right. Yeah, our show,
somebody read the yes. I'm sorry, I was confusing. I
read it on our own show. This one here that
I don't expect you remember last year and all you
don't remember last week. That's not Chuck, that's unkind. That's
unkind Chuck, and I take great issue with that. Let
(24:56):
me see here, Mike Doyle, Love actually is such a
piece of trite piece of I'm sorry, I need to
get this right. Love actually is such a trite piece
of shallow nonsense that holds up some of the most
unhealthy and selfish relationships as this wonderful thing and the
nine eleven part that's just I mean, come on, there's
a nine eleven part. I don't know, man, I've never
(25:18):
seen it. That seems messed up. A lot of people
are hating on Polar Express as well. Molly Thibodeaux. I
can't even get myself to watch it all the way through.
And I've tried creepy animation in the Uncanny Valley. Yeah,
that that was early too, in those days. It was
it wasn't that Zemeckis. He really was into that for
like a minute. He did like a baowolf for him
(25:39):
two and then kind of abandoned it because it was
because everyone hates spooky trash. Yeah, it wasn't good trash.
It was good. That is pretty good. Um Yeah that No,
I'm that's so not into that at all. Yeah. Let
animation be animation, Let it be stylized. That's the whole point. Otherwise,
pay actors. You know A miracle and thirty fourth Street.
(25:59):
That's from Jessica Dalba. She says, only because I can
never stay awake. Zach pointer elf there, I said at
the premises, just too far out there and acting as blah,
too far out there. That seems like an oddly uh
it's weird antic comment there. Who is this? It's one
of our old pal Zack pointers. I'm sorry, Zach, I'm
(26:19):
not sure the best everyone's allowed a dumb opinion every
now and well, you know our opinions. You know what
they say, No, everyone's got him like butts. Is that
the same, you know opinions, everyone's got them like but yeah.
I like that. It sounds like how Ruby would summarize
(26:41):
that quote. Yeah, I have the mind of a three
year old, except she would say but cheeks. Uh. Let
me see. One of our old friends, Luke Harkle wrote says,
Christmas Vacations some really funny moments, but overall it just
doesn't work for me. Christmas Vacations when I watch yeah, yeah,
so maybe there's like four that I see. You give
(27:01):
that one a shot. Christmas Vacation. I saw a vacation
the first one watched on a plane, and I didn't
like it. I didn't love it. I didn't love it,
um hey man, no shame and not liking Chevy Chase. Hey,
I just I just didn't like. There's so much you know,
build up over over it that I was like expecting
to be like blown away. I also didn't love Animal House.
(27:24):
I think it's like a style of comedy that maybe
I don't want to say it's been improved upon, but
it's just it's a little bit of its time. But
I also I love mel Brooks movies and I love
that comedy, so it occupies some middle ground kind of
It's definitely not mel Brooks. No, it's not. It's much. Yeah,
I'm just saying, like I think, uh, well, you haven't
seen it yet, but Jojo Rabbit has a bit of
(27:44):
mel Brooks DNA. I can see that coursing through. I
cancent see that it's from the trailer, which resolutely very
much something we need more of these days. All right,
let's finish it off here with Brian Thomas. He has
a nice little rant on love. Actually, I think it's overhyped.
I think there's some gross and cream piece stuff in there.
I can forgive the unrealistic parts because it's full of
Christmas magic and evolves those rom com tropes like meat cutes.
(28:07):
That's all fine, but that wedding filmer needs to get
his ship together and stop stalking his friend's wife. Be
a professional man. And the dude he leaned on his
British accident just accent to seduce for women at once.
They made the women out to be such idiots based
on outdated stereotypes, and they're running through the airport thing
was so overdone even then. Anyway, I feel better getting
(28:30):
that off my chest. Now is it Andrew Lincoln that
does the British accent? Because he is British? He he
plays you know, he's the guy that plays uh the
sheriff on on Walking Dead because he's in fact a
brit I wonder if it's him. I don't know. And
you know what, I don't even want to see this
movie now now, I I've I've never really I don't
like rom coms really so it is much beloved though
(28:52):
by many people, and it seems like equally hated. It
does seem that way, very divisive film. Who is that?
Alan Rickman, Laura Lenny, who like her it says it's
a pretty much crazy cast. I mean Mr Bean who
directed it? Is someone super famous and uh, I don't
know directed by Oh Hugh Grants. He didn't directed it,
(29:16):
he's in it. Richard Curtis directed it. And what else
did he do? Let me see here the Bridget Jones
diary kind of situation he did, notting Hill, he four
weddings in a funeral, all of those Hugh Grant romcom
Jam's Bridget Jones. Mr Bean Okay, I get it, Mama Mia.
(29:36):
He's that guy. He is that guy. Well, good for him.
He's a big time director. He does appear to be
so alright, No, I think that's all the time we have. Uh,
since it's December, we want to which everyone a very
happy holiday. And as we always like to remind people,
hollidays are very tough for some people, uh in a
profound way. And we are thinking about you for sure,
(29:58):
and uh, you know, reach out to someone if you
need to talk this Christmas and if you have a wonderful, loving,
supportive family and you love Christmas, just um be thankful
and grateful for that. Yeah, And I mean it's it's
always easy to think, oh, I'm gonna burden somebody. I
don't want anybody. I don't want to like be a imposition.
But I guarantee you of the time that's not how
other people see it. And people are always happy to
(30:20):
be reached out to and uh, you know, asked to
extend a helping hand of conversation, especially especially at that
time of Yeah. All right, so merry Christmas and happy
holidays everyone, however you choose to celebrate, and Merry Christmas
to you KNOWL to you as well. Chuck and I
We'll see you in January. You got it. For more
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Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, everybody,
(00:30):
welcome to Minny Crush the two Days Before Christmas edition.
It is December, is it? It's not really, we're doing
the podcast time thing. It's really December four? Did I
just ruin it for everyone? Man? Not really? Did you
like my Tim Allen? Ho ho ho ho? I don't
(00:52):
get that? Remember, uh, Tim Allen Home Improvement? Another guy
he would go, he would do that on home and
would do that. Yeah. I never saw an episode of
Home Improvement he would go. And I never saw the
Santa Claus movies, which you're gonna shame me for having
(01:14):
not seen Elf, and you haven't seen the Santa Claus.
The Santa Claus always struck me as a children's movie.
Isn't Elf kind of a children's movie? The Santa Claus?
That's a good question, Chuck that it was a Disney film, Okay.
I always thought of it as being kind of Elf, Like,
I know, it's not as funny or as revered, but
(01:34):
it's probably PG as well. I would say it had
some you know, Tim Allen wasn't really a children's entertainer
per se. Al Right, So the original Santa Claus movie
was in n I was in my fifth year of college,
so for me, it was not on my rate. For me,
it was part of the fabric of my reality. And
(01:55):
I think that may be the thing with me and Elf,
like maybe I don't know, it's not in the of
your reality. No, it is now clearly you've you've shoved
it into the fabric of my reality pretty aggressively, might
I add um? But no, I really want to see it.
But the Santa Claus U I saw it in the theater,
so I can't really speak to whether it's a good
movie or not. It probably isn't if I'm being honest,
(02:16):
be honest, No, I always try to be don't fucking lie.
Hey man, it's Christmas. I would never what happens when
you lie at Christmas? Does that? Does that not bode well?
You get that lump? Yeah. I asked Ruby this morning
and said, Ruby, so do you think you're going to
be in Santa Claus's uh, naughty list or nice list?
(02:37):
Because you know, sometimes you don't cooperate, and we're in
a big phase of trying to get cooperation. So we're
talking about a lot of the Santa card And she
said m M. I think I'd be in both, she said,
because sometimes I cooperate and sometimes I don't. So she's
in the middle. Yeah, and very stute. She's probably in
the naughty and nice list. How does that work? Though?
It's gotta it's gotta shake out one way or the other. Santa,
(03:00):
it's fake, no what she gets gifts, no matter what.
All right, that's true. Do you think there was ever
a parent that really went the full mile and like
put like coal and the stocking and gave no presents? Oh?
Probably in the old days, like in the thirties. Yeah, yeah,
although coal is expensive, that's true. That's true. They needed
(03:21):
to heat their homes. Well, then you just take it
and you know, it's more of the gift for the parents,
really right for the household. Just take it out of
the stock, out of the stocking, into the fire or
the furnace. Yeah. What's that shirt you got on? So
the shining doesn't say anything? Or is it just his face?
(03:42):
I can't see the bottom, Okay, but I got it
at the timber Line Lodge gift shop at the Portland,
Oregon Airport, because the timber Line Lodge is the external
uh for the at the timber Line Lodge store. They
sell a lot of shining memorabilia and we're sitting a
little key fobs for the over you know, like like
(04:02):
a hotel key for Overlook. I got a bunch of those. Um.
They have really great hats too. I always buy a
hat there. The Portland Airport is pretty great. All the
stuff they sell there is all super local. Even have
like a whiskey kiosk of like this really pricey local
whiskey and it's a really great airport duty free. I
don't think so. It was quite expensive. I love those
old motel key key chains. That's what it is. It's
(04:25):
sort of like a diamond shade, the old piece of
plastic or Buddy Gail the danger Oven. Coots sent me
one does I say Coots? You did cos it was
from Jaws and it referenced quint very It's very nice.
I'll check it out. It's one of my favorite gifts.
Digging through your drawers, No you're not, okay, fine, Well,
what I'm trying to think of is what key I
want to use it for because it can't fit in
(04:46):
my pocket. Would be my everyday key for me. I
used it as for an extra key that I would
maybe give to guests. Okay, that's a good idea. But
I don't have a key on my door anymore. You
don't have any friends, so that was that was a joke.
Obviously have all the friends in the world. Weirdly, harsh, No,
I have a digital entry now in my house, so
(05:07):
I don't have a key house key, and you don't
exactly you just give a code. I have it. Yeah,
I give a code. I have my key fob for
my car, and that's it. You don't even have a
single don't have a shed, kind of shed, not one key.
What are you gonna do with this is a fob? Well,
like you said, give a well I could attach the
(05:28):
code to a piece of paper. You need to buy
a second home and make it your old just so
you can use that key. That's a great idea. No,
we're trying this log line and thing again because I
screwed it up so bad last time. Oh wait, so
(05:48):
you you were a little more clear in your instructions.
I was this is what I said, mini crush. Okay,
let's try this log line thing again, but with a
Christmas angle, right, an original log line for a Christmas movie.
We haven't seen yet. That's that's gonna be fun two sentences. Max,
I was very specifically, that's that's how you do it there, Chuck,
well done. Jonathan Cooley says a jaded retail executive finds
(06:11):
himself perpetually reliving the same Christmas Eve. It's Christmas for ever.
That's very funny, not bad. It's sort of a combination
of uh ebenee'z are Scrooge wonderful Life and it's a
wonderful life and groundhog Day. Yeah, kind of coolie good idea.
(06:31):
Groundhog Day is kind of a Christmas movie, isn't it?
Uh not at all. It's not do on groundhog Day. No,
but isn't it that being Christmasy at some point? No? No,
it takes place. Yeah, that's right. It might feel that
way because because of the snow. There's a lot of snow,
and there's a isn't there like a like a snow
(06:53):
globe situation in it or something? Now I'm thinking of
st elsewhere. I'm just gonna let you do this, Okay,
you know what go on with the with your game,
your reindeer game. Joshua Hall says Carol is the last
person on Earth who believes in Santa, and she's got
twelve days to keep Christmas alive. Twelve days of Christmas, Carol.
(07:13):
These are good. It's pretty good boy, Christmas Carol. Hollywood,
are you listening. Hollywood's always listening. They have spies, Mike
Mead says, dash or Dancer, Prancer and Vixen. Do you
know the story of Sprinter? Is this like sponsored content
for sprint? No? I think uh. I think it's just
(07:34):
maybe a new reindeer, new reindeer that no one knows about.
So here we go. This could be fun. We could
add a little bit of detail of these, so maybe Sprinter.
It's almost like an Elf type story where there's sort
of a fish out of water kind of situation where
Sprinter is the reindeer that was for the time for
good because Sprinter like took off and did his own thing,
and now sprinters back and wants a piece of the action. Okay,
(07:57):
not bad, something like that. Sure, I don't know. Just
spitball in here, chuck it all right. It's like Rudolph
the Red Nose Reindeer meets uh boondock Saints. I love that. Yes,
maybe Sprinter two. He's got a hard edge to him,
and the other reindeers kind of don't like his vibe
because he's a little aggressive. He smokes a lot, you know. Yeah,
(08:18):
he harasses the female reindeer, he really does. He's a
real jerk. He's a real jerk. He's almost like a
Gordon Gecko type figure. Maybe that's it. He went off
and made his fortune on Wall Street, uh, and then
came back because maybe he went bust, but he doesn't.
But he's not telling anybody that that's what it is.
He lost everything because he was a jerk and he
had a real coke problem. But he comes back and
(08:38):
he still got that one nice suit. He's got that
one nice suit, and he tries to make everyone think
that he's coming back you know, for his own for like,
you know, to to be part of the family. But
he's actually broke and he's got and now he's trying
to hustle his way into being one of the replace Rudolph.
Perhaps I don't know. Yeah, And Vixen finds him out
and he's like, you can't tell anybody like I need this. Yeah, yeah,
(09:00):
well this is good. All right. Next let me see here.
I wanna the Seth Seth McFarland. Sean McFarland, top fan,
forget the naught of your nice list for this Killer
Santa that was Live or Die. It's more of a tagline.
But that's good. It's like Saw meets Santa Claus. That's good.
(09:25):
This is good. This is good stuff. Guys. David Gooch,
the Gooch, one of our oldest friends, says, okay, but
I got five words for you. Gritty Santa Claus origin story,
Santa Claus meets Joker. That's pretty good. What what what
would it be? Do you think? Mm hmm would it
be well, you'd have to make the North Pole sort
of a hard scrabble, which it would be. Let's be honest.
(09:48):
You know you don't live in the North Pole in
the lap of luxury, right, you know you're it's it's
a survival game. Yeah, yeah, people are. There's only so
much wood and coal to go around exactly. So the cartel,
the coal cartel, cole cartels get involved. That's when that's
when it gets crazy. Yeah. I like it in Santa.
And also what happens is, you know with the uh,
(10:08):
you only get so much sunlight, so everyone starts skill
crazy snow blind snow blind, snow Blind, the Santa Claus story,
the story of Chris Kringle, and that's spelled with Kay's right, Yeah,
Deutsche Santa Claus, which is the O G. Right, it's
the O G. Yeah. Uh. Let me see here. J
(10:33):
Fraser creepy Santa movie. He sees you when you're sleeping,
but other times too. I love that. Not No more
needs to be said about that. Not bad. Patrick Gorman,
one of our oldest friends, says, Santa's daughter has to
take over Christmas because her brother, who was supposed to
take over the family business, is missing. She learns the
(10:54):
darker side of Christmas by trying to find out trying
to find her rebellious brother. This is like all the
movies we've been talking about. Come mind, Yeah, why is
everyone going dark? There's a mystery here though, so I
love the mystery element to it. And yeah, I'm I'm
my imaginations running wild here, Chuck, Okay, let's keep going
with this. This is good. Mike interest, and I think
(11:15):
this first time we've heard from Mike Welcome. A screenwriter
crowd sources ideas for a movie through his podcast Influence
until the Spirit of Christmas changes his way. That's what
we're doing right now. That's what we're doing right now.
That's a good one. That's very meta. I like that.
Let me see this is not bad, har Old. Friend
Melinda Beclau says, careful with that ax, because this year
(11:38):
Christmas trees are fighting back sentient evil Christmas trees. That's
pretty good. Like the trees from The Wizard of Oz
that's always scared the shift out of me as a kid.
Imagine them like rooting out of the ground and then
their big root feet coming at you. There's a new
Hulu show coming up about a creepy tree. Yeah, keep going,
(12:01):
I'll find it. Let me see here. Some of these
are taglines, but that's okay, Brian Long, The tradition of
Christmas is dying. A group of hip city dwellers rediscover
the magic of having a winter celebration. The burden of
shopping has gone, and a new level of life experiences
is discovered that includes their families that they're trying to escape. Okay,
(12:24):
not bad. Into the Dark uncovers the horrors of the
IDEs of March in Creepy Treehouse All this is the
same one I saw an ad like on Instagram where
it was literally a creepy tree kind of lurking over
a little girl. Interesting. I just it just struck me
(12:45):
as like that hasn't been done. We did talk about
the tree in Evil Dad, which did not age well,
do not. Let's do a couple of more of these.
Tony Klutwik says, due to climate change, Santa has to
move to a colder place, so he relocates to the
heart of a ruthless politician. With Santa in his heart,
(13:07):
the politician slowly becomes a better person and changes his
evil ways. That's pretty good. Interesting. What are the steaks though, Like,
does he have to kind of like, you know, is
he's wrestling with this this possession at first, like he's
not fully Probably he probably wakes up with heartburn. Yeah,
that's how you comically show it. And then he finds
(13:27):
himself doing nice things and it's like, what the fun
is going on? Almost like a liar liar situation exactly.
It's kind of like this liar liar meets innerspace meets
the Santa Claus meets Interstellar. No, all right, let's do
one more. There's a lot of horror things that Santa
killing people. I don't like that. Everyone can we spoil
(13:51):
Silent Night, Deadly Night real quick. Was it a Santa
character that was doing it? Was he dressed up as Santa?
I don't know he saw it though I thought no, no,
I saw black black Christmas. Was there a Santa figure
in that one? It was just Christmas, just Christmas time
in a sorority house. I don't know about Silent Night,
Deadly Night. I feel like there was a Santa esque
killer dressed up as Santa and that one. All right,
(14:12):
we're gonna finish up with let me see here, Lisa Romana,
one of our oldest friends. In the year twenty two
twenty the newly Christmas established Mars Human Colony is having
its first Christmas. Not bad so far, and an unforeseen
twist to the usual preparations. An unusual red spacecraft lands
led by twelve very strange looking creatures. I love it, Lisa,
(14:36):
I like it too, fantastic. Somebody just occurred to me, Um,
there aren't a whole lot of really big budget Christmas movies.
I think they're sort of considered like throw away seasonal fair. Yeah,
like maybe we'll put fifteen million into this and then
maybe it'll, like, you know, make a little bit of
(14:57):
money over the holidays. Maybe at the very best it'll
become like an ELF cult classic that has loved It
was like two million bucks and continues to which is rare.
Though for Christmas movies, they're usually a flash in the
pan and they're gone, right, it's rare to have a
smash hit. I think those Santa Claus movies were smashed it,
and they were there was a sequel, so that's, you know,
a good sign, Like there's one that just came out
that I've already. It's already. I think it's just called
(15:18):
Last Christmas, which is a reference to I think the
Wham song of the same name, gave you my very
next day, you gave it away, gave it away. But
it has a denarious targ Arian in it from a
Game of Thrones, and it it appeared to have fizzled. Yeah,
I think you might be right there. Will Ferrell was
(15:39):
offered about thirty million bucks to do an Elf sequel
and he said no because like he just wanted to
let it ride. I think he was like, yeah, I
think he just said, let's just not let's just not
do that. Yeah, I like I got all the respect
in the world for that job. I do too. I
think Jon Vava wanted to do it even he went, man, sorry,
I'm not doing it. No, it's really kind of a
perfect little little Christmas. Let it be what it is.
(16:01):
Let it be what it is. All right, We're gonna
finish up and all with what's the most overrated Christmas movie?
And why? I know your answer is elf, I can't.
I couldn't even do you have one? I don't know,
Like I know you don't like Christmas films in general,
so you probably find most of them overrated. I don't know,
like I don't. There's so few of them that I
(16:23):
even cross my radar. Like Christmas Story I find to
be fun. Um. It sure seems like they hold it
in really high esteem over there at TBS because they
had play it on a loop every year. Um. And
that's really the only way I've seen it. I think
I've said this before on the show. I've never seen
it in one sitting, from beginning to end. I've just
seen it piecemeal, like in a weird kind of jigsaw
(16:46):
puzzle order. You know you're not into Christmas movies? Are
you into Christmas? I like Christmas, but are you into Christmas? Okay,
I like Christma. I'm just trying to get you know.
I enjoy Christmas here, I enjoy Christmas. Just wondering if
there was any any deep feelings that where you're like,
you know, I really don't love it. I don't not
love it. I especially love it with the kids and stuff. No,
(17:09):
and then you're making me question my my, my. No,
I'm not not trying to do that. I just want
to make sure everyone knows everything about you, all of
everything in my deepest, darkest Christmas secrets. Grant what he says.
Polar Express digital Animation's best example of uh, why not
to lean too hard into the realm of realistic characters
(17:30):
creepy and off putting. I didn't see it speaking of that,
if you watched The Irishman, yeah, uh not yet. It's
very good, but there's a couple of moments where you're
too weird with a very early on and then and
then you forget about it or they start being much
more subtle about it. But when the characters are like
meant to be super young, it looks like a video
game cut scene. It's a little weird, and it's like
a Scorsese directed video game cut scene. It's very good though.
(17:53):
It's very very good film, and and y'all movie crushers
call me on that if you think it was a
non issue. Obviously didn't affect my enjoyment of the overall picture.
Case he's seen it four times. Yeah, so that's like
fourteen hours of watching that. I don't fully understand. I
thought it was good, but I thought it was just
(18:14):
very Scorsese like, because he's kind of got a formula
guy's got, and that's why I thought it was kind
of like bullshit when he's like calling out the Marvel
movies for not being cinema when they take a lot
of cues from his formula. Guardians of the Galaxy with
all the seventies music and the big you know, um
you know scenes and montages using all of like seventies music,
(18:37):
totally a nod Discorssy. I don't understand where he's coming
from when he's saying that, when he himself has made
the same kind of gangster picture over and over and
over again. They're all great, but I just think it's
a little bit of the pot calling the kettle black. Alright,
hot take contake everybody, uh. Nick Kelly says it's a
wonderful life. It's only popular because of a copyright issue
(18:57):
that granted its exposure. Didn't you point that out recently?
I learned that recently. It's maybe, but what the deal
was was like it got buried and then it didn't
get good reviews. At the time, it wasn't a success,
and then it got I think it like it's copyright
had expired or it was in the public domain, and
so a television station and started playing it every year
(19:20):
for Christmas, and it became this because it's not even
a Christmas set story. I think there's Christmas in it,
isn't there. I don't know. This guy said it's not
even a Christmas movie, but that's that's basically He's absolutely right.
There is a like the copyright it entered into the
public domain, I think, and then uh TV station was
able to play it without paying for it, and it
and it became kind of this like new cult kind
(19:43):
of thing. Mike Burdette says, this thread breaks my heart.
Ha ha ha. It's definitely the Santa clause. Tim Allen
is not and has never been funny. It's a miracle
he didn't ruin Galaxy Quest well, Mike, I'm kind of
with you. I never thought Tim Allen was very funny,
but that's my cold heart, Lisa. To share a one
(20:09):
of our old friends is love. Actually it's boring and
neither romantic nor heartwarming. Okay, people as your love it
them holding up those cards. They hold up those cards.
That's all I know about. I don't know anything, but
there's a thing about holding up cards with things written
on them. That's it. Yeah. That guy that plays the
dude in The Walking Dead is in it. Um who
plays Rick in the Walking the Sheriff, Yeah, Lucas something. Anyway,
(20:34):
he's good. He's good. He would de Porchfest one year.
He's around all over town. Let me see here, A
bunch of people are saying it's a wonderful life. Ah.
Rachel mccafee says, truly overrated is and everyone talks about
them being so good and musties, but they're actually boring
and underwhelming. Wonderful life and White Christmas. I haven't seen
(20:57):
White Christmas. Which one is that I haven't seen a
lot of these old school ones. Yeah, what about Miracle
On I haven't seen that either. Yeah, that one involves
like the Santa Claus you don't think is real, but
then spoiler alerties he's real. I have no I think
that's the deal. They remade that one a couple of
times too, I believe. Kayla mh one of our oldest friends,
says a Christmas Story, I don't like a single character
(21:19):
in the whole movie, and I don't understand why people
love it. You know you like what you like. Everyone
another vote. Maria Basquez A Christmas Story. I hate that
god damn movie so much. Makes me want to rip
my hair out when they play it for twenty four hours. Wow,
all right. Patrick Gorman, one of our old friends, is
(21:40):
Nightmare before Christmas. No, that's a good one. That's one.
That's that's one that I I love. I love it.
He says. This is his crit the hot topicization of
that movie took it further into the zeitgeists and ever
deserved on its own merits. I don't think that's true.
I don't like the hot topic ization of it, don't
get me wrong, but it's a feat of animation, uh genius.
(22:04):
I mean just the fact that they chose to do
a movie that way and sort of set the tone
for all of the cool like like a Studios and
you know, Henry Selleck is the animator that did all that,
you know, based on Tim Burton's vision. And the music
is great. It's a fun movie. It's a romp. I've
never seen it, what are you kidding me? It's great watch.
There are a lot of Christmas movies I haven't seen
(22:25):
now that I think of it. It's beautiful too, because
it's a hybrid. It's if you don't like Christmas, you
got your Halloween. Yeah, do you know what my deal is?
And all is I can't. I really love Christmas and
I get into the spirit of it, but I can't
watch fifteen of those movies. You know, that's too much.
Like I watch a three Christmas movies a year, and
(22:45):
they're always elf a Christmas story and uh maybe one
of the healthy green stool Christmas. I just think I
can't take too much of it. Ruby's a little too
young for a Nightmare because it's a little dark at times.
But I think she'll really like it when she turns
maybe like six or something like. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
really cool. Well, there's a whole world awaiting her, big
(23:07):
time of movies. You can't wait. You guys got Disney
plus yet Oh yeah, yeah, we've been We've been watching
a lot of Disney contin a lot of good content there.
It is. It's good, you know. I'm I'm all in favorite.
Say what you will about Disney, but um, they do
have a lot of good stuff, true, even if they
just bought some of it. Our old friend Debbie Franga
(23:32):
Duka says, they're all kind of the pits. It's time
for some new, better holiday movies. WELLI Gennevan Valen, one
of our old friends. Live Action Grinch, the original cartoon
is pretty flawless. Uh, and it didn't need a remake
or reimagining. I like the live action Grinch with Jim Carey. Yeah,
I'm a big fan. My my daughter's baby sister. Um
(23:54):
sounds confusing. Uh, they call me Uncle Nolan, my daughter's
mom's uh new baby. Um. They she calls that movie
Spooky Grinch, spooky Grinch, spooky Grinch because he's he's a
little creepy. Sure. Stelln Carlson's has Die Hard for sure
gets a lot of quaint eighties and the Salzer point
nostalgia points, but the end is just a basic trope
(24:15):
filled action movie, nothing more. Oh my god Stelen. I
don't want to say our relationship is over, but that
puts a dent into First of all, I think it's
still up for debate as to whether that's a Christmas
movie or not. Well, I think we settled that last
year when we had the writer say it's a Christmas
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he said it. Well, he did say that. Yeah, on
your show he read a letter. That's right. Yeah, our show,
somebody read the yes. I'm sorry, I was confusing. I
read it on our own show. This one here that
I don't expect you remember last year and all you
don't remember last week. That's not Chuck, that's unkind. That's
unkind Chuck, and I take great issue with that. Let
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me see here, Mike Doyle, Love actually is such a
piece of trite piece of I'm sorry, I need to
get this right. Love actually is such a trite piece
of shallow nonsense that holds up some of the most
unhealthy and selfish relationships as this wonderful thing and the
nine eleven part that's just I mean, come on, there's
a nine eleven part. I don't know, man, I've never
(25:18):
seen it. That seems messed up. A lot of people
are hating on Polar Express as well. Molly Thibodeaux. I
can't even get myself to watch it all the way through.
And I've tried creepy animation in the Uncanny Valley. Yeah,
that that was early too, in those days. It was
it wasn't that Zemeckis. He really was into that for
like a minute. He did like a baowolf for him
(25:39):
two and then kind of abandoned it because it was
because everyone hates spooky trash. Yeah, it wasn't good trash.
It was good. That is pretty good. Um Yeah that No,
I'm that's so not into that at all. Yeah. Let
animation be animation, Let it be stylized. That's the whole point. Otherwise,
pay actors. You know A miracle and thirty fourth Street.
(25:59):
That's from Jessica Dalba. She says, only because I can
never stay awake. Zach pointer elf there, I said at
the premises, just too far out there and acting as blah,
too far out there. That seems like an oddly uh
it's weird antic comment there. Who is this? It's one
of our old pal Zack pointers. I'm sorry, Zach, I'm
(26:19):
not sure the best everyone's allowed a dumb opinion every
now and well, you know our opinions. You know what
they say, No, everyone's got him like butts. Is that
the same, you know opinions, everyone's got them like but yeah.
I like that. It sounds like how Ruby would summarize
(26:41):
that quote. Yeah, I have the mind of a three
year old, except she would say but cheeks. Uh. Let
me see. One of our old friends, Luke Harkle wrote says,
Christmas Vacations some really funny moments, but overall it just
doesn't work for me. Christmas Vacations when I watch yeah, yeah,
so maybe there's like four that I see. You give
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that one a shot. Christmas Vacation. I saw a vacation
the first one watched on a plane, and I didn't
like it. I didn't love it. I didn't love it,
um hey man, no shame and not liking Chevy Chase. Hey,
I just I just didn't like. There's so much you know,
build up over over it that I was like expecting
to be like blown away. I also didn't love Animal House.
(27:24):
I think it's like a style of comedy that maybe
I don't want to say it's been improved upon, but
it's just it's a little bit of its time. But
I also I love mel Brooks movies and I love
that comedy, so it occupies some middle ground kind of
It's definitely not mel Brooks. No, it's not. It's much. Yeah,
I'm just saying, like I think, uh, well, you haven't
seen it yet, but Jojo Rabbit has a bit of
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mel Brooks DNA. I can see that coursing through. I
cancent see that it's from the trailer, which resolutely very
much something we need more of these days. All right,
let's finish it off here with Brian Thomas. He has
a nice little rant on love. Actually, I think it's overhyped.
I think there's some gross and cream piece stuff in there.
I can forgive the unrealistic parts because it's full of
Christmas magic and evolves those rom com tropes like meat cutes.
(28:07):
That's all fine, but that wedding filmer needs to get
his ship together and stop stalking his friend's wife. Be
a professional man. And the dude he leaned on his
British accident just accent to seduce for women at once.
They made the women out to be such idiots based
on outdated stereotypes, and they're running through the airport thing
was so overdone even then. Anyway, I feel better getting
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that off my chest. Now is it Andrew Lincoln that
does the British accent? Because he is British? He he
plays you know, he's the guy that plays uh the
sheriff on on Walking Dead because he's in fact a
brit I wonder if it's him. I don't know. And
you know what, I don't even want to see this
movie now now, I I've I've never really I don't
like rom coms really so it is much beloved though
(28:52):
by many people, and it seems like equally hated. It
does seem that way, very divisive film. Who is that?
Alan Rickman, Laura Lenny, who like her it says it's
a pretty much crazy cast. I mean Mr Bean who
directed it? Is someone super famous and uh, I don't
know directed by Oh Hugh Grants. He didn't directed it,
(29:16):
he's in it. Richard Curtis directed it. And what else
did he do? Let me see here the Bridget Jones
diary kind of situation he did, notting Hill, he four
weddings in a funeral, all of those Hugh Grant romcom
Jam's Bridget Jones. Mr Bean Okay, I get it, Mama Mia.
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He's that guy. He is that guy. Well, good for him.
He's a big time director. He does appear to be
so alright, No, I think that's all the time we have. Uh,
since it's December, we want to which everyone a very
happy holiday. And as we always like to remind people,
hollidays are very tough for some people, uh in a
profound way. And we are thinking about you for sure,
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and uh, you know, reach out to someone if you
need to talk this Christmas and if you have a wonderful, loving,
supportive family and you love Christmas, just um be thankful
and grateful for that. Yeah, And I mean it's it's
always easy to think, oh, I'm gonna burden somebody. I
don't want anybody. I don't want to like be a imposition.
But I guarantee you of the time that's not how
other people see it. And people are always happy to
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be reached out to and uh, you know, asked to
extend a helping hand of conversation, especially especially at that
time of Yeah. All right, so merry Christmas and happy
holidays everyone, however you choose to celebrate, and Merry Christmas
to you KNOWL to you as well. Chuck and I
We'll see you in January. You got it. For more
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