Gangster Squad (2013)

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This week on Shelf Warmers, Sam and Andrew go undercover into the streets of LA with the Gangster Squad. The boys discuss Sean Penn, alternative casting for the movie and the ideal way to watch a shelf warmer! Will this film be gunned down in a blaze of glory? Or will it get another chance to ride off into the beautiful Californian sunset?

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Shelf Warmers. I'm Sam.
And I'm Andrew. This is the podcast where we
watch and discuss movies from roughly 2012 to 2020, AKA the
pump and dump period of Hollywood.
Not exactly a golden age, but definitely a time of high
fertility for Tinseltown. So fertile, in fact, that we
didn't see many of the movies produced.
So if they're good, they're bad.We're just mad.
We're going to cover it all. We heard about and didn't watch

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it. We're now we're going to pick it
off the shelf. And today we're grabbing
Gangster Squad. Gangster Squad.
I'm here with my gangster squad today.
We are a gangster squad, aren't we?
Me and you, our sound engineer Bash is that.
Is that the right term? Sound engineer?
Audio engineer. Producer.

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He's just flicking some knobs onthe Zoom recorder.
He has no idea what he's doing but he's turned the volume just
up and down. Sounds good to me.
This. Will be a cool fact.
Let's hear a little bit of that.So the film stars Josh Brolin,
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and as marketed in the trailers and the

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poster, Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen.
Special appearance by. Which is class Sean.
Penn and basically the film takes place in 1949 Los Angeles.
The city is run by gangsters andspecifically the malicious
mobster, aforementioned Mickey Cohen, who is a real guy.
Yeah, was a real mobster. Did you know a lot about him?

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I knew the name like I know these names.
It's. Like a name.
Like an Al Capone. They're like household names,
you know, if you have like, a Italian American, like mafia
upbringing. Is he Italian?
No, he's Jewish. Yeah, because they say that
early on. And then I was like, he's doing
like an Easter. Does he like?
Does he do a pivot on his accent?

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I don't know what he's trying todo.
So I thought it was like European at 1st and then it was
like classic like New York. And he says he's from New York.
He's from. Brooklyn, but it's like very
much fluctuates throughout the movie.
He's a Brooklyn guy who comes out to the coast to take over,
basically. And I have no, I have no strong
opinions on Sean Penn except forthe fact that we saw him

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recently in something that I cannot say what we watched him
in. And he's really, really good in
that movie. And I was like compared to this.
Whatever. We watched him and it comes out
in September and it's directed by a great director, I think.
You're saying too much already, but it's I would just look at
his IMDb. He probably like, you know, like
one movie. Coming out of the secret, this
episode might come out in that movie driving.

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Closer than, yeah, but it shouldbe.
Yeah, yeah. So Mickey Cohen is this gangster
in LA And John O'Mara, played byJosh Brolin, is determined to
end the corruption. So he assembles a team of cops
ready to take down the ruthless leader and restore peace to the
wonderful City of Angels. His city, his city.

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This is kind of like Part 1 in aBrolin trilogy.
And what would you imagine the other two being?
Inherent Vice and the Coen brothers movie.
Oh hail Caesar. Caesar, it's coming to LA.
Based. That's a trilogy.
I mean, he is fucking phenomenalin Inherent Vice.
He's a. Small guy, I kind of forgot it's

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kind of a lot of small guys against like most of this cast
is like shorties. He's got a big head, though.
Huge head. Brolin's got like.
A He looks like Stonehedge. Stonehenge hench.
Yeah, he has a very angular headand chin and everything.
I guess that's why he was well suited for.
Thanos. So I just, I just did, I just

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gestured the the ring. I had no idea what you were
doing. Yeah, he.
What is he saying in the post credits scene when he's like.
Fine, I'll do it myself. So dumb so.
Bro, who are you talking to? Yeah, right.
Was that at the end? It's all off screen.
It's all off screen. What was that at the end of?

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Oh, that's a good question. Marvel Trivia.
Age of Ultron? No, no, I'm pretty sure later
Age of Ultron. I bet you it was Age of Ultron.
Well, we have no way of knowing.So what did you think about
Gangster Squad? Big old fart, no.

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Big old fart for the City of Angels.
It's a sweet fart in my opinion.A sweet fart.
Smells good, tastes good, still a fart it.
Tastes like your own fart, you're saying.
Yeah, it's like when you smell your own fart.
You're like, this is like whatever.
Functionally it's still kind of bad, but I kind of am enjoying
this whole experience. Yeah, it's just from the

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director of Venom. Yeah, twisted mind of the
director of Zombieland. Directed by Reuben Squad
Fleischer. Yeah, Who did Zombieland.
Zombieland. Venom.
Venom. All the hits.
I like Zombieland, but you know,I don't really have anything
particularly fond to say about him.
I think he's a Jersey guy. He then he did 30 minutes or

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less, which is about. Oh, the guy at the bomb?
Yeah, the pizza bomber. Which is near and dear to our.
Heart to heart, honestly. Uncharted.
Is that true? Why wouldn't it be?
I'm just. We're just hearing this now.
Breaking news, Reuben. Venom made the jump to handle
Uncharted. Wow, these are like strange

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movies for him to make. Yeah, it's not good and I'm just
curious. I want to start off and put you
on a pedestal. Why did you give this three
stars and a heart and follow question?
Yeah. Put me on the spot.
Put. Me on the spot, you.
Can put me on a pestle too if you want.
I do already that's why that's why I'm so confused by this
heart and also I would like someI would like some explanation on

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on on why you gave it a heart and what and what is your what's
your definition for giving something a heart on letterbox?
That's a good question. I give hearts to things that I
enjoy throughout. And if the experience of
watching the movie was a good experience, I think that's
valid. You know what I mean?

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Like people are like, well, just, you know, rate the movie
like, who cares about how you watch it?
Whatever, But how you watch it obviously informs how you feel
about the movie. So I sat down with my whole
family. Were you expecting that?
No, my whole family like gathered around the TV like it
was like you like Rudolph airingon ABC at Christmas.
I like how it was literally Rudolph Charlie Brown starring

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Sean Penn Sean Penn is Charlie Brown.
Wow, Sean Penn, that's an old sketch from my O 8.
Sean Penn Adrian Yeah, but I like, I like built.
I built that pipe throughout theday because we have a group.
We have a group chat. It's called The Gays for Trump.
That's my family. What's called the Gangster
Squad. It's our little gangster squad.
It's my grandma, my dad and my sibling.

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And I sent AI sent like a promotional image from the film.
And it was all, it was all the squad like I sent it to you guys
too. It has the whole cast.
Well, first let's mention the cast.
Deeper off the of our guys. Off the top of my head in this
picture was Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert

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Patrick, Michael Pena, and Anthony Mackie.
All names. All names.
And this time I'm mentioning, you know, Emma Stone, Nick
Nolte, Euphoria's own Austin Abrams.
He's awesome in this movie. We'll talk about it later.
So I sent this image and I was like, I just said one word and I

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was like tonight and I was talking to my grandma.
I was like, well. They're.
All coming over. I was like, are you gang trip?
Squad reunion tonight at the house.
I was like, are you going to watch the are you watch the
screen tonight? And we're in the kitchen.
She's like, oh, what are you watching?
I was like, we're watching Gangster Squad.
She's like, oh, where's that playing?

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And I was like in the living room tonight.
She like started laughing. She's like, what?
Like I don't care what you watch.
Like, yeah, let's watch it. And we knew that this movie had
gotten horrible reviews when it came out.
So we all sat down with kind of low expectations and two hours
go by and we're just laughing, having a great time.
It was a fun ass movie. The violence is cool, Some of

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the acting is good, some of the acting is bad, but some of the
acting is also bad. That it's good.
It has a cool look. I think it's got that Zack
Snyder 2013 Anna and I were talking about.
This made a note about that. We were saying how this like
2013 look like, that Zack Snyderlook is now somehow.
It's a Gatsby too. The Gatsby you know 300 look is

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kind of pleasant to watch 10 years later.
How do you think setting is important for it?
Because I watched it alone on mycomputer at 10:30 when I knew I
had to get up at 7 and it was a 2 hour movie.
I was like fuck this fucking movie.
Fuck this piece of shit. Fucking watching YouTube.
It's locked at 480. This speaks to it.
This speaks to the I. Keep setting myself up to like,

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keep like going on YouTube to rent these movies because you
can't get them on streaming. Why don't you use Amazon?
OK, Amazon, which I guess, you know, like Google's not as
Google's the same problem, you know, But I keep going on
YouTube because you got to run it somewhere.
I should just pirate it, honestly.
Yeah, it probably would be in higher quality, but this is also

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this a Warner Bros movie? Yes, and I'll talk about the
history of Warner Bros. So was.
Pan and I wonder if I wonder if Warner just has not like sent
new files in in a while. Both these movies, both of these
movies are over 10 years old at this point.
So I wonder if like they are just like to set up 4 AP.
And is it crunchy? It wasn't awful, which is weird

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to me because. It was really 480.
It said 480, it didn't look like480.
And I was like, is this HD or not?
And I couldn't really like, it didn't look like 480 to me, but
it said 480. So that's where I was coming to
the conflict. But I'm like, has Warner just
like not updated it? Like has YouTube not updated it?
But either way, I was pissed offwatching.
This Damn. Well, let's talk about it.

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I mean, do you remember when this movie came out?
I do, I, I remember having an understanding of Gosling at this
time. He was probably the one I knew,
like from the notebook, I guess.So I was and Emma Stone I also
knew from like Easy A and stuff like that 'cause I was like
really into like I was in the studio comedy this time.
So I think I'd probably seen Easy A like I probably like had

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like stayed up late once my mom fell asleep and like rented it
like an on demand. So I knew Emma Stone, I knew
Gosling. I maybe knew.
I maybe knew like crazy, stupid love.
That's probably what I had seen at this point.
So I kind of like knew them as apairing.
And this is the sophomore slump in their trilogy, too.
I guess technically. LA based as well.
More which one you know? I'm saying that this is also

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like an LA based trilogy as wellfor them.
And it's not good. I think actually all three of
the movies are LA based. Yeah, yeah.
Crazy Stupid Love and La La Land.
How would you rank the films? La La crazy stupid gangster
squad. I guess that's obvious.
It's almost like AI. Guess it's not much of A debate.
That sounds like a movie. La La crazy stupid gangster

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squad. Like it's like that and the old
DVD that was like, you know, the40 year old version who knocked
up Sarah Marshall or whatever and was super bad.
I had a ADVD growing up. That was what the hell was it?
It was grown-ups. The zookeeper or the zookeeper?
Maybe we should do the zookeeper?

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Lethal sharing. That's 2011.
Fuck. But it has sliced alone.
It was a lion. He's a lion.
The Philly Zoo. Oh yeah, he's the lion roar.
That was actually huge for me because I loved Rocky as a kid
and I was like, Oh my God, Rocky's the lion and the
zookeeper. Also features Joe Rogan.
Or or maybe he's in Here Comes the Boom.

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No, he's. No, he's in both.
Wow, Henry Winkler is also in Here Comes the boom.
That was that was my first exposure that I remember
watching that movie. My dad was like, oh the.
Fonz. Oh, the Fonz, because.
You have the Berry like you know.
Come back. Yet our generation
underestimates the cultural touchstone that was happy days.
Listen to a podcast with Adam Scott and Rob Lowe.

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And they were saying that they got to meet him at Parks and
Rec. And he like, was like, you know,
talking in between takes. He kind of slipped into the
fonts and did like a line and did like the pose and everything
like that. And he, I walked away and he was
like, it was like a earth shattering thing for me to see
him do the fonts. And I was like, I know.
It's Barry Zuckerkorn for ArrestDevelopment.

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Yeah, yeah, I'm like, you'll do some Barry Zuckerkorn lines.
Spring, Winkler. Or from scream.
He's great and scream. My mom saw him like like a month
or two ago. Henry Winkler.
Yeah, he was in. He was in Cherry Hill.
He was at a convention for monster mania or something like
that. What's he doing there?
He's in. He's in.
Scream. See these conventions?
I guess I don't know. Good.
Time you're in one thing and it gets you a past all these

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freaking cons it's. Also a good way for you to make
money in Hollywood at this point.
So he was, he was at a restaurant by himself.
My mom was like, is that Henry Winkler?
And my aunt was like, no, it's not.
And my mom was walking out and it was Henry Winkler.
And she waved and he waved back.And I was, my mom was like my
mom in that age range was thrilled.
Yeah, the fonts, the. Fonts.

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Sorry. That's for Henry Winkler, you
know. Henry Winkler Side Henry.
Winkler's side back to Gangster Squad.
Back to Gangster Squad. I do remember this film coming
out. I remember the trailer.
I remember. I remember my uncle talking
about Sean Penn. Uncles love Sean Penn I.
Remember him being like, yeah, Sean Penn's playing Mickey Cohen

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and I was like, am I supposed tofucking know who Mickey Cohen
is? Also, this came out on my 12th.
No, almost there. 11th, my 11th birthday.
Like to the day, January 11th. It was your 12th.
Nice. What?
Wait, you were? Wait.
No, it was your love. Sean Penn has Mickey Cohen, and

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I was like, oh, like Mickey Cohen's like a real guy.
Like I got to see this well. Do you know why this was like,
you know, I mean, because this actually supposed to come out, I
believe, in November. September.
September 2012 and then it got pushed back because of because
of somebody talked about last week.
A Colorado shooting? That's right, because one of the

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climactic scenes of the film wasgoing to be the shootout at,
like, the Chinese theater. Oh, so they reshot it?
And they were like, we have to change this.
Like this is not a good set piece to have.
Like people getting shot up in atheater.
Yeah, it's also kind of stupid for them to release it when it
came out because. Yeah, the fucking dumping
ground. Because because it was Oscar

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season 2. So the so kind of the thing that
I saw, I doubt I saw in theory, but I saw it pretty soon after
one of those movies. I was like, I really, really
want to see this. My mom like fell asleep one
night and I'm like I'm going on demand renting it Django
Unchained which to me is like the best Tarantino which is the
hot tick. I think.
Django is really really good andalso like.
You watch that when it came out.Probably a year after, yeah.

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So within a year, So not like immediately, but, but I was
like, I loved, I like Westerns alot.
And I was like, this is like thecoolest Western of all time.
Django, Django else came out. The Hobbit came out like I guess
in December, December. Of. 2012, yes, instead of Les
Mis. So I I saw I saw those both in

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the theater. Wow, I didn't see either of
those in the theater. I saw Jack Reacher too,
actually. So there were there were
several. I was not going to the theater.
In Lincoln I saw. Lincoln in theaters because I
was like. That was a big movie.
Everyone was like, bring your kids to see Lincoln.
Like, that was appointment viewing.
Literally. I went with my whole entire
family. Yeah.
And we all showed up for Lincolnand I was enthralled.

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For Steve. For Steve, I haven't.
I have not seen the movie since.I would love to do a rewatch.
But that's not really a shelf former.
It's not a shelf former at all. Well, is it though?
Because like, nobody talks aboutLincoln.
No one talks about it. But it won best actor.
I was. Yeah, because he as a kid, you
have as a kid, you must have like this sense of like, that's

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actually Lincoln. Like, you know, it's Anthony
Lewis, but you're just like, he looks just like Abraham Lincoln.
Like you. You can't even.
You're not so familiar with Abraham Lincoln yet that you're
just like that is so Abraham Lincoln.
Yeah, and I know it doesn't openon this, but in my mind this is
like, this is like the shitty like like, you know, version of

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the movie. It opens on 4 score and seven
years ago. I thought you were going to say
it opens like Trainspotting for some reason, like.
In the streets of Edinburgh she's like full spread. 4 score
and seven years ago. Choose pornography, Choose the
Civil War, Choose Civil Rights, choose the Union, choose

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dysentery and have your foot getcut off.
That would be fucking odd. Choose Gaunt, Lincoln, Lincoln.
Directed by Danny Boyle. But yeah, I think I may have
actually seen this movie before this the other night.
You're like but I'm not exactly sure because the only scene I
remember is that first scene which is pretty freaking

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gruesome. It's the action movie, which I
did not expect. I thought it'd be like
Goodfellas. We're like, you know, we're
like, you know, there's violence.
There's like a no. It's The Winter Soldier esque
elevator fight comic book. Yeah, it's a comic book movie.
No. It is very Snyder that that that
that's an apps comparison. But basically Mickey Cohen
changed this guy from his torso to two separate cars that drive

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in different directions, and they RIP him apart and they show
it. And I was like, I think I'm
going to like this movie. I think I'm going to stay.
I'll stay. It's like a very bloody, very
violent kind of. I mean, obviously it's a stupid
movie, but it's fun. Yeah, it's, it's, it's

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interesting, I guess time periodwise to to see these cops who
were soldiers. I love what?
I really do and tell you about this movie is like these guys,
you can't stop the war and that's kind of like you that's
kind of like, you know, the thesis of Brolin is that like he
he's still in battle, like he's never going to get out of
battle, which I kind of. Yeah, the wife says the war is

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over, stop fighting. And I'm like, like, there's some
like groaning kind of lines in this movie, but.
It was cool when 100% sure they were going to kill her and her
child. But what I liked about her is
because, you know, Brolin has his wife at home and you kind of
think, oh God, like, we've seen this before.
The wife at home, she's like, you're going to get hurt.

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But then when Roland starts assembling the squad, she's the
one who's like pulling shit together, like, oh, look at this
guy. Look at that guy like she's
making moves. For him, I thought it was kind
of cool. Yeah.
Like in the movie, she meets Gosling.
She's like I picked you. Yeah, that was kind of an
interesting scene. Because like he also he also
like has tension with everybody.I don't.

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I think Ryan Gosling might be the weakest link of the OH.
He's doing an accent I. Think his accent is because he's
like he's kind of talking like this.
He's doing like shrill though, Like it's kind of annoying.
Like he's not like it's. Bad.
It's really bad. The person I thought of with
Gosling's voice was like a youngMickey Rourke.

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Sure, he's kind of like, kind oflike, oh, he's very high.
He's. Kind of like Brando a little
bit, yeah. He's kind of like, yeah, I'm
Brian Gosling. I also really just love the
setting of Lai, feel like it's never quite used as well as it
could be, but I was like thinking of like.
I did other movies with this film.
I love Lai love there's a scene where Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen,

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he's giving like a crazy like, you know, far out performance,
but he's like he's like the air.The air out here is clean.
Like Los Angeles is the greatestscene.
And I thought about you and then.
Smell the ocean when? We touched down in LA and you're
like, I love this fucking place.I was like trash.

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He's like Mickey Cohen right now.
But But there aren't like, a tonof movies that use LA for a
crime scene. Like, you know, I thought I've
been hearing advice. LA noir, which is the game.
Yeah. Like confidential and like.
Don't step. Don't step on my slate.
Oh, and what I thought, I'm alsowith who friend?
Retro Rabbit. In a cartoony sense.
Which is like the best depictionof LA is like also a Crime

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Story. I like when my gangsters are
weasels, and I'm not talking Sean Penn.
It's kind of strange because totally the movie, I think, is
kind of all over the place, but I'm not upset at it, you know
what I mean? Yeah, like it's very serious,
but it's also very silly. I would give it to Reuben
Fleischer for like he's a consistent tone throughout his

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movies. Like this is the same tone as
Zombieland and Venom. Maybe the after mentioned
Uncharted. I know I haven't seen it, but
like he. When did that come out?
That came out. After COVID, right?
It was during COVID, I think, sowe probably.
Can't do that. I was like, also think about
Sean Penn with this movie. And there was this quote from
Marc Maron where he was talking about how he watched a lot of
like the early movies of Jimmy Con and he would like, try to do

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accents and Jimmy Con was not anaccent guy and he would like try
and fail. So Maron was, I think, talking
about that one with the one withAndrea Riseborough he did to
Leslie. Yeah, he was saying he's he was
saying to the director like, I don't want to do a Texas accent.
Director was like, come on, you got to, you know, do it.
Mary was like, and Mary's phone was like, you know, if Jimmy Con

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can do it and fail, why can't I try it?
So I respect Sean Penn for like going for the voice.
And it's also pretty awesome to see an an actor who is that
incredible fail so hard. Penn or Gosling?
I guess both. Because I think Sean Penn is
doing incredible work in this film.
He's terrible. He's.
Terrible. Well, the script is rough, but

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he's he is like harkening back to like Pacino in Dick Tracy.
Dick Tracy, which is great, but also my point being though that
you can still take a big swing or do a campy thing and fail.
I think a lot of times like, oh,he's going to campy reformers.
It's excused like like left for Cage and long legs.

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And I love Cage and almost in a microcosm, I love that
performance in the long legs. He's terrible in that movie.
He's terrible in that movie, buthe's not able to match the tone
with a vibe at all. It's like so scary apart and
then it's like mommy, mommy, daddy.
I was like what the what the fuck are you doing, man?

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Long legs debut on the pond. Yeah.
So, you know, Brolin assembles his team, and that's kind of a
good scene when he's getting theguys together.
Yeah. And you're kind of introduced to
all these people. Anthony Mackie is like, kind of
not as big in the department, right?
Yeah. It's kind of in these small town
clubs. And he's, like, good with

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everyone has, like, their thing.He's like a knife guy.
So he like, throws his knife across the room and this guy's
hand gets stuck to a wall. But we don't ever get enough
with their individual thing. Like, you know, Robert Patrick
like has a six shooter. Awesome.
He was like he's like twice in the movie.
I think we're Mackie. He uses his knife one other time

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the whole movie. I'm like, let them like, let
them like, you know, like have their unique thing.
Yeah, it's not. I guess it may be maybe better
as ATV show, but that'd be too much.
Six part mini series. That'd be.
On prime, no it it. It's just like it's a long, it's
over 2 hours. And like even even the central

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conflict is never really established enough in terms of
like, it's like 15 minutes. The gangster squad is
established. It's like it's like really fast.
And I'm like, you never really get a feeling of what the power
that Cohen has. Like there's a lot of like him
in hallways being like, you squirm me over and then like and

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you shoot somebody. You never really understand his
reach fully. You don't really, you don't
really set him up as like a terror to the city.
He's like a mob boss. And it's never really like, it
never feels like LA like needs agangster squad.
It's just kind of like thrown together.
Thrown together by Nick Nolte, playing the chief of police.

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I have a rough voice. It would just sounds crazy.
I love the city. And he's like, you know, you got
to drive this bastard out of thecity.
But you're right. You don't really feel the
threat, no, of Cohen necessarily.
You meet Gosling, who's also a cop who doesn't really care.
He was also in the war and he kind of gets hooked up with Emma

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Stone, who is Mickey Cohen's mistress or girl.
How come she did this movie? I think they keep her thin.
I think they wanted to. Play dress up and she probably
knew. What's his face?
From Zombieland, yeah, she's paper thin and their and their
relationship is paper thin in those two.
Yeah, that that whole thing sucks in this movie, but she

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looks the part. She does.
She looks like she. Has an old. * Old star Gosling I
thought looked a little bit too pretty.
Brolin looks great. Ribisi looks great with this
little mustache and Ribisi is like the let's see, like the
technical guy, like he knows thewiring he's.
The man in the chair. Yeah, the man in the chair.

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To put spider man homecoming. I I also wish this movie was
like an epic and almost an event, almost an event of like
the Irishman, but I was thinkingabout like it'd be kind of cool
start like in war like start like starting World War 2 and
like see these guys like on the battlefields and like make it
feel like an epic because it's because it's not Goodfellas.

(26:11):
It's, it's Venom like, you know,I mean, the, if you kind of like
jump into the story and I'm like, I like, like these
characters. They are so, so thin.
I want to see some more back story.
I want to feel like a sweeping epic of crime and love and
nothing is fleshed out. Nothing's fleshed out.
But I think there are good scenes with Trump and where he's
kind of like, you know, LA is mydestiny.

(26:33):
Like he wants the he's a cool. I think he's a cool.
Like if we are saying this movie, The comic book and the
gangster squad are like these heroes, like he's painted as
like this, even if he's thin, like, he is like a villain in
that kind of fun. Yeah.
If I honestly, if I saw this movie when it came out, I
probably would have loved it in a kind of like a cool way

(26:56):
because it is not hard to understand.
Like, the squad is just together.
People get shot in cool ways. Do they I, I can't wear a single
like, you know, cool moment of like someone getting killed?
People get mowed down. There's that crazy like Polar
Express like 3D shot where Gosling is shooting out of the
car and she was grips around butit's like so digital and

(27:20):
garbagey looking. We also did say this or I texted
you about this, but I literally just watched.
I went from I went from Indiana Jones, Alaska Rsade right to
this movie. So seeing that CGI monstrosity
of a car chase where like there's no sense of space or it

(27:42):
really or really as to or as to the pacing after going with
Indiana Jones 3, where it's likeSpielberg's like knows how to
block like a car chase and knowshow to shoot that so well.
It's just like hard to go to that, especially to see like how
CGI it is. I was like, Oh my God, kill me,
Jesus. But then there's that good scene
where they go up to the, like, the Speakeasy, like casino that

(28:02):
Mickey's running and they show up.
They show up in like, I like thelook of them, like wearing suits
with the bandanas and the guns. And they come in like these
Cowboys. Like, I like the line they're
drawing between like the Westerns and the gangster genre
and these like, 40s people who are aware of westerns, aware of
Cowboys. Like you said, Robert Patrick's
character is like a gunslinger. Yeah, he's cool.

(28:23):
He's really good in this. And they show up and they're
like going to bust the place. But then there's Burbank cops
there and they're like very undercover, the gangster squad.
So they can't be like, seen like, they're like no badges
like. I also do think the training of
this movie is like swap because they do that, they fail and then
they shoot bottles and then they're back and then they're

(28:44):
good and they are like able to kill people efficiently.
And I'm like, I feel like start with the bottles, have them fail
hard, have them train more, and then like, 'cause they're,
'cause they're terrible cops. But that scene was cool when
Brolin and Mackie get sent to jail, right?
That was cold. And then they have to break them
out, Yeah. And they 'cause.

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They're like idiots, but they suddenly it's kind of.
Funny when they like they tie the car to the bar it.
Breaks the bumper. Off the bumper flies off, but
then Gosling shows up and it's the first time Gosling is part
of the squad. Oh, and he joins the squad
because the shoe shine kid play Austin Abrams.
He gets killed. He gets shot to death by because
they're killing Sean Penn is killing a rival mob boss.

(29:29):
Yeah, he wants to be, you know, top dog.
And just so we're clear, he kills that shoonshine kid.
Ryan Gosling sees the Gunners come out of the car, he says
hey, go home. He pushes him right towards the
Targets. He literally shoves him in the
complete wrong direction. He is the reason why that kid is
dead 100%. And the kid is like, he's like,

(29:53):
it's like, hey, what's his name?Is he Pete?
Pete. Yeah, Pete.
He's like the shoeshine kid. He's like, hey, he wants some
shines. Wants some shines.
Like it's so. Can you see him get shot
directly in the chest? Yeah, like immediately you're
like, oh, he's fucking dead. Yeah.
Do you think about too? I was like, I feel like this is
also the also kind of the turnover of like the big

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ensemble in Hollywood because we're kind of losing like the
idea of the movie star. So in terms of like, you know,
like you got the Monuments Men was around the same.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, we don't.
Have a star to lead this? We're going to.
We're going to get a bunch of stars.
It is like a fun feeling to watch a movie like that.
Yeah, no, Yeah, a flashy cast. But then got.

(30:35):
Some of the comments said a flashy cast.
No, no, no, it's been like, saidFalcon and Phantoms on the same
team. I got some.
Are you some trivia? I have some.
Trivia. Nerd roundup or segment?
But I did feel like when I was watching this, it was almost it
kind of plays like a spoof of gangster movies.

(30:58):
It checks like all the boxes. But the high jinks are never as
good as they can be, No. And once again, I don't mean I
don't want to call back the LastCrusade, but that's like, but
that's a movie full of like perfect high jinks.
This movie has the really good high jinked hijink hijinks of
them of them like, you know, like going to the jail and
breaking them out. But there's like no other

(31:20):
hijinks in this movie. I I want more hijinks.
Well, there's a cool scene wherethey go to Mickey Cohen's house
and they have to bug the place. Yeah, so they can like, Snow
what he's up to and crossing over BC are like in the house.
And they run into Emma Stone, Mickey's mistress, and crossing,
like, kisses her. Everybody's just like, what the

(31:42):
hell is like, what's going on here?
And they have to like, get out. So they are kind of like, I do
kind of like that They're not, like, perfect at their jobs.
No as this gangster squad. Yeah, yeah.
And they do get better, I guess,throughout the montage.
The montage was cool. Cool montage.
There's some like, you know, nice shadows throughout that
like looked good. Yeah, slow MO.

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You can have Pulp being fun there.
And Cohen's like freaking out. He's like, find these guys.
Find this squad. Find this fucking squad.
Yeah, I I have a hot take and I want to get your opinion on
actually I don't know if the hottakes.
I don't really know how everybody feels about this
movie. I think Mackie is more
interesting as the Co lead than Gosling.

(32:25):
That would be good. His character is like underused,
but he's like, he's like a history there and like the
Gosling. I'm like, oh, you and you like,
do you have something real there?
And Mackie, I think is is is a really good performer.
And I like him as that kind of cop who like, like, he finds
them a lead and one of the guys who, like, they know where,
like, the heroine is going to bedropped off at that one point.

(32:49):
Yeah, Gosling is really bad. I have one quick trivia thing
that we could talk about about some alternatives to Gosling.
Who could have been in this movie?
Adam Brody. OK, I like Brody.
I, I I don't know if he was right for that though.
My pick, Joel Edgerton, because I thought Gosling was too young

(33:10):
in this role. I would agree with that, but I
also think the thing with Gosling in this movie is you
need someone more slimy comparedto Brolin.
I think Edgerton is too. I think he's too similar.
Also Roland Luke Evans. OK, yeah, I would say a similar
thing to Brolin. He looks too like hard already.

(33:30):
The best The best option. Joseph Gordon, left.
Yeah, he'd be perfect. He would literally be perfect.
I think. The one, Yeah.
Because he looks more like a 40sguy.
He he's more 40s and he can kindof he's he he's he's taller but
slimmer and Brolin. So I think that would kind of
create interesting, you know, mix between them.

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And Gosling's name in this is Jerry Wooders, which just sounds
like Wooder, Yeah. For the Jersey people out there.
Yeah, it's not Jerry Waters, Jerry Waters.
Jerry Waters. Water is Jerry.
Italian Ice, Jerry. Italian ice.
For water, ice, water ice, waterice, water ice, Yeah.

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I think this also has an issue we talked about before with pan.
It's like some of this is just like a layer of CGI slop.
It's a early adopter of it. But it's still has like a
vision. Oh yeah, there there definitely
are moments of vision, but it it's kind of weird.
I was thinking about this. Maybe I'm clearly wrong.
I think that New York looks better or is able to look better

(34:37):
shot on digital cameras. I think LA like needs.
I think it needs that film look.I think it's the exact opposite,
really. New York has to be that film.
Look, I just watched the Alto Nights last night.
I don't want to doubt date the podcast.
Again, the second episode we talked about Lynch though, like,
Oh yeah, yeah. So it's already dated.

(34:57):
This fucking pod is so dated. Let's release these in six
years. So it actually makes no sense
like that. It's already a show that's all
about like the perspective of these movies that are on the
shelf, right? But if we release the pod in
five years and it's like the shelf is already so cold at that

(35:18):
point, yeah, that gangster squadis like 20 years old.
Yeah, let's release this on January 11th, 2033.
Oh. Where will you be?
The 10 years, yeah, I'll be. Should I'll be 33 years old or
32? Actually I forgot how old it
was. But I kind of like the LA in

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this movie, Like it's kind of digitally, but I like that it's
artificial because the whole freaking thing is artificial.
Like the lines are artificial, the sets are artificial.
Like the costumes look like theywere just bought, you know what
I mean? Yeah.
Which is like such a you think the.
Production's like pretty good though for the period.
Oh, that club Maxi's. Yeah, the club.

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It's like green, it's got like the.
His house too. You know Brolin's house.
Yeah, Brolin's house looks good.Also, the scenes look good, like
the daytime scenes are shot well.
Yeah, I. Think it's a lot of day for
night in this movie, Yeah, whichI always add to that digital
look too. Yes, the Gangster Squad heats
up. Pen is getting so upset.
I love, I love seeing Pen get upset and angry.

(36:25):
He's good at it. And yet at one point he's like,
he's like, like a good cop. Like, because a cop you can't
buy is like a dog with rabies. Like you just got to put it
down. I also like.
My favorite line is this. Carl.
You know the drill and then the drill drills are doing that's.
Literally like Dick Tracy. Yeah, Well, no, the best line is

(36:47):
at the. End.
Oh my bad. In the shootout when Sean Penn's
like he had called Santa Claus. Let's jump to that shootout.
So I guess Sean Penn's in full force of his attack on the
Ganker squad. He knows who they are.
Now he tries to shoot the wife of Josh Brolin, Tommy Gun to the
house. Christmas time.

(37:08):
Yeah, they find. So use the Christmas setting
more. Sorry.
When I saw the Christmas thing, I was like, oh, this movie was
supposed to come out earlier. Yeah.
But there's a scene where they find, like, Mickey Cohen finds
the wire in his house and they trick the gangster squad.
Yeah. And Ribisi ends up getting.
They get one up on them. Ribisi gets killed.

(37:30):
Ribisi has a kid at home, Ruby. She's like the nicest guy on the
squad. Yeah.
Gets mowed down and Brolin's so pissed he's.
He goes to Mickey Cohen's place with a gun.
He's like. OK, OK.
Look, I ought to kill you fine, and God seems doing.
Myself. God seems like you have to stop.
Like, don't do that. And this kid who I like dad.

(37:53):
Dad said. I felt bad for him but also he's
in like 1 other scene. There's a crazy thing where
Brolin, like, hugs him. He's like, it's OK.
It's OK it's not it's not a BBQ together too that they have they
have like 1 scene of like we're a family and they go to a BBQ
together and Nick Nolte shows up.
Hey, Morris with. Somebody.

(38:16):
Who played Nick Nolte the cookout like.
And yeah, Mickey, at the same time Mickey shoots this guy in
the pool, all of Sunset Blvd. Yeah, Berlin's wife almost dies,
like you said. She has a child.
Yeah, there's like a trail of blood and Roland's like what's
happened, Like his whole house gets shut up.
Someone should have cleaned thatblood up.
Yeah, and then the wife's just in the bathtub with a baby.

(38:39):
That's just like an idiot cops. Yeah.
And that is that that is really funny that she, I mean, it was
smart. She went in the bathtub.
But it's just like the trail of blood now.
It's like, don't go in, don't goin.
Yeah, everyone's like don't, don't.
So you're trying to give this guy a heart attack?
You look so stressed already. Yeah, he's at war.
Also, they do say let's go to war.

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That really feels like they're at war.
No. And then they go and Sean Penn's
got to get out of the city. It's too hot for him right now.
The gangster squads coming from One More Night, they're still
cops. So it also was fun to me.
One More Night, we're still cops.
We're going in no warrant and guns are blazing shooting
anyone. Yeah, they show up and they're

(39:21):
in. True Cop.
Fashion. They're like going like Cohen's
like hold up, held up in this hotel or whatever it is and like
Cohen come on down, like the whole squad's there and they
kind of disband, obviously, as you could.
I mean, this movie is so predictable, you know, like
everyone knows where it's going,but it ends with this gunshot,
you know, this shootout. And that was pretty cool, I must

(39:47):
say. Not as cool as it could have
been, but it was certainly watchable.
Yeah, I they do. They kill Robert Patrick.
Where does he live? He has a cool thing that happens
to him so he gets shot by Holt, Mcconney, whatever the fuck's
name is. Guy from mine, Hunter.
Mine Hunter and Nightmare Alley yeah he's underused in this

(40:07):
movie too. I think his best moment is when
he kills Rabisi and he gets caught on fire and it's like
throws his coat off without evenlike.
Reacting, he catches flame and I'm like, oh fuck, is he going
to die in a comical death? Yeah, he just takes off his
jacket. Yeah.
But so yeah, he the whole squad goes to the hotel.
They just start firing. They kill everybody and Sean

(40:29):
Penn's like, I got to get out ofhere.
He's like, sure, we have to go now the mine hunter guy and it's
like, let's go like and he comesSanta Claus and they're like
shooting like the Christmas treeand like ornaments are exploding
in slow MO. And it's like very, you know,
operatic like that kind of stuffI do kind of buy into.

(40:50):
I was there was once again establishing a better sense of
space because a lot of slow MO, a lot of close-ups in that
scene. I'm like show up like this Grand
Hotel lobby. I also like that the plan was,
Sir, Sir, it's too bad in here. We get you out of here.
Let's go to the front door whereall the cops are that have
killed all of our men. Yeah, exactly.

(41:11):
And he like he should die there.My grandma was like how?
How is nobody getting shot rightnow?
I was like I don't know but Will.
You shoot Gosling? Yeah, you shoot Robert Patrick,
too. Yeah, Robert Patrick gets like
shot in the chest. Then there's like this kind of
like a car chase type thing. Yeah.
And Brolin's like riding the carand make you say like what the

(41:34):
hell? And they crashed the car into a
fucking fountain. Holt Mcconney, whatever the fuck
his name is, walks out, stumblesout.
Robert Patrick is like dying. And he has his, he's like the
best shot. Like, he can shoot anything.
And he's like, Michael Pena is like his apprentice.
And he's like, about to die. Like, he's all shot up.
And he's pointing Robert Patrick's pointing the gun at

(41:55):
Holt Mcconney. And he's like, hey, kid, hey,
kid, help me aim. And then they fucking blow him
away. And it's like, yeah, like I did
feel like fuck. Yeah, thank God.
But here's my alternative. Like let him go out like in a
blaze of glory. But I wanted like a he's in
hotel lobby and then like Sean Penn's like getting away.
And then they were like, there'sa whole new set of guys coming.

(42:18):
He's like, I got this. What was that?
Like he is like, he has like 2-6shooters and like a big huge
fight and, and blaze of glory. He gets like, he gets like shot
in the side by Someone Like, Youknow, like heading out of the
hotel and I'm like, come on, Like, let someone die.
Like in a cool way. I guess in that way, like who do
you think would be The Who wouldbe a better director to kind of

(42:40):
make this material? Pop.
In a more interesting way, Tarantino.
Well, that's who I think of, I guess maybe because I was
talking about like Django earlier.
But he's, he's also like an easyanswer.
But I think they are trying to do like a Tarantino thing a
little bit like it is trying to be stylized in that way.
Yeah, and I thought Marty, of course, because, but also Marty

(43:01):
would make it more of an epic, which is what I wanted out of it
too. Like, I didn't want to be as
much of an action movie. Yeah, more serious version about
like these guys. I feel like there must be a you.
Mean a Cohen's too? Yeah.
Yeah. No idea.
Like a humor. I'm thinking of like I guess
redoing the movie or I guess there's some of this in LA
Confidential of like that post war thing which is really

(43:22):
interesting. Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's more of a mystery though, where this is just like,
like this is an action movie. I, I don't know, that's the most
interesting way for you to do it.
Also, what is Sean Penn selling?It's heroin.
He doesn't. He also.
Prostitutes everything. Racketeering.
Gambling. He's a bad guy.

(43:44):
Bad freaking egg. But basically, like, crash the
car and Mickey's like, come on, you take me in Copper.
And Brolin, like, throws his gundown and takes off his jacket.
And the climactic scene in this movie is Brolin and Penn boxing
each other in the street. Yeah.
And everyone watches. And everyone watches and Brolin

(44:06):
just beats him to a fucking pulp.
My boxing days are over, he saysto that random Fred or Ryan
Gosling earlier as he shoots them a la Sunset Blvd.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, Also, yeah.
He was a boxer growing up. And I didn't notice his nose
prosthetic until he shoots the guy in the pool.
And then like you. And it's like a, it's like a POV

(44:26):
shot up, up, up in the body, I guess.
And like Sean Penn standing overthe pool and you can like, see
like the lines of his fake nose.It's like gigantic.
Yeah, well apparently they were like 3 hours of makeup for him
and I was like, that's ridiculous.
Doesn't show. I was just going to say it
literally doesn't show, but thenyou kind of get the prologue or
the epilogue here where it's like Michael Pena and Mackie are

(44:46):
working together. Darlington Stone going to fall
in love and take the. They take Mickey Cohen's dog and
they live happily ever after. It had It opens and closes with
this Brolin voice over, which sucks.
And then Brolin has his wife andbaby on the beach and he's not a
cop anymore and it's like, oh, they live happily ever after.

(45:09):
So what does he do for the rest of his career?
He literally throws his badge inthe water like a fucking idiot.
And. Then the movie ends, and that's
gangster's one. I just really do like, and I'd
like you to bring the wife back more for this to work.
But I really do enjoy him as a guy who is always at war and

(45:36):
he's like stupid and like, you know, the one shootout scene
when the car chase Burbank, he'slike hot headed, like he just
wants he wants blood, like he wants revenge for these people.
And I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
But it's like it's like a brokenrecord.
But it's never, it never gets enough time.
Like spend more time with the wife.
Like, like show that like show how like he's bringing the war

(45:57):
home because like she was like, you're still at war.
We don't really like you don't really see that like affect his
relationship. No, but they're pretty like
happy together. Yeah, they seem great, very
stable. Some other movies that came out
this weekend a haunted house which is the.
Oh yeah. Marlon Wayne's paranormal

(46:18):
activities take off. I think we have a few of those,
didn't they? Yeah Zero Dark 35th week of
release made more money than Gangster Squad.
Opening weekend made 30. It made 32,000,000.
Gangster Squad opened at 23. Imagine something making $32
million in the fifth weekend at release now.

(46:38):
Impossible. Impossible.
So the movie is based on a true story.
I don't know if you knew that. Oh, I'm pretty sure it opens
with. Based on true events, it's
definitely not accurate, but thereal life chief HWH Parker was a
real guy Nick Nolte's character,and he set up the squad to

(46:59):
prevent other gangsters from taking over Cohen's rackets
after Cohen went to prison for tax evasion.
That guy, I'm like Capone. Yeah, but whenever.
But like, the Gangster Squad wasa little more dirty, which makes
sense because they're LA cops. Like whenever the Squad learned
that out of town gangsters were coming to Los Angeles to try and
set up like new operations afterCohen had left, the Gangster

(47:23):
Squad would kidnap them, beat them up, some rumors say
torture, and then send them backwherever they came from, warning
that if they ever they if they were, if they returned, they
would be killed. Wow.
So that's LA, baby. It's just like these guys aren't
heroes. No, no, I thought you might find

(47:43):
this. In the game there.
When Giovanni Ribisi is like fucking with the telephone line.
Yeah, halfway through the movie.That location?
Double S for the outside of Paddy's Pub.
It's very sunny. Yeah.
Oh cool, I don't even like remember that.
He's like climbing him telephonepole and he's like, wash my back
like I have to get the wire going.

(48:04):
Yeah, sure. There's an officer Darryl Gates
in the film who also is a real person who went on to become the
chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.
He Co founded DARE, but by all accounts pretty bad guy.

(48:24):
He he was the chief of the LAPD during the LA riots.
Oh yeah. And was dismissed soon after
that. And Parker, played by Nolte, has
been called, you know, the greatest and most controversial
chief of police during his tenure at the LAPD.
He was known for police brutality and racism.

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Parker himself was known for hisunambiguous racism.
So these are the kind of little Easter eggs buried in this You
pay. Attention, there's a lot of
Heidi strikes to racism in this movie.
Really bad. So they kind of glaze over those
elements. This film was based off a series

(49:06):
of LA Times articles that were turned into a book by Paul
Lieberman. He turned those stories into a
book, which was released August 7th, which would have been
perfect timing if the film hadn't been delayed.
And when I, when I read this on IMDBI, wondered if this trivia
was actually written by Paul Lieberman himself.
Because that last line sounds angry.

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Like if this film was released when it was supposed to, it
would have capitalized perfectlyon my book.
And now we get into our 2020 IMDb trivia.
Nerd Roundup. Nerd Roundup The movie features
5 actors who have appeared in movies as Marvel characters.

(49:48):
Actually don't know who who the five are.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, you want to guess Brolin Mackie Pena.
Oh jeez, who else would there betwo more two more but but but I
was trying to think of oh, Emma Stone as when Stacy and.

(50:10):
This one's obscure. Oh, really obscure.
I've never even seen this movie.Crap.
Is it like, is it like an old, is it old Marvel?
03. 03 So it's Daredevil. It's a Blade Hulk.
Angry Hulk. Nick Nolte is Yeah, he's yeah.
Nick Nolte. Yeah, so.
Brolin at Stanos Cable, Emma Stone, Gwen.
Stacy, Matt. Keith Falcon, Giggle.

(50:33):
Penas, Louise. People are so mad with being
comeback for Ant Man three. I'm like, really care that much
about that fucking character. Love him.
Anthony Mackie and Josh Brolin would later appear together in
Avengers Infinity War, Mackie asFalcon and Brolin as the cosmic
super villain fans. Fine, I'll do it myself.

(50:56):
And this last one I thought was kind of funny.
Two of the reasons Gosling decided to make the movie was
because he wanted to act in a scene with Sean Penn and shoot a
Tommy gun. He was disappointed when he
found out he didn't have any scenes with Penn.
Well, no, he he's the one scene or he's 2 scenes.
Well, they're the same. They don't have like.
Settings. Yeah, yeah, they're the same

(51:19):
scene like 3 times I guess, but they don't have a face off.
Yeah, well, you got any slate rocks for me that I haven't
spoiled already? Yeah, I think we've touched on
most of them. These are.
I think if you threw these 3 movies together in a blender,
you would end up with Ruben's Fleischer's Gangster Squad.
So first you add a dash of Dick Tracy.

(51:40):
Sure. That kind of cartoony over the
top gangster spoof. Basically like a cartoon.
Warren Beatty Zone. Warren Beatty Zone LA
Confidential, as we said, like similar time shows the crooked
LAPD center stage in that movie.That's probably a better tonal

(52:01):
exercise than Gangster Squad andobviously The Untouchables,
yeah. Have you, have you seen, I've
never seen Untouchables? You would love the Untouchables.
I would like it a lot. Brian De Palma, Sean Connery.
Sean Connery having Costner Costner, Karen Costner.
And it's kind of marketed in a similar way where, you know,
Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen. Untouchables is a lot of Robert

(52:23):
De Niro as Al Capone. Yeah, and it's similar story,
but in Chicago. And I think if I had watched The
Untouchables and then Gangster Squad, I probably would give
Gangster Squad two stars becauseUntouchables has a David Mamet
script and because of the De Palma direction.
There are like several sequencesin that movie that are just like

(52:45):
a master class in how to set up,you know, blocking and tension
and suspense, which is not entirely on stage here.
Gangster Squad. A quick, a quick story from
watching Indiana Jones 3 last night.
My dad had no memory of the movie really.
He was surprised, but he was like, Oh my God, River Phoenix.

(53:05):
He had no memory of the opening.He was like, you know, like he
was tricked by the bait and switch of thinking it's Indiana
Jones and then it's actually himyoung, no memory of it all.
He he, he, he remembered Sean Connery.
He's a, he was a big fan of Bondor he is a big fan of Bond.
So you remember Sean Connery. He he, he knew Connery's in the
movie. So this is all like this whole
movie is new to him. He's locked in.

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He's leaning forward. He got up to put some put stuff
away through the dad post, run the TV.
He's locked in. It's a huge TV.
Huge TV and we get to the point where they get, you know, like
capture in the castle. And Elsa, isn't it muscle?
Elsa. Elsa, she gets, you know, really
a Nazi. And the lines coming up.
My dad turns to me and goes in the Sean Connery voice in in

(53:52):
Cuba. Sean Connery or like, how'd you
know she's a Nazi? Actually talks in her sleep.
And I'm like, how is that the one part of the movie you
remember? It goes because it's gross and
funny. And I like the logic of it's
gross and funny. So sick to his brain for 40
years. Talks in her sleep.
He goes right after. Why is that so gross?

(54:19):
Sean Connery can get it. You're structuring Brown.
Almost actually, man. That is a genius fucking movie.
It's a I'm sorry, it's a fake. He he he loved that bet too.
He goes, Oh my God, so he was, so he was at the time of his.
Life. I'm thinking of the the Williams

(54:39):
score when he like fucks shit up, when he's like in the chair
and like it moves. It's like, you know what I'm
saying? Yeah, that's, I know what you're
saying, that little theme. So, Sam.
Yeah, Andrew. We got taken back to 1940s LA.
Hell yeah. So the question is, you know,

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you're in the train station. You just got in the City of
Angels. You have your old violin case
hasn't been touched in years. There's a Tommy gun inside.
So would you take out the Tommy gun or would you let it sit in
the back of your trunk and collect dust, or would you take
it off? It's hot.

(55:22):
Oh, your hands touch. So I keep the Tommy gun in the
cage or are you taking it out and I take killing Mickey Cohen?
Maybe not take it out of the case, but for sure put it on
your list for Santa Claus because you might be happy to
see what you find under the tree.

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But yeah, I like this movie. I'm, I'm fucking, I'm, I'm
losing my baggage and picking upguitar that this thing is this
thing is deep in the shelf. Deep.
I could have lived the rest of my life without watching this
movie and honestly, it made me lose my respect to the city of
Los Angeles and no. In this time.

(56:10):
It's worth my anger. I mean when I was watching the
movie I was enjoying it but now that we talk about it I watched
it like 2 days ago, I really haven't thought about it.
I feel like I've ruined your perception of a few movies that
I've hated and I am sorry for that.
You're not ruining it. Just in the moment I'm like,
that was pretty good. Well, but it doesn't often stay

(56:31):
with me. Next time.
Maybe I should review movies like two days after I see them.
Next time you watch Gangster Squad, yeah, invite me over.
Can love to be a part of the squad.
This has been our review of a Gangster Squad. 2013.
Shelf Warmers baby, see you nexttime.

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