July 1, 2025 • 26 mins
Dave Griffiths, Harley Woods, Kyle McGrath and Lee Griffiths talk about their favourite movies.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hello, and welcome to the subculture entertainment Patreon. Well, we
kind of had a bit of a talk about what
we were doing with Patreon, and we realized that perhaps
people out there who are new and just discovering us
might not know that much about each of us. So
we thought, so you get a feel for who we
(00:30):
all are, we would do a little few little segments
this month where we basically talk about our favorite films
and our favorite directors and our favorite actors and things
like that, so you get to know each of us
a little more. So we're going to kick off this
series with favorite films and Harley, why don't you introduce
(00:54):
yourself and tell us a little bit about your favorite films.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hello, I'm Harley. Obviously I'm the resident deviantna I. Yes,
I've always loved film and television and any form of storytelling.
Really love stories. This is why I went into writing
and so on. I grew up with a lot of
(01:21):
mixed influences that I think, you know, in the eighties
we kind of had that boom of interesting cartoons and
toy lines where all of a sudden, every toy had
its own cartoon series. So you know, I got rather hooked.
I used to love series like Doctor Who and things
like that, so I was growing up with all these influences.
(01:44):
But I don't know. I think I always loved seeing
old movies on television as well, so I'd get a
really wide variety of things that I would see. I mean,
my dad always loved action movies, so I grew up
seeing lots of action movies and ninja movies and kung
Fu movies, things like that. So I always had an
(02:07):
interest in those. Big fan of Bruce Lee. But then
as time went on, I kept looking for more and
more things. I used to love the old black and
white Hollywood films that would come on in the middle
of the day on TV, old musicals, so I loved
I knew who people like Marilyn Monroe and Laurel and
(02:29):
Hardy and Abni Costello were. I had a real interest
in that. And then I discovered SBS television and there
was all these movies from around the world, and my
eyes were open. So I got this real urge through
my teens to adulthood that I just kept trying to
find every foreign film that I filmed that I could.
(02:50):
So there were a lot of French and Chinese in
Hong Kong movies that I would see a lot of.
So yeah, quite a diverse range there. You want me
to mention my favorite.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Films. Now, it's kind of well, I guess, as I said,
growing up with cartoons and things. I loved Transformers growing up,
and in nineteen eighty six they did Transformers the movie,
animated feature and I still love that to this day.
I watch it newly every year. I think it's so good.
(03:31):
It's not written down completely to children. They really pushed it,
and they did get into troubble for some of it,
but I think it's a superior piece of marketing for
what was essentially a children's toy line. I think they
(03:52):
really pushed the boundaries and it's far superior to the
movies Michael Bay has been making over the past twenty years. Yeah,
that's one of my early influences. I also, oh, probably
one of my all time favorite films is from German
(04:12):
director Katchavan Gania, and it's called Bandits, not to be
confused with the Hollywood movies starring Bruce Willis. It's actually
these four women in prison who have formed a band
and they get this opportunity to play at the Commissioner's
(04:33):
ball or something like that. But they kind of abused
in the van on the way to the concert, and
one of them has a real temper issue, so she's
been seething the whole ride because this guy's been kind
of harassing them, and as soon as he unlocks her handcuffs,
she beats the crap out of him, and they're like,
(04:55):
what are we going to do? What are we going
to do? So they decide to take the van and
go on the run. Then they get a bit prideful
and they see on the news that there's two male
prison skps on the run, you know, causing havoc, and
they're all over the news, whereas these four women aren't.
(05:16):
So two of them are like, we should get some notice.
Let's start getting noticed, and they actually reach out to
a news reporter to say, hey, come and interview. So
we'll say a secret time and place, we'll tell our story.
Why do men get all the attention? So suddenly they're
(05:37):
all over the news and they get this notoriety. So
they start performing all around Germany while they're on the run,
and everyone in the public loves them because they're not
you know, they're not bad, They're just they're not going
around trying to rob people, hurt people or anything. They
(05:59):
just become those popular music phenomenon. But the police are
getting more and more angry trying to catch them. And yeah,
it's a really interesting story and a fantastic sounds fact.
So that one's like right at the top of my list.
But also anything by director One car Why. I absolutely
love his films. But if I'm going to go to
(06:21):
the top of the list, I'm going to get with
Bandits for now.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Awesome. So moving on now, Lee, Lee, why don't you
introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your
favorite films.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well, yes, you've introduced me, Lee, and just I've always
been a massive fan films as well, just like you, Halle.
And yeah, I do like some of the older films
as well, and I think I can't remember a time
of not watching film. It's just been a really big
(06:58):
part of my life and my family's life too. When
I think back of all the stuff I love, Yeah,
obviously there's a really big long list, but I think
back of my childhood of things like The Never Ending Story,
(07:19):
Willie Wonka and The Chopper Factory, all those sorts of
things and the Wizard Oars. I just really was drawn into.
I guess the creativity of those movies, and I guess
you know, the dreams that you can have in life
(07:42):
that can come from film and the magic that film brings.
You know, it's outside of reality a bit as well.
And for any writer who can dream and imagine and
they share it with us through film, I think it's
just a magical thing. So yes, I really love the
(08:07):
joy and happiness that I brought through films as well.
And yeah, i'd love musicals too. I really love musicals.
I like that theater type production that can be brought
in through film as well. And I have many many
memories of even Doris Day films and Elvis films and
(08:29):
all those sorts of things. And yeah, watching the midday
movies and the classic movies at night as well, and
sneaking on the TV to watch those films. And then
of course I like, I really like horror as well,
so that's quite different to the musical than the other
(08:51):
film that I like. They more magical film. But yeah,
really have a love for horror films, and going back
to Psycho and the Birds and things like that, which
you know we've been looking at lately and rewatching. But
I guess if I have to pick an old time favorite,
I think this is really hard because there are so
(09:13):
many films in the world that I love, and I
think I'm quite an eclectic film lover. I love pretty
much every genre or films that sit within every genre.
So I'm going to pick out two. Now. One's a series,
and you know, and people will probably like, you're such
a teenager, you will never grow up. But I love
(09:36):
the Harry Potter series for how magical it is and
how exciting it is and how creative it is. And
these are movies that even as an adult, I go
back and watch, if not every year, every other year,
and I will watch the whole series and I will
watch them back to back if I can. I just, yeah,
(10:00):
I think that the Creatures within an amazing I think
it's just such that amazing world where you're you want
to be a part of it and you're drawn into it. Now,
the other one that I really love is Titanic, and
I think the reason I love it so much is
number one. It's obviously based on a true story, but
(10:22):
obviously there's loads of creativity within it as well, and
the lengths that James Cameron went to to film this
with his underwater machines, the rovers that go under and
film the actual Titanic ship where it has sunk, is
(10:43):
just incredible. There's just so much effort and years that
have gone into the making of the film, and the
detail of it is unbelievable. Of course, the great acting
as well, You've got great does there Kate Winslet and
Leonardo DiCaprio, amongst everything else that James Cameron's done with
(11:07):
this film. It'll be something that I will always go
back and watch again. And yeah, I just I can't
recommend it highly enough. So they're probably my favorites. But
obviously there's just so many films out there that just
have special memories in my heart.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I like that actually, like you brought up the fact that, yeah,
you've got a series there, Harry Potter, that was really
like me growing up. I watched Star Wars over and
over and over. If I could, if I could rent
all the films from the video library at once, I would.
I would literally go in every week whenever our family would,
(11:46):
you know, pick a movie to rent. I look straight
for the Star Wars and nine times out of ten
they were out, and you know, someone at the desk
would say, oh, no, they've been borrowed out. Sorry, but
we've got Star Trek and I would just get than,
this looked like what And so if I didn't have
Star Wars, it was a WHOOPI Goldberg film? That was
(12:08):
it repeatedly every time I would I would piece that.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And Kyle, do you want to intro yourself and tell
us a little bit about your favorite films?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Oh? Yeah, hello everybody, Kyle. Yeah, I'm pretty much the
same as the rest of my co hosts here where like, Yeah,
I've been just a fan of movies for such a
long time. They were a major part of of my
life growing up, of course, just there was always kind
(12:43):
of a source of comfort, and it's something I kind
of I got from my dad with with his his
fondness for movies and TV shows and stuff like that.
Of course, my dad's taste some maybe a bit more commercial,
but yeah, that's why I eventually kind of broke away
(13:06):
from that and started started trying some different movies in
my in my teens, and yeah, just seeing how how
interesting and creative different types of filmmakers and types of
movies can be. So I've got just such a wide
(13:29):
variety of different movies that that I enjoy. But I
guess a cheating kind of favorite film would probably be
Lord of the Rings. I just considered that to be
the entire film, the entire trilogy. I guess to be
(13:49):
one film, And I know that's kind of cheating, but
that it's always one I've got to mention because just
how many times I've rewatched it and how much I've
enjoyed it. But if I was just some up, just
one in particular film that I really have enjoyed, it
would probably be American Psycho, as as odd as that
(14:11):
probably is. I mean, it's a kind of a controversial
book by Brett eastern allis about a wealthy New York
Wall Street executive called Patrick Bateman who's also a psychopath
that in his in his private life, and it's just
(14:33):
kind of the the conflict between him being completely twisted
and insane on the inside, but all that matters is
the the beauty that he exudes on the outside, and
(14:55):
it kind of, I mean, it taps into the same
kind of thing that Robotcop tapped into as far as
Wall Street and rich people and these people I consider
themselves to be sharks and come on taking on like
I've got to kill the opposition and stuff like that.
(15:16):
But it's in the movie it's actually killing them, so
I I really it's a movie that I really enjoy
because there's no other movie that I have rewatched as
many times and been able to find something original or
(15:38):
something new to appreciate about it every single time. It's
directed by Mary Harron, who directed I Shot Andy Wahole
and a few other films like that, but and written
by Grenavie Turner, who in I don't want to decrease
(16:01):
what she did, but like more or less. I think
why the script of the movie is so good is
because it is almost a one for one recreation of
Bretty ston Ellis's novel. It was also one of the
first novels that I ever read as well, and it's
one that I can really I appreciate that it's a
(16:23):
movie that so many people are confused by, or they
they don't believe whether he actually has killed all these people,
or he has he was just imagining it or what.
But what I really appreciate about the movie is that
(16:44):
I think that it kept the gist of the book
that you don't know that the entire point is that
he is a psycho. He is so insane that he
himself no longer has any grip on reality of what
he has had stually doing and what what he what
he hasn't done when he's just imagining. I mean, it's
(17:05):
it's got a great cast with like close any Reech, Witherspoon,
Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, a lot of the actors that
I never I had never seen before watching American Psycho
and their actors that have become huge since then. But
(17:26):
of course Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman. I think this
is the movie that he made like five years before
Batman begins, and this is the movie that made me
This is kind of a topic for another another topic
that we're going to be talking about later, but this
is the movie that made him my personal favorite actor
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because just how much he was able to encapsulate this
character and to make him completely despicable and completely unlikable,
but still you can't help like him at the same time.
It was really just incredible. It's a movie that I
(18:09):
I try to watch, like you Harley with with Transformers,
and yeah, it's it's a movie that I just really
watch like every year, every few months, and yeah, almost
without fail. I've always been able to pick out something
just another little quirk of the movie that I've never
(18:30):
never noticed before and something that I really appreciate about
the film, and it's something very different, and yeah, just
I think that's kind of Yeah, it really is my
favorite movie.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I love how you paralleled that you know, American Psycho
remind you of RoboCop. That that was a great parallel.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It's the Wall Street. It's just something that like, yeah,
when I guess, yeah, Wolf Robercov beat the I think
even yeah, that even beat the publishing of the book.
And but yeah, the whole just that whole Wall Street
thing of yuppies basically killing each other. Yeah, it's nothing.
(19:19):
That's another thing that like, yeah, I've been watching a
movie for like two decades before I even made that
kind of connection. Yeah, that's that's that's why I appreciate
this movie. I appreciate all movies that I can watch
multiple times and pick up new stuff on it every time,
something that's in the background. But yeah, American Psycho is
definitely my personal favorite for that.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
That's that's actually an interesting topic that we should look
at later is books that became films. In fact, I
don't think people realize how many films we watch were
actually books. Lee and I spoke of all the old
Hollywood films. I used to watch most of them, like
Psycho based on the book, which was kind of based
on true things as well. But yeah, it's and it's
(20:06):
interesting that you point out that this is so closely
follows the actual book, which is pretty rare in cinema.
They always want to change something. Just look at the
Percy Jackson series in the Flat.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And also there's a lot of films out there that
people don't realize they're based on books because of like
the difference that they are, Like Ten Things I Hate
About You is actually based on a Shakespeare play.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, yeah, so they like it's nice. Yeah, it's not
even like what Basluma did with Romeo and Juliet. They've
completely reworked it. But yeah, that's what it's based on. So,
but I guess that's me up now. So I'm Dave
g And Yeah, I've been reviewing movies for nearly twenty
five years. Now, which is kind of scary. But before
(20:52):
that even I was a huge film fan. I grew
up with parents who on a Friday and Saturday night
would just bundle me into the car and we'd go
to a cinema like the Asta or what is Cameo
now up in Belgrave or there was actually a drive
in just around the corner from where we were from
where I grew up, so and yeah, I can remember
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seeing like a whole variety of films. Then things like
Bushfire Christmas, which is an old Australian film, the Albi
Mangles documentaries. My dad was huge into them, so we
used to go and watch them even et My dad
used to basically used me to watch films that he
(21:36):
wanted to watch. So I remember when Tim Burton's Batman
came out, Dad kind of made the excuse that he
was taking me to the cinema to go and see
it because they actually had the Batmobile from the film there.
So yeah, so I grew up watching stuff like that,
and then I got a TV in my room when
(21:57):
I was very very young, and then my my evolution
of what kind of films I was watching kind of
change when that happened, because I would go from watching
the Ivan Hutchinson and Bill Collins presents, like classic movies,
so then watching the really late night cult films that
would be on Channel ten, like things like Earth Girls
Are Easy and stuff like that, like really kind of
(22:19):
trashy b grades to grade films. And then at high school,
my best friend was an absolute film buff, to the
point where we used to borrow his dad's video camera
and go and shoot our own films on weekends with
our friends. But him and I kind of developed this
scheme where we would go to a cinema, buy a
ticket to a kid's film, and then check the cleaning
(22:42):
roster to see what other films were on and sneak
in to like adult films. So we kind of like
got our fix of Pulverahoven movies and stuff like that,
like in the late nineties, and so yeah, just evolved
from there. So when I was at film school, I
think I started to disc even more alternative theater and
that's an alternative film, and that's probably where my three
(23:05):
favorites come from. So my three favorite films of all
time are Trainspotting The Beach and Chasing Amy the Beach.
I just absolutely love everything about I love the cast,
I love the screenplay, the way Danny Boyle directed it,
the location, the soundtrack. Lee and I actually traveled to
(23:28):
where it was filmed a few years ago and found
that it really was the paradise that they made out
it to be in the film Trainspotting. I don't know
what it was about that film that made me fall
in love with it, but I remember somebody turning up
one day when I was at film school and said, oh,
you've got to watch this film, and they lent me
the VHS copy of it, and I watched it and
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just instantly fell in love with it, just how edgy
it is. The characters again, the soundtrack is just absolutely amazing.
And then the same person actually introduced me at Chasing
Amy as well. I'd already seen more rats and clerks,
and then yeah, this person introduced me to Chasing Amy.
(24:13):
But yeah, it's kind of hard, but yeah, they're the
three that I go back to whenever I need inspiration
for my own screenwriting or anything like that. But yeah,
I've watched a ton of movies over the years because
during my high school and film school days, I also
first of all, worked in a video library, and then
(24:34):
worked in a DVD store, so there was constantly movies
on when I was at work as well. So yeah,
I guess that's how mine has evolved over the years,
from family films with my parents to the more alternative
kind of films.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And I can attest to how much David liked Train Spotting.
Ever since I've known him, he's listed that film as
his favorite and talked about it over.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Every day.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Now, Lee and I have got a really close friend
who's Scottish, so her and I like just get together
and like quote it all the time as.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Well, just big b lines over and over again.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, So I guess that's all of our favorite films.
So I hope people have got to know us a
little bit better through what we've talked about at the moment.
But yeah, we might finish off this chat here and
be back soon with our favorite directors and favorite actors
as well. So hopefully you stick around on Patreon and
(25:46):
maybe you've picked one of the people now on the
panel where it's like I'm like them, that's what I
kind of like, So now you'll know to look out
for their reviews and things like that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
So and also feel free to message this and you
know anything we've kind of spoken about saying, oh yeah,
we want to see you, do, you know, look at
more of those kinds of films or whatever anything we've
you know, maybe it's a look at how does this
robotcop parallel other things we can do that we can
(26:17):
do that definitely.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
All right, then, so we'll say bye to your for now,
when we'll be when we'll be back soon with another
UH segment the Patreon you see everybody.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Bye,
Hello, and welcome to the subculture entertainment Patreon. Well, we
kind of had a bit of a talk about what
we were doing with Patreon, and we realized that perhaps
people out there who are new and just discovering us
might not know that much about each of us. So
we thought, so you get a feel for who we
(00:30):
all are, we would do a little few little segments
this month where we basically talk about our favorite films
and our favorite directors and our favorite actors and things
like that, so you get to know each of us
a little more. So we're going to kick off this
series with favorite films and Harley, why don't you introduce
(00:54):
yourself and tell us a little bit about your favorite films.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hello, I'm Harley. Obviously I'm the resident deviantna I. Yes,
I've always loved film and television and any form of storytelling.
Really love stories. This is why I went into writing
and so on. I grew up with a lot of
(01:21):
mixed influences that I think, you know, in the eighties
we kind of had that boom of interesting cartoons and
toy lines where all of a sudden, every toy had
its own cartoon series. So you know, I got rather hooked.
I used to love series like Doctor Who and things
like that, so I was growing up with all these influences.
(01:44):
But I don't know. I think I always loved seeing
old movies on television as well, so I'd get a
really wide variety of things that I would see. I mean,
my dad always loved action movies, so I grew up
seeing lots of action movies and ninja movies and kung
Fu movies, things like that. So I always had an
(02:07):
interest in those. Big fan of Bruce Lee. But then
as time went on, I kept looking for more and
more things. I used to love the old black and
white Hollywood films that would come on in the middle
of the day on TV, old musicals, so I loved
I knew who people like Marilyn Monroe and Laurel and
(02:29):
Hardy and Abni Costello were. I had a real interest
in that. And then I discovered SBS television and there
was all these movies from around the world, and my
eyes were open. So I got this real urge through
my teens to adulthood that I just kept trying to
find every foreign film that I filmed that I could.
(02:50):
So there were a lot of French and Chinese in
Hong Kong movies that I would see a lot of.
So yeah, quite a diverse range there. You want me
to mention my favorite.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Films. Now, it's kind of well, I guess, as I said,
growing up with cartoons and things. I loved Transformers growing up,
and in nineteen eighty six they did Transformers the movie,
animated feature and I still love that to this day.
I watch it newly every year. I think it's so good.
(03:31):
It's not written down completely to children. They really pushed it,
and they did get into troubble for some of it,
but I think it's a superior piece of marketing for
what was essentially a children's toy line. I think they
(03:52):
really pushed the boundaries and it's far superior to the
movies Michael Bay has been making over the past twenty years. Yeah,
that's one of my early influences. I also, oh, probably
one of my all time favorite films is from German
(04:12):
director Katchavan Gania, and it's called Bandits, not to be
confused with the Hollywood movies starring Bruce Willis. It's actually
these four women in prison who have formed a band
and they get this opportunity to play at the Commissioner's
(04:33):
ball or something like that. But they kind of abused
in the van on the way to the concert, and
one of them has a real temper issue, so she's
been seething the whole ride because this guy's been kind
of harassing them, and as soon as he unlocks her handcuffs,
she beats the crap out of him, and they're like,
(04:55):
what are we going to do? What are we going
to do? So they decide to take the van and
go on the run. Then they get a bit prideful
and they see on the news that there's two male
prison skps on the run, you know, causing havoc, and
they're all over the news, whereas these four women aren't.
(05:16):
So two of them are like, we should get some notice.
Let's start getting noticed, and they actually reach out to
a news reporter to say, hey, come and interview. So
we'll say a secret time and place, we'll tell our story.
Why do men get all the attention? So suddenly they're
(05:37):
all over the news and they get this notoriety. So
they start performing all around Germany while they're on the run,
and everyone in the public loves them because they're not
you know, they're not bad, They're just they're not going
around trying to rob people, hurt people or anything. They
(05:59):
just become those popular music phenomenon. But the police are
getting more and more angry trying to catch them. And yeah,
it's a really interesting story and a fantastic sounds fact.
So that one's like right at the top of my list.
But also anything by director One car Why. I absolutely
love his films. But if I'm going to go to
(06:21):
the top of the list, I'm going to get with
Bandits for now.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Awesome. So moving on now, Lee, Lee, why don't you
introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your
favorite films.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Well, yes, you've introduced me, Lee, and just I've always
been a massive fan films as well, just like you, Halle.
And yeah, I do like some of the older films
as well, and I think I can't remember a time
of not watching film. It's just been a really big
(06:58):
part of my life and my family's life too. When
I think back of all the stuff I love, Yeah,
obviously there's a really big long list, but I think
back of my childhood of things like The Never Ending Story,
(07:19):
Willie Wonka and The Chopper Factory, all those sorts of
things and the Wizard Oars. I just really was drawn into.
I guess the creativity of those movies, and I guess
you know, the dreams that you can have in life
(07:42):
that can come from film and the magic that film brings.
You know, it's outside of reality a bit as well.
And for any writer who can dream and imagine and
they share it with us through film, I think it's
just a magical thing. So yes, I really love the
(08:07):
joy and happiness that I brought through films as well.
And yeah, i'd love musicals too. I really love musicals.
I like that theater type production that can be brought
in through film as well. And I have many many
memories of even Doris Day films and Elvis films and
(08:29):
all those sorts of things. And yeah, watching the midday
movies and the classic movies at night as well, and
sneaking on the TV to watch those films. And then
of course I like, I really like horror as well,
so that's quite different to the musical than the other
(08:51):
film that I like. They more magical film. But yeah,
really have a love for horror films, and going back
to Psycho and the Birds and things like that, which
you know we've been looking at lately and rewatching. But
I guess if I have to pick an old time favorite,
I think this is really hard because there are so
(09:13):
many films in the world that I love, and I
think I'm quite an eclectic film lover. I love pretty
much every genre or films that sit within every genre.
So I'm going to pick out two. Now. One's a series,
and you know, and people will probably like, you're such
a teenager, you will never grow up. But I love
(09:36):
the Harry Potter series for how magical it is and
how exciting it is and how creative it is. And
these are movies that even as an adult, I go
back and watch, if not every year, every other year,
and I will watch the whole series and I will
watch them back to back if I can. I just, yeah,
(10:00):
I think that the Creatures within an amazing I think
it's just such that amazing world where you're you want
to be a part of it and you're drawn into it. Now,
the other one that I really love is Titanic, and
I think the reason I love it so much is
number one. It's obviously based on a true story, but
(10:22):
obviously there's loads of creativity within it as well, and
the lengths that James Cameron went to to film this
with his underwater machines, the rovers that go under and
film the actual Titanic ship where it has sunk, is
(10:43):
just incredible. There's just so much effort and years that
have gone into the making of the film, and the
detail of it is unbelievable. Of course, the great acting
as well, You've got great does there Kate Winslet and
Leonardo DiCaprio, amongst everything else that James Cameron's done with
(11:07):
this film. It'll be something that I will always go
back and watch again. And yeah, I just I can't
recommend it highly enough. So they're probably my favorites. But
obviously there's just so many films out there that just
have special memories in my heart.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I like that actually, like you brought up the fact that, yeah,
you've got a series there, Harry Potter, that was really
like me growing up. I watched Star Wars over and
over and over. If I could, if I could rent
all the films from the video library at once, I would.
I would literally go in every week whenever our family would,
(11:46):
you know, pick a movie to rent. I look straight
for the Star Wars and nine times out of ten
they were out, and you know, someone at the desk
would say, oh, no, they've been borrowed out. Sorry, but
we've got Star Trek and I would just get than,
this looked like what And so if I didn't have
Star Wars, it was a WHOOPI Goldberg film? That was
(12:08):
it repeatedly every time I would I would piece that.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And Kyle, do you want to intro yourself and tell
us a little bit about your favorite films?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Oh? Yeah, hello everybody, Kyle. Yeah, I'm pretty much the
same as the rest of my co hosts here where like, Yeah,
I've been just a fan of movies for such a
long time. They were a major part of of my
life growing up, of course, just there was always kind
(12:43):
of a source of comfort, and it's something I kind
of I got from my dad with with his his
fondness for movies and TV shows and stuff like that.
Of course, my dad's taste some maybe a bit more commercial,
but yeah, that's why I eventually kind of broke away
(13:06):
from that and started started trying some different movies in
my in my teens, and yeah, just seeing how how
interesting and creative different types of filmmakers and types of
movies can be. So I've got just such a wide
(13:29):
variety of different movies that that I enjoy. But I
guess a cheating kind of favorite film would probably be
Lord of the Rings. I just considered that to be
the entire film, the entire trilogy. I guess to be
(13:49):
one film, And I know that's kind of cheating, but
that it's always one I've got to mention because just
how many times I've rewatched it and how much I've
enjoyed it. But if I was just some up, just
one in particular film that I really have enjoyed, it
would probably be American Psycho, as as odd as that
(14:11):
probably is. I mean, it's a kind of a controversial
book by Brett eastern allis about a wealthy New York
Wall Street executive called Patrick Bateman who's also a psychopath
that in his in his private life, and it's just
(14:33):
kind of the the conflict between him being completely twisted
and insane on the inside, but all that matters is
the the beauty that he exudes on the outside, and
(14:55):
it kind of, I mean, it taps into the same
kind of thing that Robotcop tapped into as far as
Wall Street and rich people and these people I consider
themselves to be sharks and come on taking on like
I've got to kill the opposition and stuff like that.
(15:16):
But it's in the movie it's actually killing them, so
I I really it's a movie that I really enjoy
because there's no other movie that I have rewatched as
many times and been able to find something original or
(15:38):
something new to appreciate about it every single time. It's
directed by Mary Harron, who directed I Shot Andy Wahole
and a few other films like that, but and written
by Grenavie Turner, who in I don't want to decrease
(16:01):
what she did, but like more or less. I think
why the script of the movie is so good is
because it is almost a one for one recreation of
Bretty ston Ellis's novel. It was also one of the
first novels that I ever read as well, and it's
one that I can really I appreciate that it's a
(16:23):
movie that so many people are confused by, or they
they don't believe whether he actually has killed all these people,
or he has he was just imagining it or what.
But what I really appreciate about the movie is that
(16:44):
I think that it kept the gist of the book
that you don't know that the entire point is that
he is a psycho. He is so insane that he
himself no longer has any grip on reality of what
he has had stually doing and what what he what
he hasn't done when he's just imagining. I mean, it's
(17:05):
it's got a great cast with like close any Reech, Witherspoon,
Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, a lot of the actors that
I never I had never seen before watching American Psycho
and their actors that have become huge since then. But
(17:26):
of course Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman. I think this
is the movie that he made like five years before
Batman begins, and this is the movie that made me
This is kind of a topic for another another topic
that we're going to be talking about later, but this
is the movie that made him my personal favorite actor
(17:48):
because just how much he was able to encapsulate this
character and to make him completely despicable and completely unlikable,
but still you can't help like him at the same time.
It was really just incredible. It's a movie that I
(18:09):
I try to watch, like you Harley with with Transformers,
and yeah, it's it's a movie that I just really
watch like every year, every few months, and yeah, almost
without fail. I've always been able to pick out something
just another little quirk of the movie that I've never
(18:30):
never noticed before and something that I really appreciate about
the film, and it's something very different, and yeah, just
I think that's kind of Yeah, it really is my
favorite movie.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I love how you paralleled that you know, American Psycho
remind you of RoboCop. That that was a great parallel.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It's the Wall Street. It's just something that like, yeah,
when I guess, yeah, Wolf Robercov beat the I think
even yeah, that even beat the publishing of the book.
And but yeah, the whole just that whole Wall Street
thing of yuppies basically killing each other. Yeah, it's nothing.
(19:19):
That's another thing that like, yeah, I've been watching a
movie for like two decades before I even made that
kind of connection. Yeah, that's that's that's why I appreciate
this movie. I appreciate all movies that I can watch
multiple times and pick up new stuff on it every time,
something that's in the background. But yeah, American Psycho is
definitely my personal favorite for that.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
That's that's actually an interesting topic that we should look
at later is books that became films. In fact, I
don't think people realize how many films we watch were
actually books. Lee and I spoke of all the old
Hollywood films. I used to watch most of them, like
Psycho based on the book, which was kind of based
on true things as well. But yeah, it's and it's
(20:06):
interesting that you point out that this is so closely
follows the actual book, which is pretty rare in cinema.
They always want to change something. Just look at the
Percy Jackson series in the Flat.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And also there's a lot of films out there that
people don't realize they're based on books because of like
the difference that they are, Like Ten Things I Hate
About You is actually based on a Shakespeare play.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, yeah, so they like it's nice. Yeah, it's not
even like what Basluma did with Romeo and Juliet. They've
completely reworked it. But yeah, that's what it's based on. So,
but I guess that's me up now. So I'm Dave
g And Yeah, I've been reviewing movies for nearly twenty
five years. Now, which is kind of scary. But before
(20:52):
that even I was a huge film fan. I grew
up with parents who on a Friday and Saturday night
would just bundle me into the car and we'd go
to a cinema like the Asta or what is Cameo
now up in Belgrave or there was actually a drive
in just around the corner from where we were from
where I grew up, so and yeah, I can remember
(21:15):
seeing like a whole variety of films. Then things like
Bushfire Christmas, which is an old Australian film, the Albi
Mangles documentaries. My dad was huge into them, so we
used to go and watch them even et My dad
used to basically used me to watch films that he
(21:36):
wanted to watch. So I remember when Tim Burton's Batman
came out, Dad kind of made the excuse that he
was taking me to the cinema to go and see
it because they actually had the Batmobile from the film there.
So yeah, so I grew up watching stuff like that,
and then I got a TV in my room when
(21:57):
I was very very young, and then my my evolution
of what kind of films I was watching kind of
change when that happened, because I would go from watching
the Ivan Hutchinson and Bill Collins presents, like classic movies,
so then watching the really late night cult films that
would be on Channel ten, like things like Earth Girls
Are Easy and stuff like that, like really kind of
(22:19):
trashy b grades to grade films. And then at high school,
my best friend was an absolute film buff, to the
point where we used to borrow his dad's video camera
and go and shoot our own films on weekends with
our friends. But him and I kind of developed this
scheme where we would go to a cinema, buy a
ticket to a kid's film, and then check the cleaning
(22:42):
roster to see what other films were on and sneak
in to like adult films. So we kind of like
got our fix of Pulverahoven movies and stuff like that,
like in the late nineties, and so yeah, just evolved
from there. So when I was at film school, I
think I started to disc even more alternative theater and
that's an alternative film, and that's probably where my three
(23:05):
favorites come from. So my three favorite films of all
time are Trainspotting The Beach and Chasing Amy the Beach.
I just absolutely love everything about I love the cast,
I love the screenplay, the way Danny Boyle directed it,
the location, the soundtrack. Lee and I actually traveled to
(23:28):
where it was filmed a few years ago and found
that it really was the paradise that they made out
it to be in the film Trainspotting. I don't know
what it was about that film that made me fall
in love with it, but I remember somebody turning up
one day when I was at film school and said, oh,
you've got to watch this film, and they lent me
the VHS copy of it, and I watched it and
(23:50):
just instantly fell in love with it, just how edgy
it is. The characters again, the soundtrack is just absolutely amazing.
And then the same person actually introduced me at Chasing
Amy as well. I'd already seen more rats and clerks,
and then yeah, this person introduced me to Chasing Amy.
(24:13):
But yeah, it's kind of hard, but yeah, they're the
three that I go back to whenever I need inspiration
for my own screenwriting or anything like that. But yeah,
I've watched a ton of movies over the years because
during my high school and film school days, I also
first of all, worked in a video library, and then
(24:34):
worked in a DVD store, so there was constantly movies
on when I was at work as well. So yeah,
I guess that's how mine has evolved over the years,
from family films with my parents to the more alternative
kind of films.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And I can attest to how much David liked Train Spotting.
Ever since I've known him, he's listed that film as
his favorite and talked about it over.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Every day.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Now, Lee and I have got a really close friend
who's Scottish, so her and I like just get together
and like quote it all the time as.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Well, just big b lines over and over again.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, So I guess that's all of our favorite films.
So I hope people have got to know us a
little bit better through what we've talked about at the moment.
But yeah, we might finish off this chat here and
be back soon with our favorite directors and favorite actors
as well. So hopefully you stick around on Patreon and
(25:46):
maybe you've picked one of the people now on the
panel where it's like I'm like them, that's what I
kind of like, So now you'll know to look out
for their reviews and things like that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
So and also feel free to message this and you
know anything we've kind of spoken about saying, oh yeah,
we want to see you, do, you know, look at
more of those kinds of films or whatever anything we've
you know, maybe it's a look at how does this
robotcop parallel other things we can do that we can
(26:17):
do that definitely.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
All right, then, so we'll say bye to your for now,
when we'll be when we'll be back soon with another
UH segment the Patreon you see everybody.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Bye,
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