One Crazy Summer (1986): The 80s Summer Cult Classic You Never Knew You Needed

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In the dying embers of human existence, as the asteroid, a

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behemoth the size of Texas, hurtles relentlessly toward Earth, the

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world braces for an apocalyptic end.

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Deep beneath the bunk, refuge plunges into the bowels of the Earth.

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Here the chosen gather, their purpose clear, to preserve the

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very soul of our civilization.

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The 35 and 70 millimeter prints that encapsulate the magic, the emotion,

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and the dreams of generations past.

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These prints.

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These masterpieces, each frame a testament to the human spirit, are

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carefully cataloged and cradled in the cavernous confines of the bunker.

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Perhaps there was room for more.

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For friends and family yearning for salvation, but sacrifices must be made.

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The movie nerds stand united, the keepers of a flame, promising a future where the

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art of storytelling endures, transcending the boundaries of time and space.

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I am Nathan sure in accompanying me.

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Is my cinema companion, my movie mate.

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My screen sidekick, my celluloid connoisseur, my flick friend.

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Oh, that, that one could get me canceled.

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Brianna Butterworth.

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Hello.

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I'm good.

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How are you?

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I'm okay.

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As you can hear my, I think my voice is going, I don't know why,

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but you know, everyone's just gonna have to bear with it tonight.

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I think you sound great.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I, I, I can't explain why it is.

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I've, I've been.

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Living in solitude the past week, I got back from vacation a week

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ago and the depression has sat in.

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So I've been just sitting around watching movies, not talking to anybody.

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It's, it's a wonderful life.

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There are worse ways to spend the summer.

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Yeah.

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I did this last August.

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I think I just got into my, my hermit.

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Mentality.

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And I just, I, I think I watched like 35 movies last August.

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I'm not on the same pace, but this is what I think I do in August.

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Like the summer's over.

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I'm just going to like close the shades and just wait for winter.

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See, that's me in October.

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I just get gunk home for the Halloween movies.

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Well, this week we we watched one crazy summer and you know, I think

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we'll get into this in a moment, but neither one of us has seen this before.

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I believe, right?

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No,

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I hadn't even heard of this and you showed me a poster and I

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thought, surely this is a fake movie.

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This is a movie that like SNL put on.

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I've seen this poster many times over the years.

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I thought I'd never seen this and halfway through this movie,

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I

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realized that I saw this at some point in my life and I forgot everything.

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I blocked it out.

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There were moments of this that were familiar.

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I, you know, it's probably one of those scenarios where it was

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on HBO or cable growing up and I.

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Probably caught little pieces of it here and there.

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I probably never saw this movie from start to finish,

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but

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yeah, so, but this is the first time seeing the whole thing from

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beginning to end and we're going to get into it, but I have a plot synopsis to

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share with everyone here and fascinated

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to see how this zany movie gets summed up.

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I know.

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Well here, this is just off of.

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I'm DB or wiki.

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I can't remember, but nothing special here after graduating from high school,

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art school, hopeful hoops McCann.

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What a great name played by John Cusack struggles to complete his

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application to the Rhode Islands.

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School of design resigning himself to a summer of boredom.

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McCann agrees to go along with his best friend, George Calamari to on a

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family trip to Nantucket, Massachusetts, but after mechanic calamari me rocker

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in distress, Cassandra played by Demi Moore, it suddenly looks like

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it's going to be one crazy summer.

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Hey.

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And I will play the trailer that is floating around online.

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Now what's really funny is I could not find what would seem like a,

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a, a normal trailer for this movie.

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Have you, have you seen this yet?

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No.

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Are they just sort of like fan edits?

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Well, the trailer that seems to be the official trailer for this

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movie is one that is hosted by one Bobcat Goldweight, which is, It was a

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pleasant surprise, but this, here it is, it just needs to be listened to.

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The

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movie started!

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The movie started!

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Not really, I just love them to come running in from the lobby

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thinking that they missed something.

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I'm Ed Stork, movie star, also known as Bobcat Goldthwait, and me and my

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friends John Cusack and I hate boats.

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I'm not getting on any boat.

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I beg to differ.

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Just have one crazy summer.

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Your dad said you were a collected shell.

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Shells!

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57 millimeter!

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We did all the normal things people do.

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Hey, little brother, will you hold onto this for me?

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Mad friends!

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Sorry!

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Oh, no.

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Saw the sights.

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Please, you're an armistice.

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Anything but chilly.

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Killed our own family.

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Dazzled women.

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Are you ready for me?

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Hoops?

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My car.

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Wow.

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Before we get into this where, where do you stand on Bob Gold, wait, because

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he, he's a big part of this movie.

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And if I'm a digest,

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I'm a fan.

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Okay.

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I like Bobcat.

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And so you had shown me the poster in a PF Chang's of this movie.

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And you were like, we've got to do this movie on the, not panic

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express,

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not panic expresses, PF Chang's.

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And you showed me this poster on your phone and I took one look at it.

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Sure.

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Why not?

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We're doing Ernest goes to camp.

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I'll do whatever else.

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So it's kind of

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how you make all your decisions in life, right?

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Yeah, exactly.

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So I thought, you know, whatever.

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And I really didn't look into this movie, so I didn't realize that he was in it.

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And Bobcat like surprised me in this movie.

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And it was really, I thought kind of a fun surprise.

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Yeah.

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So I, I'm familiar with this work going back to the police Academy movies.

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And that's where a lot of people know him from.

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I didn't know he was in this movie either.

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And also pleasantly surprised.

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I thought if you're not on his wavelength, this movie is a living hell for you.

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But if you're, if you're on board, it is delightful, you know?

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And I think that if it works for you.

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It's great.

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And it worked for me and we'll get into that more, but, but yeah, anyways,

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I was very, you know, spoilers.

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I was very on this movie's wavelength.

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Yeah.

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So we don't have Sam tonight to deliver movie facts.

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I have a few here.

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I will.

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I will deliver.

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So this is from director Savage Steve Holland, who a year before I

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think broke out with another comedy with John Cusack, Better Off Dead.

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So I have a confession to make.

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I haven't seen Better Off Dead either.

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So I,

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I'm kind of like coming, I feel like I should have watched

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this, that movie as well.

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Cause I, Everything I read that this is kind of a two hander better off

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dead and one crazy summer I was reading other reviews and you cannot read a

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review of one crazy summer without it referencing Better off dead as well.

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So I kind of and there's a lot of the same cast That is in both of these movies

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as well He also did a movie called how I got in the college in 89 in legally

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blondes in 2009 He didn't do much else but what savage steve holland Is

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well known for, he has a career in TV.

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He is an animator as well.

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He did all the animation for the game show, Press Your Luck, the whammies.

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I don't know if this is before your time, if you remember that.

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I love

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that game.

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Press Your Luck is one of my favorite game shows in

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the heyday of game shows in the eighties and all the, you know, no

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whammies, no whammies, no whammies.

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Yes.

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I love that.

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So we used

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to have Game Show Network.

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That was like the ultimate.

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Sick day kind of a thing, but he did some Lizzie McGuire too.

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I mean, he's floating around.

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That

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was his career right before this was the presser lock whammies.

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Sure.

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I buy it.

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Yeah.

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So there's a lot of animation in this and he did, he did all the

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hand drawn animation for this movie.

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Awesome.

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Yeah.

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Awesome.

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He's also the screenwriter for this as well.

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So

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I thought this movie kind of read like a Christopher Moore novel.

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Like, it was just so kind of zany, like just so surprising

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in the turns it would take.

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I don't know who that is, but sure.

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You'd like them.

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I just want to, the main cast, we've got John Cusack is a

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Hoops McCann Demi Moore, who is coming off of a few other films.

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What was the one where Rob Lowe I think was right before this?

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I'm blanking on it completely.

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That's on St.

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Elmo's Fire.

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What was it?

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No, there was was it about last night?

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I'm trying to remember.

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Anyways, Curtis Armstrong, ACAC Raymond.

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Now, he also is coming off another franchise That people know him from booger

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from the revenge of the nerds movies.

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So you got two, two character actors who are coming together for this movie here.

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Now, funny thing is I ran into Curtis Armstrong when I was living in LA

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about 22 years ago, he was heading into one of the fitness centers there.

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And I was coming out and we passed, we passed cross paths.

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So I like, I looked at him, like, I didn't scream out booger.

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That would have been kind of rude.

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And he looked at me when we were, we were crossing paths and I, you cannot

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mistake him, but you know, he was in a risky business for revenge of the nerds

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movies and also in better off dead.

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Of course, Bobcat Goldway, the police Academy movies, he had

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quite a career playing this role.

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The interesting, the interesting thing about Bob Goldway is this, he is a, at

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the time he was a standup comic and this character that he's putting on of this

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police Academy,

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the character that it's, it's of somebody who's like dealing

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with like a, this Tourette's mentally damaged, deranged person.

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You know, is a persona that he created.

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It's not his real person.

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It's not, it's

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not what he

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sounds like.

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Exactly.

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And he's actually a very, very talented filmmaker and director.

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And he has a couple of movies out that I think are very good.

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World's greatest dad.

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Came out, I think in 2009, one of the best, he got a great performance out

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of Robin Williams shortly before he died and God bless America is a very

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disturbed movie, but I liked it a lot from a couple of years after that.

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So he's, you know, he's definitely one of the better filmmakers in the industry.

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So it's, it's interesting that he kind of was able to

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transform his career into that.

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And he does a lot of directing and TV as well.

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But Yeah, it's so weird because Bob Goldway, he is, he's putting

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on this persona and then he has to play a role called Egg Stork as this

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character that he's playing as well.

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So there's kind of multiple layers on this.

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Although you could argue that Egg Stork is really just the same persona over again.

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It's pretty close.

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Yep.

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So you got Joel Murray as George Calamari.

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You've got Tom Villard as Clay Stork.

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You've got Jeremy Piven in his very first film role, who looks

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exactly the same as he does now.

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Like he made a deal with the devil.

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Obviously, because he's 21 here, he's, I think, 59 now.

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He does not look any different.

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Yes.

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He's got more hair now than he does back then.

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A little suspicious, but a couple of other people.

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I just want to point out John Matusak.

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I don't know if you know who that is.

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He was, he was a an incredible football player back in the day.

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He plays stain.

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Who is the punk guy with like the green hair.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I love that.

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The bit when there's dead fish on his Liberty spikes.

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That is so funny that I was like comedy gold.

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And one other person I want to point out here, Bruce

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Wagner, who plays uncle Frank, this, this guy was a well known.

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American novelist.

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He was, he's a screenwriter to the movie maps of the stars, which

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was directed by David Cronenberg, which I movie that I really love.

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He's not a novelist of force majeure, wild palms, dead, dead stars.

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He's got this really cynical view of Hollywood and celebrity culture.

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Really, really great writer.

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So I.

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You know, anybody that wants to check out his work, but he plays uncle

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Frank in this movie, which is just odd casting, but you know, it's interesting.

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And finally, Matt Mulhern plays Teddy Beckerstead.

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It's just one other piece of casting.

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I just noticed.

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So anyways, that's, that's, that's what I have for that.

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The budget for this movie was 9 million box office was 13 million.

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So this really was not.

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You know a hit of any significance.

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It was came out on August 8th of 1986 and it debuted at

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number four in the box office.

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Now I like to do this little game, you know where I list the top 10 at the time.

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Cause it gives us kind of some context of what was going on at the box office.

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Do you want to have any guests of what was number one at the box office on.

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August 8th of 1986.

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No,

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this is probably more Sam's thing, but no,

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I'm just wondering like, what, what even came out in 86?

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I don't know.

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What was 10?

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I'll go from 10 to one.

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Okay.

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Number 10 was heartburn, which was in his third week of release made 2.

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5 million.

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It's not a movie.

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Number nine was a fine mess, which also debuted.

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With 2.

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6 million number eight was Howard the duck in its second week of release with 2.

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7 million number seven was nothing in common in its

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second week of release with 2.

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7 million.

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That was actually a decent movie with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason.

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I've never heard of it.

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When did crocodile Dundee come out?

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Is that

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86?

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That was before, that was 80.

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I think that was, yeah, that was 86, but it wasn't, didn't it?

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I think that was earlier in the year

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earlier in the year.

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Yup.

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Number six, good comedy, ruthless people in a seventh week of release was 3.

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1 million.

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That's Danny DeVito.

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Number five in its 13th week of release made 3.

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4 million was top gun.

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All right.

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Give me a hint for the top four.

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All right.

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Top four.

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Well, this was tough.

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I'd know it.

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You do know these four movies, but you might not guess these.

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The one crazy summer was number four.

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For number three was the sixth movie in this franchise.

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What

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Friday the 13th part six, Jason lives in its second week and release 3.

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5 million.

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All right.

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The second movie is number two was the second movie in its franchise.

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Okay.

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And it's eighth week in release.

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The first movie came out in the, in 1984, the first movie.

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And there is a series on Netflix, which is a spinoff of this movie, this franchise.

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Do I know this?

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I don't.

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I was thinking of.

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The Karate Kid part two.

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Okay.

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And it's eighth week of release made 3.

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7 million.

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And number one.

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And it's fourth week of release.

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There is a movie that just came out in the theater, which is the, I think that

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eighth movie in this movie's franchise.

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What genre science

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fiction, horror,

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science fiction, art little shop of horrors,

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no

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damn

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space science fiction, horror

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short circuit.

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Oh my God.

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Aliens, aliens, fourth week of release.

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So that is the top 10.

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Of August 8th, 1986.

Nathan: 00:17:36

Okay.

Nathan: 00:17:37

My voice needs a rest.

Bee: 00:17:39

That was brutal.

Nathan: 00:17:40

Oh, anyway.

Nathan: 00:17:41

So that's kind of the little bit of what was going on.

Nathan: 00:17:44

One other thing I wanted to mention before I just said I

Nathan: 00:17:47

was going to take a break here.

Nathan: 00:17:49

I was so, I was really delighted to notice that I, again, I

Nathan: 00:17:52

knew nothing about this movie.

Nathan: 00:17:53

This whole movie was filmed entirely in Massachusetts.

Nathan: 00:17:56

You can tell, you know Cape Cod, Nantucket, Hyannis, Woods Hole.

Nathan: 00:18:03

Like I was so delighted.

Nathan: 00:18:05

I know

Bee: 00:18:05

our listeners, I'm a South shore, Massachusetts resident.

Bee: 00:18:10

So it was just good fun to see all this play out.

Bee: 00:18:14

I was on Nantucket just a few weeks ago.

Bee: 00:18:16

So it looks like, and you

Nathan: 00:18:19

like saw all the, The one crazy summer locations, selfies.

Bee: 00:18:23

I did actually work Godzilla costume the whole time.

Bee: 00:18:25

It was really hard to miss me.

Bee: 00:18:26

Excellent.

Bee: 00:18:27

Excellent.

Bee: 00:18:28

Did you notice the cinematographer of this film also did the Muppet movie?

Bee: 00:18:32

Isadore Mankoff.

Nathan: 00:18:34

Yes.

Nathan: 00:18:34

The movie he did.

Nathan: 00:18:36

No, again, I'm not trying to make Sam feel bad, but he also

Nathan: 00:18:41

shot Ewoks, the battle of Endor.

Nathan: 00:18:46

Sam, if you're listening, you would appreciate that.

Nathan: 00:18:50

Not, not the best star Wars film out there, but yeah, the Muppets,

Nathan: 00:18:56

yeah, the Muppet movie he did and better off dead as well.

Nathan: 00:18:59

Not much else.

Nathan: 00:19:00

I was also looking at the composer, Corey Lerios, lots of TV credits.

Nathan: 00:19:05

He did.

Nathan: 00:19:06

The, the composer did the theme jingles, theme songs for

Nathan: 00:19:11

networks like CBS, TNT and stars.

Nathan: 00:19:14

So yeah, that, that's his main brand and butter.

Nathan: 00:19:17

That's awesome.

Nathan: 00:19:18

Lots of facts I got, so all right, I guess we should get

Nathan: 00:19:23

into what we think of this film.

Nathan: 00:19:25

Am I going first still?

Bee: 00:19:29

Yeah.

Bee: 00:19:35

Like I said, I was really, I kind of had low expectations.

Bee: 00:19:40

This just hasn't been my genre.

Bee: 00:19:43

But I thought, you know, I'll, I'll follow the assignment and turn my

Bee: 00:19:46

brain off and, and watch the movie.

Bee: 00:19:48

And it was so fun.

Bee: 00:19:50

And I was like, I was gonna say it's a little more smart than I expected, but

Bee: 00:19:54

it was clever in some really fun ways.

Bee: 00:19:56

It took interesting turns.

Bee: 00:19:58

I think everybody in the ensemble like showed up for this movie.

Bee: 00:20:02

I, whatever Savage was doing, I think he, he really got good

Bee: 00:20:08

performances out of people.

Bee: 00:20:09

He got them to understand the assignment and really go for it.

Bee: 00:20:12

And.

Bee: 00:20:13

As silly as a lot of this movie was, I didn't feel like any of the

Bee: 00:20:18

performers were self conscious about it.

Bee: 00:20:21

They were just leaning in and that made it, I think, even better.

Bee: 00:20:26

The regatta was insanely fun to watch.

Bee: 00:20:30

I was, I was having like the time of my life.

Bee: 00:20:33

Tom and I were Laughing out loud to a lot of this movie.

Bee: 00:20:37

That was a big part of it.

Bee: 00:20:38

I love the scene where Godzilla tramples over the, the model

Bee: 00:20:43

town with his mouth on fire.

Bee: 00:20:44

I mean, there's just a lot of really like memorable standout scenes.

Bee: 00:20:48

The naming conventions are.

Bee: 00:20:51

A treat.

Bee: 00:20:52

I just, I really don't have anything super negative to say about this movie.

Bee: 00:20:55

I think, you know, it's just silly.

Bee: 00:20:57

It's just like really wholesome, silly fun.

Bee: 00:20:59

The romance, they have exactly negative chemistry, like

Bee: 00:21:04

negative chemistry, but like, so it's less about like a, a movie for.

Bee: 00:21:10

You know, the guy gets a girl and more about the guy trying to impress the

Bee: 00:21:13

girl and in that way I think it it sort of saves itself So I could get

Bee: 00:21:19

on board with it I was like now the romance is almost kind of secondary

Bee: 00:21:23

even though it's kind of like the catalyst for the plot Yeah, all right.

Bee: 00:21:28

I just thought it was fun.

Bee: 00:21:28

I guess you could make the argument that Some of the ensembles pretty

Bee: 00:21:32

superfluous and they get a little samey, but that also just feels

Bee: 00:21:35

very indicative of the 80s to me.

Bee: 00:21:37

That was a lot of 80s teen movies.

Bee: 00:21:39

So I don't I don't take too much on bridge with it.

Bee: 00:21:42

It was fun.

Nathan: 00:21:43

Mm hmm.

Nathan: 00:21:44

All right.

Nathan: 00:21:45

If you give it a rating, what do you what do you think?

Bee: 00:21:48

Oh, like three and a half.

Bee: 00:21:50

Three and a half.

Nathan: 00:21:51

Yeah, pretty solid.

Bee: 00:21:53

Yeah, I thought it was solid movie.

Bee: 00:21:55

Are you going to tear it to shreds?

Nathan: 00:21:58

Not completely.

Nathan: 00:21:58

I, you know, this this is a silly movie.

Nathan: 00:22:04

And I say that with some irreverence because, you know, you, you

Nathan: 00:22:07

can't take it overly seriously.

Nathan: 00:22:11

I really like John Cusack as an actor, but you know, like I said, I

Nathan: 00:22:16

have a confession to make, you know, this, this isn't my favorite air of

Nathan: 00:22:21

his, I, I had not seen better off dead, but I saw a short thing and.

Nathan: 00:22:28

Some of his other work in this period, I really did not become a fan of his until

Nathan: 00:22:32

probably 1989 say anything where I perked up and started vibing with his brand.

Nathan: 00:22:40

It's it's later on when I feel his performances reflect

Nathan: 00:22:45

that every man appeal.

Nathan: 00:22:47

And the subtleties in his characters, you know, that really

Nathan: 00:22:50

appealed to me or perhaps he just started getting better material.

Nathan: 00:22:54

Anyways, you know, one crazy summer's strength, I still think lies in its

Nathan: 00:23:00

setup and payoff style of comedy.

Nathan: 00:23:04

There were several set pieces in this film that I really thought were.

Nathan: 00:23:10

Absolutely.

Nathan: 00:23:10

Brilliant.

Nathan: 00:23:11

One of them involves, you know an elaborate setup, but you already mentioned

Nathan: 00:23:16

that the setup with the, with act, no, no, who's it's the, it's egg stork, you

Nathan: 00:23:21

know, the, the, the Oh my God the Bobcat character stuck in a Godzilla suit.

Bee: 00:23:29

And

Nathan: 00:23:30

another is where there's a character Calamari who gets

Nathan: 00:23:33

stuck under a beach chair.

Nathan: 00:23:35

Now, none of this humor is.

Nathan: 00:23:37

remotely sophisticated.

Nathan: 00:23:39

No, I couldn't help but appreciate how intelligently the seeds for

Nathan: 00:23:46

these jokes were planted early on in the scenes and paid off later on.

Nathan: 00:23:51

You know, one of my favorite TV shows of all time is Arrested Development, which

Nathan: 00:23:56

is probably the alpha and the omega when it comes to planting the seeds in a joke.

Nathan: 00:24:00

Early in the show or in the scene and then paid off later on this film.

Nathan: 00:24:06

Isn't nearly as smart as the worst episode of that show, but it's trying

Nathan: 00:24:10

to work on that level at times.

Nathan: 00:24:12

I feel like the plot of this movie, it's absolutely nonsense.

Nathan: 00:24:18

Like I can't even, I don't know, but it's so absurd.

Nathan: 00:24:23

So ridiculous.

Nathan: 00:24:24

There's no point in me sitting here poking holes in it,

Nathan: 00:24:27

because clearly the filmmakers.

Nathan: 00:24:29

Didn't give a rat's ass about any of it making sense, but because the

Nathan: 00:24:33

plot, I'll say it was crew expendable that did leave us with some fun

Nathan: 00:24:40

characters still the Stork brothers.

Bee: 00:24:42

Hilarious.

Bee: 00:24:43

And

Nathan: 00:24:43

you either will find them hilarious or probably find their bit very

Nathan: 00:24:48

tiresome after a short period of time.

Nathan: 00:24:50

The, the, let's see, we got Clay played by Tom Villard and Bobcat Goldway.

Nathan: 00:24:56

Now I said before I, I was.

Nathan: 00:24:59

It's really, really impressed with Bob go away.

Nathan: 00:25:02

You're either on his wavelength or you're not.

Nathan: 00:25:05

It works for me.

Nathan: 00:25:07

I think he's got actually some of the funniest dialogue in this movie

Nathan: 00:25:11

because he's definitely the, you could look at it and say, he's just

Nathan: 00:25:15

this out of control, wacky character.

Nathan: 00:25:17

But some of the funniest moments are what I think is probably him improving.

Nathan: 00:25:23

A lot of his dialogue, because he's, there's a time where like,

Nathan: 00:25:26

he's carrying things around.

Nathan: 00:25:27

Is there anything else you want us to carry?

Nathan: 00:25:28

Do you have a car or something like that?

Nathan: 00:25:30

Which I think is probably him just like riffing, you know, cause he's a

Nathan: 00:25:34

stand up comic, which had me bawling because it's really probably just him.

Nathan: 00:25:39

Improv ing a lot of, a lot of his lines, which I thought was really, really good.

Nathan: 00:25:43

What else?

Nathan: 00:25:45

I just, I really just enjoyed the screen time with the storks a lot.

Nathan: 00:25:49

Yeah, but none of the others, the script I'd say was really

Nathan: 00:25:52

a strength of this movie.

Nathan: 00:25:54

And finally, I just want to say one other thing.

Nathan: 00:25:55

I loved the villain in this.

Nathan: 00:25:57

I think it's Daddy Beckerstead.

Nathan: 00:25:59

Hollywood doesn't give us many mustache twirling villains anymore.

Nathan: 00:26:04

This guy, this guy rocks.

Nathan: 00:26:05

He does.

Nathan: 00:26:06

And you know he's bad because he loves to toss live lobsters into

Nathan: 00:26:10

a boiling pot of water and listen to them scream with a stethoscope.

Bee: 00:26:13

So funny.

Bee: 00:26:15

I, I thought he was great.

Bee: 00:26:18

And I, I think we got to talk about George Calamari too.

Bee: 00:26:21

I mean, like, What a funny, who just like he arrives on Nantucket and just

Bee: 00:26:27

like, Oh yeah, I'm in my element now.

Bee: 00:26:30

Like, he's just so funny.

Bee: 00:26:33

I think you're right.

Bee: 00:26:33

The, the payoff for all these bits, but I also think we don't get a lot of

Bee: 00:26:39

like, Bit based comedy movies anymore.

Bee: 00:26:43

It was really nice to see this loose structure where there was no adherence

Bee: 00:26:49

to, like, we have to stay with this one style or we have to, you know, only

Bee: 00:26:56

make the buildup bigger for fewer jokes.

Bee: 00:26:59

Like you could have a beach bit, you could have a boat, but you could have a

Bee: 00:27:02

Godzilla, but you could have a lobster.

Bee: 00:27:04

Boy, like it just was fun and absurdist and it just felt like chapters.

Bee: 00:27:09

And I really Appreciated just how sort of loose this film was.

Nathan: 00:27:15

Yeah, so I had a good time with this.

Nathan: 00:27:17

It's fun It's stupid movie, but I found myself laughing you know,

Nathan: 00:27:22

enough in this, I, you know, it's, it's a mild, mild of like

Nathan: 00:27:29

recommendations of movies from this era.

Nathan: 00:27:31

I'm, I debated between like a two and a half and a three.

Nathan: 00:27:35

I'm going to give it a three out of five, just because.

Nathan: 00:27:38

Because I, I remember I had a good enough time of enjoyable enough time

Nathan: 00:27:44

in this movie where it just ekes into that range, but yeah, yeah, it's fine.

Nathan: 00:27:50

It's fine.

Nathan: 00:27:51

You know, there's better eighties comedies, but this was better

Nathan: 00:27:54

than I thought it was going to be.

Nathan: 00:27:56

Absolutely.

Nathan: 00:27:57

I went into this thinking that I picked, we picked a bad movie.

Nathan: 00:28:00

I picked a bad movie on purpose and I, and I was surprised that this

Nathan: 00:28:05

actually Some good elements to it.

Nathan: 00:28:08

So yeah,

Bee: 00:28:09

I would totally rewatch this like I just thought and it would

Bee: 00:28:13

it just felt very wholesome You know, this movie is just whole milk.

Nathan: 00:28:18

I want to, I actually, I want to get back to these,

Nathan: 00:28:22

the, the setup and payoffs.

Nathan: 00:28:24

Cause I, I, like I said, I think that's the strength of these movies.

Nathan: 00:28:28

That Godzilla fit is for me is the, the crescendo of, of all of this, because

Nathan: 00:28:37

Where so many movies would I think take a more lowbrow route to this.

Nathan: 00:28:42

I love that

Nathan: 00:28:46

I love that.

Nathan: 00:28:48

So first of all, egg eggs is a stork, right?

Nathan: 00:28:51

He gets stuck in the Godzilla costume,

Bee: 00:28:54

you

Nathan: 00:28:54

know, and then like several things happen, you know, he tries eating.

Nathan: 00:28:59

Cookies and that fails.

Nathan: 00:29:01

And that kind of like sets up a little thing else where he can't

Nathan: 00:29:03

really get things in his mouth.

Nathan: 00:29:06

You know, he's hiding in the bushes and then somebody passes

Nathan: 00:29:10

by and cigar goes in his mouth.

Nathan: 00:29:13

And then he comes out screaming and he stomps, you know, the, the.

Nathan: 00:29:17

Beakerstead, you know, model.

Nathan: 00:29:19

So this is just an absolutely amazing sequence.

Nathan: 00:29:23

And then of course, it's also, there's a, there's Asian man at the

Nathan: 00:29:26

party who finds it funny as well.

Nathan: 00:29:28

The level of joke and payoff is, is really operating on, on a high level.

Nathan: 00:29:34

And I, and I mentioned Arrested Development.

Nathan: 00:29:38

This joke was actually done by Arrested Development in, I think

Nathan: 00:29:41

like season three of the show.

Nathan: 00:29:43

I don't know if you're a fan of that show.

Nathan: 00:29:45

I am.

Nathan: 00:29:46

They did the same thing, a very similar thing where somebody got, I think, Tobias

Nathan: 00:29:52

or somebody got trapped in a Godzilla suit and George Michael comes out and he's like

Nathan: 00:29:56

in a spaceman like Jet Jaguar suit as well and flying through this, the model scene.

Nathan: 00:30:02

One of the funniest moments on Arrested Development as well.

Nathan: 00:30:06

I just wanted to point that out that this is really operating on a high

Nathan: 00:30:10

level of comedy of setup and payoff.

Nathan: 00:30:15

You know, this takes place over the course of like five minutes, this whole, this

Nathan: 00:30:20

whole thing, just for this payoff of Godzilla stomping through this model, so

Bee: 00:30:25

worth it.

Bee: 00:30:26

It was like one of the best set pieces in the movie.

Bee: 00:30:28

I also think like, just to zoom out a little bit.

Bee: 00:30:32

It's kind of a fun a fun movie where it's like a little bit of, you have kind

Bee: 00:30:37

of this fish out of water movie too.

Bee: 00:30:39

Like the John Cusack character meets Demi Moore, meets Cassandra in a

Bee: 00:30:45

bathroom by like saving her from these, Thugs who are after her for money.

Bee: 00:30:50

And he, you know, it's totally unintentional.

Bee: 00:30:53

And then they have to drive their car.

Bee: 00:30:55

They have to jump it off the dock.

Bee: 00:30:57

They make the ferry to Nantucket.

Nathan: 00:30:59

Let's actually go back to that.

Nathan: 00:31:01

Cause how they meet.

Nathan: 00:31:02

Cause I do want to go through some of the, the plot points of this.

Nathan: 00:31:06

They meet at this, in this bathroom or whatever it was, were you confused at all?

Nathan: 00:31:14

The relationship between the Cassandra character and these other people, like

Nathan: 00:31:18

she has a younger sister, I guess, squid, is that her name or something like that?

Nathan: 00:31:24

I had no idea they squid and her dog jump into the car.

Bee: 00:31:30

Well, that was George's George calamari's sister, right?

Nathan: 00:31:33

It was.

Bee: 00:31:35

I thought so.

Bee: 00:31:35

I don't know.

Bee: 00:31:36

He was like, I got to pick up my sister.

Bee: 00:31:38

Don't say anything about her dog.

Bee: 00:31:41

Oh.

Bee: 00:31:42

And.

Bee: 00:31:43

Oh, how funny is it that the kid's faces got stuck like that?

Bee: 00:31:46

I,

Nathan: 00:31:47

you know, I was not, I thought that was stupid, honestly.

Bee: 00:31:49

I thought it was so funny.

Nathan: 00:31:51

But okay, so wait, I'm time out.

Nathan: 00:31:53

Did she pick, was the idea to pick up her younger sister and

Nathan: 00:31:57

the dog at the gas station?

Bee: 00:32:00

No, I think they just went to the gas station and John Cusack went to

Bee: 00:32:04

use the bathroom and she was in there.

Nathan: 00:32:06

Her sister just happened to be At the gas station.

Nathan: 00:32:09

They all just jumped in the car together.

Bee: 00:32:12

No, I think they picked up the sister and then went to the gas station.

Bee: 00:32:14

We met them at the gas station,

Nathan: 00:32:16

but the dog and.

Nathan: 00:32:19

Squid also hopped in the car when Cassandra jumped in the car all at once.

Nathan: 00:32:27

Like, and I was so confused.

Nathan: 00:32:29

Like, I do not remember Calamari saying, don't say anything about the

Nathan: 00:32:34

dog, by the way, I don't really know what the big deal about the dog was.

Nathan: 00:32:37

I've had dogs before.

Nathan: 00:32:39

Having a cone on a dog is, is not that big a deal.

Nathan: 00:32:43

So I, I really don't understand what the deal, why, why that's

Nathan: 00:32:47

funny or not funny, or I don't know.

Nathan: 00:32:49

I

Bee: 00:32:49

think we're just meant to believe the dog is ugly.

Nathan: 00:32:51

That dog is not that ugly.

Nathan: 00:32:53

I mean, I've seen some

Bee: 00:32:54

really ugly dogs.

Bee: 00:32:55

That dog

Nathan: 00:32:57

is perfectly fine.

Bee: 00:32:58

Yeah.

Bee: 00:32:59

Yeah.

Bee: 00:32:59

The dog's just a shelter dog.

Bee: 00:33:00

I think, I think, I think, I think the girl

Nathan: 00:33:03

is, is a little creepier than that dog.

Nathan: 00:33:05

So and that's where.

Nathan: 00:33:08

So anyways, I was so confused how squid and the dog were related to this

Nathan: 00:33:14

because they seem to just pick them up at the same time Cassandra did.

Nathan: 00:33:17

So I thought maybe they were like all traveling together.

Bee: 00:33:21

No idea.

Nathan: 00:33:22

I don't know.

Nathan: 00:33:22

It's not really explained very well, but you know, I want to back up even before

Nathan: 00:33:28

that, cause we, we, we jumped ahead here.

Nathan: 00:33:30

I didn't know, first of all, I didn't know there was going to be this animation

Nathan: 00:33:32

in the beginning, but what I loved was the very beginning hoops is graduating.

Nathan: 00:33:39

His mom washes his cap and gown and it barely fits him.

Nathan: 00:33:43

This, this is kind of a silly.

Nathan: 00:33:45

I've seen them before, but I actually found this really funny that he's

Nathan: 00:33:48

going to graduation with a tiny like 10 year old cap and gown on.

Nathan: 00:33:53

And they graduate from generic high school.

Nathan: 00:34:00

It touched me.

Nathan: 00:34:00

I don't know.

Nathan: 00:34:01

I thought I thought that

Bee: 00:34:02

was so funny.

Bee: 00:34:03

Tom and I actually like I put it I was like, oh my God, generic high school.

Bee: 00:34:06

That's good.

Bee: 00:34:07

That's genuinely funny.

Bee: 00:34:09

And I like the animation too.

Bee: 00:34:10

I like that we started as sort of an animated movie and then it pans

Bee: 00:34:14

out to be just a drawing and I just thought that was a cool convention.

Nathan: 00:34:18

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:34:18

And the, the, the fluffy bunnies then we, we, we take them out with a.

Nathan: 00:34:23

Some like a really submachine gun.

Nathan: 00:34:26

Yeah, it was, it was, it was well done.

Nathan: 00:34:28

Some cool music in here too.

Nathan: 00:34:30

We got a twisted sister, be cool in your school and ZZ Top or after that.

Nathan: 00:34:36

So yeah, I, I'm a

Bee: 00:34:37

little of like rock and roll high school.

Nathan: 00:34:39

Yep.

Nathan: 00:34:40

Oh yeah, totally.

Nathan: 00:34:41

And then, yeah, so.

Nathan: 00:34:42

Now we're back up to where we were.

Nathan: 00:34:44

They, they, they make this ridiculous jump onto the ferry, which complete

Nathan: 00:34:50

suspension of disbelief on that, on that there, because you can see they

Nathan: 00:34:53

weren't even lined up with a ferry.

Bee: 00:34:54

But no, I know what you're saying.

Bee: 00:34:59

Like it was just, It tells you right away how dumb this movie is going to be.

Bee: 00:35:04

It's just like this buckle up.

Bee: 00:35:06

It's about to get stupid.

Nathan: 00:35:08

Yep.

Nathan: 00:35:09

And then I love when we actually get to Nantucket, it becomes

Nathan: 00:35:13

like, let's introduce the smorgasbord of 80 stereotypes,

Bee: 00:35:17

which

Nathan: 00:35:17

had me really rolling.

Nathan: 00:35:18

That's where we meet.

Nathan: 00:35:19

egg and clay stork.

Nathan: 00:35:21

We get to meet the blonde yuppie Teddy and his, his hot girlfriend who tempts

Nathan: 00:35:26

him with a box of animal crackers, which really laughed at and then Jeremy

Nathan: 00:35:33

Piven, who just is in this movie.

Bee: 00:35:37

In this movie, I was really giggling at all the like, Nantucket fashion.

Bee: 00:35:44

Yeah.

Bee: 00:35:44

All this, like, you know, Ralph Lauren kind of Nautica

Bee: 00:35:48

gear that they were wearing.

Bee: 00:35:50

I was like, Oh man, that is so fun.

Bee: 00:35:52

That's just so fun.

Nathan: 00:35:54

We, we meet ACAC who is at the Nantucket.

Nathan: 00:35:59

Air force space, which is not a thing,

Bee: 00:36:02

not a thing.

Bee: 00:36:03

But did you catch the joke in his name?

Bee: 00:36:06

Act is AC is the acronym for

Nathan: 00:36:10

pretty good can naming

Bee: 00:36:12

conventions were on point in this movie.

Bee: 00:36:15

There was one

Nathan: 00:36:17

joke in there that did kind of piss me off a little bit.

Nathan: 00:36:21

I saw, you know, there were some funny jokes in this movie, but

Nathan: 00:36:24

sometimes the I wish gave its audience a little more credit because.

Nathan: 00:36:33

There was a, it's ACAC's father, I think that says that he's like collecting shells

Nathan: 00:36:38

on the beach or is that what it was?

Nathan: 00:36:40

I'm like, it would have been funny if we go there and we just see him like

Nathan: 00:36:46

running around between the explosions.

Nathan: 00:36:48

It's not that hard for, I think, an audience to realize, Oh, shells, you

Nathan: 00:36:52

know, but then he says, Oh yeah, yeah.

Nathan: 00:36:54

Like they really spell it out.

Nathan: 00:36:56

And it kind of like.

Nathan: 00:36:58

did the joke for me.

Nathan: 00:36:59

Like really, I didn't need to get hit over the head with that.

Nathan: 00:37:02

I got it.

Nathan: 00:37:03

So there's a few times that the movie does that, which like, we're not

Nathan: 00:37:09

that stupid, you know, but it's okay.

Nathan: 00:37:14

We soon meet the main villain.

Nathan: 00:37:17

I forget his first name, but I just call him Daddy Beckersted.

Bee: 00:37:20

And like

Nathan: 00:37:20

I said, I love this guy.

Nathan: 00:37:22

He's wearing the most offensive green pants I've seen in a movie.

Nathan: 00:37:27

And so he's all about the money.

Nathan: 00:37:30

I love that he, he crushes that model house, replaces it with

Nathan: 00:37:35

the lobster log restaurant.

Nathan: 00:37:38

So you liked this?

Nathan: 00:37:39

You liked this character?

Bee: 00:37:40

I did.

Bee: 00:37:41

I thought he was hilarious.

Bee: 00:37:42

I, like you said, total mustache twirling.

Bee: 00:37:46

And just kind of fun in retrospect to look at this in the context of Nantucket

Bee: 00:37:53

which if you don't live on, on Southern, in Southern New England is an island where

Bee: 00:37:59

it's, it's no longer even the millionaires playgrounds, the billionaires playground.

Bee: 00:38:03

And it's just, it's been so taken over By these folks who, who don't live there

Bee: 00:38:10

year round, who have a ton of money.

Bee: 00:38:11

And it's kind of always been a money place, but it's really gotten Someone

Bee: 00:38:16

like hoops might not be going there to, to spend a week or whatever now.

Bee: 00:38:19

So it's just interesting.

Nathan: 00:38:23

What I also just love about daddy Beckerstead is that,

Nathan: 00:38:27

you know, I don't think he really cares about the actual restaurant.

Nathan: 00:38:33

I think he just wants an excuse to murder lobsters.

Bee: 00:38:37

I didn't even think of that.

Bee: 00:38:37

That's so funny.

Nathan: 00:38:40

All I can think of him cause he's just, all he does is like, he's, he's,

Nathan: 00:38:43

he's He has a crossbow shooting lobsters.

Nathan: 00:38:46

He's all he's, that's all he does is this movie.

Nathan: 00:38:49

All I can do is think of him like dressed up, like, like this, this might be really

Nathan: 00:38:54

offensive to certain groups, but I can do this, I guess, cause I'm in the club.

Nathan: 00:38:58

I think of him dressed up as like Ray Fiennes and like Schindler's List, just

Nathan: 00:39:00

running in an internment camp for the purpose of just torturing lobsters.

Nathan: 00:39:04

I just, like, he's just like, has it all out on lobsters.

Bee: 00:39:12

And it's so funny how he is the idea of him just like using his son as

Bee: 00:39:18

a pawn to, to get the money so that he can secure the bag from his dying father.

Bee: 00:39:25

Stop

Nathan: 00:39:25

it.

Nathan: 00:39:25

Stop it.

Nathan: 00:39:26

The plot is ridiculous.

Bee: 00:39:28

It's so funny, but I loved that they, that he had his son

Bee: 00:39:32

training in like, What is the rinky dinkiest little inground pool?

Bee: 00:39:37

It was like,

Nathan: 00:39:37

yes, I can do my laps.

Nathan: 00:39:38

Dad, I do my laps laps.

Nathan: 00:39:42

Like I guess it's like, it's like, how far can you go?

Bee: 00:39:47

It's so stupid.

Nathan: 00:39:50

Oh, anyways.

Nathan: 00:39:52

So see here.

Nathan: 00:39:53

So hoops, George and all the friends are at the beach.

Nathan: 00:39:57

George is buried in the sand, which on its own is kind of funny.

Nathan: 00:40:01

And this also.

Nathan: 00:40:03

Brings us back to the whole setup and payoff.

Nathan: 00:40:07

I, I appreciated that this, this, this is another joke that was set

Nathan: 00:40:13

up and paid off many minutes later.

Nathan: 00:40:16

It's what I really appreciate about this movie.

Nathan: 00:40:18

The setup for this joke took place early in the scene and it's the

Nathan: 00:40:21

type of setup that's, it's, it's done so many times in this movie.

Nathan: 00:40:26

So what happens is, Several minutes later, there's this like large

Nathan: 00:40:30

person that comes and sits down.

Nathan: 00:40:32

In the film, what it, what it, what it doesn't do, I'll get that.

Nathan: 00:40:35

What it doesn't do is it doesn't go for the low hanging fruit and we witnessed

Nathan: 00:40:39

something completely disgusting, you know, instead the person that's sitting

Nathan: 00:40:45

over him, like you'd rather say.

Nathan: 00:40:47

whips out like the largest can of like government issued chili I've ever seen.

Nathan: 00:40:55

But we, but the thing is we cut away.

Nathan: 00:40:58

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:40:59

Leaving what happens next up to our imaginations.

Bee: 00:41:02

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:41:02

And then.

Nathan: 00:41:04

We get that capper at the end, we have the two lifeguards, you know, who are

Nathan: 00:41:08

fighting over who won't give George CPR.

Bee: 00:41:11

Right.

Bee: 00:41:12

I will say one thing that this movie that I appreciated is I don't really

Bee: 00:41:18

think it, it punches down a lot.

Bee: 00:41:21

Like it, it's a movie that has sexy women in it.

Bee: 00:41:25

It's got a lot of fun.

Bee: 00:41:26

It's got this, this sort of humor that happens with him being buried

Bee: 00:41:30

in the sand, but it's not really.

Bee: 00:41:34

It's making fun of situations more than it's making fun of people often, I think.

Bee: 00:41:39

And it's, if it does punch on anyone, it's sort of punching

Bee: 00:41:43

up on, on folks like yeah.

Bee: 00:41:46

So I, I always appreciate that kind of humor a little more.

Bee: 00:41:51

It does.

Bee: 00:41:51

It, it certainly ages better.

Nathan: 00:41:53

Yup.

Nathan: 00:41:54

I don't know.

Nathan: 00:41:55

What else?

Nathan: 00:41:56

I mean, we

Bee: 00:41:56

got to talk boat race.

Bee: 00:41:57

We got to talk about how, again, the unlikely hero John Cusack is like.

Bee: 00:42:03

I've got a way to get our money.

Bee: 00:42:04

I figured it out.

Nathan: 00:42:06

The plan is, well, there's more to the plan than the boat races.

Nathan: 00:42:10

A couple of things.

Nathan: 00:42:11

One of the plans is that makes absolutely no sense at all is to get back at like

Nathan: 00:42:18

Teddy by putting lobsters in his pool.

Nathan: 00:42:23

No, I have, there's a couple of things here.

Nathan: 00:42:25

All right.

Nathan: 00:42:25

He's screaming again at his dad.

Nathan: 00:42:27

I got to do my laps dad, which always cracks me up, but

Nathan: 00:42:30

this is stupid beyond stupid.

Nathan: 00:42:33

on multiple levels.

Nathan: 00:42:34

One, it's the most ridiculous plan because anybody would see dozens of

Nathan: 00:42:38

lobsters in the bottom of the pool.

Nathan: 00:42:42

If they are so desperate for money, sell the fucking lobsters.

Nathan: 00:42:46

They probably got thousands of dollars in lobsters.

Nathan: 00:42:49

They just threw away.

Nathan: 00:42:50

I'm guessing.

Bee: 00:42:52

I don't know.

Bee: 00:42:53

I don't know.

Bee: 00:42:53

I mean, we're lobsters a dime a dozen and then

Nathan: 00:42:56

when Teddy comes out of the pool, there's like a two and

Nathan: 00:43:01

a half foot lobster hanging on.

Nathan: 00:43:03

That's true.

Nathan: 00:43:04

It's like,

Bee: 00:43:05

It's actually, they're actually dolphins in lobster costumes.

Bee: 00:43:08

That was how they could afford it.

Nathan: 00:43:09

Oh my gosh.

Nathan: 00:43:11

And I know saltwater pools.

Nathan: 00:43:13

are a thing, but I don't think that was one.

Nathan: 00:43:16

So those lobsters would be dead

Bee: 00:43:18

anyways.

Bee: 00:43:19

But those are my

Nathan: 00:43:19

three main gripes with that scene, but it's so stupid.

Nathan: 00:43:24

Like for what end did they have to do that anyways?

Nathan: 00:43:28

But anyways, that's, there's a couple of dumb things like that.

Bee: 00:43:32

And then you get to the world's weirdest regatta where

Bee: 00:43:34

it's sail then motor and any kind of build your own boat can get it.

Nathan: 00:43:41

I don't know.

Nathan: 00:43:42

I, I think it's, I think it's kind of unfortunate that the Cassandra

Nathan: 00:43:46

character wasn't on that boat.

Bee: 00:43:48

I thought so too.

Bee: 00:43:49

I thought it was weird.

Nathan: 00:43:51

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:43:51

She's just like sidelined in a whole thing.

Nathan: 00:43:54

Just like, yay.

Bee: 00:43:56

Meanwhile, you have hoops who doesn't even like boats.

Bee: 00:43:58

This is his whole thing, his character arc.

Bee: 00:44:00

He's got a,

Nathan: 00:44:02

I feel like she should have been on that, like having a more active role in

Nathan: 00:44:07

that race, helping him or, I don't know.

Nathan: 00:44:10

I was a little, I was a little, eh, it's the eighties.

Nathan: 00:44:13

They, they did things like that, I guess.

Nathan: 00:44:15

I don't know.

Bee: 00:44:15

Totally agree.

Bee: 00:44:16

But it was a really fun and funny race.

Nathan: 00:44:20

We had a good montage too.

Nathan: 00:44:22

We had a good

Bee: 00:44:22

montage.

Bee: 00:44:24

We had a really fun montage.

Bee: 00:44:27

Yeah.

Bee: 00:44:27

Yeah, I, I liked the, I, and I liked the reveal that it's the car.

Nathan: 00:44:31

Also we have, there was, I have to bring this up cause I, there was

Nathan: 00:44:36

this moment before the, the montage and before the regatta where it's just

Nathan: 00:44:45

very dramatic moment, which sticks out like a sore thumb in this movie, clay.

Nathan: 00:44:52

Stork drives Teddy's car into the garage and he's been punched.

Nathan: 00:44:57

He's got a bloody nose.

Nathan: 00:44:59

And I don't know if you noticed this moment, but Egg says in this very,

Nathan: 00:45:04

very serious, dramatic way, he hit you.

Nathan: 00:45:07

And the music becomes very dramatic.

Nathan: 00:45:10

And I suddenly feel like I'm watching like this PSA for domestic violence.

Nathan: 00:45:14

Do you remember Bobcat like delivering this line and the music changing and

Nathan: 00:45:19

it becoming all of a sudden for about five seconds of this movie, very, very

Nathan: 00:45:22

serious about Clay getting punched and, and Bobcat getting very, very concerned

Nathan: 00:45:30

about his, his brother getting beaten.

Bee: 00:45:34

I didn't clock it at all.

Nathan: 00:45:36

It is hysterical because Bobcat is delivering this line in earnest.

Nathan: 00:45:45

It's like, he hit you.

Nathan: 00:45:47

And, and the music is like very dramatic and the, like you, it's,

Nathan: 00:45:53

it's, it's Priceless moment.

Nathan: 00:45:55

Cause it's, it's so different, such a different tone than

Nathan: 00:45:59

anything else in the movie.

Nathan: 00:46:00

It's right, right before, right before the montage.

Nathan: 00:46:04

And of course, when they take the, the Ferrari engine,

Bee: 00:46:08

yeah.

Bee: 00:46:09

And how fun was the the christening of the boat with a nip?

Bee: 00:46:12

Yes, right in

Nathan: 00:46:15

the side of it.

Bee: 00:46:18

And with the generic name and convention, they just named it the boat.

Nathan: 00:46:21

So.

Nathan: 00:46:25

So hoops redeems himself by somehow finally getting a basket by throwing

Nathan: 00:46:31

a thing through the hoop that saves them somehow because the, the yuppies

Nathan: 00:46:38

play dirty and and they win the race by and Georgian and a cookie.

Nathan: 00:46:47

Hook up at the end, which, who saw that coming?

Bee: 00:46:50

So funny.

Bee: 00:46:52

And typically you say something like, we got to stop playing these games.

Bee: 00:47:01

And cookie's like, I'm into that.

Bee: 00:47:03

I do like, and this is another example where it kind of turns a lot

Bee: 00:47:07

of eighties conventions on its head.

Bee: 00:47:09

Cookie leans in for the kiss cookies like, Oh yeah, this is my guy now.

Bee: 00:47:14

And she leans in.

Bee: 00:47:15

I feel like a lot of movies would have had it be a lot gropier and a lot more gross.

Bee: 00:47:20

And that's not what happens here.

Bee: 00:47:21

So I was kind of, I was like, okay, go get it.

Bee: 00:47:24

Cookie, go get your man.

Bee: 00:47:25

Go get that calamari.

Nathan: 00:47:28

Exactly.

Nathan: 00:47:28

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:47:29

You know, it's, it's funny.

Nathan: 00:47:30

And I didn't really make a note on this, but you brought up a really good point

Nathan: 00:47:34

that, you know, the bad guys are the bad guys in this, but there really is

Nathan: 00:47:38

I liked your point where like, nobody's really being punched down on this.

Nathan: 00:47:42

Of course, we're making fun of like the rich, the yuppies, the ones that are

Nathan: 00:47:46

trying to, To, to, Oh, I'll get to this point in a moment, but like, uh, the

Nathan: 00:47:53

Becker Steads basically, but like even cookie, you know, she's not a bad person.

Nathan: 00:47:58

Really.

Nathan: 00:47:58

I mean, she's, she's, I mean, the guy that she's dating is

Nathan: 00:48:01

an absolute oaf, but you know,

Nathan: 00:48:06

you know, there's really, there's nobody that's really a bad person.

Bee: 00:48:08

I want

Nathan: 00:48:11

to get to one thing that I think could have been a

Nathan: 00:48:13

little bit of improvement on this movie that really bothered me.

Nathan: 00:48:16

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:48:17

So Cassandra is trying to save her, her house.

Nathan: 00:48:23

I put that in quotes.

Bee: 00:48:24

Yeah.

Bee: 00:48:24

Like her, her uncle or her dad.

Bee: 00:48:26

Okay.

Nathan: 00:48:27

So that she needs 3, 000.

Nathan: 00:48:31

I feel like 3, 000 in 1986, it's not a lot of money.

Nathan: 00:48:41

And there's a lot of shenanigans that they go through to try to raise this money.

Nathan: 00:48:45

First of all You know, Demi Moore is a good looking person.

Nathan: 00:48:49

This is Nan Tuckett.

Nathan: 00:48:51

There's

Bee: 00:48:52

Are you thinking sugar daddy?

Nathan: 00:48:54

She has so many options.

Bee: 00:48:56

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:48:57

Like, like honestly, like she's, she's willing to give

Nathan: 00:49:01

up this whole, her whole dream.

Nathan: 00:49:03

I mean

Bee: 00:49:04

But they just graduated high school, you know, and this is a wholesome movie.

Bee: 00:49:09

It is.

Bee: 00:49:09

It

Nathan: 00:49:10

doesn't go there at all.

Bee: 00:49:11

No, it doesn't even entertain it.

Bee: 00:49:13

I mean, this is really like the conceit of this movie is like,

Bee: 00:49:17

well, we'll never make this movie.

Bee: 00:49:18

If we just hang on, we'll never make this money.

Bee: 00:49:20

If we just hang on to our summer jobs at the dairy B ice cream shop

Bee: 00:49:24

like that, I'll never get that.

Bee: 00:49:27

That

Nathan: 00:49:27

was a really rude thing to say, but I, it was It did cross my mind.

Nathan: 00:49:31

Like in our reader version of this movie, they would, it was

Nathan: 00:49:34

to go to some very different,

Bee: 00:49:35

it would have been the punching down that this movie doesn't do like

Bee: 00:49:41

it, it would have been something that passes a lot of judgment on her.

Bee: 00:49:45

No, I, I like, and you know, when you're 18, 3, 000 is a lot of money.

Bee: 00:49:49

But

Nathan: 00:49:49

what I was going to say about.

Nathan: 00:49:51

Her goal is she's trying to raise his money to save the house because

Nathan: 00:49:56

there are people living in there.

Nathan: 00:49:58

Now we never meet anybody there.

Nathan: 00:50:01

So I feel like I am lacking stakes, which bothered me a little bit.

Nathan: 00:50:09

I, you know, She, she doesn't want these people throwing out.

Nathan: 00:50:13

I think this movie's only an hour and a half long.

Nathan: 00:50:17

I think a two minute scene where Cassandra takes hoops to where she

Nathan: 00:50:24

lives to me, like this is old man Buckley and he's been living here cause

Nathan: 00:50:29

my dad put game, put them up here and I don't want him to be thrown out.

Nathan: 00:50:33

We never meet any of the people that she's trying to save from being Displaced.

Nathan: 00:50:39

And I, cause all I know are these no name people that we never

Nathan: 00:50:43

meet are going to be thrown out.

Nathan: 00:50:46

And I don't even know how many people it's a house.

Nathan: 00:50:48

It's not an, it's an apartment complex.

Nathan: 00:50:50

All I know is it's a house.

Bee: 00:50:51

It's a duplex.

Bee: 00:50:52

It's like four or five people.

Bee: 00:50:54

Yeah.

Bee: 00:50:55

But.

Bee: 00:50:55

And we also miss out on opportunities for more great naming conventions like

Bee: 00:50:59

Chum Bucket or Plank, you know, other Yeah, no, this is this is a really

Bee: 00:51:05

good point because you know, it would raise the stakes more We spend so much

Bee: 00:51:11

time with the villains in this movie.

Bee: 00:51:12

Like we spend so much time with them

Nathan: 00:51:14

well, I also think there's a character that we don't need

Nathan: 00:51:17

and And we spend a little too much time and that's ACAC, you

Bee: 00:51:21

know, like

Nathan: 00:51:22

absolutely unneeded.

Nathan: 00:51:24

We, we have Calamari, we've got hoops, we've got the, the store brothers

Nathan: 00:51:29

there, there's, I feel like ACAC was really only needed so we could

Nathan: 00:51:33

have like a fifth person on that boat at the end, you know, which

Bee: 00:51:36

could have been to me.

Nathan: 00:51:38

Absolutely could have been.

Bee: 00:51:39

So yeah, no, I think he's a little redundant.

Bee: 00:51:43

Yeah.

Bee: 00:51:43

I'm with you.

Bee: 00:51:45

I'm with you.

Nathan: 00:51:46

Those are really all my thoughts.

Bee: 00:51:48

We didn't talk about when the girls go boating and they, they're

Bee: 00:51:52

like, can you, that scene where is it Kalamari who's buried in the sand?

Bee: 00:51:57

And the whole reason he gets left behind is because, oh, can you

Bee: 00:52:02

help us get our boat in the water?

Bee: 00:52:04

Can you help us carry our boat?

Bee: 00:52:05

The world's smallest little sailboat.

Bee: 00:52:07

Yeah.

Bee: 00:52:08

Girl just sitting on it.

Bee: 00:52:09

I was like, this is so funny.

Bee: 00:52:11

Oh

Nathan: 00:52:11

yeah, it was, I had a good time.

Nathan: 00:52:13

I had a good time.

Nathan: 00:52:14

I'm glad, I'm glad I finally got to see this.

Bee: 00:52:16

Me too.

Bee: 00:52:18

Me too.

Bee: 00:52:20

Should we

Nathan: 00:52:20

yeah, I'll take a little break.

Nathan: 00:52:22

So, all right.

Nathan: 00:52:23

Thank you everyone for joining our transmission.

Nathan: 00:52:27

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Nathan: 00:52:28

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Nathan: 00:52:30

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Nathan: 00:53:13

Okay.

Nathan: 00:53:14

So we.

Nathan: 00:53:17

Hey, should we do our movie pairing now, or do you want to do our decision?

Bumper: 00:53:21

Let's do the pairing.

Bumper: 00:53:22

Sir?

Trailer: 00:53:23

What?

Bumper: 00:53:24

Aren't either one of these any good?

Trailer: 00:53:26

I don't watch movies.

Bumper: 00:53:29

Well, have you heard anything about either one of them?

Trailer: 00:53:31

I find it's best to stay out of other people's affairs.

Bumper: 00:53:35

You mean you haven't heard anybody say anything about either one of these?

Trailer: 00:53:39

Nope.

Bumper: 00:53:45

Well, what about these two?

Trailer: 00:53:47

Oh, they suck.

Bee: 00:53:48

So I was thinking for this movie, you know, we've been doing some 80s

Bee: 00:53:52

summer comedies, so I don't, I didn't want to, I want to be sort of on

Bee: 00:53:57

that theme, but I really wanted to go for boat movie and kooky romance.

Bee: 00:54:01

So I am going with overboard.

Bee: 00:54:04

With Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, which is just another

Bee: 00:54:08

mostly wholesome, fun movie.

Bee: 00:54:10

I haven't seen it in a long time, but I have fond memories of it.

Bee: 00:54:14

And, you know, if you're like me and you watch this movie and you

Bee: 00:54:18

thought the romance was a little lackluster, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell

Bee: 00:54:21

totally pick it up and overboard.

Bee: 00:54:23

I think it's great.

Bee: 00:54:24

It's Garry Marshall.

Bee: 00:54:25

I like Garry Marshall.

Bee: 00:54:26

You know, I think I like the princess diaries.

Bee: 00:54:29

I like pretty woman I think those are just fun movies And again, you got to

Bee: 00:54:34

spend all your time on a boat with a super super cheesy movie and you have

Bee: 00:54:38

some of those class Conversations and class based comedy going on.

Bee: 00:54:43

So I think you'd like it Showtime BOD.

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I admit I think I have forgotten numerous things, but I truly, from the

clip: 00:54:51

depths of my soul, do not remember you.

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Now, don't you think there'd be some spark of recognition?

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We don't know.

clip: 00:54:58

Maybe he'll spark to this!

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God, I don't believe this.

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He could be some stranger off the street.

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Well, he seems to like you, and he's a nice guy.

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He's good looking.

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Plain.

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What's my full name?

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Oh, come on.

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What is it?

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Mrs.

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Annie Proffitt.

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What's my maiden name?

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Annie Goolahee.

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Annie Goolahee, or in God's name did I grow up, Dogpatch.

Bee: 00:55:31

When's the last time you watched Overboard?

Nathan: 00:55:35

Decades.

Nathan: 00:55:36

But, this past week my girls watched The Princess Diaries 1 and 2.

Nathan: 00:55:41

Good movie.

Nathan: 00:55:41

From Garry Marshall, yeah.

Nathan: 00:55:43

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:55:43

Yeah.

Bee: 00:55:44

Yeah, I,

Nathan: 00:55:45

I, I'll be always

Bee: 00:55:46

a real place for so long.

Bee: 00:55:49

Yeah.

Nathan: 00:55:51

Yeah, that's a good pick.

Nathan: 00:55:52

I, again, I, I, I would like to see it again sometime.

Nathan: 00:55:55

I haven't seen it in so long.

Nathan: 00:55:57

All right.

Nathan: 00:56:00

My pick, let's see here.

Nathan: 00:56:03

B are, are you familiar with the film wet hot American summer?

Bee: 00:56:08

I am.

Bee: 00:56:12

That's a good one.

Nathan: 00:56:13

All right.

Nathan: 00:56:14

So I came to this movie kind of late.

Nathan: 00:56:17

I, I, it's from 2001.

Nathan: 00:56:20

I discovered it about 10 years ago, probably through another podcast

Nathan: 00:56:25

talking about it, because it's one of those movies that upon its release,

Nathan: 00:56:28

nobody understood the genius of it.

Nathan: 00:56:31

And since it's since then, it's become a beloved cult comedy.

Nathan: 00:56:34

Our theme this month has been 80 summer comedies.

Nathan: 00:56:37

And if you've been paying close attention, you've probably noticed that

Nathan: 00:56:41

our films all surround the themes of summer vacations, getaways or camp.

Nathan: 00:56:45

Well, Wet Hot American Summer does to the 80s summer camp film

Nathan: 00:56:49

what I'd say Cabin in the Woods does to 80s horror slasher genre.

Bee: 00:56:54

Yeah,

Nathan: 00:56:55

it's, It's not just a comedy, I'd venture to say it's more than a parody.

Nathan: 00:57:00

It's, it's, it's, of course that's what it is, but it takes the piss out of the

Nathan: 00:57:04

entire concept of the summer camp genre.

Nathan: 00:57:07

It's one of the most absurdist comedies I've ever seen.

Nathan: 00:57:11

And when I saw it, I just, I really just ate this up.

Nathan: 00:57:14

If you grew up with the types of films we're reviewing.

Nathan: 00:57:17

This month.

Nathan: 00:57:18

And this is something everyone should check out.

Nathan: 00:57:20

I should mention a few things.

Nathan: 00:57:22

Yeah, it's David Wayne directed this, who has been one of the best comedy

Nathan: 00:57:27

writers for decades now on shows like mad TV, the slate, everywhere

Nathan: 00:57:32

he goes, everything he touches.

Nathan: 00:57:33

I think he brings something special to a project.

Nathan: 00:57:36

He also did one of my favorite comedies of the last decade.

Nathan: 00:57:39

They came together with Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd.

Nathan: 00:57:42

So I, I'd also recommend checking that out, but the cast, the cast is not

Nathan: 00:57:49

just a bunch of nobodies it's chock full of comedic actors and many of them

Nathan: 00:57:54

before they were famous a listers up and down the roster, you got Janine

Nathan: 00:57:58

Garofalo, Molly Shannon, Paul Rudd.

Nathan: 00:58:01

Let me see.

Nathan: 00:58:02

I hear Christopher, Christopher Maloney, who is so funny in this.

Nathan: 00:58:06

Michael Showalter, Ken Marino, Michael Ian Black, who I've met a couple of times.

Nathan: 00:58:11

Amy Poehler Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, and David Hyde Pierce.

Nathan: 00:58:16

And I'll just say, if you love this movie, they sort of built out

Nathan: 00:58:20

of a mini universe out of this.

Nathan: 00:58:22

There's a mini series, which came out in 2015 in a follow up.

Nathan: 00:58:26

I

Bee: 00:58:26

never saw that.

Bee: 00:58:27

Is it any good?

Bee: 00:58:28

It's

Nathan: 00:58:28

good.

Nathan: 00:58:28

I like it.

Nathan: 00:58:28

I do like it a lot.

Nathan: 00:58:30

And there's a follow up film also with the original cast.

Nathan: 00:58:33

Both I think are really good.

Nathan: 00:58:34

So you can catch this on streaming right now on stars, or you can rent it on VOD.

Nathan: 00:58:40

And I think the other two follow ups are, might be on Netflix.

Nathan: 00:58:44

They were, they were Netflix originals at one time.

Nathan: 00:58:48

Really funny stuff.

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Hi guys.

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Hey Beth, like the new look, very chic.

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Thank you, Henry.

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Please call me Henry.

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Okay, Henry it is.

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So, I see you decided to come teach the campers, Henry.

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Yeah.

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I'm sorry I snapped at you before.

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I'm just a little shy around children.

Trailer: 00:59:10

Yeah.

clip: 00:59:10

But, but it's been great.

clip: 00:59:11

I've got them making miniature black holes with paperclips and soot.

clip: 00:59:14

Oh, what you do is so fascinating.

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You really like astrophysics?

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I love it.

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It's my, it's my biggest hobby.

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I love it.

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Really?

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Oh, oh, okay, okay.

clip: 00:59:23

Who's your favorite astrophysicist?

Opening: 00:59:28

I know.

Opening: 00:59:28

I totally know this one.

Opening: 00:59:30

Okay, anyway.

Opening: 00:59:31

What

Bee: 00:59:36

time is it?

Bee: 00:59:39

That's a great choice.

Nathan: 00:59:40

But you can't watch these and go back to 80s movies.

Nathan: 00:59:43

They, it's, it's It's, it's, like I said, it's what cabin in the

Nathan: 00:59:46

woods does it, it, it destroys the genre because it's so good.

Nathan: 00:59:52

It's so funny, but

Bee: 00:59:53

you know, this genre, it can be destroyed.

Nathan: 00:59:57

It can be, it can be, because it was, you know, it's, it's over.

Nathan: 01:00:00

You can't go back and really make an earnest eighties comedy anymore.

Nathan: 01:00:04

So it's perfectly fine.

Nathan: 01:00:07

All right.

Nathan: 01:00:07

I think it's time to get to our verdict on this.

Nathan: 01:00:13

Are we going to save a purge?

Nathan: 01:00:17

One crazy summer.

Bee: 01:00:20

Do you want my honest answer?

Nathan: 01:00:22

I want you to always to be honest.

Bee: 01:00:24

All right.

Bee: 01:00:27

I thought this movie was a great time.

Bee: 01:00:29

I had a lot of fun.

Bee: 01:00:31

I would watch this again.

Bee: 01:00:33

I don't think it needs to be in the vault.

Bee: 01:00:35

I'm saying no.

Nathan: 01:00:39

I, if I could just like copy what you said and say the same thing again, I

Nathan: 01:00:45

would, because I agree a hundred percent.

Nathan: 01:00:47

This was a fun movie, but no, no, no, I mean, I, I, the sad thing is

Nathan: 01:00:57

I could see myself I'm watching this again, maybe just, is that justified

Nathan: 01:01:06

reason to put it in the vault?

Nathan: 01:01:08

But I don't think this is a good movie though.

Nathan: 01:01:12

And I want to say that like, there are other movies in this genre.

Nathan: 01:01:17

That are better.

Nathan: 01:01:18

And I, and I do, I do want to be somewhat cutthroat about this.

Nathan: 01:01:23

And this is a dumb movie.

Nathan: 01:01:25

This is a stupid movie, but I did giggle a couple of times, but that's not a good

Nathan: 01:01:29

enough reason to put this on a pedestal and celebrate it as one of the greatest.

Bee: 01:01:35

generations don't need to watch this movie.

Nathan: 01:01:38

There's a reason why this movie has been forgotten.

Bee: 01:01:41

Yeah.

Nathan: 01:01:43

Yeah.

Nathan: 01:01:43

Fair.

Nathan: 01:01:44

So I say no.

Nathan: 01:01:46

So I am, I'm purging it and as much as all the love we've gushed

Nathan: 01:01:51

over this, we're like, yeah.

Nathan: 01:02:00

All right.

Nathan: 01:02:00

That was, that was easy, I guess.

Nathan: 01:02:02

So there, there's, there you go.

Nathan: 01:02:04

Yeah.

Nathan: 01:02:04

No

Bee: 01:02:04

heartbreak.

Nathan: 01:02:05

No, no.

Nathan: 01:02:07

I always have the memories.

Nathan: 01:02:09

Anything anything else so that that's one crazy summer we can wrap it up

Nathan: 01:02:12

or do you want to share anything that you've seen the last week or any?

Bee: 01:02:17

So I like you been on vacation, so it's been, I haven't

Bee: 01:02:22

been watching a ton of movies.

Bee: 01:02:24

Yeah.

Bee: 01:02:24

Yeah.

Bee: 01:02:24

I've been kind of watching some trash TV, which has been fun, but I have

Bee: 01:02:29

been rewatching some of the alien series to get ready for Romulus.

Bee: 01:02:34

So I am excited.

Bee: 01:02:35

Tom and I are going to go see that tomorrow night.

Bee: 01:02:38

I can't wait.

Bee: 01:02:39

I am.

Bee: 01:02:40

It was, I've been anticipating this one.

Bee: 01:02:42

So this and gladiator two, and that's, you know, sort of the legacy

Bee: 01:02:46

equals that I'm really looking forward to, but we did Prometheus

Bee: 01:02:50

and covenant and I hadn't seen them.

Bee: 01:02:53

They were way better than I thought they would be.

Bee: 01:02:56

I feel like they got, especially Prometheus, got like really panned

Bee: 01:02:59

when it came out, but I, or I just sort of remember that being

Bee: 01:03:04

the talk around the water cooler.

Bee: 01:03:05

I thought it stood up on its own as a, as a great sci fi movie.

Bee: 01:03:10

I think some of the weakest parts are where it connects back to the

Bee: 01:03:13

original series, but I dug it.

Bee: 01:03:16

I was into it.

Bee: 01:03:16

So I'm, I'm excited for Romulus and just Ridley Scott.

Nathan: 01:03:20

I.

Nathan: 01:03:21

Love Prometheus.

Bee: 01:03:23

It's so good.

Bee: 01:03:24

Right?

Nathan: 01:03:24

I, I, I really do.

Nathan: 01:03:27

And I, it's one of my favorite movies of that year.

Nathan: 01:03:31

And I am kind of sad that it did not get, it's not appreciated more.

Nathan: 01:03:38

I have no problems with how it's tied in.

Nathan: 01:03:40

I, I think they did try to.

Nathan: 01:03:43

shoehorn in some of that backstory, but still like I got all the

Nathan: 01:03:49

feels watching that movie.

Nathan: 01:03:51

I mean, I know you're kind of, I think, are you kind of new to the franchise?

Nathan: 01:03:55

You said from a little.

Nathan: 01:03:56

So, so I mean, I've, before I watched Prometheus, which I

Nathan: 01:04:00

think was 2012, I mean, I'd seen alien aliens, all these movies.

Nathan: 01:04:04

Multiple, multiple times growing up since my early childhood.

Nathan: 01:04:08

So when Prometheus came out, it's the first, cause we had a VP before

Nathan: 01:04:16

that, but it's the first movie since like resurrection that came out,

Nathan: 01:04:20

which not great, but like, but I was.

Nathan: 01:04:27

Like, like, like, give me the popcorn.

Nathan: 01:04:30

I, I w I, I was just so into it.

Nathan: 01:04:33

I've seen Prometheus probably five times

clip: 01:04:35

I saw in the theater

Nathan: 01:04:37

and I've seen it probably another four times at home

Nathan: 01:04:42

because I just, Dig everything about that movie alien covenant.

Nathan: 01:04:46

I liked, I've only seen it one time and I probably need to see it again.

Nathan: 01:04:50

I think it's way too complicated.

Nathan: 01:04:53

The plot, if I remember possibly, I don't know if I loved what they

Nathan: 01:04:57

did with the Fassbender character, David, but I need to see it again.

Bee: 01:05:01

I liked what they did with Fassbender.

Bee: 01:05:03

I really liked Prometheus.

Bee: 01:05:05

I thought Prometheus I thought Prometheus was, you know,

Bee: 01:05:08

some parts shoehorned in, but.

Bee: 01:05:10

But otherwise I think it's a great sci fi movie.

Bee: 01:05:12

It's beautiful to look at.

Bee: 01:05:13

I love the, I love the whole like Android.

Bee: 01:05:16

That's a, that's a character type I love, but Covenant, I think, I think

Bee: 01:05:22

it's like a little too actiony, too fast.

Bee: 01:05:24

Like I love the slow burn that is alien, you know,

Nathan: 01:05:28

is it possible?

Nathan: 01:05:28

I haven't gone back to Covenant because I can't remember how it ends.

Nathan: 01:05:34

But I feel maybe I haven't returned back because I feel kind of betrayed

Nathan: 01:05:38

like it was supposed to be a trilogy that will never happen.

Bee: 01:05:42

Oh, maybe.

Nathan: 01:05:43

I don't know.

Bee: 01:05:43

Anyways, do you want me to share my

Nathan: 01:05:45

thoughts on Ramius or do you want me to save that?

Bee: 01:05:47

Oh no, tell me.

Nathan: 01:05:48

I'll tell you spoiler free.

Nathan: 01:05:51

I, so I watched alien Romulus just a couple of days ago.

Nathan: 01:05:56

And I personally think it leans into the, the horror elements of the franchise.

Nathan: 01:06:03

We're back in alien in that, that haunted house version of

Nathan: 01:06:08

it, which I enjoyed being in.

Nathan: 01:06:10

Bye.

Nathan: 01:06:11

It's obvious it took notes from the last couple Ridley Scott films Prometheus and

Nathan: 01:06:16

Alien Covenant, which I feel much more plot driven and science fiction based.

Bee: 01:06:20

Yes.

Nathan: 01:06:21

Prometheus did pretty well at the box office, but the,

Nathan: 01:06:24

the latter didn't do as well.

Nathan: 01:06:27

But this film is, I think, is a direct response to that.

Nathan: 01:06:30

It stars Kaylee Spaney, who was in Civil War early this year.

Nathan: 01:06:34

She's really good in this.

Nathan: 01:06:36

Also, David Johnson is in this, who is really good.

Nathan: 01:06:39

So the two things I will say if you, if anybody listening to this

Nathan: 01:06:42

was unsure about this, because the trailers I can sympathize.

Nathan: 01:06:46

The trailers are trash.

Nathan: 01:06:48

For this film,

Bee: 01:06:49

they show a lot, or they seem like they show a lot.

Nathan: 01:06:51

I think the trail is just, it's, it's all about like the face huggers.

Nathan: 01:06:55

And I think this movie has is much more than that.

Nathan: 01:06:58

This, this is why I'm more and more am avoiding trailers because

Nathan: 01:07:02

I, I can't, I don't like way movies are marketed right now.

Nathan: 01:07:06

It, the movie is better than what the trailers are implying.

Nathan: 01:07:09

So also I will try not to spoil this.

Nathan: 01:07:12

I don't think this is really giving anything what you made for this,

Nathan: 01:07:14

but they do bring back a character from one of the older movies,

Bee: 01:07:21

which

Nathan: 01:07:21

I'm very conflicted on the original actor is no longer with

Nathan: 01:07:25

us and I don't think it's done very well and I don't think it's needed.

Nathan: 01:07:32

I'd like to hear from listeners what they think of this cameo.

Nathan: 01:07:36

A good friend of mine from the film community used a

Nathan: 01:07:39

phrase that has stuck with me.

Nathan: 01:07:40

It's.

Nathan: 01:07:40

Cinematic grave robbing,

Nathan: 01:07:44

the use of this character was given permission by their estate.

Nathan: 01:07:47

But again, you know, at what cost to the integrity of these

Nathan: 01:07:52

movies, I don't think it's needed.

Nathan: 01:07:54

So this, this is, of course, is a bigger conversation and.

Nathan: 01:07:57

Overall, Alien Romulus, I think is a solid entry in this and I, I do

Nathan: 01:08:01

hope they continue down this new path in the, in this franchise.

Nathan: 01:08:06

So I did like it.

Bee: 01:08:08

Awesome.

Bee: 01:08:09

I'm pumped for it.

Nathan: 01:08:12

So is there anything else that

Bee: 01:08:16

you saw you want to mention?

Bee: 01:08:17

I haven't really watched a ton.

Bee: 01:08:20

I am also going to see Cuckoo this week.

Bee: 01:08:24

So I'm looking forward to that too.

Bee: 01:08:26

But I, I really, really stayed blind on that.

Bee: 01:08:29

So I'm just, I'm just going to go and see what it's about.

Bee: 01:08:32

Have a good time with the movies.

Nathan: 01:08:35

Okay.

Nathan: 01:08:36

I will mention one thing or maybe two other things.

Nathan: 01:08:39

So I, so as you know, I, I went on my first cruise recently seven

Nathan: 01:08:44

day cruise in the Caribbean.

Nathan: 01:08:46

And when, when I got home, you know, what thought entered my head?

Nathan: 01:08:52

Well, as you know, a few weeks ago, we reviewed Twister from Yondebant,

Bee: 01:08:57

and

Nathan: 01:08:57

I just got back from a cruise.

Nathan: 01:08:59

Speed to cruise control takes place on a Caribbean cruise line.

Nathan: 01:09:05

Let's watch Speed 2.

Nathan: 01:09:07

What could go wrong?

Nathan: 01:09:10

Have you seen this?

Bee: 01:09:12

Oh, yeah, but like once years ago.

Nathan: 01:09:15

Well, let me, let me tell you everyone, a lot can go wrong.

Nathan: 01:09:21

I have never had the pleasure or displeasure of seeing this movie.

Nathan: 01:09:26

And yes, I'm using hair coats around me.

Nathan: 01:09:30

Like I often do, I, I like to head into films that have a negative reputation

Nathan: 01:09:36

with the plan that I'm going to discover the genius of these, of these movies.

Nathan: 01:09:42

Speed 2 feels like a script that they had lying around.

Nathan: 01:09:48

That had nothing to do with the speed movie.

Nathan: 01:09:50

And you know, one producer probably was talking to another producer

Nathan: 01:09:54

and the conversation went like this, you know, like, Hey Hank, we

Nathan: 01:09:58

need to make a follow up to speed.

Nathan: 01:09:59

I made like 350 million two years ago.

Nathan: 01:10:01

Can you write something over the next week?

Nathan: 01:10:03

And like, well, Bob, I don't think that's enough time, but I do have a

Nathan: 01:10:06

script that Jeff Speakman rejected, you know, you know, I could probably work it

Nathan: 01:10:11

over lunch and we can start shooting by tonight, you know, it's, it's obvious.

Nathan: 01:10:16

That nobody wanted to make this movie, except William Dafoe, who

Nathan: 01:10:20

was having a blast in this movie.

Nathan: 01:10:23

He's in his, he's in his own film and, and he's having a good time.

Nathan: 01:10:28

That's all I can really say.

Nathan: 01:10:29

So what's really ironic is this movie ends with that famous boat crash in St.

Nathan: 01:10:33

Martin.

Bee: 01:10:34

Yep,

Nathan: 01:10:34

which is where I just was the funny and I kind of wish that I saw speed

Nathan: 01:10:41

too before I was in ST martin because they actually shot it there and yeah, that

Nathan: 01:10:47

boat crash actually takes place there.

Nathan: 01:10:48

And I would have loved to have checked out where that took place.

Nathan: 01:10:53

Apparently they say that part of the boat is still there.

Nathan: 01:10:58

I didn't know that.

Nathan: 01:10:59

Anyway, so that was my experience watching speed too.

Nathan: 01:11:01

I don't want to give speed to cruise control any more time in this podcast.

Bee: 01:11:06

Well, not even to talk about one Defoe's hair.

Nathan: 01:11:09

Oh, it's beautiful.

Bee: 01:11:11

I

Nathan: 01:11:11

was going for that look for a couple of months, but couldn't get it out.

Nathan: 01:11:15

I get this high fro thing going on.

Bee: 01:11:20

We need, we need to get you a bleach bottle.

Nathan: 01:11:22

Yeah.

Nathan: 01:11:23

Ridiculous movie.

Nathan: 01:11:24

Anyways, I sounds like you have nothing else.

Nathan: 01:11:27

So I'll just mention one last thing

Bee: 01:11:30

and then

Nathan: 01:11:30

we can, then we can end it tonight.

Nathan: 01:11:33

I rewatched for the first time in probably 20 years, The Last Samurai.

Bee: 01:11:40

Whoa, how was it?

Nathan: 01:11:43

This is incredible.

Nathan: 01:11:44

This Edward Zwick, this is the Edward Zwick film starring Tom Cruise from 2003.

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I think the only other time I saw this was on DVD, what was probably on a 27

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inch TV back then with like awful sound.

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And at the time I probably just, you know, came and left my consciousness.

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So a couple of months ago, I found the Blu ray and I think

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a dollar bin and picked it up.

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Nice.

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This film is incredible.

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Easily.

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Easily.

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A top five performance from Tom Cruise, who plays he plays a U S Calvary officer

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shortly after the civil war in the film, he's hired by a Japanese government to

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train their newly formed Imperial army.

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And they're there to suppress the Samurai rebellion, which is led by

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Katsumoto played by Ken Wanatabe.

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Who visiting this film was robbed, robbed of best supporting actor.

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And they gave it to Tim Robbins for mystic river, which was a good film to the music

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score are

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done by Hans Zimmer.

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And seriously, probably it's

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incredible.

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And

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I don't think I really got to appreciate the score.

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The first time I saw this again, probably saw on my Terrible speakers on my old TV.

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This film's music is memorable, beautiful.

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It's definitely one of the Zimmer's best and wasn't even nominated for

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a Academy award, which is weird.

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Anyways, not going to spoil any more of this movie.

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If anyone hasn't seen this recently, cause I feel like this movie has,

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isn't talked about that much.

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And it's definitely, it's definitely one of the best historical

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epics I can think of of recent.

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Years.

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It's, you know, I

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was just going to say, I put this into my, I sort of filed this movie away

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as like one of those early 2000s epics.

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And that came out like, I think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, you

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know, just these like big sweeping movies that were colorful and

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beautiful and costumed and, you know.

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Long and great.

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And yeah, I mean, it's just, it's just a great movie, but people,

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they are sort of like in the annals of history a little bit.

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Yeah.

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This, I really, really happy.

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I got to see this Tom Cruise, the dude can act.

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He is so good in this and it's just nice seeing him doing something

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besides Ethan Hunt or in action movie.

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This is, there's not a, not a, there's There's action in this, but it's,

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he is working really hard in this.

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It's a amazing performance.

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It's subtle.

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It's moving.

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This is a great movie and it's largely forgotten.

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I feel like I, I don't hear many people talking about this movie.

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And I'm telling you Ken Watanabe is his equal in this, as, as far as what he's

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bringing to the table for a performance and the guy, I mean, he's been in

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things But he needs to be everywhere

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and he's now, and he's like, he's sidelined in like, you know, the, the, the

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monster verse movies and things like that.

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And this is.

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An incredible performance anyways.

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I'm with you.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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That's I've seen so much more and I I'll probably save it for our summer wrap up.

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Yeah, there's a lot, but that's, that's, that's some of my

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heights from this past week.

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Awesome.

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I love it.

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All right.

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So next week we will be back with, okay.

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So the film we're doing next week, we are, we're, we've ended our, 80 summer

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comedies and in two weeks, we're coming back with our new retrospective series.

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So we have a little gap in our retrospective blocks.

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So

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if anyone remembers back in March, which seems like an eternity ago, we,

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during the Oscars, we had a little game.

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Where to see who would win in the winner of that would get to pick a movie for

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us to watch in the, on, on the podcast, we're finally getting around to that.

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The movie that, and I won that I'll say, cause I like to mention that all the time.

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And the movie that I picked was the Fisher King.

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From Terry Gillingham.

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And it seems like it's always been on our schedule to get to,

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but we keep having to put it off.

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We're finally going to get to it.

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So all everyone's been emailing and calling me like, when are

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you reviewing Fisher King?

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Like emails every single day, you know, back to frame rate, when are you doing it?

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Well, next week, not yet next week, we were going to be reviewing that

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and we may have a special guest.

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That's cool.

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I'm looking forward to this.

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This is one of my favorite movies of all time.

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It's gonna be good.

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Yeah,

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it's gonna be good.

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I haven't seen this in a long time And I think when I saw it I

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watched it on like a portable dvd player camping or something like

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Just how it was intended to be

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that's right.

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Yeah.

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All right

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How Gilliam wanted.

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Okay.

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Well, we'll see you next week and I, Oh, I have to do my wrap up here.

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I'm out of practice.

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It's been like almost a month.

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Got vacation brain.

Nathan: 01:17:22

Yeah, I know I do.

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That is a show this week back to the frame rate as part of the

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Western media podcast network.

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We also wish to thank Brian Ellsworth.

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