Talking Pondo: The Funhouse and Step Brothers

 In this episode, Marty gives Clif the movie The Funhouse to watch and Clif gives Marty the movie Step Brothers to watch.

Transcript

unknown 0:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 0:00

There's so many tropes in this film, but you know what isn't a trope? A gypsy woman jerking off Frankenstein. Now that is not a trope.

SPEAKER_02 0:10

That's original step further, you know. That's original. Much like a movie they couldn't make in the 30s. Yeah, that's a horrible movie. It was like in Victor Victoria, you know, they couldn't make that movie back in the 30s. Well, they couldn't make this version of Frankenstein back in the 30s either. The early 80s. That's what you get there.

SPEAKER_04 0:28

It's not a trope, but it sure is gross.

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Welcome to season three of Talking Pondo. Talking Pondo is a podcast where Cliff and Marty give each other a film to watch and talk about them in detail. Some episodes will include a special guest.

SPEAKER_04 0:52

Alright, that's us. We're back.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

We are back. It's uh season three, episode three, number seventy-five altogether. It's crazy to think, but that is what is happening at this point. We're recording the 75th episode of the podcast. It's wild. It does seem like this yesterday.

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Is that diamond? 25 is silver, 50 is gold, and 75 is diamond.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Could very well be. On the road to 100, which will happen this season. It's gonna be a diamond episode, folks. So guarantee it. There's that anyway. Here we are doing our regular stick once again. Nothing too out of the ordinary this week. Our films are stepbrothers and the fun house, so it's not like we're, you know, really reaching for the stars too much on this one. But we have fun with it at least, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:55

Pretty pretty standard episode for this type of thing. When you come to when you come to Talking Pondo, you're gonna get this type of episode every now and then. I'm Cliff Campbell, by the way. Oh, I'm Marty Catola. That's Marty Catola. And uh, you know, I I I wouldn't say that it's middle of the road type affair, but uh, you know, we've got I mean Step Brothers is uh you know, we'll have a conversation about that movie, but it's it's beloved by many people. Um and I think Funhouse definitely has a a a cult following. Um but we'll see. Yeah, we'll talk about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

But to start things off, we're gonna go back to a another segment of viewer mail.

SPEAKER_04 2:36

Viewer mail, alright.

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He's like, he had no idea there was viewer mail.

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I love getting viewer mail, it's my favorite.

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So this one goes back a little bit. This is for the Go and Poseidon Adventure episode we did, where I don't know if these people listen to the show or if they just see the posts and they respond to it. I hope they're listening. But either way, uh David Garman says the Poseidon Adventure is an absolute classic. And then he put some quotes in the water, I'm a very skinny lady. I love it. So that's one response there.

SPEAKER_04 3:17

I think that I think that Marty and I would both agree that within the realm, especially of disaster type films, the one you want to watch is Poseidon Adventure. Yeah. Maybe Airplane or you know, Towering Inferno is garbage. I haven't seen Tower Inferno in forever, but but if you want a good disaster movie, Poseidon Adventure is going to give you what you want. And and Hackman, who you know has reluctantly, unfortunately, passed very recently. Um he gives you a hell of a performance as the priest looking for absolute, you know, or I guess um not absolution, but uh redemption.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

Right. Yeah. And our uh second uh viewer mail this week. Second, we have two viewer males. Well, that other one is backed up for a while, but this one's really fresh here. Yeah, so it's crazy, right? This is in response to the 10 and whiplash episode. Uh-huh. And this is from I think I think he's actually listening to the show. This is from Mike Codis. You might remember him as the original Nick Levine in our comic book diaries movie, and he also portrayed the speaker of marijuana. What's up, Mike? Thanks for listening. So he writes in and says, uh, good job. I thought whiplash was pretty insane and probably not recommended for people who have been abused. I was truth. I was conflicted with JK's character, but ended up coming down on the side of asshole. LOL. It's funny because yesterday I was thinking about how fucked up he was in Oz. Which I I hadn't seen. He says, You've seen that, right? Holy shit. And also, he writes, just thinking about the comparison with Tar and Kate Blanchett, incredible acting of really fucked up characters. So Tar's a great uh have you seen Tar? No, I have not seen that one yet. Okay, well Tar's a good one here at some point.

SPEAKER_04 5:10

I think that'll probably come up this season at some point because he makes a good point. It's a great it's a great sort of mirror to because it is about it's about people who are demanding the best and striving for the best. And as much as you want to crap on J.K. Sebas as his character for who he is and what he the way he goes about it, that is what he's after. Right? There's no doubt about the fact that what he's after is the very best of the best of the best. That's why he puts so much pressure. And you know, some some you'll hear people say, oh, pressure makes diamonds. I think it also makes it also allows people to be assholes. Also make 75 episodes. Also make 75 episodes.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

Surprised we're not doing Ferris Bueller because then you after two weeks you get a diamond. Something like that is the quote there. So what do we normally do at this point? I guess, well, uh we can babble about film a little bit. Yeah, let's just babble about film for a little bit. And the going before we go in to the beginning of the movies.

SPEAKER_04 6:20

I did I did have a thought, um, and it is that um, especially with the view of Funhouse, that there are directors out there that filmmakers in in particular, who are not filmmakers in particular, directors and filmmakers, who um really just have that one great movie in them. You know, they do other movies in kind of a workman-like fashion or in an interesting fashion, but they never really reach that level of greatness again, you know what I mean? For whatever factor or for whatever reason, it never really seems to hit on the same level for them ever again.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

Does that make sense? A lot of the time you're just simply not allowed. Nobody's budgeting your different type of genre film or whatever, you know, or giving you the money to equal the thing you did before. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:11

Well, and then sometimes you blow it so bad you can't.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

Well, you know, like you make a movie jail.

SPEAKER_04 7:16

Michael Michael Semino, you know, goes to movie jail after the deer hunter because he makes Heaven's Gate and you know, that type of thing, and you know, freed Ken at some point. But it it I don't know. It just it but those guys, I think even some of their bad pictures have measured up to a certain level. I don't know. It just seems like there's every now and then you get a the a director who is made who makes that one kind of good or good boarding on great picture and then never really is able to put it together again to make that level of film ever again, but but still can get work on the basis or on the back of that achievement.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

So I s I'd say let's start with The Fun House, uh a movie that has a director who managed to make at least two classics I can think of, uh the Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist. You know, the movies just keep going and going and going. But one of the main reasons, as I mentioned last week, because I had to watch Always again, I was like, okay, well, let's go ahead and watch The Fun House and see if these movies that are completely different from each other make us realize once and for final who directed Poltergeist? And I think it might be actually was Toby Hooper because this movie feels in a way like things that he would kind of perfect the next year in a partnership with Spielberg. It's definitely all thematic stuff. But, anyways, what is The Fun House from 1981? Here we go, back to 1981 once again, and it came out this weekend actually in 81 when we were recording it. It was a March 13th release.

SPEAKER_04 8:51

Wow, 1981. Alright, here we go. Uh The Fun House, 1981, rated R. One hour 36 minutes. Teenage Amy Harper, her boyfriend Buzz Dawson, and their friends Richie Atterbury and Liz Duncan visit a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement, but soon witness a fortune teller's murder and find that the exits are blocked. Uh directed by Toby Hooper, written by Lawrence J. Block, um, starring Elizabeth Barrett, Sean Carson, Gene Austen. Uh, let's see here. Storyline. Teenage Amy Harper dates Buzz Dawson for the first time, and they go to the carnival with their friends, Richie and Liz. They smoke grass and have a good time visiting the attractions, including a sideshow with freak animals. The silly Richie suggests the group spend the night in the funhouse for fun. During the night they witness the murder of fortune teller Madame Zina by a man wearing a Frankenstein mask from an opening in the ceiling of a room. They decide to leave the fun house, but all the exits are locked. Meanwhile, Richie sneaks into the room and steals the fun house manager's money. The masked man returns with his father and owner of the fun house to show the corpse of Madame Zina. When the man realizes he has been robbed, he presses his son, who removes his mask and shows his horrible face. Richie starts and drops his lighter into the room. The owner asks his freak son to chase the thieves and eyewitnesses into a night of terror for the teenagers.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

And that's You got a lot of detail in there.

SPEAKER_04 10:14

That's dead on. Yeah, that's that's pretty dead on.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

And then uh let's go for the trivia section here. Uh there was a novelization by Dean Koontz.

unknown 10:27

Really?

SPEAKER_02 10:28

He did it under a pseudonym. That's kind of crazy. I guess it fills in more details as a novelization would. Uh this was a a mall rental movie for me when we used to rent movies from the mall. I talked about this an uh episodes back when we had a VCR in like 1982. And so we probably rented this when it was brand new, just because it said it was from the people who made Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So of course, you know. Yeah. And it's funny because a lot of the times I watch it, it's just like when I would watch it back then or on Channel 11 in the afternoons on Saturday or USA Network or something. I pay attention a lot to the first half hour of it, and then once they spend the night in there, I kind of drift off, and the next thing I know, I look up and dude stuck in the gears. You know, it's kind of one of those where you just kind of you just nicely drift off, and you know, you don't have to pay too much attention because it's kind of like that classic, we ran out of story, so let's start killing people time period of it. But uh so some of my other trivia here was the director of photography of this movie was Andrew Laszlo, and he shot the Warriors. So it kind of makes sense, right? Because all the nice lens flares and that kind of eerie night look.

SPEAKER_04 11:59

Yeah, um, one of the things that one of my notes, let me let me grab my notes.

SPEAKER_02 12:04

He also shot the following films Star Trek V, Inner Space, Poltergeist II, Remo Williams, Streets of Fire, First Blood, Southern Comfort, and the Shogun mini-series. Now, the guy who was the director of photography of Poltergeist, well, he shot Fast Times and Breaking Away and a bunch of other 80s classics. So between these two DPs, they were kind of the look of the 80s for a lot of this stuff. It's kind of a weird rabbit hole I fell down.

unknown 12:41

Hmm.

SPEAKER_04 12:42

Interesting. Um one of the things that I I I noted about this film is is that they do they do their close-ups, they do the thing that they do in the NFL when the guy scores a touchdown. Like in the NFL, when they score a touchdown, they cut to the guy who's doing this touchdown dance, and he's very in focus, and everything behind him, like everything within two feet, is all a blur. Right. So he seems to be sort of, you know, I don't know, dancing out of reality or something. It's so it's just this weird effect. And they do that with a lot of the close-ups in Funhouse, especially early on, where it's like and the and the wide angle shots are very kind of I don't know, I guess maybe the kids nowadays call it boka, but it's like there's a point of in there's a point in the middle where everything's in focus, and then everything as you go out is less and less in focus. And like to me, that's kind of just a shitty lens. I don't know. Some people some people like that, they think that looks good. I it I don't know, it just didn't work for me. Like, especially when you watch, you know, it's the same dude who made Texas Chainsaw, and I have trouble when I watch this movie kind of putting or not that no, it is, I'm sorry, that's um um it is Toby, right?

SPEAKER_02 14:01

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he made it. This is like three or three or so movies after he did like sale a lot before this, and yeah, second guessing myself there, but it just there's some things in there, but the look is throne.

SPEAKER_04 14:15

The menace and the look is completely different. Yeah, you know, completely different. Well man, he used the fuck out of that crane that they rented. Man, he fuck, man, he was happy. So many big crane shots over the carnival. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

All the themes of family once again and stuff. That's just bleed over into poltergeist the next year, I think.

SPEAKER_03 14:38

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 14:40

Yeah. Breasts in the first five minutes of this movie. That's you know, 81 horror at its finest.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

Uh there's a lot of uh touches to other universal movies. They that's a psycho motif. They got the Frankenstein, Universal Monsters, the parents are watching Bride of Frankenstein on TV while the kid drops his Frankenstein toy. That's like that makes any sense. It's still funny though.

SPEAKER_04 15:04

The main killer is wears a Frankenstein mask and Frankenstein hands, yeah. Um in the first five minutes, again, we get the so we get the nudity, and then I'm I'm looking at this girl going, who does she look like? What does she remind me of? And then I'm like immediately like, oh, that's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's wife in in Amadeus, and like I couldn't get that out of my head for the first 20 minutes of the movie. I'm just like, I'd never seen her in anything else. Like I I haven't seen Helena, I haven't seen this movie before.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

So oh, really? So I wasn't sure I was he'd either seen this one as a child or he hadn't seen it at all. I was thinking. Uh I hadn't seen it. Uh she was on a show called the John Lero Laroquette show in the 90s, a sitcom, which is also where I remember her from. But it's weird because John Leroquette was the narrator in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So I wonder if they ever shared Toby Hooper stories.

SPEAKER_04 16:01

No, I'm my bad. I do have a note that says I have seen this. Uh as soon as we see it's Joey, I totally remember this movie. Okay, so that that that okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, my bad.

SPEAKER_02 16:14

Um but it probably been ages, I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_04 16:18

Like Yeah. She's dressed like a Mexican peasant with that weird blue shirt thing. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

1981 fashion for you.

SPEAKER_04 16:28

What the heck is this?

SPEAKER_02 16:31

It's not quite 70s, but yeah. Oh, and that other guy, uh the one who steals the money, he was in get crazy.

SPEAKER_04 16:42

Oh, really? That makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 16:44

He was the uh guy who ended up dropping asset and going off with the the hippies, but he was like an asshole before that. Then he kicked the dog or something.

SPEAKER_04 16:56

Is this is this one of the early R-rated movies with the annoying little brother, like in the type of horror movie genre?

SPEAKER_02 17:04

I think so because now we're in the 80s. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:06

Yeah, this kid's like super annoying. Oh, he's a shithead. Yeah, right. I kept hoping that he was gonna die. Like, I was kept hoping they were gonna kill him. And this, like, I hoped it was gonna be like an assault on precinct 13 moment. Yeah. Or like, yes, this is because this is the genre for it. We'll do it in this genre, you know, we'll do it in this time period in filmmaking. We won't do it now. Oh no, but you know, we'll blow that kid away in assault on precinct 13.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

That's the difference between the 70s nihilism and the 80s kind of what is now the Stranger Things Goonies motif that they keep ripping off. This is one of the births of it. That's why I kind of like that blob remake from 88, I think it is, because they kill the kids in that one too. Well, I don't care, it just runs over whoever, you know.

SPEAKER_04 17:53

Um this is one of those movies that it's like, oh, isn't the Carnival and the Fair scary? Aren't Carnies creepy? Hey, come over here and see the weird genetic defects on all the on all the farm animals. You know, it's it's that sort of like it reminds me, I just kept expecting Gary Busey and Carney to pop up at some point.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

You know, I think they're hearkening back to like the carnies of the 60s and the 70s. By the time we went, it was still a little creepy, and I remember some of that, but it had kind of been cleaned up a bit and it changed.

SPEAKER_03 18:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

This feels more like the incredibly strange creatures who stopped living and became mixed-up zombies.

SPEAKER_04 18:33

Well, it feels like freaks to me.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Yeah, I mean it was more that was the commonplace, and like, oh, here's the strip show, and we're all these barkers, and yeah. I feel like because they grew up probably in the more rural back in those older times that maybe they were reflecting to a it's been done.

SPEAKER_04 18:52

It's the the carny horror. Well, but in 81, you know, it hadn't tired trope. Even in 81, I feel like it's a tired trope. Well, that's true. This did come from the Holloway. It's an easy go-to. Yeah, you know. Um smoking a do behind the tent and the you know, circus tent, man.

SPEAKER_02 19:10

You know, yeah, this is like a real dazed and confused in a way. It's just like in real time. But I mean, the look and the vibe, it's like you almost expect Wooderson to show up, right?

SPEAKER_04 19:22

You know. Yeah, it's just like, hey, now that we're all high, let's get our fortunes read. It's just like trope. Which would be repeated in Mall Rats, right? Trope, you know, they should call this movie trope house, not fun house, is what they should call this movie.

SPEAKER_02 19:38

Speaking of marijuana, the actress who played Liz was in a uh I guess like an afterschool special thing called Stoned with Scott Bao. Rift Track has a good version of that. And I was like, hey, that's she's in the fun house. I don't know anything else that she was in.

SPEAKER_04 19:58

It is this like a payback for Shanghai Noon or Tootsie?

SPEAKER_02 20:02

No, this was because of always. Oh, really? And I mean, I was gonna bring this up anyways, just because I think it's an interesting comparison to poltergeist. You know, like if there's any kind of stylistic choices, or like now he's dealing with the family and in peril. And people always say that Spielberg directed poltergeist. And I'm like, no, he was the producer on it. I'm sure he had a lot to do with even the director, but Toby Hooper did it. He's not credited as the director, exactly. There's that urban myth of it, right? And then I think when you watch movies like The Funhouse and movies like Always, you really see whose style is what, and you can kind of see the blending of it in poulture.

SPEAKER_04 20:47

Well, I mean, look, I mean, they're the the the the family in fall in funhouse, one of my notes is like when they finally get this little shit back from his little romp, uh, they don't seem to really the mom's just like, come on, let's go. I want to go home. Like, like she doesn't really seem super worried about his well-being, I guess, or whatever. I don't know how else to put it. Uh, even the dad seems kind of non-plussed that his kid snuck into a carnival and have been running around all night and was found by this guy who's, you know, basically drinking out of a bottle while the kid's laying there, he's like caressing the kid's face. And one of the more customers weird, dude. It's like, what the fuck is going on with this film?

SPEAKER_02 21:31

It's just a weird drive-in movie from ages ago.

SPEAKER_04 21:34

But but it's not it's not scary though. No, like it it reminded me of Hell Knight, where like like it's not fucking scary, it's just this premise so that you can have a bunch of like bad uh uh monsters and bad masks run around you know and go, ah oh that dude, that mask is fucking terrible.

SPEAKER_02 21:55

It's funny, but still for 1981 and the print wasn't as sharp as what we We could see now, you know.

SPEAKER_04 22:01

It looks like uh it looks like what you would see like from a movie about like uh radiation defects or something. You know, like like some sort of like the Philadelphia experiment or something. Next week, the Philadelphia experiment. Uh so one of the weird things I I found in this movie is that okay, so the you know the guy who plays the dad of the of the monster, right? That actor. He's plays like three different parts in this fucking movie or four. Oh really? I think I lost track because he's okay, so this isn't just me then. I thought that this was maybe a a choice by the director, but so at one at 31 minutes and 34 seconds, he's announcing the haunted house ride with that sort of house. And they immediately cut to him dressed as somebody else, announcing the freak tent. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

I didn't look like him.

SPEAKER_04 23:00

I didn't think it was And then they weird cut to a s another dude that looks like him, he's playing a different role. And I'm just like, are they did they just think that his face was so generic they could just you know dress him up and put him in a bunch of different roles? But like if you go back, go back and watch this for me and tell me, because I I could swear it's the same actor every time. Uh what's his name?

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Um are they trying to make it look like he's working different booths at different times?

SPEAKER_04 23:28

Or or that it's or that it's a I don't know, cursed type of is it Jack McDermott? Is that who it is? Oh, I'd have to IMDB it. He plays who's the what's the dad's name in that movie? Um no, that's Mrs. Harper, Mr. Harper. Crap. That's gonna drive me crazy now. Um that was their intention. Right? Drive you crazy. Well, only because I just like why the fuck would you do that? Somebody explain yourself. Herb robins, maybe?

SPEAKER_02 24:17

Let's see. Figure this out.

SPEAKER_04 24:24

Folks, we're gonna figure this out.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

Jeez, that's annoying. He's Kevin Conway.

SPEAKER_04 24:38

Right. He's the uh he's the uh he's the he's the monster's dad or whatever that is. Yeah, right. Well, this movie does have vortex plots in it. So it is, yeah. So it's so freak show barker, strip show barker, funhouse barker, all Kevin Cobb. So he's just going around So he plays three different roles in this movie. I don't know why. Huh. It doesn't make any sense to me why he plays and literally in the movie at 31 minutes and 30 seconds, we cut from him at one place to just boom, him at another place as a totally different character. It's fucking weird, man. But what like I said, what's weird is that at 31 minutes and 30 seconds, he's announcing the haunted house, and then they cut to him as a different character announcing the strip tent. And it's like, I mean, if you're trying to spread him out and kind of shimp him, you're doing a pretty bad job cutting between the two scenes that he's like putting in the middle so that we forget him for a minute before we jump into a new scene. It was really weird. Or is he like, you know, or is it like this kind of possessed funhouse where Kevin Conway is, you know, multiple people type of thing? You know what I mean? That funhouse, the carnival from hell or something. I don't know. But it just it's never clear and it's never explained why he's three different people.

SPEAKER_02 26:04

Um that is pretty funny.

SPEAKER_04 26:06

That kid with the when they when they go to to poke the hole in the back of the tent so they can watch the girly show, that kid's got a switchblade. Like a full-on switchblade. I'm like, okay, yeah, that's because that's because privileged little kids from the suburbs carry switchblades. What in the hell?

SPEAKER_02 26:22

In 1981. Or excuse me, 1980. I do think it's funny that the DP of this movie didn't do poltergeist, but he made Poltergeist 2. That's just kind of odd. So there's a music video for Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol. You remember that video? Sure. It's directed by Toby Hooper, uh, and it features some of the animatronics that were in the funhouse. Apparently, those were Toby's possessions for a while, and where they are now, who knows? But it is funny that they are in that music video.

SPEAKER_04 27:02

Um it takes 35 minutes to get to the actual premise of this movie.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

Yeah, hit me in.

SPEAKER_04 27:11

Which is which is let's let's stay in the fun house. Let's stay in the haunted house. You know, this this you know carnival ride haunted house thing. Um you know that shot where they where they all get onto the cars and they go into the haunted house and then the cars come out and they're empty, right? Like I it it I assume that that means that they have jumped out of the cars and there's hiding in the fun house, right? But we cut to a shot outside the fun house as the carnival's closing down, and it's kind of far away because it's on a it's a crane shot, and it looks like the two couples standing outside of the fun house. So it's really confusing as far as like, is that the same couple? Is that two different couples? Where the fuck are the couples? I thought they were in the funhouse. And so there's several like weird things going on in this movie that kind of confuse me. Again, the the dude playing three different parts. Are they in the fun house or they aren't? What's up with this weird fucking kid? And what is his problem running around the carnival constantly? Like, what is wrong? Does he need to somebody need to take a belt to this kid? What is going on?

SPEAKER_02 28:20

He jumps over the fence, but then he's suddenly back in there.

SPEAKER_04 28:23

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

One of the weird ones I noticed.

SPEAKER_04 28:26

He gets scared by that old lady and he runs, and then suddenly he's like, I'm going back. And it's like, why? What why?

SPEAKER_02 28:33

And I know there's deleted scenes. I don't have the Blu-rays, so I don't have them, but I wonder what was chopped that maybe makes more sense, or what there is some editing issues, definitely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:46

There's so many tropes in this film, but you know what isn't a trope? A gypsy woman jerking off Frankenstein.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

Now that is not a trope, so that's that's more original. That's weird. We took it a step further, you know. That's original. Much like a movie they couldn't make in the 30s. It was like in Victor Victoria, you know, they couldn't make that movie back in the 30s. Well, they couldn't make this version of Frankenstein back in the 30s. The early 80s, that's what you get there, you know.

SPEAKER_04 29:14

It's not a trope, but it sure is gross. Um however, sexually frustrated weirdo killing a hooker, that is right back to the classic trope.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

And then he revisits those themes in Texas Chainsaw 2 with uh Leatherface and his sexual fetishism of the radio DJ.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

Mm-hmm. It's um I don't I don't feel bad for that kid. This movie's kind of boring. Like it like it's even at an hour 35, the movie's too long for me. Like I wanted it to be over a lot quicker. Um I look, you know, he does a few things. It's it, you know, he puts the movie together well. It's it moves, it's it's it's not like it's um terribly made, it's just not terribly engaging or or really grabbing me and dragging me along. Again, like Hell Knight, where I'm just like, all right, here's your premise, let's drive it into the ground. And it's kind of predictable.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

Yeah, I think it's a I think it's a little better than Hell Knight. That one's a little bit more. I would agree with that.

SPEAKER_04 30:21

Yeah, no, I I would I would rather watch this over Hell Knight for sure. Um there's a point in like you remember when the guy with glasses dies, and I'll say that that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 30:36

That's a pretty funny scene.

SPEAKER_04 30:37

That's a pretty good scene. I like that death with the noose and everything, and they dragging him up. And um, but later, as they're all moving away, uh Buzz's character, the the actor playing Buzz is like, hey, get over here! Hey, and he's being he's like kind of quiet yelling, and she's like four feet away from him. It's like, what are you yelling at? What what the f anyway? It reminds me of Hell Knight, like I said, just a premise run into the ground. Um that axe looks so fake that they give him, but then of course he splits that dude's head and you can see that coming a mile away. Like, of course that's not the killer. Of course that's the your friend that just died. Um and again, what kind of parents are these that are so blasé about their kid?

SPEAKER_02 31:30

Like they're latchkey kids.

SPEAKER_04 31:33

It it reminds me of the two kids, it reminds me of the two parents in fucking um in uh the not uh the sinister urge. Um, manos the hands of fate, or you know, or you know, I accuse my parents or something.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

The violent years.

SPEAKER_04 31:55

Violent years.

SPEAKER_02 31:58

We do get a diopter shot. It does kind of have like an early 80s updated version of one of those type of movies, in a way. Yeah, it's probably very riffable.

SPEAKER_04 32:13

Well, it's just it's it's one of those movies where none of the premises make any sense. You know, none of the, you know, the parents don't make any sense, the kid doesn't make any sense, the girlfriend the shower thing doesn't make any sense. Yeah, right from the beginning. You get the shower, then she's like, I'm gonna date this guy I've never dated before. Here's my top, taking my top off. You know, it's laying four feet from her best friend who's also making out with some other dude. It's just a weird movie. Oh, I forgot about that part. Yeah, just weird. Um I'm I'm not a fan of the whole I just didn't think the mask was very good. I I just didn't like it. Um also this weird, so uh eventually we get down to this basement, and this basement's like all these moving parts and gears and shit. And I'm like, you're just gonna pick this up and move this to a new place tomorrow. Is like, what? No, you're this is like a no, this has been here for a while. You can't just pick this up and move it. Um, you could see that monstrous death coming from a mile away. Once you see those gears, it's like, oh, here we go. You know, here we go. A lot of final girl nonsense, and here we go. Here's the big fight. Yep, oh, there it is, right into the gears. And and my my only thing was I thought it would be hilarious if the ending was my alternate ending to this is she gets out of the haunted house, she doesn't say anything to anybody, she leaves, she goes home, she takes a shower, she goes to bed, she wakes up in the morning and she acts like nothing happened. And they find her three dead friends, and she's just like, oh my god, that's terrible, and she just goes to school and everybody feels bad for her because her friends are all dead, and she just continues to live her life like nothing happened.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Well, it it even the ending it makes no sense from beginning to end in that respect, because it's like, aren't you gonna be wanted to answer some questions about what happened tonight? No, because the logic of everything else doesn't matter either, so we're just in this one to see a bunch of dumb kids make bad decisions and then be greedy in one case, which causes everything to go to hell, yeah, and then they get off really quickly. Yeah, and the movie's over. But it does have that vortex spot, like I was saying earlier. I remember they decide to stay in the funhouse. I kind of enjoy all that setup, even though it's nonsense. I kind of like the feel of it. And then I look up, and the next thing I know, dude's in the gears.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

And I think that-something?

SPEAKER_02 34:56

No, I don't think I did, but it's watching a kick out of it.

SPEAKER_04 35:01

It's like watching somebody try to recreate what your grandpa went to at the carnival when he went by himself and he left grandma and the kids at home. You know, you got the the the the the weird animals, the the weird sideshow tent, the the the the the strip tent, all that weird stuff, you know, all the things that adults went to see, right? While the kids ate popcorn and rode stupid rides, I guess. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

Well, no, you're you're absolutely right.

SPEAKER_04 35:29

The fair and carnivals we went to when we were didn't really have much of that.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

Yeah, I mean, we're here in 1981 again, and you know, and we we know what era 1981 is in. It's that era where I say they were still making movies for our grandparents. So some of those older sensibilities are in there. So maybe if you were 50 in 1981, you would have been really into this movie. I don't know. Since I saw it when I was a kid, that's the weird nostalgia factor of just like I remember this weird fucking thing, but I know it's got so many flaws, but I like I like a lot of the weirdness in it a lot better than a lot of the other 80 slashers that were to come after. At least they were trying something here.

SPEAKER_04 36:11

Well, and putting putting a young kid in it is smart, at least it gives kids that age, much like you were when you were watching it, someone to identify with and take the journey of the film through. Um, although why a kid like you that age should be watching a film where one where you know young ladies getting naked is kind of maybe you know questionable. I don't even remember. That was the 80s, anyways.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

You know, it was I just remember doing the gears as a kid. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:41

You yeah, you have an nudity in PG movies. What was I thinking?

SPEAKER_02 36:44

Yeah, yeah, the rating system really weird back then. But what a what a strange oddity that was. And now it's now it's out of the way. Two stars. Two stars, yeah. I give it two and a half, because my nostalgia, you know.

SPEAKER_04 37:00

Two stars. I won't watch it again, but I'd rather watch it than Hell Knight. And Hell Knight I think I gave one or one and a half.

SPEAKER_02 37:06

So I think you can put that on the box. And then we have another movie about parents that aren't paying attention, right? I guess these are thematically linked. These two kids are a bit of, you know, they're kind of like what is his name? Gunther, the the fucking crazy guy from the fun house. These these two are like a suburban version of that. But instead of a Frankenstein mask, they wear Chewbacca masks.

SPEAKER_04 37:36

So Yeah, it's it's it's a it's a failure. It's the premise is sort of that failure to launch that kid who never leaves home, you know, that that kid in his 30s who lives in mom's basement, or you know, and these in I guess in this sense it's the parents are much more uh tolerant. And so the kids, you know, basically live at home, live in their own room, you know, like the the opening scene is Will Farrell, you know, using a half a pack of cheese to make nachos while he sits in his underwear while his mom goes to work, you know, and and uh what is Stepbrothers? Yeah, what is Stepbrothers?

SPEAKER_02 38:13

What is this thing? Sorry, jumped ahead there. Um this movie that's already 17 years old. Crazy.

SPEAKER_04 38:20

That's Stepbrothers 2008, rated R. One hour thirty-eight minutes. Two aimless middle-aged losers still living at home are forced against their will to become roommates when their parents marry. Uh it's directed by Adam McKay, stars uh written by Will Farrell, Adam McKay, John C Riley, and it stars Will Farrell, John C. Riley, Mary Steam Burgeon, and um Richard Jenkins plays the dad. He was in Manhattan probably. Indeed. Storyline Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are both about both about 40 when Brennan's mom and Dale's dad marry. The sons still live with their parents, so they must now share a room. Initial antipathy Let me try that again. One, two, three. Initial antipathy threatens the household's peace and their play parents' relationship. Dad lays down the law, both slackers have a month to find a job. Out of the job search and their love of music comes a pact that leads to friendship but more domestic array, compounded by the boys sleepwalking. Hovering nearby are Brennan's successful brother and his lonely wife. The brother wants to help sell his stepfather's house, the wife wants Dale's attention, and the newlyweds want to retire and sell the seven C's. Can harmony come from the Discord?

SPEAKER_02 39:32

I like the sound of what you just said. I wish that would have been the movie I watched. Uh this was another one of those like the last gasp of raunchy late 90s humor into the mid-aughts before they quickly turn to complete gross out humor, and I'm kind of like, I'm out. Kind of like the get into the Greek. You know, I feel like this is in in kind of league with that in a way.

SPEAKER_04 39:57

It's a notch down from that as far as I think like like the the level of intensity they're trying to go for. Because again, you don't have anybody like reaching up anybody's ass for drugs or anything like that.

SPEAKER_02 40:09

Yeah. And you know, I like the premise of this one. I really do. I think there was something there. There was something there. I just feel like like it wasn't baked all the way yet. Like put that back in the oven for another hour or so. That's that's still a little raw there. You know, I feel like my biggest criticism right off the bat is it feels like everybody's trying to do Will Ferrell, including Will Farrell, and it feels like it diminishes what he's trying to do because everybody feels like they're the same character in a way. Does that make sense? Because they're all doing the same brand of humor, I guess, where it was just like so they don't stand apart from each other enough for me.

SPEAKER_04 40:52

Hmm. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:54

The brother's different, he stands out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:57

It um it's uh so when I first saw this movie, I so I worked this movie at the movie theater that I remember. And I think it's I think it's Thanksgiving. Is it like a holidays movie or maybe a summer movie? Oh, I don't remember. When it was released. Let me check and see if I can figure that out here. I think my one. Oh, July 27th. Sorry. So yeah, so it's so it's a summer movie. But I remember going in the theater and seeing like a lot of people coming out laughing and think it was funny. And I even as bad as this movie is, you need what little context the movie gives you to be able to kind of find understand why it might might be funny. And so if you walk into the middle of the movie, you're just like, what the fuck are these two idiots? Why are they acting like children? This is ridiculous. But yet, when you watch the movie from start to finish, you go, Oh, okay, it makes more sense. So in the beginning, I really didn't like this movie much. I thought it was really, like, really dumb, like like uh Sherlock Holmes and Watson level of dumb, which these two I don't know if you've seen that version that they've got to be. Yeah, it was pretty bad. But this is this to me is probably one of their best ventures between the two of them. Um, Talladega Knights, people would argue, is right up there with it. But um, as far as you know, before they got diminishing returns on a lot of their other ventures they did together, this one again. I watched it, like I watched it later, a couple years later, and was like, oh, this is much funnier than I first thought it was. And it's also one of those movies that like the more beers you have, the funnier it is. Kind of like the hangover or one of those other, you know, uh tot tub time machine. The more you more you have something to help you laugh, the funnier the movie's gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

Yeah, it seems like off the success of Anchorman, they were allowed a couple of semi-blank check movies where it's like, okay, slam out about three or four movies real quick. It doesn't matter what the quality is because we're gonna make bank on them because we're popular right now, that old trick. And now Adam McKay and Will Farrell don't even talk to each other anymore, right?

SPEAKER_04 43:08

Yeah.

unknown 43:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:09

Well, McKay, so he and McKay make Anchorman, like you said, they make Anchorman, then they make Talladega Knights, which is another big hit. Then they make Step Brothers, which is another big hit, then they make the other guys, and it kind of flops. They make Anchorman 2. Yeah. Um, it it was it was alright, but it wasn't that one being okay. You know, it wasn't uh I I I would probably rather watch this than the other guys, honestly. Um But it just it's again, it's like this Will Farrell's humor to me has been kind of one of these things, it's like it's like Mike Myers. It starts to kind of become diminishing returns. You get to the love guru and you go, Ugh. All right, maybe have a seat for a while. I think you're done here.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

And I've seen a lot of these same jokes uh probably ripped off, and it's always But they do it in a much funnier way to me. Like, I feel like maybe if it wasn't Will Farrell and John C. Riley, maybe the movie would have been funnier. But that's me. It's always subjective, you know. And I'm like, of course he's a musician. He was a Dewey Cox, you know. At one point they even said guilty as charged, and I went, Don't you go writing a song about that, Dewey Cox. But it's that level of kind of, you know, if you're in the mood for that kind of particular sort of humor.

SPEAKER_04 44:40

This is this is gonna hit really well for you, I think. That's that's a big part of it.

SPEAKER_02 44:44

You have to if you're not, you almost want to go into a fetal position.

SPEAKER_04 44:48

Yeah, very much so. It's yes, yeah. You either you either lean into this and you enjoy this kind of humor or you don't, and it's very painful.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

Yeah, there's not much worse in cinema than a comedy that you are not finding funny. But yeah, there's some moments in this. It's you know, we've seen movies that I've liked less, but it this is the Greek a little more. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:10

The drum set bit is pretty good. Like when he says, like, you know, don't touch my drum set, you know he's going to. And then when he pulls the classic, like, oh, you're gonna accuse me of touching your drum set when I didn't, and he pulls his balls out and puts them on the drum set.

SPEAKER_02 45:23

Why do we have to go to the gross out? You could have had a a movie that might have appealed even wider, but instead it felt like it just went for the shortcut of the gross out. Like, oh, it's not for me. I don't necessarily think it's more it's like at some point it's like, well, we gotta have a gross out scene in every comedy, and it's like, no, you really don't. You gotta you can't.

SPEAKER_04 45:43

I don't see that as gross. I think like puking and that type of thing is gross.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

Well, they went on to have that. He wipes his butt with the fucking uh mat and on the floor. There's all sorts of gross stuff in this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:55

It's the it's it's definitely not hygienic and gross. When I think of that and I think of like, you know, um, what's the movie with Ryan Reynolds, the national lampoon one?

SPEAKER_02 46:08

The fucking Oh, the Van Wilder?

SPEAKER_04 46:11

Yeah, where he's you know, where he's they jerk the dog off and make him with the donuts and all that shit. That type of gross humor to me makes me like where you want to personally vomit because it's so disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 46:21

And this movie has for somebody puking in it too. I'm like, that's just what this movie need. It was a puking scene on top of everything else. But it's not as gross as that, though. It's not as gross as that Van Wilder sequence you're talking about. But for some reason, we still gotta have that stuff.

SPEAKER_04 46:39

The beating up kids on the playground, the play getting getting up beaten up by kids on the playground, that's classic.

SPEAKER_02 46:44

Yeah, much funnier when Sonny did it. Yeah, I think so. I think so, even though they're probably ripping off Step Brothers. Um I think it happened first.

SPEAKER_04 46:54

Kids being vulgar is always hilarious. Um it's it's kind of like Blazing Saddles Hangover Animal House kind of trying to do some of that at points, but it's it's also very much an Adam McKay and Will Farrell kind of John C. Riley vehicle, you know. Um the whole thing where they're going to all the different interviews, you know, and uh all the the you know the comedy montages of the different interviews. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:35

The driving scenes were better than Axle F. I heard the rejection that the driving scenes were. Why can't we have those still? You know, that I'm like that's much better.

SPEAKER_04 47:49

I thought they were fucking terrible. I figured you would complain about those. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 47:53

No, I know they're they're bad in a different way, but I guess the Axle F ones were just unforgivable to me. Uh I thought this movie should have ended with the spanking.

SPEAKER_04 48:06

When he spanks Wolfero.

SPEAKER_02 48:08

Yeah, that would have been like that. Roll the credits right there.

SPEAKER_04 48:12

We would cut to the Christmas and roll credits.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

Oh my god. Merry Christmas, sir. Not once, but twice. And the kids don't get any older. And we celebrate Christmas twice in this movie. Do we just think we have continuity like the fun house? Yeah. Yeah, because it's Christmas again at the end of the movie. Oh, yeah. Um it's a double Christmas. So I really think that qualifies as a Christmas movie. It has two Christmases in it, like when Harry met Sally.

SPEAKER_04 48:49

So uh okay.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

Um it's really becoming a thing around here. We're either in France or it's Christmas. It's I just have to laugh every time it happens.

SPEAKER_04 49:03

Uh yeah. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 49:05

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 49:06

Oh, okay. I found Katherine Hahn's weird sexual aggression uh an interesting comedy choice.

SPEAKER_01 49:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:14

Where she like literally looks at it and goes, We just have had sex and walks off. It's just like, why are you telling him that?

SPEAKER_02 49:21

Like, yeah, I can't figure out what the tone is supposed to be. One moment it's sincere, one minute it's gross. It's just like it's all over the place.

SPEAKER_04 49:30

Yeah. And then, well, then other times you have these chaos scenes. You have the classic, make it as chaotic as possible because that's funny. Where and to me, the the two worst scenes in the movie are these, hey, let's just have John C. Riley and Will Farrell act like they're sleepwalking and they'll walk around and just make a bunch. And it's just like, oh my god. Fucking, this is fucking. I mean, like that's for some reason, it's like, like you said, dumb and dumber. Sometimes the dumb really works. And when it works, it's hilarious. And when it doesn't, it's really painful to sit through.

SPEAKER_02 50:06

And I think it's because we don't know everybody enough. Like the the script itself, if they develop the characters more and that more of a difference between the brothers, and just then you care more, then it becomes funnier because you know everybody more. But since I don't know their quirks as much, I s I don't laugh at the sleepwalking as much, where I might go, Oh, that's because he's doing the thing that he did with the other. That's why I feel like you need to put it back.

SPEAKER_04 50:33

I also don't want to watch, I also don't want to watch 20 minutes of setup like preview with these two assholes before we actually get to the movie. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 50:40

I'm saying if they did it well, though you wouldn't mind it if it was good, is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04 50:45

The falling of falling asleep on the lawn bit where they're fighting and they fall asleep on the lawn is probably the you know, again, the height of sort of stupidity. I do think the him burying him alive is fucking hilarious, where you just shh go to sleep and he's just burying him alive. Shh, go to sleep. It's that's it's fucking hysterical. What do you do, Bruno? Shh, go to sleep. Um for some reason during the last the during the third act, they keep saying the Catalina wine mixer. Everybody keeps talking about the Catalina wine mixer. If we say it enough, it'll be saying it over and over again. Uh I don't know why, but it it's like I wonder if they had a bet. Like, how many times do you think we can fit the Catalina wine mixer in this movie? Hey, look, 46 times. Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 51:35

You take a drink every time somebody says it. Uh that's a nice Space Hunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 3D poster that you can see on the wall at one point. Nice.

SPEAKER_04 51:47

Nice. I missed that.

SPEAKER_02 51:49

I mean, the heavy metal poster is a lot more prominent throughout.

SPEAKER_04 51:56

Um what else do I have on this? Oh, he sings at the end and he uh cracks glass, so that must be an E flat, as we've learned in Victor Victoria. When you crack glass while you're singing, it's an E flat. And um boats and hose, man.

SPEAKER_01 52:13

Yeah, it's just all like it was like if if is this what it's always sunny is like to people who don't like it?

SPEAKER_02 52:25

Because they do that type of stuff with their little presentations and videos, but since I know those characters so well, it's funny. While it's here, I don't know, I can't tell anybody apart from each other. It's funny when the bunk beds collapse, but you know, it was good. Oh, that's a surface level laugh.

SPEAKER_04 52:39

You know, I'm not really like can we put our can we make our beds into bunk beds? We'll have so much room for activities, and you know, the there's some I will say the the the movie is relentless in just throwing lines at you and trying to get shit to stick. Like, you know, did we just become best friends? Do you want to go downstairs to my room and do karate? All this just constant, constant.

SPEAKER_02 52:59

It's like what I said about get them to the Greek, where joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, the joke is my butt or whatever it was, you know, and they kind of do that a little bit here with the joke is me just saying something I don't know the word to or the obvious word punchline and then move on, and it's just like, oh did you just improvise this shit and pick the the funniest improvisations? But if that was actually written that way, then I have to appreciate it more. Because it seemed more like off the top of the head, you know. So if I didn't have to watch this movie for the pod, I would have turned it off at Sweet Child of Mine. And I don't think I would have been any less for the wear.

SPEAKER_04 53:44

Sweet Child of Mine. Which part is that?

SPEAKER_02 53:46

That's when they're singing in the car, Sweet Child of Mine. Oh my god, that's right.

SPEAKER_04 53:52

Oh my god, I'd forgotten about that. That's I mean, it's when he punches him in the face when he's like, you know, you want to punch me in the face right now, don't you? And he just rips off and punches him in the face. That's good stuff. But you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:07

Boy. And people tell me this was one of the good ones that Will Ferrell made. I guess I'm just not attuned to this guy.

SPEAKER_04 54:15

Give it another try, man. It might it might catch it.

SPEAKER_02 54:18

It took it took me to sit through this again. I've given him too many tries. This was awful. This was awful to me.

SPEAKER_04 54:28

Yeah, I know other people. That's funny.

SPEAKER_02 54:35

Not enough to sit through a second time. I mean, I couldn't make it all the way through Talladega Nights. I thought Anchorman is mildly amusing. I like him in the Giants Silent Bob Strike Back. I just don't think the material was here. I feel like there was a better movie that didn't get made, but it it didn't need to. It made its money. So but yeah, that was that's a one from me. A one. Not a one-half like Zorro. A one because it's still funny, but I don't like Will Farrell. I really don't. It it makes me weep for humanity.

SPEAKER_04 55:15

I would rather watch this over over Hell Knight or Funhouse any day of the week. I know. I know. And I do think it's saying everything else, it's it it look, I'll say this too. Production-wise, it looks good.

SPEAKER_02 55:30

Sounds like that's why I can't go lower than a one, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 55:32

It's it's it's fine. It's that all those things that are there, there's nothing lacking in that department. You either like this kind of humor or you don't.

SPEAKER_02 55:40

Or you don't.

SPEAKER_04 55:40

I get it. Um, but I think a one is a pretty harsh sentence for a movie that's a harsh sentence too much. Um, I'm gonna say two and a half. Yeah. Maybe I might even at the end of the state. That's where it mostly lands. Uh I do think it has some rewatchability. There's usually something stupid in this movie that makes me fucking laugh at some point. I don't think it's great. It it does drag, it has its issues, even from a storytelling point and some other things. But it does some other like I love when they're selling the house and like there's all these again, these comedy montages of like, hey, welcome to the welcome to the neighborhood. And it's a dude in a Nazi uniform mowing his lawn, and then you know, it's the guy in the clan across the street. Hey, it's really quiet around here, you're gonna love it, you know. There's some decent bits.

SPEAKER_02 56:31

Um, but it is funny in parts, but it was really hard for me to sit through.

SPEAKER_04 56:38

I would I would rather watch this over, especially over. I think this is probably for me, besides I don't know, maybe even maybe elf is probably at the same level. But this is probably for me with Will Farrell, probably one of his more watchable movies. Is Elf and Think. I can't watch Talladega Nights, and I can't watch um Life is Too Short. Uh, what was the other one that he did that's really got awful?

SPEAKER_02 57:04

Um but once again, it doesn't need me. It has it has tons of followers. People love this movie. But it's Robin Tomatoes is around 50 or 60, so it is.

SPEAKER_04 57:18

Joaquin Phoenix claims to have seen this film more times than he has ever seen any other movie.

SPEAKER_02 57:23

Well, you know, that's every movie has its audience. I don't think there are such things as bad films. I just think they're movies for certain people.

SPEAKER_04 57:36

Um, let's see. The only other trivia I have for you is that Mary Steve Burgeon plays Will Farrell's stepmother and elf.

unknown 57:41

So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 57:43

So this was I mean, for for you know, for Will Farrell movies, I think, you know, looking back on his category, I uh Blades of Glory was. It's probably one of the better ones. You know, Anchor Man was funny. Anchorman's, yeah, Anchorman's probably one of his better ones. His probably his best. But um he's especially people look at the love guru. When he's carrying the film, it's very hit or miss. When he shows up as an like as as a as an addition to the film, it's usually much better. Like he comes in, like you know, comes in, just burns the place down, then he leaves. That usually works a lot better than him coming in and trying to carry the film, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_02 58:26

What's that movie he made that was kind of like serious that people like? Is it running with scissors?

SPEAKER_04 58:33

Um there was a couple. There was everything must go, but I think the one you might be thinking of is Stranger Than Fiction.

SPEAKER_02 58:39

Yeah, that's the one people say is good as well. It was good. I remember that. You haven't seen it? Might be an interesting place.

SPEAKER_04 58:48

Yeah, and it it's definitely a change of pace from his him talent-wise and what he's doing. He doesn't because he doesn't ham for the camera at all in that film. Sleepwalk in that movie. Yeah, so that's interesting. All right. Wow. So a one from you, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 59:02

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's I think you're being harsh. The world loves him, and I've just been like, oh god, please no, for the last 20 years.

SPEAKER_04 59:10

So I think I think you're just being harsh. I think you're just being a hater, but alright.

SPEAKER_02 59:15

No, that's just my taste. You know, if you were lived, if you inhabited my skin, you wouldn't say that. The way that that thing made me feel. What do you got next week? Uh, you know, let's well, next week we'll talk to another guest, of course, because the new format. And the week after that, we'll be back to doing talking again. And, you know, I've had all these lists of movies forever and blah, blah. Let's throw, it's I said season three, we're gonna throw the list out a little more. Let's let's throw the list out. Let's go some blind picks here. So, and this also kind of links back in from Always to the Funhouse to Cliff Got the Spielberg first, but I might have been first with The Fablemans, will be our movie next week.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:04

Fable mans. Oh, that is a Spielberg movie I have not seen yet. Yeah, it's pretty new. Okay. Right on The Fablemans. The Fablemans, and this is kind of semi semi-autobiographic, right? I think so, yeah. Is the rumor. Okay, so bouncing back and forth here. I'm all we're all over the place, but I think I'm gonna give you another quick, easy softball. Um, maybe something to bounce off the Fable Muns with. So uh I know you haven't seen this. I'm interested to see what you think. Uh it's one of Jeff's favorite films, our buddy Jeff Notkin. So we're gonna watch CBGB.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:50

Oh, I've never seen it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:55

We're gonna get our uh our dose of uh Alan Rickman in this season with a little CBGB. So we're gonna have like some next season.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:06

Biopic. Biopic. Myopic, biopic. Well, alright, folks. Um, you know, I guess Funhouse is questionable, and Marty says avoid stepbrothers like it's the plague.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:20

That's you know, like get into the Greek, I'd say that's the only other movie that you don't need to watch that we've covered. If you have the same sensibilities as me.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:33

Yeah, I think I mean I think if like if you like movie, if you like raunchy comedies, you're gonna love both those films you just mentioned. You know, I mean, if you if you if if you're not offended by that type of humor and you're not worried about like you know who Russell Brand is as a person or Sean Diddy Combs or whatever, you'll you'll think those movies are funny, like The Hangover or or Animal House or anything else. But if you you know, if if that type of humor doesn't really appeal to you, it's probably not gonna appeal to you. Well, sometimes it'll watch it.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:04

Those movies it doesn't. You know, I like some raunchy humor, but those just something about that mid-aughts, it they just the ship left and I wasn't on the ship. So and now we hardly even get comedies in theaters anymore that are original. Coincidence? Anyways, we'll see you in two weeks with the Fablemans and CBGBs.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:30

Alright, until then.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:32

Until then. Later. You're not gonna have a quote.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:37

Oh, yeah, my quote. Oh, Jesus, that's right. I have one. Hang on. Okay, my quote is I'll kiss you right on the mouth, Kenny Rogers.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:47

A hundred bucks for Madame Zena? You never did understand the value of money.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:58

Later.