Episode 29 Oscars recap / CB4 and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dave & Christopher take a break from ultra-serious films and begin a detour into covering some of their favorite comedic movies.   We start with "CB4", the 1993 satiric mockumentary (starring Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Deezer D and Charlie Murphy and directed by Tamra Davis) and the 1982 neo-noir/comedy-mystery movie  "Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid" (starring Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner and Steve Martin 😆 and directed by Carl Reiner)

"The Show" © writers: Douglas Davis, Richard Walter;  performed by Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew

"Ride Captain Ride "© writers: Mike Pinera, Frank "Skip" Konte  performed by Blues Image

Transcript

Oscars recap

SPEAKER_08 0:25

If you're looking for a good movie or two to ensure that you've come to the right place, let's get started. You wanna start? I was gonna let you start, but I was just gonna make a comment for those unfortunate like myself who tortured themselves to watch the Oscars. Just wanted to reference since we talked about who we picked last week on our show, the Oscars, and I Yeah, I know you told me, but I did it just because we talked about it. I put myself to torture, watched it. Um couple surprises. I mean, overall, yeah, I don't think I'll do that again. I'll just stick to the who we pick and we can look it up. Yeah, it was uh what is that almost four hours of my life I can't get back.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Oh yeah. Um I I heard that the viewership is down another 10%. It's already has been trending down for the last couple years.

SPEAKER_08 1:15

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

So yeah, you're the smart you were the smart man. Yeah, well. Like I said, I mean, I you already know what to expect.

SPEAKER_08 1:26

Unfortunately, yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

You know, someone crystallized it, and it's maybe not exactly what I was thinking about the Oscars, but someone put online that you know, at this time, when you know, I know it's a cliche to say we're going through all this stuff or whatever, but we are, you know, a lot of people are, and you just don't want to see that shit. You don't want to see like rich people giving themselves awards. I I just self-congratulate.

SPEAKER_08 1:50

Don't give a shit. Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Iran's getting bombed, but I'm still like care about who's wearing what. I don't give a shit, you know. I never really did, but especially now, I guess.

SPEAKER_08 1:59

Right.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

It's just it's it's like the thing I think of is read the room. I think there there's gotta be a different way to do that that's not irrelevant, because right now it's irrelevant. Frankly, that's why the viewership is is cratering like it is. There's gotta be a way to do it that's not irrelevant and that's um fair, I guess. You know, like I said, just throwing it out there like some kind of thing like we appreciate these following movies, we want to h highlight these five movies or whatever, right? As opposed to like this one was the best and the other ones like them.

SPEAKER_08 2:35

Right.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

You know, maybe something like that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 2:38

No, no, I I agree with that. I think yeah, I guess that it that whole thing is almost old hat, so to speak. It's just played itself out.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:46

No one really cares who gets the gold statue anymore. They don't. I mean because I mean it did speak volumes a few years ago where it would up the box office. I mean, it might do it marginally, but not nothing substantive where you're like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

Right, because the box office is not the same as it was back then. Now back then it was like going to the movies was like a thing you just did, like on a date or whatever. It was like more of a standard thing. Now it's like most people I don't know, most people I don't haven't taken a poll, but a lot of people do streaming at their house. They don't go to the movies.

SPEAKER_08 3:20

I think you're far stretched saying most, or you know, I think most or a lot would is true.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Yeah, definitely a significant amount of people just don't go to the movies anymore. Right. So you know, and yet they keep raising their prices and they don't really like make it inviting for the customers anymore. It's like so you're losing business, but you're still giving me bad service and you're raising prices. Right. Crazy how that works. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 3:44

So you know that's really all I wanted to say is that I did watch it, but I yeah, I'm with you. Uh doesn't matter that it's going on YouTube, whatever. I mean, I knew I've known for how many years?

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 3:53

Only reason because of the show, but now I taught myself a lesson.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

Well, let's let's let's uh you know, I was thinking like the artwork for um when I put up the podcast last week, the Oscars one where we went on like a 20-minute rant at the very beginning. Right. I was thinking like the artwork should be like Statler and Wardloff, is that their name? The two old guys. Oh yeah, yeah. You know, like they're all booing the the they show up at the ceremony, but just to boo it.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

So it's like that's kind of us. Like, you know, why you guys care about it if you hate it so much. But let's uh let's just say, what would you how would you change it? Like let's say Dave can make the the the the award ceremony any way he wants it. What what would you do?

SPEAKER_08 4:34

You'd have to give me time, but I I'm almost in agreement that it's like I said just a second ago, it's old hat. It doesn't matter who, if you got a list of critics, if you got like I said, if you made it almost like the people's choice, right? Then you're gonna get people who pick you're not gonna get the best movies. Let's just put it that way. I'm not trying to pick on people. People like what they like, and more power to them.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

Right.

SPEAKER_08 4:56

I like what I like, and sometimes I go along with that, and sometimes I don't. But yeah, I just think we both were talking about it, it's so arbitrary, so it doesn't really mean anything. It'd almost be better, like you said, if you just but then why would you have a war show to say, hey, these are the best pictures?

SPEAKER_01 5:12

Right.

SPEAKER_08 5:13

That would defeat it all. I just think people in their lives, they're streaming, no one cares because it doesn't mean anything. What does it do for me?

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Right. You know? And that's what I was gonna say. If there's some kind of way they could spin it so that I also saw something online where they were saying, This is about music though, not about the movies, but they were saying like music uh when you have a broken heart or when you're trying to figure out the mysteries of life, music is always there with you, whether you even know it or not, you know, and insofar as like maybe you think of a song, you know, in your head about someone who was going through a similar thing that you're going through, whatever, it's always there with you. And if you didn't have it, you your life would be significantly depressed. And the movies need to do that. I think they can, you're right. They can, but they don't.

SPEAKER_08 6:03

Well, I think it's like our tirade last week.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

We were angry on one, yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_08 6:12

Yeah, and it goes to what we were saying, and I've been saying how they've diminished the product they're putting out. They put out only a staple of blockbuster and crap. Let's be frank, right? Right. How do you expect people to come if all you're putting out is garbage?

SPEAKER_01 6:28

Well, on that note, I guess what I was going for was like, let's say we were both talking about train dreams on the way here, which was like cricket suspiciously silent, you know, like where where is it? Um that was a great movie. I know. Um someone put online something about um how it's about appreciating life. Like in the story, he appreciates his life, but he doesn't really fully appreciate it until he loses something valuable to him. Then it's like, oh, that you know, right. I I really do have a life. I really do need to spend time appreciating all this beauty around me, appreciating what I have, blah, blah, blah. I won't get into the whole thing, you should watch the movie. But um they need to pitch it that way. That's how it relates to me as a as a viewer. Otherwise, it's just like the hoity toity. I don't care about that hoity toity shit, you know.

SPEAKER_08 7:17

But see, uh, to hit on your your point, more movies like that, right? Yeah, and unfortunately, that was a streaming movie. Was it? Oh yeah, it was on Netflix. It didn't really hit I it might have come out in the theater, like sporadic, like very minimally, but yeah, uh, that's unfortunate. That's where I'm not gonna get into the whole thing with Warner Brothers and Netflix and all that, but that's kind of Hollywood's beef, right? Because they don't get theatrical releases. But it's not that you don't get theatrical releases, you don't put out enough content.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

Right. Enough good content, especially that it would make me want to leave my house and go. Exactly.

SPEAKER_08 7:52

That's what I'm saying. They they sprinkle up blockbuster horror films, that's the new genre. That's the the in thing now, is horror, right? Horror, horror, horror.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

So that's gonna get played out soon.

SPEAKER_08 8:01

I mean, and it you and I it's not already thank you. Yeah, but and then again.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Right.

SPEAKER_08 8:08

And nothing against my fellow listeners who love horror movies. I like horror movies, don't get me wrong. It's just I think they could do better.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

Right.

SPEAKER_08 8:16

But again, it's you're um oversaturating the market with just that.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

Right. Well, weapons is a perfect example. Um Amy Madigan one for best supporting.

SPEAKER_08 8:26

That was one of the surprises, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

And not only did she do a good job, but the story itself was great. I mean, I haven't seen anything like it. I was very you know impressed. That's why I think I did we I know we reviewed it. Did I choose that one? Yes, yeah. So I know one of us did, I know we will both liked it, but uh that's my point. That is good, but these other ones where it's just slashing whatever, slash some co-ed or whatever, they've been doing that for for since we were little. I mean, it's like come up with something. I don't that's not new to me. I don't need to see that. Scream seven, no, why?

SPEAKER_08 8:58

I it's a franchise, like you say, a legacy. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Right? That's it. But really, I mean, that's really the gist of our thing on the Oscars. I can't give you an answer what they could do because I don't think there is anything they can do.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

It's possible that they're just not necessary. That's exactly my point. It's very possible because as I was saying, it's like read the room. Right. Do do people that make all that money do they need awards too? They think you got an award, your paycheck. That's your award. It's like that's what they tell us when we work, right? I want more rights. No, you got your right, you get your paycheck, get out of here, you know. You get your whatever, two weeks vacation a year. That's right, that's the deal. Right. So these guys get exorbitant paychecks and they get fame, and it's like, that's it. You don't need, and we need eight award shows or whatever, the whole season of award shows, like, Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_08 9:49

That's that's also part of it.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

Golden Globes and BAFTAs and Emmys, and oh my god, come on. Just have one if you need one.

SPEAKER_08 9:56

And that that might be the whole key right there. If you're too many? That's part of it, but if you just nailed it, if you just put one show right, all encompassing all of it, right? All of it.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

Right.

SPEAKER_08 10:09

And let it be and then you probably get people to watch. Because then it's one show. Oh, okay, I have time for that. Especially if you get better nothing against Conan. I mean, he tried his best, but you got somebody that's at least entertaining or could captivate the room. You know, I don't want to go on and on about this. I think you know, we've covered it. It was surprising, and I learned my lesson. Never again. Yeah. It's it's not worth the headache.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

I would say for one, and I know we gotta wrap this up, but um all the like technical stuff, uh no one cares. I'm sorry. Uh everyone that does that, I know it's a hardworking job, whatever, blah, blah, blah. But I don't care. I don't care about the lighting or any the sound, none of that shit. It's like we did the top eight or whatever, and that was probably about what it should be. So maybe an hour, an hour and a half, tops.

SPEAKER_08 11:01

Yeah, that's top.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

The top eight categories, that's it. Best actors, supporting, right, directing, blah, blah, blah, and that's it. They didn't go home.

SPEAKER_08 11:08

Well, even the memorium part where they're paying tribute, you know, you're always gonna be decent. I it was all right. I mean, it was nice. I mean, but you're never gonna ha make everybody happy because you're oh, you forgot this guy, you forgot that guy.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

Right.

SPEAKER_08 11:19

You know, and that happens. It's unfortunate. But but that's that that's gonna be I I think we should end there because we're gonna keep going. But yeah, that was our take on the Oscars. Again, watch it if you want, but um, my thing is don't. It's worth it's for waste. And maybe one of these other shows we'll come up with a solution on how we think they can resolve it. I think you hit it in the head, one ultimate show, and that's it.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

In fact, you know the thing of it is as I said with these award shows, the problem with them is that they're they're subjective, they're based on arbitrary um rules and people's individual tastes. Like I might think someone did a good job and you might not.

SPEAKER_08 12:00

Right.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

Therefore, neither of us is wrong because we're both our feelings are both right. And so on that note, I would like it to us to get back to doing what we do, the thing, the movies that we feel are good.

SPEAKER_08 12:11

Right.

CB4

SPEAKER_01 12:12

And that's just our subjective opinion. You don't have to agree with any of these things we review, but you know, that's just us. So I think that's probably the best way you can go about it. If you like a movie for the year or whatever, just you know, do your own podcast or whatever. Right. And tell us about it, you know, or whatever. Yeah. So exactly. So that said, I uh, you know, I I want to get back into more comedy stuff. Good. I think so. Um I was saying that with the Oscars with the best picture um the nominees, they're so dour, like sentimental value is terrible.

SPEAKER_09 12:44

And right.

SPEAKER_01 12:45

I mean, it's a good movie, but it's like it rips your heart out, and Hamnet rips your heart out, and train dream. It's like so now I want to get back to some stupid, just laugh, bust a gut, laugh. You know, so that's what we're gonna do. At least that's what I'm gonna do for a couple weeks, I guess.

SPEAKER_08 12:57

So I'll let you start with your pick.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

CBF. CBF. Uh my first choice for something uh more on the lighter side is the movie CB4.

SPEAKER_08 13:13

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unknown 13:25

Excuse me, Dougie French. Yes, have you ever seen a show with fellows on the mic with one minute round that don't come out night? They fly. They never eye, that's not polite. Am I no you're on tonight? On the furry mic, you're about to hear we swear the best star rappers on the year. So so carry them, yeah. Scream rubble. Also, if you didn't know.

SPEAKER_08 13:46

Let's go get some ice cream. Let's get started.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

Uh it's a 1993 mockumentary, um, kind of like a rap version of Spinal Tap. I don't know if it's direct uh influenced by Spinal Tap, but it's just it's the same kind of format.

SPEAKER_08 14:17

I want to say I would think yeah, I agree. I want to say it's also uh loosely based on NWA, even though they didn't say that.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

Yeah, and a lot of like yeah, NWA and some other trends and rap at that time. You can that's the funny thing too, is watching it and going back, oh I remember those 90s rap things. What was it, the PM Dawn and Yeah, all that stuff. Oh man. And then we're listening to uh Dougie Fresh on the way here. It's like it's like two turncables and a microphone, but they're making all this great music. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_08 14:46

It's funny, it's great, classic.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

Uh it's directed by Tamra Davis, who did some interesting movies directed uh Bad Girls, which was kind of like the young guns, but with women.

SPEAKER_08 14:58

Wait, that was with uh what's her name? Madeline Stowe.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 15:03

And I think it was Drew Moore.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Was Drew Barrymore? I think Drew Barrymore was in it. Anyway, um, she directed Billy Madison, Half Bakes.

SPEAKER_08 15:10

She did?

SPEAKER_01 15:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 15:11

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Uh the movie. Go ahead, I'm sorry. No, no, I'm listening. I'm like So I just think it's an interesting uh filmography. Bad girls, then Half Bakes. Billy Madison's kind of like there's no real rhyme or reason, but anyway.

SPEAKER_08 15:25

Oh, uh, just real quick for bad girls. Madelistow, Mary Stuart Masterson, Drew Barrymore, Annie McDowell.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

Uh so the movie star is Chris Rock. Oh, yeah. Um everyone knows who Chris Rock is, but I just made a note here that he has never really been able to get his film career off the ground in any real substantial way. And at least not in the way that his, you know, his predecessor, Eddie Murphy, was like from SNL, blew up in his movies. And I guess they thought Chris Rock's gonna be the next thing, and he didn't really never really he had a lot of chances too. He got a lot of movies out.

SPEAKER_08 15:59

Nothing against Chris, and this is my own personal take and opinion. Um he's funny. I don't see him as a leading man. He's good at playing part of a group. You know, um, can he carry a film? I haven't seen it. I mean, I like some of the movies he's put out. Uh there's the one where he was something with his wife. That was decent. He was him and his wife.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

A more of a recent one? No. Well, recent-ish. I mean, it has been written in a while. I know he did that like a 2000s or one of the so he did uh uh Fargo, right? The TV show. I never saw that. He did one of the one of the episodes? One of the seasons.

SPEAKER_08 16:36

And he was good.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

So that seems like now he's kind of aging into his I don't know, whatever.

SPEAKER_08 16:42

I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't see him as a leading man, and the comedy he's tried doesn't translate. It's funny, but it's not. This was hilarious for what it was. And I I know what you're saying, I've always thought the same thing, but he doesn't have what Murphy has. It's just sometimes you just can't.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

I put the notable movies for him or New Jack City. He was a side character in that, but you know, uh he used had a significant role.

SPEAKER_08 17:07

No, no, I laughed because yeah, it was cheesy, but it's a good movie.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

Yeah, Lethal Weapon 4, he was in. The Sun or the It was okay, I guess. Yeah, Dogma. He's good in that.

SPEAKER_08 17:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

And then he's known for Madagascar being the voice of uh the Lion?

SPEAKER_08 17:24

No. That's Ben Stiller.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

Ben Stiller. Uh I forget what days. The bird? Is it a bird? I don't know. Anyway. The zebra? I think he's a zebra. Zebra, that's right. And grown-ups, he's done those two. Well, it's kind of that doesn't really count.

SPEAKER_08 17:38

The first one was good, the second one wasn't, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Yeah, neither movie good. Uh this movie came in the space between his tenure on SNL, which was 90 to 93, and his brief stint on In Living Color, 93 to 94, people you blink and you miss it, he was on Living Living Color. Uh before starting his Chris Rock show, which was actually good on HBO, and that was 97 to 2000. And then he was known for his stand-up. So that's the thing that he has maybe at least as much as Eddie Murphy, if not maybe more, is insofar as his he's done, I want to say three or four stand-up specials that are really well known. Whereas Eddie Murphy just has the two. Although they're, you know, it's apples and oranges. Right. But that's what he's he was known for. That's when he started doing his uh bigger and blacker and stuff like that, his um stand-up shows, that's when he started blowing up. His movie career never really took off, though, but no. Um Teach his own. Uh and that's kind of what he does to present day. He had um the most recent was 2023 Selective Outrage, is the whole response to Will Smith slapping him or whatever. Right. That was not funny. This movie, like this movie is good. Chris Rock plays Albert Brown, a nerdy suburban wannabe rapper with his two friends, Euripides. That's funny because that's a black thing. They call him Rip, Alan Payne, played by Alan Payne, and Otis, Deezer D. He's he really is. Who's he a part of? Deezer D. I know he was part of he was part of like a rap group, but they never really took off. And then he did movies on the side, but then that took off, ironically. And then he was in like some one of the uh hospital uh drama series or whatever. Really? Yeah, in the like the 90s. He passed away. I want to say he was 50 something.

SPEAKER_08 19:24

Oh wow, that's I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Yeah, he's uh passed away. Um anyway, they uh the three three dudes, they they form a rap crew, and they're basically not it's hard to tell whether they're good or whether they're just good at copying.

SPEAKER_08 19:40

Right, mimicking it.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

Yeah, so they have a derivative rap crew who blatantly rip off more popular rap acts. Remember, they're the bag heads.

SPEAKER_08 19:48

They did show the different incarnations.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

I'm like, oh my god. All the different incarnations, like whatever was popular in rap, that's what they try to do. And culminating up to the gangster rap thing, which is what their last thing they try to do.

SPEAKER_08 20:00

Well, it's interesting because I mean it shows, right? Albert, who later becomes MC Gusto, and how you know he's trying to listen, and then his dad's like, hey, turn that off. And then he goes and they played what wacky D.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

And they're all doing the dance, and he Albert's who's supposed to be like MC Hammer. Right. Yeah, or uh C and C Music Factor, kind of a cross between those two, those really popular rap acts or whatever. Oh my god, that was hilarious. It's they're all doing the that's so funny. His dad is like, that's something my dad would have done.

SPEAKER_08 20:32

Yeah, that's that's why I like bullshit.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

What do you listen to? And then he turns on.

SPEAKER_08 20:36

Oh man, wacky D. Oh, and then he doesn't think.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Why aren't you in school? How come you're home so early? Saturday, Pops. So go look at a school. Don't be wasting my electricity on that rap mess. But Pop, don't butt me. I'll beat your ass in front of your woman. I don't want no rap in my house. In our day, they used to sing. That rap ness ain't nothing but talking. Son, it won't never last. Remember black and white TV? Gone. Remember, eight tracks? Gone. Beta match, gone, gone, gone. Yeah. Yeah. Look, Rocky, this function. Alberta, come over here. Come over here.

SPEAKER_04 21:17

Come on, that's what I'm saying. Dancing my pants and in your face. Yeah, so it's crazy, but I can dance. I got something, I got something back on the corner. I mentioned before that I can dance. I'm blacky. I'm blacky.

SPEAKER_08 21:54

That's why this movie is such a good time. Like you said, I like we're not gonna get it ahead of ourselves. But this movie's just a fun time. Like we said, all these movies that you mentioned, we just mentioned about the Oscars, all dour, all I mean, I'm not trying to say that. And that's fine. They're great movies. Right, right. Don't get me wrong. But sometimes I agree with you. And there's been a few that have made it to the Oscars and have actually won, but not enough.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Right.

SPEAKER_08 22:18

Right. And we were talking about movies here and there that, you know, planes, trades, and automobiles. There's parts of it where it can hit hard, but overall. It's a funny movie.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

Good, entertaining movie.

SPEAKER_08 22:28

Why can that get me nominated? You said Uncle Buck, and you know, it's kind of like, oh yeah, I mean Madigan, you know?

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 22:34

It's just those are and I don't disagree with you. Why I didn't think it. They were overlooked because what? They're not dour enough. That's that's the bottom line. Over sentimentality? What? Real quick, a shout-out to my boy Chanel, who's pointed out there's an Asian actor who's doing someone an actor playing with has cerebral palsy, and it looks pretty good. I mean, I gotta give the guy credit as an actor. In an upcoming movie? I don't know if it's upcoming or if he's already made it, but it just it's like wow. It's like Daniel Day Lewis good. It's that good.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

He really has cerebral palsy? No, he plays. Oh, he plays, okay. But you would be You would not know. Right. Yeah. The guy said that um ironically, they if you play someone disabled, they give you an award. But he he said if you're actually disabled and you audition, they like, no, no, you're not okay.

SPEAKER_08 23:19

Let's fuck that. Slapped you down, Your Honor.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

No, no, no. We're looking for somebody who can actually walk, but can sit in this wheelchair.

SPEAKER_08 23:25

Right. So, but anyway.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

Um so anyway, the guys, the three guys, they have their route crew, they try to rip off other acts. Um, and they try to do it in order to get gigs at a popular nightclub run by a drug dealing gangster named Gusto. Oh, yeah. Played by Charlie Murphy. His first major role in a major motion picture.

SPEAKER_09 23:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Um, I heard there's a story, I think it was in the trivia too, for on um Amazon, where he brought a real gun. Okay. He got his because he was like a thug back then in real life.

SPEAKER_08 23:54

He was thankful.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

Eddie Murphy's bodyguard, quote unquote, but he was like, Well, this guy beats people up, so let's bring him in, let's keep him out of trouble by calling him security, quote unquote. Sure.

SPEAKER_08 24:04

I did see that little clip because Eddie Murphy had his biography on Netflix and he touched on that.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 24:09

And like, oh, because Charlie really was a Yeah, he he he whooped ass.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

He went in the Navy, I guess he got he washed out because of some kind of fighting or something. And then he was gonna go to I think he either did a bit or was gonna go to jail or something. So they were like, let's bring him in and let's have him be security, quote unquote. And they were just like, but he would have real security and just like, you know, keep on the payroll.

SPEAKER_08 24:30

Right, just keep him around keeping an eye on him. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

I don't remember what stand-up that is from. It might be from Charlie Murphy, where he talked about he beat up Daryl Stingley. You remember that?

SPEAKER_08 24:40

Oh, I heard about that.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

So so fucked up because he was like, he was describing the person, you know who it is, because it was like he was oh, it was this guy, he played football and he got disabled. You know, he was a uh cornerback or whatever, or wide receiver.

SPEAKER_08 24:53

He was a wide receiver, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:54

And he got disabled. So that guy, I won't say any names, is like major injuries we've ever heard of. So he wasn't laughing at my brother's standard but not in his wheelchair. Laugh! You're right. That's what he said. He said he was a thug. He was like, I don't care, you don't need a new goddamn wheelchair. So you know, like, what you think you're better than my brother? Damn it. And he and of course Stingley didn't want to back down, so we slapped him up. So he was the real deal. So what do you mean you brought a real gun in the audition, and they were like, Yeah, you got the part, yeah. You got it. Yeah, please put the gun away. But uh Gusto's club gets raided um for drugs, and because Albert's in the vicinity, uh Gusto thinks he ratted on him, so he vows, you know, revenge, like I'm gonna get you for this.

SPEAKER_08 25:43

And Albert was just going there, because even the his one of his henchmen who uses that thing for his 40 dog bitches.

SPEAKER_03 25:52

He was just reading about you, bitch. You know, your ready rude funky ass truck driver father was right. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Taking advantage of me, Gusto? Boy, I'm three generations deep in gangster dumb. Three generations. Albert, are you in there? I like the fucking frog. What did you say? I'll be out of the wild! Okay. Trying to protect it, hey, huh? Well, welcome to the Terradome, bitch.

SPEAKER_08 26:36

Um, he goes, Oh, he's probably here to kiss your ass.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

You know, and here he is, boss. Yeah, that 40 dog is like the MVP, bro. You gotta have a guy with a talk box. That's always funny. But yeah, it's uh so Albert, uh, so yeah, so Gusto goes away to prison, and then Albert has a brilliant idea. Let's be let's take over his identity. Right, and we'll be a gangster rap, because that was popular back then, I guess.

SPEAKER_08 27:04

It just started at that time. And so he It was exploding back then.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

The whole Jerry curl wig with the with the beanie, right? Because it was part of the wig, right? Yes, it's part of the the beanie came off in the pair, right. Um that kind of makes him run afoul of his family and friends who are like, what do you know? What is who is this? You're trying to be tough now? You're trying you think you're from the streets or whatever?

SPEAKER_08 27:25

His dad goes, I'm from the streets.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Right, right. It's nothing to be proud of, you know. You know, you can tell you're a fake gangster if you're bragging about it. So Albert proposed to take the name MC Gusto to pretend to be he'll take Gusto's stories and not tell, you know, not give him credit. So he'll pretend like he did all that stuff. Um in order to sell records, and it works. Um unfortunately, the guys are reluctant at first, but then they go along because of the money, and C B4 blows up and I and the and the and the the ladies too, man. The ladies too. CB4 success gets back to Gusto in prison, he breaks out and terrorizes them, and they have to decide from there whether you know their integrity is worth it or how are they gonna get out of this program? I won't go into the the specifics of the plot from there, but that's the that's the gist of it. That's the gist of it.

SPEAKER_08 28:10

So yeah, hilarious movie. I mean, you were saying when we were coming up, I mean, that uh Chris Elliott plays the documentarian, yes, you know, and so good. And it yeah, it re reminded me because he was on Letterman a lot, you know, and he would always use little sh little spoofs, just a little coming off the bench, not like you know but he was always he's always been funny, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 28:33

I mean, even in what Shits Creek he was hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

Yeah. He's he's always been a guy that I mean drops the one-liner or some kind of weird, stupid joke on you, and then you just like he bail bails out.

SPEAKER_08 28:44

And that's somebody I wish would have been more included in movies.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

But that's kind of what I was saying about kind of what I was saying about Chris Rock. Because you know, you think he's funny and Chris Elliott's funny, but they neither of them really like blew up the way they're should have.

SPEAKER_08 29:00

I think Elliott was smart enough. I'm not saying Chris Rock wasn't smart enough. I'm sure people were pushing him because of Eddie Murphy at the time. Right. But Chris Elliott, I'm surprised, didn't try to get a little bit more roles where he was part of the ensemble, because he would have been funny. Oh, he did He did Cabin Boy.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

Cabin Boy, right. He's get him out there, but I think Letterman actually produced that. Because he was part of And he had this the sitcom.

SPEAKER_08 29:24

Or My Life with My Life with Chris. Was that what it was?

SPEAKER_01 29:27

I think it was. It only lasted. It was like on Fox or something, and it would get canceled and before Fox blew up, too. Right. So I mean So they did try to make him, you know, him the guy, but it just never sometimes just doesn't work, you know?

SPEAKER_09 29:38

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Same thing with uh remember Dennis Miller from SNL? I was just in speaking of SNL. He was popular in SNL. They got out. Oh, I'm gonna have my own talk show. And it was like Dennis? Yeah. Dennis. Yeah, so it just doesn't happen sometimes. Right. So, but yeah, Chris Elliott was speaking of that, I sat my MVPs for the movie. So these are the guys that come off the bench, you know, and you know, give you like 20 points or whatever. MVP number one, 40 dog.

SPEAKER_08 30:05

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 30:06

Bitches. He just like is the echo of gusto. It's so funny. Uh honorable mention I put Rachel True as the girlfriend, Albert's girlfriend. She's always good.

SPEAKER_08 30:21

Well, for those who don't know, her claim to fame besides this, really what took her off was uh the the craft.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

The craft, right.

SPEAKER_08 30:30

She she's a still, I mean, good-looking woman.

SPEAKER_01 30:33

Still good looking, yeah. Um and then she was the same basic role with Half-Baked, also by Tamara Davis. Which one? Half Baked, she played Chabelle's Love Interest. Oh, you know, other thing I put too is that cameo by Ice T at the beginning. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

That was so good. Yo, check this out. I'm hardcore. I thought I had a lid on this game. I had this sewed up, man. Then I heard these motherfuckers C V4. These motherfuckers is real, Jake. They show me their guns, Jake. The fuck I'm supposed to do now, man. Can't dance. Shit's fucked up. But I met him. Custo stepped to me, said, Yo, Ice. You down with C B4. I was blessed, man.

SPEAKER_08 31:14

I mean, I give him credit, they actually included Ice Cube, Easy E.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

Halliberry. Oh, yeah. The Butthole Surfers for some reason. Right. I didn't know what that was about. Maybe that was an SNL thing. But it yeah, uh anyway, there's not a lot to say about this movie. It's just a good fun, yeah, stupid movie. I the there's a little moral in there about like being true to yourself. Right.

SPEAKER_08 31:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:35

That whole thing about like, you know, don't try to be something you're not. Right. Like you're not that guy. If you can't, like, you know, if you gotta go out there with a giant boom box, maybe that's not for you or whatever. You need to like stay in school or do whatever.

SPEAKER_08 31:47

Stay in school, kids.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

Exactly. Um see. Um reviews-wise, it didn't do all that well. Uh 52% rotten. They're not us. Yeah, I mean, I think it's a good movie, but uh it to be fair, it's not no, I mean, but it's it's not Citizen Kane or anything.

SPEAKER_08 32:04

We're not asking it to be. We're just asking to have a good time, right? Just throw it in and have some good laughs. Down a lot of people, you know, maybe not exactly our age, but even younger who grew up with that gangster rap and pre-gangster rap, right? Dougie Fresh and all that. It's just a fun day. Yeah, it's just a fun thing just to watch.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Just to laugh. I mean, I I actually rented it twice because I watched it for this, and I was like, ah, another I had some more time. I was like, I'm gonna watch it again. That's funny. Right. It's just stupid fun. So hey, motherfucker, eat your big ass biscuit. Yeah. Oh my god. Turn around and eat your big ass biscuit. And he's like, and then he was the sex uh sex chat line or whatever that back when they had those. I don't they probably still don't have those anymore.

SPEAKER_08 32:53

Not now, I'm sure they don't.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

Oh, your balls are great, your balls are the best. His friend's like, oh, they're laughing at him.

SPEAKER_08 33:00

Speaking of which, Phil Hartman's in this movie real quick. Oh, yeah. And he plays uh some kind of a politician. City councilman or something. Yeah, and he's all against because his son is all into it.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

Right, right, right. He has CB4 all over his walls and everything.

SPEAKER_08 33:16

And it's real quick, because that really happened. There were people in politics who were opposed to that. You know, it's right, our kids are gonna, and it's like either your kid's gonna be bad or good, regardless. It's not has nothing to do with movies or music. That's just sometimes who they run with, and sometimes that's but that was a big deal back then.

SPEAKER_01 33:33

Oh, yeah. But I mean, even today it still is. That moved elections back then.

SPEAKER_08 33:37

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

You know.

SPEAKER_08 33:39

But yeah, that was just funny. That was our little comedic take on that whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

Uh it met with mixed reviews. Roger Ebert, one and a half out of four stars because he's a hater. He says this is the type of film that take that tries to shoot itself in the foot and misses. Now that's a good line, though.

SPEAKER_08 33:55

That is a good line.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

But I don't agree with it for this movie, but it's a good line.

SPEAKER_08 33:59

Yeah, that I gotta give him credit.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

That dude had a withering uh style about him. Oh, yeah. He'd let you know if he didn't like your stuff.

SPEAKER_08 34:05

But like I said, it's not everybody's cup of tea, but yeah, I think it still holds up. It was a fun time. I mean, I I chuckled, you know, it was fun.

SPEAKER_01 34:15

It was just yeah, even if you don't know the genres of music, if you're younger or whatever, right? You can just watch it for what it is, and it's still funny. Yeah, you know, just looking at it's funny.

SPEAKER_08 34:22

Well, it takes us back, right? Even even if we have younger listeners, you'll take you'll understand how that the movie is or the music that it is today, and even movies.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

Right. You might they might not understand the the gangster rap house. It was all pervasive. It was uh NWA and all those bands were just like that was groundbreaking, right? So they're making fun of that. They're like, oh, well, we're that. So that's you know that we're gonna be famous too. Right.

unknown 34:49

But yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

Yeah, so they might not get the context because rap's not the same anymore. But anyway, a budget of six mil, it grossed 18. So it did.

SPEAKER_08 34:57

It's three times its budget. That's fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 34:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 34:59

I did I do remember where I watched this movie.

SPEAKER_01 35:02

Oh, where did you watch it?

SPEAKER_08 35:03

Me and Anna watched it at our old digs.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Uh Cinema Six? Wow. That's amazing. Oh wow, 93. When did it close?

SPEAKER_08 35:12

Uh it was it might have been on the fringes then. Yeah. It was close, but it was still still around. Well, what it opened in March. So I want to say if they closed it, it might have been later in the year.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 35:23

Because I want to say that what Edwards probably opened up maybe '94.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

Yeah, it seems like about that time, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 35:30

Somewhere in there.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

So I'm just gonna give a quick shout-out because I know I you know you gotta take yours. Um uh at the same time, there's a movie called Fear of a Black Hat.

SPEAKER_08 35:37

Yeah, I remember.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

You've heard of that one, so it came out the same year, but after CB4, if I remember correctly, but it was debuted at con before CB4, but it couldn't get distributing until after because it was kind of more of a a DIY independent.

SPEAKER_09 35:52

Right.

SPEAKER_01 35:53

It's actually a better movie as far as like the satire-wise, but I think they're both in the same kind of, you know, you can watch one or the other, I think you'll you'll appreciate them both. So very similar plots. Uh so it's almost like did someone steal from somebody else? Like, what's going on here?

SPEAKER_08 36:09

I mean, you you figure they're both probably being filmed at the same time, right?

SPEAKER_01 36:14

Roughly, yeah. But it's but they're both about three guys who are not what they say they are, and you know you said fear of a black hat was at the con film festival?

SPEAKER_08 36:24

That's huge.

SPEAKER_01 36:25

Because CB4 didn't obviously get the kind of No, it probably had more of an SNL like uh you know Lauren Michaels backing or whatever, but so that's kind of why it probably got distribution right away, and the other one was like, well Right.

SPEAKER_08 36:37

Well it was independent too. Yeah, right. So I remember when back when they were theaters were ruled the the movie going audience uh process. Um I remember playing in San Francisco and I was on the fringes. I never really saw it. I always, you know, and now I will search it out.

SPEAKER_01 36:56

Yeah, if you're in black and it's great, it's on Tubi for free.

SPEAKER_08 36:59

But yeah, I uh that's it. Uh you already said you watched on Amazon and I own the movie, so yeah, I got to go in my special features, no?

SPEAKER_01 37:08

I didn't really check it out because I was just you know I would now, I mean it's not like one of those double discs or anything, yeah. No, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 37:16

Well on Blu-ray you don't have to because it usually that has so much space on it. You can Oh okay. Yeah. But I have it, you saw it on Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

Amazon, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 37:28

Yeah, and I just pulled it out of the library. But anyway, two thumbs up, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

Yes, definitely nice, nice fun, turn your brain off. That's what it is. Don't have to try to examine it. This is great for that. Exactly. Yeah, it's ridiculous, so in the best way.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

SPEAKER_08 37:43

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 37:44

Speaking of which, the next one.

SPEAKER_08 37:47

I picked Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

SPEAKER_07 37:49

Steve Martin and Rigby Reardon and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. Will$200 be enough in the balance, Mr. Rearden?

SPEAKER_05 37:59

$200 and shoot my grandmother.

SPEAKER_06 38:01

Nope, criminal is too tough for him. Hey, Mr. Great. No joke.

SPEAKER_05 38:17

Too disgusting.

SPEAKER_06 38:38

Listen to me.

SPEAKER_07 39:34

The people who brought you the jerk try to make it up to you.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

82, wow.

SPEAKER_08 39:43

Comedy mystery film directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, and Carl Reiner. It was co-written by Reiner and Steve Martin and George Gip. The film is both the parody and a homage to film noir and pulp defective detective film, excuse me, of the 1940s. The title refers to Martin's character telling a story of a woman obsessed with plaid. A scene which was ultimately cut from the film. Yeah, I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:12

Yeah, I wondered about that. I had to look that up too.

SPEAKER_08 40:14

I remember I went and saw this movie. I don't know, I just because it's the way it's interspersed, all the cuts of old movies interspersed. I I found it to be even then genius. Where they developed a story around these uh and editing in perfectly, Martin talking to these famed 40s actors and actresses, and I mean it's hilarious. And just the concept of it to me, it's still held up. I mean, rewatching it. I mean, I can't help.

SPEAKER_01 40:45

I mean, I would there's a scene where he dresses up like a woman, but then he was only doing it to fit the footage that they're using.

SPEAKER_08 40:53

Double indemnity was uh Frederick Murray and Barbara Stanwyck.

SPEAKER_01 40:57

And yeah, he has to get it. You see the woman from the back, but it's supposedly Steve Martin. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 41:02

I I like I said, I like the film a lot. It was fun. It still is fun. Um for me. I mean, I can't speak for everybody. It's in black and white, but it's I don't know. I I think it's worth watching. I think it's not you're not gonna be bored. What's it about? Sorry, kid. Um Juliet Forrest is a daughter of a scientist and cheesemaker, John Forrest, asked private investigator Rigby Reardon to investigate her father's death. So Julia played by Rachel Ward. Um that kind of reminded me like a Shadow Town? Yeah. Yeah. So they went 1940s, but I mean a lot of that happened, but it kind of did, you know. Yeah. She and Rachel Ward back back then. Yeah. Hottie. Hey Zeus Marimba. Hey Zeus Marimba. But anyway. She asked Rigby to search for her, she thinks her father's dead. And searching through Dr. Forrest's lab, Rigby finds two lists the friends of Carlotta and the Enemies of Carlotta. And an autographed photo of singer Kitty Collins, whose name appears on the one of the list. A man shoots Rigby in the arm and takes the list. Yeah. And then Juliet has an interesting way of retrieving this bullet. I'll leave it at that. Yeah. Um, and Rigby has an interesting way because when he first meets her, she passes out and um and he's trying to revive her. He kisses her and he starts to he goes, Oh, you're something out of whack. I'm not gonna mention because you need to watch that. I mean, today's world that wouldn't fly.

SPEAKER_09 42:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 42:44

But it was funny back then, and you're like, oh wow. I'll leave it at that. Um yeah, it's uh basically he's on the Juliet hires him to find out who killed her dad, and there's a list friends of Carlotta, Enemies of Carlotta. And in that ensuance of where he's uh pursuing these leads, that's where you get the first clips, the various older movies.

SPEAKER_01 43:13

Right.

SPEAKER_08 43:13

And they like I said, it fits really well. I mean, you get Humphrey Bocar, he's on the phone with them.

SPEAKER_01 43:17

Right.

SPEAKER_08 43:19

Right, he keeps telling about his tie.

SPEAKER_01 43:21

Yeah, that's right. It is pretty funny. It's you can kind of uh excuse me, you can kind of uh see the Rainer humor in there. You know, the whole, you know, I don't know, like uh what do you say? Irreverent, that's the word. Irreverent, like, you know.

SPEAKER_08 43:38

And I guess the more body or how would you say that? Yeah, body. Uh the more I don't want to say vulgar, but Steve Martin ish things with you know, fixing Julie's.

SPEAKER_01 43:50

Well, it was from eighty two, so you know, it that's the way things were.

SPEAKER_08 43:53

I mean, no, I'm not dismissing it. I'm just saying you were saying Reinert, I can see his humor, I can see where Martin inputted his more physical.

SPEAKER_01 44:00

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 44:01

You know. I mean, even the thing, the homage to the three stooges, right? When the henchman, yeah, exactly. Um yeah, I just the intersperse of the old movies, the the the just the banter between all the characters in there is it's kind of seamless. It all fits. Yeah. I'm not gonna try to really get any more really in the plot because that's really the plot. Yeah, gist of it.

SPEAKER_09 44:27

Excuse me.

SPEAKER_08 44:28

Um yeah, he there's parts where he dresses up so he can fit into that particular scene.

SPEAKER_01 44:33

Into the next piece of footage that they're gonna do. It's actually pretty clever the way he first of all, they got the rights to those films that they could use them all, and then that he could interact with them.

SPEAKER_08 44:44

I'm just wondering if it's the same film company that produced it so that would allow him to go in without really necessarily because if it let me see.

SPEAKER_01 44:55

Yeah, you would still think that there'd be some kind of crossing of you know rights or whether, you know, like maybe some actor wasn't it.

SPEAKER_08 45:02

It was distributed by Universal, right? So if they owned a lot of those films, who I mean, and and back then those particular artists didn't have rights to residuals or anything. They got paid their money and that was it. So the studio technically owns the film. So if they want to intersperse or edit in.

SPEAKER_01 45:20

Right. It's their property, they can do what they want. Right.

SPEAKER_08 45:22

So it's really no there's no harm, no foul. But yeah. And but no, it's just a fun movie. It's it's a breeze, it kind of goes through. Um it's kind of older humor, like you said, it's not maybe I'd still think it's funny for what it is. What was your take?

SPEAKER_01 45:44

Uh let's see. Uh I'm trying to think of how to describe it. It's more clever than it is like belly laugh, funny, yeah, type, you know. So you do have to like, whereas with CB4 is like turn your brain off and let your tongue lol out and just like watch it and laugh like an idiot. This is more like you kind of have to pay attention and like, oh, okay, I see what they did there, blah, blah. Right now. You know, because some of the footage is actually pretty seamless.

SPEAKER_08 46:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:10

Um, it you can kind of tell like the the modern 82 footage is a little clearer than the older footage, some of the older footage they use. But if you're just like you turn your head for a second, you're like, what? How did Humpy Bogart get in this movie? You know? Right. So I would say it's kind of clever. It's more on the clever side, and you kind of have to pay a little more attention.

SPEAKER_08 46:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:29

But it's still pretty fast. That's a bad thing. No. You should be paying more attention, frankly. And that's the people who need to do a lot more, frankly. But yeah, it's just not um there's some thought put into it, so you need to put some thought into watching it.

SPEAKER_08 46:42

Well, it's funny because I I remember people where I used to work, I made coffee, and Steve Martin Rigby always say, You gotta you need to make half of some cup of a cup of my joe. Yeah, you need to have a cup, and if you ask anybody, we're similar. And how I made coffee. That's how I made it so strong. But you know, hey, I got compliments.

SPEAKER_01 47:01

I'll make this guy.

SPEAKER_08 47:03

Hey, I'll make you a cup of my Joe.

SPEAKER_01 47:06

Okay, I'm sorry. I take that back. It is pretty laugh out loud funny. That was just thinking about that gag. Uh I'll be honest, I mean, Steve Martin is more of like a um, you know, um's comedian, I guess you could say. That's kind of a cliche, but that's kind of the best way I can describe him.

SPEAKER_08 47:23

More cerebral, right?

SPEAKER_01 47:24

Right. He's not like um like I said, he's not like a you know, uh belly laugh, oh silly kind of silly, but not like over the top silly. Right. So um I was thinking like, you know, this movie kind of goes along with his his genre, his uh filmography. It's kind of like it fits in with some of the other stuff that I've seen him do.

SPEAKER_08 47:45

Like minus maybe minus the jerk, but okay.

SPEAKER_01 47:47

Yeah, the jerk's more over the top. Yeah. Well, yeah, ironically, that's probably one of his more popular ones. So I guess that shows what people like. But um a lot of his other movies are more thinking thinkers, you know. Right. Yeah, they're more clever. So, and sometimes there's wordplay or whatever. But um, and now he's got the series that was the only murders in the building, which is I I binge that show like like crazy.

SPEAKER_08 48:12

It's a great show.

SPEAKER_01 48:12

It's so great, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 48:13

So it means him, Martin Short.

SPEAKER_01 48:16

But again, he's just like he's got these little one-liners in the show. It's like it's not like you know, he's not like Sam Kinnison, like you're gonna beat you over the head with jokes. It's just like very subtle, you know, but it's very cool too. How did this uh how did you go about picking this one?

SPEAKER_08 48:32

Uh you know, you were talking about CB4, and I was like, oh, let me think about something older that I hadn't watched in a while, and I thought, why not? Right. There was there's a couple I had in my head.

SPEAKER_01 48:41

When did you see this? This has been 82, so I went to the movies to see it.

SPEAKER_08 48:44

Huh? I saw it at the movies.

SPEAKER_01 48:46

At 82?

SPEAKER_08 48:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:47

I mean what what is what's the rating? PG?

SPEAKER_08 48:51

Yeah, it's funny it got PG because I mean now I would think it would be PG 13 for some of the stuff that transpired. They even dropped, yeah. They even dropped an F-bomb in there. I think so, yeah. I'm like, so that well that kind of goes with uh planes, trains, and automobiles real fast. It's a little side note. The 18 F-bombs got it a PG back then. Now it's R. But when back then, like I saw that movie The Plains, Trains, and Automobiles in Hawaii, and I remember when he tells I forget the actress's name, but he drops the F-bombs to her.

SPEAKER_01 49:26

In the airport, uh the rental. Um yeah, he That was a big deal. That was a big deal. But it wasn't a big deal back then, I guess what you're saying.

SPEAKER_08 49:34

My point is it was PG. Yeah. So now it would be almost R or whatever. It is R. Oh. They don't it's not almost, it is R. Again, the criteria is you can only say in a PG 13 movie, two VF bombs.

SPEAKER_01 49:46

Boo. But what a stupid criteria.

SPEAKER_08 49:50

But yeah, I mean, it's like I said, 82. They got away with a lot. I don't think it really hurt.

SPEAKER_01 49:56

Yeah, it's not really that big of a deal, frankly. I mean, I don't know, it's whatever. I mean, the There's there's certainly worse things that happen in film back then.

SPEAKER_08 50:09

I gotta give Rachel I remember Rachel Ward because she had done a lot of those uh what do you call it, those series back then, like the what was that one? Thornbirds? Yeah, that's what really got her.

SPEAKER_01 50:20

More of a serious actor. Right.

SPEAKER_08 50:22

And then this came along, and you know she's got a sense of humor. Well, even the fact that even in Thornbird, I mean she's an attractive woman. Yeah, she was the it girl. She came out, you know, you're like, whoa, who's this chick? You know, she came from Australia and very good, very easy on the eyes. And I like that she held her own even in this, even though she's playing the straight character. And Martin doesn't, like you say, slapstick, he's more of a clever you know. Even Reiner, when he comes in, he's you know, you can see his input, even the character he plays. I mean kind of me is reminiscent of his uh Dick Van Dyke days. So no, uh like I said, oh Rennie Santini's in it too. He plays Carlos Rodriguez, I think, the cop that he meets in um Carlotta. That's the oh okay. And I bring up Rennie because because he was in uh Cobra, which we uh he was uh Cobra's the partner?

SPEAKER_01 51:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 51:25

He's like a throwback from the 50s.

SPEAKER_01 51:29

He's been playing by the rules. Right. That was a good movie.

SPEAKER_08 51:32

But like I said, uh I a fun movie. I I enjoyed. I think people should give it a shot. Just something different. I mean that you asked me, and I thought, why not? You know? Maybe people, I mean, I hope people like it. I liked it. Yeah, I give it two thumbs up.

SPEAKER_01 51:49

I mean, yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_08 51:51

I enjoyed it when I saw it, and that again for me, probably because growing up with old films, I can, you know, I don't want to say relate, but I really enjoy that.

SPEAKER_01 52:00

Steve Martin's a good um he's a good comedian and a good actor in general that you know to watch. So most of this stuff is, I mean, like I said, it's not gonna be like spoon-fed to you, but it's worthwhile to check out a lot of his stuff. He's really very clever and very smart.

SPEAKER_08 52:16

Yeah, some of the one-liners he has in there are pretty clever. Some of the stuff, the dialogue they they created for these characters were pretty funny.

SPEAKER_01 52:22

Yeah, and I don't want to like paraphrase it because it'll just ruin it, but you have to watch the movie.

SPEAKER_08 52:26

Right.

SPEAKER_01 52:26

And you'll see what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_08 52:29

So the budget for this film was 9 million, and it grossed 18.2. So it doubled its money. I mean, unfortunately, it wasn't I like it a lot more, probably the majority, but I think it's worthwhile. I think definitely watch it. It's just another fun movie.

SPEAKER_09 52:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 52:46

Like we said, we were talking about Oscars and all the dour movies, and I'm glad we're doing more comedies.

SPEAKER_01 52:51

Yeah, definitely. And I want to do a few more. Me too. I was hoping you'd like to. I've been wanting to do that.

SPEAKER_08 52:56

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 52:58

Yeah, so I wouldn't go with I don't say what they are, but yeah, just stay tuned and check out the next couple weeks.

SPEAKER_08 53:04

Yeah, because I think we're both on the same page. It's just I love movies, don't get me wrong, even the dour ones. But yeah, we do need a uplifting, just kind of escapist. Just like I said, we need to laugh again.

SPEAKER_01 53:16

Yeah, and that's what I was saying at the beginning of as far as like the Oscars. You need to make your movies appeal to me, the human side of being. If you did that, you might get more, you know, people that would watch the the awards, the awards ceremony, the people that come to the theater more often. Right. You know, it's one of those things where like, you know, you market it like, hey, you know, there's a lot of shit going on in the world right now. Come in for see such and such for a laugh or whatever. Yeah. You know, 40-year-old version or something. How can you like be depressed when that shit's on? That's crazy.

SPEAKER_08 53:43

That movie was that's a classic.

SPEAKER_01 53:45

You know, or you know, if you go the other route, you know, watch this other movie too, we'll commensurate with you. Well, you know, this movie will there, these people are suffering in that movie too. You know, you'll see some of yourself or whatever. You know, they did it like pitch it that way, but for a Dow, um, we can you know talk about the movies that we enjoy, and that's gonna be enough, I guess.

SPEAKER_08 54:05

Yeah, and that's that's what we're hoping that you also, because of what we're talking about, now discover something new.

SPEAKER_01 54:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 54:12

You may have never heard of, or you may have saw it but didn't think, and now give it a chance. Yeah, definitely. But yeah, that's that's really our take on the show. I mean, for me, thumbs up for this movie and you.

SPEAKER_01 54:25

Yeah, I say the same.

SPEAKER_08 54:27

But yeah, I just picked it like you were saying last week. I'm kind of repeating myself, but yeah, I just thought, why not? I hadn't seen in a while. Let's revisit.

SPEAKER_01 54:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 54:36

And like I said, I enjoyed watching both of these again because there was something I still get out of watching both.

SPEAKER_01 54:41

Yeah, definitely. So well, then that should do it for this week. We have to go right now and kick some dude's ass. Yeah, some idiot. So we'll we'll be coming to you from jail next week.

SPEAKER_08 54:56

Yeah, so we'll we'll see uh Gusto or Gusto in the we'll be paying him a visit.

SPEAKER_01 55:02

Yeah, that's right. All right, well, that's all I got.

SPEAKER_08 55:05

All right, kids.

SPEAKER_01 55:05

Until next week. That's it.

SPEAKER_08 55:09

That's a wrap for today's movie reviews. Thanks for listening. And remember, if you like what we've heard, make sure you like, subscribe, and rate our show in the minute. Let's go get some ice cream.