Those Damn Three Seashells

The boys have their first guest as they discuss movies they can watch any time from any point if they came across it randomly on cable. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:03

Hello, movie lovers. It's after midnight and you're listening to Up All Night Cinema with Wade and Adrian on KNRR, not really radio. And now here are the boys.

SPEAKER_00 0:18

Good morning, Vietnam! What's up, guys?

SPEAKER_03 0:23

How's it going?

SPEAKER_00 0:25

We're Up All Night Cinema. I'm Wade. This is Adrian. Say hello, Adrian. Hello, Adrian. Uh usually we kinda bullshit and talk about stuff for 30, 40, 50 minutes, whatever it is. We're not gonna do that today because I'm doing something a little different. We're gonna have a guest on, our first guest. Um most podcasts like to have like a I don't know, like a celebrity or a uh another podcaster or uh movie critic. But since you know Adrian and I own 100% of the show, we are basically first class passengers. And as Billy Idol said, we could do pretty much whatever we want. So I have my friend Brian on today. Say hello, Brian. Hello, Brian. So tell us who you are and what are you doing here?

SPEAKER_04 1:26

Well, uh I did not go to film school, so I'm gonna let down a lot of people. Uh I am not a movie critic, so I'm gonna let down a lot of people that listen to your show. Uh I'm just a movie fan. Uh, you know, Wade, you know, you and I have been friends since uh the old school Applebee's days, so we're we're probably pushing 23, 24 years here, um of knowing you and you know, fun times and in Rancho Cucamonga. Um do you I don't know if you remember this story. Sorry to go off on a tangent, you know, in the first few moments, but June school went to that party and you sang Don't Fear the Reaper on like um Yeah, uh what's it called? Like not rock band, but it's like but it was rock band, but you could they had the actual microphone, you know, where you could and then it it read your pitch and a few things. I'll never forget that. You absolutely tore up don't fear the reaper.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

Um I remember that.

SPEAKER_04 2:18

That was a JD. I know. It's burned into my brain, man. But um I'm I'm a fan of music, I'm a fan of movies, I'm a fan of artsy stuff. You've always uh never led me astray by telling me to watch some weirdo movies. Uh I think you I think you scared me straight with blue velvet. Um I was like, what what am I watching? But I couldn't look away. So, you know, I think ever since that moment, and then the Pizzoli House too, that was always fun. Uh just oh yeah the DVD days, watching movies, and then when you guys would come over, we would have like our entourage days. This is before streaming, um, and before anything like that, you had to actually dedicate time on a Sunday evening to watch a show with your friends. And um, I think that's you know, that's that's why I love movies. I mean, I've I've gone to the movies by myself, um, gone to the movies multiple times, lots of great memories at the movies, um, seeing the big blockbusters at a young age, so those formidable years, man. Like that's just uh it's just nothing quite like it. Um, so I'm not an expert, but I just know what I like.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

I I feel like all three of us have that similar story. None of us are film school students, like we all went to our own independent film schools run by us. And um, you know, we all have gone to the movies by ourselves. I know Adrian went by himself today and and saw something that he loved, and we will talk about another episode. And cried like a baby. Cried like a baby. And I go to movies by myself on occasion when Jen's not available. Um so so yeah, I think we're all pretty much in the same boat. Um, both of you guys, I was gonna bring up the blue velvet thing because I introduced both of you guys to blue velvet.

SPEAKER_04 4:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

So I've got to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_04 4:14

Yeah, that was many, many moons ago already. Now that I think about it, it was probably late 2007 or early 2008 when we moved into that apartment and and uh it was it was quite the Saturday afternoon.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was almost 20 years now.

SPEAKER_03 4:32

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, my experience with my experience with Blue Velvet was only a few years ago. Uh we went to the Frida and watched it as part of a a series or a a um a marathon, and uh it was it was something, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Well that was an experience for me because we went it was just a single movie by itself. You and me yeah. You and me went with my dad.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

I remember that. Yeah, they were having that uh festival thing outside.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

Yeah, it was like a t-shirt pin festival. And um, yeah, my dad started stomping on the sidewalk like a baby because he wanted a beer in the middle of it. Sounds about right.

unknown 5:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:20

Wade, do you so Adrian, he also did take me to uh or he took me to the Frida, also. Uh I think this is probably like 21 or 22. And that was a great experience. I forgot what we saw. It was a marathon type of thing. Wade, you'd have to refresh my memory.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

Yeah, I was trying to remember yesterday what movie we saw, and I can't remember for the life of it.

SPEAKER_04 5:39

I don't even remember like the genre of what it was, but I know it had fun. Yeah, it was definitely fun. I think that's also the point of it is we had a great time going to Denny's. I think we went to Denny's and got like a moons over my hammy and some cheap, terrible coffee right before, and it was just part of an experience. You know, I hadn't seen you before that in quite a while. And that's that's why I love movies also, man. It just brings people together. Um, you know, not to get all sappy on it, but like that's the truth. You know, like, hey, let's go watch a movie, you know? And yeah, it's easy to uh break the ice with a friend you haven't seen in a while and catch up in a uh in a fun way.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

It's true. You also left your spicy pickle in my car.

SPEAKER_04 6:16

I am a spicy pickle guy. That my my go-to snacks at the gas station, if I'm trying to be a good boy, are uh the boring almonds. Um and uh I'll grab some spicy pickles. I'll try to stay away from the tapatia ones because of yellow five and all that weirdo business, but uh, you know, just give me a brined pickle and call it a day. Which is actually a great segue into the movies because it is one of my favorite snacks to bring is a stinky pickle into the movies when everyone else is having buttery popcorn.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

There you go. Yeah, I'm a candy guy. I I like to have some raisinettes or some Jordan almonds. That's me, myself. So two quick little notes of um just movie news that everybody should know before we get into this. As Adrian, well, Adrian, did you want to break the news since you uh just were the first one to find out?

SPEAKER_03 7:07

Uh yeah. So as we were jumping on to record, I had uh quickly perused through Instagram and uh Rob Reiner died. Yeah, that's unfortunate. Yeah. He's been a staple for so many years and he's done so many amazing movies. So uh another one, another one down this year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

We we won't talk too much about what he directed because I'm sure one or two of those could wind up on this week's list. So it's very possible. Uh the other bit of news that I saw today was that it's official that Warner Brothers is being sold to Netflix.

SPEAKER_03 7:47

Yes. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Netflix won the war. But I wasn't surprised because yesterday I saw that it was um if Warner Brothers backed out of the deal and went with Paramount, the the deal that Netflix already had with Warner Brothers would have been uh $5.8 uh billion dollars that Warner Brothers would have had to pay to Netflix for backing out.

SPEAKER_02 8:09

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

So it would have been expensive just to go with Paramount's deal. With it was pretty much the the difference between going with Netflix and going with Paramount Plus. It was the same amount of money by that point, I guess. So anyway, I think you two are gonna get along really good because A, you both have those blue velvet stories with me. And I'm not gonna say what movie because I think it's probably gonna wind up on one of your guys' lists, but you guys have a similar favorite movie.

SPEAKER_02 8:42

Very nice.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Um, so yeah, so we'll get we'll get into it. If we have time later, we can bullshit, but I don't know how long this is gonna take us. So we'll get into it. So Brian is picking the category topic for this week. He already told us what it is, which was great because we all have 15 movies on our lists in case we step all over each other. So we we'll have a total of 15 movies to talk about. Nice. So, Brian, would you like to tell us what the category is?

SPEAKER_04 9:16

Yeah, I would. This is something that I've thought about a lot. So the the category is, and it's it's kind of hard to compartmentalize it, but what movie will you watch at any point that you come into it? Whether you stumble across it on Netflix and and maybe it was uh, you know, you had 32 minutes left and you can't even remember the last time you watched it, or you're watching it on regular uh TV and you could just gotta grind through commercials and grind through the deleted scenes, but you can imagine them in your head. So it's it's just what movie would you watch if there was one minute left, one hour left, or the whole darn thing, you know, and you and you came into it at one minute in. I always thought that was a fun thing because it's like, you know what? I this was unexpected. I'm dedicated to this right now. It's almost like a little treat in your Cracker Jack box or something fun that it's like, hey, I wasn't looking for this, and a surge of memories comes back, or you can already look at the scenes ahead and start to laugh already, or can't wait for that scene for whatever reason. Uh, which there's I have so many different types of movies on my list, so it's you know anything from just laughing my ass off to, you know, getting emotional and wanting to go fight a bunch of people in a war. So um kind of spreads the gambit of I wasn't expecting this. And I just thought that was always such a fun idea of like, what are you watching? This uh did you put it on? Nope, just found it. How much is left? 15 minutes? So my wife goes, You're crazy. And I'm like, this is it. This is the last 15 minutes. I'm dedicated. So this is what I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Yeah. Well, yeah, I think uh yeah, we talked about a movie, and I don't know if it's on your list, but I'm sure Adrian or I won't bring it up. But uh, we were talking about a movie that I put on, I bought on Blu-ray a couple years ago, and it's like three hours, and I threw it on to watch like 10 minutes, 15, whatever it was, 45 minutes. I'm just gonna watch, I know it so well I could only watch a little bit of it and go to bed, and I wound up watching the whole three-hour movie and screwing myself for the next morning. Of course you did. Of course I did.

SPEAKER_04 11:14

Just a little bit, just a little bit ice cream, just a little bit. Oh, the whole gallon's gone.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

Yeah, so the the way I understood the topic was, you know, these are movies that if you, you know, get home from work late and you just want to pop a beer and turn on the TV and watch bullshit and you're flipping through and TNT has this on and you're halfway through, you can watch it. And it doesn't even have to be late at night. It could be the middle of the day sometime.

SPEAKER_04 11:40

Maybe I'll maybe I'll watch like okay, I'm I'm gonna watch this football game or whatever, or uh maybe I'll watch this baseball game and then I'm looking through it, and all of a sudden I'm like, uh-oh. This just went up in the priority list, and then I forget about the game, and I'm now knee deep into whatever movie it was, if it's on the quote unquote list. And I'm aw, I'm like you with that too, Wade. Sometimes I'll just pop in and watch five minutes of that movie, get to a commercial break, and all right. You know, it's kind of like uh just having you if you have the discipline to literally just have one chip instead of the whole bag.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Yeah, yeah, I I I don't typically, but I'm sure I know all of my movies would be better if the audience watched them from start to finish, but I've seen them so many times that I can just pop in 45 minutes in, 30 minutes in, whatever. Uh what about you, Adrian? You got some classics on your lists? I believe I do.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

I believe I do. Um my my list is pretty pretty all over the place in terms of type of movies. Um I have some dramas and action and comedies and nice a little bit of everything. So I tried to spread it out based on you know what I would think I'd want to watch at any point in time if I'm feeling a certain way or if something comes on that I haven't seen in a long time, regardless of what it is. There's a good chunk of movies that fall into those categories.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

Yeah. For for the most part, I'm kind of surprised. Once again, I got a lot of comedies on this list. We'll see which ones I talk about. I'm still kind of iffy on what I'm gonna throw out there.

SPEAKER_04 13:16

So I think it's funny too that you mentioned that because it kind of reveals something about yourself. Like, you know, if I'm into like some crazy drama that's three and a half hours or something, like what what does that say about me? Or if it's just all slapstick comedy, what what does that say about you? You know, like what kind of a mood, you know, are you in type of thing? And you know, what fires you up and what pumps you up?

SPEAKER_00 13:36

So we were talking about I forget when this was. Was this our first episode when we were talking about um the best movies of the millennium?

SPEAKER_03 13:44

Yeah, that was the first episode.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

And I just had all kinds of fucking comedies on my list, and that is so out of character for me because I like the blue velvets.

SPEAKER_03 13:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

And I'm like, let's let's watch this weird movie where the dude's like huffing some kind of gas out of a fucking mask and getting high and threatening to blow this kid's head off or a a girl, you know, and then I am just like, oh yeah, but this random comedy over here. Anyway, so uh the way we'll probably do this is uh since Brian is the guest, it's his topic, we'll have him go first. Oh man. We'll have Adrian go second, and then I'll go last. And is everybody cool with that order? Anybody want to go earlier or later?

SPEAKER_04 14:25

Sounds good to me. I'm good. I'm good.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

Okay. All right, Brian. So why don't you go ahead and start us off? What's your first movie?

SPEAKER_04 14:32

I am gonna kick us off with the OG of all OGs for me, which means that this is the first movie that I ever said this about. Like, I will watch this movie at any given moment forever and ever and ever, because it was such a uh a fun movie for us to watch in the summer of when we were it's this is like mid-90s, so I'm I'm right in uh you know, 12, 13, 14 years old, riding bikes with our friends. It's street hockey, it's hotter than hell outside, and we're tired of uh sweating our ass off in the asphalt, you know, and our wheels are melting, um, and all that fun sort of stuff, and just going, all right, we gotta take a break and just go inside. And then there was no Netflix, of course, no nothing. And we just had VHS players, man. So it was slim pickings, but it was always a good pick. And my first pick that I will watch at any given moment is point break. Yeah. Hell yeah. There is something about Johnny, Utah, they would just get a 13-year-old boy fired up to go out and raise hell and you know become an FBI agent and surf and do all kinds of things in in uh, you know, a single frame. So there was just something about that movie, the surfing, uh, you know, the lines that we said afterwards. It's just more of a nostalgic thing. Um, not because it was uh, you know, I just think it was just such a fun movie to watch. Like the action, bank robbery, surfing, he's undercover, is he gonna get caught? Is he not gonna get caught? You know, drug bus, all the things, you know, and just all the lines. Um, so yeah, point break, OG point break with Keanu Reeves.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Yeah, there's some great great lines in that movie, man.

SPEAKER_04 16:09

So maybe that's is I don't want to drag this out, but if we can all say like a favorite line from the movie, I think that could be something, except wait, I'm probably not gonna know any of your movies.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

Um, I think you'll be surprised what my when you hear what my movies are.

SPEAKER_04 16:24

But uh I think an underrated line in that movie is just Utah, get me two, you know. And then I love when uh Gary Busey goes back in the car, he's like, God, I'm so hungry, I could eat the ass end of a horse or something like that. You know, it's just it's just one of those follow-up lines. It's so hilarious. Um, so yeah, that's that's the movie. That's the line for me. It just always gets me cracked up. Think about being 13 years old.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

What what about you, Adrian? What's your line? Uh I think it was um was his name Papa's? Yeah, Papas, yeah. Yeah, he says something along the lines of like vaya con Dios, but he and he goes like bra or something like that, or brother, or I just thought that was kind of kind of funny. Because, you know, he he adds like that typical, you know, slang for a surfer guy or you know, an an adventure guy, if you want to call that, but he says vaya con Dios, and I I thought that was I remember always laughing at that when I would when I would hear that.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

Well both of your guys, as I've seen on t-shirts.

SPEAKER_03 17:23

Nice, they're they're t-shirt.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Yeah, yeah, my yeah. Um the line that always sticks out to me, and it's so fucking stupid and such a throwaway line. There's actually two of them. There's the one where they're they're out in night surfing, and I forget Keanu Reeves is like, oh yeah, we can't see anything. And Patrick Swayze's like, yeah, that's the allure of it. And Keanu Reeves' line is, yeah, vision is highly overrated. That one always makes me laugh.

SPEAKER_04 17:57

Yeah, and then I think he goes a paddle for a wave and he's just like, fuck me, fuck me. And he's paddling, you know.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Yeah, that's good. I I also like when they they uh are going, you know, he's kidnapped Lori Petty, they're making him go on the the bank robbery at the end, yeah. And uh they don't give him a mask and he's yelling at him, I am an FBI agent, and Patrick Swains is like, yeah, isn't it wild?

SPEAKER_02 18:22

Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

Yeah, the the 100%. Point break's great. That's a Catherine Bigelow movie. Uh the first time I really saw that movie from start to finish was on KTLA Channel 5.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

There we go.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

And that's where they played it a lot.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Like that played a lot on KTLA Channel 5. I remember some relatives were visiting from out of town, and we all wound up sitting there watching fucking point break. I don't know why at a family gathering we just all decided to watch Point Break. Right. But yeah. All right, Adrian, what's uh what's your first movie?

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Um my first movie is Blood Sport.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

There it is. That's the movie that I was saying. You guys are both huge fucking fans of. I knew one of you fucking guys was gonna say it.

SPEAKER_04 19:08

Adrian, truth be told, it is tied for first place with me with point break. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:13

Yeah, Bloodsport for me is undoubtedly uh number one. Um I still have yet to buy it in 4K just because they don't have a US release. So I have to order it on eBay for like $70. Uh, because there is a company, I don't know if it's like Arrow or one of the other ones, they they make a uh a 4K remastered version of Bloodsport, and I I need to pick it up at some point. But yes, Bloodsport for me is Van Dam at his peak. He's untouchable in Bloodsport, and uh I I just absolutely love that movie. The music, um, you know, just the the cheesiness of it all as well. Um yeah, he's just he's like walking on clouds in that movie. I mean, he's just he's you know, he's untouchable. He's he's handsome, he's good looking, he kicks everybody's ass. And he's also vulnerable at times because you know, at in his final fight, he has to channel like an inner spirit that he learned of like kicking people's asses without being able to see them. So um, yeah, I I just I love Bloodsport. I mean, I I did martial arts for a lot of years. I grew up, I f I feel like that movie used to show all the time on like TBS or one of those, you know, TNT or USA or something like that. But to this day, um I regularly listen to the soundtrack on Spotify and uh, you know, uh you just you can't beat it. Bloodsport's number one for me.

SPEAKER_04 20:48

All right. So good. Yeah, they got a lot of fun lines from that movie. And and you're right, Adrian. You can come into that movie at any point and there'd be like a love scene, uh a cheesy scene, a training scene, a fight scene, helping his brother scene. You know, like I I I didn't watch a lot of foreign films or anything, so just even going, holy crap, like does this really like exist? You know, type of thing. Like instead of going, is this made up? Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_03 21:13

Or even even the chase scenes when they're chasing him through the towns, you know, like those are those are awesome.

SPEAKER_04 21:20

He's like, Come here, guys, I'm over here, you know. Isn't Florence Whitaker in that movie? He is, yeah. Yeah, that's right. And then I love that Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds is also in it. You can't beat that. Oh, ogre. He was Ogre Nerds. Nerds. But yeah, my favorite line from uh from Bloodsport is okay, USA. Just hits me every time.

SPEAKER_03 21:45

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

I I just remember him like the the famous shot of him screaming in the fight, you know? Mm-hmm and him doing the splits.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

I've shown you both. That video where he's doing the most perfect of splits and they're playing the Enya song, and the two he's standing on the two trucks and they're like drifting apart.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

That's the greatest video of all time. All cause of blood sport. All cause of blood sport. Yeah, you can't you don't have that video without blood sport. You know how he got into the movie industry. Does anyone know this story? There were these two uh independent filmmakers, um Menheim Golan and Something Globus. And you would recognize their names and movies all the time. I believe uh their company was called Canon. They did all those really wild 80s movies. They were the ones responsible for jacking up salaries because they were the ones who started paying Stallone 10 to 15 million dollars to make over the top.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

You know? And so one of them, Van Dam, was a waiter.

SPEAKER_04 22:55

No way.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Van Dam was a waiter. Most of these guys were fucking bartenders or waiters or something. But um one of the producers was at this restaurant in LA and Van Dam took a shot and he did a spin kick over that guy's head, and that guy's like, Monday morning you be here, and the rest is history. Wow. They're the guys who made Bloodsport. That was a canon movie.

SPEAKER_04 23:20

That's wild.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

So for my first movie, so I tried to think of movies that I've seen a lot from like not the beginning. You know what I mean? Like, oh, I've walked into this a million times. So my first movie is not necessarily one of my favorite movies, but I've seen this movie a shit ton of times, but I've only seen it start to finish once.

SPEAKER_02 23:43

Oh wow. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

I've seen the movie all the way through just fragmented over years, but I'm gonna go with Napoleon Dynamite. Nice. I I saw that movie with my cousin when it came out. I believe I told this story. We went to Pasadena. I was like, this is a piece of shit. No one's ever gonna want to see this movie again. It's gonna be one of those weird movies I saw once. Everyone's like, the fuck is that? And then I I went to DVD Plant and I walked in and they were playing the movie, and I walked in halfway through, and I was like, this is actually pretty good. And I wound up watching like 45 minutes of it. Just standing there, gaze. Just standing there, just uh-huh. Yeah. And I've seen it on Comedy Central several times, just came into it.

SPEAKER_04 24:30

So it's funny you uh introduced that topic where you've seen it all the way through and in fragments, and probably only one time through. And I think the only time I've seen it through was in the theater as well, and then you watch it in fragments as it goes on. Yeah, I think I owned it, but then stuff happens, you gotta go do stu I um the own the DVD, and then you just go, all right, I guess I just have time for that, or you fast forward to your favorite part because you don't have YouTube shorts yet, and you know, you kind of gotta make make the most of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

I I don't think you're a big fan of that movie, right, Adrian?

SPEAKER_03 25:01

Yeah, I remember going to watch it in theaters, and I wasn't impressed. Then again, I was much younger. I think if I were to give it a shot again, maybe I'd have a a different perspective on it. I mean that movie became an instant hit in the same way I think that like Juno did, right? This under the radar movie that was really well written. I mean, Juno's a much better overall movie, I think, in that sense. But Napoleon Dynamite came out on the scene, and I remember watching it in theaters and just thinking this movie is so dumb. But I did laugh hysterically at one part, and I still remember the one part, and it's when he electrocutes himself. I died in that part of the movie. And to this day, I still can't fully say that I don't like the movie because I was laughing hysterically in that scene.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

You know what's the scene for me, and it was the scene that changed my mind about this movie. It was the exact scene I walked into on DVD Planet. It it was when um uh Napoleon and his brother go to the um, you know, that guy's training tutorial to get into his kung fu class, and he's wearing those uh American flag pajama pants, and he's like, You think anyone wants a roundhouse kick while I'm wearing these babies? You know, it's just the silliest fucking thing. But it made me laugh. And then he's he's talking about his wife, and he's just got a picture of this like American gladiator on the wall, and I'm like, the fuck is this? Like, what is going on here?

SPEAKER_04 26:43

I remember being confused by that movie because my cousin loved it so much, and he like, you know, Super Troopers is one of his favorite movies. And so yeah, I knew he was into just funny things. And so I actually went with with my wife, um, but we were just dating at the time, and I don't think she was super into it. So then I was kind of like, what did I just what did we just watch? Because it's not like it's short, like an hour 20. I think it goes pretty deep. Um, so it's like those extra 20 minutes sometimes lag on those types of movies. And but I I remember now like looking back, the cinematography is beautiful, the coloring is beautiful, you know, like the way that it's just put together, those quirky scenes, that quirky like quasi um elevator music, you know, with like this, like I feel like just someone's playing like this mini organ, you know, with some of those like things, but just all the quirky characters. My favorite line from that is your grandma broke her cock from Uncle Rico.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

What the hell? Uncle Rico. I I love this scene where Uncle Rico throws the stake at him. You know, he's just he's just bicycling by and he sees him and he tells uh Napoleon's brother, watch this, and he just throws a stake and it smacks him in the face. Poor kid. Yeah, no, no reason for any of it. But yeah, I I never saw this before, but on Comedy Central, I was at my cousin's house and they were watching it, and we watched the last 30 minutes or so, and I had never seen it. And I guess it's like a mid-credit sequence where they're at Kip's wedding. And that's a wild scene. Like, you know, like it's uh out of the wars.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

Yeah, with Lafonda.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

And Kip and LaFonda ride off on this white horse, and it's so weird. Such a weird movie. All right, Brian. So, what's what's your second movie, Brian?

SPEAKER_04 28:31

Oh man, this is gonna be difficult, but I can't do two Keanu Reeves back to back, but I do love that movie so much. Uh, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go with one of my top all times, um, and I I just don't see it enough on things, and when I forget about it and I and I see it come up, I'm like, oh boy, I'm I'm hunkering down for this one. I I'm going V for Vendetta. That that's a good one. I just like the story. I I like like uh Natalie Portman's character's training. I like what V puts her through. I like all the back end of like this, you know, corruption. It's very Batman-like, you know, but just in the I don't just it was just really cool for me just watch that. I remember just being blown away watching that for the first time, and then um the idea of like the masks and all of that stuff, and it was just cool, like the chaos, and then of course there's like the that uh typical chariots of fire type of like da-da-da-da-da-da-da. You know, it's caddyshack, but now it's V for Vendetta music. And I just something about that movie where I'll I'll watch it at any moment. Um, it's too good.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Yeah, you you and Adrian have uh that in common also.

SPEAKER_03 29:41

Yeah, I actually had V for Vendetta as one of my favorite movies of the 21st century. So that was on my top five uh absolutely. I I love V for Vendetta. Everything about that movie, uh the color grading, the cinematography. Um, I don't know, it's very meaningful. I think I touched a little bit on the political and corruption stuff. I think because it could be a movie that you watch now and carry a very heavy weight. And um, but yeah, just the acting and everything in that movie's phenomenal.

SPEAKER_00 30:18

I I hear the the sequence where they set up the dominoes and knock them over was a very complicated, complicated sequence. Like you don't think about like that seems like an easy thing to do.

SPEAKER_03 30:30

Oh no, I'm sure it wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Yeah. Especially because they had they designed it so that they have that one domino that just gets stuck.

SPEAKER_04 30:38

Yeah, it's beautiful. So that that just like uh that scene where she's in there like reading everything on like that piece of toilet paper and just like the mind trickery that's actually going on, and then the fact that she doesn't want to like kill him afterwards, and like you know, and but he knew knowing that you have to go through that training to like forge you to the next phase. Like, I I love that idea um of having that control over someone but doing it for all the right reasons because you don't they don't know what they need yet. So there's just something about that part I just absolutely love. And I love the part where he kills everybody in the uh sewer and they're all getting their guns out, and it's just very, very cool.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

A a lot of that movie is very cool. I love the the way V talks.

SPEAKER_03 31:19

Yes, it's very poetic.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

Yeah, it's very poetic. I I still to this day, I can't tell you how many times I've seen that movie. I have maybe a 25% idea of what the fuck he says to her the first time in the alley. You know, that's a wild sequence. Yeah, uh, that's a great cast in that movie, people you don't see often, like Stephen Ray, you know, that guy, you know, he did interview with the vampire and then a bunch of indie movies, and then he's in V for Vendetta, and he was great.

SPEAKER_03 31:51

Yeah. And I don't think you can get a better voice actor, like in theory, for V's character than Ugo Weaving. I mean, his voice is so iconic that well he was he was on set a lot of the time. Like that's him in the costume. No, no, no. That's that's what I mean, but I'm saying like because you don't really see his face. Oh yeah. But I mean by that is like he is a voice character because you don't physically see him or he's not really identified, right? But his voice is unmistakable. I don't I can't think of we can maybe name some, but I can't think of a better actor to play that role than him because of how iconic his voice is and his cadence with his poetic lines and things like that. It's just perfect.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

Yeah. Well, I I'm pretty sure there was another actor, his name is James Purfoy, who was cast as V, and he still has scenes in the movie that he filmed, and I don't know if he just wasn't cutting it. I've heard that it was also because he didn't dig Bean in the mask, and that made him kind of crazy. And for whatever reason, he wound up leaving and Hugo Weaving was replacement. Well, I'm glad they did that. That yeah, happy accident. Like, I love when that happens.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

Because a lot of times you hear who was like, I've seen James Purfoy and stuff, and he's good, but I don't think it it's kind of like my issue with the um live action Lion King. You know, like um I I didn't see the live action Lion King, obviously, but I'm watching the trailer for it, and I guess Scar is the one doing the voiceover for it, and it's Chi Welty Edgio4, but I'm watching it and I didn't realize that was Scar because I'm like, why the fuck is Chaiwelty Edge O4 the one voicing this character because he doesn't have a distinct enough voice? You know, we went from Jeremy Irons, who is such a powerful voice, yes, to Chi Welty Edgeophore, who is a much better on-screen actor than he is a voiceover character.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

And uh yeah, and I think Hugo Weaving, like you said, like he he could perform in uh in a mask like that. Keanu Reeves couldn't have done that part. No, I don't think Keanu Reeves would have worked. Like you'd have been like, what is this? I'm watching.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

All right.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

All right, Adrian, time for your second movie. What you got?

SPEAKER_03 34:17

Uh the second movie on my list is The Matrix.

SPEAKER_00 34:20

There fucking talk about Keanu Reeves.

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Yeah. Undoubtedly, The Matrix is my number two. It is a great movie. I mean, I think it one of the best movies ever made. Has to be in the conversation. Uh the story itself is amazing. The fact that to get that movie funded, the Wachowski brothers were were now sisters, right? They were given X amount of money to film that first scene in the movie, I guess. The scene with Trinity and her fight sequence and everything. And they took it back to the studio, and I guess they were floored, so they greenlit the entire rest of the movie. And um, yeah, I love The Matrix. It's the style for, you know, 2000 when it in 1989 when it came out is unprecedented. It revolutionized cinema, I think. A lot of the special effects that they used um did as well. The acting's really impressive. I mean, the script itself is probably one of the best ever written, I would assume. That has to be anytime I I watch that movie, no matter where I end up on it over the years, I just I can't take my eyes off of it. Whether I catch it from the beginning or I catch it midway through, and it has everything, that movie. It's a love story, it's a story about survival, it's a it's a story about recognizing your calling, and you know, that maybe there's a greater plan in this world for all of us. And and also the impending doom of you know how how the the human spirit bands together when you know there's an extreme crisis on the line. And so uh all of it is is is uh is really impressive to me. Um and I'm I'm hopefully really looking forward to going to go see it in Cosm soon. Brian, I don't know if you have seen this or heard this, but there's one in Dallas and there's one in LA.

SPEAKER_04 36:19

And okay, yes, yes. I'm sorry, just heard about the one in LA. I was floored when I saw that. They were football. I was like, oh my god, it looks like they're in the end zone.

SPEAKER_03 36:27

It was nuts. So they only have a release of the Matrix there now in augmented reality. If you haven't seen the videos for it, you need to check it out.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

It looks wild. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:38

It looks wild. I mean, I don't think it'll take anything away from the movie. It might be a little overwhelming, but I still need to go experience it for myself because there's probably some sequences that are just jaw-dropping in augmented reality.

SPEAKER_04 36:53

That yeah, that's that should be nuts. I agree with everything you said, Adrian. I I love that movie too. I'll come in and edit at any point. Um, actually, I've been sort of avoiding it recently for some reason, uh, just because of the symbolism and a few other things now that I'm older. Um and a lot of uh stuff I talk about with other dudes and stuff trying to figure out their life and things, and like, oh, did you know that this meant this? And you're like, what? You get these mind-blown moments, you know. Because again, I'm what 15, 16 years old, 17 years old max when that movie comes out. I didn't know shit from shit. I'm watching it because it's oh, I know kung fu, you know. Now it's like all of these things about humanity and all it's just so you definitely with a different lens, uh, it it it hits it's different. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

Well, there there was a lot of things going on with that movie. Like we talked about AI, like where AI was going. My favorite story with that movie, though, is the Sean Connery thing. Actually, the the whole the whole casting of that movie is incredible because originally they wanted Will Smith to play Neo, they wanted Sean Connery to play Morpheus.

SPEAKER_03 38:03

Jeez.

SPEAKER_00 38:04

And Sean Connery, this was step one in Sean Connery walking away from the business. Because they offered Sean Connery the Matrix and he read the script. He's like, I have no fucking idea what's going on. No, thank you. And of course, Fishburn got the got the job and wound up becoming a millionaire just because of it.

SPEAKER_03 38:25

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:26

And then within the next year, they offered Sean Connery Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings. Oh, he turned that down? I didn't know that. He read the script and he said, I have no fucking idea what is going on in this thing. And he turned it down, and McKellen came in, got an Oscar nomination, became a household name, and probably became a fucking millionaire because of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:50

Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_00 38:51

And then they offered Sean Connery the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He read the script, said, I have no fucking idea what's going on in this thing. Are you setting us up for a long punchline joke here? This is the punchline joke because he wound up he took that job. Yeah, because that one. He took that one because he's like, I turned down the other two, and they were fucking huge. I lost all kinds of money and opportunities because of this. And he wound up having a shit time with the director, and he was like, That's it, I'm never doing this again. And he walked away. But uh, they had such a hard time casting Neo in that movie. At one point, they talked to Sandra Bullock about doing it. Whoa. They were gonna gender swap the character because Sandra Bullock was kind of becoming a big star at the time. They were like, We need somebody for this, and nobody wanted to do it. So they actually talked to Sandra Bullock before they talked to Keanu Reeves.

SPEAKER_04 39:49

Wow. These are see, these are like the nuggets that that you guys are so much better at that I don't know. I'm just like, hmm, this is a great movie.

SPEAKER_00 39:57

I mean, I mean there's symbolism in it. There's so much symbolism. You know what was a symbol. I didn't even I never caught this. I saw this the other day, like literally last week. I forget the wording, but how wild is it that Neo is in a computer program and he's at the Oracle's house and she gives him cookies.

SPEAKER_02 40:19

That's funny.

SPEAKER_00 40:20

He's in a computer and she's giving him cookies.

SPEAKER_02 40:23

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 40:24

Like you don't think about that, but that's a joke.

SPEAKER_04 40:27

No. Wow. Way over my head, above my pay grade for sure. But that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 40:33

Yeah, I I wouldn't have got that one.

SPEAKER_04 40:35

Yeah. So what do you got for us? Wait.

SPEAKER_00 40:37

Well, first off, before we move on, I I think this is another one. What's your favorite line from that movie, Adrian?

SPEAKER_03 40:43

Oh man, I don't I don't I don't even know where to begin. I'd have to think about it. If you guys have one, go ahead and I'll I'll try to uh try to think of one.

SPEAKER_00 40:54

What about you, Brian? What you got?

SPEAKER_04 40:56

Well my mine's too uh mine's too mainstream, but it's it's the depth of it is like I know Kung Fu is just like this idea of getting all of this information downloaded into you. You know, that was like what a crazy concept to not have to learn it, just be it and and go with it. Um of course those fight scenes are nuts. So for me, it's more about the depth of that and that whole concept and idea rather than the line, which is short and classic in and of itself. But the I know Kung Fu scene was was pretty wild.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

That was. Um, you know, I've always been a fan of the There Is No Spoon, you know, obviously. Um yeah, I'm gonna stick there was another one I was thinking of, but I've lost Oh no, you know what I was thinking of was um uh when uh I forget Joe Pantaliano's name, Cypher. He's he's sitting there at the computer and he's all like, oh, I don't even see the code anymore. I see blonde, brunette, redhead. I love that. His character is genius in that movie because I see memes on that one all the time too, where they're like, you know, because his whole thing is if he would have told us the truth, we would have told him to shove that red pill up his ass and we would have taken the blue one. Right. And you know, the memes now are wait a minute. So be hooked in the matrix and eternally live in the year 1999, frost my tips and hook me up, baby.

SPEAKER_04 42:22

No doubt. Sign me up. That was a good year.

SPEAKER_00 42:25

Those those were good times.

SPEAKER_03 42:27

Those were good times. I think, you know, Morpheus probably has the most quotable lines in the entire movie. The character is designed that way because he's obviously the the wise professor, the the one who who sees into the future about Neo in in in some sort of way and and is the sole believer and conspirator, you know, getting everybody on board believing that Neo is the one. But I love the line where where Keanu Reeves asks him, so like, what are you what are you trying to tell me that I can dodge bullets? And then Morpheus says, No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that at some point you won't have to.

SPEAKER_00 43:10

Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_03 43:11

Like when you're ready or something like that, he says, you know, when you're ready, you won't have to. And it's just this coming to realization, like, you know, once he realizes his full potential, he's he's basically unkillable. He's basically uh, you know, immortal when it comes to being the one.

SPEAKER_00 43:29

Yeah. I I I like when he tells uh Neo, stop trying to hit me and hit me. Shit like that.

SPEAKER_02 43:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:40

Alright, so for for my second movie, I'm gonna keep with comedy, but I'm gonna pick a better movie.

SPEAKER_02 43:46

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 43:47

I'm gonna go with uh the wedding singer. Nice. That that's one, you know, a lot of exp because we didn't have cable at my house when I was younger, so we didn't really watch. Watch, you know, like catch shit on TNT all the time. But we had a lot of DVDs and my mom watched like seven. So sometimes I'd come home and my mom would just be watching shit. And the the wedding singer was one of them. And I would just, you know, if it was on, I would just plop down and I would just have a great fucking time the whole time. You know, I I was in love with Drew Barrymore, especially at this point in my life when that movie came out.

SPEAKER_02 44:29

You know.

SPEAKER_00 44:30

But man, that that movie was perfect peak, Drew Barrymore. And you know, I love all the music in that movie. I love all the dated jokes. It's got one of the best cameos of all time, which would be Steve Busemi as the drunk party guest.

SPEAKER_03 44:48

Well, he's in every one of Sandler's movies.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

But I think this was the first time. I no, that's not true. I I'm incorrect. He was in Billy Madison, which was also a great. I I don't like that movie at all, but I love his section in that movie. But man, he is so good in the wedding singer when he's you know playing the guitar and he's like self-taught.

SPEAKER_02 45:09

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:12

And then at the end of the movie, you know, during uh the their wedding, Drew Barrymore is in Adam Sandler's wedding. There he is on stage with the band. So fucking good.

SPEAKER_04 45:24

Yeah, that's a great one too. I um I've definitely watched, like, I I can take like a chapter of that for sure and be like, all right, I'm satisfied, you know, and just kind of coming in like uh being a being a musician and playing music, like I always love like that aspect of it to bring it in because uh Adam Sandler obviously writes his own music. So that part to me is fun to kind of bring in people who are actually playing and took the time to write these songs, like you know, like a longer SNL skit that just keeps going and going for an hour and 40 minutes. Um so that it is a super fun movie. My favorite line has to be when Drew Barrymore realizes she's gonna be Julia Goulia, is uh my favorite part. Just like my name's gonna be Julia Gulia. Yeah. I just like stupid stuff like that makes me just crack up because it's it has nothing to do with it. It's just it's just funny for no reason.

SPEAKER_00 46:14

What about you, Adrian? What's your favorite line from that movie?

SPEAKER_03 46:17

Um, I don't know. I don't remember it too too well, to be honest with you. It's been years since I seen it. Um, but I do I do love The Wedding Singer. It's like I think it's a classic late 90s comedy. And you know, it's Adam Sandler at his best, really.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

Yeah. Yeah, I'm not a huge Sandler fan. You know this, I like some of his stuff, but The Wedding Singer, as far as his comedies go, is my favorite. Um he's great. You want to know what my favorite line of the movie is? It's not even one of his.

SPEAKER_03 46:48

I didn't think it would be.

SPEAKER_00 46:49

There's so many great quotes in that movie, but my favorite is when John Lovitz is auditioning to sing at their wedding, and he finishes singing, he's like, That's not a sock in my crotch. Like, how unnecessary is that? Like, why? Yeah, I I I absolutely adore that movie. I think it's a a very sweet movie. You know, Brian brought up the scene where she's crying because she's gonna be Julia Gulia, but then she starts pretending that she's gonna be Miss Julia Hart, and she's just beaming and she's so excited, and then he's coming up the street to try to win her back, and he sees how fucking happy she is and misunderstands why. And and that shit's real. Like, that's that's always my problem with romantic comedies, is they have to engineer bullshit. Like a lot of time, you know, those movies are guy and the girl meet, and then there's some convoluted situation in which you know you they fall in love, and then they get to like the end of the second act, and you know, convoluted bullshit, and you know, oh, I think he's been cheating on me, or he's really in love with my best friend, or whatever the fuck. And then the whole last third of the movie is them trying to find each other despite the problem. But that movie does it very well because you know, she's already engaged, this guy is perfect, Robbie is fucking nobody. He's a wedding singer who makes no money, you know, he gives uh singing lessons for meatballs and lives in his sister's basement. Like this guy's got nothing fucking going for him, and he knows it. And so, you know, that's a very human reaction, and she doesn't care, which makes sense too, because some some people don't, you know, we'll figure it out, we'll make it work, and you know, it's it just plays so well because I understand where everybody's coming from, I understand the romance, I understand the conflict. It's just a beautiful movie.

SPEAKER_03 48:57

Yeah, it's good.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

We got the flock of seagulls guy at the end, which is a little more Adam Sandler, but you know. Right.

SPEAKER_03 49:04

Yeah, I do remember there's one scene I think where like the father of the bride at one of the gigs, right? He's like getting pissed at him because he's talking too much and he wants him to sing, and and and Adam Sandler says something on the lines of like, shut up, you're gonna listen to me because I have the microphone, or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 49:22

That's after uh his his fiance jilts him at the altar and he's just like in nervous breakdown mode. So he's like kind of you know, he's supposed to be singing, and instead he's like, Oh, some of us will never find love, like the mutants of table five. Such a good, such a good movie. I love it. I love it. All right, Brian, it's time for your third movie. What do you got?

SPEAKER_04 49:53

Oh boy, uh Scott Pilgrim vs. the world. Yes, yes, I will watch I will watch the first three minutes if I can. I will watch the last three minutes. It does not matter. The one thing that did blow me away about this later, and this is just I just don't research movies the way that you guys do with who directed this and what they've done before. So I'm just kind of like, I just take it always for face value. And I didn't even not know this until much later, and this even made me love the movie even more. Is that Beck did the whole soundtrack for that?

SPEAKER_00 50:24

Really?

SPEAKER_04 50:25

And it I just yeah, so that's my that's my gotcha for you guys is that Beck wrote all the songs, and I love those grungy songs. I love that they have the like the chick drummer, I love that he's playing an acoustic guitar but with a distortion pedal. Like the Rick and I love that like the Rickenbacher bass is like a $5,000 bass, you know, that he just has duct tape on. And I just love all of it. I mean, of course, the whole storyline. I've never been a big comic book guy at all, and I just don't have characters. But to me, like I felt like I was watching a comic book with all the graphics and just the different types of characters, and of course, like Scott has gained confidence, you know, and like all of a sudden he gets like a mushroom for the one up, and you know, coins fall out, or just all of that stuff was very fun to me. Um, like that the music, like I'll I will listen to that soundtrack on its own as if it were an album.

SPEAKER_02 51:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 51:18

Um but then of course the storyline is great. Um the names of the characters, the coloring also, and then this is another thing later on. Like, I didn't know Macaulay Culkin's brother was in that. Like, I didn't even know Macaulay Culkin had a brother, you know, type of thing.

SPEAKER_00 51:31

He's got a lot of brothers.

SPEAKER_04 51:32

Well, I didn't okay, we'll see. I don't this is the part where I'm removed from you guys with your expertise.

SPEAKER_00 51:37

But his brother is one of my favorite parts of that movie because he's the the gay roommate who always steals Scott's sister's boyfriends.

SPEAKER_04 51:46

Yeah. Um Yeah, I love that movie. I love that it's in, I think it's in based in Toronto, um, which I think that's where Michael Sarah's from. So that part was also fun to me, and it's oh oh, dang it. What's the evil guy's name? I should know this. He was the drummer for Phantom Planet.

SPEAKER_00 52:02

Uh G Gideon.

SPEAKER_04 52:04

Yeah. So, you know, a long time ago, they filmed um Slackers at UCR, and they had like that scene at I remember that class, Physics 2000. I was like, holy crap, this is my that's where I go to school. So that was just fun. But I've always loved him being the drummer um in in Phantom Planet earlier on, and then he had an amazing career too, so he's a fun character. Jason Schwarzman. Yes, yes, he's a fun character.

SPEAKER_00 52:29

Yeah, I I love I loved uh he's a great evil guy. He's a great evil D guy. I loved his um the Coconut uh records album that he did. Do you know what I'm talking about, Brian? I know it. No. Well, after Phantom Planet broke up, he did a band where he was the lead singer and they were Coconut Records. And you should look it up, but he had a song. He had a song, I've forgetting the name of the song exactly. Uh, I think it's Drummer is what it's called. And and the chorus is I was a drummer in a band that you heard of that just broke up. It's a great album, it's a fantastic album.

SPEAKER_04 53:13

It's a nice little side thing for me. So yeah. See these are bringing up some nice little side conquests.

SPEAKER_00 53:18

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:18

And uh Karen Karen Colkin love it. Karen Colkin's great. Um, so much so. I mean, he he won an Oscar last year for uh supporting for Real Pain. He was fantastic in that movie. But I think what really put him on the map was succession.

SPEAKER_00 53:33

Yeah, but but Scott Pilgrim, he was great in Scott Pilgrim, he was so good.

SPEAKER_03 53:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

My my favorite part of Scott Pilgrim has always been the scene where um knives comes to Scott's apartment and he doesn't want her to see him. So like Kieran Colkin answers the door. She's like, is Scott here? And he's like, he and you can see Scott jump out a window right behind him. Just left. So good.

SPEAKER_04 54:05

Um yeah, I love all that. The all the call-outs, like the comic call-outs on all that stuff is is super fun. And I forget about a lot of them, so when they pop up, it's like, ah, yes.

SPEAKER_00 54:15

Yeah. Um, Scott Pilgrim was, I believe, my second favorite movie of the millennium.

SPEAKER_03 54:21

Uh yeah, yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_00 54:23

And I'm so glad it came up again tonight because there was a story that I meant to tell uh that episode that I didn't, and it's about how I got Jen to watch it. Oh so I was texting Jen about something and she replied something that I can't remember what, and I was like, Where did that come from? And she said, My brain. I was like, Oh my god, have you ever seen Scott Pilgrim? She's like, No, I have no idea what that is. I was like, It's like a romantic comedy, but if it was a video game and she's like, Okay, I'll watch it. And I told her before we started it, I was like, watch Anna Kendrick's facial expressions during this movie because she is gonna be you the whole time. And they have the the first evil ex shows up, you know, he like breaks through the ceiling of the venue, and he's like singing and dancing and dressed like a pirate, and he's got like ghost harem girls like dancing around him, and they show Anna Kendrick and she just has this look like, What the fuck is going on here? And Jen's like, Yep, that's me right now, exactly me. And then um, you know, our dog's name was Roxy. And then, you know, Mae Winham, you know, when she shows up, she's uh the fifth Evil X, fourth or fifth, but her name was Roxy. It was it was a it was a perfect movie to watch with Jen. But man, I fucking love Scott Pilgrim.

SPEAKER_04 55:51

Dude, my my wife will every time she sees it like on TBS or TNT, it's always one of those like in USA or something, she's like, oh no, because she knows I'll derail us. And I'm like, I just gotta watch at least a couple of scenes. But the Battle of the Bands wins is so great when they take on the the the Asian brothers, like that to me was just so cool. Yeah, no, I'm sorry. There's another one, like, oh, where they go to to watch the band, and he goes, That guy on bass? Yeah, that's fun. I know, you know? Oh no, like I'd love that, dude, so much. And then um, all right, I'm I'm I'm spacing on the the band that actually sings that. They're so great.

SPEAKER_00 56:33

Um Metric Metric.

SPEAKER_04 56:35

Yeah, oh God, I love metric and like that. Yeah, that scene is so great. Yeah, dude. I I could listen to Metric, you know, at any time.

SPEAKER_02 56:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 56:44

Um just the music to me is is so just so powerful.

SPEAKER_00 56:48

Yeah, I I really enjoy metric music. How about you, Adrian? What you got for your third pick?

SPEAKER_03 56:54

I feel like I should stay on the comedy train. I'm going to. Um, so I'm gonna go with uh A Night at the Roxbury.

SPEAKER_02 57:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 57:09

I have to say, and I'll just be quiet and listen on this one. I have never seen that movie. Oh, I only know Bro, you only know any like trailer scenes, you know. Oh, I love Will Farrell, I love Chris Catan. Um, so I just I'm gonna throw that out there. I've never seen it all the way through. I've probably just seen the trailer at best.

SPEAKER_03 57:28

Wait, wait a minute, Brian. Uh, did you just grab my ass?

SPEAKER_00 57:35

Oh, he says he says he's in Santa Monica. There's no way he could have grabbed your ass.

SPEAKER_02 57:42

Oh, these are lines from the movie. I see.

SPEAKER_00 57:45

Yeah, well they finally meet the club owner and he he asks everybody that. Like in the middle of their discussion, he's like, Did you grab my ass? And they're like, uh what?

SPEAKER_03 57:58

Yeah, there's one scene where where Doug, he's like, uh no, and he's like, Do you want to?

SPEAKER_04 58:06

Which it's so alarming. You know, this could be a whole other topic, like movies that you haven't seen that you should have seen, because I loved all those skits on SNL and like the you, me, me, you, you, me, me. Like that is just so iconic and uh what an easy way to bring in guests, like you know, the hosts on that show, and it's always funny, and just why I didn't make the time to go watch it is you know maybe maybe the uh another mystery of the world.

SPEAKER_00 58:31

Someone sat me down and made me watch that. They're like, no, wait, you've gotta watch this movie.

SPEAKER_04 58:38

You're just smiling, you're just have a shit eating grin on your face right now.

SPEAKER_00 58:42

I'm sorry, it's it's a great movie. That's a fantastic pick, man. I need to re-watch that movie, I feel like.

SPEAKER_03 58:50

Mr. Zadir.

SPEAKER_00 58:51

Mr. Zadir. Amelio!

SPEAKER_03 58:54

Amelio. They're like, oh, this place is awesome. They're like, uh, that's the coat room. The club's this way. Oh, God. And I mean, I mean, it has arguably one of the most iconic songs in a movie of all time. With what is love. I mean, I mean, that that song is just perfect for that movie.

SPEAKER_00 59:24

Yeah, and then at the end of the movie, he's all like, oh, I'm getting real tired of this song. See, when I think of Night at the Roxbury, because like Brian was saying, like, there were so many great SNL skets of that. My favorite one of those was when Alec Baldwin was the third brother. So the sketches were always like, you know, they would turn around and like Will Farrell would be like, hey, hey, yeah, yeah, hey, and they oh, okay, no, that's fine. Like, you don't want to dance with me, that's okay. And then Chris Catan would do the same thing, and no one ever wanted to dance with them. And then Alec Baldwin turns around, he's got the same haircut, and he's dressed just the same, and all of a sudden, all these girls are all over him and can't, you know, the guys are trying to get in there, and the girls are like elbowing them away while they're like like rubbing up on Alec Baldwin's arms, and then they show later like Baldwin's driving away, and he's got this hot sports car, and he's got like four or five girls in the car, and they're all laughing, and they're like all over him. And Katan and Farrell are both like holding on to the roof of the car trying to get in the car. Cracks me up every time.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:34

Oh man, I'm getting FOMO for sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:37

You need you need to walk well, that was a sketch on SNL. You can look that up right now, but you need to watch you need to watch the the movie. The movie is just really funny.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:47

Yeah. That's uh that's uh a classic for me in terms of uh comedies, and I can turn that on at any point and just have a blast with it.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:57

But but where would you put it in the ranking of SNL movies?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:02

Oh shoot, I don't know. I'd have to think about that one. Um I I I think I would have to put it pretty high though, if I'm just you know, throwing something out there. I I think I'd have to put it pretty high.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:15

Yeah, I mean I haven't seen them all, like I never saw Superstar.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:19

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:20

Obviously never saw It's Pat. I remember seeing a preview for that one time, and then it opened and disappeared and never heard of it again.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:31

That's another uh topic for sure that could easily be talked about. What was that? Corky Romano? That was another one, Chris Catan, right? Corky Romano. I don't know. I pulled that out of my ass, but I did. Yeah.

unknown 1:01:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:43

It's funny the stuff you remember.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:44

Yeah. Well, he, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:45

You have Go ahead, wait. Sorry. No, no, you go ahead. No, uh uh you're gonna stay on topic though, so I think you should you should just add to whatever.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:52

I wasn't really, I was just gonna mention Chris Catan was the man in undercover brother. Like, in what world is Chris Catan the man? That's what cracked me up about that.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:07

Yeah, well, I mean, what uh SNL movies, you have like you said, Superstar, um Wayne's World, right? Yeah, Cone Heads there. Cone Heads is a classic, too.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:18

Yeah, never dug it though. Yeah, ladies' man with uh I'm forgetting his name. Oh, he's funny. Um Tim Meadows. Tim Meadows. I never got to watch that, but that's one I really wanted to hear, and I see and I hear it was great.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:36

Um Tim Meadows is in what did he just do recently? Um that I thought he was hilarious. Oh, he's in Peacemaker. Oh, is he really? He's hilarious in Peacemaker just because he suffers from a disability called bird blindness. Where he where I'm telling you, wait, you gotta watch this show just so you can even get to so he can't he can't identify birds properly.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:07

That's a thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:10

Wait, wait, so so I so you know, Peacemaker John Cena's character, he uh he has a best friend that's an eagle called Eagle.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:21

And nobody believes that like Eagle hugs humans or shit like that, and and that that's like the running joke. But there's multiple scenes, but one scene uh right around when Tim Meadow's uh uh character is introduced, and they're trying to catch this eagle, and uh this eagle just uh he's basically like his own superhero and he just just basically uh wrecks like seven or eight guys and afterwards they go to Tim Meadow and they're like did you see what type of bird it was? And he's like I don't know, it looked like a pigeon or something. Cause he has bird blindness, he can't I and everybody else is like, that was no fucking pigeon. That was an eagle. It's so funny, dude. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:15

Oh man. It's so well written.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:19

I love that we're going off on a Tim Meadows tangent. Like sometimes these guys don't get enough love, man. Like, uh, I know it's older, but my favorite Tim Meadows um cameo is is in The Office when he's getting sold the paper paper by Michael, and they're in they're at Chili's and they're singing the baby back rib song, and I was just dying, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:38

My favorite Tim Meadows is in Walk Hard. I don't know if you guys have ever seen that movie.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:45

Dewey Cox.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:46

The Dewey Cox. I've only seen parts of it, but he's basically so uh John C. Riley basically plays like a comedy version of Johnny Cash. So it's like a takedown of that that era and style of music. But they have a scene where John C. Riley walks backstage and Tim Meadows is with the chick and he's like, Hey, what you guys doing? Tim Meadows, like, you don't want any part of this, Dewey. We're smoking weed. And he's like, Oh, that sounds bad. He's like, It's really not that bad, but you don't want a part of it. And he's like, Yeah, you're right. I don't want to get addicted to anything. He's like, it's non-habit forming, but you don't want any part of this. Well, well, what's it do? Does it make you want to have sex? He's like, it makes sex even better. He's just like, push and he's like, I don't know, man, I kind of want this. He's like, I don't think you want a part of this, do we?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:43

And just gets progressively worse.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:45

Yeah, he's just it's it's like he's pushing him, like he's like peer pressuring him into it while also at the same time telling him no.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:53

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:54

So good. I forgot what we were talking about. Bird blindness. Well, okay, so that was Night at the Roxberry was uh Adrian.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:06

I was trying to I was trying to bring it back home. Bring it back home.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:08

Well, okay, so I will also stick with comedy for my third pick. I'm gonna go with the big Lebowski. Oh you guys don't sound like you're Lebowski fans.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:20

I love Lebowski.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:21

No, it's it's not that I'm not. It's just one of those movies that I didn't get like into, but I've I've always heard about it. The Big Lebowski, the Big Lebowski. Probably from you, Wade. Probably. Um and I think I think we watch it together at the apartment um at a different and I like I loved it. I I I don't remember not liking it. It's just one of those movies that uh has just sort of escaped me.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:42

Hey man, you said it. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:48

I I think it's one of the Cohn brothers' best movies.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:50

I I would agree. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's just I I love that it's a stoner detective movie. But he like falls ass backwards into it like he's really not a detective, but he's kind of a detective. And really all he wants to do, all he just the dude just wanted his rug back. And my my favorite part of that whole movie is because um there's this whole section of the plot because the kidnapped woman is the trophy, the young trophy wife of the big Lebowski, who's the rich version, and she's been kidnapped, and she owes all kinds of money to a pornographer that she used to work for. And so they wind up at one point, the dude kind of gets kidnapped by the pornographer's henchman because he wants to know where she is and what's going on. And so the Lebowski, the dude Lebowski is sitting there having a conversation with him, and the pornographer's phone rings and he goes to answer it, and he's making a note while he's on the phone, right? Like he's writing something down on a pad of paper. And then uh he excuses himself after the phone call. He's like, Oh, excuse me, dude, I need to go do something over here. And he rips off the top piece of paper and he leaves. And the moment he's out of the room, the dude does literally the only piece of detective work he's actively done in the movie. Like it's the smartest thing he's done in the whole film. And he runs over with a pencil and he starts like scribbling on the pad to see what was what was under like what was underneath to see the impression. And this guy literally just did a doodle of a man with a giant erect penis. So it's like got nothing to do with anything, but he thought he was gonna get some world-class information. It's it yeah, I I love that movie, man. It's it's so smart, it's so funny, it's so off the wall. Yeah, I love it. Uh, I love that um Jeff Bridges wore his own clothes in the movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:06

He's actually worn that shirt in three separate movies, if I'm not mistaken.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:11

Yeah, I can't remember. One of them was The Fisher King. I can't remember what the other one was, though.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:16

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:17

Yeah, so good. Uh so Brian probably doesn't, but do you have a favorite line from that movie?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:24

Let me think. I mean, it's such a quotable movie, you know?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:28

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:29

Um yeah. I don't have one off the top of my head. I do remember when um they ask him if like he's employed. Are you employed, sir? And he goes, employed?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:40

Yeah, and he and he's all like, Do you have a job? It's Monday. And he's all like, What day is this? He goes, You don't you don't go out looking for a job like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:53

Oh, Phil Philip Seymour Hoffman in that movie is so good, too.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:57

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:59

That that's another one.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:00

I miss that guy. Oh, I miss that guy so much. And I just love his uh Mission Impossible meme that I like to send you.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:08

Oh, yeah, with all the different versions of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:12

Me at Thanksgiving dinner, getting ready to tell off Uncle Tom about his political beliefs that he's been ranting on all night.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:20

And it's just, you know, Tom Cruise going like this, no. And he's like crying.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:24

He's like, no, no. Yeah, those are good. Those always make me laugh.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:31

Yeah, I got some I got some homework. This is good, and I'm walking away with homework.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:34

Oh, dude, that's good. Like, seriously, the Big Lebowski man.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:38

It's I I love the thing I love about Cohen Brothers movies is there's such simple plots that are really so complex and take you to such weird places.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:51

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:52

Like, you know, there's the kidnapping, and the the solution to that kidnapping is so simple, but it's been such this off-the-wall thing the whole time. Yeah. My favorite line in that movie is um because you know, the dude is convinced that the wife kidnapped herself. You know, oh, she owes money all over town, including to the known pornographers. And, you know, this guy's not giving her enough and she needs money, man. And um then, you know, the the woman's husband comes to him because the kidnappers say they didn't get the money, and they send him a severed toe in a napkin, right? So then he goes to his uh best friend who's John Goodman, and John Goodman's like, oh fucking amateurs. You want a toe? I can get you a toe. I can get you a toe by three o'clock with polish. Like it's it's just so easy to get a severed human toe. He's like, fucking amateurs. They want us to shit ourselves in fear because they sent us a toe. Oh so good. All right, Brian, it's your turn again. Movie number four.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:07

Number four. Um, this is uh this is one that again I don't have a favorite line from, but it's very conceptual. I'm actually learning a lot about myself with my choices tonight. Um of like just the types of movies that I like and just what keep my attention um and like the just the concepts of them. So I I rarely see this movie on TV. However, when I'm on an airplane, which I I flew a lot in like 2019. As soon as I saw it, I wouldn't even have to look through the rest of the menu. I because I didn't want to waste time. I would just watch as much of it as I could, especially on a short flight from like uh Ontario to San Francisco or something. But uh Ready Player One is my next choice. I like that movie. I like it. Just very conceptual, very fun. I like the bleak future idea. I like, you know, that he's living in like these stacked RVs, you know, so it's like so futuristic, but it's still like the slums of Ohio or wherever they're at. And I just like the I just like the characters, uh, the coloring is great too, just the graphics and all of that stuff. The concept for me is what what seals it. Um I just uh it I don't remember enough of that movie when I do watch it because I'm just like glued. So um I'll watch it at any moment that I come in, even if I just get a quick chapter and I'm like, all right, gotta sit down and watch that one from beginning to end.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:33

Did just a quick question. So you both are fans of that movie, right? We both we all enjoyed that movie. Did any of you read the book that it was based on?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:43

No. Uh no, no.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:45

All right, so there was one deviation because I read the book. Somebody had got me one of those, um, like a six-month subscription to one of those um I forget what they're called. Not audible, but it was like it was like a surprise box. Like they would have a theme every month. So they would just have a bunch of little goodies in them.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:04

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:05

So the first one I got was like a video game box, and they had a copy of Ready Ready Player One in it. So I read the book. It's quick read, it's like 150 pages. Oh, that's not bad. It's not bad. It was really fast, and you know, the guy's writing style, I was like, it was really quick. Like I hear how bad of a writer he is, but I read both two of his books really fast. But in the movie, the whole sequence where they go to you know the shining, where they're in the movie The Shining. What they did in the book was crazier and more fun. And interesting. I understand why they had to change it, but in the book, to get through that challenge, they had to perform every part of Monty Python and the Holy Grail from start to finish.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:59

That's quite the deviation.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:00

Yeah, so well, like you can't do that in a movie because the guy that you gotta do every line for every character. Right. You can't do that in a movie. That's it's an hour and a half movie that they're doing from start to finish. It's a movie and a movie. It's a movie, it's a whole movie and a movie. So they still too kind of do a movie and a movie.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:21

And the book doesn't have any buckaroo bonsai references, which the the movie does, and which I appreciated.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:29

Yeah. We all know how much you love buckaroo bonsai.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:32

Oh, no matter where you go, there you are.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:37

Yeah, I think um Brian, you mentioned uh like the story or the the scene they set. And I I think it's very apparent and it's pretty consistent with futuristic movies or movies that depict technology at a much larger scale, where most of the time these uh alternate reality future verses or or our world depicted in the future is always seems pretty dystopian or like that things just get progressively worse for humanity as we get more disconnected from one another, right? Um, and so I think this movie does a good job at highlighting what the world may look like when we choose to disconnect what makes us most human, and that's our physical contact around one another.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:33

Yeah, totally. I I I agree. I love that I think it's the opening scene where it's popping into everyone's rooms and everyone's experiencing the same thing, and if you lose your coins, you lose your shit. You know, and like you know, it's just like that grasp of this non-tangible thing, but it meant so much in that moment. And I also I love like that the underdog goes against the big corporate giant with all the money and all the bots and everyone trying to hack into it. And at this point, it's not even AI, they're humans still trying to figure out where the Easter eggs are. And I just think like that was such a fun concept, and the guy wanted to protect that world, and it is, it's it's a great juxtaposition of like how a lot of those movies do play out, which is why I I like most of my favorite movies are future dystopian type movies. I just love the idea of where are these ideas coming from? Do they what do they know that we don't know, and how bad is it going to get, you know, type of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, I'm just I'm looking at this as future research, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:28

My my favorite part of that movie and what spells out future dystopia the most for me is um when that guy's the the corporate guy is giving the presentation of oh, if we get I forget what they call it, the universe that they're you know, the internal universe they're trying to get, but if we get control of it Oasis, the oasis. If we can get control of the oasis, we could put this many ads, we could do them here, we could do them there. Right like he's talking about like pop-up ads and all this shit. And we just get closer and closer to that dystopia where I can't go on any fucking websites. You go on YouTube to watch like the new Supergirl trailer, which is a minute and 25 seconds, and I have to watch two commercials on YouTube to get to the movie trailer.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:23

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:24

How fucking ridiculous is that? That that's the that's the dystopia that we live in.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:30

Right. And that's it, it's a it's a good insight to like their brains of like where it automatically goes. How do we monetize? How do we take advantage of the eyeballs? How do we control the narrative? Like, that's always that type of stuff that I get interested in.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:43

Yeah. Well, and like the Oasis is like it's like a 360-degree three-dimensional world, and they're like, we could cover 95% of it in ads. I'm good. Yeah, I'm just like, fuck. And now we're there. Like, I feel like there's ads everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:04

That's the name of the game.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:06

Oh, oh, I was coming home on the 71 and no, the 91. Yeah. 91, 71, but on the 91, on the side of a hill now, instead of just like one McDonald's ad for two for six, you know, McGriddles, there were like 20 ads stuck up on the side of this mountain. I'm like, I can't even look at all these. Oh, yeah. But it's they they're finding a way to, you know, leverage that piece of real vertical real estate.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:34

My my favorite part of those is like now some of them are digital.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:40

So they'll have like a roving band of like five or six ads. So sometimes I'll see some out of the corner of my eye, I'll be like, oh, what's that? And then it will disappear before I have a chance to really read it, and there'll be something I don't care about. But by the time you know we're halfway through that ad, I'm long gone. So I'm like, what the fuck was that first ad? And why do I care? Right. But I think over here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:05

Go ahead. No, go ahead. Finish up.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:06

Last one I'll say about the ads, but uh on that same stretch of road that he's talking about, if it's the 91, I swear there's like seven billboards for Yamava Casino. It's like Duran Duran's playing on this night, pit bull's here on this night, and the next one's like ludicrous, and then it's like Mariah Carey. I'm like, holy shit, like, how did they get that much billboards up? And they're all Yamaha.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:33

Uh uh, you're absolutely right. I think uh Green Day is gonna be there as well coming up, and it's it's like, you know, some 80s axe, 90s axe, but then there's still current bands. I think uh Joe and I saw Seinfeld at San Manuel. I don't know if they changed to Yamava. I think weren't they the ones that changed? Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:52

So we saw Seinfeld at San Manuel back in the day, and it was just like a huge ass ballroom. It was we were it was flat seating, you know, it wasn't even a stadium seating type of thing. It's where they hold like poker tournaments and bingo tournaments type of thing. Um I had I had a great time. Didn't matter, you know, it was just fun. So what were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:11

What's uh the Texas ads like, bro?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:13

It's a big deal over here. So there's these two lawyers that have these crazy billboards over here. They're called push and win, but some of their billboards are done after uh from movies. So like they have one where like they pose as as the guys from Step Brothers, but it's called but it says Law Brothers. Um and uh uh there's another one though, the craziest one I've seen is where they pose as the guys from Broke Back Mountain and one hugging the other in the at and the billbo the billboard says, We got your back. And so, yeah. But the big ordeal now is that they split, they had a fallout. And oh shit. So one of the lawyers replaced this guy. Oh. And uh, and now the other guy's suing him, you know, because he's been replaced on the billboards or something. I don't know what. But yeah, it's a big deal, it's it's a big deal that everybody talks about over here.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:14

It that that reminds me of uh I Love You Man when he gives him like his eight or ten thousand dollars and he puts him on all these crazy billboards. He's like, What the hell? But it worked, you know, it was working.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:25

It worked, it worked. Slap it to base.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:29

Slap it a bass.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:30

My my favorite part of that era where they started putting uh Paul Rudd as the lead man in movies, was when he was trying to convince me that all these shitty bands were good, like Kiss and Rush. I was just like, get out of here with that shit. Alright, so I believe it's uh Adrian's turn, right? You're up to four. Yep, yep. All right, what you got?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:56

My number four is face off. Ooh. Yeah, I mean, what do we what do we say about face off other than it's one of the best action movies of all time? I mean, the story's great, yeah, the music's fantastic. Um I don't know, I can't think of off the top of my head a better movie where you have protagonists and antagonists that just work so well off of one another. Oh yeah. In an action movie. I mean, it's hard for me to think of something better than face-off. And wait, I mean, we've talked a lot about John Wu.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:29

Yeah. He's the man.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:30

He's the man, but I mean, face-off, you know, you have a good guy and a bad guy, and they swap places essentially, and just shit hits the fan the whole movie. Yeah, yeah. Oh man, it's such a good movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:46

What what's great about that movie is at the beginning of the movie, you get Nicolas Cage as the bad guy, and you get John Travolta as the good guy, and you get like a whole little contained movie. It's like 25, 30 minutes that ends with Nicolas Cage dying and Travolta winning, and then they swap places, and Nicolas Cage becomes the hero, and Travolta becomes the bad guy, and they play completely different versions of those characters.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:17

Like it's supposed to be the exact same guy, but with a different face, and they are not the same guy at all. Like it does not track whatsoever. But man, I love I do love that movie so much.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:32

I've seen it in bits and pieces. Uh I I do I do like this movie a lot too. Um, I I remember something about like the prison scene. I remember thinking, like, all right, this is kind of wild. Um, and like just the idea of it again, too, and you know, Nicolas Cage at that time. It this is not one of my choices, but I love these types of movies too, like with The Rock, you know, like when in Sean Connery, it's like I there's just something about you know these green balls flying into a San Francisco stadium that just has me hooked. Just a fun concept. And I think to me, that's like a a face-off type of movie.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:04

Um, just like a fun idea um that can be executed well with some corny scenes and you know, helicopters in slow motion coming around the corner and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:15

Yeah, well, they they they definitely have the John Woo thing in face-off with the slow motion uh set pieces. They got the doves in the church. My favorite is the the billowing coat at the airport, you know, where he comes out of the car and it's totally normal day, but when he gets out of the car, it looks like hurricane gust winds are blowing that coat up. So good.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:42

It's very stylized, but we can't expect anything less from John Woo.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:46

No, you can't. What's what's your uh favorite line from that movie?

SPEAKER_03 1:25:50

Oh man. Um I don't know. I can't think of one right now, but I mean there there's a lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:57

Uh I don't have a favorite line per se, but you know my favorite part of that movie is really. Um I bought that movie when it came out on a 10th anniversary DVD release, and it was one of the rare instances where they had the writers doing a commentary by themselves.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:16

Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:17

And they were just able to focus on the writing of the movie for the most part. But they were getting ready to shoot the scene where Nicholas Cage goes to John Travolta's old henchman to ask them for help. And um, you know, they think he's Caster Troy, and um the writers are having a discussion with Cage, and they're like, they want to change the title of the movie because the movie's called Face Off, and the studio thinks people are gonna think this is about hockey for some reason. So they're like, they want to change the movie, and they got like three or four shitty titles, which I don't think they mention and I've never heard, but they got a couple titles that we hate. And Nicolas Cage is like, oh no, don't worry, they're gonna call the movie Face Off. Don't worry about it. You you guys just chill out. So when they went to shoot the scene, Nicolas Cage improved this whole dialogue where he's like, I wanna, I want to take his face off. And the other guy in that scene, the bald guy, that's John Cassavetti's son. You know, he's a writer director in his own right. So he started improving with them, and he's like, You want to take his his face off? And they they must have done it back and forth like eight times. And at the end of that, Nicholas Cage is like, Don't worry, they're not gonna cut this scene out of the movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:42

Well, you know, I could eat a peach for hours though.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:46

Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:48

And I I I love that that was like the test, you know, for the for the voice recognition, right? Oh, yeah. Like, I thought that part was so cool. I think that's for me one of the more. memorable lines because it's it's what they use to because the way Nicolas Cage says it is so iconic.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:06

Oh you know it's so specific.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:09

Yeah. And um for them to then use that line to, you know, adjust it or or match it.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:17

The the timber of his voice to so it exactly he sounds like Nicolas Cage.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:22

Yeah I thought that was really cool. But that's I mean just thinking of the movie and different scenes, I think that's one that definitely stands out. But also because it's you know it shows the type of guy right his character is but also like they use that on a very important sequence of the movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:39

Yeah. I particularly like um when Nicolas Cage wakes up post operation they they think he's in a coma and his face has been removed.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:51

And his henchmen kidnap the doctor and bring him back to the clinic and he's sitting there with no face and he's smoking a cigarette because that's gotta be safe. And the doctor's like what do you want? And he's like I'll give you one fucking guess.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:09

I do remember that.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:10

Yeah the the writer said that when that that's what sold the movie. They said because when the studio got to that they all assumed that the rest of the movie Nicolas Cage would be running out around without a face on and because that's you know where the brain goes. And they said the next scene in the script is John Travolta showing up at the prison. So now he's wearing the hero's face and he said the the studio didn't even finish reading the script. Like they were just like we want it. We want it because it's such a genius thing like nobody would think.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:50

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:50

Yeah oh yeah they're gonna switch face off we're gonna take take his his face off no more drugs for that man yeah that's a good pick man great one Nicolas Cage uh has a lot of movies that could be in my list.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:11

Oh yeah yeah it's kind of it's kind of like revealing but also kind of sad it is weird right but I would watch those two Gone in 60 seconds Conair uh I remember going to the movies and watching Magstickmen going dang that just blew my mind at the end like there was just The Rock lots of great movies that are just fun action you know summer summer fun movies.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:35

Con Air does happen to be one of the movies I'm on my list. Sorry well no maybe this is our I know it's I got plenty on the list. I've been contemplating if I want to throw it on there. Yeah it was on my list too yeah uh for for my fourth movie though um I'm gonna go with the movie that I bought last year they released a brand new um 4K Blu-ray on Arrow Video which is one of those ones that Adrian and I like to collect and I just rewatched it the other night after I learned this topic and I was like yeah this is a movie I can do that with uh in a similar vein as uh Demolition Man.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:14

Yeah I could watch Demolition Man anywhere at any point in that movie and have a great time.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:21

Oh yeah. Does anyone still know how to actually use the three shells?

SPEAKER_00 1:31:25

No nobody knows how to use the three C shells.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:28

Yeah that like that's my takeaway that and then Stallone going up to the thing cussing and getting like receipts to wipe his ass. Yeah or tickets to wipe his ass.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:38

But those are good like I love those like shoot 'em up futuristic weirdo you know movies oh yeah that that was such a big thing when uh it was coming out I believe it was a freshman high school and Taco Bell had the posters like you could get a poster when you ordered a certain meal. Yeah that that was a thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:00

I was always really shocked that they've never made another one and now supposedly they're working on another one but I feel like the ship has sailed on that shit because you know you never know nowadays you know they they can't they want to add a sequel or remake of every freaking old movie so I wouldn't I wouldn't put anything past studios for that um I have no doubt that they'll actually make a sequel but you know they want it to be Stallone and I feel like what is going to happen is what happened with the cliffhanger quote unquote sequel.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:36

Because they got ready to film that and it was supposed to be him it was going to be his daughter and him and like the president or somebody gets taken hostage and I forget what the plot was but he wound up not doing it and they subbed in Pierce Brosnan for him. And I don't know if that movie's ever going to come out or if it's gonna be a streaming movie when it does come out but I imagine that they're gonna develop this movie with Stallone and at some point he's gonna leave the production and they're just gonna do a reboot. And nobody will see it and it won't be as popular. Because your first problem is you don't have a Wesley Snipes. No you don't and without a Wesley Snipes you don't have a movie.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:16

Yeah yeah Demolition man I remember seeing those posters too we were about I think we're at the same age weight or just a year apart but pretty close. I remember seeing that yeah that was that was right at that time of this is going to be a huge movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:30

Yeah and then it really wasn't but it was like a big DVD or VHS hit.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:36

We all watched it on VHS when it came out those are those types of movies that I I would tell you that my mom would always go get like my dad eight movies to watch over the weekend when she had to work and like Demolition Man is is like right in that category of the types of movies Demolition Man, The Predator, Running Man, all of those types of you know just we're gonna go get shit done type of movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:59

Well when you watch Demolition Man it's very much that ilk of movie and I don't know why it's different because there's all kinds of action style of action movies but I feel like right in that period of 90s there was a lot of movies where people would unload guns and and the other person would just like dive away in slow motion and shit would be exploding behind them. Mm-hmm and they just don't make movies like that anymore for some reason.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:25

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:26

It's it's not the same but every car that you shoot explodes you know every car that you shoot explodes. But what's special about Demolition Man was the comedy of that movie. Oh yeah. You know when when Wesley Snipes escapes from prison and he's just killing people willy-nilly you know just no big deal and like you know they got the scene where like the five cops try to confront him and he beats the shit out of all of them and then he sticks their futuristic night stick into the car battery and the car explodes and Rob Schneider's all like we're police officers. We're not equipped to deal with this kind of violence you know who is yeah or uh bad aim blondie bad aim blonde that's a good one John Spartan pshit they let anybody into this entry right Simon says bleed yeah I don't know I feel like if they would have made a sequel to that movie three even four years later they could have done something really interesting you know it's a shame that they didn't yeah I I feel like um the way to go would have been Van Dam as a replacement villain for a second movie. That would have been cool. I think that would have been but that was also I think at the height of his Coke issue. So I don't know how problematic that would have been problematic.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:51

Well I don't know who I was going to coke out Van Dam on set that's for sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:56

I don't know who I was talking to. I think it was talking to my brother because the Street Fighter trailer came out for the new one and um we were talking about the old Street Fighter movie with Van Damme as the what's the who's the character he played? Guile? Yeah he played Guile yeah so the director the guy who wrote and directed that movie he came out a couple years ago and he's like I wasn't allowed to say anything for a lot of years because of contracts and whatnot but but he's like that shit's expired and nobody really cares anymore. But when uh they went to make that movie Van Dam had such a bad coke problem that they actually hired a guy whose entire job during the production was to oversee Van Dam and make sure that he stayed away from that. Wow but that guy turned out to be his main supplier and he was able to get way he was able to get way more coke than Van Damme would have been able to get on his own.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:52

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:53

The director said there were days where they didn't get to shoot shit because he was just so hung over and useless that he couldn't even get out of bed.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:02

Dang. He thought he thought he was getting a handler he ended up getting us like cutting out the parts of the supply chain.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:08

Yeah just going straight straight to it yeah it was bad but yeah but uh it in a perfect world we would have got a sequel to Demolition Man like three to five years later and Van Dam would have been the villain in that one and I think that would have been something amazing.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:24

That could have worked yeah I like it we have a Van Dam theme definitely going on here tonight too Anakin Reeves theme.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:31

Anakin A Reeves theme and a comedy theme.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:35

Except for me with all my weirdo dark dystopian movies. Like I got like I I the almost all of them are are like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:41

Well so far you've only got two but you know we're coming up on your fifth one so we'll see. Yeah actually well actually since since we're already there. So Demolition Man was my fourth the the last the last thing I want to say about Demolition Man uh do you know who the villain was originally supposed to be in Demolition Man? Does anybody no Stallone wanted Jackie Chan. Oh man that would have not worked that would have not worked especially at the time and Jackie Chan went to set and met with him and everything because they had already kind of started production on some aspects of the movie but he didn't he had already made one movie in America and he didn't dig the experience so he actually declined so that he can go back home and make movies the way he wanted to make them gotcha. But they still have a joke in the movie where Sandra Bullock's kicking all kinds of ass and Stallone's all like where did you learn to kick like that and she's like oh uh Jackie Chan movies so with that being said they had to slide in some kind of Jackie Chan reference. Oh and one other thing about that movie there's an international cut of that movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:53

Really?

SPEAKER_00 1:38:54

And the only difference is that instead of going to Taco Bell they go to Pizza Hut. Oh because I guess some countries don't have a Taco Bell but they have a Pizza Hut. Interesting and they're the same company that owns them so in some some versions of the movie they go to Pizza Hut.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:11

Wow that's interesting I like to do that that's a great footnote.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:14

So with that being said Brian what's your fifth movie sir?

SPEAKER_04 1:39:18

Well I I want to say guys and God bless anyone who's still listening to this because um I know that we could go on and on about all this and I'll I just want to I want to run through just a few honorable mentions. I won't get into them but I'll just rattle them off real quick I will watch it at any moment uh Dances with Wolves Shawshank Redemption Happy Gilmore Step Brothers Space Balls Blood Diamond Mad Max Fury Road Behind Enemy Lines um The Replacements Waterworld Boondock Saints Cliffhanger Usual Suspects Training Day Book of Eli but my last one I I I've referenced this movie several times to people and the I know you guys will know it but they just don't know it and so I it's like uh it's just one of these it doesn't make me proud that I know it and they don't know it type of thing but it's just kind of weird I'm like dang am I the only one that saw that movie but I will watch it at any moment because I think it's an interesting fun topic um Mike Judge movie Idiocracy. Mmm that's a good one I I love that concept of like they're putting Gatorade on the crops and everyone's just so dumb in the future and they got that giant band-aid on the building like I just love that stuff and and when uh Luke Wilson tells them to put water on the crops they're like you mean the poo like the poo water the toilet water like they're everyone's just so dumb and they think he's an idiot and like and it's um I forget the guy's name but like he's dressed in an American gladiator suit as like the president of the United States.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:43

It's just Camacho like there's so much yes President Camacho.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:48

Dude there's just so many fun subtleties of that movie that I I could just sit through three commercial breaks easily and just feel completely satisfied. It doesn't matter what part of the movie um and I think Maya Rudolph is fun in it too and uh I think Dax Shepard is in it I can't come in I'm busy I'm baiting you know it just like and it is the advertisements and every there's like a strip a strip club on every corner like there's just like that's the future you know and they're putting Gatorade on the crops of just all those fun things just make it silly but believable.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:20

I like the uh when she when she goes to when Maya Rudolph is walking around just trying to figure out what's going on she goes to the Carl's Jr and it's all automated and trying to take her order and she's just trying no I'm just trying to you know figure out what's going on here and their slogan is fuck you I'm eating see stuff like that man yeah it's too good. That's a real good one. What about you Adrian?

SPEAKER_03 1:41:50

You've seen Idiocracy I take it yes long time ago I I think I'd like to rewatch that one uh I'd have I've probably enjoyed even more than uh what I did I think I probably haven't seen that movie since it was probably my blockbuster days honestly yeah it's it's been a while since I saw it but yeah a lot of those jokes live rent free in my brain no doubt yeah um one of my favorite things about that movie is uh Terry Cruz who plays President Camacho I heard uh interview on uh the Mark Marin podcast with him uh right before COVID and um and he was like I'm really impressed by how quickly idiocracy became a documentary he's like he's like I'm watching Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on stage during a presidential debate and they're basically going your mom no your mom you're not wrong that's why there's a lot of those truths yeah I think that we we we don't see them that way but when you're putting together in like a satirical way it's like ah yeah I I see it it's quite scary but I love no longer birdblind.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:01

Yeah birdblind I I liked in my favorite part of it about Idiocracy though was how he tell like you said where he tells them to put water on the crops instead of the Gatorade and then they do it and it's they're not sure if it's working yet but he basically bankrupts the world because everybody works for Gatorade.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:22

Yeah see I gotta we'll go back and watch it too those are some subtleties that would make me crack up for the details yeah like the all the stuff in the background in the busy city I would love to just keep my eye on like some of that stuff in the background.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:34

And I'm sure there's a lot of there's a lot of jokes like a lot of these comedies especially like Mike Jed comedies like there's a lot of uh jokes that you just don't catch and the more you see them like office space like every time I watch that movie I see three and that one I've seen a lot more but I'll see stuff that I didn't catch the first time or I didn't understand. So I'm sure idiocracy would be a whole new experience now 15 20 years later.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:02

Totally absolutely I agree. All right Adrian it's time for your last pick what do you got give us some honorable mentions if you don't mind oh yeah do do some honorable mentions first like Brian did that was pretty good I'll give you I'll give you my list real quick and then I'll give you the one I chose to put there just because I think it's it's such a great movie. Not to say that these other ones replace it there's other ones on the list that I've already talked about but um so I have gone in 60 seconds both Blade Runner movies. 2049 is my favorite movie of the 21st century I think it's fantastic but the original Blade Runner is is great as well. The Mummy with Brendan Frazier Mrs. Doubtfire um the The Born Identity Nacho Libre Scarface Rocky Yeah T2 uh Clueless uh the ri uh the Fast and the Furious uh and you mentioned the Rock that was on my list too uh Casino Royale and Connor those are what I have on my list uh but number five is collateral yeah yeah collateral um is one of my favorite movies which I wasn't on my top five of our first episode but it's it's up there absolutely same um you know Michael Mann what what can we say about Michael Mann you know heat should be on that list too but I feel like I I talk so much about heat that I I left it off on purpose you know yeah he heat by the way Brian for context was the movie that we were talking about earlier where I threw it on oh I can watch 20 minutes of this and stayed up for three hours.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:44

Oh got it I do like heat I stayed up late and watched it one time uh on a business trip and that was a bad idea because then the next morning I was like oh my gosh why did I stay up till three in the morning but it was it was so captivating. So I got some more homework with collateral. Yeah oh you've never seen it no I mean it sounds familiar so you got give me who give me some people in it uh Tom Tom Cruise okay Jamie Foxx uh okay Mark Ruffalo um who else Javier Bardam yeah what's the story yeah go ahead and tell them but the the first three are pretty much the main actors but yeah Adrian why don't you run through the plot what's the quick cliffs notes yeah plot yeah so basically uh Jamie Foxx plays this taxi driver in LA and um essentially Tom Cruise's character is a hitman and you have okay okay good yeah like I just needed some context with the because I know the name sounds similar I know it's like a easy name but I needed some context with it. I do remember watching and liking this movie and I I believe it was probably on a TNT or TBS or USA they have the triple crown of watching a movie at any given moment.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:00

Yeah and you know essentially they go on this whole ordeal uh to essentially basically Tom Cruise's character kidnaps uh Jamie Foxx in order to get his uh his dirty shit done because he needed s someone to get him from A to B or to C. Um there's so many iconic moments like the nightclub yeah I mean I just I just you know moments where you just can't take your eyes of a f off of all the shit happening and Tom Cruise is just so lethal in that movie so much so that like his training is so good that they use some of his draws with with his firearm with his with his handgun for actual training videos. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:48

Wow that's cool that's a Tom Cruise trait yeah yeah that's a Tom Cruise trait where he'll like train like that for movie roles like that guy lives by drawing a gun out of his back pocket and you know so Tom Cruise learned how to do it like a fucking Navy SEAL would yeah my favorite part of that movie going back to you know iconic moments is uh when they introduce Mark Ruffalo's character because he's a vice cop and he is literally the worst looking undercover agent of all time yeah like he rolls up in a sports car right out of Miami Vice and they're playing this really cool background music and he's got his hair slicked back and he's got this little bullshit mustache and I think a chin beard and I think he's got an earring and he he looks like a drug dealer from 1994. So ridiculous yeah yeah I gotta go back and watch that one again it's a good time yeah solid choices Adrian solid likewise Wade let's hear your fifth okay so Grand finale all right grand finale let's let's try to make it a good one all right so my honorable mentions of course you both mentioned Conair that's on my honorable mentions Adrian mentioned Clueless which I almost said a little earlier in the podcast um Austin Powers was another one if we would have gone that route the first Austin Powers um Goodfellas that's one I'm kind of surprised didn't get get brought up because that was one of those movies that they played on TBS like every six months and every time it popped on I would just sit there dumbfounded. It didn't matter that half the language and all the violence were gone. I would still sit there like a zombie and watch it um uh another one that I thought about mentioning was the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I remember in high school my brother had it on all the time he got home from school first I would come in and it didn't Matter where that movie was, we would sit there and enjoy the shit out of that movie together. Right. I think the movie I am gonna go with is um Die Hard with a Vengeance. Yeah. Die Hard with a Vengeance, man, because it's also kind of a comedy. Like that movie, I feel like everyone thinks Pulp Fiction made Samuel Jackson's career. But I think everyone knew who Sam Jackson was because of Pulp Fiction. But Die Hard was really where he became a star.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:31

Yeah, I I wouldn't necessarily disagree with you there.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:34

So is this number two? Uh this is three. This is the one where Die Hard Three. Die Hard Three. This is the one where uh Hans's brother, Jeremy Irons, is um the mad bomber in New York, and they gotta run all over town to stop him from blowing up shit. And they got the scene where they gotta try to catch the subway train, and they're driving through Central Park on the in the taxi because you know the traffic's so terrible in New York. There's no way we were gonna make it. There's no way he wanted the bomb to go off. Yeah. You telling me I'm in this situation because some white asshole threw some white asshole's brother off a roof? It's just such a classic movie. Uh, you know, like the the bank robbery scene where they break into the reserve bank and they got all the gold in there.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:31

That's one of the best sequels ever made.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:35

It's funny when you when you look back at our body of work here as a collective, um, it's either comedies or some type of hostage situation or you know, dystopian future. Uh it's it's it's kind of telling, you know, like although I've seen uh I guess you know, Clueless is great too. That was a great pick, by the way. Oh, yeah. Clueless is great. But you know, I was when I was on the plane recently, the the first one that popped up, because it's a numbers movie, I almost pulled the trigger on 10 things I hate about you, um, just to watch it again. Um because I remember watching that with my wife, you know, so many times when we were just dating, it brings back a lot of memories and fun, you know, rom-com stuff, just you know, stuff I would never watch on my own, but um, but it's it's just it's still fun. It's just not a shoot 'em up futuristic dystopian movie, you know. So doesn't make my list.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:28

Yeah. We do have some very eclectic, eclectic choices on here. But that's good. You know, Brian's first movie was a giant action movie, and we're ending with a giant action movie.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:40

Totally.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:41

But uh Adrian, t what about you? What do you think about Die Hard with a Vengeance?

SPEAKER_03 1:52:46

I really like it. I I I kind of feel like it's the forgotten diehard movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:53

Which is weird because Die Hard 2, I feel like, in my opinion, be the the forgotten one. But why do you feel that way?

SPEAKER_03 1:53:01

Well, I think because the first one was such a hit. Oh yeah. Right? And the second one everybody was just as excited about because of how awesome the first one was and how well it did.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:14

And so I I just think when you think of Die Hard, even me, I catch myself sometimes, like I forget that they made a third movie. Although I I know about it, it's just like something that I don't think of off the top of my head. Like, I think of one, I think of two, but for some reason I always kind of skip over, and I'm I'm I'm realizing this because it's your pick, like how awesome Die Hard with a vengeance is, because I think it automatically skips forward to the more recent diehard that he did. And I I don't know why three is often forgotten, in in my opinion, or maybe that's just me, but it's just as iconic as the first one.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:55

See, for yeah, I agree. For for me, I feel like that movie was important because it kind of changed the formula because you know, diehard came out, and then it became very popular to do these action movies. It's where they would obviously pitch it as it's die hard on a mountain, it's diehard on a bust, yes, it's die hard in a hockey rink, and diehard two had done the diehard on a plane thing, yeah, but then diehard three, it's just like it's diehard, but in the streets of New York.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:33

Well, I think they brought it back down to earth, and I think, like you said, that was a really smart choice on their part because it I think it made it more relatable to the everyday person. Yeah, kind of opened it up. Yeah. Um but I think it was also some you know, filming a movie on the streets of New York is much different than like filming a movie that takes place in a plane, or you know, that's where a lot of the action and things like that take place because people can resonate or or grab a hold of a movie filmed in the streets because like they recognize the places and you know they know like you know what they're referring to, or or it's something that people say, Oh yeah, like this this makes more sense to me, or or as opposed to you know a bunch of shit hitting the fan in a plane where nobody's like, Well, that's that's never gonna happen to me. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:25

Well, the the thing I like about the diehard movies is because you you have the first one where they're stuck in the building. And then you got the second one where you know the wife's stuck on the plane and he's trying to figure out how to get her down safely, and he's running around the whole time going, How does the same guy find himself in the same shit twice? And and then you get to three where it's just yeah, I'm a New York cop, I'm doing my job, and I'm fighting this guy, but you know, he's blowing shit up, I'm shooting people all over the place, just willy-nilly, just like, you know, like there's so many news stories about cops shooting suspects, armed or unarmed, and how many times do we really need to shoot him? And Bruce Willis is just over here, one clip, two clip into one guy. And but then the best part of three really is how they tie it back to the first one, and the villain is the first movie's brother.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:27

Yeah, Jeremy Irons is great.

SPEAKER_00 1:56:29

But they also do what's smart about it is it's not just, oh, this guy is this guy's brother, so there's a personal aspect to it. They got the scene where you know we've stolen all the gold from the New York Reserve because we're gonna blow it up with this giant bomb. Because these Middle Eastern guys are gonna make all kinds of money somehow by us doing this for them. And then it's Sam Jackson and Bruce Willis on the boat, and he's all like, I got bad news for you. There's no gold on this boat because I know the man, I know the family. The only thing better than blowing up a shit ton of money is making everyone think you did. So it's like he already knows the plot twist coming because he knows the family. So I I don't know. And of course, then you get four. I actually really do enjoy four. So do I. Uh I thought five was a giant piece of shit. I don't know, Brian. Did you see a good day to die hard? No.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:28

Don't ever. No, I I uh I I think, you know, this is where I I quit at one, not intentionally, it just I like I quit Fast and Furious at one. I may have seen two, you know, type of thing. Um, but it's just like I I can't keep up. It's like Police Academy 40, you know, you just can't keep up.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:46

And all those police academy movies are the same anyway, but I know. I think that's right. Die Hard is one of my favorite, like the first three movies are probably one of my favorite trilogies because they're all different, but the same. Sure, which I think a lot of sequels have a hard time doing, especially just between one and two movies, let alone two and three, because they're trying so hard to preserve the formula from the first one.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:11

Right. Yeah. But no, I think Die Hard with Adventures is a really, really good choice, Wade. Thank you. And you know, that's also I think a movie often forgotten in in Sam Jackson's repertoire. Um he might be the most quotable actor of all time. Oh, yeah. I mean he might he might take the cake on that one.

SPEAKER_00 1:58:35

Yeah. Even just some personal interactions. I heard um these two guys on Facebook or Instagram or wherever the fuck they were. They said that they saw Sam Jackson at the airport. Mm-hmm. And they kept debating, you know, do we go talk to him? Should we talk to him? They all that's not cool. Like he's just he's just a guy. He's trying to get where he's going. Should we talk to him? And finally, Sam Jackson just came strutting over. He's like, Y'all motherfuckers want a photograph? Uh yeah, he he's gold, man. Sam Jackson is uh is a national treasure. We should appreciate him as long as we can.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:15

Absolutely. Yeah, I'm a big Sam Sam Jackson fan for sure. Uh, you know, was uh I did I did see snakes on a plane in the in the theater, so that was fun.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:23

Me too. Me too.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:26

Me three.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:28

There you go. Another thing we all have in common. Yeah. Um uh another uh movie I forgot to mention, but I I thought of it because uh I had kind of thought of it at the beginning of the podcast when he mentioned the passing of Rob Reiner. But another movie that you could easily throw on this list is the Princess Bride. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:46

Totally. Yep. So I think uh, you know, w especially having Quinn now, you know, when we watch parts of that movie, it it's timeless for sure. Oh yeah. Um not only because of the costumes and like they're doing in a timepiece as well, but just the way it's put together and just the the quirkiness of it, of the storyline is super fun. Uh Princess Bride is is up way up on the list for sure as a fun movie to watch.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:10

I mean, he has some classic, classic movies that stand. Yeah. I mean, Stand By Me When Harry Met Sally, Misery. Oh, Misery. Um he he has a lot. A few good men.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:26

I mean, that's one I need to rewatch too. I haven't seen that in a long time.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:30

Yeah, there's uh there's there's a few.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:33

I I'm surprised nobody has thought to do this. And maybe somebody has, and maybe I'm stealing somebody's idea. I don't know. But you know what I think would be a cool sequel to The Princess Bride?

SPEAKER_04 2:00:46

Lay it on us.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:47

I think they should get Fred Savage back and have him read the story to his grandkid, or maybe just you know, his kid, I don't know, probably a grandkid. Sure.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:01

But he should be reading the story, and it's the exact same movie. Just with a whole different cast, just with a whole different cast, new production design, the whole business, because it's a new person imagining the story. So it'll be different enough to be a different movie, but it's like he it's the same thing because it's just you know, that's the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:22

It'll be the same book, right? It's the same book. Yeah, same book. Yeah, that's interesting to think about the perspectives of the uh the person, you know, hearing the story and how someone else will have that. That's that's pretty cool. I like that Wade. Great idea.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:33

I think that'd be I think that'd be really cool.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:36

Trademark it or call it. Can you call it? I called it. I called it. Is that how it works?

SPEAKER_03 2:01:41

I I called it. I don't know, but well, you can time you can timestamp it. That's how you know.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:46

Yeah. If this uh goes out and then a year later they're like, hey, we're doing it this way.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:53

Someone will forge a document and says, Ah, we thought of that 10 years ago, you bastard. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:58

Okay, so well, hey, the script wouldn't change much. Not just the opening sequence, you know.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:04

Yeah, you'd really only have to write the stuff that's funny. Fred Savage and his grandkid. That's all you'd have to do. And like you can do a whole different story with that. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:17

I think that'd be interesting. I like it. And yeah, so guys, that's uh that's our our top five of movies we could watch at any point or turn them on at any point and just watch the movie or have a good time with it. Brian, we appreciate you you joining us as our first guests. If we ever get famous, you know, you're you're gonna be equally famous as being our first guest. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:45

No, it was it was an honor, guys. Honestly, this is a lot of fun. Just I couldn't wipe the smile off my face. I have some more homework now. Um, but it's it's just fun to sit here and talk movies with you guys um and and why they're important to us at certain times in our life for certain reasons, you know, whether it was at the Frida or I went by myself, or this movie's underrated, or, you know, uh I was 13 and we were gosh, there's so many movies, man. Like Airborne. I just thought of like we watched Airborne a billion times because it was about the first movie about rollerblading, you know, all that sort of stuff is just it it brings back a lot of memories um of just the good times. And that's what the movies are supposed to do.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:24

Yeah, exactly. I mean, I I had Brink on my uh 90s movie list, kids movie list movies, because it was about rollerblading. That's like awesome.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:35

No, and and who doesn't love blank check, you know? Imagine being a a a little boy getting a million dollars. Like, come on, man, you know? Like that's what's that's what's fun about all that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:45

Yeah. And I think you you hit it perfectly in what movies do for us. I mean, we we can't wipe the smiles off our faces when we're talking about this and hearing other people's favorites or talking about bird blindness or whatever the topic is, right? But that's what we hope Up All Night Cinema becomes for everyone else is an extension of your movie experience, something that where you can be reminded of a movie you once saw and forgot about, or be recommended something new, or just find a space where you can escape for a little bit, just like the movies do for us, and just how movies have have held special places in our lives throughout our lives, right? Um totally.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:30

I think we there's one one thing that I just thought of right now, the way that you phrased that is there's like something really romantic about what we're talking about. Meaning I can just go in and get two or three sets of commercial breaks and like feel good about it. And it just sucks you right back into the moment. You don't have to sit down and watch the whole thing, you don't have to dedicate three hours to it, you don't have to, you know, back in the day go to a Hollywood video blockbuster, Redbox, you know, whatever the heck it was. Now it's every like we almost preserved like a little part of our childhood and upbringing, you know, going to the movies and watching these things, and then now seeing them years later when it took forever, it seemed like to get it to DVD or something else, or it's like, God, I can't keep buying these things. You know, they're 50 bucks at one point, type of thing. And so then you see it on the the the the trilogy TBS, TNT, USA, and it's like I gotta at least just get a little dopamine hit, you know, from it. And it's and that's kind of all you need. And it just makes it fun. Makes it fun. It's and it's something romantic about that going, all right, I'm just gonna finish this piece of pizza and just I'll just five minutes. Five minutes is good.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:31

And the bonus side with that piece of pizza, you could always take a pair of scissors and cut it in half, like like Stallone and Cobra. Which is, you know, I could watch that scene a million times and never watch the rest of that movie.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:47

Right. Right. We saw that at the Frida, too.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:50

Yeah. That was part of the action day.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:53

It was, yeah, yeah. Uh well, you know, we're at that point where we should probably be getting to bed. Yeah. Yeah. Unless you unless you're gonna turn on a movie. That's we're hoping some of our audience is gonna do that tonight. But before we go, let's go ahead and recap our our top five movies real quick. And Brian, uh you started us off, so why don't you go ahead and uh recap your five movies for us?

SPEAKER_04 2:06:19

Well, I have it in a weird order. So I I think my first one was Point Break. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Uh then V for Vendetta, Ready Player One, and Idiocracy. And Scott Pilgrim. And Scott Pilgrim. Scott Pilgrim, yes.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:35

Now, I wanna I wanna throw us a little curveball. Okay. If you had to put on one movie right now after this recording of your five, what would it be?

SPEAKER_04 2:06:46

I I think I'd be in the mood for Scott Pilgrim right now, for sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:51

Tell it to the cleaning lady on Monday. She has the weekends off. Monday, right?

SPEAKER_03 2:07:02

Yes. Yeah. Wade, why don't you go ahead and remind everybody about your top five?

SPEAKER_00 2:07:09

My top five was Napoleon Dynamite, The Wedding Singer, The Big Lebowski, Demolition Man, and Die Hard with a Vengeance.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:19

And what would be the movie you you turned on?

SPEAKER_00 2:07:21

I would probably I'd probably lean toward the wedding singer right now.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:28

Because I'm in that kind of jazzy fun mood after all this.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:33

Yeah. Makes sense. Makes sense. And so I'll uh cap us off tonight, and my top five were Blood Sport, The Matrix, A Night at the Roxbury, Face Off, and Collateral.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:46

Very nice. Good lists, everybody. Good lists. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:49

Good lists. Well done. Well done, gentlemen. Yeah, so there you have it, guys. We are up all night cinema. I am Adrian. Say goodnight, Wade. Good night, Wade. And we can't forget about Brian. Say goodnight, Brian. Good night, Brian. Yippie Kai, yay!