Episode 195 - Don't Wait to Decorate

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, Go Flix Yourself, Go Flix Yourself, Go Flix Yourself, Hey Everybody Hey everybody, it's another episode of Go Flix Yourself. My name is Ben Conowitz and with me as always is the unicycle to my bicycle, Bradford Oman. Hey that's me! I have one wheel...

[00:00:28] And it's not as good as a bicycle. I don't know. I think it's a lot more entertaining to watch somebody on a unicycle than on a bicycle. That's fair. Yeah, suck on that. And the tricycle to my bicycle, Nate Laux.

[00:00:40] Uh, I am the triumvirate of awesome in this group. You are probably the most stable out of all of us. Yeah, honestly. That's saying something. We're all fine! Everything's great. I'm fine. Guess what we're talking about feelings? No, it's the movie podcast! Yeah! Fuck feelings! Yeah!

[00:00:58] We don't talk about that shit! I watch that movies all the time. I'm an alpha male and I watch action and comedy only. No, no, you're an alpha male. Unless Joe Rogan's in this film, I don't want to watch it. And even if he is, I ain't gay.

[00:01:11] Has Joe Rogan been in a lot of films? I feel like he's been in something. He was on news radio. That's not a film. That is a TV show. That's a TV show. That is odd to me though. TV shows are very similar to films though. Sure.

[00:01:22] They're like small films. Have we had this conversation before? They're like films that have been broken up into multiple units? Yeah. What was that app that tried to do that for a while? Quibi. Yeah, Quibi. Quick bites. Oh, that's what it started.

[00:01:36] So thanks for joining us on another episode of Go Flicks Yourself. Bradford Omen. By the way, wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Joe Rogan. Was in. Oh, you brought up his IMDb? Yeah, Zookeeper. Oh yeah? Of course. Of course. Yeah, I played the air.

[00:01:52] He played the draft piece of shit. The shit that came out of the draft's ass. He has been in some documentaries called DMT the spirit molecule. Is that a real thing? Oh God, steroids and whether or not that bad.

[00:02:06] He was also started as himself and here comes the boom. Of course. Oh yeah. Of course. And himself and the movie Bright. Really? I haven't seen Bright so now I'm super intrigued. I actually, I was not mad at that movie.

[00:02:22] Like I know that it got not a lot of great reviews are they, but it did what I was supposed to do for you. I enjoyed the world that they built. Yep. I really did between that and Ben assigning American ultra to Nate.

[00:02:33] We got a big Max Landis fan over here except that's not what he's. Oh wait, the deep cut for those of you listening. Max Landis is a screener behind American ultra. He's a piece of shit. I thought not a good guy. Did you? I'm not supposed to buy.

[00:02:48] I'm really worried that I didn't watch right. No, this was. Yeah, wait, you not remove. Do you not remember watching American? Oh, is it American ultra? Oh boy with Jesse Eisenberg. Oh yeah. Like a year ago. Yeah. But but but. Brad say wait. Yeah, Chris Stewart. Tover Gracie.

[00:03:08] Did you watch a movie that we gave you? I don't know that I just made it up. Nope. I remember that. I don't remember what's called. I'm a guy got it's American Alta. It's about American made makeup that women like. I'd watch it. Cool. I'm glad.

[00:03:23] Before we go any further. Oh yeah. You know, what's your favorite Halloween memory? Probably when I I'm just kidding. What's the next year on Halloween? Yeah, Halloween 2024. They set a date for the wedding. We want to put it out there for sure.

[00:03:38] It was a joke that we made. It was this is a really funny turn of events. We said Brad's getting married on Halloween. You fucking ass. Did you really bring last week's no he had left them here and now he's eating the remainder. You can't do that.

[00:03:53] You crunchy bitch. Oh my God, you crispy fuck. Don't do that. Anyway, we made a little joke. You didn't put the lid on? I did but the lid did not hold. It is the basement of my own. That sounds like the Pringles fault.

[00:04:08] So we made a joke that Brad was getting married on Halloween this year and it took off a bit where people asked to get married on the day of the wedding. But to counteract that, Brad, particularly Beyonce, Brittany, yeah, but the funny part is they have actually set

[00:04:26] the date for October 31st 2024. Either Jesus Christ. So it's so fun that you guys are leaning into it. We're not. It's not true. October 31st 2024, Brad, Brittany, better. Better trying to move some things to maybe get there. But like I have a Halloween full schedule at the arcade

[00:04:42] and here's a lot going on. But congratulations. I'm going to be swallowing this year. What is that? You know what it is. You know what it is. That sounds horrible. Speaking of swallowing, Ben, let me ask you a question. What's your favorite swallow memory?

[00:04:56] Well, I love the headless horseman, you know, of creepy swallow. What? That's the porn I watch. Jesus Christ. You could have gone with us. It's like a Swallows of Capistrano thing and you went with sleepy swallow. Oh, creepy swallow. Sleepy swallow. Sleepy swallow is the movie.

[00:05:14] I said creepy swallow. I know swallow is not a thing. It got too far away from that. You did A to D. Wait, A to D. Yeah. A to C. Dummy. Speaking of swallowing, Ben, what kind of snack cakes do you like shoving in your mouth hole? What?

[00:05:29] What kind of snack cakes? You like shoving in your mouth hole. Little Debbie kind or what? Yeah. Do you like Little Debbie? I'm fine. What is? Do you like Little Debbie? What kind of Little Debbie snack cake? What is a snack cake? A ho ho?

[00:05:41] Ho ho or a ding dong. Christmas trees. It's almost Christmas trees. Yeah, hostess cupcakes. Those are all snack cakes. Those are all snack cakes. Yeah. I did not know that. I will say that I like, I probably like... Oatmeal cream pies. That's my favorite.

[00:05:56] You don't like oatmeal cream pies? Love oatmeal cream pies. What's wrong with you? Probably ho ho's. Ho ho's are good. Do fruit pies count? I don't think fruit pies are cakes because they say pie in them. How about like a cheese danish?

[00:06:09] No, because that's not a snack cake per se. I mean, I guess it's kind of in between. Cinnamon bun? Cinnamon bun. Like a hostess cinnamon bun? Is that a snack cake? Like a honey bun? Yeah. Or kind of... What about like a coffee cake?

[00:06:23] Because they make some good coffee... That's fine. I feel like when I hear snack cake based on the definition you've been providing, I feel like the zebra? Yeah, zebra cake. Exactly. That's like a snack cake. Absolutely. What about a fudge round? Or like a Little Debbie, right?

[00:06:35] Is that what you said earlier? Yeah, Little Debbie. Oatmeal cream pies. So, still going home. Okay. How about you, Nate? I'll go with... I think I'm going to go with... Because I do like an old meal cream pie, but I'm gonna go with a coffee cake. Okay.

[00:06:48] So you're not like one to put like a ding dong in your mouth? You don't want to... That's super fun. A Twinkie surprise. Also super fun. Okay, well, I have both of those for you today. A Twinkie surprise that a ding dong in your mouth?

[00:07:00] Today we got a twofer, folks. Oh no. Today, I have hostess Twinkies and ding dong's flavored popcorn. Oh no. Fucking yeah, baby. Why do you want a real popcorn? What do you mean real popcorn? Put a little bit of butter on it and I'm good.

[00:07:17] This sounds terrible, man. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, I can smell the sweetness on this is popcorn. And this is legitimately from Hostess. This is legitimate Hostess. Wait, yeah, like who's making the popcorn? Or is like hostess like contracting with somebody?

[00:07:29] Yeah, I'm sure they are, but they don't like... They partner with Orville Redknocker. Oscar Meyer-Wieners are now doing popcorn. It's not like when they have like the smart food Doritos popcorn where like they have both brands on a plate. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[00:07:41] They don't come right out and say who the popcorn maker is. But you know, I assume it's whoever makes the... The company that owns Hostess probably owns another popcorn company. Yeah. Nate. I got chips. No, you don't get to have any more of those chili cheese chips.

[00:07:56] You gave them up for Lent. Lent's a thing, right? Uh, it is a thing. Yep. Correct. You did good. Okay. Alright, which one are you guys doing first? Ding Dongs first. Just pop that ding dong right in your mouth. I did the... I did the twinger.

[00:08:13] I will say that it tastes like cereal. They both taste like cereal. Just a taste, the ding dong's one don't. I don't like them. Am I wrong? No, no. I feel like I need a bowl of milk and just like that. That's like a...

[00:08:25] The chocolate on the ding dong's... I'm 13. I'm 13. I will never stop this. The chocolate on the ding dong's popcorn tastes like a... almost like a Coco Krispies chocolate. Yep. And the Twinkies actually, I don't really get a Twinkies taste.

[00:08:40] It just tastes kind of like a glazed donut popcorn almost. It needs to be. Neither one of them are good. Yeah. This is... Thanks for giving us cereal. I think that they're okay. Dry cereal. It's not like terrible. But it's just not...

[00:08:52] It doesn't do what it's trying to do is give me a flavor of the thing. Yeah. I'm gonna... I definitely don't think they succeeded in capturing the right flavor here. Nope. I agree. Somewhere a food scientist is crying. Well guys, ding dong's and Twinkies popcorn.

[00:09:06] I found them at Dollar Tree in small bags. Outside in the alley. So go to Dollar Tree and there was plenty of them there. I will say I have been looking for these for a while because they kind of did like a slow rollout,

[00:09:18] like across the country for whatever reason. Cool. And so like I took them a while to get to our area. So when they finally did... Cool. Brent, what's the last movie you saw, buddy? I watched the making of documentary about how they make weird flavored popcorns.

[00:09:30] Mate, what's the last movie you saw, buddy? Oh. Go ahead, Brent. Oh, we're very back together. We made a real bad joke. Okay. No, Brent, what's the last movie you saw? What was bad about it? Everything. Go on. Dude, I don't...

[00:09:45] The last movie I watched was The Money Pit. With Tom Hanks and Shelly Long. Yeah, have you seen this? Yeah, of course. Have you seen it? Yes, it's a very famous movie. Do you like it? I love The Money Pit. Yeah.

[00:10:01] This is the first time I've seen it. Oh wow. I just watched it on a whim. It was a crazy 90-minute movie. Oh, it's so good. It was one of the few Tom Hanks movies that I haven't seen.

[00:10:08] So I decided to watch it and it's very, very funny. It is. There's a lot of great physical comedy in it that you don't really see in comedies much anymore. A lot of really big set piece stuff that happens and you're like, wow, that took a lot of

[00:10:22] rigging to make that work. Yeah, great practical comedy stunt kind of stuff that was really entertaining. And so it was slapstick without being over the top. It was a lot of fun. I really liked watching it.

[00:10:32] It wasn't like Monty Python or anything, but it was just really good. Yeah, just good stuff with the house constantly going wrong and things just being terrible. Is that the concept of the movie? Yeah, so I've never seen it.

[00:10:42] So they decide to invest some money in a house to fix it up and it seems like it's okay. And then once they finally finalize the deal and get in there, everything just starts falling apart and going to shit and trying to get it fixed as a nightmare.

[00:10:56] Which is just buying a house. Yeah, nothing goes right and it's crazy. But so it's a lot of fun though. I also do the thing where back then when they made these type of movies, they didn't do something that would normally kill the character. Right.

[00:11:08] You know, like, oh, Tom Hanks's character got launched 37 feet in the air and it just won't hit the ground and was like a dust of a bomb. The home alone effect that would have killed those guys multiple times over?

[00:11:19] There's a little bit of that, but it doesn't go crazy. Yeah, exactly. It's not totally unbelievable. And Tom Hanks is very funny in it. I like seeing the younger Tom Hanks where he was still doing like bigger comedy

[00:11:32] because in this one, one thing you don't get to hear him do a lot is his hysterical laugh and he has the hysterical like... A little bit crazy. Yeah, right? And he gets a little wheezy. He does that in The Burbs as well.

[00:11:43] He does it in Toy Story in a brief moment too when he fakes out Buzz Lightyear. And I love hearing that laugh from him because it's just so genuine and... It's maniacal. Yeah, it's really good. So yeah, I liked it a lot.

[00:11:55] It was a lot funnier than I thought it was going to be because I wasn't sure if the comedy was gonna... Why did you decide on that? It was just a 90-minute movie. Yeah, but like did you wear your scrolling? Yeah, I was on Netflix. Oh, nice.

[00:12:04] So I saw it. But yeah, and honestly, I think that it's ripe for a remake. I think that you could... Oh, these days for sure. Especially with all of the house renovation shows and stuff that are out there,

[00:12:13] you could easily do a thing where you have like a property brother and do a house kind of thing where it's like maybe like a chip in Joanna Gaines where they get a house. It's just a fucking nightmare. Do they do subtlety like this though?

[00:12:27] I feel like today though, they go too far when... No, they'll remake this but it'll be Kevin James. That's exactly it. You know, and it'll be kicked by a horse. Or Kevin Hart or something. Through the second story window and it would murder anybody

[00:12:42] but nope, oh he just gonna does himself off. That's what I'm saying is the subtlety of this type of... They'll do it wrong. Like where you're holding back on some of that. Yeah. I would love to do it with somebody the right way

[00:12:54] because I think that you could easily do it. You could even do it like mockumentary style I think. Who do you think would play a good lead in that? Oh gosh, I don't even know who would be fun to do it.

[00:13:03] Yeah, who is like a modern Tom Hanks right now? Yeah, Brett, go. And go. And Brett and go. I really don't know. I'm honestly not sure. He did so... I mean he just is so perfect in those roles and that was a couple years after big I think.

[00:13:19] Yeah. It was 86. 86 was the year. I don't know. Reagan was in the White House. Is Ryan Gosling... I mean he's a little bit older. Gosh actually I would love to see... I think Ryan Gosling is a little older because Tom Hanks was like in his...

[00:13:35] That's what I'm saying. 20-year-old. I feel like he can fit that role really well. That would be really fun actually. Yeah, I would love to see Ryan Gosling do it. I don't know if there's anybody younger that would maybe do that. I don't know.

[00:13:44] Let's have Ryan Gosling on Anne Hathaway do it. There we go. Well, recast. We just did a recast. Yeah, there we go. Perfect. The money pit and it'll be great. So yeah, I watched the money pit. That was the last movie I saw.

[00:13:53] What else did you see this week? I was assigned a movie by my good friend... You don't remember. Ben Keenowatts. Okay. And he gave me a movie. It's Keenowatts. Oh, Keenowatts. Yes. Keenowatts. No one is listening, Brad. Keenowatts. I watched The Lincoln Lawyer.

[00:14:15] This is the movie about the lawyer who famously defended Lincoln. I was just going to say you're going to do something stupid here. No, so this is a movie that is based on a book. I like this movie. Right?

[00:14:27] It is because they made a TV show that I actually liked as well. Oh, you watched the TV show? I did. I thought it was pretty good. Is it better than the movie? No. Okay. But it is good though. Pass. Well, it's... You do not like the movie?

[00:14:39] No, no, no. I'm saying if it's not as good as the movie then I don't want to watch it. I think it's very good. Oh yeah, the movie is excellent. Yeah. In my opinion. It could still be slightly worse than the movie. Brad, what did you think?

[00:14:50] I really liked that actually. I was going to say come on, man. No, so first of all it cannot be overstated how effortlessly cool Matthew McConaughey is. Seriously, the charisma. Yeah, like just the way he's got swagger for days.

[00:15:04] But it's so crazy to me because you know who he is. Yeah. So like you're sitting down and be like, well, I'm not falling for this again. Then you're like, I fell for it. Yeah. He's just so good.

[00:15:14] Yeah, he's very suave and he just has just a real great way about him. I think he talked about this film recently about... I saw him in an interview because I think he was in a lull in his career right before this.

[00:15:27] So this would have been like post all of the rom-coms? Yes. Yeah, this was 2011. And he talked... That's what it was. He talked about... Like he got offered like $10 million to do a rom-com and he said I didn't want to do him anymore.

[00:15:39] He said there's nothing wrong with him. I felt like I could do something different. Yeah. Failure to launch four. Yeah, and I'm sure... He did failure to launch. He did wedding planner. He did Ghost of Girlfriend's Pass. And I don't hate those movies honestly.

[00:15:53] They're not terrible rom-coms but like... Didn't they call this like the start of the McConaissance? It might have been. I think the official McConaissance was Dallas Buyer's Club. But I'm sure this kind of helped pave the way for that. Yeah, I'm trying to find here...

[00:16:06] Because Dallas Buyer's Club I think was only a couple years after Lincoln Lawyer. Yeah, it would have been like 2013. So in 2006... Where is Dallas Buyer's Club? I'm sure it was 2013. Yeah, so this is 2011. So he did We Are Marshall in 2006. And that was okay.

[00:16:22] Yeah, and so then in 2008... I mean he really didn't have much there. He did Fool's Gold which didn't do well. That was a rom-com. Tropic Thunder. It's so funny in Tropic Thunder. Tug of Nuts. 2009, Ghost of Girlfriends Passed 2010 Nothing. That's what it was. 2010 he did Nothing.

[00:16:43] And then he got Lincoln Lawyer. Then he passed on every rom-com that was available. And then Mud... I've heard Mud's Good. I haven't seen it though. And then Magic Mike and then Dallas Buyer's Club, Wolf of Wall Street, Interstellar. Yeah, all that. And that was when...

[00:16:57] Yeah, and he talks about this though. Like this film particularly being one of the films that gave him hope because I don't know who directed this but like actually... His name is Brett Furman. He tried him. Like he didn't...

[00:17:08] Nobody wanted to give Matthew McConaughey a role like this. And he did. Was Mud the one where it was the... He went down to Bolivia and had the gold... No, where was that just called? Gold. That's just gold, yeah. And when did that come out?

[00:17:19] That came out later. That came out later, yeah. I love that movie. Gold. I still haven't seen that. Oh my God, that's really good. I haven't seen Mud either but I've heard so much good things about it. No, but I'm just looking at Mud right now.

[00:17:29] Gold, Mud's the fucking same thing. Okay, wow. But no, Brett Furman directed Lincoln Lawyer. He also directed Runner Runner which sucks I was just going to say for that. Yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. Runner Runner was Justin Timberlake and... Ben Affleck. You heard me say Ben.

[00:17:42] I didn't. I really didn't. He didn't know if it was Ben Kingsley or Ben Affleck. And Anthony Mackie. I was yelling in my own ears so... And what's your face? Gemma Arditan, yeah. Gemma Arditan. Gemma. I have a fun story about meeting her in the hotel bar afterwards.

[00:18:02] Whoa. Not like that. Hello, Gemma. She came down and she just was hanging out with some of the other reporters over there. Go on. She's cute. She's cute in person? Yeah, absolutely. And she was very nice too. She was telling us things she shouldn't have told us.

[00:18:16] Oh, now you can't say things. I mean, I probably shouldn't. Now it's inconsequential stuff. It's stuff that hasn't happened and won't happen now. So you could say that? No. You could probably just say a little bit of it. Without naming names. Then I would have to name...

[00:18:31] Just tell us, was it like this person slept with this person? Or this project was going to happen? Yeah, it was a project that she was going to do and it just didn't... Okay. Ended up not coming to fruition at all.

[00:18:40] So the live action version of the Jetsons never came before? You're not too far off? I would watch the Jetsons. She was supposed to do a remake of Chidi Bang Bang. For real? Yeah, for real. And it didn't ever come out. Clearly that didn't work out.

[00:18:53] Somebody sold her a bridge. All right. Thanks for this script. Good for that, I guess. Okay, I got a bridge to sell you. For that dead air. These are fucking assholes! But yeah, no, I really like The Lincoln Lawyer.

[00:19:08] It's a solid courtroom drama and it has some great twists and turns. Ryan Phillips is really good at it as just a royal prick. He plays a good asshole though. Always likes seeing John Leguizamo in a movie. The one thing that I do wish is...

[00:19:22] It was Mercedes instead of Lincoln? I wish that they had established a little bit more. Maybe this is something they do in the TV series, Nate. More of a strong dynamic between Matthew McConaughey and his driver. Because it felt like there could have been more there.

[00:19:39] They had a little bit of banter and they established that they were well together. Brad's favorite movie of all time is Green Book. So he does really need a dynamic between the driver and who's in the back seat. No! Go ahead, go again. Sucks.

[00:19:55] Yes, the driver in the TV show actually has a more prominent role. I figured as much because it felt like a relationship that was ripe for developing a little bit more into a proper friendship or collaboration. Whereas it's just giving him a smaller part.

[00:20:14] From what I understand, I have not read the books, but the show is a little closer to the actual source material. If you haven't seen The Lincoln Lawyer, Brad, just very quickly, what's the premise?

[00:20:23] So Matthew McConaughey plays a lawyer who literally works out of a black Lincoln that he gets driven around in. He's a little bit of a shyster lawyer. He's constantly getting criminals off and pulling off sneaky things as a way of getting around the system and stuff like that.

[00:20:36] But he does have a little bit of a conscience. He does try to do the right thing for the most part. But he has a little bit of like slick, sneaky ways of going about it.

[00:20:45] And he gets hired by Ryan Phillips for a case where he's being accused of beating and attempting to rape a prostitute. And it's Ryan Phillips, and he maintains that he's innocent, very convincing about it.

[00:20:59] And then it turns out that the whole reason he hired Matthew McConaughey was a way of setting him up to make sure he got off, even though he knew he was guilty and like he couldn't actually do anything about it when he found out that he,

[00:21:11] Ryan Phillips, was guilty. And so there's some double crosses and some interesting turns. It's a fun, suspenseful legal drama. I really like it. Good stuff. Good stuff. Other movies in that similar vein that I like, not necessarily the same movie whatsoever,

[00:21:29] but it gave me Michael Clayton vibes because George Clooney is really epically good as Michael Clayton. And he's a fixer type thing. And McConaughey has a sleazier version of that in this, but still pulls it off in that McConaughey way where you honestly,

[00:21:46] you can see why people trust him. Yeah, of course. I trust Matthew McConaughey. I would be my lawyer. I would. You know what? I'm going to have him just narrate my life. All right. All right. All right. Ben, what's the last movie you watched?

[00:22:01] Is that it for you? That's it. Kind of kept it low key. I've been reading a book. What? Stop. No, you haven't. Is it the good book? Is it the good book? Is it the good book? I've actually read like three books lately because I know you haven't.

[00:22:15] No, if 100 percent. I read, so I read a book. I did this a while back, but like it was, I read the book about the making of Oppenheimer. And then I read a new, really released book about the making of Nightmare Before Christmas

[00:22:29] because it's the 30th anniversary and like it's a... It was in theaters again. Mm-hmm. You're like, go flips yourself or you flip the page here. Pretty good idea. And then now I'm reading Surely You Can't Be Serious, which is a book about the making of Airplane,

[00:22:44] which has been fascinating and hilarious. So can you not like find out all that information on like the IMDB... Yeah, just, you know, just read it. IMDB trivia page. Read it online. I haven't explained to you on a YouTube video.

[00:22:56] No, because if the thing is like a lot of the stuff, like it's some stuff that like doesn't get covered in interviews on the publicity circuit because, you know, someone didn't answer or ask the right question or you only have a limited amount of time

[00:23:06] to speak with somebody outside and you can't cover everything. And so these books, a lot of them are written by people who are taking years to... they're either with the production of the film and like watching and interviewing people as it goes along and stuff like that.

[00:23:20] Was that the case in the Oppenheimer one? Yeah, Oppenheimer, they were like, they were around for part of it and everything like that. And then, but it's also like talking to them afterwards and like, you know, looking back at the production

[00:23:31] and then like same thing with the night before Christmas one. They are basically just spending years speaking to all of the key filmmakers, you know, department heads and stuff like that and painting a picture of what it was like to make the movie at the time.

[00:23:44] Okay, so this is about a film still. Two questions for you. First, when is Oppenheimer coming out? Because I'd like to see it again. So it's supposed to be coming back to IMAX relatively... Oh, I'll go see it in IMAX.

[00:23:56] If it's not already, if not already it will be... Ben? Ben? I would check your local... he saw Oppenheimer already. I saw it. In IMAX? He didn't see an IMAX. No, I saw it in a theater. It's meant to be sawed.

[00:24:07] Okay, fine, I saw it in a theater. Check your local listings, it might be... Because I will go back and see it. It might be back in IMAX already. But aside from that... No, I'm sorry, I'm just eating these really delicious popcorns that I found on the couch.

[00:24:20] Oppenheimer will also be released on Home Media in December. Okay, then the second question was, did you learn anything about the making of that film from that book particularly that you thought was fairly interesting? Oppenheimer or the Night Before Christmas one? Oppenheimer.

[00:24:35] Yeah, I mean the Oppenheimer one is full of like tons of... Because I haven't heard any drama or anything like that. No, no. Tell the... The Emily Blunt story? No, no, the safty. Oh, so this... Funnily enough, this was something that did come out in an interview

[00:24:50] but I hadn't found out about it until I read the book. So Benny Safty who plays one of the key scientists on Oppenheimer's team, he's the one who is kind of like a little bit of opposition and he's the one who kind of turns on Oppenheimer.

[00:25:02] Tall black hair and has the accent. Has the thick accent. He actually had a crossroads where he could have gone on and had a career as a real physicist. Like the actor and director. Yeah, Benny Safty. But instead he chose to get into filmmaking and acting.

[00:25:19] If you had those options, what would you do? Because he's not a huge actor. No, but he directed Uncut Gems. Yeah, but he's a fairly well known, you know... So yeah, go that way. Yeah, I'd go that way. Stop eating the chips, Nate.

[00:25:33] But also the fact that like... So he understood what they were doing, right? They're talking about the math and he kind of gets it. Probably more than anybody else. I mean, I get it. I love that. Oh, sure you do. But I love that when... But they did...

[00:25:44] They did a crossover where... And one thing they did mention too though is a lot of people did enough research that they were able to kind of like do improvisation and talk about things as if they did know about the science and whatnot. That's crazy. Yeah.

[00:25:57] So that was pretty cool. But one of the other interesting things was on a Christopher Nolan set, one of the things that he expects of his cast is he doesn't like them to show up and have...

[00:26:06] If they're doing like a period movie having any sort of like modern things on them. Like he doesn't want them coming to set with their phone. He doesn't want to see them wearing like a puffer jacket, you know, if like anything like that.

[00:26:17] He wants the actors always to be ready to like jump into like a scene because he runs such an efficient set that they move very quickly and like when he needs them, he wants them to... So come in your costume? Yeah.

[00:26:29] Well, I mean, that's what you do when you're an actor anyway. Like you're... If you're there on set to shoot, you're already in your costume. But don't they go to their dressing rooms and stuff to get ready? Yeah.

[00:26:38] But what he means is like so oftentimes what happens on a set is like even if you're in full costume, sometimes you'll still like... You'll have like a jacket on over there. You'll have your Apple Watch on. Yeah. Or your phone. Yeah, exactly.

[00:26:50] He doesn't want any of that and the actors know that. To Brett's point, he wants... In a second, he goes, okay, actually I want that actor to come into the scene and improv this. Just right now. Everyone's ready to go and everyone's in the moment.

[00:27:02] And so Emily Blunt made the mistake one time because it was cold where they were shooting and she showed up on set just before she was able to shoot her scene and she was wearing Ugg boots.

[00:27:11] And the way Emily Blunt described it is that Christopher Nolan gave her a very devil-worsed Prada like up and down. Like really this is what we're doing? She's like... Just talking me to Emily Blunt, she seems to like it. He wasn't. Little tongue and teeth.

[00:27:28] Yeah, it was a playful thing. She's like so I definitely didn't show up on set again with Ugg boots and as a wrap gift, she sent him a box of Ugg boots after production was over. So I thought that was pretty fun. It's adorable.

[00:27:40] Because Emily Blunt National Treasure. The airplane book I'm reading right now is hilarious because the person who wrote it, they interviewed Jim Abraham's and Jerry and David Zucker together. Oh boy. So the entire oral history, there's a great dynamic between them. Sure.

[00:27:58] Where they're responding to each other and they're saying things like they're very quick-witted and just the way they talk about stuff. It's them. It makes it so much fun. They're the most quick-witted. It makes it so much fun. Kings of comedy.

[00:28:09] And there's a lot of really fascinating things about the movie that I just didn't know. It's good stuff. Books, lots of books. I like books. What's the last movie you saw, Nate? The last movie I saw was The Negotiator.

[00:28:21] I've seen some other films but I did watch The Negotiator which was assigned to me by my friend Ben Conowitz. Not true. He never remembers but that's okay. Yeah buddy, you've always got a 50-50 chance. Honestly the thing is if it's a good movie, it's probably me.

[00:28:38] Well actually no, that's not true because he tried to assign me swingers because Ben thought he had me this week and so I haven't seen swingers in like 10 years so I really wanted to watch it again so I wasn't going to tell him I already saw it.

[00:28:51] But it wasn't even my turn to assign you. It doesn't matter. You don't have him. Then we got fight and didn't talk about it. The Negotiator. So The Negotiator is an R-rated film because it has Samuel L. Jackson in it who has a little bit of a mouth.

[00:29:08] Have you guys noticed that? He has a little bit of a mouth on him. Has Sammy Jax ever been in a PG-13 or lower movie? Oh yeah, for sure. Are you sure? He's like his voice to kids movies. I don't know.

[00:29:18] I mean it just feels like there's probably an outtake of the Incredibles. Where's my motherfucking super suit? Oh I'm sure there is. You know this, I think I've said this before, any film that's set in Chicago or has Chicago as a backdrop, I'm going to love it

[00:29:33] because I love the city of Chicago so much. So this is built around Chicago PD. This is a fraud case. Actually built around a real fraud case that happened that isn't like the movie but was kind of inspired some of the narrative as well.

[00:29:48] But it starts Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey and a bunch of guys that you've seen in so many different films. Yeah, it's a movie that is filled with... Hey I know that guy! Yes! All great actors too. All actors that... Name one.

[00:30:02] Have not done or have probably not won a ton of awards. Name one. David Morse is a fantastic actor. Huge character actor. Really good character actors. John Spencer who died, John Spencer did win Emmys for his role on the West Wing which is one of my favorite shows.

[00:30:19] Fantastic actor. Ron Rifkin is a great actor too. JT Walsh man. JT Walsh died before this film was released. Real bummer that he died so soon. I would have loved to see what he could do today. So that's what I'm saying.

[00:30:33] So many guys that are in there and it is primarily men that are in this film. It's around the Chicago PD and FBI and Samuel L. Jackson is kind of set up but also you wonder, there's times in there where you do wonder

[00:30:49] is this kind of like a mystery? Is this guy part of it? Oh younger Paul Giamatti too. Paul Giamatti's in it as well. But I don't see him as a character actor. At this time he was though. No it was interesting to see this. When was this made 1998? 1997.

[00:31:05] How was Kevin Spacey? Kevin Spacey... He's so freaking talented. He's still doing this movie. It sucks that he's a piece of shit. I know. I hate his piece of shit. I love him in this movie. He didn't say his name and so I had to bring it up.

[00:31:16] He did. He did say Kevin Spacey. So interesting about this film by the way is Kevin Spacey was supposed to play Samuel L. Jackson's role. Oh really? I didn't know that. Initially and they had Sylvester Stallone in there as well. What a better film.

[00:31:32] No it wouldn't have been. They would have been 50% less good. No. They moved Kevin Spacey to that different role and then got Samuel L. Jackson to do what was Kevin Spacey's initial role. That's brilliant. Whoever figured that out gave them a raise.

[00:31:49] That's when the studio notes are like oh okay this is why you guys get paid. So this is a really fun film. It is a really just supremely acted film. I loved every scene in this film. Every actor choose up scenes. It is fun.

[00:32:06] It's not anything that's going to you know it's not an award winning film or anything. It's not an Oscar level kind of film. It is like that perfect 90s action film. I don't know if that makes sense. Exactly. It just is everything that I wanted.

[00:32:21] By the way do you guys remember the last film or the film before this that Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson were in? Oh. Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson were in a little film in the early 90s called. It was actually two years before this one.

[00:32:39] So it was in 1994? No in 1996. This came out in 98. Oh really? 98 was in 1996. Kevin Spacey in 96. You might not have seen it. I love this film but you might not have seen it. Is it The Big Kahuna? Is it Training Day 2?

[00:33:00] It's a film called A Time to Kill. I actually haven't seen A Time to Kill but I have heard it's very good. I actually didn't even know Kevin Spacey was in it. According to IMDb is. Matthew McDonough, right? Yes.

[00:33:14] Did we talk about that the other day where there was a bunch of courtroom dramas about this? We mixed up The Juror and A Time to Kill on an old episode. Because there was a couple of them in the courtroom.

[00:33:26] If you were in your car and you were saying that's not what that movie is, we know. The client, the firm, the rainmaker, the juror. The jury. Won't be the last time we get something wrong either. The rural juror. The runaway jury. There's so many. Runaway bride.

[00:33:39] A Time to Kill is the courtroom drama from the mid 90s. That's the one with the famous Yes They Deserve to Die and I Hope They Burn in Hell. Classic Kevin Spacey. Sandra Bullock, America's sweetheart, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt. Another guy. Love Oliver. Love Oliver. Love Lisa Platt.

[00:33:58] Yeah. OP is what I call him. Oh, that's Ron Howard. So if you can't see this film, see it? It's a lot of fun. I know it's 25 years old. Jesus. That's crazy. I know, right? Or 26, almost 26. Yeah. I can't do that. But no, I love this movie.

[00:34:17] It's so much fun. Samuel L. Jackson is great in it. He is Samuel L. Jackson though. But he's not as bombastic as sometimes he gets now. He's really good in there. And again, I hate saying it. Kevin Spacey is fantastic in this. Yes, he is.

[00:34:31] But everyone else is as well. And there's some really good performances in this. And it's a good... I don't want to call it a mystery. Would you call it a mystery in some sense? No, it's a... It's a hostage thriller maybe? It's a thriller maybe? Yeah, a thriller.

[00:34:44] Yeah. But yeah, because in the case we didn't... There's a lot of twists and turns. In case we didn't say... The premise is basically is Samuel L. Jackson is a hostage negotiator for the police. He's very good at his job. That's where the negotiator comes from.

[00:34:55] And then all of a sudden he finds that he is being accused of a crime and he says he's innocent. He has no idea what's going on. And so in order to try and rectify the situation, he himself takes hostages in one of the downtown buildings in Chicago.

[00:35:12] But here's the twist. He knows all the tricks. Yeah, exactly. And Kevin Spacey is another hostage negotiator from across the city. And Samuel L. Jackson specifically requests him to come because he has no ties to any of the people in his department.

[00:35:24] And he thinks that there's some corrupt people around. And so then they... It was a Chicago P.B., of course, there's corrupt people in there. Even though you love the city but you talk shit about it. That's cool. Well, no, I think that's why I love it.

[00:35:35] There's all those layers. You love corruption? I love corruption. Yeah, well, I just expected Chicago... Nate, I love corruption laux. Okay. He's a dirty dog. Dirty dog. What else did you watch, Nate? I started my Christmas movie watching. Oh boy. It's November 1st.

[00:35:50] Yeah, November 1st when Christmas starts. Yep. There's so many good Christmas films that I've got to... And there's new Christmas films. There's like two good Thanksgiving movies and all the Thanksgiving decorations suck. Who cares? I don't love Thanksgiving. It's fine. I like the food around Thanksgiving.

[00:36:03] I like pumpkin pie. But like I'm not sitting here... Do you like turkey? I don't like turkey. I love turkey actually. There's nothing good about this time of year. I like turkey. I love pumpkin pie.

[00:36:11] But like, I don't need to fucking like belt buckle hats decorated around my house. I like pumpkin, like a bunch of brown, red and orange shit. I like cornucopia filled with squash and other stupid vegetables. Pilgrims and Indians as if that happened. For decorations. I don't need this.

[00:36:24] Just give me the fucking food and I'll decorate for Christmas starting November 1st. Put up your Christmas lights and everyone's happy. Exactly. Why wait to decorate? Why spend all this time putting up Christmas decorations and feeling you know, enjoying for a couple weeks. Enjoying for two months folks.

[00:36:35] And let it be. And let them go all the way into January. I don't care. Yeah, I don't even mention it. Are you the Reverend Jesse Jackson? Listen, I will preach Christmas till I die. Don't wait to decorate. That's all I heard. That's what I'm saying.

[00:36:52] Now, listen to the fact that I do love Christmas movies. I love Christmas time. I love I'm with Brad. I love the Christmas season. I love how saccharine it is. I love, I just love everything about it. I love people.

[00:37:03] I know it balances between some of the most depressing moments of people's lives because they can feel alone. It's also some of the happiest moments of people's lives. And I try to get really happy around this. Yeah, yeah, good. Perk Up, Buttercup. Yeah. All right.

[00:37:18] Chris, this is going to be great. The first two films I've watched are films I've obviously seen before. But the first one I watched was spirited. The film that came out last year with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, the one that's just okay. I like it.

[00:37:30] I like it a lot. It's better than just okay. I like it a lot. Oh no, no, no, no. It's very good. It's better than just fine. It is a fine movie. No, it is a very good movie. I like it. Just fine.

[00:37:40] You can scale your giving it like a C minus with that. And I'm giving it like a B. No, I'd give it a C plus. I give it a B plus. I really love that. I'd give it a B plus. I'd give it a B plus.

[00:37:49] B to B plus. It's funny. It's got actually a great soundtrack. The music is very good. Soundtrack is good. It's a little too long. It's not sound. And I feel like it kind of loses its way in the end. Nope. But it's a pretty decent film.

[00:37:59] Yeah, B plus. C plus. I like it quite a bit. Then the other one was a film I gave you I think. And I don't think you loved it. But the Feast of the Seven Fishes which is a film with. And so C minus bread.

[00:38:14] This is a film, what I love about this is Christmas films in the 80s, even if they're filmed recently, set in the 80s is even better. I love the 80s Christmas stuff. And so this is a film that is about

[00:38:27] the Feast of Seven Fishes, which is a Catholic thing that people do in New Jersey and Pennsylvania where they cook seven different types of fishes on right before Christmas. And it's a film about an Irish Catholic family. And it's very much a coming of age

[00:38:45] when we're centered around this kid who's like trying to figure out what he's gonna do with his life. And it's kind of a love story too. Or like, you know, there's a, and it's just, I don't know why I love this film. I just really do.

[00:38:55] No, it's solid. Wasn't that a better episode of the bear though? It's not the same thing. Actually, it does have 80s bear elements to it in that the family has these- Oh, it's made the Feast of Seven Fishes. Oh yeah, no, they talk about it.

[00:39:07] Yeah, but the family has somewhat similar vibes, not exactly. Not quite as toxic or crazy. No, but that kind of almost mobster Catholic type of- Yeah, fast talking. So better as an episode of the bear. That's like, but yes. So I watched those two.

[00:39:23] I'm gonna keep on watching more this week. I'll update everyone else on your list. I would like to know what your favorite Christmas film is and if there's any I haven't seen. I don't care if it's a Hallmark Christmas film. I've watched it all.

[00:39:33] Honestly, if you can chime in with something that is just something- Christmas related that Nate maybe hasn't seen, he will watch. Or yeah, a film you love that like, hey more people need to see this like the Feast of the Seven Fishes.

[00:39:44] Again, if you've not seen this film, I think it's on Netflix or Peacock. It's on Peacock, I think. So you can actually watch it. Watch it. It is a lot of fun. I like this film a lot. There you go. But yeah.

[00:39:55] Let me know what Christmas film you like. Then what's the last movie you saw? Last movie I saw documentary on Netflix called Sly. Oh, is it about spies? No, it's about Sylvester Stallone. Oh. The famous movie film actor. Hey, Ben, I've been wondering this.

[00:40:10] Who would win in a fight Arnold or Sylvester? Like in a real fight. Today? Yeah. Like tonight. Yeah, Stallone. No, Schwarzenegger. Really? Yep. With all the injuries Stallone has had. Schwarzenegger is in far better shape. Really? Yep. And honestly- He looks like a fat piece of shit now.

[00:40:30] What? So Stallone in this documentary, honestly, does go through and talk about the injuries that he has sustained. He has not been the same since he broke his neck in the Expendables, the first one. He really did break his neck.

[00:40:44] And since then it has been hard for him. They don't really go really into it, like super far into it. But they do- The vibe is very much, oh, that's why he's taking a reduced role in Expendables two and three and four.

[00:40:58] Yeah, that's why he just takes the phone calls now. It's true. He's just the receptionist. Yeah. Does he produce quite a few films or no? So they didn't- So I liked the documentary. And I'm not here to compare Arnold Schwarzenegger to Stallone through their documentaries. That's insane.

[00:41:18] Sounds like it. What I would say is I would have liked to see the same style where you got three. Because it was 90 minutes of this slide documentary. And they spent 65 of them talking about Rocky and Rambo. Which are his two base films, right?

[00:41:36] And then the last whatever minutes talked about the Expendables. So it's basically just the three franchises. Where did Thromo from the train come in? He wasn't in- Or was it Stop or My Mom Will Shoot? There you go. I forget the mom movies. Cool. Bad moms.

[00:41:49] Thromo from the train. Who was the Billy Crystal? Billy Chris. OK, I knew Danny Vito. So they do mention Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. And Schwarzenegger is in the documentary and they talk about the rivalry. Oh, really? He is. Yeah, the rivalry back in the day.

[00:42:01] They obviously buried that hatchet a long time ago. 10 years or so. But the idea here is I liked what I heard about Rocky. I liked what I heard about Rambo. I would have loved to hear any sort of anecdotes about Judge Dredd or just not to even.

[00:42:18] He was he just hates those movies so much. He has disdain for his entire career other than when he was an actual actor. And so they focus a lot on Copland because that was supposed to be his return.

[00:42:33] So he talked about him acting against or with Bobby DeNiro and how that scene in the movie, they showed the scene and showed him and what he got out of DeNiro as a performer. And all of this speaks to the fact

[00:42:45] that Stallone had clearly a lot to do with the producing of this documentary. It was just. Is it because you think he thinks he's better than he is? I think that he just he's so sad. To me the whole documented Crumbs and Crum is very sad

[00:43:00] that he wasn't taken more seriously as an actor. I am not nearly as big of an Arnold fan or haven't been as big of an Arnold fan as you have. And I don't know if you heard Brad met him, but. Oh my God. But I have.

[00:43:15] No, no, fuck that I'm out. No, no, no this is good. No. The last year or so I've actually for some reason because there's documentaries things like this I've gotten more into Arnold. And I sent you guys that Conan podcast with Arnold on it.

[00:43:28] What I love about Arnold is how vulnerable the strongest man in the world gets now and how honest he is and how he knows who he seems to know who he is better than a lot of people a lot of men strong men his age.

[00:43:43] And I just I love that about Arnold and I don't I'm getting that maybe that's not what so best or so I want you guys to watch this. It's 90 minutes. It's a breezy and there are things in there that you have not heard before I promise you.

[00:43:53] So it's well worth a watch. The thing that Stallone he has done so much with not being a very well educated person. And I mean that in the best sense of the term because he came from nothing. His dad was in it up until the guy's death

[00:44:13] was a literal piece of shit. He was in competition with both of his sons their whole childhoods. He paints the picture of oh my goodness. My dad you know like in the documentary they say after Rocky comes out the director of Rocky gets a script

[00:44:32] from or gets a phone call from Stallone's father saying hey I've got a real Rocky story for you. I wrote a script and I want you to direct it. Jesus Christ. And it's like well no your son already did that and it went great.

[00:44:44] So he was all his father was always in competition with him and there's a scene. I wouldn't say any more than that. There's so much that goes into his dad being a complete asshole. Now Schwarzenegger's father was a literal Nazi and he was not a great guy

[00:45:01] but he died a lot younger than Stallone's father. Stallone's father hung on for decades and they had a falling out in their reconciliation and I do feel like that Stallone always looked at it like he was trying to prove something

[00:45:15] and that's honestly why he got hurt in the Expendables. The whole documentary leads up to the fact that he was always performing for people other than himself. He was always trying to prove everybody wrong where in the 80s he was trying to fight his critics in alleys

[00:45:28] because they didn't like his follow-ups to Rocky. Like that's insane right? Who would do that? But he's not that smart. He's very talented at taking a script and writing it and then in the moment adding things to it in improvisationally that work. He got really good at that

[00:45:49] and so it does showcase his talent in that way. It worked in Rocky, it worked in Rambo and it didn't necessarily work in so many other films that then he just became kind of the meathead of the 90s right?

[00:46:00] And then Copland was supposed to be his return to form as like I can act, I wanna prove myself and then it bombed. So then what do you do? He goes back to Rocky. Like it's just he kind of always goes back to these franchises and he's just,

[00:46:11] he comes across in my opinion a bit like a wounded duck where he just has regrets about a lot of things. And it's a little sad whereas when I watch the Schwarzenegger documentary, he's very proud of everything he's accomplished and he's done so much.

[00:46:25] And also causes Father Anasi. Yeah. But also in the kind of, he's like but it wasn't like every memory I had with him or father was bad though. Like he lives within that nuance of like. Just, and I even though I'm a big Schwarzenegger fan

[00:46:39] I do think that Arnold is just a very brilliant person. Like he just has a mind and Stallone is truly is that thuggish kind of bummy meathead that kind of just tried so hard to write these. He's had a great life, great career.

[00:46:51] Exactly, but there's a reason why there are very stereotypical roles that he did and he was able to do. It's fucking fascinating though. I really do think you should watch it just to see the narrative of how he kind of like shapes the progression of his life

[00:47:05] through this documentary. It's very interesting. Okay. For those who watch. I watch my assigned movie, 310 to Yuma. Yes, from who you assigned that to? I believe it was you. It was me. It was you. Yuma. It was Yuma. Christian Bale and a very Svelte, Russell Crowe

[00:47:26] and Luke Wilson which I didn't really realize was in that movie. Ben Foster. Oh yeah, him too. Jesus. I was just fucking around. So the story is that Christian Bale plays a Civil War survivor that has a fake leg and is on a homestead

[00:47:50] and gets the opportunity to take in notorious posse gang member Ben Wade played by Russell Crowe to take him to the 310 to Yuma train to take him to jail and he's being paid by the Pinkertons. A lot of money to do so

[00:48:07] and it's a story of pride more than anything. It's a story of not even redemption but it's how you look at your son's eyes, like how you want to be remembered as a man. That's the whole narrative here. And honestly, the whole, it starts off with Christian Bale,

[00:48:24] you know, through his son's eyes is not respected and it turns into how does Russell Crowe's character Ben Wade want to be remembered? It's a very nuanced transition there which I did not expect from kind of just a, you know, rough and tumble western

[00:48:40] where take him to the train and everybody's shooting everybody. It's so much more nuanced than that. Did you know this was a James Mangold movie before you watched it? I did not. Yeah, so if you did then you probably would have felt real quick.

[00:48:49] You gotta be something to hear about sad dads. Yeah, no, but man, so well done. Honestly, like I was blown away by the performances and the turn and honestly, the word here is nuance. It's not in your face when they're doing the whole time.

[00:49:04] They're building this whole trajectory that you just kind of don't see coming. And man, what a great, but then it's still peppered by so much violence and so much grit that it just works on all levels. This film is really interesting to me

[00:49:16] because it didn't do all that. It was not commercially very successful. It made its money back a little bit but it didn't do real well for a pretty great cast and a great director. And I've talked to a lot of people that have not seen this film

[00:49:30] and I love western films. I love western, I love modern westerns as well. This was nominated for some awards. It's got like a 90 on round tomatoes. It's a remake of a classic too. Yeah, so I'm always confused why people haven't seen this

[00:49:42] but I think it's just very good. I think it's a really well done method. I think westerns tend to fall through the cracks for them all. It's too bad because there are, westerns can be some of the greatest campuses to tell even nuanced stories.

[00:49:56] Maybe also for dad stories. Yeah, yeah, lot of that. It's a, and you tell ma. You tell ma. I'm sobbing. I will, I will. I'll tell her, I'm not leaving you pa. You've seen this, Brad? Yeah, yeah for sure. It's been a while. I probably should re-watch it.

[00:50:14] Ben Foster plays just a cold-hearted bastard. Yeah. Holy shit. Ben Foster's in another movie. Have you seen any other movies, say who's in? Yeah, I saw Leave No Trace. It's a really, really good film. It's a B movie. It's not a B movie.

[00:50:29] I mean, I give it a cinema score of B. It's not. And you give it a plus, plus, plus, plus? I mean, not just me, but it literally has a rating of 100% on Ryan. It does not. It does. I'd give it an A minus.

[00:50:41] Oh, Brad's on my side. No, I'm not on your side at all. You just said that it's not worth all the money. Brad doesn't give like an A minus. An A minus is a 91. Maybe it was a pretty good score. Yeah, maybe it was a great score.

[00:50:53] Yeah, B's 80, so there you go. Yeah, it's less than what I'm... That's what I watched. All right. Well, what about trailers? Have you heard a song on trailers? I haven't. I've been wanting to hear a good one lately. Yeah, I did it last time.

[00:51:07] So you come up with them, Brad. Brad and go. You can't just like... Oh yeah, this works. That's what you do to me every week. So you know what, Brad? It's your turn and go. No, that's not how this works. Nate? Brad and go.

[00:51:20] Here we are watching trailers. Here we are watching trailers. Ben and Brad and Nate and trailers. Watching trailers for the podcast. We are here. Ah, I'll take that. That's not bad. That's not bad. Yeah, shut up.

[00:51:36] All you gotta do is think of a song and put lyrics to it. Hell yeah, super easy. Not hard. Just did it just now. Return of the planet or the kingdom or the planet of the apes? All right. The longest title ever. Definitely not.

[00:51:49] The kingdom or the planet of the apes. Director Westbaw breathes new life into the global epic franchise set. What is this, the Today Show? You see though? Several generations of the future following Caesar's reign. By the way, I'm gonna tell you not seen any of these.

[00:52:02] You're not missing much. I don't know. First of all, that's not fucking true at all. I don't know why I would want to watch so much of- I don't like it. Why not just put people in there? I don't like them. Ben, first of all,

[00:52:12] you only saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes, right? I saw everything except for the last one. You didn't, I don't think you saw Dawn, did you? What's the last one? The last one is War for the Planet of the Apes. Yeah, I didn't see that one.

[00:52:21] I don't think you saw the second one either. I thought we talked about this and you hadn't seen the second one either. I think you only saw the one with James Franco. I'm pretty sure I saw that one and the one with Woody Harrelson. That's the third one.

[00:52:32] Well, so I've seen up to the third one then. So you've seen them all? No. Wait, what's- This is the third one. Have there only been three? Yeah, it's Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

[00:52:42] and War for the Planet of the Apes. Who, honestly, who- In Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Who are the actual actors in the second one? Gary Oldman and Jason Clark. Oh, see, I don't know if I've seen that one then. Yeah, see, so-

[00:52:53] I saw James Franco one and I didn't love it so then I passed on the other two. The James Franco one is not the best, but it's not terrible. I like the Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

[00:53:01] I think Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is fantastic. I think War for the Planet of the Apes is incredible. A lot of it is bolstered by incredible visual effects and amazing performances by Andy Serkis. Eightes. Andy Serkis who is Caesar.

[00:53:14] Terry Notary who is a great motion capture performer. And the third one has Steve Zahn in a surprisingly incredible dramatic role that also a motion capture performance as an ape. I didn't even realize it was Steve Zahn until I saw his name in the credits.

[00:53:26] Does Steve Zahn actually do the motion capture? Yeah. The number one thing about this trailer that I recognize is evidently technology to make apes look more human, or sorry, apes to make them look more realistic has not come a long way since the first one.

[00:53:43] Like they don't look any better. So I think that you need to fix the settings on your TV because I have noticed that digital effects, movies that are primarily digital effects, look fake on your TV. You have too nice of a TV. Yeah.

[00:53:56] Your settings need to be adjusted. I saw the trailer and I'm like, this looks like the first one with James Franco. Like they've done nothing to upgrade the monkeys. It's not even remotely cool. If you go back and watch right up in the apes, I'm just joking.

[00:54:05] You can see that the original effects are not very good. But I will tell you, it doesn't look like that much of an advance. It absolutely is. It's just not a world I care much about, honestly. Here's the thing, if I were you,

[00:54:16] I would give them a shot because I think that if you watch Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes, I think that you will like them a lot. Is there a lot of father son stuff for Nate

[00:54:24] to dig his teeth? Yeah, is there any sad parts? Cause you know I love sad movies. 100%. For him to dig his orangutan in Sizer's Ape. Is there a dead mom? Is there a dead mom? Yes. All right, then I'm in. Yeah.

[00:54:36] And no, but they're very, very, very good. I had no affinity for Planet of the Apes going into Rise of the Planet of the Apes. And even after I saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes I was like, yeah, this was fine.

[00:54:46] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is when I was like, okay, this is great and War for the Planet of the Apes was awesome. I just think that they're very well done. I think this looks particularly good as well. It looks like it's an evolution of

[00:54:55] they're kind of getting back towards the Planet of the Apes timeline. Cause this is a prequel or... So technically, yeah, the idea is the idea of the first trilogy was that they were supposed to be like prequels that would lead to Planet of the Apes.

[00:55:09] And I think that the hope now at the theory running theory is that as we get closer to Planet of the Apes that maybe they will do a proper remake of Planet of the Apes with like, but a different perspective.

[00:55:21] So it's not just Tim Burton doing bullshit again. This seems to be in this trailer at least that the roles are literally reversed. In a way, yeah. Right, where the monkeys are, you know... They're apes, they're apes. Sorry. The apes are, you know, at Starbucks

[00:55:39] and throwing apples into the forest and then the monkeys slash humans are eating, oh, that's the... It's literally... Was that crazy though? I will say that... I was one of them in orangutan. Yeah, one of the apes is an orangutan. Okay, it looked like it.

[00:55:54] So I don't know anything about the characters. It's not Dr. Zaeus, but the character is supposed to kind of look like him. But I will say my favorite Starbucks experience is throwing apples at apes. That's definitely the thing that I like doing.

[00:56:09] The monkeys are just like having Starbucks and like in their Teslas. And then I was like, oh, look at these apes in the forest. They just chuck them, you know, some leftover apples. Did you watch the trailer or did you just make it up?

[00:56:18] I just don't want to see this movie. I don't care. I just don't care. Nate, I would love to hear what your reaction is to the other plan of the apes movies because I think that you would enjoy them. All right, well, maybe one of you...

[00:56:28] What do you think about this trailer, Nate? I think the trailer looks visually fine. Like it is a... It looks great. It looks like a world. I just, again, I'm having a hard time carrying about a world that is ran by apes.

[00:56:41] So that's the thing is Andy Serkis does such incredible work as Caesar that he and the visual effects are done so well to bring his performance to life and the apes feel that realistic that you really end up being invested in them as characters.

[00:56:55] Is this a world that humans were once in that now humans are extinct and so now the apes run? Not extinct, but now apes have evolved and they have started to become the dominant species on the planet. No, that's going to get me next.

[00:57:06] So apes talk and have tools and guns and the humans are just savages. And the first three movies kind of show how that evolution happens as well. Got you. Yeah, but they're very good. I think you should check them out. Maybe I'll assign them to you. Okay.

[00:57:21] Okay, well, that's it for Kingdom of the Planet Apes. I'm very excited about it. Obviously Ben is a stick in the mud and Nate is potentially on the fence. Yeah. I mean, I do trust you. Hey, you know what? Go bananas, Brad. Ah, Fall Guy!

[00:57:35] I am far more excited about this next one. Fall Guy. We're going to talk about the trailer for the Fall Guy, which is a new movie from director David Leitch, famously worked on the John Wick movies. This is an action, comedy and even a romance

[00:57:48] starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, where Ryan Gosling plays a stuntman on Hollywood movies and he gets caught up in some action and intrigue and Emily Blunt is there along for the ride. It's adorable. This just looks... Oh, honestly, like just, fuck it, the chemistry alone.

[00:58:05] Yeah, it's just... Ryan Gosling, I just... The Gastlonisance is just wonderful. The Gastlonisance and honestly, let me be blunt. I love her. And Winston Duke. Love that guy. Yeah, Winston Duke is great too. That's Mbaku from Black Panther.

[00:58:23] Yeah, I just, I genuinely just love the stuff he does. This looks so fantastic. Yeah, this just looks like a great mix of a bunch of different stuff. It looks like a lot of fun. The action looks incredible. It looks funny.

[00:58:35] I like the chemistry between Blunt and Gosling. All of a sudden, this just became one of my most anticipated movies of 2024. No, honestly, it looks incredible. It's literally firing on every single cylinder that I want a movie like this to be. These are the films I love, right?

[00:58:50] They've got an action. They've got clearly some kind of romance to it but also just so much comedy. It does come from the chemistry though. It has personality and this is the kind of... And Ryan Gosling can pull it off. And this is the kind of thing

[00:59:01] that frustrated me about a movie like The Greyman, which I think is just okay because I don't think it utilizes either Chris Evans or Ryan Gosling to their full potential. Full great actors, yeah. And I feel like it wastes them in just like

[00:59:13] humdrum settings and action that is decently choreographed but isn't all that exciting. There's no chemistry or humor in it either. Is there? I've never seen The Greyman but that's what I get. They try and there's little bits but it doesn't feel organic.

[00:59:25] It doesn't feel like it ever really lands firmly for me. I didn't really love The Greyman. So the same thing with Ghosted is supposed to be this type of film. I've never seen that, yeah. And it does fall a little far. Hey, hey, yeah.

[00:59:36] I know, you love Anodianomus. But I do feel like and maybe this is because Anodianomus is not a native English speaker and so the chemistry is a little harder because in that movie, in Ghosted, it just feels a little stilted and I wonder if it's because

[00:59:54] there's a language barrier there and because isn't she in The Greyman as well? Who's The Greyman? Yes, I think she is. So I did she? Not to put too far of a point on it but there is a bit of a challenge there with making real chemistry happen

[01:00:09] when somebody's not a native English speaker and it just is a little hard. The Greyman stars, yep, Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Anodianomus. Just shows you how memorable it was. Your girlfriend is the problem. I'll talk to her. Wow. But Emily Blunt?

[01:00:25] Emily Blunt, she knows what she's doing and Ryan Gosling, if you just let him be funny in a movie, you're gonna get gold. You're gonna get gold every single time. And that's the thing, he's not a comedian. It's just him. He is. No, no, he's not Jim Carrey.

[01:00:40] He's not trying to be funny. He's just so good at being an actor that he can be funny without even trying to be funny. Yeah, exactly. It's the reason him and Adam Driver are such great SNL hosts. What was... The nice guys. He was the nice guys.

[01:00:54] So funny. So funny. Like he just does that kind of unassuming humor. And even to a certain extent, that's where Chris Hemsworth excels as well because they're not comedians. They're not going for the joke, but they're just... They're playing these serious roles in a way that is funny.

[01:01:08] Yeah. It's just really well done. Yeah, I cannot wait to see this. It is a unique... It seems like a unique skill to some of these guys that can do that really well. Yeah. Compared to like a Mark Wahlberg who really just can't pull that stuff off.

[01:01:21] He has pulled it off, but it's not always as easy for him to pull. It really takes... The role has to be built around him. Yeah, 100%. Like I think he's very... The other guy is... He's great and the other guys, I think he's very funny in Ted, honestly.

[01:01:31] But in Ted, he really is kind of playing a version of himself. And in the other guys, Will Ferrell is great foil to interact with. He just has to be like the staunch, super serious version that's played for laughs. Yeah.

[01:01:43] So yeah, Mark Wahlberg can do it from time to time, but it's not quite on the level as like a Ryan Gosling. No. It's a different animal. Yeah, like a monkey. Or an ape. An ape. Okay, wow. But yeah, so the fall guy that comes out in 2024...

[01:02:04] Mark's there, right? No, March 1st. King of the Plain and the Apes comes out March... Or May 24th. And the fall guy comes out March 1st. There you go. So we're looking ahead to 2024. Guys, we did it. Well, there's nothing really that's coming out towards...

[01:02:18] Like I feel like everything's gonna move back now. Yeah, a lot of stuff got pushed because of the actor strike. Because of it. June is in 2027 now. The studios don't have actors to promote the movies. And even if the strike ends here in the next couple weeks,

[01:02:32] it's not enough time to really get that stuff organized and... Probably just gonna answer the holidays at this point. There'll still be some prestige award winners that are hitting theaters that have already been on the festival circuits like that, but those will also come out in January

[01:02:45] and February leading up to the Oscars. So... All right, well real quick, we got a little bit of time. Do you guys want to play a game? I would love to play a game. What time are we at Nate? We're at 104. That's fine, let's play a game.

[01:02:55] I love playing games. Let's play a nice game. Do you want to play a game? As you guys know, because I know you did your research. Of course. The Fall Guys based on a TV show.

[01:03:04] A TV show that was in the 80s that is getting remade into a film right now. And so I decided to look through the list of TV shows that were turned into movies. These aren't movies that were turned into TV shows,

[01:03:18] but TV shows that were turned into films. There were a bunch of these in the 90s. They... we loved them in the 90s. Yeah. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you the cast of these films. I'll even give you the year the film was made.

[01:03:31] And you guys have to tell me what the film was. Yeah, you good? I'll do my best. All right, we need buzzers from you. Ben? Brad. Her Brad. Okay, I like that. That's great. All right, Ben. Honk. All right, that's good, but whatever. All right, here we go.

[01:03:55] 2010 film. Starring. No, you guys. Okay, you're signed. Patrick Wilson. Honk. Yep. Get smart. No. What? Oh, shit. I thought you said Patrick Walburton. No. Shit. Idiot. Shit. Jessica Beal. Brad the Cooper. Yep. The 18. God damn it. Correct. Did either of you see that? Yes, I did.

[01:04:24] I did, yeah. I don't think I did. It wasn't great. Yeah. Okay. Oh, are you sure it was starting to start quitting Rampage Jackson? As Mr. T. Yeah, his first and last movie. Exactly. All right, here we go. 1997 film. Johnny Galecki. Sandra O. Burt Reynolds. Peter McNichol.

[01:04:51] Rowan Atkinson. Yep. Bean. Correct. Wow. All right, 1993 film. Burt Reynolds and Bean. I forgot Burt Reynolds was in Bean. Yeah. 1993 film. Jim Varney. Lily Tomlin. Yep. The Beverly Hillbillies. Wow, that is impressive. I didn't even get to get to Rob Schneider. Steve 2005 film. Steve Corral. Burr. Yep. Burr-Hulk.

[01:05:25] Kid Smart. There it is. No. Seriously? Yeah. Oh. Bewitched. Correct. No, I should have known better. Hi, you Sammy. Guess working about way later than 2005. Steve Corral. No, it is right around there actually, I think. Stephen Colbert, Michael Cain, Shruther McClain, Will Ferrell, and Nicole Kidman in Bewitched.

[01:05:48] All right, here we go. RuPaul. Come on. The Brady Bunch Movie. What is wrong with you? Motherfucker, I know these movies. Yes, you do. Good Lord. All right. RuPaul, the Brady Bunch. Fuck. Okay, you have too much time on your hands. How did you know that?

[01:06:08] That was incredible. That's actually just a more of a unique circumstance where I grew up watching the Brady Bunch all the time. I grew up watching RuPaul. With my mom because she grew up on the Brady Bunch. And so when the movie came out.

[01:06:18] On WB or what was it, WGN? I think a lot of times it was on WGN, yeah. But so we watched Brady Bunch a lot. And so when the movie came out, we were very excited. And it's very funny because it's basically

[01:06:30] like a spoof of the Brady Bunch. But yeah, that's, I mean, I know that very well. Gene Smarts in that, Michael McKeon, Christine Taylor, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Shelley Long and Gary Cole. Nate, do you know who Christopher Daniel Barnes is? No, who is that?

[01:06:43] He's the voice of Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid. No way. Yeah. Greg Brady in the Brady Bunch Movie. All right, 1994 film, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Baldwin, Rosie O'Donnell, Nipsey Russell, Fran Drescher, John C. McGinley. I'll read that again, 1994 film, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Baldwin, Rosie O'Donnell, Nipsey Russell,

[01:07:16] Fran Drescher. Can we do a good Fran Drescher? John C. McGinley. Yeah, I don't even know what this is. Like I don't even know what the movie is. Let alone what TV show is based on, which would presumably have the same title. Cool, Brad. Do you know it?

[01:07:30] Have you got any right yet, Ben? Honk. Yeah, what? PCU. Pretty sure PCU's not. Car 54, where are you? Ah, yeah, see I know about that movie, but I had no idea who was in it. All right, 2017 film, David Kekner, Adam Brody, Rosa Salazar, Vincent DeNafrio, Dax Shepard. Yep.

[01:07:57] Chips. Correct. Nice. Michael Payne. Michael Payne, yeah. All right, 1987 film, Dabney Coleman. That gives you nothing because Dabney Coleman was in every film. Harry Morgan, Christopher Plummer, Tom Hanks, Dan Akroy, Honk. Yep, Dragonet. Correct. Finally done. So did you ever watch the remake of Dragonet,

[01:08:26] the series in like the early 2000s with Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry? No, it was in good. I really liked it. I thought it was great. And it had an especially cool version of the Dragonet theme song too. I really liked it and it only lasted a season.

[01:08:40] I was really bummed by like I can't tell. All right, a 2020 film. Oh boy. Michael Rooker, Jimmy O'Yang. Lucy Hale, who's in lots of Hallmark Christmas movies now. Maggie Q and Michael Payne. Again, 2020 film, Michael Rooker, Jimmy O'Yang, Lucy Hale, Maggie Q and Michael Payne.

[01:09:06] A movie based on a TV show. Correct. Yeah, I don't know this one. Yeah. Fantasy Island. Ah, yeah, I forgot they made that. Two percent of the recipe though. Is it really that bad? It's like seven percent or something. This is pretty good.

[01:09:26] All right, just a couple more. 2008 film, James Kahn. The late James Kahn, right? Doing bass. Yep. Terence Stamp, Alan Arkin. Another late Alan Arkin. I loved Alan Arkin so much. That's great. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Ha! Yep. Get smart. Correct. Son of a... All right. Two years later.

[01:09:53] Okay. Yeah, fair enough. 2002, Gary Cole. Huck! Yep. Fucking a very Brady sequel. That's a good guess. I knew them then. That guy is a good guess. I'm trying to get ahead of one for once. Huck! Fucking dry in here. Gary Cole, Malcolm McDowell,

[01:10:12] Femke Jansen, Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy. Hey! Yep. Eye spy. Yes. With my eye, Ben losing this game. Yeah, I tried, okay. All right, one more. This is the last one because I want to know if you guys have seen this.

[01:10:25] I had not even heard of this film. Christine Ebersole. Wallace Shaw. Wait, what year? Oh, sorry. 2002. 2002. Christine Ebersole. Wallace Sean. Darrell Hannah. Elizabeth Hurley. Christopher Lloyd. Jeff Daniels. Ha! Yep. My favorite Martian. Wow. Wow, yeah. I've not even heard of this film. Did you see it?

[01:10:53] It's a Disney movie. I didn't see it. I just know it. I heard of the series. Yeah. And then I heard that this was not a very good movie. Yeah, I've got, I mean, I'm not going to go through anymore, but I had... 19 more?

[01:11:04] Yeah, no, the event, I mean, there's so many. The Avengers, not the Marvel adventures, but there's another. The British Avengers. Dark Shadows made in 2012. The Mod Squad. Miami Vice in 2006. SWAT. Yeah, so just so many, so many films. Tons. Based on TV shows. Quantum Leap. Yep.

[01:11:26] Except there was no film there, but they did redo the series. They did. That's all I got guys, sorry. Fun stuff, good job, Ben. I, yeah, you know what, guys? I hung in there the best I could for about... None of it. And you know what?

[01:11:40] You tried to get smart three times. And you know what? Then he still loved you. The one time that it was get smart, didn't get it. Yeah, he didn't know, but good stuff. Nice job, Nate. Terence Stamp. Thanks a lot for the game. Hey, you're welcome. Alan Arkand.

[01:11:53] You guys, I want to say this. I believe in you guys, all right? Oh, I believe in me too. I believe in you guys. Mawk. Did you ever see the Brady Bunch movie, Ben? I did actually. I had a big crush on Christine Taylor.

[01:12:06] Oh, she looks great as Marcia in that movie. She just looks great. That's true. She still looks great. She's fantastic. Yeah. She's aged better than the three of us. Oh, combined. Yeah, absolutely. The three of us combined is something that no one should visualize ever. I don't know.

[01:12:22] I'd like to think about it. Hey, we don't have a 10 to 1 podcast this week, but we will be back next week. Those of you that are listening to our Saturday Night Live recap and rewatch a podcast, who's on the show next week? Timmy C. What? Timmy C. Who?

[01:12:39] Timothy Chalamet. Oh, sorry. Yeah. And then followed by Jason Momoa. Momoa. Yes. So Timmy C. That's the one I'm more excited about actually. Oh, I can't wait for Timmy. Jason Momoa are coming now. Both going to be great. Going to be good stuff.

[01:12:54] So make sure you check out the 10 to 1 podcast if you like Saturday Night Live. And if you don't, maybe you'll become a fan. Maybe you'll listen to us talk about the show. There's good things. Do not let the opening sketch. The cold open ruin S and F.

[01:13:05] Don't let the cold open ruin your night. Yeah, just give it a chance. Watch through. You know what? Don't watch the cold open. See how many sketches. Two in about ten minutes into the show. See how many sketches you like. Enjoy it. If you enjoy this podcast,

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[01:14:04] if you fucking eat last week's sponsor again on the air. There's six chips. Yeah, it's disgusting. Stop crunching the chips. Stop crunching the chips. Bye everybody. Bye. Nah, cheats ain't no.