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DigiGods Episode 256: Mission Implausible
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A Thanksgiving bounty! New South Park Blu-rays! Picard! A new Wallace & Gromit! A plethora of 4k steelbooks and more!
DigiGods Podcast, 11/21/23 (M4a) — 61.4 MB
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In this episode, the Gods discuss:
- 14 Love Letters (DVD)
- The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: The Complete Season 13 & 14 (DVD)
- Air (Blu-ray)
- Alain Resnais: Five Short Films (Blu-ray)
- All Man: The International Male Story (Blu-ray)
- Animal Crackers (Blu-ray)
- Back to Life: Season One (DVD)
- Back to Life: Season Two (DVD)
- Barbie (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Belle (DVD)
- Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon - UHD Digital + Steelbook (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Between two Worlds (Blu-ray)
- Black Hawk Down (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Blue Beetle (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- The Boys Season 3 (Blu-ray)
- A Bronx Tale (30th Anniversary Edition) (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Brothers in Arms: WWII & Vietnam War in HD (DVD)
- Chicago Med - Season 8 (DVD)
- Cinematic Sorceress: The Films of Nina Menkes (The Great Sadness of Zohara, Magdalena Viraga, Queen of Diamonds, The Bloody Child) (Blu-ray)
- Clerk (Blu-ray)
- The Complete Story of Film (Blu-ray)
- CSI: Vegas - Season Two (DVD)
- The Day the Music Died (Blu-ray)
- Early Short Films of the French New Wave (Blu-ray)
- Eat Play Love (DVD)
- Fatal Attraction: Season One (DVD)
- The Fog of War (Blu-ray)
- For all Mankind - Season 1 (Blu-ray)
- Full Time (Blu-ray)
- Gran Turismo (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- The Great: The Final Season (DVD)
- Guns of Navarone (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe – The Complete Series (DVD)
- Jules (Blu-ray)
- Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Kandahar (Blu-ray)
- King of Killers (Blu-ray)
- L’Immensità (Blu-ray)
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Blu-ray)
- Le Mepris (Contempt) (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Leda (Blu-ray)
- The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (DVD)
- Lionesses - How Football Came Home (Blu-ray)
- Love Unleashed (DVD)
- Marcel Pagnol: My Father's Glory & My Mother's Castle (Blu-ray)
- Meg 2 - The Trench (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 1 (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- The Mist 4k UHD Steelbook (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (Blu-ray)
- NCIS: The 20th Season (DVD)
- Nuclear Now (Blu-ray)
- The Nun II (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- Past Lives (Blu-ray)
- Poker Face: Season One (Blu-ray)
- The Presidential Legacy Collection: Theodore Roosevelt & FDR (DVD)
- Rabbit Hole: Season One (DVD)
- Return to Dust (DVD)
- Ride: Season 1 (DVD)
- River Runs Red (Blu-ray)
- River Wild (Blu-ray)
- Rodeo (DVD)
- Rudy (4k UHD Blu-ray)
- South Park: The Complete Twenty-Sixth Season (Blu-ray)
- South Park: The Streaming Wars (Blu-ray)
- Star Trek: Picard – The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
- The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (Blu-ray)
- Sun Sand and Romance (DVD)
- Talk to Me (Blu-ray)
- Titans:The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
- Ulam: Main Dish (DVD)
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Transcript
Napoleon Discussion & Movie Night
00:00:26
Speaker
And so let's continue our conversation about Napoleon, which we should have recorded some. So I will repeat the listeners. Last night, I'm sitting with Mark and his wife, who really keeps him in line. I got to say that Vivian keeps him totally in line. It's a beautiful thing because that sucker needs to be corralled. So we're all two hours and 58 minutes of the thing.
00:00:51
Speaker
or two hours and 38 minutes, 158 minutes overall. So it ends and the most perfect review of this film was Mark's reaction right after the movie ended. The credits start rolling and here's Mark right over to my right and he goes, huh.
00:01:10
Speaker
Still funny. That was it. That was like the perfect review. Can be taken many ways, but still funny. You know, whatever. There it is. I'm having an issue with all of these things. Two and a half hours, if all that generates is.
00:01:30
Speaker
That's not a good situation.
Film Reviews: 'Salt Burn' and More
00:01:32
Speaker
When you guys were at that, I was at Emerald Fennell's new film, Salt Burn. That was the Hollywood Cemetery, right? Well, the one I went to was down at the Ace, some sort of premier blah, blah, blah thing down at the Ace where we have the big film we sang there and it was all fine. I got to tell you about the same review.
00:01:56
Speaker
Well, here's the thing. I liked it the first time I saw what was called the talented Mr. Ripley, which many years ago when it was called Purple Noon or something, whatever that Frenchman was. I've seen this movie many, many times. I always like it, but I have seen it. Yeah. Yeah, there it is. Oh my. I mean, it is not turning out to
00:02:22
Speaker
Everyone thought this would be a great year. I don't know man. I mean, uh, the taste of things is the one that I've most enjoyed, which is the Tron Anhong film with Juliette Binoche and, uh, and, and I was marking and Vivian and I were at a, uh, an event with her at the French console's house day before yesterday.
00:02:40
Speaker
So we're seeing Ferrari tonight. It's funny, we have the same schedule. I think Mark and Vivian every night this week. You guys are seeing all the good movies. I'm seeing Ferrari tonight. I'm seeing Color Purple tomorrow. Going to the premiere of Color Purple tomorrow. I'm at Salt Bird and next goal wins in Hunger Games, Battle of the Songbirds and Snakes. That's what I'm doing. You guys at the French freaking consulate and I'm over with the damn Hunger Games prequel.
00:03:10
Speaker
I'm on the show this week, so that's what it is. It's that time of year, and you're all right, of course.
Anticipated Premieres: 'Ferrari' and 'Color Purple'
00:03:18
Speaker
I've seen a few films that I thoroughly enjoyed, the historical drama about Baird Rustin.
00:03:28
Speaker
Colman Domingo playing this figure who's, you know, a very important figure that not enough people know about, know who Barrett Rustin is. The reason there was a march on Washington is because of Barrett Rustin, the guy who's standing to his left, Martin's left, and nobody knows his name. But that's the thing about those histories. There are always those people in those histories. I am very much looking forward to seeing American fiction. I don't know if you've seen the trailer for it, because
00:03:57
Speaker
you know, we've known each other for over 30 years. And I'm watching, have you seen the trailer for American fiction? I have seen the trailer for American fiction. I watched that trailer and I'm like, this is about Tim. I swear this is significantly about Tim. I'm not even going to disagree with you. I'm like, oh my God.
00:04:19
Speaker
I haven't seen it yet. I still have to see it too. Looking forward to that. I don't know, man. As you say, the year, it's feeling like the films that will be contenders are films we've already seen.
Oscar Contenders: 'Oppenheimer' & 'Barbie'
00:04:35
Speaker
Oppenheimer. Certainly Oppenheimer. Certainly something around Barbie. Certainly the strip for Barbie anyway. A few of those.
00:04:45
Speaker
I don't feel, and you know me not a big fan of Killers of the Flower Moon, a movie I appreciate, but I'm not gonna be handing any awards to. Which means that whatever it's gonna be, I haven't seen the Color Purple yet, the musical adaptation of the Color Purple that's coming up.
00:05:03
Speaker
Yep. I think I'll be back on the schedule with you guys by then. And, you know, so we'll see what happens with that. But I don't know. I feel like all the one poor things, the Yorgos Lathimos was actually more because, you know, I'm very hit and miss Yorgos. Same here. But that one that one was was so it'll be an interesting. It'll be an interesting year because I know this. I know the Academy.
00:05:28
Speaker
needs some big, big, big, big, big movies to be nominated for Academy Awards, all of them really. And at the moment, the big, big, big, big, big movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer, those are the only two. It's feeling like it. You know, there certainly aren't 10.
00:05:45
Speaker
No, I don't think there's going to be 10. I wish they'd go back to five. I really do. It is feeling like maybe an eight year, like eight films maybe, but they got to fix that. I have furnished the Academy the data on this, by the way. I have furnished them the data that demonstrates
00:06:09
Speaker
that when they have more than five nominees, um, the, they get a split, they get, they spread the wealth more. And the result is that they get lower ratings. I have shown them that data. I don't know what they're going to do because that what they don't want to do is get back to being criticized. Why didn't you nominate my, this film and that film is like, because you can only get five, you know, the go back to five. It'll, it'll work out better for you. Um, well, let's, let's, let's talk about some, um,
Remembering Hollywood Legends
00:06:38
Speaker
Some of our obits here, real quickly, since we were last on, Piper Lori left us. And Piper Lori, of course, at one point, had been married to our friend and colleague, Joe Morgenstern, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, now retired happily and absolutely ageless. So feel very bad for Joe because they were still close. Suzanne Summers left us. Burt Young left us. And Richard Roundtree.
00:07:04
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, look, I want to talk about Richard, but but but but I'm gonna talk about Suzanne for a second. Yeah. Because I used to run into Suzanne a lot. She lived in North Hollywood where the wife and I lived or didn't like anyway, you know, that area. Many, many years ago, early 90s, we're talking early mid 90s and would run into her all the time.
00:07:22
Speaker
She was a fabulous person, just a real, everyday gal. And she had this lounge act that she did at this club, a kawanga that she saw. She would always just, you know, bring us in, we'd sit down. And Suzanne Summers had an extraordinary voice.
00:07:40
Speaker
You know, there's a time in history when she could have made a living just singing. And, you know, sometimes, you know, particularly guys of a certain age, we get stuck with these images of people. So Chrissy Snow, you know, with the blonde, you know, let me tell you, Suzanne Summers was incredibly smart.
00:07:59
Speaker
and a whole bunch of ways. And she built a career for herself out of just about nothing in this town and never ever ever complained about, you know, any of those little boxes that we put people in, you know, blonde. She was good to go. Good to go, Suzanne Summers. And we forget about that fantastic contraption that I almost killed myself using.
00:08:21
Speaker
I don't know where it came from. Was she just endorsed it or invented it? The Abflex? Remember that thing? Yeah, I do. It was the thigh master or whatever it was. Yeah, the thigh thing. Yeah, I almost hurt myself many times. Love me some Suzanne Summers. She was married forever to Alan Hamill. And I don't know really what his job ever was. They were immensely happy. They even in their senior years talked way too much about their sex life.
00:08:53
Speaker
I mean, you know, she would do these interviews. Oh, I can't wait to just grab him and throw him down. It's like
00:09:01
Speaker
But all I remember about Alan Hamill was that he was the TV spokesman for lucky supermarkets for years until they merged with Ralph's or something and Vons, whatever it was, and then he went away. Did he do anything else? I don't know. I don't remember. Alan is a forever hep cat. I would see him on red carpets with Suzanne and you had to ask Alan, dude, what are you wearing?
00:09:28
Speaker
It would always be something like, Armani, Alan was that guy. So, you know, I could see why she was hot for Alan. He was a cat.
00:09:39
Speaker
I had Alan still up. Talk about Round Tree, man. We've had some conversations about him since that passing and I think a much more pivotal figure. What I brought up in our last conversation was people have to stop referring to Shaft as a black exploitation film because it was a studio film.
00:10:00
Speaker
It was a straight up mainstream studio film that did not belong to the exploitation genre of the time and that made Roundtree one of the most significant black leading men since Sidney Poitier. A real breakthrough part in a novel which was very successful and popular prior to the film. So all that being said.
00:10:22
Speaker
Yeah and of course it's really funny again you're richard is one of those guys that we enough richard roundtree is a person that came into the into the into the homes of folks in the black community way before shaft it cuz richard was on the box of many air care products that we use.
00:10:44
Speaker
The brother that you were looking at was a very, very young 19, 20, 21-year-old model named Richard Roundtree for every fashion fair. And he was a brilliantly trained actor, too, National Ensemble Theater, which is
00:10:59
Speaker
founded by our good friend Robert Hooks, a good friend of Francesco Robert Hooks, Kevin Hooks' dad. So Troubleman. Troubleman. Troubleman. And that National Ensemble Theater, Negro Ensemble Theater, National Negro Ensemble Theater, gave us Richard Roundtree as well as Lou Gossett Jr. and Glenn Church. It's just so
00:11:20
Speaker
you can't even begin the name. So that's where Richard was trained. So people think sometimes that these guys just sort of get, no, trained professional actor. And the first thing Richard would have said to anybody, if you're going to eulogize me, tell everybody what you just said, Wade, that Shaft is not a black exploitation film. He didn't have any trouble with black exploitation cinema.
00:11:45
Speaker
But Shaft wasn't it, that. Barry Gordy's son, as you always point out, Barry Gordy Jr. Not Barry Gordy. Not Barry Gordy, but Gordon Parks. Yes. Gordon Parks' son, Gordon Parks, Jr. Thank you. Did make a black exploitation film, May Superfly. So son- Metrically the opposite. Dad did not make a movie about a pimp.
00:12:12
Speaker
and selling drugs, Gordon Parks. No, he made a movie about a black man with authority, the authority to traverse many communities, including the established community of the police and all of that.
00:12:28
Speaker
gangster community and of course his own community, that black community that he was walking around in that black leather jacket and that's a completely sort of different dynamic than what was in many of those black expectations. And you know, I always like to try to help people understand what the moment of Shaft was all about because there is a real sea change there.
00:12:49
Speaker
and Black Exploitation films had been in the mix for a while. We had had independent films, which were not necessarily exploitation films, of which Gordon Parks had been a part as well. And it was kind of pivoting away from Sidney Poitier, which you've often brought up many times, is like that guy had an unrealistic burden on him to be sort of carrying
00:13:11
Speaker
the dignity and the public image of every civil rights era black person in America. He almost couldn't be a villain. He had to be this symbolic figure.
00:13:28
Speaker
A lot of people, you know, other actors said, I got to do something else. And there's something great about that entire opening sequence of Shaft. He's walking the streets of New York. He's crossing the street. He's, you know, the guy honks. He gives him the eye back. I mean, he's just, he's a different, you know, he's a man of the 70s. We have left the 60s behind. We have left
00:13:50
Speaker
the 50s behind, this is the 70s. And that movie is so characteristic of that decade, of that attitude, of that new New York. New York, as we know it today, was really born in the 70s. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It had to go through that transitional period. And yes, so that's what you have in Richard Roundtree. And just to add, Richard Roundtree,
00:14:11
Speaker
has three movies yet to be released rich roundtrees working never stop working and which is just an amazing amazing thing you know we pay them a shaft but make no mistake i'm not working out after one day so richard let me be
00:14:27
Speaker
And then lastly, want to mention the very, very sad death of Iranian new wave filmmaker, pioneering filmmaker Darish Mirzoui, who was murdered in Iran. This didn't make a whole lot of the trades, but he was stabbed to death.
00:14:44
Speaker
There are no suspects in the stabbing, and it is expected to, I mean, it'll never come out, but I think a lot of people, and I'm one of them, think that he was, in fact, killed by the regime. Made a lot of wonderful films. Hamoon from 1990 is an amazing movie. The Cow, his... Oh, 1969 or so, late 60s.
00:15:06
Speaker
Yeah, it's a wonderful, wonderful film. Layla is one that I absolutely love. I reviewed that in 1996, you know, the Pear Tree 98. I mean, he was amazing in the 90s in particular. Taran, Taran, and recently, I guess, that's the 2000s anyway. I remember Taran, Taran, this is 2000 sometimes.
00:15:23
Speaker
Yeah and yeah I think you're probably right Wade. He gave a speech last year where he talked to a in a theater he talked to an audience and he lambasted the regime for its censorship and said I can't take it anymore I want to fight back kill me do whatever you want with me destroy me but I want my right and
00:15:48
Speaker
Indeed they appear to have done just that he and his wife on october 14th were both found stabbed to death in their in their villa and you know i hope maybe at some point we will
00:16:03
Speaker
We will find out what happened, but Jafar Panahi, who is no stranger to his own troubles, was there and spoke at the funeral. These brave Iranian filmmakers who stick it out and have not gone expat. It's very impressive. Darouche was 89, 83, I think. He's in his 80s. About that, yeah. So a stalwart and a long life, a long career pioneer, and I think that that was his intention, just to simply call out the system.
00:16:33
Speaker
Yeah. Well, we're going to hit a few foreign films here. I'm just going to blow through these foreign real fast, because these are some really important foreign films we haven't talked about in a little while. And right off the top, I want to talk about Leda, The Myth Comes to Life. This is in 3D and 2D versions on one disc. Really interesting movie, utterly fascinating, based on a Greek myth. And this is on Blu-ray.
00:17:02
Speaker
from Patagon films and archive media. And if you still have a 3D Blu-ray player, this is not a bad thing to throw on there, because it's not like a Hollywood 3D film. But obviously, that whole technology is harder to come by these days. But what an utterly fascinating film this is. What a strange, unusual, fascinating movie.
00:17:28
Speaker
It's about a woman who has these hallucinatory visions. And this is directed by Samuel Tressler IV, debut filmmaker, very stylized, very, very impressive. But if you know the story of Lita and the Swan, it's an ancient Greek myth. The Spartans, I think she is, something like that. Yeah.
00:17:54
Speaker
It's this kind of modernizes it into this period environment from about, you know, like about 200 years ago is when it looks like it's really taking place. And it's this kind of crusty mansion and it really is, it modernizes the myth and yet it leaves it in a different period.
00:18:18
Speaker
And the way the three d is used is really interesting i had to go you know bust out the three d glasses which i haven't used on one here in ages like one tv is three d in the house right now i went and i went and then bust that out and it really is it's it's cool it's it's really worth it and i don't i don't praise three d very often but it's it's worth doing here.
00:18:38
Speaker
But no, it's really it's haunting and it's it's beautiful black and white photography really mixed with color and points. It's just it's it's a little bit experimental, but it's really it's really a wonderful, wonderful modern mythical retelling. So there is that and I and I look forward to all the people involved in this who are all involved in the commentary.
00:19:02
Speaker
I look forward to them being involved in other things in the future very interesting film we also have on blu-ray blu-ray rodeo by lola kivoran this is a.
00:19:19
Speaker
It's basically a rebel youth film. It's in French. It's part of this new kind of a, there's a new movement in French cinema, which is very much about angsty youth. And it's a little bit where American films were in the 50s. And then again, for a moment in the early 90s, that's kind of, you know, there's some of that restlessness with the young French filmmakers right now. And she's, you know, she,
00:19:46
Speaker
basically rips people off. She rips off motorcycles. She has a scam. I love that movie, dude. That girl in that movie, she's captivating. She has this giant gap in her teeth. What do they call that? I forget what they call it. And she's ridiculously beautiful. And it's just really sort of striking. She was the thing that really made that movie. Yeah, it's amazing.
00:20:12
Speaker
So it's a it's a it's a gritty cool film it's a it's a it's a part of this it's part of a new thing which involved which includes. You know largely who's you know who did the new le miser but not based on the victor hugo space about the you know the urban area of paris known as le miser rob you did a few years ago which was the french submission for the oscar.
00:20:33
Speaker
It's all kind of in the same mix. We have a great film here from Italian director Emmanuel Creolice called Limensita with Penelope Cruz, who does movies equally adeptly in Spanish and in French and in Italian. And this is a very autobiographical film on the part of Creolice.
00:20:55
Speaker
very interesting movie. There's a revelation from his life that no one knew that he made around the time this film was released. I won't get into those details because it's very politically volatile and I want people to put their politics aside in this because this is him telling his story in a very personal and non-political way. Growing up in the 1970s and certain coming of age struggles and this is the story of
00:21:22
Speaker
Penelope Cruz and one of her children and how they are trying to sort of navigate all of these family issues in the 1970s. Really a very interesting film worth discussing after you've seen it.
00:21:39
Speaker
Another, Juliette Benoche, who I just met two nights ago at an event at the French Consul's house with, again, with Mark and his wife. She's in a number of films lately, including Between Two Worlds by Emmanuel Carrere. She's wonderful in all of them. This is from Cohen. It's just a beautiful movie. See it first, Juliette Benoche. Here she plays a woman who gets a job.
00:22:04
Speaker
How do I even do this without giving it away? Well, I mean, you find out fairly early on. She's an author and she goes undercover to write about the people who are the working class cleaners on this ferry that goes back and forth between northern France and England.
00:22:32
Speaker
You know, keeps it a secret, gets to know these people, and it then eventually takes some interesting dramatic twists and turns. But it's really a wonderful film, and it's actually shot on the ferry. I mean, so it's not like they recreated the ferry on a soundstage somewhere.
00:22:47
Speaker
Another great French film, this wonderful actress I've never seen before, Laura Calami in full time by Eric Ravel. French make a lot of movies about working. Americans don't. You find a lot of French movies about working. We used to. We don't anymore. I mean, you're Martin Ritz and you're Wade. Exactly. 25, 30 years ago, but not anymore. Exactly.
00:23:09
Speaker
But the French are very, you know, unemployment and jobs and work frustration. It's a big part of French culture, always has been. And this woman is just, she's trying to get a decent job. She's a single mom. She's got to somehow make this her commute to this job that doesn't pay her enough and take her kids and the neighbor sometimes takes the kids and she's got to like deal with the daycare for the kids and deal with, you know, working this low end job.
00:23:37
Speaker
hoping that her college education, which justifies a better job, that that'll pan out. She's sending resumes. Pretty much this movie is just this woman running, running, running, running. She's running to the truck, to the train. She's running to the bus. She's missing a ride. She's running. She's trying not to be late for her job. She doesn't want to get fired, but she's got to pick up her kids. She's got to help her kids so they can get to school the next day.
00:24:00
Speaker
It's exhausting watching this poor woman in this movie. It is exhausting. It's an extraordinary film. Of course, this is all during this national transit strike of which there are many strikes of all sorts. And of course, there's an empathy because the strike is why. Why are these people striking for a better wage, for a better cost of living, for a better... But what does she need? A better wage. So the strike, the thing that is killing her, she's caught in the middle. It's an extraordinary thing.
00:24:29
Speaker
And then we have Lee Rijun's film Return to Dust, which is a beautiful love story. This is not on Blu-ray, this is on just DVD. But it's really just a beautiful, beautiful love story. It is in Chinese, in Mandarin Chinese, comes with a great short film called Hair Tie Egg.
00:24:50
Speaker
homework books by the same director. No, actually, it's a different director. Sorry, Luo Rongxiao. It's a different director. I thought it was the same director. Anyway, no, this is a wonderful rural love story about a farmer and his wife.
00:25:07
Speaker
And their role struggles and it's you know i haven't seen a chinese film like this in a very very long time this is kind of almost fifth generation style filmmaking so it's not concerned with you know technology and the chinese economy and their place in the world is just it's gone back to that wonderful
00:25:27
Speaker
poetic realism that was part of the fifth generation. So that's a beautiful film called Return to Dust. We have cinematic sorceress, the films of Nina Menkes, great independent filmmaker who teaches here at, is it Art Center where she teaches, do you know? Yeah, not far from me. Yeah. Yeah. But she's been for years, I mean, since the 70s, she's been a significant figure.
00:25:54
Speaker
in the eighties is the early eighties when she really kind of broke out but anyway really significant figure in american independent film and this is a whole bunch of her films combined here the great sadness of zohara magdalena veraga,
00:26:11
Speaker
Queen of Diamonds, The Bloody Child, all of these wonderful restorations of these films. And plus a lot of great extras, interviews with her and some of her collaborators, Q and A's, audio commentaries on all four of the films. And it's great. This is great American independent filmmaking, kind of, you know, she's been right at the forefront of it for the last 40 years, really nice compilation.
00:26:35
Speaker
And then wrapping this out with the newer films on the foreign front, Past Lives, which I think all of us really love. Tim, you think this is going to have some Academy Awards love? Oh, I think so. It's one of the ones that everyone seems to be really appreciating greatly. And it really is a beautiful film, Celine song. Great strips.
00:27:01
Speaker
Yeah, a great film too. It's a great script. I mean, the script is what I love about the film. It's a beautifully made film, but I love the story. The subtle softness and subtle gentleness of this film. There's people sort of reflecting on what things would be. On friendship. Yeah.
00:27:20
Speaker
Yeah, it's beautiful. And then we also have two of my favorite French films ever, the Marcel Pagnon novels, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle, which were made into wonderful movies by Yves Robert. Gosh, it's been what, 20 some, 25 years since? Oh, 1990?
00:27:38
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Over 30 years, that's how far back we're going. Wonderful. You know, basically came on the heels of Jean de Florette Manon of the Spring. And they decide, well, let's do another two for and they made these and I just cried because, you know, I lived in the area where Marcel Pagnol grew up.
00:27:55
Speaker
Some of this takes place in Marseille, Park Borley, which I used to walk every single day. So it's just, it's absolutely wonderful. Wonderful pastoral family drama. Beautiful, beautiful scores. Everything about this from film movement classics. Just, I cannot rave enough about this. And they got some great extras on here.
00:28:16
Speaker
I always love the setting of those films. The setting of those films were before the wars, before both the wars, before the Great War and the other wars. And it was so, so, so the dynamic is, is because after the Great Wars, both the wars, French cinema and the French landscape, all of it becomes different. It all changed. You're right. It all changed.
00:28:34
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Yeah it did it this was this is a magical moment it really is a magical moment anyway i got a video essay by a french literature professor at nyu here they've got a feature at with the director of robert's son jean denny robert.
00:28:52
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and grandson Martin Drescher and the cinematographer. They've got a little booklet in here with some wonderful essays in it by Kat Ellinger. So he does a lot of great commentaries too. And then lastly, we got a couple of compilations here. Early short films of the French New Wave and Alain René, five short films. You know, the French New Wave directors, they didn't just make great features, they made great short films. And the Alain René films are just as impenetrable as his
00:29:22
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teachers. But you don't have to sit through them quite so long. All kind of from the 1940s and one from the 1950s. Van Gogh is I think the arguably the best because it's, you know, it's Van Gogh. But there's some really interesting stuff in here. The Paul Gauguin short is nice and Guernica is really, really good too from 1950s.
00:29:44
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And then the early short films, The French New Wave includes stuff from Agnes Varda, Truffaut, Godard, Maurice Pilar, who's not really a French New Wave director necessarily, Jacques Rivette, you know, Alain René again.
00:30:00
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Uh, two discs, a lot of great stuff on here. Uh, it's, you know, a lot of those folks, we're, we're, we're, we're just starting to lose a lot of those folks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:18
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He was still around to the early 2000s, maybe 2014, 15, something like that. He did a thing. So these people are just about now starting to slip away. They are indeed. It's very, very sad. It's very sad. A few docs I want to pump through as well, and then we'll jump into 4K and TV and everything else.
00:30:40
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Docs, real quick, we've got a got a great thing on the story of Don McLean's American Pie. It's called The Day the Music Died. Believe it or not, there's a lot to say about this and it's really worth checking out. Paramount Plus apparently funded this and good for them because there's a whole MTV angle to it. But I love that song. You know, my wife actually in college got extra credit in the class once for the on their on their final. They were told you'll get extra credit if you can write down all the lyrics to American Pie.
00:31:10
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And she and one of her classmates did it, did it, they wrote the whole, that's a long, that's like an eight minute song. Yeah, yeah, a lot of verses. Yeah, that's crazy. Anyway, crazy stuff. Clerk, a documentary about Kevin Smith, who is now about 180 pounds lighter than he has ever been before and healthier. But what a really interesting doc this is, you know, it's really interesting, Malcolm Ingram.
00:31:39
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Direct this is done some you know small-town gay bar is one of the one of the films he's done This is that this is a solid two-hour long documentary about Kevin Smith his his whole And it's subtitle. It's it me like the geek who would be king is kind of the the subtitle to it
00:31:58
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really just a fascinating life, more fascinating than I ever thought it would be. Kevin Smith and Ingram both do a commentary on here. There's another commentary featuring the Stanley Brothers, which you'll understand if you watch it. And then, you know, some uncut interviews and stuff on there. But
00:32:15
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The thing that comes out here is that Kevin Smith is a much more serious guy than I think anybody ever gave him credit for. My first exposure to Kevin Smith, and by the way, you can get this at mercantileinstinct.com. Mercantileinstinct.com is where you can get it. My first exposure to Kevin Smith came in the 1992 Cannes Film Festival when Clerks was this grungy little low budget American independent film that was entered in the
00:32:44
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in the sidebar section to the main competition festival which i think it ended up winning but i know you have these these press boxes it can write in the pallet you go in every day and you open it up there's a bunch of crap in there that they put all the little press kids and come to this event what not it's just it's it's your mailbox for the duration of the festival is usually filled with junk. And if you got anything that you want to promote to the press you give it to the pallet people may stick in the press boxes.
00:33:11
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I'm sorting through all this and here's a press conference. And the only reason it stuck out at me was, Clerks, it's an American film, independent film, and we will be having our press conference at the Monoprix grocery store on the second floor. I'm like, what? The second floor of a grocery store? What are you kidding me? And so I go and I go in and sure enough, here's a market and everybody's shopping.
00:33:37
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And there's Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier as producer sitting at a register, which is roped off while other registers check people out. And the press are kind of shoehorned in there between customers with cameras. It was a mess.
00:33:53
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press conference in the market. Total publicity stunt. There you go. First exposure to him. It's a really fun doc for film geeks like us, but it's really interesting because this is about a guy who came out of Red Bank, New Jersey, some little in New Jersey, a video store period, that video store period, hour period, VHS and all that stuff that's in clerks.
00:34:18
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and figure out a way to penetrate the industry from that point of view and never really, from that actual physical space that he never really left. Kevin really never came to Hollywood all day, every day. He was always sort of doing things, mall rats.
00:34:36
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with, you know, that mall is in Jersey. It's all that. So that's the interesting thing about him. He's among those filmmakers who were able to do the stuff from places where him, oh, I don't know, maybe, who's the guy that works out of Baltimore? John Waters. Oh, John Waters, yeah. Always worked out of Baltimore, you know, figured out a way to do it, but to maintain their spaces. Look, LA, New York, Chicago, Navy, you know. Yeah.
00:35:03
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But these guys who just settle like from nowhere decide to stake it out and do their thing. And a measure of his success is all the people who show up in this movie. You know, related to obviously all the people who were in his films with all kinds of interesting people, including Stan Lee and Penn Gillette. You gain a real appreciation for him as, not just as a filmmaker, but a person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gave a lot of folks breaks too, Kevin Smith. Good on him for that. Yes, you did.
00:35:31
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So other docs, Unstuffed, a Build-a-Bear story. I didn't even know about the Build-a-Bear phenomenon until I watched this. I'm like, this is weird. This was a full-blown phenomenon. These custom teddy bear, it's just a weird thing. If you know about Build-a-Bear, the Build-a-Bear workshop,
00:35:53
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My goodness, what a very strange, ultimately totally American thing. This is all about the building of that company and the phenomenon, which spans well over a generation. And a lot of interesting people show up in this thing, including, believe it or not, John Lovitz and Mario Lopez. How and why they show up? You gotta watch. Dude, Jerry Mathers? I know, right?
00:36:21
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It's hilarious and weird and creepy at the same time. We've got the complete story of film by Mark Cousins, which is 18 hours. You got to really, really not just love movies, but you got to love the movies that he loves to sit through this. This includes two films.
00:36:41
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the story of film and Odyssey and the story of film a new generation and really it's just personal essay stuff. He has done an amazing job of editing together all of these things and these connections that he sees in the history of cinema. Some of it is really off the wall and I don't know that I agree with it but I enjoyed the journey but man it is
00:37:04
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It's a lot. It's 18 hours, man, on four discs. So set it on in the background, let it roll for a few days. Tune in when you see something that you like. All man, the international male story.
00:37:22
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I kind of was hoping this would be like international mail, like mail order. No, it's not. It's about the M-A-L-E. This is the story of the catalog, international mail, which was a big thing in the 70s and 80s.
00:37:41
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is a big thing i use is a double entendre it sort of emphasize the very particular kind of masculinity that is sort of laughed at now it's the chippendales. Kind of masculinity and that came and went might make a comeback let's hope not but anyway the it's a really interesting story international mail is a magazine really interesting story nuclear now is a documentary all over stone.
00:38:10
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Get directed this which is all about reconsidering nuclear power and it's not exactly the kind of film that I would have expected Oliver Stone to get behind but if the angle is you know with respect to climate change and cleaner nuclear and you know
00:38:26
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for nuclear technology, a lot less waste. Yeah. So really kind of an eye opener and again, a good conversation starter. Yogi Berra It Ain't Over is wonderful, is wonderful. You learn so much about Yogi Berra in this. And yes, it's got all of his funny stuff. His family is, you know, all over this thing. And you get all kinds of great stories about the Yogi Berrisms and all that. But what you also learn
00:38:53
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is the relationship between yogi bara and jackie robinson which is so special and was he out was he not out the famous tagging at home and yogi swears i was out i tagged him i mean it's a great little it's a great little bit in an overall wonderful movie about a fascinating guy who was you know look.
00:39:16
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I'm not a baseball fan. I didn't know he was like, in addition to just being a guy who said weird, funny stuff and showing up on commercials, I didn't realize he is literally like the most legendary catcher in the history of the game. Oh, yeah. I didn't know you could be legendary as a catcher. As long as you catch the thing. But no, man, catchers are a big deal. Yogi Bear was the guy that figured out. Yogi Bear was the guy that figured out how to throw people out. Yeah. First of all, he was fearless.
00:39:45
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World Series rings. I know. Isn't that unbelievable? That's unbelievable. I was too afraid to be a catcher. Yeah. Yeah. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg. I mean, what else are you going to say? Allen Ginsberg is like an archetypal figure from the 60s, counterculture figure, writer, activist, poet, all of that stuff.
00:40:09
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This does a very good job of distilling an enormously significant life, whether you love him or hate him, and a lot of people love him and a lot of people hate him. It takes a good three quarters of a century of history and centering around this guy and it distills it into a
00:40:26
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very, very strong film. Incredibly, it's a short film. It's 84 minutes. It just blows by, but this was made in 1999, and it is still super strong. It is out on DVD, directed by Jerry Aronson. You get a second disc on this two-disc set, which has tons and tons of extras as well to supplement the historical perspective. It's great.
00:40:48
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Also really good, even though our friend Ray hates it and has given me no end of grief for liking it, is The Storms of Jeremy Thomas by Mark Cousins. Jeremy Thomas, you know, Jeremy Thomas' dad and uncle were both filmmakers. His uncle did all of the
00:41:06
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the carry-on films and which are, you know, just a huge legendary franchise, the greatest franchise in British comedy history. And Jeremy Thomas grew up in the business and became a producer, but he's an art, I mean, making artistic films was his thing. He won an Oscar for The Last Emperor, but he has done so many other significant films that it's, you know, Cronenberg's Crash and Nickel's Rogue's Bad Timing.
00:41:32
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And a lot of just amazing films with amazing filmmakers that otherwise wouldn't have had a chance to get made. And that's where he poured his passion. And this is Jeremy Thomas is getting on in years. And Mark Cousins and Jared Thomas, they hop in a car together and on their way to the Driving the Can Film Festival. And he pieces that road trip together with clips from the films and interesting observations. And I just loved the journey. I love the journey.
00:41:58
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In recent years, he was an executive on EO, that movie about the donkey, and was that last year? I mean, you're too big. We're going to talk about that in a minute, too, because that's on Blu-ray with us this week. Yeah, so he's up there, but still swinging. He's still swinging. And then, do you like Filipino food? If so, you're going to love ulam, main dish. I never didn't really, we don't have, we have Los Angeles,
00:42:25
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has a huge population of people from the Philippines. Filipino population is huge. They're great. They're very deeply in elder care. All the elder care facilities here are run by Filipino families. Not a lot of Filipino restaurants, though. No, no, no, no, yeah. No, it's absolutely true. Would you compare them from other cultures from that portion of the country and the restaurants and the food culture that's represented back here? Not a lot of Filipino restaurants.
00:42:49
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So I thought this was fascinating and apparently it's starting to have a rise and it's going to make a bit of a thing. But no, this is one of those movies that makes you hungry. Kind of like the French film, you know, The Taste of Things or Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. I don't see it on an empty stomach.
00:43:04
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But it's quite good. I'm probably the only person listening to this podcast or involved in who cares about this. But lionesses, how football came home, wonderful Blu-ray documentary on the English women's national soccer team.
00:43:20
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Which finally, two years ago, they won the Euro, which was the first major championship for British national team since the men won in 1966. And this year, they made it the finals, they lost to Spain, but what a great showing. What a great showing. As long as my US women are disappointing me and my French girls and my Dutch girls are disappointing me, I'm going to hang on to my English girls. They're a great team. They're just an absolutely great team.
00:43:49
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You know, some of these, I mean, Mary Earps, the goalkeeper is just spectacular. So many other great players on this team. I really enjoyed it. And then lastly, the great fog of war is out on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures Classics. The Robert McNamara sits down and talks to Errol Morris about Vietnam and every other damn thing. And it is kind of bone chilling and fascinating at the same time. Yeah.
00:44:17
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Yeah, and again, these these are really interesting figures who are who are sort of drifting away. In context, context is the hell of a thing. And the fog of war, of course, you know, many people have taken that term to task, many people take Robert McNamara to task.
00:44:36
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But it is an interesting way to see how when this group of people came into government, the McNamara's of the world, who were really from a previous generation, they brought into government the knowledge of statistics and accounting and amateurization. And they started thinking about war in these terms and how the numbers of things.
00:45:01
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Acceptable losses. These sort of things started to become calculatable. And that's what Robert McNamara is talking about in this film, and it's really sort of striking. Very, very true. So we got TV, we got 4K, we got new movies, old movies. What do we move on to here? Well, let's do a little bit of TV, because I've been watching a lot of TV. We can start wherever you want to start.
00:45:27
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Well, it blows me away that NCIS, the 20th season.
00:45:36
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of 20 years. These shows just go forever now. You remember when it used to be that like, Oh my gosh, why five Oh, we went for 12 seasons like double digits. Most most series ended at three, four or five years. I can remember when if you pull three, if you pulled a three season run, you were the happiest human being and television because a three season run meant that you would get probably five, 10, 15 years of residuals. Yeah.
00:46:02
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on a 20 season run, you're set for life. And, you know, and probably, oh, so it's an amazing thing. Anyway, NCIS 2003. Of course, we recently lost David McCollum. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:18
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That's this this is david show right yeah i'm on the right show cuz you know it's hard to get they cry and they cross over in this season too right they bring the ncis hawaii people in and you know so they're there cross but they're doing the law and order thing and that's good it was csi started this trend and dick wolf took it to another degree with law and order.
00:46:40
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And then NCIS gets in on the game and all the Chicago shows have gotten in on the game and he's also Dick Wolf. So, you know, it just keeps on rolling. It's amazing. Yeah. Well, anyway, there is 20, 20 years, my goodness heavens to Betsy.
00:46:58
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Also, Fatal Attraction, season one, how do you – I mean, Joshua Jackson, Lizzie Kaplan, two actors that I like, but how do you turn this into a series? Isn't the whole – I mean, doesn't the Fatal Attraction get old at a certain point?
00:47:12
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Well, and I gotta tell you, we know how the movie ends. But it sort of frames itself in the same way that that 1987 movie with Michael and Glenn Close and Anna Archer is framed up like that and then it sort of moves along. But yeah, it's a good question. Plus, I gotta say,
00:47:34
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You know, fatal attraction, if you say fatal attraction to someone who's of a certain age, who's not of a certain age, our age, it doesn't mean anything. At least it's not a reference. Us, the word fatal attraction, the phrase fatal attraction is a direct reference to that movie, that Adrian Langton, a direct reference, always. I'm not sure that's true of, you know, somebody who's 30 or whatever. That probably, you're probably right.
00:48:00
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Um, got a couple of showtimes here, a couple of showtime series back to life season two and, um, oh, hold on, hold on, hold on. Uh, no, we got back to life seasons one and two, and then I got a couple of hallmarks. That's what I get for not wearing my glasses. Uh, so back to life season one and two, um, I, uh,
00:48:23
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That's the one from Daisy Haggard about the chick who was in jail. I love that. Yeah, she's coming back to life, coming out of prison. I didn't watch this when it first aired or anything, so I'm coming at it late.
00:48:40
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I think it's a really interesting idea to look at a woman integrating back into society after a lengthy prison term. Not something we talk about a lot. I don't know if there's enough here to necessarily sustain an ongoing series. That's the thing. The season two episodes seem to be wearing a little thin, a little repetitive. Nicely written and acted though.
00:49:01
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I just, it feels like they're squeezing the turnip a little. What I liked about it is that it's a comedy. I mean, it's not like it's not like it's not like the laugh track comedy. Yeah. But it's like, it's not heavy. It's not like the way it's down on me. It's more of an exposure. Yeah. There's drama. Sure there's drama, you know, but there's plenty of juggles and flat out belly laughs in that show. That's what I liked about it. Don't take it too serious, folks.
00:49:26
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Couple of Hallmark channel original movies here as well. Eat, Play, Love, and Sun, Sand, and Romance. If you have ever seen a Hallmark original movie, so this is what they're like. They're basically like lifetime original movies, except you can occasionally go to church.
00:49:49
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Is that good? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And in this one, like in most of them, I'm sorry, there's always going to be at least one veterinarian. Somebody's going to spend some time, but dude, Lee majors is in this one. Yeah. And I'm, I'm good with anything that's got, that's got Lee majors just doing anything.
00:50:18
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I'm good. I'm good. That's the only thing that really made it worth watching. It's like, oh my goodness. And then it made me want to turn it off and go watch some old episodes. Only in the other one.
00:50:34
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I will tell you this though, when you consider that, you know, when you look at the two of them, you go, okay, Lee Majors, you're looking pretty good for your age. I mean, he's like 80 now, isn't he? He's kind of like 80. You look at Lindsay and you go,
00:50:46
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Girl, you haven't aged. What have you done? You're amazing. He's so beautiful. It's just ridiculous how rich he was. And Lee had a moment there in like the, I'll call it the late 90s, early 2000s, where you kind of let it go a little bit. But interestingly, pulled it back together in the later years. And he's tightened it all up and got it all back. I'm like, look at Lee.
00:51:07
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That's eat, play, love. And then the other one, Sun Sand and Romance does not have Lee Majors or Lindsey Wagner. It all takes place at a summer resort and, you know, whatever. It's fine. It's gooey. You know, it is what it is.
00:51:24
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So we talked also about CSI, CSI Vegas is in season two. There's not really a ton to share there. It's just CSI stuff and then there's casinos in it. And then Chicago Med is in its eighth season. I truly can't believe how long some of these shows run. The best thing about Chicago Med is Oliver Platt, man. He just, the guy, I'd like to see him do features again, but he is so good in everything he does. He just brings that gravitas.
00:51:54
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Yeah, and as you say, Oliver was that guy in features all through the 90s who was not the pretty guy, not the handsome guy, but the guy that held the weight, that put the weight in those scenes in a bunch of big ass movies with Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland. What was that one where they were all dead? Yeah, Flatliners. Yeah, Oliver held that movie down anyway.
00:52:19
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Yeah, big shimmers should big night. She was in a really great movie with Oliver, our buddy Sherman Augustus calls zigzag. It was really, really good film. It's a little bitty film, independent film, but it's fantastic. And Oliver was amazing in that film.
00:52:34
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Got a couple of things from the History Channel here. We got the Presidential Legacy Collection, which focuses on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt. And Doris Kearns Goodwin is the anchor for all of this stuff. She produced this and basically oversaw it. She kind of godfathered it. And along with Bradley Cooper. And these are some really interesting miniseries
00:53:03
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that get in, you know, people don't necessarily understand how the two Roosevelt presidents were related. They just know they have the same Dutch name. That is explored. But each of these things really stands on its own. They're about four hours long, each one of them. It's a real investment. But it's utterly fascinating. I mean, you know, kind of docket drama stuff, and recreations and a lot of
00:53:27
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fascinating historical anecdotes that I had no idea about. Really, really good scholarly stuff. So I, you know, if you can invest the time in each, it's eight hours between the two. Also from History Channel is Brothers in Arms.
00:53:43
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which is two films, World War II in HD and Vietnam in HD, all about those two wars, soldiers, a lot of amazing archival footage. I mean, really great stuff. I've seen so much of it and yet there's still more that I just had no idea about. The World War II one is seven and a half hours and the Vietnam one is almost five hours. So again, a real investment there and a lot of war and a lot of gore deal with, but it's really worth the investment. It's great, great documentary film.
00:54:13
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making. Yeah. Yellow Jackets season two, also on Showtime. I don't know, man. You look, the first season, I really deeply appreciate it. Yellow Jackets. And actually, it was the story that I deeply appreciated the way it was structured. But I've always thought that this is a story for a movie, or perhaps a limited series. Like an email stand by me, kind of a thing, right? Yeah.
00:54:42
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Yeah, but we got to get to an end of this thing because this thing happened. You know, it's about these these women that had this event when they're children, when they're young. And then we go sort of back and forth between, you know, their sort of present day and that thing that happened when they were young. But somewhere along the line, you got to get to an end of this story.
00:54:58
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Yeah, I know. I'm a big Melanie Linsky fan. And she's great. And she's really, really great. She is. Poker Face season one, which is, I didn't even know this existed, another Paramount show. Starring Natasha Lyonne, who seems to do, I thought she was still on another show and now she's on Poker Face and she just bounces from shows back to back and forth. Ryan Johnson, if I'm not mistaken.
00:55:25
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Yes, indeed. She basically plays a cocktail waitress who is also a detective. I guess anybody can be a detective these days, but it has a nice 70s vibe to it.
00:55:45
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Like the semi-rural, out and about background, kind of somewhere between rural and urban America, it just feels, I don't know, it feels 70s to me, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Even the cars, he's driving around in like a 67 Barracuda.
00:56:04
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get that through this town. And I like some of the folks. I like Natasha, of course, but you got Benjamin Bratt roaming around this thing, which I like a lot. You know, the people like that. Adrian Brody pops up here and there. You got Ron Perlman and Nick Nolte popping up here and there and Judas Light from that old Tony Danza show. Yeah.
00:56:26
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people are from the 70s and 80s and 90s and they pop up in this but they don't bring their personas with them and they come and they play these characters and I just Tim Blake Nelson little real eyes really Tim metals you just never know who the hell is gonna pop up in one of these shows and I really dig that
00:56:43
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You know, Kiefer Sutherland stepped away from 24 for a while and then apparently had the itch to play like a spy again. So it comes back for Rabbit Hole, which is in its first season here on DVD.
00:56:59
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Uh, not 24 though. And it feels like it's trying to be 24 without being 24. Um, I don't know. It's part of the problem is it's, it's not like straight, uh, straight espionage. It's, it's, um, uh, corporate espionage. And that just isn't quite as interesting. I don't think, but I don't know. You tell me, what do you think? Oh, I think this is mostly key for one to look cool and walk around with the gun.
00:57:29
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to show for them, so that's what that is. Yeah. Oh well. South Park, the streaming wars, couple of special South Park events here, the streaming wars and streaming wars part two, it's South Park. They're just making fun of streaming in a very, very funny way. I'm surprised they made a separate Blu-ray release for those, but if you're a completist, go dig it up.
00:57:53
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We get Picard, the complete series, seven hours of special features tacked on to this very uninteresting show that never should have been made, I think. But I don't know, Tim, you're more forgiving. Yeah, we have a few of things, Star Trek, and Picard, absolutely, want me a Picard. Wasn't the Picard more or less framed as this one?
00:58:16
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around the destruction of Romulus and some things like that. And what I liked about it is that John Luke is 95 years old in this series. So they've done this math for that matter. Patrick Stewart is damn right now. He might be 80. He might be 80. He's younger than William Shatner and he looks 30 years older.
00:58:36
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It's that British thing. And so they sort of account for that. And I like seeing a lot of these folks again, certainly Seven of Nine and all that kind of stuff. Now, the narrative, the actual story, that that's the problem. That's the mess. The people, the stuff, the production value is all good. Unfortunately, it's just this really bad, bad, bad story. So for me, it was like watching several episodes, several bad episodes of Star Trek Next Gen. But I keep hoping that, you know, after that, there will be several good
00:59:05
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episodes. For me it was like watching a daytime soap opera, except they're all wearing Romulan costumes.
00:59:14
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The Romulan politics just gets so hokey at a certain point. They're all inspiring and conniving and speaking English to each other and being sexy and weird. And it's like, in a certain moment, I'm like, you know, just stop it. This is like at least Klingon politics on when you would watch Deep Space Nine or you would watch, you know, Next Gen. Klingon politics, they really went deep on. They will like the language. You had to listen closely and go, I don't even know what the clathora of Klarong is, but
00:59:42
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Clearly, Article 5 subsection, you know, Quint clearly is important to the Klingons because they're devoting a lot to this. You know, like you bought into it, right? There was a thing, it was like the ancient lore. And here it's just like Romulans being, you know, conniving and sexy and I can't, I just couldn't go there.
01:00:03
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Yeah. Titans. Titans fourth and final season is out on DVD. I never really watched a lot of this show, but it's I mean, it's you know, they get the kids and, you know, Robin and Superboy and everybody else and then somehow it all kind of feels young and sexy and and what what they did for a long time with the WB and later with the whatever they turned it into.
01:00:31
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. This was way too mystically, magically. I would have preferred it if they had simply pulled character straight from the universe.
01:00:48
Speaker
The DC Universe is Batman DC Universe. It is. And the thing is, this is peripheral to the Arrowverse, right? This is the one that doesn't tie into it. They kind of did their own thing. So you got to kind of just leave it alone and accept a whole different universe than this if you're in the Arrowverse. And I didn't like the universe. It was mystical magical crap.
01:01:05
Speaker
Well, they also got the complete series on Blu-ray. So what we got here is the fourth and final season on DVD, but also the complete series on Blu-ray, which comes with a ton of extras. And I mean, my only gripe with this, and I have not watched it religiously, is they do that thing that they did on
01:01:24
Speaker
The, uh, the other Arrowverse show, the, uh, Which ones? Guardians of the Galaxy. Not Guardians of the Galaxy. No, uh, League of Legends. Legends of something or other. Legends of tomorrow. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. We'd see too much stuff. Legends of tomorrow. Which is that they keep swapping people in and out. Oh, yeah. No, it's just, it's too many to keep track of, but anyway.
01:01:50
Speaker
Ozzy and Harriet, seasons 13 and 14. And you know what blew my mind with this was I used to watch Ozzy and Harriet reruns. I never, but when I was watching Ozzy and Harriet reruns, we had a 13 inch black and white television.
01:02:06
Speaker
So I, and then once we got a color TV, well, and I was on to get smart and you know, Batman and, uh, you know, a lot, a lot of other, I never realized that a lot of those are reruns that I was watching of Aussie and Harriet on our 13 is black and white TV were shot in color.
01:02:24
Speaker
Oh really? The 14th season of Ozzy and Harriet is in color. I did not know that either. And we wouldn't have. So Ozzy in here ran about 10 years. I think it started in 52. Ran 14 years. Started in 52. So last season. Would have been 64, five, six, something like that. 66, something like that. 66, 1966.
01:02:49
Speaker
So yeah, I guess we would have been right smack dab at that moment where in living color, you know, was that anything that they did at the area? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. 14 years, 435 episodes and son of a gun. There's color here. And I'm looking at it. I'm like, wow, I know what Rick Nelson's skin tone is.
01:03:08
Speaker
This is kind of amazing. I mean, this is a revelation. I had no idea. I had absolutely no idea. So this is like watching this show for the first time, seeing these color episodes. I'm like, some of these I'd seen, you know, many, many times as a kid. And I'm like, holy cow, this is a whole new way of seeing it. This just comes to life. And I almost feel guilty. It's almost like it's been colorized, but not at the same time.
01:03:30
Speaker
So we also have the complete he man masters the universe series which recently this is three seasons twenty six episodes never like to this show this is the second of the he man series here from television i never cared for this at all but you know who cares about me.
01:03:51
Speaker
Let's talk for a second about the live action version which just switch studios i think makes past on it and somebody else just picked it up i have a i literally saw that just the other day so what do we think about live action.
01:04:05
Speaker
a live action He-Man. When you say live action He-Man, my mind does not go to anything modern. My mind goes directly to Dolph Lundgren. And that movie, I think Courtney Cox was in that movie well before her turn on Spins. And one of my homies who's in Star Trek Voyager, I can't remember, he's the teenage boy in that movie.
01:04:31
Speaker
Yeah. So my mind goes there immediately. Now, that notwithstanding, a contemporary human, I don't know, man, the cartoon series was never really my thing either. That live action movie from the 80s was terrible. It was terrible.
01:04:51
Speaker
So, I can't see how we get there. Although, you know what I loved in that movie? Skeletor was played by, I'm going to say, I think, Jack Palance, maybe? Oh, no, it's Frank Langella. Was it Frank Langella who played Skeletor? I think it was Frank Langella who played Skeletor, yeah. And I just remember that actor.
01:05:10
Speaker
He was great. Skeletor was executed in that film. It's like he was in an entirely different film. A much better film. But that's what I remember about that. What do you think about the possibility of a new one?
01:05:24
Speaker
I just, you know, my number one problem with He-Man is his haircut. I'll be honest. Is that a little page boy? It's that page boy thing and all I can think of is, you know, Prince Valiant played by Bob Wagner. That's all I can think of is it's just I can't handle the page boy haircut. It kills me. It just kills me. I don't know who cooked that up, but that doesn't work for me.
01:05:51
Speaker
You know what? There was a moment where being like small people in a world of giants, basically actors working with oversized props, was a thing. I only know it from the Erwin Allen show, Land of the Giants. I don't think I ever realized that there was a previous series called World of Giants, which Erwin Allen had nothing to do with.
01:06:16
Speaker
And this is now from Classic Flix. This is from 1959, right? A lot of times in the late 50s, I didn't, you know, necessarily hook onto because the reruns didn't show up when I was a kid. But this is really interesting Cold War stuff. Do you know about this show? I did not know about this show. I mean, I like you, Land of the Giants, you know, all those little people in that spaceship and the giant. I love that show. All the props with, you know, the telephones, the pencils. This is amazing.
01:06:44
Speaker
This has the same deal but this is amazing. This was a very expensive show to make at the time. CBS made it and the premise here is that these people are on a secret mission.
01:06:59
Speaker
into, you know, secret Cold War mission and their rocket explodes and it shrinks, this one guy played by Marshall Thompson, who was previously a doctor, it shrinks him to just six inches in size and turns him into this like amazing spy. So he's like this little pint-sized Thumbelina, Tom Thumb-sized spy now, right?
01:07:25
Speaker
And he works with a partner who's full-sized, played by Arthur Franz. And, you know, there are other, basically, if you imagine it's like Mission Impossible, if Martin Landau were kind, were like, were Ant-Man, right? If he were Ant-Man and he couldn't get to be big again. Really very interesting. And it didn't last longer than a season.
01:07:50
Speaker
only 13 episodes and I feel like it should have had more because there's so much that it could do here. Gavin McCloud shows up on this thing. It's really quite interesting and it's a great artifact and bravo to classic flicks for bringing it back really. 1959, fabulous.
01:08:12
Speaker
The Boys is in season three. I know a lot of people love this thing. Amazon original, superhero, dark superheroes, nasty superheroes who are a little bit nihilistic and vain and narcissistic and it's still a bit of a soap opera. It feels like, I don't know, what does it feel like, Tim?
01:08:32
Speaker
Well, it is ridiculously sadistic and counter-culturals within the context of the Marvel and DC universes. There's a spin-off now called Gen V, which lives in the same space and connects with all these sort of same characters. It's not something to lie.
01:08:51
Speaker
was particularly a big fan of, to be honest with you. You know, I get where, you know, you know, transgression, transgressive thoughts, which love this, but I'm not a transgressive kind of guy. I like an actual hero. I like my heroes to actually be heroes. Even the heroes in this show are anti Carl Urban plays this guy who's the hero of the piece, relatively speaking, but he's really not. Yeah, I get you. I agree.
01:09:16
Speaker
A couple of Paramount series here as well. Wolfpack season one and the great the final season which has now been canceled and I know that
01:09:29
Speaker
There are some kind of wounded feelings on the part of our actress here. Oh, Elle Fanley. She said some wounded feelings about the fact that this has been now canceled and she doesn't get to sort of finish out the character's arc. Here's the thing, this is also really, really not that historically accurate.
01:09:56
Speaker
Not even remotely. She's playing Catherine. I would argue that whatever arc you thought you were going to finish out is a completely fictitious arc that doesn't exist anywhere in the history. So, you know, look, I mean, it had a good run and I think it's going to do fine and reruns as a streaming show, but
01:10:19
Speaker
You know, I mean, it's these things like the Henry VIII thing with Jonathan Rhys Myers, who is anything but like Henry VIII. I mean, you know, Jonathan Rhys Myers has a body mass like Henry VIII's thigh. It's just it's ridiculous. So, you know, they're fine. They're fine. Wolfpack season one, on the other hand.
01:10:41
Speaker
I don't know. That's a Sarah Michelle Galar, my Buffy, the vampire slave, who I still think of in that way, but yeah. I mean, as a survivor of multiple wildfires, I have a problem with the idea of using a wildfire as a narrative device to trigger this kind of supernatural Buffy-esque
01:11:09
Speaker
I, you know, it's, I mean, it's, it's werewolves not going to hide anything here. That's giving it away. But, but did you get, did you have to use a wildfire, which has caused so much pain and agony to so many people? That's, that's a, that's sort of like, oh, let's, let's do a, let's do Holocaust and werewolves.
01:11:28
Speaker
You know, not to analogize it, because a wildfire is not the Holocaust. But I mean, I know a lot of people who lost their homes still haven't rebuilt after five years. One of my daughter's friends lost everything that they had. There's a lot of pain wrapped up in that. Don't use it as a narrative device. Particularly, it's not particularly useful as a narrative device. It is a narrative device. It's a background thing that's going on. Yeah. But all that serves to do is to make the story completely confusing.
01:11:58
Speaker
What the hell was going on in this show at all? It was really, really, so that's, and a lot of it had to do with that background.
01:12:07
Speaker
getting close to the end here for all mankind season one I had no idea this was a narrative show I thought they were I thought this was like the documentary for all mankind right that it was a the history of the space program or something and then I I watched it I'm like oh I see what you're doing you're using the same title but that's not what this is this is
01:12:27
Speaker
this is this is a an alternate history thing. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it's an alternate history thing where you know, the space race is ongoing. And you're you're now you've now turned it into a an alternate history soap opera set in space, NASA and so forth. So I get the Soviets did this and we did that and all kinds of things happen. Now we're all doing all these people are on the moon doing the way what's going to be. Yeah.
01:12:56
Speaker
And it's, I mean, it's, you know, we'll see where it goes. Season one is kind of more of a set up, but I mean, I'm curious. I'm sort of into it. It's nicely good production value, really good facts, terrific facts. And then coming back to South Park, we got the 26th season. You know, I got to tell you, 26th season, just like the 25th, just like the 24th, this show, you know, they're still commenting and poking at everything in the culture. And according to Mark, who knows people on the show, they turn these things around in a couple of weeks.
01:13:25
Speaker
which is amazing because in 1990, whenever they held it, it became seven, I think, six or seven, 26 seasons, it was something like that. It was exactly the opposite, which somehow became this expensive and very slow show to America.
01:13:40
Speaker
to make, having to do with animators in Korea, South, and all kinds of things. And then, which was interesting in and of itself, because Trey and Matt, they made this basically stick figure of this show that had been floating around on that VHS. And I'm sure you got a copy of it way back in 1990, like everybody else. And then over the years, it became this very expensive show that took a long time to make. And now, because the technology has changed so much,
01:14:10
Speaker
in the ensuing 20 plus years, almost 30 years. It's a show that can be turned around almost instantaneously, which is why they can put out so much material. That streaming one that you talked about, you know, and they can just spit it out, spit it out. But the content stays great without losing the quality. The images and the animation, which was never, you know, special, is the same as it always was.
01:14:38
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So all you have to do is keep the content tight and you can go on forever.
01:14:42
Speaker
Yep, there it is. So I'm gonna wrap out on a few more Hallmark things. So a lot of the Hallmark stuff comes from Canada. They make these movies in Canada with tax incentives. They're usually schmaltzy, they're good for Canadian TV, and then they sell them to Hallmark and Hallmark makes a killing. That's how it works. That's the major thing with Lindsay Wagner, that's from Canada. And so are these next two, 14 Love Letters and Love Unleashed. Oh my gosh, wait a minute. Hallmark original movies with the word love in the title? How unusual is that?
01:15:09
Speaker
What a strange thing. So, love unleashed. Cute girl. She has a puppy party. Guy comes over, adopts a puppy. They fall in love. There you go. Two people love each other and they love the puppy. Starter kid. There you go. There's nothing else to it. Then this is a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries original movie. The 14 love letters, which means
01:15:32
Speaker
that there's more to it than just romance. It's a mystery. And the mystery is who keeps writing these love letters and sticking them in her mailbox? Well, she's got to go find them. And of course, it turns out that it's this disgusting fat guy with no bad height. Oh, wait a minute. No, no, it's not actually. It's a really hot guy. Oh, he's really hot. How often does it happen?
01:15:53
Speaker
that you have a secret admirer and that secret admirer is not some disgusting basement dwelling stalker with mental illness really hot guy who could be a magazine model look the director of that particular one is is is a young woman named amy force who i met a few times this is where i met amy a long time he was an actress
Amy's Career Transition and Hallmark Series
01:16:13
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You're a young girl actress. You're running around all those, oh, I guess they were Disney and shows all this kind of stuff. So Amy comes up and she does her thing. She's in all those movies and stuff like that. She becomes a script continuity supervisor and sort of starts to work her way over onto the directing side. She's directed at least five or six of these things, if not more at this point.
01:16:36
Speaker
And it has really built a real serious career as a filmmaker, directing these, they do a lot of Christmas, you know all the Christmas ones. And I gotta tell you, she gives a lot of folks work and a lot of actors that you know show up in these things. I don't engage in a lot of this stuff, but I have to say to myself, I have to ask myself,
01:17:03
Speaker
This is a real thing. There are people making whole careers out of these movies, acting in them, writing them. Our buddy Ray is connected to a guy who works on a lot of these. So it's a thing, and I'm going to quit making so much fun of them. That's what I'm going to stop doing. And I am making fun of them good-naturedly, because they have their following. Good-naturedly, yes. Absolutely. We need some pick me up. Good work, Amy.
01:17:27
Speaker
Got a couple of Hallmark Channel original series here, both of which are not bad, I gotta be honest. Season one of both of them, The Way Home, they're both multi-generational family sagas, that's what they have in common. And The Way Home is basically about
01:17:45
Speaker
It's a matriarchal family, these many generations of women. And Andy McDowell kind of holds it down and is wonderful in it. All the actresses are great, some good solid melodrama in here. And Grant Harvey directed, Marlee Reed wrote. I think it's a good solid show. The one that I enjoyed is Ride, season one. So here's what Ride is. Take Yellowstone.
01:18:16
Speaker
It's no longer set on a ranch. It's now a rodeo dynasty. Swap out Kevin Costner, swap in Nancy Travis. Done. Oh, it cut the budget by like 90%. Yeah, it's a cheap show, but Nancy Travis is hotter than Kevin Costner. So yeah, you know, the McMurray's working on keeping that ranch going. I love it, man. I just love it. I didn't know that there were rodeo dynasties. I guess there are.
01:18:44
Speaker
There are raisin dynasties, dude. I know. There are like almond dynasties. There's like an almond family in California. There are billions. I'm like, almonds? I don't even like almond milk, man. There it is forever. I guess, whatever. Shall we do the 4K? All right, baby. Let's do 4K.
01:19:10
Speaker
All right.
War Films & Their Impact
01:19:11
Speaker
We got three steel books here, 4K steel books from Sony, Columbia, TriStar, that whole thing. And they're all really gorgeous. The steel books make everything better, obviously. But first of all, Black Hawk Down, Ridley Scott. OK, we were just ripping on him for Napoleon. Black Hawk Down, similar deal. It's expertly made.
01:19:33
Speaker
still looks great. The sound is phenomenal. I mean truly crank up those speakers. This thing will just soar. My only problem with Black Hawk Down notwithstanding the fact that it's true story and we all know that horrible story and this is loaded with wonderful extras, real life interview, audio commentaries, but real life interviews and everything else.
01:19:53
Speaker
The problem I have is I can't tell who's in this movie. Shot, they all look the same. I remember at the end when the credits were rolling, I was looking at everybody using this movie and I'm like, what? Eric Bono was in this movie. Which one was Eric Bono? Wait, Ewan McGregor? I didn't know, wait, how are all these people in this movie? They all look the same. Their faces are all dirty. They're all wearing helmets. Somehow I confused them all with each other.
01:20:20
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Very energetic film, but yeah, I can't, I can't, I gotta tell you. Rudy, we all love Rudy. True story. The guy never really was much of a football player, but he got on, he played that one game, Notre Dame, and that's all that really mattered. It's just like, you know, you got a small dream, you work hard to get it. Sean Astin's lovely in this movie. It's David Onspar, you know, directed it. It's got a lovely score by Jerry Goldsmith. It's a real favorite for a lot of people.
01:20:46
Speaker
Oh, yeah, a little John Favreau, Charles Dutton, you know, all these really wonderful. Guns and Guns of Navarone, which is way better than its terrible sequel with Harrison Ford, Force 10 from Navarone, which is just dreadful. Really just terrible. But no, Guns of Navarone is a good solid Jay Lee Thompson actioner, just, you know,
01:21:11
Speaker
one of those great World War II movies kind of from that 60s period, right, with Dirty Dozen and Great Escape and all that. It kind of slots in there right there with that. And in 4K, it's terrific. Great, great commentaries with J. Lee Thompson and film historian Stephen J. Rubin, documentaries about the film, about the, you know, the real events and all that stuff, behind the scenes featurettes. It's really, really great.
01:21:37
Speaker
Youngish Richard Harris. Ridiculously young James Darrin. Ridiculously young James Darrin. He's like a baby or something. And David Niven walking around with that little mustache.
01:21:54
Speaker
It's a solid film.
Evolution of 'Mission Impossible'
01:21:56
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Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, Part 1, which shockingly to me, underperformed at the box office. Here's my question. First of all, I think this movie's terrific. I love all the Mission Impossible movies, except for JJ's, actually. I don't like the third one. I think it's lame.
01:22:09
Speaker
But, um, and the John Woo one is a little ridiculous, but I think they've been very, very solid since they, they, they're ridiculous. They make no sense. I don't care. I just, I'm, I'm all into my cruise, but, uh, this is dead reckoning. Part one, some great female parts in this thing. I love how he, how they use women in these. Oh, there's, they're all so good. They're all so good. And, um,
01:22:35
Speaker
And you know it's a morale is set being set up as a hell of a bad guy for the for the next one but here's what happened because the first one underperformed the part two was mostly released next june they pushed it to twenty twenty five. Now that have anything to do with the striker was simply about the underperformance i think it's both i think.
01:22:56
Speaker
They're concerned that this thing underperformed they want to give people a little time to discover this to let it breathe and reconstruct what they did wrong in the marketing the first time. I think part of it was because tom and the cast were doing these big premieres all over the world with fireworks they went to paris to do by to new york to sydney right they were doing they did like a dozen different.
01:23:21
Speaker
premieres around the world, but they did them two weeks before the movie opened because they knew the strike was coming. And I think once the strike hit, they couldn't do what usually helps these films maintain legs, which is do the do the talk show circuit, do the PR circuit.
01:23:40
Speaker
after the movie is opened or right the week of. Get people into it. If you're doing all these premieres two weeks before the movie, that's a long time in a movie life. Two weeks, two weeks later, the movie opens. Nobody's on a talk show. There are no talk shows. Nobody's doing any kind of press.
01:23:55
Speaker
It's really hard. Yeah, yeah. The notion probably is that they would be able to push it. Look, I like this movie a lot, but I will say one thing about it in a number of the Mission Impossible films. And I may have been, you may have brought this to my mind, maybe it was Mark around, but this is an action film.
01:24:18
Speaker
Mission Impossible was not an action series. No, the series was not. No, that's right. It was an espionage series. And the first movie was an espionage movie with an action sequence. And little by little, it has swapped in these films. They're almost all action films, fully action, and with very little quote unquote espionage.
01:24:40
Speaker
That's why I think at a certain point when Tom Cruise is done with the series, there's a great opportunity to reinvent it along the lines of what Soderbergh did with the Oceans 11, 12, 13 films, right? Those are not action. Those are all about
01:24:57
Speaker
the trickery of the scam. You know, people in disguise and in the costumes and doing this and that and the other thing. And there's a great energy to those films. I think that's where Mission Impossible can go once Tom Cruise checks out, which I think is after this last chapter of Dead Reckoning.
01:25:16
Speaker
Anyway, some good extras on here, great stunts, but to be honest, I would almost, and a good commentary with Christopher McQuarrie and the editor, but I would almost wait until Dead Reckoning 2 comes out in 2025, and then get the two in a single nice big splashy set.
01:25:34
Speaker
I got a Best Buy exclusive steelbook packaging 50th anniversary final cut release of The Wicker Man. I don't know if The Wicker Man after 50 years deserves this treatment, a Best Buy exclusive in a steelbook on 4K because it is really just basically a horror film of the era. It's still kind of Rosemary's baby.
01:25:56
Speaker
You know, you know, I mean, look, it's it is it's the original I can't stand what's the what's the guy's name who did the frickin? Three-hour walking Phoenix horror thing where he's in his mom. Oh, yeah
01:26:14
Speaker
The Ariaster is so far up his own unit, it drives me crazy. I am not a fan of Midsommar. But that's basically still the Wicker Man. It is. Midsommar is the Wicker Man.
01:26:27
Speaker
Sure. Yeah. And look, there's Edward Woodard, who, of course, would go on to play the equalizer on television. And there's a certain sort of, it's gorgeous. There is that big bonfire that probably refills itself in those really sort of neat costumes that they would wear. But I don't know that all of that calls for, you know, 4k and
01:26:51
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's still considered a classic. But I mean, I don't know if it deserves this treatment. I enjoy it, but not not that much. Bronx Tale on 4k. 30th anniversary. Can't believe it's been 30 years. Wow. I know, right? Chess Momentary. It was originally a play. And he
01:27:14
Speaker
adapted into a film and Robert De Niro directed it. And, you know, I mean, it works. It still feels like a play. It's still one of those good fellas movies. It's still in that Scorsese, Coppola, you know, gangster genre, a little bit light. But honestly, I still think I think the film still has some really good stuff in it. It's got some good writing, jazz, momentarily, you know, his it's his high point, his career high point. And I think
01:27:44
Speaker
It's worth checking out. I don't know if it's 4K worthy. I don't know if it's 4K worthy, but there it is. Yeah, yeah. No, De Niro did a good job on that. And that kid, Lilo, I think it was his name, Berncado, he's the kid that plays De Niro's in that movie. People forget De Niro's actually in that movie. He plays the dad, because a lot of people thought that De Niro should have played the jazz parliamentary part, Sonny, or whatever his name is.
01:28:04
Speaker
No, no, no. He chose the exact right thing to do, particularly since he was directing. Play the smaller part, play the dad. If he plays the other guy, then he's, you know, he would dominate the entire film. Exactly. And the film is really about the kid. Yes, precisely.
Box Office Struggles and Successes
01:28:19
Speaker
Let's talk a little DC stuff here. So we've got Justice League and RWBY Superheroes and Huntsman part two. We covered this in part one. This is no better. It's just really mercenary to combine those two worlds. That's just fanboy hell. But let's talk about Blue Beetle because everybody really tried to make this movie succeed and did not. It tanked and it tanked hard and on the heels of the Flash.
01:28:47
Speaker
the tanking, it's really put the DC world in a bind, which is, you know, just all of that. Yeah, man. So, you know, the people tried to make a thing. Well, it's the first Latino superhero. And I don't, you know, you still gotta have a good movie, man. It's narrative. It's a narrative problem here. We got a story problem here. And everything else to
01:29:12
Speaker
But the story is not captivating. It is a minor DC hero. It's not a significant thing. The Nun 2. Did we need a sequel to The Nun? I don't think so.
01:29:27
Speaker
No, I mean, it's it's it's ongoing from the Conjuring universe. They're trying to turn that into a universe. And I look, I I love her. I think she's a mega Tessa. I think Tessa Farmiga Farmiga's younger sister who, of course, plays the young version of her in the Conjuring universe and things like that. I think that's it's perfectly lovely. But I don't know if we needed a second one of these. It's good to have a big sister who is a movie star.
01:29:57
Speaker
It sure is. Who you look slightly like. And they're like 20 years apart. In age, you know? She played Vera's daughter in a movie some 10, 5 or 10 years ago. But it was perfectly believable. And I kept thinking that she was Vera's daughter and I had to be corrected. No, that's her little sister. She's also on the Gilded Age, which she's wonderful on the Gilded Age. Yes, she really is.
01:30:22
Speaker
Yes. Mortal Kombat Legends. No. No. No. That's as much as we're going to say about that. It's on 4K. No. Make to the trench. Because we needed this.
01:30:38
Speaker
Well, here's the thing about this terrible movie. This terrible movie cracked me up. I'm not going to say this. I have to say this for the radio show. It's a terrible movie. It cracked me up. It's plainly obvious that this movie is not really constructed for the North American market. If you look at this movie, you see all of these Chinese movie stars. And then Jason Statham, you're like, oh.
01:31:03
Speaker
What's going on here? It was just fine, but it was terrible, but it was funny. The fact that somebody said, hey, let's just remake Jaws except let's make the shark 900 times bigger and pretend that it's prehistoric.
01:31:21
Speaker
in this movie gets eaten by something a little bit bigger. So they show you a thing getting and then they show you something to eat that thing. And then they show you something to eat that thing. And I suppose that's the point of the film. It's really good 4k. That's what I can tell you about it. It's it's really nice to put on in the background there.
01:31:42
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I am, of course, saving the best for last year for anybody who might be wondering, why aren't you getting to just, you'll get there. Another steel book that we have, Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon, which is a film that I suspect Tim and I are quite fond of and nobody else is. This film came out at a very opportune moment. It's a period when we're kind of stitching the 70s to the 80s.
01:32:07
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Uh, it's a, it's a, it's mid eighties. It's 85, but it still has a foot in Xanadu. It still has like one foot in Xanadu and one foot in, thank God it's Friday. And maybe a couple of feet in the whiz. I don't know.
01:32:37
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How many people younger than you and I even know what DeBarge is? There's a whole family of them folks. Oh, the whole family. DeBarge. Elle DeBarge, man. That guy. And there's Ernie Reyes Jr. Who had the fastest, he played tight. He had the fastest feet. Do you remember Ernie? Ernie was
01:32:56
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But I don't know if they're in Julius Carey and show enough. He was showed up. I'm sorry. I love this film. The whole it's a great film. The whole thing is Barry Gordy just said, I'm going to combine all the things I love, which is martial arts and soul and disco and R&B. And, you know, we're just going to we're going to we're going to Motown.
01:33:21
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then sparkle up the martial arts and we're going to make a movie called The Last Dragon. And it is quite a thing. It really is. I have a lot of fun with it. I think it's a great artifact. The fact that it's on 4K tickles me to no end. It's a bright and punchy movie. It really is. I mean, a lot of primary colors in this movie. Yes. And you know, vanity, dude. Vanity is amazing. I know, right?
01:33:47
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Stephen King's The Mist, 4K collector's edition, Best Buy exclusive, also steelbook packaging with a plastic sleeve. They went to town. I just don't think The Mist is remembered. This was kind of a Frank Darabont laid an egg with this a little bit.
01:34:05
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I never cared for this film. Now, there are fans of Stephen King in Stephen King films with Stephen King, who are nuts about this. You know, with Thomas Jane in March, you had everybody in this movie inside that supermarket and something's in the mist and it's out there and they go out and then of course has that sort of particular ending that it has. Yes. Which was really what bugged me about it. You know, I did that, you know,
01:34:30
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it was an interesting almost twelve angry men sort of thing when they're all trapped in the supermarket and then it sort of evolves. Frank Darabon is an expert filmmaker even when he's not really on his game and he came you know he had come out of doing Shawshank and Green Mile and all this stuff for features
01:34:48
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And he tried to bring a lot of that juice to this thing. And I'll tell you, in 4K, it looks better than it's ever looked before. It really is. It's a beautifully mastered, beautifully reconceived thing. I think they did a lot of work on the color and certainly remixed it. But it just still kind of misses the mark for me, or mists the mark.
01:35:08
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And we're getting down to the last three here, the two best of the last. Talk to me 4K. Hands down horror classic, Clark Collis Entertainment Weekly. No, I don't think so. I disagree with that pull quote.
01:35:23
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It's, you know, basically, it's like Ouija, remember Ouija board? It's that, except they do away with the Ouija board and they bring up this embalmed hand, which, you know, just brings the ghosts hard and everybody screams and bad things happen.
01:35:44
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It's kind of formulaic, but it's respectable formulaic, I guess. It's not embarrassingly bad, and that's maybe the best thing I can say about it. What are those brothers' names? Danny and Michael Philippu, or something like that? Yeah. Yes. Danny and Michael Philippu brothers. Yeah. Yeah. They do a commentary. I didn't listen.
01:36:06
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The late Jean-Luc Godard made his greatest film in contempt, otherwise known in French as Le Maître, which is now out on 4K, the first 4K of a Godard film. Can I emphasize that? This is a Godard film on 4K. It's been out before.
01:36:23
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On the blu-ray and you can get from lions gate a package that also includes the blu-ray or you could just get the stand-alone 4k so it depends if you you know you have a blu-ray player and you want to be able to play it otherwise the 4k only has a 4k disc that's all it's got.
01:36:40
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And I just think this is one of the great films of all time. It is a behind. I wrote essays on this in school. You know, Bardot has never been more beautiful or more stunning. Michelle Piccoli is amazing. It is considered self-reflexive. It's one of those movies that, you know, one of the first shots is Godard pointing the camera right at the camera. And Jack Palance is that crazy Hollywood director. The whole thing was shot at Chine Chita.
01:37:04
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It's a great movie. It's a great behind, and it's shot on, you know, this wonderful widescreen cinema scope, these beautiful colors that just pop in 4K. Amazing. I just can't say enough about this. I am so thrilled that this is out on its 60th anniversary. Extra. Look, I just love that film. I'm an alpha, the old guy. I mean, if we're talking code, I did.
01:37:24
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But that is just extraordinary. Look, what's your name? Brigitte Bardot. She went a little sideways. The one that didn't is the extraordinary Sophia Lauren.
01:37:45
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Oh my god, Sophia has never gone sideways for one for one thing, she's still beautiful. And she's never gone sideways. She's your mind is clear. She still works and you know, as you have a film a couple of couple of years ago, that one did her son directed and and Deb and Brigitte. Well, what are you gonna do? So the last 4k here, let's talk for a second about
01:38:07
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Barbie. 1.25 billion dollars, the most successful Warner Brothers film dollar per dollar in history, beat all the Harry Potter movies, the first billion dollar movie since before the pandemic, saved Warner Brothers, saved the movies along with Oppenheimer this year, which almost made a billion. Is it all that?
01:38:36
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Well, look, I thoroughly enjoyed Barbie. Thoroughly enjoyed it. If you had told me, suggested to me, you know, this move is going to make a billion dollars, you know, two weeks before it came out or whatever, or anytime before I told you you were crazy. To tell you that, it'll probably do well. Actually, Margot was coming off a couple of rough moments, Margot Robbie coming off of that tough.
01:39:02
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situation from that. What was the one she did? Oh, Babylon and whatnot. So she was, and she was dealing with, you know, taking the brunt of the heat from that as though that flop was her fault, which was irritating. But I would not have, I would not have pegged this at being a billion dollar movie. Now I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have pegged,
01:39:24
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Oppenheimer being a billion dollar movie either. I mean, neither. So, you know, apparently rocks. And the thing of this, they're, they're, they're kind of programming one to the other. These, these two movies were making money at the office together, literally at the same time. And very interesting.
01:39:40
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And the people who were like, oh, it's the Barbenheimer thing. People are going to see them both. I said to people, Ray tried to tell that to me. I said, no, they're not. There is nobody. There are no 22 year old girls who are going to see Barbie. And then their next thought is, hey, let's go see that three hour movie about the guy who invented the atomic bomb.
01:39:58
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No, they're not going to do that. No. They're not going to do that. And it came out when they did the audience surveys, Barbie, primarily, women, but women in their like 30s, right? Women in their 30s. It wasn't even the young women. It was in their 20s, yes, but a lot of women in their 30s because it was nostalgia, right? And Oppenheimer, heavily men, over 50, right? Over 40, over 50, I mean, different audiences.
01:40:27
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Totally different audiences, but enough income there to support two hits in the middle of a summer at the same time. If that exists, that exists. That being said, at any given moment, you can have two big-ass movies making a whole lot of money, at least. Two non-Disney, non-Marvel, non-Lucas film, non-Pixar films.
01:40:46
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that do not have a universe or a sequel element to them, not based on anything other than, in Barbie's case, toys and an Oppenheimer, a real person, but no pre-existing cinematic IP that they're working with. Not a novel, not an article, nothing, none of that. The scripts had to be written from... So there you go.
01:41:06
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I love it. Barbie looks amazing. I'm going to be straight up honest. This, you know, all that whole pink vibe that this thing had going. And I have to say on Halloween, you see the saturation of pink in the culture. Everything when we're taking our daughter trick or treating.
01:41:25
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everyone was dressed as Barbie or Messi. Messi wears the pink jersey for Miami in soccer now, right? And Barbie, everything in this movie is pink. It was pink everywhere on Halloween. I've never seen such a pink Halloween.
01:41:41
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Yeah, you know, I love pink. Pink is my, pink is my hair. Well, I mean, I have some narrative problems with Barbie. I thought they could have done more with the fish out of water stuff. But on, on, on balance, I am very happy with what the film did and what it represents overall. And I could not be more happy for Greta Gerwig.
01:41:56
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Well, my favorite thing in Barbie, Greta's fantastic, love you. Emerald Fennell. Emerald Fennell is in Barbie. Midge, she plays Midge, you know, which is one of the funnier sort of incarnations of all the kinds of Barbies that are in the show. And Emerald, of course, has, what does she have? Emerald, you know, that, she won that screenplay Oscar for whatever it was, a couple of years. A young woman. Promising young woman. She has Saltburn coming out.
01:42:25
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Which I think I told you at the top of the show I saw the other day. And of course, you know, you see Emeril in just everything. I think she was called the midwife for a while. I know she's placed somebody in the Queen series. And so I think that we probably need to say of Emeril Fennell, hey, kid.
01:42:44
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Good work. You're doing good. No, we love Greta and everything. Well, I gotta tell you this this this emerald fennel kid kid is fantastic. Yeah, and she's doing good work in front of behind the camera writing scripts. I think we need to elevate her Greta's all these young ladies. Excellent work, young ladies. Excellent. Yeah.
01:43:04
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I agreed. Shall we wrap out with a few new movies? Just non 4K. All right, King of Killers. So King of Killers, it goes like this. Somebody says, hey, you know what? Let's make a John Wick knockoff. Great idea. Okay, how much money do we have? About $16. Oh.
01:43:26
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First thing, you know what we're gonna need. We're gonna need Frank Rolo. But you know Kevin Gervoix, so Kevin Gervoix, who asked that brother with this voice, you know that voice.
01:43:42
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actor, of course, but also wrote one of the writers, one of the creators of that vampire series. What's the name of that vampire series that he created with the beautiful actress in it? Oh, Kevin, let me, hold on, let me sign it real quick. I don't think I even knew this. I mean, he
01:43:58
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The thing about Kevin is he's Kevin is a little bit like a Dolph Lundgren character into movies. He's he's like a he's like a genius engineering guy like an M one of those MIT guys. Kevin Howard with a degree in microbiology. That's what it is. He's like he's like a degree in genetic engineering. He could literally make me and you.
01:44:23
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It's a certain point. He just got the filmmaking bug. And so he's now he basically makes these kind of, you know, low budget action films. Yeah. Well, the underworld series, that's the series. The underworld. I did not know that he created that series. And, you know, and then he has to sort of physical presence in this voice. So he so, you know, he's in the movie. He's in the movie. He directed and he's in it too.
01:44:47
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And in fairness, you know, I mean, we're making fun of this Frank. Basically, this is like the premise here is that there are a bunch of the Frank Rio is this evil hit man who wants to know that he's the king of killers. So he he basically rounds up all of his rivals and puts them in kind of a kill or be killed deathmatch thing to see who survives. And then he will fight the one that survives. That's the way that it goes.
01:45:08
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And it's rather silly. Stephen Dorf is in this. None of it is particularly well made, but you know what? It's got a Frank Griot and I always root for Frank. Don't hurt you. The movie here that I'm going to highly recommend is Animal Crackers, animated film. I mean, this was on Netflix.
01:45:30
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It's a whole thing that deals with a magical box of animal crackers that turn people and transform people into animals and back. You'll get it. Don't worry too much about it. Just enjoy the plot of it. Here's why Sylvester Stallone does a voice. Danny DeVito is hysterical as the circus guy. Forget it. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Let's get to the cut to the chase.
01:45:54
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Tim and I have some friends who are producers and Marcus and George. And we had a great meeting with them, you know, about some of their projects and, you know, stuff we want to do together. We had a great meeting and they've got an Animal Crackers poster on their wall because they put the initial financing together for Animal Crackers. And it's signed by the director and the whole thing. It's like, they're like, yeah, it should be coming out soon. Sweet. Had that meeting. Come home. And my wife says to me,
01:46:25
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I just got hired to deliver animal crackers. I said, you realize that I just met with, she goes, yeah, I need to call them right now. I'm like, are you serious? Like, what are the odds of this? This is ridiculous. This is hysterical. Literally the same, not just the same week, not even just the same day, the same hour.
01:46:48
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If we were meeting with them, my wife is getting hired to deliver their film to Netflix that we just saw the poster of. I get home and it happened all at the same time. This town is just, this town is just, you know. Like, in what other business does that happen? You know, Kevin Grovoy is a voice in Animal Crackers.
01:47:06
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Just to bring the point home. Tiny, tiny town from tiny town folks. Bring it all home. We love Nicole Holofsener. I think she's one of the best American filmmakers working. I hate that so much of her stuff gets stuck going straight to streaming. But this one, not necessarily. This is an A24 film released on Blu-ray from Lionsgate. You Hurt My Feelings.
01:47:29
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with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies. I love this film. This is one of my favorite films of the year. I'm almost certain this is going to be right near the top of my top 10. I think this is an amazing movie. Did you get a chance to see this?
Top Films of the Year: 'You Hurt My Feelings' & 'Air'
01:47:44
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Yeah, they haven't seen it yet on my list. It is so great. So Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a novelist who's really struggling. Her career is really, you know, she's trying to get people, you know, like all these novelists, she just wants to write a good book and have people read it. Her husband's a therapist and there's a question of
01:48:06
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whether or not he's being honest about what he says about her book. And there, you know, there's another couple in the film and it all gets into the dynamics of honesty in a relationship and the struggles of artists. And yeah, there's kind of a
01:48:23
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the same dynamic that you get on the honeymooners and i love lucy right you know the women are confident and the husbands are confident right so where you have these two couples but you know they they also break apart guys against girls every once in a while and there's a there's that dynamic here which is dramatically always very very helpful but what a beautifully written directed film funny touching sad hilarious and true nicole hall of saner is a gem also guaranteed to be near the top of my top ten is air
01:48:53
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So freaking great. This is interesting because Air was a, it's not Netflix, who put Air out? It was Air, Amazon Prime. It's Amazon Prime, it is Amazon Prime.
01:49:09
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Yeah. And what's interesting about it is that it has been released on Warner Brothers home video through their MGM license. But this is one of the rare Warner Brothers. It does not come with a movies anywhere code.
01:49:26
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Amazon Prime. Yeah, exactly. So you got to watch it on TV on Amazon Prime or, you know, get the Blu-ray standalone. Anyway, if you don't know Air, I think is the best film that Ben Affleck has ever directed.
01:49:41
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And it's just absolutely superb. It is the story of Nike and the Michael Jordan shoe deal. And I know if that sounds like, yeah, that sounds kind of boring. No, no, no, no. Trust me. There were three movies that came out earlier this year. They're all kind of sort of telling the same story. There's Air, there's Tetris, and then there's Blackberry, which is a Canadian film.
01:50:00
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And they're all sort of doing the same thing which is that they're taking either Jordan and Nike shoe deal or the success of Tetris is a video game or the success of the blackberry and they're going back in time and saying these were underdogs facing incredible odds who somehow rose to the top of their industry in this reckless crazy period of the eighties or in the case of blackberry the nineties.
01:50:21
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And they're all sort of doing the same thing. Air is the best of them by far because it doesn't need to fabricate like Tetris invents this whole Black Ops espionage thing happening in Russia. Air is just straight up
01:50:33
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the story of how Nike, which was not a huge company at the time, Adidas was the 800-pound gorilla, how Matt Damon is the basketball guy, and Ben Affleck is the CEO of Nike. They're all trying, Michael Jordan is entering the NBA. Yeah, but why don't we go for these guys? They're likely to go higher in the draft. And these guys, everyone's trying to figure out the shoe promotion thing.
01:51:01
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Everything changed. The Air Jordan deal changed sports. It changed shoes. It changed marketing. It changed everything. And it's an amazing story. And they are all so good. And the best choice in this film is they really don't make Michael Jordan a character.
01:51:18
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No, you see the back of his head or something, yeah. But Dolores Jordan Viola Davis, his mic's mom. Although not in the film that much, nevertheless makes her presence felt, the actress and the character. And you really, you come to understand something very important about that family and the way that family works and the intelligence and where
01:51:45
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where the sort of savvy intelligence comes from in Michael Jordan. It comes from his mama. That's where it comes from. And in the scene where Matt Damon's character decides he's not even good. He's going to break everybody. Oh, you know what? Christmas scene as Jordan's agent. I have.
01:52:00
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He eats the theory. He is so amazing. I mean, I love that guy. He is the best. He's the best actor never to win an Academy Award or even be nominated. But he was standing. He was in line in front of me, by the way, at the premiere for Killers of the Flower Moon. I'm like, Oh, it's Christmas, you know, I think I'll just stand here and be a normal person and not say to him, you're so good in air.
01:52:21
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I was not going to be that guy. He probably would have appreciated that. And Jason Bateman just takes a total supporting role here. Chris Parker shows up for like 10 minutes to do his shtick. I mean, everybody kind of plays their role here. Nobody tries to show anybody else up. It's great. No, but my favorite moment in this, my favorite piece of acting is the guy who plays Jordan's dad. Can't even remember the guy's name, the actor.
01:52:47
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That's Julius Tennant. I know Julius from a bunch of different things. And again, I love the way they shape that. Yeah. He has the most honest moment, which is when Matt Damon shows up. Matt Damon drives to their home and shows up at their doorstep to make the solicitation. And he's working on a car. Jordan's dad is working on a car. He's working under the hood. He looks up and he smiles. And Matt Damon says, hi. I'm here from Nike. And dad smiles. He goes, here we go.
01:53:18
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It's this beautiful moment, right? He just, they know it's coming. They know their kid is amazing. They know that money and those offers are gonna flow. The game begins, game on. It's a wonderful moment. That smile and that here we go. It's just beautiful. And he immediately hands.
01:53:37
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Matt. Oh, that's right. Yes. Over to Delores. Let me take you to the boss. I'm going to keep working on this car, but you do have a talk. I believe everything's going to be fine for us.
01:53:55
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Also, the Wallace and Gromit shorts have been out of print for a long time. Lionsgate had the license last, it expired. God bless the people at Shout Kids, Shout Factory, Shout Studio, Shout Kids. They picked that sucker up because they know their audience and we now have Wallace and Gromit, the complete cracking collection on Blu-ray again.
01:54:16
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So, you don't have to buy any of those UK imports or anything else. And this includes not only a grand day out, the wrong trousers, a closed shave, and a matter of loaf and death, two of which won Academy Awards. It includes cracking
'Last Voyage of the Demeter' Review
01:54:30
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contraptions, which is these 10 short shorts about all of the crazy things that Wallace invents that help in the modern world. It's just absolutely wonderful. My daughter grew up on these.
01:54:44
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I'm so happy to have it in the house again, it's fantastic. Wallace and Gromit, the complete cracking collection. Thank you, shout. A few others here before we wrap out. The last voyage of the Demeter. I don't remember, did you actually wind up seeing this or not?
01:54:59
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Oh, that's the Dracula thing, right? The not Dracula thing. I didn't get through all that movie to be honest with you. Yeah. Yeah. So so it's, it's not good. But here's the thing, what makes it sort of interesting is it's basically alien.
01:55:19
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It's basically alien and the premise of it is interesting. The Corey Hawkins, who's a very, very good actor, plays a guy who is the first black graduate of the London Medical Academy.
01:55:36
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But because of that, and we're 19th century here, he can't get a legit job in a hospital. So he takes a job as a ship's doctor, which just happens to be the ship that has a whole lot of ugly stuff in its cargo, one of which is Dracula, who eventually wakes up and starts murdering everybody on the ship.
01:56:00
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all of that is straight up alien. It's just, it's a monster on a ship killing people and you know, they're trying to stop it and everybody dies except for one guy. And you know, not not Sigourney Weaver, it's this case, it's Cory Hawkins. So there you go. That's it. But the end of this thing, which they intend to set up a sequel, that's interesting. The interesting movie is the last five minutes.
01:56:20
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The rest of it I could do without. Anyway, this thing, they've been trying to make this thing for 20 years. Gerard Butler in Kandahar, I don't know why he keeps making movies like this. He's a CIA guy in Afghanistan and his cover is blown and so he's got to fight his way out. That's really all it is. Lots of guns, lots of explosions, lots of Gerard Butler in his facial hair. Otherwise, I don't know. Gran Turismo, did you ever play the game?
01:56:48
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A little bit way back in the day, way back in the day. Sure, sure, sure. I've never played the game. How's the movie? I did not understand this movie. This movie as your new blown camp, you know, District 9 and all that stuff there. This movie to me felt like a game. A game in which I didn't have a controller.
01:57:12
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And I'm like, what the hell am I watching this for? But I don't know, no, not quite do it for me. Yeah, well. And then two very last, two last final titles, Jewels with Ben Kingsley. This is basically E.T. with Ben Kingsley and an alien that doesn't really look like an alien. It's like somebody in a suit. Yeah, look, this is Ben Kingsley is an old guy in a small town and he's always complaining of the city council and he's, you know, his daughter thinks he's going crazy. And then a flying saucer.
01:57:42
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He crashes on his property and there's an alien that he lives with and tries to keep secret and all the old people. It's ET with old people. That's what it is, right? It's all the crazy old people and the kids think they're crazy.
01:57:56
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There's nothing else to it. It's kind of sweet. Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark. Did Mark, Turtle Top, do I want to say Miss Little Miss Sunshine said? Yeah. Producer. Yeah. He's produced a ton of films. He directed this one, but he's a huge producer. And I mean, it's kind of sweet, but I mean, there's nothing spectacular about it. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. Oh my goodness. You know, a lot of people who I guess still need work and
01:58:22
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back to the well no no no I know yeah yeah Mia Mia Mia still looks great yeah yeah it probably looks great yeah this one's literally mostly in Greece mostly in Greece Rita Rita Hank still produced
01:58:41
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They still threw their weight behind this thing, but you know, I mean is it offensive? Is it horrible? No. Is it necessary? Not in the least. It's got all kinds of things going on in this movie in a few days. Yes. No. No. That's okay. Well, there we go.
01:58:56
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All right, that's it for this week, everybody. Good blow through. We're going to try to get back here with a holiday show and some gift guide recommendations before long. We got a lot of other stuff in the works, too. Yeah. So we'll hopefully be able to break some news to people soon, if all that pans out. In the meanwhile, Tim, you're headed off. You're headed home for Thanksgiving. I'm actually going to do a little business and get you around my moms and Thanksgiving and be back, take care of a little business here. All kinds of stuff going on here. All right, man.
01:59:25
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to you and everyone else. Have a great Thanksgiving. We'll have more on awards season and holidays and all the rest of that stuff the next time you see.
02:01:30
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Bye!