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It's a (Richard) Linklater summer! This week we discuss 2 of his most beloved summer films, Dazed & Confused and Everybody Wants Some.
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Introduction and Preparations
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Alright, alright, alright. Welcome to the Lost in the Frame podcast. I'm your host Hachi. I'm your host Malik. I'm your host Alex.
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I didn't think very very far to the into the quote. The fact that didn't know to after, alright. That's three seconds. I didn't know what to say after the podcast name. Anyways, how are you guys doing today?
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I'm doing good. I'm ready for our or Richard Linklater summer episode. How are y'all? Dude, good.
Personal Anecdotes and Reviews
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My AC broke when I got home. It was 85 degrees when I walked in my house.
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That's disgusting. What was the feeling as you opened the front door? Oh, no. So I'd taken the motorcycle to work today. And on the way home, just getting absolutely cooked.
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It felt like 130 on the road. asphalt was so hot. it was the the asphalt was so hot um I'm sitting in traffic hitting every light because of course. um So I pull up, you know, i go in, I'm in the garage and you close it up, take off all my gear and I'm hot and sweaty.
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I'm like, oh, I cannot wait to open my door into cool luxury. And I opened it up and it was like just as hot. As it was outside.
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I go over to the thermostat. It's like it's 85 degrees in your house. And I'm just like. Oh. Yeah. So I call this ah this AC places down the street guy comes over.
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yeah Honestly, paid a lot of money, but I was like, he fixed it in like 20 minutes. right ah the the not The compressor, the capacitor, it's a little battery, was broken.
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So my AC, the unit was on, but it was spinning backwards and sucking all this hot air into my house instead of sucking it out of my house and moving cold air in.
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um Capacitor's like this little silver cylinder, right? And it's kind of like a battery, I think. And they're supposed to be like kind of flat. Mine was like, you know, when you shake a soda can and like drop it and it like inflates.
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That's what it looked like because it overheated. um And I learned that you're supposed to actually water your air conditioning in Texas when it gets really hot. My God. Yeah. So this doesn't happen. So I'm going to go buy a hose because the one I have doesn't really reach from the spigot closest to it.
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And yes, it was really hot. It's getting a lot better. My house is in the 70s now. um And I'm ready to record. These are the problems of a homeowner.
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A motorcycle riding, handsome man. Richard Link, Alex. I'm glad you're keeping cool. We did our best this summer to keep cool with some cool summer movies.
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Before we get into the movies of today, we'll do our rapid review and some movie news, cool? Cool, sure. um I can go first with my rapid review this week. It's not a movie. It's not even a show.
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It's a company. I found this website on Reddit. I was recently shopping for a new TV. The website that I am shouting out is called greento.com, and the significance of this website is it uses third-party vendors for purchases mainly electronics such as TVs.
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Um, but they go through third party vendors without the marketing. So like Best Buy, for example, I just got my first OLED. It's beautiful. I love it. And I got it for about $600 less than I would have at Best Buy from this company.
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So if you're in the market for a new TV or a computer or a camera, check out green toe. What's the catch? There is no catch. I thought there was a catch. Your data got sold to the IDF.
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Like it wasn't already? Good point. There's nothing that could happen these days. If I'm saving money, I'm in. I read a lot of Reddit threads about people purchasing TVs from this website, and I'm like, I think this is legit.
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I was like, if i if if not, I just got duped $2,000.
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So, Shadow Green Toe. I'm loving my new OLED.
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And I watched Batman on it and it looks fucking amazing. Why isn't that your rapid review? I don't know. wanted to shout out the company to save someone out there some money. It was a lot. That's a good chunk of change.
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Maybe future for another podcast. but do What are they called? Green Toe? Green Toe. Like T-O-E? Yeah. Whoa. Owned and operated by Quentin Tarantino.
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Who's next? I can go next. ah This is a movie. However, I watched it when I wasn't really fully awake. And this is Arco, a French animated movie.
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Oh, yeah. And it's really beautiful. I remember that. But as for the characters, the story, um any quote that might stick in my brain, nothing there.
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But... It was nice to look at, so I gave it ah three and a half stars. What happened? were Did you watch it late? It was probably like 1 a.m. m My God, dude. What are y'all doing at the 1 in the morning? Crazy.
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I don't know. You started a movie at 1 a.m. Were you just like... it was a i didn't start it at 1 a.m.
Film Reviews and Discussions
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m It may have been like 12 12.30, but... Bro, that's nuts. I don't know how are umt know how you're doing this. As, like, the elder of the pod, I'm not sure how you're staying up that late. Elder millennial.
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i I'm just used to it. i'm literally I get so sleepy at 1030. You little baby boy. I guess so.
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Alex, what you got? I... closed a huge blind spot in a director I loves filmography who's that because I watched Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette for the first time wow nice and i really liked it uh it's kind of what I expected but also not what I expected at all it has some great song choices right just incredible needle drops over some wonderful cinematography. Um, I think Sofia Coppola might be one of the best directors working maybe ever in terms of hair and makeup and costume design, because,
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This movie was like the fashion choices in it were just incredible. The color combinations. She really has an eye for it. Kirsten Dunst was great.
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ah Jason Schwartzman was also great in it. um It's a lot of fun. It's a Sofia Coppola movie. It's very like understated. And so I'm going to start with a four out of five.
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And I just know that it's going to go higher on subsequent rewatches. Many such cases with Sofia Coppola's work. That's awesome. All right, let's get into some movie news.
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a Doomsday trailer came out. We talked about it over text, wanted to talk about it on the podcast. How are we feeling? Did you watch it, T-Money? I watched it.
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I finally watched it. um Not great. It unfortunately made me feel nothing, yeah which is probably the worst thing. Yeah.
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Is. ah
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Did you read the leak, Tachi? the No. he and That I'll stay away from. Yeah. But not the trailer.
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Unplug your earplugs for a second. Again, they're going to this every episode. They're going to do this every time. right. Give me a signal.
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The leak is real. I think the leak is real. So if you guys aren't aware, there's this leak floating around internet. Wait, if you don't want to hear a leak of Doomsday, skip ahead like two minutes. i mean I'm not going to really go into it because I don't remember it off the top my head. yeah There is a plot floating around of Doomsday and it's slop.
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And with every detail they release, it just keeps getting confirmed. Like more and more details from it are lining up.
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I...
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If the leak is real, I don't know. If the opening scene is what we've read in the leak and like we're in the theater watching it and that's what it opens with, like I'm just going to laugh because then I know what we're in for for the next two and a half hours. Yeah, it's going to three hours of just, oh no.
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I know you. We're going to to like we're gonna have to when we do our Doonesday episode, however we go about doing that. We're going to have to do in a segment where we break down the leak yeah and then compare it.
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Come back, Team Honey. You can touch come back, Tachi. I'm back. All right. um Yeah, for a reaction from me out of the trailer, also felt nothing. ah I sent you guys a TikTok where we know what the first hour of the movie is going to be, and it's going to be just miscommunication central of, Dr. Doom?
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Wait a minute. I hate him, too. Why are we fighting? He's over there.
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Can't wait. ah I am and like a big part of me is excited to see what it is. I'm still going opening night, but yeah. Oh, me too. Like we have, I have to see it. yeah Yes. And that's the thing.
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And I saw, I saw someone talking about this and they were like, what made Barb and I were so great was that it was two movies that was, were equally respected by their various fandoms and audiences it was like, these are both like, you know, can both be very good. We're both very excited about this.
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But the Doom and Dune one is like, everyone's super excited for it because I think we all realize how polar opposite they're going to be.
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There was like a collective awakening post Endgame MCU. That it just shifted. And now we're all here to witness like the first real go at, Hey, we're still here, please. And we're like, we're going to go. It's going to make money because I think we're all just morbidly curious. Yeah.
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oh If it beats Dune, I'm going to be so bad. I'd be pissed. It might. Everyone goes to hate watch it. There's potential for sure. Everybody goes to hate watch it and no one goes to see you in Dune. And Dune flops.
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um Next trailer. This one I did watch. The Coyote vs. Acme trailer. Did you guys get to check it out? No, I didn't yet. It looks fun. I'm excited. I'm super excited. ah Will Forte looks great in it. John Cena's in it. It's blending live action and the animation, as I'm sure we're all aware. um But it looked like it was a really funny trailer, and it made my excitement level go up for it.
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Cool. There's a new installment into the Ebenezer Scrooge universe. Yep. ah Johnny Depp will play as the titular Ebenezer, directed by, and I haven't seen any of these movies, T-West. He directed the X trilogy or X series.
00:12:10
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don't know if they're anymore. Pearl, and then Maxine. Yeah. Yeah, those movies land.
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What do you guys think of that ah interesting pairing? Scrooge and T. Isn't there another Ebenezer Scrooge movie coming out this year too? i just don't know what this is going to be about. Is it like a prequel?
00:12:29
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I don't know. Because, you know, in the play, they go through his early life. The Ghost of Christmas Past kind of does like a whole...
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Here you are growing up bit. so So are you saying are we going to see like Johnny Depp as Johnny Depp in these flashbacks? I don't i don't know. Like i don't I don't know what this movie is supposed be. I'm really confused about what this movie is.
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i didn't know it was directed by T. West either. So is this like horror leaning?
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I don't know. I don't know. I did see the ah look. he ah He made a ah ah showing at San Diego Comic-Con. I think today. T-West or Johnny Depp? ah aba Ebenezer. Johnny Depp as Ebenezer. Okay.
00:13:18
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Yeah. like Is this his first like movie since the whole thing? I think so. That can't be right.
00:13:29
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i I feel like that's right. I don't care for the man enough to really know. With Amber Heard? Yeah. Yeah. That whole trial. But i think that I think it's been that long. I don't know.
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All right.
Series and Franchise Critiques
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What's next? Yeah, anyways. ah New Resident Evil trailer. Didn't watch this one. I didn't watch this one either. Okay, what do you think, Tachi? I mean, it looks really good. Just as good as a teaser. Yeah.
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However, in this one, there are a lot more nods to the games. So as someone who watched his brother play like all of them, because I was too scared. Yep.
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so saw Saw a lot of neat little references here and there scattered throughout. So I think there's a lot of attention and detail. If you're a fan of the games, that franchise, that a lot of loyal fans will be happy to see.
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I'm looking forward to it. Yeah.
00:14:27
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Our next installment into the Robert Pattinson 2026 cinematic universe is coming out and premiering at the Venice film festival in August.
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It's a wide releases on September 25th. And that is prime time. The Chris Hansen to catch a predator movie. I'm so excited. I have been watching so many to catch a predator episodes since this trailer graced us. Yeah.
00:14:56
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And i'm I'm so intrigued on how they're going to roll with this one. It can go a lot of different routes. New poster looks awesome.
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It does look awesome. I wonder if he Chris Hansen's involved with it. I don't know. would be worth looking into. Let us know Chris Hansen. Yeah, he's a fan of the pod.
00:15:19
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Using sort of his likeness. Yeah. But he's just like, what the fuck? yeah He's like, what were you what what were you planning to do with my likeness in this movie? Because it says here, Robert, you were going to meet a 13-year-old boy.
00:15:38
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and need to see both of them interact. Same room. Then they kiss. m What's next?
00:15:47
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um the We got the first look at Blade Runner 2099 series starring Michelle Yao and Hunter Schaefer. The series is set after a replicant uprising where humans lost and replicants rule, releasing later this year on Prime Video.
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er Okay. All right. ah First look photos are never good because they're just behind the scenes pictures. So they always look really cheap.
00:16:21
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This is no different. um I don't know how to feel about. I will just have to watch the show. I have no idea how I feel about this actually being made.
00:16:34
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like i still need to watch the original. Oh, come on. Talk about a blind spot. Yeah. Yeah. I know. yeah I know. Lucky you.
00:16:46
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I prefer 2049, though, over the original. I don't think that's controversial either. going to put my hands down. No, I don't think it is. I feel like it's... Still more split. like People are probably more biased towards the original because it's the original.
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But I feel like it's not super unpopular to say that 2049 is the preferred one. They're both great It help that there's like nine different versions of Blade Runner 2. Yeah. Like the OG. There's the final cut, the director's cut,
00:17:17
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yeah And I don't know which is the preferred one. it's the same with Apocalypse Now. It's like, I don't know which one's the one you're supposed to watch. Gets too muddy. It gets very muddy.
00:17:29
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Speaking of shows that I don't know how I feel about. New Avatar show. Avatar as in Aang Avatar. a avatar Avatar Seven Havens. The series follows Earthbending Twins after a world-shattering disaster where one discovers she's the new Avatar after Korra.
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This comes out on Paramount on October ninth And I think they're releasing two seasons at once. Really? 26 episodes. I thought it was just one season of 26 episodes. That's what I thought too. But then I saw someone say it was two seasons worth of episodes.
00:18:07
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Which, how little do you care about a show? Or how little faith do you have in it if you're releasing all of that at once? I will say I watched the trailer right before this.
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ah I'm probably not going to watch it.
00:18:23
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ah It doesn't look interesting to me. This is the first I'm hearing about it. Is this all part of the ah Avatar Studios thing? I don't know. Maybe. i mean, I wasn't a huge fan of Korra.
00:18:35
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aha mean, I'm an insanely rabid fan of the original series. Just love it to death. We got the movie coming out on. So we're recording this on Thursday the 23rd. We have the new Airbender movie that got leaked like a couple months back.
00:18:56
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Releasing on Saturday on Paramount+. plus I will watch that. It's also in theaters. In New York and LA only. Okay, so it's very, very limited. okay Very limited release in two cities for like five days. So by the time this episode is out, it's already out of theaters.
00:19:14
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Most likely. and Yeah, you're getting close. You're getting close. That's crazy. All right, well, watch it on Paramount then. How bad have they managed this IP?
00:19:27
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Horribly. It's incredible.
00:19:32
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Like, first the leak.
00:19:36
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Then this show that no one cares about. And then meanwhile, Netflix is releasing the live action, which... changes fundamental things from the story from what I ever talk about it. Like I've never seen it and I will never watch it. No, but I was watching clips that came out and there was one specifically of tough, uh, doing the, when she invents the metal bending.
00:19:59
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Yeah. In the, in the cell and the live action the adaptation is, have you guys seen this clip? Yeah. It's all the worst shit I've ever seen in my life.
00:20:12
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And why is Toph's mom there? I don't know. Toph's mom appeared in one episode. She straight up announces just what she's doing. like Like what we've talked about with what Netflix does with their scripts. theyre like, oh, we want people to, what is what was it called? Second screen?
00:20:26
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Yeah. Like to know what's still going on when they're on their phones. And she's ah literally just like, my name is Toph Bafong and I just invented metal bending. And then the scene ends and I I...
00:20:38
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The show looks and probably feels terrible to watch. um I feel really bad for yeah for the actors, though. Yeah. I don't know why Jet dies in the library. Jet never went into the library. He dies in the library? He dies in the library.
00:20:52
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Wong Sheetong kills him. That's not what happened. He's pretty critical later on. Yeah. out of The whole Zuko embossing say bit. So how I just, yeah, no, I kind of want to know. It's like, I want to watch and I want to know, but I don't want to waste the time. That's just rage bait yourself. Yeah. It looks awful.
00:21:15
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Everything's a green screen. Oh, well all right. And the actors look the acting. but I mean, granted. Yeah. Maybe I feel bad for them. I don't even know what's bad and what's good. Like, ah like are you talented? Like, I can't tell.
00:21:32
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We won't fault the actors. We'll just fault the people who greenlit and made this. ah All right. Well, it goes on at a Netflix production. They're just like, this is horrible.
00:21:44
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I don't know. Like, when they're actually shooting on the day. Or they genuinely think, like, oh, this is going to cook. Like, this is so good. I don't know, because I've seen, like, even the behind-the-scenes clips of them making Avatar, I'm like, this just looks...
00:21:55
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bad granted anything that has that many special effects even if it's good does look silly behind the scenes i always think of that one clip of uh of the flash the cw show in supergirl not that that one's good but he's like making his fists he's like twirling them to make like a tornado but it's just the behind the scenes and he's just it's just quiet he's like
00:22:20
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And it just looks dumb as hell, but... That's acting. That's acting. Couldn't take it seriously.
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All right, you guys ready to get into the movies? Let's do it. yeah All right.
Exploration of 'Dazed and Confused'
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We're having a Linklater somewhere over here. We're going be talking about Days the Confused and Everybody Wants Some. We'll do our Letterboxd Love Like Lows for both movies. I'll read the synopsis of Days the Confused.
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We'll do our reviews. Synopsis for Everybody Wants Some. We'll do our reviews. Starting with Days Then Confused came out in 1993, directed by Richard Linklater.
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The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks, and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a no drugs pledge.
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kind of that's I think it's a talent to make a synopsis from a movie like this. Great job. Yeah. yeah All right. um I've got our five star for the day. Tachi with the three, or Alex with the three, and then Tachi with a one star.
00:23:28
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um My five star for Days of Confused comes from Danzel Vaughn. Five stars and a heart. Mentally, it's always the last day of school, May 1976, 1.05 p.m. for me.
00:23:42
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And he tagged it with Criterion and Blu-ray. Which is it, buddy? yeah It is both. i think craig Aren't Criterions Blu-ray? I thought all Criterions were 4K. I could be wrong.
00:23:54
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The Dazed and Confused one is not 4K. I can confirm that. I literally watched it on DVD. I didn't know that. all right it It didn't look 4K.
00:24:06
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um Because I also watched it on DVD. um Our three-star review comes from Dealey. Maybe I'm just not cool or American enough to get the hype.
00:24:19
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I had some fun and wasn't bored, but for a movie with so many characters, it's hard to believe I disliked almost all of them. But maybe that's the point, considering they're a bunch of 70s teens, but I wish we'd seen them in situations that made them more likable. Even if this wasn't for me, I can still appreciate how well it was made.
00:24:35
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And there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 tags.
00:24:40
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seven eight tags This is tagged just entertaining. I laughed out loud. Questionable.
00:24:52
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Hot take. Annoying. Not for me. The outfits! asclamation mark And don't get the hype. What is the purpose of Letterboxd tags? I will admit, i have never used one.
00:25:09
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Just the way to organize things. Organize? Yeah, I use them. How do you use them? I'll pull them up right now. Tachi, have you ever used tag?
00:25:20
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A couple times. I need to make it a habit, though. I have... But if if I do it, then I need to do it for all the movies I've done it, or all the movies I've blogged, and that would take long time.
00:25:32
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That's true. It's easy to start today. I have six tags that I use the most frequently. Theater, which is movies I saw in a theater. Okay. Watched with Dad, which is movies watched with and can' thats time Sick Day, which is movies I watched when i was sick.
00:25:50
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oh Lost in the Frame, which is movies for this pod. Nice. We got a tag. Airplane, which is movies I watched on airplanes. And Physical, which is movies I watched on physical disc.
00:26:02
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Okay, so I'm assuming that you tag Dazed and Confused with Physical. I have forgotten to put that tag on, but yes, will tag it on Physical.
00:26:13
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Tachi, what's your one star? ah For Dazed and Confused, I've got one star from Henrique. Henrique with an H at the front. Yes.
00:26:24
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One star. Who gives a fuck? one of the dumbest One of the dumbest and most meaningless movies I've ever seen. This was so awfully directed and annoying that it makes me mad it exists.
00:26:36
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Richard Linklater can do so much better. Hmm. All right. Synopsis for Everybody Wants Some. We're talking about these movies kind of interchangeably. Cause we're kind of the same.
00:26:48
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Yeah. We're like, we're, it's a, we're doing like a hybrid approach. I forgot you were on mute whenever I told Dachi this, but I'm scared. Yeah, you should be. Locking me up. Here's a synopsis for Everybody Wants Some. Also directed by Richard Linklater, but this one came out in 2016.
00:27:04
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A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Five Star from Stephen Hyden reads this. Five Stars on a Heart.
00:27:16
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To be honest, I've been putting this. ive I chose this one because I'm kind of confused by it. To be honest, I've been putting this on almost every night before I go to bed lately, so I haven't really seen the whole thing. I've just been hanging out in this world for 15 to 20 minutes at a time.
00:27:30
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More and more, I feel like this might be the best sports movie ever made after Raging Bull. What? Hmm.
00:27:39
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We've got to put that guy in prison. Watching a movie at 15 to 20 minute increments. As you're falling asleep to just like so it's really like seven minute increments you're getting. And you're like, this movie is fucking awesome. I love this. This is the best sports movie ever.
00:27:57
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Next to Raging Bull. It's insane. um Next to... Yeah. High School Musical is a better sports movie than this.
00:28:08
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um Three-star review comes from Allie Watches Films. I really can't stand these... bro films. It's just a bunch of guys acting dumber than necessary with the stereotypical American college athlete lifestyle playing out in the most predictable way. The con, this concept has been done to death and the humor here never really impressed me. There are just too many male characters and they all look way too old for their roles.
00:28:36
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It lacks the same vibe and charm that dazed and confused had. Hmm. This one is a half star. Comes in from Ben Edwards, 905.
00:28:47
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Shout out to the 905. I don't know what that is. Nothing happens and I hate them all. Thank you. Beautiful. The 905 area code is Ontario, Canada.
00:29:01
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All right. Very familiar? Bonjour. That's Quebec. Quebec's the French one. So admittedly, Than Confused was on my watch list for so long.
00:29:17
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you wait You had never seen it? This is the first time I've seen Days Than Confused. No way. it' No way. What makes it even worse is Days Than Confused was the first criterion I ever owned.
00:29:28
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And it was a gift from my friend Ernie. Shout out Ernie. And I just watched it for the first time. This was years ago. No way i've gone Not only have I gone my whole life without seeing Days Than Confused, I have physically owned it for at least four years.
00:29:42
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This was the first. No way. Yep. It's like the Austin movie. It is. It is literally like the most quintessential Austin movie yep ever made. Except maybe behind Slacker. I knew all the about it. I know all the spots. Like...
00:29:59
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I've <unk>ve always been very aware of Days and Confused. I feel like I've seen it just like in chunks, but I've never like sat down to watch it. This was the first time. Similar to Everybody Wants Some, it's also been on my watch list not as long as Days and Confused, but just because I like Linklater.
00:30:14
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So first watch for me for both of these. Seems like same the same for you, Tachi? Yeah. Nice. Were you aware of these movies? I was aware Days and Confused. Not Everybody Wants Some.
00:30:27
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Got it. But I recognize locations in both. Yeah. Immediately, not to jump too far ahead, but in everybody wants them. was just like, oh my God, is that the blue hole?
00:30:38
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It is the blue hole. Yeah, where we went swimming that one time, Tachi. I thought that was Krause Springs. Or is that the same thing? I think it's the same thing. Oh. I think.
00:30:50
Speaker
and don't but it looks just like it. It it was yeah it was the exact same. Yeah, um yeah they film most of Everybody Wants Some in like the San Marcos area. Yeah. I recognize campus a little bit. Yeah.
00:31:00
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Yeah, both of these movies filmed in and around the Austin area, so a lot of iconic landmarks that we are familiar with. I think one of the biggest ones from Days to Confuse being Top Notch.
00:31:15
Speaker
Yeah. you guys like Top Notch? you you be I think Top Notch is fantastic fantastic. love Top Notch. I think it's really good. Notch is great. Yeah. I only had it handful of times in tenure there. And they're actually opening a second location Hunter. Really? Oh. Yes.
00:31:30
Speaker
They've opened a second one, but dude, top notch is it's top notch. It's top notch. It is so good. Um, there was also an alt J music video that was filmed in Austin and then they've got some scenes at top notch, the left hand free video.
00:31:44
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So that's a fun, uh, other shout out. But, um, what do we think of days and confused touchy you go first and then I'll go. And then since Alex has seen it. Sure.
00:31:55
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Um,
00:31:58
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Good. thought it was pretty fun. Yeah. had a good time. Yeah. I'm a big fan of Richard Linklater. Like I said, i love the before trilogy School of Rock. um Most recently, I thought Blue Moon was really good. So all of his movies have been either really liked or loved for what I've seen. I've seen a good chunk of of his filmography.
00:32:20
Speaker
um This is no different. I had a really good time with this movie. I we're already kind of knew what to expect coming into this from Linklater. figured that it was just going to be a high school hangout movie, but wanted to see who these characters were and the lives that they lived and just kind of how that evolves over the span of a couple days. And i also had a really good time with this. And there were quite a few people that I did not know were in this that I was surprised to see pop up.
00:32:51
Speaker
So... It is a who's who like it's one of those movies where a lot of people got their start and there's some ones like there's still someone in this movie who is in this movie and I still have yet to pick them out.
00:33:06
Speaker
And it's Renee Zellweger. Really? She has a non-speaking role in this movie. She's just in the background and I have yet to like actually see her. This is like my third time watching Dazed and Confused.
00:33:18
Speaker
And I still can't find her. Huh. Weird. Yeah. I picked up on the ah Saving Private Ryan guy like immediately.
00:33:29
Speaker
Adam Goldberg? Yeah. Yeah. I recognized him from a couple other things, but we'll have a segment talking about like our favorite roles and least favorite roles from these people. um I was most surprised by a young Ben Affleck.
00:33:45
Speaker
As soon as he came out of the the truck, I went, whoa. And I think this had to be like i think his fourth, like third or fourth role. was very early. Very early on. like He looked like a baby. yeah yeah um Alex, what do you think of Days of Confused?
00:34:02
Speaker
you know The first time I watched it, I thought it was good, not great. I didn't think I was at an age where I could like truly appreciate what this movie was.
00:34:13
Speaker
And when we talk more about everyone wants them, I think I'll talk about what really ties both these movies together, at least in my mind. Um, but the first time I saw this, I was in college. Um, so I was new to Austin and I was like, Oh, this is a piece of Austin like lore that I need to, to, you know, get up on.
00:34:29
Speaker
And I watched it and i liked it. Um, I think I thought it was a little slow, a little boring. Because, you know, all right right off the bat, this is a movie where nothing happens. Like, absolutely. It's just things on screen for, like, two hours.
00:34:44
Speaker
Literally slice of life. I mean, if you had told me that, like, about like the cigar vault or something. And someone is telling me a story about like their craziest last day of school. I've been like, okay, like, yeah, that seems plausible. Right.
00:34:58
Speaker
Not a very fantastical movie, but also very fantastical. Um, so like my second time watching it, I don't really, I think I just watched it and i was like, Oh, i like that. and But this time watching it, um,
00:35:12
Speaker
I don't know. I think it clicked a little bit more, a lot more that second or this third time watching it. Yeah. I've been in Austin for almost 10 years now. um A lot of the locations I recognize, even though they're very different. So for instance, the, ah the, the, the pool hall, you know, man, I love the high school girls scene.
00:35:33
Speaker
um That's ah that's now the styles and switch barbecue. but it used to be yeah that's styles and switch that's so cool wow um love styles but like that whole plaza is is completely different but if you look at it's like oh my god no that's it wow it's there yeah um And you just, there's a lot of the things you see, like, especially like when they're driving through the neighborhoods, you can, like, drive around and be like, yeah, like, this does feel like that, right?
00:36:04
Speaker
There's still, like, a little bit of, like, that old Austin soul still in the city. ah But there's less and less of it each day. So watching this movie and seeing, like, oh, this so this is, that's what it looked like. You're like, man.
00:36:16
Speaker
like It's almost like its own little piece of, uh, It's like an Austin urban legend, like a tall tale, you know, um that this movie, like that's what this city was like before this.
00:36:31
Speaker
So I really liked it this third time watching it, if you can't tell. yeah um But we'll we'll get more into it later. Yeah, I echo a lot of what you were saying. it Now, me being moved out of Austin for a few months, like it already feels super nostalgic and like missing like missing this place. And it's it's crazy to see. and i like I know that feeling still would have been there watching this in the city because you're watching like a city of yesterday, and like you said, like what it used to be.
00:37:02
Speaker
But now being removed from it, I feel like it just automatically added another layer as if this was... the second or third time that I've seen it because it just like, it immediately just clicked with me.
00:37:12
Speaker
Like, I also really loved this movie. There was that one cut to like kind of the, the blurry skyline, that sat on the screen for a little bit and i was like, if that's what it looked like in 93.
00:37:27
Speaker
So when I got here in 2016, I took a picture of the skyline from the pedestrian Hey, got here the same year. Yeah. Yeah. it ah It was August 2016. Same. Weird. Yeah. and same weird yeah But yeah, just thinking of the difference in the skyline, even from 2016 to now, it feels just as drastic as it was from 2016 to 1993. Yeah. my lived in Austin in the 90s. And when I tell you, when we moved back,
00:37:56
Speaker
Like, moving me into college at UT, um it was my mom's first time being back in the city, and where she was like, when I saw the skyline, I did not recognize the city. She's like, it was unrecognizable. Yeah. When I came back, it was it felt like, whoa. like You drive around, like, what happened to this place?
00:38:14
Speaker
where Where'd that building go? Like, what is this... I don't even want to talk about West Campus. yeah Oh my gosh. I've seen the time lapses of yeah the downtown skyline from like the 90s to now, and it's insane. um i don't know if you guys knew this, but I lived in Austin before this last time, like when I was a kid, like when I was a baby.
00:38:36
Speaker
My mom, me, my mom, and my dad. m The first year I was alive. From years zero to one, we lived in Austin. um So I don't remember it whatsoever. So I couldn't tell you what it was like back then.
00:38:50
Speaker
um But yeah, um where do we start with this movie? Like we said, there's not really much that happens, which is kind of why wanted to talk about these movies together because they're kind of about a feeling.
00:39:02
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um And I think Richard Linklater is an excellent director and writer in capturing those specific emotions. you Someone can watch this and be like, yes, this is boring.
00:39:14
Speaker
But like if you really look at it and you try to like dissect how talented it is to be able to write and shoot a feeling like this, like it looks easy. like You're watching on screen and you're just like, oh yeah, you just just kind of do it. But I know i just know in practice like that's got to be one of the most difficult things to do. And I think he does it flawlessly like across not just this movie, but like many of his movies.
00:39:43
Speaker
In Dazed and Confused, there's a theme of, or i don't know if it's really a theme. It's just like a recurring plot line of the hazing that went on. And I guess these Texas schools in the 70s, I don't know if it happened anywhere else like this, but did you guys ever experience or see things like that in high school?
00:40:02
Speaker
No. Not really? Not to that extent. I feel like... Something was pretty weird. Yeah, yeah. um I feel like the hazing like that, at that level, maybe stopped in like the 90s 2000s as we're getting into like the anti-bully anti-drug dare phase of like schools and everything like that and so losing recipes we gotta to bring bullying backs i truly do think high school in the 70s and eighty s was different and like that did you ever experience anything like that in mississippi
00:40:39
Speaker
Do what? Did you ever experience anything like that or like see it? um No, nothing to that extent. Not to act like a fish that was getting fried on the ground or something. Yeah.
00:40:50
Speaker
Or spanks. I thought that was tame. That was the most tame. It was just weird. It was weird, but I was like... Like a piece of bacon. Yeah. That's not that bad. Like fried piggies. Yeah. Oh, here's some ketchup. Mmm. Mmm.
00:41:05
Speaker
No, i I didn't get bullied to that extent. There were there are always like offhand comments here and there, but nothing like, you know, trying to ruin my day.
00:41:16
Speaker
yeah I wasn't getting hazed or ran across town with someone trying to spank me with a paddle. The fact that they're making these paddles in Woodshop, Ben Affleck is quite literally the most insane person I've ever seen. He's a psychopath. ho banan Yes.
00:41:34
Speaker
A sexually charged, closeted man. Boy. Yeah, there's something going on like there is There is a story for this kid.
00:41:45
Speaker
and he days Where did he come from? don't know. Where did he come from in Linklater's mind? Who was the real O'Banion? so I was reading a bit on the wiki article for Dazed and Confused. and A lot of the story of how this movie got made I think is really cool. This is Linklater's second feature. was behind Slacker, which was yeah the Austin documentary movie.
00:42:11
Speaker
Yeah, and so that um got a lot of attention at festivals, which kind of helped secure um a deal for Days of Confused. And it's just really cool kind of seeing how it was made. But as far as like the way he was working with the actors, from what I'm reading, he had everything kind of just be like very free-flowing. like Yes, there was a script, but also a lot of like improvisation to the point where he was telling these actors and actresses, are like...
00:42:38
Speaker
if you want to change your character, change it. But like, tell me why and tell me what you're changing it. And for Ben Affleck specifically, um I think he said he's basing a lot of it off of his like stepdad. So. Oh, geez. Yeah.
00:42:50
Speaker
So definitely some stuff there to to unpack for young Ben. I need to ah i to read this book. My mom got me. ah it's ah It's called All Right, All Right, All Right. It's the oral history of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused.
00:43:04
Speaker
So i'm sure there's a lot of nuggets in there that I'm missing. I actually like wanted to read it before we read this, but I didn't. Is that McConaughey on the front?
00:43:18
Speaker
It is McConaughey on the front. Yeah. But yeah, I because I want to know more about like how this movie got made. Where did it come from? what was it like? I bet it was a blast to fill this movie. Yeah, they like an absolute treat.
00:43:31
Speaker
They would stay at a they had the crew, the cast and crew stay at a hotel on Congress while they were filming. And they said that while they wrapped, like while they're at the hotel, it was basically the movie. Just a bunch of 19 year olds getting high and drunk.
00:43:45
Speaker
like at the hotel. So it's like they did it and then they shot it so much so that even at the party scene at the end, they're legit just actually drinking and and smoking weed.
00:43:55
Speaker
There was a scene in recipes. and everybody wants some where I was like 99% sure that they were actually getting high. as when that the the four guys were smoking in the room. The bong ribs? Yeah. I was watching and I was like there's they have to be. They have to be getting high.
00:44:10
Speaker
i can like I could see their faces changing. Yeah, the specific shot of the ah of the lighter catching in the bowl. Yeah. And then the smoke coming up and i'm like and it doesn't cut. And I'm like, Wyatt Russell is getting high as shit right now on set. And it was kind of impressive. The world's longest bong rip. It was like 25 seconds.
00:44:33
Speaker
It was impressive. My God. I've maybe smoked out of a bong a handful of times. I remember the last time I did. I was like, that's the last time. Not for me. I can't. I can't do bongs. That's nuts.
00:44:48
Speaker
um But the big leagues. Yeah. ah Was this Matthew McConaughey's first movie? I think it was. Yeah. Okay. he ah The story of him, he approached a bart he approached the casting director at a bar in downtown Austin when he was out with his girlfriend.
00:45:04
Speaker
The bartender told him, me like hey, that's a casting director. he direct he ah He cast Sean Penn in Fast Times. So McConaughey went, all right, all right, all right, and went over there to go talk to him. And then that was it guess the rest is history.
00:45:16
Speaker
That's so cool. This movie gets compared a lot to Fast Times at Ridgemont High and American Graffiti. So now like I want to watch both of those, too. Yeah.
00:45:26
Speaker
I have seen a picture of Sean Penn in Fast Times and he looks exactly the same. He's always going to look disheveled. but Disheveled and old. do you think you like black chicks back then? love him Love them.
00:45:40
Speaker
What was you guys' a standout scene in this movie?
00:45:46
Speaker
That's a hard one. I haven't been thinking about it all day. It is hard. I think what I've always liked and appreciated is when Mitch is playing baseball. And he's on the mound and they're like heckling him. And then he he throws gas to get the final out and then just goes and takes his punishment like an absolute champ.
00:46:10
Speaker
um Absolutely. Just like three heaters, crazy motion. I mean, literal like MLB tier stuff. And he's just doing that in like middle school.
00:46:23
Speaker
He's a beast. I've always liked that. I was i always liked the one where um Pink is driving Mitch home from that. And he's like, oh, come on out, man.
00:46:34
Speaker
so it's like i was like just about to shout that one out, too. You know, it's because it's like one of those things where it's like, yeah, the hazing is there and like it sucks. But at the end of the day, like with the exception of O'Banion, like it just it is what it is. And yeah it's like, yeah, we like you. We're just messing with you. You know? Yeah.
00:46:49
Speaker
No hard feelings. And it's genuine. And yeah. And I remember the feeling of being like, an eighth grade like a seventh grader an eighth grader just like someone two grades higher than you like talking to you just like yeah normally as a person it felt like that and like i don't know like my heart just felt like so full just seeing like mitch like his eyes just like lit up he's like he's like yeah yeah i'll come and then he like walks out of the house he's wearing his like nicest buttoned up shirt ready to go for the night that is a that's a very sweet scene how How are the popular kids at your guys' schools? Because at least in my grade specifically, the popular crowd, they were actually all like really nice for the most part.
00:47:29
Speaker
like Bullying didn't really exist in my grade. Everyone was pretty calm with each other. We just had different cliques. i That's kind of the same at mine. Everyone was, like for the most part, like similar levels of popular.
00:47:42
Speaker
ah like Some, I guess, were more popular than others, but... Like, not really. ah But we were we were clicky, but like at the end of the day, like everyone, I think, for the most part, liked each other.
00:47:57
Speaker
Yeah, same. That's great to hear. Yeah, I never really had... is like The stereotypical like high school that you see in movies like wasn't really my experience, whether that be like good or bad.
00:48:09
Speaker
I don't know. But I enjoyed high school. lockers yeah We also didn't have lockers. What? I to carry everything all day. yeah We had lockers at middle school, but not in high school, which is weird. Same. yeah yeah I had them in both. I did have smaller lockers in high school than I did middle school.
00:48:30
Speaker
All right, rich boy. We get it. You had lockers. You know, I mean... We lockers. We had all sorts of stuff. you know We had a lunchroom. Lunch tables.
00:48:42
Speaker
Water fountains. Classrooms. classroom That's sick. have a classroom Love a classroom. um We had bathrooms until sometimes they locked the pet the boys' bathroom.
00:48:53
Speaker
Because people were doing bad things. We would get rambunctious. You and the boys in the bathroom? Not me specifically. Not much different from what we're doing now. Boys as whole.
00:49:05
Speaker
but I never, I wasn't like a big troublemaker and in high school. I never really got in trouble. It helped that the class that I misbehaved the most in, my best friend's mom was teaching it.
00:49:19
Speaker
And she literally, like we had her for four years. She was a language teacher. She was my Italian teacher. She pulled us aside senior year and she's like,
00:49:30
Speaker
It was me, her son, and like one other just mega troublemaker in the class. She pulls us aside and she's like, anybody but you three would probably be suspended.
00:49:42
Speaker
and She's like, you know, I can't get you in trouble. Can you please? That's privilege.
00:49:52
Speaker
Yeah, it was We were horrible. When my sister made it to her class, there were like some of the siblings from my class in my sister's class.
00:50:03
Speaker
And she would like see us all come in. She would saw him coming in like that. She'd be going down the names like shaking like, oh, my God. Like, like no, we not again. do you guys think we'd be friends in high school?
00:50:17
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I do. I do think we'd be friends in high school. For sure. think we're all floated around the same groups. um Soundtrack. So good.
00:50:29
Speaker
Absolute banker. I don't even know where to start with it. Yeah. How did they get the rights to all these songs? Maybe it's just easier back then. And cheaper. It was definitely cheaper to do. It it had to have been.
00:50:41
Speaker
a lot of like indie movies have great needle drops. Yeah. I mean, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kiss, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.
00:50:52
Speaker
It was just like banger after banger. I was like, was were they just giving these songs away for free? They're like, please use our songs. Were they not as big? back I don't know, but it was it was... It's a great soundtrack. I love it.
00:51:05
Speaker
I definitely think the best... Needle Drop is Tuesday's Gone. Which one's that? The Skinnered one. It's like towards the end when like the sun's coming up over the party. oh They're leaving. yeah yeah So good.
00:51:21
Speaker
I just remembered my, or one of my favorite scenes, and it's kind of akin to ah the one we talked about before, but it was with ah Mitch getting more of that feeling of acceptance and I guess ah friendship with the older guys.
00:51:36
Speaker
it's when they're in the car and they're doing the vandalizing stuff with the mailboxes and he yeets the bowling ball out the window and, you know, it destroys a car and they're like,
00:51:47
Speaker
you know mouth they gave. They can't believe what they just saw or what they just where accomplices were accomplices for. but that was great. To tag onto that when they're coaching him with the girl, the sophomore.
00:52:00
Speaker
It's like, you know he felt great in that moment. like If Mitch was a real character, you know it was like... Dude is on top of the world. Yeah, i mean, he's like, dude, here's what you gotta to do. Here's what you gotta do. It's like... um My other favorite character is adam goldberg's ah Adam Goldberg's character, Mike, especially at that party.
00:52:18
Speaker
he's just like and like he He's just thinking about like what he should have done in that little altercation the entire night. the way, he's like, I gotta beat him up. He's gonna eat at me for the rest of my life. like I gotta do it. He's like, I know what I'll do. I'm gonna punch him, and then people don't like to see fights at parties, so they'll break it up real quick, and I'll be okay, and then we'll be good. I'll get it off my chest. really I got a couple licks in it, right? You wouldn't say that I got beaten up. No, nobody's remember it in a couple years who won or lost. Like in books, it just says they just got in a tussle. It doesn't specify who won or lost.
00:52:51
Speaker
he was He did land a good solid first punch. For sure. But it was kind of cheap. It was cheap, but he is... i mean, his philosophy is correct. You need to land the first punch or else you're probably going to lose. Mm-hmm.
00:53:06
Speaker
Unless you're like really good at fighting, if you get punched in the face, you are probably going to lose. Yeah. um McConaughey. All right, all right, all right. Dude's always been him.
00:53:19
Speaker
Yep. He was so good in this. But God, Wooderson is like such like a sleaze ball. He's so horrible. Nasty, awful person. 100%. He had just been 28 or something. Hanging out with high scores. And there's always that and i feel like there's always that guy.
00:53:37
Speaker
yeah I think he was like 24. Okay. Like older, but not like so much older where it's like, who's this... um here but still but yeah he's like 24 because like the thing is like for these movies like the seniors are basically adults right like back then when you were that age you were an adult yeah they could legally drink if you were 18 they could you know they went to the army they had careers they went to like i'm not gonna go to college i'm gonna i might do this you know like
00:54:15
Speaker
They had a lot of autonomy and responsibility. um But yeah, he was still really sleek. I mean, the high school girls line, so iconic. But even in a city where McConaughey and this movie are so quotable, you still got to like look both ways before you say that one out loud. Yeah.
00:54:35
Speaker
You're like, i need everyone to know. I do not agree with this character. Simply a quote. Yeah. I was curious to see when the drinking age changed to 21. 1984. Dude. I just looked at that.
00:54:51
Speaker
That's crazy. That is crazy. I couldn't imagine legally drinking at 18. We're losing recipes. that's if If this episode has taught me anything, these movies, it's that. It's that we're losing recipes. Yeah.
00:55:05
Speaker
But yeah, Dazed and Confused is just a good vibe. And it's something I really enjoyed. I think a movie that I'll frequently come back to. The one thing I really love about it is it's also like unequivocally like a car guy movie.
00:55:20
Speaker
There's some great like car conversations. Just some great cars in this movie. Classic, classic muscle cars. And they're driving around and I'm just thinking to myself like...
00:55:33
Speaker
That would have been great. Like you're a kid. You have like a Pontiac Firebird. Okay. You're 18. You just, you and your friends cruise around the city.
00:55:44
Speaker
That's your hanging out. Life see, like and life was good. Not a phone in sight. Not literally not a phone in sight. You know, I'm going to save my speech to the end. I'm going to save my speech to the end.
00:55:57
Speaker
I can't go off on it yet. There wasn't much to do in El Paso, so I've got a lot of memories of riding around in cars and doing that, and it's the same feeling. we would We did it in Rhode Island, too, growing up. A lot of driving around Rhode Island at night. Yeah.
00:56:13
Speaker
I don't know, but it just it never felt the same. Never felt quite the same as it did in those movies. Mm-hmm. But I think there is that like magical moment like when you are 16 or your friend is 16. He can drive.
00:56:25
Speaker
And you're in the car with them. yeah you're You're all rolling around somewhere. Getting picked up for like the first time. It was just life changing. like's No way. It's like, youre I'm leaving. And that's my friend. And he's in the he's in the passenger seat.
00:56:37
Speaker
I remember the first time i drove to Walmart on my own. Yeah. Dude. I was like, I could literally, like, I was in the Walmart parking lot and I was like, so euphoric. I'm like, I could just keep going.
00:56:48
Speaker
What if we just went? I could just drive. Speaking of The sun was kind of setting in the the westerly Rhode Island Walmart parking lot. And I'm like, the world really is my oyster.
00:57:04
Speaker
It sounds beautiful. Then I went home. Yep. I had a similar experience. ah First day I got my intermediate, I went to Walmart with my friend and um we're leaving, we're we're getting back to the car and I'm reversing and I hit the car next to me while the guy's loading his groceries. There's a cop like 20 feet away, he sees the whole thing.
00:57:28
Speaker
So that was that was my first day driving alone. Wow. man Is that why you have road rage now? No, there's there's more history there. Yeah, we'll have to decide. What happened?
00:57:43
Speaker
I've been hurt. What was the car in the Stephen King movie? Christine? i don't remember. think it's Christine.
00:57:55
Speaker
What else about Days the Confused? We can move it to Everybody Wants Them.
00:58:00
Speaker
I feel like we should move to Everybody Wants Them because then we can start tying both them together. yeah Okay.
Comparisons with 'Everybody Wants Some'
00:58:05
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Alright, Everybody Wants Them. Dubbed the spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused.
00:58:12
Speaker
Similar in... Theme? Tone? definitely theme definite Definitely theme. Different setting, different time period. This is four years later.
00:58:23
Speaker
Days and Confused, I think, set in 76. Everybody wants them set in 1980. But this one's leading up to the first couple days of college, so coming into adulthood.
00:58:35
Speaker
um Again, directed by Richard Linklater. Also wrote it. This has a bit more of a cast. that we may all be more familiar with like Zoe Deutsch, Tyler Hawklin, Glenn Powell, Wyatt Russell, amongst others.
00:58:53
Speaker
This one's a little bit more zany too. What do you mean? like I think he let loose a little bit in terms of giving the actors more freedom and also just having a little bit weirder plot lines like Willoughby's character is just like this weird pothead nomad.
00:59:15
Speaker
Raw Dog. yeah My favorite character. You align with Raw Dog. yeah You want to know why they call me Raw Dog? She leaves. Some Raw Dog. um Willoughby's my favorite character.
00:59:34
Speaker
likes a good time With what happens to him the the entire runtime, I'm just like, this dude's in a different movie. Wyatt Russell is operating on a different level and sure enough, should not have been there and got caught. So that just felt full circle. We're just ranting about this with no context at all. We're just going off on a tangent. So...
00:59:54
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for For context on what this movie is about, like Malik said, this is leading up to the first days of college, and this is about a freshman joining the college baseball team at whatever university he's at.
01:00:07
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i don't think it's ever named. I think it's like South Texas University or something. You see stew written everywhere. Texas State. They're like they're like apparently a pretty good baseball team, like nationally ranked, usually makes the playoffs. Yeah.
01:00:21
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And so it's him learning about his team, you know the camaraderie, learning the like the learning the ropes from the the old guys, and there's you know a couple other freshmen and a couple transfers as well.
01:00:34
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And the two transfers to the team are Willoughby, played by Wyatt Russell, and the raw dog whose name i'm like whose actual name in the movie I'm forgetting, Jay Niles.
01:00:46
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Jay Niles. He is an absolute... He's a force. Yeah. Straight character. Need him in more stuff.
01:00:57
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Um. But. What do you guys think?
01:01:03
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Um. I'll go first. The exact opposite of Dazed and Confused, guys. Really? I actually kind of hate this movie. Whoa. I think it's bad.
01:01:13
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Wow. I did not enjoy it. Um. I held off on going on Letterboxd to see anyone's ratings. they assumed your rating, Alex, since you had seen it until the movie ended.
01:01:26
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But I was in the acc credits world and I was just like, Jesus Christ. And then i opened Letterboxd and was blindsided by the amount of fours and fives that I saw because I'm on the other side of the coin on this one. um What happened?
01:01:46
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I think it looks atrocious. It's that it shot like a TV pilot. like I think it's horribly shot. it looks I think it looks awful.
01:01:58
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um And it feels like someone it feels like someone wanted to make Dazed and Confused, so they made this. But you tell me that it's Richard Linklater two decades later?
01:02:11
Speaker
I'm like, what do you... it it it It makes no sense to me. I love Linklater. And I was like, what the hell am I watching right now? What is this?
01:02:23
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I'm very confused. So you don't you don't want some? I don't want some. Okay. I'm not included in everybody. Alex, what do you think?
01:02:35
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i have I was recommended this movie years ago by a friend. And it was one of those ones where it took me forever to finally get around to watching. And I watched it two years ago. I was blown away. i loved it from like the first five minutes I was pulled in.
01:02:49
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I was like, I, yep, I'm on board. i love these characters. I want to be in this movie. I want to live here. And second time watching it, like I kind of was the blindsided feeling was taken away a little bit, but I still really enjoyed it.
01:03:04
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I will concede that upon a second rewatch, I was like, it is really weirdly shot. It's very, digital it feels very digital yeah that makes any sense yeah right um like a little sterile and it's not like the set design or anything because i think that's fine like their house definitely feels like a college house like the discos they go to the the the clubs and bars like that all feels right but it's just the way that it all looks on my screen felt like a little too clean
01:03:39
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was very polished. It was, it really, for me was giving Netflix pilot, like the, the costumes look accurate, but it feels like a costume just because of how sterile it all feels.
01:03:55
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That's fair. What'd you think, Tachi? I really liked it. um I don't know if I like it as much as Dazed and Confused.
01:04:06
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I think there are aspects that I like a bit more than Dazed and Confused, but I can see why Dazed and Confused ages much better. Yeah. for sure there are there are a few scenes in this where i'm like okay this is good like going back to like wyatt russell i think he's so funny in this movie um raw dog i think i think he's hilarious um i really like the conversations that they're having like on the baseball field a little bit later in the movie i wish i wish more of the movie felt like that like there were there were a couple of moments where i was just like okay like i'm getting it and i'm seeing it um
01:04:42
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Like I look at the poster and i really like this poster. it looks like I want to like be there. And the movie just felt ah just completely different for me. I don't know. i don't know. um Tyler Hoechlin m felt off like the most off character for me.
01:05:03
Speaker
But he also looks really, really old. And I think that might have been it. Well, what felt off about him? i I think just his performance overall. He didn't get much, but like out of everybody, for some reason, I like i singled him out and i was just like, you're not good at this. Oh, my
01:05:23
Speaker
Not his fault. i don't know I feel like he he felt... i mean, i wasn't completely blown away by his performance, but he definitely felt like... Yeah, this guy is probably what an all-American baseball player would like to or would be like to be around in this setting.
01:05:39
Speaker
That's fair. I think he has one of my favorite lines in the whole movie, which is like, this is one of the best days of my life, you know, until tomorrow. like That is a good line. I need to to start living my life like that.
01:05:51
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Yeah, when they're splitting the balls. Yeah. Yeah. There was only one actor that made me feel that way. And it was that really weird guy that was... Nesbitt?
01:06:06
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No, not Nesbitt. actually like Nesbitt. This is like a ah more minor character. i also like Nesbitt. It was the guy that was the friend from high school. Oh, yeah. The punk rock kid. Dude, yeah yeah. He was like a scarier version of... um What's his name? evan Peters?
01:06:24
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Yeah, from American Horror Story. Yeah, yeah. I kind of like that he kind of had me on edge. And his last line was really funny. He's like, oh, how's Brittany? He's fuck Brittany.
01:06:36
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And then it just cuts to the next scene. I thought that was really funny. But I can't believe He's so uncomfortable. He brought really weird energy. He did. Michael Monsoor. He has not been in a lot.
01:06:49
Speaker
Poor guy. Whoa. Getting cooked on this podcast. I'm sorry. i liked I liked what he did. I'm on edge. I liked what he did too. I mean, he, but I feel like, I don't know if I was walking into a house full of punk rockers and I'm dressed like they were dressed, would probably be on edge too. Fair. This movie more than Days and Confused.
01:07:14
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has, i think, more actors, when I look at their filmography, they haven't done much. With just few outliers. It definitely agreed.
01:07:25
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There's not a lot of people where you're like, oh, it's that guy. There's like a handful of them. Yeah. But Dazed and Confused is is deep. It kept going like like Parker Posey. I was like, whoa.
01:07:38
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Mila Jovovich. milla yovovich yeah Um... yeah Who else? yeah For this one, we've got Wyatt Russell, Glenn Powell, Zoe Deutsch.
01:07:49
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Deutsch? I think Deutsch. Deutsch. Yeah. um But outside of that, yeah Tyler Hoechlin, like we were saying before we recording, he's on Teen Wolf. I loved Teen Wolf. um He actually... What? He actually skipped out on season five of Teen Wolf to film this movie.
01:08:08
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Really? And I say, get the wolf makeup on. which That's what I say. Did you like in Teen Wolf? I did.
01:08:20
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did like him in Teen Wolf.
01:08:24
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The other actor, going back to Dazed and Confused, the other actor I want to shout out is Cole Hauser of Too Fast, Too Furious and Yellowstone fame. He's one of the seniors.
01:08:36
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Oh, yep. But yeah, no, I agree. like The casting, and it's not even like like I think all these people like could have been... like They could have had similar trajectories as the ones in Dazed and Confused.
01:08:53
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And they just like didn't. Yeah. And maybe that's... I don't know. I feel like... This may come out weird, but I'm going to say it anyway.
01:09:04
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There's just a lot of actors now. yeah So I think it's harder to, if you get a role like this, i think it's harder to parlay that into something else because there's so many productions like going on where you think it like wouldn't be.
01:09:17
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But it's just so easy, I think, to get lost in the shuffle now instead of back in the 90s where it's like, okay, they were in this Dazed and Confused movie. you know i can give this guy a call because I know him. they Okay, how is he with the work on set?
01:09:33
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yeah But in a lot of instances, I mean...
01:09:39
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It just it's yeah, it just seems like tons of actors just come out of nowhere these days. And there's also a ton of Nepo babies who get in and take roles. So it's like, while there's way more productions going on, and there's way more media being put out than ever, like, I feel like just opportunities are so limited.
01:09:58
Speaker
so so limited i mean looking at like for main guy uh jason landon he's been in a lot of movies but quite literally nothing i've ever heard of so i'm like where i just wonder like how these decisions happen you know like from since 2016 he's got like 25 movies that he's been in and i haven't heard of a single one Yeah, according to Letterboxd, he's been in 109 movies, and I've seen one. Wow.
01:10:28
Speaker
Wow. Yeah, Blake Jenner, he plays the main character, and everybody wants some. He's been in 14 movies. I've only heard of one, The Edge of 17. I haven't seen it.
01:10:40
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I've heard of American Animals. I remember that one coming out, and I was like mildly intrigued by it, and I never watched it. That's got like Evan Peters in it, I think. Edge of 17, that one looks good.
01:10:52
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How do you guys feel about him? Was he compelling at all? About Blake? Yeah. I didn't think so. he ah he was He's a dude, you know? He reminds me so much of a friend we all share that we went to the movies with to see The Odyssey with.
01:11:12
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Yeah. Tachi. Yeah. I know what you mean. So you every time I see him on screen, I just love him because I think of Miles. Shout out you, Miles. This guy reminds me of you.
01:11:23
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Maybe I'll rewatch it with Miles in mind. Okay. Yeah, yeah I mean, performance-wise, I'm not there, but why do you hate personality-wise, um say personality-wise i love him because I love Miles. Was there chemistry there between him and Zoey?
01:11:42
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I think kind of, but not really. yeah I think so in like that awkward college, like, what are we even doing kind of way. you're both in a new world type thing. I think over the phone was like their best scene.
01:11:58
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I thought that was a cute scene. When they weren't in the same room. When they're not and when they're not sharing space together physically. I thought that one was as well, but I liked the last scene on campus when they're actually going to class.
01:12:09
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Because I was like, you know what? Oh, I've seen like a ton of these relationships in real life where it's like, Oh my God, like, am
College Life Reflections
01:12:18
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I going to see you? Like, yes. And like, you know, it's going to happen. They're going to go on like four more dates and it's just going to kind of Peter out.
01:12:26
Speaker
But for one week it was, why did I even bother coming? Or I'm so glad I came to college. Like, cause there she is the one.
01:12:37
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Don't lie. We've all had that moment. Yeah. And it was probably had the second week college. And you were like, there she is. and it's just the first girl who talked to you.
01:12:48
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yeah You're like, yep. That's it for me. i love this city. And then you never talk to her again like three weeks later. You're like, what happened to her?
01:13:01
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Oh, my God. So I liked that scene. like i to I felt that everybody wants some. It felt like a like a natural movie to me. like the I thought the performances felt pretty natural.
01:13:14
Speaker
um i think it's a great baseball movie. It's a great sports movie. It's a great baseball movie. But I feel like it's pretty realistic. And like yeah, this is kind of what a group of players would be like. you know They're a little overly competitive, a little weird, little macho.
01:13:31
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But, you know... that's just who they are. And I liked it. I thought it was kind of endearing. Me too.
01:13:41
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I wanted to be on the team. Thinking of like the like baseball movies, I was just thinking of ah last year's Ephus. which is also a movie where there's not it's not heavy on plot. It's just a very dialogue-heavy movie.
01:13:57
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And this one, is this EFIS takes place all at a baseball field. It's older people um that play recreational baseball together, and their field is getting shut down, and so it's just going through their last game.
01:14:09
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That's kind of what the baseball scene reminded me of, and maybe why I wanted... more of that specific scene. um But like everything that I liked from that scene, I just felt like Evis did a lot better.
01:14:22
Speaker
They are different movies. And the only reason I'm doing the comparison is just because of baseball. um I mean, I think it's a better hangout movie than a baseball movie, I would say. Yeah, but a baseball movie isn't just always about baseball.
01:14:36
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No, but because that's baseball. Baseball is not all about baseball. You watch baseball and you're watching something else. There's so you're watching the game, but there's something else going on, you know, because it's baseball.
01:14:48
Speaker
You're watching the guy do the nine, nine, nine. You're watching it all the way. No, you're you're not watching that because I'm I'm living that I'm living that I'm. yeah um But I don't know. It's just it's it's like a a baseball movie isn't necessarily always about baseball.
01:15:03
Speaker
I guess I'm not going to be the one. But it's. know, it's baseball. You're out on the mound alone, like they're saying, you know. No one wants to be like you. I can't be the one to to speak on that. You guys are the sports people.
01:15:16
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I'm merely an observer. I don't know anything about baseball.
01:15:21
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But baseball is not just like a sport. It's like a... Baseball is also a feeling. No, it is. I am dead serious. Baseball is also like it's like... Baseball is like a feeling. It's like a state of being.
01:15:36
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You know, it's just because baseball is the only sport where you can't, you know, time your way out of it.
01:15:49
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You can't run out the clock. You can't play keep away. You have to stand in the batter's box and you have to swing at the ball or you're on the mound and you got to throw three strikes.
01:16:02
Speaker
You can't get away from that. And so, It's, I think, the most relatable sport because is is going to sound so cheesy.
01:16:15
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Like life, you can't just not stand in the batter's box. And so that's why when you watch like a baseball movie, it's like, these are things that like have to happen. These are things that are going to happen.
01:16:26
Speaker
Right? um And you might as well just make it great.
01:16:33
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but what if You might as well just, alright, let's do this. Let's let's swing at it. Let's swing and let's miss. I mean, half the movie's about striking out with girls.
01:16:43
Speaker
That's baseball. You just keep swinging, Malik. You just keep swinging. They call me swinging Malik for more reasons than one. Whoa! Cut that. um What else?
01:16:57
Speaker
I really like Glenn Powell. I love Glenn Powell. I think this is my favorite Glenn Powell role. Hmm. You don't. Shocker. You hate Glenn. And baseball. I do like Glenn Powell, and I'm very interested in baseball. I'll have you know.
01:17:15
Speaker
Why don't you like Glenn in this movie? I do like Glenn in this movie. You hummed me. Well, I'm always humming. Hmm.
01:17:26
Speaker
Yeah. I like Glenn Powell in this movie. theres like There's a handful of people that i do like in this movie. He is one of them. ah Feels like a role that he was made to play. It makes perfect sense to me.
01:17:38
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And I thought he did a great job with a great mustache.
01:17:43
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I see him and I'm like, that's Glenn Powell. I want to wear some of those fits. When they're walking say wear's face and he's got the pipe. too Oh my god. Aura.
01:17:54
Speaker
Yeah. For sure. Agamemnon levels of aura. Yeah, it's up there. That's baseball. Yeah. um Before we move to our new segment, talk about our favorite roles or least favorite roles from actors from Days to Confuse and Everybody
Linklater's Themes and Nostalgia
01:18:11
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Wants Them. Do guys have any closing thoughts, feelings on these movies of Linklater?
01:18:19
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Yes, I do.
01:18:23
Speaker
This is from the companion book that came with the Criterion copy of Dazed and Confused. I don't have my copy. I think this sums it up very well. And this is from the essay in it called Not So Long Ago But Very Far Away by Chuck Klosterman.
01:18:42
Speaker
Days and Confused is not a movie about how things were. Days and Confused is a movie about how things are remembered. This film does not illustrate what it was actually like to be in semi-rural Texas in 1976, but I'm sure it perfectly evokes how that time and place must have retrospectively feel to anyone who was actually there.
01:19:02
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I think that sums up my thoughts about these two movies. to a T. Because these are movies about the mythology of growing up.
01:19:16
Speaker
None of us had a childhood. Like, in Dazed and Confused. And we didn't have a first day of classes. Like in Everybody Wants Some. Though I think Everybody Wants Some is, I think, a little more attainable.
01:19:27
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Like, that's like a... I could see all of that happening.
01:19:32
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But we all had experiences kind of like them. And so we sit and we think and we remember about what was it like back then? We all did very similar things. We drove around in cars when everyone got their permit. I mean, first day of class, you're walking around you're talking to random people.
01:19:48
Speaker
You go to a party. Sorry, mom. Yeah.
01:19:53
Speaker
And, you know, you're exploring, you're branching out. But that's what being a kid and growing up was about is you're doing these things. And then when you remember them, they seem so much grander than they actually really were.
01:20:06
Speaker
It's your own personal mythology about growing up. And what I love so much about these movies is it gives us a glimpse into a world that somebody remembers to some degree.
01:20:17
Speaker
And we watch it, we watch their own personal mythology, you know, come to life on screen, and we want to live in those movies as well. And what makes me so sad when I watch these is, and this is literally the Snack Shack speech all over again, is I think we're losing that.
01:20:36
Speaker
You know, Dazed and Confused is like a very shared experience kind of movie. It's like oh, we're like you're going to get hazed because everybody gets hazed. That's just a thing that happens. Oh, we're going go party at the Moon Tower. That's because everyone goes and parties at the Moon Tower.
01:20:48
Speaker
you know, these are just the natural parts about entering this bit of your life. It's this shared experience. I don't think we have shared experiences anymore. Like everyone's in a different circle. Everyone's like watching different things and listening to different music. There's just so many options. and We're all so disconnected.
01:21:08
Speaker
And so you go to like everybody wants some. And I mean, they're going to different dance clubs and they're dancing. They're talking to people like it's very social. It's you know, they're they're smart. They're all well read. You know, they.
01:21:21
Speaker
They were holding great conversations, and it's like it feels a little ridiculous now, like watching it. like Why are they like that? But that's all there was. It was just you and everybody else.
01:21:34
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And i keep saying that we're losing recipes, and I think we really are, because I just don't think things like these movies happen anymore. And I worry that you know when kids grow up, are they are they writing their own mythology?
01:21:46
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And I don't think they are. i just I just don't see it. When I was teaching middle school, sure, i was was doing that during COVID. It was a very hard time to do that. But you just didn't see it.
01:21:57
Speaker
And every story I hear now from my parents who are still teachers or from friends who are teaching, you you just don't see it anymore. And it breaks my heart because in 30 years, what's going to be dazed and confused?
01:22:11
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what What is the dazed and confused of 30 years going to be like? I don't know.
01:22:17
Speaker
Like, I don't, and I worry, right? And so, you know, I just, I wish we could go back to a time where we had like our own agency and our own freedom, but like a commonality where everybody was kind of experiencing the same thing.
Cultural Reflections and Ratings
01:22:39
Speaker
And you just, you just don't see it anymore. And I think that breaks my heart. And that's why I think both these movies resonate very well with me. On to our new segment.
01:22:52
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Well put. um One thing I wanted to point out for Dazed and Confused being made in 1993, he made a movie that was set 17 years in the past. That'd be us making a movie today about 2009. Stop. Just wanted to point that out.
01:23:06
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um Let's give our ratings real quick for each movie. Days the Confused, I'm giving a four and a half. Great movie. Everybody wants some. You're getting a two and a half.
01:23:17
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I didn't enjoy it No way. I didn't like it. Not for me. All right. Days the Confused, I will give a four. Everybody wants some, I will give three and a half.
01:23:30
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it was It was a little bit long. I don't think it needed to be two hours. It's crazy that it that it was a two-hour runtime. I was surprised to see that, too. Yeah.
01:23:40
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going Dazed and Confused a four and a half.
01:23:44
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and I'm going to give Everybody Wants some a four and a half. Yep. Beautiful. We got a range of ratings here. This is the most polarized i think we've ever been. Yeah.
01:23:57
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And I just want to say, that's baseball. Shut up.
01:24:04
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Okay, we're going to quickly
Matthew McConaughey's Career Highlights
01:24:05
Speaker
go through a few actors. We won't go through everyone on this list since we're already at an hour and a half. We'll go through kind of the the main heavy hitters of today. um Matthew McConaughey. What is you guys' favorite Matthew McConaughey role?
01:24:16
Speaker
Russ Cole, True Detective. That doesn't count. Movie. Yes, it does. You said role. You said role. Fine. That's also mine then, since we're doing that. but But if we're going to go movie... Hmm...
01:24:33
Speaker
Hmm. Mud. That's a great answer. Great. Mud is my, Mud is my favorite McConaughey movie role. Wow. Okay. You want to talk about a movie about personal mythology?
01:24:48
Speaker
That movie's fantastic. Also, why I love that one. That's a great movie. um To not copy your answer, I'm going go How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
01:24:59
Speaker
Oh, that's a good one. That's a classic rom-com. I wish we had rom-com Matthew McConaughey around. I think my introduction to him was Sahara. That was a fun one, at least for 10-year-old me.
01:25:12
Speaker
But if I to choose Interstellar, if i've seen or if i had already seen Dallas Buyers Club, it would probably be that. but I haven't seen it. I just heard he was great.
01:25:26
Speaker
I also haven't seen it. I think that's a blind spot. but Yeah, Interstellar, he was really great. All right, what about your least favorite, Matthew McConaughey role? You guys had whispers that you two might have the same answer, but i don't know what it is.
01:25:38
Speaker
Tell me about it. Tachi, I'll lob it for you and you hit the jam. Wait, wait, wait. think I know what it is, actually. But I haven't seen it. I'll give you one guess. No, no, no. I won't guess. Okay. I'll let you say it and i'll tell you if i was right.
01:25:49
Speaker
For... I think we're on the same page. But for me, it's Paperboy. Okay, yeah. That's what I thought it was. I remember y'all talking about it.
01:26:01
Speaker
Utter dog shit. Dude, what was that? That movie, I think, was so close to being actually pretty good. And I just remember walking away from it like, what?
01:26:12
Speaker
It wasn't even a fever dream it was like a fever nightmare. was horrible. I didn't really get the bit where... What was it? Nicole Kidman was like, I gotta pee on you.
01:26:25
Speaker
i need to pee on you. Yeah, I'm not joking. I didn't get a lot of it. There's like a bit where like I think McConaughey or someone gets stung by a jellyfish and then like people are fighting over who to pee ah like who's gonna pee on him.
01:26:37
Speaker
Fair. Haven't we all been there, though? No. but Fighting over who who who gets the P on McConaughey. Have you all ever seen him in person? No. Oh, yes. Yes, have. I've seen him at a football game. But it was like he was on the field.
01:26:52
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know if that counts. I just lost his freaking page. My least favorite.
01:27:05
Speaker
I don't know. I'm a pick Deadpool and Wolverine, I guess. Because he's a apparently one of the Deadpools. That's not his role. it's ah He's in it. He's Cowboy Pool. There was... um Oh, what was that movie that was so stupid?
01:27:19
Speaker
ah Serenity, I think. Okay, I'm looking at Serenity. I'm trying to sign in. i I know I watched this, but I don't remember what I rated it. Let me see. It's a 2.2 on Letterboxd. You gave it a 2. I gave it a 2? It's rough one. I gotta watch this movie.
01:27:36
Speaker
i like Tachi, I feel like we might have done that for a Real Guys episode. For some reason. I don't think I ever would have watched this. I remember this movie. Jeremy Strong was in it too. Yeah.
01:27:47
Speaker
That's hilarious. Why did we do that? I don't know. It's so random. The one we got to watch. Tiptoes. Tell the people about Tiptoes.
01:27:59
Speaker
Tiptoes 2002 directed by Matthew Bright. It's the little things in life that matter. A man is reluctant to tell his fiance that his parents, uncle, and brother are all dwarfs.
01:28:11
Speaker
Starring Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale, Patricia Arquette, Matthew McConaughey, and Peter Dinklage. Yes. Need to watch. I've seen the trailer. It is unbelievable.
01:28:23
Speaker
I gotta see this trailer. The poster has Patricia Arquette with braids in our hair. That's the widest woman I've ever seen.
01:28:33
Speaker
That's a choice. And Kate Beckinsale's hair is not much better. She's got like a Cindy Lou Who thing going on. I don't really get it. Is that Gary Oldman? It is Gary Oldman. Let's move to ben Affleck.
01:28:49
Speaker
Favorite Ben Affleck role. Mine is Gone Girl. Dude's a piece of shit in that movie. And he plays him so well. Great movie.
01:29:04
Speaker
I'm going to go I'm going to go Snyder cut. What? Yeah. Wow. And that's probably due to me just not seeing Ben Affleck very much.
01:29:18
Speaker
But honestly, the Snyder cut is a massive improvement on ah the official release of Justice League. I have to agree. a good movie.
Actor Performances and Roles
01:29:28
Speaker
I'll die on the hill. The Snyder Cut's an actually good movie.
01:29:31
Speaker
It's four hours, but it's good. Yeah.
01:29:36
Speaker
And Ben Affleck is a good Batman. like I wish we were able to see more of that in his own movie. um But that warehouse scene...
01:29:50
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goes so hard of him just kicking ass. Oh yeah. So good. I'm going to give two, but I haven't seen one in so long. i can't really like stand by it.
01:30:05
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And that one is the town, but um for my favorite performance, maybe Argo. I really liked Argo. Argo is very a historical, but I really liked it. I really enjoyed it.
01:30:22
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What about least favorite? I might go The Accountant 2. yeah But, fun fact, The Accountant was actually the first movie I ever watched in a theater by myself.
01:30:35
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Really? Yeah, that's burned into my brain. I was very scared. And then i was like, oh shit. That was great. Wow.
01:30:46
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I can go alone? Man, lock something.
01:30:52
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I'm going to go for my least favorite. I think Batman versus Superman.
01:30:58
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Martha. Martha. Why did you say that name? Why did you say that Yeah. Like, okay. Because, because. we were just coming off Christian Bale and that's what we got.
01:31:14
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I'll go with triple frontier. i guess it's just, it's like a star started cast, but that movie sucks. It is so boring and just not good.
01:31:27
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All right. Good answer. ah we'll end the episode with our favorite Glenn Powell. What is y'all's favorite Glenn Powell movie or role?
01:31:42
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actually kind of hard. I'm just going to go Everybody wants some. My kids 3D. Wait, is that really your answer? No. No, is that really Alex's answer? oh Yeah, everybody wants some is my favorite Glenn Powell role.
01:31:56
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Wow. Yeah. I would take Spike and 3D over that. Shut up. um My favorite, I'm going Hitman.
01:32:05
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Not a bad choice. I think he's really charming in that movie. I think Hitman might in my opinion is the best use of Glenn Powell so far. He got him in that one. He's very good in that movie.
01:32:17
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Yeah. Another link later. Did you guys see ah the new Mario Galaxy? No. No. plays Fox McCloud. haven't seen it either. Yeah. But I'll go Gun Maverick to be to not choose Hitman.
01:32:30
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Fair. Least favorite. Oh.
01:32:36
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He's in 2012 stuck in love as good looking frat guy. um So. See, I actually remember him most in 2013 Red Wing. What is that?
01:32:51
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You gotta look at this poster. Oh my God, that poster. Red Wing 2013. twenty third It looks like ah like smut you pick up at CVS. It does. i can't find. Oh,
01:33:03
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oh
01:33:06
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It doesn't look real. oh Where to watch Tubi. 700 people have seen it. the du The top comment is a half star. It says Glenn Powell, you're going to hell for this. The second top one is Thirst Watch Gone Wrong. Half star. We've got to watch this too.
01:33:26
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Calm down. That's nuts. um For my actual answer going to pick anyone but you. And I'm kind of blaming Sidney Sweeney for that too. I think the movie would have been better if you got someone else other than Sidney Sweeney and Glenn would have been better.
01:33:41
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Agreed.
01:33:44
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I haven't really seen him in much else. How to Make a Killing wasn't bad. I haven't seen a Running Man, but a lot of people didn't like it, so I'll just choose that one.
01:33:55
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All right. I would take it anyway. I think I'm going to pick ah How to Make a Killing. It just... And I liked that movie. I think I liked it more than you guys did. Yeah. But it's just like the most like...
01:34:07
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alright, your job is to be Glenn Powell. And he's like, okay. You even said it, you like that it's just the most like three, three and a half star movie ever. But like turn your brain off, get some popcorn.
01:34:20
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Triple platinum on an airplane. For sure. Great plane movie.
01:34:26
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Cool. But i think I think Hitman is probably his best job acting. But Everybody Wants Him is just my favorite role with it with ease's that he's in. I just want to hang out with him. They're both Linklaters.
01:34:40
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would love to meet We are getting another installment into the Glenn Powell Linklater canon. Are we really? This would be, I think, the fifth movie, actually, that they've done together. Because they did...
01:34:54
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Everybody Wants Some. It hit man. um Apollo 10 and a half. And I think Fast Food Nation was Richard Linklater as well.
01:35:06
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Yes. said Yes. Yes. ah whoa Well, that cast is stacked. I guess I need to check this out. um All right. He is apparently going to play Gehrig.
01:35:20
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Just saw it. Untitled Lou Gehrig biopic. Interesting. So we are getting another Richard Linklater baseball movie starring Glenn Powell.
01:35:32
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I hope this one's better. one of the most iconic baseball players ever. And for both the right and the wrong reasons. So I'm really interested to see. Like this could be Oscar bait.
01:35:45
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And I hope it's good. Me too. Oscar bait Linklater. Mike Cook. Blue Moon was pretty good. Ethan Hawke crushed it. Thought he did great. All right. Well, we'll be back next week with Spider-Man.
01:36:00
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First episode of August. Let's go. Let's see. We'll we'll find out is the MCU cooked? Is it the MCU cooked? m m Never mind. Here's my prediction. Here's my prediction.
01:36:15
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We're all going to really like Spider-Man brand new day. I think we're going to have a good time. think it's going incredible. I think so. dunes dune do Doomsday, tough one, is going to stink.
01:36:28
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And you know what? That's baseball. That's baseball. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you guys in in our next episode. Bye.
01:37:00
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Thank you.