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Episode 127 - ADHD & The Movies: Popcorn, Plot Holes, and Sensory Overload
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Welcome back to ADHDville! This week, your favorite ex-mayors, Martin & Paul, are going to the movies—and you know that’s never a straight-forward trip.
From sensory overload in the front row to the psychological warfare of mixing salted and sweet popcorn, we’re breaking down the neurodivergent cinema experience. Why are comfort films so essential for emotional regulation? Why does Martin talk through the entire plot while Pablo refuses to watch trailers? And what happens when an empty cinema turns into an autistic standoff over seat numbers?
We also dive into a movie-themed quiz (featuring trained reptiles and asbestos snow), read a fantastic listener comment on "weirdness," and reveal our top 10 comfort films—spoiler: Kung Fu Panda 2 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest both make the cut.
If you’ve ever needed to pause a film to discuss the wallpaper, or if you have a "special interest" in popcorn facts, this episode is for you.
👇 Join the conversation:
What is YOUR ultimate ADHD/autism comfort film? Let us know in the comments!
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Transcript
Welcome to ADHDville
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Oh, back in the room. Back in the room, back on the throne. Yeah, back in the back seat of the... Back to the usual melee. Mm-hmm.
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That is ADHDville. Right. And without further ado, let's go to a place where the distractions, the landmarks and the detours are on the main roads. Welcome to ADHDville.
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Hit the button. There we go. I did it.
Film Theme Introduction
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What are we talking about this time, Martin? What are we talking about? What's the theme? What's the theme, Martin? What's the theme? What is love?
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What is the theme today? Movies. Or films. Or flicks. Flicks, right. Go on, do it. The talkies. The talkies.
Meet the Hosts: Paul and Martin
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I am Paul Thompson. Hello. Hello. ah And I was diagnosed combined ADHD again um over two years ago. ha You're so loud.
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um And I'm Martin West and I was diagnosed with the combined ADHD poo-poo platter in 2013 and self-diagnosed autism. Just sort of throw that in there because... Oh, okay. You've changed you' switched up the yeah Yeah, I'm just um i'm sliding it in there, sliding it in sideways.
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um And we are the ex-co-mayors of ADHDville, where we sit and at ah at the back of the King's Agitated Head pub in ADHDville, where we yeah take care take business take care of business and discuss life and ADHD and autism.
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We're just doing all all of that. we We should have maybe a a separate episode about um um autism where we're at.
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We'll work with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so. that's That ah sounds like ah and on an upcoming ah Good, Bad and the Ugly. that's that Yeah, let's do that. We can
Episode Agenda: Movies, Quiz, Bonus Content
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slide it in there. All right, so on this week's agenda, one, we we're going to talk about the movies and films, and we have a quiz.
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and we have And we have bonus extra content. Right. Because I thought i thought there is part part of the kind of talk about films is is you end up kind of going down like, oh, I really like this film and I really like that film.
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So I thought ah thought, well, let's just add that at the end. Okay. And what I thought, just to make it a little spicier, asked Mr Thompson I got AI to two to predict right what we for films we would like this is weird because I had the same thought Mr West not not four hours ago i had the same thought what if I asked AI let see to see how accurate it got and you were on it
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Yeah. So, were all right. i went So we we'll we so ah that'll be right at at the end, something ought to look look look forward to. But let's go and talk about films.
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So where where shall we go to talk about the movies?
The Nostalgia of Drive-in Movies
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Let's go downtown, Martin, because i suppose that's where, is that where the, um what do you would call it, in the drive-ins would be downtown?
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The drive-in movies. and So the drive-in movies would typically not be downtown. would be slightly out of town because what you end up with is a field.
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Yeah. Usually. And then there's a screen ah at one end and you kind of go and park. like I guess ah I have never been to one. I've never been... Do they still exist?
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I think they do. i think they'll just take an excuse for for boys and girls to kind of, you know... kind of, um you know... Make out.
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Make out. That's the word i was trying to think. that that That's what we figured. Because, I mean, like, honestly, I mean, we're just jumping straight into it into the making out part. But but anyway, anyway.
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Yeah, okay. Yeah. All right.
Cinematic Snacks and Sneak Tactics
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Let's let's jump in in in the tractor. Come on. Let's get it. All right. got some snacks that I've got pigeon in my pockets.
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You've pigeon in your pockets. Snacks, mate, snacks. Snacks? thought you said pigeon. No, no, no. Because, you know, like, who wants to pay the cinema prices for stuff?
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I've got some content on that, Martin. On that subject. I'm looking forward to it. All right. Well, I mean, like, so, I mean, there is, I have a lot of stuff to kind of, like, talk about, which is, and this is mostly about kind of, like, going going out, but it's but it's kind of interesting.
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I mean, like, I've... I like going to see films. Like, I enjoy... I as well. I am in that camp of, like, I will happily go out and see a film.
ADHD and the Film Experience
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Yeah. So expensive. It's becoming less popular in Europe. Right. um And often, the films that I go to see, there's only old people and me.
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And you. Watching it. And me. and they're all going don't laugh there's nothing to be there's nothing to laugh about don get serious look at that sim for that yeah the young man that whippersnapper yeah that's spring that spring chicken this is this is an an 18 movie is he even really ah But I'd go anyway.
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Yeah. I mean, you know, like it's – was doing my sort research around ADHD and sort of autism kind of patterns around it.
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And it's kind of – and it's, you know, is it's in interesting. if you If you look at it from the straight ADHD point of view – yeah so If the film's not really kind of got you, you know your attention can sort of drift.
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And it's hard i mean and certain so some people find it hard to sit through a long film without sort of fidgeting and looking at your film. And... and but you know but But my autistic side tends to yeah tend tends to come more forwards when it's in the films because you know i can ah ah can kind of enter that that world on yeah on the screen. It's much sort of a more more of a deep deeper it experience. If I'm at the cinema, I've kind of committed...
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to Oh, so here's the thing. There's the pre-cinema thing. Okay. I never, ever watched the trailers.
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I want to discover it all by my little self. I don't want some stupid fucking idiot in an editing room giving me the whole of the fucking plot because he doesn't think the film's going to be that easy to sell. So he's got to basically tell you exactly what's going to happen before you've even arrived at the cinema. Yeah.
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I love it. So so so to do you turn up after, do you just wait until after they're done and then you nip in?
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Yeah. Oh, I was thinking of me. No, I mean, I don't go online. It's like, oh, am I going to go and see Jaws 7? oh Oh, I'm going to go look at the trailers online first before I decide whether I'm going to go or not. No, that's not what I do.
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i I commit based on... um okay I mean, like, when you go and see a film outside in the in the in the cinema... yeah do you Yeah. Because obviously they they they show all the previews before. So in order to not see them, do you wait until they're done? And then after they're done, you go in?
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Oh. Or when the previews are on, do you stick your fingers in your ears and shut your eyes? See, now now you're talking. All right. So usually the things that they show the trailers of before the films that I see are never films that I'm never ever going to go and see anyway.
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Oh, so say you say you don't care. at least At least that's how it is in Italy. They only show trailers of stuff that's like pretty kind of like. but All right. Well, it depends. But here's the thing.
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I'm quite good at forgetting a trailer if I need to. All right. Do you see what I I can put it to back of my mind and leave it there. Right.
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Right. Yeah. My brain is quite good at training itself to, like, oh, let's forget that I saw the trailer for it. Right. But it happens so rarely. Right.
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But I'll go to a film, see a trailer, and then actually go
Language Preferences in Films
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and see it, go back to cinema to see the film that I've seen the trailer of, if that makes sense.
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But, yeah, I think it's quite rare. it's it's It sounds like you're – it sounds like your your your your oppositional a defiance disorder kicks in because it's like come and see this film paul come and see this film yeah hey hey hey look look look at this it's got explosions and things and you're like yeah fuck all off don't know oh no but wait No, but wait, Marty, you've you're forgetting and in a very important part of the deal.
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Oh, yeah? What's that? I live in Italy, and yeah if you want to go and film me, let's say you see trailer of a film that you'd like to see. right I don't know whether I'll ever be able to see it in English. It's original language.
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Oh, okay. Okay. Because there are not but many so not many cine not many cinemas that that you can go and see it. Oh, right. In the original language. So I see if if it's a film I want to see, it's usually dubbed.
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Oh, right. And so I think, oh, I'll have to wait until it comes on Netflix or something or Prime to see it in like in English. Oh, right. well Good Lord. you what mean? What a pain in the ass. If it's a really good director or it's got a really good actor like Daniel Day-Lewis, there's no way I'm going to see those kind of actors dubbed. No chance.
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Right. So as i' mean as i as I'm obviously English and I live in the States, my equivalent of that would be There is a film. It's a Marvel film. They've all got therefore god American accents, but I'm going to wait and until they overdub everyone with an English accent.
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Yeah. So I'll get the whole film yeah with with the English accents for everyone, and then I'll watch it. Yeah. Oh, well, that made me laugh anyway.
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But no, no. I'm just trying work it out. I feel like I've taken a slap in the face. No, Martin. That's not the point.
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I'm um just being stupid. Oh, okay. I thought you were being facetious. No, I'm just being stupid. Oh, okay. All right. Right. No, I'm kidding. Right. Okay.
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All right. and Entertainingly ridiculous. Oh, you're entertaining for the sake of the pod. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. Yes. where We are doing a podcast, Paul.
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I sometimes forget we've got an audience, but of course we do. Yes. Yes, we do. We've got a public to satisfy. Oh, yes.
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So you watch trailers. So tell me, do you watch trailers? Yeah, yeah, I'll happily watch all the trailers. And then I go, and then I go, do I want to see that?
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Yeah. Do want to see that? No. um Yeah, I don't care. and Even if they give you the plot on the plate.
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They basically give you, if not 100%, they give give you a good half of the plot. Put it this way. If I feel they're giving me the plot, then it's clearly not a good film.
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So I probably won't see it. so But if it's all kind of like ah ma moody and just like flashes of things are like, oh, this is a...
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This looks excellent. you know like yeah yeah so um if they look If they seem like they trust the viewer to be of a certain level of intelligence. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
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okay but um yeah So films as an ADHD thing, going going back to um you know watching films is ah is an adh d thing Yeah, so there's the cinema thing, yeah know which some people can um ah ah find they they can't watch films in in the
Innovative Cinema for ADHD
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movie house. I think there was even 2015, I want to say, in Holland, they opened up an ADHD cinema.
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I believe. Yeah. Where you, where, where you could get up and you could walk around if you want there. I think there was even like a table in, in, in front of you. If you wanted to kind like do something else while while the film was on, because you know, like there, there was a big difference. It would take the hell out of me.
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Well, there's you know like there's this big difference, isn't there, between watching a film at home and watching a film in the cinema. Because at home, right you know like we will often kind of go, oh who's that actor? what's what What's he been in? And we get up our phone and go, oh, yeah, he was in that film. yeah like like yeah It's a very different experience at home.
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Yeah. i yeah. But if I be press if i'd commit to a film, I'm committed to it. you And it has to be, it really has to be a really bad film for me to find myself wandering.
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You know, if it's just like, oh God, it's four hours long. Oh, all right. Oh, no. no If I commit, I commit, and I don't have a problem with concentration.
00:16:31
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I talk. Do you talk? yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like i i like to have a dis dis a dis dis discussion going through the film. And in fact, I'm quite happy...
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for you know for the for the other person to kind of pause the film that have and have a dis dis dis a discussion about the artwork on the wall or the yeah or the or the really bad dialogue and we have that whole discussion. Yeah. okay Okay. um I remember i remember i think the only time you and I went to the cinema to together, Martin, oh jesusez was when we went to see Rocky IV together.
00:17:15
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Do you remember that? No, I've never seen a ray Rocky film. I was hoping to string you along. Nope.
00:17:25
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Didn't happen. I don't think we've ever been to the cinema together, have we? ah ah You know what? i'm I'm struggling to think if we have or not. Yeah. i I mean, i've been I've been around your house to watch films.
00:17:41
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Right. like so i've been i definitely i knowve been I've been to see films with friends that we've had we have in common.
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Right. Definitely. Because I used to joke, we used to go to the cinema with friends that we have in common. And I would have the salted popcorn and others amongst our friends would have this the sweet popcorn.
Popcorn Science and Trivia
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And ah during the film, I would just pop one of my salted popcorns into their bucket of popcorn just to like...
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just as the And just wait to get their reactions. Oh, Jesus Christ. Sneaky.
00:18:38
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I like getting M&M's, you know, like those peanut M&M's. You buy them and then you put them in the popcorn and you shake it up. So you get popcorn and then occasionally you'll get a nice surprise.
00:18:55
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they just go to the bottom and you like it's the last one you have? Really? no Yeah, yeah no they kind of hang out. It's good. Really? Yeah. That's interesting. I have actually got some popcorn science, Martin.
00:19:09
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All right. Lay on me. you want it? Lay it on me, Dr. Thompson. Okay. There's a 14% rule to to to popcorn, Martin. Uh-huh.
00:19:23
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Because every kernel... of of corn contains a tiny, tiny droplet of water stored in a circle of soft starch.
00:19:34
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Right. a kernel to pop, therefore popping corn, that's the pop part of the corn, Martin. Wow. Right? to two For it to pop perfectly, it must have a moisture content of exactly 14%, not not
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14%. If it's too dry, it won't build enough enough pressure. If it's too wet, the popcorn will be chewy. ah No one wants that. All popcorn, no matter what its shape, where it comes from, it only explodes when it gets above 180 degrees centigrade.
00:20:13
Speaker
Right? Right. And here's the kicker. Okay. Literally the kicker. When you know where you put your popcorn in a microwave oven and and it pops and it rises, that is not an explosion.
00:20:30
Speaker
That's a little leg that pops out, okay? ah Because they've they've tried to cover it with high-speed cameras. But they revealed that popcorn doesn't explode. It jumps. It literally jumps.
00:20:43
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As a little piece comes out of the hull, at the bottom of the hull, And the leg kicks the popcorn up and makes it the impression of exploding.
00:20:54
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Wow. It's not. It's just like a little kick thing that comes out of the husk and kicks it up. All right. There you go. Such an yeah autistic arms answer. An autistic answer.
00:21:10
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and Okay. History. Okay, way more. You think that's autistic. Alcoholism history. Yes, go on. They found 4,000-year-old ears of popcorn in a bat cave in New Mexico, right? In the bat cave?
00:21:29
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In a bat cave in New Mexico. Okay, not the bat cave. Not the bat cave. Right. A bat cave in Peru. Some kernels have been found in barrel grounds,
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barrel grounds that over a thousand years old, Martin, and they were so well preserved, they still popped today if you wanted to. kind of Oh, if, i um'm yeah, no, definitely.
00:21:54
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Yeah, yeah. Give me give me some some of that. now thenle The Aztecs in Peru had a popcorn dance. Did they?
00:22:06
Speaker
They did a popcorn dance. Aztecs. that was That was popcorn. did do you Do you remember there was a ah a track, there was an instrumental track called Popcorn, came out in the 70s. It's one of those yeah really early synth songs.
00:22:25
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that but beep Yeah, exactly. So last bit, okay. right then yeah Okay, last bit. There's a nutritional, there's surprising nutritional information about the popcorn. You probably think, Martin, there's no nutritional value, but...
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And this may trigger anyone who's watching who's got ADHD or autistic. Maybe there's a lot of you, right? Right. You might be triggered by this information, okay? Okay. You know that bit that gets stuck between your teeth and it kind of gets really annoying.
00:22:56
Speaker
Yes. And if you go to the movies and you forgot to take toothpicks with you, you have to struggle with it until you get home. Do you take toothpicks? No, but if you did, if you forgot.
00:23:08
Speaker
All right, okay. I don't. of got so You know those bits of popcorn that get stuck in your teeth? Yeah. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are the most nutritional parts of the popcorn. And they they contain really powerful antioxidants, more powerful than most fruits and vegetables.
00:23:28
Speaker
Wow. Yeah. Yeah. All right. i think But the that little thing that gets stuck in your teeth, that's the most nutritional part. All right. the most the mo The bit that contains the most antioxidants.
00:23:40
Speaker
Okay. All right. i think um Anyway, that was but that was the rabbit hole. That was the rabbit hole, ADHD rabbit hole I went down this afternoon.
00:23:51
Speaker
Everything you wanted to know about popcorn. um Yeah. All right. So, Paul, where... So, like... where in the cinema do you like to sit? Because I kind of feel like from a sensory point of view, if I'm right at the front, you know, like those seats you get right at the front, they're like, I cannot, my brain just melts trying to process films when they're too close. And I can't actually, ah my brain starts to shut shut down. i have to be like middle, middle to back.
00:24:32
Speaker
Yeah. No, no, me too. Yeah. Although I have, what there's a, we've got like a luxury cinema near us that has like proper um armchairs.
00:24:45
Speaker
and side tables right and you could take like an aperitif in there with you and uh with those you can sit at the front really comfortable and chill out and they're there at the front and those are okay it's only with the big cinemas the biggest where again yeah it gets too much too much All right.
00:25:09
Speaker
So films, right? there's There are kind of like there there are the new films that you want to see. Like, ooh, it's Rocky IV.
00:25:21
Speaker
I'm going to have to go and see that. Affordmentioned. And see who wins. Yes. Or... I'll wait for the surprise.
00:25:32
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know. And then there are the films that you watch at home, which are the kind of comfort films, which um I know I do a lot, you know. um And what I like about that, you know you know those films that you just kind of watch over and over again, you know, because they're kind of... Yeah, I've got few of those.
00:25:54
Speaker
Yeah, right, because like they are they are yeah because because you can actually sort of it you can um emotionally regulate to it. That's true, yeah, that's a good point.
00:26:08
Speaker
Because you you know the plot, you know what you're going to get. It's very predictable. you know You can see the theme tune.
00:26:20
Speaker
Right. And then it it becomes about you just notice small things. You notice patterns or you notice things that you didn't notice before. Totally, yeah. and And then becomes that kind of like, you know, like that pattern-seeking thing. Oh, the pattern thing really interesting. Like the classic one was Rages of the Lost Ark.
00:26:43
Speaker
Have you heard of that one, the pattern? ah What? that if if if If Harrison Ford wasn't in the film, there would be exactly the same outcome.
00:26:55
Speaker
Yes. There is no point to the film. There's nothing that he did that would have changed the outcome at all. Right. Yeah.
00:27:08
Speaker
Which is brilliant. Now, my patent recognition is good, but it's not that good. No. It isn't. I love that kind of stuff. ah know I know. I do. I do as well.
00:27:21
Speaker
But are you really fast at guessing the plot?
00:27:26
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You know, this is the thing, right, because...
00:27:31
Speaker
you can, and I think this is something that we can do as duro-di-divergence. We can go, okay, so this is this person, this is that person. Okay, so I'm guessing that the whole plot is going to be a B, and C, and then you know you're just and then you can kind of then you're just trying to guess where the film is going none I personally tend to try and switch that part of my brain off because I don't like, I mean, it will kind of get. You want to get your money's worth, don't you?
00:28:13
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Yeah. I mean, i've i have paid for the whole scene seat, but I only want to use the edge. Yeah. know saying? Yeah. So I... So I... If I... it's funny vision of Martin perched on the edge of his... On the edge. Right, because...
00:28:37
Speaker
If I guess the whole thing, then it picked the the the film becomes about whether I'm right or wrong or whatever. I mean, and you can't help it. You you kind go, okay, well, he's the bad guy. So chances are this is going to happen. That's going to happen. but But I kind of try to like suppress
Western Films: Morals and Endings
00:28:53
Speaker
all that. I just want to kind of like yeah be in the, I just, I just want just let it kind of come at me without too much thinking.
00:29:03
Speaker
Yeah. what you mean. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. ah Sometimes you get those. i had I went to see a film recently, one kind of quite an avant-garde kind of plot. And the the plot was that there wasn't really a plot.
00:29:17
Speaker
And you know there wasn't kind of like a big end game message to it at which is a very Western thing. Like in in Indian cinema, they laugh at us because we have such basic kind of concepts of cinema, basic concepts of of what a story is.
00:29:36
Speaker
Whereas especially, I think, in in Hollywood, there's always got to be like this crescendo at the end, you know. oh the but And the moral of the story is, you know.
00:29:49
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h yep, yep. Yep, yep, yep. Yep, yep, yep. No, I mean, like, um yeah, I mean, I can, I mean, yeah, I don't, ah yeah, i i I, you know, like, when we when we come on to our top ten films, there's, I have definitely, like, a whole bunch of comfort films.
00:30:13
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Yeah, yeah, oh, me too, me too. I've got, I've got a little bit more of popcorn. No, you don't. go No, you don't, Paul. I have.
00:30:25
Speaker
Did you know that the whole concept of popcorn, the way we link, and obviously for some people like me, yeah very much it's a very powerful psychological link between that they the kind of gesture of eating popcorn and the smell and the taste of popcorn is very inextricably inextricably linked to cinema, right?
00:30:49
Speaker
Apparently, this all started in the nineteen fifty s in America. in the depression, the Great Depression, when people trying to make money, they would sell popcorn out of the side of the the cinemas.
00:31:04
Speaker
And then it became, the the cinema decided, oh, we could make money too. So they started selling the popcorn inside the theatres. And then it just moved all around the world.
00:31:17
Speaker
yeah Interesting. All right. Have you got all of your popcorn facts out
Watching Films Alone with ADHD
00:31:24
Speaker
now? I haven't, but i think so. Resistance.
00:31:30
Speaker
So I'll stop. Right, because we've actually almost come to to the end of our film segments, and it's mostly been popcorn.
00:31:42
Speaker
i have ah some I've got some bangers here, but no, i won don't worry. i'll um I'll let it go. Let it go, Paul. I can feel how hard it is for you.
00:31:53
Speaker
Right. okay up but Okay, moving on then. What about going to the movies by yourself? You see, bit it's kind of quite nice because, you know, like ADHD and distractions, I don't like...
00:32:18
Speaker
necessary to be like in the film and then someone over there starts pulling out their bloody you know sweets candy and they start rustling around with yes chips and crap and whatever yeah yeah and then I'm yeah and and talking and then kind of getting on their phone yes and all all of that subset so so when you're on your on your own it's like brilliant awesome yeah It's just me. Like literally on your own.
00:32:49
Speaker
Yeah. the worst thing the The worst thing you could do, at least in Italy, is how it works. I suppose it's in wherever you live. Just don't go to the cinema on a Saturday night. just mayhem.
00:33:02
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Especially it's like if you go to see like The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings or you know something blockbuster-y and could potentially attract the younger generations.
00:33:15
Speaker
don't go and see it on a Saturday night. Right. You know what? when i'm When I'm actually at the cinema on my own and I'm watching a film, I feel bad for for whoever it is that has to switch on the the projector. Yeah.
00:33:33
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Yeah. I know that I shouldn't feel bad because he's just doing a job and he's up there somewhere. Because you're there on your own. And it's probably on on an on an automated system anyway, whether I was there or or not. It was still play probably. i don't know. yeah But just I just i just ah kind of feel feel bad for this in invisible person in the background.
00:34:00
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I went to after the se no after this yeah after the second lockdown, i was living in Palermo and I went to the cinema. okay And it was empty apart from me.
00:34:14
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Up until the last second and the film started, one person came in, the cinema was empty. We were still wearing masks because ah as as a precaution.
00:34:26
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And the man came and sat next to me and said, you're in my seat. Wow. You're in my seat. He said, he'd been given a number, and he was determined that he would sit in the number of the seat that he was given.
00:34:43
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And you were thinking, there's another autistic guy just coming. I du don't know. It wasn't on my radar at that point. I was just really...
00:34:56
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You just went, what a fucking arsehole. Yeah, so I moved. And please tell me you just moved one seat over. And I just moved to the seat behind him.
00:35:08
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right Right behind you. Spitting and coughing.
00:35:15
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And telling him what comes what comes next. Right, exactly. Singing along to the theme tune. He's going to die in about 10 minutes' time. is Right.
00:35:27
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Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah, I like going i like i really like going to the cinema by myself. Have you seen the film Poor Things? No. Oh, okay.
00:35:39
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but yo The only downside of going to the cinema by yourself is when you see a really good film and you come out and you lose that that really nice part going to the cinema with someone, right, and you can maybe go to a bar, have a glass of wine or a beer together and discuss the film. Love that.
00:36:00
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You can't do that on your own, can you? Not really. No. No. no yeah It's not a good look if you discussed it by yourself. Right. Right.
00:36:12
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um All right. Well, I think we're kind of like, ah is there is there any other last? ah Well, yes. Give me one. And it's not about popcorn.
00:36:26
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It's not about popcorn. Disappointing me now. right Have you ever walked out on a film?
00:36:35
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Not by choice.
00:36:39
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Good answer. Okay. Yes. Okay. like but Do you want to um tell us about that? Got kicked out?
00:36:50
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No. Oh, God, no. Oh, however have I ever been kicked kicked out? um You know what? I think I have been kicked out of a film. Really? I can't remember what it what it was.
00:37:02
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you know If you had to think about it, you probably did. it It was a long time ago. And you know how it is, like you and your mates, right, you go and see a film and then you're just mucking about.
00:37:15
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and then someone complains and then someone with a torch comes along and asks you to go. I'm pretty sure that that's that's happened. But I have been in films where um i you know, this, um the the roommate I was living with at the time, Katie, so there was Helen.
00:37:37
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this This is like Helen days. So Helen, me, um and Katie. And Katie said, oh, there's this is really good film. um how about How about we go and watch it at 8pm? So we all turn up and we all go into this film. and And the film starts and she realizes it's not the film she was thinking of.
Accidental Horror and Film Walkouts
00:37:59
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ah It was film. it was a horror film um ah and And I don't really watch horror horror films, and Helen didn't watch horror films. So we're like, ah this is horror film. And my friend Katie was going, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
00:38:18
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But i we kind of stuck. But we stuck. Okay. That's good. it was it was It was that film term ah Terminal.
00:38:29
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something you know like like where you follow these stories and everyone has a really has a really bad ending all these people who and then there was a one of the recent Planet of the Apes films oh where my I mean like I was I was fine going to see it but my but my wife kind of got about 15 minutes in and was like nope I'm out And then I was like, okay, all right, fine. um I guess I'm out too, so... Right. you went So you went and paid money to see Planet of the Apes? Yeah, when it when the first one when when it came out.
00:39:12
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ah not not not not Not the first film, but you know like when they did the whole new ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. i Okay. because because Because it's like sometimes it's like... let's just go and see a film, right? It doesn't really matter what it is. It's just kind of getting getting out in the house and and, you know, blah, blah, blah. you just go and see a film and then you walk out and go, well, that was a bunch of ass, wasn't it? You know, like, and yeah and that's the that's the that's what you're signing up for.
00:39:42
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yeah what about what about What about you? Have have you ever gone up and walked i in disgust? only once but I was just in a bad place.
00:39:52
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i don't mean the cinema. Mentally, I was in a bad place. And I just got irritated by it. and um it was like It was a LGBT, LTBGT film, but if essentially.
00:40:08
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So lesbian kind of base kind of thing. And I just got it, it'd be in my body, it's like, oh God, you know, if this was sort of like normal relationship, it would just, all it was is like, is she a lesbian or isn't she? And it's like a couple deciding, well, you know, should we get it together or not? And I thought if they were straight people, this would be the most boring film in the world.
00:40:32
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Right. It's like ah just two people decided whether they like each other or not. And that was it. And I just walked out. Human the human a drama, Paul.
00:40:43
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Yeah, exactly. Human stories. Human drama. And I wish I hadn't walked out. It was probably fine because it is different, you know. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is difficult. Yeah, was just in a shitty place in my head.
00:40:56
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In your head. All right. And I think I was with my son as well, so he came out with me. All right. Okay. All right. So, listeners at home, what movie have you watched to more than 20 times over? yeah What's your comfort film? And, in fact, what what movie have you have you failed to watch or or walked out of?
00:41:24
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There we go. All right. There we go.
Film Ratings: Dopamine and Burnout
00:41:27
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All right. So ah I think we now have to rate the movies. So let's hit. All right. Yes.
00:41:36
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Hit that button. Badger time. Films. Is it a dopamine hit or is it a burnout thing? it it it is a hard It is hard to think of it as a burnout thing. But but anyway, let's just do kind of like a dopamine hit.
00:41:53
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yeah like Okay, you do go first, Martin. I think i get I get pretty big dopes off of seeing a film, yeah especially if it's a good one.
00:42:04
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Even at home, I would say it's a solid 7.2. It's not high, though, is it? It's not like hugely high,
00:42:16
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but right but you know like it's yeah up there i I came out with a film. It was Poor Things. it was about I saw it about four years ago, three years ago.
00:42:31
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Yeah. And I went to see it by myself. I came out thinking, holy crap, what an amazing film. I was – one of those times I would wish I was with someone kids and you could you could, like, compare notes. there's there are Sometimes you get a film like, oh, my God, that is so good.
00:42:50
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But the recent Dune films, the recent ones. Yep, yep, yep. It's like, wow, potential. Oh, just amazing the way they did the worms in the Dune films, the newer ones. Amazing. I'm going to give it around 8.3. There you go.
00:43:09
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All right. And then ah I'm thinking about the sort of a but burnout. So how do I get burnout? I mean, like a bad, bad film, you play with a burnout. ah I think it's – I'm just struggling to see where the –
Critique of Modern Tarantino Films
00:43:25
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I think that there is a bit of burnout if yeah know all the effort of going to see a film and then it's a bad film and you just feel let down. Or or it's kind of like – i I've ended up having to sit in the front seat and it's all like... It's all like... It's all like frying my brain cells with its intensity. i
00:43:46
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So upper but but even even then, i I think it's like a burnout score like three. Yeah, it's quite low, isn' it isn't it? Have you ever been to a more recent Tarantino film and it just feels like you're watching...
00:44:01
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like Tarantino knocking one out. You know, it's just about his ego. And so, look how clever I am with the plot and scenery. And you think, oh, God.
00:44:13
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Yeah. ah But, yeah, low. It's low. Two. Oh, well, there we go. All right. With or without Tarantino. I like Tarantino, but only at the beginning you of his career.
00:44:26
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Then it goes like, ah, it's like watching him masturbate. Oh, come on. It is. It is. Don't cut that out. Don't cut it out.
00:44:37
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All right. Leave it in. It is though. bye All right. Let's jump it in the train in the tractor and make our way over Alexandra's Haunted Inn. Okay. It's spooky.
00:44:50
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Get in there again. Oh, we're off. Trimble down the road.
00:44:59
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Oh. Come Spooky music. Spooky in. All right. um Yeah, so where she left another great message on the on the YouTube. youtubes I've just pulled out a very small um section of it. So last week's episode was about being weird, about eccentricity.
00:45:23
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It was a good episode. I enjoyed it. It fired me up. I felt fired in an upward direction. And she said, i have found out through the years that people love our hour our weirdness until they don't.
00:45:42
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i Many aren't willing to take the bad part of being neurodivergent. They just love the the good, um which is, yeah, which is, ah you know, like very, ah I like that. And then she says, the which is which which mirrors what you were saying last week. yeah i I am weird and I love being weird.
00:46:10
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I wear it like a badge. Yeah. we cheap which Which is your camp, Paul.
Future Topics and Movie Quiz
00:46:15
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Very firmly. on cap I've got, ah we should do an episode about badges.
00:46:21
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Can just say that? I've got, it's a thing. I've bought, there's a great shop, there's a great online shop called the Shriek Shop and they sell the best badges ever. Badgers? I'll leave it there. Badges. Badges, not badges. Yeah.
00:46:36
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I've got a the badge from them, for instance, just says bastard written on it.
00:46:43
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i love that i mean cool why not yeah why not okay um anyway so um that those comments from uh alexander and i hold it in and we would love to have your comments too so feel free to to you know write to us good bad just not in between only good and and horrendous but not you know i don't want to know that you are moderately pleased with our podcast. You know. Slightly entertained. Yeah.
00:47:17
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Yeah. All right. Okay. Now. so what we've got next, Martin? It is time for. It's
00:47:29
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the quiz. It's the quiz where Paul and I challenge each other each week. yeah to the the quiz and the scores are so ah currently standing at seven points to me, three points to you. Yeah, um catastrophic, some people would say. So you've you say you've got some catching up to do, but hopefully, I feel like ah feel like this is this is in the bag for you, Paul. Is it?
00:47:58
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In the bag. What's the theme? Movies. Oh, okay. Okay. Movies. Okay. It's a theme that's on theme.
00:48:09
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It's a theme that is, ah it's a quiz that that is on theme. So i ask you three questions with three, three answers and you have to pick the answer that is false that I've made up.
00:48:23
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All right. Here we go. Here we go. Eyes down for a full house. Question number one. Which of these movie facts is fake? Right. One.
00:48:35
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The chestburster scene in Alien shocked the actors because they didn't know how how how how violent it was going to be.
00:48:50
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Uh-huh. Number two, the rotating hallway fight scene in the film Inception was created entirely with CGI and green screens.
00:49:06
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Say that one again. The rotating hallway fight scene in the film Inception was created entirely with CGI and green screens.
00:49:19
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right Or C, the bullet dodge scene in the the ah Matrix was filmed more than ah with more than 100 cameras arranged in a circle.
00:49:36
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So. Okay. The alien chestburster scene, you remember that with like jo yeah John Hurt? Yes, I remember it.
00:49:48
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that one i there was i do know some history about that scene and i can't but i can't remember it and it might have been that that they weren't expecting it yeah it might have but have but been and know that john heard is coming back to me now john heard um actually got involved in that.
00:50:11
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And he was the dead man. Yeah. And I think he did something to make it extra scary that they weren't expecting. All right. So right then it comes down to, is it the, you know, in Europe, you've seen Inception, right? I don't know if I've seen it. It's what, with Leonardo DiCaprio. It's the film about being in it in a dream. It's like it's like dreams within within the dreams.
00:50:49
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it's It's one of the best fucking films ever. It is like... It is like God level. It's...
00:51:01
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It's... It's... It's that... Oh, no, I'm thinking of the Matthew McConaughey one. That's like a dreamlike thing. Interstellar.
00:51:12
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Interstellar. it's Great film. Is what you're thinking. All right. Great film, Interstellar. Inception. I don't think I've seen it, Martin. You've not seen that? And Ghostbusters. You are seriously disappointing me. Okay, wait till you hear my top ten list. I don't get it. I love it. Can't wait. So that just that means that if you... think too.
00:51:38
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going to have to say Inception is odd one now. And you're correct. Yes. Right. All right. we We got there. Number two, question two. Which of these is made up?
00:51:50
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The horse head used in the bed scene of The Godfather was a real horse head from a pet food company. Right. Yikes.
00:52:02
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The shark, didn't know number two, the shark in jaw in in in in in in Jaws, the film, yeah ah broke so often that the filmmakers had to imply the shark rather than show it a lot.
00:52:24
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Right, I think that's true. and or or is it number three, the sandworms in June were filmed using trained desert reptiles wearing costumes.
00:52:42
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Holy crap.
00:52:46
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Oh, so um the first one is untrue. is true is unru who the second one's both true who i believe that that i believe that there were trained reptiles and i believe the second one i've forgotten what it was now uh the shark engine george yes they had to refer the the shocking stuff yes yes so the first one is false who Who did that film?
00:53:18
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it was um school was this course say or who Was it Jaws? It was No, no, no. The
00:53:27
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godfather so and and ah cup coppola coppola Oh, yeah. So would he use a real a real horse head? No, would.
00:53:41
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Or he'd fake it? He'd fake it. Paul, it was is the full time. Trade Reptiles.
00:53:52
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Yeah, that was made up. He used a real horse head. Really? Yes. So you have to get this one right, Paul. You have to get the this one right.
00:54:05
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Okay. All right. All right. Suddenly the the the the the choice of the trained reptiles seems foolish. Yes, it is. And naive, even naive.
00:54:18
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Some would say, Paul,
00:54:26
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Okay. All right. So question three. Trade reptiles? i was always I was trying to make it so ridiculous. yeah Here, little lizard. Here, here, little lizard.
00:54:41
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Wear this little costume. Right. All right. look Ready? Offering biscuits. Quiet on set. All right. Rolling. All all right. So here we go. This is the last one, Paul. Come on. Come on, Because I thought you chose the the ah the the horse's head because you knew I'd lived in in Palermo.
00:55:04
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So I thought you were playing to me a bit there. But clearly not. Well, but because I thought that... It was a real horse's head, wasn't Yeah, because I thought... Because, of course, would think, yeah, of course, like, ah a good film, a good a good film director would use a real horse's head. Like, it would... Right, you would... It wouldn't fuck about with a stupid model.
00:55:29
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No. All right. Anyway. All right. Question three. Which of these strange movie facts is fake? Number one, the snow in The Wizard of Oz was made from crushed cornflakes.
00:55:46
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Number two, during filming of Batman the Dark Knight, the hospital explosion, you remember that one with them? Yeah. It worked so well that the actor playing the Joker, whose name is escapes me, but has an H in it, the actor playing the Joker had to improvise while while waiting for the final blast.
00:56:15
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Okay. Or C, the script for Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl, didn't originally include the famous savvy line.
00:56:28
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It was improvised. So, was was the snow in The Wizard of Oz made of crushed cornflakes or... During the dark night, did um did did did the Joker actor have to improvise while to wait for the explosion? Or or was or did done or did chuck did Johnny Depp say savvy as an improvised line?
00:56:56
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was going to say savvy was the made up one. Because the crushed popcorn sounds so unlikely that it's likely. You know, the second one sounds way too detailed and way too niche for you to have made it up.
00:57:19
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So I'm saying the third one is false.
00:57:24
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Even though I'd said on question two, I was trying to make it eat. I was trying to why trying to kind like you. See, now I'm getting this image of like trained reptiles in like the sea of crushed popcorn.
00:57:41
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No, of a sea of crushed cornflakes. ah All right. Is that your final... um it It is, Martin. Oh, I even gave you the option of changing your mind, which I never do. I know.
00:57:56
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ah know. All right. Well, obviously, obviously, you are you are wrong. Okay, it was two Batman. No, it was the... It was Cornflakes. The snow in The Wizard of Oz was actually... was actually asbestos.
00:58:14
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was actually asbestos No. Yes. Asbestos. Yep. No way. It was like one of the most toxic films ever made.
00:58:28
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No wonder they all died. Judy Garland died young, didn't she? um I don't know. But the guy who played the the Tin Man, if I remember correctly, his his makeup was like poison.
00:58:43
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was like poison Really? almost And I think that the first guy... Or lead. Lead, maybe. be I think so. And then the and the the first tin man got so ill, he he like almost died so that they had to get this this other guy in.
00:59:01
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and ah And that almost killed him as well. so Wow. Wowzers. Wowzers. Lots, lots. All right. All right. I lost. Okay. Yeah. Licking my wounds.
00:59:14
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Oh, I tried, Paul. Yeah. tried to steer you along. That wasn't an easy one, was it? You know, it's like, why would any anyone make up, you know, oh, crushed cornflakes?
00:59:29
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Right. See, even you said it sounds so ridiculous. Yes. So that's where I was going. I was going for the ridiculous answers. like Yeah.
00:59:41
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If you just went for, like, that sounds stupid, then yeah anyway. All right. Onwards. to tell What a stupid. Onwards and upwards. Okay.
00:59:52
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All right. So let's let's talk about next next week's episode. um Okay. which Which I guess isn't about badges today.
01:00:04
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No, it's
Next Episode Preview: ADHD and Meditation
01:00:05
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not. it's it Next week's episode is about ADHD and meditative meditative stuff. So I watched your Tiki Toki thing you playing we do play your keyboard and being in a meditative state.
01:00:21
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i will So I thought we should have a discussion about being meditative states. And the activities we do to help us get get into meditative states. So, all right, so ADHD meditation and the various forms that that can take. Yes, yes.
01:00:42
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I've put in the in the script kind of usefully, I think, meditative meditative stuff. Right. Feel free to edit that, Martin.
01:00:53
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I think it's just going to be back down to meditation. Yeah. SEO, mate. SEO, search engine optimization. Oh, okay.
01:01:06
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ah All right. Well, normally we would end the quiz there, but why we have a little a little bonus DVD extra
Top Films for ADHD and Autism Audiences
01:01:17
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content. content content Oh, it's snowing outside.
01:01:23
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Jesus Christ. Is Yeah. Are you sure it's not asbestos?
01:01:30
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Nice one, Paul. I like what you did there. That was a callback. Just... just
01:01:38
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shock as a tack, as you say in the States. If you're still here, this is your little bonus extra. all right so what i've What I've done here is um I asked ai like given ADHD people, autism people, kind of like what would be the 10 films that that that that would appeal to us? And then I will read generally as a community.
01:02:06
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Yes. Ah, OK. Right. So I went here are ADHD traits. Here are autism traits. What films do you think would be in that in that list? So that's so I will read out that list. Right.
01:02:23
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I'm trying to. What if I can guess one of them? You've already seen them, I suppose, haven't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. i've I've got them right in front front of me. Right. um No, all right. You're good. All right. mr Yeah, I can't think of anything. All right. And then i will.
01:02:40
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and then i i So i've got I've got Alexandra's. I was chatting to her this morning. So I've got herf her top 10. ten i wonder if Amelie is in the top 10.
01:02:54
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Well, you you'll find out. i'm and ah And then, so I'll do the ai then then I'll do Alexandra's, then we'll go to yours, and then we'll go to mine, all right? And we'll see whether AI predicted any of these.
01:03:12
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Okay. AI said um ah the first one was everything, everywhere, all at once. I have not seen this film.
01:03:24
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No. I have not even heard of it. It said Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse. Haven't seen it, but I do like a Spider-Man film, so I'll give it that.
01:03:37
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um Number three, the... can't say The Matrix... but the the carna the matrix Okay.
01:03:51
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This is a great one. um Number four, the Lord of the Rings. Okay. The Fellowship of the Ring. Number five, s so us Spirited Away.
01:04:06
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Not seen that. I've seen it. Nice. Very nice. All right. ah then Then we've got ah Blade Runner 2049. What?
01:04:18
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Then we have June. Then we have the... t gym the the The Grand Budapest Hotel, which I suspect is in your list. It's not, but it could have been.
01:04:36
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ah Then we've got Interstellar, and then lastly we've got Scott Pilgrim versus the the world, which which um which I did enjoy.
01:04:50
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what about um What about that film, though? I'm surprised that it's not in there. The one with where... ah where oh this got kate winslet who plays the girlfriend titanic no of um the native guy actually no the kinetic guy that's just jim carrey but he plays a straight role in it and his girlfriend is kate winslet all right i don't know okay i can't that could like that's very autistic
01:05:29
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All right. Yeah, anyway. But that that isn't Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mars. Yes, that one, yeah. Very autistic. Well, which which which which brings us nicely to ali a ali ah to Alexandra's top ah top ten, not in in any order, but just the order that she gave them to me. Yes, yes.
01:05:51
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And you'll like some of these, Paul? They will tick your boxes, I feel. Right, right. First one, ones ones flew over the the cuckoo nest.
01:06:05
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It's, um well, can I tell you about where they might cross over with mine? Can I do that? app Oh, sure. All right.
01:06:16
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Okay. Yes, it does.
01:06:20
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Sorry. It overlaps with mine. I've got it as my number two all-time best film. Oh, okay. There we go. So it was Alexandra's in the top ten.
01:06:31
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but Fantastic. What a... film that is uh oh that's amazing though i love that there we go i like having that in common with alexandra hello alexandra good what a film all right and just so alexandra if you're if you're watching and i know you will be watching listening or both they on On Netflix, you or not on Netflix, you can find on YouTube the making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is absolutely bonkers.
01:07:06
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All right. It's very, very cool. I think you've mentioned that ah to me before. All right. So number two ah is it is the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Come on.
01:07:26
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Amazing. Then we've got lots Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Okay. All right. Which is great. Then we've got Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, which is great. Yes, yes.
01:07:43
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Then, Phil, you might might know I didn't. um ah What... It's called a What Dreams May Come. That's with Robin Williams. and Okay.
01:08:00
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it's It's sort of an afterlife film, so he he dies and goes goes into the afterlife, which actually he looks quite into interesting. That sounds good. we've got ah Then we've got a Notting Hill.
01:08:13
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with ah okay with Hugh Grant ah and then we've got ah a a ah a a so a so surprise entry A Fish Called Wanda with John john cleese And also... Jamie... Jamie... Things in there, isn't she?
01:08:39
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Yes. The daughter of... Jamie Curtis. Jamie Curtis, yeah. um Then we've got Interstellar. da which you one i love interstellar i've watched it twice i've not seen it at all yet weirdly and it seems like the kind of film that i would love but yet i haven't managed to see it uh then we've got uh pride and and prejudice the the okay the the bbc mini series and then lastly i can personally recommend pride prejudice and zombies
01:09:16
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Oh, right. I have heard about about that. It's really good. It's very funny. There's quite ah a few fan fiction um yeah versions.
01:09:27
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and then And then lastly, it's Guardians of the of the kind of the ka Galaxy. Wow. Which is a fun a fun a fun bunch. All right, so... Isn't it fascinating, though, finding out... I find these things fascinating. to me You kind of... um How...
01:09:47
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um I don't know, how films define people, you know, in their top ten, you know, how the certain things creep into them that maybe make some make a lot more sense than others and blah, blah, blah. Really cool.
01:10:02
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Like that. Yeah. All right. So let's go with your top ten. Okay. Okay. These are in order. Oh, right. Are you doing in reverse order or from – Oh, let's go reverse order from number 10. All right.
01:10:20
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So it's a sense of crescendo. Is that what you mean? Yes. It's a drama. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Upwards. Okay. 10. Well, there's a lot of these. They're quite unlike, but number 10 crept in and I did not expect it. Oh, wow.
01:10:40
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Until I did this list this afternoon. so I always had a sense of like this film and that film. They're kind of being there. brula They're thinking of it. It's like out of nowhere came the original Oliver Twist film with Oliver Reed.
01:10:57
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Olly Reed. Excellent. Olly Reed. and absolutely And I don't like musicals. That's amazing. I know, I don't. This one surprised me. Okay. It got in there, Martin. Wow, all right.
01:11:12
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Number nine. Number nine, Locke.
01:11:17
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It's a British film with Tom Hardy entirely shot in his car on the way from a job that he was doing in London to somewhere in the Midlands.
01:11:30
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Right. In his car. I won't give you a spoiler alert, but phenomenal. All right. A man having a crisis in his car.
01:11:43
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Okay. we talk Number eight. Hardy. Number eight, Poor Things. Okay, I'm seeing it. Seven. Number seven, Alien, the first one.
01:11:53
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m Okay. Juicy. Yeah. Juicy. Number six, French film called The Hairdresser's Husband. Okay, not not seen it. Fantastic. Sounds wonderful spicy.
01:12:07
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Spicy. It is actually classic ah French love and drama and and tragedy. you know, French. Mm-hmm. Five, The Fisher King.
01:12:21
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Oh, great film. Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges. Right. Blinder. Yeah, it is a blinder. Probably seen it um seven or eight times, okay?
01:12:35
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Jesus. Four, Into the Wild.
01:12:40
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Produced, directed by Sean Penn. All right. um sa about ah I've seen it about 20 times. Okay.
01:12:51
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Third, Delicatessen, another French film. Oh, you like that. You like that. Love Delicatessen. Love Delicatessen.
01:13:02
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Number two, one flew over the cockus cockoo cuckoo's nest. Cuckoo's? Cuckoo's. Right. One of the cuckoo's nest. Seen that 10, 11, 12 times. Number one, Blade Runner, the first one. Oh, the original.
01:13:18
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The original. Fantastic. Fantastic. love it. I love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, there's quite... So ah so AI predicted out of all of out of that lot, none of yours. None.
01:13:34
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And then ah it picked up, um well, kind of a one of... No, two, i think. Let's say say two of Alexandra's. Okay, so here's my my list...
01:13:50
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It isn't in order. and And it was just like, it was just the the films that kind of came up to me okay as ah as i was as I was writing these down. So I wasn't putting, because obviously there's films like the Shawshank of Redemption, which is like yes epic film.
01:14:13
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Well, right I haven't got it. There's no, I haven't got any Coen Brothers films in here, which is odd. Right. But, yeah. but but it's But, so, it's like, yeah...
01:14:26
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I did put it in the list, but then I thought, you know what? I've seen it like once. And I went, that's an amazing film. And then I've never seen it again. So therefore, okay, it's a good film, but yeah but it's it isn't a film that I that i return to, if you what mean.
01:14:46
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All right, so here's here's my list. First is is Blade Runner 2049. twenty forty nine Oh, that got in it, did it? Yep, just like AI predicted. I watched it last week for the second time. No, I think the third time.
01:15:04
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It is good. i love it. You know what? It is good. Mate, mate, I prefer it to the first one. Shh.
01:15:14
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What the fuck? Don't tell anyone, all right? Just... You and me, all right? Just between you and me. More than the first!
01:15:26
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Martin. Like, if I have them side by side, which I do sometimes, I'm like, which one do I want to see? This one or that one? I will always go 2049 first. yeah Really? Yeah.
01:15:40
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That's controversial. I know, but I kind of... Wow. i mean, the the music isn't as good.
01:15:51
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Yeah. Obviously. But... Yeah. i ah And I still struggle with, like, who's who's the star? Ryan ryan ryan ryan of Gosling?
01:16:04
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Yes. Who's the star of it? It still kind of irks me a little bit that he's the star. He's not the most charismatic, well is he? Which is good for that role, but, you know, because he's just a fucking and and android.
01:16:23
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But it hasn't got, oh man, hasn't got origami in it. It hasn't got... There's so much it hasn't got. It hasn't got the man that makes eyes. If only if only you could you could see what I've seen with your eyes. Right. But it does have origami in it because he goes to visit the old cop who who did all the origami. He goes and visits in the old people's house and he folds up a little... Is it a bull or something? I can't remember what he does, but...
01:16:56
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Right. Oh, that's controversial, Martin. going to have to watch it all over again. love it. i love it Wow. all right Okay.
01:17:07
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All right. Number two is the original Blade Runner, which is also fucking epic. Epic. Let's be honest. ah Number three, in Inception, which is like, I will watch that film over and over and over and over again.
01:17:26
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it is This the one you told me about before with the Inception. If you like films that make you think, where it's not just ah ah a one line, it just a one, you know, like a storyline, but it's it's there it is it is really it's a smart film. it's um oh Who died directed it now?
01:17:51
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It's that guy who does all the good films. and Really, Scott? No, no. I can watch on Netflix, Inception. As we talk, I'm putting a i'm clicking, um I'm adding to my my list. I love it. Okay.
01:18:17
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All right, number four, how to train your dragon. I like all of those. I like all of the how to train your to put you i'm thinking of dragon.
01:18:30
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Are you talking about the the dragon trainer? the the The animation? Yeah. oh yeah In Italy, it's just called the dragon trainer.
01:18:42
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All right. Over here, it's called how to train your dragon. And I like all of them. Yeah. They're brilliant. They're great. They are brilliant. I really like them a lot.
01:18:54
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Yeah. it's got Of that genre, I like WALL-E. Wally. Wally. um ah Number five, Alien, which is, yes you know, and now obviously Aliens.
01:19:09
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can just tag that on on the end. Both of those. I also have ah Lord of the Rings, the two the two towers. um Right, okay. I like i like i like all ah all of that that that that of trilogy. Number seven, Kung kung Fu Panda 2. I'm totally with you on that.
01:19:33
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I'm totally with you on that. Kung Fu Panda 2 is better than 1. It is, although I do like 1 because it it makes me feel kind of comfy. That's weird though, Martin, that you like...
01:19:46
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is Is that like the same of the two animated films? I'm totally on board with your nose. Hmm. Yeah, yeah. um Then I got strange, isn't it? They're quite nice. Kung Fu Panda 2 and the Dragon Trainer. Yeah, they're quite niche. and I'm ah totally on board with you. I find that interesting.
01:20:09
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oh but i done Then I have two two ah um ah two Muppet films. I've got i've got i've got i've got muppet Muppet Christmas Carol.
01:20:24
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Yeah. Which i' with them which i I really, really like. With Michael Caine. That is just a blinder. And then I've got Muppet muppetness to Treasure Island.
01:20:37
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um Okay. Yeah. And both of those have songs in them. Right, they're musicals. Yeah, they're both, yeah, they're musicals. So, you know, I do like some films with singing in them.
01:20:52
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So June didn't get in there. I thought about it. I thought about it. I was like, you know what? if you If you ask me in a in a year's time, it might end up in there.
01:21:05
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but But yeah. They are epic, aren't they? They are. They are good. And then the last one is The Matrix, oh okay which I love all those three.
01:21:18
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Here we go. All right. Interesting. So you, Martin... Yes. yeah far as i've worked As far as I can tell, you had no British films in there.
01:21:31
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Oh, hang on. Blade Runner, Blade Runner Inception, I guess not. Oh, wait. Yeah, no. Yeah, probably not. And no neither did I. No Kubrick films.
01:21:50
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Strange Love, Barry Lyndon. Right. I know. There are bunches of films, mate. There are bunches of films. Yeah. What can say?
01:22:02
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All right. Well, there we go. That was an an interesting DVD. It's insightful. ah Extra content. um All right. So that just leaves me to hit the button that says outro. Outro. And then so that I can then say...
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01:23:17
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that's that i That's that. Oh, Very insightful. These movies. Yeah. Very insightful.
01:23:29
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I like a good cartoon. I like a good animated thing. Yeah. Truck and Trainer. Yeah. Interesting.