Falling Down (1993)

Hey, it's your old pal Slim and this is seventy millimeter podcast for movie lovers just like you. Disclaimer at the top of the show, we're not extra But we do love watching movies. With me each and every episode is my close friend and artist, Danny Haas. Hello. And our close friend and influencer, Kurt Alexis. Um Just looking through my lines of something to say. Um say I love you.

Normally every movie that we cover is connected to a theme for that month. Uh this month we covered the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and you can use the chapters in your podcast app to skip to our main discussion this time. The fifth week of the month, so that means we're covering a Michael Douglas movie from nineteen ninety three and Joel Schumacher. Falling

We have a new month in April. We have to talk about our theme for the month of April. Um we have recorded our little mini episode already. It it will be out maybe now or later when you're listening to this. Who knows? Um but we're gonna get into it. We uh we revealed our picks to each other in that episode for the first time. So as of right now, the the glow, the honeymoon. It's still happening. The honeymoon glow. We're glowing with our pick.

I'm still glowing. Um, we're doing this theme for the first time since 2021, Shame Month. Movies that we feel like we should have seen by now but haven't, maybe we're feeling slightly ashamed. Um so we're putting an end to it. We're going to be talking about movies and choosing movies that it's it's finally time to check them off the list. Uh this month, sponsored by Hymns, The Era of Health as Luxury is over. Thanks to our friends at Hymns this month.

Um, a perfect fit for shame month. Danny, you're leading off the month. What is your pick for shame? Um I'm pulling it up on letterboxed. Um This is a movie that I've I've been wanting for a long time. And it's from nineteen fifty. Uh, directed by Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uhhuh, uhhuh. Yeah. I've been really looking forward to watch this. I've I've

been dying to pick a time for this to have it on the show, but it really hasn't fit in anything, so it's time. It's time for us to watch this. It's our time together. It's our time. You both have seen it. Good reviews. I'm excited to join you guys. I haven't seen it in a long time. Last time I watched it was twenty eighteen. That's recent. So this might as well be a a first watch. Okay. What about you, Prot?

Uh yeah, I watched it a couple of years ago. Um, but I mean what a black and white classic. I'm ready to take the pill again. Yeah. The black and white. Pill classic pill. Just like our sponsor Hims. If you need a little dose of something, maybe a little Uh man, I think they have man pills you can take. Sure. Um woman pills as well, whatever your needs are.

Whatever you need to feel alive again, you know, virile. Like you can go a little longer to finish watching Sunset Boulevard. You can do that. Uh hair medicine. Well they also have hair medicine. Yeah, what are you doing? That's a part of part of their offerings? It's all your needs. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. We'll get into it. Hymns dot com slash seven EMP. Use code seventy M M pod at checkout. Um Danny, your week two. April third. No proto Danny, uh thank you. Proto, you're week two.

Oh yes. Oh oh oh we're doing oh we're doing all of them. Okay. Would not we're we won't reveal week four. Okay. Okay. Oh thank you. You did say that. Um Um my pick, um Ridley Scott back on the menu. Talk about getting a dose of man. Um I'm going back to Ridley Scott and I said this you know this might not be a shame pick for

the you know, the people at large general moviegoers. But for me, I've been wanting to watch this movie for a long time. Kingdom of Heaven. Mm. Here we go from Ridley Scott. My God, it's time. Successor to Gladiator. Some have said better. Yeah, he's still sw he's you know, he's hitting dingers at this period, really Scott. Hidden dingers. I mean a gr an amazing backdrop for Kingdom of Heaven, Orlando Bloom, um, get this, Liam Neeson. Yes. Not only that, Brandon Galeeson.

Okay. What? Yeah, this is real. Jeremy Irons. Uh It's almost too much star power. I need to stop saying people's names, but I won't. Ava Green. Okay. My queen. Uh now I've read that there's a director's cut of this movie. So stay tuned to the show to determine which official version we'll be watching. Yes. Uh, because we do need to settle the score for Kingdom of Heaven. Um, we will make no mistake, settle this work.

Mm-hmm. Um, and I mentioned in a little mini episode that, you know, there's a lot of chatter. Um that I picked falling down. Ooh, Slim got another bonus movie and ooh, he did it again, huh? You're breaking it up again. I let them pick the first two, so now it's my turn. uh to choose a movie that I do have a 4K collecting dust. On my shelf that I am wanting to watch. Twelve Angry Men, nineteen fifty-seven. It explodes like twelve sticks of dynamite.

Uh we will watch 12 Angry Men streaming on just about everywhere. There's a a 4K available. This is a 4.6 on Letterboxd. This is number three. In the letterbox top five hundred. That's crazy. Number three. How have you not seen this? That's what the whole month is about. Yeah. Uh and we wouldn't be able to do without him. So thanks again for your support this month. For hers.

Twelve ever uh twelve angry men could have used a little hymns. Maybe some pills around, use the spray, I don't care. Yeah. Um, now there is going to be a fourth week of the month and it's going to be a Patreon vote. Um and we'll the the options will be our plan B picks that didn't make the cut. And I have to just tell you I mean, are you sitting down? Protos pick. Change the game. Yeah. The vote is essentially over. I don't even know why. Proto is going to win. Proto is going to be hoisted upon

Everyone's shoulders like a king, uh, reigning over everyone. But I'm not gonna reveal what the three are. You have to listen to that episode because I think the the mini episode was pretty fun, to be honest. Um Danny and I have suggestions, but we're not really sure how it doesn't matter. I don't might as well not have suggest. Anyone could win at this point. It's like we forgot to fill out a form and we're not even on the ballad. Yeah. That's what Proto's pick is like. Mm-hmm.

So Shame Month uh kicking off in April. The last time uh I didn't mention it, but the last time we did it was uh 2021 and it included um Malcolm X, Apocalypse Now, Metropolis. King Kong and you guessed it, Zack Snyder's Justice League. So what a friggin' month. Shame month. See if we can top it. Think we can top it, Danny. Um, I'm always willing to try to get on top. Okay. Mm-hmm. Good timing for this month.

We need to keep going. Yeah. We've got so much show to get to. We've got Falling Down, nineteen ninety three, Joel Schumacher, the master. Um I mean where do we start? Danny, do you want to just briefly talk about body double? We just recorded a body double episode for patrons. Brian De Palma. Um yeah, we just this we just did our cage pick, Patreon pick, thanks to Mike.

From the village? Michael, I think. Yes. Um De Palma at his worst question mark? Best, maybe? Um something to watch. I mean it's a it's a great noir. It's a great nod to Hitchcock. Um, that was a great conversation we had. Yeah. What do you think about the lead of that movie, Proto? You think he has the star power to support Body Double? I definitely have an opinion about that. And his performance. We got into it. Yeah. We figured it out. Craig Wasson ever heard of it. Name him.

There might be a reason you don't know his name. We talked for about an hour on uh body double. It was a real hoot. So, um that's coming to to patrons very soon. I gotta get in the editing bay for that one. Um, anything else? Danny, uh you've been busy. You've been working uh the con circuit. Horror. I was at MegaCon for the past weekend hanging out. with, you know, the likes of people who go to comic conventions. Yep. Uh slinging art, shaking hands, kissing babies.

Uh having a great time. Uh has there been any blowback to our Star Wars episodes so far in person from anyone? You know, not one bit of blowback. There was a gentleman. Who I don't think knew my art, but saw my name and said he listened to the show. And he just wanted to put a face to the voice. Wow. Yeah, it was very I see you.

He was just locking eyes with you and he did his like finger point to his eyes, yeah to your eyes. He just said it and w uh just kept walking past. He didn't stop walking. It was fantastic. He wasn't there to waste my time. He just he just said what he had to say to me and kept walking and I appreciate it. Wow. Yeah. That's how it's supposed to be. It's how it's supposed to be. Okay. Um by the time this episode is out, you will have left

Chicago. Chicago, yeah. So I'm going to Chicago this weekend. We gotta figure out the promotion of this show. We gotta get the timing right. I'm telling you, some of these all these promotions. Some of these comic book conventions have podcasts at their tables. Do we set up? Do we do a live show from the floor of a con? Yeah, if we want to Do we get proto in front of some celebrities? If we want to be featured guests.

If you get my drift at a con, sure. I'll write some emails if you're willing. I'm always willing to test the waters. Tell them I have a puppet. Ha ha ha. Um let's see. Pro, what about you? What did you watch? You saw did we talk about Hamnet last week? I think it's what we gotta get into. Yeah, I don't think so. No, we've got to watch it. Chloe Zhao directing. Nominated for Best Picture?

Jesse Buckley winning best actress? Mm-hmm. Uh I read the book this year or last year. I love the book. Uh watching this. It's a little different, but it's pretty it's pretty loyal to the book, I'd say. I think the biggest thing is just the in the way the story is told, like the sequence of events. Um

But it doesn't really hinder it. I I liked it. There's things that weren't in the book that I really liked about this, especially I think the ending. This really kind of fleshes out the ending more than what's in the book. Um so I think I just like like them. equally, um, but just for different reasons.

Um, Jesse Buckley is great. Paul Musquel though is also I thought he was great. Yeah. Too. Um I gave it five stars. Man, I was you know, I was weeping watching this, but it felt good. It was like a good weep, you know. Um one of those good weeps you need. Can't get that in a pill. Uh but for all your other needs. Check out himself

How about Paul? Paul's uh building quite a library. Yeah, I think it really is. I think I think he caught some flack for the Gladiator two stuff, but I think he's back back to form, back to formula. Well we'll see. Does because he does um he has this Beatles movie coming out. And we've seen the photos the paparazzo photos you've been sharing. Love those movies. I mean, I'm just so fascinated. I mean, they're making four movies. Are they dropping all the same day? All four Beatles movies?

It seems nuts. Yeah. It does seem nuts. We'll see. All dropped on uh Netflix. Uh are you finished your volcano lava journey yet? You I feel like that's a two we're back we're in week two of the heat journey. Well, I watched two of them. I don't really have another one lined up.

Uh, I do want to continue with w Werner Herzog, but um haven't had enough fold uh laundry to fold. I've been slacking off. It happens. So it's too cold up there. Once the laundry starts flowing again, maybe we'll get back to the volcanoes. Okay. Uh Eric and Katie say that the Beatles movies are staggered, potentially one week after another. Wow. A whole month. A whole month of Beatles.

Fucking nightmare. I mean, remember uh the talk of the town was that get back documentary. Oh my god. Love that was never ending. The get back. Back when AI was cool. Nobody talks about that. That was AI? Yeah. Jackson used AI to clean up those prints. He just wrote a prompt? And then people people don't even talk about it. He used Sora. He just used Sora to clean up that movie. He did it all in one prompt. God. Somehow he gets a pass. Very fascinating stuff. When it's the Beatles.

AI is cool, I guess. Yeah. Um, what about that Paul Paul documentary that is out? When he did like a Wings documentary. Did you watch it? No, I uh I opened up Prime and it like autoplayed an ad. And it's just like old Paul McCartney over like doing a voiceover about I never thought I would uh talk the Beatles. So what do I do?

Started a new band. I don't know. He sounds older than that. Not enough. I mean, if it's if it's ninety minutes of old Paul McCartney talking, I don't think I could watch it. But I just love that photo of Paul. Like that his like profile photo. Yeah, it's a good photo. Oh my God. If I had that photo of myself, shush. Right.

What'd you do with it? Feel like I could do anything. I wouldn't need hymns. Tell you that. Yeah. Um, I watched Project Hell Mary. Oh yeah. Yeah, let's talk about it. Tell us how you felt. Yeah. Let's I really liked it. Very good. Um, Ryan Gosling the Gauze. Um, man, he's got the goods, huh? Not much good. Proto, what's what's happening with Project Help Mary and you?

Gotta make some moves. I've been trying. I I told Jenna over the weekend. I was like, honey, I need I need to see this movie. Take Jenna. She'll love it. I w I want to. I want to, but it might you know, I might have to sneak out. The problem is My local theater, the Dolby it only has two Dolby showings a day. Two PM and six PM. What? So like the sick the late show it's not late enough. Like where is a nine o'clock showing? Like why what what what are they doing in this theater?

between the hours of, you know, nine thirty and two PM. Like w can we not show anything else? Uh speaking I mean, speaking of what's going on in the theater, I I feel comfortable to reveal this, but Tom on my hockey team, he's a Stubbs member. Um, he went the other night to the movie theater just to get popcorn and went home. Nice. Is that legal? It is. I'd never heard of anyone doing it.

Uh, but I salute him. Uh he said he did get some strange looks from the people uh just going in to get popcorn and not going to see a movie, but Do you have to like show that you're getting a going to a movie? I think he just told told the like, listen, I don't have a ticket, I'm just going to get popcorn. And they're like, uh I guess nobody maybe nobody has ever said that to the attendant before. Yeah.

It can be economical though. Isn't that like eleven dollars for a popcorn? Well, he might do that pass. He you know that like extra thing where you get it. Yeah, I think so. I think he does that. This I think we're getting someone in in trouble. No, no, no, no, no. Um let's see. What did I watch? Just briefly, I watched Sidekicks, 1992, Jonathan Brandis and Chuck Norris, uh, Bo Bridges, Joe Piscopo. Wow. What a movie. Um, Jonathan Brandis. What a run he had.

Right, you watched that C you were a big Sequest guy, David? Love Sequest. I feel like I need to start watching some of those episodes. Mm. Right? Our boys in it. Don't break my heart. Oh, are we talking pilot episode? Talking about listening? Um Sidekicks, Jonathan Brandis is uh, you know, he's he gets bullied and he has like this fantasy world where he's Chuck Norris's best friend and they're going on like adventures like shooting up ninjas and stuff. It's pretty pretty cool.

Um shooting up what? Huh? Shooting up what? Ninjas. And bad guys. Very fun. Chuck was uh pretty good in it. Um what else? Uh Robocop 2. I fired that up. Mm-hmm. I need I had some time to kill. I had like a late hockey game last night, 1045. That's ridiculous what you guys are doing. Uh I also hurt my back last night too. It's just an absolute mess. But I had Amanda went to bed at like seven o'clock.

Okay. And I'm literally on my phone just on Facebook Marketplace. Like if you had to look at my screen time on my iPhone, it would probably be embarrassing the amount of time on Facebook marketplace at this point. Looking at old trucks nearby. I mean I'm looking at trucks within a five hundred mile radius. Okay. You ever see those YouTube videos where like dudes buy an old truck, they fly in, and they drive at home. Like they just take like a day or two, just then alone in a road trip.

Is this the dream? I couldn't get over it. It's like, how is this possible? You can just do this. You can fly. You pay a mechanic like a hundred, two hundred bucks to to look at a truck. Get the okay, you fly in, you buy it, you drive home. God. Are they then restoring these and selling them? Uh some of them are, or some of them just buy you and pay a little bit extra. They don't have to restore really anything and they just it's their fun car, you know, their phone POS.

I mean that's that's it. This is the dream. I mean they could I this my goal for twenty twenty six. I wanna do this. I'll probably this year. I'll probably break down somewhere halfway in the road trip and have to like get triple A. Document it. Yeah. Okay. See what I can do. Yeah. Uh anyway, Robocop 2 is still pretty good. Not as good as the first one. But what can you do? Um we gotta get into our movie.

Falling down. 1993. Sexual Michael Douglas Week. Just some lore for the show. When there's a fifth week of the month, we do a Michael Douglas movie. Um Probably not worth getting into why, but just accept it. That's what we do. Just accept it. Uh Proto, what's what's falling down all about? Oh, did I write a synopsis? Oh no. Okay, I did. I did. I had wrote something. William Foster has had enough.

Enough of LA traffic. Enough of people not giving him change to make a telephone call. Enough of breakfast menus not being available after eleven AM. Enough of burgers not matching the advertisements. Enough of road repairs. Enough of his ex wife having a restraining order. How dare her? Meanwhile, Officer Prendingas is on his last day as a cop and needs to get home to his wife. But someone has gotta stop this lunatic. Falling down.

Uh all right, Falling Down, Michael Douglas. Uh we I guess I I should make a collection on Patreon of all our Michael Douglas movies. Uh, Joel Schumacher. He had done Flatliners and the Lost Boys. Still kind of shocking to me that we haven't done Lost Boys yet. Um, but then he does Falling Down, Michael Douglas. He's an Oscar winner by this point, well deserved for Wall Street. We'll get there at some point, hopefully. We have to. And uh he had just done Basic Instinct.

So Dean, do you have any history or knowledge of falling down? I feel like you had none, right? No, absolutely none. And it's interesting because it's pretty high up on Schumacher's kind of list of, you know, best directed films. Lost Boys, Phantom, Batman's Time to kill and then falling down is up there. Three point seven average on their box. Pretty solid. Um I don't know. I think I joked last episode that it reminded me of Um one of those Simon Pegg movie covers. So I don't know.

Um, but no, never heard of this film until you picked it for this week. Um alleged. After the death of Robert Duvall. Right. Yeah. Um, so yeah, this is the first time hearing about this film. We needed to honor Robert. That was part of the osmosis of the the picketing of this movie. Right. We talked I mean, this movie is a three point seven. Just I just to reiterate, The Last Jedi is a two point nine on Letterboxd. Okay? Yeah.

Okay. That's the bar. Yeah. Pro what about you? Any history with with this film? I think it's just really the the poster is very familiar. I feel like I saw this the Simon Pegg movie. In um And Blockbuster. I feel like I remember seeing this. Really? I feel like I do. Or maybe I'm uh confusing with something else. I don't know.

Um, but yeah, I don't really have any history. I I mean I was always uh taken by the cover uh made me wanna like put it on at some point. So yeah, I'm I was into it. I'm into it. I'm into w having watched this movie. This is like in the camp of movies that I knew about growing up from clip shows or montages. You know, you see clips of Michael Douglas with his haircut and the shirt and and maybe it was like on TBS. I can't imagine. I mean, it had to be heavily edited for T B S superstation, but

in in some kind of clip capacity you would see Michael Douglas uh and and some some lines. Like the whammy burger scene. That's I feel like that was was pretty big for a while. Um this is probably on Fox and not TBS. Yeah, you're right. Fox was a little riskier, a little risque. That's what I mean. Back then. Um so 1993. LA. I think the LA riots had just taken place. Um they funded during the riots. Really? Sheesh.

Um I mean, I allegedly I didn't pick this, but I can start uh just to you know, to get the conversation. You can go first. I saw Proto's review come or Proto made a statement in the Discord. preemptively like days ago, he preemptively apologized to our community for having this movie chosen on the show. I'm not sure at what stage of the movie he felt the need to to apologize. Maybe he was trying to get ahead of things.

trying to get out ahead of things to apologize. Um, so I was worried, you know, what are we getting into? I mean, I do know that Michael Douglas plays a white guy who just goes crazy. So maybe that in and of itself is something to kind of prepare people for in in modern day. Um so sitting down to watch it. You know, I was curious like how things would unfold and like what kind of a character Michael Douglas plays in this movie.

And it's an uncomfortable movie. Like he plays a guy who does have a restraining order or like, you know, is antagonizing his ex-wife many times during the movie and you know holds her up at gunpoint later in the movie. But that part of the movie was like not in my recollection at all. It's like the guy who just has enough of traffic.

You know, it goes crazy. You know, he's like complaining about breakfast not happening at McDonald's or whatever. And he doesn't like the price of this convenience store. And in my head, it like built up this character of like, yeah, this guy was like the everyman. But goes nuts and like the American dream. Doesn't everyone want to do that? Doesn't everyone want to complain about like whatever? So I and I say it's an uncomfortable watch because it's like ambiguous

as to almost like how I'm s I'm supposed to feel about him. Because at various points of the movie I like I agree with him. But then also he's he's kind of like snap. to the point where like you can't really agree with him. I don't know. It's like this weird gray area where he feels slighted by the system, but he goes too far in terms of you know, expressing himself obviously, but Proto has like this shit eating grin on his face, like he's ready to just pound.

So I don't know, Purdo, how how was your experience? I I feel like your experience maybe was more negative, but mine was more positive in just like how it just feels so gray in a lot of ways from my viewing. No, I agree. I think it fe it feels gray and it starts off with you have the sense that the movie is definitely trying to make you sympathize with this guy. And I think as that goes on, you start to think like, Well, wait a minute.

I can't sympathize with this guy. Like, you know, he ends up killing people, shooting people. Yeah, he's he's stalking his his ex-wife. He has a restraint, like he's a bad dude. So then it's like the the the message gets muddied. I guess. You know, and like maybe that's the thing. Then you're like you're like, well Is this stupid or or am I stupid? You start like questioning what is the approach being taken in this. Mm-hmm. And I think that's the that is like ultimately

I mean I would hope that's what they're they were going for. Not but then it's like also I'm like, I don't know. Like I don't know who the writer is and what they think because I don't know. I'm looking around at the people in my life right now and a lot of people I think would be like, Yeah, this guy's right. You know, with a lot of like the effed up stuff that he says and does in this. So then you're like, well

When this came out, what was the intention? You know? Or what did people think? Yeah, what did people think? Um the other thing was like, is it like a sati is it meant to be a satire of like modern society or just like a sad story? Because it's it is funny in some scenes too. Like it's pr it's pretty funny. What scene did you laugh at?

Uh, the whammy burger scene specifically when the woman threw up. I mean, that was an iconic moment. I I audibly gaffawed when she threw up on her tray. Um, when the kid raised his hand. Um very funny. That feels like Americana. Like that particular moment of like being upset that your fast food place has stopped serving breakfast. That is the most like relatable thing probably you could do in a movie in the last 50 years. Um Danny, what did you think of of the the vibe? Um

The vibe, I think my problem was is how many times I'm like, yeah, me too. I feel the same way. But then he does something super racist and I'm like, wait a minute. This isn't me, but is it me? Like I'm like the pissed off traffic scene was like a great beginning because that feels like everyone has dealt with that and that feeling of just eff it. I'm getting out of the car and walking away. Like that kind of vibe. I'm like, yes. But then he gets into the convenience store.

And it's getting mad about the, you know, the change for the phone and then the the price of the Coke. But then it gets super racist. And I'm like, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I don't like this at all. And so the vibe through the whole thing was. Why it's like I c I was like, why am I agreeing with some of the things he's saying?

But then feels super uncomfortable with how he's like going about it. I don't know. Everything kind of rubbed me the wrong way the whole time watching this. Because I feel like there's some sort of message. That maybe in better hands. This movie could have been something better? Hmm. I don't know. Yeah, there was a lot of scenes where he's like.

You know, he makes a comment about like speak why don't you speak English or, you know, speak my language, which n I don't know, in the eighties was that viewed as offensive as it is now? Like if you hear somebody say that now, I feel like most people were like, What hold on, buddy, hold on, let's step in here. Like I was that happening in in nineteen in the early nineties? It was enough to write into a film. I don't know. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, was it just like more common that people would just say that, you know? Because it's funny, he says those lines, but then when he gets locked up with the Nazi, the Nazi is like, I'm just like you. When you say it, Huckleis freaks out. My baddy's like, I am not like you. So you get like the dichotomy of him saying, Can you speak English?

and beating up the the convenience store owner and then the Nazis like hold on buddy I am not like you. So that was like another like weird, you know, split which was which I had trouble grappling with which I thought was funny. Like it's a funny scene. And everything felt still felt relevant. Like when any sort of like Whatever kind of conversations he was even having with, you know, the Covinosaur, the Nazi, everything felt like this movie could still have come out now and still make sense.

I mean, I can't even imagine what the modern like let's say Joaquin Phoenix plays. Right. It could be a Joaquin Phoenix movie. Or uh I was thinking Sean Penn in the role, honestly. Especially after watching one bet off another. Inst I mean the it in some ways this kind of reminded me of Eddington. Yeah. Eddington walked the line a little bit of like Poking fun at

modern society and cultures and racism and politics and it it it feels in that vein of like an Ariaster, like early Ariaster. Right. So give this script to Ariaster and see what you can do with Joaquin.

I mean, I'd watch that. I would go see that immediately. Um I guess ultimately was Well where I'm landed with this, with like the the the message or like the core theme of this is that like It's like, yes, you relate to this character, then you don't relate to this character, and then all these characters seem like the worst versions.

of themselves. Like every chance encounter he has with somebody is like terrible. So I felt like ultimately Maybe the story is like it's just it's a a broader message about like society as a whole, not as like this guy or you as this guy, but as in like all of these instances wouldn't come from one person, but

they they do exist within everyone, you know, they that they do appear. So I guess ultimately like that's why I kinda landed at I also read something where someone said like Duvall's character is kind of like the the the foil for um For Michael Douglas' character, because like here's a guy who has

struggles too, like with his wife at home and then like retirement and like his coworkers. But then like he's just like quietly plugging along. Right. He's like internalizing everything. He's just not making it a problem. It's a desk jockey. Which like even that read at in the early nineties, like, yeah, he's almost like a

a different version of Michael Douglas' character that didn't snap. He just like bottled it up. But I almost feel like that version of a person is also probably as bad because they're not dealing with any emotional duress that they're just kind of suppressing. And like in the early nineties, maybe like that version and maybe that's like a a commentary on Duvall's generation, like his character's generation to internalize everything. And that we still have yet to find like the middle ground.

Person. Um, I was surprised how this movie started. The fact that it doesn't really it I mean, it doesn't have any kind of like lead in to this character. I feel like this kind of story is so often told where you see the stresses and the things that are going wrong in this person's life before they snap.

But really it's like two minutes in the car, which is a cool scene with like the the camera gliding around and then coming back to him. Um but in like two minutes he snaps and he's hops out of his car and he's on the run and like we're off to the races.

with this character. So I was kind of surprised at how that started. Um, but I mean it definitely it like the just the structure of this story, it's it's just interesting in that way, that it's this kind of like chase of this character on this this journey immediately. Whereas it wasn't what I was expecting. I thought we'd get, I don't know, just like I'm you know, a little setup for where this guy was going overall. Yeah.

Yeah, because they make it like you don't find out that he was fired a month ago from his job until later in the movie when you meet his mother. Um, and so refined left in chat um about the the mother and the wife relationship. It makes sense that his wife and mother were both afraid of him given how often real life guys like this kill either their female partner or their mother before the killing spree starts.

So like that scene where you meet his mother and she was like almost like afraid of him. Mm-hmm. Which also, by the way, that actress, um, is it Lois Smith? She's in Minority Report. Remember she was like the mother of the Um the what do they call it? Precrime division. Oh, the flower lady. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, it was a it was an interesting start to the movie. I love seeing the bumper stickers. Mm-hmm. What was the one? How's my driving each uh one eight hundred each shit?

That's gonna be on the truck that you fly halfway across the country to pick up. It totally is. Don't tread on me is probably gonna be on that truck too. You don't see that bumper sticker anymore. If you read this, you're too close. Have bumper stickers gone woke in twenty twenty. That's a great point. That's a great point. I bought this before I knew he was crazy. Oh no. Danny, what's the top of your list? Top of my list is the man of the hour. I think with this kind of script. Uh and story.

I was really actually impressed with Michael Douglas. I thought he did a really good job. uh portraying this character when I have so many more preconceived notions of who he is as an actor, especially when we do all the, you know, sexual Michael Douglas months. I expect like the three piece suit, Wall Street schmoozing guy. Uh, but in this he's just the he plays the guy that's, you know

Pissed at the world, wife's got him in a training order, lost his job. For whatever reason, he's still in traffic. And I don't know. I thought he pulls it off quite well. I I I he played the piece of shit. kind of guy where I was just kind of like kind of hating him, kind of agreeing with him. I don't know. I just thought it was a pretty good performance for what it was, whether or not I love this movie or not.

Yeah, I think he's fantastic. I think he's a great actor. I I I feel like I felt that on previous episodes and in general. I really like Michael Douglas. I mean, he had a r like an insane run of movies for so long. I feel like we're almost to the tail end of like, you know, his big run here in the next few years, but

I yeah, I I thought he was great. And I also feel like it's kind of a big swing for him in his career to like be this character with like the short buzz cut and just what happens in this movie. Um see I I I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was fine. I I I feel like I struggle to even think about What I thought of him in the'cause I'm not sure.

His his uh his costume in this is just so overbearing, I think. Like it looks like he walked just walked off the set of Apollo thirteen like he's in. It's iconic. Right? Like but isn't that like Were were professionals dressing this way in like the early nineties?'Cause it looks like he's from like the sixties or seventies. Like this That is true. It is a very seventies vibe. But he if he's working for like, you know, the government and like defense. Right.

Contracts or whatever. And maybe if he's like fifty You know, he's been doing it for thirty years. He just he's been wearing the same thing, right? Like that's how he looks the same age as his mother, in my opinion. That's very true. Like if he's fifty, how old is his mother supposed to be in that scene? I think I don't know, is he supposed to be fifty? Do they ever say his age?

He could be he could be thirty. I guess I don't know. I guess I was just like I mean, he was born in forty four. So Oh okay. I mean he look he definitely looked fifty to me. Mm. Okay. Hmm. I mean his mother looked also fifty. Who knows? I love Michael. I love doing these months. I think I just I don't know, maybe folks don't usually talk about Michael Douglas anymore. He's been kind of cast to the side.

Um, but we need to bring it back. Let's bring him back. Let's get him out of the Marvel Zykeist. Oh god, get this out of here, folks. Talk about it, we still have so much to get to with Michael. It's not even funny. Um, next on my list, let's talk about Prendergast. Robert Duval, uh the master himself. Um just a lovable guy, Robert Duval, in these in these roles. You know, the lovable, the lovable old guy in the corner. I feel like he does so many of those roles at this stage.

Um but he plays the cop who is who is essentially the inverse of Michael Douglas' character. He's a desk cop for reasons that we find out later. Um essentially that his wife You know, he was very overbearing wife, controlling, um, and she has like a mental breakdown thinking that sh you know he was gonna get killed, so he kind of

uses an incident at work to get a desk job and he just sucks it up and everyone makes fun of him for not being a real cop, but he takes it because that's what his wife wants. I honestly loved Prendergast relationship with Sandra, the other police officer, and like the backstory that they had, like she she's friends with him and she like doesn't agree with how he's retiring, how he's going out.

Um just a fun little interplay between those two characters. Whereas if this were any other movie, I don't know if they would even have a backstory for Printer Guess. Or even be s like smart enough to have an older police officer who's like the antithesis of D fens. Um, so I I love Daval. Like him solving the location of the car and his giddy little laugh.

When he goes up the hill to see the car and he just chuckles to himself. Also, when he goes to the house and realizes he doesn't have his gun because he handed it in, oh my God, I almost died. Um he goes in anyway. I I really enjoyed his character and then the backstory of him. I thought it was pretty full featured. Pro, what did you think?

He is funny at this era. I feel like the the Robert Duvall isms that he has of kind of like Like sighing and like you know, putting his hands up, kinda nodding his head, bouncing a little bit. Yo, yo, what are you talking? It is it is so funny um how he plays that role. I I yeah, I mean he is very lovable. I how can you not love Robert Duvall?

I think the I think some of the writing in this though is pretty rough. Um like that scene of him talking to Sandra on the phone and him be like, yo, Sandra, come and then there's the guy like I everyone is a jerk in this movie. That guy like bugging her about being, hey, are you paid to be on the phone? Like, oh my gosh, it was brutal. So I feel like everything surrounded like the cat of course Robert Duvall is great. And but like s the writing around this isn't so great, I feel like. Um

Rip recipes, Robert. I do feel like they tried I felt it felt almost try hard with them trying to make Duval and um Douglas kind of the opposite kind of characters when it comes to their wives, their jobs, the people that they have to deal with uh that day. Because it felt like Um, while Douglas was taking his anger out on everyone else, everyone around Duval was taking their anger out on him. Um and it if it it almost felt like so much

the whole time. Like the way he finally snaps and punches that one cop in the face when he's like that fell on his cake. Like finally punched that idiot in the face. It just it just felt try like really try hard to have like this two separate storylines with Duval and him to where they're like literally the opposite people in life and we're supposed to, I don't know, choose a side, I guess. Oh God. Uh Danny, is it your turn? Did you go yet? Top on your list? I didn't go.

Um, I mean, I did this is my second point, I guess. I think one of the things that frustrated me when we try to ha have like one moment of um having any sort of sympathy for this character. It came like a way little too late when he has his moment of watching the home videos like his. um Christmas Vacation moment where he's just kind of checking out the old videos of him and his wife and his kid.

I don't know. I felt like that that was another moment where it was just trying too hard to make us feel like we should care for this guy at this point in the movie. But it was just like too little, too late. He's holding the the water pistol at this point.

I don't know, there was just something about it that was like, nah, nice try. I don't really give a shit about this guy really at this point. So it really bugged me about that in the storyline. How annoying was he in that video? Oh my god. I think that guy's like the prototypical like

Shithead dad. Just absolutely about to be divorced in restraining order. Yeah. Yeah. Everything made sense watching that home video. It doesn't garner any sympathy for him. You're like, Yeah, this this guy is who you think he is. Right. We were right the whole time. What about when he's on the pier? And he like finally pieces it together and he says

I'm the bad guy? Yeah. Jesus Christ. How'd that happen? I like do most people even have the wherewithal to ask that? I feel like that's a revelation that these dudes don't usually have. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. And then he did like do suicide by cop in order to get their, you know, insurance or whatever. Like you do. Um

So, you know, maybe maybe he finally got it. I'm not sure. I don't know. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Who knows? Absolution in that moment. That's right. That's what you'd need to do to get into heaven, I feel like. I remember hearing that. You save someone's life, you're into heaven, no matter what you do before that. Yeah, I mean he kinda did save his wife's ex wife's life by Getting himself killed, right? Right. Saved your life. He's in heaven right now, according to gospels. Okay. Which gospel?

The all of them. Mark, John, Luke, Gospel of Slim. Corinthians. The Gospel of Slim. What's next on your list? Um yeah, how about this shootout scene? Uh defense pisses off this group of teenagers or gang members. Oh my god. Uh so they load up on guns, as many guns as you can find. Everyone bring all your guns. We'll put'em in a bag. And they get in this car. They all are sh unloading at this guy as they peel around the corner.

Somehow they all miss but kill like five other pedestrians. And then the driver, the driver has one job, not to crash and kill everyone. The fact that he just like speeds out of there and then the causes an accident that has nothing to do with Michael Douglas's character. And like that's the whole scene. Oh my gosh. Oh so I I had to go back and rewatch that scene today'cause I was like, wait, what actually happened? Did they just Just drive off and cause an accident? And yes, they did.

How about Michael Douglas not reacting at all to the gunfire? He's so locked in in freaking his ex-wife out and traumatizing her that people are getting mowed down next to him and he's not even reacting. Not only that, but like he hangs up the phone and he's just like stepping over dead bodies. Oh my god, that was insane. That was so insane.

I mean, I really there's just so much wild stuff in this. Like he walks over to the car wreck and gets the gun and like teases the one guy and shoots him in the leg and then takes the guns and leaves. Really crazy. I mean also I mean like even the the Nazi shop scene.

is it feels like the um Tim Robbins scene in War of the Worlds. Remember that like long diversion to that. Uh yeah. But maybe it works better here for me than the Tim Robin scene did, but Gosh, he just the this creep saves him from getting arrested and Douglas still can't put it together. I mean, I didn't know what was gonna happen in that secret room. I thought it was gonna be like some American history X stuff.

Like the way he was handcuffing him and telling him what was gonna happen. Like James was eating uh mac and cheese in the kitchen and I'm like, Do I need to change to another movie right now when this is happening? Um, just really unsettling stuff that scene. Yeah. Golly. Um I don't do want to sh uh shout out the cinematographer. Andre Bart, uh

Twiatch, Polish last name, which I refuse to uh get the correct pronunciation of. Um, Devil's Advocate, Speed, Terms of Endearment, Twins, Dante's Peak. Okay, species, Death Trap. Uh the sequel to the Fugitive US Marshalls Oh, okay. Uh lot of a lot of big names, big name movies that he has done. And this I mean, this predominantly takes out takes place in broad daylight LA, so hard to screw it up. Uh Danny, next on your list. I don't have much left.

James Newton Howard uh Innocent with this film. Incredible score. Really liked it. I'm just kidding. I didn't hear a thing. I don't remember completely uh unremarkable score for this film from James himself. Um the bazooka scene where he shot Oh my god so good. Shit. He shot the constructor workers that initially held up his traffic jam, which is pretty funny to me.

That felt like another scene where like you're kind of rooting for him. Like, yeah, what is going on with his construction? Why is it taking so long? What is happening? And then he gets the guy to admit that they're not even doing anything. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Um I have Robert Duval running like he has a full diaper. He might have. He's probably thirty-six while filming. Robert was thirty-six in this film. Oh man. Um I'm at three stars. Hmm.

I liked it. I think there's a better movie out there for a film like this. Someone with better hands could make it. Uh better writing. Okay. I don't know about better acting. Let's get let's get Michael back in there. At the ripe old age of eighty something. Not sure he can do it anymore. He can he can still go. He'll be the Duval character. Oh. Actually he probably he probably wouldn't retire two decades already.

I'm a three stars. Pro. Three stars. Uh honorable mentions him fondling that Coke. My God. Man, 85 cents for a soda. Mm-hmm. Your country tells that guy. Maga wetrium. Oh, and then Duvall, uh, he took your baseball bat, but not the but bought the soda. Huh? How about that? And then goes the w doesn't he like he pays for the sandwich when he gets lunch? Oh my god. He wait you're telling me he he paid for the sandwich still.

Your new falls are getting better. I like it. Yeah, I gotta practice. That was good. Um Oh when the cop goes to see his ex wife? And she says, I don't feel or no, yeah, I don't I don't know if that she said this, but like she clearly doesn't feel safe with this man. Right. Well well, you could at least uh at least let him hit you first. She says something like along those lines. Well, like did he hit you? Like Like he hasn't hit you yet. So what's your problem? Right. Oh my gosh.

That's the thing with so much of this movie. It's like, yeah, we get it. Like people are bad. Like the Nazi scene. Like we get it. He's a Nazi. I don't know if we have to do all like we have to let him say everything that he said in that scene. We get it, Schumacher, okay? Wrote down this is a boomer fantasy. Uh Am I getting a flat top? You can do it. You can pull it off. That rocket going underground? That's some Looney Tunes.

Action right there. Absurd. It's probably cheaper for them to do that than have a rocket on screen. Oh my gosh, the whole scene of him like on the golf course then jumping the fence with this family. Oh my gosh, that was so uncomfortable that whole scene. How about Dave Matthews is the caretaker of that house? How about a literal stripper at a cop's retirement in the office? It was a different time. Where was Osha in the

Where was OSHA Month on 70 of the Oh my god? Uh oh, and this house that they're at, like this is Venice Beach. How much sh she's right on the beach, this house, and it's like a shack. How much did this house cost? What was the other movie we he talked about that? Was it I'm not sure. It wasn't lethal weapon to live and die in LA. His house on the beach. Oh yeah. I mean, that's a sixty million dollar property. Right. Right now. Absurd.

I protected America and they gave it to the plastic surgeon? And they lied to me. Welcome to America. Uh yeah, I did not really enjoy this movie. It was a tough watch, I think, overall. I just didn't really I didn't vibe with the direction of the story much and like how it was told. So I'm at two stars. Oh Okay. Decimal. Wow. Um let's see if I have anything else. I love when they the cop comes up to his car.

And Duvall comes out and they're like talking about moving the car'cause of traffic and then they eventually move it and and Duval pulls out his badge and then this one idiot like pulls out his he's like a linoleum salesman. He gives out his cart. That was definitely a slim coach. Very funny scene. Uh one of my notes, remember paper money. I mean, how often do you guys carry cash?

Yeah. Very rarely. I mean rarely. I haven't paid for anything in cash in maybe I don't know, years. I haven't used cash. I have like cash in my wallet, but I can't remember ever using it. is when I'm at the library and need to pay like for a fine. Fines. Yeah. Or just to give cash to my kids, honestly, if they want something.

Rather than like having to take them there, I can just like say, Here's ten dollars. Get out of my face. Jane I give James Apple cash. I I use iMessage and I give him money. Yeah. Yeah, our kids just have tap to pay on their phones or something. Mm-hmm. Um The shot, the Jesus backdrop after he shoots the gang member. Another another uh gospel homage. The empty briefcase. I love that. His b the um Prendergas' boss just boxing in his office with Tony Walks in.

Um, the dude in the park asking him for money. Yeah. Like to eat, and he has a sandwich in his hand. Oh yeah, back to your library. How much are your late fees when you have like a late book or something or a movie? Um Well, oh gosh. It's really the it's like here it is. Sit back, folks. You get ten books out at once. Jesus. Um you know Jenna will go and she'll grab a bunch of books for the kids. And they'll be on my card.

But then they're like not my bo like I'm not thinking about them. And then everyone will forget. So I'll g it's not just like one like a one life fee. I might it might not be that much. It's like I don't know, like ten cents a day or something. But when you have ten books Adds up quick. So you have to be very careful. And I have not been careful at times.

Some of my m fondest memories are telling people when they had a late Fiat West Coast video. I knew you would love it. Some people had like you you try to rent a movie Friday night, you're out with your gal. And you walk up and I gotta tell you, sorry, you got an eighty dollar late fee. For a movie that you have do you have that movie?

Like you bring it back. You gonna pay that late fee? If you don't pay that late fee, we can help we can you can rent that movie. What do you remember like the most you've told someone a late fee was? I think I think some dudes Hundreds of dollars of late peas. Like they held the porn too long. Okay. All right. You have to let it go. Give it back. At some point you gotta let it go.

My God.$80 in like$2000. That's like a thousand dollars. That's a lot of money. A lot of money. Uh soer fight is asking for clarification. Sorry, was this your favorite thing or least favorite? Favorite. Because you have to respect Returning movies. If you can't respect the business Then, you know, I'm sorry. I don't have respect for you. Oh my God. And then some of these people aren't rew you know, they're not rewinding either. This is how this film starts.

I mean it's only fair because then, you know, you're losing out on the the the fees the rentals you get from somebody else, right? Exactly right. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly right. That's just how the system works. This is how we're gonna start our shop. I remember we used to get like a monthly magazine of movies that were coming out in like order forms. And I remember like the MSRP for some of these tapes. Expensive. They were expensive. Mm-hmm.

I still some of my VHS that I have will have like a$29.99 sticker on it for a VHS. I think some of them I think they were even more expensive for buying them for video stores. I bet. I think they were like eighty bucks or something. Because I think I don't know, maybe it was it cost more if you're like using it at a video store versus like personal use. I don't know. Interesting. Gotta watch a video, a YouTube essay on that later. Okay. Uh let's see.

Uh he was moving to Lake Havasu, which is v oddly funny because in the current season of On Cinema, uh Tim Heideker was has moved to Lake Havasu. Okay. Very funny. Hilarious. IYKYK. Um how about the gay guys in the store? The Nazi guy like going after them? Good lord. Man, they were sweaty. Those guys. The LA Heat. Uh I have the right to disagree. First of all. Him back talking the construction guys, lol. Hero.

Uh there was uh we have like a really busy road by our house and they were they had to fix a bridge. on this busy road. So they were gonna like shut the road down and it was gonna be closed for like eight months to a year. What? To fix this like pipe system underneath this one road. I could not believe when they told us it was going to be closed for almost a year. So like we had to divert traffic into like these side roads, this, you know, these quiet little side streets.

Uh there needs to be a long a long investigation on the US construction system. I I think there's there's some things we could speed up. Could blow the wall. I feel like. You know, maybe can we do can we have two crews work day and night, speed up some of these projects? Yeah. Are golf courses a waste of space? Question mark. Oh my.

Just asking the question. Yeah. I mean, he he might have had a point there. Huh. He's saying there should be kids running around here, you know, parks. Okay. Meanwhile, we got these rich-y riches shooting the back nine. Just asking the question. Hmm. When Brender Guest's wife um and calls and Sandra answers or she she like hears Sandra's voice in the background. Who the fuck is this? Oh my God. Um I love that pier.

The pier ending with like that that like bit you know, that like circular business building. That was pretty rad. Imagine working there every day. VHS store there. Oh. You kidding me? The rental fees alone. The rental fees alone. God, I'd be charging people left and right. We'd be making so much money.

Uh I was pretty shocked by this movie in like the ways that I mentioned at the top of the segment. Like, I was really surprised by the way his character was written, you know, like a bad guy, but pieces of him were very American and it's like an uncomfortable watch in twenty twenty six, I feel like, because of like You know, this white man, troubled white man w I think some w I wrote it down somewhere, um

Something about white man. Where is it? Oh, Angry White Male Cinema, I think is it's it's called and nowadays it's like, you know, white men have pretty much Done a a lot of damage to our society in a lot of ways. So like watching this in twenty twenty six is is very weird. Um speak for yourself, Slim.

I would love to kind of go back and see what, you know, regular folk thought of this in nineteen in the early nineties because I feel like it is very different now for the most part. I read Siskel or Ebert. Ebert's review of this. Pretty glowing. Hmm. Wow. Okay. There you have it. So I'm at four stars, by the way. Oh, okay. Wow. Yeah. I had a lot of fun. Makes sense. Um, I mean fun, maybe not. Yeah, you had fun. Nobody uh use that against me, please. Uh we do have a VM, I do believe.

Okay. So let's listen to that. First of all, thank you for your kind words about my Chewbacca impression a couple of weeks ago. I was able to ride that high and join the Patreon last week. Now that I'm an official VHS villager, I have a quick comment for each host. Uh first Danny, the bravery, bearing your soul, okay, with the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Thank you. Danny, I hear you and I stand with you. Oh I too love movies and Star Wars.

I also laugh at your comments when the other hosts leave you hanging sometime. I'm super excited for my discount on your beautiful prints. I'm picking some out now. And I'm too new to know if there's a story behind the Indiana Jones prints not being available on the store, but I'm not complaining because I'm finding plenty that I love. And I know you've worked so hard on those and the art for the Yeti is still broken podcast, which I also love.

Uh speaking of theme parks, as kids, my brother and I imagined our future homes and how we would have smell controlled rooms inspired by our trips to Disney World. But we planned to have rooms that featured the smell of things like Sharpie's, uh Subway restaurant, cinnamon rolls, and then we both wanted one that smelled like delightful, sensational gasoline.

Slim, I need you to wake up right now and smell the gasoline. And then for proto, the influencer, I need you to work your magic on this one, Pro Joe Pesci month. Think about it. Oh. So many greats that you haven't covered yet. Good fellas. My cousin Vinny featuring Marissa Tomake.

Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress in ninety two. You can read the casino and you could get into the Home Alones if you wanted. Talk about a spicy meatball. Spicy Meatball month. Short King Month. I I don't care. Just make it happen. Keep up the good work, boys.

That was Sam, by the way. Thank you, Sam. Yeah, thanks, Sam. Wow. Getting all the bangers in that one. Nailed it. He nailed it. We definitely hit a high on the show when we talked about selling gasoline vapes. We tapped into something. Yeah, that was we need to figure that out. Sam's in chat right now. Look at that. Oh, he's here. Hey. Sam's here. You know, I think James got um for Christmas, he got some of those like I was probably like an Etsy purchase, but I think Amanda got him Disney Scent.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, all the rides, like the Yeah, it's a lot of fun. The water. There's a new there's a there's a store at Disney Springs now. You can go there's a candle shop. They have all the scents from like your theme park stuff. Really? Yeah. So I just bought a candle that smells like the Avatar Ride. Oh my gosh. That's not a joke. Pandora. Don't laugh at me.

Which part of it does it smell like? Yeah. I don't even remember smell the human stank in the line. I don't even remember smells in the river. Like I'm not sure. I know, but I'm trying to think of a s a smell of the forest. I don't even remember. Okay, well you should we should need to do it again. We need to first of all, we need to get those screens updated.

To the new technology. I agree. Then we can write it again. I agree. Is there any scuttle butt? Has the Yeti talked about any kind of rumors about uh updated screens in Disney? They're not doing that shit right now. Fudge. They're too focused on Indiana Jones coming. Excuse me. Sorry. Um yeah. No, we don't want to talk about it. Uh all right. We don't have to get into it. I can't put Indiana Jones art up on the site, uh, Sam, because I am under contract with Lucasfilm.

We get sued. Get sued. Same reason why there isn't uh sequel trilogy stuff up there. No Star Wars stuff up there either. Next week is kicking off shame month.

It is Danny's pick, Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder. Yeah. Um have we covered any Billy? We haven't done some Like It Hot. We haven't done The Apartment. We talked about Billy at some point. I can't remember why. We haven't done double indemnity. Ask the friggin' questions. Uh Sunset Boulevard is on Canopy. Support your local library.

It's on Paramount. Pay your fees. Pay your fees, your 10 cent fees when you get in there. It's also on probably everyone has this service, MGM Plus. Yep. Everyone uh is probably logged in right now, choosing their next movie. Perdon any closing thoughts this week. What did you call it earlier? Uh angry white man cinema? Mm-hmm. Um, yeah, I was thinking of like what what other movies are like this that fall into that category? Um

Who's that came to mind is Taxi Driver? I feel like this is kind of like in the vein. I mean, he's kind of like a a different guy, but kind of upset around the same kind of things in some ways. Or at least has a similar vibe. Um But a movie also I was thinking of that like I feel like it would be interesting to watch in light of this is do the right thing. And just how it yeah kinda tackles some of this stuff, but like from a completely, I don't know, different approach. Um

But those are my recommendations if if someone is looking for more, more of the same, or more in the same vein, that's falling down. I would have bet money you were gonna say buy centen. Yeah, yeah. It tackles us way better. We'll see everybody next week for Sunset Boulevard. 70mm is a tape deck production featuring original artwork provided by Danny Haas, Spiritual Guidance, and VGR the robot who loves movies provided by ProtoLexis.

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