Mini Crush #135

Oh that was we we got that from y'all. I guess, okay, all right, yeah I was. It's certainly not a thing now, but I remember it being I think I was in the crossover period where that was still around and then it kind of like went the way of you know, it went away, like that's just dandy. You know, I'm gonna bring it back like a mug. I think you should like a mug. So Noel, yo, uh, we're gonna get going here. I've been in a bad headspace, like

from the internet. Yeah, such that. I actually started last Friday with a complete um news blackout. And social media blackout songs. What I've had to do for work. And I tell you what, man, I haven't missed anything. Yeah, because I checked back in with stuff and things are still awful. Well that, yeah, it's not. If you want awful, that's what you've got for you, like a mug Like

I'm awful as a mug chuck, you know what. I could see that and like it's sort of a cleanse right like kind of like, uh, yeah, I'm with that, dude. I think I should do the same. Thing it's been does is rile me up. I don't actually get any good information. It's not like I don't know. It just makes me feel more powerless and afraid the same, so I can recommend it. It's been great. I can tell you that it changes nothing about the world to black

out for a little while. I do think people should be informed, but you can also take a little rest. And uh, you know, I found out, you know, I found out Chadwick Boseman died days later. That that was a sad thing to learn. And that's why the post about it. People are wondering why I ignored that. Um, it's just because I haven't been online. But that was shocking and out of the blue and really really a big,

big bummer, what a blow man. The fact that they kept it so quiet that he was saying, and that he obviously worked a lot while suffering and then and it's just brutal. Did you see that video? It was like a thing he did on Kimmel No Fallon where like people were thanking him on a video screen, like for his work on Black Panther, and he's like waiting in the wings to come out and surprise them, like you know, and they all just you know, freak out.

But he just seemed like he had a real kindness and uh gentleness about him and he knew how important that role was to you know, people that look like him. And I think it was really powerful, powerful thing, powerful loss toes stuff. And I feel like he was just getting started, really uh big time superstar in the making. So very sad about that. But um, I can recommend staying away from the news for a little while, even if it's just a day or two, it really does

a lot of good. I've been reading my Beatles book. I got a big, huge, the Bob Spitz Beatles Book, which is like a thousand pages or something and it is super dense. I'm on page three fifty and they just met Ringo. So what's it like reading a book, Chuck? What's it like? Oh? Man, it's great. I'd love to read. I bet. I mean, that's that's great. I think I've talked to a lot of friends about this, and it

seems to be a pretty common malady these days. But I just don't have the attentions, man I used to. I get distracted so easily because of our whole a D D culture, and so much of what I do for the shows is like reading things and little snippets and little short form pieces, and I have a hard time pulling focus for like a book length. You know, it sucks. I gotta I gotta figure out a way

around that. Man, Well, you gotta make yourself. Here's what you do, is you you get away from any screen, like, don't you have your phone near you because you're gonna be tempted to get that dopamine hit. Uh. So I go into my sun room, which is lovely, and it's at night and almost kind of mad because I've bailed on watching Dark with her for now because this is just what I need. So I go in there, I

make a drink. I've got the the view lighting set up in a nice dim manner, plus my little reading light, and I sit there for fucking three hours and read and it's just as calming as you can imagine. That's great. Sounds lovely. Highly recommend reading. Everybody start to believe that you have to actually recommend reading these days when it used to just be a thing people did. But yeah,

remember book it that was. That wasn't your generation. It was a it was a thing when I was in schoolier You got your in points for reading certain books, and at the end of the year you get a pizza party or something like that, and you went to It was you know, old school pizza high with the salad bar and the weird stained glass kind of like things.

You know, everything's red is Yeah, I remember that very fondly. Well, you know what, when I finished this book, I'm gonna get a pizza, have it delivered to my house, and I'm gonna eat it. So I think the what I gosh, the fiftieth anniversary of the White Album was the other day. Oh really, yeah, that's I think that that's my favorite Beatles record. I know, that's pretty thought thought of pretty

uniformly as their masterpiece. I really like Magical Mystery Tour two, but that those are my two favorites, you know what I am A I mean, I love it all. I've always been a huge Beatles fan, but I'm a sort of a rubber soul revolver guy, because that, to me was the that very kind of dead center point between mop Top Please Please Me, She Loves You and Weirdness that was to come interesting crossover. It sort of has vibes of both, you know, It's like, yeah, I like that,

that's cool. I love it and it's crazy to think about it. And I've said this a bunch, but the Beatles went from She Loves You Too Abbey Road and Let it Be in like eight years. It's bonkers. It's what a meteoric career. God man, I can't imagine kind of growth and u transformation. I found out about the

White Album things. There's an article I for a forget Slate or something, but remember when they went to hang out with that Yogi guy, the Maharish Yogi or whatever whatever, the Ricci exactly, and they and and Donovan hung out

with them without Donovan do I like Donovan too. But when they came back from that, they and like leading up to the White album, apparently he told them they had like painted they're really amazing acoustic guitars with like psychedelic stuff, you know, and like made them all um trippy looking, and he told them to sand it off. Does it make the wood sing more? It would sound better because it like dampens it if you have pain

on it. And so they sanded it off. And the way the article kind of teet it up was that it was also like very um symbolic of them, like shedding that like psychedelic twee kind of image and then moving into the super mature album. Not to say there are other stuffs not mature, but the White album something about it is very each of them in their own at their best, you know what I mean. Like even Ringo had a few bangers on that. Hey, Ringo was Ringo was Ringo great drummer. I don't love his songs,

but they had a quality to him. You don't like oct to pus his garden chuck. I mean, it's fun, Ruby Loves It's a it's a fun kid song. Well, what's this obsession with nautical ship? It's this kind of a ringo thing. Was it Octopus his Garden and Yellow Submarines? And I guess was for his I think, yeah, it's a goofy song. Yeah, I think there were drugs involved.

I'm not sure about that. It's certainly possible. Uh and still not the definitive Beatles movie and all since this is the movie show it's There's been a lot of Beatles movies, but not the Beatles movie. You know, Well, I thought there was a really big one, that Peter Jackson one or something. No, not Peter jar somebody did a big one recently that used all kinds of crazy archival footage. Maybe I'm miss well, he he that is not out yet. He is thinking, is Peter Jackson this

Let It Be? Taking the Let it Be sessions and all the unseen footage from Let It Be? Because you know, if you've ever seen the Let it Be footage, it's very much like a bandoned disintegration, just sitting around arguing. But he was like, there's a lot of great stuff showing the Beatles enjoying each other's company and playing songs and collaborating, he said, and everyone needs to see this. And he's he's doing it, so I can't wait for that. But I mean a biopic, man, Like, there's been some

really good Beatles movies. Nowhere Boy was great, the movie about John Lennon and his youth. Backbeat was good. Who played John Lennon in that? Anybody famous? I can't remember Nowhere Boy movie? It was? It's Jack Nicholson? No oh oh, it's uh yeah, Aaron Taylor Johnson. I know that guy, got it? You know him? He's from kick Ass. I think when't that his movie? Un does any does anything pop off? Like for casting for you for like a quintessential Beatles biopic? Like you got a Paul in mind? No?

I mean I don't either. I don't hate nothing that comes to mind. I think you gotta kind of go unknowns um. In this movie, Paul was played by Thomas Brodie Sangster who you would recognize what was he? And he was a maze runner and love actually and some other stuff. But Nowhere Boy was really good. Backbeat was good. That was a story of Stu Sutcliffe played by um what's his face from Nowhere Nowhere? You know Stephen Dorff? M Yeah, of course he played student Sofia couple of

the movie. Yep, good movie again, but not the quintessential sort of Beatles biopics. I hope it happens for you, Chuck, I really do. I hope it happens for you. No, I'm not. I don't care. Well that is uh, that's one way to handle it all. All right, let's move on then, since you don't care. Oh my god. I took this from the Movie Crushers pages from Brandon Weiss. I don't know if it's vice or vice, but it is a post that I think kind of fit well with the topic of uplifting everybody. I saw it was

universally loved movies. Yep. Great idea. And I'm gonna go bottom up because I've been getting a lot of grief from the Movie Crushers for reading top down in the same people getting spoken of on every episode right on, So new old pals coming at you. Jenny Riggs, Hello Jenny, she says, Emily pretty pretty universally loved to movie. Yeah, it's got a got a heart. That's that's a lovely movie.

I don't know anyone that's like homily sucked totally. That would be someone I would not want to hang with what a piece a ship movie that was? Uh what was that about? Janice Bridges says Paddington to no one. I've seen both Paddington's. Now we haven't talked about this. Fantastic, aren't they? Incredible and delightful in every possible way, every possible way, Very very good movies, very well done, very stylistically interesting. Who'd have thought on paper it seems like

such a weird ass idea. And then god, I mean, just handled with such care and just love. Oh my god, I'm enamored by those movies. Both very good. Grant Woody says, Away we go. You know, I think, uh, it's an underseen movie. I quite enjoyed it. Did you see it? I'm looking it up. Oh wait, Krasinski, Yeah, who is that? Okay, Now I don't know anything about it. Very good movie and again underseen m and I don't know anyone who

hated it. Bobo Temple says this, and I have not seen Swiss Army Man yet, but I have heard nothing but good things. It's awesome, it's wacky and just bizarre, and the fact that it exists is a revelation. It's really cool. It's a cool ass movie. It is a cool ass movie. Um, and you know what, I just realized, that's so funny. I had two tabs up and I was reading from the wrong one, but it's kind of a similar one because I was The next bit up was movies that just make you feel good. So that's

kind of funny. So those people that I just read those were actually movies that make them feel good. Nold not universally loved. I think they kind of qualified though, how do I mean, how do you how do you qualify universally loved? Like it's just like at anyone you mentioned it too wouldn't have a negative thing to say about it. I think so Swiss Army Man was pretty divisive. Actually, I would say a lot of people like didn't get it, you know, yeah, yeah, well that's the only one I

think that that doesn't work. But now that I found the right tab, we will continue with universally of movies. Uh. Cary Nelson says, ET, of course, who didn't like ET? You might think it's sad, but that's different than not liking something. And like we wouldn't have the phrase penis breath if it wasn't for ET. Well, that's a good point. Also a universally loved thing phrase insults. Uh Meg beast Garan says toy Story. Sure, who didn't like Toy Story? Yeah,

those definitely hit the buttons. Ghostbusters. That comes from Andrew Reamer. I would agree with that. Here's one I think I might be. Yeah, yeah, this is sort of a joke. Naked Nathan Nicholas says Star Wars the Last Jedi, But I think that's just a bit of a tongue in cheek. It was because that was particularly divisive of all of them, like the most probably well yeah, well, I mean those puels, well all, yeah, the prequels are as a whole or divisive, but of the of the newer kind of next gen ones,

that was the one. The fans, a lot of them were like angry because they took it in a different direction they didn't like. I totally agree. Robin Simmons. Watt says, this movie is perfection in every sense of the word. And she is talking, of course about the Tom Hanks Baseball movie, the classic that I've covered here on this very show, nol Can you guess it a league of their own? Yes, there's only one that was recommended to me,

real hard yesterday. I saw it in the theaters, but I haven't seen it since, uh, and I really don't remember much about it except the Madonna and Rosie o'donnald in it and that he says there's no crying in baseball. Really good movie. I want to check it out, and I think pretty universally loved. I think that counts. Back to the Future is on here a bunch our old Palazack. Pointer talks about Back to the Future and there are many many people on board that let me see here.

Meg Baskaran actually is on again and she says, this is a pretty good question. I wonder which actor actress appears the most on this list, and she says, my money is on Tom Hanks. Could be because Big is on here a lot. I think he's kind of a universally loved actor, although I think people might be suffering from a little bit of Hanks hangover syndrome with all

these sort of real life characters he's playing lately. And I agree he's kind of doing one after the other, and I think, yeah, I'd like to see him change it up a little bit totally. Let's just have Big two. Yeah, make another Big where he gets well, I think the way they would handle that would be that his he has a son or daughter that finds the Zoltranzoltar. Yeah, or maybe z Oultran. Maybe there's another one. I like Zoldtran makes me think it's sounds like soul train the

zol Tran. Sir Jackie Sheehorn says, elf, yeah, you made me watch that recently, and uh, I see exact why it's such a fun It's not only a good holiday movie. It's just a good movie and it has such heart and it's funny. Genuinely, I agree. Uh, let me see Brandon Bisce, whose thread this is, He says, glad to see all the people writing Princess Bride. There's there's been a bunch of princess brides, he said. Sounds like I found the right group, and that is for sure the

movie Crush family. Somebody posted something on the page just about like on a thread, thinking everybody for being such. I don't know, it's just like sort of like I'm so glad I found this community. Blah blah blah bah like it was a lot of people share that sentiment

on their really really cool group of folks. It is a nice little corner of the Internet knoll, a nice, little quiet corner where people are almost always nice, and when they're not, they they can be they can leave the room, you know, totally, you can get out stand in a corner. Uh, Frank, Bauman says Hoosiers. Uh Frank, I love that movie. My only issue is is that some people just don't like sports movies. I haven't seen it. Probably not like sports movies, right, I like it when

they're good. No, weirdly I do, okay, like, um, yeah, I certainly like. Uh. I don't know, they're not. It's not my genre. But I've seen plenty and I quite enjoyed. I loved Any Given Sunday, that Oliver Stone movie. You're not into sports though at all? Already. I'm not a sports guy. No like, literally no sports you like at all. I think basketball is fun, but I don't follow sports. I would watch it with I didd a girl for

a while. He was really into college football, and so i'd watch games with her, and she kind of taught me how to understand it, and and I definitely enjoyed it more when I kind of got the stakes and got what was going on and hung out with someone that was really invested in it, you know, but it's not really my bag. But I definitely think it's I see the value in it, absolutely, But you were just

constantly waiting for a halftime when the love making sessions began. Indeed, Oh boy, the googe old David Goods says, Princess Bride, of course, And he said, I'm trying to think of anything other than that, And he said, but I can't. It's a good one. Paul Takless Raiders of the Lost Ark very controversially. Robert Iron says, Chinatown. You know, Chinatown is pretty universally loved, but I think Roman Plansky that's stain. Yeah, we'll probably drive some people away from that pick. That's true,

you know what I mean. It's weird though he's still like, I don't hasn't make anything in a long time. But uh, he seemed like he still was able to kind of fly into the radar and like have a career. He'll get accolades. Uh. Joseph Belle says, shawshank A lot of Shawshankers. Oh yeah, yeah, it's so funny, dude. Like I had a call the other day about a Stephen King related thing and um. Apparently every piece of property, every piece of writing he has, every short story, every everything is

like optioned like at all times. And it's like impossible to find an unoptioned Stephen King story in Yeah, I believe that because I mean take a flyer on it. Yeah, you know, like he could he could wipe his butt on a piece of paper out option it for ten dollars. You never know that piece of paper could could come alive, it could become sentient and attack my family. And then you got a Stephen King movie. I love it. I love it Mary Poppins that comes from Sammy K. Hill. Yeah,

are we watched that recently? It's a it's a fun movie. Yeah. The sequel too, was this sequel was quite good Mary Poppins Returns. It was had the same niceness to it. I enjoyed it. Now it was that the recent thing or was there aquel back then? That was the recent thing? It was with different Emily one. Yeah, I thought it was quite good. I didn't see that that was called Mary Poppins Returns. It was called Mary Poppins Returns, which

sounds a little sinister kind of, doesn't it. Yeah, she see for you, She's coming Sarah Stapleton says, Jurassic Park, but she has countered from our old friend LINEA. Barnett said, my sister in law hates it because dinosaurs scare her. Does she know dinosaurs aren't realm that'd be my question, Well, they were real at one time. Do you believe in coastal Yeah? I do do. That's a big one. It's a big question. I know, Uh, you have a big A little A little bit, A little bit, all right,

I'll take that. That's kind of a cop out. It is, but it's all you're gonna get out of me. You seem to be hedging but a lot. Yeah, I do. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what if if if it's like if it's uh like like disembodied spirits. But I believe in like maybe memories or some little imprint that things that once we're living leave behind. I think. So that's why I say a little bit. I'm not quite sure what to call it.

It's the same way I don't necessarily believe in God, but I believe in like power is greater than our understanding, you know. I like that. No, And I think the movie crushers like hearing, uh, where you park your garage? You know, I parked my whole garage well, and another and another much larger garage where you how you what what garage you're parking in? Basically, that's what I mean. It's more of a car poard really, but I follow, I don't have a garage, our car pard noll As.

You know you got a nice driveway, though, I do. That's a new driveway. So we're gonna move on to the original thing that I was reading, which is I asked for feel good movies, but not I was kind of looking for something deeper, not just like light and breezy it made me feel happy. I meant movies that really like make you walk away from it changed and thinking like the world is good? You know what I mean? Oh, it's all ask well, I uh, I'll save it. Um

no I do uh, I don't know. Like I we talked about this before I was on did the interview segment with you about adaptation? Something about the end of that movie is as fucking batshit as that movie is. At the end of the day, I walk away feeling this utter sense of Catharsis and wonder and like just bigness of the universe and stuff I don't know like that. That's a big one for me yet always the end with the time laps flowers and happy together by the

turtles playing and just graives me feeling that way. Yeah, that's good, hopeful mm hmmm. Uh, Bobo Temple, says Swiss Army Man. That's a great name, by the way, Bobo Temple, Bobo Temple, it's a band. It should be so a Swiss Army Man uplifting and makes you feel good about the unice. Yes, yes, it's a lovely it's it's got it's got a very similar energy to adaptation. Uh, it's

it's it's sort of screwball on its surface. It's got this sort of conceit that's very like on paper, just like what but then they they handle it with such heart and like enthusiasm and like creativity and it ends it ends up leading you with that feeling of wonder that I'm talking about. It's very similar very Kindred movies to the work of Michelle Gundry and uh Spike Jones and very much in line with all that stuff, which is some of my favorite stuff in the in the universe.

You know that new Charlie Coufman's coming soon to Netflix. I think it looks awesome. It's like a weird kind of horror. But I don't know, it looks it looks awesome. He's got a book too, you know, like you just came out with a quite long book. Uh fiction. Oh really, do you know what it's about. I don't, but let me see what it's called. At the very least, I'm sure it's a it's a journey into the head trippiness of Charlie. It's called ant kind a novel ant kind?

Is it about aunts? I don't know. He he is a very interesting fellow, isn't he. Uh huh. It's about a neurotic failed film critic named be Rosenberger Rosenberg. All right, I'm gonna have to read this. Yeah he is. Uh it's seven and twenty pages. God oh man. Yeah, I'm kind of looking over this. It sounds crazy. He is, I'll tell you what. He he is one of the most unique artists that has ever picked up a pin

or a typewriter, you know, one of my favorites. And that whole same crew, you know, like with with with God, with Goundry and Spike and just that real out there just otherworldly imagination that just gives me like a sense of awe. Stuff like that gives me a sense of wonder and like feel good ary when you just art, you know, when you see something just done so perfectly and and and like just like how did you even think of this? How did where did you even start?

That's like it's like magic, you know, that's the kin of it makes me feel good. Yeah, I agreed. Thorid ragnar Rock that's from Jacqueline Gouldbrand's son. Yeah, that's feel good movie. Pick, it's very good. Pick. Momo Hughes has dazed and confused all these new names. Chuck, it's a

great idea, reading from the bottom bottom up. Man. I'm sorry to all the oldest appels, but you can you can sit down for an episode, right, They'll have their day in the sun again, you know, in a top down world, Chuck, sometimes you've got to go from the bottom up. Hey, I like that. Put that on a shirt. Uh. Tim Perry says searching for Bobby Fisher. Yeah, we did that recently on the show. Great great movie, love it. Uh. James Nordstrom says, Hamilton's does that count Sure, it counts.

Why not? I mean it's a movie now sort of? M h, Actually not really? What do you mean? Not really? I mean it counts, but it's not a movie. It is a filmed stage play. That's true. Okay, I follow, okay, but I still say it counts. Yeah, okay. Cool. As far as this h this thing goes exercise Bobo Temples back. My new favorite person h the Life Aquatic was Steve Ze Sue, you say aquatic? What do you say aquatic? Aquat? I don't know. I'm I think it's potato potato. I

just I just interesting. What do you say aquatic? Aquatic? I say aquatic? What makes you sound like you're from Poughkeepsie? Aquatic? Heather Coleby says, what's up? Doc? Every scene is amazing, so many good quotes too. That's a movie I have not seen. Is that an oldie? Yes? If I'm not mistaken, that's uh. I want to say Barbara Streisand isn't that yeah, Barbara streisand Peter Bogdanovitch. I need to see that. It's got all the elements. Is that Ryan O'Neil, for God's sake? Yeah.

Ian O'Neil. I don't know. I see I need to I need to brush up on some of that older stuff. Do you know who he is? Are you saying you don't know who they don't know who he is? No, Oh boy, Ryan O'Neil. He was the lead. He was a heart rob back then. He was in the tear Jerker Love Story. He was the lead in Paper Moon. Okay, what's up? Doc Ke and Barbara streisand again we're on screen in the main event, kind of a cheeky love

romantic comedy. I don't recognize him at all. I'm looking at him even like even this el Fara Fawcett and Ryan were they married? He was like they were maybe married. I don't know if they're married. They definitely dated. He uh, yeah, he was. He was a big he was sort of the a big, hunky leading man from sort of a Richard of his day. Yeah, although they're not too far off an age, so interesting, they're sort of the same day. But yeah, he was great. He's a good actor. He

was Barry Lyndon. Oh, that's yeah, that's okay. There he sure was. And I knew there was a ref that I would that you would get so interesting though, because I just I still don't recognize him. He looks different in that role because he's so made up and where like a wig and stuff. You know, I need to finish that. I only made it to the intermission and then my rental ran out, Oh look here my cousins on the page. I did not know that. Nice. My

cousin Stephanie Yancy said, life is beautiful. Oh god, yes, I actually wanted to watch that when my mom was visiting a couple of weeks ago. Uh is such a perfect lovely movie. And I'm I'm so sad that that dude never went on to do anything nearly as uh as interesting. Yeah, maybe that horrible Pinocchio. Oh sure, my cousin's on here. No, I had no idea. That's what happens when you go bottom up. So all right, now we're gonna move on, and we're gonna finish up today

with a segment. We promised people that you would watch the movie Pretty Woman, and we would do a little quick mini nol segment, mini review, mini crush it mini What do we call the rush to judgment? Many crush to judgment? And I would love to hear how that went. No, when did you watch it? Set the scene? Who did you watch it with? Give me a little uh, just give me a little background here. Um, yeah, I watched it with this uh uh, this lady I've been hanging

out with. Um and the lady we've heard about already or no, I spoke, I've spoken of this lady. She has a very similar name to me. Um. And she was delighted because it was it was a favorite of hers. And you know, I admittedly don't go for the rom coms. I don't like just go, you know, bounding for them. You know, it's something that I always enjoy them if they're well done. You know, I definitely if I if I watched one, I find myself getting pulled in. I'm never like I rolle or like I hate this, but

it's not where my brain goes, you know. Um. With so much stuff out there, it's just not my like genre of choice. So she was thrilled because you know, she obviously had a really real fondness for it, and Um, I loved it. I mean I really did. Uh. It's really a sweet movie. Um, It's it's a little you know, it's like a fairy tale. It's a little bit like my fair Lady. Um, it's it's weird. I think it's rated R, which is interesting because that was at that time where like an R then could easily be a

PG thirteen today. Was it like it wasn't rated R? Was it? I thought? I think it was. I'm gonna have to look that up. I don't almost. Well, it's got a couple of funks in it, and I know you can get a few. You can get away with a few fox. Now, yeah, that's rated ARE. But I'm telling you a nineteen ninet like I don't even know if they had PG. No, they did. Thirteen came along with Temple of Doom. I want to say, yeah it is rated R. Holy sh it's rated ARE. There's there's

one nipple. You see a nipple, a quick nip, a quick quick nip, nip shot and they say funk a couple of times. Um, but it's not there's nothing. Um, it would be PG thirteen today. That's what I'm saying. Easily.

There's something overly like salacious about it. The only issue I have and I don't want to sound like too much of like a you know, s J W Liberal snowflake or anything, but like the just like a problematic nature to like she's hooking for the very first time, you know, and lands, uh this gazillionaire husband who takes her away from that life, you know what I mean. That's the only thing that maybe Long Water wrote a

song that addressed this. You ever know that band, I'm I'm familiar with them, but I do not know this. Don't tell me about it. They have a song called folk Song, one of the greatest, greatest songs, and uh. Part of the song talks about pretty woman and where she kind of scures it. And this is way back in the nineties. She said, you know, I wish a rich, handsome man in a Jaguar would come along and save me and take me shopping, because that's what a woman's

all about, right, sucking and shopping. And then it goes sucking and chopping and sucking and shopping. Uh so yeah, it is a definitely a problematic theme of handsome man rescues the of course, back then, you would call a hooker with a heart of gold. Um, you don't let you say hooker anymore, sex worker if you please, that's right, but um no, but not but listen, but that aside, it didn't like bother me. It wasn't like you know, it was of its time. Um, it really is. She's

so charming it blows my mind. I have a hard time with this a lot where like she had to have been like twenty two or something, you know when she made that think yeah, yeah, and he's also he probably was more like forty or something like that. I would say it definitely the decent amount older. But okay, I'd not have to linger too much on this, but then I'll move on to some stuff I really love.

But it's also like which would he have been? Would he have treated her this way if she like wasn't Julia Roberts, you know what I mean, Like there's this sense that like he thinks she's so great and so special and all that, but like I don't know, like what is it that makes it? What? Like is it? I think she definitely has like a don't take no ship and kind of tells it like it is vibe. But a lot of that just has to do with like she's from this other world and everyone's just so like,

like who funk is this coming around here? Speaking her mind? You know? For I don't know, I love Jason Alexander as the pervy hansy little lawyer. Fundn't realized he was in it. Yeah, nice little cameo. So she was in her early thirties when she made this, and I believe some reason, I did the math and I thought it was she was a little younger. The difference between ages is about twenty years nineteen years between those two, so substantial.

I made a couple of notes and then I sort of fell off because I really got sucked in, honestly. But the first thing I noted was Iggy pop song real Wild Child. It sounds kind of like a foe Bruce Springsteen song. I sort of like ragged on it for a second. I was like, what is this like Bruce Springsteen light Ship? And then I realized it's my boy, Iggy who I'm a door. But that was a weird

period for him. It was much more like a commercial kind of Then I just wrote those fucking boots, Sure it's crazy boots that are actually on the on the video box and that outfit. Yeah, yeah, you know. I think there are certainly some problematic elements, but there are also some elements of um and especially people that are in the camp of pro sex worker and that that that can be an empowering and enabling job. Yeah, but don't they kind of neg it in this you know,

Like well they do. Um. But you know, she gets her come uppance against the the snooty Beverly Hills boutique who thinks she doesn't belong because of who she is. Uh. Yeah, it's interesting. The messages are sort of all over them, but she only belongs because she all of a sudden has cash hers you know what I mean. I mean, you know you know what I'm saying. No, I know.

It's it's it's a movie of the of its time, which is very materialistic, like like, you know, the dude, the Richard Gears character, he's kind of a douche bag. Like he's not let me let me rephrase that. Like he's of the type of person that he is, which is what like a venture capitalist basically, like he just kind of has this soulless job where he just like takes other people's companies that they've worked their whole lives

multigenerationally and then just flips them, takes them apart. And he talks about that, and you know his character changes too though, and that largely is because she shows him, you know, that there are other other things in life besides just like being a shark, you know, and he uh ends up doing something nice for one of the people whose company he's like been like really gunning for true. I will say, though he's not the most likable character for a lot of that movie. That's what I'm saying.

I mean, I wouldn't go so far as to say he's a douchebag, but he's got that entitled thing, you know, he every he wants everything to be the best you know he gets. He's not very charming, not really. He is when he's playing the piano though, and he's got his tie off off and he's entertaining like the the wait staff, they're all sticking around like in the restaurant. He and then like they have hot sex on the piano. But then he also dismisses all of them. They're like,

can you give us the room please? And she's like, you're used to people doing exactly what you say, aren't you, And and then he lifts her up and bangs her on the piano. Oh so very mixed messages. It's a movie from like in every way you know, which is so funny. And this is just such an obvious statement, but like movies from nine, we're basically still eighties movies, you know what I mean. Like, it's got that, it's got the hair, it's got a lot of those vibes.

Love the Hollywood Boulevard shots. Um, I think you see the frolic room quickly, definitely see the pantageous and I'm super familiar with that area and it was nice to see that. Hank Azaria makes a weird quick flash in the pan appearance like as a cop at the very beginning, and then he's gone. I thought he would be more more like, you know, in a main character. He wasn't. He wasn't even a big thing then. Though that's right, it makes sense. I just think of him so fondly

because of all his voice work. Uh. Corner like gets on rails. He's driving his his his lawyer's car and he can't drive a stick and like she gets in the car and she she it's a lotus. So I think it's what it is, um, And she says, man, that about this thing Corners Like it's on rails, And I'm like, I don't even understand what that term. No, what is it like like on like a like a train track, Like, what is corn? Okay, yeah, that's exactly

what it means. It's it's It's a term I've never heard of and he hadn't either, and then he uses it again later to improve his lawyer. He gonna repeats it, you know, he said, yeah, I think corners like it's on rails. Uh, she's from Millageville. Do you remember that she says she's from Millageville, Georgia. Did she say that, Yeah in the movie you're kidding. Yep, she's from Milledgeville. That's crazy and weird because Julia Roberts is from Smyrna

in real life. I didn't know that Smyrna, Georgia. And uh, I'm surprised she didn't say, Hey, can I make this Smyrna since I am actually from Georgia instead of this weird town that no one has ever heard of. I think maybe Milledgeville just sounds more quaint. Now I've heard not great things, you know, not to yuck anyone's town or anything. Isn't that where there's a college there? Right?

Isn't that where? Like? What is it? Yeah? I can't remember which one, like Middle Georgia or something like that. It's on the Lake Sinclair. Alright, no, so give me thumbs out of five thumbs uh in in the context of when it was made, what do you? I give it like four and a half three point seven five thumbs very much enjoyed it. It's light junk food of a movie. You know. It's not like I think cathartic happened or I I walked away feeling change, not that that.

That has to be the criteria for any you know, any movie has to do that definitely accomplishes its goals? Is it? Gary Marshall? Gary Marshall? Right? And then is Penny Marshall his sister? And she's done a bunch of stuff too. I heard the best interview with Barry Son and Felt the other day on NPR. He say he used to be a cameraman and apparently he was shooting a movie for He's an interesting character by the way, He's got a book out about his life and really fascinating.

Weird dude. But he was saying, yeah, Penny Marshall said, I tried to fire you, but they wouldn't let me. As he goes, they told me you were good, but I don't think so. It was pretty great. Yeah she was great. Yeah, but yeah, for seven five, I definitely enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun. I love the music. There's a lot of good, like big music moments like uh is wait, what is it? I want to know what love is now? What it was then? And there's now there's a big schlocky eighties let's see

pretty Woman soundstrack, big moment. Oh no, I know it must have been love, must have been love. But it's all pretty good song. It must have been. Yeah, And I had to I had to give them some points for restraint for not just blasting Pretty Woman repeatedly. They used it just once, and they used an instrumental little splash of it at one point, but that was it. That's great. So you give it three thumbs and one thumb. That was slammed in a jewelry box by Richard Garre exactly.

He's like, all right, well, I think we should keep this up, these movie challenges, and uh, maybe you can challenge me for one next time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I will watch one of your favorites. Okay that you've been harping on I've been harping, you know, like, why haven't you seen that yet? Chuck? Oh, I can't think of what that would be, but I'll rack my brain. I think they are movie crushers. Now, okay, they know do you know? Are you? Are you coy? Is there

something specific? Oh? I can think of a few. All right, but this is your challenge and game on, game on, Chuck. All right. Well, thanks everyone for tuning in, and uh we will see you next Monday. For more podcasts for my heart Radio, visit the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows,