Mini Crush #156

into his uvra right now. And Altered States is the one that always pops out as like a very psychedelic take a shot movie. Yeah. I think Women in Love is also one of his kind of uh more well known, kind of signature films as well, if I'm not mistaken, Yeah, because he's still around. No, he died nine years ago. The world alright, p we hardly even knew that you were dead. Yeah, Tommy's cool, very uh weird seventies. You know the way those movies look back then was just

so cool, that kind of rich yet faded color. I love it. M m mmm. And you were saying off My in a red hot take that you prefer. Elton John's version of Pinball Wizards featured in the movie to Theos's Pretty Killer Man, because I think, I don't know, I love it. I love the that riff on the piano a lot better. And then he does a vocal Uh he does a little bit different vocal take on shore plays. I mean pinball. That that line that I like a lot? Now? Am I am? I correct in? Uh?

Saying that he Elton John is playing the titular pinball wizard in the movie. Isn't that right? Uh? No, Tommy is the pinball Wizard. What Who's Elton John? He's like his he's his nemesis. Maybe yeah, is a pinball wizard actual role. It's been a while, but it's good and I thoroughly enjoy it. He adds more soul to that song, I think with the voice of his than Mr Adultery. I don't know, Chuck, I hate to tell you, but his role is the pinball wiz? Is he? That's what

it says here on Wikipedia? So well, I thought Tommy was the pinball Wizard because he's the Johnny's the young upstart that's given the the the dark horse that's giving the pinball Wizard a run for his money. But in the song that deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball. He's a pinball wizard. It's a good point. Man. I'm all confused now. I'm just just looks stupid. Thanks for bringing this up. No no, no, look, I'm literally just googled Elton John and Tommy and it says Tommy

Elton John character big text the pinball Wizard. So I I you have to take this one up with the internet, chuck, because I don't have the information in my brain to back it up. Stop the steel noll. Uh, let's spit my coffee all over my mic So I have a couple of catchup points here. I want to let everyone know that I up to my popcorn game. I was very shamefully just doing microwave popcorn. And that's just that's the garbage way to do it. If you don't want

good popcorn, get microwave popcorn. And uh, I got a whorli pop on the advice of John Hodgman and the worldly pop is basically I think you can just get the lid, but I got the lid and the pot. Uh and it's uh. It's got a hand with a little crank and that's attached to a little rotary spinner and you put in your your stuff and you turn the little handle so it's interactive, like Ruby's gonna love this thing, and it spins the popcorn. Well, you cook

it on the stove. Nice. I love a good crank, chuck, No, no, no. The things are a manual for you know what is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? I just said I like a good crank. I like a good physical thing that you put your hand on and turn. Okay, I'm trying to be sincere here checking it's all coming out wrong because of your filthy gutter mind. But the Worldly pop have also kicked it up with the the

orange coconut oil for the movie theater style. Oh yeah, of course, of course, the drippy drips, Yeah, the drippy drips, and then a little I do. I don't go like crazy with the different toppings. I know that people have their loves and their suggestions, including what is it yeast or something nutritionally? Nutritionally I just like the hippies. Hippies call it nootch, which sounds even worse. The hippies. I just used the movie sort of orange e popcorn salt

can give it a good shake, and that's my game. Well, you know, it would also be good chucking. This is not this is not over the top. Just get a nice seasoning salt, you know, get a nice like array of seasoned salts and you can have a different flavor melunge every time. I'll try that. I like them lunch, you know, I love a good lunch. I like this ide the idea of this, uh this analog you know of a stove popcorn crank situation. I'm gonna look into that.

Jerry's texting me. You know, does everyone want to hear a text from Jerry? Yeahs is? Are you in trouble everything? Okay? Hey, I'm hearing weird that weird electrical noise in your track again? Uh that I used to hear in the recordings, but figured it was a one off as they seem pretty clean as anything changed in your space. It's not terrible. I can work around it, but it's definitely worse than it was before the last two to three home sessions.

I had electrical interference and all what the hell he got? He got? You got gremlin's bro in your electricals. Uh. You know what I would do, Chuck, I would just unplug the cord and just just plug it back in. Make sure it's got a nice solid connect for the audition, just for the mic. You know, this is getting introduced somewhere, you know, in a chord. Uh. So it could be that maybe it's just gotten a little loose or something. Sometimes they work their way a little loose. But I

don't hear it. Well, your mike is also feeding the zoom, so I would hear it, but I don't know. Um, maybe send me this track after we finished, and we can trouble shoot that business. This has been tech Talk podcast tech Talk Uh and Noll also want to thank the h and I know you know this because I texted you last night, but I want to thank the great people that Mog. We did a theremin podcast on

stuff you should know. I finished the episode talking a little bit about the theorem any which is MoG's sort of electric version, uh, synthesized version of the theoreman and how knee it looked, and they sent me one just sent me Mog is amazing. I I actually went to a Mogue fest a handful of years ago that it was was great. But they actually, they're such a lovely company.

They upgraded my press pass to what's called an engineer pass where you actually get to build in a classroom with the the developer, the designer their new like product that hasn't even come out yet. So I got to like solder a hundred and something twenty patch points on this like printed circuit board and I and then I got to keep it. It's this device called the drummer from another mother. It's a synthesizer drum machine thing and it's fantastic. That's so cool. I can't wait to go.

Uh it's in Nashville, right to go, it's in well, actually it used to be. When I went, it was in Winston Salem and the whole Research Triangle area at multiple venues, and it was Fantatistic Animal Collective. I saw who that was the big one. There were a few really awesome some smaller artists that played, but the Animal Collected was the headliner. It was lovely. I think the factory though, is in Nashville, right, that's right. The factory is in Asheville, and yeah, you can. I think they

needed tours totally. Man, I'm all over. It's a big thanks to mog I'm gonna I'm gonna thank them on stuff. You should know too that there are many afflicted in this morning finally, and it's pretty fun. Hard to master, but I'm gonna mess around with it and then I'm going to let you borrow it. It's pretty neat. So No, there's been talk loosely here and there about a crusher Fest, and I was thinking today how much fun that would be, and uh, I think it could take a lot of shapes.

But what I thought would be fun is if let's say we rented out the place at theater here in Atlanta and had like an all day thing, basically like we gotta make it worth it if people are coming, and um, I have three movie screening throughout the course of the day, all decided on by the crushers, and then we in between have socials there in the theater and we could play games, we can do we can do whatever. We can have people chime in and talk about what might be fun to do, ice break your socials,

get to know you stuff, and then maybe have it catered. Uh, have lunch and dinner catered and drinks and stuff. I think that would be a lot of fun when things returned to normal. Uh maybe late next year. I would absolutely love that. And the closest thing I could compare that to, um, I think I told you this. I went to an event at the i f C Center in in New York for John Cameron Mitchell's epic uh multipart podcast series Anthem Homunculous, And it was a sit

down listening session for the whole thing. So it was literally a theater, you know, the size of the plaza, full of people, and there would be breaks where they would have like they had like a lunch break and then a dinner break and catering. People just came through. Um, this would be a great example. We could do like a six part screening fests, an all day kind of movie fest situation. That would be so much fun. And I think I could probably get a a block of

hotel rooms that maybe the What's Highland in? Yeah, at the Highland in or the what's the one down the street next to Pont City Market with the Claremont Hotel the Claremont, and we could podcast in between the movies. We could watch the movie and then do like a like a podcast sash about the movie. We totally could take take you questions from the audience and have like a mic. This has got to happen, Chuck. I mean, if we could get a hundred people here, it would

be worth it. And maybe, I don't know, we'll look into it. I don't like the expenses a thing that can keep people from going, So maybe I can just like try and fit the bill for everything but travel. Yeah, that sounds pretty awesome, man. It could be a lovely celebratory thing for a return to normalcy and to like people could drive if they're close enough, and if you could afford a plane ticket. Um, then maybe maybe we

could just throw some of the main movie. Crush doesn't make much money, but I'm I'm happy to funnel that money into a big thing like this. That would be kind of cool. Count me and oh no you're you're not invited, No, damn it. It'd be funny. We could have Casey and Paul and Annie and Holly and like and you dummy and all the all the in house people like that would be so much fun. Yeah, yeah, I'm into it. All right, Crush your fest. We gotta make that happen everyone. All right, now we're gonna get

going here with uh. We got a couple of little segments. One we're gonna take from the crushers, the great Austin Devski, one of the great crushers. He always has such great ideas he is talking about. He says, Okay, animation to lie back and usually doesn't work. He said, didn't work, but maybe sometimes it does. I mean, what are other examples of that? Okay, never mind that, I understand your

mind question. But I guess the big ones these days are all the Disney live action kind of reboot things which I would before not great, right, correct, don't particularly work. He says, what live action to animation do you think could work? Like? What what movie would you want to see animated? Or something from that world animated. I think that's pretty cool question. It's such a cool question that my brain is just like whirling. I'm trying to lock

onto something that would make sense. Well, something science fiction. He maybe like Dune. Dune would be a cool animated or like a blade Runner animated like in the style of anime, or something like a Kira kind of you know, the blade Runner. That would be cool. And I think the animation style, you can go with a lot of different directions with some of this stuff. So let's see what the crushers have to say. All right, Grant Woody says, I think they could be fairly successful with an animated

Mad Max series, maybe in the same style as Adult Swims. Primal, which I have not seen. Oh dude, you gotta see. Prime was J Gindi Tarkakowski, who who did like Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls and a lot of those early Cartoon Network originals. But um, it's called Primal and it's there's no dialogue, it's just a caveman look, and it's fucking brutal. It looks so sad and so violent

and gorgeous. I'm with listener here. Um, Grant Woody's name, Grant Woody h big time Like seriously, all right, Lea Mitchell wants to see a Harry Potter animated series. I obviously we know where I lie there, but that is uh And I agree with John Kell. He commented that I'm surprised it doesn't already exist. That seems like a no brainer. You know, kids would eat that up and you could just be in that world and not even have it be the movies and the like the Further

Adventures of the Boy Wizard totally. You see, they're doing a they're doing a series. Uh, they're developing a series for HBO Max. See that. Yeah, I made it, made a lot of news on all the nerd sites. Um, I mean whatever, you know, Like I like, I said, like, I'm not okay, guys, I'm gonna come clean. Not a huge Harry Potter fan coming clean first time ever on record. Not that I don't like it. I just like some

of the movies are cool. Some of them are kind of too kitty and a little you know, just kind of a snooze. But I feel that way about a lot of the Star Wars movies, And yet I loved The Mandalorian. So I would I would be interested to see if for HBO Max they could do a grittier Harry Potter situation that could be like something that even if you're not intimately like all up in the movies and the books, that you could enjoy as standalone where

he's like sucking people up totally shred and faces. Does he not do that in the movies? He does? He shred, not a face scenario, faces shredded. I don't think he you know, he definitely wizards out on some some mofos. But yeah, I would love to see. You know, I can't imagine it would be all the same, you know kids, It would be like a different class, probably different stories. Right. Our old friend Zack Pointer says fight Club, and Austin Debski himself said fight Club would work pretty well as

an anime. Yeah, that'd be cool. Huh. There is a comic book sequel to Fight Clubs, only as a graphic novel. Yeah, that's interesting. And Zach Pointer else says Rambo. I could see that. It's well interesting. Someone posted him. Maybe it's just a a little quick thing. But there is an animated Rambo. But it might have just been or maybe

it was a full eighties cartoon. I don't know. Yeah, if there was gonna be a time for that, it would have been the eighties when they were doing like you know, executives were just all, you know, geeked out in their boardrooms, green lighting every cartoon, you know, of every act and property, Like I mean, the g I. Joe cartoon existed exclusively to sell children's underpants. Uh. David Gooch commented on that. The Gooch said, the eighties, I don't remember these, he said, there was a RoboCop, a

police academy, and a Toxic Avenger cartoon. Yeah, a Toxic Avenger card. I remember the action figures for the Toxic Avenger cartoon. They were kind of like Ninja Turtles, but grosser. Okay, the Mr. T cartoon, of course, I remember that. That was pretty fun. Lord of the Rings, Carrie Undil says, Lord of the Rings. I think technically there was or was that just the Hobbit, No, there's there's act. She did the first one. He didn't. Only the Fellowship of

the Ring. That was wrong. That's right, that's right. But yeah, you gotta update that ship, and that stuff looks pretty dated now. I think it looks real bad. I mean, I would argue that the Hobbit looks better and the Lord than the Fellowship of the Ring one. The Dragon looks really cool in the Hobbit, agreed. The fifth Element that's from Ryan Townsen. That'd be pretty cool. I need to rewatch that because I didn't love it back in the day. I just thought it was okay, But I

know it's so revered. I think maybe it deserves to rewatch. I think it's one of those ones that's a little bit style over substance. Is so stylish and like cool looking that you sort of give the fact that the plot is a little flimsy a pass um. But I would love to do the same. That same director who I believe did the professional if I'm not mistaken, the one about with with young young Lolita esque Natalie Portman Um.

He did those the Fifth Element, but he also did a one that came out pretty recently called Valerium The City of a Thousand some Things, and it was very much in the same you know, visual wheelhouse as Fifth Element, but also kind of a flimsy story, but really cool to look at to the point where I would say that I kind of liked it all right, Luca Lucan, Luca Bessa, Yes, if I'm not mistaken, Joseph BELLSS Predator, Yeah, that'd be a pretty boss cartoon. I always see cartoon

animated film. I'm fine with cartoon. I don't think anything wrong with that. I don't think it's somehow dismissive or diminutive. Rebecca Robe Killer admin, wonderful person, great human, says Alien franchise and Face Off, and Debsky said Alien franchise and stop motion would be kind of weird and scary. Yeah, I agree. A lot of work. Yeah, that stop motion

I made, dude. I went to make a stop motion movie when I first got my high eight video camera and it could go frame by frame, and I got my Star Wars figures out and I did about sixteen seconds of movie and it took a day and a half. And it looked good because I was really going super slow frame by frame. It looked awesome. But I was just like, I'm gonna be I'm gonna die and not

finish this. It takes so long. It's painstaking lye long. Well, you've seen that amazing little moment in Parks and wrec right where uh Adam Scott's character is depressed and unemployed and he like making the stop motion animation film. I don't remember that. Oh it's fabulous. He he's talking about it whatever his name, Roblow's character who's visiting him, and he's he's saying, oh my god, I'm working on my stop motion film. You show it to you and he

shows it's like two seconds. It's a requiem for a Sunday or so a Monday or that, and it's it's the it's the R. E. M. Sung Stand and it's the intro and it's like a dude getting out of bed and it's just like the intro chords and then he goes stand and it's it. That's it, and he goes that was it. I worked on this for like

a month and a half. It is really painstaking. And that's why you know, when you do fantastic, Mr Fox or Isle of Dogs are one of these modern um you know, Nick Park style stop motion, they have teams of people, you know, and it's much more I mean it still it's still painstaking, but they have a process in place. Obviously it's not. Yeah. Well also, like I mean I know that what's his name, Wes Anderson. He monitors a lot of the production, just like like like

the Voice of God like on TV. Monitors from his apartment, you know, just like on a screen where you know, you can switch back and forth between the different sets and kind of you know, supervise a little bit. But yeah, you mean, like it's not like you gotta be there every second. You give them the vision and then they work on it for like three weeks or whatever to get the one sequence. You know, amazing, God bless him. Uh Menal Data, one of our favorites, says Dr Who.

I've still never seen Doctor Who, but obviously I know enough about it to know it would probably be pretty cool animated. Mm hmmm. Midsomar. That's from Jonathan Cooley. I posted a really good meme where it was like midsummer Boat featuring the animaniacs. Um, you know, because it's like smashing heads with like mallets, you know, like cartoon style kind of it was. It was good. James G. Woodbeck says Army of Darkness. That would be cool, just the

Evil Dead franchise animated. I mean, they've like milk that thing so much they might as well. Oh dude, that would be great. And and and and by the way, a quickly another example of eighties stuff like that. The Real Ghostbusters was a really cool Ghostbusters cartoon that I was hugely into. When I didn't see that, I think I remember knowing about it though. Kunz the Danger of And says the thing, Yeah, that would be cool. It would be cool. It's an animated movie. Folk show. Charles Martin

Aakers agrees with you about Blade Runner anime. He said basically a Kira and he also says that Holy Ship we said the same thing. Yeah. He also says an interstellar series in cells shading style. Uh huh, what's cell shading? It's like, um, well, have you ever played the game

Borderlands are seen stills from the game Borderlands. Nope. It's essentially where everything looks kind of flat, almost almost like uh those movies like Waking Life and um uh, it's sort of like rotoscope, but it's like where it kind of looks two D, but there's like it's like the cells are painted on. It's like they're real people, but the cells are kind of painted on and they have like sort of like feathered edges a little bit. I'm looking at the stills from borderlandes. It looks really cool.

It's a great game. It's a great series, really fun games. I'm still burning through that Spider Man game. Fun fun. I am well into Last of Us two and I can we play that game. I can only play that game for about thirty minutes of the time because it's very only because it's just it's kind of upsetting. I mean, like when you're your character gets killed, it's like visceral and like you feel it, and I can only go through that so many times afore I'm like, Okay, I'm

gonna move on. I'm with you. I'm at this part where they are all these like trip wires, and I just kept getting blown up like brutally, and it's very jarring when it happens because you don't see them because they're in like tall grass or something. You know, boy, I'm gonna try and pronounce his name nol. I don't even know what some of these little uh marks over the letters me and these are not new amouts. Oops. Sorry about that, John act Lee gon jian Son. All right,

I'm gonna go with that. Sorry, John, I know butchered that. But the reason I butchered is because you have a great idea, uh big trouble in Little China that would be killer as an animated film. Another one that I had that has just missed me, missed my radar gone under it? What im not now that I'm not aware of it? I just have never seen it. Um I know I would it does. It does look like a like a cartoonish kind of romp, almost like a you know,

schlocky pulp kind of situation. Is that about right? It's it's great, a lot of fun, very funny as well. All right, now, well we're gonna move on. Thanks Austin for that. That's a lot of fun. You can go check it out on the movie Crusher's page if you want to submit your own animated movie idea. Uh, we're gonna move on, Nol to something we haven't done in a while, a little game called knows. All right, it's been a minute, It has been a minute. Uh. I've

been watching a lot of movies lately, though. I've been seeing this girl and hanging out a lot, and we watch a lot of movies together. Uh. And I've made a list. A lot of it is some of my favorites, but a lot of them are making the away from the Knowles whole segments onto this list, you know, because it's fun to watch things with somebody who hasn't seen it that you're intimately familiar with. It's also nice to watch something that neither of you have seen, agree and

be completely surprised. I agreed. Uh, well, Nol. I got out my ven diagram, my abacus, I got out my any what else, my adding machine. I have a computer. I have a professional baseball Major League Baseball scoreboard. Chuck, Let's be real, your computer basically is all of those things. You know. We're living in a brave new world, my friend and my yes and my no column in my pin and handal. You've been watching a lot of movies. But have you been watching a lot of black and

white movies? A few? Yeah? Few? All right, Well that's the category today, NOL black and white modern movies. Oh, I might do well. It took it easy on you because I know you don't refuse to see any movie pre that is not true. Check and you know that. But these are all and by modern, I mean you know, from the sort of eighties forward. Yeah, like black and white on purpose as a stylistic choice, exactly. Alright. No, we're gonna start it off with a little movie from

Alexander Paine called Nebraska. I haven't seen it. No, we're gonna move on to number two here. This director will pop up a couple of times because he loves to shoot him black and white. A little noir modern revisionist western called dead Man. I have seen dead Man, Yes, one of my favorites, with the soundtrack by the Rizza. It's great. Neil Young Man, Oh wait, no, not the Rizza. Then wait is it a little No? Probably ghost Dog. Sorry,

Nil Young you're right now, dead Man was. Neil young scored it, and it's one of my favorite movie scores. In fact, I was just listening to that the other day when it was raining in dark. A lot of just kind of solo guitar like loping, kind of like Reverby guitar, very Reverbi soundscape stuff. Uh, and he kind of plays a lot of the score is sort of based around this one main riff that is very simple

but just so effective. Proof positive that you don't have to be super fancy with your with your music's I completely agree. And it's been a lot of times as I've seen I need to watch it again. I really don't remember a whole hell of a lot of what happens, but I've definitely seen it all the way through. Yeah, it's great and weird. It's a very strange movie. I

love it all right. Nol number three. Uh. Previous to him being a creep in this movie, looking even creepier, the movie Manhattan from Woody Allen was regarded as an all time great Have you seen Manhattan? No, We've talked about this. My Woody Allen. Uh, my Woody Allen repertory is pretty limited. Yeah, I've really only seen I've seen sleep Burn, which is a weird one, and I've seen A Midnight in Paris, and I've seen uh like one other one, um, but not not at the time. And

it's it's not because I've like canceled Woody Allen. It's just something I's never gotten around to. He's one of those one of those filmmakers too, where he's got a lot, So it's hard to know where to start unless you're already kind of in in it, you know, or you're with someone who can give you some rex. So yeah, definitely not averse to it, but I have not seen it. Yeah, Manhattan is is tough, especially now because of the subject matter of the film. He is a middle aged man

dating a high school girl. And I know it was a different time and everything, but it's still like, uh, every every time I think about Manhattan, I'm just like, just you should have made her in college. It's still a made December? Is it made December? Yeah? Made December romance if that's what you're after. But it's like all he had to do. Is mak her nineteen instead of sixteen? You know, but he didn't. He made her sixteen, and that's really creepy given other you know, his real life. Alright, No,

we're moving on. You have no comment on that, so that's I don't. I don't. I'm not armed with enough information to comment on. All right. Number four and ols a movie we've covered on this show from Uh jeez, was it Francis war Couppla the great movie rumble Fish. I don't think so. No, I've seen The Outsiders. Does that count? No? I could have put that on the list as going with rub Outsiders. Yes, you're right, it is not black and white, is it? No rumble Fish?

I remember the book that was by the same writer as The Outsiders, se Hinton, that's right, Yeah, she was. I think she was from Tulsa, Oklahoma, if I'm not mistaken, and she greasers greasers in those movies, greasers and socialists, the socialists. Yes, rubble Fish is great, you'd like it? Good? Uh? Good score there too, Stewart Copeland did the score? Oh cool? Yeah? Alright, No, moving on to a great, great movie from the two thousand's. I think I don't think it was nineties. Good Night

and good luck. Yeah, I love it. I have I've had that on had that on DVD. Actually, we'll look at you. Don't get bonus points for that. You know what's The guy's named David Strea, one of my favorites. Strath.

He is briefly in The Sopranos in a later season where he plays like the guidance counselor at the at AJS High School, and he briefly gets embroiled in an affair with Carmela and then kind of really tactlessly breaks up with her after accusing her of kind of using him to get her son into a good college, which admittedly she kind of is. But he doesn't play it very well. Let's say that, and then he's done on the show. But she doesn't have him whacked, so she

does not. He does not. She thinks better of it, She gives she's very angry for a minute, but then she uh, she thinks better of it. All right, Now we're gonna move on to a Cohen Brothers film called The Man Who Wasn't There? I love that one. It seemed like that one was It was such a under the radar kind of one like it didn't. I don't remember it getting a big theatrical release. I came across it on DVD as kind of like, what's this, Oh,

a Cohen Brothers movie that I'm not familiar with it all. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you do a black and white movie, it's not going to perform as well. It's just that's why studios are like, no, I know you have an artistic vision, but they just don't perform as well the box office period. It is what it is. I love it. I love that people are still using that medium despite or in spite of those numbers. But that's why the

Man who Wasn't There wasn't that big one. We've talked we we've talked about Yeah, it's a really weird one. It's a noir with twists and turns, and it goes places you're not expecting. And obviously Billy Bob Thornton's fabulous and perfect for that kind of tat what's the word, like laconic kind of I don't think he's a private detective because I don't remember exactly what he but it's

it's a cool movie. Um. We talked about the fact that there is a black and white cut of Mad Max Fury Road, and that was what he really wanted to do. But but again studio was like the solid clips. It looks pretty awesome, but it's also so great in color totally, the color of the dust, the silver and all the well, the silver actually reads pretty well in black and white. But no, I I think it was the right stylistic choice to not go that route, and then we can have it in case you want it. Yeah,

I agreed. Alright, No, we're gonna move on your your three to three right now, Okay, okay, okay. Number seven a movie, a biopic musician biopic which you know you don't love about Ian Curtis of Joy Division. A movie called Control. We talked about this, chuck. Um. I haven't seen it because it seems really depressing and sad. I know. It's directed by the great Anton Corbin, who I love his music video work. I haven't really seen anybody direct features.

I believe so very nice. It's a good movie, especially obviously if you love Joy Division. Um, it is Anton Corbin, very nice, Sam Riley, he did a great job, all right. Moving on to number eight. I know you've seen it, but I'm throwing you a bone. I had to be fair. A movie called The Lighthouse. M hmm. Not only is that black and white, it's also in like a weird

square aspect ratio. Yeah. I love that square Yeah. And and and it makes sense because it really does kind of hem you into this like uh oh, what's the word, like kind of claustrophobic, uh feeling, you know, along with the characters. Yeah, and that verticality, you know, the Lighthouse. It just makes sense, alright. Number nine A wonderful, wonderful film called Frances Ha. It's another one that I wanted

to see. Um, I really like that's no a bound back right, Yep, No, I haven't seen I've seen the now, I guess iconic sequence of her like ballet dancing through the streets and like a really amazing tracking shot in New York, But now I haven't seen it. Wonderful movie, co alright, No, old Number ten, I can't remember. You've either seen it or you haven't, but everything we talked about it. A little movie called Roma. It's another one

I missed. Depressing. It seemed really depressing. Alright, No, yeah, would you would you would you say it's depressing? Or is it does it have uplifting qualities? I heard it's just really heavy. I mean it's not light, but it's not it's great, Okay, all right? I mean they can't all be Disney movies. No. On my list literally, I have a list literally adding it to it right now. And it looks I mean, it's one of the most amazing looking movies. That Black and White is magnificent. Have

you done? Have you crushed that one with a guest? Now? I don't think so. Casey and I did it. I don't think we did. Alright, No, old Moving on number eleven, we're halfway home. Another Jim Jarmish movie. It's a great it's called Stranger than Paradise. I haven't seen that one. I haven't seen Down by Law. There's also Black and White, right, isn't Down by Law Black? Right? Now? I haven't seen those. I don't know way you hate Jim Jarmish, I don't

you know. I guess I've seen Broken Flowers, which I enjoyed. I've seen The Ghost Dog, I've seen Dead Man. Uh. He's very like I mean, his movies are kind of a thing. They're specific, like kind of slow burn kind of thing, you know. I think Coffee and Cigarettes is black and white too. I saw Coffee and Cigarettes. He likes the medium. Alright. No, great, great first film from a great, great director Mr. Spike Lee called She's Got a Habit. No, I haven't seen it. I haven't seen

do the Right Thing either, Dude. I am woefully behind on my Spike Lee. You're under spiked. I'm under spiked, all right, you're falling behind here. No, I think you've seen this next one, uh, wonderful foreign film German film called Wings of Desire Vings of Tessiah byas the greates Vim Vendors. Is that a yes? That's so, that's an ah yah all right, I thought, so that's a yah. Uh huh not a nine A resounding yeah. No. I don't think you've seen this, but you never know with you.

It is a mockumentary from the nineties, I believe foreign film called Man Bites Dog. Absolutely, I've seen that, and I uh it's very disturbing, very funny, uh and really really great. Um it's about like a is. It does a really good job of kind of Um. I mentioned

it recently. I think on stuff that stuff that I want you to know because we were talking about the idea of you know, fake news and cult of personality and all of that, and it basically, you know, follows around this total psychopath who serial killer, serial killer psychopath who actively you know is is murdering people on camera, and then the news crew or documentary crew ultimately inevitably becomes complicit in his acts, like to the point where

they're helping him like hide bodies and ship And it's a really good metaphor for like what's going on with the media covering certain types, uh and giving them, you know, giving oxygen to their bullshit. It does, it does ultimately make them complicit in some ways. I agree. Good movie. Al Right, Well, this movie I actually have not seen it was She's did it win Best Picture? I think it might have, uh the artist, Yeah, it did. It

did win Best Picture. And I think that's one of those Best Picture ones that people like immediately kind of forgot even though it's really great. But it's one of those like old Hollywood circle jerks, kind of like the the Academy just adores you know, um, and that's what it is. And it's but it's I mean, it's good, it's really good, but it's like I could see how in general audiences might not have been as into that as like Academy members were. Yeah, I hear you, circle jerk,

very nice. No, uh, class it up, alright. The next one, No, I know you've seen a little black and white film called Schindler's List. Yeah, black and white except for that heartbreaker with the red dress. Red dress, that's it. Yeah, alright, boy, I'm curious because he's last four. You're tied at eight to eight and going into the final four. I love how close they always are with you. You never know, Nol. You're a conundrum wrapped in an enigma. That's me, all right.

Number seventeen Christopher Nolan's first film, a little bity called Following. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a long time, but um, that's a great example of, like, I don't know, like Christopher Nolan love.

I obviously I like his work a lot, But he's one of those directors that's gotten so far away from his scrappy early days that it's almost sad because his movies are so bombastic and huge now, whereas movies like Following a Memento are just more like, oh my god, he took what he had and ran with it and made these really intense, beautiful movies that are really genuinely spooky and uh and intriguing. And now it's like all bluster and and and a lot less of that nuance

in my opinion. I mean, he's still kind of uses the same as I was just reading somebody commenting on a message boards the other day saying that all of his movies kind of have a gimmick, which is sort of true, Like, you know, I forget what it isn't following, but there is a gimmick where it's like something that you think is happening isn't really happening. Um. Obviously with Memento, the movie goes in reverse. Obviously with dun Kirk, it's all one shot. He has little kind of gimmicks, but

he uses them pretty well for storytelling. But I just love it when he's when a filmmakers like starting out and has to kind of like make do with what they have, and following is a great example of them. Agreed. By the way, don Kirk was not one shot. That was seventeen But Dunkirk had the time thing. It had time distortion as well, right, Excuse me? That was really that was a flub on my part. Rarely do we do in show corrections. No, but we would hear from

somebody on that. I know we would all right, no, you're you're looking good. Now it's nine to eight. The first film from Darren Aronofski a movie called Pie. Oh yeah, yeah. And he saw that one on the shelves at Blockbuster Video or Hollywood Video or one of those video stores

back in the day and was intrigued. I think it was in like a cult section because it was, Yeah, it's a it's so cool and weird, and it's all about the Kabbalah and numerology, and like it's one of those movies where you don't quite know what's going on, if there really is some sinister force at play, or if it's just this guy kind of losing his mind. Um, whatever happened to that actor. He never was in anything else really, and he was great, you know, a lead

in Pie. Now that you're saying that, uh, I think you're right. I don't know that I've ever really seen that guy much. Who's his name? Very much experimental kind of student. First film, that ending boy who spoilers, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he does a thing he does with the thing to his thing. His name is Sean Galette, right, and the guy that plays his mentor is in a lot of stuff, the old man who plays go with the the the

ancient you know, chess like game. Um, he plays like the big bad uh in or one of the big bads in Breaking Bad. But let's see Sean Galette, what has he been in? Has he been in any other Aeronowski? He's got a great look. I'm sure he's been in some Uh, he's probably been in a lot of stuff that we just haven't really seen. Apparently he was in Requiem for a Dream as a small part um. It looks like he hasn't been in anything since two thousand fourteen. Interesting,

it looks like he's writing and directing some though. Oh there you go. That's cool. Yeah, good for him. Alright, No, it's really coming down to the wire. It is ten to eight with two more, so you can do no worse than fifty fifty, my friend, that's great, alright. Number nineteen a movie about vampires from Abel Farrar called The Addiction with Lily Taylor. Ah man, I thought you were gonna say a woman walks home alone at night. That was almost put that on there. Did you see that one?

I did see that one, but now I haven't seen Addiction. All right, Well I'm sorry. Christopher Walkin, Annabela Siora, Eadie Falco, Lily Taylor, really good movie I could see. I I think vampire movies lend themselves nicely to black and white because the blood is just black. It's so creeping. Looks good. All right, So that was a no So Tim Den I Noel, you will uh you will either get fifty fifty where you will win the game by one. It's a little movie. I don't think you've seen this, feel

bad about. Very Famously, John Lennon went on a vacation with with his manager who was gay, Brian Epstein, and there's there was always many rumors swirling about what happened on this vacation, I believe in Spain and whether or not John Lennon, whether or not they had a brief fling on that Spanish vacation or not. And there is a movie about that, speculative film about that called The Hours and the Times. That's chuck, you're you just that's

like a steak in my in my heart. I never even heard of the thing, all right, well, I apologize for that really good movie. If you're into it, I know you're not big on Yeah, it's good ninety one, So that is a no. And all that is a fifty fifty. I'd say that's pretty good work, my friend. Hey, thanks man, that was a good list. And I'm I'm telling you, Chuck, I've got my running note pad of

of movies to watch. I love it and I added a few of those two and I added Roma do the right thing and she's got to have it great. All right, I'll take that. Uh, And I think we should just wrap it up. Dude, we'll do uh, We'll do a stream this on the next one. Sounds good. So thanks for listening everyone, and thanks for playing along. All got to be by Movie Crash is produced and written by Charles Bryant and Meel Brown, edited and engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson, and scored by Noel Brown here

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