Mini Crush #160

it this because that's what we do. And we record two episodes and this is too number two up two and we're gonna go straight on over to the Movie Crushers page where John kell k h L So, if you want to search for this thread on the Crushers page to search for that. And this was a good one, he said. What was your most fun movie audience experience? He said, mine with snakes on a plane on opening night.

Everyone was hissing at the screen. People were wearing toy snakes around their necks, and the mother eff and snakes on this mother evan plane line at everyone screaming with laughter, so much fun. This is a fun thread, no hole, because it reminds us of before times, Before times. I saw Black Panther on opening weekend in three D and people were just dressed up. It was a thing. It was packed out. It was so exciting. People were just

like freaking out. Um, that's a good one. And then I saw Mandy at the Plaza when it was like because that movie kind of attained cult status very quickly because it was released on demand. It actually didn't come here in theaters, but then it did so well. People loved it so much that it started getting picked up in a little smaller run theaters. And so by the time we I saw it at the Plaza, people have

already seen it. So they were like screaming about the different parts that were happening as they were happening because they knew it was coming and it was. I was right there with it. It was so fun. That's great. I've got a couple. I mean, I will say, um, all of the newer Star Wars experiences have been a lot of fun. That has been fun. When that first uh back in the nineties, it was at nineties or

two thousand's when the first Whatever prequels came out, Phantom Planet. Yeah, my brother was working at AMC Theaters at the time. People really lined up to see that movie. We rented a van and got um tickets and had all of our friends in a van, like twelve of us, and he got us in there early and we sat six and six right in the middle of the theater, uh

in front and behind each other. And when the nerves It's got let in, they so mad that we got in there first, and we were stared at and made fun of and people were mad at us, but we we took it. So that was fun. And even though the movie ended up sucking. But I'm gonna go with my favorite Knoll and I'm about to talk to Trevor uh In about forty five minutes about this movie. Um

Days and Confused. I saw the Georgia Theater and Athens, which is a mainly a music venue, so they served beer and it was a fucking straight up party, dude. It was just like pre fire Georgia Theater. O g beer lines running across the ceiling like Georgia Theater, and it was amazing. People drinking and smoking weed in the theater and it was just a party. Man. It was one of the most fun movie experiences I've ever had

in my life. It was great. Days and Confused Wait now wait, I always confused, Days and Confused and Fast Times. Which one's got Spaccoli, that's fast time? Fast Times? Dais and confused is the one that's link ladder correct? Got it? Very cool movie? All right, We're gonna go here with Christie Richardson says I saw Braveheart and Edinburgh backed to the brim with rowdy cheering. Scott's it was perfect. That was Sean's uh oh boy s c h b l

e y shbili shibli shibli. I'm sorry, Sean, like fine, I'm sure you've been going through this year whole life. But Shawn says I went to a screening of Scott Pilgrim Versus the World and afterward they had a passable live version of the sex Ba Bombs perform a concert, like a fake version, but a pretty good one. I

love Scott Pilgrims so much. That was a movie. Like my kid, she's gotten even more down this road, but like for she has in the past few years started being at that level where she doesn't like anything that I recommend. Um, she's very headstrong and uh and totally get it. But that was one we've we vibed over because it has anime qualities to it. It has that comic It is a manga or sort of I guess it's American, but um, it is done in that style

and she totally got it and dug it. That's great. Um. Phyllis Martin talent says Midnight showing a pulp fiction the weekend open audience was really into it. We didn't know what to expect. I remember the first time I saw that. It was at a matinee and Athens, and me and all my friends went because we were a big Reservoir Dogs fans, and uh, that was a big one. It certainly wasn't very crowded at the matinee, but the thirty people that were in there were all big movie fans

in Tarantino heads already and it was great. Totally. Duffie Johnson, the single time I saw Rocky Horror the midnight show was a blast. That's good. I've never seen that at the midnight movie. Can you believe that I haven't either. Um, they do it weekly at Thelbum before at the Plaza. You know, I've actually never seen Rocky Horror from start to finish. I have. I've seen it a few times on the old TV, but I should do that live experience once. They'd be fun. Noah Hubbard says, likely Head

Vig and the Angry Inch. After it went to second run theaters. People in Portland were really into it. That's a fun movie to see with people in a theater. That's one that, like, I don't know that I ever recall that having a big first run theatrical release. That's always one that I just noticed on the shelf at the video rental store and thought it was intriguing looking and then got into it because of that alone. Yeah, I saw in the theater. I saw that New York.

That's when I was living up there. Well, that's New York shock, I was. I saw it at the Angelica. In fact, let me see here. Charles Martin, aaker's one of our old pal, says, I love going to see the Room midnight viewings worse. I'm sure that's a lot of fun. I need to do that too. You know, I told you when I was living in l A that was out. That was when it was released and and we just saw that. My friends and I saw that billboard and we just I never knew what the

funk it was. I was just like, who is that guy? And what is that about? I never knew and never looked into it because it was kind of pre internet smartphone days where you could just kind of look anything up at any time. Wasn't that fun? I mean, you know, obviously it's nice to be connected. I have access to

literally every bit of human knowledge that ever existed. But there's there's a magic to like, you know, not knowing kind of just being a little in the dark about things and not being able to just google something immediately. And then the people, the people that are good at at like doing things like that now have a very niche and special ability to like promote an event even with the Internet and have it be still kind of have some secrecy around it, or or a film or

a record or what have you. Yeah, yeah, I love it. Tracy Millner says the sixth sense. I was sitting next, said the cutest little old lady to full theater. When the reveal came, the whole audience exploded. She leaned up her and said, I don't get it. What happened? Uh spoiler coming by the way, he said to her he was dead the whole time. She says, who the kid? I said, no, Bruce Willis. She said, well, I knew that already. How did you all not figure that out?

Your dummies? That's funny. I love it. Grandma figured it out. John D. Caldwell says probably returned to the Jedi Raiders of the Lost Art or Purple Rain. I bet that was fun. I didn't see Purple Rain in the theater. I saw pulp fiction in the theater when I was way too young. And I don't even know exactly logistically how that was possible, um, because I seemed to remember. I just went with a friend, like we were, like, you know, in like fifth grade. Yeah, I mean, what

was that ninety bish or something. Yeah, and we like, I don't know if we snuck in or if we had apparent bias to tickets or what. But like I remember that movie, there were things I did not understand, let's just say, at the time about pulp fiction, like the distinction between cocaine and heroin. It is really important in that one scene, and also like what the gimp was doing to Marsalis Wallace. I didn't understand, didn't It took. It was years later before I realized he was like

sodomizing him. I did not have any understanding of that at the time. So mad, oh boy, that's really cute, that's adorable. What are our old friends? Jenne van valences opening night of Blair, which when it was still a whisper campaign. Was it real? Was it not? Packed theater? The tension and excitement was palpable. No one ate or drank their concessions. Everyone was just gluded the screen. The whole room would jump at the same time. So much fun.

Uh and it was a moment in time that couldn't be recreated, the perfect storm early enough in the days of the internet and viral campaigns. Totally, Jenna, yep, I was. I fell for all that stuff. I needn't fall for it, and I thought it was real. But I just fell for the whole experience. And I saw it at Uh, what's the indie theater over there in the not in the plaza, but the Midtown Arts Cinema, not Midtown Arts, the classics La Fonta Terra, yes tera. Yeah, that's as

further out. Yeah, I don't think it's la Fonta anymore. You know that story. George la font owned these small indie theaters in Atlanta back when I was growing up. Terror. He was a movie uh, retailer, retail you a movie A interesting a theater man. Uh. And he had the screening room which was over sort of near Buckhead. That's not around Tara is still around Garden Hills, and I think there was one more. All these little tiny indie theaters.

It was. It was great like Atlanta used to have those, Noel, they don't anymore. I know the Terror is still around though I've only seen one movie there. And the Midtown Arts. But I like the Midtown Art No, I love it. I love it. Let me see, what do you feel comfortable going to a movie again, Chuck, after you're vaccinated? Or are you like, do you need the rest of the population to be vaccinated? Uh? I think fully double vaxed. I would feel comfortable going to a movie theater with

a mask knowing that I won't get sick, right. Uh. And they're now saying to CDC just said once you're fully vaxed, they're saying, for at least three months, you don't have to quarantine either. After exposure, but they're just playing it safe, like it may be longer. But you know, there's so much they don't know about how much you can carry it after you've been vaccinated, and I think they're all just trying to be very conservative and saying still wear that mask. Ye, but yeah, I may go

to a movie once I'm double vaxed. Mh. I'm looking forward to it, man, I'm looking forward to I mean, obviously it's not just gonna be like boom, back to normal business as usual, but I'm looking forward to the little trickle of, you know, of normalcy that's gonna be

coming in. So I forget who it was. It was on a podcast I was listening to me, but someone was pointing out that, like when everyone's fully vax is going to be like the Roaring twenties all of a sudden, you know, like it's gonna be pretty fun and concerts and movie theaters and vacation destinations. I mean, everything is gonna be pretty packed, even though there's a lot of people who are like, what I've been doing that this whole time? Well that's also do you think it's going

to be like the run on? It is going to create a supply and demand like a mismatch, and it's gonna be only for the for the super has like you gotta have, like you know, get the premium reservations. And I don't think that necessarily, but I think it's gonna be I mean the stuff you should know, performing live, Like, we're gonna be fighting to get theater space because every performer on the planet, it's gonna, oh that's a good trying get back in there. So that's gonna be tight um.

And you know, we're gonna charge like two hundred dollars a ticket just because people are gonna want to be there so bad, we're gonna rip them off so good. I can't wait. Did you hear about what the Flaming Lips have been doing? Oh dude, it's so cool. They they've been doing. They've been working on it for a while and they had a couple of scheduled and then they canceled it when the big spike happened again. But they just successfully pulled off or I think it's still happening.

It's at this theater in Oklahoma City called the Oklahoma like Vanguard. I can't remember, that doesn't matter, but they're doing a concert where the band and the audience are all in those giant inflatable bubbles. Yeah, he was performing in those for a little while for certain songs and then I did hear about that. Yes, I think they sell a hundred of them, uh for the whole room, and you can have the three people in your bubble, and the front row a bubble costs four hundred dollars.

Every other row is only two hundred dollars. But if he's put that up three ways, that's not that crazy per bubble, Yeah, because they can only have a hundred of them, and they have like a gritted out like you know when you when you go to buy. Actually went to the site and was looking at the ticket uh purchasing you know interface, and there was a whole map of like how the bubbles are laid out, and like if you have to go to the bathroom, they have people that will help you and unzip you and

take you to the bathroom. And it's like he's really thought at all. I love Wayne in that way. He's very uh He's always been very um innovative, you know when it comes to like live stuff and forward thinking, you know, and I think very fan friendly to big time, big time. All right, now we're gonna move over to Kelly Karns Brockington, uh rising star supposedly, that's what it says here on the Facebook page, and the just designated a top fan on the Movie Crushers page. I'm a

top fan. That's great. I can't even get verified on Instagram, Noll, that's crazy, Chuck, I can't either have you done the thing? Have you like sent your stuff? And I did? And I don't. I don't really care. I don't think it matters that much. But there is a person impersonating me on Instagram already, Like they stole my Facebook or my Instagram picture and it's a Charles W. Bryant page and there's like thirty people following. So I reported that person,

but they haven't posted anything. It's just weird. But like it. I'm not like worried about it, but it's just weird to be a slightly public person and all of a sudden someone's impersonating you. You know, Josh isn't verified either, a little uneasy, it's a little weird. He may not have tried. Who knows. Uh, Josh isn't really on instant that much. Anymore. I haven't. He hadn't posted in a while. He's more of a Twitter guy, is he, I think so?

I know, yes, why I'm I asking that. I think he's really sick a Twitter too, though it's possible judging from our recent conversations. All Right, Kelly Karns Brockington says this, what's a movie that you like a lot, but it's not well known and you find but you find that it really still stands up? She says, for me, it's a Club Paradise Robin Williams and Peter O'Toole. I remember that movie and the movie Feds with Mary Gross and Rebecca to Morning FBI comedy but not a farce. I

remember both those movies. I would say fairly little known at the time for being, you know, movies with big people in them. So we're gonna say this, Uh, John, I haven't seen this movie yet, John at Lee Good Johnson. There's a lot of I mean, that's I'm not sure what that is Swedish or something. It's hard for me

to read your name. I'm sorry, says In a World with Lake Belle Bleue under the Radar uh and Scorsese's After Hours also deserves more intention both very good movies, Gary Lee says, to Aussie movies likely not so well known outside Australia, New Zealand, both starring Sam Neil, The Dish and Death in Brunswick. For sure. I don't know any of these movies that you just mentioned. These are all alien to me. Alien. There's another one, Aliens good,

little known. Heidi Lammon says The Butcher's Wife. Yeah. Al Peterson says, uh, Pootie Tang. Do you ever see Pootie Tang? I know that Louis c K wrote it and and didn't really get much. I've seen it. It's been a long long time, as it's been a long long time, but I need to I need to watch it. It's pretty great. Yeah, it was before Louis c K was much of a name. I'm with Mike Binder here, one of our old friends. He says, Mystery Men. It's a movie that wasn't very big, and even the people that

saw it, he says, even fewer like it. I think it was. I think Mystery Men was pretty fun. I'm on record. No, what do you think Tom Waits in that? Make that up? You may have had a part in that now that I'm thinking about it. Oh, yeah, he's definitely in it. Yeah, it's been a while. He's like my twister, is he Uh No, he's not. No, he's not. He's like he's he's a he's a bit part. And it looks like I haven't seen it. Who else? We've

got your Ben Stiller, we got your Janine Garoffalo, Paul Hankazar. Sorry, it's good. He threw the forks. Yeah, he threw the forks. And then we've got your William H. Macy, who I also quite enjoy. Yeah, he had the shovel. I thought that was a pretty fun movie actually. And there's a lot of replies on there that I can't read right now, but I think Mike is getting a lot of support

for Mystery Men. I think slightly misunderstood movie. Yeah, because like I think, what, maybe people took a little too seriously when it was meant to be a little more tongue in cheek kind of maybe I think it was seen as a misfire. I thought it was good. Okay, I've got a lot of love for mystery Man. Brandon enters and says, rad remember this movie, young Lori Laughlin. I think I've seen this movie more times than anything else. Lisa Fullers's Sneakers, the Robert Redford River Phoenix movie. Do

you see that? That was good? I remember it being like, it's a little creepy, right, aren't they kind of cat burglars or like home invaders? What? Why are they called sneakers? I re think they were. It's a heist movie. Yeah, it was a heist movie. I believe there was some hanky panky in it, if I'm not mistaken. I seem to remember either seeing the movie or seeing in the

trailer that there was like some some titillating activity going on. Okay, uh Anna Mills says waiting with Ryan Reynolds, I didn't see that it was a movie about a restaurant wait staff. I should have seen that, because I Lord knows I waited tables for many, many years old. Yeah, I never waited tables. I worked in the kitchen though. Oh yeah, I did that too. Well. You know, my first job, Nolan,

was when I was thirteen. I was a bus boy at a barbecue restaurant, and then they moved me to the kitchen to be the hamburger and French bread guy. You would griddle the French spread. So I'm in the bat grille at literally fucking fourteen years old. You were a girlman. I was a grillman at fourteen. I've been working ever since. I always wanted to make my own money. Oh, of course I got a real early job like that too.

I think when I was about thirteen. Uh, my neighbors who I you know, rode to school with the carportal school with They owned a Chinese restaurant um in Augusta, and they let me wash dishes during the summer, even though I was like not old enough technically to get hired. All right, we'll move on to Katie Rowland here unapologetic, but I love this movie so much. The beginning always kills me. It's so great. She's talking about Return to Me, the movie with David mcovney and many driver. A lot

of people like that movie. Mike Emmick says, wonder Boys, Michael Douglas should have been nominated for an Oscar. Awesome supporting cast, Rand mcdormott, Robert Downey, jun Your, Toby McGuire, rip Torn, Katie Holmes. Yes, Mike, is one of our favorite movies here in this house, and I think it's beloved, but wasn't some huge movie. So I see where you're coming from with that. It's one of our comfort movies. We can watch Wonder Boys any day of the week.

We talked about this recently and that director did other cool stuff and he was uh Curtis Uh, he passed away. He did eight mile Curtis. Oh, no, type of your little fingers. I'm looking Curtis Hanson. Curtis Hanson. Is it the writer then? Who was more like Curtis? I know because Michael Chabon. It was based on a Michael Shabon novel. Wonder Boys was great movie. Michael Schabon also wrote Spider Man too. And John Carter Remember that massive flop John

Carter remember that screen fart? Yeah? Is that it was like a Kanu impersonator. Oh was that guy from he was from one of those Hailor kitch. Yeah. Yeah, that movie was just like an egregious flop. I didn't see it. I needed all right, that's good stuff. We're gonna move on and finish up NOMA with stream this. Uh, you, my friend, will be delighted to know that we finally watched My neighbor Totoro, isn't it nice? And all week we've been running around the house going to and Ruby

loved it. She watched it again the next day. Wonderful. I love to hear that. And it's, uh, it is great. It's just that there's something about it. It's just got a bit of magic to it. Um lovely, lovely film. Not what I expected. Emily loved it. It was just really really lovely. Yeah, well, now you gotta watch Ponio Panio Is. It's got to be next on your list for the kid Eden at her age exactly almost was

just taken by this movie. It's one of the ones where like there's some of the ghibli movies that are a little um dark and and and get a little kind of like over the top in like Nightmare Territory, Nightmare Fewel kind of stuff. But it's it's a little dark, but it's it's it's just on the line. I think Ruby would dig it. Like Princess Mononoke has some like beheadings and like serious violence. She's where she can She's okay with that. Well, then you're good with all of

the prison. Mononoke too, is about a badass like wolf girl who like you know, just slays. Literally it kicks so much ass I gotta say the chuck um uh. So there is a new studio Ghibli uh kind of what do you call it? Like c g I kind of you know, modeled animation that came out called Earwig and the Witch is any good? No, it sucks really and it's it's Miyazaki's son Goroh, and it's just like it's got all of these like trying to touch on teams from the classic Ghibli films, and it doesn't know

where it's going. It's it's it's charming in spots, but then it just kind of ends and it's really ham fisted, and just like what the funk was that? When it ends, you're like really like it was a real real bad miss step. Interesting. I think I've seen a couple of other Ghibli fans on the movie Crushers page kind of say that they didn't really like it either. That's too bad. It was a real letdown. But I love Totoro uh

and I'll definitely check out Spirited Away. Ruby, even from a young age, was like she always understood the difference between real and make believe. In um has accidentally seen me playing a couple of games with a couple of bad things where I was like, yeah, like you're not supposed to see that, and she's like, Daddy, kill him, cut his head off, kill him all because and she she just gets it. It's uh, you know, it is what it is. But but I'm glad because I don't

want her to. I think that stuff is real and to be you know, confused by it absolutely. How old is she in four? Five? No, dude, she'll be six in July. She's on our way the second time. Yeah, that's perfect day. If it's been a lot of fun, that's that's a real transition, as you know, at a transition period two. Uh, you know, to to some more self self care, like you know, she she'll get up and go take a bath by herself now and stuff like that. You don't have to run the bathwater for

you don't have to do all this stuff. So it's it's great, it's really fun. Uh and then nol Uh. I've been watching Search Party. I've heard good things with h with maybe from Arrested Development. Yes, Eliah, shock Cat, shock Cat. I believe it is really good. I like it and I was delighted last night I was watching one of my old friend Peter McNerney, uh, my friend in real life from the Stuff You Know TV show, popped up. It's always fun to see Peter pop up.

Oh ship. I had a call the other day with a couple of dudes, one of whom was in the Stuff You Should Know TV show and I can't remember there named now hang on? Oh wait were they the brothers? No, hang on a second, let me look at my my calendar intro it was elliot. Wait a second, wait a say, where the hell is it? Uh? No, as it was a dude, they're they're radio guys. They and they were pitching like a radio like a history show. I bet

you anything. There was one episode where we had a softball team at work and we played a radio station softball team and we got a real radio Atlanta radio DJ to play the part of these kind of jerks on the other softball team. That sounds about right, I bet you anything. That's who that was. That sounds about rad I'm having a hard time locating the calendar. And he specifically mentioned having been on the show, and he also told me I wasn't aware that it is streaming

now available on the Discovery streaming app. I know, and I'm gonna show Ruby soon. I was kind of waiting for the right time to be like, guess what daughter, uh your dad was on a TV show, And here it is. I'm gonna do it soon because I think her mind will be fairly rocked by the whole experience. Um, so we'll see. It's funny when she hears our show. Now, no, she goes, is that Josh or Noble? That's sweet? She can't tell you apart which is funny. That is funny.

And then finally no, all The movie I watched the other night called The Kid Detective very good. It came out sort of late last year. I think was not a big movie because it was obviously just straight to uh whatever, straight to streaming. A very good movie, a

very dark comedy. Um. I've been texting Hodgment about it because it has the same premise as TV show that is a child detective who solved mysteries all out Encyclopedia Brown, who has now grown up, kind of washed up, and gets a new case with some high school kids, uh, current high school kids. And that is literally John's TV show Dicktown. Um. Yeah, it's very interesting. How these things can parallel thinking, Yeah it is, it is. You just wonder how that works. And you know, I don't think

anyone stole anything from anyone. It's just weird, but highly recommend. Kids Detective written and directed by first time Evan Morgan, starring Adam Brody. Very fun kind of dark comedy, super super clever and well written, smart funny movie. Quite enjoyed

it right on. What about You. I've been digging back into a show that I liked a long time ago, and it's one of these things, uh where like if you're paying attention the whole time, you're like, oh god, there was three years in between seasons, but since I wasn't, uh and it just like it was all available there for me, and I've I finished it. It's called Luther's with in Dress Elba. He plays like a hard, hardened London detective who kind of you know, plays it fast

and loose with the law and all that stuff. Um, yeah, it's really good. It's got like you know, it's one of these things where it's like just the gnarly ist of the gnarly serial killer types, you know, psychopath like nailing people to crosses and really fucked up seven type ship. Um, really really fun. That's they's say fun. Yeah, you know, loosely, but it's it's great and it's it's it's a really good cat and mouse type thing. Um. They call it

a how catch them instead of who done it? Because you know who the killer is and you're just seeing how they go about catching them as opposed to like figuring out who it actually is, which is a fun little reversal of the norm. That's cool. I've heard good things about that. I'll have to check that out, Luther. I love that Idris elba Oh, he's great. And they just wrapped season five again again. Apparently there was like a three year gap between four and five and apparently

it ends with a really serious clip hanger. Um, and they apparently are going to make a film for the next jury and then they're gonna put it to bed. Very cool. I hope they do that, all right, nol. That's it for today, my friend. It was great to see your and some bearded faces always and uh, and I can't wait till we can hug it out soon, my friend. Oh, dude, I was about to say sooner than later. And also, look, get the kids together and Eden, Can you know teach your daughter how to be a

moody goth? Oh, I can't wait. All right? Thanks to you and thanks to everyone for listening, and we'll see you next week. Yes. Yes. 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 in our home studio at Pontsty Market, Atlanta, Georgia. For I Heart Radio. For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows