Mini Crush #161

makeup for you this morning. It looks very nice, Chuck. I have stopped trimming my beard. I was keeping cut fairly short and I would really let it, let my hair go my beard. I shaped up recently, but I was doing a thing where I was kind of treating myself to once a month getting a nice haircut and having them do a beard trim. So I did. I didn't even touch it myself. I would just do it once a month and have them do it. And now I've been back to get haircuts. I have done that.

I went to our place near our office, Rudy's, but they won't do beards because you gotta keep your mask on the whole time. So up again. Yeah, I need one real bad. I've got hair coming out the coming out the little little brim of my hat. It's just kind of spilling out the size it look like a total bro Uh so quick, uh Crusher games update. I am still really enjoying Ghost of Seshima. It is the

more I get into it. You know how those games once you're about once you're in, you've gotten pretty good and you've gotten better weapons and more skills and moves, and like that's when you, for me, at least, you really can start to get engross standing a storyline too. But um no, it is one of the most beautiful games I've ever seen. It is gorgeous, and it's because

it's Japan. It's these you know you'll be in these like in the Golden forest and uh and you know there is a map, but instead of having a map overlay on the screen anywhere, you're guided by the guiding wind. Oh that sounds magical. So you press a button and a breeze will blow to take you in the direction, and little dandelions are flying and leaves, you know, autumn leaves are floating, and it's just such a peaceful relaxing game, and you also get to be a samurai and just

have some great sword killing goodness. Is there is Is there some gore? Is there some slicy slice? Oh yeah, I mean it's all katana based, except for you know, you've got bone arrow and you've got these other kind of a little like a sort of samurai kind of ninja like weapons that you can throw at people. But so, I mean, it is good if you want to if

you want to catch your kill on. But but you're always like you're trying to save the village elders or you're you know, it's not like the you know, um, what's the word I'm looking for of like dead red, redemption just sort of a dirty, open world, ugly world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess get it. Get it? Like this is like more pure. I feel like like the guy is always trying to do something good with his with his killing. Yeah.

I'm I'm at this really an unfortunate place with video games right now, where I have three quite large games that I am at various stages of completion. I know, dude, and I'm really painting myself into a corner where I really want to get this one but I'm like, I gotta finish Last of Us too. I gotta finish Zelda Breath of the Wild, and I still have Red Dead Redemption or to rather taking up like six hundred gigs

on my PlayStation. I haven't played it and you know, like a year and I'm still holding out hope and I'm gonna finish it. Maybe I should just cut my losses. It's that sunk cost fallacy. But I know you love the game, so I should. That's such a good story. I need to finish it. Um, I'm with you. I'm

a one at a time or um. Really enjoying it though, Like if you see a fox, you follow the fox and it will lead you to this mountain peak usually or something with a shrine, and you you honor the shrine and you breathe in deeply and it gives you like a little experience point or something like. Still all these very zen. Yeah, you can take a hot springs bath to increase your health. It's all just relaxing and lovely.

Breath of the Wild is very much like that, only you know, it's obviously a Nintendo game, but it's it's a little lighter on the graphics, but it knows how do they know how to design these games with the limitations of those systems in such a way that it's like really that kind of immersive experience and Breath of the Wild you can do the same thing where you can like, you know, pet a dog one of the stables and it'll it'll take you and dig up a

little treasure for you or whatever. Like, it's really gentle and kind of sweet. It's a beautiful game. I'm almost done with that one, actually, so good stuff. All right, No, we're gonna by the way, I'm taking a lot of ship for dissing Willy Wonka and the chocolate Factory. When did you do that? I think? Why would you do that? Monster? Did it on stuff? You should know? Okay, we watched it with Ruby a few weeks ago, and dude, here's my take as an adult. Gene Wilder is brilliant and

the movie is garbage. Okay. Uh, it's slow, it's not well acted except for him. The songs that don't like. It's just not even pure imagination. I hate it. It's painful for me, and I'm getting people are really mad at me on the internet about this. And it's a beloved movie, and I love Gene Wilder in it, I really really do. But the rest of it I just

can't even sit through hardly. I I do agree with you that, like I think, upon revisiting it, it probably would not hold up to people's ex dictations in their nostalgia level. Is probably much more responsible for them loving the movie than the fact that it's actually a good movie. Um. I think it's genuinely generally considered to be kind of schlock. You know, it is kind of a B movie, expensive B movie in a lot of ways, you know what

I mean. Yeah, it doesn't land for me. And I got a crusher named Grant McLeod Grant you're on my list, called me coming out. He called me a snob? What called me a movie snob? Grant like so much schlock and garbage, like you can't love Night of the comment like I do, and be called the movie snob. I was like, Casey is a movie snob, right, like legit movie snob. And he'll even admit it. Yeah, he only

he watches Criterion Blue rays exclusively Cinema yas to be cinema. No, I'm the same way, dude, Like there I I obviously I'm not snobby. I just you know, I have a certain taste. But I love a lot of very broad things. Sure, you know. I mean, I can't love The Hangover as much as I love The Hangover and Ron Burgundy or Anchorman or whatever. And you call me a movie some anchorman too, though, forget about it. I still never saw that.

I didn't either. I just know that it's a total retread in the way that you and I hate those kind of hears, removed comedy sequels that are just like beat for beat, retreads like zoo Lander was really guilty of that, and this sounds like it was. So. The moral of this story, though, is Grant McLoud, You've made my naughty list and got my eye on you, buddy. Now. Grant even said apologies beforehand. Dot dot dot Chuck is a movies no. But yeah, it's like saying, uh, and now,

don't be mad, but uh, just kidding, Grant. It's all good, It's all grid, all good in the Grant hood. It's all spoopy. You know that was not a good joke. No, I wasn't. I'll give you credit for spoopy spores, but all good in the grand hood. No, no, it wasn't good at all, but we're leaving it in because you gotta you know, you got you gotta like own your mistakes. You gotta grow as an artist. That's the only way to do it. You gotta bomb every now and then.

All right, So no one, We're gonna move on to a couple of things I posted here. Oscars are coming up. Weird year for Oscars obviously because there were so few movies well there were, and there weren't right Like, I mean, there were a lot of indies that came out this year, there just weren't a lot of big tent poles. I've actually looked at the list for this year last year and it's pretty intense and they all look really interesting, and there's a lot of things that flew way under

my radar. So I'm kind of intrigued what the Oscars are gonna look like this year because I usually just really couldn't give a ship. So I asked all this, what Oscar category should they add interesting? If there aren't you should get rid of? What would you get rid of? And uh, Josh Brennan says, fully they should have fully it's a separate category, and have it featured on the main uh not night. Yeah, I mean, you know, the fully artist is sort of wrapped up in the and

the Oscar for sound design. That's kind of what that award is. But I see what you're saying. I think Josh wants the actual folly artist to get up there and accept the award. Yeah, but do they surely if Best sound Design Award that that that person is on the team. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's what I'm saying. That is there that gets to go on stage right Well, I mean usually you don't haul a bunch of people on stage for that one. For a sound design award,

it's usually just for the big ones. Let me see here. Sabrina Merah Firminger Great Name says they need to add stunt categories Best Stunt Performance and Best Stunt Choreography to celebrate the artisty physical artistry, physicality and the links taken to keep everyone safe and the badassory. Totally with I'm I'm with that. I'm with that. I think I think people have kind of been screaming about honoring the stunt

people for a while now. Uh, Sabrina Grogan. Another Sabrina says, add best Casting Casting Director so many of whom are women, can really affect the quality of film absolutely best casting? Yes, why is that not a thing? I don't know if some of these are sonaboly not considered an art, but I disagre casting absolutely casting as an art. Yeah, I don't know. I mean I guess it is. I mean, you know it's surely how how responsible directly is the

casting director? I mean, obviously the director is going to tell them who their top picks are for certain roles. It's not just you know, them in a vacuum casting the movie with no oversight, right, Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't know. I think there would be that you can find a way to award it. Vanessa Cashman. One of our old prints is do they really need a best adapted screenplay? I mean, isn't the work already done for them? Oh? That is a hot take. I mean,

I'll say this. I've written screenplays, and just because there's a book based on it doesn't mean you can just plug it into some algorithm and it spits out a screenplay. You know, I think it does matter. I mean, you know, like it's not the work isn't all done? You have to convert to a different voice a lot of the time. You know, like maybe a book is written where it's largely internal narration, and then you have to write dialogue

for that or vice versa. You know what I mean. Yeah, I mean a lot of stylistic choices go into adjucting a book. I see where Vanessa is headed. Then our old buddy Austin Handler says it's essentially an editing award. I'm not saying it doesn't take skill, but still, yeah, I mean I see that. Take disagree though. Ultimately John Desmonds has at best Comedy in Best Horror, just ahead

and break those out. Yeah, those don't get recognized by the Oscars as best pictures, so maybe they do need their own spot horror, especially especially now that we're living in this like age of like kind of new Golden age of horror with the ri Asters and uh um Eggers David Eggers of the world. Yeah, and you know, the Golden Globes obviously does that a little bit with Best Musical or Comedy, which I applaud, but that has also led to some interesting and awkward groupings every now

and then. M Golden Globes are tough. Did you watch that? Didn't the globes happen, it's happening the next day or so. This past week I watched them. Who were the big Were there any big obvious winners or well, I'll tell you my favorite was a surprise winner. Was Jason Sadekis One Best Actor for Ted Lasso, a movie that or a show that we're watching again when we usually don't

do that. Um in a show I have raved about because I adore it, and he was caught very much off guard because I think everyone thought Eugene Levy would win it for Ship's Creek has sort of the swan song, but he didn't win it. Ted Lasso got it, and I was super stoked. I don't know about this at all. What you're talking about about? What that? The show with Ted to Ted last? I've not I've not even heard of think about it except for the eight times that

I've talked about it on this show. No is that true? Is it about? It's been my stream this a lot. I've talked about it quite a bit. It's fine, Okay, it's Jason Sadekis. It's an Apple Plus show where he plays an American football coach who gets hired to do an English Premier League soccer team to coach them in hopes that the team will fail. Chuck, this is no ding on you. It's literally just like I tune it out when I hear that it's Apple Plus because I'm

not getting another Ala Carte subscription. I'm just not doing it. That's what everyone looks for in a co host, is the occasional tune out. Uh, Emily, Mike and Thomas says, I think they should restructure the whole hierarchy for acting awards. The way it's set up now, it makes it seem like male actors are more important in the whole supporting

versus lead thing. It's questionable. Sometimes I would stop breaking it down by gender altogether and do separate categories for movie genre, then add a few more categories for amazing cameos, breakout roles, ETCETERA very interesting thought experiment, Emily interesting and and some good back and forth about that. I'm gonna have to dig into that one a little more. That is the thought. Freddy Lenz's Best Horror h Jessica Evans Toten says, maybe the place isn't the Oscars for this,

but something like a Viewers Choice Award. I could see that. But the Academy, the academy noble, they would never go for something that they would never stoop, So don't let them vote. The ra poll the people people, no, regular people. No, a text campaign from a boat could take over exactly. I love how like all these Academy members are like patrician like lords or whatever. You know. I mean, I we know people on the Academy. It's not quite as

stuffy and clothes as you think. You work in the industry long enough you get uh, you get those screeners and you get to to vote. But it does it does have this air of exclusivity and um yeah, a little out of touch kind of too, you know. And you already kind of don't like the oscars anyway, So that's the last thing you need. Listen, when I said I don't usally don't give a ship, I only mean because it's it's so politicized, with all the with all

the fur your consideration campaigns. It feels like so many movies don't have a chance. No, No, it's it's kind of bullshit in a lot of ways. I get it, popularity contest and all that garbage. Some some years I'm more cynical than others. You know. Sometimes I used to really get into it. Now I'm a little like, come on, can't really give art an award is better than anything else,

you know, so subjective and kind of weird. Yeah, Sadaka said it said something really nice in his speech though, He said, I reject the notion of best actor though. He said, because the best actor is the person that you're acting with in any scene. And I was like, Wow, that's a really kind of a great thing to say. That is pretty cool. I love it. David Barlow says Best Practical Effects Award Visual Effects always go to c G I these days, dude, I am all about that, Barlow.

That's a great idea, and that might encourage some people to do it again a little more. You know, practicals are really making a comeback to you know, are they. Yeah. In Mandalorian, for example, the the Yota thing is a puppet, and I just feel like, I think I think it's it's being seen more as the art form than it is, whereas it used to be like, oh, c G is the way of the future, and it's going to replace

because it looks so much better, but it doesn't. We all realize it doesn't because it's not a thing in the shot that's taking light and feels placed correctly. It always, even the best c G I feels a little uncanny valley or a little you know, it takes you out of it. So I think I think it's a really good point and very accurate. So culver Matthew says this at best female actor, best male actor, best non binary actor, and ditch the anachronistic best actress. All right, m hm, oh,

isn't it. I thought actress was kind of not cool. I I always in conversation referred to act actor. You know, I don't. I don't say actress anymore. Starts yeah, both of us say actor. Um let me see here. Mike Sam says, I agree with Emily about combining gendered roles into one category. I would leave them as two categories to the best performance in a lead role in supporting role.

You know what I would worry about there is it's just I mean, we're looking for more representation, not less, and I would I would be worried if you just had the best actor of any uh, anyone on the gender spectrum that you know, you'd end up getting out of the seven or eight of them would be male actors, maybe not maybe supplies. I'm not gonna try to make another I'm not gonna try for another Spooky Spores joke because then you're just gonna be humiliate me again. You're

gonna humiliate me. Austin Hamler Old Princes add best Ensemble cast. That's almost like a best casting award. I kind of like that. Yeah, that's good, And he said, lose sound mixing editing. He said, sorry, you can still exist, but just move it to the technical portion. Yeah, apologies to sound mix ors, but it's not the most exciting a word to so you get accepted for the big show. I know that stinks because sound is such an important part of it. You know, Oh it's huge, and I

mean it really is. Like again, I hadn't never sat in on like a mixed session for a movie, but just knowing what goes into making a record a song, it's literally like that times you know, x hundred, because it's like you've got all of these different elements that have to not compete with each other, and you're mixing and like you know, super surround sound and like everything has to be in the right field. I mean there's

a lot to it, a whole lot totally. All right, buddy, we got about ten more minutes, so we're gonna move on to our final category today. What TV or movie setting would you want to live in? I said, it can be a house if you want to get that specific, or just a sort of a town or a place. Um. And I thought of this because I was watching Ted Lasso and where they this little block where they shot where he lives in London. It's the most charming looking

place on planet Earth. It's just beautiful cobble stone alleyways and flowers in the windows and it just looks like the loveliest little scene. And I told Emily, I was like, I bet you there's Ted Lasso tourism and people that want to go stay in this little area of London because it's so goddamn charming. So I would I would live there. I don't know if that's my final choice, but uh, do you have any fantasy land or or

a movie house that you love? Nol gosh, how about that Hobbit hole from Lord of the Rings that look cute? The shire in the shire, yeah, and and and in hobbiton Um gosh, uh that thing on that I'm the only half kidding about that. I do like the cute little cozy home dug into the side of the hill and actually renting. Renting a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains is the thing we do around these parts for

a little getaway. And they're all just so cozy and like have made of like you know, uh, tim like lumber, and you know, have like deer heads on the wall. Look, you know, you know what I mean. They're like they're made of like the same kind of like stained you know, plank boards. You know, they have a very distinct look to them. But I think the words you're looking for his pine, pine, lumber, whatever. And they have a hot tub. They gotta have a hot tub. You can't have a

Blue Ridge cabin without a hot tub. It's a deal breaker, that's true. That thing is full of grossness. Though. By the way, Oh my god, Huck, don't ruin this for me. Oh uh. Laura Bjorkland says Grand Budapest Hotel. Love the colors and one I could only imagine would be fascinating nooks and crannies everywhere to explore. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Oh boy me and al Data, one of our favorite old pal says, I wish I could have spent the pandemic where X mocking It took place. Man,

remember that house totally in the forest. Oh my god, Yeah, futured everything. I'm all about that place. I wonder if that place exists or if they made that for the movie. It was so remote, I have a hard time believing that it's real. But it sure looked like just a dope, modern kind of bungalow getaway. You know, I bet they built that for the movie. Yeah, you're probably right. Well, no, no no, no, but did you did you? Dev's Chuck, I did? Did you really like it? I did? I

need to get back into that. It was a little slow start, but I need to give it my attention because I really loved X Makta and the Alex Garland fellow. Yeah, I quite enjoyed it. Right, It is a slow burn, But I know you can appreciate a slow burn. You just gotta be right in the right mood. Let me see here. Nathan vin Zel, one of our old friends, says, I would love to live in Pawnee, Indiana from parks

and rec nice little town and interact with the characters. Well, yeah, if you throw in the characters, sure you go get a job in that office. That's what I do. It's like, I want to be next to his ease, put my desk there. Yep. Sold uh lydia pell source says this may be an odd one, but while watching Lost, I wanted to be stranded on that island with all those amazing characters so bad. Mm hmmm, Yeah, I get that. I kinda I had a lost I was big into that show for a while. I would have wanted to

live there at a certain time in my life. Totally. It was that'd be. I don't know, Like I feel like maybe there was a lot of love lost on that show because of the way it ended. Um, but people don't talk about it as much as they used to, you know what I mean. Like it feels like it's sort of slipped away from from the zeitgeist a little bit because of its pretty disastrous ending. Yeah, and it was sort of at the beginnings of like the great

era of TV, and uh, I think it's gotten. TV has gotten so much better since then that it may be sort of lost in the shuffle a little bit. Yep. Lost in the shuffle. No, you gotta stop that ship. Tyler Murphy says, the Ewok village of Indoor on Indoor cute, the coolest tree forts ever. Remember the actual e Walk movie? There was an there was an e Walk movie like I think it was called The Battle for Indoor or something like that, and Wicket character as portrayed by Warwick Davis.

If I'm not mistaken, Yeah, I did not see that. M Let me see Melinda beccalleo when a GIRLD friend says, I want to live in the law from a new Girl, but also the town of Ship's Creek a bunch of hobbit hole people know a lot of people want to live in those little hobbit holes. Yeah, oh good, there we go. I wasn't It wasn't just I'm not alone in my hobbit hole. You're not alone. You've got lots of friends, you know. I'll get in the hots of each with each other and reread Disease Across the Land,

love it. Cheryl Creech Signer says Midnight in Paris was fortunate enough to spend three nights I'm sorry, three months in Paris and only nineteen Paris is perfect for me, except I can't speak French, Cheryl, would you do for three months? Just wildly gesticulate, point at things, get judged, say the American word over and over again in the hopes that they'll understand it the next time. You say, Greg girk or Gurka says Skyfall before it fell into disrepair? Yeah, Skyfalls.

That was pretty dope house before it sky fell into disrepair? What is what's wrong with you today? I'm just having a second episode. You didn't do that in the first episode. There haven't been as many opportunity. There weren't as many opportunities. You know, I got us, I see an opening, I take it. Oh gosh, I feel like Jonathan Strickland's sitting across from me all of a sudden. Oh no, don't say that, Chuck, No, no, no, no, uh no, shade on strick. I love I love strick of course terribly.

He is quick with the pun Terrelle chauceays the borough in the Harry Potter series Jamie Powers is the beach town from Lost Boys. Seems pretty cool. Yeah, they call it something else in the in the movie they call it what do they call it? There's like a like it's it's like a fictionalized version of Santa Cruise, but it is definitely Santa Cruz. Yeah, they made it look super cool. Uh let me see here, Sarah muscle guy with the sacks on the boardwalk, sweat glistening off his pecks.

It's funny. There were several comments on Jamie's post that said, uh, Roy Galty said, excellent Raves if you're into sacks rock, Yeah, exactly, totally very well known scene. Uh where was I? Oh? Sarah Stapleton says, any Nancy Meyer's house more specifically, something's got to give beach house or Meryll's house. And it's complicated. Yeah, Nancy Myers always has great houses and yeah, okay, I'm not directed. Something's got to give, and uh, it's complicated.

Among it's a rom com situation, yeah for adults. Brandy McDonald says stars Hollow from Gilmore Girls, okay, sure, Culverra Matthew wants to be on the island and lost as well. Hugh Graydner says or h u Graydner says stars Hollow should be a night would what would be a nice town? What is stars Hollow? It's the town from Gilmore Girls. Oh, it's just the name of the little town. McDonald just said that like a second ago, and you spoke it out loud too. I did with my own dirty mouth,

your own, your own dirty mouth. I know they did a reboot of that recently that people said it was actually not bad of of the Gilmore girls, Oh right, right right. Emily saw that she was. She was a Gilmore girl fan, got it. I did not. I couldn't take that lead guy. And if you're a fan, then that's heresy. But I did not like that guy because no, I not have not seen a moment of it. I thought he was well, I just I won't have anyone's

yung was not into it. Chris Nap says, the Lake Tahoe House from Godfather Part two is that where you broke my heart Fredo on the boat. Maybe I haven't seen god Father Too in a long time, and I've seen it a few times. But if they go I don't know, they go out on a boat. It seems like it would have been if if it was anywhere, it was at the Lake Tahoe House, because they go literally out on a boat on a lake, and that's where that scene takes place. So I imagine that's possible. Interesting,

all right, but let's finish this out. We got Tracy de Martini says, The Brady Bunch House for Nostalgia, and One Division Yet, Chuck, have you watched One Division yet? Chuck? I watched the first two and that was when it first came out, and then I have not watched since. And I'm just that in Mandalorian or kind of hanging over my head. I just need to pass through those. The third one is the Brady Bunch she episode, I believe, and they do a fabulous job, and it's one you

should stick with. The real he goes places Yet's you're sort of like head scratchy at first, like what were they doing here? And then they make it real clear it's good. All right, boy. A lot of people are saying starts hollow from Gilmore Girls, Margarita Saramago, Norma Brunson, Jake Dingler. What is that person's name? Amanda Scanlon White, Jake Dingler, Jake Dingler, I just like this is it's just a cool name. Um uh yeah. I think it's

probably just like a homeie, friendly, small idyllic town. I think that's the that's the deal. It's so funny. Someone Patrick Gorman won a World Prince at Scranton, Pennsylvania, from the Office, but not Studio City, California. It's funny because the Office is one of those like God bless them every time they're outside, like it's so clearly l a and not scratted Pennsylvania. Yeah, totally. Yeah, that's true. You

just had to sort of suspend that disbelief. All right, and we'll finish up here with Christina Wheeler in a show that you mentioned with Schnides wherever they film top of the Lake, please God please, that's somewhere in news in New Zealand. Yeah, I found not mistaken. Yeah that was, like I said, I watched that first season, really really enjoyed it. For some reason, never watched the second season, which I think was a fully different thing. It was

a different story. It did like it didn't even really hardly reference what happened in the first year. Did you watch the second season? I think so, but I only really remember the first season. The second season was a little bit less memorable. Boy, Christopher Austin says stars Hollow, I guess I'm missing out, and well, everyone wants to live in that town. Yeah, it sounds sounds lovely, does sounds nice? All right? Well that's it for this week.

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good burger burger. They do the handcut fries, though, which I can respect because it's you know, they've got real potatoes in that restaurant that they're cutting up, but they don't get crispy. They're always floppy. I gotta crispy fries, dude, you don't like a floppy fry like you know, say what you want about McDonald's whatever garbage they're putting on this French frise that makes them crispy. And now it's true, you're not wrong. That's what I wrong. I think what

we all want. I think nobody wants a floppy fry. They or a spoopy sport or spoopy sport. All right, thanks, Buddy. 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 Pontsity Market, Atlanta, Georgia. For I Heart Radio. For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, visit the i Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.