Mini Crush #164

money Monday, I talk about it all alone. So have you ever made to an auction like that? I have been to an auction of horse sperm? Oh all right, let's talk. It was Augusta, Georgia, my my hometown. I used to work for the public radio and I would I would cover various things, and the we have this a very popular event called the Augusta Futurity, which is a horse event or they you know, jump over ship.

And then there's all these like adjacent events, and one of them was a horse auction for not actual horses, but breeding rights to horses. And what you're actually buying is semen mm hmm interesting. All right, Okay, that's exactly what I thought it would be. Yeah, that's what it is. It wasn't just for funzies. It was definitely like and the ship was you know, expensive, because it was like, you know, the semen of a prized ball or sure.

Well that's amazing, Noel Brian, I love it. Thanks Chuck Brown. And since you brought up horses, I might as well plug my friends a new project called heart Horse. My dear friend Meredith from College and Beyond is uh or college forward is what I mean by that. Yeah, she is uh an equestrian and loves horses since she was a little girl, and they have helped during her life. So she launched this website called heart Horse where they

tell these great stories about people in their horses. And if you're into horses, you should go to hard Horse. Check it out. It's really lovely stuff and a cool one of my great great friends. All Right, so nol, we're gonna get it going. We're gonna jump right on in. Today. We have a couple of segments. I asked the crushers yesterday, what is your favorite New York movie or TV show? Uh? And that it really just nails what New York is

all about. And like uh and as also said, if you haven't been to New York, maybe let us know if your pick is the New York you might imagine is what New York is does? That makes sense, it does. It's interesting too, because it's like New York is easier to kind of sum up in a movie. I think, then say l A, because l A is just so sprawling and all over the place. I feel like there's not one l A and there's not one New York either, But New York is a little more encapsulatable. That's a word.

I just I think I agree with you l A movies, like you can have your get short Ease in your l A stories and your movies that kind of skewer Hollywood and that whole l A thing. But then you can do Paul Thomas Anderson in the Valley a completely different l A it is, or you know, movies. You know, it kind of depends on like you said, it's so spread out on where you are in l A because it can be very different. But New York, New York's New York. You know, it's true, It's true. Um gosh,

that's a good question. I'm trying to think, Um, do you have one that pops to mind, Chuck, Well, I know one that we both agree on, Um is high maintenance. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well that's that's such a good Uh what's the word. I'm looking for a good kind of like frame for just like exploring different aspects of the city and different types of people that live there. And that's that's a good one for sure. I love it.

But we're gonna start with Catherine Brunet says, I'm not sure I'd try to describe a city half the size with one movie, but Panic and Needle Parker Taxi Driver seems accurate for the time period based on what I've heard from people who grew up there. Yeah, I could definitely see that. And one one that comes to mind for me is, um, the movie Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Kitel. Um,

it's it's, it's, it's it's very bleak. But but I'll tell you it's interesting because it's a movie that came out in the nineties, but in the nineties, New York still looked like the New York of like the seventies. It was very graffitied up and like kind of like raunchy and edgy and now been a lot more sanitized and kind of cleaned up. And um so when you see Bad Lieutenant, even though you're watching a movie that looks like, you know, that feels very seventies, it was

absolutely shot in the nineties. Um, which I think is interesting because I I think I've mentioned I grew up going to New York a lot and having a lot of free reign and like explore it as a very young kid. Looking back on it now, I'm like, God, that's that crazy. But um, yeah, so I very special place in my heart in my life that city. Yeah, I love it. Miss I remember that. I remember that era, um when it was much more sketchy. But yeah, god,

I miss it too so much. Yeah, my first sit to New York was in uh nineteen ninety one, I think, and uh in college. I think like sophomore year in college or maybe junior year. And uh, it was it was everything I thought it would be. And that was still when it was sort of you know, the meatpacking district and the that side of town was really kind of run down and gross, and the Times Square still had shows and it was not cleaned up yet, and

you know, it's one. It's interesting when people sort of yearned for the days when the place was kind of a ship hole. I think there's a middle period, like the eighties in New York we're truly dangerous and and kind of gross and awful, and then I think the nineties it was better but still had some of the grit before it was completely cleaned up. I get what people mean by losing its character, but also it's like, no, it's great when it was had more rats and crime.

That's also kind of silly. You know, love rats and crime, but not not You're like charming ratitui rats. These are legs, seriously gnarly uh rabies and infected rats. That's right. Michael Johnson's Goodfellas the most mostly suburban and outer borough New York City. As a native, I can honestly say no, their movie is quite has gotten it quite as right? Yeah, where where was good Felas? Was that long island? Staten Island? It's a good quite shin. You know, I feel like

it had to a band, No, does it not? Jersey? I really don't know. It's not something that they make a big to do about times. I should know this. What's the zoo that they go to with the alligator. Is that like the Brooklyn Zoo Brooklyn or the Bronx Zoo. I forgot about that scene. They just there's like a lion. They throw a guy in the lion. They feed a body too, Zoo alligators something like that anyway, But I'm blanking on all of it now. I feel like it's

the Bronx Zoo. Yes, I bet you're right. Teresa Barker says, not a movie, but Pretend It's a City with brand Lee Bowitz quintessential New York City and makes me ache to be there. Yes, Teresa, I have been. We have watched a couple of episodes of Pretend It's a City, and I like it quite a bit. Brand Lee Bowitz is great national treasure. She's the I'd love to see her and Larry, her and Larry David sit down and have a conversation. Oh god, you're right, she is very

Larry David, Uh, Chuck. Have you seen painting with John? No? I still have not seen that. I would recommend that. I think you'd you'd enjoy. It's this guy John, John Louie, who was in a lot of the Jim Jarmish films, and he's just kind of this like weird out there cool kind of like almost like a proto beat nick type dude. And he's just hanging out in his crazy pad in the Caribbean somewhere, painting and talking about life.

And uh, it's very like, you know, meta and self referential and um, probably should never have come to exist, but he happened to make it just for his own edification and showed it to uh somebody, I think it was Will Ferrell's producing partner, who's the director whose name is escaping me right now? Um, and he like loved it and showed it Adam McKay and then HBO is like,

here are you got yourself a show? Um? And it feels very much like that, like it just was kind of willed into existence by this guy's own just like creativity. Well if you do like that, Nolan, I don't know why I haven't, uh when you mentioned that before, not mentioned this in return. Uh. That is a take on the series he had called Fishing with John. I've heard of it, I've not seen it, which is fantastic, where John Laurie would literally just take one person fishing. Uh.

Tom Waits, Dennis Hopper, Willem Dafoe. I think Matt Dillon was on one of them, very very very fun show. Jim Jarmers was in one. Got It good stuff, Get two dudes in a boat, and that's sort of the premise, a small boat. All right, let's move on here to New York again. Dan truebat true body. I always say your name wrong, Dan, Sorry, I've never been to New York. Uh, And I know it was filmed in l A. But I personally to refuse to believe that the New York

and Seinfeld isn't und accurate even now. That's funny. It's one of those things too, where it's like, how does how does the stand up comedian afford this apartment? Or like, you know, like all of them, all of the friends, yeah, friends the same. I think that was one of their. I think it was Monica's grandmother's apartment, though at least they tried to explain it because this in a way, you know, in the West Village. Uh, in a stress one of our old princes. Uh. I love the weird,

quirky version that Broad City shows. Yeah, totally, totally, totally. Jennifer Mudge has never been But when I think of New York. It's got a sex in the city vibe, and I know the apartments are way smaller. Yeah, they

definitely are kids A good one. Kids is a very raw, like real Those are all actual, you know kids that like ran in those circles and all kind of guerilla style shot and very much an accurate depiction of New York during those those those times that could have been you know, old scampering around as a teenager, gamping around, breaking into swimming pools, trying to make out. Oh yeah,

making out, making out. Angelo Buckle says, movie wise, maybe some of Spike Lee's old stuff, like she's gotta have it or do the right thing. Yeah, I do the right thing. I think was a pretty good depiction of Brooklyn of the day. Gail the Dangerubin says, Ghostbusters never been to New York. But since I grew up watching that movie, if New York isn't like that, I'm going to be real piste off. Yeah, that was a pretty realistic New York. I think for what it was, New

York absolutely overflowing with ghosts, no question about it. Brittany Story, one of our old friends, says, Brittany runs a marathon has been pretty similar to my own experience of a Youngish person finding their way in New York named Brittany. Yes, the city can be harsh and a bit brutal, especially when you feel lost, but it also feels full of possibility and wonder. Sure, yes, totally, Chuck. I don't know how you feel about that. Did you you lived in

New York? No? No, maybe not? You'd lived in l a that lived in Jersey for three years and spot all my time in New York for sure. And I grew up, like I said, going to New York all the time, and I had, you know, this like aspirational thing where I was like, I want to live in New York and that didn't happen, but you know, for work. Thankfully, I've been able to travel there a lot before you know, covid um, and I've realized and completely made peace with the fact that I do not want to live in

New York anymore. I just want to go there for a while and then come back home to my my home in Atlanta, which is much more my speed. Because it's a it is brutal, and it is like a grind like it. It really feels like you're just scrapping just to like get from the store back to your apartment,

or like it's a tough city. And I think, uh, I think there's a certain age you reach where you give up on that dream of living in New York for kind of the reasons you mentioned where you're like, you know, I'm good to visit, and hey, we get to visit, you know during normal times, you know, or five six times a year for work, which is the best someone mels pace for it totally. I mean there was a time, you know, k I was going like twice a month, you know, like before COVID, like just

because of taking meetings and stuff. And I think it'll probably not return to that cadence, but I do hope it does come back because I have a I basically have a whole New York family of like a friend group now and it's I missed them. I love it. I miss them to my my niece Reagan is there and I miss seeing her for sure. Uh let me

see here. Aaron Cooper said Ghostbusters as well, we got Matthew fober chimed in with high maintenance faith and reminiscent of the times I spent visiting friends from the Midwest who had relocated there. Erica Z says Lena Dunham series Girls to be fair whenever I went to visit friends all at in Brooklyn, so they had similar living situations. Yeah, Girls was sort of like high maintenance. I thought it was a really accurate version of that New York I

love that show. I'm always on record as saying Girls was one of the great great shows, one of the most well written shows ever. I don't know why I get back on people don't like Lena Dunham. I think she just did some stuff in the press that was a little abrasive. But I I think that either can you can totally be annoyed at her for that stuff or be like, yeah, you go and and don't be

like a predictable kind of wallflower. So, um, I respect her as a as a as an artist and as a as a person, but sometimes she does rub me a little bit the wrong way. But um, I think she's very talented. Yeah, I mean I get it, and I think she Uh. I think it seems like some of this, like genuinely more controversial things that happened. We're after Girls, yes, or maybe I'm wrong. No, I think

that's about right anyway. I will say the thing about girls that always bugged me, and I thought it was good and I enjoyed watching it, but it just felt like a very privileged perspective, you know, of like what it's like to live in New York. And a lot of those characters I just found particularly not very um relatable, you know, are not very uh sympathetic because they're just kind of like their problems are very you know, characters

still love sometimes for sure. I get it, Jake Dingler, I don't think we know, Jake Kai Jakes says it Yes, originally a play, Yes, the play was better. And now I've never been to New York, but that movie made my fifteen year old queer self believe there was something better than the rural outskirts of Cincinnati. I love that, Jake. It's good stuff when a movie can give someone uh I feel like they have a place that they fit in when they might not fit in where they are.

It's good stuff. Power of movies and plays, uh kanam true acts, says Russian Doll. Yeah, parks in Bodega's, eccentric people, artists in jerks, it's all there. Yea, yeah, for sure. I love that show. That's when I didn't finish what I very much liked what I saw. It was it just, you know, it has a certain repetition to that sort of the point. But I just died for some reason that it didn't I love it, didn't bring me in to to finish it. But I think I saw like

four or five episodes. Yeah, I can't wait for the next stuff. And I finished Search Party. By the way, I don't think you've ever followed up on that. I blazed through Search Party one of my fastest binges because Emily Um bailed on it after a little bit, but she wanted to know still what was happening, so I was kind of just recapping. But I loved it, man,

I thought it was a little fun. Our old friend Ethan Anastasio says, and Ghostbusters, when Lewis Tully has chased them all by the Hellhound at Tavern on the Green, all those diners look up for a moment and then go right back to their meals. Most New York moment and cinema history. That's a good point. That's Ethan Yavine. Of course, I'm just kidding about Unshakable unflappable New Yorkers. You're not gonna ruin my hundred dollar meal. Alex Press

is the Warriors during during COVID nineteen times. Sometimes it's still a struggle to commute safely on the subway. I mean, New York had the crime has gone up. It's been a little crazy to see some of the stuff that's happened over the past year, like these sort of random attacks and things that you didn't see for a long time in New York. It's little scary and disheartening. Yeah, for sure. Ryan Lee says, what we do in the Shadows,

they really nailed Mannahatta in Stetin Island, good stuff. Steve McGrath says, sweaty Bruce Willis and Sam Jackson and that die Hard movie they did their memories of riding the trains in the summer totally. Man, that's a very summary New York movie. And I have a really distinctive memory because that was, you know, around the time that I was there all the time, and I believe I even maybe saw that while it was in New York. There's

a place I don't think it's there anymore. It's called something different, but it was called Gray's Papaya and as a hot dogs place, and they and they put like papaya on the on the hot dogs, and uh, I remember it was underneath a mattress place called Sleepy's, which maybe is still there's something somewhere off the time square, but it's it's it's very distinctly featured in the movie. And I remember thinking how cool I was because I knew that location at the time. Our old friend Jimmy

Caykendall agrees with us on high maintenance. Don't think there's a show that better represents itty city or diverse population I praise indeed. Indeed, Matthew Hunter says, I just watched Dog Day Afternoon. Definitely part of the gritty seventies genre. Michael mcgree says, I like The New York from Arthur Well, Michael Arthur is one of my favorite all time comedies. I'm just dying for someone to pick that on movie Crush that's with Dudley Moore. Yeah, it was a very

big movie for me as a kid. Saw it over and over and over and over on HBO. Got it. Joshua Hall says Escape from New York. Yeah, another high maintenance vote from Zach Low. Uh, and let me finish up here with this. Andrew Cottney says Master of None the ass and sorry Netflix show was pretty good. Yes, I think they might be doing more of those now. I think it was just announced after a long breaks.

I think they're coming back for a new season, which makes me really happy because Master of None is one of the great great shows. All right, nol Uh, We're gonna wrap it up with a little segment called Chucks Hole. I get a chance to redeem myself from that debacle. And you you know you have to keep score too. Oh god, damn difficult part of this whole experience. I don't have my handy dandy score sheet. Um, I'll just okay, it's fine, Okay, you don't have your custom made scored

keep hold on. No, no, I don't. I don't have it on me right now. But I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put I've got it. I've got my Chuck's Holes list in the notes app. So what I'm gonna do is, uh, put the little checkbox next to him, and if you get one, I'm gonna check it. If you don't, I'm not gonna check in them, gonna count ot the check marks. Does that work? Yes? Great? Making sure I understand the concept of keeping score. Sometimes I just have to keep

myself honest. You alright, Chuck, this is Chuck's Holes eight eighties schlocky sci fi edition. Oh okay, that could possibly do? Okay, this one, I think you You definitely could, and I likely will. But I think it's uh, I think it's pretty fair, and I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna be really honest with the audience because that's just how we do on movie crush. Um. I did not get the memo that you wanted me to prepare this, so right before we recorded this, I took about fifteen minutes and

made this list, Um, and I stand by it. Thanks for doing that work at the last minute. All of course, dude, that's that's what I do. Um. I maybe would put them in a different order, but we don't have time for that. So let's go starting the clock. There's no clock on this. Um. How about this? This was an early Jim Carey performance in a little movie called Earth Girls Are Easy. I never saw that, Okay, I know, I know the movie, never saw it. I believe it's

got Gina Davis. Yeah, Jeff Gold looms in it. Uh. Gina Davis, Um, sort of a little raunchy. I think there's some raunch and it might have been a boober too. Um and yeah, that came out in nineteen I believe the very first Jim Carey, um, you know film performance. And he's an alien and he's covered in like blue fur. Yeah. If I should have seen that, I was in junior in high school. That was right at my alley. Did not see it? Yep, Gina Davis and Jeff Cold. I

forgot Jeff Cold. It's an out of this world, down to earth romantic comedy. That's that's fun. Uh. Oh, I did I see exactly what they did? All right? Moving on, no check mark for you. Uh. A little movie that was obviously riding the wave of a lot of Critter movies that were, um, you know, very much influenced by Gremlin's. A little movie called Munchy. Did not see Munchy. Maybe it's Munchy's. Let me just double check. I didn't either one, Okay, didn't.

I didn't see Critters either. I was called Munches. Uh. It was a Roger Corman production. Um, and it's seven comedy horror film. Starring Harvey Corman, Charlie Stratton and Nadine Van der Veld, directed by Tina Hirsch, and it very much oh Tina Hirsch, who actually was the editor for Gremlins. So and it says even here in the Wikipedia the film features a remarkably similar plot line. Um, it's all

about the creatures Gremlin's trip off. Okay, no check mark there, um, but thanks for not picking Gremlins though, the movie that everyone saw. Well, of course that would that wouldn't be fair. Um, how about Critters? I did not see Critters either. Did you see Critters too? Because that's what I actually put on, what was going on? That's probably true, I think if I'm that mistaken. Young, young, young Leonardo DiCaprio was in one of those cripps. Really yeah, let's see growing uh.

He was in Critters three, Yes, Pritters three, very young Leonardo DiCaprio was in Critters three, which there is some kind of time travel plotline. A lot of these movies were simultaneously influenced by Gremlins and Terminator because there's time travel in this one, and there's the gremlin Z kind

of little creatures. But it's a lot more gory. These are these creatures like um, they can combine their powers into a giant ball and they just roll over like herds of cattle and they just like pick them clean. It's very uh, it's all about the guts in the in the gore. It's very r rated. Okay, well, there's still plenty of plenty of time here. Yeah. A little movie from the very early eighties called raw Head Rex.

Never heard of raw Head Rex um was written by Clive Barker, And that's really the only reason I know about it. It's a monster movie from six raw Head Rex, directed by George Pavlou and written by Clive Barker, a very young Clive Barker. Okay, here we go. How about Howard the Duck? Yeah, I saw Howard the Duck. How are the Duck notoriously panned? Yeah? Yeah, not not a good movie. Weird, not a good movie. Weird movie based on the Marvel cinematic universe. Actually, yeah, I did not

know that until later on. I think it was a comic book, right, it was a comic book. And then actually I believe in one of those famous post credit Marvel movie scenes, I believe in one of the Guardians of the Galaxies movies. The character of the Benicio del Toro plays, who was like called the Collector. He has Howard the Duck in his collection. I don't think I remember that. That's funny, all right, Chuck. We've got plenty

of time. We've got maximum overdrive, Stephen King, Stephen Amelia Estebez. Yes, machines come to life, machines, specifically the trucks, but also vending machines, lawn mower. There's one of those turkey car being knives, the electric carving knives, you know, um famously, Uh. The King made the trailer for this where he's in

it and is clearly very coked up. And he goes, they've told me for years, Uh, you should direct one of your own movie, or for years they've been saying, Stephen, why don't you direct one of your own books or whatever? And he goes, I just I finally decided. If you want to do something right, do it yourself. He's got this like wild eyed, like crazy look in his eyes. Very bad, very bad movie, Mamelia. It wasn't great, but

I did see it. Okay. Next, we have a movie more famous for its rip off in this and product placement than anything. Mac and me, uh no, but you know, no, Paul Rudd and Conan O'Brien's appearances. So that's all. You know, that, that's all you need to see. The famous seeing I saw when I was a kid. It was one of those movies that Blockbuster when you pick movies just based on the cover. They probably got a lot of business from people like thinking it, well, this looks a lot

like et um. So yeah, that's that's that's that's what it was, totally U banking on. How about Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Chuck, I did see that. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's a sort of a classic B movie cult movie. It is, it is, it's it still comes up on the Netflix recommendations quite often. Yeah these days. Um, all right, we are moving on. Oh this was actually

remade recently. That's pretty funny. Hold on a second. There's a version of this, But I can't say for sure if if this was in fact a remake, But there is a movie with the same exact name starring Zendea put up by Disney called Zapped. Yeah, Zapped. That was a movie. I believe Scott Baio was in that correct, and it was one of sort of those teen skin flicks where he had a superpower where he basically used it to two take clothes off of girls something. You know,

it's exactly I mean, shuck. The poster says it all. Uh, it's got like it's like one of those amazing illustrated posters where it's Scott bo and whoever Willie Ames is leaning in through a window with a woman leaning out of frame and him using his like magic psychic hand to lift up her skirt. They remade that, But how in the world do you remake that movie? It obviously has a woman as the lead, which maybe that was they just decided we're going to take this sexist eighties

comedy and flip the script. Um and but I know nothing about it. But it is spelled the same. It even has an exclamation mark at the end um. But yeah, the tagline for the movie is They're getting a little behind and there's class work. Good god, it's pretty rough again, just if you couldn't guess already, it's about you know, Scott Bo's aacter develops telekinetic abilities and uses it to basically sexually harassed women. I mean, is the news app a remake? Of that or does it just have the

same thing. Let's see Zapped Zenda. It's spelled zapp. Yeah, okay, let's see American television film average sixteen year old whose mother is just remarried, they moved. Let's see where is the thing about? Oh no, it looks more like she's got a magic remote control. It may just I don't know that it's necessarily considered a remake at all. Oh it's uh an app and zapped as highlighted, and I think it also has to do with an app. Ye, it does sound just as bad, but surely yeah, yeah,

a little a little bit different way. Okay, alright, you're back, Chuck, you're back. We've got your check mark for zap. Here's another eighties rom com, Unleist was app wasn't really a rom com, but an eight rom com which I recently saw and quite enjoyed, also starring uh, the formidable Jeff goldbloom at his Jeff goldbloom Ey ist. A little movie called Vibes. Uh yeah, Cindy Lawper Vibe Cindy Lauper psychic abilities.

They go to Machu Picchu to search for some sort of like ancient relic uh and That's about all I remember, but it was a lot of fun. Cindy Lauper is actually quite a delight in in the movies. She's great, she's fun, all right, good deal vibes is a check mark. How about a little movie called Chud. I never saw Chud,

cannibalistic human humanoid, underground dwellers, underground dwellers. Yeah, it's a it's never saw Shud either, chuck um, but it's one that always comes up, all right, Moving on, how about an early trauma film that I saw on TV all the time back in the day called The Toxic Avenger. Yes, and I think that might be the only trauma film I've seen the same. Yeah, not never, not not not really my bad, but they used to play the movie

on TV all the time. And it's the saddest sequence when the poor little janitor uh he was just bullied like mercilessly um turns into the Toxic Avenger. He ends up like falling into a vat of toxic waste after being chased and beaten and bullied. Like I remember being kind of troubled by it when I was young. I was like, this is a lot was reanimator trauma? It

was not that. That's a different guy. I forget his name, but it's it's it's somebody who's kind of in that vein who made a few other real, you know, schlucky kind of pictures like I did see that one though. Alright, Chuck. How about a little movie uh starring a guy who who we shall not name, uh called Leonard Part six Bill Cosby's Leonard Part six. Um no, no, I never

saw that. I didn't either, but it was a notorious flop, very bad movie supposedly, and it sure as heck seems to me like that plue know nash movie that um Eddie Murphy did that also famously flopped. Had to have taken some cues from this movie, because it's about like a space ranger type character. Uh. And it really seemed very similar and similarly absolutely tanked. Garbage movie, garbage human. Indeed, how about the Stuff? Have you seen the stuff? Stuff?

It's like kind of like the Blob, but a little more dory, a little more yet. It's some kind of product uh that like is like a skin cream or something. Um. The Stuff also known as Larry Coh. It's a satirical science fiction horror film. Uh and It stars Paul Sorvino and um let's see a private detective investigates a new consumer taste treat that's absolutely delicious and just possibly lethal. It's called which means very possibly, very possibly lethal, in

fact guaranteed. All right, Chuck, how about Flash whoa Master of the Universe? Oh no, yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Is that eighties or is that still late seventies? Just a man, the man? You know who? Nothing but a man? What a great song? I love this queen right, Yeah, I had that soundtrack LP and I saw that movie a lot. I first was aware of that song from

Tenacious D. They did a cover up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know what, that movie holds up really well in the way that it holds up you know what I mean? Yeah, explain a little bit what you mean, Like, yeah, I mean it's not it's obviously got all the effects of the day, so it's not gonna hold up in that way, but it holds up for what it was and when it was supposed to be, and it's great. It's still great. I love the love that movie. I yeah, I need to see it again. He's a football player, right,

isn't that the Deal's quarterback for the Jets. I think the New York Jets, if I'm not mistaken in this version. I think for the longest time, I was always confused thinking that Flash Gordon and the Flash were the same thing. But they're definitely not. Yeah, and there was some genuinely good I mean, there was some schlock, but Max mon Cito is mean. The Merciless was great, and the Leader, yeah, he was great. The lead was kind of corny, but I mean, uh, it's good. I like it. I think

it holds up. Timothy Dalton was in it. That's right, Timothy Dalton was in it. Okay, alright, Chuck, I think this is gonna So you're actually right now at one two, three four five six seven, Um, out of we've got one too, three four five left to go, so you've got you've got a chance to to beat the ratio. How about piranhah? Yeah, I saw that first Paranha. There you go, there you go? Um? Was that the one John Sales roade or was he? Uh? Is that a different one? I don't know, but I know they made

quite a few other ones. Um. And let's see, oh, Paranha's eight, So that sort of breaks my pad in a little bit. But it was directed by Joe Dante, who directed Yeah, yeah, about the sort of creature feature that makes sense. Okay, isn't it funny how you get a rep for that and then that's kind of what you do. What else did Joe Dante do? He did some other stuff that wasn't creature e um, Joe Dante. Yeah, the Howling, Yeah, he did the Burbs, The Burbs, Yeah,

Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks, it's small Soldiers. Remember a weird movie Mattenee with John Goodman enjoyed that. Yeah, it's interesting. It's a weird one, right, I mean it's sort of a homage picture too, uh the time in cinema right in like the movie sort of Spiders. Yeah, looks like he also directed Inner Space, which is one about like shrinking people down sticking him in a body. One wonderful

movie in a movie. I don't often call for remakes, but I think they could do a great, great version of Inner Space if they kept that same tone and just had some modern day effects. And he directed uh, one portion of the twilight Zone movie. I'm not sure if it was the one where the people got hacked up by that helicopter that kind of made that a cursed movie. That was John Landis, that's right. I am curious what Joe Dante did though, because I loved that

movie a lot. I bet you his was the the kid would be the third segment, is what they're they're saying in Wikipedia. But I don't know which kicked the can so pro so it looked like um. Steven Spielberg directed the second set, Matt Joe Dante the third segment, and George Miller the final act, and then Landis directed the prologue, the first segment, and the epilogue. I think Joe Dantes was the kid. Um. I love that movie. It was great. Spielberg, of course did kicked the can.

That was the sort of more magical, feel good segment. I've actually never seen it. I'm gonna check. It's good. It's really good. Have you seen the new uh, the new the new Twilight Zone that Jordan's peel did. No alreaty canceled though, I don't think it did too well. Well that's because it was only on that like paywall app there was to get it. Yeah, all I all Access or whatever it was called. I don't think it's a smart move how many how many knows do I have?

And how many yeses do I have? Yeah? Yeah, let's see, so so far you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight yeses and one to three, four, five, six, seven eight knows. Okay, with four to go? Great? Yeah, exactly. All right. Next, we've got and I know this is seventies, so it's fine. We're just we're like on the cusp uh silent running. Uh. I don't think I ever saw that. I know the movie sci fi film. I don't think

I can honestly say that I saw that. Bruce Dern he's on sort of like a colony in space um with like some like droids and sort of a biodome spaceship experiment and something about like home Base is gonna blow it up or something like that, because there since far out. Yeah, okay, I haven't seen it either, but I've I've heard it's very sci fi, like cynthy kind of vibes and from that era. Alright, you know there's still there's still a chance here, Chuck. How about scanners? Oh? Yes,

of course. In fact, that's what Lauren and I covered on this show. If I'm not Oh no, no, we did uh oh ship Now I'm just totally blanking. Uh we did the other one another another Cronenberg? Yeah, what did we do? What's the other Cronenberg movie? Back on here? Yeah, she's great. It looks like you did video drone video drone. Yeah, but yeah, I saw scanner Scanners was Uh. My brother and I were sort of into that fangoria magazine kind of early um gore effects stuff when we could sneak it,

and I snug Scanners. And now it's just a perfectly appropriate gift for like a blowing your mind kind of moment. You know, when that guy's head explodes. Is that a good gift? Yeah, it's a good gift, just the head exploiting one. Alright, Chuck, we got two left Swamp Thing the West Craven swamp Thing, Yes, very much so. Adrian Barbo, who was the guy and that the guy from the Bond movies? Is it? Who is it? I don't even

I just think I don't even think of that. I don't even think of there as being a person under that. He wasn't the swamp thing. He was. He was the creepy guy. Timothy Dalton, No, we're Louis Louis Jordan. Oh, I see, yeah, in nine two. I really think that that was a really cool uh creature costume, the makeup and the practicals, and that we're pretty good. Yeah, not bad.

Adrian Barboa was the prettiest lady in the world, I thought, and she went on to do some interesting stuff, like she was in the Fog and escape from New York. She's kind of a staming queen, uhha. But then she was also in um the much beloved and uh dead, killed out, killed off too soon Carnival on HBO, right, Uh yeah, I heard they were going to make a graphic novel picking up you know, the huge cliffhanger that like ended Carnival left a lot of people kind of irritated.

But I have to follow up on that and see if that exists. All right, Chuck, I see you. I think if I'm not mistaken, you can count. I think I'm one up with one to go. So good, is that? Right? I think c LSSC. So with the nose, you got one two three, four five, sorry one two three, four, five, six, seven eight nine nose And yep, that's right, all right, here we go. The worst the worst I'll do is Tin and Tin. That's exactly right. But I think I

think you might you might clinch. Let's hear it all right. A little known movie okay, directed by a tour It's not a little know what I'm joking. It's very very known, but it was a much maligned and a guy never really did anything like this ever. Again, it's definitely outside of his particular cannon and something that he kind of talks about very negatively, if at all. A movie called Dune. Dude, I never saw Dude. You never saw Dune. I never saw Dune. I never saw Dune. I'll say it. I'm

Chuck Bryant. I have a movie podcast, and I've never seen doing It's it's not I mean, it's look, it's

it's interesting. It was. It's very clear they ran out of money and the movie kind of and it's one of those things where you immediately have a red flag because there's all of this voice over exposition at the beginning where you're like, this was clearly added in post uh, and you know they obviously were like because it's a it's a complex world where there's a lot of weird politics and a lot of words that you have to kind of you know, buy into like the language of

the different things that exists in this world. So they you know, the very beginning of the movie, there's this whole massive exposition that's with voiceover over like just shots of the kind of planet. Um. But yeah, it's weird. There's a couple of interesting things that happened in it. Uh. Lynch obviously gave it as all, but it wasn't the kind of movie you'd think he would do, and I'm

not quite sure why he did it. But yeah, um, I'm really looking forward to the Villaineuve version that hopefully will definitely see that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I think at the at the time, I there were just so many bad reviews of it. As a kid, I just remember thinking like, I don't I don't need to see this. But it was really boring for a sci fi movie, and I think that turned me off of it, and I just never did it, and I have no I never read the book or anything, so it wasn't like

a Dune guy. So yeah, definitely gonna see the new and the it is boring. It's it's absolutely boring, and even the book is kind of boring. Um, it's a lot of like you know, like I said, like world building, but there's not always a ton of action, and if there is, there's a lot of dead space in between the actions. So um, I think villaineu is probably gonna knock it up a notch because I just loved what he did with the Late Runner universe and it it reminds me of that kind of vibe Chuck you did,

and I'll take it. That's not bad. I will take it. Dude, thank you for doing those on the fly. Of course, I think that was a quality list. I wish I could say I have some movies to add to my list to watch, but I don't know if Munchie's and and Critters we're gonna I'm kind of ashamed. I saw Zapped. You're not gonna run out and see Mac and Me right now? I don't think so. I think all you need is does that those Paul rud clips really gonna

give you the whole picture? Yeah? The whole thing about that movie is it famously was like sponsored by McDonald's, Like it's got all this McDonald's problect. Even his name is Mac. He's named after the Big Mac, you know, so it's pretty is his last name, Donald Uh, he doesn't have a last name. Check he's a space alien well ship. I didn't sorry, I didn't know they only had first names. It was just the nickname that the kid gave him, you know, like et the last names. Extra.

That's fair, that's fair, you'll come here extra. Hey, don't remember how they said that all the time. Alright, Well, that was a lot of funnel tin for tin. I'll take it, and that'll wrap it up for this one, so we'll see everyone next week. Movie Crash is produced and written by Charles Bryant and Roll Brown, edited an engine yeared by Seth Nicholas Johnson, and scored by Noel Brown here in our home studio at Pontsty Market, Atlanta, Georgia.

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