Mini Crush #173

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took turns doing push ups on the lawn. Twenty Dwarves took turns doing push ups on the lawn. Okay, hey everybody, and welcome to Mini Crush. This is the movie Crush version on Monday that's very much shorter and it features No Brown and me Chuck Bryant. Oh, it's so good to be back, Chuck. He just did that over and over like family guy style, for thirty minutes. What do you call that? There's a name for that kind of joke. Uh,

that's the thing. But there's the shaggy Dog story, which is just like the joke where it's all set up and then the punch line is just a nothing, you know. I think that's what a shaggy dog story is, like the same thing, kind of like The Aristocrats. I think The Aristocrats is a shaggy dog story. Did you ever see that documentary on the Aristocrats? I did, and I think that the thing that I remarked on that most people did was that the filthiest version was done by

Bob Saget. So you think of as clean cut, you know, Dad from Full House, but turns out he's a total scumbag. Yeah. My brother worked with him and he was actually a great guy to work with and um very much filthy in real life. Yeah. I I when I say scumbag, I mean humor wise. Yeah, Well I'm just gonna lovely. Well, there you go. How you doing, man, I'm great, Noel, Uh, we have catch up on our list is the first thing. And there was some breaking news this morning in real

time Noll that Amazon acquired MGM Studios. Oh boy, what does that mean? No, this is news to me. Yeah, it's like eight points five six billion dollars at Amazon. They just throw money around like it's money. Yeah. I think they said. The big play here was the fact that the James Bond franchise is now under the control of Amazon. You know what, I saw a thing. It was one of those hyperbolic kind of headlines where it's like the studios no longer have control of the movie industry. Um,

and it's because of the streamers. They're the ones. Obviously with the pandemic and the way, you know, theaters weren't a thing anymore. There's always been this kind of tacit understanding of the studios would defer to the theaters and and that awards revolved around theatrical releases and that ship matters, you know, to studios anyway. But now it's seems like the streamers are in control. You've got your HBO Max, you've got your Amazon and all that, and it seems

like they're the ones holding the keys now. And this just kind of solidifies it, don't you think. Well, I'll tell you what. No. I mean, they are a version of the New Studio. And it's like anything else in media, you adapt or you fucking die. It's true. You can't stop it. You can you can't pout and sit on your hands and say, well, this isn't fair. It's like all those cab drivers that were upset about Uber and left. You know, you gotta adapt. You gotta adapt. Things change, nol.

You can be left behind or you can roll with it in and work in the new system. I think I mentioned last episode. I think that I went and saw a movie in the theater and I really liked it. That's that's the sort of silly thing. I've obviously always movies in the theaters are great, you know, I've always really loved going to movies in the theater. And I I just feel like the release schedule isn't back yet. There's like been two movies kind of lingering in the

theaters this whole time. Today. There's nothing out that's worth it, that's we hear um so hopefully that though coming soon, I would like to continue that that tradition. Me sad that I'm referring to it as a tradition, like it's some sort of nostali Remember going to movies in the theater. Yeah, I mean I'm ready. I uh, I'm feeling more confident about stuff I went to. I don't know if I mentioned this. Last time I went to a baseball game

and that was kind of nice. And uh, Emily and I had our first dinner out on a patio last week. That was wonderful. We're easing on out there a bit. I hear you, man. I've got a couple of work trips scheduled obviously, had that Seattle trip was a kind of big first push. Um, but yeah, going to Nashville for a conference and probably going out to l A

pretty soon. So I'm looking forward to. Like the work isn't saying thou must travel, but they're like, hey, if you've got a reason, don't hesitate to to not to not do it, to do it, don't hesitate to do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it, Chuck do it. No, I'm I'm gonna make somebody tell me to travel for work. Yeah, I have no I'll do it. You want me to do it, I have no interest in h I just I don't want to. It's I mean, I'm fine to get on a plane now because I' vaccinated, but I

just I don't want to. I've really enjoyed being at home and not traveling and being a wait for my family. Oh I have to chuck, But I've also reached the kind of threshold and I am now sick of my family entirely. Well that happens. I'm just kidding. That's a thing. Um, sure, it's funny, you really. I know this has been rough on some marriages. I've known a couple of people who have gotten divorced during this pandemic. It's just it's a real test of of your friendship as as a partner.

You know, like you gotta be friends with who you're married to or you're not gonna get through it. Dude. I mean, I'm not to play Dr Ruth here anything, but I mean it's so important that you just enjoy, you know, keeping company with this person, that you have things in common that you can actually vibe. Uh. If you don't or if it's all based on attraction or like sex. Now all that ship goes away when you get it doesn't have to go away, you know what

I'm saying. I just mean if you don't actually enjoy the person's company and like just being lazy and sitting around and bullshitting and bantering what, there's really not much else. Everything else is kind of goes by the wayside eventually, you know. So that's right, and not everyone is uh is Sting and you know, in their sixties or whatever he is can still get down with hot tantra fucking for hours at a time. Good. That's what his new album.

That's what his new album is called, Chuck. That's called Hot Tantuck with Sting HDF for the for Walmart and the more conservative retailers. Yeah, and the subtitle is you got stung by that dick? Good for you? Oh God, good for you, Sting. My six life is better than it's ever been and I'm approaching seventy. It's note is this good for him? Oh? There are? You know, like like movie crush, Mini crush, what's the show called again? You got me all flummocks chucked? That opening really threw

me for a loop. I would say, that Mini Crush is more important than hot tent trick fucking I think that's probably true. It definitely gets better reviews than that new Sting record. No, don'tody cared about it. They really resented that. Apple just put it on their phones. You know. It's like nobody wants that. Uh snol. Do you have any more in the in the catchup department? I'm trying to think. I got a new synthesizer that I'm really

excited about. Let's hear about it. That behind you? Is that what I'm looking No, that's why I that's an old one. That's an eighties Juno one or six from Rolland and I got it repaired recently. I have Actually our boss Connell gave that to me because he used to play it in this band that he was in called Adam, which I'm sure you're aware of. Um, and I had another one and he saw it in the background. I was like, well it doesn't work. Well, I have

this one in my attic. You could have it and if it works, you know, then then you'll be in a happy boy. And it didn't turn on. But I got it repaired, and then I got my other one repairs. Now I have one that I am keeping in one that I'm selling, but I bought a Sequential Circuits Profit Rev. Two, which is the sound chuck of like John Carpenter movie soundtracks. So I might have to do like an augmented movie crush bumper or some kind of little little diddy with it.

It sounds so cool, man, it's yeah. I'll tell you what you should do, Nold is just just do some sort of a thirty second jam audio soundscape and we'll just throw it in here somewhere. Okay, all right here, it is all right, Oh that's amazing. Well, you'll have to make sure our our producer, Mike. Uh did we have announce that Mike has taken over the show? Good old Mike, love Mike. We maybe have been uh no, we did. I pick uped him heavily. I pick up

him heavily. I'm certain about it about the NPR background and and uh right club and all the things that he does. Gets do we need to rerecord, have Lauren re record our post credit sequence because our credit sequence, because she still says Seth is a producer with two producers. Ago asked around like yesterday's news. No, that's not what happens with yesterday's news, Chuck, yesterday's news gets thrown away, nobody passes it around. I get passed around like tomorrow's news,

tomorrow's sandwiches. I don't know what that means. I don't know what any of it means, but I'm happy to be here. Um. You had a nice little getaway as well, didn't you, with like a family situation some uh some camping of some sort. Uh yeah, well, the the family camp is complete and all. We had a few friends come up and help had a couple of big work days,

which was a lot of fun. It was funny when we were all like they were some kids running around and there were some people helping me, you know, those all kinds of things to do to kind of finish the camp out. And um, Emily was working on some stuff and she said, you know, every it was very cute, she said, anytime there are a bunch of people like working like this in a big fun atmosphere and there's music plan. I always think of foot Loose when they're

putting the prom together. You know, I've never seen Footloose. Chuck on it. I'll get on it by by next week. Is this so it's like a family, like a plot of land or something like how do Yeah, yeah, I've talked about a little bit on stuff. You should know. I have some land in the mountains with a creek on it, and uh my, my dream has always been to have sort of a sort of a family camp, family and friend camp, and uh, it's getting so crowded in Atlanta over the years that it's it's hard to

go camping on the weekends. If you get up, like if you're not up there in the North Torgia Mountains on a Thursday, then forget about it. You come up, you creep up there on a Friday after work. You can't find a camping spot out in the wild unless you want to camp right next to some schmucks. So I got some land. We uh it was just last year was a pop up tent with some stuff stored

under it. And this year I was finally able to get a carpenter to build a pavilion with some shed storage and firewood storage and an outhouse that I'm still waiting on the composting toilet for it's not finished yet, and we we've built a little outdoor kitchen in it and picnic tables and we got everything you want. So the idea NOL is that everything is kind of there, all the cookware, all the stuff that you have to

tote to take camping. So if people want to go camping there, all you do is bring your stuff to sleep, your tent and your sleeping bag or whatever you're caught, and then whatever food and booze you want to bring, and everything else is there to make it super simple to just sort of last minute say hey, let's go camping, and uh, it's open to you know, if you ever want to go camping up there, you can totally use it. Chuck,

I would love that. I would. I would mainly love to, you know, I I would just I want to I want to like hang with with with you guys man. I want to come like vibe with the with the Bryants. Do you want to come camping this weekend? Though? What are you doing Memorial Day weekend? I don't actually have any any major plans. We got a bunch of people. There's like twenty five of us, like six or seven kids.

Is I will think about it. My kid is actually doing a camping thing with her other friend in Tennessee. But this weekend. Yeah for a Memorial Day. But let me but let me let me think, let me think about that. That's really the lovely, lovely thought. And all right, really it's out there and there will be like the whole band is going. So my drummer is bringing his one of those drums that you sit on and play and uh and we just you know, we sit around

by the campfire. All we make some more play guitar, we drink. I'll bring my sin Well. We do have power. We have solar power at the pavilion. I saw the solar power panels on the roof that it's amazing. You could bring your fucking synth if you want it. It's like synth jam. The dream one day not was to have a like a little get a few of my musician friends and do a little like weekend hooting nanny for real, hoot and a holler. I love it all right. So it's out there and if if anyone I finally

posted some pictures, I'm very proud of it. It looks the Chuck the podcaster Instagram. So we have the Bryant family camp and it's very sweet that everyone wants to go crash the camp and have a movie crushing So if you should know events there, but it is closed for those activities. God. Sorry, do you have a tent, Noel, and sleeping bags and stuff? I don't. Actually I had extras. I've even got you hooked up there, amazing. I do

need to. I want to be a camping guy. I want that for myself, so I think I maybe need to. I did just buy a really cool bike. I haven't had a bike in a long time, and I bought a nice trek bike off a dude off of craigs or Facebook, uh marketplace nice, trying to try to get get it back into shape. Check now that we're like, you know, humans again. I ordered a bike to Nolan's coming in. Uh it was back ordered, so it's coming in like mid June, late Junice. Alright, Noel, what the

invite is out there? And if you don't come this weekend, we we should just get together another weekend. Yeah, because it's a lot of great fun. I can't wait. All right, So Noel, we're gonna do a little something now called nos Holes Star WHOA. I wasn't ready for this, Chuck, I sprung it on you. I've been filling a lot he sprung one of my wholes sprung a leak. Gross. Okay, Now, of course I'm looking around. I don't even think I have a pencil. That's okay. That is that is troublesome, though,

because that's my traditional way. I gotta have a pencil. No, I'll just do it on the computer. That's fine. You hate that, though, chuck um, No, I don't. Why don't I have a pencil down here? What am I digital? Man? That's what I'm saying. I like you an alright, no pencil, all right, I'm looking all around this basement. Not a pencil, behead all right. No, We're going with a category this week that I don't know if we've done before. The categories get thin with movies after a while, you know,

sometimes repeat. But we're gonna go with thrillers. No thriller movies from all thrillers. Like the music the music video thriller. That's what this is about. No, it's not about that thriller. The genre, got it. Uh, And let's go ahead here. Let me open up another document so I can worry exactly keep scoring before we continue. Do you personally feel like there is a distinction between the thriller and the horror But but, but, but the movie featured in the

music video Thriller is clearly a horror horror. Yeah, that's what you called it. But but don't you agree, don't you know that's a little bit uh mixed sending mixed messages. I think Michael Jackson sent a lot of mixed messages here, and it's probably fair. That's probably fair, all right, Chuck, I got that out of the way. I just had to pull pull you there. I'm ready, all right, I've got my yes column and my no column, and we're gonna go ahead, Noll and start with a little movie

called Memento. Okay, oh yeah, I'm sorry. I forgot how this game works. I've seen Momento, Yes, all right, I figured that as as simple as that. Yes, there's some gimmes here early on. No, but you know, as usual, that's how you throw me off. And then all of a sudden, The goal when I designed the game is not to stump you entirely, when I designed the game, Noll, is not to stump you into Now, Chuck, I really didn't. I didn't cry, and the second time I did a

lot better. So I made up for my first horrible almost entirely Japanese. Bless you a version, thank you. Let's we should leave that in. Yeah, let's let's pick I'm a human being. If you uh oh yeah, if you prick me, I also believe, um, yeah, let's go all right. Number two. No, it's a little thriller about a head in a box bar bar. Wow, you just look so much like Brad Pitt when you did that. Thanks Chuck. It's a it's a thing I do. Um. That would

be the movie. I believe. It's called eight, uh not quite seven eight nine the first set okay, seven go backwards seven alright, No, that's two in the yes category. Uh nol. Number three it's a little movies starring Mr yake Yellenhall called Nightcrawler. Yeah. I love that one. He's the he's like a crime scene paparazzi. Basically, one might

say a crime scene addict, a photog. There's a great sequence in that movie where he like screams himself in the mirror and I think he smashes the mirror and I think that was improv and he actually hurt himself. He also got real gaunt and weird looking for that role. Don't you think yeah, I think Yake can. He can change his appearance quite dressed. He can. He's quite He's one of the he's one of the greats. I like

that guy. All right, No, we are going to move on to another little movie about a girl that's gone and it's called Gone Girl. Hmm good the Goodbye Girl. Um yeah, yeah, that was that. That's a good one. Um. Okay, there's that sequence at the end with what's his name, Doogie Howser where he just gets yeah, just she bleeds all over her. I know he was. I quite enjoyed that movie. I read the book as well. That's good. Alright, nol boy, you're smoking it. Mm hmmmm. Like a thriller.

We're gonna go back in time a bit to the nineteen eighties. It's a little movie called Fatal Attraction. I have not seen Fatal Attraction. We talked about this before. That's the one, right, Glenn Close. Yes, And who's thee who she fatally attracted to? Michael Douglas. That's why it's confusing because he was also in basic instincts very true, and those are both kind of erotic, you know, uh, thrillers, erotic thrillers. That's yeah, they're sexy thrillers. Fatal Attraction better

than Basic Instinct if you're talking just quality movie. Basic Instinct is still pretty fun though. All Right, all right, Noel, that's your first. No Next up, Noel, we have a movie about a band backstage being tormented Nazi skinheads. It's called Green Room of It. I've I've watched a couple of times. I think it's excellent. We I know you. We both love that movie Blue Ruin that the filmmaker made previously, correct, and I think that's a better film.

But I really like Green Room too. Agreed. Tough movies, you know, if you're a little squeamish, Oh god, they're both very taut, tense thrillers, and and they've got a lot of a lot of a lot of nasty limb damage and things happening to people, and limit image is tough. Yeah, alright, No, you're doing great. Number seven's a movie that featured another drastic body transformation, featuring Christian Bale as a gaunt mechanic. It's called Gaunt Girl. It's called Very Nice the Machinist Chuck.

I have have spotty memories of this movie, which implies to me that I watched it on TV and half paid attention, So I think I get I gotta give it a note, Chuck. If I'm getting completely honest, you know, I want to honor the game, the game machine. This is good. The one where he kind of doesn't know what's real. He's sort of losing it and a paranoid,

schizophrenic kind of vibe. Is that the deal, Like he's sort of you know what, I'm having trouble remembering now, but yes, But I did see The Machinist and it was one of those movies it's like, you know, it's fairly disturbing, So I think you can put it out of your brain in a certain way, and I think that's what happened to me. You're having a topo, Chico. I love a topo Chuck. Oh boy, the physiest of all fizzy waters, the best level of fizz and fizz. I love it. It's a good in a mixed drink.

Is a mixer? Well then then really quickly, not to derail the game, but super quickly. There's a one of the first bars that opened in a comfortable outdoor manner as a local place called nine Storia here in Atlanta, which we all love. But they have they have a drink and Cabbage Town. They have a drink called ranch Water and they literally take a Topo Chico and pour a little bit of it out and and add tequila and fresh lime. And that is my favorite drink right now.

And I've been making them at home. Um, and then you should too, Crushers. It's a great, great movie drink. Yeah. And you know, if you're you want a little alcoholic beverage and you're trying to skimp on the calories, it's a good way. That's what I'm doing. That said, I'm doing no sugar. It's also keyto friendly if you're into that vibe and very few carbs. So I love it.

That is my recommendation for a cocktail. All right. No, uh, we are moving on to the next one on the list, which is a movie that was kind of a smaller, somewhat overlooked film, but it's quite a nice reputation on the streaming services called The Invitation. Oh, I gotta google this real quick because it doesn't ring a bell, which probably means I haven't seen it. Uh. The Invitation from directed by Karen Kusama. I do not know this film at all. Yeah, it's listed as a horror film online,

but I take at you with that. It gets in the thriller category. Even the cover looks thriller city. It's like a glass of red wine and a dude standing by himself. It's the back dinner party gone wrong. Uh. And I don't want to give away anything else. No, it sounds very good movie. I'll check it out, all right. The invitation overlooked, all right, No it is five to three. Okay, all right, we're gonna go back in time a little bit more too, to a sort of a high class

thriller from director Anthony Mingela the talented Mr Ripley. Yeah. I like that one quite a lot. Actually, Okay, I remember I distinctly remember feeling irritated at Jude Law's character and almost feeling like Ripley was justified in his retribution.

But then, you know, he sort of took it too far, because it's like, you know, they like they brought him on, they paid his way, they gave him everything and made him feel like a million bucks, and then they totally were like, you know what, we're kind of done with you. And that's not a good feeling. And that's enough to make anybody even not like verging on, you know, psychotic. Uh, at least get their feelings hurt. Agreed, agreed? All right,

Now we're moving on two. Number ten. A movie that was out I think last year, maybe the year before, called A Simple Favor, My goodness, gracious, Chuck, I don't believe so alright, features the very lovely Blake Lively and the very lovely an A. Kendrick. Oh yeah, they're both featured in full loveliness on the cover. Yep. Good movie. Somewhat overlooked. Alright, No, it is uh six to four, uh, six in my favor, right, six in my favor six in year favorite. We have a movie starring Mr Jason

Bateman called The Gift well Ship, look it up. I am a lot of these thrillers have very innocuous names. Yeah, that's why. That's why I'm having to look them up. The Gifts Wait, directed by Joel Edgerton, starring Joel Edgerton as well. I see The Gift good movie, nol good thriller Gordo. There's a character named Gordo in at which I love. Alright, six to five. Things are evening out

here as oh boy, alright, next up number twelve. We have a movie, a bit of a mystery, a bit of a thriller, a bit of Clint Eastwood, a bit of Sean Pinn. Mystic River, Yes, saw Mystic River. Saw Wait a minute, wasn't there a flipping? Another movie called The Gift with Blanchette and Giovanni Ribizi, and it was directed by Sam Ramy Okay, Chuck, I saw that Gift, was saw that The Gift, and that is to me, the more known the Gift. I feel like you gotta

give me that one on a technicality. Yeah, that's not the movie I was thinking about. Damn it all right. It was a good movie, though, wasn't it. Yeah? Another thriller Katie Holmes. I think I know I know Katie Holmes because she goes full nude in that one. That is the memory that I have with that film. I forgot about that. Okey dokey. We are moving right along then, noll to number thirteen. Another movie starring Sharon Stone, Sliver, Sliver, the poor Man's Basic Instincts. That one was who was

in that what's the dude's name? I don't know? Was that a what's his face? Because it definitely was what's his face? Was that a Baldwin? It was a Baldwin. Was it a Billy Baldwin? It was Billy Baldwin, b B William Yeah, exactly. Remember Body of Evidence Chuck with Madonna and Willem Dafoe. I do know, but have you seen Sliver? I don't think I saw Sliver, Jeff, I bet I watched it on like skinn a Max, just like fast forwarding for like the steamy scenes. It holds.

It doesn't count. It holds a strong eleven percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, it was supposed to be pretty bad. Yeah, alright, no old number fourteen. It's a movie called Body of Evidence. Believe it or not? Oh shit, really real? Yeah, I definitely saw that one. I the steamy scenes and that one were so good at justified watching the whole movie. Um yeah, there's like candle wax dripping and stuff and like, you know, nothing sexier than candle wax, right O, God,

I know seriously, Uh yeah, I saw. I saw it and I actually listened to they did. Um how did this get made? On it? As well? Recently? And um that's how I realized I know every single one of these beats they're talking about because it's like, I think she's a psychiatrist or something, and like is accused of having murdered her husband. And William Dafoe is the detective investigating in and he somehow gets wrapped up in her very responsibly. Um, you know, in this trist and I

don't remember exactly what happens, but I don't. That's fine, nobody remembers. There was also a Final Analysis, which is another one of that crop of erotic thrillers around. There was a spate of those in that era. Was in all of them, well except for Madonna's. Yeah, it could have been Charon Stone, though Kim Basinger was in uh Final Analysis. She should be in more movies. She's great, all right, No, moving on. Number fifteen, political thriller, military thriller,

A little movie starring Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. Very good movie called No Way Out. Damnit, Chuck. Why couldn't it have been the General's Daughter or something like that, because that's not good. No way, there's no like prerequisite that these picks have to be good. Um No, I haven't seen No Way Out, Chuck. Right, No, it's getting tight, you am? I am I losing now notes eight to seven in your favorite coming to the final stretch Here for the last what do you do for five? Uh? Noel?

The next movie is a movie I've ragged on many, many times because of the glaring list of plot holes, wherein if any of these characters just picked up a cell phone, there would be no movie. M wicker Park they didn't have But they didn't have cell phones, did they? Well, they did right on the cusp of that was like, you know, Nokia brick type phones, probably wicker Park, Nycy, wicker Park, check Park. It's funny. I looked it up this morning because I was like, I'm not the only

one who thought this, right. If you just google Wickle Wickle, wicker Park cell phone, there's so many articles in reviews. All they had to do was makeuphone call. I mean not none of you know what he cares about spoilers, but can you briefly explain why it hinges on that or how it would have solved? I can't even remember. Man, it was so bad. It was like there was a guy who liked a lady, but then she disappears and there's another lady with the same name wearing the same clothes,

and it's like what reality is he in? And and misconnections and stuff, but like it all falls apart because of phone technology existing in the world and the whole time you're going like, just make it that call and you can make that call. Yeah, there's literally an article it just says wicker Park characters need to answer their selves. Right, there's a bunch of those so bad, so bad? Alright, no,

the final four. You are good at this. You are good at this, my friend, I'm good at creating the drama of love it right, go either way, could go either way. A movie where in the classic iconic line is it safe would be called Marathon Man. I've seen the Marathon many Is that one with Arld Schwarzeneggerry gets attacked with that dude with the hockey stick and the flamethrower and all that. Right, No, no, that's the running Man. God damn no. I've also seen the Marathon Man. Have

you who's in it? I have? It's Dustin Hoffman and h Sir Lawrence Olivier, alright, who plays the dentist who is like a Nazi war criminal dentist. Um, all right, it's been a long time, but Yeah, it's definitely alright, No old last three, None of the Wire Hot classic movie from frances Ford Coppola and Gene Heckman. It's called The Conversation. Love It, Love It. Uh. I don't know why I saw that when I was in college. Um,

that one really stuck with me. Something about it was just I thought was really neat, Like, yeah, it's like it's one of those things where I think it's one of those things where it's like an unreliable narrator type situation where you're not sure. He gets so in his head about surveillance and about he thinks he's being surveilled, and then the movie kind of ends with him sort of not knowing if he's like totally insane or not. Right. Isn't that kind of the way it goes? I think

it is. Yeah, roughly excellent, excellent movie. Early early uh Harrison Ford appearance was he I guess he's in it for a minute. He plays somebody's like assistant or something like that, but he's I believe it's pre Han solo. He also had a very very small part in Apocalypse Now. So Francis work Coppla he was on his radar early on. Alright, no, last two. You're up ten to eight, so the worst you can do is equalize if you with on these

final two. Let's see what happens. Number nineteen a movie from Brian to Palma, very steamy, called a Body Double. Mm hmmm, Nope, no, and I'm not sure again. All of these movies have the most generic titles. Who is in this one? Body double? Is? Is that? Is that Michael Douglas? Nope? No, who is this? No? I haven't seen body double, Chuck, I haven't seen Body double. Good movie, dude.

Even the poster is steamy. It's like a dude creeping through, like a silhouette of a dude doing that classic peeking through the blind situation, and a topless woman it appears to inexplicably be in the throes of ecstasy. I'll buy yourself just standing there kind of cradling her her bosom. You should have your own show where you just like described movie posters. Oh, it's funny. It's it's apparently a direct homage to Alfred Hitchcock, were Window Vertigo and for

Murder all that very void? Just really coolly. Have you heard about this new movie that apparently went through some kind of development. Hell, and it's now on Netflix and it's called Like the Woman in the Window and it also is a homage to all this stuff. But apparently it is hot garbage. It's got Amy Adams in it, who I think we both love. But it's it's very, very poorly reviewed. Um. I would like to see it just to see if it lives up to the negative hype. Yeah,

negative hype. Good band name. That's a pretty good band name, all right, nol last one, you either equalize or you win, basically instinct. I have seen that one. All right, Look at you can buy Squeaking by by the skin of my teeth pants. I don't even know what that means. Well, what is the skin of the teeth or seat of the pants even mean, Chuck, I mean teeth don't have skin. That's the gums. Okay, that's the gums. I never really thought about that. That makes no sense, Chuck. That was

a very well designed game, my friend. It was a very well designed game. It was a squeaker. But you you did it. No, we're going to finish up this week with stream this. I'll go first. We I believe I mentioned that we started. I'll be Gone in the Dark.

We'd finished I'll Be Gone in the Dark two nights ago, the great documentary on HBO Max about the Golden State Killer and Michelle the late Michelle McNamara's dogged pursuit of Said serial Killer and book un Said serial Killer, and the way it weaves in her story with her experience as well as the true crime piece is in rawling and gripping and tragic in every way imaginable. Didn't she have like a secret drug problem? Yeah, I mean, let's let's go ahead and say if spoiler coming up here, Yes,

she she did. It was Patton Oswalt's wife, and um, she she did. She had a largely because of this case. She was taking things to get her up and to get her motivated. She was taking things to bring her down and allow her to sleep through the nightmares. And it was an accidental overdose of drug cocktail and uh, tragically she passed before the book was finished, and Patton

Oswalt helped to oversee the completion of that book. And uh, it's just brutal in every way, and that story is brutal in The Golden State Killer and really focusing, it's a very victim focused True Crime Peace UH and seeing the final episodes of that with the survivors coming together after his arrest and conviction is just really touching, moving, brutal stuff to watch. And I haven't seen it yet. I obviously want to very much, especially knowing that detail.

But like the whole drug addiction side of it, I think is really interesting because a loved one could have, you know, a drug problem like that, and maybe you're aware of it. It's not like they're completely hiding it, but you're like, oh, it's under control, or oh they're doing it for a reason, or this, that and the other. But it's very easy to normalize that and let that go. And I would just say look out for your loved ones. If you see red flags, you know, I think, make

sure make sure they're okay. Exactly the case here. Uh and pat nonsall even talked about it, like, you know, who doesn't have friends are like, oh I need a couple of Zanex to calm down, and I need an uh an ambient and then you know, and or an adderall to get me up or whatever. I might be confusing the drugs, but Ada is up one, okay, um, And it's very easy to normalize that and be like, oh, well, someone's working on a book and then just need a

little extra help. And but then they're other secret drugs because you get, um, the plateau and you need something more and then it gets out of hand and it's uh, it's very, very, very sad what happened to Michelle right on? Well, I definitely will I'm gonna make some mental emotional space for that one, because I know it's it sounds like a lot, but I'm very fascinating with the case and obviously that that part of the story is is fascinating

as well. Totally so we um. We also have been doing a little palate cleansing because those episodes were so rough, rewatching some of what we do in the shadows here and there for some yucks. And then uh, last night, nol I watched The Army of the Dead by myself because Emily had to sleep super early. I watched it too. It's so stupid. Um, it's fine, It's it is as advertised. It is exactly what a movie called Army of the Dead about a heist and a zombie ridden Las Vegas

would be. Um. I think I've mentioned my favorite online movie review years are these dudes from Minnesota. You go by Red Letter Media and they have a show called half in the Bag and it's just great, super snarky. Um. But they point out, and I would put this to you Chuck and the Crushers, that it is very much a one to one rip off of aliens. Oh really, just not like obviously there's not aliens, but there's there. It's aliens. I haven't seen it in a long time.

But it's like a rich financier pays them to go to this place that's infested with aliens to get some kind of payload. Um. And there's a you know, caretaker situation with Newt and and Sigourney Weaver's character, as there is with Drax and his daughter. Um, there's the same rich person sending them into zombie infested thing, which is the equivalent of the ship that they're going into to get whatever payload it is. And there's the bad white guy who double crosses everybody who is Paul Riser and

and aliens. And it's uh, that weird looking dude from Deadwood in the and it's great, he's awesome, but you know he's not going to be like a straight He's got that he's got that cock eyed kind of like you know, look to No, he's not um but I would ask you to maybe like looking into that a little bit. Maybe there's an article or something. But I they make a side by side comparison, and it really is even the way the helicopter rescues them at the end,

um uh. And they point out that, like where Aliens gets all the tension building right and gets all the character development right, you know, Army of the Dead really doesn't have any of that. All the headshots land perfectly every time. There's very little tension, there's very little concern for the characters well being, you know what I mean. Yeah, I'll tell you what. No, I it was fine. I watched it. I like the Gore. I thought it was

totally some fun effective use of of gore. But you know what, in the end, I don't know that I've ever seen a filmmaker be more consistently just mediocre to not rate is Zack Snyder. I That's what I've always thought, and get really big, big movies. He is the very definition of style over substance. Yeah, he's got this look

and he knows how to nail it. He's got this SloMo hyper stylized, big music, sequence, set pieces and all that ship, but like very little character development and very little story and plot, like this is the you know, you could you could sum this story up on the back of a cocktail napkin. I means, yeah, yeah, I agreed, and I hated the music. An Army of the Dead, all the covers, all the little whimsical ethereal covers of

these classic songs did it. And then at the end he literally used zombie bombie by being on the nose. Who's the band the Cranberries, Yeah, the Cranberries. It was just yeah, that was actually I didn't think it was a waste of time or anything. I'm glad I watched it.

It was fun and I like a good heist. But then you know, again, in the in the Red Letter or the Half in the Bag, they talk about how like Okay, Oceans eleven characters are fun and smart and funny, and their challenges that they have to overcome and they have to bob and weave and kind of figure out their way through the next challenge. This one, there's very little of that. You know, It's it's it's very and

when you're doing a heist movie. In a safe cracking movie, part of the fun is designing a really sort of elaborate, fun safe cracking sequence when they sort of did not really traps, just like a guy that had to listen to the safe and turn. There were the traps though they were the traps. They had to use the zombie to like trip the traps. But like that part. I did like that part. That's what I'm saying that part. That part was the dart shot in the zombie that

was exactly that part was pretty fun. So they had had a few moments. But you know, it's because we're so goddamn Star for Entertainment that we've been watching these movies. Did you watch the Snyder cut the still haven't? It was fine, very long, Um, But I'm with you, man, I've always felt this way about Zack. He seems like a really lovely guy. Though I will say that, like every interview I watched him, he's just so purely, earnestly into doing what he does, and I really appreciate that

about him. And obviously he had a you know, tragedy with his his daughter's uh taking her own life. Um, and that's what led to you know, him having to depart from the Justice League movie in the first place. But he just seems like a real good guy. Um, did you work too? You know, if you're easy to work with, the studios like you and his movies make money, then maybe they don't care if they're not the most well reviewed. You know. He's also weirdly best friends with

Christopher Nolan. Oh really, they like really really close and like apparently Christopher. I think there's a family connection even like Christopher is married to his sister or like somebody who's he's related to. Um. But Christopher apparently told him don't watch the Justice League cut that. What's his face? Did? Um? Who's the the guy that did like Dido John Sweden? Yeah, he said don't watch it, just don't do it, um, because he apparently it just they took in a direction

that was not what he intended at all. But um, yeah, I'm with you, Chuck. I definitely enjoyed it for what it was. I like zombie tigers. That's pretty cool. Yeah. I wonder if if Zack Snyder ever calls up Christopher or maybe even text Christopher Nolan and says, hey, man, how do you make a good movie? Yeah? That's pretty poigny question. That'd be hard. Where do I? Where do I start? Zachary, where do I start? What have you

been watching the whole You got anything to stream? Well? Uh? Yeah, so I watched a movie on the plane, um, when I was coming back from from Seattle. Uh. And it's actually Christopher Nolan movie called tenant Um. So I have no idea what that movie is about. That's whatever I mean, really, and I tried, but but the thing that there were some things about it they were cool, But it's one of those things where there it's so cryptic and like esoteric and like the whole device of what the movie is,

what the plot driving. Like technology, you know, you always have to have some kind of like little little twisty like time travel only device or whatever it like. It like doesn't make sense to the point where you feel like you missed something and that you're like stupid, And that's not a good place to put your audience, John, you know what I mean. I think it was Sherry who used to work with in social media. I do too. I love Sherry. Hi, Sherry you if you listen to

the show. Um. She pointed out that it's like keeping your audience in the dark to this degree is like damaging to to to the way people are able to enjoy your movie. It's one thing if it's like Donnie Darko or maybe that doesn't quite all add up, But this one it was like none of it added up. It's like, why is everyone backwards? I don't understand. Is it like their doppelganger? I just don't get it, and I wanted to, and it was all so long. Um,

I'll watch it. Uh, I'll try and get it in before our next mini and maybe I can offer my perspective. I'd love to grab with you, Chuck, because I feel like you're gonna be roughly on the same page. But also, when you watch a movie on a plane, you're not really giving it your full You know it's full do so I will give it that, but you know, I still think I probably feel the same way. Yeah, that

seatback is not an ideal experience. All right, nol, you got anything else, Let's let's move on to number two. All right? Uh, Well that is it for us everyone, And I hope you had an enjoyable experience listening to this little episode, and hope everyone is doing great and are being their best selves and uh and healthy and happy and have a good week. You're gonna flood the

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