The Incomparable

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00:00:05 ◼   ► the incomparable podcast number 79 [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► februari 2012 [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► well [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► welcome one and all to the selection [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► meeting for the incomparable film [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► festival also known as the incomparable [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► favorite movies draft the premise here [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► is simple we are going to invent an [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► imaginary film festival featuring great [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► movies that don't have to be geeky [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► although many of them will be given who [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► is here each day of our imaginary film [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► festival will be hosted by one of the [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► members of the incomparable panel and [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► for that day they will be there to [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► introduce all five of the movies they [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► selected explain why they selected them [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► at we don't want to have duplication in [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► our film festival so once somebody takes [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► a movie during this election meeting it [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► will be taken off the board and [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► unavailable for everyone else which adds [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► a little competition to the proceedings [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► i am your host and a host of the [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► uncomfortable imaginary film festival [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► Jason Snell and joining me today are so [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► many members of the incomparable panel [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► I'm going to introduce them all in the [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► order of the random draft selection that [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► has going to determine how they pick in [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► the five rounds of our draft our first [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► pick the coveted first pic will go to [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► glen fleischmann hi Glenn who [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► hello thanks for having the random [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► number generator picked you [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► I'll of randomness yes randomness [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► working in your favor in entropy favors [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► me yes yes you you also speak randomness [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► sometimes so that fits 42 I actually [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► your number was 26 but it was good [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► enough of making second will be Scott [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► McNulty I Scott hello I'm happy to be [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► the commander Riker to glens Captain [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► Picard excellent holding down the [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► commander data spot then would be Steve [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► let's hi Steve in a time before the TV [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► movie draft one panelist said hello [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► you are that panelist that was me all [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► right that's what I fourth pic on our [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► movie draft will be John siracusa hi [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► John [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► I really helped muted right now you're [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► not you're not this is gonna be an [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► exciting podcast it is i can hear the [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► excitement in your voice too [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► it's making me excited with the fifth [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► pick in the in the draft will be dan [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► more'n hi dan we just like the Geordi [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► LaForge spot because that'd be pretty [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► awesome i would take that I've run out [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► of yes yes I'm sure that is the Geordi [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► LaForge right in the middle I'm right in [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► the middle just what i want to begin [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► with the sixth pick in the draft the [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► deanna troi spud sorry its serenity cold [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► haha i don't know how i feel about that [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► you could be dr. crusher she could be [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► wil wheaton yeah i-i-i struggle between [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► young wil wheaton and don't forget wharf [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► for Scotty in there somewhere there is [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► no honor in picking last anyway hello [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► and as um as the host I will go last [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► because it is my lot to clean up after [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► everybody on my so i will click i will [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► pick last [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► I so anyway the idea is we're creating a [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► virtual film festival I've asked [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► everybody to pick to make a list of [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► their favorite films it has to be more [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► than five because some of the films will [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► probably be sniped by their uh their [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► favorite or their fellow panelists now [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► who i have a1 reef rule before we begin [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► which is uh I want to clarify something [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► that came up earlier what makes a movie [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► I've decided I will make all all [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► judgments or me the question the [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► question came up what what what [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► comprises a movie with Star Wars be [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► considered one movie and answers no with [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► the Harry Potter movies be one moving no [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► that would be cheating and I won't allow [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► it with Lord of the Rings be considered [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► one movie i'm going to say yes if it's a [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► movie that really is one story it's [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► adapted from a single thing it's got the [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► same cast and it and it really sort of [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► shot together we'll call that one movie [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► but in the future and the future doesn't [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► count because it was a single the first [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► one is a sink two and three or after [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► three were shot yeah well if you want to [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► pick back to the future three [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► you got I may allow you have to have [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► asked for a judge's ruling [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► i'm also before we get started I'm going [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► to throw out some names of the movies [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► that our listeners suggested would be [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► their pics so some some just a little [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► foreshadowing of movies that we may [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► mention and others that we won't mr. [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► lorry said Star Wars The Empire Strikes [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► Back Lord of the Rings The Princess [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► Bride not big surprises there and [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► edition australian movie i believe [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► listener dan said blade runner Butch [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the shining [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► empire strikes back in the princess [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► bride those might go in the first round [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► let's see what else mr. David wonder [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► boys out of sight [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► bakit the wrath of khan it's there's a [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► little contrast and the thin man [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► interesting bladerunner other alien the [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► Buddy Holly story those from irving [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► Dennis said real genius real genius real [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► genius real genius and real genius sorry [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► Irving are sorry Dennis you can't pick [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► moving more than once sycophant [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► yeah it's really really sucking up uh [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► Wally the dark knight jaws came from [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► listener John who is not john siracusa [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► lots of empire strikes back [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► raise the Lost Ark and miss Caldwell [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► will be happy to know somebody suggested [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► serenity [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► yeah anyway so so she seems pleased [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► despite it's time it's time now or the [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► for us to fill out the slots for our [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► imaginary film festival that we're going [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► to not do because it's not real if [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► somebody who's right wants to run a film [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► festival would like to comment [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► contact us please use this material I i [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► suggest that you listen to the rest of [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► this podcast and then rethink things [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► already invoked Robert Redford foot he [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► might give us a call [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► it's possible now and yes I so with the [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► first pick in the incomparable film [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► draft i am going to turn it over to glen [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► fleischmann to make his pick and explain [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► a little bit about why why why Glenn to [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► your God why my favorite movie of all [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► time [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► my first pick wings of desire don't buy [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► them vendors inventors has made a lot of [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► different kinds of [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► films all of a certain type so they're [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► all different kinds all the same time [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► and then people have a lot of strong [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► feeling better because sometimes his [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► films do not hang together that well and [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► they seem like a lot of nonsense I've [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► heard that quite a bit and I'm not a big [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► fan of a lot of his other films and [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► wings of desire suicide explain the plot [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► in brief [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► yes idea well so we desire it's about [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► angels in Berlin and it sounds [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► incredibly trait of course because it's [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► angels Angela tray but it's presented in [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► the most it's the most beautifully shot [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► paying it's the most sensitive thing [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► there are times when there's so little [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► dialogue in it the conceit is that there [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► are two angels that are one of them [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► played first by the superb Brannigan's [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► just the door and I and others [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► autoresponder that's what's worse known [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► in this country than in Germany and the [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► two of them are angels and they're [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► talking to each other they're angels all [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► over and people can't see them but the [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► angels can provide some influence [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► people's lives but it's presented like [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► the gentlest way that encouragement [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► confusion there to sort of witness and [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► observe and not really get completely [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► involved [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► Peter Falk isn't it in a bizarre will [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► roll in which he seems the oldest see [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► and talk to the Angels a bit sort of [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► confusing and it's kind of a love story [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► to the angel falls in love with a human [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► this circus performer trapeze are [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► displayed by selvakumar khan who is a [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► and C really beautiful woman and it's I [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► don't know there's something about the [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► movie it's so quiet and gentle and [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► beautiful and it's just I think I saw it [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► I thought when I was young when after [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► came out and was sort of struck down by [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► I've seen it many times since and I you [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► know you have to bind the conceit I [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► think some people might find it very [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► very trite but they just they follow [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► different peoples very uh it's almost [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► picturesque in its ways that the stories [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► interlock and you see this old man who [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► is a poet and you hear him the angels [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► can hear people's thoughts and you hear [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► him reciting his promise the skin flower [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► through the whole thing is talking about [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► childhood and nature and just a lovely [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► film lovely for everybody who had that [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► the first pick in the draft with the [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► German you win the new enterprise if [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► this movie [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► sounds familiar we should say that this [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► was remade by Hollywood as city of [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► anything I was going to make a snarky [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► comment about how I liked it better when [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► they remade it with Nicholas case and [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► make a right on that day and that's [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► actually true [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► yeah it's one of the many facets of [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► films Nicolas Cage has been in it and [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► it's this year this year so say yes city [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► of angels now it's interesting there's [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► also a sequel vendors made a sequel to [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► wing design now come on now use in [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► German but you don't need Scott [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► subtitles [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► there's not a lot of dialogue that's [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► necessary to understand the movie this [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► sequel however are always loose which is [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► always so close you two songs so far [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► faraway so close it's just a terrible [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► terrible film it's it's it's [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► unbelievable that has anything to do [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► with the original incredibly try there's [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► some weird plot with like mafia and [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► things being blown up and children [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► kidnapped and people falling out of [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► buildings and it's got you know a great [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► great guests try again Peter Falk [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► playing a more significant role in it so [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► hard to believe it has anything to do [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► with this and city of angels that has [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► some good parts to it i like little bits [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► of it but I'm it's nicholas cage so you [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► gotta go back to the original witches [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► wings of desire desire all right I think [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► that's good at it that is as crazy as it [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► sounds that is a that is a beloved movie [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► so that's excellent good pic coming out [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► of left field [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► sounds terrible you when you describe [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► the plot it sounds terrible it's funny [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► yeah that's what you hear in german it's [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► because this I'll stuck in table [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► everything is beautiful in German [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► language of love it is Scott McNulty [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► you're up for my first pick [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► I'm going to pick star trek 2009 exactly [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► i think that's my favorite movie it is [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► my favorite star trek movie and I knew [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► it might go so i had to pick it as soon [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► as possible so i would pick it up [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► so exactly I i pondered picking real [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► genius but I thought that would be mean [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► since I don't actually like real changes [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► behind you have to stand up on your day [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► of our film festival and introduce it [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► which would be terrible it would be [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► terrible because everything I saw half [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► of it once and there's some popcorn in [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► you can throw tomatoes at you if you did [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► thats a star trek to its true but it's [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► not affecting back to my actual choice [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► star trek to is possibly the best Star [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► Trek film ever made [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► there are many of them for those [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► unfamiliar with the plot do i need to [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► summarize the plot [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► I'm not sure it's called the wrath of [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► khan because a favorite villain played [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► by ricardo montalban from the original [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► series is called back into action in [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► this a cinematic masterpiece in which it [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► starts with check off on the US and [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► watch it doesn't it starts with AA one [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► of the many issues and there are so many [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► good things about this movie one of the [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► many things first at the beginning right [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► Christy how it it's true one of the good [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► things and ask so when star trek to came [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► out there was a rumor that Spock would [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► die in it and spoiler alert he does yes [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► lots of your time the film producers [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► thought it would they didn't want [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► everyone to be waiting the entire movie [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► for Spock to die so they created the [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► first scene in the movie I which takes [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► place in a simulator and christianity's [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► character is going through this this [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► test that all Starfleet ah officers have [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► to go through when they're in the [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► Academy is a scenario called the [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► Kobayashi Maru where you are the captain [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► of a simulated Starfleet starship and [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► you are faced with an unwinnable task of [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► rescuing people off of this traitor ship [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► that is deep in the neutral zone and [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► there are Klingons coming in you know [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► you can't win [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► that's the whole point of it and so you [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► don't know that says you're watching it [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► for the first time and if you've never [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► seen it i have completely ruin the [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► dramatic the drama for you but so [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► there's a bunch of similar things and [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► spark dies in the simulation as everyone [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► else and then you think oh my god sparks [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► dead and then you find out Cup captain [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► kirk comes in is like a look as a [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► simulation-based it [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► I'm site summarizing exactly and then I [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► just like that Kirk it's true and this [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► Kobayashi Maru enters star trek lower [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► because I Kirk is the only person who's [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► ever defeated the Kobayashi Maru and he [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► did it by course cheating [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► that is one of the men i can just go on [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► and harmonica bonacic on is a fantastic [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► villain exactly and you [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► another trivia fact William Shatner [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► Ricardo Montalban though they are leads [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► in the movie and they play opposite each [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► other they never actually met during the [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► filming [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► they never have a scene together and yet [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► the relationship between the two you can [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► feel the hate when they have seen the [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► tune of seams together but they're on [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► View screens and things so very actually [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► never physically present together never [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► physically present that is true [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► through the magic of a 23rd century [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► whatever [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► yeah remember technology job technology [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► there you go [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► so that's that in fact my favorably and [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► when I found out that the they released [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► the star trek movies on blu-ray and so i [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► bought the blu-ray collection and i [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► realized i do not have a blu-ray player [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► so that i bought a blu ray player so [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► that I could watch star trek to huh [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► thats i have that blu-ray to that's a [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► great pic that was on my list that was [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► high on my list got I win you win the [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► random number generator gives that is [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► that movie you one of my favorite quotes [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► is that you check off goes and he finds [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► that the body bay and he meets calm and [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► he's like this today we look we left you [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► on City al5 that he says this is such a [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► five bedroom anyway I'm done [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► yes his checkup also says doesn't have [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► to be completely life loss but he says [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► lifelessly Steve you can't pick star [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► trek to your wings of desire but [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► otherwise the borders open of all film [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► history and and you can choose anything [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► else [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► so what do you too Steve so I I suspect [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► I'm fortunate in that based on past pod [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► guess I doubt that my list intersects [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► too much with the others on this podcast [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► or picking the he-man movie aren't you [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► what does the movie yes 45 p man a man [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► he man yeah he master universe from [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► Mario's other movies and he-man yeah [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► there was a movie masters of the [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► universe indeed there was no hot bread [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► and with more so like that we make with [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► Steve's day of the film festival I'm [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► like I'm like the monday after everybody [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► else is built the hangover besides the [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► bedroom closet somewhere with two or [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► three folding chairs right the be [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► strapped Bob on third straight you can [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► go to be theater and two speeds [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► but there are a couple on my list that I [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► thought perhaps somebody else might have [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► picked so I'm gonna this is not my [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► favorite strategy it is good yes i love [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► the draft strategy yes you know i'm all [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► about strategy man i know you want to [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► win so my first pick is ridley scott's [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► 1979 or sci-fi hybrid alien which is a [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► terrific film for a lot of reasons and [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► the the basic plot is there's a crew of [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► what are basically glorified tow truck [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► drivers [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► I'm pulling a whole bunch of or in a [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► gigantic spaceship and they're on their [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► way back to earth from whatever mission [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► they were on and they're woken up early [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► from their cryo sleep and told to go [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► investigate a distress signal coming [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► from some remote planet and it turns out [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► not to have been a distress signal but a [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► warning and they run across an alien [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► life-form that precedes to then dispatch [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► them in a variety of entertaining and [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► plenty ways but it's great film for a [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► lot of reasons it's it's you get your [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► groundbreaking sci-fi for groundbreaking [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► for the time and this was nineteen [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► seventy-nine just two years after Star [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► Wars and his take on life in the in the [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► vacuum of space couldn't be more [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► different fact I think well what's [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► similar about it is they're both they're [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► both kind of scuff scuffed up and dirty [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► and messy right well i would say that [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► the star wars isn't anywhere near as [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► scuffed up and dirty as alien in fact [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► now this just in general their policy [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► direction the Millennium Falcon steering [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► wheel and there's a little drinking [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► roosters on the table in alien too so [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► you know maybe there's the intersection [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► but it's you know it's just kind of a [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► much darker tarea on on space then and [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► for obvious reasons because this is [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► basically a horror movie with sci-fi [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► elements [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► I you know that the corridors are ugly [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► and industrial and and not terribly [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► clean you know get a whole lot of the [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► sort of bright and shiny [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► you know princess Leia's ship kind of [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► corridors and instead of princesses and [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► you know vaguely girlie dude with [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► light-up sorts but we have basically a [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► handful of pissed-off blue-collar [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► schlubs who are you spend most of their [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► time bickering about bonus pay and I i [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► think part of the reason that I've never [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► been all that in a murder of star wars [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► with this this felt to me in 1979 more [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► like what space was really all about you [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► know not it's not happy swashbuckling [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► fun time but more drifting through great [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► expanses of nothing in a cramped in can [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► occasionally being set upon by some [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► insect avoid killing machine but at any [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► rate I tell ya that [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► yeah that's fun that's fun for the whole [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► family and in fact i did see this when I [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► was eight so you know well but at any [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► rate [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► yeah at the time the the scene everybody [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► was talking about and and the takeaway [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► from the movie was the classic spoiler [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► horn chestburster scene but that alone [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► obviously wouldn't granted at the [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► staying power that it's enjoyed uh [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► there's there's a lot to love about the [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► movie there's a great casting of a bunch [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► of really relative unknowns with the [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► sigourney weaver and her first role i [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► believe tom skerritt Yaphet Kotto Harry [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► Dean Stanton and Indian home is just [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► fabulous in this film he's unbelievably [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► good as the hidden android ash got a [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► terrific script from dan o'bannon which [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► does a great job of fleshing out the [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► characters so that you know by the time [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► that the first hour we're really not a [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► whole heck of a lot happens by the time [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► that our is done we really don't want to [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► see everybody died horribly but then [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► they do there's a very cool Jerry [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► Goldsmith score that kind of alternates [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► between this a very pretty sort of space [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► you know flying through space music and [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► then just very tense menace and then of [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► course the the great design by HR is a [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► cougar [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► I don't know I've never know how to [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► pronounce a tiger [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► it's got your she gave in to his I've [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► been to a museum [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► it's in greer in Switzerland the same [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► place they make the cheese must be [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► deletions his his designs of the [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► derelict spaceship and the aliens are [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► just fantastic and that the fact that [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► they realize that in the way that they [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► did is pretty pretty and pretty [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► impressive especially for 1979 so and of [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► course ridley scott's direction is very [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► very good to really kind of ramps up the [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► tension in a nice slow burn [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► I so I yea alright lot to love about [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► alien and not there's a chance that [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► maybe somebody else would pick it so [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► there is itself the board anybody have a [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► lien on the west [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► oh no dammit dammit my strategy was [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► always to pick no it's a good pic that's [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► a great pic I thought about alien and [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► free to pick masters of the universe [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► yeah you're gonna do it fast do it fast [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► but first John siracusa wings of desire [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► star trek to alien off the board i know [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► you had those so you're going to have to [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► just go to your backup pics then I so [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► sorry [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► the rest of the crew here but a draft [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► strategy prevails and I must pick even [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► though this is not my number one [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► all-time favorite movie and in fact all [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► these movies that I've selected or not [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► in any particular order because i have a [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► real hard time nailing down like number [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► one number two is just kind of soup near [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► the top but this is definitely in the [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► suit pants the clarifying power of the [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► draft format where your guests get some [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► other strategy involved and I am [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► compelled to pick the empire strikes [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► back [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► I hate you forever [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► that's impossible [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► do not want to see I don't feel that bad [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► about picking it because I that you know [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► what we all know the dan loves this [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► movie and its all-time favorite movie or [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► whatever and then ran loves the movie as [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► well but we had a three-hour two-part [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► podcast about the empire strikes back so [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► really it's not as if they they have [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► something inside them they need to get [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► out about Empire Strikes Back that [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► somehow now going to be bottled up [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► because I get to talk about it and they [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► don't you know I always have something [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► about the empire strikes back guys three [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► more hours easy i think that i sat in a [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► dark figure [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► darth vader figure when I was a kid so I [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► do too well i mean i actually have [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► trouble thinking of anything in [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► particular I want to add to the three [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► hours of stuff that we said if we were [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► to discuss it again [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► as an ensemble i'm sure we could [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► continue to talk about it but really [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► just you know wrapping it up i guess the [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► the larger comment i have on Empire is [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► that the reason i think it is so high [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► and all of our list has a lot to do with [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► the place Star Wars has in our life that [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► you know I'm not just this one [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► particular with all three movies [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► together and you know the age we are [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► when they came out or it is a lot of [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► emotional attachment to the idea of Star [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► Wars and as all thinking people agree [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► this is the best Star Wars movie and [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► likewise Star Wars is the best [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► space-faring science-fiction action [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► adventure franchise and all men t so [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► therefore this must clearly be the top [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► of the very top and really when I think [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► about the Star Wars movies i see Empire [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► poking its head up above kind of the sea [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► of not disposable entertainment but just [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► like entertainment for entertainment [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► sake and occasionally it pokes Ted up [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► through into that other part of the [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► other movies that i have on my list here [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► of like the serious dramatic film and [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► yes is that you know it's not a serious [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► dramatic forms got people with laser [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► swords and spaceships and cookies and [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► all that stuff but it has all the [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► elements that are playing up regular [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► oscar nominated Best Picture period [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► piece you know romance whatever all [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► these series jon was a movies that get [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► taken seriously in by critics and and by [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► the awards think the Empire has all [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► those pieces great script great acting [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► great dialogue that suspense gotta it's [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► got good action it's got a dramatic turn [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► of events you know i mean if you think [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► about the dramatic things that happened [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► the empire strikes back [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► you could put you know that the whole [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► thing I am your father you could put [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► that and then in the some sort of [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► historical drama and it would fit fine [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► to it just so happens that was right [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► after a lightsaber fight and the whole [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► video to business you see a lot of that [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► with the you see that the schlocky [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► version of that in the movies where [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► someone's training under some karate [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► master or whatever but you see that same [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► phenomenon in other movies like this [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► thing or whatever we're at the sting of [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► the color of monies are against my hip [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► hop on and stuff mixed up where you have [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► a young person training under an old [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► master all those elements are there and [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► I think [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► serious film people don't see them as [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► much because it's got wookies and c-3po [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► and r2d2 and stuff like that but i think [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► this movie clearly is head and shoulders [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► above all the other Star Wars movies [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► someone recognizes rubbing his temples [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► hand since the great disturbance true [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► it's true hehe threatened us on Twitter [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► and said whoever picks Empire before [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► Star Wars there but notice no one was [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► clamoring to pick flowers by the way [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► know before Empire came along they were [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► too busy picking their you know valken [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► movies yeah I was an alienation Empire [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► Strikes Back just really has it is way [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► ahead of the crowd other than the two [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► other sci-fi movies picked in front of [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► it including one from Star Trek so there [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► ya star trek wins [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► yeah again it is anyone by the way is [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► there anyone here who seriously thinks [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► that the wrath of khan is a better movie [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► in the Empire Strikes Back yummy i do ya [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► obese people are you are the entire [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► strikes back i like i love but the the [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► whole even Dagobah section is incredibly [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► hard at the heart of the movie mean I [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► think it is so boring I I you know it's [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► just not good it's good it's good that [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► Scott will have that for two for his day [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► and the John will have the empire [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► strikes back for his day and and they'll [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► be banned from each other's days and [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► cannot tackle from the back straight [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► I'm just saying if you compare you know [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► Yoda the puppet to you know Walter [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► colleagues Russian accent one of those [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► two is clearly more real than the other [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► yes yoda is a real puppet don't forget [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► about Ricardo Montalban chestplate think [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► there will be less bloody riot if we [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► separate those days by a couple of days [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► no one ever says Wetzel that's all I'm [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► saying that Yoda has been replaced with [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► a CG audio yet [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► yeah the cgi check off though we don't [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► hatch my films all right moving on and [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► thank you John for getting that out [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► there and and that leaves dan moore and [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► heartbroken because I'm sure that's what [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► he was going to pick I don't know you [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► will turn around and pick someone's [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► right i would that red and i'll of [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► course yes of course I well you can [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► probably guess what it is i actually [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► typed for John and now i have to type it [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► for you and still just paste it into my [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► little list from my clipboard because [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► it's gonna be raised the last dark right [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► indeed it is [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► oh yeah I have to play the draft game [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► kind of got ya like John here was gonna [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► beg like what as we had with John it's [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► probably not my top pick but it's [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► definitely in the top five and again as [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► with Empire without an entire extremely [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► lengthy podcast discussing all the [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► wonderful things about Raiders and and [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► well and then again it's very similar to [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► empire in many ways and not just because [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► you know there is some involvement of [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► what we like to call George Lucas's good [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► period but also you know it same part of [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► a franchise and it's definitely head and [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► shoulders above the other films in that [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► franchise though there are very [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► excellent redeeming moments to Temple of [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► Doom and last crusade which also you [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► know something i could consider picking [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► but if you know Raiders obviously [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► Trump's Last Crusade even and so I think [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► we've discussed at length what makes [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► this this film good and part of it for [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► me is just that as a vision [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► it's totally consistent it'sit's the [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► tone is even throughout for me it looks [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► perfectly seamless there's very little [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► that I look at it and say like yeah that [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► looks faker I don't buy that or [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► something like that there's there's just [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► a sort of unity of vision in this movie [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► that I really appreciate you never you [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► never sort of pop out of the filament [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► and and think oh I'm watching a film [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► you're just you're utterly engrossing [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► and it'sit's as such one of the finest [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► pieces of entertainment crafted on film [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► a friend of mine just watch this movie [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► with her kids first time her kids had [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► seen it and I and what what she was [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► commenting on which I really agree with [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► is it doesn't feel dated in a way that a [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► lot of movies from the early eighties [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► feel dated because right it is in this [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► class it's not too serious it's a period [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► film to write in its it said in the [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► outset in the thirties and so as such AI [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► Parkins much more back to the serials of [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► the thirties which of course was this [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► the the thing that Lucas and Spielberg [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► we're shooting for much as with Star [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► Wars it's funny idea i came to this [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► movie kind of late I actually saw last [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► crusade first and I thought Raiders on [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► the gas operators until I was in high [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► school and yet you know it quickly [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► became one of my favorites and so I [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► think there is it's hard to pin down [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► exactly what makes it so indelible in [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► that way [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► other than you know obviously everything [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► technical about it is superb from the [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► score to the you know cinematography [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► there's a great you know a great hero [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► I don't know and for me a lot of it [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► comes down to a great movie for me is [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► not just whether I sort of remember it [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► and think about it when I walk out of [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► the the film but I i'm such a sucker for [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► great dialogue and quotable lines and [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► that's one thing Raiders really has in [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► spades is just it's just full of great [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► lines and the other day actually i was [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► showing Jason a as part of a one minute [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► film conference contest for Empire [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► Magazine someone submitted raiders of [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► the lost ark done in the style of oj the [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► belgian artist studio who drew Tintin [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► and it's a brilliant little one minute [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► piece of animation that somehow manages [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► to do a wonderful job something up the [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► entire movie in just 60 seconds and yet [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► it's still dark and it's still remind [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► you of everything that you love about [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► that movie haha yep and then I said you [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► could warn them for new spoke hovitos [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► great grilled and this was number one on [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► my list so a good job [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► you stepped away from me and as I [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► expected check it off on my list even as [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► I had a cross out empire strikes back [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► alright you got raiders of the lost ark [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► maybe get Spielberg to come and talk a [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► little day of your little film festival [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► he's not really doing anything right i [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► mean he made three he made three Indiana [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► Jones movie and then retired that [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► summertime pretty much it [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► he is documenting the holocaust that [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► support more thanks trio its trees [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► documenting the Holocaust and making [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► movies where the Nazis are cartoon [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► villains it's a strange life [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► steven spielberg all right serenity [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► Caldwell Europe no Empire no Raiders go [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► ahead of paranoia raters surprisingly i [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► actually did not put those on my drown [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► you just do they're gonna go well [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► because i was pretty much convinced that [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► if dan didn't get Empire john wood and [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► then once I saw the draft order i was [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► sure that John was going to get Empire [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► and that left and with Raiders which [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► meant that if i wanted to nominate [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► anything i have to nominate one of the [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► other Star Wars movies or one of the [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► other Indiana Jones movies and neither [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► of those [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► neither of the other ones really fit my [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► top ten guys are so predictable eating [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► right now [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► yeah barycentric either Greg to leave it [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► all the image so instead i kind of i [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► went with the other movie that I watched [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► incessantly as a child which is Joe [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► Johnston's the rocket team [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► yeah yeah which I which I love dearly it [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► is it is the movie that when I am sick [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► or when I am just feeling down that I [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► just put on in the background and i've [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► i've watched it in whole and in parts [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► more times than I can count [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► it's set it's beautiful because it's [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► again it's a period piece done in the [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► style of 30 cereals it's fun [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► it has excellent which I know Jason also [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► jennifer connelly but you haven't [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► Connolly yes the-the-the a slight [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► enjoyable common slightly more than [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► someone's gonna have to admit I love my [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► Billy Campbell yes and there's something [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► for everyone isn't it up with enthusiasm [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► it's alan alan arkin enthusiasts yep [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► Dalton is always that German accent [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► busiest huh all there in the market [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► you're serious and and even people who [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► want their lost fixation can go back to [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► rock the rocketeer and get a little bit [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► of terry o'quinn recording so i mean as [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► Howard Hughes need a mustache use of the [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► mustache of all tell him how are you [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► said so anyway it's a it's a great film [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► it was complete under-represented when [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► it first came out which made me sad but [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► uh but it was that like it was one of [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► those films that I just I had the VCR [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► the VHS of and just wore the VHS down so [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► much that i believe we ended up copying [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► it to beta and then continue to watch on [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► beta it's and also it's in my hometown [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► of Los Angeles so there there are lots [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► of real landmarks and lots of fake [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► landmarks i don't know this is its it is [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► a movie near and dear to my heart and I [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► i'm having trouble talking about it [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► because it's it's just one of those [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► things that's there that makes sense [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► it's always been there i particularly [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► like the destruction of the land part of [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► the authentic Hollywoodland signed yeah [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► nice touch [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► I like the initial test run where [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► they're sort of [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► gleefully hey sure it's a rocket tied to [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► a guy let's try it out [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► oh jeez I almost died and now there goes [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► the jetpack it's it's a nice it's nice [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► more like they're not very bright are [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► they [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► and then they get what's coming to him [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► yeah i love the quote after that we like [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► yeah we were gonna need a lawyer is like [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► no we're going to need a helmet that [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► it's good stuff the rocket here and [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► that's over [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► alright it's my turn now as the as the [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► host I have to last in the first round [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► and then we will go wrap right back [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► around to glen so I'm not gonna not [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► gonna make two pics i'm just going to [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► make one and looking at what's left [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► after my board has been decimated by the [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► pics earlier in this round i am going to [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► pick another movie we did an entire [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► podcast about the beloved Rob Reiner [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► film The Princess Bride [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► that is my selection one of my favorite [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► movies one of the most quotable movies [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► of all time [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► a delightful comedy that a that not only [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► having a great casting and it being so [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► quotable sending up the entire fairytale [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► genre while at the same time also [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► celebrating it i have i have more than [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► one rob reiner movie on my list i am [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► shocking shockingly but i'm at toward [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► the top at North haha yes north is right [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► there a few good men north yep I'm note [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► that the princess bride a classic I [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► can't believe it's still there [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► it was actually number two on my list of [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► potential pics so you know what can you [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► say that about me not picking the [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► princess bride would be inconceivable [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► without meat head would be such an [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► influence in your life who knew meathead [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► I know [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► alright princess princess bride anybody [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► is this is the silence just shocked and [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► in people being a palter you know [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► process where is on my ok but it's lower [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► down right API guys in the top like [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► 10-15 I pulled I pulled around on that [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► didn't put it down folder and we get [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► snapped out who [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► yeah its use that to me making a tiny [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► little mistake [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► no that's that's doing good strategy so [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► i gotta the second movie to feature [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► Peter Falk yes Peter Farrakhan i'm not [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► going to be a Colombo podcasts just [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► collectible film festival also i'm [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► willing to wager if anyone like to take [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► my bet it will also be the last movie [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► which completes her fearful and I don't [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► have anything to do with our combo movie [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► not only delayed for TV movies where is [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► that Star Trek movie with peter falk as [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► a Klingon so besides that's really far [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► eight days [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► all right now that ends the first round [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► we had wings of desire structure to [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► alien Empire Strikes Back raiders of the [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► lost ark the rocket here and the [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► princess bride [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► what can I go to the score collection [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► that's right let's get this car is in [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► the lead with five points is Glenn [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► fleischmann he got the deal are [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► mysterious and rarely rarely used [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► foreign language film bones who [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► everybody else tied with one so when [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► what is your second selection [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► alright i pick up Blade Runner which I [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► suspect that many people online little [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► gun in the second film [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► yes so I mean I've seen I think every [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► version of Blade Runner and notions [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► every version is the one that's the [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► director's cut but i think really Scott [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► toured with that had some stuff restored [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► before they do the full directors cut [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► and so I've seen several I think I've [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► seen at least three or four different [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► versions of this movie and the last one [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► I saw was the fully restored car was [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► shown at the cinerama the restored [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► cinema theatre in seattle in it's just [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► it's a it was a good movie with the [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► voice-over it wasn't great [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► there are lots of laws lots of [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► difficulties as it got sort of brought [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► back closer and closer to the original [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► vision have to say the sort of ultimate [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► version that's out there is fantastic [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► without the voiceover it's a quiet film [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► it's creepy it's got all the new are [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► there and there's anticipation it's [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► harder to protect it seems more surreal [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► and strange and and the same time [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► possible so i'll say also a blade runner [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► but that particular version as I don't [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► think every version the movie holds up [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► as well as the one in which there is no [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► Harrison Ford telling us everything as [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► it happens I think that's the one that's [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► available for theatrical display at our [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► film festival to directors that cut [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► that's a good choice i figured that one [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► might go [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► my wife is not i tried to show that [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► movie two or three times just fall [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► asleep all three times [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► who else ya got it's all there was it's [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► a little sleep inducing even if its good [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► radio [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► oh well it's me yeah you can like where [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► you can sit in the back of the theater [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► and throw things and blend well he said [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► the book was better our supposed to go [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► purchase that's the correct adventure [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► game you know I think my problem with [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► blade runner's that I saw it for the [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► first time for a psychology class in [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► college boy computacion yeah that's [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► really the best way to see any movies [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► it's true [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► yes it was a it was a psychology class [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► on memory and ever since then I've just [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► been completely uninterested in what you [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► did remember it time to die [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► time travelers are immune to the charms [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► of blade runner it's a great atmosphere [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► film i just i find it impenetrable as an [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► area around breaking in its visuals and [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► sound track is really interesting the [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► Angelus soundtrack we have how many [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► people saw it without the narration that [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► without hurting for i started the only [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► version I've actually seen is the second [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► i guess the director's cut that doesn't [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► the first directors can I don't know I [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► know there's a lot of middle part one [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► that doesn't have it does not have a [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► voiceover yeah but it's not the final [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► cut the entry in wikipedia is ridiculous [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► for Blade Runner because it explains in [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► unbelievable detail as only wikipedia [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► can how many different kinds served in [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► but it's still that's a that's a [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► perfectly legitimate selection and [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► nobody will be you other than maybe Dan [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► yeah I've done all right excellent we'll [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► move on to scott who already has [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► slaughtered star trek to on his five [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► film festival day what's your second [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► selection Scott well the only way you [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► can follow up star trek to other than [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► star trek 3 which is that what i will [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► not do 6236 we got Scott space that's [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► you killed my son directory structure 3 [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► is with the Carr brothers really i love [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► the Coen brothers I i was just wondering [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► if we were going to get a coen brothers [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► with at least great i have one on my [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► list probably enough [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► you probably don't have this one but [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► maybe you do i love the movie that [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► nearly cost them their careers because [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► it performed so poorly the hudsucker [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► proxy you know for kids [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► exactly that's a good movie i adore that [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► film is too [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► fantastic movie it has bruce campbell [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► and for the people who like bruce [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► campbell it stars tim robbins as a [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► immediate basically who has an idea and [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► he wants to be big in business so he [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► goes to hudsucker industries a little [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► does he know that the the CEO and [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► chairman founder of hudsucker industries [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► a recently hurled himself out of the [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► window from during a board meeting and [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► dies from the 44th 45th counting the [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► mezzanine floor i add it's just it's [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► it's it's a screwball kind of movie that [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► is funny [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► it really is doesn't make much sense but [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► that's alright [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► it has a lot of great lines it has a lot [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► of interesting characters and apparently [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► nobody wanted to see it in the movie [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► theater shame it's a shame but also has [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► Paul Newman that's a good that's a great [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► movie yeah I will not I will not yell [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► leave it just hula-hoops who straws [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► ya know what's good that's being top 50 [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► alright we're going to my top 7500 was [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► going to say I actually forgot [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► completely about the Coen brothers [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► somehow while coming up with my I [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► thought about them I thought I like all [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► the movies and I'm not sure any of the [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► movies I like enough to put it in my top [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► 20 but I like I would have started [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► raising arizona up there isn't [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► yeah when Cohen brothers it's in my top [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► 10 alright well we'll get to that [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► perhaps maybe if it's not the hudsucker [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► proxy you're wrong haha [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► Steve once you have a and on the board [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► what is that yes having wasted that pic [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► i will proceed to waste my second pick [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► excellent uh it's anthony from no well [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► yeah well never mind about that was a [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► great picture was alright mom so I [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► picked this one is in fact my favorite [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► film I think comedy in general doesn't [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► get a fair shake when it comes to people [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► i commit with all-time best lists [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► yeah you see your american film [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► institute lists and and any other list [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► that you might come across about you [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► know the greatest films of all time you [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► almost never see a comedy that's been [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► made in the last half century i have 3 [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► m3 in my top 10 for what it's worth four [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► yeah we're in my top 10 yeah and it [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► seems wholly unfair considering that [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► it's generally accepted that comedy is [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► much much harder to pull off and then [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► drama that's said picking a comedy is [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► going to be really divisive I suspect [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► since humor so subjective but this is [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► actually the funniest movie ever made [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► objectively and that is a that is [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► Caddyshack wow oh yeah people do love [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► the caddyshack Caddyshack is fantastic [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► said features for the funniest comedians [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► of all time all with very different [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► styles and at the height of their powers [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► individually they're great but then see [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► you get to see them interact in various [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► groupings are throughout the course of [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► the film and it's just sheer joy I had [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► to pick a favorite i probably go with [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► the the incomparable Ted Knight who's [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► his his facial expressions throughout [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► the film is sort of slow burn just just [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► absolutely slaves me and he's fantastic [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► in that Eminem another eminently [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► quotable film maybe too much so you can [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► hardly avoid Caddyshack quotes if you're [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► around people that liked the film but it [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► is a great way to identify kindred [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► spirits if you know if you have to be at [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► a baseball game and an opposing [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► fielder's going out for an easy pop-up [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► and you shout out Noonan that the six [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► people who turn around and laugh because [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► of those are the guys you want to have a [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► beer with sake beer sent to them [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► immediately that point but yeah I mean [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► it's said that the thing that I love so [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► much about Caddyshack really most [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► importantly is is when I sit down and [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► watch a movie once in awhile i want [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► something that's kind of more [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► thought-provoking but most of the time [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► you know i just spent all day thinking I [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► just want to have some fun and this this [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► film is just pure fun [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► I mean there's a there is an overarching [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► plot line but it really barely intrude [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► into the film and then there's there's [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► just something i think really very [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► soothing about the country club is a [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► setting it gets kinda like being at [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► disneyland you know that the real world [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► can't intrude here and you know it's [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► just it just has this real nice vibe to [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► it and then the cast of course looks [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► like they're having a ball [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► i have read the book of Caddyshack which [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► suggests that in fact they were maybe [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► having a bit too much of a baja but but [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► it is a very definitely I think one of [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► the funniest movies of all time and it [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► is my favorite film it and like so many [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► great films you know it's it's something [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► that can be appreciated by kids of all [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► ages you know you fight for the youngins [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► you've got the the dancing gopher [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► yep and you know kids maybe a little bit [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► older I enjoy the the classic one of the [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► all-time greatest poop jokes the baby [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► ruth in the pool scene and then you know [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► teenagers and and stunted adults like me [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► uhhh let's see Cindy Morgan's boobs so [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► thumbs-up to Caddyshack comes up that's [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► right I've never actually seen [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► Caddyshack well you're gonna have to go [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► to steve's day of the film festival then [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► we will move on to John siracusa John [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► what's your next pick you have the [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► empire strikes back already in your back [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► pocket so you're you're living large you [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► could do anything now I'm thinking that [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► most of my pics are safe and so far [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► predicted correctly they're not known as [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► picking my stuff and not because they're [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► obscure but because you're all giant I [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► John's i suspect that you and I have [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► some pics and common on our Chelsea's my [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► second paper going to stop me but go [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► ahead is Francis Ford Coppola 1972 [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► masterpiece The Godfather that was on my [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► left I'm just saying yeah we add is that [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► that's not a surprising Pikmin great [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► film list i don't think so this is kind [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► of the genre-defining gangster movie and [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► a lot of times when you're having John [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► redefining movie as perhaps then can [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► attest it's looked upon with great [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► reverence because it influences all the [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► movies that came after it or two in [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► technology problems we want to talk [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► about you know how all of a sudden all [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► the laptop show the keyboard up towards [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► the screen and put a touchpad in front [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► of them are all of a sudden all the [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► phones were just a big giant screen [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► right and after blade runner all the [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► sci-fi movies were dark ingredients like [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► that but uh in the case of non apple [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► examples they will they will say that [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► you all right so not really about [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► examples [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► yeah that define know what they say like [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► you know played around to find the genre [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► but it wasn't that great of a movie and [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► you know it's always looked upon with [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► reference because it it changed the way [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► things were done that you know and so it [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► gets it gets extra boost for being like [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► the first one and like the one that [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► everyone else walks in its footsteps in [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► the case of the Godfather i'll argue [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► that not only was it the first John [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► redefining big Hollywood gangster movie [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► it remains the best which is very [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► strange were usually the first one has [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► some problems and kinda gives a theme [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► and then people sort of riff on that and [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► get better if you go back and watch the [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► godfather first it is a movie of its [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► time it looks like a movie shot in the [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► seventies [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► I you know I can close my eyes and see [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► the film grain I think that's true of a [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► lot of movies and seventies you think of [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► taxi driver or you know any of those [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► movies in that that era they look like [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► 70 movies n and this also looks like a [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► 70s movie but it's not you know it's set [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► in and as an earlier era I but it's [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► surprisingly modern in its sensibilities [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► you know what i mean and the [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► infrastructure of the movie it's got [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► it's got good bones kinda like when I [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► say house has good bones [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► this is a solid movie under there but it [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► laid on top of it is this sort of [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► deliberate seventies movie pacing like [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► this is a long movie I had to look up [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► how long it wasn't like what this must [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► be over to our think it's close to three [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► hours it's an extremely long movie the [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► type of movie where you can imagine they [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► put up a big title card says [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► intermission everyone gets up to stretch [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► their legs for a little bit it is you [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► know it defines an epic movie I that but [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► the Ark of the movie is just a solid [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► underneath there and they say we've got [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► a story to tell it has a beginning it [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► has middle has an end and we're going to [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► tell it and they just let it unfold and [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► you're just wrapped the entire time it [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► has some of the great individual scenes [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► of any movie ever [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► great actors the script is tight the the [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► parts in there that are special effects [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► mostly just blood and violence stuff [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► like that don't look okie even after all [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► these years for the CG and everything [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► maybe one or two punches that James Caan [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► fails to land on the street to hit it [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► one beating up his a his sister's [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► husband that's about the worst thing you [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► can say about this movie that I maybe [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► they would have you know we shot that [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► fixed it to make it look actually hit [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► him but other than that you know it is [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► beyond reproach and in fact I would say [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► all the gangster movies that have come [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► out of it after it with two possible [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► exceptions which you may hear about [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► later [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► uh [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► have failed to live up to the standards [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► set by the Codfather failed in many many [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► ways they they didn't recognize what was [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► important about the Godfather you see [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► lots of movies like it's kind of like [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► the and the chest / seen an alien that's [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► that's you know that the thing that we [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► remember in pop culture well you [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► remember the horse's head in the bed [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► from the Godfather that's not what this [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► movie was about and like if that's what [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► you came away with aegyo just that [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► horse's head in the bed did you see that [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► thing burst out of his chest [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► I was a chest burster is more important [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► daily and then the Horsehead was to the [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► God products not putting on Father's [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► about I think about i think about [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► Michael getting the the gun out of the [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► toilet and then dropping the gun and [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► walking away i mean that's that's the [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► scene that i always think of when I [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► think the Godfather with a broken jaw [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► and he's just sitting there in the train [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► noise in the background getting a lot of [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► Yakima I could do a very long podcast [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► about the godfather and I may do that [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► yeah that would be good [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► and yet and yet when when you did a [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► podcast about a gangster movie wasn't [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► the Codfather which I find perhaps you [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► will be seeing that movie again perhaps [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► on someone's list [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► perhaps it's quite it's i know for a [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► fact it's on someone's list so we'll see [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► alright that's a great pic that is a [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► classic that is one of the all-time [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► greats the Godfather I will point out [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► the godfather part two is still [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► available if somebody else would like [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► that also part three is available i just [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► got if you're interested in everybody [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► right Dan Morgan yep your pictures Lost [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► Ark what's next [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► I did so my my second pic was actually [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► mentioned already by one of our [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► listeners I'm gonna pick the classic [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► George Roy hill 1969 film Butch Cassidy [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► and the Sundance Kid [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► whoo-hoo excellent movie that's just [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► weird being horrible reason how much I [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► like mobile movies i mean this this [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► movie opens with quotable lines you know [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► butch Cassidy's and what happened to the [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► old bank it was beautiful [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► the guy says people get robbing it says [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► small price to pay for beauty [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► the whole thing just from start to [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► finish it's kind of a lovely meandering [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► little tail and I was just looking at [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► the the synopsis on IMDb which i think [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► is a hilarious synopsis because it says [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► it's like two lines and it says that to [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► western bank / train robbers flee to [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► Bolivia when the law gets too close and [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► like I don't know if that's really [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► encapsulate the entire [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► i removed friend guess it's kind of a [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► plot but it takes a long time to get [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► there of some of my favorite scenes in [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► this movie I think one of the tops is [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► Butch and Sundance having been followed [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► over vast swaths of the open desert by [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► these mysterious guys who are these guys [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► find themselves in an attempt to lose [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► them find themselves on top of a cliff [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► above a river and they're arguing you [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► know about who should jump first and [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► finally sundance confesses I can't swim [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► and put just looks at amigos the fall [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► kill ya i don't know i love this movie [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► removing a bachelor it's a fantastic [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► movie and it's full of you know which [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► get a both Paul Newman and read for [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► Robert Redford are perfect in the role [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► as their chemistry is unparalleled [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► there's another great scene where yeah [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► they're robbing a train car and there's [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► a one of the best moments of comic [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► timing ever where Paul Newman just about [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► finished saying well that ought to do [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► and almost doesn't get the last word of [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► mouth before the entire train car just [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► explodes shreddy just sort of you know [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► dowsing them all entry in splinters of [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► wood and money falling everywhere and [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► Robert Redford just sorta looks amigos [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► think use enough dynamite there butch so [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► it's just I don't know it's as a series [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► of vignettes it's great from one to be [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► you know the beginning to the end and [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► the end especially which has this sort [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► of futility about it because you know if [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► you're any student of history you you [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► kind of know how it it ends which is to [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► say not well but it's still in some ways [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► kind of upbeat and i love the the last [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► sort of brief scene there which is just [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► a still photo of them running out to [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► face everybody [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► maybe people living our entire living [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► around have the entire book maybe [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► there's just a few of them out there is [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► just it's it's a great fitting end to [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► the movie and and i want to add one [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► little other scene which is a quiet [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► scene which I love is like it's like [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► like a third to a half way through the [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► movie when they're just sort of sitting [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► on a porch talking and you realize these [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► two guys have been hanging out together [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► for years and they don't know each [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► other's real names [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► and so they sort of oh yeah my name's [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► Parker and it's just it's a great it's a [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► great little moment when you realize [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► these guys are like like brothers [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► essentially and how much they really [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► know about each other but wonderful [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► movie great score great cinematography [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► and a great script by William Goldman [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► has already been thrown up there once [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► and for the princess bride [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► yeah tell me a little about yourself Dan [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► free pick against you got the Burt [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► Bacharach soundtrack to indeed [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► yeah you could add a bicycle what a [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► great bicycle so miss Caldwell your next [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► you have you got the rocketeer what's [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► next [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► okay well it's tough to choose which was [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► next but i think i will go with this one [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► my second pick which is actually number [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► six on my list is a silent film from [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► 1927 and has been on for in the past has [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► been butchered several different ways [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► and they've added Queen soundtracks to [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► they've done all kinds of horrible [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► things to it but as of 2010 it is mostly [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► free complete and beautiful again and [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► that is fritz lang's metropolis [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► oh my goodness which is dumped you huh [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► it was another german film degree [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► there's another German felt in all [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► seriousness I i have little patience for [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► silent films in that my my friend [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► Elizabeth when I was in college was [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► studying silent films and while I love [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► Buster Keaton and you know max Linder [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► and that was fun to watch in general [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► should bring home these silent films and [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► they were just you know I'd watch 10 [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► minutes and just and want to go to sleep [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► because like dan I like what about [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► equitable dialogue I like fun fast-paced [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► things but metropolis is a you know as [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► originally shown was a hundred and fifty [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► three minute film and the recovered [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► footage in total puts it at about a [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► hundred and forty-five minute running [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► time so it is not a short silent film [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► and you'd think that it would you know [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► get bogged down or something like that [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► but it really doesn't it is a it is a [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► story of about the future and about [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► revolution and [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► robots so it has it has a really nice [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► sort of sci-fi bend to it it's it's been [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► accused of being a pseudo propaganda [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► film and it's very much you know worker [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► power and down with the man but it's the [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► way that it approaches it is a kind of [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► kind of the way that I really really [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► good film approaches religion in that [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► it's it puts it up on a sort of art [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► pedestal and and takes takes a step back [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► so instead of saying you know oh these [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► are the citizens of Germany or these are [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► the citizens of Russia it's you know [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► these are the citizens of this post [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► futuristic metropolis where all of the [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► workers live in high you know fanciful [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► skyscraper all of the the managers live [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► in High fanciful skyscrapers and all the [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► workers toil down below and their these [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► assets in this film are just incredible [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► i mean when you consider about how much [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► money they spent something like [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► 5,000,000 rights marks which I think [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► about to ya in today's money it's [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► something like a hundred couple hundred [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► million dollars so they spent on par [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► with some of the big blockbusters like [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► the superhero blockbusters of the past [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► couple years and they have these big [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► beautifully hand-painted sets they have [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► this the right one of the wrote this [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► robot that stars very prominently in the [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► plot I and the special effects that go [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► along with the robot and what she what [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► she basically accomplishes and does to [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► the workers and humans around her [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► the special effects for this film [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► despite being in 1927 are absolutely [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► astonishing you watch it now and it's [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► you know [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► yes it's not it's not as fanciful as [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► some of the cgi but i'd argue that it's [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► just as impressive and that's there's [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► some there's some great scenes there's [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► again all this this is a very cinematic [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► movie obviously since it since it is [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► silent they really have to rely on [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► imagery and they do so very very [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► powerfully there's a the the person we [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► follow during this during this story is [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► the son of the head of Metropolis [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► Frederator who decides that he's going [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► to become after falling in love with the [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► girl of course he's going to become [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► noble and then go and help the workers [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► the plight of the workers and so in [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► order to really understand their [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► position and get into the shoes he [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► offers to trade places with one of the [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► workers for a day so he goes and he [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► basically spends a 12-hour day operating [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► this giant machine that keeps the city [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► running and you just get this picture of [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► him going up and operating these what [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► look like giant clock arms where he's [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► just turning them like taking his whole [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► entire body and turning these clock arms [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► two different positions in order to keep [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► the machine up and running [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► that's it's such a stark amazing like [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► the imagery is just is just fantastic [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► it's alloreactive that's a great pic [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► I've always loved that movie too that's [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► the film that Hitler and Goebbels I mean [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► I'm not trying to make its Phil [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► misinterpreted in in many ways by many [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► different kinds of people [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► Hitler and Goebbels like that film [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► somehow and is a story that fits long [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► was called into girls office and what [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► was going on and gobble said we love [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► when he came to power in people so we [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► love your film metropolis it was the [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► thing that inspired us we want to take [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► over filmmaking and Fritz long so I'll [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► have to think about it very hard [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► he walked out of the office got on the [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► train and left the country never came [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► back [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► yep and his his wife was a Nazi [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► sympathizer you apparently they get in [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► your career already get us leni [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► riefenstahl instead inspector and the [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► rest is ya know I think it's funny this [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► this film I am [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► ice-watch the first kind of this film [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► while the one I saw was I think about a [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► hundred and ten minutes back before they [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► had found they found missing footage in [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► a basically a can't in a canister and [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► someone's private library in 2009 and [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► then they decided that ok in a year we [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► are going to restore this 16-millimeter [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► footage because that the whole reason [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► why the film is kind of broken up and [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► dead in the first places that right [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► after it was originally shown in Britain [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► or in Germany when they tried to ship it [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► out to external countries and like here [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► lets you know we want we want to show [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► off this film the distributor's overseas [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► and movie houses basically said no one's [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► going to sit and watch a hundred and [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► fifty minutes silent film we're going to [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► cut the [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► thing down to 90 minutes also we're [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► going to show it and faster frames per [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► second because no one wants to sit there [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► for that one crazy son track yeah and [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► and yeah and let's add let's add all [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► kinds of different versions of live [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► music and it just got distorted so that [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► most of the copies that we have the of [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► the film in present-day are these awful [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► 90-minute ones that were completely [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► recut so you couldn't even really get a [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► sense of the story it's just like okay [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► their businesses films cool images but [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► it went to the point where when I found [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► out through a friends that they had [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► found this footage and they were [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► basically working hard core to have it [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► restored for a premiere in Germany uh [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► art which is a over so European art [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► channel was broadcasting it live so I [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► actually in February [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► actually in February [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► right in 2010 i actually like hacked [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► into the feed so that I could watch the [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► live broadcast of this thing on like a [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► 500-foot screen zoom in and enhance why [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► you hacked into the feed-forward one [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► character at a time [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► well I think I think it's a great i [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► think it's a great pic and who knew that [TS]