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Movie Review Rewind, Ep. 62: The Mask (1994) · Nashville Movie Dispatch

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  Speaker 1: Flipping back the calendar to examine notable films throughout cinema history,
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  Speaker 1: the good, the bad, and everything in between. This is
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  Speaker 1: movie Review Rewind on.
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  Speaker 2: Nashville Movie Dispatch. Welcome back for another episode of movie
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  Speaker 2: review Rewind here on Nashville Movie Dispatch. It is your
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  Speaker 2: host for the show the e I see at Sobrosnetwork
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  Speaker 2: dot Com, Big Natural Stony Keeley, joined as usual by
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  Speaker 2: my co host for movie Review Rewind. That's the great
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  Speaker 2: the show, the Uh. He is a board member of
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  Speaker 2: the Music City Film Critics Association. He is a member
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  Speaker 2: of the Southeastern Film Critics Association. He is our resident
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  Speaker 2: film critic here at Nashville Movie Dispatch. Mister big shot
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  Speaker 2: himself Brandon Vick. Brandon, how you doing today?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good as a little concern your cat was chewing
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  Speaker 3: on a wire.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I was just looking at too. And
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  Speaker 2: this is we've We've We've got a new setup in
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  Speaker 2: the the studio. I say with air quotes that I
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  Speaker 2: think we've all for all parties involved, have have realized
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty easy It's a much easier set up
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  Speaker 2: than I like it, but like it. Part of it
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  Speaker 2: does include free roaming cats.
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  Speaker 3: That well, and that's part of the joy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, how are you doing today, Brandon good Man?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what month it is, June. It is
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  Speaker 2: June of twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: We're in the we're in the yucky part of the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Summer blockbuster season though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, yeah, we're in the thick of it. The
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  Speaker 3: Passion of the Christ too is out. It's been a
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  Speaker 3: big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it is real.
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  Speaker 3: It's called the Resurrection of Christ. Whether it's out right
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  Speaker 3: now as people hear this, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 3: It is real. It is a real thing.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember if this episode is the first or
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  Speaker 2: second episode.
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, now we're really screwed.
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  Speaker 2: It's either you've either heard the Virgin suicides already or
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  Speaker 2: that's coming up next.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tighten up, whatever whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 2: At the stage, and as we're off to do on
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  Speaker 2: movie review, rewind we have brought in the big guns.
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  Speaker 2: He is our buddy, Brett. Brett, how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm I'm good. I'm glad to be back you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys remember I was on
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  Speaker 4: that cruise for a while that it was on the
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  Speaker 4: news like it disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what happened with that?
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  Speaker 4: You know, we I'm not really at liberty to say
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  Speaker 4: right now, but I am glad to be.
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  Speaker 3: Bad dolphins blink twice if it was dolphins.
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  Speaker 4: Well there were dolphins there, yes, on the cruise. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: well we were. We were headed for Thailand and next
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  Speaker 4: thing I knew we.
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  Speaker 2: Were in the Ukraine.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa yeah, yeah, uh things. I got Google Cruises to
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  Speaker 3: Thailand because I think that's that sounds it sounds.
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  Speaker 2: I realized it was.
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  Speaker 3: You could sign up for a three month cruise, three promotion.
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  Speaker 4: It was unexpected. But I'm glad to be back, is
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  Speaker 4: my point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I would be too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh, you know, I can't think of a
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  Speaker 2: better way to bring him at home. No, I can't.
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  Speaker 3: I was imagine, thank god, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing was going to keep me from this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we said, hey, I don't know if you can
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  Speaker 3: make it, but we got a pretty important movie to
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  Speaker 3: come home to. So for those that don't swim, he
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  Speaker 3: swam here.
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  Speaker 2: For those of that don't beach, you can hear the
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  Speaker 2: waves crashing, crashing against the beach as we record. The
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  Speaker 2: mask is obviously referring to the Jim Carrey nineties classic
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  Speaker 2: If you Will, based on a comic book, which I
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  Speaker 2: did not even realize until I started putting my notes
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  Speaker 2: together for the show.
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  Speaker 3: I knew about it was after I'd already seen it
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  Speaker 3: as a kid, and I realized, oh, this is actually
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  Speaker 3: like based on something.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently the comic book was not a slapstick comedy.
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  Speaker 2: It was very dark, very graphic, very I don't well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't read it, but apparently they
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  Speaker 2: were trying to get this project off of the ground,
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  Speaker 2: but studios kept saying, no, it's too violent, it's too dark.
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  Speaker 3: Was originally a dog.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. There are a few. There are a
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  Speaker 2: few like what ifs, like Jim Carrey. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: this was all right taken a page out of mccash's playbook.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think this was written with Jim Carrey in mind.
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  Speaker 2: It was more about, like, we've got the comic book property,
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  Speaker 2: let's make a movie out of this, and Jim Carrey
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  Speaker 2: ends up being sort of I don't want to say,
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  Speaker 2: a blessing in disguise, but this is kind of an
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  Speaker 2: instance where everything just kind of falls.
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  Speaker 3: Into I'm a little surprised to hear that, because the
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  Speaker 3: one thing I thought of all these years later rewatching
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  Speaker 3: it for this is that this is the perfect vehicle
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  Speaker 3: for the physicality that Jim Carrey brings, especially in the
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  Speaker 3: early nineties, where there's no other man that can have
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  Speaker 3: those facial expressions. I mean, there's just they don't exist.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's his, it's it's I can't imagine anything different.
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  Speaker 2: You brought up the physicality of Jim Carrey because there
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  Speaker 2: is a tidbit researching this film I found where he
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  Speaker 2: actually saved them money on CGI because he could actually
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  Speaker 2: could he could actually move I believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Where the mask itself is on there, but it it
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  Speaker 3: goes to his fantastic, outlandish facial expressions where yeah, how
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  Speaker 3: many times can you think of like he fits the
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  Speaker 3: cartoonish version of this movie, where I mean, forget the nineties,
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  Speaker 3: I just don't think anybody could do it like him.
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  Speaker 3: I tried, by the way, with Son of Masks work out.
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  Speaker 2: So another component of the Jim Carrey factor here. The
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  Speaker 2: teeth were prosthetics that they had designed for shots where
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  Speaker 2: he did not have to talk because they were so bulky.
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  Speaker 2: But Jim Carrey learned how to talk with them in
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  Speaker 2: his mouth, so they ran with it, and it's like,
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  Speaker 2: it's so funny to read they had they had considered
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  Speaker 2: Rick Moranis for the role. Yes, Rick Mah, Robin Williams.
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  Speaker 3: I could see Martin and Robin Williams. I really could.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Nicholas Cage was considered for this role. Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: Matthew Broderick, which is a that feels like a very
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  Speaker 2: different movie, but it all place.
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  Speaker 3: Feels like the most like you'll get the most bang
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  Speaker 3: out of your butt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really but he did.
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  Speaker 3: Flubber, so it's fine, that's true, But.
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  Speaker 2: This does kind of feel like, in hindsight, everything worked
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  Speaker 2: out pretty perfectly because this is for for I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how you guys would frame this. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to speak for either of you, but I don't feel
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  Speaker 2: like this movie ages particularly well. But it does still
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  Speaker 2: register something in me as that quintessential Jim Carrey run,
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  Speaker 2: his whole Camania run. Yeah, and it's it's hard for
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  Speaker 2: me to imagine anybody else playing the mask, and once
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  Speaker 2: you see him on screen, for me, it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: imagine anybody else playing this character.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, And I remember when we were first talking
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  Speaker 3: about doing this, and Brett said, besides the Godfather, this
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  Speaker 3: is the quintessential cinematic event. Yeah, and he loves it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's why I came back from my crew Beach.
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  Speaker 3: It's why you swam to Myrtle Beach. Yeah. No, it
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  Speaker 3: really and honestly and everything it worked out. Jim Carrey,
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  Speaker 3: it really is the savior of it because I I
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  Speaker 3: just don't know a person that can bend and shape
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  Speaker 3: the way that he does. But it's so cartoonish, outlandish,
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  Speaker 3: and I have no idea about the comics. I've never
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  Speaker 3: read it. I didn't even know about it when I
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  Speaker 3: first saw it as a kid. But that's the highlight.
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  Speaker 3: Like the story itself, I think is a mess. I
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  Speaker 3: think anytime the mask is all anybody else, it's I do.
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  Speaker 3: It does not work. I do remember the villain one because.
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  Speaker 2: I remember terrified as a child.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and you know he recently and I don't know
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  Speaker 3: the actor's name, but he recently passed away. And that
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  Speaker 3: was one of the things because he was he was
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  Speaker 3: I felt like it was a villain in the eighties
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  Speaker 3: and nineties, very recognizable, and he had he had passed away, And.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't he one of the guys with the gimp in
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  Speaker 4: pulp fiction.
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  Speaker 3: He is, he is.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good.
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  Speaker 4: I think about the Jim.
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  Speaker 3: Carrie does it, and let me tell you, I think
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  Speaker 3: of like the thing is to me I and when
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  Speaker 3: especially rewatching it, only because I have seen this other
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  Speaker 3: movie more than a few times. I feel like with
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  Speaker 3: Jim Carrey and just his gift to be able to
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  Speaker 3: shape with his face and stuff reminded me of how
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  Speaker 3: why it worked so well when he did the gripch
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  Speaker 3: in two thousand oh there, and he talks about the
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  Speaker 3: smile and other interviews when he's done, when he's been
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  Speaker 3: in the Sonic movies. But there is something about it
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  Speaker 3: where the fact you don't need effects because this guy
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  Speaker 3: put it on him and then he can roll with it.
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  Speaker 3: It means so much. But I really wish the movie
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  Speaker 3: was better. And you know, the mask is considered. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of people say that this is
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  Speaker 3: one of their favorite Jim Carrey movies. It is not mine.
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  Speaker 3: Rewatching it, I'm like, yeah, it's just I'm an ace
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  Speaker 3: ventura liar, liar kind of guy. But I think what
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  Speaker 3: what most people may not realize is in what's kind
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  Speaker 3: of surprising is like this is Cameron d has his
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  Speaker 3: first feature film.
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  Speaker 2: One of my notes he welcome to our dream.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and she's very much played up in that way.
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  Speaker 2: I want to ask you guys about this real quick.
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  Speaker 2: The critic consensus on Rotten Tomatoes. Which would you be
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  Speaker 2: surprised to hear that critics are higher on this film
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  Speaker 2: than the audience.
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  Speaker 3: I am a little surprised.
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  Speaker 2: On the Tomato meter, sixty eight on the popcorn.
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  Speaker 3: Meter, eighty one for the mask on Yeah and it's
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  Speaker 3: I think it would be the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: On Rotten Tomatoes list of the best movies of nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety four, it comes in at twenty nine based on
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  Speaker 2: the Tomato Meter.
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  Speaker 3: Well, depending on what the other twenty eight are, that
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  Speaker 3: might be.
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  Speaker 2: I just close out at the tab. I could have told.
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  Speaker 3: You, but I are you professional or what? But uh,
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  Speaker 3: I've been doing this for seventeen years. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm I actually thought it would be the it
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  Speaker 3: would be the opposite. I would not if you said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: let's just pretend you're mcash. If you can, you do
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  Speaker 3: your impression of m cash.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pretend drinking with that. You know, you hear feelings
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  Speaker 2: the critics was eighty one and the audience is six.
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  Speaker 3: That that's that'd be hard to digest, to be honest,
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  Speaker 3: because a lot of people I thought on this movie,
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of it is doing a childhood
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  Speaker 3: It is introduction to Jim Care, I'm I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you think about nineties kids, which we're
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  Speaker 2: all nineties kids at this table comic book, the movie.
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  Speaker 2: There was an animated series that came out, Yeah, figures
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  Speaker 2: that came out. It was kind of a cultural phenomenon
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  Speaker 2: for kids of a certain age.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think and I remember, and the thing is,
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  Speaker 3: and this is sort of strange, but it recently, like
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  Speaker 3: within the last year or so, got a four K
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  Speaker 3: release and people are like, oh, finally and stuff, and I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Like, well, that's when like the reboot starts. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm like that starts up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a bit strange to me. And now
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  Speaker 3: just so happens where we were doing this episode.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's I'm curious to your thoughts on this, Brett,
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  Speaker 2: because I know you're particularly nostalgic about this too. But
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  Speaker 2: it was such a piece of cultural zeitgeist in the nineties.
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  Speaker 2: It was the character but I think it was it
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  Speaker 2: was Jim Carrey and that I jokingly called it his
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  Speaker 2: whole co Mania run. But like the nineties were, and
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  Speaker 2: I remember like us being kids and just this being
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  Speaker 2: the funniest thing on the planet, Like, is that what
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  Speaker 2: has people still talking about it all these years later?
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  Speaker 2: Is that just what it caught? I don't I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say lightning in a bottle, But it was
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  Speaker 2: sort of the right ingredients the right time to create
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  Speaker 2: something that was going to have a lasting impression on
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  Speaker 2: younger people at that time.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's a meme about before memes, dudes just
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  Speaker 4: used to sit around and say line from The Chappelle
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  Speaker 4: Show to one another. Yeah, yeah, And this was one
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  Speaker 4: of those things. I think in elementary school, like it
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  Speaker 4: was somebody stopped me smoking.
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  Speaker 2: Like I can't tell you how many times I heard
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  Speaker 2: a ten year old Brandon Vick say, look, my I'm roadkill.
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  Speaker 3: Really yeah, I do not remember saying that as all.
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  Speaker 2: When I heard that, I was like, oh, that's where
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  Speaker 2: Brandon got that from. When we were kids used to
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  Speaker 2: say it all the time, running around in it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you, let me you know, there were
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  Speaker 2: a lot of there were a lot of mass quotes
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  Speaker 2: from this movie. I was like, oh, I remember being a.
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  Speaker 3: Child, I quoted ace Ventura like crazy. Yeah, So to
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  Speaker 3: me when someone says, oh, nineties and Jim Carrey, I
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  Speaker 3: think of like both ace Ventura movies.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like I would literally like be in character like a
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  Speaker 3: wrestler and my parents had asked me what's for dinner?
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  Speaker 3: And I would quote something from a Sventura too, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: which I know wasn't as popular, but like, I'll be honest,
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  Speaker 3: I like there's a lot of scenes where like he
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  Speaker 3: kind of takes over and the uh, what is it
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  Speaker 3: like with the what what's the shakes him, the moroccas,
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  Speaker 3: the Morocca's like that. Like there's so many scenes I
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  Speaker 3: remember of it, but I don't. I remember smoking stuff,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't ever remember actually quoting any of it.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it was like a Halloween thing, like it.
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  Speaker 2: Was a big deals were the mask I remember that, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I but if someone said, hey, which one would
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  Speaker 3: you quote more? I would say, oh, I mean Aventura
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, this is like the drama where I
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  Speaker 2: am in this in this memory of mine, I am
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  Speaker 2: forty years old and Brandon is ten years old saying
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  Speaker 2: look my road.
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  Speaker 3: Look, And then I think, why would I I don't
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  Speaker 3: even know how I would say it.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was during backyard wrestling matches. Oh okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure, which makes total sense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty clever.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I have a ten year old and I
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  Speaker 4: can imagine him saying it right now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean honestly, I mean, I guess, and the smoking
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I mean it makes sense. It's just
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  Speaker 3: kind of funny when you watch it now, because like
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  Speaker 3: I could quote stuff from between ace Ventur and Batman
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  Speaker 3: forever before I would go to the mask at this
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  Speaker 3: at this stage. So yeah, it is funny kind of
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  Speaker 3: seeing it and being like, oh yeah, that like it
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  Speaker 3: was a thing. People definitely were drawn to it and
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  Speaker 3: thought it was funny or fun or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Watching this again at thirty nine years old, I've got
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  Speaker 2: a few more weeks before I'm forty. Yeah, watching this
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  Speaker 2: again at thirty nine, it did feel there was an
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  Speaker 2: element of it that felt dark, And the only way
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  Speaker 2: I know how to describe it is like if you
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  Speaker 2: guys heard of the Uncanny Valley phenomenon, where it's like
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  Speaker 2: something that appears to be human but it's not actually human,
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  Speaker 2: so it kind of gives you the creeps, like your
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  Speaker 2: senses tingle a little bit. That's kind of what this
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  Speaker 2: movie felt like to me, where this is all slapstick stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm also watching it like this is kind of dark.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of serious situations that he's just facing
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  Speaker 2: it like spongebomb. Yeah. So when you say that, you
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  Speaker 2: watch this and you see how we get to the
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  Speaker 2: Grinch later on in Carrie's career, I'm watching it like
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  Speaker 2: I see a little bit of the cable guy in this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well when he becomes the Master.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a little darkness in there.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it kind of comes back to Jim Carrey
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  Speaker 2: just being the heart of this thing, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: we can talk about Cameron Diaz. I found the quote.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to read about that, But I mean, is
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  Speaker 2: this the thing the critics talk about it and they say,
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  Speaker 2: like the exact quote is it misses perhaps as often
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  Speaker 2: as it hits. But Jim Carrey's manic bomb bast, the
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  Speaker 2: film's overall cartoony bomb bast, keep the mask afloat. It's
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  Speaker 2: interesting to me that we can take different things out
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  Speaker 2: of Carrie's performance here, but the heart and soul of
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  Speaker 2: this film still kind of comes back to Carrie's performance.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean in so many ways he he
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he is the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get that kind of thing from many people.
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  Speaker 3: And even if let's just say Robin Williams was in
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  Speaker 3: this role, it would be still be a different movie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but he is an up and comer and Jim Carrey
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  Speaker 3: is very much in his prime of how he could
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  Speaker 3: tort himself and making, you know, and making all these things.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where the grants really pops up into my mind,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: is that you can put something on him of it,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: you can let him run, and he'll run with it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: And that's that's who he is. He's he does that
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: in the Sonic movies. Now like you can't. That's just
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: you can't take that away from him. That's just who
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: he is. But I think I think it works better
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: because it's the nineties and we're willing to let it
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: is insane as it is. But imagine someone else or
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: anything that is not Jim Carrey, and I don't think
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: you leave with that same memorable experience. And no matter
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: who it is, including Cameron Diaz, I don't think you're there,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: like you have to have someone that is that kind
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: of performer who literally is physically changing what this character
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: is supposed to be, even from the comic books, and
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: be able to deliver a performance like that. To me,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: this is exactly the like it. It showcases the strength
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: of what of what Jim Carrey can truly do, for
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: better or for worse. Sometimes it's so indulgent that it's like, okay,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: but without it, I really don't know what this movie is,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: and I don't think it would. I don't think it'd
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: be nearly as memorable if it wasn't Jim Carrey saying it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I'm really surprised with that tomato meter reading the more
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: that I think about it, because it's what you said,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Like for a ten year old kid, You've got all
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: these one liners that I can say on the playground
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: to kids, You've got this like dream scenario, like you
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: turn into this superhero kind of figure and do whatever
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: you want, and so like, of course kids love it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: It's the same reason my kids love the new Super
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Mario Galaxy movie. That's not a movie, it's just a
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: bunch of cutscenes of that.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so so it's very Yes, yeah, yeah, and
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: it's so it's it's surprising that adults.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, I do wonder if some of it is
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: like you said, because it was the nineties, like just
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: the view of those kind of things were different, whereas
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: now everyone's going to say, like in a landscape of
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: like prestige TV and the way movies are now, Like
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: where were the layers in this and like what was
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: the source of Sure you're not.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Getting Yeah, you're not getting the same shit you did
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: back then now, Like yeah, that it wouldn't fly even
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: if Jim Carrey was an quote unquote newcomer. It came
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: out at the right time, and I think that's why
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: people are. I kind of have this fondness about it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: But it's not that like it's not that great of
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: a movie to me. But if people loved it for
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: certain reasons, and Carrie probably is most of it, I
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: under I understand it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yep. It reminds me a lot of Dick Tracy.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: No, I haven't seen that kind of time. But it's
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: very cartoonish. Cartoonish it very much is, and it's got
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: a lot of great people in it. Hoffman Pacino, Baby Madonna.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: A cartoonish take on something that is not very cartoonish.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Think this is going to sound crazy, but like I
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: think you could probably put Sin City in this bucket
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: of movies as well, where it's like.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: It's kind of got that vibe.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's crazy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I know, since City obviously violent, not a lot of funny,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: comedic moments, but there's something about it that.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Like Aaron Taylor Johnson would be the
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Mask now, Oh, that's how we would do it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Hold on, let's that's how we would do it. Let's
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: let's work this reboot real quick.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: It would be and it would be first of all,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: it would take itself way too seriously, which the Mask
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: in nineties does not, which as it shouldn't. Yes, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I think it makes it more digestible. But yeah, in
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: this day and age, it would be someone like that
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: or you know.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I could I could vibe with that though.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, you know, he was pretty goofy
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: and craven.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: So it feels like the Mask now would be more
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: like the Joker. Yeah, like that's what the final outcome
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: would be, something like the Mask I did not, thankfully.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I haven't either, but Jamie Kennedy did it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I feel like we did go see that. I didn't
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: see it really, Yeah, So.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that was like a pitiful date
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: you went on and you just thought you would it
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: be fun to see it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Actually have never sat and watched all the way through. Yeah,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: And that says something because we would pretty much see
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: anything on opening weekend next summer.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Son of the Mask on I'm tracking with your vibe
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: about Since City because it feels like, yeah, there's the
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: city environments themselves, like it could almost be the same universe. Yeah,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: they take place in.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would love to see Marvin the Mask.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Marv kind of has the.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Mask one to be honest, but I think it's it's
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: part performance, but it's also the setting of these movies
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: kind of add to it, and I think it's something
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: that can I just say.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: To your point, the way that it's done is almost
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: like this, like like especially when you get to Batman Forever,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: like the city they're in, Yeah, it's not it doesn't
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: it's really not that real. And so then when it
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: says hey it's based on a comment, but you're like, oh, yeah, okay,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Like I see it now, I'm not sure if it
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: does it any favors or not, but it makes sense.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: It's logical to that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: What is the name of the city, do you remember
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: it says it at the very beginning of the movie.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: It's like Edge City Edge.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I think it's Pittsburgh.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: But it makes a lot more sense now knowing that it's.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: And that kind of yeah, that kind of atmosphere, that's true. Yeah.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: So my point in bringing this up is that we
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: we've kind of hammered home this idea of nostalgia for
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: this film, and I think there is a part of
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: it that's like for us that were kids at the time,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: it's Jim Carrey, it's physical comedy, it's silliness, the quote ability,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the one liners, all that stuff. But then I think
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: there's this common thread through movies like this where I
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: don't want to say it's like noir, but like there
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: there is some like old Hollywood, and then you.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: You there's definitely inspirations of that.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: You put like Cameron Diaz out there with bulging out
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: of her dress and all that, and I'm just I'm
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: picturing I'm picturing a line through generations where like the
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: dads are kind of in on this and.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: They wish that actres would come in her hair. That's
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: what I wish.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, they'd only have to wait a couple of years.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: That's right. There's something about Mary. Yeah, if you didn't know,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: that problem.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Is part of the scene. But isn't she famous for
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, come on, that's one of the most famous Cameron. Yeah.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we're also all like forty forty ish.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I realized it's creepy.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know, like we do numbers on YouTube, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I just wonder, like, how many of those people are
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: are age with it?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: That's right?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, are with it? That's right. So you know, I
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: kind of think going back to the nosalgia thing, like
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I feel like this is gonna sound so weird to say,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: but there is something in this movie for everyone in
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: a way because of you have the iconic performance from
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Jim Carrey, but there is this sort of genre of
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: film that it feels like classic Hollywood. As stupid as
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: that feels to say out loud, well it is.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: It is a time when things like that were being
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: made and it made money. I mean, don't oh, it
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: was a huge I was gonna say, let's not act
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: like the Mask didn't make money.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I got those figures, Candy.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I really think it is a how into Jim Carrey,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: are you yea? And what he's able to do because
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: at this point with the Mask, it's new m you
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: haven't seen maybe besides the at you haven't seen that,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: and be able to do something like that that is
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: cartoonish but also from a comic book, and also be
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: able to kind of really, you know, blow up on
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: some of these stories. And because when you're like, you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I mean honestly, you watch the movie and you're really
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: just waiting for him to put the mask on. I
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: mean that's really what it is. You know, Okay, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: broke my wrist, It's fine, and like, that's what it is.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: And I appreciate that, But the excitement about the movie
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: overall it's like an hour forty minutes and it feels
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: longer than an hour forty minutes. Yeah, it's definitely Jim
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Carrey being what we would consider the ultimate like Jim
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Care experience. But that's really all they got. And in
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: this day and age, I think some could argue that
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: it's not enough. It's not quite enough.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Where does it fall in that list of ace Ventura
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: and like the timeline. Wise, yes, I was just about
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: to say, do you guys realize the Mask, Ace Ventura
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: and Dumb and Dumber were all nineteen ninety four. It
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: was all the same year in retrospect, I have heard
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: that before.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: To me, the Mask is that is the third of
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: the of the three numbers should be.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: The ninety five is Batman Forever where he plays the
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Red Lars, so he's Ace Venturer when nature calls. So
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the sequel ninety six is the Cable Guy, then Liar
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Liar in ninety seven, and then we go to The
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Truman Show and Simon Birch in nineteen ninety eight.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Was was the Mask first in ninety four?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: That's a good question.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: The reason I'm asking you, but I think I thought
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: it was.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: The Mask was released July twenty ninth, nineteen ninety four.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Ace Ventura was February of that year. So the reason there.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Is I'm asking and this makes sense is I call
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: it a little bit of a spenture on TV recently,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: and he does a lot of that, you know, the
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: those noises he's making and like the one like it's
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: a lot. So it feels like the success of the
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Mask was set up, you're gonna love.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: This too, and and honestly even on down the line, like.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Just broke your wrist, I'm the only risks.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I was gonna say no his earn just feel and
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: it was spilled my all over the book and it
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: was I love to me like he uses this like
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: you can. You can apply ace Ventury to the mask.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: You can play the mask to liar liar, you can
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: apply liar liar to the rich. For me, I'm I'm
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: an a Sventur liar liar. And then the mask is
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: on down and I don't really know if it's I mean,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: I feel like the story, its effects the overall thing,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: because like liar liar is silly, but you know, a
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: father trying to get his son you don't want to lose,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: you know, And there's different experiences you can apply it to.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: The mask is very unique and distinct on exactly what
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: we're doing, and it's more of just like how crazy
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: can you get? But still try to line it with
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: like I have to get rid of it. And I
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: like this girl because I mean, Cameron Diaz isn't gonna
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: fuck Jim Carrey.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: I mean that's not really we really went a place
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: with this.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: But I will tell you the guy jumping in to
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: get the mask, I get it. He seems like the type.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Cameron Diaz, I wanted.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: To price well she had come in her hair.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: I wanted to pull this quote from the critics consensus
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: on Rotten Tomatoes. Uh, says Cameron credits Cameron Diaz is
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: blousey appeal. Blousey? What is blouse me, gentlemen.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: I I'll paraphrase. But on Rotten Tomatoes someone said that
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: her blousey appeal was its own character in the movie.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: And is that like she shows too much?
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: It's just they put so much emphasis on that one.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, she's eye candy. She's eye candy for sure, There's
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: no question about that. And thank god her career got better.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I was about to say, like, well, hold on.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Being John Malcovich and games in New York.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I'll give her that the Gangs of New York. This
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: is a rabbit hole. Quick aside. Here the most miscast
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: role in movie history of New York.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: I don't really really, I'm not saying someone could have
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: done better. I don't mind it.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: What did she go on to do?
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: I will tell you. Being John Malcovich and also a
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: movie that I think she she deserves more credit for
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: in her.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Shoe Charlie's Angels.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, Charlie's Angels.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: She's the single worst part of the holiday to me.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, that might be a.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Take that I don't know if it's a hot I.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Love the holiday. That's one of my love of my favorites.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Well, now that I think about it, maybe I don't
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: like Cameron Diaz as much as the other three.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't remember a lot of her other Oh
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I forgot she had a cameo in Fear and Loathing.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Well that doesn't count.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: There's something about Mary as nine that's.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: One of her best That's that is one of her
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: best ones.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Any given Sunday I loved her. Just talked about that. Wait,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I'm getting no, we're gonna talk about that. Yeah, three months,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about any given Sunday. Shrek. I
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: never saw Vanilla Sky.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: She's fine in it. I remember thinking Tommy Cruise and
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Penelope Cruise.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Shrek is probably one. I mean, not that she makes Shrek,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: but her consistent presence al Shrek is probably to get
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: enough credit for.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: I think we remember Mike Myers and Nadie Murphy.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: That's right. I swear I thought I saw her in
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: something recently that I was like, oh, wow, this is
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: really good.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I really but she's great and being John Malkovich. I
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: don't want anybody to think, and I actually don't. She's
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: badden any given Sunday and Gangs of New York. But
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: there's a lot that she's in that is very much
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: of like, what's the one someone liked with her? And
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Leslie Mann and someone else it was like they all
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: dated the same man or something the other woman maybe yes, right,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: And then now she's made a comeback and they're like, oh,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: she's out a retirement. You know what she did? She
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: did an action Netflix movie Jamie Foxx. I was about
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: to say, is that no one remembers. And she did
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: an Apple TV movie that Jonah Hill directed that has
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: kind of reeves in it, and I don't think anybody's
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: gonna remember that either.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: It's a bummer for Jim Carrey didn't do.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: But I understand people still love Night and Day, So
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: take that for what it's worth.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: That's what people say.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: I never saw a Night and Day, me neither, but
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: I have I have heard people say it's good.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's not bad at all. Tom Cruising
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: starts his scientology.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: In it, and Tom Cruise is in it.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: That's why it's exactly exactly enough said.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: All right, So where were we on the Mask?
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Thank God for Jim Carrey's where we're at on the Mask?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I jotted down not to get too not to get
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: too deep about this movie, but I do think there
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: is a theme about the masks that we wear throughout society,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: and how if we were to release our inhibitions a
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: little bit, we would kind of become something different from
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: what we present to society.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, and I think that's more apparent during the first
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: part of The Mask. But him and is whatever that
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: guy whoever's buddy guy is, you know, like the ones
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: that horn dog and the chance of it. And I
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: think a lot of people can relate to that, And
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: so what persona do you take on to be that
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: kind of guy? But also and I even like like
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: when the villain takes it on, it's different, It's it
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: doesn't work the same way. It still relies on the
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: person you are inside, Like I mean, there is some
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: there is some rather like okay, you can recognize what
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: what that means and the person that you are, the
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: person you can be, and and if you use it
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: for good or bad or whatever.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: But they you know, and they infuse some of that
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: with the Ben Sein character too.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, when he goes to yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: While you're talking about the mask changing depending on who
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: puts it on. Going back to ten year old boys,
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: the dog putting on the mask is like Jordan dunking
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: from the freeze, Like, yeah, it doesn't get better than that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: You're like, it's good, he's going to do it. He's good.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't. Like but you know what the thing is,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: it doesn't last as long as I remember. Yeah, yeah,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: it's a lot quicker than I thought it was. And
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: the villain taking on I'm just like, okay, that's a
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: like I didn't know it at the time, but like
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: that's Elum Musk. I guess I didn't know him at
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: the time, But that's that seems.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Like it was actually commentary.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, so, but I think in the end
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: it's very much a showcase for the Jim Carrey that
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: people fell in love with. I think that's really what
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: it what it comes down to.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: It is interesting to look at this film as a
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: sort of moment in time, and you look at that
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: year where it was ace Ventura in February, the Mask
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: that summer, and then Dumb and Dumber on December sixteenth,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: which imagine taking taking your family to see Dumb Dummer
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: on Christmas for the first.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Time may be too light a sentiment for.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: That, Yeah, saw, Yeah, I think so. I think this
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: is the whole damn Stone Cold run.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's insane.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: This is the Attitude area. Yeah, this is the Attitude era. Yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: But it is really interesting to look back at this
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: as a sort of moment in time where we I mean,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: obviously we were too young to understand like, oh, career
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: trajectory and like what this is doing for Jim Carey.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: But it really was one of those films that and
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, Brandon. Like the story I don't think
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: is very very diverse. I feel like it's very cookie cutter,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: comic book movie. I do like the opening scene where
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: they show you it's almost like this mythical where they
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: discover the mask and it comes loose and all that.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: But for the most part, I do feel like the
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: story is very by the book and this movie excels
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: in how Jim Carey accentuates the character. But it is
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: kind of interesting to look back, and I use the
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: term cultural zeitgeist earlier. It's like this for a certain generation,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: this movie was so big that it set the foundation
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: for or Carrie's career and what he would do throughout
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: the rest of the nineties. Not this film in particular.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I just mean that ninety four season if you will,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I mean you talk about like the Brady fifty touchdown season,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: stuff like that is like Jim Carrey's ninety four where
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: he became a star. Yeah.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Well, the thing is, you ask anybody today, Dumb and
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Dumber is the one they remember. It is for me,
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: is like what even if you were like of a
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: certain age or like, what's your favorite in Dumb and Dumbers? There?
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: So it just goes to show you that none of
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: these were misfires per se. But Yeah, and some of
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: his best work is actually to Come and Dumb and Dumber,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: I think is a very very iconic classic comedy that
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: you can't him and Jeff It just doesn't get any better. Yeah,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: the Mask actually did all three of those. That's a
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: good that's a good little run.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Mask had an estimated budget of somewhere between
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: a team to twenty three million.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: It's pretty good.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: It's box office run worldwide. Everything included three hundred and
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: fifty one point eight million in the nineties. In the nineties,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Insane Star and we talked a little bit earlier like
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: this was kind of a critical hit, Like critics did not.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Hate this movie. Yeah. I think that's it too, is
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: that it was not like, you know, a thirty percent
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: rotten and then people, you know, I mean it.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Was I was reading through some of my notes on
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: this film and like researching what I wanted to put
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: in the show. Like there were a couple of critics,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: one being from the Knoxville New Sentinel, by the way,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: that had The Mask in their honorable mentions for the
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: best Pictures of the year in ninety four.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Wow, and I just told you guys, is a bit crazy.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Based on the Tomato Meter, the twenty ninth highest ranked
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: film of nineteen ninety Yeah, can.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Sider how many movies came out that's that's pretty good.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: And considering the kind of movie it is, I don't
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: think a lot of people would expect fat So what.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Did I eighty one percent on you.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Said sixty something for the peasants, I mean audience.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: For the audience. Yeah, the mask had eighty one percent.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: The Shawshank redemption has eighty nine percent. Well, that's that's
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: so surprising to me. Is so surprising to me.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that skill is that's a little different.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Do Do you guys have a favorite quote from this movie?
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: There were a couple for me that came to mind
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: right away because I remembered Brandon saying them when we
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: were look ma on roadkill and that's a spicy meat
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: the ball. I remember that one.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: And the smoke and I remember those. It's not a
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: bunch of quote, but I I always remember the Chaka
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: the Morocco. I remember that whole sequence, and when I
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: saw it, it was as clear as day to me.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: And it's something that in that time and that kind
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: of comedic performance that honestly, Jim Carrey can get away
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: with anything. It really didn't matter. Man.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it did feel and.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: I definitely feel like that movie let him yeah and
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: we knew.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: I think my favorite one is P A R. T
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Y because I gotta as a ten year old, that's
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: like legit, that's like, that's right, poetic, like come up
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: with that.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, who let the dogs out?
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Kind of ship?
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like every once in a while this
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: podcast calls for an impression. We've We've done it for
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: the female orgasm, yes, and horror when Harry met Sally.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: We've done impressions of Black Philip from the Witches. Does
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: anybody want to take a stab at the mask?
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Oh? I don't you go on kids smoking?
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: No, that was too I've had too much to drink.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: I can't pull it all.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: I actually started looking sh.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Sh all right, we're not going to do that.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Then let's end on that.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: You don't want to try and recreate ten year old Brandon.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: I don't remember ship that I should.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Look my roadkill.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: That was not my mask impression. That was my impression.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: That was me me doing it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll try again for twelve angry men.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a good one for that one.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Do impressions that? Uh, that's all the notes that I
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: have on nineteen ninety four.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Before you wrap it up, were you surprised how easy
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: it was when Cameron Diaz went to the bank to
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: ask for some money.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Well, and did you see.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Well the blowsiness was was popping, and I thought maybe
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: I should, like, maybe.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: I should try that.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, go to regions with my balls hanging out.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: I was about to say, say, hey, hey, hey, hey,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: make sure that them things think, hey.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Hey hey, look look what's happening.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Just braced. I don't know, do you have honest with you?
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: I just imagine wearing like a Rick Flair shirt and
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: a black thumb and my balls hanging out and thinking
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: some man is gonna give me a little bit.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: It's not that impression of that. On. Hold on, we've
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: got to we've got to hash this out. Your balls
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: can't just be hanging out. They can They got.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Things like no not to school, what no stop in
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Gladeville that I think it could.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: They've got to be supported like they're wearing like they're
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: in a brawl. Yeah, okay, you've got to make them.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: You've got to push them up, because I thought.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: So maybe we just uh tuck them in your waistband
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: and they're just they're pushed up a little.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Bit and like my dinosaur overalls.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: Well would you also be filming the bank with your
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: purse so that you could come back and rob it?
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, absolutely, all right, Well I get that I
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: would get that guy who told me no, and I
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: would show back up like an Aaron BROCKOVICI character. Okay,
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: I say, oh guess what, Dale, I.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Feel like we've checked all the boxes on this episode. Brett.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Any putting thoughts on the mass, I'm okay, there you
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: go earlier, I needed that right then.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: That wasn't me, So I just want to give credit
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: where credit was due. Don't you dare actually scared? That
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: came from I scroed him. Don't you dare take credit
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: for it? Actually scared me?
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: That was Would you like to do like any gym
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: carry impression?
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Sure, somebody stopped me.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Oh oh nice?
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: It was from NPR. Think it fantastic?
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: All right, Brett, you didn't get your final thoughts out
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: because Brandon, you.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: Know, I'm gonna be honest. My adrenaline is going after
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: I got scared by that, so I don't have anything.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Else, Brandon, Are you okay? Any parting thoughts on the mask?
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: No?
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: I I understand people's love for it that it is
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: still back then it wasn't and it's still not one
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: of my favorite Jim Carrey movies. But if someone said, hey,
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: name a movie that utilized what Jim Carrey could do
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: back then. I think they got every penny's worth.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: There you go, that is going to do it for
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: our discussion of nineteen ninety four's The Mask. As always,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: you can check out all of our work covering movies
• 45:55
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• 46:00
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• 46:03
  Speaker 2: on these internet streets for our buddy Brett, for Brandon,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: I'm stony and until next time, you stay classy moviegoers