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The Top Ten Stephen King Movies of the 80s · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Children of the Eighties.
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  Speaker 1: was a weird situation. But anyways, a day in the
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, what are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: So we debated on whether or not we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: record tonight, and I said, you know what, let's just
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  Speaker 1: go upstairs to the podcast room. Let's get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Because I have had two cups of Starbucks coffee and
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  Speaker 1: a small pack of Cheetos. I'm ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna be talking like the micro machine guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so ready. And then I started thinking, I feel
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  Speaker 1: a little bit like the macho man. Oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: see brother, you got them josizes.
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  Speaker 2: That was a great mind impression.
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  Speaker 1: And then that led me to think about I saw
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  Speaker 1: recently on like an Instagram reel or a Facebook reel
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  Speaker 1: or I don't even know what these things are. It's
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  Speaker 1: on social media. It's a short video of Bob Ross
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  Speaker 1: painting the Ultimate Warriors face paint on his face, and
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  Speaker 1: I saved it because I'm like, oh my gosh, this
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  Speaker 1: is so cool. We got to talk about this on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, and then it hit me and it was Ai,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't real, and I'm so I'm kind of embarrassed
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't catch that already, but I'm also thinking
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  Speaker 1: AI's just getting to be really good. Yes, because it
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  Speaker 1: looked so legit that I googled did Bob Ross and
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  Speaker 1: The Ultimate Warrior were they ever seen in a room together?
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  Speaker 1: And the answer is no, what like that?
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  Speaker 2: Because because soon as you said Bob Ross painting The
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  Speaker 2: Ultimate Warrior's face made and I'm like, that's fake, he.
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  Speaker 1: Was like, let's just put a happy little tree right here,
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  Speaker 1: right by your eyeball. Oh my gosh. Did you ever
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  Speaker 1: watch Bob Ross? Yes? He would.
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  Speaker 2: He be a perfect to go to sleep to.
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  Speaker 1: So that was something that Nanny and I used to
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  Speaker 1: do together.
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  Speaker 2: We would watch what was his show called Happy Trees.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful Experience with Bob Ross.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's what it was called.
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  Speaker 1: We used to watching giggle over him talking about the
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  Speaker 1: happy tree.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was just always so calm and peaceful,
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  Speaker 2: and they have a Netflix documentary about him.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yes, not a good businessman, no, no, but a
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  Speaker 1: good painter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unfortunate, good painter in a very calming influence.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like if the world still had Bob Ross
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  Speaker 2: to watch on PBS, then there might not be as
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  Speaker 2: much anxiety in the world.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's causing me some anxiety right now?
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  Speaker 2: Gary Busey trying to get into trouble because he somehow
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  Speaker 2: Outside I did. I tossed him outside like Fred does
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  Speaker 2: Dino and whatever that cat is that never appeared in
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  Speaker 2: an episode of The Flintstones. Yes, don't know what that
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  Speaker 2: opening was about, but I did just do that to
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  Speaker 2: little small, ten pound Gary Busey.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, we've chased some rabbits, haven't we.
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  Speaker 2: We sure have Bob Ross, the ultimate warrior, macho man.
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  Speaker 1: Gary Busey, Fred Flintstone, Dino Cheeto's Starbucks Coffee. So what
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  Speaker 1: you got going on?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've been busy this week, tell me about it.
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  Speaker 2: This episode will drop on a Wednesday. But if you
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  Speaker 2: can't get enough of Jim, you can go back to yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And you fool can't get enough a gym?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you know some fools can't. I appear on Totally
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  Speaker 2: Eighties and nineties recall doing a movie bracket. We did
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  Speaker 2: sports movies and I may have ruined Rob's night that night.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, really, yes, didn't he deserve it because he
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  Speaker 1: did something.
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  Speaker 2: They ruined my whole bracket on the TV theme Songs
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  Speaker 2: when they voted down Hill Street Blues the greatest TV
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  Speaker 2: theme song of all time, So there you go. And
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  Speaker 2: then I was also a last minute guest on Shirley
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  Speaker 2: You Can't Be Serious podcast Patreon episode doing a one
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  Speaker 2: hit wonder, and I won't announce what that one hit
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  Speaker 2: wonder is. For those that want to go listen you
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  Speaker 2: can see if you can guess it before I did,
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  Speaker 2: and honestly you probably can, because, as I told Jason,
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  Speaker 2: when my brain gets stuck on something, it won't get off.
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  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Buch and even though he was leading me in a
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  Speaker 2: different direction. My brain was stuck on one song and
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  Speaker 2: so I guess the wrong song and he said no,
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  Speaker 2: And then as he went further along, then I finally
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  Speaker 2: got it. But I would guess that probably ninety percent
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  Speaker 2: of the audience is going to grab it before I do.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you've got a good agent. Your agent must be
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  Speaker 1: better than my agent.
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  Speaker 2: Ummm, yes, I think my agent is better than your age.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what my agent aligns for me? When
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  Speaker 1: we're not recording our show?
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  Speaker 2: What's it?
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  Speaker 1: Laundry dishes?
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: Driving the kid around?
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  Speaker 2: You need to hire Jerry McGuire, then.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'd like to. I'd like to hire Jerry McGuire
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: I bet you would.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think we've got a fun episode planned for tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready to get to it?
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  Speaker 1: We better start recording before the coffee hits the bladder.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we here we go.
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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
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  Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
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  Speaker 1: important to us as children and what we look back
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  Speaker 1: on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
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  Speaker 1: nostalgia podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and for today's episode, we are celebrating movies based
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  Speaker 2: on novels or stories by Stephen King that were released
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  Speaker 2: in the nineteen eighties. Now these are movies to watch
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  Speaker 2: during the Halloween season. So I have to ask you
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  Speaker 2: before we dive into this, what do you think about
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  Speaker 2: this topic.
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  Speaker 1: I have never seen a Stephen King movie.
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  Speaker 2: False.
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  Speaker 1: I have never read a Stephen King book.
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  Speaker 2: That may be true.
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  Speaker 1: False.
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  Speaker 2: You have seen a Stephen King movie?
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  Speaker 1: What movie?
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  Speaker 2: Sawshank Redemption? Oh? That's right, stand by me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: The Shining Yes, so there's three that you've seen for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So a few years ago, I fancied myself a writer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So I reached out to someone else who also fancied
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  Speaker 1: themselves a writer, and I said, Hey, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what I don't know. Is there
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  Speaker 1: a book that I need to read that will teach
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  Speaker 1: me how to be a writer, because this is something
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  Speaker 1: I really want to pursue. And she recommended I read
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  Speaker 1: Stephen King's biography Dance maccobb. Is that the name of
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  Speaker 1: his bio?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. That's what I was asking. Is that
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  Speaker 2: what you read.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's not what I read, and so I did so,
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  Speaker 1: but that didn't teach me anything about writing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it didn't. No, Oh, well that was it.
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  Speaker 1: It taught me all about Stephen King's.
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  Speaker 2: Life, but not about writing.
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  Speaker 1: And I kept waiting for the chapter on like how
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  Speaker 1: to write a good book, and I never got to it.
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  Speaker 1: So I do kind of think that I actually might
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  Speaker 1: be a Stephen King expert, but not about his books
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  Speaker 1: or movies, but about him as a person.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, I am not an expert on him as
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  Speaker 2: a person, but I when I was a teenager and
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  Speaker 2: young adult, I consumed almost all of his novels, and
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  Speaker 2: I think at one point I had read all of
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  Speaker 2: his novels that he had released, SAMs one or two,
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  Speaker 2: and then I got to at least one of those two.
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  Speaker 2: But since then he's released like twenty other novels, and
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  Speaker 2: I just can't keep up. You know, I'm an adult
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  Speaker 2: with adult responsibilities now, right, it starts to be too much. So,
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  Speaker 2: but I was a big Stephen King novel fan. And
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  Speaker 2: then of course I had to see the movies after that,
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  Speaker 2: and very rarely, if at all, did the movie hold
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  Speaker 2: up to the book. Really, the exceptions being Shawshank, Redemption,
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  Speaker 2: stand By Me, the Green Mile. Those were some easis.
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  Speaker 1: You do the Mile?
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  Speaker 2: He did do the Green Mile. Oh, that was a
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  Speaker 2: really good one. Yes, And so those movies are excellent.
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  Speaker 2: But none of those movies are of the horror genre, right,
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  Speaker 2: And he doesn't write just horror, obviously, but most of
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  Speaker 2: his stuff is based on horror, supernatural, or just something frightening.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's what we're going to be talking about
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  Speaker 2: because we are in the Halloween season. Next week is Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: So I love Halloween. It is possibly my favorite holiday.
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  Speaker 1: But I love Garfield Halloween, yes, and Charlie Brown Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't think of what else.
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  Speaker 2: You like the eerie more than the scary.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't do scary because I believe that we
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  Speaker 1: have to be careful with what we consume because the
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  Speaker 1: bad will stay with us. I have enough bad in
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  Speaker 1: my life that I don't want the bad from a
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  Speaker 1: movie to stay with me. So that's why I am
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  Speaker 1: totally oblivious and clueless on these movies.
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  Speaker 2: So this is gonna be fun because you have not
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  Speaker 2: seen most of these and I want to get your
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  Speaker 2: opinion based on the data in the synopsis. Okay, but
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  Speaker 2: I would say that most of these movies aren't scary,
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  Speaker 2: especially for an adult. But even as a kid, they
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  Speaker 2: weren't really scary. So are you ready to get to it?
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready, all right, counting down top ten.
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  Speaker 1: So we're starting at ten, going to starting at ten,
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  Speaker 1: going to one. Are these in like the order of
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  Speaker 1: what you like? No, these are in the order of I.
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  Speaker 2: Took the rating on Rotten Tomatoes and put in the
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  Speaker 2: rating for the Popcorn Meter by the audience, and then
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  Speaker 2: also did like the domestic gross. Oh god, put all
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  Speaker 2: those three together, and this is how it's spit out
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  Speaker 2: the top ten.
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  Speaker 1: That's exhausting.
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  Speaker 2: But I would agree these are This is not my
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  Speaker 2: top ten because they're the number nine one. I would
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  Speaker 2: probably have it like two or three or four. Oh wow, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but this is how it came out, So this is
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  Speaker 2: how we're going to do it. So why don't you
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and give us the number ten and then
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  Speaker 2: give us some of the beats, and then I'll get
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  Speaker 2: into the plot and see if I can't convince you
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  Speaker 2: whether or not you want to watch this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Number ten. Maximum Overdrive was released July twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty six, I had been seven for one month.
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  Speaker 1: It was directed by Stephen King. Stephen King also wrote
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  Speaker 1: the screenplay. It was based on his short story Trucks.
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  Speaker 1: It starred Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingel, Laura Harrington, and Christopher Murney. Yes, Merne, Mernie.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I wake up in the mornings, I feel Mourne.
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  Speaker 2: So this was his directorial debut.
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  Speaker 1: It had a budget of nine million dollars. Wall had
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  Speaker 1: a box office of seven point four million.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of a dud. So here's the plot. After
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  Speaker 2: a comet causes a radiation storm on Earth, machines c
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  Speaker 2: to life and turn against their makers. Hold up in
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  Speaker 2: a North Carolina truck stop, a group of survivors must
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  Speaker 2: fend for themselves against a mass of homicidal trucks. A
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  Speaker 2: diner cook named Bill Robinson played by Emilio Estevez emerges
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  Speaker 2: as the unlikely leader of the pack, attempting to find
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  Speaker 2: an escape plan for himself and the survivors, who includes
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  Speaker 2: his boss, Bubba Hindershot played by pat Hingele, and a
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  Speaker 2: newlywed couple Bubba hinder Shot Bubba Hindershot. Now, so that's
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  Speaker 2: the plot. So I want you to remember the plot.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it gets fourteen percent on the Beyder meter.
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  Speaker 1: That's bad.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty percent on the popcorn meter though, and uh for
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  Speaker 2: some of the reviews, Roger Ebert, I could not find
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  Speaker 2: a review of this movie, so I pulled a one
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  Speaker 2: critic review in one audience review from Rotten Tomatoes, and
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  Speaker 2: so Kevin Carr said, he's the critic. Someone once said
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  Speaker 2: to me, Stephen King didn't direct this movie. Cocaine directed
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  Speaker 2: this movie, and it certainly shows. Someone on the audience
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  Speaker 2: review named m jay or with the initials MJ. Said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it was Michael Jordan or Michael J. Jacksons. No,
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  Speaker 2: they said obviously cheesy, poorly acted, and dreadfully directed. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: But it has a c DC and is linked to
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  Speaker 2: my favorite writer, Guilty Pleasure, for sure. So it was
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  Speaker 2: nominated for some awards, believe it or not really well,
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  Speaker 2: two golden raspberries.
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  Speaker 1: Oh of course we're.
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  Speaker 2: Given out nominations Emilio Stebs for Worst Actor and Stephen
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  Speaker 2: King for Worst Director. But this movie has gained cult
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  Speaker 2: following status. It's a bad Guilty Pleasure movie and I
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  Speaker 2: have actually enjoyed it when I watched it I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure how many more times I want to see it,
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  Speaker 2: but I have enjoyed it in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So for a second, pretend that you are Stephen
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  Speaker 1: King and I am I don't know who would I
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  Speaker 1: be his wife? And he's gonna pitch this story to me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So what do you think about my story?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, give me a little something else here?
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  Speaker 2: Uh Tabitha, that's his wife's name. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: about my story? After a comet causes a radiation storm
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  Speaker 2: on Earth? Now no, keep going? Machines come to life
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  Speaker 2: all hell no and turn against their makers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what a grown man wrote that? Or was
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  Speaker 1: he a child when he wrote it? No, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he's the stupid is he wrote? I have ever heard?
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  Speaker 1: And who in the world allowed Emilio Estevez to take
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  Speaker 1: this part? Did he just need the cash? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Emilio at this point had really only Breakfast
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  Speaker 2: Club and what was he and what was that after
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  Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club saying almost fire?
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  Speaker 1: So he thought that Maximum Overdrive was going to launch
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  Speaker 1: his career to the next level.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, when you've got the most famous horror rider
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  Speaker 2: of the time and he's directing a movie, I mean
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  Speaker 2: you didn't realize that it was going to be a flop.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes I did, because I've got truck stop, homicidal trucks,
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  Speaker 1: radiation storm, no I Bubba hindershot.
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  Speaker 2: So at one point, the soda machine starts firing out
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  Speaker 2: sodas at Randy Johnson, tight speed fans balls?
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 2: And nailing people? An ATM mocks a person trying to
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  Speaker 2: get money right when it first starts, you know, starts
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  Speaker 2: poking fun at that person.
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  Speaker 1: It's hysterical.
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  Speaker 2: So so you're saying that you would not like to
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  Speaker 2: see this, No, I do not want to see this.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's move on. Let's go to number nine.
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  Speaker 1: Children of the Corn. It was released March ninth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty four, directed by Fritz Kersh, screenplay by George Goldsmith,
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  Speaker 1: and it's based on Stephen King's story also the same name,
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  Speaker 1: Children of the Corn. It starred Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton.
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  Speaker 2: Do you recognize that name? Linda Hamilton?
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  Speaker 1: My dad had a little thing for Linda Hamilton?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Why is that? What was she and that he would
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  Speaker 2: have seen? Besides, I mean she was in the terminator
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  Speaker 2: and the terminator too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, probably that's probably what he saw.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what he saw.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just know he liked Linda Hamilton. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: had a budget of three million dollars, and that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: good when it comes to making a movie. Yeah, box
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  Speaker 1: office of fourteen point six million.
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  Speaker 2: Of how you paused there, like you were getting ready
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  Speaker 2: to say it had like Titanic type numbers fourteen point
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: six million. All right. So here's the plot. As physician
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Bert Stanton played by Peter Horton and his girlfriend Vicki
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: played by Linda Hamilton, drive across the Midwest to his
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: new job. Their trip comes to a sudden halt when
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: they encounter the body of a murdered boy in the road,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: and trying to contact the authorities, Burton Vicki wander into
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: a small town populated only by children followers of sinister
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: young preacher Isaac Kroner played by John Franklin. Soon the
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: couple is fleeing the youthful find fanatics who want to
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: sacrifice them to their demonic deity. So this had thirty
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: six percent on the Mader meter and forty percent on
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the popcorn Meter. Roger Ebert gave the film one out
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: of four Stars, describing as being about a sinister force
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: behind the cornfields. He found the movie not very frightening
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: and considered the horror elements to be more about mass
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: hysteria than true horror. Critic consensus on Rotten Tomatoes says
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Children of the Corn strong premise and beginning gets shucked
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: away for a kittie thriller that runs in circles. In
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: later years, Children of the Corn has been revisited by
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: critics for its eerie atmosphere in lasting influence within nineteen
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: eighties or cinema. I will give my thoughts on Children
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: of the Corn after I hear your thoughts.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I initially, when you talk about that this
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: couple come across the body of a murdered boy in
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the middle of the roadway, I thought, Okay, that sounds
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: like a dateline I saw recently, so I'm like, okay,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I'm intrigued. But then they wander into a small town
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and then there's children, and there's a crazy young preacher,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, uh, why didn't they just leave? Just
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: drive your car, just hit that gas and go.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: It's been so long since I've seen it, I don't
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: remember why they didn't just leave. I'm thinking the kids
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: probably pulled some stuff off their car. The kids came
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: out of the corn and pulled Yes, And this is
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: a town filled only with kids.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Why are your eyes why are you doing your eyes
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: at me like that? Because you're freaking me out? Because
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: that's frightening in and of itself. A town filled only
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: with kids, like teenagers or like preteener like.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Children, like preteens. Probably preteens, yes, and maybe a couple
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: of teenagers. I'm thinking Isaac was probably a teenager. And
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: then they had a Malakai who was freaky as all
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: get out, red red hair. Yes, he was freaky. So okay,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: so tell me your thoughts on just based on this
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: would you like to see this movie based just on
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: what you've readen, I would consider it. You would consider it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I would consider it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, what would be because it because it starts out
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: like a dateline, That's why you'd consider it. Yeah, okay.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: But the instant I realized that they could hit the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: gas and go and they don't. I'm out.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: So this movie came out when I was ten years old.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, I bet it was really good at ten.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I saw it at ten or eleven and it scared
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: the living tar out of met it. Yes, I would
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: have this movie at like three, probably if I was
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: choosing now. I'm sure I could go back and watch
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: it now and it would be a joke and it
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: probably wouldn't be good at all. But I'm telling you,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: seeing this as a ten or eleven year old, there's
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: something about seeing scary movies as a kid that sticks
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: with you and you think they're the scariest of all time.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: That's why I still love the movie Halloween, and kids
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: nowadays would laugh at it and call it a joke.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: All right, But I love the movie Halloween because I
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: saw it as a kid and it scared the tar
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: out of me, and so this movie was the same way.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: All Right, You ready to move on?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Number eight.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Firestarter released May eleventh, nineteen eighty four, directed by Mark l. Luster,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: screenplay by Stanley Mann, based on the novel Firestarter by
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Stephen King. Listen to Who's in this movie? Okay, now,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I'm I can get behind it just by who's in it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: David Keith, Drew Barry Moore, Freddie Jones, Heather Locklear, Martin Sheen.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: He's gonna try to like beat Emilio Estevez, George C. Scott,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Art Carney, and is it Louise Fletcher.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, that is a heck of a cast. It really
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: is a heck of a cast.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I had a budget of twelve million. It made seventeen
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: point one million in the box office.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: All right, so let me give you some more The
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: plot as youths Andy McGee played by David Keith and
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: his future wife Vicki played by Heather Locklear, participated in
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: secret experiments allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: What yeah, think of like eleven? Think of like right?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Think think of that? So years later, the couple's daughter,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Charlie played by Drew Barrymore, begins to exhibit the ability
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: makes the youngster extremely dangerous, and soon she becomes a
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: target for the enigmatic agency known as the Shot. So
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: you can see where stranger things may have gotten a
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: little bit of their thoughts behind what they've done.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: So the reception on this forty on the major meter,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: fifty two percent on the popcorn meter. Roger Ebert gave
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: it two stars out of four and called it boring.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: There isn't a role in this movie not filled by
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: a capable actor, And there's not a character in this
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: movie that is convincing even for a moment, nor a
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: line in this movie that even experienced perform can make real.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: The critical consensus on Rotten Tomato says firestarteris concept hughes
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: too closely to other known Stephen King adaptations, though it's
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: got nice special effects, including scenery chewing. George C.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Scott, Wait, what does that mean? Scenery chewing?
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know, that's just what they said.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Is that a compliment or an insult or?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I think it's a compliment. After seeing a rough cut,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Stephen King declared it one of the worst of the
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: bunch of the adaptations of his work he had seen,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: dubbing it flavorless. So this movie was remade in twenty
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: twenty two starring zach Efron.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Whoa is that what caused zac Efron to go crazy? Yeah?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Maybe so. I want to know your thoughts based just
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: on this. Nope, nope, No, open it on back. You
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: got to give me more than that. You got to
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: give me more than Nope.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, I do not like the words participated in secret experiments.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I am not okay with that. I will never allow
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: anybody to do a mysterious medical test on me, nor
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: do I want to watch it happen to someone else
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: in a movie. No, thank you.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I saw this movie probably sometime in the nineties. I
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: did not enjoy it. I'm going to nope on home.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: And I really didn't enjoy the book that much. The
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: book was better than the movie, for sure, but I
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: wouldn't put this in my top twenty five Stephen King novels.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Well that's too bad, but I mean it is what
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: it is. It sounds horrible.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: All right, Let's go Number seven.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Silver Bullet released October eleventh, nineteen eighty five, directed by
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Dan Attias, screenplay by none other than Stephen King, based
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: on the novella cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Oh Here We Go. Stars Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Ham,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and Terry O'Quinn. Had a budget of seven million dollars
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: and it brought in ten point eight million at the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: box office. All right, so you've got my attention. Here's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: because of Gary Busey and Corey Ham. When a series
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: of unexplained murders occurs in the normally quiet town of
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Tarker's Mill. The residents decide to hunt down the killer. However,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: many of these vigilantes end up dead, and those who
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: don't are no closer to finding an assailant. But when
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: a young wheelchair using boy named Marty played by Corey Ham,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: encounters a werewolf one night, the pieces begin to come together.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Along with his sister and uncle Red played by Gary Busey,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Marty begins a mission to capture the werewolf once and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: for all. Okay, so I now remember we've talked about
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: this in our Cory's episode.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Yes we did. The reception forty three percent on the
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: major meter, fifty six percent on the popcorn meter. Roger
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Ebert said, Stephen king Silver Bullet is either the worst
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: movie ever made from a Stephen King story or the funniest.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It is either simply bad or, as it is, an
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: inspired parody of his whole formula in which quiet American
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: towns are invaded by unspeakable horrors. It's a close call,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: but I think the movie is intentionally funny, and because
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I laughed longer and louder during this film than any
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: other comedy I've seen since Broadway. Danny Rose I am
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: going way out on a shaky limb and actually give
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the movie a three star rating, which means I even
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: think you might enjoy it too.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Oh wow. Okay.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: In a retrospective review, Felix Vasquez Junior, a film threat
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: and Cinema Craze, wrote Silver Bullet features one of the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: best climaxes in a horror film, thanks to director Daniel
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Attias and Garners, a very entertaining and creepy story that
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: develops beyond a typical werewolf movie. When I think of
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: great horror films, when I think of great werewolf films,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: and when I think of a great King film, I
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: think of this. So I want to know what are
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: your thoughts on this?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I have a question, and I asked the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: question first, Yes, have you seen this movie?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I have?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Do you think that Stephen King meant for it to
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: be funny?
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think Stephen King meant for
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: it to be funny, but Stephen King didn't direct it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so it's so it sounds ridiculous. First of all,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I like the name Tarker's Mill for the towns. I
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: like that love Gary Busey love Corey Haim. I don't
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: understand why does Marty need to be in a wheelchair.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: That's just random to me. And then we've got these
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: murders going on. There's obviously a serial killer. Then Marty
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: comes in and then he's in a wheelchair. Okay, so
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: he's wheeling himself around trying to get away from the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: serial killer. And then a werewolf shows up. Like again,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: this it feels a little absurd, but I would watch it.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: The werewolf is the serial killer. Oh well, spoiler alert,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: spoiler alert.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: No, I mean it's pretty obvious, like a werewolf movie,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the werewolf is the killer, right, not necessarily, Okay, they
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: can't control themselves, kind of like our Gary Busey out
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: in the yard can't control themselves when seeing a mole
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: or a bird. But I'm gonna say this, I love
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: this movie. This might be my favorite movie on the
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: whole list.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Really.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, uh, this is the movie that made me start
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: liking Gary Busey, And this is the movie I think
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: that introduced me to Corey Haynes. Okay, so I think
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: you might think it's ridiculous and enjoy it all at
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: the same time.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I you know what I think that's a great assessment.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: All right, Let's move on to number six.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Kujo released August twelfth, nineteen eighty three, directed by Lewis Tige,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: screenplay by Don Carlos Dunaway, based on the novel Kujo
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: by Stephen King, stars Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Danny Pintaro.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Is that from Who's the Boss?
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Is it? I think it is? That name sounds familiar.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's embarrassing. Ed is it? Louder? Huh? And Christopher
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Stone Little Jonathan In Kujo, Yes, that's crazy okay. Had
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: a budget of six million dollars. It made any one
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: point two million in the box office.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I'm actually surprised by that. It's pretty good, okay. In
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: this tale of a killer canine, man's best friend turns
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: into his worst enemy when sweet Saint Bernard Cujo is
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: bitten by a bat, he starts behaving oddly and becomes
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: very aggressive. As Kujo morse into a dangerous beast, he
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: goes on a rampage in a small town. Stay at
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: home mom Donna played by Dee Wallace, gets caught in
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Kujo's crossed hairs on a fateful errand with her son
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Tad played by Danny Pintaro. Stuck in their tiny car,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Donna and Tad have a frightening showdown with the crazed animal.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: This got sixty percent on the Mader meter and forty
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: six percent on the Popcorn Meter, so the critics liked
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: it better than the audience. Roger Ebert called it dreadful.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I couldn't find how many stars he gave it. Jene
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Siskel gave it one star out of four, calling it
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: one of the dumbest, flimsiest excuses for a movie I
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: have ever seen.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Really.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: The critic consensus on Rotten Tomato says Kujo is artless work,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: punctuated with moments of high canine gore and one wild
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: D Wallace performance. I would have rather seen one wild
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: D Snyder performance. In March twenty twenty five, Netflix announced
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: they were developing a remake of the film, with Roy
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Lee serving as producer. Oh I bet it will probably
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: be better than the nineteen eighty three version.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: You know it has my attention.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because this could really happen, right, A dog a
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: dog going rabbit.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Anytime you say Kujo, I think
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of is it Kojak who's the was he like a
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the bald guy with the lollies? So a rabbit kojak?
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Now that's funny.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, so you know, I think I might give this
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: one a try. I don't know who d Wallace is. You.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I think you would reckon nicer if you saw her.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: But I feel like Shelley Devall could have probably really
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: done this character some justice.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I don't know.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Because she loves to she used to love to scream
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: in her movies.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: D Wallace was the momin et.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, So I always think of d Wallace as.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: D from What's Happening.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: We've been married too long.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: So I've seen this movie. I didn't enjoy it. I
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: loved the book. The book was fantastic. Wow, it's probably
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: top fifteen or top twenty. Yeah, I really loved the book.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: But the movie just there are just some books that
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: just can't be made into movie.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: How do you fill a book or fill a movie
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: with a rabid dog trapping two people in a car?
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Well, what kind of happens near the end the rabbit dog?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: What happens for the rest of it? That's the premise
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: of the story. The whe else is going?
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: The rabbit dog gets some people before it traps them.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's scary. Oh yeah for sure. All right,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: so you might be in on Kouja.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I'd give it a shot, all right. Number five Creep
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Show released November twelfth, nineteen eighty two, directed by George Romero,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: screenplay by Stephen King, based on his short series Weeds
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: and the Crate Stories Short Stories What Did I Say?
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Series?
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Based on his short stories Weeds and the Crate.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Look at all These Stars?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Wow? Okay? Starring Hal Holbrook, Love Me Somehow, Adrian Barbo,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, e G. Marshall, viv
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Lin for Lyn First Lynn Force and Ted Dancing.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: And Ted Dancing Wow. Right after it Cheers premiered.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay. So I had a budget of eight million.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: It may twenty one million in the box.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Pretty decent. Okay.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of this, So I.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Own this, So we should watch it for Halloween. A
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: compendium of five short but terrifying tales contained within a
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: single full length feature. So think like twilight Zone. Remember
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: this film conjure scares from traditional boogeyman and portents of doom.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: In one story, a monster escapes from its holding cell.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Another focuses on a husband played by Leslie Nielsen with
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: a creative way of getting back at his cheating wife.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Other stories concern a rural man played by Stephen King
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: and a visitor from outer space, and a homeowner with
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: huge bug problems and a boozing corpse. The reception was sixty.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I thought you said in oozing corns boozing a drunk
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: dead person.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Yes. The reception sixty six percent on the Mader meter,
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: sixty nine percent on the popcorn meter. Roger Ebert gave
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: it three out of four stars, saying creep show plays
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: like an anthology of human phobias. The horrors and creep
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: show were universal enough, and so is the approach. These
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: stories have been inspired right down to the very camera angles,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: by the classic ec comics of the early nineteen fifties.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Titles like Tales from the Crypt. Romero and King have
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: approached this movie with humor and affection, as well as
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: with an appreciation of the macabre. They create visual links
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: to comic books by beginning each segment with several panels
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: of a comics artists version of the story. The critic
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: consensus on Rotten Tomatoes says it's uneven, as anthologies often are,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: but creep Show is colorful, frequently funny, and treats its
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: inspirations with infectious reverence. So Bravo awarded this movie the
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: ninety ninth spot on their one hundred Scariest Movie Moments.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Really Tales from the Dark Side was the television spinoff
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: of this movie, but due to Warner Brothers holding certain rights,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: including the name creep Show, the title had to be changed.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Another creep Show television series was announced in July twenty eighteen,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: which was produced by Greg Nicotaro and streamed on shutter Now.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: I have to ask you, do you recognize that name
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Greg Nicotaro? No, you have been to his restaurant before.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, the Don't tell Me walking Dead? Yeah, and we
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: did the Walking Dead tour. Yes, we went to it
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: was like what Nick Normans? Nick Normans, Yes, Nicked Night.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: On August three, twenty nineteen, Universal Destinations Experience announced that
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: creep Show would be coming the Halloween Horror Nights exclusively
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: at its Universal Studios Hollywood Theme Park. It's a shame
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: that it didn't make it to Orlando. That would be cool.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I say, so, what are your thoughts.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I would never watch this because it sounds like it
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: would really scare me.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: No, it's not really scary at all.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I can't picture Leslie Nielsen being serious.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Right, Leslie Nielsen was actually a serious actor before he
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: start an airplane, and.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. To me, he's that quirky yeah,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: trying to be funny guy.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: So with Stephen King, he played a role in the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: movie that's interesting. I don't know. I mean, I trust
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: that you know me, but that that feels this feels
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: a little creepy.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: So I saw this came out in nineteen eighty two.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I didn't see it in eighty two. I probably saw
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: it in eighty three, so I probably wasn't even ten
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: years old yet. And this movie did not scare me.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: So I can tell you that this movie isn't scary.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: It's more on the comic book kind of creepy side.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay. I see certain.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Episodes of The Walking Dead is scarier than this movie. Yeah, okay,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: and you've watched those, so.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't. Yeah, I didn't think that was scary.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: So I think you might enjoy creep show. Okay, I
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: love it. So this is my favorite movie.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: On the list now, Tales from the Crypt. Are we
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: talking about.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: The Yes, the HBO show, Yes, the.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Skeleton with this little wispy hair.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, oh okay, yeah yeah, so that that was a
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: spinoff of the movie Creep Show And did those scare you?
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: The Tales from the Crypt now, yeah, so that's kind
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: of what this is like. So I think you'd like it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: And again it is my favorite movie on this list.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: All right, we have made it all the way down
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: to number four.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Number four Christine released December ninth, nineteen eighty three, directed
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: by John Carpenter, screenplay by Bill Phillips, based on Stephen
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: King's novel with the same name. Christine starring Keith Gordon,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: John Stockwell, Alexandria, Paul, Robert Prosky, and Harry Dean Stantons.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Was Harry Dean Stanton in Everything in the eighties? Yes,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like he was.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: He didn't make his money when he could. He had
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: a budget of ten million and it brought in twenty
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: one million in the box office.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, so here's the plot. Unpopular nerd Arnie Cunningham played
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: by Keith Gordon buys a nineteen fifty eight Plymouth Fury
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: which he names Christine. Arnie develops an unhealthy obsession with
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: the car, to the alarm of his jock friend Dennis
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Gilder played by John Stockwell, and after bully Buddy Reperton
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: defaces Christine, the auto restores itself to perfect condition and
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: begins killing off Buddy and his friends.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: How running him over.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Yes. Determined to stop the deaths, Dennis and Arnie's girlfriend
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: decide to destroy Christine.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I have a question. Yes, So Christine is
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: a car. Yes, it's a fifty eight Plymouth Fury. Yes,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: and it comes alive to some extent. It starts killing people. Yes,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Why don't they just go upstairs?
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: It gets them while they're out. It doesn't like go
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: to their homes.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: So they can't put like a news broadcast on, and
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: it's like everyone go upstairs. Nobody knows, and then a
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: sniper could shoot it out the window.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Nobody knows that Christine is doing this except for Arnie
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: and his best friend and his girlfriend.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, I don't get it all right.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: So it got seventy four on the major meter.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: If you asked me on a date and took me
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: out to see this movie, I'd be pissed.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I don't blame you, okay, So seventy four
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: percent on the major meter, sixty five percent of the
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: popcorn meter. So gets some high ratings. Robert Robert Roger Ebert,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: not his brother Robert Robert Eger. Roger Ebert gave it
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: three out of four stars, saying I've seen a lot
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: of movies where the teenage guy parks in a car
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: with the girl he loves. This is the first one
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: where he parks with a girl in the car he loves.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: I knew guys like this in high school.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: We all did.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: They spent their lives customizing their cars. Their girlfriends were
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: accessories who ranked higher, say than foam rubber dice, but
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: lower than dual carbs.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: That's funny, he does. He really give it three out
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: of four.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: He really does. I think I'm gonna go have some
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: dual carbs for dinner after this.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Oh raj. I feel like I fe I feel like
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: if I hate it, he loves it. If he loves it,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I hate it.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, the critics consensus, I'm rotten. Tomato says the cracks
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: are starting to show in John Carpenter's directorial instincts, but
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Christine is nonetheless moody macob fun So. While he was
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: promoting the film Dream Catcher in two thousand and three,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Stephen King mentioned Christine as one of the two film
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: adaptations of his work that had bored him. Really, yes,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: but here's what's kind of cool. Songs on the soundtrack
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: of the movie include bad to the Bone by George Thorogood,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Not Fade Away by Buddy Holly, which was also covered
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: by the Stones later on Rock and Roll is Here
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: to Stay by Danny and the Juniors, and Beast a
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Burden by the Rolling Stones, amongst others. Yeah, amongst others.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I've kind of already given
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: you my Thah, you kind of have.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Why don't they run upstairs? And if I took you
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: to see this movie on a date, you'd be pissed.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: I'd be pissed. But seriously, just go upstairs and then
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: if you need to go on up to the attic.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: So I really didn't enjoy this movie that much. It
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: was okay, But the book might be top five for me. Really, Yes,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: I loved the book.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Christ I don't understand it was fantastic, Like how that
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: would make a good.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Book I'm just telling it. You just got to read
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: the book like it's just.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: A bunch of grown, grown people scared of a car.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: They aren't grown people. They're teenagers.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: A bunch of teenage people scared of They're nobody's scared
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: of it until it starts chasing them down and running
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: them over. Okay, am I irritating you?
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: No? Okay, No, you're entertaining me.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Number three, Pet Cemetery, released April twenty first, nineteen eighty nine,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: directed by Finally we got a woman, Mary Lambert. We
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: never have a female director.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: What do you want me to do about it? I
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: didn't make the rules. This is just what happened.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Screenplay by Stephen King, based on King's novel with the
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: same name, Pet Cemetery, starring Dale Midkiff, Fred Dwin, Denise Crosby,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Brad Greenquist, and Michael Lombard.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: I gotta ask you, do you recognize fred Gwynn?
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: No? I don't.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: He was the judge in my cousin Vinny. Oh yeah,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: and he's also Herman Muns.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, of course, what a memorable face.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, for sure.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: So had a budget of eleven and a half million.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: It brought in fifty seven and a half million at
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: the box office.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, so here's the plot. Doctor Lewis Creed moves his
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: family to Maine, where he meets a friendly local named
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: jud Crandall, who was played by Fred Gwinn. After the
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Creed's cat is accidentally killed, Okay, okay, okay, I did
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: not agree to such a violence. Cat's name was Church,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: by the way. After the Creed's cat is accidentally killed,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Crandell advises Lewis to bury it in the ground near
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: the old pet cemetery. The cat returns to life, its
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: personality changed for the worst. When Lewis's son, Gauge, dies tragically,
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Lewis decides to bury the boy's body in the same ground.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Oh now, that's just ridiculous.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Despite the warnings of Crandall and Lewis's visions of a
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: deceased patient, that is ridiculous.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: The city would not allow you to do that the city.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: They are living in the city, sweetheart, they're living in
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: rural Maine.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: There are rules and laws and regulations. You can't just
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: bury a body in a pet cemetery.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: He did, okay, and guess what didn't work well? Didn't
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: work well? Okay, so the reception was fifty eight percent
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: on the Mayer Meter and sixty percent on the Popcorn Meter.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: This one kind of surprised me that it was so low,
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: because I thought this movie is pretty popular. As you
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: can see, it had fifty seven and a half million
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: in the box office. So both Ciskel and Ebert gave
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: it zero stars.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: The critical consensus on Rotten Tomato says, pet Cemetery is
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: a bruising horror flick that wears its quirks on its
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: sleeves to the detriment of its scare factor.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Why did they spell cemetery because it because it was.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: It was like a kid wrote on a pet cemetery, right, Oh,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: kids spell phonetically. A sequel, Pet Cemetery IWO was released
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety two to poor reviews and a disappointing
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: box office. Although it references the events of the first film,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: sequel focuses on all new characters. Pet Cemetery was ranked
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: number sixteen on IFC's list of the best Stephen King
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: film and television adaptations, and also placed it at six
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: on Rolling Stones Top thirty King Adaptations. In twenty nineteen,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the movie was rebooted and John Lithgiw played the same
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: role as Fred Gwynn.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, I can see that, right.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts based on this?
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Do animals other than Church the cat go demonic? No?
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: I mean in the past they may have, but you
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: don't see it on screen. So just the cat, just
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: the cat and the boy and the boy.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Huh. I would give it a shot, really, yeah, I would.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Whoa, I'm shocked at that.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a really good Halloween movie.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, fantastic. We may have to watch it.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Is it scary?
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: No, there's one kind of creepy part, but.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll give it a go. All right, Okay, I
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: don't want to see the cat get killed.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you see the cat get killed.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: I mean it's been since nineteen nineties. Actually, okay with that,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: all right? Nonumber two.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: The Dead Zone released October twenty first in nineteen eighty three,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: directed by David Cronenberg, screenplay by Jeffrey Bohen, based on
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: King's novel by the same name, The Dead Zone starring
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Christopher Walkin, Brook Adams, Tom Scarrett, Herbert Lorne, and Martin Sheen.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Martin Sheen coming back for some more King, Yes.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: So I need to know why you left at Christopher Walkin.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Christopher Walkin in and of himself is a Stephen Keen character.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, totally, totally.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: So I got on one question for you, Christopher, not
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: you Christopher Walkin, Well you are Christopher, but I'm talking
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: to Christopher Walkin. What happened to Natalie Wood? All right?
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Finish your box office there.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I had a budget of seven point fifteen million and
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: it made it twenty point eight million in the box office.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Sure. So here's the plot. When Johnny Smith played by
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Christopher Waltkins awakens from a coma caused by a car accident,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: he finds that years have passed and he now has
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: psychic abilities, heartbreaking the heartbroken that his girlfriend has moved
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: on with her life. Johnny also must contend with his
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: unsettling powers, which allows him to see a person's future
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: with a mere touch. After shaking the hand of aspiring
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: politician Greg Stilson played by Martin Sheen, Johnny sees the
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: danger presented by the candidate's rise and resolves to kill him. Now,
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think I've seen parts of this movie. I
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: maybe I've seen all of it. I don't remember, but
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: I can tell you, I'm pretty sure he doesn't kill
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Martin Sheen. Martin Sheen just changes his name to Jed
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Bartlett and continues his career in politics.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Keeps climb in the ladder.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, so get this eighty nine percent on the Mader Meter,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: in seventy seven percent on the Popcorn Meter. Roger Ebert
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: gave it three and a half out of four stars
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: and says the movie does what only a good supernatural
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: movie thriller can do. It makes us forget it supernatural.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: He also said that this was King's best adaptation to date. Now,
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: this was nineteen eighty three, so it there's been a
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: lot since then, But the critic consensus on Rotten Tomato
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: says the Dead Zone combines taught direction from David Cronenberg
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: and a rich performance from Christopher Walken to create one
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: of the strongest Stephen King adaptations. Did you know that
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: there was a six season TV show on USA in
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: the early two thousands called The Dead Zone starring Anthony
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Michael All.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: No, yes, no, I did not know that. I have
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: nothing to say because this sounds like a fantastic story.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, so this is something that you'd want to see.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I love mar and Sheen.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: You love Tom Skarett.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: You know what was he on?
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: He was on Northern was it Northern Ticket Fences?
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Ticket Fences? Oh yeah, he was that classic nineteen nineties
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: actor also top done. That's right. How could I forget that?
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: I would give this a go.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't really care for the book too much,
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: and I didn't really care for the movie too much.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Oh really, But to me it was you know, it's
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: super natural, but it's not horror. So you know, as
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: as a youngster, I was looking for the horror and
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: I didn't get it. But okay, all right, are you ready?
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: We finally have gotten down to our number one?
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: I was born and the Winner is The Shining direct
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: by Stanley Kubrick, screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: Finally another female based on King's novel. The Shining stars
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Caruthers, Danny Lloyd and Danny
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Lloyd at a budget of nineteen million dollars, and it
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: made forty eight million in the box office.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Here's the plot. Jack Torrance played by Jack Nicholson, becomes
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook hotel in Colorado. Hoping
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: to cure his writer's block, he settles in along with
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: his wife Wendy played by Shelley Duvall, and his son
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Danny played by Danny Lloyd. Doesn't look like they went
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: real far out on the character names and the actor
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: names Danny, who is played by psychic premonitions. As Jack's
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: discovers the hotel's dark secrets and be against to unravel
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: into a homicidal maniac hell bent on terrorizing his family.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: This got eighty four percent on the Mader Meter in
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: ninety three percent on the Popcorn Meter. Roger Ebert gave
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: it four out of four stars and pray Stanley Kubrick
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: and the actors. The critical consensus on Rotten Tomato says,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: though it deviates from Stephen King's novel, Stanley Kubrick's The
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: Shining is a chilling, often baroque journey into madness, exemplified
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: by an unforgettable turn from Jack Nicholson. So I got
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: some interesting facts for you. Do you want to tell
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: me about the movie before I give you the interesting facts?
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: This is the actual only movie that you've seen.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, I have seen it. It was so distracting the
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: amount of screaming that Shelley Devaul does in this movie.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Like if she would have just shot up, I felt
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: like I might could handle the movie better, but her
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: constant and unrelenting screaming just got to me. I also
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: don't understand how she didn't realize there was something a
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: little off about him before they got up there to
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: that resort. You will never uh, you will never convince
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: me he was perfectly sane till they got there.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: Well, he was a he was a an alcoholic, right,
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: he was recovering alcoholic before they went up.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean that doesn't mean he's crazy. Did he
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: not have alcohol? Is that? Is that what he was needing?
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe?
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Like I just like, you're gonna tell me he was
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: perfectly okay, and then a switch flipped and he wasn't
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: And then she screamed the rest of the movie.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: Kevin Fever. So, Kevin Fever in a Haunted Hotel will make.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: You lose your mind, I mean apparently.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: And also all work and no play makes Jack a
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: dull boy.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: So I will say, and spoiler alert if you're like
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: the five people out there that have never seen this movie.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: I was thrilled that he died and that she and
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: the child survived because I feel like we always kill
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: off the women. The women never survive the evil, crazed
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: man that's after them. So I love to see the
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: tables turn. And she didn't have to get her hands dirty.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: She didn't kill him, right, didn't he freeze to death?
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Yes? So so I have to say Halloween, all the
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Friday the thirteenth Nightmare on Elm Street, all the survivors
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: were women.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: So I think the difference for me is I actually
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: consider the shining to be like a serious movie, like
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: not a joke, right, those that you just named, I
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: take it as a joke.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: Well, the original Halloween won a joke. But yeah, I
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: get what you're saying. Okay. So Jack Nicholson was Stanley
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: Kubrick's first choice for the role of Jack Torrence, but
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: other actors considered included Robert de Niro, who, by the way,
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: said that this film gave him nightmares for months. Really, yeah,
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: or for eight month.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I could see him doing this show.
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Daniro could do it. Robin Williams and Harrison Ford No,
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: all of whom met with King's disapproval. Chris Christopherson was
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: Stanley Kubrick's backup choice if Nicholson declined.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Wow, you know I love Chris Kristopherson.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: Yes. Stephen King, for his part, disavowed Nicholson because he
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: thought that because of his part in One Flew Over
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: the Cuckoo's Nest, the viewer would tend to consider him
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: an unstable individual from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think he probably is in real life.
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  Speaker 1: I mean if you hear a whole lot about him.
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  Speaker 2: For this reason, King preferred John Voight.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, he would have been good.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Moriarty or Martin Sheen for the role.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, nope, nope, no no.
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  Speaker 2: He thought they would more faithfully represent the profile of
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  Speaker 2: the ordinary individual who was gradually driven to madness. So,
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  Speaker 2: to answer your question, no, apparently there wasn't any crazy
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  Speaker 2: in Jack Nicholson and Jack Torrance before he arrived at
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  Speaker 2: the hotel. In any case, from the beginning, the writer
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  Speaker 2: was told that the actor for the lead role was
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  Speaker 2: not negotiable. Wow. In two thousand and one, the film
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  Speaker 2: was ranked twenty ninth on AFI's one hundred Years One
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  Speaker 2: hundred Thrills list, and Jack Torrance was named the twenty
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  Speaker 2: fifth greatest villain on AFI's one hundred Years one hundred
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  Speaker 2: Villain Heroes and Villains list in two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 2: and in two five the quote Here's Johnny was ranked
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  Speaker 2: sixty eight on AFI's one hundred Years one hundred Movie
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  Speaker 2: Quotes list. Stephen King has been quoted as saying that
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  Speaker 2: although Kubrick made a film with memorable imagery, it was
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  Speaker 2: poor as an adaptation, and that is the only adaptation
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  Speaker 2: of his novels that he could remember hating. Really yes,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: Shelley Duvall was nominated for a Razzie Award as Worst
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  Speaker 2: Actress and Stanley Kubrick was nominated as Worst Director, which
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  Speaker 2: is surprising to me. I don't know how he got
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  Speaker 2: Worst Director. So the room number two seventeen has been
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  Speaker 2: changed to two thirty seven. Timberline Lodge, located on Mountain
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Hood in Oregon, was used for the aerial exterior shots
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: of the fictional Overlook Hotel. The lodge requested that Kubrick
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  Speaker 2: not depict Room two seventeen, which was featured in the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: book In the Shining, because future guests that the lodge
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: might be afraid to stay there in a non existent room.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: To two thirty seven was substituted in the film, but contrary
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: to the hotel's expectations, Room two seventeen is requested more
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  Speaker 2: often than any other room at Timberline. You've already given
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: your thoughts. You were much nicer to it now than
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: you were after we watched it. Really, after we watched it,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: you just ripped this movie to shred.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: What did I say?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: You thought it was horrible.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: No, it wasn't it was horrible. You just talked good
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: about it. Other than Shelley Duval's screaming.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't like the movie. Maybe I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: would have gone crazy too if I had had to
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: be with Shelley Devall and she screamed the whole time.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: That's what drove you nuts about this movie, was Shelley
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: Duval screaming. Yes, So if Shelley Duvall's not screaming the
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: whole time, you like this movie.
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  Speaker 1: No, I still don't like it, but that would have
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: helped me to think clearly.
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  Speaker 2: So I can tell you this movie scared the tar
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: out of me as a kid. Oh really came out
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: when I was six I'm sure I didn't see it
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: when I was six.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: What was it the whole light?
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: It was that it was him going crazy, It was
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Scatman Crothers taking an ax to the to the abdomen. Yeah,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: oh no, what it was was Danny right in the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: big wheel and seeing the two twins, Yes, the two
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: ghost twins.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Because you could picture that that was you.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, And that scared the crap out of me, like
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: they would just appear there. Oh so so freaky, so scary.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: I still love this movie to this day. All right,
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  Speaker 2: So that wraps up our look at the top ten
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Stephen King adapted films during the nineteen eighties. I want
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  Speaker 2: to know from you and the audience, which movie would
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  Speaker 2: you most like to see him? Which movie would you
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: least like to see?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: So I least want to see Maximum Over because that's
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: just stupid, and I think, I mean, what's the one.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: With Corey Haim Silver Bullet.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Let's give it a shot?
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: So that over? Did Dead Zone? Huh?
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: I think? So?
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow? Okay, cool, Well we got some movies to
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: watch that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I guess let's let's get to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listeners, let us know what some of your favorites were,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: and if you didn't like any, what was your favorite?
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear from people who agree with me
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: and they don't like the shining.
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear from them too, because I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that we will.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: You don't think they exist.
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  Speaker 2: I do not think they exist. You and Stephen King.
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