Latest / Movie Meltdown / 161: Post Traumatic Mess
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- 0:52Speaker 6: What's up and welcome to Movie Meltdown, I'm Brian. I'm Greg.
- 1:22Speaker 1: I'm Lucy. I'm Fred.
- 1:24Speaker 5: I'm Alan.
- 1:25Speaker 7: I'm Merlita.
- 1:26Speaker 8: I'm Beau.
- 1:27Speaker 9: All right.
- 1:28Speaker 10: And we've got the full house once again. So it
- 1:30Speaker 10: is time for another exciting episode of the Caffeinated Movie Geek.
- 1:33Speaker 6: Cappuccino my butt. I still drink coffee.
- 1:37Speaker 3: The last fucking thing you need is another cup of coffee.
- 1:41Speaker 6: It's time for the Caffeinated Movie Geek.
- 1:43Speaker 10: We're coming to you live via digital recording from Nancy's
- 1:46Speaker 10: Bagel Grounds, where we will hang out, drink coffee, talk movies,
- 1:49Speaker 10: and traumatize each other or something. So Marlena, I ask you,
- 1:54Speaker 10: what blend of coffee are we drinking this week?
- 1:57Speaker 11: Fishers and Fallers.
- 1:59Speaker 6: All right.
- 2:00Speaker 12: Um, we, we're, we're trying to control our geek activities
- 2:04Speaker 12: week to week now.
- 2:05Speaker 1: So, um, who do we want to, Alan, do you
- 2:08Speaker 1: want to go this time around?
- 2:09Speaker 10: Yes.
- 2:09Speaker 5: Okay.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Uh, so I think at last count, I want, I've
- 2:13Speaker 2: seen like 10 in the last week.
- 2:15Speaker 10: Um, so you just got a vhs player all right
- 2:18Speaker 10: right it was.
- 2:19Speaker 2: All cruel well part of it was uh my wife
- 2:21Speaker 2: and i we found like the first four final destination
- 2:24Speaker 2: films on like a ten dollar four pack so we
- 2:27Speaker 2: marathoned the first oh.
- 2:29Speaker 10: You brave soul the first one's a fun movie there's
- 2:34Speaker 10: there's some good kills in that second one by the
- 2:37Speaker 10: third you might as well just wrap it up for
- 2:38Speaker 10: the third See, the third one, I don't even remember
- 2:41Speaker 10: if I watched. I went and saw 4 and 5
- 2:43Speaker 10: when they went 3D just to see how stupid they
- 2:45Speaker 10: would make it.
- 2:46Speaker 1: But I don't even remember if I watched 3, actually.
- 2:48Speaker 2: I haven't seen it. But the worst movie I saw,
- 2:53Speaker 2: and yet the one I keep telling people about, I
- 2:55Speaker 2: saw Real Steel. Oh, yay.
- 2:59Speaker 1: I haven't talked to anybody that's seen it. Have you
- 3:01Speaker 1: seen it? No, I wouldn't care.
- 3:04Speaker 2: The reason I watched it is really stupid. My wife
- 3:07Speaker 2: and I were getting ready for our third annual Oscars
- 3:09Speaker 2: drinking game, so I'm trying to watch as many of
- 3:13Speaker 2: the nominees as I can. And this only got nominated
- 3:15Speaker 2: for visual effects, but there's not a whole lot on
- 3:17Speaker 2: DVD yet, so I grabbed it. And I thought it
- 3:19Speaker 2: was just going to be like this robots punching each other,
- 3:24Speaker 2: kind of silly but kind of fun. And what it
- 3:27Speaker 2: turned out to be was it tried to be this
- 3:29Speaker 2: commentary on how technology is kind of usurping humanity.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Except they were really stupid about it.
- 3:36Speaker 1: What the hell are you saying? The Rock'em Sock'em Robots
- 3:40Speaker 1: movie's stupid?
- 3:42Speaker 6: I'm not buying it.
- 3:43Speaker 5: To make you suspect they've already accomplished it, or that it.
- 3:47Speaker 6: Doesn't really matter anyway.
- 3:50Speaker 2: I've seen it done before. One of my favorites is
- 3:52Speaker 2: Cronenberg's Crash, where humanity literally has a hard-on for technology.
- 3:57Speaker 12: Literally is right.
- 3:58Speaker 2: But with Real Steel, they tried to be clever about it.
- 4:02Speaker 2: They have the... like, the scrappy underdog robot, you know,
- 4:06Speaker 2: that's just, like, second generation as opposed to, I don't know,
- 4:11Speaker 2: much better robots.
- 4:12Speaker 1: It's Apple versus PC. Is that what you're saying?
- 4:14Speaker 2: So, like, its name is Atom, A-T-O-M, but Atom, like,
- 4:18Speaker 2: the first man, and then he goes up against the
- 4:21Speaker 2: world champion Zeus, which is a god, so....
- 4:26Speaker 3: The movie may have been a little xenophobic as well.
- 4:29Speaker 12: Ah, nice.
- 4:30Speaker 2: Because the bad guys were... japanese and russian and so
- 4:36Speaker 2: it's this classic american underdog tale um where the the
- 4:41Speaker 2: little guy goes up against the big guy.
- 4:43Speaker 1: I must break you right.
- 4:45Speaker 3: And um you know since they have heart and they
- 4:47Speaker 3: believe in themselves.
- 4:50Speaker 12: And there's a workout montage you know what actually.
- 4:53Speaker 2: Um there was a They were doing the workout part
- 4:56Speaker 2: and I was like, oh God, there's going to be
- 4:58Speaker 2: a montage any minute now. When they passed the workout spot,
- 5:01Speaker 2: the workout scene, I was like, thank God, no montage.
- 5:04Speaker 2: And then it went into a fight montage.
- 5:08Speaker 1: You know, that's funny. My wife has been watching more
- 5:11Speaker 1: movies recently, I think, because it's been rubbing off on,
- 5:14Speaker 1: I'm rubbing off on her. And any time, especially a
- 5:17Speaker 1: bad montage comes up, because I pointed out to her
- 5:20Speaker 1: how many there are in movies and how cliche and
- 5:23Speaker 1: And that it'll be five scenes and each one will,
- 5:26Speaker 1: you know, anyway. And there's always food spilling or something.
- 5:30Speaker 6: You know.
- 5:31Speaker 1: And I finally got to the point where I said,
- 5:33Speaker 1: I'm just going to stare at you whenever one comes on.
- 5:36Speaker 1: And she'll look at you and she'll, fuck you. Because,
- 5:41Speaker 1: you know, I refuse to watch them most of the
- 5:43Speaker 1: time because they don't progress the film. They don't do
- 5:45Speaker 1: anything for the movie. It's just cheap time filler and
- 5:48Speaker 1: you plug your buddy's band or something like that. Or
- 5:52Speaker 1: plugging the soundtrack.
- 5:54Speaker 12: I like that you worked a new level of creepy
- 5:56Speaker 12: into your marriage.
- 5:57Speaker 6: Just staring at my wife.
- 5:58Speaker 1: She's going to stare at you when it comes on.
- 6:01Speaker 5: It gets harder and harder to achieve that new weapon.
- 6:04Speaker 12: That's right. After a while, you've worn them down.
- 6:07Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 6:08Speaker 13: So now basically your wife's going to go out with friends,
- 6:10Speaker 13: see some movie that has a montage.
- 6:11Speaker 1: She's going to start crying.
- 6:14Speaker 5: Right.
- 6:14Speaker 1: No, she just, I just, I think it was that
- 6:16Speaker 1: she wasn't noticing that when they happened and that I,
- 6:20Speaker 1: I've grown. I'm like, you know, I'll look what they're doing.
- 6:23Speaker 14: And then, and she's like, what?
- 6:25Speaker 1: And it's like, well, what's going on now? So I
- 6:27Speaker 1: am evil. Sorry. I, hijacked your deeply.
- 6:34Speaker 2: So I guess in summation, real steel is not worth watching.
- 6:37Speaker 2: It's a heartwarming tale where everybody learns a valuable lesson
- 6:40Speaker 2: about perseverance and believing in yourself, believing in yourself, and
- 6:43Speaker 2: finding the heart underneath your rough exterior.
- 6:47Speaker 10: I like that one of the quotes they went to
- 6:50Speaker 10: use for the promotion of it.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Is, it's like Rocky with robots.
- 6:54Speaker 15: Oh, Really?
- 6:56Speaker 10: That's what you had to put on the box for us?
- 6:57Speaker 10: Because we can't figure that out.
- 6:59Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
- 7:00Speaker 12: I was just like, how dumb is America?
- 7:02Speaker 6: Did they assume that the robots.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Or make you assume or make you believe that the
- 7:11Speaker 1: robots had emotion? Or just the underdog had emotion?
- 7:15Speaker 6: No.
- 7:16Speaker 14: Good.
- 7:18Speaker 6: See, that's part of it as well.
- 7:20Speaker 2: They infused humanity into the robot because instead of.
- 7:24Speaker 3: programming it with a computer or however they do that.
- 7:27Speaker 6: It didn't really explain.
- 7:29Speaker 2: Hugh Jackman's character, he used to be a boxer. They
- 7:31Speaker 2: used the shadow feature where the robot follows you.
- 7:35Speaker 3: And he boxed for it and taught it himself.
- 7:38Speaker 6: Is Hugh Jackman digital in it?
- 7:41Speaker 1: They CG'd Hugh Jackman?
- 7:42Speaker 6: Did they infuse him with emotion?
- 7:45Speaker 10: Um... We're still working on that technology.
- 7:48Speaker 12: Channing Tatum's the guinea pig.
- 7:51Speaker 2: He's the one who learned all the values.
- 7:52Speaker 13: I think Liam Neeson is the prototype. I have yet
- 7:55Speaker 13: to see evidence that Liam Neeson really exists in real life.
- 7:57Speaker 13: I think he's just straight up digital.
- 7:59Speaker 12: He can kick a little sass, that's all I know.
- 8:02Speaker 6: What did Roger say, though?
- 8:02Speaker 1: He kills good? He kills people good.
- 8:06Speaker 6: He kills good. I just like him because he was
- 8:09Speaker 6: in Crawl, and you've watched that so many times.
- 8:10Speaker 1: That's exactly right. That's why I like Qui-Gon.
- 8:14Speaker 8: No, you didn't.
- 8:15Speaker 6: Nobody liked it. No, I didn't.
- 8:18Speaker 12: So, other stuff to tie in?
- 8:22Speaker 2: I'll end with just plugging in actually good movies.
- 8:25Speaker 12: No, we don't watch those much.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Well, we watched Tucker and Dale vs.
- 8:29Speaker 6: Evil.
- 8:30Speaker 1: That is good.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Which was fun because actually my wife and I had
- 8:32Speaker 3: watched Cabin Fever the night before.
- 8:35Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
- 8:35Speaker 1: It's a good double feature.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Yeah, it was completely unintentional. But has everybody here seen?
- 8:41Speaker 1: I've not seen. It's ready to watch.
- 8:44Speaker 2: Basically, it's a take on the Cabin in the Woods thing.
- 8:46Speaker 2: It's that the rednecks are the good guys, and the
- 8:49Speaker 2: teenagers are prejudiced and end up accidentally killing themselves all
- 8:53Speaker 2: over the place. It's an Alan Tudyk's in it, and
- 8:57Speaker 2: he's just amazing.
- 8:58Speaker 1: He is awesome.
- 9:00Speaker 6: So, don't watch Real Steel.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Watch Tucker and Dale. That's one that I'm trying to
- 9:05Speaker 1: get her to watch with me.
- 9:07Speaker 10: I think She would probably like it because, yeah, she
- 9:09Speaker 10: probably doesn't like the real versions of the movie. So
- 9:12Speaker 10: this is just kind of making fun of how stupid
- 9:13Speaker 10: they are. So you can get her on board with that.
- 9:17Speaker 2: That's all I've got.
- 9:18Speaker 6: All right.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Speaking of this, I'll have anybody listening. I just saw
- 9:23Speaker 1: it today, specifically A-Day. Some nerd online took time to
- 9:30Speaker 1: figure out what Ice Cube's Today Was a Good Day song.
- 9:35Speaker 1: He took every line out of it, and the Lakers
- 9:39Speaker 1: beat the Supersonics, and there was no smog in L.A. today,
- 9:43Speaker 1: and he watched you on TV reps. We went through
- 9:45Speaker 1: every identifiable thing and broke it down to the specific
- 9:49Speaker 1: days that it had to be, and it came out
- 9:51Speaker 1: like January 20, 1992. So if all of those events
- 9:57Speaker 1: had to take place on that day, it had to be.
- 10:00Speaker 1: that day for non-existence.
- 10:01Speaker 7: I heard he did use his AK that day.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure he probably did. So I thought that
- 10:07Speaker 1: was a nice waste of time for someone. That's a
- 10:11Speaker 1: neat little article that the person wrote about it.
- 10:14Speaker 5: What's the movie that takes like just video people took
- 10:19Speaker 5: all around the world.
- 10:20Speaker 6: Life in a day.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Yeah, life in a day.
- 10:24Speaker 5: It just seemed to tie into the ice cube.
- 10:27Speaker 6: Have you seen that?
- 10:28Speaker 13: No.
- 10:29Speaker 2: Well, you should go see that after we leave.
- 10:32Speaker 6: Yeah, it's queued up, ready to go.
- 10:34Speaker 1: I've got so many of those.
- 10:38Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
- 10:39Speaker 1: I have so much to talk about if I watch
- 10:41Speaker 1: the movies I'm supposed to.
- 10:42Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got too much to talk about as it is,
- 10:46Speaker 5: so I'm going to have to, like, go talk into
- 10:49Speaker 5: a mailbox or something before i watch anything.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Just start recording your own podcast.
- 10:54Speaker 10: We're just sitting on a mic and don't record it
- 10:57Speaker 10: the kids will walk me like oh he's doing that again.
- 11:00Speaker 5: Just don't bother him yeah like i don't do that
- 11:04Speaker 5: sometimes my son is like you know i'll be out
- 11:08Speaker 5: talking to somebody he's like dad i've heard.
- 11:10Speaker 1: All your stories so many.
- 11:12Speaker 6: Times you have no idea.
- 11:16Speaker 5: He figures if we're ever in a freaky Friday scenario.
- 11:20Speaker 6: He'll be able to pull it off.
- 11:22Speaker 1: He'll get by just fine.
- 11:24Speaker 6: You're screwed. Yeah.
- 11:26Speaker 1: You'll just be like, what is he doing?
- 11:27Speaker 12: I don't know.
- 11:30Speaker 15: All right.
- 11:31Speaker 1: On that note, we should.
- 11:32Speaker 12: Take a break and we will come back with this
- 11:34Speaker 12: week's topic.
- 11:54Speaker 16: Just waking up in the morning, gotta thank God I
- 11:57Speaker 16: don't know, but today seems kinda odd No barking from
- 12:01Speaker 16: the dog, no small And mama cooked a breakfast with
- 12:05Speaker 16: no hog I got my grub on, but didn't dig
- 12:08Speaker 16: out Finally got a call from a girl, wanna dig
- 12:11Speaker 16: out Hooked it up for later as I hit the
- 12:14Speaker 16: door Thinking will I live another 24 I gotta go
- 12:18Speaker 16: cause I got me a drop top And if I
- 12:20Speaker 16: hit the switch, I can make the ass drop had
- 12:24Speaker 16: to stop at a red light looking in my mirror
- 12:27Speaker 16: not a jacker in sight and everything is alright I
- 12:31Speaker 16: got a beat from Kim and she can fuck all
- 12:34Speaker 16: night called up the homies and I'm asking y'all which
- 12:38Speaker 16: part are y'all playing basketball get me on the court
- 12:42Speaker 16: and I'm troubled last week fucked around and got a
- 12:45Speaker 16: triple double freaking niggas every way like MJ I can't
- 12:50Speaker 16: believe today was a good day.
- 13:08Speaker 17: It's intermission. Rise and stretch time. Time to refresh yourself
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- 13:26Speaker 17: of ice cream and candy to tempt you. Showtime will
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- 13:32Speaker 17: your car in time. So stretch your legs. Come to
- 13:36Speaker 17: the snack bar now.
- 13:41Speaker 4: It rests on 13 acres of earth over the very
- 13:45Speaker 4: center of hell.
- 13:48Speaker 1: The last house on the left.
- 13:51Speaker 4: Here is the first motion picture to offer to the
- 13:54Speaker 4: daring a look into the final maddening space between life
- 14:00Speaker 4: and death.
- 14:02Speaker 6: The last house on the left.
- 14:05Speaker 4: Caution. To avoid fainting, keep repeating.
- 14:09Speaker 6: It's only a movie.
- 14:11Speaker 14: Only a movie.
- 14:13Speaker 6: Only a movie.
- 14:14Speaker 4: Sights and sounds far beyond anything you've tested. The Last
- 14:20Speaker 4: House on the left. Offered by Sean Cunningham Films Limited
- 14:25Speaker 4: in color.
- 14:26Speaker 6: Caution.
- 14:28Speaker 4: To avoid fainting, keep repeating.
- 14:31Speaker 6: It's only a movie. Only a movie. Only a movie.
- 14:35Speaker 4: Take as much as you can.
- 14:38Speaker 6: Only a movie. Well, I love the movies.
- 14:42Speaker 18: Welcome to the biggest movie event of the year we're
- 14:46Speaker 18: going to have a great night ladies and gentlemen.
- 14:49Speaker 5: And the Oscar goes to Nick Ledger.
- 14:52Speaker 6: Thank you so much ladies and.
- 14:56Speaker 14: Gentlemen prepare yourselves that's.
- 14:59Speaker 19: What I'm saying but half the time there's only three
- 15:02Speaker 19: of us that show up for this so it's just me.
- 15:04Speaker 6: So anyway I'm going to have hot dog and watch
- 15:06Speaker 6: this show Hey, look at that.
- 15:14Speaker 1: She's got a fancy dress on.
- 15:17Speaker 6: That would be fantastic.
- 15:18Speaker 1: Coming to you soon.
- 15:20Speaker 9: Brian by himself eating hot dogs.
- 15:26Speaker 1: The 2012 Oscar party.
- 15:28Speaker 18: From his basement.
- 15:30Speaker 14: With all the blitz, glamour, pork products, and vicious commentary
- 15:34Speaker 14: you've come to know and love.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Hey guys, I like bologna.
- 15:39Speaker 6: So I took some bologna and I wrapped it around
- 15:42Speaker 6: a hot dog. Rupert Popkin.
- 15:44Speaker 10: Mom!
- 15:44Speaker 6: I'm having a show down here.
- 15:51Speaker 1: Keep it down. I'm trying to tell all the people
- 15:55Speaker 1: about this fancy dress she's wearing.
- 15:57Speaker 14: Coming soon to this feed.
- 16:00Speaker 1: The fourth annual Oscar meltdown.
- 16:02Speaker 14: The Academy Awards will never be the same.
- 16:07Speaker 6: Oh, shit the bed! Why, howdy, folks! Come on in!
- 16:20Speaker 4: Well, from the wicks of them fancy britches and sassy
- 16:25Speaker 4: little hairdos, y'all ain't from around here, are ya?
- 16:28Speaker 6: This is Sid Hagan.
- 16:29Speaker 1: You're fucking around with Movie Meltdown.
- 16:31Speaker 16: Why don't you just take your mama home some chicken,
- 16:35Speaker 16: and then I won't have to stuff my boot all
- 16:37Speaker 16: up in your ass.
- 16:40Speaker 19: All right, we are back with The Grind. Hopefully you
- 16:58Speaker 19: were listening last episode when we started this topic. Again,
- 17:01Speaker 19: we are discussing traumatic movies, or movies that scarred me
- 17:04Speaker 19: for life. We now continue with our traumatic discussion.
- 17:08Speaker 13: You mentioned that lack of an answer. That's going back
- 17:12Speaker 13: to the remake discussion.
- 17:13Speaker 6: It's very indicative. Whenever a movie is made in the U.S.
- 17:18Speaker 13: That's a remake of something that was made elsewhere with
- 17:20Speaker 13: an ambiguous ending. Usually they're given very clear-cut endings in
- 17:24Speaker 13: the U.S., The color that comes to mind would be
- 17:27Speaker 13: like the vanishing. At the end of the movie, he's
- 17:31Speaker 13: stuck in the coffin. In the US version, he gets out.
- 17:33Speaker 13: The other one is the dinner game versus Dinner for Schmucks.
- 17:37Speaker 13: In the original dinner game, they never go to the
- 17:39Speaker 13: dinner party in Dinner for Schmucks.
- 17:40Speaker 5: It's like the highlight.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Did you watch it?
- 17:45Speaker 5: That's one of the things when they ruin something that
- 17:48Speaker 5: they manufacture motive. And even if they're telling, to me,
- 17:53Speaker 5: that The Facebook movie drove me crazy because I don't
- 17:59Speaker 5: care about the real people or anything, but it is
- 18:02Speaker 5: a real thing that there are real people and everybody
- 18:05Speaker 5: knows it, so it's what they call a Romana cleft.
- 18:09Speaker 5: And it's still happening and already known we have to have.
- 18:12Speaker 1: A bullshit version of it.
- 18:14Speaker 5: Can we please have a bullshit version of real events.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Before they're even finished happening?
- 18:20Speaker 5: And most of what it does is it manufactures motive.
- 18:24Speaker 5: Like he had to have a reason to... People don't
- 18:28Speaker 5: have reasons. They do stuff. They try to figure out
- 18:32Speaker 5: what their motives are. But in this, it's like he's Scarface.
- 18:36Speaker 5: First you get the little ads for a smaller tummy
- 18:40Speaker 5: then you get then you get the women I don't
- 18:43Speaker 5: know apparently it was all about some romance I'm traumatized
- 18:49Speaker 5: by that movie it just pisses me off so much I.
- 18:53Speaker 11: Think movies should end with sad endings more often just
- 18:57Speaker 11: because it's like I mean every happy, sappy, cute movie
- 19:02Speaker 11: needs an ending where you pound your fist on the
- 19:04Speaker 11: table and you're like, what the fuck?
- 19:07Speaker 5: At least they should give you the option and the
- 19:09Speaker 5: special feature.
- 19:11Speaker 20: It's not like the 70s where there was this tacked
- 19:14Speaker 20: on unhappy ending where it was just like, Everything seems
- 19:16Speaker 20: like it's okay, but then the hero gets hit by
- 19:18Speaker 20: a car.
- 19:19Speaker 1: You know, like.
- 19:21Speaker 11: In 500 Days of Summer where he's in love with
- 19:23Speaker 11: this girl and then you're like, oh, oh, oh, they're
- 19:25Speaker 11: going to get back together and then she gets married.
- 19:27Speaker 11: But then at the end he meets a new girl.
- 19:29Speaker 11: It should not have ended that way. It should have
- 19:31Speaker 11: ended miserably.
- 19:32Speaker 2: But it is actually depressing because he didn't learn anything.
- 19:35Speaker 2: That relationship's doomed to fail as well. So the first
- 19:37Speaker 2: time I watched it, I was like, that's a bullshit ending.
- 19:39Speaker 6: When I watched it again, I was like, oh.
- 19:41Speaker 2: No, it's fun because it's depressing.
- 19:44Speaker 7: You met a girl, oh, you met a girl.
- 19:45Speaker 6: I don't know what you're saying, though, that sense of
- 19:48Speaker 6: vindication that America... need. Like with The Departed, you watch.
- 19:52Speaker 13: Infernal Affairs and the police mole, basically, he just goes
- 19:55Speaker 13: back to his job. As opposed to in this one,
- 19:58Speaker 13: it's like, no, they created that Marky Mark character just
- 20:00Speaker 13: so he could kill him at the end of the movie.
- 20:03Speaker 6: And everyone's like, good, the bad guy got it in
- 20:05Speaker 6: the end. Yeah, that's so frustrating.
- 20:08Speaker 1: So you want more true grit, I guess.
- 20:10Speaker 6: Yes.
- 20:11Speaker 1: I guess it's not.
- 20:12Speaker 6: Everything horrible. We want more unhappiness.
- 20:15Speaker 14: Right, right.
- 20:15Speaker 1: That's why Empire Strikes Back is the greatest movie ever.
- 20:18Speaker 9: It's true.
- 20:19Speaker 1: Bad guys win. And it's just depressing.
- 20:21Speaker 6: It's pretty depressing.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Especially for little kids watching.
- 20:25Speaker 6: Well, you know.
- 20:25Speaker 1: This is the end of the movie?
- 20:27Speaker 6: We did just.
- 20:28Speaker 1: Because my kids are on these.
- 20:30Speaker 6: They have.
- 20:30Speaker 1: My old toys. They're playing the Lego Star Wars game.
- 20:34Speaker 1: And we did just watch... The Revenge of the Sith.
- 20:37Speaker 1: And they were just like, mouths open at the end
- 20:41Speaker 1: of it. They're like, everything.
- 20:42Speaker 6: So was I, actually.
- 20:45Speaker 1: Everything is, everything's gone. You know, and I, I believe
- 20:49Speaker 1: that it's still a pretty good, of the three. It's
- 20:53Speaker 1: the most watchable. It's the most watchable. And it's, it's,
- 20:57Speaker 1: because even Jedi, if you watch it with fresh eyes,
- 21:02Speaker 1: it's kind of, it's kind of, you're like, really puppet,
- 21:04Speaker 1: you know, these puppet, you know, Ewoks and it's just.
- 21:08Speaker 10: The first half is okay. Like, I like the whole
- 21:11Speaker 10: Jabba scene. I like the escape from the palace and
- 21:14Speaker 10: all of that. And then it hits that little he
- 21:15Speaker 10: goes back to see Yoda and everything from there is downhill.
- 21:19Speaker 1: And you're really going to end the series like this?
- 21:21Speaker 15: Yeah.
- 21:22Speaker 1: You know, that they're going to fall into the same
- 21:24Speaker 1: traps as they did with the other Death Star.
- 21:27Speaker 6: I'm sorry if that I'm going on Star Wars.
- 21:29Speaker 1: But I always had that problem. Almost traumatized, not by
- 21:32Speaker 1: the part that I thought with Darth Vader dying... You know,
- 21:36Speaker 1: or not dying, but... Anakin dies.
- 21:39Speaker 6: Anakin dying the.
- 21:39Speaker 1: Way that he does.
- 21:40Speaker 13: I mean, Return of the Jedi does have a very
- 21:42Speaker 13: bleak ending that's really underspoken. Because, I mean, think about
- 21:44Speaker 13: all the debris from the Death Star once that starts
- 21:46Speaker 13: getting into it.
- 21:48Speaker 1: Taking out Ewoks left and right.
- 21:52Speaker 11: I mean, I guess I should clarify my point and
- 21:54Speaker 11: say that not all movies should end with a sad ending.
- 21:57Speaker 21: But I just see in Hollywood it's.
- 22:00Speaker 11: So common that a movie will end With a happy
- 22:03Speaker 11: ending just for the sake of a happy ending.
- 22:05Speaker 21: That's not how life is.
- 22:07Speaker 11: I think it should be more close to how things
- 22:12Speaker 11: actually are.
- 22:13Speaker 6: That just goes back to what's the reason for you
- 22:16Speaker 6: even going to a movie to begin with? Do you
- 22:17Speaker 6: want to escape brutality?
- 22:18Speaker 5: No.
- 22:19Speaker 6: That's too extensive.
- 22:20Speaker 10: Do you want to enjoy that part of it or
- 22:23Speaker 10: do you want to enjoy the, you know, the performance
- 22:25Speaker 10: or yeah, do you just want a happy story to
- 22:27Speaker 10: distract you from your own bullshit life?
- 22:29Speaker 1: She just wants to see that other people are more miserable.
- 22:32Speaker 1: That's what I go looking for.
- 22:34Speaker 12: That's what I love.
- 22:35Speaker 2: Did you see closer?
- 22:38Speaker 6: Oh, gosh.
- 22:39Speaker 2: That was a little bit emotionally traumatizing for me the
- 22:41Speaker 2: first time. It was just really, really depressing and, um,
- 22:44Speaker 2: so it's real life.
- 22:46Speaker 3: Yeah, that was.
- 22:47Speaker 2: People are in a relationship, they get horny, they fuck
- 22:49Speaker 2: other people and.
- 22:50Speaker 12: Then, um, that screws up your whole life.
- 22:53Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 22:54Speaker 6: I had a bad day. I'm going to go home
- 22:55Speaker 6: and watch Elephant Man. I felt better.
- 22:59Speaker 12: Somebody had it worse than me.
- 23:00Speaker 21: I mean, you know, I don't know.
- 23:02Speaker 11: I don't even know why I'm suggesting that because I'm
- 23:04Speaker 11: the one, of all movies that make me really sad,
- 23:08Speaker 11: I'll go home and like, there'll be nothing on Netflix
- 23:11Speaker 11: because I hate to say it since they've changed the
- 23:13Speaker 11: pricing thing.
- 23:14Speaker 21: The selection of Netflix has gone way down.
- 23:17Speaker 11: But I'll end up watching some stupid, like, Popular on Netflix.
- 23:23Speaker 21: Romantic comedy.
- 23:24Speaker 11: I hate romantic comedies, but sometimes, for some reason, I
- 23:27Speaker 11: think it's a good idea. And I ended up bawling
- 23:29Speaker 11: my eyes out for some unexplained reason.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Oh, we know why. I can't believe Natalie Portman's in this.
- 23:38Speaker 15: Yes, I've watched the fucking Natalie Portman.
- 23:43Speaker 5: What's your movie?
- 23:44Speaker 3: Why did I do that to myself?
- 23:47Speaker 1: I know she's smarter than this.
- 23:49Speaker 6: I felt empty inside afterwards.
- 23:51Speaker 1: You know, I'm learning more and more that she might
- 23:54Speaker 1: be empty.
- 23:56Speaker 6: And there are times where I'm like.
- 23:58Speaker 1: what's this choice that she's making?
- 24:01Speaker 21: She just melts to feed.
- 24:02Speaker 13: But you would have felt better if it had ended
- 24:04Speaker 13: badly or an unhappy ending.
- 24:06Speaker 6: Ashton Kutcher was dead at the end.
- 24:08Speaker 7: Wait, that would have been an unhappy ending?
- 24:10Speaker 6: I mean, it would have made me feel better.
- 24:13Speaker 5: I didn't mind him too much. I just, what is
- 24:16Speaker 5: going on with her? I just don't understand her. In
- 24:18Speaker 5: the movie, she's like this person who's sexually open, but
- 24:22Speaker 5: emotionally unavailable.
- 24:23Speaker 6: You're admitting you've seen No Strings Attached.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw it. But she seems the opposite.
- 24:28Speaker 5: She's not believably sexual at all.
- 24:32Speaker 20: Well, she produced it, right? I think that was her
- 24:33Speaker 20: trying to be like, no, I can be this sexy girl,
- 24:36Speaker 20: and it just didn't work out.
- 24:37Speaker 5: Well, she's very attractive, but she's not credible as somebody.
- 24:43Speaker 6: It's just weird.
- 24:44Speaker 21: It was, like, such an unbelievably horrible movie.
- 24:48Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 24:48Speaker 21: I want that hour and a half of my life back.
- 24:50Speaker 6: Yeah, it was pretty bad.
- 24:52Speaker 1: The only thing that I've ever seen Ashton Kutcher in
- 24:55Speaker 1: that I kind of enjoyed was the butterfly effect. That's...
- 24:58Speaker 1: I kind of... No, see, I liked a lot of
- 25:02Speaker 1: what was going on there. I like to say it's
- 25:04Speaker 1: stupid fun.
- 25:04Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 25:05Speaker 21: It wasn't, like, the profound movie.
- 25:07Speaker 5: Right.
- 25:08Speaker 1: It was supposed to be a lot more profound. You're right.
- 25:10Speaker 6: But I.
- 25:11Speaker 1: It was one of those, oh, this is on. Oh,
- 25:13Speaker 1: I'm going to make fun of this. And then I
- 25:14Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm kind of enjoying it. Again, I
- 25:16Speaker 1: like the plot more. I don't know that he brought
- 25:18Speaker 1: anything to it. But I like some of the plot
- 25:20Speaker 1: elements going on.
- 25:21Speaker 22: The thing that pisses me off about The Butterfly Fish
- 25:25Speaker 22: is when I watch movies, the only thing that really,
- 25:28Speaker 22: really bothers me is little kids or babies in trauma.
- 25:33Speaker 2: I have a two-year-old. But I'll watch it. I'm okay
- 25:36Speaker 2: with it if it's done artistically or for a purpose.
- 25:39Speaker 3: So when they had the scene with the mailbox blowing
- 25:42Speaker 3: up and the little baby's arm reaching for the mailbox,
- 25:44Speaker 3: that wasn't for any purpose.
- 25:45Speaker 2: Other than to push buttons.
- 25:48Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 25:49Speaker 2: I'm not saying they shouldn't have done that because I
- 25:51Speaker 2: don't care that much, but it just seemed exploitative.
- 25:56Speaker 6: When it didn't need to be.
- 25:58Speaker 12: Can I suggest it's alive?
- 26:03Speaker 5: I know I saw that and hated it, but I
- 26:05Speaker 5: can't remember anything about it. I just remember seeing it
- 26:09Speaker 5: and thinking, no, I didn't like that movie. That's all
- 26:12Speaker 5: I remember. I was in high school.
- 26:14Speaker 1: I think the idea that Ashton Kutcher's brain was rotting
- 26:17Speaker 1: is maybe what made you feel... I don't mind.
- 26:21Speaker 5: I thought he was brilliant as Kelso.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Again, his TV.
- 26:25Speaker 12: Career is different.
- 26:26Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 26:27Speaker 1: The first half of Dude, Where's My Car? is pretty funny.
- 26:29Speaker 6: I could have bought him in that.
- 26:34Speaker 5: No-strings-attached thing. That seems like about his size, in a way.
- 26:39Speaker 5: You know, sort of an amiable guy in a romantic comedy.
- 26:43Speaker 5: I just couldn't believe her, and I really wanted that
- 26:46Speaker 5: girl Greta to take her part.
- 26:50Speaker 6: The girl from Greenberg.
- 26:53Speaker 5: She's just charming. I could believe her, but Natalie Portman,
- 26:58Speaker 5: it's almost like she's.
- 27:01Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 27:01Speaker 5: She's got some sort of hidden issue.
- 27:03Speaker 6: She's the female equivalent of Samuel L. Jackson. She's in everything.
- 27:07Speaker 1: Or Michael Fassbender.
- 27:09Speaker 5: I mean, I thought she was great in Black Swan.
- 27:13Speaker 5: It's nothing against her. But she seemed like sort of
- 27:17Speaker 5: believably weird and sort of messed up. And I wasn't
- 27:21Speaker 5: looking for that in a romantic comedy.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Well, I think she is.
- 27:25Speaker 10: She's a showbiz kid, much like the character in Black Swan. So,
- 27:28Speaker 10: She grew up probably equally as messed up. So I
- 27:31Speaker 10: think we're kind of seeing a little of her in
- 27:33Speaker 10: that movie than we need to.
- 27:35Speaker 1: Probably more than she wants people to see. I think
- 27:38Speaker 1: Lucas sucked the life out of her. Yeah, that's probably true, too.
- 27:43Speaker 2: She was getting closer.
- 27:43Speaker 6: That was close to Lucas, too.
- 27:46Speaker 1: I think it was mid-Lucas, actually.
- 27:49Speaker 4: Right.
- 27:50Speaker 11: Like at the ending scene where she just lost the
- 27:53Speaker 11: will to live.
- 27:55Speaker 21: She just lost the will to be alive inside.
- 27:57Speaker 1: Yeah, my kids were, if they could vocalize it that way,
- 28:01Speaker 1: they were like, what the fuck? Why is she dying?
- 28:03Speaker 6: This makes no sense.
- 28:05Speaker 12: She was so sad.
- 28:06Speaker 1: She was so sad.
- 28:07Speaker 21: You don't just die because you feel like it.
- 28:08Speaker 13: Right.
- 28:09Speaker 1: And we can't explain it. You know why? Because Lucas
- 28:11Speaker 1: can't explain it. Because Lucas' kid didn't tell him what
- 28:14Speaker 1: to do in that part of the script. He just
- 28:16Speaker 1: gave up. He gave up.
- 28:17Speaker 6: We've got to show the Death Star. I saw Dogtooth.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Ha, that was my suggestion for this trauma movie. I
- 28:26Speaker 1: think I brought it up.
- 28:27Speaker 2: That movie is so amazing.
- 28:29Speaker 6: Yeah, it is.
- 28:31Speaker 5: It didn't traumatize me. No, but it's about trauma, isn't it?
- 28:36Speaker 5: It was very interesting. It kind of reminds me of
- 28:41Speaker 5: a Lanford Wilson play called Home Free. It's this couple,
- 28:45Speaker 5: she's pregnant, and she goes out and works in and
- 28:48Speaker 5: he's agoraphobic. Is that the phobia?
- 28:50Speaker 1: Agoraphobic, yeah.
- 28:51Speaker 5: Agoraphobic, because my sister-in-law always says, oh, he doesn't like
- 28:57Speaker 5: to go out anywhere. I think he's homophobic.
- 29:01Speaker 6: Well, um... But I think it's agoraphobic.
- 29:04Speaker 5: But, yeah, he can't go out, and they have these
- 29:07Speaker 5: two imaginary kids, Clay Pone and Edna, and.
- 29:12Speaker 6: It's kind of like that.
- 29:14Speaker 5: You know, they're... pretty much in their own reality uh
- 29:19Speaker 5: cut off from the world but it reminded me of
- 29:21Speaker 5: that and did somebody did you tell me it was
- 29:25Speaker 5: a documentary or i never told you it was a
- 29:28Speaker 5: document somebody i went started into this movie having the
- 29:32Speaker 5: idea it was a documentary i told you very little
- 29:35Speaker 5: about it yeah i heard something or i got it
- 29:38Speaker 5: mixed up with a different movie and so that was
- 29:40Speaker 5: a fun experience, like starting to watch it and think,
- 29:43Speaker 5: is this a documentary? How could this? No.
- 29:47Speaker 6: This can't be a documentary.
- 29:49Speaker 1: This can't be.
- 29:50Speaker 5: Well, it got to the point where the son is
- 29:53Speaker 5: having sex. It's like, what's going on in a documentary
- 29:57Speaker 5: where you're watching people have sex?
- 30:00Speaker 6: What kind of.
- 30:01Speaker 5: Fucking sex are these people having?
- 30:04Speaker 1: What is going on in this movie? That's the least
- 30:05Speaker 1: dramatic part of the movie, too, is the, I think
- 30:07Speaker 1: just the subtle thought.
- 30:08Speaker 6: The sex thing is weird.
- 30:10Speaker 1: It's weird, the situation, but I think, yeah, it's, and
- 30:15Speaker 1: I was, you even posted it, the dance scene is
- 30:20Speaker 1: so unsettling, you know.
- 30:21Speaker 6: That's great.
- 30:23Speaker 1: Where is she getting this inspiration? Because she's obviously seen
- 30:26Speaker 1: snippets or her mother or something from Flashdance and You know.
- 30:31Speaker 6: It's... Well, I don't mean to be Mr.
- 30:34Speaker 12: Shallow, but I am.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Go ahead.
- 30:36Speaker 5: So, I mean, it was a really interesting and intriguing movie,
- 30:41Speaker 5: and it draws you into the world, but at the
- 30:43Speaker 5: same time, I don't know what it has to do
- 30:47Speaker 5: with anything. So for me, largely, it was a drama of...
- 30:50Speaker 5: Are those sisters hot? Because in a way they are, because,
- 30:57Speaker 5: you know, they're like separated from the world... So they're
- 31:00Speaker 5: not full of all the usual bullshit that crushes your soul,
- 31:07Speaker 5: all the things people say that, you know, you think somebody's, like,
- 31:11Speaker 5: interesting and charming, and then they say something just so
- 31:15Speaker 5: stupid and cliche and trite, and it's like, oh, God.
- 31:19Speaker 5: They're rotting from the inside out. So in a way,
- 31:23Speaker 5: they're attractive because they're different. But then in another way,
- 31:27Speaker 5: it's like, but this is just too fucking creepy. This
- 31:31Speaker 5: is just weird. And then it gets to the point
- 31:34Speaker 5: where they just do not even remotely get sex. Not
- 31:40Speaker 5: even with a really good clue.
- 31:43Speaker 6: Not even, they don't get the hint.
- 31:45Speaker 5: They don't, and it's like, no, this is just weird.
- 31:49Speaker 5: It's just strange and bizarre. Yeah, because the one girl who, like,
- 31:54Speaker 5: he brings in had, um, she starts like trading for
- 31:59Speaker 5: sexual faith. They still don't get it.
- 32:01Speaker 6: Right.
- 32:02Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 32:03Speaker 17: Um, yeah.
- 32:05Speaker 5: So, um, I'm really glad I saw it, but I'm not.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Sure what you were supposed to get out of it.
- 32:11Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
- 32:12Speaker 5: Um, it seems like a really good metaphor for something,
- 32:16Speaker 5: but I have no idea what.
- 32:19Speaker 2: I kind of got a lot of, because I grew
- 32:20Speaker 2: up in a very religious sheltering family. And so it's
- 32:24Speaker 2: sort of like, um, very exaggerated version of that yeah
- 32:28Speaker 2: like uh so you all talk about like watching horror
- 32:31Speaker 2: movies when you were little when i first saw raiders
- 32:34Speaker 2: of the lost ark.
- 32:35Speaker 3: My parents made me close my eyes during the face
- 32:38Speaker 3: melting scene.
- 32:39Speaker 10: At the end that that traumatized me so it's in
- 32:41Speaker 10: your best interest or you see what happens.
- 32:44Speaker 2: So actually and this don't tie it in perfectly um
- 32:47Speaker 2: One of the first really traumatizing things I saw was
- 32:50Speaker 2: when I was 18 and I was out in college.
- 32:52Speaker 2: I was like, I'm going to go rebel and watch
- 32:55Speaker 2: one of those R-rated movies I'm not supposed to watch.
- 32:58Speaker 1: You rebel.
- 32:59Speaker 2: So I went to the theater and I saw the
- 33:02Speaker 2: remake of The Hills Have Eyes. The most violent thing
- 33:06Speaker 2: I'd seen before that, I think, was Lord of the Rings.
- 33:12Speaker 2: so then I and I was still religious back then
- 33:15Speaker 2: sort of so I went home and I confessed to
- 33:18Speaker 2: my religious leader who actually.
- 33:19Speaker 10: Happened to be my dad at the time this is
- 33:22Speaker 10: even more weird.
- 33:23Speaker 2: Yeah and I it took me a long time to
- 33:27Speaker 2: get over that like I my wife my girlfriend at
- 33:30Speaker 2: the time was going to watch The Descent with a
- 33:32Speaker 2: friend and I was invited over I was like no
- 33:35Speaker 2: I don't want to do that again because the blood
- 33:37Speaker 2: and gore.
- 33:39Speaker 1: And there's plenty of it now.
- 33:40Speaker 2: Now I laugh at, like, Jigsaw and all the shenanigans.
- 33:45Speaker 20: I did think that one scene in the remake of
- 33:48Speaker 20: The Hilltop Bias was really traumatic for me, too, and
- 33:50Speaker 20: I was fully desensitized by the time I.
- 33:52Speaker 12: Saw that film.
- 33:53Speaker 1: I haven't seen it since then.
- 33:54Speaker 20: I just remember there being, like, a... rape baby, there
- 33:58Speaker 20: was some crazy thing that happened in the trailer.
- 34:00Speaker 1: That's all I remember.
- 34:01Speaker 5: That's what I like a little bit better than the original.
- 34:04Speaker 6: I find the original racist.
- 34:08Speaker 7: I don't remember exactly what happened, I just remember it
- 34:10Speaker 7: being wrong.
- 34:11Speaker 6: The rape babies have eyes.
- 34:12Speaker 10: Well, that can go to mine, because mine was kind of,
- 34:16Speaker 10: I guess in a way there can be good traumatizing,
- 34:19Speaker 10: because it does sort of wake you up to horrible,
- 34:21Speaker 10: horrible things. I remember being kind of clueless and going
- 34:26Speaker 10: to see The Accused. damn I don't know that scene
- 34:31Speaker 10: again you get all the way to the end before
- 34:33Speaker 10: you really see what happens and it yeah I don't
- 34:36Speaker 10: think I was prepared for that and I think it
- 34:38Speaker 10: was one of those that you don't identify you need
- 34:41Speaker 10: something to make you identify with somebody to understand that
- 34:45Speaker 10: kind of or at least have a glimpse of that
- 34:47Speaker 10: kind of pain and horror and yeah it took that
- 34:50Speaker 10: movie before I was like oh okay we're kind of
- 34:53Speaker 10: all responsible for this and you know I hate my
- 34:56Speaker 10: gender But I don't know, there was so much I
- 34:59Speaker 10: took away from that that was kind of life-changing at
- 35:03Speaker 10: that point of not taking responsibility for that kind of
- 35:06Speaker 10: stuff and all of a sudden going, oh, it's kind
- 35:09Speaker 10: of everybody's job to make sure this doesn't happen.
- 35:14Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 35:16Speaker 10: It's funny now because you watch South Park making fun
- 35:19Speaker 10: of it and it sort of takes the sting out
- 35:22Speaker 10: of it. But at the time, being relatively young and
- 35:24Speaker 10: watching that, yeah, I was not prepared for that.
- 35:27Speaker 6: Scene. I don't know.
- 35:29Speaker 12: Which I had the same years later, The Last House
- 35:32Speaker 12: on the Left.
- 35:32Speaker 10: The original one, which is not a great movie, but
- 35:36Speaker 10: those scenes in the woods are horrifying. Those are the
- 35:40Speaker 10: scenes where you can see he's a good filmmaker, and
- 35:42Speaker 10: then the rest of it's kind.
- 35:42Speaker 1: Of slapped together. The whole setup of the dad. It's
- 35:47Speaker 1: not a good movie, but there are good moments in it.
- 35:50Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting because we haven't really talked much about
- 35:54Speaker 5: movies that are just morally traumatizing. But that's like a
- 35:58Speaker 5: whole category of film.
- 36:01Speaker 21: People under the stairs.
- 36:03Speaker 14: That's an awesome movie.
- 36:04Speaker 12: What are you talking about?
- 36:05Speaker 21: It is awesome, but it's traumatic.
- 36:07Speaker 11: They have this race of mutant people that they keep
- 36:11Speaker 11: locked in their house, and the dad.
- 36:13Speaker 1: Runs into them in full head-to-toe.
- 36:15Speaker 21: Fetish gear, and they lock their daughter in.
- 36:18Speaker 10: There's a fun little Twin Peaks guy in there, too.
- 36:23Speaker 6: One that just.
- 36:26Speaker 1: Images uh just didn't even think of it the shining
- 36:30Speaker 1: i saw that way too young yeah and yeah the
- 36:34Speaker 1: old traumatizing dude i think of him as one of
- 36:36Speaker 1: my favorite directors and i'm like you know what he's
- 36:38Speaker 1: really throwing some crazy.
- 36:40Speaker 6: Stuff yeah it's the it's the.
- 36:43Speaker 10: Old lady in the bathtub yeah which i'm thinking about
- 36:45Speaker 10: it i had that same because i that is the
- 36:48Speaker 10: image you came up with it's a traumatizing one i
- 36:50Speaker 10: had that with um the opening of carrie I did
- 36:54Speaker 10: not need to see naked, bloody Sissy Spacek running around.
- 36:58Speaker 1: I was just, what the hell? No, no, stop. Just
- 37:00Speaker 1: Sissy Spacek. It's just traumatizing.
- 37:01Speaker 5: Oh, you know that story about Blue Velvet? That's what
- 37:06Speaker 5: Rossellini told me, that the whole little town where they
- 37:09Speaker 5: were filming came out.
- 37:11Speaker 10: Oh, God.
- 37:11Speaker 5: They were all out there having picnic tables and stuff.
- 37:17Speaker 5: And she felt responsible because they were going to film
- 37:19Speaker 5: the scene where she's.
- 37:20Speaker 6: Like, Is that your mother?
- 37:22Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 37:23Speaker 1: Who's that?
- 37:24Speaker 5: Your mom?
- 37:25Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 37:25Speaker 6: They were going to film that scene.
- 37:27Speaker 5: So she went around and, you know, people wanted to
- 37:29Speaker 5: meet her and they're saying hi. And she's like, yeah,
- 37:31Speaker 5: I wanted to explain, you know, because there are kids there.
- 37:35Speaker 6: In this next scene, I'm going to be nude and
- 37:39Speaker 6: beat up. And you might not want to.
- 37:41Speaker 5: And they're like, oh, no, we're fine.
- 37:45Speaker 6: And she couldn't convince anybody to leave.
- 37:48Speaker 5: And so then she did the scene, and she said,
- 37:52Speaker 5: you know, when she's acting, she's not, you know, she's focused,
- 37:55Speaker 5: and also the lights, just you can't see outside the scene.
- 37:59Speaker 5: But as soon as the scene was over, she looked around,
- 38:02Speaker 5: and everybody was gone.
- 38:06Speaker 1: Well, that's got to make you feel good.
- 38:07Speaker 11: It's funny that she tried to shield people from trauma
- 38:12Speaker 11: because out of everything I've ever watched in my entire life,
- 38:15Speaker 11: I think the thing that's traumatized.
- 38:17Speaker 21: Me most is those fucking green pornos.
- 38:22Speaker 1: I knew you were going.
- 38:26Speaker 11: I've never been able to think about a dolphin the
- 38:29Speaker 11: same way. I was watching that movie like, I'm afraid
- 38:32Speaker 11: of bed bugs for a whole new reason. They have
- 38:35Speaker 11: nice penises and they stab into their mate.
- 38:37Speaker 5: You know, I had no idea that... goose sex was
- 38:41Speaker 5: so rapey. That's like freakish and that really bothers me.
- 38:46Speaker 5: And I found that out just like last month. A
- 38:48Speaker 5: lot of animal sex. So the goose doesn't care what's
- 38:52Speaker 5: good for the gander?
- 38:53Speaker 6: I don't think so.
- 38:56Speaker 1: What you find out is the Lion King's lying to you.
- 38:58Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 38:59Speaker 1: It's not missionary. It's not voluntary.
- 39:02Speaker 2: You know on the Sundance Channel's website you can do
- 39:04Speaker 2: like a personality test and they'll tell you which bug
- 39:06Speaker 2: you are and then you can watch the sex video.
- 39:08Speaker 6: There you go.
- 39:10Speaker 10: That's such a creepy concept.
- 39:16Speaker 5: But my son said after watching Blue Velvet, he said,
- 39:19Speaker 5: oh yeah, that traumatized me. I'll never break into a
- 39:23Speaker 5: stranger's apartment to try to solve it.
- 39:27Speaker 1: Didn't stop me.
- 39:30Speaker 13: But you mentioned Lynch and going back to what Alan
- 39:32Speaker 13: was saying earlier with the razor had a movie that actually, uh,
- 39:35Speaker 13: I remember watching it for the first time. And this
- 39:37Speaker 13: was when I was in my twenties, but, uh, it
- 39:39Speaker 13: was just so weird that afterwards I was like, uh,
- 39:43Speaker 13: quite a few, right. It's something called Uzumaki. It's a
- 39:45Speaker 13: Japanese film.
- 39:46Speaker 6: And, um, It's like, what if David Cronenberg and David
- 39:49Speaker 6: Lynch had a baby?
- 39:51Speaker 13: This is what this movie would be, because it's about
- 39:53Speaker 13: this town to where everyone in this town is slowly
- 39:57Speaker 13: going insane because they're obsessed with the shape of the spiral.
- 40:00Speaker 13: And it sounds like a very absurd concept, but everyone
- 40:03Speaker 13: becomes obsessed about bringing out the spiral within themselves. So
- 40:07Speaker 13: one fellow commits suicide by putting himself into a washing machine,
- 40:11Speaker 13: and there are other people that are turning into half-human, half-snails.
- 40:14Speaker 13: And it sounds absurd, but watching it, and just the
- 40:17Speaker 13: atmosphere of dread they create, it's like, it just makes
- 40:21Speaker 13: you feel weird the first.
- 40:22Speaker 6: Time you watch it.
- 40:22Speaker 13: Now it's become one of my favorites, but the first
- 40:24Speaker 13: time you watch it, it's just so, it's such an
- 40:26Speaker 13: absurd concept, and they sell.
- 40:28Speaker 6: It to make it work. What's the name of it again?
- 40:31Speaker 13: Uzumaki, and this fellow, he's only made one other film,
- 40:35Speaker 13: which equally was kind of odd, he's just this odd
- 40:37Speaker 13: writer-director called Long Dream, where it's about this individual who's
- 40:41Speaker 13: in an insane asylum, because he's having what are called
- 40:45Speaker 13: long dreams to where he'll one night he goes to
- 40:47Speaker 13: sleep and wakes up the next day and he's lived
- 40:50Speaker 13: like two days because we've all had those dreams before
- 40:52Speaker 13: where you think you've lived a day and you wake
- 40:54Speaker 13: up it's like oh no it was a dream but
- 40:57Speaker 13: he's having it to where he'll live two weeks and
- 41:00Speaker 13: then wake up and those two weeks never happen and
- 41:02Speaker 13: then two years it's getting point to where he'll live
- 41:04Speaker 13: for 40 years and make all these relationships get married
- 41:07Speaker 13: and he'll just wake up the next day.
- 41:09Speaker 6: And he's back four years.
- 41:10Speaker 13: And that just messes with you psychologically.
- 41:14Speaker 6: And you're 401k.
- 41:19Speaker 1: What if it keeps accumulating?
- 41:20Speaker 6: Now, wait a minute.
- 41:21Speaker 1: It might be on to something here. When you brought
- 41:25Speaker 1: up traumatizing, one thing that I thought about and The
- 41:33Speaker 1: fact that so many people and grandmas and mothers and
- 41:37Speaker 1: fathers would take their children to this and would come
- 41:40Speaker 1: out saying that it was beautiful, that everyone needed to
- 41:43Speaker 1: see it, that it's so important and would return many times.
- 41:50Speaker 1: I never understood, and I went and saw it because
- 41:52Speaker 1: of it, but the passion of the Christ. It's like
- 41:56Speaker 1: people enjoyed watching their God be tortured for an hour straight,
- 42:03Speaker 1: no words, no anything. And I worked with a little
- 42:07Speaker 1: old lady, Baptist woman, who just, I mean, was weeping
- 42:11Speaker 1: at how beautiful she thought the whole thing was. And
- 42:15Speaker 1: to me, it was just, and I know people have
- 42:18Speaker 1: written things about it, but it was just torture and
- 42:21Speaker 1: people were enjoying it. And I know that's not the
- 42:24Speaker 1: part that they were enjoying about it. They were thinking, oh,
- 42:27Speaker 1: I'm finally seeing what they went through and what he
- 42:31Speaker 1: went through and maybe making it more real. But those
- 42:37Speaker 1: same people will then blast other films for, they say, oh,
- 42:42Speaker 1: it's exploitive or it's, no, they're showing what another movie
- 42:48Speaker 1: might be showing what a rape is really like or
- 42:51Speaker 1: might be showing, and why as a society we think
- 42:53Speaker 1: that you know child abuse is bad or why you
- 42:58Speaker 1: know trying to over shelter your children in dog tooth
- 43:03Speaker 1: why you know why that might be the wrong way
- 43:06Speaker 1: to go about things and why all this you know
- 43:09Speaker 1: i don't know i it's funny you say that it
- 43:11Speaker 1: should be traumatic and it's not.
- 43:13Speaker 5: There's a movie i love called the stone boy that
- 43:16Speaker 5: nobody i'm the only person in north america who's ever
- 43:20Speaker 5: seen it yeah But it's about, it's fairly traumatizing. It's
- 43:24Speaker 5: about a kid and his brother going to pick peas
- 43:27Speaker 5: in the morning and going through the fence with a shotgun.
- 43:29Speaker 5: The shotgun goes off and the kid kills his older brother.
- 43:34Speaker 5: And then he finishes picking peas and goes home and
- 43:38Speaker 5: has to tell his family what happened. And it's called
- 43:41Speaker 5: The Stone Boy because he never cries and everybody thinks
- 43:44Speaker 5: it's strange. Everybody's in the movie. Glenn Close is in it. Um,
- 43:50Speaker 5: Robert Duvall, and everybody else is in there somewhere. But
- 43:54Speaker 5: it's a really good movie. It's odd because it's... I
- 43:59Speaker 5: don't know. I just saw it, didn't expect it. It
- 44:02Speaker 5: looked like a bad Disney movie when it came on,
- 44:05Speaker 5: and it kept being good. And in the end, he
- 44:10Speaker 5: winds up talking to a stranger on the bus and
- 44:15Speaker 5: explaining things, and it's just really good. But I was
- 44:19Speaker 5: trying to get a friend of mine to watch this movie,
- 44:22Speaker 5: and the reason I bring it up is that difference
- 44:24Speaker 5: between what people say they can't stand to watch violence.
- 44:30Speaker 5: She gave up on it. She says, I can't watch
- 44:33Speaker 5: violent stuff like that. It's like, you told me last
- 44:37Speaker 5: week you watched Wild at Heart. where the guy's head
- 44:41Speaker 5: gets shot off and goes rolling. No, but that's okay,
- 44:45Speaker 5: but you're not going to watch my movie because you can't.
- 44:47Speaker 6: Watch violent stuff.
- 44:49Speaker 5: I mean, if you can look at Willem Dafoe's teeth
- 44:52Speaker 5: in Wild and Hard and not flinch, you can watch that.
- 44:56Speaker 13: I think it depends on how realistic and credible it is. Because,
- 45:00Speaker 13: I mean, I remember a film that we, there were
- 45:04Speaker 13: a couple movies where I remember people walking out of
- 45:06Speaker 13: them and getting very upset and crying and theater but
- 45:09Speaker 13: one of them that sticks out was um monster's ball
- 45:12Speaker 13: where heath ledger commits suicide yeah it's like you know
- 45:15Speaker 13: i was like what's just so strange about it apparently
- 45:17Speaker 13: it was just the realistic nature of him just shooting
- 45:20Speaker 13: himself in the chest it like it was bothering a
- 45:22Speaker 13: lot of people where i was just it wasn't uncommon
- 45:24Speaker 13: about once a week to see somebody just standing out
- 45:27Speaker 13: just taking a breather from that film right about there.
- 45:29Speaker 11: You know it's really weird because one thing i've noticed
- 45:32Speaker 11: like You can kill a hundred people in a movie
- 45:37Speaker 11: and it's not that bad. But when someone kills themselves
- 45:40Speaker 11: in a movie, it's always really hard to take.
- 45:42Speaker 21: I don't know why.
- 45:43Speaker 11: But even in movies where it's not a big issue
- 45:47Speaker 11: and it's... Compared to the rest of the movie, it's
- 45:50Speaker 11: not any worse. But even in Freeway and the scene
- 45:53Speaker 11: where Brooke Shields finds out who her husband really is
- 45:56Speaker 11: and shoots herself, that was harder for me to watch
- 45:59Speaker 11: than any other scene in the movie, which was not pleasant, but.
- 46:02Speaker 21: There's just something really weird.
- 46:04Speaker 12: It's still a taboo, really.
- 46:05Speaker 5: Have you ever seen Rules of Attraction? Where the girl
- 46:08Speaker 5: puts her wrists in the bathtub?
- 46:09Speaker 21: Oh, yes, yes, I did see that.
- 46:12Speaker 5: Yeah, and it has the big, overdramatic, who is it?
- 46:17Speaker 5: The guy who did Can't Live Without You. Yeah, he
- 46:21Speaker 5: was the same guy who did the, oh, the song
- 46:26Speaker 5: Everybody's Talking. Harry Nilsson, I think, did that song.
- 46:31Speaker 13: Even when you're watching that scene, it's like, you're playing
- 46:33Speaker 13: this song, am I supposed to be finding this funny?
- 46:36Speaker 5: It is kind of over the top because of the soundtrack,
- 46:40Speaker 5: isn't it? It's almost like one of those Roy Orbison
- 46:43Speaker 5: songs that's so over the top. Well, I don't know,
- 46:48Speaker 5: he makes it credible, but it's just odd how big
- 46:51Speaker 5: it is. Yeah, I guess it does depend because, you know,
- 46:56Speaker 5: I watched The Passion of the Christ, and to me
- 46:59Speaker 5: it's just like, okay, it's rated R for smiting. And
- 47:03Speaker 5: somewhere in the middle, Jesus invents the table with chairs.
- 47:09Speaker 5: And Virgin Mary, Mother of God, says it'll never catch on.
- 47:13Speaker 6: And what is this movie?
- 47:14Speaker 5: I don't know what to do with it. I know
- 47:18Speaker 5: it's Jesus and stuff, but it's still just like a
- 47:21Speaker 5: profoundly silly movie in.
- 47:24Speaker 6: A lot of ways.
- 47:24Speaker 12: I think that was the working script title, Jesus and Stuff.
- 47:27Speaker 1: Jesus and Stuff, yeah.
- 47:29Speaker 2: I actually finally saw that for the first time a
- 47:31Speaker 2: couple months ago. I didn't see it back then. But
- 47:35Speaker 2: by the end of the movie, I was cracking jokes
- 47:37Speaker 2: to my wife just because Mel Gibson used so much
- 47:41Speaker 2: slow motion.
- 47:42Speaker 3: It just got so ridiculous.
- 47:46Speaker 5: You almost start to want to hear the six million
- 47:48Speaker 5: dollar man thing.
- 47:51Speaker 2: When he's getting nailed to the cross, you have the
- 47:54Speaker 2: hand and that's Mel Gibson's hand. You see the hand
- 47:57Speaker 2: come out and then Jesus kind of looks over with
- 47:59Speaker 2: a shocked expression. I just imagine him being like, Mel Gibson?
- 48:02Speaker 6: That too, Mel?
- 48:06Speaker 1: At that point, I would expect him to go, I'm
- 48:08Speaker 1: getting too old for this shit.
- 48:09Speaker 11: I feel like I need to see Passion of the Christ.
- 48:14Speaker 20: Yeah, I haven't seen it either.
- 48:18Speaker 1: I don't know, it almost felt like it was a
- 48:21Speaker 1: joke that they were playing on everyone. We're going to
- 48:25Speaker 1: get all of them to come out. We're either going
- 48:28Speaker 1: to make them all mad. or we're going to get
- 48:30Speaker 1: them all to come out.
- 48:31Speaker 5: Is that what he's doing now with what's the project
- 48:34Speaker 5: he's doing with Showgirls guy?
- 48:37Speaker 1: Yeah, the Maccabees battle or something.
- 48:40Speaker 12: Yeah, like the Hanukkah battle.
- 48:42Speaker 10: He's supposedly doing the version of that.
- 48:46Speaker 1: He's trying to make amends with Esther House.
- 48:50Speaker 6: And again, it.
- 48:51Speaker 5: Seems like, okay, they're just trying to make you see it.
- 48:55Speaker 5: They're just trying to do something that everybody's going to go,
- 48:59Speaker 5: I can't look away.
- 49:01Speaker 6: I've got to go see what happens. True, Rick.
- 49:05Speaker 2: About morally traumatizing, actually, I was kind of surprised at
- 49:08Speaker 2: my reaction. I saw Hobo with a Shotgun, which I loved.
- 49:12Speaker 3: I thought it was a lot of fun. And violence
- 49:16Speaker 3: and gore.
- 49:17Speaker 6: Doesn't bother me at all.
- 49:18Speaker 2: I think the bad guys, the way they were doing
- 49:21Speaker 2: the violence, just the complete and utter sadism, just really
- 49:25Speaker 2: got to me. And I don't even know why, because
- 49:26Speaker 2: it normally shouldn't. In the Saw movies, it doesn't bother me,
- 49:31Speaker 2: because there's a sort of twisted morality to it. There's
- 49:35Speaker 2: always a reason. But for this, it was just pure fun,
- 49:37Speaker 2: and it kind of got to me.
- 49:40Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 49:40Speaker 2: But it made it better when the hobo got the
- 49:42Speaker 2: shotgun and started killing them all because I was cheering. Yeah.
- 49:46Speaker 20: Yeah.
- 49:47Speaker 5: It's funny that, like, in the remakes thing, we saw, well,
- 49:53Speaker 5: I had just recently seen, what's the home invasion?
- 49:57Speaker 1: No, funny games?
- 49:59Speaker 4: No.
- 49:59Speaker 6: Well, I, yeah.
- 50:01Speaker 5: But that is kind of the same thing. It's like,
- 50:03Speaker 5: why on earth are they doing this?
- 50:06Speaker 6: But Straw Dogs.
- 50:08Speaker 5: Because I remember my initial reaction the first time I
- 50:11Speaker 5: saw Straw Dogs with Dustin Hoffman. I was surprised at
- 50:14Speaker 5: myself how much I wanted to kill that rat guy.
- 50:20Speaker 5: I just, I wanted to kill him. I wanted to
- 50:22Speaker 5: see somebody kill him.
- 50:24Speaker 6: It was just... I mean, the movie is successful in
- 50:27Speaker 6: the fact that it infuriates you the same way it
- 50:29Speaker 6: does now.
- 50:29Speaker 5: It shocked me how much it got to me.
- 50:32Speaker 6: And Peter Vaughn is such a terrifying villain in that, too.
- 50:36Speaker 5: Yeah, and I saw the new one, and it's like,
- 50:39Speaker 5: I don't care what happens to any of these people.
- 50:42Speaker 5: It just doesn't matter to me.
- 50:45Speaker 13: To me, Michael Mastin was the main protagonist in the remake.
- 50:50Speaker 6: Was that who they cast?
- 50:51Speaker 2: James Marston.
- 50:52Speaker 6: James Marston.
- 50:53Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't Michael Mastin.
- 50:54Speaker 13: Yeah, it's not Michael Mastin. But no, James Marston is
- 50:58Speaker 13: the main protagonist.
- 51:01Speaker 6: The thing about Dustin Hoffman.
- 51:02Speaker 4: Being the main.
- 51:03Speaker 13: character in Straw Dogs is you can't see that fellow
- 51:06Speaker 13: getting violent. James Martin, he's kind of athletic looking.
- 51:11Speaker 6: They just put glasses on him. It's like Clark Kent.
- 51:15Speaker 6: It's like, no.
- 51:18Speaker 5: It's funny what bothers people because in my own kids,
- 51:21Speaker 5: the thing that I think, well, Toy Story is kind
- 51:25Speaker 5: of traumatizing to kids because now With all that kids
- 51:29Speaker 5: have to worry about, now they can't abandon their damn toys.
- 51:32Speaker 20: Oh, I had that problem early on with the Velveteen Rabbit.
- 51:36Speaker 20: I don't know how that didn't create a.
- 51:38Speaker 7: Whole generation of boys.
- 51:39Speaker 13: With me, it was Jim Henson's Christmas toy, because it's
- 51:42Speaker 13: about the same premise as Toy Story, but if you
- 51:45Speaker 13: happen to walk in and see the toy doing something.
- 51:48Speaker 6: It kills it. And it's like it's dead forever. Yeah.
- 51:52Speaker 23: I just heard a whole group of adults sitting there like,
- 51:58Speaker 23: And for one of the movies that year was treated
- 52:01Speaker 23: as one of the best movies of.
- 52:02Speaker 1: The year, but all of them were like, no, I
- 52:04Speaker 1: didn't like Toy Story 3. It's just too sad. And
- 52:07Speaker 1: it's like, these were kids. These were all grown-ups. The
- 52:12Speaker 1: incinerator scene. Yeah. Everybody's just.
- 52:16Speaker 24: I know, and I don't know if I've ever been
- 52:18Speaker 24: on edge in a for a cartoon ever and I
- 52:22Speaker 24: was like okay what's happening what's happening my kids are
- 52:25Speaker 24: on either side I think I was holding them.
- 52:26Speaker 1: Back like this is not going to happen.
- 52:29Speaker 5: Is it actually up traumatized oh yeah I think a
- 52:32Speaker 5: lot of people like.
- 52:33Speaker 11: A baby the opening scene and several parts the opening
- 52:37Speaker 11: by the end it was kind of ridiculous the opening
- 52:39Speaker 11: five minutes.
- 52:40Speaker 1: It's beautiful I love my.
- 52:42Speaker 2: Wife so it's like oh we love each other.
- 52:46Speaker 5: The one that messed up my daughter was Monsters Inc
- 52:49Speaker 5: and it wasn't because She wasn't scared of the monsters.
- 52:52Speaker 5: She was scared they were going to get in trouble
- 52:54Speaker 5: at work.
- 52:56Speaker 1: Like they were going to get fired.
- 52:59Speaker 6: That's so cute.
- 53:02Speaker 1: They're supposed to be on the clock.
- 53:07Speaker 12: We're breeding such a messed up generation of kids.
- 53:10Speaker 13: But all three Toy Story movies, when you look at them,
- 53:13Speaker 13: basically it's the toys coming to the realization as to
- 53:17Speaker 13: how unimportant. in the sense that there's many more like us,
- 53:21Speaker 13: and after a given time, we're given away, as opposed to.
- 53:24Speaker 6: The very first one, where it's this nice little world
- 53:26Speaker 6: that they exist in by the end. It's like they're
- 53:28Speaker 6: just being handed off. It's very bleak for all three
- 53:31Speaker 6: films when you look at them, the story arc.
- 53:34Speaker 2: Traumatizing.
- 53:36Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
- 53:38Speaker 2: There's a book called Winky, which is about a teddy
- 53:42Speaker 2: bear who, after he has... the little kids grow up
- 53:46Speaker 2: and it's just sitting on the shelf and it wills
- 53:47Speaker 2: itself to life. Um, goes out into the woods, has
- 53:51Speaker 2: a baby. For the little girl as a girl bear
- 53:57Speaker 2: for the little boy as a boy that like goes
- 53:59Speaker 2: into a cabin and then the FBI comes in and
- 54:01Speaker 2: arrests it as a suspect, suspected terrorist.
- 54:05Speaker 6: What?
- 54:06Speaker 5: This is the Ted Kaczynski story.
- 54:08Speaker 11: Uh, and, uh, When I was in second grade, my
- 54:15Speaker 11: teacher read us Where the Red Fern Grows. And afterwards,
- 54:21Speaker 11: we watched the movie as like a special treat.
- 54:24Speaker 1: Here's a treat.
- 54:25Speaker 11: This book didn't make you all cry hard enough. The
- 54:29Speaker 11: part that really bothered me, aside from the part where
- 54:32Speaker 11: the dogs are eviscerated by like a mountain cougar of
- 54:35Speaker 11: some sort, is the part, I think there's a part
- 54:37Speaker 11: in the movie where some boy trips and falls on
- 54:42Speaker 11: an axe.
- 54:43Speaker 6: Hmm.
- 54:44Speaker 2: Remember that book, yeah.
- 54:45Speaker 3: I think in the book, didn't he swing and miss
- 54:48Speaker 3: the tree.
- 54:48Speaker 1: And hit him?
- 54:50Speaker 21: Yeah, something like that. It's like an evisceration fest.
- 54:54Speaker 1: Next week, kids, Old Yeller.
- 54:56Speaker 6: There are a lot of traumatizing kids' movies. I mean,
- 54:59Speaker 6: never-ending story. I was utterly terrified of the wolf character.
- 55:04Speaker 1: He's awesome.
- 55:05Speaker 10: Again, it's one of those, it's traumatizing and yet almost
- 55:08Speaker 10: immediately I was just like, that's my favorite character in
- 55:10Speaker 10: the movie.
- 55:11Speaker 5: My wife Lynn had this experience in kindergarten where, you know,
- 55:17Speaker 5: how they get eggs in an incubator and they hatch
- 55:20Speaker 5: baby chicks. Her teacher did that, but she got unfertilized eggs.
- 55:27Speaker 5: And so they were just watching it, watching it. It
- 55:30Speaker 5: was like a kindergarten version of Waiting for Godot.
- 55:32Speaker 10: Laughter And then at the end, they just dyed them
- 55:36Speaker 10: and ate them, right?
- 55:37Speaker 5: And then at some point, she's like, this isn't going
- 55:40Speaker 5: to happen.
- 55:42Speaker 1: Kids, we've thought about a family, but it's just not
- 55:44Speaker 1: the right time right now. She just goes out and
- 55:46Speaker 1: buys little chickens and throws them in there at night.
- 55:48Speaker 1: I'm like, what the heck?
- 55:50Speaker 6: Just peeps.
- 55:51Speaker 1: Hey, look what happened. I mean, that's very scientific. Unfertilized
- 55:57Speaker 1: eggs don't hatch.
- 55:59Speaker 5: I guess they learned a valuable lesson.
- 56:02Speaker 11: Like a community college for your children.
- 56:07Speaker 1: At least she's not a nurse. She's not a farm girl.
- 56:09Speaker 1: What do you want?
- 56:12Speaker 2: I recently re-watched All Dogs Go to Heaven, which I
- 56:15Speaker 2: hadn't seen since I was a kid. I totally did
- 56:17Speaker 2: not get that not only is there a sequence where
- 56:19Speaker 2: he's in hell, but then later at the end the devil.
- 56:23Speaker 6: Dog comes for his soul. It's really eerie.
- 56:26Speaker 1: Wow.
- 56:27Speaker 2: There's a lot of fucked up stuff in Don Luth.
- 56:31Speaker 1: Yeah. Secret of NIMH is pretty heavy.
- 56:33Speaker 13: I was thinking that earlier when you mentioned Watership Down.
- 56:38Speaker 21: Secret of NIMH.
- 56:39Speaker 11: NIMH itself stands for National Institute of Mental Health.
- 56:42Speaker 6: That doesn't belong in a children's movie.
- 56:46Speaker 12: I'm sure that's what they were thinking.
- 56:47Speaker 2: Actually, about Secret of NIMH, because I watched it recently
- 56:51Speaker 2: and I hadn't seen it.
- 56:52Speaker 14: As a kid.
- 56:52Speaker 2: And I determined that at the end, you know, like
- 56:57Speaker 2: the little kids are trapped in the brick house and
- 56:58Speaker 2: it's going down into the mud and eventually gets pulled
- 57:01Speaker 2: back up. In the time period that it was there, the.
- 57:05Speaker 3: Kids would have died.
- 57:06Speaker 2: And so I determined that everything after that was the
- 57:09Speaker 2: mother's mind had broken and everything after that was just
- 57:11Speaker 2: happening in her imagination. It's the only rational explanation for
- 57:16Speaker 2: the ending at all.
- 57:17Speaker 1: It's his life. It's just like the Sucker Punch version.
- 57:22Speaker 13: I just find it traumatizing that Christopher Plummer's career dropped
- 57:25Speaker 13: so low that he had to voice a character in Rock-A-Doodle.
- 57:28Speaker 6: I was actually.
- 57:29Speaker 21: Thinking about Rock-A-Doodle the other day.
- 57:31Speaker 6: You're probably the only person.
- 57:35Speaker 21: I don't know why I was thinking about it.
- 57:37Speaker 5: There was a light-up map of North America and one
- 57:40Speaker 5: light going off. This is the person who's thinking about
- 57:43Speaker 5: that at this moment.
- 57:44Speaker 1: This is not a drill. This is not a drill.
- 57:47Speaker 6: They put it on Blu-ray.
- 57:49Speaker 1: It's at Walmart tomorrow.
- 57:51Speaker 21: No, it was actually on Netflix a few months ago.
- 57:53Speaker 21: I started to watch it, but I fell asleep instantly.
- 57:57Speaker 11: Traumatized. I think kids' movies are meant to really destroy
- 58:01Speaker 11: your soul.
- 58:02Speaker 1: You know what is far more, I don't think I
- 58:05Speaker 1: ever saw it as a kid, but Pinocchio, when they.
- 58:08Speaker 5: The Nokia is very disturbing.
- 58:10Speaker 4: It is.
- 58:10Speaker 1: They're giving them alcohol and cigarettes.
- 58:13Speaker 5: They start turning into donkeys.
- 58:16Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 58:16Speaker 1: That part's creepy. It's really messed up. And then in Dumbo,
- 58:20Speaker 1: when you have the drunk scene, but it's actually hallucinations,
- 58:25Speaker 1: so you're wondering what he actually drank, that's pretty messed up.
- 58:28Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 58:29Speaker 1: And it's almost in there like, why did they put
- 58:32Speaker 1: this in the movie? And it's almost just a time filler.
- 58:35Speaker 1: You know, we need another song. It's like.
- 58:38Speaker 5: The section of Fantasia, like it's just something they were
- 58:41Speaker 5: working on anyway, and they decided to stick it in there.
- 58:44Speaker 1: But almost every single one of them, you're like, somebody
- 58:47Speaker 1: had to be on drugs when they were thinking of
- 58:50Speaker 1: the ideas of this, or else there's almost no reason
- 58:52Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, I don't know about traumatizing, but just.
- 58:56Speaker 5: Well, it was weird how the grown-ups were bullying toward
- 59:00Speaker 5: Dumbo in that movie.
- 59:02Speaker 1: I mean, it was really....
- 59:05Speaker 5: You know, as a kid growing up, I saw grown-ups
- 59:07Speaker 5: do stuff like that.
- 59:08Speaker 17: Yeah.
- 59:10Speaker 5: We had some ignoramus P.E. teacher who would, like, pick
- 59:15Speaker 5: on the kids, the popular kids picked on.
- 59:17Speaker 6: I always remember thinking, if I run.
- 59:19Speaker 5: Into this guy when I'm growing up, there's going to
- 59:22Speaker 5: be a problem.
- 59:23Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 59:25Speaker 1: I think you have to be a real jackass to
- 59:27Speaker 1: decide to be a P.E.
- 59:28Speaker 17: Teacher.
- 59:30Speaker 6: In that case, yeah.
- 59:32Speaker 5: But there was also a great kids' movie called Thomasina.
- 59:37Speaker 1: It's about a.
- 59:38Speaker 5: Cat that goes to cat heaven.
- 59:39Speaker 6: I think it's called The Three Lives of Thomasina.
- 59:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 59:43Speaker 5: Thomasina the Cat. And it's really intense because the dad
- 59:48Speaker 5: in it is a doctor, and then there's this holistic
- 59:53Speaker 5: medicine woman that lives in the glen it's like this
- 59:57Speaker 5: science and fate conflict and it's it's just like a
- 1:00:01Speaker 5: little kids movie about a fucking cat it's like why
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: do you have to get into all of this but
- 1:00:07Speaker 5: they do you know because the writers they're aiming to
- 1:00:10Speaker 5: do something else really most the the writers who are
- 1:00:13Speaker 5: working on this stuff and so they'll they'll write in
- 1:00:18Speaker 5: things like that episode of Columbo that was just socialist propaganda.
- 1:00:24Speaker 5: It was really nicely put together, too.
- 1:00:27Speaker 13: You mentioned that, and all of a sudden it just
- 1:00:28Speaker 13: brought to mind, I kind of remember, this even creeped
- 1:00:31Speaker 13: me out as a kid so much.
- 1:00:32Speaker 6: It was The Nine Lives of Garfield. Have you ever
- 1:00:35Speaker 6: saw that or not?
- 1:00:37Speaker 13: And it's basically this series of short vignettes where it's
- 1:00:42Speaker 13: Garfield in different characters, and just, of course, at the.
- 1:00:44Speaker 6: End of each one he dies and he comes back
- 1:00:46Speaker 6: as a different character.
- 1:00:46Speaker 13: Garfield there was one it was like number five or
- 1:00:50Speaker 13: number six to where he didn't it was a different
- 1:00:52Speaker 13: art style and he looked completely different too he was
- 1:00:55Speaker 13: almost like a black cat and it was a very
- 1:00:57Speaker 13: short segment to where he sees like some sort of
- 1:01:00Speaker 13: thing coming out of the spot on the wall and
- 1:01:03Speaker 13: he just lives in this old broken down house with
- 1:01:06Speaker 13: this old woman kind of chases around for a bit,
- 1:01:09Speaker 13: and when it finally, like, catches up with him, it
- 1:01:11Speaker 13: possesses him, and it ends with him, with the woman saying, oh,
- 1:01:14Speaker 13: come on in here, and he's, like, coming up, like,
- 1:01:16Speaker 13: jumping at her, and just cuts her.
- 1:01:17Speaker 6: It's like, oh, Jesus.
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: It's like some movie where Garfield kills an old woman.
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: But does Lou Rawls do the soundtrack? Because that's all
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: that's really important.
- 1:01:29Speaker 11: What is the movie about the troll.
- 1:01:32Speaker 21: That sneaks in at night and steals the children's breath?
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: The cat does that. But it's not the cat.
- 1:01:41Speaker 21: It's like a troll.
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: But isn't it Cat's Eye?
- 1:01:45Speaker 20: Maybe.
- 1:01:45Speaker 17: I don't know.
- 1:01:45Speaker 5: I think it's some Stephen King movie.
- 1:01:48Speaker 12: Yeah, Cat's Eye.
- 1:01:49Speaker 5: A lot of people remember that 70s movie where the
- 1:01:55Speaker 5: little African figure was denied.
- 1:02:00Speaker 10: Yeah, that one traumatized Jay. I think a lot of
- 1:02:04Speaker 10: little kids were traumatized by that.
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: Well, we should probably round it out.
- 1:02:08Speaker 10: Do we have any last-minute ones that we had on
- 1:02:12Speaker 10: your list that traumatized you for life?
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: I don't know. Can we?
- 1:02:17Speaker 12: Lynch is fucked up.
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: Kubrick is fucked up. Kids movies are fucked up. I
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: think that's the three.
- 1:02:26Speaker 21: That's pretty much all of us.
- 1:02:28Speaker 6: Pretty much. Basically, what we also established is Lynch needs
- 1:02:31Speaker 6: to make a kids movie.
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: Actually, I think he was working on one briefly.
- 1:02:35Speaker 5: Oh, God.
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: I think that's been abandoned because he went back into
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: his furniture making and he just released a music album.
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything about that, but I'm pretty sure
- 1:02:46Speaker 2: he's working on a kid's movie.
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: He'll just have to get by with Straight Story, I guess.
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: It's the closest thing he has.
- 1:02:53Speaker 9: It's PG, at least.
- 1:02:54Speaker 21: That sounds so frightening.
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: I think it's actually rated G.
- 1:02:56Speaker 6: Is it?
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, actually.
- 1:02:58Speaker 6: Damn.
- 1:02:58Speaker 5: What is it?
- 1:02:59Speaker 6: Straight Story. Straight Story, yeah.
- 1:03:01Speaker 13: The only creepy about that is Richard Barnsworth didn't win
- 1:03:05Speaker 13: the Oscar and committed suicide a.
- 1:03:06Speaker 6: Couple months later.
- 1:03:07Speaker 12: And nothing's creepier than suicide.
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: As we've established.
- 1:03:11Speaker 21: I mean, I don't know why. I can't explain it.
- 1:03:13Speaker 11: I mean, it doesn't really bother me, but in movies
- 1:03:16Speaker 11: it's just really hard to watch.
- 1:03:19Speaker 6: Like in Caché. Oh, yeah. Just came out of nowhere.
- 1:03:22Speaker 7: There's We have a lot to work out.
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: We have a lot of issues.
- 1:03:34Speaker 20: It occurred to me, I know we're trying to wrap up,
- 1:03:35Speaker 20: but I just had a moment where I kind of
- 1:03:37Speaker 20: realized something during the course of this conversation. And you
- 1:03:39Speaker 20: were talking about the accused in South Park. I realized,
- 1:03:45Speaker 20: and we were talking about Clockwork Orange, and I kind
- 1:03:50Speaker 20: of realized that one of the things that does traumatize
- 1:03:52Speaker 20: me more than other elements is that I guess for
- 1:03:55Speaker 20: a long time I really couldn't deal with horror played
- 1:03:58Speaker 20: as satire. I had a really hard time tonally with that.
- 1:04:04Speaker 20: Man Bites Dog. I couldn't deal with that. I couldn't
- 1:04:08Speaker 20: deal with Martin. That movie kills me.
- 1:04:11Speaker 7: That movie's so creepy.
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: It's very creepy, I'll give you that.
- 1:04:14Speaker 20: The violence against women in that and the tone of it,
- 1:04:17Speaker 20: it's so unsettling to me.
- 1:04:18Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 1:04:19Speaker 10: That one I felt like works because it's supposed to
- 1:04:23Speaker 10: be that distilled. Again, I guess it forces you to
- 1:04:27Speaker 10: look at it from this messed up kid and But yeah,
- 1:04:29Speaker 10: it is really disturbing the way he interacts with them.
- 1:04:31Speaker 20: And even American Psycho, like any sort of movie where
- 1:04:34Speaker 20: it's satirically played violence, especially against women, I think that's
- 1:04:38Speaker 20: the most traumatic thing for me.
- 1:04:39Speaker 7: I just realized that during the course of this conversation.
- 1:04:41Speaker 12: It's disturbing.
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: There's a lot of disturbing movies.
- 1:04:46Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's also, it's almost more disturbing to me.
- 1:04:51Speaker 5: I guess I go and, like, I have a safety
- 1:04:53Speaker 5: release valve where I go, I'm just so aware I'm
- 1:04:56Speaker 5: watching a movie.
- 1:04:57Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 1:04:58Speaker 5: You know, but when people are trying to milk things
- 1:05:03Speaker 5: for significance and they're trying to be really self-important about it,
- 1:05:07Speaker 5: it almost bothers me more that they're exploiting terrible things
- 1:05:15Speaker 5: as though it makes them artistically significant. It seems sort
- 1:05:19Speaker 5: of dishonest in a way.
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: That was one of my main problems with Funny Games.
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: I know he was trying to prove a point, but
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: I thought it was.
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: I don't know. I wasn't here for that episode. I'm
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: going to leave it alone.
- 1:05:36Speaker 5: There was something that was just not right about that
- 1:05:38Speaker 5: to me.
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: He was definitely in that, I thought, talking down to
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: every viewer. Yeah. I know more than you, and you
- 1:05:45Speaker 1: have a lesson to learn.
- 1:05:47Speaker 6: Oh, God. Speaking of trauma... For me, Platoon was a
- 1:05:55Speaker 6: traumatic movie.
- 1:05:56Speaker 5: Well, you know, some people talk about The Dirty Dozen
- 1:05:59Speaker 5: as one of those movies you see maybe when you're
- 1:06:01Speaker 5: a kid, and you're so rooting for that one guy
- 1:06:04Speaker 5: to make it, and he doesn't make it, and it
- 1:06:07Speaker 5: just changes you. But Platoon, you know, they have this...
- 1:06:13Speaker 5: What traumatized me about it is I just hated it
- 1:06:16Speaker 5: so much.
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: I hated the dialogue.
- 1:06:20Speaker 6: I couldn't believe.
- 1:06:21Speaker 5: And then it won Best Picture, and then I'm like,
- 1:06:23Speaker 5: Fuck it. Just fuck it. You know, there's nothing I
- 1:06:27Speaker 5: can do about it because I'm still going to watch
- 1:06:29Speaker 5: the Oscars. I can't say I'm never going to watch
- 1:06:31Speaker 5: the Oscars. Yeah, I will, but I'm pissed. So what
- 1:06:35Speaker 5: I did was like, I'm never going to pay to
- 1:06:38Speaker 5: see another Oliver Stone movie. If it comes on TV
- 1:06:41Speaker 5: or something, okay, I might watch it. But no, I'm
- 1:06:45Speaker 5: not going to pay for it. I just hated it.
- 1:06:51Speaker 5: Just the dialogue.
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: The guy's talking.
- 1:06:54Speaker 5: It pisses me off how bad it is.
- 1:06:58Speaker 6: I've not seen it before.
- 1:07:00Speaker 7: But actually, that's another movie, like Natural Born Killers.
- 1:07:03Speaker 20: A lot of the violence in that, which must be
- 1:07:05Speaker 20: played for comedy, is really unsettling to me.
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: That one drives me.
- 1:07:09Speaker 5: And also, just the whole idea of Oliver Stone is
- 1:07:13Speaker 5: commenting on the media in that movie. He has some
- 1:07:17Speaker 5: fucking authority there. And, you know, also it was a
- 1:07:22Speaker 5: rip-off of Man Bites Dog, which I thought was a
- 1:07:25Speaker 5: more serious... I mean, it is played to be funny,
- 1:07:30Speaker 5: but it's... I don't know. It's just artistically different. It
- 1:07:35Speaker 5: seems to me like Oliver Stone is exploiting the violence
- 1:07:39Speaker 5: for entertainment effect at the same time he's claiming to
- 1:07:43Speaker 5: be commenting on it.
- 1:07:45Speaker 10: I think the existence of it in general at that
- 1:07:47Speaker 10: point in time is kind of a comment on society.
- 1:07:50Speaker 10: The fact that it came into being and the fact
- 1:07:52Speaker 10: that everybody was fine with what he was doing or
- 1:07:54Speaker 10: just went to the movies and saw it.
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: And it wasn't really a big deal at the time.
- 1:07:58Speaker 10: I think that kind of shows you the state we
- 1:08:00Speaker 10: were in as a, as a country, you know, you
- 1:08:03Speaker 10: couldn't have made that movie years before, but we just
- 1:08:06Speaker 10: kind of gotten to that point.
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: We were sort of desensitized. Yeah. I think again, all
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: these traumatizing.
- 1:08:11Speaker 10: Movies have done this over the years and, It seems
- 1:08:14Speaker 10: to me, especially the kid movies we mentioned, it's almost
- 1:08:17Speaker 10: breaking you as you go along.
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: You start out.
- 1:08:21Speaker 10: As a kid, and you've got your hopes and dreams,
- 1:08:24Speaker 10: and then these movies come along and crush them, and
- 1:08:26Speaker 10: eventually you're prepared.
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: For Oliver Stone movies. It seems like how this works.
- 1:08:31Speaker 12: I don't know. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: I think that's how we round it out.
- 1:08:39Speaker 6: Hello.
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: It's one of those sad indies we're looking for.
- 1:08:42Speaker 11: I mean, you might as well have horribly depressing children's
- 1:08:45Speaker 11: movies because life is horribly depressing.
- 1:08:48Speaker 10: Let's show you right off the bat.
- 1:08:52Speaker 21: You have to show them movies like Old Yeller.
- 1:08:54Speaker 7: Old Yeller, yeah.
- 1:08:55Speaker 5: I can't believe we didn't mention Old Yeller. We did briefly,
- 1:09:00Speaker 5: but we didn't.
- 1:09:01Speaker 7: Can you explain to me the Old Yeller dog food?
- 1:09:03Speaker 7: Because it confounds me.
- 1:09:04Speaker 6: Every time I make a burger, and I'm like, what
- 1:09:07Speaker 6: kind of marketing?
- 1:09:08Speaker 7: Why do you want to associate your dog food?
- 1:09:10Speaker 6: Because their dog is.
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: So crazy for it. Open at the mouth. Hydrophobia.
- 1:09:17Speaker 12: This episode is sponsored by Old Yeller.
- 1:09:20Speaker 5: I think there was a certain point when advertising became counterintuitive.
- 1:09:26Speaker 5: And I remember those years just seeing more and more
- 1:09:29Speaker 5: things like, it came out with tombstone pizza.
- 1:09:34Speaker 6: What do you want on your tombstone? And then there
- 1:09:35Speaker 6: was just other stuff.
- 1:09:36Speaker 13: It's like you're trying to think of the weirdest thing.
- 1:09:41Speaker 11: It's actually a place in Louisville somewhere called the Cat
- 1:09:45Speaker 11: Box Deli.
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: I'm like, seriously?
- 1:09:47Speaker 12: The Cat Box Deli.
- 1:09:49Speaker 11: And their logo was like a cat with boxing gloves.
- 1:09:53Speaker 5: Where I grew up in Bowling Green, there was a
- 1:09:56Speaker 5: little airport in front of a tombstone business. And so
- 1:10:00Speaker 5: there's like a little mock graveyard showing off their tombstones,
- 1:10:04Speaker 5: and then there's the airport. And when I lived in Murray,
- 1:10:14Speaker 5: there was a place that everybody used to go eat.
- 1:10:16Speaker 5: It was called Granny's Porch. And later it was sold,
- 1:10:21Speaker 5: and it became a Mexican place, and the creative writing
- 1:10:24Speaker 5: class used to go meet there. And then it was
- 1:10:26Speaker 5: sold again. It became a different restaurant. But no matter
- 1:10:29Speaker 5: what restaurant it was or who owned it or ran
- 1:10:32Speaker 5: it or what the menu was, it always tasted the same.
- 1:10:36Speaker 5: It's like they had a stove that only had one
- 1:10:39Speaker 5: flavor somehow. But anyway, the sign outside Granny's porch.
- 1:10:45Speaker 5: Was up for at least a year, and it said,
- 1:10:49Speaker 5: open-faced granny burger.
- 1:11:01Speaker 6: Open-faced granny.
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: I'm never going.
- 1:11:05Speaker 7: To recover from that.
- 1:11:07Speaker 5: I remember that all these years, and I think of
- 1:11:09Speaker 5: it like when I'm driving along River Road. And the
- 1:11:13Speaker 5: fish place there, Kingfish, has a sign out front, today's
- 1:11:17Speaker 5: special squad box.
- 1:11:19Speaker 6: Like when you go by the Skyline Chili's and they're
- 1:11:21Speaker 6: always advertising it three-way. Yeah. That's intentional. Yeah.
- 1:11:27Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're trying to, there's some counterintuitive thing,
- 1:11:30Speaker 5: and it probably works because people remember it. You know,
- 1:11:33Speaker 5: people are so jaded to advertising that at this point
- 1:11:36Speaker 5: they're like, What the fuck?
- 1:11:38Speaker 6: I'd say something.
- 1:11:39Speaker 10: I think that's what, especially like something like the old
- 1:11:41Speaker 10: Yeller thing. I think it's the same reason they keep
- 1:11:44Speaker 10: doing these reboots. And it's like just all we need
- 1:11:46Speaker 10: is brand recognition.
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: Yeah. Doesn't have to even make sense why we're tying
- 1:11:50Speaker 1: it to this. It barely has to. As long as
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: you recognize what we're saying.
- 1:11:54Speaker 6: What we need to do is as a group, we
- 1:11:56Speaker 6: need to market fuck you cereal.
- 1:11:58Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 1:11:58Speaker 6: And I think people really remember that.
- 1:12:00Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: Actually, I was.
- 1:12:02Speaker 6: I'd buy it.
- 1:12:06Speaker 5: I was working on Super Cougar Cracks.
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: You and many other guys.
- 1:12:15Speaker 5: Serial names the other day, and that came up. Because
- 1:12:18Speaker 5: sometimes you just try to think, what's the worst thing
- 1:12:21Speaker 5: you could possibly do? Or at least every job I've
- 1:12:24Speaker 5: ever had, it became a game, like, what's the worst
- 1:12:27Speaker 5: way we could do this? You know, if you're... I
- 1:12:31Speaker 5: think it started this place we were trying to get
- 1:12:33Speaker 5: a past due invoice, and we have to write it
- 1:12:36Speaker 5: in business speak. Like, you know, pay us the money
- 1:12:39Speaker 5: you've owed us for fucking.
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: Months, please.
- 1:12:41Speaker 6: How do you say that? Please remit. But we couldn't
- 1:12:47Speaker 6: think of it for a while.
- 1:12:48Speaker 5: We were thinking, what do we say? So we thought
- 1:12:51Speaker 5: of all the things, you know, just to get your
- 1:12:53Speaker 5: brain going. What's the worst thing we can say? Please
- 1:12:57Speaker 5: cough up.
- 1:12:58Speaker 6: I think that was.
- 1:12:59Speaker 5: That was the choice that sort of, okay, fork over.
- 1:13:04Speaker 12: Sure.
- 1:13:05Speaker 5: But no, eventually the business language is, please remit this amount.
- 1:13:12Speaker 1: Okay. Did we beat a dead horse?
- 1:13:14Speaker 6: Is that where you wanted us to end?
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: That sounds like a good place.
- 1:13:19Speaker 12: So, yeah.
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- 1:15:27Speaker 1: I can't be in that scenario anymore and i don't
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: know that that was almost traumatic i mean if you
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: have to physically change the channel for a a sitcom
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: something you're tapping into something.
- 1:15:42Speaker 13: Yeah one of my friends was in the hospital and
- 1:15:44Speaker 13: he was on a lot of pain medicine but um
- 1:15:47Speaker 13: a few days later we were all talking with him
- 1:15:49Speaker 13: and uh he was talking about how he had explained
- 1:15:53Speaker 13: to the nurses and he explained to all these people,
- 1:15:55Speaker 13: you know, apparently they had it on TV laying on
- 1:15:57Speaker 13: the television channel. And he was watching an episode where
- 1:16:00Speaker 13: Lucy was giving her kids gasoline to drink.
- 1:16:05Speaker 6: And he was trying to explain.
- 1:16:06Speaker 13: He's like, oh, this, he's like, did you all have
- 1:16:09Speaker 13: that on another TV? He wanted to know what was
- 1:16:10Speaker 13: going on because he's like, did I dream this or
- 1:16:12Speaker 13: was it really on it?
- 1:16:13Speaker 6: And I'm like, you're making it up. Everyone was giving
- 1:16:15Speaker 6: it shit. And suddenly I was like, when I came
- 1:16:18Speaker 6: in and they were explaining that and they were all
- 1:16:19Speaker 6: kind of like, and I was like, Oh, that's a
- 1:16:21Speaker 6: real episode.
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like a.
- 1:16:24Speaker 13: Real episode where Lucy almost gives her kids gasoline to drink.
- 1:16:27Speaker 6: But it was just so funny that like he apparently
- 1:16:29Speaker 6: for days thought he was insane. I was like, I'm
- 1:16:33Speaker 6: going to mention this. No, I swear, I have to
- 1:16:36Speaker 6: kill the dude.
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: I swear, Hilary.
- 1:16:39Speaker 5: Duff was in this movie where she was furry.
- 1:16:42Speaker 6: It's a weird Duff. Poor Hilary. I kind of like Hillary.
- 1:16:53Speaker 6: She's all right.
- 1:16:55Speaker 5: Her show was so much better than that weirdo that
- 1:16:58Speaker 5: came after her. Miley Cyrus came after her. And Hillary's
- 1:17:05Speaker 5: show was kind of cool.
- 1:17:07Speaker 13: Speaking of watching odd shows and being sick, I had
- 1:17:10Speaker 13: the flu one time.
- 1:17:11Speaker 6: I was channel surfing and I watched about 10 minutes
- 1:17:12Speaker 6: of iCarly. That was pretty charming. I've watched every episode
- 1:17:17Speaker 6: of that.
- 1:17:17Speaker 13: We exist in a society where this is entertainment to
- 1:17:21Speaker 13: our children.
- 1:17:22Speaker 1: What is wrong with our society? If you watch enough,
- 1:17:25Speaker 1: I will have to argue that it is probably one
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: of the better sitcoms on television.
- 1:17:30Speaker 6: Especially for children.
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: Episode to episode, if you actually get it with the characters,
- 1:17:36Speaker 1: it's not bad.
- 1:17:38Speaker 6: I was terrified.
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: It is the one that Michelle Obama just did.
- 1:17:43Speaker 5: You know the one that makes me uncomfortable to watch
- 1:17:46Speaker 5: is The Last Picture Show. It's a movie that actually,
- 1:17:52Speaker 5: I think I can watch anything, but The Last Picture
- 1:17:55Speaker 5: Show really kind of drives me.
- 1:17:57Speaker 7: That's interesting.
- 1:17:57Speaker 5: It's so bleak and there's the kids sweeping the street.
- 1:18:02Speaker 14: You know.
- 1:18:02Speaker 7: The thing about Donovich having sex with a young girl.
- 1:18:05Speaker 6: I guess.
- 1:18:08Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, and she's just such an idiot, but she's
- 1:18:11Speaker 5: the only, like, thing in their world that is supposed
- 1:18:17Speaker 5: to be special, and she's just like this bitchy little idiot. Oh,
- 1:18:22Speaker 5: and then, and how their friendships get so messed up,
- 1:18:26Speaker 5: but there's nobody else around, so.
- 1:18:29Speaker 6: They have to forgive each other.
- 1:18:32Speaker 5: Yeah, there's something about that movie that really gets to me.
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: You'll have to forgive me, my paradigm is off. iCarly
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: is good only because I get to see so little
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: on television. You don't have to apologize, you love iCarly.
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: You love iCarly.
- 1:18:50Speaker 6: It's just like I like Hilary Duff.
- 1:18:53Speaker 5: I watch the shows with my kids.
- 1:18:55Speaker 6: I love Arthur. I love that fucking art bar. I
- 1:19:01Speaker 6: could watch that show.
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: Oh, Arthur, yeah.
- 1:19:04Speaker 3: That's a great show.
- 1:19:05Speaker 21: That was for the nerdier kids.
- 1:19:08Speaker 12: Was it?
- 1:19:09Speaker 21: It was on PBS.
- 1:19:11Speaker 1: It's too damn smart. I don't like that one.
- 1:19:13Speaker 6: Wishbone, yeah.
- 1:19:15Speaker 5: And who was the little kid who had cancer and
- 1:19:17Speaker 5: they never caught it?
- 1:19:19Speaker 6: Yeah, Caillou.
- 1:19:21Speaker 11: Brian, my nephew, when he was little, vehemently hated that show.
- 1:19:26Speaker 11: And I remember once he goes, I don't have to
- 1:19:29Speaker 11: like Kai or nothing.
- 1:19:31Speaker 6: I'm going to watch it.
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: So annoying.
- 1:19:37Speaker 6: His voice.
- 1:19:39Speaker 21: Does the kid have cancer?
- 1:19:40Speaker 6: Is that what the show is about?
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: I don't understand.
- 1:19:42Speaker 6: I don't think he does. I don't think he does,
- 1:19:44Speaker 6: but it looks like it.
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:19:48Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 1:19:50Speaker 1: It's bad.
- 1:19:51Speaker 5: Well, and is Dora the Explorer having some sort of
- 1:19:54Speaker 5: incestuous relationship with her cousin?
- 1:19:57Speaker 6: Diego? Yeah. Well, why would you think that?
- 1:20:00Speaker 5: Everybody thinks that.
- 1:20:02Speaker 18: Really?
- 1:20:02Speaker 6: Well, I mean, Diego's pretty cool. I mean, you know.
- 1:20:05Speaker 21: He is way cooler than her.
- 1:20:06Speaker 6: Her cousin? Diego's her cousin.
- 1:20:08Speaker 13: Okay, I thought it was, no, I thought it was
- 1:20:09Speaker 13: her boyfriend, but I've only seen a couple episodes.
- 1:20:12Speaker 6: So everybody thinks that. No, it's cousin. Yeah.
- 1:20:15Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:20:15Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 1:20:17Speaker 13: I've never watched it enough to get the subtle nuances
- 1:20:20Speaker 13: of the character relationships.
- 1:20:21Speaker 6: She introduces her because she is... I'm sure there's a.
- 1:20:24Speaker 13: Story arc that explains what the map does, apart from
- 1:20:27Speaker 13: describing it.
- 1:20:28Speaker 12: Right.
- 1:20:29Speaker 6: I can't invest myself in that.
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: I can't remember Diego's older sister's name, but she introduces
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: them all as her cousin.
- 1:20:37Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:20:39Speaker 5: Does anybody remember the cartoon Love Is?
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: Like the little hand.
- 1:20:44Speaker 6: Yeah, Love.
- 1:20:45Speaker 5: Is, and it's the two naked eight-year-olds who are married.
- 1:20:49Speaker 6: To each other.
- 1:20:49Speaker 1: As a kid, I hated that thing.
- 1:20:52Speaker 5: What is that about?
- 1:20:53Speaker 12: I don't like it at all.
- 1:20:54Speaker 5: Yeah, it's two naked eight-year-olds who are married to each other,
- 1:20:57Speaker 5: and Love Is.
- 1:20:59Speaker 21: Two naked eight-year-olds married to each other.
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing.
- 1:21:04Speaker 6: It is amazing that that exists.
- 1:21:05Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: That's a lot of drama. Well, see, that's the whole thing.
- 1:21:10Speaker 6: Men are from.
- 1:21:12Speaker 21: We.
- 1:21:12Speaker 5: Mentioned a movie from the 70s being traumatic. Look, the
- 1:21:16Speaker 5: 70s were traumatic.
- 1:21:17Speaker 6: That's just all there is to it. There were such
- 1:21:20Speaker 6: good movies.
- 1:21:20Speaker 1: I'm so glad I skidded.
- 1:21:25Speaker 6: Glenn Close comes out in the 70s, so that's why
- 1:21:27Speaker 6: she's such a good actress. I mean, she's braved it all.
- 1:21:30Speaker 1: She's survived it.
- 1:21:31Speaker 12: Yeah, she can be a man.
- 1:21:33Speaker 11: Whenever I mention Babar, no one ever remembers Babar.
- 1:21:37Speaker 6: I remember Babar.
- 1:21:38Speaker 12: Sure.
- 1:21:39Speaker 6: I said Glenn Close, not Meryl Streep. As soon as
- 1:21:42Speaker 6: you said man, I said, what?
- 1:21:45Speaker 12: Meryl Streep can be a man if she wants to.
- 1:21:48Speaker 5: What's the Onion story I saw today? They ruled that
- 1:21:53Speaker 5: Meryl Streep can't beat tried in court because she has
- 1:21:56Speaker 5: no peers. Oh, God.
- 1:22:02Speaker 6: That's pretty good.
- 1:22:04Speaker 1: I hope Billy Crystal tells that one.
- 1:22:06Speaker 2: I should have brought up Antichrist with the traumatic events.
- 1:22:11Speaker 18: Oh, God.
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: This just means sequel. Every time we do one of these,
- 1:22:15Speaker 1: we afterwards come up with 40 other things.
- 1:22:17Speaker 6: It did turn out to be a fecund sort of topic.
- 1:22:21Speaker 5: I just thought of it because, you know, I finally
- 1:22:24Speaker 5: managed to traumatize my kids. Because they thought, oh, it's
- 1:22:28Speaker 5: Dwight from The Office. This will be fun. Holy fuck. Super.
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: It's like more realistic of what Kick-Ass? Kick-Ass could have been.
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: It's like the first half of Kick-Ass before it gets cheesy.
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: It's like, oh, this is really what would happen if
- 1:22:47Speaker 1: you would become a superhero. Yeah, if you took it
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: to the end of what probably would have happened in
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: Kick-Ass for real.
- 1:22:52Speaker 14: Right.
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: And this is what really fucked up people would associate
- 1:22:57Speaker 1: with you if you did. Pretty much.
- 1:23:00Speaker 6: What's her name?
- 1:23:02Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 1:23:02Speaker 6: Ellen Page.
- 1:23:03Speaker 1: She's amazing.
- 1:23:04Speaker 6: She's psycho.
- 1:23:05Speaker 1: I mean, she was great in Super. Psycho.
- 1:23:10Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:23:11Speaker 6: Jesus Camp, I got to thinking.
- 1:23:12Speaker 13: I was like, that's a traumatizing documentary.
- 1:23:15Speaker 1: It's a different kind of traumatizing.
- 1:23:17Speaker 13: It goes back to what you were saying, just traumatizing.
- 1:23:19Speaker 13: No different fooding.
- 1:23:21Speaker 6: I watched that and I was like, I don't know. Oh, yeah.
- 1:23:25Speaker 12: So, yeah.
- 1:23:27Speaker 1: If nothing else, it's a good time to get out
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: your decoder pins. Okay, kids, get out your decoder pins.
- 1:23:35Speaker 10: It is time for the Movie Meltdown Secret Circle reveal
- 1:23:37Speaker 10: of the next exciting feature.
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: See how excited I was there? i could tell that
- 1:23:42Speaker 1: tonight's message was really important.
- 1:23:44Speaker 10: Next week we will be back to discuss timer it's
- 1:23:49Speaker 10: it's available in many many places online or at your
- 1:23:52Speaker 10: local closed down video store so go get yourself a
- 1:23:55Speaker 10: copy and um yeah timer and we will even have
- 1:23:58Speaker 10: a one from the vault segment from the star of
- 1:24:00Speaker 10: the movie miss mccarthy so.
- 1:24:03Speaker 12: Anything else to round this one out.
- 1:24:09Speaker 6: All right.
- 1:24:09Speaker 1: Otherwise, that about does it.
- 1:24:10Speaker 12: We will return next week. Same geek time, same geek feed.
- 1:24:13Speaker 12: Thanks for listening.
- 1:24:43Speaker 9: This jungle is massive, so please don't be so passive.
- 1:24:47Speaker 14: Be aggressive, impress us, and they will get the message.
- 1:24:51Speaker 6: Yes, your father, he had.
- 1:24:53Speaker 13: It, for us it's automatic.
- 1:24:55Speaker 1: Yes, it's magic, it's magic.
- 1:25:19Speaker 5: Thank you.
- 1:26:07Speaker 10: Hugs and kisses from the girls and the boys Live
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- 1:26:14Speaker 14: The night, you can have some grits I'll show you.
- 1:26:18Speaker 7: Right, this song is the.
- 1:26:20Speaker 9: Test That game traumatized me.
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: I did not want to go into the alternate world
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: because those kid things would... Did you ever play that?
- 1:27:18Speaker 6: I've not played the game.
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: Oh my god. The movie.
- 1:27:22Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:27:22Speaker 1: Yeah, the first game is creepy. Sorry.
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