Latest / The Avid Indoorsmen / A.I. EP. 217: “I Wish I Were Big” - Big 35th Anniversary
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- 0:00Dead Maiden. The sun is shining out of cloud in the sky. We
- 0:06wouldn't know because we're so happy inside. Some people boo boot on some skis,
- 0:13but we would rather sit on down and talk some movies. Where the
- 0:18Avid Indoorsmen gun. Listen to our show Where the Avid Indoorsmen at home on
- 0:25the go, Where the Avid Indoorsman. We hope you so come on in
- 0:32and stay. We'll do our best to make you smile. We're the Indoorsman.
- 0:40What is happening? I'm Rob Lund Quiz Time Beaus and we are the
- 0:45abb and Indorsement. Hello everyone, how are you? Hello? How are
- 0:50you sir? That's what I want to know. I'm doing farewell, pal,
- 0:54thank you for asking. Just been hanging out. I got to hang
- 0:57with my bro and his crew the last weekend. It was very fun.
- 1:02And I hear that. I hear that you're going to be with our buddy
- 1:04box this weekend too. Right. Oh, your work gets around I love
- 1:10it. Yeah, I'm going on a little imprompt tour. Imprompt tour.
- 1:15Didn't believe it on purpose with box Ie was I knew that the vet Fest
- 1:19stuff was this weekend, so I asked him if he was going. He
- 1:23said yes, and then he was like, but I'm gonna have to leave
- 1:27because he has another gig in Madison that night, and he was like,
- 1:32unless you want to come to both and hang out, and I was like,
- 1:34yeah, that sounds fun. So we're gonna go see the crew tomorrow
- 1:38night, rehearse a little bit, do that fest, go to Madison,
- 1:42hang out there. I think. I think Maxiphone is going to be there
- 1:47with the Space Burrito's crew. And yeah, I've never really hung out in
- 1:53Madison, so I'm kind of I'm kind of stuffed. It's gonna be a
- 1:55fun little weekend. Yeah, it's a cool town man. Yeah, that's
- 1:57what I hear. I don't I honestly, I don't really know why.
- 2:00I've never hung out there much, but I'd imagine all the college kids are
- 2:04coming back too, so it'll probably be cy. I think this is like
- 2:07a block party too, so it'll be fun, I think. And you
- 2:12know, if I have to slip away and find some solace, I can
- 2:15do that too, So no responsibilities there, so that's kind of fun.
- 2:19Yeah, dude, that'll be really fun. But yeah, how are you
- 2:21pal? I'm good. We had some gigs. They were all very close
- 2:25to each other. The first one was in Oregon and then the next one
- 2:28was in West Virginia. Yeah, just across the street. That was crazy.
- 2:34You guys didn't bust though, right Like, I thought that was true,
- 2:38but I couldn't remember. There was only one day in between those two
- 2:42gigs work. Yeah, it was all day just flying. So we did
- 2:47that and then we went to Connecticut, and then I went and got a
- 2:53rental car in Connecticut, drove down to New York. That's right, Yes,
- 2:57our buddy Benny, which was really fun. We went and we saw
- 3:04a Good Night Oscar with Sean Hayes. Amazing. How was it? It
- 3:09was so good, dude, Ah, I'm so glad to hear that.
- 3:14I'm so pumped that you got to go to that. He was incredible.
- 3:16I was very very impressed. He puts on a voice throughout the thing.
- 3:21Really, I'm not familiar with Oscar levant Apparently he was a very big deal
- 3:24back in like the fifties. Yeah, but hey, Cary not talk like
- 3:30this, And so he was doing that the entire show, which was pretty
- 3:35impressive. And he gets to show off his piano chops, which are absolutely
- 3:40breathtaking. Yeah, he's apparently like a killer on the piano. I mean,
- 3:44that's amazing. And he was acting while playing the piano, which was
- 3:49blowing my mind. One hilarious thing. And I'm gonna see if they talk
- 3:53about it on smart List. Oh sure. While I was there, it
- 3:58was the like Dominican Republic Day in New York City and there was this huge
- 4:06parade down Sixth Avenue and the theater is right next to sixth Avenue. Oh
- 4:14so for the entire like, this is a pretty dramatic show throughout the entire
- 4:17thing, just like you can hear it. You're just hearing just all of
- 4:25the yelling and scream. So they were having so much fun, sirens going.
- 4:32It was just insanity the whole time. And I was feeling bad for
- 4:36them on stage. Yeah, how are you getting through this? This is
- 4:42incredible? Oh so, yeah, it was a lot. And afterwards,
- 4:46when when he did his bow at the end, he was like, I'm
- 4:49so sorry about the noise. Yeah, I bet that. I could see
- 4:53myself as a performer thinking that the whole time too, Like you felt bad
- 4:57for them, they feel bad for you that you're that's the night you're there,
- 5:00You know what I mean, Like it was crazy, but it's just
- 5:03one of those things that's part of the fun of life. Theater. I
- 5:05got a story now, and I wish Benny would have known who was in
- 5:11the cast before we went there, because I think I could have gotten backstage.
- 5:15Oh did he know someone in it? Yes, so in his movie
- 5:17Reality that's on Max right now. Yeah, yeah there, man. I
- 5:23don't know if I ever told you that. You didn't tell me that I
- 5:26did, and it was great. Sorry. I think his name's marshaunt Davis,
- 5:29but it was like, you know one of the FBI guys. Sure,
- 5:34he's in the show. God, that's fun. I was like,
- 5:38dude, And we even waited like you know how they afterwards too. Yeah
- 5:44he was good in the show too. He really was. Yeah good,
- 5:46But we waited to see if they'd come like on the side stage, and
- 5:48both he and Sean Hayes didn't come out, and I was like, turds,
- 5:54turds. Did I ever tell you? I once had my buddy Casey
- 6:00say hi to Benny after the show after a waitress. He was like he
- 6:03was like, I know Bukes and Benny was like what you know, Like
- 6:06I got to get all excited. That's fun. Yeah, that's fun.
- 6:10It's always fun when somebody uses your name as a name drop. I always
- 6:14love that. Yeah, and just like because I can remember, you know,
- 6:16even in regular county fair settings, I would always be so excited when
- 6:20it's someone I knew, you know what I mean, Like so great.
- 6:25I love those little connections. Very sweet, very sweet. Nice. But
- 6:29it was a really fun weekend and I got to see some movies on some
- 6:31planes. But I want to hear about what you watched. I love it.
- 6:36Just this very night I watched the new Super Mario Brothers movie. Finally
- 6:43saw it. I finally saw it. I was like, oh, tonight's
- 6:46tonight. This will be fun. And what a delightful little flick, buddy,
- 6:50that's really fun. I had a really nice time. I thought it
- 6:54was, you know, like nothing groundbreaking per se, but just real cute,
- 6:58real fun. I think you might have said after you watched it,
- 7:02you loved all the like orchestral takes on a lot of fun music that we
- 7:08have, and I was like, the best part of those, Yeah,
- 7:11totally one hundred percent there with you. I actually think I might like listen
- 7:14to this the score, you know, as time goes on because it's it's
- 7:18really fun, and I forget how ingrained those things are in, you know,
- 7:24in my brain after playing these games for hours and hours and hours.
- 7:28And yeah, I thought it was a super fun story. I thought Peach
- 7:30got to like it was fun that they made her more of an active role
- 7:33in it. Honestly, I just loved everything about it. Tons of references
- 7:39that were fun, looked super cool, sounded great, great, Yeah,
- 7:44so so good. I did not key, my key did not recognize him.
- 7:48No, I know that's what I said. Yeah, I could remember
- 7:53you saying that, and I was like, I still didn't recognize that for
- 7:56us to look it up. So no, it was like he had he
- 8:00I'm going on in there. Yeah, he must have been like I just
- 8:03really want to go for it, Like, okay, go for it,
- 8:05dude. Yeah it was fun. But yeah, I had a great time.
- 8:07I thought it was a delight. And that's streaming now, right,
- 8:11you said, yeah, I think it is. I had got a copy
- 8:15from someone I don't even in a total totally legal fashion, so I believe
- 8:20that I can do it. How about you, buddy, what what's the
- 8:24most recent movie you've watched? I watched one that was not like yours at
- 8:28all. This one was way more intense. I watched the guy Richie's The
- 8:33Covenant. I finally got to watch that. I wanted to see that one
- 8:39in the theater. Is this the Jake Joon Hall one. Yes it is.
- 8:43Oh yeah I did too, but I feel like it came and went
- 8:46so quickly. Yeah, I wasn't able to see it in the theater.
- 8:48It is on Delta if you're ever on a Delta flights nice but it is,
- 8:54you know, not your typical guy Ritchie film, that's for sure.
- 8:58For sure. It's it's during the war in Afghanistan. It's a true story
- 9:03about an interpreter that saves a sergeant's life. Then the Taliban puts a like
- 9:09price on the interpreter's head. Yis so it's up to the sergeant to try
- 9:13and figure out if he can go back and save him. And it's very
- 9:18stressful. Yeah, I bet, but really really well done. Jake Jillenhall
- 9:24did a great job. And the interpreter was played by a guy named dar
- 9:28Salem and he is really really good. Yeah. I just turned Jillen Hall
- 9:33on with some I don't even remember what the podcast was but somebody and that
- 9:39he just went on and on about that Dar Salem guy. How gross.
- 9:43Yeah, I'm definitely gonna be watching out for him. He's gonna be getting
- 9:46bigger roles. But I enjoyed it a lot. It's for sure worth a
- 9:50watch. A lot of the times, I'm not super into like war movies
- 9:56and all that. Kind of with you, this one looked kind of interesting
- 10:00though. Great. I'm with you on that. That was well done,
- 10:03very cool. I have to check that out. Have you been streaming anything
- 10:05fun? Yeah, I watched an entire series. Basically, I'm just catching
- 10:09up to you this week. I'm realizing because I watched all of Jury Duty.
- 10:16Tell me what you thought? Wasn't it great? Dude? So great,
- 10:20so bizarre, such a fun idea. Yes, I love I loved
- 10:24it so much, just like you said I would. I found it funny
- 10:28because I recognized and I think you said this too, I did, like
- 10:31recognize at least three of those people. Yeah. I don't know if I
- 10:35would in real life, but I did, you know, in this setting,
- 10:39and that was funny. But yeah, dude, it's so they messed
- 10:43with him so hard, so hard, so hard, and such a cool
- 10:48idea though, Like I I thought it was fun and he comes out looking
- 10:54like an absolute gem. That was my That was my hottest take was if
- 11:00that guy wasn't that guy, like it could have been shows and horrible,
- 11:05yeah, because it would have made me feel gross. It would have been.
- 11:09He was like so kind the whole time and maybe they kind of like
- 11:15cut around to emphasize that a little bit, but I don't know. I
- 11:20don't know. Man. I was like, you're a great dude. Good
- 11:24for you, because like, no, even when these people did crazy stuff,
- 11:28he was like, well, whin some you lose you know. Yeah,
- 11:33he came out smelling like roses Man big time. He must be like,
- 11:37who that could have been so bad? Yeah? It was great though.
- 11:41It was fun, really fun and what a what a what a wild
- 11:46idea that it's like, let's do this like performance art piece but in secret,
- 11:54and yeah, well they it was nice, yeah, super wild and
- 12:01really I was super glad. I don't think this is like a spoiler.
- 12:05The like last episode is they kind of take them behind the curtain and stuff,
- 12:09and I was super glad they did that because I was really interested in
- 12:13the mechanics of it all and stuff. I thought that was super neat.
- 12:16I really that a lot. But yeah, that shows super fun. Yeah,
- 12:20I'm glad you checked out. When they were pretty short episodes too,
- 12:22so it was a pretty pretty easy binge. I think there was like eight
- 12:24of them too, so it was like, you know, nothing too crazy,
- 12:28but yeah, super wild ride. Man. How about you? Have
- 12:31you been streaming anything? I have? I streamed an entire show as well.
- 12:37Yeah, I streamed Silo on Apple TV plus. Oh, I've been
- 12:43needing to check that out. What did you think? Really really cool?
- 12:46And it's kind of a post apocalyptic sci fi show, So the outside world
- 12:52isn't inhabitable, we don't really know why, and these like thousand, thousands
- 13:00of people have made a society in this gigantic silo and it's been around for
- 13:05a long time to the point where nobody knows who made the silo or came
- 13:11to be. So it's a very interesting plot. We got some great actors.
- 13:16David Yellow, Oh Rashida Jones are in it, as well as Will
- 13:22Patton, Tim Robbins, and Common. But for sure the main star is
- 13:26Rebecca Ferguson. Oh lovely okay, she's wonderful yep, And it's a fun
- 13:33kind of mystery sci fi thriller. My biggest complaint is that Rebecca Ferguson's American
- 13:39accent is really rough, pretty tough. Like it is for sure the worst
- 13:46that we've heard in a long time. I always think, like production that
- 13:52must suck because they must realize it, like day three they're like, oh
- 13:56no, yeah, it's too late and this sucks so bad, or it
- 14:01doesn't make sense because all of these people are in the same place, so
- 14:05you can't have like different dialects. Yeah, right, you know what I
- 14:09mean, especially if it's been that long and all that. Right. Yeah,
- 14:11yeah, But her performance is good enough that it's worth a little bit.
- 14:18Yeah, And I was I was like, okay, whatever, I
- 14:22just want to be like this, don't do it, just don't do it.
- 14:26Yeah right, give up, give up. But it is still totally
- 14:31worth watching. It's really it's cool man. It's very very cool, more
- 14:35sci fi e than like fantasy E. Wait you say for sure cool?
- 14:41Yeah. I wasn't sure which direction I would go. That's cool. I've
- 14:43been doing to check that out. That'll be fun. It's worth a watch.
- 14:46Nice, Asha do if you plug a Rooney we should let's do it
- 14:50nice. You guess can visit this ass. I was over on the Twitter
- 14:52machine where we were at to have an endorsement with a Z. It's also
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- 15:46are wonderful. Yeah you are. And yeah, we do a top five
- 15:52draft that pertains to the movie we're talking about on our podcast and chill version
- 15:56and for this when we're doing our top five favorite movie boys. Yeah,
- 16:02it's got a few that I feel like push the envelope. But I think
- 16:06I think we'll be good. I think we'll be good. I think we'll
- 16:07be good. We'll see you guys can be to ride me if they're bad.
- 16:11Yes, oh I'm gonna do that. Yeah, but it should be
- 16:14it should be a good time. I'm excited for this, this idea.
- 16:17It will be a great one coming attractions. Stay tuned as we talk about
- 16:22a great football movie for the start of football season. Rudy's great. You
- 16:30can see for the first time. I'd throw some more references at you,
- 16:33but yeah, I don't know an here, so uh, I'm excited for
- 16:37you. Yeah, stay Golden Pony Boy. Is that that movie? No,
- 16:41that's The Outsiders, that's The Outsiders. Well, he's kind of an
- 16:44outside linebacker. It doesn't matter. We'll talk about it more. Is he
- 16:48Alignman's But I think it's in the middle. But yeah, yeah, okay,
- 16:52okay, I'm excited. I don't know why I've never seen it.
- 16:57It is weird. Yeah, I'm glad. It's strange forcing you to do
- 17:00that, Yes, strange, But we are here today to talk about another
- 17:03lovely film called The Big, Yes Big, and it's the thirty fifth anniversary
- 17:10Rob Yeah, hotly, go, Holy go, And we decided we need
- 17:15to bring just a big personality here to hang out with us. So everyone,
- 17:18let's give it up for ab. What's up, Aide? Hi,
- 17:25good to see you, Good to be here. You're good man, Such
- 17:29a nice day to have you on. We love it. How have you
- 17:32been good? Busy? Have been out with this band home Free, doing
- 17:37some horrible all kinds of crazy shows actually with them, from you know,
- 17:41hurricane weather to yeah yeah, oh yeah bugs. I didn't tell you the
- 17:51last gig we did in Connecticut got rained out halfway through it while it got
- 17:53oh, lightning out halfway through. Yeah, bomber dude. It was a
- 18:00bummer logistics nightmare. That was some crazy routing you guys had to do for
- 18:06that one. We're happening. We're going coast to coast, coast to coast,
- 18:10So did it? You guys didn't have to finish or anything. It
- 18:12just did just like they cut it and let's split, let's get on the
- 18:17road. Yeah, we went. We went back into this building and did
- 18:21did another song for them off Mike. Nice but yeah, I mean these
- 18:26guys had to boss all the way back to Nashville, which is what Yeah,
- 18:30it was about that. I actually jumped off in Cleveland as we were
- 18:36rolling. I was like, huh, we're picking up a co driver there.
- 18:38Just split with the bus drive. It's like, if I can get
- 18:41that exchange done and switch to a decent flight, And it all really fell
- 18:45into place, so nice. Nicely just got home a day early then or
- 18:51something at least a few hours early, about twelve hours early. Yeah,
- 18:53nice, that's great. Well, yeah, we'll take that. Did you
- 18:57guys have to tear down a bunch of stuff? How do you How does
- 19:00that work? Do you have to wait till the lightning passes? I don't
- 19:03know how many of that works? Yeah, pretty much. I mean there's
- 19:07the sort of industry standard for gatherings like that is thirty minutes after the last
- 19:11strike. Gotcha? Okay? And so you said it like sports events and
- 19:15things, and I think we got there, got close close enough today,
- 19:21they were okay to start working. Nobody was giving you too much hard time.
- 19:25Nice, and we did. We did more than half the set,
- 19:26plus that special like song inside that Rob mentioned, and so everyone's really happy
- 19:32with it. And you know, the drive to drive out of there was
- 19:33just like popping all over the place. Though, I bet yeah, crazy,
- 19:40well, very cool. Well, it's always so lovely to have you.
- 19:42Abe wanted to make sure we encourage everyone to reduce, reuse and recycle
- 19:48in their lives. So get out there, do some recycling. Something happened
- 19:52your monsters? Yeah, come on, you jerks. You're better than this,
- 19:59are they though? Yes? Oh they are? Yes, yes,
- 20:03yeah they could be. I believe it could be me too. If that's
- 20:06a that's very adults of you. It's very big of you. And we're
- 20:08here today to talk about that lovely film. So Rob, can you get
- 20:12us started with just just a rough synopsis, I would love to Okay.
- 20:18After a wish turned twelve year old Josh Baskin into a thirty year old man,
- 20:22he heads to New York City and gets a low level job at McMillan
- 20:26toy Company. A chance encounter with the owner of the company leads to a
- 20:30promotion testing new toys. Soon, a fellow employee, Susan Lawrence, takes
- 20:36a romantic, romantic interest in Josh. However, the pressure of living as
- 20:40an adult begins to overwhelm him, and he longs to return to his simple
- 20:45former life as a boy. A boy boy, love that, love that.
- 20:52Let's run on over to Rotten Tomatoes and hear what they have to say,
- 20:55because critics have this movie coming in at a rock solid ID eight percent.
- 21:00I was shocked. I was shocked. I mean I didn't know it
- 21:06was that well loved. I guess that's pretty wild. Audience members a tick
- 21:11below that, but still very great at eighty two percent. That's also a
- 21:17little surprising that it would be. I would have assumed more audience has loved
- 21:19it than kicks. But yeah, that's wild to me. But yeah,
- 21:26I think we should go into what we think. It's time for our hot
- 21:29take. Hot take, Oh, spicy hot, that's a hot take.
- 21:37That's a hot take. I'll go first. I love this movie a lot.
- 21:41I think it's a really fun one. This is one again just like
- 21:45who knows what movies you glom onto as a kid, But I saw this
- 21:48one quite a few times as a kid, not like a staple staple,
- 21:52but definitely a ton of times. Considering it came out, you know,
- 21:56just three years after I was born, you know what I mean, So
- 22:00I could have easily missed it. I think it's super fun. I didn't.
- 22:03It's been a long time since I've seen it now, but I thought
- 22:07it was really charming and fun. Tom Hanks is super great in it.
- 22:11I think it's got some super funny set pieces and stuff going on in it.
- 22:15I also thought, like, just nostalgia wise, it was super fun
- 22:19to see, like, oh, there was a time when when Times Square
- 22:22used to be like really scary and CD and that's where you'd go for a
- 22:26cheap hotel, which is kind of a funny thing to think about, because
- 22:30I don't. I don't really think it's that way anymore. I can.
- 22:34I was just there. It was. I just love the idea of like
- 22:38all the job said was computer operator. That's all it's said, and yeah,
- 22:45come on in you can you've touched a computer before, come on,
- 22:48And I just think that's super fun. But yeah, I just think this
- 22:52movie is like really charming. I assume there's like a really fun think piece
- 22:56or a thousand maybe out there talking about out you know, like his journey
- 23:00into adulthood and back and how we all do that over life and we long
- 23:06for you know, the like innocence of youth and all that, which would
- 23:11be really fun to read actually, because I bet there's some really deep thoughts
- 23:12out there. I of course don't really have any of those in life in
- 23:17general. So I just thought it was really fun. He had a fun
- 23:19apartment and got to kiss a cute girl. So although that is problematic and
- 23:26it's yeah, can would they be able to make this movie now with that?
- 23:34I don't really know. I was wondering how there's a lot of suggestion.
- 23:38There's not like a lot of I mean they banged, right, oh
- 23:42yeah, like I think they did. Yeah, okay, yeah, it's
- 23:48uh. I don't think it'd be worth the hassle at this point, right,
- 23:52but you know it would just yeah, you know, split in your
- 23:53audience and yeah, obviously you think about that ass going on a simpler time
- 23:59if you will, I think I think you could, and you could do
- 24:03it without that, like they could just like, you know, like each
- 24:07other and do like a kiss on the cheek or something, and that's all
- 24:11you would really need to happen, I think, and like everything else is
- 24:15fine after that, you know, like you don't need to go that far.
- 24:19But yes, I kind of agree with abe, Like I just I
- 24:22think they would steer clear just because they'd be like, do we need to
- 24:26do Everyone's gonna get offended. Everyone gets offended all the time. Yeah,
- 24:30it is weird though. She is like thirty or whatever, and he's twelve,
- 24:36so he's a teenagers Okay, he's thirteen. Yeah, it's pretty hot.
- 24:44I do agree with that. I definitely don't think you could make it
- 24:48had it been different, like the roles were reversed, if it was exactly
- 24:53Oh yeah, that's a good question, you know, and you couldn't do
- 24:59it. You definitely couldn't do it the other way. You can't go from
- 25:00old to young. No, no, no, no, because that would
- 25:03be real weird. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know.
- 25:08I think it would be problematic today. But it was really fun thirty five
- 25:12years ago. That is like the least interesting part of it though to me,
- 25:17So you know, like I don't really need that part. But good
- 25:22for him, he got to got to get with a very pretty lady.
- 25:26Sure did so that's fun taken. I guess that's my hot take. It
- 25:30is, I can't make it today. I didn't plan them doing that,
- 25:37but yet, hot take. I've always thought this was a wonderful movie.
- 25:41It was up for two Oscars, which I did not know that, and
- 25:48I certainly don't think a movie like that would be up for two Oscars today.
- 25:51But what two did you see yet? One for Tom Hanks for Best
- 25:53Actor and one for Best Original Screenplay. Lovely and I learned that the director
- 26:00of photography was Barry Son and Feld, and he has had quite an impressive
- 26:06career. I know he's gone off to direct like the Men in Black movies.
- 26:08He's done a lot of great things. I didn't realize that he was
- 26:12the Coen Brothers first like director of photography. So he did. He did
- 26:17Blood simply. He did Raising Arizona Miller's Crossing Barry Son and felt. I
- 26:22was impressed with Day. Yeah, fantastic. I saw that Gary Ross wrote
- 26:29it, and he wrote some other favorites of mine. He did that Mister
- 26:33Baseball movie with Tom Selleck. I love that one. He exactly Yeah.
- 26:40He did Dave with Kevin Klein, which I loved. This is your guy.
- 26:47But then he went on to become a director too, and he wrote
- 26:51and directed Pleasantville, Sea Biscuit and even that first Hunger Games movie. So
- 26:56pretty impressive people behind the scenes getting to be big directors after this, No
- 27:02wonder this is a fun movie, I guess. Yeah, But Penny Marshall
- 27:06directed this one. I think the only movie we've covered of hers is A
- 27:10League of their Own. But she's done a bunch of good things, and
- 27:14I thought she did some really fun stuff with this. It's a very fun
- 27:18plot where a kid becomes an adult overnight. We've seen that a few times
- 27:22before, and it's always a good time. I loved that he was able
- 27:26to find a job where being a kid actually played to his advantage, and
- 27:30that was a really fun part of the movie. Yeah, and I just
- 27:34enjoy when a movie makes me think like maybe I should incorporate some new things
- 27:40in my life, Like I don't always need to be worried about, you
- 27:42know, adult responsibilities I have going on. Should take some time and just
- 27:47enjoy life and see things through the eyes of a kid every once in a
- 27:52while. It made me feel kind of warm and fuzzy like that. So
- 27:56I love it when a movie does that. So, yeah, that's that's
- 27:59great a little bit. Yeah, hot take, buddy take. Well,
- 28:07I agree with everything you guys said that it's it's nice, it's good.
- 28:14I reminded me of sort of a simpler time and you know, society wise,
- 28:18and in my life as well. I think I was twelve when it
- 28:22came out eighty eight, so theater and so that was a very like,
- 28:26you know, impactful time to see something like that always stuck with me.
- 28:29We had it on VHS and sure, you know, it was just back
- 28:33then there was just less media being thrown at us too, So like you
- 28:37know that that piano scene was just such a part of the cultural zeitgeist at
- 28:41the time. Everyone knows, you know, your chopsticks and you think of
- 28:45that or you see, you know, a big piano thing. My mind
- 28:48just goes to that, and I think a lot of people, you know,
- 28:51in my Slash hour demographic. Absolutely, yeah, for sure. Like
- 28:56like you said, think pieces and stuff, you can I think project onto
- 28:59it some more complicated type things. I don't really think it was the intention
- 29:03of the movie, but you know, it gets it got me thinking,
- 29:06like, you know, why do we love how do we love you know,
- 29:08when she's attracted to what is she attracted to in him? And stuff
- 29:14like that. But I think that's maybe just more me than the movie necessarily.
- 29:18Yeah, I agree, because I definitely found myself being like, well,
- 29:22of course she likes him. He's not asking anything of her like her
- 29:25other guy was like kind of using her, you know, like all these
- 29:27things. Right, So yeah, I'm with you, and yeah, just
- 29:32it felt good to watch and reminded me of you know, some other movies
- 29:34around that time that were like that as well, whether it was like John
- 29:38Hughes movies or you know, they're just like comfort food type stuff. Yeah,
- 29:44absolutely love it. Hot takes, Hot takes, very I love it.
- 29:49Should we go in and talk about our favorite acting performance. Time to
- 29:53name the dude the dude. I'm the dude, So that's what you call
- 29:59me, you know that, or his dudeness or dooder or you know,
- 30:04eldudino. If you're not into the whole brevity thing of it, Hey,
- 30:08who'd you have for the dude? Buddy? Well, I'm glad I got
- 30:11to go first. This is a good one to go first time. For
- 30:15sure. It's an all tar, No, it's it's tomics. You know,
- 30:22it's maybe not in his total upper pantheon of performances because that would be
- 30:27you know, the money Pit, the Burbs job versus the volcano, but
- 30:32like in that that one be tear Turner and Hooch things like that splash party
- 30:42good and then you know, just after that kind of that long city decline
- 30:47of his performances after that, And so I agreed, Yeah, it was
- 30:49nice to see him in his prime. There, that's a hot take right
- 30:56there. I like that a lot. Yeah, you're not wrong. It's
- 31:02obviously Tom Hanks. He was so great in this. It was really fun
- 31:07seeing him act like a kid when she is like you know, how do
- 31:11you feel about me that scene and he is just like oh getting no,
- 31:18like bashful, and then he just starts hitting her with the magazine like stop
- 31:22it. It was like it was perfect. He had he had some of
- 31:27that stuff. I just thought it was incredible. So like tiny corn and
- 31:30the cop too, just like oh that was that whole scene was great dude,
- 31:36and just kid those mannerisms you really it gets you believe in this unbelievable
- 31:41scenario. Yes, you just forget about the acting and you know, just
- 31:45the way he gets excited about things. The way that he you know,
- 31:48just gets moved and surprised and stuff is you know, it's it is,
- 31:52you know, all kidding aside, like a testament to his skill. I
- 31:56think that he makes that look easy. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, and
- 32:00it's just it's so cohesive. I'm also picking him. It's a clean,
- 32:05clean sweep for the dude. Yeah, he's just perfect. But like you
- 32:10both upset, he's so great, so believable, and like that that joy
- 32:15just bubbles out from him like that childlike joy in a way that I think
- 32:21it's really impressive and probably really hard to do in a believable way, but
- 32:25he he totally does it. And this movie really made me think about like,
- 32:30god, he's been He's been around my entire life doing exacting things.
- 32:35Because he looked like a baby there. I mean, I know he's an
- 32:37adult, you know still, but I was just like, oh, you're
- 32:40so young. But it was cool, Yeah, really neat to see.
- 32:45But I just think he's I love him in basically everything. You know,
- 32:51it's it's no Lady Killers, but it's pretty great Tory puff abes, but
- 32:57yeah, like that, but yeah, queen sweep, clean sweep, but
- 33:01let's talk about some of these supporting roles, and let's pick the two geo
- 33:05wah we got for this one. He again happy to go first. So
- 33:12Susan the character, Susan Elizabeth Perkins, the friend. If that's that's too
- 33:15chi eligible, then I'm grabbing her, oh for sure. When I was
- 33:21thinking about this this question watching the movie, it felt like all those secondary
- 33:23characters were kind of one note except for her, you know, And so
- 33:30I think that she had the best character written for her out of that and
- 33:31she just kept the car on the road. Basically. Yeah, I love
- 33:37that. Absolutely. She's so great, so dreamy, and she's another person
- 33:42that's been around forever. Yeah yeah, yeah, and she's still doing stuff.
- 33:46I also picked her. I would have given a runner up to Jared
- 33:52Rushton as Billy Copecky. I thought that kid was really funny when I was
- 33:58a kid, I was like, I definitely gravitated more towards him than like
- 34:02the main guy, Josh Baskin, Right. I just thought he was awesome,
- 34:07Like he was in some great stuff back in the day, was he
- 34:12Yeah, honey, I shrunk the kids. He's he's the younger brother of
- 34:15the kid next door. Suh. He's in Overboard. He's more kids at
- 34:22home. He had a good run. Man. Yeah he was in a
- 34:25but he's not doesn't have that many credits, but the ones he's in,
- 34:29he's really funny. He really went for it. Yeah, he was great
- 34:31though, and like he's just a kid and he got to be a kid
- 34:36in this. It was really fun. He's like, oh, go ahead,
- 34:38go ahead. Article about him, and I was sort of Google diving
- 34:43into, like where do I know him from? And he like dropped out
- 34:46of acting I think in his thirties, I want to say, and became
- 34:49like a rec producer, so it's like, you know, studio engineer and
- 34:53like doesn't really do interviews. And then now I believe he lives in Florida
- 34:57and just builds models. And I didn't even catch what kind of models.
- 35:00But he's like him semi retired in his forties and just you know, just
- 35:07love and life. That's for him. Yeah, good for him. That's
- 35:09awesome. I was gonna s add just think it's I think it's really fun
- 35:13that he is like the more responsible of the two, or like the more
- 35:16like street savvy, and that's just such a fun that's such a fun dynamic
- 35:22between Tom Hanks and him, you know, in those moments because they're both
- 35:25kids but not and you know, all these things really fun. Love that
- 35:30pack. Uh. Give a shout out to Robert Looshia who's not in this
- 35:37atan. I actually kind of remembered him being in it more. But he's
- 35:40so great. I love that guy. Well that one scene, that iconic
- 35:45scene, and maybe that's wise because that's such a great scene. Yeah,
- 35:49and John Lovetts. I forgot that he was the other computer. I forgot
- 35:52about John Lovett, and he's just always a treat feel like to see in
- 35:59those in any movie he shows up in. He's so sure. I really
- 36:04like John Hurd as Paul so her like her boyfriends at the time. He's
- 36:08so hateable. He really was good. Yeah, I don't get it.
- 36:15I don't get it. He was funny and it was really fun seeing the
- 36:22lady from that seventy Show, Debrah Joe Rupp, miss Patterson. I was
- 36:28like what I saw. That was her movie debut, which is pretty fun,
- 36:32very cool. And the only other person I was going to say was
- 36:36Mercedes Rules missus Baskin. I thought she was really good. Oh, she
- 36:39did do a great job. Yeah, yeah, good call, good call.
- 36:44Yeah, didn't that. There's not that many other folks that are in
- 36:46it for like an extended period. Nope. I guess you could give a
- 36:53you could give an honorary Tucci to the the grungy city of New York,
- 37:00like with all the gunshots and stuff for the years. Yeah, duper fun.
- 37:04But the dude screaming outside the door, that was another great acting scene
- 37:08from Tom Hanks. Him just breaking down. He just seems like a scared
- 37:13thirteen year old kid. It was really good. Yeah. Yeah, anybody
- 37:17else have any runners up for the twos or should we go into those scenes?
- 37:22Well, we did see James Eckhouse in there. Who you don't know
- 37:27who he is, but Jim Walsh from Beverly Hills nine O two one.
- 37:30Oh yes, dude, I forgot I put that in my notes. I
- 37:34forgot to put it on here. He's the dad and mister Walsh And we're
- 37:39rewatching that here at home right now. So we're about halfway through for maybe
- 37:43the third time. And dude, I did not know you loved it that
- 37:49much. That's awesome. I was to it a lot when I was a
- 37:52kid. Should I watch that like, what if I've never seen it,
- 37:57I've never seen an episode, would it be so fun? Yeah, you'll
- 38:00know in the first you know, three episodes, and then you'll have two
- 38:04hundred and forty nine more hour long after. It was fun when they got
- 38:08older, because then they got the peach pit like after dark and so then
- 38:14when they started getting like musical acts to come onto the show and stuff on,
- 38:19that was fun. And you get typany evertheesen as, the you know,
- 38:22sort of ingenue towards the second half and yeah, yeah, that's why
- 38:27I was watching at the end. There she was Kelly Kapowski. I had
- 38:31a huge crush on her. Oh she was so great. Yeah, so
- 38:36great. Nice, well, very very good. Good reference. Yes,
- 38:42well, I'm glad that was mentioned. Good call a. Well, yeah,
- 38:45let's go and pick our favorite scene. Let's pick the dinghis. The
- 38:50ding is quite simple, really ingasas I can talk about my dingas all day
- 38:54long. The dingas right after the Kelly Kapowski reference is really on the nose.
- 39:00I love that. I think the dingus, Hey, what do you
- 39:04got for your favorite scene? So the one that made me laugh the most
- 39:08this time through, I'm gonna set the piano on aside, because that's like
- 39:13obviously, but that's the one when he's at the like dinner party and he
- 39:19eats the caviar. Yes, so just the coughing and again it's that,
- 39:24you know, that brilliant acting of him. You know, he's keeps going
- 39:30with it and commits to it, and even as he's walking out, he's
- 39:32like barking out these coughs, and it just you know, you you think
- 39:37it's a thirteen year old kid trapped in him. Yep. The old body
- 39:40there absolutely, and we already talked about it. But the mini corn on
- 39:45the cob was hilarious, yea. But yeah, if you add that with
- 39:52the limo ride where he's playing with all the knobs, stands up in the
- 39:58in the little sun roof thing, and if you do that into the sleepover,
- 40:01like I could actually take that whole sequence, sure for sure, because
- 40:07when yeah, when she comes into his loft and sees this like thirteen year
- 40:10old bachelor pad and like haz herd jump on a trampoline and it's fun to
- 40:15see her kind of switch jumps on the top bunk of the of the yeah
- 40:20bunk bed too, and that's what Yes, it's always stuck with so fun
- 40:22and she's like, I love that. We have this moment of her being
- 40:25like kind of disappointed that they're not gonna, likee hook up or whatever,
- 40:30but then she's also like, oh this is kind of nice too, Like
- 40:34it's not only about that. I don't know that's how I took it anyway.
- 40:37Again, I'm putting my own, you know, explanation on there a
- 40:40little bit. But I just thought that was really neat. I love that
- 40:44scene, or that series of scenes. Yeah, for sure, it was
- 40:47really good. That was my runner up to the Fao Schwartz scenes. Caviar
- 40:53taste that bad. I'm so I can't I can't eat that. I would
- 40:59die. But is it that? I mean, it would be really yucky
- 41:04for a thirteen year old if you didn't like a weird texture, probably too
- 41:07very salty, yeah, kind of gooey and wet. And I would imagine
- 41:13he probably ate too much of it too. You know, it's something,
- 41:15It's just a little tiny bit, it's all you need. Oh is it
- 41:17just you just wanted like a little schmir from there? M okay, I've
- 41:22never been That's a world I can't explore. So I was just curious.
- 41:25Yeah, all right, but yeah, I mean the FAO short scene is
- 41:32iconic. It's wild, it's just so great. It's so good. Yeah,
- 41:38yeah, let's just say about it. It was at least as good
- 41:42as I remembered it, which I wasn't sure if it would hold up,
- 41:44but when it came on, I was just transported. Yeah. Yeah,
- 41:47I found my heart just glowing a little bit during that. It was just
- 41:51like such a sweet and like such a I don't know, it's so it's
- 41:57almost random that they came across that scene because it doesn't really I mean,
- 42:01it kind of moves the plot along, and that he likes him after that,
- 42:05but like he kind of liked him already. I don't know. I
- 42:07just I feel like it wasn't necessary, but it was so necessary. I
- 42:10don't know, I loved it. I really liked that a lot. Did
- 42:16you have any other scenes you wanted to talk about? Pukes? Yes,
- 42:22I really like the first scene when he and Billy are in the equipment room
- 42:27when he's big for the first time. I just think that's a pretty hysterical
- 42:30scene because like Billy's freaking out with good reason, you know, like all
- 42:35these things and whatever I think that's super fun Yes, so so great,
- 42:40love that whole thing and oh yeah, and then I just put the orderbs
- 42:47because I just love that hole, that whole bit. But you said that
- 42:52whole segment, so which I'm on board with the party though. I also
- 42:55like the I don't get it scene. I think that's really funny, but
- 43:00it's a building. What's fun about? What's fun Yeah, so funny and
- 43:06just the other guy's face like I'm gonna murder you if you don't shut up,
- 43:12I'm gonna kill you. Super funny. Another one a little like that
- 43:17that I enjoyed was when his first day on the job and he's being shown
- 43:22his cubicle and Jim Walsh is walking off. He just gives a by like
- 43:30just like beautiful timing and just like it reminds you of what's going on if
- 43:35you might have forgotten for a moment. Yes, totally. I also love
- 43:39the because I've been in offices like this, the like slot down guy,
- 43:44you want to put us all a lot of a job. Yeah, he
- 43:47didn't even look like he was going that fast. A little wow, John
- 43:54lovet easy, You're not doing much. Yeah, so funny, so funny.
- 44:04That was yeah, I think that's pretty easy. I think we've got
- 44:07to take the FA or short scene. Yeah, big, Yeah, I'm
- 44:10on board with that for sure. That was easy. Let's let's go and
- 44:15talk about some fun quote. Let's go to show me the money, show
- 44:20me the man, show me Maybe you want to go first with some quotes,
- 44:29Pal, Yeah, do you want to get your bleep ready? Or
- 44:34should I not say? Yeah? The who the fuck do you think you
- 44:38are from? From the friend? Uh his name? But that? Yeah,
- 44:45And as I was reading up on like trivia on the movie, it
- 44:47was, you know, one of the few scenes where an F bomb gets
- 44:51to get dropped in a in a PG movie. Yeah, I read that
- 44:53too. Yeah, that's awesome. And it was a real like you know,
- 44:58kind of grabbed them by the show and get him a snap out of
- 45:00it, and yeah, try to remember who he really is and he's not
- 45:05this you know, corporal body necessarily, but the soul inside of it,
- 45:09if you allow me to project a little bit again. Yeah, yeah right
- 45:14right, nice? Cool? Do you have any more? Let's see we
- 45:20talked about the coffee and I had that is kind of both things. Yeah,
- 45:25yeah, I think those are those are the ones that really resonated with
- 45:28me. Cool. I like we kind of brought it up a little bit.
- 45:32When she goes up to the loft, she's like, I'm not so
- 45:36sure we should do this. He's like, do what? Well? I
- 45:38like you and I want to spend the night with you. Do you mean
- 45:42sleepover? Well? Yeah, okay, but I get to be on top.
- 45:49He really thinks about it first too. He's like, yeah, okay,
- 45:52it's pretty great. Yeah, yeah, I love that. That's funny.
- 45:57I liked when he is innervieing for the job. He's like, where'd
- 46:00you go to school? He's like, it was called George Washington? Oh,
- 46:05gw my brother in law got his doctorate there. Did you pledge yes?
- 46:08Every morning? All of that was pretty great. I was enjoying that
- 46:15really fun When Lovetts is talking to him and he's like, see that girl
- 46:21over there in the red say hi to her and she's yours. She'll have
- 46:24her legs around You're so tight, you'll be begging for mercy. Well,
- 46:29I'll stay away from her. Then. I love that so much, So
- 46:34funny. Why don't you say somebody? They go to cash the check,
- 46:40the tellers like, okay, how would you like that and they have to
- 46:44step away to like confer with each other. They come back three times,
- 46:47one hundred dollars bill and eighty seven once. That was great. I loved
- 46:52that one and eighty seven dollars. He's so excited. God, yeah,
- 46:58that really screwy, you don't ye, Yeah, it's so so good.
- 47:01Oh of course that's like fifteen nights in a Manhattan hotel in that world,
- 47:07right, Yeah, dude, that's the hottest take. It was seventeen fifty
- 47:12for the for the hotel. Not a bad room. Pretty big man,
- 47:16pretty big yelling. I just think this is funny from a h It gets
- 47:25weirder as you get older. But he's when he's like, I'm gonna be
- 47:29thirty years old for the rest of my life, and I'm I'm now at
- 47:31the point where I'm like, could be worse, not so bad. That
- 47:35sounds awesome. Everything still works. I don't know, you should really think
- 47:38about this, buddy. I just thought that was funny. Uh, this
- 47:44is Derek. He drives is just such a brutal line. He drives,
- 47:52and then right after that they're like, you have to be this tall and
- 47:55rutal man so that his mom is like taking pictures of him in line next
- 48:01to a girl, just like everything's going wrong, Mom, Please, for
- 48:06God's sake, it's so funny. Oh, I also love She spent the
- 48:12last three months writing down her married name missus Judy Hicks, missus Donald Hicks,
- 48:15Missus Judy Mitchelson Hicks, sometimes with the hyphen, sometimes with auto hyphen.
- 48:21Sometimes she spells the hyphen. I just love that line. I just
- 48:24think it's so funny. Uh. And I didn't realize that the when they
- 48:30do the space goes down Down, Baby Down down the roller coaster, that
- 48:32whole thing times. I didn't know that was like a nursery rhyme that started
- 48:38that because I know it from the also from the Nelly song you know,
- 48:45yeah, yeah, right, But that's like a nursery rhyme. That's very
- 48:50ubiquitous. I didn't know that. I though thought that was fun. That
- 48:53was funny. They met a girlfriend to trisket. Yeah, and then oh,
- 49:01I thought this was so funny. When he goes in, we probably
- 49:06should have said this scene. I guess you kind of mentioned it on the
- 49:07way in. But when he gets left alone in the hotel for the first
- 49:10time and he's so scared, it's that's a great scene. But right before
- 49:15Billy leaves, he's like, Josh is like, well, what if I
- 49:19can't sleep? And then he's like, it's probably better if you don't.
- 49:22Yeah, it's just like, ah, so funny. I love that.
- 49:28Did you have any others, buddy? I didn't really know. It wasn't
- 49:32a ton of like big ye agreed quotes, Yeah, agreed. Well cool,
- 49:38let's just move ahead then to bugs. Boohoo, momenta Wow. Strong
- 49:45men also cry, strong men also. I picked three maybe four, love
- 49:53it, love it. I'll go through him here. The first one is
- 49:58when Josh is spend the night in the NYC hotel room and starts crying when
- 50:01he hears the man screaming in the hallway and guns being shot outside. Yeah,
- 50:06that's gary. Yeah, and it's just so sad, sad when Josh's
- 50:12buddy comes to his office and he doesn't have time for him and he has
- 50:15to tell him off. Yeah that did get me for sure. And then
- 50:21yeah, just the ending. I didn't know for sure where it started,
- 50:24but where he's saying goodbye to Susan and then when he walks in and we
- 50:30can hear his mom freaking out. You know, she's so excited. It
- 50:32was definitely the mom stuff that got me for sure. Yeah, for sure.
- 50:37And then the one maybe that I had was maybe when he is trying
- 50:40to tell Susan that he's thirteen, but he starts with I miss my family
- 50:45and I want to go home. Just the way that he said it was
- 50:49like, really, yeah, that's true. I didn't get that done,
- 50:52so it must not have got me though, Yeah, but you're I did
- 50:54like that part a lot. Yeah, Well then she just assumes he's yeah,
- 51:00right, right right, what see not that I'm a thirteen year old
- 51:05little guy. That's fair. That's a fair assumption. Do you think he
- 51:08bohooed anymore? Abe? The only the one that I made a note of
- 51:13was when they were like dancing in the restaurant on their first like the real
- 51:17date after the sleepover, and felt kind of tender there like that you know
- 51:24that was that was tender. I admit I did find myself just being like,
- 51:30but he's thirteen, what are the how do we feel about this?
- 51:34What's I don't know? I don't know. So I didn't cry. I
- 51:37just had the three You nailed it, pal, Yes, good work,
- 51:44good work. I kind of expected more, to be honest, but I
- 51:45didn't agree. I don't remember a ton of the middle parts of this movie.
- 51:51For whatever. It was another one where I was like shocked that the
- 51:54piano scene was so early, like that, that kind of pillar scene.
- 51:59I was like, Oh, that's pretty okay. We got a lot of
- 52:01money, right right, So, but yeah, you nailed the pale cool
- 52:07good works. Let's go on to some movie trivia here. Let's see,
- 52:14according to Robert Loggia, on the day they filmed the famous walking piano scene,
- 52:20he and Tom Hanks noticed that the doubles were dressed like them and they
- 52:23were on hand just in case they couldn't do the dance moves correctly. So
- 52:28it became their goal to do the entire number without the aid of doubles,
- 52:30and they succeeded. Yeah. I feel like that would have been very noticeable
- 52:36had they switched, you know, you see their faces the whole time.
- 52:40Yeah, yeah, would have It would have been different, maybe not cool.
- 52:45They did go down to the feet. They could have gone down to
- 52:47the feet, but I think it's cool that they did it, and I
- 52:51think that that was probably fun for them to be like, all right,
- 52:53here's the plan. You know we're gonna do it. To give Tom Hanks
- 52:59an idea of how a thirteen year old would behave, director Penny Marshall filmed
- 53:02each grown up scene with David Moscow young Josh playing Hanks's part, and then
- 53:09Hanks copied Moscow's behavior. Hanks would go on to do something similar for Forrest
- 53:14Gump as well, when he spent time with Michael Connor Humphries, who played
- 53:19young Forrest, and imitated his Southern accent to prepare for the part. I
- 53:24thought that was really cool, and we probably I don't think we mentioned it.
- 53:28That kid was pretty good too. He wasn't all yeah, he was
- 53:31fine, he was fun. Yeah, but I thought that was neat that
- 53:36they like went all that trouble of having him actually do the scenes and stuff.
- 53:39That's pretty cool, pretty cool. Penny Marshall became the first female director
- 53:45to ever direct a movie that grows more than one hundred million at the box
- 53:47office with this film, So that's cool. Yeah, she paved the way
- 53:52for Greta Gerwig, big time, big time man. That's crazy. That's
- 53:59a that's just a few dollars. According to Monica rushed In, Jared Rushton,
- 54:06who played Billy and young Josh. Oh. According to all these folks,
- 54:12they were put in a room with a bunch of toys to play with.
- 54:15So it was the kid who played Billy, Young Josh, Tom Hanks.
- 54:20We're all put in a room and they had silly string there, and
- 54:22they eventually tried to just gross each other out using the silly string. And
- 54:27that's how that got into the movie, because they were like, this is
- 54:30perfect, let's do it. So I think that's so fun. I love
- 54:34that Tom Hanks improvised the baby corn scene, which I think is brilliant,
- 54:42and that's why he's a genius. I love it so much. This is
- 54:46I don't understand this, but it was in the trivia, so I have
- 54:51to presume it's at least partially true. It's not known who played Josh's baby
- 54:54sister Rachel in the movie, as the child actress is not credited in the
- 54:59closing credits. To this day, her identity is unknown and remains a mystery,
- 55:04like no one knows. That seems weird to me. That is crazy,
- 55:08So that's such a strange thing. Ghost baby, ghost baby, That
- 55:14baby isn't real. That baby was actually a forty five year Old Man,
- 55:21along with Spaceballs, Caddyshack, and Beetlejuice. This is the one of the
- 55:25only four films that used the word in a PG film during the PG thirteen
- 55:32era. I guess Caddyshack was PG. Huh. That's insane to me.
- 55:38Okay, I can't see that right now. Yeah, pretty wild. Let's
- 55:43see. The amusement park where Josh finds the Zoltar machine is Playland, which
- 55:47has been operating in Ryan, New York since nineteen twenty eight. I thought
- 55:52that that was kind of cool for a long time. Let's see the cavern
- 55:58of the Evil Wizard computer game isn't real. It was created for the movie,
- 56:01which is pretty cool. Yeah, those five In the film, Josh
- 56:08comes up with the brilliant idea of robots that transform into prehistoric giant insects,
- 56:14and this is nearly identical to the Insecticons, a group of robots from the
- 56:17Transformers toy line, which was released three years before the movie. So they
- 56:23nailed it. I guess. Let's see. This movie was ranked number ten
- 56:30on American on the American Film Institute's list of the ten greatest films in the
- 56:36fantasy genre. Fantasy Huh. Yeah, A lot of fantasy that seems questionable,
- 56:44but good for them. It's a fun movie. Uh. Tom Hanks
- 56:46was thirty one and Elizabeth Perkins was twenty eight during filming, I always think
- 56:51that's fun. Costume designers took special care to ensure that Susan realistically transitions from
- 57:00uptight businesswoman at the beginning of the movie to like sweet, almost girl like
- 57:04personae, and they kind of so they went with her wardrobe and her hair
- 57:08to become less and less adult. It goes from like pinned up to like
- 57:13loose to you know down. She goes from like suits then to you know,
- 57:19separates and skirts, and then her shoes go from heels to flats and
- 57:22stuff. More like a student, they say. And yeah, I thought
- 57:27that was fun. Thought it was kind of neat. And actually, at
- 57:30the end of the movie, when Susan discovers Josh's real age, she was
- 57:34scripted to kiss him goodbye on the lips, but Elizabeth Perkins was like,
- 57:37no, it's got to be on the forehead, which is the right card.
- 57:40I think that's a good that's a good instinct. Let's stick with that
- 57:44because that would have been kind of that would have been weirder well yeah,
- 57:47yeah, yeah, great. And then it was rumored that the nineteen eighty
- 57:53nine Australian CBS Fox video VHS of the movie had an alternate ending in which
- 58:00Susan makes a wish on this Aultar machine to be a little girl so she
- 58:04can be with Josh. But that's not true. Oh it just it wasn't
- 58:09like that. It would have been an interesting ending, but it was that
- 58:13wasn't actually on the video as an alternate ending. Oh okay, because I
- 58:17mean he throws that he asked her to do that. She's like, I've
- 58:22been there, I've done that was hard enough the first time. Yeah,
- 58:25yeah, which I get. Yeah, that would thirteen. I'd probably be
- 58:30thirteen again. I was so handsome. It's life was easy. Yeah,
- 58:35I mean really easy. Yeah. If I if I would have had as
- 58:38easy as you did, I go back there as well, killing it.
- 58:45I look at you. Yeah you were was one of them driving truck a
- 58:53year later. Yeah, but that was all all the trivia. I had
- 59:01one other thing with it looked like the shimmy shimmy kokobap. The deal was
- 59:07Tom Hanks's idea, which I thought was fun. He got it from his
- 59:10son had learned it at summer camp and so his son was doing it all
- 59:14over, which we know is Colin Hanks, which is kind of fun.
- 59:19But yeah. Then I had people up for the roles and a lot of
- 59:24big names there, a lot of big names. Yeah. So when Penny
- 59:28Marshall got the script, apparently no studio was interested in it. It was
- 59:31only when Robert de Niro announced he wanted the role of Josh Baskin that people
- 59:37wanted to do it. Wow. So de Niro was in for a while,
- 59:42and then I think he got busy and he couldn't do it. I
- 59:45saw somewhere else that he wanted too much money, basically for the budget too.
- 59:50I think it was yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Good callow
- 59:54a different movie. I feel like, yeah, well, yeah, he
- 1:00:00actually he might have been able to do it. Actually, i'd be interested
- 1:00:04to see. I could see it. Maybe. Do you think we'll ever
- 1:00:07get to the point where, like AI will remake some of these movies with
- 1:00:12that. That's a good call, dude, that would be weird. I'd
- 1:00:15be weird. I don't support it, but I probably would watch them.
- 1:00:19Oh yeah, yeah, like philosophically against it, but probably be fun to
- 1:00:23see Robert out at least like a scene or two maybe or something. It's
- 1:00:29like when you see those scenes of Eric Stoltz doing Back to the Future.
- 1:00:31It's weird. It's weird, and I want to know. Yeah, anyway,
- 1:00:36sorry. I also saw that John Travolta was one of Penny Marshall's top
- 1:00:40choices for Josh Oh Okay. He wanted to do it, but the studio
- 1:00:45didn't want him and he was still box office poison at the time. Really
- 1:00:51this was before it was before pulp fiction, but it would have been around
- 1:00:55the time of Look Who's talking and he was He was killing it with that.
- 1:01:00Wasn't that at that time? No, I don't think so. But
- 1:01:04I saw Harrison Ford turned it down. Royan Williams was considered, and I
- 1:01:09could definitely see that Rob Williams would have been great. I mean he ended
- 1:01:13up doing that very much. Yeah, with Jack, Steve Guttenberg was considered
- 1:01:20for the role of Josh baskin Fun. He turned it down because he was
- 1:01:23doing three minute a baby cute. Yeah, speaking of ghosts, wasn't it
- 1:01:29that film where they said they saw a ghosts in the background? Yeah?
- 1:01:34I think that was like a legend yeah, went for a long time.
- 1:01:37Yeah, it looks like Bill Murray was considered for Josh Baskin. He he
- 1:01:44did Scrooged instead. I'm seeing that John Lithgo was considered for the role of
- 1:01:50Paul, so John Hurd's part, Okay, I thought you were definitely that
- 1:01:57what I couldn't see that. I could see him as Paul. Absolutely could
- 1:02:01see him as Paul for sure. And I saw that Deborah Winger was originally
- 1:02:07considered for Susan but couldn't take it. She was pregnant at the time,
- 1:02:12and apparently she recommended Elizabeth Perkins. Fun. No, that's that's all I
- 1:02:16had, Hey, what did you have anything else? But I made a
- 1:02:21list also, Michael Keaton was another one that I saw. His name fun
- 1:02:25and Judge ld Judge Rynold, which nice. Yeah, but that was yeah,
- 1:02:32I think you covered the rest of the ones that I read through it
- 1:02:36nice. Yeah, I could. I could absolutely see Michael Keaton doing it
- 1:02:38too, especially after seeing him do Multiplicity where he was all those different yet
- 1:02:45Yeah, yeah, for sure. Nice. Nice. Well will there be
- 1:02:50a sequel judgment? Day? Oh? Bigger, bigger, huge, huge,
- 1:02:59Yeah, he wants to be on the varsity basketball team, and he
- 1:03:02gets gets drafted to the NBA. He's much bigger, so much bigger,
- 1:03:07but he's only a freshman in high school. But he's in the NBA.
- 1:03:09Now that's what i'd watch. That, isn't that basically be like Mike?
- 1:03:16Was that the little bow Wow one? I didn't see it might have just
- 1:03:21been bow Wow at that point. I remember when he changed, Okay,
- 1:03:24got you got you to be respectful? I don't. Yes, I'm sorry,
- 1:03:29I always put the little in there. I'm sorry, sorry, mister
- 1:03:32bow Wow, Sorry mister Wow. Yeah, probably not. No, no,
- 1:03:40again, I don't even know if they could remake it. I mean,
- 1:03:45yeah, right, I'm Tom Hanks being well, no, he's even
- 1:03:49like probably too old to be right, the dad of the kid wanting to
- 1:03:53do it, you know what I mean? Yeah? Right right, at
- 1:03:58this point, you'd have to be like the Late to Life dad or something,
- 1:04:02right, you know, Late to Children dad. Yeah, probably not,
- 1:04:09but we got the title. The title is definitely bigger. Yeah,
- 1:04:12for sure, it's gotta be bigger. It's gotta be bigger. Well,
- 1:04:15do you guys want to play a game? Oh? Yeah, that sounds
- 1:04:17fun. Yes, okay, good abe? How was waiting I wasn't sure
- 1:04:23about that, but I decided to do a starting five. So this is
- 1:04:28the five actors one you remember this one name where I do five actors my
- 1:04:33favorite film or my favorite actors, not top build actors. And yeah,
- 1:04:41once you know it, ring in with your name. All of these ten
- 1:04:44films have something in common. If you know what it is, you can
- 1:04:48ring in at anytime to guess for a point. And oh, if there
- 1:04:54are remaining names left, you can steal from the other guy and ringing and
- 1:04:59gets some points. That way. Cool, cool, let's do it.
- 1:05:01Number one. The first name is John Taturo. The second name Philip Seymour
- 1:05:13Hoffman, Bugs Bugs. Is it the big Lebowski? It is the Big
- 1:05:19Lebowski? Yeah? Right, Oh, I got a name? People?
- 1:05:25Uh? Three names? Uh? The dude? Five four is? Why
- 1:05:33am I blanking somebody? All these people right now? Five four? Three?
- 1:05:42Is this? He doesn't have any of them? Hey, if you
- 1:05:47get three names, Okay, we have Julianne Moore. Oh I didn't pick
- 1:05:54Julianne Moore. You got two more names. Oh, I just don't want
- 1:06:02Sam Elliott. I didn't pick Sam Elliott, either of you guys. I
- 1:06:08feel like I'm gonna give a half a poet for this for sure. And
- 1:06:13then and one one more name? What's her name? It's not a her
- 1:06:18yet, said dude. You haven't said You haven't said Walter. You haven't
- 1:06:24said Donnie. Oh, Walter is the one I thought of five? Damn
- 1:06:31it? Three? Okay, you got one, so yeah, I'll give
- 1:06:38a one and a half there, But yeah, you missed Jeff Bridges and
- 1:06:43John Goodman there. That's terrible. But abs on the board is one and
- 1:06:47a half. You got big Lebowski. Yeah, you only got big Lebowski.
- 1:06:51Yeah, my brain shut off, it really did. You're just like,
- 1:06:58okay, let's go to number two. The first name Glenn Close.
- 1:07:03Oh. The second name William hurt out cheat. The third name Tom Baringer,
- 1:07:17the babe, Yes, so I'm name in the movie your name in
- 1:07:21the movie The Big Chill. That is correct. You got two more names?
- 1:07:30Is Robert Downy Jr. In that one? He and not to my
- 1:07:33knowledge, no one more guest. Gosh, I got nothing. Yeahs do
- 1:07:45you know anybody else in The Big Chill? No? I don't. I
- 1:07:48had Jeff Goldbloom and Kevin Klein as my top two. But there were more
- 1:07:53people in there. Yeah, it was pretty stacked. That was the one
- 1:07:58where Kevin Costner is in in the casket and you never see his face,
- 1:08:03first thing ever, and they only showed his hand. Okay, cool,
- 1:08:10Ape did you get one there too? He got the big chill and that
- 1:08:14was it? Yea, yeah, let's go at one point. Rob is
- 1:08:17the theme movies with Big in the title. It absolutely is. Okay,
- 1:08:21yes, that point, I'm gonna need it, clearly. I can't remember
- 1:08:25that name. And there's there's some tough ones in this one. So those
- 1:08:29first two were not that. It's it's got one of the better soundtracks of
- 1:08:35all time, a lot of motown. Cool, yeah, cool. Let's
- 1:08:42go to number three. Okay, the first name Marissa Toomey, Oh I
- 1:08:49forgot was in this movie? Number two Ryan Gosling, oh m hmm.
- 1:08:58Number three, Bradley Pitt, Number four, Steve Carrell Abe, the Big
- 1:09:11Short, The Big Short. Nicely done, buddy in one name. Apparently
- 1:09:15she might be Steve Carrell's wife. Okay, sure, she also could might
- 1:09:21not be. One name remaining. What's his name? Batman? Christian Bale
- 1:09:32got it? Two points for Abe. They're doing great work. Yeah,
- 1:09:39he's got like kind of the weird eye, yeah, weird eye. And
- 1:09:43he's got the baseball bat all the time and stuff. Right, yeah,
- 1:09:45yeah, okay, let's go to number four. The first name is Victor
- 1:09:51Wong, but the second name, you guys, is Dennis Dunne. But
- 1:09:57the third name Jaye Sames Hong bugs, bugs, big trouble Little China,
- 1:10:04Big trouble in little China. Yes, you got it, Big trouble in
- 1:10:09Little China. Very good, dude. You get two names remaining. I
- 1:10:15swear I'm brain dad tonight. Five Goldie Hans Husbands, Russell Russell. Is
- 1:10:26that his first name or last name? Russell? What do you think?
- 1:10:30I think it's his last name? Okay? Is this Jeopardy scoring here?
- 1:10:35Five? What is his name? What's wrong with me? Too? No?
- 1:10:43Russell? Okay, you got Kurt Russell? Do you know? Well?
- 1:10:46No, you're you're done. Do you know what the last name is?
- 1:10:49A? Oh gosh, I haven't seen that since in probably thirty years.
- 1:10:54I can't think of her name. I've never seen it. She's in
- 1:10:58Sex in the City. She is, Yeah, it's that lady. It's
- 1:11:00Samantha. It is Samantha. Do you know who plays Samantha Ape. I
- 1:11:08think, yeah, nicely done, could work? Oh nice? Oh yeah
- 1:11:19sure. Apparently her and Sarahdisica Parker don't like each other, so oh that's
- 1:11:27why that's the rumor. Yeah, you don't want to make the storm hate
- 1:11:31you. It's never a good idea. I got two Ape got one on
- 1:11:35that one. Yes, he got yep, yep. I would like to
- 1:11:40point out I love Big Trouble Little China. Yeah. I don't know why
- 1:11:44I watched that one all the time. That was one that really was a
- 1:11:46heavy rotation for me. Nice man, and also Kurt Russell not really the
- 1:11:51hero on that, it's the other dude, but he gets all the credit,
- 1:11:55which is really fun. Nice, it's fun. Yeah. Anyway,
- 1:12:00let's go to number five. You guys. The first name is Benicio del
- 1:12:02Toro. Oh, the second name is Valeria Golino, the third name Chris
- 1:12:15Christofferson, the fourth name Penelope Anne Miller, and the fifth and final name
- 1:12:30is the recently deceased Paul Rubens. Five four Big Top Peewee, Big Top
- 1:12:43Peewee. You got it, because there's a few Big Peewee ones, but
- 1:12:45you got the correct one. I'm impressed. Dang it. The second one.
- 1:12:50Then yeah, the sequel. Nice yeah, nicely done, dude,
- 1:12:57Thanks m Are. We had after five Bukes, Abe, it's six and
- 1:13:01a half and I have four, so okay, close, very close.
- 1:13:08All right, here we go number six. The first name is John Stewart,
- 1:13:14the second name Rob Schneider bus Bukes. Big Daddy, Big Daddy is
- 1:13:20correct. Nicely done Adams, Yes, Adam Sandler pop anonymous Adam Sandler two
- 1:13:30more, Leslie Man is in it. Nicely done? I did. I
- 1:13:36never this, this has happened before. I don't know the name of the
- 1:13:40other gal. Yeah, babe, do you know who that is? I
- 1:13:44don't think I'll ever come up with that. I don't think so. I
- 1:13:46thought maybe once she was the star of Chasing Amy Adams. Oh wow,
- 1:13:58I'll give you half a point I gave him. I had the DVD so
- 1:14:03nice, huge, huge crush on her and Jason Amy. Oh yeah.
- 1:14:08She had a real fun voice that I've never really heard one, like,
- 1:14:12yeah, mall rats too, mall rats. I mean she might have been
- 1:14:18I think she might do it and dazed and confused to think absolutely ye was.
- 1:14:24Yeah, which rats together? Sometimes I feel like that'd be a nice
- 1:14:28time. Yeah, I love them. They're making a sequel and we know
- 1:14:31it. Yeah, he told us, he told us that's fun. All
- 1:14:36right, let's keep going. Let's go to number seven. The first name
- 1:14:40is Jessica Lang, Minnesota's own. The second name is Helena Bonham Carter mm
- 1:14:48hmm. The third name is Billy crude up. The fourth name you and
- 1:14:59McGregor on. The fifth and final name is Albert Finney. Five babe,
- 1:15:11big fish, big fish got work. God, I would nicely done.
- 1:15:16We are gonna be talking about that one. Oh yeah, we're doing an
- 1:15:20episode on that, aren't way. We are fun. I'm excitedly fun.
- 1:15:25Yep, it's a fun wild film. It is. It's crazy. Here
- 1:15:30we go. Here's number eight, you guys. The first name is Anthony
- 1:15:32Anderson. The second name is Terrence Howard. The third name is Paul Jamati.
- 1:15:47Yeah. The fourth name is Nia Long, who I think broke up
- 1:15:56with the Boston Celtics coach from last year. Do you remember that? Oh
- 1:16:01yeah, yeah yeah. And the fifth and final name is Martin Lawrence.
- 1:16:11Oh it's not the one I was thinking of that. Four bugs Bukes,
- 1:16:17Big Mama's House, Big Mama's House. He got it. I did not
- 1:16:23think anybody was getting Big Mama's House. The whole time. I was thinking
- 1:16:28Big Fat Liar, which is a really bad movie Giamatti was in. I
- 1:16:32mean I liked it as a kid, but it was like a kid.
- 1:16:34Yeah, that's I mean. That could have been number nine here oh sorry,
- 1:16:42oh number nine Paul jim No. The first name Kristen Ritter. The
- 1:16:50second name is Danny Houston. Oh. The third name is Jason Schwartzman.
- 1:17:00The fourth name is Christoph Waltz m HM. The fifth and final name is
- 1:17:06Amy Adams. Fine four oh, bugs bukes. I think it was called
- 1:17:14Big Guys, Big Guys. Nice. Actually that's about the paintings, right,
- 1:17:19yeah, he takes credit paintings or something. Yeah, it was like
- 1:17:23a true story. Did you watch them? Did you watch it? I
- 1:17:27saw it in the theater. Was it good? It was okay? Oh
- 1:17:30just okay though. Yeah. Yeah, this is probably why I didn't see
- 1:17:33it, because I asked you and you were like it was okay. Yeah,
- 1:17:38yeah, what happens? Where are we going into the last one?
- 1:17:42Now I have nine? Abe has eight? We are wow, my god?
- 1:17:48All right? Number ten last one. First name is Laney Kazan.
- 1:17:56The second name though, Michael Kennin teen, The third name Joey fatone Joe,
- 1:18:10The fourth name John Corbett, and the fifth and final name is Nia
- 1:18:19vardalos Abe big fat Greeking. Oh my goodness, are we a tie?
- 1:18:28Of course we're out of tie, man. I have four other films that
- 1:18:36have uh have the word big in them questionable and we'll see, we'll see
- 1:18:45how we do. I have to currently go to IMDb and just I am
- 1:18:51gonna just say the first five build. Here we go. Number one is
- 1:19:00Michelle Placedo. You guys got it? Got it? Yet? You got
- 1:19:03Michelle Placeto. Nobody? You said you went to AMDB or pornhob Yeah,
- 1:19:13IMDb. Kind to look at it. It was yellow and black, and
- 1:19:16I have gotten a little scared. Edward Herman, No, nobody. Uh.
- 1:19:25The third name is fred Ward from Yeah, you know fred Ward.
- 1:19:33You know him too, from Tremors. Let's go to the fourth name,
- 1:19:40which is Lily Tomlin, and the fifth and final name is Bette Midler.
- 1:19:47Does anybody know what this is? Lily Tomlin? No, I actually saw
- 1:19:58this one when I was a kid. It's called Big Business. So I'm
- 1:20:00gonna go to another one. Here we go, the fifth name is Damon
- 1:20:09Wayne's junior or excuse me, I guess it'll be the first name. The
- 1:20:15second name is TJ. Miller, The third name is Jamie Chung, fourth
- 1:20:27name is Scott ads It, and the fifth and final name is Ryan Potter.
- 1:20:34And the hint I will give you is that this is an animated film,
- 1:20:43an animated Pixar film. I don't can't think of anything, all right.
- 1:20:55That was a big Hero six. Oh of course. Okay, So
- 1:21:00now I'm gonna go to we can very late on Kurt Russell. Uh yeah,
- 1:21:10let's give it dad. That sounds great, Hey, way to be
- 1:21:12our winner, buddy. The only last two movies was one of Fat Liar.
- 1:21:17That was one of them, oh for real yea. And the other
- 1:21:20one was The Big Year, which I know we've done. Be sure,
- 1:21:25sure, hand it to you on a silver platter. But that's great.
- 1:21:30That's great, good word game, killing it? Thank you killing it off
- 1:21:34here. That was hilarious. We want to remind everyone to reduce, reuse
- 1:21:43and recycle at Abe's Beast and the best really of all humanity's recycle guys.
- 1:21:48It's a great idea. We need it. Hey, thanks for coming on.
- 1:21:53Buddy, this was a blast. Thanks for having me. You're awesome,
- 1:21:56dude. And he's gonna tell us how we're going to do our our
- 1:21:58top five favorite movie toys draft. Yeah, that's right, which will be
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- 1:22:10hear it. But uh yeah, stay tuned. We're gonna do it Rudy
- 1:22:13next for you guys. It's gonna be a ton of fun. But that
- 1:22:15does it today for the movie Big I'm Rob Blind, quizt I'm Bex.
- 1:22:19Thank you guys so much for listening. Until we talk to you next time.
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