Latest / Thirsty For More - Movie Review / EP156 - North

Transcript

EP156 - North · Thirsty For More - Movie Review

0:09
I need the goal, the goal. Do you remember that? Do you
0:20
remember that movie when it's like deviled eggs, fried eggs, poached eggs,
0:26
what they're from again? Do you remember? Can you? Can you adjust
0:33
that microphone? Is that? Is that how you're going to keep it?
0:36
I think so? Yeah, it's close enough. Now you check out the
0:39
is it the is the volleyball? It seems okay, okay, let's do
0:42
it so you can see my face. I want to see your faces.
0:49
Hello, everyone, and welcome to a planet Bruce. I of course,
0:52
I'm your host, Malenco and I'm North. Nice to meet you. Oh
0:59
my god, dude, your internet's so bad. I'm gonna have to use
1:03
some of your I mean we're in the dungeon here, Dude. The internet
1:08
doesn't reach for me either. Yeah, it's it's painful, painful, all
1:14
right? Am I linked? I'm linked? Alrighty cool nineteen North and I'm
1:19
Alex. Nice to meet you, yeah, man. Directed by Rob Reiner.
1:26
Outrageous, outrageous movie. As soon as it started, I was like,
1:29
what's this Christopher Columbus feeling like dude, Okay, so this movie had
1:42
magicalness. Yeah, it was so magical. It had magicalness. It had
1:48
racism, debates, racism, Oh dude, mister crabtree racism, don't even
1:56
don't even get me started. Dude. It was a surprising movie. It
1:59
was a very prising movie because, like I just I read about it.
2:05
I was like going through the list and I was looking at it and I
2:08
was like, you're a molested why North? What? What movie is this?
2:15
What is this? It's like ninety four Bruce right after Pulp appearing in
2:22
alphabetical or what a strange setup for a movie. First of all, Like,
2:28
first of all, I gotta say, outrageous movie. Yeah, that
2:35
kid, the villain was amazing, amazing. The hero, the hero of
2:39
the movie, he like he really and so many adults got to be such
2:46
Daniel Rods this movie. Man, I don't know what that means. Mulroon.
2:52
It's it's it's a special kind of kid movie. Dannie Old Room.
2:55
Do you know, like kids movie Dannel Room. Yeah, it's a special
2:59
kind of of kids movie too. Well it is. It's kind of like
3:02
in that Milia of like Richie rich or like very like Zany not reality.
3:07
Things will happen like weird weird stories, science vation stories, science fiction stories,
3:19
It's like I was so down, dude. He created such a reality
3:23
for itself and I was like wood amazing, he was amazing, gonna dude.
3:27
Also, if you if you notice um like a lot of the beginning
3:31
of the movie, when you see like different things in his room, it's
3:37
foreshadows a lot of what happens in the throughout the movie. The movie,
3:42
I would say that it would be useful to do like a submary of this
3:46
movie and then we can talk about it, you know what I mean?
3:49
Because I think like if we do it a little bit Boner Show style,
3:52
I think it'll be appropriate for this movie. But I do want to go
3:54
through it because we have to talk about all the like families and stuff and
4:00
my family. What a just what a movie? Like I've never heard of
4:04
this movie. I remember. I remember. I think that commercial because I
4:10
remember bunny costume. Bruce Willis. The bunny costume has like vague, vague
4:17
pantheon titlations. Yeah, totally. Eleven year old North has had it with
4:23
his parents. They're always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention
4:28
he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that
4:31
North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months,
4:39
or never have parents again. Yeah, such a like kid logic a
4:44
movie. I mean I loved all the kid logic in this movie. I
4:47
loved like how when he thinks about his dad's work, his dad is just
4:51
like trying on suits, that's his job, and there's like an Abraham Lincoln
4:57
guy and totally Thus North starts off on a hilarious journey around the world to
5:02
find parents that really care about him. But like, also like the kid
5:06
logic of understanding your own value but your parents taking you for granted but not
5:14
really having the words to express that. So like there is this like magical
5:18
quality that's created in your mind about like, oh, like I need to
5:24
have I need to have parents that are that love me because love is associated
5:30
with a certain kind of thing. Well okay and okay, So to your
5:33
point, IMDb told me that Rob Reiner was really like panned for this movie
5:41
and that like specifically Ebert had some choice words for it that he hate hate,
5:47
hate, hate hated it like five hates. I think, I hate
5:53
hate hate you. And I was like, man, like, I don't
5:59
know to be that cynical. It feels a little bit like I don't know,
6:05
like this movie is like sure, it's not maybe gonna be getting accolades
6:10
and stuff, but like it's a kids movie, you know what I mean?
6:13
Like why was it being judged from like I guess because of the cast
6:16
or I don't know. Actually that's a good question. I think that like
6:21
why is it being even open to that kind of criticism? You know,
6:26
like Ebert says, it sucks, like is it for Ebert? I hate
6:30
hate Hey, criticism was really different back back in a specific time, And
6:36
like what sucks about movie criticism now is that people are now making it like
6:41
a culture war issue where it's like, oh, these elite people who write
6:46
for magazines give this ninety percent when the audience score is fifty percent. It's
6:53
like, okay, well do you like the movie? Like yeah, I
6:57
mean, and if you check their letterbox, I'm sure they yeah, exactly.
7:00
The guy who who wrote the novel, Alan's wavell Co wrote the screenplay
7:05
and it's like fully a kids movie, and it's and it functions in that
7:09
reality. It functions with that goofy silly logic and even some of the ways
7:15
that some of the things are played up, like it's all from the perspective
7:18
of a kid, so like the kid has to go and we find out
7:23
why at the end. Of course, yes, of course I like Jimi
7:25
Hendrix, of course, but m man, floaty hair, Jason Alexander,
7:31
Jason Alexander with with like definite hard piece in the front, hard piece in
7:38
the front. I mean she's wearing a wig too. Everybody's wearing a wig
7:40
in those I mean it's that kind of a movie, right, Yeah,
7:44
totally, And it's funny because you you also mentioned the fact that, like
7:47
everybody, the kid doesn't really understand what the conversation is that's happening between the
7:54
parents. Totally. They're just like and they're kind of speaking gibberish in a
7:58
way that like if you were a kid that felt was being ignored, this
8:03
is how you would imagine somebody is like well speaking and George, I mean
8:09
Jason Alexander is being so Jerry, Yeah, totally, totally, he's being
8:16
so and she's being pretty elane. And this was at the time of them
8:20
being George and Elaine. Yeah, which was great. I'm glad that they
8:24
got them to be in and they played Catazotic. Okay, we'll get to
8:31
that. Yeah. But I love at the beginning of the movie where he's
8:35
in the movie being a cool hour and twenty seven minutes. I mean,
8:39
you gotta love it, Yeah, totally. And I love the fact that
8:41
like he's like Elijah Wood, who's amazing in the movie and like the biggest
8:46
eyes in the world, and like, um, just like the idea of
8:52
like I'm a kid he reminded me of you, because like you did really
8:56
well in school when you were this age. In all of your school schooling
9:01
was really good for you, easy for you. Not always it was you
9:05
had high grades higher than mine for sure, not not always though you used
9:09
to get good grades. And like the idea that like the kid is having
9:11
a panic attack and like you see his average at the bottom and he's like
9:16
good at batting U and they show his average for that too, and then
9:20
what he's singing the song Oh dude, yeah the roof Yeah yeah, um,
9:28
I don't know, I thought it was, and like it shows subtly
9:31
starts to show how like parents like him. That was also like hilarious to
9:37
me, where it's like everybody compared all the bards comparing him to them.
9:43
Man could you picture a movie like this ever being made again, because like
9:48
it's not little kid enough to be very little kid. It has a little
9:52
kid logic and a little kid protagonist, but like it's pretty like boring,
9:58
you know what I mean by it's kind of like a kid kid drama.
10:01
It is a kid drama. It's weird because it's like a it's like a
10:05
kid drama fantasy. Yeah, because like there's some of the magical Bruce.
10:11
We'll totally get to magical Bruce um. But it's it's odd. Yeah,
10:15
it just it feels a little bit strange because of the fact that you've got
10:18
these characters who really feel very real because of the actors. But like the
10:24
outrageous outrageous dialogue. Yeah, the outrageous dialogue is Jesse Smallett. Jesse Smallett
10:33
is in it, Yeah I noticed, and young Scarlett Johanson not even not
10:37
even credited in the movie. Yeah, outrageous, outrageous, I mean,
10:41
and also so many people in this movie so insane cast it's really wild.
10:46
Yea. But yeah, he go we go to his like real life and
10:50
he's like doing Shakespeare and he's like to be or line not to be.
11:00
There was Yeah, they start showing in a montage that he's starting to do
11:05
bad in school because he's not getting the attention from his parents. Yeah,
11:09
that he feels that he deserves and it's kind of truol no, but it's
11:13
kind of cool that he knows that he's worth the attention. I didn't feel
11:18
like I was like, I don't know really, I mean, you know,
11:24
I guess to feel like you matter, you have to matter. And
11:26
then he has that line with the coach. The coach comes up to it,
11:30
he's like, hey, what's wrong, and he's like, well,
11:33
the people that gave me life, I'm trying to what does he say?
11:39
What do you say? Oh? Um, I'm supposed to appreciate the people
11:45
who gave me life, and he appreciated He appreciated everybody in his life except
11:50
his folks who gave him life. And it's like some weird like magical,
11:56
and it's hilarious because the coach is like, well, let me rephrase the
12:01
question, how's your arm? Doesn't want to talk about problems? Coach,
12:05
Yeah, totally, which is fair. It's not his job. Yeah,
12:09
it's not his job. But then he goes to a special spot and you
12:13
like he's walking through like magical forests and stuff, and you think that's where
12:16
his special spot's going to be. And then he passes by a fucking treehouse
12:22
and you think that's his magical spot, but it's really just in a mall,
12:24
pretending like he's waiting for his parents. And then we get to magical
12:30
Bruce of course, of course, um, And I mean this one's pretty
12:35
cool, cool Bruce. He What I will say about Bruce is that he
12:43
does a terrible job at narration, but he does a really good job at
12:46
being in the movie. He does a really good job bad. Like it's
12:50
just bad, really bad. And I was like, at first, I
12:54
was like, who is this? Yeah, I didn't even recognize his voice.
12:58
Yeah, it's it just felt very wooden and like not so wooden.
13:01
Yeah, that was the worst part. It was the like this is like
13:05
not good and it made me. It made me feel like like, oh
13:09
no, am I not gonna like this movie. But I did like this
13:16
movie. But I did like this movie, yeah, absolutely, Like as
13:20
soon as you have showed up on screen, it became like a very different
13:24
vibe. Well, and then then the voiceover started to make sense. I
13:28
was like, oh, that's Bruce. Yeah for sure. But the voiceover
13:33
overall was bad. But yeah, he starts talking to to Bruce, could
13:37
finding him in him that his parents are people that are like not dicks,
13:41
but they don't pay attention to him, they don't give him the love that
13:45
they want. But like the entire town, it cuts to a bunch of
13:50
different kids in town where it's like a North flosses and North wouldn't eat cookies,
13:58
and it's true. All of these things seemed totally valid and true completely
14:05
and and like then, but but Bruce is like, holy Mac, your
14:09
folks are sitting on a gold mine, majestic Bruce. I I had a
14:16
theory that Bruce was was the kid as an adult's his own guardian guardian angel
14:22
I had a Feelia I had that same thing. And also the fact that
14:31
he talks to him as though he's not a kid is also a kid fantasy
14:35
that that like a cool adult is gonna help me and be hell, hey
14:41
it's you again. No it isn't. No, yeah, no it isn't.
14:48
Liar, Bruce knows Bruce the entire time, Bruce, Yeah, the
14:54
entire time, Bruce, for sure? Which was your favorite Bruce m.
15:00
I think the bunny Bruce was great because of the costume. Obviously. Yeah.
15:03
Um, I like beach Bum Bruce the most personally beach Bum Bruce Jazz.
15:09
I like Jazz Bruce the best. Jazz Bruce Bruce was pretty good.
15:13
We have to go through their bruises. We get so many different kinds of
15:18
this movie, oh man, But then we get introduced to the fucking kid,
15:22
the other kid, the villain of the movie. Who's just Who's who?
15:26
Just ended up being Glenn Greenwall, a respected journalist at the beginning and
15:31
a right wing fascist at the end. Right right. Oh by the way,
15:37
how did you guess Alan Zwiebel was the coach the I know he wrote
15:43
the movie and the book. I didn't. I knew that. But I
15:48
love that this kid, like like the movie jumps in such an outrageous way
15:54
where it's like it really fools you into believing that it's happening, which I
15:58
was like, Man, am I gonna like this movie? Throughout the entire
16:02
movie, I was like, am I gonna like this? It's interesting too,
16:04
Like, I guess we can just ruin it because it's like we'll jump
16:08
ahead, but like it kind of yeah, okay, because I want to
16:12
say what I want to say. It's a dream, and like you know,
16:17
in it's a dream plot scenarios often like you can kind of feel cheated,
16:22
But in this case, it's like there's like growth that happens in the
16:26
dream that like makes it like you know, I don't know, it like
16:30
makes it kind of like, oh, this was the purpose of this journey
16:33
was not that like this thing actually happened to this person, but it was
16:36
like what is learned along? Yeah, totally And also like man like I
16:41
was like, oh, God, get ready, let's talk about Graham Green
16:45
being Inuit and them using Eskimo constantly and what's her name? Being in Fu
16:52
being in red face. It's just like oh. But then I was like,
16:56
oh, well, I guess it's a dream. So and it's like
17:00
the perspective of a kid, so I'm not like I wasn't too Yeah,
17:03
I mean, he couldn't imagine anyone other than Kathy Bates in that role.
17:07
Yeah, of course, um hot, young Kathy Bates. Um. But
17:11
what's his name? This kid? What is his name? He did an
17:15
amazing job. He really like he really stole the show. He completely stole
17:22
the show. He completely stole the show. It's a kid named Jeffrey Smith
17:26
who like plays a like newspaper guy who finds out that he's doing poorly in
17:36
school now because of his parents. He's so magical, and then he gets
17:41
his lawyer played by John Lovitz, to get him to get his parents to
17:48
give him up so that he can find different parents, and he like the
17:53
kid is a Matchiavellian plot to make the John Lovett's president and with some that's
18:03
I don't know. Yeah, he has a Mackiebellian plot to make him such
18:07
a desirable kid. But then the parents will so that the kids could actually
18:14
take over there wanting to emancipate the kids. They wanted to lower the voting
18:17
age to seven. It was so funny, dude, Dude, I laughed
18:22
so much, Like I was kind of endeared the entire time, and I
18:26
was, I was like just on the journey with this kid almost the entire
18:30
time. The entire time, it was like really entertaining. It was like
18:33
really well done, well, exactly the kind of movie I needed to watch
18:37
today. Yeah, me too, me too. Um and yeah, he
18:42
basically um the kids the what's his name? Um? Glenn Walker Junior is
18:52
his name, Glenn Greenwald. Glenn Greenwald, of course, Glenn Walker Junior,
18:56
the kid. The Reporter Kid is like handing out flyers and letting every
19:00
all the families know that the best kid in town is rejecting his parents and
19:07
trying to find new ones. All like. But the plot is outrageously convoluted,
19:12
but in a way that doesn't make sense, in a way a dream
19:15
wouldn't make sense. Yeah, totally, and it's from like total kid logic.
19:21
Yeah, like John Lovett's money. They meet him, he's driving after
19:26
an ambulance and then like aggressively stops and tries to get get to Elijah Wood
19:33
and he's like he in every scene he's like telling him not to answer questions
19:41
like it to a teacher or whatever. Man oh dude, I love that
19:47
he's like Alan where she asks him a geography question, He's like, I've
19:53
been advised to Yeah, totally totally. And when when the parents find out
19:59
that the end on catatonic, but like they've taken to court and they're just
20:04
on dollies just like yeah, hey, wide eyed glances with like open mouths.
20:11
It's really funny. And Alan Arkin with his tongue. Roland Arkin shows
20:17
up and he's like, if you vote for me this time, it'll be
20:19
a vote for change because the top one ton of the top one percent.
20:25
Yeah, exactly exactly. I'm not being paid enough of this ship. I
20:29
look a little strange. This was Indian between time before I was really elderly
20:33
and being in some of my best roles like little Miss Sunshine. Oh yeah,
20:37
that's when he had his comeback. It's the art Connoissance. Yeah,
20:41
call it by its name, It's the art Connoissance. Hey, listen,
20:52
nahing nah thang. He's great. Hes he's this era nineteen ninety four.
20:59
John dude, he's like for every dude. John Lovets was like he was
21:06
writing high from nineteen eighty nine to about nineteen ninety five. I would say,
21:10
and then uh nothing, nah man and Reba McIntire so look a pretty
21:22
good himself looks great. This is also Pantheon Dan a peak dan Akroid.
21:27
It felt also like very much in that in that vein of like what's it
21:33
called Saturday Night Live era of like outrageous, totally totally had like a Blues
21:41
Brothers vive a little bit so well, and when you see him show up,
21:47
you know what, things might get a little zany. Yeah, and
21:49
everything he's bigger in Texas. Obviously he flies to Texas first. And because
21:53
he gets a lot of letters. Did you say that he gets gets a
21:56
lot of letters. Don't spread yourself off too thin. I did not want
22:03
to work at home. Deepo. Um. Yeah, and welcome to the
22:08
great state of Texas where they're in the They have a yeah, and they're
22:17
they're so fun each end of the limousine and the shot is so wide,
22:22
it's so far away. It's so funny. It's so hilarious. Um,
22:29
and their kid got can eat one meal? That's that he could only eat
22:34
in a month, Like that's how many meals? And wait, no,
22:38
you didn't say that? What I didn't I didn't say that, right,
22:41
Yeah, okay, they have a kid they yeah, who who eats a
22:47
month's worth of food in a day? In a day? And what?
22:49
It turns out that these parents are like some kind of weird feeders. They
22:53
want to like fatten him up so that everything's bigger in Texas and they're like,
22:57
going, but I don't know, it's it's so weird. It's like
23:00
weird unconsensually for someone that like radically changed themselves. Yeah, I don't know.
23:07
So so it was like and he realizes that they don't want him for
23:11
him either, which is kind of like a nice message to get from.
23:14
Yeah, totally. And they're like riding around and and then he like gives
23:17
him a baseball team that he haunts. Um and Bruce Willis as they're riding
23:23
on horses and Bruce Willis is shooting a gun. Yeah, um, it's
23:27
the coin Bruce. This is what you've ever lost on a coin toss,
23:32
Bruce. Oh, totally, totally. I finished up all sure, this
23:37
is hard gay Bruce. This is the gayest Bruce. Oh, this is
23:41
gay some of the gays we'll ever see. Yeah, totally easter bunny.
23:45
No. But then he's like Gabby, his name is Gabby, and oh
23:48
yeah, Gabby, He's it's this scene is so outrageous. This is he's
23:55
like a magical in this movie. But he's like also weirdly kind of citizen
24:00
this movie. He is he is because like you don't ever know if he's
24:03
he's gotten him most kid, No, No, like you kind of feel
24:07
like he's in safe hands, but unreliable hands. Yeah, chaotic, but
24:15
I think it's I think that further serves to show that he's actually Bruce,
24:21
that it's him as because it's oh yeah, totally, because because he's like
24:26
he knows he's gonna be okay sort of things, so you just like you're
24:30
gonna be okay. Yeah, totally. And then they give him these amazing
24:33
looking ribs and mashed potatoes and he's like, well, oh god, oh
24:47
man, hot guitar. Uh and then wearing these outrageous fucking outfits, these
24:52
cowboy like black and white, black and gold fringe and oh dude, they're
24:59
so and they started out, yeah, this is camp. This is camp.
25:03
This is very campy. When they start the dance number with the like
25:08
kind of it's kind of gay, Like there's like there's a bunch of it's
25:11
very gay. Yeah, it's like a bunch of like bedazzled cowboys scantily clad
25:17
and they do like a dance number. Is this movie written by a gay
25:19
guy? I don't know. Maybe Elijah Wood is realizing that he's gay and
25:25
like he can't tell his parents. Maybe, but this guy produced and rode
25:30
for the Gary Chandling Show. It's stinks. It's stinks. Not the critic's
25:41
I know, I know, do you not know who? I don't know,
25:45
but like I feel like they were like they played a similar type of
25:48
character in a similar time they did. What's what's interesting to know note about
25:53
Bruce Willis is that there seems to be a ven diagram between the kind of
25:59
humor he likes and the kind of humor I like, which is this kind
26:02
of movie dumb, stupid, kind of idiotic humor that is like for children
26:10
but not for children. And I was watching it because it's like so many
26:12
of his movies that we've watched are weirdly zany, and sometimes they're like serious
26:19
zany, where you're like, is this supposed to be funny? And then
26:23
sometimes they're really zany and it's not funny and you're like, oh, this
26:27
is really off putting. Yeah, it's interesting. I think it's because it's
26:32
all because of his eye acting. It's so much he puts he puts so
26:37
much expressiveness in his zany eyes and like, you don't know exactly when it's
26:42
gonna be over the top, but it's the way that the zany eyes are
26:47
directed that I think like really makes because he's he is doing a lot of
26:52
subtle acting though, like he does a lot of subtle acting acting in this
26:56
because the zany eyes are they're very much Jestick in this total he's like,
27:02
I got a very majestic well because he's got to be like mentor Bruce and
27:04
totally totally and but like they really keep the consistency of Elijah's character as being
27:12
like a really solid kid throughout and they show it too, because in the
27:17
beginning in this part of the movie, he's like, oh, and sir,
27:21
I'm giving you back your baseball team. Uh, and he's like,
27:23
boh, that's a class jest or. So it's like very wish fulfillment for
27:27
a kid, and for this kid in particular, because it's like he just
27:32
wants to be appreciated, and every parent that he's like nice to he like
27:38
gets appreciation from and is like, uh, you know, I really liked
27:42
you guys, but like it's not really working out, and they're all like
27:45
that's okay, Like you're you're a good kid. We love you anyway.
27:49
He just wants That's all he wants is he just wants to be accepted.
27:52
So it is very wish fulfillment. Yeah, and Bruce does his coin toss
27:57
and shoots a hole through it. Gabby Bruce yeah, and gives it to
28:03
him. So like Bruce has already been two guys, but but always the
28:10
next guy denies knowing the existence, so like magically pretense not to add yeah
28:18
for sure, and then we get but there's a knowingness to Bruce always.
28:23
He's always like, yeah, I'm helping you. Yeah, I'm helping you
28:26
through your life. Yeah. Yeah. Jeffrey Smith is now like getting using
28:34
populist rhetoric to fool children into believing that he has their interest that I'm totally
28:41
using populous rhetoric totally, and he's using yeah, it's totally. Yeah.
28:49
Someone says, I think, then you're like, yeah, totally. Jesse
28:53
Smillett is there and one of the greatest legal minds love oh man. Yeah,
29:03
and and they all start yelling Viva el norte um and then he ends
29:10
up in Hawaii. Uh, Elijah Wood ends up in Hawaii with our first
29:14
very racist, our first very racist bit of casting. Yeah yeah yeah,
29:21
and man, um, yeah, I mean this part's cool. Like I
29:29
thought it was cool that it wanted to like show um, all of the
29:33
different places in America and like kind of like in a very little kid way,
29:40
like which places you would choose, like the big places you know about,
29:44
right, Like, oh, you've heard of Hawaii, You've heard of
29:45
Alaska, You've heard of New York, you've heard of Texas. You know.
29:48
Like so it feels like it's like a way of you know, if
29:53
we're taking this as kid logic, if we're taking this as dream logic,
29:57
Yeah, for su the kid is in plus like like yes, he's he's
30:03
Asian. But like this this dude, Keyon Young was born in Hawaii.
30:08
Oh okay, yeah, so at least he's like from there. Um.
30:15
But yeah, they did a really good job too, Like I mean most
30:18
of the parents are actually really nice, um and very sweet and fun.
30:22
And Hawaii does look sick. Yeah, and they have like this they want
30:27
to So the big thing with these parents is they have a need that they
30:33
want to fulfill in their lives and they want to they're the he's the governor.
30:38
Uh, and they want more they don't have kids. They don't have
30:41
kids, but they want more attention to Hawaii and they took and they want
30:47
people to live, people to come there and recognize it as an American state
30:51
or whatever, So they they North ends up being their mascot, like a
30:57
mascot, Yeah, that they make like a post, a big billboard of
31:03
and the his underwear gets pulled down and you see and his crack and he
31:07
gets so mad at about his crack. He's like he doesn't want people to
31:11
see his crack. Yeah, of course, yeah, which is totally understandable.
31:15
So they don't, like they're not good with boundaries with him, Yeah,
31:19
no they're not. He's like, you know what, I think I'm
31:22
gonna I think I'm gonna leave. And then he gets to hippie Bruce Um
31:27
where he's like a hippie on the island trying to find um beach Bum Bruise
31:33
beach Bum Bruce. Yeah, my favorite Bruce. Yeah, he looks he
31:37
looks good in these flowey outfits he does. He looks great and floey.
31:41
Yeah, he's got the body for floe outfits. Yeah, I do.
31:48
Yeah, yeah, he does do so much of that. He does a
31:53
lot of it. He's very majestic in this movie. He's very He's the
31:56
most so like this, this is something I had a thought about. I
32:00
could see a universe in which Robin Williams played this character. Oh yeah,
32:06
totally. It's the same level of majestic. But it's kind of cool that
32:09
it's Bruce is cool, like I've never I don't think i've I mean I
32:15
feel like any of the four that we've covered, Bruce, Schwartzy Stallone and
32:21
Van Dam, Bruce has the most capacity to play this kind of majestic.
32:27
Yeah, oh absolutely. Yeah. He gets to Alaska and when he lands
32:32
the plane, the plane slips all the ice and just keeps going and that
32:37
jetly tabs the building, which I found absolutely hilarious. And then we see
32:44
what life has become for parents who have been like blackmailed by their children,
32:51
and like their dad is mowing the lawn and he's like a kid is listening
32:54
to a walkman and the mom comes up and like gives him a drink um
33:00
And then we get John Lovetts and what's a kid's name? The kid's name,
33:07
I guess, But does he have a name, Lawyer, because it's
33:13
funny because everybody's doesn't have names in the movie, Like they don't they just
33:16
don't know they're called. The parents are called just North's parents, nor his
33:21
parents. Yeah, um, Jeffrey Smith is his name? But yeah,
33:24
they're getting him and Jeffrey John Lovett are getting massaged. Oh and he gets
33:29
a sex on the beach. Yeah, what does he say? He says
33:34
something like he says, like the horniest thing. It's so weird, how
33:38
like they like? John lovettz was known for being in kids movies, but
33:43
he would always add a little like horny sentence to show that he fucks.
33:49
Yeah. John Lovitz always needed to you to know that he fucks. I
33:52
believe it. He goes aren't nothing? Yeah, I remember. I would
34:00
always add these kinds of things and movie, aren't I not weird? Kinks?
34:07
Yeah, has like a like a being seen for his Kinks kink.
34:10
He needs to know. He needs people to know that he likes fucking.
34:15
Yeah, I love sex. And then we get to um, we get
34:22
to Graham Green and uh and Kathy Bates and they have an igloo with a
34:30
garage that opens. Yeah. So there's like the there's like um, white
34:35
picket fences that are made of snow and people mowing the snow. It's like
34:40
kind of trying to like imagine a snowy tundra but with like in a like
34:45
a suburban context. Presumably this kid grows up in a suburban kind of type
34:52
environment. It's interesting, like, but it's also like, yeah, I
34:55
mean it's like, I mean it's Kathy Bates. It's Kathy Bates, and
34:59
she's like strongly bronzed, like strongly very strongly bronzed. Yeah, and uh
35:07
and she's like I'm Kathy Bates, not just I'm Kathy Bates, but he's
35:13
Graham Green. And then the grandpa was just the fucking old white nude.
35:19
Just where's the movie is this guy? Fro forgets He looks like he looks
35:23
kind of like Bizarro Chris a Vagoda. It's a Vagoda. What he been?
35:30
He's been godfather? He was sal test Testio. He was just she
35:35
was old at the oldest t he was in another movie we recently watched too,
35:42
Tessio. Oh he was the grandpa. And look who's talking. That's
35:46
so another Bruce Bruce. Yeah. It's just like it's like it's sad because
35:52
of the fact that like, first of all, none of these people are
35:55
native, and second of all, like it's weird to like, like,
36:00
I guess it's again like kid logic, but it's also like, oh man,
36:04
this kid thinks that that dated people just like murder their grandparents, Like,
36:10
yeah, problematic. Yeah, like Rob Ryder, and I just thought
36:19
that it would be, doesn't He's always like majestic rob Ryder, Yeah,
36:25
totally. And he's he's like the darling hater, Like people hate him on
36:30
the left because he's like the uber lib or whatever. Oh really is that
36:36
true? Yeah, which is weird because it's like, who talks about Rob
36:38
Reiner anymore, like trying to be a certain kind of majestic. Maybe it
36:45
just annoys though. Maybe they're just like, no, it's just because he's
36:50
like, oh, he's a damn he's a shit lib. I hate that
36:57
word. I've been called a shit lib so many times. I mean,
37:00
that's what you are, That's what I am. Um and uh, what's
37:05
his name? Richard Belzer plays the guy who's like, all right, we're
37:09
gonna kill you. You know what's happening. Come on, take a number,
37:14
dude. Yeah. Do you think he was canonically the same guy as
37:17
Law and Order? And yeah when you back through the game, Um,
37:30
come on, come on, no surprises. He was also in um Arrest
37:34
of Development as the same character. I played the same character in the most
37:38
amount of things. Yeah, and the most amount of things. Yeah,
37:43
that's true. He's in the Guinness Book World. Do you think do you
37:45
think he do you think he made a bunch of crossover universes? Yeah he
37:51
did. He crossed every one of those things. He X files, was
37:54
it. He also in Arrested, Arrested Development, Yeah, arrest Development,
38:00
the Wire, Um, the Simpsons, Oh yeah, Simpsons. Yeah,
38:06
he's played that same Munch. He's mine, He's Munch in the character.
38:09
Yeah, Copaganda, um, Compagendale. But yeah, Bruce meets him.
38:17
Uh, I mean, what do we call him Inuit? Bruce? No,
38:22
because he's not he's not. He's just living up there and it's just
38:27
kind of man, he's he's like magical. Yeah, he just kind of
38:30
shows up and he's magical. But yeah, we find out that these three
38:36
places just took up the whole two months that he was supposed to be looking.
38:39
Oh yeah, because he walks somewhere and it's like that's a two week
38:42
walk. Yeah, totally. And then ben Stein I was wondering why why
38:46
we stopped to eat forty seven times? Yeah, that was hilarious. That
38:52
was hilarious. And then his parents end up in the Smithsonian Museum for the
38:57
longest coma are marvelous Comma Comma. Uh, and uh they win Benstein's money.
39:06
Uh. Yeah, ben Stein definitely wants them to win his right wing
39:10
propaganda man. But yeah. Then we find out from um, from Jeffrey,
39:20
the lead villain character, that actually the plot is of this movie is
39:28
to get the parents to stay as subservient as possible so that they'll all vote
39:35
for John Lovett so that he can be a puppet president for the interests of
39:39
the nerd kid. Yeah. Uh. And then they land this was I
39:44
thought this was really funning Hill Areas. I laughed to so much at this.
39:49
The private plane that that Elijah Wood obviously takes to this Amish country and
39:53
they're like, greetings, uh North, we're your new family. And I
40:00
said that the woman was like actually played an Amish character in a movie,
40:07
in like a serious movie. She looks familiar, and I do think I
40:10
know what you're talking about. She did look familiar. Um. And then
40:15
like the kids who are thy brothers, they're just like so like miserable looking.
40:22
Um, he just like Florence. And then yeah yeah, and then
40:35
he goes to uh China in Beijing, and it's like there's like an emperor
40:45
there and he's like, we're gonna give you this haircut and he flies away
40:47
again. Yeah, he just has no patience for any other kind of culture.
40:52
Yeah, exactly. And then they stop eying Zaire Africa, um,
40:58
which is yeah for a pretty rough, pretty rough we would you care to
41:07
tell me why? I mean it's it's pretty racist. And also he's like
41:15
staring at titties, which I mean fair enough. I thought I laughed at
41:19
this part too quite a bit. That was like he's doing a really really
41:22
good job selling this to me, um, and she's like, you'll be
41:27
very happy here, and he's just staring. So he's such a good actor.
41:32
This mustn't taken like this took so like I could see him performing this,
41:37
yeah, and a really good actor. And he's like he's also grown
41:42
into like that role that he did with Nicholas Cage. Oh my god.
41:46
Yeah, um fuck? What was that movie called him? Like? Really
41:51
act? Yeah, dude, you love that movie. When it came out,
41:54
what was it called like boiler Room or something? No, it's it
41:58
was called um man, I'm sure there's some people yelling at their radio systems
42:07
right now. I know, I know but I figure you cut out the
42:09
it's called the trust um. But what I loved is when he goes to
42:15
France and it's just they're watching TV with his new French parents and he's like,
42:21
oh god, all just lapstick. He hates he the every channel is
42:25
just playing just for labs gags and he's like, I can't do this,
42:30
yeah, which, what's it is? Totally that? Yeah, I mean
42:39
he's just he stired of watching just for labs gags or or zappages beyond.
42:44
And I you know what, like, um, I there's a part of
42:49
me that enjoys the like the um It's it's weird because I feel like Brits
42:59
and and Americans in particular seemed to sort of like turn their nose up at
43:07
like very physical sort of like comedy or like expression like clown and things like
43:15
that. There's a kind of like Jerry Lewis, by the way, who
43:20
was you know, I know he was in all of that, but like,
43:22
you know, like I think this was like a jab at, like
43:24
the French people like slapstick lap stick, But I also think it's it's like
43:30
a jab at, like an old style of comedy that kids didn't really like
43:34
at this point, like it's like because Jerry Lewis was like from the fifties
43:37
and sixties, Like in the nineties, kids were like, ah, we're
43:40
past this, we want magical kid movies. But you know, speaking of
43:47
Seinfeld, Kramer was like such a big draw in for kids, like,
43:53
yeah, he was younger kids made he made younger kids more interested in that
43:58
show. Yeah for sure. I mean then he had his comments and he
44:02
didn't have anything else with Seinfeld, he really drew in those kids. I
44:09
mean he never but we get to Scar Joe, John Ritter, John Ritter
44:17
freely. He just plays that a kind of dad that you're just like,
44:22
yeah, dude, I want that. I would have loved the I would
44:24
have loved the Ritter sense. I think it would have been so good.
44:29
It would have been amazing. Like John ridd would have been like in some
44:32
good roles. He's such a good he's president. Can you imagine using him
44:37
in like I don't know, can you imagine him filmed in modern technology like
44:45
just like wides with him yeah being a sad man, yeah, dude.
44:51
Or he could also be a Jesse he could he could have a turn he
44:58
coul Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, because Henry Fonda. That's what happened to
45:02
Henry Fonda, because he was like a fifties good guy cowboy and then in
45:08
the sixties Sergio and I was like, we're gonna make him the bad guys.
45:12
Everyone the bad guy. Well, I mean, that's like how Winter
45:17
Schwartzy played the good guy instead of the bad guy. Too. Everyone's like,
45:22
oh man, he's the good guy. Everyone talked about it. Speaking
45:28
of nat too, I was just gonna say the shooter game amazing and the
45:34
amazing giant like a giant seat that the kid was sitting in. It was
45:39
ridiculous, dude. I love the T two game. You know, a
45:44
Cloverdale mall when we were kids, like very like I th I think we
45:49
just missed it, but like I think I was like maybe twelve and I
45:53
played there once and then they got rid of it. But they had the
45:58
Terminator Shooter game. They had that one and I played it and it was
46:01
oh man, it was so cool and I always wanted to see where the
46:06
story wins. Yeah, totally, and the story's outrageous. Yeah, but
46:10
sorry, what were we talking about, Hey, alec oh, When I
46:15
saw that Robert Constanzo isn't this And I was just like, ah, a
46:22
very hot people lated birthday, Alec, Yeah totally, Hey, Alec,
46:28
you you blabbed, Alec, don't just don't go just don't go blab any
46:34
don't blab too much. Such about the blab too much. It's amazing seeing
46:38
a very Bruce Willis actor Robert Costanzo more of Bruce Willis actor than Arts the
46:46
actor, but also a very Pantheon Schwartz the actor totally totally. And then
46:52
uh, fucking George very out of this movie because he wants to fucking kill
46:59
a lie would the entire movie, the entire movie, which is outrageous,
47:02
wants to kill him? Yeah, totally. Jason Alexander and Julie Leary drivers
47:07
wake up from their coma and then two replicas of them come to take their
47:13
place. It's outrageous. And it's like by this point, like so much
47:16
has happened. I'm just I would just like so when the project was just
47:22
like it was fine to go with it. It was fine. It was,
47:24
yeah, it really was. The movie has the quality. It does
47:29
have the quality, but Bruce has been in a bunch of movies with the
47:31
quality at this point, Bruce is most willing to be in a movie with
47:36
the quality. Yeah, Um, it's just the like zany editing and the
47:44
like slap dash like also the like outrageous performances. Yeah, all the performances
47:51
are so so over the time. But what's what's nice about these particular actors,
47:55
whether it be Jason Alexander or Julie Leary Drives, um, even John
48:00
Ritter, like they're the quality. What's what's interesting about it is the fact
48:07
that it's being able to convince you through the actors that not only you should
48:13
believe it, but they believe it. And it's like crazy that Elijah would
48:19
with his eyes, John Ritter with his like gentle dadds, Yeah, Julie
48:25
Louis Dreyfuss with a kind of like mama like chicken chicken like John Lovetts with
48:31
his sort of like ability to ride the wave of being ride this line of
48:37
being a creepy guy, being a funny guy, and being kind of like
48:42
harmless, a sort of harmless but sexy intriguing guy. Yeah, totally.
48:47
I want children to think I'm sexy when I when they're older, not right
48:52
now, that would be weird. But I'm planting seas. Um. He
48:55
does thirty year olds later on, Yeah, that's what he would say totally.
49:01
He would still say that. Um. But then Julie Louis Dreyfuss and
49:07
Jason Alexander is scene where they're like really sad and really upset that they were
49:14
mean and not good parents to Elijah Wood and is like crying for real,
49:21
and Jason Alexander like he's like like sort of like stoic, but like I
49:27
need to be a strong person for my wife. My wife, um,
49:34
and there is so much my wife energy um. And the kid. Jeffrey
49:39
is like, oh man, I'm so sorry that you're going through this.
49:44
We'll send it to him and I'm sure he'll pick you. But then,
49:47
like a little creep that he is, he gets it the video edited and
49:53
it says we don't love you. It's like, yeah, it's very much
50:01
like they're like, oh, we don't want to. Like it's very it's
50:05
very sweet can so I grabbed her sweet can totally sweet Sosia can. Um.
50:17
But yeah, it's it's pretty funny. And the fact that Jesse Smollett
50:22
is in this is very odd. Yeah, I saw strange. I was
50:25
watching the credits after because I wanted to see Scar Joe's name, which isn't
50:30
in there by the way, Yeah, Black Widow is not in this movie.
50:34
Um and yeah, Like I saw Jesse Smollett and I was like,
50:38
is that the same guy? Yeah? Wow? Um yeah crazy, but
50:45
yeah, I love I love the line of Jason Alexander where he's like,
50:50
you know, for a sixth grader, you're you're doing really well. And
50:52
it's like, how did he amass this fortune in two months? Who h
51:00
Jeffrey? Like how did he just like all of a sudden, get this
51:06
amount of money and become this multi millionaire? Jesse, Yeah exactly, but
51:17
his name is Jeffrey. Jeffrey. Oh, Elijah Wood is with his new
51:30
awesome family and with the John Ridder family and he get they get a knock
51:35
at the door and uh, hey, Elijah, you better not blab.
51:40
I've got a tape for you. Um and they oh, there's a kid,
51:45
right. They most like to say to your son, we don't want
51:50
you. How can you say that we don't want Hugh bothered by the prospect
51:57
of never seeing your son again, Yeah that's okay. Is this a gut
52:01
wrenching torturous emotional experience, not for me, not for me us re using
52:12
the scenes where maybe love so Much that was very much a soy is growder
52:17
this weekend? So yeah, exactly. Yeah, this scene was great.
52:22
Yeah. So where were we though? We were talking about um Jesse,
52:28
Yeah what about him? No, no, where where are we? Uh?
52:37
He goes to leave to find his Uh he wants to sort of like
52:42
get closure and find out. Oh yeah, he goes to New York next,
52:49
and uh, it's like dingy and a shit hole. It's very bad.
52:52
You look in New York right now, it's very bad. And then
52:57
it's very bad. I'm gonna send this ball the old man to shoot that
53:00
little boy. I don't lose any votes. Um he and like he just
53:06
goes through. Um yeah, like the kid explains his actual master plan,
53:15
which is to kill the kid. Uh. And then Jean Lovetts is like
53:20
that's brilliant. Yeah, and then like literally the guy like he's fucking shooting
53:28
at him the gun. It's outrageous. And this this part of the movie
53:32
I was like, oh random, and they like he runs through ferris wheel
53:37
and jumps over a fence and then Jesse Smallett comes up to him and he's
53:40
like, oh no. First he steals a bums like clothes. Uh.
53:46
And then he finds Jesse Smallett and he's like, you didn't see me.
53:51
Oh wait, I didn't see you. Uh. And he gives him the
53:53
unedited tape with uh with what his parents actually said. Um, it was
54:00
very cute. It's very it's I loved it. I loved it. Yeah,
54:06
Jesse's he did a really good job at this. Is it a really
54:08
good job? He's a good actor. This is a good kid. Uh.
54:13
And then he finally shoots at somebody and he drops the hat but actually
54:17
it's borst covering the hat. Yeah. Yeah, so it looks like it's
54:21
blood. So it looks like it's blood. Yeah. Then he tries the
54:23
tooth, tries the boorst Yeah. I call it blackout borst um. Yeah.
54:31
And he gets to he gets to uh the uh. He gets to
54:37
the National Association of Smoke Alarm People event where Bruce Willis is playing a comedian,
54:49
Uh, like a bad comedian Bruce. Uh, and he jokes it's
54:53
so bad, so bad. Yeah, hold on, oh man, I
55:00
don't know if it's just about which reminds me of this man that walked into
55:05
a bar. He sits down that to a very beautiful young lady before you
55:09
know what, the conversation tends to sex. He says to it, my
55:14
darling, do you smoke after you make love? She says, I don't
55:19
know. I never looked. I'll tell you one thing. My smoke alarm
55:25
never went off. Not funny, but I'll tell you one thing. My
55:35
smuggling. It's like something a kid would think his buddy. It totally is
55:38
Yeah. And then he goes backstage and he's like, oh, great,
55:42
you brought a tape for my new VCR And he's like, hey, you're
55:46
you're you're you're a teacher, teacher part time, part time. Oh and
55:52
then and then we get the actual videotape where he's like, we made so
55:57
many mistakes. We're sad that you're not our son anymore. Give us one
56:01
more chance. Yeah, And so he decides that he wants to be with
56:06
them again. He's just decide to rip us off like the Turn, and
56:14
it made me emotional. This part of the movie made me emotional him wanting
56:16
to go back to his parents. But like I also remember so much like
56:22
movies in the nineties, particularly really gaslighting kids into being like, your parents
56:27
are flawed, but they're always right. They're always right, they always want
56:30
what's best for you. And sometimes it's like parents didn't have the best interests,
56:36
my best interests, their own interests. Yeah, and like I'm like,
56:39
I'm like, man, I really felt gaslighted by some of these movies
56:43
of being like, no, I have to be a good son. Yeah,
56:45
I have to make sure that my parents are Okay, look how much
56:49
they sacrifice for me. I have to save my parents. Yeah. Yeah,
56:57
oh yeah, that was a big one. That was Bruce Willis m
57:00
takes him to the airport and he plays Joey fingers in this because you know
57:07
if you smell his fingers. But he says a line where he's like,
57:14
your ball stick to your leg like crazy glue. And I was like,
57:16
you haven't been Florida in August. Your boss sticks your legs like crazy glue.
57:21
Yeah, totally. And I'm like, are you talking to this kid
57:22
about his balls? Yeah? Totally his balls. I haven't even dropped yet.
57:27
Um. And then we get the lady from is this the lady from
57:30
Ghostbusters? I think it was? It totally? Is it totally? Is
57:36
the lady from Ghostbusters and the secretary from Ghostbusters. Yeah, the secretary from
57:42
Tamperary Secretary shows that North is dead because hey, Alec shot him in the
57:51
head, but he didn't actually shoot him in the head. He's alive.
57:53
I didn't get that. Yeah, He's like, I can't let you go
57:57
on this plane because you're dead and everyone's gonna see and they're gonna be scanning
58:00
because and then other kids who are like, oh no, we have to
58:05
get him killed because he'll ruin everything. This is where the logic of the
58:09
movie is showing you that it's a dream. Yeah, it totally is.
58:13
And then Bruce Willis again shows up as a Federal Express guy instead of Joey
58:19
fingers women and he's like and he's so majestic now he's like uber majestic in
58:24
this scene. He's like, I'm the guardian of this package and you're my
58:29
package now, so I'm going to be your guardian. He's a guardian angel.
58:32
Yeah, he totally is a guardian angel. He hits him. He's
58:37
trying the tooth with himself as a child totally. And then uh, Jeffrey
58:44
is like, hey, this is Borshed. I know that it's a Slavic
58:49
made thing. He's like so specific about it, and anyone he turns and
58:52
he screams. It's like he was like genuinely kind of like shaking and sinister
58:59
in a way that if it was an adult performing this, it would have
59:02
been kind of like the contrast would have been like stark in a way,
59:07
like you're like, oh, it's a kid, so it's funny. But
59:08
like he just like he did a really good job, really good job,
59:13
Like this guy still acts. It's such a solid performance. It was such
59:16
a solid performance. I was like surprised like that. Turney was like he
59:21
kind of went a little mel gibsony on it, like he was like,
59:23
yeah, no, you have one more chance. Hold on, let me
59:29
play it for I make a good door and I'd love to sample it someday
59:36
for the boy making here else. Last North's head was filled with this traditional
59:42
Slavic delicacy. That's that's really impressive. Yeah, that's really impressive, like
59:52
to channel that kind of like age. I mean, you know this kid,
59:58
uh, like he's been called an idiot in this tone before. And
1:00:05
then Elijah comes home to try and like get back to his parents before twelve
1:00:08
o'clock. Uh, And the Jeffrey is there and he's like, did you
1:00:15
have a fun summer? Elijah would um? And he's like, where the
1:00:19
hell are my parents? North? Did you just say the word hell my?
1:00:24
The summer has broadened you, hasn't it. And then he pulls on
1:00:28
his lapel and like forces him against the wall. Uh. And he says
1:00:32
to him and if you don't tell me, I'm gonna show you how much
1:00:37
I've broadened, you little asshole. That part was really cool. Um.
1:00:43
I don't know what did you make of like watching this movie in this time,
1:00:51
like, you know, having the relationship with your parents that you do
1:00:54
that that we do with our parents. What did you make of like a
1:01:00
movie that talks about stuff in this way, like you know, like an
1:01:05
idealized version of what it's like to like want parents, like idealizing the need
1:01:14
for parents to be in your life. No, no, no, no,
1:01:16
no, I not that because the movie does question allows for the question
1:01:24
of like are my parents good? Yeah for sure, which is really interesting
1:01:30
and good and like it's not something you commonly see, but like, how
1:01:34
did it make you feel as a person who has a complicated relationship to your
1:01:37
parents. I felt like I wanted to go back to this time. I
1:01:43
felt like this movie made me want to have seen this movie when it came
1:01:46
out, so I could like have the nostalgia for it. But you know,
1:01:54
it felt like it could have been Pantheon. It could have like our
1:01:58
Child, but instead of just being terrified, Yeah, totally. And speaking
1:02:02
of terrifying, he's running and they have he has nine minutes to get there,
1:02:08
and he like goes through his like the places that were his like special
1:02:13
place or whatever that you think are his special place at the beginning of the
1:02:16
movie. And then he gets to the place and the judge Alan Arkin is
1:02:21
the special place. He's there because he has to be there right arm time
1:02:24
time, Yeah, for this deal not to go through, because he needs
1:02:29
to reach his parents by twelve o'clock and then like and be in both of
1:02:31
their arms. That's the stipulation exactly. Um, and he they he's like
1:02:37
running to them in slow motion and they start running to him and then hey,
1:02:40
alec, hey, Elijah, I'm gonna shoot you, and he fucking
1:02:45
shoots at him. Costanzo shoots yeah, and then he wakes up and he's
1:02:51
still in the store and do you think Robert Costanzo shot George Costanza, Yes,
1:02:55
he did, one hundred percent. Do you think he accidentally shot him?
1:03:00
Yeah, no, I think he actively shot him. And then Bruce
1:03:05
comes out dressed as just regular guy Bruce holding the Buddy costume and he's like,
1:03:09
hey, you're still here, Well let me take you home. He
1:03:15
totally does do that. Yeah, he still here, gentle guy. Bruce
1:03:20
cares Bruce, So it's cool. Bruce is such a guy also that,
1:03:24
like you, if he did this, he would be like, yeah,
1:03:28
this guy's probably not gonnam estimate. So so okay, I don't think yeah,
1:03:31
of course not. I think he's like he seems like a decent person
1:03:35
obviously, but like in this movie, it feels like, you know,
1:03:38
when like the magical thing of the movie happens, but then you see the
1:03:45
real person who was inspired in the magical thing, but he's still a little
1:03:47
bit magical. Well, he is completely magical because he pulls out the coin
1:03:52
falls out the car. I was like, yeah, what's that? So
1:03:54
I was gonna ask you, so, do you think he's Do you think
1:03:58
Bruce trying to but the coin did? But do you think that Bruce willis
1:04:02
is magical. Yeah, of course magical. So is he dreaming? Is
1:04:11
he lobotomized or is he not? He's definitely in the chair at recal.
1:04:16
Do you think do you think the kid is okay? Did the bunny thing
1:04:20
happen in real life? Yeah, the funny thing happened, but everything else
1:04:25
was a dream. Yeah, everything else was a dream. And then but
1:04:27
he says like I remember, be it ever so humble? It's always playing,
1:04:32
there's no place that place like, oh man, Yeah, like a
1:04:38
lot of things that really hit emotionally for me in a way that like I
1:04:43
was like, oh, I don't think I never felt like I had this.
1:04:45
It like it was always like a wistful thing for me. Maybe the
1:04:48
wistful thing it made me feel You're right, because this movie made me feel
1:04:53
like I was a kid again in a way that I was like, oh
1:04:55
man, I remember wishing so hard for this to be true and being at
1:05:00
a parts like this in movies because I knew it was. Yeah, it
1:05:02
sucks because um at the end, they're like they were word sick and I
1:05:08
fell asleep at the mall and it's like we call the hospitals and the police.
1:05:13
We looked everywhere, and it's like, you know, if th would
1:05:16
be worried scream at us, they would scream at us and hit us because
1:05:21
it was like we were so scared. And it's like yeah, I mean
1:05:30
I like I feel like that's like not even the worst of it. So
1:05:34
but um oh man, um what would you are you? Is it done?
1:05:45
Yeah, it's like go put on your pajamas. Um uh, it's
1:05:49
like, um, you know, cool and then done. It's just literally
1:05:59
they go back into that Yeah yeah. Um, so like I'm gonna go
1:06:04
ahead and say it's a red heat for me. It's definitely a red heat
1:06:08
for me too, because of all of the things that it kind of awoke.
1:06:12
And it's a really well directed movie. It is a very well directed
1:06:15
movie, and and like the music was really good and the cast was really
1:06:19
good and everyone it worked really well because everyone committed to being little kids,
1:06:26
like very little kid like in the movie. I think that Ebert's wrong.
1:06:30
I think he's completely wrong. I thinks he's five times wrong. Um.
1:06:36
But he also didn't like Blue Velvet. But like you know, there's there's
1:06:41
like it's fine, it's fine, And I mean the movie now would have
1:06:45
gotten audience scar and a fifty percent, so the critics are wrong to um,
1:06:53
But what would you give it out of Bruce's Um? I dock it
1:06:59
uh for the bad narration, but otherwise I'd give it like six bruces.
1:07:03
Really, I would give it a seven. I would give it a seven.
1:07:06
Yeah, I would give it a seven because we get so many different
1:07:09
kinds. Yeah, we get a variety of Bruce we get, but he's
1:07:13
the same in the same evasive kind of like try not to be like an
1:07:18
obvious magical guy. Yeah, he did a majestic job, but like it
1:07:24
was a little bit like there's not enough Bruce for me to justify it.
1:07:29
I mean it was a little movie. Would Robin Williams have been better than
1:07:33
a little bit? No, I I don't think I don't think so.
1:07:36
But it's a Robin Williams type role, Like we don't really see Bruce Willis
1:07:41
in these kinds of roles. Yeah, which is cool and impressive and fun,
1:07:45
but also it's like weird, that's such a like a rugged dude would
1:07:48
do like these kinds of movies, like the willingness to give a seven to
1:07:54
like the seven convincing myself m But the movie the movie I would give what
1:07:58
would you give him? I think so too. Um. It was like
1:08:02
surprising and impressive, and it kept my attention so much totally totally in a
1:08:10
way that like, oh man, the like the I kept getting um,
1:08:14
the movie wasn't buffering fast enough, and I kept being like, God,
1:08:17
I want to watch this, Like I was excited to watch it. I
1:08:20
was excited to see what would happen next. Um, it kept my attention
1:08:25
all the way through. I was on board for because like, you know,
1:08:29
like and Elijah was amazing. He was really good. It was it
1:08:31
was compelling, compellingly acted, compellingly cast, and it was kind of it
1:08:38
was kind of oh dude, it was kind of um, like you know,
1:08:43
movies like this. It didn't have that big a budget. It didn't
1:08:47
like yeah, really what is it like, I mean other than the actors,
1:08:53
which I guess they could could have spend more money on, because like
1:08:57
nothing really like they just go to a couple different places. It's sets right,
1:09:00
like it's like And also Rob Ryner given his like experience with these kinds
1:09:06
of movies, because he did Prince's Bride, which also has this vibe where
1:09:10
it's like goofy and funny but has lots of heart. Yeah, um they
1:09:16
had a lots of heart. Um and phantam did have lots of hard dude
1:09:21
the most Yeah, fight full up without um but yeah yeah, follow us
1:09:30
a Thirsty More Presents, Thirsty four More Presents, Thirsty for More Presents on
1:09:36
Instagram and at more Thirsty on Twitter. How we switched it and guys,
1:09:44
you already know, Yeah, you already know, but we'll tell you again
1:09:47
because Thirsty for More on Yeah, patreon dot com, slash Thirsty for More
1:09:53
check it out if you become a patron. There's like tons of back catalog
1:09:56
shit. Um, you'll be getting new brand you Bruce episodes, your ass
1:10:01
eating on time, dude, If only you'll get your ass eaten, you'll
1:10:05
get your dicks slapped, um like you'll get your kitties pinched, you might
1:10:15
get all your genitalia stimulated somehow, but only consentually of course. Yeah.
1:10:24
And nothing that nobody we don't want. We're not interested in. Uh yeah,
1:10:28
anything that unless it's but that would have to be very trusted. Just
1:10:33
boundaries situation Next week