Latest / Thirsty For More - Movie Review / EP152 - Death Becomes Her
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- 0:09I need the goal. Hello everyone, and welcome to Planet Bruce. Before
- 0:22we start the show today in earnest, I'm going to sit down with a
- 0:27friend of the show, Dylan Barry, Dylan Son of a Bitch, to
- 0:33talk about this movie, to kind of interview him about why he likes this
- 0:38movie and like get his insights, because you know, this is a movie
- 0:42he expressed that was pantheon for him, and I feel like I wanted to
- 0:48know more about that and see if I could use that conversation to kind of
- 0:53help frame the conversation I was going to have with Alex afterwards. So I
- 0:59hope you guys enjoy this little introduction with Dylan, and we'll see you on
- 1:06the flip side with the full episode with Alex and I talking about it.
- 1:14No, but why I bring up Moonlighting is I think that Death Becomes Her
- 1:18is the closest to Moonlighting in terms of his performance. Like it's really because
- 1:26it's it's it's I don't think of Bruce Willis as a comedic actor. Yeah,
- 1:30he's a brilliant comedic actor and he has impeccable comedic timing and you can
- 1:36see that in Death Becomes Her that like and Moonlighting was all about wait was
- 1:41he No, he wasn't. I don't think he was a straight man.
- 1:42I think believe Sybil Shepherd was a straight man in that. But it just
- 1:46there's something about the two performances that it reminds me of. I feel like
- 1:49he's channeling himself from Moonlighting, even though the character is completely different from one
- 1:52another. So is that I'm maybe I'm making random connections that make no well
- 1:57so, but this is this is why you're on today. We're here to
- 2:01talk about Death Becomes Her because, like I, Alex and I are trying
- 2:06to pilot this thing with where we want to do like corners with people,
- 2:08you know, people who seem to express an emotional reaction to like a certain
- 2:15movie. And it feels like, you know, you have a couple that
- 2:17you wanted to talk about, but it seems like you were like, hey,
- 2:21death Becomes Sir, that was one that like stuck out to the first
- 2:23one. Yeah. Maybe maybe that was just because I was going chronologically in
- 2:27my well, but what do you What is it about this movie for you?
- 2:31You know, it's so many like there's the there's so much about this
- 2:38movie that's great. Um, all three of the stars deserve oscars for it,
- 2:44like that obviously wouldn't happen, but like they're all phenomenal in it,
- 2:46not a single performance as a waste. The special effects are phenomenal. And
- 2:51to see computer like nowadays you can kind of see it and look where you
- 2:53can see the computer stuff, but like those are brill Like the shot of
- 2:59her coming out of the pool and then the hole is in her body and
- 3:02the water comes out of her body looks that looks you could you could put
- 3:07that on a movie right now and no one would fucking complain about it would
- 3:09be like that looks amazing. Like in fact, people might be like charmed
- 3:14to see something like that. Again, there's a style to it, there's
- 3:15a ton mean to like the special effects. There's it's it's it's interesting to
- 3:21see Robert Zemeckis use his love of special effects for what is essentially a women's
- 3:30picture. It's about two women who are being cattied to each other, who
- 3:32fucking ruin each other's life, like and it's dynasty. That's you know,
- 3:36it's so feminine, it's so like female, and it's a way more about
- 3:39their relationship than it is about their relationship to he's incidental for the plot,
- 3:46like he's there and again he's the straight man in the situation. You need
- 3:49that. Like he gets manipulated by both of them. So he sucks so
- 3:53much in this movie, knows like, and I'll argue, I'll even argue,
- 3:59like it sucks in what way? Oh, his characters just kind of
- 4:01a little shit like come on you, like just leave, like just fucking
- 4:08leave you, stupid fucking guy being manipulated by these two like kind of a
- 4:12world. Well, yeah, he's such a sniveling. He's a sycophant,
- 4:15like yeah, as soon as one of them tells him, like, hey,
- 4:17go murder her or she's He's like, yeah, I'll go murder,
- 4:20Like what the fuck? And I do think that that is actually, now
- 4:24that I think about it, it's like, I think that's what I like
- 4:28about his character. And at the end, because he's sort of like he
- 4:30finally isn't a fucking piece of shit. At the end, he immediately goes
- 4:32like, no, fuck you, I'd rather die than me around you and
- 4:35fucking goes for the suicide, survives and fucking lives a great life, Like
- 4:41it's actually good for him for changing. But but that's not even the story,
- 4:46right, Like that's not even a fucking movie. Yeah, and they
- 4:48just get really good at working with car pain. Yeah, it's so just
- 4:56like, oh my god, there's just there's something really what it does really
- 5:00well, especially the makeup and their performance is like there's such a creepy,
- 5:05uncanny valley ness that comes to their makeup when they like when they come back
- 5:11where you're just like this is like when both of them are going him,
- 5:13They're like yeah, yeah, like that is such a creepy image staring at
- 5:17him. That is such a fucking horrifying image. Like well and speaking to
- 5:25the like looks in this movie, you know this movie, like I can't
- 5:30talk to you without talking about drags. Oh yeah, like hig high drag.
- 5:36This is I think, like what I said earlier, I mean,
- 5:40this is one of those this is a what I like to describe like a
- 5:44gay movie for heterosexuals. Can elaborate what other movies are heterosexuals movie for and
- 5:55I threw out Missus Dolf definitely hoterosexuals. Um, I'd argue the Simpsons episode
- 6:01with John Waters in his games. No, it's just things that are like
- 6:06extremely queer. But it's like not queer that people didn't make this and it's
- 6:10not really four queer people, but it uses a queer aesthetic too. It
- 6:15uses queer aesthetic. And yeah, um, I'd argue a lot of fucking
- 6:19Oliver Stone's career is queer movies for heterosexuals. Natural Born Killers is a queer
- 6:26movie for heterosexuals. There we go. That's a movie with a queer aesthetic
- 6:30that is not queer as fuck. That is a straight ass heterosexuals really great
- 6:35point, Um, come on the whole. Like they open it like the
- 6:41fucking sitcom Rodney Dangerfield opening like very good. That's high drag. The mom
- 6:48has blue fucking hair, like one who like so but but but but this
- 6:53movie, what did you think? What did you think of the drag in
- 6:59this movie? And like even the way they kind of like have this friendly
- 7:03combative relationship, like it's like a camaraderie of friend of me situation, not
- 7:09even like the Dragon It is like they're both drag queens and like like they
- 7:15are two these are two sisgendered women drag queens. There's no there's no question
- 7:23about no question about that. And I'm not sure if you know this,
- 7:25but there's a documentary about Jinks Monsoon called Drag Becomes Him. Yeah, you've
- 7:30watched You've seen him, And like, I kind of love that they bring
- 7:32that up in it where Jinx is just like I was talking about watching like
- 7:38Death Becomes Her at like six years old on repeat on VHS because that was
- 7:42one of her pantheon movies and being like, wow, I should not have
- 7:46been watching this movie, but you know, I like I'm here for it
- 7:49because it's kind of like you know what, like the cartoonishness of it,
- 7:54any sort of like if a child can deal with the creepiness of it,
- 7:58it's just going to be a cartoon, you know. Like, Yeah,
- 8:00I mean I think I would have no problem showing this movie to a child
- 8:03of my child that I had the right, Yeah, that's strangers. I
- 8:07wouldn't go up. Well, I think I think it's interesting, you know,
- 8:11like there's obviously a lot in there, like Jinks watching this movie,
- 8:13Like she wasn't only watching this movie for you know, I'm sure like a
- 8:20young Jinx was watching this because this movie is gay and like or like or
- 8:24like feels like there's like a there's that embrace of high camp glamour. It's
- 8:31still like an embrace of like sociopathic women fucking doing their thing and being like
- 8:35yas queen, like you know, and the evil woman thing, which is
- 8:39like you know, like Alex kind of like rolls his eyes at like the
- 8:43Disney queer coded characters. I hate it, And it's like, no,
- 8:46I got it. Yeah, I know that it's like a trope and it's
- 8:50annoying, and Alex hates like annoying tropes. But it's like, yeah,
- 8:52dude, but you don't know exactly what it's like to not be represented at
- 8:58all. Well you know what I mean, Like no, no, And
- 9:01I actually don't disagree with him at all in terms of that, but I
- 9:05don't disagree with you at all, you know what I mean, Like to
- 9:09watch this movie and like you can sort of like, yeah, you shouldn't
- 9:13be watching this movie as a kid, But like I feel like queer people
- 9:16can understand and couch things, and because they know they're not being represented,
- 9:20they understand that the like the over the topness is part of it, right,
- 9:26like, and so that that's kind of like that's actually the funny thing
- 9:28about Bruce Willis's performance of it, And like with the clips I was watching
- 9:33yesterday at the movie I forgot how like over the top and cartoonishy, isn't
- 9:35it? Oh like and he's the straight man. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 9:41that's something Alex and I have been talking about, like during this season,
- 9:45A lot is like Bruce Willis's I acting like he does a lot of
- 9:48like Okay, So I was also thinking about this as well when we were
- 9:52when we're doing this because you have um, I was on last season for
- 9:58Sean Claude, Ben Dam or not last season, but the season John clad
- 10:01Vandam, and my argument was always that I think John clad Vandam is the
- 10:05best of the action actors. Um. I know y'all disagree with me,
- 10:07but all right, now we're watching some of some of Bruce Willis's movies,
- 10:11I think Bruce Willis is the best comedic actor of all the boutch like he
- 10:15is, like his time comedic timing is impeccable. I would agree with that.
- 10:20I would agree with that. I think Schwartzy is second. Yeah,
- 10:24Shartzy has no yeah, Shartzy is actually Shortzy and Schwartzen sorry Schwartzy and Stallone
- 10:30yeah both have and even John clud Vandam has good comedic timing as well,
- 10:35like, but I think there like, there is definitely a hierarchy with them,
- 10:37but there's definitely they're all close. Yeah, I don't think that anyone.
- 10:41I think that, you know, there's something to be said that I
- 10:46think a good action star should be good at comedy. I agree, I
- 10:50agreet Jackie Chan look at like there's something about the rhythm of comedy films and
- 10:56the rhythm of action films that go hand in hand. And even though a
- 10:58lot of action comedies or shit, Yeah, I agree, I agree exactly.
- 11:05Yeah. But but but when they when it works, it works really
- 11:07well. It works because like, when it works, it's great. When
- 11:09it doesn't, it's like, oh god, they're running from the giant flame
- 11:13ball. I don't know what's Yeah, but so this movie it kind of
- 11:22fits in a weird place too, because it's very it's very funny, it's
- 11:28very silly, it's very ridiculous. But it's also so dark. Yes,
- 11:35that's the thing it feels. And I'm kind of like also saving this because
- 11:37it's going to be a big thing that Alex and I talk yeah today,
- 11:41But but but but it feels like a Tale from the Crypt episode. Oh
- 11:46that's good. I never thought of that, but you're absolutely correct that it's
- 11:48like it's a it's a Tale from the crypts episode with an actual budget.
- 11:52Yeah yeah, with a really good budget, Like because if you were you
- 11:56could totally do this as a Tales from the Crypt and just like it a
- 11:58lot of things off the street. There's there's a work perfectly, there's a
- 12:01lesson learned, there's a kind of like campy over the topness, there's a
- 12:07there's a kind of the expressions are really big, always really big, and
- 12:11there's a kind exactly there's a kind of like um other worldliness to Tales from
- 12:16the Crypt episodes that that that this movie really encapsulates. Robert Zemeckis was involved
- 12:22in Tales from the Crypt. Oh, Okay, that makes more sense.
- 12:24It was Walter Hill as well. I want to say that I don't know
- 12:28if that's true. Leave Walter Hill. I might just be making that up.
- 12:33What do you think it is? Another? Like? Did I just
- 12:35make that up? Or is it? Let me look at the Walter Hill
- 12:39tell us from Tales from the Crypt a few of the episodes. Okay,
- 12:41yeah, so yeah yeah he did, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 12:45I feel like Walter Hill is a kind of the kind of director that could
- 12:48work well with like Zamechi's type. Yeah, no, that's actually no,
- 12:52that a is well like. And I think that what's interesting about this movie,
- 12:56um as well is that Zamechis is I think the main disc ble of
- 13:00Spielberg. If CON say that he's the biggest disciple, this is the most
- 13:03Joe Dante Robert Zamachis goes interesting. Well, did you say that well,
- 13:09because like Joe Dante was kind of the he's also Spielberg disciple. I guess
- 13:16Ron Howard is as well. There's what I think of the three main Spielberg
- 13:18disciples. Um, Joe Dante was always kind of the like punk younger cousin
- 13:24of them or younger brother. He was the one who was kind of the
- 13:26anarchist, kind of didn't give a fuck, would do like weird, creepy
- 13:28kind of scary shit. Yeah, he's like what he's like what, um
- 13:33what's his face? Harmony kren Is to Dogman Movies. Yes, yes,
- 13:37yes, vary that vary that in terms of it. No, that's good,
- 13:41Um no, because he's just he's like he's just doing his own shit.
- 13:48That kind of is so much weirder and out there than all the other
- 13:52Like, well, like Zackis and Ron Howard are kind of interchangeable at times,
- 13:56Like there's a certain movies like I always have to look up movies by
- 13:58either them, be like wait, which one did which and which one did
- 14:01like? Because well, I feel like I feel like Zamechis is more magical
- 14:05than Ron Howard. Ron Howard is more um kind of like he tries to
- 14:11capture the high cinema of Spielberg, whereas Zamechez tries to capture the zaniness.
- 14:16Yes, well that's a very good point. That's a very good separation between
- 14:18the two. No, but this is Amechis going his most joke. Yeah,
- 14:22I can stand by that, and I think, yeah, no,
- 14:24yeah, yeah, I mean, and this movie it feels very Zamechis,
- 14:30but it also feels like you're right, like there's some other kind of element
- 14:33to it. And I think it's because of it feels kind of like Burdeny,
- 14:37Tim Burtony, because of the way that the zany darkness comebo. Yeah,
- 14:43and that's also just the same era of all those things. Yeah,
- 14:46it's like that, like it's it's I don't want to call it the darkest
- 14:52comedy, because that's that's not in that's not correct, but like it's dark
- 14:56and it's comedy. It's Spielberg become body horror, which just counter to like
- 15:03everything Spielberg stands more well, before we before we end, I'd like to
- 15:09know, like, what are what are your standout what are your like top
- 15:13three standout moments in the movie. Oh, that's great. I don't want
- 15:16to say scenes even because there's so many moments in scenes that are really brilliant
- 15:20and really great. So I'm just gonna say even like which sticks out in
- 15:22them? Just doing this based on first coming to my head the hole in
- 15:26her body when she gets out of the fucking fountain, because that special fact
- 15:30is fucking Phenomenal's incredible mail Street falling down the stairs. I don't know why,
- 15:33but that always really like stuck with me. It's so it hurts to
- 15:37watch. Yeah, it's a really brutal fair stair falling. And then it
- 15:45would be the third one, I think, the ending, fucking where's the
- 15:48park? Car park? Like them is these like pieces of the ground ship
- 15:52and you're just like you guys suck like old bitches. You can't even fucking
- 16:02die, like you rotten old bitches die, that's looking depth becomes there.
- 16:10Well, I think that's a perfect way to end this segment. And thank
- 16:14you so much for joining me. Thank you for having me. It was
- 16:15always, always, always a pleasure to be here. But what would you
- 16:18say if I had to ask you, and have you been following a little
- 16:23bit of our criteria of what makes a good Bruce appearance? Bruce is more
- 16:27subtle, right, So he's got what he's like, does a lot more
- 16:30charm, He's got a lot of vocal inflections. Here's the thing. Here's
- 16:34the thing. It's a very Yeah, just to go back to Bruce Willis
- 16:37for a second in terms of this, um, it's a very not Bruce
- 16:45Willis movie and a very not Bruce Willis role. Yeah, it's extremely that
- 16:49and I think he sells it brilliantly. Well. I mean, I think
- 16:53just for that reason, and something that's going to play into this a lot
- 16:57is Bruce has taken way more chances than any of the other guys. He's
- 17:03had opportunities too, He's been given opportunities. But no, you're absolutely correct,
- 17:07he is. He takes way more risks than the rest of them,
- 17:10and I think he has he has more room to take risks. Yeah,
- 17:12people don't pigeonhole him as much as they pigeonhole the other three actors. Like,
- 17:18like you say, Jean Claud van dam or a Swarts and Anger people
- 17:21have. People have a very particular image in their own minds. Yes,
- 17:25Well is far more elastic in people's image. Yeah, yeah, you're right,
- 17:29You're right. I mean he did, he did. He was on
- 17:32Friends for a while. Like I hate, like I'm not saying that the
- 17:33Great Friends or anything, but like he was a reoccurring character on Friends.
- 17:37I mean, please, Jean Claud Vanda was on Friends too, was in
- 17:41one episode playing Bruce Well has dated Jennifer Anderson's characters. Oh my god,
- 17:48I forgot that. Yeah, no, he basically And I hate that I'm
- 17:52bringing up because I fucking hate Friends. But Ross is dating a woman in
- 17:56university, one of his students, I think, And it's really weird and
- 17:59gross when retrospect, but a lot of Ross's behavior is that anyway, Bruce
- 18:03Willis is the woman is the woman he's dating his father, and she starts
- 18:07dating Jennie. Wow, outrageous. Well, maybe we'll cover some Friends episodes.
- 18:17I hate Friends. Too. Yeah, I know. I just I'm
- 18:18drinking up to bring a point that it's like the other three. I can't
- 18:22think of a sitcom that they appeared on that wasn't themselves as themselves. And
- 18:27that's the joke, is that they're on a sitcom as themselves promoting whatever movie
- 18:30they're in. Yeah, well it's actually character. I mean, that's different,
- 18:36that's different level. That's different level. Well, thank you so much,
- 18:38dude, Thank you so much. I love anytime. Thank you go
- 18:45again, and let's not have you fucking walking it. Hello everyone, and
- 18:49welcome to Planet Bruce. My name is Malenko and I'm Alex. Nice to
- 18:55me, and today we're talking about Dead Becomes Her nineteen nine ones. Death
- 19:00Becomes Her directed by Robert samackis okay, so like we get the whole treasure
- 19:08roberts as Yeah, like Spielberg protege, Robert smackis the best of the Spielberg
- 19:14Protege's. Yeah. I talked to Dylan a bit about this, and so
- 19:19it was interesting. It's it's been interesting to like to have that conversation.
- 19:23Tee up this conversation. But um man, this movie is great and it's
- 19:32it's Dylan said, it's a cult classic when it should be just a regular
- 19:36classic. I agree, I agree with it. I agree with it too.
- 19:38Yeah, because, as I said, it is probably the best Tales
- 19:44from the Crypt Episode movie ever. So I did mention that in our discussion.
- 19:49I did credit you for getting the idea. And it really feels like
- 19:55a very high budget Tales from the Crypt Episode totally, and like that's actually
- 19:59like when when because I watched the first half and you hadn't said that,
- 20:03and then I watched the second half with that in mind, and it actually
- 20:08made the movie so much better for me. Yeah, totally because the first
- 20:12half of the movie. I know why, because the first half of the
- 20:15movie almost takes it a little too straight, and then all of a sudden,
- 20:22it becomes like so much more magical. Yeah, but it's very it's
- 20:29very Zamech is magical. It's very like nothing's explained normally, but everything makes
- 20:34total sense. Totally. Yeah. Yeah, is hot. Everyone's everyone's really
- 20:41hot in the movie. And like it's interesting. Also they're the main characters
- 20:47and they're the love story. But somehow because they're the main characters and they're
- 20:51the main love story, the Goldie Han and Meryl Streep are the main love
- 20:55story and the main characters, but somehow them being that makes Bruce willis secret
- 21:00third made character. Totally. Yeah, we're like he actually even has like
- 21:06this whole other. I mean, we'll get to it, but should we
- 21:08should we go through it? Like we think this movie it's the full treatment.
- 21:11I think go through it. I think this is because Zamka's movies are
- 21:15perfect for storytelling. He's such a storyteller totally. Alan Silvestri Um, Oh,
- 21:22I mean, of course music. Uh. We start out the movie
- 21:26in nineteen seventy eight where a Broadway dancer show person. People are just leaving
- 21:33the theater too. They hate they they hate her, like she's really like
- 21:37gone off and like isn't isn't like very good at Broadway anymore? But but
- 21:44it's such an amazing it wasn't an amazing professor had to be. It makes
- 21:48it so much funnier that that, well, it's funny because like it's like
- 21:52like what's the taste? Like who's you know what I mean? Like it
- 21:56kind of there's a level of outrageousness to like it makes it more magical.
- 22:00It makes it more magical because it is such an incredible show. His his
- 22:06Bruce willis Is reaction to the show is amazing. Bruce Welis being like remember
- 22:11how Nelson reacts and Simpsons when he likes sees like concert totally he's so happy
- 22:18about it. But like, right, Bruce Willis doesn't like fat people in
- 22:23a different way than than or because like I was like, naybe like when
- 22:30you said it the last time, I was like, I think I even
- 22:33said it on the podcast. I was like maybe I don't know, I
- 22:34don't know i'd have to say. And then it was just like it's happened
- 22:37too many times where you're just like this specific thing not even schwartzy. It's
- 22:42like, yeah, any fat suite stuff is always so dehumanized. It's very
- 22:47dehumanizing. I like there was a while where like, because I've listened to
- 22:52I follow some some like you know, like fat activists who are like talk
- 22:56about like a lot about like fat phobian movies and like how wearing a fat
- 23:00suit is fatphobic, and like I've I've had the instinct of like that some
- 23:07other people that I know have like heard that and like had the instinct of
- 23:11like a pushback. But I agree when you think about it, it's like
- 23:18yeah, like it's like you're doing something that is the regular body of another
- 23:23person and and is and making it ridiculous and disgusting, like yeah, showing
- 23:32it to be that and it's not. That's fine. But at the same
- 23:36time, I will say there's a there's I will push back on a couple
- 23:41of things because there I agree that that can happen. I do think that
- 23:48there are certain practicalities that go into that that don't quite ven diagram onto what
- 23:59are you saying practicalities they're going to what practicalities into in certain like moments of
- 24:03like oh, okay, well we need a person who's six hundred pounds,
- 24:07but we also need to be able to make this movie, like we need
- 24:11to get a star do that, you know what I mean? Or it's
- 24:14not like sure, you can say that it's to humanize in but then you
- 24:17get into the whole like a whole other discussion about like um, like what
- 24:22is drag versus? What is this? You know what I mean? Like
- 24:26do you enter into all these like weird territories you don't have to no,
- 24:30no, yeah, but I think there's just to comment on that quickly.
- 24:33I think there's a kind of like um level of representation thing of like what
- 24:38are you trying to say? It's more about what you're trying to say if
- 24:42you're like are you like having someone in a fat suit and then like celebrating
- 24:47that body or like or making it you know, it's you always usually saying
- 24:52something pejorative or doing something like it's like a bad part, you know,
- 24:56Like sure, I I don't doubt that. I'm just saying that. Like
- 24:59like even even in that, it's like, well, what do you mean
- 25:03about the bad part? Is it like oh, well there's a level of
- 25:07shame or what do you even mean by like no, no, there's a
- 25:10value? Just yeah, sure, yeah, yeah, you're you're right,
- 25:12Like I know what you're saying. Yeah, for sure. And like,
- 25:17don't get me wrong, like I'm not I'm not a person who wants to
- 25:18be like, oh fat people should feel bad. I'm just pointing out the
- 25:22fact that like in this specifically, there is one a purpose and two it's
- 25:27weird that it's post Yeah, it's weird that it is weird. It's very
- 25:33weird that it's Bruce Well and like yeah they show her as so so let's
- 25:40let's go through the plot. Yeah, so Bruce Willis's way too into the
- 25:44play, you know in a way that's like he wants to have sex with
- 25:48Meryl Street. Yeah, and then and we find out from Goldie Hans character
- 25:52and frumpy Goldie Han with the the kind of like bangs, Yeah, the
- 26:00aangs and but like she's also hot the whole She's so funny. It's they're
- 26:07they're they're both they're also funny. Like we were talked a lot about that
- 26:10them as comedic actors all just works so pitch perfectly. But I want to
- 26:17meet her backstage because she wants to put Bruce through the final test of like
- 26:22before they get married. He has to meet her because she has stolen almost
- 26:27every single one of her boyfriends. Do you know what's funny is that what's
- 26:32interesting about the dynamics between all of them, So they're all as much as
- 26:40they want us to believe that, oh these are like there's an innocence to
- 26:47Bruce Willis and and uh Goldie Hawn in this at the beginning, but they're
- 26:52all such bad people immediately because it's like it's like the weird art about Goldie
- 27:00Hawn is that like she's been so tortured by this person that she's driven only
- 27:06by like motivated by like getting revenge, getting revenge. And it's like she's
- 27:12lured this dumbass into into this situation. She actually brought him into the situation
- 27:18when you find out like to you know, meet her, Yeah, yeah,
- 27:22you're lured him and so like she brings him into like this whole dynamic.
- 27:26But I mean he does make his own choice, of course, of
- 27:30course. Great. And then the first condescending kiss on the cheek where she
- 27:37leaves the lipstick on her face and and like her hair looks what's her name,
- 27:45Meryl Streep's hair is amazing. I know you don't think I need you
- 27:48do, because he's a he's a we find out he's a plastic SURGEONRYL Streep
- 27:53MARYL. Streep plays this character of like wanting to like a kind of like
- 28:00former beauty so well so well yeah, because it's interesting, like how losing
- 28:07her kind of you can tell that she's you know, aging out of being
- 28:11like a superstar and people that's why presumably people are leaving her shows and stuff.
- 28:17It's all about like looks and preserving youth, yea, and like it's
- 28:22which is is really is really good and interesting. But they do a funny
- 28:26cut of like he's like, oh honey, I'll never leave you, and
- 28:30that he had the cut to the next scene and he's marrying and I love
- 28:36the jump cuts to like seven years later that we check into to like first
- 28:41seven years later and she's like a wreck and has like become fat, yeah,
- 28:47and gets cats and he's eating ice cream out of the bowl and with
- 28:52her hands and her finger has this is so made her again, made her
- 28:56disgusting, has like white cream all over her face and it's fat. Like
- 29:02what you can't tell me that that's not meant to humiliate fat people. Um,
- 29:07it is kind of but I think actually the cats make it way more
- 29:14disgusting to me. To me, it's like yeah, whatever, like this
- 29:17fat lady, but like because like she doesn't look like bad either, like
- 29:22you know what I mean. Like that's the thing is like there, I
- 29:25think they're saying that she looks bad, but I'm like, she looks hot
- 29:29like to me, Yeah, I was like yeah, exactly. I was
- 29:30like, I don't know, like she looks hot to me, Like I
- 29:33don't know, I get I get what the movie is saying, yeah,
- 29:36I get with the movie and it's definitely making the idea of fatness a bad
- 29:41thing. Having said that too, is that the movie is a lot about
- 29:45like judgment on looks and like what it takes. Yeah, oh exactly exactly,
- 29:52So that's true. But I love the fact that Michael Kaine was in
- 29:56this movie. I just do you? What do you? And what when
- 30:02in this in the scene where Michael streep in then they got they got him
- 30:07to do just do that. That's a fake movie. That's amazing. And
- 30:14her but her watching how did you guess? Yeah, how did you guess?
- 30:17But her watching on the TV, her dying screen, like Goldie Han
- 30:22living this fantasy of seeing her frenemy get murdered. Um, but this movie
- 30:29really made me think about the idea of frenemies are great, frenees are fun.
- 30:36The psychiatric scene was also like psychiatry is bad and this is how it
- 30:40is. It's like there was a real pushback in this time about like quacks
- 30:47and it's a real you know, like, oh, like someone's really bad
- 30:51if they're going to therapy. I mean, but not just that, like
- 30:55it's just like the therapist is terrible. She's like screaming at her, being
- 30:59like you're fucking fat and terrible. What the hell? Oh my god,
- 31:03It's like, what one dude that's not a therapist. She's into like an
- 31:07institution. Yeah, she's in an institution. But even that, it's like
- 31:10it seems but like doesn't seem well, I mean, but it's a cartoon,
- 31:15right, Yeah, of course, it's very very Tales from the Crypt.
- 31:17It's like, are you fat? Well. That's the thing is that
- 31:19they have to also get out so much information so quickly. It's like it's
- 31:25we're thirteen minutes into the movie, right, so it's like they and they
- 31:29do do they really really just like, Okay, we gotta get this because
- 31:33the greatest parts because then that like they do a lot of setting up on
- 31:37the like murder part, which it was an interesting choice to draw that out
- 31:44because when I remember this movie, I remember that part the most. Oh
- 31:48yeah, because the stairs, the it's the most they're the most impactful parts.
- 31:52The one thing that we didn't mention that actually kind of gets a little
- 31:56bit done dirty was the maid the or the like person that helps Meryl streep.
- 32:04She's like a maid. Oh and then she takes on the job first
- 32:07she's like her handler and then she's like becomes just her maid, yeah,
- 32:12which is like it's a funny transition. But like she she she also has
- 32:15like a weird when sexual tension with like, yeah, they have a mutual
- 32:22understanding. It's like a trauma bond that they both Well, anybody who's like
- 32:28together with a narcissist that closely does form that kind of a bond of like
- 32:31rolling their eyes at like, oh this fucking person. Yeah, and they
- 32:36like if they didn't have that person in their life, they would have nothing
- 32:38in common. But they Yeah, they're so intensely intertwined. Yeah, no,
- 32:44totally, And you kind of then realize after like maybe we don't have
- 32:47that much in common when the person is no longer no longer there dude.
- 32:52By the way, Bruce Willis also plays an alcoholic really well that like alcoholic
- 32:58kind of like shoveled old umair. I think this is real. Yeah yeah,
- 33:04yeah, well not in the beginning. It's in the beginning. Yeah,
- 33:08just a straight wig in the beginning. Yeah, there's a hard I
- 33:12don't know that there's much that is straight about this movie. No, but
- 33:15Dylan was saying it's funny. He was saying, it's a it's a gay
- 33:17movie four straight people, Yeah, which I think it's like such a good
- 33:22observation. I think you mean it's a Terry Gilliam people movie for Americans.
- 33:30Oh man. Also also England is just a gay America. That's true.
- 33:35Um yeah, oh man. Um. But yeah, now Bruce Willis is
- 33:45working as an undertaker, which is not how an undertaker works. But I
- 33:51found this interesting so like it was like a huge step down for him to
- 33:53not be uh plastic surgeon anymore. But why, he was an alcoholic and
- 33:59he was shaky. That's why he was shaky. That's why at the he's
- 34:02made his shakes worse. In the when he wakes up from like an alcohol
- 34:08days or whatever, he tries to whip the knife at the darting board and
- 34:14he keeps missing it because he can't do surgery. Good observation. I totally
- 34:19now that you're mentioning it. I remember the shakes and stuff, and I
- 34:22was like, I didn't make the connection. They did a really good job
- 34:23at at not spelling stuff out like that, and it's coolness. Yeah,
- 34:28um, but what's her name? It's gonna justice a little bit. Um,
- 34:34I'm already fucking loud as shit, but yeah, you're fine, it
- 34:36doesn't matter. Um. Yeah, So what end up happening is um Meryl
- 34:39Streep goes to her like not surgery. She's doing like a I think like
- 34:45a plasma something and she's like, um, we the like assistant or the
- 34:53nurse ladies, like we only do it every six months. It's almost been
- 34:57six months. It's been three weeks. Yeah her Yeah, and then her
- 35:04like panicking looking in the mirror is so funny. She's like, you can't
- 35:07handle it. Yeah, she did a really she's so amazing, did really
- 35:12chicken job. Yeah, she did such a chicken job. But she also
- 35:15did that thing that narcissists do, which is back but like flip on a
- 35:22dime to be your friend after screaming at you and if you're like in a
- 35:25job or like you a son or two brothers of a narcissist um that you're
- 35:34scared of and have no power against. Um. But yeah, she she
- 35:38like flips on a dime and then is so nice. And then all of
- 35:43a sudden, like the nurse lady moves out of the way at the head
- 35:45of the company or whatever's just sitting there Yeah, it's amazing that. Yeah,
- 35:51and he's like, oh, did you say you had money for things?
- 35:57That's basically what it is, dude, Oh you have clearly. But
- 36:02something that something that Dylan said that that I thought was really interesting about this
- 36:09movie is that it really only has four characters in it. Yeah, it
- 36:15has Isabella Rosselini, who is amazing, amazing and makes it the gayest part
- 36:22of this movie simultaneously the gayest part of this movie, and like, yeah,
- 36:27she's amazing, simultaneously the gayest part and the time when her and David
- 36:31Lynch were together and it's like, oh they were together. I mean,
- 36:36that's very Lynchi in Yeah. But but I think that having her in this
- 36:43movie was such an amazing choice. Yeah, she was perfect. She was
- 36:45like at the height of her career. But so her, Bruce Willis and
- 36:51Goldie han And and Miryll Streep are the crux of the movie and the rest.
- 36:55Then I made the observation that this movie could have been a play feels
- 37:00a little bit Oh yeah. I think that's on purpose because of the fact
- 37:05that she's in theater um and there there is like a very it's not it's
- 37:10not actor in the movie. Sense in this movie. For sure, it
- 37:15feels very playlike, but the POV is very like Looney Tunes, like even
- 37:21yea, even the beginning of the movie where they're like we know every card
- 37:25by like I mean, it just reminded me of that that that Looney Tunes
- 37:34commercial or the Looney Tuns were bugs. Bundy is one of the guys and
- 37:37he does the same act. So any times for us, we're we're looking
- 37:45for us, No, we have to go. We didn't it remind you
- 37:59of though? Oh yeah? But so yeah, the way the camera moves
- 38:02and this reminded me of how like it does it loudy tourn sometimes you know
- 38:07what it like pans, Yeah, totally, it would. It would pan,
- 38:10and also like things would happen in the background that we're like outrageous um
- 38:15and I really loved um. This is where Bruce, while he's coming to
- 38:21the show or to the opening, we get the reason, oh, the
- 38:25reason Meryl Street gets so panicked about her looks is because she receives an invitation
- 38:32to Goldie Hawn's new book, which is about being Forever young or whatever.
- 38:37Oh yeah, and then they see her and they think it's a We also
- 38:42find out through another character, um who Bruce Willis has worked on, and
- 38:49she's like, oh, how did you do that? You're you're a master.
- 38:52And he's like spray paint talking to this woman about her dead grandmother,
- 38:57and then like the camera moved to just him and it's and he's like describing
- 39:02a horrible process and it cuts back to her and she's like, Oh,
- 39:07don't tell me that. Yeah, I like that, like the trying the
- 39:09tooth with the spray paint here, because spray paint ends a play. It's
- 39:13like it's the plastic of this movie. Oh, definitely. Um. And
- 39:16then it like when they first see her and she they see like a woman
- 39:21who's like slightly frumpy looking. Yeah, and she's like, oh she's They're
- 39:24relieved a few pounds, They're relieved, and then they she that woman moves
- 39:29out of the way and she's like got a gorgeous silhouette. Yeah. And
- 39:31like like one of the obvious big things that Dylan and I talked about is
- 39:36how drag this movie. Yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely very like her
- 39:40red lipstick, the iconic red dress, her hair is perfect. Even even
- 39:45the even the regular people that are they're playing like the regular versions of themselves
- 39:55are still so heightened. It's camp. Yeah, it's very sharp. Yeah.
- 40:00Yeah. And as a result of the whole movie then like he has
- 40:04that Terry. That's kind of what gives it the Terry Gilliam feel is that
- 40:07there is an other worldliness that's a creative Yeah, that's a very built world
- 40:13and where people don't ask the questions of how things happen. The things just
- 40:19unfold the way they do in the world, and which I also love.
- 40:22We get the reactions that most match the character rather definitely, rather than pushing
- 40:28any story forward. Also, Bruce Willis's dead eye to acting where he's like,
- 40:31I've wasted my life. That was more Alec Baldwin, Um, i'ted
- 40:37my life. He's so outrageous in the movie. And the eyes did I
- 40:40tell you he's eye acting all eyes. It's all eyes, like he's not
- 40:45afraid to go like yeah, kind of monkey. I love it so much.
- 40:54He's so funny. He also like just when when he's when where he's
- 41:00yeah, when she's telling him, when she's telling you, he's got like
- 41:04a sunning smirk. No, but like like when she when she's like when
- 41:07Goldie Han pulls him aside to like make their relationship bad between each other,
- 41:13like feed him information that feed Meryl Streep information where um um where uh he
- 41:25She's like, look at you used to be an amazing surgeon. Now you're
- 41:30an she's turned you into an undertaker. And just like the feelings that he
- 41:35has about it, like I'm devastated face that he has. He was incredible.
- 41:40Yeah, he was amazing. You know. It's really interesting now because
- 41:45like we've seen Bruce sort of show up in a side role at this point
- 41:52a few times during this season so far, and one of the things that
- 41:58I'm noticing is that I think that's actually a huge strength of Bruce's. He
- 42:02showed up in this movie and he made it better without being the main character
- 42:07in such a good way that like it's almost like exciting. Yeah, totally,
- 42:14It's like what can he do because he has a lot more range in
- 42:17the he has a lot more movement in those those places. Um. After
- 42:22the the party, they go home and Meryl Streepe it like sneaks out to
- 42:30go see a lover and lovers t Yeah, yeah, exactly, He's taking
- 42:38another younger Lover's embarrassed. I'm embarrassed of you. You're old now, yeah,
- 42:45exactly exactly, but it's such a purple see us together, and they
- 42:47think it looks weird. Yeah, totally. It's it's such a eighties guy
- 42:52like it kind of seems like they like, well, they are signaling that
- 42:59everyone understand what I mean, you know what I mean. They make it
- 43:04seem like everyone thinks this, but it makes sense what you were saying in
- 43:07the world, like it helps with the world building of like, yes,
- 43:10in this world everyone does have to be beautiful and that's why it's like he
- 43:15talked about Hollywood excess. Like later on in the funerals, and we get
- 43:22little the little hint of um, like her Goldie Han trying to like make
- 43:30herself look like she's crying um. And Meryl Streep has found the card that
- 43:36the the guy at the plastica surgery place gave her for umbell I was able
- 43:44to say Isabelle hupir Um, Isabella Roussellini and um. It's funny because the
- 43:47guy's eye is twitching because he's also old and his body is fucked, so
- 43:53he has to like pretend he's one of those he's one of those guys because
- 43:57later on he appears again not so funny. Yeah, okay, okay,
- 44:00okay, um, but yeah, they've concocted a plan to kill her,
- 44:07take her car, kill Mellor Merrill Streep and they show all of this in
- 44:13like a like a Tales from the Crypti Imagination forward. There's no, it
- 44:17doesn't happen. They're thinking about it happen. Yeah, for sure, we
- 44:21put and they make it even goofier because of that, they're allowed to have
- 44:24the freedom to make it sillier looking in this fabios in this right? Was
- 44:30that him? I thought it was the one blond guy, but I didn't
- 44:35see him again, so I was like, no, I must have been
- 44:37one of the other dudes. Yeah. It was interesting all of the like
- 44:42weird little cameos in this movie of like they have like Jim Morrison, yeah,
- 44:45and Elvis and John Lennon I think, or it was like pretty conspiratorial.
- 44:52Yeah, but the like people they've played, like Elvis and like Jim
- 44:57Morrison, they were like so over the top yea dred percent yeah. Um.
- 45:00And then I like, I I wish movies did this. Movies don't
- 45:06do this now I've noticed because magic isn't real and technology has proven that,
- 45:12um where like she'll open a thing that has another thing that she'll open and
- 45:15there's like a potion in there to like make her young forever or stay youthful
- 45:22for us. I know, I know, you don't need to like I
- 45:27don't know. Yeah, and so much could be done practically too, I
- 45:29know, I know. And and like she was like, oh how much
- 45:34is it? And stuff like that. A lot of it's like money changing
- 45:37hands as well too, Like how much like there's a lot of value placed
- 45:42on on like who is rich and who is exactly exactly who's successful and successful
- 45:47matches the rich matches the good looks right, like it's all connected. I
- 45:52also really love when she's like, oh dude, think I am. I
- 45:55love I love her voice and I love her accent. It's funny because she's
- 46:00actually the age that she says now she's seventy three now and she's like seventy
- 46:04one, and I think she's a little yeah yeah yeah, but the like
- 46:08Meryl streeping like thirty eight twenty four one felt bad. Yeah, The like
- 46:15chest piece that she's wearing of diamonds, yeah, like bejeweled perfectly draped over
- 46:23her breasts. Yeah, it was like pretty pretty amazing. Yeah, and
- 46:30then like, yeah, them concocting this plan and um, Bruce willis like,
- 46:37yeah, Tales from the Crypting in a white suit and like put putting
- 46:42poison on the Yeah, the reason it's poison beach class. Yeah, so
- 46:46that the reason it's so Tales with the cryptis because the camera's constantly dollying into
- 46:52people. And that's so true the Tales with the Crypt dolly Yeah all.
- 47:00So what's really funny is just the the idea that like pouring a bun it's
- 47:06such kid logic. Pouring a bunch of alcohol bottles onto a person and the
- 47:12car, yeah implies something, but it really doesn't. And they put like
- 47:15seventy bottles in the bottom of the car. Yeah, and then they drive
- 47:20her off the cliff. But I also really like the idea they'll check her
- 47:23blood alcohol level and then there's like a Charret gym. Yeah, totally in
- 47:29the imagination. But the idea that like they kind of introduce, they did
- 47:34a really interesting thing plot wise to not have to explain a lot of like
- 47:39the magic part where it's like, oh, she's dead. They do it
- 47:45like forty five minutes in. She gets the power, and like she goes
- 47:47to be like an awesome chick and like leaves him and it's like, oh,
- 47:54you're and Bruce Willis says she's cheap and like that really like offends her,
- 48:00and she's like, well, yeah, so like that. That's also
- 48:05very interesting because like so much of everything is about affluence and the like word
- 48:09cheap kind of the word. She defends her on multiple levels, in the
- 48:15way that it offends Marty to be called a chicken in the second one third
- 48:19one the Red con Chicken mcf man, those guys, these guys are all
- 48:30gay, dude, I mean yeah, those guys are all bad people because
- 48:35they had terrible parents who didn't accept I think, I think the guy.
- 48:40I think the the guy who's putting the is non binary. I do,
- 48:47I do gives me non binary vibe. So yeah, Bruce Willis gets really
- 48:53really mad at Meryl Street for um basically calling him a flaccid undertake, and
- 49:00like, oh, the way she's taking away his manhood. The way she
- 49:05acted the part when she's when she's telling him, when she's humiliating him and
- 49:10insulting him, was like, man, have you have you done this before?
- 49:17Movie? It seemed like there was like a relishing in it, like
- 49:21I did a really good job. I was like, wow, dude,
- 49:23Like and I know she's a really good actor. I know that that it's
- 49:27her acting, but but she did such she's able to channel this kind of
- 49:31narcissist so well yeah, really really well. Um. But yeah, speaking
- 49:37of Bruce Willis eyes like just being a guy, I was like, like,
- 49:42be doing this kind of like chunky puffy face. Chunky puffy face for
- 49:49sure, and like but also with a sense of humility about it's for the
- 49:54movie, yeah or never never never doesn't you can tell, doesn't question.
- 50:00There's a working ethic to him. Definitely, He's it feels like he's doing
- 50:06what the director told him, and the director told him to put it up
- 50:10to eleven and it's it's like and it's okay, and he so can do
- 50:15it both seriously and for comedic effect. And both of them are locked in
- 50:21in this role. And that's why I'm really glad that for the Boner Show
- 50:24we're covering Frighteners finally. Oh man, Yeah, definitely, And the outrageousness
- 50:30of her tripping down the stairs and cartooniously flow and just the like heels are
- 50:39like attached to the stairs and she can we talk about this stairfall is like
- 50:46oh my god, and she's like sickening, hurry up, help me,
- 50:52you whimp and then he pokes her with the finger and she falls down the
- 50:57stairs. Like it's like it's cut too so many times. It's such a
- 51:04funny. I was like, I loved so much when I saw it,
- 51:09but then like all of the next stuff was so like just made my stomach
- 51:15turn. Yeah. The body, like just the mangled neck bones and like,
- 51:22yeah, it looks like four or five vertebrae, Like I don't know,
- 51:25your neck just shouldn't be doing that. Yeah, And like his reaction
- 51:29to it is so funny too, and the willingness to just be like,
- 51:32you know what, let's play this out. No, why to dolly in
- 51:37and watch that body just flop just like flops a lot. It's great and
- 51:43like walks backwards with her neck like head twisted on backwards and like so it's
- 51:49really upsetting um. And and it's very scary in the way that all of
- 51:54the scariest parts of Who Frame Broder Rabbit are scary, but just in an
- 51:59entire movie that's true. That's true. Then Okay, I will say there
- 52:04was there is something that stopped this movie from being Pantheon to me as a
- 52:08kid, and that was how sinister these parts were. It felt a little
- 52:15too scary for me. I obviously grew to appreciate it later, but like
- 52:21it feels like the like violence of him killing his wife is really scary.
- 52:30It's really it's really terrifying in a way that like someone close to someone else
- 52:35is murdering them, you know what I mean. Like it's like it was
- 52:37upsetting to see and I think I like physically reacted to it. But also
- 52:43like obviously it's like part of the like story, This movie feels very much
- 52:52a different kind of adult movie than the kinds of adult movies we used to
- 52:58watch. And this one feels like because it has uh some sort of like
- 53:04marital problem in it, it feels like more adult, do you know what
- 53:07I mean? There's a rooted in reality noess of like oh no, don't
- 53:15exactly exactly. And um, you know, I Dylan was talking about how
- 53:21he was watching this thing of it with the jinxpan Soon you know, the
- 53:23the drag star. Um. I had watched this as a kid obviously,
- 53:30and like, but was like it was like way too young to watch that
- 53:34movie. Like, yeah, in retrospect, and I see what they mean
- 53:37about that. I'm like, yeah, it's like really upsetting. Yeah,
- 53:43I mean it's it's like pretty um like those parts are really scary, especially
- 53:50if you don't have any like context context. Yeah, that's the thing.
- 53:55But yeah, but he calls He calls Goldie Hawn first to tell her I
- 54:00didn't I didn't. Don't you think it's gonna look suspicious when the police come.
- 54:05The first call you made was to me and not the police. Yeah,
- 54:07for sure. He's like, oh, I didn't think about that.
- 54:10Yeah, but also that felt very dumb believable. It felt very believable in
- 54:17details for the crypt kind of way one hundred percent. And then he takes
- 54:21him to the she she like gets back to life. Like they have like
- 54:25kind of an argument, and he has this like uh, like god moment
- 54:30where he's like, oh my god, this is actually amazing, like I
- 54:32should be with this person. It's like, no, this is even worse.
- 54:37Now. This person's gonna be alive forever. He's a real fucking simp
- 54:42in this movie. Yeah. The way he like he turns, he goes
- 54:45from like being kind of like just into these ladies and like for different reasons
- 54:52and then getting convinced for different reasons to like just like he's a total fucking
- 54:59simpl He becomes so much like and he becomes so erratic too, and throughout
- 55:06the movie, like where he like drives up it immediately just crashes into the
- 55:10ambulance and Sydney Pollock is in the movie, Oh okay, it's amazing job.
- 55:15What a like very low key performance but perfect, perfect, and it
- 55:22did it did really well, Like it was kind of like, I don't
- 55:25know what's going on. It was like such amazing whoa Like when he gets
- 55:30scared of the vertebrate, it's like he it's like he was like, you
- 55:35know, I have a doctor in mind that I want to paste this of
- 55:38him, like and he's like bending her arm and he's like that that doesn't
- 55:45hurt, or or yeah it does that hurt? Is it? This is
- 55:49it? And then it's like that doesn't hurt, this doesn't hurt. And
- 55:53your arms broken in three different places. Uh yeah, she doesn't have a
- 55:59pulse, she doesn't have a temperature, she doesn't have a heartbeat. So
- 56:04he lists off all these things and his kind of deadpan disbelief mixed with her
- 56:09sort of like dead eyed boredom, Like she's so magically over it already.
- 56:16Yeah, Like that's when this and Bruce Willis is so majestically incredible, majestically
- 56:22confused about it, but also kind of excited. Yeah, total horny.
- 56:27Yeah, totally, so like all of these things like kind of mixed together
- 56:32and bubble into this like weird brew of this movie feeling so funny and strange.
- 56:38Yeah. And then and then when he like he runs out for a
- 56:43moment and they've taken she she faints. He runs out for a moment to
- 56:47call the doctor, sees that the doctors in shock and has to be resuscitated
- 56:52as well, and then goes back to Meryl Streep to realize that she's been
- 56:58taken to We could take it to them, but did they show her like
- 57:00fall asleep or anything, or they show her like fainting. Oh, she
- 57:06gets taken to Morgan. He's like the Mark, She's gonna be so mad.
- 57:10I love I love like pathetic Jerry from from Rick and Marty. Bruce
- 57:16Willis, Oh yeah, yeah, just totally fucking loser year old man.
- 57:23It's a loser totally. This is still a wig though for Bruce Willis because
- 57:28he doesn't have the balding back. The front is definitely his hair though I
- 57:31love the balding front and she mentions his balding when she calls him limp Yeah,
- 57:37totally uh. And then Goldie Hawn sees them come home and she's like,
- 57:42what the hell is this and she tries to sneak in and then she
- 57:45jumps off the fence after she sees the like dead body come in. And
- 57:50then man, the scene where Bruce Willis is like funny your whole Yeah,
- 57:55totally. But what was crazy about this scene is that like when he drives
- 58:00up takes the body out and then she sneaks in, she falls on the
- 58:05ground and then he drives around and almost almoshes her head with the cars.
- 58:10Us. This is the stunt, Like I thought had the same thought.
- 58:14I was like, did they do it? Looked really good? It looked
- 58:17too good. Like I was like, I was thinking, is this a
- 58:22stunt too? Yeah, it is a stunt. It is a stunt.
- 58:25It must be. It was real because yeah, because one shot, it's
- 58:29one shot. It doesn't it's not like they switched out a body. It
- 58:31looked really good. But there are a lot of visual effects in this movie,
- 58:37and they're very good. Like the neck twisting stuff was uncanny and weird
- 58:43looking enough that like it turned my stomach, but I was also like,
- 58:46it's too stupid looking and you could tell they agonized over the look of the
- 58:51next agonized so much. This was like that was probably the biggest What would
- 58:55take like maybe three days, you know, from a person to for one
- 59:01person to do this would probably take have taken like a railer. Do you
- 59:07know what the how they filmed this and what was behind it and stuff,
- 59:10Um what I'm I don't know. Actually I wouldn't even think I saw that.
- 59:15There's like they did like I remember some making of featurettes that had like
- 59:20a plastic scene element to the neck. Oh yeah, for sure, Meryl
- 59:23Streep's wearing a thing. But then also they put stuff over I don't know,
- 59:28something like that. But it looked amazing and looks really good. The
- 59:30like falling it was just like all of the like kind of crunchy bones was
- 59:37so upsetting, Like like I just I get so squigged out. Bye bye
- 59:40bye neck shit and bone shit shit, tongue, bone in general bones,
- 59:49it's because it's too much of like it's the reminder of the insides. So
- 59:53like when I broke my arm broke last year, I was I was like,
- 59:59man, I'm so roast out that I broke my arm. It was
- 1:00:00gross. Three. It makes you it makes you feel like, uh,
- 1:00:05like reality in a different way because in internal stuff you can't see, so
- 1:00:09it's like you can be like, oh, is that a cancer? Like
- 1:00:14with like other things like scars, you sort of like, well that's there
- 1:00:16forever. But whatever, cars, guards, tattoos, tattoos, bald guards,
- 1:00:22Oh, new Succession? Are you gonna watch it this time in order
- 1:00:25with as it's coming or not? Maybe? Not? Why only the first
- 1:00:30episode is out? Only the first episode? The first episode is out?
- 1:00:34Yeah? Probably not. I'm gonna wait why because I want to enjoy it
- 1:00:37all okay? Yeah, um, but you watched it so slowly. I
- 1:00:43figured this would be a good thing. That's true. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:00:46And I don't have anything else to watch, so so you could do it.
- 1:00:50I could do it. And also I can talk to you guys about
- 1:00:52it rather than being told we were we talked about maybe doing the fourth season,
- 1:00:59but already, like people are so on succession that literally minutes after it
- 1:01:02came out, there was like explainer video, so many speaking of explainer videos,
- 1:01:07Um, Bruce Willis is explaining how to spray paint a body, and
- 1:01:13then um, what he went to go get was his supplies for the body
- 1:01:20making, which is great, and they definitely got a body double because the
- 1:01:22Barrel Streets body does not look like but oh my god, there was a
- 1:01:27lot of like butt shots and like I like that this movie was like into
- 1:01:30juicy butts because like juicy butts were not a big thing in this time.
- 1:01:36Yeah, for sure. And I love the fact that Bruce Willis is like
- 1:01:40gosh, hell, you know, like totally became like exactly what they thought
- 1:01:47of him. Yeah, yeah, which is kind of amazing. Like they're
- 1:01:52like, it's totally the plot is totally driven by them, and like he's
- 1:01:57just the fucking loser. Yeah, totally percent. They and they're best friends
- 1:02:01and then maybe even like that's that's the romance. So that's the trouble.
- 1:02:07It's it is very threes company. This is where uh um, Meryl Streep
- 1:02:16finds out what the plan was originally and she reverses, she does reversals,
- 1:02:22She goes and steals a shotgun, which it makes this more looty to oh
- 1:02:29man, dude when she shuns, Yeah, and like, which is like
- 1:02:36her it's viciousness of this. It's like, whoa, dude, it's violently
- 1:02:40Yeah. And it's like movies would not get made like the said scale on
- 1:02:45this scale anymore at all, like a high budget horror comedy. Well,
- 1:02:51that's why this movie should be more pantheon than it is. Yeah, like
- 1:02:54it should. This is a red heat, even though I knew it was
- 1:02:58good. Yeah, for sure, it should be a red heat to everyone.
- 1:03:02Man, when she comes back with the shotgun and she's like, oh,
- 1:03:06you're gonna tell the police and she like threatens him. Um, he
- 1:03:10did a really good job at being kind of tales from the Crypt moral core,
- 1:03:19because all tales from the Crypt episode are are really shitty people, total
- 1:03:23of them totally, but they're there. There's always a moral story. They're
- 1:03:28always taught a lesson, and I feel like they're all taught a lesson in
- 1:03:31this movie. Yeah. And dude, that whole in her stomach looks amazing.
- 1:03:35It looks amazing. I'm sucking just the like her eyes, like her
- 1:03:43demon demon eyes, was great. Yeah, and like just her running makeup
- 1:03:47and this like gaping hole in her stomach and all of the whole effects were
- 1:03:52like perfect, Yeah for sure were like you can tell also that they agonized
- 1:03:57like Meryl Street putting your face behind the hole and appearing in I'm sure that
- 1:04:02that took a lot of like a lot of special effects. And when she
- 1:04:08hits the head with the and it like falls over and then like you've got
- 1:04:14the crush you neck bone, man kind of just goofing around other to the
- 1:04:17skid and then she like puts her head back on. But then Goldie Hans
- 1:04:23smashes her head into the hole of the body, into her rib cage.
- 1:04:29Her head like it falls in like a ninja turtle. It's so gross.
- 1:04:31It's so gross, and but I loved also the little turtle, just the
- 1:04:35ninja. Yeah let's say hey baby, sure yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 1:04:54yes, yes, yeah that anything works. Maybe I you want to go,
- 1:05:00well, it's okay, I can go anytime, all right, yeah,
- 1:05:08let her text me okay, and you sent her the money or you're
- 1:05:13sending out when or you're giving me the money or And also I really like
- 1:05:18the little flourishes of like putting in cartoon shadows to fight with the shovels.
- 1:05:27Because they start a shovel fight, Bruce Willis runs away. Bruce Willis just
- 1:05:30runs away and like they sort of start making up in this scene, which
- 1:05:36I thought was great, Um where this is where the turn happens at the
- 1:05:40time Jerry become friends. Yeah, and and and it is Tom Jerry coming
- 1:05:45friends. Um and and the the like sadness to which both of them portray
- 1:05:51these scenes. Goldie Hawn does it a lot in the beginning. She she
- 1:05:56has a lot more sympathy at the beginning, but Meryl Street being like and
- 1:06:01you thought it was cheap, like this like thing that she has with like
- 1:06:06feeling like she's not worth it even though even though she has basically everything.
- 1:06:14Um. And they become friends and come up and they're like, yeah,
- 1:06:17I mean we're friends. Now we can be a throuttle Well, they're like
- 1:06:23they just decide that he's going to maintain their appearances for the rest of eternity.
- 1:06:29But then they realize that he can't do it forever because he's not gonna
- 1:06:32live forever. So they did concoct a plan to kill him or get him
- 1:06:38to almost die so that he will take it. Yeah, they wanted to
- 1:06:42take the potions so that he can look forward at his drink. I love
- 1:06:45this, Sorry, go ahead, I love this. Yeah. I think
- 1:06:49when when you started pointing out what kinds of things all that which you're just
- 1:06:56stupid, Like they're so stupid, like him telling the telling them with the
- 1:07:02drink and the drink flopping around. Well, so they know they want to
- 1:07:06poison him so that they can bring him to Isabella Rosalini. Yeah, so
- 1:07:11that's the first poisoning. Yeah, and they want to put him in a
- 1:07:15position where he has to take the potion exactly. So yeah, but he
- 1:07:19doesn't get poisoned and they like bunk him on the head with vases. Yeah,
- 1:07:25exactly. It is Fabio. It is straight up Fabio Juno Junia,
- 1:07:31totally totally um and then it's Fabio. It is Fabio. Yeah, it
- 1:07:38is Fabio. He had quite the career showing up in random random things.
- 1:07:43Yeah for sure. Uh And you know, hey, I really liked the
- 1:07:49moral core element in because this is where he makes it work. Yeah,
- 1:07:55where he puts his foot down and he's like, I'm not gonna like stand
- 1:07:58for this anymore. But also so that she's Isabella Rossellini's character does like an
- 1:08:04interesting turn here too, because she almost is punishing people for the curse that
- 1:08:11she has, because she starts flipping out when he's like, I'm not going
- 1:08:15to take this. Yeah, she starts like it's like almost it's very cult
- 1:08:19like the like thing that there's recruiting people. Yeah, exactly, So it's
- 1:08:25like if somebody's not doing it, it's messing with her reality. Well,
- 1:08:30it's it's kind of like a tails from the crypt Um set up to begin
- 1:08:34with, because like this where it's like from his perspective on the scene where
- 1:08:40she's about to and then she she's just like he's about to drink it and
- 1:08:44she's just like what and like so mad. It's so dragged, Like that
- 1:08:48outfit is amazing, um, but I was gonna say, like he sorry,
- 1:08:55also is okay lonely, I'm gonna hang out with Magdalene and Helen,
- 1:09:00so don't but that's out with you. It's such a realistic totally I would
- 1:09:09think about who am I going to hang out with? Um? But like
- 1:09:13it's almost as if like having the hubrists to seek out Isabella Rosselini in the
- 1:09:16first place, kind of makes you punishable. Yeah, you know what I
- 1:09:20mean. Like it's like it's like the vanity and the idea that you have
- 1:09:25to be forever young is the punishable offense. Yeah for sure. So like
- 1:09:29that's why she flips out, because she's there to dole out the punishment.
- 1:09:31Yeah. And then and then when she's classic became yeah totally um. And
- 1:09:38then when she turns to the the servids, Tom Dick, Harry oh Man,
- 1:09:45I kind of chess um. And then when when he gets to the
- 1:09:54like uh sware the party um that everyone is at all the like cult members.
- 1:10:01Yeah, they are eating adrenochrome. Um. And the guy who's the
- 1:10:06plastic surgeon guy is at their introducing the party. Um. And then uh,
- 1:10:13Magdalen and Helen see him and they chase him down. Uh and he
- 1:10:17like is like running away. And the two dogs, the scary dogs that
- 1:10:23she has that would be terrifying Rottweilers is really sweet. They probably are,
- 1:10:29but they're so scary. They're scary looking, yes, yeah, but they're
- 1:10:31also portrayed as scary looking. I think they're very cute. Yeah, I
- 1:10:36loved I saw one the high Park the other day. Uh. And he
- 1:10:41Bruce Willis climbs up to the top of the crypt keeper's home. Uh.
- 1:10:45And the background is just like full on like green scoring, old style green
- 1:10:51screen. I loved it. It was great. Yeah. And then on
- 1:10:56the other side of the castle or whatever, just his exit north just on
- 1:11:00a sign and he tries to like climb down and Helen and Magdalen gets stuck
- 1:11:08on like a stick. Oh yeah, he gets stuck on a pipe that
- 1:11:11breaks off and his suspenders are suspending him. Uh. And I love that
- 1:11:17he's into suspension too. Of course. I love the fact that he's like
- 1:11:24trying to save himself. They're trying to save him for a totally different reason.
- 1:11:29And there he's like, oh yeah, She's like, yeah, drink
- 1:11:31it, come on, just like you live forever, um. And they
- 1:11:35keep trying to get him to drink it, and he so happily just like
- 1:11:44lets himself go and he pours it out though too. Yeah. I was
- 1:11:47gonna say, we didn't say how the potion's made, like you Isabella was
- 1:11:50lining cuts his dagger. Yeah, and then you like leak blood into the
- 1:11:56potion and then you drink that potion, which is how oh um. Apparently
- 1:12:01Jeremy Lank was acne was cured. One of the ways. Um, a
- 1:12:06guy from Montenegro made a potion with some of his own like pus from his
- 1:12:13like um acne, and he had him applied this like um ointment that was
- 1:12:19made with his own, like with part of his own like what's it called
- 1:12:25pus puss, and then he put it on and it never came back apparently.
- 1:12:30I mean we both know that's not magical. Magical magical lord j Yeah,
- 1:12:34totally. My grandfather, my namesake, the person I was named after.
- 1:12:40So Bruce Willis falls through glass and falls into a pool and meets Jim
- 1:12:46Morrison and runs away, uh and survives, just survives. Um, And
- 1:12:55Isabella Russellini is like better, you better get him back, because it's they're
- 1:13:00not supposed to reveal that adrenochrome actually solves problems. Um, what is adreno
- 1:13:05chrome? Adrina chrome is a fake. It's a real drug that you keep
- 1:13:14mentioning it is. I'm guessing it's a conspiracy thing. Oh oh you always
- 1:13:17I thought you meant I thought you knew the conspiracy. Oh it's like the
- 1:13:19QAnon conspiracy. That's that they think that people are drinking adrenochrome. But adrin
- 1:13:25chrome is a real thing that Hunter S. Thompson mentioned in in Um Fear
- 1:13:30and Loving in Laws of Vegans really and it's but it's not a it's a
- 1:13:33drug, but it's not a hallucinogen. In the movie it's a hallucinogen.
- 1:13:36Oh interest, Um, I think speak yeah, Terry Gilliam, Yeah,
- 1:13:42of course, transport victim to it makes sense. He's British. Um.
- 1:13:48But yeah, then you see the like disgusting peeling body parts of um,
- 1:13:56what's her name, Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn. I love that. Well,
- 1:14:00like they're not disgusting yet, they're just like pieces and they're like starting
- 1:14:09to like moldy underneath. You know, it's not mold it looks like metal
- 1:14:12underneath or something. Yeah, well it's like green right. Oh I don't
- 1:14:16know, Yeah maybe now I don't remember, but yeah, I guess they're
- 1:14:20it's like greenish gray thirty seven years thirty seven years later. I loved the
- 1:14:25final one being such an awkward number so great, well because it's like up
- 1:14:30until the end of Bruce Willis's life, because he survived and had a whole
- 1:14:33other life. Yeah, so he's supposed to be fifty in this movie and
- 1:14:39then he lives for another thirty seven years and you know, a good run.
- 1:14:45I think that he survived that fall because he had the strength because Isabel
- 1:14:48Ross Lady put a little bit of the magic in his well. They keep
- 1:14:51implying yet too throughout the movie, where it's like, but he's magical.
- 1:14:57He is old, though at the end of his hand get a little less
- 1:15:00old looking when they do the the less hand spots. That was the only
- 1:15:06visual that like felt a little bit like, I don't know what I'm looking
- 1:15:11at. Yeah, you know, sometimes I was like, is this just
- 1:15:15look better? I don't know, Like yeah, totally, it's like but
- 1:15:18yeah, by by this point, they just look like they've had They look
- 1:15:25like Mickey Roart suddenly Mackey. Their faces are like, um, like they're
- 1:15:30like painted and like they're they kind of look like I don't know if you've
- 1:15:32ever watched UM Deep Space nine and Star Trek d Space nine. But sometimes
- 1:15:38when Odo he's a changeling, he can't go into his liquid form, he
- 1:15:42starts peeling like this. Yeah. Yeah, so that's kind of what it
- 1:15:45reminded me of. Yeah, when when and and like, oh I can't
- 1:15:47find the spray paint. It's like how do you lose spray? That was
- 1:15:53such a like good payoff for like when they like trip over the stray pad
- 1:15:58and fall and then into doll bits. Yeah, they fall and break into
- 1:16:02doll bits as Roger parked the car. That was really funny. Yeah,
- 1:16:08it was really funny. And it it like the fact that this movie makes
- 1:16:14its own world makes it so good. Yeah, and it makes sense,
- 1:16:19it makes sense within itself. Yeah that's great. Yeah. Yeah. I
- 1:16:24mean and having the off screen like death of Bruce willis thirty. Yeah,
- 1:16:30it's kind of amazing and like actually feel like it adds to his character so
- 1:16:33much that this would be the like deciding factor in him like changing his life
- 1:16:40completely. Yeah. But like also the fact that they could never let go
- 1:16:44of him and they came to his funeral was really interesting. Yeah, and
- 1:16:48they kind of scoffing at like all the nice things that they're saying about him
- 1:16:53and talked about his scary times in Hollywood regale people with stories of never lasting
- 1:16:59like yeah, yeah, totally totally um. In terms of the rating that
- 1:17:05I would give this movie, I would definitely give it a nine out of
- 1:17:08ten. Definitely a red heat. Definitely a nine out of ten for all
- 1:17:15the reasons that we've talked about, for all the reasons that we talked about
- 1:17:19so far. In terms of Bruce's I would also give it a nine.
- 1:17:23It's such a it's such a good bold Zany performance that nobody would None of
- 1:17:32the other guys would do a movie like this, None of the other guys.
- 1:17:36Maybe maybe Stallone Oscar tries to do something like this, but he could
- 1:17:44just never get he would never be able to get the balance of darkness right.
- 1:17:47And also, a role like this requires too much humility. He doesn't
- 1:17:54have it. No, he's not. He's not. He doesn't do what
- 1:17:58He's not willing to be humiliated. No, And he's not willing to look
- 1:18:01stupid. He's only willing to look stupid on his own terms. He's not
- 1:18:06willing to look stupid on to service other characters. Yeah, the filmmaking is
- 1:18:13amazing. I wish Roberts Mack has made more movies like this. Um And
- 1:18:17I know he's like a frontier guy, like I'm pushing the effects and stuff
- 1:18:23like that. But like the newer movies don't really create a lot of worlds
- 1:18:33on their own. They're all like a lot of them are very realist now,
- 1:18:39um, but like with like whacky, this is what reality could be.
- 1:18:44Like that weird Man on the Wire movie that that he didn't watch that
- 1:18:47it was terrible. Um, this was like cool visually, but like you
- 1:18:51know, even the like Dead Eyed, like uh, like performance capture movies
- 1:18:58which are cool as like technical things, but like you know which ones were
- 1:19:04those like Polar Express and Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey and um what's it called
- 1:19:14that? There was that other movie, but you know there's some like I
- 1:19:19liked Castaway Robert Szemeckis director, key, Yeah, oh wow, I liked
- 1:19:25Castaway. I like Forrest Gump. Right. I always forget that he directed
- 1:19:30those movies because I always associate him, obviously with with like Tales from the
- 1:19:32Christ Roger Rabbit or Back to the Future or like, but those are all
- 1:19:38like technical marvels. Like all those movies are technical mass like the thing is,
- 1:19:43like I think that he, Robert Semeckis, works really well with this
- 1:19:46kind of visual storytelling, and I don't think he survives the visual change up
- 1:19:54of the like decades past, you know, maybe because he did also that
- 1:19:58that plane movie with dens l Uh where Denzelza like the alcoholic who likely lands
- 1:20:04the plane. But it's almost like for being an alcoholic or whatever or not
- 1:20:10persecuted, but like he was drinking on the job right and then, but
- 1:20:13still managed to save those people, but not the real one. I don't
- 1:20:18think that's based on the real story. That's just like a casually is the
- 1:20:23real guy and he wasn't an alcoholic, or maybe it wasn't real. I
- 1:20:26don't know anyway, What about you, what do you think? I mean,
- 1:20:29I agree, I agree with everything you said, and I do think
- 1:20:32we should rate it out of hans and oh yeah, I mean, but
- 1:20:36they did like an amazing I mean, she was on a real streep here.
- 1:20:41She did such a good job. Do you think did the best better
- 1:20:45job? I think Meryl spry job. I think Goldie Han played a good
- 1:20:51Goldie Han was perfectly cast. But Goldie Han could not do what Meryl streep.
- 1:20:57That's true, but she had less to do. She had a harder
- 1:21:00she had a harder job. I think. So that's why I would put
- 1:21:05them only slightly less. Only slightly less, yeah, because like point five,
- 1:21:11because she she if I'm giving it nine strips, I'm giving it eight
- 1:21:15point five Hans, I'm gonna ten straps. Yeah, nine point five Hans.
- 1:21:21Maybe you're right, Maybe maybe that's true. Yeah, I don't know.
- 1:21:24Like what is Meryl Streep veteran? She's good in everything. I mean,
- 1:21:30we did a we did a really good job. I have doubt,
- 1:21:32um, father, I have so much doubt. Oh man, that movie
- 1:21:38that being the payoff the name of the movie is so trying to do the
- 1:21:45most insane way. Also, that movie tricks you into thinking it's a good
- 1:21:49movie and it's not a good Philip Good in that movie him, he's so
- 1:21:57good at everything, but also like having him be try that hard though he's
- 1:22:03such a he's so good, he's he was Philip, he was amazing.
- 1:22:11I mean it every movie. Yeah, I mean really he was. Like
- 1:22:15he's one of those Yeah, he's one of those guys who's like understated performances
- 1:22:20are always the best where you're just like, whoa dude, Like what why
- 1:22:25are you kind of acting? Like tom Noon in here? Well, I
- 1:22:29mean all all of those all character actors pulled from the same sort of like
- 1:22:34Jack, so same sort of nervous energy. Speaking of Tom du every time
- 1:22:40they said as name Jack, I kept thinking Jack, Yeah, totally.
- 1:22:44Um, all right, see you next week, because yeah, see you
- 1:22:46guys next week. Dude, can I ask you something? Yeah, what's
- 1:22:49up? How do you feel about Bruce? I mean he's great. How
- 1:22:54do you feel about where we are in this season? I mean this is
- 1:22:58all where I think we're finally getting into some of the more interesting choices he's
- 1:23:04going to be doing, because you know, die Hard is die Hard.
- 1:23:11It's a lot like it's a lot like Terminator and Terminator two. Whereas like
- 1:23:20when you get into like Commando or like you know, Red Heat or where
- 1:23:28it's like something slightly different than what he can do, it's a little bit
- 1:23:32more fun for me, you know. Yeah, yeah, well like yeah,
- 1:23:36especially also I think for us maybe for us at this point in the
- 1:23:42series, thirsty for more. It's a relief to get to talk about these
- 1:23:47kinds of movies and to like have it be like next week is in just
- 1:23:50like another of Ange Angelo, you know what I mean. Like I'm glad
- 1:23:55we're never really gonna get too much of like Director Video and type Man.
- 1:24:02Yeah, it's hard because we'll do some of it, but like I don't
- 1:24:05want to Sully, what we have going you know what I mean, Like,
- 1:24:10I think Bruce needs to end with a bang. Yeah for sure,
- 1:24:14a couple of geezers, but we won't dwell. Yeah for sure, We're
- 1:24:17not going to dwell with geezers. Al right, next next week, all right,