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  I got to be honest with you, I had not watched this movie since
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  I was in high school. Maybe that may factor into
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  things. Yes, and I'm going to have
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  another confession, and that is that while I am guilty of
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  occasionally enjoying quoting movies as a form of humor,
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  particularly The Princess Bride, I'm quite annoyed by people
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  quoting Austin Powers. I mean, I don't feel like I hear
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  it quoted that often around me, but it is.
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  I do recall it being quoted more often in the past and watching
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  it to get those cues just doesn't live up to what they
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  become now. Like I don't even think I know
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  exactly where the doctor says how about no?
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  Is that even in this movie? Or is that?
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  I think that might be the next movie.
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  OK. Maybe, I don't know, all of it
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  blends together in my head. Oh boy, it's it's one of those
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  things where as I think about it, I'm like, man, I loved this
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  movie and I kept hearing quotes and you are right, culturally it
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  has kind of fallen off. But I'm going to say in the last
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  month, it might have just been two weeks ago.
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  I might like time doesn't mean anything anymore.
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  So it's hard for me to keep track of it, but very recently I
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  heard someone quote the entire who is number 2 working for or
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  who does #2 work for? Like they said it all three or
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  four times that the movie says it in the same grunting way.
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  And they were just walking around talking to a friend and
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  they were referencing Austin Powers as a joke.
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  And I was like, Oh my gosh, that was the worst scene in the whole
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  movie, and you still quote it. Yeah, I think that could safely
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  be the worst scene. All right, let's let's start
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  this thing. Do you want to start us off this
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  time? No, I'm good.
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  I don't. I don't have the pep for the for
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  trying to remember what's going on.
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  Hello and welcome to Potato Chip Pictures, the movie franchise
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  review podcast. Currently looking at the Austin
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  Powers franchise, starting with Austin Powers International Man
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  of Mystery. But before all of that, my name
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  is B Sammy Davis. I am Justin, welcome back.
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  And today we are jumping all the way back to 1997 when director
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  Jay Roach and writer slash actor Mike Myers released an $18
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  million movie, an $18 million comedy movie that was kind of a
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  send off to the the spy films of the 60s.
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  And they just returned a meager, a tiny, a measly $68 million,
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  it's amazing, $18 million. Are there no other movies?
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  What else was in 1999? It's like, did the matrix come
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  out like? Well, Matrix was 98 or 99, so
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  this was right before The Matrix, but I think it was like
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  a year or two after Goldeneye. So Tomorrow Never Dies, Pierce
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  Brosnan's second movie, came out in 1997, and Austin Powers is
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  obviously kind of a send up to James Bond.
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  So maybe the fact that Goldeneye happened in 95, that may have
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  inspired Mike Myers and the production company to be like,
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  you know what the time is, right?
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  Let's do this thing, I guess. And at the time, it was huge.
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  I don't know why. I mean, maybe all the high
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  schoolers just really enjoyed going to the movies.
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  I mean, it is peak Gen. X humor.
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  There are so many long gags, so many things like the, the well,
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  there's several vehicle related sequences that seem to just go
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  on over and over or, you know, go on forever and then come to
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  an end for no reason or with no real resolution.
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  And that was peak late 90s humor for the 20s to 30s of that time.
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  And you know, because my older brothers were super into it.
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  I, you know, I in 97, I was probably late grade school,
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  early junior high. I would have just idolized their
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  sense of humor and so I would have tried to watch it every
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  chance I got. I mean it.
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  It belongs at some point in history, just like James Bond
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  belongs. I don't know that I would ever
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  see this getting a reboot with Pierce Brosnan.
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  Yeah, that is one of the kind of crazy things to think about.
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  Every once in a while we are threatened with an Austin Powers
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  four and then nothing ever comes of it.
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  But I do sometimes think about that.
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  Would Mike Myers have the audacity to be like I'm going to
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  be? I'm going to do it. 60 year old
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  Austin Powers and let's. Do it.
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  No, let's not, unless these next two movies reinvigorate and make
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  it funnier. I mean, we'll have to see.
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  I have not watched Beyond International Man of Mystery and
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  you know I I have in front of me all of the budgets and returns
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  for the franchise and this is the one with the lowest budget
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  and by far by hundreds of millions of dollars, the lowest
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  return. Whoa.
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  Yeah, like this one is shocking. When you look at the rest of the
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  franchise, you're like, how? How did this become such a
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  cultural phenomenon? How did this become so important
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  that not only did it get 2 sequels, but both of those
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  sequels returned hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  And that's bizarre. I'm trying to think of maybe the
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  draw of Mike Myers, but I don't, I don't know, in the 80s, early
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  90s what sort of stuff he was involved in.
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  There was that that other Saturday Night Live produced.
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  I say Saturday Night Live produced.
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  I just can't remember the name of that producer who also did a
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  bunch of those actors movies. Wayne's World.
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  He had Wayne's World one. And two.
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  Those were mega hits, but beyond that, I think all of his other
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  movies were middling at best. My favorite is So I Married an
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  Axe Murderer. I think that movie is brilliant.
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  I think it's. I can see those other movies
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  like, or at least Wayne's World as having a a reason for people
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  to know that, oh, this guy will be fun.
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  Let's go watch this guy in his movie because.
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  And did Austin Powers exist outside of this sort of media,
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  or was it AI? Don't think so.
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  I I think this was a brand new character.
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  Same with Doctor Evil they were brand new for this movie.
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  If he did anything like Austin Powers, it would have been like
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  a dumb background sketch thing. But I I'm pretty sure both
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  characters existed for this movie.
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  Like they were written and created.
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  Yeah, for this. It's like you got, so I had
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  married an X rater in 93 and Wayne's World two in 93 and then
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  the next thing he did was Austin Powers in terms of movies, so.
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  You take a little bit of time off in terms of.
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  Movies. I can see it.
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  I can see it. What do you call it?
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  Hyping up from that where some people really enjoyed Wayne's
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  World too or something like that.
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  Yeah, like you saw him in Wayne's World too.
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  Now watch him twice in Austin Powers International Man of
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  Mystery and. We're not quite to the intro
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  yet, but I just. I don't know why we try and hide
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  the fact that he's Doctor Evil as well at the first scene I.
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  I think that and yes, we will get to it.
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  So I don't want to say, but I do want to say that to this movie's
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  credit, there are times when I genuinely forget that the same
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  actor is playing both Austin Powers and Doctor Evil.
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  True. Yes, same.
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  So to Mike Myers credit, he has really done a great job of
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  creating 2 very different characters and as an audience
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  member I sometimes forget. So I'm into that.
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  It works out. Mike or what's his name, Austin
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  Powers is just so grown worthy. I think could be the right way
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  to say yes, that's supposed to be how he is because he's from
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  the 60s in the 90s. And I, I was trying to think of
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  a good way to compare it with James Bond because he's like the
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  transition happened from Sean Connery era to Timothy Dalton.
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  Even. I feel like there's that pre era
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  and then more modern. So I don't think there's a
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  reason. I don't know, maybe they wanted
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  to mostly send up the 60s bonds, 70s Bonds.
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  Well, and for me, I think that there are three very well.
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  There's more than three. There are 4 very clear
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  references in this. Well, and then I say very clear
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  to me, there are four things that I can look to in culture
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  and say maybe that is what inspired it.
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  The first one is going to be You Only Live Twice.
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  That's the Japanese James Bond where we finally got to see
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  Blofeld's face and he had the big scar on his face.
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  He was in the Gray suit and you know he hid his face for the
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  whole movie had the cat. That is what Doctor Evil is
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  based on. I also think much of the plot
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  and style is based on You Only Live Twice because remember that
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  is the one where world famous secret agent James Bond died and
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  his face was in all the papers. Well, Austin Powers is world
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  famous, so. Not a good secret spy.
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  Yeah, so the that's my first thing that I point to.
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  You Only Live Twice gives us Doctor Evil and it gives us
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  Austin Powers fame. Then the third thing I would
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  point to, well, I guess the first thing is You only Live
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  twice. But the second thing I would
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  point to would actually be Michael Caine from the 60s.
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  He had terrible teeth, really dorky glasses.
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  He looked like a nerd, and yet he is so sexy, like he's from
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  the 60s. Michael Caine was it, and I
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  think that I think that's what they made Austin Powers to be
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  like. They wanted him to be 1960s
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  Michael Caine. Yeah, 'cause he doesn't look
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  like any of the bonds. No, yeah, I was trying to work
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  out how much we're wanting him to seem like James Bond where it
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  maybe it fits better with that, that era of Michael Caine that I
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  don't quite know. I think I I think I what Michael
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  Caine was in a spy film series or something.
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  I don't. Know if he was.
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  The Avengers or something? Oh, he might have been.
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  I know he was in the Italian Job, the original Italian Job
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  that came. Out.
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  Around that time and he's OK in it.
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  I, I'm not a big fan of the original Italian Job and I'm
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  only kind of OK with the remake that ends up being a commercial
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  for minis, but the original I, I can kind of see Austin Powers
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  based on him. And then the last thing I'll
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  just point to is from Russia with Love, where we had that
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  German or the, the Russian lady who was the main villain of that
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  movie. And I think that's what the Frau
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  line in this movie is meant to reference.
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  Oh yeah. I think so.
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  I think I think that's that's the love letter to the past in
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  my view. Are those three primary pieces
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  of culture. 2 Bond movies and a non Bond actor.
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  I think it just goes well with the the feeling of some sort of
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  secret organization. You need secret spies to fight
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  against them. But they can't be secret.
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  We're going to. It's a satire.
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  They have to be internationally known.
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  So let's send Austin Powers over after Doctor Evil.
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  Who's Who's Hidden hides his face in all the 1960s scenes for
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  no reason at all. Did they market this without
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  showing Doctor Evil? I don't remember I'd have to
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  watch any of the trailers because surely they showed us
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  Mike Myers as Austin Powers, Mike Myers as Doctor Evil like.
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  I would think so. Oh, man.
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  All right, well, let's get into it because you started
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  mentioning the intro, and I have to say the strongest elements of
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  this movie are the very beginning and the very end.
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  And the strongest part of this movie, I really genuinely
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  believe is the intro all the way to the musical number.
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  I'm like, all right, we're in for a ride.
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  Let's go on this ride. Musical.
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  Oh, were you like dances and stuff?
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  Yes. I wasn't quite sure what to make
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  of it, 'cause like he escapes after the musical number.
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  Oh, 'cause it's like this band and stuff.
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  It is. I don't know, I don't know the
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  60s to know if this is like a theme, additional satire of
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  shows. I guess 60s had like not I know
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  when Grease came out, stuff like that.
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  Yeah. And, you know, you had a lot of
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  the television stuff that was, you didn't have MTV.
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  Instead, you had things like Ed Sullivan or, you know, shows
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  that would have live music and screaming audiences.
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  Interesting. Yeah, but I'm, I'm with you.
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  I don't know 60s media well enough.
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  I've I've recently I watched a couple of 1960s James Bond
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  movies but they didn't look anything like this.
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  Yeah, I you you're a fan of the dance numbers and musical stuff
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  in at least this intro. I have a soft spot for them.
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  I don't think they're good. I don't think they really should
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  exist at all. And yet one of the things that I
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  have observed is that a lot of culturally important movies or,
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  and a lot of very good movies will have for no reason a song
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  and dance number. Either people on screen are
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  singing and there are background people dancing, or it's just
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  music playing and all of the actors have started dancing for
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  no reason. And you know, one of the things
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  that pops into my head is the criminally underrated Clerks 2,
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  where at the beginning of that movie, for some reason,
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  everybody goes out in the parking lot and has this huge
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  dance number. I, I feel like I'm OK with it
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  when it, it, it feels, I don't know, it's inconsistent with the
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  universe, but that's because we're kind of hitting a, hitting
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  a, a imagination part of the universe.
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  I specifically think of the dance number and cartoon birds
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  in 500 days of summer because that's like, oh, this isn't
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  reality anymore. That's OK.
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  But Austin Powers is very, we are in reality.
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  We're dancing in the street. It's all choreographed.
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  It's just what we do in reality. We just do that.
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  So I didn't love that in the beginning.
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  I yeah, I and I'm fine with that.
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  I, I genuinely cannot tell you why it tickled me.
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  It didn't make me go ha ha ha. I was just like, oh, this is
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  fun. And I cannot deny that the
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  Austin Powers theme song is probably one of the most
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  important theme songs ever written.
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  And I can't believe you would just say it's.
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  Not that. I mean, it's not what's the word
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  which the song that I'm thinking of, yes, it matches Austin
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  Powers in at any point in time, if you play that, it will be
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  him. You play the brass from James
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  Bond and it'll be James Bond. Like, that works, but OK, It's
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  like all of the commercial jingles that stick in your head.
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  It's fun and it matches Austin Powers, I'll give you that.
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  I don't think you'll ever end up on any of my top song choices.
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  OK, I will go with you there. It is never going to show up in
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  my liked songs and likely will never show up in a playlist that
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  I create for myself. Sure, but I have never been
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  upset about being out in public and hearing that whistle.
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  Gotcha. From the song, I'm always like
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  that's that is so pleasant to the ears, like it just works.
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  It does make me think of Austin Powers, but that's just because
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  I've heard or I've watched the movies.
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  I think if I had never watched the movies, I think I would
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  still be like, man, this song is really good.
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  Like there's any words in it, right?
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  Nope. No words, just.
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  It's a good instrumental, yes. Yeah, yeah.
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  And that that might be where it is, but I will go with you in
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  saying, yeah, it's never going to show up in my life songs.
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  It's just going to be one of those things that I'm like, I
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  acknowledge this as great. Understood.
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  But then the movie starts to fall apart for me as soon as
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  Austin Powers gets in the car. I mean, I don't I don't know
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  that we have to compare it all the way to Bond, but since it is
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  taking on the spy genre, it the dashboard with Basil exposition
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  is solid, like here is M and he is exactly like M was in James
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  Bond. Isn't that silly?
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  Quotes in the air? Yes, that is silly.
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  Here's his job. It feels honest in its upfront
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  portrayal of, OK, this is happening because this happens
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  to spies and he's planning on killing you.
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  Like, you don't really need to know much more than that.
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  We just need you to know that he's coming after you.
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  Frankly, we don't need you to know anything.
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  We're telling this to the audience because it's exposition
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  from Basil Exposition. Like I, oh, I go back and forth.
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  Some days I'm like, all right, that's pretty clever.
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  Like you got to give us some exposition.
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  It's the thing that every writer struggles with.
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  How do you get the audience into the world?
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  And they went for the lowest hanging fruit.
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  Let's get a guy named Exposition to give us the exposition.
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  And some days I'm like, that sucks.
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  Other days I'm like, all right, that's pretty genius.
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  I think the exposition or the I guess the the dialogue between
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  Austin and Mrs. Shoot Kensington is interesting.
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  It's OK. Like, oh, you're married so we
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  can't ever do anything. This is Money, Penny and James
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  Bond. But I've I feel like it was
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  maybe not set up a bunch. I don't know how how how you
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  would introduce the idea of he's going to be frozen and meet her
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  daughter because on 2nd viewing of the beginning she at the club
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  that they go to is dressed up. How Vanessa will eventually be
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  dressed up in the later Part I. Watched that movie twice this
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  week and I did not notice that once.
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  I'm trying to remember when she wears this like black head to
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  toe outfit but I'm I'm pretty sure it's the same thing that
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  her daughter wears later on and you'll have to look for clips to
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  to confirm that or. We'll see.
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  Or I'll just ignore it completely and and let the
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  podcast listeners hear this but not the short viewers.
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  So that was a a quick in. I was going to say
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  inconsequential nod to James Bond and Moneypenny.
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  I feel like those are those are randomly spread out here, but
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  they're individually. It's fun slammed all together
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  into a movie. I don't love it.
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  See, and I'm OK with it until we get to the main henchman later
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  on. OK, that's where I'm like, OK,
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  you took it one step too far and the joke kind of lost its
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  luster, but I'm I'm OK with it here.
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  Honestly, I was more distracted by the empty clubhouse that they
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  were partying in. Like they they got 30 people and
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  they just kept positioning them in front of the camera in
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  different ways. It looks best when it's zoomed
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  in and you've got a few people in the background.
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  Then it looks crowded when it's zoomed out and you've got a lot
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  of space between extras and a scantily populated stairs and
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  balcony. It's I start imagining what if
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  you had no music and you just have a bunch of extras in a room
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  going whoo yeah, clap my hand every once in a while.
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  Which I I generally don't break my immersion like that, but I
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  totally could see it being a stage where they're all just
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  bouncing around in quiet silence so the microphone can pick up
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  the actors say in their bits. Oh man, I like the Andy Warhol
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  look alike. I think that sets pretty good
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  tone, but I'm still distracted. I'm OK that they didn't say
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  anything about him because it's just like, what do you say with
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  this? Oh, he's at the club, he's at
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  this club the Austin's at. So this major figure that maybe
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  the nineties, 2000s era audiences don't know anything
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  about, who's totally there, doesn't really add too much to
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  my immersion in this era that we're going to jet away from.
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  Yeah, it's one of those things where it's a joke that plays
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  better for me as an adult who now knows who Andy Warhol was,
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  kind of. I still don't fully know all of
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  his mystique, but I've heard enough and watched enough
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  documentaries to be like, OK, he was a big deal person in the
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  60s, No wonder he would make a cameo at an Austin Powers party.
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  But as a kid watching this, because I think the first time I
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  watched it was like 99, maybe the 2000s, I didn't know who
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  that was. I was like, who's that white
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  haired dude that they're looking at a couple of times?
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  And why does he never come back to this movie?
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  He doesn't matter. Well, he really doesn't.
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  But the server matters the the person taking drink orders.
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  Oh, definitely a woman, then, definitely a man who's like
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  James Bond doesn't have any of those sort of moments where he
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  finds somebody that's not who they're supposed to be, right, I
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  feel. Like I can't remember a single
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  one. He may get like a sense that
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  these are spies protecting Severine, but he doesn't go and
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  ask them. Yeah.
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  Who knows, Like I don't know what where they got that from.
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  Maybe it's just a totally original idea, but it's a
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  running gag. We'll get to enjoy it again.
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  See it again, Yeah. And he doesn't even get to give
• 27:45
  us any information because for some reason Doctor Evil's at the
• 27:48
  party. He's trying to shoot, he's
• 27:50
  trying to kill Austin, but he had an assassin already there
• 27:53
  trying to kill Austin, but. I don't think he is trying to
• 27:57
  kill Austin, I think he's trying to kill the assassin to stop him
• 28:00
  from speaking. Well, I will say that having
• 28:06
  read a little bit of the summary in the wiki, it was pointed out
• 28:10
  how tangentially similar the assassination was with the was
• 28:20
  it Volpa? Somebody got shot in the back.
• 28:22
  Volpa got shot in the back and you reminded me of From Russia
• 28:27
  with Love in the Gypsy camp when the.
• 28:31
  Bad guy shoots. Another bad guy to stop the
• 28:36
  other bad guy from killing Bond. And so then I'm like, well,
• 28:41
  maybe Doctor Evil is like, no, I must be the one to kill Bond.
• 28:47
  I guess so, yeah. So I don't know.
• 28:50
  Impressions, dear listener, so. That's my best possible nod to
• 28:55
  some of those James Bond ones, but I I don't know.
• 29:00
  He just kills his own assassin and the movie has to continue.
• 29:07
  And we still don't even get to see Doctor Evil as he escapes in
• 29:11
  his rocket ship. For no reason I I'm a little
• 29:15
  upset with that part because. See it, I think.
• 29:18
  I genuinely think that is kind of funny because of You Only
• 29:23
  Live Twice, where for the first half of the movie they are
• 29:27
  hiding. I keep calling him Doctor Evil.
• 29:30
  They keep hiding Blofeld's face. They're always shooting him at
• 29:35
  obscured angles or something is otherwise blocking out what
• 29:40
  would be a view of his face. And then when Bond shows up,
• 29:44
  that's when he looks around his chair and here we are at the end
• 29:48
  of the movie. And it's like, why did we have
• 29:51
  to have this mystery? Like he's in the movie?
• 29:54
  Why did you have to hide his face for the whole thing?
• 29:56
  So we. Know who he is.
• 29:58
  Yeah, like, so I'm OK with it just for the fact that a very
• 30:03
  good Bond movie did the exact same thing and longer.
• 30:10
  Oh well, he gets away in the. Big boy statue.
• 30:17
  I don't know why Doctor Evil would be in the big boy statue.
• 30:23
  I kind of don't care. I kind of hate it.
• 30:27
  I don't know if we want to reveal where we live, but I'm
• 30:31
  going to say I've I've only lived in our mutual state for 20
• 30:35
  years, only 20 years. But I I just haven't been here
• 30:39
  my whole life. Has our state ever had a big boy
• 30:44
  in it? I am not aware of that.
• 30:47
  I don't, I don't think I've ever seen one here.
• 30:49
  I don't think I've ever even heard of that statue being
• 30:52
  anywhere as like, oh, go take a picture with it, which I
• 30:55
  imagine, you know, like those Conoco dinosaurs that you can
• 31:00
  see at the gas stations, I think.
• 31:02
  And when I lived in Ohio, I was in grade school at the time, I
• 31:08
  know there was at least one big boy because we went there
• 31:12
  several times. And the statue wasn't huge.
• 31:16
  It wasn't like rocket ship sized.
• 31:18
  And it was on like it was at ground level.
• 31:22
  It was probably 6 feet tall. But as a child it was huge.
• 31:26
  It was massive, you know, So I'm sure there are pictures of me
• 31:30
  with the big boy statue from the mid 90s.
• 31:35
  But I I don't know why the big boy was chosen as the funniest
• 31:43
  type of rocket ship. Right, I have no idea.
• 31:47
  I'm I'm racking my brain for this might be the most out of
• 31:53
  place thing in this out of place movie of we're not in the 60s
• 31:59
  anymore, but here's a big boy from the 60s.
• 32:02
  But they still exist at least #2 does talk about as like a
• 32:07
  corporate dude like, well, big boys, you know, he's always been
• 32:11
  around. And I do chuckle at that because
• 32:14
  it's someone, it's the straight guy talking in a comedy movie
• 32:21
  saying, you know, I have built this corporation up and I think
• 32:26
  I don't want to do this. So see you later.
• 32:28
  And. Now, the only place I'm going to
• 32:30
  correct you is that it wasn't #2 who said that?
• 32:33
  It was the guy tracking the rocket from the US military
• 32:38
  where he calls the general. And he's like, it looks like.
• 32:40
  It's the shape of a big boy and. The general's like he's back and
• 32:44
  the guy's like. Never left.
• 32:47
  And so, you know, having been to a big boy restaurant, I guess
• 32:53
  part of me was like, yeah, I guess he has never left.
• 32:56
  But now, now I live in an area where I have not seen a big boy
• 33:00
  in 20 years. Yeah, maybe more.
• 33:04
  Even driving around I don't think I've seen any.
• 33:07
  Maybe in California? Remember that I have family in
• 33:11
  Georgia. I haven't seen one in Georgia,
• 33:14
  so I don't know. Yeah.
• 33:18
  Well, he escapes in that and it has a cryogenic freezer in that
• 33:23
  and Austin, like off the cuff, decides to also freeze himself
• 33:28
  for 30 years. And I was I had to remind it to
• 33:32
  be curious. When did he decide to go to
• 33:36
  freeze himself? Oh, it's like 1 sentence.
• 33:39
  OK all. Right, all right.
• 33:41
  They're just like, yeah, well, thankfully we have Basil
• 33:44
  Exposition to tell us what happened 30 years ago.
• 33:49
  Basically everybody's thrilled them.
• 33:53
  Yeah, I was going to say I I hate the unfreezing scene.
• 34:00
  Like there are some pretty funny jokes that for some reason
• 34:04
  British intelligence has a bunch of C tier American celebrities
• 34:10
  who haven't been around for a while.
• 34:14
  These guys are also frozen in. We've got Vanilla Ice and Gary
• 34:19
  Coleman. For some reason, Nope.
• 34:23
  OK, they're just very 60s I don't like.
• 34:27
  They're not even that. Like they're both 80s.
• 34:30
  Right, it doesn't make very much sense.
• 34:33
  Yes, but you know, whatever, it's part of the the visual gag
• 34:37
  and I honestly the only part of the unfreezing process that
• 34:42
  still kind of makes me chuckle is the warm liquid goo phase.
• 34:47
  I don't know why. I just think that is such a
• 34:50
  funny name for that phase. Like, what does it do?
• 34:55
  It's the warm Dewey. Whatever quid.
• 34:59
  Yeah. She has to go inside of it and
• 35:02
  then everything will be good. I, I halfway was trying to think
• 35:07
  in my brain, what are the gags that we're missing in terms of
• 35:12
  visually? So I started trying to watch
• 35:14
  people in the background doing what they're doing.
• 35:17
  And then the unfreezing scene, I was looking at him coming out of
• 35:22
  the goo and I, I had to wonder because of the colour of the
• 35:26
  goo. Is this like supposed to mimic a
• 35:31
  fry machine at some like like at a big boy or something?
• 35:35
  Like because he comes out kind of all yellowy fried.
• 35:41
  It's I was trying to think of what would you incorporate
• 35:47
  that's topical, but then makes absolutely no visual sense later
• 35:52
  on. Well, yeah, some things I.
• 35:56
  Mean it clearly worked for me. The long P gag did not work for
• 36:02
  me. No.
• 36:04
  That's just one of the many long gags in this movie that for some
• 36:09
  reason they don't work for me like.
• 36:10
  And that sucks because I do enjoy a long gag I really do.
• 36:15
  Like. There are times when something
• 36:18
  being not funny for a very long period of time will give me a
• 36:24
  genuine chuckle, and this was not one of them.
• 36:27
  It's just like, OK, yay peeing Hooray.
• 36:31
  Yeah, very juvenile, I'm sure. Maybe I can.
• 36:37
  I think the high school is probably gave this thing 20
• 36:40
  million of its dollars. I Yep, Why not Yep.
• 36:47
  Oh, I mean, we could just call out all of the long gags as we
• 36:51
  get there and. Say, Oh yeah, I was going to say
• 36:52
  we will have plenty of them. We got We get to meet Vanessa
• 36:59
  during the unfreezing process, played by Elizabeth Hurley, one
• 37:04
  of the most beautiful women in the world.
• 37:06
  Super Woman in 1997. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 37:10
  So I guess in that way they got Bond right.
• 37:14
  They got Bond right. They at least hired one gorgeous
• 37:18
  person. I think it would have been funny
• 37:20
  if they had gotten some a Bond woman from like the 90s Bond
• 37:27
  era. I think I would have left and I
• 37:30
  think. It could have been Gray to be in
• 37:32
  it. Like, I don't remember the
• 37:35
  actress's name. I only remember on a top and
• 37:39
  Jean Grey. Yeah, but according to the wiki,
• 37:44
  we have passed over the villain side.
• 37:46
  But I I kind of wanted to go to the villain side at this point
• 37:50
  because we finally had to see Doctor Evil's face.
• 37:54
  Really well done. I think in terms of Blofeld it,
• 37:57
  it doesn't have a bunch of crazy extra facial scars, but.
• 38:02
  Just the one it's. It's nice and clean and I think
• 38:07
  they did a great job at Doctor Evil.
• 38:11
  Maybe not as great with Austin Powers.
• 38:14
  I I feel like it's a discomfort thing to look at him.
• 38:20
  But then getting over that discomfort, I started looking at
• 38:25
  Austin's teeth because, you know, they're bad.
• 38:28
  I haven't been looking at them the whole time, but now looking
• 38:30
  at them, it's like, well, these are just like costume Halloween
• 38:34
  teeth. Yes, these really.
• 38:36
  Suck. Exactly.
• 38:38
  They're not bad like bad teeth should be.
• 38:42
  They're bad as in a bad prop and you can see the paint where they
• 38:47
  where they put the black for the gap of the teeth.
• 38:50
  But it looks like something that could be flossed out.
• 38:54
  Like yeah, I it's it's very poorly done on the teeth.
• 38:58
  Fine, whatever. I eventually lose interest in
• 39:03
  how bad they look, unless the movie like, makes me look at
• 39:07
  them and then I'm like, man, they don't look good.
• 39:11
  But on the other side there, there's a lot going on with
• 39:17
  Doctor Evil. You've got a fat suit to make
• 39:20
  Mike Myers look bigger. You've got a prosthetic nose,
• 39:23
  You've got the prosthetic scar, you've got a bald cap on it.
• 39:28
  And I think he might have prosthetic ears as well.
• 39:31
  Like I think it's only his chin and cheeks that are Mike Myers.
• 39:36
  Everything else is latex or plastic.
• 39:40
  And I think that's part of what sells the character so well is
• 39:44
  that they actually put a lot of effort into the Doctor Evil
• 39:49
  costume. And then you look at all they
• 39:52
  had to do with with Austin Powers was just make teeth and
• 39:56
  silly costumes, 60s style costumes and the teeth are
• 40:00
  terrible. Yeah, yeah, he's not.
• 40:08
  Not my favorite, just compared to Doctor Evil Hit it precisely.
• 40:15
  It's it seems like just a little.
• 40:20
  Not sure what else we can do to make this guy British and
• 40:23
  annoying, but give him the same innuendos as James Bond and
• 40:28
  worst teeth and slightly more aggressive sexuality, which is
• 40:33
  kind of that's kind of bizarre, huh?
• 40:36
  It's kind of a lot for after James Bond like.
• 40:40
  It's like, I didn't know that you could have someone worse.
• 40:45
  Although, although we haven't gotten there yet, it's still
• 40:49
  several scenes in the future. But Austin Powers refuses to
• 40:55
  sleep with a drunk Vanessa Kingston and or Kensington.
• 41:00
  And I, I deeply appreciate that for the late 90s when, you know,
• 41:06
  this was a time where people still would be like, yeah, just
• 41:09
  get her drunk and then she'll say yes.
• 41:11
  And that's consent. It's like, no, that is not.
• 41:14
  And this movie called it out. His part is just compared to the
• 41:22
  rest of everything. It felt like a concession for
• 41:25
  him to not do that, to to be decent in that way.
• 41:30
  I mean, you need a hero to be heroic sometimes.
• 41:34
  This one time, which yes, good time to be that the bar the bar
• 41:40
  for decent is in hell like. All right, well, I, I don't want
• 41:48
  to gloss over it. We need to have the actual plan,
• 41:54
  even though #2 played by Robert Wagner in really terrific
• 42:00
  performance for, you know, a bit character.
• 42:04
  He explains that they are this multibillion dollar company that
• 42:10
  has all of these other subsidiaries.
• 42:12
  They are essentially a modern day corporate conglomerate that
• 42:18
  is currently killing the world. But Doctor Evil doesn't think
• 42:22
  that's good enough and he wants to make a plan for $1,000,000.
• 42:26
  Everyone laughs at him because of inflation, ha ha ha ha ha.
• 42:30
  It's going to be $100 billion. But we don't get to get off that
• 42:34
  easily because after they've decided on the plan, we've got
• 42:38
  to meet Seth Green, who is playing Scott Evil, the the
• 42:43
  clone of Doctor Evil. I feel like it feel like the
• 42:49
  movie kind of jumps around too because I don't remember being
• 42:53
  Scott in the first one. Yeah, and I couldn't.
• 42:56
  They're still at the table. Yeah.
• 42:57
  They're still at the table when they meet him.
• 42:59
  I don't feel like they moved from the table from a lot of the
• 43:02
  movie. Oh yeah, almost every Doctor
• 43:04
  Evil scene is at the table. I feel like they mix the the
• 43:08
  boat that Blow Film had with his people.
• 43:12
  Yeah, from Russia. With love, we just kept cutting
• 43:14
  back to that boat to have our bad guy seen.
• 43:17
  Discussions not like Spectre, but they need a whole museum to
• 43:23
  whole house their 600 people. OK, the one character who was
• 43:28
  introduced during the evil beginnings, The evil plan, The
• 43:32
  one guy I'm OK with. The Lucky Charms guy?
• 43:35
  I'm OK with. Will Ferrell's short lived
• 43:39
  character who gets murdered almost immediately?
• 43:43
  It's random task. The guy who looks like odd job
• 43:47
  and throws a shoe? I don't like random task, I just
• 43:51
  don't like him. He doesn't do very much.
• 43:54
  I mean, he's manages to subdue. Them, but yeah.
• 43:58
  He throws his shoe. I feel like it's it's the satire
• 44:07
  making one person into a a joke and then like he has to stick
• 44:14
  around but he doesn't do much else.
• 44:17
  Exactly. And admittedly, Odd Job didn't
• 44:21
  do a lot in Goldfinger, and yet he made such a strong impression
• 44:27
  that he got, you know, commercial deals afterwards
• 44:31
  where he would continue to play the part of Odd Job.
• 44:35
  He's a favorite character in the greatest James Bond video game.
• 44:40
  Like Odd Job made an impression. Random Task felt like someone
• 44:47
  who just didn't like Odd Job and just wanted to give the
• 44:51
  character the middle finger. That's that's how I feel about
• 44:54
  Random Task. He's just.
• 44:57
  It just doesn't work for me. As a henchman, yeah.
• 45:00
  As a satire of a henchman? Yeah, all of the above.
• 45:04
  Yeah, yeah. Are you ready to go to Vegas?
• 45:07
  I can't even remember what happens in Vegas.
• 45:10
  Well. OK, this is the reason that I
• 45:15
  have an issue with this movie. The first, a lot of the
• 45:20
  beginning of the movie feels like we are telling a story and
• 45:25
  that story will matter and that every piece that we have heard
• 45:29
  so far is going to fit together in the main story.
• 45:33
  And then we get to Vegas and it becomes a series of sketches.
• 45:37
  It becomes Monty Python and the meaning of life.
• 45:41
  It is, it's just bits. It's just sketches that they put
• 45:46
  together in chronological order and that's that's where it kind
• 45:52
  of falls apart for me. I'll be like, yeah, the middle
• 45:55
  act of the movie is a lot of yeah, sketch nonsense, which can
• 46:03
  be funny. That's that's not a dig.
• 46:06
  It's sketch nonsense. But the the setup of OK, here's
• 46:12
  the here's Austin Powers, here's who he is.
• 46:14
  We've got him back from the 60s. Oh, here's Doctor Evil.
• 46:17
  Here's who he is. We've got his people around
• 46:20
  Doctor Evil. We've got people around Austin
• 46:22
  Powers. We've got them.
• 46:25
  The main lead in romantic interests are on the plane and
• 46:28
  have a conflict and we're setting up a regular movie.
• 46:35
  But let's have Doctor Evil do the Macarena when he meets his
• 46:40
  clone son. Like that's that's very topical
• 46:47
  for the 90s. Sure, that doesn't that doesn't
• 46:51
  do anything right now like. Oh man, talk about a called
• 46:57
  shot. When you said that's topical for
• 47:00
  the 90s I had completely forgotten all about Was it
• 47:04
  Dolly? Was that the name of the sheep
• 47:06
  they cloned? Oh, right, yeah.
• 47:09
  Because in the mid to late 90s, cloning was the hot topic.
• 47:16
  And then it turned out that cloning wasn't what we thought
• 47:20
  it was going to be. Turns out you're just giving
• 47:23
  birth to a whole new life. And even if they have the same
• 47:26
  genetic sequence as the previous life, their lived experiences
• 47:30
  make them entirely different people.
• 47:32
  And so you will not become an immortal by cloning yourself
• 47:36
  over and over again. And so, you know, people will
• 47:39
  point to regulations in the US where they were like, no,
• 47:43
  cloning is illegal, but regulations weren't everywhere.
• 47:46
  Famously, they were not in China.
• 47:49
  It's just that billionaires realize, you know, if you're
• 47:52
  trying to get to immortality, cloning is not the way.
• 47:57
  Yeah, I think. I mean, I agree with your
• 48:01
  sketches and cloning, Scott, and it just is I've and is this
• 48:09
  middle act mostly where most of the catch phrases come from?
• 48:12
  Because that would make more sense as to why they're used,
• 48:18
  but not very. When you watch the movie, it's
• 48:24
  kind of just a moment that hits and passes.
• 48:26
  Yeah, Yeah. You're like, why did this become
• 48:30
  so important to culture? Why did this line in particular
• 48:35
  that they just threw out there become the thing that everyone
• 48:38
  says? Why have I heard Do I make you
• 48:42
  horny baby 700 times when the movie said it twice like.
• 48:49
  Yeah. And I mean, that comes from the
• 48:52
  airplane scene where it just felt so awful.
• 48:57
  Yeah, Yeah. And if we if we allow for Austin
• 49:05
  Powers to be exactly who he was in the 60s, OK.
• 49:09
  But yeah, that that doesn't help me see him as the solution to
• 49:15
  beating Doctor Evil. And it's it pushes Austin
• 49:21
  further from being, I guess, the the hero of this movie.
• 49:28
  Well, then the other Mike Myers line from his other character,
• 49:32
  Doctor Evil, the the other sketch that's going to happen.
• 49:36
  Like I'm not even keeping track of when these sketches happen.
• 49:39
  They're just like they don't. They don't matter when they
• 49:42
  happen, yeah. When Scott Evil has an argument
• 49:50
  with his dad and his dad starts saying zip it and goes through a
• 49:55
  whole series like oh man did I hear zip it all the time and I
• 50:00
  heard it from teachers primarily so clearly they watch the movie
• 50:05
  multiple times lots. Of people, I guess watch this
• 50:07
  movie yeah, so. I I do kind of want to touch on
• 50:14
  the key plot ish points. We meet a lot of vagina spelled
• 50:23
  with an. FI really didn't know until I
• 50:26
  watched it with captions. I was.
• 50:28
  I was like, how do they? OK, OK.
• 50:31
  So that's how they make it happen.
• 50:35
  I mean they got away with Pussy Galore.
• 50:39
  I don't and Octopussy like. You don't hold the name against
• 50:43
  the idea of satire of James Bond.
• 50:46
  It works because there's so many random Bond women names.
• 50:51
  Let's have Xenia on top, let's have strawberry fields, let's
• 50:56
  have Jinx. I can't even remember.
• 51:00
  Jinx isn't even that bad. Jinx.
• 51:01
  Was her nickname and I cannot remember what her full name was.
• 51:04
  But. You're dead on 70s through the
• 51:09
  80s. There were some of those names
• 51:11
  where you were like, what? What are we saying?
• 51:16
  I've already forgotten who I put as my #5 Bond girl.
• 51:21
  Plenty O'Toole like plenty. She was quite plenty, like, OK,
• 51:29
  so a lot of China matters because at one point Austin
• 51:37
  abandons the drunken Vanessa, who he refused to sleep with, to
• 51:41
  go break into Alotta's penthouse and get some information about
• 51:47
  #2 and she discovers him and they just sleep together.
• 51:53
  Like, there's, she knows he's the bad guy.
• 51:56
  She knows like she finds his business card.
• 51:58
  I couldn't quite tell if it was like he was like, and again, we
• 52:06
  can point to James Bond and be like, why did you sleep with the
• 52:09
  bad lady? Oh, just because, like, well,
• 52:13
  OK, fair's fair, Austin. You're just sleeping with the
• 52:16
  bad. Person.
• 52:18
  That's just what we do, I guess. For a minute I thought that the
• 52:23
  Alato lady was Winnie from Wonder Years.
• 52:29
  I did too, for a brief moment. The briefest of moments, because
• 52:33
  I. Think the next time that I saw
• 52:34
  when he was in How I Met Your Mother and it was like, oh,
• 52:37
  right, well, you look different just a little bit.
• 52:40
  But then, Austin Powers, this is not the same actress.
• 52:44
  Not at all. I don't know who Fabiano Udineo.
• 52:51
  I don't know anything about that actress or her work.
• 52:55
  I'm trying to see if there's anything that would tell me like
• 52:59
  she's done this or that but like I would have to look her up on
• 53:04
  IMDb. What I don't know is if those
• 53:08
  are her big air quotes, real fake boobs, or if they're like
• 53:16
  prosthetics for the movie because they float in the hot
• 53:19
  tub. Like, I don't know, she's meant
• 53:23
  to look like the plastic woman that the bad guys would be into
• 53:27
  and I just don't know if those are hers or made for the movie.
• 53:32
  I don't know. I think that's a interesting
• 53:40
  plot point of them. When you first said the Japanese
• 53:47
  Bond movie, I thought you were going to this tub scene where
• 53:51
  they would. This was the other thing from
• 53:54
  You Only Live Twice. Where that was super awkward,
• 53:57
  but part of the culture. This is like, we're in Vegas and
• 54:01
  this is just how the rooms are. So it yeah, baby, I felt like it
• 54:06
  was a nod in that sense, too, to that James Bond.
• 54:13
  Well, they do. The direct quote from Tiger and
• 54:17
  Austin Powers adds to the quote. I don't remember who said it,
• 54:22
  but way back when we did You only live twice.
• 54:24
  Someone on TikTok said if at all the, the, that was what their
• 54:32
  comment was or I guess they said men come first, women come
• 54:36
  second if at all. And I at the time I read that
• 54:39
  comment and I was like, I had to go back to the movie.
• 54:43
  I had to watch that scene over again.
• 54:44
  And I was like, Tiger never said if at all.
• 54:47
  Bond never said if at all. Why is he saying if at all in
• 54:51
  this comment? And then we watched this movie
• 54:53
  and Austin Powers ads, if at all.
• 54:56
  And I was like, oh, he has. He has invaded other movies.
• 55:02
  Famous quotes. Like, yeah, I it's maybe less of
• 55:10
  a sketch moment, but also barely is interested in that both of
• 55:18
  them just I don't feel like it's the romantic interest with
• 55:24
  Vanessa has gone anywhere, much like most Bond movies, enough
• 55:29
  for it to be, oh, he's going over there and he's sleeping
• 55:33
  with someone else, but she likes him.
• 55:36
  It's like you're just manufacturing a reason for the
• 55:42
  woman who initially does not like Austin at all, to have
• 55:49
  something to resolve with him where he says I'm sorry and it's
• 55:53
  all better. That's all it takes.
• 55:56
  It's in the the tour, in the next scene when they're having
• 55:59
  the argument and all he says is he's sorry and everything's all
• 56:03
  better. Yeah.
• 56:05
  He says some horrible stuff and she makes some very valid points
• 56:10
  but all he had to say was he's sorry and it's OK, she's in love
• 56:13
  with him again. Yeah, I mean we've.
• 56:17
  We've skipped. Five.
• 56:18
  I was. Going to say we've we've skipped
• 56:20
  so many. Scenes and I'm not.
• 56:23
  I was going to say I'm not opposed to skipping who does #2
• 56:26
  work for, even though that kills our Lucky Charms guy, but we
• 56:30
  barely mention the Lucky Charms guy so I don't care.
• 56:35
  And then the other scene that we crossed over was the Q like
• 56:39
  scene where they are showing Bond, Bond, Austin, his one and
• 56:44
  only gadget, which is a watch. And then all of that dental
• 56:48
  stuff and it's a running gag about how bad his teeth are.
• 56:53
  And then he punches another old lady.
• 56:54
  He punches the old lady who says and he says it's a man and he's
• 56:57
  wrong. I hate, I hate it.
• 56:59
  I hate that whole scene. Oh, I I'm trying to remember
• 57:06
  when they finally get to back to the old lady.
• 57:10
  But yeah, since it is, I don't know, meant to say he doesn't.
• 57:17
  He didn't have the same neck for his spy work that he used to
• 57:20
  have. It's just Mike Myers punching
• 57:25
  the lady, OK? Yeah, this is really just like,
• 57:30
  almost all of the middle part of the movie is just showing us
• 57:36
  that Bond is, I'm going to say this for the entire franchise,
• 57:40
  that Austin is out of touch and the 90s are too much for him.
• 57:46
  But then, you know, they immediately will cut to Doctor
• 57:51
  Evil having a hard time adjusting to the 90s.
• 57:54
  And so I'm sitting here thinking like, well, it's not like the
• 57:56
  bad guys have an advantage on him.
• 57:59
  Like everybody sucks at the 90s. Yeah, I just don't know how
• 58:06
  much, how much we're going through.
• 58:09
  I'm like. Well do I skipped over it
• 58:12
  entirely because I think it should have been cut from the
• 58:15
  movie, but then you wouldn't have enough.
• 58:17
  For. Evil scenes.
• 58:19
  Yeah, wouldn't have enough for an hour and a half movie.
• 58:21
  You'd have an hour long movie. I didn't love any of the father
• 58:28
  son therapy running gag. Damn.
• 58:32
  Even though Princess Leia is the therapist, right?
• 58:36
  And that's a pretty huge cameo. That would be, yeah.
• 58:43
  And yet I just think all of those scenes should have been
• 58:46
  cut. I don't care for them.
• 58:49
  I don't think they work. I don't think they're funny.
• 58:52
  I don't think. I don't think anything of them
• 58:55
  at all. Yeah.
• 58:59
  So yeah, if there was something you liked about them, feel free
• 59:02
  to jump in and be like, you're wrong.
• 59:04
  The therapy was great. No, the therapy was like, feels
• 59:10
  like a lot of trying to be introspective on a character for
• 59:17
  funny purposes. And then like we get one laugh
• 59:21
  out of it because the therapist says, well, that's too much for
• 59:25
  us to, to delve into. So that's why he's evil.
• 59:28
  Like, well, there's no really redeeming these evil people.
• 59:36
  Yeah, so I I'm not into any of those.
• 59:41
  I'll be honest, the of all of the little bits that we get,
• 59:49
  because most of this movie are just bits, my favorite is the
• 59:53
  introduction of the fembots. And I think it's because they
• 59:56
  use boots are made for walking. By Nancy Sinatra.
• 1:00:04
  Is that no? I had no idea who sang that.
• 1:00:08
  I just love that song and I feel like as a little micro music
• 1:00:13
  video to introduce us to the fembots that are going to kill
• 1:00:18
  Austin Powers. I think, I think that whole
• 1:00:23
  little vignette set to music really works.
• 1:00:28
  And when they start firing off from the boobs while the song
• 1:00:31
  really kicks off, I'm like that. That's great.
• 1:00:35
  That is great editing and it works for me.
• 1:00:39
  I've hated everything that I've been watching so far, but
• 1:00:42
  suddenly the Fimbots, I'm like, OK, OK, this is cool and it's
• 1:00:47
  all because of music. And I'm just going to point out
• 1:00:51
  that probably the most redeeming factor of this movie is its
• 1:00:54
  soundtrack. Like so much of the music in
• 1:00:58
  here is just really good music. That's not a bad opinion.
• 1:01:04
  So I think it's the fembots were I think of their scenes.
• 1:01:11
  I enjoy this one more than the their second appearance because
• 1:01:17
  their second one is just over the top.
• 1:01:22
  Like this is where. I'm in a hard disagree.
• 1:01:25
  OK, then it's it's the satire of James Bond's sex appeal to be so
• 1:01:32
  powerful. Austin Powers is even more
• 1:01:35
  powerful and can blow things up like blow up computers.
• 1:01:39
  And it it again just leads to it's not what you think when
• 1:01:47
  Vanessa gets there and she's like, to be fair, yes, that is
• 1:01:54
  exactly what happened. That wasn't what she thinks.
• 1:01:57
  Yes, but I OK, I do want to. I'm fine with going back to the
• 1:02:04
  infiltration of the base, but I do want to say the conclusion of
• 1:02:07
  the Finbots. I find it delightful.
• 1:02:11
  But the thing that sells it for me is when they introduce
• 1:02:15
  themselves to Bond, there are a total of 7 that we see.
• 1:02:19
  I think he destroys 6 of them. So we have no idea what happened
• 1:02:23
  to #7 But we see five in front of him, two behind him.
• 1:02:28
  One of those two eventually lands on his head.
• 1:02:33
  But the way they do their talking where they'll say a line
• 1:02:36
  and then it starts echoing throughout the room.
• 1:02:39
  And then the camera will zoom in on some of the background ones
• 1:02:42
  and you'll hear a line echoing. And then it'll come to that
• 1:02:45
  fembot who will say it clearly, like, I don't know why, but I
• 1:02:50
  really thought that was great. I just like, I'll say it all the
• 1:02:54
  time. Even a bad movie can have a
• 1:02:56
  great moment. And for me, having the fembots
• 1:03:00
  introduce themselves to Austin, the little echoing effect,
• 1:03:05
  really worked for me. I liked it.
• 1:03:08
  I got you. Oh, I didn't like much of all of
• 1:03:14
  that. If it was, maybe I just didn't
• 1:03:17
  want to see a British flag on a Speedo being shooken at me like.
• 1:03:26
  I'm I'm almost 41 I've seen so many jiggle jiggles in speedos
• 1:03:31
  that I never wanted to see and now I'm just desensitized to
• 1:03:35
  them. Thank you LMFAO for your music
• 1:03:38
  videos. Well, let's actually kind of
• 1:03:43
  talk about the infiltration because it's it starts out kind
• 1:03:47
  of clever. There's a secret door at the end
• 1:03:50
  of the tour that just happens to have a men and women's bathroom
• 1:03:56
  that for some reason that's the one that top secret personnel
• 1:04:00
  have to use. It's convenient.
• 1:04:02
  It's kind of funny that it happens.
• 1:04:04
  Has to be outside the doors where people can get in, yes.
• 1:04:09
  And so that part I'm like, all right, thumbs up, dumb funny is
• 1:04:13
  still funny. I'm going to give it a thumbs
• 1:04:15
  up. And then immediately they go to
• 1:04:17
  the cement rollers. And I remember thinking this was
• 1:04:20
  the funniest thing I ever saw when I was a kid.
• 1:04:23
  And the older I get, the less the less funny it is the.
• 1:04:28
  Less funny it is. I could still appreciate the
• 1:04:31
  fact that it's it is trying to be poke fun at scenes where
• 1:04:39
  people get run over and it kind of drags out just a little bit,
• 1:04:44
  but. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• 1:04:48
  when a skier goes right into the snow removers, drill or
• 1:04:54
  crankshaft. I guess that was pretty
• 1:04:58
  indulgent. And you know, this isn't graphic
• 1:05:01
  by any means. There's no blood, It's all sound
• 1:05:03
  effects, and it is kind of funny that they decide to stop the
• 1:05:08
  cement roller right after they've crushed the guy.
• 1:05:11
  It's like, I'll give them that. That is a good chuckle.
• 1:05:17
  This movie just loves its long gags and this is the most famous
• 1:05:22
  of all of the long gags in this. Movie everyone involved.
• 1:05:26
  I think the security guard did his best and should be the given
• 1:05:31
  the most credit for the for. What funny exists in that scene?
• 1:05:38
  I it's Michael McDonald and I think he I know he was another
• 1:05:43
  comedic actor. I can't remember if he was
• 1:05:46
  Saturday Night Live. Nope.
• 1:05:47
  He was Mad TV. That's where he was from.
• 1:05:51
  I was like, I know he was in one of the sketch comedy shows, so
• 1:05:57
  he was Mad TV. There are a lot of background
• 1:06:03
  actors. Clint Howard is the big boy,
• 1:06:07
  never went away, Sir. Guy Will Ferrell is Mustafa, who
• 1:06:12
  gets killed in a pretty great scene because we just hear his
• 1:06:16
  voice in the background. I'm trying to see.
• 1:06:19
  Still a little bit of a line gag when he gets dead, but.
• 1:06:22
  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. But, you know, it's one of those
• 1:06:25
  that I kind of forgive. I don't know why Will Ferrell
• 1:06:28
  works for me, but it does. And, and I, you know, the fact
• 1:06:32
  that it's a long gag that ends with uncertainty, like you get
• 1:06:36
  to the end of it and Doctor Evil is sitting there quietly, like,
• 1:06:40
  is he going to go again? Like, is it going to happen
• 1:06:42
  again? So that that part worked for me.
• 1:06:46
  But I'm, I'm sitting here thinking about some of the other
• 1:06:49
  cameos of people who do not like, they're just people that
• 1:06:53
  nobody would have noticed. There's the soup Nazi from
• 1:06:58
  Seinfeld. There's the you're a very bad
• 1:07:00
  man Jerry from Seinfeld. Like he's the head of the UN,
• 1:07:06
  you know, so at least two Seinfeld actors are trying.
• 1:07:10
  To remember where that was. Oh.
• 1:07:15
  Yeah, but anyway, Michael McDonald, he gets smushed and
• 1:07:18
  then they get caught and. Bond gets a tour of the bad guys
• 1:07:22
  there. And this is the other thing that
• 1:07:26
  I think is shockingly good. And it's probably because we
• 1:07:30
  just watched Bond. But listening to Scott be like,
• 1:07:34
  I got a gun in my room, let's just do it together like that
• 1:07:38
  works for me. It annoyed everyone whenever
• 1:07:41
  they watched a Bond film to be like, why are you not watching
• 1:07:45
  them die? Why can't we just do it now?
• 1:07:49
  Yeah, like why do we have to have this elaborate thing?
• 1:07:52
  Let's just put a bullet in them. And it all starts with
• 1:07:56
  Goldfinger with the laser. And no, Mr. Bond, I expect you
• 1:08:00
  to die. And that kind of became that,
• 1:08:04
  well, I'm going to use sharks in a pool and I'm not going to
• 1:08:07
  watch him die. And then I'm going to use this
• 1:08:10
  and that and just got more and more elaborate.
• 1:08:13
  But nobody would watch Bond die. And I, I do like that this
• 1:08:19
  movie, it just points directly at that.
• 1:08:22
  And it's probably Seth Green's best scene in the whole movie.
• 1:08:27
  Yeah, just the one guard gets to try and watch him die, yeah.
• 1:08:32
  I hate the head buns. OK, to give the audience
• 1:08:38
  context, there are no sharks. There are irritable bass for
• 1:08:43
  some. Reason and I guess that.
• 1:08:45
  Yeah, mutated to be slightly more irritable and they don't
• 1:08:52
  have lasers on their heads, but I guess they will eat man.
• 1:08:56
  Because when they eat somebody. When Bond, Yeah, When Bond gets
• 1:09:00
  or Bond when Austin gets away with Vanessa, they slowly dip
• 1:09:07
  the guard's head into the water just to have it eaten and to
• 1:09:11
  give us like 3 minutes of puns. Yeah, it's it's a bit of puns.
• 1:09:17
  Yep, it loses me again. Like I've been having a great
• 1:09:21
  time. Then the puns happen and I'm
• 1:09:24
  like this movie sucks again. And then we get the fembots to
• 1:09:29
  happen and I'm like, this movie rocks again.
• 1:09:33
  No, Nope. Second second act is the
• 1:09:37
  weakest, first act is probably. Second.
• 1:09:40
  Oh yeah, 100%. And then third act, I don't love
• 1:09:45
  the thumb UPS but you know, since they work for you the I
• 1:09:49
  think the rest of it has enough of pieces of good.
• 1:09:56
  I enjoy when #2 tells off typed evil like I did a good job.
• 1:10:02
  What are you doing? You're bad at this.
• 1:10:05
  I'm great at this. I also love Doctor Evil's
• 1:10:10
  Doctor. No plastic suit that he wears.
• 1:10:14
  For some reason, nobody else is wearing it.
• 1:10:17
  Like in Doctor. No, everybody was wearing it.
• 1:10:19
  Kind of fixing himself inside of it.
• 1:10:21
  Like, yeah, those things look awkward.
• 1:10:24
  Like it's, it's a dumb visual gag.
• 1:10:27
  It probably goes on a little bit too long.
• 1:10:29
  When he can't sit in the chair is about the time I'm bored with
• 1:10:32
  it. But when we first see it and
• 1:10:35
  because we not just but, you know, this year we had watched
• 1:10:40
  Doctor know, I was like, Hey, I get that reference.
• 1:10:43
  I know what that is. So I liked it.
• 1:10:46
  I was OK with it. But you know, they've got the
• 1:10:51
  infiltration, the the vaguely actiony scene of British forces
• 1:10:58
  raiding the underground layer and having a shootout with the
• 1:11:03
  evil forces. It looks so awkward.
• 1:11:09
  Yeah, I mean like we're, I'm leaving a couple things behind,
• 1:11:14
  but I'm good with not. Feel free with with take with
• 1:11:17
  pulling the reins and saying I need to talk about this because
• 1:11:20
  most of this movie are just bits and I have kind of only talked
• 1:11:25
  about the bits that stood out to me.
• 1:11:27
  So please take us back before I take us to the end.
• 1:11:32
  No, I think the the shoot makes me think of the volcano lair
• 1:11:38
  when they're fighting each other.
• 1:11:41
  I definitely don't love the visually.
• 1:11:45
  I can see a clip and say, oh, that's Austin Powers getting a
• 1:11:51
  cart stuck in the hallway. But watching it was brutal
• 1:11:56
  because it's like, OK, this will get stuck.
• 1:11:58
  I'm not laughing any harder. And I wasn't laughing initially.
• 1:12:04
  I don't know why I completely skipped that one.
• 1:12:06
  It's the last of the famous visual gads and the older I get
• 1:12:13
  the less I like it. And I think that's the thing
• 1:12:15
  that stood out to me most glaringly is the last time we
• 1:12:20
  see it, he crashes into the wall with his all metal cart and they
• 1:12:27
  make a glass shattering noise as though he broke a headlight.
• 1:12:31
  And I'm just like, you're doing so much extra work with the
• 1:12:35
  sound effects, but I can see with my eyeballs that no glass
• 1:12:41
  broke. Like oh man that part just irks
• 1:12:45
  me every time the. I guess the last bit of before
• 1:12:48
  the very ending, Vanessa is in her matching her mother's
• 1:12:54
  outfit. When she's coming in, she's
• 1:12:56
  checking out the British forces in their red shirts.
• 1:13:00
  I'm like, are they, are we back in the Revolutionary War?
• 1:13:03
  Are we? Never let them see you.
• 1:13:06
  Bleed and she's in her black like Catwoman outfit.
• 1:13:11
  I'm like, oh, that is she did come back to it.
• 1:13:13
  I was trying to trying to remember, but then we foiled
• 1:13:19
  Doctor Evil's plan and I'm good. I mean, they've got the the
• 1:13:25
  giant abort button so Austin can slow motion run to it and.
• 1:13:31
  Jump in and. Hit it.
• 1:13:32
  Yeah. It's I I'm not a huge fan.
• 1:13:38
  Like there are times when I'm like, OK, it's kind of funny
• 1:13:41
  that they shot it like a 1960s action scene with heavy
• 1:13:47
  choreography, and they probably would reset to 1 and re shoot it
• 1:13:51
  again and again. And so people are very stiff and
• 1:13:55
  they move in very coordinated, Yeah, like very choreographed
• 1:13:59
  ways. And so there are times when I
• 1:14:03
  watch it, I'm like, OK, that's kind of funny.
• 1:14:05
  And then other times I watch it and I'm like, we don't need it.
• 1:14:08
  Come on. Yeah.
• 1:14:11
  But you know, I'm on the fence with the invasion itself.
• 1:14:17
  Thankfully them and I, I can't believe I'm saying this.
• 1:14:20
  Thankfully the movie continues after the plan gets foiled and
• 1:14:27
  ruined. Because, you know, this was
• 1:14:33
  where you pointed out the number 2 stands up for himself and and
• 1:14:37
  he gets eliminated. But this is also where Austin
• 1:14:40
  catches up to Doctor Evil, and I think this is the first time
• 1:14:46
  where we see both of their faces on screen.
• 1:14:50
  No, this is the second time we got them at dinner.
• 1:14:52
  Yeah, so I did. I did chuckle because Mike Myers
• 1:14:57
  as Doctor Evil was so convincing at one point earlier when
• 1:15:01
  they're walking past each other at the like first time they get
• 1:15:04
  caught. I I was like, wait, why are they
• 1:15:08
  having a bald stand in walk between Vanessa and like, And
• 1:15:13
  then I was like, oh, right, duh. You can't be two people, Justin.
• 1:15:19
  There's, there's a, there's another person who is the same
• 1:15:22
  person in this room, like real. Reason why?
• 1:15:26
  So it is good in that regard. There are times when you just
• 1:15:29
  forget and and I will always give this movie that credit.
• 1:15:35
  They kind of ruined the exit escape for me at least, because
• 1:15:42
  Austin Powers does his flip into this car that he's done before,
• 1:15:46
  and he lands on the gear shift and it's a nut joke.
• 1:15:50
  Like it's Ouch. Yeah.
• 1:15:52
  And they don't, they don't give any of the troopers a ride.
• 1:15:56
  They're like, you guys have to go on foot.
• 1:15:59
  Good luck surviving. Yeah, yeah, it.
• 1:16:04
  I don't love that. I'm fine with them getting
• 1:16:09
  married so we can have our random task scene I guess maybe.
• 1:16:14
  You know the last henchman scene?
• 1:16:16
  Yeah, we stopped having those in Bond movies.
• 1:16:20
  Why can't we have them here? Seemed, yeah, seemed OK.
• 1:16:24
  I the the naked gag scenes, man, is it just, I don't know what
• 1:16:37
  I'm like, OK, you're just naked. Except at least this one where
• 1:16:44
  it's their honeymoon makes a little more logical sense of
• 1:16:48
  you're naked. Way back in the earlier third of
• 1:16:51
  the movie I was just like, why in the world is he walking
• 1:16:55
  around naked for? A.
• 1:16:56
  And why is Vanessa OK with this? Like, and I assume that she
• 1:17:01
  didn't see him, but man. I guess not.
• 1:17:04
  That's. All Yeah, of two rather awkward
• 1:17:08
  scenes. This one was less awkward.
• 1:17:12
  I'm kind of OK with both of them.
• 1:17:15
  I am a sucker for complicated blocking and or staging is
• 1:17:21
  another word for it. But you know, when you have to
• 1:17:24
  hit your beats at a very specific time or it messes up
• 1:17:29
  everything and you can have a domino effect of things getting
• 1:17:31
  messed up. A million years ago, when I used
• 1:17:36
  to do musical theater, that was my favorite stuff to do would be
• 1:17:41
  those overly complicated dance numbers where everybody had to
• 1:17:45
  be at a very specific place at a very specific time.
• 1:17:49
  And in film, you can cheat, you can have cuts, you can, you
• 1:17:54
  know, film only the parts that work and then cut them together.
• 1:17:58
  And I don't think they do that. I think they use a long shot
• 1:18:03
  where they just have one camera set up and they have to hit all
• 1:18:08
  of their marks, whether it's Mike Myers in a Speedo trying to
• 1:18:14
  pretend that he's naked and Vanessa, you know, twirling A
• 1:18:19
  magnifying glass. Or the sausage.
• 1:18:21
  Or having both of them naked and doing their thing.
• 1:18:25
  Like all of the blocking in the beats have to be perfect.
• 1:18:29
  And in this particular case, if they miss one, they have to
• 1:18:32
  reset the entire thing because they can't just do a cut and
• 1:18:38
  splice it in. So I'm going to give them their
• 1:18:41
  credit there. Like, yes, it is one of those
• 1:18:44
  things that was definitely made for teenage boys to be like, oh,
• 1:18:47
  they're almost naked. But for me, as a sucker for
• 1:18:53
  complicated blocking, I'm OK with it.
• 1:18:55
  I think it's good. Well, I would rate the first one
• 1:19:00
  below 5, the second one above 5. It's mm.
• 1:19:05
  Hmm, the choreography of the scene.
• 1:19:08
  I'll give it to you that it's complicated and they did a good
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  job of hiding their naked bits I guess.
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  I mean, at all times, I'm pretty sure they have, you know, things
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  to cover themselves because, you know, that's just the way it is.
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  And so if we were to look at like deleted scenes, you would
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  see pasties on Elizabeth Hurley's and and both of them in
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  Speedos. But even then you still like the
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  joke. Doesn't work if you see the
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  pasty. Like the joke just loses its
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  luster. And that's why I agree with you.
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  The first one doesn't work as good because you can clearly see
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  Austin Powers in a Speedo and so I'm like that one doesn't work
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  as well. Oh well, the henchman shows up
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  and tries to fight him and this long running gag of a penis pump
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  that doesn't belong to Austin disables my.
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  God I hate. That random task and they
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  celebrate by looking at a telescope and seeing the frozen
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  shoot Big Boy burger spaceship. The end.
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  I mean, I'm glad that the the Swedish Swedish penis pump or
• 1:20:37
  enlarger or whatever they call it, I'm glad that that got 1
• 1:20:41
  little button at the end to justify it.
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  But I absolutely hate Austin Powers is discharge from the
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  cryogenic chamber and the constant running gag of like
• 1:20:54
  here's a receipt for the penis enlarger.
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  Here's a book by Austin Powers about how much he loves it.
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  Like that part didn't work for me, but you know, I'm fine with
• 1:21:06
  with it being used to kill random.
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  Tasks I guess. I guess.
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  But yeah, like the movie ends and I think this is so they have
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  post credits scenes or at least mid credits scenes, but they're
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  not scenes necessarily. They're just images and stuff.
• 1:21:30
  But it it kept my butt in the seats to watch it.
• 1:21:34
  Well I dislike this movie so much.
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  I think I saw the end and did not look at the the running
• 1:21:44
  time. So just now I am seeing these
• 1:21:47
  clips that's like got to the end.
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  And it's like, oh, there's there's Austin as a photographer
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  and we get Elizabeth Hurley in nice outfits.
• 1:22:01
  Yes, she's the most prettiest woman in 1997.
• 1:22:05
  Go ahead. There, there's also the
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  assistant who is in there, and he'll be part of the running gag
• 1:22:11
  of those images, but it is primarily Mike Myers and
• 1:22:16
  Elizabeth Hurley. Elizabeth Hurley in particular
• 1:22:18
  just looking gorgeous for 5 minutes.
• 1:22:22
  Yeah. And and then they do a music
• 1:22:25
  video for I think it's the Ming T is the name of Mike Myers band
• 1:22:31
  Guess so I had forgotten that he had a band.
• 1:22:36
  And this is one of those things where because I had forgotten
• 1:22:39
  most of this movie, I looked at the list of songs at the end
• 1:22:45
  credits and I was like like 90% of these are on my liked songs.
• 1:22:50
  And I'm pretty sure that Ming T song about the BBC is in my
• 1:22:56
  liked songs. Like it's a dumb song but I like
• 1:23:00
  it. I like screaming BBC One, BBC
• 1:23:05
  Two, BBC Three like I'm into. It I think the since we see
• 1:23:13
  where the band is coming from, the interspersed That 70s Show
• 1:23:19
  clips of them in between some of the scenes in this movie had me
• 1:23:23
  all sorts of mixed up because I was not sure what Austin Powers
• 1:23:28
  was to them. It was just people in the 60s,
• 1:23:31
  but we're now in the 90s. Why are they still around?
• 1:23:34
  What is this like? So.
• 1:23:36
  But I never really was curious long enough to find out.
• 1:23:40
  Yeah, and I, I've never watched things like the monkeys to know
• 1:23:44
  if that is sure, you know, something that was actually
• 1:23:48
  happening happening in the 60s and 70s.
• 1:23:50
  But the first time it happened, it threw me off.
• 1:23:55
  And I'm glad you brought it up because, you know, there's no
• 1:23:57
  way to point it out like, oh, yeah.
• 1:23:59
  And in the movie they have these interstitials that are just a
• 1:24:03
  little bit of song and some weird camera angles.
• 1:24:08
  First time it threw me off. Second or third time I was like,
• 1:24:11
  OK, I'm fine with it. And then there's the teeth one
• 1:24:14
  where it ends with a, a zoom on those that terrible mouth
• 1:24:19
  prosthetic and I, I was like, all right, I'm, I'm off of it
• 1:24:24
  again. I hate them now.
• 1:24:25
  I hate all of them because of the teeth one.
• 1:24:28
  Yeah, Yep. That's not James Bond will
• 1:24:35
  return again. Just get a groovy baby at the
• 1:24:38
  end of it. And I it, it doesn't invoke
• 1:24:43
  anything in me to hear those words.
• 1:24:46
  See those words? Yeah.
• 1:24:49
  And it, you know, if you were unfamiliar with Bond, you'd
• 1:24:53
  probably be like, why? Why is that there?
• 1:24:56
  But even if you were familiar with Bond, if you didn't watch
• 1:24:59
  all the end credits, you don't know that they always say James
• 1:25:03
  Bond will return. And frankly, I missed the groovy
• 1:25:09
  baby. I watched this movie twice and I
• 1:25:11
  watched them all the way to the end of the credits and I missed
• 1:25:16
  it both times. What I did not miss was the very
• 1:25:21
  last song and I don't remember what it's called, but when I
• 1:25:25
  heard it, it blew my mind because it's on like three or
• 1:25:29
  four of my favorite playlists. It's just such a weird song and
• 1:25:33
  I love it. And the chorus says the female
• 1:25:36
  of the species is more deadlier than the male.
• 1:25:41
  And the way the guy sings it is just, it's such an interesting
• 1:25:45
  way and for like the past decade I've been like, man, this song
• 1:25:49
  is so weird and good and I love it.
• 1:25:51
  And then I hear it at the very end of the credits for like 1
• 1:25:55
  minute of the song and I'm like, did I secretly fall in love with
• 1:26:00
  this song because of Austin Powers?
• 1:26:02
  Like. Possibly.
• 1:26:04
  Seems like I guess so. All right, well, I'm going to
• 1:26:09
  start it off now because we're pretty tidy on this show.
• 1:26:14
  If you are new here, we do reviews or we do ratings and not
• 1:26:19
  grades. The the primary difference
• 1:26:21
  between a rating and a grade is where you find the average in a
• 1:26:24
  grade. We don't want students to feel
• 1:26:26
  bad. So we say A7 out of 10 is the
• 1:26:28
  average, but that's a grade that's not the average.
• 1:26:31
  We're doing a rating where we say A5 out of 10 is the middle.
• 1:26:35
  That is the average. So if your favorite movie, it's
• 1:26:38
  a 5 out of 10, we're not saying it's a bad movie, we're saying
• 1:26:41
  it's an average movie. So with that said, Justin, what
• 1:26:48
  would you rate Austin Powers Colon International Man of
• 1:26:52
  Mystery on a scale of 1 to 10? This is the worst Austin Powers
• 1:26:56
  movie I have ever seen. The average of five.
• 1:27:04
  I'm going to go with 3.5 because I actively disliked parts and I
• 1:27:11
  feel like I probably disliked this movie more than Thunderball
• 1:27:16
  of James Bond and that's saying plenty.
• 1:27:20
  There are 3.5 good moments in this movie.
• 1:27:28
  There's more. I just had to had to go with it.
• 1:27:30
  That was a good that was. Good.
• 1:27:33
  There's there's some good funny, there's some good, what would
• 1:27:41
  you say plot wise? And then there's just a lot of
• 1:27:47
  sketches that maybe were funny. I don't know that they carry any
• 1:27:54
  much humor now for me, but I'm not in the target demographic
• 1:28:01
  for this sort of comedy anymore, I think.
• 1:28:05
  Yeah, I have also aged out of it and that I think that's a good
• 1:28:09
  way to point it put it, it is juvenile.
• 1:28:14
  Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't care that it's
• 1:28:16
  juvenile like it's going for it. So yes.
• 1:28:21
  It's quite proud of being juvenile.
• 1:28:23
  And again, 20 years ago, it worked for me.
• 1:28:27
  And at that point, the movie was almost 10 years old, you know,
• 1:28:31
  so like, it had a shockingly long shelf life for a comedy.
• 1:28:39
  But we're not reviewing this movie based on the past.
• 1:28:41
  We're reviewing it based on the present.
• 1:28:44
  And therefore I'm at a three out of 10.
• 1:28:47
  Like I I had trouble watching this both times.
• 1:28:50
  Like the first time I watched it, I almost turned it off and
• 1:28:53
  then I remembered that we have to record this thing.
• 1:28:58
  I got to know what happens. Yep.
• 1:29:00
  And then the second time I was like, OK, maybe I was just in a
• 1:29:03
  bad mood and that's not the movie's fault.
• 1:29:05
  I'm going to try this again and I'll admit I probably liked a
• 1:29:11
  few parts more the second time around.
• 1:29:14
  I think I had primed the pumps to be like, OK, we're in 90s,
• 1:29:18
  mid 90s comedy, let's just take ourselves back there and see if
• 1:29:23
  we can enjoy it. And that's where my most glowing
• 1:29:28
  parts of this entire episode that came from the second
• 1:29:31
  viewing that came from me giving it a second appraisal and being
• 1:29:35
  like, OK, there are parts of this movie that genuinely work
• 1:29:38
  and I got to give it credit for that.
• 1:29:41
  But the movie hasn't aged well. It's a comedy.
• 1:29:43
  It shouldn't age well. Like that's the point of comedy
• 1:29:47
  it. I guess so.
• 1:29:47
  It should live in its time. Yeah, I guess so, yeah.
• 1:29:53
  But that you know, that gives us an average rating of 3.25.
• 1:29:58
  I just kind of disagree because I kind of caught a little bit of
• 1:30:01
  Groundhog Day recently and it's still funny.
• 1:30:05
  It's still funny. Can I tell you something?
• 1:30:09
  I'm sad that that's not a franchise because I have only
• 1:30:12
  ever seen scenes from Groundhog's Day.
• 1:30:15
  I have never watched the whole thing from start to finish.
• 1:30:20
  And the scenes I have watched are still funny.
• 1:30:23
  Like I have no concept of what the whole movie is like.
• 1:30:27
  I know what it's about. Obviously it's one of the most
• 1:30:29
  important time loop movies of all time, but I've never sat
• 1:30:35
  down to watch it from start to finish and that's a shame.
• 1:30:40
  So I do need to see how well it stands up from beginning to end.
• 1:30:45
  Anyway, we are 1/3 of the way through Austin Powers.
• 1:30:49
  We did it. Now I I haven't watched these
• 1:30:54
  movies for 20 years so I cannot speak to their quality, but I am
• 1:31:01
  going to say that I at least remember Austin Powers, The Spy
• 1:31:06
  Who Shagged Me being a better movie than the first one.
• 1:31:12
  That's what I've heard. Oh man, do I hope that's true.
• 1:31:15
  We'll get it. We'll get it to the fours.
• 1:31:18
  It'll make it. Yeah, maybe.
• 1:31:19
  Maybe we'll even make it to A5. Possible.
• 1:31:25
  Oh, oh man. All right, well, that's going to
• 1:31:27
  do it for us. If you heard this and you're
• 1:31:31
  like how dare you butcher one of the greatest comedy movies of
• 1:31:35
  all time, send us an e-mail potato
• 1:31:38
  chippicturespod@gmail.com. We would love to hear your
• 1:31:44
  opinion about this movie. We.
• 1:31:46
  Respect all takes. Exactly.
• 1:31:49
  We might not read it out loud, but you know, if it's e-mail,
• 1:31:54
  there's a good chance we will because most of the time we only
• 1:31:56
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• 1:32:02
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• 1:32:06
  share little tiny clips from the episodes to be like, hey, you
• 1:32:11
  like this movie? These two guys were riffing and
• 1:32:14
  talking about it for a bit. Why don't you?
• 1:32:16
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• 1:32:19
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• 1:32:29
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• 1:32:32
  And of course, as always, we will be back next week with
• 1:32:37
  Austin Powers, the spy who shacked me.
• 1:32:40
  I guess. Groovy, baby, that's how it is.
• 1:32:45
  Fun. I guess so.