FH Mini 151 - Birthday Movies

[0:00] hey everyone and welcome to the flop house i'm dan mccoy i'm stewart wellington and i'm elliot

[0:12] kalen we all did it we all said our names funny hey this is a this is a flop house mini elliot

[0:18] saying bass dan says saying tenor what is it yeah tenor um look jewish people don't know that song

[0:26] Anyway, moving on.

[0:28] I don't think anyone knows that song anymore,

[0:31] although it's referenced on this show frequently for some reason.

[0:35] Yeah, lost the time.

[0:39] This is the Flophouse podcast,

[0:41] a podcast that is often about bad movies.

[0:45] We watch them, then we talk about them.

[0:47] But every other week, we do these minis

[0:50] where it's kind of more freeform,

[0:52] and I'm in charge this time, me, Dan McCoy.

[0:55] Danny's in the driver's seat.

[0:57] Driver Danny.

[0:58] We are.

[1:00] Comes with all you see here.

[1:02] Yep.

[1:03] We are entering the month of June.

[1:06] And I know my co-hosts love it when I bring it up.

[1:10] My birthday is in June.

[1:11] That's my birth month.

[1:13] I've referred to this before on the show.

[1:15] Gemini, right?

[1:16] Gemini.

[1:17] That's right.

[1:17] Gemini on the holograms and I.

[1:19] Makes sense.

[1:19] Yeah.

[1:21] How so, Stuart?

[1:22] You're the astrologist here.

[1:25] you're uh let's uh well you were born in june right yeah uh you know it's uh you're you got

[1:33] there's kind of two sides to dan there's the the outgoing side and the side that just wants to

[1:37] cuddle up and stay inside yeah yeah that that is also called being a human being yeah sure uh-huh

[1:44] um no no it's only we all wear a mask summer lace sounds like real fire sign energy elliott

[1:50] What's your sign?

[1:51] Sagittarius.

[1:52] Is that a fire sign?

[1:53] Oh, oh.

[1:54] Yes, it is.

[1:55] Oh.

[1:55] Oh, wow.

[1:56] Well, I guess that proves it anyway.

[1:59] Yeah.

[2:00] It's real, folks.

[2:01] Okay, boys.

[2:03] Round them up.

[2:04] So back to the.

[2:05] What, the planets?

[2:07] Oh, we got what we need, boys.

[2:09] Swarm, swarm.

[2:09] And all the planets get rounded up and thrown in jail.

[2:12] Back to the conceit of this mini, though.

[2:14] I've referenced this before on the show.

[2:16] That's your birthday coming up.

[2:18] Yes, yeah.

[2:18] When I was growing up, my parents rarely took us out to the movies.

[2:23] Too expensive.

[2:24] At a certain point, though, all I wanted—

[2:27] Unlike nowadays.

[2:28] Yeah, now when they're just giving movies away for free.

[2:30] Well, I mean, my parents did sort of claw their way up from lower middle class to upper middle class over the years.

[2:36] I saw it in the foods that I was fed when I was young versus how we eat now.

[2:41] But anyway—

[2:43] When they started serving you beef instead of whole grain blorp?

[2:49] Government blorp.

[2:53] Point is...

[2:54] I don't know why my tax dollars are going to buy in government blorp for some poor people.

[2:59] Point is...

[2:59] It should be going for bombing poor people in other countries.

[3:03] At a certain point, all I wanted to do for my birthday was to go see a movie.

[3:07] And sometimes this was the party that I had.

[3:12] You know, like my parents would take me and a few friends to a movie.

[3:16] I think a couple times it was just me, but I am going to quiz you on some of these movies that I recall being my birthday movies.

[3:26] Wow.

[3:27] Because you would think a birthday movie would be like a big release.

[3:30] Oh, we're going to take Dan to see a big, great movie.

[3:33] Out of Africa.

[3:35] Well, you know, I chose what movie we were going to see.

[3:38] I was like, this is the one that I want to see.

[3:41] And my memory is not the most reliable, but to the best of my knowledge, these are all movies that I saw in the theater because it was my birthday pick.

[3:54] Nobody look them up and find out that two came out in the same year.

[3:57] Don't Columbo Dan on this.

[3:58] We don't need it.

[4:00] And so this is structured somewhat like a game.

[4:05] I am going to see if you guys can guess the movie

[4:09] from information I give you about each of these pictures.

[4:14] Out of Africa.

[4:15] And then, nope, none of them were out of Africa.

[4:17] I still haven't seen Out of Africa.

[4:20] Someday we will have to do Out of Africa.

[4:21] None of us have seen it, right?

[4:22] And I refuse to believe it exists.

[4:23] No, we haven't seen it, yeah.

[4:24] There's no way it's a real movie,

[4:25] even though it won Best Picture.

[4:26] That was a big hit.

[4:27] A huge hit.

[4:27] Yeah, I feel like we,

[4:28] aren't we going to do like Best Picture winners

[4:30] that we've never seen or some shit?

[4:32] Maybe that'll be our Flop TV.

[4:33] We got a lot of good ideas for Flop TV at Roots once.

[4:36] We should start talking about that off mic.

[4:37] We've got to set a meeting about that.

[4:39] Actually, if we're going to do it, we've got to schedule it, yeah.

[4:42] Listeners, write in and tell us to set a meeting.

[4:46] Get into our Google Calendar and put it on the...

[4:49] Listeners, we don't want to use AI,

[4:51] so we need you as our agents that do these things for us, yeah.

[4:54] Yeah, I'm going to see whether you can guess the movie,

[4:57] but then I'm going to...

[4:59] I want you guys to discuss whether these movies were birthday worthy.

[5:03] If you only got to see a couple of movies a year, would these be films worth spending your birthday chit on?

[5:11] So you're like Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[5:14] You get one piece of chocolate a year on your birthday, but it's a movie.

[5:18] Yeah, but the gold makes the movie taste bad.

[5:20] I got to admit, I got to admit, this is how I remember growing up being.

[5:24] But then I was like looking at movies that were released in the same zone.

[5:28] And I'm like, oh, but I also saw that one.

[5:31] I'm pretty sure in the theater.

[5:33] So, occasionally, like, there were actually—

[5:37] Maybe I didn't grow up in a house underneath the Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster.

[5:41] Yeah, that's possible, yeah.

[5:41] Maybe.

[5:42] Okay, so here's the first picture.

[5:45] It's from 1988, and the first bit of information I'll give you is

[5:49] the actor who plays the title character of this 1988 film gets third billed.

[5:57] Uncle Buck.

[5:59] That would be wild.

[6:01] There's no way John Candy's getting third billing in Uncle Buck.

[6:04] Who else is in the movie?

[6:06] Kieran Culkin?

[6:07] After a couple of kids, yeah.

[6:08] Lars McCauley Culkin?

[6:09] Which Culkin is in that?

[6:10] Yeah.

[6:10] It's a Culkin.

[6:12] Maybe this will help.

[6:13] That when they're born, they go, it's a Culkin.

[6:15] Maybe this IMDB goof will help narrow things down.

[6:18] Is it The Adventures of Ford Fairlane?

[6:20] No, that was later, right?

[6:22] This goof points out that unless genetics work in a special way for the title character's species,

[6:29] He and his mate, both blue-eyed, could not give birth to brown-eyed children.

[6:34] So that's a big genetics goof that this picture made.

[6:39] So we know someone is of a different...

[6:41] Is it Babe?

[6:42] Oh, is it Howard the Duck?

[6:45] I don't believe that Howard the Duck had a child in the film.

[6:49] He did in my unofficial sequel, Howard 2.

[6:52] He practices the act that would lead to children.

[6:55] That's true, yeah.

[6:57] Let's see.

[6:59] no i i'm gonna need one more dog movie here's a is a beethoven

[7:04] a dog it's not a dog picture um this this one might give it away young dan

[7:12] was interested in this movie because he saw a making of that highlighted its new for the time

[7:19] and groundbreaking morphing special effects there's a big morphing scene at the end of this

[7:25] movie um if you don't get it from this the last one's a gimme okay well wait give us a moment

[7:33] give us a moment i remember when morphing was everybody's morphing these days everyone's

[7:36] morphing these days that's a video that i didn't even see i know it as a reference that you make

[7:41] to a video that they used to watch in the daily we used to watch the daily show there was a there

[7:44] was a i forget what stand-up comic it was but he'd do impressions of of presidents and he decided to

[7:49] morph together all these different presidents and he would just start and we just well the reason

[7:53] we watched is because his intro was so

[7:55] forced. He goes, everybody's morphing

[7:57] these days. So I thought, what if we could

[7:59] what if I morphed the presence

[8:01] together? So we would just say, we'd just walk around saying, everybody's

[8:03] morphing these days.

[8:05] And then when Morbius came out, we were like, everybody's

[8:07] morbid these days. Everybody's morbid these days.

[8:11] Everybody's

[8:11] morbid these days.

[8:14] Especially Eddie Murphy.

[8:16] Oh, for sure. So it's something where

[8:17] someone, something morphs, or

[8:19] someone morphs. There's another species. What year?

[8:22] 1988.

[8:23] and i know when you say it i'll be like oh right um the title character is third the third build

[8:32] actor so it's not this is one of their bigger names in it than the title character not that

[8:36] this will uh help you but this is the one that i'm uh more doubtful about like was was this my

[8:43] birthday movie i saw but i did see it in the theater so um let me uh let me just move on to

[8:50] The last one will...

[8:52] It's not Teen Wolf 2.

[8:53] The last one's going to give it to you, I believe.

[8:56] Young Dan had a big crush on the female lead in this movie.

[9:01] That does not happen.

[9:01] Joanne Whaley.

[9:03] Oh.

[9:04] Joanne Whaley.

[9:06] I don't think it's as big a gimme as you think it is, Dan.

[9:08] She used to be known as Joanne Whaley Kilmer.

[9:13] Someone who might also have been in this picture.

[9:16] That involves new morphing effects.

[9:20] Yeah.

[9:21] The saint.

[9:23] All right.

[9:24] All right.

[9:24] Well, how about this?

[9:26] George Lucas produced it.

[9:28] Howard the Duck.

[9:29] No.

[9:29] This is real genius.

[9:31] This picture is titled Willow.

[9:34] Willow.

[9:35] Oh, Willow.

[9:36] Oh, there is morphing.

[9:37] Warwick Davis was third billed for Willow.

[9:41] Yeah, I think there were other gimme clues you could have given us that would have made it a little easier for you.

[9:45] He married you the name of the female lead.

[9:48] What?

[9:49] He married Saoirse?

[9:50] Willow

[9:54] So before we decide whether this movie was

[9:56] birthday worthy, I did look up

[9:58] what other films

[10:00] were in release at the time

[10:02] We have Red Heat

[10:04] Big

[10:05] The Great Outdoors

[10:07] Crocodile Dundee 2

[10:09] Big Business, Bull Durham

[10:12] Funny Farm, Rambo 3

[10:14] and The Presidio

[10:16] Jesus Christ

[10:18] Should I have gone to see The Presidio instead?

[10:20] Well, that last one I think you made up.

[10:24] But all the others, woof.

[10:26] Wow, yeah.

[10:27] Send them off.

[10:28] You don't remember Mark Harmon and the Presidio?

[10:30] Big was such a huge movie.

[10:32] Yeah, Big was a movie.

[10:33] I saw Big in the theaters, and I think I was seven years old.

[10:35] I didn't see it until VHS, and I think I was interested in Willow because I didn't, you know, I had not.

[10:42] It was a big fantasy movie.

[10:43] I had not yet learned that George Lucas producing something was a bad sign rather than a good sign.

[10:49] I was like, Star Wars, George Lucas, I want to see Willow.

[10:52] And Raiders of the Lost Ark you produced.

[10:54] Yeah, yeah.

[10:55] Definitely, my uncle took me to that, and I, guess what, loved it.

[10:59] But you didn't want to go see The Great Outdoors to see the on-screen debut of Annette Bening.

[11:07] Really?

[11:08] Yeah, that's her first movie.

[11:09] Did she play the bear?

[11:11] No, she's that big steak.

[11:13] Okay.

[11:15] She was in the makeup chair for 40 hours, yeah.

[11:18] Which was the one where the guys eat testicles?

[11:21] Is that Funny Farm?

[11:21] That's Funny Farm.

[11:22] That's Funny Farm.

[11:23] Where he keeps eating them and then he's going to break the record.

[11:26] He's breaking the record.

[11:27] And then it turns out they're sheep balls or something like that.

[11:29] Four stars from Roger Ebert, Funny Farm.

[11:31] He loved Funny Farm.

[11:33] Loved it.

[11:33] There's some funny stuff in Funny Farm.

[11:35] Yeah, it's not the title.

[11:36] It's right there.

[11:37] It's not called Serious Farm.

[11:39] It's not Cold Comfort Farm.

[11:40] I mean, knowing what I know now.

[11:41] Which is also a funny movie.

[11:43] Knowing what I know now, I guess I would have chosen Big out of these pictures.

[11:49] I mean, as a kid, a thousand percent I would have picked Willow.

[11:53] You were also like a year or two older than me.

[11:55] So you were, you should have been past Willow time.

[11:59] Our mutual friend, John Holt, when he worked in a video store, they had the Willow test,

[12:09] Which was, if people were asking whether our movie was good or not, they compared it to Willow.

[12:16] They're like, oh, that's a little bit better than Willow.

[12:19] That's worse than Willow.

[12:21] And it was sort of like on the idea that Willow was like the lowest movie that you could plausibly recommend.

[12:28] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[12:29] It's like funny.

[12:30] I mean, Val Kilmer's performance in that movie is like kind of incredible.

[12:35] That he is like.

[12:35] He's great.

[12:36] He's so good.

[12:38] I have to admit, I saw Willow as a kid.

[12:41] I really don't remember it very well.

[12:42] And I maybe should re-watch it again sometime, but I don't know.

[12:46] So I can't accurately judge it, you know.

[12:49] Let's move on.

[12:50] I hope you don't get too scared by all that morphing tech.

[12:53] I know, the morphing will really throw me off, yeah.

[12:56] I just showed my younger son Labyrinth.

[12:58] He had never seen it before.

[12:59] Oh, sick.

[13:00] And I remember as a kid seeing that CGI owl in the opening credits looked amazing.

[13:05] And watching it now, I'm like, this is the worst thing in the movie.

[13:07] Other than some of the songs, this is the worst thing in the movie is this owl.

[13:10] What?

[13:12] Let's move on to the next movie.

[13:15] You know, this is like a seven-year span, so there's not too many of these.

[13:19] Sure, sure, yeah.

[13:21] This next movie, the first thing I'll say about it is—

[13:23] Willow.

[13:25] The German dub of this 1989 film changes the name of the baby from Oscar to Donald.

[13:33] Oh, this is three-minute—no, no, this is Ghostbusters 2.

[13:35] This is Ghostbusters 2.

[13:37] yeah yeah ellie got it right away i was gonna like just uh just so we have more content i'll say that

[13:43] the other clues were going to be it contains cameos from cheech marin binstein chloe webb and

[13:48] bobby brown uh there's a goof listed here um the camera vigo is the camera that uh not from

[13:57] carpathia actually but from bohemia the camera that uh vinkman obviously i would have said

[14:04] name redacted but the camera that binkman uses to take pictures of the painting a brooks very wide

[14:09] would not be appropriate for this kind of photo shoot even though the description of the camera

[14:14] says when used properly it's great it's very sharp at every aperture there are no distortion

[14:20] and there are no ghosts and of course that elliot's boss is in this movie in a small part

[14:26] yes yeah that's true uh but yeah that's uh as soon as you said the he's 89 baby named oscar

[14:32] Yeah, Ghostbusters 2, yeah.

[14:35] Yeah, no, a classic, The Scolari Brothers.

[14:37] Yeah, I gave him the chair.

[14:40] The movie that introduced me to the actor Harris Ulan, yes.

[14:43] It always has a place in my heart, yeah.

[14:45] A movie that even as, I mean, like, I'm fond of this movie.

[14:48] Like, there's good stuff in it.

[14:50] But even as a kid watching it for the first time,

[14:53] the only thing I remember really making me laugh in it

[14:57] is when the guy says, like,

[15:00] Oh, well, it's like, it's my favorite show.

[15:03] That and Bassmasters.

[15:05] Bassmasters is a fishing show.

[15:06] It's a fishing show because I know Bassmasters.

[15:07] I know Bassmasters.

[15:08] That's what, I mean, I saw that.

[15:09] I was the right age to see that in theaters and love it.

[15:11] I loved that movie.

[15:12] I saw it in theaters.

[15:12] I was crazy about it.

[15:13] And adults were like, eh, it's not that good.

[15:14] And I was like, shut your mouth.

[15:16] And now when I watch it, I'm like, yeah, it's not as good as the first Ghostbusters.

[15:19] But, you know, I still enjoy it.

[15:21] And here's where I get a little confused about my own memories.

[15:27] because the other movies at the time,

[15:31] the first one listed,

[15:32] this was second at the box office

[15:34] and it had been out for 30,

[15:40] I don't know whether it was 30 days or 30 weeks.

[15:42] 30 weeks seems too much.

[15:44] 30 weeks seems crazy.

[15:45] It must have been 30 days.

[15:46] The second place is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,

[15:49] which I also saw in the theater.

[15:50] But we also have Dead Poets Society,

[15:54] Star Trek V, The Final Frontier,

[15:57] see no evil hear no evil field of dreams no holds barred and roadhouse oh we used to have it so good

[16:05] guys we did we did i mean i think how many weeks was roadhouse uh in theaters well i don't know

[16:11] again i don't think it's probably not weeks back then but back then movies were were in like you

[16:15] could say like oh indiana jones was and was also in theaters the same time movies were just in

[16:19] theaters longer back then yeah like the runs were longer you could have the movies would close in

[16:23] one theater and open another theater sometimes still like it was it's conceivable that those

[16:27] movies you would have seen them both in theaters maybe even a month or two apart you know no it

[16:32] must have been there's no way we would have gone out and seen them like back to back but uh but i

[16:36] would say ghostbusters 2 is eminently birthdayable when you're okay yeah do you you didn't you don't

[16:41] really weigh in on willow i i don't think uh whether you officially thought that was a

[16:46] you want my official yeah sure why not yeah i mean again i don't see it i don't remember the

[16:50] movie but i think a big fantasy film that i i think it totally yeah let's go see that for your

[16:55] birthday of course yeah yeah um yeah certainly if i hadn't seen indiana jones i would pick that one

[17:02] but uh ghostbusters 2 i remember having a good time even though i was like this is a mild

[17:06] disappointment to me as a big ghostbusters it's just also that first ghostbusters is a miracle

[17:10] that first ghostbusters so magical yeah the also part of the birthdayable means that you are also

[17:17] getting your parents to go see a thing

[17:19] they might normally not see.

[17:21] Yeah, that's true.

[17:22] So Willow fits that bill perfectly to me

[17:24] and Ghostbusters 2 to some extent as well.

[17:26] Yeah, although my dad was a Bill Murray fan,

[17:30] so I think he probably was like, yeah.

[17:33] Mostly because of the Razor's Edge, stuff like that.

[17:35] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[17:36] Yes.

[17:37] Here's one that I think Elliot's going to get immediately,

[17:42] but we'll see.

[17:44] I started out with an absurd clue because of that.

[17:50] The perverse part of me, even if I know it now, wants to say that I don't know it.

[17:53] But I may not know it at all.

[17:55] In this 1990 movie, one goof tells us that the stockings of the lead actress keep changing color.

[18:03] So that's just, in case you noticed it, a movie that, again, I thought Elliot would be so intimately familiar with

[18:12] that I'd start off on hard mode.

[18:15] 1990 movie.

[18:17] Yeah.

[18:17] The stockings of the lead actress keep changing color.

[18:20] Mm-hmm.

[18:21] No, I don't know it intimately enough, I guess.

[18:25] Here's something that'll heat things up.

[18:28] It really makes me look badder after I knew a movie

[18:30] just from the name of the baby that was in it.

[18:33] When the redacted store pots and pans of steel

[18:37] in the microwave, they turn it on and it explodes.

[18:40] There may be sparks and smokes, but a microwave.

[18:42] Yeah, this is Gremlins 2, the new batch.

[18:44] Yeah, of course.

[18:45] When the goofy one, I forgot his name,

[18:47] was going, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho,

[18:49] and just throwing them in there.

[18:50] Yep.

[18:52] And this is that, is that Lenny?

[18:54] Lenny, yeah, that's Lenny.

[18:55] George and Lenny?

[18:56] George is the other one, yeah.

[18:57] I threw this in just as an extra

[18:58] because I knew you would get it by this point.

[19:01] This is a little trivia.

[19:04] The only adults the Gremlins don't attack

[19:06] are Grandpa Fred and Mr. Katsuji,

[19:11] and Grandpa Fred doesn't seem scared of the gremlins.

[19:13] This would have been...

[19:14] He interviews one of them live on television.

[19:16] Yeah, this would have been partially explained

[19:17] had a deleted scene been kept.

[19:20] In this scene, Grandpa Fred initially thinks

[19:22] that the gremlins are some puppets

[19:23] introduced by his studio and carries on presenting.

[19:26] He improvises and presents his show

[19:27] as Grandpa Fred and his friends,

[19:29] which the gremlins like

[19:31] and turn to face the camera alongside him.

[19:34] Oh, I mean, it's too bad they didn't keep that in

[19:36] because otherwise, I always wondered that

[19:38] Because Gremlins 2 is such a tight puzzle box.

[19:43] All the logic tracks.

[19:44] It's such a logically rational movie.

[19:46] When I was watching the movie, I was like, this one thing doesn't make sense.

[19:50] What is this more Gremlin?

[19:52] In this movie, Leonard Maltin reviews the first movie, and then the Gremlins kill him for doing it.

[19:58] I buy that.

[19:59] That's believable.

[20:00] I love that movie so much.

[20:02] Hulk Hogan stops the Gremlins from ruining it.

[20:05] Now, when I saw it, Hulk Hogan was not in the theater with me.

[20:07] And yet the gremlins continued to play the movie anyway.

[20:12] Yeah.

[20:13] The theater usher is clearly independent filmmaker Paul Bartel.

[20:17] And yet...

[20:18] Clearly, clearly this movie was birthday worthy.

[20:21] But let's, just for fun, I'll tell you what else was in the theater around this time.

[20:26] We had Dick Tracy, RoboCop 2, Total Recall, Another 48 Hours, The Forgotten Picture, Betsy's Wedding,

[20:36] Back to the Future Part 3, Pretty Woman, Bird on a Wire, and The Adventures of Milo and Otis.

[20:44] Oh, that's a rough one.

[20:45] You should have taken your ass to Milo and Otis.

[20:47] Yeah, because you like to see pets killed right off camera.

[20:50] What are those adventures?

[20:51] What are they?

[20:52] Have you never seen The Adventures of Milo and Otis?

[20:55] No, I never saw it.

[20:56] I was not a fan of the genre of, like, real animals are on an adventure.

[21:03] Yeah.

[21:04] That was sort of—

[21:05] You're like, Homeward Bound?

[21:06] Go wherever you want.

[21:07] I don't care.

[21:08] There are some good movies in there.

[21:09] You got some Total Recall.

[21:11] Yeah.

[21:12] No, I mean.

[21:14] Et cetera and other, et all.

[21:15] No, I mean, like, there are.

[21:16] The other ones are less appropriate to my age at the time.

[21:21] Yeah.

[21:22] But, of course, yeah, I think we can all get Gremlins 2 as a movie that should be watched by everyone on every birthday.

[21:26] Yeah.

[21:27] Yeah, that's a birthday movie this year.

[21:29] Yeah.

[21:29] Yeah, a national.

[21:31] There should be a national holiday where we all just watch Gremlins 2.

[21:34] I would love it.

[21:35] Yeah.

[21:35] um okay well here's people who don't like gremlins too but i don't want to know those people no i do

[21:41] not want to know those people yeah um i'm just sad for them honestly yeah like they're missing

[21:46] joy from yeah uh okay birthday movies well is this batch not new enough for you is that your

[21:54] problem yeah yeah so birthday movies so this is 1991 i just like it when a new sky rise that's

[22:01] high-tech, doesn't have problems with it.

[22:04] Yes, Elliot, you have caught on to the pattern.

[22:06] I am going chronologically.

[22:08] Did I say Skyrise?

[22:09] The Shadow.

[22:10] Yeah.

[22:11] This 1991 picture.

[22:13] So not The Shadow.

[22:14] The woman playing the mother is only 10 years older

[22:16] than the actress playing her daughter.

[22:19] Again, starting off on hard mode.

[22:22] Yeah.

[22:23] Not necessarily because you'll know it,

[22:24] but because there was a lack of material for this one.

[22:27] There's a woman and her daughter, okay?

[22:30] Mm-hmm.

[22:31] So, yeah, just keep that in your back pocket.

[22:35] Mommy Dearest.

[22:36] Yeah, I went to see a rep screening of Mommy Dearest on my birthday because I was a young John Waters.

[22:44] Oh, you wish.

[22:46] So, okay, here's a goof.

[22:48] Here's a goof about this movie.

[22:49] Yeah, let's hear it.

[22:50] One cannot make any sound when choking because the foreign body, in this case the piece of meat, is stuck in the trachea, which is the air pipe.

[22:59] So air cannot go out, hence choking to death is silent.

[23:03] So that's a real big goof.

[23:06] So someone chokes on some meat, but they're making sounds.

[23:08] Someone chokes on some meat.

[23:09] I mean, that's true.

[23:09] If you think someone's choking, if you ask them, are you choking?

[23:13] And they can say yes, they're not technically choking, right?

[23:15] If they can't answer, then they are choking.

[23:18] Yeah.

[23:18] That's just a little helpful hint from Surgeon General, Flophouse Surgeon General Ellie Kalin.

[23:22] PSA.

[23:23] Yeah.

[23:24] Dan is the Flophouse Postmaster General, and Stuart is the Flophouse Party General.

[23:28] I think you're going to have to go on to the next one.

[23:34] These are tough.

[23:36] This is a tougher one.

[23:37] It's almost like he's making it difficult for us.

[23:39] The actor who played the title character gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly.

[23:45] Uncle Buck.

[23:47] Out of Africa?

[23:48] It's not Uncle Buck, where he stated that he and his co-lead, quote, didn't get along in the movie particularly, but it worked for the movie.

[23:56] I mean, I drove him nuts, and he encouraged me to drive him nuts.

[24:00] What about Bob?

[24:01] It is what about Bob?

[24:04] Ah, okay.

[24:04] Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.

[24:05] I was going to say Dutch.

[24:08] I'm just going to give you this last goof because I find it funny.

[24:12] Yeah.

[24:13] When –

[24:15] The title question is never answered.

[24:18] Yeah.

[24:19] When Richard Dreyfuss' character breaks into the store to get a weapon to kill Bob,

[24:23] he rejects the gun as, quote, too messy.

[24:26] However, the explosives he picks likely would have been just as messy, if not more.

[24:31] Got him.

[24:32] Good goof.

[24:33] Solid goof.

[24:34] Solid goof.

[24:36] Yeah, where were the screenwriters on that one?

[24:39] Yeah, I got to fact check that.

[24:41] The other movies in release, and again.

[24:43] What about Bob is another one I remember very little about, even though it was one we watched multiple times when I was a kid.

[24:49] So, the other movies in release, and I might have even gotten this one wrong, because I saw, I also saw Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves in the theater.

[24:58] That's a birthday movie.

[24:59] Yeah, for sure.

[25:00] It may have been my birthday movie.

[25:02] I don't know.

[25:03] City Slickers, Dying Young, The Rocketeer, Backdraft, Jungle Fever.

[25:08] Wow.

[25:09] Don't tell mom the baby city's dead.

[25:11] Baby sitter's dead.

[25:12] The baby city?

[25:13] Baby city is dead?

[25:14] Don't tell mom baby city has been destroyed.

[25:17] It's been wiped out.

[25:18] God, no one stepped on the baby city.

[25:19] Oh, no.

[25:21] It had so many years left as a city.

[25:25] What's a town but a baby city, guys?

[25:27] Yeah, that's true.

[25:28] Yeah.

[25:29] Soap Dish, Thelma and Louise.

[25:31] I just remember...

[25:32] Wow, talk about two movies that would be an interesting double feature.

[25:36] This little kid wasn't watching Thelma and Louise.

[25:40] But like Soap Dish I saw in the theaters.

[25:43] That's wild.

[25:44] I must have been nine or ten years old.

[25:46] Why did I see that?

[25:46] I definitely saw that movie.

[25:48] I did not understand it at all, pretty much.

[25:50] I could be wrong, but I very much feel like I saw Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves either at my birthday or someone else's birthday.

[25:57] Probably.

[25:57] I definitely saw it at someone else's birthday.

[25:59] That is a birthday movie.

[26:01] It's a quintessential birthday movie.

[26:02] That is like, not to be, like, women or people of all genders can enjoy Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, but that is a very, like, young boy birthday movie pick.

[26:16] It's got laughs.

[26:18] it's got action now i will say i keep saying oh i saw this thing in the theater i should mention

[26:22] i should point out not to not to lord my economic stability over dan's as a kid but my family was

[26:28] the exact opposite where we went to see everything like we were constantly going to the movies as a

[26:33] family so i saw so much stuff where i'm like why did i go see that in the theaters oh my family

[26:36] just was going to the movies and so so that's why i saw soap dish in the theater having no interest

[26:41] in it not understanding it not liking it you know well would you say what about bob is birthday

[26:46] worthy because i remember this this one sticks in my head because as a child at least i was very

[26:52] disappointed in what about bob because it was not the bill murray character that i liked yes it's a

[26:59] different kind of bill murray cool above it bill murray who is like quipping on the side i didn't

[27:05] like this guy who's being an irritant and ruining a man's life i found that very stressful but i

[27:14] could see you being like oh i want to see the new bill murray movie for my birthday like that makes

[27:17] perfect sense yeah yeah and you're like my dad likes bill murray so i want to take him to this

[27:22] yeah i want to do something nice for my dad that was the reason we watched this foremost in my mind

[27:26] as a child this was the period i mean that's very sweet this was the period when my dad looked the

[27:31] most like richard dreyfus in his life there was a period where the family joke was oh richard

[27:35] dreyfus is actually my dad like under an assumed name because they looked so similar at the time

[27:39] And this was – What About Bob is the peak of – if you want to know what my dad looked like in 1991, watch What About Bob and look at what your drive is.

[27:47] So did you enjoy seeing your dad driven mad?

[27:50] Who wouldn't?

[27:52] I feel like you're the – again, you're the opposite.

[27:53] You wanted to make your dad happy, and I was like, how do I drive him to the brink of madness?

[28:00] Can I play with madness in regards to my dad?

[28:02] Yeah.

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[33:17] movie from 1992

[33:19] out of the four

[33:22] films featuring this

[33:24] continuity of this character

[33:25] the 92 installment is the only one

[33:27] with credits without the character's logo

[33:30] so there you go

[33:32] a little bit of

[33:34] boring trivia for you

[33:35] four installments with this character

[33:37] well this sort of like general

[33:39] continuity of the character

[33:41] oh

[33:42] James Bond is that James Bond movie

[33:44] here's one you'll enjoy

[33:46] because it's the rare incorrectly regarded as goof.

[33:52] Okay.

[33:52] IMDb's best category, incorrectly regarded as goof,

[33:56] people bending backwards to justify various things.

[34:01] When Redacted plays the CD, just for fun,

[34:04] he scratches it back and forth like a record a few times,

[34:07] and it sounds like record scratches,

[34:09] although the technology to do so in real life

[34:11] was not invented until much later.

[34:14] Redacted is shown having several pieces of advanced technology

[34:17] that were impossible for the time.

[34:20] So that was not really a goof, guys.

[34:22] He just had advanced technology that could scratch CDs.

[34:25] Advanced technology.

[34:27] For some reason.

[34:28] He thought it might be useful to do that.

[34:32] All right.

[34:34] Scratching CDs.

[34:35] Now I think it's not James Bond because I don't see James Bond

[34:38] scratching a CD like a record for a goof.

[34:40] That would have been pretty cool, though.

[34:42] Yeah.

[34:44] There's four movies in this version of the continuity of this character.

[34:49] Yeah.

[34:49] Is this a – is this –

[34:51] And the weird thing is –

[34:53] This isn't like Batman Returns, right?

[34:54] It is Batman Returns.

[34:56] Oh, okay.

[34:56] Because technically those first four movies are all supposedly in the same continuity even though they're wildly different in style.

[35:03] They're incredibly different.

[35:03] You have different actors playing Batman at different points.

[35:05] Yeah, yeah.

[35:07] I mean they're all now in the DC continuity, right, as of the Flash movie.

[35:11] Oh, right, right.

[35:12] Yeah.

[35:12] But, yeah, so what other clues did you have for Batman Returns?

[35:16] Well, I did have one more that was a gimme that I just thought was fun.

[35:22] You're like, Danny DeVito plays the penguin in this movie.

[35:25] It is penguin related.

[35:27] It is.

[35:27] Okay.

[35:28] The trivia here is the production.

[35:29] Paul Reubens playing the penguin's dad?

[35:32] No, no.

[35:32] I mean, well, he did, but that's not the.

[35:34] The production wanted to use king penguins, but the only tame ones in captivity were at

[35:40] a bird sanctuary

[35:42] in the Cotswolds, deep in

[35:44] the English countryside. So the

[35:46] birds were flown to the States in the refrigerated

[35:48] hold of a plane. They were given their own

[35:50] refrigerated trailer and swimming

[35:52] pool with half a ton of fresh ice every

[35:54] day and had fresh fish

[35:56] delivered daily straight from the docks.

[35:58] Even though the temperature outside frequently

[36:00] topped 100 degrees, the whole set was

[36:02] refrigerated down to 35 degrees.

[36:04] The birds also had an around-the-clock

[36:06] bodyguard. The birds

[36:08] clearly enjoyed the experience as

[36:10] following their stint in Hollywood,

[36:12] most of them had mated and produced eggs,

[36:14] the sign of a contented penguin.

[36:16] Oh.

[36:17] So that was a penguin vacation for these penguins.

[36:19] That sounds great.

[36:20] I mean, if anything, that movie is worth it

[36:22] so that those penguins had a cool vacation.

[36:24] Unintended.

[36:26] Also, the fact that it has probably

[36:27] two of the best supervillain performances of all time.

[36:31] In Christopher Walken as Max Drek

[36:33] and that one guy who plays his son.

[36:35] Dad, save yourself.

[36:39] I think that trivia fact was written with a hint of like,

[36:44] can you believe they did all this for penguins?

[36:46] That's the least of what they should have done.

[36:48] I'm glad they took care of those penguins.

[36:48] That was very sweet.

[36:49] They should treat the penguin actors well.

[36:52] Treat the penguins as living things, yeah, that have specific needs.

[36:55] So, Dan, what did you think about Batman Returns when you saw it in the theaters?

[36:58] I loved Batman Returns.

[37:00] I mean, I do think that at the time I was a bit confused at it

[37:07] compared to the first Batman,

[37:10] which is, like, still Tim Burton-y,

[37:12] but a much more straightforward take on Batman.

[37:16] This one is much more...

[37:17] It stops being a Batman movie for big chunks of the movie.

[37:19] Yeah.

[37:21] Yeah, I was a little more mixed as a kid,

[37:23] but like Gremlins 2, where as a kid,

[37:27] I was a little more mixed.

[37:28] Like, I thought this was kind of like a funny horror movie,

[37:31] not like a cartoon come to life.

[37:34] I've only come to love it more and more over the years

[37:36] as I've grown used to what it is.

[37:39] So when I first saw Batman Returns,

[37:41] I was like, I think it is birthdayable for sure.

[37:43] Batman was a huge movie.

[37:45] You're going to see the sequel.

[37:46] Batman Returns, I remember seeing it and being like,

[37:48] that was, it made me really uncomfortable.

[37:50] It was like, this is darker and weirder than I expected,

[37:53] but I have come to like it more and more as time goes on.

[37:56] I still don't like that Batman just is shooting people

[37:58] in the beginning of the movie.

[38:01] But I do like, but as opposed to Gremlins 2,

[38:03] which I loved from the moment it started.

[38:06] And you like it when gremlins shoot people in Gremlins 2.

[38:09] I mean, the thing is, gremlins are villains.

[38:11] So, yes, I do like it when they shoot people.

[38:12] But Batman is a hero, so he should not shoot people.

[38:15] Especially when his whole thing in the comics, or one of his whole things is, I don't kill, I don't use guns.

[38:20] Like, at this point, that had been established for, I think, 30 years at least, you know.

[38:24] Yeah.

[38:24] So, maybe I'm wrong about that.

[38:26] Maybe I'm wrong about that.

[38:27] But that's okay.

[38:27] I can be wrong about things.

[38:28] I'm not perfect.

[38:29] Just for context, because I think it's kind of fun.

[38:32] The other movies that were big at the time.

[38:35] What else could you have seen?

[38:36] Yeah.

[38:37] We had also in the top 10, Sister Act, Patriot Games, House Sitter, Lethal Weapon 3, Far and Away, Encino Man, Alien 3, Class Act, and Basic Instinct.

[38:52] Now, most of those I did not see in the theaters, yet somehow Far and Away I saw in the theaters.

[38:56] My dad wanted to see it so badly.

[38:58] Really?

[38:58] Because he wanted to see a historical drama.

[39:00] He was like, a drama about the land rush?

[39:02] Yes, I want to see this.

[39:04] And we went to go see it.

[39:05] Ron Howard?

[39:07] Please.

[39:09] Yeah, I feel like,

[39:10] I don't think I saw very many of those in the theater.

[39:13] I definitely saw Sister Act in the theater also.

[39:16] I weirdly saw Alien 3 in the theater,

[39:19] even though it seems like I still would have been

[39:22] kind of young for it, but I did.

[39:25] I was obsessed with Alien 3.

[39:27] I didn't get to see it in the theater,

[39:29] but my parents saw it and they were like,

[39:32] okay, you can rent it when it comes out.

[39:34] So I was like counting down the fucking days.

[39:36] I had like the Alien 3 trading cards.

[39:39] I was like super into it.

[39:41] Yeah.

[39:41] That was a little disappointing when I saw it eventually.

[39:44] Yeah, I still liked it, but I was a little disappointed.

[39:48] It was one of those like, I like Alien and Aliens so much.

[39:52] Like I have to like Alien 3.

[39:55] Yeah, but that's hard because it's, I mean, Alien 3 has its ups and downs.

[39:59] But like to be coming after Alien and Aliens, like how do you follow that up?

[40:02] Like that's almost impossible.

[40:04] Okay, this is one that I think

[40:06] you're going to get almost immediately.

[40:09] What year is it?

[40:10] 1993.

[40:11] Jurassic Park.

[40:12] Yep.

[40:14] Come on, man.

[40:15] What else are you going to see for your birthday in 1993, dude?

[40:17] Come on.

[40:18] Yeah.

[40:19] A summer movie in 1993?

[40:20] Are you crazy?

[40:21] No, it's like the biggest movie in the world.

[40:24] You're finally going to get to see

[40:25] realistic dinosaurs on screen.

[40:26] It's your birthday.

[40:27] You're a young man.

[40:28] Yes, of course.

[40:29] This is what you're seeing.

[40:31] I'm just going to give, you know,

[40:33] No, I went to see Rising Sun for my birthday that year.

[40:37] Like, what are you doing, Dan?

[40:38] These were kind of boring ones

[40:40] because I knew that you would immediately get it,

[40:42] so I'm just going to give you that little extra.

[40:44] When Newman gets spit in the face.

[40:47] We got a goof here.

[40:50] Dinosaurs are not actually alive anymore.

[40:53] Hammond has a pronounced Scottish accent

[40:55] at the start of the film,

[40:57] which deteriorates markedly in just a couple of scenes.

[40:59] By the end of the film,

[41:00] he has an upper-class English accent.

[41:02] This is something that I have never noticed in Jurassic Park.

[41:05] Is this true, Elliot?

[41:07] To be honest, I will have to pay closer attention.

[41:09] I think I just – I'm so keyed in for dinosaurs.

[41:12] I'm not really paying that close enough attention to Richard Attenborough's performance, you know.

[41:16] I think it – you know what?

[41:18] But I bet it's – by the end, I think his accent has become more like elegant, more dignified.

[41:24] So I think that might be true.

[41:25] That might be true, yeah.

[41:27] This is a movie like I know that you adore it.

[41:30] Like, as a kid, like, I had just read the book, and I loved, loved Steven Spielberg movies.

[41:39] I loved Jaws a lot, and I was a little disappointed by Jurassic Park because I didn't feel like it had, like, the elegance of, like, some of that.

[41:50] I think that's true a little bit.

[41:52] I think Jurassic Park, if it wasn't for the effects, would not stand as high in Steven Spielberg's, you know, filmography.

[41:58] But like I think you just can't – you cannot overestimate the power of a movie showing you something you cannot see in any other way.

[42:05] Yeah.

[42:06] That the only way you can ever see this is through a movie and to see it in a movie and feel like I'm seeing it, like it looks so real.

[42:12] And then we watch – it's one that my kids both like.

[42:13] Truly like the first time.

[42:15] Yes.

[42:15] For the first time – like for the first time not just in movies.

[42:18] For the first time in human history, you are seeing what it would look like if dinosaurs were living now.

[42:24] You just can't – like I can't overestimate how amazing that is.

[42:28] even though the movie itself, yeah, it's not,

[42:30] like there are sequences that are fantastic in it,

[42:31] but it's not, it's not E.T., you know,

[42:33] it's not Raiders, you know, but it's still,

[42:35] but I mean, I saw that movie,

[42:37] I saw a sneak preview of it the night before it came out.

[42:40] So I saw, I saw it, it was an 1145 screening

[42:42] the night before it came out.

[42:44] Then after school, the next day I went to see it again.

[42:46] And then I think I saw it,

[42:47] I don't know how many more times in the theaters,

[42:49] like I just couldn't get enough of it.

[42:51] Mr. and Mrs. Kalen, your son hasn't been in school all year.

[42:56] Well, that was, that was like me.

[42:57] I remember going on a birthday party to see, like, a morning screening of Last of the Mohicans.

[43:04] And then I went again later that night because I was like, this movie fucking rocks.

[43:11] Huh.

[43:12] I mean, like, I—a lot of people love Last of the Mohicans.

[43:17] I saw that as an adult, and I was, like, almost immediately bored by it.

[43:21] Yeah, I mean, I was a kid looking for battles, and I got—they served them up.

[43:25] I mean, Lasso Higgins, I think as a kid I found it very boring, but as a grown-up I think it's really good.

[43:31] But, yeah, I just – but I totally get, Dan, you seeing it, you don't have the same connection to dinosaurs necessarily that I have.

[43:38] Yeah, I think that was a big part.

[43:39] That this was like – as I've said this many times to my family, there's one thing I hope I live to see, and that is real proof of extraterrestrial life somewhere in the universe.

[43:49] Like I don't think I will live to see that, but it's something – I want more than anything else.

[43:54] And, like, next to that would be to see a dinosaur.

[43:57] Like, I know I'm never going to be able to do that.

[43:59] And so this is the closest I'm going to come.

[44:01] So you're hyped for Disclosure Day, I'd imagine.

[44:05] Again, I've seen movies with aliens in them.

[44:07] Like, to see a movie about aliens is not as exciting because I've seen that before, you know.

[44:11] But have you seen a movie about disclosing that aliens exist?

[44:15] The proof that aliens exist.

[44:17] There's so many billboards about that in L.A.

[44:19] And the font looks just enough like the font in the Disclosure poster that I'm like, is this about aliens sexually harassing Michael Douglas?

[44:26] What's going on?

[44:27] You know, early reviews have been very positive.

[44:32] And I believe it because it's Spielberg.

[44:34] But, like, man, those trailers do nothing for me.

[44:37] The, like, one shot of the car bursting through a house, I'm like, oh, okay.

[44:42] Yeah.

[44:44] For some reason, there's like, as we got closer to the present day,

[44:50] records got spottier on the two websites I was checking.

[44:54] I only have the top five for this.

[44:56] But, of course, Jurassic Park topped The Weeknd.

[44:59] And then we've got Last Action Hero.

[45:01] Really the highest grossing movie of all time up to that point?

[45:04] Last Action Hero.

[45:05] That's an underrated movie.

[45:07] That's a fun movie.

[45:07] Cliffhanger.

[45:09] Unforgiven.

[45:09] That's an underrated movie.

[45:10] That's a fun movie.

[45:11] Wait, did you say Unforgiven?

[45:13] Unforgiven and Scent of a Woman.

[45:15] Scent of a Woman, I don't like that much.

[45:16] But the rest of those are really good.

[45:18] It's a fun weekend.

[45:19] I don't like Scent of a Woman's message, which is never rat.

[45:24] I know.

[45:25] This is ridiculous.

[45:26] Even as a kid, I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about?

[45:29] The fundamental flaw with that movie is that Chris O'Donnell's character and Philip Seymour Hoffman should have been swapped.

[45:36] Yes, they should have been swapped, yeah.

[45:37] Yeah.

[45:38] Okay, we've reached the end.

[45:41] This is the last movie.

[45:42] Also, Al Pacino plays it a little subtle.

[45:45] This is the last movie.

[45:46] He could push it a little more.

[45:47] But I appreciate you going on this journey with me.

[45:50] It's like even though I didn't know you as a child,

[45:53] you've joined me on these birthdays.

[45:56] I wish.

[45:57] I wish we could have, yeah.

[45:58] But as adults, it would be weird.

[46:00] Yeah, that'd be weird.

[46:02] In this 1994 film,

[46:05] the female leads gracelessness in the film

[46:09] stems from the first scene

[46:11] she shot

[46:12] when she waited

[46:13] for the title character

[46:14] to help her down

[46:15] instead he took her parasol

[46:17] and walked away

[46:18] she tried to get down alone

[46:19] and flopped to the ground

[46:20] the director liked it so much

[46:22] that he kept it in the film

[46:23] and staged more scenes

[46:24] of her stumbling

[46:25] being dumped through windows

[46:26] etc

[46:27] so

[46:29] we got a parasol in there

[46:32] what the mummy?

[46:36] parasol

[46:37] otherwise the mummy

[46:37] is a perfect birthday gift

[46:39] No, it's a birthday gift.

[46:41] It's a perfect birthday movie.

[46:42] What is the mummy?

[46:43] Give someone a mummy.

[46:46] Someone's got a birthday?

[46:47] Give them a mummy.

[46:48] Just give them a mummy.

[46:49] It's already wrapped up.

[46:50] It is wrapped.

[46:51] Yep.

[46:51] Don't unwrap it, though.

[46:52] You will not be happy.

[46:53] Don't unwrap it, no.

[46:55] It's a display piece.

[46:55] It comes in a gift box.

[46:58] Here's something that might help you out.

[47:00] I'm going to need one more, yeah.

[47:01] Anachronism.

[47:02] Okay.

[47:03] The playing cards used at the tournament have rounded corners, as modern decks do.

[47:07] Yep.

[47:08] It's Maverick.

[47:09] Yeah, Maverick, I like that one.

[47:11] There you go, yeah.

[47:12] And this extra bit of...

[47:15] Are they saying those playing cards are too modern?

[47:17] They wouldn't have had rounded corners?

[47:18] No, they would have straight corners.

[47:20] This last bit of goofery, I liked,

[47:22] and it's actually, it makes a good point.

[47:25] In the final hand...

[47:26] Sometimes goofs are right.

[47:27] Dan hates, he gets mad at goofs when they're wrong,

[47:30] but he'll give them credit when they're right.

[47:31] No, it's true.

[47:31] This one makes a good point.

[47:33] In the last hand, the dealer,

[47:35] who was in on it with Angel,

[47:36] swaps out the shuffled deck with a stacked one

[47:39] to give Angel a small, straight flush.

[47:43] However, that would work only if the other two players

[47:45] had really strong hands, but not as strong as Angel's.

[47:48] Commodore had four of a kind, which fits,

[47:51] but stacking the deck in such a way that Maverick

[47:53] gets a royal flush in the same hand makes no sense.

[47:56] And that is true.

[48:00] So the ghosts of William Goldman,

[48:02] please come and answer for your crimes.

[48:06] I mean, of which Dreamcatcher would be the main one, right?

[48:09] Yeah, that's the primary one.

[48:11] This is a distant second.

[48:13] Very distant.

[48:14] Okay, so what were some of the other movies against Maverick?

[48:17] This was one I did not see in the theater.

[48:19] I saw it on video, and I remember, I think, watching it twice.

[48:24] I really enjoyed it.

[48:25] I really enjoyed Maverick.

[48:26] I saw it in the theater also, and I really liked it.

[48:28] And I remember this was one of those movies where it was not a big hit.

[48:31] It was like, it did well.

[48:33] It was a hit.

[48:33] But I remember people being like, eh, that wasn't so good.

[48:36] And I was like, really?

[48:37] I really liked it a lot.

[48:38] I haven't seen it in years.

[48:38] It's just like a farm-like light comedy.

[48:40] You know, like obviously Mel Gibson is hard to watch these days.

[48:44] But, you know, Jodie Foster.

[48:45] Yeah, that's going to be a tough one for me to revisit without watching it.

[48:47] Yeah, but James Garner always goes down easy.

[48:49] James Garner is so charming.

[48:51] Jodie Foster gets to do comedy, which he rarely gets to do.

[48:53] And she's funny.

[48:54] Which is too bad because Jodie Foster is so funny.

[48:56] Jodie Foster can be a very funny performer.

[48:58] I wish she got to do comedy more often.

[49:00] But, yeah, for some reason, and I looked on various sites,

[49:05] But for this date, my sources only gave me, as other movies, The Flintstones and Schindler's List.

[49:12] So the real gamut there.

[49:14] Again, both movies I also saw in theaters.

[49:16] But yeah, I think Schindler's List is not really a birthday movie.

[49:21] No, I don't think so.

[49:22] I feel like going to see that on your birthday is a bit of a Shonda, right?

[49:27] I mean, the opposite of a Shonda.

[49:29] It's a mitzvah.

[49:29] You're remembering those who we've lost on your birthday, but it's not a fun thing to do.

[49:34] but at the end

[49:37] in the Flintstones is

[49:38] I've never seen the Flintstones movie

[49:41] is it something I should watch

[49:43] I've not seen it since

[49:45] I saw it in the theater as a kid

[49:47] corporate entry

[49:48] it's like here's a movie about

[49:51] cavemen and they live

[49:53] alongside dinosaurs but most of the movie

[49:55] is about who's going to get control of the corporation

[49:57] and it's like who cares

[49:59] there's so many of those movies

[50:00] who's the evil guy Rob Lowe or some shit

[50:03] uh it's kyle mclaughlin kyle okay yeah does he do anything that's like psychosexual

[50:10] um not in the flint oh no i mean he does have like a secretary that he's having a sexy

[50:16] relationship with yeah the character she's playing she's playing sharon stone like i think that's i

[50:22] think that's the name that they gave her that's the joke that makes sense yeah um i mean it's a

[50:29] movie that like has amazing production design but it just like fails at understanding what anyone

[50:35] might want to see in a movie it is not a it's just not a very it's just not a very a funny movie and

[50:41] i mean the one joke that i remember from it is there's they're all these kids playing at a

[50:45] playground and then a pteranodon you see its shadows swoop by overhead and everybody runs away

[50:51] and then just a huge enormous amount of bird shit falls on the playground and like that's the joke

[50:56] that's it you know that's the level of the movie so and that's the most that's the one joke in the

[51:00] movie that was funny enough that i remember it yeah yeah um well thank you for going on this

[51:05] birthday odyssey with me this remembrance of uh things past um this has been the flop house

[51:12] podcast uh a podcast about movies usually bad ones uh we're on the maximum fun network go to

[51:19] MaximumFun.org.

[51:21] Just check out other great shows on the network.

[51:24] Check out HowlDotty.

[51:26] Just try and figure out how it's spelled and Google it,

[51:28] and you'll see what our producer Alex Smith is up to.

[51:31] A lot of fun stuff.

[51:32] You'll enjoy that as well.

[51:34] But for this Flophouse Mini, I've been Dan McCoy.

[51:37] I'm Stuart Wellington.

[51:40] And I'm Elliot Kalin, wishing Dan a happy birthday in the future

[51:44] and a happy many birthdays of the past.

[51:48] Oh, thanks.

[51:49] Oh, that's pretty sweet.

[51:50] And many birthdays in the future, too.

[51:52] I'm not saying this should be his last one.

[51:53] No, just God willing.

[51:55] So let me, don't cut that out,

[51:56] but let me say this to be better.

[51:58] And I'm Elliot Kalin wishing Dan McCoy

[52:00] many happy birthdays for those we've missed

[52:03] and those yet to come that we will celebrate with him.

[52:06] Oh, an excellent toast.

[52:07] Thank you.

[52:08] Yeah.

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FH Mini 151 - Birthday Movies

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