FH Mini 77 - The Flop House: Movie Doctors

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[0:22] I'm Elliot Kalin.

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[1:23] A dog across the street started barking when Elliot hit the high notes.

[1:26] Wow.

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[1:31] Okay, well...

[1:32] Do, do, do, do, do, do.

[1:33] Oh, wait.

[1:34] The dogs are dancing, guys.

[1:35] They're up on their hind legs.

[1:37] You should see this.

[1:38] Wait, the dog's picking up the phone, calling its cousin, saying this is the sound they've

[1:44] been looking for.

[1:46] Uh-huh.

[1:47] Yeah.

[1:48] Okay, so now we go into the actual show.

[1:52] And on the Flophouse...

[1:53] The actual show is where we're going right now.

[1:58] So the general premise of the Flophouse, of course, is that we watch a bad movie and then

[2:01] we talk about it.

[2:02] But then we thought, hey, let's do some extra shows, too.

[2:05] And those ones, not very structured.

[2:07] This time around, for MaxFunDrive, we've decided to provide some personalized recommendations

[2:14] for listeners.

[2:16] We had listeners write in with what they felt were, you know, a few, not overwhelming, a

[2:22] few pertinent facts about who they were.

[2:25] And then we were all going to come in and try and give personalized movie, bespoke movie

[2:31] recommendations from the Flophouse.

[2:34] We're like movie doctors.

[2:35] Yeah.

[2:36] Yeah, exactly.

[2:37] These recommendations are...

[2:38] Movie doctors.

[2:39] Bespoke.

[2:40] Bespoke.

[2:41] This is how...

[2:42] Man, did you just come from a fucking Chuck E. Cheese?

[2:45] Why do you sing all these songs?

[2:46] Yeah.

[2:47] You're right.

[2:48] I spent my morning, as I do every morning, going to having my morning coffee at Chuck

[2:52] E. Cheese.

[2:53] Yeah.

[2:54] And I was going to object to movie doctors after I hit bespoke so hard.

[2:59] But you know what?

[3:00] In a way, doctors are the most bespoke tailors, because if they sew you up, they're doing

[3:04] it right on your body.

[3:05] It is specific to you.

[3:07] Yeah.

[3:08] Made to order.

[3:09] Yeah.

[3:10] There you go.

[3:11] You can't get surgery off the rack.

[3:12] No.

[3:13] No, you can't.

[3:14] Until that Black Mirror episode.

[3:16] All right.

[3:18] We all look off into the distance.

[3:20] It fades into an episode of Black Mirror where you can get surgery off the rack.

[3:24] David Cronenberg's like, you totally stole this bit from me.

[3:26] And I'm like, chill out, dude.

[3:27] It's like, you don't have a trademark on future surgery.

[3:31] And he's like, oh, I can trademark whatever I want.

[3:34] Canadian law is very open for that sort of thing.

[3:36] I don't even know if that's true.

[3:39] But let's go on to the first listener.

[3:42] Now, I eased us in, or I made it harder, possible I made it harder, by choosing one

[3:48] for the first one with the least sort of like lengthy information.

[3:52] This person just provided some bullet points, and we have to extrapolate.

[3:57] This is definitely the one that took me the longest to think of one for.

[4:00] Yeah.

[4:01] But it's the quickest to read.

[4:02] So I put it at the top, and it goes, hey, peaches, I'm David, and I'm a bartender who

[4:09] lives in Chicago, who hates kids, but loves obscure 90s alt rock.

[4:17] So yeah, it's concise.

[4:21] It's a haiku of a question.

[4:23] I actually had a movie pop out right away.

[4:26] Really?

[4:27] Well, why don't you go first?

[4:28] If it's the one that it took me forever to think of, I'm going to get so mad.

[4:31] Oh, you're going to be jealous, you mean.

[4:34] So I don't know.

[4:35] I feel like this is an interesting exercise, because a lot of the movies that I came up

[4:40] with, I wouldn't say are like super deep cuts, but I feel like this one kind of ticks a bunch

[4:44] of those boxes, and I'm going to recommend Michael Mann's Thief.

[4:49] It's a great Chicago movie.

[4:52] It's got a definite blue collar appeal that I kind of feel ties in with, I mean, I don't

[4:57] know where you're bartending, but I feel like service industry workers have a touch of the

[5:02] blue collar element.

[5:04] I don't think there's any kids in this movie, so you don't have to worry about that.

[5:07] He talks about wanting kids at one point, but you never see any materialize.

[5:10] Is that that amazing scene where he pulls out his fucking prison collage?

[5:14] Yes, his collage of terror that is his dream, and at that moment, she should walk out of

[5:19] that date right there.

[5:20] She should.

[5:21] I mean, I've seen a lot, you know, the Internet's full of, you know, like Instagram reels and

[5:27] TikTok videos laying out red flags.

[5:31] Number one on that list is a prison collage with a vision board prominently featuring

[5:38] Willie Nelson.

[5:39] I don't know.

[5:41] That softens.

[5:42] Yeah.

[5:43] Yeah.

[5:44] Yeah.

[5:45] It's yeah, it's so great.

[5:46] And while it's not 90s alt rock, the entire soundtrack is by Tangerine Dream, which is

[5:50] great.

[5:51] It is a great track.

[5:52] I love this movie.

[5:54] It is undeniably a classic.

[5:56] It's great.

[5:57] James Caan gives arguably his best performance.

[6:00] One of them.

[6:02] And it's what the the first onscreen appearance of Jim Belushi, I think.

[6:10] That's very Chicago.

[6:11] It's very Chicago.

[6:12] Yeah.

[6:13] I love Thief.

[6:14] So was that exactly what you were picking?

[6:16] It is not.

[6:17] That's a great.

[6:18] I wish I had thought of it.

[6:19] That's a great, great recommendation.

[6:20] I, yeah, like Stuart, I struggled with like, oh, you know, deep cuts, you know, if I recommend

[6:29] something that everyone knows, is that useful?

[6:31] I ultimately I decided I will throw all of that out.

[6:35] I'm just going to try and figure out Star Wars.

[6:37] Yeah.

[6:38] I'm just I mean, if they haven't seen Star Wars, it's going to blow their mind.

[6:42] Whatever comes to mind after thinking about it will be what I go with.

[6:47] And I will prioritize something that someone may not have heard of.

[6:51] But anyway, that's sort of more general than it has to do with this.

[6:56] But this one was hard for me.

[6:58] I considered Green Book since it's sort of about a band that you mean.

[7:06] Green Room.

[7:07] Sorry.

[7:08] Green Room.

[7:09] Very good.

[7:10] I was like Green Book.

[7:11] OK, interesting.

[7:12] A movie I know you didn't like.

[7:13] Green Room.

[7:14] I haven't even seen Green Book.

[7:15] I don't even know where that.

[7:16] I wrote down green and like my either my phone autocorrects was like, do you mean Green

[7:21] Book or arguably the movie featuring actual skinheads might be less racist.

[7:26] Yeah.

[7:27] Yeah.

[7:28] Green Room.

[7:29] That's food for thought.

[7:30] That's that's green food for thought.

[7:31] Vegetables.

[7:32] Yeah.

[7:33] A harrowing thriller about a band that gets trapped in a bar full of Nazis.

[7:37] Do you think Paul McCartney and Wings had a band on the run?

[7:41] Oh boy.

[7:42] This is a band that is really on the run.

[7:44] That movie features one.

[7:46] I mean, I love Jeremy Sonier movies and that fucking arm scene with the fucking box cutter

[7:52] is the one of the like it's horrifying.

[7:55] And then the rest of the movie, he's just running around and I'm like, what does this

[7:59] arm look like under all that bandage?

[8:01] It's horrible.

[8:02] Yeah, that I mean, I consider that when I also considered a movie called the Color Me

[8:08] Obsessed about the replacements.

[8:10] But I haven't seen that movie.

[8:12] I just thought I think it's a good idea to recommend movies you've seen.

[8:15] Yeah.

[8:16] Yeah.

[8:17] Yeah.

[8:18] I stuck only the movies I've seen.

[8:19] And I decided to recommend Dig, the documentary from 2004 about the Brian Jonestown Massacre

[8:28] and the Dandy Warhols as one of one band blows up and one is imploding.

[8:32] It is interesting, even if you are not sort of a fan of alternative rock of the time.

[8:39] But as one, you might get a little extra out of it, but it's just sort of a fascinating

[8:45] true life story of, I don't know what it's like to to be in a band, what it's like to

[8:50] deal with Sudden Fame, what it's like to be the kind of person who is in a band who maybe

[8:55] isn't equipped for Sudden Fame, all those things.

[8:59] And like struggling when you're in a creative endeavor with multiple other people who are

[9:04] maybe difficult.

[9:05] Yeah.

[9:06] How how tough that can be on, I don't know, a sensitive person or a person who's got like

[9:11] a really hard workout that you sub tweeting us at this point.

[9:15] Is that what's sub potting?

[9:18] Yeah.

[9:20] So that's what I came up with.

[9:21] This was like I said, this was a hard one for me.

[9:23] And so I'm going to recommend a movie that this I don't know that one, Dan.

[9:25] I'm going to have to check it out.

[9:27] Yeah, it's good.

[9:28] Mine is mine is a slight.

[9:29] I didn't know it either.

[9:30] Mine is a slightly qualified recommendation because there's a movie I haven't seen since

[9:33] I was a teenager.

[9:35] But I really latched on to the 90s alt rock aspect.

[9:39] And I think for this for I'm going to recommend for David, I recommend the movie Freaked starring

[9:44] Alex Winter.

[9:45] Nice.

[9:46] And co-directed by Alex Winter.

[9:47] This is a comedy that was barely released in the United States since 1993.

[9:52] Stars Alex Winter and Randy Quaid, Mr. T and Brooke Shields and Keanu Reeves are in it.

[9:56] But Keanu Reeves is not quite recognizable because he's under dog man makeup.

[10:00] the entire movie almost and uh this is a movie that i'm sure there are jokes in it that do not

[10:06] age well since it is about people being kidnapped and turned into uh into uh strange people yes

[10:14] performers and uh but i remember seeing it as a kid and thinking like as a teenager and a kid

[10:20] and say like he used to play on hbo a lot uh that it was really funny and being surprised that

[10:25] there wasn't much being done with it otherwise and apparently it was originally meant to be a

[10:30] butthole surfer's movie uh and and that got changed quite a bit during pre-production and

[10:36] production uh but it's one that i bet you'll laugh at a few times it's got a very 90s alt

[10:41] rock i feel like sensibility to it so that's freaked but again i'm sure there are jokes in

[10:46] there that have not aged well considering this is a 30 year old movie that was i think supposed

[10:50] to be real like edgy at the time so i guarantee you there's stuff in there that is less sensitive

[10:56] than it should be i just don't know what nice all right so right in tell us if freaked holds up

[11:03] yeah i guess so yeah thank you um i've actually never seen it but i do like the butthole servers

[11:08] a lot and i do like alex winter a lot i feel like it was on hbo a fair amount it was on hbo a lot

[11:13] as a kid but it's there's there i remember some very funny jokes from it i don't remember all of

[11:17] it but i remember funny jokes in it uh maybe i'll just wander around uh the roku channel or

[11:22] toby and see if it'll turn up like yesterday when i decided to watch evil tunes yeah

[11:30] that's what i've never actually seen i only saw it in the video store guess what it rules freaked

[11:34] is one of those movies that yeah like either it exists no place and except for maybe like

[11:41] someone who uploaded it to youtube yeah or it exists every place like it's one of those

[11:48] oh i see yeah one of those movies were whereby by some strange vicissitude of reality yeah it's

[11:54] either it either disappeared off the face of the earth or it is in a four pack of movies you can

[11:58] buy at the grocery store yeah yeah it's playing on the like screen at the bus stop why is it that

[12:05] that jake gyllenhaal's bubble boy is readily it seems like it's available everywhere yeah

[12:10] no one wanted it even at the time and yet now you can't walk down the street like slipping on a

[12:16] copy of bubble boy no um swing a dead cat that dead cat will say please i hope i don't hit a

[12:21] copy of bubble boy this time can we swing a different dead animal sorry um swing a dead

[12:28] kennedy and you're bound to hit a copy of bubble boy this one is uh from emily lasting withheld

[12:36] emily right emily and perry yeah hey guys here's the pertinent details for my personalized pick

[12:43] almost 30 female in a film and tv production program have large blind spots for some cinema

[12:49] classics i want fixed enjoyer of 80s horror 90s trash and bona fide tcm classics so all three

[12:57] floppers have a chance of making the best recommendation big fan of the show would

[13:01] really appreciate getting some recommendation for my favorite podcasters keep it sleazy

[13:06] emily last name withheld now if what i'm doing right now is not sleazy do i have to up the sleaze

[13:12] factor yeah i need standards i feel like i really want to maintain it says keep it sleazy i feel

[13:18] like i really latched onto the sleazy part of this one with my record well that's the thing

[13:24] so emily says a majority of 80s horror 90s trash and bona fide tcm classics now

[13:31] i can only assume by you know process of elimination that i'm supposed to be the 90s

[13:38] uh trash because i assume that stew is 80s horror and you're the tcm classics but those are also

[13:43] things i enjoy so look don't flatten this into one thing dan you can contain multitudes yeah but

[13:49] that being said because i presumed that was that was mine i went in that direction okay and i would

[13:55] like to recommend an erotic thriller from the 90s keeping it sleazy 1995 uh directed by peter hall

[14:03] starring antonio mandaris and rebecca de mornay it is called never talk to strangers it has

[14:10] advice it has the two things i really like in a uh a 90s erotic dumb thriller

[14:19] i thought you were gonna say that it's the two things i really like boobs and butts

[14:25] those are amongst the many things but but in the constellation of things that you enjoy yeah yeah

[14:31] there's a word cloud those would be some of the larger words but no i

[14:38] for a 90s erotic thriller it has the things i like which is number one a utterly implausible

[14:45] weird jalo style like explanation for everything that's going on that that would fall apart in

[14:52] life but is perfect in the context of one of these thrillers and um a little like genuine sexiness

[14:59] there's a scene in this where rebecca de mornay bites antonio banderas's butt and it's like a

[15:05] thing that like i don't know to see actors doing like you don't usually see that kind of like

[15:11] goofy intimacy you're not even on screen no yeah it's a movie that promises a butt will be bit

[15:18] but um that would be a great tagline for a movie a butt will be bit um

[15:25] but but yeah no i it's i mean like it's a silly movie but it's kind of impressive that it actually

[15:33] feels like sexy at parts so that's the one i'm going with i mean i think it probably speaks to

[15:38] the charisma of those two leads yeah yeah very sexy people um i i'm going to recommend something

[15:44] that i think in a way if you look at it from a certain angle it kind of hits all the criteria

[15:50] of this recommendation because it was a uh something that i did not see at the time of

[15:57] its release and i didn't see until a little bit later i think it definitely hits 80s horror it's

[16:02] a little it's a little sleazy and uh it also has a little bit of a tcm vibe i'm going to recommend

[16:09] fred decker's night of the creeps a movie i'm sure we've mentioned on the podcast before

[16:15] it stars that hunk tom atkins uh-oh look out ladies lock up your daughters

[16:23] because there's two generations their boyfriends are dead uh the uh yeah it's a it's a zombie

[16:30] movie involving brain worms uh there's bits that are in black and white uh from e olden times and

[16:36] there's uh current stuff it's great it's super funny it's one of those movies that i'm like

[16:42] if i had seen this movie as a teenager it would have i don't i don't feel like it would have

[16:46] changed me it's just one of those things that i'm like how did i not see this earlier like i'm

[16:51] surprised you didn't because i saw it as a teenager it hits like every it like ticks every box of what

[16:56] i like in a movie yeah um it's stylish there's a fucking uh what a morgue attendant who shows up

[17:03] uh with a fucking sandwich i love that shit um yeah it's so great it's got great one-liners

[17:09] two thumbs up if you haven't seen night of the creeps and you like any of the things

[17:13] that i've mentioned or if you like james gunn slither which is essentially a remake very much

[17:18] it i'd update in some ways of night of the creeps yeah but also very good and fun slither is very

[17:23] good and very fun is it as good as night of the creeps i'm sorry james gunn you're not as good

[17:27] as neither hey you know what few are so if you haven't seen out of the creeps go check it out

[17:32] it's so much fun i love it i'm going to recommend a movie that i love that i think ticks off the

[17:38] classic movie box and i don't know about the sleaze box but it's certainly got a we have that

[17:45] cover yeah we covered sleaze but this is an erotic movie in some ways although uh it's mostly

[17:50] emotional erotics and that's black narcissist that's right starring uh starring deborah care

[17:56] i was going to say david care which is not a person deborah care uh and this is a caridin

[18:02] this is a powell and pressburger film it is about uh some nuns in the himalayas who are being forced

[18:08] to confront basically um the buried feelings of uh loneliness and kind of erotic stirring

[18:15] that they do not want to feel or give into as they are nuns in the himalayas and it's shot in

[18:22] this in the classic powell and pressburger super lush color everything looks beautiful

[18:27] it looks gorgeous it is a really like a like sensual movie in a classy way dance it sounds

[18:34] like it's kind of a sensual movie in a sleazy way and this is a sensual movie in a classy way

[18:39] it's a movie where no one bites anybody's butts but at one point a woman puts on lipstick and it

[18:44] is like a thunderbolt coming out of the sky like that like an erotic thunderbolt just her putting

[18:48] on that lipstick uh the male character in it he rides around on a very small horse which is

[18:54] accurate to where the movie takes place but it does look a little ridiculous so so you have to

[18:58] try not to laugh at how small his horse is but otherwise it's a really uh really tight thriller

[19:04] uh but also a just like a gorgeous looking movie that's black narcissus did you did you see didn't

[19:11] they do like a they did a mini version a mini series recently did you see that i didn't watch

[19:16] it at all partly because i feel like i've gotten to a point now like the same way there's like this

[19:20] great expectations miniseries that's that's out now and there's like i used to be like oh i want

[19:25] to see that new version of the story i like but i've gotten to the point now where i'm like i love

[19:28] that old version of it i don't love it because of the story for black narcissus at least i love it

[19:32] because the way they make that movie so i'm not really that interested in how someone who's not

[19:36] powell and press burger make it but i've heard good things about that miniseries so but i would

[19:40] say it is not i'm not i'm not saying don't watch it but i'm not saying i'm saying that's not my

[19:44] recommendation is that miniseries my recommendation is the movie from 1947 uh this next one so we

[19:50] started out with very little information this one includes diagrams i felt i felt really i feel

[19:57] really proud about this one okay me too i feel i feel

[20:00] I feel like I've got a good one for this.

[20:01] The other two I recommended were crap.

[20:03] Those were bad recommendations.

[20:04] I gotta admit that the diagram system is helpful,

[20:08] but let's get into it.

[20:09] So this is from Aaron, last name withheld,

[20:11] who says, hey, Peach, it's first time, long time, et cetera.

[20:15] Since I found myself aligned

[20:16] with each of your movie tastes over the years,

[20:18] I thought the way I would approach the question

[20:20] would be to give each of you a constellation

[20:23] of three movies that I like,

[20:25] and I think that are in your respective wheelhouses,

[20:28] and I ask you to give me a recommendation

[20:30] for a film that is a good interpolation of the three.

[20:34] I hope this makes sense, and I provided a diagram to help.

[20:37] If it doesn't make sense, then just think about

[20:39] what might complete a four-film DVD collection

[20:41] given the first three.

[20:42] Aaron, last name withheld, and there's a little diagram.

[20:45] It's kind of like a constellation, as he says.

[20:48] It's a triangle with movie one, movie two,

[20:51] and movie three at the points,

[20:52] and inside it says your recommendation here.

[20:56] So let's just do it in the order we have.

[20:59] Stu's constellation, movie one, Dread, 2012.

[21:05] Movie two, Oldboy, 2003.

[21:08] Movie three, Ex Machina, which appears to be where,

[21:12] oh, no, I guess he's adding dates just to differentiate

[21:17] when there might be confusion.

[21:18] I was like, he seemed to lose interest

[21:20] in giving a date after the movie started.

[21:21] Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

[21:23] Okay, so I feel like the center of those three,

[21:27] that diagram, the center of those three

[21:29] is none other than Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning,

[21:34] the fourth movie in the franchise,

[21:36] because it's a revenge story.

[21:38] It's a movie that is set up by a home invasion

[21:41] by what are they, like, walking corpse soldier guys?

[21:47] They're reanimated soldier corpses, right?

[21:49] Reanimated soldier guys,

[21:50] which are kind of like robots in Ex Machina.

[21:53] It's science gone awry,

[21:55] and the hero, played by Scott Adkins,

[21:59] who is getting a lot of buzz right now

[22:01] because he's one of the baddies in the new John Wick movie,

[22:04] goes on a rampage to try and get revenge.

[22:08] Diaries say it's similar to Oldboy,

[22:09] and it's got action scenes that are bonkers

[22:13] and so violent and bloody.

[22:15] There's a scene in, like, a sporting goods store

[22:17] that is absolutely nuts.

[22:19] I highly recommend this.

[22:21] If you have any interest in seeing a very violent,

[22:24] very strange action movie,

[22:26] I highly recommend Universal Soldier 4,

[22:29] which is the best in the franchise.

[22:32] Okay, so next is my constellation.

[22:36] That's me, Dan.

[22:37] It says, movie one, The Sweet Smell of Success,

[22:41] two, Miller's Crossing, and three, Vertigo.

[22:46] So this is one of these cases

[22:47] where I'm not gonna say something unknown, really,

[22:52] but it felt, like, appropriate to me.

[22:55] Star Wars.

[22:56] I mean, that would blow people's minds

[22:59] if they hadn't seen it.

[23:00] If they've never seen it?

[23:01] If they've never seen it?

[23:03] Between The Sweet Smell of Success,

[23:05] Miller's Crossing, and Vertigo,

[23:07] I sense sort of a common tone of sort of romantic cynicism,

[23:13] I mean, which, you know, makes sense.

[23:16] Like, I think cynicism is kind of, like,

[23:19] romanticism that is hoping for the best,

[23:23] but fearing the worst and often getting the worst.

[23:27] It's romanticism getting defensive, yeah.

[23:29] Yeah, and they all sort of have a theme

[23:34] of corruption as well.

[23:36] I went with Touch of Evil, the Orson Welles film,

[23:41] starring himself, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh,

[23:44] and Marlena Dietrich from 1958.

[23:47] And a team Tamaroff.

[23:48] I feel like it shares the visual flair

[23:55] that all those movies have,

[23:56] and it has the same kind of tone of a story

[24:00] of sort of trying to make a way

[24:02] through a tangled, cynical world,

[24:07] and some people get through and some people don't.

[24:12] And that's all I'll say about that.

[24:15] I mean, you know, we keep hemming and hawing

[24:18] about the fact that some of these are unknown,

[24:20] but I've never seen Touch of Evil.

[24:22] Partly, obviously, because I was too busy

[24:24] watching Evil Toons last night.

[24:26] Sure.

[24:27] You did have the choice.

[24:28] Well, yeah, prior priorities.

[24:29] You could have said either.

[24:30] Those are, yeah, they're both.

[24:31] There are two evil films in front of him.

[24:33] One of them is Toons, the other one just says Touches.

[24:35] The other one just says Touches.

[24:36] You like looked it up.

[24:37] He's like, does Touch of Evil have any Toons in it?

[24:40] And Google told him no, so.

[24:42] And I'm like, it doesn't say it in the description,

[24:44] but maybe I'll have to go over to Reddit now.

[24:48] Dennis Weaver's performance.

[24:49] It's Dennis Weaver who owns the hotel, right?

[24:50] His performance is pretty cartoonish, but.

[24:54] Yeah, well, anyway, Elliot's Constellation.

[24:56] Okay, I guess he doesn't own the hotel.

[24:57] He works at the hotel.

[24:58] Okay, so yeah, what was my constellation?

[25:00] Yeah, Elliot's Constellation.

[25:02] Movie one, Tokyo Story.

[25:04] Two, 12 Angry Men, 1957.

[25:08] Three, The Wages of Fear.

[25:11] All right, so I think I've aced this one.

[25:15] What do these movies have in common?

[25:16] Wages of Fear and 12 Angry Men,

[25:18] they're both about angry men

[25:20] who are confronted with some kind of conflict,

[25:23] some kind of obstacle or struggle,

[25:26] either physical or emotional,

[25:27] or in the case of Wages of Fear, both.

[25:29] And Tokyo Story is about people in Japan

[25:33] whose lives are not quite turning out

[25:35] the way they want it to,

[25:36] and whereas each of these movies

[25:38] has a certain amount of realism to it.

[25:40] None of them are, Wages of Fear,

[25:43] even considering it's a movie

[25:44] about trucks full of explosive chemicals,

[25:47] none of them feel sensational,

[25:48] and so I think I aced this.

[25:50] I decided to go with a Japanese movie, why not?

[25:52] And I picked High and Low.

[25:54] Akira Kurosawa's High and Low,

[25:56] starring Toshiro Mifune, but don't let that blind you

[25:59] to the fact that it also features Tetsuya Nakade,

[26:01] another one of Japan's great leading men,

[26:03] although here he's in a supporting role.

[26:04] And High and Low is the story of a man who,

[26:07] Toshiro Mifune plays a man who is about to embark

[26:11] on the hostile takeover of a shoe company,

[26:15] only to find out, he's a rich man,

[26:17] he's about to risk everything,

[26:18] only to find out that his chauffeur's son

[26:22] has been kidnapped under the misapprehension

[26:24] on the part of the kidnappers that it was his son,

[26:26] and now he's been faced with a ransom.

[26:28] And is he going to pay this ransom for another man's son?

[26:32] What can he do and still live with himself?

[26:33] And it's a movie that is also kind of,

[26:37] especially for a three-movie constellation challenge,

[26:39] is neatly divided up into three parts, pretty much.

[26:42] The part where it's dealing with the ransom

[26:43] and the kidnapper, the police investigation,

[26:45] and then the final confrontation

[26:47] between our High and Low people.

[26:50] And it's all about life in a Japan of income inequality

[26:56] and social inequality.

[26:57] It is about the ethical struggles that one has to face

[27:00] when they are taken outside of their own comfort zone.

[27:05] And it's super tense.

[27:06] And it's shot beautifully.

[27:08] The opening of it is almost like

[27:09] the most tense play you've ever seen.

[27:11] And then the movie keeps kind of opening up

[27:13] and then it closes down again.

[27:14] And it's just really good.

[27:16] So High and Low, Akira Kurosawa's version.

[27:18] There are other movies called High and Low.

[27:20] I have not seen them.

[27:21] This is the one I'm talking about.

[27:22] And not Sweet and Low, that is a sweetener,

[27:24] an artificial sweetener, and not Sweet and Lowdown,

[27:26] which is a different movie.

[27:27] High and Low.

[27:28] And not High and Lois.

[27:29] That's a comic strip about-

[27:30] No, the least funny comic strip maybe ever made, yeah.

[27:33] Sister of Beetle Bailey, who lives in the suburbs.

[27:37] Now, what if it was-

[27:38] Would Kurosawa's High and Lois have been good?

[27:41] Kurosawa's High and Lois would have been very interesting.

[27:43] I mean, Kurosawa was gonna make Runaway Train at one point.

[27:47] So you know the man has variety and has varied skills.

[27:51] Now, here's the thing.

[27:52] What if Beetle Bailey was the beetle in Sweeney Todd?

[27:54] How would that play be different?

[27:55] Instead of Beetle Bamford working for Judge Turpin,

[27:58] it was Beetle Bailey.

[27:59] Guys, I have tickets for Sweeney Todd this weekend

[28:02] after we move.

[28:03] And I'm so excited-

[28:04] Wow, tickets flexing on all you hoes.

[28:05] Because the reviews have been stellar for this revival.

[28:08] Yeah, I really wanna see it.

[28:10] I saw the last revival of Sweeney Todd.

[28:12] I saw it twice, but that wasn't a full revival.

[28:14] It wasn't a full-scale, like the last Broadway revival.

[28:18] It wasn't like a full-scale, full orchestration one.

[28:20] I really hope I get to see this one.

[28:21] And this one has National Treasure Ailey Ashford in it,

[28:24] right? Yeah, yeah.

[28:26] And Jay Grobes.

[28:27] And she is the best.

[28:28] Also Jay Grobes.

[28:31] And the kid from Stranger Things.

[28:32] Which one?

[28:33] That shows four kids.

[28:35] They're all kids.

[28:35] Paul Reiser, he's not a kid.

[28:37] Sean Astin, he was a kid once.

[28:40] It's true.

[28:41] But you need to jump up in the middle of the play

[28:42] and say, where's Beetle Bailey?

[28:44] Where's Beetle Bailey?

[28:46] Try to get a chant going.

[28:49] I can tell you right now that that attempt will fail.

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[31:25] Um, Hey, the next one is from Laurel.

[31:31] Last name withheld.

[31:33] Laurel writes, hello, flop stars.

[31:36] I've been listening for more than a decade now, but this is my first time

[31:39] writing in, um, the flop house was the first podcast I ever listened to after

[31:43] it was recommended by a man.

[31:45] I had a crush on all.

[31:47] I haven't spoken to the man in years.

[31:48] So at least he gave me the flop house.

[31:51] I'd love to get recommendations from you.

[31:54] I mean, they're both listeners.

[31:56] I don't know why you, uh, sorry about that.

[31:58] I forgot.

[31:59] He was a listener.

[32:00] I normally would.

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[32:01] I said that.

[32:01] Would you consider pledging?

[32:03] Maximum fun.

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[32:05] Yeah.

[32:05] It's not like he's like, yeah, you should check out this podcast to wipe

[32:08] your ass.

[32:12] We apologize to every man who may have recommended a podcast at some

[32:16] point who is listening.

[32:19] Um, I mean, not other podcasts.

[32:22] Fuck those guys.

[32:23] Uh, I normally gravitate to movies that move at a slower pace, particularly

[32:32] those that are woman led.

[32:34] Some examples include Brooklyn, Spirited Away, Persepolis, Midsommar, and

[32:39] Roma.

[32:40] My favorite movies from the past year were Women Talking and Marcel the

[32:45] Shell with Shoes On.

[32:47] Very similar in some ways.

[32:49] I also enjoy lighthearted musicals like In the Heights and Yesterday and

[32:53] Hated La La Land.

[32:56] Looking forward to hearing what you have to recommend.

[32:58] Laurel, last name withheld.

[33:01] I got one that I think is genuinely underseen and I think might be the

[33:05] ticket.

[33:06] It's called Marjorie Prime.

[33:09] It's from 2017.

[33:11] It was directed by Michael Almereda.

[33:15] I hope I said that correctly.

[33:17] It's about an elderly woman who uses a service that creates a holographic

[33:21] projection of a young version of her deceased husband.

[33:25] So it stars Lois Smith as the older woman, you know, with this holographic

[33:31] companion.

[33:32] And it's based on a play and I've seen people, you know, I've seen reviews

[33:38] for it.

[33:38] I loved it.

[33:39] I've seen reviews for it from elsewhere.

[33:41] They're like, oh, it's too much like a play.

[33:43] But sometimes I feel like that's okay in movies.

[33:46] I feel like we have a very restrictive view.

[33:47] Like there are ways to sort of embrace the fact that it's like a play and

[33:55] not run away from it.

[33:56] Like I feel like sometimes movies fail by running away from the essential

[34:00] qualities of a play.

[34:01] I don't know.

[34:02] Yeah, as long as it's the best way to tell the story, like who cares if it's

[34:05] like a play?

[34:07] Yeah, but um, so yeah, it's got a Lois Smith, like I said, Jon Hamm is in

[34:13] it, Tim Robbins and Gina Davis shows up, show up and it's good to see their

[34:17] faces again.

[34:20] Haven't been doing a lot.

[34:23] Audrey also was a, no, no, I'm saying I missed them as performers.

[34:27] I'm not trying to like insult either of them.

[34:30] He was the player, Elliot.

[34:33] I'm not, I'm not.

[34:34] She was on Cutthroat Island.

[34:36] The dubious look on my face was only the idea that they're not doing a lot

[34:39] because they do work.

[34:41] I, Gina Davis does all that charity work.

[34:44] I just, I just, you know, there are people I'm fond of who had bigger parts

[34:50] in movies past who I don't see that much.

[34:52] That's all I'm saying.

[34:53] I must think they don't work anyway.

[34:56] You're just, you're just mad that Earth Girls are complicated now.

[34:59] Yeah.

[35:00] Um, it's Gina.

[35:01] Also, I wanted to say that, uh, you know, I was looking over these and thinking

[35:05] about them while Audrey happened to be around and I have not seen this movie,

[35:09] but she suggested Petit Maman for this one, which sounded like from everything

[35:14] I've read about, it sounds like it might be right.

[35:16] I haven't seen that yet.

[35:17] And I really want to buy my girl.

[35:18] So lean.

[35:20] What do you guys have?

[35:22] Uh, yeah.

[35:24] I mean, obviously, uh, I would have recommended Portrait of a Lady on Fire,

[35:28] but I recommend that all the time.

[35:29] I love that movie.

[35:30] I'm crazy for it.

[35:31] So I'm going to recommend a movie.

[35:32] That's a little more stewardy.

[35:35] It's all castle free.

[35:37] It's cool.

[35:37] You know how much energy it like, how much effort it required for me not to

[35:42] just say it's a castle freak for all six.

[35:46] I was so tempted.

[35:48] I mean, I did see a twinkle in Stewart's eye when I mentioned that we were

[35:50] doing this before that.

[35:52] I was like, is he going to do that?

[35:53] Uh-huh.

[35:54] You're like, how much of a stinker is Stewart?

[35:57] Is he a little stinker or is he a big stinker?

[35:59] Well, I think Stewart, you can take a break from stinkering since I think as

[36:03] you showed us, or was it Dan showed us, uh, Paul Schrader on Wikipedia was

[36:06] now listed as the director of heart beeps.

[36:08] Oh, wow.

[36:09] That's weird.

[36:10] I'm glad that reality matches my perception.

[36:13] A big stinker.

[36:15] Yeah.

[36:16] When it, what, what'll happen when I start using my stinker powers for good

[36:19] guys?

[36:20] Who knows?

[36:22] Stinker suicide squad.

[36:25] Suicide stinks.

[36:26] Yeah.

[36:28] I think it would be stink aside squad.

[36:30] Okay.

[36:30] So I'm going to recommend, I'm going to recommend a movie that's a little bit

[36:34] slow.

[36:34] It's woman led, um, and reminds me of some of the movies that she mentioned.

[36:40] I'm going to recommend a movie from 2009 directed by Ty West called house of

[36:44] the devil.

[36:46] Uh, it's about a young college student who gets hired to babysit.

[36:50] Uh, but it immediately gets weird and she spends most of the movie just

[36:54] wandering around a spooky old house before it gets, uh, very terrifying.

[36:59] Um, it does also feature Tom Noonan, who is always welcome to see, and it

[37:04] also features director of ladybird Greta Gerwig.

[37:08] What?

[37:08] Whoa.

[37:08] Uh, it's great.

[37:09] It's part of that whole mumble gore family of movies.

[37:13] Uh, you know, the Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard and all those guys.

[37:18] Um, it's, uh, so if you're looking for like a quiet, uh, interesting, kind of

[37:23] slow, uh, and scary horror movie that I feel like probably influenced a lot of

[37:28] the, the current generation of indie horror that is popping up, uh, check out

[37:32] the house of the devil.

[37:35] I'm going to recommend another scary movie, but this one's not horror.

[37:38] Scary.

[37:38] It's scary in that it's a real situation that is scary to be in.

[37:42] Uh, and that is the movie Wendy and Lucy directed by Kelly Reichardt,

[37:47] Reichardt, who did, you may know her from a, she did what first cow recently.

[37:51] Yeah.

[37:51] Uh, she also did the movie old joy.

[37:53] She, she's done a, she's had a bunch of movies.

[37:54] Meeks cutoff is another one of hers that I like a lot.

[37:57] Uh, this is a story starring Michelle Williams as Wendy.

[38:00] She is a homeless woman who is traveling with her dog, Lucy.

[38:03] And it's a really heartbreaking movie about how, when you don't have resources,

[38:10] a relatively small problem can become a catastrophe and lead to your life.

[38:15] Dissolving around you.

[38:17] And, uh, Michelle Williams is really great in it.

[38:19] The movie is really understated, but it still has this feeling of like, um, kind

[38:23] of inevitable dread throughout it.

[38:26] Uh, and it's just, it's a really, it's really good.

[38:28] And it's just super heartbreaking.

[38:29] It's slow.

[38:29] It takes its time.

[38:30] It's not a, it's not one of those fast cutting, you know, hyper intense movies

[38:35] about a homeless woman who's losing possession of her dog, you know, it's not

[38:39] taken with the dog, you know?

[38:41] Um, but yeah, but, uh, that's what I would recommend for you, Laurel, Wendy

[38:45] and Lucy.

[38:46] And I recommend, uh, taken with the dog as the title for our next collaborative

[38:54] screenplay taken with the dog.

[38:56] But that's, that's, that goes, I am taken with this dog, this dog.

[39:01] I just cannot stop thinking about this dog.

[39:04] Um, okay.

[39:05] Well, uh, we got another one here.

[39:07] It's from Kate lasting withheld who writes my hopefully fun bullet points of

[39:12] interest are, well, we'll be sure to internally judge these bullet points.

[39:16] Uh, uh, some of my favorite movies are video drum, true stories, army of

[39:22] darkness and fire walk with me.

[39:24] I'm into musicals, schlock and general silliness and body horror.

[39:29] I will watch just about anything, but can only get my girlfriend to join me.

[39:33] If the plot doesn't involve a lot of secondhand embarrassment, I have seen

[39:38] the velocipastor over seven times and I'm really into dinosaurs.

[39:43] Thank you from Kate.

[39:45] Oh man.

[39:46] Elliot's like, have you ever seen Jurassic park?

[39:50] Are you champing at the bit to get in there?

[39:53] Well, the thing is I was really stymied by this because I wanted to

[39:56] recommend a dinosaur movie, but other than Jurassic park, which I'm sure.

[40:00] Kate has seen. There's really not that many good movies about dinosaurs.

[40:03] I got a dino suggestion.

[40:05] Great, I'll delete my recommendation of Baby.

[40:07] I got a Lost Legend.

[40:09] I was like, is it Baby, Lost Legend, or is it Tammy and the T-Rex?

[40:13] Tammy and the T-Rex is my recommendation.

[40:15] That's a good recommendation.

[40:17] I was guessing. So why don't you talk about Tammy and the T-Rex?

[40:19] Well, it fits in with your enjoyment of schlock, general silliness, and body horror,

[40:27] because it's about a girl whose boyfriend dies, and then his brain gets put –

[40:33] well, he doesn't die. He dies because his brain, I guess, gets put into this robotic T-Rex.

[40:40] I can't remember the actual –

[40:41] That would kill you. That would kill you in real life, yeah.

[40:43] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[40:44] So now the – yeah, she's dating a dinosaur, and she doesn't really let it stop her.

[40:50] You know what? That's an even better title.

[40:52] She's dating a dinosaur is an even better title for the movie.

[40:56] So it's a love story between a gal and a dino, and it has – if you watch the R-rated version,

[41:03] the cut that was originally supposed to be the movie and then got restored recently,

[41:07] it's got a lot of gore in it, and it's a – yeah, it's a silly, schlocky horror comedy that I think –

[41:15] like in the restored version, I never watched the old one.

[41:17] I always saw it on these lists of like bad movies.

[41:20] Like I think Tammy and the T-Rex knows exactly what it's doing.

[41:24] I don't think it's that kind of like bad movie.

[41:27] Like there are elements that aren't up to the ultimate realization of the potential.

[41:31] I mean it's not a good movie.

[41:33] Yeah, but it also is totally conscious of like how silly – like it was a movie that was –

[41:37] Sure.

[41:38] I think literally written in a weekend because someone involved had access to a dinosaur puppet.

[41:46] That's what I heard at least a long time ago when I read about Tammy and the T-Rex.

[41:52] That story gets mixed up a lot.

[41:53] They actually had access to a Tammy when they wrote the movie around that.

[41:57] Makes sense.

[41:59] Well, make sure all the other elements are as easy to realize as possible other than they read the script.

[42:03] God damn it, Gary.

[42:05] What are you doing?

[42:06] A giant dinosaur?

[42:08] Okay, so that was my recommendation.

[42:10] I also had an alternate in case someone else said Tammy and the T-Rex, which is just Phantom of the Paradise.

[42:14] I'll just mention it if you haven't seen it.

[42:16] You should watch it.

[42:17] But what do you guys have?

[42:18] I got to say that at least one of the masks from Phantom of the Paradise is in Guillermo del Toro's personal collection.

[42:25] Cool.

[42:26] I'm going to recommend something that I think hits a lot of those criteria.

[42:31] It's by a big-name director, and it's his debut feature.

[42:35] That's right, Bad Taste by Peter Jackson.

[42:38] It is silly.

[42:40] It's schlocky.

[42:42] It's body horrific, and it's very homemade.

[42:46] I think it took him, what, three years' worth of Sundays to make this movie.

[42:50] At least, yeah.

[42:52] He made all the creatures' masks in his mom's oven.

[42:57] That's why they're shaped in a specific way.

[42:59] All the guns are homemade.

[43:01] It's great.

[43:02] It is about an alien invasion on Earth and a squad of elite anti-alien task force guys in New Zealand who have to stop it.

[43:11] It's so much fun, and it's so interesting.

[43:14] Clearly, you're watching this movie, and you're like, oh, wow, this guy has it.

[43:19] It's so much fun to see a filmmaker who clearly loves movies and clearly has a talent and a flair for it get to make this tiny little movie.

[43:30] Yeah, it's great.

[43:33] It's one of my favorite movies of all time.

[43:35] I highly recommend it, and it's gross.

[43:37] It's a super fun movie, and I don't know if this happens with every version of it.

[43:42] But if you watch the version that was on Amazon Prime, I don't know if it still is, and you have the captions on, for some reason the captions describe the soundtrack, the musical soundtrack as you're watching it.

[43:51] So it will be like tense electronic music, and then it will be like rat-a-tat timpani drums, and I was like this is an amazing touch to add to this.

[44:02] They're describing how the music sounds.

[44:04] So here's the thing.

[44:06] I have a double feature of movies to recommend.

[44:09] I couldn't think of one I really want to recommend with dinosaurs, but this is a movie that – is it body horror?

[44:15] I'm not sure.

[44:16] There's two scenes in particular that are kind of body horror-ish, I guess, but it's a movie we've talked about a lot on the show.

[44:20] That's Possession from 1981 directed by Andrzej Zulawski.

[44:25] I'm not sure entirely how to pronounce his name, but starring Sam Neill and Isabella Gianni in one of her greatest performances.

[44:32] It is the story of the dissolution of a marriage against a backdrop of spy stuff in Berlin and also what appears to be an alien creature that Isabella Gianni is leaving her husband for.

[44:46] There's not that much physical horror in it aside from two major scenes, but there's such a sense of incredible emotional creepiness throughout the entire thing.

[44:58] In the whole movie, it feels like you're watching a film that fell through another dimension, like it's just different enough in everything that happens in it.

[45:06] The other thing – you mentioned musicals and goofy stuff.

[45:09] So I would say after Possession, then I want you to watch Dames from 1934.

[45:14] This is a Busby Berkeley musical with Dick Powell and Ruby Keillor and Guy Kibbe and Zazu Pitts, two of the great comedy-supporting actors of the 30s are in there.

[45:24] It's just a super-goofy – it's the silliest of the Busby Berkeley movies.

[45:29] It's just super-goofy and silly.

[45:31] There's a great number in it called The Girl at the Ironing Board, which takes place entirely at a turn-of-the-century laundry where the women are all dancing with shirts and stuff.

[45:39] It has the song I Only Have Eyes for You, which is just – the way they do it is beautiful.

[45:45] It's where – if you remember in Gremlins 2, there's the part where there's a giant face of the lady gremlin and the eye iris is open, and then the lady gremlin comes out of it.

[45:56] That's taken right from this number.

[45:58] So it's –

[46:00] Are you sure it wasn't the other way around?

[46:02] You know what? You're right. You're right.

[46:04] They Babylon-ed this, and the movie from back then was inspired by the movie from now.

[46:09] So that's my double feature for you, Kate, is Possession and Dames.

[46:14] All right.

[46:16] Well, we got one more person.

[46:18] I think we're nailing the assignment today, guys.

[46:20] I think we're really crushing it.

[46:22] Everyone's doing a great job.

[46:23] I just want to say you guys put such thought into this.

[46:25] You've got great recommendations.

[46:27] I hope mine reach the same level, and I hope our listeners are enjoying it.

[46:30] I hope that they enjoy it so much that they go to MaximumFun.org and pledge their support, and maybe we'll do more of these.

[46:36] What do you think, guys? What do you think?

[46:39] More recommendations that are blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.

[46:43] Okay.

[46:45] Well, this one is from Alex, last name withheld, in Dayton, Ohio, who writes,

[46:52] Peaches, my cultural taste buds are blown out.

[46:56] Conventional narrative arcs bore me.

[46:58] I need my plots to be unpredictable, even broken, just to feel something.

[47:02] I can't tell the difference between ironic and sincere appreciation anymore.

[47:06] A few of my favorite movies of the 21st century are The Room, The Lighthouse, Cats, and Titane.

[47:12] Hit me with the weird shit, guys.

[47:14] Show me that the world still has a capacity to surprise.

[47:17] Again, that's from Alex in Dayton, Ohio.

[47:20] Man, I feel like Alex and I are in the same boat.

[47:23] Yeah, because Dan's – I know Dan's in that boat.

[47:25] His taste buds don't taste anything entertainment-wise anymore.

[47:27] I'm really happy with my suggestion here.

[47:29] Alex, I don't know if you've seen this.

[47:31] Maybe you have, but I wanted to recommend The Forbidden Room from 2015.

[47:35] That's a Guy Madden movie, and if you want a movie that's going to surprise you,

[47:39] The Forbidden Room will surprise you because it is constantly changing what movie it is.

[47:43] Every six minutes or so, you never quite know what you're going to expect from it.

[47:48] By the end, the movie itself is going bonkers all over the place.

[47:52] It has an original song by Sparks that is available nowhere else but in this movie.

[47:57] I don't know if you're familiar with Guy Madden's work, but Guy Madden specializes in making movies that are modern movies

[48:03] but look like they were made a long time ago but are dealing with subject matter that they would not have dealt with in old, old movies.

[48:09] It's got an amazing cast.

[48:12] Our old buddy Udo Kier appears in it as a guy.

[48:15] This is – I'll just tell you about this one sequence.

[48:17] This is the Sparks song that features Udo Kier starring as a man who is so obsessed with butts

[48:22] that he keeps going to a doctor to have parts of his brain scraped out so that he doesn't become obsessed with butts anymore.

[48:28] It's not working, so he keeps having to get more and more of his brain scraped out.

[48:31] This is just one short story in this movie.

[48:35] It's a really great – just bonkers movie.

[48:39] That's The Forbidden Room, one of Guy Madden's more recent movies.

[48:44] There's a lot of delight in it.

[48:48] Yeah, I mean there was like a lot of sort of weirdo horror that I was thinking of, like stuff that really rides that line where you're like, OK, I don't know.

[49:03] I don't know if – from one direction, this is kind of brilliant.

[49:06] I don't know what their intention was.

[49:08] It also is total nonsense and it's like because everything else is working,

[49:15] the nonsense translates as dream logic and it's kind of fascinating.

[49:19] There's a lot of stuff like that.

[49:21] I feel like this one was tailor-made for Dan because you – I think out of the three of us, you have the most experience with like wacko stuff that rides that line between great and totally horrible.

[49:35] Yes, and there's like stuff that occurred to me that I almost recommended, Paganini Horror, Nightmare Weekend, Boarding House.

[49:46] These are all I think classics of that type.

[49:49] I decided to go with a movie that I've recommended before on the podcast from 1993, Doppelganger, written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Abin Esher.

[50:00] a youngish Drew Barrymore like Anja New Age who has possibly a doppelganger that's following

[50:08] around and causing murderous mayhem until a pair of double reveals at the end of the

[50:16] movie that are just the kind of like outlandish that I was talking about before.

[50:22] But you know it's a movie that really for me I watch it I'm like can I say this isn't

[50:28] working because I'm enjoying it so much like if you're genuinely and getting pleasure from

[50:33] it then it's working on some level yeah yeah that's the thing with kink guys yeah I don't

[50:42] know I mean like there's not much else I want to say because saying it would would spoil

[50:45] the experience but I recommend it a lot I'm gonna recommend a big messy movie that you

[50:51] might love or you might not like at all Star Wars I'm recommending a movie from 2006 called

[50:58] Southland Tales oh interesting interesting choice I mean I feel like this fits that

[51:03] like it you know it was a long delayed movie it was a long hyped movie it was Richard Kelly's

[51:09] follow-up to Donnie Darko right yeah and there were like prequel comics and shit it was supposed

[51:16] to be the middle chapter of an enormous multimedia thing that there's gonna be comics and I forgot

[51:22] what the other what the other section of it was it was a hugely ambitious thing and it

[51:25] means yeah the movie has no beginning and no real and it's it's set like a futuristic

[51:31] Los Angeles it's kind of this like ensemble story where characters are all doing all kinds

[51:37] of crazy stuff John Lovett is like a corrupt bad cop and and Wallace Shawn is supposed

[51:43] to be a real sexy character like he was he was deliberately casting people against type

[51:47] in the movies like The Rock is a real nervous anxious guy and it's a yeah it's it's and

[51:53] there's like musical numbers it's yeah it's one of those things where yeah for for somebody

[51:59] who is you know an explorer on the far reaches of cinema between pain and pleasure yeah this

[52:07] this might exactly be for you or you might not like it at all like many people at the

[52:11] time did honestly that's a movie where I remember seeing that in the theaters being super excited

[52:15] because I really loved Donnie Darko and not liking it at all except for John Lovett's

[52:20] and and The Rock's performances in them and I think that if I watched it now without the

[52:25] baggage of oh this is the movie from the guy who made Donnie Darko I think I might like

[52:29] it a lot it's such it's such a bonkers yeah I'm in that same boat I haven't watched it

[52:33] since this like there was enough of a growing like hey is this good actually contingent

[52:38] that I watched it but I also I think I was still in that disappointment mode whereas

[52:43] now I don't know I feel like it's it's gotten a bit of cultural re-evaluation mm-hmm but

[52:51] yeah I mean Stuart kind of said it before but like if you watch these movies like write

[52:58] us back let us know about the recommendations if you just like if you only find time for

[53:04] one or you've seen some of the movies like let us know then or let us know if you program

[53:09] a film festival of three movies one from each of us and and you know like let us know how how

[53:20] we did yeah I would be very curious we nail it did we nail it guys as as I've mentioned before

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[55:00] beautifully said yes thank you and thank you to all the listeners who wrote in and got recommendations

[55:09] I think that this is something like we have a lot of extra ones that we didn't get to I think this

[55:13] is something that we will revisit in the future and I will get to maybe some of the other ones

[55:19] that didn't wind up in this batch yeah this was fun yeah yeah thank you man it made us think a

[55:26] little bit and we got to talk about movies we like yeah yeah and thanks to Alex Smith our producer he

[55:34] is at how old Dottie on various socials but for this episode of the flop house I've been Dan McCoy

[55:42] I'm Stuart Wellington and I'm Ellie Kaelin hi I remember my name that time

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FH Mini 77 - The Flop House: Movie Doctors

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