The Flop House: Episode #98 - In Time

[0:00] We discuss the movie that doesn't understand either how time or money works in time

[0:31] Hey everyone and welcome to the Flophouse. I'm Dan McCoy. I'm Stuart Wellington. I'm Elliot Kalin.

[0:39] Yes, we're all back. Sorry about the little bit of time off. Yeah, there's a delay.

[0:44] Yeah, sorry about taking time off. I guess it's been a matter of time since our last timecast.

[0:53] Did you have a stroke? I don't understand why you keep emphasizing it. It's a timecast.

[0:57] I had a time. I don't, I mean, that wasn't even, you just said I had a time. That's not a...

[1:03] Time. Okay. So yeah, it's been a while since we've done one of these.

[1:08] A lot of time, perhaps? Yeah, I'd probably say that.

[1:12] Would you? I mean, not right now. I'd feel kind of weird.

[1:16] Weird about how much time it's been? Yeah, maybe.

[1:21] Dan, that recipe you were telling me about, how much time do I need for that?

[1:25] A couple of tablespoons of time. And how much time should I leave it in the oven for?

[1:30] Two hours of time. Okay, thank you.

[1:35] Two hours units of time. We watched a movie called In Time.

[1:41] Did you want to talk about any other stuff before we got to the movie? No, no.

[1:43] Okay. Apparently not. Would you say it was a timely selection?

[1:46] I would not. Why? Because we're experiencing time right now?

[1:50] Because it speaks to the human condition right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:54] It speaks to the human condition. It's all about the Occupy movement.

[1:56] Not really. Aren't they about the government taking all the time away from...

[2:01] They're about the redistribution of time to the people.

[2:05] This is about a dystopian future. Oh, is it ever dystopian?

[2:10] If you want to know what kind of topia it is, the answer is dis.

[2:16] Don't file this one under utopia. That would be the wrong type of topia.

[2:20] This topia type is dystopia.

[2:23] So there's been a lot of repeating things in this podcast so far.

[2:26] If you're trying to sculpt your bushes in your garden to make it dystopiary,

[2:31] this would be the kind of topia to copy.

[2:35] All right, well, what happened in this movie?

[2:37] Dis. Guys. What did happen?

[2:39] Yeah. Well, Dan. That's what you do.

[2:42] Oh, okay. What? You mean the plot summaries?

[2:44] So, yeah, I'm going to bounce the ball and then pass it over to you.

[2:46] Okay, I'm holding this imaginary ball.

[2:48] That's the podcast ball.

[2:50] You should see it, listeners. They are actually miming this.

[2:53] It's good improv object work.

[2:55] It's called object work.

[2:56] Well, it's just like when you had ventriloquists on the radio.

[2:58] They still used the dummy and everything.

[3:00] We're still miming the time ball.

[3:02] Yeah, it adds something to the performance.

[3:04] I said podcast ball.

[3:05] I mean, listeners can sense it.

[3:06] It'll be time ball later.

[3:07] Time ball.

[3:08] That's the sequel to In Time.

[3:10] It's also a sequel to Rollerball.

[3:11] That's the weird thing.

[3:12] It's a double sequel.

[3:13] It's just like that mash-em-up that I wanted to do called Terminator 4 Short Circuit 3.

[3:17] Yep. What was that going to be called?

[3:19] That's the name.

[3:20] Okay.

[3:21] Terminator 4 slash Short Circuit 3.

[3:23] Okay.

[3:24] So it's like there's sex in it or –

[3:26] What?

[3:27] Well, because you said slash.

[3:28] No, no, no.

[3:29] I was just telling you the punctuation, like face slash off.

[3:32] Okay.

[3:33] The hit film starring John Travolta and Nicholas Mage.

[3:36] But don't they have sex in that movie?

[3:38] No, they don't.

[3:39] I think I watched the wrong movie.

[3:40] I think you do.

[3:43] Anyway, In Time takes place in a dystopian future.

[3:48] I guess or maybe a parallel universe.

[3:50] It's got to be.

[3:51] We see a map every once in a while up on a computer screen.

[3:53] And it does not look like America that we know and love.

[3:55] But also they all drive 70s muscle cars, guys dress kind of like it's the 50s sometimes and sometimes like it's the 90s.

[4:02] I guess what I'm saying is it's very lazy art direction.

[4:05] And the poor people just wear a little bit fewer suits than the rich people.

[4:10] Yeah, the poor – the people who are – I'm putting this in quotes, poor and who live in the ghetto because they call it that a lot, all wear like – they dress like hipsters.

[4:17] Like they wear V-neck sweaters and like Adidas sneakers and things like that and Cora Roy pants.

[4:21] They're 25 years old.

[4:22] Unless they're criminals, then they dress like mod gangsters.

[4:26] Yeah, or like backup –

[4:28] They're going to break into a dance.

[4:29] Like backup dancers from a stage production of Chicago.

[4:32] Yeah.

[4:33] Anyway, so in time posits a dystopian world where instead of money – get this.

[4:40] It's okay.

[4:42] In real life, let me explain what money is.

[4:44] We use money as a way to exchange credit or value for goods and services.

[4:50] And you're rich the more money you have and it allows you to buy things.

[4:54] Guys, I'm going to blow you guys' mind.

[4:56] Money has no inherent value.

[4:58] It only has the value that we place on it.

[5:00] All right, college sophomore.

[5:02] Let's – everyone knows money does have inherent value.

[5:04] God said so in the Bible.

[5:05] Anyway, so in this world though, instead of money, guess what they use for money?

[5:11] I can't.

[5:12] I can't possibly guess.

[5:13] I'll give you a hint.

[5:14] It's in the title.

[5:15] That's right.

[5:16] The quality of being inside or surrounded by something.

[5:20] So like if you want to buy something, you go into a room.

[5:23] That's what was going on.

[5:24] Yeah, yeah, and if you want to like make an insurance payment, you have to put it in an envelope.

[5:29] Is that why they had numbers on their arms?

[5:31] Oh, the numbers.

[5:32] That's for a different reason.

[5:33] No, they use time as –

[5:34] It's a sex thing.

[5:35] Yeah, it's a numbers on your arm fetish.

[5:38] They use time as money in this.

[5:40] Now, in this world, people have somehow been genetically bred to – you got a timer readout on your arm that glows green.

[5:47] So you can see it in the dark and you – at the age of 25, you stop aging.

[5:53] You're 25 physically forever.

[5:55] But then you get one hour left of life.

[5:57] And that time can be bought or sold or accumulated, and then you live forever if you have the time.

[6:04] But if you don't, you die as soon as your time runs out, and you spend time on everything, rent, food, coffee, clothes.

[6:13] Just like you'd spend money, right?

[6:14] Just like you'd spend money.

[6:15] Without inherent value.

[6:16] It's like if every time you spent a dollar, you lost a minute off your life.

[6:20] Okay.

[6:22] Now, get this.

[6:23] In this radically different world where spending time literally means you live less, guess what amazing social changes this has created?

[6:32] I imagine that people are really living their life to the fullest, like they're cutting down just the bare necessities of life.

[6:40] Nope, nope, almost none.

[6:42] Everyone lives almost exactly the same except the very rich sit around in their marble houses and don't do very much,

[6:49] and the very poor go to jobs in factories and pay their rent and dress like hipsters.

[6:54] And sometimes they stand around in mobs that don't really accomplish anything.

[6:58] They spent – for people who – and the word time is used maybe a thousand million billion times in this movie.

[7:04] For people who are constantly griping about how little time they have left, they spend a lot of time milling around.

[7:09] Like a lot of time just standing around complaining about things.

[7:12] It'd be one thing if like they had this crazy riot where they revolted and attacked people.

[7:15] But no, like their riot is a bunch of guys standing around.

[7:18] Just kind of looking.

[7:19] Yeah.

[7:20] And if you run out of time and you die, your body just falls down in the gutter and they just leave you there.

[7:25] So there's a lot of times when someone – like Justin Timberlake, the star of the film.

[7:29] I forgot to – I haven't actually mentioned the plot.

[7:31] J-Time.

[7:32] J-Time.

[7:33] I've only – they should have called this movie Justin Time.

[7:35] That would have been fantastic.

[7:37] But I haven't even mentioned the plot.

[7:38] That's just the setting.

[7:39] But Justin Timberlake is going to work at his job making time bricks, and he is – he just –

[7:45] There's no other commodities.

[7:46] Well, that's the way you transfer time.

[7:47] It's in a time brick.

[7:48] They look like old like data cassettes or something, right?

[7:52] Yeah, they look like big pieces of – little pieces of metal.

[7:54] They look like a Betamax.

[7:56] Yeah, yeah.

[7:57] Or like a – no, more like an 8-track.

[7:59] Yeah.

[8:00] Like a silver 8-track.

[8:01] The fabled silver 8-track.

[8:04] If you find it, then you get a magical tour to Willy Wonka's 8-track factory.

[8:08] I thought that was just if you had a hit record but not like a huge hit in the 70s.

[8:12] You get a silver 8-track.

[8:13] Yeah.

[8:15] That's if you sell your song a million times just over CB radio, a silver 8-track.

[8:21] Like Disco Duck, got a silver 8-track.

[8:25] Disco Duck actually is now the Affleck Duck.

[8:27] Oh, wow.

[8:28] Fitzgerald said American lives have no second act.

[8:31] But in the case of Disco Duck, he is mistaken, who is now the Affleck Duck.

[8:35] But anyway, so Justin Timberlake is going to work –

[8:37] He spent a little time in Duckburg before that.

[8:39] Justin Timberlake –

[8:40] Yeah, what was he doing there?

[8:41] He killed Scrooge McDuck in his money time vault.

[8:44] Sure. Okay.

[8:45] So in example, if this was Duck Tales, Uncle Scrooge would have a time vault and he would go swimming in time.

[8:50] And instead of his number one dime, he would have his number one minute.

[8:54] Yeah, I guess in like a little time break.

[8:56] But so Justin Timberlake is going to work at the time factory and he looks down and there's just someone dead lying on the ground.

[9:02] No one is phased by this.

[9:04] No one cleans it up.

[9:05] No one does anything.

[9:06] It's just, well, we live in a world where 25-year-olds are just dropping dead on the ground.

[9:09] Well, there's like street sweepers that come up in like early in the morning.

[9:13] Time sweepers.

[9:15] So here's the plot, shall we?

[9:17] Justin Timberlake is just your average Joe or in this case, average Justin.

[9:21] He works at a time break factory.

[9:23] His girlfriend, Olivia Wilde, doesn't have enough time.

[9:25] They don't have enough time.

[9:26] They're always late on the time bills.

[9:28] They're going to die soon probably.

[9:30] He's in a bar with –

[9:31] They're living day-to-day literally.

[9:34] Okay.

[9:36] Sure.

[9:37] Yeah. Okay. Thanks.

[9:38] Step by step.

[9:39] Lost my train of thought but worth it.

[9:41] He's hanging out in the bar with the guy from Big Bang Theory.

[9:44] He's also Darlene's boyfriend.

[9:46] He's hanging out in the bar with Darlene's boyfriend from Roseanne.

[9:48] You may know him as Big Bang Theory number two.

[9:50] And this guy walks in with like 100 years' worth of time on his arm and he just keeps going.

[9:54] He looks like the guy from White Collar.

[9:56] And he's just going, I'll buy one for everybody.

[9:58] I'll buy a round for everybody.

[10:00] Timberlake's like, hey man, if you don't watch it,

[10:02] you're gonna get beaten up.

[10:03] There's a gang called the Minutemen

[10:04] who kill people and steal their time.

[10:06] Yeah, they sound pretty scary.

[10:08] They're not, don't worry.

[10:09] They're led by an English guy

[10:10] and one of the guys wears a hat.

[10:12] That's pretty much the Minutemen.

[10:13] I mean, they're snappy dresses, though.

[10:15] That indicates that.

[10:16] Yeah, they walked out of Quadrophenia.

[10:17] It's like they walked right out of a Gap ad.

[10:19] Quadrophenia, yeah.

[10:21] Not, and not the rocker part of Quadrophenia.

[10:24] The mod part of Quadrophenia.

[10:26] So anyway, Justin Timberlake's like,

[10:28] hey man, stop throwing your time around.

[10:30] You're gonna get beat up for your time.

[10:32] And then this Minutemen group comes in.

[10:34] They're gonna steal from-

[10:35] Almost like a gypsy, he predicts the future.

[10:38] Yes, and he puts a thinner curse on someone.

[10:41] Because it's time, he says, slower, slower.

[10:45] It'd be better, though, yeah.

[10:46] Oh, I mean, faster, faster.

[10:49] Anywho-

[10:50] Fester?

[10:51] Yeah, Uncle Fester.

[10:53] He's in this?

[10:55] I wish.

[10:55] How much better would this have been

[10:56] if Christopher Lloyd was just running around,

[10:59] just doing whatever?

[11:00] We've got to get more time!

[11:01] The piranhas!

[11:02] He's always-

[11:03] The Libyans!

[11:04] The Time Libyans!

[11:06] Marty!

[11:07] No, no, my name is Justin Timberlake.

[11:08] Marty!

[11:09] Anyway, time.

[11:12] He saves the life of this guy who was 100 years.

[11:14] They hang out in a loft space for a while,

[11:17] and the 100-year guy gives Justin Timberlake his time

[11:20] and then commits suicide.

[11:22] And Justin Timberlake decides he's gonna use this time.

[11:25] He's gonna go into the rich zones

[11:26] because society's split up into geographic zones

[11:29] and it costs time, like a toll, to get between zones.

[11:33] You skip over a very important point,

[11:35] which is that Olivia Wilde-

[11:37] Oh, yeah, I forgot, his girlfriend.

[11:38] His girlfriend can't make it to meet Justin

[11:41] because the rates on the buses have gone up.

[11:44] Yeah, the 100-

[11:44] Two hours.

[11:45] The 100-year-old man tells Justin Timberlake

[11:49] that after a hilarious question and answer session,

[11:52] 100-year-old man, you know,

[11:54] classic Mel Brooks car rider bit,

[11:56] he tells him the people in charge control the system

[12:01] and keep everyone down,

[12:02] and they always raise the rates on everything

[12:05] as soon as people get more time, I guess.

[12:08] They're constantly raising the rates on things

[12:10] so that people have to work harder, and we've seen this.

[12:12] The price of coffee-

[12:12] Trying to create this time incumbency.

[12:14] Yes, time incumbency.

[12:15] Someone's been watching The Daily Show a couple times.

[12:19] They raise the price of coffee

[12:20] from three minutes to four minutes,

[12:22] and they raise the cost of the bus

[12:24] from one hour to two hours.

[12:25] That's a significant increase.

[12:27] That is 100%.

[12:28] 100% increase.

[12:29] And Olivia Wilde was-

[12:29] It's too much.

[12:30] She was cutting it a bit close, but I gotta say-

[12:32] She had an hour and a half left on her arm.

[12:34] So even if she got on the bus, like-

[12:37] If there's bad traffic.

[12:38] Yeah, let's say minimum 15-minute bus ride.

[12:41] She's got 15 minutes left in her life.

[12:42] What's she planning on doing?

[12:43] I guess just hanging out, milling around,

[12:46] looking at things.

[12:47] Enjoying her last 15 minutes.

[12:48] Yeah, I think maybe JT was showing up

[12:50] with a little extra time for her, but-

[12:53] Well, JT, it was her birthday.

[12:54] He was showing up with flowers,

[12:55] but he had 100 years on him.

[12:56] He could have given her more time,

[12:57] but she didn't know-

[12:58] If only she had given her-

[12:59] I'm just wondering what the original plan was.

[13:00] If only she had given her-

[13:01] Oh, it was a poorly thought-out plan.

[13:02] Look, there's a reason they're at the bottom.

[13:03] They don't deserve to be rich.

[13:04] They don't think ahead.

[13:05] They're not educated.

[13:06] Anyway, point is, she can't take the bus,

[13:07] so they have to run towards each other.

[13:09] And she runs out of time just too late.

[13:11] She's dealing with a bus driver

[13:12] who does not let her get on the bus,

[13:14] despite the fact that he knows

[13:16] that he's condemning her to a death sentence.

[13:17] Yes.

[13:18] Yeah, well-

[13:20] Look, it's the pressure of society.

[13:24] That's the only thing that bus driver

[13:25] has ever known, Stuart.

[13:26] Oh, okay.

[13:27] So I can't blame him.

[13:28] It's society that's sick.

[13:29] Yeah, you're talking about cultural equivalence,

[13:31] and that's just not fair.

[13:32] I mean, can I blame the guy who invented

[13:33] the green time arm tattoo thing?

[13:35] Oh, John Time?

[13:36] Yes, you can blame him,

[13:37] but he's been dead for thousands of years.

[13:39] Okay, why didn't he just give himself a million years?

[13:42] He thought it wouldn't be fair.

[13:43] No one knows.

[13:44] Actually, what happened is he got hit by a car.

[13:47] He gave himself a thousand million years,

[13:49] and then he got hit by a car.

[13:50] Yeah, ironic.

[13:51] And that's the thing in this movie,

[13:52] is everyone's like,

[13:53] oh, we all know exactly how long we're gonna live,

[13:55] but there are a ton of-

[13:55] You can still die from natural causes.

[13:57] Well, people die of freak accidents all the time,

[14:00] or things like hit by cars,

[14:02] you fall off a building,

[14:03] someone shoots you,

[14:04] a shark bites you,

[14:05] maybe a porcupine bomb blows up,

[14:07] and the quills shoot.

[14:08] Don't just kill you,

[14:09] but the quills go out and shoot everybody.

[14:12] Maybe someone throws a bob bomb at you.

[14:13] You got a couple seconds to throw it away

[14:15] before it blows up,

[14:16] but you know, a shy guy walks up to you,

[14:18] a Goomba, maybe a Koopa Troopa.

[14:20] Yeah, you gotta keep a parachute on.

[14:22] You gotta look up in the skies.

[14:24] There's a guy just throwing spike balls at you.

[14:26] You gotta jump a bullet with a face on it.

[14:29] I don't know what those are called.

[14:30] A Bob the Bullet, I believe.

[14:31] Who are those Hammer Brothers that throw hammers at you?

[14:33] They're called the Hammer Brothers.

[14:34] Uh, I don't know if they're real names.

[14:36] You know those brothers who throw hammers?

[14:38] I'd call them Hammer Brothers.

[14:39] You got piranha plants.

[14:41] You got fireballs.

[14:42] You got Koopa himself.

[14:43] You can just fall down a hole.

[14:45] Maybe Yoshi eats you.

[14:46] He thinks you're an apple.

[14:48] These are all things that could happen to you.

[14:50] To you in real life.

[14:51] Average citizen.

[14:52] To you, the listener.

[14:53] Yeah.

[14:54] But not if you have a Tanooki suit.

[14:55] Then you got a little extra.

[14:57] That's, don't be too complacent.

[14:59] The Tanooki suit won't save you all the time.

[15:01] So you turn into a statue for like two seconds.

[15:03] And I mean, girls like it.

[15:05] Oh, they love it.

[15:05] Yeah, they go apeshit for that.

[15:06] Yeah, it's super cute

[15:07] and it comes with a little tail and little ears.

[15:09] It's like wearing a Japanese hat.

[15:10] Anyway, so.

[15:13] What were we talking about?

[15:14] I don't remember.

[15:15] Oh, Olivia Wilde dies.

[15:16] Olivia Wilde dies in his arms.

[15:17] Which gives JT some avenging fury.

[15:20] Yeah, now just him has nothing to lose.

[15:23] So he goes through the different zones

[15:24] to the rich person's zone.

[15:26] And starts setting himself up in style.

[15:28] He goes to a rich person's casino

[15:30] and he meets Pete Campbell from Mad Men.

[15:33] Who is.

[15:34] Probably not a bad guy.

[15:36] Who is, I always, he's just like,

[15:39] I guess I assume the worst,

[15:41] like the guy who runs everything.

[15:42] They don't quite come out and say it.

[15:44] But he's.

[15:45] He's King Koopa.

[15:45] Well, he's a big time like banker.

[15:47] Like he's.

[15:48] Time banker.

[15:49] He is a big time banker.

[15:51] Yes, he is a time banker.

[15:53] He runs like time credit.

[15:55] Yeah, organizations.

[15:57] That's true, his name is Weiss

[15:58] because of course the movie kind of implies

[16:00] that the Jews are behind the banking.

[16:02] And no one's more Jewish than Pete Campbell.

[16:06] And yeah, you're right.

[16:07] He runs a chain of like time lending banks

[16:09] with a very steep rates, very steep.

[16:12] And of course he is.

[16:14] Like 30%.

[16:15] 25 years old too.

[16:16] I mean, like he's got the,

[16:18] he's got daughters that are his age.

[16:20] Yeah, they throw in a good bit

[16:21] where they show his mother-in-law, his wife,

[16:24] and then his daughter,

[16:25] and they're all the same age,

[16:25] except Amanda Seyfried,

[16:27] his daughter dresses like she's like four years old.

[16:30] Yeah, she's always wearing like party dresses.

[16:33] Like she dresses like Nancy basically, or like.

[16:36] Or like a little doll.

[16:38] Yeah.

[16:39] She's dressing for the Bonnie part

[16:42] and the Bonnie and Clyde that they're going to become.

[16:44] She looks more like she's dressing

[16:46] for the Angelica part in Rugrats.

[16:48] Okay.

[16:50] Let's say that.

[16:51] Yeah, that's a good reference.

[16:51] Or Elmira from Tiny Toons.

[16:54] Is that her name?

[16:55] Sure.

[16:56] I mean.

[16:57] Either of those work.

[16:59] She has Amanda Seyfried's body though.

[17:00] That should not be overlooked.

[17:02] Yeah, like Elmira from Tiny Toons.

[17:04] Okay.

[17:05] Now it got weird.

[17:06] No, she does.

[17:07] Anyway, it's Slammin'.

[17:08] But moving on.

[17:09] She goes.

[17:11] It's the Slammin' Salmon.

[17:14] The Slammin' Salmon?

[17:15] I don't know.

[17:15] No, not at all.

[17:17] It's Broken Lizard's breath.

[17:19] No, please.

[17:21] It's at the very least her body is super troopers.

[17:24] Okay.

[17:25] But it's way better than that.

[17:26] Anyway, he meets Pete Campbell

[17:28] who's a big rich muckety muck.

[17:29] His daughter, Pete Campbell's daughter is Amanda Seyfried.

[17:31] Sure.

[17:32] And Justin Timberlake and Pete Campbell

[17:33] in a high stakes game of Texas Hold'em.

[17:36] Yeah.

[17:37] Roughly a hundred years in the future,

[17:39] Texas Hold'em is still the hottest shit in the world.

[17:42] Yeah.

[17:43] I think maybe it just came back around.

[17:44] It's a retro craze.

[17:45] It's a retro craze, yeah.

[17:47] The same way that hitting that big hoop with a stick

[17:51] is such a big thing right now.

[17:52] Yeah.

[17:53] And wearing barrels around.

[17:54] Yeah.

[17:56] Past times come back every hundred years or so.

[17:59] So Timberlake and Pete Campbell have a poker game.

[18:05] Timberlake wins like a thousand years.

[18:07] Now he's super rich.

[18:08] And Dan spent a ridiculous amount of time

[18:11] trying to work out the exchange rate.

[18:13] Between time and hour dollars.

[18:14] I think I figured it out.

[18:15] I mean, I don't think in the context of the movie,

[18:17] no amount of time is ridiculous.

[18:19] All right.

[18:20] So, I mean, there's like two months paid

[18:23] for like a nice, but not great hotel room

[18:27] in like the fanciest part of town.

[18:30] But he also had a meal that cost him eight and a half weeks.

[18:34] But like the two months, that's over.

[18:36] I mean, like it was a really nice meal

[18:37] like that it could cost more than a-

[18:39] That restaurant was not like John George quality.

[18:42] All right.

[18:43] But my point is-

[18:43] He wasn't that per se.

[18:44] Let's say then-

[18:45] Now that we've mentioned them,

[18:46] they have to give us free stuff, right?

[18:47] Right, yes.

[18:48] Because we're so well-listened to.

[18:50] No, but let's say then that two months is $400.

[18:54] So that makes like a year's worth of time

[18:57] is about $2,500 at that point.

[19:00] You know, like, so to have like a hundred years,

[19:05] you know, all right, you're talking about $250,000 there.

[19:09] That's a lot of money.

[19:10] It's a lot of money.

[19:12] We're all rich television writers.

[19:13] But if that's all that you have for all of your life,

[19:15] like that is like one year salary of like a well-off person.

[19:19] It's not, you know-

[19:20] It's 1%, Dan, a 1%-er.

[19:23] Yeah, but like a rich person,

[19:24] but that's one year of their salary.

[19:25] There's not like they're set for life

[19:26] after they have 100 years on their time arm.

[19:29] And keep in mind that like you're also using that time

[19:32] at a regular rate as well.

[19:34] That's true.

[19:34] You also use up money by just living,

[19:37] by just experiencing time.

[19:38] That's a good point.

[19:39] And one that's not really-

[19:41] which is really the phrase

[19:43] that was the inspiration for this.

[19:45] Someone was like, he was stoned.

[19:46] He's like, what if time was money?

[19:48] Yeah, someone said, time is money.

[19:49] And he went, whoa, what if it was?

[19:53] Get me my pen.

[19:54] He writes everything out in longhand.

[19:56] So anyway-

[19:57] And then he wrote this script in an evening.

[19:59] Yes.

[20:00] So Jimbo –

[20:01] Because this is a world where time is money but they don't actually seem to do anything

[20:05] ever really.

[20:06] Well, that's because the rich people are afraid of getting hurt and the poor people

[20:09] are just –

[20:10] And the heroes are afraid of taking action because it would use up screen monies.

[20:13] Well, because you do have time cops called time keepers.

[20:16] Okay.

[20:17] Here, the main one is Cillian Murphy who you may know as Scarecrow from Batman Begins.

[20:21] He looks 25.

[20:22] And Scarecrow from Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

[20:24] And Scarecrow from –

[20:25] The Wizard of Oz.

[20:26] The Wizard of Oz, yes.

[20:27] The Wizard of Oz, yes.

[20:28] And what's that movie?

[20:29] And the Crow.

[20:30] Jeepers Creepers.

[20:31] What's that movie with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman?

[20:32] Oh, yes.

[20:33] Scarecrow.

[20:34] Oh, it's just called Scarecrow.

[20:35] Yes.

[20:36] It's called Scarecrow.

[20:37] Yes.

[20:38] Anyway.

[20:39] So Cillian Murphy from some of those movies is –

[20:40] Jeepers Creepers.

[20:41] Yes.

[20:42] Is a time keeper which means he's like a cop who enforces the time laws.

[20:47] So you can't – the poor stay poor because –

[20:49] What's the first law of the time laws?

[20:51] Is you don't talk about time laws.

[20:52] Okay.

[20:53] Second law of time laws, also you don't talk about time laws.

[20:57] And the last law is if it's your first time, you have to time.

[21:00] All right.

[21:02] Well, so Cillian Murphy is on this guy's tail, right?

[21:06] He's on this guy's tail chasing him because they have identified him as possessing a bunch

[21:11] of time.

[21:12] They don't know how he got it.

[21:13] And Jay Time has, by this point, kidnapped Amanda Seyfried and she's –

[21:17] Well, we haven't gotten to that point.

[21:18] Maybe he's kidnapped her heart.

[21:20] Yes.

[21:21] Well –

[21:22] He goes to a big party at Pete Campbell's house.

[21:24] Cillian Murphy comes in and takes away Jay Time's 1,000 years, leaves him with only

[21:27] two hours.

[21:28] And so Jay Time takes Amanda Seyfried who he's already gone skinny dipping with hostage.

[21:33] Suddenly –

[21:34] Two days at most after his girlfriend's death by the way.

[21:38] This is Amanda Seyfried we're talking about.

[21:41] He's powered by vengeance and she's the slamming salmon.

[21:43] I mean what's the – what don't you get?

[21:45] Like if it comes down to Amanda Seyfried versus Olivia Wilde, sure.

[21:49] I prefer Amanda Seyfried but we're led to believe that Justin Timberlake had some serious

[21:54] feelings for this woman who died in his arms.

[21:57] Like I really enjoy this hamburger but if this delicious steak is placed in front of

[22:00] me, I'll forget I ever had a hamburger.

[22:03] OK.

[22:04] I guess when you're using up your life minute by minute, there's no time to mourn the dead.

[22:10] No.

[22:11] There's no time to mourn.

[22:12] Anyway, they're on the run.

[22:13] Did you see what he just did there?

[22:14] Yeah, I do.

[22:15] OK.

[22:16] They get –

[22:17] I wish he didn't.

[22:19] They are – there's a – there's the first of about a billion car chases that are

[22:23] not very good.

[22:25] They get into a car accident.

[22:26] Some Minutemen come along and take Amanda Seyfried's time.

[22:29] Now they've only got like a couple minutes between them.

[22:31] Yeah, they're broke again.

[22:32] And the rest of the movie is basically them on the lam.

[22:34] They decide to start robbing time banks and giving out time like a couple of robin times.

[22:38] Like natural born killers.

[22:39] They become –

[22:40] Natural born timers or time hoods.

[22:41] As you said, time bandits.

[22:42] They become time bandits which should have been the title of the movie because it would

[22:45] have made me angry and then I would have felt something about this movie.

[22:49] They become a bunch of time bandits and it would be awesome if they became dwarves at

[22:52] that point.

[22:54] But they're just going around stealing time from people and giving it out to the masses

[22:57] and this is going to totally destabilize the system.

[23:00] Would they be like super deformed dwarves or like Lord of the Rings dwarves?

[23:05] You mean hobbits?

[23:06] No, like with beards and shit.

[23:09] Wait.

[23:10] They might have beards.

[23:11] I don't know why they wouldn't.

[23:12] Or would they be like super deformed like anime characters?

[23:14] What do you mean with – oh, they'd be like that with the huge heads and the huge

[23:17] eyes.

[23:18] Well, Seyfried would be an anime character.

[23:19] She already pretty much is an anime character.

[23:20] Yeah.

[23:21] If Amanda Seyfried reminds me of anything, it's the hologram bride of that one character

[23:26] in Archer.

[23:27] Krieger.

[23:28] Yeah, Krieger.

[23:29] Yeah, I can see that.

[23:30] I'm not familiar.

[23:31] You should watch that show.

[23:32] It's a good show.

[23:33] He's an animated Japanese bride character.

[23:34] I gathered.

[23:35] Krieger, the scientist.

[23:36] Thank you.

[23:37] Thanks, Stuart, for backing me up on that one.

[23:38] No, no.

[23:39] I was just giving you some support.

[23:40] Always time for that.

[23:41] Time?

[23:42] Anyway, so they're on their Robin Hood spree.

[23:43] The cops are after him.

[23:44] Pete Campbell is after him, and it just kind of keeps going like that until –

[23:45] And then they do a turnaround, and then they go after Pete Campbell, and now they take

[23:46] his millions.

[23:47] They take his million, which, again, I worked out.

[23:48] It's one million years.

[23:49] It's a couple trillion dollars' worth of time.

[23:50] It's one time break.

[23:51] I don't think that that's enough to destroy the world time economy.

[23:52] Maybe it is.

[23:53] Maybe it is.

[23:54] Maybe it's not.

[24:12] destroying the time economy of that city, I guess.

[24:14] Which is America.

[24:15] Yeah.

[24:16] That's the other thing is, America in this world, wherever this place is, seems to consist

[24:20] of two cities.

[24:21] Well, maybe it's so far in the future that continental drift has changed the shape of

[24:24] everything again.

[24:25] I see.

[24:26] So it's tiny.

[24:27] It's a new Pangea.

[24:28] Yeah.

[24:29] Yeah.

[24:30] Or Nangea.

[24:31] Timegea, sure.

[24:32] Pangea time.

[24:33] There's two cities.

[24:34] There's –

[24:35] Super deformed.

[24:36] Definitely.

[24:37] There's New Greenwich, which is where all the rich people live, because I assume the

[24:40] cities of Greenwich and Old Greenwich were both atom bombed, probably in the bad days

[24:45] or the cataclysm.

[24:46] Yeah.

[24:47] Whatever they call it.

[24:48] And get it, guys.

[24:49] Get it.

[24:50] Greenwich mean time.

[24:51] Huh?

[24:52] Pretty clever, huh?

[24:53] Yeah.

[24:54] All right.

[24:55] Yeah.

[24:56] I like it.

[24:57] Greenwich.

[24:58] And the bad people live – and the poor people live in Dayton.

[24:59] Because day-ton.

[25:00] Day-ton.

[25:01] Day-ton.

[25:02] I like it.

[25:03] What I'm saying is it's a well-written movie.

[25:06] Also, apparently –

[25:07] I was saying it's subtle.

[25:08] It's a subtle bite.

[25:10] These are really well-delineated ghetto to –

[25:15] Really well Dana-delineated?

[25:16] Well, just the different classes are very carefully shunted into their different areas.

[25:23] I guess there's no gentrification or anything.

[25:25] Not at all.

[25:26] Or people living with other people of different classes.

[25:28] And as you point out, like are the servants bussed in from a different sector?

[25:32] Terms of –

[25:33] Sort of like for Greenwich?

[25:35] Or are they like rich and they just serve as hotel clerks and waitresses on a whim?

[25:39] Yeah, as a larp.

[25:40] Is it like a co-op and everyone who lives there has to – like I'm a millionaire

[25:45] today.

[25:46] Yeah, but tomorrow I'm a janitor.

[25:47] I don't understand.

[25:48] It's a living.

[25:49] Wait.

[25:50] So they're dinosaur record players?

[25:51] Is that what you're saying?

[25:52] Well, someone has to do it.

[25:53] So they decide to – they give – they pretend to give themselves in so that they

[25:59] can get into the office of Pete Campbell.

[26:01] Pete Campbell has a million-year time block.

[26:03] They take it out and it gets released to the public.

[26:06] Time destabilizes the system.

[26:08] Like a virus.

[26:09] There's a – and Killian Murphy is just obsessed with taking them down.

[26:12] And there's a chase and Killian Murphy runs out of time and dies.

[26:18] And Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried just kind of –

[26:22] So wait.

[26:23] You're saying the showdown, the big chase where they finally come face-to-face with

[26:28] their pursuer.

[26:29] They've been face-to-face with them before.

[26:31] But like the moment where it's like this is it.

[26:33] This is the end of the movie.

[26:35] Yeah.

[26:36] The guy who's chasing them.

[26:37] This is Nacre Timberlake.

[26:38] The main antagonist.

[26:39] All of a sudden just falls down dead after looking at his forearm.

[26:42] He ran out of time.

[26:43] Well, you're forgetting that the other big conflict was resolved basically with an arm

[26:47] wrestling match.

[26:48] With a very boring arm wrestling match that involves just – and earlier in the movie.

[26:53] I mean arm wrestling can be pretty great.

[26:55] Yeah, over the top.

[26:56] Let's just say that.

[26:57] It's a great movie.

[26:58] Yeah.

[27:00] It's no –

[27:01] Say it now.

[27:02] Yeah.

[27:03] I mean, yeah.

[27:04] I'll say it right now.

[27:05] Over the top is great.

[27:06] Oh, there you go.

[27:07] Because you said you would say it.

[27:08] Then you didn't say it.

[27:09] Disappointing.

[27:10] I mean if you're going to push me into it, I'll say it.

[27:11] It seemed like your body was cashing – your ego was writing checks that your body couldn't

[27:14] cash.

[27:15] Yeah, my body and my mouth were both cashing those checks.

[27:18] Your body was cashing checks that your toes didn't have money in the bank to pay for.

[27:22] In the time bank.

[27:23] So your ankles were on default and the bank sent the loan collectors to your butt.

[27:30] Is that accurate?

[27:31] Is that an accurate summary of the situation?

[27:32] Is that a summary of the economic state of your body?

[27:36] Economic.

[27:37] Economic.

[27:38] Ew.

[27:39] Yeah, gross.

[27:40] Super Grody, Dan.

[27:41] Let's move on.

[27:42] Super Grody Dan, the new superhero character.

[27:45] These minute men, like they're angry at JT in the first place but then like society

[27:49] becomes more destabilized and because Justin Timberlake is handing out free time, like

[27:57] more people are getting hurt because these criminals are –

[27:59] Because these minute men have more victims.

[28:00] Yeah.

[28:01] But there's a scene earlier where Justin – JTims shows ACs where how to win an arm

[28:06] wrestling match which is that you just hold the other arm really tight and you force them

[28:09] to look at your time.

[28:11] Yeah.

[28:12] You let it get down to the last few seconds.

[28:13] You let your timer out.

[28:14] Because here's the thing about time.

[28:15] You can exchange it with people just by holding hands and both people –

[28:19] Like Kang and Kodos exchanging those long protein strands.

[28:23] Protein strands, yeah.

[28:24] Or like – what are those mutants who have to be holding hands to shoot out laser blasts?

[28:30] Yeah, I don't know.

[28:32] You got me.

[28:33] They showed up – Fenris?

[28:34] Anyway.

[28:35] They showed up during the trial of Magneto.

[28:37] Anyway.

[28:38] Sounds like pretty lame mutants.

[28:39] Well, they're pretty powerful when they're holding hands.

[28:41] Yeah, but that's pretty lame.

[28:42] They're a brother and sister and they have to hold hands which is weird.

[28:45] Like to hold hands with your grown sister.

[28:48] Everyone else would be making fun of them.

[28:50] Yeah, until they get laser blasted.

[28:52] That's so funny then, holding hands.

[28:55] But anyway, you keep your hand on the bottom so the other guy can see your clock.

[28:59] You let your time run super low, like eight seconds left until you die.

[29:03] At that point, he's going to take his eye away and look at your clock, and that's when you switch positions and start stealing his time.

[29:08] It's called the switcheroonie.

[29:09] Somehow you've got super strength just because he's distracted by looking at the clock.

[29:14] When you run out of time, it gives you I guess a burst of energy.

[29:17] Of course.

[29:18] But you can take time from somebody without their permission.

[29:22] It doesn't make sense how you get time from one person to another.

[29:26] But Justin Timberlake uses this trick on the Minuteman leader, steals his time and shoots the henchman.

[29:32] But it's like a minute of them just kind of like holding each other's arms and looking at each other.

[29:37] That sounds like that must have been the big action sequence of the movie.

[29:40] Kind of, yeah.

[29:41] Kind of the climax.

[29:42] There are a couple of action-y moments.

[29:44] Where while sitting down, he shoots a couple of guys and then wins an arm wrestling match.

[29:48] Yeah.

[29:49] Come on, Stewart.

[29:50] He wins an arm wrestling match, then shoots a couple of guys.

[29:53] Oh, my mistake.

[29:54] No, Stewart's right.

[29:55] He's midway through winning.

[29:57] He's midway through winning when he shoots those guys.

[30:00] he's even distracted by the fact that he's arm wrestling

[30:04] well that's how good he is at time wrestling. They meet up with Killian Murphy

[30:07] Chrono wrestling

[30:08] yeah chrono wrestling

[30:10] they meet up with Killian Murphy

[30:13] Killian Murphy dies of time disease

[30:15] uh... not having any

[30:16] and

[30:17] the two of them

[30:18] it looks like you're a doctor, looks like you've got time disease

[30:22] they leave his body in the street like everyone else does. They leave his body in the street and they're running out of time too

[30:26] but they get more time from his cop car

[30:28] and then they just keep on as time robbers and society is destabilized and

[30:33] one of the deputies who was working with Murphy

[30:36] quits

[30:37] and they're folk heroes and they start robbing time banks again and that's the

[30:40] end of the movie. Well the last shot is the two of them about to rob the biggest bank ever

[30:45] yeah I assume it's time knocks. Kind of like the end of Deep Rising where True Williams and Famke Jensen are about to go into the giant

[30:50] island full of monsters. And there's just like the two of them, I mean like I don't care

[30:54] I mean the movie's fucking over at this point so who cares but I'm still kind of like

[30:57] okay there's just two of you going into this huge bank

[31:00] well it's like the Matrix, they've probably got guns strapped to their hoo-hahs

[31:04] and legs. And they probably know karate like that Neo guy did. Yeah and they can control

[31:09] bullets with bullet time because it's in time, time, time, time

[31:12] I think he's got a point. Time Time Club. Or maybe they can hold each other's hands and shoot fucking lasers, I don't know

[31:17] I don't like this shit. Like Fenris

[31:19] come on

[31:19] it's a movie

[31:21] so this is a pretty lazy dystopia

[31:23] it's incredibly lazy. Let's talk about that for a second

[31:26] everyone drives around. I've seen a lot of dystopian futures. Equilibriums, 1984s, Equilibriums

[31:32] that one you came back from the future to warn us about

[31:35] yeah I've seen them all

[31:36] but will this car, I mean like they're all driving like seventies cars around

[31:39] but they have like, they've got like space noises when they drive, like they're just regular seventies cars

[31:44] it looks like they shot a movie, they made a choice, it's kind of like

[31:47] you said this was made by the same guy who made Gattaca? Yeah. In Gattaca it's like

[31:51] the future but they all wear old timey suits

[31:53] in this one it's like, it's the future but they all drive old cars, but it's like the studio is like

[31:58] can we future up these cars a little bit? So when they open the door to a seventies muscle car you hear

[32:01] like a pneumatic noise, it's ridiculous

[32:06] and they're driving around

[32:08] it's like Repo Man was kind of the same way, right? Great point. I don't remember it that well but

[32:14] Repo Man was basically the same. No, not at all

[32:18] it was more futuristic? No, less futuristic than Repo Man

[32:21] Repo Man. Oh, I'm starting to think of Repo Man. Repo Man was like that, yeah.

[32:24] Yeah, Repo Man didn't have a lot of space sound effects?

[32:29] I mean at the end that car did glow and go into space. Up until then there were not a lot of them

[32:34] but in Repo Man, yeah, it's the future but they all dress and live in houses that look

[32:37] exactly like nowadays. It's like the movie AI

[32:40] where

[32:40] it's like two hundred years in the future but guys still dress like Steven Spielberg dresses now

[32:45] like khakis and a button-down plaid shirt

[32:48] Look, that's a fine choice to make. I mean, you know... I want to see them wearing space clothes.

[32:53] Yeah, like in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. We can all acknowledge that

[32:57] things change slower than people

[32:59] imagine they're going to change. People are like... I don't want them to wear silver jumpsuits.

[33:03] 1950s visions of the future are like these crazy visions that are

[33:08] never going to come true

[33:10] but you've got to pick one or the other. You can't have just regular cars with space noises on top of them.

[33:16] Because why would they add those?

[33:18] But also like

[33:19] there's no... things in the ghetto area of Dayton don't look...

[33:25] the surroundings look like

[33:27] it's a district made up of warehouses and run-down buildings but everyone's dressed pretty nicely

[33:31] and like

[33:32] they don't look... they're all 25

[33:34] so they don't look malnourished or unhealthy. They all look really healthy and like

[33:39] they're having a great time. Do we have any idea how long it's been since

[33:43] this like time economy was instituted?

[33:46] At least a hundred years.

[33:50] They don't really address any of the

[33:52] questions you would want to ask about this which is

[33:55] like has it always been this way or like did it start at some point?

[33:59] They say people have been genetically

[34:01] altered to be this way. But they don't give like the details of like why this

[34:04] switchover happened or... What you're saying is they should open with a

[34:08] woman's voiceover

[34:10] in the year 2245

[34:12] after the great disaster. Exactly. Man re-emerged from the underground. I like it.

[34:17] But it seems like... Led by the scientists. Let's watch it again. Krogh von Krogar.

[34:21] They designed the time men. If this is going to be a movie about overthrowing the

[34:26] like the dominant power then there has to be some indication

[34:29] at some point

[34:30] of like why did this operate this way or how. Well it's a metaphor. It's all a big allegory.

[34:35] Yeah. But it's not set up that way. It's set up like a... It's set up like a science fiction movie.

[34:41] This is what I was going to say actually which is... And then I have the other thing to say.

[34:45] I could imagine this premise as goofy as it is

[34:48] making an okay movie. But they would have to scale it way back and make it like a

[34:52] human scaled

[34:54] much more of like a overt metaphor like allegory

[34:58] picture. Like I could see...

[35:01] More like primer?

[35:02] Yeah. I could see something like primer or even like more of an art film

[35:06] approaching this material and making it work in some way.

[35:10] But when you turn it... When you like graft on just a regular

[35:14] sort of action... Kind of a Bonnie and Clyde action plot line.

[35:17] Can you put quotations around action please?

[35:20] When you graft on... Let's call it a thriller. It wasn't very thrilling either. A conventional plot line.

[35:24] When you graft a conventional plot line on top of this all you can think about are the logic

[35:28] flaws at that point. Yeah. Here's the thing I couldn't quite understand. Because they explain a little bit

[35:32] how the time works.

[35:34] It's in your arm. People can steal it from you. When you die, your time gets locked in you.

[35:37] If you die before you've used up your time, they keep it in time bricks. All that stuff is

[35:42] totally explainable.

[35:44] In the real world, we have money. People without a lot of money are poor. People

[35:48] with money are rich.

[35:49] But something called credit has evolved to fill the gap

[35:53] so that you can borrow and then pay back.

[35:57] But it's not money. It's a different kind of thing than money.

[36:00] And in this they have where you can borrow time and then I guess pay it back at a later date.

[36:04] But the interest rates are so ridiculously high. Credit doesn't really

[36:09] seem to exist in this movie. There's no market in this movie.

[36:13] It's just kind of like feudalism. You would think that there would be some kind of a system

[36:17] in place so that if you are, I don't know, just about to die for not having enough time

[36:23] that you could borrow some on credit.

[36:26] This movie seems to be predicated on the idea that

[36:31] if you have a small group of people who control everything, they can oppress poor people

[36:35] by constantly forcing poor people to die.

[36:38] But the problem is that you don't have enough poor people to run your time factory.

[36:41] That was what I was about to say. They seem to be saying,

[36:44] oh, we're going to keep these people down. This is our way of

[36:48] oppressing them. But that kind of economy only works

[36:53] if it's a pyramid. The work of the many is going to create

[36:58] an easy lifestyle for the people at the top. You can't just kill off all of the people

[37:03] at the bottom. They leave their bodies rotting on the street.

[37:06] You never see the bodies rotting. I wonder if they're just like...

[37:09] They turn into time. Disappear into the ether.

[37:14] I mean ultimately this is not... There's a lot of holes with this dystopia.

[37:19] You don't say. It's almost like the movie Holes.

[37:24] But I think the filmmaker would probably say like,

[37:27] hey, it's not literal. Don't get hung up on the details.

[37:32] But it does feel really slacked together. You never give a shit what happens to the characters.

[37:36] If it's sort of this outraged cry, say, about the class system,

[37:42] then it has to show some basic understanding of how the class system actually works.

[37:46] I guess so. Rather than what this movie sets up, which is a completely unworkable system.

[37:51] Yeah, and then expect us to worry about the people involved.

[37:56] Yeah. Is Justin Timberlake going to have enough time to get out of this one?

[38:00] Yeah, he is because there's no movie if he doesn't.

[38:04] And for there to be a satisfying revenge story for Justin Timberlake,

[38:08] you have to put more than maybe 15 minutes worth of setup into his character.

[38:13] Like he wakes up, he goes to a factory. Oh, no, he gets a bunch of money, gets a bunch of time.

[38:18] Oh, no, his girlfriend dies. Time to go on a revenge spree.

[38:20] Yeah. Well, the thing is, like the main motivator for his revenge,

[38:24] his girlfriend dying is sort of hustled under the rug so he can have a romance.

[38:29] Well, he kind of forgets about it. Well, but then once again, hamburger steak, guys.

[38:32] But then we talked about that. We learned that hamburger steak.

[38:36] You've managed to figure out a way to compare these two women in a way that denigrates neither of them.

[38:41] And that in no way is offensive to all human beings.

[38:45] You've managed to come up with this analogy comparing two beautiful women to ground up hamburger meat or beef.

[38:54] Or non ground up. Or non ground up beef.

[38:57] That really, I think it's just so not misogynistic at all.

[39:02] It shows a sensitivity. A real egalitarianism.

[39:06] The thing is, Elliot, time's money. I don't think that doesn't apply.

[39:09] I don't understand. Are you losing money?

[39:11] I have deflected your critique.

[39:14] Oh, man. The last thing I'll say about this is it was lazily thrown together.

[39:19] Like the same thing we were saying, like we don't know who Justin Timberlake is.

[39:22] Later on in the movie, Cillian Murphy starts saying, you didn't know your dad, but he tried to do the same thing.

[39:27] And we never – that never comes to fruition in any way.

[39:30] Because values are genetic.

[39:33] Yes. Exactly. Just like time.

[39:36] And it's just a lame – it's a boring movie.

[39:40] Yeah. We're already kind of there, but I guess we should give our final judgments.

[39:45] Okay.

[39:46] Is this a good bad movie, a bad bad movie, or a movie you kind of like?

[39:50] Stuart, what do you have to say? Let's say ye.

[39:54] No. I'll do a bad, bad movie. This is a bad, bad movie.

[39:57] Like as if that was a surprise.

[40:00] As if we convinced you.

[40:02] I agree with you guys.

[40:03] No, it's it's it's not.

[40:05] But maybe if it was a little more actiony,

[40:09] it's just for a movie that's all about time.

[40:11] It seems to not make very good use of it.

[40:13] It moves very slowly.

[40:15] That's the worst thing about is not that the society it sets up doesn't work,

[40:18] but that it's just super slow and dull.

[40:21] And you talk to that.

[40:22] And as as you just did, the parody of the the director saying,

[40:26] oh, you can't take it too seriously.

[40:27] But one of the problems with the movie is it does take itself a little too.

[40:30] Yeah, very seriously.

[40:31] Except he uses the word time a lot.

[40:33] Yeah. Within the first three minutes of the movie,

[40:35] I think you hear the word time more times than I've heard it my entire life.

[40:38] Well, then that segues directly into what I was going to say,

[40:42] which is for the first, you know, 15, 20 minutes, I thought, oh, maybe this

[40:46] this could be like a good bad movie because it's so silly

[40:48] with all of the time stuff being set up.

[40:50] But all that gets thrown at you quickly at the beginning of the movie.

[40:54] And then the rest of the movie is is is sort of a slog.

[40:58] Like it does not a coleslaw ever have that level of extra

[41:03] sustained goofiness again.

[41:05] As you said, Elliot, at one point, like I don't like movies

[41:09] where the hero spent a lot of time hiding out.

[41:11] And that's that's a lot of the middle section of this movie.

[41:14] It's yeah, the heroes aren't doing a lot.

[41:16] They're just kind of like waiting around in hotel rooms,

[41:19] repeating to each other what the movie is about.

[41:22] Yeah. If they're not hiding from a Terminator, I don't want to see it.

[41:27] Yes. But the I mean, to be on the run is OK.

[41:29] But to be just sitting in a hotel room for a long time, going like,

[41:34] are we stealing?

[41:36] If you steal something that's already stolen, is that stealing?

[41:38] Or is that blah, blah, blah?

[41:40] Here's how you win time arm wrestling,

[41:43] time wrestling.

[41:45] So I was going to give it a bad, bad movie also because of the storytelling.

[41:49] It's just a you'd think a movie like this

[41:51] where they're constantly running out of time, they'd be running

[41:53] and it would be super fast, like you'd want it to be like crank.

[41:57] But instead, it's not like crank.

[41:59] It's just kind of very dull.

[42:02] And that is the worst crime a film can commit to be dull.

[42:05] A time crime.

[42:07] So time to kill time.

[42:10] That's I got I've got some time X takes a time and keeps on timing.

[42:16] God, I have a few letters to read.

[42:21] This one. Oh, yeah.

[42:22] Dan, you said your part is my favorite part.

[42:24] Dan, you sound so depressed because we're reading letters.

[42:26] No, I forgot to print them out because well, they all talk about

[42:29] how their favorite movie is time.

[42:31] Wait, no, in time, because then we'd be in trouble.

[42:34] I forgot to print them out.

[42:36] So the movie should have been called just in time.

[42:37] So I I'm reading them off of my iPad.

[42:41] I can see how that would make the experience so much worse.

[42:44] Well, I just I haven't vetted things in the same way.

[42:46] And this is also this will be a nice.

[42:47] It's rough on the eyes.

[42:48] This will be a nice ad for the flop house wiki where they talk about Dan's iPad.

[42:52] Oh, yeah. We do. They have a thing for Dan.

[42:54] Yeah, I do. Oh, OK.

[42:56] Flop has been early for porn and surfing for Las Vegas,

[43:00] taking pictures of his own penis, my friend.

[43:02] So this is by the way, I just want to say

[43:04] the people at the flop house wiki are doing great work.

[43:06] Keep it up, fellas. We really appreciate it.

[43:09] This letter is from Andrew.

[43:11] Last name withheld.

[43:12] And it's it's called some praise for Elliott.

[43:15] And then I call him out for being a wrong idiot.

[43:17] Oh, you get that a lot.

[43:19] I do get called out for being a wrong idiot a lot.

[43:21] So I guess.

[43:23] Hello, Dan, Elliott and Stewart.

[43:24] It's not a massive part of your broadcast.

[43:26] And be honest, it's part broadcast.

[43:29] That's our cattle prod talk podcast.

[43:30] And to be honest, it's the part that sort of signals the fun is over.

[43:33] And a slavish adherence to the format means there's going to be about five

[43:36] minutes of gag free earnest bullshit.

[43:38] Is this a recommendation?

[43:39] But I thought I'd like I thought I'd write to say that the recommendations,

[43:42] specifically Elliott's recommendations, are almost uniformly excellent.

[43:45] Thank you.

[43:46] This praise would never be followed by someone calling me a big wrong idiot.

[43:50] Thanks to the flop house.

[43:51] I've seen the friends of Eddie Coyle and dug up Los Angeles stars as itself.

[43:56] It's on YouTube with only part eleven of twelve removed for copyright reasons.

[44:00] So I'm torn.

[44:02] While recommendations is the wiping your dick on a hand towel

[44:05] to the movies, movie reviews, the actual full body coitus.

[44:09] If it wasn't there, I never would have heard of Castle Freak.

[44:12] I think so.

[44:13] You found somehow a worse analogy than Stewart's hamburger steak

[44:16] when where ironically a man cleans his dick by ripping it off.

[44:22] Wait, that's how he was cleaning his dick.

[44:24] Yeah.

[44:26] Also, don't you just overzealous with your family?

[44:28] Do you think it was like a paper towel?

[44:30] Who knows?

[44:31] I'm not a fucking freak.

[44:34] You don't live in a castle.

[44:35] It's also in the red writing episode.

[44:39] Self-proclaimed pedant.

[44:40] Elliot talked about red writing as being said in North England and England.

[44:45] We'd say northern England or the north of England.

[44:48] North England makes no sense.

[44:50] This has been bothering me for about two months now.

[44:52] Call yourself a pedant.

[44:53] You idiot.

[44:55] Keep up the good work.

[44:55] Well, Northie, I should have just said Yorkshire.

[44:59] So, well, thanks for calling me out on that one.

[45:01] As you can tell, I don't know what I'm talking about when I'm using

[45:05] English geographical terms.

[45:08] Obviously, I also have a harder time reading when I'm not reading on paper.

[45:11] Yeah, because it's hard on the eyes.

[45:13] I can see. Yeah.

[45:14] It's like you're just spinning on Steve Jobs' grave right now.

[45:18] It's exactly like that.

[45:19] But thanks for your letter and thanks for the praise.

[45:21] I think it's a movie.

[45:22] It's called Los Angeles Plays Itself.

[45:24] Yeah. So there you go.

[45:25] So take that.

[45:26] Pedant won.

[45:28] That guy also won.

[45:30] I guess we.

[45:31] Yeah, Stuart and I just high fived, but it was kind of a tap.

[45:34] Yeah, it was a gentle, pretty lame high five.

[45:36] Well, now we're caressing each other's hands.

[45:39] OK, now our hands are moving farther down.

[45:41] OK, so now we're arm wrestling for time.

[45:43] Stuart's looking at my time clock.

[45:45] Oh, he's got distracted.

[45:47] Oh, Stuart's dead now.

[45:48] This is a ghost. And I have his time.

[45:51] This one is from Matthew.

[45:52] Last name with hell.

[45:53] And it's titled Dan is the best flopper.

[45:56] I'm going to reply to this right now with an email titled No, he isn't.

[45:59] Sure. OK, go on.

[46:01] Dearest by man decoy.

[46:05] A man decoy.

[46:07] Dearest House of Flop.

[46:08] I started listening after Dan's guest spot on We Didn't Weep

[46:12] and quickly became hooked.

[46:13] I've run through the whole back catalog several times

[46:16] and have even begun contributing to the wiki.

[46:19] So I think it could safely be called a flop house mega fan.

[46:22] And I'm writing in to address a persistent issue

[46:25] through most of the episodes that couldn't be done.

[46:26] The mega fan.

[46:29] Dan is always undervalued by Stuart and Elliot.

[46:31] Oh, well, I appreciate all of Elliot's words that sound like other words

[46:35] and Stuart's fondness for talking about boobs, not to mention the house cat.

[46:39] I think if I were one of the floppers, I would really, really.

[46:43] Oh, I would be damned because I can relate to him better.

[46:47] He's like the big brother of the podcast.

[46:50] Yeah, that's good.

[46:53] Who are you talking about to deal with two rambunctious siblings?

[46:57] Well, so don't worry, Dan.

[47:02] You've got fans, two or one fan, at least.

[47:05] But I didn't write just to praise Dan.

[47:07] We'll say two is what's probably the case.

[47:09] Nope. She said I'm her favorite.

[47:12] I have some questions for all three of you.

[47:15] What were your two favorite movies of last year?

[47:18] What was your least favorite movie?

[47:19] And if you were shut up in a windowless room with a TV, a DVD player

[47:22] and one DVD of your choice, what movie from any year would you choose?

[47:26] Stuart, you should assume that Castle Freak, Invisible Maniac

[47:29] and Head of the Family are already there.

[47:30] And you get to pick a fourth one.

[47:32] Stuart gets four movies.

[47:36] Well, that's a lot of questions.

[47:36] I feel like in our in our Flop-tacular Flopcast Awards flopper,

[47:40] we kind of covered our favorite movies and least and maybe least.

[47:44] I think our least favorite for me and Stuart was, what, Skyline?

[47:47] Skyline wasn't my least favorite flop movie.

[47:50] Your Highness was your Highness was really bad.

[47:54] But what about this Desert Island movie idea?

[47:58] That was one of the oh, oh, I'm staying on a desert.

[48:00] Even the movie you get to choose.

[48:01] Not not I'm not I'm not pitching like a movie idea.

[48:03] You're pitching a remake of the Blue Lagoon.

[48:06] Yeah, it's a remake of Castaway where he gets stuck on the thing.

[48:10] What? The Looney Tunes Fantastic Island thing.

[48:13] All right. Well, I mean, I don't think he's stuck on an island.

[48:16] He's stuck on an island.

[48:18] No, it's it's a it's a it's a fantasy island parody.

[48:21] Daffy Duck as Ricardo Montalban.

[48:23] Yeah. And Speedy is.

[48:25] Jorge Velachez. Yeah.

[48:27] Yeah, but it can't be like that. No. OK.

[48:30] I think maybe it might have started off with Daffy getting stuck on the island

[48:33] and then realizing that there was a magic well there.

[48:35] Oh, yeah, maybe.

[48:36] But I don't think that I don't think the main thrust of it was that he was stuck

[48:40] on an island.

[48:40] I mean, he's not spent the whole time bitching about how he can't get off the island.

[48:44] I'm guessing they had a Stuart's movie that he would have on an island.

[48:48] Looney Tunes. Fantastic Island.

[48:52] Not the choice I expect you to make.

[48:54] I thought you were going to say like some kind of Brazzers compilation.

[48:59] There's something with boobs.

[49:00] Yeah. What are you going to pick, Stu?

[49:01] I'll probably say The Granny.

[49:04] Interesting. The Granny.

[49:05] It's a it's a movie featuring an old granny

[49:09] who becomes a demon and then kills all of her ungrateful children.

[49:14] There's some boobs and dead granny at the end.

[49:17] Spoiler alert.

[49:20] So you like a movie that has boobs and dead old people.

[49:23] We found what Stuart likes.

[49:25] If you make a movie that has boobs, dead old people, a guy getting.

[49:28] Not Titanic. Titanic doesn't count.

[49:30] You don't get to see those people dead.

[49:31] A guy. A guy.

[49:33] Assume that they die.

[49:33] A guy ripping his own penis off and someone being killed with a submarine sandwich.

[49:38] It would be Stuart's perfect movie.

[49:41] Box office hit. No, no.

[49:44] Very. The definition of a niche film.

[49:47] Um, what about you, Daniel?

[49:51] I might go with North by Northwest, which is not my favorite Hitchcock movie,

[49:56] but probably the most entertaining Hitchcock movie.

[49:59] And.

[50:00] and Alfred Hitchcock is maybe the most entertaining director.

[50:03] So it's up there just in terms of just sheer joy.

[50:10] I don't know if I would go with that as my favorite movie,

[50:12] but it's a movie that's easy to watch and is still easy

[50:17] to watch once you've seen it a couple times.

[50:19] I would go with the original taking of Pelham 1-2-3,

[50:23] which is one of my two favorite movies, and it is a movie

[50:27] that you can watch over and over again.

[50:29] Every time I watch it, I kind of want to rewind it

[50:31] and watch it again right away, and I would go less insane

[50:36] if I had that on my desert island as the only movie.

[50:38] That's a great movie.

[50:39] If you haven't seen it, you need to go see it.

[50:41] Yeah, I just rewatched it actually a couple weekends ago,

[50:44] and man, is that a good movie.

[50:45] It's really good.

[50:46] And talk about entertaining.

[50:47] Oh, boy.

[50:50] You don't know entertaining until you've seen the original

[50:52] taking of Pelham 1-2-3.

[50:53] No dead grannies, though, right?

[50:56] There are no dead grannies and like a big fat guy

[50:58] who's kind of old gets killed.

[50:59] Okay.

[51:00] No, I'm up for that.

[51:02] Doris Roberts is in it when she was middle-aged

[51:04] as opposed to very old as she is now,

[51:06] so you can imagine she's a granny.

[51:07] Okay.

[51:08] She doesn't die, but.

[51:09] No, I mean, yeah, thanks.

[51:14] So this one is from Clay Last Name Withheld.

[51:17] It's titled.

[51:18] A Golem.

[51:21] Wait, what's the title of that one again?

[51:24] It's close.

[51:26] It's close.

[51:27] I'm so proud of you, Beth.

[51:28] Hello, floppers.

[51:29] You patented that?

[51:30] Yeah.

[51:31] You copyrighted it?

[51:32] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[51:33] I'm from Daleville, Indiana,

[51:33] which is about an hour south of Fort Wayne.

[51:35] Oh, nice.

[51:36] As I was listening to the latest episode,

[51:38] I was happy to hear that Stewart

[51:39] had recently been home to Fort Wayne,

[51:41] but as I thought about it, a squeal went down my spine.

[51:44] I remember that a while ago,

[51:46] as I stood outside at night smoking a cigarette,

[51:48] I heard a chilling screech.

[51:50] It could only be described as a giant.

[51:54] That's better.

[51:54] The squeal haunted me every night

[51:56] until I heard the episode.

[51:57] I now realize it must have been none other

[51:59] than the Flophouse Housecat,

[52:01] who I assume must have been with Stewart

[52:02] as he drove north on Interstate 69

[52:04] from Indianapolis toward Fort Wayne.

[52:06] Now I feel so honored to have been only a quarter of a mile

[52:09] from the Flophouse Housecat.

[52:10] Thank you guys for the laughs and great times.

[52:12] Not me, though, obviously.

[52:13] I can't wait to hear from the Housecat soon.

[52:16] Yeah, I'll send you a letter.

[52:19] The Housecat is a very prolific letter writer.

[52:23] Yeah, so you and the Housecat went together

[52:25] to visit your family?

[52:26] Yeah, my wife wasn't super cool with it

[52:28] because she had to sit in the back.

[52:30] I assume the Housecat, feet out the window,

[52:32] just tossing beer cans out.

[52:34] Yeah, listening to Van Halen the whole way.

[52:37] Raising hell, making trouble, and listening to VH.

[52:40] Okay.

[52:41] That's the Housecat.

[52:42] Our final letter tonight.

[52:45] Or whatever time of day you're listening to this.

[52:46] Yeah.

[52:47] Time.

[52:48] Is from Elliot's brother.

[52:50] What?

[52:51] David, last name withheld.

[52:53] Thanks for withholding the last name of my brother.

[52:55] And the brother of Elliot Kalin.

[52:57] Is he going to complain about some sports trivia

[52:59] we got wrong?

[53:00] That sounds like my brother.

[53:01] Let's clarify this Rooney Mara Giants connection.

[53:04] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

[53:08] Stuart, you are now no Stuart Thomas.

[53:11] The fortune telling guy.

[53:14] Robot.

[53:14] Robot?

[53:15] He's a robot in this scenario.

[53:16] Okay.

[53:18] Since this episode was first posted a month ago.

[53:20] I predict the fall of humanity.

[53:23] I'm sure I'm well.

[53:24] Or just what Elliot's brother will talk about.

[53:26] Since this episode was first posted a month ago,

[53:28] I'm sure I'm well behind on the whole thing.

[53:30] But I was listening to your Dreamhouse podcast today

[53:33] while sitting in my friend's apartment in Dallas,

[53:34] name dropper.

[53:35] Ha ha ha, what did you say?

[53:37] I feel the need to explain.

[53:38] Dallas is not the person.

[53:39] Not Bryce Dallas Howard?

[53:41] I feel I need to explain why Rooney Mara

[53:42] is related to the Giants and Steelers actually.

[53:44] Not Dallas the character from Aliens.

[53:46] Rooney Mara is Giants part owner John Mara's niece,

[53:49] not his daughter.

[53:51] Rooney's father, Timothy Mara,

[53:52] not to be confused with Giants founder Tim Mara,

[53:54] Rooney's great grandfather who started the team in 1925,

[53:58] is the Giants vice president of player evaluation.

[54:00] Thanks Dickapedia.

[54:01] Ha ha ha, interestingly, Timothy Mara's wife,

[54:06] that is.

[54:06] No, that was the wrong word to use

[54:08] to start that sentence Dave.

[54:10] Interestingly, Timothy Mara's wife,

[54:12] that is Rooney's mother,

[54:13] is actually the granddaughter of Pittsburgh Steelers founder

[54:16] Art Rooney Sr.

[54:18] Making Rooney Mara the great granddaughter

[54:20] of both the founder of the Giants and the Steelers.

[54:22] The Steelers current chairman, Dan Rooney,

[54:24] is her great uncle.

[54:25] Dan Rooney is also an ambassador to Ireland.

[54:27] What about Andy Rooney?

[54:28] How is he related to these people?

[54:30] But as a result of these connections,

[54:32] if I'm not mistaken, Rooney Mara and her sister Kate

[54:34] both regularly have clauses written into their contracts

[54:36] stating that if the Giants or Steelers make the Super Bowl,

[54:39] they do not have to work that day

[54:40] so they can attend the game.

[54:42] Also, another fun bit of Giants movie trivia.

[54:44] Again, fun, not the right answer.

[54:46] Co-owner Steve Tisch, a producer for Forrest Gump,

[54:49] is the only man to ever win both a Super Bowl

[54:51] and an Oscar for Best Picture.

[54:52] He didn't deserve either.

[54:53] I hope that fully answers the question

[54:55] none of you were asking.

[54:56] If he wins the Super Bowl, I would imagine.

[54:58] If you actually read this in your next episode,

[55:00] I'm sure Elliot will follow up this explanation

[55:02] with some droll mockery of my personality

[55:04] or our relationship.

[55:05] If that happens, you're welcome.

[55:07] No, I am proud to call you my brother

[55:11] and proud of the vast stores of crap

[55:15] that you have in your brain.

[55:16] Look, it's just different kinds of crap.

[55:18] Okay, I'll give you that.

[55:20] You cover different areas.

[55:21] No.

[55:22] You would be killer, the two of you,

[55:23] on a, say, a pub trivia team.

[55:25] Yeah, we should team up sometime.

[55:27] I mean, technically the state of New York

[55:28] has barred us from doing that

[55:30] for the reason that we would destroy all comers.

[55:33] Well, I'm glad my-

[55:34] And all these hearts would be broken

[55:36] when they find out that you're already taken.

[55:38] Well, and that my brother, he's single.

[55:41] Yeah, but you guys can't do like a tag team on any girl.

[55:44] Okay, that's why their hearts would be broken.

[55:47] Not an image I ever want to think of.

[55:49] But I am glad, speaking of that,

[55:50] that my brother put a lot of energy into that

[55:52] rather than in dating, so.

[55:55] Wow, so you did serve up a burn.

[55:57] There's the droll mockery.

[55:58] Hot and all spicy.

[55:59] No, just kidding.

[56:00] Thanks, Dave.

[56:01] JK.

[56:02] Thanks for correcting us on that.

[56:03] I've already forgotten what you told us.

[56:06] I think what he was saying was that Art Carney

[56:08] is the founder of the Steelers.

[56:13] That's weird when you find the time.

[56:15] So, let's do some really quick recommendations

[56:18] of movies we've seen recently that we might,

[56:21] might, you know, give the Flophouse seal of approval.

[56:25] Usually the way you say it is,

[56:26] movies we actually liked.

[56:29] Okay.

[56:31] Two real quick ones.

[56:32] First is, I think you should go see John Carter

[56:35] because it's actually pretty good

[56:36] and it deserves to make some money.

[56:37] Jimmy Carter?

[56:38] John Carter, John Carter of Mars.

[56:40] Oh, John Carpenter's Ghost of Mars.

[56:42] Because it's not a fucking Transformers sequel.

[56:44] You should go see it.

[56:45] Please give it some money.

[56:47] The other one is a recommendation

[56:48] for Martha, Marcy May, Marlene.

[56:51] I want to see that, I swear.

[56:52] It's a psychological thriller and it's-

[56:56] Like in time.

[56:57] It's exactly like in time.

[56:59] I actually was, yeah, no, it's great.

[57:03] John Hawks is good in it and it's the type of thriller

[57:06] that you don't quite know what's real

[57:08] or what's a dream or what's going on when

[57:11] and time is kind of crazy.

[57:12] It's great.

[57:14] And it manages to make normal stuff seem very scary

[57:17] which I'm always impressed by.

[57:18] I'm going to recommend, I was on a,

[57:21] on my flight to and from Las Vegas, I saw three movies.

[57:25] I'm going to recommend all of them to varying degrees.

[57:28] Starting at the low end, I watched Tower Heist

[57:31] which I would say probably is a good movie

[57:33] to watch on an airplane.

[57:34] I'm not sure in another situation

[57:36] how much I would have liked it, but I really enjoyed it.

[57:39] It's a surprising attempt to do like a late 60s,

[57:42] early 70s, like New York light thriller, caper thriller.

[57:46] It's less of a comedy than it was sold as.

[57:49] It's got kind of an interesting cross-section

[57:51] of actors in it.

[57:52] Alan Alda and Matthew Broderick,

[57:54] I think are particularly kind of fun in it.

[57:57] Real Steel, I watched, which is much better

[58:00] than any movie about fighting robots should be.

[58:03] That's a movie that-

[58:04] With robot jocks.

[58:05] Yeah, why would you apply that a movie

[58:07] about fighting robots be bad?

[58:08] Well, I mean-

[58:09] I would assume this movie's going to be great.

[58:10] This movie starts off, guys,

[58:11] with a robot fighting a bull at a small town country fair.

[58:17] Wait, so the robot is working his way up through the system?

[58:19] Yeah, yeah, no, it's an old junky robot

[58:21] that's fighting a bull.

[58:23] This is the robot a drunk?

[58:24] If that sounds awesome, then this is a movie for you.

[58:27] Like Hugh Jackman is possibly

[58:30] one of the world's most charming men.

[58:31] He commits to this with total seriousness.

[58:34] I mean, seriousness in the sense

[58:36] that he really commits to it,

[58:37] but he's got a wink in the performance.

[58:40] But it's fun.

[58:41] It's a much better movie than I expected.

[58:42] And-

[58:44] And finally, third recommendation.

[58:46] I finally watched-

[58:47] The coveted three.

[58:48] I watched Crazy, Stupid, Love, which I really enjoyed.

[58:52] I think that it got probably less attention

[58:55] than it could have gotten based on, number one,

[58:57] the ads that made it look like Love Actually 2,

[58:59] and number two, the terrible title, Crazy, Stupid, Love.

[59:02] It is a terrible title.

[59:03] But it's got some really funny stuff in it.

[59:05] Those ads, guys, am I right?

[59:07] Well, the thing is-

[59:07] On the Gosling?

[59:08] Gosling, Ryan Gosling.

[59:10] I was not on board with Ryan Gosling until this year.

[59:12] Then I saw Drive and this movie,

[59:14] and I'm like, now I get it.

[59:15] You didn't see Hef Nelson?

[59:16] He's okay in that, but I was like-

[59:17] But he's good in that.

[59:19] This year, I'm saying I like him better.

[59:21] What's the big deal?

[59:21] He's on crack.

[59:22] Who cares?

[59:23] You didn't see Make Way for Gosling?

[59:24] In this movie-

[59:25] In this movie, I never thought that Ryan Gosling

[59:28] had a sense of humor before I saw this movie,

[59:30] but he's basically doing self-parody in this film.

[59:34] He's really-

[59:35] I don't think he knew it was a comedy.

[59:37] Well, whatever.

[59:38] He's very funny in it,

[59:39] like playing the womanizer who is super charming,

[59:43] super like masculine, knows how to get women,

[59:47] but there's a wink in his performance that's really,

[59:50] he's just really funny in it.

[59:52] So I like that movie.

[59:54] I'm gonna recommend an old movie.

[59:56] What a surprise, huh?

[59:58] This is a movie I saw the other day that I enjoyed a lot.

[1:00:00] It's the first movie that the director Max Ophuls made in the United States.

[1:00:06] You may know him from such films as La Ronde and The Earrings of Madame Deux.

[1:00:11] But this is a movie he made with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. about Charles II being in exile in France after Cromwell took control of England and before Charles II returned for the restoration.

[1:00:23] And it's actually kind of – it's this really fun kind of rollicking adventure where Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is kind of doing an homage to his father, Douglas Fairbanks, playing this very lighthearted, charming, smiling adventurer.

[1:00:38] And there's the story about how he's the king of England and he's on the run from Cromwell's soldiers in Amsterdam – or in the Netherlands I think or Holland or wherever.

[1:00:48] But it's just like a fun adventure romance and a lot – for a movie that I kind of watched on a lark, it was a very enjoyable surprise, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is really charming in it.

[1:01:00] And it's just a lot of – it's the kind of movie that I wish Hollywood made more of and which the first of the Antonio Banderas and Benderas Zorro movies, it made it seem like there was going to be a return of.

[1:01:10] It's kind of like old-fashioned charming adventure, so I'd recommend that one, The Exile.

[1:01:15] Well, guys.

[1:01:16] Gotcha.

[1:01:17] It looks like we're running out of time.

[1:01:22] Do I have time for one plug?

[1:01:23] Yeah, please.

[1:01:24] This coming April 5th, the first Thursday in April at 7.30 p.m. will be the last of my movie screenings at 92i Tribeca.

[1:01:31] I already have my tickets.

[1:01:33] Do you have yours?

[1:01:34] No.

[1:01:35] I was asking the listeners, not – anyway.

[1:01:39] So it's the last of my closely-watched film screenings, a screening I've been doing – series I've been doing for a little bit less than three years now I guess.

[1:01:46] It's been a fun series, but time to draw it to a close.

[1:01:49] We're going to be showing a movie called The Good Fairy starring Margaret Sullivan and Herbert Marshall and Frank Nelson, who you may – not Frank Nelson.

[1:01:57] I'm sorry.

[1:01:58] Frank Morgan, who you may know as the wizard from Wizard of Oz, and it is one of Preston Sturges' early scripts before he started directing his own movies.

[1:02:06] We're going to be watching it with special guest John Oliver.

[1:02:08] I'm not familiar with his work.

[1:02:09] Of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

[1:02:11] Maybe you've seen him in The Love Guru.

[1:02:13] Oh, yes.

[1:02:14] As Dick Pants.

[1:02:15] Yes, I do recall that.

[1:02:16] So John Oliver will be the guest.

[1:02:18] As always, as we do in this series, he has not seen the movie before, and afterwards I will ask him about what he thought of it.

[1:02:23] And we're also going to be showing – because it's the last one, so they can't tell me I can't show it anymore – my seven-and-a-half-minute cut that I made myself of Capricorn One starring Elliot Gould and O.J. Simpson among others.

[1:02:35] It's called The Astronaut Conspiracy Thriller, which I've cut down to really just the Elliot Gould scenes.

[1:02:40] Sounds great.

[1:02:41] It's actually a lot of fun, and we'll be showing that, and it's the last one.

[1:02:45] So April 5th, the first Thursday in April, 7.30 p.m., 92-I Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, Manhattan.

[1:02:51] I suppose very quickly before we go, we should tease that we're going to have another Flophouse Live show.

[1:02:57] This is an early tease.

[1:02:58] It's not until June, but we're going to have – that's right.

[1:03:01] So we're going to give you Flophouse Blue Balls.

[1:03:04] We're getting to this space.

[1:03:05] You were there.

[1:03:06] You missed Twin Sitters, and you ruined the day.

[1:03:08] You missed 12 rounds, and you almost killed yourself, but now you've got another chance.

[1:03:13] Take the noose off your neck because there's going to be another Flophouse.

[1:03:17] I love bad movies, bad movie screening in June.

[1:03:20] What movie is it?

[1:03:21] We're not going to say just yet.

[1:03:22] No, I'm not going to tell anybody.

[1:03:23] Suffice to say, it's awesome, and you'll love it.

[1:03:27] Okay.

[1:03:28] You can start speculating if you want, but you'll be disappointed.

[1:03:32] If you want to write in with your guesses, feel free.

[1:03:34] Fine by me.

[1:03:35] But you'll be wrong.

[1:03:36] But you'll be wrong.

[1:03:37] Just don't write in any more sports trivia.

[1:03:40] You hear that, David, my brother?

[1:03:43] All right, guys.

[1:03:44] Well –

[1:03:45] Should we say what the date is for that one?

[1:03:47] I can't remember.

[1:03:48] It's in June.

[1:03:50] I think it might be the 8th.

[1:03:51] Yeah, it's the 8th.

[1:03:52] Okay, June 8th.

[1:03:53] It's a Friday.

[1:03:54] But before that, April 5th, which is a Thursday, come see my movie.

[1:03:57] All right.

[1:03:58] Well, all that's left to do is to sign off.

[1:04:01] So for The Flophouse, I've been Dan McCoy.

[1:04:03] I'm still Stuart.

[1:04:04] And I'm –

[1:04:08] I'm Elliot Kalin.

[1:04:09] I love the way you –

[1:04:13] Goodbye, everyone.

[1:04:23] Just fine.

[1:04:24] Is that good?

[1:04:25] Just fine.

[1:04:26] Fine?

[1:04:27] You're doing just fine.

[1:04:28] Any way to improve?

[1:04:30] On a scale from one to ten, with five being fine, where are we?

[1:04:34] You're right at fine.

[1:04:36] Okay, that's five.

[1:04:37] We have five more steps of improvement to go.

[1:04:39] No.

[1:04:40] If you could give us, in three words, how we could best improve to get to six or higher.

[1:04:44] I would say –

[1:04:45] Three words.

[1:04:46] That's already – I would say that's your three words.

[1:04:47] So not very helpful, Dan.

[1:04:49] In three.

[1:04:51] Words.

[1:04:52] Two.

The Flop House: Episode #98 - In Time

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