The Flop House Movie Minute #24 - 18 Again, Again

[0:00] And now, the Flophouse Movie Minute.

[4:00] Matthew Perry and Zac Efron are not right for electric.

[4:30] He's, like, at college age.

[5:00] He goes back, and part of what he does is, as an overprotective father, he, in the guise of Zac Efron, sprays would-be suitors of her daughter with his musk.

[5:15] He lifts up his skunk tail and sprays them.

[5:23] And I bet the daughter probably gets a crush on him, not knowing it's her father.

[5:33] Yeah, because she's never heard that name before.

[5:41] I was watching TV with my lovely girlfriend, Danielle, and the commercial for Seventeen again comes on, and in my head I'm going, what?

[5:49] And then he has the line, this is my chance to go back and do things right.

[5:55] And I said out loud, as a reflex, fuck you, not meaning to.

[6:02] And that's why Danielle kicked you out of the apartment.

[6:09] There's something so cliche about that idea of, like, too soon.

[6:15] No jokes about John Travolta. He's going through it. He had a loss.

[6:19] That does nothing to do with making fun of his look at a movie that he shot a year ago.

[6:23] Take it easy, okay?

[6:25] Okay, sorry.

[6:26] Back to what we're talking about.

[6:28] Back to Zac Efron, who's, I think, experienced no losses.

[6:32] That line is so cliche, and that idea is so cliche, and the whole idea of it is so...

[6:39] There's no reason, unless you have a really good gimmick.

[6:42] The thing is, everybody's full of regrets, and we all want to be Seventeen again, so we can fix what we did wrong.

[6:46] Seventeen was terrible.

[6:48] It was a terrible age.

[6:49] Many times I've thought, if you could pay, like Eternal Sunshine, if you could pay to have those memories removed permanently, I would probably go do that.

[6:58] Yeah, I'd probably go back to college.

[7:00] Yeah, I'd go back to college. That was great.

[7:02] I had three girls a night.

[7:04] College.

[7:05] You guys, what, were getting swirlies every day back in high school?

[7:09] Well, that's the thing, by the...

[7:11] Giving wedgies...

[7:12] I was actually quite unpopular in middle school.

[7:16] I know, it's surprising.

[7:18] But by the time I got into college, like...

[7:20] For some reason, I see a middle school kid with a walking stick.

[7:23] By the time I got into high school, I was...

[7:26] Selling papers.

[7:27] Alright, you know, like that was not a problem anymore, but I still was miserable.

[7:30] I mean, I was not necessarily popular or unpopular.

[7:33] Like, in high school, I was kind of like...

[7:35] It wasn't the thing where I was like hanging out with the nerds, and like the bullies would come by and be like,

[7:39] Uh-oh, now I'm gonna get a wedgie!

[7:42] It was either like...

[7:43] And when they'd give you the wedgie, would they pull the underpants over your head?

[7:46] Yeah.

[7:47] Well, no, I never got something like that.

[7:49] It was either like...

[7:50] It fell between the extremes of either everyone ignored me completely, and I was non-existent,

[7:55] Or, someone for no reason would decide to like, threaten me with a knife.

[7:59] Like, it was one of those two extremes, but never...

[8:02] Sure.

[8:03] If it was in the middle of it, it was just like...

[8:04] I could see how the latter would be.

[8:05] If it was just like,

[8:06] Hey, nerdlinger!

[8:07] Deal with it, smartypants!

[8:08] I'd be like, well, that guy's an idiot.

[8:10] But it was partly being ignored constantly, and partly like, or just...

[8:13] Feeling someone punch me in the leg as I'm walking down the hallway, for no reason.

[8:17] It was just that random violence was kind of unnecessary.

[8:20] Mm-hmm.

[8:21] I was only threatened with a knife once.

[8:23] So, you know, that's...

[8:24] Mm-hmm.

[8:25] And then you took it away from him.

[8:26] And plunged it into his neck, like in Watchmen.

[8:28] Awesome.

[8:30] So the moral of this movie minute has been...

[8:33] Going back...

[8:34] Movies that make you go back in time are stupid.

[8:37] Yeah, they're dumb.

[8:38] But unless there's like a real...

[8:39] Maybe there's a really good...

[8:40] Like, Big has a good gimmick.

[8:41] The idea of a young kid now having to make his way in the adult world is kind of funny.

[8:47] Except for 13 going on 30.

[8:50] That's not...

[8:51] No, that one's not so good.

[8:52] Did you say?

[8:53] Yeah, she's got that big forehead.

[8:55] That one's dumb because that was like...

[8:57] She had just forgotten everything that happened between the ages of 13 and 30.

[9:02] Like, that's tragic.

[9:03] You have to assume she was in a coma for 17 years.

[9:05] Yeah, absolutely.

[9:06] That was not...

[9:07] I saw 13 going on 30.

[9:09] That was not what happened.

[9:10] It's...

[9:11] Everyone was behaving as if she'd forgotten it all.

[9:13] And she'd forgotten it!

[9:15] But there was some sort of like crazy magical explanation at the end.

[9:19] Yeah, there was an old gypsy...

[9:20] Because she goes back.

[9:21] Gypsies are the last race that we're allowed to stereotype against.

[9:24] I'll tell you one thing, though.

[9:25] 13 going on 30 has Andy Serkis in it.

[9:28] Yeah.

[9:29] What's he doing?

[9:30] He was playing like a flamboyant magazine editor.

[9:34] Is there any other kind?

[9:35] That works.

[9:36] Yeah.

[9:37] I don't know.

[9:38] If sitcoms are to be believed, no.

[9:43] But I just think that the age-changing thing is...

[9:46] Unless you can do it really well, it's not worth doing.

[9:48] Yeah.

[9:49] So in conclusion, Andy Serkis, great actor.

[9:55] That's what we've learned.

[9:56] Good night, everyone.

The Flop House Movie Minute #24 - 18 Again, Again

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