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[00:01:25] Why Ryan? Because every week we see a new movie and we podcast our experience to the world. This week we saw... Fuck, what did we see? Love Lies Bleeding? Yeah, Love Lies Bleeding. I did the same thing all week too. I'm all fucked up this week.
[00:01:51] Stay tuned because we will recommend that film or not play the trailer then spoil the movie. We'll also talk about movie news. I really didn't see anything this week. I got some news. Perfect. Thanks for watching throughout the week. You know what also makes us great Brad? What?
[00:02:09] It's really only me, but I usually write articles once or twice a week that I put on our website for you to enjoy. Not only can you listen to us, but you can also read my Witty Bantor. I've been working on this...
[00:02:26] I don't know what you'd call it, series of articles I guess where I reveal my 150 favorite films and today I just posted Roger Rabbit as my number 86 of my 150 favorite films. That's a good one. That deserves to be up there. It's a great one.
[00:02:48] When I was writing it, I write the whole plot of the movie out so it can give people an idea of what it's about even though I'm sure most people know what Roger Rabbit's about. Then I also at the bottom, I put Why I Love It
[00:03:01] and I remember the first movie I saw where I was enthralled with how they made it because when they're in the nightclub with Jessica Rabbit and they had the little mechanical things walking around as waiters
[00:03:16] and later the articles would go in and draw whatever cartoon character they would have and even when Bob Hoskins has Roger Rabbit handcuffed to him how great is he acting with nothing there and the handcuff is kind of stiff to simulate Roger Rabbit being handcuffed to him.
[00:03:43] I think it's brilliant and the movie's funny. Yeah, definitely deserves to be on everybody's list I think. Yeah, his performance of that is such like an underrated performance. He just sells all that technical shit so well. Yeah, and it's always a hard role.
[00:03:59] I mean he's funny in it but you have to be the straight man around all these zany cartoon characters. That's not an easy fucking job. I just looked up like he didn't get nominated for the Oscars
[00:04:14] but the people who did were like Dustin Hoffman and Rain Man, Gene Hackman, Tom Hanks, Max Von Sydow, Kevin Klein, Martin Landau, Al Guinness. That's quite the heavy hitters right there. Yeah, I'll also say like probably my favorite performance of 1988.
[00:04:35] Oh yeah, I fucking love who framed Roger Rabbit. If I was making your list that would be way higher than on mine. What is it, 100 and something? 86. 86, yeah. It's probably top 50 for me. Yeah, you know it's interesting as I go through this.
[00:04:55] I might have to do a couple bonus ones that won't be numbered because as I watch movies obviously something might funnel its way in there. Yeah, because I cut it off at some point last year because Bottoms made the list.
[00:05:14] So at some point last year, I don't know exactly when I cut it off but I might have to do like hey if this, if I saw this in this timeframe that I wrote this, this would be part of my list you know? Yeah.
[00:05:30] But it's really fun. It's gone through this. I just have to scroll through the list. Roger Rabbit did win for film editing which is very appropriate. Oh yeah, oh my gosh. You know my favorite characters in it are the Weasels. I just think they're cool.
[00:05:48] And one of my favorite lines in any movie ever is when Hoskins is holding Roger down in the dishwater and the leader of the Weasels comes up and he says, step out of line, Valiant, and we'll hang you and your laundry out. Oh, to dry. To dry.
[00:06:10] I just fucking love that line. Good stuff. It also got its own award for special achievement so obviously visual effects. Yeah, I mean that's a movie that should have been nominated for like 12 Oscars. What do I know? Anyways, this week we saw Love Lies Bleeding.
[00:06:35] Brad, do you recommend Love Lies Bleeding? I guess. Parts of it are really interesting and then other parts are super weird. Like an A24 movie through and through? Yeah, straight up A24 movie. Yeah, I was dialed into some parts that they're really cool.
[00:06:55] It's really brutal in a lot of places. And then other parts are just like, what's happening? Clearly this is a artistic representation of what's going on but wow. Okay, that's a choice. So yeah, not a slam dunk for me but I didn't hate it.
[00:07:18] So here's the caveat I have with this film. I enjoyed it but can I recommend it? I don't know. It's hard for me to tell people to see this movie because there's some parts in it and I do this all the time.
[00:07:33] When I watch a movie and I know what's going on and I know what they're trying to say. But I revert to Jay from Dogma when I go, what's up? What's going on? What the hell happened to that guy? That's all I think of because it's so outlandish.
[00:07:52] And the whole time I was saying, do people just go to A24 and they have a pretty good movie and then some really fucked up shit in it. And then A24 says, you know what? Sold.
[00:08:05] Yeah, A24 is like, yeah we like the script but it could use more fucked up shit in it. So let's add this scene, this scene, this could be exaggerated, this could be really super weird. Yeah, it's hard for me to recommend quote unquote.
[00:08:21] But I don't think people should see it if that makes any sense. But I wouldn't go to my mom and say, you know what mom? Love lies bleeding. That's the movie you have to see. Here's the trailer for Love Lies Bleeding. Do you like guns?
[00:09:07] I prefer to know my own strength. That's not what I'm paying you for. If you touch her, I'm gonna tell them everything you ever did. Are you threatening me? We gotta get out of here. Let's just keep driving. I love you, you idiot. I love you too.
[00:09:37] Get this. Oh yeah? Little flood. My favorite review of this movie was a somewhat congratulated Dave Franco for his jaw dropping performance. If you've seen the movie, you'll understand. That's pretty clever. Yeah, he's a scumbag in this movie.
[00:10:11] Love Lies Bleeding stars Kristen Stewart as a woman who manages a gym. Her father, played by Ed Harris, runs a gun range slash restaurant. A woman named Jackie comes to the town. She bangs James Franco in the back of his car because she wants a job.
[00:10:41] Because she's on her way to Las Vegas to compete in a bodybuilder championship. I think that's what they're called. It reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger stuff, the Mr. Olympia thing. Yeah, Mr. Universe or whatever.
[00:10:54] Yeah, and one night she starts working out at Kristen Stewart's, her name's Lou in the film's gym. And there's an immediate attraction there. And they hit it off and hook up.
[00:11:09] And they decide they're going to go to Vegas, but then it kind of takes this dark turn into kind of a film noir. The job Jackie banked a Franco for was at the gun range. So things started to get complicated.
[00:11:28] And Ed Harris is Lou's, as Kristen Stewart's dad where they have a really complicated relationship. At the same time, she also gives Jackie steroids to help her in her performance. And Ed Harris is some sort of crime boss too who smuggles guns.
[00:11:48] I guess you'd call him an arm dealer. Yeah, arm smuggler. And you get hints throughout the film that Lou is involved in it somehow, killing people and dumping their bodies in this canyon ravine kind of thing. And yeah, then it starts going sideways.
[00:12:10] Then you find out Dave Franco is like abusing, beating his wife. Who's the sister of Lou? Correct. And so Jackie takes matters into her own hands and f**ks him up big time. He's like curbsom some on a f**king table. Coffee table, yeah.
[00:12:30] Breaks his jaw, clean off his face. One of the gnarliest things I've seen on film. Yeah, in my screening it was pretty interesting because the way it sold, it seems like it would play to an older audience.
[00:12:47] So I saw there was a bunch of old people in my screening. And when she did that and his jaw went gnarly and stuff, and then you saw his dead body later on, people in my audience were audibly going, Oh! Nice. Yeah.
[00:13:10] And so the steroid thing too is she starts hulking up when she gets it and becomes bigger, like not only figuratively but... Literally. Literally. At the end of the movie she's, I don't know, 40 feet tall. Yeah. Not really. I mean it's obviously... Like an artistic interpretation of it.
[00:13:36] Yeah. But yeah, it's definitely a She-Hulk movie. But it was just a point that she does get that huge, as a normal sized person she just destroyed Franco. But probably the worst guy in the movie is her dad.
[00:13:54] She just pins up to the ground and then it's implied that he's either maimed or hurt really bad. Yeah, because Lou jams that gun down his throat really far. And there's a part of me too, you know, when I'm watching it at the end where
[00:14:13] Lou runs and finds Jackie. I didn't understand why he just let her get her out when they're in the wide open in the tennis court. They could have easily been shot. I know. It feels like he's a pretty good sniper so... Yeah.
[00:14:30] Yeah, that whole sequence I was like, you guys are spending way too much time out in the open. Yeah. But the performances are really great in the movie. I've never seen... Have you seen that? I don't even know what her name is. The lady who plays Jackie.
[00:14:45] Have you seen her in anything else? No, I feel like I have but I can't tell you what it was. She's really good at it. Kristen Stewart is... You know, I've always kind of liked her when you get her past the
[00:14:59] Twilight stuff and Twilight stuff is not her fault. It's the material. Oh, she's actually in Quantum Mania. She's a Gentora. Which I don't remember that character that well. But it's probably one of the aliens in the Quantum Realm. Yeah. Yeah. And then she's going to be in Twisters.
[00:15:25] Nice. Not one tornado but two. Yeah. Kristen Stewart's indie stuff is pretty... I don't know. The solid filmography, I think. I agree. Like I said, I usually enjoy... Even... Have you seen Underwater? It's really... It's a fun monster movie. It's way better than I thought it would be.
[00:15:51] Check it out. I don't know if it's streaming anywhere but... Yeah. The movie is really cool and I think it's well made. It's just bizarre. Yeah. It's super heady, like noir, gritty drama is superseded by like these Hulk moments. And... Yeah, when she starts taking steroids,
[00:16:21] like yeah, her world just descends into weirdness. Yeah, people gasped in my screening too and she shot that... Oh, the clingy wannabe girlfriend of Lou. I kind of saw that coming a mile away. Yeah, I thought something was going to happen but yeah,
[00:16:41] I didn't call like just getting shot right out in the open like that. Yeah. Like you think like Lou would have noticed someone like nearby. Like she seemed pretty on top of keeping her eyes open.
[00:16:54] Yeah, the other thing I like it's set in the 80s or like early 90s. Very subtly, which is pretty interesting. Yeah, it's not overplayed and you know the film even looks like it's from that era too. So they did a good job on the cinematography, I thought. Yeah.
[00:17:12] Yeah, and at the very end like the clingy girlfriend isn't really dead and then loses like a screw it. I'll just follow my dad's footsteps and start killing people. Yeah, why not? Yeah, so yeah, it's interesting but yeah, it's not something I'd be like,
[00:17:31] dude, you gotta see love lies bleeding. I would recommend like if you want to see Dave Franco's jaw get ripped off then that's cool. I mean, I think it tells the... You know, you kind of start liking the characters when they're in their quote unquote intimate moments.
[00:17:49] Not like the sex scenes but when they're talking to each other and... I do like the transformation of Lou where at the beginning she's kind of standoffish and a loner. But as Jackie and her relationship grows, her defenses kind of go down. Yeah. And she comes more likable.
[00:18:13] So there's that, it's fun. I like seeing James Franco get his jaw broken. I mean, Dave Franco. Cool. Yeah, love lies bleeding. Brad, you said you have some news. I do. It's real news! Two things real quick.
[00:18:41] Obviously the new Beetlejuice trailer dropped and everyone, the internet is just adoring it. And I like Beetlejuice, but I'm so frustrated with the fact that people complain about Hollywood pumping out remakes and reboots and sequels so much.
[00:18:55] And yet here's this one and people are like, oh my God, we're getting another Beetlejuice! This is awesome! Like, oh guys, how many... I'll give it a minute for the doubt. It might be good. But given the track record of how people react to sequels and re...
[00:19:11] That's just Tim Burton, but just like any sequel or reboot in general lately. Like, they always seem disappointed. It's like, why have you not learned your lesson? Yeah. Yeah. You know, I am in the minority. My wife and kid love Beetlejuice.
[00:19:30] I am not that big a fan of the movie. I love when Michael Keaton is on screen, but he's literally in the movie for five minutes. So, the rest of it is just Tim Burton being Tim Burton and I just... It's just not my jam.
[00:19:45] Yeah, I think someone mentioned online like, you know, he's probably only going to be in another five minutes of this movie too, right? Like... So, be prepared. Yeah, no, like I like it. I'm excited.
[00:19:59] Like, I'm not one of those people who just gets so bent out of shape when stuff gets rebooted or sequelized. So, if it doesn't please me, I'll just be like, cool. Going on with my life, but yeah.
[00:20:12] It's just so fresh to see how many people are so excited about it and I've seen them before, just like take... Yeah. ...movies of town. It's like, dude, be careful. Yep. Yeah, the actual big news this week is that the Esquire is officially closing in July. Ooh. Yeah.
[00:20:31] The Landmark Preservation Council did not save it. Unanimously voted to gut it, which doesn't feel like preservation to me. But yeah, you have... Dude, they need to put a noodles in company in the basement. I know, right? That area only has one like 10 blocks away. Yeah.
[00:20:53] Yeah, I missed like the public hearing on that by a day. Didn't know it was happening. I would have loved to go in there and say like, you know, first of all, have any of you on the council even been to the Esquire? No, that's what I thought.
[00:21:05] Second, like so this facility has two screens and holds like 250 people and you're going to convert that into two restaurants that will probably become two other restaurants by the end of the year. And then five office spaces, private spaces that no one can use. Yeah.
[00:21:25] Only five people can use. This definitely, yeah, this feels like... Like why don't you just drive down Sixth Avenue and see like all the other restaurants and office spaces that aren't being used and are up for lease, you know?
[00:21:36] And then as a bummer is how much of a cultural icon that is, you know? I know. That's a style of theater. You can't get anywhere else. And it programs things that you will not see anywhere else. Yep.
[00:21:51] Yeah, like just the room in Rocky Horror alone or just like iconic in that area. It's sad that they don't appreciate it. Nope. So yeah, that's where that's at. So definitely go appreciate it while you can. I'm going to take my wife to a Rocky Horror there.
[00:22:13] I know. I'm going to text your wife this week and see if she wants to go on a date. You fucker! Because that's coming up this week. So yeah, I think I'm going to try to do some farewell screenings of some kind there. Yeah.
[00:22:29] Maybe Real N' There's Presents, I don't know, Black Dynamite or something. Hell yeah. Something I saw there that I loved. I threw that shit from the other room. Yeah, that's what I got for news. Nice, we're almost out.
[00:22:46] If you know anyone that has a lot of money and wants to own a vintage theater and has like six million dollars, contact unique properties and try to buy it from them because that would be awesome. Oh yeah. If we get a loan for that.
[00:23:01] Yeah, or if you have an awesome credit rating and a lot of access to business loans and want to just lease the theater and be a theater exhibitor and that's not landmark and without owning the building, the property owners said claim that they are open to that idea.
[00:23:20] I don't think so. But they say they are, so why not try for it? They said they went through an exhaustive search trying to find someone else other than Landmark to take the space. But that was before Landmark agreed to not come back.
[00:23:34] So I don't know why they were shopping for other people in that time. They're tired. Brad, did you hear exhaustive? It was really hard making calls and putting up no signs or advertisements for it. Exactly. Yeah. See ya. Lane.
[00:23:57] Hey, we watched things throughout the week in a segment I call what we've been watching. So yeah, this is the stuff we've been watching. Brad, what did you watch this week? Quite a few things. Need to dial back. Let's see. New stuff.
[00:24:17] I saw an advanced screening of Late Night with the Devil. Oh, nice. Which seems to be on a lot of people's radar. The house I was in was packed. And yeah, it was not the movie that I thought it was. It's interesting.
[00:24:34] I don't know if I was like in love with it but... When I was at Tell Your Ride horror show in October, it was there. And it definitely had a lot of buzz when we were there. You missed it? You didn't get to watch it? No.
[00:24:47] What did I see? I can't remember what I saw instead. The first night, then when I went the second night it was sold out. So even with my past, I didn't get there soon enough. There's not too much I can say about it without spoiling it.
[00:25:04] I went into the movie thinking it was this one thing. The title Late Night with the Devil, I assumed not to take it so literally. So I thought it was like, oh, it's about this TV host who's charming on camera
[00:25:23] but is a total dick to his crew and everything behind the scenes. And I thought he was going to just dissent further and further and just treat people like shit to save a show by the end of the night. But no, it's literally Late Night with the Devil.
[00:25:38] A lot of set in the 70s, demonic stuff. It's kind of like a found footage movie where it's the entire taping of the show from that night. And so you watch what's happening, like the people do at home
[00:25:52] and then in commercial breaks it goes to black and white and shows the behind the scenes stuff. Sort of in real time, like 24. So it is pretty cool in those ways.
[00:26:05] But a lot of the show is like, here's some demonic stuff happening that we brought guests on for and then there's someone there to contradict and blow holes and all those superstitions and things.
[00:26:17] It just kind of bounces back and forth all night of like, is this real or is it not? Yeah, so. But it's cool. It's like definitely a different kind of movie that you'll see. Yeah, I might try to see it Tuesday afternoon.
[00:26:32] Yeah, I think it's worth a watch. I don't know if... I guess it depends on like, what kind of horror you like, whether you like it or not, whether you like it or not. The other thing I saw was Knox Goes Away. I don't know what that is.
[00:26:47] It's a movie starring and directed by Michael Keaton. And I probably would have liked it more if there wasn't just one other dude in the theater with me with an open, gross cough and crinkling a candy wrapper the entire hour and 30 minutes. Both those things.
[00:27:09] Yeah, he kept pulling me out of the movie. I could not stay focused on it. But essentially, there's this guy, Knox. You learn that he is a hit man. And it obviously broke up his family.
[00:27:27] But when the movie starts, you find out that he has a degenerative cognitive ability. He's slipping into dementia. So he's doing this one job and he accidentally kills his partner in the job because he's like starting to have delusions of things and mistakes him for someone else.
[00:27:49] And then his son, played by James Marsden shows up and you find out that he has killed someone who raped his daughter. And so he's like, you know, dad, I know you're good with this stuff. You know, can you help me out?
[00:28:10] And so Knox goes on this like, you know, he doesn't disclose what he's going through to everyone yet. But he takes on this thing where he has to like, like unframe his son and frame the guy he killed.
[00:28:25] And so as he's going, it's like he slips into dementia and everything. And then you find out like he's actually using the dementia to help throw everyone off the trail. So it's kind of interesting, but it's also like kind of a lot of what you've seen before.
[00:28:45] And I totally saw what he was doing like halfway through the movie. So yeah, but like the interesting part is like, oh, this is not only like acting, starring Michael Keaton, but also directed and everything. Nice. Yeah. How is he as a director? Uh, conventional.
[00:29:05] He didn't seem like he went above and beyond on it. Definitely like a character piece. You know, there's not a lot less splashy special effects. There's like a lot of conversation scenes and just, you know, very little action. Yeah.
[00:29:21] And there's like a bunch of detectives trying to like follow him, you know, and all those scenes in their dialogue are very much like something at a CSI. It's almost like too quippy to be real. Like every one of the officers has like a snarky comeback for everything.
[00:29:41] It's just like, oh, I've seen this so much. Catch you guys just being normal detectives. And, um, yeah. That's all I saw for now. Yeah. What did you see? Uh, so I was not good this week.
[00:29:56] I didn't really watch anything, but what I did do is I went to level seven games. I don't know a couple of weeks ago and the game I bought was the game of the year edition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredders Revenge. Nice.
[00:30:14] So inside of it, it was a mini art book, stickers and a free Pizza Hut pizza. Yeah. Pan pizza. Yeah. But the cool thing is, is, um, I put it in and my son asked if he could play it with me.
[00:30:38] I was like, yeah, it's way better if you have someone playing with you. So every night I came home from work. We played it for like an hour or so. Um, and so we were, I literally just played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all week. Awesome.
[00:30:52] And it was, it was, it was really fun. And that game is really well made and the graphics are cool. And the game of the year edition, they let you change the look of your turtle. It also has a couple extra characters in it.
[00:31:12] Um, yeah, like if you, uh, like beat, if you go through like the story mode or something, like with each character, you unlock a bunch of stuff. Oh yeah. Cool. Yeah. I'm not at the end yet.
[00:31:25] We, um, we made it to the Technodrome, but I don't know how many more levels there are. I don't know how many levels are in. I think we're on level 14 or something. Huh. I think it's like 18. Yeah, cool. So we're almost there.
[00:31:41] It's like an uneven number or something, but it's cool. Like it has a bunch of hidden things in it and a lot of, um, Easter eggs for the cartoon, which I really appreciated. Oh yeah. And some of the levels are really creative.
[00:31:57] I liked the level when you were on the rooftop. Um, I thought was really cool because you could fall in between the buildings or you could throw guys in the building, um, in between the buildings, which would unlock trophies and, um, yeah.
[00:32:12] It was just a lot of fun playing it. And I liked that, um, they brought a lot of goofy, uh, characters from the show, you know, um, like Rat King and, and I liked that bebop and Rocksteady kept on showing up at each time they would appear.
[00:32:30] They would, you know, be in a monster truck or, um, other things like that. It was just, it's just a really fun game. Um, and it's, uh, and it's way more fun when you play with someone. I know you can do up to four, I think. Yeah.
[00:32:46] Did you mean anniversary edition, not game of the year edition? Yeah, whatever the, It's how you saw the guy on the cover. Yeah. So yeah, exactly. So it's not the standard edition. It's the whatever. Yeah. It's like game of the year edition.
[00:33:00] Like where's, I was looking it up. I couldn't find it. It's like, how many means anniversary? Yeah. So it's whatever that one is. Um, but it was cool. Like I didn't expect a free, did it on the cover doesn't say there's a free pizza thing in there. Yeah.
[00:33:14] So it's awesome. And the game was like $30 when it came with all that stuff. Yeah. It's pretty sweet. Yeah. It's awesome. Yeah. That's literally all I did all week is playing Ninja Turtles with my kid.
[00:33:30] Real quick, I keep forgetting to mention, um, the other thing I watched is on, on YouTube, um, I've been watching these vanity fair interviews with like film people. Oh yeah, they're awesome. Yeah. They're like, they just like re recall their careers and like,
[00:33:46] look over the characters or like, or iconic films. So like there's a Corsese one, there's like a Ben Affleck and Matt Damon together one. Um, yeah, Russell Crowe, like all these like, yeah, they're all just fascinating.
[00:33:59] Just like, they just there and talk to themselves about, you know, what they were thinking, how they got into roles. Like, yeah, it's really, really insightful. Yeah. You definitely check it out. Yeah. Emily Blunt was on it a couple of weeks ago. It's great. Paul G.
[00:34:15] He has another one. So yeah. Yeah. Cool. Um, next week we are seeing Ghostbusters frozen empire. That'll be fun. I always love Ghostbusting. Yeah. Buster makes me feel good. I'm going to say it, but Buster makes me feel good. Get out. Uh, yeah.
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