Doug Loves Movies - Adam Green, Simon Cellan Jones and Geoff Tate guest

Episode Date: December 20, 2023

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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming babies, sticky seats with 50 ads and popcorn kernels in his teeth. There's still not one that he won't see, cause Doug loves movies. Hey, hey, hey everybody. My name is Doug and I love some holiday movies. This is Doug Loves Movies, recording on Sunday afternoon, December 17th, 2023, for your Monday morning, December 18th, listening pleasure. their busy holiday schedules are two returning champs and a first-timer. They are Adam Green, Simon Schellen-Jones, and Jeff Tate.

Hello! Hi! I thought Simon might have left already, just out of disgust Can't my neighbor out you filthy animal So Let's meet everybody individually Alphabetically

By first name sorry Simon Joining us It's an unfair twist Joining us for He just won During his very own yorkie thon it's adam green hey adam hi i am so excited to be the returning champ because i never thought this day would come and the fact that i wound up beating sam levine and joe lynch when i've never made it past the

first round of any dog loves movies that I've ever been a part of. I'm going to be sad if I have to give up the title today, but it's probably going to happen. You know, it's I got two strong competitors here today going up against you, Adam, but you did take down uh sam levine's you know arguably the greatest player of all time and yeah and then joe lynch is i feel like you and joe lynch are almost trying to kind of share a brain you both know a lot about the same kinds of movies but you still managed to uh to slay them both and while doing it raise money to save uh cute little

yorkies yeah we raised 35 355 dollars this year which was great oh that is really uh an impressive number yes that's like 12 and a half yorkies saved yeah for like like three uh six to eight hour shifts you and uh other filmmaker almost called you co-filmmakers other filmmaker joe lyds uh basically sat and talked to guests probably mostly about horror i'd imagine uh yeah it was a lot of horror yeah well because you know it's your fandom from your not only your films, but also from your your podcast, the movie Crypt. Correct. Yes. Yeah.

So, you know, it's a fun, I assume, a very fun audience because you raise a lot of money every year. And and you talk about a lot of a lot of really insider horror kind of stuff. And it's fascinating. And I always love coming out to visit at your crazy studio. Yeah, I think you've been a part of almost every single one. I think you've only missed one or maybe two. And this was our eighth. So thank you for that yeah and out of all the horrifying masks

and statues and posters and things that you have all assembled in that one room like a scary shit museum uh it's like any single one of those things standing in a corner would creep me out to no end but a whole room full full of it is somehow comforting it is right when they're all together some you know as you know what they say keep your enemies close keep your demons close but uh thank you for joining us and good luck today adam our second champ on today's show is all the way back from tacoma in october i think is your last appearance on the show. It's great to finally get you back, Jeff Tate. Hey, how's it going, Doug? It's going good. Dude, I'm looking forward to SF Sketch Fest in San Francisco. This hasn't even been announced yet that you're going

to be joining me on Sunday, January 21st. You're going to be interrupting the Fast X, the 10th movie in the FNF saga. You, me, Arden Marine, Daniel Van Kirk, and Lane Moore are going to be on microphones for the entirety of that motion picture at 7 o'clock at 7 o'clock at the Great Star Theater sfsketchfest.com for tickets. Jeff, did you

get some new information there? No. Yeah, I didn't know who I was going to be on with and I'm very excited. It's very exciting. It's a sweet lineup and it'll be a lot of fun. And yeah,

I look forward to seeing you there, dude. Me too. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I can't wait. Say it again for people that do not have a rewind function. Yeah. Say it again for people that do not have a rewind function. Yes.

Yeah. Or don't follow my socials where I talk about this stuff constantly. Also joining us today for the first time, he's directed, the credits are crazy, episodes of the Diplomat, Ballers, Jessica Jones, Bloodline, to name a few. And he's now got a movie out starring Mark Wahlberg. I've seen it. It's called The Fam Plan.

It's the formation. Simon, Kelly Jones. Stug, how nice to see you. Very honored to be on. Slightly nervous about the towering intellect up against me here, but I'll settle for third. But really excited to be with you.

These two fellows have never been called a tower of intellect. That's very generous. Apple Plus is where we can go to see the family plan tell us uh what i know you've probably done lots of press for it but what's your uh what's your description it's it's an awful lot of fun it's one of those uh quiet loving suburban dad living in buffalo new york with his slightly boring, slightly dysfunctional family. Suddenly has his past catch up with him and he's forced to take his family

on a road trip from Buffalo to Las Vegas, that famous American city. And I guess it's an action comedy which is hopefully exciting and funny and it's the most fun I've had making a film anyway. And Mark Wahlberg is, I think, fantastic in it. So, yeah, watch it on Apple Plus several times in a row. I mean, I've gotten the impression over the years that Mark Wahlberg,

not Mike Wahlberg, I don't know who that is, Mark Wahlberg probably is a secret, some sort of agent or something. All I can tell you is that occasionally at the weekend, he would disappear. We didn't know where he went, but he came back. He's very professional on all levels, I guess. I love it. Yeah, so everybody can, you know, when I say watch it now, I mean either hit pause and watch it.

Go watch it or watch it immediately after this. Other than that, there are no other options. Exactly correct. Those are the two things you can do from this point. It's my own personal Squid Games.

All right. Speaking of games, we're going gonna play some in a little bit but before we do that i would like to visit recommendation nation holiday a dish and this is the last holiday edition of this segment of the year because we are obviously uh right up against it the next episode i do is going to actually come out uh on christmas day but enough about that each of you please recommend one holiday movie that folks can enjoy this season adam start us off you said gremlins last time that was a runaway hit with the listeners as a favorite of theirs as well uh so we have something maybe people haven't heard of um i don't i think i think a lot of people might have heard of this one by now but i'm gonna go with a movie called rare exports if nobody else has mentioned

that one yet came out in i want to say 2010 uh it's it's a fantastic movie it's i want to say it it's from finland and uh it's just a really dark dark dark take on santa claus um but a ton of fun and just not like the usual christmas fair so if you're sick of always reaching for movies like gremlins uh to try to have a little bit of a horror fix with your christmas then definitely check out rare exports you seem adam like a guy if i could just if this sounds like a compliment, please take it as such, that you could make like a horror film, like in another language. I did do that once. You did? Yeah.

I was part of an anthology called Chillerama, and I was assigned the title of The Diary of Anne Frankenstein. And I did not want to do it because who wants to touch that? But they convinced me to do it. And so I did it as a 1940s German film. And I cast all German actors except for the actor playing Hitler, who I taught no German to. And he just faked it through the movie. And what's funny is in America, it takes about halfway through the 30 minute movie before the audience realizes that this guy is not actually speaking German.

But in Germany, when we showed it, we showed it in Stuttgart and in Berlin, within three seconds, they're laughing really loud. I did teach him a couple German phrases, but I lied to him about what they meant. So, for instance, the very last thing Hitler says. The very last thing that Hitler says is, why is everyone so mean to me? And I'm like, I want you to say this one in Germany. So say this.

And what he was actually saying in German is I'm such a shitty actor. It's a lot of fun. And it's just 30 minutes making fun of Hitler. So before you get offended by it, it's not offensive. You really punk that guy it's bad enough he's playing he's playing hitler and something that's being recorded oh he had to grow the mustache and walk around with that for for two weeks yeah it was it was horrible but that's a true friend right there

i'm so used to the fake you know like the hitler mustache the chaplain had that's uh like like when i see actual hitler it looks like a fake mustache it's just like a lot of grouchos facial hair i'm like is that like how everybody else does it like they're just black masking tape uh all right so rare exports well you hit it out of the park i was like you know something nobody's heard of and you're like hey well how about this shit from finland what do you think of that and uh i think i love it uh jeff you've had some time to think about it. You've been hearing this esoteric discussion. Yeah, I'm going to say I might have even done this one in one of the years past. Because we definitely interrupted it once around Christmas.

And it is the long kiss goodnight. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's a good one. That's such a good one. That's really. They say that kiss kiss bang Bang is Christmassy also. Yeah, there's Santa hats and stuff for sure. Yeah, I haven't seen that one in a minute.

But, you know, everybody, this time of year, it's really become a tradition to argue about which movies are Christmas movies or not Christmas movies. It's not a designation that matters, ultimately. If we were burning all the Christmas movies, then I would want to argue about it. Yeah, yeah. But since they'll continue to exist and be a Christmas movie, whether you want it to be or not, that's just the way it is. But let's talk about this movie for a second.

We have the popular performing artist, Charlie Baltimore, got her name from the main character in this film, played by Geena Davis. Yeah. Who put her money where her action star mouth is by becoming an almost Olympic-level archer. Yeah, she did she competed in archery events that's incredible yeah i forgot if she went to the olympics or not but anyway heard sam jackson sam was some of the funniest sam jackson lines like you know several of the classics are in that movie and uh yeah it's just

and it's it's real wintry and christmasy even though it's violent um so good good pull Jeff you could say that every year and I wouldn't uh I wouldn't complain I might and I wouldn't I wouldn't even remember well that's the other thing is We're not sure if you said it before or not, but it sure feels like something you would say. It definitely does. Yeah, that thing you just said feels like something you would say. Simon,

where are you at with this? I know Christmas is kind of a rude topic for you, maybe. No, I like a bit of Christmas. Here's a weird one. Jeff Nita stole me there because I'm a Shane Black person here. I'm saying Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. There you go.

I just watched it for the first time the other day. I'm slightly cheating because it's got Michelle Monaghan in it, who's in my movie, who is brilliant at both. But, you know, it's one of those. We all like ourselves a little bit of Shane Black, a little bit of self-reverential writing, a bit of fun. It's got one of my favorite lines in it, which is, oh, that girl's slept with more people than she's had hot dinners.

And Robert Downey says, oh, I heard it was touch and go, and then she skipped lunch. touch and go, and then she skipped lunch. Which I always... I mean, it's not really a Christmas movie, but it sort of is. You admitted it yourself, Doug, there. And I think Shane Black likes a bit of Christmas. I think it's a funny film. I think it's sort of got that...

I love a bit of self-knowing from those Hollywood writers without them being too smug about it. And I think he balances it right. And I think it's Robert Downey Jr. coming back like a little whirlwind, obviously, going on to do really cool stuff. And anyway, I watched it literally in a hotel room in Las Vegas the other night.

And I went, oh, it's kind of Christmassy. I'm into it. So that's my pick. It is kind of like Robert Downey Jr. was, you know, kind of staging a comeback, but also that sort of persona in Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang is very kind of Tony Stark-like. You know, like it's already, you know, a bit of an antihero at the center of that movie. Exactly, exactly. And yeah, you're right.

You can sort of see the leap from his character to Tony Stark. It's a long one, but you can see the air through which he travels. Yes, yes. And that's why I say give him the Oscar. Give him everything for Oppenheimer because his speeches will be, you know, really eloquent. And he's been amazing for years and was really down and out for a while

and made a comeback. And there's no better person or time, even though I think he's just as good as Iron Man as he is as Oppenheimer opposition man. Yeah, you're right. Good way of putting it. I turn every character in movies like Oppenheimer, I

still give them a superhero character name. They're all part of that universe. I still call them whatever man or whatever woman. There's E equals MC squared man is in that movie as well i think isn't he and yeah that's you know all those guys there's some real ones too i just realized for its pit is uh you know uh what's her character black widow no yelena oh that's it she doesn't have

like a superhero name she's the black widow's sister oh that's all? She doesn't have a superhero name? She's the Black Widow's sister. That's all. Yeah, no name. So if they're fighting people together, if they're tag team fighting somewhere, one yells to their, hey, Black Widow, and the other one yells, Yelena. Yes.

Yes, yeah. Yelena doesn't do any of her shit with a mask on. She's just out there, out and proud. I mean, as far as I know, I've only seen her in the movie. Right. I wasn't asking about her personal life. No, I know. Like, I, for some reason, thought you were asking me a comic book book question I don't know anything about the comic books

it's all so confusing these days keeping track of all the IPs and what they're all up to all the time thank you for these three recommendations these are some fun options I might actually watch all three of these between now and Jesus' birthday.

Let's take a break. We'll be right back after these messages. We are back. And during the commercials, that's how fast they went by for me. I don't know about everybody else, but they went by so fast for me, I forgot to take a sip of a drink so give me just one second oh mountain dew it always satisfies what's jeff what is mountain dew's current slogan oh i don't know do the do probably oh just do it or do the do probably or do the do it do it do it to it yeah it's i mean do it to it is probably right that was in the 80s wasn't it no probably yeah but when you have something that good why

would you change it yeah exactly it's perfect as is yeah i think you're right jeff with the first one i think it's do the do i think that's why I couldn't think of it Why would it be do the do Oh now I want to drink it I wasn't interested until I heard the words Do the do Let's play some games I got two games

Prepared for everybody And Quick discussion games all right i got two games prepared for everybody and um quick discussion before we play this first game is anybody of any of the three of you uh had a chance to see wonka not yet no no no no not yet okay great these are all questions. No, I'm kidding. I watched the movie and wrote down some questions. No, I haven't seen it as well, which is interesting because the four of us are all movie lovers and we're active in viewing films, but also there's a lot to keep up with these days. in viewing films, but also there's a lot to keep up with these days. Jeff, I'll start with you. Are you going to see it?

Yeah, I might go. I'll probably go see it next week when I get back home. I've just been traveling every day for two weeks, basically. I thought that would be the case with that. You'd see most of the big releases. I do, yeah. I do like to see that kind of shit, so I'm into it.

I'll go see it. Owen, are you mad at the makers of that movie and Mean Girls and Color Purple for cutting trailers that do not give the impression that the movies are musicals? Yes, then I am. Yes, now I know. I had no idea it was a musical yeah for some reason now they've been called out on it but all of the uh movie studios or these three movies anyway just suddenly there's this rash of i know like last year with matilda i think they pulled that but it's just funny to see. Obviously, there's, you know, trailers are powered by music, but that doesn't, they don't ever show people singing and dancing. Like it's a musical. And I've done that with all those movies, like, and it will trick some people for sure. But I also it's funny thing. I personally think it's a funny trick because i would i would rather there be more musicals so people that are so angry about something be a musical makes me

laugh but what about the people that what about the people that really like musicals and they don't know that this is that like they're gonna get i tell you something about people that really like musicals. They'll sniff it out. The clue with both Mean Girls and Color Purple is that they're based on recent Broadway musicals of those movies as basically what those are. Same with Matilda

was that. What was the other example? Oh, Wonka. Wonka is an interesting one they decided to write some new songs and go forward waka and i i heard that's the least appealing part about it is the new songs but that's just hearsay i don't i don't know for sure you're in trouble and you stick a couple of songs from the gene wilder one into your movie because now the all the songs are compared to it so it's a tricky balance are you gonna see it um okay i'm just gonna be honest probably not but uh i always take a lot of grief for this on my own podcast, but I don't really see as many of the big movies as I used to.

I checked out on Marvel, I think, with the first Avengers. I just couldn't do it anymore. Oh, you got out early. Well, yeah, that's very early. Yeah, I know. I know. And the thing is, like, they're great movies. I'm like, they're well made.

I get it. It's just not for me. They're too long basically. And it's the same thing happens in every one of them. Sorry if I just spoiled that for anyone, but, um, and there's nothing at stake, like, you know how it's going to end. So it's why just, if it was 90 minutes, I could do it, but I can't do two and a half hours of the same animated sequence. Uh, but, Adam, real quick,

that Superman with Christopher Reeve, the first one, ruined superheroes for me for good. I mean, I've enjoyed plenty of superhero movies since then, don't get me wrong, but that's because I just enjoy action mostly. But that one killed it for me because as soon as you establish that there are superheroes in this world that can just turn back time yes i've said the same thing then nothing matters nothing matters they could just do that yeah oh shit i just broke my my favorite coffee mug well i'll just fly around the world real quick. Yeah. Oh, I was actually worried. I'm like, oh, you did?

But while we're talking about big movies, though, the one movie I was most excited for this year, which totally lived up to my expectations, was Godzilla Minus One. If anyone listening has not yet seen that, especially in an IMAX theater, it is unbelievable. It's a transformative experience and it could save Hollywood

because they made that movie for under 20 million, supposedly. And it's better and bigger than most of the $300 million spectacles that the US turns out. People are loving it, Adam. They are going crazy for it. Everyone that likes that kind of stuff

is telling me how great it is. I saw Dana Gould at a party and he wouldn't, that's all he wanted to talk about was just make sure I knew Godzilla minus one. Yeah. And I tried to buy a ticket when I got to the box office, when I said the minus one part, they took the ticket back.

So for real, it could save Hollywood. It could bring back the mid-level movie again. And we could start getting $20 million movies a year to choose from instead of just like the four or five tentpole IP blockbusters. Not that Godzilla isn't an IP, but for what they made it for it is mind-blowing so if you can't see it that's a fantastic answer to are you going to see i never needed a prequel to willie Wonka unless they show how the grandparents exist in that bed. I then I'm morbidly curious.

But other than that, I have no interest. No, there must be some sort of joke at some point. Like just the scene where they're like as much younger grandparents like in their younger days because he's much younger. Like maybe there's like a quick shot of them shopping for a mattress or something. his much younger grandparents like in their younger days because he's much younger like maybe there's like a quick shot of them shopping for a mattress or something but that's actually charlie bucket's family i'm getting at all confused now uh i didn't mean to uh uh mix up movies but uh simon real quick where are you at with this walking i'm? I haven't seen it. I'm definitely going to see it. It's a chocolate-based movie. That's always important

to me. Oh, very, very sorry. So, you know, the origin of Wonka, the origin of chocolate, either way, I'm in. Yeah, I'm excited.ka, the origin of chocolate, either way, I'm in. And yeah, I'm excited. Oh, he invents chocolate? I don't know, but I think he's involved with it in quite a deep way.

It'd be funny. He invents it. They should have just taken the Oppenheimer storyline that all the people are laughing these days and applied it to Wonka, like show that ultimately he feels guilty for inventing chocolate. You're selling me on this movie, man. Because it ends up being so bad for so many people. And it's a musical?

Yeah. As he discovers it, everyone's putting on these masks and it goes totally silent. It's beautifully portrayed through the invention of chocolate. And as you say, the world, he has become destroyer of people's bellies because it's's become flat with chocolate. Yeah, I hear there's some, you know, I get that it's kind of coming from the original point of view of Roald Dahl's Ruli know some humor aimed at uh you know overweight

people uh in this wonka that you know mild protests i haven't heard a huge stink about it but it's still uh it's still always interesting when you know how far do you want to go at this point with uh you know what comes off maybe as fat shaming or uh making fun of people but you're never in danger of that when your actor is mark walberg am i right that guy he's i i have seen him eat chocolate but it was like one square and you know he went that that's so much worse than if you'd never seen him eat it that makes me so much more angry he just eats one chocolate square and then punches something for 12 minutes that's that's right yeah until he feels like it's gone then he gets another one

i don't know i don't know his overall diet plan, but it's working. It's working. Yeah, yeah. I've been to the gym with him, I'd like to say. But fortunately, I was able to claim that I had a sore shoulder. So I just chatted while they worked out and I just sat on the chair. So they work hard. And it was early, but I was able not to get involved. Just sitting around, sitting around the gym, just talking to somebody who's working out.

It's just glorious. I wanted to smoke, but I thought it would be rude. All right. All of this is to say, all of this talk about Wonka is to set up a game that I came up with to celebrate. I celebrate the existence of all movies, big or small.

And so this game is called Wonka or Wanker. I'll say a line from a movie and your job is to tell me if it was said by Willy Wonka as played by Gene Wilder in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, or said by Willy Wonka as played by Johnny Depp in the remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or some other wanker. So your options with each answer are uh uh uh wanka charlie or uh other i'm not gonna make everybody say wanker and uh so we start with adam i'll say the line and you tell me which one

of those three you think uh applies to it and if you're wrong and jeff gets to play from the two remaining and if he's wrong simon gets the first uh gimme point because there's only one choice left each time somebody gets one right we start with with the next person in order for the next round. First person with two points wins. It's fast and exciting, but go ahead and take time to think before blurting out an answer. Okay. Adam, are you ready? I'm ready.

All right. All right. All he cares about is the candy. Oh, come on. Pardon me. Pardon me. All he cared about was the candy. Excuse me.

All he cared about was the candy excuse me all he cared about was the candy um all right i'm gonna go with the i'm gonna go with the johnny depp wonka because i don't remember that from the gene wilder one right it couldn't you're not you don't think it could be some other wanker i mean any of these could be but i'm going to assume you're not going to start with a wanker but um yeah i don't know i'm gonna yeah i'm i'm gonna go with johnny depp okay that's your answer i'm locking it in and here's the here's the sound response incorrect I'm sorry that means we go to Jeff he's got two choices

it's either OG Willy Wonka or some other wanker says all he cared about was the candy I mean you're really throwing me because I can't all he cared about was the candy. I mean, you're really throwing me because I can't believe you somehow guessed the name of my memoir. So I'm just going to have to go with some other wanker.

Meaning yourself? Yeah! Meaning yourself? Yeah! It's going to be published a hundred years after my death, like Mark Twain's thing. Smart. Yeah, that way I won't even know when it doesn't get published.

Right, when there's no such thing as publishing, it won't matter to you because you'll be gone. Alright, here we go. Here's the sound response to your answer. That is correct. Yeah! That is the correct answer that I was looking for.

Some other wanker said all he cared about was the candy, and that wanker was the character Bing bing bong in pixar's inside out so jeff is on the board with one point but simon is coming up right behind the opportunity to get a point because you got to go first on this one simon okay nervous but ready you can do this Okay, nervous but ready. You can do this. You got it. First walker, second walker.

Let's go walker one, walker two, or some wanker. Okay. Said this out loud in a motion picture. Candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup. Oh, oh. I'm jumping. I'm going to just... Oh, I'm nervous. Can I have an hour? Can I go on the internet? Can I go watch some movies?

Let's take a break, everybody. Let's give him an hour. I wasn't told this was going to be stressful, guys. You said it would be. Oh, my God. I'm going to go Wonka 1 as a reckless burst of one in three chance. Wonka 1? Wonka 1 as a reckless burst of 1 in 3 chance. Wonka 1?

Wonka 1, that's Gene, isn't it? Gene Wilder, the great late Gene Wilder, and I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Simon. That is not the correct answer.

Adam, you got a chance. It's narrowed down to two options. All right. I'm going to go with Wonka, too. I'm going to go with the Johnny Depp one. Oh, you think he was like, Candy, candy, candy, candy, candy, candy.

Yes. Oh, God damn it. Jeff, do you remember which one was instead? Yeah, yeah. I think it's, first of all, it's some other wanker. And I think it's an elf. all, it's some other wanker, and I think it's an elf. Oh, are you showing off now with your extra big brain? Yes, Will Ferrell in Elves, he says that those things, candy, candy, canes, candy, corns, and syrup, are the four food groups.

See, it was on TV the other night in one of the hotel rooms. There you go. But it's also fun to imagine Johnny Depp saying that whole list as if in fear and loathing explaining what's in his drug suitcase. I mean, he's just

he's got so many iconic roles and characters that flipping them around between movies would be fun. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, what would happen if, you know, Jack Sparrow was in Donnie Brasco? I don't think he would be as good an undercover agent, to be honest. He'd still get the job done, though. He'd just have a real hide-and-play-inside approach to that line of work. All right.

Jeff officially won that game. That just worked out in a silly way that he won it already so let's simon let me do the third one for you you can uh take the first step at it and uh put a point on the board just for the the heck of it okay yeah Okay. Yeah. Walker one, Walker two, or some other person that's exploding. It can be for your enemies. Oh, I would say I'm thinking Johnny Depp there, but that is a nervous one,

isn't it? Because Johnny Depp, of course, who, as I just realized, was in another chocolate-based movie called Chocolate. So, you know, that guy...

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Was that Johnny... No. Right, I'm going to go back. I'm going to back. I want to say it's another wanker, but I'm going to go Wonka 1 because I passionately believed it last time and it didn't work for me. I'm going to go wonker one because I passionately believed it last time and it didn't work for me. I'm going to go for Gene this time.

Gene Wilder says that's exploding candy for your enemies. That's correct. Whoa, but does that mean I don't get a point, though? No, we were just playing for fun. Was that fun? No, no, no No, we were just playing for fun. Was that fun? No, no, no. We should have been playing for stakes. I had fun.

That was just a fun one. And then, you know, if we needed a fourth one, there's always that chance. I was going to say, hello, my royal subjects. Ha ha. Have some candy. Anybody with strong feelings about that one? That sounds like a line from The Phantom Menace. It's actually, I mean, you're not far off but it's from a children's thing it's from uh uh what do you call it racket ralph alan tudyk is as king candy it's more like hello my royal subject all right um which is just he was just doing an impression of that guy edwin from uh

uh mary poppins okay uh that was a great game congratulations Congratulations to whoever it was that won that. You did a fantastic job. It was Jeff. It just came back to me. Jeff wins the fabulous opportunity. In fact, he's forced to go first in our second and final game that will determine it all. And we will play that after these messages. We'll be right back.

We're back. And that was tense. That was a tough waiting period because it's anybody's game today. Adam gets to go first in our next game, but that doesn't mean squat. It just, it's just the most random things can happen and the games themselves can be so random and we uh of course uh flip the order around for this next game so adam won the opportunity to be first but then he'll be followed by simon and then jeff and we're going to play a game that was suggested by Worth the View Movies

is the name of the account on Threads. I assume he tells you which movies are worth the view. And he suggested a holiday variation of our classic game, Alex's, Jason, and deb's imdb game and he called it imdb xmas i'm glad you're uh into christmas simon because um everything ended up being so christmassy in uh this episode what time of year does the family plan take place? The family plan takes place, I guess, you know, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Okay.

I'm sorry. That's incorrect. That's incorrect. I'm sorry. Jeff, it's your turn to guess. Three-day, Fourth of July weekend. Also weekend also wrong no i'm sorry i couldn't help with it so it's between thanksgiving and christmas it's in that extra intense family period so obviously much more difficult time for him to be preoccupied exactly it takes place in that two days just

before they put up christmas decorations because we couldn't afford to dress every set with christmas decorations i love it that's amazing that's a great a great reason for that and you know the christmas movies i think they overdo it with the christmas stuff because you you know i assume this movie probably be pretty damn entertaining year round so you don't really need to lay the Christmas card. Right, exactly. It doesn't have to be on too thick. Okay, so here's how this game works.

I name an actor or actress that has an IMDb page. has a IMDb page and I'm sorry, I'll do the IMDb page of a specific Christmas movie. And so for each movie it'll have like four pictures up at the top of the page. And those are considered to be the top four build uh people uh either by imdb or by you know the makers of that particular movie so uh i'll tell you one name and then each of you get one guess of what movie what specifically a holiday movie this person starred in.

If you don't get it, I'll tell you the second name from the top four names, according to IMDb, and each person gets a guess. We'll continue through all four names. And if I get through four names in any of these titles, and all three of you are still stumped i'll be shocked but uh also delighted so uh do that do with that what you will um because anyway you'll see you'll see what i mean i think it's sounding

harder than it is. Just like the last game, when somebody gets one right, the next round will start with the next person in line. And we are starting with Jeff, right? Yeah, Jeff.

Adam, no? I was going to say we should start with Simon. Whoa. He's got a new movie out. We should be celebrating that right now. Oh, I love that. Simon should go first. I love that approach.

No, wait. It's Jeff, though, because Jeff won that last game, right? Yes. Yeah, okay. Okay. So the order gets flipped around so it goes jeff then adam then uh simon so uh sorry about that simon somehow ended up being in third place again how'd i do that that's not right isn't it better to be in third place though because then you get it could be yeah it could it could go uh it could go either way but could do it but i screwed up

it's gonna go jeff simon adam okay flipping the order around all right here we go um the first to get three correct is our winner and And like I said, we're starting with Jeff. Jeff, please name the movie you think could be the correct full title of the film. A film that lists in the top-billed first position Tim Allen. Oh, boy. Okay. I'm going to say

The Santa Clause 2. Now, what we compel you to not... He also, of of course starred in the Santa Claus and Santa Claus 3 4 etc what would make you say Santa Claus 2

I think gamesmanship well it worked you said what the fuck Well, it worked, you said. What the fuck? Oh, my God. That's you. Hey, you know I said I was dealing with tiring intellects.

You just proved my point, Jeff. I'm mortified to be working with such brains. Impressive gamemanship on jeff's part uh the next actor is spencer breslin then elizabeth mitchell and eric lloyd i guess that's probably the whole uh santa claus two crew like the family that tim allen uh has to deal with when he uh finds himself turning into Santa Claus again. Oh my god. This again? At one point. Congratulations, Jeff. You figured that one out. Let's see what happens when

Simon gets to go first in this next round. The first actor listed in this Christmas movie's top four is Macaulay Culkin. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Damn. Um. Right. Um. I'm gonna go Home Alone 2. What's that? Home Alone 2. What's that? Home Alone 2.

What's the full title of that one? Is it Lost in New York? It is, and that is the correct answer. What? What? Oh, man. Another towering intellect joins the game.

Oh, my God. Anyone can be a towering intellect, eh? And now, Adam, it's your chance. Are you ready to show off your big brain? Yep. Okay, here we go. What movie, what Christmas movie has first name in the top

four? Vince Vaughn. Okay. I feel like I should say Four Christmases 2, but I'm going to say Four Christmases 1.

Wow, you guys. It's a real chess game. And that's your final answer is Four Christmases. Yeah, I think that was the one he was in, I think. Right?

Yeah, lock it in. I'm locking it in, sure. Right? Yeah, lock it in. I'm locking it in, sure. Okay, we're locking it in. Incorrect. What? Oh. Yeah, right? Something's up.

Who's next? Who's next? Jeff. Oh, no. Okay, so my guess is Fred Claus. Oh, damn. Correct. Oh, God.

Down in flames. Was he in Four Christmases? Is that even a movie? I forgot to list the other people in Home Alone 2 were Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, and Catherine O'Hara. I think that order changed a little bit because John Heard had a bigger role in the first one and less of a role in the second one.

But then Vince Vaughn is the star of Fred Claus, is the title character. And then Paul Giamatti is Santa. Elizabeth Banks is a sexy elf. And John Michael Higgins is a regular elf. They're both sexy. They're just both sexy elves. That movie, I find it strangely watchable around the holidays when it's on TV.

It's very weird. Just to start with, I mean, it was one thing for Will Ferrell to be running around saying, I'm an elf, I'm an elf, but Vince Vaughn is really pushing it. That guy. He's as big as they make people, and he's running around mad that he's an elf. I guess he's not supposed to be an elf. He's just supposed to be Santa Claus' wayward son. But anyway, this is such an exciting matchup.

Who scored that last point? Jeff did. So that means Simon, you're up first on this next one. Okay, go on then. Here we go. A Christmas movie starring Mr. Tom Hanks. Ooh. Ooh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Is it the one where he's a cartoon? Damn it. I'm saying it's the one where he's got a funny, sort of slightly spongy face. Is it Polar Express express ah yes it is for the record i knew everyone else's questions i just did it on my own that's hilarious okay so uh simon's catching up here uh but adam gets to go first again this All right, Adam, you ready? I am so ready.

Can I just remind everyone I beat Sam Levine. We got to move on. Tom Hanks. What? Yeah. Tom Hanks. Fuck. I can't think of another movie he was in is splash a christmas movie all right go ahead and say what you were going to say i thought

you were my maybe you were going to spoil it but what were you going to say about polar express oh i was just that was going to be my answer was polar express oh i see well unfortunately you can't say it again here can you think of another Tom Hanks movie He would be the first person listed And it's a Christmas movie A Christmas movie Greyhound It was cold

Oh it really was you're right You're right about that Alright We're moving on You're right about that. Alright. Moving on to Jeff. You've got mail. That is correct. I've never seen it.

I've never seen it either. That was impressive. Yeah, it's very christmas themed it's based on a christmas movie called uh shop around the corner and it's uh you know they just kind of stole that thing it's kind of like sleeveless in seattle you know how they don't meet until the end of the movie it's like sleeveless in seattle if the two lovers are such idiots that they could constantly talk to each other in person before finally meeting uh late in the movie uh they they even live in the same city and they don't figure it out it's it's wild but it is fun to hear you've got mail a bunch of times whenever anybody logs in to uh

hear you've got mail a bunch of times whenever anybody logs in to uh check out what's going on with their uh romantic status that's also one of those movies where the each couple is two couples and the two main characters they're they're significant other others are instantly horrible like unlikable people so you're just like don't feel bad at all that they uh get so much mail falling in love with somebody else yeah yeah they're basically you know uh they're not they don't send sex messages but it's still you know it's definitely romantic or whatever um all right so congratulations jeff tay you've done it again again you're running around the country right now somewhere of course I'd invite you to join us on Tuesday night at

the Improv here in Los Angeles to continue your championship run but we'll just have you on again as soon as possible and like I mentioned earlier I'll see you at sfsketchfest.com but what else would you

like to plug jeff uh the first weekend of february i'm at the comedy corner underground in minneapolis minnesota so please come to that it's going to be super duper cold uh but it is this the second and third of February. Is that a selling point? It's going to be really cold. It's not in the club. It's going to be real hot. All these jokes are hot.

So I'm going to warm you up. I knew you were jiving at some sort of marketing angle by bringing out such a negative as the cold weather. Thank you for being here, dude. And Adam Green, raising tons of money for Yorkies. Where do people go if they want to still contribute to the Yorkie cause? You can go directly to the rescue.

It's saveayorkirescue.org. They are a fully volunteer nonprofit organization. Every penny that they get goes to helping these dogs. And yeah, I know for some people, they're like, why specifically Yorkshire Terriers? That's just what this group started doing all breeds need help and because my dog Arwen is a Yorkshire Terrier rescue and the face of our podcast that was why we chose them to help but any anything you can give goes a long way these dogs have been horrifically abused in some cases and need help and I just want to say it was a privilege and an honor and I hope that no one forgets about the time that I beat Sam Levine and Joe Lynch because that did happen I swear I can guarantee you at least one person

will never forget Sam yeah and Simon congrats on the movie Simon I'm going to be watching it tonight thank you very much I'm going to replay this and see a way that I should have won. I'm sure I should have won, but the intellect's carried it this time.

But next time, I'm going to blow you away. Thank you very much. The Family Plan is on Apple Plus right now. Now that we're wrapping it up, it's the perfect time to go watch it.

And thank you so much for doing the show. Loved it. Really good to meet you guys. Have a great festive season. Eat some cake. You too. I had every episode of the show

with, oh, real quick, My Plugs Tuesday, Improv Lab, Douglas Movies, here in L.A. with Wayne Fetterman and other surprise guests. And Sacramento, December 30th and 31st. Orlando, January 6th.

Atlanta, Athens, Bakersfield all coming up in 2024. DouglasMovies.com for all my dates. in 2024 douglovesmovies.com for all my dates and i end every episode lately uh with a uh line from a movie that was the last line spoken in the film and so some of them are really you know great classic last lines and others are just whatever somebody said before the uh credits started to roll they weren't such important lines, but this is a pretty good one. This is from Sweet Bird of Youth. One more time, thank you, Adam Green,

Jeff Tate, and Simon Scullin-Jones. And, as always, you can go straight to hell. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky. There's no you can go straight to hell.