Doug Loves Movies - Cinefamily VI

Episode Date: January 10, 2013

This ep features the opening moments of The Benson Movie Interruption of "Taken 2" at Cinefamily in L.A., where Doug chats with guests Wayne Federman, Brendon Walsh and Paul F. Tompkins, aka Prof. Dropout...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Doug Loves Movies! Of course, it's at 7. He felt really bad about it, and we'll reschedule him to appear soon. Last night we did a Benson movie interruption of Taken 2 at CineFamily in Los Angeles with guest interrupters Wayne Fetterman, Brendan Walsh, and Paul F. Tompkins, and I'll play the incredibly difficult-to-understand audio from the beginning of that show at the end of this mini-boner ep. audio from the beginning of that show at the end of this mini boner ep next interruption at cinefamily is on january 28th and the movie will be twilight breaking dawn part two and if you're a member of cinefamily you and a guest can come to a potluck interruption this sunday january 13th where we'll spend an afternoon slash early evening watching some TV awards show. You know, the one, the awards show that's this Sunday, January 13th. Can't say what it's called for legal reasons, but I think you can figure it out.

And speaking of awards, the Academy named names today, and I am officially bored with awards season. There is nothing to be excited about or root for in this Oscar race, in my opinion. I'll start with the snubs. John Hawks gave what I thought was the third best performance by a leading man in the sessions, after only Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln and Denzel Washington in flight, but somehow he didn't make the cut at all. There are no nominations whatsoever for Dark Knight Rises, not even in the tech categories

Academy. Nothing for End of Watch, Perks of a Wallflower, Looper, Cloud Atlas, Bernie, all of which deserved something, at least one or two nominations apiece. Is that so hard, Academy? Congrats to Les Mis for adding a shitty new song just to get a nomination for original song and succeeding with that ploy, with that shitty song. And kudos to the director's branch of the Academy for not nominating Tom Hooper as director of all those interminable close-ups in Les Mis. I love that there's a Les Mis movie. I don't love his direction of it.

Thanks to categories like special effects and costumes, both Snow White movies from last year are Academy Award nominees that I'll never see. And since they got so many nominations, I will have to sit through Life of Pi and Amour, two movies I might not have seen if they didn't get nominated for Best Picture, but at least only one of them is in 3D.

Saturday, January 19th at 4.20, the third Tournament of championships will conclude at the Nerd Melt Theater at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. Schedules permitting, of course. And next Tuesday at the free Doug Loves Movies taping at UCB, it's 7 o'clock. John DiMaggio, 7 o'clock. o'clock. John DiMaggio, seven o'clock. That will mark the return of the delightful Chris Evans, who may or may not be drunk and may or not be bringing along two of his show business friends schedules permitting. Now, please attempt to enjoy the opening of last night's movie interruption.

And as always, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Interruption, and as always, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a shithead. Hey, everybody. Happy birthday, Hadrian. You did it. You're having a birthday. Very proud of him for that. And proud of you guys for coming out on a Wednesday night, 10 o'clock p.m. Benson movie interruption. It's past

my bedtime. I'm just going to crash out. But I got three friends of mine to come down here and help me interrupt Taken 2. How many people here have seen Taken 2? Applause. And how many have not seen it? Everybody else. Who waited, like me and all of my guests. Have not seen this movie. I was just like, as soon as I saw the trailer,

I was like, I'll watch that. It's in a family. And my dream came true. And to help interrupt taking two, please welcome Wayne Fetterman, Paul F. Tompkins, and Brendan Walsh! Tell me where to go. Whenever you have time to see, we'll be able to pull the tape off like a bridge opening. Oh, thank you.

Or some sort of store opening. Yeah, just sit right there in front of the... Here. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. That's good. Brendan can have that couch down there. Paul is...

I just want to sound the best on the podcast when you release this, so I'm just going to do this right next to your phone. Is that cool? Yeah, just hang out right on top of my phone. So I'll be the one person that people are not mad at. Or they're extra mad at

because they've turned it up to hear the other people. You're booming in their heads now. I might as well be screaming and yelling, but I'm talking in a very measured tone. I'm yelling right now. I'm screaming. Okay, that's Wayne Fetterman, everybody.

He'll be the soft-spoken one this year. Thank you. He's the most scholarly of this panel. You're a film lover. And I'm writing the Independence Theater Awards again this year. Oh, that's awesome. No one knows what that is, but it shows up. You have three rules.

They play it on a cable network. Some people have. The I and the F and the C. IFC. I do not have it on my tremendous... I've got a thousand channels and I don't have IFC. It's confusing. What tier?

I don't know what it is. I just want the guy to fucking get out of my apartment. He's still there? I'm just like, yeah. I'm just like, dude, I can live without IFC. Yo, Wayne. You a college graduate? I went to college.

Didn't answer my question. I know. That's Paul Atokans, everybody. NYU. NYU Kits Atokens, everybody. NYU. NYU. NYU Tisch School of the Arts. NYU. But I didn't study film.

I studied acting. But did you graduate? Close. Close. Close. But it is on my resume that I graduated. Look what... Does it say specifically, and I graduated? Tisch School of the Arts. P.S. I graduated. Does it say specifically and I graduated?

In the School of the Arts, P.S. I graduated. No one noticed. It doesn't seem weird, though. I'm so nervous about that. You went there. That's half the battle. You have to listen to your special skills

graduating from college. You just have to get a certain amount of credits. That's all you have to do. You seem frustrated about it to this day. Well, it's a little bit of an embarrassing thing. Go back and finish. I wasn't able to do it, but I still, for my parents, it was a thing. I'm a college dropout, Wayne.

Fuck all that shit. Yeah, college dropout, Wayne. Fuck all that shit. Yeah, college dropout. Self-made man, Wayne. Can I ask what college you couldn't make it through? Temple University. Temple? Yeah, the same one that Dr. Cosby dropped out of.

But then he went back. I didn't go back. You didn't? Now that you've gotten a certain amount of notoriety, have they contacted you? First of all, I don't like the way you stressed certain amount. As if you needed to let me know you're not as famous as Bill Cosby.

You're vaguely known as the microcosm. Ha ha ha! Finally, True, true. You're vaguely known in some microcosm. And finally, Brendan Walsh is also here. I don't mean to interrupt you guys. Brendan, you go to college. You go to college. I went, I attended college. Did you graduate?

I did not. Oh, interesting. Doug? Four for four. We all did, we're all college dropouts. You hear that, kids? You could be on a couch one day, too.

Do what you do, kids. Do what you do. You could be in the front of the theater with microphones if you drop out of college. That was a fucked up system. We are the last people that should have microphones in a movie theater. In the sanctity of a movie theater.

Who's the funniest college grad comedian well now that all you guys admitted to you I would have assumed you all graduated college Robert Klein probably Richard Pryor

was he a college grad no that was a good fake out Klein do you think Seinfeld is less funny than Klein? Is he a college graduate? Oh, yeah. Oh, I beg your pardon?

Everyone knows Jerry Seinfeld is a college graduate. Yeah, he was roommates with Al Gore. So, I mentioned Brendan Walsh is here, and I wanted to ask Wayne a quick question before we get into showing the movie, and that is, every year you compile, you actually have at the ready a list of your favorite films from the previous year, in this January time, and you always share it with me, and I always love it because he doesn't insist on naming ten movies.

It's ridiculous. Like the first year you did it, I think you had four. And this year your top number of movies are how many? Two. You have two movies. Two movies worthy of being on a list. Of the best of all of those

movies from last year. And to show you how shitty a year it was in film, both of those movies are flawed. Both of the movies are flawed. I think your list is twice as long as it needs to be. Yeah, it sounds like it's painful to... I just feel like, but if you go back, I just feel like this, I don't know why the,

obviously it's the first double-digit number, so people are like, yeah, let's make that the number that we have to make for a list. Do you think people were excited when numbers went into double digits for the first time? I do! Like this is unknown territory. Like all the way back then,

do you think people were like, oh, we're going to do it, you guys! This is exciting! They didn't think it was possible. Yeah. Then they'd be like, let's have a countdown. Finally, we have the perfect number for a countdown. But in a weird way, if you go Roman numerals, two is double digits. And ten would be a simple digit. Alright, well you clearly got the closest to graduating from college of all of us.

So what are your two? Well, first of all, I know a lot of people like whatever it's called, Life of Pi or something like that. You can't do it. House of Pi. I don't know what it's called. I call it Tiger Boat,

but go on. But that's the kind of movie where people are like, oh, this is an Academy Award nominee. And that's the kind of movie I can't tolerate at all. I can't tolerate that. Because it's a cartoon and it's never happened. So now I'm like... It is. It's like an animated cartoon.

Did that tiger look real to anyone? Like, running up onto the boat? So anyway, so that's your number one. That's my number one favorite. Okay, people are going to disagree, so we're going to do it right now. Let's do it. Let's get it over with. I get two flawed movies that I enjoy. I like Django Unchained.

Boom! I really thought it Unchained. Boom! I really thought it was very entertaining. I thought it was very entertaining and I know, I needed a little more profanity, but it was a little more racial epitaphs, but that was, I just

think that guy's got, I just feel like he's a cut above the other guys doing it. As far as directing and writing movies. Okay. Yeah. And then this one, I'm going to get booed. I know I'm going to get booed on this.

I can't wait. I don't think so. But I am a very... No, I'm going to boo him. I'm with you, Paul. Everybody else, though, is going to boo him. I just feel romantic comedies are hard to do, and I thought Silver Linings...

Just say it. What's your favorite one you're expecting? I know you hate it, Doug. I know you hate it. I don't hate it. I don't hate it. There's some very talented people involved. But in the end, you didn't feel anything.

Is it possible you feel anything? I felt like there should have been more dancing. Again, for the most problem, Matt. For a movie about a dance contest, there's not a lot of dancing. There's practicing, and then there's one other team going on in the background, and then they do their dance, and that's a competition.

But the dance contest, the whole idea of it doesn't happen until... It's not even mentioned until, what, an hour into the movie or something? I know, the stupid trailer gives it away though. The trailer makes it look like it's about a dance contest. And I was just very taken by her performance as well. Oh, her performance. Oh, yes. Dude, I think I read you, Wayne.

I really liked her performance pants. Yeah. I was rather taken by her performance. Yeah Yeah. I would have rather taken my hair pervaded. Yeah, okay. So that's it. So I can talk about any other movie. The ladies love Bradley Cooper

or something for everybody. Yeah. Yeah. So those were the two. I mean, obviously, I've seen most of them and that's where I'm at. That's where I'm leaving 2012.

It's certainly not the crazy one that took place in New Orleans? Oh yeah, yeah, Lincoln. Wait, what was that? The Paperboy? No, the little black girl and she's like... Right? Beast of the Southern Wild. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The bathtub.

That's your place in the bathtub. That had Sundance studio written all over it. That had like, we've been working this at a Sundance workshop for five years. No dance contest. It's a magical, it's a magical wisp of a movie.

So, Wait, what did you think of Liminal Hour? Yeah, what did you think of yeah what did you think of whatever he just said did you say men in black

three yeah what did you think of men in black three well here's the thing here's the thing

with the miserable is this one of I call HTTs? Wait, wait. This is how you should answer it. I'm not a chick.

I didn't see that. Okay, I understand. Here's the real answer. One, I call it the miserables because I don't speak French. Sure. Two, I've seen it twice. I've seen it twice. Right.

Didn't make your top two. Did not make my top two. did make your top two. Did not make my top two. Have you seen the other two movies? I have. I saw the other ones five times. No, I only saw the other ones once.

I only saw the other ones once. So I think I might agree with you, Wayne, in that I don't think Les Miserables is a terribly good movie, but I'm happy that there's a movie of Les Miserables that I can look at. We have like a theater, we both like the musical theater. That's not your thing, Paul? Oh, no, you know,

I like my football and my professional wrestling. The Super Bowl Shuffle, that's like musical theater, right? 85 Bears! Nice reference. The Super Bowl Shuffle that's like musical theater right? 85 bears nice reference yeah so I've seen it twice

and it's severely flawed movie but let me say one thing that's great about it the story and the music that's two that's two things. Then I'm not going to say one thing. Both of those things.

You know what the, I really, I figured out what the problem with that movie is, is that they wanted to sing on set, on the set. I don't like when people sing on set, by the way. They wanted to sing on the set. Right, right right but they made a big thing out of that

that's when they make a war movie and they say all the actors went to boot camp I don't care I don't care how you got there as long as it's on the screen and it doesn't seem wrong musicals have been singing to playback on the set since the invention of sound and it's never

been a problem and the going to boot camp thing it's never been a problem. And the going to boot camp thing, that's only I think effective if your movie is about guys going to boot camp. But none of them went and fought for war. Good point, Professor Tompkins.

Professor Dropout. Oh, Professor Dropout. I wouldn't mind that as a nickname. Well, you've got it now. Professor Dropout. Is this your new guilt? The guilt trip, Wayne? Yes, I did see the guilt trip.

How's that? Probably number three. I saw it four times. I'm waiting for number three. I saw it four times. I saw it four times. Parental guidance. It's what it looks like. It's exactly what it looks like. I think I would enjoy it.

You would? I think so. On a plane or something. I would recommend it for an iPad mini. Actually, I saw a couple commercials for it, and I thought it seemed like it could be a charming movie.

And then I saw another trailer for it where Seth Rogen says I have to go across country for the most important business meeting of my life. And I was like, oh, okay. I didn't know I was one of those. That's the only way.

Josh Molina on Twitter today said, I feel like with a little bit of effort, Guilt Trip and Parental Guidance could have been one movie. Just a phone call. Well, this has been great. Thank you for sitting there while we all just talk amongst ourselves. With our backs.

Yeah, and... Do you guys mind if we just skip the movie for a minute? Just keep doing this because this is really fun. And I can't vouch for Taken 2. But let's try to have as much fun with it as we can.

I assume everyone on the panel We've all not seen this. We've all seen Taken though. I have not. Do I need to fill them in on what? We've all not seen this. We've all seen Taken, though. I have not. Brendan has not seen Taken. Do I need to fill him in on what? I guess.

Somebody must have said you hadn't seen... Do you want to fight me? Everyone's on their feet. What happened, man? Let me ask the audience... This is outrageous. Let me ask the audience. Outrageous. Audience, do you like a recap

of the first Taken? Yeah. Alright, so do you want to describe what happened with Taken 1? What's happening? He's acting it out. He's the daughter. You gotta go run out and see Taken real quick.

Taken is shit. We're not gonna stop there. Great. Thanks for ruining the night. So Taken is about this guy, and now this is the fourth... Where do you yell? This is the fourth... Right here, right here.

This is the fourth... I have a microphone. I know. That's what I'm saying. That's why I'm saying with the mic, it makes no sense to be yelled. Like right now, they can hear you. You need to whisper.

Finally, someone is on hand to tell me when I'm hosting too loud. My own presentation. I think it was my enthusiasm that was getting to you. Liam Neeson has a daughter. Yes.

Well, she's like a college age, right? Sure. Sure. Do you think you could describe this movie? Can you do it without shouting? So anyway, Liam Neeson has a daughter. And at one point, the highlight of the movie is

she calls her dad in a panic on the cellular phone. Because some people have broken into her apartment. And he's like, there's two things you should remember. You should know right now. You need to get under the bed and then

they're going to take you. They're going to take you. And she doesn't say, why did I get under the bed? So it's very chilling. It's chilling when he says, oh, so they're going to take you. And they pull her out. He knows what they're going to do.

Because he used to be in the CIA or something. But he's got a particular set of skills. in the CIA or something, right? He's got a particular set of skills. He's got, yeah. He's got a particular set of skills. He's got a particular set of skills. And those are mostly just being able to torture people

until he gets information from them. Or kill them if they're in the way. And to give under the bed advice. Yeah, under the bed advice. But it's one of those where he is retired. He's done with these skills.

He doesn't want to deploy these skills. He's reluctant to use these skills. But they've taken his daughter. That's the only way, reason that he would use these skills. Except for now we're going to watch Taken 2. Where these skills are going to come in handy to protect both his wife, his ex-wife, and his daughter. Okay. Spoiler! And the tiger?

But that's the whole first movie. And the boats. And he gets her back. Yeah, he gets her back. He does get her back, but there's a badass quality to him. Yeah. Okay. And we've done three other

Leonison movies. He's now the king of the Benson movie interruptions because now we've done Love Actually, Battleship, a guy just yelled.

Oh yeah. But maybe he's just playing the game. Battleship! H5. Sorry, sorry. H5. I play Battleship in every Liam Neeson movie from now on. Well, did he also?

Did I bury my Nissan that I called Liam? He's also the guy that saved the Jews in that movie, right? Yes. Saved the Jews in that movie. If you're not exactly a film buff, the movie that Wayne's referring to is... It's a cult classic called Schindler's List. Oh, I thought he was talking about Kinsey.

Saved those years from a lifetime of repression. Homosexuality is a curve. It's not a definite... This is so much more fun than this movie we're about to watch. But Schindler's List was

not mistaken. Was it at Steven Spielberg's first Oscar for Best Picture, right? Possibly, yes. Okay. I don't know for sure, but I think so. I think that's right. I think you're right. Yeah, that's before.

I feel like Private Ryan won after. After. Private Ryan lost to... No, he won for Best Director for Private Ryan, but the movie lost. Private Ryan lost to the Shakespeare movie. I don't remember... That Shakespeare movie where he was in love? What was that called?

I have no idea. Everyone Loves Shakespeare? That's my next podcast. Sorry, Brad Garrett, Mr. Francis Bacon. Back to Shakespeare. What? Okay, Battleship and The Grey. The Grey was really fun. X2 Shakespeare what? okay Battleship and The Grey The Grey was really funny it's an interesting movie

yes it might have made your list it's about old people The Grey? yeah yeah Brian Danahy it's a sequel to Q The Grey? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brian Downey. Yeah.

It's a sequel. You and Cronin. All right. Thanks for coming, you guys. Please enjoy Taking Two. Roll it. And some quite weird cine-friendly stuff first. Happy birthday, Hingham.

Happy birthday, Hing Happy birthday, Jolene. That's great.