Doug Loves Movies - Cinefamily XVII

Episode Date: July 23, 2013

This mini features the opening moments of The Benson Movie Interruption of "The Great Gatsby" at Cinefamily with guest interrupters Nick Thune, Zach Galifianakis, and Tom Lennon.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! The in-flight movie was The Late Quartet, pardon me, A Late Quartet, which was a perfect plane movie. Kind of slow, but great performances by Chris Walken, Phil Hoffman, and Kathy Keener, three actors that I shouldn't be calling Chris, Phil, and Kathy. Monday night we did a Benson movie interruption of The Great Gatsby at CineFamily with co-interrupters Tom Lennon, Nick Thune, and Zach Galifianakis. And I will play the shoddily recorded on my iPhone audio of the opening of that show in a memento. Uh, last, yesterday, I did a, um, Dining with Doug and Karen that is available to listen to now. Next Wednesday, July 31st, I'll be doing Doug Loves Movies at the Traverse City Film Festival

with none other than Michael Moore, my D-ad, chatting about movies and playing the Leonard Maltin game. Pete Holmes will not be in attendance. Pittsburgh, I'm coming. Stand Up, August 3rd at 420, and the first ever Douglas Movies taping out of Pittsburgh on Sunday, August 4th, also at 420. Both of those shows will be at the Improv out by the Stax. And I'll be doing Stand Up for the first time ever in salem oregon at the grand theater on thursday august 8th douglosmovies.com is the place to go for all my dates and deets

but for now let's go to the cine family and as always nazis are a shithead hey everybody Hey everybody! Welcome to the Benson Interruption. I'm testing all the microphones. It's Monday, when is it? It's Monday, July 22nd. I don't know why I felt like I needed to bring up the date. A few months ago, last May, I saw a motion picture that changed my life. Called The Great Gatsby. Where it changed my life because the entire time I was watching it, I was like, never again am I going to sit through a movie I should have just waited to interrupt?

Like, why am I watching this in its entirety in a movie theater when I could just wait a few months and then watch it with all my friends and cinema family? Did I say thank you, Hadrian? Did I say that? I'm extra, especially high tonight. Just to prepare for getting through this thing and enjoying the process. And I'm a fan

of Baz Luhrmann, don't get me wrong. I like his Romeo and Juliet and I like Moulin Rouge. And I went to this with very high expectations and very high and I just didn't, it just didn't, it just

didn't work out. And so tonight I invited some of my favorite comedians slash actors to participate in not tearing down the movie as much as just commenting on it in a fun way for all of us to enjoy. Please give a big, warm welcome to Nick Thewes,

Zach Galifianakis, and Tom Lennon. Take this and sit right there. Get one for the team. Here you go. And for Sina Family, if there's any more standby people or anybody that deserves it, I think we have room on this last couch here. Because none of my guests brought guests tonight. These are three

on-the-make bachelors, apparently. Trying to get some Gatsby pussy. My kids are in the car, she didn't do it. Your kids are in the car? she didn't do it. Your kids are in the car? They're not going to like this movie

as much as they are going to like just sitting in a car. That's exactly what I told her. I like hearing that you said the word exactly because it's got your name in the middle of it. I almost feel like he said it with leaving the T out.

Yeah, exactly. That's Zach Galifianakis, everybody. Thank you. Always comes dressed, ready to play poker, and we're gonna just watch a movie. I don't know why you wear the old school poker visor. He leads a group of old ladies in Koreatown to walk around also, so that's right.

This is my old busking hat. He needs a group of old ladies in Koreatown to walk around also, so that's right. This is my old busking hat. And that was Tom Lennon, you guys. First time movie interrupter. Long time listener. Yeah, and Nick Thune, everybody. Let me just go through, starting with Nick. Let's just discuss The Great Gatsby.

You and I discussed it on, where were we talking about it? When I said you should come interrupt it with me. Oh, you brought... Yeah, for your podcast. For my podcast, as your prize. As your giveaway item. I think it came out. Yeah, you brought a copy of it. Signed by Leo.

By you signing it as Leo. I think that's up to interpretation. Okay. And you have not seen this film. No. And are you excited about seeing it? I've seen reviews.

But that was enough? No, I've waited for this moment. I think you got 3% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's not true. It got like 50% or 60%. Wow. It's weird for a sold-out show how many

empty chairs I can see. Like, do people buy a ticket and then just go, oh, what did I do? I'm going to get a ticket to that. I heard there's a long standby line, so hopefully they're getting folks in. Zach, have you seen it? No, I have not seen

this movie. I did read the book to my children in the car. Starting this morning. I'm a slow reader. Can I tell you a true horrible story, a thing that happened to me? I mean, in the grand scheme of things, it's not that bad,

but at the time, it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. I was on a flight where a mother and son took turns, like, they were like two miles away from me, two miles away from me. Flying a plane?

They took turns reading Chronicles of Narnia to each other. Like she'd read a chapter, then he'd read a chapter, then she'd read a chapter, and no amount of dirty looks would make them stop. It was fucking insane. Have you seen this movie, Tom? I have not seen this movie. insane. Have you seen this movie, Tom? I have not seen this movie.

Everyone of you says the word Nazi when saying whether or not you've seen this movie. And I've heard that it has, like, the book had some anti-Semitism in it? Yes. Because, like, yes, smiling. That's my favorite part of the book.

Can you describe the Friday-Friday beard swap that's going on? Or is there anything else? I don't think I can borrow my beard last Thursday. He hasn't given it back yet. Hangover for more. Nick is going to take your shit. He can have it.

Oh, thank you for the applause. Thanks everybody. It's not seen as a compliment. I'm just trying to do a fucking good job. Do you know what I remember? I just sold Beard Swap to BBC America. Beard Swap! Oh, you all wrote the theme song already. By the way, that's 49%. Beardswell?

Yes, exactly right. What got 49%? The future film that we're about to interrupt. Oh, the Rotten Tomatoes got 49%? That's very high. I don't know if you've seen my work. That's very high. I don't know if you've seen my work. But, 39, I told, I made a vow to my son that as soon as I hit a 49, Dad, I'm gonna retire.

But even adding up the last six movies I was in, I'm at a 30. What was it, 17 again? 18 again? How old was he again? No, those were good. That was the number. 17 again? Whenever he was again, that was the number. 17 again! That was some good reviews. In fact, Zach and I were just talking backstage about a show called Film Week that is hosted by Larry Mantle that made us both stop giving money to National Public Radio. Because they were so mean to somebody.

What was it, Night at the Museum? No, you would think. Let's keep guessing. Which project was it? It happened to be The Seventeen again. And I tuned in when there was... They said shit about that? I love that movie.

You're so good in that movie. And so, yeah. Nerds love you in that movie because you totally represent it. Like, if I was rich and a nerd, I would own lots of Star Wars shit. It's definitely in my top 17. Again?

Yeah. But anyway, Rick asked me. The first question you asked was, oh, the book is about a guy who looks at a light that's far away and gets sad. And that's hard to adapt. Even Robert Redford couldn't hold it off. So Spaz Lerman gets his hands on it. And here's where we are. We're all gonna watch it. On purpose.

I got a question. Please. Is that speaker shadow gonna be there the whole time? Not to bum everybody out. Oh, there we go. It goes away once the movie's projected. That's just the showbiz lights that make that up. Yeah. People want to see me during this part. People tweet pictures of me just standing here like this. I'm the same every goddamn show, show they still tweet pictures of me.

Tom? Doug, yeah. What else were we going to talk about? Oh, I know backstage we were saying, well, first of all, Christopher Nolan told you in Dark Knight, well, let's talk about this on Douglas' Movie Star Night.

Tom's going to be on Douglas' Movie Star Night. That'll be a good place to talk about that. But anything else about Gatsby before we start? No, but I remember when I read the book and there's a guy who looks at a light

and he's kind of sad. I thought, oh my God, I can't wait to jack off to this. Well, that's an answer opportunity because this crowd is like nothing more than usually just throwing jokes. But if you want to just shirk yourself to your heart's content,

he's asking to take off. He's gonna go ahead and go to that poker game. That door, he doesn't know that door actually. Thomas not open. He doesn't know what's on the outside. He needs to shut up. About an hour from now, he's going to get back in and go, Gatsby, what Gatsby?

Seriously, when Carrie Mulligan, when the name Gatsby comes up, she's like, Gatsby, what Gatsby? The Gatsby you used to fuck that's obsessed with you, that Gatsby, you fucking whore. I don't even know if I got this story right. I think it should be called Weird Uncomfortable Gatsby, not Great Gatsby. Because even Leonardo DiCaprio is playing the part. He is a weird dude. Can I ask a question as a person who has not seen the feature film? Stop saying that. Do we get a classic,

and this is sort of a new DiCaprio thing, do we get one of these new crazy accents? Kind of. Kind of. What part of the world does this take place in? Long Island. Long Island? So he kind of tries to do a Long Island accent?

By the way, you've seen the movie and you have no idea it took place in Long Island. Long Island? So he kind of tries to do a Long Island accent, I guess. By the way, you've seen the movie and you have no idea it took place in Long Island. I mean, I know there was water nearby. And, uh, you know, just... I was just hoping, because in Shut Her Out, he does the sort of the Pepperidge Farm remix. And it's also The Departed, I think.

Pepperidge Farm, I think. Have a child? I'm not a predator. He's willing to take on the accents. I don't know if I ever buy it, though, because it's always like, that's Leo's face making that noise. I like him. I think he's charismatic enough

that he can just play guys that just talk like him. He doesn't need even do an accent. But why does your car, what was the plug on an accent? That was a South African accent. If you're counting out, you... Oh, I can't do it, yeah. I can't do it.

I can't do it. I can do one word in Australian. Rachel. My friend Rachel. This is another example of how not looking forward to the movie I am that I let this part drag off for so long. This is so much more fun than watching the movies. I'm a chump. real quickly let me ask the audience here who here has seen this movie

and enjoyed it just raise your hand that doesn't work for the podcast I did okay there's two of you alright well you're gonna get to enjoy it again. Right now.

After CineFamily shows you some things that might make you uncomfortable. Most of the program we hear, if I watched all of it, I think it would just make me permanently sad. I mean that as very high compliments. Most cinemas are not willing to show you stuff that will trouble you for the rest of your life. They want more mainstream fare. Like... The Great Dance. Now it's time to Doug to watch another talk

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