Doug Loves Movies - Frank Castillo, David Earl and Dan Murrell guest

Episode Date: June 27, 2022

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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming, maybe sticky seeds with 50 acid pop or 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 movies. This is Doug Loves Movies. And my guest today, I think it's fair to say, also love movies. It's Sunday, June 26, 2022, and my guests are Frank Castillo, David Earle, and Dan Murrell. Hello, gentlemen. Hello!

Hello. Hello. Hello! Let's meet everybody individually and alphabetically, starting with Comedy Central Roast Battle 2 champion, Frank Castillo is here. Hello, Frank! What up, Doug? Great to see you and hear you. Yeah, mostly hearing. We turn the cameras off and pretend like we're on old-timey radio or a four-way phone call, however you want to look at it. Party line. Yeah, party line, and it's a party time.

We had a great time last night in Bakersfield. Of all places. Of all the places. You'd look at a map and go, Bakersfield? Probably all places. Of all the places. You'd look at a map and go Bakersfield. Probably not a great time. Turns out, surprisingly, a delightful time hanging out in Bakersfield. Yeah, the beer was great. The crowd was really, really fun.

It was actually a really solid venue. Me and Taylor played arcade games next door for like an hour and a half. Yeah, we should say what these places are called. Timbalor Brewing Company. And, you know, especially like if you're passing through Bakersfield, you're driving along the grapevine one way or the other, and you pass through Bakersfield. This is a great place to stop off day or night, I'm guessing.

Timbalor Brewing Company. It's a place where you just sit around and eat and drink and there's giant, giant vats of beer being made right there while you're sitting next to it. Yeah, it was amazing. And they had comedy. And they had a comedy show.

So we had delicious beer and did some comedy and everyone in the audience was drunk on beer and or trying to be. And it was a wonderful time. And thanks for being there. And thanks for keeping it together to do this today. My pleasure.

I did wake up pretty late today. What's the name of that place next door to Tumblr that you were playing the games at? Oh, I cannot remember. But I won my wife a Yoda plushie. I brought up 50 bucks. Oh, that's good. I'm glad Disney's getting a proper plug.

Yeah. That worked out good. All right. Well, thanks for being here, dude. My next guest, I'm so excited about this, from the movie that's in theaters now that goes by the name Brian and Charles. It's David Earl. Hello, David.

Hello. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. Would you have preferred the robot? I gotta tell you I'm uh you know a little obsessed with robots movie robots and uh I appreciate you being here as the the human side of the latest the latest robot and person uh movie uh I have not seen it yet I'm excited to see see it. All the way back from Sundance, people can't stop talking about it and raving about it. Wow. Wholesome is what they say all the time about it.

Did you set out to make something wholesome? Yeah, we did, actually. And we made some changes in the edit. They were a little bit disgusted. There's a point where Charles sort of dies for 10 minutes and vomits oil. No one wants to look at that. It worked

for E.T. though, didn't it? Yeah, but the oil didn't look very good. People love sick E.T. and then he came back 10 minutes later. It was a real tearjerker. You're letting us get out of this movie without crying? Yeah, well, there's another bit where the mouse called out of his mouth as well.

That was horrible as well. He just kept vomiting every 10 minutes. Yeah. Well, that is an interesting issue for robots. Should they even really be eating anything? Yeah, well, he does. You know, they think they're human. that is an interesting issue for robots is the, should they even really be eating anything? Yeah. Well, he does.

He seems to, you know, they think they're human. They start eating and they don't have a digestive system and all that business. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't certainly,

we certainly didn't give any thought to that part of it. So yeah, he just bunk stuff in his food and hope for the breath into his mouth and hope for the best. Yeah. Well, for our third guest today, we have a certified. We've actually done the paperwork, a certified fan of the film. And I think it's his first time on this show, which is shocking to me because he's a six time movie trivia showdown champion.

And his name is Dan Merle hey dan hello thanks for having me i'm happy to be here it is my first time i'm glad the paperwork got through in time to be officially certified on the show i was very concerned that that wasn't going to happen yeah it really is i've got an amazing team that really uh pulled it all together made it happen we also got we got patched into another country for this episode. I'm grateful that David has a nice connection and is also staying up late with us. Here's something nice for you to go to bed to after

we're done here being stupid. You can just lay there with the thoughts of what uh noted film lover dan murrell has to say about brian and charles oh my god okay i mean it's here we go here we go i go into it now because it's yeah please tell him tell him to his face it was one of my favorite this is my first year i've ever done sundance and it's because they did Tell him to his face. Oh, please. We do like an hour of this. It was one of my favorite. This is my first year I've ever done Sundance. And it's because they did it virtually.

I've never been able to actually go. And I've never been on this. My first like full year with real movies coming out, like all year that I've been a critic, like independently. So I did Sundance virtually this year. And it's like, there's like a list of endless possibilities. It was literally like three 16 hour days straight of movies and i was just picking movies and i was looking at the list and i saw brian and charles and i have a great affinity for uh british comedy number one uh and silliness

number two and i read it i'm just like this sounds like it's right up my alley and it it very much was but it's like it's you know i feel like when people use that word like, this sounds like it's right up my alley. And it, it very much was, but it's like, it's, you know, I feel like when people use that word, like sweet, people think like it's somehow like lightweight, but it's like, it's just such a funny, sweet, like hilarious movie. It's, it's very much my style of comedy. And I did a, um, I did a meeting with some of, uh, my Patreon, uh, folks earlier today, actually right before this.

And it's come out in some theaters here in the u.s but it's not like a super wide like you know 4 000 you know light year release because you know they had to have all those empty theaters playing light year last week and brian and charles could only you know have a very few of them um and i played a clip of the uh of charles wanting to sit in the front when they're going into town and it i will tell you it crushed it like people were just like i have to go find this movie so i'm very happy to spread the word about this movie because i love it so much it's one of my favorites this year well thank you so much honestly it's so nice to

hear that um because you know yeah it's it sounds like this movie uh you know moves it moves the uh the game forward as it were for uh robot rights it's very pro-robot you know like it sounds very uh yeah they're lovely Really humane approach to robots. And were you... So, David, you co-wrote this movie and co-starred in it. Yeah. And how much were you and everyone else involved? Were you... Is there any particular robot movies that inspired your robot situation?

So, yes. So I've been doing stand-up in the UK as Brian, and he was like a terrible stand-up comedian. That was the character. So I've been doing that for a while. And then I started... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.

I couldn't write any traditional jokes. I thought I'll just go on stage and make people feel uneasy for 20 minutes. And then I thought, oh, I'll do an internet radio show and make him like the world's worst phone-in host. So while I was doing doing that the producer of the movie rupert called in he was too shy to talk so he he used this software and one of the voices

was charles so we started this relationship over skype and so i'll ask rupert i asked rupert a question and it takes sort takes 20 seconds to reply. But it's quite fun just waiting that pregnant pause. And then while we're doing it, Chris, who's in the robot in the film, he he was listening, really enjoyed it. He said, oh, we've got to do this live. Let me build the robot. And we'll do some live gigs. So he built Charles over the course of like nine minutes. and we'll do some live gigs. So he built Charles over the course of like nine minutes.

And we did some festivals. And yeah, so it was all Chris's. Chris thought he sounded like a professor. So he just got some wool and put it on a mannequin's head, attached that to a, that's attached to like a litter picker. And then that controls the math. And then Chris just got inside a cardboard box and that was it. It's not a lot to it. That's what I love.

Cause I looked up some of the, after I saw the movie, I went back and realized like this, like you said, the live stuff and had done a short. And I love that like quote unquote Hollywood, Charles looks pretty much like regular charles like there wasn't like a hollywood makeover like it's so lo-fi it's

hilarious well we definitely wanted to we wanted to have that thing where the audience are watching going well well that's just a bloke in a box why am i watching this so funny yeah like i've seen some reviews saying we can see it's like a human being's finger well yeah um and uh so we did sort of we enhanced the box a little bit it's a bit sturdier for the film and we gave him a little bit of yeah something around his knees and his his calves but we wanted to keep it the same so it just felt a bit cheeky see if we can get away with it yeah

I mean there were times when he walked on set as Charles I was like oh fuck me how did we get funding for this yeah yeah it's not like you know it's not like a day or two commitment like your feature of length committed to this idea this guy in the box is gonna be people are gonna buy into it yeah we definitely had moments where we were losing confidence on set but because we because we made the short and that kind of went down well

and people's sites seem to buy into them and it we're like okay just crack on yeah that that definitely must have helped a great deal because if you just started with the future like saying you might have really had some some some doubts we would never have no one would have funded it if it was yeah it's a guy in a box what are you talking about give us some money i know are we pinching ourselves that you know we got a script commission and we thought okay we got a script commission it's never gonna And then, oh, it's getting made. And then lockdown hit. Oh, okay.

Ours is going to be the first one they shelf. Oh God, it's not. Oh, right. We're filming it now. And yeah, just every step of the way. We're like, bloody hell. Yeah. It's very nice.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, there, you know, you don't have to, when one of the characters is a robot, you don't have to worry about them, you know, getting sick. That's a sturdy player you've got right there yeah yeah they didn't know it was a guy in a box they didn't realize he's just as it's just as dangerous um all right so speaking of robots i gotta know

starting with you dan uh do you have a favorite robot movie oh wow i mean yeah it's tough because that'd be a tough one i remember we did it when i because i was a screen junkies for years and years before this and we did a video that was like best movie robots and the comment section was all about why what we said were robots weren't robots they're like well that's not a robot that's a that's an android and that well a robot's an automaton and that's so c-3po is not a robot because obviously it's so it's like i don't even know i mean is it offensive if i say the iron giant is a robot because i feel like some people would legitimately get offended i think it's a large robot i would call the iron giant a robot and

thus i would say that's one of the best robot movies ever made but then i think that people would get angry that i was like minimizing the iron giant by calling him a robot oh you can be i'm calling him a robot maybe history will judge me poorly but i am calling the iron giant a robot and i'm saying that that is like maybe the best robot movie ever made i mean i subscribed to a channel i saw it on and the channel is called robot plus it's all the top robot movies uh yeah i think it qualifies the robot movie but you're right when somebody makes a top 20 robot movie list, there's going to be people going to pick at it like crazy because of how much of a robot the person is. Could it could it make we decide right now that it comes down to artificial intelligence and it doesn't matter what it is inside, what it's, you know, or how much of it. Right. If it's metal, just as long as there's some artificial intelligence

yes it's not skin and bone for the sake of argument i think maybe well i feel like if it has artificial intelligence it's still technically a robot right see that's what we got into with this argument because they're like no because the robot's an automaton so then that is not a robot i'm like all right whatever that like realize it's being sentient you know what i mean it's like it's like if a car was able to start thinking you know what i mean right exactly it trust me it's a whole can of worms so perhaps the broader definition is best i don't know yeah it really does become when does a piece of mechanics become a robot? And when does a robot have intelligence? Yeah, exactly. These are stages that have to be determined by somebody. Yeah, I think they covered this in the Animatrix.

I think they did. I think you're right. I think you're very right about that. So, Frank, do you have a favorite robot movie iron giant was actually going to be my pick too that is the one movie where like i cry describing the ending to people because you're sad that you're ruining the ending for people i mean just because of how sad that movie is it's such a good movie.

It really is. And Finch also. Finch. Oh, yeah. Finch is the Tom Hanks one with the dog and the robot. Oh, yeah. When we were editing Brian and Charles, we saw that come out and we were like, oh, no. Sounds exactly the same. We got a good dog.

What I love about Finch is you look at the poster as Tom Hanks, a robot, and a dog that's like I guess a terrier or something. And then all it says is Finch. And to me, it's like, well, that could be any of those three. Any of them could be

Finch. That's hilarious. You know what I mean? I need a little bit more information. I've heard from people like our friend Frank Castillo here that it's a great movie. Is that just because you love robots, Frank? I think it's because I love Tom Hanks.

You're going to have to check out Brian and Charles. It doesn't have Tom Hanks but it does have robots yeah I saw the trailer for the movie it's got robots something I look forward to watching that's awesome you can see it in theaters now

am I gonna cry the way you're describing it it sounds like I'm gonna cry you're gonna cry laughing oh okay sorry that was terrible The way you're describing it, it sounds like I'm going to cry. You're going to cry laughing. Oh, okay. Sorry, that was terrible. I sound like I'm on the publicity team for the movie. No, I love it. I'm really enjoying it. I like the idea

of people seeing this movie in theaters because I feel like it would be fun to laugh together at this particular movie. That's the vibe I'm getting, sight unseen. Someone sent us a tweet this morning that they were sat behind a woman in the theater and she just went, oh, this is silly.

And got up and walked out after two minutes. I love a silly movie. What was she expecting? This is silly. If you're not into kind of pine cones being glued on bags, it would wind you up a bit, I suppose. So I see

her point a little bit. If you are so fucking funny. I'm going to go see this drama today about a Welsh farmer who builds his own robot. It looks like a very serious drama. No silliness involved. But it's so funny to me that she's just like, oh, this is silly.

Yeah. Yeah. Loud. Yeah. Really angry with it. Yeah. Did you, for the title, Brian and Charles, did you have to consider whether or not to actually use the word and or

ampersand? Did you actually pick? Oh, God. We just went for the and. Right? You don't care how anybody spells it. It just means and, right? It doesn't matter if it's an ampersand or a... I haven't even thought about the ampersand

option. I think if they put an ampersand in there i would have gone what are they doing that for well because you have like an ampersand when it's too big like you and the other person you wrote it with have an ampersand between your names because you did it together right so are brian and charles together in some way or are they just two two with an and in between? Oh, wow. That's a deep question. It's half ten at night here. Jesus Christ.

I mean, you should imagine this conversation. Just imagine the things I'd be asking you if I'd seen the movie. Yeah, you're really clutching at straws there. All right. So before we get into the games portion of the show,

I like to ask all of my guests to just recommend one movie. And we'll start with you, Frank. What's your recommendation this time? I think you were on the record once before with Finch. Oh. What have you got for us this time? Oh, shit. It was on Netflix. I think it's this porn

movie. Shit, I gotta look it up. It's called... No, no, tell me a little bit more about it. Don't look things up. It makes it seem like you're cheating later in the show. Oh, no, no. I'm gonna tell you. I'm trying to remember what it was. I think it's like Sins of the devil or something like that it's about this uh woman who used to work for an author who wrote like scary uh like serial killer uh books right this all sounds familiar this all sounds like something i didn't watch but i

saw he makes like an attempt uh like he like makes like a pass at her at work and then like this huge lawsuit and then like really fucked up shit starts happening to her and her family and it's like a really great movie it doesn't yeah all right so it's on netflix and it's uh i'll have to i'll have to think of it. Give me a sec. I mean, any movie titles got devil in it. I'm already going to mix it up with something else because the devil's all over the place in titles. Yeah.

All right. Let's move on to David. Could you please recommend a movie? Does it have to be new? No, it could be from, you know, just something you think people should see or that you just particularly like. I mean, your audience is probably not, but my favorite movie is American Movie,

the documentary. Yes, yes. It's so good. That's a terrific one. I think you win already have you met yeah have you had him on the podcast no i have not met him or had him on the podcast but uh you know i'm not i'm certainly not against the idea because uh that movie's that movie's really uh it's terrific yeah yeah you know it, it's hard for a documentary to be like funny,

like a movie where all the comedy was planned, you know? Like it's just so, it's so beautiful how it worked out. That was definitely an influence for Brian and Charles, that movie. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. It feels scripted. It feels like it was written.

It does, doesn't it? I don't know if I'd believe that it was fake if it came out today. I'd be like, somebody's someone's pulled my leg. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so good. All right. So who does that leave? The wrath of God. Now I remember it. The wrath of God. So it's got is that the one with Nicolasolas cage no no no this is like uh i think this movie's um from like italy or some shit uh i think his is called just wrath of god with no duh but i think he was in a wrath of god thing because i can picture you know

nicholas cage face screaming i know there's an old Western movie called The Wrath of God. Yeah, it's one of those titles. I've spoken of this before on the show. I'm not liking that things can just... There's this new movie, this new Adam Sandler movie that I liked

about basketball called Hustle. There's a movie in the 70s with Burt Reynolds called Hustle. You can't think of something else. It has to be just the same exact name as a previous thing. Hustle, the non-Burt Reynolds movie.

It's like The Gift, that movie. I remember there was a great Sam Raimi movie, I think, called The Gift. And then Jason Bateman and Joel Edgerton are in a movie it's also called the gift and i have to specify yeah yeah okay you can't say the special gift or the unusual gift or anything yeah it's confusing different different title would it kill you uh all right so dan could you give us a recommendation i mean you've been seeing everything lately it sounds like i i i see as much as i can in theaters i would recommend

the black phone which is a great movie um that's directed by scott derrickson um it stars ethan hawke as this this guy called the grabber who uh who kidnaps kids and locks them in his basement and it's like it but it's like it's like and locks them in this basement. And it's like, but it's like, it's like survival. It's not like awful, like depressing. It's like a survival story. Uh, it's really, really good. And then on Netflix, there's a film from India called RRR or triple R. It's so good. It's I just watched it's three hours long it feels like it's an hour and a half it's so good i have not uh you know dug in and watched it yet because i you know i i can tell i'm gonna love it but i also the three hours is you know quite daunting especially because i'm sure a great deal of

that is actually pretty uh pretty terrifying stuff with wild animals. I mean, yeah, it's, I think the lady who walked out of Brian and Charles would really think this movie is silly because it is all over the place. I mean, it is just like, it is bonkers. It is, it is, but it's, it's bonkers in such a good way. Wow. All right. So I did get an email from somebody like the second it came on just going just do yourself a favor and watch it just don't worry about it and then i saw that it was three hours long and i watched a brief clip and i was like i don't know if i can handle three hours

but uh but i will give i will give it a go but uh wait so what was the other so you have to pick one though you just need to decide on one right now. So you want to, well, I guess RRR will be on Netflix no matter what. So I'll pick the black phone because it's a great little, it's being sold as a horror movie. It's more of a thriller. And you know, they make decisions based on how many people go to see things. So I'll, I will settle on the black phone. I'll say that. Let's get people to go out to the theaters and see black phone yes uh and uh i it's funny that i've always i've always enjoyed when ethan hawke does his yelly voice you know i

uh i got to see him in a play on broadway where he had got got all yelly voice at one point and you know how loud and scary intimidating it is and then for it to now be in a horror movie, I find that delightful. Yes. It's a good contrast. He goes from Gravelly Ethan Hawke to Yell Ethan. It's a good performance. He's good in it. Alright.

These are great recommendations. Thank you for those. We're going to play some games right after uh these messages we are back and the first game we're going to play today i mean you'll figure out why we're doing this uh as soon as i tell you about it it's called you robot me robot and uh here's how it works i'll say a fact could be fun could be not so fun but either way you tell me if that fact applies to the movie i robot or the movie chappy or both? I've never seen. You've never seen iRobot or

Tappy? No. That's all right. Well, that'll make you just, I think you'll still remain competitive because I don't know how much these other gentlemen know about either of those movies. Not much. I'll tell you that much. And sometimes you can just figure it out because here's what's going to

happen is Frank's going to go first. I'm going to give him a fact and then he's going to tell me I robot Chappy or both. If he gets it wrong, then it goes to David. Now it's been narrowed down to two. So you just pick one of the two remaining ones. And if you miss it, then it goes to Dan and he gets the gimme point on that first one. And each time somebody gets a point, the next person goes first in the next round.

And there's just a few rounds. There's so little you need to know about these films to take a guess. But sometimes it's fun to figure it out. So Frank, here is the first fact is based on a book. And your options once again are iRobot,

Chappie, or both. I feel like iRobot is based on a book. But not Chappie, you're saying? Not Chappie. So, not Chappie, not both iRobot and Chappie.

Did I say that right? Yeah. That is correct, sir. You did it. You cracked the code right out of the gate you figured out that iRobot is based on literature and Chappy is based on god knows what an idea the screenwriters had all right so Frank's on the board at one point but that means David gets to go first on this next one. Are you ready, David? Yeah. Okay. Here we go. iRobot,

Chappy, or both is rated PG-13 by our system, which I'm not sure how it differs from your current system. But our PG-13 means you should be 13 to get in but nobody cares nobody checks uh brian and charles of course is a pg what's a pg what's pg it means

like there must be like one somebody must say shit or maybe there must be something that's just a little bit saucy okay it's a little bit but so little it takes so little like nobody wants to be rated g anymore because then that means it's strictly for children and now there's so many animated movies that are you know for all ages that it's real stigma to say you're rated rated g so i'm sure even if you didn't have somebody would have to fart or something in real stigma to say you're rated rated G. So I'm sure even if you didn't have, somebody would have to fart or something in your movie to get you. They would insist you get the PG and not get saddled with a G for being too sweet.

I think the bullies, I think the bullies probably took it up to a PG. Oh, there you go. That's enough to bump it up to a PG. Bullies. Bullies will totally take any movie up. And they do a lot of farting as well.

Yeah. Farting bullies are really a one-time punch. You dodged an R. Yeah. That would have been too much. Both? Both.

You're going with both of those. A champion and iRobot are both rated PG-13. I'm sorry. Both? Both. You're going with both of those. You're saying that a champion iRobot are both rated PG-13. I'm sorry, David, that is incorrect. Dan, what does that leave you with? What do you think it is?

I believe I'm 90% sure that iRobot was not rated R because it was a big Will Smith tentpole movie. I'm going to say that only iRobot was rated PG-13.

Okay, so is rated PG-13. iRobot is correct. You did it. Congratulations. Thank you. Frank, this game is yours to lose. Also, the first game doesn't matter, David.

No. Don't let this affect you at all. It doesn't matter. Okay. Whether you hear what the prize is for winning the first game, it's not worth the trouble. Okay.

Frank? Yep. iRobot, Chappie, or both, has the song Superstition by Stevie Wonder in it. Just iRobot. You're going, Just iRobot has Superstition by the great Stevie Wonder.

That's your answer. I love how you stick to your answers, Frank, especially when you're right. That is correct. You win this one-time only game called You Robot, Me Robot. Congratulations, Frank Cast Castillo I'll tell you what you won

right after this break we'll be right back we're back and Frank won our first game which is so appropriate because has anybody seen that movie Robot and Frank

yeah with Frank Langella yeah I haven't seen it but I know of it that movie Robot and Frank? Yeah, with Frank Langella? Yeah. I haven't seen it, but I know of it. It's a real thing. We're here talking about robots with Frank. This is so fun. I gotta give a little extra to the booking

agent this week. This is terrific. Okay, so Frank won. He's in the position to go first in our second and final game. That's all he won by winning that first game. He just gets to go first in this next game. Only becomes an advantage, really, if we go to a tiebreaker because everybody gets one turn to go first in this next game only becomes an advantage really if we go to a tie breaker because uh everybody gets one turn to go first it will rotate who goes first in each round but the game we're going to play is called filmily feud it's like family feud the tv game show but uh you know with film references and questions all right yeah yeah yeah so i will

give you the question that i posed to the internet and then i each of you will guess which one you think got the highest percentage of votes by you know just, just random people on Twitter. And not, you know, not the people themselves are random, but just I just mean, whoever answers the poll, I don't know who they are. So sometimes, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes they answer truthfully, and other times they answer like they're on the internet answering questions. So you just don't know where it's going to go. So it's kind of fun to try to figure it out. And so I'll tell you what I posted,

what question I posted and the four options that I gave them in advance. I just had to narrow these down to just four options. And then Frank will go first. Frank will choose between the four options, which one of these things gets the highest percentage. And the other two will choose after that, after Frank will go to Dan and then to David. And then around like that,

each time you each get to pick one and then I'll, you know, I'll tell you the percentages and that's the number of points you get so we'll start with frank the question i posed didn't even put a question mark i just wrote best movie robot and you know i turned off the comments because i didn't need to hear it from people which ones really are robots and which ones aren't for some reason. And the four that I picked for them to choose from were Bumblebee from, you know, Transformers stuff,

Baymax from Big Hero 6, Wally from the film with the same name, or of course, Hal from 2001 Space Odyssey. Oohyssey oh so frank you go first out of those four which one do you think people think is the best movie robot and of course these people have not met charles yet so we don't need to even yeah he's gonna go rocketing up the list. I'm sure. I would have to say Wally. You're going Wally. Yeah. He saved humanity.

Oh, okay. So that makes them the best robot. I don't know. I'm not even sure what quality is going to be. Yeah. That was the thing. Cause it's like, if we're talking about like the best evil robot, how, you know? Yeah. Dan, what do you think? It's tough because I'm not answering. I have to answer based on potential Twitter answers, which is you think it's tough because i'm not answering i have to answer based on potential twitter answers which is very it's a it's a it is a boy it is a quagmire um all right i'm just gonna i'm gonna try not to second guess myself too much i'm gonna go with how

the how 2001 i'm gonna pick how that's reasonable now dav, this is the only round where you have to pick thirds. You know, you, you do get, you know, you're left with what you're left with, which is a bumblebee. That guy, that guy. You like that? Yeah. I like the sound of him. Yeah.

Yeah. No one's gone for him. Is that right? You know, the internet, I don't know exactly how they feel about Bumblebee, but in this particular poll, they were not kind to Bumblebee. As it turns out,

Bumblebee came in fourth place with only 8% of the vote. Oh, that's a shame. But those 8% are probably super into Bumblebee. And then next in line after Bumblebee was how they perhaps maybe because the movie's too old or something only got 16%. I should have known that to pick the old movie. What was I thinking?

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. It's hard to tell sometimes where it sticks with people and what doesn't. And then Baymax got 17%. And Wally walked away. And that's not a spring chicken. That's not a recent movie. Wally walked away at

59%. Yeah, that's humanity. Yeah, so Frank's got a hot lead for a second at 59 points. And Dan's got 16. David's got 8. lead for a second at 59 points, and Dan's got 16, David's got eight, but I'm telling you, it's anybody's game at this point. The best ever round. And Dan starts us off on this next round,

and then David and then Frank. Dan, what do you think these Twitter monsters, my Twitter babies, what do you think they responded to when I wrote worst movie robot?

Worst one. Same choices. Bumblebee, Baymax, WALL-E.ally how this is the question of the fickleness of the internet these two questions were asked within minutes of each other oh this is so tough i you know i think i don't know your audience personally yet i haven't yet met all of them individually but i i think that you're you cultivate a bit of a cinephile audience perhaps and so i'm gonna say perhaps the um the ill will toward the transformers franchise carried over to bumblebee and i will pick bumblebee as the their pick for the worst movie robot. Okay. Hmm.

David, what do you think of the remaining? I feel like my timing in this game hasn't helped me. What was the second one? Baymax. Baymax, Wally, or Hal. Okay. When you say worst,

as in most forgettable. I wish I knew what I meant by worst. Or what they were thinking when they answered. Because it's just worst. Because it could be like, you know, like the one that's worst to mankind. Like, you know, like an evil robot. I'm going to go for Hal in case they thought that. What's that. I'm going to go for Hal in case they thought that. What's that?

I'm going to go for Hal in case they were thinking that. Okay. Yeah. So, David's got Hal and that leaves our good old Baymax and Wally for Frank to choose from.

Baymax. Okay. What do you want to hear first? The one that got the least amount or the one that got the most? Let's go with least. All right. Because nobody picked it. Wally only got 10%.

I guess Wally doesn't do anything, you know, that we can judge it for. Is it, does Wally have a sex? Does Wally recognize as something? I believe Wally is a he. He identifies as a male robot because he hits on that one girl robot. I mean, I haven't asked, but that's my assumption. We're making assumptions about their shapes, basically. The shapes and the voices.

Very male. Who's that? I said Wally's very male-shaped. He's all blocky. Yeah. Yeah, and the other one eve has got curves we're not talking about her right now let's take her out of the picture or maybe that's why people thought that he's the worst because he's you know hooking up with a cute robot you know those people on twitter they don't get Twitter, they don't get, you know, they don't get enough. Enough, enough. What? Baymax got 14%, Frank.

You got, you got a little bit more than you would have gotten with Wally. So you were sort of cornered there, but you got 14 points for that. And then next in line is Hal, but with a pretty decent number, 37%. And then just a little bit above that is, of course, Bumblebee with 39%. So Dan sniffed that one out. Figured that out.

All right. So David, you're going to go first on the third round. There's rarely a tie in this game. So this one's really it's all about this one. I asked Twitter the following. Best Julia robots movie. Julia Robots movie. The options are Mystic Robot, Pretty Robot,

Robots 11, or Aaron Robotovich. Aaron Robotovich. Is the best Julia Robots movie, you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I might win this tournament. I love this. This is the first time anybody's called it a tournament. I appreciate that. Everybody

turn on the echo on your vocals. We're in the Coliseum now and we're down to Frank, Which one do you like to pick? What are my options again?

Your options are Mystic Robot, Pretty Robot, or Robots 11. Robots 11. She was in Robots 12, of course, but not Robots 13. You're going 11? Yeah yeah frank goes 11 everybody all right dan crucial choice here that leaves you with

um what do you think of these uh remaining options mystic robot or pretty robot well i i'm gonna lean into the nature of the internet here and for what i've seen pretty robots tend to be somewhat popular uh amongst the internet crowd so i'm gonna i'm going scores i guess i could tell you these these in the meantime uh you you all sniffed it out again mystic robot only got eight percent you know it was one of her first one of robots julia robots first films and early work yeah yeah so really took a pretty woman for things to take off so that got 23 percent so that adds to a 23 to dan's score of he's got 15 he's got 18. 78 total. All right.

And then who's left? Oh, robots. 11, 26%. Giving Frank a total of 99 points. Oh, David went with Aaron Robatovich. 43% adds 43 points to his score for a total of 88 points. It's shy by 11 points of Frank's.

99 points. Congratulations, Frank. You did it. You're our winner today. We will have you back on the show very soon. But you get to do your plugs first. What would you like to plug? I'm on the road in North and South Carolina,

opening up for Pauly Shore. And then I am have a great podcast called peaked on YouTube and peak TV on Instagram. Follow me, Frank Castillo. Thank you so much. Thank you, man. That was a, that was a good job you did there would you say going into today the you know that your your enjoyment of robots on film uh helped lead to this big win oh absolutely i i it was so funny you uh picked i robot because it's like that was one of my more favorite movies when it came out. All right.

Well, congratulations. That's how these things work out sometimes. You know, your intense knowledge of iRobots really paid off. Who wrote the book that that was based on? I do not know. I think it may have been Isaac Asimov. It was in fact, Isaac Asimov.

You, you show them off. Congratulations for knowing that. And David, I hope you don't feel bad that I've tried to, you know, Garrett to all robots in your honor. And it backfired on me. No, not at all.

And we got this other guy over here who knows more about robots for some reason. Yeah. I don't know anything. I don't know anything about robots. I really think that this shows what an original take on robots your film is going to be because you don't seem to know anything about previous yeah exactly this was a this was an excellent test yeah yeah so um you've been promoting this movie it's playing here in the united states as of a couple days ago and everybody that I read on Twitter

talking about it, everybody finds it delightful, but the buzz has been great all the way back since Sundance. And what else is there to know about it at this time? Is there any other announcements

surrounding it? Not only that it's out in the UK on July the 8th. Oh, so it hasn't even opened there yet? No, no. You've still got a lot more promoting to do. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but that's

that's exciting I don't know how it's going to go down I mean yeah so July the 8th in the UK wait there's a chance

that they that they won't be enjoyed in the UK you think well I never whenever we make anything I'm like well no one's

going to like this so so if anyone likes it it's always a real yeah I see it's your overall world, it's always a real. Yeah, I see. It's your overall worldview. It's not necessarily. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Yeah. Because I feel like, you know, I feel like, you know, you made it in that language. So I think they'll appreciate it. Yeah. You know, if you made a movie with a robot going beep boop boop boop then that could be you

know that could be not interested in that yeah so what's uh what what do you have uh plans for something next are you still just trying to get over the uh the you know release everywhere of the movie um so i'm writing a horror with the director of brian and charles and me and chris who wrote brian and charles we're we're doing this we're writing this thing at the moment and um yeah it's all really early stages though so yeah i mean that sounds awesome that you uh you know have something that you want you know that you all want to do together again. Yeah, we found a little little idea that's excited us. So, yeah, fingers crossed.

All right. Well, well, you know, we'll look for that. But in the meantime, everybody, including myself, needs to see Brian and Charles. We're not sure if it needs to be an ampersand. Could just be the word and. Brian and Charles. We're not sure if it needs to be an ampersand. Could just be the word and. No. If you're thinking about that, then you. Yeah.

You've really got. Your head is not in the right place. You're not focusing on the movie. If you are worried about the ampersand, wait until you see the guy in the box. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. It's not for picky people or annoying people.

But thank you so much for being here. And thanks for having me. And Dan Merle. Yes. You got the plug besides all the millions of things you're doing. Yeah. I'm on YouTube, youtube.com slash Dan Merle movies.

That's where you can find me doing box office and reviews. And I've already told my viewers, they're going to get sick of me talking about Brian and Charles. So I, three of them said they went to see it. So that's upwards of like $36. So, you know, I know. I admit like I don't know what the conversion rate is currently. I'd have to look at the currency exchange rate.

But no, go find Brian and Charles. Thank you, though. I don't know the streaming plans here in the US, but maybe hopefully soon to watch on streaming. I don't know. Just go find it. Is that right? Peacock, yeah.

They have a thing with Peacock after X days to maybe stream, but go find it. You're not going to be sorry. Yeah, don't worry about streaming. Streaming might not be a thing anymore Peacock after X days to maybe stream, but go find it. You're not going to be. Yeah. Don't worry about streaming. Streaming might not be a thing anymore in a few weeks. Go see the movie in the theater right now. In fact, turn it off before I do my plugs. That's how strongly I feel about it.

You should go see it immediately. But I do have a few things I wanted to plug. And thank you, Dan Mural. July 10th, I'm doing stand-up in Huntington Beach at a club called The Rec Room. That's an afternoon matinee show. And on Sunday, July 17th, Douglas Movies returns to the Dynasty Typewriter in the Hayworth Theater in Los Angeles with some fantastic guests, not unlike my amazing guest today. For all of my dates, go to DougLovesMovies.com. And thank you once again to Frank Castillo, who will be back soon.

to Frank Castillo. We'll be back soon. David, David Earl, who the door is always open when this next one, the horror movie comes out, please come, you know, see us again. And by that, I mean, you know, call us from wherever you're, wherever you're sitting and Dan Burel. Thank you again to you, dude. Sorry. It's been so long before your first time, but we'll have you back as often as you like. Oh, anytime. Let me know. I'd love it. I had a great time.

All right. I'll pencil you in for about seven or eight years from now. I close with a closing line from a movie each time. And so that includes this one. And I'll give you a hint before I say it, it's the closing lines from a what some would call a robot movie. As always, I didn't know how long we'd have together. Who does? Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky. Who does?