Doug Loves Movies - Julia Claire, Josh Gondelman and Edgar Wright guest

Episode Date: November 13, 2023

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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming babies, sticky seeds with 50 azepop 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'm thankful for movies. This is Doug Loves Movies. It's Sunday, November 12, 2023. And my guests today are three terrific returning participants, Julia Clare, Josh Gondelman, and Edgar Wright. Welcome, everybody. Hello. Hello.

Everybody always doesn't know when to speak when that happens. Let's meet all of you individually and alphabetically by first name. Currently visiting us here in Los Angeles, but he's in a separate spot than me. It's Edgar Wright. How are you doing, Edgar? I'm good, Doug. It's nice to be back. It's been far too long since I've been on the show. I'm good, Doug. It's nice to be back. It's been far too long since I've been on the show. Well, as you know, you have a policy where you only come on when you have something to promote. And we've had this damn pandemic and then these damn strikes. So it's been rough, but I'm excited that you have something to talk about now.

I mean, the truth is I could have come on more, but I don't want to look too available. I get it. I absolutely get it. You don't need every podcast hounding you. But let's talk about I got to see the first three episodes the other night. Thank you for that. Of your new the new Netflix, I'd say a spin on, an animated spin on your classic film, Scott Pilgrim versus the world. Yeah, it was, yeah, we had the premiere at Vidiot's on Friday night and showed the first three episodes and all eight episodes come out on November the 17th. I mean, it's funny, I probably wouldn't, I mean, I know people will watch all eight in a row, but I wonder if people's minds will explode if they watch all eight episodes back to back.

But that's not up to me. So I'm excited for fans to see it. I was the executive producer on it. And it's basically, you know, a fun way for Brian Lee O'Malley, the original creator, you know a fun way for brian leah malley the original creator to expand the universe and um so he wrote new scripts with uh his friend ben david grabinski and then my my job was to get the original cast back which i'm happy to say that i did every single one of them or really good impersonators and you're tricking us no every single one of them came back which is i i on one hand i'm very thankful on the other hand it i i'm surprised surprised myself i was like i didn't think we'd get everybody back but we did and it's amazing it's really nice to not not that we all got to be in the same room doing it because obviously

in this day and age, especially with voiceovers, people are recording it all over the world. But it was still just once I started to see the episodes finished and the voices come back in, it was very delightful and a bit emotional as well. And, you know, judging from the first three episodes, it's turned out terrific. They're really, really fun and funny. And it is great to see that universe expanded.

Do you think there'll be this is a gateway to more or is. I don't know. It's the creator. You know, I'll do the same thing that I did. Like when people asked about doing more before, as I said, well, that's up to Brian Lee and Mally. I mean, I think it's a miracle that this has happened and especially a miracle to get the cast back. And one of my pet peeves on any project is, you know, you just finish something that's taken years to do. And then the first question is, so second season?

When's there going to be more? What do you want to do for the next first question is so second season like so when's there going to be more what do you want to do for the next three years of your life and also people always make that joke i hate it like about netflix they were saying it oh look forward to being cancelled like immediately everybody makes that joke about netflix and i didn't want to like give into that at all so i just think best policy is to say nothing enjoy these eight episodes that would be my policy yeah i like it i i apologize for asking that question no i know you know what you're actually the first person to ask me i thought i was going to get asked in every interview so uh well it's it's it's done now i've said my piece yeah enjoy these eight and

then and then let's see yeah no i uh that's the thing is I already have more to watch and I'm already asking for more in addition to that. It's like I'm in Oliver and I want two bowls of gruel. Joining us from Brooklyn, I believe, it's Josh Gondelman. Hey, thanks for having me. I believe it's Josh Gondelman. Hey, thanks for having me. You must be terribly excited that the SAG-AFTRA strike is maybe is over.

I think it's terrific. I'm like really proud of the collective efforts of both unions. This stuff is making me so sincere. I'm like a terrible podcast guest because just like a flag starts waving behind me and like stream music starts swelling. But I am really proud of the solidarity and the support from like across the industry was so emotionally heartening and like practically helpful. And it's something that I think is really going to stick with me for a long time. So I like couldn't be more excited to go back to being like regular unemployed yeah yeah you don't have the uh strikes to uh to blame anymore to lean back on for my own failures and shortcomings doug business is huge classic gondolin yeah uh

and you know it was fun to see you representing you popped on my TV a couple of times to represent the WGA and, you know, let the people understand to like chip in where I could, but I like got a little self-conscious of like, man, people are going to get sick of my fucking face. So I was a little nervous that it was like too much Josh going on, but I think people were very kind. And I think a lot of people reached out to say that it like helped them kind of get their arms around the issue. So I'm like really grateful for that chance. It is, you know, it's, it was my, my biggest TV credit in years. I was on TMZ. It was like local unemployed man has grievances. That is just,

that's gotta be pretty surreal talking to the TMZ guys standing there with their arms folded in their water bottles. It was really wild. Like I took to TMZ, I did Emrata's podcast to talk about the strike. So it was like a very fascinating, like stratosphere of media to be put in, in a way that like, I'm so, I'm like, please let me go back to being a comedy dumbass and let me stop being a labor agitator. And I think we got there. I'm back to like regular I've recalibrated back to dumbass. We're back. And it was so fast because, you know, I'm friends with Ben David

Grabinski and he was at the screening the other night. And when he saw me there, he goes, what are you doing here? Like, cause you know, we weren't supposed to go to those sort of things during the strike and then he remembered oh right the strikes are over it's over maybe he just didn't want me there i don't know but uh um it felt very i was out at a stand-up show when i got the like news alert that the strikes are over and i felt like um like what day is it boy it Strikes Over day. Just like leaning out a window. You can promote your films now, child. Don't you see? Also joining us and new-ish to LA from New York City.

It's Julia Clare. Hey, Julia. Hey, Doug. Thanks for having me. I'm really excited to be here as the person representing all the people who did get extremely sick of Josh's face. There's a whole group of us who just have been saying too much Josh for months. My family, you. Yeah, it's a group chat yeah yeah i mean yeah it's a whatsapp group at this point it's gone international i loved your recent uh x post you know formerly twitter about uh

sofia coppola movies oh thank you I just saw Priscilla the other night. That's what inspired it? That's what inspired it. Have you seen it? I have not seen it yet, no. It's beautiful. Nothing happens. But it's gorgeous to look at.

It's kind of like one long music video. You're actually making me excited about it because I certainly don't think there's that much to her story that I don't already know. Yeah. Yeah, it was. I mean, it's great to look at. And there are definitely a number of times where you get to, you know, there's there's a sequence of events or shots where you're like, wow, I'm watching a Sofia Coppola movie. And that's always nice. Well, can I do you mind if I quote your tweet? Let's go. Sofia Coppola loves to make a movie about a beautiful woman trapped in a house because of

a guy who sucks. Yeah, it's true. And then you have pictures so you have pictures from the beguiled lost you actually back it up with the evidence uh lost in translation marie antoinette and uh priscilla well no the first one is is virgin suicides the beguiled it flips that script on its head where it's a bunch of women trapping a man in a house right okay that's right i saw the picture. All this woke Hollywood. I know. Yeah, that's true. They had Colin Farrell was sort of trapped, but he still was a guy who sucks, I think. He was a guy who sucks.

And that's the three line to every great movie is a guy who sucks. Yeah. It's like I was watching her movie somewhere going, when is Stephen Dorff going to suck? But instead they just play tennis. I thought for a second there, you were going to say the through line to every great movie is, is the guy gets his leg chopped off. Oh yeah.

Which, which, oh, you know, that is, that is usually denotes a good movie. Misery being a good example. Although it's just,

just hobbled, not chopped off. Right. Like the book i do i need every movie to involve nicole kidman saying get me my anatomy book and she says it in a crazy amount of her films it's wild weird that it came up in that um pre-movie promo that she's been doing for AMC. Oh, the AMC promo. Even amputation feels good in a place like this. That's right.

That's her ad for morphine. She's America's morphine spokeswoman now. Wait, you nearly had the acronym right there. AMC, America's morphine something. Cinema. There you go.ica's morphine cinema is that what it stands for it is good because they they've gotten so crazy with the comfortable seats that you you know you can recline so much it's like they're just begging

you to go take a nap you know and actually you can get a morphine iv if you yeah like a little upcharge yeah yeah you'll be so comfortable in our news recliners that if you get amputated, you won't even notice. They just take people's legs while they're sleeping through a movie. Before we play some games today, I'd like each of you to please recommend a movie. And this month I'm asking for Thanksgiving movies, which means either a movie about Thanksgiving or just a movie that would be perfect to watch on Thanksgiving. And, you know, I know that's not really a thing for you, Edgar, but on the other hand. No, I mean, you really threw me like the one thing

that means nothing to me as a British person. But you've managed to make a film that has the word pilgrim in the title. It's true. It's true. The Canadian Thanksgiving is on a different day though, right? That's true. I think there are others. Yeah, it's in october something stupid like that

sorry sorry to all the canadians out there but no no no you were right to say it they gotta hear that their thanksgiving is too early and it and it sucks boo let's um why don't you what why don't you ask the americans first and i'll see what's what leftovers there are. Oh, okay. That's fair. Leftovers is the perfect word. Yeah, in the spirit of Thanksgiving. I know.

I made a joke. That was crazy. Oh, I'm surprised I thought you were changing the subject to the TV show, The Leftovers. Josh, do you want to go ahead and step up? Sure. I would love to. I just saw a movie that is about the themes of family togetherness, which I think is a real Thanksgiving vibe. And it's about kind of reconnecting with your roots

and coming to love each other despite your differences or your intense similarities. So I'm here to recommend Dick's the musical starring written by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson starring them and Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally. It's a musical. It's super funny. It is good to watch at Thanksgiving thematically. I think bad. If you have parents that don't want to see

two identical twins uh who may or may not have sex with each other so uh not to spoil it but the movie was initially called fucking identical twins so it's right there in the title uh it's super funny it's it's uh the nathan lane megan mulally like songs are like, put them in a museum masterpiece. It's great. Yeah, and I also really loved Meg Thee Stallion's number. She was great. Yeah, really fun. She's so charismatic, and I'm so glad that they carved out a great space for her in that too. It was really fun. great space for her in that too it was really fun yeah you can't uh i i since i saw it i i just won't stop talking about dicks because um it is such a fun movie but it's also just fun to bring up around you know polite company yeah josh has been posting like some wild reviews they've been getting on like letterboxd and imdb and stuff people being like this is this is the work of

satan himself yeah they really they really lean into posting the horrible things that people are saying because they're so dumb it's great um okay so that's a perfect thanksgiving movie julia what do you have one that uh people should watch on thanksgiving thanks Thanksgiving? Well, I mean, the class, I feel like the classic Thanksgiving movie is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. It's come up, yeah. And that one is great. I think if you're trying to divert from that a little bit and you want to get in the real spirit of Thanksgiving,

you should watch one that I have just watched, Martin Scorsese's killers of the flower moon um to really reflect on the horrors of being a of being an american um or if you want to go like i love that the the two choices you gave your family to watch at thanksgiving are planes trains and automobiles and killers of the flower moon. That's right. What kind of day do you want to have, Nana? Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. And that is the vibe at every Thanksgiving. It's very, it's a real Russian roulette situation. How do you want to do this, Dad? The easy way or the hard way? how do you want to do this dad the easy way or the hard way um some people i think would recommend american football movies i reject that there's enough football on thanksgiving to begin with and um i don't i don't condone it. I don't support it. I think that instead of watching football, we should be feeling deep amounts of shame and regret. Yeah, we should be watching the movie Concussion.

That's right. Or we should be, if we're going to go back to like puritanical America, that version of the crucible with daniel day lewis okay these are all these are all fantastic picks um but we i need you to uh select just one you're right you know what you're right okay you know what crowd pleaser uh kind of sad and funny planes trains and Automobiles. Okay. Now I'll tell you why that's not a good Thanksgiving movie. Okay.

Wow. The bait and switch. Honestly, I love this, and I'm ready to be wrong. Let's go. I mean, you're not wrong. You're absolutely not wrong, because everybody points to it.

It's the number one movie that people have been saying to me that they think of as a Thanksgiving movie, which makes sense. But me as a traveling comedian for the past million years, movies of travel inconvenience where that's the main plot. Oh, yeah. Reoccurring through the whole movie and especially on Thanksgiving Day. plot oh yeah reoccurring through the whole movie and especially on thanksgiving day i don't really it's more of a people trying to get home on thanksgiving movie uh which doesn't make it bad it's a it's a classic it's a hilarious movie but uh you know and again it's the one everybody says is it as a thanksgiving movie because there really aren't that's part of why i'm doing this is because of the you know i mean eli roth of course is stepping up with his thanksgiving movie um but but it's a genre you know there's just not that many movies that are specifically

thanksgiving movies are certainly not ones that are terribly memorable um but you're not wrong julia it's a it's a terrific terrific choice. Edgar, what's your leftover? Well, it's funny. I wasn't going to – it's funny. I am going to see Thanksgiving this week, so I can't pick that one because I haven't seen it yet, but I'm seeing it, like, in a couple of days. And it's funny because as a Brit,

I've always been baffled when I'm in the States because Thanksgiving and Christmas are so close together. And I find it like just head spinningly confusing. It's like, wait, why do you guys have two Christmases so close together? It doesn't make any sense. So it's frequently baffled me. So it's something. And also what's weird is that you have turkey for Thanksgiving, whereas we have Turkey for Christmas.

And what do you have for like ham for Christmas day? What do you do here? Or have Chinese food? We just have a lot of people just have Turkey again, but yeah, ham is another way to go or, or take off. Thank you for recognizing the Jewish tradition. Yes, I know that. You know why? You know why is times I spent the last time i was it no no i went last um i do have some jewish heritage many many generations back okay wow i have i have

observed when i was last in the states for christmas in new york um i had you know chinese um chinese meal on christ day, which was fantastic. So I'm well aware of that. And the movies, but it's great. It's a great tradition. Well, it's, it's, you won't find it inscribed in the scripture, but I think, you know, we can tack it on at the bottom. It's yeah. Cause cinemas in the UK have closed on Christmas Day. Like they close on Christmas Eve evening and they don't reopen until. I don't think you even call the 26th Boxing Day ever here, do you? No. No.

I haven't filmed that. Julia's so dismissive. No. No. Sorry. Sorry. Your country's not real. But what's weird, though, we don't have thanksgiving in the uk but we have inherited

black friday which is really strange because it's like we have that without the thanksgiving which is bizarre but you you guys also have the the tradition of sunday roast right roast dinner like what yes every week so every week so it's like no no i know so it's not a big deal. So it's like, no, no, no. I know. So it's not a big deal. But like, I feel like that's, I don't know. I feel like that's something that we don't have. So it's like Thanksgiving is such a big deal because we don't have this like big culture. Right. We don't have culture. You're saying that the Brits are insane for having Thanksgiving every Sunday.

That's right. I have a film. I have a film. I have a film. And it relates to one of Julia's potentials. I have a different Martin Scorsese film as a Thanksgiving movie. It's his rock concert film, The Last Waltz

with the band's farewell concert because I think that was a concert that took place on Thanksgiving in like 1976. So it is technically a Thanksgiving movie. And the only time I ever saw it, I was on a road trip from New York to LA, like in 2007. And I was in Nashville on Thanksgiving, and they happened to be playing that film at midnight. So I was thinking, oh, I'm going to go and see The Last Waltz at the Belcourt. Because obviously, I didn't have any Thanksgiving plans, because I didn't know anybody in Nashville.

And so I was happily watching that film instead. So that's my Thanksgiving movie. Well, I love that theater and I love that choice. I've been hearing, like, because I asked this question on my socials and people have been saying The Last Waltz and I was a little perplexed by it because it's even hard to imagine that it was on Thanksgiving because these

days nobody does a concert on thanksgiving in in the united states because you know uh i think they should i think people would still go but uh they just don't so uh i didn't think of it as a possible thanksgiving movie but people have been saying it so So thank you for clarifying. Yes. And if you can't get a hold of The Last Waltz, I'd say Edgar's Sparks movie would be also suitable Thanksgiving entertainment. Why would you say that just in the spirit of what? Great concert films. Okay, good.

It's a great concert films thing. Okay, I like it. Thank you. Yeah you know stop making sense just celebrated a massive anniversary uh and that that of course is also a an amazing concert film another genre where there's a lot of really good ones but it's not as uh i should i'll move on to that uh maybe in the coming weeks, ask people about their favorite music documentaries. But thanks for these recommendations. And we've got some games to play, which we will do right after this. We're back. And the first game we're going to play today, out of two, is called Purple Rain Man, deluxe edition.

Purple Rain Man is a mashup movie title game. I'll give you the names of actors in two films, and then you have to guess the mashup title that would result. We'll start with the third billed person from each film, and then Edgar gets to take a guess or pass because these aren't easy at that level you know the third build person from two random movies might be hard to figure out uh but if he passes or guesses wrong then we move on to josh and then if necessary julia and whenever somebody gets one right the next round will start with the next person and uh i think that's everything you need to know

oh first person with two correct answers wins and um are you ready edgar i'm ready all right what movie i think you'll be good at this but we'll see what movie uh do you think has the third build actors the first film of the mashup title would be uh josh brolin and the second one is james coco oh my god yeah right wow um so at this point You know it's no There's no shame in passing because it is It is difficult to So you don't want me to spit ball titles if I don't Have it move on because you don't want to give accidentally

Give away half the correct answer James Coco is a tough one Yeah I will pass Okay let's go to I'm pause. Okay. Let's go to, I'm sorry, Josh. Okay. What do you think?

Oh, I go, I guess also on the third, build actors. If you want to, yes. If you think you know it. I don't think I know it. Okay. I can't picture James Coco. I'm just picturing the movie Coco probably the real first name is James

what do you think Julia any ideas at all oh my god Josh Brolin being third build yeah it happened a few times wow drag his ass

no he takes interesting roles that aren't necessarily the lead It happened a few times. Wow. Drag his ass. No, he takes interesting roles that aren't necessarily the lead. No, no, no. I know. I know. He's wonderful. Josh Brolin, I know you're listening. And I just want to say all my love and respect to you.

I did stand up once where he was sitting in the front row, at the front table in a small club and uh him and mini driver were there together and uh no no smiles cracked during my comedy i was like get out of here you goonie okay all right so i think josh wasn't Josh Brolin. I would say he was probably third, third building, no country for old men. Sure. Yeah. And James Coco. I don't know who that is. All right. So this fair, we'll move on to the next, the next level and Edgar gets to go first again. And we're going to add two more names. In the first film with Josh Brolin

is Elizabeth Shue and in the second film with James Coco is Sophia Loren. Oh my god. What has Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Shue in it? People at home are screaming at this point.

No, this is their edging. This is so good for them. They love this. Sam Levine is at home frothing in the mouth right now. I don't know. I, I, you got me on this one. I have to pass again. Okay. Josh, any, anything? um i don't know i i you got me on this one i have to pause again okay josh any anything i'm it's um elizabeth shu is the the actor actress from the first movie and then the second one is sophia the wren yeah um I guess my best guess, and this is not a very good guess, but I'm going to go no country for grumpy old men.

That doesn't, the mashup is more specific, more perfect than that. There's no extra word in there, but I still love that guess though. Yeah. I thought it'd be fun to say out loud. I don't regret it't regret it yeah no it's the kind of mind we uh we need in this situation um and uh julia where are you at with this okay um all right the only sophia loren movies i think i know are was she was in Marriage Italian Style and La Mancha yes she was in those I think

okay I don't know what what movie contains Elizabeth Chu and Josh Brolin I know it's a pair that's interesting because they both obviously are in a lot of movies we all know right but it is weird i it's hard to picture them together she's she's not in i don't think she is an old country i don't think no

country for old certainly not build above josh brolin yeah the people at home are taking out their rifles and shooting them at the ceiling. I'm sure they must know. This is a difficult game. One of the three of you will arrive at the answer in mere moments because we'll move on to the top build. Edgar gets the first crack at this. We got Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Shue, and Kevin Bacon. Plus James Coco, Sophia Loren, and Peter O'Toole.

Oh. Oh, my. Okay. I can. So by process of elimination, I think Julia mentioned one of these movies. And this is a film that I haven't thought about in a long time. So I've completely blanked out the fact that Josh Brolin is in it, but I remember.

Right. Kevin Bacon together. Yeah. I'm going to say that the film together is hollow man of the mantra. That is correct. Oh my God. Wow. I haven correct. Oh, my God.

Wow. I will say I have never seen Man of La Mancha. I've never heard of it, but I've never actually seen it. And I've seen Hollow Man when it came out and never again. All right. Well, Edgar got the first point. That means, first uh you get to go first in this next round all that game proved is that all three of us have complete face and name blindness for james coco yeah no no disrespect to james coco you've disrespected we've disrespected no i'm actually

going to say all disrespect to james coco wow okay sure give him all of it my biggest james coco memory because I watched it a million times when I was a kid, is he plays the Hercule Poirot character in Murder by Death. I love Murder by Death. I'm not sure maybe it holds up on a PC level. It does not.

There's at least one character who's in doing some cultural appropriation. They'd have to cut out entire characters. But I remember to cut out entire characters. But I remember liking it as a kid. Let me say. It's a very cute movie for children, for sure. Children that don't know yet how awful things are

in terms of very, very racist casting decisions. But let's go ahead and start with Josh with this third. And, you know, go ahead and, you know, you don't have to dwell on it too long because these are pretty difficult. And especially this one might be difficult because we've just established that most of us don't know much about James Coco. Third build is someone named Harriet Dyer. Oh. Yeah. And then James Harriet Dyer. Oh. Yeah. And then James Coco once again.

No. James Coco, third villain. Just a classic Coco spot on the call sheet. He gets the spot, yeah. Because he is probably like the Sancho Panza character in Man of La Mancha, I'm guessing. So that's why he was third build in that one. Maybe this was the spinoff Sancho Panza character in Man of La Mancha, I'm guessing. So that's why he was third billed in that one. Maybe this was the spin-off Sancho Strikes Back. I'm going to pass. Okay, Julia, what do you think? Anything? I also have to pass.

Yeah, I've given you nothing to work with. Absolutely nothing. Yeah. Okay. James Cocoa is so mad right now. Yeah. I'm also going to pass. I don't know. He's no longer with us. So that worked out. We're lucky there.

Okay. So we got a pass, pass, pass. Which makes sense. God, I hope he didn't die by a bullet. That would be horrifying. When I play this game live, I just say all the names. And then the first person who thinks of it just yells it out. But it's harder to do over the phone. So that's why i give everybody a chance uh okay so second build

and we can you know uh we'll see what uh josh has to say about this because it's oliver jackson cohen okay you know oliver jackson cohen and oliver coco i call him for sure and sophia lorenz oh my god again oh boy okay let's just jump right to the top people yep josh gets first crack at it okay uh so the first movie has those two people that you know i I know none of us are particularly familiar with And then what top build Is Elizabeth Moss And in the second movie

With James Coco and Sophia Loren Is Peter O'Toole Okay Gosh Did you just say the same three people In the second film for this game? There's another film with Sophia Loren, Peter O'Toole, and James Coker.

Is it Her Smell of La Mancha? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! I love it, but no? Julia? Oh my god. I know, you're just flying through that Rolodex of Elizabeth Moss movies. Yeah.

Fuck. Do you have it yet, Edgar? Well, I have something. Don't say anything yet. It's still Julia's turn. I was just curious if you figured it out. Yeah, just putting the pressure on Julia. Yeah, what the hell? still julia's turn i was just curious if you ever figured it out yeah just putting the pressure on julia yeah what the hell um oh wait is the second one again man of la mancha i can't answer that

question because i'm just trying to think of because i didn't see this movie but i know she was she had a movie with the name man in it it was uh invisible man i think so invisible man of la mancha that is correct wow i was that's what i was gonna say when he said did you have something i said i do if the answer is madame la mancha a second time. I loosened that jar a little bit. I was like, surely there's no way that James Coco and Sophia Loren meet up again. That cast was so electric, they had to reunite them. Okay, so we're back to Edgar for this third round.

If it's Matt of La Mancha again, I'm going to kill you. Third round starts with Sam Neill and James Coco. No! Okay, okay, okay. Wait, Edgar's turn first, right? Yeah. Me first? Yeah. Not sure. Pass. Okay. um hmm not sure

pass okay this is my guess josh i'm gonna take a stab and say jurassic park of la mancha no julia yeah i i don't i don't know any other sam neill vehicles other than jurassic park yeah those those jeeps that they drove around yeah which i've always and this is controversial

but um i've always said that the sam neill character in jurassic park was meant for bill paxton um but that's just that's just something that i needed to get off my chest that has nothing to do with is that lore or is that fan casting is that like headcanon no no that's my that's my personal casting you need somebody looking at these dinosaurs it's gonna be like, this is fucking crazy, man! Yeah! No, I... I don't know. I truly don't know any other Sam Neill movies besides Jurassic Park.

Well, he's been in a few of them, so it's good. Omen 3, The Final Conflict? There's one. Of La Mancha. Of La Mancha. Event Horizon of La Mancha. Of La Mancha. Event Horizon of La Mancha. We're back to Edgar. And second build

in the Sam Neill vehicle is M. Beth Davids. No. Oh. And second build in the other movie, of course, is Sophia Loren. Oh. Oh. And second build in the other movie, of course, is Sophia Loren. Oh. What I thought it was, it is not.

So I have to pass again. I thought I had it. And then you confused me with the second build person. Can I tell you what I thought it was going to be? Yes, please. Memoirs of the Invisible Man of La Mancha. I'm pretty sure Sam Neill is in that. But then I thought, fuck, I was expecting you to say Daryl Hannah,

and then you fucked me. So, pass. Sorry about that, fucking Josh. I'm just going to go with another man movie. Okay. You know, Steph Curry for three off the dribble. Glimmer Man of La Mancha. He's the first person

Steven Seagal. I would hope that Steven or Keenan Ivory Wayans would make the top two on that one. Yeah, that's true. Julia, anything? I'm going to go Keenan Ivory Wayans would make the top two on that one. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Julia, anything? I'm going to go with the Jason Segel, Paul Rudd vehicle.

I Love You, Man of La Mancha. I don't know. These are all great answers, but incorrect, unfortunately. But the top build should do it for you, Edgar. The first movie has Sam Neill and Beth Davids and Robin Williams. Oh. Oh, my God. Oh, okay.

Oh, I know what it is. Okay. It's Bicentennial Man of La Mancha. Yes, indeed. I apologize for putting in something that's about our Bicentennial man of La Mancha. Yes, indeed. I apologize for putting in something that's about our Bicentennial. When are you going to do this to me? Fucking Thanksgiving and your Bicentennial? For fuck's sake.

That robot would kick the shit out of a windmill, though. Well, congratulations, Edgar. You won Purple Raid, man. That means you get to go first in our next game, which we will play right after this break. We'll be right back. We are back, and it's quite an exciting matchup today. I still think it's anybody's game.

The order switches around on this one, but since Edgar won, he gets to go first it's gonna go edgar julia and then josh and it's a game i call the little search engine that could in this game i type a word into the search engine on imdb and then i write down the top the current top 10 movies because they've got that algorithm where they give you the most searched 10 movies I have the list of the 10 movies with that word in the title you'll each take turns guessing movies with that word in the title so it does narrow it down somewhat to words movies with that word and uh

if your movie is number one on the list you get 10 points if it's number 10 on the list you get one point and then you know there's all those points in between nine eight seven six like that and uh what are the other ones eight seven six you know it's uh nine gets uh i mean the second the second highest on list gets nine points third gets eight etc down to one point for number 10 uh and was three rounds so you each get three guesses but we'll take turns and the show normally has a no cops policy, but today, I don't think I've ever had any police on the show. But today, the word is cop. And that's just cop, not cops, not fuzz, just cop, singular. Movies, there's a lot of movies with the word cop in the title.

Edgar, you're up first. Okay. Number one. Beverly Hills Cop. Number two. That was number two? Number two, nine points. Edgar's on the board. Okay.

Still anybody's game. Julia? Robocop. That is a fantastic guess, but at this time, it is not in the top ten. No! That's shocking. I worry you might be dinged

because RoboCop is spelled out like one word. And I just typed in cop, so you want to try something else? Yeah, I do. Beverly Hills Cop 2. That is a terrific guess that somehow did not make the top 10. I deserve that.

No, you're just playing smart. It's a really smart guess. And, you know, I'm not going to tell anybody what to do but Josh, I think you know what to do. Beverly Hills Cop 3? I was trying to get you off of that concept because no, it's

not on the list either. Edgar's going to run away with this thing unless he says Beverly Hills Cop 4 currently in production. What's your second guess, Edgar? Well, I still try to think what number one is. It's going to bug me what's more famous than Beverly Hills Cop with that title. So I'm going to go for a lesser known one.

What about Copland? Indeed, that's number one. It is. Oh, my God. No, it is not. Legit. Doug, that was legit what I was going to guess before you said you know what to do. How is Copland more famous than Beverly Hills Copland?

That's astounding to me. Okay, good. I got to guess because it's, you know, it's IMDb. So it's people searching for things. because it's you know it's imdb so it's people searching for things and i'm guessing that james mangold's uh recent movie uh the you know people looking into that i thought you were gonna say that it's because james mangold is searching himself on imdb i'm sure he doesn't do that if you're listening james yeah yeah james this off. This is probably not good for you. You don't need to listen to this. All right. So. I feel like numerically he's he has turned away with it.

Well, I do have another guess. OK. Paul Blart, mall cop. Number five on the list. Hell yeah. Let's go. Julia's on the board for six points. It's really a fight for second place at this point julia's gonna take it i am blank man that's you don't have any other movies that have the word cop in the title i'm going i'm gonna have to go paul bar mall cop too although i i know it sounded cheap to say i would have said cop land but that was truly the only one in my brain all I didn't think it would be number one, but it's certainly the word cop is really... I wonder if it's because it starts with cop is why it's number one. Because people looking

for Beverly Hills Cop start with Beverly and then it comes up. Yeah, I don't know about this. I don't know what the deal is with their algorithm, but I do know that Paul Blart mall cop too. Not only is the rare sequel where the, the number comes after the colon. It is also number eight on the list. He's on the board. Yeah. I got one.

You got two points Josh Let's see what Edgar's just trying to punish everybody Yeah what the hell Edgar What about Kindergarten Cop You know of course it is Number three on the list Yes

I am killing it I mean this might be You just achieved The first time anybody's gotten a perfect This is as close as you can get to a perfect I mean, this might be, you just achieved the, you know, the first time anybody's gotten a perfect. This is as close as you can get to a perfect score. They call that the Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco trio. Yeah, kindergarten.

I am the MVP of the match, yeah. Yes. 27 points. That's like, you know, that's like on a dance competition is an amazing score. All right. So we'll go to Julia. Let's see if you can prevail over Josh.

You have four more points than him at this point. Can you think of any other cop movies? Wasn't there that? Well, it's, I don't know. Wasn't there that movie well it's i don't know wasn't there that movie like let's be cops there was yeah oh yeah yes but that's why i said at the beginning no cops just cop oh it's just interesting yeah wait i have cops okay i have one now okay oh good good wait your turn josh yeah wait your turn josh i'm just trying to put the pressure on julia again i i keep thinking of again i've never seen i keep thinking of

movie titles but they might just be like 30 rock jokes um like i kept like my first thought i was like oh good cop baby cop but that's not a that's not a real but there's got to be a movie called good cop bad cop or something you would think so yes but if there is it didn't land in the uh current top 10 all right well i you know what i went down in a it was a fun down in a flame of glory. Yeah. You didn't go out with something obvious. Yeah. And Josh has something. So that's an extra question.

Time cop. That's another excellent answer that did not make the top ten. Maybe because it's run together like Robocop. Yeah, like Robocop. Yeah, like Robocop. Oh, is it one word? I think the title is one word, yeah. Yeah, so it's one of them. It's a camelback.

They call words with a capital letter in the middle. I've never seen Cop Land, but I would think that it would be one word, but I guess it's not. No, it's two words, and it's a very manly movie, so I blame you for not. No, it's two words and it's a very manly movie so I blame you for not being aware of it. But Janine Garofalo's in it.

Okay. But she plays a cop. Oh no. Oh no. Best it again. She got so typecast as like racist cops for a while. She got so typecast as racist cops for a while. Yeah.

Okay. Congratulations, Edgar. You did win the game. You did it. I had another one. I thought it was my round again. Oh, come on. I got two more cop titles, I thought.

Okay, let's hear it. Let's hear it. Well, they're both far less well-known than the ones I've already said. One I can think of is the Burt Reynolds film, Cop and a Half. Yep, number 10. Yes! Oh, my God. Can I go with my last one?

This one's not going to be on there. But there is a Michael Keaton film called One Good Cop. Oh, yeah, that didn't make the list. Okay, that's very... That's not on there. Okay. But I still... I love it that you got four out of the top ten. I love that Cop and a Half was in the top ten.

It's one of my all-time favorite titles, because it's just, that's such a silly thing. And, you know, I love Burr Rails, but that movie was rough. Okay, so let's, for everybody that's excited to know what titles were missed, there's three titles. Give us clues, like, of an actor, and then we can guess. Edgar, I'm going to reach through this screen and kill you. Listen, I'm not on the show very often.

Let me have this. I literally haven't been on for like six years. This is really an exercise in humiliation for Josh and me over here. It only happens every six years when I come on the show. It only happens every six years when I come on the show. I'm trying to, this first one to give you a clue is hard for me because I, I don't,

the only actor I know I think is the titular character. And I think it was played by Joe Spinell. Oh, he's the titular character. I think so. Oh, I know what it is. I know what it is. Whatular character? I think so. Oh, I know what it is. I know what it is. What is it? Maniac Cop.

Yes. Maniac Cop came in at number nine. I don't think he's the titular character, but he's in it, I think. Oh, okay. I know the name of the actor who played Maniac Cop. Is that crazy? Is he trying to stop the Maniac Cop? No, but Robert Zadarar i think that's his name is

the guy who plays the maniac cop he's got that crazy jewel sorry of course of course i'm sure josh and julia are just reminiscing about maniac yes we we really are we're actually texting yeah we're texting about it julia brought me into the thread of people who are sick of me on WhatsApp. And we're all texting about maybe a cop. Okay, so coming in. So then Paul Bartu was eight. And then number seven is a, I'll just say it's a buddy comedy with the word cop in it. Cop out? Yes.

Ah, there you go. Kevin Smith. Cop out with Bruce Willis and tracy morgan yeah um okay and then uh coming in at number six i can't give you any clues other than i don't believe it's in english um because i'm not familiar with it but i love the title it's called the gangster the cop the devil do you not know that one yeah but the three of those should get together or are they one guy okay they give away the split personality twist in the title um okay and then um number four there's no way anybody would have gotten this,

and I'm sure it's not being searched for the right reasons. It's a motion picture. And sometimes my guests will just guess the word itself and score some points as a result. That didn't happen today. But it's a movie that's just called Cop. Oh, with James Woods. james woods yeah oh no the david copperfield biopic yeah you know like if if there was a cop movie that had

scott baio in it it would probably be in the top 10 right right but uh you know that's just uh politics you know seeping in seeping into our beloved movies. But congratulations again to Edgar Wright. Would you like to... I guess we'll just say Scott Dogum takes off again, but is there anything else you want to say about it? I mean, I would say don't read anything about it. Just watch it. It's got lots of surprises in it.

So if you're already interested in seeing it don't read any reviews or anything else on the internet just watch it on november the 17th and be be delighted and surprised and maybe shocked yeah maybe it's uh it's it's interesting i'm looking forward to hearing you know seeing the chatter about it uh and how people feel about it. You know, it's just, yeah, I don't want to say too much about it, but I have lots of thoughts. Julia, Claire, thank you for being here. What would you like to promote?

Wow. Well, I'm, I mean. It's an honor just to be nominated. It's, it's incredible to be here. The strike is over. No, I write the what a day newsletter for Crooked Media, which is like the daily news, a rundown of the daily news with jokes. Just it's crooked.com slash daily. If you want to subscribe to it, I'm doing standup around LA. If you want to follow me on, on Twitter, it's at Oh, Julia tweets. That's pretty much, that's pretty much all I got. Okay. Oh, H. Oh, H. Oh, Julia tweets. Not like, Oh, Henry. I guess also that's OH.

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And the newsletter is called That's Marvelous. And you can find it at joshgondelman.substack.com. Nice. I have a few things I want to mention. Some Doug plugs. have a few things i want to mention uh some doug plugs doug loves movies is in san antonio on saturday december 2nd and sacramento on saturday december 30th and a benson movie interruption is back in la at the dynasty typewriter on thursday november 16th this thursday and then on sunday novemberth, in New York City.

All my dates and deets are at douglosmovies.com. So I've been ending every episode of this show lately, for I don't know how long, by just saying, as always, and then the last line of a motion picture. There's lots of classic last lines and then lots of just kind of random last lines. But I thought for this one I would ask you, Edgar, having written and directed some films, if you have a favorite last line from one of your own movies. Oh, one of my own movies. Oh my God. Or it could be somebody else's, but then I worry it'll just be,

you know, there's some obvious classic ones that I've done already. Well, I'm weirdly, given that I'm good on other stuff, I'm straining to remember the last lines of my own movies. Right? It's a, it's a tough question to be asked because it's not like the last line of your

movies. They're like, you know, Billy Wilder where the entire story is building up to that one great line at the end. Do you know what my favorite last line of a movie is? Is that I like the last line of Clockwork Orange, which is Malcolm McDowell, like, staring down the lens and the voiceover saying, I was cured, all right.

I was cured, all right. Yeah, I actually got, I got a photo of him somebody gave me like his amazing black and white photo of Malcolm McDowell and I when I met Malcolm I got him to sign it with that line so I actually have it in my house like a photo of Malcolm McDowell I was cured all right written on it are you going to uh watch the the recut, the new version of Caligula? You know what? I had a chance to the other day, and I couldn't make it. So I was actually invited to a screening,

and really, unfortunately, I couldn't spare the three and a half hours, but I did want to see it, yes. It sounds wild, because it just sounds like they didn't use any of the original movie's angles. It's just all new angles. Yeah. No, I'm very keen to see it. Hopefully it will all get out there. It might be two

and a half hours. I might have exaggerated for comic effect. It's pretty long. They showed you a fantastic fest and I couldn't squeeze it in, but Leonard Maltin sat through it, which I thought was very funny. Did he change his star rating?

I don't know. I couldn't really get him. He wouldn't say much about it to me. I think it's probably a pretty traumatic experience. But, you know, Malcolm McDowell was at the festival, and Edgar interviewed him, so then he went and watched it with Malcolm. But it's funny to me also that Malcolm McDowell would sit through three and a half hours of that.

But, you know, it's been a while since he made it. So it was probably an interesting experience. Thank you to everybody. It was such a fun show today. And I hope to speak to you all in person sometime soon. Once again, I'll say once again, Edgar Wright, Julia Clare, and Josh Gondelman. Thanks, Doug. Thanks for having us.

As always, I was killed, all right? Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky. There's no room in his heart for you. Cause Doug loves movies.