Doug Loves Movies - Michael Cera, Aubrey Plaza, and Edgar Wright Guest

Episode Date: November 3, 2010

Doug welcomes the talent of "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" to the show: stars Michael Cera and Aubrey Plaza and director Edgar Wright.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califo...rnia Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming babies, 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 everybody! There's a special gift on the table for me. I think it might have been left by the Zach Galifianakis fairy. Did you guys see Zach on real time on Friday smoking a joint? Today, Bill Maher was like, that joint was fake. It was made out of fake marijuana.
Starting point is 00:00:48 And it's like, who cares if it was real or if it was fake? Everyone in that room was all right with him smoking it. So why should it be any problem at all? I saw on CNN,
Starting point is 00:01:00 CNN, you know, they're supposed to be news, right? They're not supposed to be left or right. They're just supposed to be the news. They were like talking to some lawyer and he was like, well, I'm not sure if charges are going to be pressed against Zach Galifianakis for smoking on real time
Starting point is 00:01:13 with Bill Maher on HBO. Are you fucking kidding me? Like, who's buying HBO, watching Bill Maher and sticking around for Zach Galifianakis that's going to go, oh, pot, Maher, and sticking around for Zach Galifianakis, that's gonna go, oh, pot, this is no. No
Starting point is 00:01:30 to weed. Like, oh, it's so aggravating. I'm totally off the paper already, you guys. My name is Doug, and I love movies. This is what weed does to me. We're coming to you from Los Angeles
Starting point is 00:01:47 in front of a live audience on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010. That's right, it's election day, which means by the time this ep plops, Prop 19 in California will either have passed or not passed. And I'll be happy or not happy. But either way, listeners, this is exciting news. I'll stop talking about pot the vote for now.
Starting point is 00:02:22 It'll be back in 2012, I'm sure, if it doesn't work out tonight. And if it does work out tonight, that's good too. I had great, amazing shows last weekend in San Francisco and Sacramento at the Punchlines in both of those cities. Lots of name tags in the crowd, fun Len Malton game. Also
Starting point is 00:02:41 good times at the Sac State show that I did. We had a screening of Link at Cinefamily last week. That was amazing. Elizabeth Shue was a great sport watching perhaps one of the shittiest movies ever made that she unfortunately was
Starting point is 00:02:58 a part of and she could not have been cooler about it and I got her a promise to join us in the future sometime for a screening of Hollow Man. Yeah. So if you live in LA look for that because
Starting point is 00:03:13 we'll get all the secrets about behind the scenes of Hollow Man that we had to bleep when they happened on this podcast. This unedited podcast. And don't forget to watch the premiere of the Benson Interruption on Comedy Central tonight if you're listening on the day this comes out.
Starting point is 00:03:31 If you're listening to it after that, then you missed it. But it'll be on every Friday night at midnight. And you can go to DougBensonTickets.com if you want to come do one of the final tapings at the Music Box in Hollywood on November 15th. And don't forget, you can see me at the St. Louis Funny Bone November 8th and 9th and the Improv in Louisville, Kentucky
Starting point is 00:03:52 November 18th through 20th. I don't know if Meg Whitman is going to win or not for her bid for California governor tonight, but I do know this. If they make a movie about her, John Lithgow should play... Should play Meg Whitman. I know there's a lot of people that think she looks like
Starting point is 00:04:13 Philip Seymour Hoffman's Circa Boogie Nights. And that is true also. But, uh... I think John Lithgow is... You know why I like John Lithgow more. Philip Seymour Hoffman comes on the podcast. I will vote for him to play Meg Whitman.
Starting point is 00:04:33 But since he has not, I'm all about John Lithgow for any part that he seems like he'd be right for. So anyway, I feel like a Make-A-Wish kid tonight because I love the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and I won't stop talking about how much I love it, and it's out on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, November 9th.
Starting point is 00:04:59 So now please welcome director Edgar Wright and stars Michael Cera and Aubrey Plaza. There they are. It's totally them, you guys. So go ahead and grab your microphones and say everything that you say into them because that's what we're here for, is to make a podcast. Of course, the live people can hear us.
Starting point is 00:05:34 It's a tiny theater. But Edgar, Aubrey, Michael. Hello. I like that. That's like a total British talk show. Edgar, Michael. Hello. I like that. That's like a total British talk show. Like the Edgar, Michael, Aubrey. Hello.
Starting point is 00:05:53 For those listening at home, I'm wearing a top hat and monocle as well. Oh, if you only. If you directed movies with a top hat and monocle, then all the pre-publicity would be so amazing that everyone would rush out
Starting point is 00:06:08 to see your movies when they open I got pulled over by the police today because for committing the heinous act of talking on my phone while I was driving well that is more dangerous than drunk driving and I got pulled over by a motorcycle cop and I think I
Starting point is 00:06:24 tried to sound extra British, like I didn't know whether it was a crime. Oh, right-o. I wish I'd have had a top hat and monocle in my car. I got away with it. So you didn't get out of it? You did get out of it. I got a caution, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Really? I said, I'm from England. I don't understand. We don't have iPhones in old England. What's your first name? Sean? Interesting coincidence. I directed a movie.
Starting point is 00:06:55 You got pulled over once when you were talking to me on the phone. Oh, yeah, right. I did. Right at Hollywood and Highland. Yeah. Which was awkward. Which you're on the phone because it takes forever to get through that intersection. With all the tourists wandering back and forth across the street.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Eventually you're going to have to make a call. I got pulled over right there. And there were some people pointing at me through my windshield. And a guy walked over and took a picture of me standing right by my window. I listened to the whole thing go down. Yeah. And then a cop came over and said
Starting point is 00:07:26 you can't talk on your phone. Yeah, and I said I'm Canadian and he didn't care. It didn't work. So you got an actual ticket? I got a ticket, yeah. How much did that cost? I think it was like $70 or something. Oh, shit. How did you get through it
Starting point is 00:07:46 but that's that's a that's a you know it's here's what i get all that hear about all the time is uh you know they're also pulling people over not wearing seat belts and i was with a cab driver lady once who had her seat belt tied down, taped down next to her, because what they look for is the glint of the buckle up by your head. That's how you know you're not wearing your seatbelt. So this cab driver lady figured that out and just nailed down her seatbelt buckle because she was so against wearing a seatbelt.
Starting point is 00:08:19 I don't know why. I mean, as laws go, that one seems to be trying to help the driver. But so is the cell phone thing. It is kind of wild that we're talking on cell phones as much as we are. I think that sounds kind of beautiful. Cops just looking for the glint of a buckle. It is like poetry.
Starting point is 00:08:38 The life of a police officer in L.A. It's a sad thing. But with the phones, they just look for you holding a phone to the side of your head. Yeah. And that just gives it away.
Starting point is 00:08:50 But I think, I think there should be an intersection rule because I do think you probably were on the phone because you were at a long-ass intersection. So you're like,
Starting point is 00:08:56 well, I'm not moving. How could I hurt anybody with my foot on the brake? Yeah, and that's how he spotted me, too, because I was just sitting there and he was right behind me and I was talking on the phone.
Starting point is 00:09:08 Entrapment, I say. They totally know you're going to talk on the phone if you're just sitting there. What else are you supposed to do? Now, first of all, Edgar and Michael,
Starting point is 00:09:23 Aubrey, sit this one out. How crazy was that screening last night? I went to a screening at the Egyptian of Scott Pilgrim where there was a Q&A conducted by Guillermo del Toro. Guillermo. Guillermo. Guillermo Del Toro conducted the Q&A and you guys participated in it.
Starting point is 00:09:49 And I think he set the bar for F-bombs in a Q&A after a PG-13 movie. I know. He has the best accented swearing of any person I've ever met. Can I use a direct quote from him? Yes. Anyone who doesn't see Sarah Pilgrim is a motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:10:08 Did you say Sarah Pilgrim? I said Sarah Pilgrim because there's just an S here on my piece of paper. And for some reason I was like, you know what? This gender bias in the Scott Pilgrim title has really been bothering me. It should be Sarah Pilgrim
Starting point is 00:10:25 or S Pilgrim. That might have just been Guillermo's accent. That might have been the way you heard it. But he called everyone who hasn't seen it a motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:10:33 And if those people hadn't just seen the movie, they would be scared. But we had all just seen it, so it wasn't, we felt pretty good about ourselves. But it was intense.
Starting point is 00:10:45 It was good. Yeah, that was amazing. Guillermo is an amazing person. It was just, yeah, I could sit and listen to him swear all day. I think the Q&A went on even longer than the movie, almost. Oh, my God. The screening started at 7.30 and seemed to start pretty much on time. And when I looked at my phone when I got out of the Q&A, it was 11.30.
Starting point is 00:11:07 And I know we didn't see a longer than hour and 45 minute cut of the movie. So that was a long Q&A. But it was fascinating. He sounds like, if you close your eyes, he sounds like Liam Neeson in Taken. When people were asked questions of you,
Starting point is 00:11:23 I kept waiting for him to jump in and go I need you to get under the bed I have a particular set of skills one of them is swearing he just has an amazing set of pipes at Guillermo and it was fun to see him talk to you
Starting point is 00:11:42 about the movie and how much he loved it so for the DVD renters and purchasers coming up on Tuesday, what were his tips that he gave, the things you should look for while watching the movie to make it more fun? There's lots of numbers and X's. It's a bit like Sesame Street in some respects. If you could really, by the time you're done watching it,
Starting point is 00:12:04 you know how to read and write. Yeah. That's why we got Guillermo to do the Q&A. Tickle me, Guillermo. You put an extra syllable in there. You're like, Gay-elmo.
Starting point is 00:12:20 Gay-elmo. Gay-elmo. All right. So that was fun last night, and I'm looking forward to... I hope you guys can be there. We're going to show Scott Pilgrim at midnight twice at the New Beverly here in Los Angeles. And you want to play the Leonard Maltin game with people from the audience. I think that would be good.
Starting point is 00:12:42 I think you'd get some... Edgar wants to take on... He wants Edgar Wright versus the audience. I think that would be good. Edgar wants to take on. He wants Edgar Wright versus the world. He heard the disastrous T.J. Miller versus the world episode of my show and he was like, I could do that. That sounds like fun for me. So that'll be awesome. Okay, so let me go down the line here and ask everybody some questions.
Starting point is 00:13:04 Michael, I know everyone that listens to this is dying to know about the Arrested Development movie and all that, but I know you're sick of talking about it or being asked about it. So let me just ask you this instead. What's going on with year two? You don't have to say anything. That's a total dick question. I don't have to say anything? No, you don't have to.
Starting point is 00:13:33 I'll take that route. It doesn't need a response. Everyone involved in that movie is awesome and I don't know what happened. Right? I feel the same. Everybody everybody's great everybody's fantastic it'll be revealed in the sequel what happened to the first okay that'd be funny if the sequel's only ha ha we got you with year one this is the real shit this is what we really wanted to do but uh aubrey could you
Starting point is 00:14:04 swear for us so that we can actually hear you saying swear words instead of uh the crazy bleeps that edgar put on your mouth every time you swore um in scott pilgrim sure uh or sarah pilgrim fucking fuck fuck fuck okay so now what was that noise that you put over her mouth was that like a computer starting up or something? It was an old loading signal. Commodore 64. I'm going to try to get that noise
Starting point is 00:14:32 and then put it over what she just said in the podcast. That'll be hilarious. I said, we want to hear you swear and then the same thing will happen. It's totally been stitched up. Yeah, I should have said something before fuck because it'll just be that noise which was kind of almost you did say fuck
Starting point is 00:14:50 a lot in the movie or other words that we didn't hear why was your character in your head what was the back story that you why were you so mad at Scott Pilgrim because it was never really clear other than you just know his pattern of behavior.
Starting point is 00:15:06 I mean, well, we got... I mean, I guess I'm allowed to say this now because the movie's out on DVD soon. But we got these secret fact sheets from you and Edgar and Brian Lee O'Malley before we started shooting that had secret things about our characters that we were supposed to keep to ourselves.
Starting point is 00:15:29 And one of them informed my performance, I think. Can she say what it was, Edgar? Do you know what I'm going to say? You can say it. Yeah, go for it. Well, one of them was that Julie Powers maybe had a huge crush on Scott Pilgrim in college,
Starting point is 00:15:47 but he never liked her. It's the most plausible option. It's the one that I would guess if I were guessing why you were so mad at him. It would be that you were into him and then you watched him fuck over a million girls
Starting point is 00:16:01 and you were like, why can't he fuck over me? Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Hatred. Over me? Comes from love.
Starting point is 00:16:08 Now. Are you going to bleep out your F-bombs? No, I'm not going to do any of that. We just put this out there. We don't edit or change anything. Except for, I mentioned it earlier, Elizabeth Shue said some things about the making of Hollow Man that she regretted immediately
Starting point is 00:16:27 afterwards but then you told them all the next week I've been telling them every week ever since but I promised her immediately after the show oh we'll bleep out whatever you want and she said we'll bleep out that one thing which essentially just that she just said why would I
Starting point is 00:16:42 why would I show my tits in a shitty Paul Verhoeven movie? That's all she really was trying to say. But, you know, it got messed up. Paul Verhoeven ranks lower than a chimp then, in which case. Is that right? No, no, no, no, no. And that's the thing is we solved both of these things in Link.
Starting point is 00:17:02 By watching Link together, she was shocked to discover she does show Kopi as side boob, and that I was right in saying that there was side boob in Link. She was like, no, no, no, that's a body double. It's like, no, the side boob was all her. But then there's a body double. It's the most brazen body double ever.
Starting point is 00:17:18 There's a girl standing there head to toe. You could see part of her ass, both of her boobs, and she's got Elizabeth Shue's haircut. And that's, and she's got Elizabeth Shue's haircut. And that's it. She's not Elizabeth Shue. But they just show her head to toe. And when I saw the movie the first time, I didn't
Starting point is 00:17:33 question it. I was too busy looking at her boobs and her ass to detect whether or not that was her face. And the second time, you're like, there's no way that's the small of Elizabeth Shue's back but you think that she was brazen like she was like I don't give a fuck
Starting point is 00:17:50 like I'm gonna show my face like that was her that's her double that's also the that's the kind of the double kind of understands that you're not gonna show her face like all of her friends must be like,
Starting point is 00:18:06 oh, look at you standing there naked next to a chimp. But isn't the plot of that film where there's a super intelligent ape can tell the difference between Elizabeth Shue and a body double? That's actually... That is the storyline. That's why it's a long sit for an hour and 45 minutes
Starting point is 00:18:23 because that premise is stretched pretty thin it's it's amazing anybody listening that hasn't seen link you you might want to watch it with friends because it's super boring it's really it's a really long sit but there's some amazing shit happens in it at one point an orangutan dressed up as a as a regular monkey because they put they put different ears. They attach, they do makeup effects on an orangutan
Starting point is 00:18:49 to make it look like just a monkey. And, but that monkey picks up a Doberman Pinscher and slams it against a fence post until it's dead.
Starting point is 00:18:59 And that's just one of the many delightful things that happen in an excruciatingly boring movie. I've seen that. And that's the funny thing. When I told you I was screening it, you were like, oh, I saw that a couple weeks ago. On my own.
Starting point is 00:19:13 Which was not the way to watch that. I actually couldn't bring my... Edgar will watch anything. I will watch anything. I have a high patience. I watched it. And you told me you don't ever walk out on or turn off anything. You watch everything from beginning to end. Yeah, I'm quite OCD like that.
Starting point is 00:19:28 Maybe I've fallen asleep on a plane during something. Yeah, okay. I'll give you that. Everybody's done that. Of course. But you have a rule even not to sleep through a flight, right? Yeah. Drink a lot of coffee before every flight.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Yeah. If I've started a rom-com on American Airlines, I have to finish it. It's always rom-coms and children's things now. Like this next month, I already looked ahead. They got Despicable Me. They got Ramona and Beezus. It's all just stuff that I'm like,
Starting point is 00:20:00 well, I'll be passing on that theatrically, so I guess I'll enjoy it on a plane. I went to see Jackass 3D this week at the Arclight with a couple of friends, and as we were walking down to the screen, we hadn't got our glasses, and I said, oh, nobody gave us the glasses. Oh, they must be inside the screen,
Starting point is 00:20:19 thinking there'd be an usher inside. So we went in, and nobody with glasses, nobody in the audience with glasses on and like 2D trailers playing and I said, oh, is there a flat version
Starting point is 00:20:30 of Jackass 3D? So we went back out and I asked the guy and I said, yeah, that's the 2D version. And I said, but my ticket says
Starting point is 00:20:37 Jackass 3D guys. Well, that's just the title of the film. What a burn! That's amazing it's called Jackass 3D
Starting point is 00:20:48 but don't let that title mislead you sometimes don't let the title Piranha 3D mislead you don't assume
Starting point is 00:20:56 anything based on that I mean did you watch the movie because they aren't they're not even that jackass they're very polite so nothing about
Starting point is 00:21:03 the title is true none of the title rings true. It's just a bunch of guys drinking tea. It's really weird. It's in 2D and they're very polite.
Starting point is 00:21:12 Yeah. That is so weird. I know that's true of all 3D movies. They have the screens that it's not 3D but when it's in the title like that
Starting point is 00:21:20 they should commit. What a rip. I went and changed my tickets. I put on my top pattern monocle I went straight to I went straight to guest
Starting point is 00:21:27 services because you have to see an outrage so you saw a later screening yeah and and and I I do like those films I do like the films I could I could stand not to see some
Starting point is 00:21:39 of the scale I wish it was all I wish it was all stunts not embarrassing anyone by dressing up as a weird person and acting weird in public yeah
Starting point is 00:21:47 and no sweatsuit that somebody drinks the sweat no poo volcano no poo volcano yeah like if they just see it drives some people right out of my podcast even
Starting point is 00:21:59 just the discussion of it I think she was about to have a poo volcano she's gone she didn't hear that Just the discussion of it. I think she was about to have a poo volcano. She's gone. She didn't hear that. She'll hear it on the podcast. With your accent, there's no way she'll be offended by that.
Starting point is 00:22:19 You made... I didn't get away with swearing. You made... I could have sworn at that policeman today. You made just a volcanic amount of shit sound very polite and dignified. Yeah, that was awesome. What about, let me ask you this. Your first two movies, you know, pretty violent. Definitely ours, both of them, right?
Starting point is 00:22:45 Yeah. Yeah, and then of them, right? Yeah. And then you make a movie about fighting and then you go PG-13 on our asses. Did you ever think about making Scott Pilgrim super violent? Did you know you were opening against the Expendables? Did you know that younger guys making
Starting point is 00:23:02 people's heads explode might have beat them? I know. Well, we... You know, the books are not kind of R-rated. The books are like T for teen as they're rated. So it would have been, I don't think we'd have been allowed to shoot it as an R. I don't think it would have been right. There's not any blood in the comics. You have a surprise waiting for you on the podcast. I do apologize.
Starting point is 00:23:23 I apologize. Volcano shit came back. I'm sorry. Edgar apologized to her. I'm sorry. Do you have a name tag? No, she doesn't have a name tag. I would have played for her.
Starting point is 00:23:38 When we get to the letter mong game tonight, I said on Twitter today, I'm very serious about this, that people have a better chance of playing if they're wearing an I voted sticker. I'm very serious about this, that people have a better chance of playing if they're wearing an I Voted sticker. Because I'm very into people voting. So that guy right there, you're out. Because you only have your name on your chest. So narcissistic.
Starting point is 00:23:56 Couldn't help the country. Too busy making your own name tag. There is a thing on the DVD, on the Blu-ray. Even though Scott Pilgrim is a PG-13, you are contractually obliged to provide a TV safe version. Now, even though it's a PG-13, for like American Airlines or some network TV, and I don't know if these versions even get shown,
Starting point is 00:24:18 but you have to replace absolutely everything. Not just shit and fuck, but like hell and God. And when we do tv safe versions i have a rule with the actors is that we only do one take of the replacement word and we think of the weirdest word possible and so on on the blu-ray we decided this time to in the past on children of the dead and hot fuzz we replaced fuck with funk and prick with prink and like
Starting point is 00:24:47 cunt was clump in like in tribute to Your stupid clump is pretty insulting.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Oh yeah. Yeah, exactly. Have you seen Professor Tooth and Clumps? It's an insult. No, no. But in that movie
Starting point is 00:25:02 a giant hamster ass fucks Larry Miller. The rules are crazy for what you can get away with and what you can't. That was the title of the film entirely. It literally gets behind him and he goes, oh! Like it has entered him, for sure, in the movie's PG-13. But we changed, one of the ones that we were watching some of it yesterday.
Starting point is 00:25:29 The only kind of word that crops up a lot is ass in Scott Pilgrim. And we changed every utterance of ass to owl or owls. And it starts to sound really weird. And I'm really looking forward to it ever being shown on American Airlines. Kiss my owls? Did you get a lot of owl last night? like a carry's on an owl hunt what other ones are there like sort of bad out these guys are totally bad else you also say you kicked my owl in the heart yeah Yeah. My heart in the owl.
Starting point is 00:26:05 There's also a great exchange between Michael and Mary of, what is it? Have you ever dated somebody that wasn't a total owl? And she says, well, you're not a total owl, I guess, but I'm part owl. Yeah. What does that even mean? Are you dating nocturnal people whose heads spin all the way around? That's awesome. And with the Owls of Ga'ul,
Starting point is 00:26:34 let's go in and edit that movie so they always say ass instead of owl. Because you know they say owl a bunch of times in that movie. I thought Legends of the Guardians, the Owls of Galhoul in 3D would be the worst title to get in Running Charades. It's way too fucking long. You'd have to just point to someone who's an ass and then
Starting point is 00:26:58 they would guess it because how many movies have owl in the title? I think some long titles I think people have never said the full title when buying a ticket. I try to. Really? If I saw Legend of the Guardians,
Starting point is 00:27:13 Owls of Ga'ul, I would say the whole thing. In 3D. In real 3D. In 3D. And I would wildly mispronounce Ga'ul when I was saying it. I love that.
Starting point is 00:27:23 I love saying the titles as wrong as possible and as long as possible can i have one add out for x-men origins wolverine please nobody's ever nobody's ever called it x-men origins wolverine one for wall street two money never It's fun. It's really fun. And because box office people, they kind of know what the titles are. You know what I mean? So if you get it slightly wrong,
Starting point is 00:27:54 they just ring it up and pass it through. So you can say funny things to them. Or like waitresses, too. I always ask for mongoloid beef instead of Mongolian. Because they won't correct you. They're just like, all right. Brad doesn't know how to say Mongolian. He's trying to amuse his friends.
Starting point is 00:28:15 It's fun. Listen, let me ask a few more questions really quickly. No time for the answers, just the questions. Rumor has it you taught Quentin Tarantino how to play the Leonard Maltin game. I did. Okay, no time for that story. And...
Starting point is 00:28:34 He told me that in a text, and I've never shitted myself after reading a text, but I might have on that occasion because the idea of you and Quentin sitting around playing my dumb game with a well-thumbed Leonard Moulton guide. Yeah, your Leonard Moulton guide. Or does he own one?
Starting point is 00:28:52 He had one too. That's what brought it up. It was sitting on his table and I said, have you played the Leonard Moulton game? There you go. Well, before we play the Leonard Moulton game, three more quick things. When does Parks and Rec come back, Aubrey? I don't
Starting point is 00:29:08 know. We'll look forward to that. I think it's January. I'm weekly annoyed by the success of Outsourced because it's about something that shouldn't be happening. Outsourcing. And I can't find humor in that. And also it's keeping you guys
Starting point is 00:29:25 from being back on the schedule. I mean, we're like shooting right now as if like we're coming back any minute now. Yeah, because it could just happen on a whim. Yeah, but for real
Starting point is 00:29:36 I think in January that's what we hear but honestly it's like changes every day. Joel McHale might flip out and go on a serial killing spree. Yeah. Then you're back in.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Yeah. Something as simple as killing spree. Yeah. Then you're back in. Yeah. Something as simple as that could happen. Yeah. And what else do you guys have coming? What's next for Edgar Wright? Do you have another project in the works or are you ruminating? I'm ruminating yeah. I have a couple of things I need to get
Starting point is 00:29:59 writing on and so I just need to get back to the kind of With partners? with other people like you you wrote scott pilgrim with another dude right yeah there's yeah a couple of people that i work with them like i mean me and simon pegg and more stuff with simon yeah i mean he's kind of busy doing uh uh he's got mission impossible 4 and star trek 2 and he's playing the both part in the same part in both yeah Yeah. Scotty is now on the MIA. Don't get me started about the Mission Impossible movies.
Starting point is 00:30:28 If you could put a latex mask on that makes you look like a completely different person, why would you ever look like Ethan Hunt? Even for a minute. Like, why would a super spy ever not look like somebody else if they could do that? Don't answer.
Starting point is 00:30:42 It's a rhetorical question. Quickly, Michael, I made a movie called Super High Me. Everybody gave me weed. You made a movie called Juno. Did people give you babies? You thought I was going to say Tic Tacs. No, people asked me for a baby.
Starting point is 00:31:01 Do you like orange Tic Tacs? Because that was a gift for a while, right? And might Tic Tacs? Because that was a gift for a while, right? And might still be now that I brought it up. It was a gift for a while? People gave them to you? No, nobody ever gave them to us. No one ever did?
Starting point is 00:31:13 No. I love that. Your friends know you. Nobody's ever given me anything in a respectful way like that. Nobody's ever... You've got no thoughtful gifts No one's ever seen your work And then applied a gift to it No
Starting point is 00:31:31 People have given me The DVD of year one And said take this And I go and sign it And then when I look up They're like That is awesome. Sign this. Yours.
Starting point is 00:31:49 No take-backs. I have a huge stack of year one signed by me at home. They want you to personally take it back to Blockbuster. Right. To your penance. Blockbuster doesn't even exist anymore. I've racked up a lot of late fees here. It sort of does still
Starting point is 00:32:05 I thought they were gone It's hanging in I think But not totally I don't know Let's talk about that for a while We'll run outside and check It's somewhat movie related But for Aubrey and Michael
Starting point is 00:32:20 Do you have anything in the can as they say Like any movies that are Done and coming out later I'd imagine you do Michael, do you have anything in the can, as they say, like any movies that are done and coming out later? I'd imagine you do. I've done a couple really small roles in some things lately. I just did
Starting point is 00:32:35 a small thing where I played a suicidal tap dancer. Is there any other kind, first of all? And secondly, what's the movie called? Death Tap. Yeah. Death Tap.
Starting point is 00:32:55 So it's really not that small of a part, or the killer isn't revealed until the very end. It's called Tap Me Out. I haven't... It's called Tap Me Out. I haven't... What's it called? I haven't given it a title yet. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:33:13 It's a made-up movie. I made it myself, and that is how I spent Halloween. It's actually just home videos. So fuck all of you. Michael, what do you got coming out? This comes out Friday, I believe. This does.
Starting point is 00:33:30 That'll be good. I think people are excited about that. We are, for sure. I mean, listen to them. This is one of my best episodes. The Scott Pilgrim DVD comes out November 9th. That's right. I believe it's loaded with special features
Starting point is 00:33:46 Special, they are special features I saw the thing last night You showed one of the special features Which is just footage of all the actors On the stage Where the effect shots were done And they're all jumping through the air It's very
Starting point is 00:34:02 Athletic You do some amazing It's poetic too jumping through the air and it's very athletic. You do some amazing It's poetic too. Poetic too. It's athletic and poetic watching people jump through the air and then In super slow motion.
Starting point is 00:34:13 pretend to punch something. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's So there's lots of extras. There's I think there's something like 17 hours of extras.
Starting point is 00:34:21 It's crazy. All in slow motion though so it's like five hours for the rest. That'd be it. It's crazy. All in slow motion though so it's like five hours. Slow motion commentary. I'm going to try to watch all the extras. I'll get back to you. Okay.
Starting point is 00:34:35 After I get through them all. And what's the best extra? Outtake reel is fun? It's our TV safe edit of Legend of the Guardian of the Alza Calhoun. Where we change every time they say Al, we change it to Ass. That would be so much fun to watch.
Starting point is 00:34:53 Wait, did the DVD not come out yet? It comes out on Tuesday. Oh. Have you been talking it up like it's out? No, but did it come out anywhere? Has it come out anywhere? I don't know. People have review copies and stuff.
Starting point is 00:35:08 What are you getting at? I don't know. Because on Twitter, someone quoted me in the DVD commentary. They quoted me, and I was like, oh, I guess it's... They might have got a preview copy or something. Oh, okay. So you're on the commentary? Yeah, but the only thing I've heard about it is someone quoted me
Starting point is 00:35:32 and I apparently said, oh my god, I'm still drunk. So it was like you guys did the commentary the day after some sort of rampart? I don't know. I don't remember. I don't know where I am. So. I don't know where I am. So you might have been joking
Starting point is 00:35:47 about being drunk. Sounds like it was a Wednesday. That's a fun thing. That's a fun thing to say during a commentary. I'm drunk. Then you absolve yourself of everything.
Starting point is 00:35:58 Because I love how every DVD, when you start it, the commentaries are not the opinion of any person that has anything to do with ever making this. Well, yeah,
Starting point is 00:36:05 except for the people that made the movie. They really try to distance themselves from that. Because every commentary is probably like, well, the studio wanted this. It's always a lot of talking about what they thought you on. Yeah, they still, not so much recently, but they still, even though they have
Starting point is 00:36:21 that disclaimer, they still try to get you to cut stuff out. Like we, um, I got into a big fight on the Shaun of the Dead DVD because legal gets so kind of hot on things and I had this trivia track
Starting point is 00:36:33 all the way through the film and the final trivia fact was fact this film is based on a true story and they said you can't put that on
Starting point is 00:36:41 somebody will sue you I said well I'd love to see that court case. Zombies are sensitive. They will sue you if you imply that they got hit upside the head and incapacitated for a moment. They're prideful. They want to win the fight.
Starting point is 00:37:01 Well, I saw it on, I saw Shaun of the dead on comedy central the other day and aside from the commercial intrusions i i wasn't that but like they leave in because you're killing zombies it can be super violent weirdly i'd never seen on comedy central and a lot of stuff is i the hot fuzz and comedy sent uh hot fuzz and sean of the dead were on back to back and i noticed how kind of butchered they were but the weirdest one was that nick frost at one point gives simon the finger and they digitally removed his finger so it looks like he just shows him his fist it very it was very strange there you go i had to rewind it so you can show somebody smacking a zombie upside the head but not the finger yeah amazing yeah and in hot Fuzz, you could show,
Starting point is 00:37:46 spoiler alert. Timothy Dalton falling on a spike. Yeah, Timothy Dalton getting a spike through his, but he seems okay and alive, so I guess it's all right, even though it's crazy violent. Anyway, let's play the Litter-Mong game. I'm sorry I delayed it so long
Starting point is 00:38:05 we're running out of time but let's let the panelists pick I'd like you to pick from over here if possible and especially if someone's got a sticker a name tag
Starting point is 00:38:21 and an I voted sticker those are the people I'd like you to pick although that Jordan Indiana Jones style is pretty cool. So Edgar, who would you like to play for in the letterbox game? Let's go for Jordan here.
Starting point is 00:38:36 Kyle's got some long story. I know. Alright, but Jordan did Indiana Jones lettering so that's pretty cool. So that's who Edgar's going to play for. Who would you like to play for, Aubrey? Oh, I'll play for that girl whose thing I can't read.
Starting point is 00:38:57 Erica. Erica. All right, you're playing for Erica. Don't forget to talk into the microphone, though. I'll play for Erica. Nice. Who's the saddest person here? I believe you. I'll play for Erica. Who's the saddest person here? I believe you.
Starting point is 00:39:08 I believe you. Okay, you. What's your name? My name is Clancy Hands. Clancy Hands? Is it too late to re-pick? No, it isn't. It's totally not too late.
Starting point is 00:39:21 I think I'm committed to you. All right, Clancy Hands. Oh, my God. I went I'm committed to you. Alright, Clancy Hands. Oh my god. I went out on a date with him the other night. He was so Clancy Hands. It says Clancy Hands VOTD, Video of the Day. What does that mean?
Starting point is 00:39:39 Oh, I see. Oh, classy. Nothing classy about that spelling. Alright, Clancy Hands. You're missing one letter from voted. Edgar's playing for Jordan. Nothing classy about that spelling Alright classy hands You're missing one letter from voted So Edgar's playing for Jordan Aubrey's playing for Erica
Starting point is 00:39:51 And Michael's playing for classy hands Whatever that means We're team classy So I hope you guys understand How the game's played It's very complicated. We'll start with Edgar to pick a category. I think he's going to be excited about some
Starting point is 00:40:13 of these categories. We got Zerner Law on Twitter, my good friend Larry Zerner. He suggested the category Songs in Titles. so it's movies where the title is also the title of the song and then for another category uh it's david schwimmer's birthday today and and uh burt lancaster who starred in The Swimmer. And so... So the category is movies featuring David Schwimmer or Burt Lancaster, because as far as I know, there's none that include both. Nice. And then also celebrating a birthday on the day this podcast will plop,
Starting point is 00:41:00 on 11-5, is Sam Rockwell, the great Sam Rockwell. So Sam Rockwell movies is your third choice. I think he'd be good at all these categories. Let's go for... I don't know, I'm intrigued by the middle one because it's so kind of spurious, like David Schwimmer and Burt Lancaster. The dream team.
Starting point is 00:41:20 Yeah. Schwimmer, of course, who directed Simon Pegg in Run, Fatboy Run. I'd like to tie it all together. Let's go for... Let's go for Sam Rockwell. Okay. You were intrigued by one and then went with the other. I like that.
Starting point is 00:41:42 Keep me on my guard. All right, so Sam Rockwell movies. This is from, you get one from 1999, 2007, or 2009? Was it 2000, what was the first one? 99? 2009? 2007 or 2009? Let's go for 2007.
Starting point is 00:42:06 Okay. Leonard Mullen gives this movie two and a half stars. I can't agree or disagree because it's one that I just never managed to see. What he says about it is that it features a strange relationship and that it's crippled by over length. As I often say,
Starting point is 00:42:34 the clues hurt more than help. And there are 14 names. How many names do you think you can name this movie in that features Sam Rockwell in some sort of role I think I know what it
Starting point is 00:42:52 Edgar Wright thinks he knows what it is I think I know what it is but I don't think I've seen it either oh you might not have seen it either maybe you say either I say either let's call the whole thing off or the other way around. How many names? 14?
Starting point is 00:43:08 Yeah, I think so. I'll go for eight names. Okay. So we go down to Michael. You can bid less names or you can say name that movie. Yeah. Well, I'll say five. Is that right?
Starting point is 00:43:23 Five. That's a fantastic bid. So, Aubrey, you can say less names or you can tell Michael to name that movie. If he fails to name it, then you'll get the point. I can tell him to name it? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:37 But I get some names, right? Yeah, you will. Okay, well... You don't get the names until you're on the chopping block. Michael, name that movie. All right. Would you like the clues again?
Starting point is 00:43:51 It's crippled by over the length. It's two and a half stars from Leonard. It's a strange relationship. And he says it's got a strange relationship, yeah. And the names are Tom Aldridge, the great Tom Aldridge. Classy. James Carville. James. James Carville. James?
Starting point is 00:44:07 James Carville. I don't know if that's that James Carville. Does it say the? Is there a the in front of his name? There's no the. It's just James Carville. Then Allison Elliott. The aforementioned Sam Rockwell.
Starting point is 00:44:24 So he's got pretty low billing in this situation. That's a clue. And then the fifth name that you get is Ted Levine, who of course we all know from... Put the lotion in the basket. And Monk, he's also on Monk. It's not what I thought it was. I don't know what I got us into.
Starting point is 00:44:46 Yeah, so what do you think with those five names? You got any idea at all? Sam Rockwell's in it, of course. I don't remember anything about 2007. Geez, what do I do? So no guess at all? What do I do?
Starting point is 00:45:01 You could just guess a movie from around that time if you think you might get lucky. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Which he is in. Which one? The first one, the original. No.
Starting point is 00:45:13 I think I'm wrong. No, that's not it. All right, does anybody else think they know? Audience? I'll tell you some more names. Michael Parks, Zooey Deschanel, Garrett Dillahunt,
Starting point is 00:45:24 Jeremy Renner, Paul Schneider. Oh my God. Are you serious? Mary Louise Parker. Are you serious? names michael parks zoe de chanel garrett dillahunt jeremy runner paul schneider oh my god are you sorry louise parker are you serious yeah do you know it now yeah i know it now what is it oh the assassination of jesse jennings that was gonna i should that's correct by the coward robert ford you ever seen that another bad running charades one yes yes way too long a title i have seen that one oh you have? I have seen that one. Yeah, I've never seen that. The one that I thought it was was Matchstick Men,
Starting point is 00:45:47 but it wasn't. Oh, you didn't see Matchstick Men? No, I didn't. I will... I say Matchstick Men is better than this one, but, you know, we'll figure that out someday.
Starting point is 00:45:57 Jason Carville was in The Assassination... Is that his name, Jason Carville? James Carville. All right, James Carville was in The Assassination? Well, there might be an actor
Starting point is 00:46:03 named James Carville. All right. It wasn't the same. Rather, there might be an actor named James Carville. All right. It wasn't the same. It was him? The wrong one. He plays like a governor. He plays like a governor. Because he's got that accent.
Starting point is 00:46:15 He's like, oh, I'm the governor or whatever. So it is the original. So it is the James Carville. So that's a great clue if you'd seen the movie. I have never seen it. The real title of the film was The Assassination of Jesse James by the Cowards. Robert Ford.
Starting point is 00:46:30 Is it Robert Ford? Mm-hmm. Featuring James Carville playing himself. Playing a character based on himself. All right. So that means Aubrey's got a point. Thank you. Well done.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Alright, and since Edgar wasn't involved in that skirmish, we'll start with you. Would you like In Theaters Now? Or, it's the 25th anniversary of Back to the Future, so actors who are in Back to the Future movies? Or, the
Starting point is 00:47:02 aforementioned single artist soundtracks let's go for the back to the did I mention that before no this is a category it's it's where the soundtrack is by the entire soundtrack is by
Starting point is 00:47:13 one artist or most of it and this was submitted by Jolene Bollinger on Twitter I know you like movie music and movies let's go for that one then let's try that. So this is one recording artist recorded most or all of the soundtrack.
Starting point is 00:47:30 You've got 72, 85, or 99. 85. Okay. Are you zeroing in already? Is your genius movie mind already getting it? Leonard gives it one and a half stars. Nuh-uh. No, Leonard.
Starting point is 00:47:49 I will not let that stand. Three, three and a half at the least. Love this movie. He calls it gritty. Maybe he doesn't like gritty. He also says that... He also says that part of this movie is not enough. He praises one part,
Starting point is 00:48:13 but he says that's not enough to counteract the bad taste the film leaves behind. From 1985. And there are nine names. I am going to go for negative one. Yeah! Ever since I met Edgar,
Starting point is 00:48:34 he was like, I'm going to be great at the Leonard Maltz game. And I was like, we shall see about that. So that means, for you guys, because now it goes down to Michael. How can we outbid that? You can go negative two names or negative four names. Say the answer five minutes ago.
Starting point is 00:48:51 But that's the thing. You've got to name the movie and also name those negative names from the top of the billing down in proper order. So if you go two names, you have to name the first billed person and the second billed person. So it sounds to me like you should just give up
Starting point is 00:49:06 and let Edgar not only impress everybody, but get a seat in the tournament of championships. Because that's what we do for people that go less than zero and succeed. You're so confident. I know what it is. That sort of sums up...
Starting point is 00:49:22 I just realized I just said sort of sums up I just realized I just said something that sums up Robert Downey Jr. He went less than zero and still succeeded If I guess If I guess wrongly do I
Starting point is 00:49:35 am I like Wrongly? Yeah am I penalized if I outbid him and guess wrongly? No Aubrey will end up winning the point
Starting point is 00:49:43 in the whole game probably so I'm excited about that because we're running over Okay No. Aubrey will end up winning the point in the whole game, probably. So I'm excited about that, because we're running over. Okay. And it is exciting to me, the idea of Edgar not winning. Because he came in so cocky. He came in all Han Solo. And I'm like Luke, saying... Or no, the other way around.
Starting point is 00:50:04 If I say nothing again, do I get a point? I think you might I think you might win this whole thing Do you want to go more negative names? I'll go negative two just to make it interesting I love it I love how interesting this is Alright, so now Aubrey has no choice
Starting point is 00:50:20 but to say name that movie, I think Name that movie Alright, so Michael What's the movie called, first of all? The Labyrinth? No. Okay. And then...
Starting point is 00:50:31 Do I still have to name the names? No, you don't. You show off, though, and tell us what it was. I think it's To Live and Die in L.A. Uh-huh. And William Peterson. And Wang Chung doing the soundtrack. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:40 and Die in L.A. Uh-huh. And William Peterson and Wang Chung doing the soundtrack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, that's how fucked up this game is. It's that you got
Starting point is 00:50:53 a spoiler like that on the other end and you get screwed. That's hilarious. Nicely done. Aubrey Plaza is our winner, everybody. Thanks.
Starting point is 00:51:07 And of course, Willem Dafoe is second build. Yeah, yeah. And today I was, long story for you guys, but for everyone else who might get it, today I was in a coffee shop in Burbank, Starbucks, I don't know why I called it a coffee shop. And some guy, as he was leaving, right as he was walking out the door,
Starting point is 00:51:27 Willem Dafoe's a shithead. He yelled it to the whole place as he left. I was like, wow, that makes me feel good and terrible at the same time. That guy would yell that out. Was Willem Dafoe inside? No, he wasn't there.
Starting point is 00:51:42 He was just trying to amuse me because I used to say that at the end of every show. Because Willem Dafoe's clearly not a show. I thought maybe he was working there. No, he's not a show. Alright, so you were playing for Erica? Yeah. Yeah, where's Erica? There she is. Alright, Erica, you win. This is exciting.
Starting point is 00:51:59 Edgar brought some stuff. What did you bring? Okay, he's got a Scott Pilgrim poster for you. And what else is in there? T-shirts. T-shirts. Clothing. And clothing.
Starting point is 00:52:10 He's got all sorts of Scott Pilgrim stuff. I've got a copy of, if you mail this in, you'll get a copy of the Scott Pilgrim DVD for free. It'll only cost you a stamp. Relax. I would have put a stamp on it if I had thought about it. I'll give you a quarter and this thing and then
Starting point is 00:52:28 that's all the stuff Erica wins congratulations Erica thank you to my guests where is she pass that back to Erica I can't make it that far Edgar's going to go get the stuff right now he's a proactive
Starting point is 00:52:45 kind of guy. I've also brought an Expendables gift basket. It's a bunch of rotten fruit. What am I going to do? That was a horrible Bruce Willis impression. Oh, there he is. There's Edgar with the bag.
Starting point is 00:53:07 And I gotta... Just you guys talk amongst yourselves for a second. I gotta find something now. I saw Willem Dafoe in the airport the other day. Tell us about it. He was getting his bags and he had a large bag
Starting point is 00:53:26 and he was with an Asian girl. Did you talk to him? No. How have you been? Good. I recently did an interview and somebody told me a quote that I had said in the past. This is going back to David Schwimmer.
Starting point is 00:53:43 Apparently, I don't remember saying this, but he threw it in my face. Apparently, I have in the past referred to my torso as personalityless, much like Ross on Friends. I've likened my torso to David Schwimmer. And he got in your face about it?
Starting point is 00:54:01 Well, he... He had some fun with it. He wasn't offended, though. No, it would be weird if the interviewer was offended by that, I guess. And he got in your face about it? Well, he, you know, told me I said that. He wasn't offended, though. No, no. It'd be weird if the interviewer was offended by that, I guess. That would be weird. I was being interviewed by Matthew Perry, but... All right, let's have a big round of applause for everybody involved.
Starting point is 00:54:23 Michael Cera, Aubrey Plaza, Edgar Wright. Truly an honor to have you all on and good luck with DVD sales on Tuesday. Not unlike everything that's awesome. Maybe that'll spark some movement for Scott Pilgrim 2.
Starting point is 00:54:41 Scott Pilgrim 2 the clumps. Hilarious out of the gate that would be amazing or it's uncensored title Scott Pilgrim 2 The Cunts we're totally going to put Aubrey's noise over that featuring the asses of Galhoo whatever that noise is alright and as usual Justin Nauman is a shithead Now who? Whatever that noise is. All right.
Starting point is 00:55:05 And as usual, Justin Nauman is a shithead. And Jeff Woodruff is also a shithead. Now it's time for the two of us to go to another party.
Starting point is 00:55:17 Isaac called the view and promised makes it party. There's no room in his heart for you because Doug loves movies

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