Doug Loves Movies - Raanan Hershberg, Gabe Mollica and Gareth Reynolds guest

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming baby, sticky seeds with 50 azepam 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 there are some movies that I won't see, but in general, I will see all of them. This is Doug Loves Movies, recording on Oscar Sunday, March 10th, 2024. And my guests today are all award-worthy. They are Ronan Hirshberg, Gabe Malika, and Gareth Reynolds. Hello, gentlemen. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Doug, happy New Year. Hello, gentlemen. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Doug, happy New Year to you, buddy. Let's meet them individually and alphabetically

by first name like we do. He's the star of the off-Broadway show Solo, a show about friendship. It's Gabe Malika. Welcome back, dude. Hey, Doug. I'm really excited to be here. I'm one and one. I have one win and one last place, so I'm going for second today.

That'd be my dream. Oh, okay. Well, you know, I enjoy saying welcome back to people named Gabe for reasons we don't need to get into. But are you... Do you plan on watching the Oscars tonight? Are you an Oscar watcher? I am a big Oscar watcher. I'm going to be on a flight for the monologue. And then as soon as I get home to New York, I will put them on.

Absolutely. Oh, okay. So the monologue sounds like you're anticipating a long one. Say that one more. Oh, yes, yes. Yeah. You think Jimmy Kimmel is going to fuck around for like an hour just while you're sitting in traffic maybe he'll do that thing where he has pizzas delivered again yeah yeah falafel something

something do you have any uh predictions about tonight uh that's a great question I I'm rooting for American fiction I thought it was like the funniest thing I saw this year so I'm rooting for that for sure alright well I think it's definitely got a shot at seems like it's in the pocket maybe for original screenplay or is it based on a book I think it's based on a book

oh really oh yeah let's not fight you guys it's a little bit of both everybody uh he's the co-host of the dollop podcast give it up applaud in your homes or wherever you're listening for gareth reynolds thank you everybody for doing what doug said uh clapping in your homes and hello hi everybody are you gonna watch watch the Oscars tonight, dude? I will watch them after I have a show. So after my show, I will go home and watch the Oscars.

And I hate every minute of it, most like every time. What? Where's your show at? At in San Antonio at LOL. So nice. I feel like, yeah, the Oscars will probably notice that the ratings dip a little. I did not try to schedule it at the same time, but yeah. Yeah, every time I see all the people that are set for a show,

the Oscars is not like the Super Bowl or a holiday where you are well aware of when it's going to be because it moves around all over the place like fucking Easter. So, you know, you end up sometimes having a gig the same night as the Oscars. And I find that, you know, the people that go out the night of the Oscars aren't necessarily, you know, anti-movie or just, you know, not into pop culture.

They just don't care about the, you know, award ceremony. Last. They just don't care about the award ceremony. Last year, I hadn't watched for a while. And then last year, I remember I was at my brother's, we were eating dinner, and my people started texting me, like, what the fuck just happened? And then there was the Will Smith, you know, and that made me go like, well, this is still actually enjoyable. This can't be good.

Well, just the fact that something could happen, you know, weird things happen for sure but unfortunately you have to sit through a few of them to get a slapping or a streaker or something like that gonna be hard to top some of them are boring and without incident all of them and predictable like i think most of the winners are kind of already uh lined up for tonight you know but yeah let's meet our third guest before i ramble on about this you've seen him on the tonight show you've heard him on close movies it's redon hershberg hey dude good to be here yeah great to be here uh what about you what's your oscar plans

for tonight i'm having a oscars betting party that i have oh wow that i've invited a bunch of people to when i invite people to a lot of them you can i can sense them just feeling bad for me knowing that i do that like i'm inviting them to an abstinence party well it's interesting because uh i would think that the comedy clubs in new york especially uh kind of have especially like the comedy cell in New York especially kind of have, especially like the Comedy Cellar or something like that, is probably still busy tonight with people who don't care about or know about the Oscars at all.

Definitely. I literally blocked off tonight so I didn't get work. Yeah, because they'll still do shows. It's funny. Oh, yeah. I mean, no one cares about the – I think the only people who care about the Oscars are us right now having this podcast. Yeah. I don't think one cares about the I think the only people who care about the Oscars are us right now having this podcast.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyone cares? But we really care. But Sundays are dead enough. You know, Sundays are hard enough in comedy clubs these days. You know, when I started out, Sunday night was the most favorite night of the week because comedy clubs were really like nine shows a week, six nights a week, you know. nine shows a week, six nights a week, you know? And so when you got to Sunday, it was always almost like fan appreciation night or something like, like the real comedy fans would come out on Sunday. And that would be the best show of the week.

I can sometimes be Thursday. I feel like now. Yeah. These days you get Sundays are a real crap shoot. I'm really excited for my show tonight though. So let's just, you know what I mean? Yeah, let's not put any kind of... Yeah, we're just... That's what I'm saying. ...on your future. I just want to make it clear I'm the most dedicated to the Oscars out of anyone

here. That is fair. It does feel like you are. Is there an award for that on this show, Doug? No, not really. Okay, that's good. Other than my undying appreciation. Also, it's a little awkward. I invited Gabe to mine, and he was like, I can't do it.

And then I'm hearing him go, well, I'll miss the first part, but then I'm rushing home to watch it. And I'm like, man, you've just come to my party, couldn't you have? We do live around the block, don't we? Yeah. Don't we? Pretty messed up. You know, I just remembered we're neighbors um i've been a real oscar you know like

my parents watched it and i watched it i had nightmares because of it because you know so many r-rated movies would get nominated and the clips alone would like just put ideas in my head and then and then like you know like the exorcist you know i didn't see it when i was a kid but it was all over the oscars so i got a real strong idea what happens and um but so for the last few years i've done this uh challenge the hashtag dlm oscar challenge on uh you know x formerly twitter and um uh i the thing is i attempt to watch every movie that's nominated even the shorts and the animated and even movies that just got nominated for having a song over the end credits that was written by diane warren so um uh so this year

i'm sad to say i finally just not only gave up on trying to watch everything but i haven't even seen all 10 uh best picture nominees oh wow so let's start with renan how many have you seen out of the 10 movies nominated for best picture so it's a little i've i've seen um eight and there's two that i the other two i gave up watching in the middle okay so you really tried to watch which ones are the ones you gave up on i feel embarrassed i feel like i'm gonna get canceled for saying yeah no no i saw past lives in theaters uh okay i gave up on and by the just keep in mind i'm kind of critical i don't know i gave up on, and by the, just keep in mind, I'm kind of critical. I don't know. I gave up on Barbie. Oh, okay.

That's fine. But what's the other one? American fiction. Interesting. Gabe's favorite movie. So you got all the way through, you watched all of Zone of Interest? Yeah. Because that sounds like one of the roughest watches I could imagine.

Well, I saw it in theater so yeah you can't walk out of a holocaust movie in theaters you know i mean right just you know but uh but yeah it's bad that it's barbie and uh american i just feel racist and sexist but uh you know i uh i just i couldn't get into either of them you know but you got through oppenheimer you got through past lives which is just people, just conversations that you have to read because it's subtitled. Yeah, I got through all those. Yeah, you did some good work there.

So I appreciate it. I think I've seen like three or four of the best pictures. I've seen Oppenheimer, Barbie. Do you love movies doug i do and i do and i usually put myself through watching all the oscar movies but now there's so many movies coming out of every crevice and there's a lot i like fun movies and most of the even barbie has parts that aren't fun for me, you know, because it's got to have a message. It's got to have a point and all that. You know, it wasn't just a flat out comedy. That's why I turned it off. I guess it ends in a Holocaust. Did you know that yeah i only watch british holocaust or uh atomic bomb movies i will

say if i saw zone of interest like on tv if i didn't see it in theaters i probably would have turned that off too yeah no i think that's a fair assessment so i just want to say because you know people are hearing this the day after the oscars so it's kind of silly to talk about it at all but uh i do want to you know congratulate oppenheimer paul giamatti emma stone divine joy randolph and robert downey jr who are going to be who are all going to win tonight uh you know there's a chance that the lady from killers of the flower moon uh lily gladstone might beat emma stone but emma stone's performance it like they should take back her previous Oscar and give her one tonight. That would be a cool rule they would use.

That would be exciting. Her performance in Poor Things is just a thing unto itself. It's the most unusual thing, and she's so committed to it. I just love the idea of the Oscars being like, okay, we gave it to you before but we didn't really mean it now we mean it and we're yeah we gave it to you before because we were surprised you could sing you know like that's why you won for la la land but for this like it just she just puts herself into it in every way imaginable and you know i'm sure i and that's

another one flowers the killer moon i just can't bring myself to watch a genocide and you know i'm sure i and that's another one flowers of the killer moon i just can't bring myself to watch a genocide movie you know a movie that's like you know where's martin scorsese is on the record is saying i tried to figure out a way to humanize these monsters you know that that commit genocide you know what i mean it's like why do they need to be humanized why can't we just spend the rest of our lives thinking they're the fucking evil and he also fails he fails they're not like they're just like not humanized it's just like yeah it's it's uh i found that movie to be like extreme i mean i love scarcity but i thought that movie was just so just it just picked the wrong story and it was just boring to watching these like evil sociopaths yeah and like oh one of

them's in love oh who cares yeah it's just so long too i when i i like i when i watched the irishman i was like all right i'm gonna give it a shot i cannot do that experience it's so long it's gotta be more interesting than the irishman though the irishman really i did but everyone was saying everyone's everyone with the irman was like, it's pretty good. So I was like, all right, let's go. And then I was like, why? Yeah, if you want to, the de-aging shit in that movie is just, it's so disturbing to watch.

Even if you were like a child and didn't even know that Joe Pesci's 30 years older than they're portraying him in the movie, you would still sit there and go, what what is off about something's wrong well you'd be like you'd be like did you ever seem like he has like like some kind of early signs of like muscular dystrophy or something because he's younger and he just can't move at all he's like this is like yeah concerning parkinson's or something i'm glad we're finally trapping the irishman a year well and we're comfy now we can finally do it i will say i think the last hour of that movie is actually fantastic the fifth hour is

good i'll say that i and i like the third hour of oppenheimer it's like hey uh christopher nolan and uh martin scorsese uh you can win plenty of awards and make really cool stuff in the uh limited series or right you don't have to fucking put us through a three and a half hour movie that you think we're gonna sit in a theater and watch well then he should you know he craps on like marvel movies which i get i think i i actually think they are oversaturated but he's like yeah marvel's taking away movies and then he's like but anyway instead you should watch this four and a half movie of our movie about genocide where it's completely from the it's just like it's not the greatest alternative to marvel no and it's also like he's just aiding and abetting this whole horrible ai situation by you know even suggesting that there should be

movies where you see actors like i didn't like the harrison ford younger scenes in the new indie yeah like i just don't but you know that's the sort of uh a hill to die on where no one's gonna care that you're on that hill or dying you know because uh there's just gonna be you know more as technology just keeps getting better and better they're gonna keep trying to do more but I just don't like it. I don't like the young Sam Jackson in the Marvel movies when they do that. Oh, I didn't even notice they do that. They did it in the first one with Brie Larson.

The first, you know, they have scenes like because it takes place like in the 80s or something. And so always looks the same age. I feel like he just always looks the same age. I feel like they didn't do that. They did the thing on him, and it looks weird. Even coming to America, you're like, he's 50, and now you're like, he's 50. You don't have to do that with Samuel Jackson. And he always has a purple lightsaber.

It's very odd. That is a strange decision. Before we get into the games today, let's get some recommendations real quick. Starting with Gabe, can you recommend a movie that you've seen recently in any format? I would love to. I recently watched this movie called the sterile cuckoo oh yeah and it was filmed at my college so i watched it mostly because i was like oh what do the scenes look like at the school i went to and it's liza minnelli and she kind of plays this

like this woman who you can't i kind of couldn't believe it was a late 60s movie where it's like this feels like a woman in Brooklyn right now. And her performance is amazing. And they're like having parties at places where like I've been drunken stoned. I'm like, this is wild. So I like the Sarah Cuckoo a lot. Right on. I haven't, you know, I don't think I've ever heard anybody discuss that movie since since like like you know the 70s but uh uh you know liza

manelli could uh could really turn it out i bet you she got nominated for best actress for that one yeah she did she may have won actually i think she didn't she win for cabaret yeah that must have been it yeah yeah and she's not a multi i don't think um but that's a excellent suggestion i feel like uh uh you know the listeners are going to be unfamiliar with it so try to find it do you know is it on a streamer um my god my buddy got it for me on plex which i don't know it's a horrible thing to. Maybe your buddy can get everyone to Plex. Yeah, give me your emails. DM me your emails and Plex it up. Gareth, what are you like lately? You got a recommendation?

Well, I watched a little arthouse movie called Pee-Wee's Big Adventure recently. Nice. For the first time in a long time. And while I will say the first 10 minutes, I was like, he's very strange the way he giggles to himself all the time. That movie holds up and is so goddamn eerie. And I forget how funny that movie is on top of anything

because I loved it when I was like a kid. But that movie really had me going. So it's so funny to hear someone go, Peter Herman, he's a little strange. Yeah. You know, if you watch back, I will say now you look at the guy, you look at the guy, you think this is like a guy, you know, normal guy. No, a little weird. Yeah, I was shocked.

It's very weird. No. But yeah, I i was laughing so hard so that was a good watch i'd say it's got the best jump scare in a non-horror movie in history the large marge face yeah yeah it's yeah that thing like there's people that are you know tormented by it yeah it's also learning a little more about it like he just like got another screenplay and did paint by numbers with it but it's such a like it's just a really well put together movie tim burton's first movie danny elfman's first movie so there's just a lot of like nascent stuff in there that's pretty interesting the music is great i love using like so good the music that's playing when in the beginning when he's got his weird breakfast conveyor belt contraption, his Rube Goldberg thing.

The music playing during that, it pops up a lot in other things because it's so good. It's really, really catchy, especially for instrumental. All right, Renan, you've got... Well, it doesn't matter what the other picks were because we just want to know what you like. What's your recommendation? I'm really into this South Korean director, Lee Chang-dong, who made this movie Secret Sunshine,

which I think is really great. It's like 10 years old, but I highly recommend i highly recommend it it's not on any streamer so no one will ever watch it is it on plex it's on plex but like for some reason people don't like if it's not on a streamer no one will pay three dollars to rent a movie anymore it's like it's just like beyond but it's yeah they just search it out for free because if you have multiple streamers you're spending you know money for that shit so it's like might as well i'll watch it says it's streaming on tubi i might be incorrect okay so how would this movie how do you think this movie would play with commercial breaks uh you might not that's what they do on tubi they throw in commercials i love it's a pretty intense kind of like Job-like suffering movie,

but it's also just great. He's the guy who did Burning. Do you remember Burning from a couple years ago? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you will laugh out loud watching Serious or Scary or almost any kind of movie on Tubi or any of the ones that, you know, Pluto, any of the ones that put in ads because the it's just a it just suddenly pops up you know the filmmaker didn't like do a because you know

every streaming thing you see now uh they always do like these they fade to black a lot so that if it does get sold directly to me they could put commercials in well you know podcasts are the funniest because podcaster will be like it'll be like yeah climate change is going to destroy the world it's irrevocable anyway do you like mattresses no ours does that we do that on the dollop sometimes i'm like whoa what the hell just happened jarring like yeah i do love doordash but uh is that man he drowned yeah no it's really funny. I just watched Harold Amod recently on one of those where they

throw in the commercials, and I laughed out loud a couple times, because it'll be like just the second before he hangs himself, you know, it'll go to commercial. How much would you pay for all this pizza? I saw a great one yesterday on YouTube. I was watching, you know, that Katie Britt, that crazy lady from Alabama?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. She did the response speech. By the way, talk about an Oscar. That was unreal. I was watching her weird, hyperventilating, crying, laughing speech about how awful Biden is on YouTube. And then right in the middle of it, it cut to an ad from Biden. It was like the greatest troll. Nice. cut to an ad from biden it was like the greatest troll nice yeah that i mean you know it's been discussed to death but just just anyone involved deciding she should be in a kitchen uh it makes

no fucking sense like what it was like i'm a i'm a lady who's made in politics but you know what this kitchen's really where i belong the the levels that she hit performance wise were really fantastic i mean she honestly as far as acting goes she was really going for every emotion but every emotion at once yeah yeah it was like a highlight reel it was like my she was really moving her voice was despair but her face was smiling yes and her eyes were crying seriously yeah like each feature had a different director like combined every spectrum of human emotion into one thing which is yeah seriously yeah that's true it was the emma stone performance you know all right guys those Those are some fun recommendations. Seek them out and pay three bucks to see them if you can,

because you might as well try to support these things. And we're going to play some messed up games after these messages. We're back. And the first game we're going to play today is called Planes, Trains, or Automobiles. I'll name a movie, and you have to tell me if it's got a plane crash, a train crash, or a car crash. Morbid games, to be sure. um gabe's gonna go first and uh i'll give him a uh title and he tells me they're playing train or car and uh if he gets it right he gets a point if he misses then we go to gareth and if gareth misses then uh renan would get the uh gimme point because there'd only be one option left, theoretically.

First to two points wins. Are you ready, Gabe? I'm so ready. Okay. This first movie, I'd like you to tell me if it's got a plane crash, a car crash, or a train crash. A movie called Random Hearts. Random Hearts. Random Hearts.

Okay. I was really hoping you were going to give me Crash, but I will take Random Hearts. There's some real obvious ones out there. Random Hearts. I'm going to say Train Crash. Oh, you like Train crash for random hearts? I didn't bring my, I'm out on the road.

I'm at South by Southwest. We're in the same city. Oh, that's right. I think I do remember you telling me that you were going to be in Boston. Do you want to run over to my hotel room? Do this in person? I think we've already started, but I'll come by after to talk about it. What are you doing?

South by West Hills or you're just somewhere else in town? Oh, no, I just did Cap City last night. I see. Because, yeah, you're in San Antonio today. Tonight. I'm in Austin now. So, yeah, we know. And now it's all coming together.

You're going to travel after we're done. That's right. That's right. By train in Austin now. So yeah, we could have a go. Now it's all coming together. You're going to travel after we're done. That's right. By train, plane, or... Well, that's the game, Doug. That's the next round. And Renan and I are going to be in the same city and we're also not hanging out. That's right. We need content in order to talk to each other.

we need content in order to talk to each other i really do only talk to my friends via podcast now and it's i don't know if it's sad or just good that i have this outlet instead of just facetiming people i want to talk about movies all right uh okay so gabe i like i said i I don't have my right and wrong sound effects. So I'm just going to just tell you the news with my mouth. And that that is incorrect. It is not a train crash in random hearts. We go to Gareth and that leaves a car or a plane. Well, it's obviously no clue or insight into what the hell this movie is.

But I feel like it'll be easiest to fall in love, which it sort of feels like it might be from a, a automobile accident. So I'll say a car. I'm sorry. That is also incorrect. Oh my God. Renan,

do you remember what the third option was? Yeah, this, this would be an easy one if I was listening. No, I'm kidding. So I guess it's, it's a plane crash yeah it is so it's that's the other funny thing is that you know you can have the biggest stars in the world and years later on a movie trivia podcast people are going to treat your movie like it didn't exist oh wow, wow. You never heard of it. Because this movie starred Harrison Ford and Kristen Scott Thomas.

And they play. I'm just excited to tell you what this movie is about. They play people whose his wife and her husband die in a plane crash. And then through through the their efforts to, to you know get their loved ones belongings and whatnot they discover that those two people were having an affair oh my god yeah and so guess what guess what happens to them they bang they fucked they fall in love but it would have been even better if they died in a plane or a train crash yeah gabe was right yeah there's just not enough commercial crashes for that plot line to work but well i don't know we're headed in the direction where well the planes are falling apart yeah

boeing is trying to do everything they can to make that plot function every time i'm on a plane lately i look around and go, well, it's still got ashtrays on the arms. This might be an old plane. Yeah, no, that is such a sad truth. I know, yeah. Every plane was from the 70s. Oh, thank God, ashtrays. Back when they screwed

them. Okay, so Renan's on the board, but anybody can win this still. So, Gabe, you're up first again.'s a tough position plane crash train crasher automobile crash uh in a movie called white nights white night okay interesting gareth i feel like your logic last round was so strong and it was still wrong so i feel like I really don't know what to do. I know. Don't do not take anything I do. I'm going to say a car crash. There's a car crash in White Knights is unfortunately incorrect.

Okay. Gareth with the perfect logic. Reminder, I'm losing. Well, you know, instead of using my movie logic, I always try to go with the Doug logic, which is Doug just going to turn this into a thing where I'm going to keep regretting not saying plane, which is possible, but I'll go train on this one. No, Doug, not a good laugh. I will find your hotel. Douglas. Oh, my God.

I knew these would be, you know, know difficult but i don't know i just uh double plane crash is a real uh mine yeah well you're both yeah but also just like just the just two unlucky guesses by two players back to back it's just uh it's impressive thank you so but but i appreciate like now i have lots of answers left i could play this game again uh sometime in the future because uh it is fun to talk about fictional plane crashes and um uh this movie uh the is a plane crash and a very spectacular one, like a well shot, uh, plane crash.

Um, Mikhail Baryshnikov stars as a ballet dancer trying to defect. He's trying to defect from, uh, Russia and his plane crashes in Siberia. Wow. And you can imagine. Yeah.

Is he plieing away? Yeah. it's got lots of dancing in it and gregory hines is the co-star because he's this uh a black guy that somehow i forget how how he knows him or how why but this this guy tries to help him out and he's a tap dancer so there's a lot of tap dancing and ballet okay in weird-ass movie. It's not like a very whimsical thing involving a plane crash. It's not. Well, it's kind of, you know, the plane crash just sort of sets the plot in motion, which is true of a lot of movies that have plane crashes in them.

It's just sort of plane crashes and then a person's stuck on an island or whatever, or they have to eat each other. Okay, so congratulations to Renan. You killed it. You won that game, and that means you get to go first in our next game, which is not really a prize and not really a win, but we'll be right back. We are back, and we got one more uh serious game to play okay to determine our winner today uh renan won the first game but in this game he can't sit back and wait for the points to come to him well he

didn't really do that i mean he was just he wasn't like a strat. I mean, he just went last. It was advantageous. It's the first time I'm winning and feel like it's been rigged in my favor at the same time. Yeah. Usually I accuse that of other people. I mean, I tried to give Gabe

and Gareth a, you know... Oh, don't. Don't do that, Doug. We're all better than that, Doug. Doug, you should have just kept on going and it was plane crash every time and just watch people just lose their mind. I was a part of one of those.

I don't remember what it was. It was like bear, wolf, or whatever attack. We probably did like eight of them and by like six, you're like, is every one of these going to be a goddamn bear, Doug? Yeah, I mean, today everyone was a plane crash i have several more what are the other ones i'm not gonna tell you he's saving it somebody somebody there's a future guest might might listen to this episode and then uh i guess it probably wasn't it wouldn't be cheating but it would be definitely getting some help but also flyer lord of the flies yeah they get they get even weirder than the the two that i told you about the two that i told you about were like commercial movies and

one of them was a huge hit and a rich one was a huge hit and got a lot of oscar nominations are you serious might have even been best picture but definitely stuff like uh you know screenplay and cinematography and stuff it's a really uh it's a handsome film as i recall sure i thought but you know i saw it when i was a kid all right um so renan gets to go first uh in our next game because, oh, and this is the one you have to win to win it all. It's called The Little Search Engine That Could. and wrote down the top 12 movies that had that word in the title, which is ranked by popularity this very day by IMDb. Okay. Yeah.

Today I picked a word that has been in probably hundreds of movie titles. The word is the – i'm kidding the word the name of the top movies that begin with the oh man no the word is you y-o-u y-o-u yeah so renan's gonna go first and then what you do renan is you name a movie that has the word you in it. I'll tell you if it made the top ten. If it did, the higher up on the list it is, the more points you get. Number one is worth ten points. Number ten is worth one point.

Then there's all those points in between. And we reverse the order on this. So after Renan is Gareth. And then Gabe. on this so after renan is gareth and then gabe and you'll each take turns until you've made three guesses a piece you know as we go i'll tell you when you guess i'll tell you where it landed on the list if it did and then we'll add up all the points and the losers go home and the winner plays the bonus round there's no bonus bonus round. Alright, so are you ready, Renan? Yeah, sure.

That's the spirit. As you will ever be. Okay, so you just need to name a movie that you think is very popular today like being searched on imdb today that has the word you in it so it's the most this is these movies are the ones who are most searched on imdb you're saying correct i think that's how it ranks yeah it's the popularity ranking and they you know they sprinkle in tv shows and stuff so and any actors with the name you, but I don't think there are any. But I just wrote down the top 12 in order.

Top 12 movies searched with the word you. Word you. And it is as of this morning, today. Because they're always changing it around. Right. Because you're always moving. Have you thought of a few at this point i thought of one it's a little tough because like most movies don't start with you and the only movie i can think of right off the top of my head that starts with you is you can count on me

which is probably not the most searched movie on imdb um but i'm really wait uh are you afraid definitely tell some more titles that what other players can say later keep keep spitballing there keep talking keep talking wait hold on let me let me just give me give me a second hold on um uh and you'll get two more guesses so it's not all on the line right here. You can count on me. I know that's not going to be on there. Well, it was, you know, the big, basically that was the movie that gave us Mark Ruffalo.

It's a great movie. And yeah, Laura Linney is in it. It's very good. Yeah, Matthew Broderick. Yeah, yeah. It's a good one. Unfortunately, it didn't make the top 12. But I mean, you'll be surprised what did.

It doesn't necessarily... It's not a quality list or anything like that. Damn it. I thought of one. But the thing about it, too, with this one, necessarily it's not a quality list or anything like that but uh but this is you know this the thing about it too with this one is there are i'm not kidding like hundreds of movies that have you in them so uh that's also the thing is that you know that one you said you can count on me could be you know number 13 or 14 or something 12 answers just popped into my head after I got that wrong. Okay, well now you're going to get

two more tries, but now we're going to go with Gareth. Gareth, what's your guess? I'm going to just call my shot that I don't even need two guesses after this one. Wow. Not in a good way. I should point that's

not me boasting. The just has you in the title. Yeah. Anywhere in the title could be the first word, could be the sixth word. I'm going to say. I know what you did last summer. Oh, that's a terrific guess, but not on the list. Oh, wow.

That popped in my head immediately. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is tough. For my long-term strategy, this is not great. But somebody will get on the board eventually. I have faith.

Gabe? So I was just thinking of this movie because my i was with my friend nick and he hates this movie so much and we put it on cable and he was like we must turn this off which is uh now you see me the magic movie oh my god i still can't get over the fact that they made a sequel and called it now you see me too they could have called it now you don't yeah genius yeah it was right there it was so but they just the ip situation is so out of control that they think people won't be able to figure out it's a sequel to that dumb movie but like the most the biggest misuse of mark ruffalo the way he runs around trying to catch these stupid magicians

is just embarrassing. His character in that movie is sillier than his character in Poor Things. But now you see me is on the list, and it came in at number eight. Wow. Nice. Wow. Number eight on the list.

So that means Gabe has got let's see here ten nine eight six five four no three point okay I'll take three oh wait is that right no I fucked it up hang on twelve eleven I should have

done this before the show no no it's nobody needs to listen to me figure out the math of this but four wait god damn it okay yeah three two one yes okay so you get uh five points for that nice gabe is on the board we're back to renan what do you think what's another you movie well i've been uh thinking about movies in the past but i think i'm gonna fuck that and just say a very recent movie and i don't know is that sydney sweeney movie anyone but you anyone but you a rom-com i hear it's like i hear it's like, I hear it's not that bad. And then it's also, I guess it's also dirty, lots of dirty humor. And it's, but the thing they hid from the public,

much like how they hide a musical is a musical these days, like the trailers never have never give away. It's a musical like color purple or mean girls in this case, they don't give away that it's the source material is Shakespeare. And it's a, it's an adaptation away that the source material is Shakespeare. It's an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. Oh, wow. Yeah, but they just copped to it more recently like it wasn't ever any part of the promotion of the film.

But the film is doing well, and it's doing so well that it is number one on the list. Wow. Coming through with a whopping 12 points. That's tough. I think seven point lead. But Gareth, you could still do this. I don't believe that I can.

Tie him up. No, but again, there's knowledge we're not acknowledging. Believe me, I'm with my brain right now. That confidence is unwarranted. You said you didn't even need three guesses when you popped off that in again that's out of context doug i tried to really i told you what i meant it was not good um i am very confident this will be my last guess by the way um i will say i still know and i don't even know i will i know you did last number two is that what other um i don't even know if this is the actual title

and 10 things i hate about you oh yeah yeah that's it speaking of shakespeare and being uh successfully adapted into a rom-com, even one with children in it, it's like one of my favorite movies. I mean, they're adults. Heath Ledger was probably 24 or something. But it's one of my favorite high school-based set movies because I'm generally not interested in them. But it's pretty good, and it's number six on the list.

Wow. Okay. Nice. You got a nice seven points. You're right in the middle now. But Gabe gets the opportunity to add more points to his score. Yeah. His next guess right now.

I'm going to, speaking of romantic comedy, I'm going to say uh that thing you do oh no that's good fun trivia about that movie did you know that tom hanks's character is gay what no watch it again i thought you said did you know it's based on the beatles i think you say tom hanks wrote and directed how the beatles are all gay no it's um you know they just thought that was an interesting character thing to do is have him be gay and then like the ones one or two scenes where you know it's kind of revealed that he's gay that ended up getting caught from the movie oh interesting you know and he was obviously not acting all swishy or anything but but if you watch it, you can kind of sense that that's what they were going for.

If you're watching it with that eye, put your gay eye on it. He plays just a little gay. The B-side to that thing you do is all swishy, which actually makes a lot of sense. It was like 90s gay. It was pretty hidden. Can you imagine sitting through that movie if you hated that thing you do the song

because they play it like 15 times i think i got there eventually they really were one hit uh own eaters that's right okay so uh unfortunately that did not make the list wow okay yeah okay I mean it's a classic that people should revisit and you know it's one of those movies where you go oh yeah that's right that's Charlize Theron is the bitch

the bitchy girlfriend okay Gabe are you there Gabe I'm here yeah it's your turn Okay. Gabe? Are you there, Gabe? I'm here, yeah. It's your turn. Did I not just... Oh, I go again. Yeah, you each get three guesses.

That's right. That's right. Okay. Sorry. I was in this play in high school, and they made a movie about it in, I think, the 50s, maybe earlier. They made a movie about you in high school? And they did it in the 50s? So fresh.

Yeah, it's about not having sex. Gabe, I love your who wants to be a millionaire answers where you tell the back story first. It was 1982. I do so much of it. Everything needs to be an hour yeah yeah um uh yeah the movie's called you can't take it with you oh yeah i think it won the oscar for best picture in uh 1938 oh wow if i'm not mistaken yeah hella early and uh probably on the list somewhere, but not in the top 12, unfortunately.

But you still have a shot at this. There's still enough points out there for you to surpass Renan. But Renan, you have a chance to add more points right now. Well, I feel like at first I went with an independent film and got cruelly, you know, corrected. And then I went with money and got right. But the only thing now I can think of is another independent film, but I'll just go with it. You Are Not Here. Ooh.

Wait. Another one. Wait, I just realized, I don't even know if that's actually a movie. Wait, is that what the Dylan movie's called? I'm not here i'm not here not here but you are not here does sound like it could be a title i just said a movie that doesn't exist maybe i've been going through like eight titles that i don't believe exist in my head i'm just gonna go with i love you i'll just assume that's a good one oh that's a fun way to go i was hoping there's an obscure movie called i love you that uh people are searching right now

and there isn't but you're the lead with 12 points you could still win this yeah you could go back to sitting mode where you win while just sitting there oh yeah passive yeah exactly but also it's exciting. This is like on Price is Right when the first person spins a number and now you have to wait and see if anybody can top you. Starting with Gareth,

what is one of these fictional titles that you've got that you think... Well, my first spin would be like The 30 Cent. So, whatever. I was going to say You Can Count on me, but I don't. I know that is a movie. I have no idea what it was. But after Renan answered, I think I love you, man.

Oh, yeah. That's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not I think it's just I love you, man. Doug, don't do this. We're in Austin together. Don't you betray your Austin brother. I can't commit you entirely right now. I think I love you, man. You're combining it with I think I love my wife.

Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also, it's funny that you kind of wanted to guess. You could count on me when that was Renan's first guess. Oh, is that? Well, things are good over here, everybody. Things are fine. You're like, for some reason, I'm thinking you can count on me.

I don't know why. Yeah. It's very exciting. I incepted. I incepted you, man. I've been sitting here thinking of you movie titles that don't exist for so long. Now, wait. Is that you never said that we can't guess another person's movie, though, Doug, to be fair.

Oh, no. You didn't break any rules. You just basically just said i want zero points that's and i that's been my attitude the whole game doug because we've already established that that that movie is not on the list yeah and i'd love for you to check one more time just to be okay i'm looking over um and i think i love you or i love you i love you yeah i love you man none of none of those made the list i would have given it to you but i love you, man. None of those made the list. I would have given it to you.

But I love you, man is a movie. It is. Okay. Yeah. I'm just happy. I'm just happy that I answered with something that nobody else did. It's Paul Rudd. And everybody likes to quote him saying, slap into base.

Yeah. He's slapping the base in that movie. By the way, you are not here is actually the walking Phoenix movie, right? What? Probably. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. base in that movie by the way you are not here is actually the walking phoenix movie right what action movie probably yeah okay yeah yeah yeah i mean everybody's not there or here uh gabe if you get a movie on this list that's in the top we've got number two number three number four number five any of those wow will bring you the win anything after that uh renan will retain and doug just to be clear i don't have a chance at this one this is no i can't think of a way there's not a path okay from renan so okay okay i tried to do that by guessing his first okay go ahead thank you oh that would have interesting. It would have been really funny if when you guessed it, it was on the problematic.

This guy is really rigging this thing. All right, Gabe, what do you got? So I think this round is officially a plane crash. But I also think this movie we were I feel like I wasn't thinking about good movies and then I was like I should change my tune. Okay, so I think it's Catch Me If You Can. Oh yeah, gotta be on there. I like

the way you thought it through, Gabe, and it was a valiant effort in the clutch to try to topple Renan's seven-point lead, but I'm here to tell you, Catch Me If You Can is number two on

the list. Eleven points, bringing you to a whopping total of 16, and Gabe, Malika, you are our winner this week. Thank you, everybody. That was a nice pull, me if you can yeah because i

think that's a sneaky you you know you don't really think of the word you being in there even you know it's like all the focus is on catching somebody and and whether or not it's possible i thought one one more as he said i never i was like i never promised you a rose garden that's something right i think I think so, yeah. It's certainly a song lyric. Or you can count on me. Nobody said that one. Yeah, I really wish somebody did because it's number three.

All right, let me tell you what's going on with the ones you missed. We'll start at the bottom with number 12 was the Sean Connery, James Bond classic. You only live twice. Yes. Yes. Number 11 was one of my favorite Adam Sandler films. You don't mess with the Zohar,

which is just the most ridiculous movie. It's so funny. It's great. So much does so much weird shit with his feet. Which is just the most ridiculous movie. It's so funny. It's great, yeah. Does so much weird shit with his feet. Quentin Tarantino's favorite comedy. Number 10 on the list. No one was going to get this unless they were just spitballing expressions.

Because it's a movie called I See You that starred Helen Hunt. And I think somebody in it was maybe blind or something. Oh, I know which one that is. Yeah, I think he's, yes, there's a disability. Yeah, she falls in love with somebody disabled. Yeah, right. And then speaking of Sandler, his daughters wrote and starred in a movie that he made for Netflix

called You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah. Wow. his daughters wrote and starred in a movie that he made for netflix called you are so not invited to my bat mitzvah wow yeah which i've seen some of it and it's really good really yeah because it's you know it's from this perspective of his you know his daughters are clearly smart girls because like it's uh what i saw of it i was like i would actually watch this whole movie and at first i was like oh sandler's daughters i don't know if i there's anything there for me but uh i think it's really good what i saw of it um and then uh then there's like a uh i guess uh it was on streaming uh it debuted on streaming, but it's very popular. And I still,

it's number seven on the list, a movie with no dialogue. So I didn't care for it. Cause I don't, I don't like those kinds of stunty things where people are intentionally not talking for an entire movie, but it's called no one will see you. Or maybe,

or is it no one will help you? I think it's no one will help you. I don't know. I wrote down, I think I wrote down, see you because the next movie was now you see me no one will help you no one will save you that's what it's called no one oh oh oh the harm that one about the alien invasion yeah yeah yeah interesting there's there's no talking and even in the beginning when there should be talking people are like just making faces at each other so it's just like and you know i get i get it as an exercise but i just didn't uh i just didn't love the movie and

the girl that stars in it caitlin deaver i like her she's great yeah anytime somebody's a good actor you don't want to see them in some movie where they never speak you know like i you know i get that these are good for you that you got to do a movie where you never had to learn lines that's a good point that's a really easy yeah yeah like nicholas page doesn't speak in wally's wonderland and uh or willie's wonderland and um uh you know he just fights robots the whole movie he just you know chucky cheese type characters come to try to kill people. But his character doesn't speak. The other characters speak, but he's silent. Okay. A Rom Without the Calm starring Emilia Clarke was number five.

It's called Me Before You. Oh, right. Yeah. Julia Louis-Dreyfus movie that came out recently that has supporting turn by David Cross and his wife, Tamblyn called you hurt my feelings yeah I would I do a bit about that movie that's right there it's the first word but it does that also that's one of those titles like there's so many titles these days that just come and go for me because they you know they are just like kind of just a random sentence you know like i'm at south by southwest and on the first day i saw i don't

understand you and i love you forever wow yeah they're both good but uh you know just titles that just sound like somebody just said a sentence and somebody wrote it down um and then uh number three was a uh a netflix film that got i felt like it got a terribly mixed reaction i like parts of it but uh it's called you people oh that was all jill and eddie murphy yeah oh right right right yeah that the whole premise is just a black girl dating a white guy which would have been a premise in the 60s but pretty crazy if you think about it a white guy dates a black girl what else that's it and tom hanks is gay yeah going on it starts off you people i thought i thought it started off really funny and like it was going to be a fun movie because the first scene is like at a wedding and Jonah Hill's character, every single relative he has says something horrifying to him, you know, just in conversation.

They're all terrible. Everybody's racist or stupid or both. And and he's just always like the white guy that's trying to you know trying to be woke or whatever and i thought that was really funny at first but then after a while i was like oh no this is just they don't really have a point that they're trying to make it's just yeah and i had that annoying uh that thing that's so overdone now where all the characters look like they have a comedy central roast group of writers just roasting each other. Like, wow, all these normal people should really become roasters. That's just

how they have dialogue. Yeah, the dialogue is really... But I tell you, the first scene I thought was really funny just the way everyone was terrible. But then, like, you know, just watching Julia Louis-Dreyfus have to continue to be terrible through a whole movie is just like, oh, OK, you know, I get it. She likes to do things that are different, but very cringe.

I think, you know, I know. And I think Jonah Hill is so funny, but like his personal life stuff has been so weird in the last few years. Yeah, he's just that's documentary was one of the weirder things I've seen. Yeah, exactly. I really liked that. I couldn't figure out what I felt about it and I still don't think I know. It's weird because it kind of

breaks the number one rule of what's happening in therapy. Yeah. That it's just between two people behind closed doors. That's right. Okay, so Catch Me If You Can was number two, of course, and Anyone But You was number one. Congrats again to Gabe Malika for being our winner today.

We'll have you back on the show soon, but for now, please promote yourself. What have you got to promote? Yeah, I have a big week in Bostonoston i'm doing my solo show for a week in a theater that's maybe too big but we're turning it into a week of theater so please come see me in april at the calderwood pavilion uh seven shows in five days uh april 16th through the 21st nice that'll be fun yeah i'm I'm excited. I like Beantown. Gareth Reynolds.

What would you like to promote? Well, clearly you've been to Boston, Doug. You're dropping the local stuff. I mean, I really, when I come to town, I do 40 minutes just on the words Beantown. And I'll tell you, they love it. They love to hear about oh yeah they eat that up that's why it's beat that i should call chicago the bean town because of the big meat

i actually everywhere i go i do you guys should be called bean town uh i have a new podcast called we're here to help uh that people can listen to i also this week will be in Lafayette and New Orleans, and then I'll be in the Midwest in April and all over. So go to garethreynolds.com and on all the bullshit, I'm at Reynolds Gareth. And Doug, I gotta say very quickly, I saw

Super High Me at South by Southwest one year, and I was like, I fucking loved it. That was the, did you see in the daytime or nighttime? I think daytime. Yeah, so you saw afternoon screening nighttime? I think daytime. Yes. You saw afternoon screening over at the convention center. Yes, it was the second screening. It premiered at the Paramount on the first night of the festival that year.

And yeah, thank you for that. So wild that you were there. I know. I was just thinking that when we yeah, when we establish in the same place. But so great. But anyway, that's a, yeah. And do you remember a lady at the end of the Q and a, maybe you didn't stay for the Q and a.

I think I did. Oh, okay. At the end of the Q and a, a lady asked me, describe this experience in three words. And I was like, I was just such a mic drop moment i i just said some questions suck and then just when i just walked out i didn't like you know say thanks for coming or anything it's just such a funny thing to walk exit on um so yeah so speaking of South by Southwest, like starting when I came to the premiere of that movie many 16, 17 years ago, ever since then, I've come to South by Southwest every year. And they are very nice at the South by Southwest comedy to let me do Doug Love's movies tapings at every South by Southwest.

This one is no exception. You can see it today because this episode comes out on Monday. Today at 4 o'clock at Esther's Follies in downtown Austin. If you have a South by Southwest badge,

of course you get right in but also if you bring some if you fashion some sort of name tag it doesn't have to be good uh you can get in uh for free today at esters at four you have to pay to get in if you want to come join us at the improv on tuesday march 19th and i think that's uh i think that's everything I want to say. Oh, yeah, for all of my dates and ticket links, including March 19th at the Lab at the Improv in LA, go to douglasmovies.com. I always end every episode with...

Wait, I never did my plugs. Yeah, Renan. That's what I was just about to say. I always end every oh by just updating everybody on what's going on with renan hershberg and uh so i call it renan's corner and um uh what would you like to plug uh you could just uh just sign up to my mailing list at rononcomedy.com, R-A-N-O-N, comedy, and you'll get alerts to my upcoming dates. Oh, my God. How often do you, you know, is it like Amber Alerts?

Do they happen a lot? Yeah. Yeah. Every time I have any thought, I text everyone. Every time he walks out of a movie. My very personal Twitter. No, just when I'm in your town. And I'll be at Dr. Grint's next weekend

if you want to come see me live in Lansing, Michigan. I love it too because everybody listening when I skipped doing your plugs was just sitting there waiting for the shoe to drop for you to say something or me to remember or us to just completely move on and just like it

didn't happen. So I end every show, thanks again to Gareth, Reynolds, Renan, Hirschberg, and Gabe. Of course, so much fun. Thank you, Doug. This is the best. I end every episode with a line from, the last line

from a motion picture. So I dug up, I found what the last line is to the movie, You Can't Take It With You. Hey. Yeah. And so as always, I hope you like it, Mr. Kirby. Thanks so much, Doug. Have a good night.

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