The Flop House - The Flop House: Episode #145 - R.I.P.D.

Episode Date: February 8, 2014

Ryan Reynolds' abs are RIPD like lettuce. We ease Elliott back into the Flop House groove with a movie right in our wheelhouse: the Men in Black/Ghostbusters-lite disaster R.I.P.D. Meanwhile Dan introduces the concept of ghost hats, Elliott uses the new recording space for its foley possibilities, Stu rails against shark-drummer racism, and the whole gang does their impeccable Boston accents.Movies recommended in this episode:Who's That Knocking at My DoorSudden DeathRay Harryhausen: Special Effects TitanCaptain Phillips

It's the return of the Kael House. I'm Dan McCoy. Hey guys, how are you doing? I'm Stuart Wellington. Thanks. And I'm Halley Hagland. Wait, no, I'm not. I'm Halley. Halley, it's back. That was probably your worst impression I've ever heard. I'll try that and hold on. Hello, it's me, Ellie Aglind. Perfect. Yeah, those boys. Okay, hold on, hold on.

Hi, I'm Ellie. I'm a girl. She's pretty close. You can't see puppy dogs. Tea parties, princess unicorn. That's a real sound like. Good stuff puppy dogs, team parties, Princess Unicorn. That's a real sound like. Good stuff. Anyway, yeah, I'm back. Yeah.

Bitches, should I have that much attitude? No. So, Elliot, we've made a few changes in your absence. Uh-oh, yeah, I've been a gonf for a month. Now, this is about, this is called... You've been on assignment. Well, I've been on assignment as a father. You've been on a mission to Moscow.

If I Moscow, you mean parenthood. And by mission, you mean life change. And by two. Be a great man. Your hair is super long. Yeah, yeah. I'm like Thor just flowing locks. Yeah. That's your half. Thor a helmet with tiny wings. And I get a more of a mercury if you're a homo I got a magic hammer and also a baby okay just like just don't confuse them because that would be oh I already I already swung my baby around and tried and tried to fly with it didn't work but no there's been a slight format change we're now known as the fruit house which is gonna talk about our favorite fruits got to go oranges He's really using all the space that's what I liked about that bit there was some fully work there I opened a slam to door. I don't know if you heard it. Uh-oh. I'll just warm myself by the fire

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So, uh, uh, uh, my grandma's me low. An MGM production. What's going on? Hey guys, real talk. Okay. We're getting in the, uh, the movie of the week or the two weeks, which is what we do here at the flop. Here at the flop house. We do a movie every two weeks.

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Well, we missed you, Elliot. We don't want to. We don't want to. I mean, I see you every day at work. So really hasn't been like we've... I see you every day on I mean, I see you every day at work. So it really hasn't been like, I see you every day on my phone when I look at pictures that Dan posts for more. Okay, so it's like you're hanging out with me. Yeah, I talked to my phone.

I missed not being here for the last couple episodes. I was sad about it when I'm back, so thank you. Thanks to the fans for sticking with us through that dark period when I wasn't on the show. Anyway, so we're going to money toopia, you said? Zero little sponsor spot for one of our new sponsors. Want me to take care of this spot for you? Yeah.

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And Valentine's Day is coming up soon. This week. Yeah, thank you, sir. Proflowers. But mostly. Where all the pros get their flowers. Mostly we're not a flower podcast mostly. We're a bad movie podcast Yeah, it's playing before we watch an allegedly bad film and we talk about it and tonight we watch a little film called our period I

Period Period, I mean all the fun for us Period period. Period. I mean, all the fun for us in the fish market. Period. Rip it. Rip it. Yeah, we did rip wipits tonight and ripits. So, this is a big deal. So what is RIPD stand for?

I assume it's like the rest in peace. Really interesting people do. We're like, rare iguana patrol doctor. You're good at this. You want me some more? Reservoir, igloo plus dog. It's like a real estate ad, you get a dog. Or what about a recording industry, pros, documents, I guess it's a contract.

Recombat Inception. Pretty. Just gonna keep going, doing this, I guess. Teamiest. What about, okay, what if it was rectangular individual. Sure, yeah. Pying. Dangerously.

So I guess like out of an airplane window. Yeah, it's from one of the Mr. Mr. Box. Yeah, of all those, I think I would prefer to watch the movie right-tangular individual paint dangerously. Yeah, but unfortunately watched Reston Peace Department. Yeah, which is it's like a little movie, but this one costs a lot of money. This is a big budget movie with big stars and a big lack of ideas at the center of it. You're Ryan Reynolds, you got your Jeff Bridges, you have your Mary Louise Parker.

You've got Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon is in it. James Hong. James Hong isn't it? The biggest name in Hollywood, James Hong. I mean, he's been in so many more movies. This was much more interesting than watching the movie, which was looking on IMDB and discovering

that James Hong has 387 listings as an actor on I'm DB. The man has almost 400 acting credits on I'm DB. He's great and Hollywood is lazy when it comes to casting ethnic parts. Yeah. I mean, you may know him as the butler from Chinatown. Yeah. You may know him as well.

Well, man, everybody was listening to this. I know it's a very much. Well, that's where I was going. Yeah, I know him as well. Pain everybody. Everybody was listening to this. That's where I was going. He was also one of the hench bed guys. They started at the desert at the beginning of the beginning of the. I don't have to do whatever I want. Yeah, big trouble. Little China is the dessert compared to Chinatown.

Well, I think this Chinatowns a load of crap. Get that out quick. Let's get to big trouble. Little China. I just, well, I know the China town's a load of crap get that out quick. Let's get to big trouble a little China I just well, I know the real deserve what was Kim control in China town I don't think so instant F him playing the Butler in Chinatown is not as big a role as in plank low pan and China In the real man to believe little big trouble little Chinatown forget it forget it jack bird and it's big trouble Little Chinatown yeah Forget it, forget it Jack Burton. It's a big trouble. A little time. Yeah.

Sound in. But this movie instead of that, this movie is not that. So he's criminally underused. James Hynne. A crime that would not be enforced by the rest in peace department. I'm less of a ghost. I'm less of a ghost. Did it.

Specifically a dead-o does it. A dead-o as they're called. Which is not a normal, okay, you explain. Let's talk about sex, maybe. I was gonna say all right VD but all right there's only one place where ghost and sex intersect and that's the blowjob scene and ghost blusters so let's talk about it anyway Dan Echroids line on a bed his pants come on unzip of their own wait a minute guys his eyes get super crossed at some point right. Yeah. So I jumped to the end again. He's like all along with. Because he's what the sex judge. Yeah.

Bring in the neighborhood. Bring in the defendant. I mean guys if you were getting a ghost blow job come on. Yeah. They call them boo jobs. Yeah. You made that joke during the movie. Yeah but the audience were the listeners weren't there for that. Okay. Yeah. You made that joke during the movie. Yeah, but the audience, the listeners weren't there for that. Okay. Anyway, so Ryan Reynolds is Detective Nick Walker,

a very unimaginative name of the Boston Police Department because every fucking movie takes place in Boston. That's a law. It's cheap to shoot there. It's apparently cheap to shoot there, and everybody loves doing that. They've got an accent. They've got an accent.

Yeah, we've got a bunch of Ben Affleck's and Seth McFarlane's in this movie. Yeah. Pop, pack and the car, et cetera. And so forth. They're wicked, whatever. Anyway. A lot of lava. Dunkin' Donuts.

It's the thing. It's the thing. It's the thing. Yeah. Paul Revere. Paul Revere. In Old Church. They do this. Shout in. Paul Revere. An old church.

Shout in Paul Revere and Beans. I'm from Boston. Yep, let me blur my vision. I feel like I'm there. Bastard legal. Paul Bussent. That's everyone knows about that. So anyway, so Ryan Reynolds is Nick Walker and he is partners with Kevin Bacon, who is slowly

transforming into Ethan Hawke as the ages. It's like Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon are just converging into one beautiful figure of a grizzled, sharply cheekbones man with skin like a tannery. Yeah, like a snake man. Yeah, like a beautiful snake. Yeah, exactly. One of those pretty snakes. Yeah, like, but a beautiful snake. But it's one of those pretty snakes. Yeah, one of those snakes that mesmerized you with. It's beauty.

Take a snake, lay out like, what's his name from Jungle Book, you know. Yeah. So wait a minute. So this was another example of the time when an actor walks on screen and we're immediately like, he's the bad guy because he's the next most famous guy. A minute, you see Kevin Bacon, you're like, okay, so he's the one who's gonna do it.

And you'll see, so the two of them find some gold in a drug bust and they split it up between them because their dirty cops. This happens off screen. Ryan Reynolds buries it in the backyard of his house because he's trying to clean up his act so that he and his wife, Julia, who were introduced with her sans pants,

are, they have probably the high point of the film. Yeah, but certainly they have one of those scenes where the cop and his wife talk to each other and you have to prove in one scene that this is the most loving couple in history and they come off as the most irritating people in the world. But these scenes are always written like

it's two awkward people flirting for the first time. Yeah, but they're married and they're always in a bed with the cops always waking up and his wife always comes over and like talks to him And you have to understand like that has to build up the the stakes of the movie. Yeah Well, that's the thing like I was gonna say like this is to prove that he's not a Jirth or a monster he has a wife Ellie I should like him. Ellie may disagree with me on this point But this is like the romantic version of the Sandra Bullock and Gravity thing,

where it's just like, oh, we're not gonna trust boiler-learn. We're not gonna trust that it's important for Sandra Bullock to get home, unless she has a tragic backstory with her kid. You know, we're not, there's not enough stakes just in survival. We have to actually give her some other stuff too. And this is like, oh, there's not enough,

it's not, we're not gonna be sad enough if one of these people dies in this relationship. We have to show that they have the greatest love of all. I guess, I mean, I would say in gravity that her tragic backstory is showing why she is reluctant to save herself rather than, but that's besides the point. Yeah, she might want to cross over and be with her child ghost. Yeah, in the RIVT because here's what happens. They go, Kevin Bacon and Ryan Reynolds go, they have a drug bust on some kind of meth warehouse factory and it is an explosion factor.

Just explosions everywhere. They do it by the book, they split up. All the cops, there's a big army of cops, they rush into this warehouse and all go off in different directions. It's just, it's our they rushed into this warehouse and all go off in different directions It's just our eosimony salmon all over the place flame everywhere explosions That's what's factories and manufacturers explosion. That's what that's what it's like a heavy metal music video They apparently invading the CNC music factory They're just gears and flame everywhere. They're not nearly greasy enough to be this. Light holes and backup dancers just falling off a railings. Anyway, but in all the hubbub, Kevin Bacon kills Ryan Reynolds because he knows Ryan Reynolds

is trying to go clean and he doesn't want him turning him in. Ryan Reynolds, all of time freezes around him and he's walking through this scene of Bedlam frozen in mid-moment, and then gets sucked into the sky into like a cloud whirlwind full of souls. What's a vortex? And his reaction to all this is the slightest throwing of his brow. Ryan Reynolds could not be bothered

to act the emotion of curiosity, awe, fright, wonder, surprise. They probably didn't notice it looked like until they did the special effect. So they're just like, I don't know, man, look sad or scared. But you get the feeling that this has happened to him multiple times.

Like, all right, here we go again, I'm walking through frozen times. And that's one of the media occasions on which I met my death. Yeah. But he was probably kind of wondering why he didn't get sucked up into the sky until he actually left the building, right? That's true. Apparently, here's one of the things

themes in this movie is that heaven is surprisingly limited in its abilities. It cannot suck you into heaven if you're in a building. You got to go outside and it'll take you up through the sky. But if there's a roof in the way, you're on your own. So if he decided not to leave that warehouse, I guess he'd still be haunting it to this very day. Also, heaven has a police force, which we learned because he gets pulled out and he's told that dirty cops rather than going to hell, they've given a chance to work off their time in the RIPD,

the Reston Peace Department, run, I guess, by Mary Louise Carter, who is the like- Who's like a police officer go-go dancer, Sassy police chief wearing a, yes, a short spurtin' go-go boots. And they- And a lot of plastic surgery, she's wearing that, yeah. Yes, put her on for the movie.

She explains that I guess dead souls escape and they're called deados. And they go into the living world and they rot because of their own moral evil and that rot infects the living world. And so the RAPD has to go and arrest them but also just kill them sometimes because if you shoot them with magic bullets, they're erased from reality. And then, but otherwise they get brought back to dead OJL and they just kind of sit and encages yelling at each other,

turning into monsters. That rod affects people as if it was a river of slime under New York. Yep, it's a yep. It's a, and so he gets inducted into, let's call it, so it's black lights. That's the, that was the first Ghostbusters reference. So, yeah, we're saving some course.

Well, let's, I, can I, I don't's I can I don't want to do rail the entire let me just say he gets me matched up with a partner play by Jeff Bridges who is a law US Marshall from the late 19th century the old West time doing the doing his best to erase the memory of his great rooster cockburn and he's really yeah he is really hamming it up hamming it down to be fair he's trying to do something with the character as of us a Ryan Reynolds who's just walking through like in a days but you're gonna say something that goes but no I know one of the best movies not specifically about ghost busters but I think that when this movie came out music

certainly I said something similar to this like I just I just have a problem with the I have a metaphysical problem with the concept of this movie. The concept of ghost crime that is criminals who escape. Exactly. The idea that the best the best way to deal with escape souls is through some sort of ghost police division. That number one escape souls is a thing that happens. I mean, that's that's been in a lot of pulp fiction. I'm fine with that, but then also just like the idea that like, okay, there is some sort of, I guess, guiding force in the universe, a god, if you will.

And he decides the best way to do this is to have a bunch of other ghosts go out and corral them in the same way that normal cops would corral them. Yeah, where do you think police got the idea from the ghost police? All right, yeah, it was police. And this movie shouldn't call it that. And they have basically Kurt Blanche, right? I mean, they can do whatever they want. Not really. They have it's against the rules to be seen, catching a ghost bad guy in

public because some reason it's one of those things where it's never really explained, I think, why real life people can't know about this, because if they did know about it, it would be a lot easier to catch the bad guys, because then they could just inform on them to the ghost police. Like, the same way, you have a lot of movies where it's like, we can't tell anybody there are aliens around, because we need to do this thing.

Okay, well, why not? Because if you told people, they'd get used to it eventually, and then they could help you. Just don't put on those sunglasses. Yeah, and to that point, like as we're... We're men in black. I don't understand why the aliens have to hide. But that makes more sense.

Like men in black, it makes more sense. Like the idea that there's a government agency that like for whatever reason wants to keep the peace by like keeping it quiet. I don't know. Like that makes more sense. But this is like... Religious for everyone, set the world by keeping it quiet. I don't know, that makes more sense. But this is religious fervor would set the world a fire, really, because that's not happening already. But as a religious fervor would immediately totally collapse

into one religion, because they'd be like, oh, this is how this is going. So what you're saying is you'd prefer one religion, is that it? I would say that I would, yeah, then constant religious war, yes, I would for that. would, yeah, then then constant or religious war. Yes, I would for that. Thanks Star Trek. But as we've, as we've fainted at already, like this is this movie is like a real slam up

between men and black and ghost busters. Yeah. But much, much worse than either. But like we were talking about during the movie, you know, you were, you were forwarding a mild defense saying that the premise, the premise all the basic premise of ghost police the premise of ghost busters uh... is dumb but it was done well

so like the movie was not as dumb of premises that a lot of very good movies have really stupid premises when you do if they were done poorly for instance and this is an example i used kink Kong fantastic movie one of my favorites of all time has a premise that has been done so poorly so many times and it's like oh yeah when a movie is done poorly then a story about a giant gorilla seems really stupid but I would argue that there is something inherently smarter about the ghost busters premise than this premise which is that something inherently smarter about the Ghostbusters premise than this premise, which is that, that people are catching ghosts? Well, yeah, in Ghostbusters, it's presented as like a bunch of idiots who don't necessarily

understand all of the forces they're fucking with. They all have doctorates. Going out to like treat ghosts as if they don't have street terminators. Whereas in this movie, it's like people who have died and theoretically should know better, like working on behalf of some, I don't know, like organizing force in the universe to catch these ghosts. And I think that's a lot dumber than the idea of like,

oh, some normal jails are gonna like go out and catch ghosts. It is dumber. I'm just saying I would, I think there's a good way to do a movie about ghost police who catch ghost crooks. Or maybe not even movie, like it could be like a crappy TV show that's fun, you know. And if it's done well, you don't spend as much time thinking about the stupid bullshit. Yes.

So this was done poorly and as a result, when they go to the evidence locker in the ghost cop police precincts, they're taking matter from the real world and bringing it to this ghost realm. Which is only a police station. Yes. But their evidence that locker has a lot of like gears and like it's a big piece of machine. It's like the lines gate logo. And it does look a lot like the lines gate logo. And you're wondering like, well, this is they basically have magic. So like, why do they need all these machines to do this? Why don't they just have like a magic room where they keep this stuff? Yeah, they don't need to worry about force and physics and yeah

Stuff the letters There's a part where there's a part where Ryan Reynolds Mary, there's a Mary Louise Parker is is bringing Ryan Reynolds through their like file room And they're just walking on air from one door to another. There's no floor. It's just this and and let me tell you guys it looks super realistic. Oh yeah, it doesn't look CGI-ish like at all like everything else in this movie that just looks like computers. But there's a guy on a really tall

ladder opening up a file and it's like, well, they don't need a floor. Why does he need a ladder? Like I don't understand. Can you just fly around? He's a ghost. Anyway, there's a lot of not really. Maybe he's a human who just works in the ghost. So so he, so he, they just, they had to add in the paper. That's a rough commute, by the way.

Yeah. Yeah. Gotta get, go outside and get sucked up into the SkyFortex. And then you go to your job. How do you get home? You, wait, I don't know. You have Ryan Rounds take you, I don't know. Yeah, I guess he drives you there.

Oh no. Takes you through the magical toilet that they travel through. That goes into a VCR repair shop. It goes here's the thing. You learn that you can, there's this one portal between the Ghost Precinct and Boston, which is the bathroom of a VCR repair shop. Uh, and the two partners, uh, Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds don't get along at first.

Why would they? It's a movie. Eventually, they win each other's trust and respect blah, blah, blah. They go to not that much, but not that much. They still like the movie. Kind of just, no, no. It's worth a two in part three, dude. Eventually, no, I mean, they're friends at the end. It's just that like, they don't really put that much energy into this, uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, like goodles. Like the ghost guy's favorite like hole in the log ghost doodle joints.

Goodle joint. Yeah. And there would actually be some effort defining Ryan Reynolds character beyond the fact that he stole gold one time and has a life. Yeah, all you can do is really his only is only characteristics. Guess he likes gold. And we have to assume is is totally like a leopard. And we have to assume is is totally is totally ripped.

He never takes a shirt off. So we don't know. Yeah, he doesn't need to take that shirt off. Rip it. He is. That's I thought this movie was just ripped and it's about guys working on their apps. But it was about ghosts working out to get super, super built. But anyway, so they go to earth. He goes to his funeral, tries to approach his wife, but uh-oh. The ghosts are seen in fake identities by living people, and Ryan Reynolds is instead James Hong, an old Chinese man. And so he, every time he tries to approach his wife, he just looks like an old Chinese man who's trying to touch your face, which is frightening. And the whole sequence is done almost as sensitive as in spawn. They are going for that, they're going for,

this is the heartbreaking moment when his wife doesn't recognize him. But yeah, it's real. Like all you can think is like, man, you look, this is super creepy. You're just a stranger walking up and trying to touch your face. And Jeff Bridges. And now, someone touches somebody's face anyway. Even if it's somebody you love, you just walk up and trying to touch your face well and uh... and Jeff bridges and a lot of some touches somebody's face anyway even if it's somebody you love you just walk in the touch their face that's weird well faces are a touch in public yeah yeah it's legal now

Jeff bridges avatar is uh... hot lady some victory secret model whose name escapes me but the movie treats like the very existence of the yeah not like he's not gonna Google the letter. He's gonna Google something. What does that mean? The movie treats the...

RIPD hot-lady nude. That's what he's gonna go with feet. Yeah, that is the good thing. Did you mean RIPD hot-lady nude feet? I was just gonna say that this movie treats the very existence of hot ladies and elderly Asian men as hilarious. As a punchline in and of itself. Punchline.

Like there's no need for extra jokes. There's no complications. Actually, like there are actual scenes where it could be funny to like cut to the other person doing the thing. That Ryan Reynolds or Jeff Bridges, yeah, but they just don't do it. They don't do it. Well, we also learn that. Why are I be the, we should get, go through the rest of the plot real fast.

You learn that human powder makes deadows who are in disguise, reveal themselves as monsters. They chase one down and he vomits up a bunch of gold. And it looks like the gold Ryan Reynolds stole turns out it's magic gold. They give it to Michael Malley who's like a red socks guy who gives it to Kevin Bacon because it's buddy. Am I right? Yep. Hoa lover. Did you already say beans earlier? Yep, we've covered beans. Beans?

Okay, other Boston stuff. Cabal stones. Cream pie, did you say cream pie earlier? Wicked fighting. Don't know what's going on. Wicked video. Have you been to Boston then? Viva LaFran. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Big statue of Jesus and Rio de Janeiro. Perfect. Yeah.

Leaning Tower of Pisa in Boston. It's pizza. We think Tower of Pisa. Anyway, this movie is so dumb. I feel such... So they got the magic gold. They put that shit in the oven. I'm still like such a waste of my time.

So they go on for more gold because Kevin Bacon's collecting all this magic stupid gold. They, they find there's a dead O, they chase after him and he goes, I'm tired of hiding and leads them on a merry chase, destructive, an destructive rampage through the city. Long story short, they get caught on TV, they get the gold. They don't get the gold. Oh, they don't, they got that gold.

Oh, they do get the gold, but they get suspended. And so the next day, they get suspended. They're told, tomorrow's your disciplinary hearing. So I guess now do whatever. Car blow, you might get erased. You might get erased. Live like you're dying, dude. But until then, just kind of go wherever.

You'll be stubborn to do whatever. Yeah, that's what they call it, right? Double dog day. They find out that the gold they picked up is part of something called the staff of Jericho, a mystical device that will instead of having people leave the earth and go to dead place, they'll come back down to heaven, thus destroying the earth. You know, real avenger style tunnel, full of stuff. A vortex.

Heaven Bacon reveals that he's been an evil dead O all along. They arrest him and they take him to the police station. But hey, this is a movie. So being arrested and taking the police station was part of his plan the whole time. Yeah. Even though he still went for a gun when they came to pick him up. He pulled a real Joker Benedict Cumberbatch. A Benedict Joker Batch.

I wonder in real life how many criminals are arrested and trying to psych out the police by being like, how do you know this isn't part of my old play, and buddy? That would be... You're like, you're on crystal meth. Stop talking to me. You saw dark night. Why do you think I let you catch me when I was breaking into that ATM? There's a phone in your stomach.

There's not a phone in my stomach. Yes, there. Well, I'm in your stomach. There's not a phone in my stomach. Yes, there. Well, I'm con. No, you're not. But it's just one of many plot twists that we've seen in other movies, but RIPD was like, hey, who cares if they've seen it before?

We're gonna do it. We're gonna make it all computer animated, and not really put much attention to it. Anyway, they escape with all the gold. The deadows go back to earth. They're gonna build this Jericho towerower thing to bring all the dead people They kidnap Ryan Reynolds wife because she's got to be the sacrifice for it because it runs on living blood

There's a big action sequence at the end. Why the bad guy take her you can't take it anybody right? He says I didn't it didn't need to be her, but I wanted to get a last dig on Ryan Reynolds No, that's stupid though. He's just asking for it. He's like, you like the sequel though. It goes right, comes right. He thought Cal Pen was pretty funny. He thought Tyge was her character with a lot of... What about Tyge?

What's his story? Now, when we've seen the rise of Tyge, what's he gonna do now that he's risen? And it was like the rise of cobra? Or more like the revenge of the fallen? Yeah, you really expect to see the fall of Taj and then the redeeming of Taj. The re-rise of Taj, like a Taj Phoenix. It's like the color's trilogy.

Yeah, exactly what it's like. It's like the decalogue. So there's a big fight and the good guys win in the end and this movie is so wrote and by the numbers. Just imagine men in black but not done quite as well. The aliens are ghosts. Instead of Will Smith it's Ryan Reynolds. Instead of Jeff Bridges it's Tommy Lee Jones. And otherwise, that's the movie. Yeah, switch that all around, I think, but that's okay. And they have magic bullets, did he say that? Yeah, they have magic bullets that kill ghosts,

and they're at the end. They're reinstated on the force. The city of Austin is destroyed by these weird ghost vortexes. Except it's back up and running. What is he? Day and running. What disease? Day is like. This is one of those movies where the city of Boston, yeah, like parking garages are collapsing, cars are raining

from the sky, there's people getting hurt. And then like a couple days later, they're just walking around and everything's fine. Yeah. It's like the movie. Hey, Boston survives, dude. It does. Well, the main reason Boston

survives it is, is the fakes looking city. Yeah, ever seen in a movie. Yeah, it, it's so, everything's so fake looking in this movie. And it feels I was saying to them to Dan Astor while we were watching, it felt like it was taking place in the city playset that like Ghostbusters toy commercials were shot in, where there were a lot of fake buildings and there was nobody on the streets, of course, because it was just a place for the Ghostbusters to fly their Ecto Chopper around, you know, and shoot some big ghost demon. Yeah, it was, it was all economically. It's called the State Buck Marshmallow Man. Of obvious.

No, they didn't. It wasn't always the State Buck Marshmallow Man. Obviously, back by lot sets in CGI, the entire thing. But there's a lot of, I gotta give them points for style. Every shot has a lot of style. There's a lot of zooms, there's a lot of slow-mo, there's a lot of off-kilter angles, there's a lot of color changes.

This is a type of action movie that George Lucas would see and be like, this is a gritty and realistic depiction of violence. Yeah. Which, where does he just watched Ms. 45 before it stills? a gritty and realistic depiction of violence. Yeah. What's weird is he just watched Ms. 45 before it still. One thing I wanted to call out is that I apologize. I want to apologize to everybody about my lack of interest in this movie after watching

it. It really was like, if this movie had more James Heng in it, I think it might have kept my attention more. But it was so like, all right, here's the scene where they, he gets, he sees the police station for the first time, then his partner gets introduced shooting a bad guy who gets loose, then they go here and he has to deal with the fact that he's a ghost. They don't tell him, of course, he has to learn it by doing something stupid.

I hear some reaction shots of people seeing a beautiful blonde and an old Chinese actor hanging out together. Yeah, as if they couldn't be friends. Come on, why not? Who says they can? Maybe they're married, why not? Are you sure? What's about differences, you know?

Yeah, come on, opposite to trash, just like MCS Gankat said. Are you sure you're not pulling a, you know what guys? Now that I have a kid, I understand. No, no, it's not one of the worst. All right, PBs, not what's important in this life. No, you know what? When you have children kid, I understand. No, no, it's not one of the best. RIPD is not what's important in this life. No, you know what? When you have children, you'll understand.

You guys don't get this because you've never created a life. But there's not a lot of room for RIPD. How do you know, though? Day and night, it's probably created many lives. That's true. That's true. Well, he's created many enemies, is that the same thing? Yeah.

But it really felt like this movie, it felt like the people making it put so little effort into it. Aside from the people I guess who are rendering computer graphics, who put a lot of work in, I'm sure. But everything was so, it's like they bought, it's like they paid someone who worked on men in black to buy the outline for the movie, and then they just changed stuff in it. To return it. Like they got the opposing team's playbook. They paid some slimy guy who like held a boom mic on men and black to give them the secrets. To return briefly to go through the logic problems with this film. I just want to highlight one thing, which is when Ryan Reynolds throws Jeff Bridges in front of a bus and Jeff Bridges gets run over, which is when Ryan Reynolds throws Jeff Bridges in front of a bus and Jeff Bridges gets run over

which is he's fine because he's a ghost whatever. Except that the people on the bus have just seen a beautiful woman get run over by a bus and I get and it just cuts to the next scene after something else happens that you're gonna talk about. Are you concerned that a lot of people on that bus are now gonna be doing beautiful women run over by bus as a new fetish? She knew, yeah. But what's weird is that I assume they would try to help her.

Nobody questions why this woman is alive while a bus is on top of her. They're supposed to like stay out of the public eye but they do such a bad job of it. But everybody, it's like a movie where it's like dark city. Boston is dark city and every night the Bostonians go to bed and their memories get wiped. and so they forget all the crazy shit they saw that day. But you were gonna say he gets hit by a bus and his his 10 gallon hat flies off in the

wind and he's like oh my hat and you just wonder like and he tries on a hatch for the movie and there's when they talk to Michael Malley they slightly put in a hat trying on montage so they should just not because everyone's like everybody's bored of this scene you care about following leads and I got it and I have to say watching Jeff Daniels a Jeff Daniels Jeff Bridges try on hats is a lot more interesting than anything really delaying the payoff of this anecdote so his hat flies off the point is out it's not something that happened to you it's a scene in the movie this anecdote this one time I saw a ghost get run

really ruining my personal memory the laying the payoff of the point of this is which is like this is a fucking ghost hat like why does he have this hat in the first but like because you're the thing and they can't get another half like here's the thing when he's a beautiful woman he's not wearing a hat exactly so the hat is part of his ghost clothes she's not wearing a hat she doesn't need it she's a bad guy. He's not wearing a hat. Exactly. So the hat is part of his ghost clothes. Of course she's not wearing a hat. She doesn't need it. She's a belt. Did this hat die?

She doesn't need accessories. Did she want someone to shoot this hat? Did she want the boys in into this hat? Same thing with his sunglasses. He wears sunglasses at one point. Clearly the hat. We just not from when he's from. He's from the 1800s.

So he stole from another ghost sunglasses. Yeah. Somebody stepped in the sunglasses. He murdered a ghost in their sunglasses. Somebody stepped on their sunglasses by accident. The sunglasses died and became another ghost. Yeah, somebody stepped on the sunglasses. He murdered a ghost in their sunglasses. Somebody stepped on their sunglasses by accident. The sunglasses died and became a ghost and he found them. So here's what happened. That hat was a crooked cop's hat.

And that hat had one day to a retirement. That hat was shot. And Hat Heaven said, you can either join the RIPD or you can go to Hat Hell. And so he was sitting on Jeff Bridges' head until he got blown off because the wind affects ghosts. That's the thing. The ghosts have corporeal bot.

There's a part. Yeah, do you think the hat's like, I'm free? Oh, my curse. Yeah. I like doing my hat. I can't believe it. My work on Earth is done. I've accomplished my last team.

There's a lady's cowboy hat and a beam of light. Oh my grandma's hat is beckoning me into the bright light. But here's the thing. Ryan Reynolds is in. He goes, he agrees to join the RPD and, and, and, really try to go, this is gonna sting and, or this is gonna tickle or something and a, it does neither. Burns into his chest and it's like, wait a minute, hold on a second.

He's a ghost, but he can feel pain. And he has a physical body that like, I can have things burned into it. Why don't they just go down as invisible ghosts and catch the crooks, it'd be a lot easier. Well also, if they can interact with matter, why not just give him a fucking RIPD badge that does not burn into his coat.

Then he could just put on his coat. It seems a lot cheaper. Why did you just fabricate a fucking badge instead of have to do some got a special effect? I can't wait. I got that up in like 10 minutes. Give me some fucking papiamesh, Masha or whatever.

It's a very gambit way to say it. Rogue some papiamesh, Monshary. What's he doing like making her fucking? I wish so much that we could kiss over this papiamesh. They're one of their one- one of their Xavier's gifted Academy projects was in volcano. Because it's still a school, you know, just because he's a 30-year-old cage in man doesn't mean he doesn't have to go to science.

30, I think you're being charitable. That's being nice. He's clearly about 37. Yeah. He's whatever age John Claude Van Dam was when Wizard wanted to cast him in the role. He's whatever age. It's not creepy for him to be hanging out with young storm.

Yeah, that's true. I forgot about that. We should move on. What we're saying is the logic of our APD and the metaphysics are not totally not totally well thought through. But we should move on to five minutes. So the hat that Mary Louise Parker gives them later on. That's a real hat.

That's a real hat. She just bought it. It's in a bag still. Yeah, she didn't get that back Like she didn't smother a hat and then now that's the hat goes Smothered it with the bag. Yeah, I wish then it's cut to the real Boston PD and there's an outline of a hat on the ground Another hat It's like a nice there's a hat serial killer. We're seeing too many good hats get killed. We gotta protect his rights. What about the rights of that hat? Don't you care about its rights?

This is great. And they walk into the evidence dungeon and there's just brims nailed to the wall. They open up the fridge and there's like a cap in there. You sick fuck. There's a hat band. Anyway. They open up the fridge and there's like a cap in there you sick fuck Yeah, there's a hat band Anyway, the hat band like a bunch of hats that play music together Yep, and they have a shark plan drums. Oh my wife's average on this band It doesn't have to be jamper jaw

So we a different shark a place drums No, I was always annoyed. Everybody assumes that these are average. I'm not, you know, I just because I'm a sharka plays drums doesn't mean I'm Jabber Jaw. That's racist. Say that all sharks play drums look alike. I'm glad you didn't do the exit, but I was.

No, okay. Well, uh, we should move on. And his name is Jaws Ulrich. Final judgments. What's that bad? Was this a good bad movie, a bad bad movie or a movie you kind of like, stew go. Oh man, it was probably a great, amazing movie. Wait, was that an option? No, it's, it's a bad bad movie. It was way less fun that I was hoping for. There's way too many special effects. Nothing seems to have any weight. Kevin Bacon seems to have a little bit of fun, and Jeff

Bridges kind of does, except he can't understand his accent really. He really, Jeff Bridges really hands it up. I think he hands it up a little too much. Yeah, and he mush mouths it too much. He's having fun maybe, doing it. Yeah. I say there's a bad bad movie. There was a time,

toward the end of the movie, where Ellie, it was like, are either of you guys eyes not working anymore? Yeah, there was a certain point where it was so CGI and so bad that I was just seeing colors moving around on screen. I think my eyes were like, when your computer goes to sleep, that's what it was like. And I kind of felt that way through most of the movie. I don't just get a collage of like Facebook pictures or anything. Yeah, all what I was seeing was flying to.

Yeah, the movie of your life. But this, yeah, it was like, my life was flying to the movie of your life But this yeah My life was It's what happens with my computer You can be your dies each time and it's just remembering it's life Remember's that when it woke up at the factory the first time you booted it up when you installed all those this the Any type of you know video games or whatever when you looked at porn, I guess. It sounds like a really awkward version of her.

Yeah. But I didn't care for the, the, the, the faintingness or the boringness of this. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I agree. It was, I felt so, but, bland and boring and not fun and nobody putting any creative effort into it, except Jeff Bridges I guess.

And not enough James Hong. What about all the action? You like that. I like action, but there was, like there was one, when they were chasing that one guy, it was an okay action sequence. Otherwise, not very good action. So I also give this a bad, bad.

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This week we're spotlighting comedy film nerds. I don't know who in the Flop House audience would be interested in a podcast titled comedy film nerds that seems 100% out of their perfectly. Let's look at the van diagram. Uh-huh. No, it's just a circle. Matches completely. and diagram. Up note it's just a circle. Matches completely. So this is hosted by Chris Mancini and Graham L. Wood and they actually have their own book to the comedy film nerds guide to movies but they're also running a Kickstarter for documentary called Ear Buds. A movie about podcasts. Two years who are friends. Yeah, I picked our film. They're on different heads. Oh, that's a twist,

but they want to be on the same head. But if you... No, they're on the same head and they get separated. They'll define each other in the big city. Okay, it's like body parts. But if you would like to see a documentary about... About podcasting and who wouldn't? Who wouldn't really,

unless you're a monster. I was gonna say a monster. Search county film in a dark Kickstarter. And then head on his like, I'd like to see that documentary. Yeah. He would take that documentary in DVD form and throw it into your face.

And then you'd have a DVD second your face for it. So comedy film. It would be kind of erotic. Yeah, it would rip your clothes off. Well, there's such a thing lying between pain and pleasure. If you're a center bite. So comedy film nerds, listen to it, check it out. Warby Parker, buy some glasses, pro flowers, buy some flowers.

But now, RIPD, stay away from that. Do not buy. Do not touch bad. If you see a copy of R IPD, call the police. And I don't mean the ghost police. Call the real police so that they can kill whoever left it there. There's definitely a point in our IPD where our IPD, our initial public doffering. The first time you doffering cat, you know what I mean?

It's your initial public doffering. There's a moment where these ghost cops are running around and they don't really seem to have a real crime to solve. They're just goofin' and chasing the ghost. They might have called it gold chasers, which is like gold. That's, yes. That's a scene where they should have had like a scene over ghost noodles or whatever where they catch up and like learn about how you know they're not that different after all.

Yeah, they're both ghosts. That scene doesn't exist though. But now this is the time where we read a few letters from listeners. And how does that start that segment usually? I don't. There's usually no. I feel like there's something there's something inside me that I have to let out. It feels so unfamiliar.

And I don't know what it is, but I guess I'll just do it. I don't know. It's the letter segment. It's letter time for you and me. And you as well, Dan, and you, Stuart, and you, the listener, and you that cat. It's time for the letters for all. Letters for us, said letters for tall. Letters for short, letters for wide, letters for thin, letters side to side, letters all

around, letters up and down, letters in here, letters in there, letters in your hair, letters everywhere, letters that can scare letters are there Letters are everyone here and there and there Letter bag is brought to you by this show Before you into letters I just want to I want to make a personal plea I sang the song and now the letters are not gonna Follow post with I want to make a personal plea. Write more letters that compliment Dan please. No, no, no. Don't get me wrong.

We appreciate every letter that we get. Every letter is a precious note. But if you can, try and keep it a little short. Or failing that, write the letter in, easily broken apart pieces. So if maybe we want to applaud just one bit of the letter read on air. Yeah, perforated.

Yeah. And keep keep those jokes short because we're going to interrupt it like a million times. Yeah. And then it's going to get super mad. Dan knows, Dan knows we interrupt them all the time. There's a delayed punchline or callback. It may not be not land because we will have interrupted it. But right, really complicated words. Because Dan reads them wrong. And then we can make fun of interrupted it. But right, really complicated words. Because Dan reads them wrong, and then we can make fun

of them about it. So this first letter is from Mick last name withheld. He says, yo, floppers, big fan of the podcast. Thanks, Mick. I have not learned. Yo. Yo, right back at you. It's right at Spanish.

I think. Would you Spanish for I? I haven't listened in order from the beginning, so I don't know your origin story. What circumstance? Well, Dan was bitten by a radioactive nothing the story is from the planet cool balls and i'm just your regular vampire private i

what what's circumstan says could afford to movie podcasting alliance between alliet and two people who seemingly never slash rarely watch real movies p.s. what's dance first language how do i really do always know what he means? Is it like a Han Solo Chewbacca situation

where the audience is just supposed to suspend their disbelief? And also he only wears a bandalier, nothing else. Maybe you could do the prequel explain this. Don't listen. Bo-caster bolts I guess? They look like fucking like. The cartridge is like boxed.

Yeah. Their boxes are chicklets. This Chewbac bucks has a sweet tooth. We've actually talked about our origin story, how we all got to know each other before. I actually honestly want to read this letter mainly to be like, what the fuck are you talking about seemingly never who will rarely watch real movies? Yeah, that's true. I mean, Stuart, yeah, it doesn't.

But Dan, he occasionally does. I have, just because I don't talk about classic Hollywood as much as Ellie It doesn't mean that I don't have a grounding in you know they show all kinds of shit on planes now, dude Dan's from bird movie theater the airplane I have you know I'll have you know that I made film school dropout friends Yeah, I mean, I know there's internet evidence to prove you're watching sudden deathly Jean-Claude Van Danica but that's not cinema I don't know what is now but Elliot knows quite well that I have I'm very conversant in classic yeah well-versed well-versed

um he watches real movie is real in quotes all the time and I watched real sex. Purvisoid on the march and Stuart watches real movies too. It's not usually it's because his wife wants to watch like a romcom, right? Yeah, that's a real movie. I mean, it's slightly more real than like head First off, there's real actors in that you can't tell me that head is a real first off there's real actors in that. That's true. You can't tell me that head is a real. You know how many heart, you know how little of them do the body on that one. You know a few roles there are for heads. They're not making that Nexus movie. Sure. For fans of Nexus out there. Yeah, they're not the Modoc movies are coming. That Modoc series. I'm moving on. This is from Brad last name with hell. Hey, Brad.

Hey, Brad. Brad Cooper. Hi, guys. Love the show. I've listened to a ton of your episodes, and you continuously cracked me up. Before I forget, Elliot's friend, John, asked me to deliver a message. Friends of these, picks up Elliot's stapler.

This is mine now, nerd. And when walking away, I'm supposed to shout the den isn't always better than you. But you're also really funny too, so I'm not going to do that. I'm taking your stapler, though.'re also really funny too, so I'm not gonna do that. I'm taking your stapler though. Oh, thanks. Well, so apparently bread had a Hodgman.

Apparently either it was involved with Hodgman or Hodgman told him to do something or he imagined it. But here's the thing, Hodgman wouldn't take a stapler. He'd take something I wanted, like a toy or like a personal object, like a wall or something like that. Here's something that happened. When you became head rider, two tickets to see Milo Justin Bieber or something. Yeah, yeah, because I want both seats. One for me and one for Mike Rush. When you became head rider, he walked into my room and

picked up my nerf gun and I thought, okay, well, now it's happening to me, but he just wanted to take it down the hall to shoot at you yeah you returned it to me and but he bought me a a this huge nerf gun it's enormous and it fires the the pellets the because they're not suction cup things just like little nerf bullets so hard and so of course he shot me with one of them in it was done really bad so a little bit of slap together that rocket raccoon audition tape No, it's never too late never too late. Go to your pal Harry Noles to shoot the video for you. I'll do it in the sequel. Yeah

So maybe I'll be in the rocky raccoon movie This letter is from Will and Craig last name with held. Oh two people at one time. It's titled now Do they have the same last name or different last name i don't know title road trip in with a flop house your dad steward and house cat might not crag last name with held i wanted to let you know that we drove from Seattle lost in this week

to a lot right to about one million episodes of your podcast on route this is my third or fourth time through the back catalog, but Craig's first exposure to the FOP house. He immediately took a liking to Dan and decided he hated Ellie. Wow. Going so far. So he shares the same taste as the internet.

Going so far as to constantly mock the way Ellie it says. And I'm Ellie, can't do this again. And Dan's can't. Each episode. Fuck you, Ellie, it typically followed. It just because I introduced myself. There's a turnaround coming. However, a few days and several hundred miles later, Craig had decided that actually he'd like him to be the best of friends.

You see, they share the same affinity for constantly controlling everyone, especially Dan, who is trouble-speaking English. I don't know if I can call it trolling, it's affectionate ribbing. Craig has his own problems with our language. It's evidence numerous times in the road tip. When he took required attempts, what's a road tip? It's a good thing to know when you're going out on the road. When he took required attempts to get a simple sentence at, I think you also have a trove of language, sir. But squeal to glee, each and every time Elliot caught Dan in a similar

misspeaking incident the moral of the story if Elliot has any interest in visiting Austin I do Craig was certainly by some Popeyes thanks for passing the time so well we drove as we drove through Wyoming south in Mexico and other assholes of America love yes also free David Kaelin no David Kaelin will continue to stay imprisoned in the bottle city of candor where they have no sports The worst punishment of all It wouldn't be so bad being tiny if they had a tiny football team I think if him going from hating me to loving me over the course of a car ride is more a Stockholm syndrome type thing

He started he started connecting with me as a captor. I have one last thank you for writing it. I have one last surprise for you guys. Okay. You're a woman. Um, for a listen. Just one of the guys. Dan just ripped open a shirt to reveal boobs. These gifts came in. What? Um, around the holidays. I've been saving them since Alex been on paternity leave. Yeah, it says happy holidays. It's all wrapped up my name's on it. There's a snowman. I like that it's not a, it's not, you know, Christian or anything. This comes with no cards to say read after unwrapping. From Sam, I'm going to mispronounce this. Duncaleo. Duncaleo.

But thank you, Sam. Duncalo. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it.

I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I don't care. Oh, and they gave me six train samurai movie. I was just thinking about the other day. And he gave me a mon apocalypse of devil, man. All right. So now I'm going to read the notes. Thank you very much, sir. Floppy belated holidays, you right.

It's a big fan. Wanted to share a few DVDs from my personal collection. Please enjoy or possibly enjoy not enjoying them, as the case may be. For Dan, a Michael Caine movie I never bothered to unwrap plus a not terrible collection of old horror flicks for Elliott a terribly pretentious slash just terrible movie about a guy Who wanders the desert playing guitar or some shit? I don't know if it's terrible so much I'm just not great. There's also a kid following him or he

There's also a kid following him or he rescues him or blah blah blah. It's already necessary. So heavy handed. I know it was the one for Ali. For Stewart, a hypergory anime that probably is legitimately damaged by psyche. It's from the Devilman series, which is in another movie, includes women, demons getting their boobs torn off in pedal. Yes, you read that right. No ding dong ripping though, sorry. Okay, that's all keep on flying. Yes, I guess if it's good for the gander. That's stupid. Tosses it into the bin. Yes.

So basically you wanted to clear out your DVD collection so you've mailed it to us. I think that's true. But the thought is nice. Yes, Dan, I know Ellie and Stuart seem more. I mean, he's a wrapped really well. Yeah, that's true. Yes, Dan, I know Ellie and Stuart seem more thoughtful.. Yeah, that's true. Yes, Dan, I know Elliot's and Stewart's seem more thoughtful.

They are. That's why you got to. No, I mean, yes, I did leave, as I said, sleuth at work, because I don't care about it. But these things, this collection of 15 classic horror movies. There's some good movies on there, or not bad, left-handed. That's true.

The other one on Earth is on there. I'm sure the fact that there's like, there's 15 on them on three diss means that the quality is very high, but very high. Sure, but there's some stuff in there that look very good. Yeah, Carnival of Souls, that's a good movie. Yeah.

Night of Living Dead, that's a fantastic movie. So yeah, send us gifts I guess. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, feel free to send us gifts now. Thank you very much, Sam. You may or may not open them on air. But now. I'm so glad there was not any anthrax in there. Yeah.

We should take a moment to recommend. To remember our fallen friends. Yes. And the RIPD. Let's remember all the movies that have fallen in the last year. Can we roll that montage? We can't. All right.

Well, I guess we shouldn't have spent all the time repairing it. It was really good. No, this is the part of the podcast where we recommend movies that we actually liked in contrast to RIPD. Ellie, you've been gone. Which we love. Why don't you start us off? Well my movie watching of late has been slightly less frequent.

Yeah, curtailed due to my new responsibilities as a human takeer get carried. So you've mainly just been watching a lot of what? T'cashin' me A-Gay movies? Yeah, well I want them to get me to get them. Loads of untreated. I wanted to get, embrace the classics early. Just stuff that's age appropriate. So you know, Cannibal Holocaust, that type of thing. Issue the killer and so forth. So now, but one movie I saw that I had not seen before that I liked a lot was Martin Scorsese's first film who's that knocking at my door which I

Haven't one of the big one of the big problems again with the having a baby as I haven't gotten to see Wolf of Wall Street So I decided all right all right all right. I'll watch instead of seeing his most recent movie. I'll see his first movie And it's interesting how for a movie that is a first film, much of it taken from his student film that he made it NYU, I think, it really feels like a Martenskour Saising movie all the way through. Like, you're seeing a director who is going to develop into a better film craftsman, but all the things he wants to do for the most part are there. And I enjoyed it a lot. I thought it was good. I'm going to take a page from Elliot's playbook and recommend two movies. I watched number one on Netflix streaming. I actually watched both of these on Netflix streaming, although

only one of them is still on Netflix streaming. The first one here, which is documentary called Ray Harryhausen, Special Effects Titan. It's your typical... It's your typical Ray Harryhaus documentary. No, it's your typical talking head documentary. And that David Burns in it. A lot of directors who were influenced by Ray Harryhausen, but also a lot of footage of Ray Harryhausen the man himself before he passed away and a generous helping of footage from Ray Harryhausen films.

It's been- That never hurts, you know. No, it does not hurt. It's great. It's kind of like a glorified- Unless it's the footage that he didn't work on, like the non-special effects scenes. Yeah.

It's a glorified what? It could be thought of as a glorified DVD extra in style, but it's the best version of that. It's an entertaining version of that about a subject that's interesting. It's not like those behind the scenes of Sherlock shows, they've been airing after Sherlock. I don't know.

That really do feel like a DVD extra that PBS is just padding out their schedule with. No, this is a good version of that. Oh, okay. Because those ones are a bad version of that. About a worthy subject. But also, and I can't believe I'm recommending this, Oh, okay, because those those ones are a bad version of that about a worthy subject, but also And I can't believe I'm recommending this I watched

Jean-Claude Van Dambe's sudden death. I thought I already recommended that It's possible two recommendations for sudden death. It's basically a diehard in a hockey stadium and As I said, I called arenas as I said on the link Whatever I as I said on the flop house Facebook page they used every part of the buffalo in this movie the buffalo being that hockey stadium like every possible Use it like they have even the powers booth grotto they they they fight in the The rink kitchen with Van Dam and a lady in a mascot costume that uses everything in a kitchen that can be used to kill somebody.

There's a scene in it where Van Dam disguises himself as a hockey player and then gets called out on the ice to be a goalie for a while. And it has a villain who is so committed to the idea that like he's going to blow up the stadium exactly when the game is over that when the game goes into sudden death he's like, well, got to, guess I got to hold off. So it's a very silly movie, but it's a fun movie if you're a fan of action movies of that era. So Stuart, what do you have?

I'm going to recommend a movie from this year. I don't know if we've talked about it already, but I recently watched Captain Phillips with Thomas Hanks. And you know, there's a movie that has got a lot of press. And I think it's been nominated for a variety of awards and not to throw out to these spoilers. Yeah, you go the ender. The good house keeping the popular mechanics best of what's new. The Caldacot, the new berry. The cable ace award. The best baby and rules greatest grandpa.

Wait a minute. That changes every year. Oh man, I'm going to have to take a baby's mug back. So, what's that baby? It seems bullshit, it's not like the baby needs to fucking race and experience or something. So baby, go do where that to the office to show everybody. It's so hard. When the baby goes to work, he's got to drink his coffee at his something. Who's that mug? The Westminster Kennel Club also recognized Gettervillips. So, I feel like Tom Hanks, one of the things I liked about this movie is that it, you know,

it, from the trailers, if you've seen the trailers or seen a movie, I'll give shit. You probably have an understanding of what the movie is about. And I feel like it kind of goes in that direction, but it's really the performances that I'm selling it. And I feel like Tom Hanks, both in this movie and maybe his whole career, I feel like he has been striving to convince me that he's my dad. Okay, like we have built this emotional connection together. And in the last five minutes of this movie,

the last five minutes of this movie, I'm basically watching my dad break down and ball his eyes out. And I was destroyed. Like in a vest, yeah. Yeah. So we called that ball in your eyes after tear them out, spoiler alert.

I watched my wife and both of us like at the very end of the movie, which is breaking down. I haven't cried that much since the last time I watched a Tom Hanks movie called Toys Story 3. Yeah. So Larry Crown. You were crying.

Why did he lose his job? I didn't Hollywood make this movie. Who was it for? I haven't cried that much since another Tom Hanks movie made me wonder what happened to the other red shoe Why does the man only have one red shoe? Well, I lonely shoe. Why does he have to be big? All right, well so

Cloud Atlas, but it kept him built. It's a very tense movie even knowing what happens because it's based on true story I was very like I was tense throughout and like in suspense So for great recommendations, but now I recommend we end this podcast That's exactly guys. That's great. That's how you do it. Yeah, that's why you're a professional podcaster. Yeah Allie's yes, it was it to like to spend some time with Hallie, but it's nice to have you back home It feels good to be back. Welcome back your dreams for your ticket Damn, same old place you joked about what dance good to see behind the steering wheel. Thanks

Steward. It's good to steady hand at the ceilers great to see you with that scarf that scarf is Pretty awesome. Yeah, it's both a fashion statement, and it keeps my neck warm Dan great to see you alive. Wait, I don't know. Okay. For how long? Thanks. Did you enjoy that beer you just had? What? The beer marked poison. Oh, okay. All right, well, I got to get some antidote for this, so we should sign off. Yeah. For the floppies, I've been Dan McCoy. I've been Stuart Wellington. Yes.

And I am once again Elliot Kaylen. Good night everyone. Back in the saddle. I've got it on my phone in case we need to look at it. In case you're like, what do we do next Elliot? Mm-hmm. That sounds exactly like me. That's me too, no.

I'm a drunk clown. Oh, I my turn. I'm a drunk clown. That's drunk clown. Anyway, continue. So we're doing like characters. What am I missing? Dan is the drunk clown. This is how I do the show now that I'm back. Stuart, you're kind of like a happy-go-lucky rag-a-muffin penguin.

I don't think that works. I think I should play a super like Stagie super by the book no nonsense Stagie penguin And I am my new character of Laser Space Man, okay, who is a janitor who works in a middle school. I'll play Dr. Sexo is a janitor who works in middle school. And I'll play Dr. Sexo. The sexologist.

You're already the drunk plant. You get, he gets two characters. You do have two characters too. You're also like a single mom struggling to make ends meet. That sounds like me. And I'm an underwater cop named Fischo McKenzie. I solve water for I'm. Fischo is a family name, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like the old country. Land. I saw all the water for I was a family name right yeah yeah yeah it was like the old country land