We Hate Movies - S14 Ep744: Dick Tracy

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

“When we put out our coffee table book of Disgusting Shit Boys, he’s the cover…” - Steve on “The Kid” On this week’s episode, the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza continues with a hilar...ious convo all about one of the more ambitious comic adaptations of all time, Dick Tracy! Should Beatty really have starred as the titular Dick while also directing this thing? How incredible are all the matte paintings, Sondheim songs, and loud-AF costumes? Is there something in the drinking water in this town or what, what is with all the freaks? And how much chili does Tracy consume in this movie? PLUS: One of the worst things to ever exist, Tracy Zooms In, is discussed at length.  Dick Tracy stars Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Glenn Headley, Charlie Korsmo, James Keane, Seymour Cassel, Michael J. Pollard, Charles Durning, Dick Van Dyke, Kathy Bates, Dustin Hoffman, William Forsythe, Ed O’Ross, James Tolkan, Mandy Patinkin, R.G. Armstrong, Henry Silva, Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Catherine O’Hara, Estelle Parsons, and Madonna as Breathless Mahoney; directed by Warren Beatty. This episode is brought to you in part by Rocket Money! Stop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney dot com slash WHM. That’s RocketMoney dot com slash WHM. RocketMoney dot com slash WHM. Be sure to pick up your tickets for our summer time WORLD WIDE DIGITAL EVENT where we’ll be talking all about the action classic SPEED! Early bird tickets are still available for the next couple days, so head over to Moment dot co slash We Hate Movies and get your tickets now— and don’t forget to bundle in your ticket for the Q&A After Party that’s going down right after the show that night! Can’t make it to the live show? No problem! The show will be available for replay for a full TWO WEEKS after air. So you’ve got 14 days to check out the show after it happens! Make the WHM Merch Store your one-stop shop for all your We Hate Movies merch-related needs! Including new SHEENPRIL, Night Vision & Too Old For This Shit designs!   Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This week on We Hate Movies, we're back in business and ain't it grand indeed. We're talking Dick Tracy. I'm Andrew Juppin. Steven Seda. Eric Face. Big Face. And we hate movies. Big Face.
Starting point is 00:00:30 Hello, everyone, welcome to We Hate Movies. Thank you for tuning in, as always. That's right. This week, it's a long time coming. 1990s Dick Tracy directed by Dick Tracy himself, Warren Beatty. Hold on. I think we have Beatty, we have Dick Tracy zooming in right now. Oh, yep.
Starting point is 00:01:00 Hello, how, how, how, excuse, do you know that Warren Beatty's a son of a bitch? Sir, uh, are you connected through Ethernet? The Wi-Fi, I think, is, uh, I did, this is a phone call. I would like a pepperoni piece. I would like onions on it. Wait, where, we got Warren Beatty on the line, Dick. Let's hold on a second. Where, what? Where am I? Was, did the lady bring lunch yet? Uh, we should say it front, we just watched, uh, what was it, 20-20-1s or 2020s? 20-something. Tracy zooms in.
Starting point is 00:01:34 Not to be confused with the Tracy Elman Tracy takes on HBO show. No, this is a Turner Classic movie special that is made by them in order to help him Warren Beatty retain the rights to Dick Tracy. So he plays Dick Tracy again as a Zoom call and character
Starting point is 00:01:51 who just criticizes the direction of Warren Beatty. In this world, Dick Tracy, the detective from the comics strip showed up to the movie set every day and was directed playing himself in a way for Warren Beatty against
Starting point is 00:02:09 amazing actors like Seymour Cassell and Al Pacino in the middle of this was one original non-professional I love it. It's a new world for Warren Bayton's like an old timey Italian film. I'll say this because we always get trouble because we have a little, we poke a little too much fun at the Marvel movies possibly. Marvel's never done anything as embarrassing as this. I'll say that. Nothing is more
Starting point is 00:02:28 embarrassing than this. The movie is pretty good. You mean the zoom's in. Zooms in, yes. Okay. As a promotional material. I was going to say Marvel's never done a movie as sex. No, no. They've never done like a downy zooms in. There's Stark zooms in and there's R.D.J.
Starting point is 00:02:44 talking with Tony Stark like an idiot. Oh, God, that, yeah. I just, I mean, like, what is, what did what did TCM get out of the deal? Like, was where does the money go? I really want someone to fucking get get into the books on this thing
Starting point is 00:03:00 see what money what quid broke whoa what happened you know what I bet they got the rights when Warren Beatty passes and I hope it never happens but when it does happen they have the rights to put him out
Starting point is 00:03:11 like Lenin in the open casket so everybody can come by would you go see that like if you're in town you're in L.A. Oh for sure you got a cast
Starting point is 00:03:18 you get to see the whole body the director of Bullworth are you insane of course I'm going to see that Clothes or none I think he has like his he probably has to dick Tracy Jackson The suit, yeah. So not alien autopsy style, like, I would want.
Starting point is 00:03:31 You know, I saw that happen here in the city. You saw a naked dead man? He wasn't nude, but I saw a dead man in a glass casket. Oh, the bodies thing? No. When James Brown passed away, his body laid and stayed outside the Apollo theater. Jesus. That's crazy. And one morning, I was on the bus going to work.
Starting point is 00:03:48 It was an accidental sighting. It was. At the time, part of my commute was, like, subway to the bus to another train across town. like so much of us and there I was just sitting on the fucking M60 going across town passed by the Apollo theater looked over oh there's James Brown's body it was the day of the affair that's amazing
Starting point is 00:04:07 that's like getting the best spot outside of a concert and like being like oh I got to say I didn't have to fucking pay I heard it we would pull up the car to the fucking adjacent parking lot of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and just listen to the music for free go Dave
Starting point is 00:04:23 yeah Dave put it out so how did he look? Look. Like a dead old man in a talker. I mean, he was, you know, adorned, of course, and everything. But he was, it's always that thing, like, when you go to a wake or something, like, it was just a little old dead body. Like, it was very, it was very, it was not the legendary entertainer.
Starting point is 00:04:40 It was very strange. I hope they put the cape on him. If they didn't, that was an oversight. He was, like, covered in something. I don't know. It could have been a cape. Senator, I cannot confirm the existence. He went too hard.
Starting point is 00:04:51 He went too hard. Put the cape over. Honestly, the way he looks, he could have been in. Tracey. Yes. Oh, man, I wish. Everybody's experience with this movie growing up and in general. I saw this at a friend of mine for birthday.
Starting point is 00:05:05 We went in theater. Classic kid birthday party title. Birthday in theaters. We watched it and I was nonplussed. Yeah. I remember, actually, this was probably one of the first movies that I was like, I was on board and then it lost me. I do think this is a good movie, but it loses its steam.
Starting point is 00:05:22 Sure. I saw it in theaters. I saw it with my family. and I liked it like I immediately was like this looks amazing like I was like holy fucking shit and I think it was because
Starting point is 00:05:33 I hadn't gone well is Batman's at the same the year before? At the year before I had not seen that in theaters I had seen that at home well you kind of did if you saw this in theater I guess yes
Starting point is 00:05:47 in a way I heard it I heard it the same way Danny Elpin scored does sound exactly the same it is the scraps from the garbage can I didn't see this in theaters I had a childhood friend who was I was obsessed with it. So I saw it on VHS several times.
Starting point is 00:06:00 And it honestly didn't do anything for me. It kind of does a little bit more for me now because as I'm older, I can appreciate set design, costuming, yada. That's where it really excels. But like, I don't give for shit about Dick Tracy. I grew up, we saw this in theaters. I saw Batman in theaters.
Starting point is 00:06:20 For a while, we're seeing everything in the theaters with my dad. That's awesome. And also, like, there were kids that live, above us that we were kind of like put with a lot in a two family house they were obsessed with it so it kind of it leaked in I had a couple action figures here and there I did a coloring book I believe wow really so there was some stuff going on and like I like this movie and then like growing up I decided I don't like it now I'm kind of just like in the appreciative phase where it's like yeah I appreciate a lot of the craft of this movie is really exciting
Starting point is 00:06:51 a lot of the the fact that he I think the best decision aside for from all the decisions that, the best decision is the Sondheim songs. It is the glue that holds this movie together. Yes. This is like, and I think that the problem is he as an actor, and I think Wadonna as well,
Starting point is 00:07:07 like everyone is on 11 doing cartoon characters. Glenn Hedy is fucking amazing. She's great. Rest and peace. Like, Pacino, obviously, all these, they're doing it. They're getting like, oh, it's like a 30s movie,
Starting point is 00:07:19 but if it was a cartoon, got it. And they get in. Right. And Tracy is just like, man. And Madonna is very like nuanced and real and like affected and it's just not
Starting point is 00:07:30 what the movie needs. It's not for this and it's weird I was thinking this time watching it like you're directing it dude like you're in it the whole thing and you kind of seem like you're embarrassed to be doing it. He seems like he's embarrassed to be in the big yellow coat he's the worst part of the movie which is crazy. It's classic hero syndrome
Starting point is 00:07:49 like the hero has to be the most boring guy because he has to be the straight man in a way But in this, it's even worse because, like, if, I mean, it is just, I mean, the Batman we have to talk about because if they are so similar. The Batman of it all, yeah. But, like, the Batman elite, with Batman at least, like Tim Burton seems like he shares some affinity with Bruce Wayne. He has some feeling. Like, and I'm sure to a degree, like, Beatty should have felt that for Dick Tracy. I think he must, right? Like, but that doesn't show in the performance at all. Like, there's no, there's no sense of. he is just kind of playing himself. And, like, I guess that's always what he did for the most part.
Starting point is 00:08:28 So I get why that happens. But, like, it becomes such a void in the beginning of a movie I otherwise love. But he hired a great team, right? The cinematography, the production design, like the art. Oh, Starraro shot this? Oh, yeah, yeah, I missed that credit. The apocalypse now, a rainy day in New York. You know the best stuff.
Starting point is 00:08:47 But the costume design and, you know, like, just the colors, everything about this movie is really cool. And he must have had some part of putting that together. Of course, I mean, as a director, but yeah, I think I, as an actor, I've never liked him. Even like Parallax View, which is an amazing movie. It's great. I'm like, you put somebody else in there, it's probably a little better. Like if Redford was in that role?
Starting point is 00:09:09 Yes. Oh, yeah. I just, I mean, and it's a great movie, and he does give a good performance in an amazing film. I do think any of the big guys do a better job. That's, I mean, you bring up a funny idea because I think his best performance is, is Bonnie and Clyde, and that is him playing a famous, like, he can relate to that kind of character, whereas, like, somebody who's, like, on the run and in trouble by the government, that's not him at all.
Starting point is 00:09:34 Like, at least this, I get the feeling, because, I mean, we're going to talk about, like, the hierarchy of the police department really doesn't matter in this. Like, the goings and comings of the department aren't really that important. They're all showing them, like, montage. You got the, you got, like, the DA breathing down everyone's neck. Dick Van Dyck. Dick Van Dyke. Mayor,
Starting point is 00:09:54 uh, DA Fletcher. And then the captain who is Charles Durning. Yeah. It's just kind of like, Hank, he's like looking after his kid for most of this. Well,
Starting point is 00:10:02 because it also like they dress Charles Durning the same as they do all like the flat foot cops. So there's no like gravitas to it. It just seems like just another one of the guys. And to Chris's point, his, his parts in the movie is there's doing like a Norman Rockwell painting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:15 Right. And I think it's just him playing like a director, like a guy who directs the police department is essentially what he does. And you think about like somebody. like Seymour Cassell as Sam Cacham, A great name. B, Seymorcazal, it rules. And I mean, he's doing a cartoon character.
Starting point is 00:10:29 That's what you need. You need, like, and he's a good guy too. So, like, and he's not into crazy makeup. He's just sort of like, I'm kind of a dumb guy. What are we doing, Tracy? Right. You just need, like, somebody is a squared jawed, like, I could get there.
Starting point is 00:10:40 You know what I mean? Like a... That's true. But maybe they want to say, maybe we're trying to say that this mob is cartoonishly evil and it's hurting all these regular, dagular people like Dick Tracy and Madonna. And the disgusting shit boy that's in this movie and Tess.
Starting point is 00:10:56 Yes. It is, I mean, Charlie Corsemo is, if you, if we were to make, when we put out a coffee table book of disgusting shit boys, he's the cover. He makes me fucking sick. I'm sure he's a nice guy. I like Can't Hardly Ways. Sure, yeah. But he is disgusting in this. It's disgusting literal shit boy.
Starting point is 00:11:16 He's got grime and fucking like little drippings on his face at all times. and it makes me wretch. To be clear, it's supposed to be a kid who lives in abject poverty, so maybe we can let that go. No, we can. There's puddles. Wash your face.
Starting point is 00:11:35 I feel like what does it for me is all the eating. Yes. It's watching people eat. When do we eat? Like when you're acting as like the, I'm starving and I'm just putting it all in my mouth. When do we eat? I just think of the pie eating scene in Stand By Me,
Starting point is 00:11:51 and like anything from the it branches out from there I just want to vomit and I watch this kid eating all the shit in this movie and I'm like I want to throw up it's disgusting watching you shove food in your face. Macaulay was up for this you turned it down for home alone which is the best decision you could make the best move his parents ever made
Starting point is 00:12:07 in his life yes and I actually I don't think he would be terrible like Corfo I think has more character to him he's got some bounce to him yeah so we start it's just it's calling to Tracy calling to Tracy if you were aware of if you were a thousand years old you know what that is.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Yeah. If you help storm the beaches at Normandy, you knew what was being referenced here. And we see the kid kind of sneaking in on a little conclave of poker game amongst all these. Mark Ruffalo
Starting point is 00:12:37 needs to fucking sue somebody about the water supply in this fucking in this town. I don't know what happened. Yeah. It's a town of mutants. It's really, I mean, every other person is some sort of
Starting point is 00:12:51 goblin creature. Big boy new the whole time! Yeah, he really needs to organize some paperwork on this town because go through those boxes dude, the evidence is there. And I think it's a thing done by the cops because it's only the crooks. True. So I think the police department's dumping something
Starting point is 00:13:09 in the water by the hideout. Maybe when they arrest them, they like inject them with some serum. Oh, you're tagged now with some freak juice. Yeah, now you're prune face, motherfucker. That one, that's a heavy case. That one in Little Face, I would put them in front of Congress. Give this guy a little face.
Starting point is 00:13:27 That's what we're going to do. Because, I mean, Chester A. Gould, the great cartoonist. I mean, like, this is baiting. And it's a smart move. It's interesting. It makes the movie stand out. Every crook is going to look like they did in the comics. And, you know, they're interestingly drawn.
Starting point is 00:13:43 So they have insane prosthesis on it. But it plays well with the bright colors of the costumes. the mat paintings. You know you're not in the real world and it's great. It's a fairy tale. I just realized what little face reminds me of.
Starting point is 00:13:59 What's that? Remember in society when the dad's face comes out of his ass? Yes, that's what little thing. Oh, fuck, that's terrifying. And he walks around like that all the time. Thank God they shoot him.
Starting point is 00:14:10 And why wouldn't you want to, you know, arrest that guy. Get him off the street. You can't have an ass face. No, you got to get all ass faces right off the streets immediately. I eradicate them. No, yeah, when I was directing,
Starting point is 00:14:21 I told him I had seen this movie called Society. I wanted to make a less wet version of society when I was thinking of Little Face and also, yes, I will have a cob salad no bacon, but extra egg if you could. Thank you, Mr. Beatty. Thank you for zooming in. God damn, there's so much
Starting point is 00:14:39 wrong about that. Can I get an extra thing of croutons on the side? But we get the rodent here who throws the cat. Come by, little fella. Oh, God. The rodent's great. I guess they're sort of saying this is sort of like a reference to like the same Valentine's Day Massacre because like other criminals come in including fucking flat top my God the brow is a tough one too
Starting point is 00:15:00 because it's kind of like he's got an ass on his head yeah that guy's disgusting sure I mean they're all disgusting well they get killed and then other disgusting guys show up I mean I feel bad for Madonna she's fucking lips manless she does fuck a big boy at some point I'm like am I gonna get it like whatever you have totally does that catch Like all those weird cummies Whatever
Starting point is 00:15:22 Has happened to these people, D-N and R&A Both are fucked up I mean this could be radiation Exactly And I feel like you're shooting Radiative loads into me That might affect me
Starting point is 00:15:33 Yeah Oh uh, Ms. Breathless Mahoney This is your doctor speaking You are completely infertile I think it's because you were fucking big boy caprice You're actually also getting his weird Uncle Fester humpback
Starting point is 00:15:46 Is growing on you now it spits like acid. It spit, that dick spits like acid and it dissolves the ovaries. I mean, you are, you are pregnant, but it looks like a, it looks like an oyster. I don't know if it is one,
Starting point is 00:16:04 but it looks exactly like an oyster. What came out was not human. Put it back in. For a friend of the show, Justin J.K., it's his favorite part of any movie, it's, you know, eight, no help, three no help. It's the brow doing it. He's like, what about you little face?
Starting point is 00:16:19 And it's just, they show the little face. And he goes, and then he gets shot. It's fantastic. Oh, man, it's really unsettling. Yeah, a car drives through the warehouse, and, yeah, one of them is a flat top. Billy Forsyth, baby. Of all the, like, this dude needed the least amount of makeup. They just parted his hair differently.
Starting point is 00:16:43 That was it. That was it. They just gave a John C. Riley haircut. Yeah, that's all they do. How about we just give you a curl, like a little perm. How about that? How would that do? Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:16:52 Edo Ross is itchy as well. Yes. Ello Ross is, of course, voicing Agent K and the M-I-B cartoon, we're covered on animation. 30 seconds. No more dick. 30 seconds. No more dick. I was a big itchy fan as a kid.
Starting point is 00:17:04 Itchy was my favorite of the whole bunch. Why? I don't know. I think I responded to the glasses of the blue. And he also was the least terrifying to look at as well. He's the most normal looking, and he gets that iconic line. 30 seconds, no more dick. 30 seconds, no more dick.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Which is what I say when I'm about the climax. I look into my partner's eyes and I say, 30 seconds, no more dick. And she loves you for that. It's gone. No, no, it's gone. I'm sorry. It was no more dick. It's gone.
Starting point is 00:17:31 Well, it's better than just mumbling through the whole thing. Well, no, what I do is I look at my partner. I go, look what you did to your pretty tuxedo. I always just say, me, they did it. Big boy did it. Big boy did it. I just sing Sonheim songs. It's pretty grand, I got to say.
Starting point is 00:17:55 Thank God it's only two minutes long. But Flat Boy, Flat Top, and Itchy just lay waste to these dudes. And I do, I mean, like, what I love about this movie, and it happens at the end to, it's like, again, you know, not to, all franchises started because of Nolan. saving the Joker for second. Sure. It's that, that was the mentality. It's like, oh, we'll do it
Starting point is 00:18:19 in the next one, we'll save whatever. All the villains are in this. Like, you can see, imagine if this movie was now, we'll do Big Boy now, maybe Prune Face will be teased.
Starting point is 00:18:27 They'll be behind a desk. Who is that? Ooh, it's Prune Face. Who's gonna be Prune Face? They're all here, they'll get fucking murdered by the end of the movie. I think that's,
Starting point is 00:18:35 if there was something I really love about this and why I keep on kind of forgiving a lot of its faults is because it is like this maximalist. thing that you could only get away with in the 90s. And you can only get away with
Starting point is 00:18:47 it one time. Yeah. And it better be a hit, you fucking idiot. I swear to God. Which this was. It was. And like that to me is like having this amount of the characters and with these faces from these famous fucking actors doing this. Fucking James Concho
Starting point is 00:19:03 he goes for 20 seconds to be like, fuck you Al Pacino. Yeah. He comes in to give Big Boy Caprice the finger and leaves the movie in a car bomb almost immediately. And again, we're not saving anything for anything. We're just doing it. This is the Dick Tracy movie that I'm making. It's called Dick Tracy and it's got all my
Starting point is 00:19:19 shit that I want. Right. It's a singular entity. It's not, we're not setting up a franchise. Because literally at that point you were like, it could just be one movie. Yes. Like it really could just be one. And it was. And it's been 30 a lot years. But for some reason he's trying to retain those rights. Is it to keep this as just one movie so no one else
Starting point is 00:19:35 makes any more? He wants until he's in the grave, dude. That's exactly what it is. Like, I don't want to see it's sully. I'm taking Dick Tracy to the hell with me. him and Zemeckis got this deal I don't know how they were just like I am keep there is no way you get to do anything well Bobby Zia it's full
Starting point is 00:19:50 throat it's an original it's an original premise yeah but he bought the rights for three million bucks back in wherever I mean that's a ton of money back in the 90s right and he's retained it there is on IMDB I don't know if it's to be believed in production Dick Tracy with just Dick Tracy project with with
Starting point is 00:20:06 that's the zoom as a producer that's the zoom's in it's double list The next zoom. Yes, it's the next zoom. I got a feeling that'll wind up being like a posthumous producer credit. I was going to say, maybe if we luck out this November, maybe it's Joe Biden meets Dick Tracy. And it is somehow even more incoherent than fucking zooms in. Well, you know how like traditionally the president always like gives an interview to like a news channel before the Super Bowl?
Starting point is 00:20:34 Why don't you do that before the Austin's like, Oscar Sunday, it's like, oh, the president's going to speak. And it's Joe Biden talking to Dick Tracy. Yeah. he should i mean he didn't do the super bowl address last time so oh that's right you gotta make good make good with the oscar exactly yeah oh man here me out at the academy awards dick tracy isn't this great what warren who i never saw that picture uh but there is pornography so they lay waste all these gangsters which is kind of great you see all these and it's great because it's all these like really flashy interesting characters they're dead immediately
Starting point is 00:21:06 just totally iced uh the kid witnesses it and he makes a ton of a noise and Flattop doesn't chase him like I don't know man like that's your job well he's got to stay behind to leave a message for Tracy and they led Tracy he led Tracy in bullets what great penmanship or gun bullet gunmanship gunmanship
Starting point is 00:21:25 or bulletmanship munition ship yeah I don't know one of those one of those is fine munition ship oh I'm a big dick Tracy fan and I used to drive a munition ship back in WW2 I know but don't you
Starting point is 00:21:39 don't you wish that we could have scene. Big boy Capri, take Flat Top into his hands and become his number two. What did you like a three-hour movie about that too? This one's too long as it is. This is what's interesting about it though is like,
Starting point is 00:21:55 if you were just doing he's going after Big Boy Caprice and then it's just like gangsters who work for him, the movie doesn't work. One of the reasons why this is interesting to look at is because they all fucking look like that. I don't know. Was Flat Top also
Starting point is 00:22:11 just as big as big boy the priest in the comics or are they like underlings anyway but they're all just cool looking like I was born 20 years after the Kennedy assassination so I don't know that I know that's the thing man I mean we should we were all born after the advent of catalytic converters
Starting point is 00:22:26 we should ask Joe Biden because he was like 42 when this came out so he would Mr. President you used to have to take a mule to the grocery store what was the deal with the Dick Tracy villain line? I believe that they were all like they were all like kind of separate So this strip I'm fighting flat top
Starting point is 00:22:43 This strip I'm fighting mumbles But to make them into this interesting thing That makes a ton of sense It makes it feel like a whirl Yes And it's a real rogues gallery And you get to really enjoy it in one go And yeah you see
Starting point is 00:22:58 There's an insane looking flat tub He makes this thing Tess and Dick Tracy are at the opera I do like the line I'm gonna be back I want to see how it turns out It is so funny I think this is a great joke because the opera's so long, he's able
Starting point is 00:23:11 to leave the opera, do a bunch of police work, drive all around town, come back and still catch the ending of the office. It's an opera that they're at? I think it's supposed to be a Wagner. Oh, I straight up just thought they were at the movies. But either way, he's
Starting point is 00:23:27 a piece of shit leaving his fucking phone on in the theater. This thing's going, oh, dick crazy, you gotta go in. Dude, I was watching, yesterday I went and saw the watchers and theaters. and like biggest the climax part of the movie ish just the loudest cell phone ring and it had been so long since that had happened to me I just did a come on and it turned out she was like six feet away oh nice so you're who watches the watchers I was one of them or the non-watchers
Starting point is 00:23:58 they're answering phones I was a non-watcher that day I love the same catcher with a Dick Tracy blah coming in there's a bunch of dead guys down at the at the at the the whatever the docks nobody knows nobody knows who they are that's what he says twice and they comes back and they're like yeah they took all their IDs we don't know who they are i'm like look around like this is you know who these guys their names are all what they look like how about a little detective work oh my god did they shoot little face in the head so many times you can't even tell this a popped pimple yes oh wait they either killed Little Face or the dad
Starting point is 00:24:37 from society? I really can't tell right here. The blood is up to their ankles as they walk in. Yeah, all of his face is out here. Oh, God. It finally leaked out. Oh, I haven't wanted to pop that for years. Oh, God, it's disgusting. Let some of the pressure out. Of course, we have
Starting point is 00:24:53 to have the that's going. Can you do that again? There we go. Yeah, there it is. Little Faces, little mumble. You got the press here that are like Oh, Dick Tracy, maybe you should be Chief of Police, and he's like, no, there's
Starting point is 00:25:09 a pretty great guy in that role already. Run about running for mayor, Dick Tracy. Everybody wants to suck your cock in this town, right? Well, yes, I am running everything, essentially, so I do understand that, but I have to, me and D.A. Fletcher have a little bond here. Don't you worry about it. Sure.
Starting point is 00:25:24 Calling Nick Tracy, calling there, Tracy. A new guy in town's wearing a yellow hat. What the fuck? Are you fucking kidding me? Excuse me, Pat. Hey, how's it going? Nice to meet you, Dick Tracy. Yeah, a big detective right here. Just, I don't know if you know, you can see him wearing a yellow hat here. I'm kind of the yellow hat guy.
Starting point is 00:25:40 Well, if you'll excuse me, Detective Tracy, I'll put my curious monkey over here beside. My name is literally the man in the yellow hat. But you're in the city. It's my town, you understand. And you see the coat, right? The coat is bigger than your suit. It's literally my name. The man in the yellow hat.
Starting point is 00:26:00 The town's not big enough for the both of you. Dual. I'll have the monkey fight your. fucking wristwatch. You want the monkey to fight him? Do you think that guy was ever throwing monkeys at people? Because those things are vicious. Definitely. He ever got into a bind, right?
Starting point is 00:26:14 The man of the yellow hat, just throw that monkey as hard as he could. He's got as hard as he's ready to go. I also don't know why the man of the yellow hat needs a descriptor. He's the guy with the fucking monkey. Well, because he was walking around a monkey. Well, because he was walking around somewhere and, you know, someone came up
Starting point is 00:26:30 and they were like, well, I'm monkey man. Oh, right. Well, this town isn't big enough for the boat of us. Yes, he met Jeff Patel. I can't fight monkey with monkey. We cut to the Ritz Club here. This is Madonna. And I realize the thing about Madonna. Madonna is just one of those people that's too famous to be in movies, IMO. Because, like, it stops the movie dead. You're just like,
Starting point is 00:26:52 there's Madonna. Like, I never am like, there's Breathless Mahoney. There's Madonna. It's just always there's Madonna. It takes you out of it. But to me, that is the movie as well. Like, when I see Dick Trace, I'm like, oh, that's Warren Beatty. That's just Warren Beatty doing Warren Beatty stuff. I do that with every Warren Beatty movie. And with this, with like her, I kind of like her performance in this.
Starting point is 00:27:11 I do too. When they stop, because like, I don't think it's really her that's causing that kind of thing. It's the direction and the fact that we're stopping for the song. Like, we want to hear the song because we have Stephen fucking Sondheim writing the song. That is the blessing in the curse. The songs are fantastic. It's her scenes with Tracy with the with the fucking Vaseline all over the lens. And it's just like.
Starting point is 00:27:32 Those are some sizzling scenes. scenes. I do like that. You get to see your nipples in this movie, which is in fucking same. In this scene where she's singing, though, at least. And, you know, I don't know, I see what you mean, but it's kind of stilted, like compared to the rest of the movie. Yeah. And, you know, and Beatty's kind of
Starting point is 00:27:47 wooden. So it's kind of like, what are we doing here? I also think that there's too much going on with some of these side characters. I don't think you need the lady Tess and the kid and Madonna. You could easily eliminate one of those characters. The kid I can maybe see getting rid of, but like, I think
Starting point is 00:28:03 you need the love triangle is what the movie is about i think because like focus more on it i'm not gonna get too much into symbolism or anything but like madonna is supposed to be death like she's always in black yeah she has got these weird fucking costumes like she is supposed like do you want to be a father with a husband or do you want to go and keep doing this and die one day in the line of duty and that's like that's a good and like i think he knows that i think he's very aware of that as the what is being argued here. And I mean, so I think she works in that because she is supposed to be an alien figure in a way.
Starting point is 00:28:38 I just, and you made me think of it now, and there's no reason to hide it. But like, her being no face has always bothered me. Blank. Oh, blank? The blank. They do call her no face. Oh, do they really?
Starting point is 00:28:50 At some point. Yeah, that's why I just thought. Because, again, may I direct you to the front of the episode. I don't give a shit about that. But you know, it was about, come on. You don't remember. I grew up. I was 38.
Starting point is 00:29:01 eight years old. I picked up my first Dick Tracy comic strip. I was riding a donkey to the grocery store. I picked up a little heroin from the druggist and I went to see it. I went to raid some Dick Tracy. It's just, I it's, to me, just one of the dumbest turns in any movie. And it's
Starting point is 00:29:17 like, I just, I often wonder, like, if it wasn't Madonna playing this character, would that have been the ending? I like the blank only because it gives Mandy Patankan more to do. You know what I mean? Sure, Mandy's fucking great in this movie. Yeah. Kee's absolutely. This huge fucking forehead that's somehow bigger than
Starting point is 00:29:32 Mandy Patankan's forehead? And I do like No Face Blank whatever. As a character design That I do. I just don't like the turn. You know, I didn't like the turn as a kid because I was instantly identifying with the man with no face. I never wanted a face, never asked for a face. And then when it turned to be Madonna, I was a little disappointed because
Starting point is 00:29:49 I was like, it was supposed to be me. But it was a different blonde. Re-watching it now, I was kind of fine with it. I just think part of the problem with this movie is the pacing is kind of just, it's soggy. Can I ask a question to my fellow Star Wars expert here?
Starting point is 00:30:05 Isn't the Blank's voice, the voice modulation, the exact same voice modulation for Princess Leia in the beginning of Jedi? As Bosch? Yes. The Hunter coming in with Chubach.
Starting point is 00:30:17 Don't worry. Heaven Sholo, it's the carbonite poisoning. Tracy, I'm going you. You're just adding more reasons why I like it. Yeah, yeah. No, I think you're right, though. So, yeah, it's the club reds she's dancing around. we get to see the great Paul Servino's
Starting point is 00:30:32 lips manless. Oh man. I wanted to vomit. It's a tough look. It's people eating things. Oasters. The grossest thing you can eat. It just looks nasty. One after another. Give me four more plate of this and I'll have a hard on. Just wait. Just do wait.
Starting point is 00:30:48 That's why he's doing it, first of all. I guess, Approdisiac himself or whatever. But I do appreciate the flawlessness of this bus boy that does the plate swap. So he doesn't miss a single oyster slurp. It's great. And then Robert Costanzo is like, oh, as his number two, he's got a scar.
Starting point is 00:31:06 I love Robert Costas just a little scar on his head. Yep, that's it. That's scar. Wait, he's scar? I mean, I guess. All right, let's put a pin in it. If someone comes along and joins the gang that's got a bigger scar, then he's scar. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:23 And then that scar can be fat guy. So with a bifurcated face, what can I be scar? Okay. Yeah, you're scar now. All right. Then, uh, I guess you're, Uh, what? Little belly. Little belly.
Starting point is 00:31:33 We're just thinking about stuff. I do, speaking of little belly, Madonna comes, she's watching him eat. You might have I leave, it makes me sick to watch you eat, which, I mean, if it makes her sick to watch him eat, must make her real sick to be constantly fucking this guy. That's, I think, why she got the blank mask, because she wears that during sex, so she doesn't see them. There's some, there's a filter there at least. I mean, there's that big mouth, you know.
Starting point is 00:32:00 I don't, that's all I'm going to say. His big mouth makes him start looking like little Stevie, by the way. Yeah, a little bit. Like specifically when he does his silk face. Yes. He kind of like does his lip thing. What's a little silly? Little Stevie Van Zan.
Starting point is 00:32:14 Chris Ringsingson. From East Street band when he was on Sopranos. I never watched the Pran. Oh, man. He would just make this fucking face. He should have put my lips like a fucking fish a little bit. Like that's what Paul's, you know, kind of looks. But he's a puss.
Starting point is 00:32:26 But going downtown, I guess that would be an asset, right? Having that big mouth? Absolutely. You think this man is It is one thing to suggest Harrison Ford But please my God This man, no way
Starting point is 00:32:38 Maybe he tried it once And it was so disgusting To watch him try to eat Box That she hates Yeah And then he started spreading the word He's like, no no guys
Starting point is 00:32:46 That's why we all look like this All right You want to look like this face You better keep your fucking face away from that box No no breath That's not the squirt Brithet not the squirt
Starting point is 00:32:56 Oh nice Yeah maybe No no Brithet don't do it Michael Douglas has started looking like this eventually Catherine
Starting point is 00:33:03 I'm slowly turning into a dick tracing criminal over here oh not the squirt
Starting point is 00:33:10 got me good yeah this is this dude comes up looks exactly like a maniac cop
Starting point is 00:33:16 oh yeah and I guess that tells you that he's not a real police officer because he's horrendously
Starting point is 00:33:23 to form dude and this this you're making this movie in 89 like maniac cop was already
Starting point is 00:33:28 in the ether I think someone fucking saw a picture of Robert Zedar and was like, that's Crooked cop number one in Dick Tracy. Dude, that would be the move for fucking Beatty. Dude, you'd save money. Robert Zadar is anybody. Play the whole cast. Small jaw.
Starting point is 00:33:45 Oh, handsome dick. This is a neat turn right. He's arrested by these fake cops. It's going to be like a mob hit. Some other cops sees this going down and starts to follow them. Great Irish cop voice here. Yeah. Did they bring them out?
Starting point is 00:34:03 Because you know the cops aren't kidding people who look like that. Yes. They will take the Italians and the Irishmen, but they will not take some of these scarred up motherfuckers. They're not going to do that. They say no to freak faces. They bring them out and lips, of course, they open the car. Who is it?
Starting point is 00:34:19 Big boy DuPont. Who's there? Big boy Capri. And he's like, oh, no. Oh, fuck. And I'm like, how did, you were supposed to be. be the man who runs this town if you didn't have somebody to pick whatever embarrassing real embarrassing real embarrassing come on you were thinking about breathless too much here and your oysters
Starting point is 00:34:38 gun to his head he signs over the club writs and uh apparently and it's some it's just like one of those nice little efficient screenwriting thing like lips ran the town he took big boy under his wing and now it's big boy he's like you taught me that you know what i mean yep i also love all these little uh lincoln said that all these little quotes but you're is on fucking 12 in this movie. Absolutely. Absolutely. No, he is tap dancing all the way to glory in this movie. I think he's honestly the best part of it.
Starting point is 00:35:07 It's fucking great. The great thing about the Lincoln quotes too is he's like getting it wrong. Yes. Which is very like Biff Tannen, which is kind of funny. But to what you're saying, I think it's great. You establish all this shit like a couple of lines of dialogue. Yes. And that's the ball game. We don't need oh, how is it that Big Boy Caprice became so
Starting point is 00:35:24 upset working under Lips Manless and the rise of whatever the fuck. I love Michael Man. Not all of the movies have to be Michael Man movies where you see all the steps leading up to... And it's just, you know, it's a cartoony way for the mob to work and, you know, you could see,
Starting point is 00:35:39 you know, yeah, it's simple. You know, it's like, you sign the deed to me, now I run the show. Yeah, yeah. That's the end of that story. There's no litigation. No, exactly. You're in and you're out.
Starting point is 00:35:50 Around here we see how the kid lives, which is in a Hooverville type thing. The shack is great. Yeah, Dick Tracy's chasing him because he stole his fucking radio watch, heaven forbid. Stop that boy. Stop that boy!
Starting point is 00:36:02 Another guy. I don't know. Is this guy playing the quote father of this kid anybody? I couldn't find it on I-N-D-B. This cockroach, your old man. Go suck an egg. Apparently, this is Sam the Tramp. I was reading about this.
Starting point is 00:36:17 He kidnaps young boys for weird reasons by the railroad friends. He's also known as the Yellow King. A weirdo. Apparently people were not happy. It was an action figure that was selling pretty well and the before Hitler storm Poland or no from this film oh okay in the
Starting point is 00:36:35 90s action figures sold pretty well and the homeless advocates were like that's a bad representation homeless people you can't have that he's not homeless he's in a shack it's true that's his home right there number one number two I thought he was prune face for a few
Starting point is 00:36:51 yeah that's also true maybe he's prune face his cousin he's prune face with lips manless his lips it's a bad look but apparently that It's like one of the most sought after. They pulled it because of this. Really? There's only a few of them.
Starting point is 00:37:04 Oh, come on. If you're an action figure collector, it's a big deal to have Sam the Tramp. Yeah, you could buy a house now. Sam the Tram. You could buy a shack. Interesting. Ironically bought this house thanks to owning a toy modeled after a homeless character. Who is the biggest monster in a movie for the monsters.
Starting point is 00:37:21 But when Tracy starts fighting him, I love this where the shack is going back and forth. It's a great move. We cut way out back. We see the mat painting. We see it from a distance. going back and forth during this flight. With the train going in the back. I mean, it's just un-orgially fucking made.
Starting point is 00:37:33 I will say, I think that this is like he kind of, and it's been a while, I guess I have to re-watch before I say this, but I do think he out Altman's Altman for that Popeye movie. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. This is exactly what that Popeye movie should have been, like all the bright colors and everyone looks like a fucking monster and all this shit. You know what the problem was there?
Starting point is 00:37:54 What was that? The 1970s. Yeah. The 80s or whatever that, you know, it was the Ciccate. It was the Ciccane. It just, it looks, that movie, I think that's a fun movie, the Popeye movie, but like, it is just a dull looking. It's very brown. And it should be an explosive, yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:08 Like, it just, this movie, it does what that movie wants to do. Another Altman miss. I mean, when he hits, he hits, but when he misses, he misses. It's Popeye, beyond therapy, just the worst stuff you ever seen. I'll be honest, I'm not a big fan of shortcuts. What? Yeah. Oh, me and you are going to fight afterwards.
Starting point is 00:38:25 I love, because it doesn't get Carver. Yeah, I think he does get him. Eric, let's go grab a beer. Yeah, let's do it. But yeah, I love the shack going back and forth. He knocks him out. It's great. It's all great. The kid, they take him to the diner at this point and we're feeding this child.
Starting point is 00:38:42 This is the first of many instances. The entire film we see, Dick Tracy, this dude's eating chili. He's just eating chili at the diner. He's eating chili at his desk out of a can. It's also that era where it's just like, hey, diner guy, what's in the pot you're making? we don't have a lot of options yeah it's chili or a fucking stewed tire this week
Starting point is 00:39:04 what do you want yeah chili you can't be eating chili every day no I think that this is what test true art is really upset about it's not like oh come on Tracy what are you gonna put it could you stop it Tracy you smell like she you fart my face every fun all the time
Starting point is 00:39:19 Tracy I'm sick of tired of cleaning scutters out of your shorts no I don't think no I don't think we can go out tonight got a load of chili in there There's always a load of chili in there That's the problem You can't fuck any more
Starting point is 00:39:32 Because you always like I got chili belly Well I'm in a scat play Okay Tess And maybe Madonna wants my fucking shit loads It's so disgusting I'm trying to go downtown You farting in my fucking face She washes my drawers
Starting point is 00:39:44 You don't test You see your fucking skin marks When you pull your pants down to fuck me It's disgusting You fucking pig There's just so much chili consumption in this movie All those monsters have names.
Starting point is 00:39:59 Your new name is Skidmock. Oh, dude, here comes Skinnock. Detective Skinnock, that's your name. You keep in looking like, they're going to look like Alex Jones. I saw him in a dream. Flat top running around the United States. Oh, yeah, there's a mutant gangster migrant horde approaching the border. The liberal SJWs are coming after
Starting point is 00:40:28 Big Boy Caprice again, legitimate businessman. Turned the club Ritz around. It's a fantastic club. Literally reinvented the entertainment industry. He said to himself in the film, Dick Tracy. He was up past two in the morning rehearsed that number. And you're going to say that wasn't a good number? Of course, we've had him on the show before, and he's been always a very kind guest to us.
Starting point is 00:40:48 Of course, we don't really support the influence agenda, but we do love Big Boy Caprice here None of my children will speak to me anymore So I'm going to try to adopt the kid But yeah So they're eating and this is the beginning of the kid's eating gag They're just sort of When do we eat?
Starting point is 00:41:08 Looking at him eat And he's just like I don't know, Tess, you're a girl Why don't you watch him for a while? Yes, because Tracy gets a call Because unfortunately Big Boy Caprize has decided That Lips Manless needs a bath
Starting point is 00:41:21 no not big no way not the bad not the bad I think that is one of your most quoted things that's your favorite life of this movie I just have watches me so many fucking times and it's in thinking about it don't you want so it's not the bad not the bad and it's it's the cement it's wet
Starting point is 00:41:38 he's in a box and then it immediately goes in the water you want to give that a few minutes I think you want to give it a few minutes to draw you're right but I think with a man of lips manless his girth yeah sure it's maybe it's not making the movements you need to get out of the box. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:55 That's, yeah, that's entirely possible. But I thought the same thing, I was like, isn't it just warshing all off when you dump them in the river or whatever? This is instant dry. He's got insta dry. He's going to drown so you're going to win. If the point is the cement and the drowning, you want to give the cement some time.
Starting point is 00:42:11 It just pops up right immediately. Fuck, shit. Overseeing part of that operation, this is where we do see Dustin Hoffman for the first time as Mumbles. he looks like Sam Rockwell in this movie It's very, it's like If Sam Rockwell played Judge Doom
Starting point is 00:42:27 That's what Mumbles looks like You gotta put an extra like 20-30 on him But yeah, it's the cheeks are a little puppy It's the sideways mouth is his kind of thing Yeah Yeah Just kind of gross to look at It's unsettling, sure
Starting point is 00:42:39 And you know he's a big actor I'm glad he's not in it as much You know if you could add him in more And it'd be worse for it I think so too yeah And I'm glad that it's more restrained You let Pacino do the tap dancing Yes
Starting point is 00:42:50 Which is he's doing right now. Oh, man. This is my favorite thing. I want more. More. It's just so good. Like he knows anything. It's amazing.
Starting point is 00:43:02 No, go. You're late. He's just like dancing around. Oh, crap. He's like smack in her ass and being like, nah, like this. Him like doing the steps is the funny.
Starting point is 00:43:13 No, it's got to be like this. And he's like doing like his little jazz hands. You know what he looks like actually? because I say he's got the hump back. He looks like the body part looks like the dinosaur puppet Earl Sinclair. He's just got that big fat. I was assume he's doing like a Richard third
Starting point is 00:43:32 the third thing with the hump. Oh yeah, yeah, probably. But like this whole, him just doing an annotation of this whole thing is this scene has been stapled in my mind forever. It takes so long, which is not a compliment, not a criticism at all. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:48 I love how long we spend with just, watching Big Boy. And then, like, you got the great James Tolkien as numbers. Yes. Just being like Big Boy, it's after three of, I don't care. I don't get it right. It's so great. And he does say, like, we are reinventing the entertainment industry here.
Starting point is 00:44:04 It's going to take some time to get it right. That's any of the case because he slams the piano on the face. It's like, damn, I'm reinventing the entertainment industry. Okay. And you're, rolling it up. It's so great that it's like the day he got the deed sign. The murder's still happening. He just walks in like he owns the place.
Starting point is 00:44:23 It's your new boss from hell. It's like, oh, fuck, he wants everything different. Yeah, oh, yeah, I've just, I've got a lot of ideas. How about we change things for the better around this club? I do, yeah, many who take it as to 88 keys, he's probably play better. He's playing better already. Smacks Madonna in the face because he's a bad guy.
Starting point is 00:44:41 Sure. We're doing that. That's how you know he's the villain. Exactly. Walnut to love him. Apparently, one of these scenes, Madonna, a flashed Al Pacino. He's like,
Starting point is 00:44:51 what are the best days I've ever had, unsaid. What is the thing? It's something about if you walk by me later in my life and I'm smiling,
Starting point is 00:44:57 it's because I'm thinking about that moment. Yes. Hey. So, you know, take that Beverly DeAngelo is going to say.
Starting point is 00:45:05 Those are very nice too. That's his last words are about Madonna's tits. He's leaving this world. He's just like, flashes above his, all the accomplishments. All the accomplishments.
Starting point is 00:45:16 All the accomplishments. Oh, yeah. Just Madonna's tits right in the middle of it. There they are. Here I come. It was worth it. It was all worth it. Well, it's going to be way less of a mystery. Like, when Walt Disney died, his last words were Kurt Russell.
Starting point is 00:45:28 And everybody is like, well, what was that about? But this is it, Madonna's tits. You're just going to know immediately. Oh, he was trying to write Kurt Russell's tits. On the back set, on the set of the computer wore tennis shoes. He grows a pair of tits in that movie. No, Walt, no, no, no, no, no. Kurt Russell was not a national socialist.
Starting point is 00:45:47 No, no, he wasn't. I'm trying to explain this to you. When they bring in mumbles at one point, we're going to Dick Tracy hotlights interrogation here. And it is funny, like Dustin Hoffman, like sweating horribly. And Dick Tracy's just chugging this huge glass of water.
Starting point is 00:46:02 This glass of water that he gets out of this bear, like water dispenser that's also a tape recorder in the top. Excellent. I mean, just making this weird thing, which you're like, you know what? I guess a water dispenser could have looked like that in the 50s or whatever.
Starting point is 00:46:16 Sure. Why not? And then later, yeah, you're right, because then you remember it later when they're like, oh, that's the thing from that scene. Right. It's just smart filming. Weirdly playing the, like, stenographer here is Kathy Bates as like this Mrs. Green or whatever the character is.
Starting point is 00:46:30 It's such a great joke, though. Like, it's, it's going to be like, right, blah, blah, blah. And like, she's trying to do that. And then at the end of the scene, Tracy's like, you got that? And she goes, what? It's just fantastic. I mean, like, yes, you're going to have Kathy Bates in the movie, give her something to do. And what is plenty.
Starting point is 00:46:46 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she does nail it. It's very funny, but I mean, man, the fucking the Kathy Batesness of it all. Like, give me some more Kathy Bates. There's Catherine O'Hara blinking you miss her in this movie as well. I guess I missed her. She's, uh, one of the, she's at the, when they do the big like five families meeting scene, she's the lady at the table. Yeah. That's cool. Um, but so, uh, what do we got here? Oh, this is, oh, so he comes for
Starting point is 00:47:10 Madonna right here. And this is the, this is the nipples. This is the, aren't you going to arrest me? It's a weird, like, he's leaving and then it's like say there's a sexy lady right here let's talk to her for a second aren't you grieving for lips manless I'm wearing black underwear yes because what they like rest big boy
Starting point is 00:47:28 here or whatever they do because the walnut connection from the docks yes yes plus what they think they got out of bumbles they got him or whatever and then this is enter crooked DA Dick Van Dyke hell yeah he's like you don't have enough and none of this is going to stand up you have to
Starting point is 00:47:44 release him and they do and so like he dick tracy's whole thing is he wants breathless mahoney to yes give a statement on the record and and you know say that big boy is responsible for everything so there's a witness that can you know and i mean these scenes are written fun where it's like yeah are are you trying to arrest me's like wearing a dress like that's a good way to get started and it's like but it's just the baitiness of it all just does not it's so close but not there right she does have a great line here though where she goes I sweat a lot better in the dark which is a response to him
Starting point is 00:48:19 being like well bring you downtown and put you under the lights or whatever yeah that's a sexy line it's not too bad I'm not saying Madonna does not have sex appeal of course okay just checking but the stiffness in the performance a little bit but you know
Starting point is 00:48:34 I think she's she's fine what's her I mean like is it desperately seeking Susan that's the big one that's I mean that's a big one popular one. I think her best one I've said this when we talked to Justin about it, but a dangerous game from Abel Ferrarah.
Starting point is 00:48:50 She's really fucking good in that. It's her and Harvey Cytel and the guy who got shot it to become a beverage of his cop. Oh, uh, he's in everything. I'm not going to think of his name, but yeah. Oh, no, I've never seen that. I've seen very little of her acting, I guess, you know, being as critical as I am, maybe I should doubt
Starting point is 00:49:06 that back. Bond fan? Of course you like her in that one. That's what I was about to say. You know, Madonna playing fencing opponent in Die Another Day. Well, the thing is, in Die Another Day, everyone is terrible. Yeah, that's true. Top to Bada. She doesn't stick out. Well, I guess a little bit because you have the
Starting point is 00:49:22 I guess so bang, another thing. I guess a bang. That song sucks. I mean, that is, it might be the worst Bond song. I don't know. I'd have to look at the full list. Top 5 for me for sure. But it's a real fucking stinkeruny. So, yeah, Tess gets stuck watching the kid all night, like while he does detective work.
Starting point is 00:49:42 And this is, dude, Dick Tracy at his shittiest boyfriendness right here, where he's just like, oh, thanks for sitting here the whole night watching him, Tess. You're one in a million. Bye now. You know what I mean? Like, that's a real fuck you. It's kind of like speaking of bond. It's like a bond and money penny thing kind of.
Starting point is 00:49:59 Yes. Except like they are sort of. They're supposed to be something. Yes. Like she goes to, I mean, I guess it's probably him like blowing off. Like, well, you do, Tess, you work for a garden. Okay. Let's fucking leave it alone.
Starting point is 00:50:10 Fine. I will get my captain to look after the kid. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Charles Durning will do it instead or whatever. The kid getting his like becoming Dick Tracyified is kind of a funny little. I'm trying to get the suit and he's got to like pull him back in and talk to him like, if you don't want a suit, don't want a suit.
Starting point is 00:50:30 But if you want to, you like pick out the one you want. So now he's like, oh. He's dressed like a really flashy newspaper board. He grabs the kid like, listen, you can wear red, you wear blue. See the fuck away from yellow. You understand me? You understand me? All yellow.
Starting point is 00:50:45 You understand me? I know I'm canary yellow. You stay away from canary yellow, mustard yellow, the whole fucking yellow spectrum. There's a monkey man in the ocean right now who thought he would play with me about this. Him and the monkey are out and gone. I made that monkey into pizza.
Starting point is 00:51:02 The man in the yellow hat don't work at the zoo no more. The man of the yellow hat works at the bottom of the Mariana trench. He works in an aquarium now. Big boy, can I borrow your, the bath thing real quick I know we've had our ins and outs that thing looks really well
Starting point is 00:51:18 Real efficient machine Real efficient machine We should start doing that Yeah who's first We'll draw straws You don't get to pick the straws Uh uh no no no no I get to pick one Because that's how you draw them
Starting point is 00:51:32 But so as he's taking the kid I guess back to his house By the way we should say the kid is Always under threat of being sent to the orphanage That's like his whole thing. That's why he doesn't want to wear the suit. You know, it's funny there's like, what? There's a moment of like the, oh, when itch he's pretending to be.
Starting point is 00:51:47 Yes, the social services. Yeah, he's like, as a single man, you can't just take a kid off the street and live with them. It's so fucking funny. I love that in performance. It's just the high voice. It's true. Yeah. But so he's getting ready to put the kid in the car and there's a drive-by shooting that happens.
Starting point is 00:52:02 And this is kind of great because like the kid like gets this bloodlust immediately. He's like, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me. Let's go, Tracy. Let's find these guys. almost died more yeah did you catch one of the the flat foots here no Star Trek's column meaning
Starting point is 00:52:17 because like he says something like call this end of the chief or whatever and he's like yeah got it Tracy oh yeah dude give me a short list of all the Irish actors in Hollywood got it I was going to say Patty the one with the green suspenders wasn't enough for the Irishman
Starting point is 00:52:34 really you had to bring a legit dude in there I guess the yeah like this is a Like so Big Boy has an issue where he can't kill Tracy because he'll be the top suspect. Oh, right. And like that's kind of keeping him there. There's this, I don't know, when is the graveyard scene with Dick, Dick Van Dyke? It's such a weird scene.
Starting point is 00:52:55 It's to reveal that he's working with. And he's just like, I guess because Fletcher is trying to get out of the deal. Yes. But he's like, no, you're going to keep on doing it. You're got to keep on being with Tracy. And I say so. You are out when you are dead. When you are dead, that you are.
Starting point is 00:53:10 that you are out. I own you. It's really great Pacinoing right here. And also, I think this is the closest it gets to any Tim Burton shit.
Starting point is 00:53:18 What with the existence of a cemetery right here? Exactly. But the shot's very cool of like the four of them approaching the one guy and you're like, who's this figure?
Starting point is 00:53:25 Yes. And then out of the shadows as Dick Van Dyke as the Deke. I remember because I had that dick. That was a page of the coloring book. It was Dick Van Dyke
Starting point is 00:53:32 in the graveyard looking so on. Oh, that's a weird edition of all the scenes you could have little kids color. Well, this is for your,
Starting point is 00:53:40 black crayon. It's just that. There is the crazy scene where so it's like Dick Tracy's doing some detective work and he is just at his desk looking at photos and in comes breathless Mahoney with like a bottle of champagne
Starting point is 00:53:54 trying to sort of seduce him right here and this is this was one of the times where I was like this was for children like when she is on all four's ass up face down on this fucking desk. I mean that's one thing I like about this movie. It proves you could do a big bright
Starting point is 00:54:10 beautiful comic book movie and make it sexy. Yeah, sure. Seam hot to you. Boy, yo, yo, yo, y, o'oy, o'y. I mean, there's, you know, there's something for everyone. Like, some kid might get attracted to prune face,
Starting point is 00:54:20 and that could be his sexual way. I was watching Madonna for a second. Speaking of fruit, though, she does some, like, fucking Nick Cage and Faceoff thing about something about ice cream, what kind peach, it's been dripping in the back. I was like, oh, I miss that. When she comes to the door and it's saying,
Starting point is 00:54:36 like, I got ice cream for you, it's peach, and it's a little bit dripping in the back. I was like, holy fucking. This scene, yet again, like other scenes, begins with Dick Tracy eating chili. So she's in the room doing all this is presenting her vagina in front of a chili smelling motherfucker. Yeah, I want to accept this dude's chili penis into my body. Absolutely. Well, he was originally from Texas, you know.
Starting point is 00:54:58 I'm now just thinking of a dick that's like dripping brown. Oh, no. All the fix-ins. The fix-ins. Maybe little cheese on top. Those scallions, brisket balls. Oh, we have some ritz crackers. His pheromones have been affected by the fixins.
Starting point is 00:55:13 I think that they have. Ferramones have turned into fixen. Okay, here's the deal. Breathless, come over here, it's me, test true heart. Listen, I'm tired of this. He's never going to propose. You can have him. Here's the thing.
Starting point is 00:55:25 Just know now. When he gets horny, he starts to smell like chili. And you're going to look around like who's cooking. And the only one who's cooking is him inside his loins. You know how pollen explodes from flowers? stuff like that. It's him with cumin. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:55:42 It just explodes. Every time he, he opens a door, you just smell cumin everywhere. You're just going to want to have sour cream in your house. It's just, it's going to help you. Red onions. Not the white ones or the yellow ones. The red onions. That's what you want.
Starting point is 00:55:55 He really likes it when you cover them in cornbread. Oh, yeah. Yes, Tess. Stop it out. Oh, Tess, do it to me. Oh, eat it out of there, too. Put a jalapeno in my butt. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:56:06 Is the kid here? Get him out of here. Get him out of here. He can't hear this. You're too young for this. You don't understand you're young. When you're old enough, your old Chile, he says. Well, well, kid, what a man loves a woman
Starting point is 00:56:19 and a man has consumed in as much chili as I have. He just doesn't, it's not enough to just have crushed tomatoes. He just have crushed something else, you know, and it feels good sometimes. I do like the shot, though, of when he, like, they're face-to-face and the champagne coop. in the middle of the frame and she's like desperately trying to seduce him and he
Starting point is 00:56:42 drops her earring that he found into the coop like that's a really nicely this movie's gorgeous but that's a great it's a visual it's visual information it's like you picked it up with the handkerchief in that scene and then you see it you didn't have to explain it nice and beautiful and he's this is a kind of a decent moment here
Starting point is 00:56:58 Tracy kind of being a good guy where like she's trying to kiss him and he's like there is a lady cross town that would be very upset or I would hurt her very much if that happened or whatever It's a nice line. So I'm only going to kiss you a couple times. Yeah, just a few times.
Starting point is 00:57:14 Some kissies. So then he decides, well, she tried to do all this, like, let's follow her. And we just, we're going right back to the club ritz. And this is the big gang star meeting. This is James Khan and everybody else in here. I feel like James Khan presented a sketch from the makeup artist. He said, shove that up, your ass. And the other guy was, all right, I'll come back.
Starting point is 00:57:34 I'll do less. All right, shove that up your sister's ass. Okay. shove it up with your mother's okay what about a fake mustache and it's a pencil thin one at that
Starting point is 00:57:44 a little nose something there's some weird thing with the face but you know he doesn't fit in with these guys and that's a good visual descriptive
Starting point is 00:57:51 you know I just realized it though you know exactly what he looks like holy shit he looks exactly like Joe Piscopo in Johnny Dangerous
Starting point is 00:58:01 yes yeah he does I can see that yeah yeah big boy Caprice he's got this new gun shoots through schools No, yeah, Warren, I'm very, I'm pleased to, honestly, I'm honored to be in Dick Tracey. I'm a little bit. I know all the other guys look like Hannah Barbera cartoons. I will not be doing that. I was in the fucking Godfather with Al. I don't know why he's doing it. I have no idea.
Starting point is 00:58:22 It's the money. It's a cool media. This is, Catherine Aher is playing Texie Garcia, which I'm sure, again, if you wrote a donkey to the grocery store in the early 20th century, you were excited that Texie Garcia was in the video. Joe Biden sold you that donkey. Oh, man. Taxi Garcia favorite Dick Tracy. That's the first word I've ever checked off. She's a firecracker. Donkey rods 15 cents.
Starting point is 00:58:47 I, uh, this is the beginning of prune face. You've got a great, uh, southern gentile prude face is some reason. I kind of like that. Yeah, I'm totally, I mean, it's R.G. Armstrong, who knows? Dude was a total legend. Like, you know. And we have the great Henry Silva as influence. Yes.
Starting point is 00:59:05 That's terrible. Ming Henry Silva more scary looking Which is how do you even do that? I mean you didn't need to put anything on that guy No exactly That's another like Robert Zedar just come to set You can be in Dick Tracy playing a freak RG Armstrong also like looks like an old dog Without makeup
Starting point is 00:59:20 But you know you made him scary His face is melting it looks like That's like the prune I guess I get it because it's like wrinkles But like I was like he just looks like he's about to melt like a candle And I mean like this is to your point about Batman 89 And you had said this letter texting, when did, when did Warren Beatty get a workprint of the, of 589? I was wondering it. This is exactly the scene of, I'm glad you're dead.
Starting point is 00:59:46 Yes, yeah, exactly. But it's a little different. I mean, I mean, it's a gangster movie staple, of course. It is, but it's just like this big long boardroom table with a big window on the outside of the board. It just looks so much like, let me shake your hand goodbye. We'll be friends. Yeah. And of course, Dick Tracy, without a warrant, without any reason to be there, is crawling up the side of the building and everyone's on the radio like, you know, the DA is going to fucking kill you if he finds that about this.
Starting point is 01:00:14 Dick Tracy, if you're going to do a COVID, we're making off the fucking yellow jacket. I really hope they don't hear this on that fucking watch you insist on wearing it. If he has the jacket, I do, I kind of want to seem like pouring sweat at some point. Just like doing all this with the heaviest jacket imaginable odd. Totally. This yellow seal skin coat that's 30 pounds. Over a full suit, dude. No, I'm on the roof.
Starting point is 01:00:37 Oh, I'm on the roof. Oh, I'm going to die. Once again, though, Tracy, the yellow jacket. You can see that shit from space. You got to take that off for the covert work, my friend. It's important to the... Oh, it's just so. Give me a minute, fellas.
Starting point is 01:00:51 I should have all that chili. Yeah, you got a 30-pound coat and 10 pounds of chili in you. That's what Tess said, too, by the way. She talks to us. Shouldn't have gone all those extra kidney beans with it. You know, Mike has a pretty nice salad as well. They do a good chicken Caesar over there. Did they make that with beef?
Starting point is 01:01:12 Well, if it's not red meat, dude, he don't want it. Yeah, chicken Caesar salad. Can you substitute the salad with beef? Not steak, beef. And instead of the Caesar sauce, which I do like, but you just put the chili on top of that? Yeah, that's right. So it's a bowl of beef, chicken, and chili drizzled all over. Thank you for you.
Starting point is 01:01:31 Oh, so wait, the salad has a tomato in it. Oh, perfect. Okay, just crush all those tomatoes and then make a soup of it. Look, we're so close to it being a chili. There's just a few more things you need. Can you heat up the salad? I do like, yeah, this is, Khan just leaves like, what do you could leave?
Starting point is 01:01:47 It's a friend. And he goes down. The car explodes. Great explosion. Great Scott is used here. It's so awesome. Maybe he'll have a change of heart. Man, if I was even accepting the deal here,
Starting point is 01:01:59 I wouldn't use my own car when I would have been. Everything is pre-wired? I mean, I would have taken a cab. We'll walk up the street. We'll wait for the cab. I know it's bad time. It's weird.
Starting point is 01:02:08 I mean, I was talking to, before you got in the room, Andrew, Eric and Chris. It's weird that, I mean, Puccino totally deserving being nominated for this. But Nicholson doesn't get nominated for the Joker,
Starting point is 01:02:17 nor does DeVito for the penguin or a Pfeiffer for Catwoman. It's like this movie had a more, an air of legitimacy to it, that those movies did not. Because the movie's damn to win for a shit ton of an Oscar. Here's, no, but here's one song. I'm telling you right now, old-ass Oscar voter to do that.
Starting point is 01:02:33 Yes, most definitely, I wrote a donkey to the market. Now I'm going to nominate Al Pacino. Oh, it's 100% it. And it's Warren Beatty. It's not some young gun that never wrote a donkey like Tim Burton. Well, that is also, this has its roots in noir. Like, this is a Hollywood staple is being expanded here. And, like, versus the evil clown and the penguin mayor.
Starting point is 01:02:57 those are the people you want us to get the fucking award to but yeah so Tracy sneaks into the club he's spotted of course by well now I just I'm going to keep saying no face yeah the blank the blank yes spotted going in or whatever and it's like oh who's this I do like the look of the blank it's all very cool
Starting point is 01:03:18 we don't get any of the voice mod here but we just see like an eerie figure figure watching dude I'd rather be I mean of all of the monsters I agree with Eric blank. I mean, I don't know how you're eating. I mean, I guess... I don't know. When we see a close-up at the end of the movie, there's two little eye holes.
Starting point is 01:03:34 Yeah, I do love how... Maybe one's a food hole. Oh, I see. I mean, she's a fake freak. Yeah, that's the way. To get the chili and you just lift up the mask. Yes, but I want to be a real freak. Well, you don't... Yeah, but you never see her naked. She probably has a quato down there. Oh, sure. Yeah. That drinking the water probably had a different effect there.
Starting point is 01:03:53 That's true. That would be something. We got to see her a little person. Start the reactor ratless She took off her top and there was a little person there Half the mob is ready to start the fucking reactor dude These fucking freaks But yeah so they're He gets this is what he does that cool stunt Where he jumps on the street lamp
Starting point is 01:04:13 Yes this is Warren Bailey actually hits his face on the light post And you can see it in the movie He actually did his own stunt here He did a decent amount of the stunts in the movie I'm shocked When he jumps on the pipe and you see the face Like if the chin gets knocked it's Warren Beatty hurting
Starting point is 01:04:27 himself. All right, good. Props to him. He's like Jackie Chan all of a sudden. I believe that's what he was going for. I think he said that in several interviews. Now, Warren, we want you to run on this moving bus and jump on this other running bus. If you could for us, thank you very much. The credit should have all the stunt mishaps like a Jackie Chan movie. Totally. Always loved it. Was Michelle Yo in this
Starting point is 01:04:48 movie? No, that was Warren Beatty hitting his own face. It's all his, you know, Beatty hitting his face. Bady falling down, him eating chili that wasn't good. Oh yeah, dude, big blooper there. He's throwing the chili across the set. Is there rubber in this Mike? Come on. Chicken, white
Starting point is 01:05:04 bean chili? Get the fuck off my set. Did you just say Salsa Verde to me? I will take your nuts from you, sir. This is where Flat Top and Itchy come pretending to be child services to kidnap Dick Tracy, which it's like I thought you were a fucking professional
Starting point is 01:05:20 Dick Tracy. They just get the drop on him so easily. The kid is hears child service he escapes because he's afraid of it and watches Dick Tracy get called out. When child services knocks on your door, you just put two through the door.
Starting point is 01:05:34 That's how you respond. That's the Saw 2 model. I mean, I do think that like, Tracy doesn't want this getting out in the news. Like, what was Dick Tracy doing with a kid? You know what I mean? Like, it just doesn't quite a lot of questions. What was Batman doing with the kid?
Starting point is 01:05:47 Great. More questions. Well, there's a big event. I mean, I assume the chief, or maybe Sam is taking care of this case. Who killed Sam the Tram? Oh, God, who did it? Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 01:05:57 Who punched him to death? See, that could be, it was like an accidental, Tracy didn't mean to do it, like he punched him. And then the dude, like, million-dollar babyed himself somehow. He fell on a chair or something, you know. I didn't mean to do it, but then you knocked the shack down and let it on fire, Dick Tracy. It should be a guy called, like, crankneck.
Starting point is 01:06:13 And he had his head's, like, laying down on the side. He's just called car accident. That's like a beetle juice joke. Yeah, that's fine. Rec. Little wreck. Oh, little wreck. So they put him in a basement
Starting point is 01:06:27 The basement of Tess Trueheart's own apartment Which is kind of annoying Like what the fuck out of my goddamn building Well heaven forbid we go anywhere else in this movie So I guess yeah back to Tess Even though it's the basement of the building I guess that makes it look more like an accident
Starting point is 01:06:39 If it's his girlfriend Oh yes right And I kind but I do also kind of get it Because so they Itchy and Flat Top take him To meet Big Boy Caprice The basement of this place And they offer him a bribe
Starting point is 01:06:50 15K dude And he says no As you might expect And he's about to take them all in and of course but he's tied up and they fucking they black like they knock off all the uh few like
Starting point is 01:07:02 valves on the furnace and like all the steam pipes starts shit in the basement in which fits here's a thought take the bribe and betray them yeah that's fine but I got a bunch of money and then you can't prove like no he didn't give me any money but he's too honorable you know he just can't do it I know he's a paladin
Starting point is 01:07:19 but I do think this is smart because clearly Tess has had this situation before where a room with him in, it has blown out from gas. I imagine this has happened before. Oh, the building's on fire. Well, looks like it was another chilly cook-off tonight. Well, that was a mistake.
Starting point is 01:07:36 Definitely, yeah, news tonight here. Yeah, no, it was definitely a mistake. It was one of his classic chili far. Well, that's what's going to happen in the, if you had to leave to see the dead bodies, that was happening in the opera, was his belly was that furnace rattling and whistling.
Starting point is 01:07:53 Mr. Tracy, you're disturbing the rest of the theater goers. I just want to see how it turns out. I'm going to go take an air shit and then go and see this crime. I'm going to see if the concession stand has chili. They can hear your colon percolating backstage.
Starting point is 01:08:08 That'll put this fire out more chili. Just cool it off with a little fresh chili. Just to fight chili with chili. I'd just smother the chili with more chili. That's how the fire goes out. It's a different kind of chili. Makes sense. No, this chili doesn't have jalapenos in it, so it's lighter.
Starting point is 01:08:24 Trust me, I'm a chili professional. I know how to put out a chili fire with more chili. You use different chili. Oh, cooling me down. Ooh, some fresh cheese out of that. That'll cool me down. Oh, yeah, get some dairy in there. He's just drinking sour cream, just chugging it.
Starting point is 01:08:38 Oh, yeah, that's taking my five alarm asshole down to four, three. Oh, three, that's stable. Okay. Three I can go back to work. I've always had about a three. I haven't been past two since two. I do love This I think is my favorite
Starting point is 01:08:57 line, Pacino when Dick Tracy turns down the bribe, you dumb dick. Oh yes. Yes, indeedly do. It had to do it. Why are you funny? 30 seconds, no more dick. 30 seconds, no more dick. It is funny though because this
Starting point is 01:09:12 you know, whatever the heat pump or whatever the water heater is that is causing all the seat. It looks like the Ghostbusters containment unit. Yes, it's ready to go. And then they break it and I'm like, Well, now they just, didn't they see Ghostbusters? Look what, look what happened. Did you see it? It's magic.
Starting point is 01:09:29 But the kid noticed through the window, right? Yes, he saves him, yeah. You know, he breaks the window, gets in there, and frees him with a glass shard. Yeah. This kid's lucky enough to have a nasty cut. That's what we were teaching kids back then, yeah, right? No pickup broken glass. Pick up.
Starting point is 01:09:46 Work in the factory. We're no. $60 shift a day. Help the cops. all of them. And if they're in trouble, you help them out. Maybe you get shot. So what? He does, like, do a very weak, like, no, save your...
Starting point is 01:10:01 Ah, fucking. Get it. Actually, yeah, I will die, so let's work a little faster, kid. I really want to try the chili today at Mike. I really, I need to get that new one. But then, the ceremony, the kid gets honorary deputized under the name of the kid,
Starting point is 01:10:16 but it's actually, which is weird, and it's all this great Charles during, and it's like, and it's under the kid but once he chooses his own name he'll have to get another certificate and that'll be permanent and it's like man Charles Durning
Starting point is 01:10:30 you're just getting sidled with all this child care dialogue in this movie Charles fucking Durning well that's like the whole police I mean other than the actual like police officers Sam Patty and fucking the captain are all looking after his personal life
Starting point is 01:10:45 that's the whole thing test called just in case you know no yeah I'm near the phone just in case she gets again he's the only one that does any actual police work That's right. Bug Bailey does. The great bug Bailey, Michael, Michael Pollard, because he's like, I'll go on a sign, but I don't watch fucking Dick Tracy's fucking socks. I'll live above the club Brits for a couple months. Absolutely. All right. Yeah, that poor fuck. Well, bug, I mean, he, he, I don't know how he doesn't go through a similar situation as William Freakins bug in that upper, if you're just hanging out there all day. I too would light myself on fire. It's either that or you're Eugene Toomsing and you're starting a little paper machet thing and eating Big Boys liver.
Starting point is 01:11:23 So I think this is pretty much right where we are anyway when basically Big Boy, when they raid Big Boys Club as a kind of a front to get bug in there, right? Yes, because we've already had the walk amongst the tombstones and then the very next scene is Dick Van Dyke being like, look, there's a 14-person alibi that says that he was somewhere else, Dick, I can't help you.
Starting point is 01:11:44 Yes, so it's like, all right, you know, I'm going to play with my own rules, Raid Club Ritz, and it's kind of a basis as a fake raid. There's a great, it's your classic Simpson, your speak easy thing where we're flipping over the card chips into like cigarette packs. Yes, very,
Starting point is 01:11:59 yeah, very best damn pet shop in town. Yeah, I made the same note, yeah. I think there's a line like, I hope they're stupid enough to think that I wouldn't look under the table. Yes. Yes. But this is what, this implants bug in the, in the office, and he's right above there. And we get the,
Starting point is 01:12:15 this is a montage of them like doing all these bust and everything now. And I think this, is this back in business, are we singing back in business? That's when big boy comes back. Oh, I guess that makes sense. This one is sooner or later you're going to be sad. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just, yeah, I love all these buss, but like
Starting point is 01:12:31 apparently, and Beatty confirmed this somewhere over the years, there's like a two hour and 20 minute cut of this movie. I'd love to see it. I feel like you're seeing every single bus because it's not just like they're coming in, arresting people, whatever. Like, mouths are moving. There's a ton of dialogue being spoken in all of these moments of the
Starting point is 01:12:47 montage, and I'm like, these are all deleted scenes that you want to do. But they're also cutting certain scenes, like, clips from scenes that are about to come later are also put in there. There's a scene with Big Boy, like, yelling about getting, um, like Dick Tracy, finding all his shit. He's eating dinner and, and he does
Starting point is 01:13:04 that, that you see it before that scene happens in these montage. Oh, that's weird. Yeah. But I like these montages a lot. Yeah. They all look very, every shot so stylistically done. I love Dick punching a guy out of window at one. He does an uppercut And it's like a Shaw Brothers movie
Starting point is 01:13:20 The dude does like a flying backflip It's really fun because it's so high It's even more heightened than the heightened reality Of the movie All that's missing out of this movie To make it even more like a comic strip of that era Is if they could make a giant cloud of smoke That is the struggle
Starting point is 01:13:36 Of the fight Yeah totally right You have the scrap tornado Yeah totally Pow Exactly super fun And like basically At the end of it Big Boy is furious
Starting point is 01:13:46 Because it's got a great like you see like the money mumbles keeps bringing in his less and less and last it's it's really great though i love uh he's sort of doing like a brady bunch reference like everywhere i turn it's tracy tracy tracy yeah so funny i guess this before seamless like how who's feeding bug bailey up there is does he take breaks does you go home at night i think it's a thing where it's like this is not hot coffee it's just you're letting water like soak in the grinds yeah and then kind of he's probably pressing it himself probably something he learned to do in the service Like, you know, when you're in a foxhole, this is that you make your coffee.
Starting point is 01:14:20 This is what you're going to do, bugs. You eat so much chili. So much chili before you get up there. And then you eat some of, you know, because chili is good two or three times after you eat it. You just recycle that chili. And if you're worried about the caffeine, the pain of your stomach after each chili will keep you up at night. You will be able to do your job. You'll be alert.
Starting point is 01:14:42 And I mean, you're going to say, oh, man, I don't know when I shit my pants up, you might. But if you eat enough, you will. constipate yourself. There is enough. That's the way out is true. That's the secrets. The secret. God, you know how many times I've found myself saying the way out is through when I'm eating chills? More than
Starting point is 01:14:59 five times in my life, definitely. I do like the idea, though, that Buck Bailey has like the first cold brew operation. He's getting it ready. He did it by accident. Oh my God, this is delicious. It's more like room temperature brew, but yeah. I don't have to use a little bit of this and then add water? Are you fucking serious? But there is more chilly here
Starting point is 01:15:15 because so what happens is big boy priest when they find the coffee is dripping down under the lamp fixture and like Pacino does a good like look up or whatever those faces like just call yeah it's it's so fucking good and then so he decides like we're going to make a fake call about like
Starting point is 01:15:32 doing something on the south side or whatever and Beatty or Dick Tracy has interrupted once again eating chili in the scene they're back at the diner this is where he's like what did you put in the chili today at all tire. I don't want to miss prune faces with
Starting point is 01:15:48 Big Boy when he figures it out. And he has one of my favorite lines and one of the trailer lines. I'm rubbing it out. Yes. Oh, yes. Yeah. We did skip over. It doesn't matter. The kid montage of him eating and eating and eating. Because now he's becoming
Starting point is 01:16:04 ingratiated with Tess's life and all their... They're becoming closer. They're going to family. There's a great moment which gets surprised at the end where he's basically, you know, Tess I think about you live it alone. I like live it alone. And it's like that thing
Starting point is 01:16:19 and he's about to propose to him that he can't. Right, that's a sweet moment. It is. But it's also like, I don't know, man. Like fucking nut up, dude. This lady is about to get put in jail
Starting point is 01:16:29 because she's an old maid. That's just, 1936. Right. That was a long. The cops are ready. Right. Same guy's like,
Starting point is 01:16:35 you sure you know want to arrest her trace? He ain't a husband. The dog catcher is getting married. That's one of the best songs, I think of all the songs is the Live Alone and Like It song. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:44 talking about, you know, I like being alone. I just like it. It sounds like a son-hine. It sounds like something that would be in company. Oh, big time. Somewhere, it doesn't matter, but somewhere around here, before the raid montage, the blank recruits 88 keys to work for her.
Starting point is 01:17:01 You know, in gracious, oh, I'm going to give you all this money every month. You're working for me now. Give this note to Big Boy. Yes. And I like Big Boys. Give this note to Big Boat. Big Boy's response. Kevin Solo the Carbonade. is pretty, pretty, uh, spot on, right?
Starting point is 01:17:17 What do we mean? I'm going to work with someone. You don't even know how to get contact with me. You want to follow? Where to the piano? Right, flat time's like, want me to follow 88 keys. Where to the piano? Yeah. How am I going to vote? It's a man with no face. I'm not to get in touch with the early olives. But this is the blank is kind of making its presence known. And then, uh, basically now, uh, Tracy is about to, uh, get murdered by Prune Face and Influence here
Starting point is 01:17:48 because that was the trap that they Because Bug Bailey gets the bath right here doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's this weird, so Bug Bailey is getting the bath and Prune Faces and Influencer there, Tracy saves him and then the next shot, Tracy is full of Samantha. I'm like, how did
Starting point is 01:18:06 that happen? I think he the thought was that he was trying to trick them. They're like, oh, that's just Michael J. Pollard, but no, he has a gun pointed at you. Right. That doesn't really make sense. And then the gun doesn't work because it's covered in cement. That's a kind of a gag. It's a very like, there's a lot going on in this one
Starting point is 01:18:22 moment. There was a moment cut out where like it's a bigger struggle to get that guy out of there and he gets douched by yes, because he goes to like save him and then the next thing, you don't even like really see the rescue of it. You don't see the struggle of getting him out of there. What it's like to pull a man out of cement bondage.
Starting point is 01:18:38 Right. Probably a little tricky. It was probably, it was a little too erotic. We had to cut something out. To keep those Madonna the scenes we had to cut that one. Fuck, it's Insta dry shit again. Get the fucking rip. Part of this montage
Starting point is 01:18:51 also, I think this is the Living Alone song is Tess goes out of town because at the chilly tasting like a tire scene, they're having a big like, you know, you're fucking not taking this desk job and I really would like you to be up the streets.
Starting point is 01:19:07 You're always working and then like the call comes through about the south side thing and it's like if you get up, motherfucker like this is going to be bad. Is it no but what would that that pisses her off but what drives her away is when she sees him making out with breathless in his house. Oh sure
Starting point is 01:19:23 yeah so I forgot about that yeah that's the peach ice cream. Yeah Tracy's waiting around for ice cream. Hey test you get the ice cream yet and it's like what kind of ice cream you want fucking peat pussy ice cream or whatever she says. Can you eat a peach for hours to Tracy? Well doesn't he say something like oh it's pistachio
Starting point is 01:19:39 this is great something like that because again riding a donkey to a grocery store. But I mean, like, this would piss. I mean, this would be the end. So, like, basically, uh, Breathless is there. They have another one of their like, I don't know if I can testify against big boy, yada yada.
Starting point is 01:19:52 Don't you want to frisk me? Yes. They make out, test sees them before the, before she comes in, waits, then comes back. And then it's like, oh, Tess, this is just, uh, Breathless Mahoney. She's, uh, helping me on a big case. And I'm, if I'm watching your street urchin fucking not son. Right. And I watch you fucking tongue some flusies.
Starting point is 01:20:13 dude. That ice cream's going right up your ass. And he must have like an Art Donaldson boner here just sticking out. Think about that that hot chili ass Steve and you put that ice cream in there. It's melting before it it even gets it in there. Yeah, it's not even getting it in there. Yeah, exactly. It's like when
Starting point is 01:20:29 Homer eats the pepper and then he tries it and it just melts before it touches his tongue. That's the reactor cord down there. I do love Estelle Parsons as Mother True Heart, I guess. Well, she leaves town again. I do think the cops were going to get her because she was
Starting point is 01:20:45 going to turn 36 to be single and you have to live with your mother at that point or else you're huge trouble. And it's like, you know, oh, that dick, Tracy's never going to ask you to marry him. Also, did you see what was going on all the bickering with Jackie and Roseanne yesterday? Estelle Parsons
Starting point is 01:21:02 still alive. Wow. Has reprised that role on the Connors for multiple episodes. Oh, Jesus. Really great. But I always loved her on Roseanne, one of my favorite Estelle Parsons. Really fun. um something something this is when uh so like
Starting point is 01:21:17 they go to jail right 88 keys gets uh the the forger guy to forge that note right that's hard of it basically they're about their test is missing tracy's distraught 88 keys and the blank have a plan to get rid of tracy because also the blank is obviously upset at tracy for choosing trust true or whatever her right uh and this is the dick Van Dyke set up, which is bring money to hotel or whatever. Bring money to hotel and like, oh, we have information on, on
Starting point is 01:21:49 maybe on tests or something to get him to go to that hotel. Tracy's to go to the hotel. I love Mandy Patank in here. No way, Dick Tracy, you're not going to blackmail me. Get that gun down, Big Tracy. Why are you shooting me, Dick Tracy? It doesn't sound like Dick Van derby. I guess
Starting point is 01:22:06 it's him. It is so awesome. Oh, right? Now you're shooting me and you're saying you're to get away with the crime because you dick tracy is that right you don't think anyone's going to remember my face of my name they could probably hear you dick tracy look at the old man at the desk like what the hell's going on up there i think these two old timers are uh somebody i think or maybe one of them is uh somebody the original flat top yeah probably we got it back folks he's telling you he's at 98 and he's dead oh hell yeah dude that's good
Starting point is 01:22:41 give me seven minutes to find out who's playing flat time in your Dick Tracy field this is oh little cameo here Mary Warrenoff is the
Starting point is 01:22:51 social services lady who comes to the to get the kid or whatever we could have Paul Bartel in this movie come on he was probably on set
Starting point is 01:22:59 and you know they were I think they were married or at least spent a lot of time together yeah call him hair the wig dude
Starting point is 01:23:08 there you know But yeah, so Dick Tracy gets knocked out here and is set up with the gun after all that amazing noise that Benet Pankan Nick. It's so fucking funny. Him just yell. God damn. It's great.
Starting point is 01:23:22 But yeah, so it's like this Dick Tracy sitting in the chair. They're kind of like weekend of Bernie's thing here a little bit. Like putting the gun up, like propping it on his leg or whatever. And then like he wakes up because they like gas him and that's how they get him there. And Dick Van Dyke is that. He goes, that's right.
Starting point is 01:23:36 No, that's right. Tracy goes to Tess's Greenhouse. house. Yeah. Smell the flowers Tracy and go to sleep. The visuals on that are fantastic. Yes, they're really cool. All those shadows and flowers like that. There's so much beautiful shit we're not talking about.
Starting point is 01:23:50 It's incredible. The train scene with him and the kid and the way that that just goes. Oh, yes, when the kid jumps across the tracks on him or whatever. And Dick Tracy has this line of like, he doesn't have a line, he has a look on his face of like, did I just see a kid totally cut in half by a train? I just watched him. I'm going to prepare myself for the
Starting point is 01:24:09 worst image of my entire life. Oh, it looks like Chilly. Oh, this kid's destroyed corpse looks making it awkward. You didn't think that that would turn me off chili. But it didn't. No, now I crave kid chili. Take that body to the diner. I love the newscaster. Dick Tracy is in disgrace
Starting point is 01:24:29 tonight. Of course. One of the, there's three broadcasters that keep showing them, but he doesn't have any lines, but you see him. The micro machines guy is in this movie. Really? Oh, is that right? Now for younger listeners, there was a series of commercials where this, we would refer to him as the micro machine guy, and he would just say shit really fast. That was a thing for a minute. Like auctioneer culture was on fleek.
Starting point is 01:24:54 Wow, look at you. Which is an expression that's not really trendy these days. No, it's like 15 years old. Got to bring the history. Hey, hey, donkey rider here. But now that Tracy's there, now we get back in business. Dick Disgrace Montage. And it's great. It's a great song. We're watching
Starting point is 01:25:11 Madonna do it. We're watching. And what we watch is all of Big Boys gang harassed the town. The town, it seems, is populated only by the elderly. It's all old shopkeepers. Everyone is 68 plus. And they're all
Starting point is 01:25:27 getting hilariously beat up and it's awesome. Everyone was a mom and pop back then. Yeah, that's a good point. And like without Dick Tracy there, of course, every police officer turns to goo. Just can't fight nothing. Can't do a damn thing. They don't have their fearless yellow, bejacketed leader.
Starting point is 01:25:43 They are not fortified with chili. I just imagine like you get a cut to Charles Durning just at his office. Like, I don't know what to do. I'm the captain of the police. I don't know what to do. He picks up a gun and he doesn't know it. He's got like my two fingers like, what is this?
Starting point is 01:25:59 I'm biting on the barrel. Oh, kid, what would you do? I don't know what you do. You're at least a crazy junior. What does the badge do? What What does you do? Hand cop shusha. Just for sex stuff. Well, yes, but also
Starting point is 01:26:15 arresting suspect. Okay, I guess I'm doing sex stuff now. One of the most, in all the sea of horrendous-looking people and disgusting food eating and whatever, one of the grossest things in this movie, is this laugh that Mandy Patankan's doing? Oh, yes.
Starting point is 01:26:32 Oh, that donkeys do. It sounds like a fucking jackass braid. It's awful. I can't do it. that without choking myself so i'm glad you stepped in i started to try to do it then my throat was like don't do it i gave up it's so good man did you've been taking some of to fucking blast he really is i mean the dude total fucking legend obviously beloved love him uh it's new year it's new year's eve i think is uh yeah basically new year's eve basically the kid comes to visit tracy in
Starting point is 01:26:56 prison uh and it's like i just wanted to show you my certificate biggest laugh biggest laugh of the movie for me i chose my name and it's dick tracy junior and i would be like no No, take a different one. Back to formula, kid. Well, I never agree. Hey, I'm getting the chair. I don't know if you know how this works. It's actually...
Starting point is 01:27:17 I killed the DA. It would be Richard Traceaford Jr. I did a little thing. You make your last name a nickname. You know, like shortening it. No one's ever really thought. It's Richard Travich. Tramovich.
Starting point is 01:27:33 Yeah, switch that when the Treveitch has got over to Ellis Island. Do you see what I'm saying? Don't tell anyone. But he is as best Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy could be moved in this movie. And it falls so flat. Like, I'm sorry, the kid is doing it. He's like, you want to admit? And it's a cute Charlie Corsemo.
Starting point is 01:27:51 Charlie Corsemo, hey, had a heater streak for a little while. This hook was the very next year. 1990, 91, each of those years, he had like three movies. And the best of the bunch is, what about Bob? Oh, right. I forgot a boy and what about Bob. Yes. I love that.
Starting point is 01:28:06 huge triplet of movies here for this kid. He had a good two years there. I honestly, I love this guy because he did that
Starting point is 01:28:13 didn't do anything until can't hardly wait whether on I assume because he didn't want to want to be a normal kid for a little bit because he's like he's one of those
Starting point is 01:28:21 he's like a total genius person. He's in those Aaron Schimberg movies now and he's really good in them. Yeah he went I remember reading one like he became like a super accountant or something like a super accountant or something.
Starting point is 01:28:32 Like just a super successful like accountant or something. It's something like that. He got money. He got money. He paid for his school, paid for his thing. He's fine. No, no, no. No shit. He's in what movies now? Chained for Life. I'm not sure if you've seen it. He's also the new Sebastian Stan movie. That's not the Trump movie. It's called A different man. Yes, yes. A Sundance, I think. It's supposed to be great. 824's got it. It's supposed to be a very good movie. I think 824 also had Chained for Life or somebody else might have. I don't remember. This new movie, it's the guy who's in, oh, fuck. Speaking of A2. Under the Skin. Thank you. And he's. And he's all. also in Chained for Life. He's the main character. Oh, is it? Oh, got it, got it. Well, that's cool. I didn't know he was back in movies. Yeah. That's pretty bad. Welcome back. Thank you, Charlie. Thanks for coming back. And they're like, all right. So, Charles Durning brings the kid to Tracy. Tracy's being brought from city jail to county jail. That's where the electric chair is. So get him over there. But you, you know, these crooked sons of bitches. Tracy's above the law. So Sam Ketchum and his other friend Pat, Pat, whatever the fuck. Are you? Paterson. The guys are taking
Starting point is 01:29:37 him to stop Big Boy and say clear his name. They're like oh yeah, we're driving to the county. I figure it'll take about eight hours to get there. Yeah. Oh, by the way, at the beginning of the montage, which takes a long time, Tess Trujart
Starting point is 01:29:53 is kidnapped by the Black. So how long has she been kidnapped for a very long time? Oh, that's a good call. I think it's the week between Christmas and New York. At least that. Please give me your bucket.
Starting point is 01:30:07 It needs to be cleaned out. Oh, these are your chicken scraps. Okay. It puts the lotion on the skin and puts the lotion in the basket. So you think you're better than me. You think I'm underneath this, I'm fucking smoking hot. You don't understand. Don't you hurt my fucking dog.
Starting point is 01:30:27 I look and shout, but I'm really fucking hot under here. Was the blank, Steve, do you know anything about this? Was that at all? any inspiration for the question. That's a great question. Probably it almost half to be. That's a great question. It's the same design. Right, yeah. I just had that thought right now, actually.
Starting point is 01:30:44 The question's a cool little comic character. It's so dope. But, yeah, so she's been kidnapped and they know where, they assume it's about, oh, no, they shake down mumbles is what happened. They shake down mumbles. Oh, yes. I really love this because, again, I think, Eric, you made the point. It's great that they don't over.
Starting point is 01:31:04 overuse him talking too much in the movie because it really works so well here where it's like all right and like they're really putting the screws to him and he drops it and just talks like Dustin Hoffman it's really cool it's also I love the scene starts with like we gotcha mumbles and he's like laughing it's a leather face laugh it really is and then he starts crying which sounds like leather face crying it doesn't take like adjust the recording they have slows it that's yeah big boy did it big boy did it big boy did it but then at the end he does talk like normal he drops it yeah yeah yeah it's so good yeah i love the little
Starting point is 01:31:43 holding the tape and slowing it down what a cool move in the bear statue water dispenser yeah so they know that 88 keys the piano man sent you up that's the line there and but the blank calls in and it's like if you want to see test true hatches above the club wits and it's like okay we got to stop also bring some new clothes She's going to need it. She had the chili farts while she was in my custody. It's the only thing we serve in this town. She told me to let the skid mark know the score.
Starting point is 01:32:14 Also, like a virgin. Touched for the very first time. Like a virgin. Burn it up. Burn it up for your love. Burn it up. Set it up for your love. I'm a material girl.
Starting point is 01:32:30 Living in a material world. The one you wouldn't have to change. just die another it just sounds like it already this used
Starting point is 01:32:39 to be my playground is that the song from Joe Pesci his homeless movie I think of my
Starting point is 01:32:49 oh what is that I know it's and I'll remember the way that you touched me you smell like shit in
Starting point is 01:32:59 red books just like a guy isn't Brendan Fray or else with that movie? He's the guy. With honors. Yes.
Starting point is 01:33:06 There it is. Thank you. He sadly dies. Patrick Dempsey. Also. Yes. Strike a pose. There's nothing to it.
Starting point is 01:33:15 In Logue. Load. What the fuck was the Bannador's song again? How did that go? You know, I'm very close with David Fincher. Oh, my God. With honors, that's a stay too. Oh, God, that movie.
Starting point is 01:33:32 I'm homeless, and I'm going to teach you kids. You Harvard kids, what it's like. Do you know who Charles Dickens? It's a question of not, because you're not homeless. Is that what's going on that movie? Dude, have you seen it? It's a wild movie. We definitely have to do it.
Starting point is 01:33:47 I remember liking it as a kid because I think I had a crush on some of the actresses. Moratirney. You're not Moratirney. The other one. Who's not Moratirino? Linda Giurantino. From Twin Peaks Firewalk with me. In Twin Peaks, Cheryl.
Starting point is 01:34:01 No, she's the ice skating movie too. West Wing. Mora, it's not more, oh, it's going to drive me crazy. I'm going to bring it up. She's in the cutting edge, Eric. That's the, that she's the star of the cutting edge. Her name is, it's driving fucking crazy.
Starting point is 01:34:16 Well, let's see if we can do it, folks. It's the blank. Indeed, indeed it is. It's the blank and you draw. Mora Kelly. Moira Kelly, yes. Yes, I think that was the one. Yeah, she's hot.
Starting point is 01:34:29 And yeah, so, but so this is when she, we see that it's great because it's new year's eve it's the club ritz and i love alpachino playing this thing about like i'm wrapped up in a kidnapping and i didn't do anything like that's him the rest of the movie yeah and it's fucking hilarious it's like it's federal offense oh my god this is get ready i don't i don't want that i don't want any part of it it's so awesome it's so fucking so gal big boy to check the attic we also have influence and it terrifying influence basically looks like now that henry sylva as influence looks like the dudes at
Starting point is 01:35:03 end of Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, Twilight Zone episode. Yes, oh my God, yes, oh my God. You're blown my mind. That's exactly what they look like. And he walks around like that all the time. But he's got a little New Year's hat. He's like, we got it. You want to check upstairs.
Starting point is 01:35:19 And this is when you see basically that she's tied up. Get her out of here. I don't want to. I don't want to. This is Tracy's girls. Someone set us up. Get the guns. Get the guns.
Starting point is 01:35:29 That Dick Tracy jumps through the fucking. I mean, What? Does he like a fell down? He just jumps down. He breaks his shins, I guess. He's like Batman in this scene. But for nothing, because he jumps down there, they've left, the door is locked,
Starting point is 01:35:46 I can't get out of even. Exactly. And he humorous a little bit, like, hey, Pat, how much do you weigh? I love, he's like, uh, 195. What is it? How much she made? 210. Yeah, I do.
Starting point is 01:35:56 This is very loony tunes. Like, he jumps down and sends Tracy like back up through the skylight or whatever. Poor patio Patterson. fucking stuck in the attic for the rest of the fucking. Okay. Yeah, well, that's where you put Irishman in this world. Oh, fuck, I forgot Patty. It's probably dead.
Starting point is 01:36:12 It's been weeks. Can we solve that case weeks ago? Open the safe. Oh, open the safe. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, it smells. Oh, no, we got to hide this. Turn it into chili. I'll eat it and then it'll be gone. Does anybody have any stewed tomatoes? You start cutting up them onions.
Starting point is 01:36:30 But yeah, what's the deal here? When I tell you to hit the horn? That's when the raid is going to happen is the idea, hit your horn. This scene is burned into my memory as a kid because it's incredibly violent. Oh my God. It is a massive fucking shootout. It's awesome. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:36:59 Explosions and whatnot. Everyone's getting nice to this. I get the feeling this was like, Warren Beatty was like, you know, it took fucking forever to get that shot of me and Faye getting shot in fucking Bonnie and Clyde. I'd like to be on the other side of that. I'd like to be on the other side of it. Yeah. Let me see if I can get a little bit on flat top here. Dude, Flat Top gets it so bad. Itchy doesn't even get out of the car. Itchy eats shit in the car. And then Flattop kind of has one more for the road. And you just see William Forthside just like sunny on the causeway.
Starting point is 01:37:15 Yes, exactly. Like this dude is riddled with bullets. There's no real squibs, but you just, you feel the impact from the sound and the way he's moving. And you also see, I love Itchy's hand outside the window because he's dead now. I was like, that was my favorite. And there's a little kid. I'm like, Itchy was my favorite. Oh, no.
Starting point is 01:37:35 Itchy, come back. Oh, real funny thing here. Big boy with Tess. They're on that, like, cart, and he's pulling her through the really cramped quarters talking the whole time. God damn, that's really funny. It's so much, you know, improv doing whatever.
Starting point is 01:37:52 He's like, I want generals, and I got short soldiers. Believe me, this is not the way I wanted it to be. It is, like, pulling her through this air vent or whatever this is. And I think he says, oh. moving, I'll put a bullet in your head like seven times in that whole thing. I didn't want to kidnap you, but I'm kidnapping you now. Yes. I will kill you. I will kill you.
Starting point is 01:38:11 And so like, honestly, much like Batman 89, it's crazy. We're at the top of a building where there's a bunch of gears and shit all over the place. It's not a fucking bell tower, but it is up high. Our villain is dragging the heroine up the stairs. And what's that? He takes a huge fall. Yeah, it's so strange. Wouldn't you believe it?
Starting point is 01:38:30 All you're missing is the fucking teeth clacking out of the sidewalk. Now, Al, you can't dance with her. Al, just trust me, don't do that. But I dance in every film that I'm in. That's it. I'm doing send of a woman so I can dance. I got to do a little soft shoot. Maybe they went back and had to reshoot that rehearsal
Starting point is 01:38:46 because maybe the rehearsal scene earlier was him just in a chair the whole time. He's like, well, if I can't dance in the attic, I'm going to be dancing at the rehearsal, baby. Bo, more. You don't I realize he kind of looks like when he's dancing, too? It's kind of like when they make
Starting point is 01:39:02 Cartman dance. Yeah, that's his little fat guy Shimmying around I was speaking of human chili Cartman is something that he's done Oh, that's right He's forced others to eat human chili Right in that spooky corn episode
Starting point is 01:39:15 Right, a different episode But there's one where he wants to get He wants to get revenge on a kid who like He'd somebody something must die Yes he did some I remember this I remember this It's a kid who like does like the littlest slight Against Cartman
Starting point is 01:39:28 And Cartman makes him eat his parents He goes to their they have like a horse ranch and he gets them and he turns a bit to chill. He does the tight I mean he does the tuitous andronicus thing. It is so that was a weird episode of South Park. An odd one. Odd term to South Park. But yes, the blank shows up.
Starting point is 01:39:46 Everybody's here. The kid shows up. Scott Tenerman must die. That's what he was. Yes. The blank shows up. You can kill her. I'm taking you down with the run crime you didn't do. Tracy is fighting Bigwood. We could pick up that pipe and kill Big Boy. We could run this
Starting point is 01:40:02 Yeah, we can run the galaxy his father and lovers. Fuck you guys, I'm going home. There's a, I do like when, it's kind of weird, and I don't know why like Bainty chose to do this, but there is like Dick Tracy gets up there and it's a lot of big boy being like, where are you? Why are you hiding from me? And it's like Dick Tracy in the shadows,
Starting point is 01:40:26 like you cannot see his face. And this is a whole movie where this other secret secondary villain is a person without a face. And then like all of a sudden it just cuts and there's Warren Beatty and you can see his face and I was like, why are you bothering? If it was just Dick Tracy the whole time, who gives a shit? Why are you doing it? I mean, I guess they're trying to give you like a little because there isn't there a scene where the blank wears the coat? I think the black wears the coat to go up the stairs at the, at the, at the hotel.
Starting point is 01:40:53 When they're framing. Yes. Yes. And like, be like, oh, is this the blank who's doing this now? The blank runs by up the stairs. Yeah. And the coat. That's right, Dick Tracy.
Starting point is 01:41:01 You're wearing your, to your car. characteristic yellow coat. I understand who you are, Dick Tracy. Don't take that gun on me, Dick Tracy. Everyone's telling you, you can see that code from space, Tracy. I do, yeah, so,
Starting point is 01:41:16 kill Big Boy, and we'll win that run the town. The kid knocks the blank over. Tracy kills Big Boy anyway. He just rushes at him and tackles him and throws him over the railing. You see him flipping flying, like falling down.
Starting point is 01:41:32 in a very good fall. Very the emperor going down the shaft. If there was a fucking bolt of lightning anywhere there, someone's got a suit on their hands. Absolutely. And then Tracy goes up to the blank and the blank. Don't cry for me, Argentina. The truth is I never
Starting point is 01:41:50 left. Because she shot at this point, right? Yeah, she shot. Big boy shoots her like four times. Right. Yes. And now, you know, we get the close-up of the little eyes. Yeah, it's creepy. Very, very eerie. But yeah, we ripped the mask off and it's it's Madonna I guess madonna she does the voice for one second and it's like Tracy I didn't mean to do any yes yeah just in case someone didn't get just got right back from
Starting point is 01:42:16 the bathroom and like their head was not facing the screen as they sat back into the chair was the idea just real quick what's also it's like what the motivation it's like well I know that you're like uncorruptible but I thought maybe maybe now we take out all the criminals and maybe we run the mafia? That was the angle of that? That was her idea. It seems a little dumb. Because you don't know anything about this character,
Starting point is 01:42:40 which is what annoys me. I'm like, why are you doing other than like power? But also, Eric, I mean, come on. When the good guys run the mafia, it's okay. But it's, well, I totally agree with that. The real deal, real world mafia Chris Cabin, not this candy-colored cartoon or shit. That's fair.
Starting point is 01:42:56 But I can see the motivation in a way of a, you know, she's a dame treated like shit. Yeah. more more and then it's like let me turn the tables and now i'm the boss oh 100% but to that and i think you're totally right that's that's great don't just don't make this a surprise like the fact that it's a twist they it doesn't allow them to setting up so like yeah sure she's a woman in this this world of criminals she's obviously treated like currency and garbage and like likely physically abused and whatever so i get that there's motivation there but the movie doesn't
Starting point is 01:43:27 present anything but if you really wanted to establish it i guess you know what you should have done is started the movie with the blank doing shit. Like make it a through line throughout the whole thing versus appearing 45 minutes. That's yeah, the other thing, right? She only comes in as that character in the middle of the movie. But if it's like we're focusing on a singular investigation in a way and it's like this blank is messing with the mafia,
Starting point is 01:43:48 I hate the mafia too, but what's going on? And we follow that versus that's what the problem with the movie is. I think it's just like stuff happens and I don't know why. Well, yeah, I think if you get the blank to do the massacre at the beginning and trying to frame Big Boy or lips at that point for it. You get a little bit more of a through line. I never minded this,
Starting point is 01:44:08 the fact that, like, it turns out it's her. I got, like, she's such a femme fatale character that I was like, of course she hates all these people. Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah. But, like, I think there's a difference between wanting to eradicate the gangs and then wanting to eradicate the gangs
Starting point is 01:44:23 and so you could be the person who picks up the power and the vacuum. Like, I just can't make that jump with what the movie gives me. Well, because I think that's a Fem Fetal thing, whereas, like, she is still, like, there's something heartless about her. So she does want the power. She wants that more than that.
Starting point is 01:44:38 But that never, in, like, in Nguars or whatever, that never comes to, I want to be the head of a criminal enterprise. Sure. I mean, I feel like somebody, again, like, I feel like somebody like, a Kathleen Turner or somebody that can actually... A real actor? Yeah, like, could do, like, a Fem Fetal, like, kind of voice and, like, a... Sure. Again, in that...
Starting point is 01:44:54 Turner would be good. Taking it up to 11 in the way this movie is, you'd be like, I know exactly that character. is she's just a little too sensitive and again like I think she's probably better in like a lower five movie you know what I mean like a more realistic grounded film this movie is full of cartoon characters
Starting point is 01:45:10 that look like mutants you know what I mean like yes yeah exactly I also kind of wonder is there like another crop of mutants coming up to take these guys places oh well there's there's criminals and poor people drinking all the bad water in there'll be some guy with an alligator head tomorrow leather head the rack king they're all coming up some kind of a droopy lip
Starting point is 01:45:27 I guess I'm a lobster down Oh, yeah, a stroke man's here. My son's bebop and rock steady. Or I guess for this movie it would be stroke phase. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, stroke face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, stroke face indeed. Donkey Rider, like, that's, he could be a guy. Donkey rider.
Starting point is 01:45:45 Take that now I'm pruned Tracy. Donkey rider sounds like it could be a documentary Chris would watch here. Oh, because of the fucking, yeah. Yeah, if it's like a guy that fucks a donkey. I see, okay. but so like it's kind of weird like he's saying goodbye to Breathless Mahoney
Starting point is 01:46:04 Tess is like I guess I'll let you fuck her while I wait outside Oh don't worry about it Tess She's dead Nothing's gonna happen Here's her Here's her body He kisses her
Starting point is 01:46:15 And the big New Year's fireworks Are going off It's right And credits at the fireworks I don't know what this is Well you know what We got some leftover
Starting point is 01:46:23 Chili And from the prop department We got one more chili It's not even a sequel set up It's just like The story goes But, you know, I understand why they did it because it's nice to give Tess that ending.
Starting point is 01:46:34 It is, yeah. But it just felt like we just had our big, boombastic ending. They stepped outside. I saw the gorgeous mat painting. The fireworks are going off. Yeah, propose there. Yeah, exactly. Do the thing.
Starting point is 01:46:44 And end the movie. Yeah. Because this also is just sort of half-hearted asshole way to do this. Also, you wanted to be a thing where, like, maybe he's learned anything. So it's like, he actually gets on one knee. The move needs to be. He's about to do it. Because, like, the conversation is leading that way.
Starting point is 01:47:00 And then, uh-oh, the fucking watch blows up again. In this moment, you need it to be, I'm going to close the watch. Crime can wait. I'm going to do the proposal. And that's how you end it. Not I'm throwing the ring box that you fuck you, lady, off to another job again. You get it, right? Yeah, we're good.
Starting point is 01:47:19 We're good, right? You hate that I'm still on the streets. You've hated it the whole movie. That's the through line of your character. This whole movie, you don't want to marry me because I'm on the streets. If I take a desk job, we'll get married. oh, the end of the movie, I'm still on the streets and you want to get married? You got it, right?
Starting point is 01:47:31 I do, I bet you this is how he proposed to the net betting. This threw a ringbox at her and went out swimming and said you're one in a million. You're lucky to have me. Here you go. That's what this is. This ending is, boy, Tess Truhart, you came back to the city and boy, you're lucky you did because
Starting point is 01:47:47 now we're getting married. Remember, you're one in a million, okay? And this is a city of eight million so I get eight girlfriends, okay? That's just how it works. Tess, it's math. You could have ended up with that son of a bitch the man in the yellow hat which something happened to him
Starting point is 01:48:01 I don't know I don't see him around mouthed off anymore took a bath maybe chilly bath yeah and so that's it like he takes their adopted child on this police work so now
Starting point is 01:48:13 she's worried about two people working in the choice I'll keep getting one between the eyes it's just such a shitty way to end it for that character but that is the way the movie ends a big fat the end which I love beautiful old school comic strip
Starting point is 01:48:27 font that they used throughout. It's very great stuff. But that is the end of the movie. And aside from his embarrassing fucking weird Kevin Spacey esk YouTube videos that he made, Dick Tracy never aired again. Not quite at the Kevin. The Kevin Spacey video is like the most menacing
Starting point is 01:48:43 thing I've ever seen in my life. Well, I just mean as far as a who could give a shit and this is kind of sad. Kevin Spacey doesn't seem bore. Isn't like, what is it? Why does it happen? And oh, yes, Dick. And I'm warning. You're dick. No, no, you're. So you're Kaiser and your sister.
Starting point is 01:48:59 Give it a few years, a few more Christmases. I'm looking forward to it. I'm really looking forward to it. But, I mean, and since he's coming back to pictures, I mean, well, oh, sure. We'll see him. Peter 5-8, storming the box. Yes. But we'll go around the horn here for final thoughts.
Starting point is 01:49:16 Eric Siska. Yes. You know, I think it's a light recommend. There's a lot to like about this, but I just feel like it gets a little soggy. It gets a little tedious. I started looking at my radio watch. Ooh. You get that?
Starting point is 01:49:27 Eric Siska, come in. This movie's dragging. I'll be right there, toilet. My partner, toilet. Are you bringing chili or what? Oh, I'll be bringing the chili. So, yeah, no, I think it's worth definitely seeing, but I don't love it, but I like it. Yeah, Chris Gavin.
Starting point is 01:49:46 I really like it. I kind of always really liked this. The story issues aren't really, don't make, like, if we're going to talk about movies like this that are just entertainments, and I do think there are personal elements to it that he picks up on, but he just doesn't work them into a lather the way you would want him to,
Starting point is 01:50:04 the way a Batman does do that. Like, this, to me, like, if we're just going to get it on entertainment level, this is all I want. This is a perfect production design, pretty good performances, some good makeup.
Starting point is 01:50:17 Like, the story, I do agree, like, the Fletcher thing is the thing that bugs me. That's the low. The DA? The stuff with the setting him up and all that, that is the stuff that drags.
Starting point is 01:50:26 for me. But to me it goes really quickly and I have never seen a movie of the size where I'm not bored by a part of it at least. Maybe The Matrix. But for the most part like, yeah, I just enjoy everything about this. Warren Beatty you just got to stop directing
Starting point is 01:50:42 yourself. You gotta stop doing that. Well, you got him, Chris. Yeah, I think time has solved that issue. Oh, wait, he's dead. No, but his last directorial effort was in 2016. I think the shops closed up. Well, that's good. Or, well, actually, no, excuse me, he co-directed that fucking Tracy Zooms-in video.
Starting point is 01:51:02 And I really want to know what the co-director was doing on that, like, yeah, you're doing great. Plugging in the fucking internet connection. Steve Sadek. What's the wireless passion? I guess I'm the co-director. If you help me log in, you can co-direct this with me. Yeah, I mean, I, I like this movie. I don't love it.
Starting point is 01:51:23 I think, again, I've never loved Warren Biddy as an actor. you kind of have to for a movie called Dick Tracy where he plays Dick Tracy but I mean again the color is amazing Pacino's fantastic there's so much to like here and I do think you know just as as we're in a summer of we're always talking about superhero horseshit
Starting point is 01:51:42 and comic horse shit I love the idea of just taking one property and used the whole fucking Buffalo and just see what it looks like in one movie and that's it because not everything needs to be like if there's a Green Lantern movie I think there could have been one good Green Lantern movie
Starting point is 01:51:58 You know what I mean? Like you could do that You don't have to set up a five Five year fucking plan And all this or shit Just see what that first movie looks like When you use everything And then if it works
Starting point is 01:52:10 Try a sequel You know what I mean? Like that's what this movie is basically doing It's like there could have been a sequel to this But obviously Batey was uninterested But it's just He just did everything you wanted to do In this one movie
Starting point is 01:52:22 Like it or Lumpit It is the Dick Tracy movie And that's good Yeah. No, I agree with that. It's not something I love. I think it's fine. I think it's, I give so many extra star points to this for the craft part of it more than what I get out of watching it, which isn't much and I don't really revisit this movie. It's beautiful. The craft here is incredible. It deserved every nomination and it should have won all of those things. It did win a few Academy Awards and whatnot. And again, just a real fucking stacked deep bench of people is really. fun, just coming, you know, like, not even just jamming it with huge stars. Jamming it with people like, you know, R.G. Armstrong and James Tolkien, just these, like, you know these people, William Forsy, you know, like just cool looking character actors to play all these fucking freaks. It's great. It was a brilliant stroke of casting by Beatty and
Starting point is 01:53:15 the casting director. Really cool. It's a light recommend. I don't, I don't give a fuck about Dick Tracy. And I don't really give a fuck about Warren Beatty either. But that was going to do it for this episode of Dick Tracy here on Wee Hey Movies. As all, Always, if you want more we ate movies, Patreon.com slash we hate movies. There's a lot going around this month on the Patreon, including a We Love movies all about Back to the Future three. A lot less freak makeup in that movie, but, you know, there's still some freak makeup. That Mad Dog Tannin's pretty disgusting. A lot of filth, yeah.
Starting point is 01:53:44 And I think someone may or may not eat chili in that movie, too. I'm entirely sure. Animation Damnation, Steve Sadek, what we had floating around there. Ed O. Ross's return in Men in Black. There's a fun little convo there. Absolutely. And then we finish the Callista saga, Eric says on the Globet Gloucler. Yes, the Gleap Glossary.
Starting point is 01:54:03 If you listened to last month, we talked about a ghost that was trapped in a computer. So this is what you're missing out on by not being a patron. And now we're going to talk about the ghosts sort of friend, a guy that became a robot and then became a dead guy. Nietzsche-Mars, so tune in. Real explosive 90210 and Melrose Place covered on Melrose 210 this month. A return of Kim of Kimberly Shaw and the return of Dean Kane. That's right, that's right. And on the Nexus, the last TOS episode.
Starting point is 01:54:35 That's right. The last TOS episode is happening. And we will announce the direction of the Nexus on that episode. Just you want to make sure you get that. Also, end of this month, Harry Potter for commentary. Goblet of Firementary is coming out. The second longest Harry Potter movie. We made it through it.
Starting point is 01:54:52 Very few bathroom breaks. No one fell asleep. That's a great, really funny. commentary coming out that you can choose to sink or just listen to. Either way you are being entertained. And Chris Cabin, of course, once on a lifetime return this month. Oh, yes. Unwet father with the notorious B.A.G. Brian Austin Green has come back. And he's playing kind of like David Silver kind of character. Yeah, it's like if Donna actually let him have sex, you know, and then he had to watch him try to raise a baby. And that's on a houseboat of all things. Tune
Starting point is 01:55:24 into that episode. It was a fun convoy. Absolutely. And if you are listening to this on the Patreon at the $8 level or up, you can get this ad-free zero commercials. So if you had some ads on the free feed, might want to kick over to that and then see how that treats you. Now,
Starting point is 01:55:40 We Hate Movies Rolls on next Tuesday, both on the free feed and on the ad-free Patreon offering. With what motion picture Steve Zadak? I-Robot. Ooh, Will Smith sci-fi motion picture. I definitely saw in theaters. I remember nothing about it except for one line
Starting point is 01:55:56 that's very stupid. I've never seen it all the way through. I've seen some of it and I'll talk about the circumstance for next week. I thought it was pretty stupid but it's been a while. It's an Alex Proyas. It is. It is. Director of knowing. Thank God. And the crow.
Starting point is 01:56:11 And the crow also. And dark city. And dark city, which is great. And gods of Egypt. More stay tunes than not with that fella. Well, that was a former episode. God's of Egypt. Yeah, we did do that. That's right. Yeah. That was a worst stuff many moons ago. Oh, geez, you're right. Yeah, so
Starting point is 01:56:28 until next week, when we return to Alex Pryastown with I-Robot, woof, it's Will Smith and Bridget Moynihan. Sure. I think that might be right. Any way, listen, we'll get to the bottom of it. We'll tell you next week. Until then, I've been Andrew Dupin. Stevenson, Eric Sisker. Chris Cabin. Take it easy.
Starting point is 01:56:54 Thank you. It's a lot of it. Thank you.

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