We Hate Movies - S14: On-Screen Live 10.30.23 Killers of the Flower Moon, author Brian Abrams, Halloween recs & more!

Episode Date: November 1, 2023

On this week's On-Screen Live, the guys are going over the weekend box office, chatting about Marty's new film, Killers of the Flower Moon, as well as the not-so-great PG-13 Five Nights at Freddy's, r...ecommending some Halloween horror viewing, and chatting with author Brian Abrams about his rad, new book, "You Talkin' to Me?: The Definitive Guide to Iconic Movie Quotes" which you can (and should!) buy here: https://bit.ly/3FCceZN. Don't miss your chance to catch the replay of our digital live show on Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (including the bonus After Party Q&A), it's available now through Thursday, November 2nd! This is of course the audio-only edition of On-Screen Live, if you want the full experience, check out the show on our YouTube channel. Watch live Mondays at 12pm/et or catch the replay whenever. While you're there, be sure to like this episode and subscribe to the channel! Set up notifications so you don't miss a moment of new content from us! Want more WHM? Join our Patreon fam today and instantly unlock hours and hours of exclusive bonus content, starting as low as $2 a month—with the all-new AD-FREE We Hate Movies starting at the $8 level! Be sure to get your tickets for the WHM Holiday Extravaganza where we’re talking The Santa Clause! Check out the WHM Merch Store featuring new Polish Decoy, Forrest the Universal Soldier, and 'Jack Kirby' designs!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 If you are listening to this, that's right, if you're listening to that right now, you have until Thursday night, November 2nd to check out our digital worldwide experience on Friday the 13th, part four, the final chapter. It was a lot of fun. It was a big honking show talking all about Jason, all those. kills that you know and love. And where is the clock scraw? And of course, an after-party Q&A where we answer questions from our dear patrons, Instagram users, Twitter, what have you. It was a ton of fun and you're going to want to check it out before it's gone for good.
Starting point is 00:00:44 This Thursday night, this Thursday night, it's going away. November 2nd. You have until the witching hour of November 2nd. So head to moment.co slash we hate movies. Moment.com slash we hate movies because after Thursday night, it's gone. You missed your chance. It's chained to the bottom of Crystal Lake and you'll never get a chance to experience it. Moment.com slash We Hate Movies. What's going to be on, what's going on, everybody. What's going on, everybody? Welcome to Onscreen Live. This is our show for Monday, October the 30th. My name is Andrew
Starting point is 00:01:59 Jupin and we got a lot to get to today, so let's get right into it with our birthdays. First up, total, total legend. Henry Winkler, turning 78 today. Happy birthday to the Fons himself, Principal Hymbrie
Starting point is 00:02:15 from Scream, of course. Let's see who else we got. A funny man Kevin Pollock. He turned 65 today. I wonder if Al Pacino and Christopher Walken are also wishing him a happy birthday. uh let's see former professional wrestler and sometimes actor edge aka adam copeland who's a fancy handsome photo of him turns 50 today the big five oh and of course the great nia long turning 53 today happy birthday to all of them bring in some dudes here we're also ready to uh celebrate the spooktacular season with me or i guess rather have been celebrating the sputacular season uh for a bit here first up eric siska yes oh we celebrate the spooktacular season with me or i guess rather have been celebrating the spooktacular season uh for a bit here first up eric siska yes oh we celebrate it big time in this house.
Starting point is 00:02:59 Yeah? Anything, anything big? Well, you like zoom some bodies, bring them over. Prop them up. Sure. Sure. You got to do it. Yeah, you're getting like outside in the cemetery and everything, you know, fresh air.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Good. It's weight and cardio. And of course, you know him. You love him. His triumphant return back to on screen live, Mr. Stephen Sadek. Yeah, no, I have deodorant now so I can come back. Yes. I'm glad that issue was taking.
Starting point is 00:03:27 taken care of. It was so bad we could smell it through the camera. Is that the idea? Yeah, exactly. And I mean, now it's fixed. So we don't need to talk about it anymore. We need to be worried about it anymore. I mean, just... You got the stink lines and everything. Big hello out there to
Starting point is 00:03:44 folks in the Czech, Kyle Eikenberry, Prestonian, Eddie Failson, Captain McClutch, slime siren. That's a good one. That sounds like that. That's a real sloppy name. I'm going to be fucking ringing that tonight, right? because you know it's devil's night which Steve you know what that is my new favorite holiday
Starting point is 00:04:02 we get the slime out on devil's night oh man yes you got any devil's night plans due to well Eric you're going waltzing through the tombstones what about you Steve? No you know I might hopefully get a drink at a bar
Starting point is 00:04:18 that might be something to do so how's that different from every day it's not but it'll be I imagine playing a Halloween movie. It's kind of on them to bring the Halloween atmosphere. I'm bringing my drunken self. Right, exactly.
Starting point is 00:04:34 And Eric, as far as your everyday question, Steve and I were literally out of bar yesterday. So, you know, keeping the streak alive, Steve, maybe I'll go out drinking a night, too. Look at you guys. We got a lot to get to today. A lot of
Starting point is 00:04:48 spooky horror recommendations come in. We're going to talk to new Scorsese. We also have on-screen live's first ever guest. It's very exciting. We're going to get to that at the end of the hour here. But first up, wild, surprising week at the box office. We'll talk all about it in a segment in a segment we like to call Pius Gross. So like as happens, like we take a week off from on screen live last week.
Starting point is 00:05:21 Of course, we were doing the mailbag instead, you know. And we take one. week off, these movies are shifting all over the place. My fucking, my Paw Patrol friends aren't even in the top five anymore. Oh my God. What the hell? They'll put down, dude.
Starting point is 00:05:36 Oh, no. Yeah, that's nobody adopted them after a week. So, yep. Yeah. It's like, you either get adopted or you be this fucking dog police officer or you will get pulled down. They laid them down on their favorite blanket. And then they administered
Starting point is 00:05:51 something to numb them a bit. And then the IV went in and right yeah well that's how they make them talk that's how you make a talk it's all like man's best friend with lance henrickson they're pissing acid on on paw patrol i feel um anyway oh then every they call it the gold watch like oh no when you retire you get a gold watch it's like yeah i can't wait to get my gold watch no just lay down here well this'll be easier for you to get your gold watch you know what i mean and that's just your gold watch is more comfortable if you lay down on this blanket yeah the gold watch is at a farm
Starting point is 00:06:25 up in the country. Speaking of a movie I wish was fucking put up into the country farm and never heard from again, Exorcist Believer. The body in the blood. The body of the blood. The body and the blood. That's a movie quote, I guess, right?
Starting point is 00:06:42 It sure is. It's the fucking tagline on the poster. Oh, but I didn't know it was in that tone. A Unitarian's wet dream, that exorcist fucking believer. It sucks. It sucks so much. It's so weird that. they did that because you know you have catholicism the actual religion the real one the one true
Starting point is 00:07:01 for sure and then you make then you have like all these all these clowns come in exactly these heretics the jews don't get don't get their fair shake uh i don't even think not even and the muslims not so much but it's just any other version of like rough christianity or christy it's got to be christy got to be on the christy side of the other street yes and yeah, this whole like hands across America we're gonna exercise these two girls at the end of that movie is one of
Starting point is 00:07:33 if you think of in terms of like the exorcism scene in the first movie is one of the most famous best done chilling scenes in cinema think the exact opposite for the exorcism scene an exorcist believer and anyway
Starting point is 00:07:47 I think people are slowly for getting it here week for $3.1 million that'll be out of my hair soon I made more this weekend you and your dick were busy over a billion served this next one it's a total I mean I might as well play the fucking secret movie
Starting point is 00:08:11 theme song for this here but from the people who brought you that Jim Caviesel child kidnapping movie comes after death what the fuck is this could do it on me dude it's for our good folks at our friends at Angel Studios here, $5.1 million. This is a documentary
Starting point is 00:08:27 where scientists and other people talk about what's on the other side. At a certain point, doesn't this become sacrilegious to be like, I know what death is? Yeah. I kind of think so. Like, you're going to be making the man upstairs sad. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:43 Straight to hell. So, if Jim Coveeasel wasn't the other one, does that mean Dean Cain has to be in this one? Well, this is, it's not a narrative. This is like a fucking head, documentary. Yeah, but it's going to have like the My Pillow guy. Yeah, one time I totally OD'd on crack and this is what I fucking saw on the other
Starting point is 00:09:02 side. It's Donald Trump and he opens up his big arms and he gives you a big old bear hug. And he's like, thank you for serving me, kind soldier. And all throughout heaven, all the clouds are made out of my pillows. You don't have to sleep on a cloud when you could sleep on a my pillow. Oh, is that a crack vial? Oh, actually. God damn.
Starting point is 00:09:25 You should get back on it. He was probably much nicer guy back then. Better hang for sure. Oh, absolutely. Just take a little just to take the edge off and enjoy this go. Exactly. Like, just like do a little fucking toot and then be like, oh man, all that election denial stuff was garbage.
Starting point is 00:09:41 Wow, I sound like a real asshole on all those TV interviews. How embarrassing. Fuck that guy. But anyway, so that's that movie. It doesn't appear to be the box office sense. that the Sound of Freedom was there but it really is Steve it really is because I wish nothing
Starting point is 00:09:59 but the best for Angel Studios coming in third and it's second week Marty Scorsese's killers of the flower moon still doing so-so $9 million it's a 60% drop which isn't great can I get this on Apple now is it streaming on Apple or is it not it's just straight I think so
Starting point is 00:10:19 no just just theaters only yeah I went to see it second weekend to help out. Good for you. Because I couldn't see it the first weekend I was busy. But doing your part. I'm helping out, dude. I'm part of that percent.
Starting point is 00:10:31 I love that. That's right. That's right. All these people complaining about the intermission. Like, I get you. There was an intermission with you guys? No, no, no. There's not.
Starting point is 00:10:42 There's not. That's the whole, the point of the argument is people are complaining like it's a three and a half hour movie. Why is the round an intermission? That's up to Marty and Thelma. It's not up to the, these fucking theaters doing fake intermissions. Fuck that shit. That's deplorable.
Starting point is 00:10:56 That's super deplorable. I had no idea that that was a thing. And I don't think it needed it. I mean, I did go be once, but whatever. Me too. Like, as an adult, you know, you see the movies before you're like, oh, what are we talking about? It seems like we're going to get a little talky here and I might be able to even come back to my wife, like, what I miss. And then she's like, more horrible shit
Starting point is 00:11:14 happened to the state of American community. Got it. Yeah, yeah. You know, you know, there is something to be said for like the majesty, the presentation of an intermission. You think, like, Larry of Arabia, 2001, like, those movies that had that, but it was, like, intended that way. If you're one of these indie theaters doing
Starting point is 00:11:32 fake intermissions, fuck you. That's awful. That's not your call. And I'm glad theaters are getting fine for it. I am. That's not the game, folks. And, like, I know we live in this age of, like, well, I can watch it at home and pause it. Then wait. If you can't sit or you don't want to miss 60 to 90 seconds of a movie because you're going to the bathroom, that's fine. But,
Starting point is 00:11:52 don't make fake intermissions and don't fucking complain. I could also jerk off a Friday night that Freddie is at my house but if I do in the theater I get in a lot of trouble because you know what? The Steve Sadek intermission It comes out, he's going at it
Starting point is 00:12:10 and that's just the intermission. Turn the lights up, it's intermission. Nobody move. It's intermission. The floor at Steve's house is sticky like a movie theater. You know, like you spill you spilled soda. Yes.
Starting point is 00:12:25 More on that movie a little later, of course. In it number two, Taylor still rocking it with the Ares Tour. Concert Doc here. Another 14.7 million. Check this out. That brings it to 149 million U.S. and $203 million globally. If it hits over 232 million globally,
Starting point is 00:12:47 it beats that Michael Jackson, this is it, concert documentary, which is the highest grossing one of all time that was when it came out like right after he died so all the ghouls were like let's go she I didn't as many records as we can take away from Michael Jackson is a good thing you know what I mean let's get those off the board
Starting point is 00:13:04 that's crazy that it did so well well after his crimes were known right there's a large percentage of the world that's just like he's a genius dot dot dot and then like you're like but what and then they won't answer the rest of it they'll just say he's a genius.
Starting point is 00:13:22 Yeah. And he was, but also. But also the fax machines. Right, exactly. I was at the Alamo this weekend. I saw the killer, which we'll talk about at some point when it comes up in wide release. But there were a lot of girls dressed up for the Taylor Swift thing. It was kind of cool to see like a lot of the families, like little kids.
Starting point is 00:13:47 You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Bringing me in me in big parties, obviously. No one dressed up for the killer? I was like, oh, you saw a lot of little girls dressed up when bucket hats and windbreakers on? It's a great Halloween costume. It's a little, it's unfortunate that the movie didn't come out in time
Starting point is 00:14:02 because it's going to be a great Halloween costume one day. Because it seems like it's an easy one, right? It's like find bucket hat, find windbreaker, find white khakis. Yes, and a Hawaiian shirt, you're having a great time. Oh, Hawaiian shirt. Okay. Oh, perfect. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:18 You can find those. You can find a Hawaiian shirt. Just go to any fat guy store. They're right there. Yes, my local fats. Yeah, well, the big fat party animal warehouse, you know. And I can say this now, now that Chris Cabin's gone, Mank, he's done with his Mank Sojourn and David Fincher's back where I want him to be, baby.
Starting point is 00:14:40 Nice, dude. You hear that, Chris, wherever you are? No Mank for you. No Mank too. No Mankin off. Um, and then so at number one, uh, we'll talk about it briefly in a bit. This is shocking. This is shocking. Shocking. I was bowled over by this. Five nights at freddies. The motion picture adaptation of the I guess popular video game series. I had no idea
Starting point is 00:15:07 was a video game series, but look at that number. 70 million dollars. But it's it, you know why? Because and I don't know why we're just adverse to this. People want to watch horror movies the weekend before fucking Halloween. They really do. And I don't know why Saw came out a month ago And I don't know why, you know, I don't even know what, uh, exorcist believer. Exist believer came at the beginning of the month, the nun, you know what I mean? Like paw patrol, paw patrol one of these one of these guys should have been in that slot and fight and fight for it. You know what I mean? Like, hey, I want to be the horror movie before Halloween.
Starting point is 00:15:42 Oh, no, I'm they're afraid to fight now. It's like, oh, we can't, we can't put anything against anything. And but man, who would have thought five nights of Freddy's, I guess the kids would have thought who play this video game. It reminded me of that Nick Cage movie that came out a few years ago. Yes. So I was just like, this has been done. I'm shocked that this is a sensation. That Cage movie, by the way, the name of it escapes me. I don't know. It's Willie's Wonderland. Yes. Yes, there it is. I watched that and it's like, it's another one. This is a plague that's going around. It is another, he's not talking in this movie. Oh. The whole movie is just like this silent character for the vast
Starting point is 00:16:21 majority. I think he's got like a, he says a word here or there. So like it's worse than five nights at Freddy's because at least people are talking in that movie. But we'll get to that in a bit. $78 million. Check this shit out.
Starting point is 00:16:37 131 million globally. This is the biggest Blumhouse worldwide opening. Also released simultaneously on streaming. That's what I can't believe that this is maybe one of the most successful cases of that. It really is, dude. And this is the second year in a row that they've proved this because the last two,
Starting point is 00:16:55 it might be three years in a row now, right? Because those last two Halloween movies both went day and date and now this, like, Universal is proving like you can do that. You can do day and date stuff. If you've got a thing that wants to get people to theater like horror movies, like, yeah, yeah, absolutely. It can be done. I will talk about my problems with that movie in a bit.
Starting point is 00:17:18 but yet on a $20 million budget machi-machi that's really good more I mean unfortunately the message there I think and I mean like it's cool a lot of people are talking about it
Starting point is 00:17:30 as like a gateway horror movie like kids will watch this and then watch like real become a little spooky heads and that's great and I think that's a really cool thing but I don't want more PG-13 horror on my slate I'll be completely honest with you
Starting point is 00:17:43 that's not what I'm here for and that's that's kind of that might be a message to the studio's like, hey, look, then everyone can see it, you know what I mean? Like, that kind of a thing. Yeah, we want a rated X. Exactly. Here's the thing. Like, if you want to do PG-13
Starting point is 00:17:58 for the theater, because yes, more admissions, yada, fine. Give me the adult version on Peacock. You know what I mean? Give me the uncut. Give me the R-rated cut, whatever you want to call it. Because, like, I feel like I'm talking about the movie already, but like there is one part in that movie that would
Starting point is 00:18:14 have been an awesome fucking kill, and you don't see it because it's in silhouette. So, like, yeah, I get it from a ticket buying standpoint, of course. But, like, R-rated stuff has also been super successful at the box office. So pick your battles. I guess maybe it has something to do with how the game is. Like, is the game also, like, more geared towards younger folks? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:18:36 I did not know that it was a video game series until, I think after I fucking, or no, I think in the credits, it might say, like, based on the game. And I was like, what? So, yeah, I don't know. A couple of rad art market numbers here. First, Priscilla opened, limited. What was this? It was on four screens. That's a prequel to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Starting point is 00:19:00 That's before she gets her crown. Is that what I understand? That's right. That is absolutely right. It's out from A24. Yeah, 133K on four screens. Not too bad. Next Friday, it comes out a little more wide.
Starting point is 00:19:11 It goes to 1,000 screens. So look for that. And then also, haven't seen it yet. but our boy Giamatti he's back in an Alexander Payne movie the holdover's open very limited it was what are we looking at there? Six screens
Starting point is 00:19:28 I think 200K on six screens it'll open wide on November the 10th. I'm kind of excited you know it's a little something different I'm super excited he's back baby it's like him being in a sad comedy like I almost watch it this weekend
Starting point is 00:19:43 but it was 80 degrees outside I'm like I'm not going to watch a snowy Thanksgiving movie in 80 degree shit New York weather like I need I need I need to be wearing a coat to and fro okay
Starting point is 00:19:55 that's what needs to happen yeah that's a coat movie they let you know the trailer in the trailer it's like this is a coat movie okay yeah yeah so I am super excited for that but I got to
Starting point is 00:20:08 gotta be wearing a scarf to the theater so I think I'll wait till maybe I'll wait till it goes wide like a couple weeks in November see what's what. But yeah, I'm very excited. And, you know, sort of like
Starting point is 00:20:23 middling reviews a little bit. So I guess we'll see, but it's fucking Giamati, man. Got to support the guy. So that's the box office, folks. Now, last Thursday, you guys recall maybe we did a digital show
Starting point is 00:20:38 that was very fun. Of course, we were talking Friday the 13th, the final chapter. Now, the cool thing about this, everybody, is that if you missed it, never fear. Because the replay is up right now and you can get it all through this week. Thursday to Thursday night, into Thursday night.
Starting point is 00:20:58 I think once you cross over to Friday, Eastern standard time, it's going to be gone. It's going to be tied under Crystal Lake and you're not going to be able to see it. But you know what? Right before Thursday is a great time anyway because Halloween's Tuesday, this is great Halloween night viewing, Halloween day viewing for you folks if you want. I think I think yeah no your your thought is correct
Starting point is 00:21:22 Steve now if you're if you're still on the fence like oh geez I don't know you know if I want to check it out or not we got a little clip package here a little sort of an extended preview they were going to play for you these are some of the does need any set up or what do you think oh yeah so if you guys recall last Thursday
Starting point is 00:21:38 we did a really fun digital show on Friday the 13th the final chapter and this you've got to this up, right? I thought that's what I was doing. So what this is, it's a clip of, so we did like a two-hour show
Starting point is 00:21:53 and this is like four minutes and some odd seconds of some highlights from that. But not all the goodies, folks. And not anything from the after-party Q&A, which was a wild session. We were telling some crazy stories going on some wild tangents there too. Recommending horror movies too. And talking horror
Starting point is 00:22:10 movies as well, absolutely. So here it is. Here's some stuff that you miss. Check out this preview reel. back in a few. Well, in this movie's the same age as Ralph, right? The actor playing Jason. Yes, Ted White. He was 56 at the time of filming.
Starting point is 00:22:33 And this guy, I think pretty great Jason, just passed away last year at the age of 96. Oh, my God. Guys, what we have to do after this after party. And I'm talking to people watching, not me personally. more of a Manson figure. I get you to do it. Gotcha. Dig up his body, right? Okay. And then you shove a, like a piece of an iron fence into his chest.
Starting point is 00:22:56 I see where you're going. I love where you're going with this. A thunderstorm. Yes, it has to be a dark and stormy night. You're totally right. And, I mean, don't have any expectations, but just see what happens. Also, also call a lawyer. Not, you know, it doesn't have to be a good lawyer, but a lawyer.
Starting point is 00:23:14 just so that you can call them when this wet you are going to get arrested this is absolutely going to get that's your one phone call from prison just have remember that a lawyer just what i love the guy the ambulance guy who's like he gets just like what's the emergency like they're all dead he's like well if they're all dead it ain't no emergency i'm like no i don't know 10 dead by it's an i would call that an emergency i don't know it was an emergency yeah i'll tell you what it is that's lights only dude you don't need that you don't need the siren you want to put your little lights on okay but i agree with this guy what's the rush they're not getting any debtor i suppose this series never had it and this movie almost specifically like especially when he escapes from the
Starting point is 00:23:57 hospital you need a dr lumbus or someone to be ringing the bell like close this town sheriff don't let any horny teens in no one's allowed to rent any cabins or otherwise but who would that be the bog master who's in charge of Jason nobody the bagel deli where you on your way into town like there's like a little newsstander you get a shitty bagel
Starting point is 00:24:25 at a fucking newspaper maybe that guy would close the town we met those people in the first movie there's definitely a gross little lunch counter kind of thing there but I think though what's interesting is what we're talking about I feel kind of is why Friday the 13th part six Jason lives is my favorite because you do have that in the then adult Tommy Jarvis running
Starting point is 00:24:46 around like listen to me Sheriff Jason's real he's alive. Come on Jason you per se. But it is interesting that like the events of one, two, and three have occurred. And then all these kids are like, should we go? Yeah. Should we go? Tempt fate. Why not? Thank you. Thank you. This is what this is what spurs the virgin to sign her own fucking death warrant, Chris Cabin, because this guy Teddy finds a reel of silent era pornography and puts it on
Starting point is 00:25:18 and it is that classic thing that I know I've been around it. Steve, you've been around at Cabin. I think you have two Eric, I don't know, but you're at the party and someone puts on pornography and everybody's kind of like, ha ha ha ha, except the one person who's really into it. That's precisely
Starting point is 00:25:35 what's going on here. The pH balance is way off what's pornography. Is introduced to a party, you know? Yep. Absolutely. If you didn't know who had done, like, if it wasn't as, it is, you're correct. It is always obvious. But if not, I would be moved to, like, start sorting through the crowd. Who did this? Who did? Who did? Who did? Yeah, I mean, I don't know, man. I don't want to watch. Can we just put the record back on and that fatty Arbuckle sex tapes? Like, what do I need? Yeah, the three stooges running a trade on a, on a flapper. Excellent. They're all trying to get in at the same time. Like,
Starting point is 00:26:09 through the doorway. Oh, my God. All right. Well, I'm hiring the three of you to clean my pipes. Moe, Moe shoves the two other together, their boners, their dicks, like, bang. Get out of here, knucklehead.
Starting point is 00:26:23 This ain't no DP scene. You're two cockheads just slammed again. You don't smack my head. You smack her bottle. Oh, no, the stooges. What are you in We're in France, we're here We're in Brooklyn
Starting point is 00:26:41 They were more brutal than Jason Voorhees They were, yes All right, curly, go down on them Why are you in coal? I thought you said we were running a train on her Good night So there you go. Yes.
Starting point is 00:27:15 And I think there's some idea to Three Stooges pornography that maybe we should explore, you know? Yeah, absolutely. Did that clip need any setup, though? Did we need to? You know, it probably should have had some. set up. And if we were to give it, I'd say is there remember last Thursday? Okay, got it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:33 This really fun digital show on Friday of the 13th, the final show. Probably something like that to send that. Yeah. Yeah. And see, if you don't know what's going on here, that's a bit from the show that you didn't see in that clip. It's true. Because we spend some time yucking it up
Starting point is 00:27:50 with Siskel and Ebert, making fun of those guys and their review of that movie. There's a lot of fun. So there you go. Moment.com. slash we hate movies you can go grab your replay tickets there to the show and the after party Q&A again like we said fun stuff
Starting point is 00:28:05 great for the spooky season a great companion if you are planning on maybe watching Friday the 13th 4. Yes slap on the show afterwards man and have some yucks with us. A lot of fun lot of fun all right so get into some
Starting point is 00:28:21 on screen stuff here. Bummer that Chris has to miss this because I know he also dug it a lot but Killers of the Flower Moon of course. Here's the bad poster once again. I'm warming to that poster a little. Are you? A little bit. Yeah, a little bit. You know, I kind of like the arty background to it, the little paint that's kind of going on. A little watercolor splatter
Starting point is 00:28:43 kind of thing. Like blood and oil and dirt or something. Yeah, yeah. Right, right. There was a, I couldn't find it online, but I think I saw someone share it on Blue Sky. There was a poster that I believe an Osage artist actually did. Okay. And it looked really cool. I wish I could have found that one instead of this fucking direct to
Starting point is 00:29:04 streaming poster such as it is. But anyway, so I saw this last Friday. Dude, I was there at fucking 10 a.m. straight from having breakfast at the diner up the street. I was full of my cheese omelet. I went in black cup of coffee
Starting point is 00:29:20 for this movie. Cheese omelette. Hell yeah, dude. Let's do food pairings for Flower Moon. So far we have cheese omelet But like What did I eat that day? Oh, you're trying to actually remember. Okay.
Starting point is 00:29:33 Do you know? No. Yeah. No. No. Wait, wait. No. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:29:39 I thought I might have it, but no. I don't remember what I ate that day. That was Saturday. That wasn't long ago. He had a, uh, that, um, it's kind of a chain, but it's not really, it's right near the Regal Battery Park, Elves, that sort of Mexican place there. Oh, sure. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Yeah. Yeah. So you ate there. And now the pressure's on. I got to figure out what I ate. See, that's one of the things, too, right? Eat before you go see what will be a four-hour movie experience. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Oh, no, I remember I had a Caesar salad with grilled chicken, yes. Oh, wow. Oh, look at you, chicken up great. Yeah, yeah. But it was at a dirty bar, folks. It wasn't highfalutin. Okay. No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Yeah, so, you know, I saw it on IMAX. I saw it at IMAX on Lincoln Square. you know, maybe that was why I did not get up to go to the bathroom the entire time. Like, I was inside the movie, you know what I mean? Like, just that huge fucking screen for something like this. And I had a cool realization. I was like, large format stuff, whether it's, you know, IMAX or like, you know, the big Dolby screen stuff, you know, each chain has a different name for that kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Regal, RPX, or whatever. it's also it's not just for you know cape crusader shit like watching this bone-chilling human drama in the biggest screen in new york state you know it was great i was i was totally pulled in i felt like you were stealing a car with blackie thompson that's how immersed you were that's right yeah yeah that's cool i wish i had seen it at a uh a bigger screen i mean i went to a smaller kind of indie theater upstate and it was in because of Taylor Swift it was in the smaller theater and it kind of felt like a disservice like I wanted to see this bigger right right I kind of want to go see it again to be honest it's me too you know unlike the Irishman I mean like the
Starting point is 00:31:36 Irishman uh is a less of a harrowing story because it's more of a personal drama about some guy that's a fucking mobster like who cares not who cares but I mean like obviously we're telling the American evil story yet again there right here it is so the story it's itself is so harrowing, but it moves. Like the way that it's paced is really, really gratifying in terms of just like keeping you watching, keeping you invested in the relationship that Lily Gladstone has with, you know, DiCaprio's character and like the whole thing and just sort of like her journey versus what De Niro has going on with, I really think it's a really great DeCaprio performance too.
Starting point is 00:32:17 Like him is this dirt stupid guy that has. And I mean, like, I think the movie works because in his brain, he actually loves his wife. And that, I mean, like, which is probably, I would imagine some, what do you call, artistic license is who knows who loves anybody. But like, playing it that way while having the ability to do what he does, not just to his wife and her family, but to her people and all that around her, but being stupid enough to just sort of be able to turn that, that switch off in your brain. and we're like, well, that's just my, you know what I mean? Like, I still love my wife. You know what I mean? I'm still a good guy. You know what I mean? Like, I love my wife and I love my family, but my uncle told me to do this. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:33:01 It really anchors it. Him, the whole like, I still love my wife, even though I'm being the worst shit heel possible. Yes. It really anchors it. And I think you're right, Steve. I don't, I don't, I didn't feel the runtime, really. No. It kind of moved along from it. It did.
Starting point is 00:33:16 Yeah. Yeah. No, it definitely did. I think this is, um, the most. bone-chilling that Robert De Niro has ever been like Max Katie, this boy's life, whatever, like he's utterly terrifying
Starting point is 00:33:30 because it's all this just pure evil masked as like he's my best friend. I want that insurance policy on his life, but he's my best friend and I love these people. Everyone, you know, all these Osage are his best fucking friend
Starting point is 00:33:46 and he loves them all and he's speaking the language. Like it is such a calculated evil which is more terrifying than like an open um you know grabbing leo and hitting him around kind of evil it's like this yeah it's sinister because it's like you believe him you know you're like yeah i think he does kind of like them in this culture but he's still doing these things it's just like that double edge it's it's interesting to watch a character have those perspectives yeah people can have two things in their brains at the same time and i think that's what the movie asks of a lot of these actors is like no yeah you're having fun at
Starting point is 00:34:23 this party but you will eventually steal all their land and murder literally half of these people because it suits your interests and i think that like if i if i was todd phillips he must have had a usual suspect ending when uh when uh when uh kevin spacey starts walking normally because he'd be like oh wait he could still act i thought that he was just done in my movie like in in the joker he is so shitty in that movie. Oh, dude, I didn't know where you were going with this because De Niro. De Niro's in that movie. De Niro is just so
Starting point is 00:34:55 like, unchecked out. You're like, well, that's just De Niro these days. And then he turns in this performance. You got to be like, fuck I want my money back. You know what I mean? That guy owes me some money. If he could do this in a Scorsese movie, I just think he's fantastic. I think, yeah. He is great in this. He's coming out swinging. I think that the collaboration matters. You know, like
Starting point is 00:35:15 versus the guy that did the GGS. and documentary or you know what I mean like old school he needs someone like Scorsese and him there's something to talk about there I couldn't imagine what Todd Phillips could even say to get a performance out of Robert De Niro No yeah how like how did the guy
Starting point is 00:35:32 who did three hangover movies direct Robert De Niro in that it turns out he didn't yes the answer is no like De Niro on the screen memorized his lines and then it was like all right I'm kind of playing like a blowhard talk show host yeah got it like you just like it is night and day these two
Starting point is 00:35:50 movies, these two performances, I mean, the movies are too. Lily Gladstone, just fucking shoot to the top of the, should get all the awards list. Man, she was amazing. I'm so glad she did not give up acting
Starting point is 00:36:06 before she was able to be in this movie, and now like, you know, she deserves all the accolades. She deserves all the roles. Just amazing. Just watching this stunning
Starting point is 00:36:19 heartbreaking performance. Like every shot just like shattered my heart. You're suggesting we might see her on Hollywood's biggest night. I think there's a decent chance Hollywood's biggest night will come calling for Lily Gladstone. I hope so.
Starting point is 00:36:36 The scene, I think it's when her sister, spoiler, when her sister is murdered, which finds that out, she's in the basement and that whale she lets out is just like, it cuts through the theater man it is just sort of like
Starting point is 00:36:50 it's one of those things where it's like you feel like should we leave like you know what I mean like we'll let her we'll let her deal with oh no it's a movie that's right but you're I mean that Steve I think that's kind of a great observation
Starting point is 00:37:03 right because like you're so in it and this is all so personal and you sort of feel like I should you know I'm getting like personal family information that I shouldn't be experiencing right now you know what I mean like you're at you're at like a friend's house and like someone gets horrible news and you're like I probably
Starting point is 00:37:22 shouldn't be here for this you know what I mean and that it felt like we were really getting a peek behind you know into this family's life and I just felt like this is horrible and heartbreaking and I probably should go wait in the lobby you know what I mean and I think that like the ending which somebody you know had an issue with in the chat which we were looking at before but like the very ending there, which I'm not going to actually spoil what it is. But I think that what works about it for me, what I love is it is Scorsese really like openly, open hands being like, this is yet another retelling of this story. You know what I mean? By a mostly white, by a mostly white creativity.
Starting point is 00:38:05 That's a great point. That's a great point. And he literally comes out and it's just like, that's what you just watched. You know what I mean? like this and you know like it's in a long history of this uh there's probably going to be more hopefully you know etc etc but like it just it it is a really interesting way to sort of tie that in and have not of me a culprit because i think that you know he he deserves to make that story because he you know he he worked on it so hard and he smartly said it in a white from a white
Starting point is 00:38:34 perspective so that sort of allows him to sort of operate in that world but at the same time like I think it is just sort of like a little bit of a like this is, this is where we are. You know what I mean? This is what this is what this is. Yeah, no, totally. And I think it also sort of also winds up speaking to like our, you know, endless grim fascination with true crime. Yes, exactly. Look for how long people have been eating up stories like this, right?
Starting point is 00:39:02 And it makes you start to think like, why. And it made me think like literally like, why am I sitting in this theater, you know, watching it? You know what I mean? It just makes you start questioning all of this stuff. And yeah, I think it is him being like, hey, I've heard the concerns. I totally understand it. But here, you know, here's me in the perspective because. And also some fucking totally great cameos in that last bit too. Speaking of the roles, I got to tell you, there is nothing more satisfying than a 11th hour John Lithgow citing in a movie.
Starting point is 00:39:36 Oh, wow. Yeah, I did not see that coming. Yeah, it was great. I did not. I did not see that coming at all. I thought it was really great. Fraser, totally great. This is like pre, you know, the whale, you know, him losing all that weight. He's still, he's still big guy phrase here. But he brings it, man. I think I was reading some people who were having problems with his performance. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah, I was fine with it. And it's not like he's in it a ton, but he is a ton in it. Oh, come on. But he's great. No, it's just like, I just like, I just like, his big booming like, it's really worked. It really worked for me. That and no sudden move,
Starting point is 00:40:15 the Soderberg movie, he's that like, he's like weird Orson Wells period, which I could, I know it's not healthy for it, but I could take a little more of that, my friend. Yeah, no,
Starting point is 00:40:26 absolutely. Yeah, I mean, the whole stuff with Lithgow, man, it was kind of weird because like the next most recent thing I'd seen Lithgow do
Starting point is 00:40:34 was when he was on that first season of Perry Mason also playing a lawyer. Yeah. This is like his weird like lawyer period maybe But he's so great He's so fucking great in the movie All the people that just sort of Populate this movie
Starting point is 00:40:47 Like I don't know Look on IMDB Look through that fucking cast list It's amazing It's a treasure trove of amazing performances I don't think I could single out Like a week one in the bunch Like no matter the size of the role
Starting point is 00:41:02 Yeah even like the small characters Like Blackie Thompson who I mentioned earlier Like I believe that guy is a little evil shit or whatever I'm just from that performance. Right. And all the Sturgle Simpson was really good in this. Oh, yeah, dude.
Starting point is 00:41:15 Little stuff like that. And I mean, like, it's just, it's sort of like, it's one of Scorsese's least ambiguous movies because you don't, like, Goodfellows, you're watching it. You're kind of yucking it up with the mobsters while you're watching this sort of moral rot on, unfurl, this is just, you feel gross the entire time.
Starting point is 00:41:35 Like, there's no like, there's no like, these are the party days. Like the closest you get to that is the Native Americans in the beginning actually experiencing the joy of finding all this money, which is sort of like, that's like the closest you get to like, we're all going to live together and fuck tonight kind of a thing. Right.
Starting point is 00:41:54 Just a Sorsesey staple. Yeah. I would love to have had, though, the Irishman titles for all of the fates of these people come up in this movie. Like this fucking racist piece of shit, car bomber, this is when he died in jail, like, or whatever, you know what I mean? Like, give me all that stuff. Throat cancer,
Starting point is 00:42:13 throat cancer, throat cancer, throat cancer, throat cancer, throat cancer, throat cancer, throat cancer, horrendous automobile accidents while battling throat cancer. They did a little bit of that wrap up in the ending thing. But yes, a little bit, but I just there is something about like the way it pops, but that's why it's not, right? Because the way it pops up in the Irishman
Starting point is 00:42:30 is kind of funny. That guy the guy in this who's also in the Irishman who gets shot in the face in the Irishman really kind of comically that guy like I don't know that I've seen him
Starting point is 00:42:44 in anything else the skinny dude yeah the skinny guy who is the car bomber guy yes he is I forget he's somebody's brother I forget like he's a little bit of a Hollywood royalty
Starting point is 00:42:57 I look at it got it so real quick because our guest is here ready to roll I will just say five nights at Freddy's man like yeah if it's for children, fine, but it was not for me. And I got to say, Emma Tammy, the director, directed a really great horror movie several
Starting point is 00:43:15 years ago called The Wind, which is like this frontier times, this woman is alone in her house and her husband's like, I got to go off to the other side of the valley to go pick something up or whatever, BBL. And then it's like, oh, is someone here like fucking with me on the prairie while I'm all alone in the middle of nowhere? Amazing vibes. None of which found in Five Nights at Freddy's, I have to say. It did not work for me. Josh Hutcherson, bless his soul. He don't got the juice, man.
Starting point is 00:43:47 I'm sorry. And it's just like all these like, yeah, these animatronic robot come in the life movies. Like the thing, I guess for me, why they don't work is like these things aren't talking. You know what I mean? There was that the Joe Begos horror movie that came out last Christmas where it's like a robotic Santa comes to life and kills people. The guy ain't talking. It's not fucking scary. It's just a lumbering puppet costume thing.
Starting point is 00:44:11 Even when the Simpsons did it, the itchy and scratchy robots, they were talking. Shopping Mall, the top of this whole pyramid, the very, very top. Yes. Have a nice day. You know what I mean? It's something. It's something. Anything.
Starting point is 00:44:27 Yeah. And also, you better believe we're dealing with childhood trauma in this fucking five nights at Freddy's. Don't worry about it. In this video game adaptation, the silly little games and. Tronauts, don't worry. Childhood trauma is addressed thoroughly. Press X to reflect on childhood trauma. Mash the
Starting point is 00:44:47 keypad now to get these bad dreams out of your head. Whatever. Stream it on Peacock, if you must. That's 78 million fucking dollars, man. I just... I cannot even believe it. Our next guest is an author who's written
Starting point is 00:45:02 books like Party Like a President. True Tales of Innebriation, Letchery and Mischief from the office and and now an oral history of late night with David Letterman his latest book, you talking to me definitive, the definitive guy to iconic movie quotes is out now. Please welcome to on screen live, Mr.
Starting point is 00:45:19 Brian Abrams. Killers on the Flower Moon was like too long. Oh, didn't you so mad there was an intermission? You had to pee? Yeah. Why was it so long? This will adhere you to the audience. That's good.
Starting point is 00:45:35 This is my my real voice, too. Oh, good. Yeah. He's doing some character work here, I think. There it is. I've been, I've been listening to you guys way too much lately, so it's just sort of it infects you.
Starting point is 00:45:47 And I'm sure your listeners, like, go around doing their worst, um, and then at Walsh. Um, so the new book, man, here's, here's the cover. Loving this. Let's see. Howell, can you get a copy of this for the folks at home? Let's get a close look on that. Thank you, Hal. So, Brian, does this book need any setup is what my question.
Starting point is 00:46:07 Does it need set up? Not really. No. I mean, it's good. Just go get it. It's good. Just go get it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:13 To pay you a compliment, I mean, there's, you know, some of these you'd think like, oh, it's just when Harry met Sally and it's like a toilet book or something. But you go into really good context here and you cover a lot of older movies, which I almost wasn't expecting. Yeah. Well, well, thank you, by the way. So I think it is a toilet book, but it's like a smart toilet book. It's for, like, the intelligent shitter in you, you know?
Starting point is 00:46:39 Right. Oh, dude, that's got to be on the next book for the intelligent shitter in you. Now that I have your blessing, this is living in the bathroom. But this is a good, I just, you know, you do, you do really cover the context really well of what makes that quote, you know. Yeah, yeah. I mean, what, what you said earlier was like, I know what you mean that you didn't want people to think like this book. So it's called like, you talking to me, the definitive guide to iconic. movie quotes. That sounds like, oh, it's just like a buzzfeed listicle on paper. It's just like
Starting point is 00:47:10 a quote with like two sentences or something. But no, I wanted to like analyze and and dig into like how, you know, dozens and dozens of these iconic lines have kind of spread and like where they came from and if there's interesting kind of Hollywood analysis to get into. And I also know what you mean that like, like I don't want to read a book that's just kind of a rehash of the top 100 AFI quotes because it's not that's not really like the quotes that are underneath every household you know like there's a monologue from um the mac where uh roger moseley like he gives this speech to his brother and it's this like obscure black exploitation movie from 73 but it's been sampled on like a hundred hip hop tracks and i guarantee everyone knows it if you just like youtube the mac monologue it's
Starting point is 00:47:58 there and you're like oh yeah that's from dr drake um and so like that deserves attention as opposed to whatever AFI members are looking at, right? Was there movies that you got to that you were like, like the screenplay is so banging, there's so many lines like, how am I going to whittle down? You know, I mean, like, China Towns one, you know, shit, there's a ton there or like jaws.
Starting point is 00:48:23 You know, so how was that process of like, which line makes it and which doesn't? Yeah, that was tough. Like, because you want to have a balance. You just don't want it to be like fucking 40 pages. of Bogart quotes or something. Because Casablanca has like 30 lines, right? So you just kind of do your best to, like if, so the Casablanca entry is about
Starting point is 00:48:44 here's looking at you kid. And I do try to fold in other mentions where I can if it organically fits in the story I'm telling for that particular entry. And then I made a whole section for like the Godfather and Star Wars. And there were some other franchises that just kind of begged for that, you know, because it's just, right. And it's just a good way to kind of talk about it in a spanning way. And then there were some that, like, I just found myself spending tons and tons and tons of time on because I thought they were iconic.
Starting point is 00:49:15 And it took me a year to be like, no, Brian, actually, you're just in love with the Pope of Greenwich Village. Like, that doesn't go on. Yeah. That's got to be a tough. I really enjoyed the feature boxes that you're going to have throughout this one that I'm looking at, the Welcome to the Party Pals, which is this kind of just going through. die-hard rip-offs, and you have quotes, but it's also like, you've got Passage-57, cliffhanger, under siege, speed, no contest, which is a movie that we've been circling around almost doing forever, the Shannon Tweed, uh, beauty pageant, die-hard rip-off movie.
Starting point is 00:49:50 Have you watched it yet? I haven't. It's like on my list of like, I need to watch this movie. Is it, is it great? It's terrible. I'm sure it's on like YouTube, but like this was a very sad moment for the dice man. this is like it came out like 94 and in the credits he's listed as Andrew Clay oh yeah right so he's like clearly he's licking his wounds from like realizing that his bit wasn't working and he was trying to
Starting point is 00:50:15 like tone it down to just be an actor in like the saddest diehard rip off of all times actually I have seen this I totally forgot now that I see the robber date Robert Davy's in it it's coming back to me this that's what that's what kicked it loose the Dobby's yeah Davy's all over this book by the way Dovi heads. Oh, yeah. Dobby quotes. Dobby quotes. I did.
Starting point is 00:50:34 Hey, I had drinks with him a few years ago. Really? Tell us on. I did an oral history of Diehard in like 2016. And most people were just down for boners, which was great for me because you can just get the recorder. We can talk for a half hour. We're done.
Starting point is 00:50:48 It's great. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. But he's like, yeah, I'm at the Bryant Park Hotel. Come meet me here. And I'm like, fuck. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:50:55 And he's terrifying. Could he talk your ear off about Barack Hussein Obama or anything? So this was 20, it was 2015 when we spoke. And he's just like, I like Trump. Let me tell you why I like Trump. Nice. Oh, wow. You were one of the very first to get his fucking unhinged, you know, video monologues that he
Starting point is 00:51:14 films in his car. I was just trying to be nice and like as accommodating as possible about it. I'm like, I just want to get diehard information from him. So I don't want to be like, well, Trump's actually a piece of shit, you know. And so he's telling me a story about he's like, look, my grandmother in Long Island. And she doesn't understand. Look, you're saying you want to change from a man to a woman? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:51:34 She gave her a second to understand. And it's just like, so you were the FBI agent in Die Hard. Remember? You're like, hi, hi, hi, hi, die hard. The movie we're talking about it. And now he wants to defund the FBI. It's going to be certain. So, when you come see my Sinatra show when you're done.
Starting point is 00:51:55 That's awesome. I bet that's awesome. another section of the book that I think is it's primo for you know right now of course we're in the spooky season the whole Creatures of the Night section and dude I appreciate we've got some universal horror in here
Starting point is 00:52:13 we've got Dracula we've got Frankenstein like love the acknowledgement that black and white horror is is quotable and good man totally thanks yeah it's dreamy stuff that's how I think of it right and it's hard because it's like it took me forever to appreciate it as in a kid
Starting point is 00:52:30 I'd always like fall asleep you know because it's black and white and like I need something like splattering in front of me but I don't know I think if you see them on the big screen if you get the chance that really that really does it and then um for sure and then also freaks I just love and freaks yeah
Starting point is 00:52:44 which is now getting kind of a nice little re-evaluation there's like a new Todd Browning like criterion set that's out that's a part of it too yeah and speaking of like quotes you know where stuff's come through with movies the Ramones, man, freaks, Ramones, like, he's in a pod.
Starting point is 00:53:01 That's really great. I got to say, though, with the horror stuff, what, no, Chud? I mean, come on, all the memorable lines of Chud. What line would we? I got the keys, Bosch. Yeah, hey, Bob. What are you talking about? Bosch. Yeah. Where's Bosch? Yeah. Where's Bosch?
Starting point is 00:53:17 What's a Chud? Yeah. You know, class of fucking lines. If I, like, but we veer down that way and, like, you know, I don't know if there's like an objective story. I mean, you could make up, you could figure out enough information if you really passionately wanted to talk about something. But you do run into a corner if you're like, I really don't got the juice on this one. It can include it. Right. So if there isn't like a,
Starting point is 00:53:38 if there isn't like a real story, you could dig into a chud. But if I could play by those rules and start including just shit that I love, then it would be like dirty work. That's a great one. Well, so he's dead. Yeah. Yeah, we love that one. That movie, that's like, have to put the whole script in here. Right. Time to pay the fiddler whore. That's great, you baby gorilla. I think that there's really,
Starting point is 00:54:05 what I feel I love about your book is that it's actual movie quotes. It's not, I mean, like, there's actually nothing worse than someone misquoting a movie. Like, it just, it hits you right here. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:54:17 Yeah. Yeah, it just sort of, I love that idea. But now you can pull this out and be like, excuse me, actually. Exactly. Right. You know, a physical document.
Starting point is 00:54:28 Yeah, and I wanted to dig in enough, too, to where it's like, I don't know how to explain this without, like, insulting all of us. Like, I didn't, I didn't want it to read like it was written by a reference, bro. Like, even though, like, we all have to admit that we are that. Like, we just walk around and we do that anyway. Like, I just wanted to be something you could read that's not like, hey, 19 quotes to fucking bachber or whatever. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:54:52 Yep. Yeah, totally. So, I mean, I was looking over, like, the rest of your. your work on the Amazon store profile for you. Pretty, like, diverse, you know, pieces of writing. So what brought you to movie quotes? You were like, you know what? For the next one, movie quotes, let's do it.
Starting point is 00:55:10 I can answer that. I mean, I was doing pop culture reporting for probably, like, the first 10 years of my quote career or whatever in media. And then, like, you know, I mean, basically Trump happened and Bernie happened. And, like, just... a lot of like normy people who may have just been like Hollywood geeks like you or me or whatever you'd get sucked into the political space so easily and so a lot of more generalist writers would just find themselves all of a sudden like oh okay I'm covering politics now and you have to play a hardcore catch up um and so that I mean the Trump era kind of delivered me into that for a while and so I yeah that's why I did this book on like um the entire Obama presidency basically and then uh COVID happened and I was lucky enough to start just kind of jamming in a conversation with an editor I knew, and we knew that everyone was like sucking down three, four movies a day anyway.
Starting point is 00:56:04 Yeah. You know, might as well get paid for it. Totally. Exactly. That's what we're trying. What do you think we're doing right now? So that old, we're doing this anyway. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:17 Lots of security in that too, right? Like, none of us have to worry about where we're at in 10 or 15 years or anything. Oh, yeah. Well, we'll be in a paupers grave. Don't worry about that. so anything that you now that the book's out anything that you regret not making it in
Starting point is 00:56:33 or if you ever considered like maybe a volume two what is something that I'd put in that I got fucked over and got cut out of this one right no well every day I'm like fuck I should have done that or whatever but like it just doesn't matter
Starting point is 00:56:45 at some point you like to stay I did what I did it's fine but no if like if this thing like does sell enough to where like the publisher does look at me again and they're like oh we you weren't that much of a pain in the ass and this old well let's have another conversation. I would want to do TV like that feels like the companion
Starting point is 00:57:02 piece to do, right? And I'd make it a little thinner too, I think. This one's like, but like, you know, film, I feel like film discussion like deserves a little more like umph. Yeah, definitely, definitely. So, that's that. Now, do you think movies are becoming
Starting point is 00:57:18 less quotable? I mean, you do have modern stuff here, but it, you know, and I don't blame you at all. Yeah, yeah. You know, you have, you have like uh uh get out and and and and movies of that ilk but not tons in recent releases and i guess that's might be also because you have to quote you have to it has to digest for a while you have to quote yeah yeah oh no i was going to say that too that like i my editor and i when we'd had drinks after this thing was over like we did talk about that we kind of like regretted that it didn't
Starting point is 00:57:49 it skewed so old and we were like that we kind of like squeezed in some shit that was just like there is like from the year 2000 on i mean there's probably like stories of like i don't know 20 lines in there from there but like that's it's smaller right and so yeah i do think because the last 20 years like movies haven't been at the center of culture it it is tougher to make that argument that like like you know i probably could have put in like well that escalated quickly or something like that because there's like a genuine argument made that's like this crazy meme uh but i don't know fuck it you know we're all we're all we're We're all watching the shit we want to watch.
Starting point is 00:58:25 People need to know these lines anyway. It's a strength, I think, because there's so much more earlier stuff that people just know from cultural osmosis. If you were filling it with more modern stuff, it would be a little lost. Like, we were just talking about Killers of the Flower Moon. I really enjoyed the movie. Can I quote it? No. No.
Starting point is 00:58:42 Yeah. I mean, that's also, I think, part of it too, right? You need, like, rewatch time. These, you know, the scripts need to, like, marinate in a person's brain over the years and, like, what comes out of it. I mean, because, like, for every quotable line. and even like Paso Blanca, there's fucking 40 that you don't remember, you know?
Starting point is 00:58:59 So I think it's just, that's part of it too, is you just got, like you said, Eric, like you needed to be like pulled out of the movie through cultural osmosis and just like thrown around. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:10 Yeah. And the other thing, and this is going to make me sound like, uh, like some crotchy like Bill Maher fuck or something, but like you, people are like, no quotes from like TikToks now.
Starting point is 00:59:21 Like, you know, like we don't, really like not not everyone gets to like go to the video store every Friday and suck down three movies that are terrible and yet you watch them front to back repeatedly anyway that was a better time than what we have now I agree I'm a crotch to the old fuck myself well the book is you talking to me the definitive guide to iconic movie quotes it's out now wherever you get books I mean which for me is Amazon and bookshop dot org and I notice
Starting point is 00:59:48 they're both there anywhere else is there a place you'd prefer people pick it up or just get the book where you can get it whatever's easy for people people. I don't care. Yes. There you go. I like that. Well, thanks for coming on. Actually, actually, there's a vegan. There's a vegan feminist shop, an East Village. No, I don't know.
Starting point is 01:00:08 But thanks for popping on, man. This was great. Best of luck with the book. And come back with the next one, all right? Thank you. See you guys. Take it easy. All right. So we got to wrap up, folks, just real quick. We wanted to give some Halloween recommendations to you all.
Starting point is 01:00:23 super quick we each picked one now chris had a last second internet failure so that's why he could not get here so i'll just say really quickly chris pick uh was cure the kioshi kurosawa film from 1997 uh really really wild ass movie uh really good i would recommend uh you guys check that out and as did chris uh eric siska quick Halloween recommendation yes uh i'm going to highlight I just rewatched it and it really held up for me. Reanimator. Yes, the Stuart Gordon,
Starting point is 01:01:00 the great Stuart Gordon film. It is just, if you like gloop and glop, it's for you. It's very cool, mad scientist kind of riff and based on the HP Lovecraft story and Jeffrey Combs is just,
Starting point is 01:01:17 I love watching him. I think he's fucking great. After we watched Reanimator, I put on the Frighteners. because I wanted more Jeffrey Combs, you know? Ooh, yeah, I forgot he's in that. I'm recommending Ty West the House of the Devil from 2009. I remember, you know, when I first saw it,
Starting point is 01:01:35 being totally knocked on my ass. Jocelyn Donahue, I think, is absolutely great in it. Tom Noonan's fucking terrifying in it. And a very not yet famous Greta Gerwig really getting hers in that movie. Mind-blowing scene, yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 01:01:52 Yes, Eric, you are. I correct, it's a mind-blowing scene. And I think mine will be sort of the companion piece, the goofy one you watch after any of the ones previously mentioned, a ghost house. Oh, yeah. Also known as La Casa
Starting point is 01:02:08 3. In Italy, Evil Dead came out and they called it La Casa. And it was so popular. Evil Dead 2 came out. They called it La Casa 2. And then they were like, you know what? We're just going to start and we're going to make our own film franchise and this has nothing to do with
Starting point is 01:02:23 Evil Dead, Ghost House La Casa 3 is, it's basically it's an Italian movie about a haunted house. There's a, it's kind of closer to poltergeist than anything else because there is a haunted clown that's making weird noises. It sure is. It's a lot of fun.
Starting point is 01:02:39 It's, you know, your classic overdub horror movie, great kills. You will not be disappointed if you put on Ghost House for a fun kind of destructo horror movie. Yeah, yeah, no. These are, it's top to bottom hardcore
Starting point is 01:02:55 recommends for all these movie folks and Iberto Lenzie is the director of that movie Steve and if you know anything about that guy you know you're in for a wild ass ride the Lensie movie so yeah there we go folks we hope you
Starting point is 01:03:09 have a great Halloween tomorrow now of course if you're still gearing up getting all jazzed for tomorrow's big holiday you want to keep up with the sputacular folks available right now is last week's episode on The Purge we had a lot of fun taking that down
Starting point is 01:03:25 and tomorrow on Halloween after Devil's Night my new favorite holiday we're talking the devil's reign with William Shatner and Ernest Borgnine and if you guys want to watch for long watch the movie pay attention to the movie it might be better than you think yeah
Starting point is 01:03:44 yeah absolutely and our good buddy Ben Worcester drops by for that as well which is a lot of fun having him back in the studio to do the episode now with that devil's reign and the purge by the way you can get those on the Patreon ad free at the $8 level are up so you're not bothered by any commercials there
Starting point is 01:04:01 or anything like that it is designed to be listened to I'll say that's no interruption it's mixed in a certain way on the Patreon that that's that's the definitive version and I know we could have put an intermission into the episodes but you know
Starting point is 01:04:16 just watching it listen to it straight through that's what we intend you guys to do but you should also download the Main feed ups, too. Also do that. Well, yeah. And also, speaking to the Patreon, by the way, so next month, November,
Starting point is 01:04:29 it is indeed we love movies month, which means we are flip-flopping everything. All main feed WHM Prime episodes plots are going to be replaced with WLM episodes, which means that the $5 and up level we love movies episode is going to be replaced by a $5 and up level we hate movies episode where we're talking all about the Hunger Games.
Starting point is 01:04:51 There she is. There. Oh, yeah. Jay Law and Elizabeth Banks and Woody Harrelson's wig. All of that. And the star of fucking Five Nights at Freddy's himself, Josh Hutcherson. Oh. As Peter Malarkey.
Starting point is 01:05:07 So all that and more over at patreon.com slash we ate movies. Look for that Hunger Games episode dropping on Thursday. So that's going to do it, folks. We really hope you have a nice and safe Halloween. Nobody eats a fucking fentanyl-l-laced apple or whatever those people want you to be terrified about. Exactly. Whatever fake thing they're talking about now. Exactly.
Starting point is 01:05:29 And, of course, big thanks to Brian for coming and hanging out. Pick up his new book out now. That's it, folks. Have a happy Halloween. We'll see you next week. I've been Andrew Juppin. Eric says, get it. See, he's back now.
Starting point is 01:05:41 Look what happened. Steve, it took me. What would happen was I would pause waiting for you and you're not there. So anyway, go ahead. You say, we're going to Steve and Sadek. Eric's Liske.
Starting point is 01:05:54 Have a great week, folks. Bye-bye. Thank you.

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