We Hate Movies - S5 Ep171: Secret Window
Episode Date: September 23, 2014On this week's episode, the gang finally works up the courage to tackle the incredibly stupid Stephen King adaptation, Secret Window! Why did they think casting John Turturro as a menacing Mississippi...an was a good idea? What's with all the Dorita-chips and Mountain Dew? And did we really need to see that dead dog puppet? PLUS: This fall on TNT, from the minds of Lunch Room comes, Hutton & Dutton! Secret Window stars Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton and Charles S. Dutton; directed by David Koepp. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies
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Hello, I'm Andrew Jupin.
Chris Gavin.
Steven Seda.
And we hate movies.
Hello, everyone.
special edition of We Hate Movies.
This is one of the
like one of the ultimate
stay tuned episodes
of all time. It is
2004's Secret Window
directed by famed screenwriter David
Kepp. I mean
we don't usually hate movies on this show.
That's kind of the ironic like
distance. It's like oh these guys really love movies
and like we start talking about Time Cop
we start talking about Mortal Kombat. They're like they don't
hate that movie at all. I'm like yeah I know that's the whole
point guys. We're all you know.
rolling on the joke i fucking hate secret window i really with a capital h ignorant hate
fucking secret window you fucking like fox news hate this movie yeah like all the ignorant hate
that spews out of that 24 hour news cycle because it's a struggler it's the one you
have to struggle through just to get through the fucking it's 96 minutes long is it really only
it's only 96 minutes long holy moly feels like the entire season last season of breaking
Bad.
Like all 16 or like eight?
Just like the emotional exhaustion I put towards that season was what I felt like going through this fucking movie.
It's like watching Ozzymandias on Loop.
Well, it's like, because the problem is you're stretching out a very thin novella into a full length movie.
And like short stories can be movies.
Novels can be movies.
But like this is kind of like eating dinner with people that have a three course meal.
And you have to, like, stretch a taco out.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, you'll bite, you'll drink a little bit, you'll walk around the table.
You'll ask a lot of questions to other people.
Well, here's the trick with that, is that you got to, like, serve the sour cream as, like, the soup appetizer.
And then you got to do, like, the lettuce and the iceberg lettuce and the tomato is your salad.
And then you just a crumble of fucking meat.
Remind me to never have dinner at your house ever again.
Why, it's delicious.
Yes, a crumble of meat.
meat, a lettuce leaf
with a cherry tomato, and a tortilla.
Some sour cream. Maybe a tortilla.
If I'm lucky. This is
the beginning of
Johnny Depp's... I'm not getting a haircut for this
movie, period. Like, it's just like, nope.
Yep, not going to do it.
I will say right up front, though,
a note that I made while watching this movie,
I mean, because this is 2004.
Yeah. So it's post the first
Pirates movie, which I think was 2003
or 2000... They moved. Maybe even
2001? They moved up.
the release date of this movie
because of how popular parts of the Caribbean
was. So it's like between that
and like, you know, he's in the
Dark Shadows movie and he's
in the Alice in Wonderland movie.
A note I made, and
like this is a wretched film, but
it's nice to see him
playing a human being.
Yeah. Just a human
being. Right? The person with
thoughts and feelings? Yeah, just a person.
But I think that's the problem
with the movie is that I don't
really think Johnny Depp's human
I mean
you might be on to something. He's less convincing
as a human being than he is as a
fucking vampire.
He did make a pretty good vampire.
He was a pretty good vampire. That's a good movie. I still haven't
seen that movie. I've been off the
one of the reasons I saw this movie
was I was a bit of a Depp head in the
middle 2000s. Who wasn't, man?
Well, because he was really, before that Pirates movie
broke, he had like the 90s in the early
2000s where he was super
selective super like swinging for the fences with each role and like where is it what's he going
to do next and then it's like oh secret window oh transcendence oh the tourist oh the tourist oh the tourists
i think we might have to tell the tourist story on this episode too i got a couple of johnny dep
yeah there's a couple of johnny deprelated stories that we have for you today have a secret window
story it's going to be great we'll get to it all now my question is you said this it's based on a
Stephen King novella.
Yeah.
We did a silver bullet, which was based on a Stephen King novelette.
Stephen Sadek, with a degree in creative writing, can you tell us and the folks at home what
the difference is?
I think novelette's even shorter than a novella.
Is it really?
Novella's probably somewhere between 70 and 100 pages, you know, maybe even 120.
I feel you've got to break the 150 to really be a full-grown novel.
Oh, I see.
And, I mean...
So was a novelette, 50 pages?
Yeah, it's about 50, 60 pages.
There's some fucking Raymond Carver stories there that are that.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it's a fucking short story, Chris.
Let's all.
Don't shit a shitter.
Silver Bullet is a fucking short story with Bernie writes and drawings to fill out the page count.
So we start things off with, it's a terrifying couple of minutes in this opening sequence.
Because it's Johnny Depp, like, thinking to himself with a voice over, there's a snow story.
going on. Speaking of Breaking Bad.
Yeah. He's in the car. Oh, do you think he died before he got out of that car, Chris?
Maybe. Don't get me fucking started on the Breaking Bad conspiracy theories. And let me say another
thing about that just because you got my angry head thinking about it, Steve. If anyone out
there in the near future is going to speak with Brian Cranston, Vince Gilligan, Aaron Paul,
anyone who was associated with Breaking Bad, and you want to ask them whether or not
We've seen the last of Walter White.
No, no.
Let them walk out of the Chapulte in peace.
Just let them go.
I mean, first of all, leave them alone.
If it's not a sanctioned interview, first of all, leave them alone.
Don't harass people.
But if you are sitting down with someone, just stop.
He's fucking dead.
And that's the end of it.
I'm here to talk about Godzilla.
Thank you very much.
He's wasted in that movie, by the way.
You're not missing.
on he hate movies.
That's a story for another day.
But thankfully, we're all here to agree
on the wretched pile of cinema shit
that is secret window.
So we're in a motel parking lot.
He's talking to himself, like,
just drive away, don't go back there.
Just drive away. Don't go back. Don't go back.
Oh, you're going back.
And he goes back. And it's a whole, like,
oh, he finds his wife sleeping with someone else.
With Timothy Hutton, by the way.
With Timothy Hutton is useless in this movie,
like most things starring Timothy Hutton.
Post- Oscar pre-leverage?
It's a bit of a dead zone
Yeah, oh, it's a big old dead zone
The vast movie wasteland
Poor bastard
I have no reason to have goodwill
Towards Timothy Hutton
But I just do
You do?
You give him a free pass
Free pass for some reason
I like I don't know
I like him
I've never had a problem
Chris you have that ordinary people t-shirt
So I know that you're
I mean yeah
I mean that thing survived
A lot of washes
A whole lot of pizzas as well
Your pizza eating shirt
And it's white
So I don't know how
Frankly
Well so he busts in on them
They're Maria Bello and Timothy Huntner sleeping together
And he's like
All we see is him like scream
And then everything goes white
And they're like
Oh what the fuck happened
And then
Very much like Johnny Depp
Acting in this film
Most of this movie
He just wants to take a nap
Like that's all he wants
He really just wants
the sweet, sweet slumber
in this movie, which
I don't blame him. The first third of the
movie, that's all he's doing is taking a bunch of
naps. You know what he's got in this movie the character
has, and I don't appreciate it? A real
ratty bathrobe. Yeah. And you know, I get
it, men, okay? Like,
we like to run shit into the ground.
When you have a huge
hole on the back of your robe,
it's time to go to Macy's
and get a new bathrobe. This thing
is disgusting. Yeah, I mean,
He's sleeping in it. He's walking around in it all fucking day. He's sweating in it all fucking day.
That went through the fucking smoke cycle, too. He just quit smoking. That thing stinks.
But that's the problem with this movie. And all movies is, or all most bad movies, is the clothes never have texture.
They're just, like, all of his clothes are the cleanest, never worn J.C. Penny catalog clothes, like really just at a cellophane, he puts it on.
And you can tell.
Especially like now we have blue rays and shit
Yeah
Like it's just so obvious
Like you can see the creases
Yeah no you're totally right
It's like let that shit fucking get wrinkled
Someone get a mustard bottle
Like that's what that bathrobe needs
I mean it's Rattie because it's like
A Rattie looking design and it's torn
So that's why I'm calling it Rattie
But I bet you in reality
Some like set dresser just like
Snipped that sleeve
Oh yeah
And put the hole in it
And otherwise that bathrobe smells fantastic
What you do for a movie
especially a movie about like a grimy character
is you go to an office park
and you get all the clothes you want to use for the movie
and have everyone in the office
sit on those clothes
for the day. Yep. And that's it. It smells
like ass. It's got a feel to it. You don't wash
them. Yeah. That's it. And all
you feed them are bowls of baked
beans. And then
you get the real stench of it because he's got to
fucking walk around with the stench in
Actress can use that, you know?
You're right. They can use stentches.
The Chris Cabin method, you have to smell your character.
I don't know why you're French.
It's actually Cabinslovsky, but...
So he's napping, and there's a knock at the door.
This movie reminded me of two things that I don't know why this is the way I am,
but it just is.
Two things that strike so much fear into my heart these days are loud knocks on doors and ringing telephones.
I don't know why.
But this movie has both of them in spades.
You must fucking hate the beginning of once upon the time in America.
It's, it just, it makes me jump like no other.
And there is just cop-knocking at the beginning of this movie.
He wakes up, opens the door.
There is a very Amish John Tuturo standing on the porch.
And in a, I mean, I thought you were going to say what terrifies you about this movie is how inappropriately cast John Titoro is.
Oh, well, that is terrifying.
right. It's a real mistake.
Like, he does a southern accent
and it's fun and fine in O'Brother.
Because it's a comedy
and like, it's supposed to be cartoons.
Exactly. He's not supposed to be scary
in that movie. He's not
at all menacing in this movie.
And it's because of this
corn-eaten accent
that he's doing.
It's, Dr. Travolta, Travolta, Travolta,
would be terrible. But Tretoro is
never scary. No.
He was like a really nice guy.
Yeah, no, he's a very nice guy.
And, like, he opens the door.
And the first thing out of his mouth is the famous line.
We all remember it.
You stole my story.
Man, I said this before we went on the air, but that will never not be funny to me.
Like, I was watching this last night.
It was late at night.
I had the headphones on.
My wife's asleep.
You stole my story comes on.
And I just fucking burst.
out like full tilt laughing it's like why was that the take that was used in the movie man i i'm sorry
i do not believe that chris christopherson was that much more than john to taro get chris christopherson
in this role my fuck ice cold veins just chill hey pussy you stole my story you stole my story chicken
shit or a sam shepherd like something of that
Honestly, get a menacing old man.
Yeah, that's an old man is the way
to do it. Not Brooklyn's John
Totoro. I know, my God,
Brooklyn's John Totoro.
You want to fill out a Spike Lee movie?
Let's call up John fucking Totoro.
You want a menacing
Mississippian? Not John Totoro.
Never in a million years.
Never in a... And that's why it's like...
I mean, I don't... I think it was
a thing where people read this script and they were like,
you gotta be...
Like, you got to be fucking...
Like Sam Shepard was like, you got to be fucking kidding me, man. Come on now.
I mean, I'll do dog shit. I'll roll around your dog shit for you.
I ain't saying you stole my story.
Son, that's one of the worst written lines of dialogue I've ever read in my life.
Like a high win in a cane field.
Oh, yes.
David, have you even been in a cane field?
The dialogue that comes out of this idiot's mouth.
It's just, I mean, it's not, again, it's not scary.
not menacing and he's wearing the silliest hat anyone could ever wear the hat by the way has
enormous significance it certainly does also his name is john shooter jim shooter is it jim i don't
know fuck it sorry i apologize either way it's shooter that's the important point and in my head all i'm
thinking about is fucking happy gilmore shooter that's all i'm thinking what's it because he keeps on saying
shooter shooter shooter's coming shooter by the way r-i p richard keel
I believe that's Mr. Gilmore's jacket.
Oh, man, you get Richard Kiel?
You stole my story, Mr. Gilmore.
Oh, fuck.
Like, why are we doing this work for you, Hollywood?
Also, Richard Kiel's two and a half feet taller than Johnny Depp.
That would be terrifying.
Menacing shit, man.
This is a Stephen King adaptation.
Let's spook it up a little bit.
That's the problem.
I rewatched the trailer on this.
I remember being very excited in 2004.
I was a bit of a dep head.
and the trailer came out, and it was a spooky trailer.
And I'm like, oh, shit, it's either going to be ghosts or maybe aliens because it's Stephen King.
And maybe it's a Tzu-Lu thing from another dimension, but I'm cool with all that shit.
Now, here, this is what I forget.
Was it this or Van Helsing that we were in the line for?
Because we waited in a line.
Oh, it was this.
It was this.
Oh.
We had a fucking, 30 minutes.
Can we tell this story the first one?
This is a fantastic two-sided tale.
So we got preview tickets to this
Because I'm so fucking ecstatic
That Johnny Depp's going out
The spooky story
And this was the thing too
Where it's like I don't know if they even do this anymore
I don't because of my job
I don't pay attention to stuff like this as much
But back in the day it was like
You would go to a record store
Or like your local like DVD shop or whatever
And they would have those like rectangular paper passes
And honestly those were always for the movies
that the company was, like, terrified about.
So it was like, let's do the before it opens preview screening
because we have to get people talking about this.
Drum up, word of mouth.
That's all you can do.
You and I went to one for the ladies man, Chris Gavin.
And men of honor.
Oh, and men of honor.
And we both know how those movies turned out.
That's how I saw both Drillbit, Taylor, and Semi Pro.
Wow, so Drill Bit Taylor and Semi Pro, both like more contemporary films by a few years at least.
No, do they?
No, do they?
I'll walk by in Union Square.
people will always be trying to get a ticket to garbage. A guy in front of the movie
theater's got a fucking clipboard and they're telling
you, like, come to this fucking thing.
See, I can't, I, like, technically
can't go to those anymore.
So I always sound like a huge
prick when they ask me because I'm like, no
man, I can't do it. And they'll be like,
they'll be like, oh, why, man, you don't want to go to
a free movie and I have to say, I'm in
the industry. And I just sound like
the biggest fucking asshole in the world.
You can also say that movie sounds like dog shit
and keep walking. You can also just
ignore them.
Well, what I did do quite recently was someone asked me if I wanted to watch the trailer to,
this was a while before it came out, if I wanted to watch the new trailer for what became,
was it called Ride Along, the Ice Cube, Kevin Hart movie?
He was like, you want to see the new trailer for the Ice Cube Kevin Hart movie?
And I just went, no, it's just totally fine.
So anyway, the secret window preview screening.
We, you know, we wait in line, lines around, you know, it's around the block or whatever.
Not really, but just it's a line.
waiting in line for 20 minutes
finally get let in
get a good seat
and we're sitting next to some
old ladies because it's a fucking weekday
and what else are they doing kind of a deal
and the movie starts
and I hear a crinkling
noise and I'm like
well that's a weird crinkling noise and we both
Chris and I are sitting next to each other
we both start to smell something really
weird
and it's Johnny Depp being like
I can't go in there my wife's fucking somebody
about it and I'm trying to get into the drama
of the situation because you're a Depphead
you want to give this movie your full attention absolutely john my my boyfriend's on screen right
and he's the whole movie essentially he's got a cute haircut the whole bit my boyfriends are you selling
my mother with harrison ford and it's just it just i look over because it's the smell is so
pungent at this point i look over and it's an old lady like a david litch nightmare eating
eating a fish like it was a candy bar like she's got like a carp wrapped up
up in aluminum foil and is only tearing it off as she eats it around.
Like, I don't eat, like, it's a banana.
It was disgusting.
A fish.
And I start giving Chris the old elbow nudge.
And he starts to laugh harder than anyone's ever laughed while Maria Bello is, you know,
ruining Johnny Depp's fake life.
The other side to this story is when everybody procured these tickets, it was the two of you
and then like a couple other people
from our circle of friends
and it was like we're all going to secret window
man you want to come and it was a Thursday night
we were in college and I had class
on Thursday nights and I was like
sorry guys I got class
and the whole and like
I really wish we could travel back in time
10 years to figure out what this was
because everybody was so
excited about this movie was like
dude you're not going to go to the
you're not going to skip class and go to the secret window screen
that's fucking redidts fucking secret window
No. Prognosis, negative.
So then everybody's making fun of me.
Fucking nerd, you're going to go to class instead of seeing secret window?
Oh, man.
So they go.
I go to class.
I come back.
I'm just like watching TV on the couch and you guys come home.
And I'm like, so how was secret window?
I'm the nerd that didn't go.
And it was a real like, let us never speak of this night again situation.
So in the end, I came out on top.
You learned something.
We lost brain.
I'm pretty sure it was a situation
where we both went down the hallway and slammed
two separate doors
because it was that
shitty of a fucking movie.
So you stole my story.
You stole it right out from under me.
And, you know, Depp is like, no, I didn't.
I'm a professional writer. I don't steal things.
And, you know, we're going back and forth.
And he gives him
a manuscript. He's like, this is the story
you stole. It starts on page 7.
Talk to you. Talk to you later
from Brooklyn. What?
he's got nothing on this accent man it is
whib wobbling all over the place
yeah he can't it's like it's like
when you see an old lady on the street
and she's walking a huge dog
but the dog's really walking her
yeah that's what's going on with this voice he's doing
you can meet me a joe's delicatessen
anytime you want to okay well at one point
he says Riverdale New York
like he can't like he can't say New York
regular because he's John fucking de Toro
do you think he was fighting with David Kep on that
when he's like you should probably
not say york like that and he's like
well listen you know it's just that
it's a place in the Bronx that I've been
to so I gotta say York it's just
it's what I do for the Bronx
I gotta represent Yankee
Stadium and he's like no
okay it's secret window do whatever you want
yeah I mean this is probably during his
let's amass as much funds for passione
as possible
he's never directed a good movie
not to Toro now
John Totoro's never directed I don't think David Kep's really
directed a good movie either but
anytime you see
a directed by
John Totoro
turn the other way
the fucking
is it Passione
it's romance and cigarettes
and then the latest
cinematic
fating gigolo
do you see that one
stay away
stay far away
I just never wanted to
so it's this whole thing
of like
he never really fully expresses
what he wants Johnny Depp
to do with this information
well he does
an hour into this fucking movie.
But even then, it changes.
It keeps, like, evolving what he expects.
And rightfully, Johnny Depp is like, listen, even if this is true, what do you want me
to do about it?
What are we going to do about it?
These stories, you know, my story was, then they start doing the, when was your story
published them?
When did you write your story, right?
Because that's, like, the ultimate way he says where writers can figure out, like, who did
it first.
Like, that's the only way you solve these things.
And he's like, I wrote.
it in 1999,
and he's like, oh, well, that's great
because I wrote mine in 1994 and it was published
then, so take that. That's the end of it.
That should be the end of this movie. Right there.
Oh, goodbye, everybody. Bye, David Kep.
I'm glad I didn't get a haircut for this movie,
and I'm wearing cool glasses the entire time.
Isn't that great? Look at this bathrobe.
All right.
And so the whole thing is, like,
he wants Johnny Depp to produce the magazine
where the story was printed
and then he'll go away.
like that's the whole thing well that's the problem with is that it's never like i do agree with you
it's not just setting up because the beginning of the scene should be this is what i'm accusing
you of right you either admit it or you deny he denies it and then from there like okay well then i'll
call fucking morty or i'll call you know sydney my lawyer or i'll call my book agent and we're
gonna get this set you sit here sit in my fucking shitty ass apartment yeah let's figure this out
you're gonna call up this guy and we're gonna have you know what i want i want this settled
you know he's like i'll come back in three days and then i'll tell you another fact about that
dude he says three days i was like no just stay here please don't leave crack a beer let's figure
let's put a record on and figure this shit out sit on this pile of dorido crumbs oh my god the
Doritos in this movie.
Dude, I came out of this movie.
I wanted spicy nacho Doritos and an ice cold glass of Mountain Dew.
And a jiff, peanut butter jiff sandwich.
A big old fucking right in the middle of a shot.
There was one, only one entity in this entire blue world that was more excited about Secret
Window than Stephen Sadek.
And that was the Frito-Lay Corporation.
Because my God, the Doritos in this movie.
I mean, there's like, you see bags of Doritos.
You see close-ups of actual Doritos.
Like, he's got Doritos in his desk drawer.
Like, they're everywhere.
Doritos are crawling all over this house.
Being eaten by stalk of celery Depp.
Like, that's the other thing.
Yeah.
This man is not sitting around chugging Mountain Dew and eating spicy nacho Doritos because he
looks like Johnny Depp.
He's running every morning.
He's got at least a gallon of water every day.
Yeah.
Drinking at least one gallon.
Well, the Doritos are.
are so prominently featured and it's a thriller and it's such a, you know, such a lean story.
They must mean something.
You know what I mean?
Like, they have to stay.
Maybe they stand for his mother.
I don't know.
Secret windows, secret garden, secret stash of Doritos.
Like that's...
Secret crunch.
Yeah, he buried him in the garden, too.
Also, by the way, just going back to the fish incident.
Like...
Yes.
I don't think I need to tell you listening audience, but you can't bring.
bring fucking hot food
or any fishy snacks
into a movie
I'm not
I've been known
to sneak some snacks
into movie theaters
now and again
you know
like a bag of candy
totally fine
bag of Doritos
you're kind of
pushing it but if you're
not sitting next to anybody
you're kind of okay
and you got to just watch
your crunch you know
but here's the tip for that
though open that fucking bag
during the previews
I don't want that shit
crinkling around
during my movie
especially if you got a 20 ounce soda
you got to pop that shit
before
popcorn starts dancing
and you can't
like tighten close it because
then the get it's just going to build up again
yeah yeah no no no it's got to be you know or
just go with the fountain I'm sorry just go with the fucking fountain
soda and that's why we have a real
epidemic in this world with all
the shit that you can get at the movies
now and I'm not talking about places like
draft house where the purpose is you go and you
get food yeah yeah I mean if you
if you're going to one of those theaters
like a draft house or a bow tie those places
that give you food
expect people are going to be eating hot meals
like that's the that's the fucking agreement
you make when you go to one of those theaters.
But these multiplexes, and I was just at one today
with the chicken fingers and the fucking personal pan pizzas
and the hot dogs, just get out of my fucking face.
Candy, soda, popcorn, and on the occasion,
nachos, but nothing more than tortilla chips
and a cup of cheese.
No fucking hot peppers, no meat toppings, no sour cream,
just shitty movie nach.
And no fucking skate fish.
no swordfish steaks
but I'm sorry Chris you're going to say
no but I think it was the nachos that did it
because then it was like well hot
I mean popcorn I guess is hot food
but it's not like you're not preparing things
it's not a meal yeah it's just it's popcorn
like hot cheese
it's being stinking up a whole place
that's where that's where it became
but now the bigger issue
to me is when the people bring in
the fast food
because it's disgusting it stinks like
We can't do it. We're not in a fast food restaurant right now. We're in a movie theater.
We can only do a couple of things. Any non-scented snacks you want to bring in a wheat thin, a pretzel filled with fucking peanut butter, I got no problem with it.
Some combos if you really need that pizza filling? Yeah, sure. That's your, that's close.
If you really don't like yourself, yeah, combos. Go combos. I think combos are one of the worst snacks in human history. Oh, God, they're awful. I love combos.
Really? Yeah, I've actually had to stop myself from eating kind of like that's one of those things.
I had to put away the combos.
You like that, like, dust paste that's inside of those things?
Oh, you mean dog food?
Yes, I do like to eat dog food that tastes vaguely like pizza.
I know that it is, everybody.
So speaking of that, Johnny Depp is in great shape.
By the way, the other thing that you're talking about, he's in depression right now.
He's totally depressed.
Which I guess almost the Doritos could stand in for.
However, he's drinking Mountain Dew.
No one's depressed in drinking Mountain Dew.
A lot of mountain do in this movie.
Yeah.
That you're having a fun time or you're like, I don't know, you're snowboarding, you're
fucking blaying down a mountain, you're riding a mountain bike.
There's not a single can of beer.
Yeah, I know.
Where is the alcohol?
They say Jack Daniels once.
They show it at the end.
And I think that there's kind of supposed to be a twist ending.
By the way, fucking the twist ending.
John Duturo was Johnny Depp the whole time.
I'm sorry you had to see this movie.
I apologize.
And that, you know, the thing about that is,
it's really unfair.
It's so supremely unfair.
And I don't know if the Stephen King's story ends this way.
I don't read Stephen King's short story.
I'm sure it does, though.
I don't have anything against Stephen King's writing by any means.
I just don't seek it out that much these days.
So I don't know what the ending of Secret Window's Secret Garden is.
And who could fucking care?
I mean, if it's this, though, I'm not going to waste the 50 pages to find out myself.
Yeah. You know? And it's like, it's just this horseshit thing where like if you were into this story or into this movie, right? And it's like this crazy guy is claiming that this author plagiarized him. Like, okay, it's a thriller for people who enjoy writing, I guess. Like, that's fine. And just have it be that. This whole horse shit, he's just a figment of Johnny Depp's imagination. And Johnny Depp's the one doing all these killings. Why? Because he got fucking divorced. Because Timothy Hutton fucking banged his wife.
Like, what are you talking about?
No.
I can't deal with it.
And also, by the way, John Turturo ain't in this movie that much.
No, he's really not.
And, like, that's your movie, man.
If you really want to make the movie, it's Johnny Depp v. John Tuturo.
Yes.
And they have to, like, pace around the room, like, the whole thing.
Like, it has to be a one-on-one thing, like a two-hander, a good two-hander.
I need a good Hollywood two-hander.
The problem, and you're totally right, Chris.
And the problem with it is, like, the whole...
parlor scene of this movie, if you can even call it that really, is about 45 seconds long.
And it's not even, it's not even a thing where like maybe the last shot, which also
one of the worst last scenes in cinema history.
Sure is.
One of.
It's not even like maybe Tatoro is with him and it's like, welcome to the fold, my good brother,
or something.
You know what I mean?
Just crazy and I'm going to be with you forever.
Something that's fun and eerie and something.
But, like, he just, once he figures out that he was, he was shot Duturo the whole time.
John Duturo just is like, well, my planet needs me.
Talk to you all later.
I'm going back to Brooklyn.
I'll talk to you all later.
Bye.
See, the funny thing was, y'all thought I talked like this.
But in reality, I just kind of talk like this.
Take that.
Catch you to bus back to Brooklyn.
He's got this cleaning lady.
We only see one scene in this movie.
Yeah.
And he really fucking hates her guts.
He hates her guts, but it's also a weird thing.
This is what I don't understand about this cleaning lady.
It's clearly just like someone he's hired to clean this cabin because he's like a disgusting writer who's just, he's writing and he can't be bothered.
And I mean, someone's got to bring him those Doritos.
Someone's got to go to the gas station and get the big bag.
Well, no, they got to go to the Sam's Club and get like the big tray full of the individual.
Oh, yeah, you need the snack pack, the 30 bagger.
Yeah, totally.
The bag containing all the tiny bags?
That creeps me out, kind of.
That is America with a capital A, isn't it?
It's a big giant garbage bag-sized snack bag
with a bunch of smaller snack bags inside them.
Oh, we're pigs.
So, but that's your biography.
Oh, we're pigs.
Totally with six.
Five O's.
Yeah, five to six O's on the cover.
No, but I, and I, and I,
hate this when in any movie that
does this where it's like a person who's not like
a nagging wife
or nagging husband or kids
or whatever like Johnny Depp just wants
to have a fucking cigarette. Yeah. And like
he's terrified that this
fucking hired hand is
going to see him smoking and be like
now you said you quit
smoking. And he's like
just he's like hiding the cigarette under
the desk and like not exhaling
because the gag is like the lady
keeps almost leaving and he lights up.
but then she comes back up the stairs.
It's like, dude, just fucking smoke in front of this one.
You pay her $90 a day.
She's picking shit out of his garbage.
He throws a fucking story in the garbage.
She takes it out of the garbage.
And let me tell you something, Chris, about picking that manuscript out of the garbage, okay?
He throws that John Trottero's manuscript.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
He looks at it and he's like, oh, this is stupid.
His name's Shooter, ha, and throws it away.
And then we see the manuscript on the table.
And it's one of the several times.
either in the ad campaign for this film
or the film itself, that there may be
go-ga-go-g-g-gosts going on.
And you're like, oh, my God, dude,
haunted manuscript, it came out of the garbage.
And she's like, oh, I left that manuscript
on your desk that I picked
out of the trash for you.
And I was like, wait if I can kill the mystery lady.
Thank you very much.
Or maybe that's actually also Charles S. Dutton
is also
the cleaning lady.
So Charles S. Dutton is in this.
movie. Convicted murderer, Charles S. Dutton.
Convicted manslaughterer.
Can you be...
Man-slaughterist?
Yeah, can...
Just threw my phone on the floor.
Can you be a manslaughterer? I mean, you're still just a killer.
He stabbed a man to death.
It was the heat of passion.
I gave him a fucking past, man.
So Charles S. Dutton, who has been in some good things here and there, is in this movie
as Johnny Depp's literary agent.
Well, no, he's not as literary agent.
It's like a private detective.
He's a private detective that's got...
He's never really defined as such, but he's basically, he's his literary...
He's his, like, private detective that, like, he's the guy you call when shit gets bad.
Like, corporations would hire him to do their work.
Are we sure, though?
Because at the beginning, when they first have, like, this meeting, and he's, like, he's talking to him about, like, the book business.
Yeah.
And I was like, okay, Charles S. Dot.
is somehow related to the publishing world.
I don't know.
I think he might be a Michael Clayton?
Is he a Michael Clayton?
I think he might be a Michael Clayton.
All right, because here was my thing.
His random house is Michael Clayton.
I mean, because my understanding
from watching this movie for a second time,
which I did also eventually, I think,
see this movie in the theater.
But not with your fish-eaten old lady.
I was under the impression
that he in some way worked for
Johnny Depp's book publisher or he was his
manager and it was just like manager maybe
and so then when he gets all
like super like
death wish PI I was like
what kind of a fucking manager
is this like he's got guns
and men to do research for him
I think he said because there is
the problem is so he's like you're so much
story.
I'm like, no, I didn't have published it first.
Well, you better produce that manuscript in three ever-loving days.
And the first, he's like, well, I can because my wife has the book and I can't go back to my wife because she's a fucking bitch.
And like, which is the whole fucking point of this movie.
Yeah, pretty much.
Every writer or anyone who works, any, knows anything about anything, agents have everything.
An agent has everything.
You know, all this is fucking call.
And at the end, he's like, oh, I guess I could just call my agent.
and like he does
and he gets the manuscript
UPS to him
but I guess
that's why I was under the impression
that Charles Dutton had something to do
with the publishing world
because if he doesn't
why would you go to this man first
well I know I do think he's a Michael
like if fucking Danielle Steele
like a cabana boy
overdoses in her house
which
has happened
oh absolutely there are bodies
She's got enough money to fuck her.
Or like, you know, Dean Coons
like accidentally got in a car accident
on the way home,
ran somebody over,
but, you know,
the hate and run.
Yeah. I feel like Dan Brown has
woken up to many a dead prostitute
and been like, oh shit.
He wakes up and he goes,
oh no, another mystery.
Oh, the Vatican's at it again.
That's the thing. I think Dan Brown
just walks around going, oh, maybe the
Vatican was behind it.
I actually think he
actually puts another notch
on his bedpost
every time that happens.
Vatican did it.
Notch into the wood post.
What an asshole.
Those stories
are terrible.
So speaking of terrible stories, so she
pulls out the thing, she's like, oh, I'm a
nosy old woman. Here's my fucking manuscript.
You threw in the garbage.
She's like, what do I pay you for?
Stop eating Doritos
About 2
You gotta get fat
And she walks away
She walks right out of the movie
That character never returns
That's a character that needs to come back
Like when Johnny Depp's not home
And John Totoro kills her
Yes
Like that needs to be one of those characters
There's no body count in this movie
And it's all off screen
It's a real big problem
She needs to be like
Scatman Crothers in The Shining
Oh yeah
Coming back like
I think you need help
And she just gets butchered
So he goes to get his book
off the shelf, because he realized
at the beginning of shooter's story,
sounds exactly like his. He gets his off,
and I love fake book titles and movies.
It's a short story collection
called Everybody Drops a Dime,
and it's got a picture
of a dime on the cover.
Like, come on, everybody.
I bet you, that's a good
pausing the DVD,
because it's like a short story collection.
I bet it's a good pausing the DVD
to look at all the different kinds.
of short story titles that are in there
there's definitely a shot of the chapter list
right there there definitely is
I want to kind of go back and pause that and just
look at all those real gems that they have
like the old flamingo
yeah totally
one of the best fake book
titles is there's a good
in the Sandman comics
deal came in this guy
has a book called Here Comes a
Candle
it makes me laugh every time I think
Oh, no, here comes a candle.
Look at that story me about.
It takes place in, like, some Pennsylvania Dutch reenactors.
So...
Here comes a candle.
Instead of being, like, okay, and...
So, the stakes are really low at this point.
It's really just some old fucking hillbilly kind of getting in your face.
But of course, death wish number one is that fucking poor little dog.
That sweet dog that's got goddamn cataracts?
do we need this story to be any sadder
and everyone knows what happens
what's that dog is adorable and like
fuck it you know what and
speaking of two-handed the first
30 minutes of this movie or the first 20 minutes
of this movie at least it's a two-hander with Depp
and this dog oh it's just rat-a-tat
talking with this fucking dog oh yeah it's
Johnny in the mutt in this movie
and it's a lot of like oh yeah
you don't like bad writing do you boy
I guess I'll just delete this then so you don't have to look at it
well it's all like cocking
cocking the eyebrow to
Chico, Chico the dog
And he's all like
Chico. Right, Chico.
Chico the dog as himself
according to the credits.
I may have applauded in my house
when I saw that.
One thing about the dog, though, when he's eating
this big Jif peanut butter, ooh, I love Jif peanut butter.
It's delicious, isn't it? And kind of scary.
And he's eating it. And he's
laying on the floor, and he gives the dog
a couple of bites. And I was thinking
because I don't think peanut butter is too good for dogs.
He shouldn't be given peanut butter for dogs. It's kind of
might make them sick. Is there, is there
dog peanut butter in that sandwich?
Were there two sandwiches?
One had like Mighty Dog pattee in it. The other one had peanut butter.
One had the inside of a combo.
Spreadable combo.
It's kind of like Nutella.
Yeah, that's a Chico had. It was pizza-flavored Nutella.
Straight from Steve's kitchen cabinet.
And then the other one was a fucking peanut butter sandwich for Johnny Depp.
No, I think you can give dogs peanut butter. The problem is it gets stuck to the roof of their
mouth that they do a hilarious like they keep sticking their tongue out thing you can't give
dogs chocolate chocolate it'll kill that yeah i think peanut but i mean it's you shouldn't be putting
down scoopfuls of jiff for dogs but i think if a dog had like if a dog snuck an aunt on a log
type snack food it would be fine it would be hilarious because the dog gets fucking killed obviously
it'd be great if like obviously the dog just keeled over one night and death doesn't know why and
he sees an open bag of peanut em and he's like what the
fuck and he opens it up more
and it's the shooter's saying
you still stole my story
I gave a dog chocolate
it's really bad for dogs
that's like kind of playing
the long game I mean that's a gamble
what does happen is he shoves a screwdriver
in this dog's head
and that's what does it in
that's pretty direct
and it says no he writes a note
that says no police and I'm like well
obviously
kill my fucking dog
and the fucking sheriff in this movie
can go suck it
because he's like well I'm not even
sure that's a crime.
Of course it is.
And they try and pull this bullshit movies a couple of times.
Like, of course it is.
Even Johnny Depp's like, I mean, haven't you ever heard of animal cruelty to animals?
That's just credit.
I've had just about enough of your cruelty to animals.
Do you see this crochet I'm doing?
Oh yeah.
Isn't that hilarious?
It's a sheriff that's doing needlepoint.
Great.
That's a character.
That's your, that's your character.
It's a character.
So Dutton gets involved.
He goes to Dutton.
Well, actually, Maria Bello calls him, right?
Maria, you know, and like, we're talking and, like, she's, like, kind of, she's very remorseful for stepping out on him with Timothy Hutton.
Yeah, but, like, in a weird, manipulative kind of way.
She's a bitch.
She gets a bitch.
Yeah, I don't know where the animosity is coming from in this story, but, yikes.
How many times is he?
got to write about an unhinged board
writer that fucking murdered is his wife.
Yes.
This movie, there's parts of this
that just straight up crib from the shining.
Speaking of stealing stories.
Which apparently you,
there's a new thing. Someone was talking about this
the other day. There's new
things like set in place where you can
get in trouble for plagiarizing yourself.
Oh, really? It's a thing.
Because we were talking about
Elvis Mitchell.
Elvis Mitchell, the film critic. Apparently,
He got in trouble when he was at the New York Times for kind of plagiarizing himself, which is so weird.
But, I mean, if this kind of shit takes place in the actual Stephen King's story, this is Stephen King plagiarizing the Shining.
Yes.
Take a huge hotel and put it down to a little cabin and then remove a family and a fancy English butler and put it in John Titoro.
But also, like, I don't know how, do we get a count of how long it's been since he found out about her and her?
they don't really tell you it seems like it's been months it seems like months so it's within a year yeah
why are you even fucking talking to her yeah like that this is all lawyer talk this is from here on
out it's all lawyer talk well their relationship in this movie i mean they really kind of drag it out
is like do we really want to get divorced you know and you're just like yes you do well the
best the best part is he she's like he's like well how is ted fucking in my house and
She's like, well, we're not together.
And he's like, oh, really?
Oh, wow, that's exciting.
So we're going to get back together.
And she's like, oh, I meant he's at the store.
I'm like, you know what?
I'm never talking to you again.
Nobody puts it that way.
I don't know.
It's such horseshit.
Nobody talks like that.
Oh, we're not together.
Oh, so you've broken up then.
Yeah, totally.
Oh, no, no, no.
He just went to the grocery store.
Oh, it's infuriating.
And Johnny Depp doesn't get nearly as mad as he should with that response.
Well, no, he doesn't get mad.
He just feeds his alter ego.
which is Jim Shooter, fucking John Totoro, a Mississippi guy
with a stupid fucking hat.
So he goes, he's, and this is the problem, like,
he's like, oh, I'll talk to you later.
And he, you know, he goes to Dutton.
He's like, look, this guy, he killed my dog.
The sheriff doesn't give his shit.
And, you know, Dutton's like, well, you know, I'll come out, you know,
my standard rate applies.
It's like $500 a day, which is actually pretty cheap.
I don't even think you get Charles S. Dutton for that cheap.
But I don't even know.
know what this job is.
It might be really cheap, or you're just
hiring a guy to do something.
In which case, he's just dictating terms
that he's making up out of the air.
Well, he doesn't do shit in this movie, but sleep and
load a gun and never fire it.
He's got some sass when he meets
him in his office. He's got some sass for him.
He's got some sass. Because apparently
another part of this story
that doesn't fucking matter at all.
File that under everything.
is Johnny Depp apparently had plagiarized somebody else beforehand.
Yes.
And, like, and man, when I first saw this movie, I was like, John Totoro is like, either he's an apparition of that person.
Yeah.
And like he killed himself or something like that.
Yeah.
But no, it goes fucking nowhere.
Like, if that's, if, if the story is about plagiarism and he is a plagiarist, then let's fucking do it.
Not making a stupid thing where he's making shit up and eating corn.
Go the full Philadelphia, like the law, like, I want to go to, like, the court case.
I want to see the whole fucking thing.
I don't know if I want my ghost house story to turn into a courtroom drama, however.
Because from the preview, and I'm in the theater because I think this is a ghost story.
Yeah, and you're still not convinced it's not.
He could very well be a ghost because no one else sees him kind of a thing.
It's like, oh shit, that house is haunted, oh shit.
And he's dressed like someone from the 1600, so why not?
Yeah.
You don't see him, like, ever pull up in a car.
No.
Or anything like that.
I mean, it's, listen, it's just much better if he's a ghost.
I mean, if he didn't have the olive skin, he would be kind of like an Amish vampire.
Oh, man, John Duturo Amish Vampire, sign me up.
Oh, yeah, you can make that movie happen, just to let him write and direct it.
So it's kind of amazing because, like, you know, Dunn doesn't take this at all seriously, and he really sure.
should, because he's got dead meat written all over him.
You know what I mean?
The dog is dead.
Now he's got this African-American character.
He's a bit of a hard ass.
I'm like, oh, I know where this goes.
Oh, yeah, totally.
Like, best case scenario for Dutton is, like, he gets the last shot off on, assuming
to Dutton is real.
Like, he shoots him in the head, like, you think he's dead, and then he dies.
Like, no matter what, yes.
This movie, after credit sequence is Charles Dutton's funeral.
Yeah, well, he gets, like, the two stabs in the stomach.
You think that's it.
You think he's gone down
because, I mean,
that just shredded your whole intestine.
Yes.
You are gone.
Yeah.
But yeah.
He'll play possum for a little bit
and then help out right at the end
before expiring.
Before definitely dying.
But yes, of course,
he's a professionally successful African American,
so he's got a big fucking RIP stamped on his forehead.
Right after the dog,
that's the next in this movie.
It's just,
it's adorable animals,
successful African Americans,
and then, of course,
the wife.
The bitch,
wife is next when by the way
when the dog when he discovers the
dead dog and it's a thing where like
the dog runs out the doggy door
and he's like oh come back chico come
I'm gonna take a nap
and he wakes up and he's like oh where's that dog
and he goes outside he sees the note on the porch
and he's like looking for the dog and then it's like
there's like a garbage can
or something and there's a big
thing with a white sheet over it and there's blood
and you're like well that dog's dead why do I know
oh you're going to show me this fucking fake
dog corpse thanks a lot movie
what's awesome is
he fucking starts yelling
for sure he's like
Shooter
Shooter
which is great
because I just started
thinking about Jurassic Park
But then he goes
He goes
He goes
I'll get you for this
And it like
Who are you
Skeletor?
Just stop it
It's fucking Dr.
Claw man
Next time
Shooter
Next time
There is a documentary
That I want
Which is
There's got to be
one guy
that is the Stan Winston of Dead Dog Puppets?
Because there are so many in movies, like, really well meticulously, like, you know,
he must make the mold from the dog's face.
That's got to be really hard to get a dog to sit still for that.
Let me tell you, Steve, you could make that documentary, do it, like, short form.
You could get nominated for short, short documentary at the Oscars.
But I don't understand, like, why, like, I don't know when this turned because it used to be, like,
in fucking Turner and Hooch, it's just a fucking patch of red stuff on.
no because this movie wants to really shock you it really wants to take your socks
knock them right out of the theater and that's what a screwdriver coming out of a fake dog
that really did that really that's i mean because the thing about this particular dog puppet i
think anyway is it's clearly a puppet yeah but it's also just like gruesome looking
what i'm actually thinking is like oh why'd you kill that puppet like that poor puppet
I mean, this dog is dead.
Oh, yeah, it's never coming back.
It's super dead.
Even if you buried it in the pet cemetery, this dog's not coming back.
The pet cemetery has to send you a note saying, sorry, we did all we could.
We couldn't even send you a nightmarish apparition of your once beloved dead dog.
We apologize.
Regards Pet Cemetery.
So, Charles S. Dutton's like, listen, I'm going to go up to the house.
house, when you go
home tonight, you know, if you see a black
car in the driveway, it's just me and my...
He says my guys, but it just turns out
to be Charles S. Dutton, which I was like,
does he really just not have guys?
No, it's like the maid
and the, you know, the secretary
in his office. They're all part of him.
Everybody's part of Johnny Depp?
No, Charles S. Dutton.
That's his guys.
We're walking dangerously into
identity territory, which is
something... That movie's like fucking
Voldemort to me. Do not even talk about it. Just don't even
start talking to me about identity. That's a really bad movie that I once
owned on DVD. You get those.
You sure will. So, but here's the thing is Charles's Dutton
is like, all right, I'll go upstairs. And he's kind of being a dick too. He's
like, no monsters under your bed. I'm like, hey, dude, that guy fucking killed my dog
and I'm paying you. Brutely, too. He put a fucking screwdriver through his skull.
Oh, yeah. This is a real severe dog murder. And he's
not taking it seriously at all.
And I'd be like, you know what, Charles S. Dutton, her fucking $500 a day?
How about a little professionalism?
There's been a murder.
Secondly, how about I got a guest room?
You're sleeping in my house.
Yeah, you know what, Johnny Depp, just get the fuck out of that cabin, okay?
Also, 2004, man, the age of fucking little, like, cameras you can put in your house or outside your house.
Right.
And they can't, I mean, if you're a fucking published author who has enough fucking for this house and the house that
Maria Bello and Timothy Hutton are living in.
Right. You're fine. You can pay the
$1,000 to have the two cameras there.
Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess
looking at it in hindsight, now that we know
the gloriously bad twist
of this film, perhaps
because it's all in his head, he's also
doing stuff to safeguard
the whole... Illusion himself.
Well, yeah. I mean, if he leaves
the cabin, right?
Like, the thing's over with.
Like, the fantasy's broken. So he
has to stay in the wood. So I guess
That's why, Jesus Christ, like, I guess that's why he doesn't leave the house.
It would be great, though, if it was, like, a droopy dog cartoon, and he's going all over the world, and, like, it keeps open to, you stole my, he closes, gets into a plane, goes to Tahiti, and, like, it's a fucking, you know, it comes out of a pot, he's a story, and it's, God damn it.
I would love that movie.
I would love a live action gag like that.
It would be so great.
Why not this movie's dog shit anyway?
So at one point, he says to Charles S. Duttony's.
like oh and by the way i think i have a copy of this magazine again we're not calling the agent
to immediately get this taken care of yeah i have a copy of the magazine at my house in the bronx
where maria bellow still lives with timothy hutton let me go there and i'll just i'll go get it
really quickly and my god you want to talk about boiling blood oh god the and jupin's story
he pulls up yep and he's watching them from afar like maria bellow and tim huttner like preparing
to leave for the day or whatever and he's watching
from a distance like across the street and he
talks to himself a lot in this movie
he starts talking
he starts speaking talking
head lyrics as he's looking at them and he's
going this is not my beautiful house
this is not my beautiful
wife oh in the days
go by
I wanted to spit on my
television I could the audacity
of this movie to do something
and you know that they're like you know what Johnny
yeah just quote David Byrne that'll be really
really fucking cool man
how about
we swap out instead of
a silly hat
John Nutturo's wearing a big
David Burns suit
his old movie
He opens
the door and he's in a huge
gray suit and there's a floor lamp
next to him
and he's dancing with it
you stole my story
I want to play a tape for you
shut up
man
that would be worse
though.
It would be.
Well, he burns his house down.
And again, here's the thing.
Burning down the house.
Hey, another great one.
He also coolly leaves out a Hunter S. Thompson book.
You know I like him?
Yes, we know, Johnny.
Shut up.
You're in every fucking goddamn documentary made about Hunter S. Thompson.
We fucking get it already.
We could start a documentary about Hunter S. Thompson tomorrow and the day after we could
nail an interview with Johnny Depp.
No, he's calling us.
We don't even have to announce that we're doing it.
He just senses it.
My Google alert went off that you announced you're going to make a hundredest Thompson documentary.
I need to be in it.
I heard that there is a Dunesbury documentary.
I'll take it.
I love Gary Trudeau.
He gets it.
And I mean, so here's the problem is like, so he burns down this house, right?
Yeah.
And he's not, I mean, burns down the house in the Bronx, by the way.
Yeah, I apologize.
He burns down the house in the Bronx.
Maria Bell is not in it.
Nobody dies.
But now, oh my God, the only copy of the magazine is gone.
What are we going to do?
I guess we still have two and a half more days before John Duturo shows up.
I conveniently gave myself three days.
My other personality conveniently gave me three days to straighten out this fake situation.
But he's not an arsonist.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And like the, it's a real who done it about who burned this house down.
He's a fucking writer.
who's crazy as fuck who puts on an evil hat and burns down's houses.
It's not something where, like, he would successfully get away with arson for a second,
and it's always the ex-husband.
And, by the way, okay, they say it's a champagne bottle, and he did a Mottoff cocktail.
The champagne bottle is in perfect condition.
Yeah, I don't know.
You could dust that thing.
Beautifully.
That's just bad from the prop department.
Like, what are you even talking about?
He burned a house down with a mom.
all the top cocktail and you've got three quarters of the bottle intact give me a break that's an easy writing fix just be like oh we had no there's no evidence we don't know what did it because no one cares anyway who gives this shit and again they're going through a messy divorce it's his house that he's losing in the divorce he burns it down and they're like oh wait you said that there's a mysterious mississippi man that doesn't exist oh my god let's let's chase down that fake angle also where were you oh uh
was by myself sleeping on my
couch. I was taking a nap
in my cabin. Have you had these Doritos?
They're addicting.
So at one point
I don't remember when
exactly this happens in the movie. I think
it's like the second time
he comes back to the house
it's so he goes into
the city and they meet with a divorce
attorney and it's whatever
in the insurance
agent. Oh right it's after the house burns down.
It's the insurance agent who's hilariously
also just been through a divorce
and she's this sad sack like
oh a divorce huh yeah
tell me about it well i mean this is
this is david kepp's little fucking
i'm a clever screenwriter fucking bullshit
is that every goddamn scene
has to be something like i don't know
i can't really tell if there's a difference between reality
and fiction uh when you get
divorce it's kind of like you're separate
from yourself and it's all
it's dropped out throughout this fucking movie
like oh my god it's
coming
Hey, audience, just while you're sitting there eating fish.
Have you realized that no one else is talking to John Tuturo but me in this movie?
Think about it.
And you can almost piece that together from the very beginning.
Like the first time he's talking to Totoro, maybe like the second time, they're out on the front lawn.
And someone drives by and honks the horn.
And like you see the dude from the truck waving and John Toturo waves back.
And I'm just like, yeah, clearly it's just.
Johnny Depp that's standing there. Like, that's
what that's going to be used for. Because
that guy in the truck isn't a character.
No. You know, it's only when he's like,
hey, Charles S. Dutton, why don't you go ask
that guy who drove by in the truck? He saw me with
John Tutorro the other day. And it's like, all right, yeah,
he's going to go ask him, and he's going to say
that he only waved to you, and there was no one else there.
Like, of course that's going to happen. That he's going to
be in a trunk dead or something. Like, obviously.
But what I love, it's my
favorite, it's my flat-out
favorite part of this movie
is Johnny Depp calls Charles S. Dutton
or maybe Charles S. Dutton calls him
because I think it's Johnny Depp keeps walking into the house
when the phone is ringing in this movie.
So he picks it up and he's like,
here, there's better be Charles S. Dutton.
And it is.
And we cut to Charles S. Dutton.
And he is laying on a bed
with one hand behind his head,
the other one holding the phone.
And he's in nothing but jockey shorts
and like an open button-down business shirt.
this is how he's talking to people on the fucking phone i never need to see charles s dutton like this ever
i mean that's post nine hundred number oh yeah he is spent and now i guess i'll get back to business
yeah he's like hey i've been trying to call you for a while so i dialed one nine hundred hot sex to kill some time
that's sex with two xes oh by the way yeah the phone bill's going at johnny dep the fucking
paperville view is going the paper view bill is going to johnny dep oh yeah charlie
Well, Z. Dutton's a guy who knows how to put up an expense account.
Well, here's everything that I had to do while I was working for you, pornography included.
Well, I appreciate the Doritos here, but really, dominoes? That much dominoes?
I mean, this is, Christ, three times a day. Taco Bell delivers?
Well, the best part is when Maria Bella tells him that his house burned out.
Again, the phone, he unplugges the phone a lot because it's a writer, and he's...
really loves taking naps and he plugs the phone back in it starts reading immediately it's a little
chilling and he picks it up and it's his wife crying and she's like oh my god well in that she's
like where are you what is your problem what were you doing he's like well i was taking the nap
she's like that's so like you by the way our house burned down he's like wait what
that's the headline maria bella like it's just oh my god the house burned down what
the fuck's wrong you could go into why you didn't pick up the phone after that you got to
lead with the house burned down, where were you?
The most you can put before the house burned down is, I've been trying to call you.
Yes, exactly.
I've been trying to call you the house burned down.
Where have you been?
Yeah, not the other way around.
That's the order.
If you don't want to lead with the house burning down, that's the only thing that you can put in front of it.
The nap is at the bottom.
You put it at the bottom of all of that.
Yeah, you don't give a shit what he was doing.
You have to tell him the house burned.
A history of napping, which is the other title for this movie.
I really, I don't need it.
Like, fucking, it's a house out.
The fucking, it's gone.
And, like, there's this whole argument.
And actually, we're going to, my favorite part of this is in the insurance thing, the insurance meeting when Johnny Depp starts scolding Timothy Hutton.
Oh, yeah.
And just, like, wagging his finger.
Like, this isn't yours.
Bip.
Like, well, you know, to be fair here, Timothy Hutton has no business being at this insurance meeting.
he really doesn't
it should be Maria Bello and Johnny Depp
they're the people that own the house
their possessions are in it you know he's saying
like we split up six months ago
but I still have a bunch of stuff there
I haven't moved out Timothy Hutton has no
fucking business being here and he does start
looking over the form with them and the
ladies like actually Timothy Hutton
it's against the law for you to look at this
if Johnny Depp doesn't want you to. Clearly Johnny Depp
wants to fucking have it with this
because why didn't you walk into the room
and be like get the fuck out of here
You have no business.
Why did the lawyers say, get the fuck out of here.
This is not your meeting.
Well, because he's a real straw man, this Timothy Hutton character.
You know what I mean?
Like, he's just, he's only made to be like, oh, that fucking shitty, fucking adulterate piece
of shit.
His name is Ted, by the way, of course.
Yeah.
Every adulterer is named Ted.
Is he the adulterer, though?
Well, like, how does that work?
I think they're both adulterers if you're in, you're doing it, right?
Isn't that how it is?
I don't know.
I mean, she's certainly an adulterer.
That's not even
I mean if Timothy Hutton was married
He's also then an adulterer
Also by the way
Hutton
Dutton are they the same character
I've actually
I was going to say this for the end
Because I realized
They do a little name necking
At the bottom there
At the one of the credits go of
It's Charles S Dutton
And I was like
Ooh
New fucking TNT show
Leverages over with
Hutton and Dutton
Getting into scrapes
And maybe you flip the script
And you know
Dutton is the
the buttoned-up type and Hutton's the maniac?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, like, Franklin Abash, Hutton, and Dutton.
Like, right after it.
I think you've got something.
Lethal weapon the series.
Yeah.
And you could get really meta with it, though, too,
is they could be playing Charles S. Dutton and Timothy Hutton.
And the whole concede is like,
you know, we decided to give up acting
and become private detectives in New Orleans.
Yeah.
Oh, man, it'd be great.
They go up against a Simpsons-esque Big Daddy.
It could be like a Ray Donovan.
Hollywood crime oh yeah that's what they do that's how you fucking make Hollywood homicide by the way
Harris and Ford and this is how you sell the series is a nervous charlesus dutton getting on a ninja
motorcycle but still following it a lead and he's trying to he's trying to use his cell phone
the same time he doesn't quite have a hold on it quite yet he's calling tiffany hutton who's in bed
with a lady and he's like you gotta get down here right now houghton and dutton this fall we know
drama. I'm tailing Jeffrey Jones
right now. Oh, yeah.
The lead
villain of the series is Jeffrey
Jones. Playing Jeffrey
Jones. I mean,
if you're out there, Hollywood producer,
we just want a little taste.
I mean, it would be great if we could be showrunners.
I'd love that. Sure.
But you've got the money. I get it. Just give
us a little taste. A little something on the back end.
Not that we would obviously be
grateful for the opportunity to be showrunners on
Hutton and Dutton. But
Just the credit there, a little bit of the scratch our way, that's all.
Maybe just like a signed photo of Hutton and Dutton.
Signed photograph.
With them, with the Hutton and Dutton is how they have to sign it too.
Hutton plus Dutton.
Which one of them writes the plus sign?
You know what?
Give that the Jones.
Jeffrey Jones didn't write the plus.
That's how he makes his mark.
I don't want him to sign it, but I just want to have the story.
Actually, no, Jeffrey Jones put that plus sign.
Hey, Chris, you want me to sign your photo, too?
I mean, whatever.
Are the three days up yet in this movie?
He's got the three bags of Doritos he's gone through.
By the way, if you're so depressed, when are you having the time to color your hair?
Because this is a weekly occurrence.
It's just like, oh, I'm just shocked up in this main town until I go back into the city every week and Ronaldo does it.
Does a really good job.
He keeps it nice and even.
I mean, it's a weird.
Like, the way his hair looks, he's got, like, foot long length hair.
Yeah, right?
And it's, like, six inches of that is, like, bleach blonde.
Yeah.
I have a feeling it's a thing where, like, those fucking roots just grew out.
And he's just leaving it for that long that he's got six inches of dye job,
and then the rest is the natural hair color.
Or, at the end, when he has, indeed, cracked, and Maria Bellow is going through the house,
he just opens a door and it's just a fucking pile of just for men
fucking empty boxes piled to the ceiling
I would love it if he's like eating a bunch of Doritos
and he's got like orange fingers
and he just takes his blonde blocks
and just starts working it in there
well he fucking puts it wherever he likes
he puts it in his pencil drawer
there's Doritos in his pencil drawer
fucking dog probably too many Doritos
that dog's fucking farting
that's the last thing you want when you're trying to
to write a new story as a farting dog
by your side.
Stop distracting me with your farts.
That's pretty scary. Sounds like
Dreamcatcher. He sits writing it.
The story's about canine fletulence.
Thanks, go for it. Chico.
You get a story credit.
It's fired by a story by Chico.
Richard Bachman and Chico.
Speaking of Richard Bachman, man, there is
a joke in here. An annoying joke.
Where the cleaning ladies,
Like, you know, he's like, it's, I didn't write this story.
It's by a guy named John Shooter.
And she's like, oh, I thought that was a synonym.
And he's like, he's like, or a pseudonym rather.
And he's like, no, real writers don't use pseudonyms.
I wouldn't do that.
Get it?
Everybody stop, stop eating your fish.
I'm going to wink at everybody right now.
Stephen King, Richard Bachman, get it?
Stephen, would you like to come out and wink at the audience?
Like a cane field and a high wind.
So, at this point, Terturo comes back and ups the stake, and he's like, look, you, not only do you steal my story, but you ruin the ending.
And the ending goes like this.
Oh, my God, what is?
It's the dumbest people.
It's just farting.
It's literally the dumbest sentence anyone's ever written.
And John Corbett, look, John Corbett, why not?
sure
that guy is playing the fucking agent
on hunting and dunton
FYI
guys I've got a wacky
idea here
the rolls are drying up in Hollywood
I got you jobs
as private detectives
but he's also
like playing kind of a chief
like when they like botch a job
he's getting angry
he's like
oh yeah
like fist down on the table
you could have sex
with the witness as well
And Hutton is like, whatever, man.
So, no, he's like, and he sat there as he grabbed another ear of corn from the steel steaming bowl.
If I believe she's dead, it's a mystery even to me.
And it's like, are you, why is corn involved in this?
Why is corn involved with this, first of all?
And I think it's something like soon enough, she'll be dead long enough that her death will be a mystery.
Even to me.
Oh, well, fucking great.
The corn is what gets me every time.
And they say it three times because this movie really likes to set itself up.
But it's like, oh, I like that line about the corn.
Got it.
Remember the corn?
Corn.
Corn is never scary.
Doritos are never scary.
Oh, corn, corn chips?
Okay, yeah.
Dorita chips.
Yeah.
Oh, well, no, corn's not even really scary in children of the corn.
No, it's not.
It's got nothing to do with corn.
Stephen King just likes putting stupid things in his stupid things.
and his stupid stories.
So he's like, you gotta fix the story
and you gotta, he's like,
he kills her at the end.
And he's like, oh, uh, well, I'll,
you know what?
I just realized my agent has,
he's like, all right, I'll be back
in two and a half days now.
I'll give you another two and a half days
to track down your literary agent.
No, no, no, just wait there.
I'll get him on the phone
and you can talk to him
and we can straight this old thing.
No, no, I do believe
I'm gonna go back to the cane field.
Oh, you know what, come to think of it,
I realized that the internet exists, and clearly my story would be, this magazine would be
digitized at this point, or I could go to the library and get some periodicals and
micro-fiche. I'm sure that that periodical would be there.
They're acting like his cabin is in like the Northern Territory in Canada.
Like, it's just somewhere in upstate New York.
No, it's, again, the Walter White.
He's out in the middle of nowhere, in the cabin.
It's so, God damn it.
You're right, though, Steve.
It's 2000-fucking-four.
Clickety-clack.
Find that shit.
Even in this small lake town, there's an internet cafe.
I know there's an internet cafe because, you know, the old guys around the lake don't want to get no computer.
That's not for me.
Well, the small towns have internet cafes in 2004 because every other town stopped having internet cafes in 2001.
Yeah.
So it's definitely there.
So he's like, all right, two and a half days, I'll come back.
And there's this big mystery between, you know, Dutton is like, oh, I'm trying to find this other guy.
He says he didn't see him, but I think he's nervous.
You know what? Tomorrow morning we're going to go out.
We're going to talk to him.
And the next day, he goes into town.
Depp wakes up too late.
His car is on.
And he's like, oh, that's weird.
And he goes into town.
He goes to the diners.
Like, where's this guy?
Where's Charles?
He's done?
Nobody knows where they are.
He gets back to his house.
And oh, my God, it's that guy's house.
It's that other, it's the white guy whose truck it is, who drove by randomly for
48 minutes ago.
He's dead and Charles's Dutton is dead in the back.
And my favorite part of this movie, to give it a nice rule of three here, is he looks, there's blood everywhere and he's got blood all over his hand.
And he looks up at a squirrel.
Oh, man.
It's a real, like, close-ed shot of the...
And the squirrel's like, oh, fuck, I saw everything.
And the score goes up, by the way.
The score goes...
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-E!
It's fucking crazy.
This menacing...
squirrel in this movie and the squirrel runs like he looks in and he's like did i do it and then
just runs away oh man if it was a squirrel it did the whole thing yeah the squirrel is also john
titurro they buried the squirrel in a pet cemetery chris and it came back to menace's life
the guy also has a screwdriver in his head and charles s dutton has been chopped with an axe
again and i know and that here's the problem with your bullshit twist ending not only does it
negate the movie. But it also makes you tap dance around this movie to make this ending twisty
and surprising. Yeah. And I don't get to see any of the shit that I want to see. Exactly.
All this like aftermath killing shit is obnoxious. Well, here is the problem with showing
this, Charles S. Dutton's death, uh, Charles S. Dutton's death specifically. Yeah. You have to make,
I mean, this would be movie magic. Johnny Depp or John Turo beating Charles S. Dutton
in a murdering contest.
Yeah, right.
Let me see it, buddy.
Yeah, totally.
Dude, how on earth are you going to get the drop on Charles S. Dutton?
Especially after you killed the old white guy.
First, he saw him put the fucking screwdriver in his skull.
Dutton's getting out and he's ready for you.
And he's packing heat, Chris.
He's already packing heat.
He brings it up several times in the movie beforehand that he's got a fire
arm on him. And he says something
what's kind of funny is, and again
it just made me keep thinking about like
what kind of authority does Charles S. Dot
actually have as whatever
his job is in this movie.
Because when they set up the whole plan, he's like
we're going to go talk to him. 9 a.m. tomorrow.
I'll be there. I'm going to be packet. By the way,
bring your gun. This is what he says to Johnny
Depp. And you're just like, wait, what
the fuck are you taught? Now it's just like
free range revenge.
We're just going out after these guys. What are
you talking about? Bring
your gun, too? Johnny Depp has no
authority to be waving a gun in
somebody's face? He's just a plagiarist.
He's just a
blonde, bleached blonde, Zach
Morris plagiarist.
Time out.
Everybody take a minute.
Yeah, I mean, whatever.
So he's fucking John Totoro.
Like, that's it. Well, that's the thing.
He goes back to his house and he's like, I better call the
police. And then, like, a voice is like, you can't
call the police? And he's like,
oh, wait a minute. Maybe I'm crazy.
See, no, do, do, do, do.
Oh, man, I apologize.
It's not John Totoro, because this is my nightmare.
Oh, yeah.
Is Johnny Depp talking to another Johnny Depp?
And when it starts off, it's first just the voice.
And you've heard him talk to himself in his head before, so you're like, all right, it's fine.
But then a really bad CGI dual screen Johnny Depp comes out.
And it's like, it's so bad, like they're not looking each other in the eye, like the fake ones looking at the real ones.
nose. Harris Euland
comes out. He's like,
Bye, see, you found your clone.
You were so busy, I had to build
another clone for you.
Little multiplicity joke for the one
man that got it. And so
then it's like
the other Johnny Depp is
wherever the real Johnny Depp turns.
So there's like six of them
in this house. And they're all just
talking about shit. And all these other
Johnny Depp's tell
real Johnny Depp that he's John
Totoro and we get these fucking
flashbacks of him putting on
the murdering hat because
it's a murdering hat that John
Totoro wears. It's evil. It's an evil hat.
We see him buy it and
he's like oh I'm and he's like kind of like
putting on a show for Maria Bella. He's like
oh I'm from Mississippi and he's like oh my
God I was John Totoro the whole
time. Yeah he like you see
him making up the person he's like
I'm John Shooter. Oh isn't that funny? We're
antiquing right now.
And you're like, oh, oh, yeah.
And it's like, it's a really bad
version of the usual suspects
looking at the fucking board at the end
of the movie. You know what I mean? Like, that's,
you're just seeing him put together this
stupid character and it's like,
he says in the movie,
Terturo says, like,
he's from whatever town in Mississippi.
Yeah. And it turns out like that's the town
from Tennessee, the
Timothy Hutton's character is from.
And it's, there's a bunch of like Tony
Scott flashbacks
that like washed out green and yellow
bullshit. Those
washed out flashbacks. It's
fucking terrible and the only time it actually
kind of works is when they flash
back to the motel confrontation
and there's no like you can't
hear what they're saying but it's just
Johnny Depp screaming at the two
of them like it's actually kind of horrifying
if you put more
of that into your actual movie
you got a horror story on your hands
here. Well let's
identify him as the villain the whole time
like it's you can make a suspense if I
know he's evil or like you know what I mean
like and here's I mean a fucking
movie about a guy okay so a guy's
already been like sued for plagiarism
does it again
yeah and then it's all about him
trying to fucking you know loose ends
like clearing up loose ends from his
point of view yeah panicked
like really disgusting pathetic
person it's like if shattered glass started
killing all the people that were going to blow
the fucking whistle oh yeah
That's what I want.
Take that Chloe Seven-Yeh.
And Hank Azaria.
Peter Sarsgar.
Well, he's not taking up here.
And poor Melanie Linsky.
My gosh.
And I mean, like, that's when...
So it twists.
And then we cut to, again, because we're breaking the movie's rules all together.
We're in Maria Bellow's house for a while.
And she's like, sure.
I'm going to go.
Oh, my God.
He's going to sign the papers.
I think he's really upset.
I really care about him.
I'm going to go.
And, like, Timothy Hutton's like, well, all right.
Talk to you later.
a movie. But I do have to
point to say, I hate this.
More than I hate almost anything else
in this movie. Whoa.
She calls him to say,
you know, okay, I'm coming. It's fucking,
okay, I'm coming over. Yeah. It's happening.
But the scene
begins with her crying on the phone
to him and she just drops
a, do you think it's because we
lost the baby? Oh,
you're so right.
I totally had a note. Final act, fucking
we lost the baby? No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, get it out of here.
You're 53 minutes too late for, is it because we lost the baby turns?
Oh, yeah.
I will say you, that is the bread and the butter of bad short story collections, is the law, the third, the third act, and then we lost the baby, or because we lost the baby, or ever since we lost.
You just ran out, there was no more air left in your body.
Because I was tired of it.
so she's speeding off
and then like it's stupid
and Timothy Hutton's like
well I gave her a five minute
head start now I'm gonna speed off
so she gets there
and if we're gonna
if we're gonna fucking plagiarize
ourselves we're writing
shoot her all over the cabin
oh and it's eerie isn't it everybody
and it's carved into the walls
which is a really important detail
for the end of this movie
it's literally carved into the walls
shoot her or shoot her
And then, like, she's trying to piece together what it means.
It's like, oh, my God, shoot her.
Oh, don't you get it?
And it's, and this is, it's, it's two, like, big Stephen King rip-off things, like, in one.
Because it's, like, the same word all over the walls, right?
The same word in the shining on the piece of paper.
Yeah.
Right?
It's just, it's right there.
And then the same thing with the wordplay, shoot her, red rump.
Yeah.
Fucking, fuck you, dude.
How are you a millionaire?
And David Kemp wrote Jurassic Park.
Shoot her!
Shoot her!
Oh, it all
It'll be great if
Muldoon's like, shoot her!
Get out of here, Muldoon.
All right.
Talk to you later.
She don't need help, kill it.
No, all right.
Clever girl.
He's the dead baby.
He's a manifestation of the dead baby.
And Muldoon as the dead baby.
And the worst part about this
is he's wearing the evil hat
and he's talking in an even
worse southern accent.
It's so.
so fucking bad. And he's not
acknowledging that he's Johnny Depp. He keeps calling
himself John Shooter or whatever. And she's like,
oh my God, you're crazy. And then like
a bad fight happens for a while.
There is no Dana.
Only Zool.
Only John Shooter.
And I also think Maria Bello could kick the shit
out of Johnny Depp also. Like, honestly,
like she could. She can knock
his fucking little teeth out. I'm pretty sure
she could. She does yoga like
every day. He's fucking still eating those Doritos.
she was on the remake of that
I'm suspect
which wasn't like a bad
for as terrible as American remakes
of English TV shows get
that wasn't that bad
and she's like a real hard apple in that movie
like yeah she could totally kick his ass
that's kind of actually I feel back
because I thought that's where Maria Bella was going to go
she was going to find a nice comfortable TV show
just to fucking be good at for
quite some time
the problem is much like with this movie
she had a silly hat on the whole
She did
I remember that
That's why that fucking
She had like a kind of a moonwalker hat
Yep
Because it was it wasn't prime suspect
As much it was Prime Hat
And everyone was like I don't watch Prime Hat
And it's like now we got
It's lucky it's getting a second season
Because fucking the blacklist is the same thing
It could be called James Spader
We're stupid hats
That's all I mean
And a stupid black jacket all the time as well
You can't just have a
stupid hat, your movie or your TV show.
It's distracting, and it's a problem.
Unless it's madman, and everyone's wearing stupid hats because it's the fashion.
You can't just have a singular person wearing a stupid hat because it's a person wearing a
stupid hat, and everyone's going to be paying attention to it the whole time.
A hat can't be a character plot point.
You're right. You're goddamn right.
That's the problem. And that's this movie all over.
He puts on the hat and becomes evil.
Yep. Now it's just a murder hat.
It's a crime hat.
And he's wearing it the rest of the movie when he does all his nefarious deeds.
And it's such horseshit too
Because instead of attempting to fight back in any way
Much like
Other female Stephen King characters
She just becomes fucking Shelly Duval
In The Shining and just starts screaming
And running around the house
And like weak punching him
No no close your fist
Which you know how to do
And knock his glasses off
Yeah totally
Like that's all you
No one could close
Apparently women don't know how to close
Their fists in movies
Like never it's always that like open hand
Like I'm gonna hit you with my wrist
It's like a professional wrestler punching someone in the face
And fine, yeah, he's eating the Doritos
and she's probably, you know,
having smoothies every morning with
spinach and fucking, you know, things are good for you.
A good old kale smoothie.
He's also been sleeping for what seems to be a month.
His fucking muscle masses for shit.
He can't do any of this.
I love his legs are just atrophy
that he's trying to chase after her.
That's how that happens.
I totally, yeah, I really think she could take him.
I really do.
And sure as fuck, I mean,
Timothy Hutton could kill him.
Timothy Hutton does fill the Scatman Cruthers role in this movie.
He certainly does.
So, like, we go out into the secret garden and she, like, trips.
Now she's really groggy.
And he's like, now I'm going to explain the whole movie to you.
Sit down.
Are you done with your fish yet?
You know, you can't just have that on your lap.
It's going to stink the entire time.
Hey, lady, the credits are coming.
You might want to finish that up.
You didn't even take off the fucking skin.
Are you fucking serious?
This is a movie thing.
you know who eats fish like that garfield or bums garfield or homeless people are the only
entities that would eat a fish like that i have a question for you madam are you a fat orange cat
or a bum so at this point tippet hudden shows up because it's been three minutes and he was
literally three minutes behind her yeah and he does the old loud mouth thing like things are
over there's a little blood on the stab, but he starts
doing the, hey! I'm
coming. I'm getting involved.
You see that shit? Hey,
you do your little... It's 2004 again.
Call the police immediately on the cell phone.
Yep. Get all the information you can out immediately.
Oh, yeah. And then maybe start
sneaking around and, you know, figure this shit
out and take down Johnny Depp, who you're two
and a half feet taller. Put away your air horn.
Put it away. You don't need it.
Instead, he just gets hit in the face with this
shovel, and he's down for the
count and Maria Bellow's screaming
because like she falls and hits
her heads right so she's like out of it
yeah and then you see Johnny Depp doing the old
raising the shovel up and like bringing
it down on Timothy Hutton to really
get the death blow in where
was where was David Cronenberg's
history of violence guy for that shop
yep that's what that's let's do let's do
it we're finally doing that head come on
or that first 15 minutes of only
God forgives yeah
just a big old fucking
mass of Sutton oh yeah
Or even Jeff Bridges at the end of fucking The Vanishing.
That's a great shovel of the face.
Oh, that Vanishing Remake?
Yes.
That's, there's very few great, like, metal to the face.
I feel it's like, yeah, that Jeff Bridges' fucking Vanishing Remake, Home Alone's got good metal to the face.
Like that iron to Daniel Stern's face.
Oh, yeah.
There's ways to do it.
You know the way to not do it off screen?
No.
But this movie's PG-13.
too because why the fuck not and like
I mean they might have like toned it down
because they realized pirates was so big
and they wanted to get some of that audience. Yeah
I don't know.
I mean that is something that I do feel like
we were talking about missing reels
I think there's a missing reel from this
because there's just too much that's rushed
but weirdly
it feels longer like I don't
get it. I was shocked when you said the runtime
of this film because I really thought it was like
over two hours I thought we were in a longer than
Star Wars situation. The other thing though
is when he is revealing, like,
oh, by the way, I am John Taturo.
You see the flashback of the car incident.
Yeah.
And it's like, he just like rakes the axe over Charles S. Dutton, like,
really quickly and then, like, jams the dude in the head.
And you don't really see any of it.
It's, like, such quick cut editing that there's, like, nothing there.
Let's do it, everybody.
What else am I sitting here for?
For 90 minutes.
It's an, it's, you know what, Steve?
it's an actor's movie oh okay yeah it's about the performances um you know it's really you know
it's john tuturo and johnny dep coming together to perform for the audience but it's not
i mean it's just johnny dep jane for 96 minutes and like you said it again and i still
refused to believe that this movie's only 96 minutes so here's the last piece here is and
she's screaming her head off because she's a dumb woman and then she gets killed right
That's all she can do
We black out
We come back to the town
And it's sometime later
Johnny Depp has new glasses on
For some reason
And braces
Because that's what character depth is
I guess is when you get braces
He's got braces
He's got
His hair is now cut into like a bob
Yeah also
He also got the lighter shade of Just for men
He did
It's a little bit more blonde
A little bit more red
It's all one color now
Yeah
It's like a blonde bob
Bob is what he's got going on
and like there was the UPS girl
by the way because UPS
paid almost as much as Jiff and Doritos
almost but not as much
as Mountain Dew no no
flirted with him a little bit
and so she's in the town
and like he sees her and he flirts with her back
and she's grossed out by him and everybody
knows he's a murderer's like that's kind of the
twist is like oh my god everybody knows
and the sheriff shows up to his
house when he's like typing away
and the house by the way all the
scraping in the walls of shooter all gone somehow just gone yeah you replaced all the wood
load bearing walls like what are you talking about who did that work by the way like you don't
mean like and he's like we don't have enough to put you away johnny but we will one day and just
stay out of town and he's i'm sorry but you have all the evidence you need like the house burned
down who did that now this woman and her lover are missing yep he's the prime effing suspect
everybody knows it
and he seems a lot more relaxed
maybe check his enormous backyard
where those fucking bodies might be buried
totally
also he definitely
threw the car with
Charles S. Dunn and that white
guy off a cliff
into a lake that's like
three feet deep
no it's like a quarry it's like a
it's like fucking shallow grave it's a quarry
yeah
man way better moving
way way way way way
and he's got brace
here's a problem
if you ever had braces. He's got braces and he's eating corn on the cob. Not possible.
What does it say that he's moved from powdered cheesy corn chips to corn on the cob?
Maybe it's like a re-getting back with nature. Maybe those braces aren't real. That's how he can do it. It's fake braces.
Sure. Well, that's the whole twist. Then the last shot of the movie is we go out to the backyard and there's corn where the
dead bodies are and it's like oh fuck so i guess it's been months and months and months and then he's
got this corn crop how are you not getting a warrant for this dude's house how on earth are you not
getting a warrant steve this is the same sheriff who didn't know that killing a dog was cruelty
to animals also charles has done and works at what seems to be the 10th floor of trump tower
yes like it's it's beautiful nobody his last case he went to fucking out in the middle of
fucking nowhere to investigate
Johnny Depp's stupid
ass thing
and he never came back. Nobody's
coming to fucking ask about him?
Margo, I'll be back after the weekend. I'm going
up to the country to
investigate Johnny Depp's stupid ass
thing. I'll be back on Monday.
But definitely put that down in my agenda because
that's what I do because I'm a businessman so everyone
knows where I'm going. Talk to you later.
Yeah, no, exactly. Like, people are coming
for Charles Eston. Daniel Steele is wondering
where her guy is.
Dean Cootts is wondering where his guy is.
Like, this guy is boring.
This guy's a fucking power player.
Where is the literary cleaner?
What happened to him?
Dan Brown is bringing off the hooks.
You got cut off in traffic.
Thought the Vatican did it.
Oh, those clowns at the Vatican,
they're trying to run me off the road.
Got shortchanged at a Burger King.
Vatican did it.
Fucking told the Vatican, I gave him a 20.
I got changed for a fucking 10.
Whopper don't cost that much.
Dan Brown.
fucking Vatican
I love if he's like
caught cheating on his wife
Like she comes home
Like what the fuck is this
He's like
Oh what
Oh fucking Vatican God damn it
Vatican set me up
Thought it was you
JP2 had a hand in this
Blaming JP2
Specifically
JP2
Not the Nazi or the new one
Oh man
That's a great
Showtime show for you, Chris.
Is the Nazi and the new one?
No, it's by Ken Burns' documentary
about the last couple of years.
How many zoom in and outs can you have?
A pulp pictures, by the way.
You would think only 200.
He'll get a fucking 12-part miniseries out of it.
Don't worry.
Yeah, so it's like they're buried under this corn.
Which is also weird because it's like, are you eating them?
Like, is that what you think is happening?
I'm getting their essence through corn.
Nom, nom, nom, no.
With my fucking braces on.
That's almost as bad as Starbursts.
That's almost as bad as eating starbursts.
And you're speaking as someone who had braces for a very long time.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. You can't be eating corn on the cob, man.
Yeah, you're sawing it off.
Yeah, exactly, eating it off a plate separately.
Oh, man, that's just no way to live.
That's not my America
And that's the fucking end of the movie, man
He smiles at the sheriff
And it's like
It's all about the ending
Yeah oh that's what it keeps saying
And guess what your ending sucked
It really fucking did
And your whole thing
How does it end right?
It's like the corn
And we're just like
We're doing like a real like
Pan down
We're like tilting down down down
And it goes like
Down underground
kind of, but it's just really transitioning
to black. Yeah, yeah.
And that's the last we see.
That's the last show. Right? Yeah.
There's no, like, fingers sticking out of the ground or nothing like that.
Oh, no, no, no, no. Thank God I fucking wrote this down
because it's going into the black and you think it's going to go underground,
you're going to see bodies or something, but it just goes to black.
Cut back to an extreme close-up of him taking a bite out of the corn on the cop.
And then that's the last thing you see. Oh, why, oh, why is that
necessary. Why is any of it
necessary? And here's...
Yeah, go ahead. I got no. Well, okay, I'll
tell you this, though. I don't know
how much of sticklers you guys
are for sticking around through
the credits. But I stick
around through the credits
for reasons
like this, okay? Because
you never know when a real
nugget's going to come along.
The end of the credits for
this movie, right? There's no
video. It's all audio. It's all
audio of Johnny Depp
singing that
Mama's little baby like Shorten
Shorten, Shorten, Mom's Little Baby like Shorten Bread.
But
The whole thing, he's singing it
And if you're just listening to it
It sounds like he's singing it while
He's jerking off.
Okay? Here's some audio
The end of this movie.
Mama's little baby loves
Shorten Shorten Shorten
Mama's little baby love shortening
Bread.
short and bread
the mom's little baby
that's
it's fucking disgusting
and it means nothing
like what do you
what does that have to do
with anything
it did come
it's not in the movie
whatsoever
not once
he doesn't sing at all
is it part
is it like a little
audio snippet
or is it like
the last song
as the credits
are playing
it's just the very
last bit of audio
right as the tail
end of the credits
yeah
it's like the songs
fade out
that's just
who
why and what
It's like the text of the credits that are almost off the screen entirely.
And all of a sudden, it's like,
Mama's little baby, I'm sorry, my little baby, love thrown here, bread.
It's all about the ending.
David Kep's like, what are you doing in there, Johnny?
Nothing.
Oh, would anybody recommend Seeger window?
Get the fuck out of here.
Yeah, no, right?
This is my least, I mean, like, what I like about Stephen King, even Dreamcast.
It's bat shit stupid and there's fucking monsters and there's a little...
Sure.
There's something going on.
There's people farting and shitting themselves to death.
It's an actual disaster.
Like, I...
These, like, boring disasters, I got no fucking time for it.
No, there's no reason to watch this movie.
There's no...
There's no tense anything.
There's a stupid fucking hat that makes you kill people.
Also, like, why not just even have a...
even pop music would make this movie so much better
like one pop song
of something aside from Johnny Depp
just talking about the talking heads
I would actually
that would be great is after
he kills Maria Bella and Timothy Hutton
and he's like cleaning up his life
semi-charmed kind of life
while he's like dust in
and he's fucking getting rid of all the Dorito bags
and it's the long version
with the extra verses
and he's doing a little dance to himself
and singing it to himself it's just for him
throws out that fucking robe
That's the end of it
Is he also then buries that robe in the secret garden
Right outside the secret window
That is Secret Window from 2004
Directed by David Kapp
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All One Word.
You look like you're going to say something to see.
Nothing, just nothing?
Just zoned right out.
You're still just thinking about secret window.
Still doing about fish.
You're still scarred by it.
I can still smell it.
A clue for next week's episode.
Ted the Handsome Dancing.
Sure
That's it
That works
Ted the handsome dancing
That's all I got
Until next week
I'm Andrew Jopin
Chris Cabin
Steve and say that
Take it easy
I'm in the
I'm going to hell
Did it a big money
scribbling asshole
Like you get down to a little
Shitsplat town
In Mississippi
And steal my god damn story
Thank you.