We Hate Movies - S9 Ep423: Episode 423 - The Super
Episode Date: May 28, 2019On this week's episode, the gang chats about the Joe Pesci slumlord comedy, The Super! What's with this ridiculous, Seinfeldian court ruling? How old is Joe Pesci supposed to be in this film? Did Pesc...i's piece get separate billing? And did they think this was biting social commentary? PLUS: Has a film's poster ever had a character shrugging its shoulders and then still turned out to be a good movie? The Super stars Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Rubén Blades, Stacey Travis, and Carole Shelley; directed by Rod Daniel. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This week on the program, there's a fifth member sitting down to chat this week.
It's Joe Pesci's wig.
It's the Super.
I'm Andrew Jupin.
Steven Seda.
Chris Gavin.
Eric Siska.
And we hate movies.
Hello, everyone, welcome to We Hate Movies.
Thank you for tuning in, as always.
This is a comedy show where we use a movie to start a rambunctious conversation that, you know what?
Who knows where it's going to go?
Rambunctious.
Oh, comedy.
You think I'm funny?
do you think we're funny
I'm really excited because this is the start
of the summer blockbuster extravaganza
we're talking about a superhero movie
oh Steve Steve Steve Steve no no wait wait
No no it's the super the super no this is
The movie where Joe Pesci's a slum lord
In Brooklyn
Wait this isn't the Rain Wilson movie
Oh you
You mean that blockbuster
This is the super from
1991 directed by Rod Daniel
who also directed one of
like the famous
like building blocks of
we hate movies episodes
canine.
Oh wow.
Also of Beethoven's 2nd
and Teen Wolf.
Yes, that's right.
We've done Teen Wolf 2.
We need to do Beethoven 1.
Yeah.
But Beethoven 2 is
Beethoven 2nd, excuse me.
That's the movie where Beethoven prevents a
rape from happening.
Yeah.
He's a real hero.
We get through all the Beethoven's.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Some heroes are St. Bernard's.
Mm-hmm.
And not all supers are heroes, like this movie.
By the way, written by late Simpsons creative Sam Simon.
This is a real fucking stain on his legacy.
You would think you would take your name off this one.
Well, Nora Ephron already did.
So somebody had to be on this thing.
Look, somebody had to write it, guys.
We're going to draw straws.
Simon, it was you.
Just give Joe Pesci a thousand dollars and you could say he wrote it.
No one would believe that Joe Pesci wrote a movie.
I would.
I watched this movie.
This movie, yeah.
So I saw this for the first time last night, so I feel like I'm unqualified to distill.
You should leave the room.
To distill what this movie is.
So one of you three guys is going to take it.
What is the super?
So Joe Pesci is the, he's given a building in New York to be the landlord for, from his
evil fucking father.
Literally evil.
And he gets a bunch of lawsuits against him,
and it turns out he has to spend 120 days in his own building,
which is just disgusting.
And he has to fix it up,
or he goes to jail for a year.
It's a very Seinfeldian sentence.
It is, yeah.
And I've seen this movie more than I've seen Goodfellas probably.
Wow.
I am with him, actually.
This was on TV ad nauseum in the 90s.
I think it might have been like HBO or something.
HBO for sure. I saw this a ton.
Really? And I was
living in a slum at the time. So it reminded me very much of where I was.
Not a slum. It was just a shitty apartment building
of the Bronx. So some anecdotes might slip in. We'll see.
We'll see where it goes. I always knew what this was, but this was
like one of the rare cases of me as a little youth
being like, nah, that looks stupid.
Yeah, you're good. Because the picture
for the poster is a large African-American
gentleman, a very tall guy.
holding Joe Pesci up, like, with one arm.
And Joe Pesci's, like, he's got his hands out.
Like, what do you want me to do about it?
And I was like, that looks fucking stupid.
I was like, put that on right now.
Stop her.
Mom, mom, stop everything.
Watch the Super.
Super's on.
I mean, even Eddie Murphy could pick him up.
It's Joe Pesci.
The guy's the size of a pebble.
Has there ever been a movie where someone is shrugging their shoulders in the poster
and it turned out to be a good movie?
because usually a shrug of the shoulder is like in the animal world like you know you bear your teeth that's an active aggression right in the movie world you shrug your shoulders it's letting everyone know like we tried it didn't work out i'm sorry we've ever happened yeah i'm picturing was there ever in my head i don't know why there's like a movie poster somewhere with ryan reynolds doing the shrug yeah exactly i just i don't know was he shrugging in the poster for that waiting movie no it might have been definitely maybe yeah so then they
There you go.
The shoulder, you know, show me some shoulder shrugs on Twitter, everybody.
I want to see what these movies look like, but I think I'm right.
No, definitely maybe he's got a kid on his shoulders, so that's not going to work.
You can't shrug those shoulders, the kid will fall off.
You can't.
There's a stupid kid on your baby.
Good way to kill your kid, though.
That movie does suck, though.
Was it the proposal?
Is he shrugging on that one?
Oh, maybe.
Let's see.
In that movie, I believe, Betty White Raps.
Oh, really?
That's why you're going to shrug your shoulders.
What are you going to do?
We tried to stop her.
No, that poster is Sandra Bullock's got him up against the wall
So he's all like straight-laced
I don't know, maybe I'll think of it
Yeah, I don't know man
This movie is not funny at all
No, it's so we start in like the
I want to know how old he's supposed to be in this movie
Because are you referring to the fact
That the opening shot where it's just the credits
Over this dull black and white New York City
Old-timey footage looks straight out of Godfather too
Yes
Like Robert De Niro should be running on a fucking rooftop
After the Super right now
It's also maybe the 60s, I'm thinking, just from, like, the car style.
I could have sworn I saw a fucking horse-drawn carriage, though.
An orange cart.
Yeah, it's, and it's him and, like, his dad, they're, like, collecting rent on it.
He's like, me and my dad, it's always a classic.
The movie is a mess.
Start with first-person narration.
Absolutely.
That's going to go nowhere.
I loved Sundays with my dad.
We got his big fucking Cadillac.
Before that, he talks about the breakfast
and it's like Reynolds Woodcock shit.
It's like we had pancakes,
waffles, bacon.
My dad made the best bacon
and we would sit there
and he would read the Turner Diaries to us.
Kevin, that's a great point
because that line stuck out to me
I was like, your dad made the best bacon.
He fucking just successfully heated up salt pork.
What are you talking about?
I mean, there's a difference.
You know, some people like it under,
some people like a little over.
I like a little crunchy, my friend.
I just never said that,
Anyone versus someone else made better bacon.
You're either making bacon or you're not making bacon.
It all depends on how you turn off the stove.
That's it.
That's your magic trick you just did to make good bacon.
You turned it off at the right time.
My father raised his own pigs in the basement.
And we slaughter them together.
It was beautiful.
He would tan them and then he would let them cure for a couple of months.
We cut that pig's throat.
Like we cut the throat of some of these tenants we had in our building.
Well, here's the thing.
This movie is...
It's human bacon.
When I turn 16 and I hit puberty,
we drank a thing of pig's blood together,
and it was beautiful.
Me and my dad.
I'm not convinced that Joe Pesci has hit puberty yet, by the way.
We'll see what happens in the Irish possible.
My dad did the best dark rituals in the basement.
Every Sunday, we would make a sacrifice to the demon bow.
That's right.
I used to have four sisters.
Then after one Sunday, I had three.
my dad was blue beard what can I tell you
I gotta tell you
the house was prosperous after we sent her to help
great tithings
dark lord thank you very much
thank you for the building dark lord
dad do we bathe in the blood now
is that what we do we get the kitty pool out
we bathe in the blood see now I'm into this idea
of like a Joe Pesci Satanist movie
just because we're not Satanist
but like you know a dark ritual movie
because that's not something you'd see Joe Pesci do.
Absolutely not.
Yeah, I'm from Jersey and I fucking sacrifice people.
I got a cult.
What do you want?
What do you want?
No one would suspect a thing, you know?
No, that's actually true.
Move it to lose it, Beelzebub!
You know, like Joe Pesci.
Yeah, like the police come by, like pull him over.
He's got like a bloody robe hanging out of the trunk or something.
He's like, my kid's in March and Band, all right?
Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
Here you go.
I got the title in case you're wondering.
What's that?
Little devil.
He's a tiny man.
Oh, and he's like shrugging on it.
Like a little smile shrug.
Like, what are you going to do?
I'm going to call.
The fuck you say to me, dark lord.
There's like little like lipstick drawn fucking horns on his head on the poster.
Oh, yeah, totally.
I'm scary how.
Scary like a trip to the dentist.
Scary like your mom is calling you at 4 o'clock in the morning.
How am I scary?
How am I fucking scary to you?
If you think I'm scary like a dentist, I will drill you.
Dance, Alastair Cromwell, dance.
Crowley.
Crowley.
But this movie is racist as sin.
Oh, dude, this movie...
And from the jump...
It's right.
This movie, it's...
I am an atheist.
Mm-hmm.
That said, the fact that this movie doesn't use the N-word may be a sign that God exists.
Because it is scraping at the...
This movie...
so desperately wants to use the N-word.
You can just, you can like smell it coming off this movie.
I'm going to bet with my wife, but I lost.
I was like, he's got to say it.
He had to say it.
How did he not?
He's got to say it.
There's so many scenes where he has to stop his father,
because you can tell he's going to go there.
The father, yeah, he's ready to just spit it right out.
But we do the thing where we do everything,
but which is kind of, it's not worse, but it's really close.
It's kind of a seesaw that's exactly even.
There's one in the, I'm not going to say it because I don't know what it means, but there's one in the dining room where I was like, what the fuck is that?
Oh yeah, I never even heard this one and I grew up, yeah, exactly.
That's the thing.
The ones that you, you grew up what?
No, I grew up in the Bronx and you heard a lot of weird Italian slurred.
But that's what I'm saying, the ones that you don't immediately know what they mean, those are definitely the worst ones every time.
Yeah, exactly.
Because they're like a dark ancient evil, you know.
It's like somebody says that, like they got to like immediate.
like go home and sit in the dark
because they use such powerful racism
I gotta go upstate
and I gotta find some chickens to slaughter
ah shit yeah speaking of blood rituals
you a virgin come on
get to my car
get in my car
oh man just him abducting
kids sure you know how he could do that
is dressing like a kid because he spots
kid height dude he almost does
that in this movie by the way he was finally do
what he doesn't what he threatens to do in home alone
I'm gonna bite off all your little fingers
I'm going to bite off all your little fish
That's just, I don't know why
He's a regular
Degular thief in that movie
And then he turns into an old witch
And it creeps me out every time I guarantee you
If he bites you dude
You can't get him off
No definitely
It's like a snapping turtle
You gotta like find a way to like get around
And like stick your finger in his ass
Like that's the only way he's gonna break loose
The fuck you do to me
Oh
Yeah
You have you've got such a small moment
of window before it clamps down again
so you got to really. Well, yeah, he's like
a fucking alligator man. You're not going to
get it out of that. You got to look out because then he'll clinch his
ass to hold you in place so that he could
bite you again. Oh no, Joe Pesci's going
into a death roll.
By the way, we'll get
to it when it comes up, but speaking of
home alone, I think
John Hughes was cribbing a little bit
from this movie to write Home Alone too.
Oh, oh. I absolutely
believe that after seeing this fucking
piece of shit. So he,
speaking of racism, his dad
immediately tackles
this black tenant that he has.
Oh, chases him down in the street
and tackles him. And, you know, it's this thing like
give me the rent, blah, blah, blah, where's the
rent? And, you know,
there's a lot of stuff where like
the little fat Joe Pesci
kid. Here's a question
really quickly. Has that
little kid actor played young Joe Pesci
in something else before? What?
Oh, maybe in like, you're thinking Goodfellas?
Maybe the same kid?
No, no, no, no.
Not good fellas, but, God, was there something else where you see, like, a little kid, Joe Pesci?
I think that kid has played the younger version of another actor for sure.
Because he looked really familiar, and I was like, is this, like, little Joe Pesci from, like, gone fishing or something?
Yeah, maybe.
I don't know.
We got to look up this little kid now.
Let's go to the little IDB.
Kid IMDB.
Little IMDB.
Little IMDB.
Yeah, and the dad just, like, tackles this.
Does he punch this guy in the face?
he does a couple times.
Yeah, right?
Okay, I thought so.
And it's like, you know,
you guys giving him all sorts of excuses and blah, blah, blah.
I don't fucking care.
Yeah.
And like the kid is like in on it.
And like the kid's like shutting down his excuses at the same time.
Well, no, he's like at first he's like, yeah, let him have him.
Oh, right.
And he's like, oh, really?
Well, he will affect the amount of allowance.
It's a percentage, you see.
Yeah.
Now it's 3%.
And then soon it will be two.
if you let this guy go and he's like oh i'm a monster now yep dude it's he turns on a dime he turns
that kid on a dime he does weird they say you want to take candy out of my kid's mouth and it's like
i don't know dude my kids can't eat so that's fucking fine also look at this little fucking butterball man
maybe you shouldn't have so many sweets all right you want me to read you this actor the
the kid that plays young louis filmography please is it just the super yeah
just the super i was wrong um so
we cut to
Joe Pesci's birthday party
and this is where
I'm very confused
how old this guy is
because he acts like
he's in his early 20s
like you know what I mean
or like they treat him
like he's a kid
right because he's like given
this building
and it seems like
like oh you just graduated
college here's your first building
it is mid 40s
he's 48 years old
when this movie came out
but this
and he looks every day of it
and maybe a little more
by the way
I'm actually shocked
to hear that he was 48 years old.
But he, I think the thing that
does it though is this fucking wig
that he's got on in this movie.
Because it doesn't change. It's like,
you see Joe Pesci's birthday party
and, you know, they're singing happy birthday
he's blindfolded, they take it off. It's like, happy
birthday, here's your building, we're giving you.
And then it cuts immediately
like a few years, even farther
into the future. And now he's like this
super successful rich tenant or landlord.
And he's got the same,
it's just the same fucking rug.
Yeah, sure.
That I think he was, like, at that birthday party scene, I think he's supposed to be like 20-something.
Oh, I see.
So it had been his building.
Can I ask you, is this the first time that a wig got second billing?
I think so, dude.
It might have been?
Okay.
I think this wig was nominated for something.
I will say, well, why don't we ask the wig?
It's in the room today, right?
Isn't it the fifth member today?
Yes, I, okay.
Joe is fantastic.
Total, total professional the entire way through.
They wanted to staple me on his head, but Joe and sister.
No, no, Bobby Pins only.
He didn't want to hurt me.
Let me ask you, did you ever see him bite anyone?
Yes, or several times.
He was a biter.
And I'm a biter, too.
I almost chomped off Vincent Gardini's entire hand.
Well, actually, it was actually not just me, but me and my twin, because there is those wig labor laws.
Of course.
You can only have my twin as well.
You can only have horse hair work so many direct hours in a row.
Yeah, wigs can only work temp to perm.
Oh, Jesus.
This fucking Christ.
Dailed it!
Oh, yes!
You disgust me.
I like that one.
I'll be honest, dude.
That one did it.
All right. All right.
I was actually nervous when I was saying it.
Yeah, you should be.
Okay.
You know, I originally worked with Bing Crosby.
I'm very professional.
Big Crosby.
Way more of a racist than Joe Pesgie.
I'm a hundred years old.
I'm a wig.
So, what do you think the lifespan is of a Hollywood wig?
Oh, it's got to be.
You're throwing it out after a reason.
Really?
One production in time.
I think that's true.
I think there's some, like most of the cases, they're throwing it at.
But there's some that's like that deep ancient evil.
But this wig's got personality.
It's like the Chris Evans.
I was made out of a horse that was killed during the Adventures of Robin Hood.
A long tradition.
Arrow Flynn, he was into some kinky shit.
He's a bider too.
My family got the acting bug.
I will say that the hue, which is a...
He's got like a red hair thing.
It's the same color that Arnold Schwarzenegger's hair is unfortunately in kindergarten cop.
Oh, you're totally right.
That red main?
I don't know why we're in the early 90s.
Everyone needed to have red hair, especially fucking Joe Pesci and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It's very uncomfortable to look at this head of hair.
No, it's kind of arousing.
That light tint of color there.
Yeah, give me the Gillian Anderson.
That's what it is.
I like that X-Files.
Yes, I too would like the Gillian Anderson.
Who is that?
I don't believe in aliens, Mulder.
I think it was just a weather balloon.
Yeah, there's got to be a rational explanation.
I mean, they can't get their ass to Mars.
There's no flying saucer.
You think it's the Jersey devil.
Okay, Mulder.
Okay, yeah, Mulder, it's fucking vampire.
There's a bunch of fucking vampires
in this little fucking ta-you-fucking idiot.
Are you trying to tell me
there's a human parasite,
a humanoid thing in the toilet
that comes and eats people from outside the toilet.
That's great. That's great, Mulder.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
So he turned himself into jelly
and squaws through those fucking jail cell bars.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, smart guy.
Yeah, the autopsy does not suggest this.
Oh, no, it's a bunch of.
of bees. Look out, Malda.
Get to the chop, you, Malda.
Our sexual tension is through the room.
Get down.
Get down into my bed.
Yeah, Marda, I have some bad news.
Yeah, the deep throat was assassinated on the bridge.
Hey, Mulder, whatever happened to us, son?
Did he ever make it a what?
Yeah, dude, William lived.
Made it right till that final lap.
But he's got a red hair in this.
Yes, he definitely does.
Here's another thing.
I want to point out,
because we're talking about Joe Pesci's wardrobe.
I'm pretty confident
Joe Pesci has worn the same coat
through his entire career.
Just these long, like, wool coats.
I think he's a bring-from-home guy.
Didn't you read the interview with his coat?
Yes, I've been in a long line of Hollywood films.
I almost got stolen from a few coat rooms.
I do think that.
though his wardrobe in this movie is hilarious.
I do love his outfits
in this. His outfits in my cousin Vinnie
there should be an exhibit
of all of the clothes everyone wears
in my cousin Vinny. Well, I'll tell you right now
you've inspired something
because at the Museum
of the Moving Image in Astoria Queens
one of their permanent exhibits
is they have
in like color wheel order
all of the suits
that De Niro wore in casino.
Oh sure. You could get
the My Cousin Vinnie Wardrobes
and put it right next to it in that museum.
The fucking suits that he wears
and the outfits that Marissa Tomey hair
has, oh my God.
They should put it in the film museum in Berlin
where there's all the dresses
of Marlina Dietrich.
Put Joe Pesci's little suits
next to those.
Oh, those would be some tiny suits.
Travel around the country
like they did with Bowie's outfits.
There you go.
That was a great exhibit.
Yeah.
Would you, Joe Pesci is?
Yeah.
That'd be great.
Yeah, I'm a bit of an iconoclashed.
Put on these headphones.
You'll go inside of a museum.
You'll hear different things at different parts.
You know, identity's kind of malleable.
You've got to change it up every once in a while.
Yeah, this was one of my suits from Goodfellas.
Yeah, oh, that's the mustard stain.
So whatever, he's a super.
He's given the building by his dad.
Right.
And then we kind of cut to him just being a bad.
Well, the thing is, he's not a super.
I'm sorry.
He's a landlord.
He is a landlord.
Or specifically, as I have a D.B credits him, a slum lord.
He's most definitely a slum lord.
Yeah, for sure.
And he's doing the thing where he goes to the building,
he walks all the way to the top floor,
and then just proceeds to go to every unit,
you know, until he makes his way back down to the ground floor,
collecting the rent.
Which is a weird thing.
I guess it's weird because, like,
I mean, we've all lived in buildings forever now
and I've paid rent for quite a bit.
But like now you do it either online
or you just mail somebody a check or whatever.
There's gender.
this isn't always the case
like we had one super in Queens
that wasn't this like
it's generally paid toward a management
company. Yes, exactly. And not you're not living
there aren't many privately owned buildings.
There's a few but you know
usually dealing with a corporation of some kind.
You meet your landlord what? Twice a year
tops? Not even yeah, I've never met my landlord
well when we lived in this story
we had a landlord that was
would hang out with us pretty much. Yeah that dude was like the
fourth roommate. Well he would come
in and be like, I'm doing repairs, and I'm like, I'm really high on mushrooms right now.
Could you not?
Trying to jerk off here, Harry.
When you first told me that story, and I was so glad I wasn't there for that, because
I don't think I would have been able to handle any type of interaction with my eyes were saucers.
Fine.
You're going to come in and fix the sink.
I'm going to fall through this bookshelf.
Stop asking me what that smell is.
You know what that smell is.
You're very well aware.
Chris, remember our one landlord before that when we were also in a story?
Gus, Gus, cuss, or some gun.
Yeah, well, okay, this is a made-up name for the show.
Yeah, but anyway, that guy was nuts.
That guy was nuts.
And he would just random.
The death stare, dude.
And he would walk down at night and just, like, hang out in his cab, like, just sit in it and, like, smoke cigarettes.
Oh, because he was thinking about killing himself.
Oh, sure.
Definitely.
You two is tenets.
Oh, my God.
And his fat son.
His fat, useless son, who is always, like, constantly repairing a Duccati motorcycle.
Oh, yes.
Never, never, never, never rode and I don't know what he did.
I think that's all he did.
I mean, he would break that motorcycle if he tried to get on it.
Yeah, definitely.
It'd be like the two, those two guys with the cowboy hats and the fucking sunglasses.
I thought I was a fat, useless son.
I had a super when I was growing up who, uh, he's an older Dominican guy,
but for some reason sounded exactly like Billy Bob Thornton and Slingblade.
But yeah, uh-huh, okay.
But his thing, he had a catchphrase, literally.
because we had a garbage room
where you would like throw out
larger pieces of garbage
we had an incinerator shoot
where you'd throw garbage bags
whatever but I wish I had an incinerator in this building
God what a dream just burning things
dude an incinerator when you're going through puberty
excellent
well yeah you can get rid of all the bodies
I was gonna say all the pornography printouts
yeah exactly
but but whenever you throw something out
like a little bit larger you'd put it in the
you'd have to bring it down to the garbage room
but he would always complain when you did that
because you'd have to haul it out
he's like come on man I'm not Hercules
I can't be doing that
And his thing was always, I'm not Hercules.
No matter what, you could put down like a fucking stack of news.
Come on, I'm not Hercules.
You can't.
Johnny, come on.
Why won't you go down on me?
Come on, baby.
I'm not Hercules.
Can't you shower once in a while?
I'm not Hercules here.
Man, what a catchphrase to have.
I might go up that.
When I first moved to New York.
Oh, by the way, an ending
A button on that story, they burned his door down
on New Year's Eve.
What?
Just his door?
Just his door down.
We came back through a day, the Royal Vey?
No, some, I think some bad kids in the building
burned down his door on the United States.
Say that kids.
No, we were out.
We were out at a New Year's party.
We had an alibi.
I apologize.
I cut you off.
No, no, no, no.
That's a good, good story.
Yeah, if ever someone needed to be cut off.
But when I first moved to New York,
I was so poor that.
I moved into someone's living room.
Oh, I remember that.
Yeah, yeah, this dude, hero.
He was staying in New York, and it was a one-bedroom apartment,
and I just moved into his living room.
We never told the landlord this or whatever.
So whenever, I guess, whenever he came over, like, the landlord,
oh, my God, he hated my guts so much.
He would always, like, knock on the door and be like,
I don't like, these have funny business.
These are funny business.
Funny business.
So I've been saying funny business for, like, 10 years.
By funny business, did he think
that A, you were doing what you were doing
which is subletting out of a living room
or did he think you're a boyfriend?
Yeah, you're a boyfriend.
Yeah, yeah, it might be that.
Option B.
He would always come over to harass us to see
he's like, you don't have any pets, you have pets,
pet, no pet in this building.
Oh, yeah.
And he's just like, oh, this are funny business.
I'm sure, I'm sure you're right about the point.
Yeah, he thought you guys were sleeping again.
Are you the shedder?
No, no, no, no.
You shed, you shed, funny business.
so this building's a real fucking dump man
like this place should be condemned
it's really falling into disrepair
apparent I mean it and it's like an extreme
and I think the thing here is like
they thought this movie was like a social satire
but it's just kind of like a racist bad 90s comedy
and so the whole thing racist money pit kind of
yeah it is racist money pit that's a great way to describe it
it's a thing where like you know there's no real
running water all the toilets are
clogged backup with like gray
gunk. There's no electricity
in the building. But except for the party apartment.
The party apartment is wonderful
for some reason. I think it's because it's the ground
floor and they might be running cables from
another building or something. And Tito's
apartment isn't bad either.
Well, they complain about
like how the kid has no electricity.
Electricity. He can't study. The whole
place doesn't have electricity, apparently.
But then Joe Pesci's line, well, neither did Lincoln.
Oh, yeah. Lincoln didn't have electricity.
And that comes back later for
a good one. You see him, you know,
giving all of these... How does a building not have
electricity for even like... And I understand
like blah, blah, blah. He does...
Like, this is when you don't do that horse shit.
You do put this guy in prison. Like, you need...
You don't have 120 days. Do it
now or go to jail. Or be
executed, I think. They should
shoot this guy right in the fucking street.
I mean, eat the rich, dude. Absolutely.
Come on, I'm not... I can't be giving
you electricity. I'm not Hercules.
He said, Thomas Edison is a funny business.
this electricity.
Like, I'm trying to fix this fucking
Dukadi Motorcycle over here, okay?
That's going to take
the entire day. You know what?
A week or two?
You know what? Forever.
He's still doing it, dude. I bet you.
You see him, like, meeting all the...
Yeah, this is how we're introduced
to the tenants in the building.
One of which is Ruben Bladis, and, you know,
this is where you have Joe...
Ruben Bladis is like, hey man, where's the electricity?
Joe Pesci throws in a...
You latins, this, that.
The other thing, so you can really smell
where this movie's going right away.
And then there's another Latino couple
that don't speak any English.
And he's like, I don't understand.
You don't speak English.
And they're like, blah, blah, blah.
What's going?
They're yelling about, like, the door doesn't work.
They're very obviously showing him a broken door.
And his whole, like, slum lord thing is, like,
the door wasn't broken when I leased you this apartment.
It only broke after you broke.
so it's your problem.
It's like a real slum lord thing,
but also I think it just carries into a real misunderstanding
on the part of Joe Pesci's family
about the responsibilities of owning a building.
Like these people don't own these things,
motherfucker, you do.
You got to fix it.
This brings up a question.
What am I supposed to be laughing at here?
Oh, the racism.
You're supposed to be laughing
that there's someone speaking the language
you don't speak.
I'm going to put that in air quotes
because you're supposed to be a white person
watching this movie.
you're supposed to be a white person watching one
and like they're speaking crazy crazy
Latin language and that's the joke
that is literally the joke
can I point out another hilarious joke
when he meets a black preacher
after he's done speaking with Ruben Blattis
and Joe Pesci
and this is bring out the laughs
he starts singing in like a Paul Robeson
impression
okay dokey Sam Simon
whatever you say buddy just because I liked
Good fellas? Is this what you're selling me, man? Jesus Christ. There needs to be like at least like one white guy in the building. One white or a white family or something because it, it, it, that would like ease the racism and make it more of a class thing. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, which makes more sense. But the movie chooses to. I grew up in a slum. That's how that works. You know what I mean?
The same act should have been in this movie. We should have been. But instead the movie chooses to have, uh, nothing.
but minorities in this building.
So then Joe Pesci can accurately just scream animals at them.
Yes.
Later in the movie.
All over,
we're calling him animals.
Yeah.
It's,
who it's...
Vincent Gardini is going off on some deep shit.
Well,
he's the one making up all those ancient Italian racism words.
That dining fucking scene.
Jesus.
Which we're going to get to...
So he,
he,
as he's leaving this building,
he's got all his...
He got all the right and to fix anything.
Uh,
enter the,
uh,
quote unquote,
love interest or whomever this lady is.
Yeah.
What's her at?
What's he at?
Let me look it up real quick
I hadn't recognized her from anything
Heather is the character
The actress's name is Stacy Travis
She's the wife from Funny Farm
And it's funny because this was
Originally supposed to be Chevy Chase
Not Joe Peshy
Oh she know who she plays
Power Woman and Mystery Men
Oh nice oh no you're mixing up
That's his actual girlfriend the blonde woman
Oh that's who I thought you were talking about
Oh no no no no
The lawyer or whatever
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Because like he's like getting into his fucking
a little Ferrari. Oh yeah, look at my little
fucking Ferrari. Yeah, Madeline
Smith Osborne is her name.
Yes, she was Chevy Chase's wife
and funny farmer. She comes in, he's about
to leave and she's like, are you
Lewis Critsky? He's like, yeah, honey,
who wants you to know? And it's like
you serve with the subpoena because
you're a slumber. You know what I mean?
Yeah, she works for NYCHA, like New York City Housing Authority.
It's like, you have to be, you have to show up in court
in 30 days or whatever the fuck it is. And then he's like,
oh, fuck, this is the dining room scene. And
I actually didn't know that Heather,
who we just talked about,
this woman who played Power Woman in Mystery Men.
Yeah.
I thought that was his sister.
I couldn't get that.
So did I.
Yeah, that's what I thought of first too.
Until later in the movie,
he tries to, like, assault her.
I was like, oh, okay.
The father does ask her like,
oh, so how far did you go in school?
Yeah.
And I guess that's tipping us off
that it's not his dog.
Oh, yeah, I guess that's true.
And she says, well, in high school,
I was pretty buttoned up,
but once I got to community college,
I let them do anything.
Oh, yes, that's right.
It's a pretty kind of funny.
Yeah, that's a funny joke.
So it's like, and the dad, he's like, oh, my God, dad, they're going to fucking throw me in jail.
And he's like, oh, Louie, don't worry about it.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Slap on the wrist.
I've gone through this millions of times.
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
And it's fine.
And I mean, this is the dining room.
He's like, we're not going to fix those animals doors or anything like that.
It's not the word animals.
It's some really fucking deep shit.
For the purposes of this conversation.
It's just, it's a word.
And he's like, talking about them eating each other back in the day.
I was like, holy fucking shit.
Yeah, it's bad.
Grand Dragon fucking Kersky.
They're eating each other.
Yeah.
These animals.
Uh, yeah.
I put seas on all their doors.
Well, that's the thing.
That's why this isn't a Trump building, though.
Yeah.
Because he wouldn't let that.
They wouldn't have left that.
There's people of color in it.
Exactly.
He wouldn't be leasing to people of color.
That was the whole reason for the seas.
That's true.
And then the mother that's just sitting there.
This is the woman who played,
you recognize her on Clara
Bewitched? Yeah. Oh, wow.
Yep. Just hanging out in this movie
he's smiling politely
with her super racist husband.
And that's the thing is I mean like he is so racist
and by extension so is Joe Pesci
and I don't think any of them either
either of them ever get there
like in terms of like redemption
anywhere near it.
There is a so phony baloney at the end of this movie though.
When young Louis is in the start of this movie
and he and the father's beating up that tenet
you see like they're trying to give Louis a little bit of a heart like he doesn't really want this dude to get assaulted yeah and that's like throughout the whole film where it's less like Joe Pesci is racist and terrible but there's a little part of him that doesn't want to be yes he doesn't want them to die I think that's what it really comes down to
you can't pay the rent you exactly yeah that's exactly right the dead can't pay dude where's this stupid treadmill he's not a treadmill in his shitty apartment that's after the sentence trial so he goes to
to trial, and the whole time his father's been
like, you're just going to get a fine, the slap on the wrist
that gets you out of there. This judge
who's a black judge, which is very
specifically, and it's like, oh, no, we got the wrong
judge kind of again. Which the dad
definitely points out. Oh, yeah.
And she says,
all right, so this is the Seinfeldian
stipulation. You have to live in
a unit in your own building
and you have 120 days
to fix it all up, or you're
going to go to jail for a year.
And then the way the father starts twisting his
arm is he says, you know, Supers, Kritzke's don't do nothing. So you're not going to do a thing.
You're going to sit there for that 120 days. Yeah. Well, the other thing is, too, is like,
you're not going to fix a light bulb. Also, like, the thing is, the sentence is that you just
have to do it 120 days. You have to do it within 120 days or you go to jail. Oh, right, right, right,
right. So like, the dad is, just go to jail. Exactly. If you're going to go to jail anyway,
just go to jail, if that's the case. And the dad is, the threat of this is if he does
fix even one light bulb. He's cutting
him out of the wheel and he's not going to get the
dad the rest of the dad's real estate empire.
I think it's estimated a 20 million bucks
which is, it's like one of those bad
stupid fucking Twitter polls
you see is like, would you spend
a whole day watching the same movie
for a million dollars? Yeah, fucking
course I would. It's a million dollars.
I did participate in that by the way. Would you
eat nothing but bad food
for two days but then you get
30 million? Yeah, of course I fucking
give me that 30 million dollars right?
Who are these fucking tweets for?
Like Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos?
I'd be like, no, I wouldn't do that.
We're all starving in the streets.
We're all going to do it for whatever it is.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
I'd watch The Big Lebowski for 24 hours.
I would do most and all sexual things for $1 million.
Oh, name it.
You better fucking name your price.
Yeah, definitely.
Anything goes.
Right into the mail bag.
This is where...
Oh, yeah, that's an open.
invitation. Yeah, I mean, you got to have the money.
We got to see the money first. Oh, yeah, no, definitely.
I don't want this half, you know,
before half half now, half later. No, that's
a fucking scam. You hand it to me while it's happening.
Now I'm imagining after whatever
horrific thing happens, it's a room full of money.
And then Eric sets his half on fire
and it's like, why?
It's about showing a message.
He takes all his money
out onto a boat and he just
lights it all on fire like the beach from.
So yeah, so this.
This is where he's back at his like penthouse and he's like on a portable phone talking to the lady friend.
And he gets on this treadmill and dude, Joe Pesci doing his like fast Joe Pesci walk on this treadmill, legitimate laugh.
Because his dad's like, we're going to beat this.
You're not going to spend it.
You're not going to spend a day in that building.
Don't worry about it.
And then like his dad calls him.
It's like, by the way, you're going to have to do it.
And he goes, what?
And he like falls over.
And there is this shot that they do.
It's like Pesci, P-O-V because you see it like it's a.
his point of view, Vincent Gardini is standing
in front of the treadmill. And you
see Pesci go like, wha, and it's just a
camera getting pulled away from
Vincent Gardinia and then falling backwards.
It is stupid as fuck. It is great. There are
multiple Pesci POV shots
in this movie. Do you know who shot this?
No. Bruce Sertes of Night Moves.
Oh, is that right? Same guy who shot
Night Moves shot the fucking Super.
Man, Joe Pesci should have had some erect
nipples in this movie, man. You're a wrecked nipples.
yeah whatever
yeah my nipples are hard
fuck you
I cut glass with these things
what whatever
first of all so then he's like
all right fine
I'm gonna live in this
my shitty building
for 120 days
to get 20 million dollars
essentially
I would
A
I'm a millionaire
I'm getting all sorts of books
magazines
I'm getting all sorts of entertain
because he's like penthouse
yeah oh definitely
nothing but pornography
but like he's not allowed to leave
unless he is going to
just for groceries
and that's it or something
like that. That's part of this
or basically a house arrest? Like get people to
fix the fucking place. Which also you can
totally get around. He doesn't have a fucking anklet.
You know what I mean? And it doesn't seem like anyone's checking in on.
No one's monitoring. It's just this one lawyer.
But I would load up this fucking apartment with shit.
I would bring, and also I would not take my
Ferrari there. I would take a fucking cab.
You know what I mean? Like, why would you leave
your Ferrari in this neighborhood?
Why would you leave any car on the street
at all? Yeah, exactly.
That's, you know. Especially if you're not allowed to
leave. You're not going to, whatever. It doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, well, it's just purely so they, you know, the residents of the neighborhood can strip it in a scene that's coming up.
He's like, so you walk around, you get a feel for like what this apartment is.
He's got a backed up sink that like bubbles.
This is a fucking terrible line.
And he's like, oh, great, I got a sink that farts.
All of the, do you notice all of these lines like he's walking through this apartment?
Yeah.
It's all terrible ADR.
Yeah.
Well, I thought it was voiceover.
I thought it too.
There's also, there's another moment where you do hear his thoughts when he gets.
out of the car before he gets into the building and he's like he's trying to like psych himself
into it he's like yeah it'll be fine you're just gonna live here all you got to do is sleep
it'll go by like that and i'm like wow this this is bad a d r but then it's like you hear there's
like a slight echo on it and then you're like oh no it's his thoughts it'll be like camp
yeah and then when he gets in there one of the other lines is around the sinking fight he's like
oh wall to wall shit well that's how do you not know
know this you own this fucking building yeah this movie's kind of not it's a hard R a bit like
there's no nudity but like we're saying fuck he's saying fuck all over it yeah and it's like so then
who is this movie for you know what I mean like it meet me at 12 well yeah that's true yeah that's
actually true yeah I don't know why I watched this that much I know I really I saw I saw it I saw
a ton as well like in watching it last night I was like oh wow that part oh wow that part
wow really yeah I just what that's nuts
so yeah he winds up like
he tries to sit down in a chair to go to sleep
and then you know like a spring pops out right by his head
he winds up like sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor
and he wakes up the next morning and there's a little kid
sitting in the window looking at him
and they have this whole fucking exchange that is
it's quite racist
but the confounding line here is because Joe Pesci's like
what are you going to do you're going to fucking rob me
and he goes
no I was just curious about you
and I'm like what the fuck for
why would you care about this piece of shit guy
I guess because of you basically everything
wrong with your life has something to do
at this guy you want to see
yeah I guess that's true
you get to see the guy that's been fucking you
and your family for the last 20 years or whatever
but part of that is you're just watching this dude
sleep in a sleeping bag I don't know
it was just a weird and the way the kid says it too
is just like I was just curious about you
it's a power move
yeah oh shit you know what's a better power move though he should snuck fully into the apartment and took his shit on the floor
or piss on him or piss on him period better move oh yeah piss on me
better slum lord piss on me take a bunch of twigs tie them together blare witch style and just start leaving them around his apartment yeah yeah
that's the move dude fucking psychological warfare this goddamn apartment's got rats it's got druids
Oh, fuck the Blair Witch
Oh, great
Oh, great
Why are you standing over there in the corner
Why are you standing over there in the corner
Get your ass away from the fucking corner
Get over here, get out of the corner
Oh, who fucking hits the map
Who lost the map?
Do it a map.
Josh?
Come on, Josh.
Give it a map.
Give me the map.
I am so scared.
Don't you turn off that camera.
I will kill you if you turn off that fucking camera.
Listen to me.
Well, you know, it won't be so bad.
it'll be like camp
go out into the woods
you know
this is a better remake than that
Adam Wingard remake oh my god
it sucked a dog's ass
and I like Adam Wingard I'm like come on
so do I I was shocked at how bad that movie was
what a letdown maybe a stay tuned
who knows it there's like nothing there
you know where there is something though
this might be a stay tuned for the spooktacular
the book of shadows Joe Berlinger's book of shadows
dude I dare you to make sense
of that movie I fuck
I'll try and see it a third time
Dude, I watched most of it on Shudder recently.
I saw it in theaters.
Dude, one great thing that shows you the time in which is that came out,
New Metal, Out the Ass.
Of course, man.
It was like 2000, whatever, or maybe just the year 2000, probably.
That guy should not make narratives.
Because that movie sucks, and that fucking Ted Bundy movie fucking sucked.
Osses.
It fucking sucked.
That's the Zach Efron one?
Yeah.
I think Ephron's good in it, but like that is an incompetently made movie.
Stick to documentaries, please.
So he goes grocery shop
Because he's got his girlfriend coming over
That's another thing
Can I just ask about that?
Aside from like
I guess he wants to get laid
Like
Why would you invite this woman
To this apartment?
It's a slum you can't
I mean I guess he
Because he thinks like whatever
Like I just want to my fucking dick stuck
Hey I'm Joe Pescied out
A fucking weird little blowjab
Yeah the woman who hates you
Give me a BJ
Give me a BJ
And then he got
The world's tiniest blow job
Oh, man
Okay, at least a hand job
Have a little handy
Have a little handy for Joe
So he goes to get like food
And again like
You know what neighborhood
You're going into
If you have specific
Dietary restrictions
Or stuff that you like
Bring it
Go to Dagestitos on 92nd Street
Right
And bring it the fuck down there
But this is another thing though
Where it's like
Why
Why can't he realize
Like where he is?
Like he goes into this bodega
And he's like
So well
What kind of wine do you have here?
I'm like, it's a fucking bodega, man.
What are you talking about?
And there's got to be a liquor store in the neighborhood.
A, number one, that tells wine.
But he gets like a bottle of like, I don't even know, like,
it's just like hooch, man.
It's like a 50 cent bottle of hooch.
I did kind of laugh at the bread when he picks up the bread and it's just a solid-hack.
Yeah.
I kind of love that there's a pool table in this bodega, by the way.
That was pretty sweet.
What a hangout, man.
I've seen some bodegas like that.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Just, yeah, you get a little.
a little too many people
hanging around and you're like, well, what's really
going on here? Absolutely. Like you go in
a bunch of dudes are like playing cards in the back
and you're just like, yeah, I just need
some toilet paper. You guys keep doing your thing.
Dude, man, you should go back to one of those places.
Walk up to them and say you want
the special. What's the special?
My throat cut.
It's like anytime you'd walk into one of those places
in the story of those like social clubs.
Oh, yeah. Soccer my ass.
Yeah, it's like you know, you're just some like
fucking shitty
millennial white kid
like do you have brunch
it's like
get out
no we're a Ruzha
organization
any of the Italian
mafia like I had
that's right
yeah I tells
yeah so like
this dude
the guy working at
the bodega
has some great line
right here
he's like
well because
Pesci says
something like
well why don't you
have any of these
things
and the guy's like
because we don't
have shitty
fucking white people
like you
coming into the store
like whatever the line
is
white prick
Oh, then he calls him a white prick.
I was like, ooh, solid, solid line bodega guy.
All right, just give me the Mr. Uptown's wine-like hooch and this bread, and I'm getting out of here.
Mr. Uptown.
Well, that's the thing is how is he surviving that?
Is he just eating this bread this whole movie?
Yeah, I'm like a little rat.
Because he's never showed to be eating regular food.
I don't understand, like, other than the scene we're going to get to, like, not just the sink, it's the bathtub and the, and the toilet are all.
filled with water all the time. Where is he
shitting and where is he pissing? I think it's a
fucking Folgers coffee crystal
can situation. That might very well
be. And then you just huck it out the window.
Yep. Total window drive.
Well, what, wait. It's a potpourri. It's a potpourri.
It smells delicious. It's like the middle
ages, man. Yeah, I'm shitting in garbage
bags. Yeah, whatever.
Whatever. Whatever. I'm shitting in garbage bags.
Whatever. I thought we were going to get
that, though. My
elderly neighbor broke her hip.
and she had to move out of her unit
and they discovered
that she had no running plumbing for years
and she was going to the bathroom
in garbage bags
and taking it out to the dumpster
yeah it's
dude what is the point of having a homeowners association
if they're not catching stuff like this
so that's how you learned it
I was digging through her trash
dude looking for the goodies
and now you shit in baskets
all day long.
His girlfriend shows up
and like it's one thing to be like
and she's like oh this place is gross
because like yeah
it kind of is
and she's like oh this place is gross
and he's like
yeah yeah just get inside
get inside
and it's like
it'll be one thing
you like you want to listen to a record
you want to I got some
but he's like
ah fuck me
he turns out to like
fucking Robert Blake
in a fucking lost highway
all of a sudden
well because his whole thing
is like
yeah I'm in fucking prison
so this is my conjugal
Is it? Suck my dick. Yeah, I'm at your house right now.
Yeah, dude, someone picks up the phone.
But yeah, so he's just like, yeah. Oh, God.
That's what he's doing. Yeah, no, I know. It's just disgusting. It's like a little rat person trying to fuck somebody.
And he's like, chasing this woman around the apartment. And she's just like, listen, I just, I don't.
And he's like, come on, baby. Come on. This my conjugal visit. Let's get, fuck it.
Well, she says something specifically like, what you want me to lay on this because he's got like just like not even a.
a mat on the floor.
It's two mattresses.
You're going to lay on that and spread my legs
and try not to throw up.
I'm like, holy shit.
She's not wrong.
She's not wrong at all.
I'd be thrown up if I was getting fucked
on that mattress by Joe Pesci.
And he literally says, yeah, could I do that?
That would be great.
Oh, of course.
Of course he does.
Let me pump my little maggot in you.
Oh, Lord is heaven.
I mean, yeah, this is a monstrously disgusting
character. I guess you would have a disgusting
maggot from genitalia.
Oh, he likes you.
Is that a little quato down there anything?
Yes, definitely.
Start the reactor.
And by that, I mean, start
the foreplay. I'm not
Louis. He's Louis.
Oh, no.
Okay, Mulder, I believe they're all.
extraordinary things going on.
Shredder, I'm your penis.
So she fucking high tails it, by the way.
Of course, and I guess they're effectively broken up.
It's a tragedy.
The kid and him kind of go back and forth.
The kid and offers hold his groceries.
And again, the kid doesn't really have a complete arc either.
You kind of want, like, they walk by a guy who's a drug dealer and that's his dad.
And it's like, yeah, that's what's going on.
You know, it's just so, like, it sets up so later,
Joe Pesci can kind of do something
baseline humanitarian.
Yeah, and now does the basketball scene
because he's actually runs by Ruben Blades.
Is it Blades or Blades?
It's Blades, I believe.
I like saying Blades.
Yeah, no, it's kind of cooler,
but I saw a documentary where he's saying his name quite a bit.
All right, all right.
I don't believe him.
I'm going with Blades.
I don't know, Molda.
It looks like his name is Ruben Blades.
But he's good
And this is a good role for him
He is good in this movie
So one of the things
He's doing a little three card money
In one of these scenes
And he winds up ripping Joe Pesci off
Because like
He's got a dude who's like a ringer
And Joe Pesci thinks that he's like
Taking advantage of this guy
Who's also a ringer
And they rip 200 bucks from him
And Ruben Blattas is like
Well I got my rent now
Ha ha ha kind of a thing
Yeah and the kid I guess works
He does like deliver
for that bodega and Joe Pesci.
Joe Pesci like gives him
like 10 bucks to like take his
bag of bread and hooch bottle
back to the apartment or whatever.
There's a weird thing here where he's like
yeah, I'm fucking tough, I'm fucking tough
and like a gun goes off and the kid just stands there
and Joe Pesci like jumps into a pile of garbage bags.
That's where he belongs.
So he's trying to like entertain himself
and then Ruben Blot of the shows up. He's like, hey man,
we're playing basketball. You want to play basketball?
Dude, this is the TV reception thing.
Oh, there's a large, like, a bunch of minutes of this movie where you're, and this is Sempeche POV.
This is what I was talking about.
This is great POV.
He's holding this, like, little portable television up, like, trying to get reception.
So they must have, like, rigged in front of the camera, like, these little doll hands to be holding this television.
This little portable television.
I brought my daughter's dolly in, and we're just going to, and this one pees a little bit, so just watch out.
They had some leftover props from doll man.
And I decided to put it back in there.
But this was the first instance
where I started thinking about this Home Alone 2 situation
because Ruben Blattis
opens the door and kind of like
frightens him and Joe Pesci
falls off this. He's on a chair
trying to get the reception and he falls
like flat on his face
and the television breaks and everything.
And I was like, huh,
Joe Pesci doing this like physical injury
comedy in a building that
desperately needs renovation.
Sure. And we'll see later.
where he literally like falls through a bunch of floors.
I'm just saying I think John Hughes saw Home Alone too.
The other thing...
Well, he did see Home Alone too.
You saw the Super.
Yeah, he definitely saw the Super.
No, he did see.
Eventually just refused to watch.
He's like, yeah, I wrote it.
Fuck it.
I think that might be the kids.
You never know.
He was the first one to take his name off it.
Then Nora did.
And then the same time was like, enough.
No, like, that's the other thing is they kind of suggest he's also a gambling addict.
Yeah.
Because he's doing this.
And then there's later he's put, like, he wants to put, end the three card
Monty and he wants to put money on
another thing later
Well they gamble on the basketball game
Yeah yeah yeah
So the kid
They brings about hey you want to play basketball
Yeah I'll play fucking basketball
And this is when he gets in
Everyone's favorite outfit
This is like polo
Oh my god
It's like a polo hoodie thing
It's a pole
It's a Ralph Lauren polo hoodie
Then he's got these like sweatpants shorts
And these big socks
That come up like over his knees
And the joke that one of the guys
that the basketball court has is totally...
He looks like he's about to go practice hockey.
Oh, right.
Because one of the guys is, like, who brought the hockey player?
You know what, Chris, you had said that you remember stuff
that wasn't in this movie and that there might have been a longer cut.
I remember there being, because he was wearing Reebok pumps.
Yeah.
I remember there being an extended pump gag, right?
I think you're right.
I think you're right.
Really?
I think you see him get dressed.
I think that's the thing.
And they're pumping them up.
There was pump gags in everything.
I know there was in Robin and Tites.
Yes, of course.
So I wonder if I'm conflating the two.
because that's kind of the same baby shit
I was watching at the time.
The biggest one is Austin Powers.
It explodes in his face.
I was just going to say.
Okay, yeah.
We loved making those pump jokes.
Absolutely.
Do you think they went back
and cut out the pump joke?
Yeah, I guess that doesn't make any sense.
But maybe.
Because I remember there being more
of a conclusion to him
and the prosecutor
who eventually does
kind of have a crush on him
towards the end.
I will say this movie
is suspiciously 85 minutes long.
yeah well i'll i have a quote from the director that i will say for the end but he does confirm his
first cut to the studio two and a half hours you know what and in that two and a half hour cut
we're using the n-word yeah yeah i guarantee you maybe that's why it had to be stripped so much
the constant use of the end oh we're going through Walt disney's whole book on that one two and a half
hours that means they're like this is what like 86 something maybe five minutes i think yeah so that's like
another one yeah a whole other double it it's almost
It's almost as long as 2001 in space.
Oh, shit.
I turned into a baby.
All right.
I'll take it.
The Stargate.
Oh, my God.
It's full of stars.
Holy shit.
It's full of stars.
Give me the monolith.
So he's playing basketball and it's like a, like these dudes are all laughing.
There's this one really tall dude that is called the Milkman.
It's Ruben Blattis.
His team is Ruben Blattis.
And this guy named.
the milkman. It's like, why do you call the milkman?
Because I killed the milkman.
It's kind of, you know, it's a thing.
It's a line of dialogue.
Wouldn't it just because he delivers?
Yeah. Yeah. What the fuck?
Well, now he does, like, Joe Pesci does
well at this game and the milkman
doesn't. So he's like, oh, it doesn't deliver.
There's a line that does, that does happen.
But in this scene, Joe Pesci
dunks. Is he a Jedi Knight?
Dude. How does he do this force jump?
Why don't you fucking bring out the Mary's
Sue complains, man.
How is Joe Pesci good at basketball?
I didn't see him train at all.
It's bullshit.
They are hustling.
They are, they are.
But he is able to make shots, which is insane.
He's able to dunk, and you don't see him take off.
You kind of just see him the upper body.
Yeah.
You see him, like, ascend to the net and hold on.
He's flying to the hoop to you.
And then he hangs on there, and he laughs.
If you, if there is a behind-the-scenes featureette, you would see, like,
The big stunt man.
Lift him up.
You would give a little kid a dunk.
Totally.
Here you go for the big dunk, Joe.
Go for the big dunk Joe.
But it's not just that though.
It's like he has a real solid understanding of like the fundamentals of basketball.
Like he and Ruben Blatt is who have never played basketball together.
These two characters are playing for the first time.
Dude, they're doing like fucking set and pick and rolls like you never believe.
And like they are getting hustled because like, okay, that game went so well.
How about we play another game for me?
money. And he's like, yeah, sure, I'm so good at
fucking basketball. He's doing this
baby thing. He's doing this baby thing like,
we're kicking their ass. We're kicking their ass.
We're kicking their ass. And it's like, oh, do you want to pay
$100? No, $200. $300.
It goes up. And then they finally
start actually playing defense on him. And it's
kind of fun to watch fucking Joe Pesci get rejected
for five minutes. Dude, they
there is one nice
like, this dude like sets a
total charge on him. And Joe Pesci's
like running out of the way. It's like
Indiana Jones in the Volter. It's fucking
hilarious.
But is this a thing
that Ruben Blattis
scams Joe Pesci here also?
Yeah, he's just been scimbing him
the whole movie.
Because they get the 200 bucks and then Bladis
walks away with the other team and they're all laughing.
Yeah. Yeah.
He also has a line like during the game.
He's like, what is happening?
Oh my gosh, we're losing.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah.
Remind him a white man can't jump actually.
A little bit.
Oh, yeah, yeah, totally.
I'm kind of do for a rewatch on that movie.
Much better. Hold me.
Well, yeah, of course.
It's a really good movie.
Oh, really?
You want to name every movie that's better than this movie?
It's everything but the birth of the nation.
Well, for the time, Chris, it's quite a technical achievement.
I'm sure it was, buddy.
So he's like walking back from having fun with his like sort of new friends, question mark, whatever.
And the fucking dad is there.
And it's just another swift bit of racism.
He's disgusted because Joe Pesci.
at this point has hired an electrician to come in and fix all the lights.
And the dad is flipping out because there's like a foyer light that's on in the middle of the day.
At this point, the dad is trying to get Paul Cursey out of retirement to take care of this building.
Yeah, absolutely, dude.
Yeah, fucking dead switch for the crackdown.
How many blacks are in that building?
I'll take care of it.
Sounds like Christmas came early.
You're not going to spend money on electricity, but you're going to spend it on a rocket launcher.
And he is screaming and yelling,
and this is like the most uncomfortable
New York City sidewalk scene since Godfather.
Like, I was certain
that this guy was going to take a fucking
trash can top and just start hitting people.
But it's also like super anti-Semitic.
He's like, you don't need lights during the day?
And like he's doing this thing.
He's turning the light off.
He's a very frugal landlord
in all of the air quotes you can get.
Like, like, guests, they're supposed to be Jewish in this?
Critsky, probably, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, somewhere around here, I don't want to lose it because it's, I want to point out all the times that Joe Pesci's humiliated in this movie as many as I can remember.
Okay.
Where he, he's got to fucking take his shit and his toilet's backed up and like he's got to go downstairs to the neighbor and she like won't let him use the toilet to take his shit fucking awesome.
Great line here.
Yeah, it calls back to the Lincoln did because he's like, what you want me to do shit outside in the middle of the street?
Lincoln.
Oh, you're right.
Slams a door to his face
But that's the thing though
So like the rule is
He can't fix his apartment
Unless the rest of the building is fixed
Right
But some apartments do have electricity
Some apartments do have plumbing
So then why can't he fix his own plumbing
Like if they all have to though
Oh I guess so yeah
I think it's also a thing where like
He has to like service himself last
It's like everybody else
Oh great I'm gonna get serviced last again
Sorry maggot
This will have to wait
Oh no
Little is Lou
And then after he like
He shoes the dad away
We have a music cue cut here
It's Joe Pesci just standing in the middle of the street
Nothing is going on until
Everybody dance now
And it's just like cuts to that evening or something
There's a dance party going on
And he's like just upstairs
He's playing like the ball and the paddle
And again like dude you're an adult
Have interests bring these interests to this place
It's not a character right
There's no hobbies.
There's nothing fleshed out about this guy besides that he inherited money.
He inherited money.
Well, that's what rich people are, actually.
That's what they do.
He used to hurt money and they have nothing going on behind their eyes.
They're fucking useless.
They're just preparing a Dukadi in the yard for you forever.
He's got the like ball on a string paddle ball thing.
And then he loves doing crossword puzzles.
He's got like a book of crossword puzzles.
That's it.
And yeah, they're playing CNC Music Factory.
And he can't, I mean, like this is the thing.
It's a 191.
you cannot resist that beat.
No, of course, I could barely resist it in 2019.
I was getting off the couch like Bernie Lomax.
Well, speaking of which, dude, this is,
it happens twice in this movie,
and it's fucking unsettling as all get out.
Joe Pesci is laying back on his, like, mattress bed slash couch.
Do I satisfy you maggot or what?
He is sitting there and like C&C music factory is going on,
and you see it happens so much in this.
movie but twice while he's like he's doing like lay down dancing and the way they're shooting
him is like the camera is like on the floor just staring at joe pesci and like you're just getting
his fucking hog bulge like right in frame and he's like dancing on the couch while laying down
it's very weird it's maggot first i mean he leads with the maggot and i think at this point um
uh rubin blottis is like hey we're having a party downstairs why don't you come down he's
no this is the second party the first party is here
It's, again, him being embarrassed as he goes downstairs.
And first he's, like, trying to dance in the doorway, and he walks in, and then everybody's ignoring him.
And then he's, like, banging on the door.
And this is where, like, it turns off for two seconds.
And he's like, you keep it fucking down.
People are trying to sleep.
Oh, yeah.
And the music instantly comes back on and they start dancing again.
Another great humiliation.
Is this when he falls through the floor, I think, or is that later as well?
Whatever it happens.
Yeah.
At some point, he falls to the floor.
This is when we get a new wig, by the way,
because he's got, like, he looks like Frankenstein for a second
because, like, it's supposed to be, like, frazzled,
so they had to put a, they had to get a different wig.
Yes, I, you know, me as Joe Pershey's wig.
This is when I brought in the stuntman, the stunt wig.
I thought he got replaced.
They didn't like him anymore.
Rod Daniel was like, get me a new one.
Well, I had the flu for a week, and I just couldn't shoot,
so we had to bring in the other week.
They had to cut around me.
And then when Nora walked, I walked.
Listen, if Nora's script, it's right here, you guys.
If we're not shooting the script as Nora wrote it, I walk.
They brought in one of Bruce Willis's wigs to replace me on the set.
You know, he did a good job.
I'm not going to talk to it here.
Are these rewrites?
Sam, are these rewrites?
I'm walking.
You're right, though, Steve.
This is where he goes back upstairs and he starts, like, stamping on the floor.
And he fucking falls through two.
stories of this apartment building
falls through the floor and then it's the same
Latin couple from the beginning and there
there's like a moment of like he falls
through like their dinner table right and like
they're all staring at each other and he goes
it wasn't broken before
you did it and I think that's the gang
exactly but then they also erupted
to the Latin language again
which is like oh my God what is
what is going on they're talking so fast
that was such a joke for so long
like just anyone speaking any
other language like a Japanese
was a huge joke like if you got somebody just speaking Japanese in a movie right that was a joke right and they all had cameras too yes exactly um and he's getting more repairs done and i just i don't understand like the point of it is like yet you have to do those repairs or else you're going to go to jail dude like but he wants to hang on to the real estate empire like he's sort of willing to do time to get the rest of this fortune the lawyer love interest comes by when when they do rewire the electricity and yes says like oh
Oh, you want to see my agenda?
And he points to maggot.
But what's insane about that is after,
it's an exchange in where a man has said,
do you want to see my agenda?
He points to his fucking dick and laughs.
And then this woman walks away.
When we see her walking towards the camera,
she does one of those like half smiles like,
that guy's kind of crazy.
He's charming, though.
And I was like, no, movie, no.
He's four foot tall, 60 years old,
and wearing a wig.
And he's like, look at my dick.
Yeah.
And it's somewhere around here, too, where he's talking about, like, oh, my body.
Like, you could come in, and you could come into my house and see my body.
And he dresses like the baby from Adam's family values.
He really does.
Dude, that's so funny, Kevin, because the cut in the clothes are not really flattering.
He has some of these sweaters that I made a note that he's dressing like Uncle Fester.
He's got some of these big baggy sweaters on and he's kind of like hunchbacked for some reason.
He says something like, you're drawn to me like a moth to the flame.
Like, you got a great body.
You know that?
you know you got a great body.
I got a great body.
Oh,
that's what he says,
yeah.
When does he say
that she has got legs like chapsticks?
That's early.
That's like the first meeting.
Yeah.
Yeah,
because he's like,
who are you talking about?
Oh,
that brought over there,
legs like chapsticks.
You saw me naked.
You'd think I'd have a great body.
That's,
oh, that's right.
Yeah,
if you saw me naked,
he says, too.
It looks like melted cheese.
Also, by the way,
during the trial,
he was doing kissy faces at it.
Oh,
which is like really fucked up.
That's like,
that's like,
that's like,
heinous like do not do kissy faces especially not in a serious matter and you you the the the uh my agenda
right here honey is when he's talking to the exterminator right the doctor death and he meant fred
lukter are just talking and like he's talking about how the holocaust definitely didn't happen yeah sure for sure
yeah i mean test the paint in the walls of this building there's no way there was gas
my god holy fuck doctor death the movie mr death it's fucking
Oh, Mr. Deaths. That's what's an Errol Morris documentary. That movie is something else.
It takes a couple turns that movie. Just a couple.
Well, the exterminator only comes on because we get one more POV shot of Joe Pesci sleeping.
Oh, right. And there's a big rat in his face. And then you hear lion roars.
I think it's a dream, isn't it? Okay.
Because they do a thing where, like, there's a transition where everything sort of goes out of focus for a second. And I thought that was supposed to be like...
No, I think it's just him waking up.
Oh, is that what it is?
Yeah, he's just a stupid movie.
This was the one that really,
this really brought all the memories.
Oh, yeah, I remember this.
I thought I was funny.
As a little kid, I was like, that's funny.
You know, that rat?
That's funny.
Oh, man.
And somewhere around here,
speaking of taking odd turns,
this movie tries to get a little emotional
where it's freezing out
and Joe Pesci has purchased
a space heater for himself.
And he's in the apartment.
All the neighbors are banging on the door
like the radiator's broken
like we're all freezing and he's like
yeah you know go bad what do you want me to do about it
it's cold out it's winter or whatever
and then so he's got his sleeping bag in the
space heater and he like turns
and he's warming his ass on the space heater
yeah yeah yeah
and then he looks
he looks and the little kid
is sitting in the window like seeing him
doing it and like
does like a hmm like kind of like shakes
his head and then Joe Pesci's looking
sad here and I'm like oh
no don't try to humanize the super oh that's what happens and then he buys space heaters for everybody
they're coming out of a big truck and his dad's this is like one of the bigger confrontations but i'm
like you put even one space heater in this fucking fire trap dude forget about it not let alone
if you're heating the entire building at once via space heaters how does this work like are you paying
everyone's utility bill yeah yeah i don't know um also after 60 minutes of this because there's 20 minutes
left of the movies. Sure, we're getting there.
Thank God. Yeah. You would, this
movie would have to be three years long
for me to actually believe he
becomes a better person. Yes. And it just
turns on a dime like that. Oh, it turns on
a real funky dime in just
a few scenes. We'll get to it. But
this is great because this is where like
Joe Pesci finally sort of stands up to his
dad and he's like, you know, like just get
out of here. Like let me handle this. This is my
building. Let me do it my way. Also, I don't want to go to
jail. Also that.
But this is where, like,
Like the dad's like yelling at all the tenants like put those back put the would you steal that put that back and the kid calls him a fat fuck
Oh no well he well he calls him buckwheat first. He's like oh what are you talking about buckwheat? He goes who you call buckwheat? You fat fuck. Yeah. Oh, which is a really good one. And that's where the R rating pays off. A little kid saying fat fuck is hilarious.
At this point also like as he's becoming human, uh, the kid, uh, is he kind of like walks outside and he's watching like there's an argument.
with the grandmother and the father.
The father's buying him a bike.
Right.
He's sleeping and like the argument from downstairs wakes him up and it goes to check it out.
And it's like, yeah, the great, like, because the little kid lives with his grandmother.
And the dad's trying to like give him this bike.
And she's like, no, I know how you got that bike.
Get out of here with this.
And Joe Pesci's all like, you know, if you took, if she let you take the bike, it'd be like saying what, how he got that money was good.
Right.
And that's why he can't do it.
And then there's a good confrontation back and forth.
about like well you're a piece of shit
all of your money is ill gotten exactly
yeah yeah yeah but you get that deals
in misery like yes so do you but that
is erased at the end of the movie where he
the super buys the kid a bike
and it's just like same
thing same thing but it's
it's justified because
they're like there's a little whisper exchange
like don't worry I won't tell anybody how I got this
bike and it's like yeah
all right whatever
drug dealers are way more noble than
slumber absolutely sure
absolutely drug dealer is way more noble than our current president absolutely every one of them so here it is though this is where this movie has the formula for how you erase racism and racist thoughts and tendencies in a rich old piece of shit white guy let me get my pet out so here everybody ready all you have to do is put this man in a room with other peoples of color and just play mc hammers can't touch this you can't touch this
Not only that, though, you have to appeal to, like, the square dance in his blood
that everyone has to be in a fucking row.
Yes.
And this is how parties commenced.
It's insane.
They're all uniform.
They're dancing in uniform.
This is where Ruben Blatt is like, hey, we're having a party.
Why don't you come downstairs?
Now he's doing the right thing.
He's giving them heat again, et cetera.
He gets the invite.
So he goes down there and they dance to, like, the entire you can't touch this.
Yeah.
And then it's fine because this is the end of the movie.
They are doing line dancing, Eric.
They're almost doing the electric slide
It's very electric slide
Also I saw some achy, bricky heart moves
Going on there
And he's like, yeah, I'm doing a great dance
And he calls up the lady
The lawyer
The lawyer and he's like, hey, why don't you come down
See my maggot?
And she's like, no, thank you
I've had a really long day
Come on, it'll sing for you
It'll sing for you
My maggot's good now
It brought everybody in heat is
Turn on the Reactor
all this weird
every time Joe Bezsche
puts his pants down
weird sit starts playing
it's ridiculous
he has a
I mean he is
dancing in this scene
when he hangs up the phone
he's like out in the hallway
on the call
when he hangs up the phone
he goes all right I'm coming back in
and it's like him jumping back into a pool
yeah but the thing
She says, I can't, you know, I've been so slammed with all these things that I'm doing.
I couldn't even make it to the office today.
I've just been like so swamped, but maybe next time, blah, blah, blah.
And she pointedly calls him Louie instead of Kerski for the first time.
So, all right, maggots getting wet.
Maggots getting wet.
I wish you guys could see Chris Kevin dancing while he's saying that.
It's pretty cute.
I have to do the maggot dance.
I'm just thinking about that like sweaty quadot.
Yeah.
Start the erection
Yeah, it's got to take a while
I'm in my mid-40s, okay?
All right?
Put that hammer on repeat.
He goes to bed
and he's woken in the middle of the night
by his dad. He's like, Louis, Louis,
you're setting this is over. We got to go.
And he's like, what are you talking about?
This is a weird thing I was confused about the terminology
that they're using because throughout this entire ordeal,
the dad keeps saying that the way he's going to get him out of this situation is he's going to get him off on bail?
Yeah.
And I'm like, you're past the point of bail here.
He's been sentenced.
It's happened.
It's over with it.
It's house arrest.
There's no bail.
Yeah.
It was very confusing.
But he says it again.
He's like, oh, the bail came through.
Let's get out of here in the middle of the night.
Well, I guess that's probably been his scam from the jump.
But this is, yeah, this is fake because this is where he had the father hires an arsonist, professional arsonist.
And the guy's like, don't worry, like, it's only going to be a roof fire kind of a thing.
No, he wants to burn this building.
He wants to kill everyone.
He wants to commit mass murder because he doesn't view these people as people.
But what's okay?
I mean, it's crazy, though, men, the dead can't pay.
It's true.
But the devil in the basement told him to do it.
See, like, they're in the car and he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you out on bail.
I gave it to that girl you're always talking.
He's like, wait a minute, that was today?
She wasn't even work today.
Dad, what's going on?
It would be a little fire.
It's a little fire.
And I'm like, what?
And the fact that, like, he doesn't even, like, have to spell it out for Joe Pashy that much leads me to believe this is not the first time this dad has turned to burn like this.
He knows an arsonist.
You know what I mean?
He knows this guy.
He's got the guy in speed dial, maybe.
Exactly.
It's just happened before.
You refers to him as my arsonist.
Oh, he does beautiful work.
Beautiful work.
This guy could burn a building.
Oh, he's an artist.
He's a true artist.
So you need to do something illegal with your business.
Hi, a Giuseppe Barbadaro and son's arsonous professionals.
Cigarette in bed?
No problem.
So, yeah, he runs back up to the roof.
There's this scumbag up there, getting ready to light it up.
It looks like Elias Codius a little bit.
I thought it was at first.
Yeah, yeah, I was like, oh, no.
Ooh, no.
But, yeah, so this is, he has the big confrontation with the father.
And then, like, everybody from the, or like, the main characters of the building are standing behind him, like, hey.
Everyone with a speaking line.
He's like, hey, don't burn us a lie,
but he's like, what, you people?
And I'm like, oh, man.
Like, yeah, yeah.
And then it's weird because Pesci has to, like,
he goes out and, like, apologizes the dad.
He's like, sorry for embarrassing you back there, Pop,
but you were going to murder like 40 people.
There's a kid's in there and stuff.
It's a pretty dark.
Yeah, I was like, sorry to embarrass you.
Well, then the father now knows his son is lost to him
and is just like, well, if you need me, goodbye.
Yeah.
Well, that's a thing that should happen and doesn't is, like, he should confirm, like,
that he's fucking, like, out of the will.
Right.
He sort of doesn't do that.
I'm going to give all the money to Eric, all right?
You're out of the will.
They should have, like, there was an earlier scene where he says, like, you're brainwashed like
Patty Hurst.
Oh, right.
So, I don't know.
They should just mention that he's under the spell again with these poor people.
I kind of love the arsonist because, like,
Joe Pesci's like, you got to stop it.
You got to stop. He's like, fuck you.
And he's like, okay, okay, stop. He's like, oh, I already got paid.
Yeah, totally. Later on.
I could have killed 60 people tonight. I could have not killed 60 people tonight.
I got three grand. Oh, we have a 24-hour cancellation fee.
Oh, totally.
What amateurs paying a contractor.
Yeah. Just deport them. I don't understand.
I would have deported him.
Get them out of here.
It's very quick. It works all the time.
What the movie should have done, though, is the dude, like, does it?
And then it's a thing where Joe Pesci has to be a hero and, like, get the people out of the building.
I think that's what Trump actually is.
Why do we go to Mexico?
I got a couple of guys.
We just set a fire, burn it down.
Don't worry.
These are my tricks of the trade.
Yeah, totally.
Hey, how do you think that fucking fire and Trump Tower started, dude?
What do you think we were trying to erase there?
Just connect those dots.
The sequel to The Art of the Deal, Art of the Condemned.
so peace has been made in the building the movie ends like that absolutely well this movie knows
it's got to get out of town man speaking of pulling a burn this movie's gonna get out of here like the
arsenic scene happens big wipe and now it's the end of the movie and the building is fully
renovated paint job out front the whole nine Ruben bladess who's had like nine lines in this
movie unfortunately is like he's the new super that's it which is the movie building should
have had a super to begin with exactly and this is a thing like he's
trying to leave and they're all talking to him like you still didn't fix this you didn't fix my
blah blah blah and he's doing the like well it's not my problem it's not my problem don't talk to me
it's not my problem talk to rubin bladis because now he's your super tricked you for a second
i'm still a nice guy okay okay okay it is weird though yeah because there's this dynamic here
where everyone still kind of hates him yeah which i guess is justified that's actually a smart
point that the movie like oh he saved us from his father's
arsonist. Also, my kid froze to death last year.
Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. But I expected everyone
because it's a bad, badly written movie to be
like kissing his ass. You're totally right. But I think
these characters remember that they've been shitting in garbage bags for the last
years. So it's like, sure, you didn't burn us to death, but I've been
shitting in a bag for the better part of a calendar year. And they're like,
oh, we got you a present, which is your car back. Right. The car is fixed
back up. Put it back together. Or did
there? He pulls out and the whole
the last gag of this movie is a dude runs from across the street like hey who took we where'd my car go
and the whole building goes it went that away freeze frame on a bunch of people pointing and
give me the rent give me the rent give me the rent oh god that's terrible it's good it's good it's good it's good
hey are you uh joe pesci rap on on the super album why that's pretty good but that's the thing though
it's the kid tito it's the kid tito rap
the verses it's just they're sampling
Joe Pesci going give me the rent give me the rent
give me the rent and it's like the Superman he's going to do this and that
and he's going to and like remember that joke from the movie
the super that happened too and what's crazy is this is two weeks in a row
now where we have a titular theme song ending the movie because
ghost of girlfriends passed last week did the same fucking thing
thank you Matthew Sweet but give me the sex
give me the sex but the funny the kid is like
he's like doing this rabbit this kid's like nine years old and he's like
you know me and me and the super
hanging out with all these sexy ladies
and I'm like wait you two are fucking together
what's going on?
Dude deleted scenes man two and a half hour
gun when he sees maggot for the first time
the fucking orgy
me and maggot dancing a hammer
we're doing a bacchanal baby
oh yeah
give me the rent give me the rent give me the give me the rent
having sex next to a little kid
it's not molestation because I'm next to him
give it a rate
I almost just spit out
all this water
everywhere
holy shit
oh my god
it hurt
it hurt
sorry
they're implying
that they're having sex
near each other
you listen to this song
way closer than I did
I did
I just had to hear
the remix
give me the rent
and I was like
I'm fucking checked out
and like his fake
crying is also
part of beat
like
huh
huh
huh
uh
duh
duh
uh
uh
uh
yeah
it's fucking
terrible
no no
it's pretty good
it's pretty good
it's good
fuck that's the end of this movie
your favorite childhood movie
apparently all three of you
would any of you recommend it in 2019
it does not hold up it's
it's also just a mess like
either he should get with this woman
or not get with this woman
she just is gone
why is she even at the end
right she's not at the end
the last scene is her just like
talking in bed really tired
like I don't want to be in the movie anymore
you know it's fine you can finish without me
yeah but it's a mess
It's super racist.
And I think that it knows it's super racist,
but it thinks it's doing the right thing, question mark.
Absolutely.
It thinks it's bridging the gap between the races or something.
It's like, look, I stopped the race war with the super.
Step aside, Spike Lee.
Here comes a real solution to all of our problems.
Because the super is what's really saying something.
The only way that that does happen is if they burn down their penthouse afterwards.
Like the movie ends.
He just like, well, Ma, it's a really nice.
nice time. Oh, no!
He walks in, he shoots his father
in the head, starts pouring gasoline
all over their fucking high-rise.
Their fancy person's house.
Give me the rent. Give me the rent. It's playing in the background.
Dude, better movie.
Yeah, that's me.
Big no. I also watched this a hundred
times as a kid, and
it's unbelievable. I am
deeply embarrassed. Oh, sure.
And I still, and like, I really do not
know what you're supposed to be entertained
by in this other than Joe Pesci's
delivery, I guess.
Yeah. I mean, it's not fun. He's a star. I mean, this is actually the first movie he ever
got top billing for. And it's his worst performing movie of the time. It's like 11 million this
made. Yeah. Wow. Out of 22 million budget. So that's a bad. Not good.
Ooh. Yeah. I also wouldn't recommend it because it is, you know, like you watch it a ton as a kid
and now you watch it as an adult and you're like, wow, this is a blight on humanity.
Yep. Yeah. Now this will forever be a one and done for me.
I know that I've spent a large chunk of my life wasting time watching bad movies repeatedly,
but I'm thankful that this was not one of them.
I couldn't believe what I was watching.
I was like, yep, it was good that you acknowledged that was a stupid-looking VHS box cover
and you ignored this movie for the better part of 30 years because this is fucking trash.
Well, it's even worse because they cut out maggots musical number at the end.
Oh, yeah.
Hello, my baby.
Hello, my honey.
Chris Cabin, do you have quotes from this director?
Oh, right.
This dude had some stuff to say about this movie.
While you're getting that quote out,
tweet us shrugs, poster shrugs.
Yes.
He's just talking about the poster.
There has to be.
At WHM podcast.
Hashtag movie shrug.
Yeah, and we'll read with them.
Was John Lick was almost shrugging on the cover of the past?
I don't know.
Yeah, we're going to have to.
No, he wasn't.
He was like up, like up close to the.
He was presenting.
Yeah, you're right.
High angle.
Yeah, yeah.
But the fuck.
He's a turd-eating smile on him.
them. I want to see those shrugs.
Show me those shrugs. Show me those shrugs.
So I have two quotes here.
Okay. This is Rod Daniel, both of them.
This is him responding to his career
in general. Now, keep in mind, hang on, before we go
anything, this man has passed away. So let's...
Yes. Make sure we're being respectful.
Oh, no, no. I mean, respect the dead, even though they can't pay.
I'm quoting the man. It's going to sound
like a cop out, but when I retired, I never thought about
these movies. Does that answer your question?
question. I don't, I don't rank with the greats. I made these fucking movies because I could and because they paid me a great deal of money.
Because I could. This guy rules. This guy fucking rules. Yeah, this is awesome. Did he say fucking is that in the quote? Yeah. Oh, wow. It was explicit. Expletive. Oh, yeah. All right. Which is not to say I didn't believe in what I did, but I hold no illusions. I wouldn't buy a ticket to any of my movies.
This guy rules. Okay. And this is the longer one, but it's all about the super. Well, we need to hear it. The super? Perfect.
example of what I'm talking about.
I took the movie knowing we
had script problems, but if you have script
problems, you're not going to solve it during production.
The problem was Joe Pesci
wasn't a fish out of water. He was a fish
in water. That was the problem.
Larry Gordon, the producer,
said to me originally, look,
get Chevy Chase, put him in the ghetto.
That was the concept.
But it was too pat.
Take a really white guy and run them through the
standard jokes about gangs and rap music and
says Chevy comedy's there. I think he's
Wright Thal because Joe Pesci is like
a little scrapper dude. You could picture him
in an urban environment, obviously, good fellows
and whatnot. Yeah. But if you get like
an upper crust dude, you know,
like playing it super white
and corny. Yeah. Oh my
word. Yes, exactly. But instead he's just
like this racist guy from the
neighborhood. Like he said. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's the dude who's still there
complaining about how the neighborhood used
to be. Exactly. I remember
sitting in my suite at the Regency, New York
with cards from the fucking script.
all over the place and Nora Ephron
who wrote a lot of it curled up in
a fetal position during the
under the dining room table
it's going to
we could not solve
the problem at the center of this movie
so we just started shooting it
and you can't do that
but you get in the bubble of a movie
I mean I gave the studio
a two and a half hour cut
can you imagine two and a half
hours of the super
you'd shoot yourself in the head
Oh, my God.
And see.
Hold on a second.
This guy's the best director of all time.
This dude rules.
But I keep loving it.
You can't do it.
No, no, don't do what I did.
No, please.
I did this.
Do not do this.
This dude's awesome.
He was trying to leave a cautionary tail behind.
Yeah, he was right.
Wow.
Where did you find, though?
He was in an interview because he moved to Chicago at the end of his life.
And the Chicago Tribune just did a catch up on him.
That's fucking so awesome.
Speaking of Goodfellas, though,
there was one other thing that I was kind of laughing about
because there is a bunch of like home alone business in this movie.
But also, when you see Joe Pesci walk into like an unfurnished domicile,
I was like he's going to get shot in the head.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Which would have been fucking awesome.
Oh, man, that is the super from 1991 directed by what turned out to be an awesomely frank dude,
Rod Daniel.
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what are we kicking off this year's SBE with?
G.I. Joe,
rise of cobra.
Now, is this the sequel?
Or is this the first one?
This is the one with Joseph Gordon-Lat. Retaliations the second.
Okay. That's what they kill everyone
that's in this movie.
Oh, that's right.
You want to talk about pulling a fucking burn, man,
an arsonist.
He's just like, we've got this fucked up franchise.
Well, what if they all burned in a fire?
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