We Hate Movies - S9 Ep423: Episode 423 - The Super

Episode Date: May 28, 2019

On 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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.
Starting point is 00:00:30 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
Starting point is 00:01:00 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
Starting point is 00:01:18 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
Starting point is 00:01:33 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.
Starting point is 00:01:44 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.
Starting point is 00:01:56 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.
Starting point is 00:02:16 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.
Starting point is 00:02:33 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.
Starting point is 00:02:58 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.
Starting point is 00:03:19 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
Starting point is 00:03:36 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.
Starting point is 00:03:59 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.
Starting point is 00:04:14 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.
Starting point is 00:05:02 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?
Starting point is 00:05:16 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.
Starting point is 00:05:25 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
Starting point is 00:05:44 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.
Starting point is 00:06:03 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.
Starting point is 00:06:22 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.
Starting point is 00:06:39 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.
Starting point is 00:06:52 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.
Starting point is 00:07:08 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...
Starting point is 00:07:27 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.
Starting point is 00:07:44 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
Starting point is 00:08:05 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
Starting point is 00:08:23 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.
Starting point is 00:08:36 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.
Starting point is 00:08:53 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.
Starting point is 00:09:06 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.
Starting point is 00:09:26 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...
Starting point is 00:09:40 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.
Starting point is 00:10:00 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,
Starting point is 00:10:15 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.
Starting point is 00:10:45 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
Starting point is 00:11:01 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
Starting point is 00:11:17 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
Starting point is 00:11:34 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
Starting point is 00:11:45 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
Starting point is 00:12:01 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
Starting point is 00:12:19 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
Starting point is 00:12:35 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?
Starting point is 00:12:51 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.
Starting point is 00:13:10 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?
Starting point is 00:13:23 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.
Starting point is 00:13:39 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
Starting point is 00:13:57 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
Starting point is 00:14:25 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
Starting point is 00:14:35 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
Starting point is 00:14:46 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.
Starting point is 00:14:59 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
Starting point is 00:15:15 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?
Starting point is 00:15:31 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.
Starting point is 00:15:42 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.
Starting point is 00:15:58 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.
Starting point is 00:16:20 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.
Starting point is 00:16:29 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.
Starting point is 00:16:41 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.
Starting point is 00:16:54 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.
Starting point is 00:17:16 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.
Starting point is 00:17:37 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.
Starting point is 00:18:00 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
Starting point is 00:18:23 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
Starting point is 00:18:38 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.
Starting point is 00:18:59 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.
Starting point is 00:19:18 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.
Starting point is 00:19:34 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
Starting point is 00:19:54 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
Starting point is 00:20:10 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
Starting point is 00:20:25 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.
Starting point is 00:20:42 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.
Starting point is 00:20:50 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.
Starting point is 00:21:08 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.
Starting point is 00:21:20 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.
Starting point is 00:21:37 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
Starting point is 00:21:52 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
Starting point is 00:22:08 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.
Starting point is 00:22:29 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.
Starting point is 00:22:46 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.
Starting point is 00:23:07 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.
Starting point is 00:23:20 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.
Starting point is 00:23:46 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
Starting point is 00:23:58 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
Starting point is 00:24:11 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.
Starting point is 00:24:28 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.
Starting point is 00:24:43 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.
Starting point is 00:24:56 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.
Starting point is 00:25:08 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.
Starting point is 00:25:22 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.
Starting point is 00:25:41 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.
Starting point is 00:25:56 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.
Starting point is 00:26:09 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
Starting point is 00:26:27 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
Starting point is 00:26:49 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
Starting point is 00:27:05 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
Starting point is 00:27:21 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.
Starting point is 00:27:37 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
Starting point is 00:27:55 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,
Starting point is 00:28:11 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.
Starting point is 00:28:27 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.
Starting point is 00:28:45 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.
Starting point is 00:29:02 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
Starting point is 00:29:14 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
Starting point is 00:29:30 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?
Starting point is 00:30:11 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.
Starting point is 00:30:25 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...
Starting point is 00:30:34 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,
Starting point is 00:30:42 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
Starting point is 00:30:51 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
Starting point is 00:31:06 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
Starting point is 00:31:19 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?
Starting point is 00:31:36 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.
Starting point is 00:31:52 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,
Starting point is 00:32:02 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,
Starting point is 00:32:14 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.
Starting point is 00:32:27 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.
Starting point is 00:32:37 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.
Starting point is 00:32:54 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.
Starting point is 00:33:04 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,
Starting point is 00:33:13 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
Starting point is 00:33:29 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
Starting point is 00:34:13 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,
Starting point is 00:34:29 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.
Starting point is 00:34:48 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.
Starting point is 00:35:18 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
Starting point is 00:35:34 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.
Starting point is 00:35:53 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.
Starting point is 00:36:08 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.
Starting point is 00:36:22 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.
Starting point is 00:36:42 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.
Starting point is 00:37:02 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
Starting point is 00:37:18 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.
Starting point is 00:37:38 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
Starting point is 00:37:50 all right fine I'm gonna live in this my shitty building for 120 days to get 20 million dollars essentially I would A
Starting point is 00:37:58 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
Starting point is 00:38:09 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.
Starting point is 00:38:22 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.
Starting point is 00:38:39 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?
Starting point is 00:39:05 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
Starting point is 00:39:21 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
Starting point is 00:40:04 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
Starting point is 00:40:30 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
Starting point is 00:40:50 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
Starting point is 00:41:06 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
Starting point is 00:41:42 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?
Starting point is 00:41:56 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.
Starting point is 00:42:08 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
Starting point is 00:42:20 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
Starting point is 00:42:36 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.
Starting point is 00:42:54 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.
Starting point is 00:43:10 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
Starting point is 00:43:22 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
Starting point is 00:43:34 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
Starting point is 00:43:46 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
Starting point is 00:43:56 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?
Starting point is 00:44:07 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.
Starting point is 00:44:19 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.
Starting point is 00:44:36 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
Starting point is 00:44:48 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.
Starting point is 00:45:06 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
Starting point is 00:45:16 organization any of the Italian mafia like I had that's right yeah I tells yeah so like this dude the guy working at
Starting point is 00:45:25 the bodega has some great line right here he's like well because Pesci says something like well why don't you
Starting point is 00:45:31 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
Starting point is 00:45:38 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?
Starting point is 00:45:54 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
Starting point is 00:46:17 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
Starting point is 00:46:35 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
Starting point is 00:46:56 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.
Starting point is 00:47:11 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
Starting point is 00:47:22 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
Starting point is 00:47:29 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.
Starting point is 00:47:41 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.
Starting point is 00:48:11 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?
Starting point is 00:48:25 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.
Starting point is 00:48:43 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.
Starting point is 00:49:05 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.
Starting point is 00:49:26 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.
Starting point is 00:49:50 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.
Starting point is 00:50:02 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
Starting point is 00:50:15 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
Starting point is 00:50:31 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
Starting point is 00:50:47 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,
Starting point is 00:51:04 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.
Starting point is 00:51:27 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
Starting point is 00:51:47 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.
Starting point is 00:52:03 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.
Starting point is 00:52:16 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.
Starting point is 00:52:26 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
Starting point is 00:52:41 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
Starting point is 00:52:53 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.
Starting point is 00:53:08 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.
Starting point is 00:53:23 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.
Starting point is 00:53:32 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.
Starting point is 00:53:45 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
Starting point is 00:53:55 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
Starting point is 00:54:19 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.
Starting point is 00:54:42 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.
Starting point is 00:55:00 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?
Starting point is 00:55:14 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?
Starting point is 00:55:32 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.
Starting point is 00:55:44 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.
Starting point is 00:56:05 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.
Starting point is 00:56:23 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.
Starting point is 00:56:42 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
Starting point is 00:56:58 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
Starting point is 00:57:11 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.
Starting point is 00:57:25 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.
Starting point is 00:57:36 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.
Starting point is 00:58:01 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.
Starting point is 00:58:24 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.
Starting point is 00:58:45 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?
Starting point is 00:59:02 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.
Starting point is 00:59:33 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
Starting point is 00:59:45 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
Starting point is 01:00:01 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
Starting point is 01:00:17 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
Starting point is 01:00:33 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.
Starting point is 01:00:48 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.
Starting point is 01:01:05 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,
Starting point is 01:01:31 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.
Starting point is 01:02:07 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.
Starting point is 01:02:25 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.
Starting point is 01:02:42 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.
Starting point is 01:03:00 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?
Starting point is 01:03:21 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
Starting point is 01:03:40 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
Starting point is 01:03:56 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,
Starting point is 01:04:41 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.
Starting point is 01:04:57 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.
Starting point is 01:05:13 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.
Starting point is 01:05:33 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.
Starting point is 01:05:39 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.
Starting point is 01:05:46 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,
Starting point is 01:05:53 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
Starting point is 01:06:12 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.
Starting point is 01:06:49 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.
Starting point is 01:07:08 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
Starting point is 01:07:21 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
Starting point is 01:07:34 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
Starting point is 01:07:51 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
Starting point is 01:08:25 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
Starting point is 01:08:41 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
Starting point is 01:09:02 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.
Starting point is 01:09:40 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
Starting point is 01:09:59 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
Starting point is 01:10:15 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.
Starting point is 01:11:01 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.
Starting point is 01:11:12 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
Starting point is 01:11:28 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
Starting point is 01:11:43 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
Starting point is 01:11:58 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
Starting point is 01:12:14 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.
Starting point is 01:12:31 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.
Starting point is 01:12:50 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,
Starting point is 01:13:10 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.
Starting point is 01:13:32 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.
Starting point is 01:13:39 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?
Starting point is 01:14:02 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?
Starting point is 01:14:19 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.
Starting point is 01:14:37 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.
Starting point is 01:14:47 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.
Starting point is 01:15:07 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.
Starting point is 01:15:25 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.
Starting point is 01:15:45 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?
Starting point is 01:16:02 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.
Starting point is 01:16:20 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.
Starting point is 01:16:43 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.
Starting point is 01:17:01 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.
Starting point is 01:17:18 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
Starting point is 01:17:56 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
Starting point is 01:18:28 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
Starting point is 01:19:00 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
Starting point is 01:19:32 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
Starting point is 01:19:54 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
Starting point is 01:20:11 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
Starting point is 01:20:23 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
Starting point is 01:20:30 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
Starting point is 01:20:36 part of beat like huh huh huh uh duh duh
Starting point is 01:20:39 uh uh uh yeah it's fucking terrible no no it's pretty good
Starting point is 01:20:46 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
Starting point is 01:20:59 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
Starting point is 01:21:12 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.
Starting point is 01:21:32 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
Starting point is 01:21:50 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
Starting point is 01:22:06 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
Starting point is 01:22:27 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
Starting point is 01:23:03 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.
Starting point is 01:23:21 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.
Starting point is 01:23:33 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.
Starting point is 01:23:44 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
Starting point is 01:23:58 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.
Starting point is 01:24:24 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
Starting point is 01:24:58 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
Starting point is 01:25:14 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
Starting point is 01:25:30 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.
Starting point is 01:25:46 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
Starting point is 01:26:01 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.
Starting point is 01:26:17 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.
Starting point is 01:26:26 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.
Starting point is 01:26:38 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.
Starting point is 01:27:00 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. If you want more We Hate Movies, check out patreon.com slash we hate movies. Yeah, you'll get our Serenity episode, which people are really liking. You'll get our Pokemon animation damnation, just in time for Detective Pikachu. You've got other stuff on there as well.
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Starting point is 01:28:12 Now, here's the deal. We are starting next week, beloved tradition here on Wee Hay movies, the summer blockbuster extravaganza. Yeah. So Steve Sadek, what are we kicking off this year's SBE with? G.I. Joe, rise of cobra.
Starting point is 01:28:27 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.
Starting point is 01:28:41 He's just like, we've got this fucked up franchise. Well, what if they all burned in a fire? so until next week with the rise of cobra i'm andrew jupin stephen sadak chris gabin eric siska take it easy

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