Midnight Run with Julian Breheny

Levin and Levi are joined by comedian Julian Breheny to discuss his pick, Midnight Run! What a relief to have someone pick a solid movie!

Starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, Midnight Run was directed by a little tyrant and plagued with production nightmares, but somehow it still ended up being a lean, mean movie that's a little underrated.

We also get into Armie Hammer eating people and Timothée Chalamet pumpin a peach.

It's a fun ep, check it out!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

All right, Levi, do the introduction. Here we go.

SPEAKER_04 0:03

Hello. Welcome to Pick a Movie.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

New name Pick a Movie. Shorter. Shorter. Like it better.

SPEAKER_04 0:10

I'm Levi. This is just today. We have the uh not handsome Julian Berheti. Julian. Not handsome at all. What movie did you pick?

SPEAKER_05 0:19

I picked a movie called Midnight Run. Which uh I heard yes, you're unsure I picked it. I can go into detail.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

Yeah, I love I love that you picked it, but I just didn't. I would have you didn't g give a little nod to Mel Gibson, your your boy. My boy. You didn't go Nicole Kidney. He knows what he did. Yeah. You know what? Levi are discussing. His views are not that off. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 0:39

All these anti-Semites are like, huh? I told you. Mel's like, I told you. Kanye, maybe it's no.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

No, but like, yeah, I thought maybe like you know, like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 0:51

So I wanted to pick The Castle, which if you have a time to watch that, that is a quintessential Australian comedy. But Levi said straight comedies maybe aren't as good. Um, so I went away for that.

SPEAKER_04 0:59

Not good for a podcast just because we end up just being like, Yeah, that was funny.

SPEAKER_05 1:02

Yeah, no, and that's fair.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Oh, you told you gave him parameters?

SPEAKER_04 1:06

Well, I was just giving a little tips and also you asked him. I I needed to guide him towards a a good movie because we're not.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Yeah, we got dude the last couple episodes. The last couple episodes. We had like, I can't even like we had some obscure movie last week, which John Brennan, who we love, but Jesus Christ. It was I still I haven't seen it. I can't watch it.

SPEAKER_04 1:26

What's it called? What's it called? Reflections of evil. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

That and then what was before that?

SPEAKER_04 1:31

Well, we had Zach with uh Chinese movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

Oh, yeah. Oh my god, yeah, I forgot. We had that journey of the monkey or whatever the hell. Like it was just random.

SPEAKER_05 1:42

This kind of leads into why I picked this. I remember I did a few film writing classes in my undergrad.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

Did you really?

SPEAKER_05 1:47

Yeah. And then uh, but I mean but the I in my first class, and the guy goes, the professor goes, Okay, we're like a 20 people in the room who goes, Everyone, say your favorite film. And immediately everyone pulls their dicks out and starts doing the most pretentious bullshit. Oh, really? There's this little black and white French film, and then they go, and he's going.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:04

And maybe that is your favorite.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

It's about a goat who's anorexic and is trying to find his parents.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

You've seen it.

SPEAKER_05 2:13

I will say the book is better. The book is much better. But and then he goes seven, then he goes, Everyone, I want to stop here, okay? I see what's happening. Don't try and impress me. He goes, I'll go first. My favorite movie is Zoolander. That's so fun. And then everyone like this had this like relief of okay. And then I said, dude, where's my car? And then everyone had to think That's so dude.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Was that really your one of your favorite movies?

SPEAKER_05 2:33

At the time, that's a movie I've watched more than any other movie. I watched that because I got it from the used to get it from the video store and I just played it back to back. And obviously, I can watch like a normal adult fancy movie, but I think there's I think there's skill in something dumb and simple. And in that same class, this is one of the movies he recommended. In terms of like simple structure, and what I like about this is that it's like to me, it's like such a simple, classic movie. They're like, here's the goal, here are the characters. They go, okay, we've got FBI wants what they want, the mob wants what they want, we know what we know what Jack wants, we know what the accountant wants. Go. And like then they just get into shenanigans. And I felt like it's like a lot of stuff happens, but it's just the whole time you know exactly what's happening. It's very simple. And uh I I I kind of think movies don't do that very well anymore.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

No, you're 100%, 100%. This is the I was telling Levi, this is a perfect movie, like you're at a video store and you have it on in the background.

SPEAKER_04 3:20

Yeah, yeah, because it's so much shit happening.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

It's just like you're just yeah, you can jump in at any time.

SPEAKER_04 3:25

Anytime. And it's just fun.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

And also the characters are all great, no matter who or what. Dennis Farina, who I love, is in it, and Joey Papa Papa. I don't know how to say it's Pantal Leone, Pantalonies, Pantalones, whatever. He you know, he plays in the fugitive. He's always that there's a lot of great character actors in this. And Charles Charles Grodin, is that how you say his name? I think so. Yeah, I think so. He's great. Like these are just this is so familiar. And it's like Robert Downey, it's not Robert Downey. What's his name? Robert De Niro. And uh not playing like a like tough, like he's a tough guy, but he's also kind of like I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 3:59

It's like an everyday tough guy. Yeah, he's more every man, yeah. Right. He's got a he's got a good heart. Right. But he's just trying to make ends meet. This is where he found himself.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

I mean, besides being in a uh absentee father for nine years, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:14

That that's that scene is that part of it doesn't make any sense at all.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

She's just stereotyping unnecessary. And then she runs out, it's like, Peter's my babysitting money. It's like, what are you talking about, dude?

SPEAKER_05 4:24

Like and he doesn't take it, but like, that's a good dude.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Yeah, exactly. What a good dad. Doesn't take the money.

SPEAKER_05 4:30

Didn't see her for nine years.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

I know. Can you imagine if he takes the babysitting money? Can you imagine if he took it? I'd be like, dude, I can't watch this. Are you out of your mind?

SPEAKER_05 4:38

Although you've got to respect that scene for, and I noticed this at the end of this, is it's the only time you see a woman. Uh literally.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Oh, yeah, the wife.

SPEAKER_05 4:45

We're re-watching it. We're gonna cost one woman, it's bitch ex-wife. Uh yeah, no, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

Who's like mad because they show up first off? The funny thing, too, it's like, and you know what? These movies are great because you let it slide. They're walking around and he has handcuffs on wherever they go, and no one's making any like uh, what's going on?

SPEAKER_05 5:02

They go to a diner, they're like all the coffee, and she's like, okay, like it's well they get into a giant car chase and then they kind of slink away, and then we're okay, we're we're kind of cool for a bit.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

And a helicopter comes and shoots at him, but it's like, you know what? That's fine. I'm I'm okay with all of it. Dude, this was uh yeah, this is like and I like Yafet Kato, whatever the hell you say his name, he's great too. This is all, but it's just how did you find this movie?

SPEAKER_05 5:27

Like, guys, just because that professor told me about it, and he because we were analyzing like plot structure and he was literally explaining like when you're writing an action movie, just in the first you know, 20 minutes, they have all the characters, have all their objectives, have all their skills laid out, and then you know, whatever the objective is. And he gave this as an example. And I still to this day think it just it does that better than most movies I've seen.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Almost definitely, because it in 20 minutes you know what's going on, and they build it up character, like even the opening, he tries to go into a room and then he gets shot at.

SPEAKER_02 5:52

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

And then they're like, you think watching this, you're like, is he a cop? What's going on? And then he bumps into the other bounty hunter guy and they're arguing over the guy, you know. So you're like, okay, this is what this is, and then they, you know, he drops him off, and then there's like then they got that deal. You know, it's great.

SPEAKER_05 6:06

And then yeah, and you know the bounty hunters have beef, you know he you know these situations.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

He reminds me of um what the hell is his name? You know, Killing Them Softly, the same uh writer of those movies, uh TV uh those books that I told you about. Yeah, fuck, what's his name, dude? I we drank too much last night. What the fuck's his name? We did drink a lot last night.

SPEAKER_04 6:24

I shouldn't have drove, I'll tell you later.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

I can't believe, dude, seriously, man. When Sierra's like, you're driving, and I'm like, Yeah, you're like, okay, I just had this guess. I'm good. It's like, yeah, never mind the six martinis we had in the first kind. Yeah, I mean, we went far. It's better than her drive. It was a magical night though, dude. I gotta tell you, a little italy is amazing. If you have a night off and you want to just get fucked up, go to Little Italy.

SPEAKER_05 6:44

Little Italy. Yeah. Where they come and they shout at you to come to dinner and they go, hey, come for dinner.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

You don't like, but this gar bar was so sick. It's like you get a there's another guy, you get a gar, then you can take your drinks outside. And it's great because it's like there's people, enough people to make fun of, yeah, but not overcrowded.

SPEAKER_04 7:00

Super crowded, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Yeah, it's like perfect, and it was a beautiful night out. So yeah, and we haven't had a debauchery night in a while. We were due. The only missing was Talal because he was being a little bitch. But he's got the sniffles, he's got the the allergies.

SPEAKER_05 7:17

That's especially bad because you're like, well, that's not going anywhere. Yeah, that's the whole season. Yeah, exactly. So you need to adjust.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

It's like you just or fucking figure it out. You did figure, well, Australia. You did you figured it out.

SPEAKER_05 7:28

Yeah, I got it sorted. You got it sorted out. Like, I don't know why. Maybe I think we have bit we have really bad trees and stuff in Australia, so I guess maybe the weird people like dive out.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

It really scares me. I'll be honest with you. It's a scary place. It's a scary place, man. I don't think I can yeah, it's swimming, you got great whites, you know.

SPEAKER_05 7:43

The best whites people say. Some of the best.

SPEAKER_01 7:47

Uh and like, and then you know, some of them Australia like you're not like first off, Australians like the party. Yeah, they like the party, dude. I got I funny enough, when we were I went to literally, we went to the Ven the the fucking uh San Janeiro, dude, in college. Yeah, we went there. I ended up going to an Australian bar and I met a bunch of Austin, and we got hammered at uh San V at an Australian bar. It was one of the I blacked out.

SPEAKER_05 8:13

The Australians in New York love to do cocaine. That's the fact.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Yeah, they they just they're wild. I do have a joke where I'm like Australian, some of them though, if you like they're almost like the tourist ones, they're like Americans almost, they're just as loud.

SPEAKER_05 8:26

Oh, yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

They're like the West Virginia of the world. Well, in the world, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 8:31

Near Australia, like in like uh Indonesia, Bali, stuff like that, uh, the Australian tourists are like hate it because we'll get like the worst of us will go and just be like, Yeah, we're getting a cheap holiday. And and the kind of guy's like, Oh, can you it's uh a cocktail's two dollars, we should have ten, and then they get into fights with the locals, and everyone's like used used to go to this one Australian bar called the Sari Club.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

And they're all Irish Irish descent, yes. They're basically all prisoners that are there, so that's the descent. Like the English.

SPEAKER_05 8:55

What if we took the Irish and we made them convicts for 200 years? See what shaking is.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

Or we take the Aborigines and we're like, yeah, get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_05 9:02

They did do that. Uh I'm always like, that was the English. Uh, but that was it was all of us.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Yeah, that's funny. Fucking that's crazy. But that's so crazy. So they go to Bali and they're like, oh fuck, here are these people.

SPEAKER_05 9:13

Yeah, I remember there's a place called Sarre Club. It ended up getting blown up by a terrorist attack. Uh unrelated, but not, I mean, not because of us, I don't think. But you'd go there and it would just be like 20 of the most feral Australian guys, like what we call bogans, you'd call rednecks, and there'd be not a woman in sight. Uh, and then they would just get into a fight and then have blood, and like, especially amongst the Indonesians who, at least in Bali, were like very peaceful, it'd be just look like the biggest skirts and shit like that. Like, they're just all like grass, but I think their religion is it's not like Hawaii.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

They're all like are they on a dashboard doing the thing?

SPEAKER_05 9:44

Yeah, that's yeah. I don't know what you're thinking of. That's uh that's Hawaii.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

I'm being an idiot.

SPEAKER_05 9:48

They're all on the car. Uh but but yeah, then they would just have blood on them, and uh I I'll I'll I'll be like, I'm sorry about them.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

Yeah, dude, seriously. Wait, hold on though. There was a terrorist. I have to know. Do you know why?

SPEAKER_05 9:56

In 2000, I mean, yeah, because I hated Westerners and we were in their country, and that Sorry Club was a Western club. There were like a bunch of terrorist attacks. Really? In Bali? Oh, and all through Southeast Asia, they were like uh obviously I didn't know that. You guys have the biggest one though. So if that's the first one. Oh, yeah, we killed that one.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

Not 11, dude. There's never gonna be another. That's that we killed, they killed that one. Yeah, that was that was. If you're gonna do a terrorist attack, that's like they that they up the yeah, you can't follow it. That's a hard act to follow.

SPEAKER_05 10:20

This guy's like, oh, he's killing. Yeah, this guy, dude.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

They fucking killed him. 3,000?

SPEAKER_05 10:26

It was an easy crowd.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

We need another Titanic. But that's crazy, man. But I okay, so that's so where did you go to school though?

SPEAKER_05 10:34

Uh does that mean college? I mean, yeah. Yeah, so college I did in Mel Melbourne. But I did exchange ones.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

So this guy was Australian, the teacher was Australian.

SPEAKER_05 10:42

Sorry, I did um I did a few classes there. The Midnight Run guy was actually, I came here in 2018. I did a summer course at NYU. Oh, and then I did um that guy was the one who told me to watch this movie.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

Okay, so the NYU guy.

SPEAKER_05 10:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

I got you. That's so funny. Now it even makes more sense with all the pretentious shit.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Because you had all those NYU nerds.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

Good.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

I tell you what, I hated that. When I worked on set and I'd get NYU grads coming up and their PAs, they're like, I'm like, and I didn't even like I went to theater school, so they're all like talking like they're and I'm like, bro, you are a fucking ground, you're you're in the you're waiting at the same like yelling rolls and cuts as me, and you just spent like how much money on your freaking like education, you fucking dork.

SPEAKER_05 11:22

When you hear them talk though, and they go like they're immediately trying to be pretenders and like you're so insecure. Like I can see it's so obvious.

SPEAKER_01 11:28

It's so it's we gotta, yes. And I can't, like, especially as I'm older, I can't even deal with that shit. It gets me it gets me anxious when someone's that insecure.

SPEAKER_05 11:36

But I feel like if you met like Ron Howard or some big director, they would not be like the people who are really good are very direct and smart and logical. They're not like all superfluous and like fancy language, they'd be like, no, we need a two shot, then get this, like get the fuck out of it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

Super logical people.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

Oh, yeah, yes. Right. I mean, I mean, unless like, I don't know, Christopher Nolan's gotta be gnarly with his stuff. What but he knows what he wants though, right?

SPEAKER_05 11:57

My favorite joke with Christopher Nolan lately is like he made his first movies were so up my alley, it's like like weird shit like Memento and this. And any old man, he's got to the point, he's like, I need to do a World War II movie. I need I need to I need to do the Odyssey. And I'm like, I get that people are still very fancy, but I'm like, no, I want you to do small thriller again.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I hear you, but like I I don't know. I am I am amped for the Odyssey, dude. Are you are you gonna see it? Are you amped for it?

SPEAKER_05 12:21

Yeah, I mean I'll see again I at least three are movies I struggle with.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Dude, you know what though? I was gonna say, I like I I never like as I was thinking about this, I'm like, there's a lot of Australian movies that I like.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

Like, well, first off, I remember being a kid, Mural's wedding was like the indie darling with Tony Collette that like exploded her career. And then, what's that fucking movie? It's ruthless. Um no, it's about a real life like mob family.

SPEAKER_05 12:47

Oh, Animal Kingdom.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

Dude, that movie was so crazy, and I love that act. Well, I love her, the chick, the older woman. Yeah, I can't remember her name, and Steven Mendel, whatever the hell. The uh, the the one brother that's in it, whatever, the uh he's in Killing Them Softly.

SPEAKER_05 13:03

Oh, right.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

What's his freaking name, man? Fuck, he's amazing. I'm blanking on everything, dude. Me too.

SPEAKER_05 13:08

There was something funny about like Australia Australia Weirdlies had a bunch of good like underworld type shows. Which I find funny because it's like I'm like, I'm glad we're competing for like scumbags. I'm glad we got up. I thought it was like Eastern Europe and America, and we're like, hey, we got we can do bad stuff.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

Right, right, right, right, right. Well, yeah, isn't Mad Max Fury Road? Wasn't that all Australian shit?

SPEAKER_05 13:28

I mean, that wasn't that that felt more fantastical.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

That was fantastical. Wait, so you like weird shit, huh? Like what's like if you picked a weird, like if we're being pretentious, like what's your film?

SPEAKER_05 13:38

I don't I honestly can't even. I said I could go pretentious. Maybe I can't. I'd have to think about it.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Like you like Memento. What else do you like?

SPEAKER_05 13:43

Is there anything like But those I like those because it's like a fun take on like an action thing. You know, isn't like it's I I like high concept stuff where it's like yeah, it's like a it's a broad idea as opposed to like whatever it's like coming of age. I'm like, no. Yeah, no, I don't care about your small story.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Yeah, I don't care about I don't like coming of age either. Like call me by your name or something. Did you ever see that call me by your name? Whatever it is.

SPEAKER_05 14:04

So I actually watched that with an ex when we were dating, and I hadn't seen it, and she was like, It's my favorite movie, and we were in this tough spot.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

She said it's her favorite movie. Yeah, but here's where it's crazy.

SPEAKER_05 14:12

We were in this tough spot because I had said already, I was like, I'm moving to New York in three months, we have to break up. She was like, I don't want to go to New York. So it was decided that we're gonna break up, and we're in this weird stage, we were still together, but we knew it was gonna end. And I had never seen it. I thought it's just about fucking a peach or whatever. And then I watch it, and it's actually about like the debit, like they got the dad's like, this is the greatest romance of all time, but it has to end. And I'm watching this, I see that line, I look at her, she's just bawling. Oh my god. And I'm like, you pick this movie gay.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

Yeah. Wait, that I didn't know that. So wait, the dad knows that the Tim Tim the Shal ding dong is fucking his professional.

SPEAKER_05 14:46

Yeah, and what's weirder, he's have you know, have you seen it? That's so funny.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

I don't know the movie, but I just know everything about it. So that's just like it's like kind of pedophilic. They have this romance.

SPEAKER_05 14:53

Well, yeah, well, especially now that Ami Hammond or that other crazy shit happened.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

Oh, wait, is he in it?

SPEAKER_05 14:57

He's the older guy. He's the older guy? Mentor or whatever. He's the guy who fucks he fucks the peach and then gives it to Timothy Chalamet, who eats it.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

I didn't know there's fucking a peach part.

SPEAKER_04 15:07

That's like that that was the big talk of the town.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

Oh, I thought it was because Timothy Shalad Ding Dong's like yo.

SPEAKER_04 15:12

I thought it was different. I thought Timothy Shalomet like jerked off with the peach or something.

SPEAKER_05 15:15

Well, maybe he did. One of them fucked the peach, one of them ate it. I can't remember which one. I think Timothy Shalomet.

SPEAKER_04 15:20

Jerked off and you gotta take the pit out. It's still kind of rough in there. Yeah, dude, it is. That movie's very obvious.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

Wait, so you got the peach and you got the fuzz on the peach, so you can rub the peach. It's like exfoliation. Like, what are you doing? That's gonna hurt your penis. Didn't seem exfoliating and make sure it's an armor hammer, fucking weird ass name. And he, yeah, Armorhammer, who's also in the social network, right? Does it play the vampire twins? Yeah, dude, that's crazy, dude. What a fucking wait, what happened to him again? He was incannible.

SPEAKER_05 15:53

And I want to defend defend him. Okay. I mean defend him. I don't think right into the camera. Who amongst us wouldn't eat?

SPEAKER_01 16:01

No, but I mean, my my tit is very fatty.

SPEAKER_05 16:04

He he what was messed up with him is he was his kink was that. So he used to text girls and be like, I'm gonna eat you. And what what made him bad is it was like non-consensual, because they'd be like, Hey, I don't like that. And then halfway through sex, he'd like to pull out a knife and pretend to he was gonna eat them, and they were like, I don't like that. So that's what was bad about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

It's a bit, it's a bit, it's oh, good to eat you.

SPEAKER_05 16:21

You know, but the craziest part about it is that the reason he got caught is he he was like married, and he these women, he was like pretending he was like in love with them, and he he would make them pay for all the shit because he was like, I can't do it, and he was like, I'll pay you back, and then he never paid them back, and then they then they exposed him. And I'm like, buddy, if you're doing cannibal fantasy with a girl who's not your wife, you gotta pay.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

Dude, you gotta pay. Also, like, isn't he like a Rockefeller? What isn't he like a super rich boy, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:48

He's super rich boy, like I think the thing was his family was cutting him off or something. Or like he couldn't access the money at the time.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

What do you think is what's he doing now? He came back, he's a new movie coming out.

SPEAKER_04 17:00

Yeah, he's doing like shitty movies. Oh, really? Direct the streaming type stuff.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

No way, that's so funny.

SPEAKER_04 17:06

I think at one point he was managing a hotel in like some other country because he's like, I I have no money, and he had to like pay his ex-wife and alimony and all.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Oh my god, dude. Yeah, dude. If you're gonna eat people, pay them off. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, you gotta like.

SPEAKER_05 17:23

I think there's other things where like uh he wanted like girls to like carve his initials or something and yeah, they were just like, but what's funny is that because he's so like attractive and famous, they would like play along and then I think eventually be like, no. Yeah, but what's what was bad is they they then sent screenshots of all the sex sexting. Okay, but they deleted their messages. And admittedly, what Arnie Hammer was saying was crazy. But any sext where you remove half the conversation makes you look like the most to the text, like, I want him, I want to fuck you on a fight. And he had like a hundred in a row. And I was like, she's responding, like that's not fair. Like, you take me and Robin's messages, I look like a psycho.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

You know what? That's true. Because it's like, first off, it's like, you know, this is this this is tennis. You know, it's yeah, the ball's going back and forth. You know what I mean? It's not like yeah, you know, we're gonna get into victim blaming. You know, the bitches were asking for it. You know, it was tennis. Stop looking so delicious, yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Seriously, why you gotta be oiling yourself up, man, like buttering her up like a ham.

SPEAKER_05 18:19

Yeah, look at the shampoo. Got lavender, rosemary, come on. What were you wearing? Just like a ham.

SPEAKER_00 18:25

Yeah, exactly. Were you it's were you seasoned? It's got salt and pepper on them, dude. That's fucking crazy, dude.

SPEAKER_05 18:33

The judge is like, well, really?

SPEAKER_01 18:36

But I didn't realize that call you by your name, whatever the hell call me by your name. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:42

I think.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

Okay, yeah. I didn't know that there was a fucking peach part of it.

SPEAKER_05 18:46

The thing the question you had before, yeah. What's crazy is like it's just it's they're in Europe somewhere, I guess, and like this underage relationship is happening, which is already like a red flag.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Right.

SPEAKER_05 18:53

And like it's clearly a massive power dynamic. And then the dad knows, and and Timothy's sad because the guy's leaving to go pretend to be straight because he's closed at it. And then he um and the dad's like, This is the greatest love I've ever known. Like he's like, he's acting like the love that he saw was he goes, This is the best love I've ever had.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Such a weird dude. That is eats people.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

That is so that would have been a great twist in the world.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Yeah, but that is I yeah, I couldn't.

SPEAKER_04 19:18

Um, I wanted to eat the peach.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

Yeah, that, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:22

No, keep it on your dick.

SPEAKER_01 19:24

Like, how do you feel when you watch that movie? Like the the Midnight Run is just nice. This is a nice movie. Do you watch that movie? You're like, I gotta icky. You feel icky. Yeah, you feel very icky, right?

SPEAKER_05 19:34

My problem is I like to just feel good and happy during movies. I never like that's why when people like this this crazy one, which makes you feel sad, I'm like, no, thanks.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

Yeah, no, I can't like I'm a big baby. Um well, as I'm getting older, I'm a big baby. Like, I can't, like, especially with everything going on. I'm like, dude, can we just, you know, like don't get me wrong, I like um I didn't see that A24 Past Lives movie, but that's supposed to be a very beautiful movie. What's it called? Past Lives a Korean couple, right? That they were, you know, and then she comes to you know America and she gets a white boy. It's a fucking white boy thing. And then um, but I like I I don't like but the coming to age stuff, like I never seen Florida Project. I can't watch it.

SPEAKER_04 20:12

Florida Project's good.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Yeah, I can't watch it. I can't watch a mom being a crackhead and being like, but she's got a heart of gold.

SPEAKER_04 20:18

It's like fucking coming of age movie. So it's you watch it once and you go, that was good. And then that's it.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

What about Stand by Me? Is that a coming of age movie?

SPEAKER_05 20:25

Yeah, I guess so.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 20:26

I'd I'd be more likely to watch that though. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Oh, you like Stand By Me?

SPEAKER_05 20:29

So it's like you want an adventure. You know, it's a little adventure.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

Yeah, it's an adventure girl find a dead body. Yeah. Yeah, you know what I mean? That's great. It, how about it, dude? It got.

SPEAKER_05 20:37

I'm not a big horror guy.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Not a big horror guy, huh?

SPEAKER_05 20:40

Oh, just because I'm a little bitch. I'm just like, I don't I don't want this. That's the law.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

That's the law. Like we watched Hereditary, and he was like just freaking out. Like, he's like, Why are we doing this? Like, what like in the middle of the movie? He'd be like, Why are we doing this right now?

SPEAKER_04 20:52

Why are we doing this ourselves?

SPEAKER_05 20:53

Barbarian too. Barbarian too. The only gets me is I don't know what barbarian is, but it's like when it's when it's like a human, it's not like magical, it's just like a human being, like the worst of like people have been fucked up.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_05 21:02

But there's one Robin told me about where the guy, you might have seen it, like he he captures someone and makes them become a dog. And they have to dress up as a dog and act like a dog. And Robin was explaining it to me, and it was like he just psychologically broke this person, and I was like, please don't ever explain. Don't even explain.

SPEAKER_04 21:16

That movie's only like an hour and ten minutes long. I think it's called Good Boy or something like that. Yeah, it's definitely a good boy.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

I didn't even hear of it.

SPEAKER_04 21:21

Yeah, I haven't watched it. It's on my list.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

Uh whatever I've been watching psychological like fillet thrillers. I also have a problem watching Injustice. Like, I've never seen Precious. I'm like, I have no interest in seeing Precious.

SPEAKER_04 21:32

Precious made me laugh so hard. What's Precious about?

SPEAKER_01 21:37

It's the one with Gabby, whatever, the oversized, like she's pregnant at 14 from her dad or something.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

Isn't there incest going on?

SPEAKER_04 21:44

Yeah, it's like that or something like that. Oh, it's very sad, but it's hilarious. Oh my god. Well, it's just so scene where Monique throws a pot at her and then it's her.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

It's so funny.

SPEAKER_04 21:57

Is it is it shot for laughs? Like a cut like a pot in the hood.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

It's the most serious. Like, if Mariah Carey does a breakout role.

SPEAKER_04 22:04

Yeah. Like, it's just absurd. It's absurd. Mariah Carey's item.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

Mariah Carey, yeah, she wears no makeup. So it's like, wow, that was like her real, like, uh, like, you know, like Charlie's Theron playing the real life monster. Yeah, that was like the fucking, you know, that was her movie where I'm a serious actor.

SPEAKER_04 22:20

I'm not just a pretty woman. Yeah, I'm not just, you know, getting whatever.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

I don't know. I didn't see it. She plays like the um welfare, what do you call it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. She's like a social worker. Social worker, which apparently she didn't do a good job. I mean, Jesus Christ, get her out of the house. Like, what are you doing, dude? Yeah. I'm getting hit with pots and pants. It's horrible.

SPEAKER_04 22:43

But yeah, that that movie, it's like that it's like, dude, it's absurd.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Well, you know what? You and me both. We have the same sexy movie because it's like, it's so absurd. Yeah. Like, really? It's like then she goes outside, the dog's dead. It's like, really, what's can we have just one hat? Like, what are we doing here, dude? When it's that like hardcore, then it becomes come on.

SPEAKER_05 23:02

I do think when a movie, you know, sometimes if a movie looks bad but has a bad problem because like it's too lucky, right? The guy keeps getting lucky. I I feel the same when it's too unlucky. Have you ever seen the movie The Mist?

SPEAKER_04 23:11

No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:12

At the end of that movie.

SPEAKER_04 23:13

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, who's that?

SPEAKER_01 23:15

What's that? Stephen King.

SPEAKER_04 23:17

Yeah, it's a Stephen King and um Frank Darabont directed it.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Frank who?

SPEAKER_04 23:22

Derebant. He did a bunch of Stephen King. He did Shaw Shank. Oh, really? Oh, okay. So yeah, the mist is uh basically a mist covers this town, and like monsters are in the mist and they're taking everybody, and the end is very uh dour.

SPEAKER_05 23:40

But it's just unlucky. Like if that if they wait an extra two minutes, everything will be fine type thing. I don't but it's sort of like but my point is it's that gets me anxious as shit. But it's my point, it's like it's almost like too unlucky where I'm like, this is also this is now ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:53

In the same way that when you're like when the dog is dead, it's so sad. It's like, okay, if you make it so over the top sad, I'm like, and this is just not even realistic.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

But that's what precious is. It's like, what are we doing here?

SPEAKER_05 24:01

Like, I mean over the top.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

It's over the top of like whatever.

SPEAKER_05 24:04

Basically, true story like your life is too sad. I know, seriously. Can't take it.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

You know, the student. Yeah, dude, seriously, we laugh a little bit, dude? Jesus Christ. Seriously, dude. You know? Move out.

SPEAKER_04 24:17

Let's get back to Midnight Run. Yeah, I'm sorry, Midnight Run.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

I know. So Midnight Run. I don't know what else to say about this.

SPEAKER_05 24:23

Okay, I got a few things I thought about. One is one thing it's classic, which we need to bring back. You need to be willing to accept some unrealisticness. The one hit one-hit knockout punch. So many in this movie. Oh my god, so many. Yes. These guys are just they're all dead. They're all dead in two weeks. That guy himself, the bounty hunter, he has gotten five or six knockout punches. Right. Just and like also they do it like in a car, like, up.

SPEAKER_04 24:45

Yeah. A little, it's not even like it doesn't look like a hard hit.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

No, not at all. It's just, you know, it's just like uh it's almost like the whole movie's like a brotherly love the whole time. It's just like like slap in the face, and it's just like I hate. I love you, kind of. But yeah, completely. Completely. Also, too, the music in this is hysterical. Leave and I were talking about this.

SPEAKER_05 25:05

Oh, like the interstitial moments where type of jazz.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

And then exactly. Or like I was like, it's like Seinfeld. It's like bam, bam bam, bam, bam. It's like, and then they go into the diner, and then the music gets down slow. Like, and you said it's Danny Elfman.

SPEAKER_04 25:16

Danny Elfman.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

That's so crazy. The guy, Danny Elfman who does Tim Burton films.

SPEAKER_04 25:20

Oh wow. Yeah, he's bombastic.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Um this is and this is so Chicago best.

SPEAKER_04 25:25

I mean, this is well, you know, we need a lethal weapon-esque score. Yes. So yeah, it's always a Chicago.

SPEAKER_01 25:32

This is like quintessential. Like, when was this made? 92?

SPEAKER_04 25:35

88, I think. 88 was like. Oh my god, we're in the 80s? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 25:40

So this was Robert De Niro's, like, he was trying to get away from super serious stuff.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Right.

SPEAKER_04 25:46

And he was trying to do a comedy. He was going to do big no way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Wait, Tom Hanks.

SPEAKER_04 25:52

Tom Hanks, but that's ridiculous. He turned it down because they would only give him three million dollars. Back then, too, which would have been like six dollars.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

But you know what, though, thank God. I would not want to that would have been a horrible movie. Like Tom Hanks.

SPEAKER_04 26:05

Benny Marshall wanted him. But yeah, he just he wouldn't accept the money.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

I could not. Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_04 26:11

And then Tom Hanks does this movie instead.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

I know. Seriously, dude. That you know what though? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 26:17

I think Tom Hanks could do this more than I mean the studio had so many people they wanted for this. They wanted Harrison Ford and Chevy Chase.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 26:26

Which I wouldn't have liked because uh I mean, Chevy Chase, whatever. He would have overdone the role. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 26:31

The account is reserved.

SPEAKER_04 26:33

Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

I think it would have been so arrogant, it would have been so hard. You'd have Chevy Chase and Harrison Ford.

SPEAKER_04 26:38

Chevy Chase would be doing way too many bits.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Yeah, the eye rolls and all this shit like that. Charles Groden is so great, and that's like we were talking about this because he's just so like when they're in the diner, he's like, How much money do we have? He's like 53 cents. And he's like, But the way he looks up and down, it's so simple. Yeah. And then she's like, he's like, knocked out again. Yeah. Seriously. I like all these, like, and it's all these schlebbs. Like, there's all these schleb mobsters. Idiots. They're just schmucks. Yeah, they're a bunch of hats. Like, I love movies. It's like get shorty. It's a sign of like you know what I mean? I I love first I'm a sucker for gangster films. And the fact that they only put like a woman part in there to be like, here's his backstory.

SPEAKER_04 27:19

Well, that's another casting thing. Originally, Paramount had this movie.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 27:25

And they wanted Cher as the accountant. Supposed to be a chick? Cher just came off of not original the script, it was a man. Yeah. But they wanted Cher. Cher just came off of winning an Oscar. Yeah. Three hit movies in one year before this went into production. And so they were like, we want Cher, and then that'll add like sexual undertones between her and Robert De Niro. And the screenwriter and director, who the director's fucking insane, uh were like, no, we're not doing that. So Paramount dropped it and Universal picked it up.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

So I would like Cher, but I don't know why you have to have the sexual overtone. Why could they just be you know what I mean? That's so stupid. Well, they would think. Why is the director crazy? Why is the director crazy?

SPEAKER_04 28:04

So this guy, he directed uh Beverly Hills Cobb.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Okay. Oh wow. So he's he's doing this. This is his shit. This is his shit, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:11

He did that, he did this, he did scent of a woman.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

Ha hoo ha!

SPEAKER_04 28:16

But he fell the fuck off and like just I don't know, I guess got too much power. So he did Geely. Geely. The fucking uh Ben Affleck and uh Jennifer Lopez movie.

SPEAKER_01 28:30

Oh god, I don't even know that. Is it like made of Manhattan, like kind of that kind of vibe?

SPEAKER_04 28:34

It's like weird mob kind of like it's horrible movie. Uh but yeah, he just he's made nothing but shit ever since. So he pissed off someone. He uh apparently is like kind of an auteur kind of guy, where he would shoot scenes a million times, and it's like a comedy. Yes, like uh him, Yafet, whatever you say his name. Yeah, he said this is the worst uh like set he's ever been on. No way it was a nightmare. They're coming off very like buddy buddy, like we're having a good time. Yeah, you could never you can't tell, but uh it's he was he was just a tyrant.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

Oh, dude, that's the worst. Because it's like this should be just fun and light. Yeah, you know what I mean? And like you're with all these guys, like it's so funny that you'd have all these guys that aren't playing mobsters and you're busting their balls to the violent, but it'd be like, I feel like Dennis Free would be like, if we do this one more time, I'm gonna stab you to death. Like, I'd feel like he would be like that though. Like, you know what I mean? Like, get the fuck out of here, dude.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

Yeah, I listened to like, you know, the interview with the screenwriter who's fucking awesome. Oh, yeah, he's great. He uh he wrote Bad Boys, did he? First one, yeah, the first one, and he wrote it before he wrote this, so they were shopping that around. Like Jerry Bruckheimer already had it, and so he gave it to this director and he said, I just did a cop movie with Eddie Murphy, I don't want to do another cop movie. This is basically a cop movie, right? But so yeah, shopping this around, and he met up with the screenwriter and he says, Alright, I have this idea of bounty hunters, like really minimal. He's like, Okay, write it. I'm interested. He writes it, and then out of nowhere is like, Yeah, Robert De Niro wants to do it. It's like okay. Wow, dude. Out of the gate. The writer got to be on set the whole time.

SPEAKER_02 30:20

Really?

SPEAKER_04 30:20

And all that, and the whole uh Charles Groden like saying he's scared of flying, that's the screen, right? He refused to fly and he had to go out to LA and all these locations, so he took trains and no shit.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

That's so funny. You know what? Two things, like first off, it's so awesome to see a flight like that old school, like they're smoking on the flight and shit like that. And first class, and first class is insane, dude. Like that, I mean, for real. And then um, yeah, doesn't a want the pilot come down a spiral staircase at first? I'm like, what kind of flight is this shit, dude? And then also, um, what the hell I was gonna say. I thought Charles Grodin, he was faking that to get him off the plane.

SPEAKER_04 30:57

Oh, he is.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

Oh, he is, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:59

But then there's uh it's revealed. There's a scene where he jumps in like a little tiny plane to you know, try to run away from Robert De Niro. Okay. And he's yeah, he's just saying, you lied to me, all that blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_01 31:10

Right, right, right. Um, see, that was I I like that part of it. But yeah, I like I'm glad they casted it the way they casted it. They needed to have it the way that's I cannot.

SPEAKER_04 31:18

This movie came out the same day Die Hard came out. No way. And everybody thought this movie was gonna fucking bury Die Hard because Bruce Willis wasn't a star yet. Dude. Not a movie star. And so they were like, yeah, this ain't gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 31:35

Come on, dude.

SPEAKER_04 31:36

This is so funny. Barely broke even. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_05 31:39

Because of diehards in general.

SPEAKER_04 31:41

I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Well, this got two grand uh not Grammys, Golden Globes, I thought, or something like that.

SPEAKER_04 31:48

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

It got like, I I think it did pretty much.

SPEAKER_04 31:50

Oh, the critics loved it. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. And eventually, like through home release and everything, it became a success. Right. But yeah, it was just buried by diehard.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

That's so funny. You know who else I had that problem? So there's a movie called State of Grace, it's about the Irish mob, came out the same time as Goodfellas the same day. Yeah, you're fucked. You're fucked. Like, isn't that suck, man? Yeah, it's like you have a film and then you're like just just like by chance.

unknown 32:17

Fuck me.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

And I mean, that's really cool. Die, I I love the fact that Bruce Willis buried Robert De Niro.

SPEAKER_04 32:22

Yeah, that's pretty hard. Everybody, like you know, the I I forget, maybe it's Fox that did Die Hard. They were like, we should probably move it, you know, move the release. This isn't gonna work out, and then they stuck to it.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

It's so funny. Like, I guess hindsight, but like I don't see how you could like, I mean, diehard, they have a whole building that blows up.

SPEAKER_05 32:41

I mean, he's in the lot of stuff if you put on paper like action scenes.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

Action scenes pound to pound. I think diehard kills it. Of course, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:48

But this was back when a movie star was still a fucking movie star. So they were like, Robert De Niro has gotta fucking bring people in. Right. But you also have this is his first kind of comedy. Right. So I'm sure a lot of people are like, I don't want to see Robert De Niro do it'd be like if fucking uh you know Daniel Day Lewis decided to do an action comedy out of nowhere at that point because all Robert De Niro did was serious shit.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Yeah, I guess so, man. Yeah. You know what though? I wonder, like pound to pound, like if you go, like, you know, thinking about serious like Robert De Niro, Liam Neeson. Because I could see Liam Neeson playing this part too.

SPEAKER_05 33:22

And I think Harrison Ford would have been good. I think Harrison Ford would be good.

SPEAKER_01 33:25

Wait, Harrison Ford would have played the bounty hunter and Trevor Chase would have played the I don't like the height. I don't like I like try I like I don't like the height. I don't like that they're tall. Like I didn't want like I can't have you playing an accountant.

SPEAKER_05 33:39

But he was oh but he was Charles Charles. Which it was weird because then like but it's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

Well Robert De Niro's a shorty.

SPEAKER_05 33:45

And then Robert De Niro was like beating him up the whole time. And I was like, defend yourself, Charles. You're a big guy. He was like, I know times when like he didn't have a gun at all. And I was like, you can just leave.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

I just like watching because this is it's such a time capsule. Like he just had the guy breaks out a gun in an air, like in the airport, everyone can just walk up to the gate. It's like, oh man, it's the best.

SPEAKER_05 34:03

But there's so many plot points in this that are just like when the guy calls up and goes, Hi, I'm Robert De Niro, cancel my car. Yeah, that was crazy. And they're like, okay. Yeah, no, seriously.

SPEAKER_01 34:11

You're like, you know, can't can you tell me when the last time I used it? And it's like, what? It's I are you out of your freedom.

SPEAKER_05 34:16

But I think movies were more fun then, because like now, like if you have to do something like, Oh, I checked his Snapchat story and he's here, like when he gets gets through the badge at the very beginning and he gets to do whatever he wants for like a bit.

SPEAKER_04 34:25

Right, right, right. Well, yeah, smartphones have ruined so many movies. You know what?

SPEAKER_01 34:29

That's so true. Like, all that technology. Like, that's why being a criminal then was so much more fun. Yeah. Because it's like he, you know, it was much more like you know, anybody can be you could just steal and be on the run for a lot of time. Like stealing a credit card must have been so great back in those days, dude. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 34:44

Well, Sierra's uh grandpa did a bunch of credit card scanning. Frauds? Good for him. Yeah, did he get caught? Uh I don't know actually. Just on camera. Well, he dead. Yeah, he's he's on. Thanks for the car. Is that the car?

SPEAKER_01 34:57

Is that his car? Thanks, Gramps. That's not that from credit card fryer. Watch, you gotta get the car. They impound your car because it's owned by somebody else. That's so funny, dude. Someone watch this. Um, but I love that he chose this movie. When how old are you when you saw this then?

SPEAKER_05 35:12

I guess I would have been 26.

SPEAKER_01 35:13

Oh, okay. So this is okay.

unknown 35:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 35:15

I get it. It's just like a classic to me. And like you mentioned Die Hard. It's funny because this is like my my whole theory I've been annoyed at lately, is like I feel like there are movies like this that don't exist anymore as much. Uh just like kind of set every movie that has like seems to have something extra on top, or it's got not that it has a point, but it's just it doesn't feel as clean to me and it and it always fun. Right. No, no, you're right. Like diehard is also really fun. And like one thing that's interesting with this is like there's so many moments that it's have, like, whenever they're interacting, like him with the FBI, it's always like we're we're enemies, but like we're having joking male, like it's always it's not really realistic, but it's like a fun vibe.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

No, yes, I agree with that. But that's what like get shorty is all those kind of movies are that I love those kind of like I yeah, you can't have it now because everyone's so uh uptight, and like I don't know, if you have like mobs, like mobsters aren't what mobsters were, like you'd have to date everything if you did another one, you'd have to date it.

SPEAKER_04 36:07

And it always has to be in the past at least nineties or whatever, like that.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

You can't like what would be the modern day version of this? Like, I can't even like it would have to be the bounty hunter, would have to be in Florida because they're everywhere. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_04 36:20

It would be a more absurd comedy, right? And that's what I loved, what the screenwriter was saying.

SPEAKER_01 36:25

You mean Todd Phillips?

SPEAKER_04 36:27

Yeah, it would be a Todd Phillips, yeah. And uh the screenwriter was saying is like, I hate like comedies where it's you're relying on the characters to be like pushing the joke and all that. He's like, I'd rather have two straight men be in absurd situations, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:43

Like look at Joel, like I'm sorry, that's hysterical right now. Like he's just staring off, like he's like a kid. Like, you know what I mean? Like smoking, I'm sorry, smoking on the airplane is fantastic.

SPEAKER_04 36:53

I I just but you bring up Todd Phillips. I think he so around like 2010 or whatever, Robert De Niro was teasing a sequel to this. Oh wow a sequel or a remake, and he was gonna do it under Tribeca. And uh I'm pretty sure Todd Phillips was like circling it. I I'd see Todd Phillips so kill it that kill this completely because this movie, although you know, it became like like you're saying, like your teacher, like it became a standard for when somebody's pitching a movie, you know, they they do the classic, it's like this and this. Yes, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

It's like accountant steals money from a mobster. Yeah, it's you gotta be a bounty hunter that wants to make money off the sky. So you got now the feds coming after him, the mob, and the bounty hunter.

SPEAKER_05 37:41

And then and they all come together at the last scene all at once, and then he wins and then whatever.

SPEAKER_01 37:45

Exactly. That's beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 37:47

So so many pitches use this. They say it's whatever at midnight run. Right. That's what you know, they always do that, and it's just, you know, it's the odd couple going coast to coast, running from the law or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 37:58

Right, right. It's like stir crazy. There's Gene Hackman freaking Richard Pryor films, dude.

SPEAKER_05 38:03

Like it's just a yeah, it's a perfect, it's a yeah, this is a this is a nice thank you for having a nice normal, packaged film.

SPEAKER_01 38:14

I appreciate it completely. You're like, oh, I want Metropolis by Sergei Einstein, and be like, oh God, dude.

SPEAKER_05 38:21

I like the movie when someone's like, what's the movie about it? You know, you're like, what's that movie about? It's like it's kind of hard to explain. It's like, no, it's about bounty on just you know what?

SPEAKER_01 38:29

That's that's the thing I guess people are missing now. It's just like, can't you just like it tell the story? Yeah, just tell the story.

SPEAKER_04 38:35

Well, so so many movies now they they have the regular template, and then they have to, they're like, but what's the emotional thing in here? You know, so they have to have some traumatic past thing that's flashing back throughout the movie. I don't care about learning about this.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

This is I don't give a shit.

SPEAKER_05 38:52

The thing is, they had his backstory, but it didn't really impact it as much. You know, like I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

I see he has a wedding ring, and I'm like, is he married? I never meet his wife. I don't care.

SPEAKER_05 38:59

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 38:59

You know what I mean? I don't care. It's just about this moment in time, you know? And I like that, dude. Like I try to, oh god, I just want to see Project Hill Mary, dude.

SPEAKER_05 39:07

You didn't so I've heard that's good. I was gonna see that.

SPEAKER_01 39:10

It's fine. Yeah, it's a fine movie.

SPEAKER_05 39:12

People are raving, dude.

SPEAKER_01 39:14

Yeah, too much.

SPEAKER_04 39:15

I think the bar is low.

SPEAKER_01 39:16

The bar is so low, dude. We need it, like we need you know what, Todd Phillips, we need you to do midnight run. We need you to come out like what's he doing now anyway? What's Todd doing now? I don't know. What's the thing? Is the writer still is that writer still around?

SPEAKER_05 39:27

He's trying to do a line as good as paging doctor. Oh, yeah. From hangover. I didn't see the opening line of that movie is paging doctor F slur.

SPEAKER_04 39:37

Wait, from where?

SPEAKER_05 39:38

Hangover.

SPEAKER_04 39:39

Is it really? It was in the trailer.

SPEAKER_05 39:41

Yeah. And we and we also loved it. Oh, yeah. That was like they put it in the trailer because 15-year-old boys or however old I was, we would we thought we were so funny because I was 21-year-old Jessica's dying of laughter.

SPEAKER_01 39:52

I was like, this is hysterical. I forgot that's part of it.

SPEAKER_02 39:55

Doctor, that is the fact paging? It's genius.

SPEAKER_05 40:00

How do they write this?

SPEAKER_01 40:04

But you know what? Todd would have a nice vintage. Todd would add a little darkness to this, and that's why I really would like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:12

Let me let me look up Todd Phillips. I mean, I think the last movie he did was Joker 2.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

I still didn't see uh Joker 2, and I didn't see the musical.

SPEAKER_05 40:20

Yeah, I don't like these directors growing up and trying to do some movie like Joker. Do more hangover. I want people to be young.

SPEAKER_00 40:26

Don't change, man. Be Peter Pan. Seriously. Just keep on doing the films that are just for fun, dude.

SPEAKER_01 40:32

We need fun back again. You know, like you know, like the end. I rewatched that the other night. Which one? The end. This is this is the end. Is that the one with all the movie stars over the phone? That's that's a fun movie. That's a fun movie.

SPEAKER_05 40:45

And that's also so pitchable. You're just like, yeah, it's the end of the rapture happens with these guys playing themselves.

SPEAKER_01 40:49

Michael Sarah is like the funniest fucking thing, and that's such a sound, and she slaps him across the face, then he's like, he's he's drinking like a caprice sign, he's getting his dick sucked. It's like, what the fuck, dude?

SPEAKER_05 41:05

Um comedy's coming back. I'm seeing so many trailers for pure comedies.

SPEAKER_01 41:09

I will balls up came out, Mark Wahlberg, which again, uh you know what interesting, Mark Wahlberg would be interesting in this. Is the bounty hunter?

SPEAKER_00 41:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:17

That would be a good one.

SPEAKER_00 41:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:19

Actually, if we casted this now, who would we cast Midnight Run now? Who would it be?

SPEAKER_05 41:26

If it's the studios now that put that who's that guy who's in everything, he was in Running Man and he was in Ah, fuck me.

SPEAKER_04 41:30

Glenn Powell.

SPEAKER_05 41:31

Yeah, Glenn Powell would be the guy.

SPEAKER_01 41:32

That's who that's.

SPEAKER_04 41:36

Why?

SPEAKER_01 41:37

I had a good time.

SPEAKER_04 41:38

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 41:39

It was just I love, first off, I love fucking what's his face? The bad guy.

SPEAKER_04 41:44

Who is the bad guy in there?

SPEAKER_01 41:45

Jesus Christ, why can't we remember anything? Josh Brolin. Yeah. He's fantastic. He's a great great Josh Brown. He would be great. All right, so as the bounty hunter Josh Brown.

SPEAKER_04 41:55

You want like a serious, like a guy that can be serious. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:59

Yeah, Mark Walbert can't act. We'd have to have Josh Brolin, and then who would be the accountant? We need funny that's like a funny schleb. Who would be the accountant? No. I'd be the accountant. Play the accountant. Kind of a thing now. Yeah, you know what? They should. And then there'd be nothing sexual. I don't want anything sexual. Like, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 42:20

Yeah, they're like, well, movies, movies now, they they really try not to be sexual because uh Gen Z hates it. Really? Well, yeah, they're not fucking. They they do not like it.

SPEAKER_01 42:29

They're computers, they're barcodes. Gen Z's fucked. They're just they're just holograms.

SPEAKER_04 42:33

It's so in Oh, I mean, uh, I'm watching the new season of Euphoria. I haven't watched any of the other ones. I've been watching the new one. I like it.

SPEAKER_05 42:40

He heard that uh what's a face does uh OnlyFan.

SPEAKER_04 42:42

I enjoy it. You like it? Yeah, it's pretty good. Shh. The fans hate it. And so many of them are like, why is there so much sex? I was like, I thought that's all the show was.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Yeah, euphoria was all that's all it is. I thought it was just a gigantic like Pho fucking thing. Well, it's really fucking annoying. These fans are awful. Yeah, Gen Z, dude. I I don't know what these kids like. They're just I mean, we I do all my whole, I'm gonna probably have a whole hour about those kids. Like just fucking, not drinking.

SPEAKER_05 43:09

It is good. That's you can make fun of them. You can't make fun of anyone else. But you go Gen Z, everyone's like, fuck them. Fuck them to death.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

I mean, they always fuck, like we always like, I feel like generations always shit on the next generation, but these ones are like I mean, these ones suck, dude. They really sucked.

SPEAKER_05 43:26

They thought we sucked.

SPEAKER_01 43:27

Uh I mean we mean think we sucked, but at least we drank and did drugs and shit. You know what I mean? Like, what's Gen Z? Like what? I hear they're going to church. They're going back to church.

SPEAKER_05 43:35

Oh, that that's making me sick. That's just like born again is crazy. I'm like, go to the bottle.

SPEAKER_01 43:40

Yeah, go exactly. Go to the bottom of the bottom.

SPEAKER_05 43:42

The answer is at the bottom of the bottle.

SPEAKER_01 43:44

I love that. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly that's my whole act. You just did my whole act in a second. Go to the bottle. That's gonna be the nut title of my memoir. Go to the bottom. Go to the bottom. Go to the bottom. That's where yes.

SPEAKER_00 43:54

For a little while, you know, just for a little while.

SPEAKER_05 43:56

What's crazy is now, like, this is when I was young and like the old. Kid would come, like I guess the Gen X or whatever, they would they'd be like, You want bottles? And I was like, What a hero. But my friends have stories that one of them was in California for something, and he went to like a younger kid's house party because he had some connection. And he was like, He had drugs and alcohol, and they were like, Gross, what is wrong with this man? They were like, Get him out of a bunch of straight edge kids. And then he was they were like, Are we freaks? Like, we oh god, we're the creepy uncles right now. Like, have some whiskey, it's good for you. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 44:24

It's like I feel like it's we're like uh one gigantic ab fab. You know, absolutely fabulous, isn't that? It's like the you ever seen absolutely fabulous?

SPEAKER_04 44:31

Well, the show? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:32

It's like the the the mothers and the yeah, they're all smoking cigarettes and drinking, the daughter's like trying to be the she's the adult. That's what I feel like Gen X is. That's what's gonna be the new like come comedy series. It's gonna be like the straight like kid, and then we'll all be around.

SPEAKER_04 44:47

The crazy like yeah, kooky family family.

SPEAKER_01 44:50

Like, I think like Gen X.

SPEAKER_04 44:51

What are they doing? Are they doing ketamine? Is that their thing?

SPEAKER_05 44:54

But even then, probably just medicinally gross.

SPEAKER_01 44:56

Yeah, but everything, yeah. The series of grossically exactly. It's just like, yeah, I don't know. I gotta like, do we know any gen? Well, yeah, do you hang out with you're on your you you're how old are you again?

SPEAKER_04 45:06

36.

SPEAKER_01 45:06

How old are you again?

SPEAKER_04 45:07

36.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

Oh, you guys are the same.

SPEAKER_04 45:09

Okay, never mind.

SPEAKER_01 45:10

But what is Gen? How old is Gen X?

SPEAKER_04 45:13

Gen Z.

SPEAKER_01 45:14

Gen Z.

SPEAKER_05 45:15

I think I think 26, 27, is that about it? Oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 45:18

Around the that's the tail end of it.

SPEAKER_05 45:21

I I I've hung out some of them, like, there's a range. A lot of them don't identify. They're like, I'm not like those Gen Z. I I party. But what gets me more is it's less about the drinking, it's more the fact that when you talk to them sometimes, like in the service industry, when I go to buy clothes or something and they're behind the counter, they act like talking to them is physical assault. When I'm like, hey, and I'm like, I'm sorry, I get that you're going through stuff, and like I understand that maybe my parents are too hard on me, but you need to be able to talk to people when you work behind the desk.

SPEAKER_01 45:45

Dude, I did a show the other night, and there was this uh Gen, what are they, Gen X? Gen Z. Gen Z. Okay, forgetting the fuck up the letters. Gen Z. And she was in the audience, and I was making, I was doing all these jokes, and the sister started pointing to her, and I was like, What's going on? She's like, She's Gen Z, and she's like, Yeah, I'm working on it. And she's like, they're looking and I'm like, wait, what? She's like, Yeah, I'm working on looking at people and talking. I'm like, this is a real thing. Like, I've been making fun of this, but I'm like, this is a real thing. She goes, Oh yeah, we we we have she's like, I'm getting better. And I'm like, holy shit, dude. Like, for real, those COVID, the COVID fucked them up. I'm sorry, Fauci did. I mean, I mean, what were we supposed to do? I don't know, dude, but Jesus Christ, these kids, it's insane. Like, they'd probably watch Midnight Run and be like, why is he assaulting like why is everyone assaulting each other? It's like that's the funny. That's what's funny. They're punching each other. Violence is funny.

SPEAKER_05 46:37

Someone does need to explain. By the way, just so you know, this doesn't work. Right. If you're in a situation, first of all, you will break your hand immediately, yeah, and they will be like, I'm right, right.

SPEAKER_02 46:47

Why'd you punch me? Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 46:49

Immediately you get knocked out.

SPEAKER_05 46:50

And if you do knock them out, you have caused serious damage. You knock them out four times in the space of 24 hours, they are dead. These guys are so prone to concussion now.

SPEAKER_00 47:02

They're a bunch of hockey players, dude.

SPEAKER_05 47:06

The sequel is just him violent with his wife.

SPEAKER_01 47:09

Dude, seriously. Oh no, his head's mush. He doesn't remember anything. It's when it becomes regarding Henry. Um, I forgot Chris Isaacson. Fucking uh, sorry.

SPEAKER_05 47:20

What is this? Silence of the lambs. Silence of the Lambs, baby.

SPEAKER_01 47:23

Yeah, man. Um, all right. I'm good. Are we good? Yeah, we're good. That's good. I'd like thank you for picking this video.

SPEAKER_05 47:29

No, I'm glad. I said I said the list. I was like, what do you? I then I ended up going midnight round.

SPEAKER_01 47:34

Wait, what's the other one? The castle? I'm gonna watch it.

SPEAKER_05 47:35

Yeah, I'll send you a link for it. It's like uh maybe it's on Prime, you've got to pay for it, but it's just like it's in 1991 or even earlier, and it's just like a very quintessential like uh Australian film. It was like very representative. Okay, I gotta check this. But it's also like very uh heart of gold, poor, like poor family type thing, but they're all hard of gold, I think. But it's it's comedy. It has Eric Banner in it in it before he was.

SPEAKER_01 47:57

Yeah, you aussies, you got a lot of good shit, man. You know what I mean? Like, like, I don't know. Like, were you into films when you were in Australia?

SPEAKER_05 48:04

A little bit, but I'm also this is a problem. I I think if you really care, like you focus on local stuff, which I didn't really in like American films, international films are kind of that's what you look at most of the time. Okay, there are some great Australian ones I can reference. Like, if you should see uh a TV show called No Activity, have you heard of that? No. That's great. It's just about two cops, uh it's a comedy staking out a place, and every episode is them staking it out and having conversations. Meanwhile, the two criminals are having conversations.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

I'm already I'm already in. That's I'm already in. That is fantastic.

SPEAKER_05 48:29

It's just like silly. Will Farrell bought it and made an American version, which was actually decent. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 48:34

I didn't even hear of it.

SPEAKER_05 48:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:35

No activity. All right, I gotta check that out.

SPEAKER_05 48:37

That's good. And Castle's great, and I can send it to think of a few other ones that were good.

SPEAKER_01 48:40

Yeah, send me some stuff.

SPEAKER_05 48:41

Well, Saw was Australian. That was made by two guys who went to RMIT, which is a university in my hometown.

SPEAKER_01 48:45

Really?

SPEAKER_05 48:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:46

Saw the series?

SPEAKER_05 48:48

The series. The first one was made.

SPEAKER_01 48:49

I think they ended up sick bastards. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 48:51

They made Saw one and two, and then they sent them.

SPEAKER_01 48:52

I've never seen them. Those are the movies that I can't see. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:56

I don't like them.

SPEAKER_01 48:57

That's so crazy you don't like them.

SPEAKER_04 48:59

That's Australian. No. No. I'm fine with gore and stuff. I just think it's a kind of a lame story. Like, it's just, I don't really care.

SPEAKER_01 49:07

Is it just a basic panic room and they just cut them, they have saws and shit.

SPEAKER_04 49:10

Yeah, yeah. You're stuck, and then there's a cop trying to figure it out. It's Danny Glover trying to figure it out and all this shit. Danny Glover's in it? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:17

Oh my god, that's he, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_05 49:19

Speaking about what I was saying about pretentiousness, those saw guys are so funny because they talk about interviews about what it was like going to university for it. And they said that everyone was like being pretentious and like what kind of movies do you want to make? And everyone's like, I want to make a French arthouse. And the guy goes, I want to make a horror movie, and everyone looked down on him, and like he was like looked down on the class. And him and one other guy were like, We want to do this together, and they were constantly kind of apparently constantly kind of shit on. And then they their thesis project was sore, and they made a version of it, and then it got sold. And so they kind of got to give the middle finger to the rest of their pretentious class because their movie got bought by an American production studio and then made a franchise, and arguably one of the most probably one of the most profitable horror franchises.

SPEAKER_04 49:54

Yes, yes, there's like 10 of the yeah, I mean they're killing a $10 million budget, usually. And the first one was dirt dirty. Oh, yeah, it looks like it too. It looks like shit.

SPEAKER_01 50:04

Oh, really? But usually sometimes those cheap fucking uh horror films can be great.

SPEAKER_04 50:08

It's so 2000s, like it's with the green tent and the shitty uh choppy editing and shit getting the lights.

SPEAKER_05 50:16

Yeah, as soon as you said immediately my head I was like green tint.

SPEAKER_01 50:19

Yeah, no, you're right. I I hate that. Like, this is why another thing I like about the eight the movie you picked, because it has that grit to it. Like, I say this a lot. Even if it's a shitty film made in the 80s or 90s, it's still a good, like a better film than a shitty film from the two, like now. Yeah, because you still have to make choices. Yeah, like you know what I mean? Like the lighting has to, you know, you have film, you're making it on film. You're doing like what was the movie that we laughed about a lot when the Halle Berry's in it? And oh, it was uh Catwoman?

SPEAKER_04 50:47

No, no fuck. It was Taleley's pick.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

Tillelli's pick, the Bruce Willis movie. Yeah, it was so ridiculous. Damon Wayne's great. It was it was such a freaking ridiculous film. Yeah, the opening shot sequence is a football game, and a guy has a gun and shoots. Oh, is it? That movie, what did you think of that movie?

SPEAKER_05 51:04

I didn't say it Robin so much. She said she liked it.

SPEAKER_01 51:06

I liked it.

SPEAKER_05 51:07

She said it got it got panned a bit.

SPEAKER_01 51:09

It got panned a lot, but I liked it.

SPEAKER_05 51:11

I don't think it deserved the hate.

SPEAKER_04 51:12

I don't think it deserved the hate.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

I thought it was really cool. I thought it was fun. And Tim Heidegger making a like, I didn't know he was in it.

SPEAKER_04 51:18

No, it's fun.

SPEAKER_01 51:19

It was fun. Um, so yeah, I appreciate it. Like it, and it seems like that's your wheelhouse, huh? You like that in 80s, 90s. Kind of.

SPEAKER_05 51:25

I don't think that was, and there's movies today that do that, but whenever I like often, whenever Robin's like, what movie do you want to watch? I'm like, let's watch um what's the one where they steal the Declaration of Independence?

SPEAKER_02 51:34

Oh my gosh, Treasure?

SPEAKER_05 51:36

That's not like that's not the same wheelhouse, but it's like, oh, like adventure, simple idea, do that.

SPEAKER_01 51:40

You should watch 1970s New York City films. Yeah, like yours in the French Connection? No, see things like that, and like uh take another Pelham 123.

SPEAKER_05 51:50

That I've heard of, and I've heard it's very good.

SPEAKER_01 51:51

Yeah, Nuts against Washington, the old one with Walter Mathow. You gotta it's like they're really good and it's fun. It's just fun. Like, I mean, yeah, it's just fun crime. Like these guys, and the guy from Jaws is in it, Robert Shaw. Yeah, and um a bunch of that.

SPEAKER_05 52:06

It's really crazy when older stuff, because you kind of have this idea that technology gets better, movies get better, but it is crazy that it's like the fundamentals like could be movies can be better back then. And it's a good point about making choices where they couldn't shoot coverage, they were like, here's what I want, right? Let's make it make sense. And now you see stuff and you're like, it have all the pieces, but it's that doesn't really tell the story.

SPEAKER_01 52:22

But like there's also an adventure, like you said, an adventure to it. Like taking another Pel 123 is like, okay, a train gets uh hijacked. Yeah, and then it's like, all right, that's gonna be a hell of like a thing to shoot. And it's like, but visually it's gonna be amazing, so it's exciting, you know what I mean? It's like back in the day, it's like, all right, movie making. Like I've like I miss that kind of like, all right, then we got a guy, they fall in love, and then they're like, I think. We're making a movie. We're making a movie, you know what I mean? Now it's just like, yeah, like you say, like everything's gotta be. It leads with an emotion more than and like marketing more than the story. Like just tell the fucking story.

SPEAKER_04 52:58

Tell the story. The story doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 53:00

It does, yeah, it doesn't matter. And it's like that's it shouldn't matter. That's the number one thing. It should be a story. That's and that Midnight Run is a testament to that because it's just like a fun story. Like, if I get pitched to that, I'm like, this sounds like a great fun movie. Good time.

SPEAKER_05 53:14

I mean, I think about like writing a movie. I've written a few that nothing happened with them, but like exercises in that class, and it's like I'm almost like that'd be like I think there's no I want to write a movie like this now, and I think I think it'll do well. I don't know, if it was a well-written movie that is that kind of like simple adventure thing. I can't really think of one I've seen in modern time that's really doing that.

SPEAKER_04 53:30

No, I don't know. No, no, they all suck and usually go straight to Amazon or something. Right, right, right, right, right. That has fucking John Cena in it. That's trash.

SPEAKER_01 53:37

We got Trent, our roommate. What's up, Trent? That's great. Little little wet there out there, buddy? Okay, a little wet. Thank you for stopping by, Trent. I love Trent. That's Trent.

SPEAKER_03 53:48

That's true. I'll see him on Friday.

SPEAKER_01 53:50

Oh, yeah, Friday, yeah. That's right. I thought he was in his room the whole time. Yeah, same. Oh, I didn't know. Um who's in the room and Matt Ben Matt's in there.

SPEAKER_05 53:59

Is he in there currently?

SPEAKER_01 54:00

Um, yeah, I guess so. He's I he's probably up just jerking off. Jerking off.

SPEAKER_03 54:05

Come back up to car, right? So in there?

SPEAKER_01 54:12

Okay. Makes a peanut butter jelly sandwich, goes back in. Grabs a peach. Yeah, Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_02 54:18

All right, well, that ends that, right? That's how a book end up, peach. All right.

SPEAKER_04 54:22

Enjoy your peaches.

SPEAKER_01 54:23

All right, Julian.

SPEAKER_05 54:24

Where can you? Oh, wait, they can find you. Yeah, yeah. I mean, JulianBraheny.comedy on Instagram or just Julian Braheny on everything else.

SPEAKER_01 54:30

Yeah, he does great sketches. You do great sketches. Thank you. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 54:34

The algorithm hates them, but the critics.

SPEAKER_01 54:37

Well, yeah, you do great sketches, and you're a good dude. So thank you so much for coming by, and thank you for picking a normal fucking movie. I was about to change the thing to Jess Pix the movie because I was so over with all these freaking films we were getting, man. All right, Levi the White. Yeah, that Gmail, not Gmail, I almost put it. I'm freeing, yeah. Levi and I got a hammer. Yeah, that JLove comedy, watch the special. It's fucking 5300. I'm never gonna this thing is just like I tell them if one more comedian comes up to me and do like, Oh, it's a great special, I'm gonna be like, Yeah, it's great, it's good, huh? It's making a lot of money. Um That's it, thank you. That's it, bye, bye. Thank you, that was fine.