The ‘Burbs / I’m a Nicky Katt Man (Guest: Brian Leahy)

Writer/Director/Actor/#raddad Brian Leahy moves in with us, but has some worries about the new neighbors here in “The ‘Burbs” (1989 Dir. Joe Dante) Starring - Tom Hanks, Rick Ducommun, and Bruce Dern.  Grab your hair and your little dog as Spooky Season kicks into high gear with night digging, unexplained explosions, midnight light shows, and abstract art. Pull up a porch chair, turn up the speakers, grab your pretzels, and crack the sardines, and settle in for a Spooky Season Staycation. We T. Hank(s) you for coming

Plot: An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block is part of a murderous Satanic cult.

Recorded 9/23
1hr 52mins

**All episodes contain explicit language**
Artwork - Ben McFadden
Review Review Intro/Outro Theme - Jamie Henwood
"What Are We Watching" & "Whatcha been up to?" Themes - Matthew Fosket
"Fun Facts" Theme - Chris Olds/Paul Root
Lead-Ins Edited/Conceptualized by - Ben McFadden
Produced by - Ben McFadden & Paul Root
Concept - Paul Root

Transcript

Those are balls. Let's get started. I'll bring them Why not? Let's do it. We're all here.

We're all here. We're gonna review it. We're gonna review it. Stand 2. X 2.

Review x 2 podcast. Gonna give it to you. Gonna give it to you. Welcome to the review review. I'm Ben.

I'm Paul. Brian Leahy is here. Hey, guys. Thank you so much for being here. I, definitely leave it in on the mic.

You should you should do whatever you want. I leave it on this one because I feel like it picks me up better when I do. Feel free to, like, move in, guys. Yeah. Like, explore the space.

It's an a sometimes it is an ace in my flatbeds. Mhmm. Okay. Yeah. Feel free to move, you know, like, just pick up your stuff and move into someone else's house.

Why not? Just kill them. Seems to be the best method. Just take it over. Just take it over.

Brian bought us the burbs. You're welcome. I am welcome. And some beer. And some beers.

And some delicious beers. The burbs? He brought the beers. Beers. He brought the beers.

Battlestar Galactica. Cheers, guys. Oh, cheers. Oh, bro. Oh, man.

Corey Feldman. What an era. Yeah, baby. Also, does he still wear that jacket? The answer is yeah.

Almost definitely. I learned that he's, he was good friends with Michael Jackson Yes. At the time. Mhmm. The jacket makes so much sense.

Also, did you ever see his I think it was a morning show performance of his, like, musical album? Most very recent I like, maybe, like, 6, 7 years ago. No. I watched some of his reality show, and I know that he was Was it the 2 Koreys? Yes.

Yeah. Because I look a little bit like Corey Haim. So, I was like, yeah, that's me. Why not? I'm gonna live vicariously through this guy.

And it didn't go super well Yeah. To be honest with you for me. But that reality show was entertaining for a minute and his music was, not for me. If you get a chance, go look at, like, I think it's like morning show, but it's it's the Corey Feldman's, like, live performance on there and it is something else. Okay.

Wow. It's We'll link it we'll link it in the show notes. Mhmm. It sounds like very important. Let's talk about ourselves.

Yep. Brian Hey. Tell us a little more about you. What what's your whole tell us about your whole Existence. Entire life.

Tell us your life story. It was a Monday morning. I don't know what day I was born. That's so funny. I'm a writer.

I'm a filmmaker. I've made some shorts that are out in the world that people can can see. I'm a dad. I have 2 girls. Yeah, guys.

I'm I love talking about movies. Thanks for bringing a movie that is gonna be so talk abatable. Bringing us a movie about a dad. Yes. Yes.

I can relate. Yeah. Yeah. Just a a suburbanite dad just getting through. Just trying to find some fun shit to do.

He just wants a vacation. Which is But not but not a vacation. He's gonna go on vacation. He wants a staycation. I mean, that's the safe, easy, relaxing, you can anticipate everything.

I love the AC. Works. I love the yeah. Station. That's like Super simple.

Paul, how the fuck have you been? I'm pretty fucking good. I'm glad that the NFL's back. That's been kind of fun. Mhmm.

MLB hasn't been as fun. Basketball's almost back. This is when I get into, like, my sports zone. So it's kind of like It's a sports podcast. I'm excited about, sports, like, kind of coming back.

We're all, like, wearing baseball, caps for our favorite baseball clubs. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm I'm good. I'm I'm zazzed about sports to be peppered in with the movies. Can I say though, I know nothing about sports?

Oh, you just like the logo? I like the I like New York, so I work in New York. Are you are you from New York originally? No. But I went to NYU.

Oh, okay. So I lived in New York for a while. But I'm constantly asked about the Yankees. Sure. You know, guys, like, come up to me.

They're like, oh, fucking Yankees. Right? And I'm like, yeah, man. Of course. No response, like I feel like there are select few baseball teams where that is the like, Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox might be the only ones I can think of of people who just wear the people wear Mets?

I think. Really? I think. I think just New York logos in general, like, get a lot worse. That's true.

But if you're rocking a Mariners hat, that means that you're you've had a sad existence. Yeah. Like, something you've gotten something donated to you at some point in time. I just had a senior moment. This is the main thing that's that we can always rest on.

If somebody comes up to you and says, fuck Alex Rodriguez. Right? You just go, yeah, man. A Rod. Fucking a Rod, man.

Makes it easy. I wanna, like, the Staten Island voice creeps in a little bit. Yeah. Just like getting the vibe. Yeah.

Yeah. You just oh, yeah. Yeah. Alex Rod. Yeah.

Fuck that guy. Oh, fuck. He was totally bald. Fucking a Yeah. What the fuck?

Really fucked over J. Lo. Right? Yeah. That's what they're the most, man.

But Jeter though. Jeter though. Yeah. Jeter's the shit. Yeah.

The captain, bro. The cheater. Who's talking about the fucking captain, bro? Well, no one asked but I'm doing pretty good. How are you?

I'm doing pretty well. Similar to Paul, I'm I enjoyed this first weekend of of the NFL football. Oh, that's what you've been watching? Yeah. It is I'm a big fan.

Didn't love the outcome of this week. Oh, no. But I also play a lot of fantasy football, which is kinda like real football except for people who have no abilities to play. Right. Of of course.

Yeah. That's why I I do it. Yeah. Exactly. Yep.

It's like being an observer but have pretending like you know what you're doing. That's what I've been doing. We have friends who are, like, don't contact me for the next x number of days. Do you are you guys in that? I I I enjoy it, Bobby.

Like, yesterday this is a sad, thing, but yesterday, I did I watched all games, morning games, afternoon game, and evening game. But I like to communicate about it. Like, I like to have a group of people to talk to about it. I don't like to be in a shell. I find that not very fun.

Not even a shell? Kinda like when I go see a movie, I wanna talk to someone about it. Like, we're here today Yeah. Talking about the burbs. It's true.

The burbs. Brian, how are you? The burbs. The burbs. The burbs.

The burbs. The balls. I'm good. We had a we had a busy weekend, so I'm, like, catching up still. Okay.

Did a little volunteering today, which is cool. Oh, yeah. Little 911 commemoration Oh, nice. Volunteering. Okay.

There's a 911 there's a statue in this park that I'm sure you've driven past. A memorial? And the statue, it it's apparently a 911 memorial, but it looks obscene. It's like it's like, it's like it's it's just supposed to be abstract art, and then you get close and there's a there's a there's a there's a plaque that's, like, dedicated to those we lost in 911. And I'm like, woah.

That is a wild take. Because if you look at it from afar and you don't see that plaque, you're like, that looks like a ball sack with 3 testicles in it, which is what it looks like. Those are balls. What is it trying to? I can't imagine.

I have I have zero idea. I've I've gone to the park numerous times. Oh. But if you drive this to, cut that out so no one knows where I live, but you'll see it, like, right on The amount of times I've saved this guy's life from some weirdo. Like yourself?

Only one at a time. 1 at a time. Get back on track. When you drive home, I'm gonna check him off the ball sack. You should.

You know? That's what I tell people. I'm like, when you get off, get on the then take a ride at the ball sack. I'm all I'm almost sure I've driven by it and never really noticed or paid any attention. I guess, what I have been paying attention to lately though What Okay.

Are you checking for Billy Zane? He's here. That was the other movie I was thinking about for spooky season. Titanic. Because that's what we're in right now, everybody.

It's spooky season. We're gearing up. I thought I was gonna have 0 selections when you said spooky, and then I had still way too many. There's so much. I want you to know that you guys gave me anxiety having to pick one film to talk about.

That's part of the strategy. To be honest, I sent you 7 films to choose from. I think that's right. We boiled it down to 4. We were going to take a poll, I think, maybe.

We considered it and then I think we just batted it back and forth a couple of times until Ben was like the burbs. Well, let's Brian, talk about your experience with the burbs and the blood burbs. Pause. Pause. Let's finish the what are we watching thing that I was setting up there and then get into the history.

Is that okay? Sure. Okay. I get thrown off. Sorry.

It's okay. Stick to the schedule, Ben. Sorry. Yeah. God.

There's an itinerary that we wrote. We will not go off of it. Weeks? No. There's creativity is not encouraged here.

I can see what going to Disneyland with you is like, Paul. It's a nightmare. It's an absolute nightmare. I literally Space mountain. Space mountain.

And then Space Mountain again. No. It's And then it's Star Tours? Little Mermaid. Little Mermaid.

Little Mermaid. You only like Little Mermaid because it has good air conditioning. Correct. And then Yeah. That's true.

And then I end on It's a Small World and then I go home. That's a long ass walk That's it. From California Ventures all over the Yep. I pay for both parks. So I get everything I want which is Little Mermaid and It's A Small World.

The weird part too is he's dressed head to toe in Nightmare Before Christmas stuff. Like, it's his identity, but he does not go anywhere near the Haunted Mansion. Nope. Absolutely not. It's too spooky.

I promised my kids It reminds me of the kopeks. To Disneyland for 2 years. And every time I go look at the prices, I I get Oh, man. Like, the feels. Oh, you, like, you haven't I haven't done it.

It's yeah. It is it has become, like, either you're gonna take, like, a, you know, beautiful vacation to, like like, New Mexico Beach or something or Disneyland. Disneyland. You can go to Disneyland for 8 hours. Especially when you have 2 kids.

Yeah. Yeah. What I've been watching Oh, that's what you were referencing. Yeah. I thought Tales from the Crit, Demon Knight for my spooky season pick because Ben and I are are gonna pick our own and, and We're doing a lot each other's.

In spooky season, so so strap in. You pick our nose and each other's nose. My first nose is Poltergeist and I I love that movie. And that's a real good choice. And that was a bad idea.

And you had mentioned that you know Martin Cassella. I do. Right? Yeah. He and I follow each other on Twitter and have, like, very brief back and forth occasionally.

Oh, wow. I don't well, how do you know him? I've known Marty forever. He cast me in a play right out of NYU. Oh, rad.

He wrote a play about 5 guys with small dicks who gather in a church basement and talk about their feelings like a self help group. Okay. What's the name of this play? The Irish Curse. It's actually, an excellent play.

It sounds amazing. This has been performed all over the world in many languages. Oh, wow. Okay. And it was my first play out of college, and it was a fringe show.

And then it went off Broadway, and I stuck with it. And, so I've known Marty forever. Oh, that's so cool. I love that. He's a wonderful man.

I have no doubt at all. I he's He's a he's a great I'm just gonna say Twitter. He's a great Twitter follow. He's not x? I don't care.

I don't I do what I want. Gotcha. But I've been watching Hard Knocks. I just finished it. And it's a really weird journey for me, because I, it's so hard not to have thoughts and feelings about athletes.

And I it's weird. I can detach from actors so easily, but, like, casting my opinions or thoughts on athletes or whatever. Themselves. Yeah. And it's like, Hard Knocks is always just so insanely entertaining.

I get in my feels watching it because in a lot of cases, they're just like more relatable or whatnot. I don't know. Sure. Sure. Sure.

Yeah. And I love, I love the way Liam Shriber narrates it. It's amazing. Even if you're not a football person, it's just a fun watch in my opinion. I love that he showed up in person.

Yeah. It was great. As the the voice of God's here. Hey, you meet the voice of God? Yeah.

I love that. Aaron Rodgers refers to Liv Shriver is the voice of God. And then, I guess, on that note, I'm just gonna transition into I went and rented one of the few couples, Scorsese movies I had not seen. I rented Last Temptation of Christ starring Willem Dafoe and got in a bit of a rabbit hole about that film and the novel and the genesis of the production. Peter Gabriel did the music, by the way, genesis, etcetera.

But either way It's like a Peter Gabriel reference. I know. I know. Genesis. That might have been a while ago.

Last time I was just trying to bring it altogether. That's fair. I enjoyed the movie. It was just like half the time I'm like I have my head crooked and I'm like my eyes are a little squinty, but I really enjoyed it. I look forward to seeing it again at some point.

Have you guys talked about a favorite Scorsese film? I mean, it's a huge Wow. I don't mean to bring up something. No. No.

No. We can do that real quick. I would love to. Do you wanna go first? Let's I mean Oh god.

You can choose the order. The, oh, Ben. Oh, wow. Bring it. I think I mean, it feels like the only answer to me is Goodfellas.

The the other one that I've watched a lot and I think it's not a favorite of many people is Gangs of New York. I actually really like that movie. I don't like some of the performances, but I I love the structure of that movie and I love the world, but I think Goodfellas. Whenever you and I have talked about Gangs of New York and, like, the performance piece, you're always like, I could do way better than the guy who goes Buffalo Bill. There's no way like, anything I'm better than this guy.

And I was like, yeah. Probably, man. I'm talking about the other the Sugar Ray Mcfrapp person. That Buffalo Bill. Come on.

Woah. That is also like a wild life. Ted Levine's is so amazing. Oh, yeah. Well, I'm I could I could do better.

The the dog from silence of the lambs is in the movie. Oh, yeah. It's so good. Yeah. Oh, amazing.

Okay. Favorite Scorsese, we're gonna get back on track. Brian, you or I? I'll go. Okay.

Bring me out the dead. That is like a a very left field pick to me. Yeah. I saw it in college. Okay.

I mean, Raging Bull is is very close. Yeah. But, yeah, that film always stuck with me. I can just see see Nick Cage's crazy face as he's driving down Manhattan streets. Mhmm.

It's so visceral. And, like, yeah. Just his eyes, like so good in that movie. Yeah. Mhmm.

Yeah. I'm a huge fan of his. Huge, huge Nicolas Cage movie. Man, now I'm like, have you even seen Mean Streets? Yeah.

I never have seen Mean Streets. That's a film I studied in college. Yeah. And so I'm like, you don't get good fellas if you don't have Mean Streets. Sure.

It's just stepping stone. You can you can see the progression of his career with that film. Yeah. Yeah. And to Goodfellas' credit and Scorsese's credit, maybe Goodfellas is better.

Mean Streets just because it was earlier doesn't mean it's better. Sure. For me, it's the color of money. Oh, I already knew that. Number 1 all the way.

No question. 2nd for me is Casino because the Sharon Stone performance and the way that Robert De Niro and she, like, work together and that the energy that's there is just like, it's and and then you throw in Joe Pesci who's doing definitely something different than he does in Goodfellas, but something that is on a similar kind of road. Right? But, man, I love Casino. I think that I it's so beautiful to look at.

I mean, all of his movies are, but I just love the the colors and the costumes and that that's over warm and dreamlike and yeah. Great movie. Brian, what are you watching? Well, my partner, Deb, who was on your podcast last week. She was great.

Shout out to Deb. Yep. We just finished watching Silo. Mhmm. Oh.

We we plowed through it because I think she told you, like, the first episode was really captivating. Sure. And then it dragged for us. Yeah. Sure.

Sure. Sure. We got there. By the end, it was pretty we we got the the gist of what they were going for, and, it was satisfying. I wanted something totally different, so I started pen 15.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I've never watched before. I watched a little of that. And it was really fun.

It's just a very funny show. Yeah. Very absurd. It's good. Watching them talk to actual 12 year old boys is hilarious.

I just love the nineties too. So Yeah. Having nineties nostalgia is great. I guess I'll go. No one asked me, but great.

I'll I think we just kind of expect you to No. No. You know what? Is this the last one? I'm always the last one.

Last one picked? Yeah. I rewatched the movie dread Oh. Which I put it on as I was, like I I just put it on as, like, a background movie, and I was, like Good luck. Immediately drawn into it.

I've seen it once before, and I remember being, like, oh, that movie's great. It's a lot like The Raid in terms of structure, but I enjoy it. And then I put it on again, and I'm like, oh, I think this is a I think this is a nearly perfect movie. Mhmm. And I did not realize that Alex Garland did the script.

Yeah. And to me, I'm a huge Alex Garland fan, hated men, the movie men, but I usually like his stuff. So I was just, like, holy shit. This movie is fucking great, and it's 4 and a half star movie for me. 4 and a half helmets?

4 and a half slow lows. Mama. So, yeah. I have you seen some of the dread? It's been a a long time.

Karl Urban. I think it's a 2,011, 2012? 1011 years ago or more for sure. Yeah. Olivia Thirlby?

Thirlby. Thirlby. Yeah. Lena Headey. Lena Headey.

It's just I feel like it it flew beneath the radar, and I'm, like, this is a comic book movie. This is a superhero comic book movie. Why didn't it get bigger praise? I I think you have to be okay with things that are hyperviolent for that that movie is that movie is violent for that that movie is that movie is, like, not quite, like, x or n c 17 rated, but it's, like, moving it's it's headed in that direction. Yeah.

There's there's some, like, sexual violence that's, like, kind of referenced visually. I think also it's kinda hard to swallow the pill of that potential future depending on what your viewpoint or attitude is because that is basically, like, oh, we have to build up, we can't build out, all these mega cities are people crammed into It's a horrible dystopian. Dystopian future. That's, like, it hits in it hits hard. Even watching even watching, I was, like, oh, is this gonna be, like, pro police propaganda in some way?

Because they're, like, you know, the judge they're judge, jury, and executioner. Defense noted. Yeah. But the judges themselves are not shown, other than dread, are not shown in a very good light. No.

They can be bought pretty easily. Easily. Yep. The government is also not doing great. It's just across the board, I really I thought really great.

It's glorious. I couldn't agree with you more. Oh, I watched one more thing. So after I watched the burbs, my TV was like, hey. You should watch these other things.

And Dragnet was one of them. Dragnet. He did that to me. He recommended Dragnet to me. And I did it.

Yeah. I took it hook, line, and sticker. And I've never seen it before, and it's great. Oh, yeah. You get us a little, Christopher Plummer in there.

He's like the villain. The yeah. A pretty he's the Oh, he's yeah. He's he's He's like the evil he's not actually a preacher or priest or whatever. He's Evangelist.

Evangelist. Yes. Yeah. Televangelist. Right.

And then, like, Aykroyd, man. What do you mean Aykroyd? With the syntax and the whole I just wanted to watch Coneheads again. I actually like that movie. It's underwritten movies.

I always wanna watch Conan heads. When when Aykroyd pulls back the roof of that car with, Chris Farley yeah. Brian's, like, kicking his head back. It's never not fun. It's always funny.

It's always funny. I have a funny story about Dragnet just because the last time I watched it, I was coming down off of acid. Yeah. This is many, many years ago. This is many years ago.

This is 2020. 2021. 4th July, 2000 and 10, I think. Head full of acid, went to a party, got into a depressed state Oh. Walked home Yeah.

Watched Dragnet in my bed until 6 AM when I could actually go to sleep. Wow. It's really not a great not a great, night. How did that my remembrance. Yeah.

I was like, how did do you know how dragnet went for you at all? I don't remember that movie. Was it your first watch of dragnet? No. I think I'd seen it with my father, but I don't recall that time very much either.

Okay. He was on LSD that time. My dad was on LSD that time. I was gonna say he was only a together. So yeah.

Me and dad were doing acid killer. There. No. So that was a weird experience. But anyway, speaking of experiences, Brian, your experience with the burbs.

Guys, these segues are on fire. I know. I gave myself a high five. I was temporarily thinking we did it. The verbs.

I don't remember the first time I watched this movie, but it's definitely part of my formative movie watching years, you know. Like my mom always says I have a sick mind in a in a loving way as much as possible. And I think this is what she means. Like, because I grew up watching these films. I was born in 83.

This is an 89 film. So I I did not watch it when I was 6. But it was one of those movies that was just on whatever cable channel that you had. And so I watched it way too many times probably, and I identify with this humor so much. Sure.

Yeah. And young Tom Hanks. I mean, I think Oh, man. No one's the guy. No one freaks out as well as a young Tom Hanks.

His gestures in this movie are just wonderful to watch. Yeah. Yeah. He's an incredible physical comedian. He is.

Truly. You can actually really see that well animated as Woody too. They do a good job incredibly of, like, capturing his gestures and his movements His energy. In just a direction. Yeah.

Absolutely. Don't be afraid of AI. It's okay. We'll all be fine. No.

That was just animation. No. I know. But the AI picks up on those things, doesn't it? Isn't it?

If it grabs all the I'm not saying it I'm done. I'm done. You're right. I'm done. What was your experience with this movie?

Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm gonna talk about a couple experiences here everybody. So strap in. Okay.

I'm gonna go look at my phone. Yeah. Probably a good idea. Just gonna drink this one more time. This is a well worn tire for a bit.

I like looking at my phone when they're doing stuff. Yeah. So first experience that I recall, my grandparents, grandpa Harold and grandma Ruth, rented this movie because it was I was staying there for the weekend and it was a PG movie and it had Tom Hanks, so it must be fine. Would have been in the nineties. And I remember as a kid being fascinated no.

Wait. Was I 40? No. Was I 8? It's hard to say.

So that's the thing I do. Great. Yeah. So yeah. It's really working.

I'm catching on. I've seen your moments. You guys have It's really funny when you have to say it's a thing I do. When you explain the joke, that's how you know it's good. This is my thing.

This is my thing. Look, it's a thing I do. Just let it go. Just let it just let it get out of my system. This is my thing.

This is what we've My little thing. It's my thing I do. Except I think I love who I am. I laugh about it to myself. So, made an imprint on me.

Loved the movie. Had it on VHS after that. Watched it several times, when I was a kid. My last experience before today, many years ago, today, many years ago, Ben might have been on acid. Thank you.

Need a little Wayne's World transition there. So I had been, dating a young lady, and we were like, let's spend the weekend together. And we spent the weekend together, and we together. And we spent the weekend together, and we started watching the burbs again many years ago. I'm very happy now with my girlfriend.

She's lovely. You're amazing. I hope you listen to this still. Probably not. I would have you can't be that supportive.

So, we were watching the burbs and there's a pounding at the door and long story short, her boyfriend showed up. Oh. And that was my last experience with this. So this time I was kind of, like, excited to be like, I wonder how much that stuck to me. I wonder what this is gonna be like.

Do you remember when in the movie it was that the that he knocked on the door? Like, did you shiver at that at that at that exact moment? I wish I do remember. I know it was the second act because I remember I we the movie was not finished when I left. Ugh.

Yeah. And I like to finish I like to finish these movies. Now, this isn't the same time you didn't get to finish that night. No. No.

Nope. Yeah. A different different premature ending. Correct. Yeah.

Yep. Nobody was happy about it. Yeah. Nobody was happy about it. But that was my last experience, but I have a bunch of experience with this.

Ben Yeah. Hey. Would you tell us your experience, please? Oh my god. Thank you so much.

I feel so seen. Good. I've never seen this movie. Which is wild. I've always known about this movie.

I love Tom Hanks. I I love Joe Dante. I don't know why I'd never seen this movie. It was just it was just one of those, you know, blank spots in my Yeah. My cinephile rolodex.

But you still really, really, really, really, really, really, really like Tom Hanks? I'm a big Tom Hanks fan. I'm a big Tom Hanks fan. Yeah. How's this?

There was a pause there. Did you did you catch that? He's actually supposed to be. He was gonna put something in there. Ben, you you took a moment before you answered.

No. I was gonna say that I well, I just want This is scripted like the NFL. Okay? I just wanna make sure the last thing I saw of Tom Hanks was in Elvis, and I'm not sure I liked you in that movie. Yeah.

We didn't get through that. Yeah. Well, I watched on the air on the airplane. Oh, so you had to get through? I didn't have a choice.

Oh, you're stuck to your seat. Yeah. Christmas Eve, 2020 2, watched Elvis on a flight to Denver. I'm sorry. Actually, you know, probably the best part of that flight was watching that movie.

The we our plane event delayed 6 hours. Yeah. I remember that you're telling me about this. So I was like, okay. Sure.

And Jess had to sit way behind me, and so I was like, I watched Elvis. She's like, how was it? I'm like, don't wanna talk about it. Moving on. Yeah.

I I'm gonna say it, and maybe I'll bleep it. I know. You don't like Baz Luhrmann. I'm not a Baz Luhrmann person. I'm not either.

No. We can fight about Romeo and Juliet if you'd like. That was just High five. This is the second time Left cheek, right cheek, and to Ben. Yeah.

They high five on my face. Using to using Ben's face. I do like word of paper. I'm sorry. I do like Romeo.

Ben. Oh, god. I also like Moulin Rouge. Those are the only ones I like. Romeo and Juliet is a great film.

I agree. But, yeah, no. Moulin Rouge is a bad film. Oh. Woah.

Woah. We can hot takes people. I wrote a paper at n at NYU about how bad Oh, really? That film was. Holy shit.

Yeah. I wrote a paper about how great Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge is. I got a good grade on that paper. Yeah. Funny, my entry essay into college was about the Baz movie and Romeo and Juliet.

Not no joking. Oh, really? Yeah. A a good Yeah. Good Yeah.

As as the thing that sort of, like, brought me into Shakespeare. Nice. Yeah. I can see that. That that was a movie that was like Okay.

No. That that was you said that. It's like, I could see that. No. Yeah.

I did a film on Tim Robinson. You sure about that? Yeah. No. That because that was the thing that I was like because I don't like I don't enjoy that movie.

But I think that was maybe I was like, was that my gateway as I was thinking about it? Like, I can see that. I think I can relate to that ultimately because I think that was the thing for me too. You guys can't see Paul as Even though I don't like that movie. Leering at me.

Me. Yeah. It's Don't look away. Don't look away from me. I don't I want to.

That Harold Perinot, death scene. Oh, man. Yeah. What a great actor, by the way. Yeah.

Phenomenal actor. It's Harold. Oz. Let's talk about some facts. Let's do it.

The Burbs is what we watched. It's a universal film. It's from 1989. It's PG. Yeah.

And it is the perfect length as they say. It's appropriately PG, unlike Earth Girls are easier. Right. It's an hour. I don't know if you've seen that movie.

I Oh, my god. Also a long time ago. Also, it's PG. It's rated PG. When this PG came up on the screen, I was like, my children would not watch this.

Yeah. It kinda it kinda should be PG 13. Right? It should be. Yeah.

At least on the border of PG 13, if not. But it's it's hour 42 minutes. That's that's a I like an hour 35 to maybe 2 hours. That's what I like. Good one.

Budget, 18,000,000. You know what that is adjusted, Ben? I do because you wrote it down, 44,400,000. Yep. You know what the opening weekend was?

The the the the budget the the money it made? I do because you wrote it down, Paul. February 20, 19, 11,100,000, Ben. That's 27,400,000 adjusted. Final gross North America, 36.6.

That's 90.2 adjusted. Final gross worldwide, 49,100,000. That's 121 adjusted. Other releases this weekend, True Believer and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Truly, it was.

Really? Wow. Weekend top 5. This film, the Tom Cruise classic, Rainman, Bill and Ted's excellent adventure, 3 fugitives and the fly, 2, an Eric Stoltz joint. I had to look up the 3 Fugitives because I I've never heard of that.

Dennis Quaid? I've never heard of that and I've got Nick Nolte? I, I think I don't think so. Who knows? Keep going.

You keep going. I can't remember. I wanna, like, guess who's in it so badly. Well, my guess originally was that you mistakenly referred to 3 Amigos as 3 Fugitives and you didn't. Oh, good.

Okay. That's good. Yeah. Because 3 Amigos is a classic. But 3 fugitives, that's when you have 3 people at the same time saying, I didn't kill my wife.

Wait. Should we wait. Okay. Are they all missing a different appendage? Is that what?

So that's a killer. Oh, okay. Each each killer is is missing something different. Yeah. We're all doctors in different fields though.

But also, let's try this. On the count of 3 Say I didn't kill my wife. 3 people, 3 fugitives. Let's do it. I'll take it forward.

I'll take it. On 3. Yeah. Okay. 1, 2, 3.

I need to jump off out of my house. Sorry. Well, we did great. We did rehearse that a lot. Top 5 films this year domestic, Tim Burton's Bartman, Henry Jones Junior, and The Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2, Tom Cruise's Rainman, that's actually Barry Levinson, and Look Who's Talking not to be confused with Look Who's Talking as well.

Films of note from 1989, Uncle Buck. I'm gonna take a moment here. A lot of people, in my experience, compare John Candy and Rick Ducommun Ducommun? The the names To each other. I I I'm so glad that Brian is looking at the confused West?

Is that why? I think they're both larger guys that are funny. Yeah. I don't know. I think they both I think he he does have a bit of a, like, a Chicago dialect.

Sure. He's got there's a I agree with that. I think that's only the the only similarity. Okay. And they're larger guys.

But that's I've heard several people say this. And if anybody was thinking that, and this is no, no knock to Rick here, John Candy was and will always be a singular talent. And I just wanna say that. National treasure. Abs thank you.

They're both dead. So In North America, do you search for both? Oh, no. I'm not for smirching Rick. Rick is his own singular talent as well.

He did his own thing. Okay. Don't put them in the same bucket is all I'm saying. But I just want to express my love for John Candy so deeply, and Uncle Buck specifically. Uncle Buck.

What am I? Well, Paul, he loves you. Yeah. I think so. Ghostbusters 2, Back to the Future 2, Twins, Harlem Nights, Fletch Lives, Tango, and Cash.

Who's Harry Crumb? Another movie with punctuation, like this movie, The Burbs, and My Stepmother is an Alien. Letterboxed Average, 3.4. I'm Paul acts badly. I'm at run b m c.

Brian, do you have a letterbox? Have a Letterbox. Great. You can get one. But when We'll follow you.

You guys bring it up all the time. Yeah. Yes. That's not that's not a criticism. I I looked it up because I never really dealt with Letterbox.

And I I have movies that I wrote on there. Oh. Oh, wow. Search my name. It says movies by Brian Leahy.

That's amazing. On Letterboxd? Great. Come on and find me there. Wait.

Where where can I watch them? On Letterboxd. Well, no. Where can I watch your movies? So I I have a film called Made Public.

Okay. That's on YouTube. Okay. And I have a film called Waffles on Vimeo. Okay.

And one called 5 Stages of Grief that is not out yet. Oh. Oh, cool. Cool. Okay.

So stay tuned. Festival. Festivals? Audience. Yeah.

Yeah. Try. Nice. Excellent. Oh, Sysco and Ebert, thumbs down.

Like, pretty Wow. Aggressive double thumbs down on this. Wow. That's wow. Okay.

Rotten Tomatoes, 54. Wow. 54. Interesting. Not riding too high.

Fascinating. Will you tell me about the folks who did this thing? Thank you for asking, Paul. Yeah. Yes.

The director of this movie is Joe Dante. He did gremlins 12, not to be confused with the gremlins who stole our episode. Matinee, Small Soldiers, and the howling. Writer is Dana Olsen who did George George of the Jungle starring Brendan Fraser. We're still waiting.

Cornish College of the Own Cornish College of the Arts' own Brendan Fraser. I think that's his official title. Wait. Hold on. Sorry.

Cornish College of the Arts' own Oscar winner for best actor, Brendan Fraser. My apologies. He won for Encino Man. Right? Damn right.

Okay. Good. Bedazzled. That was his first one. The second one was The Mummy.

Actually, let's be clear. It's The Mummy. He won the BAFTA for The Mummy. The Mummy is a perfect movie. Come at me.

Memoirs of an Invisible Man and Inspector Gadget. Rough ride. Yeah. A little bit there. Yeah.

Director of photography, Robert m Stevens, Naked Gun, Naked Gun 2a Half, and the Smell of Fear. Interesting. Oh, Naked Gun 33. Wait, is Naked Gun 2a Half the Smell of Fear the subtitle? That yes.

Oh, wow. I didn't realize that was a subtitle of Naked Gun 2 and a half. It is. It could go both ways. It could be its own fault.

I thought it was its own movie. But also it's because if it was its own movie, the smell of fear, I'd be like, that's a wild left turn. 19 forties. Like, how are you a time traveler? Is this like a noir?

Yeah. The naked the 3rd Naked Gun, the Final Insult, and Serial Mom. Oh, great John Waters smell. That's a good one. Catherine Turner.

Yes. Oh, don't wear white after Labor Day or you will die. I saw that in a theater with my parents, and they were traumatizing. Hell? I know.

See, it's their fault that I'm sick in the head. Wow. Honestly. I mean, it's all of our parents' fault. They're all sick in the head.

Yeah. Wow. I tell my dad that every Christmas. Your parents are absolute ballers for being like, serial mom? Yeah.

We'll take you. Yeah. For them being like good sports for that, that's amazing. Front row. Woah.

Yeah. Woah. Fascinating. It's a lot. I love that your parents were game for it.

I love it. The music was done by one of the greats, Jerry Goldsmith, r I p. The mummy, Deep Rising, Total Recall, Star Trek First Contact, Poltergeist, Basic Instinct, LA Confidential, Mulan, Gremlins 1 and 2, Chinatown, Alien. He did the Universal theme and the Paramount theme. Air Force 1 and Congo.

Bad gorillas. Thank you. Bad gorillas. Great scores. Get off my plane, bad gorillas.

Yes. Get off get off that wing, bad gorillas. There's something on the wing. It's a bad gorilla. There's something on the wing.

You want it to be Jimmy Stewart so bad. There's a sinister looking gorilla on the wing. Get off get off get off my wing. Wing. Literally, I become like, oh my gosh, I'm blanking on his name from, The Andy Griffith Show.

Dom Knotts. I like become Dom Knotts so quickly. First one. Oh, go off the plane. That's a great premise for, like, an old Disney movie.

Dom Knox is the president finding the crazy gorilla on his plane. I'd see that. The gorilla the computer wore tennis shoes. Whatever. Well, maybe AI can make that for you.

It just did. You fucking love it so much. Executive producer Ron Howard, The Dark Tower, Angels and oh, Dark Tower. Deep why? Why did you pick that one?

What? Angels and Demons and No Man's Land. Did he do other stuff? Ron Howard? I think so.

I wanna say something about No Man's Land. Has anyone seen that movie? No Man's Land is No. Tell me who's in that. It's a Charlie Sheen and DB Sweeney movie from the eighties.

Have not. It is awesome. It is the proto Fast and the Furious. It's almost the exact same storyline. It's fairly well acted.

It's one of those movies that you're like, oh, I get why Charlie Sheen was like so big for a while. Kinda like Point Break. Exactly. Yeah. Watch No Man's Land if you get a chance.

Not a sponsor. Tom Hanks plays Ray Peterson who was in The Bachelor Party, Joe versus the Volcano, and Finch. Why Finch? Did you pick those 3? He did.

Ben, why did you pick those? Ben hates Tom Hanks. Paul picks these polls. It's Paul's Paul's Paul Paul's Paul picks. I thought you really, really, really, really, really, really, really like him.

I did watch Finch. Uh-huh. I I think it was in the pandemic. Right? Maybe.

So there wasn't much happening. K. And, that's all I had to say. Carrie Fisher, r I p. Carol Peterson.

She was obviously Princess Leia, and she's in James Bond, Bob Strikes Back, and When Harry Met Sally and Drop Dead Fred. Apparently, Paul is team Fred. Team Fred. Team Fred all the way, baby. I was there.

Team Fred. To me, she's royalty. And she's still drop dead gorgeous in this movie. Oh, absolutely. Oh, I love I love when he's like, I like your haircut.

And I'm like, me too. Like, she rocks the haircut. Carrie Fisher is so hot. Yeah. Absolutely.

I love her. And she's just a badass. Yes. She did a one woman show at the Seattle Rep, that I saw. And she was Oh.

It was a lot about her mental health and her addiction issues and also, like, how young she was when she started getting, like, sexualized. Yeah. And, like, it's a pretty it was a but it was very funny. Powerful. Yeah.

She was she was very honest about like, you've heard the story about her book that she wrote and that she called Harrison Ford before? No. I don't know this. She called Harrison Ford before to let him know, like, by the way, there's a whole chapter about you because when Harrison Ford was married and 40, he had an affair with Carrie Fisher, who was 19, and wanted him to know that she was gonna talk about it. And his and jokingly, his first response was lawyers, but then he didn't care.

He was like, yeah. That happened, and she she ultimately didn't like, they moved on from it, but I thought it was a really, I haven't read the book, but, she the book apparently is very similar to her one woman show. Bruce Stern, mister Rumsfeld, reference to Donald Rumsfeld? Donald Rumsfeld modeled his personality after the character in this movie. Oh.

I'm pretty sure. Nebraska, that's a really great kinda boring movie. Okay. Mhmm. Agreed.

I watched it once, and I was like, cool. Performances? We'll never watch that again. Solid? Yeah.

Bored. Boring. Never seen it. Lovable Forte. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Wild Bill.

Corey Feldman plays Ricky, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, of course, Lion's is a Drive, The Lost Boys. You did not include Goonies. I hate you. Ricky, how do you pronounce his last name? Du DuColeman?

DuColeman? R I p. He plays Art. He was in Spaceballs. He's the Chewbacca esque character.

He's the dog. Right? That's John Candy who plays the Mog. He's one of these baseballs. Oh, he works for, I think he's just a baseball, just like one of the Spaceballs.

They Have you seen the movie? He's just one of the Spaceballs. I'm pretty sure that Mel Brooks or, like, when they are referring to the people who are part of that culture, they are Spaceballs. You mean in the villains, like the bad guys? Yes.

Okay. Like the soldiers, they just call them Spaceballs. Okay. Okay. Okay.

I took this out so much. The storm craps. Yeah. He's also in Groundhog Day. Last action hero, blank check.

I always think about him in Groundhog Day because he's one of the drunk guys. Yeah. He's in the car with the, with the Groundhog. Right? He's in the car with At one point.

Yeah. But Yep. He's the one that they drive on the railroad tracks. Yes. And then he's, like the cops pull him over and he says, Bill Murray says, we'll get, 2 burgers, fries, and a shake.

55 burgers, 55 shakes, 55 nuggets. And then he's the one who yells, add some flapjacks. Right. It's, like, too early for flapjacks? Are you guys thinking I should you should leave fans?

Oh, big time. Mind the right room? Yep. Okay. Good.

Yes. Absolutely. You're you're with friends here. We did an episode with Keiko Green where we just quoted, I think you should leave every It's got a bush. 2 hours.

I think you should be able to watch a little bit of porno work. Wendy Schall plays missus Rumsfeld. Innerspace, batteries not included. Gung ho. Yeah.

The move the this movie is rated PG and she has, like, upskirts. Mhmm. Yeah. Yep. Henry Gibson, r I p, doctor Klopec, he looked so familiar when I was watching this.

You know what? Switching channels, Magnolia, The Blues Brothers, Nashville, and Laugh In. It's Magnolia when he's sitting at the bar and PT Anderson keeps cutting to his face. Oh. Like, his face has been burned into our minds.

I was a creepy guy at the end of the bar. Is that William h Macy's story? Yes. But he's eyeing the young the young hot guy. That's why I think of his face.

Like, his face his eye like, yeah. You're right. His face is so iconic. Yeah. Thanks, PT.

Yeah. Brother Theodore wait. He's credited as brother Theodore. His actual name is Theodore Gottlieb. Oh, I wonder, is he Muslim?

Question mark. No idea. Okay. He plays Ruben Klopec, the last unicorn, the animated Hobbit, and the anime in The Return of the King. Fun facts.

Walter's toy poodle, Queenie, was played as the same dog that played Precious in the Science of the Lambs as well as Pink Poodle in Pee wee's Big Adventure and Ratty Poodle in Batman Returns, a movie we've done on this. Our second appearance. Darla's second appearance. That poodle fucking worked. That bitch got around.

Okay? Question, poodle poodle owners. Pooter? Pooter owners. I have a bee.

That's me. Pooterer? I have a pooter. Residuals? Oh, yeah.

Animal actors owners. Residuals? Oh, I don't know. Question mark? I don't know.

Why not? Well Let's give it to them. The the studios could find a way not to do that. I'm sure they would. Yes.

Everyone in the cast and crew had a good time working on the film, so much so that Tom Hanks personally bought everyone's sunglasses and left a personal thank you note to everyone in the cast and the crew. Aw. The street was shot on the Universal back lot which was changed much over the years and has been home to Desperate Housewives, Seinfeld House, ER, Inception, Once Upon Time, and Hollywood Psycho. The only thing that has remained the same is Walters, the old man, his house. They call it Colonial Street.

And if you go on the back lot tour, if they're not shooting on it, which they are a lot, we'll usually go down it. It's a it literally is just that cul de sac. That's all it is. And tell me if I'm wrong, but Corey Feldman's house is the Munster house. Yes.

That is right. Fuck up your whole, like, the next, thing you were gonna say. Corey Feldman's house oh, no. Just kidding. I'm just kidding.

It was not. Damn it. That would have been better. The film was shot in sequence and was filmed during the writers strike of 1988. Wow.

Is that when you picked it? It is. Apropos. You're welcome. The film was rushing to production to avoid a writer Guild of America's that's the WGA for those who don't know.

Strike, principal photography began the same day the strike went into effect, May 19, 1988. Several scenes were improvised, changing the day by actors and director Joe Dante. Carrie Fisher was an accomplished writer. She did contribute to this film directly as well as postcard from the edge, shampoo, when Harry Met Sally, and others. She was also a script doctor for films such as The Wedding Singer, Sister Act, and the greatest film ever written By 5 to 7 people.

Last Action Hero. Yeah. Give it its flowers. Brian, what's the log line of this film? I I think it's actually pretty straightforward.

Yeah. Young family man and his spying neighbors, suspect their new neighbors are up to no good. Foul play, if you will. It's very funny. I was on a run today, and I would I don't listen to anything while I'm running.

I spent, like, a good 15 minutes of the run trying to come up with a log line. Oh. Because I was just like You prepared. I I just Well, I I winged it. No.

But you were right. I mean, this is super close. An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family in the block is part of a murderous satanic cult. Okay. Yeah.

I mean, you you got it. I miss the satanic part. Next, this is part of what makes it spooky. And this episode is brought to you by the review review spooky season because we are in satanic cults. This is how we're kicking off spooky season everybody.

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Please laugh. I'm gonna tuck in a little bit. Okay. Just gonna scoot in a bit. We're not talking about Silence of the Lambs.

I've told you this. Well, I just We've talked about it. All we're gonna talk about. What's wrong? Just wanna talk about that butter sausage.

Bison, how's it going? Would you fuck this butter sausage? She wouldn't be so hard. She wouldn't be so hard. She wouldn't be so hard.

She wouldn't be so hard. She wouldn't be so hard. Put the dog in the basket. Put the dog in the basket. Yeah.

She was a big girl. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Put the dog in the basket.

So we're gonna try this before we, put it on Patreon. Spoopy. But we're gonna try to play a little round of cinephile. Brian grabbed a card. I did.

It has an actor on the card. I have not seen this actor. Nope. Neither have I. Brian, the guest gets to go first.

Whomever is out first gives their rating first. We're gonna play a round of cinephile and see how it goes. Let's go. Bryant, what do you got? I got Leo.

Okay. Same movie. I'm gonna do What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Okay. My favorite film of his.

Gangs of New York. The Beach. This is where my this is where my brain literally stops with The Aviator. Yeah. Romeo Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet.

Basketball Diaries. The recent one. Oh, that's a good one. Wolf of Wall Street. The revenant.

Oh, you took it right out of my brain. Shoot. Somebody give me, like, a 5 count or something. A 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. That doesn't help.

Yeah. Okay. I'm out. I'm out. Wow.

Missed the buzz? I didn't lose it. No. Good. So I guess I have to give my rating first.

Right? We agree to disagree. Great. Okay. I'll give my rating first.

I watched this today in the morning. I wanted to watch it in the daylight, partially because I love the look of this movie in the daylight. I think it looks great. I think they do a great job, lighting the whole thing and making it feel like an actual neighborhood a lot of the time. It's very helpful.

I'm gonna give this film 4 toupees. That's where I'm at. It is 4 out of 5 toupees. So darn good. Mhmm.

It is such a good time. It's well shot. I love the score. Oh, yeah. Love the score and all the little Easter eggs and references through the movie.

So I'm at a 4, but it's a strong 4. It's a strong 4. So we say it's a hard 4. I thought you were a soft 4. Soft 2.

Soft 2, hard 4. Try to keep keep trying to give me credit. Am I going am I going next? Are are these original ratings? Is this is this what we Or just watched rating.

This is just watched. Just watched rating. Okay. Great. Yeah.

Ben, please. Okay. I've never seen it. Threw it on last night after my day of football. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thought the comedy held up really well. The suspense and the actual, like, mystery held up well that I was, like, I actually don't know if these are bad guys or if the neighborhood is just a bunch of nuts. The characters are well developed. They introduce them quickly and then you immediately know who they are. You're, like, oh, I know who that person is, Corey Feldman, you know, all of them I feel like are well established in the world.

Archetypes. Yeah. Yeah. And so I walked away with 4 red rat hands. Brian.

Would you guys agree this is horror satire? Comedy horror? I think comedy horror. Okay. Comedy horror.

It's it's a comedy David Lynch. It's like Blue Velvet or it's like hitch it's comedy modern comedy Hitchcock. It's Rear Window. There's an absurdity level. It's kinda like what is the vampire movie that where the Fright Night.

Fright Night. Yeah. Reminded me of Fright Night a little bit. It's got a little Rear Window, but it's also got the David Lynch thing to me where it's like the most sinister thing is like it's right there. It's in your quiet small town that everybody seems happy Yeah.

And the whole thing, there's always this underlying, like, there's something that should be feared. It's like a Twilight Zone episode. Yeah. But but the comedy is what it really sails onto me. So I feel like it's comedy forward.

Okay. Or absurdist horror. I I like Yeah. You said absurdist. I like that.

Okay. Yeah. So, yeah. I I remember this being a 4. Like, when I was a kid, this was a strong 4 in my mind.

Thank you for bringing that back. You're welcome. I think the the comedy's very much still holds up. I was, like, repeating lines back to Deb Yeah. The minute they said them.

Because sometimes they would I don't know if you noticed this. They would, like, it'd be a solid joke, but then they would double down. Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah.

It was great. I can't think of a single one right now. Sure. And it's probably for the better. No.

I go on. I I but I think it lost, a tiny bit for me just because I think, I don't know. It just aged Oh. But not like a fine wine Sure. In the other direction.

3.9. 3.9? Skulls. It's like a trunk. It's soft.

So it's a soft 4. It's a soft it's a soft 4. Yeah. If we're rounding up. If I'm rounding up, it's a it's a soft 4.

Soft 4. Okay. I always do. And that's okay. That is okay.

Sometimes we need a soft 4 because we've had I feel like she's laughing. She's laughing as she walks by. She knows she knows she knows I'm a hard 2a half. This is a good content. I feel like that's that's an interesting take because I feel like that happens to me a lot with movies that I watched when I was younger.

Sure. That they I go into them when I had such a high or love them so much that they don't they don't hit that same nerve anymore. No. Yeah. And I I Yep.

I'm I'd be that might have happened, like, if I had seen this movie similar at the similar time, that might have happened to me but, because it was the first viewing, super fun. Good. One of my backups for this film was Gremlins. Mhmm. You guys were Another Joe Dante film.

Right? Mhmm. Yes. You guys were like, no. We're not doing that one.

Well For whatever reason. Paul has a reason. We don't have to go into it but He looks like he wants to go into it. He looks like he wants to fight you. Gremlins is Gremlins is one of the Oh, he's an alien elf.

I love Gremlins. Yeah. It holds a very, very large piece of my heart. I think it is a brilliant, brilliant movie, and I love the insane left turn that the sequel takes. It is so wild.

I just love those 2 movies so much. I just felt like, I wanted to leave it more up to you 2 and not more so because I'm just gonna come in so hard on Gremlins, so hard. So the movie starts with the universal the universal, logo again. Right. This is our 3rd in a row.

Yeah. I believe you're right. And it's our second time that we've had a universal logo zoom in Transition. To the earth. Where is it zooming into, by the way?

Somewhere in the US. Midwest. It looks like Kansas. It looks like oh. Maybe?

What were you gonna say? I was gonna say more Great Lakes, like just just Minnesota? Iowa? Maybe Iowa. Yeah.

I thought that as well. Iowa? Sure. But this is a very What's the dialect? I don't I have no clue.

Idea. Ben? Go Trump. I don't know. I have no idea.

Accurate. Accurate. I all I know is that there aren't hills like that in Iowa. I don't think. No.

Isn't that very obvious? They're behind the house. There's a hill of pepper trees. It is the hill. California.

Okay. Yeah. The desert. It's that hill. It's this hill over here.

I hike up that hill all the time. Yeah. Mhmm. Like, they do it in a lot of movies where it's like, oh, it's supposed to be Europe. It's supposed to be somewhere else.

I'm like, no. That is Southern California, and it looks like Southern California. It does. And there are hills here in the valley. Yeah.

For some reason, we're in the Midwest. Why? That that the kids did not notice these things. Sure. Yeah.

That zoom in is so great though. Like, the transitional zoom in is pretty great. We did Waterworld and they did a zoom in on that too. I love Waterworld. Woah.

Keep it in, like, the worst way. Okay. So when you guys broke up the other day, I was like, oh. Ice caps have melted. Drink your pee.

Any movie that starts with drinking your own urine is really not gonna go. That's how I start all of my movies. Sure. So zooms in and we're in a little cul de sac in a suburb. Yeah.

Little point looks like best line in the film. What does the cops say something about No. This is the garbage man. Oh, the garbage man. The garbage man.

Yeah. What what is that exactly? Robert Piccardo. I hate cul de sacs. There's only one way out and the people are kinda weird.

I love the kind of, you know? Yeah. He didn't go full. It was kinda weird. Kinda weird.

Kinda weird. They do a really good job of introducing everybody in this opening. I even immediately Tom Hanks when the the kids delivering the papers, when he just flings the coffee at the kid. Yeah. And you're just immediately like, oh, this is a this guy's kinda grumpy or whatever.

Like immediately. And I I also love the immediate Easter egg of the gremlins cereal. I don't know if anybody else saw it. Yeah. Well, the the the kid throw in the newspaper is kind of a dick.

He almost hits he almost hits the old guy in the head. The old guy also lets the dog take shits on other people's lawn. Trained Queenie to dump in Mark Rumsfeld's lawn. Also, they called field. They they say he's old at the time, but I'm like, Bruce Turn's old.

They say they seem like they're the same age. Right? Yeah. I He doesn't seem like he's like an elderly. The The Walter and the dog owner?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Same age. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly. And he keeps referring to him as old man and everything. Yeah. I also like the dog that they Vince, that's the same dog, I think, as Barney.

Probably not the same animal actor, but I think same breed as Barney and gremlins. I feel like just Joe Dante has all these he likes to work with certain actors. It's like Dick Miller, one of the garbage men Uh-huh. And Robert Picardo work with him and other things and whatever. I like I like when people like to work with folks multiple times, especially in the probably shitty period of time.

Tertiary characters? Yeah. Yeah. Well, Bruce Stern is, like, a ex military, and he has a super young Psycho. Wife.

And Corey Feldman is a kid home alone, I guess. And he's like Kevin McCallister. He's like painting shit. And he, like His house? He's, like, randomly painting his house.

Who where are his parents? I don't know. Yeah. I think they do they do they ever address It's not addressed. Where his parents are?

The the spilling of paint Yeah. Right off the bat. Yeah. Never really addressed. I I would I thought that too.

I was, like, this must have been the first take. It was. It had to be. And they kept it in. Yeah.

I mean, the the spill was there. He just spills all over the stairs. Film. Yeah. I I think it's great.

They probably one take, one Corey Ben. They're like, Corey, good job. Worked up. Look, I gotta go get I gotta get in these dudes with my dudes and do some Donatello, bro. Gotta get some more pizza action going.

I don't know. Pizza dude's late. I I love that for whatever reason, Corey Feldman just as, an actor is put in places where he just loves pizza, apparently. Who doesn't love pizza? I mean, it's for everybody.

Ask Michael Scott. He'll tell you. Everybody loves pizza. And we Art loves dog food. Tom Hanks' character is named what again?

Ray. So we Ray is home from work, and it seems like he's taking the week off and his wife, Carrie Fisher, Carol wants him to they wanna go to the lake house. She wants She does. And he just wants to stay home and eat breakfast with his kid Yep. I guess.

Who he doesn't really, you know Care about with or care about at all. Yeah. It's mostly just, like, your mom and I are talking. Like, just, like, constantly I do have to mention, as Paul knows, I hate the trope of a uneaten breakfast. Oh.

She starts to make a breakfast and she goes, are you gonna eat any of this? Right. And he goes, no. And she My stomach's doing that thing again. Yeah.

My stomach's doing and then she stops. But then we meet the neighbor Art. Who comes in and just starts eating fucking everything. He even dips his hand in Vince's food and eats the dog food and then, like, drinks the coffee. He just, like, powers through.

Oh, wait. We forgot to mention though, the opening where he is hearing he's hearing the noise from the neighbors. So the neighbor the mysterious neighbor next to the neighbor's house The classics. Basement's making a sound. It's middle of night.

Yeah. It's middle of the night. And he's walking over there. And the second he walks onto their property, this wind gust happens and the sound stops. And he's, like, thrown back.

And he looks over and we see I think Bruce Dern's character is, like, watching from a window Yeah. Like, smoking a cigarette. So clearly, this is like there's a sound that's happening nightly in this cul de sac and everyone is interested. Well and things, like, in the neighborhood generally have gotten, like, kinda weird. It's like art mentions, oh, my wife's on vacation.

All these giant crows have showed up in the neighborhood, so I got a gun. That's like, what do what do crows and flies tell you? Death. Yeah. Just going back to the the very opening.

Yeah. Yeah. Tone setting is so important. Mhmm. Yeah.

That moment where he steps on the neighbor's lawn and then, like, you know, the the giant gust of wind that's unexplained ever in the film. Mhmm. That's just a perfect setting of tone. Like, you know exactly what kind of film this is gonna be. Yeah.

Do not setting of tone. Like, you know exactly what kind of film this is gonna be. Yeah. Do not cross the line. Things are different.

Yeah. There's a line I draw in the sand and across this line, you do not and also, dude, China is not for nomenclature. Asian America, please. Yeah. Thank you.

No. But, like, it does and it also sets you up to know, like, to keep you kind of on your back foot Mhmm. As Tom Hanks goes on his back foot. I planned that. He where you're like, I don't know if this is supernatural.

I don't know what is happening in this house, but there is is something happening. So we're sort of on the same level as Tom Hanks. Right? We're his character. We're sort of, like, following him being, like, yeah.

There is something fucked up happening there. And then in the journey of the movie is us being, like, but is there? You know, like, that's sort of the the question that we keep going through is like, are they just crazy? We and you're you're really, like for me, you're really on the ride almost as the viewer with, like, Corey Feldman. He's telling you everybody's archetypes how it's gonna go.

He's just observing. Everybody and he knows they mostly come out at night. Mostly. I mean, that kid is a meatball, but which is also technically true. Also, I think Rumsfeld wife wants to fuck him.

I I mean I mean, she's in She could. Yeah. Oh, you're open to it. Yeah. Yeah.

Hey, missus Rumsfeld. No tan lines. Looks great. Kid's a meatball. So good.

Yeah. The the neighbor just the whole neighborhood is well established and Yeah. It's his neighbor are him and Ray start talking about these neighbors that they've never seen. Mhmm. The club checks.

They mostly come out at night. Mostly. And they want to is it is it Ray who has the idea that he wants to go ring the doorbell? Art wants Ray to do it or there there's, like, this little bit of peer pressure like this game of chicken between the 2 of them. Wait.

Does the redhead kid come out first? Yes. Yes. And then I think Tom Hanks is the one who pressures, art to And they get attacked by birch. It's like it's shot like a Sergio Leone movie.

It's literally, like, exactly shot like a Sergio Leone movie, and they finally go to the doorbell, and then they're attacked by bees. Well, first, the address goes from 966 to 666. So good. And then the whole thing falls, and there's just bees. It's great.

The doorbell breaks off? Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

And they fall through the one of their feet fall through the deck. Neck keeps on? Neck keeps up. Burn. No.

It happens. Oh, that happens several times. You're right. Twice. Yeah.

Yeah. Again, we're we're on our left our back foot because we don't know if this is a supernatural thing. Well, I and I like how Tom Hanks is constantly like the he and Carol are like the voice of reason. Like, come on. Let's not intrude.

Let's be nice neighbors. Carol is the voice of reason. Especially Carol. I mean Yeah. Tom Hanks goes back and forth.

Right? He's a skeptic for sure. It takes a while for him to until they find Walter stupid. But he also wants something to engage with because he's so fucking bored. He's so bored.

It's again, rear window. It's yeah. That when they group up Corey Feldman and Rick Ducommun and and Tom Hanks, and they're talking about the the neighborhood, the dead bodies, and Skip the Ice Cream Man. Like, also, why didn't he bury the bodies or transport them? He just let them cook in his house.

Well, I'm pretty sure, It's like an urban legend, but No. No. What's his name? One of the serial kill one of the famous serial killers just kept him in his basement. Dom I know know Dahmer a big part of it was smell.

Well, Dahmer had an apartment. He ate them. Yeah. But But the guy, John Wayne Gacy, he just kept he just kept him in their his fucking basement. So In a freezer or just like lying around?

I don't know. You know, I wasn't there. Golf club, buddy. We'll have to call, like, Toby Hooper and get the whole Texas chainsaw poltergeist end of this. I I'm, I'd be curious.

Yeah. So would I. Maybe we do a review review, you know, live from the basement of chocolate. Oh, god. Oh, lord.

The Cream City Killer tour experience episode. Yeah. Sure. Well, just watch some Texas Chainsaw Massacre and do that. I also when they're watch so after this, they're watching Jeopardy.

Oh, yeah. And Trebek is talking about floating with your arms at a 90 degree angle. Is that the dead man's float? Is that what he's referring to? I did not pick up on that.

I thought that and then she said something like, oh, we did that in college. Like, it I thought they were talking about a sex act. Oh, maybe. Yeah. Maybe.

But also second movie we've done with the goat, Alex Trebek. Oh, yeah. White Man Can't Jump. Yep. And this.

I love it. I wonder how many movies he appears Oh, boy. As the host of Jeopardy. Probably several. Quite a few.

Yeah. Who who's everybody's favorite, like, neighborhood member? Who's your favorite person in the neighborhood? Neighborhood member? Yeah.

In the burbs. Who's your favorite Oh. Burbs? I mean, like, generally Who's your favorite? Yeah.

Who's your Brian, who's your favorite? Do you have a favorite Do you have a least favorite neighbor? We know your least favorite neighbor. We're all listening. So I can't they can't say.

They are listening. They'll be so upset, when I don't name them. Mine is Billy Zane. Okay. He's my favorite neighbor.

In this movie Oh, in this movie. Yes. Is Billy Zane in this movie? No. Billy Zane lives on my roof.

Mickey Katz in this movie. As an adult man? For me, it's Feldman. I mean, he is he is the in for the audience. Yeah.

I was there for Bruce Dern. That was Yes. Yeah. I get it. Dude, everybody's just, like, coming with their a game, like, at every every turn and opportunity.

And he falls off the roof and it Oh my god. It's brutal. Yeah. It's great. And then Feldman just runs up to him.

Yeah. Slams him on the chest. Like, Bruce Dern was the old weird is, their psychology, their behavior, and the noise that the house makes. Is that the Millennium Falcon? Oh, interesting.

I didn't track that. It sounds like the Millennium Falcon. It does sound like a wind turbine. Failing. Oh, it did sound like that too.

Yes. Yeah. I'm curious I'm always curious about the, effect like sound effects and the and the, folly artists. Foley, like sound effect Yeah. Foley.

Artist. Foley. Foley. Thank you. I'm I always like, there's a I don't know if you've been to the have you been to the Academy Museum yet?

Sorry. No. I have not. Yes. Yes.

Have you seen the one they do for Raiders for the Lost Ark? No. Is this recent? Maybe. Oh, okay.

There's a there's an exhibit. You can go into it and there's a, you can watch, Raiders. You can watch it in its original, and then you can watch it with, just the camera sound. Then you can watch it with the, ADR dialogue, and then you can watch it side by side with the Foley artists. Dialogue and then you can watch it side by side with the Foley artists.

Woah. And it's really fast to me, it's Wild. I find it fascinating to watch, like, these people watching something and then, like, pouring water in a jug or, like, shaking sand or doing whatever the fuck they're doing. It's it's a very it's a it's a it's an interesting art form that I really appreciate. Yeah.

No doubt. I'm super interested in, you know. I mean, I already wanted to, but So maybe they use the same thing as the Millennium Falcon. It wouldn't surprise me, partially, because I think Joe Dante and Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus and George Lucas and all these people are like pals Yeah. To whatever degree and borrow from each other's work a lot.

Yeah. But going back to the movie, this is where we're, like, fully in the experience, where Bruce Stern and Ray and Art, all these guys are they have become kind of obsessed with what is going on with our new neighbors. We've never seen them. The noises, there's this digging that's happening at night. This crazy security system.

Art art who is it that says they were digging for? Corey Feldman. Garbage. Corey Feldman is the first one who says that they were digging. Right.

And then Or no. The son. His son, Dave. Oh, his son is the one. Oh, okay.

Because they can see the backyard from their home. Yeah. Because art, like, tries to blame the sun later in the movie. Your son brought up the digging. And then is that when they see is that when they see the kid come out with a garbage?

Yeah. He he drives the Buick to the end of the driveway to throw away the garbage and just beat the living shit out of it with like a tower or something. Yeah. A trowel something, and smash it down and literally just pull back into the garage. So but that is not a body.

Right? I don't think so. No. It wasn't when they tore it open. But I don't think it Yeah.

Right. Because they're burning the bodies. That's more That's true. Spoilers. Right?

That's true. Yeah. Yeah. That noise is their insane industrial furnace that they somehow got into their house. They're burning the bodies and they're burying the bones.

Yeah. Or keeping them somewhere. But they're burying something. Well, and I it's like I I don't know what they put in the can. I think Brian was alluding to this where it's like, did what they put in the can at night and what they ripped open in the morning, were those two things the same?

Because like the red headed kid looks around in the neighborhood like, is anybody watching me? So it's like, did somebody make a second visit we don't see? I always love to try to, like Or is this, like, dude Dig into this shit. His version of a rage room, like, take out the trash tonight. Yeah.

He's like, is anybody watching? I'm gonna go to town in this thing, you know? Fuck you, uncle Ruben. Yeah. Yeah.

And also Yeah. Ruben will take it. Was that kid an incest baby? What? I think he's in Children of the Corn also.

Look at him. And a few other things. Yeah. It's hard to think he got work as a as an actor, except in movies like this. Where he gets to play someone Slavic.

He's gotta be wearing so much makeup. Right? Like, dude, I love fucking Bruce Dern in this movie, honestly. When when he when he's just like the way he's Slavic. Hey, kid.

Hey, kid. Like, just the way he talks to everybody. He's just, like, so direct. He's such a prick. The I I really do love the dynamic of all of these characters and kind of what you were talking about how when they come together, something this movie does really well is that it isolates us in this cul de sac.

This is the only thing that exists. This is the Yes. They're not they they talk about cops at some point and then, obviously, the end, but, like, but for the majority of it, we feel self contained. Even the people that are visiting or people that are familiar with the neighborhood. Corey Feldman's friends that know where he lives that have probably visited.

The garbage men who are like tourists in this neighborhood. I wanna mention Dick Miller from Gremlins 1 and Robert Picardo from Gremlins 2, Star Trek Voyager. And their garbage men are Robert Picardo is like a The garbage men conversation lady from Gremlins 1. He's like trying to get him to, like, join Scientology or something? Yeah.

He's talking about crystals and energy. He's wearing tie dye and shit. He's like a You should just come come to this meeting. He's like a hipster lady from Silver Lake. It's just it it's not necessary.

That this is shit I really like. It's not necessary, but it's such good character stuff to just throw in there. It's great. Oh, yeah. We're gonna just make this guy obsessed with crystals.

He's a part of a cult. I I love when somebody can come in as a character, actor, or what have you, not not top 4 or 5 of the cast and come in and just knock something out of the park. Yeah. And Robert Piccardo, well done. But they do Phenomenal.

They do a good job of isolating us here because I feel like it'd be so easy if they showed us anywhere else, if they showed us a courtroom or I don't know. No. You can't leave. Yeah. No.

No. It's a Twilight Zone episode. Tom Hanks is determined not only to stay because he's lazy as shit and doesn't wanna do anything because he wants to know what the fuck is going on. Do you guys know the episode of Twilight Zone and the monsters are due on Maple Street? No.

No. It's like this episode where everybody they're just like a neighborhood and they're all hanging out. It's, like, middle of summer or something, and there's a radio broadcast that aliens have landed and that they can shape shift and they can look like anybody. Cool. And it becomes this, like suddenly, it becomes this episode about all these people in this neighborhood not trusting one another.

Sounds like, yeah, Invasion of the body snatchers or whatnot. Yeah. But it's all but it's all in this just little patch. Like, this is the world. Yeah.

And I feel like suburban America is so ripe for that where you're like, yeah. Let's just throw somebody in the middle of this neighborhood, in the middle of suburban America and, like, put them in an absurd situation. Any reason to be afraid. Yeah. I also like that this movie is like kind of pokes fun at the people who are paranoid and afraid or whatever, but also like trust your instincts if you're a smart person.

Like, lean into it. It it rides some fine lines. It has some things to say. It's not just like a very simple Yeah. Com comedy or whatever.

It's it has some stances. It's a good What are you making me think of it? Kind of deep movie. Signs Uh-huh. And how much I love that.

I I love that. Oh, swing away, Brian. Swing away. Swing away, Merrill. I love that movie till the end for me.

Like, what's the because water is in the atmosphere everywhere? The creature? What or the water? It's mostly the water. The water.

Okay. Yeah. M. Night Chavalon hates this water. Also hates wind.

I mean, it's basically the ending of And grass. It's basically the same ending as, the famous the Spielberg made it War of the Worlds. Right? Yes. The ending of them is germs.

Oxygen. Oxygen. Right. Yeah. But they just made it water.

And I was like, oh. I get you. Yeah. H g But the first Thanks, h g Wells. Perspective of it.

Why did it just that small town that that one house, you know, like Yeah. At this point, Walter, the old man with the little shitty dog, has gone missing. He gone. And they discover that because the dog is just, like, loose. Wandering around the neighborhood.

Oh, right. Yeah. What's her name finds him? Missus Rumsfeld. Missus Rumsfeld?

Yep. Finds him him and they, break into Walter's house, which Ray is very upset about. Tom Banks is very upset. Apparently, Rumsfeld has a way to, like, cut glass perfectly. Yeah.

He has all these crazy rules. That reveal with his smile? Yeah. He has a crazy, like, infrared scope and video walkie talkies and shit. Was he special ops?

Is that what they're implying? I don't know. He spent 18 months in the bush. Well, he was in the East Asia. He was in Vietnam, I think.

Yeah. That's what that's what he says. 18 months in the Bush in Southeast Asia. I could snap your neck in a second. You told me once that you spent a lot of time in a bush in Southeast Asia.

It does have a bush. I gave it way more age than that. Did she have a boyfriend? Yeah. Okay.

It's fine. No big deal. Yeah. They break in. The old man's gone.

They think they see a struggle because there's a chair down and the TV's on. Yeah. And these guys these old guys, they never forget their hair. Apparently, he's old according to Bruce Stern. He's also very old.

So Yes. I don't know. And so now they're convinced that the Klobcchaks have taken The Klobcchaks. Klobcch. The Klobecks?

The Slovex. The Slovaks? The Slovaks. The Slovaks. The weird Europeans.

Eastern Eastern European Slavic folks have maybe killed this guy. He would not leave that dog. There's no way he would leave that dog or his hair. How'd the dog get out? Exactly.

He's just gone and these weirdos are in the neighborhood. I'd say come on. Dog first. I do wanna point out your opinion, but maybe. I don't know.

For me, in the script, a little bit of a logic hole for me is that this old man would not have somebody would have taken care of this dog. I imagine also, like, the because this daughter and son-in-law come and get him or they call it the ambulance for him. Something is explained. Yeah. But in they definitely try to imply, like, he didn't have his hair, he forgot his dog.

It was in some sort of rush, but also, like, come on. I mean, he left a hair on the stove. Yeah. So I mean, we've all done that. A rat.

Haven't we all? Haven't we all? I know. I know. Buy at a dollar.

By the way My merkin's on the stove right now. That smells bad. I don't know. If you're listening Grab that merkin off the stove, please. Grab that, please.

Thank you. It's toasty. Tom Hanks watches a movie that we're gonna watch here on the review review for spooky season, everybody. The Exorcist. We will be going and seeing, Exorcist believer believer, and we will not really be talking much about it, but we will also watch The Exorcist in preparation and come to you with a new review of it.

Spooky. We just saw The Exorcistix, satire musical. Oh, wow. What? Where's that?

It's in Hollywood. Okay. Yeah. Where everything is, Ben. Hollywood.

Everything's in Hollywood. You're not enough you're not in Hollywood, you're not doing anything. You're nobody. You're nothing. I love there's a Die Hard musical come, Christmas.

There's a point for it. Yeah. Jess and I have gone and seen. Nice. Highly recommend that.

I I would love that. Yeah. Thank you. I Thank you for inviting me. Yeah.

You're you're invited. Please come. I will see it again, actually. I could be a 3rd wheel. That's fine.

It's incredibly well done. And they do no. Please bring Deb. Oh, okay. Alright.

I'll bring Deb. Oh, wow. Everybody's invited but me. That sounds fun. Paul, what are you doing that night?

I'm busy. Okay. Great. Leave me alone. Good.

I love Tom Hanks' bad dream. After he gets all these satanic images So I have a question. I have a quick quick question. It's I think it's good. When he when we see him watching them in robes digging in the yard, is he dreaming?

I don't know when he falls asleep, to be honest with you. It's got a Nightmare on Elm Street kind of Because they dig up the yard and find nothing. Oh oh, when he and Art do it eventually? Yeah. And so in his dream, they're, like, digging these holes, their graves in the backyard.

They're wearing these robes. And those are the same robes they're wearing in his actual nightmares. So I think that is not real. I wonder. I I mean, there's somebody's definitely digging back there at whatever occasion for whatever reason.

I mean, are they temporarily keeping bodies back? Something's going on. Well, I'm not You see it. The dog finds a femur. Right.

But but when they dig up the yard, they don't find anything. Right. So maybe when they I mean, maybe when they go out, they're taking bones with them. Oh, they are. They are.

I think I I think they behave like squirrels and it can really only be there for, like, 12 hours and then they have to move them. So they dig a hole, put the bones in, and then, like, by morning, it's, like, get those bones out. Brian, I have a question for you. I have a squirrel that buries its nuts in my garden. Yeah.

How do I stop that? Wait 12 hours. Okay. But oh, good to know. And then I'll sneak into his lair.

Yeah. They love sunflowers. Get them. And then I'm gonna blow it up. Oh, no.

If you leave a sunflower Poor boy. Gift for a squirrel. Oh. They love them. Well, don't leave a sunflower.

They've mutilated my sunflowers. Oh. Well, they don't super care about my jalapenos, but they do like burying nuts dirt. I'm sorry. But the jalapenos have survived.

We have a cat who sleeps in our tomato plants. Oh, wow. So we're all we're all suffering. We are cat people here. Yeah.

We have a snake plant that's pretty much dead. I just am not great about watering it. So I love when, Tom Hanks falls asleep. He has the dream. Who knows what's real or what's not?

I don't give a shit, but I do love that he wakes up to mister Rogers Yes. Who he later plays, which is wonderful. That's true. And he decides, or maybe Carol decides, that it's gonna be a beautiful day In the movie. In the movie.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, so is this when Carol kicking. Is this when Carol decides they just need to go talk to them? We get the the can moment, which I love.

Art Art and and Tom Hanks talk and Tom Hanks That's when they find the femur. Can. And the dog brings the femur. Yeah. The zoom in is the thing that actually is a little too kooky for me.

It's okay now. And I love kooky. Oh. But it's like I felt like it was a moment where it was like, oh, man, lean into this. Like, you're hitting the spooky creepy really solidly here, like stick to it.

They went strong. Yeah. They they took an unnecessary left. Are you on board or not? Yes.

I'm because if you're on board, you're gonna love this. I'm on board. I don't know. You're on the fence. I'm on board.

Do you give? I give. I give. I'm gonna give. Okay.

I'll give. We'll see. Yeah. Rey and Art give. Yeah.

Well They give in. This is now when they finally go visit, which Art is not allowed to come to the Clopex, to close the lines. Carol decides Art's not invited. It's a couple's thing. They're going to the Rumsfelds and Carol and Ray.

Yep. That was hurtful. The His wife's missing or wish whoever she is. Vacation. Vacation.

That's a great reveal at the end. I mean, we're jumping ahead. My wife's home. It's also a good opportunity I don't know if they know that, but it's good opportunity for Art to sneak into the backyard while they're distracting them. Oh, my gosh.

Dude, this this is for me one of the great scenes. It's great. Just period. They finally go over. You immediately hear the sound of flies, which to me it's like Dead bodies.

Yeah. Okay. More death for sure. And the the the family is terrifying. Well, the kid the kid when he answers the door is like when he brings him just a can of sardines and some pretzels.

I hope Tom Hanks likes sardines. Oh my lord. And have you been trying to grab the sardine? And Art It takes so long. And the noise.

And Art wearing all black and broad daylight. It's like you dipshit. That's like the most obvious thing. And and Rumsfeld ripping off the wallpaper and then being like, oh, jeez. I'm so sorry to put it back.

What was he trying to say? I don't know if anyone remembers what uncle Reuben says, but he was like, we were having a great time or whatever. I love that he's he's just staring at Ray the whole time. Oh, it's great. Dude, but when when Bruce Stern says, about a 9 on the old tension scale.

Hey there, Roob? Like, just how upfront he is all the time. And speaking of movies that we pick up lines from and people are like, what the fuck? I don't know how many times I have said in my life, my broza, the doctor, about just anyone. And also, oh, how the Naps or the like, enter a last name here.

It's just, dude, Reuben is Reuben's goated. Maybe Reuben's my favorite. Maybe I was wrong. When the doctor shows up and he seems to be the most normal of them. It seems to be.

But he has a red right hand. He does. And that's blood? A 1000 pieces? He says it's pain.

That is blood. It's not pain. No. I know. But he tells Ray it's pain.

That's how he dude, great job. Like, to be like, oh, here's my crazy painting. I was just working on my crazy painting. Yeah. Like There's one painter in this neighborhood and it's Feldman.

Yeah, baby. That's it. Master painter. I'm also a painter of speakers. Surprised they eat or drink anything they give them.

Me too. I mean, do you think do you think Shook a substitute? Just really took that pretzel and sardines. Do you not like I like sardines. Oh, no.

Oh, god. No. Not for me. I'm a fan. Salt bomb.

I can't. I oh. Yeah. Did you drool when you saw that scene? Like I I didn't drool, but I actually kinda went, oh, I I kinda want a sardine right now.

Wow. I will say, and this never worked, but I tried for so long. I thought candles would be romantic. And then when he steps out of the way and it's like a 1000000 candles on a platter, just like a like a bonfire on the king's side. He works at the university.

Right. Yep. And he said something that they have to go tomorrow because they have to move All day? They have to move again. Yep.

Who knows? They've moved. It's because they got figured out. They have to move so many times. Five times 5 times in 4 years.

It's because they got figured out. Yep. Every time. And then, the house burns down. That's why I think they left for the day because they were preparing to move the skull.

That's why they took the bodies. Right. Every, like But why did they come back with them? Oh, I think they were just, like, coming back to get the last of their things or whatever. I don't I don't think it was all intentional for them to give themselves up.

No. But they were the ones who called the cops. Mhmm. Brought them with them. Not great logic there.

I have a trivia effect, but I'll save it for when we get to the Oh, please. I'm excited. Goaded line delivery. Ray, electricity is our friend. It's like, is it though?

When Art just gets fried. Oh, yeah. Art just just tried, a human shaped Turning up. Hole Yep. In the shed.

Oh, it's cool. We're jumping. We are jumping ahead. Because A little bit. They they open the bathroom or the basement door and the dog runs out and a giant pit bull.

Is it a pit bull? Doberman. It's a great dane. Doberman. Doberman.

A or the Great Dane. Yeah. And attack and Art's in the backyard, like, trying to find out what's happening and Escapes. He gets out of there, but they see him. The the the Slavic clove clove check Yep.

They see him. Cop checks. The clopics? The satanics. The satanics.

So they know they're onto them and they leave in a hurry. The Rey and Carol and all of them. And Rey finds the toupee in there. Well, Rey pulls a fast one Yeah. On the ladies.

On the ladies. Yeah. He says, Let let me be alone with him. Yeah. Look.

We're gonna stop this charade. Shout out. Shout out to your last episode. Shout out. And, yeah.

I like that moment. I like when, Ray turns on the ladies. Me too. It was nice. And he reveals to the gentleman that he took the toupee.

You had that in your trousers? All day? It's pretty gross. It's great. You can't leave now.

I called the pizza dude. Yeah. So he Feldman's invited his whole, like, friend group over to watch. I love it. I love it.

Yeah. Me too. Like Versus his girlfriend, then it's, like, his entire friend group. This this is the other thing is, like, as I this was the first time ever that I was on the ride with Feldman. Fell I was like Feldman was taking and directing me.

I'd never allowed that to happen before, I don't think. Have you guys had dates like that where you bring a girl to watch The Neighborhood? No. Oh. Just me.

Yeah. Okay. Like people watching. How to go? Back to the movie.

So then her boyfriend showed up. Oh, same as mine. Because the a story, like, are these people murderers? We keep getting diverted, like, probably not. Probably not.

Probably not. But maybe Sure. And now Feldman tells us, like, strap in. I ordered pizza. Yeah.

This is where we're gonna get fucking going, baby. I feel like we are, as an audience, it it it the script does a good job of keeping you guessing. Yeah. Because this is when Walter comes home about. Right?

Well, they're watching from afar no. For so this is the next day. Right? They've decided the, Kopecs have I'm never gonna get it right. Clotec.

Peck. Have they leave for the day and Ray sends his family away. Yep. Get the fuck out. So I can spy.

Carol was like, I think you're trying to get rid of me. And it's like No, baby. Mhmm. No. Who loves you?

I'm going so much. I'm going golfing and freaking art shows Art's outfit. Ridiculous golfing outfit. It's great. Look, I got a new club, Carol.

Yeah. He's really selling it. Carol's like, you hate golfing. He went to like, it's like Art went to Dick's Sporting Goods just to sell it to Carol. Like, just to get the costume.

And they've decide they have they've hatched this plan to cut the power so that it turns off the electric fence. Right. And that they can dig the backyard. Dig the backyard. That's the first part of the plan.

Yeah. Yeah. And And Bruce Stern's watch is on lookout. Right. And that, like, nothing's happening.

They're finding nothing. And Feldman has everybody over and is like, I ordered pizza. It's about to go off. Like and that's when you're like, okay. Something's gonna happen.

Does anybody pay attention closely to, like, random faces in movies? I do. Who did you say? You mean, like, a head sticking out of the ground? Yeah.

Was Gina Davis I'm not at a very good pizza party? Gina Davis? Was she naked? Always. See through bikini.

Oh, yeah. So there's an actor in this movie named Nicky Cat, who has just like a couple lines. Okay. You want a quarter pounder or something? But this guy's in Boiler Room, Insomnia, School of Rock, Sin City, The Dark Knight, Boston Public.

He's in a million things. Apparently, he's just somebody who if you remember Boiler Room, he's like the one of the slick like senior traders that is up at the same level as, like, Vin Diesel or whatever. But he's had, like, a ton of parts, ton of good work, and a ton movies. He's the guy at Insomnia's who's like, who who has 2 thumbs and loves blowjobs? This guy.

Oh. But, he's been in a 1000000, 1000000 films. And, I think apparently, he's just, like, likes to fly, like, under the radar, but he's got a nice little appearance in this movie. Way to go, Nikki Cat. Hey.

Well well done, Nikki Cat. Yeah. If you have to be an actor, be that kind. Yeah. Absolutely.

Under the radar. Absolutely. Even with Tom Cruise's, just just be a Nikki Cat. Be a Nicky cat. I like a Nicky cat.

I'm a cat I'm a cat man. I'm a cat man, Steve. But I'm a so they But no no no. Tom Cruise is going nuts because they're not fighting shit, and he's like, I'm just going in. Tom Cruise too?

I mean, Tom Hanks. Yeah. Tom Cruise is in this movie too. Flies off of a plane. He just runs, smashes through the roof of the house like Billy Zane.

Tom v. Tom, baby. I would love to see Tom Cruise. It's a Tom. This film.

Oh my god. That'd be a much different What an impressive film. A lot of He would have to be Bruce Dern. There'd be a lot of, jaw clenching Yeah. A lot of sweating Yes.

Like me tag. And a lot of running. Yes. They would have to extend the size of this neighborhood because he would need to run. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, and you know what you have to run from? That house exploding when Hanks hits the gas line as he's digging. Well, first, they find that giant fucking Furnace. Furnace.

Yeah. That goes up to 5000 degrees. It's non residential. Yeah. How do they get that in there?

How do they get that? Yeah. They would've had to hire a contractor to get that in there. And it has new pipes. Yeah.

Yeah. They did. They would have had a higher contract. Became like a plumbing expert in that moment. Did you notice that?

Yep. He's like, this has new piping. I've never seen it. Old house and that's a basement and they're putting that contract they're putting that down there. How did they get down there with the how nobody in the neighborhood knows.

I'm surprised you did not notice the moving truck. It was there all day. It's like, yeah. But also I don't even know how to get industrial, like, HVAC. I don't even know how to get a couch through a door.

Nope. I've oh, don't get me started. How do you get that doona inside without anyone knowing? Digging. Oh, that's what they were digging.

So Oh, they were digging into the basement. Yeah. From the backyard into the basement. So Tom Hanks hits the gas line, art comes flying down, and Tom Hanks is like, bro, get out of here. The place is gonna blow.

And the only reason I believe that he probably lived is he can't get out of the hole and Art runs off. Mhmm. He probably had the best chance of living through that explosion if he could not get out of that hole in that moment. Gas would explode above him. Above him.

Like, I it's like, okay. Maybe. Mhmm. But the way the physical comedy of him sliding down the front steps after the explosion, I fucking died. I fucking died.

Did his feet have to slide? Oh, bahove. However many he had to take, it was worth it for me. Thanks, Tom Hanks. Well, the makeup on him Do 10 more.

The makeup on him is really strong like The eye? The eye. Yeah. And that we we have noticed at this point, they had come back. The Slovaks came back, saw someone in the basement, left, came back with the cops Right.

And then the house exploded. Came back with the cops Right. And then the house exploded. So it's like, looks bad. Looks not great.

And they have as far as we know, the clopid clopid clippid clippity cloppers have done nothing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's just an upstanding doctor, like Well, and at this point, you better thank your lucky stars he wasn't killed in that explosion. Oh, I will.

And at this point in watching it, I'm starting to guess I'm starting to question whether or not they did do anything wrong. Right. Like, the movie, I I don't know why I haven't said this previously. This movie is so fucking well written. It is.

Yeah. Real just like not only the archetypes of the characters and their behaviors or whatever, but also just like things like the whole Walter piece of the storyline. Like, just that he's an old guy. He's gone out of nowhere. The dog, the toupee, he's back.

Like, the way that things tumble, like the grave digging Yeah. Moving things. And Feldman because, I mean, this movie could be tedious. Like the the, like, oh, did they? Oh, no.

They didn't. Oh, did they? No. We we you can get really tired of it. But Feldman being the lens just, you know, gives you an out of that boredom.

I could not agree with you more. I I just feel like watching it going like, oh, I think I'm on the ride with this guy. Yeah. Like, made it such an enjoyable watch. And I little things, like, I guess I never really noticed previously Carrie Fisher about her hair and talking about, like, you can't go out of our house until you resemble the man I married.

And then finally after an explosion, he's like, you got your haircut. I really like it. And he mentions it a couple times. He literally has to go through a near death experience to, like, revert back to, like, being a calm, like, regular person or whatever. Also, I definitely laughed out loud when he took the gurney and threw into the Oh, god.

Back of the medic and then jumped on it. Improv'd it. Improvised that? He improvised that, which is fucking awesome. He's like, just wait, guys.

Yeah. I Hold my skull. His comic but also just his his comic timing and his physical comedy is just great. It truly is. Dev was working while watching the movie.

I don't think this is her vibe. It's not her it's not her favorite movie. So I rewound I rewound it for that moment. Yeah. Because you have to As well as you should.

Jess was actually down here during that moment and she she LOL ed. Yeah. It's hard not to. That's great. It really truly is a great And at this point, I am also, like, is this the end of the movie?

Were they not bad? Is this were they just these neighbors just bored and crazy? I I like that it sets you up and to believe that that could be the situation. Before the final reveal, when he's in the ambulance, he's relaxed, ambulance, he's relaxed, he's lying down. He's even at this point, I'm so sorry, doctor Klopity Cloppin.

Like, I love you, dog. I'll rebuild your house. It's all my fault. And Kevorkian. Yeah, Kevorkian was it.

He's going to prison. That's his vacation. Right. As far as he's concerned, I'll build your house when I'm out of prison in 20 years. And Doctor Klopick's like, so you totally saw my skull.

I know you know I'm a crazy murderer, and I have a syringe of green shit. You're dead. Yeah. And this is for me the other part outside of the Zoom that really stuck out to me. Why did Hans try to drive away at all?

Why was he in the ambulance at all? Why didn't doctor Klopik just, like, poke him in the ass while he was lying there? Because we need Tom Hanks to live because it's a movie. I know. But Well, I think they were trying to escape.

But why wouldn't they bring, brother Teddy, brother Theodore with them? Why wasn't Rube? Come on, Rube. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a movie. Again, I I had a great time, but and it's like why am I trying to poke holes? I don't know. Pizza time.

I mean I love when the pizza truck crashes and like the pizza come flying out and they're just like fuck it. Let's go. Dinner. Dinner and a show, baby. I didn't question it.

I don't know. I'm with you, Ben. I just it didn't Yeah. It didn't bother me. Okay.

Good. In some way to get him away from everybody. I don't know. Okay. Like, they could kill him and and drive away and then, like Drive way calmly down the road.

And you'd never know that they did it. Yeah. Maybe not. Sure. And just, like I don't know if Chipotle existed in 1980.

Me. McDonald's though. Me and Art are every bored ass true crime podcaster apparently. I don't know. That's Art comes off as that to me just like even though he's they're all totally right.

He's just like casting aspersions, throwing shit out at everybody, all this stuff. Knock that out. But I like how the movie ends. We get the closure that the Klopeks are crazy, Klopeks. And they open the car and Feldman goes, they're talking about they have no evidence, and they're like until now and just, like, a Buick trunk full of human bones.

Of polished skulls. And we're I guess, I didn't even realize it, but that it it it's inferred that they had buried those and they're taking them out from the yard. I believe so. Okay. That makes a lot of sense to me.

So they didn't know what they were gonna put in the trunk. That is, you know, they tried different endings. Oh, I didn't know this. Yeah. So one one that I read was cheerleaders.

Oh, well. That they thought maybe just like Dead cheerleader? Dead cheerleader bodies. Wow. Yeah.

That would be a different ending. Yeah. I'm glad they went with what they went with. I mean, they have to be that bones because they're Nondescript. They're burning them.

Right. Sure. I think it's that they came from a fresh kill. I guess that's true. Oh, sure.

Okay. As one does. One more for the road before they leave. One big, like, mass killing or something. I love that the movie ends how it starts.

It's almost like, a satellite zoomed in on a random story, a random neighborhood. That's why we part of why we can't escape. Mhmm. And then it zooms back out, and I'm almost ready for it to zoom back in on another neighborhood Oh. And he and do another story, which would be Twilight Zone.

Sure. Great. But Oh, great. If there were a sequel, if it zoomed back in on this neighborhood, Corey Feldman has inherited his parents' home. Dave has inherited his parents' home.

Maybe, little Tommy Hanks comes for a visit at some point. He he he's not busy. He'll he'd do a sequel to the burbs that probably goes direct to streaming. Absolutely. Totally.

But I think, we do something maybe with a new flavor in the I I wanna use the same house. I wanna use the same house. I want it to be something about the house that is bad in the end. I'm interested. I'm not buying yet.

Okay. This part of the show is the best. My okay. Here's my pitch. This part of the show is the best.

Daddy's fighting. Ben hates Paul. The ant. Daddy's fighting. I pitch, a prequel.

Oh. I pitch the the ice cream, guy. Awesome. The the serial killer, through the eyes of Art as a child who lives across the street. Awesome.

Are we into a straight horror or comedy horror? Different cul de sac. Yeah. What's his name garbage man is is younger and that's that's the opening. I love it.

And then the garbage truck passes and Art as a child with his beer belly is, standing looking at the creepy house with the ice cream man. I love that. I I like the idea of, like, Dave and Corey Feldman becoming like, Art and Ray almost. Like, it's like something about the neighborhood. There's just something you can't break out of.

It corrupts them. Yeah. That's really good. I would watch that. I'm buying.

I'm buying yours. He's in. Great. I'm writing it now. Paul gives.

I do give. I don't know. I mean, I feel like mine would be not connected to the original at all. Maybe like Different neighborhood. Different neighborhood Yeah.

People. But I think it would focus on, like, a like, a cul de sac, maybe nineties, because that was my era, and do, like, a group of kids on summer, like, summer break, and their parents all work so they get all this time to themselves. And they are convinced that there's a a house that is full of aliens. Oh, I like that. Like, body like, body snatcher type deal or whatever.

They're, like, snatching kids from the neighborhood or something. Mhmm. I like that. Also very eighties. I'm not buying it.

It is an eighties vibe, but I feel like I would set in nineties for my own Mhmm. Abilities. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's yeah.

I like that. Growing up in in Miami in the nineties, that was definitely the the thing was vans, snatching up kids. Oh, shit. Oh. Yeah.

No. Uh-oh. We had talks about that. Oh, I bet. Yeesh.

93. We just had dare. Yeah. And I was like, how do I get all this stuff you're talking about? This sounds cool.

Well, I feel like we should re rank this movie. I think that's a good idea. We finished it in our heads, and we get to give new ratings if we've got new ones. Brian That's exciting. You get to choose the order.

You know, Ben, you felt very, you know what is the word? Unloved this whole episode. So I'm gonna let Paul go first. That makes sense. It's almost difficult to not, like, immediately jump to a 4 and a half based on the conversation.

But I'm gonna stick it a 4. 4. I'm gonna go with 4 toupees. I do think the movie is wonderfully shot, but y'all bring up great points about how it's like, well, I guess this is supposed to be Kansas or Iowa, but at times, this definitely feels like the valley. You can see kind of, you know, the mountains, etcetera, etcetera, which takes me out of the neighborhood a little bit at times.

And, some of the things where it's like I normally like it when movies don't really wanna pick lanes. There are a couple times that I want this I almost wanted this to pick a lane, but then maybe it goes to a PG 13 territory it didn't wanna go to. I don't know. I really liked it. It's really good.

I have no business ranking anything. 4. I mean, cheers to messy movies. Yeah. Just wanna say.

And a big compliment to, like, shooting this in sequence, which is a very difficult thing to do, way to go. Yeah. Well, because of the writers strike. Yeah. Yeah.

We're familiar with those. It's true. I I feel like Ben, how do you feel? Would you like to go next? Brian, would you like Ben to go next?

I think Ben should go next. Okay. Thank you. I do I think I'm on the I think I'm gonna go to 4a half. Wow.

Nice. I feel like I you know, we can poke logic holes in this, but I've fucking enjoyed it so much. Like, I've really, really enjoyed it and I I would watch it again in a heartbeat and, like, I think that it does exactly what it sets out to do. And to your point, Brian, it's messy, sure, but it's original and unique and the characters are all fucking fun. Yeah.

And I I had a great time. So I'm gonna go to 4 and a half, I'm gonna change it up, crushed beer cans. Good choice. Are you gonna is this gonna be an October rotation for you, maybe, moving forward? That's a great question.

For me, it didn't feel like a horror Okay. If I'm being honest. It is spooky though. It's spoopy. It is spoopy.

I don't know if it's spooky. It's Yeah. It's spoopy. Yeah. It's like almost like a Simpsons Halloween Horror special.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah.

That yeah. Alright, Brian. Oh. You're up to bat. It's time.

You know, I the thing that I'm reminded of of is Tom Hanks' aggression in this movie, which reminds me of Punch Line and, like Oh, yeah. Even Sally Field? Yes. Great movie. I love.

Good. And how much I his aggression really is so funny, and it's very easy to cross the line where it's no longer funny. And he straddles that line. It's great. I'm gonna give it a hard 4.

Nice. Well, I'm gonna upgrade, 4 sardine pretzels in honor of Ben. I'm hungry. Because I think, yeah, you guys have brought up a lot of stuff that I didn't even notice on this rewatch. And I think I need to watch it again and enjoy the minutia.

Yeah. I I wanna say one more time too that how much I love the the nightmare sequence. I Oh, yeah. I get pepperings of, like, The Omen and Nightmare on Elm Street and Joe Dante's own flavor and all sorts of stuff. And, again, there's part of me that wants to lean toward a 4a half, but there's part of me that's just not quite there.

Yeah. The breakfast scene I love it. Solid. Such a throwaway could be a throwaway scene. And, man, Rick, is that his name?

Yeah. Art. Yeah. Art. I mean, he just steals that scene, but, they let him run with it.

Yeah. Yeah. I want some pretzels and sardines. And ribs for breakfast. And last thing I Yeah.

He just takes their leftovers. So good. And eats their ribs. Every day. He just wades the fridge.

And they don't care. They're just like, alright. He's gonna take a a potentially dead guy's cookies that get broken all over his house. He'll just eat anything. He doesn't give a shit.

Also, one last time, shouts to Carrie Fisher is like the grounding force in this movie. Yeah. And just constantly being like the voice of reason, like the constant straight man throughout the movie, and just like knocks it out of the park. Oh, yeah. Oh, the moment when they're like, can he come out to play?

Yeah. Oh, so good. I'm just Can't come out of here until he resembles the man I married. Come on. Oh, but please, Carol.

She's great. Can Ray come out? Great performances across the board. Brian, thank you so much for bringing this movie to me. I'm glad you, guys were on board.

Bring it back to me. You know? It's a weird it's a weird movie. The bad aura that I had that got connected to it Yeah. Was washed away.

Look at that. Yeah. Washed away completely. This is a therapeutic moment. It really was.

You know what else was therapeutic was that intro and outro theme by Jamie Henwood. Oh, yeah. He does our bookends. And our, our what are we watching theme Mhmm. By Matthew Foskett.

Oh, that's right. He does the what are we watching theme. Yeah. It really upgrades the whole podcast. It's a nice feel.

Right? It levels up. And, you know, people should tune in this October because we're doing a lot of spooky stuff this spooky season. All horror, all the time. I'm gonna watch it by myself.

Oh, the Tim Curry one? The oh. Yeah. Tim Curry, John Ritter. Just a bit.

Yeah. Is that made for TV? It was. Yeah. That would have broken our length rule because that movie's so long when it's both parts.

It's like over 3 hours. They're my longest. So yes. I'll watch something else. Just watch the first half.

Okay. That's the best of I mean, it honestly is. And you guys used to check the shower for balloons. Oh, of course. Sure.

Possibly. Oh, man. Tim Curry, if his Joker would have been something. Either way, follow me at Paul acts badly on Letterboxed. I'm at run bmc on Instagram and Letterboxed.

I'm on Instagram as, Brian p leahy, l e a h y. Y. And watch Brian's movies. Yeah. You know, when you got time.

They're they're short, so it's an easy watch. Not like it. Yeah. The second one, 2 hours and 22 minutes. Stick with us this October.

We're gonna have a great time. We're gonna talk to Jamie about doing a spooky theme. Maybe you're hearing it now. Thanks again for tuning in. Stay in the neighborhood.

Stay safe. Bye. Fear thy neighbor. Bye.