Drop Dead Gorgeous / Strife Train To San Diego (Guest: Adria LaMorticella)

Adria LaMorticella @itsameadria joins us as a special pageant judge for “Drop Dead Gorgeous.” (1999 d. Michael Patrick Jann) Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, and Ellen Barkin. Get your tickets ready for the monorail ride, not without strife, to beautiful San Diego. During which we will entertain you with our talents: singing! Impressions! theorizing! Improvisational comedy! Even a bit of talk about the movie! And a very special musical performance from “Lil’ Ragamuffin.” 4/1! This one has EVERYTHING. No foolin’! OH! And “FRANCE!” 

Ps - !

**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

Do your cat do your cats get the zoomies after they poop? Oh, yeah. She's just bolted. Yeah. Oh.

Brute Jess and I joke, I'll come out of the bathroom after I pooped, and I'll just start running around. We are. We're here. We're clear. We don't want any more Bears.

You know what it is in the Simpsons? Why am I what is why is my paycheck so low? Fair patrol tax. Welcome to the review review. Paul's here.

He's one of the hosts. That's not my name, though. I'm Ben. And this is a movie podcast. If you're here, you probably like movies.

If not, I don't know. Maybe you like podcasts. Maybe you like movie podcasts. In which case, you're in the right place. We have a guest today.

Our guest is a returning guest. It's Adria Liberacella. She's back. Hey. Thank you so much.

Adria is here on our ET episode. You should go back to Ben's blockbuster Bonanza summer and listen to that wonderful episode to Can I extraterrestrial the extraterrestrial? Oh, that's so And you can, actually. Yes, please. I was gonna say, I need to redact something I said from that podcast.

And that was when I was listening to it after we recorded, I realized that I fully misunderstood something that I said. Well, I said I read. I was reading something. I read that, he was sometimes played wasn't it is am I saying this right? He was sometimes E.

T. Was sometimes played by a 12 year old kid with no legs. Is that right? I guess. Yeah.

I think that's what we get. In his suit. But I said but he he was walking on his hands. I freaked out because I was like, why is that possible? Because in my dumb little head I was picturing him doing a handstand in there, and I was like, how was a 12 year old small enough to do a handstand inside of an ET costume?

This is what's going on in my little thing. And then later, I was like, you idiot. That is not at all. He didn't have legs. He was just pulling himself up with his arms.

You stupid. So that's so I realize now. So if you hear me just losing my mind, and you guys are trying to move on, and I was like, he's walking over there. I mean because I'm I mean It's okay. Clearly, Adria, it worked.

I mean, do you see any bears around here? Yeah. So we should have an entire episode where we can do redactions because I'm sure We should. We have plenty to do. But just a quick synopsis of this program.

If you're here for the first time, People bring us to a movie, something they feel passionate about, something that's, like, seven years old or older, and, we're going to come in to a decision. With a a ranking out of five. Pretty arbitrary. And then we're gonna talk, we're gonna discuss, we're gonna joke, we're gonna laugh, and we're gonna come to the end of that conversation and see if our rankings have changed. And Paul is miming, joking, and laughing for this podcast that's purely audio.

It's very it's super serious, and I need to be more serious. And I'm sorry that I'm I'm being silly. Adria I'm sorry. Everyone everyone knows you're an actor and a funny person and all that. Anything else you wanna talk about?

Oh, I did improv for the first time recently. Did you know that? When, this Christmas, I was in an improv show for the first time. It's hard to do. Which show?

I think I heard about I think I know what show. But Uncle Mike ruins Christmas. How was it? Yeah. Premise?

Great. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. And it's a show that's been going on for, like, seventeen years.

Some of my friends from college who are all improvisers have been doing it. It the premise being the audience comes in, writes down beloved Christmas memories. We start acting them out, and then uncle Mike comes in and ruins them in the most depraved way he can. And they're it's very funny. They're all very good.

They needed some women. I was like, I'm more women this year, and I had never done it. And it really was it was improv is one of those things I always wish I did ten years ago, but never did do. They could've made this clear. So I I was just like, guess we're guess we're doing it.

Guess it's not too late. And then it was hard. It was hard. It was fun. It was hard.

Good for you, though. That's fucking great. Do you think you'll do it again, either this version or another? Great hue. I changed my mind.

I don't know. I don't know. Okay. But I will say, here I am being, like, I'm almost 40 years old, and I just tried improv for the first time. My 72 year old aunt just started doing stand up.

Okay? Isn't that cute? I'm I think that's great. I I think the Golden Girls is great. Go out, get it, do things, fucking mix it up.

It's like, there's a an 84 year old guy in my acting class, and that guy is great. He has so much fun with it. He's wonderful, and he talks about all his hobbies and stuff. It's like, yeah. It's as you said, like, it's never too late.

I gotta reference 30. It's never too late. I think that's a good fit for you, though, because you're kind of a naturally funny person. Thank you. I mean, it's it's true, though.

I mean, I think I mean, it's weird to me that maybe you haven't done improv before, I guess. Yeah. I mean, I would kind of agree in that I feel like it seems like I would have, and also I don't think I think I'm inclined to be good at it, but I also was new. So there was also a lot of there's a lot of me being like, oh, I didn't know you could do that. Stage of just where I was like, I literally just haven't done this before.

So I was just green. You know? So I think if I do it more, I'll get better, obviously. Will I do it more? You read that.

I don't know. It's tough. It's different muscles for sure. Mhmm. It's very tough.

A a more important question is a current question, which means what you've been doing? Right now, I'm mostly working. I think when we talked before, I wasn't working, but I have a job now. I work at a chocolate factory again. Oh, like Willy Wonka?

Mhmm. Are you an Oompa Loompa? Call your friend Loompa. Mhmm. Mhmm.

That's why I'm so small. Yeah. Mhmm. I can see the orange makeup still on behind your ears a little bit. I know.

I look very orange right now. It's the lighting. But also Sure. My but also Have you had to deal with any of those, like, terrible what's the name of that girl, Viola? What what's her name?

The terrible girl. I don't know. Terrible people, terrible customers, screaming children, demanding Veruca Salt. Veruca Salt. Yeah.

Their chocolate, their sweeties. Violet, Beauregard. You're turning violet, Violet. Yeah. Well, kids die if they come in.

So there's them. Just like well, just like the real chocolate factory. Yeah. So the kid comes in, they die. But other than that, it's pretty safe.

Yeah. It's pretty cool. It's pretty chill. Are you are you back at the same one you were at? Child death.

It's solid. Are you back at the same chocolate factory that you were at? Actually closed down literally, like, two days ago. Theo. Because of all the dead because of all the dead kits.

Yeah. It just fills up within me. So then there's a new one open. Yeah. They open a new LLC, new name until they can't bury enough bodies and then start them over again in a new city.

Fremont Theo closed. Fremont Theo closed. Yeah. Literally two days ago. Yeah.

That's end of an era. But yeah. But I'm making chocolate again. Making chocolate? Awesome.

Good. Paul? Sure. Well, it's been a bit of a snowpocalypse in this area of the world recently. So weatherizing, you know, protecting the pipes, putting the heaters on some of the pipes and things, making the kindling, making a little snow friend for somebody to talk to.

I'm sorry. Is this supposed to be is this supposed to be arousing? Because I I had a great time, and now my snow friend is gone. I'm and I'm fine. I'm doing fine.

Uh-oh. Feeling fine. So don't worry about it. Wow. That's a relief.

But, no. Like, honestly, so much has just been kind of, like, being at home and getting stuff ready or kind of scrambling to get stuff ready via the weather. Like, so much of life is was wrapped up in the weather for days. Oh, really? Yeah.

It's sweet out in there? Not now. The rain melted it off. It was snowy for, like, two and a half days, like, three days. But it was, like it got up to, like, six inches about six and a half inches where I'm at.

Yeah. Did you have a name for your snow friend? Was it Jack Frost played by Michael Keaton? Rico. Oh.

Wait. Michael Douglas as Michael Keaton as Jack Frost? Yes. Oh, I get it now. Okay.

Yeah. Real quick. I should've gone that route. There's that movie. There's a horror magical Jack Frost too, and now there's hot hot Frosty.

Clint Howard what? Hot frosty. Yeah. Hot frosty. What?

It was like a Netflix movie where she makes, like, a hot frost. She makes a dude, and he comes alive, and he's, like, six pack and hot frosty. It's like the movie Mannequin, but with, like, a snow like, Arnold Schwarzenegger kinda situation. Like, because Snowman comes to life thing. Yeah.

Kind of. Cool. K. Very cool. I took a trip to San Diego Oh.

Which is Spanish for whale's vaginas Mhmm. In case you didn't know that. We know. Do you know that movie is, like, 20 years old? 23.

Man. 22. Yeah. Twenty plus. Uh-oh.

Really? Uh-oh. No. It's it's, like, twenty twenty or 21 years old. Okay.

You told me fine. But, anyway, I went to San Diego. We took the surf liner train, which is really cool. It goes right along the beach. Like, literally, you look out the window and there's the ocean, which arose a lot of questions to me about how the the upkeep of such a old train line next to its salt water and corrosion and This is merely superconductor electromagnetism.

But you going down for sure. Soon. Surely, you've heard of it. It levitates bullet trains from Tokyo to Osaka. Just not when I'm on it.

Just not when I'm on it. Are my taxes maintaining this at all? Is this being prevented from being maintained at all? What's happening? Well, let's let's let's let's check-in with the let's check-in with the secretary of transportation.

And it levitates me. Oh, no. Let's not do that. Going away from there. But San Diego, First time to San Diego, and it was, This was your first time?

It was. Yeah. It was a bucket list. We just never I mean, I went there about twenty years ago in, like, yeah, with my, senior trip after high school, but I Oh, so you lied. So you just lied to me.

Happened. I did. I So you lied. I have zero recollection of being there. So Blackout Sounds like a great trip.

Yeah. But the train train was cool. How was it this time? How was the trip this time? It was good.

San Diego is really it feel compared to LA, it has, like, big Portland energy to me. Okay. Like, it feel you know, there's, like, a vibrancy. And I think because the city is more compact than LA and kinda all along the water, it's, like, it's much more accessible and walkable in a in a way that LA is not. And so it felt like Portland is Seattle's shoe.

San Diego is a great shoe, but, like, in a good like a good shoe. Like a like a like a fun shoe. Like a high quality like like a HOKA. Like a high performance dad shoe. Like a cold It's kind of a like a snazzy, comfortable yeah.

Okay. Because we we were definitely in the party area of San Diego, and we were we felt pretty hip. Our I mean, our hotel, the front desk was a bar. Oh. Woah.

Where was this? San Diego. The hotel in San Diego. Gas the gas or is it in the gas lamp? Lamp?

Yeah. Okay. Cool, man. That's me. San Diego.

This this begs the question. It begs the question because maybe it how what happened in your hotel. What have you been watching? Oh, gosh. Well, severance.

Yes. I was waiting for Adria to bring up severance so I could talk to about severance with her. Okay. Yeah. Go go on, you two.

Well, so Severance I'll see you in a minute. Great show written by one of my best friends from college. Oh, very cool. It's created by my dear friend, and he wrote a play in college that we all thought was, like, the best play of all time. And then years and years and years later, he's been living in LA for years, was, like, not getting any writing jobs of any kind.

And then his pilot that was, like, based off the play got, like, put on this list, and he was like, yeah. Apparently and he's like, m Night Shyamalan called me about it and stuff. And I was like, what is going on, Dan? And then, Ben Stiller picked it up, and they've been writing it for years. And then turns so I just was like, oh my god.

Oh my god. Like, when it came like, I'm gonna love it no matter what. And then when the first episode I was like, oh my god. It's actually really good. Damn.

It's not just it's not just me, like, loving it because my friend. It's, like, actually so dang good. So I have a little watch party every week with my friends from college and stuff, and we're like, that's our friend. Yeah. It's incredible.

I've been It's so good. I've been listening to the podcast after every episode. The Oh, yeah. Ben Siller and Scott podcast. I see.

It's great. And they they bring on guests, and they, they'll have they'll talk they'll deep dive into the episode. They'll talk about the music or or, you know, certain moments, and it just kinda keeps getting better. It's get and it's getting wild too, and I'm loving it. I'm just loving how weird it's getting, which I don't always love in shows some because the first show is so insular, like, it's all in one place, you know, and then the second or excuse me, the first show, the first season.

And the second season's, like, breaking away a little bit. And oftentimes, I find myself being like, I liked it when it was just in the original house. We fear change. Like, I you know, I don't know. They're like, oh, they're just reaching, and now they're going on trips and stuff.

I'm not liking those. But like this, I mean, it's, like, getting weirder, and I like where it's going. And I have faith also. Something about weird I love a mysterious show, but I hate when shows are mysterious for the sake of being mysterious and then nothing happens. Yeah.

Like yeah. Yeah. Right. Whereas, just like, I think this is fury, but, like, both for whence, from for what? And I know it's going some I I'm not saying this because I know the end because I know.

But, like, but I know it has an end. And so it's like, I I trust that it's not all for nothing. But it's like it's taking us somewhere, and we can figure it out with it. You know? Mhmm.

When you say you know it has an end, you just you know it has an ending point at some point? Like Well, I believe I believe, and I don't think this is anything I I don't think this is not talked about. I think they're doing season three, and it's gonna be done. I think, like, that's the plan. It will end at the end of season three.

I believe on a high note kinda thing. Yeah. And I I think it, like, has a conclusion. Like, it's there's so much that they're not telling us yet, but I do think it will be revealed. Mhmm.

Oh, it's great. The performances are so good. It's so creepy. Even just the the song at the beginning is so good. It Yes.

Oh, yeah. Is great. There's actually a great episode of the podcast where they talk about, discovery the composer talks about discovering the theme. It's really great. Just listen to that.

Yeah. Everyone should listen to turn this off. Go to that. I'll go to that pocket. Come on.

What are you doing here? What are you doing? I watched the first episode of the second season with Dan. I was gonna watch it with my little watch party. We're like, what time should we all go to Rachel's house?

And then Dan was like, what are you doing tonight? And I was like, we're gonna watch your show, Dan. And he was like, because that my family rented out a theater in Edmonds. To watch it. That's so cool.

Up for it if you guys wanna come. And I was like, yeah. We do. So we all went and watched it with him. It was very cute.

Oh, that's awesome. Awesome. Well, Ben, I was gonna say, do you wanna expound on severance or talk about something else? Or Well, I mean, I'll rip off the band aid. I I started watching season three of White Lotus.

Oh, I haven't started it yet, but I'm Same. Speaking of shows with mysteries for reasons that are, like, so fucking intriguing. I haven't started the new season, though. Ben, go on. I I mean, I'm I'm on board already.

I will say, and this is not a spoiler, I will say the new theme is not as good as the old theme song. Oh. I love the like that. Yeah. The shit was great.

You're doing a lot for an audio podcast, Ben. You know? You're doing a lot for an audio podcast. That feels right. Put a lot on it.

But, yeah, I, it's funny. Yeah. I don't wanna say too much, but, there is a moment, Paul, where Where does his name what's his name? Schwarzenegger's son is in it? This is me on the screen here riding towards the Patrick Schwarzenegger.

And there's a moment where he's on the boat at the big very beginning. He's wearing sunglasses, and he's got he's got the Arnold hair. And I was like, oh, he I mean, like, his face looks like young Arnold in that moment. It's pretty Wow. Pretty good.

Paul, finally, I watched Anora. Oh, okay. Yeah. Go on. I thought it was good.

Oh, yeah. I think it's fucking great. So good. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I'm two movies away from the Best Picture.

All 10. Bingo. Oh, good for you. You're kicking my ass. Ben and I were both big fans of Anora and Conclave.

I don't know if there was something that you saw, Adria, that you really enjoyed this year, if you if you wanna add to that. Like, almost I've seen almost nothing, to be honest with you, for no apparent for no real reason. You guys really did like Conclave? I've heard good things. I've heard I really liked it.

Yeah. I almost watched that one recently, but I didn't. So I, What do you think it's about? You know, a Conclave of of sorts, probably. That's actually that nailed it.

Yes. Yeah. We were right. Yes. Nailed it.

You know, like, some months ago, I was at my parents' house, and, my dad has this odd obsession with the pope. We are not religious in my family, but he grew up Catholic and just, like, loves learning about the pope. And I have not watched a movie with my parents in years where they didn't fall asleep in twenty minutes, and they're both just, like, you know, like, snoring. But I was like, pop. You should watch the I was I was like, you should watch the two popes.

And he just was, like, leaned forward the whole time. I have not seen him that awake in twenty years. And then afterwards, he was like, that was a great film. So I'm sure Jude Law. Like Yeah.

I'm sure he would like conflict. Jude Law's young pope. Right? What was who is two popes? Two popes is, sir Anthony Hopkins and Tony Hopps and, I can't remember his name, but I'm thinking it.

Little Ragamuffin. Little I think it's Little Ragamuffin. Oh, the rapper? Yeah. Rapper, actor.

He's a good guy. He's so good. Religious figure. The actor we were all trying to think of in the two popes, Jonathan Pryce or Johnny Cost. Jackie Cost.

Now it's too close to Jackie Cost again. Johnny Cost. Back to the program. Little little Ragmuffin. Little Ragmuffin.

Paul, what have you been watching? Inside of the little ragamuffin music videos. This episode is this episode is brought to you by little Ragamuffin. Drops for a little Ragamuffin merch. Just it's all limited, you know, so you gotta kinda watch it.

I am rewatching a show that I've watched before called Samurai Gourmet that I've failed to bring up on this program. Wow. Weird thing to say. Program. And it's a show that's available on Netflix.

It's originally from Japan, and they licensed it. I don't know if they basically have it indefinitely. I've watched it a couple times over the last several years, but this is the best way I can describe it. This is the opening of the show. It was an age of war.

Relying only on his own skill, one man wandered the land, a samurai. The camera cuts to, this man is not a samurai of today. After retiring, he lost his title as a corporate man and the support of his company. Kasumi Takeshi, sixty years old. This story is about a normal 60 year old man who is helped by a masterless samurai eating freely without being held back, a gourmet fantasy.

Samurai gourmet. This retired guy who's lived a very corporate life, his wife will be like, go pick up my prescription. You've just been, like, hanging out today. So he goes to pick up her prescription, and then he's like, I'm gonna have lunch. And then he hallucinates, being a samurai because he's too uptight to enjoy his lunch.

And they romanticize, like, food being prepared, like, a beer is poured for, like, fourteen seconds over, like, jazzy piano music. It is amazing. It is a complete and total, like, warm blanket thing. Like, the stakes of the episodes of this show is this guy being, like, should I have a beer in the afternoon? Will people hate me?

And then, like, by the end of the episode, he's like, oh, nobody gives a shit. Like, okay. And, like, goes on with his day. It's amazing. Oh, man.

Like, when when and from where is this show? I think, like, the show itself must be from at least fifteen or twenty years ago originally, and it's originally from Japan. Mhmm. It's wonderful. It's subtitled.

The music's great. It's, like, it romanticizes food and drink in, like, such a crazy way. And, like, the way that he the actor, the main actor shows pleasure in having a beer. Right? Having a beer and a bowl of pasta or a bowl of ramen pasta noodles, whatever, or a croquette in the middle of the day, how much he enjoys the little things in life, which in a lot of cases are food and drink is, like, fucking beautiful.

It's wonderful. Feel like that would make me so hungry. Makes me You will. It all it also makes me miss watching Anthony Bourdain. Oh, thanks.

Yeah. Well, just because that he did that too. Is he really, like Yeah. He brought you into the world. He really anyway.

Absolutely. Alright. He's to a legend. You know what's funny is we haven't actually said what movie we watched. We have not.

Not a single time. Should we all say it together and try to do it I'll do it at the same time. True. Dead gorgeous. We nailed it.

Pageantry of that was incredible. Alright. What about the what about the facts of it? Archaeology is the search for facts. I ought to hold those SOBs.

Drop dead gorgeous was a Capella International KC Midian and New Line Cinema release. This is when New Line fucking ruled when it was Nightmare on Elm Street and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Rush Hour and Lord of the Rings before they totally became part of Warner, and they developed a bunch of cool interesting shit. It's PG thirteen nineteen ninety nine. It's an hour and thirty seven minutes. The budget on this film is $15,000,000.

Adjusted, that's 28,600,000.0. Opening weekend, North America, July 20 3 19 90 9. That was the wide release. $3,900,000, 7 point 4 million adjusted. Final gross in North America, 10 Point 5 Million, that's 20,000,000 adjusted, and worldwide gross is the same.

Other releases this weekend, The Haunting, starring the classically hilarious Liam Neeson. Here's Inspector Gadget whom I'd like to work on. And something called My Life So Far. Improv. The Haunting is just the Owen Wilson being Beheaded movie.

That's what I remember. Crazy. That sounds so fun. Liam Neeson could make that very funny. I remember that one.

It's the same it's an adaptation of the same story as The House on Haunting Hill. Oh. Yeah. I do kinda remember that. It's like Catherine Zeta Jones, I think, is in it.

Yeah. So those were those. The weekend top five, the haunting. It keeps coming back. It's repeating.

Weird. Inspector Gadget, American Pie, eyes wide shut. Love it. Every Christmas. I was older.

I mean, it's no. I mean, twenty five years is pretty old. I feel like anyway. Big daddy as well. Big daddy.

Pop quiz. Who played Inspector Gadget in the sequel? French Stewart. Ah, you got it. In which time will be a woman going to his necklace.

Deep pool. He moved my glass, and I didn't Feeling fine. Other films from 1999, Outside Providence, Pushing Tin, Bats, Man on the Moon, Dogma, Stigmata, Bluestreak, and The Mummy. For folks who wanted to watch this movie before they saw it, you probably had a hard time finding it because it's in the stream it. Yeah.

Limbo. Another movie that also is impossible to find on this list is Dogma, which Kevin Smith just announced he retained the rights, and they are releasing a four k. There you go. That one I that's another movie I would love to revisit. I used to love that.

I have not seen it in years. But Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. I'm with you on that in terms of the revisiting.

It's been way too long. Letterboxed average on this film is 3.8. Follow us, won't you? I'm at run b m c. I'm at paul acts badly, Adria.

I actually did make one right after I was on the last episode, and then I forgot to do anything with it. So I it doesn't exist, and I can't remember my name. So Baby steps. Baby steps. If I look you up, I will add you as a friend.

Okay. I can't it's I've probably rated five movies. It's probably like, she liked Amelie. Hey. Listen to our Amelie episode if you haven't.

That is just previous to this. Oh. You have just good positive feelings about Amelie? Oh, I loved Amelie. I I also haven't seen that in a while.

I feel like when that came out, I was like, I'm going to be her, and I'm gonna be a French woman. That was Jess too. She she owns it on the Blu ray. A woman of a certain age desired to be Amelie that Yeah. Were Ben and I, I think, Ben, I I do love to speak for you both, like, so charmed by it, like, me watching it.

I thought it was so wonderful. I cannot find you Audrey tattoo. I found this person who's named Adria Adria, and it seems like everything is written in Portuguese. So I'm gonna friend them. I'm gonna friend them.

Recall. Good at all. Maybe just say Adria. I don't remember. I tried to start well, anyway, I'll let you know.

There's an attempt. There was an attempt. At least you tried. Ebert and guest reviewer, they both went with the thumbs down. Okay.

They said it was mean. Okay. Rotten Tomatoes, 47%. The popcorn rating was 75. Metacritic, 28.

User, 7.7. So That is all over. Imbalance. That is all over the place. Which seems in some ways right for this movie.

Right. Yeah. Sure. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Mindset. Sort of. The director of this movie, Look Out, his name is Michael Patrick Jan. You know him from Oregon Trail, Wayne, and Alma the Wolf.

We all know those movies. Right? Oregon Trail spelled o r g a n. It's a horror it's a horror movie with a delicious pun for the title. Yeah.

Good. Yeah. Really well known director there. Ryder is Lona Williams, Shark Tale, Sugar and Spice, A Scout's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, the story. Alright.

Okay. Okay. Director of Photography is Michael Spiller. Trust, The House of Yes, Amateur. We're really hit baton baton a thousand here.

Uh-huh. And was it, like, some Parker Posey, like, deep cut indie movies? I don't know. Music is Mark Mothersbaugh, The Royal Tenenbaums, Thor right oh, pardon me. I'm getting a phone call.

Adria, take over for Ben. Ben's done. Ben, it's great for you to join us. Thanks. You cut from the pocket.

You're out of here. Alright. Continue. Music, Mark Mothersbaugh, the Royal Tenenbaums, Thor Ragnarok, Happy Gilmore. It's a very diverse group.

So I that's an awesome that's such an awesome weird list. So cool. Yeah. Producers Gavin Palone, Eight Millimeter Panic Room, Judy Houghlin, Stir of Echoes, Death on the Nile Perfect. 2022, Michael Nelson, Captive Hearts, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the epic disaster film.

Is that what it was? Wasn't it like a comic book superhero film that's I meant like out to be a disaster? That's what I mean. It's a disaster piece. It ended up being a disaster, my dear.

The movie that Sean Connery turned down Lord of the Rings to do. That's right. Kirsten Dunst plays Amber, Civil War, Spider Man 02/2002, and the Virgin Suicides. Denise Richards plays Rebecca, Wild Things, Tomorrow Never Dies, Starship Troopers, I Thought Christmas Only Came Once a Year. Emperor.

If we're if we're gonna do bond quotes I'm falling on. Crazy characters. I do a bond quote. Well, you made a Sean Connery Close enough. Sound.

So Ellen Barkin plays Annette, Sea of Love, Ocean's 13, Down by Law, Kirsty Alley, r a p, Gladys, Village of the Damned from '95. It takes two. Hark, observe who is verbalizing, and oh, isn't it strange, otherwise known as look who's talking. Allison Janney plays Loretta. I, Tonya, ten things I hate about you, Juno.

Sam McMurray plays Lester, Raising Arizona, Adam's family values, Stone Cold with Brian Bosworth. Yeah, baby. Mindy Sterling plays Iris, Austin Powers, all of them Eurotrip, the Brave Little Toaster, Britney Murphy, r I p, plays Lisa, Calendar Girls, Clueless, Don't Say a Word, and what were you gonna say? I just said King of the Hill too, Britney Murphy. Yeah.

Absolutely. Yeah. Luann. Right? Britney Murphy.

I just love her. Cool. Yes. Yeah. Amy Adams plays Leslie, a rival American Hustle and Night Bitch.

Adria, do you got some fun facts for us? Right now. Fun facts. Fun facts, everybody. It's fun fact time.

Take out the trash. A working title for this film was Dairy Foods, one of the only fast food restaurants in this very small town I grew up in. Through much of the development and production, but the fast food chain Dairy Queen, famous in small towns, learned of this and sued the production, forcing them to change the name. Dairy Queens would be very cute for this. Yeah.

Screenwriter, Lona Williams, was herself a contestant in local beauty pageants. She appeared in the film as the pageant's third non speaking judge, Jean, who is very funny. She just sits there quietly and is funny about it. I love her. She's great.

Melissa Joan Hart, Goldie Hawn, Sigourney Weaver. That's very funny. And Sarah Michelle Gellar were considered for various roles. Can you imagine Sigourney Weaver? Well, if she was the mom one of the mom she'd be one of the moms at this point.

Right. She would. Yes. Absolutely. And but still but I I mean, I can believe it.

I can believe it, but that would be funny. Allison Janney, I love, though. So Oh my god. Yeah. Denise Richards, the eventual winner for the role of Rebecca was 29 years old playing 17 at the beginning.

Ugh. Wow. So old. Disgusting. Disgusting.

Elderly. That's what John Doe that's what John Doe was quoted as saying about her, Judge John Doe from the movie. And Leonardo Gonzalez. Nine. Disgusting.

Sick. She's like the several crew members, Anne Richards herself, have confirmed that several extras actually left when she sang her purposefully painful rendition of Frankie Valli's can't take my eyes off of you, where she is touting Jesus on the cross. Apparently, several of the extras had not read the provided script or didn't understand the tone. I mean, we're gonna get into that. They pushed some boundaries in this movie.

Yeah. And I really was wondering as I watched it how much of this is gonna hold up, but, also, clearly, they were doing it on purpose. This part, though, I think is very funny. Let's see. Same.

I it made me think of, like, Hamlet two and Saved and some of the other movies from Yes. Somewhere around the late nineties, early '2 thousands that kind of pushed similar envelopes. Yes. Well, I'd and I Yeah. Before yeah.

I mean, we're we'll get into it. But, like, I think the, satirization of Middle America is so prevalent right for right now. Yeah. Same matter cannot keep buying space. I I found it.

Yes. Very 1999 in some aspects and other aspects, like, very, very relevant. Mhmm. Yes. I totally agree.

Totally agree. The orig the film's original ending had Gladys, Kirstie Alley, commit suicide in prison, and the sniper was the town librarian slash former Mount Rose American teen princess, Iona Hildebrand. This one will change after negative test screen. So such an odd choice. You know, this reminds an odd choice.

This reminds me of are either of you aware of the existence of a movie called Mac and Me that was, like, a McDonald's, like, promotional produced movie? Yeah. It's Paul Rudd's favorite movie. Yeah. Yeah.

Yes. So he the movie originally ends, and in The US, it ends different. It's just, like, kind of an abrupt cut and an explosion. Look up the international ending of that, folks, and I'll put a little warning here. But in the original ending, like, the alien shoots the kid in the wheelchair in the movie in the chest, and then everything explodes.

Like, movies are, like, just insane fucking alternate endings. It's just crazy. And in the nineties, they loved for things to explode, which is something that we've been gonna say about this movie. Lots of more explosions than I remember. For sure.

Yeah. That's where all the budget went for sure. Adria, we have a mean joke. What is what is the logline of this movie? What is your best guess to guess the one to two sentence descriptor of this film.

Watch. She's gonna joke. Wait. I you're I should do it. I'll do it.

I'm gonna do it for real. You can make a joke. It's fine. No. I don't know.

I mean, it's not gonna I'm I'm just doing it. I didn't think of anything beforehand. What if I had it and I was just like, here it is. That's what what's been happening recently. Oh, I didn't write anything.

Let's see. The love line would be like a a small town beauty pageant. Sweating. A okay. So it's like this is what happened last time.

There's a lot of descriptive. Okay. Small town. Oh, gosh. You yeah.

Oh, my tummy. Oh, my tummy. Okay. No. Small a small town beauty pageant with strife and Strive.

With with theirs and they fight alright. No. So a small a small town beauty pageant. And, ex ex Have you ever had a dream of that I'm not thinking. No.

You had expounds. No. You could do so much. Uh-oh. This is so much worse than I thought I was gonna do.

I'm gonna say for a second, it seemed like your secret talent was doing really fucking amazing log lines. Because you were you're on the Customer segment. Person. Was like, oh. Was that the one I wrote?

No. I just have it off the top of my head. It's this. I'm gonna pitch this. Green light this.

There's a small town beauty pageant. Oh. Faced with strife and A lot of strife. Big on the strife. And or what about this?

Small town tell you this for girl ends up in a beauty pageant with all odds against her. Will she make it? Could she do it? Is it real? That was so much worse than I thought it was gonna happen.

I'm gonna stop so we don't go Do you wanna know do you wanna know what it, it actually is? Yeah. It's probably that. Mhmm. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A small a small town beauty pageant Crazy. Crazy.

Turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to their lengths to win. Stride. Okay. Smells it. I was right.

The first half ish. Yeah. You got the the setting correct. It was like crying so bad. You got the where out of the what, where, when, and why.

Correct. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's now time for little Ragamuffin to do little Ragamuffin's thing. Ladies and gentlemen, little Ragamuffin.

Well, fuck. Hello. Hi. It's me. I'm little Ragamuffin.

And greetings to you and your crew from me and the review review coming through with two episodes a month guaranteed to be new unless we grew. Then it's more content, so don't feel blue. We thought you knew. This much is true. It's not a shrew.

The cinephile cards that we drew, we've left the clues. So really, it's not breaking news. Don't leave a bruise. So relax and have a brew and listen to the podcast, The Review Review. Rate, follow, share, like, subscribe to The Review Review on all pod places.

Follow on Instagram and blue sky at review x two podcast. You can follow Ben at run b m c. You can follow Paul at Paul acts badly on Letterboxd. So, there you go. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Little Ragamuffin can't hurt you because little Ragamuffin little little Ragamuffin isn't real, but now I'll say thank you and back to the program review review. Okay.

Little Ragamuffin decided to break in from the break with some fucking peanut butter M and M's like a little stooge. Brought those into the theater. Not okay. Okay. I'll put them away.

I'll put them away. Not okay. I'll put them away. Adding my flashlight at you. Did you buy those here, sir?

Get out of here, you little ragamuffin. Oh, little ragamuffin. You're causing strife here. Strife. To people's ears and their senses.

It's offensive. What do you have them? Ol' Ragamuffin. Alright. We are back from that musical break of little Ragamuffin.

We, Adria, do you recall this game? Oh, god. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

I will remind you that I'm about to embarrass myself at how much I don't Do you want to tell the guests what how this game works? Yeah. Is the thing you show me an actor, and then everyone tries to go around and say a movie that they're in until someone messes up? That's right. That's cool.

We need to remember that exact way. Yeah. That was you walk by nature. Out of that. Oh, nice.

Yes. And then until someone has some stripe. It's your secret tablet. I'm telling you. So you get the first one.

Right? Because there'll be a movie on here, so you get the freebie. Great. That's great. Only one will know.

Almost And then we'll go to Paul and then me and then you. John C. Reilly. Wait. Hard it's hard.

Yeah. It's hard. Yeah. Hard eight. Hard eight.

Hard eight. Hard eight? That's what it says. That what it says? Okay.

Hard eight. That's a movie. Alright. Paul goes next. Boogie Nights.

Well, I almost looked at it. Walk Hard, the Dewey Cox story. That's what I thought That's what I thought it would be too. But What is big? What is hard eight?

I have no idea. It's Paul Paul Thomas Anderson's first movie? Oh, one of his first features. Like a bad I look like a bad movie person. Stepbrothers?

Isn't that him? Mhmm. Yeah. Mhmm. Mhmm.

There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Magnolia. I will go with Chicago. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

He won an Oscar for that, I think. Uh-oh. Did he? Or he's nominated. Something.

Yeah. Oh, I'm already gonna embarrass myself. At the end no. Oh my god. He's an anchor man, isn't he?

Yeah. He actually is. He has a has a cameo in the, circle fight. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

He yeah. Okay. Yeah. Who? Wreck Wreck Ralph?

Yeah. Ralph Rex the Internet. Oh, shit. Oh my god. No.

Well, that doesn't count because that's not a movie. I was gonna say when he's, what's his name? What's his name? I might mean something for you. Oh, okay.

Drive in circles. What did I know what wait. One oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Halladega night. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah.

Is that what you were gonna say? That's absolutely correct. Yeah. You just helped me, days of thunder. Oh, nice.

Yeah. Gangs of New York. Oh my god. Fuck. And the beat goes on.

Okay? I don't even think I knew that. Uh-oh. Is this the end of is this the end of your parade float? Should you Like, it shot out.

Do you wanna give us your first experience with the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous and how you felt about the movie? Oh, sure. Right. That's where we were getting, which doesn't work. Hard eight still, by the way, is not something I know about.

So I was so confused by that. So, yes, drop dead gorgeous. So I I mean, I feel like I saw it pretty early on, and I remember thinking it was so funny. And I mainly remembered the scene, don't cry out loud and then being pushed in the wheelchair, and I remember sobbing. I was laughing so hard at that scene.

So since that is the scene I remembered, I thought this really could go many ways. Because I remember loving it, but then I also know how many of my beloved nineties movies don't do well. And for that one to already be an anorexic girl being pushed around in a wheelchair singing that song, I was like, oh, this might not be good. So I I really wasn't sure. I but I used to love it.

So when you first saw it, five stars? Yeah. I mean, may I mean, I truly was just like, yes. This is one of the funniest movies. So sure.

Let's give it five. Let's give it five. Five stars or five? Five, five, Are you looking at things in your apartment? In your own place?

Bed. Four pillows. I will give it I will give it five beer cans being fused to your hand after an explosion. Nice. That's great.

And now you just rewatched this movie, and how do you feel about it? Wait. Paul is showing us Convenient ash cans. Ash cans. I just gave my own score.

I have to bleep that out. Shit. Yeah. You're spoiling it. My current rating.

Okay. I guess I haven't even fully decided yet. I wouldn't give it five. There are there are things in it. I knew things wouldn't age well and some didn't.

But some, I'm like, you knew what you were doing. You knew where you're being edgy even then. And I kind of there's, like, gray areas, and then some just were still good. I think it I I don't think it would be five, but, like, the maybe. Honestly, we'll do four.

We'll do four. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Paul's already spoiled it for us.

But Yeah. Dear listener, you don't know. When I first saw this movie, it was on cable of some sort. I don't premium cable or what have you. I watched it on, like, a summer night one night.

That's all I remember. It was at my mom's house, and I just turned it on, and I laughed my ass off. I had a great time. Super, super funny movie. I had the same concern that Adria did.

I bought this movie years ago because cause I was like, this movie fucking rules, and rewatched it. And at that point still thought, this movie kind of fucking rules. Four. Pretty solid four. I I know I should probably move to a different rating system, but like that that ash can is so convenient.

That is bad. It's used to her hand. Yeah. It's so good. I can't get off it in this moment.

I should try to think of something else. So we'll see if that helps. To be fair, you had written it first. You had said that first. Well, great minds.

Great minds. So it it fused fused through strife. Rewatch, I was feeling a similar anxiety where it was like, fuck. I know this movie is a little bit edgy, I guess is the best way to put it. I don't know if it's more or less edgy than a movie we did on this podcast in our first season with Melinda Hensley that I love called Heathers.

Oh, Heathers. Oh, god. I haven't seen that in ages, but yes. I love that movie. And that movie is pretty good at mostly kind of making the bad guys say the bad things and have the bad attitudes outside of the intentions of, like, the anti heroes.

Mhmm. And because nobody's really good. But this movie was one of those things where I was like, oh, man. I know that this movie does a lot of creating comedy or leaning on comedy about people who are disabled or different. And I knew I was walking into that.

Yeah. And I still, at this point, it's a soft one. We're going to talk through this, everybody. We'll talk through it. I'm still at a soft four.

It's too fucking convenient that having the ash can right there as we find like, she gets used to it, becomes a part of her, but I I I'm still at a four. I can I can wiggle? I think, like, right now, the the goal is to stay at a four because I I feel like I could slip easily. But the uphill climb would be very hard, I think, for me to go to a four and a half, but I would like to stay at a four if possible. Benjamin.

I used to own this movie on VHS. I I think yeah. I think I I think I first must have rented it, and I or I maybe I bought it from Blockbuster, like, off the, like, used wall or something. I don't know. But I so I don't really remember the first time I saw it, but I watched it a lot as a kid because when I finally got a VCR in my room was around 1999, I think.

And so I had my own TV and VCR, and it was one of the few VHSs that I owned, and I would watch it a lot. And I thought it was hilarious. I thought that it was one of those things that maybe I didn't know if anyone else knew about this movie. Things that always stuck with me were the dancing Jesus and and then the the vomiting, seafood. So Last night, big big puke fest.

Yeah. Yeah. Back then, I would have given it probably given it five just because I, I was really into it. You rocked with it. Yeah.

Yeah. And I actually I have not seen this movie probably since like, 02/2003 or something like that. Like, I haven't I haven't seen it in a very long time. I wouldn't say that I was worried. I a lot of this, I remembered.

Most there were things that I remember that I was like, oh, I bet that's not going to age well. But at the same time, like, this movie isn't the only culprit of making these jokes. Like, this time frame in particular, like, I think of, I was thinking of something about Mary or, like, other things like this that, like, they made jokes at or, Scary Movie was another one. So we can just list a shit ton of Fairway Brothers movies. Yeah.

Yeah. Adam Sandler movies. So but, anyway, I I knew that going into it, but I I think the satirization of Middle America, like I said, is impeccable and incredible and and especially in our current climate. I I'm I'm gonna sit. I'm sitting pretty firmly, but I'm willing to move.

I'm I'm at four crab legs. Four four crab legs that are you gonna make it barf? Four crab it made me so like, the the the idea of this because I was a big seafood person. I used to go, like, crabbing with my grandfather, and it made me so nauseous, this movie, of thinking that that seafood can make you sick. I don't know.

Very. I've never been sick from seafood, so knocking on. Lucky you. Me neither. But, like, one of my friends, like, a few years ago went to a wedding in the Midwest that was outside and had a big seafood, like, sheltered.

And she said she did not eat it for that reason. And on the way back, everyone was, like, I just feel like Midwest is not the place to get seafood. Well, sure. Man, there's that. Yeah.

No. Have your sweaty seafood platter outside at a humid Midwest wedding where all of nature will gather around your seafood platter and feed it to your friends and family. That that is a good idea. Is it a good idea to start the movie, Paul? Yeah.

Let's start the movie. Start the movie. Start the movie. Start the movie. And now, our feature presentation.

I love the new line cinema logo. I always will. Same. Does anybody have a specific new line that they think of? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Oh, nice. No. What happened? I always thought they were ladder I always thought they were ladders when I was a kid. Oh, yeah?

Oh, that. Oh, yeah. I think I did too. Yeah. And then, yeah.

And then the two two ladders coming together. I don't know what I thought it was. I don't remember. It's ladders. I think no.

I know I didn't know what it was for a while. I'm trying to remember how this movie starts. How does Nightmare in Elm Street, by the way. I'm sure everyone knows. But the movie starts with it's just, like, very, very right up front, like, boom, drop dead gorgeous.

Like, it drops you right into the mockumentary premise. You into that dead it drops you into dead Drops you into strife. Yeah. Strife. We love a we love a mockumentary.

Yeah. Me Being Me. Okay. We know that a Christopher Guest does it the best. I mean, this was very in show and in film.

Yes. This is very inspired by Christopher Guest. I thought. Yes. But I do love it.

Have you guys, not just off top, but, like, have you guys seen Bernie? Movie Bernie? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Which with Richard and Clyde?

Mockumentary with, Jack Black. Yeah. Yeah. True story. I love that movie, and I don't really this is off topic.

It kind of made me think of it. That movie not a is based on a true story, and I'm pretty sure because I love an interview with a Middle America's weird small town person. I just, like, always love that. And I'm pretty sure in that movie, those were real people because it was based on a true story, and they were, like, interviewing people who knew the real guy. And then it was, like, a movie Right.

Starring Jack Black. But, like, every time it was one of those one on one interviews, it was, like, actually one of those people, which I just love. Anyway, not to That's great. Because you get the good you get those Midwest dialects, and they really They're so weird and they're so good. So weird and they, they lean right into them.

You know? Are you sure? Kirsten Dunst, by the way, in this and, like, in Fargo and, like, she's so solid at it. That dialect can acted. From, like, a young age.

Like, what a super fucking talented actor. Like, she's so great. So many good actors and so many great Oh my god. Yes. You know, and here's the thing too.

Here's Ciali, so funny. Probably not acting. Maybe. Yeah. They just had her dial it down two notches from real life.

Well, and it's I see Kirsty Alley. I don't think I realized at the time that she was cuckoo bananas, but she Yeah. Was. Yeah. And, probably when she said I wrote down the line, hairy leg livers.

Yeah. Well, I know what the hairy leg livers might say about that. And but, like, I was like, she probably really thinks that. Yeah. Probably.

It like, it wasn't a reach at all. Also, like, I I love Adam West popping in Oh, yeah. As, like, part, like, with the Sarah Rose cosmetics video and the fill in of the city. Grabowski. And and he hooked up with one of, their roommates.

Yeah. Adam West is not available for to comment. Super horny. Yeah. Shades of Quincy.

Her. Yeah. So I think the I think the thing that I forgot about, and this is jumping way ahead, but just how this whole movie sets up and the end the end of the movie when they get to the Sarah Bros, I completely forgot that. Oh my god. Yeah.

And I just think what an incredible bookend to, like, have this, like, really great, like, advertisement at the beginning for this for this countrywide beauty contest and then for it to go Just shut down and yeah. It's interesting to me, like, Donald Trump, I don't know if he still is, but at a point was super invested in the pageant world. He did miss teen USA and I think miss USA, but not miss America. He did miss universe, I think. Some of you I know that's surprising.

Yeah. Pageants. But that's the thing is, like, Sarah Rose Cosmetics, like, them showing up and the whole thing being, like, a fucking crock and the place is out of business, and it was all a lie. Like, feels like, it all felt very Trumpy to me. Oh, yeah.

Like, honestly, thank God he wasn't in this movie. He was probably two seconds away from being in this movie. And and it at the time, it may have been funny, and now it would so not be funny. Right. Yeah.

I love the how they when they, like we briefly get to meet every single girl who's going to be in the pageant. Right. And we get their each of their weird thing, which I think is is just so it's so great. I'm obsessed. Britney Murphy is great.

I love her, and I am obsessed with Britney Murphy. I love her. RIP so much. I Yeah. Newly one of the saddest I've ever been for a for a celebrity to pass away.

To start to start the conversation of, like, the questionables, you know, that are brought up and made fun of in this movie. Her brother is clearly a drag queen, but I love how much she loves him. Like, she's so proud of him. She's just like, look at it so much. She just, like, loves this.

And I think it's so cute. He would dress as, like, live a Nelly. That's so funny. I love it. I love it.

Yeah. I felt like that wasn't one of the there's a lot of the a lot of stuff in this movie that I felt is problematic or border or borderline. And that was one that I thought kind of. Yeah. Especially the bookend the bookend of having her just yell to her dad, he's gay.

Yeah. The dad's like, what? Yeah. Well, in kind of the middle piece too where she's talking about her brother and she's like, he's got better legs than me. And, like, it's clear she's the only person that's, like, spent time outside of this town.

She's the only person that had that is, like, not small minded, is super, super giving. Like, outside of Amber, she's totally altruist. And at points, finds herself laughing psychotically at how silly all this shit is. Like, she's so great. She's so relatable.

I love the performance. She's so that of all of the is, like, one of the most progressive takes in the movie is Yeah. There he's never really made fun of for being trans. He's like, always accept for that. And I think that's very cute.

Yeah. And she's clearly, again, like, so evolved in whatever from, like, going to New York and experiencing the world and having this amazing brother and, like, so on and so forth. I I like that it's just, like, get out of your Middle Middle America small minded situation and, like, see the world as it is. And I love that it's established how high the stakes are for this and for everybody. And that it's for us, for the outside, it's like, this is meaningless.

This means nothing. This is this is nobody gives a shit. But for this city and each person, like, it it means something. And the the girl that I was surprised because I remember when the last time I watched this was 02/2003, and it was Amy Adams because she she hadn't gone on to become Amy Adams. It's, like, maybe her first movie?

Is did I see that? Very early. Yeah. Yeah. She's oh, honey.

And she's just a horn dog. Yeah. It's so good, though. So I love her introduction when, like, they basically just start fucking behind a tree in front of a group of people, like, when they're being interviewed. But the I think their Japanese family Oh, yeah.

They have adopted a girl specifically to try to coach her to win this pageant. So that they could be more American. Yeah. And they and they Scream at their own daughter to, like, shut the fuck up. Like, in Colorado speak English.

Speak English. Speak English. English. Like, it's insane. Now now we're starting the problematic stuff a little bit.

Yeah. But, I mean, I feel like I've met so many of the people or interacted with or been around so many of the people, like, in this movie, like, at different volumes, like Yeah. You know, same TVs, different channels or whatnot, you know. Mhmm. Mhmm.

Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the port commercial here too.

Like, I think we've all seen weird local commercials at times with the pork commercial. Like, the lady who's like, I used to be the miss Mount Rose of the whatever, and now I work at the pork factory. Look at me, though. Oh, yes. So Denise Richards was 29 years old, by the way.

Cool. Yeah. Is that crazy? But Guys, so old. So old.

It's ridiculously old. That's John Doe told John Doe, one of the judges told me. Oh, yeah. Oh, is it okay. Question.

Is is it is it supposed to be, like is this guy on the lam? Is he is he, like, John Doe? Like, is he did he get out of jail for being a pedophile? For being a pedophile? I think that's the the joke.

Right? I think that's what it is. Is he is that his name, John Doe? His name is John, but it's spelled d o u g h. Correct.

I think that is. And then he's a pedophile. Right? That also lands so I think the Japanese family, the pedophile, the the It's all landing. I think this all is in this little this little gray area.

Until we get to Here's the thing. The the harbor story? Funny, though. It's pretty funny. Like His performance is really funny.

Yeah. I agree. When Tammy gets exploded at it, like, I was again we were talking about explosions, how many explosions there are in this movie. Tammy gets exploded out of nowhere, and we meet Mary who's anorexic and her hair's, like, falling out and the folks in the trailer park and Denise Richards brings her chocolate. Yes.

Yeah. Thank you for that. She's anorexic. She's gonna say she doesn't know me and all sorts of funny things. She says that every week when I come here.

Who are you? What's happening? Yeah. She I mean, I mean, those it's those gray area jokes that, like, feel like looking back, those feel like they knew what they were doing. You know?

They feel like even then they knew that they were they were touching a nerve. You know? And so, like, I do kinda feel like jokes when they really get that, like, sort of a in a family guy way or something, it's kind of like, if we make fun of anyone, every single person, then you can't be offended. Right? Because it you know?

Yeah. Kind of that, like, big blanket, we're we're offending everybody kind of thing. Those all and I don't know. They they're just so clearly aware of what they're doing that it is kind of like, okay. You're just stupid.

Right. I was surprised at how funny I thought a lot of what we're talking about was. Oh, yeah. No. Same.

I actually even, like, it does these little moments. Like, they're tiny little moments of things even from characters like Denise Richards, like, at a point, like, calls her dad out. She's like, thanks to like, the lady just fucking died, dad. Like, after he goes on, like, this kind of rant of, like, he's clearly, like, a racist. And she's like, dad, shut the fuck up.

Like, there there are moments where even shitty characters try to check people that are maybe shittier than them. I guess I I don't know. Like, it's got the movie's so layered. I think we've been talking about that a lot. There's so many levels and things happening with darts being thrown.

But I think it's important that Amber so Amber who is our our protagonist for all intents and purposes, Rebecca, who's seemingly antagonist, the rich person in town, like, they Yeah. That's true. Like, the bad guy is, like, the rich person. That's This movie is all about class. It's all about And and and Kirstie Alley, like, runs this and also is her mom.

And, like, everyone's like, yeah, she's gonna win. From the beginning, everyone's like, I know who's I know who's gonna win. Yeah. Why are we even doing this? Which I think is great.

And Will Sasso says it. I know the winner is. I know who the winner is. I know who it's gonna be. So all of these main players, Britney Murphy's character, Amy Adams' character, and then a couple of other, you know, like, the girl who wants to be a dramatic actor.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The other girl who put a ball of yarn on her head. She's like, I'm gonna be Othello or I'm gonna do Soylent Green or I was like, these two is extremely wild.

Like, yeah. That's a dichotomy. Who's the girl that put the ball the big ball of yarn on her head? Oh, yeah. I love her too.

I and she's the one that just, like, loves to train dogs. She Yeah. Is so good too. German shepherds have the best bark. I think I misunderstood the assignment and the ball just falls off.

Yeah. This is where biggest ball in yarn. You meet the judges. Right? And John John Doe clearly is like, no.

I've never been I what are you talking about? I don't I don't like I don't like young girls. Girls. I don't I've never been to a I've never been around young girls. Like, that's where I clearly am like, oh, this guy is, like, under an alias.

Like, what this guy's a total fucking creep. We meet what what's the deal with the guy at the store? Is he a creep too? Who? The hardware store guy?

Owner guy? Yeah. I didn't think he was a creep. That's the thing. Though.

I think more it's just like he's a way for Will Sasser's character to, like, be in there. Yeah. Okay. Who is I think, I think we can probably agree. Maybe the the one problematic thing is the rampant use of the r r word.

Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, oh, dear. And not just, oh, I'm an idiot, but, like, referring to him all the time as I was like, okay. That okay.

That is something we probably would not do next. Yeah. At least not not in our circles. Maybe if you work in the White House. Well, we are like, if you're depending on where you're at and who your, you know, people are or whatever, it's just Can you believe we're having to say things like that?

But It's crazy. It's crazy. The dad, Rebecca's dad, like, runs this town because he runs a a very successful furniture business. And Jean, who ends up a third judge, is like his plant. It's like his assistant that he, like, grabs her ass and, like, whatever whatever.

But she's also the writer of the movie. And that's the thing for me. This movie is so well written. Yeah. It's so well performed.

Yeah. Like, all the way through and through beat to beat moment to moment. It's just that backbone that it's built on there is so good. It it it is, and it it's even crazy because I think I was trying to I think it's five acts, and they're kind of like Yeah. I agree.

Yeah. And it kind of, like, is heavy at the front. Like, the first two acts are longer and then Mhmm. Because it's like once we get to the end of the pageant, we're only in the fourth act at that point. Anyway, we start building up the pageant and we see, like, they have dance lessons and John Doe is standing with a video with an eight millimeter camera.

It's like, the way that he overexplains everything and just keeps going and they just let him. And he's just smoking, like, nervously smoking all the time. It's a camera. It's in my I keep it I keep it in the dash. It's for accidents.

And, like, poor poor Amber is working through all this, like, working at the cafeteria at school, working at a funeral home doing embalming, and having to dance through all this and choreograph stuff through all this. Working And having to and having to embalm the guy she was gonna go on a date with? Oh, yeah. Shot in the fucking head. I shot in the face.

That was sad. By Rebecca. Right? Rebecca killed everybody. Right?

I think it was Denise. It was it was Denise Richards and Kirstie Alley? Yeah. One of the two. I don't know.

Or maybe both. Did you say RIP? Yeah. RIP. I I love how many times cops comes in the up and Oh, that is funny.

Yeah. I like when all the at the end, when all of the guys filming are like, oh, hey. You're from Cops, and they're all pissed off. Yeah. That's right.

Because Cops is so, like, racist and classist. Right? Like, it's so great that they the joke, they carry so well for me. Brett dying, the boy that she liked, and then the the fire that happens at the trailer, like, whoever set that bomb or whatnot? Yeah.

It was, some kind of bomb that because it it came right on through the window, and then, I was what'd she say? I was ass up in the neighbor's daffodils. Or yeah. Daffodils. This is where the Allison Janney of it all really starts to sing for me because she steals this whole fucking movie.

She's for me, she's so incredible. But when I feel like she steals everything she's in. Oh, agreed. Yeah. If it's agreed.

It's like I I was or West Wing or so many things. I just started well, I was just watching diplomat season two, and Okay. She shows up in that as the vice president. And she's she's only in, like, three episodes, but you're immediately just like, oh, I wanna watch you do everything. The gravitas is undeniable.

But, like, in the in the moment, when Amber's running in and she's like, mom, mom. And the fireman's like, are you looking for a family member? And Allison Janney's like, no. She's yelling mom, mom because she's got Tourette's dipshit. She has so many of those lines throughout this movie.

Oh, I love she's like, somehow my tap costume got rescued by the neighbor boy. Like Yeah. On the hanger. What a miracle. Yeah.

On the hanger. So we we go to Ellen Barkin in the hospital with the fused beer can on her hand after the Wild Stallions, that's gotta be Bill and Ted, right? That are hooking up the guitarist. Wild Stallions. That's me and Andrea.

Me and Andrea are Bill and Ted. Nice. Oh, wow. Alright. Yeah.

Yeah. Can I be George Carlin? Yeah. Can I be Rufus? Yeah.

Excellent. Oh, dude. Rufus. It's Rufus. We all Waterland.

Pick a pack if we ever go to Halloween, three of us together. That's our concern. I gotta shave I gotta shave the beard. Beard's gotta go for Bill. Do do I Exactly.

Like Do I go do I make the, like, uncool, unexpected choice of going William Sadler in Bogus Journey? Oh, I would like you have to wear a bald cap. No. I just shave the eight hairs off. It's fine.

I'd finally just let go. There you go, Ben. You got it. I'm not gonna take my hair down to show you that it is exactly the triangle hair of a nineties boy of a nineties, Keanu Reeves. But You you'd be a great Ted.

Thank you. Where were we? Anyway so, yeah. Don't cry, I'm not. That's where it's still funny.

It's still funny. It is. It is. Jumping forward. I'm sorry.

I understand. Where are we? I love where I know where we are. I know where we are. We're doing, like, the judging walkthrough and then into, like, the dress rehearsal.

And just is everybody also Ben, I don't know. Are you super on board also with, like, this Britney Murphy performance, especially here as she's, like I think she's this is, like, the giggle moment or whatnot where she's just, like, this is all so silly. I just think she is, like, one of the other linchpins of this movie. Yeah. The way she laughs is very funny.

Oh my god. It's It's just, like, canceled. And then the other character, like, the girl who's doing an ASL interpretive dance This is the number switch. She unfortunately gets killed? No.

She go she becomes deaf because a light falls on her head. And they were like and they were like, good for her. She got she they were like, she became deaf. She's so happy. Good for her.

But that lamp that that, Fresnel light that fell onto Oh my god. Her head was meant for, Amber. Yeah. Somehow somehow. I yeah.

Sure. Somehow. I mean, what, you just loosen a thing and there's hope it falls at the right time, or is there someone up there? Yeah. I love yeah.

I know. I love how Denise Richards just watches as it happens and, like, isn't surprised at all. Yeah. Just walks away. Yeah.

This is part this too is where the photography of this movie really shines through outside of, like, great interstitials and mockumentary stuff. The way that scenes are framed in the still camera work, it's really such a pretty movie, not only when it's being mockumentary style, but when it's being very still. So you can really kind of, like, see what's happening in almost, like, more of a stethoscope kind of feel. It's really great. I love the way it looks.

I think it looks great. And the colors are great. And it feels like it feel it has a documentary feel with a little bit of extra flare, especially when they're filming the, when we get to the pageant. Yeah. I just love that they open with those things on their heads and doing this walk around the stage.

It's so funny. They're why they're proud to be American in there? Yes. Those are all so good. Buy American, proud American, all the themes for all the pageants through the years.

This reminds me of that pageant. Remember the famous pageant where someone asks, the girl a question, when they asked her, like Have you ever had a kid? Was it how do you feel about That you, you you can cut this. I don't remember what the question was, but she, like, goes on and on about, like, do you remember what I'm talking about? It was, like, word salad.

I'll play it for you once we go to break, which is, like, a little solid. Like, and where she's like I do I do know what you mean. Never mind. If you could and you go for and you and go you too could and if you are, something like, basically or, like, what does she? Yeah.

Yeah. She keeps saying, like, yeah. I can't even remember. I Yeah. I can't either.

Like, I do know everything. Excited to This is great. Slash hear this. Great podcast material, though. It's gonna end up in the podcast.

Very good of us trying to remember that Yeah. Not not being able to remember a single word. Yeah. We do remember this part of the movie. Right?

This is where but to the ball of yarn. The ball of yarn. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Sure.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna say, you know, one funny thing that kind of made me giggle.

It was one of the few things that made me giggle that I was like, I don't think this is supposed to be funny that actually just kind of seems funny watching it now is that Kirsten Dunst tap dances to this very, like, alternative nineties song in a way that it was like, this kind of Nirvana esque, like, like Yeah. To that. Like, I think it was supposed to sound cool at the moment, and I was like, now it sounds about silly. But it was just one of those, like, little dated moments where you're like, I was gonna be sleeping. I don't wanna miss this either where Amber is still being, they're going after her where they're, like, stealing her costume Oh, yeah.

Yeah. And whatever. And Britney Murphy has this great moment with her where she gives her her costume. She's like, I'm not gonna win. Like, I don't fucking care.

You do this. And Amber is such a hard worker, and I really appreciate it. But that's kinda like part of the thing with the movie for me is, like, well, she works really hard and then people keep dying or things keep happening and then she gets moves into positions. Like, she she doesn't get them outright. People die.

Those just end the day. She gets them. Like, it's just odd. But I also think she is the she is one of the more qualified people in the pageant. That's true.

And I think because she is I think it's all. She's probably the poorest of them all. Mhmm. Maybe. Yeah.

Yeah. I think that it's not so much like she's getting free rides. It's more just equitable, I guess. She's, like, actually getting she start she should win the whole thing, but we know that's not gonna happen. If she were wealthy, she would be in these positions anyway.

Yeah. Like, or she would have had this access anyway, kind of. Is that right? The ladder dance with the paint Oh my god. That is funny.

John Doe. The paint. The way John Doe is so into it. Yeah. And the paint, they're constantly inhaling fumes in this movie.

Enhaling fumes of paint thinner and gas and Yes. All sorts of shit. Yeah. And then they have it feels like the judges other than John Doe who's really into it, it feels like they don't really give a shit. Are they all paid off?

I think they're all paid off. Well, I think so well, yeah. I think so. Because that's why Will says, like you said, is like, well, I don't know when like, I think that the other two are just like, yeah, we're just hired to be here to choose Rebecca or is that her name? Yeah.

Denise. Yeah. Rebecca. So, yeah, I think the other ones don't care, and then John Doe pretends like he doesn't care, but he cares. Yeah.

It won't, like, after Rebecca's song. Yeah. Absolutely no fucking way. And then at the end crucified Jesus. Which is on wheels.

And at the sexy Jesus. At the end, she carries it off. It's on wheels. Yeah. She just like drags it off.

You're just too good to be true. Can't take my eyes off of you. Oh, shit. You'd be like heaven to touch. I wanna hold you so much.

She drags it off like Jesus carrying the cross up the hill. It's insane. Like, the image it's almost like Robocop walking on water at the end of Robocop where you're like, no. If I told you at the inauguration someone danced with a crucified Jesus, you would probably believe me. Right?

I don't know if you're not there's no way to know if that's not accurate, and I'm inclined to believe it. If there was a if there was a crucified Jesus on stage would go up and hug it and, like, give thumbs up and hug And you're hearing that? Yeah. Make, like, a spot of sad face. The bunker is a fan of it.

No. If we get buddy Jesus from Dogma, it's gonna be Yeah. In the next four years. I only got I only got agent Cooper. Oh, nice.

That's a thumb with the thumbs up. So Good coffee. Damn good coffee. Rebecca wins the whole thing, and we get these post pageant reactions from people. And I love this is when Britney Murphy is like, dad, Steve is gay.

You fucking loser idiot. And everybody celebrates because this in this town of 5,000, this pageant's like everything. Yeah. Yeah. They have a big old parade.

They have a blowout over this. Yeah. Well, they where did they get their blow Blowout. A blowout. I got it.

Mhmm. But it smells like gasoline. Blowout. Mom, my dress is gonna reek. And she's like, it's Get your ass up there.

Your dad paid good money for that. I designed this myself. It'll look like a glistening lake. It's the swans floating on a glistening lake, and she blows up her kid. Yeah.

Blows her right up. Cop shows up as Kirstie Helly has a meltdown. For sure. And she admits to her involvement in this to whatever degree how she definitely killed Tammy. She blew up she blew up Tammy.

Yeah. First the first person to blow up. Right. Girl. Right?

Yeah. Right. Blew up on her combine whatever. Your treasure or whatever. It's like, was was Tammy really a threat?

I know. That's the question. I know she was like, this is my Letterman jacket. She's like, it's a little bro. Yeah.

Because somehow she's the one she decided to blow up even though Shirley Fuge J. Her? I mean, she tried to blow up, Amber as well, but it didn't work. Yep. Tried to drop a light on her because the number switch thing and I guess, like, yeah.

Was there a timing thing that popped that light? I'm the light is really fucking with me. But the the winner prize packages and stuff where it's like, it was like a $50 scholarship, a $75 scholarship. Yes. And then Amber becomes the winner by default and she gets like this prize package and has to go out of town to The hotel by the airport.

The hotel by the airport. Freaking out. To train with Terry and Colleen for Yeah. These actresses are phenomenal. They feel like the it's like a Portlandia couple.

Yeah. Sure. But, dad, I love that the because they're going to regionals. Right? And it's regionals in Minnesota, so there's, like, some airport by hotel by the airport.

By Saint Paul Minneapolis Saint Paul or something. Yeah. Which they don't even get to stay at overnight. So No. You have eight hours to rehearse the show and then get the fuck out.

And there's a seafood lunch buffet. Seafood by Antoine. Seafood by Little Ragamuffin. Yeah. Little Ragamuffin.

That's I crab legs, clams, mussels. You see it about to happen as everyone calls. But Amber Amber says can act it. I don't I don't eat seafood because my mom says never eat anything that carries around its own house because you don't know the last time it was cleaned. That's right.

Very good. This is where I I felt like the budget went. You get Elton John Saturday nights all right, and then Strauss's beautiful blue Danube as everyone's throwing up in terms of music, like, back to back. What did that cost? Good gravy.

Oh, man. And that's does look like gravy when they're spitting up too. Yeah. I mean, like yeah. The the fact that there's so many explosions and a puke fest at the end, those two things felt so nineties about this movie.

It was like, that feels right. That feels right. And and the balcony and stuff. Two different kinds of explosions. Yep.

So Amber wins by default, and she needs to take a shower. That's what she said. Shower. And then they they take again, like, they all go on the bus to go to the Sarah Rose headquarters, and it's the Allstate's winners. I love that that somehow the bus, like, picked them up, and there was enough to get them to this building that was just closed.

Knew was shut down. Yeah. And just shut down. It was like this money making shelter thing that, like, these ladies, like, Colleen and whatever were and Terry and or various people were probably involved in and not even talking to Sarah Rose and running their own kind of, like, they were trying to run a a modeling business out of that too. And, like, these girls showing up after Ellen Barkin has a hook hand as a result of this.

Hook hand. And, like, instead of her beer, ash. I don't care. She's trying to open it, and they're like, no. She said, I have to try to do it on my own.

She's stabbed it, poured it into the top. It's like all foam, and she's like, I got it. I did it. I did it. I love Ellen Barkin's Sea of Love for anybody who likes a good erotic thriller.

That one's a winner. Good movie. Okay. Sarah Rose is shut down and every girl there except Amber goes fucking apeshit. Just destroying everything.

Breaking the windows and pushing down the statues and stuff. It's so good. It looks really fun to film. Yes. Oh, yeah.

I was having that same thought. Yeah. I was just like, just push that thing down. Uh-huh. Broke that.

So good. So it was just like a a rage room. Like, essentially, it was really great. And Kirstie Alley gets out of prison somehow. Yeah.

She, like, breaks out. She vows to break out. And it's just, like And does. A sniper on the roof of the furniture store in the Bell Tower. Starts shooting people.

Yeah. And then and then famous like Kirsten Dunb becomes a becomes a news reporter. She's just like, oh, this news reporter dies. I'm just gonna pick it up and then she just starts off. Yeah.

She which is a very funny She yeah. She's even checked to be like, are you okay? Oh my gosh. She's like I can't do it right now. This is Amber Adkins.

Kirsty Halley shoots the news reporter in the head before the microphone hits the ground. Yeah. Kirsten Dunst grabs it because her idol is Diane Sawyer. It's been made very clear to me. Didn't say that.

She loves Diane. Yeah. And so she's ready to step in and do the Diane Sawyer thing and we find out, like, that is the trajectory for her character. Again, falls into another opportunity, but capable, ready as she has proven through this. Well well put everyone.

I think my favorite part of that scene when first shot happened There's Homer. Someone going, oh, crap. Oh, crap. Oh, crap. Oh, crap.

Oh, darn. Like, the fart that accent is just so funny. You know? It is. The wise.

It's like in Fargo when it's like, oh, yeah. I know. I saw Margie down at the office. I told her, well, a g That I'm in a barf. It's okay.

Yeah. Well Yeah. We are at the end of the movie here. We've arrived at the end of the movie. Adria.

Did we miss anything, Adria? Is there anything you'd like to go over? I don't think so. I think when it comes down to it, there there's a lot again, I've said gray area a lot, but there's a lot of those gray area jokes about I don't know. Do we make jokes about people with eating disorders and, being pedophiles and, you know, and the Japanese people adopting a white girl so that they could be more Japanese.

Thing is, I still laughed at most of those. I would say the r heard one was the far end where I was like, k. We could've done without that. That. But then at the other end, you know, there's the gray area where I kinda felt like they wanted to purposely.

And then one positive is that I haven't really said yet, but was like, you know what? Sometimes it's just nice to see a movie with a whole lot of fucking funny women in it. And there's so many good women performances in this. There's so many funny women in it. Almost no men of any kind.

And the men all set I mean, the women kinda suck too, but, like Will Sassa's okay. Will Sassa's okay. I mean okay. Oh, I also forgot to say when he gets his overall stuck in in the door and then leans forward. That's very cool.

And he's holding the kid holding the kid down and eating his cotton candy. The physical image is yeah. He is a very good clown in that role. I mean, he is fun. Yeah.

That is funny. You know? But, yes. Questionable role questionable way they talk about it. But I mean, characters like that in Shakespeare, right, were just called an ass, and they didn't say they were mentally challenged.

He was just like a clown. I mean, really, he is funny. The way they talk about him, not great. But he was funny in in a lot of parts of that movie. But yeah.

But I do just like every single I mean, we have just said so many times, like, god. You know, she was so funny. I mean, there's just so many funny women. Yeah. And, like, there are so few I hate to say how few movies that like, I'm like, well, bridesmaids.

Yeah. But there's, like, so few. Like, you can name on hand how many movies are just, like, a large group of funny women. And so, like, you gotta give that to this movie. And so many of these women started their careers with this movie or, like, were at the beginnings of them.

Obviously, Amy Adams and, like, other people who are just young in it. So I I love it for that. And then, Britney Murphy, who I just love forever. Yeah. Yeah.

That I love about this movie. So after we've talked about it, why don't you go first? Did you have you has your ranking changed? You were at four what was your What's the four four four fused beer cans. Four fused beer cans.

Yeah. I think I think four is good. I think four is good. Four is good? I think that's where I'll stay.

There was a lot that I still really liked about this one. So I'm gonna leave yeah. Four is better than triples, because I heard triples was best. Triples is best. Triples is safe.

Tell him. Tell him. It's too it's too cold for the ice cream machines to work. They get all frozen up. You can't get ice cream.

His wife's beautiful, but she's dying. Fucking Oh, about this movie. Yeah. Strategic drink. Yeah.

I'm gonna wet my whistle here. Wet your little ragamuffin? Yeah. I gotta spit rhymes in time. No crime.

Oh. Ragamuffin. Ragamuffin. Strife. So I fucking love horny Allison Janney.

So funny throughout the movie. Just being horny and combative and this lightning rod for Amber and for the people in her life. She just, like, loves so fiercely, and it's so funny. And the way when she, like I just wanna tout more of that performance too when she, like, makes out with, like, the guy behind the bar, and she's like, yeah. You're cute.

Is it what did she say right at the end on camera? She's like, say hi to your mom, and then she's like, I got some or something like that. I got some. Yeah. That's so great as well as I'm forgetting the name of the actress, but the girl who plays Mary, the girl who's anorexic.

And like you said, Adria, when she gets wheeled out yeah. Oh, we have a guest star. Yeah. We love a guest star appearance. Not gonna look.

And she has nothing to say. But Oh, well. Is she making any sounds you can record for us? Nope. Never.

Nope. She's very quiet. But, you know, as as much as this movie is problematic, and I also wanna give shouts to just so many people in the cast. The movie is just so well cast. Mhmm.

Mhmm. I I didn't feel like any of us, as much as we can do this with certain movies for whatever people's reasoning, no one really wanted to, like, stick on the things that were uncomfortable or didn't age well or what have you. Everybody just kept moving to all these great things, which there's so much. So there's this this insane density of all this stuff that's so funny and kind of timeless, and especially if you've spent time growing up in a small town, because small town people, small town people. Right.

That there's a level of, like, relatability that exists in this for me too. So I am proud to not only have owned this once, but now twice as I would like to explain that through the magic of the Internet, I was able to purchase this movie in HDX through Fandango at Home Mhmm. As being a previous owner, and he did this in HDX, which is seven twenty I, seven twenty p DVD dump over quality, apparently. But despite that HDX quality and all these things that we're saying are problematic, it's still four. I'm gonna stick with the ash can.

I know I said I might try to pivot, but it's it's the ash can for me. And I I just find myself constantly wanting to see, like, oh, Ellen Barkin or Brittany Murphy or Amy Adams, and you get this great peppering of all these people. It's just like this editing and writing Marvel. It's a really good movie. No weak characters.

There's no weak characters in that movie. That's good. Everyone is fun to see. Yeah. Same modern character.

Even John Doe, a pedophile. Yes. Funny. Yeah. Even the shitty, like, dad from Stone Cold.

Great movie. Everybody should watch Stone Cold. But, like, even him, he's so good. They all, like, really play into this. I'm gonna stick it for crab legs.

I I mean, I think the the yeah. The we all make great points. There's things that didn't age well. There's a strong nostalgia pull for me because I'm just the second the movie started, I was like, I just had a big smile on my face because I remembered just, like, sitting in my room at 13 or 14 or whatever watching this movie. And, yeah, I'm still I'm still I'm still in love with it.

So I'm gonna stick Nice. Four crab legs. Again, if you would like to watch this movie, go to YouTube and just look it up. But also yeah. I actually did see I know that Vidiots has a Blu ray copy.

They have one Blu ray copy. Oh. Currently out. Otherwise, I would have rented it because because I'd like to see it a little higher quality. But I paid my $5.

I paid my $5. So, you know, is I didn't I paid I paid money. I've been renting things from the library lately. Hell, yes. The Seattle Public Library has quite a few movies.

You just it's often like, you can see this in thirteen weeks. Like, well okay. So you just, like, put it on your well, you put the DVD on your queue, and then, you know, months later, it's like, you know, like that weird the Weird Al movie. I finally watched that because I read it from the library. Oh, okay.

So that's kind of fun. Canopy, Hoopla? Well and there's Canopy. Yeah. Those are great.

Yeah. Canopy and Hoopla are great if you have a library card. And I wanna say really quick, part of when this movie is really sim cinematic is whenever Kirsten Dunst is dancing. And that is so that's part of what makes it so cool and pretty and I think, like, grounding at times. I don't know.

It's it's it's a cool movie. Adria, thanks for coming back. Oh my gosh. Thanks for having me, guys. A pleasure.

Is there anything you would like to plug or people tell people where to find you or tell them never to look for you? Whatever you wanna say. Run. No. I I no.

Instagram, of which I post a funny video every six months, it's me, Adria. Because my brother's name is Mario. That's the joke. That's the joke. Not everybody knows.

Super fun episode. Everybody, if you didn't know, our music, the book end music is done by Jamie Henwood, who is great. You should look him up on Spotify. Has great lo fi beats. Absolutely.

Matthew Foskett does our what you've been doing and what are you watching themes. Chris Olds does our fun facts theme. Ben does some of our interstitials. You can follow the podcast at review x two podcast on Blue Sky as well as Instagram. Ben, they can follow you.

Right? Follow me Letterboxed or Instagram run BMC? Okay. You can follow me on Letterboxed only. Leave me alone at Paul x Bad.

Unless you wanna follow me on Letterboxed, then do that. But otherwise Leave him alone. No. Thanks. I'm too busy in the lab making beets.

Alright. Little ragamuffin. Alright. Goodbye, everybody. Bye, Ajit.

Bye. Hi, everyone. This is JJ, the cofounder of Goodpods. If you haven't heard of it yet, Goodpods is like Goodreads or Instagram, but for podcasts. It's new, it's social, it's different, and it's growing really fast.

There are more than 2,000,000 podcasts, and we know that it is impossible to figure out what to listen to. On Goodpods, you follow your friends and podcasters to see what they like. That is the number one way to discover new shows and episodes. You can find Goodpods on the web or download the app. Happy listening.