The important take away question from this week's episode is "Nacho Libre: Yay or Nay?" Leave your answer in the comments.
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Nacho Libre: Yay or Nay?
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[LAUGH] I'm going to apologize to everyone in advance right now, like normally I just have a face for radio, but now I have a face and a voice for radio, if that makes any sort of sense whatsoever. There is a somber tone cast upon this show. I am all in black weather. You've got the black nails. I've got the black mug. It's a black show. It is. It is. It's been a dark week. It has been a dark, dark week. So maybe we'll keep this as a slightly shorter show if we can. We'll just nail it down and maybe reduce it to two games each. See how we go? What has been up? You've been sick as a dog for a whole week. I've been iron-fection and sick as well. There's no news to be told. I watched a lot of movies, but... Yeah. I mean, I was comatose for quite a bit of it. So yeah. I mean, I did manage to get some movie viewing in there because I had literally nothing else that I could do and we were all just couch-bound for a week, so... Fire. Anything I've noticed or just rewatched? I mean, this is me just catching up, really, because you know what I'm like, so my poor middle one was suffering the other day. He wasn't good. We were curled up on the couch and just trying to find some things that he might have. He might want to watch any super into basketball, so we decided to give the new Space Jam a well. What a pile of dog shit that is. Yeah. Holy crap. It's an interesting one. I feel like it's a very heavy-handed fan-service kind of movie and LeBron James is no Michael Jordan. Let's just face it. I mean, he isn't, he isn't at the same time. I am a bit of a LeBron head. I quite like him. I think he's funny. He was terrible in this movie. I mean, just the whole movie was terrible and it was... I guess there's some moments in there where it's like, you know, spot the movie reference and that kind of thing. All of the Warner Brothers properties were in there. There's even Mad Max in there if you look closely enough in the crowd, you know. Right. Nat and I, my husband for anyone else playing at home, were sitting there going, "First of all, this is not Space Jam. Second of all, why are there white walkers in the fucking, in the background of a basketball game?" That makes no sense. Yeah. It just, I really disliked it. My kid loved it. Yeah, it was about to ask that. He thought it was great. That's all it was. Yeah. Big old, seeming pilot dog shit for me, I reckon. Wow. There you go. I gave that rom-com a go with Glen Powell. Oh, anyone but you? Yeah. Sydney Sweeney? Yeah. Well? It was quite funny. Oh, great. It had its moments. It had some giggles. I think it's a really, really bad movie and I think that's the general consensus all around. However, like you said, it has some moments and sometimes you just need a no-brainer rom-com and I think, overall, it's a pretty fun movie. It's got some really horrible things in there, particularly like your Brian Brown character and that when they're doing the whole shitty eavesdropping or pretending to do a scene to get their attention. It's just that shit really bothered me, but you know what? How did you handle the spider? Oh, I didn't. I didn't. It wasn't good. Look, it was a cringe-tastic movie. I enjoyed it, but I didn't enjoy it. Sometimes it's the kind of movie that's exactly what you need when you're sick, I think. Yeah. And that's what it was. It was an easy, easy watch. It gave me a few giggles. I won't be watching it any time soon and, you know, Sydney Sweeney's tits don't need to be out in every single scene. That's not necessarily true, but... No, it is. It's true. It's absolutely true. Well, if you've got a floner, I say. Babe, it's okay. You can put them away. It's fine. You'll still get roles. I'm telling you. With a face like that, you don't need your tits out, all right? And then I finally go around to watching the new Hunger Games, the Ballad of... Son of Birds and Snacks? Yes. Yeah. Loved it. Oh, damn. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Look, I'm a huge Hunger Games head. I love the books and I enjoyed the movies. This is nothing what I thought it was going to be and I really, really enjoyed it. It's almost a musical. Almost. Yeah. Correct. Yeah, it is almost a musical. The guy who played Snow really enjoyed him in that character. I think he fucking nailed that. He hit a dingley. Shoot me. Oh. I love Peter Dinklage. I don't. But he plays the same sort of character. Yeah. Short ones. You know? No. That's not what I meant. But I didn't particularly love the female main character. Oh, the Rachel Ziggler. She's horrible. Yeah. Didn't particularly love her, but I loved the guy who played Snow. I think he absolutely nailed it and just the storyline and the movie itself I thought was really good. I really, really, really strongly disliked it, but you know, that's not what matters. Now, movies aren't for everybody and the fact that you enjoyed it is all that matters. There's a new one coming to. So see how that goes. Yes, I was hoping there would be. Yeah, because whatever her name is, the author is writing the new book now, which is another prequel. That one takes place, I think, like 50 years after songbirds and snakes, something, I don't know with the timeline, but it's another prequel, but slightly different place in time. I'd watch. I'd watch a whole Star Wars, Star Wars universe of that. I just find the politics of that particular world so interesting and just, I love it. I love it. You really need to give Battle Royale ago. That's where it's at with this sort of stuff. That's the one that's. Battle Royale. Yeah. It's a Japanese or Korean that might be Korean, but it is essentially the Hunger Games. It's all these private school kids left on an island and last one stand in type of thing. Oh, that's a lot of the flies. Kind of. It's much closer to Hunger Games than a lot of the. I almost said a lot of the fries. A lot of the fries. A lot of the flies in Squid Game is all we want to go. Right. Should we just move on to a game? Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that. First, just to get the ball rolling and hopefully get some momentum going here. It's an easy one for you. I'm going to let you off the hook this week. A simple, a simple game of guest of the year of release. I've got, I don't know, maybe 10, 10 movies here and I just want you to have a guess when they came out and maybe we can just stop and talk about a couple of it as we go. Sure. So what did you think Beverly Hills Cop came out original? The original? Yeah. 1980. Four. Correct. Very good. Ding, ding, ding, give her a medal. Have you had a chance to catch the brand new one? No. I haven't yet. It's great. It's really fun. It's such a good legacy sequel. It's what a sequel should be, particularly a legacy one. You've got all of the original characters come back in ways. It's not tokenistic and not hokey. But they actually have a place and it works and for those of the listening, she's having a bit of a coffee and fit. But there's also new characters that come into it to keep it fresh. Kevin Bacon's fantastic in it and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's really good in it. It's just action packed and when it does fan service, the fan service is great. It's got all of the old music cues coming in at the right moments. A lot of scenes are almost reenactments from the original but in a way that progresses the story. It's really, really fun. I wish it had a gone theatrical. It would have been great on a big screen. Nice. All right. So what about free Willy? That was early '90s. I want to say '92. Have one more guess. '95. It's '93. Oh, damn it. Such a great series, that one. It's so good. It's so wonderful. If anyone who hasn't seen free Willy, you need to do yourself a favour. It's just so heartwarming. I know. You and I have spoken about it and I've had this conversation many times. It's one, two and three as a trilogy. They are all really good movies. It's one of those rare examples of like one, two and three. Having a consistent sort of atmosphere and aesthetic texture, it's great. And the one where the little foster brother comes and it's actually like his actual half-brother, yeah. Like, it really does give you the feeling of what having the sibling is like. So, yeah. Like, it does a really good job portraying that. Yeah. And if you have a pet whale, you know, it speaks to you. Exactly. That's what I was about to say next. Excellent. Yeah. Not sure. Oh. I don't know. I've blocked that movie out. That is a masterpiece of a movie. One of the most underrated, misunderstood comedies of all time. You're wrong about that. You need to revisit it. I think the problem you had with it is it catoo's. I refuse. You were so attached to Napoleon Dynamite that you weren't ready for it. Go back and watch it again. Lamb, is this number one? Oh, it's just phenomenal movie. 2006. Yes, correct. Oh. Fuck me. I need to get sick more often. I guess we won't talk about that one because, you know, I'd love to have a conversation about that one. No, I'd rather not. It's a piece of shit. Get that corn out of my face. All right. Drop us a comment, people. Social media. Obviously, we're on Facebook. That's the place you probably should go. Drop us a comment. What do you think of naturally? Be honest. You know, are you on team Chloe or team Glenn with that one would be really keen to know. No judgement either way. What about George of the Jungle? Like the Brendan Frasier one? Yep. That's early. That's, oh, that could be like 90, 90, like 90 or 91. Way off. Oh. 95. One more. 96. 97. I will give you bonus points if you can give me the year that George of the Jungle 2 came out. 2002. 2003. Not bad. Close. That's a very underrated sequel. That one's very meta. Very funny. I've never seen the sequel to it, but my sisters and I did have George in the Jungle VHS and we did repetitively watch it when we were younger. It's a funny moment at the start where the guy that's replaced Brendan Frasier as George swings in and looks at, as he's swinging, I think it's as he's swinging, he sort of looks at the camera and he's like, "Disney, you couldn't afford Brendan Frasier. They'd get me." It's good stuff. That's funny. What you did minority report come out? Oh, dear Lord. Is that a Tom Cruise movie? Oh, yeah. Steven Spielberg. And I ranked this. Yeah. I ranked this in like, top tier Steven Spielberg, it's fucking great. Like early 2000s, maybe like 2001. One more guess? Or 2000. 2002. Ah, okay. All right. Such a great science fiction murder mystery type of movie, just really, really good. It's also got Colin Farrell in there too. I feel like I can see the cover of it. Yeah, yeah. I think you'd love that one. In my brain. If you haven't seen it, I think you really, really dig that one. No, I haven't. Yeah, you would like it. What you did predator come out? Oh, that was, that's 80s. It's a big mug of God, sorry, it's a big mug. I'm wondering, why is my team not finished yet? My God. That's not a mug. This is a mug. Oh, my God. That was one of the conversations I was going to have before we decided to show up in the show. I wanted to talk about Crocodile Dundee. But anyway. Um, 84. 87. Okay. All right. Two more. Black Panther. Oh, 2000 and, oh, shit, was it before or after COVID? I love it. Let's go 2019. I love that that's a metric now. I know, right? Oh, disgusting. 2018. Oh, close. And the last one is the change up. Is that the Jason Bateman? Ryan Reynolds one. Yeah. And it's got that opening shot of the kid's asshole. Terrible fucking. No, it's a pretty fun one. Um, everyone, everyone right now is questioning Chloe's judgment. Must be the sickness, I guess. No, no, it's like, it's, it's a terrible movie, but it's like one of those watchable, terrible ones from like the early 2000s. Fantastic. Like 2004, 2005. No, it's 2011. Really that late? Yep. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I guess you're right. That's like 14 years ago. Okay. Yeah. There we go. Okay. That was it. That was my game. There you go. Pretty painless. Interesting. It was pretty painless. And I got some right. Yeah. I started off all right. Um, before we jump into your game, I just wanted to mention something. I read an article that was hilarious to me with Kevin Baking because he's doing the rounds right now. He's in two movies at the cinema. Oh, he's two movies that have been released, Beverly Hills got four and Maxine. Um, and he was telling a story about how he was just craving to be a regular person. Again, like to, to feel what it's like to be someone normal and be able to do things. So he went and had, um, like special effects, people from a production put latex on him and disguised him. And apparently I haven't, I don't know if there's footage, but apparently he looks completely different. You wouldn't recognize him. And became a normal person for a day. And he's like, I will never do that again. He's like, I had to wait for my coffee. I got no privileges whatsoever. I like fucking a like, why would you want that again? He didn't get the bacon experience. No, but I love it. He wasn't humble at all by saying like, you know, it just felt so good to be normal again. He was like, no, no, I don't want to be normal. I'll take the celebrity life any day. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Kevin. They're really funny on TikTok. Seeing them. Yes. That was the other thing. He's got a, apparently he's got a creatively restless mind. If he's not doing something, making something, then he goes crazy and that's where the TikTok came into it. He's like, you know, I just, when I'm not making movies, I need to be making something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're really funny. I catch them every now and then. They're quite funny. Oh, mine's pretty painless on you. Yep. Also, it's just a rapid fire. All right. I love this. Let's do it. I'm taking, and I mean this from out of love, you can be pretty shit at rapid fire. You take too long. I'm way shit at rapid fires. So you just take your time. It's fine. It's a rapid fire. But just take your time. Well, we're going slow this episode. So it might seem a lot faster. That's right. Sorry. How is that? How is that? Fucking hell. All right. Thought you said you're going to bleep me there with like animal noises. No, no, no. How is that? That's my face, right? Keep going. Let's do it. Well, I said out of love. Whatever. What did you want me to say? No offense. Nothing at all. No, I have to say something. Come on. That's right. I've already criticized your taste. So where even? All right. Who's your favorite villain? My favorite villain would be, ah, fuck, see, this is why I'm shit at it because I need to think about these things like it's not something that you do. Look out of the top of my head, I'll just say shoot at my Gavin. Oh, that is, that is fucking top tier answer right there. Well, it wouldn't be my answer other than I'm just pulling one out. No, no, that is top tier answer that is the correct answer. There is no other right answer for that, for that question. Okay. Your favorite movie backdrop and what I mean by this is like cinematography, cinematography. Okay. Okay. So just... That's a word. Yeah. I guess cinematography. Like favorite actors in location, I guess, is what it's saying because if it's... Yeah. So for example, my favorite is, oh, no, legends of the fall. Legends of the fall is my favorite. All right. Easy. Yeah. It would be like a tie between dances with wolves and a river runs through it. Or river runs through it, okay. Yeah. It's directed by Robert Redford. It's got Brad Pitt. Yep. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in that one too. Craig Schaeffer. Yeah. That's a beautiful film when I think cinematography. I quite often go to that river with the fly fishing and if I had to go with classic backdrop and actual physical backdrop, I'd just go Wizard of Oz because that's just glorious. Oh, beautiful. Yep. Yeah. Classic. Classic. The best movie quote that comes to your mind. Um, I like that border. That's a nice border. That came to my mind because of the Eddy Murphy, back to Beverly Hills Cop, so it's certainly not my favorite because it's not the kind of my mind. It was your favorite ending to a movie? Oh, well, the first one that comes to mind would be The Mist, I think that's a really excellent ending. Okay. It's a Stephen King story. The ending is not in the book and that's what makes it so special. It's Stephen's story, Stephen King is on record of saying he wished he'd come up with that ending. Oh, wow. So that's a good one. Um, oh, no, my absolute favorite. I watched this last night with my wife. I've seen it a million times and I cannot watch it without losing my shit like breaking down. It's the tearjerker like no other and it's planes, trains and automobiles. The finale of that is the most beautiful heart wrench in five minutes of cinema. We did it. We did a bit of a John Hughes binge last night and that was in there. It gets me every time it's such a good ending. Speaking of John Hughes, how is your 16 candles rewatching? Do you love it? Oh, sexy girl. Oh my God, I cannot get enough of that movie. And as we're watching it, I mean, obviously between my wife and I, I'm the cinephile between us, but I just kept telling her, like, do you understand how brilliant this comedy is? Like, how well written. And as we watch more John Hughes movies, it's always been apparent, but it just gets more obvious. He writes with absolute precision, the beats to every joke. And not only like are the jokes out of people's mouths, it might be a sight gag, um, like a bus in the distance going across a bridge, but you can still hear them singing like it and you shouldn't. But it's just, there's so much genius going on in those movies and 16 candles, I think, is right up there with, with his best that and planes trains. Yeah. Oh, I love that. That makes me so happy. Yeah. Speaking of your wife, what's Mel's favorite movie of all time? Of all time. Well, that's probably, oh, it's across the universe. Oh, that's a good movie. Yeah. Yeah. I introduced her to that one before across the universe. I think it was sent us, no, save the last dance. I think it was. Oh, yep. Yeah. Okay. She loves those dance movies. Yeah. What's Mel's favorite movie snack? Oh, it's fucking, um, sweet and salty popcorn, gross woman after my heart ate that stuff. Love it. I like popcorn. Oh, that's true. I forgot about that. And that's it. That is it. It's a fire. Oh, there we go. I should have just called it fire. I wanted to test your, your Mel knowledge there a little bit through you off your game. Oh, do that any day. Like I, I enjoy that. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. For sure. And ask me without the rapid fire because then we can have a conversation about it all. Oh, okay. Hey, there's some new movies coming in sequels. Uh-huh. Um, the, uh, Devil's Prada. Oh, okay. Part two. Shrek five. Oh, another one. Yeah. Let's do that last week. Okay. And there's a documentary that you might be interested in, a proper produced retrospective documentary about the Goonies. Sorry. What? Yep. And I think the working title is good enough. Um, yeah, only, only came under my radar like a few days ago and I had to sort of look into it to see if it was legit and it looks like it's legit. So yeah, it should be great. Amazing. Speaking of documentaries, I really, really, really want to watch the documentary on the brat pack. Oh, okay. Yep. It looks interesting. Yep. I will have that conversation with you once you watch it. I, I have a lot of opinions. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do. And, um, Jarrett and I have had some colorful conversations about it too. Um, he, he is, he's thought through exactly aligned with mine. Um, but yeah, I'd love to have that chat with you. Interesting. Interesting. Am I allowed to free free to cut this out if you don't want to? But am I allowed to ask you about a movie that you saw the other day with, um, Benjamin Burb? You can ask me anything. Um, Twisters. Please tell me, please tell me, ah, you mustn't have listened to a good movie Monday on Monday. I haven't yet. Um, that's all right. No, we, we thoroughly enjoyed it. We liked it a lot. It's a, it's really fucking dumb. It's a really dumb movie, but it's like we said earlier, it's just a pure pleasure movie. Like it's not connected to the original other than the fact that, um, one of the pieces of equipment is Dorothy from the original, you know, the cylinder with all the little balls in it, but it's a whole new, um, re-imagination of Twisters, uh, special effects wise, phenomenal. Like this is such remarkable filmmaking in terms of the, the actual look of these twisters and how close they get to them without it looking digital, which is, you know, it's digital because it's so big and all that, but it just looked real. Uh, just fun. Just a lot of fun. Oh, I'm so excited. Yeah. And it's not like, you know, and the way things have changed, like in the original one to show the magnitude of, you know, these sort of things, you would have like animals getting swept up into the twist of like, you know, cows and shit like that. In this one, there is not a single fucking animal in peril, but there are so many humans who get sucked up, like, you're like, Jesus Christ, like, fucking hell. You'd have people complaining that, oh, you can't do that to animals these days and the fuck they are. I kind of loved seeing the cows going around and Twisters to be completely honest. Yeah. Ben and I said, like, they could have at least thrown in a sound effect like, but no, it's good. I think, um, and, and the strange thing about it is, um, Glen Powell, who you just watched in that, um, anyone but you. There is something about him that I'm really, really strongly drawn to because I, he's, he's a, he's a sort of a cocky, arrogant kind of personal character actor, but it doesn't matter how arrogant and cocky is, I like watching him. And in this one, because he plays that cocky rodeo kind of guy that comes in, you know, or cowboy and shit, um, there's so much charisma and charm that I'm just looking at Ben like, I could watch this guy all day. Like, I really. Yeah. Yeah. Not like him so bad, but anything that I do see him in, I'm just like, yeah, you're all right. Me. Like you, you are okay. Yeah. I think for you personally, like the reason that you identify so well with him is, um, the name. I think what it was for me is my introduction. Yeah. That was terrible. I'm just moving past it. I think what it is for me, my introduction to him in movies was, um, the Richard Linkletter movie, um, everyone wants some, or everybody wants some. And he's so good in that. And that was, he was not a star at the time. And so it's like, that guy is fucking great. And then as he gets bigger, you're kind of happy that you discovered him before everyone else and you're watching it right to the top. And I don't think he's like his characters are arrogant, but he seems like a really well adjusted down to earth kind of guy in reality. So yeah, I do like him and I, yeah, twist is fun. As long as Cross should get to interview him one day, I'd like to see that. That would be, that would be pretty cool. Almost did for Twisters. That just sort of fell apart at the last minute. Dang. Yeah. Anyway, anyway, I got one more game for you. Let's go. How many movies in a franchise? That's the name of the game. Oh, that's not just a general question. I mean, that's a pretty hard question to answer. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. How many movies are there in a psycho franchise? In the what? Sorry. Yeah. In the franchise. Psycho. Two. Is that your final answer? One. There are five movies. There are five psycho movies? Yep. So you got psycho one, two, three and four, which is part of the original series. And then there was a telly movie they made that was supposed to lead into a TV show that never happened. So it was released as a movie. Oh. Okay. Yes. And for the record. And it doesn't know, psycho two and three are absolutely fantastic. Number two is particularly considered one of the great horror sequels of all time. It was made like 15 to 20 years after Hitchcock's. It was all in color. Anthony Perkins gets released from prison as Norman Bates. And the twists that they put in these movies is fantastic. And you're Perkins returns for all four of those original ones. So he directed. He was very good looking in that movie. Yeah. He was very good looking. Yeah, for sure. All right. Well, how many movies are there in the Herbie franchise? Oh, God. 12? What? I don't know. There's a lot. Isn't there? You are sticking ahead. What? The six. The six. Okay. So you had the original four that went theatrical, then like there was a made for television one with Bruce Campbell that went straight to Disney, whatever the Disney channel was at the time. And then the Lindsay Lohan one. Fully loaded. Is that fully loaded? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Surprise. They haven't done another one. That's a. I thought there was way more. I thought it was kind of like Scooby-Doo where they just kept fucking pumping it. Yeah. There was a TV show. Yeah. There was a TV show. Yeah. How many movies in the scary movie franchise? Oh, I want to say like six or seven, there's five. I'm not good at this. That's right. I think there's a six one all the way though. All right. And then the naked gun franchise. Is there three? Yes. Yeah. There we go. We got there. What about lethal weapon? The new one just came out. Yeah. No, there's no new one yet. There's a new one coming that Mel Gibson's directing. Oh, Beverly Hills is the new one that just came out. I want to say this will be four. There are four. This will be five. Oh, okay. All right. Yep. Chris Rock was in number four. Fantastic. Oh. Yeah. Really good. All right. How many movies in the Jaws franchise? Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. That's four. Come on, Chloe. They're a movie nerd. I'm a nerd. I didn't. I don't know any of this shit. That's okay. What about the Mad Max franchise? How many movies are in that? Oh, dear Lord. Ha ha. So the new one has just come out. Furiosa and Mad Maxa. There's Fury Road and then there's the first and the second original one and is there more after that is what I'm trying to think. So there's at least four. I'm going to go with five just as a buffer. There's five. Ha ha. It was originally a trilogy. So one, two and three and then 20 years later, 30 years later, we had the Fury Road and Furiosa. Right. Okay. Last one for you. How many movies in the Wayne's World franchise? Ah. Two? Yep. All right. A two? Two. There you go. So you got two out of all of that. Not bad. For a sick girl. That'll do. That'll do. If I'm fully sick. You are fully sick. That's what I am. Jesus. All right. Mine's just really easy as well. Love it. I'm just going to rattle off an actor. I just want you to name a movie that they've kind of been in. Whether you like it, you don't like it. Something about it that you do like, don't like. Yep. Anything like that. Okay. It's just so easy. Just name an actor and have a conversation. Pretty much. All right. All right. Let's start with Henry Thomas. Well, I'm going to go frog-dreaming because there is a poster right above my desk right here. That is one of the great family adventure movies that Australia has ever produced. He was hot off the heels of E.T. and Cloak and Dagger at that point in time. And oh, he played Norman Bates in Psycho 4. So there is a component in that movie where they do flashbacks to his teen years, which is what inspired the TV show Bates Motel. Which had done that pretty highmoor or whatever his name is. So yeah, Henry Thomas was in that. He plays the Jack Nicholson character in The Shining sequel that came out a few years ago, Dr. Sleep. Oh, wow. He's quite good in that. And they make him look just like Jack Nicholson in it. Yeah, wow. It's really interesting. So yeah, no, frog-dreaming is where I go to in my mind for him. More than E.T. Even though E.T. is the best thing he's ever done. And actually he did another movie called The Happy Face Murders, which was directed by An Aussie, the guy that made frog-dreaming. But in this one, Henry Thomas was like a full-grown adult and he played a detective on a murder case. That's a good one too. Nice. All right. What about C. Thomas Howell? I was only talking to somebody about him yesterday. The hit show is always a go-to. Reason I was talking about him was just the John Hughes stuff led to it because he did some great teen comedies. He's in E.T. as well. So I'm guessing you're going through the cast of E.T. for this. No, I wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't. But no, the hit show. And he also did hit you too a few years later. But that's a gnarly horror movie that's always good for a rewatch. Yeah. And he directs now. He directs movies to the Asylum, that mockbuster place that does like Sharknado and all that. Yeah, yeah. A couple of War of the Worlds knockoffs. Oh, nice. Yeah. Cool. Good for Thomas. Christian Bale. Christian Bale. First one that comes to mind, not necessarily my favourite, but would be American Psycho. Just because it's getting a nice flashy new re-release coming up on 4K. But I think in my mind, if I think of Christian Bale, instantly I will go to Empire of the Sun when he was like 12 years old, the Stenis Bilberg movie. Okay. Because I think that's just the first time I ever saw him in anything and knew who he was. And then he made a movie shortly after that called Newsies, which you would absolutely love because it's a musical. Oh, I know Newsies. Okay. Well, he's in Newsies as well. And who can forget Shaft? Like we played the racist villain in Shaft. Like far out. The shit that comes out of his mouth in that is just horrendous. So good though. Okay. Sorry. That's all right. Yeah. But he's a great actor, very multifaceted, intense kind of actor. Nice. Yeah, he is. All right. Piss Brosnan. Piss Brosnan. My mind goes to Gray Al, which is a Richard Attenborough movie he made. It's not necessarily a good movie, but it's the movie that I got to see him in person and he completely snubbed me. So that's my bad memory of Piss Brosnan. Oh, no. So I don't have great opinions of him. But where else would I go? Piss Brosnan. He did Robinson Crusoe. I'm trying to think outside of the Bonverse here. I was going to say I thought you'd go straight for Ramon, but. I mean, if we're talking Bon, probably Gold and I, he's his best one. But yeah. No, Robinson Crusoe. Oh, he was fantastic in the foreigner with Jackie Chan a few years ago, which is a really, really intense IRA style of terrorist thriller from Ireland, directed by one of the James Bond directors. That is such a great film. You would all love that one too. It's not a Jackie Chan fight movie. Jackie Chan just plays sort of an elderly guy with a lot of Liam Neeson type of experience. You know how, you know, I will find you all that kind of stuff. He plays that kind of character that avenges his daughter's death and that's really, he's almost like a Rambo type because he's good at booby traps and shit like that. Nice. Yeah. What about Judd Nelson? Back to the fucking John Hughes stuff. I was watching one of his like comic-con style panel interviews after I did some of those John Hughes movies. Obviously, you go to breakfast club like how do you not awesome Elmo's fire, I guess. Although I don't think he's that great in some Elmo's fire, but I mean, that movie itself, I don't particularly love. Yeah. It's okay. I think it's a bit overrated, but I think the go to as far as his best performances is New Jack City. Okay. I don't know if you've seen that. It's an R-rated sort of almost like the godfather in the black like Harlem community. And he plays sort of a rival sort of gangster in that. I think he's the gangster in that, who's the cop, I can't remember now, but he's good in it and Chris Rock is in that as well. Yeah. Yeah. Really interesting movie that. I think if I'm not mistaken, Mario Van Peebles directed it. Ooh. I do love me some Judd. And last but not least, Donald Sutherland, R-O-P. R-O-P. Instantly go to MASH. Yeah. Instantly go to MASH. I think it's one of the best things he's ever done. Just that. And these early stuff are particularly great for me, like Kelly's Heroes. I don't know what it is about young Donald that I love, but what's the fucking, I've lost the name of it now. The horror one-way screams. The horror one-way screams. Fuck, and everyone's going to crucify me. Invasion of the body snatches. Okay. Yep. I'll send in those vibes. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah. I caught it. Just in the nick of time. And moving towards like the latter part of his career, one of the sort of final movies he did, I wish I could remember the name, but it was him. And I believe it was Helen Mirren. And they play an elderly couple on a road trip. He's got dementia or Alzheimer's. And as they're on this road trip and he can't remember anything, he starts to reveal secrets about himself as he goes, not knowing he's given away all of his darkest, deeper secrets. And his wife who's devoted to him starts to realise this is not the man I thought I loved all these years because now he's sent out, he doesn't realise he's telling me the actual truth. That's a fascinating movie and it's got really, really fucking heavy ending. Right. Okay. I could remember the name. I'll flash it on the screen because it's worth a look if that sounds like you're kind of jam. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It's flashing right there. Yeah. Not me. The name. Dang. That's it. That's all I got for you. Excellent. Well, I think we're probably recorded a regular length show. I think so. I've been keeping... I haven't kept tabs on time, but I reckon we're at least half an hour anyway and that's good enough. Something like that. Yeah. You've done particularly well. Well done. You've only like half died, like three times. It's been amazing. Well... Excuse me. Hope. Yes. Thanks to everyone for sticking it out with us. If you've got this far, congratulations. Don't forget to go to our social media, Facebook particularly, drop us a comment. Any of the stuff we've talked about, lend us your own thoughts, but particularly naturally me. Want to hear your thoughts on that one. Yes. We want to know if you're right or wrong in your answers, so yeah, let me know. Awesome. I'm going to let you get on with your night and maybe go to bed and try to recover a little bit more. And hopefully we're both fit as a fiddle to record next week or something. Yes. I hope so. Fingers crossed. Alrighty. Until next week, everybody. Bye-bye. Bye. Bye-bye. (upbeat music)