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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to see you at the Putty Richta.
Speaker 2: I am one of your hosts, Joseph bet Castro and
Speaker 2: joining me as always except for like the sort of
Speaker 2: first six movies. But ignore that is Christopher Chapman. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 2: and joining me actually as I always, except for that
Speaker 2: one time MSI, because that COVID is Aaron Frescas.
Speaker 3: Hello to governor.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks governors, thanks chaps, chips, whatever you want to call.
Speaker 2: We are going to be discussing Arnold's nineteen ninety three
Speaker 2: action sattire vehicle Last Action Hero. So I am very
Speaker 2: excited about this movie. We have a lot to say.
Speaker 2: So Aaron, you look like you're pumping, and by that
Speaker 2: I mean jerking off, but also you're like pumping ready
Speaker 2: to talk about this movie. So obviously have you seen
Speaker 2: it and tell me your thoughts.
Speaker 3: I have, and mostly moving around like that because I
Speaker 3: got a pee. But uh, just kidding.
Speaker 4: Just like when he was six years old, he loves
Speaker 4: this movie and he's got.
Speaker 3: A pee exactly because the movie I was actually ten
Speaker 3: because I looked it up today. But yes, I am
Speaker 3: very excited about this movie. This is the whole reason
Speaker 3: that I'm gonna slow down a little kid. Yes, this
Speaker 3: is the reason that we are doing the podcast is
Speaker 3: because Eric and I remember watching this movie and I
Speaker 3: was like, this movie is fucking great, and then I
Speaker 3: messed with Joe besides total recall, and I guess Kindergarten
Speaker 3: Cop too, because I was pretty excited about that. But
Speaker 3: besides those two, this is probably the one that I'm
Speaker 3: looking for. I have been looking forward to the most
Speaker 3: so and yes, I've seen it. By the way, I
Speaker 3: don't think I did not see this in the theater though, Sorry,
Speaker 3: did you guys actually see this? Yes, Chris did you
Speaker 3: see this? But you've seen this theater. Everyone's seen this.
Speaker 3: Come on, did anyone actually see this? No theater?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Well Chris did because he was too I would have
Speaker 4: been fucking three years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which I'm really disappointed about now because like they
Speaker 3: did a horrible I'm really curious to looking to the marketing. Sorry,
Speaker 3: oh I got this.
Speaker 2: I got stories on that.
Speaker 3: So you already like what did you listen to something?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 3: No, it's just a are you talking about what you remember?
Speaker 2: No, well, we'll get to that when we're talking about
Speaker 2: me and I've seen this movie.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, okay, so yes, okay, I remember, I see,
Speaker 3: I remember being pushed, but I don't remember like what
Speaker 3: like just maybe they didn't do very good job of
Speaker 3: I don't know anyway, Joe, what do you got on this?
Speaker 2: Okay, Chris, that's fine, never guess him. Anyways, this movie
Speaker 2: was and still is like well it still is. I
Speaker 2: don't know how that works, but definitely was like way
Speaker 2: ahead of its time. Yeah, a lot of the marketing
Speaker 2: was like a lot of the movie, which is kind
Speaker 2: of satire and like Arnold satiing himself and satiing action movies.
Speaker 2: So uh, not to brag, but I get a degree
Speaker 2: in psychic I got a degree in psychology from San
Speaker 2: Francisco State. And I remember one of the classes I
Speaker 2: was in, like we were talking about like some shit
Speaker 2: and like the media blah blah blah, and they we
Speaker 2: watched this clip of The Donahue Show, and the Donahue
Speaker 2: Show was like they had like a whole expose or
Speaker 2: what the fuck you want to call it about this movie,
Speaker 2: Like when I came out, and they were like they
Speaker 2: had an interview with Arnold, and Arnold's like, yeah, you
Speaker 2: know in this movie, we killed like nine hundred and
Speaker 2: forty seven people in like the last one, you know,
Speaker 2: it's only like three hundred twenty, you know, And like obviously,
Speaker 2: like it was like what he was talking about was
Speaker 2: part of like the fucking satire of the movie, Like
Speaker 2: it made so much sense. And then they showed a
Speaker 2: little clip of the movie where so it was like
Speaker 2: the movie in the movie and uh spoilers, Uh just yeah,
Speaker 2: like the ice cream or truck blew up or whatever,
Speaker 2: and guy takes like an ice cream cone to the
Speaker 2: head and Arnold's like, yeah, he's like ice that guy.
Speaker 2: And I'm like in a large college classroom, you know,
Speaker 2: the lights are out, like a serious psychology class, and
Speaker 2: I start laughing my ass off, and nobody else is laughing.
Speaker 2: And then like you know, they go back to the
Speaker 2: Donahue thing and they're talking about violence in the media,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, are you guys fucking serious? You not
Speaker 2: how this movie came out like thirteen years ago, Like
Speaker 2: do we not realize it's fucking satire?
Speaker 3: Are we seriously in a college.
Speaker 2: Are we in a college fucking classroom talking about We're
Speaker 2: not even watching like the movie you're talking about Vice.
Speaker 2: I mean we're talking we're watching a fucking Donahue Phil
Speaker 2: Donahue segment about violence of the media that came out
Speaker 2: when the movie came out. But he didn't understand what
Speaker 2: fucking like satire of Oh, it just fucking drove me
Speaker 2: absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3: That's the way the Donahue thing was serious.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was like you were in a psychology class and
Speaker 4: they were taking Donahue seriously. That's yeah, it's so fucking weird.
Speaker 3: Like I mean it was it's.
Speaker 2: Like, uh, when do you take psychology? Like psychology is
Speaker 2: not just like the brain, you know, it's like psychology
Speaker 2: of business, like clinical psychology, like statistics psychology, like all
Speaker 2: these other like different child psychology, development psychology, like multicultural,
Speaker 2: cross cultural psychology, you know, all that other stuff. I
Speaker 2: don't remember exactly what class this was for that, but
Speaker 2: it was like part of like maybe it was like
Speaker 2: media psychology or some shit. I don't know, but like
Speaker 2: we watched it and I was just like, are we
Speaker 2: fucking are we serious in here right now? Like this
Speaker 2: is real? Like we're like we're a fucking progressive school,
Speaker 2: Like we're not you know, we're not at the best
Speaker 2: school in the world where watched it. We're top five,
Speaker 2: But like you guys can't like fucking see through. This
Speaker 2: is not like this. This wasn't like three weeks after
Speaker 2: the fucking Donahoe thing came out. This is like thirteen
Speaker 2: fourteen years later after the fucking movie came out. Like
Speaker 2: we're in here.
Speaker 3: So you just seem like a fucking psychopath like laughing.
Speaker 2: Well, I just like I was like, it's hilarious. I
Speaker 2: forgot about that.
Speaker 3: Middle class ye look at it's that guy and we're
Speaker 3: for high five and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: I just don't get it, because like either you realize
Speaker 4: it's satire, in which case it's funny, or it's so
Speaker 4: fucking stupid that you can laugh ironically at it, but
Speaker 4: like to sit there and watch it straight faced and
Speaker 4: not laugh. I was like, I don't understand that reaction.
Speaker 3: I think I think that might be my watch is
Speaker 3: gonna watch it like it's a serious movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, I I because I don't think people
Speaker 2: watched it. I think people just assume, like coming off
Speaker 2: of like Terminator two and like action stuff, and they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: Arnold's talking about how many people he kills on this movie,
Speaker 2: and they shot like a rocket to space to advertise
Speaker 2: it or whatever.
Speaker 3: It was the first one, wasn't it after Themator two?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think so, yeah, yeah, two years later, I guess
Speaker 2: I don't think people really like I don't think people
Speaker 2: watched the movie. They assumed it was like another brain
Speaker 2: dead action movie where a lot of people died, and
Speaker 2: it was kind of marketed as that. But the marketing
Speaker 2: was sat tire on the industry. But it just went
Speaker 2: completely over, he said. So people who didn't watch it
Speaker 2: just like didn't know, and they're just out there just
Speaker 2: like fucking like, oh Willason, Media's bit fucking just.
Speaker 4: Talking about that one scene where a guy gets killed
Speaker 4: by an ice cream. Oh no, I think that they're
Speaker 4: dumb enough to laugh at this.
Speaker 3: Fucking Bob Rafel said over here with Joe, like, well,
Speaker 3: you guys just don't understand it. He's like Bob satire
Speaker 3: sin or something like that. Chris, have you seen this movie?
Speaker 4: Sorry, it's fine.
Speaker 2: The movie's fine. You just didn't get it right.
Speaker 4: Fuck you, No, I've seen this movie. Yeah, I've only
Speaker 4: seen this movie a few times. I remember enjoying it
Speaker 4: as a child, but I think I found it slightly
Speaker 4: scary because I was way too young, just because I
Speaker 4: think between Charles Dance is a menacing dude, and he
Speaker 4: found him a little scary. But then the part at
Speaker 4: the end with the axe killer whose.
Speaker 3: Name, oh yeah, the Reaper, yeah, Ripper.
Speaker 4: Ripper, Yeah, that dude, I genuinely found scary, and so
Speaker 4: this Tom.
Speaker 3: He's something else.
Speaker 4: But then I watched it more recently and I was like, God, damn,
Speaker 4: this movie is so fucking good. Like it's just so
Speaker 4: it's a it's an action movie parody while also being
Speaker 4: a pretty goddamn good, fun action movie. Yeah, Like it's
Speaker 4: it's one of the rare parodies that doesn't like sell
Speaker 4: out the genre that it's parody. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think it's it's kind of genius in that it's kind.
Speaker 3: Of it sounds like we're doing the Irons pumped right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 2: But it's kind of what like almost like Austin Powers
Speaker 2: did for like spy movies.
Speaker 4: Kind of. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it just came out three or four years
Speaker 2: too early.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. And I obviously when you say that
Speaker 4: Mike Myers is making a movie, people know what to expect,
Speaker 4: but considering the Arnold's track record up to this point,
Speaker 4: a lot of people probably thought this was just gonna
Speaker 4: be straightforward action movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very true.
Speaker 4: I am excited to watch this movie again. I probably
Speaker 4: haven't seen it in six or eight years something like that.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it in five, so yeah, almost five.
Speaker 3: Any other thoughts before we watch a uh something that
Speaker 3: I found for us.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't think so. I'm just excited to
Speaker 4: do this. I know, yes, I do wonder if the
Speaker 4: like like you always talk about, it's kind of harder
Speaker 4: to write jokes for.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, it is, it is.
Speaker 3: I'm not expecting to write jokes for this, like it's
Speaker 3: it's just pointing stuff out. That's like, do you believe
Speaker 3: this ship because that's what always happens. I'm like, I can't.
Speaker 3: I don't have any ship for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now we're going to watch a trailer for that. I
Speaker 3: found uh sort of trailer. Anyway, We're gonna watch something
Speaker 3: okay ready and play.
Speaker 4: Boom Last Action Hero.
Speaker 5: What do you think of anyone who doesn't see this
Speaker 5: movie mistake.
Speaker 3: Play?
Speaker 5: I think it's the biggest movie of the summer. And
Speaker 5: now when you go to burger King in order a
Speaker 5: flame world with large fries and a medium drink. You
Speaker 5: get this last action hero. It actually cool, Like it's
Speaker 5: so funny. So see the movie and collect all.
Speaker 3: Four cubs right away.
Speaker 5: I love this place and I'm going to see the movie.
Speaker 3: Wait, he's gotta take you too. I know, yes, Okay.
Speaker 3: First of all, that's Dan Cortes. How do I know that?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I watched too much shit.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: Dan Cortes was a MTV VJ. He was in Seinfeld,
Speaker 3: the episode where George is trying to be cool and
Speaker 3: he's hanging out with elane'es like cool boyfriend who he
Speaker 3: goes mountain climbing with. Yeah yeah, and he ends up
Speaker 3: like knocking him off the mountain and he's like, I
Speaker 3: don't know's it's a funny episode anyway, that's Dan Cortez,
Speaker 3: which is just the very nineties. Yeah. I was like, there,
Speaker 3: I know there's a burger King commercial in this. I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure it was Burger King. That was a I
Speaker 3: was like, there's gotta be a breaking commercial. I cannot
Speaker 3: remember if I had one of those cups or not,
Speaker 3: because I was like, once I saw that, I was
Speaker 3: like Oh, I want one of these fucking cups.
Speaker 4: Like you remember it being in the house, maybe.
Speaker 3: Thinking like, uh, well it would have been in my
Speaker 3: dad's house because I'm buying me that stuff. Come on,
Speaker 3: my dad's the one that's like okay whatever, like he
Speaker 3: always had. It wasn't even my I would steal it
Speaker 3: from my my task because my dad lived with my aunt,
Speaker 3: you know. Anyway, but uh, I want that cup now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a very cool looking cup for any
Speaker 4: for anybody who didn't watch the video, it's a it's
Speaker 4: like a lenticular cup where as you turn it, it
Speaker 4: like puts the frames in motion and creates.
Speaker 2: Actually enticular everybody, what's that word? I mean? Yeah, and
Speaker 2: for those that don't know, you should explain it it is.
Speaker 3: We know obviously it looks it looks like a movie.
Speaker 4: It's one of those little hologram things where when you
Speaker 4: turn it it looks like it's moving.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got the different like slats or whatever.
Speaker 2: A hologram. Yeah, like you know, all of us know
Speaker 2: that word. But for those other people out there.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I can buy that cup for fourteen ninety.
Speaker 2: Nine, really, holy shit, fourteen ninety nine. Yeah, where send
Speaker 2: me that link. I'm gonna buy one.
Speaker 3: Sorry, yeah, fifteen okay, now fifteen fourteen, No, no, you're
Speaker 3: gonna pay thirty cents more. It's as Jack's later and Danny, Danny, that's.
Speaker 4: You're going to buy that cup before we release this episode.
Speaker 4: You're gonna drive the price.
Speaker 2: Up by another fucking thirty cents.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. This stuff is like stage to feed
Speaker 3: in my printed cycle. Remember watching I don't know the
Speaker 3: whole The thing that stuck out with me with this
Speaker 3: movie was the Hamlet scene.
Speaker 2: To be not to be, not to be?
Speaker 4: But I always remember the mob hits scene.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're that yeah, yeah, anyway at the tart pits. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that commercial is the marketing for this was? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know, like what we'll find well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm actually very interested in that part of
Speaker 4: it because, yeah, I wonder why this movie did not
Speaker 4: do well and it's the reason and if you'll remember,
Speaker 4: is the reason we didn't get the Hans and Franz movie.
Speaker 3: Yes, true, and we'll find out about that too, But
Speaker 3: I I know why. But we'll save it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 3: Just watch stuff anyway. Any any of their thoughts on
Speaker 3: the movie besides, h can wait.
Speaker 4: I don't think so let's just fucking go. Let's go
Speaker 4: watch the movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah okay, well we're gonna get into production stuff then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but I'm gonna watch the movie before that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I'm not dreading it like I was watching.
Speaker 3: Oh by the way, sorry, I had a quick thought
Speaker 3: with with that because every single time because I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to watching this movie, and that doesn't
Speaker 3: like every time I'm like looking forward to something, it
Speaker 3: gets disappointed, except for the movies that any movie that
Speaker 3: I don't know, So I'm like, yeah, from here on out,
Speaker 3: any movie that I don't know, I'm just because I'm
Speaker 3: like looking forward to the one that tearing kill them directs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the killing, the killing out there. But it's probably gonna
Speaker 3: be bad.
Speaker 4: Just assume it's gonna be anything else, Like.
Speaker 3: I know the Conan one's gonna be bad, but like
Speaker 3: UHL with Semester stalone, I'm escape playing Escape Plant. Probably
Speaker 3: we're gonna be horrible. Anything else, I think that's the
Speaker 3: only ones.
Speaker 2: Maybe expendables.
Speaker 3: Expendables I'm gonna have to look in the screen time.
Speaker 3: But because we already eliminated one which one.
Speaker 2: Around the world in eighty days or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that one I think got eliminated because he
Speaker 3: was in there for like ten minutes.
Speaker 2: But anyway, well that's gonna do it for this quick episode,
Speaker 2: which is longer than our normal quick episodes. But we're
Speaker 2: gonna go watch the movie, so stay tuned, uh, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about all the goodness that is that
Speaker 2: is Last Action Hero. Trust us when we say this
Speaker 2: movie is fucking amazing. If you're listening to this podcast,
Speaker 2: watch that fucking movie because it'll make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: You'll love it. But for Chris Chapman, Aaron Fressis, I'm
Speaker 2: Joseph Becastro, and I don't think there's anything else. Oh,
Speaker 2: there is one thing left to say it.
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