WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.279 You know, I had a start planned for this where 2 00:00:02.279 --> 00:00:03.839 I was going to make fun of you that, now 3 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:06.839 that you don't work at Woodward anymore, where you big 4 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:10.279 timed areties on Tuesdays on my show because you were 5 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:10.919 too fancy. 6 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:11.320 Yeah. 7 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:13.199 I even made a comment about it in the nine 8 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:14.320 o'clock hour of my. 9 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:18.519 Tuesday show, that you were too big today. I did. 10 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:21.519 I did. That's actually how I started the Wednesday show. 11 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:23.480 I said, Actually, it's not the bulky's too big. It'said 12 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:24.760 I'm too illiterate too. 13 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:28.800 Uh, it's not a literate it's just just ignorant, or 14 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:30.640 maybe more maybe it's a technical problem. 15 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:32.640 Yeah, no, no, I was. I was sitting there in 16 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:34.759 the movie scrolling through texts I missed. I was like, well, 17 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:38.159 son of a bitch, there was. It is not It's 18 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:39.759 not even like it was during the segment. It was 19 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:44.039 literally sixty seconds after I sent you the text, right immediate. 20 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:45.359 Yeah, because I was ready for it, and then like 21 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.560 you didn't, I honestly forgot about it, and then you 22 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:49.119 didn't call it. And then I tuned in at like 23 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:52.079 five to nine, and I think it was on a break. Yeah, 24 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:53.799 if you're on a break, I'm like Okay, well, something 25 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:54.640 obviously happened. 26 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.320 So well, my normal host is a co host on 27 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.960 the eight thirty segment from w BA Y who normally 28 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.119 runs a little shorter because she has obligations. Aisha Morales 29 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:07.000 couldn't make it. Her dog actually tore her ACL so 30 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:08.560 she was an e vet. I know, I didn't even 31 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:10.959 know dogs had acls. I'm gonna be honest, but so 32 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.959 I had landed more. He and I just talked for hours, 33 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:14.840 So I was like, is bulky here or not? I 34 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:16.560 was gonna cut it off. I was like, well, he 35 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:19.079 didn't text, so I guess, but no, he did text 36 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:21.640 here we are? And what did he text about? What movie? 37 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.480 Did he text about? Anaconda twenty twenty five. That's when 38 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:26.439 I realized when he was there, and I gotta say, 39 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.879 I am, this is gonna be It's gonna be like 40 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.519 two halves of my brain or doing a review here, 41 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:35.840 because there were things Paul Rudd and Jack Black are very, 42 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:40.120 very charming and entertaining individuals. Did I think cover up 43 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.840 a lot of holes in this movie? Okay, being honest, well, 44 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:44.200 what are your initial thoughts? 45 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:47.680 Well, so I didn't know what I was getting into. 46 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:52.760 Number one, I didn't, did you feel like you needed 47 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:55.920 to go back and watch the original Anaconda. 48 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.799 So here's the deal. I think you might be closer 49 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:01.319 in age to Jack Black and Paul Rudd than I am. 50 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:03.560 I was like nine or ten years old when the 51 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:06.319 movie came out. I rented it once and immediately made 52 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:08.439 my parents go and buy me the VHS and I 53 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:10.479 watched it a thousand times, like I thought it was 54 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:11.840 the best thing. So when I was nine years old, 55 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:14.840 was terrifying. Big giant snake looks so real at the time. Yeah, 56 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:16.680 good causs. So like, if you wanted, I could do 57 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:18.360 the movie line for line for you right now. 58 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:20.240 If you need aspress. 59 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.400 Just like the characters when they're quoting John Boyd. I 60 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:26.000 was I could have been there with them saying John 61 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:27.000 Boyd's lines. 62 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:29.319 So I was hurt. I was. I read that this 63 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:31.919 was described as a meta sequel, which is a word 64 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:33.879 I'd never heard before, but it makes sense. 65 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:39.520 Oh one hundred percent. So anything meta screen Cabin in 66 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.960 the Woods, meta narratives oftentimes do hit me. And like 67 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.520 when You're when You're seven Psychopaths is a great example. 68 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.520 Whereas they're writing the script, the script is happening in 69 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.199 the movie, and it's like that, and that's kind of 70 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.159 what they play on with this in a way that 71 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:55.960 I found to be not original but fun. 72 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:58.039 Yeah. I so there is that, and then you know 73 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.319 what else I got in the second half of it. Well, okay, 74 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:02.759 I'll bring this up later, but let's talk about what 75 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:05.879 Initially I thought I was gonna Paul Rudd, Jack Black 76 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.280 forgot Steve's On was in it. Yeah, And and so 77 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.199 initially I thought, well, this is gonna be a comedy. 78 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.639 It's like a comedy whoror, but definitely more emphasis on 79 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:20.719 the comedy, right. Didn't know anybody really else in the movie. 80 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.599 I didn't realize that was Tandy Newton in the trailer, 81 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.840 which blew my mind, and I even like looked it 82 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.319 up during the movie. I'm like, god, it that looks 83 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:32.800 just like Tandy Newton, but she looks so so much younger, 84 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:35.280 and sure enough it was her. 85 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:37.960 You know what's funny is I like, I'm looking at 86 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.560 her filmography now and I've seen almost every single one 87 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:42.639 of these movies, and I guess she just doesn't register 88 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.199 in my memory, so like, I don't know who this is. 89 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:49.000 She did crash yep, Okay, Yeah, Mission Impossible to Westworld 90 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:50.840 Norby that was and that was the last thing I 91 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:53.719 remember her from was Westworld, and she looked much now. 92 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.240 She played a much serious, much more serious character in 93 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:56.879 the movie. 94 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.479 She's been acting since Interview with a Vampire, So she's 95 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:00.000 been around. 96 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:01.680 She's been around, and I think she's fifty three. I 97 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.840 want to say something like that. Okay, yep, roughly, And 98 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:06.800 I thought she was older than Paul Rudd and Jack 99 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:09.599 Black and but no, it's right in the same wheelhouse. 100 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:12.520 So anyway, so I'm expecting comedy or whatever, and then 101 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.759 there's this kind of like a little bit of I. 102 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:17.600 Know exactly what scene you're talking about. 103 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.680 No, no, no, to kick it off the way that 104 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.560 they set it up, Like the first ten fifteen minutes, 105 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.360 there's a lot of stand by me ish stuff, you know. 106 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.079 You know that they used to film these movies when 107 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.319 they were kids or whatever, and obviously, like most people, 108 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.600 their lives did not take them in a way that 109 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:40.959 they expected or were hopeful of. So then I'm like, 110 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:44.279 I'm like, dude, thirty minutes in, forty minutes in, and 111 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.600 I'm kind of like, I don't think this is going 112 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:49.920 to turn out to be very good. And then an 113 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:51.879 hour into it, I'm like, yeah, this is not good. 114 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.279 I don't like this at all. I feel like this 115 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:59.680 was not Jack Black. Okay, So I'm with you, man, 116 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.480 I'm so Jack Black. I think when now I'm not 117 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:06.240 a Kung Fu panda guy or whatever school of rock. 118 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:08.639 I thought he was solid in and then Shallow Hell, 119 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:11.319 I thought, oh, I'm gonna get the Tropic Thunder in 120 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:12.879 a second. That's, by the way, there's gonna be a 121 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:17.800 couple of trap Tropic Thunder references. I have ye, Shallow 122 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.959 Hell star right, and and I just feel like that 123 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.480 does not suit him. I think he is he is 124 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.439 best as a rebounder, and and he was more of 125 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:28.839 a star in this movie as well. 126 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:30.839 Example that. 127 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:36.480 Yeah, and and so I think that in this flick viewing, 128 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:39.399 you know, seeing how I've seen Jack Black act and 129 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:42.199 the characters he's played in the past, I don't necessarily 130 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.279 think he has the range to play the type of 131 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:49.439 character he did in this movie. He had his moments, right, sure, 132 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:51.319 but I don't think like, I mean, he was kind 133 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:53.639 of you know what's funny about this is I read 134 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:57.079 that Paul Rudd was signed on for this as the 135 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:59.920 director of the film. He was going to be the 136 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.959 director of The Anaconda twenty twenty five. Then they signed 137 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:04.959 Jack Black and he read the script and he went 138 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:06.839 to Paul Rudd and say, I think we should switch. 139 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:08.519 I don't think I should be the star. I think 140 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:10.120 you should be the star and I should be the director. 141 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:12.639 And then they switched, okay, which I thought was kind 142 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.560 of interesting. But for me, this was not You're you're 143 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.399 kind of trying to think of a good example here 144 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:22.560 for this. You're taking, like to borrow a sports term. 145 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:26.839 You're you're taking a field flipper wide receiver, all the 146 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:28.480 speed in the world, and you're sticking them in the 147 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.319 slot and you're having him run these little hitches and 148 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.920 intermediate routes. Right, You're not utilizing him to what he's 149 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.160 best at. And there was some slapstick physical comedy with 150 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:40.399 Jack Black in this, but I expected more. I think 151 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.680 about Tropic Thunder Dude, yeah, or even High Fidelity, which 152 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.600 I've been watching a lot more clips. Do you ever 153 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:46.759 see High Fidelity? You know? 154 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:47.199 I haven't. 155 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:49.800 I Do you like that movie? John Cusack, Jack Black, 156 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.120 Tim Robbins, It's good, Yeah, But I've been watching and 157 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.160 he was so good in that movie too, but again 158 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:57.959 he was a rebounder. He wasn't like the star and 159 00:06:58.040 --> 00:06:59.800 so I feel like they they asked him to do 160 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:02.240 too much in this film, and maybe he wanted to 161 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.560 too much, and I feel like that's was part of 162 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:07.120 the letdown for me. And Paul Rudd was kind of 163 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:11.279 like just this vanilla what do they call it, the 164 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.399 non playing character and mpce it was kind of an NP. 165 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:18.000 I just I don't it did nothing for me. 166 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:19.839 Did you find the humor fell flat? 167 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:20.480 Yes? 168 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:22.600 I thought the whole movie phil flat. 169 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.240 There was just there's no and then okay, and I'll 170 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:26.879 tell you this is the other thing too that ruined 171 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:29.439 my expectations. I don't know how you feel about Saving Silverman, 172 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:31.319 but this is a movie that came out in. 173 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:33.639 Like I forgot, you know, I forgot that they that 174 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:35.879 was a reunion. 175 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.319 Yeah, two thousand and one, roughly sure, and it was 176 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.720 Steve Zon and Jack Black. Jason Biggs was the main 177 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.680 character in that. But they were the two uh the kidnappers, 178 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:47.360 the kidnapped and they were hilarious in that two thirds 179 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.240 of this Neil Diamond cover band. It was awesome. And 180 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:54.759 then uh so I see Steve's on in this, I'm like, Oh, 181 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:57.000 this is gonna be great, right And it wasn't. And 182 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.920 steves On's character I just felt like was never developed. 183 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.199 He's buffalo sober, that was the funniest thing, with a 184 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:05.959 lot of doubt. There's just there. There wasn't a whole 185 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:06.800 lot of meat to this. 186 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:09.519 He puts on a voice that I honest to god, balky. 187 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:11.759 I was sitting there. I was in the theater googling 188 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:13.600 if he had a stroke, like I wanted to see. 189 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:15.600 Was this because of health reasons he's talking this way 190 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:17.199 or because he thinks does he think this is a 191 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.639 funny character. It turns out he thinks it's a funny 192 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:22.199 character because he doesn't have any health issues. So he 193 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:25.240 decided that that was the best way to deliver this character. 194 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.439 I found him kind of painstaking. I found the delivery 195 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:30.959 of all three characters. There was one time I left 196 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:34.159 and I'm not even spoiling anything. Five minutes into the movie, 197 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:36.480 they have a video that they made when they were kids. Yeah, 198 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:38.240 and they were gonna put it in the VCR to 199 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:40.120 play it, and one of the moms in the room says, 200 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:41.679 is they're cussing in there, and Paul Rudd goes, I 201 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:44.559 don't give a shit. Let's put it in the only time. 202 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:46.679 And it's not even like a joke, like it's just 203 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:48.759 like the way he said it. It's not like there 204 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.919 was a setup and a punchline. It was just And 205 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:52.879 this is how I've been describing it to everybody who's 206 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:56.399 been asking the whole film is carried if you could 207 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:59.679 even say it was carried by the charm of the 208 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:03.080 two leads, if it weren't for those two being cast, 209 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:05.879 if this would have been an Anaconda reboot, and we're 210 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.279 gonna get two handsome, twenty five year old dudes that 211 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.000 we don't know who they are to helm this movie. 212 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:14.720 It does not make any money. It doubled its budget 213 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:16.919 in the box office, so it's al really, it's ninety 214 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.480 million in the first weekend it cost forty five, So 215 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:22.639 I mean it's a success in terms of Hollywood standards. 216 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:25.559 But to me and tell me if this is wrong. 217 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:28.240 I do this all the time. People will calling outside 218 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.759 the box and they'll say, Ben, I'll tell you what 219 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:34.200 they can't make. They can't make Blazing Saddles. Today, I'm like, 220 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.759 of course they can't, because Blazing Saddles from fifty years ago, 221 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.320 and comedy evolves. If you are telling the same jokes 222 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:41.840 in nineteen seventy two, you're telling in twenty twenty six. 223 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.279 I would assume most people would find your jokes to 224 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.360 be not funny because we've seen them a thousand times over. 225 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:49.279 This felt like a rehash of nineties comedy that I 226 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:52.720 grew up on that I love. And it all felt 227 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:55.600 like you'd be like Jack Black will randomly like hookers. 228 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:57.519 He'd like yell something and you could tell there was 229 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.840 even a pause for the laughter. No laughter theater they're 230 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:04.039 Beline deliveries. And I think it's because that would have 231 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:06.919 been funny twenty five years ago, and it was. It 232 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:10.960 was humor by today's many. I don't in terms of 233 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:14.320 bits other than the one in the commercial that we've 234 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:16.759 all seen with the hog when he's dead with the 235 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:18.320 squirrel in his mouth that they do. 236 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.240 Well, Yeah, to be honest with you, I forgot about that, okay. 237 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:24.399 Yeah, yeah. And then there's one where they set up 238 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:27.200 to pee in a way that is absolutely hilarious. And 239 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:30.519 other than those two bits, there's really not jokes. They're 240 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.159 banking on the fact that Paul Rudd and Jack Black 241 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.080 are just innately funny and their delivery of words is funny, 242 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:38.200 and that's what they're back. 243 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:39.799 And it wasn't and it wasn't. 244 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:40.320 Yeah. 245 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:42.879 I wonder if if part of me was like because 246 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:44.240 I knew this is a remake and it was a 247 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:46.759 very meta thing like where they're obviously they live in 248 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.159 the same you know, in the universe where the Anaconda 249 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:53.600 movie from ninety seven like was made or whatever, and 250 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:57.720 I wonder if I just felt like something bigger was coming, 251 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:59.360 like they were gonna do more with it. 252 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:00.799 Yeah, and they did a. 253 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.759 Couple of things. No spoilers, but there's a couple of surprises. 254 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:04.840 Yeah, there's some wrinkles. 255 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:09.399 Did you see the first wrinkle coming? No, because when 256 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:11.080 when they're showing that, I'm like, oh, you know, it 257 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.480 would be awesome if it's this. Yeah, And then it 258 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.039 was I'm like yeah, yeah, I think I was pretty verbal. 259 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.480 Uh and when when that happened, And there was one 260 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.360 other time I laughed pretty hard and I can't remember what. 261 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.639 It was, which is how I described the movie. 262 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:28.279 You know, which is which is funny that that like 263 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:30.519 I remember because I remember after I got done, I'm like, okay. 264 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.039 On the podcast, I got to bring up that I 265 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.639 laughed twice in this film and I can't even remember 266 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:40.360 the second. 267 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.759 Time exactly that that's kind of my whole I'll tell 268 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.039 you what I remember. There's one jump scare that didn't 269 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:47.080 make me jump, but I was like, Oh, if you 270 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:49.240 don't watch horror movies, I bet that scared the crap 271 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:49.600 out of you. 272 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:51.120 Talking about the binocular thing. 273 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.799 Yeah, yeah, and uh and then and then the the 274 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:57.399 pen set up and they do take the hog on 275 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.480 the back scene from the trailer, and they do build 276 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:01.600 on that with one more layer that did get me 277 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:03.360 to laugh. That might be what you're thinking about, Okay, 278 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.279 I think it was. Yeah, because they add the extra 279 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:08.000 layer once Jack Black wakes up, which again not a spoiler, 280 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.840 you see it in the trailer and he's running, they 281 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:11.919 add an extra element that they don't include in the 282 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:14.159 trailer there that did make me laugh. And I'll tell you, bok, 283 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:16.679 there was one. There's one goober and I hate these 284 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:18.600 that work. There's one goober in the audience because there 285 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:21.600 was like fifteen twenty people watching it in the theater 286 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:24.720 with me that was laughing so hard the entire lay. 287 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.720 And I'm sitting there and I'm like so like because 288 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:29.919 it's the exact opposite of what happened when I went 289 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.080 to go see Roses. Like in Roses, there was no 290 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.879 seats available and I'm the only one holding my stomach laughing. 291 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:38.000 And here I'm sitting there and this guy's just dying 292 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:41.960 and I'm just like then, I'm like feeling like condescending almost, 293 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:44.320 I'm like, what is this just? You have to be 294 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:46.840 of a certain level of humor for this to resonate 295 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.159 with you, because I am not finding this funny here. 296 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:50.480 This guy wouldn't stop laughing. 297 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:53.600 I was at my kids basketball tournament this past Saturday, 298 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.519 and there was a guy sitting behind us for one 299 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:00.960 of the games calling for traveling, calling or fouls that 300 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.600 just were not happening, you know. And I turned to 301 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.840 my mom and I said, it's like, this guy's never 302 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:10.080 watched a basketball game. And I feel like that's the 303 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:13.240 guy in the theater where if you are laughing super 304 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:15.440 hard at this, like, have you not seen a comedy? 305 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:17.759 This is the first comedy you've ever got, And there 306 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:20.320 aren't many new comedies. They're starting to come out again 307 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:21.320 now we've seen a. 308 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:23.480 Why do you think that is? I mean, there was 309 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.519 just this long stretch where there's no comedy. 310 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:29.000 I'm not a cancel culture guy, but I do think 311 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:32.399 there was a period of oversensitivity I think made it. 312 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:34.679 There have to be a cancel culture guy to recognize 313 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.039 that other people are and maybe that's the reason why. 314 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:39.320 That's what I'm saying is like, I don't blame it 315 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:41.720 specifically on that, but I do say I think there 316 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:44.039 was a lot of hesitance because a lot of the 317 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:47.720 shit that made us laugh when we were teenagers, some 318 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:50.120 of it might be like, oh, okay, like you can't 319 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.519 say that anymore. I don't think we're bad people for 320 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:54.360 laughing at it. I think it was a different time, 321 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:57.240 and I think people are just nervous about or were 322 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:00.039 I should say. And now I'll tell you what we 323 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.919 could gun What three was absolutely tremendous. This one kind 324 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:05.639 of whiffed in a lot of ways. I think I'm 325 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:08.919 making a good comedies hard, and I hope more people try. 326 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.120 But I think to your point, though, that might be 327 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.639 why that dude was laughing like that, because there hasn't 328 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.120 been a lot of contemporary comedy lately, so people are 329 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:16.840 starved for it. 330 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.679 Let me throw something else at you. What about the 331 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:24.480 fact of we can get comedies at home on streaming services. 332 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:28.320 We can get certain dramas on home at home on 333 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:32.080 streaming services. The stuff we go to the theater for 334 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:35.000 is the avatar stuff, the f one stuff, Yes, the 335 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:40.000 stuff where you're actually immersed in the actual film, whereas comedies, 336 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:42.320 I mean, did you feel like you were immersed in 337 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:43.720 the Amazon jungle in this one? 338 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:43.960 Yeah? 339 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:46.080 No, no, And I don't think that's the idea, right, 340 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.240 So for something like this, Hollywood's probably like, why would 341 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.320 we make stuff that the experience in the theater is 342 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:55.600 not accentuated at all? 343 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:59.799 Counterpoint I have actually said since twenty fourteen, and I 344 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.399 know it's twenty fourteen, and I'll explain why in a second, 345 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:05.399 that the only reason theaters are still relevant is for 346 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:08.759 big budget action movies, horror movies that you want to 347 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.360 get like engrossed in, like the scary parts of it, 348 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.639 and comedies for packed theaters. And the reason I. 349 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:16.440 Know, wait, okay, what's the comedy? What do you mean? 350 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:17.759 Comedies for pack theaters? 351 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:21.879 I saw Dumb and Dumber two without a seats available, 352 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:25.120 and that makes sense, and it was one of the 353 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:28.480 best movie experiences I ever had in my life. So 354 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:30.639 I bought the movie on Blu Ray when it came 355 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:32.360 out and rewatched it. I went. I went with my 356 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.919 girlfriend at the time, my brother and his girlfriend at 357 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:36.720 the time, and we were like, you guys have to 358 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.159 see this movie, and we bought it on Blu Ray. 359 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.320 We watched it again, not in a theater, and we 360 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:42.600 were looking at each other and we're like, you know, 361 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:45.799 it might have been the environment that we were in, 362 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:50.080 because the whole theater was cracking up. Being in a 363 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.960 comedy movie when everyone's laughing with you. It happened for 364 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:56.000 Naked Gun. For me, that is such a fun time. 365 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:57.919 It's just like going to a comedy show. You might 366 00:15:57.960 --> 00:16:00.279 watch a stand up comic and maybe chuckle look couple 367 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:02.639 of times, but when you like at your house, Yeah, 368 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.399 but if you were sitting next to a bunch of 369 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:06.600 people holding their sides cracking up, you all of a 370 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:08.639 sudden find yourself laughing more. 371 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.600 So then to your point, Ana Conda would not classify 372 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:12.720 one of these. 373 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:15.240 Packed because it didn't draw the audience, and even the 374 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:17.840 people that were there, one out of twenty thought what 375 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:19.840 was happening? What was that was actually fun? 376 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:23.639 Do you feel like I mean to use your example, 377 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:25.720 Dumb and Dumber two, Do you feel like that was 378 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:29.000 because of the anticipation, like we had not seen a 379 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:33.559 Jeff Daniels, Jim Carrey Thumb and Dumber in whatever it 380 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:36.559 was thirty years. That probably contributed to it, right, Oh? 381 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:39.799 Absolutely. But conversely, I think Anchorman two would have bombed 382 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:40.840 in the theater, you know what I mean. Like, I 383 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.279 don't think I would have been laughing at that at all. 384 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.559 I mean, I don't think Anchorman two is all that good. 385 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:46.080 That's what I'm saying. I think it's not so much 386 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.039 the I think if Dumb and Dumber two would suck. 387 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:49.960 But I'll say this, I'll say this, like Dumb and 388 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.240 Dumber two, I feel no compulsion to rewatch. I've only 389 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:56.480 saw it, seen it once, so so. 390 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:59.559 I remember when Jeff Daniel says though, he says, yeah, 391 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:01.559 I haven't to my parents since I told him I 392 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:04.759 was gay. Gary says, but you're not gay, and he goes, yeah, 393 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:07.519 I was sick and tired of mowing the lawn. That's 394 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.519 a good job. That's a good job. 395 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:14.279 Uh. The The other thing with this, and I wonder 396 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:16.039 if it would have changed. Do you feel like this 397 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:21.039 was missing a leading man a leading comedy comedic actor. 398 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:26.000 If somebody like Jim Carrey or Will Ferrell had been 399 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.759 in this along with Rudd Jack. 400 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:32.240 Black, see, I think that question just offended a lot 401 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.279