WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:01:18.319 We're waits. Welcome back, Midnight viewers to Anthologies Attack, where 2 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:22.359 we look at anthologies of every genre. Back with us 3 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:25.879 from his time wandering the wasteland of the cinema scene 4 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.239 the festival circuit is our good friend, Antonio Lapore. Welcome 5 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:31.959 back to Antonio, good eye mind. 6 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.439 Since I was out in the undoves and the outland 7 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:36.719 and the no, yeah, I haven't watched The Road Warrior, 8 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.239 no very long time. How you doing, father, Good to see. 9 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:42.760 You, Good to see you. You've been busy. 10 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:44.120 I have been busy. 11 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.319 We've been playing some film festivals with our short film 12 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.640 at Living Ben, which has been pretty cool. We just 13 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:52.599 won the care Film Awards, which is I believe in 14 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.680 West Virginia. We did really well with that and we're 15 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:58.239 getting ready now to just relax for the holidays and 16 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:01.159 get back into the into the in the new year. 17 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.480 Right on. That's exciting news and other exciting news, ladies 18 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:08.240 and gentlemen and smith mars. This is our one hundredth 19 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.199 episode of Midnight Reviewing as such were. We've decided to 20 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.800 do a very special movie, and by that a very 21 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:17.800 terrible movie. This is all happenstance. If I had planned 22 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:19.759 it better, I would have had something fucking awesome for 23 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:22.280 us to talk about. Instead, we're going to talk about 24 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.000 a pretty good movie. 25 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:24.639 Now. 26 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.719 Came out on Christmas Day nineteen ninety five, written and 27 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:32.360 directed by Alison Anders, Alexander Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino. 28 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:35.719 This is for Room this year. 29 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.960 The Merrimax Films takes great pride in extending to you 30 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:45.240 an advance invitation to celebrate Lou Yu's Eve at the 31 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.919 most senior hotel, when a dozen of the most unusual 32 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:52.039 guests ever. 33 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:52.759 Will check in. 34 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.080 We have resbis. 35 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:01.840 And alone Bell Hop named dead on his first day 36 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:02.400 on the job. 37 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:04.280 All you have to do is hold the fort the 38 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:04.800 night's cake. 39 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:08.639 Okay is in for the night of his life. 40 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:13.080 Kaya, what's the problem. 41 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:14.240 I haven't got a problem. 42 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.520 I've got problems, plural. My children are staying here tonight 43 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:22.680 watching TV. Something happens to my children, they wouldn't want 44 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:23.080 to be you. 45 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:26.199 The five of us are a coven, a coven of. 46 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:31.560 Witches, oven full of witches, a cover of witches. Jimmy, 47 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:34.960 that's not a face you can trust to this hotel 48 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:39.120 by myself. Are you saying, my wife cheese? 49 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:39.759 I've got to. 50 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:46.199 Want you to. I am not gonna cut off long 51 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:47.479 as little. 52 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:48.800 Hell a night, aren't. 53 00:03:56.520 --> 00:04:00.280 I'm starting a situation here which I can possibly begin to. 54 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:07.800 Explained Tim Ross, Antonio Banderes, Jennifer Bials, Olaria Golino, Madonna, Ioni, Sky, 55 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:12.800 Lily Taylor, Marissa Tomae and Tamlin Tomita in a new 56 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:17.839 film from directors Alis Anders, Alexander Ruckwell, Robert Rodriguez, and 57 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:24.360 Quentin Tarantino Four Rooms. 58 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.759 I've had a real bad night. 59 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:31.040 Oh Rimmy. 60 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:38.560 This is the anthology I feel that every genexer and 61 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:40.360 every millennial has seen. 62 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.040 In every boomer, I guess if you're over thirty, you've 63 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:43.800 seen this movie. 64 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:47.240 I think it is most probably the most quintessential anthology 65 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:49.879 from the nineties, I guess, and more than anything, it's 66 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:50.600 like the. 67 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.680 Most cliche nineties movie ever made. 68 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:57.720 If there's a trope or a cliche or something wacky from. 69 00:04:57.519 --> 00:04:59.680 A nineties movie, this has got it. 70 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:01.879 I think the only thing that's missing is someone walking 71 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:03.680 around with interviewing people with a high eight. 72 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.319 Camera, and that person should be played by Steve Buscemi. 73 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:11.519 The only other Indie Darling missing from right, he's sky at. 74 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.439 It and Lily Taylor and Antonio Bandeiras and just like everybody, 75 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.000 Paul Calderone. 76 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.360 It was an indie fest extraordinaire. Let's just set the 77 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.839 thing up. It is New Year's Eve, completely unrealized New 78 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:25.839 years If. In fact, if you didn't tell me that 79 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:27.920 it was news, if characters didn't say it a few times, 80 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:29.639 I wouldn't know. It was New Year's New Year's Eve 81 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:34.120 at the Mont with the mon Signor hotel where the 82 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:39.000 new bell hop Ted played by Tim Roth, is experiencing 83 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:43.879 his first night. And we get four rooms, four stories, 84 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:48.639 four directors, each chronicling what happens to poor Ted before that. 85 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:50.319 Did you see this movie in the theater? 86 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:51.079 I don't remember. 87 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:54.079 I'm sure I must have because my college, Oh, we 88 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:55.399 had just started college. 89 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:57.120 I don't know if I did. I think this might 90 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:59.079 have been a videotape on I don't know. I don't 91 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:00.120 remember seeing it. 92 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:02.879 I showed this film as a projectionist, and so I've 93 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.839 seen this movie one thousand times. I've seen parts of 94 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:09.959 this movie one thousand times. I've watched one segment of 95 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.959 this movie one thousand times. Okay. To score this total 96 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:18.319 nineties package, they picked the perfect recording artist. The entire 97 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:23.439 score is performed by Combustible Edison, who were the lounge 98 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.319 heroes of the early nineteen nineties. They were the standard bearers. 99 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.800 I certainly had I swinger their nineteen ninety four debut. 100 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.279 I played that until it fucking broke. And then this 101 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:36.120 movie came out. And at the same time that this 102 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.040 movie came out, and I was so excited to see 103 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.639 that Combustible Edison were doing a major soundtrack, and it 104 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.480 still am for them. Obviously I appreciate their success, but 105 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.759 at the same time I discovered Martin Denny and Escavel 106 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:52.160 and the actual lounge music from the nineteen sixties, which is, 107 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:54.639 why are you going to listen to this pale imitation 108 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:56.800 if you can actually just go back and listen to 109 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.680 the originals. In fact, they do lots of covers, and 110 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.560 God blessed them. They took lounge music very seriously, where 111 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:04.879 most artists in the nineties were turning it like a joke, 112 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:08.639 like Richard Cheese and Lounge against the Machine, Bustable Edison 113 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.279 seemed to be trying to make music that was from 114 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.920 the fifties and sixties and not of the of the times. 115 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:19.800 So they're used wall to wall here, some to great 116 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:23.439 effect and some too much less effect. Our first story though, 117 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:25.319 unless you want to talk about combustible Edison, You got 118 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:26.879 any thoughts on commuscial Edison. 119 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.639 No, it was they weren't really my thing. 120 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.439 I guess I was still obsessed with smashing Pumpkins and Beastie. 121 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.839 Boys when they broke. I remember when Richard Cheese started breaking. 122 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:41.120 But no, I after Bustle Edison, Aside from the quintessential 123 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:42.759 nineties name, really. 124 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:44.199 Didn't leave much of an impact on me. 125 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:46.680 I think I thought the music was just there. It 126 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.680 didn't really stand out. It would have stut out more 127 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:50.639 if they would have brought them, like some weird Italian 128 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.680 jazz or something like that in it. If they would 129 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:54.639 have brought, like when you were talking, some weird, some 130 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:57.399 cool ass like Japanese jazz from the sixties or something 131 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.040 like that, Yeah, that might have been a little bit 132 00:07:59.079 --> 00:07:59.759 more memorable. 133 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:03.439 Yeah. Ultimately, they are a gateway drug to the originals. 134 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.160 If your if lounge music is you're seeing, and in 135 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.519 my case it really really is. But I still appreciate 136 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.240 their place in history. In fact, I saw them perform 137 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:15.040 in Los Angeles a million years ago. They were great. 138 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.399 They've been broken up since ninety nine, just like the 139 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.720 entire nineties. I guess they had to go out with 140 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:22.360 that century because I. 141 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:24.079 Get into the nineties, it was this like that, and 142 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.480 then the swing thing a couple of years later, Like 143 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:29.279 it was the nineties were a weird time, Like you 144 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:31.399 want to try to explain to kids that we were 145 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:34.679 all really into swing music for six months, like we 146 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:37.320 all at least bought one of those shirts and said 147 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:38.080 money a lot. 148 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:42.480 But the nineties did feel like a time of pillaging 149 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.399 every decade that had come previously to pull out the 150 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:47.840 coolest thing that we'd all get obsessed with for exactly 151 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:48.519 ten minutes. 152 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.120 Yeah, there was a lot to be like it was 153 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:54.639 something and this was all baby Internet period, you know 154 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.120 what I mean. There wasn't any anything really connecting anybody 155 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.399 except for zines, reallyccasional AOL chat room. 156 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.360 So like the way this stuff just exploded, it was weird. 157 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:06.320 And all of a sudden, one movie comes out and 158 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:09.759 everybody's dressing like Vince Vaughan and talking like that, and 159 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.799 then all of a sudden, nope, we're into raves now. 160 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:13.039 They started to us. 161 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.519 Just the funny thing about the entire swingers movement was 162 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.000 By the time that movie came out and I went 163 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:22.639 and saw it, I thought, and because that was the 164 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:25.480 scene in Los Angeles the entire time, So in my mind, 165 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.639 that was the rest of America. So when suddenly everyone 166 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:33.480 is dancing to jump jive in and suddenly gap ads 167 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:38.360 are featuring swing dancing, I was like, really, I don't know. 168 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:41.679 It just struck me funny that they were just chronically 169 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:44.399 what was going on around them, and then that affected everybody. 170 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:48.120 Yeah, I think they just My writing partner matchhof Run 171 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.879 and wrote we wrote a nightclub movie set in the 172 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:51.480 early two. 173 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:52.159 Thousands or whatever. 174 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.399 I think, if you're twenty five and you're out and 175 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.399 you're about and you're trying to get laid and have 176 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.320 a good time, you're going to write a movie about it. 177 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:01.720 If you're is that one was saying, right, yea a 178 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.279 nascent filmmaker, you're gonna write movies about your experiences. And 179 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.320 swingers was really Jon Favreau. Hey, I'm out in LA 180 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.919 I'm a struggling actor. Here are my struggling actor friends, 181 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.559 and we stink of getting late or I stink it 182 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:14.559 get late, and there you go. 183 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:15.679 He built his career on it. 184 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:19.240 Yeah, that was ultimately one of the benefits of the 185 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:23.159 independent film scene that was burgeoning in the early nineteen nineties. 186 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:27.039 That was a good that was a good product, a 187 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:30.480 poor product. Let's say starts with an episode entitled The 188 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.879 Missing Ingredient in the Honeymoon Suite here at the Mond 189 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:36.279 Senior Hotel. This one has written and directed by Alis 190 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:41.159 and Anders. This one stars Ione Sky, Madonna, Valeria Galino, 191 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:45.840 Lily Taylor, basically all the female wondered darlings. They're a 192 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.480 coven of witches. They've gathered in the Honeymoon Suite to 193 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.080 resurrect a goddess. Each of the witches has brought an ingredient. 194 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:55.360 Ione Sky is supposed to bring Seamen, but she's still 195 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:58.720 a virgin, so she swallowed the calm. That's the whole 196 00:10:58.840 --> 00:10:59.639 fucking thing. 197 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.840 Yeah, I didn't even remember that. 198 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:03.879 I just I think I remember I was just crushing 199 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.440 so hard on Madonna in the early and mid nineties 200 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:10.039 and late eighties. They're pretty much what the two thousand anyways, 201 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:12.360 she was I loved Madonna was. 202 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:15.919 Yeah, and then a Rubbert dress and I'm just like, oh, 203 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:16.759 I'm all for that. 204 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.360 And I remember there was boobs. Ione Sky boobs, I guess, 205 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.679 but wow, it really doesn't play anymore like I'm like, Wow, 206 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.759 these are all white ladies and they're annoying and there's 207 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:29.200 not a lot of interest going on here. I thought 208 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:33.039 it like Agatha all along did that that segment better 209 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:36.759 on Disney Plus last month. That was much They were 210 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.320 much more entertaining, which is on that show than this. 211 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.440 But this was one thing before we even get into 212 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:42.120 this whole movie. 213 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:45.559 What I noticed about every filmmaker in this is they 214 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.600 all reverted back to film school or that I'm going 215 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.759 to be experimental and try all of the wacky shit 216 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:53.159 that people do in short. 217 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.799 Films that really don't make any sense and make short films. 218 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.399 They all did them in this movie. The only one 219 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:00.279 that really works is the Rodriguez. 220 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:02.120 One, and the rest of them wow, and the Rodriguez 221 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:05.200 one barely even works, but at least it's entertaining. But 222 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.000 I think they just all fall back and everything was 223 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:09.720 really gimmicky, and I don't know. 224 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:12.679 There wasn't a lot of soular charming, which is weird 225 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:14.080 because she's really good. 226 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:16.559 I still think about Grace of My Heart and what 227 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:19.720 a great movie that is, or how I like or 228 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.000 harsh vida loga is she's a good movie maker. 229 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.360 Oh and the sublime gas food lodging and the gas 230 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:27.919 food lodging. 231 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.559 Yeah, so I don't know. I think they're just ah. 232 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.120 I think they just all got hide is some cocaine 233 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.679 and we're gonna just do whatever. Because this wasn't exciting 234 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:38.120 at all, and the ending was like really abrupt, Well 235 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:39.159 here's the girl now. 236 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:39.960 And then cut. 237 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:43.000 The last day that Reservoir Dogs played at my theater, 238 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:47.799 Quentin Tarantino and Alice and Anders attended, and they came 239 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:50.080 out into the lobby and I was speaking with Quentin 240 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.159 Tarantino for some time and then stepped back while somebody 241 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:55.120 else was talking to him, and then I noticed that 242 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.519 Alie and Anders was standing there, and I said, I'm 243 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:00.960 so sorry I haven't acknowledged you. This be really annoying 244 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:03.480 that everyone thinks he's the genius. And she said, no, 245 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:06.039 he's just really hot, right, So she was very cool, 246 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:08.039 and I love her and I love her work. But yeah, 247 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:09.919 you're right. This is a nothing of a thing. This 248 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:11.720 is not only this is more than a nothing of 249 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:15.799 a thing. This is an episode about the power of 250 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:21.840 female sexuality that plays coy with female sexuality. It's all 251 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:27.639 sort of winking, blushing, not in any way taking control 252 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:31.080 of this situation. What ends up happening plot wise is 253 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:34.440 she fucks Ted and gets him to come into the 254 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:38.600 caldron basically, but it's all like dancing around it. She 255 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:40.440 doesn't even say you're here to fuck me if he 256 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:42.960 has to do this whole routine where they've you got 257 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:46.639 to go in and entertain her quote unquote, oh my goodness. 258 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:49.240 Yeah, it's nineteen ninety five. I'm pretty sure. I remember 259 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:50.639 nobody was apprude. 260 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.879 In nineteen ninety five, So I don't know why they're 261 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.960 trying to be cute. I feel like she's going for 262 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.960 like almost a cartoon of some almost like a high 263 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.240 these stilts cartoony situation, much like Rodriguez did with his 264 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:04.440 Maybe that's it. 265 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:07.320 I don't know, but yeah, it was like the. 266 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.360 Jokes were stale, that nobody had any chemistry with each other, 267 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:14.679 and it was just really weird, and everybody too poos 268 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:18.159 Madonna as an actor. But Madonna's like breathless mahoney, so 269 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:21.679 anybody could kiss my ass. Breath's mahoney is amazing in 270 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.440 her weird kind of Madonna kind of w So I 271 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:28.120 know Madonna, can I know Ione's guy, okay, But Lily 272 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.919 Taylor is fucking amazing and she's boring and she's. 273 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:32.879 The most interesting one. 274 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:36.240 I like Ioni's guy a lot. Actually, Yeah, the thing is, 275 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:39.240 you're right. I think the script is written as a cartoon. 276 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:42.960 It's not directed like a cartoon though not just the 277 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:47.879 fact that it's very sort of standard setups on what 278 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.519 is clearly a set. That's a big fucking no on 279 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.559 midnight viewing. It don't make it look like a set. 280 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:57.039 This is a fucking major motion picture too. We're usually 281 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:00.440 dealing with television series. They get two days to film something, 282 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:03.000 and if they don't, if they can make a set 283 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.799 look like a fucking real space, then so can Alice 284 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:08.960 and Andrews. That was really disappointing on the rewatch actually, 285 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:12.039 and then the only visually interesting stuff is there's a 286 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.559 bunch of montages, like of the Witches dancing set to 287 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:17.559 Cabustable Edison. That stuff's great. 288 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.960 But I liked the montage You're right, I did. It 289 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.080 was pretty, but it wasn't a lot going. 290 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:25.840 No, And that's pretty much it. Oh, let's stemp back 291 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:27.720 for a second. Talk about Tim Roth here because he 292 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:31.000 is our character. He starts off effectively silent, as if 293 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.240 they're doing We're going to get the Bell Boy with 294 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:36.799 Jerry Lewis, where he's just going to wander through the frame, 295 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:39.240 and that's what I was expecting. But that goes out 296 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.840 the window almost immediately. He starts talking crazy. But his 297 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:47.240 performance in the start and in this episode in particular 298 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:49.039 is so frenetic and weird. 299 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:51.919 It is weird. I remember liking it when I was 300 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:55.279 a kid. I'm thinking, man, he is just a ham 301 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.200 and cheese sandwich in this thing. Like he is all 302 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.080 over the place and getting progressive more British as the 303 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:01.919 movie goes along. 304 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:05.440 Now that I actually like the like the more he 305 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.600 gets worn down by these fucking horrible gets. The accident, Yeah, 306 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:11.960 the accident just goes out, like all pretense goes out 307 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:15.440 the window. But he's so ticky, and I don't know, 308 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:17.840 it's a lot of actorly business going on here. It's 309 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:20.480 a lot of attempting to be like Alec Guinness in 310 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.840 the early Ealing comedies or something and just not quite 311 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:24.480 nailing it. 312 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:24.879 I did. 313 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:29.159 I took British cinema one summer in college and we 314 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:33.399 watched a couple of those the Lady Killers. Yeah, I'm 315 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:35.159 gonna take a break here and I'm gonna do the 316 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:39.399 Tim Roth Appreciation Society because I love Tim Roth. He 317 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:43.039 is always borderline overactive, so he takes it to the 318 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:46.000 point where he goes and inch more it's gonna be 319 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:49.840 too much, but where he's at, like Tim Burton's Planet 320 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.200 of the Apes is one of the worst things you 321 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.559 ever see, except for that unbelievable makeup that Rick Baker did, 322 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.159 Like it is just I can see why he retired 323 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:01.200 not long after because he didn't get better than that. 324 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:05.240 And Tim Roth as as Fade or whatever his name. 325 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:10.960 He is, dare I say, magnificent, and it annoys me 326 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:12.799 that he hasn't played. 327 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:15.759 More of those roles because he is unreal in it. 328 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:18.680 I'd love to see him do a Batman villain or 329 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.119 something like Cobra commander or something like so stupid and 330 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:23.960 over the top that I know that he would just 331 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:26.799 make it delightful. I have loved him and carry Oldman obviously, 332 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:31.640 since Rosencrantz and Guildensterner are dead. As a high school 333 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:34.920 nineties theater kid, that was like you had to watch 334 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:36.400 that movie or else you weren't allowed to be in 335 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:39.640 the class you so like. I watched that movie repeatedly 336 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:41.960 as a kid, and I watched it last year on Prime. 337 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:47.039 It's oh yeah, it's well, it's a great play to begin. 338 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:52.079 It reads like water, it just flows, and those two 339 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.359 guys at that time. I think that movie has problems. 340 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:57.680 I think Tom Stomford wasn't the guy that directed. I 341 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:00.640 think it looks really good and I think they're great 342 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.559 in it. But there are some problems to it, sure. 343 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:04.720 But I don't care. There's so good in it that 344 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:05.279 I don't. 345 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:07.759 It's a performance piece and you're not going to be 346 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:08.279 let down. 347 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:12.960 And this one, I think it's the different directors handling 348 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:16.279 the same character, giving inconsistent direction to him because he's 349 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:16.960 all over the book. 350 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:19.480 It is just frantic his performance. 351 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:22.240 And had he just played it like Jerry Lewis or 352 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.960 even better in a more buster Keatney wide eyed innocence 353 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:27.960 and I would I. 354 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:30.960 Might might have played a little better. Oh, four directors 355 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:31.640 is a lot, man. 356 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:33.599 I don't know about anthologies and different director So I 357 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:36.559 like one director making five different little movies in there. 358 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:38.599 Maybe that would be an interesting thing. I don't know. 359 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:41.759 I'm just talking out loud, I guess thinking aloud. 360 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:44.640 But I'm in my mind. I've been doing this long 361 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:47.920 enough now that I'm of that mind that for an 362 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.079 anthology to truly work beginning to end, it has to 363 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.160 have the same director at the helm. If he wants 364 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:57.039 to change the style of each segment, fucking fantastic, go 365 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:01.200 for it. But it's a little much when you task 366 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:04.200 four separate filmmakers to come up with four separate plot 367 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.319 lines and then jam them all together. It's I think 368 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.240 it can be done if they then hand their four 369 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:14.839 scripts to a fifth screenwriter who then weaves all the 370 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:17.839 stories throughout and turns it into a real movie, and 371 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:19.359 then lets one of them direct it. 372 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:22.640 Yeah, that's a little that's a little more makes them 373 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.279 more sensible. That's why pulp fiction is a classic, because 374 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.039 it's an anthology one vision though. 375 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:28.920 That's why creep Show works so well. 376 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:31.400 That's why creep Show works well. That's why the Ballad 377 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:34.000 of Buster Scrugs work so well. And those are four 378 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:38.279 different movies in there, four different styles. One's a musical 379 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:41.880 for Foxakes, but man, one of them is no exit basically. 380 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.039 But like Antonio, we really ought to be doing Buster 381 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:47.160 scrugs for the hundredth episode here. 382 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.920 But no, I think doing I think four rooms is 383 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:52.480 appropriate because I think this is one that everybody has 384 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:55.000 seen and it's fun. Sometimes it's fun to take the 385 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.440 piss out of something. But yeah, that alex and Anders 386 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:01.319 bit just fell flat. But Tim Roff has moments of 387 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:04.359 greatness in here. There are little splashes of great Tim 388 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:06.079 Ross stuff in it, but for the most part he's 389 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:08.519 just hamming it up with no guardrail. 390 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.599 He gets a little bit better in Room four oh four, 391 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:16.039 The Wrong Man. This is Alexander Rockwell's contribution here. We 392 00:20:16.200 --> 00:20:19.200 have okay. The setup is he gets a call to 393 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:21.680 come to room four oh nine. It's actually room four 394 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:25.559 oh four that he enters, and there's a party going 395 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.000 on with Lawrence Bender turning in a terrible performance in 396 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:32.799 a film littered with terrible performances, Tim Roth, Ted finds 397 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:37.119 himself in a hostage situation. Angela played by Jennifer Beals, 398 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:40.519 is tied and gagged in a chair and David Proval, 399 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:44.440 always fucking fantastic David Proval, who's her husband, Siegfried, who 400 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:46.880 is convinced that she's having an affair, and he's decided 401 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:51.480