You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of Game for a Movie where we ask, are
you game for a movie? My name is Mike. I'll be
your host tonight. I have got a bad romantic
comedy just in time for Valentine's Day for all
you lovers out there. This is one, according
to Rotten Tomatoes, that is one of the worst
rom -coms of all time. I'm pretty sure on that
list it is like seventh or eighth on the list
because it does sit at a 9 % critic score on
Rotten Tomatoes. But of course, we will dive
into the details of that shortly. We got to start
with what we are drinking. Today, I've got from
Burial Brewing Company in Charlotte, North Carolina,
Surf Wax. This is one of their more well -known
beers. It is an IPA, as I usually do. It's a
phenomenal beer. The place is great itself. It
is one that... It's an interesting place. It's
a good spot. Don't get me wrong. But it's interesting
because like it is a big music place as well.
You can get stuff from the gift shop like records,
for example. And usually when I end up going
in there, I end up buying one or two records
while I'm there. So a good place to get a nice
drink. I've played trivia there before. And yeah,
it is surf wax. Pretty damn good. All right,
enough about the beer. Let's talk bad movies.
So as I said before, this is a rom -com just
in time for Valentine's Day. It is one of the
worst rom -coms of all time. I'm talking about,
from 2015, Accidental Love. It is rated PG -13.
It was released March 20, 2015. It is a 9 % critic
score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 15 % audience
score on Rotten Tomatoes, so pretty much everybody
agrees this one's pretty bad. Here is the description
on Rotten Tomatoes just to give you an idea of
what we're jumping into before I actually tell
you what this is about. A clueless politician
falls in love with a waitress whose erratic behavior
is caused by a nail stuck in her head. Yeah,
that's exactly the kind of movie that... you'd
expect um accidental love so this is a movie
that was directed by uh david o russell david
o russell has done many films um you may know
him for being the director of silver lining's
playbook uh three kings american hustle he has
done a ton of movies here's the thing about david
o russell because I don't want to belittle this.
It definitely needs to be said about how he treats
people on film projects. Apparently he's kind
of a douche, if you want to know the truth. Because
he doesn't treat his actors the best. There's
a very famous case of him mistreating Amy Adams
on the set of American Hustle. And I'm sure there's
a bunch more out there that we just don't know
about. So David O. Russell, not a great guy,
but he does put out some great films. So this
one, however, is not one of them. And even more
so, he stepped aside from the project. And so
this movie was filmed and basically pieced together
after he left the project. They had a bunch of
financial issues on this film. Including several
times they had to shut down the production because
they were worried that they weren't going to
get paid. Yeah, that's probably going to set
you up for failure most times if you're not careful
with that one. So this film, technically directed
by David O. Russell, technically not finished
by David O. Russell. It was pieced together from
all the things he shot. And it's a film. It is
a film that happened. Knowing that it was pieced
together at the end, it definitely makes a little
more sense about how this production came to
be. And especially because people like Jessica
Biel and Tracy Morgan, they had to do reshoots
according to their contract with the new director.
But people like Jake Gyllenhaal didn't. So there's
a lot of scenes that you'll see with Jessica
Biel. And she's not necessarily in the scene
with Jake Gyllenhaal. And they kind of... stretch
it a little bit where she like sees him on tv
or something like that so yeah it's it's definitely
piecemealed together this film was put on a shelf
for a while it was basically the copyright said
it was done in 2013 obviously it didn't get released
until 2015 and it set it sat on a shelf for a
long time because of the capital production company
um Capital Production Company had a lot of problems
with this because they were going through a ton
of financial issues. And so this one kind of
got pushed out because if they didn't use it,
it was going to charge against them pretty much.
So they just kind of released it as this hodgepodge
movie. So there are three writers attributed
to this movie. We've got Dave Jesser and Matt
Silverstein. I'm going to mention them first
because they've worked on a lot of the same projects
together. They were writers together on Grandfathered,
the TV show with John Stamos, obviously on Accidental
Love. They were writers on Axe Cop, The Cleveland
Show, The Drawn Together Movie, and Drawn Together
TV Shows, Greg the Bunny, Andy Richter Controls
the Universe, Third Rock from the Sun. They've
worked together for a while and seen the things
they've worked on before. I like a lot of the
projects they've worked on. I'm not shitting
on them. But it does now make sense why a lot
of this humor is very sophomoric. And it's probably
these two more so than the third writer. The
third writer is Kristen Gore. Yes, Kristen Gore
related to Al Gore. Kristen Gore was a producer
on Foxcatcher. She also was a staff writer for
Futurama. She wrote The Beanie Bubble. And she
was a staff writer for two episodes of Saturday
Night Live. So they've got some pedigree. A lot
of these, it was early on in their career, it
looks like, that they wrote this accidental love.
So it makes sense how a lot of this stuff came
to be. As I said before, David O. Russell left
the project in July of 2010. So like I said,
this movie came out in 2015, leaving it in 2010.
Yeah, that's kind of interesting. In 2011, David
Bergstein. He cobbled together whatever was filmed
and gave test screenings in L .A. The crew was
completely unaware that this had happened. Not
a good way to market a movie by saying, oh, we
piece this stuff together and just put it out
there. So, yeah. So besides all of that, how
about we get into the actual details of the film
of Accidental Love, which its working title was
called Nailed before. Again, that sophomoric
humor. But Accidental Love, it starts in a small
town in Indiana. There's a classic car show.
And we see our first character, Alice, who's
played by Jessica Biel. And she is serving food
at this diner on skates. And she's very good
at it. And it's kind of interesting to see. She
definitely had to learn some of this. She was
very good at it because there's no way it was
a stunt double or anything like that. So lots
of cool moves, everything like that. serves food
to her parents and she's kind of at first it's
not weird that her parents would come but it
is kind of throwing her off that they're there
and basically her parents go like you should
let your hair down uh because Scott came to see
us last night Scott is her boyfriend he's played
by James Marsden and Scott came to get their
blessings Scott is going to propose to Alice
Scott is also the local He's local law enforcement.
I don't know if he's necessarily the sheriff.
He's definitely like a bigger wig. He's not like
if he's a deputy, he's a longstanding deputy.
Like he he has good graces of the town. A lot
of people respect him and like him and that kind
of stuff. He shows up, tells Alice, you're done
for the day. I got you off work for the rest
of the time. We're going to go to the fanciest
restaurant in town. It's the fancy gondola. So
as they're saying down to dinner. He starts going
on this speech talking about how they've been
dating for eight months. And they're fixing the
fancy gondola at the same time. There's a guy
up on a ladder that's using a nail gun to nail
this gondola and fix it. And it's right above
their table pretty much. Well, Scott is kind
of like upset about it. But at the same time,
he powers through and he proposes. And of course,
Alice says yes. And this is about the time. When
the guy falls off the ladder and shoots the nail
gun straight into Alice's head. Immediately,
we are at the hospital and they are looking at
it and they are getting ready for surgery. They're
going to remove it and everything like that.
They are just about to put the gas mask on her
when Arlene, the nurse, comes in and says, shut
it down. She has no insurance. And so they just
shut it down. They're just going to leave her
with the nail in her head. One of the doctors
is Bill Hader, and this is definitely a funny
role to see him in because it's just kind of
a Bill Hader role, you know? Not saying that
as a bad thing, it's just Bill Hader being Bill
Hader. So they're talking about all of the things
that they could do because of the nail in her
head, and because she doesn't have insurance,
they won't do it, and she can't afford it. But
if she... gets married she'll be on scott's insurance
so that that could help right well because it
happened before they were married that is a pre
-existing condition so they won't cover it so
this becomes like the catalyst of events for
the rest of the movie so now she has this nail
in her head she can't get it out because she
can't afford insurance and if she jumps on scott's
insurance it's a pre -existing condition so it
won't be covered so they're also talking the
two doctors about the nail could either cause
her to lose motor control and scott's was like
i'm i'm not here for this if you lose motor control
or it could increase her inhibitions which might
be good for sex and as soon as that happens scott's
like well i'm back in yeah and alice kind of
is like yeah maybe i can finally have an orgasm
it goes for a high five and scott definitely
is embarrassed by this at this point One of the
things that happened at the dinner is the engagement
ring was a little small. And so as things are
getting explained by the docs, Scott kind of
takes the engagement ring and he's like claiming,
oh, it needs to be resized anyway. But you can
tell he's kind of getting cold feet about this
whole thing. He wants to make sure like one way
or the other, if it's not going to be good for
him, he's going to get out of this. So he's got
the engagement ring just in case he can. Say,
oh, I didn't really propose to you. You don't
even have the engagement ring. And the parents
show up. They've been called by Scott and they
don't have any money either. It's not like they
can just pay for it. But especially because this
is supposed to be like hundreds of thousands
of dollars. So they decide what else to do. They're
going to do a fundraiser. This introduces us
to our other characters. One is Aunt Rita, who
is played by Kirstie Alley. kirsty alley slash
aunt rita is like constantly touching her soft
spot around the nail we also have kurt fuller
in this movie um kurt fuller if you don't know
who kurt fuller is um you do but you just don't
recognize that name he is definitely the king
of somebody that would be like you just don't
recognize them from the name but you definitely
have seen a movie with them uh kurt fuller has
been in things like he was in ghostbusters 2
he was in the running man um he's been in a bunch
of tv shows i'm trying to think what's the most
well -known thing he's been in because he definitely
has been in a lot of things one of the big things
he was big in was psych he was in 33 episodes
of that he was coroner and chief and He's been
in a bunch of TV shows and stuff like that. You
definitely have seen him before. You'd recognize
him from something. Because honestly, if you
look at his IMDb page, pretty much every TV show
that's happened in the last 20 years, he's been
in an episode at least. He's kind of balding.
He plays Reverend Norm. So Kurt Fuller, you don't
recognize the name. You've definitely seen him
before. He plays Reverend Norm. Reverend Norm
shows up with his own medical issue. Which is
an unending boner because of a super pill. And
this is all revealed by Keyshawn. Keyshawn is
like... Keyshawn's another guy that's kind of
like struggling with his own health issues. But
he also is kind of getting back on his feet by
help of the Reverend, Reverend Norm. We don't
know his deal yet. We just know he has some kind
of problems. And he is played by Tracy Morgan.
And yes, Tracy Morgan. Obviously at this fundraiser
too is Scott and Alice's co -worker. Alice's
co -worker is definitely hitting on Scott, like
full out hitting on him. That is Brenda. Brenda
definitely has the hots for Scott, but Scott
is with Alice. Now, he's not necessarily saying
no because who knows what his deal with Alice
is right now. So this kind of introduces all
of our characters that we care about so far.
And at the end of the fundraiser, they have $6.
So they come up with a plan, basically, that
they were just going to work and save. And they
can't because Alice just got fired from her job
because she got into a fit of rage, which they
told her might happen because of this nail. They
also told her that she might start speaking a
weird language or something like that. And it
turns out she had a Portuguese nanny. When she
was young. So she speaks Portuguese every now
and then in this film. Yeah. So as they're talking
about this. Obviously they can't work and save.
Because Alice doesn't work anymore. But Aunt
Rita of all people. Who is a vet. Offers to take
the nail out. And mind you. As she's doing this.
It's not in a clean pristine surgery room. This
is in their house. On the couch. And she is drinking
and smoking. While she is preparing to pull this
nail out. She does lose grip of the nail. And
now it's just like embedded in there. She can't
get to it anymore. And Alice is of course going
through emotions like anger, fear, that kind
of stuff. She is absolutely just losing it. And
Scott sees what's going on. And so he's just
like, nope, I'm out. I'm done. I can't do this
anymore. I'm out. So there goes her engagement.
Alice is no longer engaged to Scott. They're
no longer together. She no longer works. She
has this nail in her head that she can't afford
to get rid of. Who knows? It might get further
dug in there and cause worse problems. So it
flashes to three weeks later. And Alice is staying
with her parents. And Reverend Norm and Keyshawn
stop by. And we learn a little about... kishan's
issue so to impress somebody uh kishan became
a weightlifter and was attempting like this world
record deadlift and so alice just assumes oh
it didn't go well like you threw out your back
or something like that he goes no i got the record
but i also learned what a prolapsed anus is so
we've got three big medical issues right now
we've got nail and head Unending boner because
of a super Viagra pill and a prolapsed anus.
Remember how I said the humor in this movie is
kind of sophomoric? Yeah, about that. So basically,
they are talking with Alice and she's just a
wreck. And she's watching something scary on
TV. So her dad decides to switch the channel
so that... you know, just to not have her in
this place that she's in. And it happens to be
a commercial with a politician, this young politician
who says he can help you. If you have questions,
he's willing to answer them for you. This politician
is Norman Birdwell, and he is played by Jake
Gyllenhaal. So because of this ad, Alice has
her plan now. She's going to go to Washington.
She's going to meet him, talk to him, and hopefully...
Get her stuff taken care of. Because this is
the guy, for whatever reason she believes, he
has a trustworthy face. He's going to be able
to help her. Well, her parents, of course, are
just like, no, you can't go to Washington. But
Reverend Norm and Keyshawn also are like, hey,
we can get our problems fixed too, maybe. We'll
go with you. So this is our ragtag group. They're
all going to Washington to talk to Norman Birdwell
and hopefully get their problems fixed. So they
all hop in the van that the Reverend has and
they drive from the small Indiana town all the
way to Washington. We don't get like the whole
montage of what they're doing or anything like
that. Probably was on the cutting room floor.
And this is just what they piece together. They
all get there. They walk into the Capitol and
Alice gets stopped at the metal detector. And
at first you're like, oh, it's her nail. No,
she has an unloaded nail gun that she just walks
in with. And mind you, this is the Capitol. That's
a fucking weapon. Like, I don't care if it's
unloaded or not. And they just laugh it off.
They're just like, oh, it's fine. She's going
to show this to Norman Birdwell, to Howard Birdwell,
to show him what happened to her and why she
needs help. This also leads Keyshawn to meet
Rakesha. Rakesha is the security guard. And basically
really quick, he hits it off with her and they
go out to dinner. She just leaves work at the
Capitol as a security officer. And Keyshawn,
who just drove from Indiana to Washington to
meet this, you know, this politician. Yeah, he's
gone now. He's going to take the security guard
to dinner. So they get to the office of Howard
Birdwell. And basically the assistant is like,
no, you can't see him. He's very busy. And walking
in at the same time is Pam Henry Hendrickson.
Yes, her name is Pam Henry. They call her Pam
Henry a lot. She is played by Catherine Keener.
She is representative. She's been she's been
in the business for a while. She's definitely
like the stone cold bitch on the Capitol. That's
the best way I can describe her. She means business
and she has Howard in her pocket. The young gun
that she's like grooming. To be the next big
senator. As long as he stays with her. Or not
senator. But representative. You know what I
mean. Catherine Keener. Has been in such films
as the 40 year old virgin. Capote. Being John
Malkovich. Joker. Get out. The Adam Project.
You have seen her in a ton of stuff. And you
definitely know her. Especially if you've seen
the movie Get Out. She is the mom who does the
brainwashing. She is Missy Armitage. And spoiler
alert for Get Out, if you haven't seen it, that
movie's from 2017. So get over it if I just ruined
something for you. So Pam Henry, the representative,
she's also known as the Lady Astronaut. She wants
to build a base on the moon to protect the country.
Basically, they can protect for the future because
they have this moon base. And that is the big
deal. And this is when it kind of like they say
this movie is kind of a satire. And there are
definitely hints of that because instead of doing
stuff like, you know, health care or school funding,
they're building a moon base. And this is what
she's mad about in the first place. She's mad
at Howard because he is kind of opposing. He's
not really. He kind of said something about the
moon base because he wants to get stuff for schools.
He wants to get funding for schools. Also, her
assistant, her aide is Paul Rubens. His name
is Edwin. And there's another representative
as well. That's Bill Hearthstone or Hearthstone.
I'm not going to be able to say that. Representative
Bill. That's David Ramsey. David Ramsey, you
may recognize from such things as Arrow. He was
in the Arrow TV series. He's also in the Draft
Day movie. He was in 17 episodes as Anton Briggs
in Dexter. Another guy that you've probably seen
around. He's definitely been a part of something
you've seen. So Representative Bill comes following
in with Edwin. And basically Representative Bill
is also vying to be the next big representative.
So he's also trying to suck up to... pam henry
he has a little more confidence is what i'll
say he's definitely been around a little longer
so he definitely seems to jump in these positions
in front of howard uh he mentions that he's got
the uh girl squaws on his side for the moon base
which is a big deal because if you get these
it's essentially the girl scouts if you get them
on they're selling in a exclusive cookie called
the moon base cookie you know and everything
like that and they may or may not get Shakira
they may get Shakira you know and that's that's
another big joke throughout this thing so as
all these people are going into Howard's office
Alice is frustrated she walks out she's going
to find somebody to help them the reverend however
is having a little problem with his boner so
he is not able to help her at this moment he
needs to go solve it so he leaves She starts
knocking on doors and basically nobody can help
her or they turn her away immediately because
they're busy. That kind of stuff. Well, after
everybody leaves the office, Howard finally walks
out and they meet and they shake hands. And one
of the things he says is you have very soft hand
skin and it's very uncomfortable. Like he's.
supposed to be awkward i think he's supposed
to be like there's parts where he's definitely
like a mama's boy he's definitely this young
gun that's like not really sure how he ended
up here and you know he's kind of uncomfortable
with everything he that's really what it is and
alice says like thank you for talking about my
soft hand skin. And then she mentions how she
wants to help weird conditions with people that
can't afford fixes or healthcare. And it causes
an actual record scratch in the movie. There's
an actual moment of record scratch. Because he
thought he was just helping her with some kind
of issue. No, she wants to overhaul the entire
healthcare system. And he's like, ha! No, I'm
only a freshman rep and I know I can't fix health
care because it's a bummer issue. Nobody wants
to talk about it because it's a bummer issue.
And so he's like freaking out because he said
he was going to help her. And now he also he
can't help her. He needs to find somebody to
bring to this moon based dinner tonight to convince
Pam Henry that he's doing everything to get her
moon base to happen. And. While he's stressing
out, there's a man carrying a statue that runs
into Alice's head and knocks the nail further
in, which all of a sudden makes her horny as
shit. And so she attacks Howard and pushes him
into an office and they have sex. It's uncomfortable
sex. Even though you don't see anything, it's
a lot of noises and stuff like that. She's reaching
up and grabbing the groins of... Portraits of
representatives that have served at the Capitol,
you know, she's like grabbing the groins of these
portraits and like pulling it off. And then she
mentions orgasms do exist. And then she sits
there for a second. She goes, oh, my God, I'm
a dirty little nail slut. Howard is like extremely
happy. He's found this girl that just has sex
with him immediately. And she blames the nail.
She's just like, no. It's not you. It's this
nail. This nail made me like extremely horny
and that kind of stuff. But it does give him
an idea. So she has like a kind face and appears
like she has this cause and everything like that.
So now he has this idea to put her onto the issue
of the moon base and people are going to like
her. So he invites her to the moon base party
and then says, if you do this, we can get your
health care stuff. Like. Add it onto the bill
and we'll help you along the way. Immediately,
I know it's not true. This is not, he's just
not doing this. He's using her to help out his
cause for the moon base. So they go back to the
motel. They're all just staying in one motel
room. Keyshawn comes back after his date with
Rakesha. They've hit it off. He may be in love,
that kind of thing. Yeah. But the problem is
he doesn't want to tell her about her, his prolapsed
anus. And I can't believe I'm saying those words
like that. I can't believe this was written in
as a plot device. Alice explains how she got
invited to this moon base party and that everybody
should go, including Rikisha. So Alice shows
up with her friends to this party and she introduces
all her friends to Howard. Howard. calls the
reverend norm his name and then he calls kishan
rakisha kanye and shaniqua and it's like this
is never brought up again this is just like a
one -time thing where it's just like a backhanded
like racist joke kind of thing where he calls
them kanye and shaniqua instead of their actual
names we also at this point see representative
bill and the leader of the lady squaws the grand
sacajawea marcia she is giving a speech about
the moon base and she goes before alice now she's
awesome she's a really like good kid and everything
like that she's i think 12 years old is what
they said and she's just you know they're excited
about this moon base they're excited about this
cookie and so this is they also think that Shakira
is going to be involved. So this is how Representative
Bill got them on his side. Alice, then it's her
turn to give a speech. And she gives a speech
basically where she mentions that she wants health
care. But then she mentions that the way to get
health care is to get this moon base. And she's
really excited. Yay, moon base and everything
like that. It goes really well. And like Grand
Sacajawea Marsha is really happy for her. And
they seem to get along. You know, it's not. They're
not competing. Their representatives are, but
they aren't competing. So after the speeches
go well and everything like that, they go celebrate.
And Keyshawn goes and says, yeah, let's drink
like Henny or something like that. And he goes,
come on, guys, I'm joking. I'm not that stereotypical.
Let's have 40s. So they're just like hanging
out and having 40s at the motel. And Howard's
with them, too. And as they're hanging out, the
Speaker of the House emails Howard, and he wants
to meet Alice. Because she got a big chunk of
people to be excited about this moon base. It
looks like it's going to pass. Well, now they're
really excited. So Keyshawn suggests they all
go to Benihana's. Well, him, Rakesha, and Reverend
Norm all go to Benihana's. But Howard and Alice
stay behind. And at first, like this scene, you
know, it makes it seem like they're having sex
again. No, they're jumping on the bed. They're
having like... They're just jumping on the bed.
I don't know why. And this is where I say this
is just a big movie to have her keep getting
hit in the head because she hits her head on
the light on the ceiling. And so now they're
sitting down and they're talking back and forth
and they're having a heart to heart. And, you
know, it's kind of Howard kind of lets his guard
down a little bit. And so does Alice. But Howard
definitely is letting his guard down a little
bit where he says he never really wanted to be
a congressman. He wanted to be a forest ranger.
and he starts like crying and everything like
that and you know it's kind of a nice moment
and then he ruins it by saying it feels good
to cry like a fantastic number two moment ruined
so we can see at this point there's a connection
happening between them and they think they can
actually change things for good like he actually
is starting to think maybe i do something to
try to get like health care tacked on so you
know it's it's becoming like Oh, they're going
to work together and that kind of thing. And
this is the part where I say, you know, rom -coms.
You know how it starts. You know where it ends.
But it's the journey in the middle. That's kind
of what makes the rom -coms the rom -coms. You
know what's going to happen. He's going to fight
for her. He's going to get health care for her.
That kind of thing. You don't know how it's going
to happen, but you know that's what's going to
happen. So this moment is kind of like a big
moment for the changing of how he feels. Because
he definitely seemed a little more cold -hearted.
And now he seems a little more open, a little
more soft, a little more what Alice was seeing
in the first place. And then they voluntarily
have sex this time. It's not nail enforced. But
before they do that, she wants to know him better.
And he admits he had a dog named Coconut, which
that hit home for me because my family dog was
named Coconut. And so, yeah, they voluntarily
have sex. And I don't know where the rest of
the people stayed. Uh, cause they were all staying
in one motel room, I thought, but they definitely
had sex and like slept together that night. And
I guess they put a tie on the doorknob or something.
I don't know. So it's the next day. They both
wake up. They're feeling great. And she's ready
to draft this bill for healthcare. And Howard
kind of like smiles it off. Like, yeah, let's
draft this bill. Uh, but they are going to meet
with the speaker of the house and. This is where
they're going to talk to him and see if he can
also help with their issue as well as the moon
base. Speaker of the House is named Buck McCoy.
And he is now taking credit for the moon base,
which is pissing off Pam Henry. She is not happy
that Buck McCoy is now taking credit for it.
But now that it's going to pass, he definitely
wants all the credit for it. He meets with the
Grand Sacagawea Marsha. She gives him one of
the cookies. Then Alice introduces all her friends
to Buck McCoy while he's eating this cookie and
talking about how she she's really excited because
she's going to attach this little health care
bill onto the moon base bill. And this catches
Buck off guard. And now Howard's caught because
he lied. And basically, Buck is choking on this
cookie because he did not expect this. He didn't
know this was a thing. He starts choking on this
cookie. Um, Howard is kind of like caught up
in everything and mentions, maybe we can get
Shakira. Then we could get even more support.
You know, this is, this is fine. We can do this.
Yeah. An argument ensues. There's Shakira is
not going to happen, which second Julia Marsha
starts screaming. She's like, I'll hold a press
conference about how Congress boned the girl
squaws and that she will fuck shit up. And the
speaker is still choking while all this is happening,
which leads Reverend Norm to try to do the Heimlich
maneuver. Reverend Norm is doing the Heimlich
maneuver, and it's basically just an excuse to
show him essentially shoving his unending boner
into the Speaker of the House. This is the level
of comedy we've reached. It doesn't work, so
he falls over, and then Alice and Howard grab
one of the defibrillators, and they're going
to try to restart his heart. using the paddles
and then pam henry accidentally unplugs the defibrillator
because she's mad at the speaker of the house
for taking credit for her moon base so she does
it on purpose it's not accidental that's in quotation
marks and edwin the assistant sees her do it
and knows that she let him die so yeah buck mccoy
is dead There you go. The Speaker of the House,
he's dead. He died from a Heimlich of an unending
boner on a reverend. He died because Pam Henry
let him, and he died choking on a Girl Scout
cookie for the Moonbase that they're now pissed
about because they did this cookie because they
thought Shakira was going to be showing up, and
now Shakira is probably not showing up. Yeah.
This is a hell of a story. Right here. Like,
I don't know. If it feels crazy, it's because
it is crazy. But so now that Alice's best options
to get this bill passed now that he's dead. Yeah,
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Buck McCoy is dead. We go to the funeral. It
is a big deal because the Speaker of the House
is dead, so the funeral is playing on TV, and
we see back in Indiana, Scott is watching the
funeral, and he sees that Alice is there. also
brenda has slept over and yes that is alice's
co -worker brenda she is sleeping with scott
but scott is like i'm not over alice there's
still like a 60 chance that everything could
go well i need to go to washington and find her
so at this funeral alice is sitting with her
friends and pam henry is behind everything she
gets to read the eulogy because She is now the
Speaker of the House taking over for Buck McCoy
and because apparently she knew him so well.
Well, Edwin, the assistant, shows up and basically
says, I know what you did. I'm going to keep
it secret for now, but just know I know what
you did. Howard also shows up after Edwin walks
away and talks to Pam Henry, basically saying
that he feels bad about what happened and everything
like that. He didn't mean to kill him, you know,
and Pam Henry kind of like says, oh, if the system
didn't malfunction, he would still be alive and
everything like that. All I need you to do now
is go make those people disappear, because if
they're around, they're still going to be pushing
this health care option. No, we just need this
moon base to pass. So Howard goes and like sits
in the pew with them, kind of pushing them over
to talk to Alice. And he offers her his surgery
voucher to get the nail out. But she's kind of
like, no, I'm not taking your surgery voucher
because I'm here to help my friends, too. Like,
I don't want this to just be for me. Yes, that
is a big thing. And that is something that can
help her. But if it doesn't help her friends,
she doesn't want it. Howard's basically like,
you can't do anything, though. Now, like Buck
McCoy is dead. And if you kill this moon base
bill, we're not going to be able to have a bill
to. to attach anything to. And she goes, I've
got this. I know what I'm going to do. And she
stands up and she goes to the grieving widow,
giving her a hug and saying, oh, I was with Congressman
McCoy and I can tell exactly who he was to everybody.
And Pam Henry's just like, no, that's my job.
And the widow you can tell is done with Pam Henry's
shit. So she says, no. alice go ahead and lets
her speak and pam henry is just like stuck next
to the widow trying to like save face but at
the same time it's very uncomfortable uh alice
starts talking about how congressman mccoy was
such a good person and even though he wanted
this moon base now that he's met her and her
friends He said it with his last words that he
doesn't want a moon base anymore. He wants to
pass health care and he wants to help people
because this is who Congressman McCoy was. And
like everybody gets really excited about it.
And basically, she's now turned it to a health
care bill instead of a moon base bill. And a
lot of people seem for it. It's a big deal now
because she's kind of got the momentum on her
side. And as she's leaving, like the press hound
her and start talking to her about like, what
else did he say? Did he say stuff about like
medicinal marijuana? Did he say stuff about like
freeing people from prison? And she goes, oh,
no, he just said the health care stuff. Well,
maybe the medicinal marijuana. I don't know.
I don't remember. I may get back to you on that.
And then she like walks off to another room with
her friends. howard is also trying to like run
away from pam henry because he's failed again
he didn't get her to leave he didn't get her
to walk away in fact he screwed up big time now
she has the momentum and they're no longer doing
this moon base so alice catches up to howard
and they start getting into an argument about
who is the better liar and then they admit they
kind of may love each other this is random because
each one is kind of like backstabbing the other
a lot in this like Howard's definitely playing
Alice for the most part and Alice is just kind
of using him to get her way as well now her way
is seen as the good way and rightfully so because
all she's trying to do is get health care for
people but it's very strange how they're like
manipulating each other and yet they may love
each other pam henry opens the door of the room
they're all in and she is so pissed at all of
them so howard jumps out a window to run away
and then it goes to another scene where the girl
squaws are all meeting and they welcome alice
and her friends to their cause and they start
selling like alice nail cookies to raise money
for health care and everything they do viral
videos about health care and how that's more
important than the moon base And so Pam Henry
is just she's beside herself. Now the the girl
squads are involved. Alice has got them on her
side. And like, how can you disagree with like
Girl Scouts? They're they're so innocent and
everything like that. Well, as she's watching
this viral video at one point. And Sacagawea
Marsha grabs the hand of one of the girls. And
so Pam Henry now. Has something to use against
them. And so. She tries to fear monger. That
the bill is being led by. Lesbians. Because these
two girls held hands. In this viral video. Holy
shit. This took a turn. And like. Grand Secretary
Marsha is so sad about this. She goes. I don't
even know I was a lesbian. Like I don't know
what's going on. And. nobody can point out that
it's pam henry who did this they just kind of
like it just kind of happened and she's just
she's just using it saying well you know i would
love to support this bill but i am a staunch
a defender of like males and female marriage
and i i can't if it's run by lesbians you know
and gain her fan base and everything like that
um also these Lady squaws are the girl squaws
are now camping in front of the Capitol and hearthstone
representative bill. I can't say his last name
representative bill has released like poison
oak spray on this. So they just literally are
evil. Um, they put poison Oak spray. They're
attacking this girl because she may or may not
be gay, but she really isn't because it just
was a moment where she just grabbed a hand of
a girl and like the media shows up and they're,
they're asking Marsha to share the tragic story
of her gayness. Like they full send on the gay
narrative all of a sudden here and how it's bad
and blah, blah, blah. And it's just kind of,
God damn. Like what? where'd this movie go like
what why'd it go down this road but like i said
before pam henry is kind of using this to her
advantage she's like how dare you say anything
about a nine -year -old girl how do you attack
her or anything like that but then she also talks
down about gay people at the same time so i don't
know um yeah it's i Again, this is supposed to
be like a satire at parts, and I see where they
may be going with some of it, but it's just so
poorly written and so poorly come up with. And
especially, like, it's weird to me that they
attack gayness in this movie. Like, it's very,
very strange to me. I don't like it. It feels
very dirty. It feels like a cheap shot that didn't
need to be made. And so, I don't know. It's very
uncomfortable. But luckily, they kind of drop
this a little bit. There is another part where
they bring it up, but it's not much. But they
kind of drop this because guess who shows up
to the camp while they're trying to find Howard
slash think of a plan. You're correct. It's Scott.
Scott shows up and he's trying to get Alice back.
And he mentions the Harris polls while he's talking
about this and how her bill is probably going
to fail and everything like that. And the only
people. who know the Harris polls so early, are
Congress members. And Alice knows this. So she
knows that Pam Henry is trying to mess with her
by sending Scott here. And so she's pissed. She's
pissed at Scott. How dare you do this? How dare
you do this? Like, don't you realize how important
this is to me about getting this nail out of
my head? And Scott kind of realizes, yeah, I
mean, it is important because if he takes her
back, there's still a chance. She might have
a hemorrhage. She might whatever. So he needs
her to get this nail out of her head, too. So
Scott feels bad and says, what can I do to help?
And Alice says, if you agree to help find Howard
and get him to sponsor the law, I will be grateful
forever. And Scott takes that as, oh, I'll be
together with you forever, not just I'll be grateful
to you forever. So he's like, OK, I'm going to
help. And so he calls on his law officers to
try to find Howard. And he finds Howard in the
middle of the woods, naked on a men's spiritual
workshop. I think you think that I thought something
completely different right now and was on a completely
different movie. No, I'm not. I'm going to read
that again. He finds Howard in the middle of
the woods, naked. on a men's spiritual workshop.
Basically, Howard has found this group and he
needs to find his core or his manhood really
is what the joke is. He needs to find his core
on this retreat. And it's like this weird fight
club thing where he needs to fight people to
get to his core. Scott convinces Howard just
to like stop fighting people and grab his core.
And so he does and he grabs two of them and they
just let him walk away. It's not. He didn't need
to fight these guys. And this core, he grabs
two of them. They look like balls is the imagery.
And lo and behold, it is moose balls. It is actual
balls. So he's got his core now, which is moose
balls. So Howard gets his courage and he shows
up to the camp with the girls squaws and Alice
and her friends. And he's ready to fight. This
is great. He's got his courage. He's going to
introduce the bill. And then he kisses Alice
in front of everybody, which pisses off Scott.
Scott punches Howard. But Alice tells Scott she
got her first orgasm from him. So he's he's like
he or she wants to be with him because she got
her first orgasm from him. So Scott is just relegated
to the background at this point. So he's got
his courage. He's ready to fight. They wake up
the next day and they go to the Capitol. Pam
Henry, as I said before, is the acting speaker
of the house. And whatever she does this week,
if it's for the best, she can be confirmed next
week. So she needs to be on her best behavior
kind of. So she needs to do everything with a
little bit more tact. She can't be just like
offensive to people. She gives like, is there
any new business? And Howard goes. Yes, I want
to bring this bill to law about health care.
And so Pam Henry, being fair and just, listens
to Howard. But meanwhile, she has a plan of her
own. Representative Bill brings multiple women
up that Howard slept with to get laws passed.
Basically, they would sleep with him if he agreed
to pass these laws. And truthfully, this is where
I say he was using Alice because these two girls
he also was using to get colored paints for his
schools and everything like that. Like he was
doing this. You scratch my back. I'll scratch
your back. I do this law. I sleep with you. But
then I get paints for my schools, you know, like
that kind of thing. So he definitely has a weakness
towards women and has slept around to get laws
passed. Pam Henry is using this against him to
maybe get him disbarred as a congressman. And
so the law can never pass. And so his integrity
is put into question. Alice wants to talk, but
the rules say that she can't talk because she's
not a congressperson. But the several like old
men congressman stand up to let her speak. And
she gives a rallying cry about crappy insurance
and the uninsured. And she throws her fist in
the air like, viva resistance kind of thing.
And yeah, everybody's so excited and they all
feel it. You can feel the energy and everything
like that. And so after the speech, they vote
on the issue. It's like 294 to like six in favor
of not healthcare. Remember, nobody likes healthcare.
And so after giving this impassioned speech,
the nails like getting to her. And so Alice passes
out. Pam Henry like rushes down the aisle to
like take a photo op with her. And she says to
like the cameras as they're taking this picture,
she cares about everyone, even though they have
their differences. And it's a really good photo
option. So Alice's bill is lost. Keyshawn. reveals
to rikisha about his prolapsed anus which causes
her to break up with him and reverend norm is
starting to question his faith because he thought
they were on this trip of faith and everything
was going to go well like he was he was hoping
like uh kishan and rikisha They were doing well,
but like she can't deal with the fact he has
a prolapsed anus. And that's why he's been with
this crew. And then Alice's bill is down. So
Norm thought they was just going to happen. Alice
still believes there's a chance. She believes
in Howard. She believes he can figure out something.
So as she's like lifted up off the ground to
like her feet, she sees Howard shake hands with
Edwin. And she knows he's back to his old ways.
Like now he's in the fold. And so Howard's just
not going to help anymore. It seems like they're
done. So Edwin goes up to Pam Henry and Representative
Bill, basically saying that Howard is going to
be a lackey in their pocket. Like he's going
to do what they want him to do. And so Pam Henry
gives Howard a chance to speak. And he goes and
says, basically, like, I have a weakness for
women. I'm sorry about that. But I'm back with
my party and I want to get this moon base going.
and so alice is pissed she is pissed so she leaves
and they're gonna head back home so they go to
the motel and they're packing and just it's a
somber mood you know they they've lost and they
they feel broken and they don't know where to
go from here and kishan turns on the tv as they're
packing to leave and this leads to news position
which is the worst way to end a movie, I think,
in my mind. But, you know, that's what they do.
It's revealed that Howard attached a rider to
the Moonbase bill. And there also was a bill
about renaming the gymnasium to named after Buck
McCoy in his honor. And basically this rider.
It gets her and her friends health care for free.
And Pam Henry didn't read that writer because
her assistant, her aide, didn't read it for her
because he's trying to screw her over. And so
she has to now deal with the repercussions of
the fact that four people got health care out
of nowhere. And it's all covered by the government.
It's all covered. And basically the news is interviewing
Howard and saying about how like it was like
a good cause and everything like that. But now
he's seen as a pariah and he's basically going
to get voted out as a congressman. Nobody can
trust him anymore. And what he did broke all
these rules. But he's just like it was a good
cause. And I'm very happy. I want to tell Alice
that's why I'm outside of her motel right now.
And Alice is like, what? Like opens the door,
runs to him and kisses him on camera. And at
the same time, Rakesha, she gets back with Keyshawn
as well. She feels bad. And now he can get his
prolapsed anus fixed so they can be together
again. And so the end of this is a wedding. So
it's Rakesha and Keyshawn's wedding. Brenda and
Scott are together. Reverend Norm, he's happy
because his pants fit again, which he announces
to the entire wedding group or wedding party.
And it's a mandatory wedding dance scene during
the credits. Yay! Everybody's happy. And mid
-credits, Alice gets to make a speech about how
they went all this way and they got everything
they wanted and how great it is that everything
worked out in their favor. And as she's doing
this, she gets hit in the eye with a champagne
cork. And the joke is that, oh, now she needs
to go get her eye fixed. Ah, Accidental Love
2. Accidentally loved harder. So that's a bad
movie. That is the rom -com Accidental Love.
I can go a lot of ways with this one. So first
off, I'm going to give you the rating I'm going
to give this movie. It is definitely a 0 .5 out
of 5. 0 .5 nail guns fixing a gondola. I'm giving
it a .5 because it's definitely apparent now.
I didn't know this when I was watching it, so
I really didn't have any clue that this was pieced
together after everything had been shot and filmed
and everything like that. But now it makes complete
sense, and it definitely feels like a movie that
was pieced together. I think, honestly, I would
have probably had a worse rating for it if I
didn't know that. Now that I know that, I think
they did the best they could with this product,
which was not very good. I wish they would have
gone more into the political satire. And I think,
so one of the notes on the trivia for IMDb was
that this movie was filmed in 2008 when there
wasn't a healthcare plan like Obamacare. And
so when this movie got released, it kind of was
moot. Like there was no point to it anymore because
Obamacare was out there and this no longer meant
anything. So they kind of went more into the
rom -com side of things. Now, I think this movie
was still cut with that in mind, like the political
satire and everything like that. I wish they
would have leaned more into that, though. I think
this could have been a better movie that way.
The romance felt way too rushed together. Because
in the very beginning, the first time they see
each other, they have sex. Okay, great, fine,
whatever. Good for you. You know, it's weird,
but good for you. But they constantly are trying
to screw each other over and they never write
a good reason why these two would be happy together.
I think constantly for the rest of their lives,
they're just going to be screwing each other
over. Who knows? Because no, Howard's no longer
going to be a congressman, but it does feel like
they're just constantly going to be screwing
each other over their entire lives. Uh, it also
is very weird. The whole Scott thing and how
he just ends up with his, uh, with Alice's coworker,
Brenda. And we're just supposed to be happy for
that. And Rikisha, Rikisha just, oh, now that
you got fixed. Cool. I'll be with you now. That's,
I think the overlying point of this, the, the
entire movie. I think like you can say it's a
joke about healthcare. It's a joke about love,
that kind of thing. I think the overall message
that it did not mean to send. Is that when you
are broken, no one will love you. Because Scott
didn't want to stick with Alice because she had
the nail in her head. And who knows what it was
going to do. And Rakesha didn't want to stick
with Keyshawn because he had a prolapsed anus.
Again, why am I saying these words? These are
real words that I'm saying. And though not mentioned
as much, Reverend Norm. you see his wife like
once or twice and she's very not happy with the
fact that he has like an unending boner and so
again it's just that's what i think the accidental
message of this is accidental love uh -huh get
it um the accidental message of this is that
if you are broken no one's gonna love you and
it is not okay and i mean they threw in there
as well like anti -gay stuff like it's This is
what I'm saying when I say it's a very sophomoric
movie. It is very base level the entire time.
And there's as many jokes as they can get in
about penises, prolapsed anuses. She speaks Portuguese
randomly throughout this film because, you know,
the nail in her head. And she has sex randomly
on impulses and that kind of stuff. And I don't
know. It's just she constantly gets her head
hit with things. It's very sophomoric, and I
feel to do political satire, I feel like you
need to be smart because you can't just hit people
over the head with it. I actually thought it
was hysterical that they were going for a moon
base the entire time. I thought that was hysterical
because that's the kind of thing that I think
works with political satire. It's like, oh, we
could do health care for everybody. But Moonbase,
look at Moonbase. Yes, this is great. Moonbase.
So I think that was very well thought out. But
then the rest of this movie is not at all. Like
it's, I don't know. The fact that there was moose
balls for your core, like getting your balls
back. And it's just this like men's retreat in
the middle of the woods that they're naked and
fighting in. Where did that come from? And it's
all of a five -minute scene, not even. And I
don't think it needed to happen at all. I just
think, oh, we found Howard. He was cowering somewhere.
You know, he was laying low. No, he was getting
his balls back in the middle of the woods. That's
what I say. When you're smart and do political
satire and it's not beat you over the head with
it, I think it's very well done. The thing is,
this movie... They beat you over the head with
it. Just absolutely destroy you over the head
with the fact, oh, we're going to talk about
political satire and the fact that, oh, nobody
wants to do healthcare. And like, I don't know.
It's not funny when you've done so many jokes
to throw it under the bus. Like, I think you
could have had a very, I don't know, not a very
smart movie. I think you could have had a better
movie for sure that had, better written plot
lines and stuff. And obviously I'm talking about
piece together movie of what they just filmed
and everything like that. There could be a great
movie on the cutting room floor, or if they would
have had the money and didn't have to stop down
numerous times, I think there could have been
a better movie here because of the stop downs,
because the director left, because they pieced
it together, what have you. I think that's what
makes this movie fail. However, They also filmed
this movie in 2008. The director left in 2010.
And this movie didn't get released until 2015.
You had plenty of time. Like, nobody was clamoring
for this movie that they needed it out immediately.
You could have taken your time, made something
better with it. I know you wouldn't have your
full cast because the only ones still under contract
were Jessica Biel and Tracy Morgan. But at the
same time, I mean, if you would have written
a better movie, they would have wanted to stay.
I think Jake Gyllenhaal, he likes a good movie.
I don't know. I could be completely making this
up because I don't know the guy personally. But
I think he likes a good movie, like if it's well
written and everything like that. And of course,
if he gets paid. But if you could guarantee he
got paid and you wrote a better script for this,
I think he would have stayed on this movie, done
some reshoots, and you could have had a better
movie out there. Maybe I'm wrong. And that's
full well could be the case. I could be very
wrong. But I think that if you would have taken
the time, rewrote it, tried to get a better movie,
tried to get a better political satire out there,
who knows where this movie could have gone. It
could have been one of the better rom -coms out
there. Instead, it's one of the worst ones of
all time. And, of course, we had to cover it
on the show. So, yeah. 0 .5 nails out of a nail
gun going into a gondola out of five. Star -studded
cast that was wasted. I think, I mean, basically
every single big character you knew from something,
somewhere, somehow. I think making somebody like
Jake Gyllenhaal like a coward, I think you wasted
his potential. I think you could have definitely
gone a little more Nightcrawler route where he's
a little... cocky conceited that kind of thing
I think that would have been fun to see Jessica
Biel she felt like a joke the whole time and
it's not her fault I think it's totally the writing
100 % like I don't want it to seem like I'm shitting
on her I think it's 100 % the writing where she
just was constantly told to speak Portuguese
joke about the nail in her head or get hit in
the head with something so you know that feels
a little on the nose with that um the only one
that i think was good in this that like knew
the role and played it well that it wasn't written
as a complete joke was probably katherine keener
uh she was probably the best role of this because
she just got to be evil like she got to be conniving
she got to be that kind of stuff and i think
she did a very good job devouring that so um
yeah So yeah, I'm very glad I went the high road
and went the nails instead of, I did think at
one point when I was thinking of my rating of
0 .5 prolapsed anuses out of five. So yeah, went
the high road and still got it anyway. But yeah,
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I am very excited and I hope this goes the way
I want it to. So yeah, that is Mike for the Game
for a Movie podcast where we ask, are you game
for a movie? I'll see you next time. And hopefully
we nailed it on this episode. Bye.