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Damn it. What happened? I lost the moment. I
was so hyped. Did I really just make you break
that easily? I wasn't trying to. Well, I'm not
even drunk yet. This is a problem. I am joined
by Mitchell. Andre. Hi, friends. Together in
Bristol, Connecticut. Mitchell, you are across
the country. We are making this across time zones.
We have the technology. We have the technology.
Yeah, what's it like three hours in the future,
guys? I'm so curious. Bro, it sucks. I hate time
zones. Time zones can fuck off. I think we should
just all unify in a singular time zone. I've
got one spoiler for you. Bees. That's it. oh
god yeah the murder hornets are on this side
of the coast the country now they're gonna come
yep yep just in time god escaped it but you did
not uh mitchell well i guess i'll start actually
sorry because we always go in order uh what are
we drinking i have a love note dippa which is
from black hog brewing mosaic citra extra hazy
double dry hopped double india pale ale Black
Hog Brewing is in Oxford, Connecticut, and it's
one of my favorite places. In fact, one of my
buddies works as the brewmaster there. Oh, nice.
Yeah. Yeah. So I am drinking Nespresso. This
one is the Hazelnut Muffino. I don't know how
they want me to pronounce it, but it tastes like
hazelnut muffin and it's delicious. Nice. Excellent.
It's the muffin now. the muffin though i love
that uh andre what are you drinking well i'm
doing a mix of both my uppers and my downers
i have uh some coffee with me drinking that um
and then to pair with that i have this nice uh
counterweight headway ipa love it the old the
old standard but also i have another bottle with
me and i need to nerd out for a second because
while i was grabbing coffee i on a lark decided
to go to the liquor store nearby and i found
it's a bottle of rum it's called denizen Merchant's
Reserve eight -year rum. Okay. And the reason
I'm so torqued up about this is that I like,
this is the first time I've seen this bottle
in Connecticut. Okay. And this bottle is like
a blend of Jamaican and Martinique rums. And
that means that it's kind of specially designed
for cocktails. Okay. It's basically designed
for a Mai Tai. And like all these, like, you
know, Jill got me this tiki book. for christmas
and like they basically said get this rum if
you can find it right away just grab it and using
your drink is gonna be awesome get it for everything
yeah nice uh so i'm torqued up about it because
i just looked it up not just worked up about
it torqued up twerked up because i went to their
site and they're like there is no bottles in
a 50 mile radius of in connecticut and i saw
it on the duty -free shop when we left new orleans
at the airport you should have anyways oak barrel
spirits had the hookup nice i'm very happy about
it and i will be making myself a mai tai uh later
tonight nice there you go that's awesome that's
my cocktail that's why you support your local
liquor liquor store guys yes you go out there
you'll find some gems yeah yeah yeah the guy
the guy when he sold to me he's like if you need
more and i'm thinking pretty sure you'll need
more just call me and i'll set aside some bottles
that's awesome oh my god i love that i'm so pumped
uh i may need some of that rum because we're
going to talk about a bad movie um this bad movie
i watched last night It took me three and a half
hours to finish an hour and a half movie because
I just needed to stop. Yes, been there. I've
been calling this guy's night. And what kind
of movies do guys like the most? Action movies.
Yeah, action. Chick flicks. Okay, great. A romantic
comedy. I love chick flicks. Unironically, let's
go. It is dick flick time. I love it. Okay, I
am in on a dick flick. Let's go. I didn't think
I Love You Man was that bad. I love I Love You
Man. Fuck you. Yeah, no, it's great. So the movie
I chose is also because of the timing of the
year. We were recording this on the Saturday
before the Oscars and the Raspberry Awards, the
Golden Raspberries. Yes, my favorite. And so
I decided to take a movie that has won a Golden
Raspberry and an actor or actress that has won
a Golden Raspberry. All About Steve. Okay. All
About, have I seen this? All About Steve. Why
does that sound familiar, Mike? We've got Sandra
Bullock. Oh my God. Who was the second person
to accept her Golden Raspberry. Wasn't the first
Halle Berry, right? Yeah, first was Halle Berry.
And she gave all the members of the Golden Raspberry
Awards that were there a DVD copy of All About
Steve. Wow, okay. Isn't this the same year? Wait,
I'm going to let you go. I'm going to let you
say it. It's the same year she won the Oscar
for The Blind Side. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. That's
why I remember this. It also has Thomas Hayden
Church, Bradley Cooper, and Ken Jeong. This is
quite the poster. Yeah. This is also the first
time that Ken Jeong and Bradley Cooper were on
the screen together. Later that year, The Hangover
came out. Wow. Oh, gotcha. So, wow. Yeah. All
about Steve. Just a little bit of plot before
I get into the points. So I know, you know, it's
going to be good when it says from the producer
of Miss Congeniality. That's the one. Just the
one. And I feel bad because we've done two movies
for her now, but Speed 2 she couldn't get out
of. Right. Speed 2 is not her fault. Speed 2
is not her fault. Not her fault. This one was.
We did Bird Box too, right? Early on? We did
Bird Box as well, right? Way back? We did, but
it wasn't a bad movie. Oh, okay. Yeah, so we
have a lot of Bullock on the podcast. So all
about Steve, if you don't know, he's a cameraman
for CCN. Okay. Nice. Way to get around the legality
there. Yep. So basically he and his reporter
go across the country, which is played by Thomas
Hayden Church. He also went on a date with Sandra
Bullock and she's obsessed with him. That's the
basic plot of it. Okay. Basic plot. Okay. So
we meet our character, Mary. She's a, what was
the word? I can't remember the word. She's a
crossword puzzle maker. I can't remember the
exact word. Crossword puzzle artiste? No, it
was like a cultivist or something. Cultivist?
Yeah. Cultivator? Yeah, whatever it was. She
had like a press badge that had it on there,
even. Oh, so that's her. Is this for a big paper
or? The Sacramento Press. Okay. Yes. So this
takes place in Sacramento to start. Hey, man.
Crosswords are an important part. So they're
calling her. They're calling her a crossword
puzzle writer on the Wikipedia of All About Steve.
Writer feels right to me. We'll use that term,
but there was a term she had for herself that
was supposed to be smart and everything like
that. She doesn't go on dates. She hasn't really
seen anybody in a while. She wears red boots.
That is a standard. uh she wears them everywhere
and basically there's more to that i'm thinking
like the red cowboy boots from how i met your
mother if you remember they're not cowboy boots
they're like almost rain boots but they're like
a little more gogo little galoshes yeah okay
a little more gogo she was she pulling them off
mike would you say she's pulling them off and
set for the end okay Oh, are you talking about
pulling them off? Like pulling them off? No,
no. She was not pulling them off. Oh, okay. She's
eccentric and a little strange. Oh, now you spoil
her character arc. Now I'm totally out now. This
movie loves its voiceover. And the voiceover
that gets us started is cross -wording is the
most fun a person can have without passing out.
Okay. Huh. Okay. I disagree. I would put Minesweeper
up there. Yeah, right. Minesweeper probably edges
it out just a little bit. I don't know. I get
intense in Minesweeper. I pass out sometimes.
Yeah. So she lives at home with her parents.
She goes to a career day and starts arguing with
the kids because they're calling her out for
being a single nerd. And basically she decides
to say, I have sex to all these kids. So that
happens. Great. Yeah. I found a drinking game
for this. Drink any time there's a joke about
her red boots. Drink any time they mention cross
-wording. And drink any time there's voiceover.
I gave up halfway through because I was feeling
it. I was feeling pretty good. Mike, are you
a New York Times mini crossword doer? Like, do
you have the app? I have the app. Yeah, I like
crosswords. I don't like, I don't do it every
day. Yeah, I used to. And Whirl has supplanted
that routine. Yeah, right. Whirl is just more
bite -sized. I know that when you crosswords
already bite -sized, you can do it in whatever,
under a minute. No, but I like the Whirl too.
That's, yeah. Yeah. And that's why New York Times
got it. Yeah, that's true. In a modern version
of this story. She would be a Wordle editor.
A Wordle wizard. A Wordle dude. She can fuck
off for today's Wordle. Today's Wordle fucking
sucked. I got it. I got it too, but it took me
until six. I don't share this, but I don't share
it when I get the results, but I still haven't
missed. I've gotten to six a lot of times. I
haven't missed. I'm still on my streak. We have
dedicated Wordle dump chats now. I don't pollute.
I don't pollute the mixed chats anymore, if that
makes sense, right? It's like, all right, everybody's
playing Wordle, just dump your Wordle emoji in
there. Whatever. So the music for this is Beck.
Beck made the music for this. Oh, really? And
I said, why Beck? I like Beck. Yeah, I like Beck
too. Why did he lower his standards? Right. Damn
it. She has mentioned a lot of times, I have
a date, a blind one. Like a lot of times already.
And we're not even five minutes in yet. Of course,
this date is Steve. She was set up. Steve's parents
and Mary's parents set them up on a blind date.
And Steve is very attractive because Bradley
Cooper, right? Yeah. Okay, cool. But it gets
better. Frosted tips. Bradley. Oh, no. Okay.
2009. That's a little bit of that era. Oh, wow.
Okay. yeah that's that's definitely he's bleached
up a little bit it's a weird time in bradley's
uh career when this is post alias right when
he had like a pretty strong supporting role there
and then he was in the wilderness which i guess
this was a part of and then you have like the
hangover coming right and then his career renaissance
happens but yeah insane so she runs she sees
that he's hot And she runs back upstairs, like
needs to change, needs to do up her hair a little
more and that kind of stuff. Cause she was just
like, I'm just going on this date, whatever to
appease my parents. But now she sees he's hot
and she's like, okay, I gotta go back up. She's
talking to her pet hamster the whole time. And
it's just a little weird because the hamster
is actually even given like facial features.
Like he kind of like that kind of stuff. It's
weird. Okay. But I think he's just, I don't know.
So they get in the car. and they're gonna go
out on this date and she like looks back sees
a baseball and goes oh he's not gay which made
me laugh hysterically because it was part of
it was she was worried that he was going to be
gay and that's why the parents set him up okay
to kind of try to go on a date or whatever all
right um 2009 yeah so they get in the car he
starts talking to her and basically she's like
he's hot as fuck Fuck me now. And like tries
it. So she has a seatbelt on and she gets like
choked by the seatbelt and she undoes the seatbelt
and climbs on top of him. Okay. What is this
movie rated? PG 13. It does not. Oh my God. Okay.
So she's like. just going to town making out
with him he's like aren't you worried about your
parents like we're right outside oh so he's into
it he's he's fine with he's okay with it okay
until they get in the back and she just can't
stop talking about facts like whatever facts
but there's also funny parts this is the funniest
part of the movie probably um she like is talking
to him about these facts of like so that's her
kryptonite because she built so many crossword
puzzles she has all these little useless useless
information so constantly building crossword
puzzles in her mind like some sort of sisyphusian
like i don't even know one of the reviews on
imdb said is she supposed to be autistic are
we supposed to find this funny right that is
one of the reviews and it kind of agree because
she just like knows everything okay but one of
the funniest parts is why she's spewing these
facts she grabs his hand and like puts it on
her boob okay and it's like full -on like make
out boob yeah that kind of stuff but then she
kind of like gets too much and he pretends he
has a phone call and he needs to go to boston
right away for his job because there's breaking
news to get away from her Wow. Okay. So date
doesn't happen. Where is this taking place now?
How far is Boston from there? This is Sacramento.
Oh, shit. Yeah. For breaking news. Yeah. Okay.
As she's walking out of the car, she grabs Twinkie
trash because she's like, oh, he likes Twinkies
and she stuffs it in her bra. Yep. Uh -huh. That
happened. Yeah. Okay. Yep. What? All right. Yep.
Well. so she's like feeling all this love basically
though what he said when he was in the news van
like he kind of was oh i wish you could come
with me but no like i gotta go and you have your
job and everything like that so she's on cloud
nine and the next day's crossword puzzle is all
about steve steve's hair color steve's eye color
steve's favorite food wait literally dead ass
like she put like like literally steve's eye
color yes there it is like yeah so like it's
like a uh montage of people looking at the crossword
puzzle going like this is fucking impossible
yeah what the hell were they thinking i like
i like that the whole entire city of sacramento
was in a breast because the crossword kind of
difficult and even the man the Her manager was
just like, we can't have a crossword every day
of the week. We do it weekly. And even he's like,
the crossword puzzle had more viewers than I
thought. You're fired. Because of course she
was. Okay. But she takes it as a sign. She's
like, well, he said, I wish you could come with
me. And now she's fired and doesn't have to do
her job so she can come with him. So she finds
out where the news is, which is in. I can't remember
where the first. Oh, Tucson. I can't remember
what the news story was. It wasn't that big a
deal. But basically, it's a reporter who's trying
to get an anchor job played by Thomas Hayden
Church. Got it. They're a field producer, Ken
Jeong, and then cameraman Bradley Cooper. Also,
the manager. How is Brad the cameraman? No offense.
The guy behind the camera, not in front of it.
Yeah. Especially, Thomas Hayden Church is not
an ugly man. No, he's not. No. Bradley Cooper
is more. Yeah. If I were to do a ranking. Yeah.
Right. Bradley Cooper, Thomas Hayden Church,
Ken Jeong. And not because of anything other
than Ken Jeong. Plus, he has an awkward haircut
in this movie. Well, right. Ken Jeong. naturally
being the hottest in that ranking yeah right
right okay yes okay well you know what you don't
want to establish too many um I don't even know
unrealistic expectations for your viewers so
he's out of the running you know at this exactly
at this point uh when she shows up in Tucson
and he kind of sees her there I have accepted
one of two things either he's going to accept
her weirdness and they'll fall in love or she's
going to murder him. There's no in -between.
That is what I've said at this point. Yep. Sounds
about right. So, basically, on the way to Tucson,
she's riding in this bus, and the bus driver,
she's spewing all these facts and everything
like that, and the bus driver's annoyed with
her, so they're like, we're going to take a bathroom
break at this diner. She climbs off the bus and
then she closes the bus or the bus driver closes
the door and drives off. So she's left at this
diner on the way to Tucson. She goes to the diner
and she's like, I need to find a ride. When's
the next bus come? And they're like, days. The
buses don't come often enough. I don't believe
it, but whatever. Sure. Right. So she agrees
to ride in a truck with this truck driver. First.
she doesn't agree right away because she's kind
of like, don't murder or rape me. And if you
do, and she's like, can I see your driver's license?
So he hands her his driver's license. That's
a bold move by him. So he hands her his driver's
license and she takes a Sharpie and writes on
his, on her arm, the driver's license number.
She goes, if you murder me, now you have to bury
me in several different locations so that they
can't find out it was you. okay yeah okay i could
no okay cool how is this played for laps mike
like it feels so awkward yeah yeah right this
is like yeah this is a comedy yeah okay how what's
your what's your laugh out loud count right now
if you can remember two okay yeah yeah okay and
one of them may be an awkward laugh at uh please
don't rape or murder me and it was just kind
of like a Who says that? And the other one was
the boob thing, because that was kind of funny.
Because it was, that is like the best scene in
the movie. And we're past it already. Unfortunate.
Yeah. So they get to Tucson. So she's spewing
all these facts in the truck, and he's just like,
we're going to play the quiet game. But at the
end, finds her kind of endearing, even though
she's weird. At the end, when they get to Tucson,
she jumps out of the truck and goes, thank you
for not raping me. And he goes, my pleasure.
Like, obviously, I'm not going to rape you. Yeah,
okay. Okay. She starts running to wherever Steve
is. And I've also said that Steve is the worst
cameraman ever. He's just not focused at all
on anything. At this time, we hear for the third
time, short skirt and a long jacket. They paid
for the rights to that song. And they are going
to beat it over the head. There you go. Why that
song? You got to get your money's worth. I don't
know. I don't know. So Tucson is basically cleared
out besides like Steve catches a glimpse of her
as their truck is driving away. And it's just
like, is that Mary? And it's really weird. He
also gave her his umbrella. So she has the umbrella
the entire movie, by the way. Okay. To bring
back the umbrella. So she gets to Tucson and
she's like, where'd everybody go? Oh, there's
breaking news in Oklahoma. There's this girl,
Peggy, who was born with a third leg. And there
is a dispute between the mother and the father.
The mother wants to get surgery to remove the
third leg. The father wants to keep the third
leg. And of course there's protesters. What?
Yes. This is, wait, how is this? Wait, what?
Yeah, I was just confused. So this is just like...
This is a news story. Is this just a bit in the
movie? I guess. Yeah. And they call her Peggy.
Oh. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Three -legged Peggy. So basically
that's where Mary runs into Steve. And it's just
like, Steve, I love you, blah, blah, blah. And
he's just like, oh. And kind of freaks out because,
you know, he's being stalked. Yeah, get a restraining
order on this lady. He's being stalked. And she
was like, I took it as a sign when you said I
should be with you. And I got fired from my job.
And he's like, what? You got fired from your
job? What? And she goes, yeah, I made the crossword
puzzle all about you. And he's like, what the
fuck? Okay. Yeah. Media badge. I'm getting through
the media thing. Yeah. Right. So she gets stopped
by a bouncer. And like, he's talking with the
bouncers. It's like, no, go join your protester
friends. And she joins the pro -leg protesters
because they have better food. So is this just
like a dumb pro -life, pro -choice joke thing?
I guess. It's also to get her friends. It's also
what? Sorry? To get her friends. Get her friends.
Okay, got it. Oh, because we need to have more
than two main characters in this movie. Yeah.
Okay, got it. We need friends. Yeah. Okay. The
news guy, played by Hayden Thomas Church, his
name is Hartman. Hartman. Yeah, so I'm going
to call him Hartman. Hartman Hughes. Hartman
Hughes. Ooh, I like that. From the edge. That's
a newsman's name. That's a newsman superhero
name. You know, it's a Marvel newsman's name.
Well, Hartman Hughes, his catchphrase is, this
has been Hartman Hughes from the edge. Oh, shit.
So he's trying to become an anchor. She spouted
a bunch of facts to him. And basically he was
able to use that in the news story. And so he
looked smarter. So he's kind of like, okay, let's
keep this girl around because she's like so smart
and knows all these things. His whole scheme
is that he's going to use her to catapult himself
up to the top with her bountiful knowledge of
random facts. Yes. I don't see how this is going
to pan out well for him, but sure. He also said
to her at one point, because I needed this exact
quote, you rest those pretty little mouth pillows.
oh that's uh mouth pillows mouth pillows that's
a line okay so how old is Sandra Bullock's character
supposed to be she must be like in her 40s or
something or 30s probably 30 that because the
whole question of this right it's a rom -com
she's single yeah and they are giving you so
many reasons as to why she is still single and
it feels to me that they're really beating us
over the head with this and nothing else has
happened in the movie. Right. No, they've just
made her weird. Then there's been like 16 red
boots jokes. So the whole grid, all of the jokes
are look at how awkward Sandra Bullock is. Yes.
The humor. Yep. So far. Yep. Sweet. It doesn't
get better. Definitely doesn't sound like it
would get old after 20 minutes. So the guys are
talking in the tent and they both have big gulps.
I don't know why they have big gulps. It's product
placement. It's total product placement. They
finish the news story. The father and mother
have agreed that they're going to keep the leg
because it makes her unique. They've agreed to
terms. Okay, great. So now the next story is
a storm, a tornado in Galveston. So they have
to drive to Galveston. mary starts running alongside
the news van to figure out where they're going
next and hartman's just like oh yeah we're going
to galveston we have this big storm you should
come with and he's like what facts do you know
about galveston she starts spewing the facts
and basically she's just running alongside this
van the whole time spewing these facts like like
like peter parker at the beginning of spider
-man one style yeah okay yeah so she's running
alongside the van and like there's a part where
she gets like dehydrated because she's running
and talking so hartman literally grabs a big
gulp and gives it to her to drink while she's
running alongside the van wow and then they're
like okay we're off to we're off to galveston
see you there and so she goes back to the protesters
and there are two characters elizabeth and howard
elizabeth we didn't know her name was elizabeth
and howard is dj qualls okay okay um basically
she's explaining like this is supposed to be
the big like he's gonna fall in love with me
uh that kind of stuff so we need to get to galveston
and howard played by dj qualls is like well i
have a gremlin let's take the gremlin a gremlin
yes well i don't understand what oh do you know
what a gremlin is no i don't a gremlin is a very
now defunct car okay i'll google it so i can
have is that because you fed it after midnight
yes right or yeah gremlin this this oh that guy
okay yeah yeah yeah yeah that guy oh that's sick
yeah okay so he has a gremlin uh and he's like
i'm gonna drive us to galveston mind you they're
going into the heart of a storm very cool and
of course how bad can this storm be Is the line.
So bad. It's going to be awful. Somebody in the
movie says, how bad can a storm be? Very cool.
I'll let you rue over that because we got to
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favorite movie. And we're back. So the three
characters, Elizabeth, Howard, and Mary, are
in The Gremlin, driving to Galveston. In a better
movie, I think these three could be very likable.
Because they're a little enjoyable. They have
some... back and forth and everything like that
but in this movie they're all terrible stereotypes
yeah okay howard makes uh famous heads of people
out of apples okay they sells out of his car
the gremlin great um elizabeth we don't even
know her name and she's just basically a dumb
protester that is like her bit Great. She's dumb
and she just protests just to protest? Exactly.
We don't know what she does or anything like
that. She's offended to be offended. Yeah, exactly.
She loves the fact that Mary knows all these
facts. They actually really enjoy Mary's company.
Good for Mary. At this point, you kind of feel
a little love thing happening between Howard
and really both of the girls. Elizabeth and Mary.
He kind of flirts with both of them. So I was
thinking to myself with this, this might be awkward.
Like at the end. So the three are driving to
Galveston. All of a sudden, tornado. Huge tornado.
Oh, my God. It is Twister. So the three get stuck.
The gremlin won't work anymore because it won't
reverse because it's a 1978 gremlin. It's a gremlin.
Okay. So they decide to hide in a storm drain
to wait out the tornado. The tornado takes the
gremlin and throws it 50 miles away. The gremlin
has been removed from the movie. The gremlin
has been removed and they haven't made it to
Galveston yet. Tragic. Yes, very tragic. Meanwhile,
our reporter dude is against the sea waves dealing
with the rain and getting yelled at by the manager.
of the news station because they didn't get footage
of the tornado but yet mary was there and they
all know about mary because like apparently bradley
cooper has talked about this being the worst
date ever or whatever um so yeah that happens
and that's really it for galveston so we move
on that's really it okay uh they're stuck without
a car um the news van leaves and they have to
cover this news story because they're the closest
and the news story so it flashes to the scene
of like 15 school kids on a field trip and like
three supervisor like uh yeah supervisors i guess
but it's not really what i want to say chaperones
chaperones yeah yeah there it is jesus um he's
melting your brain yeah and they're about to
go to this plume fun land in southern plume i
don't know what the state was even okay uh but
it's obviously close to galveston all of a sudden
these 15 kids fall into an abandoned mine shaft
the ground what collapse i'm sorry what the ground
collapses and all these 15 kids are in there
how did the mine shaft get into this i don't
understand they just fall okay and because our
goonies now like well because our team is the
closest they get to report on the story okay
okay because they basically keep david the manager
of the news station's just like i'm not going
to wait keep david is the manager yeah did you
not hear me say that no i didn't i totally no
keep david is yeah wow okay yeah okay um so basically
the kids not only 15 kids in a mine shaft. They're
also deaf. Oh, okay. That's a spin. For any good
reason, Mike? Or are they just deaf? Just deaf.
Are there any problematic bad deaf jokes? No,
actually. They're actually pretty okay with the
deafness. That's good, I guess. Yeah. On a field
trip. Yes. In a mineshaft. Now in a mineshaft.
Because they were headed to this fun park. And
they have to go over an abandoned mineshaft to
get it? Apparently. And the ground collapses.
And the ground was clearly... The kid's fault.
That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Yep. Yep.
So, basically, Bradley Cooper is in disguise
at this point. What? Why? Because he's hiding
from Mary. Oh, okay. Got it. All right. But his
disguise... looks like aaron rogers regularly
that oh my god okay that's definitely that's
excellent well he's hiding the frosted tips so
that's yeah you couldn't recognize him without
the frosted tip yeah that's it the leg is enough
yeah so they get to wherever plume is i don't
remember how mary and the rest of them got there
they got there somehow they teleported from the
storm drain that's the last time we've seen them
oh no the gremlin worked That's what it was.
The gremlin was in pieces, but they got it to
work. So basically like she's holding onto the
window and like, Jesus Christ, Elizabeth is holding
onto the door. And so they get to plume and they're
all like, are they, they hear the story and everything
like that. And Hartman's basically being the
worst. Cause he's just antagonizing Mary about
the fact that she's made it here and everything
like that. This is the part where I'm like, everything
the best part about this movie is the white teeth
because at least everybody had like super white
teeth yeah okay oh okay so so basically um mary's
like i see steve i'm gonna run and get him and
we're gonna fall in love and that'll be the end
of the story okay uh they've also rescued all
the kids at this point Okay. So that plot point
is just resolved. Well, so they rescue them with
like this crane and like the, the fire, like
a firefighter goes down, brings them up. Okay.
Oh, okay. Okay. So they didn't do the saving
the kid that they're just, they report the same.
Yeah, exactly. Okay. Okay. Got it. Got it. Got
it. So Mary is see Steve starts running towards
them, not paying attention to where she's going.
Guess who falls in the mineshaft? Uh -oh. If
you remember the trailer, this was included in
the trailer. I... Steve! Steve! Okay. Oh, so
this happens during, like, the climax of the
movie. Yes. She's now stuck in there. Oh, goodness.
I put Mary Fell in the fucking hole. The pits
of despair. Also, they put her in red boots just
to make fun of them all movie because, like,
then all the news stations are making fun of
her red boots and the fact that she didn't see
the hole. So, you know what's going to happen.
They're going to pull her out with the crane.
Nope. The crane snaps. So, she's stuck down there.
But she's not alone. There's one more deaf kid
down there. So, they just left a deaf kid down
there? I was just like, these teachers are the
worst teachers. Like, you knew you had 15 kids.
You didn't get a head count when you got rescued?
You know you have 15 kids and I see 14 kids.
Like, what? Geez. What happened to the buddy
system? Yeah. Come on. um so they're stuck in
the thing mary's trying to find all these ways
to get out she can't find a way now we learn
through news position there's a problem there's
too much carbon dioxide down there so if they
keep inhaling it they might pass out and die
exactly whoa yeah wait carbon dioxide or carbon
monoxide carbon dioxide is what they said okay
yes they said dioxide i'm pretty sure it's supposed
to be monoxide right okay yeah i yeah i would
say i would assume i don't know i don't know
i don't know how abandoned mine shafts work exactly
i'm not a scientist when i think when i think
carbon and oxygen being dangerous i think carbon
monoxide rather than just co2 but if there's
no oxygen then whatever well so Meanwhile, on
the surface, Hartman is talking to the protesters
because they're not protesters, but they call
them protesters. Basically, they're doing a candlelight
vigil for Mary. Because they need to get her
out of the cave. It's led by Elizabeth and Howard.
Wait, but the candlelight vigil is just that
they've accepted that she's already dead? No,
like praying that she's alive and everything
like that. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. All right. So
they're having this thing and Hartman goes over
and talks to them to try to figure out details
about Mary because he just wants to use her as
a news story. This is the big story that's going
to get him the anchor desk. Okay. And they call
him out and they're just like, you're just using
her. You're like a terrible human being. He's
a reporter from diehard at this point. Yeah,
pretty much. Yeah. And he's definitely like,
that's what I have in my head this whole time.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It fits. So I put, is this
just an allegory for the fact that media lies?
And I think it is because like every one of them
has lied at some point. gotcha very deep guys
quick fact check carbon dioxide is actually correct
when it comes to the level of you know dangerous
gas uh for people inside caves carbon dioxide
there we go so good on this movie for being accurate
um i'm glad they have the deaf kid down there
and i know that sounds mean but if it if the
deaf kid wasn't down there I would say fucking
die, Mary. You only want her to be safe so the
deaf kid can be safe? I want the deaf kid to
be safe, not Mary. Like, she sacrifices herself.
Okay, cool. The reason, we learn the reason why
she wears the boots. Oh, okay. Again, they've
made another boot joke. Yep. She feels in her
toes like it's ten friends on a camping trip.
That is what she says. what we get no explanation
just 10 friends on a camping trip what i don't
know so yeah okay like okay okay each of the
toes is a friend yes and inside the boot those
friends are now in a tent right and she doesn't
have any friends so she has 10 friends on her
feet did i get that right okay sure um so it's
like literally like that that spongebob thing
like where he's all on his house and he counts
up his fingers all his friends okay um cool so
yeah um i also made a note at this point we're
almost at the end don't worry I made a note at
this point, this is the same fucking year. She
won for the blind side. This cannot be said enough.
Oh my God. Like I've never seen a duality of
man more than Sandra Bullock in 2009. Cause the
blind side, she was excellent. All about Steve.
She was the worst. Right. Yeah. How are the performances
so far in this movie? Not great. Yeah. Not great.
All right. Yeah. The only one who does a good
job. Well, all right. Not the only one, but the
only ones I actually care for are Ken Jeong and
Thomas Hayden Church is Hartman Hughes because
he actually has a moment. Okay. So this is the
moment. Hartman feels bad that he's just been
using Mary to like get the anchor job, get the
facts. And he's been torturing Steve because
he's basically been like aiding her stalking.
So he gets the bright idea. He's going to grab
the hose off the fire truck. run into the hole
and bring them back out okay okay and does it
work problem is the hose isn't attached to anything
oh oh what a cavalcade of errors yes um which
is funny because meanwhile mary found this mine
car and the this cable is basically like wrapped
around like a pulley so She has figured out if
you put this many rocks in this mine cart and
push it down. What the fuck is this Zelda dungeon
puzzle bullshit? Like what? It will lift them
up. Okay. So they can at least get out of the
hole. That is literally a video game as solution.
Like what? So I made the note. Physics saves
the day. Basically they do this plan and it gets
all three of them out. Okay. And Hartman takes
credit for it because Mary led them. And it's
just like, you, you should look like the hero.
there's all these people that like are supporting
of Mary and they feel for her and like the whole
country is behind her. And it flashes to the
Sacramento press guy and he's just like, I have
to hire her back now, don't I? And then it flashes
to Keith David and he goes, I have to make him
anchor now, don't I? Oh, okay. So that just solves
everything. Except for Steve. What to do about
Steve? Because it's all about Steve. It's all
about him. It's all about Steve. This movie has
been decidedly less about Steve than I expected.
It has been very little about Steve except for
that he's been stalked. Yes. Yeah. So basically
he says to her, I'm sorry I led you on. I know
you're much more of a person. Like he has this
whole heartfelt speech on camera because another
news anchor was like reporting the fact that
she's like. for lesser terms basically autistic
okay but basically like making fun of her because
like she's annoying because she knows all these
things blah blah and like steve says to the camera
and like looks at them and she's like no she's
different yeah but we all should be respecting
of her differences and blah blah blah you know
oh we got there so finally they're they're having
their heart to heart and like she kind of realizes
She has like a growing moment where she realizes
Steve's not the one for her. Okay. Cause Steve
is normal and she doesn't want to be normal anymore.
She wants to find somebody that's her normal
is the words. And he's just like, you're not
going to change your mind. Right. She goes, I'm
Jewish and Catholic. I'm pretty much set in stone.
What? Yeah. I don't get it. It's just stubborn.
yeah i guess what okay yeah is that is it on
the venn diagram of jews and catholics is that
in the center there is that the overlap circle
gets the square like yeah yeah yeah what like
what do you know what they say about jews and
catholics yep there's no way i don't know okay
yep So, my final thoughts about this. Basically,
she goes back. She becomes the crossword puzzle.
There's a voiceover. She's the crossword puzzle
luminary now. Yeah, exactly. Okay, cool. And
basically, there's a voiceover. Goes on to create
Wordle. Maybe. Goes on to create Wordle. That
would be amazing. Well, she uses a Will Shorts
quote at the end. And I don't remember. Oh, okay.
But she literally quotes Will Shorts in her voiceover
to the end of the movie. And basically, that's
it. That's the end of the movie. Ended at the
hole. And so I put final thoughts. So many crosswords
metaphors. So many boots jokes. So many stalking
is okay vibes. And so many voiceovers. Well,
it's good that they didn't end up together. I'm
glad that they didn't end up together. That wasn't
the... I'm glad that Bradley Cooper's come to
Jesus moment was maybe we should cheer like a
terrible person rather than I've been in love
with you this whole time. It could have gone
that way, I guess. Well, and that's the thing.
i don't think this movie could be made the opposite
genders a guy stalking a girl like this oh nope
no you're right yeah no way yeah yeah no there's
no there's no way you root for that character
that way right yeah yeah yeah yeah and truthfully
i wasn't rooting for the character well no no
i know but like you couldn't even pitch that
exactly yeah and this actually uh was on the
blacklist which was the most liked unused scripts
so the most liked unused script so this has been
a script for a while it just gets passed around
that just doesn't no one does anything with yeah
it gets floated around hollywood and until a
production company actually puts its money where
its mouth is and says hey we're gonna make this
uh and there's been a lot of great movies who
have been on this list and i guess this is not
one of them this is not an example actually i've
never heard of that before that blacklist term
what's like what's like what's like a good movie
you can think of from that that was a blacklist
like Let's look it up. Sorry, I didn't mean to
put you guys on the spot. No, you're good. We
just need to look it up. Oh, Juno. Juno was one.
Lars and the Real Girl. Charlie Wilson's War.
Things We Lost in the Fire. Lars and the Real
Girl. I said that already. Fanboys. Carnival
Row. The other Bolin girl. Blades of Glory. Classic.
Sure. Seven pounds in Bruges. There you go. That's
a good one. 500 days of summer. Okay. All right.
Little Miss Sunshine. Wow. Okay. Okay. Social
Network. The Road. Wow. The Road. I've never
read or seen it, but they're good things. They
messed me up. Oh, Invictus. I do love that one
because rugby. Okay. Yeah. So there's some good
stuff on here. There is. And then there was this.
Yeah. Yeah. So that's unfortunate. All about
Steve. Yep. Okay. You're going to have to rank
it. Well, yeah, I do have to rate it. Don't I?
Yep. Yep. Toughest part is the, well, I'm glad
we have Mitchell on the show. Cause I think I'm
giving it the old Mitchell zero, the half. Yeah.
Half a red boot. Okay. Yeah. Half a red boot
out of five, half a red boot out of five. Okay.
There was also, Oh, I forgot one little thing.
There was a crossword at the end. That was the
end. Oh, oh, that's clever. I'm upset. I wasn't
that mad. And now I'm a little more mad. Yeah.
I'm a little more mad now. Yeah. I'm upset. Yeah,
you should be. Is it worse than Yoga Hosers?
No. Okay. But it's close. Really? Yes. Okay.
This is close because this was a mean -spirited
film that just does not have any funny. Yeah.
Well, this just, yeah, this just sounded like
a profoundly unfunny movie, right? And like with
Yoga Hosers, like it was just a mean movie for
the sake of being a mean movie. Sure. I don't
think they went out and said all about Steve,
we're going to make this a mean movie. Yeah.
But it kind of was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So,
yeah. Yeah. Sandra. What are you doing? I'm looking
through Roger Ebert. May he rest in peace in
his review in 2009 of this movie. He gave it
one and a half stars, so he's a little bit more
lenient here. But nonetheless, it's a pretty
scathing review. He liked it three times as much
as you did. He did. He called her a crossword
puzzle constructor. Constructor is a good one,
too. I like the alliteration. It adds a little
bit more of a... designer aspect to it, in my
opinion, right? You've got to design the crossword
puzzle. You can't just come up with the facts.
You've got to lay them all out in an interesting
way, you know? Right. Sure. I want to make a
crossword puzzle. I don't know enough about useless
facts to do it, but that's what I have Jill for.
Yeah. There you go. One of the things I did not
talk about, so... ken jong's character is called
angus okay oh all right that's a name oh i love
that name yeah and basically hartman and steve
are fighting because steve's just like as they're
driving he's wearing his disguise and everything
like that and heart uh angus is losing his mind
because he's just like these guys need to stop
fighting it's gonna be a long trip blah blah
blah so he yells at hartman hartman for the love
of god stop tanning you look like a cheese nip
you look like an orange with lips Damn. And then
he also says, and you, Geraldo, lose the wig.
You look like a retired porn star. Who are you
fooling? Oh, that's a great disguise, Einstein.
The van's the same, dumbass. Okay. So that is.
That was his rant. That was a rant. And that
was probably a good one. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. So
I had another one. I was hoping I would find
what her job was, but I did not. So. Okay. Yeah.
Can we go through the Razzies real quick from
that year? An incredible year. So it won Worst
Picture. Actually, no, it did not. It lost Worst
Picture to Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.
And it was nominated alongside G .I. Joe, The
Rise of Cobra, Land of the Lost, and Old Dogs.
Sorry, I'm stuck on Transformers. Is Revenge
of the Fallen, is that the third one or the second
one? Third one, I think. Dark Side of the Moon
or something? Dark of the Moon. Dark of the Moon.
So I think this is the second. I believe this
is the second. That's the one with Transformers
truck nuts. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it did win in
the worst actress category with Sandra Bullock
being there, obviously. And then it was also
nominated for worst director with Phil Trail,
I believe is how you say his name. And then for
a screenplay, which Transformers Revenge of the
Fallen also won. Michael Bay won worst director.
But my favorite. category that they were nominated
and won in was worst screen couple is sandra
bullock and bradley cooper winning the other
nominees okay yeah kristin stewart and either
taylor lautner or robert pattinson twilight new
moon new moon okay second one yeah i saw that
one at midnight wow then yeah well i was in college
and trying to impress a girl yeah oh no that's
the reason man i was not worse i was held captive
in a you know twilight relationship as well i
get it yep also nominated shyla buff and either
megan fox or any transformer Transformers Revenge
of the Fallen. Any Transformer. I love that.
Damn. All right. I ship Optimus Prime and Sam
Witwicky. Is that his fucking name? Yeah, Sam
Witwicky. That's right. And then the other, Will
Ferrell and any co -star, creature, or comic
riff in Land of the Lost. And then my personal
favorite. any two or more of the jonas brothers
and jonas brothers the 3d concert experience
damn that's i love that category so much that's
so good well i love the category this year did
you see the uh made up one for this year no what
is it uh it is worst performance by bruce willis
in a 2021 movie oh boy is cosmic sin in there
i believe so oh my god that's my no way oh i
love that so it's all bruce willis movies that
he released my guy is just cashing checks man
like he like he probably just shows up for a
day films whatever and then leaves i just love
it they don't even have him in oh i've just seen
the the things now uh Worst picture, because
we have the winners already. Do you want to know
some of the winners? Sure. Worst picture was
Diana the Musical. It fought alongside Space
Jam A New Legacy, Karen, The Woman in the Window,
and Infinite, the Mark Wahlberg movie. Winner
of worst actor. Okay. Let's hear it. LeBron James.
Yeah. LeBron James. Cleveland. This is for you.
Cleveland. Oh, God. Nominated was Ben Platt for
Dear Evan Hansen 2. Oh, God. That's insane. I
mean, okay. I don't know who that is. LeBron
James. Worst supporting actor, Jared Leto for
House of Gucci. Okay. Yep. Yep. Who's excited
for more music? There's a lot of Diana the Musical.
They won Worst Director. Worst Screen Combo,
Space Jam A New Legacy, LeBron James and his
son. No! Worst Prequel, Remake, Ripoff, or Sequel.
Space Jam 2. And the winner for Worst Performance
by Bruce Willis in a 2021 picture cosmic sin
yes oh god i feel like look how many nominees
there are mike that is incredible just to say
2021 yeah eight now a lot of them probably backed
up because of what happened in 2020 and all that
however that's a crap ton of movies to be it
is oh yeah anyone oh my god it was clear that
even a cosmic sin like he was probably on set
for a week tops like that like they need more
than that well and the guy the guy that um did
cosmic sin did like half of the movies for that
year oh okay gotcha all right so it's probably
just like all right here's what we're filming
this week right you know and that's exactly it
like really it was pretty much his entire year
was that guy wow yeah does he like does he like
have some dirt on him or something like i think
it's a tax scheme yeah it must be right off or
something like that like i had no idea hey show
up for a week and you get a vacation and i mean
like with at least adam sandlin like he's open
about that stuff yeah you know like he's like
yeah i would much rather support adam sandlin
oh yeah absolutely i don't know brucey oh bruce
bruce what happened man bruce what happened yeah
so yeah i think this is nuts i'm looking at the
production companies behind it and 20th century
was the distributor but the like one of the main
production companies for actually making the
film was Fortis Productions, which is Sandra
Bullock's own production company. So she was
not only the star of this, but she, from what
it probably looks like, picked the script, said,
yeah, let's green light this thing, and I'm going
to star in this. She knew 100 % what was going
to happen. Wow. And she still made this. She
read that script and was like, I want to be in
this movie. Yeah. And what's crazy is that this
production company, probably with a lot of her
influence, made Miss Congeniality, which is huge.
Which did really nice box office. Two Weeks Notice
also did very well. Miss Congeniality, too. And
then you get All About Steve. And that was in
2009. OK, so they had been steadily making movies
between 98 and 2009. After that, they took a
12 -year hiatus. Wow. Came back with The Unforgivable,
and now this year is The Lost City. Oh, so The
Lost City is so cheap. The Lost City has a chance.
The Lost City has a shot. Obviously, Sandra Bullock
was fine as an actress and continued to work,
but her production company completely lost the
wind behind its sails. 12 years. That's kind
of wild, actually. Wow. So I'm looking at the
Metascore and I'm looking at some of the reviews.
Toronto, the Globe and Mail gave this a 75 out
of 100. What? Yeah. Wow. And just to show how
much St. Louis sucks, the St. Louis Post -Dispatch
gave it 50 out of 100. So St. Louis, you suck.
Boring. Yeah. So 75 out of 50. And then after
that, Ebert's the next one with 38. which feels
a little more forgiving. Well, right. Well, that
was one of the, that, that was calculated from
a 1 .5 stars, right? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That feels
right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So St. Louis gave it
a two and a half and then what a four out of
five for Toronto globe and mail. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, what a lovely movie. Mike, thank you for
taking more for the team. Thank you for sharing
with us. Yeah, it took a while because I needed
to take a break in between. An hour and a half
movie turned into three and a half hours? Yes,
it did. I went to bed at like 3 a .m. yesterday
because that's what I did. Because that's what
I did. Cool. Well, that'll do it for this episode
of Game for a Movie. I've been your host, Mike.
Joined by Mitchell. Andre. Thank you guys very
much for tuning in. We'll see you next time on
Game for a Movie. Bye, guys. Where were you when
those kids fell into that hole? Where were you
when Sandra Bullock fell in there, too? Ooh,
love it. Song gets me so emotional every time.