Welcome, everybody, to the polarized podcast.
Welcome back.
If you are a fan of us, thank you.
If you don't know this podcast, because everybody's first time is always the time that we're
recording.
We're podcasts about movies, polarized movies in particular.
On this podcast, we talk about movies that have different scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sometimes critics love it.
Sometimes audiences hate it or vice versa.
Those are the movies that we talk about.
Today, we are talking about walk hard.
The 2007 comedy musical starring John C. Riley.
Yeah, the score is 75% critics and 57% audience.
Interesting.
But that is the case.
But we're going to get into it and I really want to get into it.
Yeah, I'm just passing with excitement.
So let's get right into it.
I would like to first introduce my co-host.
Mr. James Lindsay.
Hey, how's it going?
Well, hello.
Happy to be back.
I feel so special.
I mean, the guy just makes me feel special when you call me the guest every week.
I almost forget that that's my title and it does make me feel like I'm a special little
man.
You're a special little man.
I'm a show that I just wandered on and, you know, yeah, you were just hanging outside
my window like on the glass and I'm like, hey, special guest out here.
Get out in here.
Special special forever guest.
Don't mind if I do.
Oh, what is that?
The what he does in this movie.
What do we do?
Oh, how are you just like a horse noise?
She loves it.
She likes it.
She loves that she is so wet because of his horse stomping.
Yes.
Yeah.
Animal list.
He walks so hard.
He walks the hardest.
Yeah.
And he man has ever walked.
Hard walker.
He's a hard walker.
Yeah.
So thanks for having me.
Yeah, you're good.
Right.
You're getting a primo.
I'm primo.
I happy to be here.
This is a special app and this is a special move movie and I'm a special man.
It is.
I'm a special guest.
Wow.
You nailed that.
And so yeah, okay, great.
I guess we got somebody else here too.
That's might be a little bit more special, but you know, I still I'm still pretty cool
too.
You know, I guess we can move on to him.
I think we got a very cool person as well for an incredibly cool episode.
I can already tell this is going to be very silly.
We're just again, just yeah, it's it's an exciting thing that we're about to get into
and to help us do that is a longtime friend, which we would have it no other way for this
movie.
He you know him from many great episodes like hook.
I mean, definitely go listen to that episode.
It's the best.
We call him Blarge and some people call him Corey, but either way, he's here.
Hey, Blargy.
Oh, no.
Hey, hello.
How's it going?
Yes, welcome back.
What an intro.
My God.
Oh, welcome friend.
Thank you.
Just a group of hard walkers.
Yeah, we're it's a treat.
Some egos walkers.
Yeah, that's what we've always called ourselves.
Let's keep it.
Keep it going.
Keep it hard.
Yeah.
Keep it hard, baby.
Do you like the like what do you think?
What do you think of the Walk the Line movie, Corey?
Were you a fan of like that one when when that came out?
Like the the namesake, I guess, for this this parody satire movie?
Yeah.
Yeah, I was.
I was a fan.
I was a cash fan for that money.
Yeah.
So I don't I mean, I don't think I ever was like super, super into Johnny Cash, but that
movie was well done in my opinion when it came out and kind of got me into him for a
brief period.
But it didn't it didn't stick really.
But and I haven't seen that one in a while.
Me neither.
But but yeah, it was it was I feel like that's almost kind of like a.
Not stereotypical, but like kind of your your standard biopic and but just really well done.
But that's kind of like what the other ones aim for almost.
It was great to send it up because yeah, that's that's kind of like the gold standard, I would
say.
Definitely like the closest to this time and definitely like polls, maybe the most from
but also another movie that we watched recently with a good buddy of of yours and ours now.
These are Frank, which is which is good.
We're we're all a bunch of hard walkers all together.
We're another one to the Hard Walker crew.
What's wait, what is the crew?
We just came up with whatever.
But we walk.
That's right.
That's a double check.
I can't believe I can't believe you forgot.
I'm sorry.
Come on.
Guilty is charged.
There he is.
Your honor.
Weston.
Watch the doors with us.
And that was the first time I'd seen that one.
And it this was all I could think of was this movie.
That's right.
I saw I still enjoyed myself and I ended up giving a good score and enjoyed that movie
despite all the, you know, stereotypes that it falls into along with the walk the line.
But damn it.
This is the best musician biopic you've ever seen because that's I don't know.
That's understandable.
Do we talk story?
Sure.
Yeah.
Right.
And then there's something like what's the Markey Mark one, the Rockstar one.
Is it just called Rockstar?
It's called Rockstar.
That movie is hilarious.
And it's not trying to be funny, but God damn it.
It's so funny.
It's so bad.
And it's and it does all those things in the same, but it's on the level of like Zoolander
or something.
And it's like, does it know what it's doing?
Because it's the guy acts like Derek Zoolander.
Have you guys, have you guys seen the it's a little more recent, like in the past maybe
five years, but it's a it's Jack Black and he's like the polka, the polka guy.
The polka.
Yeah.
That shit is fucking weird.
But I remember like cracking up at that one.
I feel like I watch it and I forget all about it.
But I do.
I recall what you're talking about.
Yeah.
It's the same kind of like mustache and look as like that Bernie movie, I feel like.
That's kind of kind of.
Yeah.
Those seem so similar, but I'm sure they're not.
I just know.
No.
Yeah.
The polka king was and it was based on a real guy.
I'm pretty sure.
So yeah, it wasn't just like a spoof or like a goofy thing, but it was fucking hilarious.
That's good because Bernie, you think is going to be funny, but it ends up being more dark
than it is a dark comedy, I guess.
And I think it's based on a real guy too.
Yeah.
But yeah, different, different movies.
It's a pretty good movie.
Different movies for sure.
All different movies.
The ones we're discussing are all different.
He's so impish and whimsical, though.
That's why they have different names is because they're all different movies.
She gets to the bottom of this.
That's a fun fact.
That's OK.
That's what we're going to go down.
OK.
Yeah.
So there are different movies with their movies with the same name.
Can they be still different movies?
Different.
As a matter of fact, yes.
As long as they're not the same movie, they are different movies.
Got it.
Yeah.
That's what I that's my understanding.
Even if you were just to start it immediately after the other one or in the middle of it,
I'd have to check on that.
You start one and then you finish with the other.
What if you're getting into some gray area now?
You know, I'm being a little stinker.
I'm being devil's advocate.
Yeah, you are.
Yeah.
Another excellent movie, of course.
And.
Which is different.
OK.
It's kind of it's kind of the cornerstone of your guys whole podcast.
I'm seeing up and I'm there are different movies.
Each episode, I think of of your show has a different one.
Well, now that you put it like that, that's something I get my brain around.
If you make it right, I can.
Exactly.
So think about like every episode you guys have ever done.
Right, whoa, mind blown.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's probably why we didn't just like hit record and never turned it off.
Right.
Remember, you had like stuff to do in your life.
So yeah.
Maybe that'll be our next one.
Just one movie forever.
Yeah.
Yeah, we should.
We should make it forever.
We should do it.
We should do a sister.
It's called the movie.
Wow.
I think Brandon, I know you got that direct line to Hollywood.
Can you pull it up real quick?
Yeah.
Give Hollywood.
You got the special red phone.
Thank God.
Like the thing and everything.
Oh, we needed that.
What?
So well, yeah, those are all like the movies that this movie is not this movie that we're
talking about.
What's that?
No, this movie that we're talking about.
No, no.
Those are different movies.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
That's what we're trying to figure out here.
I'm so I'm glad we started there.
Yeah.
Maybe I just don't get it fully yet.
We need to start it back again.
We need to start it back.
Got it.
Roll it up.
We need to.
He needs to think about his entire life.
Nice segue.
That's kind of where we're at.
Yeah.
I think about my entire life.
I mean, so right off the rim, the name Dewey Cox allows for an immediate joke, right?
I mean, I think that's the first joke of the movie is the fact that he is called cocked.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, used to great effect in literally hundreds of ways.
Arguably thousands.
I don't know, but like it seems like.
I don't know about that.
I knew it was a stretch.
There were a handful of good cocks.
You know, me back in the next.
I don't want to commit to thousands.
But this movie might be like five days long if there's thousands of lines.
Yeah.
Well, if we're talking every movie that's ever been made, maybe thousands of cocks jokes.
Yeah.
But again, different.
This is a different movie.
So, but right.
But different is okay, right?
Yeah, but different's okay.
Okay.
Different.
Okay.
It's okay to be different.
Wow.
Yes.
It's okay to be different.
I need cocks.
Oh, bad.
Yes.
Thank you for that.
He's got to think about his entire life and that's that's the that's walked the line.
I think he's looking at like a buzz saw or something at Folsom prison before the
person show.
I almost wish I had revisited walk the line before I rewatched this one because I
could I could tell like there were moments where not that it was seen for scene or shot
for shot, but it was like, oh, this is totally referencing something that happened in that
movie, but making it taken it way over the top.
But luckily it doesn't depend on it too much.
Like, yeah, absolutely happy with that.
And it's not completely scary movie and it ends up being more of like a Mel Brooks thing.
It ends up being like a, I don't know, like a great baseballs or like young Frankenstein
or whatever.
It's like spoofing the genre and then it uses maybe the specific template, but it ends up
being so much bigger than that and plays it straight to like that was a big comparison.
I was thinking this time around of like this was this would be yeah, if like Mel Brooks
were to do rock biopic, but it's also yeah, it's like almost on the same level as Spinal
Tap.
That one just has the layer of the, you know, documentary, mockumentary style.
Right.
I kind of, I loved that this one was, it was kind of like free form, right?
Like there wasn't, it wasn't like it was really trying to say something or trying to completely
spoof, walk the line or the different, different movie.
But it was, yeah, it was, it was like, it was so sorry.
I'm getting deep.
But no, it was, it was kind of like, it's kind of, I consider it like its own.
God damn it.
Okay.
Let's, we're not going to go down that rabbit hole.
All roads lead back to that truth.
But I don't know.
I love the movie.
I'll leave it at that.
Oh yeah.
We can start there.
Like how classic this is.
Cause I'm almost positive.
Let's do it.
All three of us.
I'm almost positive.
Saw this movie in theaters together.
I'm almost positive.
100%.
Yes.
That's almost a certainty.
Cause there's no way.
We were kind of in the same, Mary.
We were, this was, we were going to college, I feel like at this point, right?
What year was this?
Brandon said 07, but I thought it was 07.
Oh, I thought it was 08.
I thought it was a little later than that.
I thought so too.
Maybe we were in high school age, just like going out to our reading movies for the first
time, but I thought we had graduated either time.
It was like the perfect age for us to see, to see this movie.
Oh, sure.
And I remember seeing Ray and walk the line shortly before in those winning awards and
being a big deal.
And just getting like the most I possibly could out of this movie, seeing it with your
friends at that age and just cracking up throughout the movie, which I still do to this day being
like seeing it over 10 to 20 times.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And like, I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think all of us, why this movie
worked so well and to the age point and this coming into our lives at the perfect time
is that I think all of us had probably seen a Mel Brooks movie before, had seen airplane
air and maybe had seen some of these bio pics of musicians that our parents liked, you know,
and we're at least familiar with the concept of that.
And also to from the get go, all of the people in this movie, I think we all had some kind
of a little bit of like new a little bit of them, you know, in some form or fashion like
10 meadows, for example, like to start this whole off.
Right.
And then there's two of, you know, comedy, the comedy, the comedy scene of the late 2000s.
Yeah.
Sorry.
A lot of S and L Lauren Michaels stuff, but it wasn't a Lorne Michaels movie.
It was a Judd App attempting which was such hot shit.
Well, a Reverend comedies of our youth, right?
So irreverent.
Because we just talked yesterday.
We just had presented a list, a ranking of best movies about high school and super bad
has got to be up in the top, right?
Oh yeah.
Yeah, you know, and that's, you know, that knocked up Judd Appetite.
Like we all knew that name too.
It's so crazy how prepped we were or how perfect this movie seems for us in our sensibilities,
you know, to have really been primed and ready for a movie like this to come out where we
got so much of the humor of it.
We got.
Even to the day it works.
We got Anchorman PG 13 fucking classic movie that we quoted endlessly.
And then we got Talladega Nights, which was also PG 13, which was attainable and easy
for us to see.
And so very funny had John C Riley and Will Ferrell.
And I think stepbrothers probably came after this one because they knew what a good pair
they were.
But I feel like this is sandwiched between Talladega Nights and stepbrothers.
But having that prime of.
It's right around John C. Riley and Talladega Nights.
I feel like pushing him into the center really helped a lot too, even though he was always
like, oh, it's that guy from whatever we were getting into Paul Thomas Anderson movies at
that.
I know I was.
Yeah, I know.
And shit.
So that was that was so cool to just see him in a starring role and how fucking well he
is and how good in this movie and how good he is.
And overall, like every facet of what is required in this movie, there's a lot required of him.
It's like a Gene Wilder level.
Yeah, yeah.
What how I mean, even if you just.
That's a great call.
Yeah.
Even if you just look at kind of the arc of what he's supposed to do.
It's like a man's entire life.
Yeah, and there's a there's a like kind of funny joke in the beginning where he's 14 years
old, but he's really.
Yeah, and it just I mean, if you start there and go, you know, through his his 70s or whatever
at the end of the movie, it's like he's so goofy and so irreverent, but also like pretty
good acting chops to nail that whole life of someone, you know, like it's it's a it's
an amazing role of fully realized character and comedic through and through.
Yeah.
And yeah, this that is also full of stereotypes like it's like, yeah, everything.
Sorry.
Like that's also a good example of the how sincerity is like this movie is like biggest
thing.
Like weapon because there's we had already going into a movie like this have seen very
insincere spoof and comedy movies and comedy at this time to was also very trying the edginess
of it.
The immaturity of it.
Was so prevalent and the fact that there are so many ways that this movie could have just
relied on, you know, this thing, right?
Here's this thing and just not really care about the movie or care about the material.
Like you just get an such an overwhelming sense by the people who wrote this movie who
are starring in this movie love what they're spoofing and are really into the things that
are, you know, doing the satire of and trying to impersonate.
Yeah, it's the best.
Yeah.
It was made with love, I think.
Big time.
If they if they took even the same cast, the same all the same people and just diverted
there in an energy towards making a drama, they could have done it and it would have
been as good as you feel like as a lot of other rock, you know, biopics and all of that.
But and I think reading some of, you know, the his there was an oral history online that
you can find that's that's pretty great.
And Jed Apatow was talking about how he felt kind of sad seeing like these amazing songs
and being like being used for comedy and fodder sometimes.
Like obviously that's what they're going for.
But also there's a part of him that I think was like a little, little sad that it was
taken that way when they everyone was working.
Yeah, really hard on in putting them their full selves into it.
But that's exactly what's needed into.
Well, I mean, it's kind of an amazing comedy is that sincerity?
Yeah.
It's kind of this one, like for me is kind of like, like elevated comedy almost like
because it's it is hilarious the entire week.
And it's not really trying to do anything except make it's not deep or anything, but
it's it.
Yeah.
I don't know.
So it is a little bit, which is there's so many like great references and just like
you can tell that they did their homework that they care about it.
It's close to them, you know, like, yeah.
So I feel like it's yeah, it's not just some stupid like goofy movie.
It's like, I don't know.
It is.
I hold it in pretty high regard.
But even like it's catered.
Oh, for sure.
Like a rock historian sort of sense of like humor or whatever.
Like it's even going beyond just right.
The even like the making a movie about it, but actually the history of like having a
young girlfriend and having a chimp as a pet.
Like I think that was an Elvis and you know, obviously Michael Jackson, you know, Michael
Jackson tons of Elvis.
Yeah, yeah, the draft.
Yeah.
And the and the whole meditation scene where they meet with the Maharishi.
Yeah, that's Beatles Beach Boys.
I mean, they all that was their whole trip in the 60s.
So it was yeah, there was a lot of like touchstones of cultural stuff that actually happened,
you know, that they drew from.
So it was it was first thing as well as a lot.
But yeah, first and foremost, fucking balls of the wall, hilarious.
100 percent.
And it's starting with the children and already getting into the pace at which the movie's
going to be, which is going to run throughout and something that is already you makes you
look at all these other movies and in a funnier light too, because there is no time for any
trivial trivialities in the movie because they got to get through there and tie.
They got to think about their life before they go on.
And so every scene is important.
Every single person that walks into frame is has a big deal in his life.
Totally.
And they are going to talk about it like literally to your face, just the 60s are in very important
time, you know, they're going to.
I have all the same.
The subtext is never subtext, it's always just displayed right out in front and that
humor, the minute you pick up on is great.
And I'm not.
Yeah, the polarization and we'll get to as well.
But I'm sure there's a lot of people that like watch us move in and maybe even want
like a scary movie sort of thing.
And maybe there's others that, you know, we're we're looking for a different kind of humor
or something, but this, this whole portion with the kids is great and playing the guitar
for the, for the guys is just classic.
Oh, so funny.
I think that's a ray thing that's him.
It is a ray thing, but just again, comedy.
It's the joke per second.
Numbers got to be so high because.
Oh my god.
JPM Brandon.
Oh, this one's fucking.
Yeah, blistering blistering.
It's up there.
So it's just it's so hard because we're not going to go through this movie, you know,
minute by minute, but capsule.
Let me see the kids section.
We're talking about the children's section.
We're talking about so much funny things.
So many funny things happen.
And, you know, all of it culminating right into the having of the brother and like really
the, you know, the emotional.
Yeah.
And the fact that he gets.
I've been half pretty bad.
I'm cutting out pretty bad.
It's a particular bad case of someone being cut.
Well, I, and yeah.
And then they touch back on it.
English.
No.
Scientists.
The father.
Okay.
The father and the.
Let's go.
Atchris, Margo Martindale and Margo Martindale, the parents, because okay, yeah, the emotional
thrusters brother getting halved by machete, told us not to play with machetes.
Yeah.
We're young.
Nothing bad can happen to us today.
And that's preceded by them doing a bunch of very like dangerous things.
Like when they're doing metal work and it just shows the sparts hitting the hay.
Playing chicken with like a horse.
Swing in the rattlesnake around.
Oh man, when he, when the dad, they at the end, he's doing his machine.
He finally does that.
Yeah.
Well, I loved the little callback at the end where it's like when his dad has himself
and then, and then he's like, and then do he's like, you're going to make it.
The seventies.
We've come a long way.
There's all types of new procedures.
Oh, God.
It's like, I guess I could have done something different than spend my whole life training
my mind.
Body to kill you with a machete fight.
I love that little subtlety because I feel like I didn't pick up on that too much the
first, you know, as a younger guy.
But the that was such a thing that was glossed over even in that scene, but it's like, why
will he, he spent his whole entire life training not only his mind, but his body to, to for
this moment and then he, and he fucking fucked it up.
Well, there's just really badly.
There's almost no line.
It isn't a joke, right?
Like to talk about, you know, rewatches, you're like, oh, they said this, you know, and you
didn't catch it because it was just this funny subtext to like a joke on a joke.
And I had on a hat is sometimes I say, but these are fun and cool.
So it's okay.
Oh, there's a lot of fun outfits in general.
A lot of fun.
Especially that scene in the end when he's wearing that turtle neck with the B sweater
and the white pants and the white shoes.
Oh man.
And his hair is feathered like he's a bridge at Fonda.
The hippies hippie point is really when he's jumping on the trampoline and I like his guilty
as charged attire.
Like that's kind of the, I guess what, what would that be?
Kind of Johnny?
I guess it's still Johnny Cash.
Or it was.
Yeah.
But it was, it was like the outlaw country kind of thing.
His voice really caters to the Roy Orbison thing, which I guess really comes to it in
the one song of I've got a perfect wife is a perfect wife.
Which his voice just sounds so good.
So it's, I know, we're also able to take in the content of the song and lyricism and
the editing is done in a way that it's all, it's a musical, which somehow it goes through
the guise of being a rock and roll biopic, but it really ends up being almost just like
a musical and it, and it is through the power of his singing, which can be goofy at times
and then just so sincere and beautiful when he hits those kind of higher falsetto and
Ray Roy Orgison kind of notes with that song.
And of course the last song ends up being very funny, but also beautiful, beautiful.
Kind of moving.
Yeah.
It is.
Yeah.
I've just fallen in love with Dewey Cox.
You know, you've done a lot of stuff.
We've seen this entire life.
Yeah.
He's such a what?
Like a Homer Simpson quality of like he's he just he just keeps fucking up, you know,
like he'll just maybe he's going and like now he's in he doesn't.
You break it up course.
Oh shit.
Yeah, I know.
How do I?
Yeah, that's how like this happens every time.
That's okay.
Maybe leave and then come back in.
Well, or you you unfroze right there, but I'm not sure if that'll that'll help or not.
It's a beautiful ride.
I mean, we can get a little sample of some of the some of the tunes here just so.
So anybody who hasn't seen the movie in a while and wants to get a little idea of the
songs, something that's that's great about it.
You know, just speaking of the music is like they really recorded like full full tracks,
even if you only get a snippet in the movie.
And it sounds great.
Yeah, like about 100 songs written by these these two guys or like just hold themselves
up in the best Western and wrote a shit ton of songs catering to like a Buddy Holly song
or an Elvis song or, you know, each boys or Beatles, whatever.
And they recorded like something around like 50 of them or whatever.
But let's do this Bob Dylan one.
And we'll get a little taste of because I think this is a good example of he's doing
a parody of Bob Dylan.
He ends up his voice ends up sounding good.
But then the lyrics are fucking bananas and are silly.
So it's just yeah.
All those all those things mixing together comes from a place as well of like the song
writers being willing to make fun of themselves and take the shit out of like serious songwriting
or whatever.
And yeah, it's kind of from everyone involved.
It's a job.
Yeah.
My million shirts.
Oh, Y'all know.
And look at this scene that the Jewish people would take it because of how bad that's like.
That's awesome.
And then she's not only do you have to write a song, but that's the greatest song ever.
It's like the most amazing thing in half synthetic fabrications of the time.
That was probably one of my favorite parts in the rewatch.
I don't know if you guys can, am I coming in?
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I can hear you.
I think it's just delayed.
But yeah, I fucking love that.
That whole scene where it's it's got like the Billy Madison s kind of like I award you no points like that.
That whole vibe to it.
But oh my God, nothing is right now.
It's so funny.
He goes, what is it?
Yeah.
And then he, but I just don't think it's going to happen.
I highly doubt it.
And then you got you got Harold Ramis.
You got Phil Rosenthal.
You got Martin star all there as the record producers.
This is after the Craig Robinson scene as well, which is just extremely funny.
And that's that's the kind of like Mel Brooks humor that is tough to pull off and ends up being very funny.
And yeah, like we're Ben Stiller kind of traffic thunder stuff too.
Just using you like using race to in your humor in a way that gets the reaction out of the people that see him singing that song.
And there and you get the reaction of like, is he fucking doing this and then having them be like, all right.
We're just going to start into it.
And then it's ironically, very erotic, extremely erotic.
I mean, it was pretty much fucking without taking your clothes off.
Well, it was great juxtaposing that like original little talent show thing that he did with like, you know, take, take my hand and his dad's going off about it.
You know, who has hands the devil.
The uses of for holding.
But but then it kind of goes quickly from that scene to, you know, the other venue where it's like, oh, this is like, you know, if only his dad could see what these people.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
And then he goes to the to record a song.
And it's not working out.
We get that whole part just mentioned.
And then he just gives a stern look to Chris Parnell, Matt Besser and Tim Meadows, which band excellent.
We, yeah, we'll talk about that as well.
Like they're such a big, big, huge part of every, every, a lot of big moments in the scene.
They knew they learned how to play music.
They learned how to play all these instruments.
So that's really them really playing a lot of those scenes.
But I love that is such a classic scene and all of these movies and I mean, seen Bohemian Rhapsody, but I guess that's a big part of like another one by Sades or whatever is where they're just like, OK, get it now.
And then all of a sudden the song just happens like this.
Yeah.
And then he walked like they all start dancing in the recording studio.
It's on the radio immediately while they're in 35 minutes.
And then he walks out of the recording studio and everyone immediately brushes with the record to sign.
Everything just moves so quickly.
He moves into the house with Chris and Wig.
They have a, like, they have like, more like two children or whatever.
Yeah, per scene that they get every time they come back to him.
She's constantly downplaying him.
The parents constantly don't believe him.
All these, all these things are so forced that it ends up being so hilarious because there's no reason why anyone should feel this way.
It's like wrong, like wrong kid died and all that stuff.
But then even with with Kristen Wigg, there's no reason why no one's ever made any money off music.
Do it.
Yeah, but they do that a lot.
And that like they go from her, the first thing you pretty much hear her say is like, I will always support your dreams, even though I'm 12 years old or something like that.
You know, and then before like, you know, two minutes of movie time go by and she's like, you'll never make it.
And it's, it's, it's a funny.
Yeah.
Like the fact that they go from one extreme to the other so quickly.
It's just, it's very, it's, but yeah, yeah.
It's part of the arc in those movies. Yeah. For that. For the first wife to go through that, that period.
But I never see you anymore. You don't take care of the kids and which is her next, the next.
The next.
Gonna miss.
So there was a bit of, you know, and maybe, maybe you guys figured this out back in the day, but this, this recent time I watched it with God, what's her.
It's Pam, Pam from the office and the Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer.
So her, I was almost seeing her as like, like a Yoko Ono type character where it's like, this is someone who's an artist who is actually like, you know, seeing him for who he is and not be, you know, like John Lennon's Cynthia, you know, was, was kind of the person with character, but you know,
that's an archetype in rock though, you know, like with the first wife, it's not just Lennon, but to me, I was like, oh, that's yeah, I kind of saw what they were getting at there.
Okay. Yeah. Because yeah, Jennifer's character is based on the walk.
Well, of course.
Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Johnny Cash's wife.
Right.
Yeah.
We got married in a fever.
Oh my God.
But to bridge both of them also because it's double married.
You can't get married.
The double married was great.
I know what I'm sorry.
It's gotta be like it is for one of us.
It's not what it looks like.
He tries to turn it around on her about the whole thing about drinking the milk.
So I guess you can drink all the milk and I'm just a liar.
I'm a cheater.
Guilty as charged.
Yeah.
Oh man.
Yeah. She's like, dude, that is thinking about a song right now.
That is such a that's such a relatable thing.
Like not to that extreme, but like, I don't know if you write songs at all or think in those terms, it's like.
Titles are such a big thing, you know, and when you get a little gem like that, that someone throws away.
Oh, sorry, I'm going to tune out everything else.
That was a cool little line right there.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. But he takes it so like, I mean, his marriage is falling apart and he's just like, holy shit.
That's a great. Yeah. That's a great title for a song.
But then he does it every time and it's like a smash hit.
And then it's yeah. And then everyone's commentating on what's happening to him.
Like the guilty as charged song is so funny because that really is a montage in a movie that has.
I guess I haven't counted, but I'm sure quite a few and that seems to be one that that a lot happens because he gets into
upers and downers, upers and downers. Do he? This is the next logical step for you.
That was early doing this is this is middle doing this is middle doing.
He's yelling at his monkeys like you just there's a lot of good ways and touch yourself.
Oh, fuck you.
Oh, God.
There's there's so many good like breaking the fourth wall kind of moments like not explicitly,
but yeah, like, you know, this is a dark fucking theory.
Every every time he says that, it's just like, oh my God, like, yeah, he also rips out the sinks every exactly.
They're ripping out the stinks.
Never a line about it or anything, but just no. Yeah.
And then at the end and then when his dad dies, he's like sawing the couch in half and like.
Yeah, all like for hours, just not not making progress.
He goes to the drawers in the kitchen and then we get to see like all just facial expressions.
We understand what he's going through.
He starts off and he's like, I just have to do this.
I'm over it. This is just my life.
Maybe think about that.
Driving all the way down to beat Derek.
Oh, right.
Man, you're mad for a long time.
Yeah, that's a long drive.
30 hours, right?
Drop back 30 hours.
30 hours, right?
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
That's.
Okay.
So guilty of charge.
Then he goes to rehab rehab rehab.
Oh, we get.
Oh yeah.
Bernie's in this.
Like kind of still young sexy burn Bernard from not Bernie Bernard from Santa Claus.
Oh, Bernard as the manager at this time, you know, Bernard from the Santa Claus.
I don't.
He's the main elf.
Okay.
Don't know.
I'm a too.
You know, it's been a long time.
Okay.
No, he was a role in the Santa Claus and then he's in this movie and goes on to do like
other things like a Oppenheimer.
He's in recently, which is crazy.
Incredible actor.
But it's cool to see in this one.
He was the manager.
So he's like trying to get him off the trampoline at that one.
Oh, right.
Harold Ramis is the, is the producer.
He's, he's talking about rehab rehab rehab.
And if you've seen Phil Rosenthal, I just made me so happy.
I'm such a big somebody feed Phil fan.
And I mean, everybody loves women.
It's good to.
Yeah.
Pretty good.
Everybody loves Raymond rocks.
But so in that scene that we get a line that I've used, I feel like in my life so many
times, which is, I want more blankets and less.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
He needs more.
He needs more blankets.
Well, that's, that's the funny part is who it's coming from because it's coming from
the nerves.
So it's like, it's like we somehow have to just listen to what he needs.
Like we are the experts, but like, no, this is what he needs.
What's great is it's so, it's just so truncated on these like just singular
scenes.
So he goes, I guess I'm going to rehab and that is the only scene.
Really like going through anything is just like, I'm hot.
I'm cold.
And he's like, things he's out and then he wakes up and he's like,
huh, and then that scene's over. And then he goes to like all these blankets
of same my life.
Yep.
Yeah.
And then he's a sex.
In a picture where you see his abs and everything, which is like a naked gun
reference.
Like, I don't know.
That's, that's a naked.
Yeah.
It is so naked.
Yeah.
And they just start kicking the shit out of each other.
Oh my God.
It's so.
Oh my God.
Throwing each other around.
I love you.
This is one of those episodes where you devolves numerous times and just like,
oh, you remember this?
You remember that?
So funny.
Yeah.
But that's, but that's kind of, that's kind of how it is.
Yeah.
There's so many like this, this is like memorable, you know, moments, but.
Double amps.
Yeah.
And we mentioned the band earlier.
I got to, yeah, just say again, like them.
They've, the amount of times I've seen this movie,
I think they have just grown so much in my esteem of, of how.
Oh man.
Absolutely.
I think when you first see this was like, oh yeah,
they're like band members in the back and everything, but.
Now they.
Not only yet playing the instruments and then, and.
Just portraying the, the humanity of what, you know,
you should be feeling towards everything of like, they're not on board with this.
And they're all kind of dealing with what he's putting out to and being the frustrated
band members just gives the emotional core of, of it all, I guess.
Yeah, for sure.
And there, and there's fucking hilarious too.
Yeah.
We, Brandon and I were talking off pod about the fucking ancient Egypt.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
It's like that shit, that shit is like, it stands up to this day and you
never once paid for drugs.
Not, not once.
I think Tometo's might have like the most quotable lines per.
He said, cause I almost everything he says in this movie is, is it is.
He has a very high ratio of.
Yeah.
There's a lot of, there's a lot of high stats going on in this movie.
JPM's, you know, last last P per J per jokes.
LPJ's.
JPM's LPJ's.
He's bad and heavy.
He made it tomorrow.
Yeah.
And then yeah, Matt Besser has such an interesting way of doing it.
And his form of deadpan and I think he ever smiles in the movie.
It's such a, he has such a low voice too.
But he's also just kind of rolls out like all of them just roll over
to his bullshit where he just takes his wife.
Like he's like, this is my wife and do it.
Okay.
Yeah.
They don't.
They don't know how to, they don't know how to stand up to him until that scene
where they finally like it all comes out like decades of, you know,
abuse pretty much.
And then yeah, it's all about just, you never paid for drugs and you get us
these stupid fucking cat statues or whatever.
I want to harm you digger.
You just, you just stand up to him one other time, which is funny.
He was just like, you sound like some kind of punk.
Oh yeah.
But that song is so funny, like tuned up to like a kind of fast paced punk
sort of version.
Oh, it's great.
It's such a good song.
Faster.
What drug is he on it?
Because it's like him doing a drug with a 10 metatarsie.
It was cocaine.
Yeah.
It's all your bad feelings in the good.
Yeah.
It's a nightmare.
Well, I love that too.
Cause he's, he's, you know, just completely raging out on stage.
And then he kind of, he snaps back to reality.
He's like, Oh my God, I'm so sorry.
Like, you know, cause he, he, when, when his bandmate is kind of like
challenging him on it, he snaps back at him and is like, don't fucking tell me
what to do. And then he's like, Oh my God, I'm so sorry.
He turns into so apologetic and crying.
And then Jennifer walks in immediately after so fast.
I look how it's just like, it's like things just,
things just kind of like happen to him. Right. Like he's not, he,
he, in the beginning, he's so driven and he, I'm going to, you know,
follow my dreams and he does, but it's like, it's all, and he's like,
he's like, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I don't want him to follow my dreams and he does, but it's like, it's all
happenstance that good and bad things happen to him.
It's like, he doesn't take any responsibility for, and, yeah, I don't know.
I think that's what like, it makes his carob character like lovable,
cause you know, obviously in real life,
we wouldn't like a person, but he's so naive but like, well meaning.
And he's like, he almost like, he almost just like feel bad for him sometimes,
but he can't help himself. Like that home comparison is great. I love. Yeah.
Very home when he's, he like promises, um,
Jenna Fisher, that Darlene, that he's like done with the drugs and that he just
PCP like while he's hugging her. She's like, would you put your mouth?
Yeah. Cause that's, I mean, he's CP, him going to the Beatles.
He's gone, he's gone through rehab. He's, he's all good.
He's like going to these little, the hippie, dippy parties where
something's happening here and it ain't exactly.
Obvious. Obvious.
That was so good. So good.
Cause we just, there's a scene in the doors where they do acid and go to a dinner
party and it's a, um, this kind of reminiscent of that. And then, but for him to
go and get out of rehab, be successful and then go to the, the hangout, the Beatles
and then immediately get addicted to hallucinogens is such a funny
turn. And that is so like, yeah, Sergeant Pepper's, uh,
pet sounds, but even though he's having a funny scene,
he's having a bad trip on LSD, but then he comes to, he goes, maybe I do have
some demons and then Ringo goes, do you want some more?
He's like, yeah.
Like why, why you're having a bad time? Like, why, why do you need
the only time Tim Meadows doesn't give it to him? It's just, it's the Beatles.
Right.
Those Beatles. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. What?
And then line delivery by Jenna Fisher leading to that is like, you know,
and there's just this, um, effect on it because she's like, let's drop acid with
the Beatles. You know?
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You promise.
Yeah.
One time.
Yeah.
I'm let's drop acid with the Beatles.
And you're like, yeah. And then immediately cuts to him.
Yeah. Just like trampoline and like didgeridoo's.
And then yeah, the whole like, did you, what did you just put in your mouth
when she finally calls him out on it again and he loses his band mates?
Oh, and then that, that interview with the interview with Jane Lynch,
where he's talking beforehand about like what he's going to say.
And he's like, just tell him you don't, you don't do LSD anymore.
It's like, well, I'm not going to commit.
Don't do LSD right now.
Make sure you watch a Dewi Cox show.
And I'm not mainlining PCP anymore.
Oh, my God.
Do some fucking homework.
I have no sense of smell.
I got no sense of smell.
Ask about his, his like, yeah, his family life, like
all this hot money.
How do you wake up and smell the roses every morning?
Well, I love what he said about his kids about, you know,
how are all your, you know, 48 kids?
And he's like, well, I don't really know him at all.
Then he starts saying like, yeah, I just don't think I should have custody.
I should be able to use that, you know.
Yeah, I'm locked in a custody.
I'm trying to say I shouldn't have forced upon me.
And then he goes, yeah, I'm sure they're out there somewhere
watching the Dewi Cox show.
Yeah, you try some flow.
Okay.
They showed you 48 children.
Oh my God.
So ridiculous.
And that that stretch is is really funny because that's the excess stretch.
That's like him trying to make routine like relevancy.
And he's trying to like all right, I'll just do walk walk hard again.
People love walk hard.
Like, well, people love walk hard.
And oh, it was it was great when they kind of like
at the very end kind of like showed him that like, oh, your crack is being
sampled by a rap artist now.
Well, like Nutsack, what was it?
Well, Nutsack.
Cox, Cox and Nutsack.
It'll be a package.
Oh, that was that was really good.
And was that guy that was a guy from Big Bang Theory?
Big Bang Theory.
I think yeah, yeah, it's funny.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was a funny.
His character was funny for sure.
And like the whole montage to get there is like after.
OK, so after he couldn't he's the Jonah Hill thing goes back to rehab
and then has the Jonah Hill thing, which is a pretty funny
that seems very improvised sort of thing between them to
goes to confront his dad gets halved.
And that whole rage thing is just hilarious of him getting mad
with the sinks and cutting the sofa.
And oh, yeah, I already mentioned all that.
And but the montage to get him to be old is him reconnecting
with all this joy because out of nowhere after that rage,
will do drop comes in.
Will do drop.
I'm like nothing else than to have a catch with you.
And also like why did that much good?
I don't know.
It's just a yes, such a stereotypical father son.
Right. This is how you connect with your children as a man.
And in order for him to play catch with everyone, it takes like 50 years.
What if it takes like 30 years?
And him realizing how long it's going to take to play catch with all these.
He's like, oh, boy.
Yeah. All right.
Yeah, we get some of the scenes, too, that we get like interstitch
in this part of the movie after that is like
walking with all these children in the field.
And remember that scene where he's doing like the map?
Their homework. Oh, my God.
Well, no, it's it's something about it's something about like
something about like the context of a Shakespeare novel
or play or something.
And it's, you know, yeah, tells them to answer.
That's a freebie. That's a mulligan.
Oh, my God.
I miss that.
And so many times of viewing that caught at the salmon.
It was I lost it.
That's what that's what I mean.
Like there's there's the obvious, you know,
scenes and lines and stuff.
But pretty much everything that happens on screen is fucking funny in some way.
It's amazing. It really is.
Yeah, it's something to be hold.
Just there's no there's no fat.
No, every every single person's funny.
Every word spoken is funny.
Yeah. And if you're trying to make a comedy, that man, that's that's your
that's the greatest.
And you're taking the shit out of something that should be serious
and still showing your talents throughout it as well.
It's great how it ends.
You get the gets a smell back.
He smells that shit, baby.
Smell that shit.
And this final fucking award show is nuts.
How they get like the talent that they get in this scene is like having
jewel, I love it.
Jewel and brown and then fucking one of them.
It says off screen.
It's almost like it's supposed to be a little of it, but it was 80 art.
I don't know if it's actually him doing it, but they're doing there.
So they're a walk hard song, I think.
And then all of a sudden goes and goes face killer.
Kind of like a ghost.
She was at that one point, but they like announced some like Wu Tang, too.
Which is so funny, except in a goofy, I love it voice.
And then he comes out and starts rapping over and then like jewels like hard, hard.
It's just amazing.
Dude.
You're here.
Yeah.
And that was really well done.
I mean, that whole, you know, award acceptance thing.
And then he's got the Viagra this time instead of, you know, the other
hard drugs like it gives you a boner.
Well, now Corey Viagra is still a hard drug, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
And you know what you mean?
And then the then in such an amazing line is that
if you have an erection lasting more than four hours,
come we're all more ladies.
Good line.
Two medals, man.
Too many.
Yeah, he lines.
Do you think he just read the script for that movie and was like,
he this I'm getting all the good ones.
I will learn drums for this.
Right.
And then yeah, then he says no and says.
Then sees the young ladies walking by and then it says no to them as well.
And he's not going to succumb to the temptations.
That was that was always that was never lost on me.
I always loved that part.
Oh, good.
The temptation.
My girl.
Girl talking.
Now.
And that final song is a great fucking song.
Eddie Vedder, apparently the speech with a
they edited down from was like a five minute long speech or something.
But the way that he delivers it is amazing.
Oh, yeah.
I would believe that he was giving it to fucking Neil Young
at the fucking Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or something.
It's how he was describing it.
I had a let me pull up.
Quote of because he calls him a bunch of names.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
The tall midgeters.
The tall tall midgeters.
The giant midget.
And yeah.
So many people.
Yeah.
You get the beautiful right.
You get the final montage of summing up his
and I think there's like a lot of deleted scenes.
I think they show here too.
I think the Parnell getting like blown like blown away
and he's using him as a human shield is great.
And there's yeah, it's just so good to know that this movie is
filled to the brim with stuff that they had to
be just interstitial.
There's other stuff in to fill it out because there's just so much stuff.
Yeah, credit song is nice.
Hey, daddy, whatever it says, I forget.
Great songs.
I forget if I if I watch the whole thing through the credits, but
yeah, it's just it's just a track.
But it's a it's a movie that I would
made me want to see more like it.
And unfortunately, yeah, I don't know.
I feel like there was I remember seeing this movie, but then I remember
after this, seeing stuff like Love Guru and Zohan and stuff.
And I was like, man, comedy was doing really well.
But obviously, there's still good comedy movies out there.
But this one was was something that was still on that that heal of
I feel like those really good aptile movies, which still went on after this, of course.
And yeah, the welfare, all stuff and traffic thunder and all that.
All those good good movies.
But this one is is a tough to be a really good parody.
And so far and so much so that it's yeah, it's a great satire as well.
OK, guys.
Oh, good. OK.
If Elvis and Buddy Holly are the chain and able
are Cain and able of rock and roll.
Brings Springsteen is Zachariah, Iggy Pop is Mathews a lot.
And of course, of course, Neil Young is the wise prophet Ezekiel.
And what does that make?
Do you? Right.
And then that's it. Wait.
Oh, well, no, I think we were talking.
I think before that, he's introducing him with, you know, all of his games or whatever.
But but I forgot about that.
Like, yeah, the biblical.
Yeah, I was joking.
Great.
Yeah, I mean, he delivers delivers it so well.
And I think, you know, what's just.
Well, maybe we'll watch it here.
I'm going to share my screen with you guys.
And we can get a little taste of that before we go on to some
idea, some reviews from critics and audiences.
James, we also have a voice memo by Danny.
Oh, yes. OK.
We'll play that after this.
Gentlemen, Eddie Vedder.
He's like, Malignan.
Fuck yeah. Oh, this is the extended.
Oh, this might be the long.
The longer.
He's in Pearl.
Oh, Lee Sing and Pearl Jam.
Pearl Jam.
He's a lead singer.
This is not a movie.
Right. Come a little closer, girl.
I'll show you my scars because I'm guilty, guilty as charged.
I think we all remember where we were the first time we heard Dewey Cox sing those words.
I was 13 years old working at the corner store when Guilty is Chards came on the radio.
It was a where are they now block, but I knew right where I was.
First time in my life, I knew just who I was.
In that moment, though I was just a child,
I understood what it meant to love and to lose love, to die and be reborn,
to cry tears of joy.
For those two minutes, I was a 13 year old outlaw,
a sinner in search of redemption,
a man with the body of a child and the heart of a thirsty killer.
All at once, I understood rock and roll.
Wow.
We heard him say about walking.
I kept this in there.
We learned a little something about how we wanted to walk.
Just like every other teenager.
There's a reason.
I wanted to walk as hard as Dewey Cox.
Yeah.
Of course, nobody will.
Will ever walk as hard as Dewey Cox.
He's been called the drifter.
Here we go.
The shape shifter, the master chef, the chameleon,
the problem child, the hard one, the white Indian, the giant midget.
And of course, many know him as the TV spokesman
for his line of Dewey Cox breakfast sausages.
All right.
I told him I had to put that in there.
He will always be simply Cox.
What do we think about?
All right. Yeah.
You'll be awesome.
Yeah.
Well, it was amazing.
You guys want to there's another two minutes on that bad boy.
If anyone wants to.
I'm definitely going to check that out on YouTube.
For the sake of it, I don't want to hear it all, but it is very funny.
And I'm very curious about it, because now I feel like I'm just
watching more of the movie, which I never thought existed.
Yeah, that's great.
You know, our friend Danny kind of looks like Eddie Vedder.
I can see.
And in this, yeah, current current look of Eddie Vedder
and giving the speech, speaking of old, old Danny Boy, let's hear a voice memo.
Here we go.
I'm going to count it off and play it if you guys want to play along,
because it's just going to be playing out to the podcast.
So Corey, Brian, if you want to hear it as well, I'm going to.
It on go, do it on go.
So three, two, one, go.
Here's a little mess.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
You don't go.
Sorry.
Fuck that.
I fucked that up.
Don't go.
I fucked that up.
This is I was going to intro for this is a message from Danny.
And this was in response to blood fart, old, old blood fart, brandy.
Seeing if anyone want to leave a voicemail on the discord.
So here we go. Three, two, one, go.
I am Zeus God of Lightning.
My favorite part of.
Of that whole entire movie is probably when he pops up, I can PCP
and he's trying to lie to his wife about it.
And then suddenly it just got said on the top of the leg in his underwear
around the L.
Street on the top of that building, throwing out fake thunderbolts.
I love every part of it.
Hope you guys are having a good podcast, guys. What's up?
So it's up to a polar bears.
I love you guys.
And yeah, you guys picked a good movie.
I hope you guys are having fun.
But wow, what a nice message that that was fun to get a voicemail on the
and you guys can you guys recap it because I could hear your.
Said you broke up there.
He said his favorite part was when he took the PCP and was running around
the street with his underwear and Danny said that he was throwing
lightning bolts from the from the roof.
But I maybe that was in Dewey Cox's mind, but it seems like Danny somehow
channel down and saw them as well.
Or knows what it's like maybe when, you know.
Yeah, I was going to say what was your main lining PCP main lining.
That was fun.
That was cool to sing a little snippet of any better.
Let's let's hear some reviews from from some critics out there.
We gave it a certified fresh 75 percent.
You guys good to keep on rolling.
You won't take a break or anything.
Could I take a quick little pee and beer break?
Yes, your break.
Let's let's do it.
We're back. OK.
We're back.
Or we're back from we are back.
From. Yeah, we are.
We are a dinosaur story.
Yeah, we're back, everyone. Hello.
We've turned into dinosaurs.
Oh, is pod the Dewey Cox story?
Right. Right. Right. Right.
We got the call out from Danny.
So do your best polar bear impression.
That's a duck, Corey.
Corey, I duck.
That's a duck.
That's a fart.
That's a duck farting.
Yikes, you brought the duck into quack, and now the duck
is an even quacking anymore. It's farting.
It's what happened on this break, guys.
I thought we were just the bathroom stuff on the break.
And then we come back and we'd be OK.
But yeah, that's what you thought.
Yeah, I don't know if Tim Meadows was in that bathroom.
I don't know. We'll see.
From Claudia Pug, USA Today, three out of four.
Cox rocks. Yeah.
Claudia, it's it.
Richard is that all is that the whole review on Ryan's
Meadows? These are a little they have them all the blurb.
They're a little blurbs and I that's that's what we're
reading today. Richard Schickel Time Magazine.
Call me a cynic. Call me a curmudgeon.
Call me perverse. I loved every moment of Dewey Cox's story.
Wow. That's that again. So he's perverse.
This guy is really willing to like put it all out.
Richard Schickel. Call me a cynic.
Call me a curmudgeon. Call me. Call me a scumbag.
I love every yeah, I love it when you.
He just wants us to touch.
Yeah, you have to make us complicit in your fetish.
Here. Well, come on, Richard.
Come on, Richard. Dick. Come on, Dick.
From Jack Matthews, New York Daily News.
Three out of four.
There are a few too many lazy jokes played off Dewey's last name,
but not nearly enough to wipe that game off your face.
Thousands of them. I think thousands.
Did not care for this guy.
Oh, so.
Thousands back on the table.
Back on the menu.
Roger Ebert.
Well, we'll do this blurb and then I'll get something else.
He said it's funny at the end of his review,
but he gave it a three out of a four and he says, you've got to say that
instead of sending everything over the top at high energy,
like top secret or airplane, they allow Riley to more or less
actually play the character so that against all expectations,
some seems actually approach real sentiment.
Yeah, I think that's a long way.
And then Roger Ebert, right?
Yeah, that was right at the end.
And then right after that on his review, it says no,
as in like almost like an asterisk or like a PS note.
Yeah, note.
I must mention one peculiar one peculiar element in the film
as Riley is having a telephone conversation.
A male penis is framed in the upper right corner of the screen.
No explanation about why or who it belongs to or what happens to it.
Just on penis. That's not true.
I think this just about establishes a standard for gratuitous nudity.
Speculate as I will.
I cannot imagine why it's in the film.
Did the cinema's photographer look through his viewfinder and say, Jake,
the upper right corner could use a penis.
No, it was about that guy was just like bugging him while he was on the phone
with his wife, asking him just dumb bullshit.
Like it was fucking hilarious.
Yeah. I don't think it's a griever to be approved.
Yeah, right. I think I don't think he's being approved.
I think he's just saying like he didn't get the joke.
Basically. Yeah.
Yeah, I really had a lot of different public service announcement.
That's what it came off to me.
It's like, just know there's a penis in this.
Well, that's kind of that's kind of what he's saying is like there was no
organic reason for contextual reason.
But I disagree. There's a bunch of.
There were a bunch of naked people around.
You saw a bunch of boobs.
Yeah. Wouldn't you see?
No, the whole the whole point is he's he's his wife is asking him all.
Mundane like, you know, for him, he just I forget what I think he had just
naked people. Yeah.
He just he just.
He just smoked weed.
He smoked weed for the first time.
And that led to an orgy.
And then and then his wife's like talking about, you know,
doing the dishes or something.
And then and then there's a guy going, yeah, I'm going to get a coffee.
You want to be okay, Bert?
That was looking funny.
That was hilarious.
And then he shows up again when his dad shows up.
I mean, there's.
And then she goes and then she goes, who was that?
And he goes, oh, just this guy asking me if I want a coffee or anything.
It was Bert.
I thought that was amazing.
They had a lot of different test screenings where they messed with the
length of time that they had the dong on screen.
Because it was too short. People didn't laugh at all.
And it was kind of like, what was a little bit more of that?
Like, what was the point of that?
But they had to just a little bit longer.
So they like got a second wave of like, okay, we're really doing this.
Well, it's it's funny too, because you don't see the guys face at the same time.
As you see his dick, it's just like very flaccid.
Dick and the fray.
Yeah.
Then he also asked, where's my flip flop?
Yeah. Well, that's I think.
See him later and he has a copy of these.
He's totally new.
So I don't know.
I think that part's fucking so funny like in hindsight.
Because, you know, he's, you know, he's supposed to be like living these.
You know, the joke is almost like, oh, can you?
His wife is just like so concerned with domestic things.
Like, is he not like these?
Or think where are my flip flop?
Those are pretty, you know, mundane things too.
So I don't know.
That shit's fucking funny.
Too good.
We'll do one more from critics.
Kenneth Turan LA Times four out of five.
This gleeful skewering of American popular music works because of the talents of
director Jake Kasdan and a cast led by John C. Reilly.
Yep.
That was a good move.
Thanks to the director and the actor.
Let's go on to the audience side of things, which it's interesting.
This is one of the situations I should say upfront, like 57% from the audience is
kind of almost misleading from a lot of other sites that I've pulled reviews.
I'm curious about ratings and reviews from and also just like word on the street.
You know, I haven't talked about it in a while.
That's like that movie sex. I've just talked to people that are like what movie?
What is I've never seen that?
That's like borderline shocking to me that the score.
I can't.
Yeah.
It's hard to wrap my head around.
Yeah.
Most of the other websites is to find reviews.
Most of them are like positive on this movie and here.
I mean, 57 is pretty low and it's pretty low.
Something that I feel like in a way is pulled from the audience.
Something that I feel like in a way is pulled from the times when Ron
tomatoes was first starting to become really like relevant way to rate
movies. And I think it's those reviews have stuck out from then.
I don't think these are newer reviews because I feel like people to revisit
this. It works even fucking better now.
Yeah.
But yeah, let's hear some negative audience reviews from one star from
Rebel. Rebel is DAV.
I don't normal.
Oh, titled a definitive top five stinker.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
I don't normally write reviews.
I have other things to spend my time on.
But in this instance, I my commitment to save my fellow human beings from
undue suffering.
What a public service.
I didn't need to do the right thing. The bottom line is that the script
directly parallels every scene in the walk the line movie.
Not a line of original thought at all.
Okay.
So this is supposed to be a parody, but isn't a parody supposed to be funny
or at least provoking?
This film is neither by definition.
Yes.
It's a funny script and terrible acting to boot with nothing at all of a
redeeming nature. All in all, a painful experience.
I've watched thousands of movies in my lifetime and this makes my top five
worst list without reservation.
I love that he has a top five worst.
Yeah, I want to see that.
Isn't that a bad.
Yeah, right.
Idiot.
Fucking dummy.
I feel like he personally attacked.
Well, I don't know.
I just, I don't know.
I like how I like how he like, like I'm.
Rear taking it in as though he just loved I'm so fucking much that this
movie like offensive.
You know, credit it, you know.
Yeah, a line.
So to speak.
Right.
It walks the line to.
She also mentions the parody of it as well and not being funny.
It makes you think so.
Do you think that person's older?
I don't know.
Same age.
Maybe they don't like funny stuff.
Yeah, that's yeah.
They hate laughing.
That's yeah.
That's beyond age.
Transcends it.
They have some real problems.
I know that.
Wow.
Yeah.
No joy.
Yeah.
See you next.
Yeah.
Laney says it's a title discussing movie one star and just says perverse.
Yeah.
Perverse from all to bike one star titled zero stars.
So they didn't have the zero star option, but they titled it.
I pushed through the first 15 minutes then gave up wasted my money.
John C. Reilly is an amazing actor.
This was a mistake for him.
Wow.
So that person 15 minutes.
Okay.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's mute.
I don't know.
Its mute.
But anyone who there's movies that I I know sooner than that that I'm
gonna hate.
Finish watching it.
Blake McLaren one star starts funny drags on the humor gets old and
shallow.
This movie is too long and boring.
The first 20 minutes are great.
And then it just spirals into a brain dead abyss.
Don't recommend.
So that's almost the inverse.
They love that.
And then they just write anything past 20 minutes to forget about it.
title waste of time my son wanted to see this and we rented it one night I can never get that time back
and we'll do one robbed one more from Richard Wells titled one joke gave it a one star bah
what that's what the a bah exclamation mark yeah that's a bah a one joke movie that drives every
cliche deep into the ground recommend this is spinal tap the gold standard for this genre oh okay
well and it all comes back full circle there are other different movies you know that is a good point
compared to this one that is a good point maybe we should like tell you that there's like other
movies that they could watch and said that they might like better well it sounds like they know
right or if you like that movie go watch that movie that you're talking about yeah you always watch
other movies they're different so you can do that you like my yeah by my old album
yeah buddy let's give a score ourselves um Cory do you want to get us started any final thoughts
any thoughts about the polarizing nature of it and a score from zero to 100 yeah sure or you can go
first second last whichever you prefer yeah i'll go for as long as you walk hard yes i feel like it's
respectful you hard it's respectful of the host you know yeah i'll sex you guys up for the big
uh you are the guy yeah yeah i'll i'll keep it warm for you nice anyway um yeah i was i was
surprised that uh when you guys we were talking about uh what movie that we wanted to wanted to do
because it's been a while it's been a while since i've been on the pod and kind of going through
our option i could not believe that this was a polarizing like that and then once i you know
knew that it was i was like oh critics must have hated it because i couldn't imagine yeah as an
as an audience member going to see this movie and thinking like anything other than how fantastic it is
but um yeah different strokes different movies for different folks but uh i loved it i loved
rewatching it yesterday i would say it's probably one of my top 10 comedies that i've ever seen it's
that it's just that good so yeah really special one for me i'll give it a 95 percent 95 i love having
a spicy movie a movie that uh we enjoy we and we we we broadcasted that right off right off the top
and we got you yeah we got you on hook we had you on fear and loathing like these are the movies that
are surprising when they're like tabulated up in in these numbers on review sites that they get
divided but um i'll just roll into my review here yeah i absolutely love this movie um it's always
been one of those that i would show to people if they were looking for a comedy or for like a
like we're trying to find a movie to watch and they and like i would that would be one of those
questions would be like well have you seen walk hard if we're trying to find something fun to
watch because that was always it was always one that i found that like i almost felt like an
ambassador for this movie a little bit of like i feel like not enough people have seen it and so i
would want to ask that question and want to like show it to them because i always thought it was so
great i had the dvd um and i had memorable times of this movie there was yeah there's one time in
college i remember we all all gathered around and with a bunch of people that hadn't watched it and
it fucking slayed man everyone everyone had a good time um and that's pretty much every occasion i've
watched it and i watched it with my brother-in-law recently devin which you you guys have met and
he should be on the podcast soon uh and we just bonded even more and uh other people were there
that i you know it's just it's i've taken a poll and the poll has been good and it's not yeah
representative of what's on rotten tomato so i'm like letting you know that the people love this
movie i would recommend it above many comedies it is one of them yeah i'm so glad you put it like
that cori because it is one of my favorite comedies ever and um to get right right down to it because
i feel like i've i've lauded enough praise like you guys all get i i i love it i don't need to
need to go through it but i was almost getting to the score like i was like i should i give it a
it can't be perfect would because it's like a parody or it's a satire or something was like my
reasoning of like maybe i shouldn't give it a perfect score but i say fuck that it's a perfect
fucking movie and it's a comedy 100 like way yes 100 through so it deserves 100 fucking percent
as far as a comedic movie goes a satire or parody however you want to put it those deserve
good scores too if not perfect scores um and that performance from john c riley all those uh all the
talents coming together at the perfect time um when this movie came out and it is continue gonna
continue to be a super replayable movie for me for me super rewatchable and i'd highly recommend
it to anyone who hasn't seen it who's still listening to this and onto brandini so i'm gonna
be joining you james this song is 100 percent yeah in my mind let me let me get back in there too
because i mean once you said that i was like yeah why did i even like yeah why there's not a
going for it it's hard i know there's not a single like thing that i don't absolutely there's
yeah like it's it's like we said earlier there's no like it's funny t to be no fat on there so yeah
yeah fuck it change officially change me up to yes it feels so good well it feels so good doesn't it
because it feels good because we just saw an incredible movie and we've gotten to share that
experience with each other and this movie is one of the best comedies i've ever seen yeah giving it
100 i went through the same process of why would i give this something less than perfect i enjoyed
every minute of it yeah exactly i laughed the entire time sometimes it's that simple you know
it's just that simple uh yeah i would just say again this movie is fucking funny
yeah i would even say like it doesn't require you watching walk the line or ray or other music
biophics doesn't require it definitely helps it it rewards it definitely rewards it and
requires definitely helps maybe being like music aware um the only criticism i heard from this is
my my sister when we were watching it was saying she felt that we were already laughing before the
jokes were even said which is which is kind of like the best compliment yeah that's not a critique
as far as that's the best compliment you could give to a movie too because the people who have seen it
time and time again are already anticipating the the parts where it's going to be funny so
that would be the only criticism and uh yeah 100 percent i know it can't beat danie's 140 but
maybe next time we see you know why i hate it's it's okay get a get a ranking from him
but he loves him he loved that uh one scene with the thunderbolt yes make sure you rewatch again
there are thunderbolts if you don't notice that's imdb trivia yeah there are thunderbolts
um before we go let's do a little game
we're doing the rancor game it's a new newish game that i got going got going for the pod
there's this website called rancor you uh can look up a movie and it shows you all the lists
that those movies are ranked in so i'm going to pull a couple categories from all of these
uh lists that we got here and see if you guys can guess where walkhard is ranked within those uh
those lists of uh movies so let's get going here kori as per use for the guess you are going to start
um the first category here is out of 28 jut apatow movies where does walkhard rank in terms of
the best of the jut apatow movies from one to 28 where would you rate walkhard he's done 20
so these are just like for do you see yeah jut apatow he didn't direct this movie right right
so in the jut apatow universe jut apatow verse 28 films oh this is interesting and and they're all
keep it 100 so i mean yeah i feel like in our mind it's and one quick one quick uh clarification
these are all different movies yes i think so i think so yes yes yes i think we've established
yes right i mean life is fluid suspicious more than a to z you know and you're blowing my mind
again because if they're all the same then i just say number one i think that's why i'm saying apatow
verse you know right right that's different but it's like okay soup you know you're trying to you're
trying to take a little bit out but maybe you yeah we got a this walkhard is like a little piece of
tomato or a potato or tomato that we're trying to pull out of the soup i'm not sure i followed
that analogy this is helping the metaphor right i think i got this is helping yeah this is helping
yeah yes this is making it clearer for everybody yeah right well okay so now i'm thinking like it
might be further down the list if there's that many that is so you know a classic movie that i
wouldn't necessarily but anyway um let me let me say like 13 13 yeah okay 13 five five you're
ranking at very high very good kori you almost fucking nailed it my friend it is number 12
you were this close this close you get the point you get the point to three
three i mean i vehemently disagree with that ranking i'm just thinking no yeah great in general
some of them are pretty absurd but you know we're going with the rancor system and that's what
we're number one number one is 40 year old virgin okay that's cool not a bad for not my number one
but i get it number two super bad yeah cool all right so we're moving on this is going to be to
brand brandonio uh let's this category is let me see exactly how many movies are in this category
first i apologize for the delay okay it is out of 23 movies where does walk hard rank on the movies
that you never expected to show skin okay roger ebert yeah i don't know how you'd rank that and
out of expectation but he put it number one out of 23 23 okay
16 16 16 uh i'm gonna go like towards the back and i'm gonna say 21 21 i think it just barely
cracked oh gotcha this was extremely close you guys were one away oh from winning or losing but
unfortunately not unfortunately for you brandon cori wins again unfortunately unfortunately for
brandon damn for who i got my butt kicked last night too with uh maddie but fortunately for
cori he's kicking butt and taking his kick is yeah you guys did it you guys did a back to back
uh it worked out that way yeah uh yeah we were on us the the the hardest hardest working guys in
show the release the strangers are weak off from the release but we recorded like three within this
past week so it's oh my god we're all gonna catch up absolute work horses over killing
anytime you want to come back in the pod cori we just bump on a mount let's do yeah let's do one
let's do one tomorrow all right um so yeah that was number 19 on movies you guys made a break never
expected to show skin out of 23 and yes cori you were uh you selected 21 you guys i don't think you
would guess number one wait wait what was uh what was the actual reason it was 19 out of 23 was
nine where 19 and you hit 21 and uh brandon was 16 so it was got you know i could do prices
right rules that is i shy away from the thank god you aren't thank god i'd be down oh too
fortunately for you uh the number one movie that we never expected to show skin is howard the duck
you see those ducteddies oh my god yeah so god and you cannot expect that all right so we got
two to zero the cori's going for the win here let's see if he can pull it off we're going with
live action movies with surprisingly great animated sequences let's see how many i'm sorry
i got to pull up how many movies are on this list a lot right it's gonna be a lot there are 14 movies
on this list and i want you to tell me where walk hard ranks on live action movies with surprisingly
great animated sequences that being the yellow submarine portion of the movie uh to you to you
kori yeah so live action movies with surprisingly great animated sequence that sounds great
animated sequences surprisingly surprisingly great is the operative word there not just like uh oh i
didn't expect this but a really unexpectedly good or great i'll just say great yeah synonym for every
right anyway uh five number five is your selection yep out of 14 five that's 14 correct i'm gonna say
13 13 out of 14 it is number 10 brandon you got yourself oh a point yeah unfortunately for you
kori brandon gets the gets the point can you say it every like every time that i'm fortunate to leave
for so it's this person got a point i would be a great option i'm so sorry but that is correct
and that means that kori did not get it listeners are gonna be like what so number one was kill bill
volume one we can all remember that oh shit yeah assassination scene under the bed and all that all
that good stuff what was number two because i can't i'm trying to think of like some of these movies
and number one kill bill volume one number two hellboy two the golden army oh yeah number three
harry potter and the deathly hollows part one and that i distinctly remember that it really yeah
i never got a whole story no i know i know yeah it's fine yeah it's good it's good you're surprised
you're like am i really wow this is surprisingly good animation surprisingly great you're so right
kori was somewhere tuned into that surprising that i won i want to hear the rest of them can
you cycle through them real quick all right i just want to hear which ones we'll do speed round
some of them are kind of silly because i think they feel like obviously they have animation
oh no no i yeah yeah go ahead bed knobs and brooms sticks mary poppins number five number
six everything everywhere all at once oh cool number seven priest i don't know what that is
number eight scott hillgrim versus the world that one oh yeah oh yeah number nine natural born killers
another polarizing what's that what's the animation there
i'm looking at a picture of it right here it almost looks like yeah like very acid
melted kind of like well what's the what's that like like hot rod kind of animation like
with like they do with cars and stuff that kind of thing um yeah most of the film is shot in live
action there are a few notable animated sequences many many which are intended to suggest the heightened
and distorted senses of the film's protagonist because animation has the ability to capture
a different sense of reality than live action these moments disturbing primal and even beast
shield give greater insight into the minds of these troubled and broken souls i think they're very
like quick kind of like yeah edited in there number 10 walk hard number 11 any hall number 12
better off dead number 13 the fall that movie number 14 book smart i don't remember that part
oh book smart is awesome yeah that's isn't that clean makes no yeah it's like stop motion
stop motion wow all right moving on let's go to our next category and i believe it goes to brandon
unfortunately it does unfortunately for you quarry it goes to brandon his first select i don't
know maybe you want to be second um this category is the best movies about music out cox the best
cox in movies i would i would hope it would be number one uh this is a gonna be a this is a gonna
be a big category this is out of 171 and i'm so sorry i talked over you but what was the
name of the best best movies about music oh okay there's a few of those different one what's the
number again this is a big one 171 let's do a big one see what happens okay uh 72 72 from brandini
holy shit 171 movies about music who would have thought
um i mean it can't be that close and i'm gonna read them all after you guess
oh my gosh uh ooh 113 nice end of the hundreds brandini was very close actually all things
considering is number 82 and he got 72 well done number one movie about music the blues brothers
yeah yeah number two walk the line uh oh shut up oh my god fuck off so 82 for this one and
82 number two for uh the real one jeez if you want to call it that um all right so we got
we got the tiebreaker here uh i think i'm gonna yeah this this category seems like a pretty fun
one let's do it's a quarry 13 horrific moments and otherwise silly comedies and so that moment
will be let me let me uh i mean it's gotta be having having yeah do we cock do we cocks cuts his
brother that's a singular cuts oh my god james are you okay i'm sorry i had an aneurysm
um that's when there's multiple around you know like in the family it's when there's just one
that it's a do we cock do we cocks cuts his brother in half and walk out of the do we cock story
um where does that rank where does it to you quarry uh out of 13 that's the name of this game
right where does it where does that rank that's a good one i don't really have a full name
so where does it rank on movies that have one gruesome scene that you're not expecting
i like that title but it's 13 horrific moments and otherwise silly comedies okay i was way off
okay um 13 let's go let's just plug up the works seven
seven numbers right the middle all right yeah i'm gonna go for number four
quarry nailed it it is number seven so he definitely wins uh by you know you get multiple
points for that i mean decided that because that was the first time that's ever been done
congratulations you nailed it right on the money i'm pretty almost positive no one's done that before
the standard's been said everyone hold on hold on hold on hold on yeah very nice
it's the best one to guess under oh sorry to uh to my own horn here that's a sad horn
two thousand don't hurt the other horn
okay that's that all right that was the last one make sure you watch uh frog town um this
was one of my favorite episodes i've ever done this is one of my favorite movies i've ever
watched you guys are my favorite people so i'm having a pretty uh great time i've had a
top top top time of this podcast top up so thank you so much to you and anyone else
uh listening here quarry is there anything that you feel like you want to say you want to plug
your wonderful band yeah your solo stuff anything like that or i can plug it for you i say i think
it's all been plugged but it's all been plugged but one thing i just thought was kind of cool
oh maybe we maybe we rank maybe we do a ranker every polarized episode and you know my favorite
and then and maybe next time i'm on the pod do play that i don't know we never did like a hundred
episode bash so maybe we could uh rank the first hundred or something like that what are what are
you on now do you know this would be i can find out um this is going to say one one thirty two
i was keeping y'all for a while but i you guys got too big i can't we move quick we're uh road
house was 108 um wow this yeah this should be one i haven't even listened to that one yet
jesus christ also a great app that evan more is a wonderful uh guest oh evan's on it and knows a lot
about uh the road world of movie making uh yeah no it's the first time i think seen the first time
seen it yeah but he provided excellent commentary on yeah very uh he provided like well he's he's a
he's a bit of a filmmaker yeah so this yeah that's where we're at it's a fresh perspective too because
it was you know it's nice to have a counterpoint to us just be like well this movie's great right
right so okay so he did not like it i guess no that's not true listen yeah check out the app
well let me ask you this nice one does he think that there are different movies
i'm looking for it like a well that industry guys we got to do that every episode now we
got to establish that before we get into anything i think you should a lot of firsts on this app too
yeah yeah it's kind of groundbreaking i mean yeah there's two roadhouses out there or should i say
one house there's only one really so oh no spoilers it's all been done uh i've had a blast
brandy is there anything else you want to say about walk hard or your life or anything you want to
plug oh wow i want to plug this on uh please put this pod right just rating works you know
just do that um but if you want to comment you know if we suck tell us who cares i'm
i'm totally i don't give a shit i don't give a rat's ass as long as you walk hard review hard
just do what your your body tells you to do and nothing else and don't do anything i wouldn't do
you those are the two rules nice let's get advice rate review subscribe and mean it all i ask is that
you fucking mean it's not a difficult ask be honest that should be like yeah the default
yeah that should be right up there on your either way i love you and i hope you've enjoyed yourself
and i will see you next time goodbye
me