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is the Big Picture. A conversation show

2:05

about auctioning. It's the midway point

2:07

of the year. Every year

2:09

at this time, Chris Ryan comes

2:12

in and we auction for movies

2:14

once again. Now earlier this year,

2:17

we got some exciting properties,

2:19

some that we're still holding on to or hoping to

2:22

appreciate over time. Chris,

2:24

I know you spent several hours

2:26

yesterday researching the remaining slate of

2:28

2024. How are you feeling? The

2:32

commercial real estate market has taken a downturn.

2:35

And it turns out I'm overexposed

2:38

on office buildings. So

2:40

we'll see what we can do here. We're going to try and

2:42

scrounge. I'm looking for, you know,

2:44

if anybody wants to buy into a

2:46

piece of CR LLC and

2:49

just kind of like liquidate it. What

2:52

other businesses operate inside of that LLC?

2:55

Are we invested in Zinn? What else is

2:57

in the market? I'm

3:00

stuck in front of a bath on that.

3:02

Yeah, no, I think I

3:04

like to do my own research on

3:06

these things, partially actually because

3:09

it's never led me astray in the past in my life,

3:11

but also because I find it fun. I

3:14

think that there's something kind of educational about writing

3:16

all the movies down. I do this for the

3:18

drafts, even though you wouldn't think. In

3:20

this metaphor of doing your own research,

3:23

am I the Fauci in your experience

3:25

that you are working against? You're Daryl

3:27

AstraZeneca. I'm trying

3:29

to give you knowledge and information. Yeah,

3:31

but I like to think that you

3:33

and I, while approaching things differently, have

3:37

an equal amount of like kind of passion for

3:39

our subject. And I just like to like

3:41

go through the usual... So what did

3:43

your own research, you know, reveal

3:46

to you broadly? Yeah, I know. I don't know what's coming out

3:48

in the second half of the year. Amanda

3:50

very helpfully stated before we started recording, I need to

3:52

look at what movies are coming out in 2024. Just

3:54

not an ideal set up for this. I just wanted

3:56

to have the list. Just a reminder. Yeah. Okay.

4:00

You have a good sense of what you want?

4:02

This is not like a draft where you

4:05

have to have, I

4:07

mean, you do ultimately have to get five movies instead of

4:09

six, but there's like more negotiating. So I don't have to

4:11

have like 18 movies ready to introduce. You

4:13

know, I can surf it a bit more. Yeah,

4:16

I feel- Especially since all the movies are gone. Well,

4:18

I prepared more for this one because a lot of

4:20

the movies are gone. I mean, maybe it would be

4:22

helpful to remind listeners how we did last time when

4:24

we did this in January. So they can get a

4:26

sense. And we can talk through what we picked and

4:28

didn't pick. And then we'll walk through the rules of

4:31

how we do an auction if you've never listened to

4:33

an auction episode before. So we did

4:35

auction with our $1,000, five movies each. I

4:38

got two movies that have been released,

4:41

two that are still to come, one that is not coming

4:43

out this year, the last. My

4:45

movies are Hitman, feel very good about that. Mickey 17,

4:47

which I got for $3, which was nice. Not

4:50

feeling very good about that auctioning. Furiosa

4:53

Med Max Saga, some regrets. Did

4:55

it make a hundred million dollars? It

4:57

did not. Domestic? It did not.

5:00

In fact, I think it only made like 75 million. Fall

5:03

Guy is in the nineties, right? I

5:05

want to say eighties, but that also did not crack

5:07

100 million. My other two movies are

5:09

yet to be released, but they are slated for this

5:11

year. Megalopolis and Nosferatu. Amanda, what movies

5:14

did you get? Hold on. I think

5:16

Fall Guy, I was just Googling Fall Guy, box

5:18

office, because when you slander Fall Guy, I have

5:20

to come to the rescue. You're right. 90, domestic,

5:22

81 international. So not

5:25

yet. Mine, Challengers. I

5:27

feel pretty great about that. And I also got

5:29

the bike riders, which I feel great about. And

5:31

it turns out that I

5:33

drafted Maxine, which I'm seeing tonight and I feel

5:36

amazing about. That's

5:38

for all my film Twitter people. I

5:41

have Blitz, which is dated. It's coming out

5:43

in November. It's debuting, it's opening

5:45

the London Film Festival. Bit of a weird one. Bit

5:48

of a weird choice. You know what? I

5:50

mean, it's like pretty location.

5:53

Why not tell your ride? Why not Berlin?

5:59

It's not funny. It's not funny at all. I

6:01

know. It's not funny. And

6:03

then I have Twisters, which I just feel

6:05

like fucking sick about. Yes. Sean

6:08

and Slane, did you know that? Twisters?

6:10

Yeah. It was beautiful. We did

6:12

get to see Twisters. Yeah, we've seen it. Which

6:14

we'll talk about. We did. We did. Yeah, I

6:16

don't know whether I'm embargoed yet. And I still

6:18

don't know whether podcasting counts as social reaction versus.

6:20

It's a great question. I don't know. They've

6:23

never clarified it, but. You should talk about

6:25

Twisters like it's a Malek movie. You

6:27

know, like. Ah. Don't

6:30

get fired. Don't break your embargo, man. It's really serious

6:32

stuff. Chris, why don't you recap the films that you

6:35

got? You know what? I did pretty well. Yeah, this

6:37

is the thing. I got Dune Part Two for $243.

6:40

I drafted We Live In A Time. We

6:43

Live In Time. Yes. For $375. And

6:46

this is fourth view in Andrew Garfield, John

6:48

Crowley romance, but is coming out. It is

6:50

coming out this year. And it's actually pretty

6:53

high up there in some best

6:55

picture, like odds conversations. Okay. Have

6:59

you? Yeah. I haven't.

7:01

Okay. I will. Yeah. Okay.

7:05

I don't know. Again, I don't want to get in trouble.

7:07

It's coming out though. It is coming out. It's coming out.

7:09

Okay. And I like both those people. Gladiator

7:11

Two. I mean. This is very exciting.

7:13

This is. And I feel

7:15

so good about it. And Ridley is, Ridley

7:18

is, Ridley fandom can

7:20

be a tough beat sometimes. You can get

7:22

really, really over your skis with Ridley. And

7:25

then it's like, oh, did he finish this movie? You

7:28

know, he, this looks real. This looks good. On

7:31

the day we are recording the new images premiered

7:33

in Vanity Fair magazine. And so we see

7:35

Paul Mescal. Holding the dirt. We see Denzel Washington.

7:37

Holding the dirt. We see Joseph Quinn. We

7:39

see all of the stars of this movie. You

7:43

know, it's. I'm ready. Like this is.

7:45

He's booked. Is this the most anticipated movie

7:47

of the rest of the year? I feel like it

7:49

might be. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. And

7:52

also it has, it does not have a lot

7:54

of competition in terms of like, when it's coming

7:56

out, like it has runway to

7:59

be a big hit. Right, but is it

8:01

also Moana 2 coming out? Yes, I think

8:03

there are two different audiences. And

8:05

then also Wicked Part 1. I think those Wicked Part 1

8:07

and Moana 2 are the family

8:09

contenders. And Gladiator 2 is for said single 52-year-old

8:11

men. Those three movies are really inside of you

8:13

live three wolves. It's going to be a really

8:16

interesting November here on the podcast. Let me tell

8:18

you, I've also got a Robert Zemeckis film about

8:20

the passage of time happening in November. So it's

8:22

going to be a hell of a month for

8:24

me. What did you think of Greenwald's take on

8:26

the Here trailer? Is it deplorable? I mean, shame

8:29

on him. Honestly, I mean, I

8:31

love Andrew, but I have no idea what the

8:33

fuck he's talking about. Why don't we let artists

8:35

make good choices? How about that? Good

8:37

being the operative word there. But that's another. What

8:39

would you rather do? Would you rather another Deadpool and Wolverine?

8:42

Honestly. No, that's true. I

8:44

mean, I would rather like another Sofia Coppola

8:46

movie and another, you know, like a lot

8:48

of other things. That wasn't all a way

8:50

to frame it. She just made a movie.

8:52

So what I'm hearing from you, respectfully, is

8:54

you think that directors should have absolute

8:57

immunity, so to speak. Isn't

8:59

what I said. I said they should be able

9:01

to try new things. This is a new framework

9:03

for a movie idea. Yeah. It

9:05

could be a disaster. And if it's a disaster, I'll say

9:08

so. Just like when I thought Oppenheimer could be a disaster

9:10

and I came on and I was like, well, turns out

9:12

that movie's a masterpiece. Like, it's okay. But I think to

9:14

judge a movie based on its trailer and be like, this

9:16

is a horrible idea. I wasn't. In what world is that

9:18

criticism? I wasn't trying to get Andy run over by the

9:20

bus. I was just, I thought that. I think you were.

9:24

I was thinking about you when he was talking. I

9:27

just thought a lot about what's the Charlie

9:29

Kaufman movie? That.

9:32

I'm thinking of ending things. That cuts to directed

9:34

by Robert Zemeckis, like three times in that. Yeah,

9:36

I'm thinking of ending things. Yeah. I mean, that

9:38

was a great joke. I know, I'm just like,

9:41

I don't know if Robert Zemeckis can actually release

9:43

a movie after that. I'm a hardcore Zemeckis defender.

9:45

He's made like one movie in the last 15

9:47

years that I liked. Yeah. Like, it's

9:49

very possible that that movie's a cartoonish. No, Beowulf was longer ago than that.

9:51

No, Flight. Yeah. Flight's

9:53

great. I also drafted

9:55

Speak No Evil, the remake of

9:57

our beloved, skinned.

10:00

and horror film and

10:02

that one stars Scoot Magnarian, James McAvoy.

10:04

For one buck. Yeah, and

10:06

I got Horizon and American Saga Part

10:08

One for a dollar. Which

10:10

is roughly its box office gross coming out of the weekend.

10:13

Times 11 million, man. I

10:16

liked it. Also, Kevin

10:19

Costner doesn't believe in opening weekends. Oh.

10:21

Did he say that out loud? Yeah, he

10:23

was like, my films have likes. And also

10:25

my fans buy DVDs. Yeah,

10:28

he's right. He's right. Keep talking, Kevin. I need

10:30

it on 4K. I

10:33

hadn't thought about what Part Two

10:36

six weeks later would mean in terms of Kevin

10:38

Costner just talking in public for another six weeks.

10:40

Do you think he's going to start doing it?

10:42

Do you think he's going to start doing it?

10:45

And maybe no one around him thought about that

10:47

either. I'm enjoying it. The banana

10:49

shake thing. I was into it. His

10:51

Green Mountain coffee sales. I'm for it. Just keep getting

10:53

out there, man. I love it when a guy's like,

10:55

I'm 69 and I'm talking a lot. I

10:58

will not stop talking. Do you think we should give Kevin

11:00

Costner a pod? Oh

11:02

my god. Is that the best idea

11:04

we've ever had between Grantland and the rumor? What

11:06

would it be about? Anything he wants. Third chair

11:08

on JMO. That

11:15

Gretchen Whitmer. What do you think

11:17

he's thinking about right now? I

11:19

think he's super into Whitmer. And

11:21

you think he thinks Joe should step aside. I

11:24

don't even know if it's gotten that far. Amanda, let

11:26

me ask you this. Should Joe Biden step aside? Has

11:28

Costner given any money to RFK Jr.? I

11:30

don't believe so. It's actually not too late. He

11:33

was a Pete Buttigieg guy. Yeah, he was. Costner

11:35

was? He was also like a

11:38

Chris Jack Kemp guy. His political

11:40

spectrum changes every four years. His

11:42

positions. Should

11:46

sleep step aside? What would you

11:48

do if Kevin Costner was

11:50

like, I need

11:52

America to help me fund Horizon

11:55

Part 3, but I

11:57

can promise you that Gretchen Whitmer will be

11:59

my love interest in this. film. How

12:02

much money would you give? You

12:05

wrong-footed me there. I thought you were going one direction. Can

12:08

she act? Is she a

12:11

better actor than Sienna Miller? That's really the point.

12:14

Wow! That's so rude. I love Sienna Miller. She's

12:16

so good. So all of these films now are

12:18

back in the pool, right? No. No,

12:21

they're not back in the pool. I asked

12:23

you to read them because you retain three

12:25

films that have not been released. We Live

12:27

in Time, Gladiator 2 and Speak No Evil.

12:29

Amanda retains Maxine, Blitz and Twisters and I

12:31

Retain Megalopolis and No Spat 2. We're

12:34

still each drafting five new movies, right? Correct. We're

12:36

still drafting five new movies. Now, very

12:38

quickly, so we each get $1,000 to

12:41

bid. Each film on our slate must have a 2024 release

12:43

date or an almost certain expectation of release in this

12:46

calendar year. I'd like to discuss this a little bit

12:48

with you because there's a couple of movies that are

12:50

undated and I'm a little confused about. The slate must

12:52

total five movies from that $1,000. Bidders

12:54

open with each new title and we go in a snake

12:56

fashion. You've got 30 seconds

12:58

or whatever bamptime we decide on

13:01

to make a new bid before the movie goes

13:03

to the current bid holder. Movies

13:05

that were previously auctioned off, that doesn't

13:07

apply here. One thing that

13:09

we did do is we added category triggers at the

13:11

last auction, which I think was kind of an interesting

13:13

idea. We're all kind of in a tricky spot with

13:15

the category triggers, so I'm going to read through them

13:17

for you. The one, at least two of your films,

13:20

at least two of your... What? Sorry,

13:26

I was just setting up the exposition. It's called

13:28

podcasting. That's good, actually. It's good podcasting. Thank you.

13:31

At least two of your films must gross $100 million domestically.

13:34

Oh, I remembered. See, I already asked about that.

13:36

For example, neither Amanda nor I have

13:38

any movies that have done that yet. Chris,

13:42

you have Dune part two, which did do that. I don't think Horizon

13:44

is going to get there. I think Gladiator 2 will. I

13:46

think you're likely right, although I

13:48

certainly would have guessed that Furiosa

13:52

would have. That's a good point.

13:54

Yeah. I

13:57

will say I do think that the people

13:59

in... gladiators who are way

14:01

more famous and gladiator is

14:04

actually a bigger movie than fury road I

14:06

don't think that they're way more famous I think

14:08

gladiator is a bigger you don't think Paul mess

14:10

going Denzel Washington was not more famous than Chris

14:12

Hemsworth Denzel Washington is wearing

14:15

a fake nose watching

14:17

this playing a supporting part like

14:19

Chris Hemsworth is way more gladiator

14:21

respectfully or gladiator is way more

14:24

I'm very excited about gladiator to

14:27

the movie will be sold on Paul mess goal just

14:29

as Furiosa was sold on and you tell her joy

14:31

and Chris Hemsworth I think it's not

14:33

just a question of fame I think it's a question

14:35

of like do people want another gladiator movie I'm also

14:37

glad you're too is is box office superstar Joseph Quinn

14:40

yeah quiet place day one yeah I have

14:42

I'm gonna see it this week oh it's

14:44

great yeah okay other triggers at

14:47

least one film must receive at least two

14:49

Oscar nominations at least one

14:51

of your films must hit an 85 meta

14:53

score on Metacritic this was kind of a crazy

14:55

one because very few films score in

14:57

85 I don't think any of us have qualified to

14:59

do not do it you did not do you didn't

15:01

got 85 on Metacritic is

15:03

a very harsh judge a very

15:06

harsh mistress and

15:08

no more than two sequels on challenges

15:10

is 82 I was pretty close yeah

15:13

what is what where is um doing part two

15:15

right now is it at 80 79 for 79 okay so these last two

15:17

were tricky

15:22

right because I've got

15:25

a sequel on my list Chris

15:27

has us has two sequels on his list so Chris

15:29

cannot draft any sequels very

15:31

notable that sucks and I

15:33

can't really man has a single tree I can't

15:35

trade I can't do anything like that no no

15:37

the question for you here is that so you

15:39

have Maxine that's a sequel mm-hmm is

15:41

Twisters a sequel well

15:43

I think it is I'm I mean well

15:46

I honestly don't I don't have a

15:48

strong feeling either way is there connective tissue

15:51

one piece one very small piece okay

15:53

if Twisters is on I think Romulus

15:55

should be on as a

15:57

sequel it is a sequel I know but

16:00

I think Romulus should get that same consideration,

16:02

right? What

16:04

do you mean? I mean, isn't Twisters just Twister 2,

16:07

but like with different characters? It's

16:09

got Twister in its title. Like, I mean like-

16:11

Well, I mean, I think tornadoes are naturally occurring

16:13

on this earth as opposed to xenos. I mean,

16:15

it is- I mean, it is- Are

16:18

we sure Twisters are real? Is that your take? You're

16:21

coming, you're very hot today. You've come very

16:23

strong. I appreciate it. I

16:26

think it's probably a sequel. I mean, it's of

16:28

a- It's a franchise. So then neither of you

16:31

can draft a sequel. Well, okay. I can only

16:33

draft one. But I can draft Wicked part one,

16:35

right? Yes, you can. Okay. Well,

16:37

that's great. You know, that's really all I need. Should

16:41

we choose the auction order? Did you want to vamp about

16:43

anything? Is there any other new- Yeah, no, you're supposed

16:45

to ask me how I'm feeling about the rest of 2024

16:48

so I can do my thing. Oh,

16:50

of course. Yeah, thank you. I don't know if

16:52

I was supposed to set that up or not. Well, you were

16:54

at least supposed to be like, what is your strategy? Can I

16:56

be honest with you? Yeah. I

16:58

care about you very much. Sure. Second

17:01

of all, I was thinking about this in the

17:03

shower. I literally was like, what am I going

17:05

to do here? You've been so stressed out about

17:07

violating HIPAA for like six months. Hey everyone, I'm

17:09

pregnant again. In case you didn't guess from the

17:12

40X experiment. Yay! Yay! It's good,

17:14

it was on purpose. And that is why I could

17:16

not, I told

17:18

Zach that I was going to share this news

17:20

today. And he was like, okay, but

17:22

can you make it sound like a good thing? Because it

17:24

is a good thing instead of being like, and

17:29

that's why I had to sit on the floor during fall guy.

17:31

But that is why I had to sit on the floor during fall guy because

17:34

it is not advised for pregnant people. Maybe everybody

17:36

should have watched fall guys sitting on the floor.

17:38

Did you? No, but it should

17:40

have been like, the way John Lennon watched

17:42

2001, you know, like in a temple. Anyway,

17:48

so for the bruise of this draft, I'm bringing

17:50

a unique energy, which is just like full senioritis

17:52

because I'm going to be taking some time off

17:55

in the second half of this year. I got to hand

17:57

it to this baby on timing. Cause

17:59

things. get really thin. And my

18:02

attitude is a little bit like, good luck, buddy. You know,

18:04

I'll see you in 2025. Not to your baby. That's my

18:06

attitude towards your baby. Yeah, that's a little bit of that

18:08

too for Q4. Congratulations.

18:14

Thank you so much. You guys have both been,

18:16

everyone here has been very supportive. Do you have

18:18

a moment in

18:20

the future that you are already

18:22

crestfallen to miss on this podcast?

18:25

Well, I think I might just try

18:27

to bully myself in for, you know,

18:29

Gladiator 2 I'm pretty excited

18:32

about. And that's

18:34

like, you know, I hope I'll

18:37

get to see it in theaters. Yeah. I'm

18:39

trying to think. It's gonna be tough when Chris and I are

18:41

absolutely cooking on that episode. I know. And I'm

18:43

like, I'm sorry my phone was on silent. I just said, sorry, Amanda. And

18:46

the other thing that Zach pointed out, he was

18:48

like, you can say that you're like gonna be

18:50

checked out. But I listened to every minute of

18:53

the big picture and the watch and rewatchables

18:55

on leave. Like that's all I had to

18:57

do was like sit at home and be

18:59

like, step it up and stop talking about

19:01

shows that you don't like. If

19:04

you don't cover every episode of and

19:06

just like that season four or whatever,

19:09

or whatever season it is,

19:11

just call me. I'll send you voice memos.

19:13

Okay. 3am voice memos, Amanda

19:15

reviews and just like that. I don't even know.

19:17

Logan Marshall Green is gonna be in and just

19:19

like that. Is that true? Yeah. What's

19:22

he been up to? I don't know. I had so much

19:24

stock in him though. Speaking of alien sequels. Yeah, he had

19:26

it. Do you think that I,

19:28

if I may, if I got to make a

19:31

movie and I immediately was

19:33

just like, I'm casting Logan Marshall Green

19:35

and Boyd Holbrook. Do you think

19:37

that that would improve its chances of distribution? I

19:42

think it would confirm

19:44

straight to VOD. I like those. Those

19:46

are the two stars of your movie.

19:49

Yeah. No, I don't think that one is a cop and

19:51

one is a bank robber and it's in Los Angeles. Well,

19:54

that could work. So

19:56

do you feel like, well,

19:58

how, what, this is a. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are

20:01

you gonna do? Like, how are you gonna keep up?

20:03

Because you're now fully big picture-pilled. You're like, I see

20:05

everything. You're fucking seeing maxis. No, no, no, I know.

20:07

You know what I mean? Like, you are in the

20:09

machine now. So, the main thing is that I know

20:13

that we are supposed to be rooting

20:15

for theater. I do root for theaters. I'm

20:18

like, what was that? I'm

20:21

just like, you're fully big picture-filled. I

20:23

will not be returning to movie theaters. No, but

20:26

I'm just like- One woman goes on parental leave

20:28

and she kills theaters in the process. Just where

20:30

17 days later release windows

20:32

are great for me. Yeah, yeah. Because

20:34

like the big issue will be getting

20:37

to the theater like

20:39

in a timely manner. Right. Cause

20:42

I can call and yell at you about stuff anytime. So,

20:45

I will try to keep things up at home. Sorry,

20:47

my phone's on silent. Sorry, my phone's on silent. My

20:49

bad. It's fine, I know Bobby's number too. I

20:53

try to catch up as I can. And then,

20:56

I hope to be

20:58

back sometime next year, all

21:01

things, if it

21:04

goes well, which I hope it does. And

21:06

we'd like do awards season. You'd like do

21:08

all the movies again. Yes. So,

21:10

maybe I'll just- That's an upside for you and it's

21:13

for the show. Do them with you the second time

21:15

around. That actually will be fun is

21:17

we won't feel like we're repeating ourselves as

21:19

we have the last few years where we're like, and

21:22

here is another discussion about anatomy of a

21:24

fall. And poor things, of course,

21:26

which you would never come through on because you simply

21:28

would not see the film. So, I could never have

21:30

an interesting conversation about it. The big question is like,

21:33

will I ever see Wicked? Why

21:35

not? There

21:38

are many people looking forward to it. And

21:40

I respectfully am not one of them. Oh, okay. And like

21:42

last time I gave myself a pass and a couple of

21:44

things where I was just like, well, you know what? That

21:47

moment is passed. And now the moment of

21:49

Wicked is not gonna pass. Oh, you're last-

21:51

Craven the hunter. Will I-

21:53

Probably won't see that. I

21:55

think given how Madame Webb

21:57

and Morbius shook out. skippable

22:00

for you, I would say. The

22:02

idea of me doing a Crave in the Hunter

22:05

episode by myself in the

22:07

dark days of December, pretty

22:09

grim. Okay, so first of all, for

22:11

my purposes, I think maybe I should

22:14

just have an open call. This should

22:16

be like the MTV VJ contest, or

22:18

like we're picking strangers off the street.

22:21

No, Chris, you're invited as often as

22:23

you like. There are certain cultural forces.

22:25

You're busy, you travel during the holidays, you

22:27

know? Oh yeah, it's true. Also,

22:30

you are usually game to go to screenings, but

22:32

not at the clip that Amanda goes to screenings.

22:36

Yeah, I think that's fair. Any

22:39

movie you would like to participate on, you're welcome.

22:41

And obviously we have a vast array of talented

22:43

podcasts. I also just, if there are... But

22:46

I wanna find my Joe Benigno. Yeah. WFAN,

22:48

when I was a kid, had a contest

22:50

for a radio call-in host to do

22:53

the overnights. And Joe Benigno

22:55

won. Joe Benigno, one of the most

22:57

tortured Jets fans in history. And

22:59

that is the voice that I listened to, that

23:01

I think probably kind of

23:04

like materialized my angst. And

23:06

he was just some guy off the street. I don't even know, was he

23:08

working construction or something? And he turned out to be a great radio host.

23:11

Okay. So who knows? Who's the

23:13

Joe Benigno? He's the Czobaningo. Who's fair share

23:15

of the big picture, you know? That's what

23:17

we're thinking about. Wow. Step right

23:19

up. It's always iterating, yeah. Is it Gretchen

23:21

Whitmer? Yeah. Is it Gavin Newsom? I

23:23

mean, that's the other thing. I will not be listening to

23:26

JMO. And that is... We're

23:28

gonna be podding right through it. I know. Yeah. Election

23:31

night. I'm looking for peace. We're actually,

23:33

Chris and I are going nightly. Every

23:35

night from six to 12. Yeah. Live

23:38

on YouTube. And

23:40

the feedback so far has been good.

23:43

Talk to a girl live from outside

23:45

of Maricopa County Courthouse. Like, just like...

23:48

I just thought she was already booked on a

23:50

podcast and he was pitched as like, exclusive first

23:52

interview. Which, you know, good

23:54

get. Good booking. Okay, but you do know about that

23:56

one. Of course, yeah. I do know about that one. That

23:58

one took over social media. Okay, good. But

24:01

not all of this shit in the sense. No,

24:05

that's like a classic. Are you going to watch the Olympics?

24:09

I think so. I think so. Okay.

24:12

I think Alice will be interested. I think you'll be able

24:14

to narrativize that to her. Oh, that's cool. So I think

24:16

that'll be fun. But I've lost interest over the years in

24:18

the Olympics. You have not. You love the Olympics.

24:21

I mean, it's just one of those things where it's like suddenly

24:23

they're on and you're like, oh, yay. Yeah. I'll,

24:25

you know, I'll get invested. Yeah. A

24:27

little bit. It's a third non-basketball event. Track.

24:30

Track? What about

24:32

you? Gymnastics? Gymnastics. Come on. What

24:36

about swimming? Carry a stroke dinner show. And I

24:38

love swimming too. Yeah. It's going to be

24:40

an interesting fall. I'm very happy for you. Yeah. Thank

24:43

you. You both and everyone. Thank you. So

24:47

I appreciate you. It's going to be a struggle

24:49

here on the pod. No, it'll be fine.

24:51

We'll prerecord some stuff. If any

24:54

publicist listening, if you

24:56

have a festival film, I'm

24:58

available to see it this summer. I

25:01

can't go to Venice. This is like the real tragedy is that

25:03

like, I'm not going to Venice because I can't,

25:05

I'm no longer allowed to travel internationally. He's going to play this part

25:08

for this kid when he's like 13 years old. Sorry,

25:12

dude. Your

25:14

mom's going to go to Venice. It's a tragedy.

25:16

This kid is going to have a wraparound vision

25:18

bro and he's going to be playing Call of

25:20

Duty 74, invading the moon. You're

25:25

going to be holding his hand coaching

25:28

him. Keep going. Keep

25:30

going. No, yeah, yeah. Really? Yeah.

25:33

That's going to be interesting. But yeah, I, you

25:36

know, if the movie's done, I will

25:38

watch it. Show it to you. Yeah. Rough

25:41

cut. 10th effects. You ready to

25:43

see it? Sure. Why not?

25:45

You know what would be compressed? You had

25:48

notes of Francis on Metropollins. Metropollins? Metropollins? I

25:50

did it. I did draft it.

25:52

Is that going to work out well? I think that

25:54

there is going to definitely be some,

25:56

we got to go see it. Over under one Oscar

25:58

nomination. for Megalopolis.

26:01

Under. Under. Yeah. Ooh. Yeah.

26:04

Under. But don't you want to go to the

26:06

theater and be and see the interaction? Of course

26:08

I can. I mean, I know you do. I

26:10

can't wait. Not over. I

26:12

think that he will get nominated for Best Director.

26:14

And I think that they will do like, I

26:16

think they they will have him there to be

26:18

like, this is the kind of

26:20

visionary that Hollywood bakes. I don't think they will.

26:23

But maybe they'll try to give him some sort

26:25

of insulting honorary. Who's more likely to get nominated

26:27

for an Oscar? Francis for Coppola. Or

26:30

Mel Gibson for Fighterist. Kevin Costner. Oh,

26:35

Coppola. Okay. Yeah. Coppola for sure.

26:38

Jura number two though. Undated, but

26:40

coming out this And not a sequel. It's

26:43

not a sequel to Jura number one. Yeah. Jura

26:45

number one, which is, what

26:47

is it? It's my film with Boyle, and

26:50

Logan Marshall. You should make it as

26:52

a prequel to Jura number two. It's

26:54

a good idea. Uh, anything

26:56

else you want to say? No, thank you for,

26:58

thanks for getting the business out of the way.

27:00

I meant to actually be like, how am I

27:02

supposed to tee this up? You have been like

27:04

so desperately nervous about sharing this information with anyone.

27:07

Would you appreciate it? Because I have all the

27:09

schedules and like, what's coming up? Yeah. No, I

27:11

know. And it's been looming for some time. Unfortunately,

27:13

it's still looming for a while. This shit takes

27:15

forever. Um, but yeah. Nine months, right?

27:17

Yeah. It's actually like closer to 10,

27:20

but that's a different conversation. Bobby,

27:22

um, let's do some

27:24

auction order. All right, let's do it. This will

27:27

be the big birth of my year. So many

27:29

good movies I get the top gun maverick hat.

27:31

I saw a three year old wearing

27:33

this hat at travel town this weekend. And I was like,

27:35

that's a great look. I gotta get one. Incredible.

27:38

Nice work by the parents. Select me first

27:40

is Amanda Dobbins. Damn it. There you go.

27:42

Congratulations. Well, rather nominating first, I should say.

27:44

Does anybody want first pick? Do you want

27:46

to trade? No, thank you. Okay. Trade for

27:49

like picks later or cap

27:51

space relief. I don't

27:53

know. I just don't want to see what direction you go in. Okay.

27:55

I have, I know what I'll do, but. And nominating

27:57

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28:56

I did make a long list of movies. I

28:58

want to just say publicly for the record that

29:01

there's a few movies that I can't draft because I've already

29:04

seen them that I'm allowed to say that I've seen. Okay.

29:06

This is big of you. I've

29:09

seen Long Legs. Okay. I mentioned it on

29:11

a pod. It gave me a nightmare. I

29:13

never get nightmares. I never even dream. I've

29:15

seen. That's a true story. Have I talked about

29:18

that on the show before? Somehow I always knew

29:20

it. You know what I mean? Like somehow I,

29:22

you just seem like a not dreaming guy. I

29:24

need you to support me more. I do. I

29:27

really, I really do. I never dream. Yeah,

29:33

that is, that's your autobiography title. Do you dream,

29:35

do you dream of it? All of a sudden.

29:38

Are they like happy dreams or anxious? They're really mundane.

29:40

Oh, that's, that's, I have like

29:42

intense anxiety dreams. Very

29:45

vivid. I'm trying to push anxiety out of my life.

29:47

I think that's great. You should see the film Inside

29:50

Out too. It will give you some tools. An

29:53

absolute sensation at the box office. Have you seen?

29:55

Like didn't you think get the course this weekend?

29:57

Like playing golf? Didn't I play an anxiety free

29:59

round? You did and you played very well. Yeah,

30:01

and didn't you also have like one

30:03

but my job there, the reason why

30:05

I was there, the purpose was to

30:07

have fun. Oh, that's beautiful.

30:10

Yeah, but I don't, what does that have to do with

30:12

dreaming? I

30:16

mean, dream of a birdie for Christ's sake. I

30:20

also saw Twisters, which you did as well. Right,

30:22

but I already drafted it, yeah. And I've seen Maxine

30:24

that's off the board as well. And I just saw

30:26

the substance, which I won't say anything about, which premiered

30:28

a can. So that's also off the board for

30:30

me. Off for you. Everyone working on the

30:32

substance, we're gonna have to have a dialogue

30:34

about when I can see that given. My

30:38

most anticipated episode of the year

30:41

is me and Amanda talking about the substance. You will have to see

30:43

that on the floor. No, I know it's

30:45

really like, can I see it before, after, and

30:47

which is better? Yeah, right, right. For so many

30:50

reasons, in part because of what you've just written

30:52

about your life. I simply

30:54

cannot wait. I

30:56

think it's going to be incredible. And

30:59

then yeah, we already recapped the movies that we've all taken.

31:03

Oh, there's one other movie that I've seen that I forgot

31:05

to mention, which is A Real Pain, which

31:07

I saw at Sundance, which is the

31:09

Jesse Eisenberg. Oh, that's right. Kieran and

31:11

Culkin, Kieran Culkin? Kieran. Kieran Culkin. Right

31:14

now, A Real Pain? I'll just say for me, one of

31:16

my favorite movies of the year so far. Okay. So

31:19

I can't take that, but you guys can if you

31:21

are. So interesting. That didn't break an embargo what you

31:24

just did. Just to say. It premiered at Sundance. I

31:26

already talked about it on the pod. But that movie

31:28

is excellent. I

31:30

gotta go first. You go first. All right. So

31:33

the strategy here is, I

31:36

don't think it's smart for me to take,

31:39

to lead with the most

31:41

desperately contested remaining. Yeah,

31:43

I think that generally is. Because we know that

31:46

Sean will bid me up and then. Let's play

31:48

long toss a little bit. Let's just hold on.

31:50

I have a very, even keeled approach to this.

31:52

I'm not gonna undermine you. I

31:54

mean, you don't have to be nice. You

31:56

know? I start now. by

32:00

what's going on, you know, or my whatever.

32:02

So... Well, your family's

32:04

growing. You're fighting for more. That's true. Man,

32:07

I thought a lot about being pregnant about a wagon train

32:10

when I watched that. Seems really uncomfortable. Anyway...

32:13

Couldn't be me. Literally. Literally.

32:16

I'm just like racking back and forth. Hmm.

32:19

No, I think I'm gonna go with sort of like a

32:21

middle of the road crowd pleaser,

32:23

I hope. Conclave?

32:26

Yeah. Yeah. Conclave?

32:28

Well, I'll start at 80 bucks for

32:30

Conclave. This is Edward Berger's follow-up to

32:32

All Quiet on the Western Front. And

32:35

it stars Ray Fiennes and it's about... It's

32:37

a thriller set around the election of

32:39

a new pope. Yes. Finding the successor

32:42

to a deceased pope discovers

32:44

the former pope had a secret that must be

32:46

uncovered. Hmm. It's a Ray Fiennes...

32:49

It's quite a cast. It's Ray Fiennes, Stanley

32:51

Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini. Absolutely.

32:53

She's playing Sister Agnes. So she's just gonna be a

32:55

threatening man. I'm sure she'll be a nice lady. Yeah,

32:57

yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's just what you want. So

32:59

$80. I'll

33:01

go 100. Okay. I'm very interested in this

33:04

movie. I got a chance to see, I think it

33:06

was the trailer at CinemaCon and it

33:08

looked damn good. It looked very entertaining. Edward Berger,

33:10

interesting guy in that he already has his third

33:12

film or his next film kind of already set

33:15

up, which is a movie about Colin Farrell as

33:18

a gambler, gangster on the run

33:20

in Macau. Yes, it's called The

33:22

Ballad of a Small Player. And I'm pretty

33:24

interested in that topic. Yeah, I was gonna

33:26

say. I'm equally interested in this movie because

33:28

I had a short-lived blog

33:32

spot called Conclave So Real. Thanks

33:34

for bringing this up. I was gonna prompt

33:36

you if you didn't do it. It was about the

33:38

election of Joseph Ratzinger. 110 just in case the clock

33:40

is running. Was it Joseph? Jimmy.

33:42

Yeah. God's Rottweiler as

33:45

he was known. Yeah. So

33:47

one of the best blog posts I ever wrote

33:50

and then I stopped that blog immediately. And

33:52

then what happened to him? He passed

33:54

away. He retired. I can't remember.

33:57

I didn't he like get kicked out and there

33:59

were some. questionable. That just makes this

34:01

film all the more important. Okay. Yeah. I will

34:03

bid 110. I already did

34:05

110 while you were talking. I'll bid 120. I'm right in here. I'm

34:07

sorry. Wait,

34:10

did you really? Yeah, because I didn't know whether

34:12

Bob was running the clock. Well, I'll go 120.

34:14

I'm always running the clock, but just you guys

34:16

are never listening to the clock, so it kind

34:18

of doesn't matter. You know what, Bob? We have

34:20

a visual cue now, so you could hold up

34:23

five seconds. You know? You told me you didn't want

34:25

to see the clock at all times because it was too

34:27

stressful. I do have a 23 out, so we probably have

34:29

to, like, what did you bid? I

34:31

have 130. I'll do 140. This is

34:33

kind of a big picture uniter, this movie.

34:35

It's like a thriller, historical drama, a lot

34:37

of cool, fun actors, interesting director. I could

34:40

also see in a year that was thin

34:42

like this, although this is a historically thin

34:44

year. I said 140 for the record, Bob.

34:46

It is a historically thin year, the 2024

34:49

NBA draft class of movie years. It is.

34:51

Very low similarities. Oh, and so it's that

34:53

year? Yeah. I could see a

34:55

movie like this in the Oscar race.

34:57

Step move for sure. Absolutely. Everybody was like, we just

34:59

all agree this was really good. I feel like it

35:01

is a very strong contender to be like in eighth

35:04

place in the Oscar race. Right. What was the last?

35:08

I'll go 150. Oh, 160. 180.

35:12

I want to see, like, I just want to see it. This is a

35:14

good example of a movie where if they emailed me tomorrow, I'd be like,

35:16

I'll be there tomorrow. So do we have any concerns about, like,

35:19

how the current Pope is going to affect the

35:22

reception of this movie? Like, do you think he'll get out

35:24

there? Will he reject it? Well, I mean, he's

35:27

he's always out there, but he's more of

35:29

an open-minded fellow though. Sure. But he

35:31

supports the arts. I don't see you

35:33

at the movies. Maybe

35:37

like the gathering of all the comedians was,

35:40

you know, and he's South American. Promo.

35:42

Is he? This is this

35:44

is great. Yeah, we're not really. We know a lot

35:46

about pups. Okay. Say thumbs up, but I

35:48

don't know whether that's a thumbs up to South American or

35:51

he is Argentinian. Yes.

35:53

Okay. Well, honestly, there's a lot of

35:55

Italian. I'm literally googling who is the Pope

35:57

right now. All I know is

35:59

that he. He used some language he was not supposed

36:01

to. And also he hung out with all

36:03

of the comedians. That's right. He's

36:07

the first Jesuit Pope. I'll go 200. I

36:10

love it. I

36:12

think Pope Francis has mostly been, he's been most living good.

36:14

I think that he has generally

36:16

been perceived as like pretty tolerant,

36:18

but obviously the Catholic church has some inherent

36:20

issues. Plus. What do

36:23

you mean, like what? Plus his

36:25

understanding of what is like

36:27

appropriate vernacular

36:31

in across cultures is like maybe not as up

36:33

to date as we would like. Yeah.

36:36

Appropriate vernacular. Well.

36:39

He's a man of a different time. Yeah. Just

36:42

like he's 87 years old. Yeah. Just

36:45

like Joe. Just

36:47

like Clint. Oh my God. Wow. Walked right

36:49

into it. Clint, what a year for

36:52

Clint Joe and Pope Francis. This is a

36:54

really, really long Wikipedia page. I

36:57

just got you roll of women. Okay. Let's

36:59

keep reading. I said 205. Oh, you said 205. I'll

37:02

give it to Amanda for 205. Oh no, I'm on

37:04

Pope Francis right now. 205 it is. Are

37:06

you good with that? No, I'm fine. Okay, great. Sold

37:09

to Amanda. If only it'll get you to stop talking

37:11

about the Pope because we could definitely get ourselves in

37:13

trouble. How

37:15

do you mean? Who

37:18

decides that? Who's next? Who decides that?

37:22

Sean nominates next. Interesting.

37:26

I feel like so many of the things that I want,

37:28

you guys will just make fun of me for instantaneously and

37:30

it won't even be bid worthy.

37:33

That's not true. That's not true

37:35

because I support you. Well, okay, here's

37:37

one that is notable.

37:41

I'll nominate Trapp

37:44

for $100. This is

37:46

the new M. Night Shyamalan film coming out August

37:48

2nd, a new thriller starring Josh Hartnett. In an

37:50

ordinary year, there would be some mockery for picking

37:52

a movie that we've had two trailers for that's

37:54

coming out and touching distance. I did not watch

37:56

the second trailer and I will not be watching

37:58

the second trailer either. Yeah, I agree. We

38:01

are available to see it together whenever you would like to show

38:03

it to us. Contact me, Warner Brothers. And you know what I

38:05

think you should do is when Amanda's

38:07

gone, Josh Hartnett should be the second chair.

38:10

But he has to play Lawrence from Oppenheimer in

38:13

the role of podcast host. I would accept

38:15

that. He's so tall. I would also accept

38:17

it. I'm just like, that sounds great. Keep

38:19

filming every episode. I've just very, very actively

38:21

been trying to get my husband to interview

38:24

Josh Hartnett. Like I'm just like, don't you

38:26

think? He's having a story

38:28

to tell. Every year? Yeah. Yeah,

38:31

okay, so 100 bucks for a trap. Shyamalan,

38:36

where are you at? Always enjoy

38:38

the act of deciding that I'm going

38:41

to see one of his movies and

38:43

get very excited about that. And then

38:45

about midway through, I'm like, this is

38:47

complete nonsense. I saw Watchers

38:49

this weekend as a Shyamalan extended family.

38:53

Deeply disappointing, I thought. Honestly, not

38:55

as bad as I thought it was gonna be. See,

38:57

this is the arc of expectation is so confusing. Also,

38:59

you care too much about fairies. I thought. No, I

39:01

don't. I don't want them. I don't want to see

39:03

them. Did she just break the embargo on fairies in

39:05

that movie? We discussed it on the

39:08

pod like a month ago. It's okay. It's

39:10

okay. There are fairies in the film. But not the way you

39:12

think they are. This is not Tinkerbell. It's

39:15

a sort of more of a traumatized fairy.

39:19

And that was really the issue, was we didn't see

39:21

the trauma. We just heard about the trauma. Okay,

39:25

105 still, right? Is

39:27

the window closing? This is

39:29

Amanda's birthday movie. This is a tough one. I

39:31

have a lot of horror films that I'm looking at for

39:34

this end of this year, so I don't need Trapp. So

39:36

that's fine. So just like as soon

39:38

as teen girls are just even on the periphery of

39:40

her movie, you're like about. Deeply

39:42

unfair. You're

39:45

just trying to goad me into bidding so that I somehow

39:47

wind up with Trapp for $200 and

39:49

it comes out in six weeks. This

39:56

is among my most anticipated of the year. I mean,

39:58

mine too. It's also like. Really? I mean, it's like

40:00

this and I'm like, good luck, you know? So, one,

40:03

what was your bid?

40:05

Maybe, maybe, warmly. Yeah. It's

40:07

one of the last like us movies of the year,

40:09

you know, where we're both like, let's go, you know?

40:11

Now we saw Twisters, you know, like there's not, there's

40:13

not many left. So you already got Conclave. And

40:16

you might get Trapper here. This is interesting. Well, I'm

40:18

thinking about that. I'm pondering how bad that would be

40:20

for my game. Sure.

40:27

I'll just give it to him for 185. That would be really fucked up.

40:32

Chris, how are you feeling about Pop Girl

40:34

Summer? I'm passing on it.

40:37

I actually, there's something called Spotifest here.

40:39

Yeah. And the only name

40:41

I recognize was Busta Rhymes and several others

40:43

before. Me too. He's on that

40:45

lineup to get you there. I tried to

40:48

listen to Charli XCX's album and while I

40:50

appreciate it, I appreciate what she's

40:52

doing. It just was, it

40:54

just hit a different frequency. Because it's music made

40:56

by a woman? Nope. That's not true. You

40:59

know that I have a huge, I have a

41:02

huge appreciation for- Who was your favorite female artist

41:04

born after 1997? That's

41:10

a good question. You're wincing right now.

41:12

No, because I'm trying, I don't want to insult anybody by

41:14

getting their age wrong. I'm

41:16

the woman. Dolly, pardon, not eligible. Is...

41:21

Sharon Van Etten's older than that, right? I

41:24

believe so, yes. Probably. Did you say

41:26

97? Okay. This

41:29

is a great thing to ask all men in their 40s. I'm

41:33

writing at one minute and five minutes. Sharon Van Etten is older than I

41:35

am. She's 43. No, no, no, that is. Sharon

41:39

Van Etten is 43. This

41:44

is, case closed. We're good. He's

41:47

passing on Pop Girl Summer, understandable. I'm

41:49

passing too, no offense. So have you

41:51

heard espresso? Of course, it's an estate

41:53

hard espresso. Oh, I like Marissa from

41:56

Mannequin Pussy. Okay, yeah. Okay,

41:58

great. Well done. Perfect.

42:02

Trap 200. Okay, 205. And

42:11

Kat from Wednesday. Do

42:14

you like wet leg? Yeah. I

42:16

think they're probably after 1997, right? Yeah,

42:19

300. I'm definitely

42:21

not bidding $300 for traps, so go ahead. You

42:24

can keep looking at me. I'm not gonna get goaded into bidding 306

42:27

and then wind up with this movie. Do you know anything

42:29

about Chappel Run? And tread carefully. Yeah,

42:31

PB likes her and watches a lot of her

42:33

Instagram material. Okay, great, okay. And so she was

42:35

covering something the other day and I was like,

42:37

oh. I think, you know what I'm trying to

42:39

do? I'm gonna say 215, just for the sake

42:41

of, or 315, sorry. I said three, okay. For

42:43

the sake of this conversation. I've

42:45

got like a five year window where I

42:47

don't have to worry about this. Oh, before it comes in?

42:50

Before Alice. Yeah. So I'm gonna just

42:52

like sit it out. So that's, I

42:54

meanwhile, I'm trying to instill

42:56

an appreciation now before. I

43:00

start giving him Stone Temple Pilots albums. It's just like fully

43:02

rejected. I mean, I can't even. Yeah. I

43:04

can't wait to get your kids into black

43:06

metal. Yeah. Enter the Wu-Tang, 36 Chambers. Gainesville

43:09

Hardcore. What did you mean? Yeah,

43:17

it'll be tough. I might end up with

43:19

just five $1 movies. $995

43:22

left over when you guys- That

43:24

probably is like the most fun way

43:26

to have different films this year though.

43:31

I really want it, but I don't know if I totally want

43:33

it. Okay. You can have it. Yeah.

43:36

That's, I mean, I would have gone to like 700, so.

43:40

I don't think this movie is gonna- I

43:42

don't care. I'm just showing me Josh

43:44

Martin as a serial killer, and then

43:46

I'm on leave. Like bye.

43:49

Wow. There's literally like two full months

43:51

of pods after that. I know, this is like if

43:53

Dazed and Confused took place on Valentine's

43:56

Day, they were like, it's all over, right?

43:58

Just like, no, finals are coming. Okay,

44:00

C.R., you put one up. Instigators. Okay.

44:03

Which is Doug Liman's Boston crime thriller

44:05

with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck and

44:08

has – what's that smell? The

44:10

distinct aroma possibly of

44:13

the Casey Affleck Dunkin' Donuts sketch on

44:15

SNL. Oh. But also maybe the

44:17

town. I can't tell. There's something – I've

44:20

never seen – I can't recall an August

44:22

dumping quite like this. Yeah.

44:25

I'm fascinated by it because it's Doug

44:27

Liman, Matt Damon, and best

44:30

actor-winner Casey Affleck. And Hong

44:32

Chow. Yeah, Hong Chow. And there's one

44:34

other well-known actor. Anyway, I

44:37

see this as a great opportunity to create the Matt Damon

44:39

Hall of Fame on this podcast, which is something we will

44:41

do. Great. Can't wait.

44:43

Is he invited? As

44:45

I said earlier, Chris is invited to any episode he would

44:47

like to come to. Well,

44:50

let me just connect – oh, you are

44:52

on – you're on the spreadsheet. Eighty dollars.

44:55

I'm looking for this. Eighty dollars. Ninety

44:57

dollars. One hundred and twenty dollars. My

44:59

word. Yeah. You're not

45:01

interested. Was she – Wait. I know. So

45:04

did you introduce it or you introduced it? I introduced it.

45:07

And then did you already up him? I did. And

45:09

then you went to one. And then I jumped forty bucks.

45:11

Just recapped something that happened eleven seconds ago. Well, I wasn't

45:13

listening. Have you seen the trailer for this fall? I was

45:15

looking at the spreadsheet. Yes. Yeah. You

45:18

said one twenty? One twenty-five.

45:22

One thirty-five. One fifty. Well,

45:24

this is getting a little spicy. One sixty? What

45:26

if it's amazing? What if it's like

45:28

– What is with the – I mean, is it

45:30

really just that bad or is it that Apple is

45:32

like, we don't want to deal with Doug Liman anymore

45:35

and we're just giving it a – People are saying

45:37

that they don't want to deal with Doug Liman for

45:39

two decades and they keep dealing with him and he

45:41

honestly keeps making pretty good movies. Sure.

45:44

Sure. I say this

45:46

with no ill will towards anybody participating, but I think this will

45:48

be terrible. Yeah. Because it's coming

45:50

out in August? I could be wrong. I

45:53

would like for it to be good. I'm

45:55

very fond of Matt Damon doing Boston things.

45:58

Oh, we are. It just generally worked

46:00

out well. Walter Hauser, Michael Stilbarg and

46:02

Ving Rhames, and Alfred Molina and Toby

46:04

Jones and Jack Harlow. That's a sick

46:06

cast. Jack Harlow can't really vouch for

46:08

that. Otherwise, Jack Harlow

46:10

is Chris's favorite female artist since 1997,

46:13

though. Casey Affleck, co-screenwriting writer.

46:15

I just learned about Jack Harlow two months

46:17

ago live on Jam Session. He's

46:19

very popular. Yeah. Pretty good rapper. I learned

46:21

that as well. So this is

46:24

tough also because it's like you have Matt

46:26

and Casey going with their comedic

46:29

comedy movie in August. And then you

46:31

got Brad and George later

46:34

in September. And it's like. Are you queuing up

46:36

your next contestant? No. I'm just like, well, I'm

46:38

just like, what we really want is

46:40

all of you back together in another

46:42

Oceans movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. Does

46:44

Hollywood want that? Do they want to pay $300 million for Oceans 14?

46:49

He's too busy keeping it real. Keeping it real with

46:51

what? With his experimental genre films.

46:53

With the film presence. What's

46:56

the number? Oh, because you were still one.

46:58

He was trying to guess. It's 130

47:01

to me still. Shouldn't I have one right now? Yeah,

47:03

this has got it. It's got the

47:05

instigators. So when we asked you before you did all

47:07

your research, what movie you were most looking forward to,

47:09

you were just like that Soderbergh movie that's coming out,

47:11

right? It's just like you said you can put another

47:13

movie up for auction here because we're snake style. Let's

47:16

do a Nora. Oh,

47:19

yeah. The con. I really

47:21

want to see this. If anyone's listening. The

47:24

winner of the con film festival. Perhaps

47:26

the star making performance for Mikey Madison. Sean

47:30

Baker is back. A filmmaker

47:32

I like don't have incredibly

47:34

strong feelings about. I think we've had a

47:36

conversation about Sean Baker. I really think I

47:38

like his technique more than his movies. But

47:41

this one. Is it because they're

47:44

often about sex workers and female characters? I

47:50

actually, to be fair. I

47:54

never never mind. I think

47:56

that this movie has like a

47:58

lot of space to just. take up a huge

48:01

mind share in the award season.

48:03

I haven't seen it. You haven't seen it. I

48:06

haven't seen it either. I'm available. Has anybody

48:08

not like it? Has it gotten any dings?

48:11

It was, you know, they show the critic scorecard

48:13

from Cannes when the festival is happening, and it

48:15

was the only film that pretty consistently had three

48:17

and four stars across all my across. So I

48:19

need a better critic kit here. It was

48:21

a really, really rocky Cannes. This

48:24

movie kind of saved Cannes in many ways,

48:27

but Hollywood, and especially the

48:29

Academy, loves an ingenue. Somebody like Mikey Madison has

48:31

been working for a long time but hasn't had

48:33

a breakout like this. It's a movie that is

48:36

clearly very inspired by Pretty Woman but has very

48:38

contemporary politics and ideas. It's

48:40

about a woman who is a sex

48:42

worker who meets a Russian oligarch

48:45

and quickly marries him. And then things

48:47

happen. Always

48:49

like Mikey Madison. Very, very

48:51

fun and scream. Six,

48:54

five. She was in five, yeah. I

48:58

don't want to spend time in Hollywood. 50 bucks. 100

49:00

bucks. 150 bucks. 200

49:03

bucks. 250.

49:07

Very interested in this. We

49:12

never had a Red Rocket episode. I

49:15

really liked it. He's in this one. America wasn't ready.

49:17

I know. Isn't he in this

49:19

too? Simon and Lassen? I'm not sure. Also

49:21

just like talk about incredible press tours. Simon

49:24

Rex? Yeah. Yeah, he crushed

49:26

it. He's just always calling from Joshua Tree

49:29

and he's like, it's really important to keep your

49:31

toes spread. I hope that

49:33

Inora. What? Seriously, that's a

49:35

real quote. He's a kook. I like him. Was

49:37

that cause of the pandemic? Was he like in

49:39

Joshua Tree? No, it's cause like he, I guess where he grew

49:41

up, did he grow up in Hawaii or did he? I don't

49:43

remember. But he was just like, I was

49:45

barefoot a lot. And it's just really important.

49:48

You need the toe spreader for better like

49:50

toe alignment. This

49:53

feels like one of the few movies that

49:56

we don't know a ton about that has juice in. Yeah.

50:00

race and that will be like a

50:02

rich discussion point and it's coming out in

50:04

October 18th. Simon

50:07

Rex is not in this film. 3-10. 3-15. 3-25 because

50:10

this could

50:13

this could do Metacritic and this could

50:16

be Oscars. So you guys say it's

50:18

a valuable pick for the Oscars. 3-30.

50:20

3-50. Wow. You really want

50:22

this huh? 3-60. What

50:25

are you saving your thousand dollars for? That's what I'm saying. I just

50:27

went into 3-70. Yeah yeah yeah. 3-70. 3-80. 3-85? 3-90. 4. Have

50:29

we had a 400 in a while? Mmm good question. I don't think

50:40

any films cost $400 in

50:43

our last. What films do you have right

50:45

now in your slate? Instigators. I

50:48

just drafted it. This is like the first

50:50

round. This is the fucking problem by the

50:52

way. Is that Matt Damon and Casey Affleck

50:55

make a crime movie and we're like, eh.

50:58

That's why that's why that's why Kevin Costner only

51:00

made 11 million this weekend. You think it's the

51:02

woke mob? The woke mob has stormed upon the

51:04

instigators. We're out here canceling the Pope instead

51:06

of seeing Verizon. I said 4-10. You

51:10

can have it. Okay great. That

51:12

is a high bid for a Nora. But

51:14

Pomdor winner. Yeah. Pomdor winners consistently get Best

51:16

Picture nominations. I don't think this is gonna

51:18

make a hundred million dollars at the American Mocks Office. I can't believe you're not

51:20

going to can next year. Did

51:22

you learn? Did you learn nothing from not

51:24

going this year? Well I clearly not going

51:27

this year was I was that I was

51:29

a mistake and yet it was not a

51:31

good can. Yeah but think

51:34

about all the material. The mistake was not going to the Marty can.

51:37

The killer's the mistake is not going every

51:39

year which is why I'm gonna remedy that next year.

51:42

Okay. I wish you can. Yeah. But

51:44

he's not gonna come. I'll see you with the movies. Will you

51:46

be flying private with your brood? Alright.

51:50

Next movie

51:53

I put up for bid

51:55

is let's just do

51:57

it. Wolves. If

54:00

Twisters doesn't break a hundred million

54:02

domestic, like, what are we doing here?

54:05

Just as a society. I just think it's harder to predict

54:07

than ever. There are movies that have been big this year.

54:09

I know, but that was a call to

54:11

action to everyone sitting at home. You

54:13

know, if you mean business, then fucking show

54:15

up. I believe that's called embargo breaking. This

54:18

is after Amanda's like, bring me all of

54:20

your rough cuts to my home so that

54:22

I may watch on the comfort of

54:24

my couch. Listen,

54:26

I'm trying to be out and about. I hear you. Yeah. You

54:28

know? Do you wish that your reviews were

54:30

on the posters of movies more often? Do

54:32

you wish that you were a staff writer

54:34

for, for showing.net? I've seen the rough cut

54:36

and it was okay. Amanda Dobbins, the big

54:39

picture. I feel like I do. I do

54:41

honestly feel like if you were not

54:43

at all faithful to the context of

54:45

my quotes, that I could deliver some really powerful

54:47

poster material. Oh, like if there was no, yeah.

54:50

I mean, you, we could deliver some great stuff

54:52

for Donald Trump's campaign. You know? That's true. Um,

54:55

please don't do that. I'll, I will sue him

54:57

and then it won't matter. Yeah. Um, it always

55:00

works out well. Okay. Oh,

55:03

um, a real pain for

55:06

$50. Okay.

55:11

Yeah. Uh, $85. You

55:16

want it? Who knows? Okay.

55:29

Interesting. So you're going to go

55:31

and then you're going to get something for like 10 bucks after this.

55:35

I'll go 150. I've either seen when you

55:37

finished saving the world. Jesse

55:39

Eisenberg's first movie as a director.

55:42

One, what did you, you said 150? Wolfhard and Julianne Moore.

55:44

No, I didn't. Oh, I really

55:47

liked Fin Wolfhard though. I did see it. I

55:49

did see it. I just forgot. Yeah, it was good. I

55:51

wasn't a huge fan. Uh,

55:57

I thought a real pain was actually the poster. You

56:01

and Jesse fucking you guys are really doing it

56:03

man. You got the Knicks you

56:05

should have Yeah,

56:08

well you're it's I mean it's playoff P Monday

56:10

for you. So you feeling good? I

56:12

hope I hope to mean Paul George's

56:14

on the Sixers Called

56:19

podcast P You

56:21

know him as a cat out there good

56:23

memory Now we can

56:25

be like a cat out there with Joel and In

56:28

the garage what honestly

56:30

some of the bills best lights out Yeah,

56:35

he's true Bill truly the goat of

56:38

animal metaphors Yeah,

56:42

Oh 155 You

56:47

guys know what this movie is about yeah, they're on a trip

56:49

right Those

56:51

guys are they're like going across Europe

56:53

a real pain follows mismatched cousins David

56:56

and Benji who reunite for a tour

56:59

through Poland they go to camp so

57:01

honor their beloved grandmother But

57:04

it's not is it comic it is it

57:06

felt very very Elaine May to

57:08

me Oh, you're

57:10

speaking my language because Elaine May is a woman

57:12

artist. I love What's

57:19

the number what's the number Bob 155 165 175

57:25

yeah to Chris currently has one film the end

57:27

see I got I got a real pain for

57:29

$200. Yeah, it's done. Yeah It's

57:31

done Okay

57:35

Unfortunately, I didn't write any more movies down on

57:38

that list over there. We need to be tough. Do we need to vamp a

57:40

little bit? No, no, no, I mean, you

57:42

know, I'm scrolling through the thing is

57:44

is that if I like I

57:46

have to pick something That I'm

57:49

okay being stuck with tonight Can I raise three movies

57:51

that are undated that I think are coming out this

57:53

year, but I'm not sure Just

57:55

just as discussion points Yeah.

58:01

One is Queer. Oh, right. This is

58:03

Luca Guadagnino's next film. It's, it's, they

58:06

haven't officially announced Venice yet, but isn't it going to

58:08

open Venice? Presumably. Okay. Thank

58:11

you for reminding me. I also felt like it was a, it seems like a strong

58:13

Telluride title as well. Okay. Daniel Craig's in

58:15

it, right? That's what they do. It's a Colorado thing.

58:18

Yeah. Daniel Craig's in it. Daniel Craig's in

58:20

it. One of the front runners for Best Actor this year. The

58:22

other movie is The Smashing Machine, which is filming right now.

58:24

This is Benny Staffdy's movie with Dwayne Johnson. The Rock. Oh,

58:27

right. Do you think this is going to come out this

58:29

year? I didn't think so. And now

58:31

I do. I feel like

58:33

it's got real like December 31st release

58:35

date energy written all over it. Kind of same playbook

58:37

as The Iron Claw for A24. I

58:40

could be wrong. It could be pushed to 25.

58:42

I wanted to raise it. And there's one more

58:44

movie that has a similar shape, which is SNL

58:46

1975, which is Jason Reitman's docudrama

58:49

about, I think it's the first

58:51

night of the first episode of

58:53

Saturday Night Live with a very

58:55

loaded cast of promising young actors.

58:58

Directed by Jason Reitman. I

59:02

will bid on queer for $50. I'll

59:05

say $100. Okay. I

59:07

really can't say. You

59:09

can't say what? I can't say how I feel about this film.

59:11

I don't know any, I don't, I doubt that this is coming

59:13

out this year. It's based on a book by William F. Burroughs.

59:16

And it's written by Justin Kurzgeskis, the same author of Challengers.

59:18

I love William F. Burroughs. Well. Isn't

59:21

William S. Burroughs? It is William S. Burroughs. Yeah.

59:25

That's how much I love him. I knew that is

59:27

correct middle name. You got it right. This

59:30

is so tough because there's just, I

59:32

have so much passion for cinema and so many of the

59:34

movies have already been taken. This

59:36

is so tough. Could this be any

59:39

more tough for you? Um,

59:41

140. Just

59:46

to, just to spice things up. Are you a Luca person? Just

59:48

to throw a little turmeric in it. Uh,

59:52

that's a really good question. I don't, I don't think

59:54

so. Okay. But I

59:56

love Challengers. I love Challengers. Oh good. Okay.

1:00:01

I found him. I found him. I found him

1:00:03

is joining the Dallas Mavericks on a three year $50 million

1:00:05

deal, Chris. Clay Thompson. Good for him. I'm glad he didn't

1:00:07

go to LeBron. Okay. What did you bid?

1:00:11

Where is the bidding right now? I couldn't

1:00:13

hear because you guys were cross talking. I

1:00:15

think I think you. Oh, sorry for bringing

1:00:17

some life to a podcast, Bobby. I'm just

1:00:19

telling you practically from a technical perspective, it

1:00:21

is challenging to hear when it's quick. But

1:00:24

last I heard was 160. And

1:00:27

by whom? By you. Good.

1:00:30

Okay. You're

1:00:33

running out of dough. I could just take this one from you. If

1:00:36

you'd like to do that, go ahead. It's really not a bad idea.

1:00:38

Okay. I feel pretty strongly about this movie, but I know you do

1:00:40

too. And I want to be in the spirit of friendship today. I

1:00:42

know you do too, because I just told you about it 45 seconds

1:00:44

ago. No, I

1:00:46

know. She has brought it up to me before. I knew about

1:00:48

it and then I forgot. And

1:00:50

I mean, I still. I brought that would be really

1:00:52

funny if I brought it up to help you and took it from you. If

1:00:56

you want to do it, like I said, you know, like this, this

1:00:58

podcast is still this podcast. I

1:01:01

challenge. My name is my name. Challengers

1:01:03

was supposed to be opening night at Venice

1:01:06

last year. I'm sorry. And

1:01:09

I think that would have been electric. Did

1:01:13

you see somebody? Had

1:01:15

a cool Instagram of Zendaya at Home

1:01:17

Depot. I did see that. Yeah. She

1:01:22

just seems like a real down to earth person. Zendaya.

1:01:25

Yeah. Okay. Should

1:01:30

I just push up to 249? If

1:01:35

you want to. You can have it at 225. Okay.

1:01:38

Thank you. Yeah. So

1:01:40

now you have 25 bucks left and one movie left. Yeah. You did

1:01:42

a really good job. Thanks so much. Yeah. Thank

1:01:45

you. You kind of that was. He got

1:01:47

a little soft. You totally honest, but thank you. You're

1:01:50

welcome. Well, you really, you really set us up by like your big

1:01:52

announcement. Now we're all like, you can't be mean to Amanda. So

1:01:55

Sean Stern. How long do you think that'll hold?

1:01:57

Like one more podcast? More round. do

1:04:00

this last time. Joker,

1:04:02

Florida. Hmm. I'll

1:04:05

start at 100. I'm out. So

1:04:08

that's, that's too bad. Okay, here's the

1:04:10

thing. It's gonna be a time

1:04:13

and a half at the theater. I'm on

1:04:15

the record as being pro Joker. I

1:04:18

have no shame about Jason Concepcion and

1:04:20

I sat here. Yeah. Not here,

1:04:22

but in another room and we looked each other in the

1:04:24

eyes and we said, I like Joker. Yeah. Will you support

1:04:26

me? And he said yes. And I said yes. And

1:04:31

I like most

1:04:33

of Todd Phillips' movies. You know what's gonna

1:04:35

make a lot of money is this phone. Mm hmm. And

1:04:37

I think it'll also do well critically and in

1:04:40

a. You think it'll get an 85 metascore. I

1:04:42

think it might get an Oscar nomination or two.

1:04:44

For whom? Joaquin Gaga. Did he already

1:04:46

do this though? He already won the Oscar for Joker.

1:04:48

Oh wait, I can't do this. It's a sequel. It

1:04:50

is a sequel. Just

1:04:54

too good drafting. But then are you even allowed

1:04:56

to bid on it? No. Should

1:04:58

I need a guy? I have two sequels.

1:05:00

Oh well. Oh, okay. Oh, you can add

1:05:02

it. You already have two sequels.

1:05:05

Yeah. We're hemmed in by our own rules. Just

1:05:07

like the NBA. Intriguing. The second apron is coming

1:05:09

to effect. Well done.

1:05:12

Okay, so I have to pick something else. Yes. I

1:05:17

sadly will not be able to get Venom the last

1:05:19

dance either. That's really sad. I guess I'll

1:05:21

go blink twice. I've seen this. Okay.

1:05:23

He's out. I'm gonna go 50

1:05:26

bucks. Well, I don't have that. Okay. Congratulations.

1:05:29

So. And

1:05:33

now, and I'm just gonna just

1:05:35

to bring it back to a contemporary

1:05:37

storyline, Sean. Yes. I will nominate

1:05:39

the film heretic. I wanted

1:05:41

to discuss this with you. Thank you for bringing it up. Awesome trailer heretic.

1:05:44

Oh, you don't know what this is. Oh,

1:05:47

Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant. Oh, exciting. Yeah.

1:05:49

Read the description. Hugh Mormon missionaries attempt

1:05:52

to convert a man. It turns

1:05:54

out to be far more dangerous than they could

1:05:56

have anticipated. Okay. So he is, he is the

1:05:58

man. He's the man. He's not a Mormon missionary. So

1:06:01

obviously things are gonna go wrong for him. Ah!

1:06:04

Chloe East and Sophie Hatcher. Uh-huh.

1:06:07

Two very exciting young actors. Oh, things

1:06:09

are gonna go badly for them because he's, yeah. He

1:06:12

only does things where he gets to really, you

1:06:14

know, be dastardly. Get the batter out. He looks very

1:06:16

evil. Yeah, well, that's kind of

1:06:18

what he's saying. Did you happen to

1:06:21

read his review of Taylor

1:06:23

Swift the Heiress tour in London? Where did he

1:06:26

write it? No. Twitter?

1:06:28

Are you not following Hugh Grant's Twitter?

1:06:30

Okay, listen. It is,

1:06:32

no, because it is a mix of what

1:06:35

I'm about to read you and then just

1:06:37

like squirting hot... A hundred dollars, by the

1:06:39

way. ...excreation of the

1:06:41

current UK political system. Okay. But

1:06:44

it's like amazing, amazing dad Twitter. Here

1:06:46

we go. Here's his review. June

1:06:49

23rd. Dear at Taylor Swift 13,

1:06:51

you have an incredible show, an amazing

1:06:53

and V hospital team, an

1:06:56

excellent if gigantic boyfriend. Parentheses,

1:06:59

hashtag tequila shots. Thanks

1:07:02

so much for one aging London boy,

1:07:04

wife and thrilled eight-year-old. Hashtag

1:07:06

half girl, half bracelet. It seems like she's... Excellent

1:07:08

if gigantic. Hugh Grant and Travis Cole, he's taking

1:07:10

tequila shots together. That's just a... You need that.

1:07:14

I'm sorry, what'd you say? Do

1:07:16

you think that she's purposely trying to

1:07:18

alienate Joe Allin from the UK celebrity

1:07:22

ecosystem by inviting every famous English person

1:07:24

to these shows? Yeah,

1:07:26

of course. And I definitely think that

1:07:28

Travis made his onstage debut in London

1:07:30

for a reason. Yeah.

1:07:34

You know, Andrew Scott is a little bit, just

1:07:36

like seems to be having the summer of his life and

1:07:38

I would like to be with him, you know, but like

1:07:40

he and Phoebe Waller-Bridge were jamming out. He was at Glass

1:07:42

& Mary this weekend. Yeah, and then he was with Paul

1:07:45

Maskell at Glass & Mary. They seem

1:07:47

to be having a great time. I bid $100 for Heretic,

1:07:49

by the way. I don't have $100, but maybe I would

1:07:51

see this movie. It's written

1:07:53

and directed by Scott Beck and Brian Woods,

1:07:55

who also wrote A Quiet Place and

1:07:58

Haunt. They directed Haunt. I believe so.

1:08:00

Pretty good horror movie from five, six years ago. This

1:08:02

just looks really solid. Do we think it's going to

1:08:04

be like really gross? No, I think it's going to

1:08:06

be frightening. And gnarly or it's going to be almost

1:08:08

like a little fable-ish. It

1:08:11

feels like he's playing kind of

1:08:13

a Vincent Price character. Yeah. It's

1:08:16

like he sets up a series of tests of

1:08:19

their faith, right? Yeah, it's like a little bit

1:08:21

of like, I don't know, the abominable Dr. Fives

1:08:23

or like one of those 70s movies where he's

1:08:25

teaching a lesson about religious zealotry.

1:08:29

It's too bad you can't have this. You only have two movies. Yeah,

1:08:31

I know. It's tough. I'll

1:08:34

go 150. I'll go two.

1:08:38

I'll go 225. I actually wrote this

1:08:40

down at the top of the document. I'm not sure if you saw it in

1:08:42

there because I was hoping this would come up. Yeah,

1:08:44

I saw it. But the

1:08:46

real fight is going to happen when

1:08:49

we get Red 1 out there forbidding.

1:08:52

Who will put that out there? What

1:08:54

did you put this at? 200? And that's the prequel to Red

1:08:56

2. So that's exciting.

1:08:59

Prequels are allowed, if not. No. No,

1:09:03

they're not. Because Furiosa was my... And Romulus would

1:09:05

be a prequel. And Romulus would be a prequel

1:09:07

too. Or should they be?

1:09:10

It's too late. We both have a lot of

1:09:12

money left. That's true, but I wouldn't be wasting my time with

1:09:14

Heretic if Romulus is in the mix. Well,

1:09:17

but then... Did you better know? I

1:09:20

guess prequels are not... Part 1 is different

1:09:22

than a prequel. Correct. Because

1:09:24

otherwise Chris is really... You can scroll up quickly. You're

1:09:26

in trouble. Did you bid or no? I think

1:09:28

I said like 200. I said 225. Oh,

1:09:31

230. Mmm,

1:09:33

235. This

1:09:36

is an 824 film? I

1:09:39

feel like I kind of got to get this. Do you? I

1:09:42

feel like I do. You

1:09:44

have 589 left and I have 620 left. So

1:09:48

I'm going to put this at 300 and see

1:09:50

where we are. There's

1:09:52

no other horror thrillers that you're interested in, Sean?

1:09:55

There are some horror thrillers I'm interested in. I've seen a

1:09:57

bunch. Well, too frosty bear. I would have.

1:09:59

scooped up long legs and a heartbeat if I had not

1:10:01

already seen it. You're kind of the pope of this podcast.

1:10:03

That's your cross to bear, you know? Kind

1:10:05

of the pope? Or the actual

1:10:08

pope? Or are you God? You

1:10:10

know? No, no, I'm not God. Who's God? There

1:10:13

is no God. It's not Costner. It

1:10:16

could be Kevin Costner. You

1:10:18

can have it for 300. Okay. That's

1:10:21

heretic. Now you pick. You,

1:10:23

it's your turn. Is it? Yeah,

1:10:25

because I, first I accidentally did Joker, then

1:10:27

I got- I got hurt twice and

1:10:29

now I got hurt. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You

1:10:34

can't do Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Yeah. Wow.

1:10:37

You really betrayed yourself and your beliefs. I

1:10:40

think I might be more excited for Moana too. Even

1:10:43

though it was just a TV show that they refashioned into a movie.

1:10:45

Okay. It's gonna make $900 billion. Right,

1:10:47

sure. I'm gonna put

1:10:49

Amelia Perez on the board. Oh

1:10:51

yeah. I'm interested in this. Yeah, dog.

1:10:54

Amelia Perez is the new film from Jacques Odiard. Yep.

1:10:58

Stars Selena Gomez. And the lioness-

1:11:00

Carla Sofia Gascon and Zoe Saldana.

1:11:02

The lioness herself. And Edgar

1:11:05

Ramirez, your boy. Yeah, love him. This

1:11:07

was a film of much controversy at

1:11:10

the Cannes Film Festival. It's

1:11:12

about a disgruntled lawyer who's

1:11:15

tasked with assisting an escaped Mexican

1:11:17

cartel leader in undergoing

1:11:19

sex reassignment surgery to both evade the

1:11:21

authorities and affirm her gender. Jacques

1:11:24

Odiard, legendary French director. It could

1:11:26

be kind of a musical too. There are

1:11:28

musical elements to it. I'll put it on

1:11:30

the board for $10. Would

1:11:33

I be surprised to see multiple

1:11:35

Academy Award nominations? No. No.

1:11:38

I think this is Netflix's big Oscar play this year. Even

1:11:41

though this movie is very divisive. But they

1:11:43

got Selena in the bag- And Selena is

1:11:45

tremendously famous. And willing to, yeah. And

1:11:47

she won Best Actress along with

1:11:49

her co-stars at Cannes.

1:11:52

Odiard's good. 50 bucks. He

1:11:55

directed the last few episodes of the Bureau. Did

1:11:58

he? Yeah. So

1:12:00

Fastbender's officially in American Bureau.

1:12:02

And Joe Wright is directing it. And

1:12:05

Jez Butterworth is writing it. Wait, Fastbender

1:12:07

in who? Jeffrey Wright. Wow.

1:12:10

Did you ever watch Globe Bureau? And Joe Wright is

1:12:12

directing it. Yeah, and Joe Wright. This

1:12:15

is the Joe Wright Club. And Jez Butterworth. What are you

1:12:17

talking about? You don't have time for that. What's

1:12:19

Joe Wright's last good movie? Anna

1:12:21

Karenina. That was made 15 years ago.

1:12:23

I liked Hannah. Oh, Hannah was good.

1:12:25

Yeah. I apologize for

1:12:28

the Hannah erasure. I say

1:12:30

$100 for Amelia Paris. Do I get it?

1:12:32

The dads love Darkest Hour. I

1:12:34

love Darkest Hour. Darkest

1:12:37

Hour is solid. It is solid.

1:12:39

And I had a good time. Did Gary Oldman win

1:12:41

for that? He did. People

1:12:43

got a dream bigger. Chris thought he should have won for

1:12:45

Dark Knight. When

1:12:49

he pointed the fucking light at this guy. I

1:12:52

watched War for the Planet of the Apes and I also thought he should have won

1:12:54

for that. Oh, he's good in that, yeah. They're

1:12:57

animals! It's

1:13:00

a great part. Is he the best screamer of

1:13:02

all time? The best yeller? The best male yeller

1:13:04

in movie history? One for now Slow Horses is back in

1:13:06

September. Is he yelling a lot on that show? Is he

1:13:08

gonna catch up? No, I'm gonna save it. Okay. And

1:13:10

that's gonna be one of my... Did

1:13:14

I tell you about my Emily in Paris dilemma?

1:13:17

That it's out. Yeah, but it's like, do

1:13:19

I watch it when it comes out

1:13:21

or do I save it for just like truly

1:13:23

out of the brain time? Well, you've had this

1:13:25

experience once before. Did you find it rewarding to

1:13:27

watch television in the early days? Yeah,

1:13:30

but like this specific zone

1:13:32

out television, which is why Emily in

1:13:34

Paris would be such a treat. You can have it. Thank

1:13:37

you. Yeah. This is quite a

1:13:39

lineup so far. Anora Moana 2 and Amelia

1:13:41

Perez. It's an oddball

1:13:44

auction for us. I got Instigators, a

1:13:46

real pain, Blink Twice, and Heretic for

1:13:48

$300. Okay, so Amanda, you've got

1:13:50

one more movie to put up. You've got $25. Now

1:13:53

be careful. Better

1:13:57

not be anything that we want even a little bit.

1:13:59

I know. Um, maybe,

1:14:02

maybe I'll want this, but I don't know what else

1:14:04

to do. I'm, I'm going to put, I'm

1:14:07

going to, I'm going to test my Harris Dickinson stock

1:14:10

and also mine, Nicole Kidman,

1:14:12

um, being interested in,

1:14:14

in younger men's stock, uh,

1:14:16

with baby girl for $5. It's

1:14:21

just the first time I've ever heard of this

1:14:23

film. So it's Helena Ryan is the director. She

1:14:26

made bodies, bodies, bodies. One

1:14:28

time guest of this podcast. Um, offline.

1:14:31

I have a very funny Helena Ryan story to tell you both that

1:14:34

I will not be sharing on this podcast. Wow.

1:14:37

Pure Windhorse from you right there. Um,

1:14:40

this was on my list. Yeah.

1:14:42

Nicole Kidman was honored last week with

1:14:45

an award. I can't remember what award it was. The AFI

1:14:47

Life Time Something Award. Uh,

1:14:49

Zach Efron inducted her. We did have not spoken about the

1:14:51

film of family affair. Oh yeah. Is

1:14:53

it good? I

1:14:56

thought it was pretty charming. I liked it way more than the idea of

1:14:58

you. Um, and it's in

1:15:00

the sort of May, December. I just, like,

1:15:03

I thought that the polarity of this show is you

1:15:05

liking that movie and I, and me liking the idea

1:15:08

of you. Well, I just like that guy

1:15:10

and idea of you is that it does

1:15:12

not exist to me. Like he, like I can't

1:15:14

see him on the screen and

1:15:17

I thought Zach Efron was

1:15:19

charming. Zach Efron looks like CGI in the

1:15:21

movie. I mean, he does, but that, you

1:15:23

know, that there's no, there's no, there's

1:15:26

no, there's some complicated facial things

1:15:28

going on there. So it was really the realism

1:15:31

of a family affair that you were really responding to.

1:15:33

I wanted at least three of

1:15:35

Nicole Kipman's outfits. Okay. Now we've got

1:15:37

to the bottom of it. And I thought that

1:15:39

they spent more money on the interiors than is

1:15:41

normally spent. And I laughed a couple of times.

1:15:44

So I, I did actually think it was charming. I thought

1:15:47

Joey King was good. Yeah, Joey King was good. You know,

1:15:49

and it's about the, about how it's difficult

1:15:51

to make films and also difficult to have

1:15:53

family. That's what family affairs are. Yeah, but

1:15:55

together we can. That's the other one

1:15:58

about baby girl is about. Uh,

1:16:00

grooming. Is it? That's

1:16:02

the impression I'm getting. Here's the one

1:16:04

line description. Despite the risk and prejudices,

1:16:07

a very successful CEO begins an illicit affair

1:16:09

with her much younger intern. So she's doing

1:16:11

two movies about this. Well, I

1:16:14

guess Zac Efron is not. She's been doing this

1:16:16

forever. She's the paper boy. This is just something

1:16:18

she does. Was she in birth? She

1:16:20

was in birth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, which is

1:16:22

a- Incredible movie. Grooming in a different way. Yeah.

1:16:25

Yeah. I'm very

1:16:27

interested in this movie. I am the world's oldest

1:16:29

bodies, bodies, bodies super fan. That is true. I

1:16:32

wear that mantle proudly. Yeah. But

1:16:35

I'll let you have it. Okay, great. Thank you.

1:16:38

Harris Dickinson season. Now this feels like a Telluride movie

1:16:40

to me. Okay. Well, listen, it's between

1:16:43

you and God, whether you go to the mountains

1:16:45

and see some films. I'll be going. I'm already

1:16:47

signed up. So you have two slots left. No,

1:16:49

you got, or did you get your fourth there?

1:16:51

I've got two and you got one. Yeah. So

1:16:53

it's my turn. Nomination. Would

1:16:56

it be really funny if I got the apprentice? I

1:16:58

was thinking about it. It does

1:17:00

have a distributor, Briarcliff. Yeah. That's

1:17:03

our LLC. Did

1:17:07

you see that Hailey Meyers Shire's new film

1:17:10

is coming out this year? I

1:17:12

did on Annie Meyers Shire's Instagram,

1:17:14

which I'm following religiously, the renovation

1:17:16

ongoing. Is Annie Meyers Shire the

1:17:18

Instagram, the distributor of Hailey Meyers

1:17:20

Shire's film? No. So

1:17:23

the film stars Michael Keaton, your husband.

1:17:26

And your second husband. And third.

1:17:30

Mila Kunes. Who's your second, Austin Butler? Steven

1:17:32

Soderbergh. Oh. Well established. And

1:17:35

it's being distributed by Ketchup Entertainment. Okay.

1:17:38

They distributed the film Hypnotic, starring Ben Affleck,

1:17:40

directed by Robert Rodriguez. I saw that film

1:17:42

in theaters. As did I. Okay.

1:17:46

That's a true thing. Okay. It's a real

1:17:48

company. Just putting that out there for you. Yeah.

1:17:50

You've already got five films. I'll

1:17:52

see it. I don't want the apprentice. Do

1:17:55

you? No, I want something else. You

1:17:58

don't want the apprentices. Did you nominate it? Or

1:18:00

did you just say I could nominate it? I'm

1:18:03

taking another animated film. For

1:18:06

$100, I'm selecting The Wild Robot. I

1:18:08

don't even... Those are just two words

1:18:10

put together. This is an adaptation

1:18:12

of a beloved children's story. It's directed

1:18:14

by Chris Sanders. Chris Sanders is one

1:18:16

of the more notable names in animation in

1:18:18

the last 25 years. He made Lilo and Stitch. He

1:18:21

worked on the How to Train Your Dragon films. Lupita

1:18:24

Nyong'o is the voice. She's

1:18:26

the titular robot who's wild.

1:18:29

I think this is gonna win Best Animated Feature. I'm calling it right

1:18:31

now. I'm reading about Dakota

1:18:33

Johnson's new book club, Bic, Pink

1:18:36

Slime, which

1:18:38

is apparently a well-imagined, often poetically

1:18:40

beautiful plague story. How

1:18:42

did that happen? How did you wind up reading

1:18:45

like that? I got an email, and I was reading

1:18:47

that instead of listening to him talking about it. I'll

1:18:49

take this for $18, which will

1:18:52

leave me with $321. To

1:18:57

do what with? To take away this movie that you have. Well, you have

1:18:59

$320. Okay. So

1:19:01

what's your bid? Well, you could also bid.

1:19:04

Oh, so you all... Okay, so now it's my turn to pick

1:19:06

something, right? I'll be picking the

1:19:09

new film from Justin Kurtzel called The

1:19:11

Order, which is about a white supremacist

1:19:13

group in Idaho getting into criminal behavior.

1:19:17

And Jew Law plays the FBI agent

1:19:19

investigating them. I'm so excited to talk

1:19:21

to you about this. Nicholas Whole is

1:19:23

the white supremacist. The

1:19:26

best thing ever about this movie. Is

1:19:28

Jew Law playing American? Yeah, he's an American

1:19:31

FBI agent. Can you be in the FBI

1:19:33

if you're not American? He's not.

1:19:36

Jew Law. He's pretending to be law. I don't think

1:19:38

it's like being the president. I think that's a

1:19:40

bad idea is one thing I would say. I

1:19:42

think Jude Law should be Jude Law. I was

1:19:44

listening to the program WTF with

1:19:46

Mark Maron. He had Jude Law on the podcast.

1:19:48

I was like, play as soon as

1:19:50

that was published. But

1:19:54

one of the first things that Jude Law says to Mark

1:19:56

Maron is, or one of the first things Mark Maron says

1:19:58

to Jude Law is, I haven't seen you since we did

1:20:00

the movie together. Oh, right.

1:20:02

Mark Maron's in this. Mark Maron is in the order.

1:20:05

And Jude Law and Mark Maron talked about the

1:20:07

craft of acting for a solid hour

1:20:09

and 12 minutes. Did Maron tell him about the time

1:20:12

Bobby De Niro came up to him

1:20:14

on the set? It absolutely came up as it

1:20:16

comes up in every episode of WTF. I adore

1:20:18

WTF. The idea of Jude Law and Mark Maron

1:20:20

even being in the same room, let alone in

1:20:22

the same film, is very confusing to me. Justin

1:20:25

Kurtzel, what's your favorite Justin Kurtzel movie?

1:20:27

Macbeth. Is

1:20:29

that actually good? It looks good. And

1:20:32

Macbeth is good. I

1:20:34

feel like that film is a bit of a slog. OK. Did

1:20:38

he also direct what's

1:20:40

the terrible Michael Fassbender video game adaptation? Assassin's Creed,

1:20:43

yes he did. I don't feel like he had

1:20:45

final cut on that. Marion

1:20:48

Coitiard and Jeremy Irons. Also

1:20:50

in Assassin's Creed, no. I skipped that, believe it or

1:20:52

not. I thought was it because you wanted to maintain

1:20:54

fealty to the video game series? Well, she's got to

1:20:56

get ready for Assassin's Creed being the only thing that

1:20:58

happens in her house for 12 years.

1:21:00

Good point. She'll call Helen Mirren and talk

1:21:02

about that. Just

1:21:05

the day that you show up with a video game

1:21:08

console or whatever they're called in my home. I

1:21:10

think what I'm going to do is leave them in

1:21:12

different places and see what happens. And

1:21:15

you know now to bring the batteries and all

1:21:17

the charging batteries. Like secretly under one of their

1:21:20

beds, Red Dead Redemption's just going to be waiting

1:21:22

for them. Uncle

1:21:26

Chris left a present. How

1:21:28

much are you paying for the order? So

1:21:33

the bad news is this film was

1:21:35

acquired by Vertical Entertainment, which

1:21:38

is I'm sure a very wonderful

1:21:40

company. But it's not. Does it exist anymore? It's

1:21:43

pedigree, right? It historically indicates

1:21:45

very minimal, if any, theatrical

1:21:48

distribution. And headed

1:21:50

straight to Streamola. I think

1:21:52

I got a lot of the triggers that

1:21:54

I need. At least it's as good as

1:21:57

I can do. a

1:22:00

world-class weirdo lineup for me. You

1:22:05

picked like three animated movies. I

1:22:07

picked two. And two strong

1:22:10

Oscar contenders. And two Cannes movies, despite

1:22:12

refusing to go to Cannes. And

1:22:14

of course, I have one more film that I'm going to select.

1:22:16

Oh, I thought I had a Nora. I forgot I lost that

1:22:18

one. Anyway,

1:22:20

I'm fine with it, man. I'm all good.

1:22:23

Are you going to let me have the order? No, we're

1:22:25

going to recap momentarily, but I still have more movie I

1:22:27

have to pick. No, I know, but you're not going to

1:22:29

bid $321 for the order? No,

1:22:31

I'm not interested at all. You're

1:22:34

not going to let me do an all

1:22:36

order episode of the big picture? When

1:22:41

does it come out? Is it dated? I

1:22:44

don't know. But I've seen photos from set,

1:22:46

so I feel like it's well underway. And

1:22:48

then obviously, he's already talked about it on

1:22:50

WTF. It's as good as done. So

1:22:52

for $321, I'm

1:22:55

taking Night Bitch. Do

1:23:00

you know what that is? Did you not see Night Bitch? I

1:23:03

haven't seen Night Bitch. Hasn't Night Bitch been kind of

1:23:05

done for a long time? It has. It's

1:23:07

been held for a very specific reason. And I think

1:23:09

that specific reason is the Amy Adams Oscar campaign. Oh,

1:23:12

I thought you were going to say the election. Do

1:23:17

you know the plot line of Night Bitch? Does

1:23:19

a woman turn into a dog in this movie?

1:23:21

A woman pauses her career to be a stay

1:23:23

at home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a

1:23:25

surreal turn in which she becomes the Night Bitch.

1:23:27

Now it's interesting that I've chosen this film as

1:23:29

the last film in our auction shortly

1:23:32

after Amanda announces her pregnancy.

1:23:35

I will not be coming to stay at home, Mom. I got to be

1:23:37

honest. This is directed by Marielle

1:23:39

Heller. I've not enjoyed the

1:23:42

films of Marielle Heller. Black licorice filmmaker. And

1:23:45

Amy Adams, I'm sort of with

1:23:47

Bill on this one. So, whoa.

1:23:50

Disgusting. Except

1:23:52

for her rival, which I love. Uh-huh. Shame

1:23:55

on you. I mean, when she is good, she's

1:23:57

very good. What about American Hustle? Let's pull up.

1:23:59

She was good. What about the master? And

1:24:02

they made her cry. She was good in that too, but

1:24:05

let's read the last, what, 10 films

1:24:08

of Amy Adams? This

1:24:11

is a really long Wikipedia page that doesn't have the— You

1:24:13

have to include the miniseries' sharp objects into this. Oh my

1:24:15

God. Aren't they just like remaking

1:24:17

it again? Are they? I think

1:24:20

so. This is just from—all right,

1:24:23

so we have Arrival in 2016 along with

1:24:25

Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice and

1:24:28

Nocturnal Animals. Sick.

1:24:30

Just so good. Just so fucking— Banger

1:24:33

movies. Yeah. Oh, Tourist Visions. Justice

1:24:35

League 2017. Well, she signed a

1:24:37

contract. 2018 Vice. Yeah,

1:24:40

yeah. Very good performance. 2020,

1:24:42

Sean's favorite election day movie, Hillbilly-ology. Should

1:24:45

I run it back this November? Hillbilly-ology.

1:24:50

2021, Zack Snyder's Justice League, The

1:24:52

Woman in the Window, and my

1:24:54

personal favorite, Dear Evan Hansen. It's

1:24:56

tough. 2022, Disenchanted. Did I ever

1:24:59

watch this? I

1:25:02

rewatched Enchanted in preparation for this, but I

1:25:04

don't even know. Tell you what, I've never

1:25:07

seen Enchanted. Yeah. I

1:25:09

mean, that's a rough run. You

1:25:12

know? I think it's greatly overstated. For one of

1:25:14

our generation's greatest actors. I think her demise is

1:25:16

overstated. I don't think that those movies are good.

1:25:18

I'm not going to tell you that they're good.

1:25:20

I think she happens to do a bunch of

1:25:22

movies that don't land for Bill, and he is

1:25:24

basically like, Riko charged her

1:25:27

with a bunch of small charges, and

1:25:30

said like, she doesn't deserve any more. She's

1:25:32

got more good movies on her CV than 95,

1:25:34

97% of her contemporaries. I

1:25:37

mean, she's, catch me if you

1:25:39

can. You know what I mean? She's in Charlie Wilson's

1:25:41

work. She's in Doubt. She's in Julia

1:25:43

and Julia. She's in The Fighter. I mean, she's-

1:25:45

She's in tons of good movies. She's in her.

1:25:48

She's like the small or bad half of a

1:25:50

lot of those movies, but whatever. I

1:25:52

mean, that's not true, but okay. She's

1:25:54

the bad half of American Hustle. She's the bad half of

1:25:56

The Fighter. She's the best thing in all those movies. Julia

1:25:58

and Julia? Well, Julia and Julia. And

1:26:01

she's barely in Catch Me If You

1:26:03

Can, respectfully. Great scene. It's a

1:26:05

good scene, but like, let's be real. Candy Striper.

1:26:07

Your eyes just lit up. Charlie

1:26:10

Wilson's more. So you took Night Bitch. Great scene.

1:26:13

It's okay. She's good in

1:26:15

Charlie Wilson's scene. She's good in that, but again, she's

1:26:19

not the best part of it. I think there's

1:26:21

gonna be a very, very, like a Mikey Madison

1:26:23

versus Amy Adams showdown at the Academy Awards, and

1:26:25

I'm pleased to have both of their films

1:26:28

on the list. We're done. Because

1:26:30

once, as we know, you and Chris both support

1:26:33

films with women. Of course I do. Look at my lineup. Look

1:26:37

at my lineup. Look at yours, it's full of bros. Wolf's.

1:26:40

Yeah. Trap. Conclave.

1:26:43

Excuse me, Trap is a man

1:26:46

besmirching a

1:26:48

female-centric space, okay? Pop

1:26:50

girl summer getting in. Why is pop music

1:26:52

only for women? I don't understand. Well,

1:26:55

he's taking his daughter, and

1:26:58

it's a Taylor Swift-like, everyone's

1:27:01

welcome. Do you think one day I will reenact

1:27:04

Trap? If

1:27:06

you were forced to go to a Taylor Swift concert, yes I

1:27:08

do. Yeah, that's a good point. Okay,

1:27:11

Chris, why don't you recap the films you got and the amount of money

1:27:13

that you paid for them? I got

1:27:15

the instigators in the first round for $130. That's

1:27:18

the Matt Damon and Casey Affleck

1:27:20

Boston crime movie. I got a

1:27:22

real pain, Jesse Eisenberg's directorial sophomore

1:27:24

effort with Kieran Culkin. I

1:27:26

got Blink Twice, which used to be known

1:27:29

as Pussy Island, which is

1:27:31

Zoe Kravitz's directorial debut. Let the record show

1:27:33

you've said both Mannequin Pussy and Pussy Island

1:27:35

on this podcast. I just wanted to, I'm

1:27:37

just being honest about what these things are

1:27:40

called. Heretic, the horror

1:27:42

film with Hugh Grant playing a

1:27:44

creepy guy abducting Mormon

1:27:46

women, and The Order, which

1:27:49

I got for $320, and

1:27:53

is Justin Kurtzl's new movie about

1:27:55

criminality in a white, I

1:27:57

guess that's kind of redundant to say criminality in

1:27:59

a white, from Mrs. Gang, but Jude

1:28:01

Wall plays an FBI agent. Because you're saying there's

1:28:04

a criminal nature. Sometimes it's just community

1:28:06

effort, yeah. I

1:28:09

mean, what films did you get? I got

1:28:11

Conclave, the new Edward Berger movie, starring

1:28:13

Ray Fiennes for $205. I

1:28:16

got Trap, my most anticipated movie of the rest

1:28:18

of the year, for $345, a steal, frankly. I

1:28:23

got Wolfs, starring Brad

1:28:25

Pitt and George Clooney for $200. I

1:28:28

got Queer, the Luca Guadagnino movie that is

1:28:30

rumored to be opening Venice. They haven't confirmed

1:28:32

it yet. I want that for everyone, also

1:28:35

starring Daniel Craig. And

1:28:37

I got Baby Girl for $5. I

1:28:39

got Inora for $410. That

1:28:41

better one best picture, otherwise that's going to seem like an overpay.

1:28:44

I got Moana 2 for $1. I

1:28:47

got Emilia Perez for $150, new Jacques Odillard film. I

1:28:51

got The Wild Robot for $118. And

1:28:54

I got Night Bitch for $321. It

1:28:58

would have been funny if we could have tanked for

1:29:00

Vineland next year, you know? If

1:29:02

we could do things like that. Movie auction in January 25

1:29:04

is going to be a hot thing. Oh, wow. It's

1:29:07

going to be, you got to come back for that. Yeah. That might

1:29:09

have to be our first pod back. Yeah. I'm

1:29:11

going to do my best. I mean, some of it is in nature's

1:29:14

hands. As many horror movies have taught you, you

1:29:16

know? There

1:29:19

were a number of films that we couldn't

1:29:21

select because they were sequels that I think

1:29:23

normally would have been selected. You mentioned Beetlejuice

1:29:26

Beetlejuice, Alien Romulus. You

1:29:28

know, Deadpool and Wolverine, I still want to see it. In

1:29:31

fact, you will be seeing it, as will I. Yeah.

1:29:33

Horizon 2. Horizon 2, Joker, Foley,

1:29:35

Ado. Mufasa, The Lion King. There's a new Barry

1:29:37

Jenkins movie coming out this year. Smile

1:29:40

2, Terrifier 3, Venom, The Last Dance.

1:29:42

All of those movies are movies we could not

1:29:44

take this year. Did you think about

1:29:47

Maria? I did. And then I

1:29:49

forgot about it until you said Maria right now.

1:29:51

Pops. Yeah. Yeah. Angelina Jolie is

1:29:53

a big comeback. Best

1:29:55

actress might be a throw down this year. Is that

1:29:58

coming out close to Wolf's? No. dated

1:30:00

right now. I think it's gonna be a

1:30:02

festival movie, probably a Venice film. Yeah,

1:30:04

I mean he was there last year as

1:30:06

well with El Conde. Those

1:30:10

projects sort of have a diminishing return for

1:30:12

me, as you know. Now granted I'm not

1:30:14

as like invested in the

1:30:16

legend of Maria Callis as I am in

1:30:19

Princess Diana's. So, or

1:30:21

I guess even Jackie Kennedy's. I liked

1:30:23

Jackie, but you know, I

1:30:27

wonder if I've seen this film before. What

1:30:30

do you know about The

1:30:32

Piano Lesson adaptation

1:30:34

of the August Washington movie, the

1:30:36

Malcolm Washington movie starring John David

1:30:38

Washington, Samuel Jackson, produced by Denzel

1:30:40

Washington, Netflix film, shot

1:30:43

by Mike Geolucas, who I

1:30:45

think is, was M.

1:30:47

Night Shyamalan and Jordan Peele and David

1:30:49

Robert Mitchell cinematographer. Cool. He can shoot

1:30:51

a movie. Intrigued by that one.

1:30:54

Nickel Boys, a movie you auctioned. I auctioned.

1:30:56

I also, I think I got Rebel Ridge

1:30:58

like two or three years ago. I don't

1:31:00

know if that's coming out. I thought it

1:31:02

was Ash,

1:31:04

which is Flying Lotus's sci-fi murder movie,

1:31:07

sci-fi murder mystery. What is the

1:31:09

Donald Glover trailer that premiered today? I

1:31:11

don't know. It's

1:31:13

a dystopian movie called Bando Stone in the New World.

1:31:15

Did any of you see this? No.

1:31:18

It's apparently gonna be playing in

1:31:21

IMAX, but it's distributed by RCA.

1:31:23

I guess it's just the movie's

1:31:26

accompaniment to his new album. That's

1:31:28

cool. But it looks like a

1:31:30

real sci-fi movie with real effects. Anyway,

1:31:32

just putting that out there. Presence, the

1:31:35

Soderbergh movie we joked about. Salem's Lot,

1:31:37

Gary Delverman doing Stephen King.

1:31:39

I think that's gonna get written off. Okay.

1:31:41

That's gonna come out. That was it for

1:31:43

the B movies. There's one other awards contender

1:31:45

that we have not yet mentioned. The Joshua

1:31:48

Oppenheimer movie. That was the one I was

1:31:50

just gonna mention. That nobody

1:31:52

knows a lot about. It's a neon

1:31:54

movie. I think it'll be a

1:31:56

festival film. And that's, we were talking about

1:31:58

this with Van. for an

1:32:00

episode coming up. But I was like, there's going

1:32:02

to be a movie that

1:32:04

we don't know about. Because he was asking about Dune Part

1:32:06

2 and whether it could win Best Picture. And

1:32:09

the end feels like the kind of movie that could do that. I wonder,

1:32:11

do you think knowing

1:32:13

that Dune Messiah is coming

1:32:15

in 26 changes the

1:32:17

calculus about whether people are like, we'll

1:32:20

wait for three and then give it to Denis? I mean, that's

1:32:22

like what we were talking about with Ben. That's literally what we

1:32:24

were saying. Yeah. I mean, I think one of the reasons why

1:32:26

they're not officially saying that it's Dune Messiah is so that it

1:32:28

can have a chance to win Best Picture. Because

1:32:31

once they say three is here, then

1:32:33

it gets into the return of the King territory. If

1:32:36

Spider-Verse 2 can't win Best Animated Feature

1:32:39

because it's the second and there's going to be a third

1:32:41

one coming, I think Dune will be in a similar spot

1:32:44

for Best Picture. But you don't

1:32:46

agree with that because you feel Joker Folio do

1:32:48

should be competing for Best Picture. I

1:32:50

think it might be. Should there be three Joker films? Is

1:32:53

there talk of a, oh, like, should there be three

1:32:55

active Jokers? Is that what you mean? No. Do

1:32:58

you think they should green the third Joker now? Well,

1:33:01

that's going to hurt its Oscar chances. Foliotois?

1:33:04

Who would be the third character? Do we know

1:33:06

if Barry Keogan is the villain of the second,

1:33:08

the Batman? Sorry, Tia, have

1:33:11

you seen the meme of maybe

1:33:14

not because it's pop girl's story. But

1:33:16

Bobby, do you know what I'm talking

1:33:18

about? And it's like Sabrina Carpenter. So

1:33:20

who's the Joker? And this Barry Keogan.

1:33:24

So he's sort of an evil guy. Why

1:33:27

are you crying? Why

1:33:29

are you crying? I have to go so bad. And

1:33:32

now you're just sobbing about Sabrina

1:33:34

Carpenter. OK. It's really good, right?

1:33:36

It's a good meme. It's

1:33:39

really funny. Yeah, especially if you're in

1:33:41

our particular flavor. OK,

1:33:43

I'm going to find it. Amanda needs to eat a sandwich,

1:33:45

everyone. I did bring a sandwich. I got to eat it.

1:33:48

But it's a good meme. Shout out to that meme. You're

1:33:50

just, are you going to play the meme and repeat it?

1:33:52

No, no, it's just text. I just shared it with you.

1:33:54

You're in tears. I know. This

1:33:57

is a great podcast. Thanks, guys. Thanks.

1:33:59

to Elias and Eris, thanks to Bobby

1:34:02

Wagner, our producer for his work on

1:34:04

this podcast. Later this week, we

1:34:06

are talking about the best movies of 2024. Yeah.

1:34:10

We'll see you then.