Sept. 15, 2025

Sam Raimi - The Gift

Sam Raimi - The Gift
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Season 6A Film By...

This week, Jeff and Garret dive into Sam Raimi’s 2000 Southern gothic thriller The Gift. They comment on the deplorable depths of Keanu Reeve's abusive character, the film’s eerie atmosphere, Cate Blanchett’s gripping performance as a small-town psychic, and how Raimi blends supernatural tension with real-world drama. From its chilling mystery to its star-studded cast, this episode uncovers why The Gift still leaves us feeling haunted.

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Hello, and welcome back. I'm Jeff Johnson.

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And I'm Gary Gibson, and this is.

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A film by podcast where we're going to talk about

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a film by Sam raimie his underrated supernatural thriller from

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the year two thousand, The Gift, and Garrett, I'm coming

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right out swinging. I love this movie. It's one of

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my favorite Sam Raimi films. I don't know how you

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feel about it, but I'm excited to talk about this one.

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I'm terribly excited to talk about it as well. Got

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a lot of powerhouse performance in this one. Is one

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of my actually favorite Gary Cole films because of his

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courtroom scenes.

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I'm glad you mentioned Gary Cole aka Lumberg because I

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mean this movie it's celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary this year,

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and I'm telling you right now, I mean, I think,

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would they spend ten million on this on this budget,

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No chance, no chance, you make this movie with this

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specific cast today for anything less than fifty seventy million,

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maybe maybe more one hundred million, would.

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Say so, I mean, just with Kate Blanchet, Geofani, Risbee

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Rabisi and everyone, I mean, you cannot make this film

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for under I would say probably forty five million dollars.

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There's no way.

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I mean, there's probably four. There's probably about five people

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that I definitely want to talk about, but we'd beat

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This would be like a two parter if we if

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we actually talked about the entire I will shout him

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out when we get to that. But I mean, this

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is a just a stellar cast of talent, and it

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blows my mind. Like when you're watching this and it's

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been a couple couple of years, or it's been ten years,

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or maybe it's been twenty five years. If you saw it, yeah,

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back in two thousand, you're you're kind of surprised at

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how many big names are in this film. But we'll

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get to that. Before we do, we got to talk

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about the man, Sam Raimi. So a little bit trivia

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about the man and a very fun quote that I

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found Garrett sam Raimi usually wears a jacket and tie

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on the set of his films, and this is a

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tribute to one of his favorite directors, Alfred Hitchcock. Okay,

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now I will share this with you. I met him

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a few years ago and he happened to be wearing

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a very DApp pursuit one of the kindest, most well

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mannered people you'll ever meet.

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Uh.

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You know, I walk up to him, he just put

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out his hand. He's like, Hi, I'm Sam. As if

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I didn't know, you know, I said Hi, I'm Jeff.

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We know. He shook hands. He kind of floored me

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because he asked us. He asked me about the about

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our show. Uh, and then he was pleasantly surprised to

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discover that we had done an episode on his film

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A Simple Plan. So it's just just an amazing guy.

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Though.

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If you ever get a chance to talk with him,

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to meet him, HiT's you're better for it.

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He is definitely an amazing person. Actually met him a

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couple of years back. Him and his brother Ted are

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both just absolutely delightful. I've got Ted.

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Ted is a good time had by all he is. Yeah.

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If Sam is the quiet, mild mannered one, Ted is

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the rock star, I think he's he's the crazy one,

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and he's a lot of fun too. Uh. Sam Raimi

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shares a birthday with one weird Al Yankovic.

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Okay, okay, a little bit a strange, little bit weird

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going on there. I'm okay with that.

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You know what. It's Sam Rami. When you think about

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the kind of movies he's done it, I kind of

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dig the fact that it'd be weird how that shares

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his birthday. Speaking of sharing, back in the mid nineteen eighties,

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Sam Raimi shared an apartment with several friends whose names

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would be Joel and Ethan Cohen, Bruce Campbell, Scott Spiegel,

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Holly Hunter, Francis McDorman, and Kathy Bates.

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So this guy literally shared apartments with absolute legends in

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the industry, Like, how do you live with Joel and

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Ethan Cohen and you both gone to wild success? How

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do you share a living space with Kathy Bates, the

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Queen of Misery and everything else? It's just that's amazing.

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I want to hear, Like, is Kathy Baits yelling at

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you because you didn't do the was your turn to

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do the dishes and you didn't do the dishes? You know?

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Yea? Is she going four on misery? Or are we

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getting a water Boys mom treatment right now? I don't

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care which one.

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Holly Hunter without accent, just telling them it's it's you know,

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you know, I'm a little short this week on the

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Electric Bill. You know, Garrett, this is the season of

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MTVS the real world that we missed out on.

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See, now that is something I would have paid to

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see because simply just how many great ideas are coming

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out of those living rooh my god, Like just the

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pitches that you would get the hey, I'm thinking about

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going out for this, or hey, I'm thinking about writing this,

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and just years before the absolute genius word to take off,

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that would be simple amazing.

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What a time, what a time saving. Private Ryan, the

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nineteen twenty two version of Nosferatu and The Treasure of

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the Sierra Madre are among Sam Raimi's all time favorite films.

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I like that's it's like an eclectic mixer too.

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See, I think you do have to have that because

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me myself, I mean, I'm a huge fan of the

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original Bores kar Lov Frankenstein absolutely amazing. And then of

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course we flash forward to the seventies, nineteen seventy eight

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to be exec with a little bit John Carpenter's Halloween

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because it's something that brings a little bit of practical

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effects and something that can actually happen, so it's really terrifying.

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And then we just come into this new age of

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horror where you get your final destinations or whatever it

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may be. And I've got to say it's a good

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blend to have that mixed in with where it started,

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where it was, and where it ended up. And I

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think that's the best way to run them.

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Absolutely. Now another one of his favorites that he I'm

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I'm gonna try and will this into reality for you,

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because back in two thousand and six, it was reported

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that Ramie and Batman producer Michael Uslin would be co

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producing a new film version of The Shadow, and then

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a year later, Ramy stated quote, I don't have any

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news on The Shadow at this time, except that the

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company that I have with Josh Donan, my producing partner,

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we've got the rights to the Shadow. I love the

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character very much and we're trying to work on a

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story that'll do justice to the character. And I'll tell

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you this, there was a time when Rami was trying

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to buy the film rights to Batman in the early eighties.

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He couldn't get them. Then he tried to buy the

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film rights to The Shadow, couldn't get them, which is

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a good thing at the time because that led him

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to create his own superhero, dark superhero, which was dark Man.

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So but man everything I saw it shows that he

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still owns the rights of the Shadow, and I would

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love to see him do the Shadow that be so

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great now, Raimi. In college, he ran a film society,

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but instead of renting films to exhibit, he and his

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buddies created feature length movies on Super eight and then

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showed them to the students on campus. And this is

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kind of where he learned how to be a filmmaker.

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And of that experience, he said, quote, it was great

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making movies in college because if you made the right movie,

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you'd get this cigar box full of five dollars and

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one dollar bills. You'd have like five hundred bucks after

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a weekend, and it was like, oh my god, we're rich.

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We've got to make another pick. Sure, but if it bombed,

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you spend a lot of money on the movie, on

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the ads at the State News, renting the theater, lugging

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these heavy speakers, the projector bulbs, and it was a

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wash out. You realize this movie is not making money.

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I'm broke. I've got to make the movie that they

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want to see. So it was a great learning experience.

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You really do get that from him, whether it's the

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start of his career where he's out making evil dead

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with a bunch of friends and family out there in

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the wood, very low budget, and then you take it

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all the way to of course, the Spider Man trilogy.

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I mean it very much shows to where a film

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that made very little money but became a cult classic

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waiting into absolute blockbusters that everybody loved. So that is

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the will and desire that got up to where he

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is today. So I can see that on him.

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Well, this one's not a blockbuster, but it is definitely

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one that you and I love. Garrett, I gotta say,

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I'm sure there's a couple of people that maybe haven't

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seen The Gift. And again, listeners, we're talking about a

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film from the year two thousand, because Garrett, as you

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already know, there's a twenty fifteen film that's a kind

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of a thriller with Joe Edgerton called also called The Gift,

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which also awesome. It is we're talking about. We're talking

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about Sam raimis The Gift. Garrett, you got a synopsis

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for us?

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I sure do. So. We're in the tiny town of Brixton, Georgia,

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where nothing is private. A woman with supernatural clairvoyants, a young,

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beautiful socialite, who was mysterious, who has mysteriously disappeared, and

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an assortment of colorful character's all collide a haunting, psychological thriller.

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The Gift is ultimately a profound celebration of the human spirit.

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Well, said my friend. I can remember the Christmas that

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I seen this because I had seen Unbreakable in the

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theater in late November and had immediately hailed it as

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the best superhero origin story of all time to anyone

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that would listen to me. And then in December, I mean,

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don't get wrong, there were some amazing movies. I just

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hadn't seen them. I wouldn't I wouldn't play they weren't

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on my radar at the time. I had seen Vertical

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Limit and Castaway this December both slid. Yeah, we we

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covered Vertical Limit a couple of seasons ago, go back

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and check that one out. Castaway obviously awesome. But then

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The Gift came out in a limited release and it

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was at a theater I didn't usually go to, and

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Kim Wood I was like, you know what, I love

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Sam Raimi, he does no wrong. I'm gonna go check

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this movie out. And boy was I glad that I did.

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When the film came out, it was December twenty second,

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two thousand. I gave it rave reviews, and I wasn't

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the only one. Roger Ebert gave it three out of

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four stars, calling the film quote ingenious in its plotting,

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colorful and its characters, taught in its direction, and fortunate

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in possessing Kate Blanchette. And she's just a vision. I

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know we're going to get to her here in a minute,

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but I mean, what a vision in this film.

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She truly is. For it being the year two thousand before,

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we see so much of Kate Blanchett, she really came

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into her own in this And Yeah, I think you're right.

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She's an absolute vision.

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It's a rare It's a rare moment in her career

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where I mean, she had done what she had done

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Elizabeth at this point, but she had not reached megastardom

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with the Lord of the Rings or working with us

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Corsece and the Aviator. Yeah, and she's just adorable.

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I mean, she is the accent, everything just amazing.

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She is amazing. I'll tell you what else is amazing.

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Rami gets hired to direct Spider Man while he's still

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working on this movie.

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Okay, out that I did not know.

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Yeah, now here's the problem. Post production on The Gift,

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which is a Paramount film, is scheduled for pre production

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of Spider Man, which is a Sony film. Thankfully, Paramount

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and Sony compromise their schedules and Raymi is working on

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both films simultaneously. I can't imagine the stress that he

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was under for those handful.

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Of could you imagine directing something like The Gift and

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it's it's one of those like almost kind of cult

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classic films. And they then again the Summer blockbuster, Dude,

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like what the heck? Like that was the first original

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superhero movie that just absolutely exploded at the box office.

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That you're in your head, You're like, I have got

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to get this film wrapped up. This is a I

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just made a movie with with Keanu Reeves and Hillary

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Swank and Kate Blanchette, and it's a big move. It's

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a big budget film. Yeah, and Paramount's counting on me.

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And meanwhile, I've got you know, he's he's one of

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the biggest Spider Man fans on the planet. You know,

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he's got an oh yeah, massive Spider Man collection. You know,

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Comma Book Collection. It's a dream job. And somebody's like, hey,

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we've just given you the director's chair to our biggest

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blockbuster of all time. Yep, and we've never seen the

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Wall Crawler on the big screen. There's a lot riding

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on this.

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And the fact that, if I'm not mistaken, Toby maguire

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got paid ten million dollars for the First Spider Man.

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If I'm not mistaken, So the fact that the entire

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budget for the film that he's wrapping up is one

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actor's paycheck in this one. Yeah, that's a little bit

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of pressure on you.

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It's gotta be a little bit of pressure. I'll tell

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you what. We're gonna take a quick break when we

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get back. We have got to talk about this incredible cast.

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Welcome back. We are discussing Sam Raimie's supernatural thriller The

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Gift Garrett. Before the break, we were talking a little

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bit about Kate Blanchette. She plays the psychic the clairvoyant.

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If you will, Annie Wilson does a little uh does

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a little homework. She visits several fortune tellers to learn

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their mannerisms, their presentation. A sidely. You know, I know

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you can't help but fall in love with her. You

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mentioned the accident, you mentioned just her her sweet disposition.

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What'd you think of her performance though? Overall?

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Her overall performance gives one of those strong female roles

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just a voice, because it's not necessarily that she's the badass,

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that she's going out and fighting people or anything like that,

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but it's the fact that she's a single mother struggling

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to survive, doing what she can to help her community,

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and ultimately it comes down to something as solving a

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helping solve a murder, and really just standing up for herself.

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So in a time of desperation, she prevails. So I

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think it speaks to her character in this film that

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she is an absolute badass.

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She is, but it's an incredible performance because and I

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don't mean this in a negative way, but she's a

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really pitiful character. I mean, he is loses her husband

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to an accident, plants accident. She's trying to raise these boys. Legally,

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she can't charge for her services, so she accepts donations

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and she's getting a little bit of so security money

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from her husband's accident and his death and just the

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look of their house, you know. I mean, she's shot,

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but at the Pigly wiggly, which I love that little detail, right,

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you know, and it just it just seems so downtrodden

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and so so miserable in a way, but she's trying

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to she just make it the best of it, right.

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Just the people she's surrounded with is an abusive husband,

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a battered wife, a guy that's looking to cheat on

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his wife, a wife that's looking to cheat on her

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or sorry, fiance, a wife that's looking to cheat on

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her fiance, a town that don't believe in her, A

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gentleman that is psychiatrically flawed. Yeah, there is so much.

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And then just like the courtroom scene, whether when the

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defense attorney's tearner a part is just it rips your

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heart out. And you're right, it's not in a bad way.

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But it's one of those things where you take pity

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on this character because it's like, oh, my goodness, just

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give her a break. Please.

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Yeah, but she's and you know, she's at times she

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is the victim and and but but other times, like

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you mentioned like calling her a badass, I love that

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she stands up, you know. And typically it's when her

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children are in danger, is when she she she goes

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full Mama Bear and she she stands her ground and

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she gets tough, and I love that she can play

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both strong and weak at the same time and throughout

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this film.

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And she's really in the character development, I mean, brilliant

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story writing.

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I will say, Yeah, I'll tell you a cool, a

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cool little thing. I love. She doesn't use terrort cards,

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but rather the card. The cards she's using are the

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ones they use the test for esp you know they

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got like the squiggly lines square. Yeah, she's using those.

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And I dig the fact that these cards don't quote

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unquote show her anything, but they help her focus. Yeah.

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That's a pretty cool twist, you know, because I don't

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I don't know if you've ever been to a medium

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or a psychic, you know, they all have the terror

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cards yep, and they you know, oh this card means this,

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and it's like, you don't know what the hell is

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going on.

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But oh hell no.

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The fact that when she's doing what she calls reading people,

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you know, the fact that she always uses the cards,

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she doesn't stop and go, well this means this. She's

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just using them to focus her energy so that she

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can see what she needs to see. I really dig

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that about her. Her character anyway, you talked about a individual.

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When you're discussing Annie's, you know who she's surrounded with.

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Giovanni Ribisi playing the emotionally damaged Buddy Cole.

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From his introduction the truck scene where two seconds prior,

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of course he's working on the Delta eighty eight. Just

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a classic not as always, but the breakdown that he

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has in the truck after he's such a seemingly nice,

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innocent young man. It gives you an insight of oh okay,

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he's he's emotionally damaged. She's helping him, and throughout the

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story just his character development is absolutely bizarre at times.

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Oh yeah, I wanna let's let's I want to you

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mention the scene. Uh, let's just jump into that scene

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real quick. I know we don't typically do this, but

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you know, not not to step on noteworthy scenes. But

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Buddy driving her home, he's she's got some some works

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that needs done in a car. He's like, I'll drive

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you home, and you can immediately tell it. Maybe he's

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got some opportunities. He's a little off right, and then

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that scene where he just locks up the breaks and

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just I mean everything he's so tense and he just

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he has this break, this emotional breakdown. It's our first

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chance to hear mention of the blue diamond. Yes, what's

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it mean? If I see the blue diamond in my trouble?

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If I see the am I gonna die? Am I

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gonna want to die? This bad thing's gonna happen? And

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you're like, what the hell is going? Like? What is

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this kid talking about? And it's it breaks your heart

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when you and I. We'll get to that scene when

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we do talk these scenes, but it breaks your heart

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when you find out what the blue diamond actually means.

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It does it just.

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It kills you. It kills you. But you know the

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thing about Giovanni, So I don't know if you knew this.

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He takes this role after Billy Bob Thornton had declined

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to read this is and I think, and you know,

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and we'll we'll get to this a little bit later.

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But uh, Billy Bob had kind of made a big

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splash with sling Blade in ninety six, and I think

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they're thinking they want a little bit of a carl,

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a little bit of a sling blade.

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Yeah, yeah, this guy.

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And it happens to be a mechanic, and you know,

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I appreciate that Billy Bob declines it for the right

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reasons because you know, this is this is one of

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Giovanni Rubisi's greatest performances as far as I'm concerned.

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You're absolutely right, especially so early on in his career. Yeah,

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it's something that again the truck scene where he walks

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up the breaks and he's trying to just something as

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simple as trying to blow his nose and wipe his

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tears with a dirty oily rag and she's like, oh,

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use that, yeah, and he's like, no, I don't want

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to do that. That's his her.

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Little her little boys, like handkerchief or whatever.

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Yeah, and then she's like, are you.

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Sure you're okay? And he and he does that, I'm okay,

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I'm okay, and he kind of wipes his tears away

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kind of chuckles. There's a term in Hollywood for really

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good actors that are working all the time in smaller roles.

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They're known as as that guy, right, yes, well, okay,

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so he's too well known for that distinction now, but

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with over a with over one hundred acting credits, he

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for for a lot for a long time. He was

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he wasn't that guy until I think until Saving Private Ryde.

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Yeah, because I mean you've got all those films like

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Gone in sixty Seconds and everything that he's like in

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for like hey, a little bit here, a little bit there,

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and then of course over the years of course like

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Ted one and two and all that stuff, he's literally yeah.

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Frank Buffet brother on roll right, Yeah, yeah, he.

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I just he's got all these little roles. But you're

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absolutely right. Once he hit Saving Private Ryan, I think

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that was the turn to where he's no longer that guy,

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right exactly.

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Yeah, I just it just it breaks my heart because

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I think he's one of the finest actors working today

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and it's absolutely criminal that he's not had the opportunity

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to do a bigger role or at least get a

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role that can land him an Oscar nod. Yes, I'm

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just that's how I feel about him, and and I

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don't know if it's just his choices, because I love

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him and everything he does, you know, yeah, absolutely, but

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it's like I don't know if he's not going after

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certain roles or if Hollywood's not giving him that opportunity.

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But when you watch him in this movie, how you're

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not casting him in something critically acclaimed and dramatic.

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Yeah.

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I just don't get it, man, I really don't. He's

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incredible in this film.

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He's one of those people that are literally a character actor.

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It doesn't matter who you give him, He's going to

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play that part like it was written for him.

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Yeah. I almost. I And not that I want to

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dwell on Giovanni here, but I almost. When you think

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about if you collect most of his characters that he's played,

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the one common thread is that they're all maybe not

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the smartest guy in the room, You're right, Yeah, And

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I wondered if Hollywood just sees him as that that guy, you.

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Know, because no matter what role it is, he's either

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the like goofy creepy guy or the goofy like friend

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guy that's gonna help you out, or it doesn't matter

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across the border, or he's like the little brother the

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that's kind of a mess up and they're trying to

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take care of him. And it's like, oh, okay, hey,

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Hollywood typecast. You might be right, maybe.

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He's typecast, but hey, Hollywood, just remember saving Private Ryan.

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He he did play a medic Wade, you know who,

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was well spoken and just incredible formance in that too,

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And you figure that's Raymy that's one of Ramy's top

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three movies. Yeah, I'm sure he's I'm sure he's watching

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Private Ryan. He's like, that guy's in my next movie. Yep, Garrett,

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I'm gonna believe that. In real life he's probably the

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nicest guy ever. But is there a film role where

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you watch Greg Canar and you're like, I like this guy.

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There plenty of kind of an asshole and everything.

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I don't know. Yeah, there's a few that I'm thinking of,

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like Stuck on You and stuff like that with Matt

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Dag and you know they're like goofy stuff. But no,

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you're right, he does typically play an asshole.

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The one time he didn't play an asshole where I

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liked him as good as it gets with Helen Hunt

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and Jah Nicholson, where he you know, he played the

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neighbor who was victimized and went on the road trip.

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And I'm not saying he's an asshole, like not like

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a bad guy. He's not a villain. But now even

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in like You've Got Mail, where he played Meg Ryan's

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sort of boyfriend, Yep, he's just kind of an asshole.

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Like the vibe that he gives off is the like

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late eighties, you know, tennis sweater tied around his neck

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and I'm better than you, Like I don't know what

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it is, but he it just gives him a punchable face.

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I'm sorry.

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Look and listeners, I'll tell you this. If you haven't

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seen this movie, Garrett and I aren't going to hold back.

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You know, the Saint. This ain't spoiler free. It's a

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it's a it's a murder mystery. So if you haven't

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seen it, hit hit the pause button, go check it out.

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But if you you know, if you're if you're if

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if we can't, Garrett, we I gotta say, like, even

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if you take away the deplorable, heinous crime that he

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does in this film, he's kind of a kind of

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a common asshole throughout the whole thing, Like like just

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like that, I really like this guy.

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Really is the whole scheming against his fiance and everything,

462
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wading into that and just kind of being slimy and this.

463
00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:22.039
Country club and I got the hot counsel and.

464
00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:23.640
And he kind of like wants her to see it

465
00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:25.319
to be like, hey, I kind of did that for

466
00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:28.799
you like, well, what the fuck?

467
00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:33.400
Yeah, that's I don't know. I want to move on

468
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:41.920
from Greg Kennere because he's played with Wayne Collins. Yeah. Uh,

469
00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:44.759
I'll tell you what though, the time that we we

470
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:49.400
we don't spend on on Wayne Collins, uh, played by

471
00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:52.240
Greg ken Ere. We can we can spend that time

472
00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:56.640
talking about Jessica King, who is played by the very

473
00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:01.599
lovely Katie Holmes. Now it's the year two thousand and

474
00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:06.119
we're talking at the height of her popularity. She's two

475
00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:10.839
years into her role as quintessential girl next door Joey

476
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:14.480
Potter on Dawson's Creek. Garrett, were you a Dawson's Creek guy?

477
00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:15.640
Did you watch Dawson's Creek.

478
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:19.039
I've seen it before. I was not a Dawson's Creek guy.

479
00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:20.920
I know I was.

480
00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:24.400
There for it. And I'll tell you every teenage to

481
00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:30.519
early twenties guy at this time is in love with her. Absolutely.

482
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:31.039
You had to be.

483
00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:34.799
You just had to be from about two thousand to

484
00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:38.359
two thousand and five. No, I probably thought about marrying

485
00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:39.440
her a few dozen times.

486
00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:42.559
But yeah, no, yeah, whatever, Well, you know, and let's

487
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:45.519
I mean during Dawson's Creek during you know, I think

488
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.000
that's like ninety eight to two thousand and three. You know,

489
00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:50.480
she kind of flirts with final girl status. She does

490
00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:53.440
disturbing behavior in ninety eight. Yep, and she's a little

491
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.400
more edgy and a little more sexy, and you know,

492
00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:59.559
because she wasn't that on Dawson's Creek. And now you're like,

493
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:02.079
wait a mint minute. And then she does teaching missus

494
00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:06.279
Tingle in ninety nine. And then she shows up here

495
00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:12.559
in the Gift. Dare I say, offering guys everywhere a gift? Yes,

496
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:16.359
she was most likely wore out the pause buttons on

497
00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:19.680
every remote control circa two thousand and one, two thousand

498
00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:25.359
and two. You know, she's white hot in this film.

499
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:28.680
She truly is. Yep, all the way. Like I said,

500
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:32.680
from early two thousand here is I probably saw this film,

501
00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:34.640
and I would say around two thousand and one, two

502
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:37.519
thousand and two, I finally watched it because I was

503
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.240
on Big Sam Raimi kick and I was like, oh

504
00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:43.000
my gosh, she's freaking amazing. And then a few short

505
00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:46.839
years later, bam, Batman begins and so on so forth.

506
00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:49.079
But yeah, now she was right.

507
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:53.759
Before, right before Rachel Dawes and Batman begins yep. But

508
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:55.839
it was just a shock because she was a wholesome

509
00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:58.559
like I said on Dawson's Creek, she's the wholesome girl

510
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:00.759
next door that you just you want bring him to mom.

511
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.839
And then in this movie she is she's like the town.

512
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:05.559
She's kind of like the town.

513
00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:05.920
Horror.

514
00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:09.240
Yeah, hardly, Okay, let's be let's be a little more

515
00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:10.279
polite for the sponsors.

516
00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:13.039
A hard lady.

517
00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:16.920
She's the Jezebel. This is this is Georgia, right. The

518
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:18.559
word Jezebel works.

519
00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:21.200
Jezebel, one of those yeah.

520
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:26.119
Yeah. She admitted that taking on the role was both

521
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.319
awkward and scary for her, knowing that she would appear nude,

522
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:32.039
and after she figured out how to explain the decision

523
00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:35.359
to her parents, that's when she started defending the choice,

524
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:38.640
citing that was important to the development of the character.

525
00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:41.559
And I'll be honest, I don't feel that what she

526
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:46.200
does in this movie is gratuitous. It does need to

527
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:50.680
happen for the sake of the story. But in twenty fourteen,

528
00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:55.640
she was talking with E News Daily, she said she

529
00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:59.440
has no problem going topless, saying, quote, I have done

530
00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:01.920
it before when I was young in The Gift, which

531
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:03.880
was the right time to do it, and if the

532
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:06.559
part called for it, I'd do it again. I think

533
00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:10.400
people need to embrace themselves, their creativity and their bodies.

534
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:14.440
Now she's right now. I was a little upset. I

535
00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.599
had little rant about Giovanni Ribisi not getting the Oscar

536
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:23.640
fair that he so well as entitled to. Yes, I'm

537
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:27.519
been a rant again here, Garrett. It's been twenty five

538
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:31.480
years since the Gift, Yes, and it's been eleven years

539
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:33.839
since Katie Holmes gave that interview to en News Daily.

540
00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:35.680
Are you are.

541
00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:38.640
You telling me that this whole time we haven't found

542
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:43.559
one one movie, one story. There's not one movie we justified.

543
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:51.079
I kid, but I but I don't. Uh, all right,

544
00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:52.920
we better move on. This is this getting out of hand.

545
00:31:54.599 --> 00:32:01.400
Hillary Swank playing the abused and battered wife Valerie Barksdale.

546
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:05.640
It's amazing that she's just a few years away from

547
00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:07.559
her aunt Caplin ship by the way, just a few

548
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:13.000
years away from their first Oscars yep, and she nails

549
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:13.880
it in this movie. Though.

550
00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:17.640
This is such a strange character that you don't typically

551
00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:21.640
see her in this role. So no, no, it was

552
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:24.680
something that when I first watched it caught me off guard,

553
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:28.000
and over time I've actually grown to like it and

554
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.279
even rewatching it now, I'm like, she plays this part

555
00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:34.880
so well. And then even the kind of like scheming

556
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.319
to like get her husband off like later in the

557
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:40.960
court case and all that, and you're like, this character's

558
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:43.799
got like a little bit of crazy in her two

559
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:45.839
Oh gosh, yeah, here we go.

560
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:51.240
It's it's difficult for me to like her. Yeah, And

561
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:56.759
it's for two reasons. One, she's a little conniving, yes,

562
00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:59.720
you know when she talks about like, you know, that

563
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:00.880
girl got what she deserved.

564
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:01.759
I'm glad.

565
00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:04.279
I'm glad she did, you know. But also it's one

566
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:07.119
of those things where it's the type of character that

567
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:12.720
pisses you off because she just won't better her situation.

568
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:16.279
Now every one of the movies telling her, you know,

569
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:18.240
you got to get away from your husband. He's gonna

570
00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:21.599
kill you. He's no good for you, and you know,

571
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.279
she's like, I can't leave him. I just can't, you know.

572
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:30.799
It turns out her and Keanu Reeves visited local spousal

573
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:35.519
abuse counselors for this role. For this role, they both

574
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:42.000
went to speak with counselors to gain insight into first

575
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:45.759
off to why men are abusive to their wives, be

576
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:49.640
it mentally or physically, and then more importantly for her,

577
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:51.839
it was to to kind of get some insight on

578
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:57.359
why women tend to stay in abusive relationships. Okay, I

579
00:33:57.359 --> 00:33:59.119
love the I love the homework that people are doing

580
00:33:59.160 --> 00:33:59.720
in this movie.

581
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:08.679
Yeah, especially for being you know, two thousand, I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

582
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:10.960
It's it's it's the same Raimi film for ten ten,

583
00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:14.440
ten million dollars. It's not like there, we're paying for

584
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:19.159
you to go, hey, go spend some week in counseling. Yeah,

585
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.039
this is just something her and Kiana decided to do. Uh.

586
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:27.800
She is fantastic. I mean, lover or loather, you got it.

587
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.159
You gotta give her credit. She she plays us this

588
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:34.519
part very well, just has that. She has that and

589
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:36.360
I'll be you know, not not that I want to

590
00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:38.960
be offensive here, but she's got that white trash look

591
00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:42.159
like perfectly. Oh she definitely right.

592
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:42.599
Yeah.

593
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:46.880
Yeah, the hair and just the herp.

594
00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:52.599
Both white trash. It's like, oh my gosh, we got

595
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:53.400
to talk Keanu.

596
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:57.920
Uh, he's playing he's playing the abusive husband Donnie Barkstille,

597
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.320
who's on trial for the murder right. So in the nineties,

598
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:04.880
he reinvents himself as an action star. You know, he's

599
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:08.960
got point break Speed, the Matrix, He's he's got leading

600
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.119
man status with films like Dracula, Much Ado about Nothing,

601
00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:14.679
the Devil's Advocate.

602
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:18.159
And they're not leaving. Not the replacements right now. Well,

603
00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:21.760
I'm saying in the nineties, Okay, in the nineties, because.

604
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:24.400
Because he opens up the two thousands in the year

605
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:29.320
two thousand, he's he's got the gift, he's got the replacements,

606
00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:31.360
and he's got this movie, The Watcher.

607
00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:33.199
I don't think I've seen The Watcher.

608
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.079
Oh you got to see it. Uh, I bring it

609
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:40.000
up because this is the Gift. Is Keano's second time

610
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:43.760
playing a villain, the first time being this year in

611
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:46.760
The Watcher, where he played a serial killer. And it's

612
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:48.480
I mean, he's got he's got like and I want

613
00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:50.880
to spoil it for you and you'll but you get

614
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:53.280
this from the trailer. He's he's clearly like a a

615
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:55.679
Ted Bundy like serial.

616
00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:58.320
Killer, very likable.

617
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:01.519
Yeah, James Spain is the detective that can't catch him.

618
00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:04.599
And then oh and this is this is like this

619
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:11.000
is Spader like right after uh shit, you know Pyramids,

620
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:23.559
you know, Okay, I gotcha. This This is peak Spader,

621
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:25.199
right right after Stargate.

622
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:28.440
So he's young and hip Spader.

623
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:31.800
You know. He moves on from the case and then

624
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:34.320
Count of Reeves comes back and starts taunting him, you know,

625
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:36.960
because he's back, he's back on the path. I don't know.

626
00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:38.000
I don't want to. I don't want to ruin the

627
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.519
movie for you, But the Watcher, I gotta ask you

628
00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:43.760
if if you're Keanu Reeves in the nineties and you've

629
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:48.760
built up this action hero slash leading man persona a

630
00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:51.280
little a little bit of a gamble to open up

631
00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:56.039
the next decade playing not one but two despicable people, right.

632
00:36:56.880 --> 00:37:01.360
It really is. I mean when I watch this, I'd

633
00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:04.920
never seen anything like this with Keanu Reeves because he's

634
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:08.400
always that likable, charming. Yeah, it's like, you know what,

635
00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:11.119
this is a I always think back Bill and Ted.

636
00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:14.280
I'm like, I freaking love this guy. But then you

637
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:18.079
run into the point where he is an alcoholic wife

638
00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:20.480
beating like maniac.

639
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.239
And this is a piece of shit in this movie, dude.

640
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:24.599
Like the scene where he's dragging her out of the

641
00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:27.360
house through the wet paint and everything by her hair

642
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:30.039
and it's like, oh my gosh, dude.

643
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:35.840
No, the fact that he pauses just long enough to

644
00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:39.400
throw a threatening finger in Kate blen Chat's dire actually

645
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.800
going I'll deal with you in a minute, you Satan

646
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:43.519
worshiping bitch or whatever he calls her.

647
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:44.400
Yep.

648
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:48.639
It's how hard is it to watch this movie with

649
00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:51.840
knowing that you love Keanu Reeves and seeing him act

650
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.239
like this and saying the things that he says and

651
00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:55.400
doing the things that he does.

652
00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:59.679
It's rough because of just scenes like that, and then

653
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:01.760
when the cops come out and they're like, a, he

654
00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:04.320
probably wasn't the one that was in your yeah, good

655
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.719
old boy, Yeah exactly. And then calls and he's like,

656
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:10.679
well talked about I think his skinning a rabbit. He's like,

657
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:12.880
I'll put a knife in you and your kids stomachs

658
00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:16.360
as well. And it's like, oh, what the Yeah.

659
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:21.840
Well, you know, I'll say, we're gonna we're gonna talk

660
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:25.559
more about him. I'll save it for you know, we'll

661
00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:27.599
get the noteworthy scenes I got. Well, I'm gonna I'm

662
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:29.239
gonna I'm gonna keep that. I'm gonna kick that down

663
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:33.559
the road. Uh, we got We'll move on one one

664
00:38:33.559 --> 00:38:35.719
more person I want to talk about, but before I do,

665
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:38.320
let's just point out we talked about this incredible cast,

666
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:42.440
this stellar cast, right yep. So Garrett, I know we

667
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:44.239
don't have time to talk about everyone, but I just

668
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:49.559
want to point out this movie also features Chelsea Ross,

669
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:53.480
who we love and everything he does, whether it's Hoosiers or.

670
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:55.079
Major League yep.

671
00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:59.480
Kim Dickens playing her her hot and wild friend that's

672
00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:03.880
trying to get her out. And Michael Jeter, who you

673
00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:07.159
typically love in movies but he's such a piece of

674
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:11.079
slime attorney when he's cutting Like you mentioned the attorney

675
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:13.719
cutting her down on the sand. Yeah, oh, don't you

676
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:16.079
want to? I just I'm like, hey, you're Michael Jeter,

677
00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:18.440
and you're you're lovable, but I just want to punch

678
00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:22.360
in the face right now. You mentioned Gary Cole, who

679
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:26.760
plays the district attorney amazing in this This is one

680
00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:30.119
year before Rosemary Harris is going to be Aunt May

681
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:35.559
where she's got this ghostly moment in the in the

682
00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:37.920
backyard with with Kate Blanchet's character.

683
00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:42.719
Makes you wonder with Rosemary Harris and JK. Simmons and

684
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:46.440
Sam Ramie all teaming up on this like Okay, I

685
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:49.119
wonder how they all got to Spider Man here.

686
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:51.840
I think Ramy's looking her going, well, let's see, I

687
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:54.519
found my jay Jonah, I found my aunt May. I'll

688
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:56.960
set with me right now. Uh. And then, in a

689
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:01.639
weird twist, composer Danny Elfman has like a blinking you

690
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:04.039
miss a moment where he's like in a vision playing

691
00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:06.599
a creepy fiddle playing guy in the swamp.

692
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:09.599
What's crazy is because if you go back and watches,

693
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:13.199
he dressed and looks exactly like Joe Exotic. So that

694
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:13.760
kills me.

695
00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:20.440
Yeah, I know, I know that. Like Chris, I think

696
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:22.599
it's Christopher Young who does the score, and I'm not

697
00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:25.199
sure why Elfman isn't doing the score for this one.

698
00:40:25.199 --> 00:40:26.920
But I also know that it was around Spider Man

699
00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:29.679
two is where they had a falling out because Christopher

700
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:31.599
Young had kind of come in and fixed some of

701
00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:34.559
his work, and then Raymy and Elfman didn't work for

702
00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:37.239
a long time, but couldn't really figure out what. You know,

703
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:39.679
I don't know if Elfman was busy doing something else.

704
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:42.400
He probably was, but you know his buddy, he's like, yeah,

705
00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:44.639
I'll be in the movie still, you gotta creep.

706
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:47.719
For that, I'll check it out. Yeah, Garrett, not.

707
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:50.280
A lot for us to talk about as far as

708
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:54.360
the background the production of this, Uh, suffice to say

709
00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:59.840
it's written by one Billy Bob Thornton and his his

710
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:03.599
Tom Epperson, his writing partner. And this is before they

711
00:41:03.639 --> 00:41:06.400
write this, before sling Blade is even released in nineteen

712
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:08.599
eighty six, So that's how long this is kind of

713
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:13.000
kicking hh okay, and then I don't know if you

714
00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:17.440
know this, the story for the Gift is based on

715
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:21.719
Billy Bob Thornton's mother, Virginia, who was a self proclaimed psychic.

716
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:28.000
No, well, okay, yeah, it's actually pretty interesting because.

717
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.039
Tapping into a little bit of home life. You know.

718
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:35.039
Yeah, I thought that it was a little crazy saying

719
00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.920
Billy Bob pop up as a screenplayed ride on this

720
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:40.880
and I was like, ah, this is a little odd.

721
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:42.920
I don't see him write too many things. But the

722
00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:45.960
fact that he's got his own personal life intertwined with

723
00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:48.719
this a little bit. I enjoy that from him.

724
00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:52.800
So yeah, I'm telling you right now it doesn't exist.

725
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:58.440
But if we could get a audio commentary with Billy

726
00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:02.320
Bob Thornton and Sam Raimi talking about this movie, yeah,

727
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:04.119
I don't care. I don't care what it costs. I'd

728
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:08.039
pay it, but yeah, not a lot on the production.

729
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:10.800
I don't you know, which is which I find strange

730
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:14.159
a little. I find that a little strange. But uh, Garrett,

731
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:16.239
there's a couple of scenes we we got to talk

732
00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:18.039
a little bit more in depth about. I know we've

733
00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:20.920
mentioned a couple of them, but let's get back, uh

734
00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:25.320
to Keanu talking about Donnie's first appearance in the movie,

735
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:27.000
where he goes to visit Annie.

736
00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:31.000
After dark, where he is just lightly knocking on the door,

737
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:33.280
very non troublesome.

738
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:39.079
It seems, yeah, excuse me, miss, Yeah, I'm I'm I'm

739
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:41.800
her husband, and you know, and you gotta give it

740
00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:44.719
to Annie, Kate Blenchett. She's like, everything, okay, she's not

741
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:45.400
opened the door.

742
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:46.079
Nope.

743
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:49.199
Everything okay, nope, No, ma'am, she's not okay, man, I

744
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:49.840
come in and talk.

745
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:50.079
You know.

746
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:53.119
He's You're like, and I'm watching. It's been it's probably

747
00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:55.519
been five years since I've since I sat down and

748
00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:59.599
watched this, and I was like, all right, Keano, I forgot.

749
00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:02.320
I know he's the bad guy, but I forgot how

750
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:03.360
despicable he is.

751
00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:07.360
And then he ate every second he's on the screen.

752
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.519
Well, he gets in, he right when he walks in

753
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:11.559
the door though, like she opens, she unlocks the door,

754
00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:15.719
lets him in, and then says some ship that. You're

755
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:19.159
just like, oh, you can't say that, Keano, what what

756
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:20.880
do you you know? And I'm not gonna repeat it

757
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:24.079
by by any means. But and then just gets threatening

758
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:27.760
and he's menacing, and he's immediately you're like, this guy

759
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:31.119
is a white trash piece of shit, and you want

760
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:34.760
bad things to happen to him because he's threatening in

761
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:35.639
front of her children.

762
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:39.559
Yeah, in front of three small children, and you're.

763
00:43:39.519 --> 00:43:42.400
And and the fact is this is his opening moment.

764
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:47.039
This is our introduction to his character, and it's it's

765
00:43:47.159 --> 00:43:49.880
about the nicest we're gonna see him in the movie.

766
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:54.519
That and then the court scene where he finally admits

767
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:58.920
being a wife abusing piece of shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

768
00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:00.760
that is the two nice times.

769
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:04.239
Yeah, And even then he's a slide ball, you know, like,

770
00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:07.480
why why would Jessica King socialized well to be with you?

771
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:10.440
He's like, well, she claimed no one could f like me.

772
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:14.760
It's like, you're Gary Cole, You're disgusting, sir, you know,

773
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:19.880
like really we're gonna object to Gary Cole saying.

774
00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:22.719
That, come on, exactly, great moment.

775
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:25.719
Great introduction to to Kanu's character, just to show you

776
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.079
just how awful he is. I know we already mentioned

777
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:35.360
Buddy driving Annie home that breakdown. He has another buddy

778
00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:37.760
scene I want to talk about, though. I feel like

779
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:39.639
I feel like we're maybe talking about a couple buddy

780
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:48.800
scenes here, but Buddy stepping in to save any son that. Yeah.

781
00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:50.800
I'm not gonna say it's the pivotal moment because it's

782
00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:53.159
not the most important thing that happens in this movie

783
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:55.039
or it's nothing that it's not the scene that that

784
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:58.159
that connects the movie or does anything like that. But

785
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:01.239
it is one of my favorite scenes because, you know,

786
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:04.840
when you're sizing these two guys up, Giovanni Ribisi is

787
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:08.159
giving away probably a good thirty pounds of Kanu Reeves

788
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:12.800
white trash bully. Yeah, Kanda Reeves is with his buddy

789
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.639
and the other shitty pickup truck. So for jet for

790
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:21.639
for for Buddy to be like, you know, Ji.

791
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:24.199
Is like mind your business, buddy, and he's like, oh

792
00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:28.079
I will as he's truck. Yeah, I tend to.

793
00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:32.199
Yeah, it just gets out and puts a hurting on

794
00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:36.239
that pickup truck, and you're thinking, you know, when Kanna

795
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:38.480
pulls the gun on him, and you're like, oh, like

796
00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:39.440
now you're panicked.

797
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:42.360
Yeah, he's about to shoot Buddy here yep, Jianna.

798
00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.760
Yeah, but Giovanni takes it to a whole nother level.

799
00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:49.239
Of extreme scary and extreme does.

800
00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:53.559
And it's you know, I don't think I took a

801
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:55.519
breath the whole time I'm watching that scene.

802
00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:58.800
No, No, I felt like the sun when they show

803
00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:02.239
I believe his name's Miller. I felt Miller when they

804
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:04.800
show him like two seconds after the truck drives off,

805
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:06.599
just speechless, eyes wide.

806
00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:11.400
Yeah. Yeah, he's like you okay, Yeah, the way that

807
00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:18.159
that that buddy can just switch that fast to the

808
00:46:18.239 --> 00:46:23.679
gentle pine person or the the just the raging monster.

809
00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:25.679
And I don't mean monster in a bad way. He

810
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:27.800
just uncontrolled rage that he's got.

811
00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:30.719
Yeah, which a little bit more of that later.

812
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.360
Yeah, oh yeah, well, well let's talk about that scene.

813
00:46:33.519 --> 00:46:36.159
Let's let's talk about when Buddy attacks his dad and

814
00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:39.679
we get the revelation of the Blue Diamond. Yes, because

815
00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:42.480
for a second, you're like, you know, and he gets

816
00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:45.679
called you know, the buddy's mom calls her his dad's

817
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:49.320
tied up, he's gonna kill him, and he's unglued. He is,

818
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:52.400
he's just unhinged, and he's got that belt. He's whipping

819
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:55.239
in his dad, who's tied up and gagged, and he's

820
00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:58.599
even striking out at Annie, and he's like, why didn't

821
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:02.800
you help me? Yeah, you're kind of like, yeah, yeah,

822
00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:05.760
he's he's he's now he's snapped, and you're like, for

823
00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:08.840
a split second, you don't like him because he's he's

824
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:11.679
he's kind of raging an Annie, and we don't want that.

825
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:15.119
But then you start to feel sad for him when

826
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:18.559
he's like, I was your little boy, daddy. Why'd you

827
00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:20.880
you know? And you're like, what did this guy? What

828
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:22.599
did he what could he have possibly done? Was he

829
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:26.079
beating him? Or and then you see the tattoo, You

830
00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:29.159
see the blue diamond tattoo, and they don't even have

831
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:31.440
to tell you, they don't speak it, they don't tell you,

832
00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:34.719
but you know what his dad was doing to him,

833
00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:37.239
and it just destroys you.

834
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:39.840
Just when he is over his mom and he's like,

835
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:41.199
you knew the whole dude.

836
00:47:41.800 --> 00:47:43.599
Yeah it doesn't, Yeah.

837
00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:45.639
Yeah, it doesn't just tear your heart right now.

838
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:49.559
It kills me. It just kills me. Yeah, I think

839
00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:52.679
I think maybe that's the pivotal moment of this movie

840
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:55.800
because we're we're like, what the hell is what is

841
00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:57.400
this kid? What is he freaking out of her a

842
00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:00.880
blue diamond for? And then you find out the catalysts

843
00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:05.440
for for Buddies, all his troubles, all his emotional.

844
00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:08.079
And everything throughout the everything.

845
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:12.039
Yeah, yeah, his his suicidal tendencies, everything he's got going on,

846
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:16.199
all boils down to this one moment and it just

847
00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:22.239
kills you. Because we're watching this supernatural thriller and we're

848
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:24.639
trying to figure out who killed Jessica King, and you know,

849
00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:27.800
was it Keanu or who was it? And for a

850
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.000
split second like was it? You know, there's like there's

851
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:33.239
a flash of Buddy and your buddy, Buddy didn't like

852
00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:38.239
So for this this little side story to just rear

853
00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:43.679
its ugly head mid movie and then quietly get tucked away, Yeah,

854
00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:45.360
it kind of messes.

855
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:50.280
With you, it does, And honestly, it just again it

856
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:54.079
shows you the human spirit because this guy is struggling

857
00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:57.559
his best to just his name's literally Buddy. He's like

858
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:01.079
walking around trying to be happy, trying to smile, and

859
00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:04.159
he's got the worst life of out out of anyone

860
00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:07.679
in this entire film, and he is trying not to break.

861
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:09.800
There's one more scene I want to talk about. Before

862
00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:12.039
we get to that, I'll just ask you your opinion.

863
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:16.480
Up to this point, the only supernatural aspect of the

864
00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:21.039
movie is that Kate Bunchett is is like, she can see,

865
00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:23.800
she has visions, right, she can see, she can see

866
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:27.719
Katie Holmes murdered. She can see all this you know stuff.

867
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:31.320
She helps the police find find the body. How'd you

868
00:49:31.400 --> 00:49:39.280
feel about Buddy's arc and how he he helps help? Yeah,

869
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:42.559
you know, but that and that's truly the supernatural moment

870
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:45.760
of the whole movie. It is so does it work

871
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:46.079
for you?

872
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:49.760
It does to a certain extent, Like I said, just

873
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:53.679
because based off of like the human spirit, he always

874
00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:56.519
wanted to do good and he always you know, needed

875
00:49:56.559 --> 00:49:58.599
her help, and for him to be able to show

876
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.440
up and actually help her, Yeah, I think it goes

877
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:03.000
pretty well.

878
00:50:03.079 --> 00:50:06.119
It's cool. I like it because, like you have, for

879
00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:08.599
like a split second, I'm like, how the hell did

880
00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:10.559
he break out of the hospital and just happen to

881
00:50:10.599 --> 00:50:13.079
be there? But then when you find the red, when

882
00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:16.280
you when it all comes to fruition, you're like, oh shit,

883
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:20.039
he wasn't there now where for me? It works, I

884
00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:22.119
dig it, it does, and it kind of gives it,

885
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:24.280
lets him in, It lets his story end as a hero.

886
00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:27.199
I feel like, right instead of the darkness that they

887
00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:29.199
gave you moments later of course.

888
00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:34.000
Yeah. Uh. One last scene I want to talk about,

889
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:37.039
and it's returning to the crime scene. So you got

890
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.280
you got well to do. Wayne, who shows up at

891
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:44.199
Andie's place at night, insists on taking her back out

892
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.320
to the crime scene in the middle of the night

893
00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:51.559
and makes her drive them there. And the and the

894
00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:53.960
question is why, why why she got a drive?

895
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:58.159
Yeah, I'll tell you why.

896
00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:01.119
And I I I knew you were gonna say, you

897
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:02.679
were gonna mention it before I could get to it.

898
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:06.760
But if there's one reason for any to be the

899
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:09.119
one that drives, it's so that we can get another

900
00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:13.199
look at what I feel is the one co star

901
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:19.119
we haven't discussed, and that's the classic Sam Ramis nineteen

902
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:24.719
seventy three Delta eighty eight Olds Mobile, which has appeared

903
00:51:24.719 --> 00:51:27.159
in practically every Sam Raimi film to date.

904
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:33.559
It truly has, and just the reason behind it is amazing,

905
00:51:33.760 --> 00:51:37.079
just because nineteen seventy three is dad bought the car.

906
00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:40.719
Growing up, him and all his brothers and Bruce and

907
00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:44.880
all the kids would pile in go watch movies at

908
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:48.119
the drive in theater in it, and just that little

909
00:51:48.119 --> 00:51:51.079
bit of nostalgia that he keeps with him and he

910
00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:53.480
brings that to the film every time he's in it.

911
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:55.239
I just love it.

912
00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:58.559
Garrett. As a Ramie fan, how excited you get when

913
00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:01.199
I'm new movies coming out and You're like, I gotta

914
00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:03.800
find it? Where's it at? You're waiting for it? Right?

915
00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:08.000
That's what I did on I think it's twenty thirteen.

916
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:10.880
They released that Evil Dead movie right before Ash first

917
00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:12.920
Evil Dead, and I was like, oh, he doesn't drive it,

918
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:15.199
and then it's the old beat up car in the background.

919
00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:16.320
I'm like, there it is.

920
00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:21.880
Yeah, listeners, this is a fun game. If you're a

921
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.159
Ramie fan and you're you're just catching into this, you

922
00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:27.119
gotta go back and start watching this filmography again. This

923
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:32.119
car is prominently featured in the Evil Dead trilogy. It's

924
00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:34.679
in one of his earlier films, Crime Wave, It's in

925
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:38.880
Dark Man, It's in a simple Plan. It was Uncle

926
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.320
Ben's car in the Spider Man trilogy. It's seen in

927
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:45.960
Drag Me to Hell. Most recently, I think it was

928
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.000
in I think the most recent film it's in is

929
00:52:48.239 --> 00:52:50.039
Doctor Strange. In the Multiverse of Madness.

930
00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:50.599
It is.

931
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:53.599
And it's not just Sam Raimi movies, his buddies, the

932
00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:58.360
Coen Brothers. They have used it in Blood Simple Raising, Arizona, Fargo,

933
00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:02.199
and The Big Lebowski. The fun fact. And this is

934
00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:05.039
one of those things like it can't be proven, but

935
00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:09.400
rumor has it. It is in his Western The Quick

936
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:11.960
and the Dead, and it was just it was it

937
00:53:12.039 --> 00:53:14.039
was tarped and in one of the barns in the

938
00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:17.840
background so that it can be in the movie without

939
00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:21.360
being a car in the Old West. And then parts

940
00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:24.599
of the of the classic were used in Oz the

941
00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:27.639
Great and Powerful for the Wizards. Oh okay caption.

942
00:53:28.199 --> 00:53:28.519
Yeah.

943
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:31.840
I dig the fact that the Delta, the Delta is

944
00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:34.400
like in everything that he does. I love it and.

945
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:38.760
Like the fact that it's from like eighty two till

946
00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:43.039
now that he's running with this, it's like, yes, okay, okay.

947
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:46.039
I keep hoping and Garrett, I know, I know, you

948
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:47.719
don't run with the con men. But you and I

949
00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:50.119
have crossed paths to a couple of cons recently, and

950
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:53.360
you you're big on the cons. It's it's not uncommon

951
00:53:53.480 --> 00:53:55.719
to go to these conventions and see like the Ecto

952
00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:59.320
one or the DeLorean from Back to the.

953
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:03.119
Future far from supernatural natural.

954
00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:07.559
Yeah, last year we got to see, uh, the Barracuda

955
00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:12.840
from Fantastic Don Coscarelli had at Scarefest. Movie cars are

956
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:15.880
It's always fun to see these. You can't go to

957
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:18.039
a com without seeing a Jurassic part Jeep, I'm telling

958
00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:20.880
you that right now. But I'm telling you the fact

959
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:23.880
that we've been to cons, we've met Sam Raimi. I

960
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:27.400
keep hoping that at some point the classic will show

961
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:27.920
up at a con.

962
00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:31.079
You look over and see this nineteen seventy three banana

963
00:54:31.119 --> 00:54:33.920
putting cord, rusty.

964
00:54:33.920 --> 00:54:37.320
Beat up, piece of shit looking car. Dude, if they

965
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:39.079
had a photo op for that, I'd pay three hundred

966
00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:43.480
bucks to sit in that thing. And yeah, yes, yeah,

967
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:46.559
oh man, I'll tell you what, Garrett. Let's uh, let's

968
00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:48.679
take one last break and when we get back, we'll

969
00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:50.400
talk a little bit more about Sam Rami and give

970
00:54:50.519 --> 00:54:56.800
some recommendations. All right, Garrett, I always love doing this,

971
00:54:56.960 --> 00:55:03.360
but I was this was not an easy one to do. Question.

972
00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:09.039
If someone had just seen The Gift and were completely

973
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:15.519
unfamiliar with Sam Raimi, which three films would you suggest

974
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:16.840
they watch next?

975
00:55:18.599 --> 00:55:22.679
I'll go and order how they came out, not necessarily

976
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:25.960
what I like the most, but okay, the three films

977
00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:29.000
that I saw from him and I absolutely just fell

978
00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:31.559
in love with, which made me want to see more

979
00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:35.239
of his work, which, of course the originally Evil Dead amazing.

980
00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:39.039
Okay, so I've got mine in year of release as well.

981
00:55:39.400 --> 00:55:40.760
So I'm going to tag in with you here and

982
00:55:40.800 --> 00:55:44.360
there nineteen eighty one, The Evil Dead. Let's that's my

983
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:48.159
first choice too. Let's talk to me about talk Evil Dead.

984
00:55:48.039 --> 00:55:51.920
With me now. Evil Dead. The amount of practical and

985
00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:54.559
special effects that they use in this film are truly

986
00:55:54.719 --> 00:55:57.400
groundbreaking at the point in time in nineteen eighty one.

987
00:55:57.559 --> 00:56:01.639
I think it's truly extraordinary. A few friends at cheap

988
00:56:01.719 --> 00:56:04.159
cabin and your mom and dad's car. I mean, the

989
00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:06.440
fact that this is what you're bringing to the table

990
00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:09.679
and you send out one of the like most known

991
00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:12.400
cult classic films of all time, that's truly amazing.

992
00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:17.599
It is I've I think I've bought this probably like

993
00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:24.719
at least eleven times on VHS, on DVD, on Collector's

994
00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:29.119
Edition DVD, on blue box sets, like I've bought this

995
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:31.800
so many times, like the last one I've got, Oh,

996
00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:34.840
go ahead, the last one I got, and it's it's

997
00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:36.719
breaking my heart because it's starting to fall apart. But

998
00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:40.079
you remember when they released the Economic Condition and it

999
00:56:40.159 --> 00:56:42.719
was the Book of the Dead. It looked like the book. Yep,

1000
00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:46.440
it's it's slowly starting to fall apart. It's it's killing me.

1001
00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:49.280
It's it's killing me inside because I want to preserve

1002
00:56:49.320 --> 00:56:52.000
it somehow, but there's no way to preserve it.

1003
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.119
It was just such a cheap white pleather cover, which

1004
00:56:55.159 --> 00:56:57.639
is terrible because it's amazing looking.

1005
00:56:57.840 --> 00:56:58.599
It looks so good.

1006
00:56:59.199 --> 00:57:00.639
I got that as well.

1007
00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:04.519
This is yeah, I have to ask you, you've probably

1008
00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:05.960
bought this countless times too.

1009
00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:09.679
Write I've got four different steel book versions of it.

1010
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:13.320
I've got one of the original VHS tapes that I

1011
00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:16.719
think belonged to my dad originally, He's I've got quite

1012
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:17.920
a few copies of this one.

1013
00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:23.159
I remember seeing this. I was too young, you know,

1014
00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:26.519
Me and my cousin Laura, we used to you know,

1015
00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:28.559
there used to be weekends at the grandparents house and

1016
00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:32.800
we would we would grab VHS copies of horror films,

1017
00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:35.599
you know, like Friday Thirteenth and the Texas Chancelmasker. And

1018
00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:37.239
I remember when when we got our hands on The

1019
00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:41.599
Evil Dead and man, was it good. But I've seen

1020
00:57:41.599 --> 00:57:43.079
this so many times. I've seen it in the theater.

1021
00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:45.679
I saw it. I want to say it was last

1022
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:50.159
year Bruce Campbell came to town. Shout out to our

1023
00:57:50.159 --> 00:57:56.840
buddy Nate, who is a huge Bruce Campbell fan. But

1024
00:57:56.920 --> 00:58:00.119
Bruce Campbell was in town and kind of hosted a

1025
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:03.280
viewing of The Evil Dead and it was great for

1026
00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:07.480
me because our very own David Burns, who loves Sam

1027
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:10.639
Mamy loves Evil Dead. He was there with me, and

1028
00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:15.079
then our other good buddy Wayne Whited, who is not

1029
00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:18.719
known for being a horror fan, had never seen Evil

1030
00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:20.840
Dead too, or no, yeah, I was Evil Dead too.

1031
00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:24.159
That we watched and was like, I'm excited to see

1032
00:58:24.159 --> 00:58:27.239
this and Wayne loved it, and that just that thrilled

1033
00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:29.079
me to no end. So to see it with someone

1034
00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:31.679
that's never seen it and to see it on a

1035
00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:36.639
theater screen and Bruce Campbell's air like welcoming you that

1036
00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:37.559
it was a great moment.

1037
00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:39.599
But there's no other way to see that film for

1038
00:58:39.639 --> 00:58:41.599
the first time if it's this lay in your life.

1039
00:58:41.639 --> 00:58:47.239
Absolutely his directorial feature debut. He gets financial backing by

1040
00:58:47.239 --> 00:58:51.079
creating the short film Within the Woods YEP, which helped

1041
00:58:51.119 --> 00:58:53.360
raise ninety thousand dollars to make The Evil Dead. I

1042
00:58:53.400 --> 00:58:55.800
love it. I love it, absolutely love it. What's okay,

1043
00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:56.719
what's your second pick?

1044
00:58:58.039 --> 00:59:01.079
It's a movie that I watch first one I as

1045
00:59:01.119 --> 00:59:06.000
a child. It introduced me to this actor, Liam Neeson.

1046
00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:09.159
So we've We've got dark Man. You know, I'm a

1047
00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:10.840
little nostalgic about that.

1048
00:59:11.800 --> 00:59:14.639
I would have bet any amount of money that dark

1049
00:59:14.679 --> 00:59:16.119
Man was going to be on your on your list.

1050
00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:17.960
It had to be all yeah, it had to be.

1051
00:59:18.280 --> 00:59:20.519
I want to tell you right now, that is one

1052
00:59:20.559 --> 00:59:24.039
of those movies that's a cross between some kind of

1053
00:59:24.119 --> 00:59:28.599
superhero film, a horror film, a love story, and so

1054
00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:32.199
many other things. I think Sam Raimi just nailed this

1055
00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:34.519
one all the way across the board, and it doesn't

1056
00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:37.199
get as much love as I think it deserves. But

1057
00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:40.119
I think that's the way a lot of Sam Raimi's

1058
00:59:40.199 --> 00:59:41.480
work is it is.

1059
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:45.360
You know, I don't like that. But I also love

1060
00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:47.760
the fact that it gives us the opportunity to talk

1061
00:59:47.960 --> 00:59:50.039
same Rami movies, you know, because we're not going to

1062
00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:51.920
talk about big blockbusters all the time on this on

1063
00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:56.079
this show, but it gives us a chance to kind

1064
00:59:56.119 --> 00:59:59.280
of shout out some of his work and what you

1065
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:02.320
should be watching. And dark Man. I love what you

1066
01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:03.880
I love what. I love how you described it because

1067
01:00:03.920 --> 01:00:08.920
it is it's it's a superhero horror film with a

1068
01:00:08.920 --> 01:00:13.039
love story. And the fact that Liam Neeson is dark Man.

1069
01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:15.239
And this is way before Liam Neeson, you know, this

1070
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:19.000
is what he had done Crawl. Yeah, he had done

1071
01:00:19.079 --> 01:00:21.519
Crawl in a couple other movies, Like he's not Liam Neeson,

1072
01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:25.440
you know, next to Ken maybe with.

1073
01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:28.159
Yeah, yeah, I think that was the one big thing

1074
01:00:28.280 --> 01:00:29.840
right before this, yeah.

1075
01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:33.119
Yeah, And now he's Liam Neeson. But uh, if you listeners,

1076
01:00:33.119 --> 01:00:35.039
if you have not seen dark Man, you are you

1077
01:00:35.119 --> 01:00:40.440
are missing out. Classic Sam Raimi, classic Liam Neeson. Let

1078
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:44.760
me give you one nineteen ninety eight. I mentioned it

1079
01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:49.760
earlier a simple Plan, we covered it. It's probably my

1080
01:00:49.960 --> 01:00:53.920
favorite Sam Raimi film. And I say that knowing that

1081
01:00:54.239 --> 01:00:57.039
the Evil Dead is out there and Spider Man's out there,

1082
01:00:57.880 --> 01:01:02.400
and everything he's done is out there. But there's just

1083
01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:07.480
something about the performances Billy, Bob Thornton's performance, Brent Brisco,

1084
01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:13.119
Bill Paxton, just you know, Bridget Fonda, just incredible performances.

1085
01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:16.760
And I love the fact, you know, this is nineteen

1086
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:23.719
ninety eight. Raymie has not yet hit that blockbuster segment

1087
01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:27.079
of his career, so he's still learning things. And Garrett,

1088
01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:29.599
I know you've seen a simple plan. Majority of it

1089
01:01:29.639 --> 01:01:35.159
takes place in an area that's got heavy snowfall, also

1090
01:01:35.199 --> 01:01:38.920
has your buddy Gary Cole and it playing a bad guy.

1091
01:01:39.519 --> 01:01:42.880
But he learned several techniques on how to shoot in

1092
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:46.960
heavy snow from his buddies, the Coen Brothers, who had

1093
01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:49.320
just done Fargo two years.

1094
01:01:49.079 --> 01:01:52.280
Earlier, which was also a masterpiece.

1095
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:57.760
M Yeah, funny story. There's a quick blankety moment, blinkeny

1096
01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:01.559
miss moment. Bill Paxton's he's at He's at the general

1097
01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:04.800
store whatever, wherever he's working. This guy, this older guy,

1098
01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:07.480
comes in is arguing with him about how how there

1099
01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:10.440
could be five weeks in a month, and Bill Paxton's

1100
01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:14.239
you know, trying to explain common sense to him. Yeah,

1101
01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:16.199
that's Bill Paxton's real father.

1102
01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:18.360
No, way is it real?

1103
01:02:18.559 --> 01:02:21.760
Yeah? And Bill Paxton showed up on set that day

1104
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.159
not knowing that his dad had been cast in the

1105
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:28.159
movie in this small part. And his dad know that

1106
01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:30.400
Bill Paxton, he's in a Bill Paxton movie. So these

1107
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:32.280
they show up, they have they're like, Dad, what are

1108
01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:35.559
you doing? What are you doing here? So I dig

1109
01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:39.199
little things like that simple plan is what I would

1110
01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:45.400
recommend Garrett. What do you got next? Third and final recommendation, I'm.

1111
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:48.920
Gonna say just because it helped launch the Marvel universe.

1112
01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:51.760
The first Spider Man movie. That's amazing.

1113
01:02:53.079 --> 01:02:57.800
Yeah, oh gosh, it's one of those situations where you're

1114
01:02:57.840 --> 01:02:59.639
thinking you're never going to see a Spider Man movie.

1115
01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:03.039
In the nineties, there was the rumor that the Jim

1116
01:03:03.079 --> 01:03:09.800
Cameron Leo DiCaprio Spider Man movie didn't didn't come to pass, thankfully,

1117
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:13.280
if you ever heard the stories that they're looking.

1118
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:17.599
At Yeah, yes, sounds pretty rough, honestly.

1119
01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:23.079
But but man, what we got in Spider Man two

1120
01:03:23.119 --> 01:03:26.960
thousand and two, it just, you know, I feel like

1121
01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:29.559
every couple of years a superhero movie comes out that

1122
01:03:29.639 --> 01:03:34.280
kind of reinvents the franchise. It it makes you believe

1123
01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:37.280
that we can make superhero films again, and this is

1124
01:03:37.360 --> 01:03:41.000
no uh, this is no exception. It's it's it's an

1125
01:03:41.039 --> 01:03:46.400
amazing moment in superhero cinema history. I love the fact

1126
01:03:46.440 --> 01:03:50.679
that they've tied that film back into the MCU with

1127
01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:53.639
No Way Home. It's just awesome. Man.

1128
01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:58.639
And the fact that they're trying to get Toby maguire

1129
01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:01.880
for another stand up lone Spider Man movie since then

1130
01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:06.199
is awesome. I would pay to anything to watch and

1131
01:04:06.239 --> 01:04:08.960
see that because I love his original trilogy and Sam

1132
01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:11.000
Ramy he's a genius with those films.

1133
01:04:11.280 --> 01:04:13.280
Yeah, I'm not gonna say I love Part three.

1134
01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:16.679
It has its anties, but.

1135
01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:19.400
It's still fun to watch. It's still you know, hey,

1136
01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:22.920
nothing's on TV and FX is playing Spider Man three.

1137
01:04:23.039 --> 01:04:26.320
I'm in. I'm watching it right. I got one more

1138
01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:30.559
for you, my third and final recommendation nineteen ninety nine,

1139
01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:32.719
for Love of the Game.

1140
01:04:33.559 --> 01:04:35.159
I've never actually seen that film.

1141
01:04:35.719 --> 01:04:41.280
Brother, You are missing out on the third film in

1142
01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:45.519
the Kevin Costner Baseball trilogy because you got Bull Durham.

1143
01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:49.039
You got Field of Dreams.

1144
01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:52.280
Yeah, you got Field of Dreams. You gotta see for

1145
01:04:52.320 --> 01:04:55.519
Love of the Game, a Sam Raimi Baseball movie. It's

1146
01:04:55.519 --> 01:05:02.000
a romantic drama. It's Costner doing baseball and doing it

1147
01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:06.480
damn good. If you don't know what it's about, it's basically, Uh,

1148
01:05:06.519 --> 01:05:10.760
he's playing Tiger's pitcher, Billy Chappel, and he's kind of

1149
01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:13.480
at the end of his career. He's ready, you know,

1150
01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:16.519
should he retire, and he's It's the whole movie is

1151
01:05:16.559 --> 01:05:21.199
like the club's getting sold and they plan to trade him,

1152
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:23.519
and he's been a Tiger his entire life.

1153
01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:26.039
And probably doesn't want to be traded now.

1154
01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:27.760
Doesn't want to be traded, doesn't want to start over

1155
01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:32.719
somewhere else. And in a throwaway game that the New

1156
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:35.920
York Yankees are hosting the Tigers are in town, he

1157
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:40.119
just happens to be throwing a perfect game. And the

1158
01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:44.920
whole movie him going back in his mind and thinking

1159
01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:48.360
about how he started and you know, where he's been

1160
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:52.880
and like this love story with the the very beautiful

1161
01:05:52.960 --> 01:05:56.800
Kelly Preston and how it went wrong. And meanwhile, you

1162
01:05:56.880 --> 01:05:59.639
got JK. Simmons playing the playing the Tiger's manager, you

1163
01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:05.079
got Joys as the catcher. It, dude, I'm telling you

1164
01:06:05.079 --> 01:06:09.559
you are missing an incredibly good Oh it's amazing cast

1165
01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:16.079
and it's just so damn good fun story. So, like

1166
01:06:16.119 --> 01:06:20.119
I said, they're the Yankees are hosting the Tigers in

1167
01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:23.400
the movie, and you know, he's throwing a perfect game

1168
01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:26.199
he has to win, which means that the Tigers have

1169
01:06:26.239 --> 01:06:28.119
to beat the Yankees in Yankee Stadium.

1170
01:06:29.039 --> 01:06:29.320
Yep.

1171
01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:34.800
So Yankees under George Steinbrenner, not happy with the story,

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doesn't want to doesn't want to sign off on this.

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So Kevin Costner goes and visits George Steinbrenner and explains

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that it's not about the Tigers beating the Yankees. It's

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about his character, Billy Chappell, and Billy Chappell's story is

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the focus of the movie, and it's not about them

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winning the game because the loss means nothing for the

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Yankees because in this movie's universe, the Yankees of clinch

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the Al East Division.

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So yeah, this is a simple last game of the season,

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you know, die on this hill.

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Yeah, Steinbrener gets it. They make the movie. Steinbrener loves it.

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As a thank you to Kevin Costner for explaining it

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to him, he gives him a Yankees nineteen ninety nine

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World Series ring as a as a gift.

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Holy shit, dude, that is probablysive. Yeah, okay, okay, you've

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got me in for the love of the game.

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Is it for love of the game?

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For love of the game?

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Okay, listen, we you know, I know we got a

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while playoffs are, we're getting close to playoffs now. But

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if there's one baseball movie you haven't watched yet at ever,

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it's it's this one.

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Man.

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You've got to see this before the season's over.

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I'm telling your sounds like I'm doing my homework this

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vin week.

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Get such such a great film, man, Love it, absolutely

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love it. Garrett, We've not been You don't need to

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be a psychic like Annie to know that. We recommend

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the gift. Where'd you see this one?

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So? I actually picked it up on Prime. I do

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not own this one. It's been a few years since

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I've seen it. I probably should get a hard copy

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01:08:11.719 --> 01:08:14.159
of this because I do enjoy this one so much.

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I'll tell you what. So listeners, it's streaming on Fubo,

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01:08:20.479 --> 01:08:24.399
MGM Plus and Canopy and Hoopla. I don't know what

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01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:27.880
those two are, but it's out there. If Hoopla and

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Canopy people, it's out there for you. You can rent

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it as Garrett said on Amazon or Apple Plus, but

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I definitely suggest owning this one. There happens to be

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a stunning four K Blu Ray Collectors Edition with multiple

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audio commentaries, interviews, music videos, and more. And Garrett, because

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I own that, and I still own the original DVD

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Collector's Edition. Next time we hit the box office, I'll

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have to here you go, buddy, Yeah, here's a copy

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for you.

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You know, I've still got that Leslie Nielsen post for yeah.

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H William, Yeah, I've got you, buddy.

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There we go. That's a fair trade. Uh, Listeners, what

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do you think of Sam Remi's the gift? Have you

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01:09:13.840 --> 01:09:16.520
seen this one? Is it? Is it tough for you

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01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:18.600
to watch Keano play a villain like it is for us?

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We we we throw a free episode out there every

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at some of the conventions. But Garrett, I am. I'm

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01:10:31.319 --> 01:10:34.399
happy that you decided to talk Sam Raimi with me

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01:10:34.880 --> 01:10:39.680
a New Yeork fans. I know we've got several movies

1247
01:10:39.720 --> 01:10:44.119
to talk about next month. Oh yeah, we'll get to that.

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And in the meantime, to all of you listening to

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