People We Meet on Vacation: Rom-Coms Have a New Star | SVU

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Speaker 2: One of the most popular films of twenty twenty six never came to theaters. It's People We Meet on Vacation, which is playing exclusively on Netflix.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jordan Hoffman and I'm Att Singer. With more movies, more series, more stuff going straight to streaming than ever before, it felt like the right time for a podcast that keeps track of it all, and that podcast is Film Spotting Streaming Video Unit. This week we will talk about People we Meet on Vacation, plus this week's newest streaming titles, some deep cut streaming res and a game.

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Speaker 3: I created yet another new game, and we're gonna find out if if Jordan can keep his winning streak alive. This is what episode four. So you're three and oh.

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Speaker 3: That's a really great point, Sam, I'm going to be thinking about that for the next three to four weeks.

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Speaker 2: Sam puts up a good fight each week, but I have defeated him each week. And I'm three and oh, and I want to know. Am I going to continue to four?

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Speaker 4: And oh?

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Speaker 3: We're going to find out at the end of this episode. You sound very cocky. I know might come back and boomerang around on you, which nothing would make me happier than to see you laid low apiate later in the show. But first, yes, let's get to our review of People We Meet on Vacation.

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Speaker 5: On vacation, you can be anyone you want who wants to go skinny dipping.

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Speaker 3: Least does not, Maybe vacation Alex does.

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Speaker 6: That's why I want to travel. Can actually be who you want to be instead of who they say you are. How about every somewhere wherever we are we meet somewhere.

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Speaker 5: In the world for a trip.

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Speaker 2: Dear the Manic Pixie dream Girl is back in the runaway Netflix original hit People We Meet on Vacation, based on the book by best selling author of Why a and Regular a Fiction, Emily Henry. This breezy and agreeable motion picture is directed by Brett Haley, whose earlier work includes sundance charmers like I'll See You in My Dreams. The Hero and Hearts Beat Loud. Haley has now found a comfortable perch making direct to Netflix movies, and with this his third one, he struck some Gold. Should you toggle Matt Singer? Should you toggle by popularity on letterboxed You'll love to.

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Speaker 3: Toggle things on letterbox one of my favorite past time only when the lights are low.

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Speaker 2: Should you toggle by popularity on letterbox you will find that this mid budget romantic comedy is in fact the fourth highest rated movie of twenty twenty six, highest ranked. Over one point one million people have logged it and two hundred and fifty nine thousand people have pushed the little Heart button, and according to Netflix's Ministry of Propaganda, fifty million people streamed it by the end of January. And now it's May, so it's god knows how many people have watched.

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Speaker 3: Could be fifty one million, It is true.

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Speaker 2: I think after the initial push things do drop off, but nevertheless it's a lot of people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, the movie is about a platonic couple that finally, finally, finally kiss already at the end of the movie, and they do so inside of a Barcelona apartment where it's also raining indoors. Somehow, I never quite figured that out, but it was very photogenic. Barcelona is just one of many fancy vistas in this picture. Because our lead character, an adorable young woman by the name of Poppy, is a travel writer, the film visits New York City, the wilds of British Columbia, Tuscany, New Orleans, and importantly some Puttsville town somewhere in Ohio, which is where the Big finishes. Much of this was actually shot on location, which I think is part of the reason why this movie is such a success. But the main reason this film was a success is for one reason and one reason only. It's the fantastic performance of my favorite New Hollywood actress, Emily Bater, a twenty nine year old California native, who I am ready to state unequivocally and I'm not getting around here. She is one of the great talents of her generation and I can't wait. I honestly think that, and we're gonna get into that. She is funny, she is charming, she is beautiful, and I love her. Now, there are other people. There are other people in the movie too.

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Speaker 3: Sure, for example, you love any of them?

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Speaker 2: One of them? I love I love Alan Ruck. Alan Ruck is only in it for a couple of scenes, and he is better known to me anyway as Captain John Harriman of the USS Enterprise B from Star Trek Generations. There's also the lead actor, a fellow by the name of Tom Blythe or Bliffy or Blith or Blyt, who is a bit of a charisma of vacuum in this but he sure has some ripped abs. Nevertheless, Baita is so great that she more than compensates for his lackluster performance and for the fact that this movie is, let's be honest, a bit on the formulaic side. Is it really the fourth best movie of twenty twenty six? No, of course not. But I did not at all regret watching it. I really, really, really had a good time. And Matt, I'm wondering, did you enjoy this movie as much as I did.

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Speaker 3: I think we're in pretty close agreement here, I have to say. I mean, I don't know that I would have stated on the record that I love Emily Bader. I want her. I mean, if I had her address, I'd send her a letter. You know, that's how much I love her. This is people are going to be using this as evidence. I feel like in some sort of legal proceeding. Lady send her a letter saying you're very talented. She is talented. She is absolutely a star. It is a star making performance. I am not familiar with her work prior to this, although you know, I can read Wikipedia. I can see she's done other things, but she was a total unknown to me. And I do agree she really pops off the screen. One might say, yeah, as pop. And she is very charming, very funny, very likable. I also concur that I do think that there is something refreshing about this movie. We've already talked. This is our fourth episode now. I believe we have already talked a few times about movies shot in front of green screens, movies shot in volumes, movies that look like they were made, you know, just in a warehouse with a with a blank wall behind them. This movie, you can tell that a lot of it was shot in these locations. So now may go to New Orleans. I've been to New Orleans. They go to Cafe Dumont to get Benet's. They go to the real it's very clearly the real place. They have the benets. You know, they're walking around the city. It's on there on Bourbon Street. I've been there. It looks just you know, they are in these real places. And I think more than just well, it looks good. It's like, look, this is a movie about travel and the allure of travel and wanting to go to these beautiful destinations. And you are giving schlubs like us who are too lazy to even go to the movie theater to watch something. You're giving us kind of the vicarious thrill of going to these places while sitting, you know, in our homes, you know, not even having to get off the couch to be entertained. We are We're on the slippery slope to the wally people. I mean, we're getting there faster and faster every moment. But I think, but I think that the movie is very well calculated in that way. It's well shot, yea, and half of it is very well performed. I do agree tom blythe is not he doesn't bring much to this movie. And I think if there is a problem here there, if there's a thing that holds me back from saying this is a very good movie, it is the fact that I did find myself quite a lot thinking this woman is so vivacious, she is. You know, she's beautiful and charming and smart. She's got a lot going on here, and I just like, what does she like this doorstop for? Well? Did you see him? Did you see him with his shirt off coming? Then? Yeah, yes, you know when he when he has there's when there's a forced skinny dipping scene. He's a good looking guy, but he's not.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I just felt like she deserves much better than him. He's he's a big block of concrete. But it's not really about him. It's about her and she. It's it's a great movie because it gives the woman all the funny lines.

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Speaker 3: She's hilarious. I mean that's a fair point. Does invert what is the typical structure? I mean, she so much so that the opening is the opening is is? I mean it's it really is when I mean the go ahead. My wife has already seen this movie. She's actually a fan of the author. I think, I don't know if she's read all of Emily Henry's books, but she's read a bunch of them. She reads like one every year, and you know, so she kind of had already watched this by the without me, did not ask if I wanted to watch it. She just took it, took it on herself to watch this because she was very excited because she had read the book and read other books by Emily Henry. But when she saw I was watching it, we were talking about it and anyway, I'm rambling on here, but she made it very clear this was not one of the best books. Oh. Her favorite of the books is funny Story, okay, and she didn't she loved She did like the book. She thought the movie was okay. She did. She was glad to hear when we were looking online that Emily Henry is going to be adapting her own novel next time. She felt the adaptation perhaps was it didn't quite capture. It's not a flavor, that's fair enough, you know what. The move the story is secondary. The locations are where it's at, and it's her. It's Emily Bader as poppy, you know. But we're talking about that Harry Mett Sally. I mean, first, the first scene in Harry Mett Sally is there sharing a ride in college and Billy Crystal's character makes a mess of food in Meg Ryan's car. Right, he spits grape seeds out the window, but the window is still closed. And in this.

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Speaker 2: He's driving and she almost and she gets like, I don't know, Sadzeki saus all that she's either the gyro or something, and she gets it all over the car. It's the same exact thing. But so I'm already kind of laughing because she's a beautiful woman, but she's kind of goofy looking, and I don't mean like on part, like they know she's a diminutive gal and you know that. She even says like I'm five to one and all spunk or something like that, and she's she's a funny looking woman, but but gorgeous. And then she has this line early on where they have to call Triple A because the car breaks down because she did something wrong. She locks the car the keys inside, because she's a you know, she's a manic pixie dream girl and she uh, he's she's just trying to make him laugh, and she says, when Triple A locks their car, who do they call Quadruple A? And this is the dumbest joke, like that was when she stole your heart, you're you're one of your daughters. Could could come up with that joke. It's A very it's a young person silly.

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Speaker 3: Joke, you know. I mean, your daughters are very elevated in there. They love A. They use it all the time. We got them their own membership cards. My point is, Daddy, Daddy, can I call Triple A this time? No, honey, you've called them four times this week. Its ease.

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Speaker 2: The point is it's a dumb joke, but she sells it and it's great. And here's what I find interesting.

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Speaker 3: And I think I've already established that I have a little bit of a crush on this actress. Really, I couldn't get that at all. I was not at all clear attractive.

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Speaker 2: Usually people who are very funny are not also good looking. This was always my problem with Ben Stiller, who's a handsome man, like you know, he's Zoolander, because you could pass as a model, but he's also funny, like Will Ferrell is funny, and he could not pass as a model. No disrespect to Will Ferrell, you know.

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Speaker 3: And that's why he plays the design, the fashion design.

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Speaker 2: Exactly by the way, I say, Matt is there a book coming out later this year that touches upon movies like Zuelander.

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Speaker 3: And it's funny that you mentioned that not just like Zuelander, but Zoolander has a whole chapter, of course, featured in the book Funny Business that I wrote, coming to bookstores on October sixth, available for pre order now, good, good, good. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So my point is it is kind of a home run when when when they're truly gifted comics but also could can play. And we're going to discuss this later in a different segment. Don't all have to you know, can also be leading performers in their own right. I mean, you know Lucille Ball. Have you ever seen Lucio Ball when she's not on? I love Lucy like in a real movie, like she wasn't she the movie The Ashphal Jungle?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 3: Isn't she in the Ashvil Jungle? Is something like that? I haven't seen. I don't If I've seen that, I don't remember it. Wasn't she in the original Yours Mine and Hours? Well?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but that's a goofy movie. But no, she plays She's in a classic Sam's gonna come up with the he's googling right now. She is in a classic Hollywood noir, playing like if I may a sexy dame? I mean in the parlance of noirs, and uh, it's it's pretty impressive, you know, because you don't expect it from Luciable. I forget which movie it is, but the point I wanted to make about this movie is it's just a pretty laugh a minute. I mean, like because she's just always doing goofy stuff, Like she's at the airport picking up her bags and she's like in her head, she's got her headphones on and she's singing, singing, singing rap, So who's this track of where she is? And then you cut to reality and she's acting like a maniac in public. But like in the movie, it's cool because it's cut to the music, so that's like a funny.

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Speaker 3: The slab of raw meat walks up behind her and he's like, what are you doing? And he brains on her parade again exactly, Yes, you're right she is. You know. I guess if he was also being silly, there may have been it may have been you know, too much whackingacky. I guess that's fair to say. I just felt like he doesn't need to be funny, he just needs to be something. And I really he really doesn't give us a lot here. He's he's you know, I guess I just I was like, what does she see in this guy besides the abs because he doesn't really like to travel, he doesn't like doing anything. He needs a schedule at all times. Yeah, and I understand what his I can see why he finds her and.

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Speaker 6: Keep it tight.

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Speaker 3: And then I'm gonna confiding you and then a time to buy and asdent you if it is.

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Speaker 6: Hi, Hi Alex, I was not expecting to see you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I just landed. You were singing pretty loud. Yeah, my bag came out first and that.

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Speaker 8: They're just slowed me down.

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Speaker 3: I think the movie would work even better if we really care that much about them getting together at the end of the movie. No, it's I know it's a complete I know it's gonna happen anyway. I just I needed a little bit more emotional chemistry when they finally start smooching towards the end of this movie. They definitely have physical chemistry, but I wanted more emotional chemistry. If that is a thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at my notes that I'm like, is he supposed to be like a dork or not?

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Speaker 3: Like, this is a great question, is what is he? Yeah? What what kind of a guy is he? We really have it's a hard time. It's funny because again I was talking after I watched the movie. My wife asked me what I thought, and I'm telling I told her exactly what I'm saying. We're saying. We both agreed, she's great, he's kind of bland, and I was like, he's kind of like me, but just like if I like worked out a lot, and she gave me a look that said, you're giving yourself far too much credit. You know, cut that out. But she didn't disagree. She didn't disagree that there is kind of a personality and balance here. Yeah, that's that's It's not it's it's not ruinous. It doesn't you know, it doesn't like tip the whole movie over into unsuccessful. But in my mind it keeps the movie from being Obviously a lot of people watched and like this movie if it's the fourth most logged movie on letterbox, a lot of people watch it.

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Speaker 2: And like it got good word of mouth. I mean, it's just like it's an I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know that this is a movie that is going to become this generations when Harry met Sally where I feel like if the if the cast had been a little more balanced in the way that Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan kind of find that balance, that actually this movie could have been like kind of an instant classic, you know, the rom come of its generation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and if there were more creat like this. The individual scenes, I mean we've touched on the locations is nice, but like what they do there, Like they go to New Orleans and they dance, you know, like it's not like there are scene though, aren't they They are pretending for the benefit of another couple that they are newlyweds. And again he's a stiff, he doesn't want to do anything, and she convinces him to dance with her and come out of his shell a little bit, and we finally do see a little bit of personality and they have you know again, they have the physical chemistry.

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Speaker 3: It's a nice it's a nice little scene. I will say. I also do want to compliment. I haven't read the book, but I do think that the structure here is very elegant, the way that it is structured around these vacations that these people have taken. The movie is set in the present, but it constantly flashes back nine summers ago, seven summers ago, and there are these questions about you know, in the present, they're not together and they're sort of there. They have this tension. Yeah, and over the course of the movie you reveal little by little how you know things about them on each of these vacations. I think the structure works very well. It's a very clever conceit.

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Speaker 2: And there's even a little bit of a twist because when at the beginning you think, oh, they're exes, but then you learn no, they were just best friends, platonic and then yes, things lost in the friend zone, lost in the friend zone, and then something happened that tore them apart and they haven't been speaking for a while, and then they they in the present, they are forced to come back together because his brother is getting married in Barcelona or something, and the brother wants her at the wedding.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's uh, it's it's it's funny. I mean, it kind of reminded me of you know, I was thinking about the relationship as you were talking. It's like, not to break everything back to Star Trek, but Star Trek lower decks, right. Beckett Mariner is like wacky and funny, and you just and she's just like adorable. And then Bradward Boimler, who is his her platonic best friend, has He's definitely she's in charge, but he has his own character traits. And in this movie it's like they're almost at the Mariner Boimler level of of like best friends.

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Speaker 3: I know, I'm speaking to a very very small Boimer level. You haven't watched Star Trek the name of the band I saw in college. I could swear that I saw them play at.

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Speaker 2: A bar, So you know who else she reminded me about. As I was jotting down this performance, it was like, imagine if Charlie Day and Diane Keaton were to get caught in the fly machine, like that's what this actress is like her performance anyhow, not not he looks but her No, right, yes.

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Speaker 3: No, I understand what you're saying. This sort of the mix of the brundle fly of their personalities. And I'm sure she would be incredibly pleased to hear that, hear you compare her that way.

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Speaker 2: The other funny thing is there are a lot of scenes where like exposition dumps happen, like when two women are working out, like I've seen that. A lot also happens on Star Trek the Next Generation, very famous scenes, but this one was done when they're out like a cycling class. Yeah, and like the constructors screaming at them, and it was just very very clever.

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Speaker 3: I mean that that scene.

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Speaker 2: But they brought the heat to that one. It's like, how do we do this this cliche moment and and where do we sprinkle a little a little hot sauce on this? And they did a very very very funny job in that scene.

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Speaker 3: I thought, I guess as we're wrapping up, I do want to say that I appreciate that in your introduction you singled out one of the strangest and most shameless, like we're gonna make get sexy moments in any recent movie I can think of where. Yes, they're in this like sweltering Barcelona apartment. Yes, and you know they're having this kind of heated argument no pun intended, and she like rips. There's like plastic sheeting.

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Speaker 2: There's no air conditioning in the apartment. She's not like an Airbnb or because she's a travel writer. And the AC is broken and they're doing they're working.

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Speaker 3: On the h you know what's happening.

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Speaker 2: They're doing some kind of reconstruction on the house. So she can't go out on the balcony. So instead there's like a big plastic sheet. But it looks like Dexter was there killing somebody, you know, Like it's very weird. So so there's this she like knives through some plastics. Finally she's like, I must have air because the tension is so thick. Of course what she wants to like stick Van Patten and Spaseball. Yes, she's like the air, I must have air. So she busts out onto the balcony and then the skies open up. I mean this not I mean it's such a baffling thing because I mean, I don't have to get into what the symbolizes the moisture from the heats, and I have no idea what you're talking about. It all comes it's just it's very funny to me, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's just very funny to me, because yes, she like has to she like dramatically rips open this sheeting and then she's outside on like a It almost feels like it's like a construction site, you know, like scaffolding. I forget what they're calling on the I mean if it was, but there's no roof. It's like there's no covering, and it's just so they're just instantly drenched moist as you put it. Yeah, it's just very it is it feels so manipulatively forced, ridiculous. But but it's so ridiculous and and it just honestly it made it was so unsubtle, and it just it did make me smile, And a lot of this movie did make me smile. I liked it. It's easily the most I have enjoyed anything we have watched. For sure, episodes for the show. I know that's damning with fame praise. Yeah, but it is. And I think we've already talked enough that we should table this discussion for another time. But one thing, ill, the last thing I want to mention that I did think about was and we've mentioned how this is like a star making turn for this young actress. Oh yeah, And it does seem to me though that there's a lot of people who have had breakouts in Netflix originals in recent years.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think that's something that's interesting that we maybe we could do a whole segment on our an episode about it, like the people that have done that and why that seems to be a thing on Netflix specifically lately.

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Speaker 2: Oh, because it's the number one streaming service. It's the one people talking about it.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: I have been I hate to fetch here on Film Spotting SVU. But I am currently going three times a week to physical therapy because I have a herniated disc in my neck which is very painful. And I go to physical therapy. And what do you do in physical therapy? You sit there and you listen to the people yenta in the room.

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Speaker 3: What are you watching? What are you watching?

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Speaker 2: I do great market research for the streaming service all the time, and the number one thing is Oh, it's on Netflix. This is one on Netflix. Sometimes they talk about Apple.

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Speaker 3: That's number two. You never hear about Hulu. You never hear about HBO. Macapple is number two. That's interesting at least at this particular place where I go. But you do get physical therapy in Coopertino. You should have mentioned that.

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Speaker 2: But you know, Matt Singer, you mentioned Breakout Stars and how you were unfamiliar with Emily Bader and now we both are great fans. Is it time to talk rex Egg and talk about movies related that are inspired by this film that we can suggest to our listeners.

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Speaker 3: I think we should get into that, but just before we do, we should just reiterate to people the film is people we meet on vacation. If the listeners are not one of the fifty one million people who've watched it on Netflix so far, that is where you can find it on Netflix.

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Speaker 4: Oh good bye, everybody, I got to catch trains.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for everything you know, the shower and all. If any of you hams epic up to Seattle, the House of Millbanks is always open to you.

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Speaker 2: By the way, it was not asphalt jungle, it was stage door. I'm talking about Lucile Ball when you when you kind of pre before she was wacky, yes, dizzy Lucy. She was in Stage Door, which is a Hitchcock film, and it's you watch it now and you go, oh my god, that's Lucille Ball.

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Speaker 3: Sam.

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Speaker 2: Sam put that into chat and so busy happened to you. I wasn't looking at the chat.

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Speaker 3: So there you go. Now we're gonna get into rex egg R E x egg. What's going on? How it's that's not how it's you're right, what's going on in this week's rex egg Again, as as we do every week here, we we review a movie, but you know, and in this case it was people we meet on vacation. But we understand that we have listeners out there who might want more than just a review of people we meet on vacation. Maybe you're one of those fifty one million people. You already watched it before we ever reviewed it. Maybe you actually prefer to read your beach reads instead of watching them as frothy Netflix rom coms. Maybe you saw Tom Blythe in The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and you'll never forgive him for the horrors that Coriolanus snow inflicted on men m and thus the thought of watching him in said frothy romantic comedy violates your rigid moral code, as is your right. For you and for so many others.

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Speaker 8: We present rex egg Yeago Flexer rex egg our weekly suggestions of alternative streaming ideas, based on our feature review, based on stuff Jordan and I have watched in our private lives over the last week, and as we have already mentioned, some personalized recommendations. But look, just because you're not the one person doesn't mean you can't watch it. It's not you know, there's no law that's is only that one person can watch the recommendation. Anybody could watch it.

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Speaker 3: What are you talking about? I don't know. All right, let's get to our Let's get to our related recommendations that connect came back to our film.

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Speaker 2: You want to go first. I'm so excited about this. I really truly am as star trek lowered down.

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Speaker 6: No, no, no.

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Speaker 2: When as as has been established, I have a great fondness for the talent at Emily Bater and I said, who the hell is this gal? Why have I never seen her in anything? And I went to her Wikipedia page. As you said, you did as well, and she is a newcomer. She hasn't done that much. She's been on the TV. She was on a show called Charmed, which I guess is a re wasn't there a Charmed in the nineties. I guess it's a remaker.

00:31:06
Speaker 3: Where it was a Witches. Yeah, it was a reboot. There was a lega sequel. There was a Lego reboot. She was in Charmed.

00:31:13
Speaker 2: She did five episode of Charmed. Mouthflecuff to her. A bunch of other TV shows I've never heard of, and she's only been in three motion pictures.

00:31:20
Speaker 3: People would on vacation.

00:31:22
Speaker 2: Her first feature film was a Paranormal Activity Paranormal Activity colon Next of Kin, which I did not know existed.

00:31:31
Speaker 3: I think that was the one that went straight to Paramount Plus.

00:31:33
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go, so no one knows it existed. But here's the thing, Matt Singer and the listeners read alert. She was in fact the star of a movie I adore, and I did not realize it was her. She is the star of a movie called Fresh Kills, which came out in twenty twenty three. Fresh Kills is written and directed is an independent film, pretty low budget, written and directed by Jennifer Esposito, better known for being in a lot of TV shows I don't watch, like Blue Blood's and NCIS. It's set in the nineteen eighties, and it is one of the most innovative mafia dramas I've seen in a really long time, because really it's all about the Imagine if the movie was just about Medo Soprano and how Meto Soprano is slowly becoming aware that her dad is a mafia guy, which is a threat, which is an arc in The Sopranos, but it's like arc number twelve. Imagine if it's the whole movie.

00:32:39
Speaker 3: Now.

00:32:39
Speaker 2: The Meado Soprano in Fresh Kills is played by our new favorite actress, Emily Baiters.

00:32:45
Speaker 3: She's the lead.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: She plays Rose, and she has an older sister named Connie. And Connie was another actress who at the time I didn't realize who she was. Now I know it was Odessa a Zion who's fantastic in Martyr Supreme.

00:33:00
Speaker 3: So imagine the two sisters and Titanic combo.

00:33:05
Speaker 2: This is kind of like when people started going back to Once upon a time in Hollywood and realizing that every great young actress was in that before we knew who they were. This is Fresh Kills now. The father is Dominic Lombardozi, who is one of these guys who's everything from the Hurt from the Wire. Annabelle Schiora is the ant aunt Chrissy, and Jennifer Esposito is in it as well. She plays the mom. And what's great about the movie it really is quite good because the main character she's like a good girl, she loves her family and she's slowly realizing her dad as a mobster. And I set in the eighties, also in Staten Island, now Fresh Kills. If you sounds like a mafia Fresh Kills, you know, but it's actually the name of a police island. K means river, in kill means river in Dutch and New York City and Staten Island was originally New Amsterdam. And there are a lot of places in Staten Island that are called like the Fresh Kills and Dutch Kills and Kill van Kull and all this stuff. But French Kills was famous in the in the eighties and nineties because it was a garbage dump. Literally, I don't mean that figure, I mean it was truly. It was the stinkiest place on earth, and you would drive through it on away from New Jersey to New York City and it would it would your eyes would start tearing because of all the smell. They've gotten rid of it now, and this plays a major factor in the film symbolically and also just funnily because they're like, oh, it smells here, because they move from Brooklyn to Dadon Island. What I love about the movie is that it's it doesn't it's not about the mob, like it's about these characters and the mob hits and like the we're gonna whack this guy. That's all off screen. You don't hear any of that. But the two daughters are they give they're given the front like you know on the Sopranos they have the bottom bing and they got the pork store, which are fronts for the for the mafia. In this the dad's like, I'm gonna let you girls run a bakery. And they don't know how to run a bakery, but they're put in charge of running a bakery and they don't. They're like two, they got their head. They're willfully ignorant about the fact that this is a mafia front. They're they're a restaurant, or not restaurant, they're their store.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: Con Yeah, is that an honest man? What an honest man? Did you get that rose? Did your friend ask you that? Did you say? You stood up for him? Right? A man that gives you everything, you stood up for him, you said something right.

00:35:45
Speaker 3: It's just great.

00:35:46
Speaker 2: So it's really very clever movie that is well put together. And the details, I mean, just the clothing, the use of the music, it's real. I mean, I grew up in the eighties and nineties in Central New Jersey, which is basically Staten Island. I don't think I had any friends and neighbors that were in the mafia, but I certainly had a lot of Italian America. My block was all Jews and Italian Americans.

00:36:11
Speaker 3: That's it. I never met a Protestant until I went to college. It was all. It was all Jews, all Italian Americans, and one family that was half black Chinese. That's that was the block. It was.

00:36:24
Speaker 2: It was a very and I grew up thinking that was everybody's block with all the Jews, Italians and Jeremy Wong who was half black and half Chinese.

00:36:32
Speaker 3: I thought that was it.

00:36:33
Speaker 2: But it turns out that America is a great cultural stew of lots of things, including Protestants. So anyway, but the point I'm making is there were music cues, there were the way these women talk, the hairstyles, the radio, the ads on the radios, like, oh my god, I remember that beauty parlor it was. It's so And because she's a you know, general esposidos around my age, she grew up in Staten Island, she really nailed it.

00:36:57
Speaker 3: I love this movie.

00:36:58
Speaker 2: It's one of the great undersea movies. And guess what, listeners. You can stream it for free on Hulu.

00:37:04
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Hulu.

00:37:07
Speaker 2: If you have the Hulu, it's free. If you don't have Hulu, it's three ninety nine on Amazon, three ninety nine on Apple.

00:37:13
Speaker 3: Okay, by the way, you've sold me, Jordan, I have not seen this movie. And with that cast and your sterling recommendation, I am gonna watch this movie good. You're gonna love it. By the way, it was Gregory Lacava, not hitch Yes, I was gonna put it. Yes, Hitchcock made Stage Door you.

00:37:30
Speaker 2: Can under No, Hitchcock made Stage Fright Leave me Alone. It was one of these you can understand my confusion. Hitchcock made stage Fright, but Gregory le Cava made streenge door with Ginger Rogers Katherine Hepburn and.

00:37:44
Speaker 3: Now you can exit stage left with all this. Uh, tell me what your re segg is? Yes, I would love to is it? Is it streamings and snakes? The mine is not tom Blythe I had enough tom Blythe I had all I could handle with people we meet on vacation for my related wreck. I was I was thinking about picking a recent romantic comedy just because this is a good one, and you know, so if you enjoyed this movie, there's you know, that's a good starting point. And my wife loves romantic comedies. We watch a lot of them. But as I was because the great Sam Van Halgren made that letterbox list of all the titles we've discussed that are now all available on our favorite streaming service, Bazooga, I realized I haven't really recommended anything that's older than like twenty twenty three so far. So I wanted something a little older. I wanted to dip dip back a little bit. And when I started to think about older movies about romance, about men and women, not quite knowing what they want while they're in these beautiful places, which is a very prevalent theme in people we meet on vacation. I thought of Eric Romer, the French new wave filmmaker known for his films about relationships. I am not an expert on the French new wave. I've seen you know. If you showed me the syllabus for French New Wave one oh one, I've seen them all. If you showed me the syllabus for French New Wave two toh one, it's the single beat of sweat is going to start traveling down my foret. I missed a lot, so I actually only got into Romare in the last few years. I had a rare night where my wife's asleep, the kids are asleep, I don't have anything I need to watch for work, my I don't have to, and i'm it's when I have that, which is like once every three months. What I always do is I go to my list of like the great movies that I've never seen, or I go to like the BFI Top one hundred, and I look for something I've never watched. And on this particular night, I watched my night at MODS and I absolutely loved it, and now I'm on a street where anytime I have a night like that, I watch a ro Mayre movie. I haven't gotten through a lot yet. Yeah, but he's like my new guy. So the thing I'm gonna recommend is actually a short because, as we have established on SVU, good movies are good. Short movies are great. And so you know, my night at Maud is part of a night at Mods is part of a cycle of movies that romare made that are called the Six Moral Tales. They're all available on the Criterion collection, and the first of said Moral Tales is only twenty three minutes long. Oh it is The Bakery Girl of Monceaux from nineteen sixty three. You never saw this one, there you go, Well, now you can on the Criterion channel, and in its own little twenty three minute way, it is just about perfect. It's filmed on the streets of Paris, narrated almost from start to finish by the main character, who is a law student who becomes bewitched by this beautiful woman he passes constantly walking on the street and he becomes fixated on her. He figures out a way to kind of engineer what appears to her to be a very chance meeting and introduces himself. They start talking. He asks for a date, she says no, but next time I see you. And then the woman vanishes and the hero, the student, wanders Paris looking for her. He can't find her, and as he's wandering, he start a day after day, he starts frequenting this bakery where the food is not good, but the cashier, the shop girl, always seems to kind of flirt with him a little bit when he comes in to buy cookies. Should he pursue this woman or should he remain and I'm saying this with air quotes for our listeners, should he remain faithful to the first woman? And structurally this is very similar to the other moral tales, which if you've never watched any of them, I think the Criterion Collection description of them is that they are a succession of encounters between fragile men and the women who tempt them. Wow. They are gently existential, hyper articulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes, which actually sounds a lot like people we meet on Vata. It sure does, Yeah, yes, yeah so and this absolutely fits into it into that kind of mold Esthetically, we are in prime French new wave territory. There's no sets, there's not even that many interiors, apart from maybe the bakery, which was a real bakery that they shot in. There's kind of a documentary quality to all the footage of the main character kind of just wandering around Paris. Is lack of white. Yes, the main character interestingly played by two future filmmakers. Physically, he's embodied by Barbaie Schroeder and he's voiced by Bertrand Tavernier, so two different people are portraying this guy wandering around Paris. Basically no extra is, basically no lighting, no nothing. But it's not a documentary. There are these striking jump cuts. The plot, as simple as it is, has these wonderful twists, some very wray, kind of ironic humor, and there is that narration which is constant, and it's giving us the subjective point of view of this lead character and giving us a window into this guy's very erotic, very obnoxiously male point of view. He says at one point to his buddy as they are sitting in a cafe smoking and being very French, and this woman walks by that they're you know both looking at uh and they're talking about her. She says she's ignoring us too intently not to have noticed us, which is maybe the most demented and gross and male thing that's ever been uttered in a single sentence. But you know that said, it is not about necessarily, Oh you know.

00:43:53
Speaker 2: This guy, A woman could say that too about men. He's ignoring me too much.

00:43:57
Speaker 3: I could. I could see that going gender. All genders could could say all genders are disgusting. Maybe we disagree on this, perhaps, but in any event, I love the way that Romere treats this character, all the characters. He's not passing judgment on them, which is ironic because it's the Six Moral Tales. But they're not really like morality tales, like you're supposed to learn a lesson. It's more like it's about morality and kind of how ordinary people grapple with choices in their heads, how they almost justify to themselves the choices that they make. Very good. And again, I put this on this weekend. For twenty three minutes, I was transported to nineteen sixties Paris. Wow, it was romantic, it was beautiful, and the bakeryes you. We're obnoxious. Yeah, it's great. Can I tell you and the listeners my favorite French bakery story. This is kind of funny. Can you tell it in less than eighteen minutes? I can tell it in two minutes.

00:44:59
Speaker 2: Okay, go, as you know, the boulingies a Paris, the French bakeries are very famous. And every time Slobi American like me goes to France, that comes back and says, how is Paris? Like, Oh my god, the food, the bread, Why is the bread so good there? Why is the bread so good there? And it's true. I've been I've been lucky enough to go to France several times, and every time I go to France, I'm just shoving bread in my face. One time, my wife and I were in mo Mall, which is the you go up a hill and there's a famous church there. It's a part of Paris, and we're walking around and we're getting lost in Momar and it's very romantic.

00:45:36
Speaker 3: Except that where John Wick has the big fight on the stairs, the staircase and with a white church. Probably Yeah. So then I'm a very cultured man and I have very classy I go all the way from Eric Romare you.

00:45:50
Speaker 2: Did you whipped out the six moral Tales, you get at least two John Wicks. Now as okay, fantastic. So we're walking around mo Mar.

00:45:57
Speaker 3: We're strolling. I hate interrupt, but if I'm afraid that the country of France has filed a legal injunction against you from any more exaggerated French pronunciations, well marked, I don't know. We're wanted around.

00:46:13
Speaker 2: We're ambling and remember now, for we've already been in Paris for days, and I'm just going, why is the bread so good here? Why is the bread so good? And then what's high of smell? Oh my god, we're near a bakery. Oh, it's got to be just around this corner. So we're walking, we're walking, We're in a little it's almost like we're away, we're off the beaten path, and so it's just got to be around this corner. Just gonna be around the corner. And it's like, remember Yogi Bear would.

00:46:36
Speaker 3: Like smell the smell the food, smell the pie. Yeah, yeah, it would follow.

00:46:40
Speaker 9: It a lot, flying in the air, covering I was hovering across the streets of Molmar, and we finally round the corner, and what do I see it's a subway, subway sandwiches, I swear to this is true.

00:46:55
Speaker 2: Adam going, what the hell is this? Just like when you're on vacation, you just think that the food is so much better. Or is it that the French, who are a little bit we had, No, it's a subway, but we will make the bread ourselves. Could it be that they were breaking their own bread there?

00:47:09
Speaker 3: And it was so good? I'll never know you didn't go in. No, I was so embarrassed. I was so humilion. And was it called subway or was it called metro?

00:47:17
Speaker 2: It was it was it was the yellow sign, you know, the five dollars, the five franc foot long, the whole thing subway. And it was so embarrassing because and again I was in such I was yogi bearing, I like, I was like away from my wife. I rounded the corner before her and I had to turn back around in shame and be like forget it. And she's like, you found the baker. I'm like, no, it's a subway.

00:47:40
Speaker 3: So I don't know.

00:47:41
Speaker 2: But yes, Eric Romer, I've seen many of his. I was just looking of the six Moral Tales, I've seen four, so I'm gonna I might as well round out and.

00:47:50
Speaker 3: Do the six.

00:47:50
Speaker 2: And and he's made a lot of great movies. He did later in his career, he did four films that one is called like Taylor Spring Summer, six Seasons, and and I don't forget this is the dumbest record.

00:48:03
Speaker 3: One of those four is really really good. I forget which one. I haven't watched any of them yet, but those that's those are like my next targets.

00:48:11
Speaker 2: One of them is set on a vineyard. I don't know whichever one is said in a vineyard is like really good.

00:48:16
Speaker 3: So the short if you do want to just watch this one, it is the first of the six chronologic. They're not connected plot wise in any way. You could watch them in any order you choose, But if you want to start with the shortest one, it's this one, The Bakery Girl of Monceaux. It's it's on Criterion Channel. They have all six moral tails if you want to really do a deep dive. Some of them though, are on like I think I watched My Night at Moud's on HBO Max. Some of them are over there too, so so you don't just it's not a Criterion Channel exclusive recommendation. I suppose, all right, Sam coming in the Vineyard one is Tale of Autumn. So there you Tail of Autumn. Okay, I mean, now all he loves a He loves a beautiful setting where guys and gals they don't know what they want and they're talking and they're beautiful and they're drinking wine. I mean, what's not to like? So hey, hey, hey, Matt.

00:49:06
Speaker 2: We we got a couple of emails from listeners this week, and we're gonna hold on to some of them. But one of them was from a fellow by the name of Michael Brantner, and Michael Brantner wrote to us, Hey, guys, I have just seen the taking of Pellam one two three on Amazon Prime in Germany, which, uh, how do you say Prime?

00:49:28
Speaker 3: Don't we already have one? Country? Mannered us. Let's not, let's not go for the double, so he said, is there another? He loved it?

00:49:34
Speaker 2: Of course, he loved the taking of Pellam one two three because it's it's perfect, he said, what I'm telling you if you don't know, taking a Pelam one two three seventies movie where bad guys take over the subway is in New York City in the nineteen seventies, it's so many the ultimate.

00:49:47
Speaker 3: Action hero of them all, Walter Mathow.

00:49:51
Speaker 2: Everybody's in this. Wee Robert Shaw, Hector Elizondo, Walter Matthau, what's his name, Martin Balsam.

00:50:00
Speaker 3: My god, it's so good.

00:50:02
Speaker 2: So he says, is there anything that else that you could recommend? A perfect genre film? The next on the service?

00:50:06
Speaker 3: So what what? What? What do you recommend? Okay, friend, Michael, Yes, yes, and thank you Michael, thank you for the email. Now. Yes, he specifically mentioned the Taking of Pelham one, two three, one of the great New York movies. I'm assuming it was the Walter though there is a remake of it. There was Zel and it's Nut Denzel, John t. Guy. It's because it's Tony Scott. That's why it's Tony Scott. It's it's not horrible, but the original is is. The remake is not good. But look, here's what I'm going to say while you're looking this up, I'm going to say this that Michael did mention he watched this on prime video in Germany. That is an extra wrinkle the murky web of international rights deals. It's something that we don't really wade into much on SVU at least not yet. Figuring out what is streaming in the United States is hard enough. Doing it for every territory overseas would be very, very difficult. But I wanted to help Michael here. I actually went to the Prime Video in Germany website and I looked through what was available there, and I wanted to I wanted to at least give a title that I was sure he would be able to watch. And that's why I'm picking balls up from Peter fairly. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Actually, what I'm gonna recommend is a different recent Amazon movie. Oh, so it should be available to anyone who uses Amazon Prime anywhere in the world, at least I'm going to assume. So my pick is called Crime one oh one oh. Just a lot closer to Michael Mann's Heat than it is to the Taking of Pellam one two three. But I like this movie way more than I expected to. And I think if you appreciate Taking a Pellam one two three for kind of the New York grit and authenticity, I think you'll appreciate the love and care that went into this movie. In terms of its Los Angeles setting. It's set in La It also has a dogged cop who's kind of in the Walter mathow Mold a little bit. It's played by Mark Ruffalo. I don't know if he would like to be compared to Walter Mathel, but there's a bit of a dogged and rumpled quality to him in certain things, and certainly in this movie. He plays kind of like he's a bit of a kind of source of comic relief as well. He takes yoga classes in this film, which becomes a surprisingly important subplot without spoiling too much about that. The main character, though, is played by Chris Hemsworth. He is a classic movie thief of a kind that I guess exists in real life, but it's such a movie, almost a cliche. The hyper proficient gentleman thief. He thinks of every angle. He uses violence as a last resort. He only targets the wealthy who can afford to lose whatever it is that he wants. His plans are perfect. He's so ocd that he scrapes off his dead skin into a tart before a heist so he won't leave DNA at the crime scene. Wow, that's the kind of guy we're talking about here. And he works off tips that are given to him by Nick Dolty. But when he refuses one assignment because it's too risky, remember he doesn't want to take any risks, he gives that assignment to this other thief who is a far more reckless kid played by Barry Keegan, and that kind of begins, like the dominoes begin to fall on Chris Hemsworth's carefully protected life. And that's how Mark Ruffalo begins to solve the case. They're looking at robberies of jewels, money, or high value items in the last four years.

00:53:48
Speaker 5: Now remove every robbery where there was DNA left at the scene.

00:53:56
Speaker 3: I think all of these are the same guy, and he hits every time along the one on one freeway. I have not mentioned a single female character women in this movie. There are two important women in the movie that actually are a substantial part of the film. Halle Berry is this insurance salesman whose clients make juicy targets because they're and they have all these fancy things. So that's an important character. And then Hemsworth, because of course he's such as a guy with such a monastic lifestyle, of course he's going to fall in love with a woman he meets by accident. She's played by Monica Barbaro. Oh time out, I love her. Oh oh she's from from the from from Fubar. Yes, she Lade Arnold's daughter on Fred.

00:54:47
Speaker 2: She was also nominated for an Academy Award I believe for they but I know it more importantly.

00:54:55
Speaker 3: Yeah fu bar Yeah she's great.

00:54:57
Speaker 2: Yes, way so mench Halle Barry, by the way, she's she is much like Charlize is Netflix's go to Gal, Harry Halle Barry is Amazon's Gal. She was in the god awful Mark Wahlberg picture The Union, where she was like, I didn't make it all the way through that much.

00:55:15
Speaker 3: She was like the head of the c I a of the Union. She's the head of the Union.

00:55:18
Speaker 2: I mean the Union. The Union is a rip off of of Kingsmen. All it was like, can we do Kingsman America style? And instead of making it classy guys in little suits and being very British, it's like, Hey, I'm Mark Wahlburg and I'm in the Union. Ay, it's awful, but Halle Berry's in that too, So I would have to imagine that there's some kind of deal going on anyhow, continue with you.

00:55:40
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, the Union gave me the nap. That's what happened when I tried to watch The Union. But the Crime one to one I think is very nicely done. Whole cast is excellent. Writer director Bart Layton, whose other movies include The Imposter and American Animals, does a very good job crafting a very efficient thriller, much like his main character. Very efficient and effective and not the most original film. Again, it feels very much like Amazon came to him or to someone and said, we want our own Heat. We don't want a license heat anymore. People love heat, they love to watch Heat on streaming. We don't want to pay Warner Brothers to license it. Can you make us our own Heat that we can own forever? And here you go Crime one on one. It's reaming on Amazon Prime Video in Germany, in America, and I would assume just about anywhere you can subscribe to to Prime and as Jordan says, if you can get movies along with your paper towel deliveries. So that's my recommendation for Michael. I hope you haven't seen it yet, but you do watch it and like it. Here you go very good. What about you? What do you do you have?

00:56:46
Speaker 2: Well, listen, the Taking of Pelham one two three is a masterpiece. It's a very clever heist film. And you know, the look and feel can never be replicated, so much so that Tony Scott tried and failed. But part of what makes it so great is what you touched on immediately because you never think of him as an action hero. It's it's Walter Mathow and he's the head of the Subway Police or some nonsense like that.

00:57:12
Speaker 3: I don't know what he is.

00:57:13
Speaker 2: And he's like running around as the subway guy.

00:57:17
Speaker 3: And we should say it was Denzel. You were correct, You can guess yourself. It's both. It's Denzel versus travolt.

00:57:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Denzel is in the Remaker and Robert Shaw is the John Travolta plays a Robert Shaw character.

00:57:31
Speaker 3: Right.

00:57:32
Speaker 2: And by the way, Quentin Tarantino stole directly from Taking Pellham one two three when in Reservoir Dogs, when he gave everybody named mister Pink, mister Blue, mister Green, mister White. That comes directly from Pelham, when all the bad guys have mister blue and mister red.

00:57:47
Speaker 3: Whatever.

00:57:48
Speaker 2: So, anyway, the point I'm trying to make is this, if not now, when let's talk about Walter Mathow, but one of the most important people in my life, and let's talk about truly one of the greatest film performances ever made. And it is on Amazon. It's not a it's not a subscribing thing. You gotta pay three ninety nine. So in Germany maybe it's two euros and forty two euro sense. But it's by Matt saying, let me quiz you, what is the greatest Walter Mathow performance? Man, go big, go big, Go huge.

00:58:23
Speaker 3: Go big, go huge. I mean I would probably say that I love the Fortune Cookie. I don't think that's what's pretty go to to say. Now the fortune Cookie is not as good. Is very good, but it's not as important to me as The Sunshine Boys. The Sunshine Boys is okay, is one of the funniest movies ever made.

00:58:42
Speaker 7: They're old fashion. I'm still new fashion.

00:58:44
Speaker 5: I'm still in the man.

00:58:46
Speaker 7: I'm still hot. If this rule was on fire, you wouldn't be hot.

00:58:53
Speaker 2: The Sunshine Boys was originally a play written by Neil Simon, and the movie is very much a filmed play, but it is about two old Vaudevillians who are at the end of their lives, and it's in the nineteen seventies, and their nephew is a television producer and is putting together like a nostalgia variety show and tries to get his uncle Walter Matthew's uncle to reunite with his old comic may partner who have been split up for decades, much like say Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were split up for decades, in this case it's in the movie. It's Walter Mathow and George Burns, and George Burns, who won the Oscar for this film, is kind of the straight man, and Walter Mathow's the maniac. He's the Costanza. And Burns was quite old when they made this film, and Mathow was not. They put him in old age makeup, but he's perfect. And the nephew is played by Richard Benjamin and the film was directed by Herbert Ross who originally was a Broadway dancer, and then he was a Broadway director, and then he made some very good movies in his career, none as perfect as The Sunshine Boys, but his other films include he did the movie version of Played Again, sam which was the Woody Allen play that Woody Allen is in but did not direct. Everybody thinks Woody Allen directed it. He directed The Last of Sheilah, which.

01:00:16
Speaker 3: Is a very funny comedy who if you like Knives Out, you love the Last of It's a very funny comedy Who'd Done It? Which also has Richard Benjamin in it and others, and Iam Johnson is a self avowed.

01:00:30
Speaker 2: Less Oh yeah, it's so good. And he also did The Goodbye Girl, which won Richard Dreyfus the Oscar and that was written by Neil Simon also, so he made quite a lot of good movies back in the day anyhow. But the Sunshine Boys, the central piece, the reason for this movie existing is these old these old borsch belt comedians have to get back together to do their famous act for this TV special and you know, but of course they're bickering the whole way, and it's like, can the nephew keep them from bickering just long enough to film this for the TV special?

01:01:10
Speaker 3: And the act is an.

01:01:12
Speaker 2: Old stick called the sketch called the Doctor Will See You. Now, that is a sketch and it's like a five or six minute hokey sketch that Neil Simon, who of course made his bones writing TV comedy back in the fifties. He wrote for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.

01:01:32
Speaker 3: His colleagues were Larry Gelbart, mel Brooks, Woody Allen and other writers who were just as zany but not as famous. He channeled all of his skills, all everything he learned from those early days of comedies, he concentrated into these five minutes of the Doctor We'll See You Now sketch. And it is the stupidest, funniest five minutes ever put to film ever. It kills me every single time. And it's Walter Matthau and George Burns just volleying. But like I don't know who's the greatest tennis player that ever lived. I don't know Pete Sampras. They're smashing each other with jokes one day after the bam bam bang volleying. And there's this the nurse character. I don't want to get into that got canceled if I talk about it too much. But it's it's just an amazing piece of movie making and.

01:02:30
Speaker 2: And the rest of the movie is just all And it's why Walter Mathow is beloved. I mean, I don't know to what extent people know this movie. I mean, to me, it's one that my dad made me watch a hundred times when I was a kid. It's as important to me as any Mail Brooks movie or any of those comedies it was. By the way, there was a remake in the late nineties early aughts, a made for television version on ABC that starred Peter Falk as the Walter Mathow character. Okay and that sounds good, and Woody Allen as the George Burne's character.

01:03:05
Speaker 3: And it does not come.

01:03:08
Speaker 2: It's okay, It's okay, it doesn't quite have it, not like the original. And of course it's been It's a fairy.

01:03:14
Speaker 3: The play is frequenty for the year. Somebody does it? Yeah? Can I brag a bit of it and tell you about who I saw? Do it over? Can I say no? Or you're just gonna tell you? I didn't think so. Who would be the perfect odd couple to see on Broadway in this in this production is the odd couple of pun here is that I saw I.

01:03:34
Speaker 2: Saw Jack Klugman in the Walter matthel Roll and Tony Randall in Wow. George Burnswell and I sobbed. I sobbed with laughter that night. It was the greatest night of my life. I just sobbing screaming at you. So that is my recommendation. You know, I don't know when the opportunity will come to recommend the Sunshine Boys. It is just a marvelous, marvelous film.

01:03:58
Speaker 3: Wow.

01:03:59
Speaker 2: Okay, And just to remind you, you could rent it for three brucks on Amazon Prime, also on Apple Fandango at home, and if you are a subscriber to YouTube TV, it's actually free on YouTube TV for subscribers.

01:04:11
Speaker 7: All right, go outside, I'm here in the doctor's office. I'm gonna do the first Do you say a nice here? How can I rehearst with a nie that's not here? Don't ask me. I'm puts. Let's forget the nice start with the pod where I'm in the office and you come in.

01:04:28
Speaker 3: It's game time here on SVU and this week, and I should say we are joined as always for for our game here by Sam. Producer. Sam is thrilling to be here, so thrilled. I think you were last week. You were trying to get out of doing this, and I said no, you have to that the streak has to end. First. We got to ride this puppy till it until it till it's done. But you are here, you're gonna be uh, You're gonna be squaring off with Jordan for a new game. One which I will say this is this one is basically impossible. But but it is also the most valuable game we have played today.

01:05:04
Speaker 4: So if this one, it's basically like four to three.

01:05:09
Speaker 3: Yea. I meant more for the listeners though for you, yes, But if you want to use it that way, it's like the golden snitch if you catch the exactly. So this game is called full service, and it is extremely simple. I am going to give you the name of a very famous film and you will tell me whether it is streaming on Netflix, HBO, Max, Paramount Plus or Peacock. Every one of the ten films is streaming on one of those services. No Hulu this time. Sorry, I had to limit. I had to limit this somehow. In some cases that you know, if you can, if you know, because you're both very smart gentlemen, you know a lot about movies.

01:05:53
Speaker 2: If you know who made this movie, that may help you. Then again it may not not always. Yeah, Paramount Plus has some movies that are not Paramount films. I mean most of them are.

01:06:02
Speaker 3: But we had Netflix, Netflix, if you want to write them down, so you have in front of you. It's Netflix, HBO, Max, as Jordan calls it, Home Box Office Maximum, Yes, Paramount Plus or as Jordan would call it. And if he was doing his segment all about French culture, Paramount, We and Peacock. Those are your four options. Every film I mentioned will be on one of them. And I honestly I thought the other games were about amusing me and having fun. This is really this is about helping services. All ten of these movies are movies that are classics. They are movies that people are probably going to watch, maybe not one hundred times, but at least once. And I'm sure people go, oh blank, where the heck is that? And then they got to look it up.

01:06:55
Speaker 4: So just these aren't original necessarily originals.

01:07:00
Speaker 3: None of these are originals, are classics. The Old Guard Too is not one of your guard Too. I'll tell you a spoiler alert that one's on Netflix. I'm not going to see it on this list. These are ten beloved works of cinema. And when we are done with this game, everyone will know where they can stream them, at least for a few hours. Probably this will be.

01:07:24
Speaker 4: And if they don't know by listening it and writing it down, they can go to what's streaming on bazooga. The list on a letter box. Yes, okay, yes, if you.

01:07:33
Speaker 3: Go to type in bazooga, yeah, will be available on it. So I'm there's no Honestly, I don't even think we need to worry about buzzing in. I think you should both be allowed to guess. You can both guess for each one, and we'll just keep score of who gets however many right. Maybe it'll be zero to zero by the end of this. We oh, we can both guess and then yeah, yeah, you can both. If you both get it right, you both get a point. You can guess the same thing. A problem with that again, This is this is about really it's it's helping people quickly find some classic movies they may want to watch, and also pointing out how ludicrous it is that you have to keep track of all these things if you want to watch these movies.

01:08:12
Speaker 4: No, if somebody listens to this episode a year from now, will this do It'll be totally worth it'll be totally. We can play this again.

01:08:18
Speaker 3: You're recording this on Sunday night, May the third, and I can guarantee that it was correct as of then. I did this this morning Sunday, May Monday, May fourth. It may not May the fourth be with you. If you're trying to find any they may not be where I. Star Wars is on Disney Plus. Star Wars is not one of the motion pictures.

01:08:39
Speaker 4: Can we do a game instead where we recast tom Blythe and people we meet on vacation. Can we just pick uk I'm willing to too big now, but right, he'd be the guy, right, he would certainly be okay? Yeah, Well, although they did make.

01:08:56
Speaker 3: Tom Blythe use an American accent, which interest and I don't know if they made Paul Mescal do that as well. If he would have, would he have the same issue. I don't know. Meal you know who would be who was the guy screaming and yelling in warfare? And he was also ye, Joseph Quinn was another one, the human torch. Yeah, the human he would have been good.

01:09:22
Speaker 2: Yes, he kind of looks like he's more talented. If you're listening, Gold take some lessons and be Montal. Wow, yeah, go be better, be better?

01:09:33
Speaker 4: All right?

01:09:33
Speaker 3: Are you ready? Are we ready to begin our game?

01:09:36
Speaker 4: The title of the game again is full Soul Service.

01:09:40
Speaker 3: Service Service is great. All right, here we go. The first movie is The Godfather? Where is the Godfather's Street? Very easy? Plus it's paramount plus. You are both correct. I gave you an easy one. Yes.

01:09:53
Speaker 4: Can I just say I'm reawarnessed The Last Kings of Hollywood? Have you read this book?

01:09:57
Speaker 3: No, but I've had it recommended to me.

01:09:59
Speaker 4: It is so good. So I just had the Paramount logo pictured in my head. You said Godfather of course something?

01:10:04
Speaker 7: Yes?

01:10:05
Speaker 3: What is the Last Kings of Hollywood?

01:10:08
Speaker 4: Spielberg and Lucas and they're coming of age? It is so good.

01:10:11
Speaker 3: It's it's like easy Writer's Rage of Gold, but narrowed focus, a little butt and less gossipy and less gossipy, less trashy, more some.

01:10:21
Speaker 4: Of the stories you would have heard. But there's really it's just so good.

01:10:23
Speaker 2: The most recent new Hollywood book I read, I read the one about Chinatown, The Big Goodbye or Long Goodbye.

01:10:30
Speaker 3: That was a really good book. I was very Sam Watson. I believe Sam. Yes, he does good books. Okay, are you ready for question? Or Movie two? Yes, Movie two two thousand and one A Space Odyssey. Where is it streaming? Netflix? HBO, Max Paramount Pluce, HBO Max Cock. I think it's I'm going to have to say, HBO Max. It's a Warner Brothers. But it's because they brought both correct. You're both correct. It was boast, but it was MGM made the film the weird logo, that weird MGM logo that exists pretty much only on this film.

01:11:04
Speaker 4: But yes, okay, I'm afraid people are going to stop listening and go watch two thousand and one of The Godfathery're not going to listen.

01:11:11
Speaker 3: It's a small price to pay, I think, would you rather? I'm read I might stop the game and go watch it now that you mentioned it, I'll see you guys later. All right? Number three? All right, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

01:11:26
Speaker 4: That's on Netflix.

01:11:28
Speaker 3: Jordan, would you like to guess? I mean, Sam seems to really know. He seems pretty confident. I go, yeah, the way he said it, it was like I just I just watched it yesterday, So yes, it's on Netflix. That is incorrect. Oh, I don't know. It was on Netflix. It was on Netflix, but as of again of May third, it is currently on Peacock.

01:11:52
Speaker 4: So this is the reason I said this so confidently is that if you ask my oldest, my nearly eighteen year old, and my now newly twelve year old daughter, they will say their favorite movie is set Python and the Holy Grail.

01:12:05
Speaker 3: So alight, Yes, yes, and it was. It was definitely on Netflix. I watched it and watched it there. And to the point that not only did I when I saw it on Peacock, I didn't just assume that it was only there. I actually went to Netflix double checked it was not. Okay. The next movie, The blair Witch Project. The blair Witch Project. Where where can you find that? Paramount plus Paramount plus Jordan? Where would you like to guess? I think it's on Netflix. We have one vote for Netflix, one vote for Paramount Plus. You are both incorrect. The blair Witch Project is currently streaming on HBO Max Hbox. Who was the original distributor?

01:12:55
Speaker 2: That was it like Artisan Artisan Entertainment, which I no longer exists, used to be live entertainment.

01:13:03
Speaker 3: Ye, yes, that was our fourth movie. So we're we're almost halfway here. We go The next film, another timeless movie that I'm sure many people enjoy watching on streaming, Pretty Woman? Where is Pretty Woman? Streeting?

01:13:20
Speaker 6: Now?

01:13:20
Speaker 4: Did you feel like I'm guessing? I felt so confident the.

01:13:23
Speaker 3: First started with some easier ones, and now we're getting Pretty Woman, some easier ones coming though. I don't don't don't, don't feel all is lost. Pretty Woman is on Peacock.

01:13:34
Speaker 4: Not a chance pretty Woman is? Pretty Woman is on HBO.

01:13:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is incorrect on both caps, Man, pretty Women.

01:13:46
Speaker 4: If we're both wrong, we get a point.

01:13:48
Speaker 3: Pretty Woman is currently streaming on Netflix. One of these on Netflix. Okay, next motion picture is All the President's Men? Where is All the President's Men? I just watch.

01:14:13
Speaker 4: I watched it on Blu Ray.

01:14:16
Speaker 3: This is on Paramount Plus. This is on Paramount, This is on HBO. This is on HBO, says Sam. Sam gets one point. It is currently streaming on Home Box Office Maximum. Was it originally Warner Brothers? We can look that up. I was a United artist. I might have been a United artist. All the Presidents is Warner Brothers, Warner Brothers. Yeah, so there you go. Okay. Sam takes a lead three to two, with four films remaining. Here we go. Next film is the Timeless Masterpiece, which you were talking about when I signed on tonight. I don't know why Shrek. Where is Shrek in the world?

01:15:05
Speaker 4: Is Shrek streaming now?

01:15:06
Speaker 3: Shrek is on Netflix?

01:15:08
Speaker 4: Now, it's on Peacock.

01:15:11
Speaker 3: Sam is now with a commanding two point lead Shrek, which I believe might be now DreamWorks is Philly with Universal Now.

01:15:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, more games that are just pure blind.

01:15:27
Speaker 3: You're blind guessing.

01:15:28
Speaker 2: It's not blind guessing. I mean you in your in your bones. You know which company made it and where the deals are. It's the top of mind.

01:15:36
Speaker 3: It's it's exactly yeah, all right, Jordan, it's not over yet. And in fact it's definitely not over yet because the final one there's a there's a twist. Okay, uh, Movie number seven very similar to Shrek really when you think about it, at least in terms of the way it was, you know, the genre. Grave of the Fireflies. Where is the Grave? Okay? Sam very confidently says that's on Netflix. Jordan, it's on Netflix. I I'm going to say it's on Netflix. You are both correct. Have you watched it on Netflix recently?

01:16:17
Speaker 4: Fifteen year old just did. She was on the way home from New Orleans on a bus for the show Choir and I get a text to say like, oh my god, Grave of the Fireflies, and I'm like, what happened to you? And she showed me like a screenshot of her watching it on a bus filled with you know, forty fifty other show choir kids. I don't know why.

01:16:42
Speaker 3: It's a great way to make friends, she said, she's a chair.

01:16:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, she saw an Instagram thing about it. She's like, I'll just watch this. Wow, she was not prepared, scarred for life.

01:16:51
Speaker 3: Well, now you owe her, so I do know. Yes, Yeah, so that is why I knew did you a solid? She helped you? And Jordan, she helped you too, because you definitely would not have guessed that from no No, he seemed too confident. I got you. Gotta have a poker face. Yes, if you had played like oh, I don't know, I don't know, ton't be wrong, you might have been able to sneak an at your point. So are our current score five to three in favor of Sam with two movies remaining, I can still tie it up, or when potentially I will just say that and I'll explain why when we get to the last the last movie do. Our penultimate title is Terminator to Judgment Day, jud John, Thank you, Judgehn. Where is that motion picture streaming right now? Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount Plus or Peacock Peacock Judge, jud John, I think I think that's going to be on.

01:17:52
Speaker 4: Trust Me.

01:17:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I no, no, I think it's gonna be on HBO Max. Come with me if you want. You were both incorrect. Unfortunately, Terminator to Judgment Day currently available on Paramount Plus.

01:18:10
Speaker 4: Okay, so Jordan can still tie, Yeah, apparently.

01:18:13
Speaker 3: He could still tie. He cannot win, but he could still talk. Which it was originally that was?

01:18:19
Speaker 7: Is it?

01:18:20
Speaker 2: Corrol is a production company, but who distributed it that, I'm not sure. Maybe try Star, which would have been now Sony Sony. Sony has no streaming service, so that's why it's flying around. There was TriStar tri Star, which is which was part of Sony.

01:18:38
Speaker 3: And I will note this is not the last movie. But I just want to note Terminator one is not on Paramount Plus. It is on HBO Max, so even in within the franchise, they're not even on the same service. You got to run around, yes, okay. For our final movie, Sam can Jordan, you cannot win, but you could talk. I must, and I will. I will explain why do Our final film is available on two simultaneous services, and I will give you a point for each one that you correctly identify. So if Sam forks them all and Jordan you get both right, you could try. It's it's possible, all right, this is possible. The motion picture in question is pulp fiction. What two of the four streaming services is it on. It's a Mirror Max, so that's Disney, which is nowhere. It's on It's on Netflix and Peacock.

01:19:40
Speaker 4: It's on Paramount Plus and HBO Max.

01:19:45
Speaker 3: You will each get one point. It is on Peacock and Paramount plus one of the two, so that means the stream server.

01:19:59
Speaker 4: And Forrest Company all four.

01:20:02
Speaker 3: Congratulations, we've done it. Now I get to host. Now you can host the next game. We can do that. But I think this is something that is worth doing occasionally. How did you because.

01:20:13
Speaker 4: Especially like some of these, like Grave of the Firefly, I want to know your process.

01:20:17
Speaker 3: The process of finding them was. I opened up tabs with all four of these surveys. I looked for a movie that I thought would be something that would be worthwhile. And then I checked to see is this available on these other four services or is it not? And the only one that was on more than one was in this of these ten was Pulp Fiction. All of those movies they were only available on one. So if you want to watch all ten of those movies on streaming, you literally have to subscribe to four different places at ten bucks a pop or one hundred bucks a year.

01:20:47
Speaker 6: Whatever.

01:20:47
Speaker 2: It is legitimate question. What what do you guys use to check where things are? Because I always use just watch dot com, but there are some others.

01:20:58
Speaker 4: I mean mostly I just used letterbox to be honest if I have to. You know, if I look for a yeah, it tells you where it's streaming.

01:21:04
Speaker 7: Yeah.

01:21:04
Speaker 4: You could even set it on letterbox for this the you know the streaming channels you actually subscribe to, so it'll tell you.

01:21:11
Speaker 3: If that is a feature. Yeah. I always used just Watch. I have used it for a long time, but I must say in recent months I've found it to be less and less reliable. I'm not what I you're using. I've been using letterbox or I just I just roll them around looking looking high and low. Basically Wow, No, that's I I'm that's good to know.

01:21:32
Speaker 2: I mean, I think if you have an Apple TV, do Hicky, if you if you put the title in, it'll tell you on Apple TV and it's but it's not always correct.

01:21:41
Speaker 3: Also, that's the thing, even the places that are potential sources, they can't always be correct. So what I'm I think what we have to say here is the only place that you can trust this this podcast.

01:21:53
Speaker 4: Just just subscribe to bazooga and you'll get.

01:21:55
Speaker 3: It bazooga dot biz.

01:22:05
Speaker 2: Well that was a fun game. Matt Singer always coming in with the fun games. I didn't like this one as much because I lost, but it was still pretty good.

01:22:13
Speaker 3: All that talk so bad. I'm the best I've won games. I can't be stopped. So let's talk about what how does it feel?

01:22:23
Speaker 2: It feels really good to talk about what's new on streaming on which is why people tune in to film Spunning, SVU and new on streaming. This week, we have some notable VOD rentals and purchases of new films that were out in theaters. You know, back in the old days, movie we play in movie theater, you'd wait several months, then you go and get the tape down in the old blockbluster video you have to go get a VHS.

01:22:49
Speaker 3: What a difference.

01:22:51
Speaker 2: Now you still do have to wait a little while for most movies and then they are available to rent or buy. And there's three biggies actually coming up this week. Number one is probably at the end of the day, the most talked about. Well maybe Wuthering Heights was more talked about, but the other most talked about movie was the drama The Robert Pattinson Zendea, dark comedy drama, whatever the heck you want to call it, controversial film that some people think is a great peak at the zeitgeist.

01:23:26
Speaker 3: Of the.

01:23:28
Speaker 2: Gen z rising younger millennial voices and how they lived in this wacky world to today. And some people thought it didn't go far enough or it was far fetched, and it certainly launched a thousand think pieces. And if you didn't see it in the theater, but many people did, it was a bit of a success. It wasn't you know, I didn't do avatar money, but it did well. This is your opportunity to rent or buy it for a reasonable sum. Another movie that's coming out this week is Ready or Not Too Colon Here I Come, which is the sequel to the first Ready or Not, in which Tomorrow Weaving kills a lot of people. Elijah Wood is in it. Did you say this Ready or Not too?

01:24:15
Speaker 3: Colin? I have seen all three of these movies you're you're discussing here.

01:24:18
Speaker 4: I saw the drama.

01:24:19
Speaker 3: I liked it as a gent as a hip young person. I really related to it and spoke to the moment. And Or Not Too. I also saw I was okay. I thought Ready was not too far a little bit, you know what.

01:24:35
Speaker 2: And honestly it was too violent because it was trying to be funny and then it was just kind of growth. There is one scene where they're I mean, I know, she's a woman in peril and she get beat up.

01:24:44
Speaker 3: It just goes on and on and on. I'm like, all right, this is a little well, these these movies. I mean that if you saw the first one, it's more of more of that style of film. It's they're gleefully excessive. And if if if the sight of the human body literally exploding in a geyser of blood is your kind of is your cup of tea and or blood, That's that's what you're gonna get.

01:25:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that part didn't that part was funny because it was over the top. And then it's like there was like one scene where the bad guy is beating up Samarrow Weaving, and it was just like it was too real.

01:25:15
Speaker 3: It wasn't funny.

01:25:16
Speaker 2: That's what I saw, okay, And and David Cronenberg is in it for five minutes also he's funny. And then finally another Biggie which I have not seen, and quite frankly, I don't foresee a future in which I'll ever see it. The Super Mario Galaxy movie. Yes, I know, I know, I don't know. You know I have kept my head in the sand, I will. I have no interest in this. I don't know from Super Mario. I played the game when I was young. A couple of times. He jumps up in a pipe and there's a turtle.

01:25:46
Speaker 7: I know.

01:25:46
Speaker 3: I saw the one with John Leguisiamo one hundred years ago. Yeah, what a picture? Should I tell my my original marriw Brother's story. Now we tell it real quick. This is almost as good as the brown No I used to wave it. Oh boy, save it? Now? Come on, this is good. You're gonna like this one I used to work. This is true. Sam, this is true. He used to work. I'll let me let me tell he used to work as a plumber.

01:26:07
Speaker 2: I used to work at the what was called the Low's Cinema six in Freehold, New Jersey, which is now a gym, and I did all I did that saw the popcorn. I was the usher, and I was the ticket seller and the ticket terror But this shift, I was the ticket seller. And the way this theater was was that the booth where you sold the tickets was like separate from the theater. You were like in a little box, practically in the middle of the of the of the parking lot.

01:26:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're out outside.

01:26:37
Speaker 7: I bent.

01:26:38
Speaker 3: I went to this theater outside in a glass booth, basically like clastic old school movie theater.

01:26:43
Speaker 2: Gosh yeah yeah, like aightolf iikeman, you're there in the last booth. So what happens is one tid's the afternoon, it's kind of quiet, nobody's coming to see. It's a cinema, it's a six plex, and I see a car pull up a ticket. An old pinto old man gets out, walks to the front. It's like the first seating. So it's like eleven fifty five.

01:27:06
Speaker 3: Am it's Bob Hoskins.

01:27:08
Speaker 2: And finally, an older woman is following and she's going, he's going, come on, come on. She's like, I'm coming, I'm coming, come on, let's do it. Come on, hurry up, and she goes, I can't believe you take me to see this, and he go, I swear to you this is true. I swear on everything's true.

01:27:27
Speaker 3: He turns to it. He goes, look, I'm a plumber name Mario. If they're gonna make a movie about a plumber named Mario, I'm gonna see it. Two for Mario Brothers movie.

01:27:43
Speaker 2: Please And if I two bad cell phone cameras did not exist then, but I swear do I witness this?

01:27:51
Speaker 3: And I was alone?

01:27:52
Speaker 2: Nobody was he wearing blue and red overalls or blue and green.

01:27:57
Speaker 3: Nobody is Mario. He must have been in the red overalls. All I know is that he schlept.

01:28:01
Speaker 2: And then later, you know, ninety eight minutes later, when the movie was over, I saw in the come. I go, hey, Mario, what'd you think? And he's like, wasn't that good?

01:28:11
Speaker 3: He said, it's a me Mario and I didn't like it. His wife was not pleased. But I swear to you that was true. So her name Peach.

01:28:20
Speaker 2: All I know is having witnessed that I have no business seeing these new ones, and I never will, and I know that they're awful.

01:28:27
Speaker 4: So this is this story is so good, Jordan. I'm actually moving it to the Bakery story location.

01:28:32
Speaker 3: So people know what else is coming out, Matt. Well, briefly, here we have theatrical releases that are now on streaming. Those were all movies that you mentioned that you have to rent. These are extra purchases. But if you are a subscriber to Hulu, you can see one of my favorite movies of twenty twenty six so far, Sam Raimi's Send Help seas great love. Guess loved it, speaking of gleefully excessive, Yes, but that never got so vicious as ready or not to and that's why it's so good. Yes, So Send Help. That's on Hulu on Thursday the seventh, May seventh, and then also on May eighth, Friday the eighth on HBO Max will be this one I have not seen yet, the sequel to Greenland green Land to Migration. What a great subtitle that is Migration Okay, and coming directly to streaming now in the week ahead, we have a new horror anthology, a new season of The Terror Devil in Silver on AMC Plus and Shutter I will confess here I have subscribed to Shutter off and on many times AMC Plus. I've never subscribed to I don't nobody's familiar with their programming, but people love The Terror. I haven't seen it, but people do love The Terror. This edition stars Dan Stevens as a man wrongfully committed to a quote Hellish psychiatric institution, and that will be on AMC Plus and Shutter Over on Stars, we have a new limited series version of Amedeus. Oh God, I don't know that you can improve on Omedais, but someone's gonna try. And it has Will Sharp as Mozart and Paul Bettany as Saliary. And I will say I saw a commercial for this. I was watching something. I was not watching Stars, but somehow I saw a commercial for this this week and I said, yeah, it looks like I'm a Dais with Paul Bettany.

01:30:32
Speaker 2: Okay, I like Paul Bettany and I do too, but I will never watch Amadeis is truly one of the greatest movies ever made. It's in my top ten, seriously, and I will never see this, and I'd like to see The Terror. Though it's based on the Dan Simmons novel The Terror, it's a series and it's on my list of shows that one of these days I'll get to. But you know, a lot of movie, a lot of shows out there, there's a.

01:30:55
Speaker 3: Lot to watch. And then on Netflix. Just very briefly here, Actually these are things that we are weighing watching. We may actually end up covering both of these things in the weeks ahead. One of them is the new four episode adaptation of Lord of the Flies. This was adapted by Jack Thorne, who did Netflix's big show of I guess last year, Adolescence. Everybody watched Adolescence. I think it's still winning Emmys as we speak. It's won every award for television that there is. By the time you hear this, Lord of the Flies will be streaming on Netflix. And then there is also the motion picture Remarkably Bright Creatures, adapted from a best selling novel. I have seen the commercial for this one as well. It has Sally Field and her friendship with an octopus in an aquarium, voiced by Alfred Molina.

01:31:54
Speaker 2: That is the wait a minute, oh something about is this actually like a doc oc thing going on.

01:32:00
Speaker 3: I mean, oh, is that why they cast him? I didn't even put that together. It doesn't he seems to be an actual octopus. But now the notion that doctor Octopus was somehow transformed, perhaps by doctor Miles Warren the Jackal or someone of that nature, into an actual octopus ein cheeky I am.

01:32:25
Speaker 2: I'm interested in the Lord of the Flies adaptation because you know, it's a classic book and there's been two other movie versions, and I am one of those. I'm always intrigued when when something gets remade and remade and remade, I'm always curious about that.

01:32:40
Speaker 3: At this point, that looks like that's what's gonna be the review next week. We're gonna we're gonna dip our toe into the murky waters of the streaming television at least a limited series limited series, So Lord of the Flies on Netflix that's what we're looking at. At this point, we reserve the right to change our minds. We can dip eight toes and see the Octopus movie. But look, my pen name is Matt Singer, but my real name is John Lord of the Flies. And if they're gonna make the show in the flies. I'm gonna go sees. I wonder what Mario's up to right now?

01:33:23
Speaker 2: Oh god, Well, you have now listened to another episode of Streaming Video Unit FLIM spotting. Why don't you start again? And this time maybe say the name of the show. You have listened to another episode of Film Spotting SVU, the Streaming Video Unit. I hope you had a good time.

01:33:51
Speaker 3: I know I did.

01:33:52
Speaker 2: And if you would like to get in touch with us, you know how to do it. You can email us at Feedback at film Spotting SVU dot com. You could find Matt Singer on Instagram and letterboxed at Superpulse. I Jordan Hoffman. You could find me on a letterbox two. I think I'm Jay Hoffman. I might be Jay Hoffman six. That's my Instagram is Jay Hoffman six the number? And it was a good time, A good episod.

01:34:21
Speaker 3: So I like this one.

01:34:22
Speaker 2: S VU is produced by the great Sam van Halgren, who now is no longer Uh he's not like the like the New York Mets. He's he like the New York Mets. He's no longer winless. He won a game and maybe next week we'll play a new game, and and and I'll defeat him again. Thank you for listening, and and thanks for sending us again. We'll we'll get your recommendations in if you send us an email U we'll we'll respond, and Matt any final words before we say goodbye.

01:34:53
Speaker 3: That's it. Thanks for listening.