Nate Versus Nate | '80s Movie Pitches
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[0:58] Hello and welcome to Nat One Presents the podcast. Hey Nate. Hey, how's it going, Nate? It's going good. What's uh new with you?

[1:06] Oh, you know, disappointment. Um sorry. Just, you know, being dejected. Yeah, you know, uh, I didn't get that tattoo that I was uh ranting and raving about.

[1:16] No, not not the Nat One one. He had uh another specific one we had in mind.

[1:20] The one I was excited for. Right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's just you know, uh it's tough. It's tough to find the right artist. It's like uh it's like dating, except you're not even getting a free meal out of it. Right, and it seems like it's a bigger commitment because this is gonna be on your body for life. Yeah, and I'm starting to feel like so. I I like all right, all right, I watch Inkmaster just because I enjoy reality TV and I also enjoy art shows, and so it was like a good combination. I know I don't know anything about tattoos just from watching Inkmaster, right? But what I didn't see is like, wow, that's what a bad customer looks like, and that's what a good customer.

[1:20] And I'm starting to like internalize now, like, am I the bad customer? And like I'm not. I personally I just feel like you know, when I when I'm consulting with these artists, they're not being totally honest, like they're being like, Yep, I can do this, and then they draw it, and then they just cut out the parts of my design they didn't want to do, right? And then they're and then it's like, Well, you said you could do it, you know, and then they always like, well, it's not my style, and it's like, well, why didn't we have this conversation in the beginning? And that's like that has happened now three times.

[1:20] Uh, so I'm not gonna give up, I'm gonna fight the good fight, but I'm gonna stay a tattoo virgin apparently until maybe I can find somebody who like is really willing to like kind of just go out of their comfort zone and draw something. And I think it'll be a pretty cool tattoo, Nate. Like, it might be an Instagram, Instagram [expletive] whammy, right? Because there's really no source material out there for it.

[2:39] So I think that's the the problem with the artists nowadays is everybody's so worried with their social media presence that if they do one bad tattoo that they're not comfortable with, it doesn't even have to be bad. If it just looks okay and they're not comfortable with it, they don't want to do it because now their career is ruined with the whole cancel thing. It's tough.

[2:55] I just you know, again, like yo, just be honest with me from the front. And maybe like, I don't know if it's like they they over or underestimate their own skills, like they think they can do it, and then but I'm just tired of like getting in the sketch the day before or showing up the day of, and it's like not like oh you made some like artistic choices, but like, no, you did something different than what I asked for. Like, that's getting not even old, Nate. Getting old. I'm sorry, yeah. Anyway, sorry, we try to keep the show positive, so I'm gonna we're gonna move on. Whatever tell me something good, Nate.

[3:23] Um, let's see. Well, we got you know, our bonus episode that we have on the Patreon is gonna be coming up soon. And it's a doozy. Yeah, it's say the least.

[3:34] It's something, it's what some of you have been asking for, it's what a lot of you probably never wanted. You're welcome. You're welcome, you're welcome, and I hope you guys enjoy it. That's gonna be the June bonus episode. No spoilers. That's all I gotta say about it. That's coming up.

[3:48] Uh man. What uh what are we doing today, Nate? Today, I think we're still working on like a title, but it's gonna be like an 80s movie quiz slash pitch idea where we both have our versions of a summary of an 80s movie, and we kind of pitch it to each other and see if the other person can guess what movie that is. Or if it's even a real 80s movie. Like some of these, like no [expletive] way.

[4:12] Did you ooh? I didn't even think of it. I don't know if I I didn't throw in any like fake movies. No, all mine are real, too. That would be super fake.

[4:18] 80s movies are so ridiculous. I wish I had done that.

[4:20] Like, and I totally made one up. You're like, I have no idea. I'm like, yeah, I made that up. But um, it would be hard because these are bananas, Nate. Like going back, and so like what I would my I don't know what your process was. My process was for about half of them, I knew exactly a movie I wanted to do. So then I went back and I'm like, let me reread like on Wikipedia the plot synopsis, and holy [expletive], like every time for those movies, I was like, wow, I did not pick up a lot of this other [expletive] going on. Right. Um and it was like bonkers. Oh, yeah. Um, or I just I chuckled.

[4:20] Sometimes I literally just started laughing while reading the description, and well, we'll see if it if it comes through a little bit, and then other ones were just like I knew they were ridiculous, and then I I haven't I'm just gonna some of them in a wing, some of them I've you guys will be able to tell on the air. Uh, I just straight up wrote my movie pitch as if I was like a like a coked out 80s like consultant. Um, should we tell them like where like how this episode even started? Yeah, exactly.

[5:14] So originally I showed uh Nate a video, uh, the Key and Peel video on YouTube, but it's the Gremlins one, and then I watched it and thought it was hilarious, but then I immediately went home and watched Gremlins 2, and it's all in the [expletive] movie. Every look it up on YouTube. It's awesome uh sketch from Key and Peel, but everything they say is in the [expletive] Gremlins movie, and that made it so much funnier.

[5:38] And they put that disclaimer at the end, but it has how funny is it that you actually just straight up watch it right?

[5:43] And I'm like, there it is, like we're making it up, man.

[5:46] Those writers [expletive] knew exactly what they were doing. Yeah, they're he showed me the sketch the other day, and I'm like, that's [expletive] hilarious. Like, we could totally do that. Like Nate and I, like we caught the tail end of the 80s. Um, you know, like I think we're 90s kids technically, but like we watched 90s kids watched a lot of 80s movies, especially the late 80s. So uh we're like, we can totally do this. Oh, yeah, we can make some of these pitches. So yeah, so these are today. We're gonna it's kind of almost falls under Nate versus Nate. We're gonna try to stump each other with like banana crazy movie pitches and see if they can guess the movie. Um and yeah, I don't know. Do you want to go first?

[5:46] Oh, I will go first. Okay. All right. And I wanted to uh we don't we don't usually do extra sound effects in this one. Geek boner. Right. But we're but we love that show, by the way. Uh but uh I went ahead and grabbed a track to play in the background because it really sets the mood while we're like doing pitches. Right. So uh you ready? I'm gonna Okay, I'm ready.

[6:42] I don't know if I should I'm just gonna do regular voice and we'll see how it goes. Alright. Here we go. In this fantastic fantasy tale, some kid robs from a store with malicious intent. He then proceeds to ditch school to admire his stolen item, roll into this fantasy world where we are introduced to a couple dozen fanciful creatures, only to be forgotten about as our new main character is a human Native American child. We skip back and forth between criminal kid and native Luke Skywalker type kid who complains about everything, and by everything, I mean nothing. The worst part of this movie that stuck with me growing up, seriously, this is the worst [expletive] part of the movie, um.

[6:42] It was how his lazy [expletive] horse got stuck in some mud and just gave up on life and died. He didn't even try. He got stuck in the mud and was like, you know what, that's it, it's over for me, I'm gonna die here. And I cried as a kid because I didn't want to see his horse get killed. Anyways, back to the the little blip here. But looking back on it, if I was stuck with this Native American Luke Skywalker kid, I would have just died and given up too in that mud pit. Um, blah blah blah, adventure stuff happens. The criminal eats a sandwich.

[6:42] I don't know why that stuck with me as a kid, him eating that sandwich, but it's a key point in my head, and somehow together they save the day, and then the criminal kid gets a fly and a giant dog, scaring probably the only other kids that even talk to him. Nate, what is that movie?

[8:07] Wow. When you put it in terms like that, it sounds so crazy. Um [expletive] Native American kid? Yeah, Native American kid.

[8:16] Because it shows all kinds of monsters. Is this never ending story? It's a never-ending story.

[8:21] Never-ending story.

[8:23] It sounds so like when you it it's so bananas, it doesn't even but then like literally as you connect the dots, I'm like, yeah, alright. That's stuff. Everything happened. Yep. Everything happened. Um, alright, so I'm gonna be honest. There's there's a lot of movies I haven't seen or I just straight up don't remember. So I did see Neverending Story, but they played it when I was a young, young [expletive] kid. So I could not tell. I only remember some of the parts in that movie. Like, I don't remember the horse thing you were talking about at all, which apparently is a major picture. Stuck with me. Stuck with you, yeah.

[8:51] The horse's name was Rtax, and he just gave up. He's like, Come on, RTX. RTX's like, nope, I'm dying. Just leave me to die. Yep, leave me to die, dude. I'm done with you. I mean, I can vibe with that lately in 2021.

[9:01] Like, some people just want to be left to die.

[9:02] But now that we're getting older and [expletive], like, just let me die, man.

[9:06] Like we're sympathizing with the characters we're not supposed to. Right. All right, all right.

[9:10] Uh and then a side note for everybody uh I make fun of all these movies, but seriously, I hold all these movies listed near and dear to my heart.

[9:17] I love these movies. Every movie I picked, I love too. So we're gonna, it's gonna sound like we're trashing on them, but and then we are, but it's out of life. Like, no different than picking on your little or older brother or whatever, you know.

[9:28] Same dip. Same di.

[9:29] Alright, we're gonna try mine? Yeah, let's try it. What do you got? Alright. Alright, so mine, guys, uh, need's a little bit more off the cuff. You can just kind of do it. Minor, minor scripted, you'll you'll be able to tell. Um, because it goes on for like 60 seconds, but here we go. Ready? Yep. Let me I'm gonna restart the song. Uh I I need uh I need the music to like pump me up a little bit. Okay. Alright, okay. So hear me out. What if I told you there was a 90-minute movie about a young boy with PTSD, but the twist is it's riddled with product placements. I'm thinking the boy is nine-year-old, and you know what? He has a twin sister. Ooh, but she drowned.

[9:29] Okay, you're probably thinking this is gonna be a really thoughtful movie about healing and trauma. Nope. We're gonna say that his parents are trash and they're just gonna put him in a mensal in the tube. Okay, so anyway, you're gonna have a yeah, the young kid, he's gonna have a brother. No, a half brother. He's also a teenager, and his half brother's just gonna kidnap him for some reason. Because nobody in this family apparently cares about this kid's well-being. Oh, and there's a lunchbox, but more on that later. Okay, so it's actually a hitchhiking adventure with teenagers. And they pick up this other girl who's traveling to Reno because mmm reasons. Anyway, they decide they can fix their broken baby brother with a boatload of money.

[9:29] But what they need to do is have him win by playing arcade games, okay? So great, but it's an 80s movie, so we need a training montage. I'm thinking he practices pin on pinball machines and then he just straight up calls Nintendo Power. Okay? Alright, I think we're getting somewhere. Yep. But we also need a bad guy that he's not related to. Ooh, okay. So also, instead of calling the police, his parents are gonna call mmm, let's say a bounty hunter, okay? Now, the bounty hunter is gonna be way less competent than this group of children, alright? But he's gonna get close to catching them, so we're gonna need another group of in-act adults. I'm thinking truckers. It's gonna be a big theme in the 80s, alright?

[9:29] So the truckers are gonna aid in the kidnapping of these children, but we still need one more villain. So I'm thinking he's an [expletive] teenager that uses a video game gauntlet because [expletive] it, it's a 90-minute commercial for video game placements. Lastly, we're gonna have a huge twist at the end. The whole movie is actually just a promotion for Super Mario Bros. 3. Name that movie.

[11:22] Ooh, you had me up until uh launchbox. And then it was The Wizard. Yes. Yeah. Okay.

[11:29] I love that movie.

[11:31] It's like very nostalgic. Right. And it is a cult classic, but it's also like straight up, it's kind of like it was very heavy-handed in that like between the Nintendo Power references, the extra arcade game references, the uh power glove is what the I remember that's called.

[11:47] And it was badass when they showed it.

[11:49] And then straight up it was like leading into the North American launch of Super Mario Bros. 3. So like it was very heavy-handed, which is supposed to be about this like sentimental movie about a kid who's like dealing with like loss and his family being split apart and stuff.

[12:00] Or was there like something wrong with them? We don't know. And then what kind of [expletive] parents hire a bounty hunter?

[12:05] Yeah, that's that one got me. Um, and then I like that they recruit a bunch of truckers who are like, we're gonna stop you from taking this kid home. We're gonna let these kids continue to travel on. They all grouped together and like blocked off a road and [expletive]. It's crazy. It's crazy. Um, so in mine, I don't know about yours, but I I draw some trends in my movies, okay? One is that a lot of my movies end with tournaments. Okay. 80s movies apparently end with tournaments. They love it. Love tournaments. Um, also, truckers is a thing in a lot of my movies.

[12:32] One of my movies coming up actually has a trucker in it.

[12:35] Oh, I'm super nervous. They love the truckers in the 80s. Oh, hopefully, it's just in a bunch of movies. So we'll see. We'll see. Okay. Alright. Woof.

[12:42] That was a good one. I love the wizard. It was good. Okay. Uh alright. Alright, here we go. Number two for me. In this action movie, based on a true story, seriously, it says a true [expletive] story in the beginning of this. Uh, a military man of some sort leaves. He just leaves. He abandons his post and just leaves, and apparently that's okay back then. He um flies overseas to complete a family tradition for uh a family he's not even a member of. Okay, and then we have a flashback to when he's a kid. He gets caught doing a BE on some elderly Asian man's house. There's a lot of these where kids are doing crimes, and apparently it's okay because that's gonna lead into something else.

[12:42] So apparently in the 80s, a lot of kids were doing crimes. Uh, the man takes pity on this slow-looking child. Seriously, go back and look at him. He's really slow looking. Uh he decides that, um, hey, slow-looking kid, you can be a human punching bag for my son. Uh, and then it flashes back, he's going back to the military. Uh, they send two dudes to track him down. Only two dudes to track this guy down, because apparently he's uh some sort of human killing machine trained by the military, and they need to track him down. But he's so important that one of the guys tracking him down is a senior [expletive] citizen. So, um, let's see.

[12:42] He beats the only other American when he gets there in a fighting video game, thus making him a BFF forever in the span of a couple minutes. Like, hey, we're both Americans, and I kicked your ass on this fighting arcade game. Now we're BFFs. Um, blah blah blah. He breaks one brick and his new friend gets hospitalized by the buffest guy in the whole continent. All these things happen. Um he bangs some floozy reporter and immediately after gets revenge for his new friend and securing his not family's legacy. What is this movie? Oh my god. What the [expletive] did you- I don't think I know this. All these things happen. Check it. Based on a true [expletive] story they say. Oh my god. Like give me some of the key points again.

[12:42] Like, there is a tournament. I left that out because I thought I'd give it away too much, but there is a tournament a tournament. A martial arts tournament.

[14:49] This isn't [expletive] Karate Kid.

[14:50] Not Karate Kid.

[14:51] What?

[14:52] And there's also a part where the old man forcibly grabs this guy and splits his legs apart with ropes and makes him do the splits because that's training. And then he hits him with a wooden bamboo sword a couple times. I feel like I should know this, but what the [expletive]?

[15:09] I don't you might have got me on this one. This one is Bloodsport starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Oh, no, I probably didn't see that. Right? I'm gonna my dad would be so disappointed, but when he put on like certain action movies, I would just straight up fall asleep. This is probably one of them.

[15:25] It's such a good one. He trains blind at one point, and then like the buffest guy in all of Asia throws blinding powder in his eyes, and there's a scene that I'll always remember because it's [expletive] ridiculous where Jean-Claude's just got his eyes open and he can't see, and he's like, He makes that noise. I'm gonna have to go back and watch it. And then he and then he fights him and beats him blind.

[15:47] But there's also video games?

[15:48] There was a video game. Uh they show up at like the main so apparently this is a top secret uh fighting organization, the Kumite, that they're fighting in, and they're all staying at the same [expletive] hotel, apparently. And there's uh So because it's in China, obviously, I think it's in China, I'm pretty sure. It doesn't look like Japan. And uh there's an arcade machine in the lobby, and then him and his American friend are like, hey, you want to fight? And he's like, I don't know, you know, John Cod's playing it cool, but then he [expletive] crushes them with the sticks, like boom, boom, boom, boom, [expletive] whipping that stick around, crushes them, and that's when they become friends.

[16:22] Wow, I'm gonna have to go. See, now here here's the risk at this this this activity today is that if I go back and watch this movie, I'm gonna be like, Yes, all this is true, but it's also gonna take away the like the punch of like all this crazy [expletive] happening. And then like you've kind of told me in like a nutshell all this banana bunkers. So but I'm gonna have to commit like that that should be like the wager is like if you get one wrong on this, you have to like go back and watch it.

[16:47] So yeah, that's that's and then now you're gonna go back and be like, man, all this stuff does happen. I think that's some of the fun. So if you guys watching at home go back and watch these and you're like, holy [expletive], all this weird stuff does happen.

[16:58] Well, turn it into like a bingo board where we put all those like 80s stuff on it.

[17:01] It makes me want to like next time we do this segment, throw in wrong facts, and then you guys gotta figure it out.

[17:07] Oh my god, that would be so hard, dude. That'd be so hard.

[17:09] And then there's a pet monkey named Gerbils.

[17:12] It makes no sense.

[17:13] 80s was all about extra details that didn't need to be in the movie, is what I kind of feel like. Yeah, you know, like the fact that like in [expletive] going back to a sec for like the wizard, it's like, oh, it's his half brother though. Like, I don't really think we need to specify like that. Really is not.

[17:28] And then you get really confused over the story. Like, so is the mom not the mom, or is the dad why is the dad there? Like, what's really going on here? And then they don't answer that. No, so it just leaves you with unnecessary questions about the movie.

[17:40] And that like lunchbox has so much more significance than it really, really needs, right? You know, like it's very yeah, anyway. All right, well, maybe I can get you with this one. Okay, I'm not sure. I don't know though. This might be up your alley. I'm pumped. Um, I'm not ready to try that. I have one in here that's like straight up, you'll never get this, maybe.

[17:58] But uh watch a lot of movies, Nate.

[18:00] Thanks, Mom. But we'll we'll try this one. Okay, here we go. Start and beginning. Okay, yeah, start from beginning. I'm addicted. I paid a dollar for this track. Oh, it's ours now. Okay. So we're gonna make a movie that involves our favorite things from the 80s. We're talking epic [expletive] names, truckers, arm wrestling, and of course, horrible families. The movie's gonna be about this guy, [expletive] Lincoln Hawk. Nate, if that name doesn't tell you how epic this movie's gonna be, you don't even know, okay? So Lincoln [expletive] Hawk, he's gonna be a truck driver who's estranged from his wife and son, but his wife is gonna be like, hey, you and your son need to bond, I guess, so go on this road trip.

[18:00] Now, the villain's gonna be grandpappy because he's a rich [expletive], and even though truckers make really good money and it's a very respectable career, that white-collar son of a [expletive] is gonna try to derail his daughter's happiness and destroy her family. So naturally, the grandpa's gonna do what every household elderly person would do. He's gonna hire some goons to kidnap his grandchild. But [expletive] that, Lincoln Hawk ain't no [expletive], so he's gonna throw out the [expletive] out of that. But you remember that mom who recommended this whole trip? Yeah, dead. Just straight up detonate. So naturally, the kid's an [expletive] and blames his dad for this, even though his dad is named Lincoln [expletive] Hawk and caught in an arm wrestle.

[18:00] So somehow the kid's gonna go running to Grandpappy's, but Lincoln Hawk is like, [expletive] it, I'll just ramrod my semi through the rich father-in-law's home, but naturally that's gonna get him arrested, even though he could have easily just used law enforcement to claim custody over his own kid. Alright. Anyway, this is gonna roll into a scheme to get Hawk to sign over custody of his kid to his grandpappy, because I guess Hawk is kind of an idiot and afraid of getting charges pressed for driving into a mansion. But that's not gonna get Hawk down, oh no. Hawk's gonna go to an arm wrestling championship because every 80s movie ends with a tournament. He's gonna battle some guys you know are tough because their names are even more epic than his.

[18:00] We're talking John Grizzly and Bull Hurley. Yes. Okay, [expletive] like that. Anyway, we find out that Grandpa used to behold intercept the mail system, even though it's an incredibly secure government organization trick, which we see all the time, and we discover that Grandpappy actually hid all of Hawk's letters to his son growing up. And let's just totally forget the fact that payphones did in fact exist in the 80s, whatever. Which leads to the son showing up to the tournament where Hawk bets on himself, but the grandfather's still gonna try to offer Hawk a pile of money to leave his grandson alone as if they hadn't already signed legal documents giving him custody. In conclusion, Hawk is gonna decline and win the tournament anyway.

[18:00] Hawk and his son make up and drive off in the sunset in a new summy with a boatload of money. Name that movie.

[20:11] Okay. I know the movie. But I had a feeling it I've had a feeling this was gonna happen. Oh no.

[20:18] So let's see. Let me see. Let's see.

[20:21] Um I'm gonna go ahead and read it.

[20:26] Let's go, let's go.

[20:27] In this possibly action movie, the worst dad in America slash truck driver is forced to take his son on a road trip with him.

[20:33] This is where we find out about his dad's passion, arm wrestling. He loves it so much he is even built in a weight set inside the cab of his truck, so he'll never miss a workout. Eventually, the son runs off or some [expletive] or something, and they find each other blah blah blah. We're here for action. The finale takes place in Vegas of all places, because why not? It always does, at a World Championship arm wrestling tournament. Apparently it was a bigger deal in the 80s, and after this movie, I'm sure, [expletive] gets real as the dad makes it all the way to the finals where he flips his hat around, thus going super saiyan and defeating a man that's four times his pre size.

[20:33] Pretty sure this was also based on a true story, maybe over the top. Over the top. It's called over the top because it's [expletive] ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Over the top, let me scratch that off now. Oh man. I had a feeling.

[21:26] And honestly, I knew you were gonna do that one too, but I was like, it's too good not to take a stab at it's too good. It's too good. What are the chances? I knew, dude, I told like guys in the beginning already, like the wizard. I'm like, do you have one about a video game tournament? He's like, kind of, and I'm like, God damn it, this isn't helpful. And so we just like were like, whatever. If we have duplicates, it'll be fun to see from their perspective. I knew there's no way Nate and I like and there's tons of 80 movies, like lots of classics, right?

[21:53] Like those are the biggest key points for me. The hat flip, which I still do at work. I'm gonna mention that in mind, I missed that in the whole time. And then the workout machine. In the cab of his truck, like you're taking your kid and you have floating weights in your [expletive] truck. Like, that's the most dangerous [expletive] thing I've ever heard in my life. Like, this is the 80s. Like, you don't have to worry about a seatbelt, but let's not have giant chunks of metal. Bad.

[22:12] And I and then I just love too these like these bad families. Like with the wizard, it's like I'm gonna hire a bounty hunter to get my kid back. Worst parents ever in the and then this grandfather is going to hire goons to kidnap his grandson to make his son hate grandson hate his son-in-law. Like, what? Like, you guys have issues.

[22:30] I wonder if it's set up for our parents where they would watch it and like look at us and be like, you know what? I'm not doing too bad. Yeah.

[22:36] At least I'm not these people. Yeah, these guys suck. Yeah.

[22:39] Worst parents ever. I'm doing alright. My kid's alive. It's crazy. Not getting abducted by trucker people.

[22:44] Reading through the like the summary of over the top, because I did see that movie. I was wondering though, if like, because it'd been a while, if that's like what it reminded me of the ending of Dodgeball, where they like bet on themselves. I'm like, oh, I bet he like takes the money from the grandfather, but like, no, it's just straight up wins. He wins. He just beats a guy that's like three times the size. So it's whatever.

[23:01] And they were originally supposed to have the bull guy in the movie, but he's way too big. Like the movie was about, yeah. He's way too big. And he would have just dwarfed Sylvester Stallone. So they're like, no, you can't be in the movie. Yeah. I think he makes a cameo somewhere in there. Sorry.

[23:15] I mean, this is literally kind of about you, but you make uh Sylvester looks tiny. He looks like Sylvia, like a little too small. You can't be in there. I thought that was fun. Imagine, like, I'd be so disappointed. Oh, this is the movie main for me, and I can't. I can't be in it. You sons of [expletive]. I'm Bull. Those names got me too [expletive] Lincoln Hawk. Yeah. And uh also that's an 80s thing, right? John Grizzly. Oh yeah. Bull Hurley. But apparently Bull is there. Is that his actual name? Real real name. Yeah.

[23:41] Well, uh, he probably isn't. He might have changed it, right? But I swear in my hometown, there was a guy named Moose. I don't know if that was his real name, but people called him Moose. I think that was a thing back then. Like, what's a what's an animal?

[23:51] Like, call me Badger. You know, when I think of Moose, that's like a name of a character in Step Up, which is a movie series about street dancing.

[23:59] Ooh, okay, okay.

[24:01] I've never seen that. Okay, apparently Moose persisted into the 90s, actually the early 2000s. Oh, Moose. Alright, well, technically it's your turn. Okay, okay.

[24:10] Because I made I made six of them, so I think I have one extra.

[24:12] Because I spent a lot of time on these.

[24:14] Okay, okay. Alright, you ready?

[24:15] Yeah, let's do this.

[24:16] Okay. In this sweet sci-fi fantasy, a guy that lives in a trailer park, I say guy, I think he's supposed to be a teenager, but he looks like a full grown man, plays some arcade game and finally beats the high score. He is then greeted by an elderly gentleman that turns out to be a [expletive] alien and says, Let's go on an adventure. To make things easy, the geezer leaves behind some kind of clone thing, uh, that takes the form of the kid man and proceeds to wreck his social life while he's away. Thanks a lot, alien geezer guy.

[24:16] Kid Man is then taken to some kind of spaceport where he's given a sweet translator thing and gets told how everyone is battling some other alien bad guy, and we're losing so bad, we've resorted to using arcade machines to lure children to come fight with us. Uh he befriends some weird-looking wiener turtle poop guy. He looks like those three things were all rolled into one. Um and then they [expletive] save the galaxy together just in time for him to get home and save his relationship. Seriously though, the cover art and posters for this movie are [expletive] awesome. What is it?

[25:17] I already know I don't know this movie. I don't know this movie. I've never in my life heard of that.

[25:21] Well, later I'll show you. We'll look up the uh penis uh turtle poop man. What is it?

[25:27] While you're telling tell tell our listeners about this movie.

[25:30] This movie is the last starfighter, and that's pretty much everything that happens. Uh there's a galactic menace, he gets a high score on a machine, and somehow that translates into him being able to operate an actual alien spacecraft. So he's uh enlisted into the Starfleet, I guess, and then he beats the bad guys and then gets to go home and make out with his girlfriend. And seriously, I don't know if he's a teenager or a man at Denver really explains it, but he does live in a trailer park.

[26:00] I [expletive] never heard of this ever, dude.

[26:02] Do you see the cover art though?

[26:04] It's [expletive] epic. Which one? There's I see two different ones because this is like multiple posters.

[26:08] No, that one's okay, but that one looks cool.

[26:10] Yeah, I was even like that. And that's probably where the budget went.

[26:16] Yeah.

[26:16] To the cover art.

[26:18] Did you see the alien penis turtle?

[26:21] Wow. You see what I'm saying? Like what when you said that, I'm like, that sounds ridiculous, but straight up, this is an alien penis turtle.

[26:28] Poop man.

[26:32] And I also see what you're saying about is this a teenager or a middle-aged man?

[26:36] I cannot tell. Yes.

[26:37] I cannot tell.

[26:38] Very uh I just don't know. Because I'm pretty sure there's a lot of interactions with his mom and stuff. Maybe he's a guy who lives at home, but then he has like a teenage girlfriend. It's very confusing, but I still love this movie. Last Starfighter.

[26:50] Crazy. I'm I'm actually reading Weird. The game's designer, Centuri, reveals he created Starfighter as a training ground. It also kind of reminded me of um what's that children's uh book story where uh Ender's Game. Oh, yeah. It started to like remind me of Ender's game, and then it got weird, and like, oh, I'd rather just watch Ender's game.

[27:11] And then also, uh, I think Ernest Klein, the guy who made uh Ready Player One, um, made another book called Armada and takes heavily from this whole thing of like you play a video game, get a high score, and now that qualifies you to be a trained pilot of some sort just by playing a video game.

[27:26] God, I wish real life worked that way, Nate. I know. God, I wish I wish I wish playing video games well qualified you for anything. If that worked out, I'd already be going to Mortal Kombat. Yeah. I'm sure of it. No, I wouldn't. I'm a loser. I know. I suck. All right. All right, I'm tired of losing, so this one I would be surprised if you got, but we'll we'll see. Okay. All right.

[27:47] I know mom's uh playing a lot at home, and I'm sure you've you're gonna get every single one of these right. So I'm proud of you.

[27:53] Yeah, Mom and A. Let's see. Let's see if we can do it. All right. Oh, I need the music. Oh, yeah. It really gets me in the zone.

[27:58] You need the tunes, you gotta get pumped up just like the 80s. You gotta have good teams.

[28:01] Yeah, exactly. And you know, I'm not gonna lie, these movies did have good teams.

[28:05] Great soundtracks of all these movies.

[28:07] We'll get into that on another episode.

[28:08] Um stay tuned for our special Highlander episodes coming up. It's gonna knock your socks off. Alright, here we go.

[28:16] Okay. Girl and her father move to Chicago after he retires from the army. The girl wants to be on a TV show where they dance. Think like Hairspray or whatever. I don't know, it was a different time. But gas, it's forbidden. Probably because she's still in high school and that's generally a bad idea. Anyway, girl goes to Catholic school, girl makes friend, friend and girl audition to be on dancing show in secrecy. Girl and friend piss off Popular Girl who vows to sabotage both of them and gets Friend eliminated from audition. As revenge, girl and friend invite strangers and ruin the popular girl's birthday party. Gross. Oh, and there's a boy who dances with the girl and becomes her partner, and they fall in love.

[28:16] But Popular Girl threatens to have Boy's daddy fired from his job, so boy and girl fight because being honest is hard. Okay? But meanwhile, girl's father finds out that she's been sneaking out to join a dance show, so naturally he's gonna install security cameras and a guard dog. Okay? Girl's friend comes and cuts the cables to a likely very expensive security system that they escaped, and then they somehow manage to not even encounter the guard dog, who seems in general to be a poor alternative to simply sitting down and explaining to his daughter why quitting high school to be a local television star is a horrible decision. Anyway, girl sneaks into the telephys final uh audition, because again, 80s movies have to end with some kind of tournament or competition. Yes.

[28:16] And uh basically, uh now the boy's father supports the son even if it's gonna cost him losing his job because he knows what we all know, which is that his son probably swings for the other team and that television is probably a lot better than being a male hairdresser in the 80s. Yeah, I made that part up, but that's fine. Okay. So, boy and girl tie with the evil popular girl and her irrelevant partner, and then gasp, there's a dance off. And the boy and girl win thanks to synchronized gymnastics that they practice during their steamy hot late night dates. Oh, and the friend on the show is now on the show too that was eliminated before because of a fluke resignation.

[28:16] Oh, and somewhere in there a random guy tries to assault the girl because it's the 80s and she won't go the [expletive] to bed instead of sneaking out at night. Name that film.

[30:06] I'm really torn. I'm just I got like three options in my head right now. It's either dirty dancing, footloose, or what's the third option I'm thinking of? I can't think of the title right now.

[30:25] Is it the one that's like footloose, but it's not footloose? Right.

[30:28] Flash dance, or yeah, that's the other one I was thinking of, flash dance. But it's not that. I'm gonna go with B. Is it footloose with Kevin Bacon?

[30:35] Uh-uh. Ah, damn it. Wrong. See, yeah, a lot of these uh these dancing movies are pretty similar. Uh, if I threw in abortion and That's Dirty Dance, it would have been a dead giveaway. I knew Dirty Dancing was even you. As straight as you are, I've seen Dirty Dancing. Of course I have. But no, this is uh you I mean I was waiting for abortion too.

[30:56] I'm like, if she says abortion, I know he's exactly show me abortion.

[30:59] Looking on the board for abortion. Nothing. Um so this is actually girls just want to have fun. Ah, Jessica Parker is in it. Um I only know of this because my sister watched it a couple times. And I just remember like, I don't know, it was just like a girl sneaking out a lot, and her dad, it was like her dad's like the guy from Lauren Order, and it was just that classic.

[31:19] Right, and he was also in dirty dancing, right? The same dude.

[31:21] Oh, maybe I think maybe I actually am thinking of Lauren Order, or he plays the same role. I don't know. I'll have to check that now.

[31:25] Yeah, I'm sure he played I think he played a lot of dads.

[31:27] He played a lot of dads.

[31:29] Like he walked in and they're like, Alright, you're the dad, like he didn't even have to audition. Like whoever that guy is, like, you're the dad.

[31:34] [expletive] you're in the movie. I and so obviously that wasn't as like crazy bonkers as like over the top was, right? But I think the point here is that it you thought of literally like four different eighties movies, and so like the the the rom-coms or whatever you want to call them, the chick flicks of the 80s were all weirdly similar. And straight up they were dancing, they were about to cross. I can't even tell you the difference right now between Flash Dance and Footloose, right? I can Footloose had Kevin Bacon. Yeah, I could not tell you, all right. Um I'm really I want to know if it's the same dad. Like, I'm not sure. I'm checking it.

[32:06] Because he played the dad in like everything.

[32:08] Like he was a dad.

[32:10] Gotta find out. Um we need to. But but man, these 80s movies.

[32:15] These 80s movies, you know.

[32:16] I think there was a lot of them too, like a lot of the action movies and everything were like, hey, we're just gonna follow the same [expletive] formula and people are gonna get it.

[32:22] It's not broke, don't [expletive] fix it. Right, right. Um I just I gotta know. I have to know. I need to find the cast. Um no, I think it's a different dad. Ah, shot. But they had Shannon Doherty in this movie, [expletive] Helen Hunt. Ooh, Helen Hunt, dude. If Helen Hunt wasn't in it, it wasn't an 80s movie. Right. All right, love me some Helen, love me some Helen. Where did she go? What happened to Helen Hunt? I don't know. She's like the Carmen San Diego of like the 80s. Where did she go? Where'd she go?

[32:50] The same thing was like Elizabeth's shoe. Like, where did she go? And then she came back only as Elizabeth Shoe.

[32:59] Alright, alright.

[33:00] Well, what do you got for me? Okay, here we go.

[33:04] Hold on.

[33:04] To keep uh, I'm glad that everything's working out so good. We didn't plan this, but this one and this rom com that actually has my mom's cousin in it for like one scene. What? Swear to god, he's in it. I'll if we watch it, I will pause it and show it to you. Okay. Um, some dumb blonde steals her mother's most expensive dress in order to look older and more available to men that are way older than her. And then she gets some wine spilled on her. She's not drinking age, mind you, at a party with booze, which is pretty sus. The whole thing, this chick is like wanting these older dudes to hit on her. She's still a high school girl. The whole thing's really weird.

[33:04] But besides that, so she goes to the dry cleaners, and she obviously can't afford to have this very nice dress cleaned. But lucky for her, there is a nerd who happens to see what is going on, and he is way, way too handsome to be a nerd. Um, he has the funds. Side note, I think he was saving up for a telescope. I think that was the nerdiest thing they could come up with at the time. He was gonna buy a telescope with this money. So, anyways, he blackmails this floozy in her dire time of need. Just pretend to go out with me, and you'll never believe what happens next, Nate. You'll never [expletive] believe it.

[33:04] She makes him handsome in like five seconds, and then drama unfolds, and then they fall in love, and they even ride off together on a riding lawnmower. Name that movie. Is this one the Molly Ringwald? No, it is not, actually.

[34:25] No, okay. It has uh what's his name? Dr. McDreamy in it. Oh, yeah, yeah, that guy. Um he's never been my thing. He's never been that he's never been my McDreamy. Um, okay. Well, I'm real you were kicking my ass today. I'm so embarrassed to be on the show.

[34:40] Um I've watched this like six times, uh all six of those times with my mom. No, what is it? It's Can't Buy Me Love. I've heard Can't Buy Me Love.

[34:55] I've heard it, but that that is what alright, so all the movies you mentioned so far. No, and I haven't heard of the [expletive] Starfighter one either, actually. So no, those are two movies I just traded.

[35:04] Right. This one was a little bit reversed because usually the formula was it's an ugly girl, and we're gonna make the ugly girl pretty and have friends and everything. And this one was side swapped, wacky 80s style. We're gonna make the nerdy dude handsome. What's the other and then he gets handsome and turns out to be a [expletive], just like in every other movie. Whoever turns handsome turns into a [expletive]. And I've always been handsome, so apparently I've been a [expletive] my whole life, according to movies.

[35:28] So far, from my experience with you, yeah, that's been the case. See, I I really like how in um what is it called? Uh, not another teen movie, there's like the scene where they do like the transformation of the girl, and they just take her glasses off and they're like, Oh, done. And like that's basically what it's like already hot, and then they just do like the most simple thing. Like nerds in real life do not look like that, dude. It's so dumb. Alright, what else you got? Because I I only have the rest, I'm just gonna kinda add lib.

[35:58] Okay, I only got uh one more. Okay, so this is one of my favorite movies of all time. Alright. It should be easy to guess. In this dark comedy, a young couple dies, like within the first 10 minutes of the movie. Immediately after that, a New York family moves in with an overworked father, a loopy mother, their daughter, the the type of girl I thought I was gonna marry at this age. You know, but obviously I didn't. And then their obviously super gay friend or uncle or something. Either way, he's extremely gay, but they never come out and say it. I think that's another 80s thing that's common going around in these movies. So eventually the selfish dead couple get fed up with their new roommates and decide to ask a poltergeist for help.

[35:58] And you'll never [expletive] guess what happens. That was a bad idea. Who would have thought? And uh eventually they all team up together, blah blah blah. They take on and destroy basically the best character in the whole [expletive] movie and beat him and become best friends. Oh, and at one point they go to Saturn. Name the movie.

[36:59] Yeah, Beetlejuice. That's yeah. Umot. I I I thought there was like talks that there's gonna be another Beetlejuice coming out. I thought so. I thought so. I would like that. You know that what a [expletive] unique concept for a movie. Oh, I see. I really dig it. And also, do you remember the animated Beetlejuice critical? I do remember that. That [expletive] was that was that was hot. Oh, yeah, for sure.

[37:20] Like I seriously growing up thought that Lydia was gonna be like my wife someday, like super depressed, dark hair, and then it rolled over into uh Christine Ritchie in the Addams family movies.

[37:33] I was just gonna say I bet if you liked her, you liked yeah.

[37:35] Oh, I loved her.

[37:36] Yeah, uh uh, whatever about be logistics chick, but uh yeah, Wednesday Adams. Yeah, I still love a man crush on her. Oh yeah. Just got it going on.

[37:45] Just understands my life, you know.

[37:47] Yeah. Um see the rest are so iconic, it's like, why you even try? But uh, okay, so um whiny girl hates her bloodkin. So uh a gender fluid uh wizard extraterrestrial kidnaps baby and commenced gene world sequence thing where there's like a giant uh set of puzzles and then weird like animatronic goblin things and then a lot of crotch. Um a lot of crotch and uh musical numbers, and then also um a lot of like weird puppets that are like creepy looking. Um but it's also like a really good movie, I guess, if you can get over the girl complaining.

[38:33] Oh, okay, yes. That's uh Labyrinth, of course. I also like that movie a lot, and there was a it was tough choosing two because there was actually a lot of really good animated movies that came out in the 80s.

[38:44] Yeah, I didn't know where we stood on like using animated movies, you know, kinda honestly.

[38:49] Because uh what what there was Akira that came out in the 80s. That's a huge call. The the Hobbit cartoon, I think, came out in the 80s. Um there was one other one that piqued my interest. There was a Disney one, Fox and the Hound, that I watched a million times younger, but I wasn't gonna do that one.

[39:04] Did you, yeah, did you um that [expletive]'s sad? Yeah, that is sad. Then there was a direct [expletive] VHS sequel, and that was not good. That was not good. But the original Fox and the Hound, you're like, what the [expletive]? Like a kid shouldn't be subjected to that. Yeah, dude. I like just I straight up anyway. Where what I wanted to ask you was I there was a few movies I had like in my head, I'm like, oh, I want to do this movie. 1990, 1991. There was a lot, not a lot, but there was a few that like fell like right after that window that I was I was bummed out about.

[39:37] I think there was one movie that I wanted to get, and uh which one was it? I'm having a hard time remembering right now, but it rolled right into 1990, so I couldn't use it. Oh, and there was another one I wanted to use, but it was actually 1977 or something that came out in. Well, what was that one?

[39:53] Because I if if we did a 70s, I would not get it. Right?

[39:56] So uh God, I can't remember it feels like an 80s movie, but it's not, and I for the like of me, I should have written it down anyways, but I can't remember which one it was. Because I was just scrolling through a list and I was like thinking about movies and it popped up, and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna use that, but it didn't go within our date of it.

[40:11] It's so funny because I feel like anything old just feels like 80s. Like if it was old, it probably wasn't 70s, it was 80s. If it was old, if it was nineties, it was probably 80s. I don't know. That's how I kind of feel. Um, like if I think it's like newer, it's like late 90s, 2000s. Right. In my head, that's how like it gets like sorted and stuff. Um, I don't I'm not gonna name the the movies that I wanted to for 90s because I think we should [expletive] do this again for the nineties. We should do another decade at some point. Um, nineties, you know, was more my jam. We are true nineties kids, so I think there's more to offer.

[40:11] Um, and I think we'll we'll both have more like obscure [expletive] to do.

[40:46] Be more well-rounded on the 90s movies, exactly, exactly.

[40:49] Um but yeah, 80s. Like, if I had to just like guess what the 80s were about from these movie pitches, it's about dancing, it's about drugs, it's about internalizing your homosexuality. Yes. Um it's excuse me. Laughing too much of my hair. Uh it's about truckers, truckers, um, tournaments. Tournaments, tournaments for sure. Big tournaments, dad families, terrible family, terrible family. Um and space. Yep. A little bit of space.

[41:18] Oh, a lot of space.

[41:19] A lot of space.

[41:20] Because there was uh what was the there was another one I wanted to do. God, I can't. I think enemy of mine and me and my dad, that was actually me and my dad movie. We watched that like three or four times, and that one was really weird, I remember, because the alien looked super cool, and it was a man and an enemy alien, like both got stranded on the same planet, and they had to learn to like work together. But then somehow the alien man got pregnant, and yeah, and then he dies, right? And then like the human dude's got to take care of this new alien baby that's supposed to be an enemy.

[41:50] What?

[41:50] Yeah, I should have done that one, but yeah, all these I did and wrote out. I I didn't look up a summary, I just went through a list of movies. I was like, okay, I remember that movie, and I just did a summary from my head. That's why they are coming out this way.

[42:03] Damn. Yeah, there were some uh some opportunities we missed too, like war games, but they just went on. Like a lot of these, I was like, there's it would be really hard to right.

[42:12] And what was that Val Kilmer one where he was super smart but didn't apply himself? There was something like that. Yeah, you haven't seen that one? It's uh Val Kilmer's in it when he looks young and handsome, and he's like a super genius prodigy guy, but he doesn't apply himself, and then like some shenanigans happens and he ends up saving the day. Typical 80s [expletive] [expletive], but it was actually a pretty good watch. Interesting.

[42:34] If when we do the 90s, what genres do you like? I think a lot of my movies in the 90s, and I don't I don't want you to look this up, but I think they're gonna be comedies. Okay. They're gonna a lot of the movies I think um are gonna be weird comedies.

[42:48] Okay, okay.

[42:49] Like uh, alright, I'll give one away. I'll just and I I won't use it, but because I I have so much Source Montreal for the 90s. Have you heard of Down Periscope?

[42:58] Uh with uh [expletive] Frazier, whatever his name is.

[43:01] Yes, yes, yes, yes. I [expletive] love that movie, and it's so [expletive] weird. It's a lot of those, you know, like [expletive] um like the silly zany. Yep, yep. Or like um, what's that? What was the uh the Wayne's brothers, but he's uh like a drill sergeant. Um Major Pain. Major Pain, yeah. Like a lot of those like stand out for me. So there's and then there's plenty of the like teenager rom-com stuff. So I think you're gonna see a lot of those. A lot of comedies, a lot of rom-coms for me in the 90s.

[43:30] I'm gonna be doing a lot of horror. Yes. Because I wanted to squeeze in some horror on this, but I wasn't so so familiar. Like Hellraiser came out in the 80s, and I love Hellraiser, but I wasn't comfortable enough making a fake summary about it. Okay. Even though I love that movie. And I shouldn't, because it's gory and disgusting. I there's no way I should have been watching that as well. I'm gonna have to it's tough.

[43:50] The only research you can do is watching a movie you haven't seen. Because like that that's what I'm gonna say for these like challenges. Because like, you know, I don't know horror movies very well, so I'll have to watch like. Like at least like a lot of the main ones, so I can make sure that I don't like miss out on these. But yeah. Uh I'm not gonna look through like a list of horror movies and read synopsises. I'm just gonna try to like make it brush up a little bit. But I'll I'll just watch the like ones I should have anyway.

[44:14] So next time we do this, it's gonna be the nineties. I think so. I think so.

[44:18] Um man, I I got nothing else to say.

[44:21] Me either. I had a lot of fun doing these. And uh the same uh beating the dead horse thing. If you guys liked what you saw, leave a comment. Uh let us know what you thought.

[44:30] Did you guess them? Did anyone get them all aside from Nate's mama? Yeah, if you got them all, then besides my mom, then you're full of [expletive]. My mom might have too, but I don't I don't know. I feel it's kind of weird. I felt like she she was home a lot, obviously, but she worked a lot. And I feel like all these movies I watched with my siblings. Like my mom was there. Maybe she was like, you know how you like don't recognize that adults are around when you're younger? We talked about it in another episode of like if you like were at a store and you looked at something, you just assume they didn't exist, and you're like, wow, how did you know I wanted this?

[44:30] Like, so I don't know if I just don't remember my mom necessarily like being behind me when I watched this. I know my dad 100% was next to me for like a lot of these like Highlander [expletive] like that. Like he was always there. I can tell you the movies I watched with my dad, but my mom I don't remember if they were just on the background, she's probably just busy like cleaning or cooking or doing keeping everything, you know, like not on fire, basically, but she was probably there.

[45:24] So see, and then one of the movies I did want to do, and I just looked it up to verify was Peach Dragon, but that was in 1977. And what's that? My mom is the only person that would watch that movie with me, and even my family today will not watch that movie with me, and I [expletive] love it. So it's about this orphan kid, right? And he's an orphan and he gets sold to these hillbilly hicks, and that's even one of the songs. It's a terrible, terrible thing. They even sing a song like we gotta build a sale right here. We gotta So they bought this child, right?

[45:24] And then he leaves away, but it turns out he's got an imaginary dragon that only he can see unless the dragon decides to show himself to other people. So it's a real dragon, he can just stay invisible, I guess. And they go into this new town, try to make new lives for themselves, and then the dragon's just a terrible [expletive] person because he's a dragon. He's not a person, he's a terrible person, but he's a great dragon, and he's causing all kinds of mischief. And since he's invisible, everybody in the town thinks this guy did it, you know, the little kid, which doesn't make sense because the dragon's walking through new cement and he's leaving dragon-sized footprints, like three-toed footprints, and they're like, This [expletive] orphan kid did it, this son of a [expletive].

[45:24] Like, how did he do it? You know, he's poor, he's got nothing, he's dirty in overalls. So, anyways, he goes to this lighthouse and makes a friend with this lady, and she's like, Oh, you're so cool, and he's like, Oh, thanks, you're the only person that likes me. And then she's like, has her own soft store. She's like, My husband was lost at sea, and like, oh my god, that's terrible.

[45:24] And then it has, I think Mickey Mickey Rooney is his name, plays a drunk dad of the white or of the lighthouse lady, and he's just like, Oh, I saw a dragon, you know, he's all drunk, and he gets his drunk friend, and they go befriend the dragon in the cave, and then the dragon makes all kinds of he's a cartoon dragon, by the way. He's drawn cartoon in a real life action movie, it's a cartoon dragon, and this is all critical to the story. And then there's also another if uh the one bad guy family wasn't enough, the hillbillies. I think there was four of them, two kids, uh mom and a dad. If that wasn't enough, they also throw in another bad guy, and he is like a snake oil salesman.

[45:24] Like he says he has all these miracle cures, he's actually a piece of [expletive], but he wants to capture the dragon so he can make actual real potions. And all this unfolds, blah blah blah blah, they get into a big fight, scuffle, scuffle, scuffle.

[47:34] Uh the dragon finds the [expletive] light or lighthouse lady's husband at sea and brings him back. And oh my god, now they're a big happy family, and they adopt Pete.

[47:42] How long is this movie?

[47:44] I pretty much my description was a length of the movie.

[47:48] Holy goodness.

[47:49] But that's how much I love that movie, mate.

[47:51] You know, it's kind of weird. I think with the 90s, what's kind of gonna be interesting there is that there started to be a lot more special effects. I mean, it started in the 80s, but the 90s like started to mainstream special effects in movies, and you would think that would create more like creativity in movies, but I almost feel like it limited movies to like, all right, since we're gonna actually animate this or you you know throw some like special effects in here, it has to be something our production company can like actually come up with. Right. So I felt like they reined it in a lot more.

[47:51] Where in the 70s they're like, [expletive] it, we're just gonna do whatever the [expletive] you just described with the through a cartoon person, claymation people, whatever.

[48:22] Let's [expletive] do it, right? I think that held back a lot of the movies too, because like if you watch an old Twilight Zone or like Hitchcock show, that [expletive]'s scary and they only use dialogue, they don't really have special effects. But nowadays they just throw special effects in your face and it really bogs down the story. It does.

[48:39] It really absolutely, you know. We've all watched that movie that we're like, wow, like there's so much of you know, like focus on the effects, but then like where you know, like you didn't tell me a really enthralling story, which is why I'm here at the end of the day, you know.

[48:51] Or you gotta have something like an Avengers that needs 12 movies to have a story, you know, to have one cohesive story needs like 12 movies.

[49:00] I'm gonna say it, guys. I'm over the Marvel stuff, you know? Me too. Um I I it's I do kind of want to watch these like Disney series. I'm glad we're kind of out of the movie realm and that, but I just don't have time to watch every single and like right, you know, the like the advantage of it all being the same universe and being connected is also its disadvantage because I'm like, ah, so I have to watch all of this to get all the references. Like, I just can't do it.

[49:22] It's too much to care about every single side character to watch their own spinoff show.

[49:27] It's so funny, but I'm actually starting to like swing back to like I just want single series with like four seasons, it ends Castlevania. I'm talking about Castlevania. Um here, here I'm gonna throw this crazy idea out. Okay, let me hear. My mom comes in November.

[49:40] Okay.

[49:40] I feel like we need to get our moms on an episode and then we quiz them on like maybe 80s movies.

[49:47] Because we're always talking them up, but people don't know.

[49:49] I know, people don't know, and also like I think your mom's a [expletive] like pop culture, at least 80s like pop culture, like know-it-all. And I want to see, is it true or are you just talking her up? Right. And then my mom is gonna be here, so why not? Let's just do it. Let's do it. I I don't know if I'm speaking for her. She she is a huge nerd too. My mom goes she to the state, she goes, she she lives in Rhode Island, she does the Rhode Island Comic Con. Um, she dresses up as Star Trek. So my mom is also a big nerd. I don't know like if movies is necessarily her focus. Um maybe like if it was books or something. I don't know.

[49:49] So I feel like there needs to be like uh Nate's mom versus Nate's.

[50:20] Like a common ground.

[50:22] Yeah, we'll have to figure it out, but I'm just throwing it out there. Nate's mom, if you're listening, um, I challenge on behalf of my mom uh to a duel. All right, let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. Um, all right, guys, thanks for listening. Um, if you you know you listen to this episode, go ahead and let us know on social media. Did you know every one of these movies? Do you know you didn't? No, you didn't [expletive] didn't. No way, you did not watch Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, unless you were my sister, and then you definitely did.

[50:44] Nobody's seen that.

[50:45] If I haven't seen it, nobody's seen it except for Nate's sister. He's gonna like delete it from IMBD. Yeah, it's done. Not a real movie. It's like that scene in Star Wars where you're just like, if the system doesn't exist, it's not there, or someone deleted it. Like anyway. Um anyway, yeah. So uh go ahead, leave a comment, whatever, subscribe, uh, share our stuff. If you like this episode, help us uh grow an audience because it's okay if you don't want to leave a comment, but then [expletive] find somebody who will come listen to our show. God damn it, it's only a dollar our Patreon. Yep. And yeah, I just crammed and mixed up all of our called actions in one. So you got anything else, Nate? We're [expletive] funny. See you next week. Bye.