Get Crazy (1983) Lost Slapstick Humor from the Era of Airplane!
Henrique Couto and David Denoyer ring in the chaos of Get Crazy (1983), Allan Arkush’s cult rock-and-roll comedy starring Daniel Stern, Allen Garfield, Malcolm McDowell, Ed Begley Jr., Gail Edwards, Stacey Nelkin, Lee Ving, Lou Reed and Howard Kaylan. At the fictional Saturn Theater, Neil Allen and Willie Loman scramble to stage a huge New Year’s Eve concert after beloved promoter Max Wolfe suffers an apparent heart attack, while corporate rival Colin Beverly schemes to seize and demolish the venue.
The episode tours a backstage world of sabotage, romance, pyrotechnics, drugs and nonstop sight gags. King Blues, Nada, Piggy, Captain Cloud and egomaniacal superstar Reggie Wanker cycle across the stage as a fire spreads below, a bomb counts down to midnight and Neil tries to keep the show alive. Henrique and David compare the movie’s speed and absurdity to Airplane! without the restraint, praising its crowded frame, musical caricatures, talking-body-part punch line and sincere belief that a scruffy theater community can resist corporate homogenization.
Arkush and co-writer Danny Opatoshu drew on their work at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, converting late-1960s concert memories into a contemporary 1983 New Year’s spectacle. The Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles stood in for the Saturn shortly before renovation, allowing the production to treat the location roughly. The hosts trace the movie’s rock mythology through Reed’s reclusive Auden and McDowell’s Mick Jagger-like Reggie, then unpack oddities such as Electric Larry and performers with genuine Fillmore connections.
Release history explains why the movie became so difficult to see. Its financing functioned as a tax shelter, the theatrical launch received little promotion, and the picture and sound elements were later considered lost. David remembers first receiving a VHS-to-DVD copy because no proper disc existed. When Kino Lorber located the elements and prepared a Blu-ray, a film that had survived through collectors and word of mouth finally received a substantial restoration and supplements worthy of its production story.
Henrique calls Get Crazy a stream-or-rent proposition for viewers attuned to anarchic early-1980s comedy, while David recommends buying the disc if its energy connects. Their contrasting Christmas recaps, physical-media enthusiasm and memories of discovering Arkush through Rock ’n’ Roll High School retain the original conversation’s personal rhythm. Recommendations continue with Rock ’n’ Roll High School, Empire Records and Phantom of the Paradise.
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0:00 You can get high, get loaf, get flipped, get a glow, get hot, get bizarre, get religion, get sin, oh god, get caressed, get undressed, get molested, to get arrested evening, but most of all, get crazy. Get it while it's hot, get it. If you're not, come and get it. Get crazy.
0:44 What Animal House did to college an airplane did the playing get crazy does to rock and roll? Get crazy? In a world where podcasts reign supreme, Two Friends Dare to ask. Do You Even? Movie? Hosted by filmmaker Enrique Kuto and movie aficionado David Denier.
1:24 Spoiler alert, Hello my friends, and welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? And Happy New Year. Yes, because today is New Year's Day. I did air quotes because well, if you don't know, you'll never know. But we're celebrating New Year's with a film of sorts. Film of sorts. Indeed, this is. One of the often maligned, often feared Dave picks. Yes, Yes, the Dave pick is strong with this one. Entire life.
2:05 That's a really good way to put it. Yeah, the Dave pick is strong with this one. We're talking about nineteen eighty threes. Get crazy. That is correct. Yes, and this was your first time seeing it because I brought this to your attention. Well, you can't watch Get Crazy. You can only be in the room with it. You can only be in the room with its pretty much as a good way to describe it. So we were talking about Get Crazy nineteen to eighty three, one hour and thirty two minutes, rated R for language, sex and nudity, heavy drug use. In references, I would say, there's no rating reason given, but if you watch the movie, I think you can get an idea. And you had that bad of a Christmas, you don't want to talk about your holiday at all before we go into the movie. I didn't have a bad Christmas at all. I just know we're kind of on a deadline right now because we're trying to get to a movie.
2:50 Oh okay, well then fuck you listeners. No, it's nothing to deserve to know how David's holiday was. No, I mean, how was your holiday? You kick us off. Challenging, okay, but overall it good. I made eggnog, I watched movies pro Change, revisited The Holdovers on Christmas Eve fantastic, and watched Christmas Story for like the fifth Christmas in a row. Yeah, so it was pretty good. Made a pot roast. Pot roast is good. Yeah, you're just like, wow, said I went and had hot pot on Christmas. Christmas Day. Oh nice, we're at There's only one hot pot place around here, k pot. Yeah, yeah, I don't think there's a single other one. It's a very specific type of restaurant for those who never had hot pot or Korean barbecue. You cook it yourself at the table, and I love it because you feel like a king at hot Pot because you literally sit there and you're like, hmm, I would like you know, sliced pork belly and this and this and this and this, and they just bring you all of this ship out and then you cook it at your leisure and like your table just if there's like more than two people, your table is so full of ingredients waiting to be boiled or grilled. So and I took our buddy Keith, who is a very picky eater, but almost all you eat is just meat you cook yourself.
4:16 Yeah. So no, he had a great time. He ate. We all just ate to the point where we were going to die damn near. And I've realized that hot pot has become an addiction with me. I think I'm eating it every ten days minimum. Damn. Yeah. If it was a little cheaper, i'd probably live there. But look, having unlimited variety and unlimited soup is about as me as you get. So that was a really fun thing. It was very It paid off well to be like, ooh, my current restaurant obsession is Asian. There's a seventy percent chance it will be open on Christmas Day. So I called and sure enough they were. So I had a lot of fun with that. I went to the movies with my mother and saw the Fire Inside.
4:58 How was it? What was the movie? No, it was actually really good. The story of the first Olympic gold medalist in boxing to ever win back to back gold medals happened to be a young woman from Flint, Michigan. It's a pretty good story. It gets it kind of loses its plot a little bit. It's but it's not a classic boxing movie because a lot of it is about the fact that she won the gold and then kind of nobody cared. Nobody cared. Yeah, that's what I that's what I picked up from the trailer. Well, it didn't hurt, it didn't help her. That that was Michael Phelps's year. Oh shit, okay, you know, and he was a beast. I mean I don't know, I could name almost no Olympians anyway. Yeah, and yeah, he was just such a beast. I mean people that you know would just be like, dide you watch him swim for a second. I'd be like, but I don't, Wow, what the hell? What is wrong with this guy? Why is he what is he doing?
5:50 So? Yeah, yeah, it was but it was fun. The performances were really great. I loved seeing Flint, Michigan get kind of like a little bit of a They did some thing I thought was really clever and and telling, which is they kept whenever there was an exterior of them walking and talking or running and training or whatever, they would always work the Flint water Tower in Yeah, because of the whole. Water issue, that makes sense, Yeah. Which I thought was a was a nice way to kind of be like, hey, this is going on at the same time all this other stuff is going on. So No, I thought it was really great. I had a much more exciting Christmas than somebody was just surrounded by loved ones all day, fucking loser. No, it was a good stuff. It was good stuff. Yeah, I don't know, but uh, I think Dave's hiding his pain because he just jumped right into the movie without even saying high or happy happy Christmas.
6:44 But I literally have no pain. It's just Christmas happened. Like I hate saying that, but like I'm this or this year was not the easiest. So like getting through the holidays was just kind of a struggle sometimes. So oh yeah, I wouldn't know, dude, I'm not even trying. I'm just trying to know. I get it, man, It's just like I like I wish I had more to say. Like I mean, I you know, I had a great time with my family. We went to my sister's house and had family over. You know, I got to see my niece open up her her Christmas gift this year. All you could think was she was so much cuter last year. Which was a giant like uh oh god, I can't think what the company no like Fisher Price kitchen, like on kitchen, she's too literally tomorrow, Oh wow, that's kind of.
7:29 An advanced gift. And mean, well she'll grow into it though. She I mean, she loves. Colorful and fun. She's she's been using it on stop. So, I mean I got to spend on my family. I had to spend time with you know, my sister and I and her husband and my niece. So that was not we're not family. It was good. I got a funko, that's the My mom got me my own funko. So I have a funko. Pop that's me. Oh that's yes, that's. Literally, says David, wearing a like skeleton like Onesie almost and has a self and on one hand and a skull in the other. Okay, so that is that's me. Well, Dave is acting so coy when in reality we're recording this literally Christmas, so we haven't actually talked about our Christmas, you know. So I was like I thought it would be, but you know what, then Dave comes.
8:15 In here all agro like I wish I had more to say. But I mean like I had a good Christmas. The food isn't as good, the relatives are not as pretty, they're they're they're they're more boring than ever. I literally same old to me. Somebody needs to review just another Christmas to realize it's not that. No, I'm very I'm very grateful, it's just at the same time, like I'm I wanted I wanted to get to I wanted to get to Christmas. I wanted to get through Christmas. We are through Christmas now and going into New Year's and that's that's where my eye is on everything. Well, I mean, you should always want to get to the next day. Yeah, I would think it would be worrisome if you were like, look, I don't care if tomorrow comes.
8:58 But I would also like to say that, you know, I did have some stress this year with some Christmas president didn't arrive on time, which wasn't a big deal. I mean, it was a lot of people had issues with that thought. Rachel's family there were a couple of gifts that she had to print photos out of and put them in boxes yep, because stuff was just running late. Both of my gifts from Michelle and Philly said they wouldn't get there on time, and then both arrived on Christmas Eve, which made no sense. I had a couple of gifts that arrive on Christmas Eve. I had to you that were supposed to arrive on the twenty third, that arrived either day. Yeah, think yees. Today, I have one arrive today and then I had yours arrived today as well. Ah, yes, yes, yes, you got me socks, which I liked very much. I got you some very cool teaching socks. Yes, yeah, well that would actually be dope too. No, you got me a terminator to like collector set. I don't know how else you describe it. You will like screen some screen accurate and some like screen inspired, yes, because there was some stuff that you don't actually see in the movie, but they recreated it for fun, like a ticket to the Tech Noir and stuff like that.
9:59 But then there are other things that you see, like Sarah Connor's name tag recreated just like it was on her work shirt and stuff. It's really cool. It was a really cool gift, you know, if you if you know, if you could have just ordered it sooner, sooner, I. Could think that thing went up for pre ordered. I kind of like the day the pre orderly Quent Live. No joke. I actually told Rachel before we all got together the Friday before Christmas to watch Silent and a Deadly Night and hang out and stuff. I told her, I was like, Dave's I know, Dave, because you were waiting hoping my gift will get there, and I told her flat. I was like, my gift's not going to get here today, so I'm gonna make like two jokes about it to Dave and then I'm gonna shut up because I'm worried that he'll actually get tender about it.
10:40 So once I once I found out that it wasn't like, this is gonna sound stupid. But once I found out it wasn't just me, like I had talked a couple other friends and found out like there was a bunch of people that were having stuff to lave, it made me feel a little bit better. But it was just it was annoying because I've never in the last few years, I've never had a gift arrive late. I've always ordered in advance and been able to have it there, so I haven't really had to deal with any late deliveries, especially Christmas parties where I didn't have the gift with me, So that was kind of a new thing. I get that it does sound stupid, Yeah, no, it's frustrating. It is frustrating. Do you even movie will be right back? Welcome back to Do you even.
11:25 Movie you're Are you even gonna mention what I got you for Christmas? I was going to Yeah, I freaking knocked it out of the park here, kids. There was a while ago, when I was still living in my parents' house that I at a flea market had found a video store poster for from dust Hilda on Too. And Texas Blood Money. Blood Money. Yeah, and it was it was a poster that it's not It's not difficult to find, but it's not one you're gonna find unless you're looking for it. Does that make any sense considering I found it? Oh, I know, I know how to find what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, you and I know how to find posters one on, But it was that was that was one I found in a flea market, and I didn't know the chances of finding another one. Plus I'd never really thought about replacing it.
12:10 Well, your dad tried to replace it and he could not find He. Couldn't find it. Ye, So so you surprised me with a with another poster this year, which I cannot with the frame. Along with the several posters you've got in the last couple of years. Well that one. The moment you finished telling that story, I was like, I'm a fine one. Well, I'm particularly good at hunting for things on the Internet. I think what probably happened, if I had to guess, is that when you guys were looking, you looked for from dust tilled on too. He was the one that looked for it. All I'm saying is I looked for from dust tilled on Texas, blood money, Scott Spiegel, and I found a few, not a lot. I found a few, and I grabbed one, and and that's and the rest, as they say, is history.
12:57 But no, that's I'm like the worst about that. Like I I start listening and I'll just be like, huh. But especially when people say I looked everyone couldn't find blank, I'm gonna be like, just write that down. I will find it. Well, it's like Jeff, you know, surprising with the Hans Gruber falling off the Nakatomi count down for Christmas, and I would I had been looking at those, because I don't know if you saw the advent calendar thing or the blow up and failed. So it's not gonna They're not gonna have those mass produced, unfortunately. But that Hans Grouper falling off the Nacatoi count until Christmas, I did not expect it, and it made it just It just made me so happy to have that next to my Christmas tree. Sure we all know how much you like when foreigners fall to their death. Ah you know, but uh no, no, see I had to. I had to pick on Dave because yeah, stop being a bitch. Merry Christmas, Davy boy. No, it was not a bad one. It was for me.
13:54 It was a tough one, but it wasn't a bad one. No, I've only had a couple of really Christmas. I just knew that the Hall. I might have said this a couple weekslyg on the show. I can't remember not. I just knew the holidays we're gonna be tough this year because you know, it had been the breakup and everything happening beginning of the year. We had had holiday traditions together, just me and her. Yeah, I mean yeah, a few years in. Yeah, a few years in. I mean it wasn't you know, it wasn't a large amount of time, but it was enough time to where it was just kind of like, oh, yeah, that's gonna be different this year. And it was. And also I had a new roommate and everything too, so I mean it was and fucked that guy leave camelone. I actually like dam quite a bit. I'm excited for when he makes you move out because I'm going to move in and keep my stuff in your in your own bedroom. You just want my for the porch, Well that's a bonus as well, But actually I'm just gonna have the bonus. I'm to have the porch torn down and turned into a artist installation for the third I'll know what you did last summer film.
14:49 Great, can't wait. That's my plan, I will tell you. I'm currently in text negotiations right now with my landlord on what they're taking off rent for me to clean the basement out, the best basement full of spiders right, most likely one section of it. Yes, I feel like every time you've ever spoken about number one the basement there and number two cleaning there spiders always. What drives me crazy is there will be times I go down in the basement and it looks like one of my favorite lines in You're in the House, how a house, It's already wrote, it looks like Rob Zombie could rub one out. Look you it was rob Zombie. Oh yeah, Rob Zombie would rub one out if you saw this place, and I was god, I wouldn't build a meth lab in here, but it was.
15:33 I'll go down there sometimes and it's just there's spiders all over the furnace and like spiders on one side of the wall, like webbing and whatnot. And then I'll go down there a couple weeks later and it's all gone. I mean yeah, So it's just like I have this sense of just being like, Okay, well, clearly the webs are gone, so I can go ahead and do this, and then I just never do it. I have a theory. What's your theory? Oh, just that when you go down there. I feel like the theory is when you go down and see spiders, it's in the evening you had a little, a little I'm joking. This is how I know he's really an alcoholics and gets weird when I say he was drunk. Oh my god. No, I'm trying to remember like it was. I want to say, like it was November. Like I was actually worried about going down there because we hadn't had a cold winter, which usually kills the spiders, so then you know, not much to worry about. So I remember going down there and being like, man, it's gonna be like wall to wall webbing, and I got down there and I was like, oh, this is really that bad because I was putting off going down and getting my Christmas tree in my Chrismas decorations because I didn't want to deal with spiders.
16:28 There's that many. No, It's like, are you any wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, yeah, are you afraid of spiders? No? Like I'm not afraid to a point of like if one's crawing on me, like I'm gonna freak out or anything. I just don't like a lot of them all at once. It sounds like you're afraid of spiders, you know, because I can pick This isn't me trying to bully. I'm just held a tarantela. I've picked up spiders off friends houses before too. I mean, like, I don't have a fear with it. It's more so I don't want to deal with the ones down there specifically because brown recluses. It sounds like you're a little friends. I mean, if I'm afraid, it's news to me. But brown reclusees I'm afraid of because I've had friends get bitten by them and have and seen bad effects.
17:11 I don't know if I buy that, what friends do you have? God, I'm trying to you're you're You're a little stiff today. I'm trying to break it up. Are you pissed because you had to work the day after Christmas? A combination of that and also, like I said, I'm ready to just I'm ready to hit twenty twenty five. With a car if it doesn't hit me with a semi truck. Yeah. I mean, all I'm saying is, you know, you're you're, You're relatively alive. You have loved ones who tolerate No. I yeah, I mean I had a great Christmas. It's enough that I didn't by any means. It's just this year has been a lot.
17:52 I bet it has. No, I mean it has. I know you've had. We've we've both had things going on. But yes, shit, look at me all you want. No, No, You're allowed to have a little bit of a tough time. I'm just saying, you know, think of all the good things that happened. I got a promotion, We're done. You also got that relationship. It was time. No no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Look I'm not going to see her be like it was always. She was so bad, but it was time and that that means it was good, that's all. Yeah. No, I agree with that. I'm proud of you. I appreciate because you did a very adult thing and we're like, Okay, I'm going to gaslight my girlfriend until she leaves me, and that's god.
18:38 I couldn't even give us straight face through it. No, but I'm serious, David. I'm talking about, as your friend, how this year was. From my perspective, you you got to grow a lot, you got to to you were challenged quite a bit. But really, I think that, and I think that the listeners could could help with this. Chime in if you agree, Uh do you even movie pot at gmail dot com. I think it's time. If you want to get Christmas back on track, it's time for you to have a baby. Fun story with that. No, David, you didn't almost have a baby. So my friends, now we're going to talk about a an air quotes movie. No, okay, so I'd never seen this film. I've seen films in this vein, in this ouvra of kind of the heavily musically music y hangout movie, but this one was way out there.
19:38 Oh yeah, absolutely, So I'm. I'm curious, But I just, I just I couldn't let you scoop by and spit in Saint Nicholas's face. I would never spit in Saint Nicholas's face. I say. The one the one thing that I really didn't do, Like this is terrible to say, but the one thing. That was it what that homeless guy was under your car? Oh okay, I think I did really enjoy was my parents, my sister. Basically everybody had gone to bed that was staying at the house, and so I got free rate of the TV. So I watched Fat Man and Christmas Evil back to back on Christmas Evel, on Christmas Evel into Christmas because by the time I started Christmas Evil, it was like one am. We watched Christmas Evil on Christmas Day, Christmas Evil, Christmas Story, and then Fat Man was our wrap up for the year. So, uh, no, good on you for that. Did you could? Like? No, one don't know. So you like you put some benadryl in their food?
20:27 What did not? Nice? Nice? Never admit that. That's good. That's good. I'm proud of you. You've learned. Well do you even movie will be right back? Welcome back to do you even movie. We're gonna talk about nineteen eighty three's Get Crazy, a film I would certainly consider to be an oddity. Yes, in many ways, And I have a suspicion because again I know very little about this film, that there's far more to talk about about the making than there is about the actual movie.
21:10 Yes, yes, I mean, we could basically give you the plot Submarine in probably ten minutes of the gist of everything. Well, because the plot is It's like when we've reviewed movies in the past that are action oriented. You know, you can't just I mean, you just say, and then they fight, he gets the gun. You can't say he fights, then the gun slides over there and he goes It's like, what the hell are you doing? Yeah, you know, as opposed to when you're trying to get across when people are talking to each other. But this film, I so the first half of the film, I tried my best, but I was very distracted because I'm in the process of trying to freaking pick a mattress. Don't ever, guys, just sleep on the floor. It is so frustrating trying to buy a damn mattress, well to pick one to buy.
21:53 So I was worried. I was trying really hard to keep my attention on the movie as well, And at some point I just looked at you and I was like, this just doesn't make sense, right, and you were like not entirely. I was like, okay, good, I didn't miss anything. So but let's lay the groundwork so they can understand what the hell this is? All right, So once again, Get Crazy from nineteen eighty three, one hour and thirty two minutes. Rate it R for language, sex, nudity, and heavy drug use. In references. I'm v synopsis says, megapromoter Colin Beverly plants to sabotage the New Year's Eve nineteen eighty three concert of a small time operator, Max Wolf, Wolfe's assistant Neil Allen, and Willie Lohman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
22:35 I feel like their attempts to sabotage were so barely there. Yeah, not wrong. My synopsis says. When their boss suffers a heart attack, the staff of the Saturn Saturn Theater must put on their big New Year's Eve concert while fighting off an evil promoter out to stop their show. Yeah, because he wants to get it from them. Yeah, which is very eighties. Yes, I would say. So we got to raise money to save the rec center. Taglines include Get Crazy and say Goodbye to your Brain. Oh those are two different ones, or is that the one Get Crazy accurate? Malcol McDowell's hilarious as punk rocker superstar Reggie Wanker. That's a tagline. It's like a review line.
23:16 Last chance to party this summer. It's a New Year's movie. Came out in August. Spoilers. Uh, they're punk, they're rock, their new wave, they're crazy. It was the greatest rock event ever until the place exploded. All right, First of all, that sounds like not even better. I was I was praying that the taglines it was the greatest rock event ever until it wasn't. Here's the last one. Oh God, if you like the rocky horror show, you're going to love Get Crazy. Not pictures, not picture showy horror show. Wow. Wow. Yeah.
24:01 So, as of this recording, Dear Listener, Get Crazy is currently available on Blu Rain DVD through Keno Lorber. It is not available to renter stream anywhere, however, if you were to go search it on a very popular video site, you might be able to find it in its entirety that's been up since twelve years now. And you would get what you deserve, which is to watch the film. That's all I got for So our director on the film is Alan Arkish. He gets his start in nineteen seventy six directing Hollywood Boulevard, then goes on to direct Death Sport in seventy eight, Rock and Roll High School in seventy nine, does multiple Ramones videos in seventy nine, Heart Beats in nineteen eighty one. Starring Andy Coffin. That is correct, Dawkins Breaking the Chains video in nineteen eighty two. Then he shoots Get Crazy in eighty three, Bette Midler Beast a Burden video in eighty four, Twilight Zone remake series in eighty six, La Law the Bronze Zoo, Caddyshack two in eighty eight. We'll let him, We'll forgive him for that one.
24:54 Well, he was always kind of I don't want to say, I don't want this to sound rude. He was always kind of an orbiter of the like super successful Roger Corman alumni, like Joe Dante and Dick Miller. Oh, just like the list. So his TV so Moonlighting in eighty six. Then he goes to do the Parenthood series in nineteen ninety. Okay, moon Over Miami in ninety three, Shake Rattle One Roll remake in ninety four, Dangerous Minds TV show in ninety six. Oh, based on the Elvis Presley song. Elvis Meets Nixon in ninety seven, the movie. Well Hell's Bells. I called that. One time cop TV series in ninety seven. Actually liked the time cusp fear this show on Sci Fi a lot. I think last I checked, and this was a few years ago. I watched episodes on the Roku channel. No shit, I'll check that out. Dawson's Creek in ninety eight, The Practice in ninety nine, Ally McBeal in ninety nine, Crossing Jordan Melrose Place remake in nine, Life Unexpected in twenty ten, Franklin and Bash, the Client List Salem in twenty fifteen.
25:48 Minority Report the TV series in twenty fifteen. I didn't realize he was so active in TV modern TV. Wow, that's awesome. He also shot episodes recently for a series Unfortunate Events, the Netflix series in twenty eighteen. Wow. Okay. One of ours on the film is Danny Apatschu. He gets his start in nineteen sixty nine with Room two two two Night Called Nurses in seventy two. He's the writer on Roger Corman film I Would Do the Teachers in seventy three, Roger Corman film I Would a Sume Hollywood Boulevard in seventy six. Well, I mean, there you go. Then goes on to write Get Crazy in eighty three, along with the other writer, Henry Rosenbaum. He gets his start writing in nineteen sixty eight with the Guns of will Sonnet Mod Squad in sixty eight, The Dunwick Horror in nineteen seventy, A Bullet for a Pretty Boy in nineteen seventy, Dog and Cat in seventy seven, Hankey Pankey, the Gene Wilder film in eighty two, Get Crazy in eighty three, Hollywood Beat in eighty five, and U. S.
26:34 Fuster Saloon's Lock Up in eighty eight. Nine. Yeah, eighty nine, that's quite a shift. Yeah. Another writer on the film is David Taylor. Has three writers on the film, by the. Way, bizarrely, because they couldn't seem to find a. Story Switch in seventy seven, The Rockford Files in seventy seven. Kojack Hanky Panky, Get Crazy Lassiter in eighty four, The Light Ship in eighty five, Traveling Man in eighty nine, Devlin in ninety two, Majority Rule cloned the Hunger TV series in ninety eight, Dog Boys and Road Rage in ninety nine. Wow. Okay, our cinematographer on the film is Thomas del Ruth. He gets his start, now, these are just jobs. He had assistant camera on Cool hand Looke in sixty seven. Okay, Valley of the Dolls in sixty seven, The Graduate, Planet of the Apes, Bullet Patten, Dirty Harry Coonskin in seventy four.
27:20 He runnings his Cameron on Outlaw Josie Whales in seventy six. It isn't until nineteen seventy nine he becomes DP on Missus Colombo. Then he does She's Dressed to Kill in seventy nine, and then in nineteen eighty he shoots a little film called Motel Hell. Oh so he's is he? So he's the British No, no, no, he's not. The director of Motel Hall was Brittain Britch. Yeah. Right. Then he goes on to shoot Unground Aces in eighty one, Elvis the Beauty Queen in eighty one, Death Wish two in eighty two, Paper Dolls, Hysterical in eighty two, Who Will Love My Children? In eighty three, Get Crazy eighty four, he does Impulse that really weird Something's in the Water movie with Bill Paxton and Tim Masterson. I showed you, Oh yeah, Okay. Then he does Fandango in eighty five, The Breakfast Club in eighty one, What Quicksilver in eighty six, Stand By Me in eighty six, The Running Man in eighty seven. Wow, goes on to do Lady Killers in eighty eight, Look Who's Talking at eighty nine, Wolf TV series in eighty nine, Look Who's talking to? In nineteen ninety, Cuffs with Christian Slater in ninety two, The Mighty Ducks, T Bone and Weasel, The X Files, Donado and Daughter, that Charles Bronton TV movie.
28:22 We watched St. Denado and Daughter. A House of Secrets in ninety three, Shattered Image in ninety four, Er in ninety four, Jag Chasing the Dragon, Asteroid, Leave It to Beaver, the movie they did in ninety seven. Oh oh man, I remember that Charmed in ninety eight, The West Wing series in ninety nine, Studio sixty on Sunset Strip in two thousand and six, which is one of I would say his best series. I can't think of what his name is who freaking wrote The West Wing and Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin series Studio sixty on Sunset Strip only had one season, came out in six, has a great cast in it. Basically about the makings of an SNL show that's really on the downshoots, so they basically restaffed the entire thing, so. Kind of like what SNL did.
29:03 Yeah, yeah, no, it's really good. I cannot recommend that series enough. And then Moonlight in two thousand and seven. Wow, that is that is quite a career. Yeah, bouncing around a lot. Talk about quite a career. Moving onto our cast, we have Malcolm McDow in the film we played for Reggie Wanker two hundred and eighty credits on IMDb Reggie Wanker, Reggie Wanker, go on. So with that amount of credits, here's just the highlight reel that we have. We have if in nineteen sixty eight, Clockwork Orange in seventy one aces high in seventy six, Caligula, Time after Time in seventy nine, Cat People, Blue Thunder, Get Crazy, The Caller Sunset Class of ninety nine tails from the Crypted re Elective Vampire episode. I love that episode. Returning to the show from the Player in nineteen ninety two, Oh, he actually has lines because he confronts what's his face? Yeah, him, Milk Money in ninety four.
29:52 I Love Milk Money. Star Trek Generations in ninety four. For the record, I was out at Indian Lake with Rachel and I was explaining the plot of Milk Money to her, and no matter how much I tried to explain further, no, no, the more I would like try to expound to make make it clear, it's like this touching the worse it got you just like what yeah, no, no, but like but all the but then she just shows the children her boobs and she's like, oh, Ca'm no, but like but then his dad falls in love her. She's like what, And I was like a monster that comes back. Yeah, It's like I give up, you have We'll watch it one day or maybe we won't. Do you even movie, We'll be right back, welcome back to do you even movie, so.
30:49 It starts A Generations in ninety four, Tank Girl in ninety five, Gangster Number One in two thousand, just visiting Firestarter Rekindled in two thousand and two. A classic. Oh god, we're watching that. I've seen it twice. Yeah, well it's gonna be three times, you know, it's like three and a half hours, right, goddamn right, all right. I spy two thousand and two. I'll sleep, but I'm dead two thousand and three. Ivelanko in twenty three eighteen, Titans Monk, Law and Order, Criminal Intent, Rob Zombies, Halloween in two thousand and seven, Doomsday Bolt, Halloween two, Suck the Book of Eli easy A, The Artist Entourage, Metalocalypse. He's four. I don't remember him in that. He is the principle. Oh that checks out. Silent Night, This is on a Deadly Night, Loose Remaking twenty twelve. I like that Community The Mentalist Mischief Night, the Other One in twenty fourteen.
31:34 N Yes, the other one. American Satan in twenty seventeen, which may come to the show. I may force that on you after this one. Bombshell in twenty nineteen, Christmas Chronicles Part two, Father Stu in twenty twenty two, and Thelma in twenty twenty four. Moving down to our cast, we have Alan Garfield, who plays Max Wolf in the film. He has one hundred and twenty credits on his resume, starting with starting Orgie Girls in nineteen sixty nine. Well with a name like that, Greetings in sixty eight. I quote his credit was smut peddler, Putney Swope in sixty nine. Ah, now we're talking, Hi Mom. Nineteen seventy, the Brian to Palmer film, The Alan, The Pussycat in nineteen seventy, Mod Squad, Bananas in seventy one, The Organization Bonanza, The Bob Newhart Show in seventy three, Busting in seventy four, The Conversation, The Front Page Nashville, The Brinks Job, Trapper John MD, The Stuntman in nineteen eighty one, From the Heart in eighty one, Continental Divide, Taxi Does Get Crazy in eighty three, then in eighty four does one of my favorite movies, Teachers, where he played the one teacher that Christian. Oh God, damn it, what is his Why can't I think of his name?
32:37 Who's the weirdo from Back to the Future Chrispin Glover Oh yeah, Chrispin Glover. Linky, he's in Helly in Glovers he gives. This guy hell and teachers. Then we have The Cotton Club in eighty four, Beverley Hills cop in two and eighty seven, Tails from the dark Side in eighty eight, Dick Tracy, Eddie Dodd, Lawn Order, Cyborg two, Glass Shadow. Finally something good. Stewart saves his family in ninety five. Okay, I stand corrected, that's the top. Of He turns on the radio in ninety five. Well Hell Diaball Leak remaking ninety six, Darma and Greg, The Ninth Gate in ninety nine, Sports Night, and another Aaron Sorkin TV series, The West Wing and The Majestic. He unfortunately passed in April of twenty twenty at age eighty from COVID nineteen complications. Wow, I mean that was the hell of a career. Yeah. And then returning to the show, we also have Daniel Stern who plays Neil Allen. Of course, we saw him in Bushwhacked when we did our.
33:23 Well damn right, we did just a review. He gets a start in seventy nine with Breaking Away, Does Diner Blue Thunder Get Crazy in eighty three, then he does Chudda Leviathan, Little Monsters, Home Alone, City Slickers, Rookie of the Year, and Bushwhacked in ninety five. It's almost like his career seems really different after Home Alone. Yeah, it's weird, huh. But before that he was kind of just a guy. Like he was. He was a character actor and a bunch of stuff. He was always good. But many when they put Stern in that role, when he replaced Roebuck, Yeah, I mean I would be fascinated, did they. I don't think there's any screen tests that have been shared, right. I don't they There may be like, no, no, because those I said, there might be a clip of the movies that maybe, but there's not.
34:04 I haven't seen anything, So I would be really curious to see Dan roebucks portrayal of that. Yeah, but the way he plays Marv is so him. In fact, it's so weird because you know, you watch the film's pre Home Alone and he's very soft, yeah and gentle, and then you after Home Alone he kind of like leans into that kind of rough around the edges. No thiss, because in Bushwhacked in a lot of ways, he's basically Marv yeah, but Marv, because well the Marv character of the two Home Alone goons was the one who kind of had an emotional center. But then yeah, he would keep getting it stolen. There because Harry. Harry was there for the job and wanted to get it done.
34:45 Oh but and Harry was fine with like really hurting people, like I mean, he'd. Be the one like, let's do that Kevin's fingers off, and. Then he was gonna blast him. I watched, I watched Home Alone two while we were opening presents on Christmas Day. He was gonna shoot him right in the face. The gun had not been glogged, Kevin would have got shot. Well, it wasn't he clogged, it was a it was the goop. He couldn't even get a grip to like pull. He couldn't even hold the gun steady. I just watched like yesterday, because he says something a spit gum out your neck or something like that. Like it's something like that. Really, like some of his lines of those movies are mean. Yeah, well yeah, well on that that whole part where he says, I'm gonna bite off each your finger, it's pretty. Yeah, it's pretty twisted, pretty crazy. So what was to Get Crazy. What was your first time watching Get Crazy? You know? I don't remember, No, I do. It was a cold night, February nineteen seventy four. Really, as the Wendy Go howled outside of my home, I realized that, due to my time traveling, I had a copy of Get Crazy, That is true, which I had bought in case I wanted to just die.
35:46 I don't know. I don't have a joke. I thought i'd get one. No. I watched it today, obviously, and I had never heard of the film. I had heard of Alan Arkish, yeah, because of his involvement with Hollywood Boulevard, the Roger Corman studio. He and Joe Dante went on to do Gremlins, Matinee, The Urbs. They were a team in the edit department. Yeah. No, And Arkish is a fascinating guy to listen to on any podcast or interview that you can get. He pops by the movies that made Me, the the Joe Dante Podcast with Josh Olson every now and then. He's really really good on it. So he's a very interesting character to listen to. I was not made aware of him though, probably until Rock and Roll High School, which I saw before this they co direct? Did they co direct? No? That was that was his. Yeah, that was when John Dante just worked on the editing.
36:30 Yeah, correct, Yeah, so I was. I was aware of Arcish and was aware of Rock and Roll High School because right around this time that that Get Crazy fell into my hands was when my uncle was giving me those care pactors I talked about and he would give me a lot of the Roger Corman stuff, including Rock and Roll High School. And then one year, you like shit in the Mashed Potatoes or some so it was like, here's here's a care package. So Get Crazy. I was gifted a copy of a VHS ripped to DVD for my uncle and oh they had made it like his buddy Tom had found vh vhs of Get Crazy to Flea Mark. They took it back to his house and he had all the setup and everything. They had like the one of those tabletop yeah, the so the yeah, like a VCR for DVDs. Yeah, So they ripped it over and he care packaged it to me one year and he told me he told me about this movie a couple of times too, because like we had, I told him I'd like to rock and roll high school when he'd give it to me.
37:16 So he'd been like, oh, yeah, there's a movie I'd love to find and I can't remember what he was calling it, but it wasn't Get Crazy at the time. He couldn't remember the title, but he think I can't remember what he called it. But finally Get Crazy found a release. Because, as I'll go into the trivia, the movie technically got lost because Arcis had completed the film, his financiers had had been given the movie and everything, so then they were basically waiting on the post. They ended up burying this movie and almost using it as attack right off essentially. So I mean that movie got abandoned kind of or you know, got lost, sorry, kind of like my dad got lost going to get cigarettes and now coming back kind of thing. It was like, if I remember correctly from what Arcius says in the interviews, like it was released for like a week because people were going to go back and see it the next week and it was already gone, So it had a very limited release, got put on a terrible VHS tape that he talks about in the interview a little bit as well. But anyway, I had seen Get crazy, and it was a movie that nobody knew about obviously because you know, it had been lost.
38:11 So I was so happy when I think it was about twenty eighteen, Kino Lurber announced that it was finally getting a release. It didn't go to DVD or anything like that. It went basically straight to Blu ray from the Kino Lerber, from them finding the elements, which I'll get into in the trivia, but I just loved the zaniness of this movie. I loved how insane it was and how it's It's genuinely a giant party movie. Oh god, yeah, yeah, it's like Airplane if there was like no sense of morality. Yeah that's about That's about right. Yeah, and a lot of music and a lot of music. So you ready to get into it? Why the hell not? So we opened with a shot of a space background as we see the giant words get crazy come at us as they go back into the screen, and then we see the bottom of a spaceship flying towards the background, not unlike the beginning of Star Wars or one, because he have some space balls.
38:57 Maybe hmmm, so incidental, I'm sure. That is when we notice that there are feets hanging off of the spacecraft and we see that it is a man on the back of it in a space suit and we see Max eighty three not a license plate in the back as we see two giant numbers of eight and three light up. As we find out that this is the New Year's show that the Saturn Theater is prepping for. Yeah, yeah, and that's when we meet Max Wolf, who is the guy that runs the theater. We meet Neil who's played by Daniel Stern, and he's running Max's entry. Suddenly the controls get out and Max basically runs straight back into the into the background and falls off the ship. Whoops. It's very funny. Yeah, so he crashes, and that's when he talks about how you know this is gonna be a huge show tonight, and we even get to see that Sammy, his nephew, is there and he's begging, you know, for him to like have a chance to take over the theater. We find out that the Saturn is is on thirty year lease basically, and his thirty years is about up, so they don't know what's going to happen. Somebody might buy the lease from him, or he may even sell the theater to somebody else, right, right, So Sammy wants to get it and Max tells me, you know, hey, you know you're doing a great job. You just got to be patient, you know whatever, whatever you can do, hang in there, that's all you gotta do. So that's when Neil and the rest of his crew get back to work trying to put together the show. We see Mary warn Off, who's working on the controls as well well.
40:08 Of course her and Paul Bartel, it's like a law they need to be in the film, and it's always fun to spot him. Oh yeah, no, I mean, and this is this is definitely a school of Corman film. You can spot a lot of them, oh without a doubt. Yeah, Do You Even? Movie will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? And that's when we also find out that Max is requesting a chili dog from Sammy, so he sends him out. He's like, hey, you're a good kid, you know, go to the corner, get me a couple of chili dogs. That's what you do with people you respect. You send them to go get the chili dogs.
40:51 And we immediately see what a kind of person Sammy is because there's a little dog in front of him that Sammy just wops right like kicks. A field goal with the dog, but they did the slapstick thing. The dog lands and then goes back. Yeah, so the dog's fine. The dog's fine. So Neil goes back up of the plan for New Year's in the launch, and we also see that the gang is, you know, wanting to get the show off of that a hitch, but the control panels have an issue, so they're trying to figure out what the next step is going to be. That's when Willy Loman catches the eye of Neil and they share a cute fantasy, which they do throughout this entire movie. Cute fantasy. I think it's cute fanas. I mean, it's just so weird. It turns into a jungle band with a monkey on a chimpanzee gets back. Very Tarzan esque and then very Jane esque. So we see that. We find out that Willy Lowman is a former worker for Max and she has been brought in to see the final show, but also she's kind of walked away from the business because Colin Beverley, who was played by Ed Begley Junior, bought up the last place that she was working at and she lost her job and so she moved out of the city and hasn't seen it since. So that is when Max tries to sell her on the idea. It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Saturn. This is going to be their biggest concert ever, but she just doesn't see his vision. Meanwhile, in the sky this helicopter, we meet Colin Beverly who played by Ed Begley Junior, with his henchman Mark and Marv the two ms yes, and he reveals his plan is to go after the Saturn Theater and he's gonna do so by landing his helicopter right in the street out front of the Saturn, which blows up multiple women's clothes.
42:15 Yeah, very very eighties screwball comedy. Yeah. So they land in the street outside the theater and that's when Sammy is going out to get his chili dogs. He's returning with them and he runs into Colin Beverly and he's just smitting with this guy. He knows everything about him, you know how basically how nobody fucks with you, you fuck with them, Like the whole movie. It's pretty great. So he is just trying to talk to Colin Beverly, and he's just walking right through him, to the point where Sammy actually goes through glass because he's like, oh, you're here to see my uncle, Come talk. To my uncle. He does it again too, he just walks right through plate glass. So that is when they make it up to Max's office and Max greets him by calling him Colan, which I love, Ah, Colin Beverly beautiful, and Max is basically telling him he is not interested in selling, and Colin's trying to schmooz him over. It's not working. Max basically tells him, like no, less than five times to get out of his office. And that's when Colin makes the deal that he says, Okay, fine, I'll give you a million two you have by midnight. If you sign the deal over to me, you know, we will make sure everything's all good to go. And he's like, no, I have this theater because I keep the seats cheap. I keep the venue open for kids to be able to see their favorite acts. You're going to come in and turn it into a stadium and do all this stuff.
43:22 Yeah, you're going to make it like a place that like is safe to go. Yeah, So I mean the place is supposed to be kind of a pit. Oh yeah, that's one of the most bizarre things is the place is kind of a pit, except they have like like super high end production on everything. Yeah, and it's I did forget to mention this is this film is a tribute to the Fillmore East that Arkish and one of the writers grew up working at as as basically stage hands and whatnot. So this is kind of all their experiences loosely rolled into this. Movie, right right. Well, the production was so at the beginning, it was so involved that I thought it was going to be a TV special. Yeah, And so when I found out it was just a concert, I was like, that's interesting. Yeah. So Max goes on to tell him that you know, you know, no, I'm going to tell you one more time, like get out, and he says, okay, well, guess what the you know your building's gonna ge knock down one hundred and fifty floors are going to come right in its place, so fuck you and fuck rock and roll.
44:13 And Max goes to charge at him when suddenly he begins to suffer what he says is a heart attack, and that's when Colin's like, you know, oh, we better lay off the fried food and leaves and that's when he's like, hey, tell him he's got tillim They nights to sign the deal, otherwise, you know, deals off. So Sammy goes to his side and that's when he's like, you know, hey, you know, I'll make it better at everything. And he's like, wait a minute, I don't have to do anything. I inherit because if he dies, he inherits the concert hall. So he goes after Colin and he's like, you know, hey, I inherit, and that's when him and his men embrace Colin. It's so it's so romantic. It's so romantic, it's so so kinetic. Everything just kind of happens really fast, all at once. So that's when we see a doctor played by the great Paul Bartel. He begins to explain he doesn't know if it was a heart attack or not, but the way that you know, Max eats that you know, it's no telling what could have happened to him, and that he needs to stay peaceful and RESTful, and that he's not going to get any rest here at the venue tonight.
45:00 So they're probably going to be taking him out. The staff tries to raid the doctor's bag while this is happening, and they even get like a handful of pills that turn out to be like ibuprofen and a bunch of other stuff. So that's when they decide that they need something a little more to get them going, and suddenly a figure in black appears that we call Electric Larry. Electric Larry threw me the most of anything in this movie. They were just whenever you pop up, I was like, what, Yeah. Electric Larry is a like robotic figure in a cowboy hat with like red glowing eyes and completely black like all over with fabric and whatnot. And he has a suit a briefcase just full of pills for the first go round. Because this is not just the only time we'll meet Electric Lary. No, of course not so. Electric Larry reveals the suitcase of pills. That's when we see a speedy montage with the crew setting up the show.
45:47 By the end of the stage is set back in the air, Colin and Sammy are flying over the city as Colin tells him to get his uncle to sign the papers by midnight, and he's like, you know, well, how am I gonna do that. He's like, you're a bright boy, you'll figure it out, and then pushes him out of the helicopter with a parachute. He hands him a parachuting yeah bye, yeah bye. Meanwhile, Neil and Willie chat about Colin was the reason that her business failed and have why she left town originally, and Neil is kind of starting to try to persuade her to stay because he thinks that she could be helpful around, especially with her experience, and also has a crush on her obviously. Well yeah, so that's when we see a tied a tour bus arrive out front as multiple hippies and free spirits get off the bus and we meet the leader, Captain Cloud. They're about as stereotypical hippies as you can get. They have like anti Nixon.
46:30 Yep, huge pops yeah yeah, and he wants to play the show. And that's when he's like, you know, where's Max And he's like, you know, well, Max had a bad experience. But Max is brought out being carried on a bed up to Captain Cloud on stage. He embraces him and says, you know, do you have a hug for a dying man? And Captain's like, you know, you know, dying. Oh, that's just another journey man, and they have like a little pow wow, and that's when basically Neil tells him that the captain wants to play the show, and he's like, all right, yeah, that's fine, we'll have them play at the very end. All Lang signs all yours. Ah, and then he says, wow, the ending, that's just another beginning man. And we also find out that he thinks it's nineteen sixty nine because one of their tickets is dated for nineteen sixty nine New Year's Eve.
47:12 Yeah, and he. Says, time's a trip, man. So Max says they'll put them in the finale. We also start to see that more of the groups arrive as a red car speeds up into the loading zone, and that's when we meet Nada, the all girl group with multiple members. A whole lot of members about like at least ten. I think it's somewhere in that it's like Arcade fire. Yeah, that's actually funny you said that because that's what they say in the bonusause that's. What it reminds them of. A solid So Neil introduces Nada to Joey Joey, who is played by God what is his name? He is the actor who plays Chris, the convenience store owner. And keenan Kel was the one I pointed out to ye yeah, yeah, yeah, and Joey is a dan frishman. Oh. So Joey is told by Joey is introduced then to Nada, and we also meet the other backup in Nada, which is Piggy, who is played by the Great Leaving. So Neil goes to ask Nada where Piggy is. She throws him the keys to the trunk. He goes out to the trunk and they let Leaving out of the trunk as he bursts out.
48:06 Yeah and starts slamming his head into the brick wall, the trash canick trash can, the car. And my favorite is Neil's like, hey, hey, Piggy, you got a contract for you to sign, And that's when he walks over and puts the contract on the trunk and signs it by putting his head into the trunk. Versus says, I want ninety of the gross, no expenses, no and no tax. Yeah. He's like, uh no, this is a standard contract. Again. Then he pashes. So that is When Neil notices Willy on the phone, he slips into another fantasy as she comments that she can't do something tonight because she's just too tied up. And that's what we see her tied to a steak as she is trying to light a cigarette in back of the real life. He goes lighter a match and it's a whole like fantasy of her being tied to stick like Jodah Bart. And that's when we meet Robert Paccardo who plays the fire marshal I Love me Some Robert Paccardo as he walks in and puts the flames out on the steak.
48:55 Of course, and then he explains how they don't have good enough fire extinguishers there. Do not, so he tells them that there is gonna be no open flames, no fireworks, no sparklers or anything. He has no problems shutting them down. As he walks by the hippies who have started a bonfire. Which he puts. So that's when we cut to a funeral where we meet the King of Blues who is named King Blues in this movie, and he is having a send off for his buddy Blind Luther Washington at a funeral full of blind black men. Yeah, they're all basically blind. No, So this movie is so much, So much is constantly happening. It is a lot to take in. Yes, it really is. It really really is.
49:37 There's a lot of gags that you probably may not catch the first time. You'd probably take you a couple of watches to even catch all of them. I wouldn't call it subtle, Sudd. There's so much going on. So the King of Blues tells Luther Junior that they need to go because they gotta get through their show to the Saturn. He even also tells God that he better take care of his manner. He's gonna wax his ass, which is one of my favorite lives, wax your ass. So that's when Luthor Junior joins him at the car, and that's when he tells him but he doesn't want to be called Luther Junior. He always hated that name. He wants to go by Cool. And that's when King Blue says, all right, Cool, Well just like your daddy. You know, if we if you're gonna be anything like your daddy're gonna get to the show on time and you're gonna play beautifully. So then Cool speeds off out of the cemetery, knocking over multiple tombstones and driving as crazy as possible because they're gonna get there on time.
50:21 Of course, Do You Even Movie will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even Movie? So that's when back at the Saturn, Neil talks to his sister Susie, who wants to come down to the show. Max thinks it's a way to drump the crowd more or excuse me, he wants to come down. She wants to come down to the show. And yeah, that's when Kneel's like, you know, no, stay home, Like I don't know what's going on tonight. He goes to see Max, and Max thinks of a way to drum up more of the crowd by promising the return of Adds. The Metaphysical Folks singer played by Lou Reid in this film.
51:03 The Metaphysical I liked metaphysical Folks. That is literally what his descriptions is on Wikipedia, it says Metaphysical Folks singer inventor of the seventies anti social recluse, a spoof. Of Bob Tail of the seventies Spooky Bob Dylan spoof of Bob I. When I first saw him, I thought he was a spoof of Lou Reed, Yeah, but he actually was red. Yeah. So Max calls over to Auden because Neil is convinced that nobody's seen him in six years. He's not gonna come out like and that's why he's just like, oh, you know, maybe he will for a dying man's request. So he calls Auden, who is like in a house that is covered in spider webs. There's a woman on the couch in like a red dress, which apparently supposed to be a spoof of a Bob Dylan cover that I'm not familiar with. That checks out, Yeah, But after some persuading, Auden does agree to go to the show and walks out into traffic as he's playing his guitar because he's had writer's block for this amount of time and he says he doesn't know if he can perform, but he is convinced by Max go ahead and do it. So, yeah, he walks out of traffic playing guitars, avoided by several cars, waves down a taxi and tells him to take the scenic route as they go to the.
52:07 Saturn, And boy, is it a scenic route. It is a scenic rout. Indeed, if there are I would say that the number one thought I had watching this film was, oh, write that, because when it would finally sometimes it wouldn't return now to a plot point for a long time. Yeah, so you like when he pops up at the end, I was like, oh right him. Yeah. So Auden says that he will play the show, and that's when they go off on the cab. Meanwhile, Susie gets a call from her friend Debbie telling her that Auden is going to play the Saturn tonight, which I don't know how that news got out so quickly, And that's when Susie decides that she can't miss this as an event. She might even get a chance to meet Reggie Wanker as well, because he's playing. The show tonight, Reggie Wanker.
52:48 And that is when we cut to a plane where we meet Reggie Wanker played by the Great Mac McDowell, who is exercising on his plane right before he goes and lays down next to a woman on a cot and also ask for a little bit of toot, just a little. Bit, a little bit as he pulls out like a silver bucket cap full of it. Yeah, so that's when one of his band members, his drummer Toad, decides that he is ripped and also breaks on of the arcade. Machines does another line, and he goes out and sides he's gonna fly the plane. So he takes over the plane and they're just flying through the sky, whipping over backwards and doing corkscrews, and meanwhile this is happening, the cocaine's flying around the plane, getting them completely high as they're also rolling with the plane as well.
53:28 Yeah, yeah, that's it. Sideways his cocaine and furniture goes all over the place. Everyone's having a great time. Meanwhile, Susie is dressed elegantly and dupes her parents played by one of them, I know, is my god, I can't the one I'm thinking blanking on his name Dick Miller. Yes, and it was the woman his wife from Gremlins might have been. I thought it was. Yeah, But he's just. Standing there holding a hose spray water, not looking at all where he's spraying in the water. So she comes out all elegantly dressed and she's like, you know, I'm gonna go to Debbie for a party and they wish her well. Meanwhile, we just follow a trail of clothes completely changed as she goes into a sexy outfit getting ready to go to the Saturn. Would you call that a sexy outfit? What is it? It's field it's eighties as shit.
54:10 Yeah, it's her sexy outfit. Yeah. And that's the actress who played the love interest in Halloween three. Yes, that is correct. It's as Helly. Is her name in the movie, right, I think so. Her name is Stacy Nelkin. Yes, that sounds right, Stacey Nelkin. So that is when she starts her walk off to the club back of the Saturn. The vands start to arrive, and that is the first being Reggie, who was greeted by a large entourage behind them. Cool and King Blues arrive as well, in a smashed up car completely from the tribe, so torn to pieces. And that is when Joey is trying to take care of Reggie, offering him lobster and other foods in his room. He even offers him the whole lobster, which I love, the whole thing. And that's when Colin meanwhile has a meeting with multiple investors showing them the plans to demolish the Saturn via a model, which he legitimately blows up in front of them.
55:02 Yeah yeah, like boom. And then shows them the new building for Serpent Records, which is over like fifty stories tall, like I don't even know how many floors are in that damn thing. Back at the Saturn, Max hands over the rains Neil as he gets the staff excited, reminding them it's New Year's Eve and it's showtime. So the doors of the Saturn are open. We watch many people begin to enter the auditorium and also go through searches, and the searches are hilarious because they're done by Clint Howard. For one. Yeah, no guns, even though Bazuokah's missiles and everything are being pulled out of people's pants. Yes, no drugs, even though there's a giant joint. Literally an anthropomorphic marijuana joints. Yes, and also multiple giant joints just people are carrying as well. Yes, Yes, so they are getting everybody through the doors. We see that people are getting excited for the show, and that's when Susie is also arrives and she finds Neil. Neil tells her to stay put, but Willie confesses that she's lucky to have a brother like Neil and that she likes him a lot. So that's when Cool confronts the King of Blues, telling him that they're fucked because he explained that they booked a blues band.
56:02 And they got a juice band kids. And then we see a bunch of very stereotypical Jewish men and one Jewish woman who doesn't sing when they're all singing. No, because she goes to kiss the lead singer guy. And that's when the braces getting tangled, and that's where they get ripped out of her mouth because they're trying to separate them. Is before they go on stage, so that's when Neil tells them to don't worry, they're a good band. The band starts up, King Blue says that they can do this and steps on the stage singing the Blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll, which is originally a muddy water song. Mmmm, yeah, it's a good song too. Meanwhile, Neil notices that Susie is missing as we find her in the crowd and enjoying the show. We also see the rest of the musicians getting into the tunes as well, and Piggy, who is swinging around on ropes and smashing cans while Neil and Willie share a dance in the office, Sammy tries to swindle Max into signing the document by telling him something. It's something along the lines of like a what does he say?
56:57 It is. Like an article piece or something I can't remember like, But that is when the doctor returns, played by Paul Bartel, telling him it was just bad Chinese. A very bad line is said at that point. Yeah, a little bit of racism goes a long way. And he's gonna be fine. He's gonna be fine. Hearing this, Captain Cloud and his followers rejoice. Sammy panics, calling Colin, telling him the news about Max and Max tell and that's when Colin tells me, you the deal still on till midnight. But that's when he gives Mark and Marv's secret assignment to go ahead and destroy the Saturn Theater. This is the closest thing to a story you're getting in this. That's a that's a that's the best. Yeah, it's that. So that's when Max tells him that they could. That's when Joey is confronted by some bikers who want to come in, but he tells him the venue is full. Meanwhile, Sammy is coming down the stairs and Joey asked me, you know, what should he do? And he's like, you know what, do they have tickets? And he's like no.
57:49 He's like, all right, well fuck him then. So that's when Joey, in his hindsight and a big group of bikers are at this door, opens the door and goes, fuck you, and. Then just closes it and immediately a biker's arm. He burst through the door and starts choking. I'm like, fucking Jason Voiez. So he grabs all this furniture and tries to barricade the doors. That's when downstairs, Sammy goes down and grab more champagne. As he picks it up, though he drops it because he realizes there's a fire in the corner of the basement, so he begins to start putting it out, but then he decides no, I'll burn the theater down, so he begins fueling it by dumping a trash can over it. So King Blues goes into hoochikuci Man and Sammy on barricades the door running getting run over by bikers. Meanwhile, in Reddy's dressing room, he can't decide on an outfit and also comments how he's not a fan of New Year's Eve. King Blue finishes while Neil goes back out to introduce Nada with special guests Piggy. We see Piggy, who is on a chain leash by this point, has chain to a fence behind the stage, of course, and that's when she tells him to save his voice and calm down. Nada then takes the stage playing I'm not gonna take it no More and puts on a hell of performance for everybody. Because Nada has a bunch of fans, one of which that stands on the top of the balcony with a flame thrower right before they take the stakes.
58:57 Yeah, well it's funny because other people are holding up lighters. Yeah. And then he's just got a full sized military grade flame through that that is correct. Yes. So meanwhile, Willy and Neil find the fire in the basement. They also find that the hose has been cut, so they have to reroute the water from the bathroom. Neil notifies Joey of the issue as he goes down to the bathroom, which ends another site gag because he opens the door, the bathroom's completely flooded. There's a shark fin swimming around, corps on the ground with a giant syringe pierced through, and also bong rips for a dollar in the bathroom. Stalls well, it says hookah, then it's a bong yeah. So that's when Neil goes over to the water. He turns it back on. They get the fire out in the basement, so that crisis has averted two minutes of it being an actual issue.
59:40 Geez. Yeah. So that is when we also see that Colin is playing with a mouse and a dollar sign maze that he calls Max Junior. He guides the Max Max to an X and then drops it down as we see the maze is right above a giant alligator tank with Colin Junior as the alligator ready to eat Max. What a movie. I'm not gonna lie like the movie Damn Near gave me a headache. Yeah, I can see that, so not it concludes, and that's when they introduced Piggy, who draws Kings of Blues attention because he notices they're doing a cover of his song. So Neil releases Piggy, who dives into the crowd and gets back on stage doing a punk cover of I'm a Hoochie Coochie Man. What a film with the crowd getting into it. Even the doctor and uh Susie both find themselves leaping off of the balcony because at one point that's when Piggy goes into the crowd he saw at crowdsurfser a little bit and then tells everybody who's in the balcony to start leaping off as they catch them, and.
1:00:35 We get this bizarrely long montaque. Yeah, montage is a better way to put it, of people jumping off, flipping off, zooming off in crowd in ways that would kill the people below them. Not to mention they also have people scoring them on the side. Yeah, but which was fine. The only partly I didn't like was that a guy had just done a forward backflip, yeah, and they give it like a seven and then woman just fell Yeah, and they were like ten, ten to nine. You know, do you even? Movie will be right back, welcome back to do you even? Movie?
1:01:18 So King Blues toasts Piggy and says, who says a white boy can't sing the blues. As the band concludes nada In, Piggy and the group go backstage. They're complaining about the drink choices. They find beer, they don't want beer. Piggy find champagne. She's like champagne again. So then Electric Larry appears one more time, offering multiple lines of coke in a. Briefcase, multiple being the operative words. Yeah. So, next to take the stage is Reggie Wanker. Neil warns him about no fireworks and tells him about the fire Marshal, and that's when, you know, he says, all right, now you stay here, I'll go to your introduction, and that's when Reggie tells him, no one introduces Reggie Wanker. Damn right. So that's when he takes the stage as the crowd is chanting his name, and Reggie kicks into his song Hotshot, which is a giant egotistical about how awesome he is.
1:02:02 Well, luckily it's the only time he's egotistical. Yeah, yeah, you know. So Neil is asked to help Reggie's girlfriend get an eyelash free from her cleavage because it just fell off her eye, and that's when Willie catches him doing this. She walks out upset as Mark and Marv enter handing Sammy a bomb that is set to go off at midnight, leaving him telling him to find a nice place to hide it. Susie finds her way out onto the stage via encouragement by Reggie as Neil watches her dance on the side with him. That's when Reggie is you know, starting to get into it with her, and that's when Neil decides to cut in, removing her from the stage. Sammy decides to hide the bomb in Max's rocket ship for the finale, and the Fire Marshal is chased off stage when tried to put out Reggie's pyrotechnics.
1:02:42 Of course, yeah, it's all coming together, kids. He and Sammy run directly into each other, knocking them both out as electrical l area appears once more, Yeah why wouldn't he and drugs the water cooler before wishing everybody a happy New Year. And so that's when Neil finds the fire Marshal when Sammy knocked out. He gives them both water from the water Instantly both begin to experience the effects, and the fire of Marshall loses his clothes and starts searching for flames. Meanwhile, Sammy finds a new status of life and joins Captain Cloud's army, aw stating he doesn't want material possessions anymore. Well, you know, I mean or soap. So Willie outside smoking a cigarette, catches an earshot and Mark and Marv talking about the bomb that they planted. Realizing that she's heard them, they chase after her and she fights them off, only for Colin to come up behind her with a gun, and that's when Willy is thrown into the trunk of Colin's limo.
1:03:31 So much happens so fast. Captain Cloud gives Cool and King blues a joint that is made of three different strains. As King starts to hear Reggie do a cover of Ibahuchacuchi man as well. King steps off of the balcony, either on and onto the thin air as he just floats down and Joyce's joint. Reggie takes a break from the stage as his drummer Toad goes into a long solo. Back in his dressing room, Reggie is carried off by multiple women for an orgy, but is caught by his girlfriend, who storms out angrily, running into Joey. She takes him to the back room and they begin to. Have Yeah, she finds a perfect revenge by saying you're kind of good looking. Auden, still in his cab, tells his driver that they're gonna be late for the show and they need to step it up. So that's when his cab driver just starts speeding all over, ramping over multiple things, jumping cars, and actually it runs up into Colin's limousine, which pops the trunk that Willie is in and she gets out, and that's when they Garden start to go after her, but Colin opens the door of his limousine and a cop car comes by and takes it off.
1:04:26 And a partridge in a pear tree. And that's when they also go evening officers. Yeah, and I don't want to I pick on this movie. There is a charm to it. Yeah, But if I had to be completely honest, I wish I hadn't sat down and watched it. I wish I had watched it with like a group of people or something, because I sat down, like very intently trying to especially the second half I really focused. And my God was a film. It's a party movie. So as we get to the conclusion Colin and is gonna try to go after her. The cop knock his door off. Reggie frees himself from his sex mountain and finds his girlfriend next door with Joey and immediately has heartbreak.
1:05:06 Well, he's like, they don't love me for me, and then he sees that He's like, oh you go away for two minutes. This happens to you. So then he sings this like emotional song about like how broken it's hot shot. He he just drops it down and changes a couple of lyrics like it. For him. They're just losing it. I would also like to go back to his performance because while he is doing the hot Shot originally the first time, there's this woman that's like, I love you Reggie and is like sending him like. A pet turtle through the crowd. Yeah refrigerator at one point, Yeah for the crowd. So the crowd is won over by his new version of hot Shot. They're also in tears with him and start chanting Reggie again. He leaves the stage as Neil congratulates him and asks him for an encore, and Reggie says he can't, but he does ask him for a cup of water, which Neil gets him from the water cooler. Oh, Neil gets him some water that is drugged, and that's when he tells Joey that you know, the crowd's gonna go crazy if they don't have somebody on, so go ahead and just put on a cartoon to kill some time, which they do. Such a weird choice, very weird choice.
1:06:04 So that is when Reggie started to feel the effects. Tells his band member Toad that he's gonna go to the bathroom, and that's when he's confronted by a voice in the bathroom that turns out to be his penis. Yes, and his penis is very insightful. Penis is very insightful. He tells him that he became a star and actually forgot about himself. The music tonight was his raw motion and that's what made him great, and that he needs to keep himself in mind for his future performances. Wisecock Indeed, Willy arrives at the theater, telling Nell, telling Neil about the bomb. Willi goes to look for Sammy, but Neil takes the stage trying to tell the crowd about the bomb, but they just boo him because they think it's part of the show, Neil locates Sammy just as Willy finds him as well, but Sammy is way too far gone to make any sense, so that's when they have Captain Cloud translate for him.
1:06:46 And that's when Captain Cloud finds out that he has put the bomb in the rocket that Max is going. To ride, and I mean obviously, so we. See Max getting on the rocket as New Year's is approaching, Midnight's approaching and the crew prepares him for the launch of the stage. Neil gets on Max's headset tells him about the bomb. Max finds the bomb quickly and tries to drop it to Neil, except it goes into the crowd. As the crowd begins to play hot Potato with a bomb, of course, so they are throwing the bomb out. It gets to right around two seconds. The bomb is tossed out the front door, right as Colin and his goons arrive and it goes right into their limo. As we hear oh shit, the bomb goes off, sending of the three up into the air through the roof of the Saturn. As Captain Cloud takes the stage for his rendition to Old lang Ziyne with the rest of the bands we see that Reggie's girlfriend and Joey are still in the throes of passion and probably gonna get married. Now. We see everyone wish each other a happy New Year, including Reggie, who introduces his drummer to their new manager. His penis yes.
1:07:36 And which makes which then points out that apparently we can all hear his penis talking. Not just him anymore, not just him Nope. Meanwhile, Auden arrives at the theater and you know, he's like, oh, I missed the show. And that's when Max also hands over the lease to the Saturn to Neil and tells him that you know that it's yours, now pass it on to somebody when you're done. So he tells Auden that he can play there anytime now. Neil then offers a partnership to Willie as they switch him back into another tar and fantasy in the forest as they walk off, the credits are played as we see the bands leave and Auduen plays Dear Little Sister by lou Reid, right, which is lou. Reid, Well, yeah, yeah, and that is this nineteen eighty threes get crazy something like that. It's just so much.
1:08:18 It's a lot I have ADHD and I was like. Uh, would you like to know some things about the movie? It sure would. What do you think the budget was? Oh? God, I mean my my instinct is it's low, but my heart says it's gonna be obscenely high. Five million, what and five hundred thousand dollars. Drug cartel money? Like how who would pay that much money to make a movie like that? It gets released August fifth of nineteen eighty three and grosses in US and Canada one million, six hundred and forty five thousand. It should have cost five hundred thousand dollars. It would have been a hit. Yeah, forty day shoot, Oh my god? Done it the Wiltern in Los Angeles, California. The movie wasn't inspired by the actual real life experiences of director Alan Arkis and screenwriter Danny Opacchu during the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies working for a live music video in New York City called Filmore East. The original screenplay was set for New Year's Eve in nineteen sixty nine, but the studio wanted it modernized.
1:09:15 Thank goodness. The concert scenes were shot at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. It had fallen into disrepair and was due for a renovation after filming was completed. This essentially meant that the production team could trash the theater, knowing it was going to be refurbished after they had gone. Arcis gives credit to his ady, Clifford C. Coleman, who'd been recommended to him by Landis after working on Animal House. Coleman would use a starter pistols for his directing, one fire for action and two for cut. Well, with that big of a crowd, I mean, how else are they going to hear? You? Yeah? The punk extras lived in the theater location throughout the shooting of the movie. I'm not surprised at all. While they weren't on schedule for the day, many of the stars and extras would go on to set as a would go on to set as it was a giant party every day. Notoriously, when the shoots would end, there would be a two to three hour party in the parking lot. The costume trailer was the spot where the post production plans were made at the end of the day. Jesus, Alan Garfield and Daniel Stern notoriously didn't get along during production. It wouldn't be until five years later, when Stern and his wife were walking down venture of Boulevard, that Garfield would pull aside them, get out of his car and apologize to Stern in person for the way that he was treated on that production. Stern went on to recall that Garfield stood with him for about five minutes, apologizing and complimenting Stern.
1:10:24 Wow, do you even movie? Will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even movie. Howard Kayln, who plays Clapton Cloud in the film, was an actual performer at the Fillmore East with the Turtles and the Mother's invention fing Zappa's Ban. Kaylan didn't choose to be a character as much as playing on the myth of the grateful dead and Hollywood illusion of dead fans. Leving got a sense of respect for Arkish's simply for the fact that Arkish encouraged trying new things and improvising. He also felt that Arkisha McDowell understood the music and the spirit ignited, which is why he arkisham McDowell are still good friends today.
1:11:10 Wow okay. Electric Larry was wanted to be in homage to his look of death and Death takes a holiday at Mitchell Lison movie from the nineteen thirties. I could see that. The dosing of the water cooler in the film is based off a true experience Arkish had at the film. More East for a Grateful Dead and Alman Brothers Show That Checks Out. Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger, Elton John were all approached for the role of Reggie Wanker. Hunt Lowry, producer, went after Malcolm MacDowell personally. Malcolm, who had just runted a house in Malibu, didn't want to do the picture, so he advised his agent to ask for too much money as a polite way to turn down the offer, and threw the script away. When his agent called back to him to let him know that his asking amount has been agreed to. Mcdoal agreed to me with Arkish and Lowry for lunch to discuss the film. His only stipulation was that he wanted to sing original songs. They agreed, only to find out in the studio that Malcolm was in fact not the best singer. Arkish instructed Malcolm to go back into the studio and act as a singer, in which they adjusted the songs to his performance. Geez yeah. McDowell, having not read the entire script. Was in makeup with one actor next to him, who praised McDowell and stated what an honor was to be in the production with him.
1:12:12 The actor went on to ask McDowell how he intended to pull off the ending. McDowell, unsure of what the actor was referring to, played it off and stated he's just gonna do it. When the actor left, McDowell requested a script from the makeup person, only to find out about the scene near the end where Reggie takes advice from his cock. Cinema Brian Johnson, lead singer of ac DC, gave Matt McDowell praise of the film, noting that they watched it on the bus many times. Did Lou Reid was taken out at a Russian tea room by Arkish, who complimented him on his album Blue Mask. By the end of the lunch, he agreed to take the role. Lou was noted as being quiet and off to the side most of the shoot, but told Arcash he had a great time. Some years later in a rock magazine, he would go on to give an interview stating how miserable the film experience was and how he felt ripped off by the production. Several years later, Arcus ran into Lou with his wife at a sushi restaurant, where he apologized for his comments in the article, adding that everyone loves him in the movie and found him to be very funny and likable. Reid went on to give Arkish his home phone number, telling him that if there's anything he can do to make up for him, to call him, whether it's music licensing, et cetera. Arkish went on to license multiple songs from Lou Reid during his stint on Crossing Jordan, even Walk on the wild Side, which Reid is not known to license much anymore.
1:13:21 Wow Okay. Original title was Hell's a Rockin a tribute to Hell's a Poppin. That is such a gimmicky like you grew up in the forties. Yes, title scene where the scenes where the fans and singer leap from the balcony was inspired by a performance that Arkish attended with his cast and crew of Iggy Pop at Palladia. I can see that in a deal reminiscence of the one broker in mel Brooks's The Producers. Shares were sold in the film to a Wall Street tax Shelter Group, effectively meeting that it didn't need to be released and was designed to lose money so that others would make money. Director Alan Arcis learned that during filming and was thoroughly demoralized by it, knowing he was making a film that no one would see. I mean, you have a movie that you have, like you get to do all these insane things with them, They're gonna give you five million dollars. I mean, you know, it's like the devil is gonna ask for something.
1:14:11 Yeah. Get Crazy was sold off as Attack Shelter. No ads, no critic screenings, no soundtrack, LP promotion, and producers went bankrupt and were actually indicted. The original negative and soundtrack were all thought to be lost. Arcus checked all the film vaults he could find and could find nothing, leading to no DVD release. Arcus wanted to release the film vaults were checked in the picture, nor the sound could be located. Keno Lber found all the elements around twenty eighteen and wanted to do a release. I mean, that's an incredible story that they were able to find them. Yeah. Lauren Bell, who plays not A while practicinging the not A band while practicing a jump sprayed her ankle so bad that fearfront Man Leaving, who plays Piggy in the film, spent three days carrying her on his shoulders during shooting. Geez. Barry Diamond was very busy in this movie.
1:14:52 In addition to playing a stage hand, he also played the blind person of the funeral that fell into the grave, yelling weight I'm not dead, the stoner and Captain Cloud's band who shouted I've got the bong, the guy with the face painted black and white who was screaming naa naa, noa, noa, nada, and he introduced Neil's little sister Susie to his children in the balcony. Jeez, okay, okay. Twenty or so minutes into the film, Max calls Auden on the phone. Auden is at home, and the scene is obviously patterned after the cover of Bob Dylan's Bring It All Home album Ornate White fireplace, smoking woman in a tight red dress, et cetera. I mean, that's a hell of attention to detail. So what are your final thoughts on nineteen eighty three Y's to get crazy? I I definitely think it's the kind of thing you like if you like that kind of thing. I think, if you have a lot of nostalgia for the early eighties, late seventies, early eighties, if you have a lot of nostalgia for like those really crazy punk clubs, which I don't have much of those things at all, I think it could be a lot of fun. Yeah, it's a good time capsule. That part I liked about it. I'm not gonna lie. Watching it and trying to understand it so I could talk about it on camera made it a lot less.
1:16:00 I get that. So I mean I would give it a stream it because, like I think, if you if you like that kind of thing, you'll want to watch it. I don't know if it's a necessity for your collection, but there you have it. It's a rented for me with a buy a caveat for physical media in the sense of, like I said that, you. Can't rent or stream it technically. Yeah, I mean there's that, but more so it's just the fact that, like I literally saw this movie from a VHS to DVD, like not an official release, like somebody got a VHS learned it to a DVD for me, And that's how I saw this for the longest time. I never thought I never thought this would get released, to be honest, I get that for sure. So and also like the dv the Blu Ray is packed with a bunch of you got to comments hereund there, you gotta behind the scenes with like an hour long with everybody.
1:16:41 Because right around the time this release was happening, COVID happened, right, so all of everybody that they got for to come back and talk about was through Zoom, So they got a bunch of people, a bunch of people to come back and talk. So it's definitely a rent it for me, because as you said, it's not a movie for everybody, and it's gonna be a strict crowd. But if you do find yourself liking it, I cannot recommend the Blu Ray enough. It is very very easy to get your hands on. I think it's like maybe twenty bucks now if that maybe, and Keno Larber puts some real work into this disc, so you will definitely have a good time with it if you're a fan of the film. Yeah, so we always liked in the show. With a couple of recommendations, I have two this week, the first one being nineteen seventy nine is Rock and Roll High School, currently available on two B Peacock Prime and Plex. Ramones fanatic and delinquent Riff Randall battles it out with the strict new principle of Vince Lombardi High School, Miss Toogar with the help from the Ramones.
1:17:30 I mean, it's an absolute classic. Yeah. And second, I'm gonna go ahead and say Empire Records from nineteen ninety five, currently available on Plex and Prime twenty four hours in the lives of young employees at Empire Records when they fall or when they all grow up and become young adults. Thanks to each other and the manager, they all face the store, joining a chain store with strict rules. It's a classic as well. It's a great one. Yeah, what's your recommendation? Uh? Cockfighter, Cockfighter? Eh No, not really. Actually a Phantom of the Paradise Good Good from nineteen seventy four, which I think kind of to me for me cap there's a lot of this but in a really great way. But it's a Brian to Palmer movie, So it's like you don't want to like compare, you know, because who can compare to Brian to Palma. But also there's a lot of similarities to it too.
1:18:11 A ton Yeah, well, it's I mean, it's Faust is a story about performance, and this is a movie about performers being outrageous. Just the bomb. I was just thinking about the bomb. Oh yeah, yeah. A fan of the Paradise is also out of its mind. It's just a little bit. It's subdued enough to kind of keep the story going. But the thing on IMDb says, a disfigured composerselves is sould for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace the Paradise. And it's not streaming with membership. It might be on Prime, but it's definitely available to rent on Amazon. No, you have to get a trial for Prime. See, so start your but anyway, Oh wait, no, it's because I'm not locked in. Yeah, it's free on Prime if you have a membership. You can watch it on Prime. Perfect Panom of the Paradise if you haven't seen it. I mean that's a must watch film anyway.
1:19:05 Absolutely, So that's what I think. Do we have any emails that? Sure? Don't? We do not well, would you like to know what we are talking about next week as we move into January? Sure, don't again, Well, too bad, because we are doing a theme month of cold blooded January and we are kicking it off with wind River from twenty seventeen. And I see what you did there. January is known for blood. Yes, yes, lots of it, copious amounts. So no, I'm looking forward to talking about wind River. That's a phenomenal movie and it's currently streaming. Where Favesome Plex and Pluto. Awesome Bowsome that's what that's what the channel's called. You're fowesome, thank you. Yeah, it's fowesome, awesome, Bowesome Plex and Pluto nice. Okay, Well, and I don't think i've I think it was like three years ago I revisited.
1:19:53 That movie gets better and better with each. Watch I revisited, I think last last Halloween, last Winter. It is so and it's super super good. So definitely give that a watch and catch us next time and we'll talk all about wind River. Yes. So, uh, if you want to email us, send us an email at doueven movie Pod at gmail dot com or go to dooevenmovie dot com to find out everything about the show. If you're listening to us on a podcast, make sure you subscribe. If you're watching us on YouTube, give us a like, maybe leave a comment. If you have something to say about Get Crazy in particular, we'd love to hear it, and of course we'd love to get your emails. But now we're gonna get out of here and go see no us varatu. Yes, and we also hope you all have a great New Year's as you listen to this. Oh oh, now now we're back to being all about Okay.
1:20:34 I get through the holidays. The last wrinch over here, it wrinch over here. Well then, why is everything from your waist down painted green? Right now? Oh? Well, I guess we'll find out next week. All right, until next damn guys, you take care. I am getting out of here and leaving Dave behind like a child in a car with the window rolled up. We'll see you next Tuesday.
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