1 00:00:15,70 --> 00:00:19,55 Well everybody and welcome to every movie ever this is the show where we are trying 2 00:00:19,56 --> 00:00:26,24 to review every movie ever made starting today with platoon I don't know if you 3 00:00:26,25 --> 00:00:31,72 know this but the first casualty of war it's innocence so here's the deal again I 4 00:00:31,73 --> 00:00:37,35 had never seen platoon I mean I can't say I don't like war movies I like 5 00:00:37,36 --> 00:00:39,42 a war movie now and again but I am not 6 00:00:39,43 --> 00:00:44,38 a big war movie Officium not zero and films about the Vietnam War have never been 7 00:00:44,39 --> 00:00:49,23 of particular interest to me so my knowledge of Platoon largely comes because of 8 00:00:49,24 --> 00:00:54,98 the the game for the NE US Also if I mean completely out of the I'm not 9 00:00:55,02 --> 00:01:01,87 a huge Oliver Stone fan. Which again I'll be honest again I have not 10 00:01:01,88 --> 00:01:03,62 seen a ton of the man's work it has 11 00:01:03,63 --> 00:01:08,62 a little bit more to do with the man himself that I don't care for but that's you 12 00:01:08,63 --> 00:01:12,26 know that's the deal so I've never seen platoon and as we've discussed on the show 13 00:01:12,27 --> 00:01:16,83 before as an amateur podcast listener I've been greatly enjoying the unschooled 14 00:01:16,84 --> 00:01:21,63 podcast and where they have been watching every movie on the old and five hundred 15 00:01:21,64 --> 00:01:26,39 greatest movies list and using that product asked as an opportunity to check out 16 00:01:26,63 --> 00:01:31,64 some of the classics of American cinema that I have overlooked for so long because 17 00:01:31,65 --> 00:01:37,89 again as we are doing on the show the rays on d'être. Of the show is that we're 18 00:01:37,90 --> 00:01:44,30 watching every movie ever which at long last brings us around to platoon so platoon 19 00:01:44,67 --> 00:01:48,16 you know what makes it interesting what I think makes it enduring and what made it 20 00:01:48,17 --> 00:01:49,51 stand out is that it's 21 00:01:49,52 --> 00:01:56,28 a really unvarnished look at war coming on out about the heels but following on 22 00:01:56,29 --> 00:02:01,56 a legacy of war films that we can sort of define as the John error or John era of 23 00:02:01,57 --> 00:02:08,12 the John Wayne era of war films you know the sort of macho you know war 24 00:02:08,79 --> 00:02:13,09 war honorable war and war is duty kind of thing you're coming into the seventy's 25 00:02:13,10 --> 00:02:19,32 and eighty's with more cynical looks at war whether that's in something like 26 00:02:19,36 --> 00:02:25,95 Apocalypse Now which offers this you know somewhat surrealist take on the idea of 27 00:02:25,96 --> 00:02:32,49 the Vietnam War or if you're even looking at something like platoon which suggests 28 00:02:32,50 --> 00:02:36,73 that you know which starts to suggest that the idea that the great general was may 29 00:02:36,74 --> 00:02:42,16 be. Problematic puts him however is offering 30 00:02:42,17 --> 00:02:48,97 a truly realistic and unvarnished look at the war and I think up until that time in 31 00:02:48,98 --> 00:02:50,51 film history at least as far as 32 00:02:50,52 --> 00:02:55,06 a big commercial Hollywood picture had given you you know this is your first chance 33 00:02:55,07 --> 00:02:56,10 to really see in 34 00:02:56,11 --> 00:03:01,61 a movie what the Vietnam War must have been like informed at least in part by 35 00:03:01,62 --> 00:03:07,13 Oliver Stone's own personal appearances there and I can only imagine that when this 36 00:03:07,14 --> 00:03:11,72 movie came out that must have been something that must have been truly relevant 37 00:03:11,73 --> 00:03:18,37 Tory but now here in two thousand and eighteen where we where you had to make the 38 00:03:18,38 --> 00:03:20,71 war is hell movie is almost 39 00:03:20,72 --> 00:03:27,21 a cliche in and of itself platoon doesn't feel as fresh as it must've felt at the 40 00:03:27,22 --> 00:03:31,78 time. Now that said the movie I also want talk about how this movie has just an 41 00:03:31,82 --> 00:03:38,19 absolutely huge cast it stars Charlie Sheen previous 42 00:03:38,47 --> 00:03:41,48 tiger blood Charlie Sheen but also has 43 00:03:41,49 --> 00:03:46,85 a ton of you know terrific performers in it so that you have people like Keith 44 00:03:46,86 --> 00:03:50,34 David in it and John McGinley is in it there's 45 00:03:50,35 --> 00:03:56,64 a very young Johnny Depp in it Johnny Drama is in it so that you have you know all 46 00:03:56,65 --> 00:04:00,91 of these you know especially at the time I don't know if I was so far as unknown 47 00:04:00,92 --> 00:04:07,76 but certainly lesser known you know younger Hollywood Men starring in the movie 48 00:04:08,12 --> 00:04:14,29 you know so there's again it's not John Wayne right these are young guys Willem 49 00:04:14,30 --> 00:04:18,33 Dafoe as well we sorry to try and even talk about platoon without mentioning the 50 00:04:18,34 --> 00:04:23,91 marvelous work done by Willem Defoe here as as far as the plot goes I mean this 51 00:04:23,92 --> 00:04:25,55 ends up being a movie that sort of 52 00:04:25,56 --> 00:04:31,08 a devil in Angel movie where our protagonist is Charlie Sheen and on the one 53 00:04:31,09 --> 00:04:36,45 shoulder he's got Willem Dafoe you know telling him that war is hell but we have to 54 00:04:36,46 --> 00:04:42,36 fight it you know according to certain rules and you know remember it is not the 55 00:04:42,37 --> 00:04:46,82 fault of the Vietnamese You know that we are encountering in villages and stuff 56 00:04:46,83 --> 00:04:51,17 that we're here and then on the other shoulder you have the other guy I forget the 57 00:04:51,18 --> 00:04:52,09 actor's name but he's 58 00:04:52,10 --> 00:04:58,32 a big scar on his face and he's saying yeah War is hell and we need to rise to the 59 00:04:58,33 --> 00:05:04,44 occasion it's it is an interesting movie although one that I I have to confess I 60 00:05:04,45 --> 00:05:08,11 can't say it left me cold but it didn't have the impact on me I think it would have 61 00:05:08,12 --> 00:05:12,14 had contemporaneously so I even put soon three and 62 00:05:12,15 --> 00:05:19,11 a half stars. A couple of episodes 63 00:05:19,12 --> 00:05:24,27 back I took the opportunity to revisit Austin Powers International Man of Mystery 64 00:05:24,46 --> 00:05:29,56 and found that it held up reasonably well and if you recall in that review I said 65 00:05:29,57 --> 00:05:35,29 that it was my recollection though that the second Austin Powers movie The Spy Who 66 00:05:35,30 --> 00:05:42,09 Shagged Me or was not so great Well folks I have revisited said spy and I'm here to 67 00:05:42,10 --> 00:05:46,45 tell you. It's not so great. There's 68 00:05:46,46 --> 00:05:51,65 a degree to which I understand why this movie is the way it is Austin Powers the 69 00:05:51,66 --> 00:05:54,22 first one didn't get the sort of you didn't get 70 00:05:54,23 --> 00:05:58,60 a lot of attention from the public until it was released on home video far fewer 71 00:05:58,61 --> 00:06:03,04 people went to see the first Austin Powers movie in theaters then went to see the 72 00:06:03,05 --> 00:06:09,43 second Austin Powers movie so I can I understand the instinct to rehash some of the 73 00:06:09,44 --> 00:06:14,08 jokes both because you know if it ain't broke don't fix it and because you're 74 00:06:14,09 --> 00:06:18,35 bringing in a lot of people who maybe haven't seen these jokes before certainly in 75 00:06:18,36 --> 00:06:24,96 a theater and possibly even at all that said if you have seen the other movie 76 00:06:25,53 --> 00:06:31,35 it does feel very redundant every joke that worked in Austin Powers and I worked I 77 00:06:31,36 --> 00:06:38,03 mean worked big all of the quotable stuff that's back for the Spy Who Shagged Me So 78 00:06:38,07 --> 00:06:42,61 it's more of everything everything repeats but everything is also made bigger So if 79 00:06:42,62 --> 00:06:42,91 you thought 80 00:06:42,92 --> 00:06:45,75 a joke that was like this was pretty good now you're going to get like this and 81 00:06:45,76 --> 00:06:50,40 you're going to get it twice right by the end of this thing Meyers really starts to 82 00:06:50,41 --> 00:06:56,08 grate he's playing Austin Powers in this he's playing Dr Evil again and see as much 83 00:06:56,09 --> 00:07:00,70 as I like all the evil in the first movie it seems like the well has run dry on any 84 00:07:00,71 --> 00:07:04,47 kind of interesting investigation of a character and Myers is also playing 85 00:07:04,48 --> 00:07:11,01 a character called Fat Bastard which the less we say about him the better as far as 86 00:07:11,02 --> 00:07:15,92 the silver lining in this movie goes Heather Graham very good she's very good in 87 00:07:15,93 --> 00:07:19,98 this Austin Powers the spike shag me two stars. 88 00:07:25,45 --> 00:07:30,51 Every so often I'll find myself you know going through the guide on the cable box 89 00:07:30,78 --> 00:07:35,46 looking to see what's on and sometimes you know the title of the movie will just 90 00:07:35,47 --> 00:07:40,74 splash across the screen and catch your imagination and you'll say how if I've not 91 00:07:40,75 --> 00:07:46,55 seen this movie and also I need to see this movie one such movie recently for me my 92 00:07:46,56 --> 00:07:52,02 mom's Oh werewolf Yeah so what do you think this movie is going to be about Fela 93 00:07:52,44 --> 00:07:53,16 it's going to be about 94 00:07:53,17 --> 00:08:00,03 a kid whose mom. Is aware Wolf and long time 95 00:08:00,04 --> 00:08:01,51 viewers of the show will remember I am 96 00:08:01,52 --> 00:08:07,02 a big fan of the movie The howling to your sister is a werewolf and if 97 00:08:07,03 --> 00:08:13,55 a sister werewolf is good then a mom werewolf is gonna be great now listen there's 98 00:08:13,59 --> 00:08:18,05 a lot to recommend about this movie one normally when you conceive of 99 00:08:18,06 --> 00:08:21,93 a movie called My mom's a werewolf fence from the eighty's this is going to follow 100 00:08:21,94 --> 00:08:27,10 a little boy whose mom's a werewolf not so fast little girl and actually not even 101 00:08:27,28 --> 00:08:32,02 a teenage girl and her friend and their refreshing character is in this sort of 102 00:08:32,03 --> 00:08:38,56 eighty's horror movie in that we get two girls who are giant core fans and they're 103 00:08:38,57 --> 00:08:42,22 going to horror conventions and reading Fangoria and stuff that's 104 00:08:42,23 --> 00:08:48,21 a good thing also lady werewolf because those of you who have seen howling to my 105 00:08:48,22 --> 00:08:48,70 sister is 106 00:08:48,71 --> 00:08:53,87 a werewolf Well now that there is actually very little lady werewolf action in it 107 00:08:54,15 --> 00:08:55,43 as said sister who is 108 00:08:55,44 --> 00:09:02,33 a werewolf spoiler alert dives almost instantly in the movie and then the next 109 00:09:02,34 --> 00:09:09,26 female werewolf stare as played by the great civil Danning. Is 110 00:09:09,27 --> 00:09:15,68 barely Wolfie and at any point so Lady werewolf Plus another plus great horror 111 00:09:15,69 --> 00:09:22,69 movie actor the sheriff in hollow Wien John Saxon as the werewolf who turns the mom 112 00:09:22,70 --> 00:09:22,97 into 113 00:09:22,98 --> 00:09:28,31 a werewolf and John Saxon decides he's going to some scenery and it's also good the 114 00:09:28,32 --> 00:09:32,08 bad really the rest of the movie this is a cheapie this is 115 00:09:32,09 --> 00:09:36,98 a cheapie Drive-In picture and it is not great it is really 116 00:09:36,99 --> 00:09:41,08 a padded out and boring there's you know sometimes you see 117 00:09:41,09 --> 00:09:45,94 a movie where you're like you know this is about an hour of good movie and an hour 118 00:09:45,95 --> 00:09:51,61 and a half this was about fifteen or twenty minutes of good movie in an hour and 119 00:09:51,62 --> 00:09:56,82 a half but I don't want to ignore those fifteen to twenty minutes which. So I'm 120 00:09:56,83 --> 00:09:57,61 giving my mom's 121 00:09:57,62 --> 00:10:05,10 a werewolf two stars. And 122 00:10:05,11 --> 00:10:07,35 now it's time for license to thrill. 123 00:10:25,40 --> 00:10:28,70 License to thrill is of course the part of the show where we talk about James Bond 124 00:10:28,71 --> 00:10:35,51 movies or James Bond adjacent movies because listen 125 00:10:35,52 --> 00:10:40,80 and I contain multitudes and why shouldn't the license to thrill section and so 126 00:10:40,81 --> 00:10:47,53 today we're going to look at remote Williams the adventure began it's based on the 127 00:10:47,57 --> 00:10:54,07 other popular I guess popular series of paperbacks that I think are called the 128 00:10:54,08 --> 00:11:00,18 executioner series the box over here look what was there it is. 129 00:11:01,36 --> 00:11:04,08 Wrong one way or another. So this is 130 00:11:04,09 --> 00:11:10,18 a movie about yeah that's right Rima Williams As played by Fred Ward was I don't 131 00:11:10,19 --> 00:11:12,50 know a guy basically this is 132 00:11:12,51 --> 00:11:19,06 a you know masculine pulp paperback brought to life and I've 133 00:11:19,50 --> 00:11:23,44 seen this movie or video stores for years never checked it out finally gave it 134 00:11:23,45 --> 00:11:28,96 a look and it's fun it's fun and certainly part of what attaches it to the whole 135 00:11:28,97 --> 00:11:32,11 James Bond thing outside of it being you know an American attempt at 136 00:11:32,12 --> 00:11:35,07 a James Bond what with it having you know essentially 137 00:11:35,08 --> 00:11:39,63 a super spy slash assassin working for secretive organization with an M. 138 00:11:39,64 --> 00:11:40,92 Type character and a Q. 139 00:11:40,93 --> 00:11:47,13 Type character one of whom is Wilford Brimley. Is that the movie is directed by Guy 140 00:11:47,14 --> 00:11:54,13 Hamilton who had so capably directed several James Bond pictures Kate Mulgrew is in 141 00:11:54,14 --> 00:12:00,22 this Captain Janeway Mrs Columbo is here as the love interest which she now isn't 142 00:12:00,23 --> 00:12:06,44 great but she's pretty good she was she's an Army officer and she gets to do some 143 00:12:06,45 --> 00:12:07,67 good stuff she is not 144 00:12:07,71 --> 00:12:13,18 a you know she's not and say Tiffany Case or 145 00:12:13,22 --> 00:12:19,55 a doctor Christmas Jones to pull from the world of James Bond she's but she's still 146 00:12:19,56 --> 00:12:22,49 in the you know sort of the ballpark of an agent triple X. 147 00:12:22,82 --> 00:12:24,70 So she's pretty good that she pretty good she's 148 00:12:24,71 --> 00:12:28,96 a bright spot the other bright spot in this movie is 149 00:12:29,00 --> 00:12:35,44 a toughie So Joel Grey is in this movie you may know Joel 150 00:12:35,45 --> 00:12:36,52 Grey as 151 00:12:36,53 --> 00:12:43,01 a dancer and from the movie Cabaret well in this movie Little grey plays 152 00:12:43,02 --> 00:12:49,55 a character named she on who is the super cool mentor to remold Williams 153 00:12:49,75 --> 00:12:54,74 Here's the problem Chee an elderly Asian Man Yeah so you've got 154 00:12:54,75 --> 00:12:57,94 a white guy playing an elderly Asian man which is not 155 00:12:57,98 --> 00:13:03,90 a great walk some classic Hollywood white washing wait here the thing that makes it 156 00:13:03,91 --> 00:13:08,21 all the more difficult Joel Gray's very charming in the role it's 157 00:13:08,22 --> 00:13:13,18 a very very charming role and charming character it is however 158 00:13:13,22 --> 00:13:19,74 a little race more than a little racist both in terms of. You know that there's 159 00:13:19,75 --> 00:13:24,93 a white guy playing the role and in the terms of that that that role is more than 160 00:13:24,94 --> 00:13:31,77 a little. Stereotypical So it's pretty problematic 161 00:13:32,60 --> 00:13:37,16 Yeah still it's a pretty fun movie it never reaches the heights of 162 00:13:37,17 --> 00:13:40,28 a James Bond and the title tells you everything you need to know those remote 163 00:13:40,29 --> 00:13:46,20 Williams the adventure begins I want to see the adventure continues which I think 164 00:13:46,24 --> 00:13:48,65 is real anyway two and 165 00:13:48,66 --> 00:13:55,46 a half stars. All right folks 166 00:13:55,50 --> 00:13:57,64 now it is time for spaced out. 167 00:14:04,41 --> 00:14:09,28 Today and spaced out we are going to journey to a long time ago in 168 00:14:09,29 --> 00:14:16,18 a galaxy far far away and talk about the return of the Jane I undoubtedly the 169 00:14:16,19 --> 00:14:20,10 Star Wars movie that I saw the most as 170 00:14:20,11 --> 00:14:26,75 a child why because let's be honest when you're like ten jet I is way more fun than 171 00:14:26,76 --> 00:14:31,80 empire and we didn't own Star Wars we just had return of the jet I and The Empire 172 00:14:31,81 --> 00:14:38,14 Strikes Back on wait for it video disc that's right here's the thing it's it 173 00:14:39,33 --> 00:14:40,81 turns out I has gained 174 00:14:40,85 --> 00:14:47,72 a reputation in the years since its release as the bad Star Wars movie of the 175 00:14:47,73 --> 00:14:54,50 original trilogy I mean obviously it's not the worst Star Wars movie it's not even 176 00:14:54,68 --> 00:15:01,37 the second worst Star Wars movie made nor is it the third. And why not go all the 177 00:15:01,38 --> 00:15:06,70 way the fourth where Star Wars movie if I'm looking at the Star Wars movies it is 178 00:15:06,71 --> 00:15:07,05 to me 179 00:15:07,09 --> 00:15:13,88 a second tier movie I would say that returned the jet I rolled one and the 180 00:15:13,89 --> 00:15:19,34 force awakens are all kind of too close to call they're all super fun movies 181 00:15:19,35 --> 00:15:24,43 a return of the jet I folks is darn fun but they all sort of have the same problems 182 00:15:24,44 --> 00:15:28,99 where there are amazing sequences and then there are problems the amazing sequence 183 00:15:29,00 --> 00:15:32,21 and return of the jet AI for me and I know there are people who don't love it is 184 00:15:32,22 --> 00:15:38,50 the job as Palast sequence the job as palace sequence is maybe to this day my 185 00:15:38,51 --> 00:15:45,40 favorite part of the saga and I love it I love it I love it I have I 186 00:15:45,41 --> 00:15:50,27 have recreated the job as palace to some degree in my home with the Kenner action 187 00:15:50,28 --> 00:15:57,26 figures I was very excited to get the max Ribault band this year at long last I 188 00:15:57,27 --> 00:16:00,44 just love it I know there are people who don't care for it because it's 189 00:16:00,45 --> 00:16:05,03 a little much Betty but man that's a plus for me it's I think 190 00:16:05,04 --> 00:16:09,10 a definite step up from the original Star Wars Cantina sequence in terms of 191 00:16:09,11 --> 00:16:15,68 creature effects I love how job who you imagine to this whole time is so completely 192 00:16:15,72 --> 00:16:17,54 inhuman not in 193 00:16:17,55 --> 00:16:22,38 a moral standpoint although he's kind of that but just in looks like he's not just 194 00:16:22,42 --> 00:16:24,28 a guy in a suit or 195 00:16:24,29 --> 00:16:30,80 a dude with stuff blue do his face he's truly alien and I like that the movie is 196 00:16:30,81 --> 00:16:31,54 fun throughout 197 00:16:31,66 --> 00:16:36,78 a lot of people complain about the walks. That's I like that you walk I've always 198 00:16:36,83 --> 00:16:43,13 liked the walks I get that they're cute and cuddly and whatever but I don't care I 199 00:16:43,14 --> 00:16:47,33 like them and I like that they're cute and cuddly and I like that they murder in 200 00:16:47,34 --> 00:16:52,35 Eat stormtroopers What's not to like about that at in an episode where we talked 201 00:16:52,36 --> 00:16:58,09 about platoon earlier let's be honest he walks kind of the daily mores of the me I 202 00:16:58,10 --> 00:17:02,89 mean that's there now supposedly George's original idea was that the he walks would 203 00:17:02,90 --> 00:17:08,26 just be walkies and if you scramble up walkie you get the walk right and maybe that 204 00:17:08,27 --> 00:17:13,80 would have been cooler but I will net the part of my heart that loves wicked W. 205 00:17:13,81 --> 00:17:18,53 Warwick and the rest of his clan It will never die now that's not to say there are 206 00:17:18,58 --> 00:17:24,26 flaws in return of the jet I Harrison Ford is perpetually bored throughout this 207 00:17:24,27 --> 00:17:30,80 movie he's just so bored and the idea of making les a Luke sister definitely 208 00:17:30,87 --> 00:17:37,55 a mistake plus the movie sort of after Jobs Palace after Yoda before and or 209 00:17:37,87 --> 00:17:41,89 and even for a while in the end or the movie kind of takes a coffee break for 210 00:17:41,90 --> 00:17:46,93 a while it really just sort of pauses like we are now the breathless action were to 211 00:17:46,97 --> 00:17:47,90 stop it for 212 00:17:47,91 --> 00:17:53,74 a time still there's an infectious fun to this movie that cannot be ignored whether 213 00:17:53,75 --> 00:17:58,18 it's through the creatures in the scenarios and just you know that original cast 214 00:17:58,19 --> 00:18:03,47 being so darn charming plus that ending sequence between the fight on and or in the 215 00:18:03,48 --> 00:18:07,72 fight outside the Death Star and Luke facing off against Vader in the Emperor at 216 00:18:07,73 --> 00:18:08,17 last is 217 00:18:08,18 --> 00:18:17,84 a mentally satisfying to me which is four stars. Now 218 00:18:17,85 --> 00:18:18,62 it's time for 219 00:18:18,63 --> 00:18:25,31 a Hollywood classic. Folks we talked 220 00:18:25,32 --> 00:18:30,32 earlier this very episode about unspoiled and revisiting the classic Hollywood you 221 00:18:30,33 --> 00:18:34,43 know classic American movies another one that on school brought me to was so. Swing 222 00:18:34,44 --> 00:18:39,97 Time the Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers dance movie that I've never seen I've seen one 223 00:18:39,98 --> 00:18:43,77 or two Fred and Ginger movies and as viewers of the show will know I have 224 00:18:43,81 --> 00:18:48,75 a great deal of affection for Ginger Rogers in her solo work so I really do need to 225 00:18:48,76 --> 00:18:54,64 revisit some of these unfortunately I don't think Swing Time is the right one and 226 00:18:54,65 --> 00:19:00,76 listen listen Swing Time is fine there is some great dancing here 227 00:19:01,07 --> 00:19:07,85 but that great dancing and you know and plus Fred and Ginger is chemistry 228 00:19:07,86 --> 00:19:13,14 and charm is certainly on display but here the problem is there's this whole comedy 229 00:19:13,20 --> 00:19:20,02 there's this whole plot in this movie regarding double marriage where Fred 230 00:19:20,03 --> 00:19:24,13 Astaire doesn't want to get married to his wife but then he falls in love with his 231 00:19:24,14 --> 00:19:28,73 fiance and then he falls in love with Ginger Rogers that plot is off it just 232 00:19:28,74 --> 00:19:32,74 doesn't work in the movie it's not that there's no one to root for it's just that 233 00:19:32,75 --> 00:19:38,50 this doesn't ever feel real it doesn't feel substantial in any kind of 234 00:19:38,51 --> 00:19:42,69 a way and it also doesn't feel romantic because the chemistry that Fred and Ginger 235 00:19:42,70 --> 00:19:49,63 have between each other is great and but it's platonic it is not romantic when I'm 236 00:19:49,64 --> 00:19:56,54 supposed to be buying them falling in love I am just not buying it also the comedy 237 00:19:56,58 --> 00:20:00,82 in this movie is off I don't know if it's a product of it being 238 00:20:00,83 --> 00:20:04,92 a movie from another era and that some of the jokes just don't translate there's 239 00:20:04,93 --> 00:20:06,04 a lot of jokes about 240 00:20:06,05 --> 00:20:11,34 a guy's pants in this that just don't work at all for me and then to top it off 241 00:20:11,51 --> 00:20:14,02 there's the whole thing gets marred by 242 00:20:14,03 --> 00:20:20,63 a really unfortunate blackface sequence and. The worst part about it is that it's 243 00:20:20,68 --> 00:20:26,37 on necessary because it is maybe the showstopper is maybe the most especially from 244 00:20:26,38 --> 00:20:33,03 a solo Fred Astaire standpoint one of the most cinematic dances Astaire hands 245 00:20:33,04 --> 00:20:38,08 certainly in the movie possibly in his career it looks phenomenal particularly when 246 00:20:38,09 --> 00:20:42,64 he's dancing out on the stage alone and then there are these towering shadows 247 00:20:42,65 --> 00:20:48,48 behind him that are dancing simultaneously in sync with him it looks great but 248 00:20:48,49 --> 00:20:55,05 why does he have to have blackface on during it there is no plot reason for it 249 00:20:55,28 --> 00:21:01,32 there is no it does not impact on the dance it is there Pirelli because that's 250 00:21:01,33 --> 00:21:07,04 a thing that they did at that time and who Boy has it not aged well and it makes 251 00:21:07,34 --> 00:21:14,19 that sequence very difficult to look at still I mean like I said there's some great 252 00:21:14,20 --> 00:21:15,73 dancer here this is and this is 253 00:21:15,74 --> 00:21:21,52 a movie with some worth to it but I can only give it three stars. 254 00:21:26,92 --> 00:21:29,18 And now friends worst of the week. 255 00:21:34,19 --> 00:21:38,48 So here we are once again in the worst of the week which we talk about you know the 256 00:21:38,49 --> 00:21:44,87 worst movie we saw this week and this week it was chips. Listen gang twenty one 257 00:21:44,88 --> 00:21:45,67 Jump Street came out 258 00:21:45,68 --> 00:21:51,06 a couple of years ago and it sort of fulfilled the promise created by Starsky and 259 00:21:51,07 --> 00:21:57,46 Hutch that you can take one of these corny seventy's detective shows and turn it 260 00:21:57,50 --> 00:22:04,48 into an action comedy spectacular way that the way to remake these is not 261 00:22:04,49 --> 00:22:10,57 to Miami Vice style take it super seriously it's to play it tongue in cheek and 262 00:22:10,58 --> 00:22:11,62 twenty one Jump Street did such 263 00:22:11,63 --> 00:22:14,10 a great job with it and so since then there have been 264 00:22:14,14 --> 00:22:20,04 a number of attempts to do very much the same thing and chips is one of those this 265 00:22:20,05 --> 00:22:21,39 one however is 266 00:22:21,40 --> 00:22:27,83 a massive misfire it was written and directed by Dax Shepard who also stars 267 00:22:28,12 --> 00:22:30,32 and. X. 268 00:22:30,36 --> 00:22:36,17 My man. Who for the whole movie is very sex obsessed in 269 00:22:36,18 --> 00:22:41,25 a negative way down to that the character deck Shepard played is 270 00:22:41,29 --> 00:22:47,60 a sex addict but played for laughs It's very weird you also have Michael I'm sorry 271 00:22:47,61 --> 00:22:48,42 Michael peña is 272 00:22:48,43 --> 00:22:54,14 a character is the sex addict Dax Shepard is just also similarly obsessed with it 273 00:22:54,15 --> 00:23:00,12 but not an actual addict I don't know the instant and standard stock bad guy in 274 00:23:00,13 --> 00:23:02,53 this he's always good at that but listen this is 275 00:23:02,54 --> 00:23:07,46 a real tough movie to watch it is it has 276 00:23:07,47 --> 00:23:14,34 a very masculine old fashioned idea of sex and sexiness and it did Welles in that 277 00:23:14,38 --> 00:23:16,94 almost nonstop it's 278 00:23:16,95 --> 00:23:24,61 a toughie guys chips is two stars. But 279 00:23:24,62 --> 00:23:27,28 now folks let's check out the best of the bunch. 280 00:23:31,78 --> 00:23:35,81 This week's best of the bunch could only be hidden figures so happy I finally got 281 00:23:35,82 --> 00:23:41,54 around to checking out this picture about the African American women who made such 282 00:23:41,55 --> 00:23:48,10 a huge deal. In the space race and who have largely whose story has largely been 283 00:23:48,36 --> 00:23:50,31 untold hidden for years is 284 00:23:50,32 --> 00:23:54,64 a deeply inspiring movie is one of those movies where I feel like it needs to be 285 00:23:54,65 --> 00:23:58,59 shown in schools like I remember being in school right and the teacher doesn't want 286 00:23:58,60 --> 00:24:03,76 to teach that day for whatever reason so you end up watching something like Glory 287 00:24:04,12 --> 00:24:07,64 or Inherit the Wind or something like that this is 288 00:24:07,65 --> 00:24:10,38 a movie that belong in that sort of echelon of 289 00:24:10,39 --> 00:24:14,52 a movie that's inspiring and empowering one also telling you about an important 290 00:24:14,53 --> 00:24:21,41 facet of history it was really great and it's kind of disgusting that it's such 291 00:24:21,42 --> 00:24:27,51 a recent movie that this story had not been told earlier still the way we get it is 292 00:24:27,52 --> 00:24:32,10 truly tremendous The leads are all spectacular to Raje P. 293 00:24:32,11 --> 00:24:38,28 Henson is wonderful Octavia Spencer wonderful again and she's been turning in to 294 00:24:38,29 --> 00:24:42,53 reflect work whether it was in The Help or the shape of water and here she really 295 00:24:42,54 --> 00:24:42,77 gets 296 00:24:42,78 --> 00:24:51,55 a knock at the part you know Monet amazing. Figures force. That 297 00:24:51,56 --> 00:24:55,45 is going to do it for this episode of every movie ever be sure to join us next time 298 00:24:55,46 --> 00:24:59,20 as we will keep trying to Raj and review every movie ever made. 299 00:25:15,41 --> 00:25:18,01 And don't forget to visit our website North Metro T.V. 300 00:25:18,02 --> 00:25:23,37 Dot com slash every movie ever there you can watch reviews of every movie ever 301 00:25:23,38 --> 00:25:28,48 covered here on the show as well as complete episode that's north pressure to leave 302 00:25:28,49 --> 00:25:30,50 that concept every movie ever.