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Episode: 2025
“Defending Your Life. Albert Brooks, one of the greatest of all time. Me and Evan explicitly ripped off the ending for this movie when we were making our movie, This Is the End. We sure did. We did some work to change it, but it’s essentially the same ending.”
“I’m going with Greg Mottola classic, The Daytrippers. Great movie. We saw it and we thought, “Hey, that guy should direct Superbad.” And then he did. And I think, sorry, Greg, it’s better than Daytrippers.”
“I’ve never heard of this, but I am intrigued by the title. Samurai Spy. That is a cool name for a movie. The odds that this movie is bad are zero.”
“Here’s something I really love, and I’m not the only one. Breathless. “Breathleth.” That’s how I pronounced– As they say in Madrid. “Breathleth.”...”
“And there’d be no Jackie Chan without Buster Keaton. And this was a great movie, The Cameraman.”
“Oh, I feel like we’ve been asked to remake this movie a lot. We have. This has come around several times. Every three years we get a request to remake It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. I don’t know… Have you watched this movie? No, and I never will. You never will. No, and I never will. It actually has amazing physical comedy in it. I’m taking it.”
“Have you seen this funny movie? Funny Games. Hilarious movie. This is supposed to be really funny. Ten out of ten, hilarious. I’m gonna watch it with my kids. They’re gonna laugh, or cry.”
“Naked Lunch. I saw this when I was way too young. Me too. I think my brain scrubbed it. Because it’s a Canadian movie, they would play it on Canadian television a lot, and it was legitimately horrific. 1991. So we were nine years old.”
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Oh, man.”
“We were real into this movie. Remember you painted— you repainted... You painted the cover. I don’t even paint. That’s the weird thing. That’s how much we were inspired by Badlands. I took up painting just to paint the cover of Badlands.”
“The Cranes Are Flying. Oddly enough, this was one of our biggest visual references when we were making The Studio. We referenced it a lot. It has a lot of amazing long takes, long shots. A pretty wide lens. Think it is the same DP who did Soy Cuba. And, yeah, we reference that both verbally and visually in the show as well.”
“The Killing by Stanley Kubrick. Truly amazing movie. The pace of it is amazing. It’s only 84 minutes long, which is insane. And it’s so good. And so contemporary-feeling in its rhythms.”
“Have you seen The Ice Storm? Oh, yeah. David Krumholtz is in that. I never saw it. I see every David Krumholtz movie eventually. It’s really good. I feel like as Canadians, we got an extra push for The Ice Storm. And they’re like, “They’re gonna love this.”...”
“You’ve seen Shampoo, I assume? No. You’ve never seen Shampoo? No. As a bald man, I just don’t want to... It was too painful. Hal Ashby movie. One of the best of all time. Now I’m sold. I’ll wear a wig and watch it.”
“Jackie Chan. Wow. Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Spiritual Kung Fu, The Fearless Hyena, My Lucky Stars. Great movie. Jackie Chan’s the best. Funniest living human being, Jackie Chan. Hands down.”
“Wait, there was another Jackie Chan one. Yes. Police Story., yeah. These are the best movies. Both of them are amazing. Maybe the greatest sequence of action in one film ever. The end of Police Story is one of the greatest third-act action sequences ever in a movie.”
“Do I take The Complete Tati? PlayTime, Mon Oncle.”
“I’m only going to do this one if you haven’t seen it. I’ve not watched The Infernal Affairs Trilogy. This is good.”
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