Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're talking about the king of video game movies, as people would call him in the early 2000s, Paul W.S. Anderson.

Oh, I thought you were going to say Uve-Bol. So I 2000s, Paul W.S. Anderson. Oh, I thought you were going to say Uvee Ball.

So I have been following Paul W.S. Anderson for so long that I remember when the trailer

for House of the Dead came out. And people were like, Oovey Bowl, he looks just as bad as

Paul W.S. Anderson. Or during that time, I wonder if they were calling him Paul Anderson. Because for a bunch of movies, he was credited as just that. And then what happened? Well, supposedly it was a W. Guild issue that Paul Thomas Anderson registered his name as Paul Anderson. So Paul W. S Anderson had to change his name. You know, that's why there's a lot of weird names in like guilds, because you cannot have the same two names. That's why he's not Michael Douglas, which is his actual name. I think maybe the guild should change that rule, because it's very confusing. It is pretty ridiculous. Now, have you ever been a fan or interested in this director, Will? No, I've never been a fan, but I have, he has perpetually been on my list of to investigate

because people are very passionate about him. 10 or 15 years ago, some of our younger listeners

may not remember this. Some of our older listeners may not either, but there was a,

I'd love you were in a very particular forum or social media bubble. That's right. We had a thing called vulgarotourism.

Rest in peace. And it evolved like bacteria out of the forums at mooby.com. And there were certain critics.

Wait, wait, wait. Mooby.com had forums? Oh, did that, did Mooby have forums? Wait, so would you, like, be on there?

I wasn't, I wasn't part of it. Okay. This is what I've heard secondhand. Mooby had forums. Wait, so would you like be on there? I wasn't, I wasn't part of it.

Okay. This is what I've heard second hand. Mooby had forums. You went to the archive and looked

through the history of vulgaroturism. The kindly librarian who was able to tell me. No, but

there were also certain critics, Ignati Vishnevetsky being probably like the key one who, like

vulgarot tourism wasn't really,

it was an inside joke basically. Yes, because that's what oturism was for. Exactly. That like

Hitchcock and all those people would be vulgar oturists. Right. And so and so the people who

were really into this 10 or 15 years ago, it was like, well, let's take it to the new generation. Who are the

vulgar otours of our day? The expressive esoterica of our day. And it was people like, well,

on the high end, you had Michael Mann, Abel Ferreira, Brian De Palma, people who are, I think,

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