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The Movies That Made Me

Dead Presidents, The Book Of Eli writer/director Albert Hughes

The Movies That Made Me

SpectreVision Radio

Tv & Film, Film History

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Albert Hughes (Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, The Book of Eli) and many others takes us on a wild journey through the movies that made him, then explains why he's not a cinefile (Spoiler: He is.) Heads up - you're going to hear some words you've never heard on our show before, and only one of them is Metropolis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.3

Gremlins and I'm like, I saw it three times in the theater.

0:09.0

Really?

0:10.1

How old are you?

0:11.9

So, 84, it was 12.

0:14.0

12 figures.

0:16.4

And I was like, man, it was just a wild ride.

0:20.6

And I was just asking Josh, I go, didn't it have a Christmas element to it?

0:23.6

Because I was thinking about Christmas story, too, which were around the same period of time.

0:27.4

Yeah, the Christmas element is one of the reasons I think it's still popular.

0:36.1

This is The Movies That Made Me with your hosts, Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

0:41.2

And Joe Dante. Well, Albert, thanks for joining us, man.

1:02.0

We're very, very psyched to have you.

1:05.0

I won't tell anyone in our audience what you're doing right now.

1:07.2

We have young and pressible children there.

1:09.2

Don't smoke.

1:13.1

And if you do, make sure it's marijuana. What were we? We were, we were, oh, God, we watched the candidate last night, which I

1:17.6

not seen in a million years. God, I haven't seen that in a long time. It's just hilarious. You just

1:21.3

have this, you know, people walk into, you know, a stranger's house, they lit up a cigarette, they walk into a crowded room, they lit up a cigarette. I was like, I remember that world.

1:29.3

That's what people did in old movies, especially in the 40s.

1:32.3

There was always a full stocked bar and everybody's living.

1:35.3

I made a mistake, my brother and I made a mistake of doing that in Johnny Depp's house.

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