The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast.

My name is Brian Sauer, and I am joined, as always, by the wonderful Elricane.

And Mr. Kane, what are we doing for today's show?

What's the focus?

We are dressed up in our tuxedos with our Thanksgiving attire on top of that.

We are here to not celebrate the book, The Golden Turkey Awards by Harry and Michael Medved.

Instead, kind of like our Ebert and Siskel Dogs of the Week, who we obviously respect them,

greatly their Dogs of the Weeks episodes.

We kind of wanted to go through a book that I think unjustly maligns a lot of interesting movies.

I would say I think there's a little bit of a difference.

The front of the book, you know, has some valid, humorous, you know, digs or humorous things at, you know, bad movies. And it's pretty low-hanging fruit, though. You know, it's like, it's pretty easy to make pot shots at, you know, exploitation fair and drive-in movies. But where I really take umbrage with this particular book is that

you get to the back and there's this long section of what they consider just bad, terrible movies. And in

there, there's tons of interesting movies. And so, you know, so kind of like what we did on that episode,

we wanted to kind of go back, highlight some good in something that is

there for you to essentially forget or avoid movies. I mean, I think a book like this is,

is there to tell you the audience not to ever watch this stuff. Like, it's enough to read this

little blurb that will help you avoid this movie. I think that's the actual goal of something

like this.

The only thing I'll say in their defense is that I do think pre-internet some of these books,

you know, actually helped some people discover movies, you know? Just like cult movies, of course,

which is a positive play on this. I think, you know, the fact that these become popular means some people

are learning about movies and watching movies in a time where it's not as easy to learn about lesser known movies, but

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