Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode of the Zoloberg. This is Scott Weinberg coming to you solo this week. I hope you don't mind. But we're gonna be running through some feedback that I asked on Twitter. I posed a question, name a movie you watched because we mentioned it on 80s all over. Strong reactions are preferable, but explain yourself and thanks. So this is Drew and I, it's one of our favorite things to talk about about the show. I can't imagine that there's much more feedback that's more rewarding than I rewatched or discovered a movie because I heard it on the show and we loved it. Helping people discover or rediscover a great movie is, it's the ultimate reward for a show like this. Unless of course the reward was Google bought our podcast for $5 million. That reward might be slightly better than you saying, boy, I like that movie. So this is a bonus episode for the patrons. And again, thank you so much for your monthly donation. We are ridiculously appreciative. So my friend, Allison, who is at Mitzi 247 on Twitter. And she said, I rewatched the pirate movie. I like destroying childhood memories. I still like the costumes and the happy ending song. So there you go. Now, the pirate movie is in many ways a laughable ridiculous in that bad movie. But this just goes to show you that like if you saw it when you were four or 14 and you maybe didn't love the movie, but a certain a couple of moments, a joke, a song, like she mentioned the costumes, that kind of stuff sticks in your memory and then you were rewatching it 25 years later and you go, oh, gah, I had no idea this was so terrible, but oh, there is that happy ending song. So yeah, you know, good for you, Ellsson I appreciate that and she also said to make up for it I'm trying to track down a copy of used cars which I have not seen and I'm gonna show my boys pop-I after we're done exploring Miyazaki films Ellsson is a great parent. She is not showing her children used cars, but she is trying to show her boys pop-eye. And let me know when you're after that experiment, Allison. Let us know what your boys thought of pop-eye because I could see modern kids being either maybe falling for it, but maybe I'm cynical. I think that a younger kids might turn their nose up and laugh at it. I think it's corny. So now we go to Taylor, who is Fury Road Rules on Twitter. And he says, Road Games love all that hitch cockiness. And then our friend, Bloodsucka Jones says, Road Game Bucking Rules. That is of course, Richard Franklin, who would go on to do other hitch cocking films like the great, maybe not great, but very good Psycho 2. And yeah, he had a real thing. He was like a diploma in a way, Richard Franklin. He also did Cloak and Dagger, which drew an eye looking forward to getting to. And he liked a diploma, was clearly inspired and influenced by Alfred Hitchcock. And then also found a way to incorporate his own attitude, his own color, his own style. So it wasn't simply just copying Hitchcock, which I think a lot of people accused DiPoma of, but I don't think he really does. Maybe he leans on it a bit too much, but I like it when I see filmmakers admiring and even emulating filmmakers that they like, as long as they don't overdo it and then it just feels kind of lazy. So, road games, glad that you guys liked that one. Philip Guest says, the Evil Dead, like Drew, I think ED2 is the best of the series, but I had forgotten how original, bloody, and unnerving the first film was. That's a great point. Drew and I discussed the Evil Dead, and having revisited it just prior to the episode, it struck me like Drew mentioned on the regular episode how brutal and nihilistic and unrelenting it is. Evil Dead 2 has some wild gruesome stuff but it often does slow down to be colorful and weird and silly. But evil dead is to its credit, I think, consistently doom ridden. It's just like dread throughout the film. I remember seeing it on VHS when I was younger and just creeping me out like, do I want to see the next scene? Do I want to go around the next corner? Some of the best really intense brutal even gory horror films capture that. And Evil Dead is great great great if you haven't seen it recently definitely dig it up John Duckie who is Liz Miller said I saw Evil Dead when I was 15 a friend was going out with a guy who was a few years older than a scared the crap out of me. Our friend Ian Brill who is I Brill on Twitter says used cars was conveniently playing at the New Beverly after you talked about it. Double feature with I Want to Hold Your Hand. Of course that is the two films from Zemeckis and Bob Gale. I want to hold your hand of course is from the 70s so we didn't get to cover it but if you've never seen it, it is a very entertaining movie about a bunch of kids who are a go nuts trying to break into the Beatles Hotel. And that's a really entertaining movie. And I think again, I think used cars might be our number one most cited film when I ask this question. And it just pleases me to know and because used cars is just a fun, wacky, raucous, consistently funny movie. I love it, love it, love it. Let's move on. We have, oh Jeff Movie Man, a very loyal listener, says an American wear-off in London. Love, love, love it. A textbook example of a great horror comedy. First off, you are always supportive of the show. Thank you. And secondly, I am amazed that you hadn't seen American wear-off in London before now, but it does make us happy that we helped prod you into seeing it. It's awesome. He also watched GESS, if you can remember that one, and his only comments are god damn it, god damn it. He also found the unbelievably awful obscurity goodbye cruel world. And to that he comments, it's a thing that happened.

That's it. And the James Con film, Heiden Plainsight, the jury and I thought was a bestable decent. He called it a decent film overall. So thank you Jeff. That's Jeff Movie Man, and he's always hot to get the new episodes, and I appreciate it. We have a handful of listeners who are just rabid, and I appreciate it, because there are handful of podcasts that I look forward to them dropping every week like a kid on Christmas morning. So I can totally relate and appreciate that compliment. Thank you. Chaz F Fisher says Arthur, I thought more and monelle and Gilgude were amazing, but that's a film definitely less than the sum of its parts. Fair enough. It is a bit, it's a very lightweight movie. It's just a very simple rich guy falls for a woman and will probably lose his inheritance if he marries a quote unquote commoner. And he is of course a lush and a drunk and John Gilgude who won the Oscar for playing his caustic hilarious butler I could see that I could see and also I forget his name at the gentleman who plays Eliza Menelli's father who you know from Seinfeld and everything he's great I could see not loving it, but at least appreciating the performances. So thank you jazz San Diego Sina Rama Says Mofisto. I I'm seeking out Zabo's other films and eager to hear your thoughts on Colonel Riddle when you get to it. Thank you, Mofisto. That again, that's a movie that I probably never would have bothered with had I not been the co-host of this show. So I am also appreciative to this show that I was able to watch Mofisto. And thank you, San Diego. If you're in San Diego, go to the cinema. Todd Sakalov says, bad timing. I'm not sure how I ever missed this one. Amazing find. Good call. This is Tom Kennedy, who is big Tom underscore 79. He sends me an image and the image says, this is a sampling of my 80s all over collection,

including preemptive purchase Midnight Run,

sitting atop the Blu-ray player.

I bought that. I bought so I can actually watch them.

Oh, Tom's overseas, great.

Thief, battle beyond the stars, my favorite new discoveries,

Popeye, the thing, my favorite revisits.

So his image here has used cars, Walter Hill Southern, comfort, the great midnight run, which spoiler will get to in a few years, but it's great. The long riders, that's the Western with all the brothers, Barry Levin, to Diner, Death Trap, Battle Beyond the Stars, The Thing, Thief, Time Bandits, and Popeye. Damn, brilliant taste. Felipe, soberieto believe I pronounced that right. Sobrero and he is on Twitter at The Real Sobrero and it says Tarzan the Eight Man and a real nasty ugly red face. I think a lot of our listeners maybe do tune in to hear like, of course they wanna hear like, oh that sounds good, maybe I'll rent that thing. I never heard of that or I want to watch that again but I think some of our listeners also keep a year out for stuff that we call absolutely atrocious and it's kind of like most movie geeks go alright I got to check that for myself and I wouldn't have it any other way so when you hear us hate under no circumstances watch this movie it doesn't it means if we peaked your curiosity for a movie good or bad fine by me so yeah Tarzan the eight man sorry brought that to your attention so be careful now we have a Demetrials putzzi are alright Greek gentlemen and he says hero at large period no explanation and then a gentleman saying Matt Butler responds, I love that movie. Thought I was the only one who knows about it. That's great. Hero at large, of course, is John Rudder and Archer, most recently forgotten. He's a likable out-of-work actor who dresses as a superhero and inadvertently stymies a crime and becomes a reluctant hero and it's all very simple and you know but the the leads are very charming and the nostalgia of value is strong with this one let's put it that way. John Hardin says condor man and I didn't hate it although it's not an overall success I like some of the goofy 80s design in it. And then Joel Winn responds with, love that movie as a kid Saturday, Matt and I. Condor Man, like I mentioned earlier, I never saw it as a kid, but I saw it as an adult and I legitimately don't think I would have liked it as a kid. I don't know. Maybe I'm a little bit snooty towards Disney live action stuff when I was a kid, but I think they all, we all kind of go through that. But I am glad that people like Condor Man, and it definitely does have a cult following. Dave in your cave says, raw force. I'd heard the red letter media guys, but were amazed by it. Then you guys sealed the deal. It was nuts. Also, where did everybody else on the cruise ship go? Raw Force is an insane action movie. You have to see it. If you're interested in just wacko obscurities, it has about five or six different genres in one. And it is one of those movies you watch in your every 15 minutes. You're like, wait, what? What left turn did I just go down? That's a fun one. Oh, Brian Scoodle. I believe it's Scoodle. He is on Twitter at Scoodle Lemmeer. Sorry, Brian. But he says the world according to Gart because of the passion Drew and Scott spoke about it last year. I added it to my viewing this past year and it had had a profound emotional effect on me. Never a huge Robin Williams fan, but his work in the film left a mark as did everyone else. Yeah, we've got a lot of nice feedback from that review. We both got a little emotional, but over Robin Williams, and I'm sure it'll happen again because the man just had a beautiful heart and a ridiculously talented man. And it just, when I think about him for too long, it breaks my heart just a little. And it gets better, but He's a human being. He's a human being. He's a human being. He's a human being.

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a coke-ee, coke-fueled, stand-up up comic and in many ways he was that but man he really evolved into a great actor slowly but surely you know every three or four years people would go oh Moscow nuts and oh dead poets you know like every few years and and this was probably the beginning of that where people thought Robin Williams had more to him than just wackiness and they were right and it's a fantastic film if you've never seen the world according to Gart listen to Brian Scoodle or Scuttle sorry Brian and definitely dig that one up uh... now we have Marcus Ponto he says papa i don't quite feel the love like you to do but i liked it the stunt man fantastic yes Popeye Yes. Popeye is most certainly an acquired taste without question. The stuntman I think is not just a great film but I think it's really appealing to movie nerds because it has kind of like a twisty film noir plot but it also deals very specifically about a film production and the shadiness that might go on stunts and producers and it's a great great great great movie stuntman. Now we at Montana Hannibal says my favorite year probably the best 50s nostalgia movie I've ever seen. That is a great call. Drew just recently discussed this on a bonus episode with Ready Player one screenwriter, Zach Penn, who also

has a desperate love for my favorite year. You know, it's one of those movies where if you love it or you haven't seen it, I really have yet to meet somebody who is unimpressed by my favorite year. It is a very charming, very sweet and human. say humane comedy about comedy writers in the 50s and and has been who discovers that he's still got some value. It's great. Peter O'Toole, Marklin Baker, please listen to Montana Hannibal and check out my favorite year. Now we have Patrick McDaniel and he is a long time listener as well. Thank you, Patrick. And he said, I saw used cars probably 30 years ago, but don't remember a thing about it. Popt up on cable a few weeks back and I have it DVR. Patrick, that's not helped. I'm just kidding, that's very helpful. Let us know when you do watch it, how much you love it, because you will. Kevin Sharp, who is that Kevin Sharp on Twitter, says, Shoot the Moon.

Found it to be a solid, if not exceptional, marriage drama, until that ending, which made me sit up in my seat, mouth a gape. Yeah. Shoot the Moon is one that Drew and I talked about extensively. It hit him in a very personal place, and for me, I had to stew on it for two or three days and really think about it. I even went and read some other reviews and I really did get some insight from other people.

And I think it's a very impressive movie, Alan Parker's Shoot the Moon with Albert Finney. Check that one out. Guy in the third row says, Death trap had been aware of it before, but hearing you guys talk about it really spiked my interest and holy hell. I know Superman will always be the signature Christopher Eve, but I wish we could have seen more of this side of his work great dark turn. Well said guy in the third row I appreciate that that is a very I will listen to anybody say something gracious and kind about Christopher Reef especially if it's accurate and that is the guy had some hits and misses we covered Montsenier which is not a good film and he really didn't fit in it. But then you get something like Death Trap, which is just a fantastic mystery. And he plays against type in a remarkably clever way. Even if all you ever saw of Christopher Reeve, but Sid Superman was just as Death Trap, you'd know he was more than just Superman. So rest in peace to the wonderful Christopher Reeve and please dig up death trap if you've not seen it. Greg Moore, who goes under Greggy Ta, he says, the verdict. Yeah. As a big Paul Newman fan, I am embarrassed to say I had never seen it. Glad I did because it was an amazing film and news Newman acted his heart out along with the rest of the cast Yeah, there's so much to love about the Vernict. I mean it is Like Drew mentioned on the show. It is three people at the top of their game Sydney Lumet a young David Mammoth and Paul Newman in the lead role and Even if you're generally bored by courtroom dramas and it's kind of a thriller Morality play play, character, stuff, even if you're generally disinterested in these types of stories, this is one of those that you should see. If you were to make a list of like the top five courtrooms dramas, this would be on most film critics list, most film fans list, I think, I believe. So yeah, the verdict, if you haven't seen that one, check that out, we have here from Smudge. Death trap, just brilliant. I'm gonna seek out Death Ship next. I always remember seeing the video cover as a kid but never saw it. And then Blue 72 pictures responds with same. Yeah, okay. Death trap is a great thriller. Death Ship is a sleazy, rusty, fun B movie. Maybe C movie,, but I do like it wouldn't necessarily put those two in the same Best get but I like them both Kyle Smith says world according to Garth John Littgauss character was a win for the LG BT community best Robin Williams performance and just a powerful story with many layers well said Thank you Kyle Smith corporate life says, I watch Star Trek 2 and Poltergeist. The same day after I heard that episode, love them both. I'm going to assume that a S.H. bowling is a somewhat young person who has never seen Star Trek 2 or Poltergeist before, because if you're my age and you haven't seen those movies, oh, but I don't care if it's ET, it doesn't matter. If we helped you find a film that you like, that makes me very happy. And I will speak for Bobby and Drew and say, it makes them happy too. And if they don't agree, they could take me to court. Deal with me. Jason Colvin says, video drone, it must be an acquired taste, very weird. I didn't care for it. Gibra Harry was sexy though. Fair enough. She definitely is and not just sexy, but I thought she gave a surprisingly impressive performance in that movie. Kind of a shame she never really followed through and did more acting, but I could see a video drone to somebody who comes to it brand new. It could be alienating and not especially entertaining or I think it's one of the best sci-fi horror films of the decade. Mike Monti says the verdict and I've actively stopped looking for Condor Man as a result of 80s all over. I'm going to let my fond memories stand on their own. Good call, Mike Monti. Sometimes certain movies just need to live in your nostalgia place and do not need to be resurrected for your modern or contemporary eyeballs. Not always and it's up to you to decide. But for a movie like Condor Man, yeah, if you think it's best to remain as a hazy memory, I would recommend that. But on the other hand, there are lots of movies that you could probably rediscover and really enjoy. We have here Mitchell Hall, who is the fountain 73. He says, I bought my parents the DVD of used cars because the review was that strong and committed. Thank you, Mitchell. I hope your parents dig used cars. JK2, joysticks had to see if it was as bad as you said, it was. Used cars, never heard of it and loved it. Joysticks. Yeah, I still contend that if you're a huge video game, junkie or historian and you'd like looking, digging into the history of video games, Joysticks along with the wizard and the last starfighter and other films we'll get to is definitely an interesting relic as far as the history of video games go. But if you take out all of the nerdy video game aspect, it really is just a Z level animal house retread and it's not very funny. It does have some cool people in it though. Bob Taylor who is OMA COLT the black stallion. Okay, I think that we covered that in one of our bonus episodes in the 70s We just recently covered the black stallion returns which is not terrible, but certainly not great and The black stallion remains one of my favorite I guess family films. It's fantastic. Thank you, Bob. Jordan Rossio, J. Ross 91. Prince of the city, death trap, and the verdict, all of which helped to further cement Lumet as one of my all-time favorite directors. Good call, good taste. Sydney Lumet is a brilliant filmmaker, and he was still doing great work in the 80s.

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