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🗓️ 9 September 2022
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Sean Penn's INTO THE WILD is a film that came and went in 2007 without much to show other than some minor awards contention - but after 15 years, it seems to have picked up an incredible cult following and a ton of steam as one of the best movies of 2007. Hear why it ranks as one of Brian's favorite movies, and how it holds up after 15 years in this special VIP Throwback!
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0:06.6 | of our Into the Wild Throwback episode. One of Brian's favorite movies. And if you're |
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0:30.9 | I was talking about this one. First off, first thing that always comes to know is I'm like |
0:34.2 | researching this because we're about to talk before we get in the actual narrative of the film. |
0:38.8 | You know, it made almost 60 million bucks. Like it was more successful. It felt like kind of a |
0:43.4 | fizzle at the time and it wasn't it for this kind of source material given the release and |
0:50.2 | and everything. I don't know. Maybe I had a weird perception of it. But I remember these were |
0:54.6 | during the borders years. So this soundtrack was playing a lot. This was supposed to be like a big |
0:59.9 | kind of like Geistie Oscar thing. And I think it got a couple of nominations but it wasn't as big |
1:04.1 | as I think a lot of us thought it would be maybe. So anyway, Brian, I'm going to throw you first |
1:08.5 | because this seems very much in your wheelhouse. What was your experience with this initially? |
1:12.5 | What is your opinion on this film 15 years later? Yeah, I was very excited for this. |
1:18.5 | And in the wild is is probably my favorite nonfiction book ever in a non-erotica. |
1:25.5 | Right. Obviously. Is that an important qualifier, Brian? |
1:30.2 | Most of it's 50 shades of great fiction or is it fan fiction? Yeah, those the same. |
1:35.9 | Sure. It's very fictional. Well, it's Chewbacca real or fake. That's up to us to decide. |
1:41.4 | Chewbacca mom is real. So, um, the all too real. She knows your name. |
1:47.7 | Yeah, she knows your church. She knows what church it is. We told her everything. |
1:52.9 | Hi, yeah, yeah, great bit. Um, I, yeah, this, I love this book. John Crack-Hours is my, |
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