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This week, on a very special episode, Greg picks a comedy. Great Bad Movies are usually accidentally funny. Game Night is just actually funny. Really, really funny. But you know what? Also a great action movie AND thriller.
Greg and Joe roll the dice on 2018’s Game Night, the sharp, fast, and surprisingly stylish action comedy from John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. They break down the cast (Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Jesse Plemons, Lamorne Morris, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen, and more), the thriller-meets-comedy tone, standout scenes like the one-shot Fabergé egg chase, and why this film nails the rare balance between action and laughter. Plus, Greg reveals his obsession with the directors’ craft and Joe compares the film’s twists to Tenet and Inception.
Joe and Greg break it down, laugh a lot, and learn something about themselves along the way.
Note: This transcript has been auto-generated, so… You know… It’s not our fault.
Greg: Joe in the movie we watch this week, the gang gets together all the time to play board games or just games. Are you a game guy or are you a board game guy or like, charades guy?
Joe: I’m not a board game guy. I am a card game guy. I don’t mind the right kind of board games, but sometimes board games feel like they’re never going to end. Yeah, like Risk or Monopoly. And I hit at this point where I’m like, I am done with this game. Yeah. So what about to a board game? Card game.
Greg: I like games that take like 15 to 30 minutes. I think I finished the game monopoly once in my life, and it took an entire holiday break with me and my sister. Screw it up. I have so little interest on who has settled in Catan, where I just could not care less.
Greg: So I’m more of a sorry guy.
Joe: Yeah. For me, the beauty of card games is you have the game, and then when you’re shuffling or revealing the next hand. Yeah, you have like a little break, right? Board game. Feel oppressively long, and you’re just, like, fucking up. So.
Greg: You’re not going to hold me down.
Joe: To exact risk.
Greg: Have you ever heard of monopoly deal?
Joe: No, but we have a monopoly cheaters edition.
Greg: Okay. Monopoly deal is just a card game.
Joe: Okay?
Greg: It’s all of the rules for monopoly. Except it’s like a 15 minute version.
Joe: That sounds much better.
Greg: It’s my favorite card game to play. The house. Exploding kittens. Also, kind of the same sweet kittens.
Joe: And then there’s the one. The unicorns. One to which we got into.
Greg: Okay.
Joe: Yeah, yeah, a card game any day. Okay. Yeah.
Greg: Let’s get to the show.
Joe: Let’s do it.
Clip: Tonight we’re taking game night up a notch. Oh, boy.
Clip: Someone in this room is going to be taken. It’s going to be up to you to find them. It’s a murder mystery party. You’re not going to know what’s real and what’s fake.
Clip: Wait a second. Can’t just come in here and break the door. Oh, that’s real hurting us. Help me please.
Clip: Guys, make sure you get a piece of this cheese. First one that follows us. Guest. Okay. Roger that. You drive safe.
Clip: It’s not a joke. You people are in real danger. Is this gun.
Clip: Real? Oh, no. Andy. Oh, no no no.
Clip: This is instructions on how to remove a bullet. Shouldn’t have rubbing alcohol. So I got you this. I have a sharp.
Joe: Good idea where to pivot.
Clip: And then a squeaky toy.
Joe: For the pain.
Clip: That’s smart.
Greg: The year is 2018, and directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein step up to the plate to make a movie called Game Night. We are talking about Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C Hall, Danny Houston, Chelsea Peretti. It goes on and on. This is a very special episode, a great bad movie tonight because this is my pick.
Greg: This is Greg’s pick, a movie that Joe has never seen. So I have never met this question more. Joe, is date night. Nope, it’s game night. A great bad movie.
Joe: I think it is a great bad movie. It’s definitely one of our movies.
Greg: What makes it one of our movies?
Joe: It’s ridiculous. The whole thing is ridiculous. Like beyond. Beyond. This is one of those. I watched it last night and and now there’s a spoiler alert for my real back of the box. But yeah, it’s I had the same experience of watching Tenet and Inception watching this movie. Oh. There’s so many twists that I’m just like each scene.
Joe: I’m just watching it as that scene. Oh, and now this is happening, and now this is happening. And it’s kind of it is totally hijinx and capers. This cast is bonkers. It is.
Greg: It’s so good. Yeah.
Joe: And I think there’s someone else in it that has a cameo. I don’t even see them on here. He has he’s kind of pretty big. Was a Jeffrey Wright or something like that. Is in it as well for like a second. Oh yeah.
Greg: Jeffrey Wright. Yeah. Yeah.
Joe: So he just like passive like, why is he in this film for literally like a 32nd scene in it.
Greg: So totally.
Joe: It’s also interesting that for me, the main characters are my least favorite characters in the movie.
Greg: So what didn’t you like about them?
Joe: They were a little annoying to me.
Greg: Okay, Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams.
Joe: They had some funny scenes together. And sure, by no means are they bad in this movie or do they take away from it, but they were my least favorite characters in.
Greg: It, I guess. Not really a surprise. It’s sort of a romance about that.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: And that’s not what you’re watching. No.
Joe: But also like, you have Lamorne Morris and his wife. Yeah. Kylie Bunbury, they are Larry like.
Greg: And then so good.
Joe: Was it Billy Magnussen? I wanted more of him. And then. But Billy Magnussen and Jesse Plemons, who. Yeah, should be in more comedies, as all I’m saying, just 100%. Yeah. So funny. So both of them steal every scene they’re in. Like, I just cannot take my eyes off of them. And this group and knowing that they had done the Dungeons and Dragons movie, I was like, sold.
Joe: Because that movie is, yeah, really good and and similar action comedy of what it’s trying to do. Yeah.
Greg: I haven’t seen it.
Joe: Oh, whenever I have another one of my picks, that’ll be my pick for sure.
Greg: As if we both don’t have a pick every week.
Joe: By the way. Exactly like other people are telling us what to watch. Yeah, yeah. So where this movie drags for me and I don’t know how much of it was ad lib, but it felt like there were there were scenes, especially between Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, that sometimes felt just like they were just trying to top each other with, like, being kind of silly and ridiculous.
Joe: There are some really funny scenes there. My favorite moment is there’s early on in the film, there’s a kidnaping subplot and another kidnaping subplot, and she thinks that’s a joke. And she’s like getting people to do like the baby pose and yoga, which to me it’s like, really funny. Then there’s some kind of silly slapstick stuff that I was.
Joe: I didn’t land as well, but those are the moments that I really I liked when it just was like super irreverent.
Greg: Totally.
Joe: Super funny. But you’ve seen this movie more than I have, and you like the movie. So tell me, what do you like about this movie?
Greg: Well, I don’t grow tired of Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams. I think when they are doing their thing, they both kind of. She kind of talks like Jason Bateman in this movie.
Joe: Totally.
Greg: So there’s like double Jason Bateman, you know, like they’ve been married for a while or whatever. And just the fact that they were going back and forth with kind of the same, like overly optimistic, kind, but not very kind things that they were saying to everybody around them, oh my gosh, it just kills me. He is so funny.
Greg: In this movie. You have to be a Jason Bateman fan to like this movie first and foremost. And since that’s everybody on the planet, that’s probably why this movie did pretty well. But I understand if somebody doesn’t like him, maybe they should stay away from this movie, but they are just so funny together. Opening scene. They’re at like a fertility clinic.
Greg: They’re kind of introducing different characters in the movie and they’re talking to the doctor. So let’s hear this and see if there’s something in here that can help us describe this movie.
Clip: I think we’ve determined why you’ve been having trouble conceiving.
Clip: Okay, let’s have it.
Clip: Great.
Clip: Oh, what’s that look? Is it me? Of course it’s me.
Clip: I’m not loving your semen. Oh, your account is excellent, but your motility is well below normal. That’s too bad. What? What caused that? It can be genetic. Environmental factors. Nine times out of ten, though, it’s psychological. Have you been feeling anxious or stressed?
Clip: No, I.
Joe: Don’t think so. I’m really.
Clip: He’s always a little stressed.
Clip: You know, for I’m not. I need you to write it down.
Clip: Well, I Max is very competitive, as am I. I’m sure are the reasons I fell in love with him. Maybe, that makes him a little more prone to stress than normal people.
Joe: Normal people?
Clip: How long this been going on, Max?
Clip: It’s not going on.
Clip: Oh, well, you did say even when you were a kid, you would freak out if you lost anything.
Joe: Oh.
Greg: Pretty good.
Joe: Yeah. It gives the, the the tenor of their relationship, though. Pretty dead on and and I, I was hoping for more of the Greg’s. Why not. Is it from Rachel McAdams? But that was the only time we got. Sorry. So missed opportunity for sure.
Greg: But they are playing what they think is this movie is sort of like the game. Did you ever see the game with Michael Douglas? The Fincher movie?
Joe: That’s a great movie.
Greg: This basically is comedy. The game. Yeah, there was a mantra that they had while they were making this movie that the production designer came up with, which is if they have the sound off, people need to think this is the thriller. But as they’re talking like it’s super funny. Yeah. But it looks and kind of acts like a thriller action movie.
Greg: Yeah. Which is why I wanted us to watch it because we’ve watched action movies that have some humor. But this movie is a comedy that has action. Yeah. And so that’s why I picked this movie, because it doesn’t seem like a logical choice for a great bad movie. But if I could just get to choose, I’m going to go game night ten times out of ten.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: I think this movie wears out. Its welcome immediately after it cuts to black and the credits roll. It stays as long as I want it to be around and then it gets out. It’s like a perfect comedy in my mind. Yeah, like 94 minutes or something. They are just getting jokes in all over the place, but all of a sudden there are like legitimately great director choices happening in the action that I did not expect at all.
Greg: What did you think of the action in this movie?
Joe: I thought it suited the film perfectly. Okay. So okay, you know, I wasn’t expecting 8711. They come in with, you know, a set piece. Sure. But there is an amazing one shot and Danny Houston’s house, he’s playing some rich guy that they’re going and there’s some really funny like lines about.
Clip: That’s all I can think about. And that’s saying a lot considering we got Eyes Wide Fight Club going on downstairs.
Greg: Totally.
Joe: And then the plot revolves at that moment around the Faberge egg that they’re trying to get their hands on. And so they do. And then they’re like throwing it around and running away from the bad guys and has done as a one shot.
Greg: All around the house, going from floor to floor. It’s all over the place.
Joe: Yeah. And so I feel like the action perfectly matches the tone of the movie, where the tone of the movie is funny and silly and the stakes don’t feel very high, just because you kind of know what kind of movie you’re watching. It’s just like whatever’s going to happen is going to happen. But good action scenes in these are always a plus.
Joe: And so even the bad guys are pretty funny. I think for me, there were like one too many twists at the end, but by the time we were at those points, we were so close to the end. I was like, I was pretty forgiving. Whatever. Yeah, I was like, yeah, okay, me.
Greg: Too, me.
Joe: Too. You know, because there’s a moment where Jesse Plemons, who plays a cop and as their next door neighbor, it’s kind of in on the twist, or one of the twists and he I just again. Oh, my gosh, cast him in comedies, please. He is. Absolutely. And it’s so good.
Greg: Every time that Jesse Plemons is talking to his neighbors, Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, it is so awkward. He’s like this cop, very socially awkward, wants to be part of their game night, and they don’t want him to know that game night is happening. And they just let these really long pauses happen. And my one of my very favorite things in this movie is how Rachel McAdams is laughing at Jesse Plemons the entire time.
Greg: Like she cannot keep a straight face when he’s being ridiculous. She’s just not hiding a smile at how much joy she is getting from how awkward he is. It’s so great to me.
Joe: Yeah, I would love to see some outtakes from this movie.
Greg: Oh, 100%. All right, let’s listen to Jesse Plemons and Jason Bateman. Rachel McAdams, this is a scene where the whole gang shows up at his house because they need to get onto his computer because he’s a cop. They can find the bad guys.
Clip: Very goodness to let me. Bastian and I owe the pleasure.
Clip: Well, we were all just talking, and we realized we even had a game night, and he just just the seven of us.
Clip: So I thought you were going to your brother’s house. I never said that.
Greg: Come on. Here, bear.
Clip: Live a little. It’s the.
Clip: Weekend. We were just saying how you were always better at games. And Debbie was.
Clip: Him. And thank you not to besmirch my ex-wife. That woman is an angel.
Clip: Oh, yeah. She was much better at games than you know.
Clip: Well, and I have eagerly awaited a visit such as this.
Greg: And then he disappears into the dark.
Joe: But yeah.
Clip: There we found.
Joe: It. Seems like.
Clip: Ryan, you go first.
Joe: I’m scared. Unbelievable. This is definitely a movie to watch with friends.
Greg: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Joe: It’s almost like the more people that are there, the better, because it just. I mean, I don’t know how much of that was scripted. How much of that is just Jesse Plemons being an amazing actor buddy. He is so awkward. Yeah. And in a serious movie, I would feel anxiety every time. And I did every time he was on screen.
Greg: Sure. Yeah.
Joe: Just like what is going to happen? What is he going to do?
Greg: Totally.
Joe: Billy Magnussen is Ryan is another one of those characters that they just he gets all the best lines. And this because he, he plays kind of an idiot so. Well.
Greg: So so well. My favorite line of his is in this scene when they break the egg, let’s let’s do it.
Clip: Oh my. That’s great. That’s great. Now they’re going to kill my brother.
Clip: Oh no, I’m not an expert. But these terms are plastic to me.
Clip: Made in China. Is this thing not even real?
Joe: Made just that stick was made in China.
Greg: Maybe just that sticker is made in China.
Greg: He has 20 of those.
Joe: In this movie. Yeah, fun.
Clip: But that’s not all, because whoever finds the victim wins the grand prize. The keys to the stingray. Wow, wow.
Joe: Just like you know, Ryan, the whole car. Oh, yes. Oh, man. You’re so lucky I brought you to this game night. Not one max, eight any.
Clip: Hey, no, I just mean because this is better. Oh.
Greg: Unbelievable.
Joe: He delivered that with such an earnestness every time. Yeah. You’re just like. Oh. Oh, Ryan, you sweet, sweet idiot.
Greg: Some producer called Mark Perez and said, I have an idea for a game night, and I think he wanted it to be like a thriller. Mark Perez writes a script. Jason Bateman likes it so much that he wants to star and produce the movie and direct it. So for a lot of this movie’s life, Jason Bateman was attached to direct, and then he brought in or somebody brought in John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to help write the script.
Greg: They don’t have any credit on the script, but they’ve said since then that they wrote most of the dialog. So I think you’re going to see like consistencies in the dialog of their movies. Yeah, it sounds like Dungeons and Dragons also had some pretty funny stuff. John Francis Daley was on Freaks and Geeks. So, you know, Judd Apatow was probably around, you know, giving some notes, having them over.
Greg: So just like the funniest people alive are probably around the script. And at some point, Jason Bateman realizes these guys should just direct it, and they do just an incredible job with both the funniest lines, I’m assuming, and also the visual style of this movie is just unbelievable. The way they make kind of drone shots look like our world is, are game pieces, which there’s a lens that kind of does that.
Greg: But they didn’t use that lens. They did it in post where they added like a plastic sheen to things, and then digitally added things that looked like game pieces to like their neighborhood. But it’s just like the whole time you’re like, wow, I’m in really good hands here. Yeah, sorry, I’m a broken record about that, about this movie.
Greg: And then, like, screaming this movie from the rooftops for the last seven years. In fact, somebody a couple years ago told me I haven’t liked anything that Hollywood has put out in the last five years. And it was four years after this movie came out and and the first movie that came to my mind was, you have to watch Game Night.
Greg: You can’t watch that movie and tell me nothing good is coming out awesome. Yeah, but here’s one tell that made me think, oh my gosh, these action directors know what they’re doing more than a lot of other action directors. When you’re watching a movie like a Fast and Furious movie, like the 8711 movies, like David Lynch movies, Chad Stahelski movies, when they show something, go by the camera really fast, the camera is usually moving in the opposite direction, so a camera is moving backwards and then a car will drive past the right, the camera going really fast and it’s such a cheat to have the camera moving the other direction to make it seem like
Greg: the car is going even faster. Yeah, I think that’s such a dumb move. I would never do it if I was directing movies. And let’s be clear, I will never direct a movie. But if I was do, I would never do that. And in this movie, they have the camera moving forward as things rush past and it’s like, oh my gosh, these are my guys.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: They’re not doing cheap tricks here. And like right before a van, like, speeds off the camera like barrels towards it and stops just shy of it, and then it barrels off. And so they’re like getting that kinetic energy moving in a certain direction constantly in this movie in a way that I feel like even our best action directors sometimes don’t.
Greg: Yeah.
Joe: Agreed. Yeah, it’s definitely a movie that is made by people that love action movies and comedy.
Greg: 100%.
Joe: Equally. Yeah, and they’re threading the needle pretty successfully. I think, on this. And, you know, I will definitely get to Dungeons and Dragons. What I appreciate about that and the difference is they’re two completely different movies. They’re both really funny. Yeah. Good action. This one is in, you know, kind of an homage to like Game Nights. And obviously that’s the title of the movie and Dungeons Dragons.
Joe: And at that time, you know, Milo, my son then, was deep into Dungeons and Dragons and was playing it and they, with a few notable exceptions, follow the rules of the different characters and the different classes and the races and all of that in Dungeons and Dragons. So it’s it’s written by people who have a lot of care and appreciation for it.
Greg: Yeah, yeah.
Joe: And also want to make a funny movie and a good action movie. Both of these movies almost feel like they’re blank checks of they’re just doing things that they love and throwing everything at the screen. I would say both movies that I’ve seen of them need a second or third watch to really capture everything that you in the movie.
Joe: Sure, no, because what I really appreciate is they just packs so many jokes. There’s some there’s like a scene where they’re driving in a car. I just remember going, oh my, they’re like ten jokes and you’re laughing and you kind of miss one, you know? But it’s just like, yeah, they’re just throwing everything at you. And I appreciate the ambition of that.
Greg: Here’s a scene where they’re in the car and Ryan is funny again. Let’s hear it.
Joe: I just.
Clip: Oh my God.
Clip: Boy, that’s less than an hour from now.
Clip: Hello.
Clip: And what’s up with this guy’s voice? He sounds like a monster.
Clip: This is your voice changer, Ryan.
Clip: Still sounds like a.
Joe: Scary monster, but.
Greg: I have a theory that the volume you say something can make it twice as funny. Yeah, if you whisper something, it’s twice as funny. And if you say it through a bullhorn, it’s also twice as fun changing your volume for a joke. Yeah, it works every time.
Joe: Oh my gosh. Yeah, that was the thing that made me fall in love with Ryan. Yeah, I just I sounds like a scary monster.
Greg: Oh my gosh. So good. You know, it kind of reminds me of, like, shows like Parks and Rec or 30 Rock. Just joke joke joke joke joke. You could watch it three times and not catch them. Pitch perfect is a great movie like that as well, where it’s just like, there’s more jokes than you know what to do with.
Greg: I kind of feel like we might be out of that a little bit these days, and that’s so sad to me.
Joe: Yeah, I feel like comedies have not had their comeback like that used to be. Yeah, I genre of movie that we would go to watch for that reason. And it feels like it’s kind of almost been written out of or out of Hollywood in some way, like there’s 1 or 2 a year. But it used to be a lot more.
Greg: It’s weird that we value the communal experience of watching a scary movie in the theater these days, and the comedy isn’t that far off from that. You know, it’s so much better when you’re in a room together watching something hilarious. Yeah. So I think, I think they’re coming back like The Naked Gun came out the summer. I keep it a Schaeffer’s version of that and it was pretty great.
Greg: I went to the theater opening weekend to see it. So I feel like if we could have a million game nights, I would be the happiest person on the planet. Like just lightning fast jokes and great thriller, you know, esthetics and good action. I mean, that’s just all I’m looking for in life. And this movie wasn’t that expensive to make, so we could do it.
Greg: But let me ask you this question. I want to say one of the reasons we usually don’t do comedy is for great bad movies is because we think they’re funnier when they’re serious and they don’t realize that it’s ridiculous, right? And movies that are trying to be funny and aren’t are just sad. Yeah, whereas a bad action movie or a ridiculous action movie is funny when it’s trying really hard.
Greg: So they’re more, you know, quote unquote bulletproof. But action comedy is a genre and it usually doesn’t work. There’s a million bad action comedies. Yeah, I don’t feel like this is one of them. Can you think of other great action comedies?
Joe: I would put Dungeons and Dragons in that category and. Sure.
Greg: Okay, great.
Joe: So you have but that’s the same team that did this. So I feel like it’s a little bit cheating. I would put Hobbs and Shaw from The Fast and Furious in that it’s yeah, sure, I would need to watch the Fall guy again, but I feel like that’s a pretty funny movie as well. I don’t know if I would necessarily call it an action comedy, but it’s an action movie or like an action romantic comedy.
Greg: Yep, yep.
Joe: Having to, of course. Just watch it again. The Gray Man not that long ago.
Joe: I would yeah, it’s definitely an action movie first with element of comedy, right. But if you told me this was a comedy, I would believe you. And if you told me this is an action movie, I would believe you. Whereas I feel like most everything else I’ve said has a lane, and it’s like Hobbs and Shaw is an action movie.
Joe: That’s pretty fun. Yeah, yeah. You know, there’s some really funny scenes and yeah, the chemistry between some of the characters is great, but it also takes us off really seriously. So I don’t know. Do you have any off the top of your head?
Greg: I think there’s a lot of good action comedies, but there’s not many movies where I can think that would be a great movie if there wasn’t action. Anything like that. That is just a great comedy. And so the action is kind of like a nice little, you know, whip cream on top of the ice cream sundae kind of deal.
Greg: So, like I would say that Beverly Hills Cop was an action movie that hired Eddie Murphy the weekend before they started shooting, and then he improvised it into a funny movie like Lethal Weapon is an action movie where there are also being funny, but then you look at a movie like 21 Jump Street. That’s like a sibling of this movie.
Greg: It’s super funny, and the action is like, oh, that’s wow, this is actually pretty good in 22 Jump Street. Same thing. You could look at a lot of Edgar Wright stuff like Hot Fuzz is a comedy that has like thriller and action things. So I bet that was kind of, something that they could have looked at for this.
Greg: And same thing with Scott Pilgrim versus the world.
Joe: Okay.
Greg: That’s a pretty funny, silly movie that also was just like, oh, this is like pretty good kinetic energy in this thing. That’s the first group of movies that come to mind. Oh, Pineapple Express. David Gordon Green directing Seth Rogen.
Joe: Right.
Greg: I haven’t seen that in a long time. I have no idea. No idea if that holds up. And I guess because these are comedies and they’re kind of maybe trying to live a little bit on the edge. I’m not sure that a lot of these movies hold up. I don’t know, I’ve watched them lately, but I think Game Night definitely holds up for a long time.
Joe: I would probably put Game Night in the comedy first action second category. Yeah, sure. And I think I would put like if I’m taking this group. So Dungeons and Dragons is kind of an action movie that’s really funny. Okay. Because it’s I think where this movie falls off for me at moments is it’s going for the joke a little too much.
Joe: So it’s like sometimes it feels like, oh, they’re just like letting the camera run and letting what the actors do or and so sometimes like the tightness of scene, the scene falls off for me. And it’s not a yeah, it’s not a big deal. It’s like for me it, it knocks it down like a quarter of a point.
Joe: Like if I’m rating it, if I was rating it on a ten point, you know, scale, it’s not like a big deal. But it’s, it was enough that it was noticeable of like, okay, how did we end up here?
Greg: It’s a short movie that could have been shorter. If you wanted to cut some of the jokes. I agree with you there.
Joe: It’s also kind of feels like an homage to like, Adventures in Babysitting and some of those movies where it’s just like everything that can go wrong is going to go wrong. You know, it’s beyond ridiculous and you just really have to suspend disbelief further and for sure. And that’s kind of where this movie to me is as it’s jumping off point.
Joe: But that’s kind of like if you go into it thinking you’re going to have a tight, magical movie that’s going to make sense. You get to like the last 20 minutes and it’s just like, don’t even think about what’s happening. Don’t even, don’t, don’t like, you know, just be like, no, we’re not we’re not going to pa pa pa pa pa pa yeah, yeah.
Joe: It’s just what it is.
Greg: So but they get to, like, the private plane on the runway. That’s a solid ending action set.
Joe: Piece to me. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I was and again, that’s where I was just like, you know, I just had a tenet that was just like, okay, now this is what we’re. And then, okay, people are going forwards and backwards in time. Great things are exploding and and exploding. Perfect. This is amazing.
Greg: When they take the car and they take out the front landing gear of the plane so that the the nose of the plane falls on the ground before they can take off. I don’t think I’ve seen that before. I hadn’t either in a movie.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: Jason Bateman was like, you know what I’m going to do? I have a plan. And she says, oh, is it like Liam Neeson? And taken three? And he goes, did.
Joe: He do that in the third one?
Greg: And later he’s like, I’m gonna go drop in from the top of the plane and let him know what’s up. And she’s like, you’re not Liam Neeson. He’s like, that hurts my feelings.
Joe: Just a spoiler alert for my drinking games. If there isn’t a take in three reference in the hours missed opportunity.
Greg: Oh my gosh, taken three hurt my feelings. That was such a rough movie, but it’s probably time to watch it again.
Joe: Meyers. But since I saw it next week, next week on Great bad movies.
Greg: There are two scenes that go a little long for me that maybe could have been trimmed down. One I wouldn’t trim down at all. I love the scene when she is doing the kind of like mini mart shopping trip, and then she is cutting the the bullet out of his arm.
Joe: Yeah, that.
Greg: Scene is so funny. And they start it with like they’re starting to gag. And then when one of them starts to gag the other one, they’re like more below. Oh my gosh. Yeah. The two times they did that made me laugh so hard. And by the way, I was watching this with headphones on. Nobody around me knew what I was doing and I was laughing out loud.
Greg: I couldn’t stop. But the one scene that goes a little bit long, like a situational comedy, like, 80s Chevy Chase vacation movie kind of moment or something. Oh, and by the way, I think these guys directed the reboot of vacation. Okay as well is when he is doing his, computer research.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: My least favorite scene in the movie, you know, he’s in, like, the police database and finding out stuff about the bad guy, his his bullet wound is bleeding on the carpet, and then the dog comes in and he’s getting accidentally getting his blood all over the bastion. The white dog that got a little long for me is kind of like.
Greg: All right, I guess we have to do this because it’s a funny situation, but, we could have done this a little bit faster.
Joe: I think I agree that that scene fell out of place. Almost. Yeah, sure. Like the humor was beneath what this movie’s humor was to me of, like, bleeding on a dog. And then he’s trying to clean the dog, and it just making it worse and worse and worse. And that’s the only time that his bullet wound is bleeding, you know, and it’s it’s not just bleeding a little bit.
Joe: It’s like pouring blood out of it. And so I agree, I think that that scene could have been cut almost completely or trimmed way down. Cut out the, the blood part. My guess is because they’re all playing Jenga in the other room for game night. I’m betting that there’s some stuff on the cutting room floor of that scene that is hilarious.
Joe: That would have been, you know, you could have still had the, like, have I in the tropes I have kind of that is like downloading a file under pressure type of.
Greg: Scene. Yeah.
Joe: Totally. But yeah, I agree that scene, it just wasn’t funny to me. It was like, oh, that’s that’s kind of dumb. That’s kind of what I thought. And that scene.
Greg: Totally. Sharon Horgan is so funny in this movie. She should just be in everything a great.
Joe: And I also I want to just shout out to Lamorne Morris. Yeah. And Kylie Bunbury. Yeah. They have some hilarious scenes together, especially because they, they play like a couple that’s been together since like the fifth grade or something like that. Right. But then they take a break and then they’ve both like seeing other people and then it’s hilarious.
Joe: Those two like bantering back and forth about that. So.
Greg: Well, yeah. So it turns out that she slept with somebody famous when they were broken up. When I think she was in college or after college, I don’t remember when it was. And so the whole movie, when the two of them are off doing something in this adventure, he’s trying to guess who it is. And so she finally just tells him that it’s Denzel Washington.
Greg: Let’s listen to that scene.
Clip: Nah, nah, I don’t believe it yet.
Clip: Okay. Well I took a picture with him at the club. I put it in a hidden folder. Denzel and Michelle.
Clip: Yeah. Maybe that’s not Denzel.
Clip: Yeah it is.
Clip: No it’s not dude looks a lot like Denzel but it’s not him.
Clip: You’re crazy. But look at that. That’s Denzel. Okay.
Clip: Let me ask you this. Did he say he was Denzel?
Clip: Well no. He tried to introduce himself and I cut him off because I told him I knew who he was.
Clip: What kind of car?
Clip: To drive a BMW three series.
Clip: Well, what’s this place like?
Clip: It was a two bedroom condo. And he used that the spare room as an office.
Clip: Do you hear what you’re saying right now?
Clip: Hold on. Let me,
Clip: When you zoom in, the nose gives it away. Right.
Clip: Look, don’t beat yourself up about it, okay? There is some good news. If you want to get with Denzel. He’s standing right here. Yeah. Because the real Denzel ain’t got only.
Joe: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Greg: She’s like dying laughing as he, as he’s doing that. I bet that was not a planned moment. And I love this scene because they are joking around. This is probably like one of their more talky scenes. That isn’t just a joke joke joke, but they’re doing a funny bit where she clearly slept with somebody who she assumed was Denzel Washington.
Greg: But it totally isn’t him yet. He is, like, still like caring for her and not like putting a tear in their relationship over this, you know? Yeah, somehow is making it that he’s still like a caring person, but also letting her know it’s really it’s a weird needle to thread in a comedy like this. So I was like, I really like these two together, you know?
Joe: Yeah, I agree, I thought that, you know, because it would have been easy to kind of swing to make the extremes of like, oh, you slapped. Yeah, someone else and we’re breaking up and all of that, and I’m mad at you. But they were never mad at each other, right, right. But they’re kind of giving each other a hard time about it all the same time.
Joe: And so it is. Yeah, I think that their scenes together, like when I finish this movie, I was like, I wanted more of the gang.
Greg: Yeah.
Joe: And I know why we had to do, like all the plots and all the twists and stuff like that, but it’s like, right. I really liked it when they were all together, giving each other a hard time, or when they were like even splitting off. And, you know, you had, those two together or Billy Magnussen and Sharon Horgan together.
Joe: Like, those were my favorite moments when it wasn’t really dry, even driving the plot forward, they were just like, these are fun people to watch on screen. Totally.
Greg: And it should have had a sequel. It was going to have a sequel. This movie came out in 2018, and so the sequel would have been in production like 2020, 2021, and just at some point, within the last couple years, they’ve started saying, like, I just don’t think it’s happening. It’s probably not going to happen, but it was going to.
Greg: So I guess Covid did ruin some. Yeah.
Joe: It ruined all of our lives because of this. On the one thing, the one thing Covid did to us.
Greg: I really want to play the scene when Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams don’t know yet that they’re like real guns happening. They think it’s all for fun. Here’s her telling the bad guys to get on the ground again.
Clip: You know, let the gun do the talking, okay?
Clip: Come on. Enemies. Hands in the air. Hands on the.
Clip: Ground. Good guys. Go! That’s it. Get them up! Reach for it. That’s right. There we go.
Clip: All right. Hands in the.
Clip: Air! Get them up. Yep. Where’s my head? Go down the.
Clip: Floor.
Joe: Just rest it.
Clip: How am I supposed to put my hands in the air with my head looking? Exactly.
Clip: I did have the same question.
Clip: Child’s pose. Do you guys do a child’s pose?
Greg: She immediately gets rid of the gun and just starts showing them yoga moves on the ground.
Greg: I love it so much. I love everything about it.
Joe: Yeah, I think that’s probably my favorite scene of those. Those two together.
Greg: Really? Okay.
Joe: And the one where she’s patching up the bullet cuts like she cut them way more than she needs to. They discovered the exit wound after she’s already cut them open. Right? Right. There’s a whole scene about, like she’s trying to, like, read on some racist website how to get a bullet hole out and, like, moving the screen with their nose, which we’ve all done.
Greg: And probably they get in an argument about the screen, you know, going to sleep. And he’s like, go into settings. And she’s like, I don’t want to go into settings. I’m trying to get this bullet out. It’s so good. This is them walking into a bar and thinking that everyone in the bar is part of a game kind of scenario, not a real thing.
Greg: So let’s hear them try to beat the system.
Clip: Bartender. Sir, can I ask you a question? You, you didn’t happen to see a fella brought in here? Looks a little bit like me, but he’s got a little bit of a sharper chin and higher cheekbones. So a better looking guy.
Joe: Yeah, well, I, I wouldn’t call it that. I didn’t see nothing.
Clip: Oh, boy. You hear that? Yeah. Double negative. Didn’t see nothing. So we’re forced to see.
Clip: Look at this tat. So fresh. Probably fake.
Joe: Anyway, let’s give him a test. Okay. Let’s order a couple of drinks that only a real bartender would know. Yes.
Clip: Sir. Excuse me. I totally forgot to order drinks. Yes.
Clip: Could I please have a vodka tonic?
Clip: Well done. Honey, I’m going to have Harvey Wall banger. Okay. Appreciate it. Jesus. Just see that? Look, I don’t know what’s going on.
Clip: Just don’t.
Joe: Regional theater hack a vodka tonic. Nick.
Greg: There’s 100 of that moment in this movie. Yeah, well, Joe, it occurs to me that there’s a chance some people have not seen date night, not date night. Game night. Date night was a movie with Steve Carell and Tina Fey. Also an action comedy, actually.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: What did you think of date night? Do you remember date night?
Joe: I don’t think I’ve seen it. I remember when it came out, and it’s one of those, okay, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
Greg: Yeah, it takes place in one night.
Joe: I’m like, isn’t blind date with Bruce Willis the one that made him a star? Basically the same movie as well.
Greg: Oh wow. Yeah. With Kim Basinger.
Joe:
Greg: To blink at that I think that bombed.
Joe: I think so. And I feel like there’s another one with Camille Nanjiani and like Issa Rae or something like that that has a very similar plot to it.
Greg: Right. I just realized I started that movie one night and never finished it. The lovebirds in 2020. Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani directed by Michael Showalter. Wow. From the state on MTV.
Joe: Yeah, one of my favorite shows ever.
Greg: Came out in 2020, though that must’ve been the second thing that went wrong with Covid.
Joe: Yeah, yeah. Only two.
Greg: Tough night for Covid.
Joe: Tonight I know really. Shots fired at Covid.
Greg: How was this movie? Did you watch it?
Joe: I haven’t seen that. I don’t think I’ve seen date night either. I’ve seen clips of it, but I haven’t seen either one. But I would watch both if I if needed.
Greg: So I’m totally going to watch this. Michael Showalter is incredible. He directed The Big Sick with Kumail Nanjiani, which was unbelievable, the movie that he wrote with his wife about her getting sick. That movie was kind of shepherded by Judd Apatow. He also made a movie called The Baxter. Have you ever heard of that movie? It starts with the end of a rom com where, a woman is getting married to a guy, and then her, like, lost love, runs in the door and breaks up the wedding, and then she leaves with him.
Greg: So then the movie is about the guy who is left at the altar after his wife has left. That’s the beginning of the movie. And, pretty good. Not as good as the Big Sick, obviously. Probably not as good as lovebirds, let’s be honest. But you know what’s crazy is you know, we like to talk about the people who work on a movie that aren’t the usual kind of people.
Greg: We would notice the people that probably do bring a lot of the magic. People like the stunt coordinator and second unit director, the people who are filming the action, in this case the stunt coordinator and the second unit director, where the same guy named Steven Ritzy. You know what’s really bizarre about the department heads in this movie? They’ve made a lot of like, action comedies like, this is kind of a genre, you know?
Greg: So Steven Ritchie, he made blockers. Did you ever see the movie blockers?
Joe: I don’t think so.
Greg: Pretty good comedy. He made Stuber, which was an action comedy with Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani. He did This Is the End, which was a pretty good kind of action sci fi comedy.
Joe: He.
Greg: Did 12 Years a Slave so we could show some range for this guy. He did Jack Reacher and Looper, a very Harold and Kumar Christmas. This guy is all over the place.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: Most importantly, the mechanic with Jason Statham.
Joe: Okay. Good idea. We have the state reference here.
Greg: So the transporter two. You know, our guy Steven Ritchie’s there?
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: Bad boys two basic, which I think is John McTiernan. Last movie that he directed. I don’t know if he did the stunt coordinating on that one, but, he definitely was a stunt performer on passenger 57.
Joe: Oh, a movie we will for sure get to.
Greg: And face off a movie. We have definitely gotten to already. Yeah. So go back and listen to the Face Off episode to hear more about a movie he was involved in. So thank you so much, Steven Renzi. Great job on this. We will be fans of yours forever. That’s a pretty amazing resume and it’s about time people started shining a light on on the Ritchie magic.
Greg: Let’s be honest.
Joe: Absolutely. Yeah.
Greg: Joe, it occurs to me that there’s a chance that some people are listening to this. They’ve they’ve never actually seen game night. Maybe people need to open their eyes to other kinds of great bad movies, just the way the way we did this week. In case we haven’t seen it, can we pretend that we’re in bend, Oregon? We’re walking through the the last known blockbuster on the planet.
Greg: We’re picking up boxes off the shelf Blu rays. We’re talking DVDs, maybe some VHS tapes there. We’re picking up those boxes, and we’re reading the back of the box to see if this is the right movie for us to rent tonight. That’s right. It’s time for the back of the box.
Joe: It’s the back of the box. Everybody loves game night. You have a few drinks, play some fun games, and revelry will ensue. But what if you wanted to up the ante just a little bit and hire actors to kidnap someone? But what if there are real kidnapers too? Then all hell breaks loose. You don’t know who is real and who isn’t until the final scene, so strap in for laughs, action, and of course, games.
Greg: Amazing. That could have been the actual back of the box. Yeah, to be honest.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: And maybe it was. Maybe. Yeah, maybe that’s what you do every week, and I have no idea.
Joe: I feel like I missed my calling, quite frankly.
Greg: Or you finally realized it.
Joe: Yes.
Greg: All right. Well, that is the marketing back in the box. But, Joe, it’s 2025. We need to be a bit more honest here. Can we get the Joe Skye Tucker real back in the box?
Joe: This is a fun movie where you might just hate the main characters and love everyone else. In this movie, there are twists and twists and twists, and they mostly work like tenet or even inception. It is best to take each scene as it is and not think too hard about the logic there. I bet you didn’t think there would be a Christopher Nolan reference in the real back of the box for game night, but here we are.
Greg: That’s so awesome. What if it was a Christopher Nolan reference every time in the real back of the box?
Joe: It could be. I’m trying to think of what my feelings are on Christopher Nolan. Because I think he is like a lot of directors. Yeah, maybe a better director than he is a writer sometimes. And I feel like sometimes his movies are not as smart as people want them to be.
Greg: Yeah. Yeah. Well, that’s, that’s kind of what you said last week too on our inception episode.
Joe: Yeah. And he makes really great movies. Like I can’t deny his talent and the ideas that he has, but I do feel like he is sometimes given more credit than he deserves.
Greg: I think you’re right about some of his movies. You have to watch Oppenheimer because we live in a different Nolan world now. You need to catch up to it. It’s really good.
Joe: Okay.
Greg: You mentioned the inception episode or maybe I did. I need to read you a text that I got from my friend Pete who was listening to that episode. He said two things. Did you know that the movie insomnia was a remake, which I think I did 23 years ago, but forgot 22 years ago?
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: So thanks, Pete, for letting us know that. And then he also asked me this question, do you think that movie is called memento? And you know what I think? I did think that that was the name of the movie.
Greg: So apologies to everyone for mispronouncing the movie memento. Yeah, probably throughout the episode. That could be a drinking game when you listen to that last episode.
Joe: Exactly three.
Greg: Time, Greg says memento.
Joe: Maybe it was the sequel to Mo Better Blues. We don’t know. Absolutely. There we go.
Greg: There you go. Yes! Yeah. Pete.
Joe: Yeah, Pete.
Greg: All right. Joe, should we get to box office? And the critical response for the movie Game Night? I have to think about it.
Joe: Where are we now?
Greg: All right, let’s talk about the cost of this movie. What do you think the budget was for game night?
Joe: Rotten tomatoes scores. I feel like I’m pretty good at. Yeah, I am so off on this, but I feel like this is like 30 million.
Greg: Wow. Pretty close. 37.
Joe: All right. I don’t think it’s sweet.
Greg: It made worldwide $117 million.
Joe: Holy cow. So I made it. So people are happy about this movie.
Greg: So yeah, it profited and it was ready for a sequel that never happened domestically. It made 69 million international 48. Pretty good movie returns for a comedy. And, we should be doing that more. What do you think the critics rating for this movie is on Rotten Tomatoes.
Joe: Feels like a 70 to me.
Greg: It does, because there’s like some funny stuff, some good stuff, but also some. Yeah.
Joe: Yeah, but actually I’m gonna I’ll go 80% 85. Okay.
Greg: Yeah. Pretty good. All right. So we have a little over 10,000 ratings from the audience. What do you think the popcorn meter or the audience score is on Rotten Tomatoes?
Joe: I’m going to stay at 80 on this one.
Greg: 78. Okay. It’s ridiculous to me how good you are. This.
Joe: All right.
Greg: But what do some of the critics say? We always start with our hometown paper. Moira MacDonald said this will be a game night to remember in tones a character early on in the film. This isn’t true, as I’ve already forgotten most of the movie despite having taken notes.
Joe: Moira macdonald not not a fan. Again, not a fan. I agree that it doesn’t. There’s like no lasting staying power of this movie. Sure, once the movie’s over. Yeah, but I thoroughly enjoyed every second I was watching this movie.
Greg: Totally, totally. Let me read you this next one. We can keep talking about that. Stephanie. Mary from The Washington Post says, like a real life game night, the comedy may not leave a lasting impression, but it’s plenty fun while it lasts.
Joe: Yeah, couldn’t have said it better.
Greg: A lot of the reviews talked about how they kind of didn’t remember it.
Joe:
Greg: Sometimes I wonder if these people are kind of reading each other’s reviews.
Joe: Could be, are they’re watching like 4 or 5 movies in a day and you know, just kind of sure please together.
Greg: Do you need to remember everything about this movie to think that was a great movie? Maybe critics do.
Joe: For us on this show as professional, whatever we are, yes. We don’t need to remember.
Greg: We don’t need to remember though. But we also mostly watch forgettable movies.
Joe: Probably fair.
Greg: I guess if I was a movie critic that was had to write for the Washington Post, I would be pretty bummed if I couldn’t remember the movie when I was writing about it. And all right, let’s get to some more reviews here. The Irish Times says the closest thing we have in recent years to a successful exercise in high screwball.
Joe:
Greg: Four out of five stars. Justin Chang from the Los Angeles Times says A four hour documentary pitting Bateman against McAdams in an epic Settlers of Catan matchup would have been significantly more interesting.
Joe: Wow. Not a fan of the movie, and no.
Greg: J.R. Jones from the Chicago Reader. The long joke of the narrative is adroitly handled and for once, the climax pays off and laughs.
Joe: Anyone who puts a droite in anything that they’re writing gets an extra star on whatever they’re doing. So a 50 cent word there for that person.
Greg: All right. The observer in the UK says this surprisingly zingy throwback studio comedy is witty and observant on the dynamics between couples.
Joe: I agree with that.
Greg: We’ll finish with Benjamin Lee in The Guardian. The Jason Bateman comedy model hasn’t quite been radically altered in game night, but it’s one of his most entertaining outings. Just don’t count on remembering much of it once the night is over. Wow, something.
Joe: Yeah, I think that’s fair.
Greg: But yeah, in his handful of movies, I kind of question whether I should see Game Night because I had been kind of underwhelmed by some of his movies. He was coming up a lot of movies at this point, but I will watch this over and over. I’ve probably seen this movie 6 or 7 times.
Joe: Okay. All right.
Greg: All right. Joe, are you even ready for this? I don’t know if you could ever be possibly ready for this, but should we get to drinking games for game night?
Joe: I think we need to get some drinking games. I have a lot. Just warning.
Greg: So we have our stock ones that a group could do if they don’t want to come up with specific ones. For this movie, we have stock ones that we try to do for every movie. What are those?
Joe: So starting off with Silent Helicopter or low flying plane, I kind of have plane in there. It’s really a low flying or silent helicopter. We do have a plane at the end, so I would say take a drink on that one. Yeah, I am a coin flip on the pushing and then hands. I think you could have a push in and then hands on the scene where he’s bleeding on the dog and he’s like going to the computer, trying to like, find the very Bulgarian and all of that.
Joe: I didn’t, but I could see that you could.
Greg: A lesser person might as a.
Joe: Person. Right? Yes, exactly. So if you’re one of those more lesser people, go for it. Okay. Not me though, as a high brow.
Greg: Yeah. No, this is important stuff to you.
Joe: Yeah, yeah, I take this very seriously. Obviously, we do not have. When two people share a slow motion look in the middle of chaos or an explosion or a silent suffering or ringing in the ears. The credits scene. So this is I need your, your help on this Greg. Okay. So there is not that I saw an actual credit of them showing the title of the movie.
Joe: Yeah. They say game night a lot. Yeah. But it does open with music and like dice and different pieces from game. So it’s kind of it’s on the edge for me.
Greg: There’s the montage of when they’re meeting and dating and then getting married, playing a bunch of games, and they cut to their wedding, and there’s like neon words above the crowd dancing or playing the the Just Dance game. So the letters are above the crowd. I don’t think there’s a sound effect, though. Okay, so this isn’t like Total Recall, right?
Greg: Which is weird. Game Night and Total Recall don’t have any.
Joe: Connective tissue or Die Hard to Die hard, right?
Greg: Yeah, but you mentioned the opening credits. This is the opening music as the studio logos start to show and like game pieces are falling in slow motion and then the studio logos are going. But it definitely sets a mood for the movie.
Greg: It’s not quite Bourne Identity. Yeah.
Joe: Yeah, totally stranger things to me.
Greg: And it goes like a trivia night at the beginning. But there’s a lot of moments like this where there’s like jumpscares in this movie that they kind of go for, right?
Joe: Well, if you are thinking of this as a movie that they are playing it straight except for like the actors. Like trying to have it be a thriller, then the music is perfect.
Greg: It’s perfect. It’s so good.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: I really love the music in this movie.
Joe: Yeah I did too so I, I’m all in on it.
Greg: This is them arriving at a party.
Greg: They’re walking into kind of a nice house. There’s nothing suspicious about it.
Joe: Except for the music.
Greg: There’s nothing scary. They’re just kind of walking in and, like, they’re grabbing champagne and drinking it.
Greg: This music reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh!
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: And then they get down there and they discover the fight club. It’s a bit Trent Reznor, you know, with the stuff that he’s doing in movies these days.
Joe: I agree. And I also have and one of my drinking games is every time you think that the the soundtrack is a Stranger Things episode, take a drink.
Greg: So okay, that might have been a pretty big influence then.
Joe: Yeah, yeah, I appreciated the 80s. And if we kind of think back on like the reviews, it is like the screwball comedy. Yeah, it was probably more popular. This kind of comedy or this kind of movie was more of a like an 80s trope, almost. If I was trying to think back of like animal House and those kinds of crazy, borderline farcical comedies that may have been the heyday in the 80s.
Joe: So maybe that’s what they were going for on the soundtrack.
Greg: But it’s very electric, throughout the movie, which I suppose would be a bit more like Harold Falter Mayer in the 80s with like Fletch or Axel F and Beverly Hills Cop Ryan.
Joe: Does it flash back to dialog? I think it does. I have this one marked. I feel like there’s a flashback to some of the earlier scenes with Kyle Chandler in the in the movie, when he’s after he’s captured.
Greg: So I, I don’t remember any of the movie now.
Joe: I don’t remember I think.
Greg: The reviews were right. I don’t know anything about it.
Joe: It’s like amnesia movie right now.
Joe: I did not have the bad CGI for this movie. I feel like there is some CGI in this film, but I didn’t.
Greg: It’s good.
Joe: Yeah, I didn’t notice it. It didn’t bother me. Yeah. You know, when I popped up, there’s some great bad shots. There are definitely inexplicably wet streets.
Greg: Everywhere.
Joe: All over this place.
Greg: Everywhere. Take a.
Joe: Drink. Yeah. Drink a lot. So that one, you know, maybe drink some water with that one.
Greg: If you’re throwing a party and watching this movie, definitely assign that to one person in the room.
Joe: Yeah, yeah. And then I did Mark give us the room, because I feel like there was a scene where our two main characters, Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, asked for the room, but I don’t remember exactly where that happens in the movie now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but no Interpol and no cell phone smash. But those are in stock drinking game, so I will toss it to you.
Joe: Greg, what is your first drinking game?
Greg: I’m surprised there wasn’t a cell phone smash.
Joe: Yeah. Missed opportunity.
Greg: They’re waiting for the sequel on that one. My first drinking game for this movie is anytime. They are kind of gagging back and forth a little.
Joe: Perfect one scene, but you’re drinking a lot during that.
Greg: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Two drinks.
Joe: Yeah. I have, this is, a total cop out, but anytime I say game night, take a drink.
Greg: Oh. That’s solid. Anytime. Jason Bateman’s blood is a plot point.
Joe: It’s, I have just any time. Jesse Plemons is being amazing. Take a drink or two, basically when he’s on screen. So just right when you first see him in a scene. Yeah, you just know it’s going to be awesome.
Greg: That’s amazing. My my next one is anytime there’s an awkward scene with Jesse Plemons.
Joe: Perfect.
Greg: Should we listen to the scene where he’s introduced in the movie?
Joe: Yes.
Greg: All right, here we go. Oh.
Clip: Honey, you don’t mention game night, okay?
Clip: Max? Gary, any. Hello there. Hi, Gary. Just checking the mail. Oh, yeah. Some people check it earlier in the day, but there’s always a risk if the mail carrier hasn’t come yet. This spares me the chance of a futile trip to the mailbox.
Clip:
Clip: First, last bastion here. The opportunity to urinate. Do you have a good one? Any plans for this evening? Nope. Perhaps a game night. You’re just going to stay in? Just the two of us. Boring. I see, I do hope you keep me in mind for any future game nights, are you? Bet. I’ve always enjoyed the camaraderie of good friends competing in games of chance and skill.
Clip: Yeah, yeah. Well we’ll we’ll do that. But, Nice. Just, just just two of us.
Clip: Three bags of Tostitos scoops. I notice.
Clip: There was a special on these tonight. Three for one, three for one. Yep. How can that be profitable for Frito Lay? These corporations?
Clip: I don’t know what they’re doing anyways.
Greg: Unbelievable.
Joe: I can watch him doing that. Yeah. And every movie. Totally. Just like popping in and being the most awkward. Just like we’re trying to go inside our house and you just won’t let us. It’s like, I feel like they just said, don’t let them go in their house. And he was like, done.
Greg: I know it just kills me that she’s smiling the whole time, like trying not to laugh. Did you ever see the movie Civil War? He shows up in a scene. Just one scene. And he is the scariest person, maybe in the movie.
Joe:
Greg: And it it’s a weird. I mean, like, it’s just like a it’s a millimeter away from what he’s doing here, but. Yeah, it’s the scariest thing. Not the funniest thing.
Joe: I saw him in the second season of Fargo, which is my favorite season of that show, right? To where he met his wife, Kirsten Dunst. And he is incredible in that. And then there’s this really weird movie that he’s in with this Irish actress, where they’re basically driving out to, like, see his parents. And it’s kind of this, like, weird, esoteric movie.
Joe: He is so good in serious roles. Yeah. And if you told me, can Jesse Plemons do comedy based on before I’d seen this movie, I would have been like, I mean, maybe. And now he’s kind of got like that Captain Holt, Andre Brewer in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, like.
Greg: Yeah, yeah.
Joe: You know, it’s like I’ve only seen him in serious roles, and then you see him in a comedy just like so dead on. And if Game Night two ever happens, I hope that he has a bigger part in all of it. Oh my gosh. Totally. All right. We’re way off track. All right. What what’s another drinking game that you have.
Greg: Anytime they mentioned the.
Joe: Egg.
Greg: Oh take a drink.
Joe: Awesome I have any time. And I already mentioned this, but any time you think the soundtrack sounds like Stranger Things, take a drink.
Greg: Stranger things was 2020.
Joe: 2016 was the first season.
Greg: Oh wow. Okay, heavily influenced Wheel thing. All right. My next one is any time there’s a laptop research scene, take a drink.
Joe: That’s a good one. I like that one. Bonus points. Take a, another drink if there’s blood involved in that scene. So, okay, I that’s just my little add on. Any time that they mention how much better looking, his brother is than him. Take a drink.
Greg: Yep. That’s great. Oh, my gosh, that’s solid. My next one is any time there’s a fight club.
Joe: I have that one too. Okay. I have any time Ryan steals a scene. Take a drink.
Greg: We didn’t mention that Chelsea Peretti has a scene in this movie where she works at the place that’s doing, like, the murder mystery company, and it’s called Murder We Wrote.
Joe: That’s awesome.
Greg: Unbelievable. All right, any time they say the Bulgarian. Take a drink.
Joe: Damn it. I had that one too.
Joe: I have anytime they mention glass tables and how strong they are, I get drink.
Greg: So here’s my theory on that. They make those tables for stunt work. And so they can, like, redo the take over and over again. And they just used that table in the movie. What do you think of that theory?
Joe: Yeah, I think that’s probably dead on.
Greg: It’s always Lamorne Morris.
Joe: Who who.
Greg: Says something. But, let’s hear what happens the second time a table doesn’t break when somebody crashes into it. Oh.
Clip: Man, glass tables are acting weird.
Joe: I. So for them, it’s so great.
Greg: All right, any time a character says, is that a knife in your bullet hole, take a drink.
Joe: Any time there’s a take in reference, take a drink.
Greg: That’s solid. That’s amazing. This is my last one. Any time they show bastion the dog.
Joe: That’s awesome.
Greg: Maybe, like, any time there’s a scene with bastion the dog.
Joe: I guess my last one is any time there’s an unnecessary twist in the movie, pick a drink. Because basically, the last 20 minutes is just twist on, twist on twist.
Greg: But how many twists would you declare? Are necessary?
Joe: I could have lived without the twist with, Jesse Plemons coming in, because basically, for folks playing along at home, his brother comes. He’s he’s like, set up a fake kidnaping, and then he’s kidnaped by real kidnapers because he’s not some big tech person. He’s just some basically criminal who’s been kidnaped by another rival gang. And then all of a sudden, you’re right before the end of everything.
Joe: Then there’s another twist where Jesse Plemons has a twist where he’s kind of playing a joke on everyone else. To me it was fine. And the scope of the movie, but it was it was unnecessary to me. It fell out of place. I don’t know. How did you feel about that?
Greg: I thought it was fun that they were. It was just snowballing plot twist at the end.
Joe: Yeah. That’s a that’s basically what it is. It’s just like, yeah, twist and twist and twist. I was like, okay, yeah, fine. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It’s like, okay, that’s what we’re doing. But did we need it? No.
Greg: Well, after you’ve watched this movie a few times, see if the repeated viewing makes that maybe make a little bit more sense, but also like, oh, that’s fun. I forgot about that one, you know. Yeah.
Joe: I mean, and again, this is a movie that really needs multiple watching to fully appreciate everything that’s happening.
Greg: Totally, totally. All right, Joe, should we move on to Joe’s trope lightning round aka signs? You might be watching a great bad movie.
Joe: Absolutely. It was a little harder just because it was not a straight action movie. But we do have some of my favorite tropes. We do not have a newer trope of the exploding fire extinguisher, although we do have a fire extinguisher that plays an important role. Yeah, in the final moments.
Greg: Twice, right?
Joe: Yeah, twice. Yeah. We have a ragtag crew that’s, you know, fighting for good. We have lots of conversations in the middle of car chases and chaos that’s happening all over the place. We have medical care from a loved one or a partner, where they’re also throwing up or trying not to throw up. Father.
Clip: Oh. Sorry.
Joe: And we have downloading a file under pressure or the equivalent of that as they’re searching his computer. Not a lot of tropes of what we’re used to, but still some.
Greg: Wait, can I add one?
Joe: Sure.
Greg: Something that’s so funny in this movie is when they take out the front landing gear of the plane and the nose drops and everybody kind of like, lunges forward. Both pilots, like, lunge forward into their steering wheel kind of thing is and are both knocked out from that. And so kind of trophy people who are knocked out that should not have been knocked out.
Joe: Absolutely, yes.
Greg: How do you say it? How should we say it unconvincingly knocked out.
Joe: Yeah. And convincingly knocked down. Okay. Yeah. That’s a really good one because that happens a lot, and especially in really bad action movies where they’re just like they’re punched once or they like run into the wall and they’re just like, oh, that character just never going to bother us again. It’s so good.
Greg: They’re thrown against the chair like they’re doing the Heimlich. And it’s like, that should have helped that person, not hurt them.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: All right, Joe, there’s an elephant in the room right now. Is it time for us to get to important questions?
Joe: Absolutely.
Greg: All right, let’s do it. First. Important question. I guess you didn’t watch it back then, but do you think this movie held up in 2018?
Joe: I think so, I think it.
Greg: Did well, yeah. And it did super well.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: And does it hold up now.
Joe: Yeah. Actually it does really well.
Greg: Is there anything in here that makes you think, this obviously seven years old?
Joe: No, I don’t feel like the humor within it, that there are jokes in it that people would look back and go, oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah. I can’t believe they said that.
Greg: So it totally holds up in my mind.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: How hard do they sell the good guy in this movie?
Joe: Not really that not much.
Greg: No, not at all. Unless you consider Kyle Chandler the good guy. The brother who is. They kind of oversell him a bit as like this hero, and then he ends up being the hero.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: How do they sell the bad guy?
Joe: They do some work on that. Yeah, yeah, that’s pretty fun. But again, you kind of have a couple different. Who is the bad guy moments. Yeah, there’s the Bulgarian and then there’s the house where the egg is with. And I’m blanking on his name.
Greg: Danny Houston.
Joe: Danny Houston. Yeah. So they spent some time telling us how bad these people are.
Greg: Totally. Danny Houston, by the way. Hilarious. And the naked gun.
Joe: Okay, nice.
Greg: This summer. Very funny. Joe, just between the two of us. Okay. Why is why is there romance in this movie now?
Joe: Apparently that they’re married couple and they’re three different couples. And so I don’t know I don’t know why there’s romance in this movie, but there is.
Greg: There is.
Joe: And it works. Damn it.
Greg: And it’s wonderful.
Joe: Yeah. And that filled my thinking black heart a little bit. So it’s all right.
Greg: Follow up question are we bad people for loving this movie?
Joe: I mean, probably, but not that bad. Like if we’re doing it on like everything’s on a continuum, so we’re like in the bad, but like, right on the edge of good.
Greg: To me, this isn’t like shooter. No, we’re bad people for loving shooter. This is we’re better people than shooter people.
Joe: Yes, we’re definitely better than shooter people.
Greg: Yet I still 100% feel like we’re kind of bad people for loving this family.
Joe: And if you said you do, you want to watch shooter tomorrow, I’d be like, yes, I do.
Greg: Be like, no, I want to watch shooter tonight. Yes.
Greg: Does Game Night deserve a sequel?
Joe: Yeah, absolutely.
Greg: 100%.
Joe: I feel like it’s one of those movies. They could do a sequel any time. I know there’s probably some formula around how soon after a movie that a sequel needs to come out to, like, keep the brand equity and all of that stuff. But if they came out with 1 in 2 years, I think it would be great.
Greg: So I mean, they’re mostly doing this stuff on streaming these days. It seems like, come on Netflix, you’re friends with Batman? Yeah, put it together.
Joe: I know you did that. Stupid airport one with him.
Greg: Carry on.
Joe: Yeah. Carry on. That movie is so bad. We will for sure do that on this one. On this show. I mean.
Greg: I was going to say this is the wrong show for you to have my opinion on.
Joe: Carry on.
Greg: Yeah. When are we? Was it Christmas? Is that a Christmas movie?
Joe: That’s a Christmas movie. Yeah.
Greg: The only problem with that being a Christmas movie is you have to wait another year for a sequel.
Joe: Well, Carry.
Greg: On seems to be coming up quite a bit.
Joe: Yeah. I really hated that movie.
Greg: Here’s the question for if it’s going to be on great bad movies though. Would you enjoy watching it again. Would you enjoy a hate watch?
Joe: Yeah, I would enjoy hate watch okay okay. Good one I really love I mean, I’m a Jason Bateman fan, so I like him. I like for that Taron Edgerton I like him too. Yep. It’s just a dumb premise.
Greg: It’s a very slight movie.
Joe: Yeah, but pretty good.
Greg: The fight scene in the car. Amazing.
Joe: Yes. Their thoughts. There is a conversation that needs to be had around this movie.
Greg: Here’s what I just learned about myself. I can’t wait to watch Carrie on again.
Joe: Fair. Me too. Especially now. Now that I get to watch it with anger. Yeah, totally. All right.
Greg: Does it deserve a prequel?
Joe: No.
Greg: Yeah, I don’t have one either. I feel like we get a lot of flashbacks to. Oh, we get flashbacks to like, previous dates that Ryan had brought to Game Night. That was a flashback that they did? Yeah. So we get enough of the flashbacks unless we’re doing like, you know, people when they were in fifth grade starting to date.
Greg: Yeah. I don’t think we need to. All right. Should Game Night have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars Joe.
Joe: I mean maybe would anyone have remembered it if it had been nominated though. That’s the question.
Greg: That’s a good question. That’s a good question. I love how your take on this has softened since I’ve gone. Maverick.
Joe: Yeah. Yeah.
Greg: Top gun Maverick, hard pass, game night.
Joe: Oh, man. Give it a shot. Yeah. I’m trying to think of I was putting Top Gun Maverick up of like. And this movie as best picture. Which one? I would pick I think I think game night.
Greg: Why wasn’t Tom cruise in a bit part in this movie? I don’t know, he should have been the Bulgaria.
Joe: Yeah, 100%. That would have been the best cameo.
Greg: Totally. Although the Bulgarian was Michael C Hall. Right. You never mentioned him. Really? What do you think of Michael C Hall in this movie?
Joe: I mean, it was like, okay, all right. Yeah, sure. Dexter’s in this movie. Sure.
Greg: Yeah. Great. Bad guy.
Joe: Yeah, yeah, great bad guy. But he doesn’t have a lot to do.
Greg: Sure.
Joe: But, you know, it was fine. But again, I feel like that’s a part that really would have been. It would have landed heavier. And it’s probably a little funnier if it had been a bigger star. Yeah. You know, so if it was Tom Cruise or George Clooney or Brad Pitt that comes in and just like, doesn’t they work on this?
Greg: Yeah, yeah.
Joe: You know and he’s done so but he was fine.
Greg: Okay. Well let’s put a pin in that because I have an idea of who it could have been in a future important question okay. Okay. So ironically only eight movies were nominated for Best picture this year. They can go up to ten. So there’s room okay. Let’s hear this list. Green book, which was the winner that year. Black Panther, Black Klansman, Bohemian Rhapsody there’s a lot of Queen in this movie as well, by the way.
Greg: The favorite Roma, A Star Is Born and vice.
Joe: We need to go back to five movies. They’re like half of those movies that. Yeah, you know, get them out of there. And this is a long been a discussion in Hollywood that comedies do not get their due, and comedic actors don’t get there. Do. Yeah, but I would have been fine if, quite frankly, if this movie was in that group because I don’t.
Joe: Yeah, you see more movies than I do. I’ve seen black Klansmen.
Greg: Wasn’t that funny? I haven’t seen that.
Joe: Kind of funny. I wanted it to be a little bit more kind of irreverent. There are a couple moments in that movie that are great. And it’s a good movie, but it needed to pick a lane, and I felt like it was, I don’t know. And spike Lee is one of our best directors. I don’t know, I mean, Do the Right Thing is one of the best directed movies I’ve ever seen.
Joe: Maybe the best.
Greg: Yep, yep.
Joe: And it needed more of that. Yeah.
Greg: Green book one I haven’t seen. I’ll never see Green Book.
Joe: No, that was not interesting to me.
Greg: But I do think there should have been we should say there should always be a comedy. Nominated for Best Picture. I agree. And that movie this year would have been Jimmy.
Joe: Absolutely.
Greg: All right, Joe, next important question. How can this movie be fixed? AKA who should be in the remake?
Joe: I don’t necessarily have a really strong answer for this one other than to reference Dungeons and Dragons, which is a tighter script and story start to finish where I feel like, okay, there are a couple moments with the twists in this movie, kind of feels like it spins off of its access a little bit too much, and I think it needed a little bit of a tighter hand on what the plot was, okay, as the only thing, and it’s again, a very minor criticism of of this movie.
Joe: So I don’t really feel like it needs a lot of tweaking in any way. Yeah. But, you know, adding in instead of Michael C Hall as the Bulgarian, you know, Tom cruise would have been sure. You know, it takes it from a 9.5 to 10 to me, that sort of thing.
Greg: So that’s exactly what I said. I think we should reshoot the whole thing, but take all the bit parts and give them to more funny famous people. And by the way, the bit parts in this movie, they’re all really solid. So I feel a little bad doing this. Yeah, but, I think we need Gosling in there.
Joe: Absolutely.
Greg: Chris Evans.
Joe:
Greg: Ana de Armas.
Joe: Is this the gray man meets game night.
Greg: The bad guy at the end is Billy Bob Thornton.
Joe: Awesome I’m in. Wait over.
Greg: Where are you making this movie in the Gray Man universe. Yeah that’s what I’m saying.
Joe: Okay. Why didn’t you start with that? Because this is the greatest movie I’ve ever heard.
Greg: With that being The fix, this movie, I just realized every other movie is also broken for not taking place in that universe.
Joe: Yeah. So what are we.
Greg: Going to do? The gray man?
Joe: We could do it soon. I have watched that movie so many times.
Greg: Listeners, if you have any thoughts about the Gray Man, record a voice memo and send it to us at Great Bad Movies show at gmail.com. You can find that email address at our website. Great Bad movies.com. We want to get more listener voices on the show, so if you have any thoughts on The Gray Man, send those to us and we might play it when we do that movie.
Joe: Aka the greatest movie that was ever made.
Greg: Absolutely. Yeah. All right, Joe, very important question. What album is this movie?
Joe: Okay, so this one took me a little bit, but I need to set the scene. This is probably 25 years ago, 24 or 25 years ago. Okay. I had a friend like everyone at that time. I was in my mid 20s, had a friend who was in a band, and he had a show downtown Seattle. We’re going to see him and his band.
Joe: It was a band called Water Kill the Sun, his band. It’s a based on some graffiti that you can see as you’re on the monorail in Seattle. Okay. So we go to see him the opening band is some awful generic rock band that I remember talking to my friends like, this could be pop, like they could blow up because they were so.
Joe: No, like they were awful. Our friend plays and we’re about to leave and he was like, you have to stay. The band that they were opening for. You just have to see. And it was this band from Sweden called the Keto Salsa Experience.
Greg: Oh, wow.
Joe: And there were probably 40 people there. Okay. And they came out and just killed it. Wow. They were a fun rock band, okay. And they got up on stage and they just played like they were playing in front of a thousand people or 50,000 people. And it was, amazing. And I saw them again when they came back to town.
Joe: But it was one of those moments where, like, they were tired. We wanted to go home and they came on the stage and they just played. So it was so fun. And so that is their first album, the Keto Songs experience. Same name and to me this is a fun movie. Okay? Their music is, you know, it’s not going to stick in your head.
Joe: It’s not like it’s nothing more than just a fun rock experience. This is just a fun comedy experience. And that’s what this movie, this movie is for me just was like such a perfect time. And for me, so that’s what it is. It’s also experience. Wow. I remember we walked out of that show just like I cannot believe how amazing this show was.
Greg: I love that feeling. What song should I put on our Spotify playlist?
Joe: I think it’s the first song on their first on their album. It’s one of those moments where you just need to like, if you listen to that song, you’ll get this band.
Greg: I love that. That’s a good first song.
Joe: Yeah, because they just like, they’re just having fun. They’re just like taking all the tropes of like kind of prog rock. Throwing it into an album and you’re just like, this is the best album I’ve ever heard in my life.
Greg: Okay, give me that band name again.
Joe: The keto salsa experience, the keto and then salsa experience.
Greg: I kind of had a similar thing looking for an album. I was looking for something that was super fun, but also good for another reason. Like this movie is super funny. And then it was also well filmed as a thriller and shot at, you know, for some action scenes. So, you know, it’s kind of a short list of like funny bands you can think of.
Joe:
Greg: But a band that is also like surprisingly good in, in some ways as well. So I’m going to say this is the first Lonely Island album called In Incredible bad. Yeah. Where they were getting real beats from people. They’ve been doing stuff online before they got to SNL, and those beats were pretty, pretty good, a little rough, but then they started getting like real beats from real producers for their albums.
Greg: And, the first song on that album is called Who Said We’re Wack? And it is just a perfect first song to what ended up being, I think, three albums by them and so I’m going to say this is the first Lonely Island album. Incredible. It was like, oh, I can actually kind of enjoy listening to this too.
Greg: It’s not just funny. There’s actually like, more to this. And, they call themselves rappers, fake rappers, you know? So it’s like it’s not meant to be taken as a serious rap record, just as this is not meant to be a serious action movie, but still entertaining.
Joe: Absolutely. That sounds perfect. Yeah. So the song is for keto salsa experience. It’s a good tip for a good time, as the name of the album from 2000, and it’s the first song, listen to me, Daddy-O. And it’s to me, it’s very similar to what you’re describing with yeah, with The Lonely Island of like, you listen to that song, you know, they’re not taking anything too seriously.
Joe: Yeah, totally. And it’s still rocks, you know? I mean, like, two things can be can be true at the same time, you know? Yeah.
Greg: Yep. All right, Joe, it’s come down to it. It’s time for us to rate this movie. Great bad movie. Good bad movie. Okay. Bad movie, bad, bad movie. Awful bad movie.
Joe: It’s got to be a great bad movie. Yeah. I can’t even really make a case that it’s a good, bad movie. I think this is a great this is one of our movies. Like, as soon as as soon as Jesse Plemons came on the stage, it’s like, this is our movie. So how do you rate this movie?
Greg: Man, I have a really hard time saying that this is not a great, great movie.
Joe:
Greg: The highest on our show, one of the highest honors. I think we’ve gotten a little bit higher for maybe like Fast Five, but as we’ve been talking about it, I’ve kind of thought, yeah, there are some moments in this movie where it falls a little bit flat. And so I’m gonna say great bad movie as well. But man, I’m at the ceiling of great movie on this one.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: I love this movie so much because it’s great, not because I’m laughing at it. This is just a legitimately great movie. So I wish there were a million of these. And maybe there are. Maybe I need to check out, like, lovebirds. There’s just so many kind of, like, lukewarm action comedies. Yeah. Where they’re not really succeeding in either lane in this one, in my mind, succeeds in both lanes.
Joe: Yeah. Agreed.
Greg: Right. Yeah, we did it.
Joe: Yeah. We. Now that we have the conversation, the need we had about game night seven years, eight years past when it was made. So yeah, you know, you had your time and now this is the definitive conversation like no further.
Joe: I mean, we’re.
Greg: So far into the show and for some reason tonight I think that’s the most ridiculous thing he’s ever said.
Joe: Perfect. Oh my gosh that’s amazing.
Greg: Yeah. We should probably also say at this point in the show, as always, spoilers for Game Night.
Joe: Yeah, spoilers for Game Night. Although weirdly, I don’t feel like we spoiled this movie at all because I it’s it’s weirdly hard to talk about the plot and not make it make sense. So totally. I’m also not 100% sure exactly what all happens throughout once we get into all the twists. Sure. That’s yeah, part of its charm.
Greg: So I mean, it’s it’s about relationships. It’s about friendships. It’s about community coming together. It’s about sibling rivalry. It’s about fertilization.
Joe: Yeah. You know so much stuff.
Greg: It’s about Jeffrey Wright. He has a whole character arc I’m assuming.
Joe: Yeah.
Greg: Oh my gosh. The way. So he’s a bad actor in this movie right. The way he does bad line readings is unbelievable.
Clip: It’s not a joke. You people are in real danger and you’re running out of time. And I, Agent Henderson, will not stand idly by while innocent civilians are slaughtered on my watch.
Greg: If you watch this movie, for one thing, watch it for Jeffrey Wright.
Joe: It’s so. He’s so good because, like, our best actor.
Greg: Shows up to do bad lighting ratings. Oh, my gosh, that seems credible.
Joe: Yeah, I did a double take when I was like, yes, it’s Jeffrey Wright. And then I expected him to be in it, like at least in one more scene, maybe two. And that’s it. Yeah. One thing. Yeah.
Greg: What if he was actually Felix Leiter from the James Bond movie working for the CIA, acting as a bad actor.
Joe: Okay. All right. That he’s in. Yeah.
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Greg: All over this carpet and this random white dog that’s walked in the room while we were recording. So I should go.
Joe: Yeah, you should probably go also, and I don’t know if this is correct or not, but someone just bled all over my dog, so I’m probably going to have to go take him to the groomers and get them cleaned up.
Greg: So I’ll just say it wasn’t me. It was not okay for sure and I wasn’t.
Joe: Yeah, yeah. Oh my.
Greg: Gosh. My neighbor is right there and I do not want him to be on this podcast. So pretend we aren’t recording a podcast, right? Okay.
Joe: Totally not. Yes I will, I will play long. Anyway, I’m I’m late to my, fight club at a rich guy’s house, so I got it. I got to go anyways. You know.
Greg: It’s so weird. Is I hear something in the basement, and I think it might be a rich guy fight club, so I’m going to go check that out. They’re happening all over town tonight.
Joe: Awesome. I really hope that all of ours are the same, because I just ran into Denzel Washington at the gas station. Yep. So I’m going to go hang out with him and see what happens. Yeah.
Greg: So maybe he’ll let you pay, which is really cool.
Joe: Yeah. Really cool. I hear he’s got a two bedroom apartment, you know, so it’s got a an office and all that, so.
Greg: Oh my gosh, Joe, you just waved your arm up in the air. Is that a knife in your bullet hole? You need to go.
Joe: I probably should go to the hospital with that.
Greg: And do you have another reason that you might need to go?
Joe: I’m also looking at buying a classic Corvette. So, anyway, the owners are going to the airport first, and then they’re going to come and show it to me. So I’ll probably buy it after that. But it should be fine.
Greg: That’s probably fine. Yeah. Watch out for Michael C Hall, obviously. Okay. That works for me because I need to prep for our next episode. And by that I mean I’m doing a whole like corkboard murder board with red yarn so I can plot out the perfect way to talk about our next great bad movie.
Joe: Yeah. That’s perfect. That’s perfect. Anyway, I just I just bought a Faberge egg. This is from China, so I think that’s right. Right. Should. I’m getting it. It says that the, insurance company so that I if I, if it gets stolen or broken be fine.
Greg: But sure makes sense. Okay. Well, that works for me. So Joe, thanks for doing a great spec this week. That was really fun.
Joe: That was.
Greg: Awesome. Thanks so much and I will see you soon.
Joe: All right. See you soon.