Alex Ross Perry

Like, this must be interesting.

It must be something.

Yeah.

But stuff like that can still get made, at least at this time.

Do you like the two Clint movies he's making that response to?

Would it surprise you... I get this is good.

Would it surprise you for me to say that I really like Flags of Our Fathers and think Iwo Jima is a very bad movie?

Letters from Iwo Jima is, I think...

The worst looking movie I have ever seen that is made with any budget.

Well, it did not have much of a budget.

No, but I'm talking like, yes, you could show me a $2,000 movie that looks worse.

Whatever digital technology was being put in front of him at that time.

It is the worst looking movie that I think has been like made by a major Hollywood studio with a major director.

And he's like, but it's strange because it was made concurrently with a movie that looks entirely different.

See, I remember feeling... I think you're being a little hard on him.

It's too bad you'll never cover any of them on this show, thanks to people voting down all of them.

The interesting thing about a lot of these World War II tropes is, like, they stopped making World War II movies during Vietnam, largely, because the idea of making, like, celebratory, rah-rah, men on a mission movies went away.

Coppola.

De Palma is in De Palma yeah yeah but De Palma he's another one of these guys like weird that the ignominious end of his distribution and his opportunities yeah it's just such a bummer yeah De Palma's tough I mean supposedly he's working on something now would it be good I don't know like how can how can he go from it's hard Mission Impossible to like not being able to get a movie made it's hard to end a series on the ward you know it is a thing you try to avoid

I think this is as good of a final film as my vague recollection of every final film you've covered.