Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Yesterday, we had started a conversation that got kind of cut off because of a technical issue about a very popular cult classic movie for anybody who grew up in the 80s and probably the 90s, too. The NeverEnding Story. Yes. With Falcor and Atreyu. The story that never ends, if you will. That's why they call the thing the Sphinx tits.
Yes.
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Chapter 2: What iconic 80s and 90s movies are discussed in this episode?
And she's in her car and she's making a TikTok about... Imagine... Being born in 1971 or 1972. Now, I'm not that old. And she goes, you're born in a generation of great music, great movies, no telephones, no computers. You are no highly processed foods quite yet. You are living...
in a time like a golden era and then there was a stitch which means that another guy was commenting on hers like going back and forth and he said you're right i was born in that era and you're absolutely right and then the 80s you're a teenager and you're growing up in the hair and the fashion and the music i wasn't so much about the music in the 80s but okay
I was a teen in the 90s.
I was a teen in the 90s.
Yeah. But, of course, you remember the 80s movies because that's what you were growing up on.
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Chapter 3: How does 'The NeverEnding Story' influence childhood memories?
Well, yeah, you wanted to be a big kid.
You couldn't go out. You know, you weren't going out with your friends. No. And so you were inside watching the TV.
Yes, and it was okay to watch rated R movies because HBO would let you do that. And your parents didn't care. They largely left us to... Raise ourselves. Now I'm helicoptering everything. And because the world, I think, is a lot more it's faster and more dangerous. I don't think my kids seem hardcore porn at age two. You know what I'm saying? Right.
So but back then it was just a squiggly tit on Cinemax in the middle of the night. But this girl was making a great point is that there really is kind of this golden era of 70s, 80s, 90s. And maybe I think after I think after 2001. This is a different world. You know what I'm saying? But the movies back then seemed to be so much better than they are today. Twisters 2 is not a classic.
Twisters with an S is not a classic. I debate anybody on this. Okay, go. What's your first? I'm going to fix this terrible squeal in the microphone.
Well, I mean, my first one that came to mind was Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of the greatest movies ever made. John Hughes made that movie. Chicago based. All the action takes place in Chicago. It is every kid's dream to skip. And once you get it, certainly middle school, high school to skip school and go on a great adventure. But likely if you ever skip school.
Well, now you can get arrested for like terrorism for skipping school.
And your parents know because they're tracking.
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Chapter 4: Why is 'The Goonies' considered a cult classic?
And it's just from beginning to end.
It's so good.
The music.
Yes, yeah. The music, the people, yeah.
Oh, Sloan. Oh, Sloan.
The fast cars.
Fast cars, fast.
Cameron's fast car.
Yeah. This is the ultimate wet dream of any high schoolers to have an adventure like this. But if you've ever skipped school, you know the adventure usually is like hiding in someone's basement smoking bad weed. Right. Right? That's probably the extent of your adventure. Yeah. Or maybe driving around for the entirety of the day.
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Chapter 5: What makes 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' a timeless classic?
All of it. It's so fucking, he's so fucking good at what he does. And what is the common denominator in all of his movies? Teenaging. Chicago.
And Chicago. That's right.
Chicago is the common denominator. He was a lifelong lover and liver in Chicago. And he made Chicago essentially another actor in the movie.
Another character.
And he did such a great job of it. One of my favorite scenes in any movie ever is not only the Wrigley scene where they are at the baseball game with Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but when Ed, the principal, when Ed goes to the pizza joint and he thinks he sees Ferris and it's just a girl in Ferris' coat.
It's at the arcade.
It's a pizza joint with an arcade. She turns around. She spits the Coke on him. And he goes, your ass is mine. She turns around, spits the Coke. He's wiping it off. He's staring at the guy behind the counter. There's a Cub game on. And he goes, what's the score? The guy goes, zero, zero. He goes, who's winning? What? And he goes, the Bears.
So now for the entirety of my life, when anybody says, who's winning? I say, the Bears. The Bears. All right, Chrissy. That's a big one. You had a big one. I will share with you that one of my favorite movies... that might be considered in a similar ilk, but a different director and a different topic, is The Blues Brothers. Ooh.
The Blues Brothers came out in 1980, and it is a... I don't think there's a movie that does a better job of mixing entertainment, comedy, and music in the 1980s than The Blues Brothers. Some of the greatest... blues songs ever written. I mean, you have gotten some... It's a heavyweight list of musicians that make their way into that movie, but they do it organically.
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Chapter 6: What themes are explored in 'The Blues Brothers'?
It's heroin. That's what it is. It's heroin.
But there's a glow.
I know, because it's the glow. Everyone wants to get high. That's what it is. Ugh. This movie about essentially heroin addicts. I mean, that's essentially at the end of the day what it is. And these weird criminals that we don't know what they do. We don't know why they do it. We don't know why they can call somebody and have a car cleaned up. We don't know why all that.
Quentin Tarantino introduces us to a new type of movie, a pulp fiction, essentially like the old pulp magazines that they had. You know, they're just kind of these detective, whatever, these weird noir movies. that then came to real life in Pulp Fiction. It is, again, another non-sequential movie that happens in weird timing, weird pacing, but it is beautifully shot.
Uma Thurman was born to play that role.
Oh, born to play the role.
I can't now think of anybody except for John Travolta, who I would rather have playing that. And Samuel L. Jackson is menacingly scary in that movie. Scary. Yes. Sam Jackson would make a name for himself in that movie. And the first 15 minutes of that movie tells you everything that you need to know about Sam Jackson's character. He is scary as shit. Loved Pulp Fiction.
Watched it a million times. Loved Reservoir Dogs. Watched it a million times.
I mean, I like all of Quentin Tarantino's stuff.
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