# Behind the Mics: ATRM Patron Q&A (October 2025)

An episode of [All The Right Movies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1471502633), 3 Oct 2025, 1 h 07 min.

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## Transcript

[0:10] Hi everyone, welcome to this extra special podcast from All
[0:13] the Right Movies. My name is Luke and delving into
[0:15] the ATRM mailbag with me are Matt.
[0:18] Hello. John.
[0:19] Hi, everybody. And Westie, hello, this is our
[0:23] half yearly time out from our regular podcast where we feel
[0:26] questions from our biggest fans, the glorious ATRM patrons.
[0:30] Big shout out to you guys. Yes, lovely stuff.
[0:32] Always, Yeah. Thank you to everyone who's
[0:34] contributed with a question. We do try and get round to
[0:37] everyone who chips in and try not answer questions from the
[0:39] same people all the time. We have a load to choose from
[0:42] this month. So Many thanks once again.
[0:44] Yeah, there was loads of good ones as well.
[0:47] Loads of great ones, so we have to be particular with them.
[0:50] We will get to you eventually though.
[0:52] Yeah, so let's just dive straight into it, shall we?
[0:55] Let's do it. Let's do it.
[0:57] Our first question comes from Stuart Mcdean.
[0:59] Hi, Stuart. Hi, Stuart.
[1:02] Stewart says. What film gave you that first
[1:05] love of movies which has seen you end up on this podcast going
[1:09] all the way back? John, over to you first.
[1:11] Yeah, I mean, the easy answer for me would be Star Wars.
[1:14] Singing that as a kid was like having my brain rewired, to be
[1:17] honest. I think it was for a lot of
[1:18] people. Some of that 80s classics I saw
[1:21] as a kid, like Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Indiana
[1:24] Jones. I mean, those kind of films,
[1:26] what seem to have a kind of magic to them as a kid.
[1:28] They're still doing it to me. I'm not sure if I've just
[1:30] nostalgia or not, but they had no influence.
[1:33] Definitely still there. It's still there for sure.
[1:35] There's no denying that. But honestly, what led me to
[1:39] what we do now, it wasn't just movies.
[1:41] I've always been drawn to like creativity in general since I
[1:44] was a kid, whether that's music or books or films, whatever.
[1:47] Always been fascinated by the whole like creative process and
[1:50] art in general. And most of my working life has
[1:52] been spent in creative industries in one way or
[1:54] another. So why we did this?
[1:56] I think movies all, it's like perfect combination of loads of
[1:59] different kinds of creativity. We like talking about writing,
[2:02] music, visuals, design Lords, more so how we do the podcast.
[2:07] It does feel like a kind of natural extension of what I've
[2:09] kind of always done. Plus I get to talk about stuff
[2:12] like Ghostbusters basically full time now, which year old me
[2:16] would have thought was pretty cool.
[2:17] I think yeah. Yeah.
[2:18] Definitely, although not it's cool playing for Sunderland,
[2:20] obviously that was never going to happen.
[2:25] Fantastic. And what about you, Matt?
[2:27] I'll just go back to a film we covered a few episodes ago.
[2:30] Gross, point blank because I was a teenager.
[2:33] As I said on that episode, it was the first time I went to the
[2:36] cinema by myself and thought, actually, this isn't social
[2:40] suicide, which if perhaps was seen as back then.
[2:43] Yeah, like I said then if I hadn't done that, I wouldn't
[2:45] have gone to see a whole raft of films that came after that, you
[2:48] know, So the likes of Magnolia, Being John Malkovich and
[2:51] probably Grosse Pointe Bank. It's probably the first film I
[2:53] can member thinking I want to talk about this film with
[2:56] people. Very nice.
[2:57] Yeah. And Westie first love of movies.
[3:00] First love of movie. I tried to go all the way back,
[3:02] like the very, very first one I remember seeing and just being
[3:04] incredibly excited about, not quite knowing what it was.
[3:06] And that ultimately was Jason and the Argonauts and just
[3:10] seeing Taylor's come around the corner.
[3:11] Old are you Westie? I'm not telling you.
[3:14] I didn't watch it in the fucking cinema.
[3:16] I didn't watch it on the telly. It was fine.
[3:20] Remember Me dad pausing it because when I got the toilet,
[3:22] it was like right And he paused it on the video and I was like,
[3:25] oh, this right, OK. And we came back down.
[3:26] I just don't remember vividly sit and watch.
[3:28] That must have been about 5 I think.
[3:30] And it was just incredible. Like what is this?
[3:32] Why the the skeletons fighting this guy and the skeletons are
[3:36] still real. It's all fantastic.
[3:38] You know, the hobby scene that looked like pension monument,
[3:40] like where we're from. Just pretend it was there and it
[3:44] was like this kind of art imitating life type of thing.
[3:46] That was incredible. And then I got a little bit
[3:48] older and I missed out on going to say Batman in 1989 because it
[3:51] was the first ever 12 and I was 11, so I didn't want to take the
[3:55] risk. They thought I would go to
[3:56] prison or something. I was like, just take the risk.
[3:58] It's in one year like surely. And then I saw that and that had
[4:01] such an impact on me. Just the visuals of it, just the
[4:04] whole feel of it just really made sense.
[4:06] And then later on, films that I really wanted to talk about.
[4:08] It was just before I went to uni, just as I met Matt when I
[4:11] was working in the cinema, and just before that I saw the likes
[4:13] of Seven. And that changed me completely
[4:16] of just the craft of it that that just the technical ability
[4:19] and just like leaving you with just such an empty feeling at
[4:23] the end of it. Everything I thought films had
[4:25] to have a happy ending. I saw that and I was just
[4:27] completely changed by it. And then films with a happy end
[4:29] like The Shawshank Redemption, I think has a massive impact on
[4:31] anyone who sees it for the first time, no matter what age you
[4:34] are. And I think that might be a bit
[4:35] of a cliche now, but it is that good.
[4:37] It's turned into a cliche. So from all of them moments and
[4:40] all of them films where it was just this brand new thing that
[4:43] was that always came to us. And the people that I used to
[4:46] talk about all these experiences with were predominantly You 3
[4:49] when I was growing. Up Do you know what?
[4:51] I mean, so that makes. Perfect sense.
[4:53] Yeah, of course you do. Impossible to forget just
[4:56] ramming it down your throat. Oh yes, Wesley, fucking brace
[5:00] yourself are. You glad?
[5:02] Kind of get rid of us. So that's the whole point.
[5:04] And I think I was coming together because we just, it's
[5:06] just such a natural thing. We've just done it for so long
[5:09] and we all seem to have very similar tastes and very similar
[5:11] irons in the fire. But we all kind of bring
[5:13] something different. So it was just, it was a no
[5:15] brainer really. It's just something we all enjoy
[5:17] doing, so might as well do it properly.
[5:19] A natural step. Yeah, I think so.
[5:26] I'll say I don't know about that.
[5:29] It's a struggle for me if I'm honest.
[5:32] I've said on a number of occasions that I grew up in the
[5:35] VHS boom. We all did.
[5:36] And very similar to you John, I watched all the ones that you
[5:39] would expect of an 80s kids, Back to the Future,
[5:42] Ghostbusters, Raider, The Reanimator, you know, all the
[5:45] classics. But there were two that I would
[5:48] say are classed as my favorite films when I was like in single
[5:51] figures when I was really young. And the first was Mary Poppins.
[5:55] I loved everything about it. It was a world that was
[5:57] familiar, but it also took me to this place of wonderments.
[6:01] And those Penguins, I mean, I just can't get enough of them to
[6:04] this day. Incredible.
[6:06] Just covered, obviously, didn't we?
[6:07] It's still magnificent. Oh yeah, yeah, It's a wonderful
[6:10] thing. Yeah.
[6:11] It's completely timeless. It's just, it's just something
[6:13] of itself, isn't it really? There's not like it, really.
[6:16] Yeah, it's still great. Yeah.
[6:17] And secondly, following a similar path of being taken into
[6:21] a magical world, it was the Wizard of Oz.
[6:23] Just blew me away. Yeah, nice.
[6:25] Yeah, that Technicolor transition into Mario Land of Oz
[6:29] is still breathtaking. Absolutely.
[6:30] Brilliant. Yeah, yeah.
[6:32] The lion is still one of my favorite characters of all time.
[6:35] Yeah. Hilarious, yeah.
[6:36] Put them up. Put them up.
[6:38] Put. Them up, dive through that
[6:39] window at the end, Unbelievable. It's all good.
[6:45] And the Wicked Witch of the West is still better or fine she's.
[6:48] Great, Yeah. Brilliant.
[6:49] Yeah. Oliver, when she gets to the
[6:50] water, thrown her at the end. And just like, what a world.
[6:53] What a world. Great.
[6:56] It's amazing. Yeah.
[6:57] I saw shown of that at the sphere in Vegas and it was
[7:01] unlike anything I've ever seen. Wow, nice.
[7:04] The one with all the CGI added background stuff.
[7:07] Yes, that's right. And it kind of goes back
[7:09] throughout the the whole auditorium.
[7:11] It's like a five day experience. It's magnificent.
[7:13] Right. OK.
[7:14] It's unbelievable. Yeah.
[7:16] Yeah. So if you get the chance, I'd
[7:18] recommended 100%. Great.
[7:20] And then once you've got those two films under your belt,
[7:23] you're away. And it LED us, it LED us to kind
[7:26] of meeting together because we all met a university doing
[7:29] something around films and that led us to the podcast.
[7:34] It did. Like the yellow brick road?
[7:37] Yeah, wonderful. But thanks for getting the ball
[7:42] rolling, Stuart. Great question.
[7:43] Yes, thank you mate. Which one of us is Dorothy
[7:46] though? Well, you obviously, you
[7:50] obviously. You've got a dog?
[7:52] Yeah, you've got the. Dog, that's the only reason.
[7:56] Next up, we've got a question from Kate Barofsky.
[7:58] Hello, Kate. Hello Kate.
[8:00] Kate, a wordy question, she said.
[8:03] I found that after watching, discussing and rating Bridge
[8:05] Over the River Kwai, when it came time to do the same for
[8:08] Gross, Point Blank and especially The Fugitive, I found
[8:10] myself thinking too hard about whether I thought these were
[8:13] worthy and great movies. So I asked myself, how do I
[8:17] judge the quality or worthiness or importance of a film?
[8:21] Something that gets a little further in description than I
[8:24] really liked. It sounds silly, I know, and I
[8:26] came up with an answer that led me to the Fugitive is definitely
[8:30] A10. It definitely is.
[8:31] Wow, nice. OK.
[8:33] So long build up, Her question is how would you answer the
[8:37] question? What makes a movie great,
[8:39] important. Worthy?
[8:42] Three big words. Three big words and just to add
[8:46] a bit of context, Kate said she's got a grad degree in
[8:48] painting and wonder this every time she reads art critics or
[8:52] historians opinion. So why?
[8:54] Was that OK? She knows her stuff then.
[8:56] She knows her stuff, Matt, do you know your stuff?
[8:59] I think we've established by now, definitely.
[9:05] Wow, he's. Not in Kansas anymore.
[9:07] No cowardly line can take this one.
[9:13] I mean, I imagine an emotional conundrum that I'm certain you
[9:16] contemplated when you gave Gremlins A10, Matt, right?
[9:18] Still bringing that up by you. Yes, he is.
[9:21] Right, okay. That'll never lie.
[9:24] No. Do you know what?
[9:25] That's a great example to bring up because I think what I've
[9:28] learned on this is to not get too caught up about what the
[9:32] eventual score is going to be because sometimes the score can
[9:36] it really can differ on the mood I'm in.
[9:37] Sometimes the film doesn't quite connect because of other
[9:40] reasons. And I think it's probably a bit
[9:43] lower than I might give it up on another day.
[9:45] So don't worry about it as much as he used to because I think
[9:48] there's different types of 10s, you know, I mean, you mentioned
[9:51] Gremlinsburg, another one cross Pointe blank.
[9:53] I gave that a 10 because that's got a deep, deep personal
[9:56] connection. A different type of 10 is the 10
[9:59] that I gave, for example, Godfather Part 2.
[10:01] I don't have a particular connection to that on a personal
[10:04] level, but it's placed in cinematic history and the craft
[10:07] behind it simply can't be denied.
[10:08] And against it has to be a 10. That's just the way I look at
[10:12] it. It just has to come from the gut
[10:13] now rather than kind of obsessing about it too much.
[10:17] So yeah, I just think there's different types of 10's and
[10:19] that's just the way I look at it now.
[10:21] Where's your thought process on that one, Wesley?
[10:23] I mean, it's very much the same, if I'm honest.
[10:25] I mean, we've gone through it and I have had these moments of
[10:27] like waking up at 6:00 in the morning, just being, ah, right,
[10:30] OK, I've got to get up anyway, but ah, what does that do that
[10:33] for? That doesn't reflect what I
[10:35] really kind of think of it, but it really does.
[10:37] But it's not what people wanted to hear or expected to hear.
[10:39] And I've got friends who listen to the podcast and they say, I
[10:41] can't believe you give such and such this.
[10:42] I can't believe it's not that. It's not this, it's not an 8,
[10:45] it's not a nine, it's a 10. What's the matter with you?
[10:48] And this is like people are forgetting me and that's just
[10:52] math. But this is this is this is not
[10:54] a science. It's an art form and it's
[10:56] subjective. And there's lots of things that
[10:58] you could look at. I mean, I look especially at the
[11:00] confidence in the filmmaking, the technical prowess that's in
[11:02] there, the performances. I also look at the piercing of
[11:05] it. I look at the legacy behind it,
[11:06] look at the direction, look at the cinematography.
[11:08] All of these things kind of tick boxes for me, put down for other
[11:11] people. So I think obviously it's
[11:14] something that speaks to you. That's the most important thing.
[11:17] If you find something in there that you, that resonates with
[11:20] you, that moves you, that takes you somewhere else, then to me,
[11:24] that's a really positive thing. That's then you're on A5 and you
[11:27] just go above that. You're just kind of wondering
[11:29] how much is it affecting you? How much does it touch you?
[11:31] How much does this resonate with what you're going through or
[11:34] what you have been through? There's an incredible discussion
[11:37] with Ethan Holt that's online if you want to listen to it, and
[11:39] he's just talking about poetry and how important that is and
[11:41] how important songs are and how important art is.
[11:43] And it's not until you're going through hell do you realize that
[11:45] you actually need that. You actually need that with you
[11:48] to say people have gone through this and you put films on for
[11:51] different reasons. You'll come home from the pub
[11:53] and you'll stick something on to feel a certain way.
[11:55] And you'll be feeling melancholic and you'll be
[11:57] feeling lonely. And you want to just watch
[11:58] something that has that similar feel so you know, you're not
[12:01] alone in the world. And I think a lot of that is
[12:03] really personal. And to turn around and say,
[12:06] well, yes, this is definitely A10.
[12:08] A lot of that for me is based on legacy, and a lot of that is
[12:10] based on the longevity of it. Like Matt said, Godfather Part
[12:13] 2, Taxi Driver, I had to have the conversation where Raiders
[12:17] for all days a 10, but people turn around and say, well, no,
[12:20] it's night second eight. It's all had been done before.
[12:22] It's what it's when you see it, it's how it resonates.
[12:26] And that's the thing. I think Kate's getting out.
[12:27] I don't think she needs to worry so much about what she's paying.
[12:30] And I think what she needs to worry about is how much of
[12:32] herself she's putting into it and not worry about how
[12:35] critically that's received. Much like film, you put yourself
[12:38] out there. If people resonate with it and
[12:40] get it, great. If they don't, you've still lost
[12:43] nothing. You've put something out there
[12:44] and that's what people are going to remember you by.
[12:45] So that's the most important thing.
[12:47] What I cannot stand is a cash grab.
[12:49] Something getting put out there just purely to make money with
[12:52] no, no resonance, no emotion, no point behind it, just out there
[12:56] just for the pure fact of making money.
[12:59] I cannot get behind that. But if something's got heart, if
[13:01] something's got soul, if something's got mean, and if
[13:03] something's got a reason to exist, it starts at A5 and works
[13:06] its way up for me. Somebody earlier point there,
[13:09] Westie, I was at yours yesterday and you were watching The Matrix
[13:12] Revolutions. I know I was.
[13:16] Lovely choice, yeah. How did you find it?
[13:19] 3. Of course.
[13:24] Did you have Zulu on in black and white?
[13:27] Yeah, I was upstairs on the laptop on black and white, and
[13:30] as I was going downstairs to make a brew, right, And the
[13:32] matrix is on. So it was a different kind of
[13:34] vibe. No, I had it on the other night
[13:35] and I thought, I've really got to give this a try.
[13:37] It can't be as bad as I remember, and it really is.
[13:39] So, I mean, the first matrix is my speech.
[13:42] We're not going to get into that.
[13:42] That's not what we're talking about.
[13:43] But anyway, that's my point. Yes, and a great point it was
[13:47] Westie. Thank you, Luke.
[13:48] Yeah, I think I've certainly, you know, films that are easy
[13:53] 10's and then films where people are surprised that I've given a
[13:56] 10. I've grappled with given like
[13:57] The Godfather and Midnight Run a 10 on some levels at least two
[14:02] very different films. But for me they're both
[14:04] undeniably A10, but for different reasons.
[14:06] And I think a distinction needs to be made about certainly my
[14:10] rate and tactics. I don't know if it's the same
[14:12] for you fellas, but I largely rate based on other movies in
[14:15] that genre. So The Godfather.
[14:17] I'm stacking it up against the big boys and girls in the crime
[14:19] drama category for example. Right?
[14:22] Midnight Run anything in the buddy cop action genre and
[14:25] they're both best in class for me.
[14:27] Yes, Anything else directed by Martin Breast, basically.
[14:29] Anything by breast. Which are both 10s.
[14:32] Let's be. Honest.
[14:32] Meet Joe Black. Anything like that?
[14:36] Everything got to be all right. OK, it's question.
[14:42] I think it's a combination of a lot of things.
[14:44] What a film means to you personally, what impact it had
[14:46] on cinema, Did it breakthrough into popular culture in general?
[14:49] Is it still relevant? I think a lot of those things
[14:52] are quite obvious, but some not so much.
[14:55] I'm not a massive fan of The Sixth Sense, but I'm well aware
[14:57] it's of its cultural impacts and it's absolute place at the table
[15:01] of our classic podcast. Something like 28 Days Later may
[15:06] seem like a fairly innocuous zombie movie, a bloody good one,
[15:09] yes, but its influence is absolutely massive and largely
[15:12] unsung. We likely wouldn't have trained
[15:14] Person and The Walking Dead without it.
[15:16] Exactly. Yeah.
[15:17] So it's a lot of different factors and a combination of all
[15:20] those things from me, kid, I think.
[15:22] What about you, John? Yeah, I think it's a good
[15:24] question. I think probably shown by the
[15:25] fact we've all answered it slightly differently.
[15:28] Yeah. I think it kind of ties into our
[15:30] titling for the podcast, The Story of Hollywood, one film at
[15:33] a time, because a word we often use when talking about films to
[15:36] talk about is significant, which can probably mean a lot of
[15:39] things. I mean, a film could be
[15:40] significant because it was massively influential.
[15:43] Even if it's not that well known, it could have been an
[15:45] influence on the bigger films. It could be significant because
[15:48] it was very successful, like box office wise, and had an impact
[15:51] on Hollywood as a business or how things are marketed in
[15:54] Hollywood. Or it could just be significant
[15:56] because we love it. All of the story of how it was
[15:58] made. So we're doing it personal as
[16:00] well. Yeah, I mean, for me, from doing
[16:02] the podcast, I think what makes a movie really significant is
[16:05] when it hits a few of those marks, ideally all of them, say
[16:08] Jaws, which we won't stop banging on about, made a
[16:11] portion, invent the summer blockbuster, influenced
[16:15] countless film makers, the making of stories outrageous.
[16:18] And I still love it. So that's how I describe a film
[16:21] can be significant or worthy, but it's hard trying to explain
[16:24] what makes a film significant or worthy.
[16:26] I think. I mean, it's like trying to
[16:28] explain why Cadbury's chocolate tastes good.
[16:30] I think it's like really difficult.
[16:32] I tried that and it's really hard.
[16:34] Take it out of the freezer. That's what you need to.
[16:39] Do step one, yeah. Great points, all four of us,
[16:44] and a great question, Kate. Thank you.
[16:46] Yes, thank you, Kate. Good luck with the painting, by
[16:49] the way. Absolutely.
[16:50] Yeah, good luck with the pain. Again, the moment period.
[16:51] Let's see. Absolutely.
[16:53] We'd love to see you. I'd love.
[16:53] To keep up the doodling. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[16:56] Always keep. Up the doodling.
[16:57] Always. And next we have another great
[17:01] one from Damien Lennox. Hi, Damien.
[17:04] Hi, Damo. Hello, Damien.
[17:05] Hello, Damien. Damien says all right, top lads
[17:08] well, he knows us well. There he is.
[17:10] Thanks. He says individually, what would
[17:12] be a film you would love to cover which wouldn't have a
[17:15] chance on the pole now? Westie, Yeah.
[17:20] You know what mine is? I can only guess Highlander.
[17:22] No, we've done that one. One that wouldn't even be
[17:25] touched on. Even double feature just
[17:27] wouldn't get looked at. There's a few different kind of
[17:30] branches for me, one that I'll go down there.
[17:32] It's not incredibly popular kind of cinema or or really
[17:35] accessible. It it's probably seen as being
[17:38] overly pretentious, I would imagine, but I love anything
[17:41] like that. I would literally say anything
[17:43] by Bellator, the Recmaster, Harmonies is not going to
[17:46] happen. And I think Damien has asked
[17:48] that question, so I would give that answer because he looks at
[17:50] that film as well, and I know that very well.
[17:52] And also littler films that I really like that I don't think
[17:55] have, like John's just said, the significance of it.
[17:58] I mean, I'd love to do Strange Days by Catherine Bigelow.
[18:00] Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[18:02] Don't know if that's just, is that too small?
[18:04] Will that make an impact? Do people want to hear about
[18:06] that film? Little things like that and and
[18:08] little ones that I kind of grew up with that I really love
[18:11] talking about. But again, the significance
[18:12] isn't really there. Like Lethal Weapon three,
[18:15] Predator 2, you know, they're not, it's not bothers it because
[18:20] we've already done better that we've already done Lethal
[18:22] Weapon. But Lethal Weapon three.
[18:23] I've I've, I've watched that so many times.
[18:25] I love it. It's such good, great fun.
[18:27] But like, good stuff, yeah. Cop killers.
[18:31] It's it's never going to hit a classic episode and we're never,
[18:33] ever going to be able to talk about that for longer than 30
[18:36] minutes and 4 pints, you know, so it's one of them things.
[18:39] But yeah, I think my real kind of love is that, you know,
[18:43] really long, pretentious, black and white cinema, especially the
[18:47] work of Bella Todd's just, you know, took Offski, anything like
[18:49] that. But I don't really think there's
[18:51] room for that at the moment. I might have to branch off on
[18:53] pairing and do like a little Westies.
[18:56] Westies special miserable. Corner Westie under the under
[19:01] the stairs or something like that.
[19:03] We'll figure something out. Wesley Potter in black and
[19:07] white. Great.
[19:11] Well, I mean, I don't think we have enough time on the show for
[19:14] me reel off all the shit that I'd love to talk about that
[19:17] would embarrass itself on the pole, but one that just stands
[19:21] above every other one head and shoulders.
[19:23] I mentioned it before, it's been on a few double feature poles
[19:25] and came up short. It's blow out.
[19:28] Yeah, of course. Yeah.
[19:29] And dress to kill. And dress to kill.
[19:31] Yeah, double picture. I mean that that is the best
[19:34] double feature offering anybody could get.
[19:36] Nobody likes. It you've ever loaned me, ever.
[19:39] And then you kept asking for them back after 2 have their
[19:41] back please. Have you watched them?
[19:43] Have them back? Yeah.
[19:45] Well, and, and the 9/10 of the law, if you have it for any
[19:49] length of time, then it's yours. So I wanted to avoid that
[19:51] situation completely. That's that.
[19:54] Yeah, so blow out to Palmer's best, Travolta's best, maybe
[19:58] it's one perfect film for me. I can't get enough of it.
[20:01] And I revisit it regularly more and more as I get older.
[20:04] So I'm I'm just good to go when the time arrives.
[20:07] So whenever you're ready, everybody who's voting,
[20:09] listening, you know I'll pay for.
[20:11] Oh, you'll pay for votes. What about you, John?
[20:18] Yeah, I think this musicals tend to not do well on poles, which
[20:22] is a shame because I'd love to do some of them like grease,
[20:24] mainly because. It would be grease.
[20:25] Sign me up. Yeah, it's singing in the rain.
[20:28] I mean, talking about worthy films.
[20:30] So they don't come much more significant than that.
[20:32] I don't think huge Old Hollywood generally doesn't do great on
[20:34] poles either. No, I'd love to do a Psycho or
[20:37] mentioned it. The Wizard of Oz, the making of
[20:39] story for the Wizard of Oz is one of the very best there is.
[20:42] It's absolute madness. That would be great.
[20:45] So if I'm picking one I'd like to do, I might go network the
[20:50] wild behind the scenes story, if some of those maybe, though it's
[20:52] still good. But as a piece of drama,
[20:54] especially a piece of writing, it's just extraordinary.
[20:58] I'm pretty sure Paddy Shyevsky had a crystal ball when he wrote
[21:00] that film. And the cast on massive, great
[21:03] performances. Oscars Records coming out of its
[21:06] backside, so yeah, Network might be the one.
[21:10] Yeah, that's really good for you to replace your Amadeus.
[21:13] It really is the next. Yeah, that's the next.
[21:15] One steps right into that hole, that Amadeus.
[21:18] Shape hole perfectly a shape tool is like network and you
[21:21] just keep putting it on poles. I'm not going to take any more
[21:23] of this shit. That's.
[21:25] Perfect. What about you, Matt?
[21:28] What film do you want to talk about?
[21:30] Well, I'm a bit like John and that I'd like to really push
[21:33] through more like classic Hollywood pre 1970s films.
[21:37] So a big one from that pay. It's been in a few pulse now.
[21:40] It never comes close, but I think Wesley and John would be
[21:43] all over the searches if that came, John for John Wayne.
[21:47] We don't do enough westerners as this.
[21:49] Definitely that one. But then at the opposite end of
[21:52] the scale, I'd also like to do much more recent films, you
[21:55] know, films just from the last few years that have really got
[21:57] through and made an instant impact.
[21:59] Like, I mean, I'm sure we'll put up films from these decades, but
[22:02] I generally look at the 70s, eighties, 90s and think I'm kind
[22:06] of done with most of those. There's not many from those
[22:09] decades that I'd like to do now. It's before or after.
[22:13] And I'm also like, a big fan of the smaller films, you know, the
[22:17] ones which are much of a kind of character based and dialogue
[22:21] based, not so much action. So something like Lady Bird to
[22:25] me would be a great choice. Yeah, great.
[22:27] It's a great film. Is critically clear anything?
[22:30] Gerwig's really important director for our times.
[22:32] Social and it's one of the the best actresses working today.
[22:35] But if I can have to, it would be The Searchers and Ladybird.
[22:38] Yeah, I mean, there's quite a few in that hill, isn't that?
[22:40] I mean, like Little Miss Sunshine, Our Captain Fantastic,
[22:42] and they're all sideways and films.
[22:44] Yeah. Sideways would be great, yeah.
[22:46] I mean, the only way that any of those films are going to win is
[22:50] if they're on a pole with similar films with.
[22:52] Some. Yeah, we have to box clever, I
[22:54] think. Yeah.
[22:54] Well, exactly. Yeah.
[22:55] Which I think, to be honest, I think we're going to end up
[22:57] doing because these films need to be covered.
[22:59] Yeah, I think the last what we put up was for black and white
[23:01] films, wasn't it? And.
[23:04] Yeah, exactly. Yeah, brilliant.
[23:06] Have to start doing that, yeah. Yeah, theme poles.
[23:08] Maybe that's the way they go. Yeah.
[23:10] Well, thank you very much for the question, Damien.
[23:12] Yes, thanks mate. Yes, Thanks, Damon.
[23:14] Wonderful. Next on our list is a question
[23:17] from Andrew Hunter. Hi, Andrew.
[23:18] Hello, Andrew. Hi, Andrew.
[23:20] Good eye. Good eye.
[23:22] Yes, indeed. Austria.
[23:27] Well then. Andrew, if you if you couldn't
[23:32] already guess, Andrew used to be from Australia.
[23:36] Just because the questions Australian based it wasn't
[23:38] anything to do with Andrew. Andrew says greetings, ATRM from
[23:43] the Antipodes. Parochial question.
[23:46] What's your favorite and least favorite Australian film?
[23:49] Does Paul Hogan star in both of them?
[23:52] Cheers. Wow, wow.
[23:54] Very specific. When I think of Australian
[23:58] cinema, I instantly think of Brian Brown and Mad Max.
[24:01] Yes, you do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[24:03] Imagine if Brian Brown was Mad Max.
[24:06] Oh, now I love that. But if you do think about it for
[24:11] a moment or two further. There's just been so many great
[24:14] Australian films. Walkabout Week and Fried,
[24:17] Crocodile Dundee, Strictly Ballroom, Talk To Me, The Dry,
[24:19] The Proposition, Animal Kingdom, You could go on and on and on.
[24:23] The truth is, I haven't seen a bad Australian film up to now.
[24:26] Right. OK, Yeah.
[24:28] So I'm taking this opportunity to talk about two Australian
[24:30] horror films that I really like and neither of them star Paul
[24:33] Hogan, unfortunately. Right.
[24:35] Why are they both both Greek? And the first one is Wolf Creek
[24:42] 2. Wolf Creek.
[24:46] It's not. Yeah, it's Wolf Creek.
[24:48] Lovely. Yeah.
[24:49] A very nasty little horror movie written, directed by Greg
[24:52] McLean, 2005. If you don't know it, it's about
[24:56] British backpackers who come a crop when they encounter the
[24:58] antithesis of Hogan's Mcdundee, John Jarrett's Mick Taylor.
[25:03] Not that one. Not the one from the Stones,
[25:06] it's certainly not for the faint hearted and maybe hits a little
[25:08] too close to real life considering when it was
[25:11] released, but it is relentless and chilling and we'll stay with
[25:14] you for days. The other one is a bit of a
[25:16] cheat because it has AUS cast in the shape of Stacy Keach and the
[25:20] one and only Jamie Lee Curtis. ATRM favorite.
[25:23] Very nice, right? Well look favorite.
[25:25] Yes. Well, just like John.
[25:28] Just let him have it, man. I.
[25:30] Think it's everyone? John as well.
[25:33] Good. The film is Rd.
[25:36] Games, directed by Aussie native Richard Franklin.
[25:39] Keach and JLC spark up an unlikely relationship in the
[25:42] desolate Australian Outback as they track down a serial killer.
[25:45] It's a bit of a forgotten film now, not perfect, but it's a
[25:49] sleazy gem. Very nice if you like that kind
[25:52] of thing. Just like me.
[25:57] What about you John? Aussie cinema.
[25:59] Yeah, I'm sure that you look the first one that springs to mind.
[26:02] It was always Mad Max. Yeah, I think one of the like,
[26:04] most raw, visceral pieces of filmmaking you could ever see.
[26:08] And George Miller made it for what, about $12.00 or something?
[26:11] Something like that. Easy.
[26:12] I love it. And the sequel, which goes
[26:14] absolutely crazy, But another one that we've not mentioned is
[26:17] Picnic and Hanging Rock. Yeah, yeah, I knew of it
[26:20] obviously, but I only watched it for the first time when we
[26:22] covered Master and Commander. Yeah, it's piece of weird, isn't
[26:25] it? Yeah, exactly.
[26:26] And I loved it. I mean, it's not like Mad Max,
[26:28] but it's a mystery and I guess a lot of people haven't seen it.
[26:31] So a quick synopsis I think should get people in.
[26:34] Set in 1900, a girl's boarding school goes in the picnic, The
[26:37] Hanging Rock, hence the name, probably.
[26:38] But four of the girls go off exploring.
[26:40] Only one of them comes back, and she's too traumatized to explain
[26:44] what happened. I mean, that sounds pretty good.
[26:45] Right. Brilliant.
[26:47] Yeah, it's adapted from a novel from the 60s, I think, so it has
[26:50] a great narrative, but it's so cinematic.
[26:53] It's got this like really dreamy, surreal feel to it,
[26:56] which I really like. So if anyone's going to watch
[26:58] it, I think you should. But I warn you that the end
[27:00] might drive you mad. But it is brilliant.
[27:03] Yeah, right. It's got a very David Lean look
[27:05] to it, hasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[27:08] And least favorite Australian film?
[27:10] John, do you have one? No, it's not.
[27:11] I've got one to be honest. Not there's nothing I think
[27:13] similar. I've not really seen anything
[27:15] Australian that I've thought. I don't like that very much.
[27:18] I see a toughest to watch was definitely the proposition which
[27:20] Wesley forced upon us. Yeah, Christmas.
[27:23] I asked you politely to watch it festive season.
[27:26] What's wrong with that? Yeah.
[27:29] So it was good, yeah. Christmas Day whippings so.
[27:32] Yeah, yeah, lovely stuff. What about you, Matt?
[27:35] Australian films where you're at?
[27:37] Yeah, very similar. The obvious one was Mad Max Vivi
[27:40] Ward, but I've mentioned that so many times I thought so.
[27:42] It's a cheap mention that again and it kind of skipped the end
[27:44] again. I've not seen enough Australian
[27:46] films to think of a really bad one, one that I would say I just
[27:49] liked. I did think about Picnic at
[27:51] Hanging Rock, but the other one I'll go for is a film from 2001
[27:55] called The Dish. I think 2002.
[27:59] Very nice. Which I mentioned this one, we
[28:00] covered Apollo 30, and I'm really fascinated by the whole
[28:03] era of NASA and the London on the moon.
[28:05] And this is a true story about a radar dish in Australia that was
[28:09] pivotal to getting the signal from the moon and transmitting
[28:12] it around the rest of the world. And it's just in this really
[28:15] small farm town in Australia. And it was famous for that one
[28:17] thing and it stars some nail. And it's just a proper
[28:20] heartwarming. It's very, very funny.
[28:22] It's a great story. Yeah.
[28:24] The dish is 1 I want to mention. It's really, really great.
[28:26] Beautiful. It is very good and some Neil
[28:28] can't really go wrong with him. Family was brilliant.
[28:31] Yeah, yeah. Yeah, a dish recommend in the
[28:33] dish, which is very nice. There we are, a couple of dish
[28:36] we'll. Be Matt the dish bottle.
[28:39] I'll take that. He's stacking up the nicknames,
[28:42] isn't? He's got too many now.
[28:43] I can't. The dish too many?
[28:44] Yeah, the Butcher. Yeah, we're just going around
[28:47] the kitchen over really the place, the butcher, the dish.
[28:50] The whisk. Matt the whisk.
[28:55] Love that. Westie, Australian Films.
[28:59] Yeah, I love them and wasn't until this question that I
[29:02] started looking at we're going actually I really love
[29:04] Australian cinema because it does have this fearlessness to
[29:07] it, this independence to it. There's like a Bigfoot.
[29:10] You do, you know, there's no big studios going out there and you
[29:13] need to pile this into it. One I've seen recently that I
[29:15] really enjoyed is The Roar, if you've seen that on the IPS.
[29:21] Very, very good film. Really enjoyed that.
[29:23] And then going back to the ones I've seen before, I mean, I love
[29:25] Chopper. I think that's an incredible,
[29:27] yeah, probably one of the best debuts of recent years for
[29:30] Andrew Dominic. I think that's an incredible
[29:31] film. Wig and Fright I love.
[29:33] I thought that was really, really good.
[29:35] Really tough watch, but brilliant.
[29:38] Gallipolis. Fantastic.
[29:39] You've seen that? That's really underrated war
[29:42] film. It's like, it's absolutely
[29:43] fantastic. And that ending of John's talk
[29:45] about endings, it will drive you mad.
[29:46] That one will just completely destroy it.
[29:48] But it's fantastic stuff. Yeah, Beam Expanded, which is
[29:51] probably one of the greatest Australian films ever made.
[29:54] And I've got the DVD and it says the Citizen Kane of BMX movies
[29:57] in it, which is up from a reveal.
[29:59] I cannot deny. I can't deny that.
[30:01] That's absolute gospel truth because it is, isn't it?
[30:06] Not debut. It's great fun.
[30:08] The kids absolutely love it. It's great fun.
[30:11] Back when BMX used to be, like, really kind of cool.
[30:13] And it still is, I guess, but not in that way.
[30:16] Yeah. And I mean, trying to think of
[30:18] ones that were bad, but not necessarily for the right
[30:21] reasons. I think they're just poorly
[30:22] constructed, are very quickly made.
[30:24] And the one that's brought to mind was the 1 from 1970 with
[30:26] the Ned Kelly biopic with Mick Chair in it.
[30:31] And I just felt very rushed and very like, well, it's got Mick
[30:34] Jagger in it, you know what I mean?
[30:35] It's not free Jack. So thank goodness, thank
[30:38] goodness. It's kind of, it's kind of on a
[30:41] par. It's the Australian free Jack.
[30:43] And then you'd say maybe Beyond Thunderdome, but that's because
[30:46] you're comparing it to one and two and they're incredible.
[30:48] So you can't really go wrong with Australian cinema.
[30:50] I think there's some incredible, incredible films to check out.
[30:53] And if you're not savvy on it, then get on it because it's just
[30:56] constantly rewarding, I think. Fantastic.
[30:58] Turner in that one, so just. Turner.
[31:00] He's pop star for winning all these Australian films.
[31:02] Exactly. Yeah, that's the problem.
[31:04] Was Rod Stewart in in the proposition that we missed that
[31:07] delete scene? So a lot of favourites, not many
[31:13] least favourites, and no Paul Hogan.
[31:16] No, no, I love Crocodile Dundee though, but that's just.
[31:18] Too. You love too, don't you?
[31:19] I love. Too.
[31:19] I think it's one of the best sequels ever made.
[31:24] Very specific question, Andrew, but a great one nonetheless.
[31:27] Thank you very. Much great stuff.
[31:29] And next on the mic is Philip Beattie.
[31:31] Hi, Philip. Hi, Philip.
[31:33] Hi, Philip. Philip says What movie images or
[31:36] scenes are you constantly reminded of in everyday life?
[31:38] Philip says Some of my ones. If the moon is out during the
[31:41] day, I'll always think of the Death Star hanging over Scariff
[31:44] in Rogue One. If anyone ever says.
[31:47] The whole time I have to try hard not to respond with a bad
[31:51] impression of Sally Field shouting those words at the end
[31:54] of yeah, yeah yeah Yeah and see in a packet of Juicy Fruits
[31:59] chewing gum. Always reminds me of one flu of
[32:01] the Coos nest. Of course.
[32:02] Yeah, Juicy. Yeah.
[32:05] John, what about you? Yeah, I've got a couple.
[32:07] Whenever I'm driving and see someone doing a three-point
[32:10] turn, it always reminds me of awesome powers.
[32:13] Powers in the corridor. Ridiculous.
[32:16] When you're doing it yourself, you're like Austin Powers.
[32:18] It's like Austin Powers knows what.
[32:19] You're talking about? Yeah, there's.
[32:21] Like 4-3 films, isn't it? You know exactly what they're
[32:24] talking. About yeah, it's great.
[32:25] Yeah, whenever I'm in Morrison's and see someone buying apples,
[32:27] I've always wanted to say to them, how would you like them
[32:29] apples? I never have.
[32:31] Yeah, make a glass in the Morrison's Argo.
[32:32] Yeah, I was going to, Yeah, do that round here, yeah.
[32:35] And getting in a lift for years. I used to always think, imagine
[32:39] if like T1000 arm dagger, things started shooting down through
[32:43] the ceiling. Yeah, yeah.
[32:44] When he's done the chance, yeah. But I'm a little over that one
[32:47] now, thankfully, yeah. Thank goodness.
[32:49] Just through the door now, is it not the route?
[32:51] Yeah, close the door. Quick.
[32:54] Over to you, Matt. Whenever I make a cup of tea,
[32:57] I'll circle the spoon around the rim like Catherine Keener and
[32:59] get out. No.
[33:01] Try and hypnotize myself into the sunken place.
[33:03] Thanks. Listen.
[33:04] The work do. Do 1 chink sink do that?
[33:08] That if you're making a proof or someone.
[33:10] Yeah, yeah. I only do when it's only mean
[33:12] that was obviously. Random mats.
[33:14] Do you want a cup of tea? Definitely.
[33:15] Not really, yeah. Excellent.
[33:18] What about USD? Few, a fair few and I wasn't, I
[33:22] didn't know how many until I started thinking about it once
[33:24] I've read this question and I'm like, oh God, I need to stop.
[33:27] But every time I get out of the car, you know when you put your
[33:29] foot down, you know that low angle that every every film has
[33:32] like you see the shoe and then it comes up make kind of like
[33:35] cranes up with the guy and then you shut the door.
[33:37] I imagine that every single time I step out of the car, put 1
[33:40] foot down, wait for the camera to start going up and then I
[33:42] kind of just picture it in me head every single time.
[33:45] When he used to shoot weddings used to have disposable cameras
[33:47] that used to to give to people and we used to go around like
[33:49] just take the shots, kind of throw away stuff.
[33:52] And every time I press the shutter on that and round it on
[33:54] was just Shaun of the Dead. Every time I wind film on, it's
[33:59] just that really slow and every I kind of get away from it.
[34:02] Just the noise of it just brings home a couple of things I see
[34:06] all the time is this is a bummer man from Big Lebowski.
[34:10] This is a bummer man. And it's like it kind of takes
[34:12] the edge off some things, but people don't quite know what it
[34:14] is yet. And then it's like I'm enjoying
[34:16] my coffee. No matter what I'm having.
[34:18] If I'm having a fight and someone's leaving, I'm staying
[34:19] here. I'm enjoying my coffee.
[34:21] I do that all the time. And then every single hotel
[34:24] corridor. I don't care how long it is,
[34:26] it's The Shining. Yeah.
[34:28] No matter where I am in the world, it's just if it's a long
[34:31] hotel corridor, that is it. It's the Shiner.
[34:34] Inception. There.
[34:37] Upside down, just if it's a long creepy corridor, no matter what
[34:41] it is, it's just like, that's always smack to The Shining for
[34:44] me. Yeah, yeah, great zoom effect in
[34:46] your head. Yeah, always.
[34:47] Yeah. Yeah.
[34:48] I mean, love this question because my ideas are filled with
[34:51] affectations from movies and TV shows.
[34:53] Yeah. Some of the ones that came to
[34:55] mind. Whenever I make a sandwich I
[34:57] always tap the on top of the bread like a young Henry Hill
[34:59] and Goodfellas for some reason. Don't know why, don't know why,
[35:03] just do it. I always give a gun sign to a
[35:06] hand dryer when I turn it on like Mr. Orange and Reservoir
[35:09] Dogs. And a strange one.
[35:11] Whenever anyone mentions an ATM I always pause for a second and
[35:15] then say an ATM like Anton should go in no country for some
[35:21] reason. I don't know why it's in there,
[35:22] it's really weird. You'll be getting confused going
[35:25] are they talking about us? Is it ATR?
[35:28] Lots of fun on that question, Philip.
[35:30] Very nice. Thank you.
[35:31] Thank you, Philip. Thank you.
[35:33] And next we have a question from Lou Pellegrino.
[35:36] Hi, Lou. Hi, Lou.
[35:37] Hello, Lou. The greatest name of any ATRM
[35:40] patron ever? Yeah, this guy is.
[35:42] I love it. Yeah, Lou says.
[35:45] What is your favorite movie in which the main character does
[35:47] what you do for a living or something close to it when you
[35:49] are on podcast, Right, he says. I'm a public school teacher in
[35:53] the US and I find that most movies about teachers are pretty
[35:56] bad, but I really enjoy Hoosiers and Children of a Lesser God.
[36:00] Thanks for a great podcast. It's inspired me to watch a lot
[36:03] of movies I wouldn't have otherwise.
[36:05] It's an absolute pleasure, Lou. You're welcome.
[36:07] Yes, thank you, Miss, very kindly.
[36:09] Yes, Matt, over to you. I've just got a very nice drop,
[36:13] so this is a difficult question. It is, yeah.
[36:16] Well, involves watching a lot of TV, put it that way.
[36:19] Fair enough. Brilliant.
[36:20] Maybe the Truman Show, just the idea of watching that 24 hours.
[36:23] I think OK, lovely. Yeah, but.
[36:26] Like I say, it's a nice job. So it's it's not been
[36:29] represented accurately on film ever, as far as I can tell.
[36:32] Well, there's there's a niche that you need to exploit then.
[36:35] Well, you know, we've got got a question coming up about what
[36:37] film would we make? I'm going to make a film about
[36:39] my job. Brilliant.
[36:41] Excellent bums on seat for that one.
[36:45] Rivet and stuff, let me tell you.
[36:46] Sequel. The Videodrome, Yeah.
[36:50] What about you, Westie? Your job.
[36:53] Well, I'm a photographer. There was, there's quite a few
[36:55] to choose from and I like to keep myself to myself.
[36:57] So I want to say one hour photo, it's kind of top of the list.
[37:02] And I really enjoyed Civil War because that's what I think I
[37:05] do. You know what that means?
[37:06] When it's like what your parents think you do, what you think you
[37:08] do, It's kind of civil war. Yeah.
[37:09] The White House has fallen. And I would shoot film like
[37:12] that's not going to happen, is it?
[37:13] Not a million years. And every time I'm editing,
[37:16] because there is an element of retouch, there is an element of
[37:19] post processing that you have to go into.
[37:21] Would normally be in a dark room.
[37:22] Now everything's digital as they know it has been for years.
[37:25] But every time I try to enhance something or I take something
[37:28] out, or it's like you take a light switch out the background
[37:30] or something, I always zoom into it.
[37:31] And every single time I just say enhance 224 to 176 like a
[37:35] massive nerd from Blade Runner. Every time I zoom into
[37:38] something, it's either in my head or I say it out loud.
[37:40] And some people sat next to us going, what?
[37:42] What did you say? I was that doesn't matter,
[37:43] doesn't matter. Hands 220-4176 every single
[37:46] time. So yeah, that reminds us of
[37:48] that. Great.
[37:49] The one that came to my mind was Scorsese's After Hours.
[37:52] Griffin, don't play as Paul Hackett, a data entry clerk.
[37:55] Now, this isn't what I'd do for a living, but I've certainly
[37:58] done jobs as mundane as this in my time.
[38:00] Right? Paul's life mirrors.
[38:02] His job is dull and bore and just another face in the crowd.
[38:05] No action, no excitement. And then he goes on the wildest
[38:08] of rides downtown New York, filled with thoughts of weird,
[38:11] sexy and threatening in situations, and all he wants to
[38:14] do is get back to his boring world but keeps on getting
[38:16] thwarted. And there were many times doing
[38:18] a similar job that I wish I could have been whisked away to
[38:21] downtown New York for a few sexy rides.
[38:23] Sexy. Rides.
[38:27] It would be kind. We have a great way to put it.
[38:29] What about you, John? Yeah.
[38:31] Well, I mentioned before, but I worked in the creative digital
[38:34] industry for a few years, so I think the social network is a
[38:37] pretty obvious one. Less lawsuits and depositions
[38:40] for me, thankfully. But of course late night coding
[38:43] sessions and building something as a team.
[38:45] That's all very familiar. And I've worked with a couple of
[38:47] pretentious douchebags and fuck you flip flops as well.
[38:51] I bet you don't have you? Yeah.
[38:56] I've also been a designer, and the film that I didn't love but
[38:59] thought nailed parts of that kind of design industry
[39:02] experience was The Devil Wears Prada.
[39:04] Yeah. Fashion design but impossible
[39:07] deadlines, the crazy boss who's never happy getting feedback
[39:10] which makes no sense, and people who have no eye for like design
[39:13] or anything thinking that they're experts.
[39:15] All that stuff really rings true.
[39:17] And also it's not a film but Mad Men.
[39:20] I love the scenes. Now we're doing great.
[39:22] Pictures to the clients. Absolutely brilliant.
[39:25] Yeah, excellent. Thank you very much for the
[39:27] question, Lou. Yes, thank you, Lou.
[39:29] Thanks a lot, Lou. Our next question comes from
[39:31] Catherine Price. Hi, Catherine.
[39:33] Hi, Catherine. Hello, Catherine.
[39:35] Catherine says. What 2 movies would you say
[39:37] you've seen the most times in your life?
[39:39] Not necessarily your favorite movies, but the two movies
[39:41] you've rewatched the most. You can exclude Christmas movies
[39:44] if you want. Westie will be very happy to
[39:46] hear that, Catherine. I'm over the moon for that.
[39:48] Thank you, Catherine. Because, I mean, none of them
[39:50] would be in contention anyway, let's be honest.
[39:53] What would be Westie? There's a few that are kind of
[39:56] tired, but I've had to pick one that just, yeah, that kind of
[39:59] pipped it. Highlander.
[40:00] Brilliant. Probably watched that more than
[40:02] any other film. I just think because it was one
[40:04] of the very first films I got in VHS and I just kept watching it
[40:08] and just the artwork on the front of it, just it was like it
[40:12] felt like my film. Nobody else has seen it knew
[40:14] what nobody else knew what it was.
[40:15] My mom was annoyed with me dad because he got us in for
[40:17] Christmas and he said, oh, you know, they have to kill them.
[40:19] I've cut the heads off. So it felt like I was kind of
[40:21] naughty anyway. So I just watched it and watched
[40:23] it and watched it and I love it. I still absolutely adore that
[40:26] film and from the age of about 17 onwards, I think every single
[40:31] month I watch The Shining. So it'll be The Shining for me
[40:34] to just constantly, if it's not on physically, it's playing in
[40:37] me head somewhere. So yeah, them two films for me
[40:40] in a. Hotel room corridor.
[40:42] In a hotel room car. That's why I keep thinking of
[40:44] it. I mean, all the answers could
[40:45] probably relate to The Shining, if I'm honest.
[40:47] Yeah, I've seen that countless times.
[40:49] I know. Inside out.
[40:50] Yeah, well, I've mentioned one of them already.
[40:52] It's Midnight Run, the film I've seen hands down, more than any
[40:55] other. Yeah, well, two hours of the
[40:58] most beautiful character writing, situations, comedy,
[41:00] action and locations to die for all of them.
[41:03] The other one I think is the burbs.
[41:06] Right. Nice, Yeah.
[41:08] I saw when it first came out late 80s, have watched it
[41:10] regularly since. That's well over 35 years of RE
[41:13] watches. I really wouldn't be surprised
[41:15] if it's at least once a year on average.
[41:19] Never gets old, never gets tired.
[41:20] It's. A wonderful thing.
[41:21] I do like to sometimes look out the window, spend some of my
[41:24] days looking out at my neighbors, just hoping that one
[41:27] of them is the Club X. Just just a little.
[41:30] Just a little. Daydream of myself.
[41:33] Missus comes out, you're in the garden just trying to get some
[41:35] goddamn sleepy. Smoke a few cigars outside
[41:39] outside the house. Yeah, Outside, obviously all
[41:41] those are beauties. You got to mix men with those.
[41:44] And over to you, John. Most watched.
[41:46] Yeah, well, there's loads I've seen many times, obviously the
[41:49] original Indiana Jones and Star Wars trilogy from when I was a
[41:52] kid. As a teenager.
[41:54] I had The Matrix on repeat for a good while, yeah.
[41:57] Brilliant. Not revolutions, obviously.
[41:59] No, no, no better than. That.
[42:02] But Catherine asked for two, and there's two, I'm going to say,
[42:05] because the only films I remember watching as an adult
[42:08] and as soon as they were finished, put the screen back on
[42:10] again. Oh yeah.
[42:11] So one's Back to the Future. It is pretty much perfect, I
[42:15] think. Yeah.
[42:16] And the other is Amadeus, which is obviously a weird choice. 3
[42:21] hours of classical music and F Marie Abraham being furious.
[42:24] But get those on back-to-back and you've got films about one
[42:27] of history's biggest musical geniuses and then Mozart.
[42:30] So a great combo. We finally do Amadeus and I'm
[42:34] still going on about it. As if we haven't.
[42:36] I know, I know. I thought it would have put that
[42:39] to bed. Yeah.
[42:40] No, no. We'll bring that work in there
[42:42] that can replace it that replace it that's.
[42:44] Fine, and what about you, Matthew?
[42:45] Most watched. Well, the burbs would be 1 for
[42:48] me as well because I like you. I'll watch when it came out.
[42:51] Just remember it. To me it's a summer holiday
[42:53] film. So I remember as a kid summer
[42:55] holidays. I literally would rent it to
[42:57] take it back and rent it again so I could watch it two or three
[42:59] more times during the week. And I would do that for about 3
[43:01] or 4 summers right as a kid now, obviously grew up a little bit,
[43:04] but even now it's it's one of those other two yearly rotation
[43:07] every summer, of course, like the burps goes on.
[43:10] So that would definitely be up there.
[43:11] And the other one would probably be the thing just really pivotal
[43:14] film for me, one where I really like pleaded with me parents,
[43:19] like will you buy it for us? Like it's not going to give us
[43:21] nightmares. It's just brilliant.
[43:22] And I remember for some reason it was all something I would
[43:25] watch last thing on a Sunday before going back to school on
[43:27] the Monday. It would just put in the right
[43:29] frame of mind to to get in. The right frame of mind.
[43:32] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's got to be better than
[43:34] the the bleakness of this. End Yeah, the Sunday's scary.
[43:38] Sunday Blues, Yeah. So you're walking into school on
[43:40] the Monday with that massive hat on.
[43:42] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Choppering yourself in, yeah.
[43:46] J&B straight down the neck. Nobody trusts anybody anymore.
[43:51] We're all very tired and it's Monday morning.
[43:53] Great. Thank you very much, Catherine.
[43:55] Yes, Thank you, Catherine. Thank you, Catherine.
[43:57] Our next question is from Tim Bruce Alert.
[43:59] Hi, Tim. Hi, Tim.
[44:01] Hello, Tim. Tim, great question.
[44:02] In all of world history, who would you pick as the 5th member
[44:06] of ATRM to talk movies with on your show?
[44:08] Wow. OK, all of world history.
[44:11] What a question, Tim. You know, it'd have to be
[44:14] somebody we all get along with, who would get our sense of
[44:17] humour, who would add a different dimension.
[44:20] I had a number of contenders to the Crown, Gandhi or Nelson
[44:24] Mandela. You know, it's a tough choice,
[44:27] of course. Yeah, but I'm keeping it fairly
[44:29] modern. Well, very modern actually.
[44:31] I'm going with Natasha Lyon. I've mentioned mine with her in
[44:34] the past. She's in Russian Doll, Poker
[44:36] face, Orange is the New Black, his three daughters, Lords more.
[44:39] She. I just think she would be a
[44:41] perfect. And this is a shout out if she's
[44:42] interested, because she would. She would get all the pop
[44:46] culture references. She'll add a load of her own.
[44:49] She's incredibly funny, smart, articulate, magnetic, engaging.
[44:53] It's a no brainer. Very nice.
[44:55] It's not her then. Eric Morgan if she's not
[44:58] available. Oh, lovely.
[45:00] Yeah. Very nice funny bones.
[45:01] Yeah, brilliant. What about you, John?
[45:04] 5th member of the 80 RM crew. Yeah, I mean, the first name
[45:07] that spring to mind, probably because we're talking about them
[45:09] so much, was Roger. You bet.
[45:11] Roger the Dodger. Lovely.
[45:12] Yeah, nice. So.
[45:13] What did big ROG think? Group asking for real.
[45:16] Yeah, I mean. If you were still with us, he'd
[45:17] surely have a podcast, so thank God he's not.
[45:21] We'd be done for. But in terms of film makers, I'd
[45:25] love to pick the brain to Billy Wilder.
[45:26] Great one liners from him obviously, and Stanley Kubrick
[45:29] as well, get him to explain himself once and for all.
[45:33] But I'm going with a very left field choice in Dorothy Parker.
[45:37] So she was this legendary writer and critic from like the 1920s
[45:41] onwards, I think The New Yorker, she was a screenwriter as well
[45:45] and she was on the Hollywood blacklist in the 50s.
[45:47] But she's so great. If you've not read writing I'd
[45:50] highly recommend it. She's hilarious and never pulled
[45:53] any punches when writing Hollywood.
[45:55] Biking. Yeah, Which is?
[45:56] Basically what got a blacklisted so should fit me in nicely.
[45:59] I would achieve 100% have a podcast as well if she was still
[46:02] around the day. Yeah, definitely be listening to
[46:04] it. So brilliant.
[46:05] Either Park or EBIT together at last.
[46:08] Nice. Excellent.
[46:10] What about you, Matt? On a similar vein to EBIT
[46:13] really, but I'd have a big Baz Norman.
[46:16] Oh yeah, lovely. I love it.
[46:18] I mean somehow we've never mentioned him like his opinions
[46:21] on films when we really should have.
[46:22] Because for listeners outside the UK for a while he was like
[46:27] the pre eminent British film critic.
[46:29] It was what's Barry Norman think?
[46:32] You know, film 9293, whatever it's called obviously changed.
[46:35] If you was like a staple for me, you've watched it because when
[46:39] the film came out, I wanted to know what does Barry Norman
[46:41] think of it? He was like the deal.
[46:43] So obviously sadly no longer with us.
[46:45] But if he was, I'd love to get Barry Norman on.
[46:47] There was a time I would say all of the 90s, like if you used to
[46:50] talk about films would be like Ari, Barry Norman, every single.
[46:53] Time you would Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[46:55] And that was an insult, apparently.
[46:57] Apparently I. Like talking about films?
[47:00] Yeah. Westie 5th member of the ATRM
[47:04] crew. Genghis Khan?
[47:08] No, I would go, I mean, I'd have to go direct as I kind of looked
[47:12] further, but I don't quite know where they would, where other
[47:14] people would sit. Hitchcock, I would love to have
[47:17] involved. He'd have the answer to
[47:18] everything, but he would just have so much intellect in.
[47:21] Them I thought well. Just a massive cigar in there.
[47:24] Just plume of smoke being incredible on the video.
[47:30] Scorsese, I mean, who's better living now, knows more about
[47:34] film, really Easter. But just be an encyclopedia and
[47:37] it's really engaging, really funny, and I think you would
[47:39] like literally know everything, but at the same time be really
[47:43] interested. Know what everyone else's
[47:44] thoughts were on things. I think he's just a very
[47:46] accessible guy. And finally, just selfishly, I
[47:50] don't know how well it would do, but just to kind of get somebody
[47:53] else's view on visuals and how they've changed and how
[47:56] important that is and how it looks now.
[47:58] I would like right back at someone like Edward Hopper and
[48:01] just say like what? Yeah, brilliant.
[48:03] What do you think of how this looks?
[48:04] So like I'd get Caravaggio and then show him, wrote the
[48:07] petition. Just be like, what are you
[48:08] getting from Godfather? Be like, look at that.
[48:11] I'd be like, wow. It's just moving imagery.
[48:13] It just it. Just copied me.
[48:16] Just be the cherish hero of it, the light and dark it just I
[48:19] would just even just one episode just to go over like
[48:22] cinematography with. Of course he looks Caravaggio,
[48:25] doesn't he? Yeah.
[48:26] Yeah, just something like that would be incredibly interesting.
[48:28] But I can't, I can't give a definitive answer apart from
[48:31] Martin Scorsese. So that's that's my shout.
[48:33] Out if you brilliant. Good one, Marty.
[48:35] Yeah, 4 great choices and thank you Tim.
[48:38] Lovely stuff. Yes, Thank you, Tim.
[48:40] Thanks, Tim. Our penultimate question comes
[48:42] from Kim Jackson. Hello, Kim.
[48:44] Hi, Kim. Hello, Kim.
[48:46] Kim says. Has your amazing ATRM journey
[48:48] unfolded the way you thought when you recorded your first
[48:51] podcast? What outlandish dreams do you
[48:53] have for the future? Can you tell us about the book?
[48:55] Thanks for inviting us to be part of the ATRM family.
[48:58] I'll tell you what beautiful words.
[49:00] Thanks for being part of it, Kim.
[49:01] Thanks, Kim. Thanks a lot for being there
[49:03] from the start. Yes, indeed, John, do you want
[49:06] to take that first? Yeah.
[49:07] I mean, has that unfolded how I thought?
[49:10] I would say not really, because I mean, what we do is still such
[49:13] a young thing. Like digital content creation is
[49:16] still evolving all the time. So it's really hard to know
[49:18] where we'll be from kind of one year to the next.
[49:21] You can have an educated guess, but also you've got to roll with
[49:24] it. It's a great thing one sang.
[49:26] I've just gone full time with ATRM about six weeks ago, which
[49:29] is exciting and terrifying at the same time.
[49:31] So looking forward to seeing where we can go in the coming
[49:33] months. And As for Outlandish Dreams, I
[49:35] mean, I'd love to have an ATRM office, full Time Team of like
[49:40] great people helping us out on various things, making stuff
[49:42] that we love. Not sure if it's possible, but
[49:44] we're going to try. So I guess time will tell.
[49:47] Yeah. And the book, yeah, it's coming
[49:49] along, came. Thanks.
[49:50] We have to submit the manuscript next month or the month after
[49:54] November to our publisher. And the publisher is like 2026,
[49:57] although that's not confirmed and takes a while to go through
[50:00] all the editing processes and stuff, so.
[50:02] Watch this space, please. Yes.
[50:04] Exciting stuff and. We'll keep you updated.
[50:06] What about you Matt? Your ATRM journey.
[50:09] Similar to John, No, I didn't think it would.
[50:11] Who would be anything like it has been like?
[50:13] John No, No, no, no. You know, when I first jumped on
[50:19] to do that rank and cubic, I thought, oh this will be a laugh
[50:22] and it might be 1. You were wrong.
[50:25] Yeah, I'm wrong. It was.
[50:28] Like say if I was going to be 1 and done, Nope.
[50:29] In it for the long haul. Trap.
[50:32] Yeah, Trap forever now. I just think of some of the
[50:35] mental thing, not necessarily me that's done that, but some of
[50:38] the crazy things that's happened with us.
[50:40] Like if you'd said we'll do a podcast with Curtis, Steiger has
[50:43] talked about his favorite movies.
[50:45] Well, no, that's not going to happen, obviously.
[50:47] What bizarrely that was. I think some of the interactions
[50:50] were far. Like, do you remember the the
[50:53] kind of mild panic we all had when we put up the the Hot Fuzz
[50:57] tweet thread and Edgar Wright started fact checking it one by
[51:00] one? Yeah.
[51:01] All right. Edgar Wright's actually fact
[51:03] checking it. This is all right.
[51:06] Fine. Exactly.
[51:07] He went well. He.
[51:08] Said it was 98.5% correct, so we'll.
[51:11] Take that. I think he also said why let the
[51:14] truth get in the way of a good story, which I love that quote
[51:17] exactly. That's great.
[51:18] Yeah. So if you're said that to me at
[51:20] the side, I said no, that truly can't happen.
[51:23] That's just really outlandish. So yeah, it's just been
[51:26] constantly surprising and I imagine there'll be many more
[51:29] surprises still to come. Yeah, no doubt.
[51:31] I mean, the directors have been in touch.
[51:32] Christopher Macquarie got in touch.
[51:33] Yeah, yeah, It's to say we love what we did.
[51:36] Yes, yeah, yeah, it's very nice. Popular.
[51:39] Popular in more ways than one. Nice.
[51:41] Yeah, it's lovely, It's lovely. What about USD or ATRM journey?
[51:45] I mean, yeah, I don't, I don't really tend to stop to reflect
[51:48] much because I think we're just, we're going at a pace where it's
[51:51] just it's very enjoyable and there's always something to talk
[51:54] about. There's always something new
[51:55] coming up. So we don't really get the
[51:57] chance to sit and go. Wasn't that lovely because we're
[51:59] right in the middle of it. So it's just, you know, it's is
[52:01] part of the journey and it keeps going.
[52:03] I mean, it's gotten a lot more streamlined than it has.
[52:05] I think it's gotten a lot more professional.
[52:07] I think we've trimmed a lot of the fat off from where we've
[52:09] come from, but I think the beautiful thing is that you can
[52:11] see where we've come from. If you sound repatrion, you can
[52:14] go back to them earlier episodes and you can kind of see how
[52:16] we've actually shaped the the episodes and everything that we
[52:19] put in here. I think it's a real commitment
[52:21] from everybody and a real commitment, our friendship as
[52:24] well, that we're still here doing it and still, you know,
[52:26] entertained by each other, which is really nice and really kind.
[52:29] But I think it works because we've all got the roles and we
[52:34] all have respect for each other's roles and respect for
[52:36] each other. And I think we all bring
[52:37] something new to the party. Even when it's a film that we've
[52:40] all spoke about 400 times, you know, we'll get to focus on it
[52:44] and say like, well, you know, we're talking about RoboCop,
[52:47] We'll talk about Lord of the Rings again.
[52:48] It's like, yeah, but we're, you know, we're really going to talk
[52:50] about it this time, you know, so there's, there's different
[52:52] elements of it. But yeah, I mean, it's just such
[52:55] an enjoyable ride. You know, I'm, I'm not looking
[52:57] at the the second drop of the roller coaster because I'm still
[52:59] on it. So I'm just having a good time
[53:01] with my hands in the air. To be perfectly honest with you,
[53:02] I'm not, I don't remember queuing for the ride.
[53:05] I just remember being on it and it's good and I'm enjoying it
[53:07] and we all are. So on what?
[53:09] Not what I say. Too right?
[53:10] Absolutely. We told Lord of the Rings the
[53:12] episode, not before. When we don't wait for that,
[53:15] it's going to be hilarious. I reckon it'd be absolutely
[53:18] epic. So.
[53:19] There's lots of things that I'm looking forward to talking about
[53:22] where, you know, if we're sitting in the pub, we wouldn't
[53:24] actually get to it and I'd come home and be like, oh shit, I
[53:26] should have mentioned that. Where is this?
[53:27] We'll get the chance to write it all down, to guess we're talking
[53:29] about it all. We'll know we're fitted all in.
[53:32] So it's nice to have a structure to put at the same time, have
[53:34] that relaxed vibe where we can bring what we need to bring to
[53:37] it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
[53:38] Stirring a lot of unique into the pot.
[53:41] Yes, yeah, it works. It it certainly does, and when
[53:45] John Wesley and I went to see his Golden Messenger live in
[53:48] Leeds, I didn't expect a slightly drunken conversation to
[53:52] have morphed into what we've created.
[53:55] Or a pizza restaurant. Sorry.
[53:57] Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
[53:58] Yeah. Incredible.
[53:59] Went back and recorded aliens on me phone. 17 minutes of aliens.
[54:03] We we sat and talked about aliens for with no structure
[54:06] whatsoever, and I must have that somewhere and I don't know where
[54:08] it is we. Do have it.
[54:09] It's somewhere. We'll have it somewhere, but I
[54:11] mean you'll. Never hear it?
[54:12] Nonsensical, absolute garbage, but that was the birth of
[54:17] something. It was a good idea.
[54:18] And, and me, I think me and Luke drove back because John was, had
[54:21] lived in the Leeds at the time, drove back and we listened to it
[54:23] in the car on the way back and actually went, you know what?
[54:26] This isn't bad. Too bad too.
[54:27] Bad. I think I was still drunk.
[54:29] You weren't. Because you were driving.
[54:31] I think I went a little bit crazy into the early hours.
[54:34] So I was like, this is great. And you're like, well, you know,
[54:36] some of it's all right as you do now.
[54:42] Supposed to be shell like that's amazing.
[54:44] Like Westie, let's just, you know, Yeah.
[54:45] Well. It's done that it's.
[54:47] Immediate find. That's fine.
[54:48] Yeah, that will make the. End I would love you 3 just to
[54:50] walk around every day with us and just be like just.
[54:54] Snip beside. Just through the fat of all the
[54:56] bullshit as I go through. That'll be perfect.
[54:59] Live editing. I don't think we expected too
[55:04] much from those first few episodes and and we didn't get
[55:07] loads, but considering we were absolute nobodies, I think we
[55:10] did very well and we've grown well beyond our expectations
[55:14] since that opening day. Yeah.
[55:16] And what I will say is that yeah, we've created this, of
[55:19] course, but one of the things that makes us who we are is our
[55:22] listeners, the engagement we get from you guys, the wonderful
[55:25] words we get, particularly from our incredible Patreon community
[55:28] as well. So yeah, again, thank you.
[55:31] Future plans. I mean, you know, Sky's the
[55:32] limit for us. I think we're not just limited
[55:34] to podcasting, although that is our first love.
[55:37] I think my ultimate goal would be movie producing.
[55:40] That would be now with the hey, you know, I'm going to hear a
[55:43] few sneakers in the back there. But you know what, just go.
[55:46] Let's do it. ATRM Productions.
[55:50] Let's get it in there. So yes, my little snapshot of
[55:54] the Future, Past and present there, Kim.
[55:57] Very nice. Thank you for the.
[55:58] Question And our final question comes from Ryan Chippo, another
[56:03] long time listener. Hi, Ryan.
[56:05] Hello, Ryan. Hello, Ryan.
[56:06] Ryan a big one here, he said. I'd be interested to hear what
[56:09] film each of you would make. What's the plot?
[56:11] What's the title of the film? Who's direct and who's starring?
[56:14] You've got an unlimited budget from the studio in brackets.
[56:17] Westie will probably include ADP as well.
[56:19] You're absolutely right, Ryan. Correct.
[56:22] But Matt, it's over to you first.
[56:24] What's your magnum opus? There's a Stephen King novel
[56:28] called The Dark Half and it didn't make a version of it, I
[56:31] think early 90s, but it's pretty bad.
[56:33] If anyone hasn't read it, basically it's about obviously
[56:35] because it's Stephen King. It's about a writer who has like
[56:38] issues but he's created a pseudonym to write some of the
[56:41] most successful novels. But he he kills the pseudonym
[56:44] off and he does a fake burial for it.
[56:47] But the pseudonym character actually comes to life and so
[56:50] it's going on a rampage. Tries to get the original author
[56:53] and try Spacey take all his life.
[56:56] Like King killing Batman. Yes, that's exactly what it is.
[56:59] It's king kill enough back when but comes back for revenge.
[57:03] It's really it's really underrated novel and I think it
[57:06] would do really well as a film of someone who could do it just
[57:09] to saw. I would make that I would have
[57:11] Rose Glass director because she made St.
[57:13] Maude. So she's got horror trophies.
[57:15] Excellent. And then she made Love Lice
[57:17] bleeding. So she had the ability to go
[57:19] from a very provincial British horror to this American film so
[57:22] she could do the the American aspect of the justice.
[57:25] I would have Oscar Isaac as the author and then as is kind of
[57:29] sinister pseudonym come to life. Tom Hardy.
[57:32] Right. Wonderful stuff.
[57:35] Excellent. Yeah.
[57:37] What about you, Westie? Here it comes.
[57:41] The one everyone's waiting for. Well, I've already it's already
[57:43] been written. It's fine.
[57:45] I've had this in my mind for a while.
[57:46] You know from the day, day dot really that right.
[57:49] OK, It's it's Stanley Kubrick's Western.
[57:52] Kubrick is made of perfect film on every genre, I think, and
[57:56] never got to make a western. So that's your first pitch.
[57:59] This is Stanley Kubrick's Western.
[58:01] Obviously he's not around anymore to direct it.
[58:03] So it's called A Town Called Redemption.
[58:06] Brilliant. All right, so there's a retired
[58:09] hired gun settles down. So think like kind of unforgiven
[58:12] territory, All right? But this guy is played by Daniel
[58:16] Day Lewis. Of course.
[58:18] It. Is I mean that he settles down,
[58:20] he gets some land only to find the residents of the closest
[58:23] town and not what they've seen because he goes into town to get
[58:25] supplies. Everything's just a bit weird,
[58:28] so. Nice.
[58:29] Directed by Scorsese. Lovely.
[58:31] OK, Yeah. So we've got a little bit of
[58:33] pull. Not Kubrick.
[58:34] No, this is Kubrick's West and Kubrick's dead.
[58:36] This is actually going to happen, all right.
[58:38] So like if Kubrick was going to direct the Weston, it's shot
[58:40] like Kubrick would shoot is. It like, yeah, Is it like AI in
[58:44] the hands of Spielberg? This is in the hands of
[58:46] Scorsese, that kind of. Deal.
[58:47] That kind of thing. Yeah, of course he's just going
[58:49] to, you know, Emmanuel Labeski is going to shoot it.
[58:51] Or height, fan, height toy, whoever is whoever's available.
[58:53] So it's going to look fan. Whoever's available, it's your
[58:56] fantasy you can choose over. Your well Leweski then, so he's
[58:59] going to shoot. It's going to look fantastic
[59:01] stuff Timecore Redemption, unlimited budget lovely.
[59:03] So they're not what they seem in the town, right?
[59:07] But right, here we go. Here's the twist, vampires.
[59:11] Brilliant. But moonlight kills them, not
[59:14] sunlight. Kind of a reverse vampire, so.
[59:17] Everybody, the mythology. I love it.
[59:18] Exactly. So we're messing with the
[59:20] thought. So the only thing that can kill
[59:21] them is silver. So he finds the silver bullets.
[59:24] Now, down here there, Lewis's character has built his
[59:26] homestead and he finds a silver mine underneath it, so he's the
[59:29] only one of them take these fuckers out.
[59:30] All right? So it's kind of quick in the
[59:31] dead kind of thing, where there's this whole kind of quick
[59:34] draw thing where they always win.
[59:36] I'm working on it. I'm working.
[59:37] On OK. Lewis is in there.
[59:39] Anthony Hopkins plays his neighbor.
[59:41] That's going to be good. He tells them the story of these
[59:43] reverse vampires and he's like what you're talking about, then
[59:45] goes and finds out and the bad guys.
[59:47] Al Pacino plays the oldest one who's like, you know, grizzled
[59:51] old vampire dude. And Gary, old man's in there
[59:53] with him. Brilliant.
[59:55] So that's the build, the squad around that.
[59:57] That's a town called Redemption. It's going to it would be good
[59:59] reverse vampires. But I love it.
[1:00:00] Kubrick. I love it.
[1:00:02] Lovely. Oh, brilliant.
[1:00:04] Of course, All in Spanish. Yellow titles on the Mexican
[1:00:09] border on the Mexican. Border yellow titles.
[1:00:11] Sure, you're going to end with Hopkins saying only thing about
[1:00:13] redemption. All the damn vampires.
[1:00:15] Brilliant. Maybe.
[1:00:17] Yeah, I'll put that in the first draft.
[1:00:18] I'll see. Yeah.
[1:00:19] You might eat someone's liver. We'll start.
[1:00:21] Lovely. Lovely.
[1:00:22] Excellent. And well, I've always had in
[1:00:25] mind a sweeping crime epic set in New York.
[1:00:28] I mean, obviously, obviously about the 80s crack epidemic
[1:00:31] that hit the shores, covering all the five boroughs from the
[1:00:34] decaying Bronx to the upper 5 Wall Street.
[1:00:37] It's cultural. It's societal impact, looking at
[1:00:40] all walks of life. I genuinely do think that would
[1:00:42] be a great story. I think it's an untapped
[1:00:44] narrative. The only thing that comes close
[1:00:46] to it is New Jack City. But this would blow Van Peebles
[1:00:49] out of the water. Yeah.
[1:00:50] Of course. I'm having Spike Lee in the
[1:00:52] directors chair and the film is just going to be stuffed with
[1:00:55] all my favorite character actors.
[1:00:58] So it's going to have John Leguizamo, Louise Guzman, Keith
[1:01:01] David, Michael Imperioli, Bobby Canavali, will even AI Dennis
[1:01:04] Serena in there as a tough nose cop.
[1:01:06] Love it. Get it all in there.
[1:01:08] Love it and we're calling it solid rock.
[1:01:10] Oh that's bad. There it is.
[1:01:12] There it is. Yeah.
[1:01:13] And that's on wax now it's still just in case anybody steals the
[1:01:16] idea our episode at a time stamped.
[1:01:18] So if solid rock comes out in three years time I'll be
[1:01:20] furious. Doubtful.
[1:01:22] Doubtful. That's.
[1:01:23] Why? It's your own productions,
[1:01:25] obviously. Yeah, there you go.
[1:01:26] Lovely. Yeah.
[1:01:28] And John, you're going to bring up the rear.
[1:01:30] Bring it home. Yeah, well, this kind of goes
[1:01:33] back to what I said earlier. When I was younger, I loved
[1:01:35] writing stories. Like, we wrote loads as a kid,
[1:01:37] and then later on I actually wrote a couple of pretty
[1:01:40] detailed treatments that will flesh out enough that could have
[1:01:42] been turned into screenplays if I'd been so.
[1:01:45] Oh yes. Happy to bore you with what the
[1:01:47] main one was about if you'd like.
[1:01:49] Go for it. Go for.
[1:01:49] It everybody's bated breath. So I describe it as a bit like
[1:01:54] Blade Runner, a bit like Escape from New York.
[1:01:57] Brilliant, right? Although probably as good as
[1:01:59] Escape from LA. Right.
[1:02:02] Don't put yourself down. Don't don't stop your picture.
[1:02:04] Some people like that, yeah. It was cold when a city falls,
[1:02:09] certainly dystopian future, obviously, where the US
[1:02:11] government has created all these man made islands off the coast
[1:02:14] to combat overpopulation. And the main in the biggest
[1:02:17] island has turned into very much the rich on one part of the
[1:02:19] island, they're not rich on the other.
[1:02:21] So it was an action adventure thing set on that one island.
[1:02:25] Massive. It would have cost $400 million
[1:02:27] to make it, but Christopher Nolan style action, but with big
[1:02:31] themes about like society and class, capitalism, identity, you
[1:02:35] know, like all the light stuff that students would like
[1:02:37] spending lots of money on. So yeah, I reckon $40 million to
[1:02:41] make it, probably 300 million to market it because no one's heard
[1:02:44] of it or me from the writer who brought you nothing.
[1:02:48] So yeah, I'll be sticking to the podcast, I think.
[1:02:51] But that was all fleshed out into an entire story, end to
[1:02:54] end. Nice.
[1:02:55] That'd be a good series for Netflix.
[1:02:57] Yeah, it. Could work as a series, yeah.
[1:02:58] In terms of who was going to do it, I had when I was writing it,
[1:03:01] I had Ryan Gosling in my mind as the lead, I remember, and
[1:03:05] directing it Westy, obviously. Oh, there.
[1:03:08] You go. I mean, I might be busy with a
[1:03:10] sound called redemption, but we'll see What the.
[1:03:13] Blows out. I might be busy, I might, I
[1:03:17] might be doing whatever it's called.
[1:03:20] Sorry mate, I've got a lot on. Loads on I'm not doing a massive
[1:03:24] Netflix series. Wonderful stuff.
[1:03:28] Well, thank you very much for the question, Ryan.
[1:03:30] Our final question. Yes, thank you.
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