Patreon Exclusive: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Added 2025-01-31 17:00:07 +0000 UTCHey everyone, here's the follow-up to our last episode where we talk about another hitman comedy, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which was George Clooney's directorial debut. Ryan also revisited two other Charlie Kaufman films, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York. We also got sidetracked a bunch and talked about other topics like The Gong Show in its various iterations. Enjoy!
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You’re so right! It’s a song that’s right in their wheelhouse, too
Mary and Steve
2025-02-12 16:46:06 +0000 UTCAlso The Ramones did a cover of that and no one brings it up for some reason
JokersJuicyAss
2025-02-12 16:44:52 +0000 UTCThou that movie doesn't have Molly hatchet's Flirting with Disaster in it, 0 out of 10
JokersJuicyAss
2025-02-12 16:43:43 +0000 UTCOh my god! The Gong Show Movie has the Vatican Rag bit that has been ‘living in my head rent free’ as the kids say, for decades
Mary and Steve
2025-02-06 15:17:54 +0000 UTCOh whoops, Ryan mentions it 😅 ETA: another crazy moment on the Gong Show was when Jaye P. Morgan flashed the camera during one of the Gene Gene the Dancing Machine segment
Mary and Steve
2025-02-06 14:57:20 +0000 UTCThis is like, the minorest of footnotes in the movie but Chuck Barris wrote Palisades Park for Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon, who, last I checked is 1) still kicking (or booming?) and 2) sells hand-drawn portraits of celebrities thru his website
Mary and Steve
2025-02-06 14:03:04 +0000 UTCSo cool! Thanks for letting me know
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-04 17:38:48 +0000 UTC😂
Ryan Lancello
2025-02-04 17:01:24 +0000 UTCI'm trying to support a starving artist. Let me in!! Lol
Jason Patterson
2025-02-04 17:00:00 +0000 UTCLol no Joe might thanks though
Ryan Lancello
2025-02-04 16:58:11 +0000 UTCI'm in a good mood, do you have a "buy me a coffee" or something?
Jason Patterson
2025-02-04 16:47:57 +0000 UTCHaha that’s great
Ryan Lancello
2025-02-04 16:46:18 +0000 UTC(Patreon only) February episode 2: ."You're cordially invited" ACC specifically name dropped, but mostly about Joe's work the planes, trains Blu-ray
Jason Patterson
2025-02-04 16:37:33 +0000 UTCCan I get uhhhhhhhhhh Drew Carey Show retrospective?
97Brawl
2025-02-04 16:35:19 +0000 UTCWhat’s this? With Derosa lol? What episode?
Ryan Lancello
2025-02-04 15:38:21 +0000 UTCShout out about one of my favorite podcasts about one of my favorite podcasts. "We'll see you in hell" gave big props to Joe/hats off in February episode #2. This is the best Tuesday I've had in a while!
Jason Patterson
2025-02-04 15:21:15 +0000 UTCHi welcome to Hell, now can I take your order?
JokersJuicyAss
2025-02-04 15:16:08 +0000 UTCExcellent pod again guys, glad I finally joined the Patreon. When it comes to those “sad boy” movies like ESOTSM and Garden State I sorta agree with both of you. They’re victims of time. They get a “pass” because they were the first of these whimsical-adult indie movies that plagued the 2000s. I could fire off a few I liked if I thought about it but they did start to get annoying and derivative after a while. Mildly related-parts of Youth in Revolt were shot in my town which was kinda cool seeing.
97Brawl
2025-02-04 04:03:07 +0000 UTCGood one to check out alongside CABLE GUY is FLIRTING WITH DISASTER. Stiller is quite good in it and it came out maybe a couple months before CABLE GUY. Great actors all over that movie.
cdpren
2025-02-03 09:35:55 +0000 UTCI'll listen to his reviews from time to time, and I find his books entertaining and informative. Not to mention, he's one of the few film critics who has respect for horror, as he's a fan of The Exorcist and The Last House on the Left. But I won't argue that he does have an ego (With him even acknowledging it) and that some of his reviews are swing-and-miss.
The One and Rory
2025-02-02 10:00:30 +0000 UTCHonestly, who likes Kermode?
Laszlo Szegedi
2025-02-01 23:24:47 +0000 UTC"Totally"
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-01 16:30:16 +0000 UTCYou should give it a rewatch then! I'd be curious to hear if your opinions have evolved at all.
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-01 16:29:46 +0000 UTCI'll definitely be revisiting Tropic Thunder. Maybe even Heavyweights for good measure
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-01 16:28:45 +0000 UTCGreat insight! Had no idea about this. Thanks for sharing
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-01 16:28:07 +0000 UTCThis has very little to do with anything, but just the Jack Black santa movie reminded me that the other day I went to this collection of food court areas in between a bunch of hotels downtown. I like this one cuban stand for breakfast, and there were thousands of high-schoolers for both a cheerleading thing and an academic thing that weekend. Just seeing hundreds of kids in this big restaurant area in blazers and khakis in mile-long lines for both chic-fil-a and starbucks and literally NOTHING else explained a lot of things for me.
Thomas Bishop
2025-02-01 14:33:14 +0000 UTCLove shit like this, too funny.
Ryan Lancello
2025-02-01 00:58:03 +0000 UTCHaving Tom Noonan play basically every character beyond the two main leads was so funny, plus I remember the animation being pretty well done. I should rewatch it, been awhile.
Ryan Lancello
2025-02-01 00:57:32 +0000 UTCMan, I loved Anomalisa.
Carlisle
2025-02-01 00:30:55 +0000 UTCThis story is hilarious and I've never known it. We'd all like to think we'd take this sort of thing like AO Scott apparently did, which I think is awesome, but most of would probably be in the other boat. I personally would probably go full on Gallo/Ebert.
Lux Anatis
2025-01-31 23:59:58 +0000 UTCOne of the more amusing things about Charlie Kaufman is his feud with Mark Kermode. This all dates back to Mark's review of "Synecdoche, New York", which he didn't care for and found confusing. He stated that he liked Eternal Sunshine less after watching Synecdoche, which Charlie found unfair (It's like saying how you now dislike The Deer Hunter after watching Heaven's Gate). He said similar things about Anomalisa, which was a sore spot for Kaufman on a BBC Radio 5 interview, as he asked why Mark was such an arsehole about Synecdoche before the recording. This didn't sit well with Mark, who decided to press his buttons by bringing up Inside Out winning over Anomalisa at the Oscars and pushing him for answers about what Anomalisa meant. Years later in his book Antkind, Charlie puts a dig at Mark in one of B.'s (The main character who's an insecure film critic) monologues; referring to his essay work as a "sewer-centric film study" and making up an essay titled called "I, Mark Kermode, am an asshole". This resulted in Mark placing I'm Thinking of Ending Things on his Worst of 2020 list, just to spite Charlie. What's funny is that A.O. Scott is poked fun of in the book, with him taking the jabs in good taste. You rarely see a critic and filmmaker feud go on for this long.
The One and Rory
2025-01-31 22:06:36 +0000 UTCThe Ben Stiller Show for sure, which was the prototype for Mr. Show.
Lux Anatis
2025-01-31 19:31:22 +0000 UTCFor stiller, you should revisit tropic thunder and check out his first film reality bites which Devito produced
Luke Gordnier
2025-01-31 19:07:31 +0000 UTCI was a manager for Blockbuster Video when it was released on DVD and I was such a huge fan of it I was recommending it to all of my customers. I even made a sign near the register and it's (limited) space on the new release wall so people would consider it. I haven't watched it since then so I wonder if my opinion on it will have changed now that I have so much more life experience, but man it really spoke to me when I young, dumb, and unreal/idealistic about romance.
Lux Anatis
2025-01-31 18:34:02 +0000 UTC“I’m not the biggest fan of ___ but I thought he/she was great in it” should be a t shirt”
Luke Gordnier
2025-01-31 18:20:56 +0000 UTCIronically the last time I watched eternal sunshine of the spotless mind was for a film class where we over analyzed films plus watched them.
Luke Gordnier
2025-01-31 17:32:23 +0000 UTCThis movie really annoyed me because it made me think about how much the me of 2002 would've blindly enjoyed it. The way it portrays the 60s and it's ideals, patriotism, and show business in general made me think again about how accurately or inaccurately the era we're currently living in will be portrayed in movies as many years removed as this was from it's own time. The scene with the FCC guy yelling at the contestants, the idea that Drew Barrymores character is some kind of free spirit dream girl when she's actually just as degenerate as the main character, it all got me thinking about how long this sort of thing has been going on. Seeing Clooneys friends Brad Pitt and Matt Damon juxtaposed against that lame third contestant really annoyed me and it just brought to mind that this is a Hollywood insider we're supposed to believe is showing us how the sausage is made, but is really just presenting a cheeky criticism of what we're allowed to see. I realize it's supposed to be an exaggeration, almost a parody, but it all just felt so condescending. The more it becomes apparent how dishonest our media really is the more I question what it's taught my generation about contemporary history. They say history is written by the winners and the last 100 years has been by those who uphold the institution of Hollywood. A bit unfair to this particular film, but this is how I'm forced to look at entertainment media now. Thanks for reading.
Lux Anatis
2025-01-31 17:18:08 +0000 UTC
