We discuss Will Smith’s spiritual sequel to Seven Pounds, Collateral Beauty. Meanwhile, Stu unveils his hot new nickname, Elliott tries to get Keira Knightly’s attention, and the less said about Dan in this episode, the better.
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Wikipedia synopsis for Collateral Beauty
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Collateral Beauty must be the beauty that you put at rush if you want to go to, I guess, the Beauty Bank to borrow some more beauty. Because it takes beauty to make beauty?
Risk. Not rush. Ahhh!
New game: before listening to the episode look at recommendations and try to guess who recommended what. Here are mine:
Wonder Boys (Dan; based on subject matter this goes to pervezoid #1)
Get Out (Stuart; the resident expert on the horror genre)
Promise (Elliott; process of elimination, also he has a long history of taping movies off of TV)
Ding! Ding! Ding!
RE: Condiment King-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igo6VNWvr-s
He does indeed exist, and as Dan surmised was a joke villain they created for the Batman animated series.
Condiment King is also in The Lego Batman Movie.
“Studio Jibbly”? What is wrong with you people?
If you mean the pronunciation, it’s correct. It’s a soft G, like a J. In Japan they say “jiburi”.
Well, they’re fantastically bad at Italian, then.
Strange that Elliott would be afraid that a tweet mentioning Zen Buddhism would somehow be racist but had no qualms about reducing Japan’s culture to tea and bowing when discussing Milo and Otis.
Also, the best cut of Blade Runner is the workprint, placeholder score in the second half notwithstanding. No voiceover, but it does have Deckard’s crucial spoken lines during the Esper scene that were bafflingly excised from the Director’s and Final cuts. Better pacing, too.
I got the impression that Elliott self-censored, he did not tell the actual joke he was worried was racist.
I did feel bad doing stereotypical Japanese culture jokes when we were talking about Milo and Otis. My brain wasn’t working fast enough to make a joke about Otis being a novelist/filmmaker who takes over a military base and tries to get the soldiers to rebel before committing seppuku. Or, you know, some other deeper cut of Japanese culture/history.
Is that, do I see, Bradley Cooper, because someone just got Burnt!
But you were really worried about the joke you recounted (about Zen and anxiety)?
“…tries to get the soldiers to rebel before committing *seppuku.* Or, you know, some other *deeper cut* of Japanese culture/history.”
Funny stuff, Elliott!
I thought the Milo & Otis bit was hilarious! (There are far worse places you guys could have gone than making tea and being extra courteous.)
I’ve been really looking forward to this one. Even before it came out when I saw the trailer I thought “I hope this is as bad as it looks so we get a Flophouse on it”, and here we are.
Missed Joke: “Collateral Beauty” – even more painful than “Collateral Murder”
I just saw a certain someone on a certain cult TV show….
….it was me! My Kickstarter Backer name made it to the credits on MST3K! Yup, just me, no one else that I recognized at all.
When I was listening to this show, I thought you were saying Michael Biehn (not Michael Pena). Then I went to IMDB and realized I was getting it wrong. I had gotten so excited because I have always loved Michael Biehn. A guy that never quite hit the bigtime. I would love to hear the peaches pontificate on an actor that missed the boat somehow.