Wednesday, September 16, 2015

F This Movie! - Private Parts

Patrick, Mike and Adam Thas do so much with so little.



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Also discussed this episode: Blade Runner (1982), Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), All This Mayhem (2014), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Masters of the Universe (1987), Welcome to Me (2015), Unfriended (2015), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Scream 4 (2011)

19 comments:

  1. Gotta disagree, Patrick, to me, Unfriended is absolute garbage. There is no reason for that movie to exist, especially as a horror film, except as a "Dummy's Guide to Using the Internet". The characters are all unlikable (and barely characters; you really know nothing about them) there is no way to dissect the way it's shot because, well, it's not shot, it's web-cammed and the story has nothing going for it not to mention it's not in the least scary nor has any good kills. If I had to pick a positive out of it I would say that the web stuff was well choreographed, I guess? Ugh...sorry...few movies really get under my skin and, obviously, this is one of them. Human Centipede 3 is the worst movie I've seen this year, Unfriended is a close #2.

    I love Private Parts though!!! I too was really surprised at how good it was especially Stern being the lead. Giamatti is the man though, he steals the movie.

    That was a good point about there being few films about radio. I never really thought about it. Pontypool is probably the last good one I can think of and I love the way that film was done.

    Btw - Babe Ruth was one who played himself in his life story in 1920's Headin' Home. You also might count Krush Groove minus Blair Underwood. Great discussion, guys.

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    1. Like I said, I think I admired it as a novelty -- I thought they pulled off the "stunt." I would never want to see it again or any movie shot the same way, but as a one-off I thought it could have been way, way worse. I would never argue with you for not liking it, though, because I don't disagree with your criticisms.

      Forgot Pontypool! Good call.

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    2. The best film depiction of a radio show is The Lords of Salem. Am I right?

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  2. Babe Ruth also plays himself, opposite Gary Cooper's Lou Gehrig, in Pride of the Yankees. And Jackie Robinson played himself in The Jackie Robinson Story.

    Also, Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back.

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    1. Jackie Robinson is the one I was really thinking of. Thanks, Matt!

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  3. Patrick, how can you not like AC/DC? I mean, do you not like how every song's chorus just consists of singing the title 4 times over the main riff? Or how every song with a quarter note chord of whatever key the song is in. AC/DC is the pinnacle of creativity.

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    1. Well, I love KISS so I'm really in no place to judge.

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    2. Kiss is at least somewhat diverse. AC/DC has been writing the exact same song over and over again for 40 years, and is still successful. Its baffling.

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    3. I would submit that the Ramones have been writing the same song. AC/DC has written the same album (since Back in Black, anyway).

      I have no problem with either, myself; I'm just happy both the song and album kick serious ass.

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    4. I grew up on AC/DC and KISS, love them both to this day, are they still my favorite like when I was younger? No, probably not, but there's room for both in your life. Let's make peace on this one and move on.

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  4. Nice shout out Mike for "All this Mayhem" I really enjoyed it, Tony hawk really was the golden boy, I knew about the Pappas brothers but there was lots on the documentary I did not know and it took some turns I was not expecting,
    My favourite Skateboarding documentary also on Netflix is called Epicly later'd, its the most inspiring story about John Cardeil, give it a try Mike, it's Truely great

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  5. That student film Doug and Patrick made needs to be uploaded on the site. Like, today.

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  6. Funny that this should be the topic of this week's podcast as I recently rewatched the movie on Netflix and I agree with whats said here its a really good film. I actually like this movie quite a bit as a non Howard Stern fan (i dont listen to the radio that much, catching up on classic eps of F this movie all the time). As a non Howard Stern radio fan I agree I think he does a pretty respectable job performing as himself and I do like his early radio gigs warts and all of how lame things were, a lesser movie would have shown him only failing at his college then being awesome for the rest of his career.

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  7. The best movie about radio except for Pump Up the Volume, right?

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    1. Since when was "Private Parts" about anything except Howard Stern?

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  8. Well, i thought this movie was good until Howard indeed divorced his wife and replaced her with a ex-model. No way i'm watching this again.

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  9. Well, i thought this movie was good until Howard indeed divorced his wife and replaced her with a ex-model. No way i'm watching this again.

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  10. I could have sworn I had the Blu Ray of Private Parts, but I searched my collection and it indeed does not exist. I've seen the movie so many times that I just assumed I still owned a copy of it. You guys have been on a roll this summer, covering some of my favorite movies that nobody else would 'get' or 'understand' what's great about them. Wet Hot American Summer being one of them and now this. I saw this movie right after it came out and I was about 8 or so. I believe this is the first on-screen nudity that I was exposed to as a kid. I remember trying to catch the part where the woman orgasms on the speaker on HBO or one of the movie channels when it would be on, lol. Sure, this movie holds a lot of nostalgia for me for that reason, but I also loved the movie for everything else as well. It made me a fan of Howard Stern and I would continue to be a fan to this day. I used to stay up and catch his show on E! all the time in the early 2000s. It's pretty incredible how far Howard has come as an interviewer, he really is one of the best in the business, getting the most out of the people he interviews.

    Another thing I think I enjoy about the movie is the fact that it's kind of a 'road movie' in a way, in that Howard travels to new locations and capture the story of those stops and interactions along the way. It may not be as much of a road movie as the dozens and dozens of 'road movies' that came out in the 90s (Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, Tommy Boy, many more) but it's one of the things that I've always liked about it. Howard does a great job playing himself, I think if they made this movie today it would have gone deeper into the controversies and other things that Howard used to do, almost turning it into a dark, more biographical film, but instead the film sacrifices those things to keep it mostly light and fun. I have no issue with that either, it really is a fun, feel-good kind of movie. When I first watched it I had no idea who any of the other people in movie were, like Gary or Fred. I love watching it now because I appreciate and notice everything. It would have been interesting to see the story keep going through the Sirius deal and the Artie Lange era, stuttering John getting left out of the film is pretty funny now looking back, plus Jackie and Howard having a falling out of sorts. The whole world of Howard Stern has become more diverse and interesting since he was an innovator in the 80s.

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