Episode: 360 • Duration: 01:07:17
Tom Green takes a proverbial dump on culture with Freddy Got Fingered, an almost meta-textual take on giving an idiot a lot of money to fuel his creative desires. In this film you’ll find Green donning a dead deer, playing music with sausages, and caning a disabled woman’s legs; you’ll also see some intentionally dumb-smart humor on display. Here we disagree with the Razzy nomination and the misunderstood belief that this is a “bad” movie.
We’re also drinking Keystone Light’s new Apple beer!
Approximate timeline
0:00-8:00 Intro
8:00-15:00 Beer talk
15:00-end Freddy Got Fingered
We’ve got one final film in this edition of Difficult Films next week!
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Transcript – Difficult Films* (4) FREDDY GOT FINGERED (auto-generated)
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0:00
Tell me something.
What do you want?
I want you to help me make it into ATV show, OK?
So let me get this right, you want to just barge into a restaurant, dress like a fucking English Bobby and expect someone to give you ATV show?
I don’t know, yeah.
Do me a favor, leave me alone.
0:17
Please, please, please, please.
Yes, Sir.
Please just look at my drawings.
OK?
Yeah, OK, fine.
Fine.
OK, OK, it’s X-ray Cat.
OK.
Except instead of being able to see through everything, he can only see through wood.
So if there’s something going on on the other side and say a wooden door, OK, see the criminal.
0:32
I see the criminal.
I see the door.
OK, see through the door, see the criminal and save the day.
He saves the day.
OK.
Much to the dismay of the police, to the dismay of the mayor, because, you know, the police in the mayor, they always hate it when people take the law into their own hands.
In the Batman, like a Batman, like like the guardian angels.
What’s that called?
Again, like a vigilante.
Like a vigilante like.
A vigilante.
0:48
He’s like a vigilante cat.
It’s a cat who’s a vigilante.
It’s a cat who is a vigilante.
I got that, Gordon.
OK, listen.
The drawings are pretty good.
But it doesn’t make any.
1:03
Sense OK, it’s fucking stupid.
1:43
Hey guys, welcome back to the Blood of Micron podcast.
I’m Ryan from coldwaitation.com and I’m joined with my Co host Mark.
How’s it going?
Pretty good, pretty good.
We are continuing difficult films months, A month where we celebrate all of the worst films imaginable, ones that people would have a hard time sitting through.
2:06
And this this, this one for this week was was your pick specifically you you wanted to do this one and had said that you were interested because you’ve been a fan of it for so long and and yet recognized that it could be a difficult film.
2:24
So I’ll let you take take over on the intro.
Why’d you want to pick it?
You know, lead us in.
So this film, like Showgirls is a notorious film for being not a film that is thought of highly unlike like Showgirls.
2:45
The first time, like I saw this movie back when I was like 13 years old, I didn’t like it.
I didn’t get it.
I thought it was fucking stupid and bad.
Now that I’m at it all and have watched it as I’m older, I have come to appreciate what this film does and what it has to offer.
3:02
And it is the lovable, terrific Tom Greens Friar Gaffinger.
Yeah, I, I’ve never seen this one before.
I remember it coming out.
I remember people liking it.
3:19
I remember the poster artwork and everything.
I remember, you know, being a being a thing.
But I never saw it.
I don’t know that I heard too many people talking about it even when it released that I can remember.
I think my older sister rented it.
3:34
That’s how I ended up seeing it and I know just like watching it.
I it was like I had the same reaction to this film when I first saw it like I did with Napoleon Dynamite that I was like this is fucking stupid and 1312 year old be in 2001, 2002 whenever the hell I watched it.
3:56
I did watch the Tom Green show.
I thought Tom Green was funny, you know, I thought of him singing about cancer on his balls is funny, you know, I thought he was funny in road Trip and stuff like that.
So you know.
Yeah, I mean, this is I, I, I think I remember this in conjunction with something like road trip or your road trip, you know, the time period where the sort of raunchy or, you know, teen or even college age comedies were coming out.
4:29
But again, I like I, I remember the name, the title, because I think the title really sticks out, right?
You know, the title itself.
And I think they really got away with something there because I, I struggle to imagine you really being able to get away with naming your entire film about fingering nowadays.
4:50
I I think that that would be really stretching.
And I think that they probably had some older person who was on the censorship committee and they were like, no, no, no, no fingering.
Yeah, they were able to to just.
5:06
Pinpoint that person like.
Freddy got.
Picked out of a line up or something like that.
And they were like, oh, oh, OK, yeah.
OK.
To to finger.
I, I guess I get that as a verb.
You know, you’re going to, you’re going to point them out or, you know, he he’s the one that or like even the middle finger, right.
5:24
Because like in, you know, the, the film itself, like Freddy’s always the one that’s getting, you know, kind of the, the short end of the stick and, and, and disliked.
And so I, I can see them, you know, going to the committee and being like, you know, it’s not what you think we’re saying that it’s, you know, he’s, he’s, he’s getting the middle finger or he’s getting fingered for the, for the bad thing.
5:45
Hold on.
I don’t even think they have to have that.
They just have Tom Green show up and he’s like this what it means.
He just the dude, Tom Green things like.
All right, Tom, Yeah, you know, good, good, good.
Get this asshole out of.
Right, exactly.
Yeah, like we don’t want to deal with them anymore.
So just give it to him again.
6:01
Though I do struggle like to find that this would be like that would even fly at this point.
I I think that’s stretching the the even the the border of where they would let you what you what they would let you name a film now.
I don’t I don’t know that it would go over very well.
6:17
So I do love that is like like I said, so the the film name itself, it kind of stands out.
But other than that, I don’t really you know, I didn’t remember too much about it.
I don’t think I’ve ever like really known what the film was even about.
And I think even after the you watch the movie, you’re kind of left with like I still don’t really know what this movie is about.
6:37
But like now I I know what happens in the movie.
I’m not sure what it’s about, but I know what happens.
But anyway, I think like this was one of the what do you think?
What do you think about that?
You know, as we started in the introduction, why do you think that this movie didn’t have so much like a a popular a popularity with, you know, even like the in 2001, we were going to be entering into high school, you know, in a few years.
7:03
Why do you think that we this wasn’t something bigger for people like us millennials of this time period?
I think because I think by one by this point, that kind of 90s gross out comedy is it’s on like, you know, like a slight downplay, you know, it’s more, you know, you know, sex humor, which this, you know, movie does have.
7:27
But it’s you know, the main thing is like the gross out of humor.
And too, I think it’s too smart for a teenager.
Like I said, watching it when I was like 1213 years old, I can’t get like the jokes, like, like The funny thing is like that everyone would say that didn’t know it like back in like middle school and high school would be like, Daddy, would you like some sausages?
7:48
Daddy, would you like some sausage?
But that’s it.
Like, you know, and it’s like, oh, what is it, you know?
But like the actual jokes of the film, like, you know, flew over my head.
And I think almost everyone said, I don’t think any sane 15 year old would be sitting in the theatre watching this and going like, yes, they constantly say their age to show.
8:10
Like, you know, he’s critiquing this point of like, you know, Hollywood filmmaking and storytelling.
You know, it’s like the, you know, I think a lot of the bits are way too over most people’s heads.
It’s kind of like, what do you think about it?
8:26
Like with Starship Troopers, Like it’s like there’s like, like how?
Like even though even more with this film, because it’s like there’s a lot of people who watch Starship Troopers, it takes it, you know, for face value.
And I think that’s probably the same with this one because people are like, this film’s boring.
They’re just like not doing anything and just saying stupid shit over and over again.
8:46
I think it’s funny because you’re saying that this film is too smart.
Knowing the content of the film, it’s very interesting, very interesting, interesting juxtaposition of it’s smart, but also has this really stupid humor going on within it.
9:01
So all right, well, I mean, I guess with that we it’s hard to do an intro without just really going into the film.
So let’s let’s take a break before we really dive into Tom Green’s world and let’s talk about the beer that we have on the show this time around.
9:17
We were really interested in this beer because it’s been promoted quite a bit like we’ve been, we’ve been hearing about it a lot and it’s, you know, sort of especially in our area, this beer is, is quite popular in the, the normal variety.
9:33
And so we were really interested and not not only because of the, the type of beer that it is, but also because it is another type of apple beer.
You’re of course talking about the new Keystone Light Apple, which is Keystone’s version of the Bush Light Apple Ale.
9:53
Trying to be trying to jump into that market because one I’m.
Going to cut you off.
Don’t you dare ever call a Bush Bavarian beer an ale.
How fucking dare you don’t.
Disparage like that.
That’s right.
It’s not an ale, is it?
10:08
It’s just a regular old.
I understand.
I think it’s interesting that Keystone was, you know, for one thing, I think it made sense because Bush light apple is sort of a craze.
10:23
I, I don’t really understand it, but it’s like one of those beers, at least in our area that like when a, when a beer store gets it in, they’re like posting constantly come and get it.
We’ve only got 25 packs here.
You know, they’re posting like it’s going out of style very quickly and I don’t they create the FOMO.
10:46
Maybe maybe they do or maybe they’re just truly is people running in like, oh, right, the Apple ales or the apple log.
Or is that I keep saying Apple Ale and I’m thinking of there’s another.
What was the other brand that did an apple and it was an apple ale?
11:02
Which, oh, red’s apple.
OK, Red’s.
Yeah, that’s been gone for a while.
But no, they still make it actually.
They just don’t see it.
Yeah, yeah, there’s a couple of places around here that still carry it because I saw like a six pack the other day.
I was like, I had to like, I can’t remember which was my one to like have to like that.
11:19
I have to blow the dust off it like I’m Indian Jones.
Like I found something next to the not your father’s root beer.
I mean, I think this craze has been going for some time now.
And you know, like we’ve done on the show, we’ve done the Bush Apple, we’ve done the Bush Peach, which was a newer one that they did a couple years ago.
11:40
And I think they came out with Bush lime too, right?
We did that.
Probably not that long, maybe like last year.
So it’s it’s been a long time coming for something like this.
And so Keystone saw the money on the wall and they’re like, all right, let’s let’s go for it.
11:55
So they made an apple beer too.
We’ve only done Keystone.
We’ve only done Keystone beer.
We did Keystone Light all the way back at the beginning.
I can’t remember what the movie name is.
It’s that Thanksgiving movie that from Thanks Killing.
Is that what that one is?
12:12
With the Turkey like that, one of our first Thanksgiving movies, Yeah.
Yeah, they drank Keystone white and so that’s what we did.
I copped out because I didn’t want to spend that much.
So I bought a six pack of tall boys of that and that’s probably the last time I had Keystone.
It’s been.
Yeah, I don’t really remember having Keystone very much at all.
12:32
So anyway, the the Keystone Apple is new.
It’s they’re trying to get into this, you know, variety of what I would call fruited lagers.
Fruited fruited, yes, yes.
12:48
I wouldn’t quite go go so far as to call them, you know, like a what’s the name?
What’s the name then?
It’s right on the tip of my tongue.
No, no, not a goose.
A, Not a goose A, the other one D And I don’t know, it’ll come to me.
13:06
I’ll think about it in a few minutes and I’ll be like, that’s what it was.
But a radler, that’s what I’m talking about.
A Radler No.
Not.
A Radler style.
Not quite, no, Because it’s not a mix.
It’s not beer with that.
Like an amp.
Yeah, yeah, with the juice, with the juice within.
13:21
No, I think you know, apple this, this is pretty good.
It’s it’s it’s it’s got an apple leaf flavour to it that I think is probably something that a lot of people are going to enjoy because it has what I would consider to be a very artificially type apple flavour to it.
13:45
To me though, the can is red.
This almost tastes like an artificial green apple, like you’ve you’ve added a jolly rancher to your beer.
Is what I how I’m getting what I’m getting from this.
And while I think that’s can be tasty, I I’m enjoying it.
14:03
I think I prefer a more naturalized or, you know, not as over the top apple flavour or fake artificial apple flavour, But I think this is pretty, pretty good.
It’s it’s solid.
It’s I think what the other thing is, is the apple flavour is overpowering the poor quality of Keystone Light.
14:26
And so you don’t necessarily get that like I feel like the, the base beer is not really that tasty here.
I can’t, I don’t really get much of A, you know, a feel for the Keystone Lights flavour.
It’s more just the apples overpowering.
So I think it’s pretty good.
14:43
I, I think I, I don’t have Bush apple here to compare it to like, you know, apples to apples.
But I would say I think I prefer the Bush apple just slightly more because I, I remember it having less of this like artificial apple flavour.
15:01
How about you?
What do you think about it?
Well I’m a little disappointed because as I’m looking at the Keystone Wikipedia page, back in 2020 they had a Keystone Light key light full which was a Raspberry Lime 1, so we got screwed on that.
15:20
Yeah, no, don’t remember that one.
Yeah, it’s been a long time since I’ve had Bush Apple.
I remember liking it.
My biggest problem with these beers is that they come out, excuse me, in the dog days of summer and seeing ass.
15:36
Just up until recently, it’s been hotter than a hoochie.
Coochie apples, like not something that’s on my mind.
You should be.
You should be paraded out for the fall where they belong.
You know, we’re going up a fire tower in the Adirondacks and looking at the base fall foliage.
15:57
Keystone apple or Bush apple.
With that being said, basically every point you had you stole from me.
It’s not bad.
It doesn’t taste like an apple like you would think like a red apple.
It tastes like a sour green Granny Smith apple.
16:16
That is definitely very artificial.
As you said, Jolly Rancher basically tastes like if you took a Keystone light and instead of like meal mix, it was just pure, you know, Jolly Rancher green apple.
16:33
That’s what you get.
It’s not bad.
I do like it.
The price point, to be honest with you, I was pretty I didn’t tell you I got a 15 pack of this.
It was 1550 after tax and deposit.
So wow, yeah, it’s, you know, not a price, right?
That’s not a bad deal at all.
16:49
I like it a lot.
I think compared to the Bush apple in my mind again, we I haven’t had it in a couple of years.
I think I like this a little more just because it does have like a bigger or even though it’s like it is definitely artificial and sweet and candied.
17:05
I do kind of like that more because again, it’s a light beer and Keystone Light itself and Bush Light itself aren’t good beers.
So it is doing a lot of the work carrying this beer to something that’s like, hey, let’s pound a bunch of these while we go to the lake, so.
Yeah, like I said, I I’m not really getting the Keystone beer flavour like that.
17:26
Like I, I don’t really, it’s, it’s the apple that’s really overpowering and it’s, you know, I almost feel like I’m going to get a couple cavities from drinking these because they’re, they are so sweet.
And so, you know, sugar, sugar, Yeah, I feel like, you know, these are not good for you’re going to wake bad teeth or diabetics.
17:44
You’re going to get wake up with an extra big hangover on less beer just because it’s sugar for.
Probably, yeah.
And I will say I’m agreeing with you in that I like in the summer.
I am not like give me those Apple beers, you know, like I don’t really find Apple to be a good summer beer.
18:02
I don’t quite understand why both companies are have released these in the summer.
The Peach made more sense for the summer for for Bush, but I don’t really understand why they keep releasing these types of beers in the summer.
You would one would think that they would have much more marketability in the fall.
18:22
Like, hey, you know, it’s apple picking season and you know, here’s an apple beer too.
You know, I I don’t quite understand the marketing behind it and to be honest with you, I would probably always pick a lime beer over an apple beer.
18:37
But I think this is pretty, pretty solid anyway, you know, an interesting experiment from Keystone.
I’m sure we’ll be seeing more in the future of them trying out these types of fruited beers.
Because if you know, history is anything to to base your opinion on, I’m pretty sure they’re going to do well with this apple beer, regardless of how, you know, like it.
19:02
You know, again, for 15 bucks, you’re like most people, if they’re interested are just going to be like, you know what, I’m going to grab one, I’m going to try it.
So even if it was like a failed beer attempt, they probably still made out.
So I I can see more experiments like this in the future from them.
19:22
All right.
Been a long time since I’ve seen a Keith Stone commercial.
Yeah.
No, no.
Those were big when we were in college and just getting out of college.
Keith Stone, you’re so smooth, which nobody really believed because the least of my cards.
19:41
Why don’t we drank that shit?
Yeah, All right, well, let’s get into Freddy Got Fingered.
Tom Greens.
Tom.
Yeah, TomTom Greens, directed by Tom Green, at least written by him and Derek Harvey, who I did take a look at and has not really done much.
20:02
He was mostly a producer.
He was on is on the Tom Green show I believe.
Yeah, yeah.
So, so just a a friend didn’t and fellow later on the Tom Green show.
Now again, you you mentioned the Tom Green show.
I have seen, you know, bits and pieces of it, but I wasn’t an avid watcher of it by any means at that time.
20:24
You know, I, I recall a lot of things, you know, like I, I remember the testicular cancer surgery and things like that, but I don’t, there was never a time where I would like sit down and hey, I’m going to watch the Tom Green show.
I wasn’t sitting down to watch it.
20:39
It was on.
It was 11 at night.
So you’re just kind?
Of laying in bed watching and feel your balls.
You definitely see in clips and and such, but you know, that’s something.
But I, I feel like, you know, going into this, I feel like there is a, there was probably a specific audience for something like Freddy got fingered at this time and it wasn’t us.
21:03
Let’s be honest, you know, we were younger at this time.
I can see a more, you know, 161718 year old audience in 2001.
You’re seeing a Tom Green film and being really interested in it, you know, based on their interest already in the Tom Green show.
21:23
Tom Green, you know, is a very I would say you either like him or you don’t like him and you really don’t like him if you don’t like him, right, There’s no there’s no real in between.
You’re not just like, you know, I could take them or leave them.
21:40
You either enjoy the comedy, you think it’s funny or you think it’s really obnoxious.
And I don’t, you know, and Freddy got fingered is no different.
I, I feel like going into the movie, you either you’re going to see it because you like Tom Green, or if you’re like an unwitting passersby who someone says, hey, I got Freddy got fingered on VHS.
22:01
Do you guys want to watch this?
And they’re subjected to it.
You might be kind of pissed off at the end of the movie.
Like, what the fuck was that?
Why would you bring that over here?
You know, something like that.
I can see, you know, being very, you know, very dissenting.
22:18
Yeah, with the, with the type of comedy that it has.
So I guess, you know, from from my perspective, the one thing that I was super surprised about starting off the movie was to see RIP Torn here.
I ’cause I did not realize that he was in this movie and I love RIP Torn.
22:35
I’ve always loved RIP Torn.
First of all, how can he not love man whose name is RIP Torn?
It’s great.
I, you know, like, again, the inherent comedy and you know, your stage name being RIP Torn is great.
22:51
You know, again, that’s just you, you know, you’re already going to like someone like that.
So was really happy to see RIP Torn here.
And so that really stuck out to me.
And I think like even from the beginning of the movie, he’s really a gem here.
You know, you get you get a very specific feel for who RIP Torn is going to be playing in this movie right from the beginning.
23:12
I know one of your favorite parts at the beginning is just that whole introduction to Tom Green’s character Gourd, and he’s getting the Lebaron.
And basically there’s just a back and forth about the Lebaron where everybody just keeps saying it’s a Lebaron.
23:28
And I think the idea here is not just that it’s funny to have them keep saying Lebaron, but I feel like Tom Green specifically wrote a scene so that they would give him license to get a Lebaron.
23:44
Somebody got him like in 1994, Lebaron.
Exactly, it was.
It was more so a means to an end to get the Lebaron in the movie because that is an.
Excuse an excuses for him to buy it, you know, and like exactly.
Well, OK, you’re you’re missing a lot here.
24:01
So First off, props to this film.
It starts off in the most 90s way possible.
He’s a skateboarding around a fucking mall.
You know, You know it’s.
Very true.
I didn’t.
I didn’t realize Tom Green was such a avid skateboarder.
24:19
With a punk, you know, the punk soundtrack, like the pretty good Finger and got the kid like as he’s leaving his house to skate down to the mall and he’s like word be successful that he’s doing that.
24:38
And then like the the security guards are chasing him and he’s doing all those sick moves.
And then he gets to the end.
He slams right into the fucking door because it’s pull.
You can see on the side it says pull not put in so for his side.
And then he’s skating through the bus lot and he’s getting ready to go on the bus to go to Hollywood.
24:58
He’s going to go to LA to the cheese sandwich factory and you know, because this is something that would be in a movie like where like you packed up, but you know, got my tickets on the for the Greyhound.
But wait, you’re not getting on that bus, son.
25:16
What do you mean?
We bought you a Lebaron.
I don’t know how much Greyhound tickets were costing in the 90s, but from Portland to Hollywood.
But you spent the money like this bit, you know, RIP Torn and Julie Haggerty playing Julie Haggerty, you know, just and now I’m like, oh God, you’re the Baron.
25:37
So you can have you know, it’s an investment.
It’s hilarious because the whole thing too.
This is how like again, like this kind of, at least for me again, it’s hilarious now watching it the first time as a young dumb ass child, not getting the jokes, but he’s like, I’m about to get on the bus to go to Hollywood.
25:56
That’s right, son.
You’re going to go on that bus to go to Hollywood.
That’s right.
I got a job.
But son, you’re not going on that bus.
What do you mean I’m not going on that bus?
We got you something.
What did you get me?
We got you this Lebaron.
It’s Lebaron.
26:12
Like that’s like from that moment on.
That’s the film.
Yeah, it’s taking the stereotypes and cliches of a Holly, of Hollywood in general.
And instead of, you know, being like having like this beautiful reasoning behind it, it’s literally taking it and openly just being like.
26:38
This is what we’re.
Doing and I think it works really well because again, like I’m not like saying I’m the biggest Tom Green fan, but I think with his antics and style, like that’s how you get away with like this is a fancy restaurant, you know, so it you know, so like it’s hilarious and that whole bit with you know, him and you know, Finch sitting there like, hey, where’s my Lebaron?
27:07
See, Freddie, it says there’s plates on.
This is number one son.
I’m the number one son.
Mom, what about me?
Oh, we love you too.
You’re the nod.
I look like it’s just so fucking good and so hilarious.
And if you aren’t rolling over laughing from that first 5 minutes, you’re not going to probably enjoy the film, right?
27:30
Because that’s the film going.
Because that’s the film going forward.
And I think another funny thing about that opening is that the, the way that it starts, like you said, with the, you know, sort of the skateboarding, like it almost looks like it’s going to be a teen comedy, right?
27:49
Like Tom Green should be like a 17 year old student who is going off to college because that’s generally how these types of films started.
Like, oh, you know, I’m going off to college, make my way in the world.
You know, I just graduated and you find out he’s like 28 years old.
28:07
It’s, it’s, it’s a great like reversal because you know, again, you would expect him going off to college, but no, he’s going off to work at a cheese factory because he’s 28 years old, still living in a stand, no cheese sandwich factory.
It’s a cheese sandwich factory.
God don’t fucking it’s great.
28:24
Don’t step on the joke and ruin it you ass.
It’s great.
I love that idea of, again, the one thing that I think is really unique about Freddie Got fingered in terms of how stupid it is.
And generally, you know, there’s a there’s a line between just a stupid comedy that is, you know, overtly just stupid and it just has, you know, very immature jokes.
28:51
It is the difference with Freddy Got fingered is the jokes are seem really stupid and immature, but they are they actually have a nuance to them that you really can take into consideration when you think about the joke itself.
Like it’s not it’s not just a really dumb raunchy joke.
29:11
There is generally a more nuanced tone to it that you you can glean from it.
And, and I like that.
I think that works really well in this movie that it probably is often overlooked because people are just more concerned with the subject matter or the the offensiveness or whatever, you know, whatever it is that they’re not enjoying about the comedy.
29:33
I think too, because the like it the film to me like is if you’re able to kind of compartment, because it is kind of like compartmentalize it into like it’s like a sketch comedy because each scene has a feel of like being like a sketch comedy show because you got the Lebaron part drives off, you know, and then he’s in the woods and he’s driving down to Hollywood and just for no reason.
30:01
What Oh, he sees a horse getting a boner and he hops out of the bear and then running those over and starts jacking the horse off.
He’s like, look at me, I’m a horsey.
I’m a horsey farmer.
I’m mowed far.
I mean, it’s like, what does it have to do with anything?
Nothing.
30:17
It’s just it’s just Gen.
X style like gross out humor amped up.
But that’s what like the film is because it goes from like that kind of scene to like then bam like that.
And it’s like then back to another scene and bam, something like that.
30:32
You know, to it’s it’s a nice whip.
It’s a whiplash.
Like to show the juxtaposition of like, like here’s our Tennessee Williams style play that we’re doing and then bam, you know, gross out humor.
I think that happens, you know, quite a bit.
30:48
It may even less so at the beginning of the film, like the beginning of the film is actually trying fairly hard to set up a through line to the rest of the movie, right?
So like you, because you get him going to the cheese sandwich factory and you see him working there for a little bit and you see him sketching his, you know, his scenes that he’s working on for, you know, what he wants to do when he gets to LA.
31:11
He wants to basically option all the sketches and get a show going.
And so I think, you know, the the film is working pretty hard to actually set something up with Tom Green actively working against himself here by consistently breaking into that storyline to give you very random shit that’s happening every now and then.
31:33
And like you said, you know, you have those scenes, you have him like putting on a dead deer carcass and, you know, dancing around in the road.
Yeah, it’s Anthony Michael Hall’s character that, you know, is the, you know, the guy, the CEO of Radioactive and, you know, cartoons, Dave Davidson, great name.
31:51
Yeah.
Now he’s like, you got to get inside the character, you don’t understand them and he’s got to.
Get inside the.
Animal because that like whole thing is fucking hilarious because like when he gets into radioactive cartoons. 1 Great cameo here by Drew Barrymore.
Yeah, she’s fucking hilarious.
She was married to him at.
32:07
The time, yeah, like in dating him so but I mean, it’s funny because you know, he because Tom Green’s like running through like there and the the security is so great because they’re like, what are you doing?
He’s like, I have a bag and what then?
I have a bag, you know, Japanese foreign goes up and when he’s up there and he’s looking for Dave Davidson, Anthony Michael Hall, Drew Barrymore is the one that runs into.
32:32
I mean, she’s like, are you here?
I’m like, I need to see David.
The guy that sees the show.
He’s at a restaurant.
What?
What do you need to see him for?
I his wife died.
Oh, my God.
Linda.
She’s like, yeah, yeah, she’s dead.
32:48
Horrible car accident.
She’s like, who are you?
And he’s like, well, I’m the coroner.
I’m an officer.
I you know, I was there.
Gruesome.
This.
Kind of leads into this idea that I think is really funny about Tom Green’s.
33:05
At least you know, what he’s doing in this movie is that it’s not enough that in the film, you know, he’s kind of an idiot and he has these dumb ideas, right?
Like, so dumb ideas are one thing, but he’s constantly doubling down on the most ridiculous elements of his ideas because there’s there’s always these opportunities for him to not go in this ridiculous, outlandish direction.
33:33
And yet he turns all of these, you know, elements into the the most, you know, 100% ridiculous element that it can possibly be.
So like like you said, he doesn’t have to say he’s looking for him because his wife is dead, but he does and he elevates the the event to a such a height that like you, there’s nowhere to go.
34:01
And it’s also funny, too, because it works.
And again, like in a movie, it’s like, you know, like, how do I get past this?
And you come up with, like, some Ferris Bueller bullshit and, you know, ride like in the heroes.
Like, yeah, wasn’t I so smart thinking of that?
And here, like you said, he’s taking it, you know, to 11.
34:17
And just like, you know, what kind of excuse do I have?
She she, she dies, she’s dead.
And.
Yeah, I think, I think that’s like one of the funniest things about the movie for me is that, you know, it could have been just a a regular scenario where it’s like, oh, that’s awkward.
34:35
But no, like every, every scene, Gord has to make it excessively awkward, the most awkward that it can possibly be because he always has to go to extremes.
And I that’s really funny here.
And like you said with the corner thing, when it’s really funny when all of a sudden he shows up as like an English Bobby and and because he’s carrying.
34:56
Ridiculous.
Are you Dave Davidson?
No.
Are you Dave Davidson?
No.
Are you Davidson?
I’m.
I’m a woman.
I didn’t ask you your sex.
I asked you your name.
No, I’m Crystal.
That’s great.
You know, that’s very poor.
What are you thinking of him for?
35:12
You know, I don’t care what your, I don’t care what your gender is.
I don’t care what your name is.
It’s great.
I think like again, those parts, you know, what I will have to commend to is I feel like Anthony Michael Halls character is actually a pretty nice dude for being like this kind of asshole in LA type character because he like hears him out.
35:35
He’s like, all right, all right, I’ll take a look at these fucking things, you know?
And he gives him pointed commentary.
And like, of course he’s the asshole that Caesar bleached haircut that he has, like, you know, like you trying out for Gladiator.
I was I’m actually surprised, you know how how well he takes this, you know, weird ass cartoon that you know Gord gives him and they actually gives, you know, pretty good criticism of it and and, you know, a reflection on it and you know, you would expect someone to just be like, I’m not looking at those, you know, throw them away.
36:08
But here he’s you know, he’s very pointed with with Gordon says you Got Talent.
I don’t know what the fuck you’re on about with like this.
This whole idea of this X-ray cat that can only see through wood.
It’s he’s.
A.
He’s a I love it too because also, as you mentioned, like especially noticing now, Tom Green’s fucking accent, Canadian accent.
36:30
Oh, it’s amazing.
You know, he’s shattering it out.
He’s shattering out because like Anthony Michael Hall is like, yeah, he’s a vigilante.
And Tom Green’s like, yes, a vigilante.
Vigilante.
Yes.
I love it.
Yeah.
Like Tom, I’m obsessed with the the dialogue delivery that Tom Green has in this movie.
36:50
You know, I think in some ways he’s doing it on purpose to like really exaggerate the, but I love how he delivers some of those things.
It’s just hilarious.
It makes it even funnier because it has this very specific Canadian accent that that comes out.
37:06
It’s also that’s that whole scene’s also funny too, because after he gets for Jack, he pulls a gun out and puts it in his mouth.
He’s like, just blow my brains out.
And he’s like, no, don’t do that.
You got to get to know the characters.
You got to get to know them and like then come back and after years of working hard and doesn’t, then you can blow your brains out.
37:24
He’s like, he’s like, oh, OK.
It’s so funny because it’s like just so cartoony too.
Just like him like, and nobody like around.
It’s like he’s got a gun.
He’s like, he’ll pulls it out and puts it in his mouth and oh God.
I think, you know, that kind of leads us to to like after he meets Betty from the hospital, you know, his love interest in this movie played by Marissa Coughlin.
37:48
And I think this is one of my favorite parts.
It’s so small, it’s so mundane and it and, you know, not really that intricate in the scheme of the film, But I’m really a sucker for these kinds of weird comedy bits.
And I love the fact that Betty is obsessed with just flipping Creamer.
38:07
It’s such a weird fucking idea that I love.
I think it’s hilarious.
The funniest?
Thing I got 7 the.
Funniest thing is after he meets her and he goes to her apartment for a date and she just greets him at the door and he’s like I’ve got four in a row and he’s like what?
38:26
And she’s like 4 flips, I’ve got 4 Creamer flips in a row because she’s still been doing it the whole time.
I think that’s super funny.
Like it’s just such a weird.
It’s.
Supposed to be like, you know, like the love interesting like a ROM com’s got like a quirky like you know you know and.
38:43
It’s just so weird and off the wall.
I, I think it, it’s again, like it’s so it’s such a small thing in the scheme of the movie, but I, it’s one of my favorite parts is just this, this obsession with trying to flip Creamer is not only, it’s not like it’s not like a bottle or anything.
39:00
It’s not.
Like a bottle, like a cap of Creamer that she’s flipping.
And I like too, because the film is like, like the movie movie.
It’s like, it says on it, like just Creamer.
Yeah.
And I’m pretty sure that Creamer is by design, probably always flips on its right side because of the way that it’s the, you know, the liquid is dispersed in it.
39:22
I feel like, so it’s even funnier.
It’s just like so ridiculous I.
You was going to say it is good point.
You did miss the one.
The weight of this film is carried by the great thespian and Harland Williams and the whole skateboarding scene with the ramp.
39:48
Holy shit, One that like that freaked me out when I was a kid because I was just recently at like snapped my leg in half on my bike and I skateboard and stuff too.
So watching Harlan like, you know, legs snap in half, that was a, you know, really brutal for me as a kid and as Tom Green licking it.
40:08
But the whole thing, that whole thing is so funny too, because.
And after like, because Gord comes back and you know, RIP torrents on his ass now and he’s like, when are you going to get a job?
You need a job.
And then Freddie shows up.
He’s like, yes, I have a job.
And I learned that from you dad with your work.
40:23
I think job, job, work.
Fucking hilarious.
And then they’re outside and he’s like work.
Gord’s working on his half pipe.
And Harlan Williams is like, what?
You’re being too loud.
You’re being too loud.
You got to be quiet.
Oh yes, I should use my nail gun instead so it’s not as loud.
40:42
Come on, let’s skate it.
We just finished this ramp that we’ve been working on for so long.
Well, I can’t because I’m a bank teller and I have my job tomorrow and we got jobs.
I mean, I got to get a job at, you know, RIP horns like yelling out them from the window, like shut the fuck up.
Like try everyone’s trying to sleep.
40:58
And as they, you know, he they start skating the ramp and Harlan breaks his fucking leg on it and it makes me burst out laughing every time.
Is like, RIP Torn just comes flying out the window.
He’s like, hey, you faggot, and throws the skateboard and I mean, it hits the leg.
41:14
He’s like I was saying like Tom grades like, dude, he really nervous.
So he’s like, oh, it’s just so, yeah, it’s just so fucking funny.
I do.
I do love it, yeah.
Like it’s just so great.
Like because like I said, we’re like we were talking about ripped, torn.
41:31
It’s just so fucking good.
And then the same thing too with the hospital scene because when they’re at the hospital, when he meets, you know, when he meets Betty there, she’s he finds out that she’s paraplegic in a wheelchair.
And Harlan Williams is in a room with like 5 other people, one of them’s pregnant and she’s just like, I’m pregnant.
41:54
Be quiet, be quiet.
And then Harlan Williams, like, oh, that girl you like, she’s paraplegic, yo, You don’t like handicapped people?
Like it’s just so fucking.
Hilarious.
It’s just I do I I mean, I think I think they do a really good job with that.
42:15
Like again, I think, you know, this film is kind of of it’s time as well.
So you have to kind of roll with some of the more offensive elements of the you know, the jokes that they have in here.
The R word is thrown around quite a bit, but I think that it’s, you know, everything again, is kind of treated the same.
42:38
There’s no real like line that will be drawn within this movie.
And I think one of the funny things about how the film is played off is that almost everybody in this movie acts like they have some sort of brain damage.
And like, I think Freddy is probably the only one that sort of played straight about a straight lace and maybe even Julie to some extent.
43:01
But you know, almost everybody else has like some sort of brain damage in this movie and is sort of treated as the natural reality of the world that they live in is that, you know, almost everyone has brain damage here and it’s it’s fine, You know the.
43:16
Whole I was going to say the whole 2 like when he Gore’s at the Betty’s apartment and I like rockets and he’s like have you got to work?
And she’s like, no, I haven’t.
And he’s like, well, aren’t you just a big dummy?
43:32
Don’t you feel like a big stupid person and said no, I’m not going to get the first try.
He’s like, oh, never thought of it like that.
It was just really, you know.
But I would say, you know, like that, I find it really interesting that the, the theme of the movie, The this idea of the title Freddy got fingered doesn’t occur until like 15 minutes into the movie.
43:58
Like at least 50 minutes into the movie of this whole idea that after, you know, Gord loses, you know, he ditches his job at the cheese sandwich factory.
He comes back home, tells his dad that he’s going to get a job.
44:14
And he doesn’t end up getting that job.
And his dad’s really pissed off about it.
He eventually just randomly tells everybody that, yo, you know what, my dad’s been fingering Freddie.
And, and that’s like, that’s that one encounter is where the the movie’s title comes from.
44:33
And it’s really not even a major plot point in the movie, to be honest with you.
It’s not like it’s something that carries on throughout the movie transitions multiple times after that.
It’s just sort of the impetus of that moment that sort of sets it on its way to the end of the film.
44:52
And I’ve, I find that really strange and interesting how it kind of subverts that expectation of like, this will be the major plot point in the movie and it’s really not at all.
Well, not only that, though, it’s funny too, because then afterwards, like that therapy session, they, the social worker and the cops show up to the house and they’re like, hello, we’re looking for Freddie.
45:17
And he’s like, yeah, I’m afraid.
And she’s.
Yeah, they’re looking for a little Freddy though, too.
They’re like for a little.
Oh, it’s OK.
Like you can’t be hurt.
Now we know what you didn’t like.
Like it’s hilarious.
And then like, we’re going to come with us.
Suddenly he’s like when I’m 25 and my dad did a finger made.
45:35
My dad did a finger made.
He gets sent to like a home and like.
And, and the film really never deals with it again.
Like he’s just kind of like, yeah, he’s.
Just stuck in a home now.
Watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre on TV, Yeah, Like, I love that.
45:53
I like I I will say that I think the second-half of the movie becomes a bit too erratic at times.
It really jumps in.
This is where it really seems like the movie studio gave Tom Green money.
46:09
Tom Green is going to blow it.
Any sort of is doing this sort of meta textual thing at the end of the film where he’s basically being the same as his character.
You know, his character gets $1,000,000 from Dave Davidson because he loves his dad storming in and being a character and he has like these zebra centaurs that he’s created for, for characters that are basically himself and his dad.
46:35
The best part of that whole scene is when RIP Torn pushes Drew Barrymore out of the way into like the radioactive bins.
He’s like, get out of the way, you fat bitch.
And just like you know, because he’s on a rampage and he’s put it in slow MO, like you know, but it’s.
46:52
So good.
It’s just so.
Funny.
I think like that whole idea of this sort of meta textual where he, you know, he gets $1,000,000 and he blows it on stupid shit is sort of the same idea of Tom Green making this movie.
It’s almost, you know, it’s, it’s a mirror image of them of somebody giving you a lot of money for something that you’ve really, you know, you, we’ve wanted to do for yourself and artistic merit to do it.
47:17
And you blow it on a bunch of stuff, like a bunch of stupid stuff, like so Tom Green blows it on a helicopter, a ridiculous helicopter ride throughout this whole movie of them, you know, just.
No reason his fake his fake jewels like.
No reason.
47:34
A joyride in a helicopter, you know, touching down on a on a rooftop, which I find even funnier because he makes Betty go up to the rooftop in a wheelchair.
You know, it’s like it’s even funnier when you really stop and think about it.
But I I kind of like though I think that Freddy got fingered is really stupid in an ain’t at heart.
47:55
Like it it it is almost like you’ve we’ve set off air.
You said a little bit.
It’s sort of an anti comedy in that it is almost doing intentionally, not dealing with what you would consider to be like thematic resonance in the movie.
48:12
I do think at a certain point it does have a really interesting point about, you know, seeking out your own artistic, you know, force and, you know, going for it and sort of the meta commentary of him being in the same situation of like people gave me money to do stupid shit.
48:31
Of course I’m going to do that.
You know, like again, that’s the kind of the whole point of Freddy got fingered.
I I like that meta textualness.
I think when you really stop to think about it, like you said, it is a lot smarter than it really comes off on the surface.
It it, it’s doing things that you if when you stop and think about, they are both funny, but also, you know, sort of thematically interesting.
48:56
Yeah, like the whole like you said with the whole like the helicopter thing is stupid, doesn’t make any sense.
But again, and like a romantic comedy when it’s like, I got to win her back, like that’s something you would see like grandiose gesture.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
49:11
So like it’s just funny too.
And the fact too that like, they’re not like, I love you.
She’s just like, I just want to suck your Dick, you know?
You know, it’s, you know, it’s so you know, instead of saying like I love you, you know she’s.
Like I just want to suck your Dick because she’s paraplegic.
49:28
She’s sort of that’s the whole running joke throughout as well.
It’s like, this is the second day.
This is like 200% Dick sucking for to to date ratio.
Like we need to get this back down to a normal average.
It’s great because, you know, again, it’s it’s sort of the opposite of of what a normal man would think about it.
49:46
It’s, you know, it’s very, but yeah, I mean, I like that a lot.
I think that it’s, it’s a really funny transition.
I will say that I do think that the the film’s second-half is more, a lot more of a random collage, a random assortment of sketches, like you said.
50:06
Then the first half is the first half at least tries to cement this, this idea this this storyline.
The second-half really runs wild after.
It sort of sets up this whole idea of of RIP Torrance character being angry at at Gord, and it kind of goes off the rails a little bit.
50:24
Julie Haggerty’s out there sleeping with men.
Yeah.
With Shaq, Yeah, yeah.
It’s, well, the thing.
It’s not only that’s not the weirdest thing.
He works at a place called Submarine Supreme, and they’re just making cheese sandwiches.
And not only that, those different cheeses are just sitting out in the.
50:42
Open like that.
Yeah, they and then.
And he’s only packing the sandwich with fucking orange American cheese, you know?
I do love that too.
Like cheese sandwich experience on it.
And he’s like, I got this.
50:57
Yeah.
It’s like it’s like it’s so you know, just like fun.
There’s like that’s the same thing too.
Like the whole like cheese sandwich thing.
The factory in the beginning was like just making me think of like Laverne and Shirley.
Yes, like, you know, I Love Lucy.
Like, oh, he’s an absurd job that I have to go and work that, you know, he’s saying which back three, Like, imagine, like, this is so ridiculous and just, you know, so lovable.
51:25
Yeah, and what do you think about shipping RIP torn off to Pakistan at the end one?
It’s funny as shit because it’s literally tied to a throwaway line like after Returns, like really like halfway through the film, getting pissed off at Gord not getting a job and being able to keep a job.
51:44
He’s like, if you were in Pakistan, you would have had a job.
So exhaust your balls.
So like it’s like just really like weird.
Like it’s like it’s absurd and like the whole like elephant jerking off and common all of that on the ripped horn.
52:02
Like it’s that parts like like really like a little long in the tooth and stuff.
But like the circling back to that one fucking line that is really funny that I don’t think a lot of people would stick in their head, you know, put a pin in it.
It’s pretty funny, but.
52:22
Yeah, I, I agree.
I think it’s, you know, it’s, it’s weird.
It gets ripped, torn to say Pakistan.
I like that a lot.
Yeah, this is a really weird, you know, and again, it’s it’s sort of like that reversal of your normal, like when they make up right?
52:42
Like when they you know, it’s, it’s not they’re they’re literally covered in elephant cum as well when they’re just when they’re having that conversation.
So it’s, you know, this really weird gross out reversal of of that idea of of the the resolution in a movie like this.
And not only that, so too, when you were talking about the whole like wasting money on a film and stuff, like again, like that’s like part like the joke that leads up to that.
53:06
You know that scene because when get back at his dad, he has this construction company like be able to move up and pack the house away.
And as they’re doing it, he’s like, I swear the guy’s like if you just be better off carrying the house to be hell of a lot cheaper.
53:24
He’s like, no, no, I have $750,000 now.
I spent $100,000 on a plane and 150 on jewels and now this is all I have left and I won’t, I want to do this.
You know, it’s just real funny because it’s like, what’s going to do?
53:40
And you know so.
Yeah, and it’s it’s really weird and funny.
What What?
And what do you think about seeing RIP Torn’s ass in this movie?
Great, It’s fucking it’s funny too, because also that’s like the scene where like, you know, it’s like I hit his wife, you know, it’s like, you know, Julie Haggerty’s like if the misunderstanding, like seeing something out of contact.
54:05
And it’s funny to the report, like said like said like because when they’re at the therapist and he says Freddy got fingered and she’s like, no, you’re touched up.
And he’s like, no, I didn’t what are you fucking crazy?
Did I never did anything like that?
And, you know, so RIP Torn gets, you know, drunk and goes down to the basement and he’s like, yeah, I figured my, you know, Freddy, why don’t you fuck me?
54:28
Come and fuck me, Gord, Fuck me.
He pulls his pants down.
His bare ass is just hanging out.
And then Julie Haggerty comes and sees him.
But come on, Gord, fuck me.
Fuck me.
There’s the whole like tea tea cup dropping, you know, just kind of over again.
54:47
It’s it’s sort of like a a satire on the over the top and the dramas and stuff like that.
Yeah, it’s it’s hilarious.
And you know, again, it leads to Rim Torn having to say later on the movies like whatever you heard that was out of context.
It wasn’t it wasn’t what you thought it.
55:05
Was so crazy because again, it’s another one of those things where it’s like the escalation of the joke is so without like this, you know, in reality, no, would that ever have happened?
No, but it like because Victorian is such a exaggerated character and it’s like, yes, now he has to worry about it because you know it it went over way too over the top and it’s that’s great.
55:29
I love it.
What else?
What else did we talk about that you want to you want to cover?
I loved it when he called Gord Skateboard a wheelie board.
Wheelie board, Yeah.
He’s like that God damn wheelie board.
RIP torrents, great idea.
55:46
This movie is the RIP Torn movie.
Yeah.
Like it’s like he’s just.
I mean, I’m not saying it like because again, everyone does a good, really good job in this, but RIP Torn is like putting in like so much extra work into this thing and it just makes it so, you know, I don’t know what direction Tom Green gave him or if he was just like this BU RIP.
56:10
Yeah, I mean, it got like, you know, we we talked about this off air, but there is, it was rumoured that Jerry Stiller was offered the role.
And I am curious what a what a Jerry Stiller type movie would be like with this because I do think he could do a good job on it too.
56:32
But can you see him pulling his pants down and having his ass out?
That’s the question.
That’s true.
I don’t know that I could.
Yeah, you’re right.
You’re right.
I don’t know that I could see that particular dynamic.
Because I’m going to say because at times you could see like, Oh yeah, because Stan’s dad like, you know, flying off the handle.
56:50
And that’s like, you know, but I think, no, I think RIP that role was written for RIP Torn.
And it’s just so, so good and so funny.
Like, like I said, like there’s a there is a lot of gross out of humor that we didn’t like, like, you know, cover.
57:08
But again, it’s like the mix and I think too especially like if you didn’t like if you originally wants this and you didn’t find it interesting or funny at all or anything, it’s probably that’s what you walk away the most with because it’s like, you know, over the top shock, you know, Gen.
57:28
X style humor.
Whereas in again, like in the long run, what makes this film stand the test of time is it’s sass, hunger, parody and anti comedy of like just being so stupid it turns to be smart.
57:45
Like, again, like the whole, like the whole plot of this movie is we’re just going to parody Hollywood storytelling cliches and styles and jokes and stuff and do it in like the blandest way possible with, you know, with shock humor.
58:07
So again, you’re either going to get it or you’re not.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, for sure.
Anything else that we missed?
I think that could have covers it.
58:23
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I think, I think we, we tackled most of the things and you know, without running down every single joke and ruining everything for, you know, for the listener.
I can gladly.
I could gladly do.
It you could you could you could do it.
I would gladly do it because.
58:40
You.
Yeah, there’s no spoil.
This film is 25 years.
No, yeah, I agree.
Yeah, we’re actually in the 25th anniversary of this movie, so.
Director, I need, I need a four hour cut of this film.
That’s true.
Just just you know, Lebaron.
Lebaron.
58:58
Lebaron All right, so on a scale of oh, actually, you know what, before we do the scale, let’s talk about do you find this to be a difficult film?
No, not at all.
I think again, and I’m the one that’s just, I think it’s funny.
59:14
I think it’s something you should watch because of it’s notoriety and to see whether or not you like it or not.
I think again, like when we were doing Showgirls, I can understand why it wasn’t enjoyed or thought highly of it at the time because again, it just is kind of ahead of its time on like it’s style and what it was offering.
59:43
So I personally did not find this film to be difficult at all, especially at a brisk 127 minutes.
I mean 87 minutes.
Yeah, I would.
I would agree.
I don’t really, I don’t find it to be difficult.
I think that I can understand why some people would would find it that way or would not like this movie.
1:00:07
You know, I don’t think it’s for everybody.
I I certainly.
There are people that I definitely wouldn’t recommend it to, but I think that it is really funny at what it does and if you like this type of type of humor, I I think there’s a lot to enjoy about it.
1:00:22
So I wouldn’t call it difficult.
I don’t really think that it’s a bad movie.
However, I can understand that it’s not for everyone and some people would probably think that it is not very good.
You know, again, I think too, Tom Green does a serviceable job directing this movie.
1:00:39
You know, it has pretty much all of the the tropes that you would expect for direction.
You know, it’s not not like he’s doing anything very creative with the direction, but it’s you know, it’s serviceable for sure.
It’s it’s a well put together movie.
1:00:56
It it does have, you know, a lack of, you know, sort of a through line and it does often feel like sketch comedy, but I think that it’s, you know, it’s still a well made film, so.
With the whole, with the whole like every scene, like transitioning with some kind of like upbeat music.
1:01:15
Again, it’s like he like for what the film is like for like, yeah, you’re right.
It’s it’s not, he’s not doing Kubrick work here.
But again, you don’t need to because again, it kind of is.
I mean, it is, at least to me, like a sketch comedy.
1:01:32
So what he does, it works well enough.
Yeah.
You know, he’s he’s not Wes Anderson.
It doesn’t need to be a tour Work for it.
So.
So on a scale of zero to 10 caning of disabled woman’s legs, what would you give Freddy Goffinger?
1:01:54
Or if torn would say retarded, Yes, I think it’s really funny.
I think it holds up.
I think it’s not difficult at all.
I do think, again, your mileage is going to vary on how much you can buy into the fun, what the satire is and what they’re doing.
1:02:21
And if you can’t get behind that in the wild and wink wacky antics because again, the film through line as a story is, you know, razor thin.
If you can’t get into that, then you’re going to not like it.
1:02:39
I did this probably the first time in a couple of years that I have seen this film and it’s I still laugh out loud.
I think again, RIP Torn is amazing and he’s the like the single reason I would say to check it out.
1:02:57
But it’s a film like there.
I don’t think there’s an in between on it.
You’re either going to find it really funny or you’re going to find it boring and not like that.
Also, for me, it’s an 8 out of 10.
It’s not difficult and it’s just my fight.
I think it’s what he said really funny.
1:03:13
So that’s my opinion.
Yeah, I probably I would agree.
I think I would give it an 8 out of 10 as well.
I think that it is a funny film that is really unique.
Like, I don’t know that there is a particularly a similar type of film like this.
1:03:28
It’s it’s kind of of its own character.
And I think that again, if you like Tom Green’s comedy, especially in this TV series, you probably are going to find a lot to enjoy about this.
And I think if you like dumb, dumb seeming humor that is actually a little bit smarter than one would expect, this is really kind of a great showcasing of that sort of dumb, smart comedy that he has going on.
1:04:05
And, you know, again, of sort of this comedy where he puts himself into really awkward and sometimes gross situations.
You know, I think that it’s really got a lot of like these really small minor funniness that that stands out after you, you know, you’ve watched the movie and you go back and think about it.
1:04:28
You can find a lot of like these small little jokes that actually hit more than you even thought they did when you were watching it.
So I, I really liked it.
I thought it was really funny.
I would give it an 8 out of 10.
I think that it does.
1:04:44
And right at the right time.
I don’t I don’t think that they can sustain this type of humor for very long.
So an 87 minute film is perfect for this type of thing.
Like you, I don’t think you could go much longer without kind of losing the the audience.
1:05:02
So but I really enjoyed it.
I would agree, I always, I would agree with that.
Any longer and it would have probably totally lost the pot.
Yeah.
All right, so that’s our episode on Freddy Got Fingered.
1:05:21
We got what?
One more episode?
One more.
Got one more, one more difficult film to go.
It’ll be a doozy, I’m sure.
And we were we’re I’m not super excited to do it, but I am interested.
1:05:40
I’m interested to see what it’s about and I will we’ll give a very brief blue.
There have been people speed running the Scientology building and that ties in to this movie that we’re going to be doing for next week in some small way.
1:05:59
So you can take that with, you know, you can go try to figure out what we’re talking about there.
I think you you mean Keflon brother.
Brother and I will give a second note in that I’m not talking about Tom Cruise, so thank God.
1:06:19
Yeah, so.
I couldn’t deal with that.
Movie does not have Tom Cruise, so we already did The Mummy.
So so that should be fun.
Be our last episode for difficult films.
1:06:34
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