Missy Higgins loves FURIOSA, 12 MONKEYS and GIRL, INTERRUPTED | The Last Video Store

hello and welcome to the last video store the show where I Alexi toas talk to people about their favorite films and joining me on the show today to talk about some of their favorite movies ever is the iconic the fantastic one of the great singer songwriters ever in Australia we've got Missy Higgins isn't that freaking cool we've got Missy Higgins on the show today and I'm going to tell you what we do we talked to Missy about a new released film that she loves and two weekly titles two of her all-time favorite movies and then I'm going to give her a recommendation based on her Taste and to show you a quick version of that I'm going to talk about an online order that we just got and the way that you can do an online order for a personalized film recommendation from me is by giving us five stars on Apple podcast or your pod app of choice and leaving a comment in your review with your combo you can do this on YouTube you can do this on Instagram wherever you get the show and this one comes in from a YouTube comment from lands 1964 who commented dear Alexi wonderful episode indeed really enjoyed your stillar impression there so of course it's from our Mitch or episode where we talked about June part two seems like in that very moment you yourself tapped into those beautiful orange Junes I would feel honored to get your staff pick with my following new release weeklys the new release is Mega toliopoulos AKA megalopolis by Francis for cppa although he hasn't seen it yet but I'm sure it's wild I have seen it I've even been in it and I think it is wild and then the weekly are Mad Max on Thunderdome a comfort watch for him I'm always struck by its unusual progression he says and leave no Trace which is a great great film that I give a huge recommendation to you watching and listening right now cuz I love a bit of civil B Disobedience and nature in art have a beautiful day my dear and recommendation to you taking all of those together I'm going to give you something in that post-apocalyptic Australian space the Rover the Rover s Guy Pierce a fantastic lowkey desolate Australian film from Animal Kingdom filmmaker David mishod I love that movie uh really whack performance from scoot McNary as well and Rob Patterson so check out the over it's exactly in line with the three films that you chose it's a perfect recommendation so we're going to do a long form version of that right now with Missy Higgins her new album the second act is out right now so check it out after you listen to the [Music] podcast the last video store Missy Higgins thank you for coming on into the last video store no worries it's good to be here wow wow wow amongst the shelves all the shelves all very real yeah when all those real DVDs when was the last time you were in the video store yeah pretty long time ago I I spent a lot of my adolesence in DVD video stores there oh my gosh the $1 weeklies oh wow wow wow we'll get you a few weeklies here today I'm sure yeah yeah yeah well I want to ask you as well you've got this new single out a complicated truth my God this I I I hate to begin the conversation this I did tear up listening to this song that's the intention well okay intention received glowingly so I'm a child of divorce and that's definitely an aura that I give about in my entire life but it really spoke to me it's basically I guess to describe it it's uh you communicating to your child about separation yeah can I asked you about like introducing your child to Art and stuff that's something that's always fascinating me because you know when you think about like creative people like how do you introduce your child to art or what kind of art are you experiencing with your child now yeah it's interesting the conversations that I've had with my kids about songwriting because they're really into my lyrics and kind of reading into them and wanting to know what they're about and also listening to other people's songs and wanting to know specifically what those lyrics are about and it's um you know my youngest is five and it's really hard describing metaphor to her and trying to get her to understand you know that certain things aren't literal you know like people they're not actually saying that they are going to die it just means that they're feeling something um very strongly and you know it's actually quite a hard conversation but comp yeah and so trying to have that conversation about poetry and how certain things can just be you know it can that that is like a picture that represents a feeling and that kind of thing so it must be exciting seeing them like coming to understand ideas like that now yeah my son who's nine I I can really see him like he loves it when he picks up on sarcasm now like of something because it doesn't mean what it really means and he and he'll he'll look at me like I know you don't really mean that Mom and I'm like yeah that's right Sammy that was sarcasm it's like all those those little you know Shades of Gray that it's interesting like they're building their own sense of humor and stuff as well he's got a great sense of humor that's so cool can I ask you watch movies with your kids yeah I do I try but they've got very different tastes and Samy's really into horror he's like obsessed with horror at the moment and there's not that much horror that's appropriate for a 9-year-old but he keeps insisting that he's not going to get scared about anything and I'm like well I saw it when I was around your age and I reckon it damaged me forever that's what that sck with you right yeah definitely yeah and I think cuz my older cousins were watching it and was a sleepover and I you know peaked my head in the room and I was like oh my God I had nightmares for months so yeah it's like trying to find he's he's really into um Five Nights at Freddy's my kids are obsessed with five nights ATD really are and there's a movie out and he's he's just like so excited about that one of my nephews he was never allowed to see five night at phed this is like 10 years ago or whatever almost now where he would be uh he became he was obsessed with horror but he was not allowed to see any of it and what he would do was he'd see like videos on YouTube and stuff he would just draw them and he would just he'd be have all these drawings faces it's exactly like this creepy face of all Five Nights at Freddy's and stuff but the other one that he was obsessed with he's never seen it to this day he's like 13 now but he drew he gave it to me for my birthday present a drawing of Pennywise from it cuz he just became obsessed with it and it was both Generations the original one and the new one and the one that he drew for me was he do a line down the middle of the page one side was the new Penny wise the other side was the other one like it was split down the middle that's so cool it's very creepy though very creepy but creative it's always interesting when kids are like interested in horror cuz I just think it's like I think it's the gaming thing cuz my son's into video games and there's a whole like there's bendy and the ink machine and there's rainbow friends there's all other the back rooms like there's all this like really creepy horror kind of video games so they think they're into horror but they they don't actually know what Real Horror is they just think it's like shadows and dark hallways and like jump scares it's always like just I guess pushing to be something that's for kids like a little bit provocative like you little bit scary little bit scary testing themselves adrenal kind of feeling I guess like my recommendation for kids like in horror cuz I think it's one of the great like kids horror things because it's nothing too scary because all bit make belief but they make it they ground in reality in a good way so have your kids seen jamanji the original jamanji with Robin Williams no I don't think so I think that's a really good one that's always that's my video St clerk coming in early I'm giving you a recommendation I think that's a good one to kind of test the boundaries and get stuck into it I really wanted to show my my son Gremlins so I remember that being really scary kind of in a I was like I think it's an innocent kind of scary it's a little silly little silly yeah yeah and the the the Gremlins in the microwave like exploding like it's kind of gory but it was too slow for him like those old movies are so slow for kids you know we watch them and it's like yeah they're they're we're totally used to that pace but you know with all the kind of Pixar stuff it's like every second that's a different thing so colorful yeah and there's not like opening credits kids do not understand opening credits really we go no we this is everyone who made this yes this is all fictitious yeah yeah that's the tough thing to explain to kids like why are there so many words that don't even add up to a sentence at the start of a movie yeah yeah why do we need to watch this it's good point they don't skip through it fast forward everything yeah well Missy we're going to get you into some of your choices your films that mean a lot to you a new release film and a couple of weekly titles and then it'll be my mission to go through those go through our conversation use my extreme skill of empathy to read into you to kind of hopefully recommend you a perfect film recommendation cool new release wow wow wow what a beautiful batch of movies you have I must say you have excellent taste already thank you thank excellent taste so we're going to talk about your new release film first which I would tell you right now is also my favorite film of the year it's really good isn't it yeah really really good you've got George Miller's fourth film in a Mad Max oh no fifth film in a Mad Max Series yeah there's a lot of them oh wow I made an error straight away very R we've got furiosa a Mad Max Saga action tell me why you chose this movie I'm just a big um fan of all the madmax franchise really I just think that it's so rare for a director to have made so many movies so many in the same world but not have compromised his quality or not have compromised on the world even like it's still such a bizarre kind of place and world that he's created and it's so kit in a way like all the films reference the you know the the old school ones from the ' 80s and there's kind of yeah there's a lot of nods to the originals in the the more modern one but I just think that they're all so so creative and I'm I'm I love post-apocalyptic films and books too like I just I love reading post-apocalyptic literature as well so there's something about just getting put in this world that is you know a potential future for us all I've got such environmental anxiety but I feel like when I read stuff or I watch stuff about the future when everything's just gone to [ __ ] and we all just have to start again it's somehow really relaxing cuz it's like the worst has happened worst case scenario people still walking around living they're hot as [ __ ] with their like knives and their leather yeah yeah that's the Imagine future that you kind of like is it like a survivalist thing in you that you are drawn to this kind of post-apocalyptic worlds yeah I've always thought that it would be really fun to go on Survivor or something like one of those T show cuz I love I love the idea of just having nothing and having to just like having to survive and and figure out how strong and capable you really are you know like really being put to the test well I mean you're one of the great acoustic musicians ever in this country I think that translates immediately to a post-apocalyptic world oh really I think it does because like people need entertainment look how crap their lives are and it's like right then you would I think you'll be even bigger celebrity in a postapocalyptic world as long as a guitar survived I think guitars Will Survive for sure tuning them might be a little bit harder but you know I'm sure otherwise I'd be plucking like sheep intestines or something horse hairs I'd be making do somehow I think that's it you'll be making do somehow yeah that's exciting people need music people need music they need something to feel Joy around and I think what George Miller does so well with these films it is like you're saying like that Artistic integrity like there is he's all over these movies and he said something really interesting about this film was that he still thought like no matter where we are in the world no matter what the future holds like no matter how horrible things are the way that he kind of builts and imagines all the the props but also like the actual instrumentation of things and all the kind of like GS and gadgets and all those kind of things they have he still believed that people still would want beautiful things so Aesthetics would still be a big part of it and that's why the films have such like not just oh we're making things work together putting things together making things run however we can he still thinks that Aesthetics would still be important to people I find that like such a I think so right yeah and all the power dynamics and the hierarchy systems are definitely very much in place and yeah I just love how he creates these extraordinary characters too like they have their own languages you know they kind of I can't think of any of the phrases that they use but they're so like Ocha Australian but very much in a world of their own too they're in the Mad Max World these guys you know way great it's like grounded in that way like it's grounded in like that Australian like that I think Chris Hemsworth's performance as dementus I think best performance of his whole freaking career right yeah he really broke out in that this performance truly like Sensational and it's like you're saying that old school ainus he's got this Australian accent that like I have only ever heard like rare it's so rare like it's like an feels like a re almost ancient Australian accent or something right but it's it also is like 80s Suburban you know like Uncle with you know pulled up socks and a wife be a shirt lying the lawn kind of thing you know kind of accent as well God that's what I want to see I want to see what that guy was like back before the apocalypse happens out on The Lawns with that big old hair yeah yeah I think he's just spectacular in this film and can I ask did you always like the Mad Max films have they always been part of your life yeah I did yeah even as a kid I just remember Mel Gibson and his car so distinctly and you know funny little T bit I actually auditioned for the last Mad Max really the one that was that had um Char's the on and I got through to like the final stages of the auditions were you interview like auditioning with George George Miller yeah wow yeah I I did like a three-day Workshop audition in Sydney and he came in and then for a while I was told that I probably had the part do you know which part you were going for one of the sirens the wives one of the wives yeah like the girls you know that they were kind of in the back of the truck Charlie help them Escape yeah I know I think because they were kind of singers like I think maybe in the original script there was going to be a bit more singing but then they kept getting postponed and I think I just aged out of the part or something they ended up going no we've kind of recast younger what did you have to do in the audition cuz I've heard he like goes oh we've got like the the monologue from Network for you to perform and you just do it in that character do you remember what you audition it was it wasn't a classic audition it was there was a whole bunch of girls like maybe eight of us and there was a drama tur and we were put in this room together and just put through different exercises like it was like blood sport like we'd be two of us would be put in a ring and got told to shout one word at each other and circle each other for like 20 minutes and then the drama tur could be like yes and feel that more and go deeper into that you know and it was so intense I remember leaving that Workshop going oh my God I feel like all my skin has been ripped off like it was it was a really really it was like going in the mo into the most intensive immersive therapy session of my life and then leaving with like no context to put any of the stuff that had come up was it like creatively satisfying to kind of push yourself in a different way I loved it yeah after that I was like oh yeah I want to act this is amazing I feel alive I felt so alive wow wow yeah cuz you're also in Brand New Day right yeah you know that I I don't know if people know this but at when I went to film School brand new day was like one of the films that they showed us when they were talk each film we'd kind of we we'd studi through genre a lot so it would be look at a classic film in a genre then we'd look at like a kind of postmodern or modern take on it and then we'd often look at an Australian one example of the genre too brand new day was like the film we looked at for musical oh that's cool can I ask you when it comes to furios do you think it picks where do you think it lands for you rankwise in the Mad Max Saga oh that's that's too hard a question W I'm sorry to spring on you do I love the most that's my next question by the way that's my followup question I don't know I don't know I'd have to think about it there's too many of them I mean I think my my favorite was the first one M but this one would be up there cuz I think that kind of it dropped off a little bit maybe on the third around the middle I really like all the recent remes I they're really cool the one with Tina Turner was that's MX 3 Beyond Thunderdome yeah I felt like it was slightly losing the plot during that movie like I loved it cuz it was so kit and I loved her I think that kitness and that lost plot is one of the reasons I love that film I love that the Lost plot that's a I love that lost plot but I think with for me I actually go furiosa is my top now oh really yeah cuz for me I think it does what I love about it is it does two things that you kind of don't see put together which is has like all that really direct storytelling that furiosa that Fury Road has where you're like on the road it's that really direct form of Cinema but then it also has this kind of expansive decades long Saga and cap around it and it somehow finds the balance between those two things although I couldn't get this out of my head the whole time why does she have an American accent it really doesn't make any sense she's Australian her mom's Australian like thick American accent by the time she becomes an adult so yeah maybe she's watching a lot of TV or something like that you hear lot of kids with those American influ for the Kardashians that's the one thing that survived was a DVD of the Kardashians they're just obsessed with yeah I do wonder that it's like I always want them to but you know I guess that's part of the fantasy you have to jump in on right yeah you do and if you start picking it apart for you know what's realistic and what's not you know yeah I would love if you could be like the dial coach for them just like okay we got to get your Australian accent on them let's all practice singing Missy Higgin songs with an Australian accent that's how we get there yeah do you have any other thoughts on furiosa before we move on to your next pcks no no no no no trying to think if I have anything else that I want to say about it but I just love this movie so much it's just it really it really really excited me just made me feel so freaking energized yeah it's pretty amazing how he does the cross desert scenes like it really looks like oh my God they must have spent months and months just going 100 miles an hour through the desert filming like how does he do it how does he do those stunts I don't incredible it's just unbelievable right and I think why I really love furosa as well is like that one sequence where they're on the truck like in this truck Chase Convoy type thing I think underneath which is underneath like the the Precision of all of that and the geographical understanding but also while it's a moving a moving piece of geography I know CU it's literally moving too it's not CGI yeah and it just feels so real you understand where everything's happening you understand the tension of it all and I just think it's just absolutely spectacular film making just completely High adrenaline the other thing I'd love to give a shout out to as well is uh Tom Burke who plays petorian Jack in this film who's kind of like I guess that Mad Max he's the kind of Mad Max type character in this film did you know this actor at all is he the English guy he's the English guy amazing Australian accent amazing Australian completely flawless flawless and he's interesting because he's I didn't know he was going to be in this movie I'm watching this movie I go who is this guy I go slowly da me who he is he's best known as like an art housee film actor he played uh he's in this great pairing of films called the suer which is by Joanna hog who great English filmmaker they h a Swinton burn and TI Swinton and he plays like her kind of intense boyfriend who has like substance abuse problems and stuff and then he also played freaking Aon wells in mank like the Citizen Kane movie yeah right so it's like I don't even know how you go well who should I get to play The Mad Max oh this guy that played auson freaking Wales in a film yeah I wonder how he found him I do remember reading that George Miller was like he heard that he wanted to do an Australian accent he's like oh I mean not many people can pull it off I I I think we should probably just go with you know whatever accent you've got but then when he arrived in Australia and and started speaking he was just Flawless it's flawless I don't know man George Miller he's a genius I mean he always casted you so he's got he's his feel is out there wide looking for people in different places yeah he does he's such a lovely guy too he's so sweet right it's crazy I don't know how that nice man can have that [ __ ] up of an idea you know and then execute to that level yeah yeah but you know maybe that's why like he's got a healthy creative brain like he processes the dark side of his p through his art he's excising it all out there good on him good on him and that's how he can be so nice well that is furiosa and Mad Max Saga in my opinion also the best freaking movie of the year so we are linked we are locked so glad we agree we agree now shall we disagree probably not cuz you actually have really lovely movies here with you today we're going to go to your first weekly Choice week and this is from director James Mangold from one of the most fabled movie years ever 1999 this is Girl Interrupted yeah drama this to me feels like a true classic film I remember seeing it on TV a lot growing up like this is just one of those he used to play on TV a lot and it's a long movie so it must have gone like 4 hours with ads on it I can't even imagine it now but I hadn't Revisited this for a long time I saw it recently still this movie slaps it kicks ass can you tell me about when Girl Interrupted came into your life I think I was about 15 when this movie came out and I don't know what it was about it I think it was something to do with Angelina jolly and her performance like she was osing performance like Fierce and violent and spidery but also kind of manipulative and complex and yeah I just I loved how many sides to her personality there was and her character an amazing strong female cast incredible cast I think it has one of the best Ensemble casts I've ever seen in any film you've got wona ryer in that lead role one of the great like stars of her generation doing I think like kind of signature thing cuz she has this kind of she has like a depth to her that you just read in straight away but there's also this eccentricity that I think is just perfect for this character of someone who is coming to understand their mental health and like that Journey just perfect performance yeah she's got kind of like a there's something quite delicate and fragile about it but also real heaviness and strength as well benath that exactly I think I was probably like discovering or going through the processes of figuring out my own mental health Journey at that point so like watching a movie with a whole lot of women who are dealing with you know that question of society crazy or am I crazy like who's the crazy one here is it me am I not fitting in cuz I'm the broken one or is or is our culture completely broken and that's why I don't fit in and I I like I was such a deep thinking complex kid especially when I got got into my teenage years like I really struggled a lot in my teenage years so I think seeing other seeing these other women struggling with that and also just grappling with that idea of like is it me that's the problem or is it everybody else but also forming these beautiful really strong bonds I went to boarding school as well so there's like some similarities between a mental institution and boarding school like all these beds in a row and the the super intense friendships that you have with the girls yeah cuz you must be you're with them the entire so really like really strong bonds but also just so Fierce with each other two and we'd have fights they would oh God that' almost be you know it blood it's like we we just to tear each other apart did you see this film with those people cuz it like you said it came out when you in high school yeah I don't know I can't actually remember when I where I first saw it but it's quite possible I don't think we would have been allowed to watch it actually in dir dancing every single night wow that's a lot of heavy themes in that one too a lot of heavy themes I think we only had one VHS and it was Dirty Dancing so I was like every weekend we're watching Dirty Dancing again yeah but yeah I was I'm more related to the to the intense girls and Girl Interrupted yeah I think this film is just it like you said it really speaks to the idea of like the internal versus the external and like how One sits in the world around them and like how your brain kind of sits in your own head as well I think that wona performance is so ke to that where you kind of like especially when you're seeing those moments of her privacy where she's diing like what's going on and coming to understand that around her but it's also the jux position of her and then the different people around her played by like Clea Duval as like this pathological liar or really young Elizabeth Moss playing someone who has like scars and burns from like surviving a house fire but it's also like has this arrest development problem and like seeing all these different people and how they interact with each other I think it's just like a true Master Class of acting and how acting can be this communication of feeling yeah absolutely I mean I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the the kind of the drama turg workshop for those guys that would have been full on truly cuz it would have been like very rehearsed out cuz it's one of those things where it's Ensemble so it feels a bit playb built where they're all kind of interacting with each other yeah and they all just have like different quirks and at different stages of their development and a mental health journey and yeah and then Angelina Jolly's character comes in and she's like the kind of the ring leader SL bully SL like firecracker to like kind of start off I guess like when we talking about like the cast whoy Goldberg incredible incredible performance a lot of the glue that holds this film together but I've come to realize that I think one of my very favorite actors of all time is Britney Murphy and just whenever I know right whenever I see her in something I go she's one of the greatest screen talents ever yeah and in 8 M8 M oh my God she's incredible in that film Eight Mile drop dead gorgeous is another one I love clueless but in this film as well it's like she is so good at finding that exact balance of comedy and like the more darker tragic elements of a character and being able to kind of sing with both of those notes at the same time I think she's just one of the greatest screen talents ever yeah so sad I I would have loved to have seen where she went with acting I you the tough tough thing is you can't even imagine cuz she just was such a unique talent unique talent wow go interrupted my gosh yeah I when was the last time you saw it I think back then like I don't think I've watched it I think I watched it a few times back then oh my God and I think had a bit of a crush on Angelina Jolly as well yes of this era she's that's the thing Angelina Jolly has is I think one of the best freaking actors of all time but she also is like she's kind of has an interesting filmography because it's apart from this is not like that Angelina Jolie movie where the movie is great her performance is great and she's the key to it all but it's like this is the one it went a bit weird around the Mr and Mrs Smith kind of and then when she did all the like superhero me she when she had kids I feel like maybe she just didn't want her kids to see her and really like pretty sexy stuff anymore or something her in hackers I think is one of like the hottest persons ever looked in their life in what in hackers oh yeah yeah she's just so cool I think she's one of the coolest people on planet I think that was her first one oh wow wow wow Gia forbidden movie I'm sure they wouldn't allow the gos boarding school to show Gia at all no definitely wasn't watching that at boarding school at home alone enjoying it very much well we're going to go from one film that features A Mental Health institution to one that features an even more surrealist inane take on a mental institution we're talking about Terry gillams science fiction cult [Music] classic cult these films were just the first ones that came to me and I was quite surprised at my choices I was like what is this saying about me that I'm choosing Girl Interrupted 12 Monkeys and mad Ms there's a certain Madness about you I might say yeah I love watching this I just love being really transported to a totally different world yeah a bit of insanity I love this is got like this is kind of exactly in between Girl Interrupted and Mad Max where it is like you know the mental health thing but also science fiction a postapocalyptic kind of world I love it yeah yeah I and I love it I love it when there's a bit of a bit of a twist and it's a bit of a kind of a psychological Thriller as well because at the beginning of 12 Monkeys you know you're seeing well Bruce Willis has these flashbacks and there's a boy and I don't know do can I give away pretty old movie now it's a pretty Beloved movie I think a lot of people would seen this if not you know it's hard to ruin it cuz it's just so exciting it's all about the Journey of being on it so sees him he basically at the beginning he sees himself as a boy potentially being the person who started the virus who wiped out the world but the whole movie is him figuring out who that boy is and figuring out who the person was that started the plague so it's like it's this massive Twist on its head at the very end of the movie and this kind of crazy twisty time travel like really interesting back and forth back and forth especially because it used as surrealism to kind of communicate those things and going like hey he's the factual way that a time travel will work goes like no the rules are a bit weird you don't have to read into the rules too much you can't with time travel either because it doesn't make any sense you got to have you got to have some surrealism otherwise it's going to yeah do your head in and you got to have a little bit of suspension of disbelief with this one but the way I really think about this film and this is one of my favorites it's from an era of film making that I love to refer to as the Millennium mind [ __ ] era of Cinema and I may even put like Girl Interrupted a little bit in there as well momento for abely another one of my absolute Donny Darko all that kind of stuff where it's like the first time it's kind of postmodern but also trying to communicate intense strange complicated ideas through narrative in a kind of complicated way or a complex narrative structure where it's kind of perhaps a bit nonlinear in the way that you're experiencing them and I think that 12 Monkeys is like the great sci-fi example of that and I think partly because Terry Gilliam is a really weird surrealist filmmaker who has like cheeky comedic background he starts out in freaking Monty Python he's one of the Monty Python guys oh God I didn't know that he's the American guy in Monty Python he directed a one of their films and he also was the animator like you know mon pyth have those kind of like collage like animations that was Terry Gillam who would do those oh wow and he goes on this really interesting filmmakers Journey makes like a lot of like fantasy films like jabbawaukee Baron von munchow and VES or Baron von munchow but 12 Monkeys because it's like his big step up to probably a broader appeal Blockbuster type film he kind of is they're looking for a leading man obviously Tom Cruz is coming up he wants like Nick Niti or Jeff Bridges I think he wanted Jeff Bridges to play the Brad Pit character but he they kept on bringing back Bruce Willis and go we want you to have Bruce Willis in this movie he like I hate Bruce Willis he said I don't want Bruce Willis in this movie I don't want him I don't like what he's doing but I think because of that Bruce Willis becomes the greatest tool Gillam's ever had in his UT in like in his artistic utensil like he basically goes tears him down he goes I hate this thing that you do it's like this snowing smirk that you do to the camera this hot man I hate I hate the top man funny tough guy thing you do like get rid of all of that I don't want this glint he basically goes him I don't want the glint in your eye that makes your movie star can you get that out of your head get that out of your system and he like strips him down and basically rebuilds a whole new persona for him in this film I think you're seeing the true skill and vulnerability of Bruce Willis as an actor come through because he's always vulnerable when he's like and his great works that's why we love Bruce Willis but I think putting that at the Forefront of the character the character always feels in danger or always feels like this raw nerve I think is what makes this special and the moment that sticks out to me is like the defining moment of surprise softening in Bruce Willis's filmography is there's this tense kidnapping scene where he's with meline stow and she's his hostage but she's driving him and then Fats Domino starts playing on the radio I think it's Fats Domino it's like 1950s kind of rockabilly rock and roll music and it's the first time he's ever really heard music and so he asked for the radio to be turned up and he becomes like through the exposure of Music becomes like this like slobbery blubbering crying mess and I think that's that's what the result of Bruce Willis being taken down for this performance does and it's like that is the moment that sticks with me in this film yeah I wonder if he was told that by the director like I wonder if the director was honest with him in the beginning that he hated his stuff I think he was very honest with him I think he was very honest just like confidence but I guess if you're a if you're a good you probably love the challenge of that right like being completely stripped down and you know rebuilt and I think he's like someone who's experimenting with what he's doing in this time of his career because he's doing this he's also just done Death Becomes Her oh yeah yeah Death Becomes Her so I think he's playing with like the campness and the comedic stuff as well so it seems like he's because he's the biggest star in the world he's afforded the chance to be able to explore but then T Gillum famous [ __ ] really really really treated him badly yeah but I mean god it worked yeah he's great is it I think it's a great performance I think Bruce wills's best performance Terry Gillam's best film and maybe Brad Pit's best performance as well yeah I do love Brad Pit in this one the crazy scene where he's jumping from bed to bed kind of being like an insane monkey yeah he does crazy really well actually he really does it's that the way that he widens his eyes the way he like flicks around and J around right kind of wobbly yeah eyes I don't know I just I think that the chemistry between Brad Pit and Bruce Willis is really good in this movie it's kind of just like it's odd because it plays like it never feels real and I think that's exactly why it works you're taken on this surrealistic journey where you're going I have to know who both of these guys are what are they what are they both after yeah and and you feel like there's more to Brad Pitt's character story like it's not just that he's in a mental institution he's got like he's a really big part of this story and he ends up being a big part of the story but you kind of get T I love how you get taken on these little rabbit mhm rabbit Warren what's the word I think that's a little rabbit holes rabbit Warr I like rabbit Warren we're going to bring that in it seems deeper a rabbit hole is quite deeper than a rabbit Warren it's twisty and strange down deep into a rabbit Warren we go all the way down to the Warren and then you think oh goose chase is probably a better term for because you know you get you think that the 12 Monkeys you got one idea the monke and you learn that they're not actually the that started the plag and then his dad was involved and yeah I just love it I love being confused psychologically in a in a movie and taken on this kind of being almost like just being taken advantage of like I love my emotions being manipulated and it never stops being fun in a film like this where you go like oh we're on a genre Chase we're on a genre journey of like weirded out as long as it makes enough sense in the end nothing shits me more when when you're just taking on this so many goose chases and then at the end you still left not knowing anything not having a clue what happened have you ever seen the original French movie this is based on l no I haven't I heard it was based on a French movie yeah it's like a short film probably about like 15 minutes long but it's by interesting filmmaker Chris marker this film it's so interesting the kind of Journey the parallels between these because the original one it's all told in still images like it's photographs and they stay on the screen still as there's like a narration Journey being taking you on the same basic plot of 12 Monkeys but much more strib a lot more poetic like it plays on the poetic a lot and the only thing there's only one moving image which is a giant closeup of an eye blinking oh wow yeah yeah I think this is an interesting Trilogy of films that you have here because you can start things out in Girl Interrupted 1960s we've got all this like kind of great like mental health Journeys all the stuff like that the internal versus the external then we go into the world of 12 Monkeys that's what happens and then in the far off future after 12 Monkeys that's when we're in Mad Max that's what's going on in Australia yeah so I think this is this is an actual Trilogy that you could put on together yeah none of them are particularly light easy watching there's a few laughs there's a few laughs throughout yeah yeah maybe anxious laughs like oh my God can you imagine staff pick well I think I'm going to take this Trilogy I'm putting it through my brain I'm putting it through my heart as well it's going through two of my most powerful organs and I'm going to put them together run through them I'm going through right now is there a soundtrack to This there there will be no soundtrack this will just be the bubbling and hissing of a human body as it goes through me as I come up with you for you a recommendation and I've got a film right here that I think it kind of fits nicely into all of the uh it's a film I don't know if you would have seen this called colossal by nacho vigalondo a Spanish filmmaker I don't think I [Music] have SciFi I think this could be right up your alley I'll tell you a little bit about this film cuz it is the reason I kind of chose this is it has like this strong mental health aspect to it as well but it also has a strong science fiction genre take to it as well but instead of post-apocalypse is more in that kind of Godzilla Kaiju type space but it also has like a strong comedic bent so Gloria he got an amazing cast how come I've never heard of it had a crazy cast this film so Gloria played by Anne Hathaway is an out of work party girl who after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown when news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying soul in South Korea Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far off phenomenon as events begin to spin out of control Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world and it kind of deconstructs like the monster kaju genre through this very surrealistic imaginative way of internalized you know mental health breakdown a nervous breakdown and that kind of change of like going through like a big breakup or big career misstep in a kind of Fantastical sense as well it's just like it's a very very unique film is it um part animation or in so much as that the big creatures like the this version's Godzilla is like a big CGI monster yeah so L of kind of a tree a tree monster or something it's a very unique strange monster and I would this kind of comes with a bonus recommendation for you as well because this filmmaker NAA vigalondo also made a film that I always have in mind if people say they like 12 Monkeys I would recommend as well called Time Crimes which is Spanish film there like a real circular time travel Journey like really concise one location time travel film just taking you around dark interesting very fun weird film I love the sound of that too these are great recommendations I think you'll really dig think it's right up your alley when was it released and did it not do well is that why I but it's like a kind of I think is a weed genre take it's not one of those ones that kind of like you know it's more independent smaller yeah project but it has big big Ideas I think whenever those small films have big Ideas it can either really take off and become something like you know everything everywhere all at once where it becomes a kind of global phenomenon sensation but this one just kind of like slit through the cracks a little bit yeah right but I think right up your alley I think it got kind of wicked sense of humor as well yeah awesome thank you dude my pleasure thank you so much for coming to the last video store no problems beautiful taste in films we've got furiosa and Mad Max Saga we got 12 Monkeys got Girl Interrupted and you're going home with colossal I am I pray you enjoy all these movies please return them to us sometime here is this a $1 or is this a um is the you get it's all $1 and I will be I will be invoicing you for that dollar I will be invoicing you for it h no no invoice only only you going have to pay this okay I will take an IO in this instance but you've got your new album at the moment as well the second act and 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