Doug Loves Movies - Chad Opitz, Samantha Ruddy and Gianmarco Soresi guest

Episode Date: June 19, 2023

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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming babies, sticky seeds with 50 azepop or kernels in his teeth. There's still not one that he won't see, cause Doug loves movies! Hey, hey everybody! My name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies coming to you on Sunday, June 18th, 2023. And my guests today are Chad Open, Samantha Ruddy, and Gianmarco Cerresi. Hello. Happy Juneteenth, everybody. Hello there.

Or I shouldn't say Juneteenth Eve. Let's meet everybody individually and alphabetically by first name he just appeared on our sister show wide world of doug's and he's here today it's chad opens hello chad hello doug how are you doing today i'm good man what are you doing you uh taking a break from putting up all those juneteenth uh? I'm absolutely exhausted from that. That's what I've been doing all morning. You guessed it. You know, you got to celebrate as much as you can. And now it's officially, it's like a day off for everybody?

I think so. Now, officially. So that's a nice treat, right? Mm-hmm. But I'm going to be busy putting on more decorations. It's not a day off for me. It just creates more work? Is that what you're saying?

I'm just putting on more decorations all day. That's what I'm doing. It's exhausting. But also joining us today, he's got a podcast, a very positive, life-affirming podcast called The Downside. It's John-Marco Sreisi. Hey, John-Marco. How are you? Hello.

I'm good. That's good. Nice to hear. We got coast-to-coast entertainment going on here today because you're on the East Coast, yes? Yes, I'm on the East Coast, so almost time to go to bed. You could just treat this like a bedtime story that just uh get sleepier and sleepier as i continue and i'll tell you what doug i had a i had a very small weed mint like

2.5 milligrams like two hours ago and for a second i was like oh no i'm gonna be hot podcast and then i was like no that's okay that is'm going to be high on the podcast. And then I was like, no, that's okay. That is absolutely okay. So I'm not really high. But it was 2.5. That was it. That's what I was nervous about being too unprofessional. Right.

I don't even. For me, 2.5, that's like, that's might as well say zero on there. Yeah. Wouldn't really do much. That's what I take before spin class. I like a little, i like a little to get it to the music you like to have an edge but the tiniest edge possible yeah well i think uh i don't know if it's going to help you today or not because our third guest is what i call a dangling

champ that's somebody who i won a few weeks ago on the show and is back to defend the title. It's Samantha Ruddy. Hello, Samantha. It's true. Hello. I did not come here to make friends. Whoa.

Oh, it's going all right. Having a nice Sunday. But you are meeting Chad Opitz for the first time i understand i am yeah i'm meeting chad for the first time hello chad hello samantha um what kind of uh did chad's you're meeting both of the other guests for the first time right now did you what are your preconceived uh notions of either of them they both said off off off the air they both said they heard you were nice yeah it sounds like john marco's a damn drug addict over there 2.5 you monster

i did i should have warned you that i was bringing a narc into the situation. Chad is not the guy. This is a bust. This is a damn sting. I've been casing you for a while, Doug. Well, I appreciate all three of you being here. It's not only Father's Day of course it's also father's day i should say um i could have done a theme today for recommendation nation that's where i

asked all of my guests to uh recommend a movie before we get into the games and uh you know i would normally maybe do something like you know name a movie about fathers and fathers and daughters fathers and sons you know just because it's father's day but you know it comes this comes out late tonight so by the time people are listening to this father's day is over so they don't really need a father movie we can wait till next year on that one but um it is juneteenth so uh please recommend a movie that one would would call for lack of a better expression black cinema okay whatever that means to you um Chad, you get to go first. I'm going to go with the 1974 classic Black Belt Jones.

See, I knew that this would be right up your alley, and you'd pick something that perhaps some of us have never heard about. You ever seen that one, Doug? Tell me more about black belt Jones. That is a bad, it's got stars, a karate champion, Jim Kelly.

And he was in enter the dragon the year before. And then he got his own, I think it's from the same director of enter the dragon. Robert Klaus directed a movie just for him came out a year later called black belt Jones. And it's very entertaining. You get to see him fighting and kicking in some bell-bottom pants with a big, delightful afro. The ending fight scene is in a car wash.

So everyone's, like, covered in soap. Pretty amazing ending scene. And there's a part where he turns the lights out and the bad guy goes, who's there? And he goes batman motherfucker oh no everybody it's a phenomenal film that sounds great now you know the last time uh you and i were talking movies was over at uh wide world of doug's the other day yeah and just like you did today you you brought up a movie that i had not seen uh called highway to hell yeah the chad low classic

i watched it and um oh boy what a uh weird ass movie that was. Yeah. Oh man. Aren't the makeup effects incredible in that though? Creatures and stuff. You've had creatures and stuff. I don't know if Incredibles is right. They shot it in 1979. It's just got such a 70s. I mean, excuse me, 89.

It's got such an 80s stank on it, but it came out in 1991 it came out two years after they bought it didn't it go straight to hbo or something like that something must have happened there because i never saw it and watching it now it just feels so 80s even though you know it came out in the 90s but anyway i only brought that up just to let everybody know how suspect your taste is. It's very suspect. It's true. No, but I did enjoy seeing that movie because it's got lots of crazy shit in it. Like you mentioned, you know, like you got to watch it for for Gilbert Gottfried as Hitler is reason enough to see.

Yes. And then the whole Ben Stiller family. Yeah. Jerry and his sister Amy, they all have cameos in the movie, which is very odd because they don't

really do anything funny, per se. They just have weird makeup on and just act weird. Doesn't Ben Stiller show up as Genghis Khan at one point, too? Yeah, he's sitting there

in the restaurant with Cleopatra and Hitler. Yes. They're all at the same table. But Gilbert Gottfried as Hitler is a much more loquacious character. Ben Stiller as Genghis Khan, he just sort of sits there. Yes. All right.

Not to get off topic here, but John Marco, what do you think is a good movie in this category? I mean, I hope this fits. I saw this when I was quite young. I'm looking at it now, 14 or 15, Undercover Brother. Oh, yeah. It was a comedy that I was just like right at the perfect age where it was just the funniest thing I'd ever seen in my life.

And I loved it so much. I loved the soundtrack. And I thought for a second like, oh, I guess I'm really into funk music. But it was just the three songs that play in the movie. And that's about where it stopped. You know, now that I've got these two movies I'm envisioning, I would enjoy a movie called Black Belt Brother or Undercover Jones. Either one, you can switch words from either.

They make good titles. Eddie Griffin was the title character in that yeah chapelle's in it early early chapelle uh and uh yeah neil patrick harris got chris katan chris katan now you're just trying to appeal to any white people that might be We got Chris Kattan? It's got white guys in it. Do not panic. Yeah, it's I guess one would say that it's sort of the hip black

version of the police squad movies. You know, the same sort of tone, like lots of wacky gags kind of uh strung together and kind of a detective story yeah and i think it was just it was it was just like funny as a kid to like see

just like the man as the bad guy and like see like jokes about white people that I don't think other comedies I'd seen up to that age had really used. Like loving mayonnaise. It was just like, yeah, white people do love mayonnaise. It was so new to me. That's one of my top embarrassments

for being white. That was one of his spy gadgets was his watch. Because I think he was going under as white and he had a watch that would put secret hot sauce on the sandwich. Undercover brother. Alright.

Samantha, what do you got for us i feel like all of our picks have to be taken with a grain of salt no pun intended you know we're not putting cedric on him you know what i mean the three white guests juneteenth

episode i don't know about this yeah it's a little uh the optics aren't great. Take them to a video. You know, it's better than ignoring this holiday, right? I don't know.

I don't know, actually. Ever since you guys started talking about Juneteenth decorations, I've been like, is this disrespectful? I don't know, actually. I've been having, ever since you guys started talking about Juneteenth decorations, I've been like, is this disrespectful? I don't know. I mean, it really depends on what the decorations are. Well, of course. You know, you got to get into the specifics. But what do you think?

Okay, so I really like this movie, Dope. It was kind of low budget, but it came out in 2015, and it had a bunch of really big names attached to it. I think it was produced by P. Diddy and Pharrell, but it's real fun. And it's basically just a black coming-of-age story that has some elements of super super bad in it it's very much like party goes awry chaos

ensues but it's very fun yeah the female lead is Zoe Kravitz and she's the girl that this guy you know wants to be with but he's

he's pretty nerdy but uh is he can really dance he's got the moves yeah they're like all obsessed with 90s hip-hop yeah uh it's that's a really that's a super fun movie that i've i'm generally genuinely aware of and like very much. For me, what sprung to mind is something that would be fun to watch today. It's interesting. We all just picked movies that are just basically fun. Nobody

went the serious historical route because my suggestion, they just remade it, and I don't know how I feel about that, the original House Party. Oh, yeah. Because my suggestion, they just remade it, and I don't know how I feel about that. The original House Party. Oh, yeah. Oh.

Is just a super fun movie. The late Robin Harris plays the dad of the main character, and he's really funny in it. It's good stuff alright great job everybody happy Juneteenth and apologies if that's if we're all too white for this and we're going to take a break

and we'll be white back Jesus Christ we're gonna take a break and we'll be we'll be white back jesus christ oh man all right we're back and it's time to play a game that i call abc these. It's a spelling game with a silly title. Since Douglas Movies is

coming soon to the Bottle Rocket Social Hall in Pittsburgh as part of the WDVE Comedy Festival on July 15th. This is the first time I'm announcing this particular date on the show.

Tickets just went on sale for it, so you should be able to get in there if you live in the Pittsburgh area. But I decided to use the word Pittsburgh in this game today. So here's how it works. We're going to start with Chad, then go to Gianmarco, then to Samantha. And Chad gets the first letter in the word Pittsburgh, which would be the letter P. Chad just has to name any movie that begins with the letter P from the history of cinema. And if he successfully does that, he stays in the game.

So that's not really the hard part for most players. The trickier part is that a theme will develop. So then after Chad does the letter P, then we'll go to Jean-Marco who gets the letter I. And then, you know, we just go through and spell Pittsburgh. T would be the first letter when we get to Samantha. But I wrote down a title with each letter that all belongs to a specific theme. So if you figure out the theme,

you might be better at matching the name that I wrote down. If you match the title I wrote down, that's how you win the game. But, you know, no pressure. First game in the show doesn't mean much. It's the second game

that determines the winner. Are you ready, Chad? Yes. So just any movie that starts with P. You haven't played this one before? I think once. I'm going to go with Pay It Forward. Now, see, of course,

you have no idea what the theme is, so it would be an insane miracle if we happened to match on the very first title and we didn't. But I didn't think we did.

What a lead off. Always worth bringing up though, Pay It Forward, because that movie if you haven't seen it It's bonkers. It's really crazy. It's insane. It's really

it's really it's really crazy it's insane it's really like it's just like let's just get a bunch of actors together and just try as hard as we can to get an oscar and that's that is not how it's done you know it's just so everybody's got this juicy problems and secrets and it's the way the whole movie plays out. Like just the concept of paying it forward. Like one person gives another person their car and another person loans somebody a stick of gum.

Like the levels of paying forward are so wildly different. You know what I mean? That the concept just, it just falls apart. Anyway, sorry uh go off about paying it forward but the movie that i picked it begins with the letter p you could have said two titles actually you could have i would have accepted piranha or or piranha 3d i see basically the the remake of uh the piranha that, you know, from a long time ago.

All right. So that's the first answer is Piranha. So we go over to Jean-Marco with the letter I. Independence Day. Great answer. Piranhas and aliens. Maybe you're onto something else. But I went with a motion picture called Into the Blue.

Into the Blue with Jessica Alba and the late guy from Fast and Furious. Paul Walker. T is your letter, your first time at bat. You get the T, Samantha. I think I know what the theme is, but now I can't think of any movies that start with a T. Even though it's objectively the easiest letter. So many things start with the.

Oh, yeah. I mean, when the comes into play, it does open it up to all titles. I started on third base and I don't think I can get home here. I'm going to say Terrifier 2. Hell yeah.

I'm going to say Terrifier 2. Hell yeah. Of course, that's a T-movie, so you got that part of it right. But I wrote down something quite different. I wrote... I wonder what the percentage is of movie titles

that begin with the, I bet you it's as high as maybe 35% of all movie titles. I think you might be right. You know, it's way up there. Cause it really does throw a wrench into this game. Cause players are always like, what is,

what does the account for? And I just make it. The begins with T and the title that I wrote down is The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. Bought it back around to Pittsburgh again. Can't mention Pittsburgh enough. I've got a show coming up there. T is the next letter. There's two T's in Pittsburgh.

Chad, did you know that? Sure. I did know that. Yes. Okay. So we can do the? That's included? We can say the? You can, yes.

I wouldn't recommend it, but you can. Okay. I'm an idiot, so I'm going to do it. Okay. I'm going to say the deep. No, I'm sorry. I didn't write down the Deep. No, I'm sorry. I didn't write down The Deep. I wrote down The Titanic.

Oh, The Titanic. No, just Titanic. Oh. No, damn, that one's so easy. They didn't need the Va on that one because, you know, everybody there's not another Titanic. Like if you said Titanic on Jeopardy,

Mayim wouldn't go be more specific. You know, everybody, there's not another Titanic. Like, if you said Titanic on Jeopardy, Mayim wouldn't go be more specific. Which one? James Titanic. Where are we at? S is the next letter. Jean-Marco. All right. Unlike Samantha, I do not have any idea of the theme at all uh showboat

not bad that is that would perfectly fit into the theme i think um the one i picked was splash okay okay yeah i i had a feeling you wouldn't have chosen Showboat. That's more me selection. Classic musical. Yeah, but I think it would fit. I do think it would fit in there. Sure. B is the next letter to

Samantha. I'm going Blue Crush. Hmm. Hang on a second I gotta find something oh here it is that is the yeah

Blue Crush is the right answer yes amazing poll from Samantha Ruddy I can't believe it it's such a bad movie not like Piranha 3d it does fit that's a spectacle it fits into the theme of movies with water or fish yes which you know

once you have a movie with water fish are usually involved but uh you nailed it and that's the thing is i also uh waffled on my choice there for b i almost went with big fish oh i'm so glad you didn't but i didn't i didn't so it paved the way to a win for you um does anybody want to guess now that everybody knows the theme what's uh what do you think the letter u what do you think the match would be there um under the sea that's what i thought that's a song i don't know uh that's a that's a good guess uh i went with a uh a battleship war movie kind of deal called two five seven one okay wow yeah that was gonna be my next guess yeah this next one's really funny the letter r what do you think for the letter r samantha since you're so good at this okay i never said i was good at this i don't know you can't put me on the spot like that rambo

rambo um i like the the uh real big fish the rambo movie where he went on a cruise was one of my favorite ones rambo six cruise control yes that's like the what the friday the 13th Rambo 6 Cruise Control That's like the Friday the 13th Where Jason goes to space but for Rambo Yeah I mean that's one thing that I think Is that Sylvester Stallone has really blown it

With Rambo is that he just keeps Putting Rambo in war Situations you know Who would love to see Rambo doing something else? Rambo on the showboat. Yeah, exactly. Rambo.

The show Girls, but it's Rambo. Yeah, anything. Rambo could just do anything. It would be fun. He could, Rambo, he could take over the National Treasure series from Nick Cage. No, for R, this one's

really silly because apparently there is an actual movie out there called Raiders of the Lost Shark. Oh my God. Yeah. Might be something you want to check out sometime, Chad. I definitely need to see that.

For G I went with a classic motion picture called Dawn Fission. Oh yeah. The 1997 classic. Yeah. With Pesci and Glover, the team that I don't know why they didn't take off as a team. I don't know why we didn't get more Pesci and Glover movies. And then for H, I went with a film, more of a water movie than a fish movie, a film called Hard Rain.

Oh, Lord. Hard Rain. Hard Rain. I think Christian Slater was in that one. Oh, Chrissy Slater? Chrissy Slater. You know, Chrissy Slater is in a town where he's like,

hey, everybody, rain's going to come. It's going to be hard. And then no one believes him. And then, boy, does it. That rain does come hard. I think that's what happens in it. I'm not absolutely sure. Samantha Ruddy, we can't say it enough

what an exquisite champion you are and that you have won this game and what you won will be disclosed as soon as we come back from these messages. We'll be right back. We're back and Samantha gets to go first. That's where

we're pulling down the win on that last game. We're going to go first. Not always an advantage there, but often there is. We'll flip the order around for this next game. So it goes Samantha, Gianmarco, then Chad. Everybody, though, will get an opportunity to play in a new game that I call Collaboration Celebration.

Throughout the history of cinema, there have been many director-actor collabs that went so well that those combos, like I was suggesting with Pesci and

Glover, those combos work together on multiple occasions. So in this game, I will name a filmmaker and a thespian, and then another pair, another filmmaker, and another thespian, and then you have to tell me which pair worked together the most. Pick one or the other, or your third guess would be the same that they tied the same number of projects for both pairs does that make sense yeah yeah are you excited kind of i'm just thinking about how Ty is a really statistically wild guest to make.

You know, who's going with Ty? Yeah, it is an interesting option. But then, of course, like a lot of the games that I play on this show, you can luck into a point because if Samantha misses it, then Gianmarco gets only two options to choose from. And if he misses it, Chad would end up getting the gimme point in this situation. And whenever somebody gets a point, then the person who is up next goes first in the next round. Samantha, here we go.

We got Samuel Jackson and Quentin Tarantino. Those two have worked together a time or two. And then another classic actor-director pairing. Two

greats, Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder. Okay. So which pairs work together? It's the number of motion pictures. Which pair have worked together on the most motion pictures?

Or is it a tie? Let's go with Lemmon and Wilder Let's go with Lemon and Wilder. You like Lemon and Wilder? What do you think, ballpark how many times do you think they work together? No clue. But I could only think of two for Tarantino and Jackson.

You could only think of two out of the six times that they've worked together? Oh my God. But guess what? Not a big Tarantino head. Doesn't matter because Jack Lively and Billy

Wilder worked together even more seven times. Yes! Samantha, you're on the board. You lucked into that one. I love to fail up. I can't believe it's six. I could only think of two as well.

Well, you know, it gets tricky because in Kill Bill Volume 2, he's the piano player that gets loaded with everybody. Like that was the one that we were stuck on. I completely forget about like three movies. completely forget about like three movies and he's like a um he's like a narrator in people forget that his voice is used in inglorious bastards and then the other four the other four obvious folk fiction jackie brown uh hateful eight and uh um django unchained yeah i completely forgot about Django. But don't try to get me to name all seven Jack, Lev, and Billy Wilders because I'm not sure if I could do it.

But they do have a total of seven. So they won that round and Samantha has a point. John Marco, are you ready? Yeah, you know, I think Samantha's underplaying her ability. She keeps saying, like, I don't know, but you ready? Yeah, you know, I think Samantha's underplaying her ability. She keeps saying, like, I don't know, but she wins, like, every time.

I'm getting hustled here, but I'm ready. Yeah, no, she's one of those sneaky champions that really is very humble, but tough to beat. Here we go. Very humble, but tough to beat. Here we go. Will Smith and director he's worked with on more than one occasion, named Barry Sonnenfeld, or Bradley Coops, Mr. Bradley Cooper, and Todd Phillips. Oh, boy.

Which pairing do you think yielded more motion pictures, or is it the same? Is it a tie? I feel just like Will Smith made a lot of movies at a certain point in his life. Still, kind of. So I'm going to go with Will Smith made a lot of movies at a certain point in his life. Still, kind of. So I'm going to go with Will Smith. You're choosing Will Smith and Barry Sonnenfeld

made more movies than Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips. Yes. That is incorrect. Oh! Oh, sorry. So sorry. Chad, no. Sorry. So sorry. Chad. Yes.

Leaves you two options. You either have to say that there was more Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips movies, or that they made the same amount of films as Will Smith and Barry Sonnenfeld. The only ones I can think of are both trilogies. Men in Black and The Hangover. So I'm going to say tie. Interesting. You're wrong and you're right.

You're wrong and right at the same time because they both worked together more than three times. There's an additional movie. There was the Men in Black trilogy for Will and Barry, plus Wild Wild West. Oh, damn. How'd I forget that piece of shit? Right.

And then with Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips, they did the three hangovers together. with Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips. They did the three hangovers together. And then Bradley Cooper plays like a bad guy, villain character in War Dogs with Miles Teller and Jonah Hill. I totally forgot that one too.

Yeah, right? I counted on that, but you still managed to work it out in spite of not knowing exactly how many because you did pick Ty. Congratulations, you're on the board. Hell yeah. We're back to Samantha with round three.

Let's do it. The pairing of Denzel Washington and Tony Scott or Philip Seymour Hoffman and PTA aka Paul Thomas Anderson. Ooh.

Yeah. I'm going to go with PTA. Your choice there is PTA. More films with Philip Seymour Hoffman than Denzel did with Tony Scott. Yes. Incorrect. Oh.

Finally. Finally, I've fallen. Yeah, it's finally happened. This is your chance, Sean Marco. This is my chance. Did you say the other option was Denzel? Denzel and chance, Sean Marco. This is my chance. You said the other after was Denzel? Denzel and Tony Scott.

You know, his brother. Yeah. What do you think? I mean, PTA made a lot of movies together. I've seen them all multiple times. Oh, I'm going to go with a tie.

Oh, okay. You think it's a tie that Denzel and Tony and Phillip and Paul all got together the exact same amount of times. Uh-huh. That is correct. Yes. Oh, I'm so proud of myself you made me sound like I was an idiot for thinking I felt so stupid

the way that you said it I was like as if I like what a dumb thing to say but I knew it I knew that I've been in so many movies that's a lot to be yeah so yeah um

except for uh there will be blood you know while paul thomas anderson was making films and philip seymour hoffman was alive he's basically in every one of his movies uh heartache boogie nights magnolia punch drunk love and uh the master Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and The Master. Denzel and Tony, I don't know if I can pull this one off, but I'll try. Man on Fire, Deja Vu, Unstoppable, The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3, and... Oh, Crimson Tide.

So those are, yeah, both of those relationships yielded some amazing stuff. And we have a three-way tie in this game right here. Holy Lord. Pretty exciting. Chad, you're up first. You get the first opportunity to put another point on the board. Are you ready? Mm-hmm.

The collab between Meg Ryan and Nora Ephron, or the one between Tommy Hanks and Stevie Spielberg? Oh, man. Which one has yielded more films or is it a tie? I'm going to go. Man, because it seems like there would be a lot with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, but I actually don't think there is that many. Maybe I'm going to go. I'm going to go with them.

I'm going to go Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. That's your final answer? Final answer. How many do you think they did together? At least four. And you think that's more than Meg and Nora did? Yes. That is correct.

Oh my God! You figured it out, you son of a gun. Meg Ryan and Nora Ephron, her as director and Meg Ryan as actor, has only occurred twice. Oh, damn. Yeah. Rob Reiner directed her in uh when harry met sally which is you know

the third part of the i guess some consider somewhat of a trilogy even though the characters have to be living in you know different universes what were the other movies um for tom hanks well the uh you said that was part of a trilogy yeah oh oh uh you've got mail and uh when uh sleep is in seattle oh okay okay you know the three movies with uh meg ryan and some guy um that trilogy tom hanks is the guy in a couple of them yeah Billy Crystal slipped in there in the other one but Tom Hanks and Spielberg the five times I hope I can do this one

Saving Private Ryan Catch Me If You Can The Terminal Bridge of Spies and The Post. So, yeah, that was a big margin there, the five to two. I didn't know how well anybody would remember how lucrative either of those pairings were.

Okay, so Chad just picked up a point. That means he's got two. But it's still anybody's game. Samantha, are you ready? I am ready. If you get this one right, you tie it up with Chad and force a tiebreaker. If you miss it, John Marco can tie it up with Chad and force a tiebreaker. If he misses it, Chad is right away with this thing.

We can't have that. Unacceptable. We just met. Give him a break. All right. Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese. Or Hector Elizondo and Gary Marshall. Okay.

Second one. Why do you say that? I don't know. I just feel like the first one's too obvious it's like picking scissors when you do rock paper scissors I just feel like it's the second one it's an interesting strategy that you have there I'm going off vibes no matter how you play it the most important thing to do is to win

and that is the correct the second one um deniro and scorsese like i thought this one might be trickier i didn't think i didn't know anyone would figure it out based on uh just based on vibes. But De Niro and Scorsese have worked together 10 times as actor and director. And Hector Elizondo, on the other hand, is in every Gary Marshall movie.

That's crazy. Wow. Yeah. 18 movies. What? The 18 times Gary Marshall directed a movie, he had a part for Hector Elizondo. Most famously, his parts were kind of

small in some of the movies, but his juiciest role was as the guy that runs the hotel in Pretty Woman. That's like the biggest role he played, but he had a role of some size in every gary marshall movie that includes some classics and some uh some uh not so classic ones but uh i i tell people like i've worked with a couple of directors where i was in their first

movie and i say to them i want to be your Hector Elizondo. Just to guilt them into maybe giving me some dumb part in every movie they make. But so far that those people have gone on to not make another movie. They just go one and done on me. What are you going to do? All right. So Chad and Samantha have tied it up. Gianmarco, please stick around for this exciting conclusion.

We'll talk to you more in a second. Chad's up next. So, Chad, this is yours to win or lose. If you get this right, you win. If you miss it, Samantha gets you win. If you miss it,

Samantha gets a shot. If she misses it, then John Mark goes back in the game. Yeah. No, I'm just kidding. I didn't think you were kidding at all. I didn't either. It's fun to just at a whim

bring somebody back in. Okay, Marvel. Yeah, this could be the multiverse episode. A different one where I won the challenges. All right. Well, if everybody can agree then, because it seems like everybody thinks this should happen. If Chad misses it and then samantha misses it then

uh jean marco officially wins the whole the whole show holy lord yeah i will i will agree to that samantha says no i mean that would crazy. That would be such an exciting finish. But I don't think it's going to come down to that. Chad? Yes. The films, the pairings of actor Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright versus the films and pairing, I love both of these. The films and pairing of actor Gene Wilder and director Mel Brooks.

Oh, man. I am going to go Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright. Has more. Has more than Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks. Can you name them? Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, World's End. He's not in Baby Driver. He's not in that film.

Oh, wait a minute. Can I change my answer? No. Ah, shit! Alright. But yeah, I believe No. Ah, shit. All right. But yeah, I believe I believe that goes to Samantha. Brooks and Wilder.

You're going Brooks and Wilder? Yep. Have collaborated as actor and director more times? That is also have collaborated as actor and director more times. That is also incorrect. Oh, no!

The winner is Jen Marco. Jen Marco. Absolutely not. That doesn't seem... It's so unfair that it worked out that way, but so funny that it did because uh i i didn't think this was an easy one but uh gene wilder is uh the producers young frankenstein and blazing saddles so that's why it's uh damn it's three each but it's a little of a tricky one because you know they both have had collaborations i think it's like where somebody's producer on something that the other one did you know that kind of stuff but like

as actor star it's uh three a piece and uh you know if if it'll make you feel better samantha we can call uh we could call today a uh you know, a three champion day. Oh my God. Have we ever done that before? I don't think so. Maybe. Wow. I'm sure there was some point where I made a game where it was, you know, I fucked up and there was no, you know, there ended up being, you know, not a clear winner, but in this case,

just this sheer amount of luck that jean marco just experienced uh makes me feel like he's the winner today hey boys what do you think this is a very positive yeah this is a john marco what a what a juneteenth victory for three white people. Wait, though, but Gianmarco is like 7% to 11% Italian. Oh, shit. Okay. I learned that on the internet today.

Wait, you said that? So it's not three white people? You're like, it's 2.9 white people? You're just so swarthy um you're gonna do your let's just say this uh you know winning isn't everything uh especially on this show because it just means you have to come back again that's that's all you win and of course all three of you are welcome back anytime you want to participate so let's as as the default winner today jean marco what would you want to participate. So let's, as the default winner today, Jean-Marco, what would you like to promote? Oh, just

my podcast, The Downside with Jean-Marco Cerisi. Yeah. Everybody check that out. Check out the socials. Those things still continue to exist. And you don't have any clever handles on your socials.

It's just your name. Just my name. I'm the poor man's Matt Rife. Check me out. All right. Thanks for being here today, dude. Samantha Ruddy. Our other winner today.

I'll just say that about each guest our other winner uh samantha what would you like to plug uh just my uh instagram uh at samley matters uh which i'm sure is probably why you just asked if there was a fun pun in the name it's a pain but it's too late to change it so it's's at Family Matters. I have a special coming out later this year. So follow me on Instagram for updates. Thanks for having me, Doug. Right on. Thanks for being here.

And Chad Opitz, tell us your stuff. You got a show coming up soon. You told us about the other day. Yeah, I'm going to be featuring at Rooster Teeth Feathers in Sunnyvale for Nick Guerra on the 29th through the 2nd of June into July. So that'll be

fun shows. I always like going there. Yeah, it's like right on the cusp of Cupertino. Damn, it's true. Yeah. I know my Bay Area stuff um my plugs include seattle on july 9th pittsburgh july 15th san diego july 19th and la july 23 those are all douglas movies tapings uh that you can attend if you go to douglasmovies.com you you can get all the deets and links that you need to make it happen.

We got like a couple extra minutes here at the end. And what I do is I end every episode with the last line from a motion picture. And I often try to use a line from a movie that, you know, was mentioned or some somehow came up during the episode. But, but let me just ask you just out of curiosity, do any of you have like a last line in a movie that is like your favorite or that you found to be

the most memorable? A line. I can think of like, I can see the visual. I'm trying to think of the line. The one that popped into my head was Clue when Michael McKean says, I'm going to go home and have sex with my wife.

That's like, you know, right up there with Dangerfield at the end of Caddyshack saying, everybody's going to get laid. Oh, yeah. Wait, in Requiem for a Dream, ass to ass is the final line, isn't it?

Is it? That would be incredible if so. Yeah. It's either the last line of that or maybe Noah. Yeah. Sam, do you have any? Uh,

nah. I can't think of anything. It would i just can't i just can't stop thinking about the end of happy gilmore where he's like with the crocodile waving into the sunset and tuesday is gone by leonard skinner displaying but there's i can't think of a single word right i don't know what they say at the end of happy yeah there must be some last line maybe like maybe like the homeless guy says something stupid or something i feel like it might be about his grandma's house i'm not sure yeah who knows who knows how it ends but that's the thing is so many movies have last lines that aren't inspiring at all.

They just sort of like are just the last thing somebody said. You know, they can't be clever every time. So I have some really bland ones and weird ones will come up that I use at the end of the show. But thank you once again to all of my guests, Chad Opitz, Jean-Marco Seresi, and Samantha Ruddy. Hope to see all of you champions back here sometime soon, either this style or in person.

And as always, this is Hollywood. Always time to dream. so keep on dreaming. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky. There's no room in his heart for you, cause Doug loves movies!