Doug Loves Movies - Guy Branum, Mark Ellis and Justin Martindale guest
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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming baby, sticky seeds with 50 acid pop or kernels in his teeth.
There's still not one that he won't see, cause Doug loves movies.
Hey, hey, hey everybody. My name is Doug and I love movies.
This is Doug Loves Movies and we have a proper script for today
in my hands so
it's business as usual.
It's Sunday, July 31st
2022
and my guests are two
champions and a
world class competitor
here to take them on.
They are Guy Branum,
Mark Ellis andin martindale
howdy welcome welcome gentlemen good to be here nobody ever knows what they're supposed to do
when i introduce all three people at the same time uh so let's meet everybody individually and alphabetically starting with our returning
champ from dynasty typewriter where he was a it was his first time on the show and he took down
a five guest show i believe it's a guy brandon everybody hey guy hey doug good to be here doug
would you would you like to know what I've spent the past three days doing?
I kind of do want to know, yes.
Depressively binging all of You're the Worst, a show I had never watched before.
But it turns out, Doug Benson, a major character.
Oh, my God. Isn't it weird?
Yes, it was delightful.
It's like a multiverse version of uh doug benson like in another world i'm quite a
quite a businessman who enjoys wearing suits uh it was it was truly amazing and indulgent and i
was watching the show and i was like how is this for anyone who does not live within a mile of the Silver Lake Reservoir, but still a pure delight.
Yeah, it was an honor to participate,
and thank you for watching it all in one weekend.
That is it.
You don't have to convince me that you were depressed.
It's a funny show, but it's not always a fun show.
Well, that's a great way to spend your time as a champion.
I thought for a second, you were going to confess that you've been,
you know, studying movie trivia or watching lots of movies but no no duck
benson that's how i've spent a lifetime of depression right you've already got all most
of the other stuff in uh you're the worst slip through the cracks somehow well we have another
returning champ from show number one and number two,
basically in San Diego during comic-con it's the Schmo.
We love and know Mark Ellis. Hey Mark.
Oh, thank you, Doug. Did you just come up with that off the top of your head?
The Schmo we didn't know. Yeah, that's good.
I can't write any kind of promo about you without, you know,
thinking of some fun way.
Use the word Schmo because, of course, you're the co-founder of the Schmo
Down and the Schmo's No Movie Podcast.
Yeah, and I haven't seen a lot of returns yet from our episode, our most recent episode in San Diego.
But what a time that was. And thanks to all the fans that came in person.
I'm actually thrilled that we're not doing this one live because just for the folks at home, I stand five foot ten and a half.
That's true. Guy Branum and Justinin martindale well over six feet right right that would be
adorable to see you in the middle between my little feet wouldn't even touch the ground i'd
be swinging them back and forth you don't want that well okay i'm glad we're all in separate
homes for this one just so that mark could be not embarrassed by being pretty, pretty good.
It's not a terrible height. It's not the best height, but you know,
what'd you say? Five, 11 and a half, five, 10 and a half.
Five, 10 and a half. And I cling to it. According to my driver's license,
I'm actually six foot four.
I was just having fun at the dmv just to see if
they'd noticed and uh shocker they did not they process they don't notice they don't notice shit
my eye color was wrong on my id for forever because you know i i just you know wrote something
down being silly you just don't you don't think about the consequences um yeah but also joining us today
speaking of consequences we've got uh two champions going into today but we've got a guest who's ready
to give it a run for their money that's justin martindale hi justin here's what's happening
i have been completely bamboozled i had no idea I was going up against two champions, let alone like a game.
So I thank you for the sacrifice. Thank you for throwing me to the wolves.
Now I'm like now this is a whole nother ballgame for me.
So I'm putting my game face on. Well, it's you know, it's all in fun.
These guys are both great competitors. They know a lot of movie trivia,
but they probably had some lucky breaks that led to their wins.
I don't know. This sounds like a Sunday massacre.
I mean,
where are you here? How stupid the questions are or how, or how,
or how difficult for that matter.
They're stupid.
They're stupidly difficult.
Justin,
I have seen you be destroyed on a Sunday by many things.
Movie trivia will just be a nice change of pace.
Oh,
Hollywood.
Am I right?
Yeah, it's
don't you worry about it.
I realized when you were
when we were discussing
back and forth what your appearance
on the show today
it came up you were you said something
is ineffective. You know, is there a specific
movie I need to watch
to prepare? and i was like
oh okay i could have sworn that you'd been on the show at least once before maybe like at ucb or
something maybe but your answer to that question was all of them yeah i said if you're gonna if
you're gonna prepare for this you need to watch all of the movies so i've been doing that for
the past three days while guy has been watching you you need to watch all of the movies. So I've been doing that for the past three days while guy has been watching
you. I've been watching all of the movies.
Well, you know,
I hope it pays off because there are a lot of movies and we'll probably touch
on maybe a dozen of them over the course of the games today.
Yeah.
So you gotta, you gotta get real lucky that there was,
but you never know. That's the crazy thing about it. It's also
so arbitrary.
But I think you're going to do
great today. I think you'll definitely finish
in the top three. And that's something
to
be proud of.
You should have seen Justin last night.
Justin and I both performed at the Comedy Store
last night. And I introduced him
and he was shaking with fear.
And it's not because of the set. It's because he knew what was about to greet him.
Because I know you like to say we do this for fun. Guy Branum and I have no fun doing this show.
We're here to win. Yeah, now I feel it. No, I feel it.
Yeah. And I was shaking because I just recently got my highlights done.
So I was nervous. It was a reveal. They do look good. They look really good.
Thank you.
Before the games begin, though, before we get to that, let's talk recommendations.
I've been asking my guests every week lately to recommend a movie.
my guests every week lately to recommend a movie.
And the question kind of comes out of the blue.
And I just I leave them to, you know, recommend from all movies ever, ever.
And so that's a lot to choose from.
So I thought it might be interesting to narrow it down a little bit and also focus on somebody who's celebrating a birthday today.
It is the birthday of Mr.
Wesley Snipes.
And he is
out of jail and working
quite a bit. He's getting
good rolls
and
doing a good job.
So happy birthday to him.
But also
could each of you please recommend,
could be your favorite Wesley Snipes movie,
or it could be one that you're like,
this is money in the bank.
You know what I mean?
Like,
like always bet on rising sun.
Yeah.
What do you think,
guy?
Do you have a Wesley Snipes movie to recommend?
I think it is really difficult to have two gay men on a show
and then say recommend a Wesley Snipes film.
Awful!
Because there's one that we're both going to want to have him play.
But out of respect and deference, I'm going to step back and say,
well, first of all, I considered uh like his cameo and
waiting to exhale but that's simply too small of a role i'm gonna say his first movie wildcats
it's from 1986 and it is a classic ragtag sports team that shouldn't be doing what they're supposed
to be doing doing it goldie hawn is a lady football coach in 1986 and the only job she can
get is at an inner city school it's desperately underfunded and one of the rockets teenagers she
has to whip into shape by young wesley snipes yeah with his uh along with his buddy uh you know
it's a kind of a prequel to why you can't jump because it was Woody Harrelson was in there. Oh, I forgot that. Yeah. Crazy,
right? Yeah.
Well, that is
excellent. See, that really led
things off nicely. And
you know, maybe
instead of recommending the movie, you can just
jot off a letter to Wong Fu
and
not feel so
bad about it.
Mark Ellis? and not feel so bad about it.
Mark Ellis.
Doug Benson.
I am not out of deference to Justin.
I'm not going to take Expendables 3.
I am going to continue Guy's trend of pairing up Wesley and Woody because White Man Can't Jump is not only my favorite Wesley Snipes movie,
it's not only my favorite
Woody Harrelson movie,
it's my favorite sports movie
of all time.
I think it holds up so, so well.
The chemistry between them,
the fact that they're both
so dominant on the court,
but they're really putzing around life,
just trying to make ends meet.
And Wesley gives Woody
the best advice
that you could give anybody and that would
be listen to the woman four simple words listen to the woman that is terrific advice and also
it's my number one it's my favorite jeopardy movie yes and uh the letter q the the you know
and of course i'm talking about the game show and not, you know, movies about people that are in jeopardy, which is, you know, Rosie's done her share of that as well.
But. Another terrific answer, this is, you know, I can't predict where these things are going to go.
And even though we've all indicated that Justin's selection has been made for him.
Justin Martindale, which Wesley Stipes movie would you like to recommend?
I mean, hands down, Blade 2.
No, I mean, I have to go. I have to go i have to go you guys picked it y'all even thought of it before your
own answer so i have to pick to wong fu uh thanks for everything julie mu numar it's about an elite
manhattan drag queen named vita boem and noxzema jackson i'm sorry. We've never seen Nogzima ever again.
It was such a time in the 90s.
They impressed regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles here at home.
When the two meet, pathetic drag novice Chichi Rodriguez, John Leguizamo, one of the losers that evening, charms Vita.
And Nogzima agreed to take the hopeless youngster
under their joined wing. Soon
the three set off on a madcap road trip
across America and struggle to make it to
Los Angeles in time.
This movie is everything. You're getting
a beaten Stalker Channing.
You are getting
a strawberry festival
in a small town. You're getting Patrick
Swayze's jawline with concealer on.
You're getting Julie Newmar.
It is everything.
And then some there's by curiosity in it.
There's like trans representation in it.
It's everything.
I mean,
I believe we get RuPaul in a Confederate flag dress.
That's the fucking opening scene when she comes down.
My God.
Yes.
Try doing that in these times.
What about what kind of car is it that they drive?
Don't they drive around in some sort of convertible or something?
Yeah.
Cool car.
Yeah.
It's like a I'm trying to think.
I don't really know.
It's like an old school Thunderbird or something like that. I gonna start the bidding at a 57 chevy doug okay i just thought
i'd throw in something you know that uh you know the typical guy listening to this show might
remember from that movie yeah i mean it's it's a it's a good one. They had a cool car. And Leguizamo's the third main character, right?
Did you say that?
Oh, God, how do you put this?
They're all the main characters.
Yeah, right?
It's like a three-hander, basically.
It's like the three of them.
It's a three-person buddy picture.
I mean, honestly, I would say from a plot perspective,
Chi Chi Rodriguez is the one who goes on most of the journey.
She's the main character.
Yeah.
And she, yeah.
Spoiler alert.
She gets it at the end, you know?
Where were you, where were you reading that description from?
I just wrote it down before the podcast. i'm kidding it was on imdb
i wanted to i wanted to see what the reviews say and i'm very ashamed that it's had it has a 41
percent rotten tomatoes uh percentage 41 that's homophobic that's homophobic. That's homophobic. For a podcast, like it was like this podcast that Matt Kirshen and Andy, what's his name, did.
Wood.
Andy Wood did where you watch two movies that came out at the same time with the same premise.
And I watched it along with The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, really expecting it to not hold up.
And it's like a good movie.
Like it's a much better
movie than i remembered it i mean you're uplifting women to their full potential yeah oh god and that
little old lady who's in everything she's in it um all right well that's a great job justin but
now turn off now i want to watch it.
Turn off your IMDb because that would be an excellent source for coming up with answers.
Really start playing these games. OK, it's off.
Yeah. Yeah. We have everybody has to trust, you know, it's all right.
He's got a little IMDb robot next to him that he just.
Hey, I'm sorry, Mark. I'm sorry. I the ceo of imdb last week in san diego
at comic-con so oh we know you were on the boat every day it's a it's a part of me now i love the
imdb boat so much it's fun i can't even tell you how much because it's just easy you know it's just photo ops and uh appetizers
and drinks like like i don't know if anybody's into that sort of thing but they i didn't drink
very much on the boat but you could get hammered on the boat they give you anything you want
oh yeah anything yeah i actually so fucked up i believe i shared a beverage with one with a young Doug Benson back in the
day on an IMDb boat. Once upon a time,
Justin apparently got to meet the, the, like the creator, the founder,
the president, Bill IMDb. He got to meet.
Well, that dude's always hanging out on the boat. We met him, uh, you know,
a few years ago, the last comic-con before, uh,
yeah. Yeah.
We met him there and he's very approachable, very nice. And I
still, from that particular visit,
I still cherish to this day my
sailor hat that says IMDb
on it. It's good merch.
I didn't ask him what his favorite
movie was.
You just flat out asked IMDb what
his favorite movie is?
Yeah, White Beat Around the Bush, you know?
Yeah, just get right to it.
What did he say? He said,
No Time to Die with Daniel Craig.
What is wrong with him?
I don't know.
That is bizarre.
It's not even the best
Daniel Craig one.
Justin said, what's his favorite movie? And then the guy responded, I'm more of a reader. Bizarre. It's not even the best Daniel Craig one.
Justin said, what's his favorite movie? And then the guy responded, I'm more of a reader.
Then I'd jump off the boat.
He's very nice.
I do appreciate that he has an answer to that question.
Maybe he misheard you. Maybe maybe he thought you said, you know, what's your favorite movie that has a boat in it?
Right. Or he probably said, stop talking to me or die. And I just got it confused.
I don't know. You're like, I don't have any time for that.
used i don't know yeah you're like i don't have any time for that no time to die which boy you know i guess enough time has passed to say this but that is such a
what a spoilery title like every other james bond movie when they talk about him dying you're like
yeah right it's just an expression but this one that's also why it's weird that that's his favorite one.
The one where Jason finally
perishes. Oh, yeah, that's...
Oh, I like it.
Alright, well, those
are all great Wesley Snipes
recommendations. I appreciate
you
giving them to me and to
the listeners. If anybody
hasn't seen any of these three great movies,
now's the time to check them out again.
It's never too soon to watch Wildcats or White Men Ketchup or To Wong Fu.
Thanks for everything, Julie Newmar.
Really heavy influence on the letter W, I'm noticing.
These titles.
For Wesley. Yeah, Wesley. heavy influence on the on the letter w i'm noticing these titles interesting yeah wesley
wesley wild bats white men wong food long food nights yeah yeah yeah all right well thanks
for that and we're gonna go to a brief commercial break and we'll be right back
we are back and i'm so excited for this first game we're going to play today
because it's a new game, Justin.
So Guy and Mark don't have any kind of a leg up on you in terms of having
played it before or heard it being played.
The game is called Witch Gun.
Yeah. I'll read a quote
and then
we'll start with Guy
then we'll go to Mark and then we'll go to Justin
I'll read a quote
Guy will tell me
if it's from Top Gun Maverick
oh okay
OG Top Gun Top Gun Maverick. Oh, okay. OG Top Gun, Top Gun 1.
Or
neither. Top Gun None.
And then if Guy
misses it, then Mark
gets a crack at it. And if Mark
misses it, then you get a chance, Justin.
And whenever somebody gets the right answer,
the next person in line
goes next on the next one.
Okay.
Are you ready, Guy?
Yes.
All right.
This is just for Guy.
And your options are Maverick, one or none.
And here is the quote.
Don't say anything.
Your words would be useless.
Just fly the damn plane.
I'm going to say original recipe, Top Gun.
I am sorry to say that is incorrect.
That is incorrect.
We now go to Mark Ellis.
Who is currently wearing a naval aviator jumpsuit.
Oh God.
Is it, can I have the quote again,
Doug?
Yes,
you can.
Don't say anything.
Your words would be useless.
Just fly the damn plane.
I feel like I haven't seen that in a top gun. So I'm going to say top gun. None. anything, your words would be useless. Just fly the damn plane.
I feel like I haven't seen that in a Top Gun, so I'm going to say
Top Gun none. You're going
neither. Going neither.
All right.
Mark's here to play.
That is correct.
Wow.
I mean. It's from neither.
It is from a motion picture called Fire
Fox starring Clint Eastwood. Oh, wow. It is from a motion picture called Firefox starring Clint Eastwood.
Oh, wow. That's. Yeah.
Sounds like real Top Gun. Talk to me, though. It sure does.
All right, Justin, you're up first on this next one. All right.
All right. Is it Top Gun one or Top Gun none or Top Gun colon Maverick
in which
this line is spoken.
Great Mavs
real slick.
As someone whose brother just got promoted
in the Air Force this weekend
to major, I'm a I'm a, uh, huge, um,
what are they called? Airplanes fan. Yes. Um, this sounds, I mean,
this sounds like an aviatrix. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I don't even know what that means. Um, but my brother does, um,
I like this because there's a
hint of vintage in it i think if they say the word slick in uh top gun maverick that's uh what
the call uh the kids call cringe i think um i think i'm gonna go with it sounds like it could be and Slick is 80s
in which Top Gun came out.
So I'm going to say original Top Gun.
Justin? For the win.
No? It's going, you know,
you'll just get a point if you're right,
but you're saying Top Gun
won.
That's your final
answer. Yeah, Top Gun won. I'm'm so nervous i feel like it's squid game
is there a reason to be nervous because you're correct yes yes that is correct it is
uh that's something that uh Mav says to himself.
I think you can only call yourself slick.
No one else can be around you.
Yeah.
Real slick, Mav.
All right, guy.
Here's your chance to get on the board.
Top Gun 1, Top Gun 2, or Top Gun 9.
Can't you make it through the day without proving what an asshole
you are?
All right. Now here's
the quote.
Which one? Is that from one
two or none?
I just proved what an asshole I was by not playing along with the joke.
I'm very sorry.
That is from Top Gun Maverick.
That's from Top Gun Maverick, you say?
Yes.
I'm sorry to say.
Not not correct.
Mark, what do you think?
Well, Slick,
I think
that it is actually from
Top Gun None,
the prequel that does not exist.
You're going None.
I'm going None, baby.
All right.
Bold move by a bold player.
That is correct. Mark, you're so good mark you're very
good top guns i know i knew i knew he was gonna like he's gonna slaughter this round he loves
top gun doug you want to hear how big of a fan i am of top gun i was actually at justin's brother's graduation. I was not even there. Mark was.
Wow. Well, that
line, that asshole
line was from the movie
Iron Eagle. Yes.
Word. Yeah.
All right. So
Justin,
you got some work to do here.
All right.
Any one of you boys see an aircraft carrier around here?
Is Justin on the IMDb boat?
With just an open caftan?
Hello, boys.
Who has monkeypox?
Let me see.
I mean, that sounds very Kelly McGillis to me.
So I will go.
I'll go OG Top Gun again.
That is correct.
Well done. Thank you. I'll go OG Top Gun again. That is correct. That is correct.
Well done.
Thank you.
It's not Kelly McGillis, though.
It's him from the opening sequence when he saves that guy
and he flies him back, even though he went crazy.
I'm sorry, Doug, if I'm on the board.
I know.
You still got a point, but it was Maverick who said that.
Which again, the homoerotic subtext of Top Gun 1 is endless.
Because why would he say any of you boys?
Any of you boys?
I know.
Maybe Kelly McGillis wishes she could have said that line, you know?
Yeah, no, it does sound like either Kelly McGillis wishes she could have said that line, you know? Yeah, no, it does sound like
either Kelly McGillis or Jessica
Rabbit would say. Yeah.
Any of you boys seen aircraft? And while
standing on aircraft carrier,
because the idea is she's so beautiful,
they don't even notice where they are.
Mm-hmm. Okay.
Mark has two
points. Justin has two points. Guy, this
is your chance to get on the board i have nothing
yes you do you have us guy we're here together one two or none there is no dignity for a pilot
being grounded captain um i am going to say Top Gun None
just because I'm really hoping we got some
Airwolf in here if we're going to have
Iron Eagle and we're going to have
Firefox I want some helicopter
representation
yes well I think you're
really going to love this because not only are you right
yay
also that line
was from Iron Eagle 2.
Oh, you did it, guy.
Yeah, Iron Eagle 2.
All right, guys on the board.
Mark, are you ready?
This is where you really got to pull it out here, buddy.
This is the one game I was born ready for.
This is the one.
This is for the win, this one.
When I fly, I'll have you you know, my crew and plane come first.
That is Maverick.
Justin's going to like this because it's actually Maverick chastising Kelly McGillis, his character, Charlie, because she questioned his flying tactics in class.
But it's really just to cover up the fact that she's fallen for him.
That is from Top Gun
OG.
That is correct.
And congratulations
everybody. I brought Mark
here today so that
he could realize that his love of the
Top Gun films is a sickness
and that he needs help.
And this is proof
that he likes them too much.
Congratulations.
And who hasn't questioned Tom Cruise's
flight status, you know?
So
that's...
He's still...
I still haven't seen Tom
Good Maverick and I'm thinking that maybe
I might never
see it just
because I know that
would make Mark Ellis unhappy.
Doug, don't do this to me.
He'll leave. He'll leave right now.
He'll go.
After one of the shows this past weekend
at Comic-Con, it was like everybody
in the green room was having an intervention for Doug.
We all took turns telling him why we love Top Gun still hasn't seen it still hasn't seen it i still
haven't gone but i you know i i do intend to see it but i i really enjoy there's someone out there
that it really means a lot to them if i see it can i can i say something real quick about mark
i remember when it came out and we were
in the green room and you
said to me, you were like, Justin,
I'm going to be really sad because
I'm going to have to compare every other movie
I see to Top Gun Maverick.
Yep.
You remember saying that?
It's going to be
the Top Gun Maverick scale
henceforth.
No movie, hardly any movies are going to top it,
I feel. No, I've peaked.
I've peaked.
Yeah, good luck
Avatar 2. Mark Ellis
is not buying it.
I can't wait.
Really? You're excited about that?
Oh, yes. It's Avatars Underwater.
It's like a gay Enya video.
I can't wait.
Just put on Orinoco Flow and let me masturbate, please.
I worry that it's taken so long to make this movie
because everybody that buys a ticket is just going to get sucked into that world
and never return.
Yeah, As we
should, because this one's on fire.
They've just been building a portal and
setting it up in all the cinemas.
Let's know.
I'm done.
We've got to
take another commercial break. It's very
exciting going into our next
game, because
all Mark won for being such a top gun
weirdo is that he gets to go
first in our next game, which isn't even
necessarily an advantage.
And we will play that game right after this break.
We'll be right back. We are back
and Mark Ellis gets
to go first.
How many you've won a few episodes in a row here.
Now this would be win number three. If you go all the way today.
Yeah. I mean, I, I,
I got the two in San Diego and that was my first time running the sweep in the
gas lamp district.
And so now if I can cross over to the virtual side of things and get a W it
would, it's going to feel like 2020 again, which was the last time I got to win.
Yeah, it's like the EGOT. You're like almost EGOT, Mark.
I'm one Emmy, one Grammy, one Oscar and one Tony.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got the silent letter and EGOT. You've got that locked up.
Yeah. And then now you just got to get all those hard letters.
yeah and then now you just kind of get all those hard letters that are hard one there thing is the thing is is a like doug you do you do one show at the winter garden theater
suddenly doug loves movies is tony eligible and you know it really opens things up he really
that's yeah that's a good point that's a really good point um i hope i can get into the winter
garden i don't know how long Music Man's going to last.
I've never seen Music Man, but when
Music Man comes on stage, do you think he says,
hello, boys? Anybody see some music
around here? Absolutely.
Hugh Jackman, are you kidding?
Yeah, it's a really uh it's a probably a pretty interesting performance you know uh because he it over the years like uh the people
that play the music man like robert preston in the movie like it's like you know there's
he's like not a singing and dance man except except for to con all these people, you know, like whereas Hugh Jackman, he just wants to sing and dance.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like Robert Preston's performance is really good.
That man is like greasy and entertaining at the same time.
Yeah. Yeah.
And but, you know, I mean, whereas like hugh jackman you're just gonna be
like him lying to people you're gonna be like what the fuck is this singing dancing happy guy
doing lying what's going on is he insane where you know it's all means to an ends for uh for
when robert preston does it but anyway i'm sure it's a fine show and I hope they do well. Is this the next
category game? Oh, God.
The next game, yes, the next game
is shows that have played
the Winter Garden Theater.
Oh, my God.
No, we're not crossing over
to Broadway today, but
you never know when
musicals are going to come up because I like
to mention them on the show
because they only make one or two of them
a year at this point. So it's an exciting occasion
for me. But this game we're going to play right now
is called Whose Tagline Is It Anyway?
And it's a tagline game uh we'll start with mark ellis because he won that last thing
um we'll start with you mark i'll tell you a tagline from a motion picture uh it could be any
film from the history of cinema and movies okay any. Any film that Justin watched in the
last three days is eligible.
Yeah. I was busy.
They could be in there.
And
here's where we're going first.
You know, it may not
necessarily be an advantage or a disadvantage,
but a theme
will emerge potentially
amongst these taglines as we play this game so
it's a huge advantage for me because i couldn't lose the top gun i couldn't lose the top gun game
doesn't matter if if you said hey mark if you win the top gun game you lose the show i still
would have had to take it you have to win the the Top Gun game. Yeah, I can't.
All my college friends would never talk to me again.
You had to win.
And just like on the last show where you took over and I played the game,
you know, I played your game.
I had to win that one, you know, and it would have been,
it was bad enough that I forgot the script for my own show.
But then if I get challenged to a trivia match where I'm going to play,
I had to win. So thank you for,
thank you for facilitating that,
that win by asking me questions about movies. Cause as it turns out,
I do know a lot about movies.
Yes. You're a, you're a great competitor.
I feel like now though, more than ever, I'm starting to get into, I don't know if it's COVID, I don't know if it's age, I don't know what it is, but I'm starting to get into that where I can't think of a name of somebody.
I can picture them.
I can't think of it.
And I go, oh, is this starting to happen now?
Am I going to be less helpful in pub trivia?
Is my team going to say he's losing it?
I'm sorry. Doug Benson,
a comedy professional
whose identity is so bound up
with the concept of marijuana,
like, you
are now slightly having
a little bit of trouble with recalling pub
trivia.
I am shocked.
I am stunned.
Yeah.
Wow.
I don't blame the weed though because I see a lot
of people about it
not being able to remember things that
never touched it a day in their life.
I'm going downhill
at trivia as I
go through my 40s.
I'm pissed off. trivia as I go through my 40s. I am pissed off.
If you and I
are essentially experiencing the same amount
of memory degradation, why didn't
I spend the entirety of the 2000
stoned? I missed out on so much.
Yeah, you should have.
Plus now,
if you do have trouble
thinking of something, because it's usually something trivial
that I don't really need to know the answer.
I could just, you know, it's in my hand.
Yes.
Look it up on my phone.
So easy.
All right.
So, Mark, you're going to go first.
And then we'll go to Guy and then to Justin.
Wow.
How did that happen?
And good luck, everybody.
All right, let's do it.
You just get
one guess each.
It's from all
movies ever made, these taglines.
It's not
easy, so just come up
with something that comes into your head.
Guy Branum pulled out an amazing one on the show.
It's part of why he's here today on the live show at Dicey Typewriter.
The tagline was something like,
this is the most magnificent movie ever made.
Is that what it was?
Something like that.
Yeah.
Something to that effect.
And Guy said,
God with the wind and he was
correct wow there was zero clues there was zero clues in the clue other than you know a lot of
people would say that that movie is the most magnificent yeah that's a hell of a pool by a guy
and and gone with the wind is lucky that it was released before Top Gun Maverick.
Yeah, it really came at the right time in history
for people to deal with it.
I can't even, I've never seen it
and I don't want to watch it.
I've seen
scenes and parodies
like I'd rather watch the Carol Burnett parody
of it. I feel like I'm
still getting what happened in the movie. It's like, I'd rather watch the Carol Burnett parody of it. I feel like I'm still getting what happened in the movie.
It's like a good Thanksgiving movie, you know?
Okay.
It takes like six hours to watch.
It divides families still.
Yes.
It portrays slavery as fundamentally charming.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, it's really good with the turkey and mashed potatoes
all right well then force everybody to watch 12 years a slave or something right after it
all right so um okay so mark you ready i am prepared sir okay as prepared as you'll ever be. One movie is the tagline
Heroes Aren't
Born, They're Built.
Heroes Aren't
Born, They're Built.
I got an idea,
but I'm not sure
they would have kicked off
the whole thing with that.
Well,
it's an hour show, right, Doug?
What's that?
It's an hour long show.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
I turned on the clock.
You've got 12 more minutes.
Okay, good.
Go to the commercial.
For this whole show to be finished. No,
not for just your answer. We're going to need an answer now. I'm going to go with Iron
Man.
Oh, Iron Man,
like the first of the...
Yeah, I don't think the MC would have kicked off
with that, but you never know.
Right. It's a guess.
You know, that's part of this game is you just gotta guess.
That is correct.
Wow!
Wow!
That is the answer.
Wow!
Way to go.
That's a wild one.
I'm like a little tiny Guy Branum.
Yeah.
See, now you wish you were sitting
in between these giants
in front of an audience
because the applause you would
have gotten for what just happened.
I know. That was good, Mark.
That would have recharged your battery for like
a year.
I'm just like a little tiny David with two
Goliaths.
Yeah. No, just killing it. All right.
But the Goliaths get a chance and a guy gets to go first or next,
I should say. First and next guy.
What movie had the tagline,
a hero shows his true colors.
a hero shows his true colors um a hero shows his true colors i mean like i don't know what hero is so directly involved
with colors unless it was one of the rainbow bright films
unfortunately the genders don't work the genders just don't hold together for that they never do
yeah um oh god a hero shows his true colors um
uh I doubt that your
theme would be all Marvel movies
but
I'm still gonna go
Captain America Civil War
no I'm sorry that is not
correct Justin
oh wait I get the same one
yeah that's what I'm saying is now
it comes to you and then if you don't get it
then Mark gets a shot at it
can you
say it again one more time please
yes would you like me to do that now at it. Can you say it again one more time, please? Yes.
Would you like me to do that now?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, please.
That'd be great. Thank you.
Here goes. A hero shows his true
colors.
Shows his true colors.
A hero shows his true colors
okay i'm just gonna guess um just do it roger rabbit who from roger rabbit
no i love that guess that's a really good guess. Mark Ellis.
Well, Doug, I'm between two and, um, I,
I think it's either, I mean, you know, again, we're thinking like colorful characters,
so it could be like the incredible Hulk. It could be that,
that first Edward Norton incredible Hulk movie. But, um,
I have a feeling, and again,
if I was running
Marvel, I don't know that I necessarily would have been
the guide to bring this up as
the tagline for the movie, but I'm going to
take a swing and say it's Black Panther.
Oh.
Sorry, I was suppressing
a sneeze.
That is incorrect.
You sneeze weird.
That's why I decided to come up with a game show
is that my sneezes sound like
a boing.
The answer, you were right there on it
buddy is
the Incredible Hulk
oh man from 2008
wait that was real
yeah
true colors was the
Ed Norton Incredible Hulk
oh the Ed Norton it Hulk. Oh, the Ed Norton.
It was the next in the Marvel
after Iron Man.
But I'm not confessing
to a theme just yet.
Okay.
Okay.
We're back to
it's Guy's turn, right?
Yeah.
All right, Guy.
What movie has a tagline
Even Heroes Fall?
Oh.
Even Heroes
Fall.
I'm going
to assume is
the Superman movie where he he is supposed to have died in the
most recent like dc series but i don't know the name of that like i don't know the name of any of the like it's Superman Returns is the Bryan Singer
one
and I don't know the names
of any of
the more recent
one
we read it to me again
yes even heroes fall
alright
Superman
Returns I got nothing else
okay that's incorrect
Justin
I was going to go with my original
guess but then guys makes sense I was going to go with my original guess,
but then guys make sense.
Cause I think I,
that sounds familiar.
Um,
can I say what I was going to say?
Wait,
I think,
I think what guy was,
was trying to guess was Batman versus Superman.
Oh,
I see.
I see. I see. Okay. I was going to guess was Batman versus Superman. Oh, I see. I see. I see.
I was going to guess Avengers Endgame, but I think
it could be Batman versus
Superman because I think at the end there was
like a big one of them died
or something. Okay, so which
one do you want to go with? I'm going to go with
Batman versus Superman.
I love you, Guy. Incorrect.
Incorrect. All right.
Mark.
It's Steel Magnolias.
God damn it.
Yeah, this is
a tricky one because I got
two movies that I sort of circled
when I heard it. It, it was a great,
great notion by Guy and Justin to go Superman.
I wasn't even thinking that, but you know, he flies thus,
he probably falls occasionally. Um,
I feel like it's either, uh, Captain America,
civil war because you know, they're,
they're scrimmaging against each other or it's it's Thor because he fell from asgard and that also makes sense in the mcu canon so i'm gonna say thor
incorrect good guess though mark but none of your other guesses that you didn't end up guessing were correct. This was from Iron Man 3.
Ooh, yeah. Right.
Damn it. Right?
I mean, there's no way anyone
could have gotten that. That was hard.
That was a tough one.
Alright, guys. The tagline should have been
this is the one where Gwyneth Paltrow has powers.
Yeah.
We all have gone unseen, right?
I love alternate taglines for Iron Man 3, such as
hey, kids, don't get your heart set on the
Mandarin.
Who likes
disappointing villains? Raise your
hands. Okay.
Guy? Yes.
This summer.
One of those taglines. Remember those
that said this summer? Yes.
The galaxy
won't save itself.
Okay. Then I'm
going to say it is Guardians
of the Galaxy.
That is incorrect.
Oh, no.
I'm going to say Guardians
of the galaxy 2
i have to turn to mark and say uh do you think we should allow this
i think that we should if i didn't care so much for my dear friend justin
and if he wasn't for mimosas deep then maybe we'd have a conversation. But I think he got close enough to the real title of the movie.
So, yes. I think that's
fair and it's
a good sportsman-like
assessment.
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2.
Volume 2. Yeah.
But I thought it was strange that
the tagline made it sound like uh
you know it does sound like a guy you know as far as i'm concerned that's what i would have
guessed as well you know that does sound like the first one like why would they say you know
the galaxy needs saving for part two after we've already seen that yeah i don't know i guess it's
saving it again.
A nice again would have really helped me out there.
Right? The galaxy won't save itself again.
Yeah.
Yeah, I like it.
I like it a lot.
Okay, so
Justin got that one.
Congratulations, Justin.
Thank you.
And now we go to Mark.
Hit me.
What movie had the tagline, no shield, no armor, no problem?
Oh.
Hmm.
No shield, no armor, no problem.
shield, no armor, no problem.
I think that this is
probably
Ant-Man.
Ant-Man is
correct.
That is correct.
Very well done.
Here we go guy
okay
it's not
the armor that makes
the hero but the
man inside
oh
so I have to assume this is Iron Man
2
that is correct I mean so quick Oh, so I have to assume this is Iron Man 2.
That is correct.
I mean, so quick.
That is correct. I am very, very sad to say that in spite of Guy getting on the board there,
not enough Mark has won this game and the
entirety of today's game.
Congratulations, Mark.
You did it.
So that game
actually meant something? I don't just get to go first
again next?
Nope. And we'll see if you get
to go first on the next episode you appear
on. Just depends on where you fall in the alphabet with the last name Ellis.
You know, it's unlikely there'll be too many players ahead of you.
I didn't think I'd be beat in that game.
And then Guy Branum shows up and just blows me out of the water.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, as you have, as you figured out, this is all,
this is all Marvel movies because this was a game that I had prepared for the show while we were down at Comic-Con.
And we didn't get to play it.
So thanks for playing it with me today, you guys.
And you go first with the plugs, Mark Ellis.
What would you like to say to promote yourself?
Well, it was an absolute pleasure competing with my new dear friend, Guy, and my old dear friend, Justin.
And check out Justin's head of hair if you haven't already.
I am going to be in Las Vegas at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club, September 5th through the 11th.
If anybody wants to swing by Vegas, that'll be a fun weekend.
It's NFL kickoff weekend.
And you can probably catch me on an upcoming episode of Douglas movies.
Yeah, because that's what happens.
The the winner gets invited back, you know, as soon as you can make it.
Can you join us next week?
Same bat time, same bat zoom call.
I mean, a professional would hold out and say, no, I'm waiting for the Dynasty typewriter gig.
I'll show up.
I'll show up on Sunday.
You got me.
All right.
Yeah.
OK, well, you know, if you win on Sunday,
then we'll see you on stage at the Dynasty typewriter
the following Sunday with God knows what guests.
You know, I throw out a wide net to see
see what kind of people I can get to participate.
That's where Guy Branum made his Douglas movies debut.
And it was a spectacular one. What would you like to promote today, Guy?
Hey, are you a mom looking to get away from the heat of New York or Boston?
Well, I'm going to be performing in Bar Harbor, Maine, August 19th through the 21st.
Who will come to those shows?
I have no idea.
Also, the major motion picture Bros comes out in theaters September 30th.
Please come and watch it.
Yes.
Yes, Bros.
I say September 30th.
That's far enough away that we should i'll
ask you to come back on the show around that time if you're not too busy i would love to that would
be great that'd be awesome uh thank you very much and justin martindale i mean you know came into
today uh yeah you know a little sad and confused, but, uh, I think,
I think you had a great time and I think you're excited about coming back someday.
Oh yeah. I mean, as I, I mean, I definitely felt like my middle school self at the beginning of
this, uh, this show and now I just feel glad and overwhelmed to be part of such an exclusive family. So thank you.
What would you like to plug?
I also will be in Las Vegas,
August 12th and 13th at the Mirage with Jim Jeffries.
And then I have a podcast.
I'm going to miss you in Vegas.
I know. I know.
I have a podcast called Just Say just saying with Justin Martindale available
wherever you get your podcast.
And I've got a show coming out in October on Hulu.
So follow me on Instagram and you can get all the updates for that at
Justin Martindale. So yeah.
What's the Hulu show called?
We go into production tomorrow, so I can't like give it away, but.
Oh, I thought it was going to be called. We go into production tomorrow so i can't like give it away but uh oh yeah i thought
it was going to be called we go into production tomorrow that's a snappy title i mean that should
be yeah that's on apple plus um no this yeah so it'll be coming out it's a halloween themed show
for me okay right on uh doug loves movies is back as said, at Dynasty Typewriter in LA on August 14th at 420.
And I'm doing stand-up in Irvine at the Improv at the Spectrum on Wednesday night, August 24th.
All of my dates and details are at DougLovesMovies.com.
Thanks again to Justin Margnail, Mark Ellis, and Guy Branum.
Excellent, excellent work. and Guy Branum. Excellent, excellent
work.
It was super fun.
Let's all hang out in the IMDb boat later
on today and play the talk show.
Let's go, Enya, hit it!
As always, we're all part of the same
team. Good night!
Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold, his team. Good night.