Doug Loves Movies - Rainn Wilson, Simon Pegg, and James Gunn Guest
Episode Date: March 29, 2011In Part 2 of the SXSW 2011 show, Doug welcomes Rainn Wilson (The Office, Super), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Paul), and writer/director James Gunn (Super) to the show. See Privacy Policy ...at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Doug hates candy wrappers screaming baby sticky seeds
With 50 azepop or kernels in his teeth
There's still not one that he won't see
Cause Doug loves movies
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Whenever the audience clapping doesn't match up with the song,
we just put the song in clean.
Hey, everybody.
My name is Doug, and I love movies.
Welcome to part two of Doug Loves Movies at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Austin, Texas!
We are still in front of a live audience at Esther's Follies
on 6th and Red River.
Come on down, if you're hearing this,
to see whatever else they do at Esther's Follies.
Involves a lot of costumes and wigs
and lights that are too hot.
Did the lights go back up again or did we keep them
down where we liked them before?
Let's turn them down just a little bit.
You guys know what I look like.
You don't need to see it. It doesn't need to be that
bright up here. And let's get my
guests right out here.
So exciting to have
all three of these dudes.
They're here to promote and premiere their films,
Super and Attack the Block.
Please welcome, and Paul.
Actually, none of these people are in Attack the Block.
There were some booking issues, and I didn't change my notes.
But go see Attack the Block
when it opens at a theater near you.
Please welcome from Super,
director, writer James Gunn and star Rainn Wilson
and from Paul, Simon Pegg.
Thank you. First of all, can the audience get you guys anything to drink?
That's how it works here at Esther's.
If there's something you'd like, just say it
in your microphone.
I'd like a sparkling water with
lime. I'll have that too.
Okay, two of those. And just a regular water.
And a regular water.
Alright, shit's getting nuts up here.
Could I get a hot chocolate with
some mini marshmallows?
Do they have...
Seriously.
I don't think they have that here at Esther's.
All right.
But thanks, you guys, for coming here and doing this.
I know you have a huge promotional schedule while you're in town.
You just flew in, Simon.
I didn't even know I was doing this
until about 20 minutes ago, to be honest.
Well, I'll tell you,
it was quite a journey getting here tonight
for this particular panel because at first it was, to be honest. Well, I'll tell you, it was quite a journey getting here tonight for this particular
panel, because at first it
was going to be Ellen Page, who is in
super. Right, Ellen is in super.
She was supposed to be here tonight. She got
the flu very badly a couple
days ago. We thought she wasn't going
to make it at all to South by
Southwest, but this morning,
at the last minute, she's feeling a little bit better, so she got on
a plane, and she's coming here.
So the good news is she's coming here for the premiere
and missed this entirely.
That's the good news.
Yeah.
No, but that's great that she's coming.
I knew when I heard she
wasn't coming that it had to be because she
was sick or something. Yeah, she was sick.
I think you guys probably had an amazing time making that movie.
Right? I've met her. She's really cool.
It was hell, actually.
It was.
It was a really difficult movie to make, but we all seemed to get along afterwards, so
it's not too bad.
Yeah, right?
Yeah.
You're a fascinating interview subject, Rainn.
They didn't warn you.
I'm the worst interview subject ever.
I'm like, on talk shows, I'm terrible.
I don't think you saw my last show tonight.
Hey.
Well, those guys were great,
and they're not listening, so.
What?
So you're asking us
if we had a good time
making the movie?
He has to go make
a million dollar money drop.
Yeah, well,
not a great time making it,
but I think that
I get the impression
that you all
made it together
and are promoting it together
and are very happy with it.
Yeah, we're,
it really is,
like James said,
like in all seriousness,
some movies are just
fun as hell to shoot.
I've made some really
terrible movies in my day,
and they've just been
so much fun to shoot.
Like, we've just had
the best time.
Super was a pain in the ass.
It really sucked.
It was low budget,
and it was cold and muddy and sweaty,
and there's a lot of stinky spandex everywhere.
And we had a horrible time,
but we all love each other and get along great,
and Ellen Page is super awesome.
And so promoting it is really, really cool and really fun.
And I find it a lot with movies is that you start, I knew Rain before Super.
Ellen, I've actually hung out with a lot more after the movie.
A lot of times a movie, you're moving so quickly.
And on Super, we were moving especially fast.
On a normal film, you do about 12 to 20 camera setups a day.
On Super, we did between 45 and 54 camera setups every single day.
So we were moving so quickly that there wasn't as much time,
especially as a director, to bond with the actors.
A lot of it actually happens now, like while we're touring around,
hanging out at film festivals, doing all of that,
where you really get to know somebody.
Good answer.
Yeah.
We got the worst guest and the best guest on the same panel.
It all evens out.
Yeah.
But so then what happened was, you know, my friend Edgar Wright,
who's been on the show and is very helpful in getting me awesome guests from time to time,
he, when he heard about Ellen, he was like, I'll get Nick Frost to do it.
And we were good to time. He, when he heard about Ellen, he was like, I'll get Nick Frost to do it. And we were good to go. And then about
90 minutes, two hours ago,
the verdict came down that Nick Frost was
exhausted from all the traveling and
promoting that he's been doing. That's correct.
And I called up Edgar and I go, so Edgar,
you're in, man. You gotta do it. It's the last minute.
And he's like, well, I don't have anything.
This isn't his voice, but he goes,
I don't do his voice, but he's like, I don't have anything. This isn't his voice, but he goes, I don't do his voice.
But he's like, I don't have anything to do with super.
I feel out of place.
He's like, I don't have anything to do with super.
I don't have anything to do with super.
That is it.
That is it.
I don't want to just be hanging on.
I don't want to just be hanging on.
It's quite very whiny.
It's like a raptor.
So, yeah.
So, that's how he got you.
Because he didn't want to come on.
Yeah, he just dropped me in the shit.
He said, go to this bar.
And here I am, in front of lots of people.
Yeah, go to the place named after Esther Williams,
the old-timey swimming lady.
And it really is.
Like, there's pictures of her out there.
Thanks for promoting our movie.
I'm happy to be part of Super.
Will you go on Leno or something like that?
Sure.
I am doing it on Tuesday.
Will you just talk about Super?
Yeah, mention it a little bit.
That would be awesome if two people...
I mean, Paul has billboards and shit.
You know what I mean?
We don't have billboards.
Our movie cost a billboard.
I'll be your billboard.
You'll be my billboard?
I'll talk about Super exclusively.
Thank you.
This Tuesday.
This is awesome.
That would be so great.
And show a clip from it too?
Yeah.
You should get everybody you know that's got something coming out to just go out there.
We should promote each other's movies.
Or switch, yeah.
When are you doing Leno?
Just for fun.
On Tuesday night, I think.
Yeah, I'm doing it Thursday.
Would you?
Because the movie's out Friday,
so you could just give it a quick spin.
Oh, that would be really cool.
All right.
It's going to happen.
That would be really cool.
Whoa, whoa.
Me and Rain have only just met,
so you're going to double-cross me
and do a double thing on Super.
So, like, it's going to get...
Paul's going to get nothing.
I know.
It does work out well
that you're on second, Rain.
That works out.
I sense a double cross here.
We'll get our lawyers into it.
I think if you get away with it, he would follow through.
But I think that the people at Jay Leno might say,
we'd rather you didn't do that.
Do you think?
Oh, no, and then I'd never have to do that show again.
But also, you have a bigger studio behind yours that would be more mad at you promoting somebody else's movie.
Universal would kill me, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
What's the studio behind Super?
IFC Films, if you call that a studio.
Yeah.
I'm not saying that's not bad.
They made it, yeah.
That's great that they did it.
They didn't make it.
We sold it at Toronto.
We went to Toronto Film Festival,
a company called Ambush Entertainment Finance Super.
It's a very low-budget film.
Everybody did it for scale.
And we sold it at the Toronto Film Festival.
We're actually the first film sold
at the Toronto Film Festival this year.
So, you know, we're working on a budget,
but it works out pretty well
because Super isn't exactly a movie for everybody
there's a lot of dark stuff in it
a lot of violence, a lot of black comedy
and to be able to
put it out in a limited way so that you can
make money from the people who actually
want to see something different
it's fun
instead of those big studio
sellout movies
aliens and CGI cute creatures and Seth Rogen voiceovers.
Wait a second.
There's no fun?
It's amazing.
Believe me.
It's an amazing film.
Which one?
Bowl.
Oh, okay.
I told Simon beforehand, in all seriousness, it is actually one of the few movies that I'm very excited about.
I really want to see it.
I'm a big fan of Greg Mottola.
I love the Bible.
All of the apostles.
I mean, God.
I mean, no, no, no.
I mean, it's amazing what they did.
Just like spreading the word, spreading the gospel.
You got it.
The road to Damascus.
Testify.
It's good.
So Paul opens on what date?
18th of March.
18th.
And Super opens on April 1st.
We open on April 1st in select cities in New York, L.A., San Francisco.
Half a theater.
And then on April 15th, we go wider to most big metropolitan areas.
Except for look like you're from Austin.
Can I just say that?
The audience you mean?
What is that?
You know we are in Austin.
They look like they're from Austin.
Do you remember Richard Linklater's Slacker?
You guys look like you walked out of the movie Slacker.
That's racial profiling in a way.
But at least it's a huge compliment.
You have succeeded in keeping
Austin weird.
People are leaning against a wall.
These folks, they stood in a line.
These are productive people.
She made that thing.
Yeah.
They have name tags.
What is that?
You guys have never been on the show before,
so it's kind of surprising, I'm sure.
Were you in Elizabeth?
No.
You were great in that.
One of the few British people not to be.
Her name is Elizabeth.
Everybody has name tags.
Oh, I see.
Because when we play the Leonard Maltin game,
you're going to play for a member of the audience.
I want to play for Word Joe.
To win some prizes.
This guy's name is Word Joe.
I'm going to play for him.
Wow, you've already picked somebody.
Ross. Everyone loves Ross.
Look at that, two arrows going right at him.
Don't pick him. It's too needy.
You know what I mean? Too desperate.
Well, too needy.
This is fun.
All right, Greg, put it down, man. We can see you.
Yeah, we get it.
Be cool or rain will hit you with a giant wrench.
That's right.
That's what you do in Super, right? That's your weapon?
Nice segue.
Super is...
I get you.
That's what Leno would do.
Show, you got a movie coming out.
Tell us about it.
Want to tell us what we're going to see?
No.
Have you ever sucked on Leno's chin?
I'd like to.
I've never seen a small face on such a big head.
That's what it tells me.
I got it halfway down my neck.
Is there a clip from Super that you were showing on all the talk shows that actually represents
the movie?
It's probably quite a lot of stuff you can't do
on TV.
It's been hard. It's been very difficult
because the movie, again, it's a mix of
part comedy, part drama,
part violent Charles Bronson
action film. It's hard to have
one clip that shows,
but we've found a couple that work okay.
Yeah, they're all right.
But yeah, Super, for those of you who don't know,
is... I'm just...
I mean, you don't have a scene where an alien eats a bird.
That would be a slam dunk.
That's the winner.
If you had a scene like that,
then everyone would want to go on and see that movie.
Why didn't we do that?
We did. Remember, we originally shot it, and then Paul was coming out, and we saw the exact same scene like that, then everyone would want to go off and see that movie. Why didn't we do that? We did. Remember, we originally shot it,
and then Paul was coming out, and we saw the exact same
scene in that, so we had to cut it, because people
thought we'd be ripping it off. The people who made our
trailer in the UK put a fart
into the trailer, without our
permission, and there's a scene
when Paul just yawns, and we were watching it
like, you know, because we kind of get some, we don't get all
say, this is left to marketing people who've got
when you say, oh, that's terrible, they go, well, look at these numbers, look at these numbers.
And you have to go, all right, then.
And they had a scene and Paul did a yawn.
And he went, like that.
And it was like, what the fuck?
But there's no fart in the, I don't think there was a fart.
Anyway.
That's funny.
I do that to my own movies.
But it's because they think that will get people in.
Farts sell, right?
That's funny.
You know what?
I wasn't going to see the movie.
No, I am.
The fact that an alien
has a gastrointestinal tract
exactly the same as ours.
Yeah.
Please.
Where's the verisimilitude?
Is that you or Dwight Schrute
speaking right now?
That was me.
That was me.
What was it like
shooting your movie Paul?
Well, Rain.
Thanks for the assist.
It was really good fun
and everyone got on really well
and it was great.
We had a huge budget.
That means the movie's going to suck.
Technically, yeah.
No, no. it was a laugh.
It was nice because it was like
a bit of a hands across the ocean thing
because me and Nick, you know,
getting to work with some American people
that we like.
Do you play Americans in it or Brits in it?
No, we're a couple of Brits.
We don't, we're not,
we haven't got a great range.
So we're just,
we kept it what we know, you know.
You just go British to Scotty?
Yeah, I can do Scottish.
That's your rage?
Yeah, I can go slightly north of my own town.
Highlands and...
Yeah.
Sutherlands and Essex.
That's just like you get a bit drunk.
Can you do Essex upon Surrey?
Essex upon Tweed I can do.
You can do that?
Can you do Northumberland?
There is a place called North Nibley.
Can you do a North Nibley?
No.
He's never gone North Nibley. Can you do a North Nibley? No. He's never gone that Nibley.
So,
Star Trek 2 is happening?
Yeah, we shot it. It's fucking amazing.
Yeah.
There's a special
screening of it tonight.
No, we haven't.
No screening tonight.
Apparently, as far as I know, it's being written
and we'll shoot it in the summertime.
That's what I've heard. That's all I know.
They're very tight-lipped. They don't tell you anything.
That was all I was looking for. I just want there to be more.
That was my least favorite thing about that movie
is that there isn't more yet.
Well,
you ask a lot.
Come on, you guys.
I want more now.
Well, yeah.
It's hopefully soon.
All right.
Do you know that DeForest Kelly and I have the same birthday?
Get away.
I'm serious.
What a great fact.
But I think he seriously wants you to get away.
All right.
You say get away instead of get out?
That's awesome.
Yeah, get away.
Oh, I'm going to start doing that.
That's so much better. Get away, mate. That's right. Get say get away instead of get out? That's awesome. Yeah, get away. Oh, I'm going to start doing that. That's so much better.
Get away, mate.
That's right.
Get away, bloke.
Come on, don't knock me English.
We gave you your job.
It's true.
Thank you.
Ooh!
Ooh!
Uncalled for.
Uncalled for.
Totally uncalled for. We gave for. Totally uncalled for.
We gave you rock and roll.
True.
Freedom.
That kind of shit.
That's a good point.
Freedom from the Nazis.
Little things.
Little things.
Super's a good movie.
It's really funny.
Let me ask you this about Super.
James Gunn, writer, director. How come you don me ask you this about Super, James Gunn,
writer-director.
How come you don't ask me anything about Super?
I don't have to ask you anything.
I'm really depressed right now.
Trying to move the ball around.
But James,
did you cast any of the girls from Scream Queens in Super?
Or in anything that you've done?
No, I have never. I didn't cast any of the girls from Scream Queens in Super? Or in anything that you've done? No, I have never.
I didn't cast any of the girls from Screen Queens
in Super. However,
one of them makes an appearance in Helpful Bus,
the PG porn episode with Craig
Robinson from The Office.
But I think that's the only thing that...
You have a series on the web called PG
Porn? PG Porn, yeah. It's pornography
for people who love everything about porn
except the sex.
You know, when you're sitting and you're watching a porn movie, you're really enjoying it.
It's got great, you know, production values and a fantastic story and great acting.
And all of a sudden they put in that fucking, you know, gross sex that takes you out of everything.
P.G. Porn is for the people who really like that stuff in between.
That sounds great. How many episodes
did you do?
We did seven episodes. Every episode
features a mainstream actor
like Nathan Fillion or Craig Robinson
and an actual porn star like
Sasha Gray. Jenna Hayes,
Sasha Gray, Bella Donna.
The one Brie Olsen who's
like the goddess now.
She was in Help the Bus.
She seemed like a really normal girl,
and now she's living with Charlie Sheen.
Yeah.
That sounds great.
I might slip and just watch their actual porn,
now that you mention how awesome they all are.
That's what I found it leads to a lot, actually.
But that is a funny premise
and where do people go to see it?
People can go to jamesgunn.com
to see all of the episodes
put together there. Gunn with two N's.
Spike.com or jamesgunn.com
Right on.
Now none of you have heard the podcast before
so this is going to be interesting because
we play a game on the podcast called
The Leonard Maltin Game and I'm just going to have to because we play a game on the podcast called the Leonard
Malton game.
Okay.
And I'm just going to have to walk you through it.
Cool.
Because the listeners won't, they wouldn't, they'd never let me hear the end of it if
I didn't make you guys play it.
Okay.
And I think you'll be good at it.
Cool.
We're game.
Do you know, Simon, do you know like actors' names?
Some.
Because, you know, Edgar Wright, of course, is great at this.
Yeah, because he's like a little fucking, isn't he?
Because you know Edgar Wright of course is great at this Yeah because he's like a little
Innie
You guys are friends right
Yeah we're very good friends
We were
No I knew you were kidding
I make fun of when he says corridor
But it's a fucking hallway Edgar
So
He's around here somewhere Edgar.
He's around here somewhere. I just couldn't get him on the show.
He's doing Press for ATB with Nick and Joe.
Yeah, Attack the Block that I accidentally mentioned at the top
of the show and would like to mention again
because Nick Frost is in it.
And it's about aliens
attacking a block.
It's like, you know, I don't know what you guys call them here.
We have hoodies at home.
They're like little, they're like herbets.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Little kids that wear hoods that are naughty.
Like hobbits?
I like hobbits, yeah.
But antisocial hobbits.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
It's like aliens versus...
Homeboys.
Homeboys, yeah.
But kind of our version, which but kind of our version which is like
council estate little which is like a project
he's taking a lot of fucking explaining isn't he
we're not even in this movie
why are we promoting this movie
super is an awesome movie
Kevin Bacon
is really good in it
I heard that did he like lose weight or something
like they say he's skeletal in it
he's ridiculously skinny.
Kevin does this weird type of exercise.
He just exercises all the time.
He does something called...
Super slow.
Super slow, right.
It's called super slow.
They work out.
It takes them 10 minutes for each lift or something.
Each one you lift at six degrees.
I've heard about that.
He said that one of the...
Very nice. Touche. one of the... Very nice.
Touche.
But he says he has a super slow coach.
It's like, I'll coach you.
Just go really slow.
Just like, good.
No, too fast.
Keep going.
No, no, no.
Slow it down.
Good.
Keep going up.
No, you got to keep lifting it.
No, slow down.
How hard could that be?
He's not even listening.
Yeah, where we shot in Shreveport,
Kevin said one of the reasons he wanted to do the movie
was because one of the biggest super slow guys in the world
lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, where we shot.
Which made me feel real good about my script.
But he's amazing.
He's so great in the movie because you've never...
He's been in 157 movies,
but you've never seen him like he is in Super.
I mean, he's this coked up, sweaty, sleazy, freaky dude, but that is impossibly charming
at the same time.
And you've never seen Kevin Bacon play a role like this before, and if you're just a Kevin
Bacon fan, it's a treat to watch him.
All right, because I wasn't sold until you said that.
Now I'm in.
Now I'm going to go.
No, I'm going to see it tonight.
It's at 10 o'clock tonight, right?
Yeah, yeah.
You're not on the list.
Oh.
Sorry, you couldn't get in.
I could confuse them.
I did a movie called Super Jaime
that premiered at the same theater a few years back.
Yeah.
I'm so excited that we're going to be next to each
other on blockbuster
shelves, if those exist anymore.
And alphabetical
listings. It'll be like Super, Super
Jaime, Superman.
That's great.
That'll be great.
Alright, but I wasn't texting anybody.
I play the game off of the phone.
I use my Leonard Maltin app on the phone.
And my iPhone has been acting really weird lately.
It just shuts off.
And I got to turn it back on every time.
I don't know what that's about.
Wow.
It just did it again.
It's a great story.
Keep going with that.
This is scintillating stuff.
Save that for Leno.
Sure, I understand you've been having some problems with your phone recently.
What?
All right, so each of you need to pick somebody
you'd like to play for in the audience.
Pick a name tag that speaks to you,
that you think is...
Grimly.
Grimly.
Word Joe.
How do you pronounce your name?
Moises.
Moises, okay.
Just go get the name tag from the person
you're going to play for.
Go grab it.
Word Joe, come here, buddy.
I'm firing up my iPhone.
Virgo.
Vanessa.
Is that right?
Yes.
I got it.
So how do I say it then?
What?
Who do you got, Simon?
Virgo.
Vanessa.
I got Vanessa.
Simon's playing for Vanessa.
Virgo.
Virgo.
Not Virgo.
Not Virgo.
As we originally thought.
Is it Moises or Moises?
Moises.
Moises.
Moises.
Accent on the ses.
Moises.
Moises.
All right.
I use my Leonard Maltin app from my phone to play this game.
What's essentially going to happen is I'm going to let one of you choose between some categories,
some genres of film,
and then you will select which one you want
to play, and then I'll give you some choices
of years, and you'll pick a year.
And then from there... You're going to totally
win at this game. James is going to probably be
pretty good at this. Yeah, he might be good at this.
I'm not. But it's also tricky,
though. It's a very
difficult game, and that's part of the fun game Simon's going to be picking social realist films
From the early 1960s
I don't have any categories that highfalutin
I have a category
Ernest Goes To Movies
That nobody ever wants to play
But let's start with Simon
Let's let you pick the first category.
So, Ernest Goes to movies, or
super movies, that's movies with the word
super in the title.
Or, and also
a tribute to super, because I didn't know
until the last minute you were going to be here.
I should have put alien movies
in here.
Comic book movies. So your choices are comic book movies,
super movies,
or Ernest Goes to blank.
I have never seen or heard of an Ernest movie.
Oh.
I'm sorry, I was brought up in a third world country.
Give me a break.
I'm sure Jim Varney never watched Spaced.
It's a two-way street.
So I'm going to go with, well, let's go with super movies,
because we're here with the guys from Superhero.
That was very gracious.
That was very gracious.
And maybe I can quickly whip up movies with the word Paul in the title.
Well, there's Paul.
The Paul Bearer.
Hey!
Good one. You're alwayser. Hey! Good one.
You're always making David Schwimmer movie jokes.
Okay, Simon, would you like a movie
that's got the word super in the title
from 1972, 2002, or 2007?
I'm going to go with 2002.
Okay.
Leonard Maltin gave this movie two and a half stars.
It might be a three or three and a halfer, in my opinion.
I'm going to give you a couple clues from his review.
Then I'm going to tell you how many actors he lists,
because he always lists a pretty big number of actors.
And then you guys are going to bid
on how many names you think it would take you
to guess the title of this particular movie,
going from the bottom of the cast list up.
So the smaller roles up to the lead.
So you want to get the bidding down as low as possible
because then it's really difficult.
And here are your clues.
I just pick a couple of things out of the review.
He calls it gleefully raunchy.
And he says it's anarchic.
I'm pronouncing that right, right?
It's anarchic. It stars anarchic.
Yes, anarchic is in this movie.
Right, she's great. She's terrific.
Yeah. Two and a half stars.
2002. It has the word super in it and there are
nine names.
So how many names do you think you'd have to hear?
You can open with a bid of nine names,
or you can bring it down a little bit
as we throw it to James Gunn.
Then he has to either bid less than you
or ask you to name that movie.
I'm going to go, okay, I'll go four.
Four names, he says.
So James, you could go three, two, one, or zero,
or say name it.
Three.
All right, now we go over to Rain.
Name it, motherfucker! 1, or 0? Or say name it. 3. All right, now we go over to Rain. Name it, motherfucker!
Oh, shit!
So it's got super in the title, that's the thing?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
And I can give you the clues again.
Leonard gave it two and a half stars.
I don't really agree.
He says that it's anarchic, and he also said something else about it.
Okay.
Oh, he said it was gleefully raunchy.
Gleefully raunchy.
Yeah, and it's from 2002.
It has the word super in it.
Okay.
And you get four names.
I got three.
Three names, sorry.
Right?
Yeah.
Your three names are Paul Soter.
Oh, great.
Soter.
S-O-T-E-R.
That's the first name?
Yeah.
Well, it's at the bottom of the nine names.
Oh, it's at the bottom?
Yeah, we're weeding our way up now.
Oh, shit. I thought we were starting from...
Yeah, yeah, see, that's why it's hard.
Yeah, it is hard.
I think Simon needs to name it.
No, then the next name is Kevin Heffernan.
And then the third name is Steve...
I don't know how to pronounce it, but
it's Lemmy, like L-E-M-M-E.
Does that help you at all?
Oh, no.
So it looks like Rain's going to get the point
unless you pull something out. Just name any movie
that has the word super in it and you might get it.
2002.
2002, that's...
I was going to say that movie Super Troopers,
that's not it. Okay, I'll say Super Troopers. You're going to go movie Super Troopers That's not it
Okay I'll say Super Troopers
You're going to go with Super Troopers?
Are you sure?
No but I'm sure I'm going to go with that
Because that's the correct answer
Can I ask
The 2007
Was that super bad?
It was.
Fuck it!
Paul was directed by Greg Mottolo, who directed Superbad,
so that would have been fun for you to pick that one, but you didn't.
I'm pointing at him, you don't even, you don't, you, gratitude.
Moises. Moises.
Moises.
Okay.
So Rain got the point.
Or no, James got the point.
I got a point.
And we'll start over here.
I only get one point?
Huh?
Yeah, one point for that.
We're playing first person to two wins.
Okay.
So the pressure's on for everybody.
But since Rain said name it and James did,
we'll start here with Simon since he
couldn't win or lose on that one.
And you get to pick again.
Would you like movies that
I saw last year at South by Southwest?
You know me pretty well, so you could probably
probably do pretty
great with that.
It's Aaron Eckhart's birthday today, the day
that we're taping this. So Aaron
Eckhart motion pictures
that he's in.
And I gotta keep doing
this category because people love it.
Charlie Sheen.
The motion pictures of Charlie Sheen.
Are we
bored of him yet or should I...
Oh wow.
Let's go. wow let's go
well let's
happy birthday
Aaron Eckhart
let's do that one
okay
I thought I put
three movies in here
but I only put two in
but your choices are
2000 or 2008
mumble mumble mumble
2008 no 2000 okay mumble mumble mumble 2008
no 2000
okay
I shan't be swayed
I shan't
three stars from Leonard Maltin
I don't have a problem with that
he calls it energetic
which I do have a problem with.
I don't remember being particularly energetic.
And then he also says that a real-life person
that you would know that's not an actress
plays a waitress in the movie.
And they're...
People are like...
Three stars, 2,000. Aaron Eckhart's in there somewhere. He's somewhere in stars 2,000
Aaron Eckhart's in there somewhere
He's somewhere in the cast
Can I just name it?
No you can
Can I just name it?
You get to start the bidding
Hang on Rain
One
No you could say zero
Zero
If you think you can get it in zero names
Negative one
Zero
You've never heard this
But this is how we play
Now
Now in negative one names
It's gonna go James is to be next in line.
Actually, we're going the wrong way now.
James is supposed to be next.
What do you want to do?
He said zero.
If you go negative one,
you have to name from the top of the cast list,
the top-billed person.
And if you go negative two,
you'll have to name the top two people.
Or you could just make
him name it. I want Simon to name it.
Okay, Simon. Name that movie.
Zero Names. Aaron Brockovich. That's right.
You knew it too?
We could have gone, what?
Julia Roberts, Aaron Eckhart,
Albert Finney.
See, Albert Finney. You would have won
because I forgot that he was in that movie.
Well, then it's fat.
It would have gone Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, you would have won because I forgot that he was in that movie. Well, then it's fat. It's fat. Yeah. It would have gone Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, then Aaron Eckhart as her long-haired boyfriend.
All right.
That was a good one.
So who got that point?
What happened there?
Simon.
Simon.
So Rain has a point.
Simon has a point.
No, James has a point.
Simon has a point.
Rain.
I get nothing.
Poor word, Joe.
But you get to pick this time, Rain.
It's like a sequel to Pujo, anyway.
You get to decide.
Would you like Esther Williams films?
Rain Wilson films.
Would you like...
I'm just kidding.
I wouldn't...
They're all called Swimming on a Sunday or whatever.
My friend, Sam Levine,
he's actually celebrating a birthday today,
and I said, do you want to pick a category
for me to play on the show?
And he said, sure.
So he wants me to suggest to you guys
films that Catherine O'Hara is in.
Yeah, she's good.
And then let me give you two more categories.
The great Bryan Cranston,
movies that he's in.
Oh, and this is a fun one.
Pullman Paxton.
That's movies that have either Bill Pullman or Bill Paxton.
Pullman Paxton.
Oh, here we go.
Pullman Paxton.
People fucking love Pullman Paxton.
I can never remember which one is which, so I'm going to totally...
You really can't?
I can't.
Have you ever worked with either of them?
I don't know.
One of them.
I don't know. Maybe of them. I don't know.
Maybe.
Big love is Paxton.
Big love is Paxton.
Okay.
They're both so beefalicious.
Independence Day is Pullman, but I'm not going to say any more.
I'm not going to name any of these movies I have here.
So would you like a Paxton or Pullman from 86, 93 or 96?
Oof, yes.
Decisions, decisions.
What year again?
86, 93 or 96?
Everybody's muttering.
They're all figuring out what they think it is.
86.
I love when people in the audience
try to sway
what is it again?
86
83 or 96
that was right right?
no no 93 86
I see what you're doing
86
93
96 all 1900s 86 93 96
All 1900s
96
Is that one?
Yes
Three stars from Leonard
Might be a tad generous
He calls it a wild ride
And he says it was written by a dude and his wife a couple wrote this movie
they were married to each other
those are terrible clues and that's the point
and there are
11 names
how many names do you think you can get it in,
Rainn Wilson, Pullman, Paxton?
Six.
That's a good opening bid.
Which way are we going?
It's Simon's turn, right?
Yeah, Simon.
One.
All right, so James Gunn, you can go zero.
I have no idea, so you're going to have to name it.
All right, name that movie with just one name.
Does this mean you win if you get this right?
If he gets this, he's the winner, yeah.
And if I get it, if he doesn't get it, I win.
Oh, it's everything, isn't it?
Oh.
I wasn't treating it anywhere near as seriously as this.
Do you have a strong feeling what it is?
No.
Alright, I'll give you your one name.
Go on then. Because that might help.
It's Jake Busey.
Doesn't look like it helped.
Titanic. Titanic.
Which one was in Titanic?
Paxton.
That's right.
Thank you.
Thanks so much.
That should just be a game
where I just name movies
that those two guys were in.
You have to...
Independence Day.
Pullman.
Yeah, I said that earlier.
What was that good one that Pullman was in with Ben Stiller? Zero Effect. Did you ever see that? I did. That's good. Okay. Do you have anything, Simon? I was going to
go with Twister. That's correct. Wow.
You and me, Vanessa.
All the way.
There you go.
Sorry, dude.
When I say all the way, I mean all the way.
Who were you playing for?
Who were you playing for?
Vanessa over here?
Okay, Vanessa, you're going to win some awesome prizes.
Normally I have the guests bring stuff for me to give away, but you guys... You really should fly to L.A. for the Paul premiere.
Yes!
You really...
I mean, if you were...
Well...
If you were really...
Gracious.
Yes, I would.
And I would.
I definitely would.
That would be like a much better prize
than what I have in here.
I have a copy of one of my CDs, of course.
I brought a copy of Inception
because I thought Ellen was going to be here.
Oh, that's great.
And why don't the three of you sign this copy of Inception?
Fantastic.
I'll be Leo.
Thanks be Leo.
Go ahead and sign that.
And then I always bring some
woot monkeys.
Is Morgan Freeman in there?
People love woot monkeys.
Which one do you want to be?
You called Leo.
Yeah, I got Leo because I was first.
I'll be...
I want to be Tom Hardy.
Are you going to take Tom Hardy?
I'll be Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Yeah, he's good.
He just put them all
in the next Batman movie, right?
Yeah.
It's just going to be
just like Inception.
Batman's going to
Go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Then Commissioner Gordon
is going to run around
in his head with no pants on.
Alright, there you go.
Let's put it in the bag of gifts.
She can have my bottle
with my DNA on it.
Alright, there you go.
She can make a baby.
You can clone me.
If you're in LA on Monday, by any chance,
are you in LA on Monday?
Where are you from?
Just fly her out on your jet.
On the Universal Jet.
Well, it's broken.
Well, I was just going to say,
if you were in LA on Monday,
you could be very welcome
at the pool premiere.
Yes.
Or tomorrow.
That's what I mean.
That's what I was going to say.
Yeah, just get her
into the screening here.
Right.
That's a done deal then.
And maybe like...
Maybe like dinner before or something like that. Yeah, dinner. Dinner, you done deal then. And maybe like dinner before
or something like that.
Do you like dancing?
Greek sculpture? We could make a day of it.
Alright, you're on.
Breakfast tacos the next morning.
How do you
like your eggs in the morning?
With a song.
That's how I like them.
I never knew I'd get...
Oh, I just got a text from Edgar Wright.
Oh, what does he sign?
Let's see what he has to say.
How's Simon doing?
Is Simon all right?
Simon's there, right?
No, he's in the corridor.
You guys want to play one more round for fun?
We got a couple more minutes.
Let's do it.
Because you're all really good at it.
This is awesome.
Usually, you know, people don't know anything.
I knew it was Aaron Brockovich.
Yeah.
It's all a timing thing.
And probably with six, I would have guessed Twister.
It would have been like Philip Seymour Hoffman,
and then the chick, and the other guy.
Yeah, the chick.
All right, so let's let you pick a category, Rainn.
Would you like Bryan Cranston? Someone's allergic to that Yeah, the chick. All right, so let's let you pick a category, Rainn. Would you like Bryan Cranston?
Someone's allergic to that category in the audience.
Comic book movies or Catherine O'Hara
as supplied by Sam Levine?
I can't win any of those.
Comic book movies, he'll win.
I don't know a single movie Bryan Cranston's ever been in.
So, Catherine O'Hara movies.
All right.
I got to pull up.
Sam Levine.
Sam texted me this.
Have you guys worked with Sam?
I know Sam.
I met Sam.
He's a good little man.
Yes.
Freaks and geeks.
He's a great Tanner Feller.
He turned 29 today,
and he's still getting cast
as a high school student.
It's awesome.
I got to find... He turned 29 today, and he's still getting cast as a high school student. It's awesome. He texted me all this stuff.
I've got to find it.
Oh, here it is.
I got it.
Okay.
Rain, would you like a Catherine O'Hara movie from 1990, 1994, or 2002?
2002.
Okay.
And Sam already picked out the things from the review for me to say.
It got two stars from Leonard.
Leonard calls it lumpy.
How can a movie be lumpy?
This one is.
When you hear it, you're going to be like, yep, you lumpy.
He says it turns serious and sincere
towards the end to no great effect.
Nice try, film.
And there are 13 names listed
in this 2002 movie that has
Catherine O'Hara in it.
How many names do you think you can get it in, Rainn Wilson?
Six.
Six names.
We go to Simon, right?
Well, I'm going to say name it.
Oh.
Oh.
Isn't this exciting?
Call my bluff.
Really?
I have no idea.
It's six pretty good names.
I think they're helpful names.
Leslie Mann, George Murdoch,
Lily Tomlin,
Chevy Chase, Dana Ivey,
Gary Marshall.
That I sort of said
with a Gary Marshall voice. You kind of said said with a Gary Marshall voice.
You kind of said it
in a Penny Marshall way.
Jinx Coke.
Okay.
Do you have any idea?
Lily Tomlin's a good clue.
Chevy Chase, of course.
In a smallish role in 2002.
Chevy Chase? Has he done a role in 2002. Chevy Chase?
Has he done a movie in the last 20 years?
No, I'm not dissing on it.
Yeah, he did this one.
2002?
Yeah, yeah.
Do you have an idea, James?
Is it
I Heart Huckabees?
Mm-mm.
I like the way you said it.
And Lily Tomlin is in that.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think
Captain O'Hara's in that.
This is a tough one.
Let me give you another one.
Yay!
Not only is it a tough one, I think we you another one. Yay!
That was... Not only is it a tough one, I think we played it on the show recently.
It's Orange County.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, but let me give you the
1991.
Alright, two and a half stars.
Wildly successful.
The film has its ups and downs.
You just said it was wildly successful,
Len. And then, this is my favorite,
there's a climactic scene.
And there's ten names.
Les Laisons Dangerous.
Catherine O'Hara movie
from 2002.
How many names do you think you can get it in?
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
2002?
Oh, sorry. 1990.
I don't care.
No, it's 1990.
Two and a half stars.
Has an ending.
I was in junior high.
I'm just kidding.
Paul.
Paul.
Five. Paul Five Paul
It's a fart a minute
I'm going to go see that yawning farting movie
Who doesn't yawn fart?
Okay, how many names did you say?
Five
Alright, Simon
Four
Four
James Five Alright Simon Four James How many names are there overall?
Ten
It's down to four
You'd have to go with three
Do you know what it is?
Name it
Alright
This is going to be rough If you had four names you'd have a shot at getting this All right.
This is going to be rough.
Go on.
If you had four names, you'd have a shot at getting this.
But I think with three names, it's not... Because I don't know any of these people.
Devin Rattray, Angela Gothels, and Billy Bird.
Home Alone.
Really?
That's right.
Wow.
How did you Wow
I'm like
You warlock
It's Edgar
It's Edgar
That's hanging around
It's Edgar
Hanging around with Edgar
That's what it is
But what name gave that away?
Catherine O'Hara
In 1990 to be honest
Very very nice.
I just wanted it to look cool.
Now, for the two players that you guys played for,
who are the...
You two lost, Rain and James.
For your people that you played for,
at the end of the show,
what I do is I call someone a shithead on their behalf.
It's kind of a consolation prize.
So I'm going to go ask them
who I should call a shithead.
You guys just talk amongst yourselves
into the microphones.
Remind us again the release dates of your projects.
So tell us about Super. When's it out again?
April 1st, and then it kind of is a platform release,
and then it goes out in other cities after that every weekend.
And you've seen the finished film.
How do you feel about it, honestly?
I think it's really fucking great.
I've got a feeling it's going to be.
Are you...
I'm a fan of both of you.
You can't go tonight, though.
I can't go tonight
because I've got
an Attack the Block thing to do.
But I would...
We'll have a premiere in LA
on the 21st.
Are you around?
I'd like to come
because I really...
I like you guys ever such a lot.
And I love Ellen Page as well.
And I've been looking forward to it.
I can honestly say, in all seriousness, I've been sort of I've been looking forward to it. I can honestly say, in all seriousness,
I've been sort of tracking it and looking forward to it.
It's not a joke. It's serious.
Oh, that's nice.
Now tell him how shitty you think his movie is.
Fuck Leonard Maltin.
Yeah, well, you know.
He's got opinions.
We'll see. He might like it.
I think Greg Mottola has one of the best track records of any...
I mean, he's directed three movies,
all of which are fantastic films, in my opinion.
He's a great guy, Greg. I'm very excited about it.
Yeah, he's done a great job.
You've directed two films.
True, yeah. All of them fantastic.
That's true. And wrote
one of my top five zombie movies.
No offense, Simon. Thanks.
As long as I'm in that, too.
No, seriously,
Dawn of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead
are two of the best zombie movies ever.
Thanks.
The only ones that are better
are the ones that invented the idea,
and they're not even necessarily better,
but those are my other living dead, Dawn of the Dead.
My super ex-girlfriend
was kind of a zombie movie.
Oh, you mean it was four zombies?
Yeah, exactly.
And starring zombies.
Zombies are the demographic.
All right, well, thanks a lot, you guys.
Let's hear it for these wonderful guests.
Thank you.
James Gunn.
Thank you.
And Rainn Wilson from Super.
Come do us.
Simon Pegg from Paul.
Let me get a picture of you guys as the end of the title is played.
10 o'clock tonight at the Paramount.
Come on down, you guys.
Come see it tonight.
I'm going to get a picture of these guys.
And as always, Julia Roberts is a shithead.
And Dave Foley's first wife is a shithead.
Thank you. 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