The Worst Idea Of All Time - Episode Thirty Four - Corry

Episode Date: November 5, 2018

Guy and Tim are joined by New Zealand's greatest film reviewer and connoisseur of terrible comedies, Dominic Corry. In an authoratitive and wide-ranging conversation the three lads cover the Netflix/Sandler deal, the strangeness of Adam Sandler's mind and what it's capable of creating and Rob! Schneider. Plus a new big scam involving the movie (kinda). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the worst idea of all time episode 34 with myself Tim Batt, me Guy Montgomery and a very special guest. Hi, it's Dominic Corrie here. Very happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Yes, the Dominic Corrie. Professional movie reviewer of... Yeah, you could say that.

Well, you are. What do you mean you could say that? It's 100% true. Well, you could say it because it's true, yes. Touché. And you have his permission. Touché. Now, yes, you're here.

I thought if I agreed with that, it was being self-aggrandizing. Okay, fair enough. On some level. Oh, you're such a classic New Zealander, Dom. Yeah, I know. Just a bloody classic. Holding back. Yeah, so.

First thoughts on the movie, Dom. We've seen it 34 times. You've seen it twice now? This is my second time. I saw it out of choice the first time because I do like Adam Sandler at times times i just eat that mic up by the way brother okay cool cool cool cool um i had kind of i was i was before i watched the second time i've was in a position of sometimes almost occasionally defending this movie to people sure because i had a kind of a mild affection for it just because it seemed to be the film at which everyone's cynicism about adam sand a kind of a mild affection for it just because it seemed to be the film

at which everyone's cynicism about Adam Sandler kind of reached the tipping point and everyone was like, boy, he really doesn't make an effort anymore, does he? And it's kind of like, well, he hasn't been for a while, you could say, if that's your argument about his style of films. But I always sort of felt like a slight defender of it

because as I was saying to you guys before, there's something kind of, you can tell it's just whatever he found funny. it's just his mates sitting around cracking each other up there's something weirdly endearing about that to me but however having watched it again yeah yeah no it's not good see this is like how i for years and years and years kept defending the second two matrix movies and then recently about a month ago um i watched both of them again over a weekend and i was like ah they're terrible they're right like this whole time i've been really well it's more than just i think um i still have the mild affection for grown-ups too that i had before i

just it's not a film you want to watch again you know it doesn't really hold up 34 times my friend so what do you remember what you're thinking when you walked out of the cinema the first time you saw it? I watched it on DVD. Do you remember what you were thinking when you were in this? I remember thinking, I snickered at certain points. These are the reasons I like the film. I like David Spade. It has a very prominent role for David Spade.

Yes. I find the whole idea of the fact that Adam Sandler films are just him sitting around with his mates, cracking each other up, I find that weirdly endearing on a certain level I kind of like the idea that he's only satisfying himself he's not concerned about an audience or the executives or anything it's just whatever stupid crap yeah cracks him up and some of the jokes and grown-ups too definitely you sort of think the only reason that's in there is because it cracks

and sandra out for no good reason you do the adam sandler impression that accompanied that during the film uh the the adam sandler impression laughter where you went let's keep it in all right yeah i don't i can't even i can't even remember no i can't but um that's the beauty of having your own production company, I guess. You get to make those kind of shots about your movies and no one can tell you to fuck off. And he probably has quite a lot of freedom, but the first grown-ups made a lot of money. This one made a shitload of money too.

Yeah, so have they announced a third one? Okay, I'm so glad you brought that up. No, they haven't announced it, but it is almost certainly coming out in 2016, I think. So they're probably looking for a summer release. It's funny because he just signed that deal with Netflix, didn't he? For a movie. I wonder if it'll be part of that.

Surely the people behind this. Absolutely, it will be. But maybe Warner Brothers still have the rights to make the sequel to that or something. Or maybe Happy Madison maintains it. Well, that's the thing. I would think that for an existing franchise like Grown Ups it's probably not

it couldn't be part of that and the Netflix but like as much as we talk about how they shat out this film and they did like it's probably

was shot over a couple weekends I've seen 48 hour films with more artistic integrity than this it's about as plotless

as films get yeah but the Netflix four deal thing i think that they will be fucking finding it in i think adam sandler will be finding it even more than he's finding it in with grown-ups too for those four movies well i mean you'll make them concurrently you'll like run from one stage to another with this it's unclear if they'll even come out at the movies yet oh i think people are thinking that they might get a token day and date release.

But yeah, you'd imagine that if they were going to do it... I would think they wouldn't, eh? Why not? Because it's a Netflix deal. So surely the whole point is that you can... Or does Netflix get to release it first?

Yeah, but I think there's an argument to be made for a high profile film like that might benefit from the awareness that a cinematic release generates. I'm just saying that they haven't come down either way. Right. They haven't announced for certain that it's a netflix and it would be beneficial like

you'd say no but it's just about driving people to the thing for the exclusivity but um all of netflix movies came out of the movies first and that helps films become known about i guess that's true i'm just saying there's an argument there for it probably won't happen but yeah it made me think that I can't imagine Warner Brothers wanting to relinquish the possibility of releasing Grown Ups 2 and 3. It's Golden Goose.

But yeah, there's so little to it. It's taking that idea of Adam Sandler just sitting around cracking him and his friends up to the nth degree in that... What is it, 3 or the Netflix deal? This one. Oh, 2. This film. Sorry, I the back to the film itself

it's hard to keep up you move at a lightning pace yeah it's just uh that's both what's endearing about it and probably what's kind of shit about it you know i know what you mean though it does create a spirit a very true spirit of um albeit very juvenile yeah childish infantile idiotic humor very unfiltered you're seeing the world through Sandler's eyes. You're seeing what Adam... Through Sandler's tinted glasses. Yeah, and it's terrifying. Yeah, the most awkward thing about that as a style of comedy

is now there are kids involved because he's a family man, and so that's his world. And so... Children shouldn't exist in this world. Yeah, it's true. It's true. As I was saying before, I really like That's My Boy. I thought that was a massive return to form for him.

But he's made a lot of stinkers recently, and they've all got some horrible family vibe, like Just Go With It and bedtime stories. Blended, yeah. Blended was the worst. I saw that at the movies. That was brutal. That makes Grown Ups 2 look like Grown Ups 1.

It makes Grown Ups 1 look like Happy Gilmore. Jesus. Was that Samuel Hayek? Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore, that's right. That makes Grown Ups 2 look like Grown Ups 1 And it makes Grown Ups 1 look like Happy Gilmore Jesus Was that Samuel Hayek? Drew Barrymore That's right I saw them doing an interview for that on the Ellen show And it was just not a good watch at all And then at the end they took a selfie

Drew Barrymore did a plug for her own Instagram on the Ellen show Come on you're Drew Barrymore You shouldn't be plugging your own Instagram on TV. That is kind of pathetic. That is fucking low. Yeah. We're embarrassed to mention our Twitter tags on this podcast. And this podcast sucks dick.

This podcast is fantastic. Yeah. The biggest shock for me is that I was kind of like, oh, it'll be fun to watch that again because it's a crummy comedy and I have a weird affection for crummy comed yeah you do and we'll be able to make fun of it with you guys and and i was enjoying it like that for about the first hour and 10 minutes but i just had forgotten how long that party scene is it just goes on and on and i just love the way this is and then we'll we'll culminate when a big party when everyone's dressed up

yeah and we'll have a fight yeah Yeah, there'll be a fight. What was amazing to me is that you were watching it and then you realised the frat boys were arriving and there was going to be a fight. And you were like, oh yeah, I forgot about the fight. You were really upset, but it's hilarious to me. I thought we'd reached a climax by that point. No, exactly.

I mean, where is the thing that happens in the movie? Like, that's meant to be it. And you couldn't even remember that it existed in the first place. The things that I laughed at most the first time I watched it, like genuinely laughed at, I thought a lot of the frat boy stuff was quite funny. Just the overly doing the handshakes and stuff like that. Sure, there's humour there.

Yeah, and I laughed at a lot of David Spade stuff. I think the stuff with his son, it's just weird enough to be funny a lot of the time. This is why it was good to have you for the watch because Guy and I have lost not only perspective on the movie but reality generally as a result of this thing. So it's good to bring in a defender. Actually, at one point, Dom, when I was watching the movie,

your perception on how you were watching it, just the way you explained it to me actually altered the way i was looking at the comedy for about 10 minutes and it was a much more enjoyable film i think that you had a like relative to us i think you were having a pretty good time watching that i'd say for the last half hour that was kind of miserable uh but yeah it was interesting you mentioned reality because i think these films, they do not take place in reality. They take place in some weird sitcom fuzzy land, like even more so than other Adam Sandler films, which stops short of having Family Guy-esque cutaways.

He's gone quite fantastical with this one. There's some real cartoon elements to it. There's a particular sequence when the tyre starts going loose and running through the town with David Spade's character inside of it. There's a real Simpsons couch. A lot of the physical jokes sort of would kill most of the people involved. Yeah, man. Like they kill Nick early in the film. Like very early.

They break his neck. First of all, they hog tie him to the top of the bus, like hanging down like some sort of vampire man. And then they drop the rope. Kevin James drops the rope at his entrance. He lands on... He's been bullied by Adam Sandler and he wants to make an announcement when he comes into the bus. So he's like, alright, what's up motherfuckers?

Bam! I'm going to drop somebody on their neck. Pulls the rope. Nick drops onto his head from about a half a metre forward. In a game of one-upmanship, Adam Sandler takes the bait and goes for it by accelerating the bus and saying watch this

as Nick Swanson's neck collides with the back of the bus so his body travels down the entire length of a school bus

and then smashes into the rear of it which would break his neck again like if there was any hope of him being alive from the drop

he's dead now and if Adam Sandler's response to this as Lenny Fader is you gotta respect that that's what he says that's where we are some some uh shallow part of me enjoyed the physical comedy of his body sliding down and hitting his head i did i snickered silently did you know for a moment like did you let the reality seep into that the kind of medical well what i think about when that ever happens is I think, this is what they're probably doing to Nick Swanson emotionally in real life

when he hangs out with them. And so I feel like that's an effective cinematic representation of the way he would be treated. Here's something interesting. Do you know that Nick Swanson's character is supposed to be the brother of Rob Schneider's character from the first Grown Ups film? They just never yeah it's just but how do you know that it's in like the synopsis and stuff they've got it in a lot of the material but it's never referenced whatsoever in the film now we we were discussing earlier why rob schneider wasn't involved you saying because

he got lowballed in the offer did you read that did you hear that that's what i've heard through the grown-up shape it was a great one a lot of people send us articles through the facebook page and so we read quite a lot about actually you know what i think i read somewhere that his wife was about to give birth and he couldn't go away from her which to me sounds like something you say when you said no and called their bluff and then they they made the movie without you. Oh, fuck. The timeline does fit, though,

because you already does have at least one young kid. Yeah, I thought it might have had to do with that sitcom, Rob, that he stars in. Okay, so you were telling us about Rob. Which was at the same time. Rob! That was an exclamation mark in the title. Thank you, Dominic, for the correct pronunciation of Rob.

God, that's retarded as well because it's such an interesting monosyllabic name to put an exclamation mark on. Rob! It would be like Chris! That's kind of cool if it was Chris Rob. It's true. Rob!

Yeah, but Rob Schneider is such a massive personality. You just got to put an exclamation mark on him. I guess I'm in a better position to judge whether or not the film suffers for his absence because you haven't seen the first one, right? No, sir. Not once. But you have seen him turning up

in all those other Adam Sandler films. Do you think he brings something i love i love it when rob schneider turns oh yeah if we rip his fucking head off you can do it he's great he's great you can do it is like a classic catchphrase from my formative years there's got to be an actual it's probably it would seem weird that like all of adam sanders films are about giving his buddies jobs it would seem weird that like all of Adam Sandler's films are about giving his buddies jobs. It would seem weird that then negotiations would break down. Oh, there's been a falling out, man. Because the thing with Rob Schneider is that he is very like Buddhist. He's, yeah, like he's been practicing Buddhist for at least 15 years. Buddhist. He's been practicing Buddhist.

He's been practicing meditation like very intense forms of meditation for a very long time and he's very into the philosophies of it and stuff and he's he's actually

fucking nutty because because I interviewed him which is how I know about all the kind of zen shit oh when he came over yeah but if you

yeah he did a gig he did stand up yeah he did a stand up show which I didn't go to he co-hosted 7 sharp did he yeah that's odd that's so low He did stand up here He did a stand up show Which I didn't go to He co-hosted Seven Sharp Did he? Yeah That's odd

That's so low But Where was I going with that? You interviewed him No no no You know there's a rift Between him and Sandler He's a zen master

You think there's a rift Between them No fuck I have no idea You know he recently Had gotten a bit of Gotten a bit of trouble He got fired from a A lucrative advertising gig quite recently.

Oh, this is what I was saying, yes. And it links into what I was going to say. What was it to do with it? He was talking about... He is a big believer that vaccines are causing autism. He's a vaccine guy, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's into a lot of that kind of shit, and he's very vocal about it online.

And he was something like the spokesperson. Like, I think he might have been a hired voice or something for a medical company in the States. Because, of course, America and New Zealand are the only two countries that can advertise medicines to consumers. And in America, it's like huge industry. And he's the voice, I think, of a vaccine producer. Like, you know, if you follow up the chain. And then he's coming up with all the shit online that has mercury in them.

And there's like global population programs by the elite and shit. And then they fired him and he was all like what about free speech and I'm oppressed and stuff. Yeah. He's insane. But in kind of a grand, awesome way. Did you miss him in this film? Well, we can't say, can we? Or do you just mean... Just like, do you sit there going

wow, that scene could really have done it I don't, I would never think this film that there's one thing which could come in and fix it. But now that you bring it up, I wouldn't mind just if they chucked in a bit of Rob Schneider. It's actually kind of the grossest part of the first one because the whole gag is that he's got like a 65-year-old girlfriend. He's got this really old wife. That's kind of funny.

He's always pashing her. Oh, really? That's quite a good gag um so your your question really is is there a film to recommend to you tim yeah grown-ups well i'll tell you what after watching the trailer for grown-ups to the cinematic trailer which features almost precisely zero content that made it into the cinema release version of grown-ups there's they've actually got some Grown Ups jokes in there, and they're like, they're all right.

They're good. I giggled. Oh, from the first one? Yeah, the kid says, the adults are talking about getting wasted. The kid's over here, so Adam Sandler tries to cover for it, and he says,

the daughter says, what's getting wasted, Daddy? And he says, it's when you have too much ice cream. So then the kid's like going, I want to get wasted. I want to get chocolate wasted. Yeah, that's from the first one.

That's in the trailer for part two. Yes, and like quite a lot of it yeah so about of the two minute trailer for grown-ups to like you know 15 of that is um yikes and and a lot of stuff that didn't make it into the deleted scene that's very common with comedies eh yeah i actually think there's there's issues around false advertising with that because one instance where that happened that really annoyed me was the dictator that recent sasha baron cohen film there were heaps of jokes in the trailers that weren't in the film and it's kind of like it's one thing to have your trailer fulfill a role greater than just a preview of the narrative but if you set up a scene then that scene comes along you're like oh cool that joke's coming that i like you're sitting there waiting, then that scene comes along, you're like, oh, cool, that joke's coming that I like.

You're sitting there waiting for it and then it never comes. You're like, what's happening? There was about three of the biggest laughs in the Dictator trailer just aren't in the film. Shit, that's weird. And I actually think

that's false advertising. Okay, good point. Let's do something about it. Point well made. We need to get into our segments. Yeah, we do. Because we've only got roughly 10 minutes left. I could talk about this film for hours.

I know. I don't doubt it for a second. We should do a second part. I'll just say one last thing, though. I think I kind of made this point earlier, but the reason I kind of felt a little bit of protectiveness towards it when I'd only watched it once until I was subjected to it a second time and I no longer feel overly protective towards it was that,

as I said, it seemed like the film that people decided they were going to just call Adam Sander out for what he's doing. Like, can you believe what he's doing now? And when it's kind of like, he's kind of been doing that for ages and that's always been a shtick. I think in a weird way,

he's kind of been true to himself. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I just, it's always, I like to fight cinematic snobbery at every turn and and people it's very easy to be snobbish but but uh well you've always kind of said i'm

paraphrasing but your whole vibe dominic is that you've got to assess a movie kind of on its own totally you've got to meet the film on its own terms you gotta you can't be about what you want from a film it's got to be about what that film's trying to do. Yeah. And, and, and, I mean,

that's not the only way to see a film. But you have to say, even with that philosophy and approach, Grown Ups 2, at a minimum, has an incredibly confused tone.

Oh, it's a, it's a bad film. It's a mess. It's not, it's, it's a total mess. It,

there's, there's, there's no through line. It just, it reeks of laziness, as, as you say. Someone sent us an article this week

suggesting that there was no script when they started shooting. That's highly believable. Adam Sandler has come out and said, we ad-libbed the entire film and then released it as a movie and made $180 million off it. It kind of reeks of that.

But there's also kind of something weirdly maybe awesome about that oh it's great he's making the audience come to him he's saying i'll tell you i'm gonna give you i'm gonna give you exactly what adam sandler thinks is funny and if you think it's funny too then come on down someone just adapted friday night at adam sandler's house into a movie it's like what most people turn into a podcast he turned into into a blockbuster somehow. It has the production value aspects of it are what

a sitcom does when they have like a very special episode. It's like, and there'll be a party and costumes and we'll have... The musical episode of any sitcom. Yeah, or like the two part the family goes on holiday special and there's a bit with a quarry jumping you know, it's very innocuous.

But also like... It reminds me of like a weird happy day special where they got out and did something weird for an episode or two. And also just, it's always fun in Adam Sandler films spotting the nepotism, you know, spotting the people he's grouped with.

But this film is constructed entirely of favours or whatever, you know, of just helping out past friends yeah you you theorize during the film that everyone who had a core role got to bring along four friends yeah and they all got to have speaking roles yeah it's like in the sopranos they talk about uh no works and no show jobs it's like these are a bunch of no work jobs you just got to be there and you get paid normally you get swag from these movies if you're in like a certain tier of the cast but in this movie your swag is you get to bring two mates who are on

screen for a portion of it i reckon the other extras will one like walk on roles from radio competition that's probably oh shit yes thanks for reminding me um so Grown Ups 2 has a link to a front page story on today's Herald, which is a massive scam that's being run at the moment where there's this casting agent guy who's created this conference thing where a whole bunch of teenagers are being promised that they're going to get introduced to Disney producers and things like this in America. So the first thing you go to is free and then the second level is you pay them eleven thousand dollars i heard ads i've heard ads for that it's like do you want to be in hollywood

you know but but the service they're offering is like we'll assess your ability we're talent it's fucking mental bro it's such a scare and anyway so Will Wood actually who's a fan of the podcast he um sent me this a while like earlier this week he sent me a link

and he's like bro check out this scam I was like this doesn't smell too scammy to me but he sent it to me specifically because they quote

the fact that some of the casting directors from Grown Ups 2 are involved in this thing so they're like Will introduced

you to the um casting director of some Disney movie and some fucking other thing. And grown-ups too. Grown-ups who are particularly adept in casting people who paid for the privilege as opposed to have actual talent.

Exactly. And that $11,000 package that they're like selling to as many people as they can get gets the kid over to America and like one parent, but not the airfiers. So they like look like one parent But not the Atheist So they like look after one parent or something

But anyway It's fucking mental And the Herald's done like a front page expose On this thing That's awesome It sounds like real nice old school scammery It's kind of charming Like a return to a very analogue

Form of scamming Like something out of The Sting or something It's kind of charming like a return to a very analog form yeah like something out of the sting or something it's kind of like oh and the guy had such a great quote as well they said like dude this really smells like a scam and he said i don't understand what's a scam it's a real date we have a real venue and we put on a real event and if people don't wish to come to the second one they can go about their wonderful day. That's literally what he said. It's amazing. They can go about their wonderful day.

Yeah, a glorious story. Anyway, okay, so we need to rip into the first thingy, which is the Steve Buscemi mystery tour, which you corrected me in the film. Steve Buscemi. Okay. Buscemi. And Matt Groening, yes. Matt Groening is the creator Buscemi. Buscemi. And Matt Groening.

Yes. Matt Groening is the creator of The Simpsons, not Groening. Groening. I'm a pedant. No, it's good. We're all learning, mate. We're all learning. Hey, I just noticed something with the pause screen.

Sorry to interrupt. You know how you pointed out how one of the frat guys was Jared Sandler, who's obviously the nephew or something? Yeah. The credits are behind us, just by the way. Yeah, just above him, Chris Tittone. Tittone is Adam Sandler's wife's maiden name so that's some other nephew too he says you've been dropping some knowledge throughout this movie and podcast we appreciate it dominic um the steve buscemi

mystery tour is where you have seen grown-ups i have i. I can't remember the injury. Yeah. So now, from the clues that you were given, 40% feeling in his body, the touchdown. Is he talking to Kevin James? He's talking to Chris Rock. Chris Rock. Oh, right. Oh, yeah, that's right. So I was going to say maybe Kevin James fell on him.

Is that a good guess? Is that an obvious guess? Could be. It could be. I don't get how the touchdown symbol comes into play. And he analyzed the fun of the segment. Because I know that basketball plays a role in the first one. Okay, okay, okay.

There's a whole thing about, it's so funny how they do the stupid thing with jumping into the pool. Because a lot of the comedic value of the first one is swinging into a lake. It's like, oh, they really evolved that gag. i think it might be something to do with that right um this is just a guess where like kevin james comes off and lands on him or something that would be similar to the theory that i posited i think in episode 29 prawn salad uh that it was no memory it was something to do with steve buscemi Hitting the water in a funny way Because everyone in this movie jumps with such bad technique

I was like well maybe he was at the lake in the first one And he fucked up his jump And he actually got injured So it could If it's a rope swing into water And maybe Someone When Kevin James landed on him

Someone was like touchdown Because he like landed on him someone was like touchdown because he like landed on him I like that but he says that his arms have been held in that touchdown position for two years oh right because he ends up in a

cast maybe so I think it's very safe to assume he's in a cast that has locked his arms in the touchdown position for a very long time, and now he's still only got 40% feeling in his body. So based on those two medical clues, like, go house MD on us.

I'm going to go back to Kevin James fell on him. That would be so funny if it's true, because it's just the same game. It wouldn't surprise me. I'd just be like, yeah, good on you, Sandler. You win this round again. All right. On to the next segment as we whip you for a tour around the worst idea of all time.

Paddy Schwartz. Party time. It's Paddy Schwartz party time. It's party time. You guys are referring to Pat Schwarzenegger. That is correct. Patrick, friend of the podcast. I call him Pat.

I didn't know how to spell his name one time, so I wrote it down in my notes as Patty Schwartz. Guy took one look at that and cracked the fuck up. And ever since then, a segment was born. And a nickname for Patrick. I follow him on Twitter. Yeah, I'm going to follow him after this. You should.

I revere his father, so... Yeah. I'll do that just to support Arnie. So, yeah, the segment is, do I have to pick my favourite Pat Schwarzenegger moment? Absolutely. There's what we're after. Well, there were two bits where he outdid himself with lamelessness, or lamefulness, rather.

When he's following the, you know, elaborate handshake gag. And he's kind of following with his head. He's been instructed to follow the moves of it as if he's enjoying it by the director. But he's just basically kind of acting like a hummingbird, moving his head around. He reacts to every second of it. And he kind of just,

it's almost like he's watching Tinkerbell fly around. Right. And suddenly he's like Tinkerbell fly around. Right. And suddenly he's like, oh, oh, oh. It would be cool to isolate him in like a gif and then throw him in a different scene. Yeah. Like they did with that, you know, that flying bagel with the hockey player. Have you guys seen that? Sorry, I'm off track.

Anyway, he did that twice. And the second time he did it, I think I appreciate it more because he looked even stupider. And he was just sort of reacting too quickly. So that's going to be my favorite moment. The second time, he's following along with Milo Ventimiglia and Jacob Taylor Lautner. Sorry, he played Jacob. Oh, we've revealed you. It's Twilight Colors, man.

I just call him Jacob. And why wouldn't you? Yeah, when he's following along with the handshake and he just looks like a dick. He's probably thinking, all right, your dad's Arnie. You've got to nail this, Petty. Okay. Just don't oversell it. Don't undercook it.

Don't oversell it. Just get it just right. Okay, here we go. Here comes the action. Okay. Whoa, whoa, hey. What's that? Whoa, hey.

Whoa, whoa, hey. Hey, I've got a question for you guys. Do you reckon that Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider are going to be able to patch things up so that he can get into three? Presuming that there's some kind of beef going on, because there's no official story about beef. I feel like if they had had a falling out,

I feel like Adam Sandler wouldn't mind saying that. So I'm still not entirely convinced that something bad happened. i'm still you reckon not entirely convinced that something bad happened i'm still i'm still 51 believing that there was just scheduling issues there's a i don't this is based on nothing and especially his films but i think adam sandler's a nice guy yeah i don't know why i don't know why because there's a lot of i think he's a nice guy no it's similar to what dominic was suggesting before that it's just him

with his friends like you know he looks like he comes across like a nice guy because yeah his friends are in all his movies yeah yeah

his friends are some of the best parts of this movie do you think that's a false flag thing like I've been tricked into thinking no no no I think he might actually

be a nice guy how can we assess the niceness of a celebrity anyway you know like whenever you hear that apparently some celebrity is an asshole i always think well how can you know there's probably always someone who's gonna say that exactly and there's always one incident where you would fucking yeah someone was tired and they no one would hold up to that level of level of scrutiny it was like um justin timberlake's in the country who was oh miley cyrus who came the other day and the paper was like oh she you know um uh ignored her fans were at the airport and it was like 30 people i was like maybe she's had a fucking long day man she's on tour that's like i remember the worst

beat up like that was like years ago some terror shocking story about peter jackson had bought property in some area and they'd found some local who was like, he could have come down and shouted at us all around of beer at the local pub. Oh, fuck you, man. It's like, oh my God.

The guy is technically right. That is something Peter Jackson could have done. Something he could have done. You can't fault him. What an asshole. The tone of the article was wrong. The guy was like,

I'm just saying he could have done that. He also could have done a lot of things. He did a massive hot air balloon and started his own hot air balloon festival called the Peter Jackson Hot Air Balloon Festival. I'm surprised that Arnie lets a guy that's skinny walk around

claiming to be his son. That's someone that I'm pretty sure classic Arnie would call a girly boy. Listen, Arnold loves all his children, legitimate, illegitimate, here and far. He's a lovely man He's a family man Did we see

Patrick Schwarzenegger's Legs in that film Because you know That was his Arnie's classic weak spot As a Mr Universe Competitor Were his calves

Is that right He was Yeah He always He never had big enough calves Well it turns out He eventually did have Big enough

Big enough calves Oh well that was That was just I mean In terms of him being Yeah one, one like 90 times or whatever. That was his flaw if he had one. If you, like, Arnie's such an inspiration. He's such an inspirational figure. If you ever hear him talk, I've heard, like, extended interviews with him.

There was a real good one on that. I love Arnold Schwarzenegger. He just sets out to do shit. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's a super clever man, and he's very self-aware. He was the fucking governor of California. You cannot be anywhere near a dummy and pull that off. I don't know.

He doesn't have an academic background. I'm not concerned about his intelligence level. I just think he's awesome. He made lots of money off of construction when he moved to America. Yes, property, yeah. Did someone say this theory on the podcast before? He started a building company called European Building. It was like he put the word European in front of what they were offering.

It was just normal building. Yeah. But at a much higher price. Right. Because there were these good looking European guys building your house. It's like gourmet building. Yeah. And he made a shit ton of cash and that's how he got his start.

God damn it. And his son can't act. And he can do anything. His son can do anything too I thought Taylor Lautner Was kind of funny Playing a complete jerk Who's probably what he is like

In real life Did you buy him? Oh I guess he's not acting I don't buy any You can't buy any There's no There's no suspension of disbelief At any moment in that film

It's just No what about David Spade? It's a weird How dare you Well he's What about Higgins? David Spade is He does have Stand up affectations To his acting style How dare you? Well, he's... What about Higgins? David Spade is...

He does have stand-up affectations to his acting style, but it suits sitcoms, and it suits sophomore comedies like that. Man, imagine if David Spade did a dramatic role. Like a punch-drunk love kind of move. I would love to see that. Same! I think he's got pathos.

Fucking I'm with you on that. We've got to wrap this bad boy up. We've got to put a bow on him. We've also got to just check out our shining lights very quickly. Hard out. Hard out. I like Brayden Higgins acting at the party. Brayden Higgins was having the best time shooting all of the scenes at the party.

Brayden Higgins' mouth is agape literally the whole time. He's got one speed and that is fucking happy. That was my shining light. My one is also at the party. So Tim Meadows' wife, Mary, in the film, the character's name is Mary, is skiving off every time she's on screen if she's not talking. She just like is taking it hard. And there's a bit where they do, when Adam Sandler is fighting Stone Cold Steve Austin

or about to they're doing the walk off in a circle shot what's that shot called Dom where they do like a pan around the

is there a name I don't know whatever is there a name for it there was lots of editing in the shot that you're talking about when they're doing

the circle like when you particularly do a camera and just run around in a circle around two people I think it's a circle shot during that

so Mary is in the back and she's just like kind of waving at the camera man but she's slightly out of focus cat movements towards the camera does not care and she's you can tell tim meadow because there's other bits where she's skiving off and it's unbelievable that those were the best takes like those are the ones that made it through to the movie we were watching. And you can tell that Tim Meadows is trying to be like... No, no, no. Tim Meadows is mailing it in as well. Not as much, man.

She gets him a few times. She starts cracking him up as well. He doesn't instigate it, though, from what I can see. She's instigating everything. She's like Eve leading Adam astray. I'm looking forward to looking up who that actress is.

Oh, yeah. She's the poor man, Wanda Sykes. Don't say we didn't give you anything from this, Dom. There's a little treat for you. You can go home and Google that actress. Yeah. Yeah, no, I'm going to look at the IMDb trivia page for this movie as well. Oh, it's fucking barren, man.

It's real anemic. We actually need to jump on there and add a bunch of shit for the... We are up to our eyeballs in Grown Ups 2 facts over here. Totally. Also, Shining Light is like a bit you liked. Yeah, do you have... Yeah, please. shit for the um we are up to our eyeballs and grown-ups two facts over here uh also shining light it's like a bit you liked yeah do you have um uh the bit i liked in this one uh trying to think of something i laughed at that i maybe didn't laugh at the first time uh i can give you some examples of when you laugh yeah uh oh Oh, that's cold. The little baby's saying that.

Yeah, but I've seen that a million times. No one needs to have that pointed out to them. Actually, there was one line. What was it? It was a really bad joke, and I laughed, and then Guy laughed at me for laughing at it. Where was it? I think it was something that David Spade said.

Oh, yeah. When they're on top of the quarry and they think they're about to leave and the frat guys aren't going to let them leave because they're going to make them jump off and they go to walk out and he's like, no, don't go that way. And he's like, oh, what?

Is there an elevator or something? Only Spade could have solved that line. Dominic, Corey, it's been an absolute breath of fresh air having you on the podcast. Thanks for having me. We've been going deep into the rabbit hole. It's a tough film to watch a lot, man. That last half hour really lags. Film is your life.

Have you ever seen a movie 34 times? Probably Commandos come the closest. Great choice. Excellent. Do you think that anyone else in the world has watched Grown Ups 2 as much as Tim and I

do you know what I really don't would you say we are the world record holders uh I yes yes unofficially

awesome like do you yeah fuck yeah I'm proud of that okay let's chuck a knife in this one

or a fork or a bowl or something it's done yeah thank you very much Dominic it's been a treat thanks for having me guys alright and a bowl or something. It's done. Thank you very much, Dominic. It's been a treat. Thanks for having me, guys.

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