The Worst Idea Of All Time - Replay S01E34: Corry
Episode Date: March 18, 2024Please enjoy this victory lap of Season One episodes as we celebrate 10 years of The Worst Idea of All Time. New episodes posting on our Substack.Original Description:Guy and Tim are joined by New Zea...land'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.
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And this, our 34th foray into the grown-ups cinematic universe, we are joined by a guest who, they just bring it, man.
You know, you talk about cinephiles, and I have really bad retention, so a lot of information, you know, comes in and goes straight out. But Dom Corey, listening back to this,
he's an endless data source.
And also, you know, shares a mantra,
which is something I've taken with me
from this specific episode of this podcast
into every movie,
which is you have to meet a movie on its terms.
So I think some welcome respite for Tim and I in 2014
and presumably also for you in whatever
year you're listening to this 2024 would be my guess um yeah enjoyable episode learning
learning about Arnie talking a lot about Schneider I actually looked up Rob Schneider's got a um
I haven't told Tim this yet he's got a sitcom i don't know about it called rob not real rob not the one we've covered just called rob one season eight episodes i'm just you know
i'm just saying that he did that um
yeah real some like real uh i'd call them suppose, teasers about the Rob Schneider that we've all come to know
in the intervening decade.
But yeah, really great episode.
Thank you so much to Dom for joining us.
I thought he was funny and illuminating, and I hope you do too. Feel that moment, love every day
Cause before you know it, your precious time slips away
Feel that moment
Ladies and gentlemen, 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
on some level oh you're such a classic new zealander yeah i know i just a bloody classic
uh 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 when at times
just eat that mic up by by the way, brother.
Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
I had kind of, before I watched it the second time,
I was in a position of sometimes almost occasionally defending this movie to people.
Sure.
Because I had 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
you guys before there's something kind of you can tell it's just whatever he found funny.
Yeah.
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, I watched both of them again over a weekend.
And I was like, ah, they're terrible.
Right, like this whole time I've been really...
Well, it's more that just I think I still have the mild affection
for Grown Ups 2 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 do you remember what you were 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 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 the...
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. 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 cracks him up.
And some of the jokes in Grown Ups 2,
definitely you can sort of think
the only reason that's in there
is because it cracks Adam Sandler out for no good reason.
Can you do the adam
sandler impression that accompanied that during the film uh the the adam sandler just the 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 remember doing it 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.
That'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 part, it
couldn't be part of that. And the Netflixflix 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 for 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 yeah because 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 exclusive.
And it would be beneficial.
You could say no, but it's just about driving people to the thing for the exclusivity.
But 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.
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 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 so little...
What is, 3 or the Netflix deal?
This one, this one.
Oh, 2, yeah, yeah, right.
This film, sorry, I'm back to the film itself.
It's hard to keep up sometimes, Tom.
You move at a lightning pace.
Yeah, it's just, that's both what's endearing about it
and probably what's kind of shit about it, you know?
Yeah, I know what you mean, though.
It does create a spirit, a very true spirit of,
albeit very juvenile.
Yeah, childish, infantile, idiotic humour.
Very unfiltered.
You're seeing the world through Sandler's eyes.
You're seeing what Adam... Through Sandler's sandler tinted glasses yeah and it's terrifying yeah the most awkward
thing about that 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 yeah it's true it's true i 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.
Blended.
Time stories.
Blended.
Blended was the worst.
I saw that at the movies.
That was brutal.
That makes Grown Ups 2 look like Grown Ups 1,
and it makes Grown Ups 1 look like Happy Gilmore.
Jesus.
Was thatoa Hayek
or was that
Drew Barrymore
that's right
that's right
Drew Barrymore
Jesus
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 comedies.
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 there'll be a fight what was amazing
to me is that you were watching it and then you realized the frat boys were arriving there's going to be
a fight and you were like oh yeah i forgot about the fight you were really upset but it's hilarious
i thought we'd reached a climax by that point no exactly i mean where where is the thing that
happens in the movie like yeah 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 um so it's good to bring in uh
it's sort of a defender actually at one point don when i was watching the movie i you your
perception on how you were watching it or just the way you're explaining 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 just said for the last half hour that was kind of miserable uh but yeah it was interesting you
mentioned reality because i think um you know these films they do not take place in reality
they take place in some weird sitcom fuzzy land,
even more so than other Adam Sandler films,
which stop 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 kevin james drops the
rope he lands on he's been bullied by adam sandler he wants to make an announcement when he comes
into the bus so he's like all right what's up motherfuckers bam i'm gonna drop somebody on
their neck pulls the rope nick drops onto his head from about a half a meter and a game of
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.
Yeah, 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 is Lenny Fader is,
you've got gotta respect that
that's what he said that's where we are some 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 mention it.
How do you know this?
It's in the synopsis and stuff.
They've got it in a lot of the promo material,
but it's never referenced whatsoever in the film.
Now, 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 Ups.
It was a lot of people send us articles through the Facebook page,
and so we read quite a lot about the backcountry.
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 made the movie without you.
Fuck, the timeline does fit, though,
because you're right.
He does have at least one young kid. i thought it might have had to do with that
sitcom rob that he stars okay so you're telling us about rob that was it was an exclamation mark
in the title thank you don't know for the correct pronunciation of rob uh god that's retired as well
because it's such an interesting monosyllabic name to put an exclamation on rob it wouldn't
be it'd 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 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 films you
think he brings something i love i love it when Rob Schneider turns up.
Oh, yeah.
Rip his fucking head off.
You can do it.
He's great.
You can do it is like a classic catchphrase from my formative years.
There's got to be an actual...
It would seem weird that 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 um uh yeah he did a gig he did stand up yeah he did a stand-up show which i Which I didn't go to. Rob hosted Seven Sharp. Did he? Yeah. That's odd. That's so low.
But where was I going with that?
You interviewed him.
You interviewed Rob Schneider.
You know there's a rift between him and Sandler.
He's a Zen master.
You think there's a rift between Rob?
No, fuck, I have no idea where I was going with that.
You know, he recently had gotten in a bit of trouble.
He got fired from a lucrative advertising gig quite recently.
Oh, this is what i'm
saying yes and it links into what i was going to say what was it to do with it he was talking about
um he is a big believer that vaccines he's a vaccine guy yeah he's into a lot of that kind
of shit 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 for a medical company in the states because of
course america and new zealand 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 they're
just like global population programs by the elite and then they fired him and he was all like what about free speech and i'm oppressed and yeah yeah he's insane but in kind of a grand did you miss him
in this film well well we can't say can we oh do you just mean just like do you sit there going wow
that scene could really have done i don't i would never think of this film that there's one thing
which we could come in and fix it but i know what but like now
that you bring it up i wouldn't mind just if they chucked in a bit of 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 and oh really
it's quite a good gag. So your question really is...
I've got a film to recommend to you, Tim.
Yeah?
Grownups.
Well, I'll tell you what.
After watching the trailer for Grownups 2,
the cinematic trailer,
which features almost precisely zero content
that made it into the cinema release version of Grownups,
they've actually got some Grownups jokes in there,
and they're all right.
They're good. I giggledled 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 the daughter says, what's getting wasted, daddy?
He says, it's when you have too much ice cream
So then the kid starts going, I want to get wasted
I want to get chocolate wasted
That's in the trailer for part two
Yes, and 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 Sacha 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 for it and then it never comes you're like what's happening that happened
there was about three of the biggest laughs in the dictator trailer just aren't in the film
shit and weird i actually think i actually think that's false advertising okay good point let's
let's do something well made we need to we need to get into our segments yeah we do because um
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 Sandler out
for what he's doing.
Like, can you believe what he's doing now?
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 people, it's very easy to be snobbish about it in some of the films.
Oh, completely.
But I mean.
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 terms.
Totally.
You've got to meet the film on its own terms.
You've got to, it 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, I mean, that's not the only way to see a film. But you would have to say. If you're trying to assess a film it's got to be about what that film's trying to do yeah and um and and i
mean that's not the only way to see a film i just if you're trying to assess a film even with that
philosophy and approach grown-ups too at a minimum has an incredibly confused tone oh it's a it's a
bad film look it's not it's it's a total 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.
It's great.
He's making the audience come to him
I'm going to 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 a blockbuster
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 a musical
episode of any sitcom
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 yeah they got out and did something weird yeah yeah and also
just it's always fun in adam sandler films spotting the nepotism you know spotting the people he's
grouped but this film is constructed entirely of favors 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.
It's like in The Sopranos, they talk about 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.
It's like 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 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
And the other extras will all want like
Walk on rolls from radio competition
That's probably
Oh shit yes thanks for reminding me
So Grown Ups 2 has a link to
A front page story on today's Herald
Which is a massive scam 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 $11,000.
I heard ads.
I've heard ads for that.
It's like,
do you want to be in Hollywood?
You know,
but the service they're offering is like,
we'll assess your ability.
We're talent scouts.
It's fucking mental,
bro.
It's such a scare.
And anyway,
so Will Wood,
actually,
who's a fan of the podcast,
he sent me this, like earlier this week, he sent me a link. So Will Wood, actually, who's a fan of the podcast, he sent me this,
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 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 airfares.
So they like look after one parent or something but it's
anyway it's fucking mental and uh the herald's done like a front page expose on this thing
that's awesome yeah it sounds like real nice old school scammery it's kind of charming like a
return to a very analog form of yeah like something out, 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 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.
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, so I don't 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, folks.
Yeah, just above him, Chris Titone.
Titone 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 can't remember the injury yeah so 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 analyze 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.
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.
I have 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 then he actually got injured.
So it could, if it's a rope swing into water.
And maybe, maybe someone, when Kevin James landed on him,
someone was like, touchdown, because he like landed on him.
No, but he says.
I like that. he like landed on him nobody says i i like that
but he says that his arms have been held in that touchdown position for two years oh right because he's because he ends up in a cast maybe yeah exactly so he's 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.
Patty Schwartz.
Party time.
It's Patty 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
It's Paddy Schwartz
Guy took one look at that
And cracked the fuck up
And ever since then
The segment was born
And a nickname
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.
Yeah.
But he's just basically kind of acting like a hummingbird, sort of moving his head around.
Yeah, he reacts to every second of it.
Yeah, and he kind of just, it's almost like he's watching 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 uh jacob taylor lortner sorry he played oh you've revealed your twilight colors yeah i just
call him i just call him jacob and why wouldn't you uh uh 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 gotta nail this petty okay just don't 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 oh hey what's that whoa hey
whoa oh oh hey 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 if they had had a falling
out i feel like adam sandler wouldn't mind saying that so i'm 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 evidence 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... Yeah, he looks after people.
He comes across like a nice guy.
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 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 about 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 on 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 did 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
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 us all a round of beer at the local pub oh fuck you oh my god well the guy is the guy's
technically right that is something peter jackson could have done i mean he could have done you can't
fold it was just the tone of the article was wrong because i'm just saying he could have done that
he also could have done a lot of massive hot air balloon 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 Patrickartzenegger'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 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 one like the main right that was that was his flaw if he had one if you like arnie's such an inspiration he's such an
inspirational figure have you ever hear him talk i've heard like extended interviews with them
there was a real good one i love arnold schwarzenegger he's just he just sits out to do
shit arnold schwarzenegger he's super clever man and he just like he's very self-aware
he's a fucking governor of california like 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 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 to start god damn it and his son
can't act and he can do anything his son can do anything i thought taylor lortner 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 like that.
I don't buy any...
You can't buy any...
There's no suspension of disbelief
at any moment in that film.
No? What about David Spade?
It's a weird pantomime tell.
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
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 gotta wrap this
bad boy up
we gotta 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.
and they're just 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 is taking it hard.
And there's a bit where they do,
when Adam Sandler is fighting Stone Cold Steve Austin,
or about to.
And they're doing the walk off in a circle shot
what's that shot called Dom
where they do it
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
like when you particularly
do a camera
and just run around
in a circle around two people
I think it's a circle shot
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
doing little cat movements
towards the camera
does not care
and she's
you can tell Tim Meadows
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
You can go home and google that actress
Yeah
I'm going to look at the IMDb trivia page
For this movie as well
It's fucking barren man
We actually need to jump on there and add a bunch of shit
To our eyeballs
And grown ups too
Shining light is like a bit you liked
Yeah The bit you liked.
Yeah, do you have... Yeah, please.
The bit I liked in this one...
I'm trying to think of something I laughed at
that I maybe didn't laugh at the first time.
I can give you some examples of when you laughed.
Yeah.
Oh, that's cold.
The little baby's like that.
Yeah, but I've seen that a million times
No one needs to have that pointed out to them
I 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?
Yes.
Yes, unofficially.
Awesome.
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.
Thank you very much, Dominic.
It's been a treat.
Thanks for having me, guys.
All right. And as always, don't watch the movie. It's been a treat. Thanks for having me, guys. All right.
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