we're on a mission from god wendy so i got that going darling i picked the wrong way to quit sniffing blue light of my life we enjoy your films i thought they smelled bad on the outside [Music] welcome to vintage video where we're re-watching the 80s so you don't have to we'll be reviewing every major film release of the 1980s in real time i'm patrick o'reilly i'm jesse bayless and i'm richard wells and today marks the 40th anniversary of the release of nothing personal on march 28 1980. it was written by robert kaufman directed by george bloomfield and released by american international pictures who also released mad max and defiance and as much as i love mad max i'm glad they're gone in his review of this film ebert accused it of being a canadian tax haven which required a certain percentage of the cast to be canadian actors okay uh explaining donald sutherland's presence as well as a few other people well i liked the i think this was the tv guide review of it it's a good example of how a deal gets made and a picture doesn't nothing personal is a canadian tax shelter manufactured to take advantage of the concessions north of the border with several canadian featured players this uh this was summer's first major film role after a successful television career and she almost didn't recover from this disaster right she didn't do another film until 94. for cereal mom so pretty rough reviews on this one uh the opening credits say original music by peter mann i do not like the music here yeah um but i like peter man which is what um ron livingston's neighbor calls him an office face hey peter man um when when this started uh showing footage of seals my first know was oh god is this gonna be about clubbing seals oh yes no no not at all it's a riotous romantic comedy yeah oh it's also actually it's in the guinness world record it's the first rarest romantic comedy with actual footage of baby seals being clubbed yeah my god there was and when we say actual footage like they were definitely some shots where they were like fake hitting like stuffed things yeah there was shots where they were actually moving seals in them and there were people with like clubs and stuff i think some baby seals got harmed in the making of this film yeah well as far as i know that the warning that no animals were harmed in making this film they started that in 83 um with uh octopussy because they jumped that horse off of a castle oh yeah yeah and uh that was the first movie to feature that warning i think that was one of the truth technically no animals were making of this film because that film was already made right and at the time uh they just used actual footage yeah baby seals getting close like who took that footage where did that footage get instructional this is how you do it also there was a some coal company uh had a law declare that baby seals are technically plants so you can club them all you want it's totally fine um that's not true what are you talking about it just seems like weird laws that happen like tomatoes are botanically fruits but they're legally vegetables like one of those things shipping purposes ducks can't wear pants in florida they actually finally repealed that thank god we opened the film with a pointless like millennial lecture talking about kids these days and how they're terrible yeah we also get like maybe a mash reference oh yes the signs you go oh yes you mentioned it when we were watching it you're like is this a reference and i'm like no that was just oh wait that was ten years ago yeah okay it could be yeah there's there's one of those signs out in front of the university pointing in every direction and saying how many thousands of miles away all these major cities are yeah but back inside the building we're in like some faculty room where a couple of professors are talking donald sutherland is just smoking up a joint what are you smoking that [ __ ] for for christ's sakes it's how i prepare for my classes wow these other professors are talking to him and this one is just going a mile a minute on this lecture about how activists these days are a waste of time and if it sounds like he's specifically ripping on the cast of a small circle of friends yeah it was really kind of like coming off of that movie yeah i was like oh okay yeah and uh this is the screenwriter giving this love yeah the rancher is the screenwriter yeah yikes uh we moved to the classroom where peter a regular problem student and proficient sweater um brings up that baby seals are being clubbed to death very nearby that's why he looks wet you think he's just sweating he looks soaking wet do you think he was swimming to get photographs of the seals yeah it's like where where are they are they i think they're intellectually they are in atlanta they're in alaska i was never certain where the heck they were yeah and where they think that's the point of the sign at the beginning like look we're really far away from everything we're in alaska this is how far stuff is yeah because they because we live here on a dare yeah welcome to alaska i can't remember where i was reading uh because i was doing when i was doing my research someone mentioned his home state of alaska it was like was he he was just from alaska like he didn't didn't it didn't take place no this is good yeah his school that he's at is in alaska um but yeah this kid shows up and he's just dripping wet maybe because he was swimming around getting footage of people beating baby seals i'm not sure but uh he says they are killing seals out in dawson bay and he says well you know they're allowed to do that and he says no they're not these are endangered seals he says okay well if you have proof then you can take them to court he's like oh i have proof and then just cuts to the next day donald sutherland finds a dead baby seal on his front porch and yeah peter what yeah this is ugh this movie is not fun or enjoyable in any way i did not need to see a bloody seal on somebody's doorstep in this you know jaunty romantic comedy yeah and this is where i wrote my note oh god it is about clubbing seals yeah but the horrible realization that i was right yeah i was making a bad joke and i was right yeah so he uh he goes back to the school where peter is actually screening footage and this is where we get actual footage of people clubbing either dead or fake seals and then footage of someone taking basically a crowbar to a live seal yeah this was horrifying to me i can't believe they actually showed this footage that was totally a real seal getting hit with like a crowbar and i mean not hard enough to kill it like it and it could have been a rubber or styrofoam crowbar but this looked to me like real footage of a seal getting clubbed in a comedy and not a lot of romantic comedies will survive this scene this one doesn't uh surprise appearance by uh catherine o'hara yeah katherine o'hara as audrey i don't think anyone says her name but she's credited as audience yeah it was like so does she even have a line uh she says a little bit like it's like can we do anything to stop this or something yeah she has to have a line because she's canadian and they're trying to get that money yeah no yeah um but i was like is that catherine o'hara yeah okay uh the professor goes to talk to the dean and he's like hey they're clubbing baby seals and that's illegal and the dean's like i'm a dean and you're a professor why are you telling me about this and then he says no that's not what he says he says go to washington i'll pay for it you can go to washington and tell them that they're clubbing baby seals makes no sense why is that the professor's job is there a phone call we can make i think he's a law professor but but he's not a legislator like yeah i don't know why the school would think this is a good idea to pay for this trip this is also alaska apparently so i guess maybe the rules are different yeah for that in alaska every night they have to deputize the entire state but also uh in addition to sending him to washington to solve this problem he also wants him to go to like canton or akron or somewhere to like complain to some razor company that he can't get his razors out of the box on one condition you stop off in canton ohio on your way back here and get these dirty bastards too yeah i thought he was joking about that but then they bring it up again later as if yeah he's not joking yeah um but uh so the professor takes a per diem and money for a flight and goes to washington and stays at the dulce house which is a small hotel in washington dc run by a fellow history buff who uh squares off with donald tuthill and when he's checking into the hotel like sharing constitutional trivia he tells him oh well you should stay in room number four that's our special room it has a good view of the jefferson monument and that's where george wallace stayed i have to say paxton is my favorite character in this movie yeah just just because of who everyone else is yeah he's not particularly great uh but when he when sutherland first walks in he's like hi i'm a professor and he's like oh that's great i need a word that starts with l and ends with s and is ten letters long that means talkative and he's like oh loquacious and he's like now i need an eyeliner he said can i just check into the hotel please but uh we get pretty terrible aerial stock footage uh we have aerial footage of the pentagon with a big scratch in it yeah it's it's easily footage that seems like it's 20 30 years old straight out of the 50s yeah yeah well but speaking of footage feeling old this like this whole movie feels older than 1980 to be i the reason for that i would say is in addition to being a bad director he shot everything like they were on a soap opera and so it's like very uncharacteristic uh cinematography and camera work everyone's dressed up like they're in a photo shoot no one's dressed up like how people dress i wonder if it wasn't also shelved for a while i think this was actually rushed out i don't think they sat on this because suzanne summers was huge because of three's company at the time and they were like we need to get her in theaters right away and take advantage of this on on the box office level because all we're getting right now is advertising money i think they say the year 1979 at least once or twice we'll get into that because that there's um there were a couple moments in this where i turned it off and was going to call you and say don't watch this movie we're done and we're not going to review this unfortunately you had already watched the movie and we felt so guilty about having made you watch such a terrible movie that we we turned back on yeah and we finished it but they just kept saying things that would make me angrier and angrier and we'll get into that um but it just nobody cared about this movie they they did it very very quickly and it shows in a lot of places but so he goes to meet with the military for some reason this professor is granted a meeting with like the air force the brass of the of the military in the air force and they're showing him like top secret classified satellite photography of china and they're saying well we got to worry about icbms from china he's like i think you mean russia he said no china look at this dot the tiny black dot there in the lower left hand corner wait i'll magnify it 50 times oh now it's a bigger dot yeah those are icbms or it will be in two years see i thought i felt like they were trying to be really like satirical or yeah comedic but there's nothing funny about it yeah funny yeah and it's like oh the joke is that he's not getting any more information by zooming in on the black dot it's like okay but is that funny just zooming in on the dot no i agree that it isn't funny but i i also think that they were trying to be funny right no i agree i think this movie is trying to do a lot of stuff what's funny is that it's not funny what's funny is how often it fails what's funny is that we're still reviewing it yes roger goes to meet with a senator that he knows like first hand and he just but just calls him senator yeah we never even he's even just credited as senator right but he i think he's a senator from alaska makes sense and uh because he says something like oh they're building this thing and they're gonna get rid of all these uh all these seals and then he says well they're they're also bringing ten thousand jobs to the area and if i try to shut it down then the republicans are gonna hand me my walking papers at the next election because i prevented them from killing all these seals and and by the time you get someone to even notice you the seals were all gonna be dead right because there was at the beginning of the film we get a population of about a thousand and by the time he's giving his presentation to the stockholders it's down to like 300 but yeah so roger and speaking to the senator embarrasses himself multiple times by just saying oh but china china's our friend like china's great we love china and it's like who knows more about our relationship with china a senator or just a random professor are we selling this film to china yeah um and then the senator says you look just like shirley maclaine when you said that i'm not sure what that means maybe that made more sense at the time or he's just saying like oh how naive of you to just assume that china's our friend or but even donald sullivan goes what yeah like he doesn't even get the reference in his own movie but donald sutherland is a wonderful man and a great actor and he's not trying in this movie at all he's literally just delivering every line with the same like nothing no flare no any interesting delivery he's just he's just here to collect those sweet sweet canadian loons yeah he's just doing he's doing the table read on set he's not acting and uh he goes back to the hotel he calls paxton because his tub is leaking and paxton's like right away i thought you'd never ask and then he goes up to the room and we're like oh god what is happening yeah i was like oh my um yeah so paxton walks in holding a big list and he's like oh you already have some names and he's like yeah and it's like well just call whoever you think is the best and he's like you don't have like a regular person and he's like why would i have a regular lawyer and he's like no i i need a plumber i don't need a lawyer that the tub is overflowing he's like i wrote a note and i hid it in the medicine cabinet you didn't read it and i was like no i don't bring medicine to hotels he's like i wasn't sick i was dirty yeah and so the tub is overflowing and there was a note not to use it i guess or to use it in some specific way that it yeah i'm not entirely sure what the note was for yeah it was i rented you the best room in the house the tub doesn't work and the whole bathroom's broken that's the best room we have so just be happy you're not in the other rooms but yeah he has a list of lawyers because he knows what's going on and he knows because he was listening in on his phone calls oh that's what that's hey there aren't a lot of perks to having to run a hotel but being able to listen in on the switchboard is definitely one of them right but also in addition to knowing a lot about uh the constitution he also has some family that are trying to be lawyers now and it seems like they're setting him up to like know a lot about the law and be helpful but this list he has sucks yeah uh the lawyers are all taken or they're lawyers in a different type of law divorce tax rape yeah everyone's like if i plan on raping someone they're gonna help me yeah it's like help you yeah if you rape someone isn't it shouldn't it be the other way around no there's there's plenty of attorneys that specialize in helping people get away with rape you never heard those radio commercials where they're like like oh are you are you driving really drunk well don't tell the cops that tell me and it's like this person is terrible i can't believe you could buy an ad like this on the radio it's like i get that some people need attorneys for like dui situations don't presume the guilt of the person in the radio ad at least pretend that you're defending an innocent person well and here he's even saying if i plan to rape someone not not if it just happens in the spirit of the moment but if i've gone out and planned it i'll make sure i get my lawyer ahead of time yeah that's that's rape one right isn't it that's like murder if it's premeditated i don't know but yeah he goes to the yellow pages instead because this list of lawyers is terrible and i don't know where this guy got it and he goes to a adams the very first name in the list and they're trying to keep their dumb political jargon going and so this a adams literally stands for abigail adams which is pretty famously the wife of the second president of the united states right and he goes to meet with her to be his attorney but thought that there was a different a adams there he didn't even ask who a adams was when he called the office of the appointment um and so when he gets in she's like well uh i'm the attorney and he's like wait no but but you have booby parts you're the attorney yeah see no and he's like so thrown back that it's just like okay well i hate this character which one am i supposed to like because this person is obnoxious and he says it's nothing about you being a woman it's like i think 100 percent in your mind that is about that yeah you blatantly said that you're like where is he oh it's you oh okay never mind then um yes you can help me get me the yellow pages please she's like you're not even gonna give me a chance and uh and she you know she reads off all of her she she went to harvard law she graduated magna [ __ ] laude like she's she's completely qualified and she has plenty of time because no one will hire her because she's a woman and uh he decides that he's going to try other attorneys in the yellow pages and he's literally just going in alphabetical order which she predicts because he came to her first and so she decides she's going to intercept him and she can skip a few names that she knows aren't going to be helpful to him and so he meets her at like the third attorney's office that he goes to and she's like well i knew you would go to this place and this place and this place first and they would all not be helpful so i met you here and she's trying to show how like savvy she is and how she can predict things and stay a few steps ahead of everybody she lets him know that dunbar construction is very sensitive about pr that they've cancelled three million dollars in ads during a detective show because the pta said that it was too violent and uh and he's like okay fine you want me to hire you then like what's what's going on she's like well i also know that you don't have any money but i want you to tell people that you paid me 25 000 because she needs to have an image yeah an image and she wants a reputation of having been paid by someone so here she's begging to work for free for this guy and after he hires her for no money which is the same as what was going on before this conversation happened she elaborates that dunbar also funded nixon's re-election and they recently fired a gay vice president who in the middle of a flight got up and admitted that he'd had a relationship with someone else that worked at the company or something it doesn't play any part in the future of the film it's just like i have embarrassing information about this company and we can share it and it's like wait i was hiring you as an attorney to stop them from clubbing baby seals right wasn't that what when that way i was looking for an attorney i forget why i was looking for an attorney because we never file a lawsuit or anything and we never do anything that attorneys do we're just pretending we're two pi is trying to solve a mystery even when attempted murder occurs we don't do anything yeah um so they decide they're going to head to a stockholder meeting in philadelphia which is where this company is headed in the cab on the way to the stockholder meeting he says well shouldn't we have some clothes and she says oh i don't need any he's like well what about undergarments and she's like roger this is 1979. 1979 you don't change your under things no i mean i don't wear any and he's so like flabbergasted by that that he can't talk to her anymore then on the train while they're heading to the stockholder meeting he's sitting down and writing the lecture that he's going to give because he's a professor so he just writes lectures and he's literally just going to lecture people to stop doing this he doesn't want to give them any financial motivation to stop clubbing seals or legal injunction he just wants to say stop it for a really long time so he's writing stop it over and over again on yellow legal paper and then abby abigail says oh i have an x in philly also i'm extremely horny right now sitting next to you what's that supposed to make it means i just got horny sitting next to you it's a train and he doesn't react to this line read at all because it comes out of nowhere and makes no sense and he's just basically says like oh it's the train like it's not weird that you said that but uh it's the train and you're not you're not actually horny for me we we already covered that she wants to be taken seriously as a female attorney and the first thing she does is tell her client oh by the way i don't wear underwear and i'm super horny for you right now this is incredibly infuriating yeah she's awful i feel like you're having to to chime in here because i'm just l sitting back here like rolling my eyes at this film i'm just like i cannot i don't know what why did this movie get made how did this movie get made dabney presents the plan to them dabney coleman is playing uh sort of an assistant to the head of the company yeah he seems to be very important he's even got like a like an office off of his office right like like he's that's how close he needs to be yeah he has his own secretary but he is telling them the whole plan for oh after we kill all the seals we're going to build this whole community up there and it basically like they're pretending it's for national security but really it's just to build a community that they can charge a lot for and again this is in alaska right where the home prices must be high well he says that the homes that are in this community the homes are selling for 50 to 75 000 right which but then he implies that they're they're you know that that's high enough to keep out right riffraff yeah we wouldn't want any poor people or you know ethnic people in this area he's showing them where all the schools are because they're obviously a man and a woman so they plan on having children and he says these are the two elementary schools we kept them close together because uh we didn't want any uncomfortable busing issues but we think the house pricing will prevent that in the first place so so they're making a track so that we can at least put some people on the other side of it right yeah but also uh he says this is going to be the largest shopping center in america in alaska small town in alaska which clearly there's nothing there right now because it's just as much as seals breeding so they're building a small community with the largest shopping mall in america so i mean i don't know if we if i should say this where we live there is a major outlet shopping center right it's a big deal and people do travel here from three or four cities over but we live in a city in here that's over a hundred thousand people yeah and so i get that i get and it's not even the largest it's just a large one but there's lots of people in the area to come to it i'm sorry alaska you are not as pop densely is populated of state yeah and i'm assuming that this is more in the southern portions towards juno yeah and it's on the coast yeah it's in that little like leg that shoots down off the bottom of alaska so where are all these people going to come from they're all the people that built the thing it's going to be like a martian expedition where it's like the only people that live there are the people who built it because they have to repopulate alaska it's like that shopping center they opened up in simi valley the the big new one yeah yeah and it's completely falling apart and all the stores are pulling out because there's not enough people there it's happening at the mall of america too all this stuff they're losing a lot of their their people that that had stores there for decades well also we've got a little bit away from consumerism here and you know people aren't going to malls well at least brick and mortar consumerism is going away so the only reason the malls are still there is because they're covering the missile silos that's the only reason that we keep them around or or secret russian uh underground bases yeah i like that line in bridesmaids though when melissa mccarthy like when they're all on like the they're all on the the group phone call and every time they show melissa mccarthy like there's like a war room map behind her with like a bunch of flashing lights on it i was like cracking up like that was such a hilarious joke that whatever she's doing that's behind her and then later on they explain that she works for homeland security and she's like oh yeah i know where all the nukes are a lot of malls [Laughter] but uh yeah so uh dabney gives them this whole presentation assuming that they're man and wife and then right in the middle of it don't you think it's weird that he's giving this presentation like he seems like the right hand man of this company why would like the vice president of this company be giving to a guy who owns one share of stock one ship well not only does he owns just one share of stock but maybe the this this couple is interested in buying one house but apparently they're so desperate i guess to get people in this community that he'll spend you know an hour of his time explaining this whole community to them yeah yeah it's weird it's it's just as weird as the fact that the professor can just walk up to a senator or to the head of the air force and ask for information and they're just like completely obliging but apparently they went in and they were like i'm a stockholder tell me about your homes and he's like right away let me get you this the the second in command to give you the full lecture about what's going on but instead of continuing with the ruse for no reason donald sutherland just suddenly blurts out you must stop killing the chihuahua seals in dawson bay he's like what are you talking about and he's like you're killing a bunch of baby seals in the area where you're building this she's like you talking about this this place that we're there i don't i don't know what you're talking about like i never heard anything about this and uh they're in like a bar they move to a bar at the bottom of the hotel and while they're in the bar like they get a couple drinks and they have more of an argument and daddy's like look i can't i can't believe that this is happening i didn't know anything about it we'll find some humane way to kill all these seals and then donald sutherland just assaults him in the bar in front of all these people understand it's not how they're killed that matters it's that they're being killed at all you're dumb bastards it doesn't matter i gotta make this [ __ ] understand and he freaks out on him um and they're like escorted out of the room that night abby strips completely naked pulls a blanket over her feet puts a pillow over her boobs and um tells donald sutherland to come into the room so that he can give her paperwork for what their plan is for the next day once again so incredibly infuriating like i really want you to take me seriously so i'm just gonna invite you in my room while i'm naked right um and then she acts like he's the prude for being like why are you suddenly completely naked like if he'd have been like hey can you bring me my briefcase and she came in and he just had a sock on his junk and he was like what's so weird about this why are you being weird come over and touch my junk but um she she just acts like it's totally normal what she's doing and she says i'd come over and get the paperwork from you oh i can't do that i tied my ankles together with a pair of shoelaces oh yeah what you see is the promise i made to my mother when i left home you know in case some insane rapist should break through the door and want to have his way with me now the shoelaces will prevent that eh unless he decides to turn me over which is the first of four crudely shoved into her mouth butt sex jokes yeah over the course of this movie it keeps happening i don't know why it happened so many times but this is the first one um i love that we have a tally yes uh roger tells her that uh what she needs to learn because she's such a dummy is that her [ __ ] is not the most important part of her uh it doesn't define her even though it's the reason that he wasn't going to hire her as an attorney it has nothing to do with her except for her ability to be a lawyer yeah so i just want to point out as we're discussing these scenes that um her husband and manager suzanne summers husband and manager are executive producers on this film so these are the guys that put her in this movie yeah well they would have to be because they were probably who else would she do this for yeah he's like it was probably like we need to get you out of this movie he's like what if we make you an ep i'm listening donald sutherland makes a point about how he wishes he had those pictures of the baby seal he's like you know what i should have done before i came out here to make a case about the baby seals should have brought like any evidence at all that that happened yeah and she's like well you know i could probably get those pictures blown up for you or bring the freaking film yeah the film would be actually more useful that was pretty terrifying for me and uh and she decided she's gonna call her ex that she said lives in philadelphia and she's gonna have him blow up these pictures for him because he works for some photo place and so she calls him in the middle of the night and is really flirty with him and then when she hangs up she's like oh no i forgot i'm just using my [ __ ] to get things and this isn't how i'm supposed to do it so oh i guess i just better be a lawyer and he's like no no it's fine you can hoard up just help me save some seals and she's like oh thank you and then uh every that's another thing that bothers me every time she's on the phone or anyone's on the phone they're constantly repeating what the person on the other side of the phone is saying so that we know the whole conversation how else would we know well yeah it's just like just say your half of it and we'll figure out what it but she's like oh yeah no yep we were in a relationship oh wow it's still a record for you is it oh that's interesting and it's like uh you didn't need to repeat everything that he says and he's confused why you're doing that that would be a really weird conversation to have with someone where they're just repeating everything you say they get to the hotel the next day and right before the stockholder meeting a car pulls up with these massive pictures in the back of it and her her ex-boyfriend is helping her take the pictures out her ex-boyfriend being eugene levy yeah i totally missed that yeah yeah as the guy playing her ex-boyfriend um which is funny because him and catherine o'hara are husband and wife on on ship's creek um and both canadian right and there's the reason why is because the director uh directed a lot of sc tv and so he put a bunch of sctv people in here there's another couple that we haven't gotten into yet but uh they take all these pictures in and roger gives this like impassioned presentation to all the stockholders he basically turns them all around including this this bizarre character named henry or francis yeah um there's like this older gentleman that's standing next to roger and he's like oh wow this is great yeah i make a motion that we should save the seals and he's like thank you frances and he's like oh i'm not francis francis my wife i lost my name tag she's shopping today it's like what what's happening yeah okay why because he's almost upset about it he's like my name's not francis i'm henry my wife is francis i'm wearing her badge because i lost mine and she had to go shopping today yeah like he's getting like more and more fluffy yeah it's just stories words that didn't need to be in the scene not funny and i wish this movie would be over sooner they were just like can you can you talk more because we need more canadians with lines and he's like i guess i can i don't know why my character would talk here yeah neither do we anyway action but it doesn't matter that all of the stockholders vote that they're gonna put the plan on hold because one stockholder has a majority more shares yeah well yeah he has the proxy shares yeah so he he's the representative for people who aren't at the meeting and he is voting for them yes and they have decided that they are going to move ahead with the plan so they get on a train to go home or no they get on the train to washington um and abby tells roger that he cannot quit and she follows him to his hotel room as they're walking up the stairs uh paxton sees them and he says oh this is my attorney and then paxton for no reason it's none of his business this guy paid for a hotel room he says i want to believe you but why i don't understand that because you're a hotel person that owns a hotel and this is a a person that rented a room and brought a woman up but i think the implication was that they're going to have sex right yes why jackson care well paxton doesn't care this is what what part about why does he want to believe him because paxton's character is that he's very forthcoming he doesn't want humans to reproduce no he just wants people to be honest and pay attention and so so when he says i want to believe you he's just mad that he's getting lied to yeah because then he yells about them about it the next morning he says why wouldn't he just say i believe you what he says i want to because he's saying you're lying already it's like i want to believe that that's true and then why does he want to believe it's just a stupid stupid line reading it's not even he shouldn't be saying i want to believe i'm not justifying it i don't believe you're i think why it's funny but it's not funny but it's saying this movie it's terrible let's move on okay i see your first mistake because you're trying to explain why something that isn't funny is funny exactly but the fact that he says i want to believe you oh my god please stop please stop he wants this to be the truth yes but he shouldn't care because he's a guy who rents rooms to people to have sex in [Music] that's what hotels are for i don't know if you knew that listeners but yeah he says that peter calls roger from the school peter is the student that brought the clubbing of the seals to uh roger's attention and and roger says what's that you put my face on every telephone pole in juneau oh yeah no i don't mind being a hero no i'm not surprised at the support you get from the town at all oh you want to have a parade in my honor and it's just the most obnoxious dumb phone call technique i just want to point out that there's a lot of times that you paraphrase things in in like an ironic way or like a joking way no no that is exactly what he sounded like and exactly what he said my face on every telephone pole in juneau oh yeah no no yeah i i'm sure i don't mind being a hero and it's so frustrating to listen to then we get the moment where i almost turned this movie off or did turn the movie off a couple times uh roger and abby once he gets off the phone she says see i told you you couldn't quit and leave those poor seals to die and then he just rubs his mustache all over her face for like 45 seconds and it was driving me insane and they're talking about nothing they're not furthering the plot at all and they're not kissing even they're just touching their faces together and he's just smashing his face all over her face and that's how you kiss in alaska oh is that are they doing eskimo kisses or something anyways it's gross and weird what they're doing and they keep doing it for a really long time and i couldn't stand watching it and the weird little whisper talk that they're doing to each other and then they have sex and then we cut to the next morning after they've had sex and the bathtub is running over again because she didn't get the note that was in the medicine cabinet either and so paxton arrives to fix it because presumably it's dripping into the first floor right and so he's already there to fix him he's like ah i told you what to do and you lied to me and how dare you have sex in the room that you paid for and uh roger's trying to hide her from paxton he's like get under the bed i don't want paxton to know that i have sex with ladies and uh and she's like roger this is 1980. this is ridiculous in 1980 after earlier in the film two days earlier she said this is 1979 nobody wears underwear anymore and i'm so horny for you client don't you remember when they had new year's wait for it so far we've said in order it is 1979 and then it is 1980. nobody watched this movie before they put it in theaters they cut it they put it in theaters and then they watched it roger is embarrassed about abby in front of paxton they go to a library and they read a bunch of dumb wacky laws like you would in like a children's magazine about things that aren't real like highlights yeah they're they're researching highlights magazine in the library instead of saving seals then they have more sex and uh she says it's against the law to do what we just did in 37 states puerto rico and the panama canal zone which is the second i believe but sex joke of the movie if we're keeping track unless they're brother and sister or different races i don't know what they could have been implying here other than sodomy also the tagline on the poster is the tagline they like butt sex and they're saving seals the tagline is donald sutherland and suzanne summers break the law in 37 states puerto rico and the panama canal zone i didn't know that i could hate this movie more than before you read that roger's mad that she keeps saying you're welcome just for the record i i just want to say that i just googled when sodomy laws were repealed and it wasn't until like 2003 that most his laws were deemed unconstitutional i'm almost certain that's what they're talking about here because i don't know what else they could possibly mean is it legal still in the panama canal zone unless is she making a reference to prostitution laws because he's just paying her to have sex with her and she's not being but he's not paying but he has to say he is if somebody asks oh that's right okay that's the poop hole loophole that makes a lot of sense okay i want people to know that i'm an expensive prostitute so you tell everybody you pay me a bunch those are my favorite prostitutes it was like you don't have to pay me just say that you did like get it here is where roger explains how angry he is that she keeps saying you're welcome after they have sex and he says i mean it's 1979. you can admit that you get as much pleasure out of it as i do what is it with this why why did we say it was 1979 and then say it was 1980 and then say it was 1979. these characters didn't have to mention the year or so constantly you know parts of alaska extend beyond the international they are moving over the times the time zone is really long really though maybe they broke the laws of physics in 37 states [Laughter] someone watched this movie and heard them say all three of those lines and was just like meh who's listening to what the characters say suzanne summers is on the screen no one's paying attention to what she's saying so abby goes to the library and finds this treaty with the manitoba indians and with the help of a librarian she learns that all but one there there were 230 that were moved to a reservation after conflicts over this particular land area that they have a contractual right to um all but one of them were killed or they all like 230 manitoba indians were moved to a reservation and one escaped yeah which to me implies a genocide situation 229 of them did not escape and are no longer with us that means they were killed right they don't say it they don't say that or they're just all dead but they're all infertile the fact that the one that is missing is essentially in hiding seems to mean that is he yes i think he is in hiding because they make a big deal when they go to find him that he's like nowhere to be found i thought it was just hard to find a person no he's he is like that's why they have to go through all these steps because he's super paranoid about being discovered well because he's living in fear there's all kinds of problems with that then um but so 230 manitoba indians were moved to reservation 229 of them were killed and one escaped in 1922 if you're keeping track this is 1979 or 1980 or 1979. so he's going to be at least 58 years old if he escaped when he was zero yeah so he's probably in his late 60s early 70s probably um this was his final film right yes um abby calls another boyfriend to book roger as a talk show guest and the new plan is that they'll go on a talk show and invite the last unkilled manitoba indian to out himself to them so that they can not kill him wink wink and save seals yeah and save seals so um what's more important last surviving manitoba indian your life or the life of these seals that you don't know about so we get this comedian on a talk show it's a it's a drag comedian whose jokes aren't very funny and they never shoot this stage wide so it's just these weird close-ups of people's faces yeah it doesn't convey the shape of the room very well at all but so this comedian does the end of a bad stand-up routine and then sits down and then the host says oh this is roger keller and then the comedian says oh any relationship to helen uh that's who choreographed my act and then the unibrow carl sagan host guy uh just repeats her joke and says oh yeah it looked like it and then the whole audience cracks up when the host says the same dumb joke and then he says no no i'm just kidding i'm just kidding like he's like really worried about offending this comedian with his or her own joke okay i was gonna say was this was this a drag queen or yes okay it wasn't clear if it was just an ugly lady or a drag queen no okay definitely a man yes a semi-celebrity character so uh and the the comedian keeps making jokes as uh he or she um i'm not sure the preference keeps making jokes about the seals getting clubbed and says oh they only mate once what a drag and then the host says for you maybe craig but the seals are quite content because craig is the actual name of this performer dunbar's president hires someone to blackmail the suzanne summers character they're gonna start taking photos and following them around we'll get on to it right away we'll set up the camera in the girl's apartment then we'll bottom i don't know don't tell me i'd want to hear about it just uh just do it because and they don't say what show this is if it's like a local talk show or if it's a nationwide late night talk show yeah but um the guy that's hosting the show like filled in for carson like 130 times yeah so it's possible that the implication is supposed to be that this is literally the tonight show um but they're so tight on everybody the whole time that we never get a feel for the stage and understand where they are um but uh so dunbar is very upset about this pr which if they were actually upset about the pr they never would have let this story go on television because this show even admits oh we call them in advance for for their defense and they said oh no we're fixing it and we're taking care of everything what they would have said is you don't put that person on your show or we're pulling we're pulling all of our advertising forever yeah so don't put them on your show and they never would have booked donald sutherland as a guest but they they do and dunbar hires uh basically like a pi to follow them around yeah and uh he also does what he should have done at the very beginning and says hire a crapload more clubbers and get rid of the rest of those seals so this isn't a problem yeah like seriously by the time you got to the investors meeting you said there's only like 300 left yeah so over the course of a few days we've killed 600 600 of them 700 seven yeah okay yes exactly seven hundred of them so you could totally in another day kill the last three hundred yeah or just double up which is kill 300 seals in a day also just i've seen you do it it's like you're you're in cahoots with the us military just firebombed them like why are you wasting your time with clubs this is caveman technology there's a funny moment here though the president hires this pi guy and he sends them on their way and as they're walking out the front door he's like waving to his child in his wife's arms and he's like hey buddy i love you so much like waving at the kid and then when daddy coleman walks between them he's like oh hello i like thinks he's waving him and the president says i'm not waving at you idiot yeah but that that moment cracked me up i i mean daddy coleman is great in this damn golden i mean definitely coleman always plays a very similar character you don't have paxton i think dabney's the best person i i do love dabney coleman i can't stress that enough yes uh roger and abby don't understand why uh the manitoba indian who escaped genocide isn't rushing to reveal himself um then they get a phone call from what is canuck or something like that which is uh which is a term for canadian yeah but he says he's the last manitoba indian um and they can come and talk to him they go and meet him and he's like 30 something or 40 something so yeah obviously not the person they're looking for but they sit down with them and they get all this information and he says that he's related to who like uh sitting bull or somebody crazy horse or something yeah it's some famous native american and he's like well i thought he was commanding geronimo maybe geronimo there you go and uh and he says that he's also related to jim thorpe and he's like well hold on a minute like none of this is checking out and then the tv which has been on this whole time cuts to a commercial break and we're getting a commercial for perrier water yeah and someone's talking in a bad french accent about perrier water and they look over the tv and notice that it's the same guy who is sitting in front of them pretending to be a native american yeah i was almost wondering if the baseball game because donald sutherland glides over at a baseball game and looks back at him and was wondering if it was supposed to be a redskins game and like the whole thing was like why wouldn't he be watching a redskins game that seems inappropriate but yeah so it turns out this guy's fake he was hired by the dunbar people to pretend to be the manitoba indian to throw them off uh their trail then another really weird a scene i would have cut completely out of the movie roger one of many seems i would cut i would i would have just cut them all roger and abby driving home stop at a gas station and roger hands over his credit card to this full service station and they come out to the car and they say your card was declined uh it says that it's stolen um and he says well that's impossible run it again and abby is saying like oh wow they're they're really pulling out all the stops to to interrupt our investigation it's like we're not we're not investigators you're an attorney i'm a professor what are we doing what what are we doing why are we trying to find this person um but the guy from the gas station comes back and he says oh you're right i ran it again and everything's fine come get him police and these police pull up and donald sutherland just drives away with the pump still in the car so he tears it off of the the pump we get an innocent gasoline fight accident yeah there's the gas is just getting thrown all over everybody including the police yeah i do love the one guy shout stop that gas it's a dollar 80 a gallon yeah but there's also at every gas station there's like a switch on the wall that you can pull that's an emergency shut off but nobody's going for it they're just holding this tube and spraying gas all over each other but now the cops and both gas station employees are completely doused in gasoline i can't see either this gasoline and abby and roger are driving full speed away in a in a full-on high-speed chase yeah and they're driving upstairs and around statues but also there's nowhere there's no way these cops would be able to pursue them right with gasoline in their eyes yeah they can't breathe they can't see the guy in the passenger seat in the police car is joe flaherty another sctv alum um jerk ass dragon ass the guy from happy gilmore that keeps shouting that yeah so they keep getting chased until it seems like roger loses them but also loses the car because he drives it into the river into the river and then the two of them just get out and cut their losses and go okay well that bug's gone for a second it floats though in the water and she's like oh wow they do float which must have been a part of an advertising campaign for uw bugs at some point um i do like the scene where they're sitting in front of the the jefferson memorial and donald sutherland keeps trying to light a joint but yeah because soaking wet and he just throws the matchbook away and goes you wouldn't happen to have a light and suzanne summers actually genuinely and i'm wondering if he was supposed to light the joint yeah and he just couldn't do it and just like was just fed up with what was happening but uh but the reveal there is that he literally got into a high-speed chase and drove their car into a river to avoid getting arrested for uh possession of marijuana [Music] that's the the whole point of the scene well we we skipped over a little bit before where they they're they're running into issues um she's got her she just had her driver's license suspended right because for a faulty card that she no longer owns yeah she's being audited they had the phone lines cut to her office uh and now they've got the her credit the credit card canceled so they're starting to worry that this is bigger than they expected yeah and i think donald sutherland was thinking oh god if the police catch me with this they'll lock us up long enough for them like it's the the uh you know the not the little floor but the the floors seen in uh mall racks it's like it'll be enough to lock us up for the duration of the show isn't that right laflore yeah uh uh so i think that that was his concern yeah but he ends up um committing hundreds of felonies along the way and they would for sure be in jail at the end of this they ditch the evidence but my way of draining the car but they left he left his id and his dr and his credit card with the gas station so they know who he is and they know that he no they know that the car is stolen oh okay so he would say oh that's not me if the card was stolen yeah okay interesting interesting strategy flawless movie guys okay i take it back this movie's brilliant [Laughter] but yeah so they go back to the hotel and paxton is like oh the cops came and went through your room and he's like oh i'm sorry about that at least it wasn't them shutting down the building he's like well then the fire department came later in the day and they're they're taking they're shutting down the building they're evicting everybody and he's like oh well i'm really sorry about that and he's like it's okay i need a partner and i'm you're gonna be my partner and we're gonna fight this now now that i'm homeless now that you made me homeless you jerk and so they're best friends and and pakistan's on on their team now dabney uh pulls over and gets their attention as they're walking down the sidewalk and he says hey we need to talk i think i have something great that's gonna make everybody happy and they go to uh the head of the construction company's office and they give them a big stack of pictures of them having sex and more than likely blake breaking that law yeah 37 states so we have footage of you two um having sex in a way that's illegal and uh so you're gonna go to jail for sodomy and stealing a car but you couldn't have stolen the car because someone else stole it before you stole it yeah and they take a moment and they take the pictures in the other room and then they have a private conversation they come back and they say we've made a decision we'd like two copies of that a blow up of that four two just two of that and one of that for my mother we don't care we're two consenting adults and go ahead and take us to court for this this is dumb so the black male basically just 100 failed they decided not to move forward with uh showing the court that these people had an illegal sex or do they because we don't know anything about what's happening in this movie either way the movie drops that thread and never picks it up again they get a call from an older woman who says she knows the indian and she comes to their office to give them information but they're worried that the office is completely bugged so they tell her to write it down on a piece of paper i don't know what she's writing down yeah she doesn't give them any information here yeah other than i know the indian and then we come up with a like incredibly convoluted plan yeah that makes no sense and doesn't work yeah it fails immediately um but so they ask her to write down something i don't know what they ask her to write down because she doesn't tell them where the native american is and then she leaves so there they have this nonsense plan where they're like okay we got to do something to distract the pi because they're following us everywhere so here's what we're going to do abby you're going to pretend that you have like appendicitis and that you're going to the hospital i have a friend who's a doctor and he's going to smuggle you out of the hospital so you can hide in the trunk of the car that we're going to be driving yes so you can hide in our car instead of just riding with us they'll assume that there's only two people in this car instead of three people in this car so here's what we're gonna do we're gonna drive to a hotel outside of town she's gonna call that hotel and tell us where to go to meet this native american character we didn't tell her to just call your office or to call literally anywhere near here we could all go in the same car i don't know why you have to be in the trunk well the i guess the plan is they get the call they pretend to go to the location so they get followed meanwhile suzanne summers has the real information left in the hotel room and she's going to go to the real location not unbeknownst to her that ralston was somehow also following them and got there without his own people knowing yeah he literally just booked a room in a hotel by coincidence stood and watched out the window in case anyone climbed out of the trunk to be a third part of their mystery plan and saw her get onto a bus and said stop following that blue car they just dropped the girl off here so follow this bus now and so they follow the bus to the address where the native american is waiting in like the top of a barn in the middle of nowhere yeah um and somehow all these all these cars get mixed up like all of a sudden they get to the the native american location first yeah and i was like how did yeah well they did say that oh well they stopped for gas and then we stopped for gas and then they stopped to pee and then we stopped to pee this is getting ridiculous and it's like is that your way of explaining why how you switched places it's like how did you know where to go if you weren't following that car anymore weren't you trying to figure out where they were going yeah because they don't know where the barn is because the plan was to get picked up by a red pickup truck right and they don't know where to go from there right but they go straight to the barn um and they run up to suzanne summers and say hey they figured out where you are they're following everybody now and let's go up there and talk to this native american guy so they run up with a bunch of money that they promised for uh the native american and a contract and they say here sign this contract and he's like oh no i'm a manitoba indian i i know better than to sign a contract i haven't written there like just sign it and he's like okay all right here's the money yep thank you for the money i'll sign this i've learned nothing and uh all my people were genocided out of existence for signing contracts they didn't read and right this is great i'm so excited to do this for you guys and you're not teaching me a lesson about not doing that you don't stop and go oh geez you're right that was terrible take your time read the whole thing yeah um so now ralston dickerson and jake vpi are outside and they're gonna get ready to burn the barn down yeah they're like oh this is perfect they're all in the same place we can just murder them i i feel like they i don't know i don't even even classify it as a red herring where dickerson when they have the photos he he steps away and goes i don't like this you know i kind of like those kids and like this feels like they're messed up and i don't agree with what they're doing but i don't want to do this yeah so i thought dabney coleman was being groomed for a character change or a change of heart oh okay and that this this is gonna be the final straw he wasn't gonna go through with it yeah uh but nope he's super into it and in fact he says this is just like high school it was like how many people remember that time in high school they hired me to burn down that indian camp in alaska in high school man i got paid so much anyway i got paid in seal clubbing yes so they uh they take the gas they siphon the gas out of both cars that are here not just one car both of the cars and they light this barn on fire oh by the way we skipped another butt sex joke i feel like we should go back to it but um when they're driving around with suzanne summers in the trunk she keeps saying that she's in pain and he's like oh i'm sorry is your head okay and she said it's not my head i'm worried about and then when she gets out of the car she's like jesus now i know what it feels like to be gang-banged by the l.a rams sounds like jesus christ who wrote this and why so that's i think four or five on the butt sex tape also she agreed to say those lines so she's also responsible yeah no i wasn't trying to excuse her at all okay and the other rounds are a team again hey yay thank god um make jokes like this in our movies now yeah but yeah so they they light the barn on fire and they're like okay you gotta sign this contract right away he signs all the pages of the contract donald sutherland jumps out the window into a pile of hay on the side of the barn and runs out to their car which apparently they left enough gas in for him to drive when when he's about to jump out though he's like stay here yeah like it's just such a this barn is on fire i'm not gonna wait for you to rescue us i'm not gonna stay here if you can jump out we can all jump out yeah but i think that instruction specifically was don't climb down because i'm about to drive through the side of this barn and i don't want to hit you guys but still it would have made more sense for everybody to jump out the same window that he did and run to the car but he drives the car through the side of the flaming barn and says all right everybody get in jump jump in the back and get low down because he thinks they're going to start shooting at the car probably right and he backs out of the hole he just punched in the side of the barn and someone's there with a gun and so he's like all right i guess we're going the other way and he drives back through the flaming barn through a wall and just off a ramp yeah um and just crashes the car hard on the other side of the ramp um but they get away and dabney coleman and the other murderers go back to their car and they're like oh well this car is completely out of gas i should have taken more from the other car yeah because that's the one that we didn't have the keys to and uh and that's where we end the scene basically like uh we screwed up murdering those people because we left them enough gas to escape yep so the next day they've just given up on their whole plane and they're like all right well we're going to build the base in a different place now well they stopped the seal killing right there's a quick trip quick quick button of that yeah we get a quick shot of a bunch of people losing their jobs um and then we go back to dunbar construction headquarters where they're saying okay here's where we're going to do it now and there's only one problem polar bears but we can kill them with poison darts arsenic it's completely painless and it'll be great and then the door opens up and these wax statues of roger and abby are just standing there staring at them like a couple of creepers um i'm assuming they're there to hand them warrants for their arrest for attempted murder i think it's someone dressed up to look like them because they would obviously also already be in jail for all the illegal things they've done like driving a car around the city and destroying it and then ditching it in the river and then having sex in illegal ways but yeah this shot is so weird of them just standing there in the doorway not saying anything just posed behind each other like they're charlie's angels yeah when when you when you pose and go out on on a shot like of the two of them that's what makes this like a giant romantic comedy but it's just like oh these guys are gonna threaten to sue us again it's like no no no you tried to murder us yesterday we broke lots of laws let's all go to jail end of movie and that's that's where it ends that's the end of this film thank god yeah it was a like i could almost see a movie here until this like i was like this movie's pretty bad but you know if justice is served and the seals are saved and people go to jail but doesn't happen nobody goes to jail it just it's a movie just ends there needed to be at least five more minutes of you guys are going to jail yeah because you tried to kill us is nothing going to happen apparently not nope they're gonna they're gonna be slightly further away from stopping this missile base uh because they have to build the community further north and they're gonna kill some other endangered species it does seem like they're it's just bygones they're just letting bygones be bygones and they're like okay we'll do the base somewhere else then fine you guys can move and go somewhere else and uh and they're like oh oh oh we're gonna challenge that legally it's like you didn't do that last time you didn't challenge us legally at all you didn't file a single injunction like you could have stopped what was happening and you instead chose to do a bunch of weird detective work behind the scenes and not save anything this movie's dumb yeah it was directed by george bloomfield who as i said before uh directed some sctv which explains the appearances of catherine o'hara eugene levy joe flaherty and tony rosado was a character in there i didn't mention i don't remember the character he played george bloomfield also directed a canadian thriller called deadly companion aka double negative with john candy joe flaherty eugene levy catherine o'hara and dave thomas um that sounds like a thriller yeah it's a thriller it's all dramatic roles um and according to wikipedia only o'hara has more than one scene of all those people and yet the poster on the wikipedia article is literally just a split screen of john candy on one side and tony perkins on the other side and it makes it look like john candy is like the second lead of the film but none of the sctv members is actually build higher than 11th it also came out in 1980 but luckily it never got an american release so we'll never watch it and it's that's the end of the story of that film yeah he looks like he also directed a tech war movie tech war yeah you remember tech war nope oh man tech war i got brain wiped after the tech war i don't remember it was too brutal well it was a thing a sci-fi documentary it's a it's a crazy weird sci-fi series all right um writer robert kaufman also wrote freebie and the bean and dr goldfoot and the bikini machine have you ever heard of that movie no they used to play that trailer at the new beverly all the time it's vincent price plays dr goldfoot and dr goldfoot in the bikini machine there's more than one dr goldfoot movie uh and like i said before he also played the professor in the first scene um and i don't have it here but i think he wrote another movie that comes out later this year the how to beat the high cost of living i'm pretty sure he also wrote that donald sutherland played roger keller here uh like we said in our match review he did a lot of war stuff to start out um in the 70s he did like klute and dale the locust and uh he represents uh some of the canadian points that this film had to score to get whatever tax relief that it was looking for suzanne summers plays abigail adams obviously three's company this was her first film first major film and her last one before 1994 in serial mom she also played carol lambert on step by step uh which as we all know was inspired or uh went on to inspire every song in scott stapp's entire discography roscoe lee brown plays paxton he was also box in logan's run uh he's the voice of francis in oliver and company um he's the voice of big ed zedimore in the real ghostbusters which is uh winston's father yeah that's really cool um and he also did kingpin's voice in the spider-man anime which is the big one that i i also remember him in jumbo jack flash but he only has like one or two scenes yeah japanese coleman was dickerson here war games cloak and dagger yeah nine to five later this year he's just great yeah i like him a lot i really think that he's the most believable character in every scene of this movie um everybody else is like just playing weird caricatures but he feels like i mean daphne coleman's always kind of playing himself a little bit yeah um but he he he's always trying you know um who do we actually oh we do knight because now i love nine to five we actually get that later this year that'll be in december yeah oh how exciting um chief dan george was oscar the the lost manitoba indian um he played old lodge skins in little big man he played lone weighty in outlaw josie wales probably his most notable um and he was also sam two feathers and harry and tonto uh john denner played the senator uh he was henry loose and the right stuff he was wallinger in day of the dolphin which we talked about when the dolphins were trained to kill the president yep uh and he also plays a commissioner in airplane two david steinberg was the talk show host um who i said before he guest hosted carson 130 times he was a big tv director he hosts a show called inside comedy on showtime right now okay or maybe it recently ended and he also hosted his own variety show that starred john candy joe flaherty martin short and dave thomas craig russell was the talk show guest that was the famous female impersonator more canada points and uh craig died of aids in 1990 at 42 which seems to be happening more and more so we're going through these casts um catherine o'hara was audrey here people know her from home alone probably first or the christopher guest movies and she was also obviously sally in a nightmare before christmas and miss you know deets oh yes decent beetlejuice and uh michael wincott was peter that's the sweaty kid that noticed that seals were getting smashed um he's the voice of skroop in treasure planet no yeah of course group i have no idea who this group is but i just thought well but i think roscoe lee brown uh played mr arrow yes that's right there was there were two credits from that movie um uh michael wincott the sweaty kid also played elgin in alien resurrection i don't remember that character because i haven't seen that movie since i saw in theaters uh maurice aiken played canuck he was jim sting in war games with daphne coleman um he also plays i always think of this character he played a earnest in bartleby did you ever see bartleby no it's a crisp and glover movie um it's like an adaptation of the herman melville story but it has uh david pamer is like the boss of this office and he's trying to fire crispin glover and he says like you're fired get out of the office and he says i don't think i would like to do that or like he's like being weirdly like passive resistance every time you tell him to leave and he's like i'm not sure that i would like to do that or he they won't even fire him like they just ask him to do something and he says he doesn't want to do it um but he doesn't leave and he keeps coming to work and they can't get rid of him but it's driving everybody crazy they should just keep moving his desk until it's down in the basement they take his red stapler away it's a very small office but it's an interesting movie the cast is really funny um joe flaherty we mentioned before as uh patrol car policeman number two he's the guy who keeps saying jackass and happy gilmore uh he's also the voice of abe's foster dad on clone high um he was the dad on freaks and geeks yeah uh he was the western union telegram and back to the future for the future yeah the guy is in the first one or the second the second one i have something for you a letter yeah um he's also a death row inmate and johnny dangerously he's the border guard and stripes when they're going in and out of the country yeah and the they keep destroying like the the border security gate like they drive through the gate and they drive through the actual guard shack and uh he'll appear later this year and used cars um and then we had eugene levy as marty who i think most people go to american pie yeah but he's also in basically every christopher guest movie yeah he's the voice of dory's father in uh finding dory um i really like him as vic in multiplicity the like incompetent co-worker of michael keaton at the beginning they're like destroying the wrong driveway when they're they're like they showed up like a few hours late he's like oh he's like wearing multiple watches and he showed up at the wrong time uh he he uh and john candy are in a fun buddy movie called armed and dangerous oh yes meg ryan um and he also has a show right now with catherine o'hara called shit's creek that has been running for a bunch of seasons and i haven't watched any of it but it's all on netflix and i hear it's funny all the time and i still don't watch it um so that's my bad i'm a bad person yeah it's not like you're watching every movie that came out in 1980 or anything yeah that's not happening for sure that'd be weird up or down jess oh it's a big down that's yeah it's pretty it's pretty terrible it's it's one of the one of the more rougher ones we've watched i feel yeah it might be the most roughest one uh-oh come on i'm going to give this a thumbs yeah yeah just where's this on your letterbox yes it's the most worse it's the bottom of mine too um i have it up a couple from the bottom uh it is above forbidden so i'm gonna be real angry well it is below the windows threshold uh it is below just tell me what you want what is it about it's above forbidden zone and it's above don't answer the phone yeah no i i'd rather watch it than either of those two no you wouldn't that's not true you're not being honest with yourself no that's fine you can put it where you want in your list you can lose it later i have control over the list so i can change it whatever i like no um this is going on the bottom for me this is this was the hardest for me to finish so far and you can attest to it i don't know if it's just i was tired or hungry or what i was so so angry i would i i was certain that you were going to give up on this entire podcast i considered it and apologized profusely to richard for wasting so much of his time um i was real mad i feel like this might not even be the worst for the year we're going to have something that makes me angrier than this there's this list is going to get crazy by the way in our match review we said oh it's crazy that kiefer sutherland came out of this guy it's not that crazy anymore he's not charismatic at all in this movie he's very boring the whole time and it's like i thought normal southern one was always entertaining no no turns out he can suck just like everybody else yeah this was a bad one i'm mad i feel like we should talk about the thresholds for which we like i know we're saying we're watching every movie from 1980 but are we watching every domestic movie this is a canadian movie like maybe we should never have even watched it it had an american release so anything that has an american release a wide american a wide american release that's that's the basic threshold that i was starting with um which is why as far as foreign films go the only ones we've covered have been a couple australian movies and a couple canadian movies that actually got wide releases in america well and i and i get it for any film that was nominated for some sort of academy award sure that so like you know for for instance my brilliant career right you know i'm i'm i'm cool with that but mad max isn't obvious and mad max and and i'm okay with cult films so we did mad max which i think falls into that category and we did forbidden zone which falls into that category right because this is very very limited it's neither of those it is not but it got a wide release it was not nominated it was not it's but it's a foreign film right but it had a wide domestic release not most foreign films do not get a wide domestic release this one did because suzanne summers was in it all right i shouldn't have included it i'll i'll grant you that this should not have been on the list just because of how angry it made me too late yeah it has been but that's what i'm saying by us once richard already sent me the message saying hey i watched nothing personal i was like oh yeah we're gonna watch that later today and i was like halfway through the movie like how do i make a time machine go back and tell richard kill richard before he watches it i can save so many lives but yeah that's that's been the plan so far we're gonna miss movies too that got wide releases that are straight up american movies just because you know no list is complete that i'm pulling up and if if you encounter any of those send them to me and maybe we'll cover them on their 41st birthdays but uh we've already got enough movies in 1980 yeah and we can't find some movies yeah there there have been a few that we just have no way of locating and uh we have about 168 to 170 on our schedule for this year including our monthly 70s film um which is available for patreon subscribers and beyond that i think that that's asking too much of us to review so if there's anything you feel like where we missed it's possible that we're considering a different release date like the visitor for example some people say it came out already uh in 1980 but we're going by the october release because that's when it got its uh or november release that's when it got its release in the united states but the release date on imdb says march or february but it didn't release in the united states until november so check the release date if you think we missed something and it's possible it's just coming up later in the year because we're going by the u.s release date but for the most part i think uh i think we're going to cover everything you could name off the top of your head i'd be very surprised um i think we're going to cover everything you could name off the bottom of your head well the bottom of something not enough butt jokes in this episode all right i think that's about it for this one if you guys have any thoughts you'd like to share with us we're vintage video pod on twitter facebook instagram and letterbox where as i've said before you can find each of our full movie rankings for the year we can also be found at vintagevideopodcast.com please consider rating us on itunes to help people find the show and if you take the time to leave us a review we will thank you personally in an upcoming episode if you're feeling especially generous you can also support the show through patreon.com vintage video podcast where and i mentioned before um our subscribers at the the five dollar a month level have access to our monthly uh 70s review which is a movie on its 50th anniversary and you also have a hand in choosing that the movie for the following month thank you so much for listening and i hope you'll join us next time when we'll be discussing serial which imdb 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