we're on a mission from god

wendy so i got that going darling

looks like i picked the wrong way to

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of my life we enjoy your films

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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 urban

cowboy on june 6

1980. it was written by james bridges

and aaron latham

based on an esquire article by latham

directed by james bridges and released

by paramount

the film takes place largely in a

country western nightclub called gillies

which at one point in the film is

referred to as the world's largest

nightclub

which was confirmed at the time by

guinness records

it closed in 1989 and burned down a year

later no

usually it's the other way around yeah

burns down and then a year later it

closed

since then the title has been taken over

by privilege ibiza

in ibiza spain with a capacity of 10 000

people that sounds like a death trap the

original esquire article centered on the

romance oh i'm sorry

i was like the proof what what was

taking over

gilly's the title of the largest

nightclub i get it okay

that's worth pointing out i did say that

very confusingly they actually built a

replica of gillies inside the

visa that'd be great

it's just a warehouse like just a bigger

rectangle around achilles well just to

show that it's bigger yeah

look it's so big for a scale look we

built the ghillies over there

there's two gillies in here

two and a half gillies big i actually

i'm starting to think that gilly's is

how we should

measure building size now uh the

original esquire article centered on a

romance between two gillies regulars

named dew west brook and betty helmer

obviously the names for change for the

film

not clear why they were already

separated by the time of the production

and divorced shortly after

so we're off to a great start yeah oh

uh this is the first choreography credit

for patsy swayze mother of patrick

uh this features live performances by uh

the club's namesake

mickey gilly johnny lee bonnie rate

charlie daniels

uh the script was written with dennis

quaid in mind for bud

yeah i can see that yeah i think i think

that would work too it was offered to

gary busey which i see working

less he was pretty big at the time and

he

i guess but i don't consider him to be

like

a a love interest i mean i guess we had

him

everyone needs love you know gary don't

love gary

i just i just mean he had just played

buddy holly though

well we had him in in um kearney

and he was sort of this

wacky love interest like he was scary

like i don't think he was meant to be

you know like this suave guy that chicks

would be falling over themselves

to get at i think he could have pulled

it off at the time i think

nowadays he'd be spouting a bunch of

rehab acronyms at them and they'd run

off screaming

but i think dennis quaid would have been

better yes because he goes on to play

uh what even jerry lee lewis and him and

the long riders i feel like even

would fit this gary busey turned it down

because he wanted to be in the movie

fooling around

uh which we will cover later this year

and he has since expressed regret

for that decision uh [ __ ] spacek was

offered the role first

[ __ ] [ __ ] almost played [ __ ] uh

and she left after a clash with travolta

i was gonna say like i'm sure that they

just wrote

the character like it's like [ __ ] space

is going to play this part so just

mark all of sissy's lines yeah and like

oh we'll just keep the name

i also think uh it's interesting that

her problem the reason that she walked

away from the film was because

she had a falling out with travolta

because it's like

they were in carrie together wasn't he

her prom date in cary

yeah so maybe that was an unfortunate

experience she found out it was like

it was you who dumped the pigs blood on

oh yeah i forgot carrie was a true story

done with this one

renee russo and pj souls also auditioned

for the [ __ ] character oh i would have

liked pj's

i would like pj souls in anything i've

had a crush on her forever she's the

greatest

we met her at a carey screening actually

i also like renee russo

yeah she's great but she's no pj souls

pj souls is just adorable

but she was there with william cat at

the at the yeah carrie screening

producer robert evans sent deborah

winger back from the location for not

being attractive enough

like she showed up on set and he was

like no no we're going to keep working

on this we're going to find someone else

michelle pfeiffer had auditioned for the

role and that was evan's first choice

but director james bridges persuaded

evans by threatening to quit

and winger was kept on board this became

her first starring role

john travolta had a mechanical bull

installed in his house two months before

production began and

became so good that he was allowed to

dismiss the stunt double to do all his

takes himself

this movie was adapted into a broadway

stage production

of the same name in 2003 i'm not sure

why just

an excuse to put country western music

in a musical i guess

and uh in 2015 a pilot for the series

was shot and passed on by fox

i mean i just want to be clear i don't

think it's a bad movie i just don't

think it's a movie that warrants a

musical remake

i also don't think it warrants a tv show

we start the film with

mama telling bud that breakfast is

getting cold and he says he's got to get

going to houston

he drives bearded to his aunt and

uncle's place in houston

this is the first uh time i've seen

young travolta with a beard and i think

it works

on his face oh i really like i think

he's cuter with the beard

yeah and he was pushing to wear it for

the whole film

but he was talked out of it by having

lunch with a producer somewhere in

houston and no one came up for

autographs and he's like see nobody

recognizes you you have to

we have to get rid of it he gets to his

aunt and uncle's place in houston

and they take him out to gilly's huge

nightclub bud meets marshall

and then he meets dr stevens dr stevens

i don't think this guy has a doctorate

uh he meets marshall and he meets steve

strange and he notices [ __ ] at the bar

steve introduces some girls to bud and

the next day he wakes up in bed with

both of them

and a hangover at his aunt and uncle's

house

as he's coming out of his room in the

morning his aunt is on the phone with

his mom

and she says oh he must still be at

church wait a second

they he does not wake up at his aunt and

uncle's house with the girls he is at

their place yeah and then he walks into

the house from outside

and cause and his aunt's like hey here

he is he was at church

i don't know that to be true okay this

is what it seemed like to me

the second time i was because because

the girl one of the girls says i'm gonna

go out and make you a cup of coffee i

doubt

she would do that in front of his aunt

he brings other girls to this house

very surprisingly quickly but yeah so

he gets on the phone uh with his mom and

she says did you get a job yet

it's like i just got here yesterday but

i'm going to the plant tomorrow with

uncle bob

uh during his interview he explains to

the foreman or i don't know what you

call this guy the guy who runs

plant manager the plant manager there

you go he manages all the plants he's

like a regular ralph

um he he tells this guy that his name is

buford ewan davis

uh his initial spell bud people call him

bud and he says

that's great i can use you as a gopher

do you know what that is and he said

i think it means you know go for things

or it could mean you're an animal

yeah well around here they're on the

same level but he does make him shave

the beard

so this is how they worked it into the

script he's like in case you ever need

to wear a special mask you got to get

rid of your beard

and then he never wears a mask for the

rest of the movie bud catches [ __ ]

walking away from a dance at gilly's

that night

she says she liked it better with the

beard they dance for a bit and then we

see them talking all night but we don't

hear any of what they're saying so we

don't get

a backstory on either of these

characters really they just immediately

start

hardcore kissing on the dance floor the

next day at work

marshall asks how things went with [ __ ]

and he tells him none of your business

that night he's back at gillies and a

punching game has been installed

everybody's taking a swing bud takes one

uh he

gets the high score on the punching and

then sissy's like i want to punch it and

she messes up her hand real good

we cut to the i guess this is like a

diner next door to

gillies that they keep going to they're

getting some food

and the two girls that steve introduced

him to

say hi to him as they're walking through

the diner

and he stares and smiles back at them

[ __ ] obviously gets upset about it he's

teasing her about it and starts tickling

her

and she's like don't tell me i wet my

pants

and then she pinches him hard so he

slaps her across the face

and she doesn't take this kindly she's

she's not going to sit around and deal

with domestic abuse so she gets up and

starts to walk away and he's like well

you pinched me

like it's the same thing so how long

have they known each other at this point

is it just

like a couple days a couple days yeah so

she walks away and he tries multiple

times to just shout her into his car

which she's very stubborn and is not

gonna get in this car she's decided

she's gonna hitchhike

eventually they fight real hard like he

tries to pick her up and carry her to

the truck and she wriggles out of his

hands and they're wrestling on the

ground in a big puddle in the road

this truck almost runs them over as it's

pulling into the parking lot because he

doesn't see them until

almost too late and i don't think she's

in the wrong to be mad here no

not at all because he was looking at the

girls and then

she says something is like what am i

supposed to not look at him it's like

yes

what are we even talking about but also

a pinch is not the same thing as a hard

slap across the face

either and so they get into his truck

now

just dripping wet it looks like someone

threw a bucket of water over both of

them before they get in the car

and he turns to her and he proposes to

her

and we cut immediately to them getting

married in ghillies

which the couple that inspired the film

actually did they got married in the

nightclub

during the day i assume he drives her

blindfolded to a brand new trailer with

a big bow on it

while he's carrying her over the

threshold he falls and drops her into

the place

i think there's a lot of moments like

that in here which i do really

appreciate that seem really realistic

like

back when she said stop tickling me i'm

gonna pee or when he drops her over the

threshold and i think there's a lot of

really cute

very humanizing details yeah no i agree

they definitely felt like a real couple

i think they have a genuine chemistry

they go to see a prison rodeo which was

a real thing

it might still be a real thing i think

it is still a real yeah

but uh yeah the prisoners are forced to

compete in a rodeo by riding these big

angry bulls

this particular prison where they shot

this this was a this was a real

like this was shot where they actually

did this and the prison that is attached

to where this rodeo is taking place

has like the most popular shall we say

uh death chamber of any uh maximum

security i don't know what that means

the one that has killed the most people

the most visited

chamber for prisoner murder they kill a

lot of people here so maybe they were

like sure i'll die

on a bull rather than you know inhaling

a bunch of gas or whatever they did here

as they're watching this they see uh a

guy named wes hightower

climbing onto a bull and the bull freaks

out and he

drops into this this paddock where the

bull is before they even let him out

into the actual rodeo space yeah it

looks like he's about to get destroyed

in here

it's really bad yeah like i feel like

that actually happened and they just

got it on film and they're like all

right we're using that one yeah we see

the guy get back on the ball

but it's very impressed that this guy's

crazy enough to get back on the ball

the next day they have a mechanical bull

in ghillies

bud jumps on the bull and he does a

pretty decent job

he holds his own and [ __ ] is totally

hot for this she's

like at first she's trying to convince

him not to get on the thing but when she

sees he's good at it compared to the

other guys that have been up

she's like oh man i like this she's like

smiling at him

that night she tells him that she would

like to try it but he

is trying to put a stop to that right

away yeah when it comes to the scene of

them

back at home and he's in bed and he's

just got his

just like a towel or a sheet over him

just covering one leg

yeah but then he keeps putting his hand

down and rubbing i was like

is he masturbating and then he says

there's a lot more you know my balls

really hurt he's like oh okay he's just

just ball rubbing

just just giving it a little massage

yeah it was

because it was like it's clear that he's

you were worried it was gonna be like a

small circle of friends and suddenly

he's just finished

yeah what happened

yeah uh the next day bud decides he's

gonna ride some more because he

enjoyed it i don't remember that in a

small circle of friends

he's getting mad at her and she's like

i'm gonna go find my diaphragm

and then she's taking too long to do it

i'm finished see my brain went to

what was that american graffiti rip-off

one hollywood nights hollywood nights

yeah when he when he's when he's in the

front seat of the car and she's like

come on back here and he said he already

finished

no that's another and then uh yeah we

had it in our last episode with all the

kids watching miss bliss show off the

weapons

we get a couple of like every

i feel like almost this movie should

have just been called gillies but sure

yeah

because they just do like a quick

maybe five second shot if if that of him

at work

and they keep doing this throughout the

movie i think just to establish that

it's a different day

yeah just so they can cut back to

gillies so you don't think are they just

keep going back there every

like twice a night because it's just

weird to just show a random shot a day

just to cut back to gillies again

because everything happens at kelly's

yeah maybe they only had it for so many

days

yeah that's possible they did shoot it

in the actual place though

[ __ ] notices hightower coming in to

ride before he gets on the bowl he

actually like climbs underneath it to

turn it up

right now it was set to five which was

already pretty high

when bud was jumping around on it but

hightower turns it up i don't know

just six or seven what what he does but

i don't think that five is very high

because

at the end of the movie it goes up to

12. right but here

when he said when marshall says what's

that thing set to and he says five and

he's like

five that's pretty high like these

people were starting at one and two i

think yeah

but he had it on five and then howard

hightower turns it up

[ __ ] is impressed by what he's able to

do and as they're

starting to leave gillies she calls out

to wes and says

oh you're a real cowboy aren't you and

uh bud told her to stop flirting with

the guy

uh he shows off some of his kick dancing

to earn some street cred back

and uh he's good at it because travolta

is good at dancing it turns out

it's almost like he's famous for that uh

later at the restaurant [ __ ] makes

plans to practice writing in secret

because she wants to surprise bud

and we as the audience can already tell

that this is not going to go

how she's planning it he complains about

hightower who seems to be just following

them around giving them nasty looks

she's still kind of being flirtatious

with him bud

is being very demanding about how his

food should be prepared with the wait

staff

and when it shows up it is not to his

liking so

because he's angry at [ __ ] and he's

angry about this food he takes it out on

the waitress

and he picks up his food and throws it

at her but when she ducks

it just splatters all over the back of

west hightower

kind of kind of like uh that american

graffiti ripoff movie yeah hollywood

nights when it hits the cop with all the

stuff

hey newbaum what time is it but yeah

now they're gonna fight and they have to

move it outside so they don't destroy

the rest of this restaurant

and bud loses very quickly this is not a

fair fight

it's clear that hightower has been in

more fights than bud has

and is just constantly nailing him in

the face and every time he tries to get

up

he's got five people pulling him away

like don't don't you're losing this

please stop fighting

the next morning bud uh gets up with

a big bruise on his face and he's

probably concussed

but he decides he's going to go to work

anyway because he doesn't want to miss

out on the money

but he wants a beer before he goes into

work right

[ __ ] sneaks away to practice riding a

bull

while he's at work but today while he's

at work

and probably as a result of his

concussion he

gets really dizzy at some point maybe

from beer maybe from the concussion yeah

combination but he falls off the

scaffolding

of uh this structure that they're

working on and

he basically catches himself by one foot

between these two pipes of the

scaffolding and he's rescued very

quickly by

marshall and some other friends from the

work site

hightower and strange teach [ __ ] how to

ride

at gillies and she's getting pretty good

at it

aunt karine comes over to check on bud

she makes some shitty comments about the

state of their place

she's looking at the sink and it's got a

bunch of food in it like dirty plates

and she's like oh man this place looks

like a pigsty and

she just sets about cleaning up the

whole house while

bud hangs out in the bathtub drinking

city gets home later

and she sees that his car is there when

he's supposed to still be at work and

she's

worried already she gets inside and

karine is just leaving

bud yells at her for not being home

earlier and for cooking and cleaning at

the house even though both of them work

full-time jobs

and eventually he like they they snap at

each other back and forth but

eventually he just admits that he feels

crappy about what karine said about

their place looking like

a pigsty and she's offended by it too

back at gillies we see hightower is now

running the bull

he's been given a job operating the uh

the machinery

bud turns to talk to marshall for a bit

and then suddenly [ __ ] is on the bull

to show off to him

and he tries to get her off of it like

cokes are down

but she does a decent job and so he

decides that he wants to show off

and outdo her so he turns it up and he

gets on it and then he goes

and then she goes again because she

wants to prove a point so he goes again

harder

and this time he falls off the side and

breaks his arm when they get back to the

trailer well he doesn't just break his

arm though because wes

is running the ball yeah and he

specifically spins it

after he's fallen off and smacks him

down to the ground so i think

that's the moment in which he breaks his

arm oh is it yeah

i thought he broke his arm when he fell

no no i i i think he fell

and it was a controller and he slapped

him with this yeah

okay but yeah so when they get back to

the trailer that night

they have a big fight and he basically

throws her out of the trailer

and tosses her the keys to her car so

she can head back to

her parents place or to wes hightower's

place

bud loses his job on account of the

broken arm he's sitting in the

trailer during the day just looking

through old photo books

he notices a flyer from that prison

rodeo they went to and he sees that wes

hightower was in that prison rodeo he's

one of the

the competitors the one that we actually

saw fall into the

paddock with the ball he heads over to

gillies because he thinks that

[ __ ] doesn't know this and he wants to

warn her away from hightower

and so he tells her oh you know that guy

you like he's an escaped convict

and she says he's not a convict he's out

on parole

well he is a convict then but he's not

an escaped convict yeah

but she says he's out on parole and she

knew that already she tells him to go

away

she doesn't want to talk to him i so a

couple times in this movie i thought it

was going to go

somewhere it didn't yeah and

i thought the revelation that this is

the guy from the rodeo

was going to be oh my god this is the

guy that i thought was so great

and he's taught [ __ ] how to be a great

bull rider

i'm gonna have him teach me so i can go

into a real rodeo

yeah that's where i thought this movie

was going i thought it was gonna have

an actual bull riding in it

and he was going to swallow his pride

learn his lesson swallow his pride and

wes was going to give him [ __ ] like

oh you want me to train you're not going

to train he's like you know please you

are the best and i want you to teach me

yeah how to write he was legitimately

impressed with him before yeah

and i was like yeah this is going to be

great this is going to be such a great

character

character change nope

i think the reason is called urban

cowboy is because the whole point of it

is about how

you don't get to be a cowboy anymore

like they're they're

now you don't even get in a fist fight

anymore now you punch a machine

yeah you don't even get to ride a cow

anymore you ride a machine cow

and all you have left is like the

costume of it what is this westworld

yeah exactly it's got cast from

westworld doesn't it

somebody in here was in a westworld

movie or maybe that was the last movie i

don't know

they're all blending together but yeah

uh here [ __ ] tells him to just go away

because she doesn't want to deal with

him anymore and he's like okay well i'm

just gonna go pick a random girl off the

dance floor

of course she's immediately jealous and

says hightower come

on we're gonna go dance next to them

they do this really awkward

close dancing where they're like

squeezing each other at weird angles

yeah

it looks super uncomfortable for them

awkward both of them are trying to like

get

their dance partner as close to them as

humanly possible and it just

it's all creepy and then comes the best

pickup line

ever what is that john travolta looks

into pam's eyes and says

when are you going to take me home and

rape me

all right and she's like oh time or

whatever richard's planning and using

this one

that's like if you if you were asking

her to be raped isn't that a

form of consent yeah i'm still just

gonna stick with my

my standard which is tickle your ass

with a feather

[Laughter]

so they do this weird awkward dance that

it honestly looks like

if you had had this same scene play out

with like will ferrell and somebody else

where they're just like curving their

bodies around each other and like

look how close i am to this person like

super exaggeratedly

he takes this girl out to his car or the

truck

in the parking lot and she says hey

cowboy

you're not just doing this to make your

wife jealous and he goes yup

and they start the car and they leave

well because she's into it right and

apparently she wasn't listening when he

said this though because

she's very surprised about it later her

place is expensive

it's a super nice apartment pretty high

up in a building because they have a

nice view of

houston from up here her dad's paying

for the place and he says what does

daddy do

daddy does and all of that she tells him

that she likes cowboys

i don't actually know what that implies

either

other than he's rich well have you not

seen the atom driver

uh parnassus oh my god i love that

now what does an oil baron do the answer

crush your enemies grind their bones

into

debt make them regret they were never

born

um she likes cowboys and her dad

makes fun of her about it because she

thinks or he thinks she likes them

because they're dumb

and she likes them because they're

simple they're not complicated and they

say what they mean

they drink a toast to cowboys and all

that implies not sure there either

back in the trailer next to gillies

where hightower lives

he's telling [ __ ] that you get visions

when you drink the worm in the tequila

bottle

and she says what are the visions of and

he's like i don't know i've drank a few

hundred of them so far i haven't had any

she asks him how many banks he's robbed

because she heard that that's why he was

in prison

and without answering her they just

start kissing

she backs off and then leans back into

it

and then admits to herself that she she

can't do this to bud and she has to go

but she thanks him for telling her about

the worm and uh she leaves and then he

drinks the worm

which apparently was originally just

supposed to be a joke for dailies but

they were like you did that so well

we're going to leave that in the movie

scott glenn is a actor yeah the score

here sounds

suspiciously like donna summers on the

radio which we already had as the score

to foxes earlier this year

[Music]

and i asked you about it when i was

playing it sounds so much like it that

i'm

i don't know what's going on there [ __ ]

is back home when bud walks into the

trailer so she knows that he stayed out

all night with somebody

she leaves and uh he steps out to his

truck and takes the

[ __ ] novelty license plate out of his

window he had one side said bud and one

side said [ __ ] and he pulls her license

plate out

pam the girl from the bar just shows up

at the trailer park yeah

she says that she asked some people

where he lived at the bar and they just

straight up gave her his address which

is weird

but she offers to make his wife jealous

again and he says my wife is living in a

trailer with a convict so

i'm getting a divorce bob calls and he

invites bud to dinner and he says oh i

have company no it's not [ __ ]

well hold on let me check with her and

then he just looks up to her and he says

we're gonna go have dessert with my

uncle yeah he doesn't actually ask her

anything he just makes a statement we

just cut two

he just brought this girl who's not his

wife to his aunt and uncle's house

for dessert while they're eating bob is

showing off

a belt buckle that he got for a bull

riding competition in 64.

and this is where we start to explore

bob's backstory he used to be

a competitive bull rider until he was

stomped on and taken out of the sport

he has plastic in his leg he has a plate

in his head

and he's hesitant to say in front of the

lady but he's got a plastic nut

as a result of this accident that took

him out of the game

they head out to gillies for a dolly

parton look-alike contest

and aunt karine is participating but she

doesn't make the final cut

no after they award the best dolly the

band jumps into a version of cotton eye

joe that i like even less than the one i

knew

[Laughter]

i was like all right here we go cotton i

joke finally i don't know a song i love

that

joke came out and then did you go cotton

i joe

bud and bob and friends walk over to el

toro the nickname for this mechanical

bull

and time to see [ __ ] hopping onto it

she leans

completely upside down backward and

kisses hightower before he starts up the

the machine she shows off by standing up

and moving around on it as it's

tipping back and forth i'm guessing it's

on one right now because yeah

it's not going very fast and it seems

very predictable it's not spinning

around either

they are awkwarded out by this and leave

for a second location

but as they're walking to their car in

the parking lot she's like well i can't

go to another place dressed like this

and they're like no it doesn't matter

the next

i know a place that's fine it doesn't

matter what you look like and then uncle

bob says

pop them titties and let's get rolling

and then you hear aunt karine like pop

the balloons that she has in her bra for

the contest

but she resets yeah she reacts like

she's scared from

each time she's popping them

it's really great and they move to this

second bar but we really see almost

nothing there they order some drinks and

start dancing and

we cut through the next morning well he

yeah he asked bob to train him

yeah um but the next morning [ __ ] is

waking up in wes's trailer

uncle bob starts to train bud on a

second mechanical bull i'm not sure

where this one is

i guess somewhere near their job site

[ __ ] stops by the trailer

she wanted to talk to bud but he's not

there so she cleans up

and leaves a note for him about how she

wants to try this again

and and she thinks she can keep the

place cleaner and

do a better job and she's going to be at

gili's all day so

please give me a call whenever you get

down there she hears someone coming in

and she thinks it's bud

and she's gonna get to talk to him but

it's pam

and [ __ ] says oh i thought it was butt

i was just leaving

and she's like good get out so she

leaves and right as she turns around the

corner bud shows up

so he just barely missed her and uh he

gets to the trailer and

compliments pam on how clean everything

looks and she takes

100 credit for it and tears up the note

that [ __ ] left

we get this shot that made just very

uncomfortable

of bud trying to take his cast off a day

early

oh god i could not watch he is just

sawing

and sawing across his wrist yeah and i'm

just like oh god you're gonna break

through you got to slice right through

your wrist

it was so awful i kept thinking when he

was going to take that cast off it was

going to be like in terminator 2 when

arnold is taking his skin off of his arm

and he'll

just oh no

it's like the uh the baby and uh

eraserhead

oh this isn't just bandage whoops like

he was he was

quote trying to save some money by not

going back to the doctor like he tells

his girlfriend like i don't have the

kind of money that you got

and instead he's just gonna you know

have to have an emergency bill when he

slices right through yeah exactly you're

just gonna go and get another cast right

away

so he does end up getting this cast off

so that he can start going back to work

a day early

he's going to start working double

shifts he plans on making about 16 bucks

an hour

we cut to [ __ ] at gilly's she's still

waiting for that phone call

but it doesn't come through she keeps

checking in with marceline

who is works at the front desk achilles

she sits down and drinks with wes and

it's framed kind of the same way as that

first night

when we see her talking to butt all

night the two of them are sharing their

backstories and

getting to know each other better we see

a montage of

cutting back and forth from but at work

to bud practicing

on the mechanical bull with bob driving

home one day he sees

[ __ ] working a tow truck and he waves

at her

but she flips him off so he does it back

and then just

speeds off when [ __ ] gets back to

west's trailer she finds marceline

who i just said is a as a fellow

employee of the

of gillies and she's in the bedroom with

him first she was hiding in the closet

but he doesn't seem to care that they've

been caught so he just knocks on the

door and he's like no come on out it's

fine

and she comes out and she's like trying

to apologize to [ __ ]

and sissy's like it's not your fault

what's happening here

well i mean i mean she's not not your

fault but she's

she's more angry with wes than she is uh

with this woman which

is actually uh refreshing and he

says that you can't expect me to be

faithful that's

that's not my thing by the way did you

get those cigarettes i asked for

and she throws a big carton of

cigarettes at his back

and he forcefully like grabs her around

the neck and makes her pick them up off

the ground

she says she's gonna leave and he tells

her to make him a meal

and when she says she's not gonna do

that he starts throwing her and smacking

her around in the

in the kitchen again back at the nice

trailer

bud is telling pam to wake him up in an

hour and a half even though she just

made him dinner

this beef stroganoff she wants him to

come to a dinner party that her father's

gonna be at that night

but he's like oh i'm gonna be busy i

gotta i gotta practice

i gotta watch the guy who operates the

mechanical bull and i got a workout

graveyard shift

yeah she's upset about how how much time

he's spinning away from her

so this was another point in which i

thought this movie was going to go a

different direction

okay i'm like okay so

sissy's obviously in a bad situation pam

isn't happy where she

is i was like are these both these women

going to realize that the both the men

that they're with are just pieces of

[ __ ]

yeah and and they're gonna get together

or they're gonna become friends or

they're gonna get away from these two

men in a thelma louise situation

because both of these men are awful yeah

i'm sorry but john travolta is not a

great

catch there's so many movies that do

this where they set up these two

characters and they're like

oh can't you see how in love they are

now no matter what happens from here

forward no matter how terrible they are

to each other

you know that they love each other so

you want them to get back together it's

like no i don't most of the time

and for the whole rest of this movie i

really did not want these two to get

back together

we cut back to uh work where

uh pam woke him up late on purpose

because she didn't want him to waste

time practicing

down at gilly's and so he gets to work

and marshall's like did you get any more

practice time in he's like no

clearly something shitty is about to

happen there's a terrible storm going on

while they're all working and it's

really late at night we have thunder

clapping constantly

and at this point i literally turned to

jess and was just like so who's dying

here is this gonna be marshall or uncle

bob

like someone's gonna die in this scene

and she was like it's uncle bob it's for

sure uncle bob

and lightning strikes this big tank on

the work site that just

explodes and it throws uncle bob

to this platform where he basically just

gets cooked like a barbecue

the flames are just pouring up through

the railing

and uh everyone's trying to hold uh bud

back so he doesn't get

caught in the fire and we cut

immediately to his funeral

everyone's crying around the casket as

it's getting lowered

and [ __ ] shows up late because nobody

told her that this was even happening

he was her uncle too by marriage and

she's upset about having been left out

they argue a bit at the grave site and

she asks if he's happy

and he says oh yeah i'm great i'm real

happy and she says me too i finally got

a real cowboy and he's like yeah and i

finally got a real lady

well she says she's not very happy

because she got a real cowboy

oh i thought she said she was i'm pretty

sure she said she's she's not

very happy oh i thought she said she was

okay well we're having the wrong here's

the audio

and you decide for yourselves hell yes

i'm happy

how about you you happy yeah i really am

i finally got what i wanted i got a real

cowboy

i i don't know um i'm not that committed

to either side of this

[ __ ] tells them that they're gonna

leave

their plan is to win the rodeo prize at

gillies and

take the five thousand dollar cash prize

to mexico

as deep as they can get with five

thousand dollars which i feel like five

thousand dollars can go past mexico

in 1980 again but she assumes

and asks bud to verify that you are not

going to be in this rodeo because of

your grieving yeah because it's it's

like that night yeah

and yeah he says yeah not going yeah

back at bob and karine's place

they're standing in the backyard and

karine gives bud the belt buckle

that bob showed him and says uh bob had

a feeling he was gonna get burnt to a

crisp and he told me to give this to you

um no but she knew that he had a plan to

give this to him for good luck for the

contest

shouldn't shouldn't uncle bob have had

metal

plates and bones that makes him getting

struck by lightning all the more

foreboding

like like now i'm just imagining his

innards melting because they're made up

well maybe that's why it was plastic

because they were like we don't want you

to think that that's

why he got stuck

i think that would have been more

interesting it's like it was like

foreshadowing like

have him earlier like get shocked by

something the coroner's just like i've

never seen this as nuts are melted

well one of them

exploded oh god

we'll let you think of which one yeah

but yeah she gives him the belt buckle

and she says you go win that contest and

he's like yeah i'm not

i'm not gonna do that contest not not

right now i'm not gonna go there

she's like well you have to because this

ghost is gonna be really mad and she's

just shaming him into this contest that

he didn't want to participate in

we cut to charlie daniels the gillies

tonight the bull is turned all the way

up to 12.

we get a long tournament that is boring

and dwindles down to just wes and bud

very quickly

i wanted this is what i how i wanted it

to end we we had our different choices

of how

this should end i wanted for him to win

the contest

and then give them the prize money like

not only am i better than your boyfriend

but you can still leave with him and

what did you want jess

yeah i wanted him to lose the contest

but then she

would leave wes for him anyways but

neither of these things happened i

wanted

[ __ ] to win the contest that's what i

wanted oh so like a baltimore bullet

situation where

they they build up that this woman is

getting better and better at a sport and

then she never plays it at the end of

the movie yeah

yeah that is uh that would have been

better actually bud wins

he beats west by one point and wes takes

her out in the parking lot and just

beats the [ __ ] out of [ __ ]

pam realizes that bud is looking for

[ __ ] after he wins and that's the only

reason why he even competed was because

he wanted to

see her reaction and he doesn't want her

to leave with this guy

and she says look i should tell you the

truth here

i because i don't love you as much as

your wife does but i tore up a note that

she left and she asked you to call her

you should go find her and he

immediately races out of the club to

find her

and as he steps out into the parking lot

wes is heading back into the building

with

a gun in the parking lot he finds [ __ ]

sitting in a car

in the shadow and he tells her that he

never got that note she left

pam tore it up but that he still loves

her and she immediately says that she

loves him

and they stand up and hug and they they

bury the hatchet they're they're best

friends again husband and wife

this is when he notices her face that

she's just been

beaten and what's wrong with your face

what's wrong with your face

what's wrong with your face she says

that wes did it

they just need to get away and he says

no well first i gotta go kill wes

and she's shouting at him to not go in

there but

apparently doesn't know what's going on

inside but she still just doesn't want

to get in a fight with wes because she's

already seen him lose a fight with wes

but as soon as he goes in the front door

he comes face to face with wes

and just starts wailing on him not even

realizing that wes is holding a gun

or that he's carrying all the prize

money that he just robbed from gillies

and he's just smashing his head into the

floor over and over and over again

after he knocks the gun away and

everyone's like congratulating him

and as he's standing i'd be starting to

realize oh something was happening here

that i didn't realize

was going on presumably west is being

sent back to prison for robbing the

place

[ __ ] comes back to the entrance and

her and bud leave arm in arm and they

put the novelty plate back up in the

truck window

and uh they live happily ever after in

this fictional version of the

of the actual couple who broke up and

divorced shortly after the film

and that's him in the movie our director

here was james bridges

who had directed the paper chase just

the year before this he directed china

syndrome

and he worked with travolta again for

perfect in 85 which was also written by

aaron latham

china syndrome is so good it is and we

said

no relation to the other bridges correct

he's not a part of the famous hollywood

bridges family

the writer here aaron latham also wrote

that perfect movie i mentioned

and a 93 movie called the program with

james cohn and holly berry

i don't remember that movie i don't

remember that john travolta was bud

you know him from cary pulp fiction or

probably swordfish

deborah winger was [ __ ] she played

wonder girl on the linda carter wonder

woman show

she was also in an officer and a

gentleman and terms of endearment is

usually the one i think of

as she's nominated for a golden globe

for this role

she was nominated for two actually one

for was for best new star and i was like

okay well that could be a thing but

but for best supporting actresses like i

mean she was good

she wasn't a bad performer i don't know

best supporting

actress nomination yeah for golden

globes it's an interesting choice she

didn't win

maybe it was a slow year yeah mary

steinberg and won for melvin and howard

but she was up against uh beverly

beverly d'angelo for coal mine it's

under who i think

was a better nominal performance yeah it

was it was weird it was just a weird

little

thing that i did i also i see why [ __ ]

spacek didn't take this role in addition

to like the travolta problems

but if she just constantly played like

second fiddle country wives like

yeah she couldn't do that forever

especially like the the guy that the

article was about was literally named

dew which is the same as her husband and

coal miner's daughter

scott glenn played wes here he plays uh

bart mancuso in the hunt for red october

he was

john adcox in backdraft he's this david

carradian style wise man in

uh sucker punch which is a garbage movie

jack crawford in silence of the lambs

yeah he's apparently in the first season

of castle rock that new

hulu stephen king show i haven't watched

any of that and he plays a character

named stick

in daredevil and the defenders yeah i i

really

yeah he's good in that um so i really

like scott glenn

and i'm always excited when he's in a

movie

yeah he's a good guy does he play

astronaut in something

uh in the right stuff that's right

madeleine smith osborne was pam

uh she was madeline smith in the credits

presumably she married an osborne

she plays peggy schuyler and all of me

not in hamilton

uh she plays caroline floyd in 2010 so

she's also an astronaut possibly

uh no she's she's in like like two

scenes

uh when roy schneider is is training

okay go back

up but she also plays elizabeth farmer

and funny farm with chevy chase

and this was her first feature film role

barry corbin was uncle bob

yeah love barry corbin uh he was allison

no country for old men

he's uh general barringer in war games

he's harv

and critters ii and he plays dale

on the ranch which i haven't actually

watched any of but uh but he just got

the greatest voice

yeah i recognized him from northern

exposure he was maurice oh okay

cool i never saw that marshall here was

cooper huckabee

love cooper huckabee yeah good guy

cooper huggaby yeah he plays bill farren

in uh macgyver episode hellfire which is

the reason that we

interviewed him for our previous podcast

phoenix foundation and he was a very

sweet guy

it just uh apparently he was like in the

in the running to play macgyver

on the show then it came down to like

basically the two of them at the last

second which he

he got that information from henry

winkler who produced the show

he's just a sweet guy he'll be back next

year in funhouse

and he came back with travolta for

general's daughter

in like 99 or 2000 he was little raj

brittle

in django unchained uh part of the

brittle brothers

the when i last spoke to him um he was

auditioning for the the netflix peewee

movie peewee's big holiday

and he was auditioning for the farmer

role which uh eventually went to the guy

that plays

keanu reeves dad in the bill and ted

movies but

when i was watching the movie i was like

oh he didn't get that part i was hoping

he would

and then after that scene there peewee

goes to get married to one of the

farmer's daughters

and he's the minister at the wedding i

was like okay good they gave him

something

so he's in there so keep an eye out for

him but he's great

james gammon here was steve strange

he was in sylvester silverado silver

bullet and silver city

let's see why i picked all those um he's

in other things too well it's funny

because scott glenn is also in silverado

yeah and travolta was a member of the

wedding party

as you might have guessed that is john's

sister and regular co-star

anson downes is another member of the

wedding party

he was an actor with travolta in cary

and this

and perfect he's also a producer on

literally every travolta film for the

last 21 years

so this is weird steve strange is a

character in the movie

played by james gammon but there's also

an actor in the movie

named steve strange playing a character

named

sam strange so he shares his last name

with his character and it's well except

our best guess here is that steve

strange

but that's not the case i i thought

maybe he was like he was the steve

strange that the movie was telling the

story of

but this steve strange the the actor

steve strange was 20 when he was in this

oh so he couldn't have been maybe he was

the son

of like the like the real life gillies

person

he was born in the uk oh

i'm trying to find a reason for this

weird coincidence that

that he would play somebody with the

same last name and for somebody

in the movie with that name yeah and for

so he shares his last name with his own

character

and his full name with another character

in this film and also the sorcerer

supreme

and i have no explanation for that so if

anyone knows the

the reasoning behind that let us know uh

james n

harrell played the minister at the

gravesite for

for bob's funeral and he's also the

minister at the funeral that opens paper

moon

he also played the manager of cut right

in texas chainsaw massacre 2 which i'm

assuming is some

store at some point he played old geezer

number one with travolta in the movie

michael

with travolta yep they both played this

character

it was like it was like a weird

two-headed costume

no travolta was also in the movie

michael he plays michael in michael

michael's an angel and he turns into

feathers spoiler alert um

we didn't talk about jerry hall that is

correct we didn't

one of one of the credited sexy sisters

uh was played by well both the actual

sisters jerry and cindy hall

yeah um i i mostly know jerry hall

from this minor character that she plays

in batman alicia

yeah i have never seen this movie

free jack oh i've heard of that that

sounds familiar

i was like i was like oh she's she was a

movie called free jack i was like ooh

emilio estevez mick jagger renee russo

anthony hopkins

jonathan banks why have i not seen this

movie but

just this is a stupid tangent but i just

got to say free jack the plot is

a bounty hunter from the future

transports a doomed race car driver

to new york city in 2009 where his mind

will be replaced with that of a dead

billionaire i'm in that's why okay

there's too many plots all right well

we're skipping

to free jack now our next movie i have

to see this movie

straight to 1992 so that's 12 years

before we get to see free jack

before we will have enough spare time to

watch free jack

yeah i didn't uh i didn't know much from

the sexy sisters the only alicia i know

from batman movies played

batgirl who is alicia in batman uh jerry

hall

but who is alicia oh she's the joker's

girlfriend

oh okay the one the one that has the

scarred face yeah

up or down richard

i think i think i'm gonna give this one

a down

uh it it was fine but

i was just disappointed like like i

those two other plots that i wanted to

happen

didn't happen yeah i know that that's

like not fair for me to judge it on that

but it's like

i don't want these women with these men

yeah men

aren't good and i don't like it

for me it's a thumbs up because i think

it's a character study and it's uh i

like i like both of the characters i

i agree that they don't seem like they

belong together but

i still enjoyed hearing them talk to

each other

yeah i don't i don't really think it's a

bad movie but i still don't think i can

give it a thumbs up it's just

it's too long it's not it is long it's

not super interesting like not a lot

actually happens everybody does a fine

job in it it's just it's just not that

interesting of a movie to me

i'm not sure what about this story

inspired an article yes and then what

inspired them to say

there's more here let's let's expand

and make this a movie i think there's

barely enough for me to be satisfied and

say

okay there's a plot and there's these

things that happen but

it the five thousand dollars for the

reward money to leave the country comes

out of nowhere

yeah and it feels like a contrived plot

device at the last second

this movie's two hours and 15 minutes

most of which

is in ghillies and a lot of live

performances

like dancing there's more dancing and uh

and singing than necessary but i

feel like it also that's what that's

what this

part of the country is about and that's

what they're trying to tell the story of

what gillies was like and what

country western honky tonks are like and

i felt like it was at least an accurate

portrayal of

of uh from all your time in honky tonks

it just felt accurate to me from an

outsider's perspective

but yeah uh where does this go on your

letterbox jess this is above the windows

threshold but

just barely um i have it above

the gong show movie but below saturn

three

okay uh mine is also barely above

uh the windows threshold it's only one

away uh

there's one movie in between i'm putting

it just below niginsky

and just above cruising okay

i am going to put this i'm actually

going to put this

a little bit higher than i expected um

it's going to go

above foxes but below coal miner's

daughter

no no you know what last minute

adjustment it's going to go above coal

miner's daughter because more happens in

this movie

um you think more happens in this than

in coal miner's daughter

yeah they're very similar movies

they are very similar and they're both

sissies but

it's just coal miner's daughter to me

was literally just

a a true story about a a person becoming

a famous singer

and there's nothing else to it yes at

least there's

turns i don't know i feel like at least

there's some there's more character arc

i feel like everybody at the beginning

this movie is the same as they are at

the end of this movie

well except for john travolta's

exposition of i'm

i am different now but he's not

he is absolutely not am i going to shift

this again

back you don't have to take it no it's

fine

you put it where you want to put it no

i'm going to yeah i'll leave it

above coal miner's daughter and below

long riders but it's it's tight

i would rather watch this again than

watch coal miners solder again

they're both very long they are both

very long and they're both very song

actually like

i like the songs better than this

because there's more uh

change you know it's variation and uh i

don't really care for

uh loretta lynn's music so um yeah

that's where it's gonna go for me i

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struggles to keep his wild west show

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in the face of hard luck and waning

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or carney or carney or

long riders at long range

times they are changing okay okay i got

you or uh

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