Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about movie fandom. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Recorded while driving to Tree House Brewery
- Watching scary movies as a kid
- The Shining still holds up
- Favorite directors: Kubrick, Scorsese, Tarantino
- Jay: After Hours is a fun movie; similar plot to Into the Night, which came out around the same time
- The current state of prestige TV is giving movies a run for their money
- Better Call Saul is the latest great show
- The early days of the pandemic led to watching lots of movies
- Great time to catch up on old favorites and things you missed
- The greatness of The Decline of Western Civilization, Part 2
- U2 was riding high until they released the movie Rattle and Hum
- Lots of movies filmed in our area
- Jay: After we had kids, didn't go to an adult movie in the theater for years
- Movie dates used to be a big deal when we were younger
- Don't do it that much anymore
- The movie viewing experience at home is much better than it used to be
- Phil hasn't been to a movie in a theater since the pandemic started
- Watching edited versions of movies on network TV
- We interact differently with movies today
- Movie recommendations: Jay recommends Prey, The Limey, Burn After Reading, No Country For Old Men, Something Wild, After Hours
- Phil recommends Bernie, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.
