Hucklebug, Episode 83: Our year-end show! Intro, Bet’s letter to the BBC, shout-outs and shout-outs of the year, movies of the week (Bet: Hot Fuzz, The Simpsons Movie, Hara-Kiri; Stennie: Umbrellas of Cherbourg, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Bad Santa, Touching the Void), movies of the year (no spoilers!), lowlights & highlights of the week, lowlights & highlights of the year, fuck-offs & you-rules of the week, fuck-offs and you-rules of the year, Hucklebug resolutions. Next week: cuss-free Hucklebug!
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I’ve got four movies I saw for the first time in ‘07 that earned *****:
Pandora’s Box (1929)
Army Of Shadows (1969)
Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974) (I think you guys could be in a re-make)
The Lives Of Others (2006)
I suppose you saw this coming down Broadway, but these are the words you are not to use on the program:
B*M
B*TTY
P*X
KN*CKERS
W**-W**
SEMPRINI
Mike: Good calls on PANDORA’S BOX and CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING!
One of the familiar British actors in HOT FUZZ you guys may have missed (and it bugged me all the way until the end credits) was the kindly priest of the N.W.A. (!!). He’s played, of course, by Paul Freeman, who was Indiana Jones’ nemesis Rene Belloq in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. I didn’t like RAIDERS (Yeah, yeah, yeah… For sincere revisionist serial heroes, I preferred the great Dino De Laurentiis FLASH GORDON of Christmas 1980, which made it out five months ahead of Indy), but I’ll never forget Freeman, in Panavision close-up, delivering a typically sinister speech and a fly landing on his lip. Rather than break character, he faultlessly, without a missed beat, carries on as the fly tiptoes around his chin and eventually crawls into his mouth… never to emerge. Now, THAT’S great acting!
By the way, if you’ve still got that HOT FUZZ disc, be sure to watch “The Fuzzball Rally,” a hilarious doc on the press tour undertaken by Pegg, Frost and Edgar Wright. I met Edgar Wright a couple of times over the last couple of months, and he is genuinely keen!
And I think I can speak for Sal when I say how honored we both are in having some part in your seeing what you picked as the Worst Movie of 2007?
Speaking of lists, in a shameless plug, my own Best of 2007 list will be up at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule by Saturday! My worst movie is one that A LOT of people are in love with right now. That’s me—Mr. Controversy!
Comments about other commenters:
Mike’s lists are great, both movies and naughty words. Broadway’s pretty wide, but I was dazzled by all the city lights.
Good info from Dennis on Hot Fuzz. I’m looking forward to his Best of 07.
Now to you two, I haven’t forgotten:
1. Probably not your youngest listener (mid 30s), but certainly your newest.
2. I think I need to delve back into the Podcast-A-Thon if its still posted. Feel like I missed something pretty special.
3. So am I too gay or not gay enough for enjoying Umbrellas of Cherbourg? I need to prepare my defense, depending on the crowd I’m talking to.
Thanks again, guys, and happy new year. My money’s on Bet for the no-swearing epi. She’s made of fuckin’ steel.
I agree with Dennis. On retrospect I can’t say that Vampire flick was the worst movie of 2007 but it sure is right up there.
OK, if I had to guess what movie Dennis feels is the worst movie of 2007 that everyone is in love with right now, I’ll pick “I Am Legend”
Oh and that Hot Fuzz Doc is really very funny. I especially like the L.A. stop where they snuck off to a local sporting event.
Here’s a film that just kills me… The Aristocrats. And I don’t mean the Disney Movie!!
Wait, wait, wait…
I have another guess for that film Dennis feels is the worst film of 2007. It’s The Golden Compass.
Good guesses, Mr. Gomez, but I haven’t seen either of those…
Good guesses, Mr. Gomez, but I have seen neither of those movies…
I’m not sure I saw any movies in 2007 except for Ocean’s 13, which doesn’t actually count. It’s George and other pretty people in pretty clothes, it has to be done, and standard rating systems don’t apply. I think I saw two other George movies this year, both of which were in black and white and he looked damn good in them too—The Good German and Good Night and Good Luck. The Good German was interesting as it was fun to see Toby Maguire play a real heel. (I would have said a real sh*t, but this might be read during no swearing week, and I don’t want to be responsible for someone fu…. screwing up. And my money’s on Bet to slip up first).
And Patrick, I don’t think whether you enjoyed The Umbrellas of Cherbourg has anything to do with gayness. I think it just means you’re Chrispy posting under another name. Here’s one to smoke you out—thoughts on Lars Von Trier?
Lily – See, that’s why I did use the F-word above, I was hoping to cause the slip.
Re: my true identity. Hmm, how to throw you off of my scent? I know, paraphrase the Bard about von Trier: Something’s rotten in Denmark.
To be serious, I’m not terribly familiar with Lars (only Dancer in the Dark) but might be interested in being further schooled. However, gotta be honest—what I’ve seen of the Dogme 95 movement leaves me completely cold.
Patrick: I gave up on von Trier after DANCER IN THE DARK, so I have no opinion other than indifference to share re: DOGVILLE and MANDERLAY. But I did find the strange experiment he did with director Jorgen Leth entitled THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS to be amusing and frustrating in equal measure. Of Dogme 95 in general, just about the only thing I felt ever broke free of the rigid absurdity of this self-imposed aesthetic was Thomas Vinterbergs’s THE CELEBRATION, a comedy so acidic it would have burned no matter how it was shot.
Aw, Crispy! Happy New Year, man.
I just saw Dancer in the Dark, and well, hated it. But that doesn’t count as worst movie of 2007, now does it? I’d go with Borat then.
I can’t WAIT for the no cussing show.
Okay, now I’m starting to have a complete identity crisis. Who am I? Am I Crispy or Original Recipe? I’m so confused.
Regardless, I will openly admit that the worst film I saw in 2007 was a tie between The Black Dahlia and Night at the Museum. Weren’t there enough warnings?
Thanks, Dennis. The Celebration has been added to the queue!