Little Children

Sometimes you might do something that's just not very good, and you have to be brave enough to make that mistake in front of a crew of people who you- Yeah ... you know, barely know sometimes.

And it's just all about experimenting and, um, and we very much had that on Little Children, very much so.

Easy to do that on film than on the stage because- Mm.

Oh, yeah.

Well, let's stop there on that so we don't get too much more into the movies and, and step on our, uh, Best Picture category, and we'll move straight into Lead Actress.

So for, uh, Lead Actress, there was Helen Mirren won for "The Queen," Penélope Cruz nominated for "Volver," uh, Judi Dench nominated for "Notes on a Scandal," Meryl Streep nominated for D- "Devil Wears Prada," as we already mentioned, and Kate Winslet nominated for "Little Children." Uh, had you seen any of these movies before besides Prada?

Um, I think I'd seen "Little Children," but I didn't watch "Notes on a Scandal" or "The Queen" until prep- uh, prepping for this.

And then I actually couldn't find "Volver," so I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Penélope Cruz.

Okay.

Um, I'm curious for your thoughts on swapping out Kate Winslet for, uh, Kirsten Dunst.

Yeah.

"Little Children" just didn't really resonate with me that much.

And, and I feel like there's a nightmarish tone to this movie, and I'm not doing a play on words, but, but it does have the tone of, um, "Oh man, everybody in this film is screwed." I mean, I feel that dread.

And this is external, but with Jackie Earle Haley, I love him as a performer, and I know that not everybody would have this, so this is a subjective thing for me, but he was in a film called Little Children where he was also a child molester.

Yes.

A pedophile.

I don't think it's poss- I mean, I get, Dave, if you have that superpower, I'm very happy for you.

I'm actually surprisingly good at going into a movie and just letting it wash over me and not injecting too much stuff usually.

The problem with this wasn't that it wasn't Robert Englund for me, 'cause again, I like Jackie Her- Hay- Haley, and I've seen, uh, Little Children, and I think he could've been phenomenal.

I think the design was not scary to me.

We can bomb them.

Well, you know what movie really explored this m- uh, in a, a completely compelling way is Little Children.

Have you seen that?

No.

Yeah.

That was such a fucking wild movie.

Little Children is an amazing, that's a Todd Field movie, and Jackie Earle Haley plays the local pedophile who-

Oh, okay.

Still to this day.

Also opening this week in limited release are Short Bus, Little Children, and 49 up so something for everyone wow

really really something for everyone yeah so wait what wait what was between short bus and 49 up what was

little children little children yeah i'm not a film i'm a fan of no nor

should you be i remember when tar was coming out everyone's like i'm so excited i'm like have you seen little children because uh

that was kind of my thought

And so I was surprised that I liked Tar as much as I did because I was ready to...

I walked out of Tar.

Just going to pop back to Raymond J. Barry.

He's also in a film called Little Children, written and directed by Todd Field from our Battered Bastards episode last time.

What a link.

A little pull back from last week's episode, yeah.

But, you know, people grow up.

And then I think he was in Little Children.

Right.

Which got him

Yeah, that's true.

Let me see if anything else is popping off to me.

Little Children, Watchmen.

Oh, yeah.

But isn't that like, it's so rare to see films that actually do that and have you sympathize with people and understand.

Have you ever seen Little Children?

No.

You should watch Little Children.

I know Patrick Wilson.

Patrick Wilson at his finest.

Mark Wahlberg's there.

I will say, I will say, I did have... really close was the breakup which i think is a wildly underrated romantic comedy um and then uh heaviest of heavy movies but that i enjoy because i and speaking of patrick wilson because i enjoy all of the the performances in it is little children is another one that is really heavy and dark but a really good movie This was a good year.

Yeah, there's a lot of good stuff.

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