Michael Shannon

We have a great show for you today, by the way.

Hollywood actor Michael Shannon is here with his very great friend Jason Narducci.

And they've formed this massively popular group that plays albums in full.

And they've now gone on an OREM mission in recent years.

And they go to Belfast tomorrow.

So we'll be chatting OREM and their adventures to date in music.

Michael Shannon actually said he... once that he hated actors in bands and now he is that guy.

We were only discussing actors in bands two weeks ago with Keanu Reeves and Kiefer Sutherland having been here this year as well around the place.

She's just kind of a background character.

Michael Shannon's in it.

He plays a fun character.

But it's a lot of style over substance, and the, and they kinda gloss over shit how biopics typically do.

It's actually quite gothic at points when they're in the rubble of the World Trade Center and he's using shadows and light and scrap metal and all of this stuff to almost like build a weird looking warped cityscape in the ruins of the World Trade Center.

where you have the Michael Shannon character where, and for the record, I did not know this was based on a true story when I put it on.

So I see Michael Shannon just suiting up after a haircut.

I'm like, is this dude playing fake Marine? Is he just going down to ground zero and military fatigue? The mighty

dollar.

Never mind.

But yeah, like I get...

No, it is like weird because he has the... it's michael i don't know it's michael shannon's face is just funny and like seeing him and he's like like the the like you know what i mean like around his eyes he's got that he's got those bags around his eyes like it's like homer simpson or something i don't even

Keegan-Michael Key plays the voice of Buddy, Patton Oswalt.

We were talking about Michael Shannon shows up as a... a character later in the film we'll get to uh yeah so good times fun fun stuff uh yeah so the the premise here is as eric was alluding to we have buddy he's a purple dinosaur reminisce i mean like we and i don't know i was i would say like just too old to watch barney like barney started barney was a bit past our time yeah like when we were in like you know, late elementary or even middle school.

But obviously it was like everywhere.

So, you know, it was like in the ether and these characters, whatever, are timeless in a way.

terrible terrible i don't remember it being that bad it's

it's a bad movie generally but tucci is also uniquely bad in it like it is it's a genuinely embarrassing performance interesting okay uh dishonorable mentions uh going further up the list olivier and marathon man uh robert loja in jagged edge doesn't get much to do but he gets uh like not doesn't get much to do doesn't get anything to do um but he gets bumped up a few spots for having that killer you know final line of fuck him he's trash um michael shannon in nocturnal animals um also doesn't have a ton to do but at the very least he's you know reliable and Michael Shannon-ish Gig Young Jack Palance Vittorio De Sica honestly I would maybe put Frank Morgan lower on the list looking at the ones that he's above I might I might drop him down below what you call it Robert Locha there

yeah Anyway, let's get to the top.

Let's get to the good ones.

The alternate ending is more open, more violent.

There's a Michael Shannon shootout that got cut.

Crowe has said the pendulum swung too far toward explaining things.

He thinks the theatrical cut over-explains.

from a giant yeah he was that he

was michael shannon is gonna play parcel or is playing parcels so that's the important

thing

he was this guy was the last pick in the draft in 1983 only played one season with them because then he got struck down by cancer

I love it so much what a great movie 6.20 September 15th

IFI part of the bigger picture program I'll be introducing the Nonsense Ahoy I can't wait I just can't wait as I said haven't seen it since the ambassador in 1984 what right I'm going to leave it there because it's been a very busy week we had the metric the Canadians were in town last night went to see metric stars and broken social scene I've got not north who are like a metal punk cover band I don't know what they are there tonight and then obviously we have Michael Shannon doing his REM thing tomorrow night so

what a time to be alive people I might just nap the whole weekend right seriously this time I'm going to

shut up ciao