Ep20 - Evolution w/ Patrick "Lynn" Wilson

Uh, let's talk about the movie though.

Um, yeah, we're watching evolution 2001.

Ivan Reitman joint, uh, probably an attempt to do ghostbusters again.

I think like they definitely had franchise aspirations here, uh, there's a cartoon of it that weirdly exists, but yeah, it is like a black guy.

Sure.

Um, and yeah, Dan Aykroyd is also there.

Um, and, and it's like, it, it is a film that I think that we're watching it because I think the decline of studio comedies is really interesting that they used to just make like 20 of these movies a year and now they make none.

Um, and like you watch it and, I'm not saying it's a noble film.

Indeed, I think the film might be timed sort of badly because we just did a silly film from my childhood last week on this podcast, or maybe two times ago, depending on when you're listening.

And I feel like the podcast is becoming me watching trash with my friends, which is a type of film podcast already.

I wasn't trying to ape that.

But basically, as a kid, in I think freshman year, Uh, we, my friends and I watched this in the theater and we thought it was very funny and silly.

And then we watched it again the next day.

And then the next day we brought more people and watched it again.

And I watched this movie in the theater five or six times because I was roughly 14 or 15 had nothing to do.

Um, and.

Why did I watch this so often is a thing I've really thought about later in life.

It's like, why was that the one? What is it that called to a teenage me in this film that I liked? I don't know.

And in an attempt to figure that out, I have made Jay and Patrick watch it.

And indeed, watch it again.

Because, as Patrick alluded to, we had a big gap between planning to record this and recording this.

Seven years.

And so all of us immediately forgot.

I feel like I forget what happened in this movie a week after watching it.

Maybe less.