Weekly Ramblecast 165: Hollyweed
Added 2024-08-06 13:00:06 +0000 UTCBefore we left for break this week, we recorded this ramble about the latter-day works of Kevin Smith, a ranking of Miyazaki films, collegiate nuclear reactors, running your own private TV station, Christopher Guest, and Vinny's long-awaited garage move.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:32) Timely Clerks references
(00:09:26) Kevin Smith is still working, technically
(00:10:59) Clerks, Blair Witch Project: tiny budgets
(00:20:13) Is The Purge any good?
(00:28:19) Ranking of Miyazaki
(00:31:45) The kids and the content
(00:36:21) Your own private TV station!
(00:41:31) It's garage time
(00:46:37) Computers you can't see!
(00:50:18) Did Brad go to CAX or the Vintage Computer Festival??????
(00:54:44) SGI workstations, nuclear reactors, normal college stuff
(00:56:20) Energy talk!
(01:00:37) The Christopher Guest outro
Comments
Just listening now (Ground Control). I believe Jay & Silent Bob Get Old and Get Irish were live speaking tour engagements with Kevin Smith & Jason Mewes edited together into feature-length doc-likes. They haven't gone the full-on Cheech & Chong route with the characters.
Brian Streleckis
2024-08-14 21:26:16 +0000 UTCSpeaking of the term “Hollyweed”, in LA 2017 I stepped out of my apartment one morning to find that someone had put up cloth over parts of the Hollywood sign, changing it to “Hollyweed” for a day. Still makes me laugh every now and then.
Morgan Hillebrand
2024-08-08 00:37:07 +0000 UTCI do not understand how the production budget for Blair Witch Project was anywhere close to that much. I actually knew 2 of the 3 actors back then as they were friends of friends. They got paid something like $300 each and they were also the entire camera and sound crew. Even if they shot 1000 hours of footage it was all on videotape, so it’s not like they had to pay for film. Where was that budget used? Building little stick men? Or did the directors just pay themselves $20k each to drop off baskets of supplies and occasionally shake nearby trees?
Brad Arnold
2024-08-07 20:17:07 +0000 UTCJust to piggyback off of what Alex was saying about wishing Shudder had a 24-hour "channel" where they just stream random movies on a schedule similar to the new feature on the Criterion Channel, Shudder actually totally does have that! In fact, there are three "channels" you can choose from as soon as you log into the app. It might be worth looking into if you're interested.
Brandon Melling
2024-08-07 18:00:23 +0000 UTCLethal Weapon 2 has a surfboard decapitation scene, though I'm uncertain if that is the movie Vinny was talking about.
Eric W
2024-08-06 23:18:48 +0000 UTC
