Suburbia | Welcome To The Basement
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- This week the old leather couch has been abandoned at the curb in the rough part of 1980s Los Angeles. Come join us for the filth and the fury that is Suburbia.
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"I thought this was a comedy."
I'm with Craig. I just burst out laughing after that.
I never thought we’d get a callback to the “Odin! Odin! Odin!” chant but I welcome it wholeheartedly!
I wasn't aware of this movie. Thanks for bringing it to the old leather couch! Also, thanks for the additional push I needed to see The Intruder. If anyone else needs to be convinced, there's an amazing interview on UA-cam with Roger Corman and William Shatner about the movie from around 2000.
5:05 had me in stiches. Craig's reaction is priceless.
"P.s. I stole the yellow shirt." Now THAT is funny!!
Awesome movie choice Matt, i remember Suburbia was required viewing for the (albeit small) punk population at my high school in the late ‘80s.
This feels like "Over The Edge" for the '80s
Ah yes! The Last Starfighter. After watching that, every kid that went to the arcade secretly wished it would come true.
I still do at 31 lol
It was true. The military are behind video games with an aim to not only desensitize children to war, but to recruit through on line data collecting. Video games are weapons. Sorry, folks.
Talk about being genuinely shocked by the opening of a movie! Also love the Bill Gazzarri reference.
The actor that played Jack shows up in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" during the Roadhouse/Pink Room scene. He's the guy who "hooks up" with Donna.
So glad you guys loved The Castle, its a beloved classic here down under. I still quote it all the time!
A beautiful rendition of Little Green Bag.
Holy shit! I’m so glad you guys are doing this one (this was one of those “rite of passage” type films that all of us young punks watched in the 90s). I hope you don’t shit on it too bad (I haven’t watched your review yet… but I’m about to!). I actually got to see it on the big screen at Hollywood Theatre (Portland, OR) with Penelope Spheeris in attendance (did a Q&A!!)!!! It was a long time ago and all I really remember (I think I was pretty hamboned) was this elderly couple in front of us (they were like 75 years old! What the fuck were they doing there???) shushing me and my buddy as we laughed and joked at all the best bits (we had a BIG laugh at the initial DOG ATTACK scene). Sorry (misguided) art-loving boomer couple, this is an EXPLOITATION/genre film!! I still love this film and I hope you guys do too….. (presses PLAY!).
Oh man, I got to this episode late (been busy) and I missed a gem, you guys were on fire in this ep! Laughed out loud so much. The frog thing, the 'Skinner has the cadence of a peanuts character,' and the 'P.S. I stole the yellow shirt.' Oh man, I have tears. Great job guys, and also really enjoyed your thoughts on the movie at the end. Sometimes you leave me a little bit wanting when there isn't much to say about a film, but this one obviously had a lot of thinking points. Also great to hear your thoughts the Intruder, amazing film everyone should watch. Also real proof to me that Shatner is/was a great actor-- this is a pet peeve of mine that people think Shatner just a can of ham or whatever, but I think he's got this rep because people don't remember him in ST-- they remember the impressions OF him, by Carrey and Pollak and they think he's exactly like that, when the parodies are obvs exaggerated. He has an old style of acting but its pretty par of the course for the time-- Adam West is the same era and is arguably more 'hammy' really. Anyway great episode! Thanks guys.
I confused the title with Channel Awesome's Suburban Knights. That would be a horrifying and unexpected review. I probably confused it with their other film Kickassia (which is also terrible).
I remember this being quite violent, poor Matt expecting a comedy
Loving the Nebraska shirt Craig, Go Big Red!
I drove out to Colorado a few weeks back and was so happy to be out of the state for the first time in a year and a half that i couldn't resist the truck stop buy.
Since you mention WTTB's deficit of movies directed by women, here's a Seen It! for you: Joan Micklin Silver's second feature-length effort, 1977's "Between the Lines", about a group of mostly twenty-somethings proceeding towards maturity while working at an alternative newspaper in Boston. I saw it as a teenager when it was released, and it seems to have been largely forgotten, despite early performances by an astonishing number of people who made it big in movies and TV series only a few years later: Jill Eikenberry, John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Bruno Kirby, Stephen Collins, Joe Morton, and Marilu Henner; Michael J. Pollard was the old pro by comparison. Oh, and this guy named Jeff Goldblum apparently is now known as an accomplished jazz pianist with the Mildred Schnitzer Orchestra. Available to be streamed through Brazilian River's Top Grade service in the USA, at least.
Man, we watched Suburbia on VHS so many times as teens. Then we got to see The Vandals not long after being introduced to it. They were supposed to headline the "Anti-Republican Convention," which consisted of a few punk bands playing in an open parking lot in the warehouse district of New Orleans in 1988, when the Republicans had their very real convention in town. There was one problem: The Vandals, rebelling against their Californian government, were very much Republican. They refused to play and ended up headlining at a different show (featuring at least one of the same bands) later that night. I could probably write a novella about all the small but indelibly stained moments in my mind from that day. A trio of idiots ages 14-15, drunk, stoned, somehow transported around the city by hippie, by punk, or by RTA just to skank around the pit in a teenie bopper club that somehow hosted punk concerts once a week. We've all been there, right?
Wish I could have been there
Wait a minute...
A group of outlaw misfits. Who have a strong code. But don't know how to achieve their goals. And who at one point raise hell at a funeral of their fallen friend. Produced by Rodger Corman.
Is this The Wild Angels?
Thank you for watching a movie and enjoying it.
Ok the Pet Shop Boys song makes a lot more sense now, didn’t get why they were so fixated on dogs😂
Same here!
I got really excited at first because I thought ya'll were watching subUrbia the 1996 film with giovanni ribisi lol
P.S. none of those dislikes came from me I still enjoyed the episode
Very entertaining show. Love it😀
I've never heard of Suburbia. This movie looks amazing.
Fun Fact: Chris Pedersen, the actor who played Jack Diddley, was also in Point Break with Anthony Kiedis.
Clarence "Frogman" Henry is still alive today (not homeless any more though).
It's not often you guys watch a movie I've straight up never heard of, I've heard of the Linklater one but this is new to me.
Suburbia had a cool cover drawn by the Pander Brothers. I never rented it because I didn’t trust it to be like the cover.
I loved the Decline series, didn't know Spheeris had made fictional films too!
How have you not seen Wayne's World? Or you just never connected the two?
@@MammaApa I don't think anyone ever really talked about who directed Wayne's World to me. Everyone only talked about Micheal Myers and Dana Carvey
@@avatarkc Yeah that is probably true. Or what people did was endlessly quote the funny lines.
not seen this since the 80's i remember it being good
I can't remember which episode it was but there was one time where Craig wrote down a movie he thought it was on a piece of paper and revealed it after you said what it was and I was wondering if you've ever thought about making that a thing? You've been bringing out the records and stuff as "hints" for him and reciting a little riddle/poem beforehand to work your way into revealing what it's going to be and thought it'd be neat if you combined the two and added in a little pause just to see what he thought it might be. If he's right cool that's awesome but if he's wrong it could be added to the seen it later or an idea to watch that movie at a later date.
I think you might be thinking of the Premium Rush episode, which had Craig picking a movie that Matt correctly wrote on a slip of paper.
@@michaellafferty6364 Oh yeah I forgot about that one but I could have swore Craig did it once too but got it wrong? I could be misremembering things and it'd be too laborious to go through every single episode to check at the moment lol.
Craig wrote down Cooley High before Matt revealed Valerie and her Week of Wonders, but I'm pretty sure Matt's seen it, because I recall him referencing the title in an earlier episode.
@@PokerJoker811 YES THAT'S IT thank you I was worried I'd have to go through every single episode and watch the first 5 minutes just to figure it out to scratch that itch.
@@mrwumbo Well done, everyone. You know your stuff and are now all official historians of WTTB.
such an important movie especially for punk and female directors
and underrated
What's the song Matt sings at 8:00? It's been in my head for days.
Ooo, Matt got a haircut! Ooo!
My game watching this is trying to guess what is Ernesto going to say at the end.
Also Hello Ghost - seen it? A Korean comedy that will make you laugh and break your heart
Craig wears a Nebraska hoodie on the eve of the NU-OU game. Coincidence?!
Yeah, probably.
What is the album in the background? It looks familiar.
The Last Starfighter is great
Here's a question: what was it like seeing The Matrix in 1999? I was too young then, so I can only imagine. I never got to go into that movie not knowing what it was about.
In some ways mind blowing effects but after that it seemed everyone was either parodying it or trying to replicate it. I was 16 in 1999
0:01 Are We Not Craig?
How often do you guys watch movies? Everyday? A couple a day?
I usually don't watch any for a bit then watch 3 or 4 back to back.
Huh. Flea voiced Donnie Thornberry of The Wild Thornberrys.
I always thought the purpose of death at the beginning and end was to eventually change the viewer's opinion of who the the wild dogs really were. The "dogs" killed both of the boys.
Yeah I liked that the dogs became their friends and it was the asshole idiots that killed the kid at the end. Wild dogs are primarily only aggressive because they're hungry and have very little trust for humans(with good reason). So the fact that they saved them from those asshats and fed them helped them become friendly with them. A very nice touch.
Why did Matt suggest Craig take a short-bus ride??
Regarding the web series idea (which I think it's kind of fun :D), I just wanted to mention that there's a really good Iranian movie called "Shirin" from Abbas Kiarostami, and the idea is similar. The only thing you're seeing is the reactions of an ensemble of Iranian actresses (and Juliette Binoche for some reason) to a movie they're watching. You don't see the movie. You can hear it, but the only thing you're seeing is the reactions. I highly recommend you check it out if you haven't!
You guys should watch deadly prey on roku.
Yes to strictly ballroom!
Were dose one get a, DEVO plate ?
Suburbia paints a raw picture of 80's LA and the punk scene by doing the craziest thing possible every scene. Baby mauled by dogs, girl getting raped at a punk show, shooting dogs, random fights, girl overdosing, child run over.
What was referenced about January 6th?
WOAH Craig in a Nebraska hoodie? As a Nebraskan I’m honored that our state has graced the basement
What are your favorite time travel movies? my movie candy.
Please, watch "Motorama".
you should check out Derek jarman's Jubilee a British "punk" movie
If you had the opportunity to interview someone involved with the production of any of the film's you've seen living or dead, who would it be? Personally I would Want to talk to Akira Kurosawa and talk about his dreams and bringing them to life in his film.
Seen it? - The Rebel ;P
Elder youtubers live in here !
Jack Grisham IS the Elvis of punk rock! This movie was one of the gateways to punk I saw as a teen (albeit in the 2000's) alongside DECLINE. What a seemingly rugged, unruly time. Even the film itself shows it's age - casual racism and sexism, homophobia... some of it really didn't age well. But it's still a unique glimpse into another world.
All that fuss about the shirt made me think that the douchey guy from Pumping Iron had snuck in and stolen it.
Ha! I referenced that while filming and Matt and I both could tell that it was too obscure, even though we'd be referencing our own show. "And that's a joke no one will get."
Turns out, you're not no one, lisa.
do Alice's Restaurant!
Next time your looking to do an anime movie, A silent Voice (or The Shape of Voice) is a beautiful movie from a few years ago that I was recently reminded of. The sub is superior to the dub. It may end with tears.
There were packs of roaming dogs back then.
ODIN!!!! ODIN!!!!! ODIN!!!!
The song by Clarence CARTER is about a boy who doesn’t have a father 😂
I watched this on mushrooms once. Bad idea
Matarang
You have to respect a movie bookended by two child deaths.
8:01 ROFL
Has Flea ever been in a bad movie?
Q: Are we not men? A: We are DEVO!
Despite all my Crage I am still just a rat in Flea's mouth
3:49 is that Roseanne Barr?
I was intrigued by this movie, so I actually stopped mid-way and rented it. But geez, I forgot how gratuitous movies were in the 80's. I was a teenager in the 80's and I remember being so disgusted by movies that I couldn't even watch most of them. Almost every single movie had female t&a that had NOTHING to do with furthering the plot. As a teenage girl it was pretty damned disturbing. Thank god we have internet porn now so that movies can be about stories again. (and if there IS gratuitous nudity, there's a chance it might be male, and it's almost never rapey)
Craig is hot