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  • Matt and his pal Brad tackle a children’s classic, Italy’s own live action Pinocchio! Come and watch us watch an old man pretend to be a young boy.
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  • @Pickledwalnuts
    @Pickledwalnuts Рік тому +55

    All of the guest hosts have been fantastic, but Brad was especially great!!

    • @daylilyanimation8939
      @daylilyanimation8939 Рік тому +3

      I agree, he's fantastic!

    • @Utubepooperful
      @Utubepooperful Рік тому +6

      100% agree, if I had to pick a permanent replacement for Craig it would be Brad. Feels like he's been there since day 1

  • @EBrenry
    @EBrenry Рік тому +24

    I’ve enjoyed all the guests since Craig’s departure, but it really seemed that this episode was more evenly matched. I suspect Matt has been doing a lot of the heavy-lifting since Craig left, but a bit less so this episode. Well done Brad! Looking forward to more “Brad and Matt Chat” in Unboxing.

    • @stevnated
      @stevnated Рік тому +4

      I think some guests perhaps knew more about movies in general, but I don't think any were as funny as Brad! He's such a delightful geek. :)

    • @bardbroiler
      @bardbroiler Рік тому +1

      Thanks!

  • @langleymneely
    @langleymneely Рік тому +23

    I enjoy the irony of asking “have you seen the terrible Pinnochio film with Roberto Benigni?” and having to answer with “which one?” lol

    • @TheDeppertLasseVogt
      @TheDeppertLasseVogt Рік тому +3

      I didn't think the recent one was terrible. I thought that one was visually interesting, but weirdly bleak. The music really did the heavy lifting there.

    • @langleymneely
      @langleymneely Рік тому +2

      @@TheDeppertLasseVogt I was not a fan of either though Benigni was actually cast in the correct role that time. lol

    • @TheDeppertLasseVogt
      @TheDeppertLasseVogt Рік тому +2

      @@langleymneely Fair enough 😉

    • @robinmaibals1193
      @robinmaibals1193 Рік тому +1

      Not a fan of the acting or costume design? Or you don't like that he based it on the 1883 book (Adventures of Pinocchio)? He could have based it on Carlo Collodi's original version where this story was meant to be a cautionary tale to kids, and ends with Pinocchio hung to death by the Fox and the Cat. Collodi gave some explicitly gruesome details of Pinnochio's moment of death.
      Words like being beaten by the wind. Swinging caused him to spasm. With his final breath, his mouth gaped open and his body gave a long shudder before stiffening.
      I like that he stuck to the source material and chose to keep the version where there was a redemption arc.

    • @langleymneely
      @langleymneely Рік тому +1

      @@robinmaibals1193 Collodi: “You know, FOR KIDS!” 😜lol

  • @Zylork0122
    @Zylork0122 Рік тому +4

    Welcome Brad!

  • @dylangladysz
    @dylangladysz Рік тому +5

    "Whooping it up, Mardi Gras style" is now my favorite phrase for having fun/partying. Thank you, Matt!
    And I gotta say, Brad felt so natural on the show from second one, it was like he had been part of the show the whole time.

  • @Mekovich
    @Mekovich Рік тому +11

    I remember going to see Watership Down with my mom aunt and cousin when I was a kid. I’m still processing it 35 years later.

    • @tapanipaul
      @tapanipaul 6 місяців тому

      Check out Plague Dogs. I didn’t see it as a child but, my god… I can only imagine the trauma that thousands of kids are still processing. Same author as WD, and I believe it was the same animation team. It actually made me cry (a tough thing to do to a jaded old man of 32 at the time!)….

  • @langleymneely
    @langleymneely Рік тому +25

    This was Benignis blank check after winning his Oscar. So many examples of insanely awful vanity projects that directors and actors got greenlit off their huge most recent success.

  • @ROOKTABULA
    @ROOKTABULA Рік тому +1

    "I won the Oscar for Best Picture!"
    "For my next picture, I'll craft a celluloid poo!"

  • @PoseidonXIII
    @PoseidonXIII Рік тому +2

    Always nice to see Brad

  • @nickmccabe2327
    @nickmccabe2327 Рік тому +4

    It's gonna be a Brad Knight tonight

  • @aestevalis0
    @aestevalis0 Рік тому +1

    I just rewatched Honor Among Thieves the other day & yeah, it's pretty good. I especially enjoyed the appearance from the kids in the old cartoon at the High Sun Games.

  • @geeeunit
    @geeeunit Рік тому +7

    Well done Bradley! Pinocchio kinda reminds me of Buster Bluth.

  • @tapanipaul
    @tapanipaul 6 місяців тому

    One of my earliests was Princess Bride. It was a double feature, but we bailed before the second film. That film was TREMORS! A film I later watched and LOVED THE SHIT OUT OF, of course. To this day, I wish we would have stayed….

  • @emperorskulls
    @emperorskulls 5 місяців тому

    Brad imitating/making fun of Pinocchio's annoying AF explanations is the funniest thing ever!

  • @MrDevin1125
    @MrDevin1125 Рік тому +2

    Bonus points for the Warren Zevon record lol

  • @mikenolan73
    @mikenolan73 Рік тому +2

    I agreed with Brad's point that they made no effort to give Benigni any makeup to suggest he was a wooden puppet. When he finally becomes "a real boy" it just looks like he changed clothes.

    • @mikenolan73
      @mikenolan73 Рік тому +2

      Have to disagree with Matts verdict on the D&D script. I thought it captured the dialogue of D&D players around the table. The script felt like how players would talk not Lord of the Rings.

  • @stevnated
    @stevnated Рік тому +1

    "Actually works!" It really IS magic!

  • @langleymneely
    @langleymneely Рік тому +3

    I have a really bad memory of being in the theater to watch ET and crying my eyes out not because I was scared of him on screen but because my mom left me with my older cousins. I was barely 1 1/2 yrs old. Sounds like I was too young for films but around that time I actually wound up watching a lot of films and not freaking out, provided my mother was there! Lol

  • @TheDeppertLasseVogt
    @TheDeppertLasseVogt Рік тому

    I adore Brad's singing voice.

  • @PlastoJoe
    @PlastoJoe Рік тому +2

    I have an early, early memory of the part in Empire Strikes Back near the end where Luke and Vader are having their telepathic connection through the Force. But other than that, my other memories are all Disney movies. Also agree on the Hobbit movie; I think it condensed the story in all the right ways and the music sticks in my head to this day.

  • @andybearchan
    @andybearchan Рік тому +1

    I would love to redo this movie with motion capture and an animated Pinocchio. Get all that energy and expressions but on a litteral puppet. Cut a few scenes and add a few sight gags.

  • @yoogrldude
    @yoogrldude Рік тому

    To me the dnd movie captured the vibe of actual players at a table rather than an official story set in the dnd setting

  • @_jomu
    @_jomu Рік тому

    More Brad! More Brad! More Brad!

  • @suedenim
    @suedenim Рік тому +1

    I think the only chance this movie had of working would have been casting Martin Short as Ed Grimley as Pinocchio.

  • @curseyoujordanshow
    @curseyoujordanshow Рік тому +5

    Brad's early movie recollections are quite coincidental. I can't know for sure what the first movie is I ever saw, but the furthest I'm able to think back, I have extremely fuzzy memories of seeing Bambie in theatres. The first that I remember clearly was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I know that definitely wasn't the first time I saw a movie on the big screen.

  • @BearlyGamer
    @BearlyGamer Рік тому

    2:48 Death Is My Co-Pilot, phenomenal sketch

  • @Gappasaurus
    @Gappasaurus Рік тому +1

    I know i saw other movies prior to this, but the earliest one i can _specifically_ recall seeing, no doubt because of the sheer “wtf” aspect of the situation, was “Kramer vs Kramer”. Why my older siblings would take a 7-year-old to see a traumatic courtroom drama still baffles me to this day 😐

  • @doublestarships646
    @doublestarships646 Рік тому +8

    I hope you have an episode for The Never Ending Story. That was my first fantasy experience.

  • @christynnsims6986
    @christynnsims6986 Рік тому +2

    My earliest movie memory was in 1989, I was five years old and mom taped Pete’s Dragon off tv with our new VCR.

    • @scottanderson2458
      @scottanderson2458 Рік тому

      I love Jim Dale in Pete's Dragon, Passammaquody song is best in the movie.

  • @ScottKorin
    @ScottKorin Рік тому +1

    I have early memories of a rerelease of Song of the South, the original Star Wars, and Benji. But I'm pretty sure my first movie was The Fox and The Hound

  • @greghamann2099
    @greghamann2099 Рік тому

    I remember seeing Pinocchio in Columbus when they had a Theater.

  • @rebajoe
    @rebajoe Рік тому

    3:51 I understand that's supposed to be the Blue Fairy, but she looks more non decayed Corpse Bride. (Right down to the butterfly motif)

  • @randomreviews4278
    @randomreviews4278 Рік тому +2

    7:03 is that what they're are

  • @rebekahyoder9335
    @rebekahyoder9335 Рік тому

    The first movie I ever saw in the theater was Disney's Alice In Wonderland. I was either 3 or 4.
    I saw E.T. as a 5 year old, sitting on my dad's lap in the theater, because he was helping me be brave.

  • @Fr.O.G.
    @Fr.O.G. Рік тому +2

    Glenn Yarbrough did the music for Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit, if anyone out there is curious for more.

  • @randomreviews4278
    @randomreviews4278 Рік тому +1

    11:09 lol😅

  • @randomreviews4278
    @randomreviews4278 Рік тому +1

    12:55 love to see that version

  • @frankiesomeone
    @frankiesomeone Рік тому

    Yeah no this was also very weird in italy as well. Watch the 2019 Garrone version, it's quite good (maybe the pacing is a bit slow) and very faithful to the original story.

  • @SquigglyP
    @SquigglyP Рік тому +2

    So this is like a REALLY culture-specific version of Pinocchio. The books were super-popular in Italy when they were released, and they were more like the Grimm fairy tales meant to teach kids lessons about obeying their parents, not being little assholes, not stealing, not being naive and falling for scams, etc. This stupid obnoxious puppet is like the worst fucking person on the planet.
    So back in the day they used to do little street performances and plays of the story for kids, and the whole point of this film is that Benigni wanted to recreate various elements of the old performances of it that he had see when he was a kid. Those performances were all put on by adults dressed up as animals and children and stuff, so that's what he did. They'd take little sections of the book and put on a little show of that one chapter of the Pinocchio books where he does something a bad little boy would do and he gets his comeuppance. They just took those little vignettes and made the whole fucking movie a series of THAT...
    One of the reasons it's fucking unwatchable is because the dub is horrific and Harvey Weinstein was involved. That man is one of the worst things to ever happen to fucking cinema, and he would automatically demand that foreign films be cut down to as close to 90 minutes as possible, so they hacked the film up and redubbed it to be even more obnoxious than the original concept. It's not a great movie in it's original form or anything, but it was WAY more popular and well-regarded in Italy. It's a lot closer to the books than most other adaptations. I think one of the biggest issues with this version is that they tried to cram way too much from the books into the movie. Like, the Disney version took four bits from the books and combined them into a cohesive narrative. Most other adaptations are based on the shit found in the Disney version, with maybe some addition of extra bits from the books. This one is like a fever dream where they attempted to cram 100 different things from the books into one movie and it's fucking exhausting - coupled with the already surreal weirdness of adults playing children and adults in bad makeup playing animals... Doesn't help that if they had five frames where there is some beat between scenes or a pause to catch your breath was cut from the film to try to keep the runtime down for us dumbfucks in the US who can't have our attention held by any film that runs over 100 minutes.
    I kinda like this movie, tho. It's definitely flawed as hell, but the original version is easier to watch and it comes off as more of a cute movie for kids to watch rather than a waking nightmare that makes your chest feel tight the entire time.
    Y'all should check out of some his earlier films before he made a movie that got him famous in the US. "Johnny Stecchino" or "Il Monstro". He gets to show off his silent-film-era physical comedy skills while writing a film that can just be a comedy film and not some kind of important-message-tragic-romance or something. His stuff is much better when it's smaller in scope.

  • @baronvonpenguin6112
    @baronvonpenguin6112 Рік тому

    My earliest movie memory has to be Monsters, Inc. but from what I understand the first time I ever went to a theatre, it was for The Phantom Menace.

  • @BasicDrumming
    @BasicDrumming Рік тому

    Great video.

  • @huesos_azules
    @huesos_azules Рік тому +2

    The oldest movie I remember seeing was Inspector Gadget, starring Matthew Broderick.

  • @RukoHanaji
    @RukoHanaji Рік тому +1

    Funny you say allegorical; the fact that Carlo Collodi was a Mason has made a lot of people theorize that Pinocchio is entirely full of Masonic symbolism.

  • @nilbog972
    @nilbog972 Рік тому

    Did you see 3 thousand years of Longing? I had a lot of thoughts on it but I can't seem to sort them out to anything definitive. It was so imaginative and I loved the acting. But- I somehow felt it fell short. Like it was so close to becoming a favourite for me but was missing something.

  • @sarab6415
    @sarab6415 Рік тому +1

    I grew up watching the Disney movies on TV and I especially remember seeing Bambi because Thumper was so cute and also Bambi's mother was killed which was shocking and so sad. Have you seen "Tommy" by The Who? I love The Who and if you can talk about them for 30 seconds to 30 mins will make me very happy!

  • @ryansradreality5717
    @ryansradreality5717 Рік тому

    Great episode! Have you seen peanut butter falcon?

  • @Tetsuo_Shima420
    @Tetsuo_Shima420 Рік тому

    More brad please

  • @Jamick98Geass
    @Jamick98Geass Рік тому +7

    The thing that works about thoughtful adaptations of Pinocchio is that’s he’s a naive boy with a good heart who sometimes loses his way. Just based off these clips from the episode the disconnect about this point is missing from the movie. He’s not charming or funny, he’s just annoying and awful. I don’t care that he’s conned by the fox. I don’t care that he becomes a donkey slave. He sucks and is annoying, so who cares if he gets out ok?

  • @robcop993
    @robcop993 Рік тому

    My first movie memory? Not Disney. I saw Ice Station Zebra when I was six years old at the Newton Drive-in with my family. I watched all two and a half hours (plus intermission) of a very adult cold war drama that had zero cartoon animals. I'm sure my parents thought I was going to fall asleep. I didn't, but my siblings did. They were younger. My first Disney memory, however, was seeing Pinocchio on a double bill with Napoleon and Samantha.

    • @scottanderson2458
      @scottanderson2458 Рік тому

      I remember seeing this in cinema as an 8 year old. I was confused and bored through much of it. I bought a recent Bluray release as over the years I've come to enjoy a good cold War thriller. In addition I really like Patrick McGoohan and Ernest Borgnine and I'd been sea canoeing on the Holy Loch where some of the movie was filmed. The 70mm cinematography looks great ( albeit in 1080p on a 50" plasma ) and the score is impressive - this release has the intermission and an overture at the beginning. All set for a "boy's own" style Saturday afternoon adventure I settled down to watch it...I was confused and bored again 😅

  • @aestevalis0
    @aestevalis0 Рік тому

    Wheel! Of! Fish!

  • @Gillsing
    @Gillsing Рік тому

    2:50 So what's that video that you shot in 2002? I can't google that!

  • @Matt_Barkley
    @Matt_Barkley Рік тому

    All the guests have been great, but I have a special place in my heart for Meatball. And of course that apples to apples episode from forever ago. Brad really shouldn't have tried to shoot poor Matt with those doubt torpedoes. "Would you rather watch me be a dick for an hour or go back to the bookstore?"

  • @larryyy4461
    @larryyy4461 Рік тому

    gotta rewatch Black Cauldron. The book was a banger, shoulda payed $25 for an older hardcover of the whole series. One of the first movies i remember having rented for me on a sick day from elementary school, but I remember nothing about the movie

  • @suedenim
    @suedenim Рік тому

    I wonder why Benigni didn't dub his own voice. He had done English language starring roles before. Not good ones, mind (that pink panther reboot) but passably fluent.

  • @pianoface
    @pianoface Рік тому

    The first movie I remember seeing in the theatre was the little mermaid

  • @jeffthevideoguy23
    @jeffthevideoguy23 Рік тому

    When I touch MY log, no one makes a movie about it! Of course, it would be a short story.

  • @Hawkman220
    @Hawkman220 Рік тому

    Have you seen the Sacrament it is an interesting film where it is part narrative and part found footage film. I found it a bit jarring when they switched back and forth between perspectives what's your thoughts?

  • @puppysect
    @puppysect Рік тому

    Seen it? God of Gamblers. You'll never think of mah-jong the same way again.

  • @alexanderforbes1452
    @alexanderforbes1452 Рік тому +2

    American Sniper is an interesting movie in that there are a lot of ways in which it is pro military, but it's also pretty clear how taxing being in the military is on this man and his family, the difficult choices he has to make, and how it's ultimately what kills him, even if it's in a roundabout sort of way. It's a movie I've heard liberals call right wing propaganda and conservatives call left wing, so maybe it's in a good spot, maybe it's just even handed. Yeah, guns are cool, soldiers can be heroes, but also, that life might just destroy you.

  • @bryanjohnson4272
    @bryanjohnson4272 Рік тому

    Coincidence or is Matt playing Lies of P?

  • @cfraute
    @cfraute Рік тому +1

    As bad as the dub may be, something tells me watching this in the original Italian wouldn't be much of an improvement

  • @moopnelly
    @moopnelly Рік тому

    It has only happened a couple of times that a movie the boys have riffed on is a film so bad that it made WTTB nearly unwatchable, despite our beloved hosts’ charm, wit, and humor.
    Today, we’ve gone from ‘a couple’ to ‘a few.’

  • @vriderch1360
    @vriderch1360 Рік тому +2

    I have to disagree about the "Dungeons and Dragons" movie having lazy jokes. I'd also argue against the language because if you were to take this as people playing the game, everyone just talks normally. It was a lot less jarring compared to Marlan Wayan in the original.

    • @JDexia
      @JDexia Рік тому

      Jarnathan!

  • @ironman004
    @ironman004 Рік тому +1

    The other Pinocchio with Roberto Begnini is far better! The Guillermo Del Toro one is especially good

  • @randomreviews4278
    @randomreviews4278 Рік тому

    Oh God not the 2002 version of pinocchio. Please do pinocchio 3000

  • @sharkh20
    @sharkh20 Рік тому

    My 3 and 4 year old love The Black Cauldron. What a weird movie though. Hard to believe it's a disney production. It's got some spots of really good animation and really bad animation. The voice acting on first watch had me convinced that it was a non english language film and then dubbed.

  • @aestevalis0
    @aestevalis0 Рік тому

    If I were in Fun-Forever-Land, I would go... Insane.
    I'd rather be in Balloonland.

  • @aestevalis0
    @aestevalis0 Рік тому

    Conanocchio.

  • @archwayfilms4362
    @archwayfilms4362 Рік тому

    Does Brad have early stages of Parkinson’s?

  • @tylergee3043
    @tylergee3043 7 місяців тому

    Ive watched way to much robot chicken to take Breckin Meyer seriously in any role, im sure hes fine as either franklin or bash

  • @ginapiroli6136
    @ginapiroli6136 Рік тому

    I always hated the Pinocchio story, it always seemed weird and creepy. The version I hated the most was in the movie AI. Why didn't Roberto Benigni dub it? He has spoken English in other movies.

  • @Wartooth91
    @Wartooth91 Рік тому +4

    to be fair, American Sniper is propaganda and Chris Kyle lied about a whole lot of his career.

  • @fugithegreat
    @fugithegreat Рік тому

    I'd be interested to see the difference between the original Italian and the English dub. It might not help much, but maybe it would take out one layer of cringe?

  • @TroubleToby3040
    @TroubleToby3040 Рік тому +1

    Matt steadfastly refusing to comment personally on Weird Al, lol. 🤨 UHF is great, though. I respect Weird Al, but joke songs are just like "funny" t-shirts; You get the joke really quickly and then it just keeps slapping you in the face with the same joke. God, I hate "funny" t-shirts.

  • @adamwatson2914
    @adamwatson2914 Рік тому

    That’s your father? Without knowing I’m just guessing

  • @briancoulombe4517
    @briancoulombe4517 11 місяців тому

    All these celebrity voices and it’s somehow one of the worst dubs I’ve ever heard. This dub kills this movie. It kills it dead.

  • @EnormousKingCrab
    @EnormousKingCrab Рік тому

    The movie is obviously terrible but why complain about the dub the whole time and have the bad voice being annoying as a big take away? Watch it with the original audio and that isn't a factor