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The Wild Cards Fight the Power

from The Wild Card Podcast · host Ron Blair, Jeff Curtis, and Jared Eaton

Welcome to The Wild Card Podcast!  This is episode 92 of our attempt at this whole podcasting thing!! Today's episode features: Jared Eaton enjoying Ron's misery a little too much, Jeff Curtis drinking whiskey but not loving Edie McClurg, and Ron Blair being a righteous dude while slowly having a mental breakdown over the course of the podcast. Throughout the episode, you'll hear the three of us discussing such varied topics as: the way this podcast about entertaining and informing you while secretly(?) being immortal Highlanders (There can be only one!), bad reviews of John Hughes movies (This took most of the podcast.....), how incredible online usernames are (stalker7416?), pointing smile rifles at noteworthy people, a truly 80s commercial, and, after our longest ever "favorites" section, we part from our tangents to discuss one of the darkest examples of human experimentation in our country's history, The Stanford Prison Experiment.  This week, Jared does his best to quickly cover the goal of the research, the design of the experiment, and how it all fell apart.  We also look at the structure of power, The Milgram Experiment, and the ethical considerations surrounding this vile study.  Join us on this journey to wherever and we're sure that you'll love being locked away with our Power hungry Podcast!Please like/subscribe/review and leave comments below! Let us know your thoughts on The Stanford Prison Experiment, how the Wild Cards would have fared in the experiment, whether or not you enjoyed the negative reviews section of the podcast, which of the three of us is The Highlander, any more thoughts about a possible Wild Card Live Show, and if you are interested in becoming an official Deckhead! P.S. "The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."~Philip ZimbardoP.P.S. Bite the Edge!

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Dear Mr. Eden, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice our Sunday mornings in the studio for whatever it is we did wrong. So, do you notice anything different about me today? Not now, Jeff.

I'm trying to get through this. What we did was wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. Do I look any older to you? You look old every day.

You're like 54 years old. Now, please, you see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is...

Jared, it's your line. What we found out is that each one of us is... Jared! Oh, well, hell.

Where is he? He can't be too far. He left a sturky sandwich right there. You're right.

It's still warm. He's gotta be around here somewhere. Jared, are you sure there isn't something you want to tell me today? Where would I start?

Jared! Hey! Hey! Okay.

Well, it must be someone's special day. Well, it couldn't be one of ours or it'd look like a goddamn brush fire. Yeah! Did you hear that?

Yes, you! Jared, are you in there? Really? He's asleep?

In my bedroom? Hey! Jared! It's me.

Get out of my room. Oh, I'm afraid that in my weakened condition. I can ask you to still down the stairs and subject myself to further wild card podcast absences. You can reach my colleagues in the studio.

Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate your concern from my well-being. Have a nice day. Open the door!

Come on, Jeff. We can't wait for him. But we need him. It's my never mind that.

I just want to do this and go home with or without him. I don't care. What the hell was that? It came from the studio.

Hey guys. Feeling better, champ. I'm getting there. What was that?

Ruckus. I was upstairs. I heard a ruckus. Could you describe the ruckus, sir?

Watch your tongue, young man. Watch it. Okay. Now that we're all here, can we please finish this.

Seriously, it could have taken 10 seconds. Okay. Are we ready? Ready.

Oh, geez. I'm fine. But what? There's been a lot of weird things going on today, and I'm going to get to the bottom of it.

Super today of all days. Great. Ready? What we found out is that each one of us is...

A brain. ...and an athlete. And a basket case. A princess.

And a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours. The wild card.

I can't believe they fucking forgot my birthday. Welcome to the wild card podcast. I'm your host, Jared Eaton, and my co-pilots on this journey to wherever are my good friends, Jeff Curtis. Hello.

And pardon my French, but Ron is so tight. If you stuck a lump of coal up his ass and twisted, you'd have a diamond. Oh, he's very popular though. The sport I was the motorheads, the geeks, lads, wests, waist joints, weebies, dickheads.

They all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. Pardon my French, but Ron Blair's an asshole. I love it.

That's all from Fierce Bueller. All from Fierce Bueller. He's a righteous dude. That's Edie McClurgh, who was in Second City, played minor parts in dozens of films.

We all love her. Well, all of us. We all love her. We salute you.

I know Edie McClurgh. You know Edie McClurgh. Do you remember Trans Swains and Overbills? I like the movie, but I haven't probably seen it in a couple decades.

You got to remember this part though. When he's like, I need a fucking car right now. Yeah. She's the one that goes, you're fucked.

She's the lady at the car rental. Well, no, I get that. I don't remember what she looks like or I don't. I remember the interaction, but I don't remember her.

Oh, you're breaking my heart. You can see my heart breaking right now. It's a good thing we have Ron who has thought this podcast is a lot of consistent reinvigoration. Yes.

Tell the next guy out there why we do this. This will help lift everybody's spirit, I'm sure. This podcast is about entertaining and informing you while secretly being part of an ancient race of immortals who challenge one another in battle with beheading being the only path to victory as we complete for the ultimate prize of mortality when there is only one left standing. So we inform and entertain you while knowing there will be a day when the wild cards must decapitate the other two in order to become human.

There can be only one. There can be only one. Finally. Finally.

Spoke to something. It's right. Right. I will say the one from I have with that is that you use the word secretly.

Oh, that's like even our booby traps away or something. Yeah, I'm telling all the booby-knock out there. I am the highlander. Let's give some reference that Jeff has been breaking my heart all morning by going, I don't like the breakfast.

I know. No, I never said I didn't like the breakfast club. I said the breakfast club didn't speak to me. I said to the best people early once and I was like, I think Matthew Broderick.

No, I love Matthew Broderick. I don't know who Eany McCleary is. Well, I know. But I don't.

Ron, describe what you see in front of you. Reams of paper and a laptop. Reams of paper. Reams of paper.

Reams of paper. On top of a laptop, two on top of a laptop, one on the desk. Thank you for being so excited. Thank you.

You're next to the left of you. Next of Virgil's and the thermos of water. That's just I don't know. It's I see.

It's whiskey. It's like I can make a 3D podcast. So it's been a little bit of time. But my favorite moment we've ever had on this podcast is when I brought you my dumb quotes.

Oh, yeah. And Ron read Miss South Carolina and I cried. That was the first time tears had come out of my face in over 5 years. I like to move people with my friends.

So I thought I would do something comparable today. OK? We're going to stick with the same colors. We didn't last them.

Don't look at this yet. OK. The second would be the last time. So each of the stack of things we're going to be reading.

But in order of last week's episode, I thought I'd do something special for you. What's that? I thought that I would do something connecting to the filmography of John Hughes. Oh, beautiful.

What we have here are the work that I've put in to go onto IMDB, go to many of his various films, go to the user reviews, and find bad reviews of John. Oh, you're right. We are going to read bad reviews. Jared said I did this favorite just to upset you.

And now I'm like, yep. So we aren't going to start with you again. OK. We're going to go, Ron, Jeff, Jared.

We have five. This is probably going to be way too long. But I thought it would be really good. Yeah, there's a lot of paper.

This is like an episode worth of reviews. It really is. It really is. OK.

So first I've listed the movie there reviewing. And then I've listed the name of the review. And then you have the username and when it was posted. And then the actual review itself.

OK. All right. So I go. You go.

This is for Ferris Mueller's Day Off. The subject title of this review is My Smile is a Rifle. I'm pointing at you. The username?

Jesse Gehrig 15, August 2014. The other 14, Jesse Gehrig's running. Take it. Right.

Right. Jesse, this is for you. Even as a child when I saw this movie, I never liked Ferris. I thought the character was a creep, and that something was wrong with him.

It always baffled me why the character was painted in a heroic light. I understand that people love this movie, and I don't want to take away from that. Take that away from anyone. You love the shit out of this movie.

Also, I see plainly that I am in the minority in regards to audience reaction to Ferris Bueller's Day Off. This person's comedy used to just piss off a lot. I know. It's like it's one on set.

Like it's messing me up when I'm trying to. Yeah. I'm like, these are periods, man. Put periods in there.

I'm like, go on to me. Read it like that. Read it like that. Because there are some typos in it.

No, it's awful. Recently, someone has published an article arguing that from a clinical observation, the actions of the character Ferris would in real life be those of a psychopath. I feel a lot of validation from reading this article. Really?

Apologies to the article's author. I didn't bother to learn your name. Did Nick Bueller teach this? Yes, yes.

Because it explains to me the impression of Ferris Bueller I had as a kid. Yes, every child watching Ferris Bueller gone, he has psychopathic tendencies. So is he a pathic? I'm not going to write.

Man, filling his hours with meaningless deceptions. And that would have been the correct place for a comment. But that's the beginning of a sentence. Filling his hours with meaningless deceptions, manipulating everyone he comes in contact with, always seeking to be the desperate center of attention, fucking monster, two out of 10.

Well, Jesse Garrick, I say this in all friendship. Go fuck yourself. You got four more to read. Oh, I have.

Don't look at him. OK, OK. Jeff, Jeff, you have to let him again. Fuck Jesse Garrick.

OK, mine, also is from Ferris Bueller's day off. OK, the McDonald's hamburger of John Houston. Oh. I hate John.

I almost seen that as me, correct. J4224 May 2001. You don't know anything. All right, it's Jane.

Jane. Yep, popular. But is there any nutritional value? I think not.

McDonald's hamburger. In one of his most successful teen movies, he follows the unbearably cutesy antics of Ferris Bueller well. I won't give away the box, such as it is. He did just cool.

OK. He's been giving away the flop. Thanks, Jane. But Matthew Broderick crances through the whole prancid through the role as though Ferris were a queen waltzing through Chelsea.

So follow himself that it's hard to watch and hard to fare away. Chelsea's not in Chicago. Thankfully, the supporting roles are actually real people. Alan Ruck and Jeffrey Jones provide great comedy based in reality.

And the soundtrack is terrific, as Mr. Hughes films goes. Either because he had more money to make them, or because his tastes improved. The music gets better and better.

One out of 10. Actually, so does the filmmaking. He's assured and bold as a director in this film. I just couldn't stand the lead character.

OK, whatever. Fine. The music gets better and better. Oh, yeah.

What? My first one is The Breakfast Club. OK. The title is Maronic Stereotypes Add Up to Dumb Movie.

This is from Stalker7416. I think this is awkward. Missed the point of The entire film. October 2005.

OK. The Breakfast Club has to be one of the dumbest and most boring movies ever made. Who can buy Jughead Nelson as a bully? He looks like a girl.

Ali Sidi, Molly Ringworm, Anthony Michael, wasn't he in Van Halen? And Emilio Shee and Estebes, thanks to his dad Martin Sheen for the role. What a cast of boring rich kids. Ali Shidi, she was what?

Alcoholic? Judd Nelson was a victim of his dad. Talk about unimaginative stereotypes. The Breakfast Club was one big stereotype.

Down to the door could play the principle. These characters are two-dimensional and dated. That's how they could be one-dimensional. Yeah.

With five people who hated each other spend all day whining to each other, what kind of school ever had attention for more than one hour, reform school? Of course, by the end of the movie, The Corny Canned Let's Be Friends Ending is trying out for the five millionth time. Hollywood thinks movie audiences are made up of morons. And the fact that so many people think that The Breakfast Club's a classic just goes to show that Hollywood is right about the dumb masses.

Breakfast Club is the ultimate low budget team riff off movie. Give them fake angst, whining, and blame the parents, and teens lacking self-esteem will run to the theaters to pay. So Stalker didn't actually see the film, nor pay attention, nor are you smart enough to understand the film Stalker. You also can don't fuck yourself.

I like how Ron feels like he's God Hugh. Why really? I feel like that guy was an asshole though. That guy's probably what I'm talking about.

Ron, you're up again, buddy. OK. If I can do this. I don't know if I can do this much longer.

OK. Breakfast Club. The subject title is, and they call this a classic, by Wade Churton or Wade C. Hurton 12, or Wade, Wade Chur, Tunn, 12, December 2012.

So I'm sure this person was in the Christmas spirit. Yeah. They wrote this. Were you guys a friend?

OK. Somebody actually wrote this as a writer. That first line of the case is the opposite. Nope, no one wrote this.

Somebody actually wrote this. A lot of it seems improvised and not well. In fact, it almost seems like someone simply transcribed some bad improv and that became the script. Am I supposed to identify with anyone in this 80s classic?

There you go, Joe. All of the characters are less than likable, and none of them ring true. Is Allie Sheehy's character supposed to be autistic or something? Because otherwise, I don't get it.

scenery chewing Judd Nelson comes off with less a troubled tough guy than a slightly flamboyant bitchy queen. And he looks a good 10 years too old to be going to high school. Not only do the cast not talk like school students, they mostly don't even look like them. Although Bill does a comedy, there's not a lot to crack a smile over.

Although when that nerdy kid dropped the news he'd been caught with at gun at school, and the others automatically assumed he had tended to kill himself, I had to laugh. Because that's real funny. That's you right there. These days, hold on.

Hold on. Let me stop myself right here. Yes, I read this. I keep thinking about how that guy was calling him Judd Head Nelson and Molly Ringburn all that.

And I'm just thinking, you must be the most clever person in your psych ward. You fucking asshole. As software as Pittsburgh. That person's really business.

When people make those little names like that, I'm just like, I know. I'm looking how funny. I'm sure the moron friends keep in mind. I can't.

You've got an element to listen to. I can't even. Oh god. Awful.

Awful. No one of you didn't. I hate Stalker. It's making so much better.

These days, kids, oh, I can read that this person has zero understanding of anything. These days, kids don't bring guns to school to necessarily kill just themselves. That's topical. They're being very topical about a movie that was made in 1985.

Frankly, what this dated piece of pointless quantification, good liberation, most closely resembles is one of those workshop plays in which irredeemably pretentious folk get to indulge themselves and create something truly painful. In this case, it is five cipher characters who just will not shut up for a couple of hours. Well, I'm sure you would love a film where they shut up for two hours, and you can just watch them and say, hey, that'd be awesome. In lieu of a proper ending, we get a quick dance montage.

Note, Amelia West have has this total lack of dancing ability. Broadly, do they? Not well. And everyone is everyone's mate for some reason, not Brian.

Mate. And you know what? Turns out the smartest guy is the janitor. OK, that was a point that John Hughes was trying to make the film.

That was missed on this person. Oh, I think a lot was missed on this person, whatever this person. I hate the huge way to shoot on. Wait, shoot on.

There. I actually hate this movie there. I actually typed it. Well, great for you.

Wait. Two out of 10. Two out of 10. One out of 10.

One out of 10. All right. This one is from first Bueller's Day off. OK.

It's titled First Bueller Can Have All The Days Off He Wants When He's Expelled. Oh, what's the name of this person? The name of this person is the Getta 3986 30. The Getta 3986 30.

OK. All right. It's a long one. It's a long one.

So here we go. Fucking up. My friend told me, small I had to see this movie. My friend was lying.

No, it's just a small. Oh, I have to say. OK. I was like, what?

You have a friend small. I like it better with small. My friend told me I had to see this movie. He said I'd love it.

And I'd add it to my collection in an instant. Not only did I not love it, I did add it to my collection. My like the movie on fire. So funny.

That always works. So funny. You're often delighted I'm there. I do.

This is one of the most infuriating movies I've ever watched in my life. I don't know why everyone loves it. And I was in high school when I first saw it. So I was at the perfect age.

And I still hated this movie. I like the fact that this person can only capitalize more than like still. But not the beginning of sentences. Besides not liking Matthew Broad except in Lion King.

Yeah. Matthew Broad. Matthew Broad. The main thing.

That's him in Lion King. Oh, my God. The main thing that frustrated me in this movie is that Ferris decides that he deserves to have a day off. This confederate does he already had eight days off.

And he couldn't have another one off. Not correct me if I'm wrong. But doesn't that mean he's already done this eight times? So why does he deserve a day off?

Why does he deserve a day off? He doesn't. He doesn't. I guess he doesn't.

And she's in school. Maybe it's because my mom rocked. But when I didn't feel like going to school because I had a test, I didn't study for something. She let me say home.

However, that's. You had a great mom, Gina. However, that's because there was trust. And I never broke it.

This movie spits all over parental sun trust. And just everyone in general. This movie spits all over parental sun trust. It is everyone in general.

I just read it. I just read it. I did not find this movie enjoyable in the least. It's the second most overrated movie next to the godfather.

And it's stupid. Oh, fuck you. I felt really bad for the principal. I thought bears needed to be expelled.

You know what? Jeffrey Jones was locked up for child porn. So keep feeling sorry for Rooney. And then he could have had all the days off.

He wanted it. I saw this for the first time when I was 15. And now I'm 22. And I still despise this.

Still all capitalized. Still is all capitalized. The only reason I gathered is to skip school rec. The only lesson I gathered is to skip school rec.

Rec. And everything will turn out OK. Bull. Fails the chemistry.

Fails the chemistry test with a one out of 10. Fails the chemistry test. Oh, oh, that's clever. And these people write the reviews around this clever turn of.

Well, apparently this person failed English. Oh, I can't. This one failed a lot. My first name is Christmas vacation.

OK. Chevy Chase Christmas disaster jolt from War Preektor to December 2008. War Preektor. I'm a noteworthy Chevy Chase fan.

Not a huge fan. No, no, no, no. It says that. No, you're fans.

Why would I take note of this person? No, worthy. I'm 34 and have somehow managed to never see this flick. So when I jumped on Amazon to purchase a slew of Christmas movies this year and ran across this hidden jewel air quotes, I was very excited.

Lots of good feedback on it. This has got to be the poorest performance of Chase's career. He completely coasted through all the witless dialogue. It was as if someone wrote the script over the weekend.

The bloopers are very obvious. And the jokes are antiquated even for the 80s. The sets or lack thereof were so drab that I think they intentionally threw in the Nicolette Scorsese scenes just to distract us as much as the main character. The only actor who showed an ounce of spark was Randy Quaid.

But his character was so redneck and purile that it was hard to like him. 1989 was an earlier era in filmmaking, a more innocent time. When she was doing budgets and obvious comedy, we're more invisible to the viewer. It's possible I could have found this amusing if I caught it in a day day and subsequently relegated the film to cherished memory of yesterdekade status.

But unfortunately, I saw it for the first and last time tonight. Last and so I read this last and so. I'm ready. This dick is a coaster.

This dick is a coaster. This dick is a coaster. Wow. You would have locked that when you remember.

I really, on behalf of the whole Christmas vacation team, I want to apologize for making dozen Eddie purile and redneck. Yeah. Sorry about that. The actor was doing a good job.

But the character was so un-likeable. How noteworthy is this person that he's like vacation is worse than cops and robbers. He is a noteworthy Chevy too. Yeah.

Very nice. So this is not huge. Not worthy of that. Not wrong.

This person, no. I can deal with Ferris Bueller and Christmas vacation, but this one's 16 candles. I'm going to be shaking here in a moment. The subject line is some truly awful 80s movie that somehow made it to the top by Ria de Jong.

Ria de Jong. Yeah, there were nine other Ria de Jong's as well. I'm going to start with the good stuff, though it is few and far between. First of all, the main character Samantha was a pretty well-drawn character.

She is three-dimensional as main characters are meant to be. She is also pretty funny and relatable. The second was the wedding scene that was pretty funny, but that's about it in terms of good stuff. Is she right?

This is like a freshman? English assignment? Yeah. Now the bad stuff.

I had to watch this film for media studies and it made me physically sick. It was a completely revolting film. Now I'm going to tell you why there are two major issues with this film. First off, it is racist.

That's capitalized. Yep. And homophobic, but not as glaringly. The exchange student was there simply to add to the chaos of the household but was just seeking walking semi-sterio-typed walking gag.

Okay. The big rat that topped this super-coded cake was believe it or not rape. I know what they're talking about. Yeah.

Yeah, a lot of reviews about this one. This one is the first one to find out reviews. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, the geek character takes advantage of the drunk popular girl at the party.

It is not shown but the morning after she is apparently fine with it. Completely unrealistic and also what the insert 10,000 super-bad swear words. I know those words. You should just put them down.

Kind of message is the sending to young people, especially males. Now something else that made my blood boil was that the romantic interest was the one who suggested and helped this geek guy date rape his girlfriend. Apparently the audience is still supposed to be looking forward to seeing said guy kiss the girl. So for an alternative ending, I imagine Samantha jumping in Jake's car then repeatedly running both Jake and the geek over while eating her cake.

This helped me keep my lunch inside the lining of my stomach. Murder. I find it interesting what they find okay. Right.

You can't make fun of Asians but you can run over to two men in your sports car. Yep, that's fine. I understand people saying to watch film in the context of the time and place they were made. I certainly managed to keep that in mind when watching Rebel Without a Cause.

However, 16 candles cannot be watched with this in mind. It has no excuse whatsoever. So please, please, please do not let anyone older young, male or female ever see this film. One out of 10.

First of all, you don't tell me how to live my life. She does. I'm not going to tell my life. She does tell you.

Whatever you do, keep it in 16 candles. If you watch that. Alright, Jeff, it's first people's day. Obviously one of you is the first people's day.

Cause that was the easiest one to find out of you. Some of these were tough. Crucification wasn't an easy one to find out of yourself. No, because it's a fantastic movie.

First people's day, the title. The movie was not only unrealistic but had a bad message I feel by Red Hicasana Naf 2. Red Hicasana 2 is the name of the person. Oh, well maybe it's a cultural misunderstanding.

I don't know. Okay. I did not enjoy the movie at all. There's nothing in this film that is worth appreciation.

I have been teen once but upon a time. I have been teen once. I have been teen once. I have been teen once upon a time.

But I feel I surely would not have liked it even then. The teen in this movie seems to get away with anything and everything bad and the grown-ups are shown as a bunch of idiots who can never catch him. His parents don't even get a hit of what he is up to. The movie is a dark spot for parental kids' relationship.

I feel sorry for those who like such a movie, but I would never want my kids to see such a movie. I did not like anybody's acting either. If there was a lower rating than one, sorry for this. I would have definitely gone for that.

One out of ten. This tells me these people have never seen bad movies. I don't know what bad movies are. The movie that was the hardest to find a bad review for.

Home Alone. Really? Yep. This one actually Uncle Block was the bad.

Home Alone was the bad. Planespray is automobiles is tough. Well you shouldn't say anything bad. The title is a great way to violent.

This got by the PG-6 question marks by Preppy32. Of course. Obviously this is Ted. A heavily dysfunctional family are going with Christmas holidays.

They accidentally ate your old Kevin the annoying McCauley Culkin alone at home. Other than doing what a normal kid would do with a neighbor called the police, he decided to stay at home all alone. Two burglars, Joe Pesci and Daniel Cernvos are better. Try to break in.

Culkin manages to single-handedly set up a lobby trap. What a violent sick piece of garbage. I caught this in the theater back in 1990. I saw it after a long weekend work and expected a mindless fun PG movie.

I was horrified by what I got. For starters, the story was impossible. Leaving behind and ate your own kid by mistake. Come on.

Also, the whole family is heavily dysfunctional and not all funny. Culkin manages to set up a lever traps, a lever traps and stuff that no eight-year-old could ever do. When Pesci and Cernvos show up and we go from stupid and unbelievably to extremely violent. These poor guys repeatedly get burnt and hit repeatedly on the head and face again and again.

And it's all played for laughs. I was sickened by the level of violence in this film. How did this get a PG rating? Also, violent against people is not funny.

It got to the point that I was rooting for the burglars. Aside from all this, it just simply isn't funny. Sick, stupid and unbelievable, yes, but not funny. The acting is as bad as you'd expect.

Culkin is annoying from the star. Not cute at all. You want the little rat to get it badly. Certain Pesci do what they can and the first of them.

But nothing rolls. Still, I realize I'm not the audience for this. In the theater, I saw it with- In the theater I saw it with was full of families with their kids. During the violence, all the adults sat there horrified.

Well, all the little kids were screaming literally with laughter. A few parents dragged their kids out of there. I wish I'd join them. This was inexplicably a huge hit and led to the thankfully brief career of Culkin.

Avoid this like the plague and definitely do not let small kids see it. A one. Okay, let me get this straight. This person wanted Kevin to fail in fending off these criminals.

Let me assure you the film would have been very different had they succeeded. I don't understand the logic. I can't understand the logic of it. I hope they get that.

I'm scared. I'm scared. It's so horrible. What are they going to do with that kid when they get him?

They're not going to be not kind to him. They're not going to be kind. They're not going to be kind. This person might go think I'm going to list that.

Wait. Can you argue that the criminals have the opportunity to just not keep trying to break it? Right. We call it Culkin's house and they didn't like hitting him with pigandas.

Oh, right. No, this escapes. It's Uncle Buck. I might have picked this one specifically.

Yeah. You chose all these for us. I did. All right.

Uncle Buck, two for one special. Oh, it was a two for one special. No. I gave two Uncle Buck reviews.

They both are short. Thanks. What was the, okay. All right.

I thought they were insulting John Candy in the next line. I don't know. That's unbearable. They said they said the kids are awful when John Candy is great.

Subject line is not so funny by Aaron Capen banner for September 2013. John Candy plays Uncle Buck, a perpetually unemployed man who was called over to his brother's house when they unexpectedly have to leave town on a family emergency, since they cannot take their three children with him. Buck, not a father himself, tries to win over the kids with happy talk and big homemade breakfasts. But while this works on his young niece and nephew, his older niece Tia is not impressed or interested just once to date her boyfriend Bug.

It's the name of the character. Schizophrenic film has some moments of warmth, but hints at a serious dark side to Buck. He threatens Bug with a power drill after kidnapping him and putting him into his car trunk. Not to mention the infamous scene where he confronts his young nephew's guidance counselor and throws her some change and tells her to spend it to have her rat removed that prominent work from her face.

That's evil. That's horrible. That's horrible. You know what?

She was mean to never mind. Mean-spirited and totally uncalled for. What were they thinking here there? Later a brief TV series.

What were they thinking there? Later a brief TV series. I think we're an article of that ending. Okay, so the second one I need to read as well.

Candy is dandy, but the kids turned me sour. Cease? C.C. the movie man.

Dash 111 June 2007. Of the four main players in here, John Candy, Jean Kelly, not that Jean Kelly, Amy Madigan and McCully Colkin, the only one I've never heard about at the time was the one that annoyed the heck out of me and ruined the film. Well, she must have done a decent job of acting to make me want to throw her and the VHS into the garbage. That's literally called good acting.

Yeah. If you felt something, you did a job. I am referring to Kelly in the role of the teenage brat Tia Russell. Yes, she did her job.

Perfect job. I'm not going to end it. Yeah. Ironically, six years later, she played a stunning and extremely likable role in the person of Rowena Morgan and Mr.

Hollens Opus. Again, the logic here is baffling me. So they should act. So yeah, they, I can't say her role is the role.

Yeah, it's candy as usual. I love how these people like life works. It amazes me. Candy as usual is fun to watch as Buck Russell or the title character, Uncle Buck.

Few characters or a few actors were better at playing a lovable half-list slob than Candy. I enjoyed his character in here, but I cannot watch that spoiled ting girl more than once. She needs to work whatever problems she has out. Also in the first few minutes of the film, The Little Boy Miles, Colkin, says the word G-damn.

How bad is that? Having a six-year-old kid saying the Lord's name and vein on film. Oh, fuck's sake. Oh, my God, dude.

This is the kind of stuff that turned me a misanthropic. These Hollywood people are such sickos. No wonder many of their child actors turned out to be mentally screwed up. Colkin being a case in point.

Four out of ten. Colkin being a case in point. They should have been a dialogue. The kid, a McCollie Colkin, lives in Paris.

He does whatever he wants. He's incredibly well adjusted. He wanted to get out of the limelight. Nothing drove him out of it.

McCollie didn't get screwed up. People thought, oh, that kid must be screwed up. But, McCollie Colkin said, fuck you to everything. I have enough money that I can do whatever I want.

So, it's laid out tight. I bet it's fine. Oh, I bet it's fine. I know what my next film is, and I don't like it.

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