Season 2 is here! We kick it off with a banger, the Whoopi Goldberg lounge-singer-turned-nun comedy, Sister Act.
Not just the setup for Sister Act 2, this is a huge movie in '92 and way funnier than we remembered.
Here's the best scene, with 25 million youtube views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctjG4MjJwEA
JT 00:00
Hello. Welcome to Movie Life Crisis. Join us. As we watched the best movies from 30 years ago. The sisters from St. Catherine's needed a miracle from heaven. What they got was a lounge act from Reno. No, she's not exactly divine.
Jeff 00:17
Oh, my God, she's praying.
JT 00:19
But they think she's divine. That girl is pure Sunshine. We can rock this place. You have corrected the entire get some butts in the seat, Sister Act. We can cut it down. Rated PG. National sneak preview this Sunday.
Jeff 00:37
Sister act.
JT 00:38
Sister act season two, episode one. Sister act.
Jeff 00:42
Can't believe we're calling them seasons. That's awesome. I'll take it.
JT 00:45
I'm excited for season two. We got some, like, some stuff happened. We got some new cover art that I haven't uploaded yet, but that I will before this episode comes out.
Jeff 00:53
Nice.
JT 00:53
Happy New Year, by the way. We're recording this New Year's Day.
Jeff 00:56
Yeah.
JT 00:56
Did you guys stay up until midnight?
Jeff 00:58
So my wife and I did, but normally we don't. And it's only because it sounded like we were trying to fall asleep in the green zone of downtown Beirut, and bombs were going off everywhere because everybody shoots fireworks where I am. So, like, right before we woke up, Jake, he was on the couch, and we walked outside and we watched the finale where everybody in the neighborhood shot, like, $500 for the fireworks all at one time. So it's pretty cool.
JT 01:21
Yeah. They had 200,000 people a block away from me celebrating New Year's on national TV. So the fireworks were super loud here. And I stayed awake just to make sure that the baby was not going to get woken up by the fireworks. Yeah, dude, I was thinking about it when I was younger. I don't know if you did this, but I was, like seven or eight, and I stayed up. My friend Tony Blank was sleeping over, and we wanted to watch all the numbers change on my watch. And so we stayed up till midnight. And when the numbers changed and the date changed, it was like a Casio, like digital watch. Like, he and I were like, chest bumping. Like, we just won the Cotton Bowl.
Jeff 01:54
Dude.
JT 01:54
I think I was like, maybe seven or eight.
Jeff 01:56
That's ridiculous.
JT 01:57
No, I didn't do that. Last night. Somebody said, did you stay up until midnight? And it just made me think of that story, and I was like, oh, God, if we're going to go on the podcast and tell childhood stories, I got one for midnight.
Jeff 02:04
Well, dude, speaking of being on national television, we actually turned it on the, I don't know, CBS or whatever channel had the Nashville thing. Holy Jeez. There was a lot of people there. Everybody was there screaming at Dirt Bentley in each other's mouths. It was a lot. Yes, it was crazy facts in New York. They were separating everybody here. They were not. They were separating them into one big group. People. That's crazy.
JT 02:28
Yeah. They didn't separate them at all.
Jeff 02:30
Good for them. Good for them. Yeah.
JT 02:31
Good for them. Celebrate 2022. Betty White got out just in time.
Jeff 02:37
Oh, man. Betty White, by the way, you like this. Every time we turn on our TV, there's, like, the things that are popular so you can watch in case you want to click on it. It will take you a streaming service. And it says, like, Remembering Betty White. And it has Golden Girls and I Golden Girls. You take the good, you take your bad, you take them all in there. Wait, no, that's not right.
JT 02:58
The Facts of Life.
Jeff 02:59
I'll sing the wrong song every time. And now Jake is getting into it. He's singing the full house theme now. Every time he sees it, it's making everybody upset.
JT 03:09
I thought you were going to say, speaking of things that are popular, the podcast is blowing up.
Jeff 03:13
Yeah. I don't really understand it, but I like it. I'm glad people are listening.
JT 03:17
I don't either. I think bonus content in the week between Christmas and New Year was just what the doctor ordered because people seem to like it. We got a lot of good feedback, and a lot of people clicked play, which is awesome.
Jeff 03:25
Yeah. I can't believe anybody listened to the vignette. Is that the word we were using to fancy enough vignette lady dad, Mr. Frenchman. Yeah.
JT 03:33
I think vignette is the perfect term.
Jeff 03:35
It was pretty bad.
JT 03:36
All right. But since it's season two and apparently a lot of new people are listening, really a couple of new people, but it feels like a lot to us. We want to start fresh from the beginning, introduce ourselves. I'm JT. And this is I'm Jeff. Yeah. And we're two guys who were friends for a long, long time. And we're looking at movies that we loved when we were kids, now that we're old, because apparently people care about the 90s again now, which is perfect because we always care about the 90s.
Jeff 03:58
Absolutely. And by the way, did you say we're friends?
JT 04:01
We're friends. And now just our podcast associates.
Jeff 04:04
Okay, cool.
JT 04:05
Just checking have been friends for many years now, many decades, and still our friends and are now podcasting together.
Jeff 04:12
Yes.
JT 04:13
It'd be cool if it could be, like a really famous sports radio partnership where, like, in ten or 15 more years, we actually hate each other, but we're so successful, we have to keep doing the show.
Jeff 04:22
All right. I'd like to call Dibs on Joe Buck. I don't want to be Troy Hateman.
JT 04:26
And anytime the red light is not on, it's like stay on your side.
Jeff 04:30
But because for some reason, they still make them sit so close together that their shoulders are touching.
JT 04:37
So anyway, we're doing movies exactly 30 years later than they came out. So we just finished season one from 1991, and now we're on to season two, which is movies from 1992, because it's 2022, because it's 2022. It's 30 years. That's a round number. People seem to like that. All right, so some housekeeping stuff. Spotify now allows you to leave a review, a rating, I guess, one to five stars. So if you listen on Spotify, click five stars for us, that's super helpful. You can also leave a review on Apple and on Google. If you listen there, that's super helpful as well. We pick good reviews and then we read them. The one that I got this week comes from our main homie, Roger, our very first monthly member over on Buy Me a Coffee and also a guy that we've known for since 1992. Super low or even before. Yeah, I think actually I've known Roger since like 87.
Unknown speaker 05:23
Wow.
JT 05:23
We went to kindergarten together. So super OG. But anyway, Roger says, finally getting around to leaving a review. Awesome podcasts with two hilarious guys, five out of five chimney dogs, two words for 1992 and C. No man. Roger got good news for you. And see, no man is a strong contender for the 1992 list. We have not finalized it yet, but it's definitely in play.
Jeff 05:45
It's definitely going to be high enough up there.
JT 05:47
I think I celebrate Brendan Fraser's entire catalog, so I'm there for that.
Jeff 05:52
I keep changing it to let's Go, Brendan. I hope that's okay.
JT 05:56
Yes, that's 100%. Okay.
Jeff 05:58
All right, good.
JT 05:59
So this movie, we're starting the year off with a Sister Act. I have to come right out and apologize because in the last bonus episode, I was kind of dogging it a little bit. Like I wasn't super excited for Sister Act. I just wanted to get Sister Act Two.
Jeff 06:09
Yes.
JT 06:09
But once I watched the movie, I was like, Holy shit, this movie is awesome. I can't believe I was acting like I wasn't that excited to watch it.
Jeff 06:17
I think I overestimated how much none singing was going to be in it. And the fact that there was less than I thought. But it was the perfect amount. That's what it really did it for me. I don't know what I was thinking.
JT 06:29
And then I started looking at the data, and this was a huge movie, too. So I don't know why I was acting like Sister Act is the ugly stepchild of Sister Act, too, because it's not the case. Sister act is great.
Jeff 06:38
That's good.
JT 06:38
But anyway, before we start on that, I want to do Name That Tune. So we do a quick Name That Tune segment where I try to stump Jeff with something from Billboard's Hot 119. 92 completely unrelated to the movie. Just related to the fact that we also like music and we don't have Music Life Crisis out just yet. No Music Life Crisis still in development. We need people to support the arts a lot more before we can do that. Here we go. The top 100 song from 92. This is super 92.
Jeff 07:05
All right, stop. This is live and learn. Joe Public.
JT 07:10
Joe Public, live and learn. You nail it. The title is really easy to just say it over and over again, but I can't believe you got the arts.
Jeff 07:24
Oh, man. I used to like Joe Public. He has one other song that I know.
JT 07:28
Yeah. And it turns out he is not a he. He's a group. The video is on YouTube, and, dude, it's so amazingly, everyone's wearing, like, a different solid primary color suit. And then the background looks like kind of like cartoonish dude.
Jeff 07:41
Add that to the show notes.
JT 07:43
Yeah, I am, because it's great. It is a beautiful snapshot of 1992.
Jeff 07:47
I totally remember that. I thought that was just one dude. I had no idea that was a group.
JT 07:51
It was a group. Yeah.
Jeff 07:52
Sweet.
JT 07:53
I'll put that in the show notes. Everyone should watch it. It's amazing. Anyway, Jeff starts the year out one for one, and we go on to Sister Act. Give us a synopsis.
Jeff 08:00
When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she turns the choir into a soulful chloride with a ton of Motown songs. And then because she's so popular, it jeopardizes her identity in the convent, and then she has to see if she can stay hidden from the map.
JT 08:19
Yeah. This movie, admittedly, is not the simplest, which we talked about how we would remake it. I think that's going to be an issue because it's a little convoluted. But basically she's hiding from the mob and she's pretending to be a nun and she's really a lounge singer for Rena. And when we say she, we mean Whoopi Goldberg, who's the star of this movie.
Jeff 08:34
Although it wasn't supposed to be Whoopi.
JT 08:35
It wasn't supposed to be Whoopi. It's supposed to be Bette Midler.
Jeff 08:37
Yeah, that's cool.
JT 08:38
But it's cool.
Jeff 08:39
Wouldn't have been the same movie.
JT 08:40
No.
Jeff 08:40
I like the Whoopi Goldberg.
JT 08:42
I want to get into Whoopie because I thoroughly enjoyed it. But budget. This movie had a $31 million budget. I had no idea. $231,000,000 gross. This is a huge movie.
Jeff 08:51
That's a big return on your investment. $200 million.
JT 08:54
I thought we were easing into 1992. I didn't realize we were doing one of the five biggest movies of the year. This thing was massive.
Jeff 09:01
It worked out pretty good. There's a lot of people that like Whoopi Goldberg. A lot of people like nuns. Everybody likes Motown. It's a win win.
JT 09:07
Absolutely. Indeed. And a really fun movie that launched one sequel, Sister Act Two, which even better. I thought Sister Act Two was 94. I'm delighted to learn that it's 93 because that means we get to do it next year. And I love Sister Act Two.
Jeff 09:20
It also had a musical. Did you see that? The live version? Yes.
JT 09:24
But Sister Act Two, if I was going to make a top ten list of the all time 90s movies, I think that would probably be on it.
Jeff 09:31
It's pretty 90 ish.
JT 09:33
Do you remember when and where you saw this movie?
Jeff 09:34
I'm fairly certain that we saw this one in the movie theater. This isn't one of the ones that sticks in my head, but I feel like I would have been 1314. My sister is like ten or eleven and my mom taught religion and I think she would have seen the nuns and said oh, we should go see this or something like that. So I'm fairly certain we saw it in the theater. I know I had the VHS at home that we actually purchased, so this was one of the ones we didn't record off HBO. We actually bought it.
JT 09:59
I don't think I saw this in the movie. I have so few like clear memories of seeing stuff in the theater. So I just assumed that I saw I feel like I saw this on cable, but I think I also owned either the VHS or the DVD of this at some point in my life because I've seen it a bunch.
Jeff 10:15
Yeah, I know we had the VHS, the DVD I didn't get till later in the 550 minutes. Walmart.
JT 10:20
Okay, so we're in a rate. So the rating system for people who may be new will score every movie one to ten. We use chimney dogs as our scoring barometer. Chimney dogs were served by the Mexican restaurant right outside of the movie theater in the town we grew up in. And they basically are hot dogs wrapped in tortillas and deep fried that come with the dipping cheese.
Jeff 10:42
Glad you didn't forget the dipping cheese.
JT 10:44
Yeah, how could I forget the dipping cheese? But even more important is that they're on the children's menu. So you had to ask very nicely if they would serve them to you if you were not a child, which I did for many, many years. But emotionally, he is a child 100%. Emotionally, I'm on the children's menu still. But yes, we rated in chimney Dogs and if you donate to us through our website or through buy me a coffee, you can donate to us in Chimney Dog Increments.
Jeff 11:06
Nice.
JT 11:07
So one to ten chimney dogs. No, seven is allowed because seven is a wishy washy nonsense rating that we will not allow. Right, get it started. Where do you got it?
Jeff 11:16
I remember us saying no sevens, but I really liked it way more than I thought. So I gave it eight chimney dogs, but I'd like to take a bite out of it and give it seven and a half. I just didn't know if that was the thing.
JT 11:28
I mean, if we're not going to allow seven, I don't think we can allow seven and a half either.
Jeff 11:32
But dammit, I'm going to stick with an eight though. Yeah, I liked it.
JT 11:36
Happy 18.
Jeff 11:37
Way more than I thought. Yeah, say eight.
JT 11:39
Say eight. Yeah. Dude, I think that's a completely reasonable rating. I got six and a half chimney dogs because I would have put this right in the seven and a half range as well, because I really enjoyed it. But I don't think it's an eight for me because I put cadence as an eight. And I don't think it's quite on the level of cadence. I'm going to have to go re rank everything once we're like three or four years in. Yeah, dude.
Jeff 11:59
Ranking stuff is really hard. It's like putting stuff in music genres. It's really hard for me to pick.
JT 12:05
But yeah, six and a half out of ten for me, eight for you. But a very good movie.
Jeff 12:10
Really better than I thought.
JT 12:11
Speaking of, let's talk about the best of this movie. The first thing we'll do is talk about the best scenes, best quotes, best characters, and then we'll get into the worst. And then we'll end the episode with five questions just as to kind of reset since we're here in season two and everything is brand new all over again.
Jeff 12:24
Brand new.
JT 12:26
Give me your first best scene.
Jeff 12:28
There's one that I put down first that I'm going to not say because I know you're going to say it. So the first time that she Dolores Van Cartier, who is Sister Mary Clarence, played by Whoopi Goldberg, Oscar winner. Whoopi Goldberg, excuse me, Oscar winner. When she is sitting in the Church Pew and she hears them sing poorly for the first time, when she hears them sing as a choir before she takes over is really good. That one nun, they're singing Hale, Holy Queen, I think. And that one nun just keeps coming in like a beat. Hell. Like she's just coming in early.
JT 13:06
And then the one lady is singing like three octaves higher than everyone else.
Jeff 13:09
Yes. And the one that keeps coming in early, she keeps catching herself and shaking her head like scouting sheet because she knows she got it wrong. And then everybody else is just looking at each other and the priest is making a funny face. I like that. That set up the whole reason why the movie works, because you see how bad they actually are.
JT 13:28
It's hard to arrange these songs where they're really interesting, but it's also hard to arrange them where they're that bad. I bet that took a lot of work.
Jeff 13:36
They were bad.
JT 13:37
But my first scene is when Whoopi eats lunch at the convent the very first time.
Jeff 13:43
Oh, man.
JT 13:44
Like, she's hiding out. She's dating this Mafia guy. She sees him kill someone. She goes to the cops.
Jeff 13:49
Harvey kitel, by the way.
JT 13:50
Harvey Kitelle. And she goes to the cops and they go like, we're going to put you in witness protection. But not really witness protection. It's just a cop is going to drive you to San Francisco from Reno and stick you in his convent. And you're this, like lounge singer at a nightclub who's dating a Mafia guy who's married. And so Maggie Smith, who's the head Reverend Mother who's phenomenal is just like, just wear this, go to lunch, keep your mouth shut. And, dude, they ask Whoopi to say the blessing. And she's just, like, piecing together like Star Spangled Banner and Pledge of Allegiance.
Jeff 14:18
That's actually one of my quotes. I put it in there because I wanted to make sure I used to love that every time we would go to my grandma's house. And she's like, okay, Jeff, would you like to say the blessing? I was like, oh, yeah, come on.
JT 14:31
And they serve her the bowl of whatever soup would be like, what is this shit? And Maggie Smith is like, silence for the rest of the day. And Whoopee just keeps on ripping the foods like, what's the matter with you people? And then Maggie Smith's like, I think you might enjoy a ritual fast. And Whoopi is like, no, I don't think I would enjoy.
Jeff 14:50
No, I was just putting some salt on it.
JT 14:52
And they tried to take the ball away from her. She's, like, slapping the nun's hand to try to keep the Bull.
Jeff 14:57
Yeah, it was really good. She played that at Perfect.
JT 15:00
God, dude, Whoopi Goldberg is really good. She's so funny. She was freaking cracking me up.
Jeff 15:07
Yeah, she's really good. She killed it in this that whole contrast of being a Reno lounge singer compared to a nun. She nailed it. Yeah.
JT 15:15
And I feel like I maybe have not given her a proper due. I mean, she won an Oscar in 1009 and 191 for her role in Ghost, a movie that we didn't cover last season because we don't care about it. But she did win the Oscar.
Jeff 15:25
And she has my favorite line in that movie, too, where she's just yelling up to Denimi Moore and the guy's like, you want to shut up? You want to Cook? Just my butt, man. When I was young, that's, like the extent of how dirty I could be in front of my parents. I used to love saying that, yes.
JT 15:40
But I feel like I might have slept on Whoopi Goldberg a little bit because she's really good. And from the very beginning of this movie, I just kept thinking, My God, she's freaking killing it, man. She's so funny. But, yeah, so that was my first scene.
Jeff 15:51
All right, so my second scene is just a little bit later. It's the first time they sing in Church again, but they're singing really well. She's put this new arrangement together. Whoopi Goldberg has Alma standing at the piano and playing, like, Little Richard Boogie.
JT 16:05
Boogie on the piano.
Jeff 16:08
She's played by Sister Stephanie from St. Thomas back in the 90s, like just a short little lady. But my favorite part is that while the music is delightful and the arrangement is great, there are kids out on the street that wander in the 90s, kids that are out there on the street, and they're like, what is that intoxicating music? And they come into the Church. And I wanted to stop for a second because you said the most 90s movie you could think of. And I couldn't think of anybody wearing more of a 90s outfit than the girls that were coming into the Church. I actually paused it so I could write down what they had. My whole family was pointing stuff out as we were watching it.
JT 16:50
I was going to say that one girl was wearing yellow overalls, and then somebody had a big giant, like, floppy, like, clown hat on.
Jeff 16:55
All right, so this one. One is girl had purple overalls with one of the straps not connected, like you did in the 90s, like crisscross. Yeah, exactly. With airbrushed words down the leg, spray painted on the leg. And she wore, like, this two inch wide belt over the top of the overalls. Under that was an airbrushed multi colored T shirt with a peace sign necklace and a long beaded necklace that had, like, black, yellow and green beads. And all of that was covered by a generic, like, Letterman style jacket, like a black with leather sleeves. And then there's another girl. She showed up, and she's got, like, a black T shirt, black jeans with a red Plaid flannel tied around her waist. And then there's the last girl with the big black blossom style hat with a huge fake flower on the top.
JT 17:41
The giant blossom hat.
Jeff 17:42
Yeah, that's the one you were thinking. And she had bedazzled pockets on her sleeves that were, like half rolled up over Velour blouse, which had oversized, like, print style sleeves. And her jeans had embroidered butterflies all over them. I can't even picture any of my students wearing any of that. Those people thought they were the pinnacle of cool. They were on a movie, and they were dressed in awesome 90s attire.
JT 18:04
I don't know.
Jeff 18:05
I'm trying to think of what people wear now that's so bad that when we look back in 30 years, it will be as bad as that is.
JT 18:11
Dude, I honestly think that 90s fashion is coming back. I'm seeing people wearing, like, bright colored stuff and, like, Fanny packs and, like, really baggy pants with, like, tucked into sneakers.
Jeff 18:19
Well, I see them wear those Fanny packs like you say. Some of my students, they wear them over their shoulder. They wear it across their chest, and they only wear, like, name brand. My parents had one that was, like Hammond City Club. I don't know, whatever.
JT 18:32
Like something somebody gave the Chamber of commerce that had the freaking logo on it. Now they're like, now, like, Gucci makes them.
Jeff 18:38
Exactly. Right. Now one kid wears one to school, and they make them take it off every morning as he's walking down the hall and it says supreme across the front. I don't get it. Apparently it's super popular because a bunch of my kids wear that stuff.
JT 18:51
Yeah, that scene. The first scene where Whoopi Goldberg is conducting the choir is also on my list. It's my favorite part of the whole movie. That song, that arrangement is so incredible. And I really like how Whoopi is conducting. She's like doing all the hand motions and she's, like doing the shoulder shake. I was into it. I watched it more than one time.
Jeff 19:10
Yeah, I was going to say that's something that sticks really hard into my brain when they show her from the back and her hands are going crazy outside. She's kicking her leg. Like, I can picture that. I think she does that in the next one, too.
JT 19:22
That's Academy Award winning acting right there, because I believe that she was leading every moment of that. And all of the nuns had a moment in the song. The arrangement was phenomenal. And then, of course, like the 90s kids, literally. It looks like the Nickelodeon back lot rolls in. But they come into the Church off of the streets of San Francisco. And, like, San Francisco is rough in this movie. Like, it's scary, which is kind of amazing. And I guess they're just, like, on the corner, like dancing. That's what they were doing the other times in the movies that we saw them and they stopped dancing. They're like, Yo, let's go in the Church and check this out. Don't forget your blossom cap.
Jeff 19:54
They were hanging out by the old busted Pento in the corner. They had no wheels and no windows. And they came in to listen to the Church music.
JT 20:01
I'm 100% with them. I had to go to a lot of Church because we went to Catholic school. And the only part of it was ever worth anything to me was the music. So they did it right. They were like, this music is awesome. I'll check it out for a second.
Jeff 20:12
Those people did it right where we went to school wasn't quite so right.
JT 20:16
No, but it stayed very white out there. The music was a lot worse. It stayed white out super late.
Jeff 20:23
They're the only people that can make a Hallelujah sound like that.
JT 20:29
The Sister Mary Lazarus. That's what we grew up with.
Jeff 20:32
I liked her, too.
JT 20:33
Me too, man. My third scene was when the nuns were passed progressively praying at the helicopter pilot to get a free ride.
Jeff 20:39
Oh, yes, nice.
JT 20:40
It was like my favorite. And I hated it because I've dealt with a lot of Catholic guilt in my life. And I know you have too. So I was like these. But they absolutely just bullied this guy into giving him a free ride. Torino on the helicopter by praying out loud towards him until he gave in.
Jeff 20:54
Please. He doesn't know what he's doing. Lord, it's okay if he goes bald or all that kind of stuff.
JT 20:59
If he stands before you at the pearly gates, please treat him better than he's treating us. You must.
Jeff 21:07
That's exactly. That's how that rolls. That's how people are.
JT 21:10
Yeah.
Jeff 21:10
What's your 3rd third one is the cleaning up neighborhood montage. It moves the story along. It shows how much those nuns actually wanted to get out and help the community. It shows how Mother Superior is slowly coming around and seeing that, hey, Whoopi Goldberg actually is a pretty good person, and it's a great song. Rescue Me playing throughout the whole thing.
JT 21:32
This is on my worst list. And you know that I love a montage, and it does all the things that you say. It's right where it's supposed to be, and it should be a montage. It's them getting out into the neighborhood they're cleaning up. It's supposed to be a montage. And I love montages. But this is on my worst. And not for Rescue Me. But the other song that they had in here was like Just a Touch of Love, and I hated it so much that the song ruined the montage for me. Just to touch the song is so annoying that I just hate that scene is on my worst because of that. How much I don't like that song.
Jeff 22:03
Yeah, I'm with you. I just remember it starting with Rescue Me. And I guess now that you say that, I remember the Touch of Love part when they're.
JT 22:10
Like, dancing by the fire hydrant with the girls wearing the overalls. It's like just a Touch of Love song, and it was driving me bonkers.
Jeff 22:15
But still a good montage.
JT 22:16
I love a montage. People know that about me. All right. Quotes what's your first one?
Jeff 22:20
Mine is when Dolores Van Cartier, I. E. Whoopi Goldberg or Sister Mary Clarence or Karen Elaine Johnson or her real name, whatever you want to call her.
JT 22:31
Ramon Esteves.
Jeff 22:32
Ramon Esteves, Senior Goldberg when she first comes there and Reverend Mothers talking to her about how she needs to wear the habit, and she's like, I look like a Penguin. I'm not wearing this. I can't believe it. Like, stuff like that. And the Reverend Mother says, Listen, people wish to kill you. Anyone who's met you. I imagine when she said that, I was like, oh, that was a nice bird. I really liked it. And she just skipped right over and went right to the next thing. Didn't even let it marinate. I really liked it.
JT 22:57
And Maggie Smith had some really killer sarcastic lines as the Reverend Mother. Like, just stuff like that. Yes, she was laying down stuff like that. The whole movie. And I really liked it.
Jeff 23:05
I liked it. What's your first one?
JT 23:06
My first one is also one of yours because we have the sound for it. Check your battery, Alma. Check your battery. So the piano player is Sister Alma, and she has a hearing aid that keeps dying, or she turns it off, and so they're, like, trying to talk to her and she can't hear them. And so Whoopi just Alma. And then she stomps on the floor. Check. Dude, why do we like this quote? I don't even know why I liked it, but I wrote it down as soon as I heard it.
Jeff 23:32
I know for sure that I still say it when people can't hear me.
JT 23:36
I know I do, too. That's the only reason I could think of. I just have been saying, anytime someone's not paying attention for 30 years, alma, check your battery.
Jeff 23:43
Yes, I stomp on the floor. It doesn't have the same. I don't have the hard sole shoes on a wood floor, but at home, Jake's wearing his headphones. I'm like, hey, Jake, did you pick up? Did you take the trash out? Jake, alma, check your battery. I'll just scream it out. And then when he hears that, he knows to take his headphones off. That was definitely my third one that I put in there.
JT 24:02
Nice. That's my number one.
Jeff 24:03
What's your number two?
JT 24:04
My number two is towards the end when the mob recaptures Whoopi Goldberg and they're going to shoot her, and he tells the two henchmen to shoot her, but she's still wearing the nun outfit, and so she's pretending that she actually is a nun. And these guys are all because they're mob. They're all Italian religious, and they're like, I can't shoot a nun. They're like, all right, on three, we'll shoot. And so they count. And so one of them goes like, do we go three and then shoot or we shoot on three. They have a whole breakdown about when they're going to shoot. And I don't know. I thought that was funny. I cracked me up.
Jeff 24:34
I figured the casino owning bosses henchmen would have been smarter than that, but they'd have to be down my guest to make the story work.
JT 24:41
But it was awesome because I've had that conversation a lot where it's like, all right, on three, we lift it's like, we lift on three or it's three, and then go, one, two, three deadlift.
Jeff 24:50
Yeah, we have that problem when we do paper, rock, scissors.
JT 24:52
Yes, three. And then shoot or shoot on three real fast.
Jeff 24:55
Paper, rock, scissors. Rock, paper, scissors.
JT 24:58
Rock, paper, scissors.
Jeff 24:59
I say paper, rock, scissors because it messes everybody up right before you play because that's what they're thinking. See, it's a mind game. So I'm like, hey, let's do it. Whoever loses, we'll do paper, rock, scissors. And whoever loses has to do it. All right, so we go one, two, three, then shoot. And they're like, what is all this? And then I'm in their head. And then poor, predictable Bart always goes with rock. Nothing beats rock.
JT 25:21
Good old rock. Nothing beats that. It's funny. I was thinking of future Ramen. Kim checked in for paper. Bring me a rock. Yeah. I like, the henchmen three and then shoot.
Jeff 25:33
So the blessing was my second one. It's just so funny, dude. It's blessed. So, Lord, these are the gifts which we're about to receive. And yeah. And though I walk through the Valley of the shadow of no food, I will fear no hunger. We will give us this day our daily bread and to the Republic for which it stands. And by the power invested in me, I pronounced us ready to eat. Amen. And everybody else is looking around and making the sound of trust, like, Amen.
JT 25:59
That's exactly how I feel. When my Baptist relatives asked me to say to Grace.
Jeff 26:04
Grace, she died nearly 30 years ago.
JT 26:06
She wants you to say that blessing. My third one is when Whoopi is arguing with Maggie Smith because she's like, go, go dentist Bogey, Whoopi on the piano and Whoopi is like, I thought a big boy, like, Vegas, get some butts in the seat. And then Maggie Smith's like, but it's not Vegas.
Jeff 26:21
It's Church.
JT 26:22
And Whoopi's like, yeah, that's the point. People want to go to Vegas, right? And they don't want to go to Church because it's a drag. And that whole scene, all of the talking there, I thought was awesome.
Jeff 26:30
Boogie, Boogie on the piano is definitely one that almost made the cut for me because it's the way she says it.
JT 26:36
All right. Cool characters. That takes us right into characters. Who's your first?
Jeff 26:39
I really wanted to say Maggie Smith, but I didn't because I wanted to give a shout out to Alma. Rose Perenti is her name. It's really hard to find out that was her name because she died not that long after she's 95, I think 94. 95. Right after Sister Act Two came out.
JT 26:56
Well, I mean, she looked like she was about 275 years old.
Jeff 26:59
Yeah. No, this is another problem with all the extras that we talked about in defending your Life or old. And they're all dead now. It's the same problem. All these nuns, a bunch of them are dead. She's just listed as, like, choir none, choir nun number six. And that sucks because everybody knows it's Alma and everybody knows her name.
JT 27:16
Yeah, that's exactly.
Jeff 27:17
Yeah. So I wanted to make sure I put that in there. Rose Perenti, pour some out for your homie. Who's your first?
JT 27:22
My first is Sister Mary Lazarus.
Jeff 27:25
Yes, that's my second.
JT 27:26
She was played by Mary Wicks. Dude, she's a hard ass Pterodactyl. She's like, really tall. She's got the deep voice.
Jeff 27:31
Yes.
JT 27:31
And when I looked up Mary Wicks just to kind of see what she had done. Holy. She's like a world class comedian with a 60 year career. Like, she started on Broadway in the 30s, and she worked with Abbott and Costello. She was good friends with Lucille Ball. She worked with Hitchcock, Betty Davis, Doris Day. She was on a ton of TV shows all through the 70s and 80s. She was like a legend.
Jeff 27:51
Like Christmas. Yeah. She was all in it.
JT 27:54
In this movie, all of her sarcastic comments delivered with her gravely voice were just like a thing of beauty.
Jeff 27:59
Yes, absolutely. The fact that she was tall and all the other movies and plays and all the stuff like that. She's always playing that hard lace, straight nose, like nurse or teacher or a nun.
JT 28:12
I know, dude. Just dropping, like, sarcastic. And when Whoopi takes over the choir from her and she gets them to sing. And then Sister Mary Lazarus is like, well, I knew that. And Whoopi goes over and puts her arm around her? She's like, Sister Mary Lazarus. When I walked in here, I knew that you knew this, but we got to whip them into shape. It's going to take a lot of work and system realize it's going to be hell.
Jeff 28:37
She's like, that's the word for this mutiny. Getting all mad at what's her name taking over.
JT 28:43
I see what this is. They brought in a Ringer.
Jeff 28:46
Good character name to Mary Lazarus. I know.
JT 28:50
All right, who's your second?
Jeff 28:51
So Mary Lazarus. Mary Wicks was my second and my third. I had to put Whoopi just like you were saying, dude, I underestimated how funny and good she was going to be in this movie.
JT 29:02
She's so good. I mean, I know that Bet Midler was a huge star when we're talking about putting this movie up with her in it, but this movie would not have been nearly as funny with Bette Midler.
Jeff 29:12
No, for some reason, I pictured it. And I'm like, no, that's not going to be the same.
JT 29:17
I wouldn't have liked it nearly as much for sure. And, dude, I was looking at some stuff about Whoopi Goldberg. She's one of 16 people to have to EGOT. Oh, so to win Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar and attorney is called EGOT. She's one of 16 people to EGOT.
Jeff 29:34
Tracy, is that what you're thinking of? Because I always say, ergot, yeah.
JT 29:37
Tracy Jordan, he's got the EGOT necklace. So five of the 16 were actors and the rest are all composers. The only person in the last 20 years to EGOT who wasn't a composer is Whoopi Goldberg.
Jeff 29:48
That's awesome.
JT 29:49
I was reading about EGOT because they're just kind of fascinating. And they said there's a bunch of other awards that you can pair with an EGOT to give you, like extra letters and a regott and a pregat. My favorite one is I want to shout out our man, Alan Minkin, who is a composer in Beauty and the Beast. He's one of the only people I think he is the only person who's gotten the regott, which is the EGOT. Plus a Razzie for the worst original song. So he gets a Razzie for the worst original song in the movie Newsies, which comes out this year. So he is one of the few who REGOT.
Jeff 30:22
That's awesome. I had no idea any of that information. It's good stuff.
JT 30:26
The list is pretty crazy. Like Mel Brooks, Marvin Hamlin, Audrey Hepburn, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, John Legend.
Jeff 30:32
Wow.
JT 30:33
The egotist is no joke. And Whoopi is on there? And no one, including Tracy Jordan, can take that away from her.
Jeff 30:39
That's right. So who's your third character?
JT 30:42
My third is Maggie Smith. I know it's not like that sneaky of a pick, but just like her and Whoopi were by far my favorite people in this movie and also my favorite characters, like the two of them together were just like I just loved all their scenes.
Jeff 30:54
They played off each other really well. Yeah.
JT 30:56
And dude, she's just great, man. She's been around forever. She was in Hook last year. She was great in that. She turned 84 in real life a couple of days ago. She's just nice. She's phenomenal. I love Maggie Smith. And she was again, was amazing.
Jeff 31:08
I had no idea about any of that information. And who doesn't love Maggie Smith? That's a perfect pick.
JT 31:13
Yeah.
Jeff 31:13
So what's next? Writer directors?
JT 31:15
Yeah. You got any stuff on that?
Jeff 31:16
Yeah, I do. So the writer for this is the guy he's the one who wanted Betler. He's the one that said that's who he wanted to write this for because he wanted it to be Bet Midler. Obviously, they had to change it like we were talking about. And so he refused to put his own name on it. So Paul Ruddnick is his name. But he went through the Sudan named Joseph Howard because he didn't want his name attached to the Whoopi Goldberg sister in that movie.
JT 31:42
I saw that, but I didn't see what I read was it wasn't just that it was Whoopi Goldberg and not Bet Midler. Is that the movie? When he pitched it to Bet Midler in the late 80s and when it actually got made six years later, it had been through like three or four rewrites by a bunch of different people, including Carrie Fisher. And I think at the end of it, he was like, this is really nothing like the movie that I wrote. So I'm just going to put a pseudonym on it. I don't even want this on my credit. And then it was like the fourth biggest movie of the year.
Jeff 32:08
Not just Bet Medler, but all the changes is what he didn't like. But he also did Adam Family Values, which is next year in and out, which is hysterical, and Stepford Wives, which was whatever he's been around, not super popular. But I just wanted to mention that Hole went with a pseudonym and then changed his name just for this movie.
JT 32:27
The funny thing is he went with a pseudonym and this was by far the biggest movie that he ever wrote.
Jeff 32:31
I'm sure he's kicking himself right.
JT 32:32
I think he got paid all the same. He directed by Emile Ardolino, who also directed Dirty Dancing. He didn't do a lot of movies, but that's a pretty notable credit.
Jeff 32:40
Yeah, Dirty Dancing. And chances are with Tony Stark, what's his name? He also did Three Men and A Little Lady, which is a sequel that we're not going to do.
JT 32:47
Yes, we're going to skip that sequel. I watched Three Men and a Baby a couple of weeks ago. And that was I wish we could go back to the 80s and do that. Yeah, that was funny because I really liked that movie. And there's this weird heroin subplot that makes no sense. Musical arrangements by our main man, Mark Shaman, who did the score for City Slickers that I ranked in my top three for the year.
Jeff 33:04
Bringing it back.
JT 33:05
He did the musical arrangements for the choir in this movie and in Sister Act Two. And I think between those Sister Act Two and this movie's choir arrangements, I think that he has cemented his place in my mind as a musical visionary.
Jeff 33:17
The way they went from, like you said, it was probably even hard to arrange it to make it sound bad. It's good stuff, dude.
JT 33:24
And when it sounded good, they're, like doing, like, stomping and clapping, like in the nun outfits. Like, everyone's doing their own thing, dude. And that also brings me to I wanted to shout out Andrea Robinson, who's the singing voice for? Sister Mary Roberts.
Jeff 33:36
Oh, nice.
JT 33:37
Yes. Sister Mary Roberts is this tiny, like, red headed nun who has this amazing singing voice. And you can kind of tell when you're watching that it's not that actor doing that singing. She's not credited in this movie. I had to go dig it up, but I just wanted to shout that out because that was an amazing performance and she was not credited.
Jeff 33:53
I was actually wondering when I was watching it, I was like, I wonder if that's her real voice because it looks like she's Lipsy.
JT 33:57
It's definitely not her real voice.
Jeff 33:59
Speaking of not real, are we going to talk about Whoopi's name and why it's Whoopi Goldberg?
JT 34:04
Yeah, Goldberg. You want to talk about it now?
Jeff 34:06
Do you know why it's called? Why she's called Whoopi Goldberg?
JT 34:08
No.
Jeff 34:08
So her real name is Karen with a C and a Y. Karen Elaine Johnson. And she changed it to Whoopi because she says when you're performing on stage, you never really have time to go to the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you just got to let it go. So people used to say to me, you're like a whoopie cushion. So that's where the first name comes from. She is literally she named herself after a whoopee cushion in 2011. They were talking to her about her surname. She's like, my mom didn't name me Whoopi, but Goldberg, I feel is my name. It's part of my family. It's part of my heritage, just like being black. I just know that I'm Jewish. I practice nothing. I don't go to temple. But I do remember the holidays. And she said people would come up to me and say, like, come on, are you Jewish? And I would say, would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not. And the whole idea is her mom, Emma Johnson is her name. Thought that the family's original surname, Johnson, wasn't Jewish enough. So they wanted her daughter to be a star. So she said, let's go with Goldberg. And she helped her change her name to Whoopi Goldberg.
JT 35:09
Nice. That's awesome. I love the story of how people pick their stage names. Like, that reminds me of Jamie Foxx's.
Jeff 35:15
Oh, man.
JT 35:15
The story about how he picked his dude. Because Jamie Foxx said that when he was first in La and he was doing open mic nights, there was always too many people. There weren't enough spots. But there were so few female comics, they would always make sure the female comics got stage time. So he picked a name, Jamie, that could he be either male or female. And then he started getting called up all the time, and then he got to be super famous. And then he won an Oscar, and now he's beloved and awesome.
Jeff 35:39
And he went with Fox as an homage to Red Fox. To Red Fox Two X. Yeah.
JT 35:44
We could definitely do a bonus episode on stage names.
Jeff 35:47
Speaking of Sister Mary Robert the redhead, did you know she played May Motorbike in A League of Their Own TV show?
JT 35:54
No, I did not know that all the way.
Jeff 35:56
May.
JT 35:57
No one's coming up for a long time. Not since last night.
Jeff 36:00
Think the men in this country that haven't seen your bosoms?
JT 36:03
God, I can't wait.
Jeff 36:04
Mark off two dates on the calendar for that double episode.
JT 36:07
A League of Their Own critical reception for this movie. 74% Rotten Tomatoes. Six and a half out of ten IMDb. And that's right where we landed. We got it at seven and a quarter between the two of us.
Jeff 36:18
Oh, dude. I put this down here at the bottom. I wanted to talk about the fur coat. The purple man. The purple fur coats that Harvey Caitlin gave Dolores Van Cartier. It had, like, the Badger tails and the stuff hanging out or her coat. She put a fur coat on after that's. The one. She looked like Nana to the north. She had, like, the huge fur coat.
JT 36:40
Yeah, it looked like they're Revenant.
Jeff 36:41
I know I'm not into fur coats or anything, but that was a huge fur coat, and I really liked it. And another thing, in the very beginning, the camera pans on Reno and it zooms into the casino and they show her singing with the trio is singing, like, whenever I'm with him, heat wave, and they're singing it. They're like vamping at the end and they're like the background singers are singing. And Whoopi looks at the crowd and she's like, you don't give a shit. I don't care. Nobody cares. She just keeps going.
JT 37:14
Nice. Yeah. I had in my bonus, like, good stuff that the opening of this movie was really good. It started with a super quick flashback of her as a child in Catholic school, and she's, like being a smart ass to the nun. And I mean, like, super quick, not like a cadence flashback that lasted twelve minutes. This was like 45 seconds. And then it goes straight into the music, and then it rolls into that open, like Jeff's talking about were there in Reno, and she's singing with the rodeo to her and her two background singers. And then as soon as the song is over, the credits hit, and then the movie is started. I really liked that.
Jeff 37:47
It was fantastic.
JT 37:48
At the end of the movie, the choir sang for the Pope. I liked that the Pope was wearing a cereal bowl hat and not the post hole digger hat. I thought that was cool.
Jeff 37:56
I had that marked down as the worst. The Pope cereal bowl and post hole digger hat. Those all have names and there's reasons for it. And I just watched a video on that after looking it up in case that came up. But we're not going to talk about that.
JT 38:08
All right, cool. The worst. What's your worst scene?
Jeff 38:10
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JT 39:04
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Jeff 39:21
We like that we can hang somewhere in the playroom.
JT 39:24
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Jeff 39:30
Absolutely.
JT 39:31
That's a perfect way to intro into the worst. What do you get as the worst to this movie? What are your worst scenes.
Jeff 39:36
I was having a little trouble coming up with bad things. So the worst scene that I could come up with is my only scene. Dolores is picked up by the police is the FBI. It's got to be some national thing, right? Because they went from Reno to San Francisco. So it's not just a regular cop, right?
JT 39:53
I think it's the Reno police, and I think he just had some connection there. I think that's why it was, like, such a good hiding place, because he was a local company across state lines.
Jeff 40:02
Right? And when they took her to the room and they got the one light over the table, and they bring her a cup of coffee, and she's like, what are you talking about? Yeah, he's my boyfriend. Did you have video of me doing anything with him? And they're like, no, it's just doing bad stuff. And they're giving her the info that says, like, hey, this dude is really bad, and he's trying to hurt you. And the whole time she's just, like, being hard on the detectives. It seems like she would have played that different, but I guess maybe she's a hard ass chick from Reno, and that's why she did it. I don't know. The whole time I was just like, man, that's not how I would have reacted if somebody would have told me that my boyfriend is a mobster.
JT 40:40
Yeah. She was like, she was being really confrontational with the police when they were telling her that her boyfriend is actually a mafia Don instead of being like, oh, shit. All right, let's fix that before he chops my head off and buries it in a drum of gasoline.
Jeff 40:54
Right? And he comes up with the best idea. Hiding a convent in a completely different state. And you think that would be awesome? But instead she was just, like, fighting it the whole way.
JT 41:03
Yeah, man, I'm with you. I can't really argue with that. The only scene I had already talked about the montage, which was ruined by the song choice, but the other one was like, the cop. I forgot his name. But anyway, the main Beverley Beverly tall girl, but the cop who, like, took Whoopi Goldberg and stashed her in Reno, he's like, goading Harvey kitel. Harvey kitel does not know where Whoopi Goldberg is gone. He knows that he can't find her. He's got, like, a hit out on her for, like, $200,000. He's got his henchmen looking for and the cop crews buying his car and rolls down the window and is, like, making comments and stuff. And then that's when he figures out that they've got wiped in protective custody. He's like, dude, what's the cop. What are you doing, man? Why would you poke the bear like that? Yeah.
Jeff 41:43
He's like, oh, you're never going to find her. I'm like, what are you doing?
JT 41:46
Yeah. And he's like, I'll see you real soon, Vince. It's like, Dude, just shut up. You got the witness stashed away. He's been killing all the other ones. Just like play it cool for a second.
Jeff 41:55
And then when he finds her, this is the thing. Remember, his wife is watching the news and he's leave me alone. Shoot pool. Is there news in Reno that plays from San Francisco? Is that how close that is? How far is Reno from San Francisco? Like 3 hours? I don't know.
JT 42:10
We'll see at the intern on that.
Jeff 42:12
Mike, get on that. Are you looking it up?
JT 42:14
Yes, I'm looking it up. Since Jones is nowhere to be found, as usual, 218 miles.
Jeff 42:18
Oh, man.
JT 42:19
I don't know. I mean, I guess maybe that story got picked up on the national news. Maybe the Reno news station is like two guys in a VCR and so they're just like, this is a good story. Just play it again.
Jeff 42:28
Two guys on a podcast. Yes.
JT 42:30
The technology that we have at our fingertips news stations would have killed for in the 90s.
Jeff 42:34
Absolutely.
JT 42:35
The other thing that had for worse. It's not a scene, but the very beginning of the movie is like Whoopi Goldberg is dating Harvey kitel, who's married, and she's mad because he said he was going to get divorced, but he won't get a divorce. And the reason he gives for not getting a divorce is because he went to confession and he told the priest that he wants to get a divorce. And the priest told him that it's a sin and then he would go to hell. This is peak Catholic Church. The mafia kingpin is not allowed to get divorced because that apparently is a bridge too far.
Jeff 43:06
Yeah, dude, it's always been a bridge too far. That's how we got the Church of England.
JT 43:10
Yes. It's always been an issue that did not age well. I got some Catholic school stuff coming up. Again, I was pissed off when that part of the movie happens, it's like those sons of bitches just let him get divorced. He said mafia guy is killing people.
Jeff 43:22
Totally with you. That was weird. Do you think? And this is going to sound bad. It was weird to see those two together. I don't know if it was from the 90s or it's because I'm racist. I don't think I am. But I'm saying, like, it was weird to see Whoopi Goldberg and Harvey kitel together.
JT 43:37
Yeah, I don't know. You're definitely racist. You're just less racist than the people that you hang out with. Same as me. To me, I think it was weird because Whoopi Goldberg is bigger than Harvey. Caitlin. He's like a little guy and she's like a normal sized woman. Because Whoopi Goldberg dated Ted Danson. And I didn't think that was weird.
Jeff 43:56
That wasn't weird. Yeah, it's true.
JT 43:58
But Harvey Kitelle for some reason was weird.
Jeff 44:00
I don't know what made me think of that, but I think I've forgotten that going into the movie. And then when it happens.
JT 44:05
I know I have to. Do you have worse characters or CGI or anything like that?
Jeff 44:09
I did have the henchmen in the end as worst characters. I didn't like that. And for worst, CGI, it's not really computer generated. They spelled Dolores two different ways in the end of the movie on the covers of the magazines that they were showing, and it was bothering me. And the only reason I know is because I didn't know how to spell it. And when I was writing up my notes, I was like, hey, how do you spell the Loris? Is it Es or I S or what? At the end of the movie, they spelled it both ways.
JT 44:35
That's unacceptable.
Jeff 44:36
Old tech alert.
JT 44:36
Yeah, there's not really a lot of tech that she's living in a convent, but anytime there's a computer, it waste £3000. Anytime there's a phone, it's tied to a wall.
Jeff 44:46
Yeah. And maybe it's because I'm a teacher, but they were on an actual chalkboard and that was weird.
JT 44:51
That's funny. And I haven't been in a classroom so long. I forget that no one has a chalkboard, everyone has whiteboards or like smart boards.
Jeff 44:57
I was going to say it's all smart boards now.
JT 44:58
Other stuff I have for the worst. This movie is halfway over before Whoopi joins the choir. And I think the second half of the movie is really a lot better than the first half because of that. I like the scenes of her in the choir, her with the nuns.
Jeff 45:10
They fix that. And the second one.
JT 45:11
Yeah, but I mean, we're 47 minutes in this movie before she joins the choir. And yes, the second one, they jumped right into that, which I like.
Jeff 45:17
That's a good call.
JT 45:18
The only other thing I have here, it's not specific to this movie. It's kind of across all movies, but silencers on guns and movies drive me crazy.
Jeff 45:25
Why is that?
JT 45:26
Because a silencer in the movie is like, oh, I take a little thing and I screw it under the barrel of my pistol. And he goes, and in real life, if you put a silence around, it goes like that. It sounds like you slap someone in the face. Like it's not as loud as a gunshot, but it's also loud. And like, dude, this is still happening. There's like John Wick movies where he's having a shoot out in a mall and the people in the mall don't notice them because they have silencers on. Like, this is just bad guns and movies. For a long time.
Jeff 45:55
I think I've never heard of silence or actually fire. So I'm going to look that up when we're done with this.
JT 45:59
Yes, I think that's the people who write movies, that's how they feel, too. Silencers are loud. They're just quieter than not having a silencer. Speaking about writing it, I meant to say this earlier, I forgot. But, like, there's a lot more people listening to these episodes than we actually are able to get in touch with. So if you're on any social media, if you're on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook or YouTube, reach out to us and tell us that you're listening. And if you like stuff or don't like stuff, if you'd recast someone different, if you had a different favorite quote, because we want to do more of the stuff that those of you who are listening like. But we don't hear from that many of you because podcasts, there's not an easy way to do that. But please find us, email us, reach out and tell us what you think about these movies, because we'd like to know.
Jeff 46:45
I just want to know. Just keep listening. I want to know that you're out there.
JT 46:49
Did you have any cameos for this?
Jeff 46:51
I didn't pick anybody out that I saw and I didn't bother to look.
JT 46:54
I'm sorry. Nobody stuck out of me. So no Troy McClure for this week. Cool. Did you get any more? Worse.
Jeff 46:59
I got nothing else worse. What you got nothing.
JT 47:01
Five questions. Is it okay for kids what age? Why?
Jeff 47:04
There's a few curse words, but nothing crazy. There's some implied violence. They never actually show. The whole plot of the movie is she saw somebody getting murdered. They don't show that. So the implied violence is okay. I think for eight or nine, I would say eight or nine. Final answer.
JT 47:19
Nice. Okay. Would this movie get made if it were pitched now? Well, Sister Act Three is in development for Disney Plus as we speak. So fingers crossed. I hope Lauren Hill is available.
Jeff 47:29
Is it a movie or a TV show that they're making?
JT 47:31
I'm pretty sure it's a movie.
Jeff 47:32
Okay, so that covers the third question. If it's going to be a movie or a TV show.
JT 47:35
The fourth question, who plays the lead if we remake this? This is a really hard question for me, partly because this movie is so corny and so of the time that I have a hard time picturing how you could do it again. I'll be curious to see what Sister Act Three looks like if they ever actually make it. Did you have anybody for this? Who do you have for this recast?
Jeff 47:51
I have three people that I want to recast.
JT 47:53
Give me your Whoopi.
Jeff 47:54
My Whoopi. Sister Mary Clarence is now played by Lady Gaga.
JT 47:57
Yes, Lady Gaga is great. I don't know that she could be nearly as funny as Whoopi Gilbert, but the singing would be phenomenal.
Jeff 48:04
Yeah, I think the singing they could change that part up. Who's your whoopee?
JT 48:09
I have two for Whoopi Goldberg. I don't have anyone else recast, but the first one I got a Selena Gomez. Nice, because she can kind of sing, but also she's really good at sarcastic. I don't think she's all that great of an actress, but I do think sarcastic is in her wheelhouse. Yeah.
Jeff 48:22
No, she definitely could. That's a good call.
JT 48:24
And the other one I have, this is a nostalgia pick. Britney Spears.
Jeff 48:29
Nice.
JT 48:30
I would love to see the Britney Spears reunion tour. Just start with her rebooting sister act. Let's just do it, man. Britney is a perfectly serviceable actress. People would go see it. I'd go see it. I'd be happy for her.
Jeff 48:40
So you like the movie Crossroads?
JT 48:42
I did shot in Hammond all over Hammond.
Jeff 48:44
I had two other ones for Sister Mary Patrick, who is the one that could sing the wrong octave all the time.
JT 48:51
Kathy Najimi.
Jeff 48:52
She was really well cast and she was super funny. But since we're changing it to Lady Gaga, it's going to be a different type of movie. And I want Jennifer Lopez to play her. So that's not the same at all. She wouldn't play the same character the same way.
JT 49:09
But she's got the not good at singing part down.
Jeff 49:12
Yeah, she's got that down. And then for the last one, for Mary Robert the redhead, I'm going to go on a limb here and I'm going to put in Billy Porter. Do you know who Billy Porter is?
JT 49:22
No, I don't know who that is.
Jeff 49:24
He is over the top flamboyant, which fits perfectly in for the priesthood. So he could be a brother that is also joining the choir. That's becoming a priest or something.
JT 49:35
I just looked him up in the first picture on Google Images. It's like him wearing a tux. But then if you look from the waist down, the tux is actually like a big giant ball gown.
Jeff 49:43
He's really good. He played fairy Godmother in the new Cinderella that my daughter watches all the time, and he freaking kills it. So, yeah, those are my three Lady Gaga, Billy Porter, JLo.
JT 49:54
Nice. I was trying to think of who I could recast in the Maggie Smith part, but I think I just put Maggie Smith back in it again because she's 30 years older, but she still looks like she could do the same. And you couldn't do any better than Maggie Smith.
Jeff 50:06
Yeah. Good thing I didn't put Betty White like I was thinking, because that would have been sad.
JT 50:12
Can you still watch and enjoy this movie in 2022? Yes.
Jeff 50:15
Yeah, my whole family did. Yeah, it was fantastic.
JT 50:17
Yes, absolutely. I was surprised. And I had to put in my notes, like, I got to start out with an apology because I was kind of ripping it and it was really good.
Jeff 50:25
And I jumped on that bandwagon as soon as you said that. I was like, yeah, let's wait for number two. But this turned out it was good.
JT 50:31
I think the problem is there's like three songs in this movie, and Sister Act two is like a soundtrack that I wore out. So the music is so incredible. But just as a movie, this is really good.
Jeff 50:42
By the time I got to the end, I was like, wait, when are they going to go to the old folks home and sing the song. I was like, wait a second. That's number two. I was thinking of way more nun songs and it was the perfect amount in this one. I liked it.
JT 50:55
I want Ryan, Toby and Lauren Hill to sing a lot more than I wanted the nuns to sing.
Jeff 50:59
Agreed. All right. So where can you find it?
JT 51:01
Disney plus.
Jeff 51:01
Disney plus. And also, if you want to rent it and pay money on YouTube and Apple for 399.
JT 51:06
The next episode that we have scheduled is my cousin Vinny.
Jeff 51:10
Oh, man.
JT 51:11
And we have another guest. And man, the movies for 99 two are so phenomenal. If you guys have movies that you'd like for us to do, Just go ahead and tell us what they are and we will take them into consideration. I also forgot to say it earlier. No one's listening at this point, so it doesn't really matter. But you can also if you donate $100 to our buy me a coffee site, you can force us to watch a movie that came out in 1992 whether we want to or not, and do an episode on that. So that option is always out there as well.
Jeff 51:36
An entire episode too. Not just yes, one whole episode. We'll look up all the stuff we'll talk about, all the stuff.
JT 51:43
We will give it as much effort as we gave this. Take that as you will. All right. Happy 2022? I'm super excited for season two and I can't wait to get into these movies.
Jeff 51:53
I can't wait to watch my cousin Vinny. I wish I could watch that in front of my kids. When I walked out of the room to come record this, the Utah youth were playing to what, Ohio state? Yeah, the whole time Cat kept making that joke and Jake's like, I want to get it. What's that about?
JT 52:06
Dude, I've made that joke. It's got to be a thousand times.
Jeff 52:12
We'll get into it. It's going to be an extra.
JT 52:14
Welcome back this week to a very special blossom. All right, coming up next, my Cousin Vinny. Subscribe rate review support the arts hit us up on social media and we'll see you next time. Whoopi whoopee. Thanks for listening to movie life crisis. Please subscribe rate and review. And remember, don't drive angry.
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