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But we have assembled something that I like to call the How Did This this get made all-stars to help talk about glitter so here we go let's start the show Mariah Carey stars in what can be described as the Frittata version of eight mile

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Okay.

Glitter, glitter.

Here we go.

Well, this movie is a movie that I've heard about for a long time.

So you hadn't seen this?

I had not seen this movie.

I owned the DVD, but never worked up the courage to watch it.

It's very hard to find this movie.

Yes.

It's only available on Amazon for $3.99,

and it's an hour and 47 minutes long.

$4.99 for HD, y'all.

Powerful people have done a lot to make sure that you don't see this.

Yes.

Yes.

A lot of people say the reason why this movie didn't do well is because of September 11th.

Because it was released the week after,

but it has nothing to do with that.

It is a terrible movie nonetheless.

How convenient for them.

Like,

I've literally read multiple releases.

Beautiful timing.

Mariah Carey numerous times says 9-11 was the downfall of

the girl.

Oh, no.

But it takes place, it's such a New York movie that, you know, the last thing you do want to see after 9-11 is Mariah Carey

representing her city.

I will say that someone pointed out to me that even though it takes place in New York, there are many Toronto landmarks throughout the movie.

Very Canadian.

They shot it in Toronto.

You would think they would have the budget to shoot this in New York.

They had $22 million.

Yeah.

What about Madison Square goes?

$22 million.

$22 million.

$22 million, and it made a whopping $2.5 million

opening weekend.

And then worldwide, 5.2.

Wow, it looks like it was made for like five shits.

And you had the HG version.

Yeah.

Because it's an 80s movie, but there's nothing 80s about it.

Nothing.

At all.

Nothing.

Nothing.

That was the, and they don't even clearly delineate that it is the 80s.

They don't put like a graphic up to say like 1980.

Well, that one guy was in a silk.

1983.

Oh, does it?

Okay.

I didn't like the HD version.

It's very blurry.

And that one guy was in the silk shirt with the C D's all over it.

That's true.

Right.

That was pretty clear.

But it's also Mariah Carey, so you're watching it.

You're like, oh, this is a 90s movie.

It has to be.

Yeah, it doesn't feel, it doesn't feel like...

There's nothing 80.

They just paid no attention.

Like, I almost think they decided to say it was in the 80s to make it seem more interesting.

Because, like, afterwards, they

this needs to be a period piece.

The biggest clue that's in the 80s is they just play that rap song: like, Don't Push Me, Guys,

that's the only thing I need to do.

People have cordless telephones.

1983, people weren't like, That wasn't happening.

No.

As a matter of fact,

he's on the cover of Spin, and Spin didn't even come out until 1985.

So,

yes, see?

But there is the character named Chili D,

which is a pretty 80s name.

It is.

It has a pretty good name.

This movie has all the stuff that I love, which is like things that don't ever exist, like the 80s clubs in this movie.

Like someone's doing semaphore, like in the club.

Another guy has like a Lion King, like shield.

That's right.

Like that never happened.

Right.

And there's this club that is a dance club packed with thousands of people.

There's a DJ who's also a world-famous record producer,

and he has the power to break artists at a dance club.

Like, he gets the market.

Can we just start talking?

Yeah, please.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's get into it.

He's DJing like the full thing with the headphones when the tape comes up to him.

Someone gives him the tape.

Yeah.

He,

thank you, Casey.

Don't drop it.

Don't drop it.

He listens to it

three seconds.

Two.

I think it was two seconds.

And says, this is amazing.

Who's this?

And

it's spice, right?

I mean,

the Padma.

Silk.

It's Silk.

Padma Lakshmi's character, right?

By the way, Padma Lakshmi

did not know she was an actress until this movie.

No.

And really want to spin off of her character and Terrence Howard.

I want to see their lives together.

By the way, how upset is Terrence Howard that he's in this movie?

This must fucking kill him.

But he's like super good in it.

Yeah.

He is giving it his all.

He really is giving it everything he has.

He's trying.

He's trying way too hard in this movie.

You know what, you guys?

I think Top Chef is her spin-off.

I think that's the character.

Silk didn't make it in that business, and she moved over.

No, but he gets the tape, puts it in, listens to it for two seconds, and then says, oh, this is great.

And then right then,

he introduces Silk and the girls, and the camera pans over, and they start performing for the club.

Yeah, they're ready to go.

They're ready to go.

It makes no fucking sense.

He just had to listen to them for a second before he saw them.

Right.

And by the way, it wasn't like a dance song.

It was kind of like a ballad song, right?

It wasn't like a song that you'd be like, let's put this on in the club and people are going to go crazy.

No.

Thank God Silk was there, you know.

Because imagine if he was like, This is great, fuck, they're not here.

Exactly.

What are we gonna do?

Well,

it just goes back to the whole movie is suspect because Terrence Howard originally finds Mariah Carey and her two girls the backup,

they're just dancing like they're just

Louise

and the other one playing the other one,

Roxy and Louise.

Wait, now who is Roxy?

Who is?

Roxy is the other one.

Okay.

The one that is not the Brad.

Both spirited, spirited performances.

I have some questions about them, too.

Yeah, I think we all do.

Yeah.

They were really giving it their all.

And I felt like I should have was in a time machine nuts.

I would have been cast as the other one.

And I thought she gave a lot to that i thought they both gave their heart and soul oh i felt like i didn't mind that performance

with hamlet

like comic relief but like it was so odd because it looked like terrence howard was just going to watch three girls dance at a club he's like hey i want you guys to be backup dancers like no no no we're not into that we're doing our own thing but i wasn't quite sure what their own thing was

yeah i have terrence howard and padma ask them to be backup but like from what why would he ask them to do that from what he saw?

Well, that was my question.

It's like they're just

dancing, and I didn't even understand what club would give that

an outlet.

Like, if you guys want to come and dance on stage, because they were backstage, like they have dressing rooms, but all they were doing was dancing with thousands of people.

Yeah, yeah.

But the camera was focused on Mariah the first time you saw her in that leopard thing.

You know, that must have been maybe from his point of view.

And they, but she literally

is VOV.

But she said, Mariah's like, we don't want to be a backup because we're doing our own thing, but we never established what that was.

At all.

Because it didn't seem to me like Mariah wanted to become a singer.

Ever in the whole movie.

Yeah.

Even at a time.

As a child, she did not want to go up on stage.

Yeah, she was emotionally scarred.

It was making her.

Well, her house almost got burnt down by her dumb mom.

I wanted that.

That's my favorite scene.

When the mom said this, it was just so, like, every other scene took about five hours.

That scene, the mom was like, well, I know.

Totally.

But the credits keep on going.

Do you notice that?

Forever.

The credits are going like an hour, 10 into the movie.

It's like director of photography.

I'm like, what?

Why is this happening still?

I want to

take credit for this movie.

I wanted that mom to really be on fire.

Like, I wanted her to run into like, Mariah's like,

just like in flames.

Burn her face, just burn something more.

And I guess maybe this is me paying a little bit of not that much attention to the top.

They didn't really establish her as being like an anecdotor.

Was she an answer?

No, she just was such a great singer.

She's a smoker, right?

She was just sleeping.

She had a sleeping.

Yeah.

Yes.

She had smoking and a sleeping problem.

She was addicted to cigarettes.

It's a really, you know, it's very addicting.

Don't smoke.

Don't smoke.

It's like she's following her dreams.

I didn't see her try to get another job anywhere else.

I'm like, this selfish mom was just like, I got to sing, but I can't take care of you.

It was just strange.

Like the house burnt down, and then she's like, bye.

Yeah.

And then when she gets to the orphanage, I mean, those kids were, I feel like they acted as well as DeBrat and the other one.

That was DeBrat and Louisiana.

Yeah, they weren't acting.

That was their characters.

Yeah,

them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's like Richard Link later.

They shot the first car.

And then came back.

Yeah,

they're shooting an installment now.

They're still shooting the movie right now.

But when they came over to her, and I think it was

very friendly right away.

But the first question was, are you Puerto Rican?

Right.

And she said, no, I'm mixed.

And they said, okay, I guess I like like you then.

End of conversation.

End of conversation.

We're going to be a trio.

We got this going on.

We have a plan to do something that is undefined and I will never say it.

We're going to be endlessly loyal to each other for no reason

and pertaining to what we don't know.

Let's get busy doing that.

And just a sidebar, the scene with DeBratt and the other one when they were trying on clothes and watching the news report, That was alternately like she's watching the news and then it's very comic turns with the other one coming out so quickly in different outfits.

Does anyone

thank you?

When was that?

You know, hard to say.

It was just somewhere in the kind of middle, right, when they're watching.

But it seemed like a long improv between the two of them that the director was like, this is gold.

Keep going.

That's something that Casey brought up backstage that I think is true, that it seemed like there was a lot of loose improvisation to the movie.

DeBratt is someone who's going to improvise.

Look, you hired DeBrat.

You're going to get it.

Well, you're getting it.

De Brat.

And

I looked up the guy who played Dice.

Yeah.

I forget his name.

Max Liesley.

Yeah.

But he is a known improviser.

Really?

No, no, he's not.

He's definitely.

I thought for a middle of the movie that Dice was just Jim Brewer.

Just waiting for him to do the goat man in the middle of the club.

Not to brag, but I was in a movie with Dice, with Max Beasley.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Did you guys talk about glitter?

Not to brag.

Maybe you've...

No, no, no, maybe you've heard of it.

Talk about it.

What was it called?

What was it?

What was it?

It was a movie called Torque.

Oh.

Sorry, sorry.

Wow, wow, yeah.

So, yeah, I mean, look, you don't have to brag about it.

No, No, I'm not.

I'm not bragging about it.

Just looking at my papers.

I'm looking at my notes.

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I'm going to show the what

is people often called like the meat cute, I guess.

This is like when Dice and Mariah Carey is rocking a great bicycle, like Lance Armstrong hat.

Very or very 80s.

Not 80s.

Not 80s.

90s.

Not anything.

I kind of felt like they told Mariah Carey this movie takes place in the 80s.

She's like, well, I won't dress badly.

I'll dress like, I'll wear what I wear normally.

Right.

Oh, all right, sure.

Someone also mentioned this, and I didn't notice this, but that she has like a silver streak on her.

On her shoulder.

Yes.

At one point.

What the fuck is that all about?

According to all the research I was able to find, no one knows.

There is really,

like, no one has been able to put it together.

The closest that we got was because Mariah wanted a silver streak on her.

Like, that was it.

But at one point, it's here, right?

Yes.

Is that where it is in the whole movie?

It moves.

It moves.

Is that the glitter?

That's glitter?

That's the glitter.

What?

Glitter?

What?

Oh, my God.

We solved the riddle.

Wait, so she's made of glitter?

She is glitter?

She's personified?

Is that where her robot skin has been worn off?

I want to see Terminator 4 with Mariah Carey from Glitter and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

All right, so here's a scene.

This is where you get, I mean, and again, you get the taste of the chemistry that's going on between these two people.

The love story for the ages.

Here we go.

I don't soup girls up.

Really?

Really?

Look, I know you're a fly DJ and everything, really, and I should be honored that you want to work with me, but I mean, I'm just not into the games.

I'm not playing games.

I'm serious.

So there you go.

That's kind of and that's you know, we don't know if they're gonna get together, but they do.

And that that was immediately after he had been saying the same thing to Pad Malakshmi, and then he discovers that Mariah Kay was the one doing the singing.

Right, because

they were basically like Terrence Howard kind of shit on her.

She did like a storm-off riff.

Yeah, yeah.

But up until that point.

Wait a minute.

Yeah.

Up until that point, we had no idea she was angry or frustrated with her

with anything.

She was fine.

She was fine.

She was fine with it.

She was just living her life.

She was fine being the...

Because she wasn't giving her best stuff.

She was saving it for Dice, who his name is Dice in the movie.

He also goes by Dice Man.

I mean, how mad was Andrew Dice Clay

when he sees this?

That's his whole thing.

The Dice Man is, I just still don't understand how, like, I guess now, like, who's a big DJ?

Like, Tiesto or like...

like Skrillex?

Like, yeah, like, would you, would that guy,

he's a DJ?

Skrillex.

Did Did I say his name wrong?

Srix, like, breaking like R ⁇ D performers.

But like a club owner,

apparently like the manager of the club, the DJ of the club, also like

a big record producer and an artist manager.

Who seems to have no other clients.

Or him at all for that matter.

To me, the more believable story would be like, I've always wanted to produce.

Sure.

Trust me and we'll get there.

Instead of like setting him up as I know you're the hottest producer in the world, he's not.

No, not at all.

He's not.

He didn't even have a keyboard.

He has nothing.

He has nothing except for that black tank top that he wears so much.

It's true about the keyboard because his

beautiful scene.

He has an apartment filled with musical instruments.

And then she gets him a shitty keyboard.

It's like that shitty yama.

Yeah, he got

very big at all.

He's like, oh my God,

you got me this.

And

there is nothing more uncool than watching someone on an electric keyboard compose music.

Right.

He's like putting the bass, the beat on.

He's like,

oh, my favorite thing about him, though, is that he loves the marimba.

Yes.

Which is like...

You know, and Mariah Carey, when she first sees the marimba, is like, what is this?

Like some kindergarten thing?

He's like, like, no, it's my favorite instrument.

And that's where she gets all hot for him.

That's the moment.

That's the turning point.

It's him playing this thing.

The whole movie is different people watching other people sing or perform the marimba and just being like with no emotion or expressions just like mm-hmm.

And like, and then that person in the next scene watching them, that same person, just like, everyone's watching everyone and just loving their music making.

The one thing I did like that they kept with that marimba is like later on in the movie, not to jump ahead, but they, you know, obviously they have a falling out Mariah and dice.

And like he's composing.

Oh, yeah, it's happening, guys.

And he's composing his own music, but he's playing the marimba.

Like he's he's making tracks with a marimba being the lead instrument.

He's like,

and showing the drummer how he's fucking up.

Like, no, you're not doing that.

What was the purpose of that?

Follow Marimba.

So weird.

Well, I really enjoyed their first date.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

When she was like, is this a date?

What's going on?

And so suspicious that she thought he was going to kill her or something.

But yet she was also really excited about the date.

She went looking out the window.

She's like, ooh, Lemo's here.

Ooh, it's a date.

She's like, it's not a date.

But she dressed for a date.

And then she's like, what's with these snails?

But she and her friends are all aflutter about this date.

But

the previous like 10 minutes of the movie was a montage of them spending all of their time together.

Yeah, it did not seem like this was out of the norm at all.

Oh, they're just going to go get dinner.

Like, they're always.

They were holding hands on the street before that.

That might have been like a reshoot situation, you know, where they had the rose thing at the end, not to jump to Madison Square Garden, and then they're like, oh, fuck, we got to set up that rose.

Right.

Let's all go back to Toronto.

But they accidentally...

Dropped that scene in 20 minutes after they were supposed to.

They're like, you know what?

We're locked.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I also will say that, I don't know, this is little things bug me, but it looked like that limo did not have a driver when it pulled up.

It looked like he drove that limo to the date.

Like, yeah, CMZ gave me this limo, but no driver.

Get in the back.

Oh, that was one thing.

When he's talking about the record companies that are going to be at the dance club to discover new artists,

he says, EMI, Warner Brothers, and CMZ are all going to be here.

It's like, oh, I wonder which one the movie's going to end up using.

They do a great, like a bunch of great stuff like that.

Like when she performs on late night live, which is Saturday Night Live, they do a lot of like switching.

But, oh, I also like when they go meet with CMZ.

Like they come in and they go, oh, we're so glad you're here.

You're signed.

Like, well, right.

Yeah,

you were coming in for the signing meeting.

There's the champagne in the floor.

And then they're like, the main boss can't be here.

I was like, why?

Yeah, there was.

She's kind of a big deal.

Everyone should come meet her.

Chili B is trying to sign her at the club.

But the night before that meeting, they see the label guys, and the guys are like, why don't you come in tomorrow and we'll sit down and chat?

They're like, okay.

Then they go in and they're all drinking champagne and celebrating.

But they never have that meeting where they decide that this is what the...

It almost seems like they walked in.

It's like, if they would have continued to take the rest of the meetings the rest of the day, they may have been signed at a different label.

They just like first come, first serve.

Like, hey, you're here, you're signed.

What?

We got you first.

You would think that Mariah Carey at one point would just like pipe up and go, actually, no, this is not how this business works.

I know because I'm a huge, gigantic star in this world.

Like, I have a little life experience.

She was also married to a record, you know, Tommy Mattola.

So she definitely was like, oh, all of this is wrong, by the way.

But now was Mariah Carey.

Was this guy supposed to be Tommy Mattola?

I think so.

Because they were married.

Tommy Mattola and her were married in 93, deteriorating by 95 and divorced in 98.

And Mariah Carey called their house sing-sing because he would never let her leave and called their marriage a private hell.

Awesome.

I believe it.

Yeah, but this guy was pretty abusive to her, but also she kind of always liked him.

Yeah, and at the end, she's totally devastated when he's murdered for weird reasons.

Can we talk about his murder?

Or not?

Yeah, why not?

We could jump all the way around.

Because that really, when it got good for me, was when he was shot in the shoulder.

Yeah.

And then later they say he was shot in the chest.

Yeah.

He saw him get shot in the shoulder.

He also clearly went right into his shoulder, which he

could have shot him in the

same friends.

But then, you know, he could have got, but in the shoulder, the shoulder, that means he probably, really, probably is bled to death on the street.

That or unless he is cut out too early, it was a real violent ending.

Yeah.

He shot him five times, curbed him, and then just ran back.

If you haven't seen the movie, basically what is going on is Terrence Howard sells Mariah Carey for $100,000.

And it seems like she's making that money in spades.

But Dice is just like, I'm not paying it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Dice is not going to.

I'm not worried about it at all.

When Terrence Howard says it's $100,000, Dice is like, all right.

But like, we're supposed to get that he can't afford it.

But he's a DJ.

He's very popular.

And he runs a record label.

And he's.

I thought he actually paid him off.

I didn't think like when he said $100,000, like, oh, yeah, he paid him off.

He seemed to win with it at first.

Yeah, he was like, uh, and then I was like, okay.

And then it was like, no, this is a problem.

And I didn't get that scene when Dice kind of confronts Terrence Howard.

He's like, is there food in your fridge?

He's like, yeah, I didn't understand that.

That was.

Yeah.

And is he saying, like, you don't need $100,000?

Yes.

And then Terrence Howard seemed to be like, good point.

Yes.

No, he was.

He was like, good point, but still, I would appreciate the money you owe me.

And then the scene when Terrence Howard came in and came behind Mariah Carey, she was in the house for like 40 minutes before she noticed that he was standing behind her.

She was like talking for so long to dice in the other room.

Like, baby, we're going to do this and we're going to,

but she turned around like 40 minutes after he was standing there.

Terrence is a creeper, man.

He just hangs out.

Yeah.

And then Dice beats the shit out of Terrence Howard.

Right.

And he's in the wrong.

Yeah.

Like, Dice is wrong.

Like, yes.

This movie actually proves to me as it goes on, like, oh, I'm glad she's not with Dice.

Dice is not the right girl.

Dice is a horrible person.

Dice is a horrible person.

He could have.

He called her friend a fat ass, ass and he called the other one something.

Let me show that scene.

This is a

so you know obviously Dice is on the way out.

And just one

point to make here is like when Dice is on the way out,

they also kick out the Brat and Roxy.

Yeah.

They get them out too.

And there, we continue to check in with her two friends, but they don't seem to have any career ambition.

Like, where are they?

What are they doing?

Are they just still dancing?

And when they kick them out, when they're shooting the music video, they're like, oh, we got to get rid of them.

Then they cut to the two friends, and one of the two friends, DeBrat's like, fuck this.

And she walks out right before they go and fire.

Like, why would you choose a shot of her walking off set?

Yeah.

Before the big reveal of we're making you fire your best friend.

Right.

And that music video scene, by the way.

Oh, man.

It's very long.

Everything about this movie is very long.

Yes.

The director is quoted as saying that it was the funniest scene in the movie

and that he loved that guy.

He loved,

he just loved that actor.

It's like a scene, like it's like Juan Pablo from The Bachelor is directing a music video, and he makes them replace the hot girls with like naked men.

And he's German.

Yes.

And it's weird.

And it's not any

more ridiculous than it was before.

It's just slightly different.

Yeah, and those girls were not bad.

But yeah, they're like, oh, yeah.

It's his vision.

It's his vision.

It's like, again, this is not how this industry works.

A director would have like a storyboard.

He wouldn't be like, oh, wait, she brought her own backup dancers?

Oh, shit.

I got a whole different plan for this music video.

Like, it doesn't just change instantly.

Like, you just can't do that on the fly.

But it seemed like, oh, no, no, no.

We changed the whole music video in this, like, in five minutes.

We got him out.

Anyway, Dice is upset, and it's like, this guy's a really hot director.

You have to do it.

You gotta listen to this German director.

This is after Eric Benet has come on the scene.

Yes, Eric Benet is on the scene, and Dice isn't jealous, and this is where he lashes out against our two friends.

Do you think that he'd want to actually write a song with you if you were, you know, properly dressed?

What is that supposed to mean?

What it means is, look at everything here.

Everything is hanging out.

Where do you get this from anyway?

I got this from you.

Why don't you just leave her alone again?

Hey, mouth.

Did I ask you?

You just mad because you don't produce her no more.

Get over it.

Louise, don't say that.

Hey, Louise, you know what?

I produced just something a little more than a body pop, fat ass.

Dice, fat ass.

Who are you calling fat ass?

You got plenty of ass.

You do not talk to her like that.

I told you once.

Don't mouth off again, Roachbag.

You dice.

Shut up.

Okay, you know what?

Let's just get out of here.

Calm down, you can't.

Excuse me.

Could you pull over?

Look, he doesn't know what he's saying.

He's trunk, okay?

You're trunk.

Apologize.

What's the matter with you?

I don't know.

Look, you're trunk.

He's trunk.

Could you pull over?

Yeah, pull over.

And also no limo driver in that scene.

Yeah.

Yeah, no limo driver.

They couldn't afford anyone to say, okay.

Did he call her a roach bag?

Yeah.

That's a real, like a term you might call a bad apartment, but a human being

means that like roaches live.

Again, that wasn't an 80s outfit.

Like, I think that was like pure 1991, 1993, cross colors.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, I don't know.

The Brat was wearing the clothes that the Brat wore on tour with Crisscross.

Everybody bought their own wardrobe.

I have written down here, does she want to be a singer?

Is she interested in the music business?

Well, also, I would like to segue just into Mariah herself.

Yeah, sure.

We could.

Yes.

Yeah, she thought, comments, concerns.

Mariah is an interesting character in this, obviously, because she doesn't really have a passion.

Wait, in real life?

No, no, no, no.

In the movie.

Sorry, I should say Billy Franks.

The character Billy Franks.

Who is Mariah?

A game right now.

Yeah, she's an odd character.

Very passive character.

Yeah, you can't tell if she's coming or going.

Annoyed, thrilled.

Every expression looks like she's about to laugh.

She's like,

It's like, is the laugh coming or is it sad?

Well,

that's also her cry face because her cry face is like

just like it's like it's never going to get there.

I will admit in the scene where she was asking about her mom when she suddenly decided to go try to find her mom.

Yeah.

I felt for her.

Why?

I did.

I thought she handled that scene pretty well when she put the glasses on.

And I know nobody wants to hear it, but I don't know if I'm overly emotional period but i i didn't mind that scene the acting i want to hear it thank you i just that i thought that was a nice well

really turned the crowd off it's it's mariah carry you know starring in this movie so you know she had like an acting coach like on set who was just like you know by the side just being like you were killing this

yeah you are doing this and the brats looking at her like yeah we're fucking doing this mariah yeah okay but let me ask did anyone see mariah in precious

no yeah Yeah.

She was pretty similar.

Wait, you said where Mariah didn't see Precious?

I got confused for a second.

Yes, I did see her.

And they're so similar.

I saw it and I loved it.

It was great.

Did I see her in the butler?

Was she in the butler?

I did not see the butler.

I'm sorry.

She was in the butler?

Wasn't she?

No?

She was.

Yeah, I know.

How many people saw the butler?

One person.

I want to see the butler.

If everyone saw the butler and I said that, hilarious applause break.

But everyone's like, I don't think I saw that.

I was trying to pinpoint, like, I was trying to figure out, like, maybe the director was like, let's just keep it loose.

Look, forget about the words.

Let's just play.

And so she's like, okay, let's play.

But she just kind of locked into this weird thing.

It is an odd choice because I feel like even her stage persona, like her stage persona as a singer is similar to her stage persona in this as an actor, which is very like,

sultry.

Sultry doesn't translate as a thing.

Right.

I don't think.

And is her stage persona in the movie different than her stage persona?

Because I don't.

I was trying to think of like as a performer in like real life, Mariah Carey.

She is a good performer, right?

Like I would imagine she's a good performer.

Yeah.

But she doesn't have like stage persona.

Tough crowd.

Jeez.

Yes.

No, she's not.

She's Mariah Carey.

She could stand on the stage and sing, and everyone's like, yeah, but she's not like that.

Yeah, Dan.

She could stand on a stage and sing.

She's Brian Carrie.

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I do want to also talk about like the only real difference is like her hair straightens as she gets more famous.

That's a big thing.

And she's just constantly in different gowns.

And she's doing a lot, a lot of wardrobe, a lot of wardrobe changes in this.

She dresses like MC Scatcat in the beginning of the movie and then becomes like a very graceful.

It's like MC Scatcat and Lance Armstrong next to go

now dice makes the very cool choice of at the uh whatever it is the uh

the america the usa music awards

that that's the best part she's in the limo and they're like hey we just got to call you have to perform at the usa music awards right now

what

we're we're turning the limo around right now yeah and they turn it around she shows up like oh wait get on stage sing your song and that's when she's like can someone call dice she could never get called dice herself she's always like, can someone call dice?

There needs to be some explanation, like, why right now?

You know, like, never happened.

That never happens.

MC Hammer was murdered right now.

It's like, get there, go perform.

She performed, like, that all happened within like three hours, but dice did, like, and they're like, oh, you think, like, oh, they're blowing off dice.

Like, Dice can't make it.

Dice can't make it.

But then he was there at the American Music Awards in his open black t-shirt

where apparently Lionel Ritchie has swept the awards because everything was like a Lionel Ritchie.

Like, it's like the whole movie is told through like bad news reporter footage.

Like, today, Lionel Richie won a bunch of awards here.

And then, when they leave, the major plot point is just a newscaster.

The newscaster delivers all the important information.

Well, speaking of, you know, Mariah's acting, the last newscaster

reporting on Dice's murder.

Yeah.

That was really just her going,

not a trainer.

And then a bunch of people in big suits going, we're really sorry.

And also the room they're in backstage at Madison Square Gardens is literally, it looks like

a room at an, like a Hyatt.

Yeah, like a Hyatt with kind of an Asian flair.

I was going to say it looked like a low-budget James Bond villain, although.

And by the way,

like, all right, so you see that Dice gets shot.

And then she's like, where is Billy Franks?

Where is she?

She's like, it seems like the concept, it's like, yeah, why was Billy late if she didn't know that he was shot?

She has no job.

She's like,

he was shot.

Like, so she's like everyone's bad at their job because, like, she shows up, like, five minutes late to her own concert.

Yeah.

Not knowing that Billy Frank, not knowing that Dice was shot.

Right.

It just happens to see the news report and then does the show.

Yeah.

And was happy with that.

And the fact that the New York City Toronto News reports on that murder immediately is impressive.

Yeah.

Someone's murdered.

Get the camera crew.

But it's also, there's the time, she goes to Dice's apartment right before that big show, and he's not there.

She just wants to like tinker on the ivories.

Feel him in the ivories.

Yeah, because she realizes that even though he's abusive and mean, she loves him.

She loves him.

Did she get a piano or was she at the Yamaha?

She was at the real piano.

But then I was like, but why not at the Yamaha?

After all,

she gave it to him.

Yeah, I bet.

Why give him a Yamaha if he had a real piano?

And why was he so fucking psyched about the Yamaha?

Yeah.

I'm sure, like, the props guy, I can't imagine that the crew was, you know, together on this movie.

I'm sure they got to that scene.

They're like, oh, where's a Yamaha?

And he's like, oh, I brought it to this other fucking movie.

Just have her play the piano.

They're like, all right, action.

Power right because they're shooting down the block, and they needed it for a scene.

I really did look for the Yamaha in that scene.

I did not see it in that scene.

It just was nowhere to be found.

He probably destroyed it after they broke up.

Like, ah, I hate this Yamaha.

Casey, I think you're going to get to the point that you were talking about, maybe the continuity thing, right?

Yes.

Well, please bring it up, and then I want to show you something.

Well, just some continuity, many continuity issues throughout, it seemed.

Some lipstick when she kisses the music

note.

It just seems very off to me, but maybe I'm.

When he finds it later, it looks completely different.

Oh, well, the thing I was noticing was that when she first comes there, she sees a picture of them, and it's them, like, it's like him, like, hey,

and she's like, I love you.

In front of a brick wall.

In front of a brick wall.

They were at the improv.

And then

as she writes her note, they fade back down to that picture.

And it's a completely different

kissing.

It's them kissing.

So a lot of people go, oh, that is a continuity problem.

Thankfully, there's a director's commentary track.

Oh, wow.

Did you watch it with the commentary?

I have clips of the commentary.

Yes.

And the commentary track, this is one of the best commentary.

If you have the means, buy the DVD for 98 cents on Amazon and enjoy this commentary because it's full of chunks and little things like this.

So here we go.

And it's got this wonderful magi realist moment where she kisses the photo

and it's not the same photo that we saw when she picked it up.

After

she kisses the

piece of music, you look at, we zoom in on the lipstick,

her heart,

the billy.

And if you look at the picture, the picture is now, they're now kissing.

And so one of those very subtle sort of magical realist moments.

Yeah, picture.

Magical

realism.

What?

For those of you who did not know what was happening,

magical

realism.

Wow.

But they like...

That made me feel really sad.

I feel like he was making that up as he went along.

I think this was the first time he saw the movie.

He's like, oh, God.

What did I do?

There was something else that happened right there that I was going to point out.

Yes.

And it's right at the end of the day.

I think this is maybe the thing.

Please, because I think I've an issue.

She's walking out and he's walking in.

Yes.

And it's supposed to be one of those near-misses, like, oh, shit.

Yeah.

But it's literally, they would have seen each other.

They would have just been like, oh, hey, hey, Dice.

Now, here's my issue with it.

And

I'll turn in the volume on it.

But the idea is, she's walking, the mattress is breaking them up, right?

Yeah, that's it.

So my thought is when the mattress clears frame, there should be dice.

He shouldn't be coming in from the side of frame.

Like

look at like if you're a director, you'd be like, oh, she doesn't see him because he's over here.

But no, he's over there.

He's going the same direction as the mattress.

The same mattress direction.

That's a theological realism.

Right there.

She definitely would have seen him.

Like as she was turning around, be like, oh, dice.

He would have been like, oh, hey.

Piano, where's your Yamaha?

You know?

There's a bunch of...

The one thing I just want to tell, again, little things that get caught in my mind that I feel like it's worthy of talking about is when she goes on Saturday Night Live, and I want to just applaud the sketch that was happening on Saturday Night Live.

I do not, unfortunately, the blow dryer briefcase sketch.

So she's like getting ready.

Again, very late.

Like they're like, okay, Billy, you're on in like four minutes.

And she's just arriving at SNL.

Like there was no rehearsal time.

There was nothing.

She's being ushered in moments before her performance.

Terrible management all around.

Publish everything.

No one gets her anywhere in her.

That's her whole career.

The publicist is working her whole career is like, we got to go now.

You're on in five.

And then she's like, cold ice.

But yes, the blow dryer briefcase is one of my favorite scenes.

But

here's actually a little thing about that.

The publicist character was supposed to have a thick Swiss slash German accent.

Like all publicists.

But the studio felt that since this was the 80s,

the accent wouldn't work in tandem with the costumes.

Yeah, absolutely.

Because that's the problem.

That's the problem with this movie, the publicist accent.

I'm glad the studio was choosing to micromanage things like that.

And just let the big picture stay as it was.

Other little things from the commentary track that I just realized I have this page here.

Max Beasley is the guy who you worked with in the great film Torque, led the way for Fast and the Furious Films.

Yes.

He

toured with George Michael and Jameer Kwai.

Oh, like as a singer-dancer?

I guess as a Marimba player, drums and piano.

I mean, he toured with them.

I mean, he plays drums and piano.

He's a super nice, sure.

Very cool guy.

Let's say he's touring with Jameer Kwai and George Michael, the talented dude.

Has to be cool.

Yeah.

And then this is another funny thing from the commentary track.

The director originally didn't want to do the movie because he wasn't interested in working with singers.

He wanted to work with actors.

But after he saw Mariah Carey's audition tape for Shaft,

he signed on to direct.

For the Samuel L.

Jackson.

Yes.

Shaft.

Mariah Carey did not get that part.

Everyone else was like, oh.

Wow.

And And then this is one more little fact.

This is another fact.

The director of Glitter thought that one of the funniest scenes in the movie was the music video shoot.

The director is making her wear a bikini.

Apparently, the intent of the scene is that the director was English was his second language, and his vision was getting lost in the translation.

That was the game of the scene that we might not have gotten.

Whoa.

I actually figured that out.

So just some little tips that you might get in there.

Man.

It's pretty great.

What happened to Eric Benet?

I'm like, did I forget how that ended with?

He just faded away.

Eric Benet, basically, everyone was like, Dice is bad for you.

You need to team up with Eric Bonet.

Dice is like.

But I love the world in which Dice is like an abuser and a womanizer and Eric Bonet is the saint.

Yeah, they recorded a duo,

like

a song.

It became number one.

She played Master Square Garden.

Bye.

See you later.

He's done.

He served his purpose.

See you later.

See you later, Eric Benet.

Well, let's go to the audience because we have a couple more clothes, but let's go to the audience here and see if there's anything that we might have missed.

So let's get these house sets up.

All right.

Oh, we got a lot of hands.

All right, already.

All right, let's see.

Let's see what people are saying.

All right, Lana, go to you first.

What is your name?

What would you have called Billy Franks?

What would you have given her the name of in your question?

My name is Cora.

I would have given her the name

Seductive Sultress.

Ooh, nice.

I like that.

And my question is,

when you were listening to the commentary, did they say anything about Mariah Carey's cats?

Great question.

That cat lived a long time.

The cat went away for a majority of the

hour and ten minutes.

And then on the stairwell, I'm like, is that the same cat?

Well, they make a big deal out of it because She has the cat as a child, but then when she breaks up with dice, you see her like grabbing the cat and leaving.

Like, I'm taking this cat with me.

Yeah.

And you're like, oh, did I miss the cat?

Like, I fucking forgot about that stupid cat.

How did I miss the cat entirely?

When she went into the organization.

Because you wouldn't know it.

Because the cat really is barely in the movie, but is grabbed as an exclamation point when she storms out of Dice's apartment.

You're like, I'm taking the cat.

Yeah.

And the cat's head is just in her hands.

It's a nice two-shot.

To be fair, the cat is in the first 40 seconds of the movie.

Apparently, Mariah didn't like working with the cat.

So, yes, your name, what you would have called Mariah Carey's character and your question.

Yeah, my name's Carrie.

I would have called her character beige.

She is a beige woman.

She's like khaki.

She's a khaki woman.

Well it wasn't so much about like skin.

Well costuming was definitely part of it, but it was just more her general attitude towards the movie.

Ooh, interesting.

I like that.

So the beginning is a flashback scene.

And then at the end of the flashback scene, we get the transition that's like the whoosh.

And then it's supposed to be in the present, but no, it's still in the past.

And then there's another scene, whoosh, still in the past.

Yes.

This goes on for like five times.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This really.

Well, transit.

We haven't talked about transitions.

Yeah.

Let's hear it for transitions.

There's a lot of that like

raving type of stuff throughout the entire.

Well, let's just talk about the fireworks.

That's a ballsy move for any filmmaker.

You're like, yeah, let's put some fireworks in this one transition scene.

There were several times, they weren't exactly transitions, but there were just times when it would, when the scene would speed up.

Yeah, that.

And it was just because these stupid, shitty, terrible shots they were getting were taking too long, so they had to speed them up, right?

Yes, like when Terrence, Howard, and Dice were walking through the bar, and then it just was like in three phases.

Yep.

Yep.

Okay.

It's like they sped that stuff up, but again, like the first part of the movie

is so five minutes long.

All right, ma'am, your name and your question.

My name is Valeska.

Nice to meet you.

There was a part when, after they went to bed together the first time,

made love.

She was saying.

When they fucked.

She said, I don't generally do this.

And then he was really mean and he said, oh, I can tell.

I forgot about that.

Yeah.

He said, I can tell.

And then she gave him an absolutely blank look.

And he said, I'm just kidding.

She gave him another blank look.

And then the scene ended.

All right, sir, your name, your song title, a dice-produced song track, or Billy Frank's alternate name, and your question.

All right, my name is Brian.

My dice song is Trouble in Paradise.

Whoa!

Nice!

Yeah, very nice.

Very good.

And

there's a scene halfway through the movie where it's shortly after she tries to find her mother, and then she finds a homeless woman on the stream.

Thank you.

Saying identical to her mother, looks at her, and then just walks away, and then nothing has ever, nothing happened.

That's a good point.

We were talking about this backstage.

What do you think happened there?

Was it a dream?

Because why wouldn't you at least stop her?

Right?

Like you would.

Magical realism, I'm here.

Magical realism.

All right, yes.

When in doubt, it's magical realism.

I'm going to come over here.

All right.

Your name, your dice song track, and your question.

My name is Erica.

My dice song track is going brawless because there was a lot of brawless moments.

My question is, if you notice, and if you know this about Mariah, she only likes to be photographed from her right side.

And there is, I think, one scene in the movie where the director got her left side.

Does it say anything in the commentary of how long he had to talk to her to get her to shoot from her bad side?

Ooh, that's a, no.

In the commentary track, he is effusive about every actor except for Mariah Garrison.

Really?

He's not mean about her, but he's diplomatic.

Really?

Yes.

So

that speaks volumes.

All right, let's see.

I'm going to see what your question is.

All right.

Your name, your dice track, and here we go.

My name's Tony.

Of course, the dice track has to be Dice, Dice, Baby.

Dice.

Respect.

I'm very surprised that the studio made a casting choice based on it being an 80s movie because there's so little reason for it to take place in the 80s.

I could have sworn it was added in post.

Well, we talked about that.

Yeah, it could have been a post.

Yeah, there is not like she's not an 80s singer by any means.

I know, I was just waiting for dice to do a bunch of Coke.

That would have been like such the easy thing.

Like, it's the 80s dice.

Just do Coke in every scene.

All right, okay.

Yeah, stop the Yamaha.

Yeah.

There are two things.

There's Coke everywhere.

I'm like, all right, now that's the same thing.

Cookie rated, like, PG-13.

PG-13, yeah.

Oh, that's what I'm saying.

So they couldn't do Coke.

Well, I would say this is

a good thing.

The mom was a smoking smoking addict.

Yeah.

There's like two things that upset me about it.

Number one, I go into this movie and I think, well, at least there'll be some great Mariah Carey songs.

Not a one.

Not a one.

No, they're all terrible songs.

They all sound exactly the same.

They're all so breathy and short.

You don't even get

a real Mariah performance.

It's not that I want it, but you don't get it.

I was...

I was waiting for it.

Just kept on hearing that stupid silk song over and over again.

Yeah.

Like, no, no.

no no this movie actually made me really happy that when stefani didn't try her hand at acting like i actually have more respect for her i was like you know what you did it right because gwen stefani could have done this but she said no i'm a fucking singer yeah

what do you have i saw her kids in ralph's last weekend

i'm sure she's raising them with the same smartness that she did when she probably turned down her movie everybody.

No, she wasn't there.

Someone else with their kids.

Oh my gosh, you have a notebook?

All right, here's your question.

Um, I actually have a song title as well.

It would have been uh, Honey, You've Got a Bunch of Ass, or whatever he says in the limo.

Oh, I like it.

Yeah, but my uh, my question is: she was trying to find her mom for so long, but she knew who her real dad was.

Why didn't she ever try and find her dad?

Like, the whole

well, the dad abandoned her, though.

I mean, that was it, though, or the dad didn't want anything to do with her.

The mom, it's it seems weird because the mom seemed to give her up without any issue.

I guess they both abandoned her.

I think the mom was just like, look, I'm a smoker.

I can't raise you.

How come the mom, you know, Mariah's biggest dream, you know, and it sounds silly, but it was for the mom to be sitting in the audience and be proud of her.

Yeah.

How come Billy's dream for her at the end wasn't that the mom was at Madison Square Garden?

It was like, gotta go see mom in Maryland.

Well, by the way, Billy's letter at the end of the movie, we haven't even gotten into that.

Yeah.

The best thing in the Billy is now dead.

No, no, sorry.

Dice's letter.

Dice's letter.

Sorry.

Yeah, sorry.

Dice has been shot to death.

But

luckily, he went to Madison Square Garden, dropped off a handwritten letter and one rose and wrote a letter that it would explain everything just in case he was shot.

Like, he basically is like, so sorry, Pot.

I love you too.

By the way, found out about your mom.

Here's where she lives.

Got to go.

See you after the show.

Bye-bye.

Like,

some of that for after the show.

Like, hey, great job.

By the way, I found your mom.

Like, you don't have have to put that all in the letter.

P.S., I feel like I might get shot tonight.

Wait, how does she know who her dad is?

Because in the beginning, they go to that guy's house and knocks on the door, remember?

They get that money.

She needs the money.

Oh, yeah.

Which I was.

Was the mom just recently fired?

No, she was on fire.

She did.

She said, I just got fired.

I didn't know if that was wrong.

I I think she was lying because she's an addict of smoking.

Right.

She needed money for a cigarette.

Again, and I'm so sorry to bring it up.

And it's not to be funny.

I'm genuinely asking, why didn't Dice bring the mom to Madison Square Garden?

They had an attempt at a kind of a nice ending.

Casey, we don't know.

But wait, we never know.

Great answer.

Wouldn't it have a great question?

Let it go.

Let it go.

Wouldn't it have been a great ending if he was like...

He was like on the phone.

He's like, yes, yes, she's performing tonight.

I'll come pick you up.

All right, I'll be right there.

And then Terrence Howard's like, bam.

Like, that would have been more spelling as a moment.

There is no connective tissue in this movie.

Nothing.

Just the cat.

I was looking forward.

Disconnected.

All right.

Yes, your question.

You have the notebook.

The notebook is open.

There's many things in there.

Thoughts are in there.

All right.

Your name, your song title, your question.

Go.

Okay.

My name's Maria.

My dice song title would be Elton John Lookalike because there's definitely a scene in the club where I thought he was Elton John for like the whole scene because he looks exactly like him.

Dice looks like Elton John?

He's got like the round glasses and he's just kind of sitting chilling.

He doesn't say anything.

I thought they got Elton John for the movie and I got excited for a second.

Dice has round glasses.

I don't remember this scene, but one scene.

She's got a notebook, so I believe her.

Okay, okay.

I feel like she paid more attention.

All right, here they are.

So it's always great when they can manage to work in the title of the movie into a line, and that happens during that excellent music video scene when the director says the glitter cannot overpower the artist which I feel like the screenwriter wrote that line and sat back and was like nailed it

he was like done for the day

yep I just saved the cat he was like I was gonna have the mom coming back to the square garden not anymore He got real lazy.

Let's see.

Who has a good question?

There's so many great questions.

I don't even, there's a wealth of great ones.

I'm going to ask you because here's my question.

All right.

Your name, your song title, your question.

Here we go.

All right, my name is Paul.

My song title, no, the album, I'd probably call it Song in the Key of Yamaha.

Oh, I like that.

And then what gets me is: all right, when you get into the movie, they do put what year it is, it says 1983.

And then the ticket on there says

she's performing in, and it's dated in July.

So she got famous and all that stuff in six months.

And then she was told that she had to change her sound.

She hadn't even put out an album yet.

That's a very good book.

Yeah, she had just basically had a single.

And you got to change it.

People are sick of this single.

All right.

It got bumped to the second on the charts.

Yeah.

That was a big deal.

All right, your name, your song title, and your question.

My name is Ashika.

My song title.

Made up.

That could be Billy Frank's name.

It could be.

I like that.

My song title would be, I don't know, Party Like It's 1993, because that seemed like the actual date this movie.

Like it, all right.

And my question is: can we talk about Dice's accent?

Good question, yeah.

What do you think?

Where do you think he's from?

Well, I guess since Adam knows him, is he not American?

He's British.

He's British.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Well, but that doesn't explain the accent because it was kind of like he's like a New York.

A lot of British, when British people do American accents, they feel like they take a Robert De Niro-y kind of like

a thing, yeah.

Don't fuck it.

One more question.

One more question.

There's something that wants to go to the.

Like Lucky Seven.

Yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

You have a good question?

Do you think you have a good question?

Who has a good question?

Really have a good question.

All right, you do.

All right.

I think.

Did someone say no when you asked the business?

Honestly, no.

Hands go down.

I'll sit back.

It is a great thing.

You make everybody think about it.

There's no bad questions because we only have bad answers.

All right, here we go.

Your name, song title, question.

Okay.

My name is Naomi.

My song title would be, I'll only kiss you twice.

That's terrific.

They only kiss twice in the whole movie.

And the lyrics to the song that she's singing about her mom are, you could have had the decency to give me up before you gave me life.

So that's not so much a question as a terrible downer.

But it's worthy of talking about because I thought the mom was very

good with her.

I mean, she made sure she went to a bar where

they served milk in shock glasses.

Then she forced her on the stage to sing.

Yeah.

And then she burnt down her house.

Well, obviously, they reunite.

Obviously, they reunited.

And I want to show the director's commentary track for the reunition.

I just wanted to say real quick, there's that scene when they're in the cab and the song comes on the radio for the first time.

Yes.

And they're like, get it.

He's like, you got to get.

He gets out of the cab.

It's so confusing.

It's like, oh, so you're on, you haven't been on the radio yet?

Okay.

Their success level is so unclear in this whole movie.

Well, he runs out of the cab, grabs a homeless person, hugs him.

That was the first thing.

And then she's like, give me, give me,

give me change.

Give me, she keeps asking for something.

I don't know what she's talking about.

And he gives her a couple quarters.

she runs over to the phone booth and there's a little kid making a phone call like a nine-year-old just chatting on the phone yeah yeah

they're like please just let she's on the radio right now uh let us have the phone and he's like he gives them the phone and then he says she's on the radio can i get her autograph and uh dice is like dice said i don't got a pen baby

And the kid like goes away.

But the way the movie goes, it would have made more sense if, like, Dice was like, hey, the radio called.

They need you to be over at the radio station to sing the single right now because it's popular.

So, all right.

Here is,

let's check in with the end of the movie so we can kind of get the idea of what you dummies missed.

Because clearly there's a lot of symbolism here that

none of you got.

So, Mariah Carey takes her limo all the way to Maryland

to her mom's house,

and her mom recognizes her immediately.

So, her mom is very aware of Billy Franks, I would imagine.

Okay,

she's been famous for six months.

The juxtaposition of the gown,

glitter,

and the

country,

on the grass,

and her mother in the country house.

I thought,

there's a wonderful way to

in the picture.

Where though there has been loss,

there's new beginning.

And ultimately, you're never too far away.

So,

does he ever once, during the commentary track, just say, look.

This is the last one I will be doing.

Like, I'm sorry.

Then you hear a gunshot.

He did do it with a gun in his mouth the entire time.

The mom looks completely, like, she's completely kicked her cigarette habit.

And like, it's like a Geneva commercial.

Yeah.

The end, it's a very nice house.

It just seems sort of like, well,

well, to me, again, the more compelling ending is that she gets her mom off the street.

Like, her mom is...

Rebounded in a great way.

Her mom's doing great.

She looks great.

She seems great.

So her mom completely rebounded.

She's got her shit together and just never

tried to get in touch with her daughter.

Right.

So the mom's also a horrible person.

Yeah.

Way worse.

All right.

So obviously we had an opinion about this movie, but there are other people out there who had a different opinion.

It is now time for second opinions.

These are five-star reviews of the film Glitter

from Amazon.

And

this one was written.

The title is called Stellar.

Glitter Shines Brightly.

Did half of the negative reviewers of this film even see the same film as I did?

I saw Glitter starring Mariah Carey and Max Beasley.

Is there another film by the same title that I don't know about?

People, it's not as bad as you think.

It's actually good.

Personally, I think Glitter will do better with a DVD release because it should have gone straight to DVD.

But all in all, an excellent and entertaining movie.

Even the plot and dialogue are not bad.

Five stars.

This one is written by Gletta Richardson, and she titles it Sunshine.

And now, now, sometimes when you read Amazon reviews, they are not in the best English.

So bear with me.

Every day I had this movie on VHS, I watched it so much it stopped working.

So I'm glad I don't have to worry about this DVD not working.

That's why I found it.

I had to hurry and purchase it.

Now I'm happy.

Five stars.

This one is called You'll Laugh.

for that one.

This one is called You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Cheer.

Cheer.

If it weren't for Moulin Rouge, this could be the greatest musical of all time.

It's not even technically a musical.

There's barely singing in this movie.

I think people have it all wrong when it comes to glitter.

It's a fantastic movie and a gritty drama about a biracial singer who climbs to the top.

Mariah isn't as good of an actress as Nicole Kidman, but she's getting there.

Guys, I wrote this one.

It is true.

I wrote this one.

I thought this sounded like you.

It also has Eric Benet, who used to be married to Hallie Berry, who is the world's most talented actress.

Wait,

that part doesn't make sense regarding glitter.

Don't listen to the dumb haters who trash this movie.

They're a bunch of snot-nosed 15-year-olds who never even watched the DVD, but spent hours listening to Limp Biscuit.

Yuck.

Anyhow, this movie's a masterpiece.

Trust me.

That is my favorite movie review of all time.

And this one, I'm putting it in just because I don't understand it.

This is by Mr.

E.S.M.

Moshiah.

This movie deserves five stars as it's one of the best movies I've ever seen.

I really think all the people should wake up.

I mean, of all the modern technologies, people are taking it for granted.

If this movie came out 10 years ago, it would have won an Oscar.

10 years ago?

What?

Yeah, so it's...

modern technologies?

I don't know what the modern technologies rant in the middle was.

What?

What?

What movie won Best Oscar 10 years ago?

Someone should tell us that.

Yeah,

we should Google.

Anyone call your phone and Google what won in 91.

All right, so any final thoughts, guys?

Anything that we didn't cover?

What was it?

Silence of the Lambs.

Silence of the Lambs.

That would have been a tough year.

Tough category.

And then what won in 2001?

What yeah, what won in 2001?

Or 2002, it should be.

Beautiful minds.

That was a tough one.

That was a tough year.

The winner is

beautiful minds.

I would recommend this.

Oh, yes.

This is a good one to watch.

100%.

Super fun to watch.

And like I said, get that DVD and watch that commentary track.

I'm going to.

The director has no conception of what he has done

except for create a masterpiece.

Yeah.

Well, usually they do commentary before the movie is actually released.

So he probably did it.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

That is extremely the case from Justin to Kelly.

They recorded it right after they rap, and they are consistently talking about, oh, my God, when people see this, they're going to go nuts.

They're going to love, they're going to love this.

Oh, my God.

They're reveling in the gigantic success, the grease-like success.

Anyone that likes their own work in general is just such an asshole.

So it's just, I don't actually feel that bad.

It is, I think the director should have said at the end, and you're welcome.

Yeah.

He did create a masterpiece of sorts.

So you would recommend watching it, right?

Of course, of course.

Oh, yeah.

I definitely would watch this movie over and over again.

Well,

I think that that's it.

That's it.

We have done glitter.

We have done it up.

Please get up for our amazing panel.

Adam Scott, Casey Wilson, Dan Levy.

You're over all of them.

And

watch all their amazing shows.

Mulaney, when does Mulaney premiere?

October 5th.

When does Mary Me start up?

October 14th.

And when does Parks and Rec come back?

I don't know.

All right.

Very exciting.

What a great show.

Give it up one more time for Casey Wilson, Adam Scott, and Dan Levy.

I'm only laughing because I'm picturing you applauding them wherever you are also we could not do this show without the amazing people at Largo a big shout out to Flanny Alec Griffey all those guys who do it up every time for us they are amazing also I want to just say a thank you to July our editor engineer on this one he was amazing and our interns who go to the bone with the cutting the clips, getting the research, everything.

Leanna Waldron does all of our graphics.

Big thanks to her, but a special thank you to Averill Halley, who cuts all of our amazing clips.

And of course, all of our research is done by Nate Kylie.

And I'm also going to say Averill also contributes that as well.

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