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Movie Mindset 33 - Casino feat. Felix (Patreon)

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2025-04-23 11:00:33
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When you love movies, you’ve got to watch them. There’s no other way…Movie Mindset Season 3 commences with our first ever single feature on the most referenced movie in Chapo Trap House history: Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Casino. Will and Hesse are joined by Felix to take a kaleidoscopic and dizzying dive into the inferno of American greed that is Las Vegas. Anchored by a triumvirate of all career great performances from Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci in FULL PSYCHO MODE, Casino is by equal turns hilarious and stomach turning and stands alone as Scorsese’s grandest and most generous examination of evil and the tragic flaws that doom us all. 

Should you listen even if you haven’t seen this movie?

Why take a chance? At least that the way we feel about it.

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Russell Hall

Featuring Felix? Who's this young go-getter? I'll have to tune in to find out

JD Nonce

Putting my head in a vice to listen to this one (over the head earphones)

Matthew

My trough runneth over 🐷

Nolan

I just punched a hole through a sheet of drywall let’s fucking go

Flesh Colored Subaru

It's such a little thing but the way Marty shoots the car driving across the desert reflected in DeNiro's old man sunglasses is incredible

Lord-Admiral of the Pyrenees

The kids question isn’t stupid because the guy has 8 kids. That really is out of the ordinary.

Mungo Franczak

The vice grip scene lives in my head forever. So brutal but so good.

bruce

my favorite host Hessie

Michael S. Judge

CASINO is a movie about defective people who live in a fake place, and who torture and kill each other over shit that only matters in that fake place, and as such, it's probably America's Movie™

Here, Try This

I’m listening to this while making a giant batch of blueberry granola cookies for the bakery I am employed by…I think about the equal amount of blueberries line every time

Justin Racine

James woods for better or worse just plays himself, often best villains come from that honest place. .3.

Mr Tu Damn Quoque

I remember scanning through mid series episodes of Sopranos trying to find what I remembered as the perfect mob hit ever depicted on screen and not being able to find it. Turns out it was Frank Culotta hitting Andy Stone in the carpark at the beginning of the House of the Rising Sun scene

I was saying boo-lania

To this day I still describe several of my friends as degenerate gamblers who always lose

Mac

I’m dropping off if Hesse starts summarizing each scene and adds some shit like “yas queen”

Ant koz

Felix who?

Mac

Sorry Jim, I just like movies!

JDF

Then go watch one you dork

Paul Adam

"Eh, why take a chance" is America 1977-2025

Mac

Yes, Queen!

True Horror Productions

That's that kid that made that sick documentary about MMA with Jon Bois, he could really be going places

Vivek Dandekar

Wait so should I watch it first or does it not matter? (I haven’t listened to a movie mindset yet)

Erik Bourre

hearing you folks talk about your experiences with your parents and movies.. man we all had the same childhood hahahah..

Mr Tu Damn Quoque

"Where you goin' jagoff" is a phrase that rattles through my head at least once a day

Himbo Slice

The interactions of the DeNiro and the Nevada politicians are like Scorsese's answer to Coppola in the beginning of GF 2 where the senator tells Michael that he doesn't like Italians coming out to his 'clean country with their oily hair dressed up in silk suits trying to pass themselves off as decent Americans'

ploob

Killer JD! JD Killed someone!

JD

Y’all should do a james woods ep

Raymond Brown

Lmao my dad did the exact "not till your older" with Deliverance and then I watched it with him when I was like 12 haha

Jazminne Haywood

My favorite show talking about my favorite movie

Michael S. Judge

I do love this movie's depiction of the Kansas City mafia, because it's absolutely still here, but it's mostly 80-year-old men who sit around a table all day at the bar/grill one of them owns, because you're allowed to smoke cigars inside (but not cigarettes)

Bert

Swooning and gooning

Yarblockos

Every time Felix isn't speaking, the other hosts should ask "Where's Felix?"

John Harwood

What happens when the perfect podcast has been achieved? I hope sincerely that this doesn’t mean that Will, Felix and Hesse end up in a shallow grave.

Meowzedong

Mindsetting so hard rn

atatrs251

Hesse's Die Hard story is the best dad story I've ever heard

Michael

Also watched Casino with my dad at way too young an age bc he needed someone to talk about it with

David Browm

Hesse has evolved. Hessie is in control now

Anomalie

Great movie. Watched it over Easter weekend with my dad, def a movie he had playing on in the background when I was kid, quite a few scenes felt familiar. I owe my movie mindset to my dad, he let me watch Alien, The Thing, Terminator 2, probably way too young, lol. Also I swear DeNiro wears a suit in every color of the rainbow in this movie

Simon Maraya

"There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing."

Kelley

I sure hope that’s her actual nickname and not Felix saying it wrong 😅

Steven Frick

“What gun? It’s a fuckin’ gyro sandwich”

Jaime Christley

Want to put in a word for the Casino miniseries on the Ghost Stories for the End of the World pod, which really only uses the film as a jumping-off point to illustrate some of the real-life events and principal characters, eventually spreading a wider web of connections that touches the deep state's relationship with organized crime, Poppy Bush, Adnan Khashoggi, the BCCI, etc etc.

shoulderbark

Saw this movie for the first time at the Esquire theater in Denver. RIP ESQUIRE THEATER.

EnKaff

A tour de force of an episode

Tea for the Tillerman

🗜️CHARLIE M!!!!🗜️ cream’s “Toad” during that scene is my fav Scorsese-Robbie song drop

Oscar Salmon

Begging for a movie mindset to watch list to prepare for the future eps

Blorst of times

James Woods as Lester is one of the best scumbag performances of all time.

Paul F. Holzfäller

Yeah with your dad with the remote at the ready and muting/fast forwarding through all the “bad” parts.

Mr. Freebus

Will's voice breaking when talking about the only form of love Ginger's ever known... 🥺 This is actually a trigger that makes ME get choked up -moments that encapsulate what art and music can do to effect us, change us, stay with us for years and years and that it's something human beings are even capable of in the first place.

Mr. Freebus

Or when watching something so well made when it reaches those moments of artistic crescendo where everything starts rushing together (story built to that moment, music, editing, performance, dialogue) and you realize just how good it is and just how in command of their craft they are - I get a exhilarating rush of emotion that swells and when it peaks I often choke up or cry a little bit because it says "we (humans) are capable of this."

Dec

Not trying to be annoying but they literally put that list out for this season a few weeks ago…

Paul F. Holzfäller

Joe Pesci tuning people up in this movie is so satisfying to watch. Bashing Don Rickles with a phone, slapping the shit out of Sharon Stone, smacking around one of his hick henchman for mouthing off to De Niro’s character, stabbing that guy at the beginning of the film with a pen. I dunno maybe I’m a little too much of a sadist when it comes to this movie.

Pancy Nelosi

Leave your mother’s basement, go outside, and suck dog turds.

I was saying boo-lania

He stabbed a guy with a pen in Casino too? I remember the one in Goodfellas but forgot about the one in Casino

Paul F. Holzfäller

I want an equal amount of rolled oats in each cookie. I don’t care how long it takes.

Paul F. Holzfäller

It’s pretty near the beginning of the movie I think. Nicky is tasked with looking after “the golden Jew” and stabs the shit out of some guy for mouthing off to Ace.

Evan Pitkin

James Woods' most autobiographical work.

justdave

I wasn't alive or don't remember it when it happened but at some point all the Italians in nevada just magically left, like the Lorax. Leaving all their cars and hotels and restaurants to peel and rust in the desert sun. Also Harry Reid was a genuine piece of desert trash. I always hated him but apparently he could scrap

THEKILLERWHALE

Just a perfect dad story. I am a dad now and have not pulled enough of this stuff.

Jaime Christley

You know what film won the Oscars for costumes and production design that year? Restoration. What’s Restoration? No one knows. No one has ever seen it.

Mac

I leave a pretty innocuous comment to a podcast I subscribe to, and the vitriol that followed is projection I wasn’t prepared for.

Bilbro T. Baggins

Gonna have to rewatch casino mainly for the joe bob cameo

Sean Enright

In Sam’s mind if HE had met Ginger when she was 14 he would have groomed her into prostitution in a much classier way.

Jaime Christley

One incredible detail that I only noticed when watching the 4K release: in the wide shot that ends the Ace/chef scene, if you look in the background you see a tray of blueberry muffins and sure enough, half of them have all the blueberries and the other half have none. Ace vindicated!

Andy Kraushaar

I respect Felix for choosing to watch Casino over possibly having sex. Absolute fucking Autistic Chad move.

Swimaroo

I won $130 in Vegas on my first 🎰 and I'm positive it was because I watched Casino and listened to the Trueanon Mandalay Bay EP on the plane.

Jes

The one thing Titanic and Casino have in common is you know once you pop in that second VHS tape, shit is fucked

Ant koz

I’m guilty of watching T2 with my son last year, when he was 7.. this is just good parenting

Erik Bourre

he would cover our eyes and turn the volume down, as if we couldnt hear it all the same 😂. he NEEDED me and my brother to see rambo before we were 10 yrs old

Braden Maccke

The way Will puts it, a portrait of conversations somewhat detached from the story... riding a coke high... Casino is the spiritual grandfather of Baz Luhrmann movies.

atatrs251

It's never too late.

Jeffrey Epstein's Assassin

Ever since I saw Casino as a kid, I have wanted Ace Rothstein's suits. It's the greatest movie ever.

etienne

I watched it before the pod and thought it was raw ass 3.5/10 experience so im gonna come down on the side of listen to the pod first

Gordon Schmidt

I can't believe you didn't mention the legend about the vise scene. One trick they do in Hollywood is sometimes they'll include a "sacrificial scene" in the cut they send to the MPAA. They know the content in this scene is too extreme, and they're confident the MPAA will cut it- they do this so that the board will be less likely to cut other scenes in the movie. Apparently, the vise scene was included for this purpose. For all the sex, drugs, and extreme violence in Casino, you can see why they would do this. However, every once in a while the MPAA will, for whatever reason, leave a "sacrificial scene" in the theatrical cut- and apparently the vise torture scene in Casino is one case of this happening. On another note, I recently saw Showgirls for the first time in the theater. Although Casino is obviously a much better film, it's interesting to compare the two, as they're both 90s Vegas epics from great filmmakers. I know a lot of people love Showgirls, and a lot of people hated it when it came out. I'm sort of in the middle- I thought it was pretty good, a 3 and a half star where Casino is an easy 5 stars. It was entertaining and I liked a lot about it, but it just left me cold in a way Casino never does.

Jack

Just realized a weird connection between Ace's horse statue stuff and Pontius Pilate's horse in "Last Temptation." There's something there, none of my business though

Cody S

Watched it the other day in prep! Stoked!

Pancy Nelosi

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EXN

well done!

Mac

“internalized homophobia/transphobia” = for finding a cohost of a podcast I’ve listened to for 2 seasons of being annoying from time to time. I hope she reads this and gives you some pussy for all this white knighting.

Jaime Christley

love the story of Scorsese showing the movie, w/eyeball pop, to Spike Lee, and both of them just howling and cackling at that moment

.

I haven’t listened to this all the way through so maybe they mentioned this but I hope people know these characters are based on actual real people and some of the weird shit like counting “blueberries” in muffins are actually what these real people were like.

Justice Hainsworth

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Felix sound this mirthful, it feels beautiful to hear him laugh this hard and get this excited

Oscar Salmon

If you’re talking about the part at the end of the MM Oscars 2025 episode then you’re wrong, because they stated the list they read out then was not finalised and was not all the episodes.

Jim McKenna

Wonderful episode! Felix seems so pumped for the show.

Justin

He seems genuinely happy and thriving recently. Must have met a brunette who is mean to him in the right way, which from what I gather is his type. (Also my type)

I.P. Freely

I love Felix’s laugh. Sounds like Bart Simpson’s. The sound of wholesome mischief

I.P. Freely

I need a pair of De Niro’s boomer sunglasses 😎

Dee Rubes

Joe Pesci for President, so he can give his “you only exist out here because of me” speech to Netanyahu.

Joe

i just watched fredrick wiseman's the store last night. casino and this share a specific insight into the temple of the devil as hesse says

Cameron Young

A double vhs tape rental - a beautiful episode

Robert Bratley

My favorite thing about Casino is it gives you the thesis in the first thirty minutes. When Nicky is describing the Teamster mook, he says “He thought they gave him all this fucking money ‘cuz he was so smart.” That describes every character in the movie, they think they’re where they are because they’re special, not just blind luck determining their fate.

Eamon Short

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted a Scorsese Movie Mindset episode. (Well I guess we already got After Hours)

Michael S. Judge

Re: the modern mob, in Kansas City specifically – they hang out at The Cigar Box next to this strip club they also own ($50 lunch buffet + lapdance special), and when girls age out of Temptations, they get jobs at The Cigar Box https://shorturl.at/h8n40

Jaime Christley

$50 for the lap dance sounds pretty steep, but you throw in a lunch buffet? Now we’re talking.

Michael S. Judge

There used to be a really good Thai place next door, run by a skinny tall old Thai man who smoked a lot, so one time I was smoking in front and he came out to burn one, and he told me that the restaurant was going out of business. I said, "Oh shit, man, that's terrible. What happened?," and he said, "Can't compete next door. Titty bar. 50 dollars for lunch and lapdance! Everybody go there ... *I* go there."

Boaz Corey

My brother and I rented Natural Born Killers when he was like 10, we just had to call home to ask my dad on the video store's telephone.

Jaime Christley

Damn that’s a shame. You have to figure a halfway decent Thai joint will just print money. I’m living in an Illinois whistle stop town after ~22 years in NYC, where I was never more than 10 minutes from some random Thai restaurant that had been touched by God. I still daydream about the Pad See Ew, the Gai Khua, etc. Titties? Hell, you can get those anywhere.

Chris Hildreth

It’s interesting to hear yall talk about a movie I’ve watched so many times and love. This was excellent.

Veselekov

Ace Rothstien is currently doing a podcast defending the state of Israel.

wailing ken jennings

agree. this movie is part of my consciousness and hesse/chapo basically tell us why all of these scenes stuck in our heads. the rewatch and this pod were great. i deffo think don rickles improv'd everything now whereas before i just thought "this guy must manage every casino bc he is so natural at it".

demonsweat

“Theme de Camille” is from Godard’s CONTEMPT, another great movie about fucked-up relationships hitting a wall at full speed.

Tim O'

The Sound of Music also has this feature. First tape ends with So Long, Farewell. Pop in the second tape and boom, Nazis.

Tim O'

Followed by Videodrome

Tim O'

Hesse's dad had true movie mindset 🫡

Dec

Not really sure what your issue is but I suppose I’d be angry too if I was too stupid to read. Refer to the April 9th post in their feed with the full list, with dates, in text form.

Scott Grabel

We never got to hear Pesci’s EP!

Eon Gattignolo

godsend. movie mindset is more needed than news watching to me right now

nogo

Jaime Christley

YES The Irishman is a masterpiece. I often think of the scene towards the end, with Frank and the priest, where he can't even fake remorse or self-examination of any kind, and he's just muttering like "well, the fact that, you know, it's the sentiment, that counts for something, right?" His soul is too withered away to even pretend to ring the last-minute Jesus alarm bell. Contrast that with the scene in Silence, where Rodrigues finally steps on the icon even though it causes him exquisite spiritual pain - a complete inversion of the Frank/priest scene. One man can't even lie to himself that a spiritual breakthrough would be a smart idea (but he wants the kudos all the same? for some reason?), another man who avoids betraying his faith to an oppressor until he has no other choice. Frank survives everything, but defeated in every way; Rodrigues eventually passes on, secretly victorious. Anyway, just some things that go through my head sometimes.

Bryan Williams

"Lester Diamond" probably the most perfect naming of a character ever.

Steve D

It is such an incredible movie - loved the point made that while the Tangiers was keeping that businessman there long enough to lose his money back, at the same time capitalism doing the same thing to these mobbed backed casinos.

S.E. Nyarady

Best friend in high school got me to watch Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, & Casino all in a row and Casino was maybe the most rotten and disgusting I've ever felt after watching a movie. My parents like later Scorcese but hate all these movies lol bc (in addition to being really nasty) in their critique there's not any character development; but to me that was clearly the point, and what makes all his movies so interesting is they're I think more interested in people as they actually are & their impediments, rather than necessitating development for sake of a cleaner narrative

Matthew Dunn

Absolutely nothing better you could do as a father. Saw it at the same age with my dad and gonna do the same when my son is that age.

TV's Gerry

The point about fathers fighting the urge to watch fucked up action/crime movies with their kids is hilarious and way too real, the entire scene of Emil melting and then exploding against a van windshield in Robocop has been burned into my mind's eye since the age of 7.

aghs

Holy hell are you the umurangi generation guy

drunk cig

I tried to watch this movie so I could relate to this episode but it's so fucking boring. I just don't get it.

Ant koz

When I was in second grade I went to an overnight birthday party In the Tennessee mountains and the family who took us had a van with a little vhs player/tv combo … it was the first time I had EVER seen 1. A rated R movie, 2. T2:judgement day, and 3. A movie while riding in a vehicle …. it’s probably the most significant event of my life to this day. I didn’t know that movies, or life, could rip that fucking hard.. my son didn’t get such an experience, so much of the magic we had as kids is gone like he’s already seen so much shit it was only like “pretty cool” for him, and the idea of watching tv In a car is just regular ass life to him. Anyways, cheers

Ant koz

This pilgrim needs Mann(hunter)

ZeeBee

This was the first R rated movie I ever saw in the theater. There was a period of time where I watched it every day when I got home from school and I could recite the entire script from memory. A true masterpiece.

Breakaway

Wasn’t he literally a boxer? (And also a shrewd politician)

Luke B

I’ve been watching this movie since 1997 when I bought it in VHS. It came on two tapes. I’ve seen this movie like 50 times. I think it’s possibly better than Goodfellas. I wish Scorsese had won his Best Director Oscar for this movie. This is only the 3rd time I’ve seen it in HD and it’s crazy the details I’ve never noticed before. The jewelry and costumes especially. On that note, how the fuck was this movie NOT nominated for a Costume Design Oscar??

Dee Rubes

I saw it when I was like 5, and I have cried every time the T800 gives the thumbs up. I am 72 years old.

Jake Zydek

Gangs of New York is the paradise to Casino's inferno

Rahman

Banger of a episode. I've been to 2 movies with my father ever in my life in the theater and it was this one as a teenager and home alone. This will always be my Marty masterpiece. I recommend the Pileggi book highly also

DS

The end of The Irishman is by far the most bleak because it will be the real end for many of us, shitting ourselves when all of our friends are dead and telling our life stories to a nurse who isn't listening and doesn't care because we're just a nuisance from a dead era that shits himself and makes her clean it up for $17 an hour.

Matthew

This was such a delight to listen to! I could have easily listened to another hour or two. A few little things I caught on my Movie Mindset viewing of Casino that I never noticed/thought about before: 1) I've always loved the use of panning in the "Catching the Cheaters" scene to communicate how Ace uses lines of sight to figure out what's going on; however, I never noticed before how when they cut to a super wide shot where the guy with the telegraph strapped to his leg is surrounded by security personnel in anticipation of the cattle prod, they highlight him in golden light to distract you from how completely fucked he is. It's like they at once put you in the "eye in the sky" position but then also deprive you of it by also effectively giving you the cheater's blind spot. Just genius work from Scorsese 2) When Remo croaks at Andy Stone that whatever position Ace gets put in next *has* to be *quiet*, the soundtrack then immediately introduces us to "Aces High" with strains of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" 3) After Nicky terrorizes the banker Charlie Clark, Ace tells him he's lost control and Nicky retorts "I lost control? Look at you! You're fuckin walkin around like John Barrymore! A fuckin pink robe and a fuckin cigarette holder? *I* lost control?!" lol

GnarlyRaeJetson

Felix 100% spot on with your dad showing you a fucked up movie at 12. He made me watch menace II society and pulp fiction lmaooooo

Degrassi Knoll

Made? LET you watch 2 classics! 🥳

AbeLinkin

Calling Hesse “Hessy” is one of the all-time Felix malapropisms

Reece Coren

menace II society is such a great movie

Reece Coren

been waiting on this one for so long 🙏now I can listen to this every time I watch Casino :)

Ksizzle

Recently watched the act of killing, horrific movie which follows a gang of Indonesian guys who were part of the front lines of genocide. They absolutely love gangster flicks like this, made it part of the official state rhetoric how gangster is not a dirty word

Robert Calcagno

Great episode to the point I had to watch it again and just a testament to how amazing Scorsese is with little details, after Ace’s hyper OCD scene with the blueberry muffins, in the last wide shot you see a tray of the muffins and they are in fact wildly inconsistent. Half of them have way too much blueberries and some barely have any. Brilliant stuff. It’s Ace being super neurotic AND valid.

I.P. Freely

“In emails you refer to him as ‘Mo’ …”

Christopher Price

speaking of podcast canon movies--will you have the radio war nerds on to talk the evil dead for ghoulvie mindset?

Reece Coren

cannot explain in words how much better this makes the already amazing experience of watching Casino. there was so many great observations I never even noticed. Felix’s point about Artie Piscano’s step brother telling him he can’t let the Kansas City bosses make a fool out of him was so good I’m literally in tears. and then when Joe Pesci breaks into the the old woman’s house dressed as a newsboy and shoots her in the head. and Will’s comment about james woods playing himself. and Hesse’s point about Di Niro loving the anarchy of the vegas when he can run a casino without a license and gets awards and country clubs dinners, but at the same time needing to have this like fascist control over every minute detail in his life. so good. I could listen to this a thousand times

Reece Coren

will be using “he’s sitting by the phone like a dumbbell” all the time now

Erik Weissengruber

Has anyone seen American Hustle? It’s David O. Russel doing a baggy & shapeless tribute to Casino.

Gordon Schmidt

I was relistening to this and I realized you guys forgot to mention the incredible joke early on in the movie, wherein Pesci, while narrating says "Even back home years ago" and the words "back home years ago" flash on the screen. My favorite joke in the movie, and maybe in ANY movie.

Degrassi Knoll

No, will check in out. Going to Leave my recommendation for The Cooler here. William h Macy playa the titular cooler (casino hires him b/c he has contagious bad luck)

Lillie Connell

I wish movie mindset was all year round but I understand that makes it sweeter when it happens

Khemith

The Middle class: this is all the explanation you need to understand why the "culture war" got exported to South America.

Lizard

I had never seen this before and it ruined my life thank you

T

Perfect episode

T

Disclaimer: of course it would be nice if Matt were on, but it's still a perfect episode. The Starship Troopers video on YouTube is what got me into Chapo, and this episode gives me the exact same feeling. Someone needs to make a video of this episode with scenes from the movie.

I am become reply guy

I remember Matt telling this anecdote years ago, wish I remembered where.

Erik Weissengruber

The actors are first rate. The budget was big. The art direction was perfect. And it was a big ball of nothing.

Horse Badorties

The Gold Club (famous San Francisco titty bar) has a bitchin' lunch buffet.

Horse Badorties

Daddy, I want weird hair like the ladies

Horse Badorties

The mobsters were pushed out of the casinos proper into service businesses for the casinos. Those white bedsheets? They cost a lot to clean. U want that garbage hauled away? Etc. Accd to my bro who worked Vegas casinos (croupier). Atlantic City also. I don't know if he worked a Trump property.

justdave

Even those Italians are gone. I saw some "fellas" once but the Armenians pushed them out of the service industry in like 2010

RMC

Good stuff, I've seen Casino more times than I can count and it never gets old. This old doc is a great companion piece for it. I grew up in Vegas and remember when this originally aired. It has some great footage of when Lefty (Ace) went off on Harry Reid at the licensing hearing. Spilatro's (Nicky's) lawyer went on to become the Mayor and also played himself in the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWtgb3lsYiw

Patrick

When are y’all gonna do Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter”?

Dustin Nelson

I haven't seen or really heard of this movie at all outside of little bits from the show, I was sole at the description of that assassination scene though so I'll come back to this episode after I see it

Galen

Are we just going to brush over the fact that Sam Rothstein’s character is entirely explained by his ♊️☀️♊️🌙 ♊️⬆️

Corey Reynolds

So glad you guys finally did this episode!!

Jessie Cherbak

“Honestly I need to talk about this movie with somebody” in my family that film was Apocalypse now, I was probably 12 or 13

Chapo Bath House

I watched Trainspotting with my mom when I was 12 because she had a crush of Ewan McGregor

Hesse Deni

I think you gotta meet a triple Gemini in real life they’re the exact opposite of Sam Rothstein lmao

Joe Hillside

I had a hankering for this for a while and it was great! The girlfriend hated it though lol

Peanut Horse

I love everything about this movie except it being 3 hours long. I just don’t think I’m cut out for a movie over 2.5 hours. Man does this episode remind of so many gags in this movie, will is right when he says not a second is wasted

Max Fennig

The Ziti-Cowboy War: Class Politics & Weaponized Whiteness as Seen Through Martin Scorsese’s Casino

Reece Coren

he’s sitting by the phone… like a dumbbell!

Eamon Short

27:43 Felix truly is O U R G U Y

Eamon Short

31:05 With me that was my mum. T2, The Usual Suspects, Aliens, Dirty Harry, and the strangest pull for a like 50 year old Irish woman, living in rural Australia, in the mid-late 2000s, Glory. She'd talk about them all the time and say "I'll show you these when your 17". Then, years later she's like "how old are you?" "I'm like 12" "Eh, close enough" And we watched them all one Christmas break. Then I asked if I could watch the first Terminator and she said "no that movie is inappropriate for kids". Because it had a sex scene. When I was 15, got my first job, saved up for a laptop, and started torrenting movies unsupervised I was like "Oh, I should get Terminator, it must have some pretty hot wank material if mum wouldn't let me watch it." Then, it turns out it was just a barely-lit, very low-level nudity, like 60 second sex scene. I was very disappointed. Still busted tho. Then I got a torrent for Caligula and I was set for the whole 2 month summer break.

TC

On January 6th I didn’t find out what had happened in D.C. until that evening bc I spent most of the day setting up the new place I had just moved into a few days before. And by setting up my place I mean sitting in my living room rewatching Casino.