Patton Oswalt & Conan React To A Wild ‘70s Movie Stunt | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

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[@DangerousDac]

I love how Patton turned this into an episode of Best of the Worst.

[@dipperdandy]

Oh my gaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwd

[@aznthy]

Well, he won't go back to RLM since the last time, he watched the worst.

[@dipperdandy]

@@aznthy Well I don't imagine he happens to be in Wisconsin all that often.

[@Hoganply]

@@dipperdandy True, but I'd love to see him do a Re:View.

[@batoutofmel4959]

Watching this, I was thinking about the one they did where a truck runs over a stuntman's head.

[@cleverusername9369]

I could listen to Patton speak knowledgeably and eruditely about movies for untold lengths of time.

[@davetheunicorn6720]

Damn, you were faster than me 😂 I feel the same way.

[@ctrainbeats]

i love the word erudite, idk why

[@emu_warrior]

It's a shame he's the zodiac killer and killed his wife :(

[@erinrising2799]

100% agree he's like the nerdy older brother I never had

[@shutupandcolor]

I could see Patton and Matt hanging out now.

[@damonversaggi3965]

Conan's take on editing and timing is so spot on...

[@Charles_Bro-son]

Sometimes atmosphere lacks a bit of breathing room with the tight editing nowadays.

[@Mokkari77]

The show that changed the pacing of TV forever was ER in 1994.

[@MandleRoss]

Yeah, they somethings even cut off the ends of sente...

[@ravenn22]

and yet, almost every serial TV show these days drags 1.5 hrs worth of plot into 10 episodes...

[@Mokkari77]

@@ravenn22 In the old days it was stretching a half hour worth of plot to an hour. Now it's stretching the plot of a two hour movie into 8-10 hour long episodes.

[@decibelfilm]

Gourley always with the perfectly timed quips and chime-ins.

[@chancestockman]

He took some cues from Andy Richter!

[@user-qj1we9iy2u]

@@chancestockman waaaaay funnier than andy

[@chancestockman]

@@user-qj1we9iy2u noooope!

[@kstepko]

We need more Patton Oswald giving us the behind-the-scenes story of old movie clips!

[@SuperlunarNim]

The stunt performer is a guy named Buddy Joe Hooker, he also notably jumped a landing helicopter on a motorcycle. Still alive today at 81.

[@willmartin1837]

Umm Patton is a freak pedio…

[@Marijuanifornia]

There's a WWII video called *Hemp for Victory* on how to grow weed to make equipment for the military. At 13:03 in the film, there is an old naval battle to showcase the USS Constitution and how hemp made the ropes and sails on the ship. You see a man fall from the top mast, snag on a rope and cartwheel like 10 stories the rest of the way down and slapping the water full force. That was in 1942, well before CGI. I don't know if the person survived, but it's in the video. Also, because this needs to be emphasized, there's a WWII government video that tells everyone how to grow weed to defend our country.

[@richardyasushiii3848]

Patton Oswalt is so knowledgeable about film, including foreign films and auteurs, that he should really inherit the mantle of Roger Ebert. His appreciation of B-movies to A-class art films, is impressive.

[@MehrdadParthian]

its such a joy when conan and patton oswalt get to talk to each other, because its almost like they're sitting at conan's porch and just talking like they normally would behind the camera. there are very few people that conan has this chemistry with, such as kevin nealon or bill burr, etc. and its so amusing to watch :)

[@magicknight13]

I need a Conan and Patton watch movies and commentary podcast!

[@mattwales2734]

The chase scene in the French Connection was a crime caught on film. LOL.

[@NuttyMongrel]

It is bizarre to watch old late night interviews. A surprising amount of silence and quietness in the conversations, whereas today late night hosts won't allow a half second of silence.

[@andrewhawking7893]

Yep. Don't forget the whooping audience that screams every bloody minute of it. That's why this podcast is better.

[@McDuffin]

It’s with everything anymore. When I was a kid, part of watching a baseball game was some of the dead air. Crowd noise, vendors, and other ambient sounds. Even before the pitch clock, these newer announcers feel the need to fill every bit of space. Like they’re trying to sell me a used car or something. Sorry about the rant.

[@calibby85]

Id love to hear Patton and Hader nerd out on films

[@ColinFilm]

I know it was a video bit on an audio podcast but I enjoyed listening to their reaction and now watching the clip itself. Would be on board for more reactions like this every now and then. 😁

[@darkmoonlady2002]

Hooper has amazing stunts and funny as hell too.

[@joelww2501]

Patton just loves movies, it’s brilliant to hear him talking about them.

[@Monticello19]

Mitchell! heart's poundin' Mitchell! vein's cloggin'

[@troubleondemand7703]

For anyone who loves old school stunts, you have to watch the movie Hooper with Burt Reynolds. Absolute classic.

[@charlie-obrien]

It is a classic and it proves one thing... That the stuntman in that scene took his $100 pay and bought all of his stunt buddies beers after the shoot.

[@jesperjee]

Yes! Dar Robinson was great!

[@foxhound13]

I think of Batman The Animated Series where they were on striked guidlines (no realistic guns, swearing, blood, and such). In interviews and commentary tracks you learn how they are told by the censors they can't do that. And they come back with something that looks much more horrifying like the way jokers victims look from the laugh gas or seeing batgirl fall but you get the point of view from inside of the car from Jim Gordon. Patton is right, you can say what you want, you just have to be clever.

[@Estamir]

Batman TAS, and even Batman Beyond were key examples of how you can turn around those absurd mandates into something interesting. And as for whittling down the graphic nature of things, never underestimate what a person's imagination can do when you give them enough to work with. What might be funny or simply odd on paper can become nightmare fuel for many!

[@brianjl7477]

@@Estamir I agree. It seems like these days evrything is spoon-fed, and audiences seem to want that or else they cry "plot hole!" Tapping into the viewer's imagination can be a very powerful storytelling tool.

[@hamiljohn]

If Patton could be on every week, it'd be so, so awesome. This Joe Don Baker film seems like I need to see it!

[@Euanhamiltonmusic]

The best is the scene in Tora! Tora! Tora! when the plane accidentally veers off and crashes into a bunch of other parked planes in a huge fireball, and you can clearly see all the stuntmen/actors literally running for their lives.

[@salsal435]

YES!!!

[@charlesselby3559]

Love hearing these guys talk film

[@williamgregory1848]

Patton Oswalt being a cinephile is warming my heart 😊

[@EatinPaste]

It's nice to see that Patton's RLM appearance didn't kill his love for movies 😆

[@dipperdandy]

man, yeah that was an unfortunate day on the wheel.

[@Wabajak13]

being around Mike just makes everyone hate everything. It's hard to escape his cynical aura.

[@nighttray1489]

One more guest spot outta do it

[@HOTD108_]

Does Patton unironically hate RLM or was he just playing up the bit? Logically I wanna say it was a bit, but emotionally the hatred felt real.

[@gustafsone]

@@HOTD108_ I think it was more of a bit, because once they sat down at the table to actually start talking about the movies, he opened up a lot more and was excited to talk about things and seemed like he genuinely enjoyed watching the shitty movies with the other guys. I don't know that he will ever do that show again, but I don't think he actually hated being there. With some of their other special guests, they will have them bring in one or two of their own suggested bad movies to put on the wheel, and I have a feeling that when Patton agreed to do the show, he told them to not hold back and pick the shitty movies that they would normally pick to put on the wheel (or was it the plinketto board? not that it matters).

[@Ishai1]

It's funny that so many people think there was no CGI in Top Gun Maverick, that movie is loaded with it. Yes, they went up in the jets for real, so their reactions feel real, but almost everything outside the jet was VFX

[@kamuelalee]

Truth, but it was more real than the first TG

[@Ishai1]

​@@kamuelaleeYea, like I said, they were in real jets so the g-force and movements are more realistic. I think in the original movie Tom got himself a flight in the back set of an F-14, just to experience it, but the actual movie was shot like all other flight scenes in other movies, with a mock cockpit on hydraulics.

[@kev3d]

They said the same about Mad Max Fury Road. "It's all practical!" Sure, if you exclude the green screens, artificial extras, wire and stunt rig removal, CGI backgrounds and storm effects, and most of the environments...sure, it was practical.

[@Fucisko]

Haven't seen TG but it was same thing in Mission Impossible Fallout. They did the HALO jump for real but added this bullshit looking storm so basically just Tom Cruise falling is real but everything around is CGI.

[@zoeherriot]

@@Ishai1they weren’t in real fighter jets though. All of the jet exteriors are CGI. And a ton of those in cockpit shots are CGI too.

[@ericg4868]

Conan watching old crappy movies doing MST3K style commentary would be awesome.

[@thedude4672]

I would watch that

[@sidhackney8831]

Have you seen his episode of Red Letter Media's Best of the Worst?

[@themoviedealers]

You know he was a cast member on MST3K, right?

[@fdsfsdfsd1552]

@@sidhackney8831 - Conan?

[@fdsfsdfsd1552]

@@themoviedealers - Conan?

[@rogueshadowunit4964]

That last part applies to this podcast too. Only uploading the video format in segments and not just the full audio version.

[@solvseus]

"You can't even tell jokes anymore" - a famous comedian in an internationally streamed comedy special in front of a huge audience

[@scubasteve4020]

"Quick time...HARCH!"

[@TomWDW1]

You should check a lot of Hong Kong martial arts stuntwork from the 80s and 90s. SO dangerous. But it does look amazing.

[@nick_hansolo]

The Slip Nutz are a universal constant so their pacing should always feel the same imo

[@Chulaan]

I saw Sword and the sorcerer when I was a kid. Never heard that story before

[@sumocat666]

The scene in Used Cars is a guy chasing a $20 bill across a street that Kurt Russell’s character has on a fishing line to lure him into his car lot. He’s not playing a drunk, but he was inches away from getting smacked by a car.

[@TriglycerideBeware]

Are we thinking of the same scene? The one I think he's talking about is on KZbin, called "Used Cars red car freakout". What you're describing sounds different

[@sumocat666]

@@TriglycerideBeware My scene is from the beginning, but it could be either one. Hard to say given no one is drunk in either.

[@TriglycerideBeware]

@@sumocat666 sounds like one dangerous movie haha

[@CDRaff]

What makes this even crazier is that the fireball was made by setting literal trash bags filled with gasoline on fire.

[@Grovester77]

I know that scene he's talking about from Used Cars. Near the end when Gerrit Graham is having his meltdown when he finds he's been driving a red car during the final.act.

[@IPlayOneOnT.V.]

Yes, JDB is literally half in the fireball coming out of the car, then immediately afterward in the same scene he's beating a guy into a bloody mess. There it is! I just looked this up.

[@lachauntiswashington231]

great episode

[@j.vanderknaap9446]

AI would never have thought of using coconuts to make horse effects in Python's Holy Grail.

[@JACKXK]

These guys could talk for 10 hours and it would all be interesting and thought provoking.

[@MaineZukah]

Jo Dawn Baker Train, just had to watch it, great scene!

[@georgejorden6269]

Did anyone notice in the video that the guy holding the gun in the backseat disappeared when the car stopped on the train tracks.

[@stephenleblanc4677]

It's an impressive stunt, but just to be clear, after the cut, the door was wide open the whole time for the stunt man who at least didn't have to time that part. He just needed to jump. I am curious as to whether they prepared for the fire and he was wearing the right protection. Hope so.

[@eromacque]

Dude! That's Hunter Von Leer! From Halloween 2!

[@murph190]

I'm kinda surprised neither one of them mentioned 70's classic "Hooper." Great flick about stuntmen and stuntwomen.

[@theylied1776]

Conan is correct on the hyper-compressed editing on television and movies. That was pioneered by MTV.

[@KingHenryVR4]

The scene Patton is talking about from Used Cars involves Gerrit Graham's character who is just superstitious not drunk, he finds out he is driving a red car which he deems as bad luck so he freaks out and parks the car on the side of the road and starts backing away from it into oncoming traffic barely missing getting hit by a speeding car.

[@michaelknight5873]

Gourley is the guy who takes two looks at an actor and knows the Mel Brooks movie he’s in.

[@originalorextrahyperbole]

Completely agree and glad Patton mentioned it, CGI is not only less cost effective in many circumstances but when you think about movies that were filmed on location or in front of a backdrop that has texture and a visual reference, it makes me think how fun is the actor having? I can't imagine the immersive experience of posing in front of a green screen being that transformative, whereas Tom Cruise is probably having the time of his life and not really questioning why he got into acting. Make it real for actors make it real for the audience.

[@faytlyte25]

Agreed, and I would assume it'd be easier for an actor to get into the role on location rather than a mundane green screen inside a studio.

[@kev3d]

Being on location isn't always a picnic. We all know the story of Raiders of the Lost Ark when everyone got sick during the Egypt sequence, and Harrison Ford was feeling so bad he couldn't fight the guy with the scimitar so they agreed he should just shoot him instead. A brilliant move that would have never happened if they were in a safe sound studio in L.A. or England. However much of the cast and crew were in absolute misery. Sunburns, food poisoning, errant weather, corrupt locals (including government people), lack of particular resources or poor building materials, a lengthy permitting process (see corruption), and a bunch of other factors make CGI and shooting on a green screen more attractive and flexible to filmmakers and generally safer. Unfortunately that doesn't leave a lot of room for happy accidents or unusual set pieces to interact with organically that no one would have ever thought to create in the computer.

[@Frequency127]

Silent Night Deadly Night 2. There is a scene where a car crashes and flips, heading directly toward the stunt guy who just casually steps out of the way. Definitely almost died.

[@3VILmonkey]

When Patton Oswalt mentioned Joe Don Baker, I immediately thought "Mitchell!".

[@dipperdandy]

It's always fun trying to determine how sober he is in any given take.

[@sidhackney8831]

My, my, my Mitchell

[@kevinwr7093]

I think Oswalt's shirt looks great but everytime they cut to him i keep thinking he is wearing a Vault-Tec jumpsuit. Lol

[@Calabrin1]

Damn it, Patton! I was positive you were gonna bring up Order of the Black Eagle where the stunt guy gets his head run over by an ATV!

[@mikereed4594]

One of my favorite old stunts in a crappy movie was this real stinker of a black and white American attempt at a kaiju movie called "The Giant Claw" featuring an enormous prehistoric vulture puppet that is describes as being bigger and more powerful than a battleship. There's a scene where the MC and the love interest are jumping out of an exploding vehicle when it crashes, and you can see them hit the ground, and then a piece of flaming debris nails the lead in the back, and you see him jerk upwards and start to panic, before the camera cuts away and they're fine again in a different shot. That shot where you can see the stunt go a little wrong, and the guy is just like "oh god, am I gonna die? someone is literally hucking flaming trash at me, and it went wrong" is so real and funny to see.

[@bennychristensen4314]

I am sure that Patton Oswald has seen and appreciated some of the Burt Reynolds stunts. In White Lightning Hal Needham almost died in the car on the river barge jump. And Reynolds' "Hooper" is 70's stunt man hero worship that really shows how hard that job and lifestyle was. And many of Reynolds later movies and in fact his life was affected by a bad chair stunt that broke his jaw in the movie he made with Clint Eastwood. Also, watch The Good The Bad and The Ugly, when Eli Wallach almost lost his head in the train cutting the chain scene. Wild!

[@KyleS3m3noff]

And while you're watching The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - when Blondie and Tuco blow the bridge and they're hunkered down behind the sandbags during the explosion... watch that MASSIVE chunk of debris go slamming with full force into the sandbag right next to Clint's head. That thing flew all the way up that ridge, several hundred feet with velocity, and damn near took the lead actor's head off.

[@m4w]

Tarsem Singh’s The Fall is an ode to stuntsmen from the olden days much like Patton describes. It’s a beautiful cult classic movie and I’m suprised @pattonoswalt didn’t mention it

[@elichilton7031]

A most excellent call back. The Fall is brilliant.

[@ctrainbeats]

@@elichilton7031 just checked out the trailer.. i need to watch that asap - the colors!

[@sidhackney8831]

The Fall is excellent! It'll make you angry stuntmen don't have like ten categories of Oscars.

[@elichilton7031]

@@ctrainbeats If you enjoy Tarsem Singh's work, check out The Cell, he did years before. Also, the costumes of Eiko Ishioka are in both films. Miracles to behold.

[@angelmarcano6747]

They actually went to an amusement park where they have this big big pool with creates waves so they were actually surfing but it was in a park and then they filled in everything else, and Kurt Russell actually had to learn how to surf.

[@jimherbert007]

This would have been an amazing time to show Mac and Me

[@nachotube7012]

All the other people in the car disappear as we see the last closeup of him driving onto the tracks.

[@katfishzomby]

Joe Don Baker.. there's a reason he's on MST3K. 100%

[@bjtgaming]

Nothing beats Jackie Chans Hong Kong 80s films. Everyone broke everything!!!

[@dipperdandy]

SUCH a stark difference from his later american output, where everything is edited to hell.

[@TheCornBanana]

Man on fire stunts are the best

[@kingrimjob]

Framed is a great movie!

[@ms0824]

Nolan goes practical as often as he can.

[@zoeherriot]

He goes practical a lot less than people think. The studios are doing this thing recently where they lie about how much CGI is shot. Even to the point they are manipulating behinds the scenes shots to hide green screens. Nolan does like practical, but it’s more accurate to say he uses a mix of practical and CGI. There’s a ton of breakdowns available that demonstrate he is using a lot of CGI.

[@ms0824]

@@zoeherriot I've watched the same videos and read the same articles that you did recently. It's crazy that they lie about that. But yeah clearly he does use vfx and cgi very well, he just does as much as possible in camera also.

[@zoeherriot]

@@ms0824 I also have a friend that is a vfx supervisor at ILM - I’ve some lengthy conversations with him on this. But yeah Nolan is really good at choosing when to lean on CGI and not. That’s why his films looks so good.

[@ms0824]

@@zoeherriot ok. That's pretty awesome!!! Yeah Nolan is still one of my favorites. I really don't get why the industry is trying to downplay vfx right now when soooooo many artists are used to bring the films to life. Only so much can be shot/done practically and even so, sometimes you just need to enhance shots.

[@elishmuel1976]

More on Conan's last point please. Did you guys have a discussion about that? Would love to hear the gang's thoughts. Can't get enough.

[@FreshmanMedia1]

I would watch an MST3K-style podcast with Conan and Patton

[@buboyocson1605]

Matt was on point! There was a movie in PH where a stunt actor did die.

[@ttww1590]

I keep wondering about the clips in the That's entertainment films and wonder how many had life altering injuries.

[@natelevy1040]

Jurassic Park got the media buzz about the CGI when 99% of the notable effects were actually practical.

[@nameisnotrelevant]

The fact that Patron Oswald is commenting on a Joe Don Baker movie, this is like a MST3K haze dream! MITCHELL!!

[@SMccrate01]

In the original Jumanji when the car goes through the front of the variety store and patrons jump out of the way, one guy doesn't quite make it and clearly gets clipped.

[@paulgrieger8182]

Great example: The bridge explosion scene in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." A huge chunk if flying debris BARELY misses Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach.

[@jayarrington240]

As far as the tempo for editing - and the reference to Late Night - watch an old Carson episode. My god, it seemed like they were barely paying attention to any of it. Very unbelievably relaxed, casual and slow. So slow....like they were waiting for a late train.

[@TheMokeleMbembe]

"I love the image of the CGI guys saying "this is what it's gonna cost"" - this exact moment is in the making-of doc for THE PHANTOM MENACE, called THE BEGINNING. The ILM guys are breaking down for George Lucas (or Rick McCallum?) what it will cost to do the podrace

[@madrahn1]

Dragon heart? No that was great

[@MarcusRonaldi]

The video is exactly as described.

[@davefordavefor]

Great video.

[@jerzeyguy71]

you guys didnt mention the other two guys in the car were still in it, one take.. LOL

[@msamsamsamsamsamsamsamsamsamsa]

Buster Keaton deserves a mention here. 6:41

[@masterofallgoons]

Dragonheart looks better than you remember it!

[@SmartVandelay]

5:04 I think they call this the John Landis approach.

[@AngeloRyanMaalat]

Shout out to Jackie Chan for growing old cause it was mad brutal back then

[@bunkomcdungo]

Patton oh Patton

[@hotcreamyfart]

Hey, it's that guy who met Rich Evans.

[@mgabrysSF]

what do you mean FINE? Those polyester suits would ignite like magicians flash paper.

[@havardbjerkengeneriksrud5871]

Man, was thinking about Used Cars when they started talking about the Joe Don Baker movie, made my day when Patton suddenly mentioned it🤣 Great movie, underrated like hell..

[@SophiaAphrodite]

The most expensive practical effect was the boat into the dock scene in Speed II. It cost $22 million at the time, About $50 million in todays dollars.

[@brooke9297]

Modern media killed Conan’s ability to realistically kill Patton Oswald.

I didn´t know Patton Oswalt was such a movie geek. He really knows what he is talking about.

[@JoeO.]

Patton needs his own network.

[@georgejorden6269]

When Conan talked about stunts - Back in the olden days of movies and TV - Actors like Buster Keaton and the Three Stooges did their own stunts. Just search for Buster Keaton and you will see some of the stunts he did. A few almost killed him. One of his famous stunts had him working on a house and have the house wall fall on him with him standing in the path of the glassless window. If he was just a few inches to the left or right, he would be seriously hurt. Also there mishaps when the props guys would forget to substitute real items with prop items. It wasn't unusual for an actor or stunt guy to be hit with a real item. such as a vase or chair. Or scenes where the glass pane was real and not break away glass. I think most will remember just recently the Rust shooting incident - On October 21, 2021, at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Bonanza City, New Mexico, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot and director Joel Souza was injured on the set of the film Rust when a live round was discharged from a revolver used as a prop by actor Alec Baldwin. And on the movie The Crow Production on The Crow was struck by tragedy when Lee was fatally wounded by a prop gun during filming. As Lee had finished most of his scenes before his death, the film was completed through script rewrites, a stunt double, and digital effects. After Lee's death, Paramount Pictures opted out of distributing the film and the rights were picked up by Miramax, who oversaw the film's completion. The film is dedicated to Lee and his fiancée, Eliza Hutton.

[@Lurdiak]

On the former point, reckless directors killed so many people in early hollywood, with the most horrific incident involving over 20 people being drowned in a single scene. Obviously Keaton and the stooges were admirable, but we should also be thankful not everyone routinely needs to risk their lives just to make a movie these days. On the latter point, Hutchins and Lee's deaths make me ask the same question: why was a real bullet in that gun?! That's the one thing you don't want to have in a prop gun! God damn!

[@ihatespam2]

The stooges didn’t do all their own stunts.

[@ju1cycrackfa1ry]

I think the more interesting take would be to examine Melissa McCarthy’s movie career, and why she keeps getting cast in movies. She tanks every movie she’s in by default, bridesmaids being the exception due to the sheer comedic might of Maya Rudolf and Kristin Wiig

[@noblejennette2101]

Jesus CHRIST the Joe Don Baker scene.

[@MonkeyChessify]

The issue is that so many films and stuff throw everything on a green screen and assume everything being CGI will work out. It can...given enough time and money to the VFX ppl which they dont want. The best is always a merging of the two - do what you can practically/in camera, and then supplement/change/whatever in post with effects as needed

[@KissMyAssassin]

I've yet to ever see CGI that didn't look like CGI.

[@MonkeyChessify]

@@KissMyAssassin lol yes you have you just didn't notice it most times. if you've seen a movie in the past 10 years you've seen CGI

[@Creamcups]

@@KissMyAssassin This is such a stupid statement. If something doesn't look like CGI you wouldn't think it's CGI.

[@bradleybindle6428]

Air Force one was the best movie of the 90’s

[@Dfturcott]

Hey Air Force one looks good!

[@chrishestand1]

If you look closely, his hair bursts into flames immediately too. Or wig made of celluloid. Now permanently fused to his scalp. For a hundred bucks.

[@Blackshirt123]

Speaking of editing, I'm still distracted by the disappearance from the two guys in the car with Joe Don Baker before the train hits it. The shot of him opening the door to jump out and the guy with the gun pointed at him magically disappeared.

[@joefelice5062]

Watch the Blues Brothers mall car chase, people are barely getting outta the way of cars and IIRC, someone gets clipped.

[@1isaacmusic]

Man's so high he turned Chinese

[@clintscroggs65]

Watch the first (maybe) episode of Emergency when Dr. Brackett is doing an examination. The SLOWEST…

[@marcusdamberger]

As for the pace of todays late-night programing. Even the movie clips shown on late-night are maybe 7-10 seconds long, if you could watch Carson or Letterman from that time, the clips would be somewhere between :40-1: 20. (reruns of Carson cut those clips out now because of copyrights..) You could actually get into the scene and have a sense of what the film was like. Actually making you want to go out and buy a ticket for it. Now today, "Meh, I'll just wait tell it's on streaming service x" You get no feel of what the film is like from those short clips they show..

[@victorm.3279]

Patton dropping truth bombs. Most people think stuff like ChatGPT is the answer to everything cause it's the flavor of the month. When it's just a tool. And most people just don't know when and how to use it.