Strictly Ballroom | Welcome To The Basement

[@1800-REGICIDE]

Fun Fact: Paul Mercuro has just been elected to Parliament here in my home state of Victoria in Australia. I cannot confirm if he danced into the chamber on his first day or not.

[@TheRandomFoodie]

And the seat he won is called Hastings!

[@Trevin_Taylor]

Exit to Eden didn’t kill his chances? Must be weird to be from a mature country.

[@stoneg.barrow9991]

Had Mr. Mercurio instead been elected to Parliament in the State of Western Australia, it likely might well have been the case that any commenter in the YTC rather would have said, "I can neither confirm nor deny that he danced into the chamber on his first day; immediately after, of course, having paid his respects to his fellows at the Lodge Commonwealth of Australia, 14 minutes away to the Southwest, via Yamba Drive"; As such: But as to the certainty of that particular individual possibility, That specific verity I can neither confirm nor deny. BTW: Gentlemen of BlameSociety; Please tell me you didn't voice the robots from "Mystery Science Theater"; I've got two bits riding on this here bet of mine, at the end of the day -- Two bits, mind you... Two. Hehehe. 🤪🤪🤪

[@df6957]

For me the last line of the film is one of the most romantic in all of cinema history. This film is my ultimate feel-good film. Anytime life is getting you down, or if you've just seen a really bleak view of humanity in a movie, pop "Strictly Ballroom into your DVD player and allow yourself to be uplifted... Thanks for highlighting this movie guys.

[@kathrynmolesa1641]

Favorite dance movie. Paul doesn’t dance, he sizzles.

[@SeeSarahGo]

My aunt showed me this movie when I was little and I wish more people knew about it. It's so much fun

[@SpeedSlasher]

Great to see a movie finally featuring Fran Neuhaus as a lead character

[@Brandon12983]

Even someone who usually avoids rom-coms can really enjoy this movie. Thanks for introducing it to me, it wouldn't have been on my radar.

[@RicardoAlmeidatm]

Fran is really cute and the best "ugly duckling" transformation in any film.

[@CleanPhilWanted]

I was introduced to this movie in movie history class at university. Loved it, own it, and say, "I wanna dance with you Fran" all the time!

[@NerdOutWithMe]

Making my rainy Friday great.

[@kimberlydonohoe3427]

You can type that again. Raining here, too.

[@GrainneMhaol]

You're so right about this being Baz Luhrmann's only great movie. I loved it back in the day and I still love it. It may have whimsical and fantastical elements but it's filled with heart, as well as being firmly grounded in reality. It deals with the strange and obsessive world of competitive ballroom dance and somehow makes you understand the stakes. It's just great.

[@meclucas]

Missed opportunity to have the movie "Twlight" be the bridge movie in the "Day & NIght" movie festival...

[@cyborgecho8027]

I’m SO HAPPY they liked/loved this one! Scott Hastings was one of my first childhood crushes and my family has always quoted “show, show me your paso doble” That scene of the party with the train going by is the stuff of life ❤

[@christinevr7698]

I always loved this film. A gem.

[@WyldOz]

This gave my Aussie millennial heart a really comforting dose of home.. anyone who studied film in school in Oz spent a loooot of time analysing this one... Those closeups are still seared in my brain

[@darkntwistedstudio]

My new goal is raising money for this festival of night and day !! it will be done !!

[@gbeaudette]

I did a lot of the film restoration on The Fabelmans, including the final checks where I basically I went over each 15-ish minute reel of the movie for a whole 8 hour day. But there was reel someone else did because I wasn't there that day, so when I saw the movie in the theater 85% of it was a movie I'd seen on mute more than a dozen times, expect for 15 minutes in the middle where I got to go "Ooh! What's going on here?"

[@LissaLo13]

I’m so glad you guys finally watched this one. It’s probably in my top five movies. I can’t believe you skipped over the super important subplot about to bogo pogo! (That was sarcasm) I’m not going to lie, I was a little afraid you were going to hate this and make me sad but I’m very satisfied. I’d still love the movie either way but it’s great to see two people who I admire and respect also having a good time watching this film.

[@shreknet]

Watched this movie this New Years Evening and loved every minute of it.

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

Strictly Ballroom? That's my favorite brand of boxers!

[@ScottKorin]

My favorite of the Red Curtain Trilogy. Criminally underseen. Thanks, boys!

[@kimberlydonohoe3427]

Love the Trek quips!

[@JeniJustJeni]

I love this movie!

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

Why don't you marry it? Sorry, I couldn't pass ot up!

[@0002pA]

You also could have gone for Before Sunset as the bridge movie.

[@meteorrejector]

one of my favourite movies!!

[@toric6005]

You can dance any steps you want! Doesn’t mean you’ll……. WIN Also “Shut up Strauss!” is a great line totally could fit in this movie!

[@newtonduck1]

"all the enthusiasm of a Fabelman..." LOL!!! Great line.

[@retteketette]

love your show long time

[@TheRebexa]

YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS

[@arconeagain]

I feel exactly the same way about Baz, word for word.

[@stevef4010]

That festival sounds like "A hard days night"

[@NiceFoilHat]

Seeing the hand drum gift I instantly thought about Karate Kid 2. So, I look forward to a future episode where we find out little Lorenzo has learning the secret technique of Mr. Miyagi's karate.

[@nevet1212]

So many Star Trek references this episode, a Queen reference, this ep was tailor made for me!

[@thejackal007]

Well, now the song Strictly Loungeroom by the Australian group TISM makes more sense to me...

[@langleymneely]

Holy crap I was a dancer in college too! I did ballroom mostly latin.

[@CaptChrispy]

I suppose I've seen/heard Termagant before having read/seen Hamlet but I watched a review of reservoir Dogs earlier today and they talked about how Tarantino would like actors to perform the "Speak the speech" speech from Hamlet and it contains this word which I hadn't looked into before and now have gotten from 2 different sources in the same day! Synchronicity. (Interesting, also, that Hamlet speaks to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the end of it as Tim Roth would go on to play one of them.)

[@Sitharos]

Love the issue of Logan’s Run behind him 😄

[@Dyrnwyn]

Matt's shirt is fantastic.

[@basquat76]

Next time i play football/soccer i'm just gonna play by my own rules. I learned that from this movie. I'm gonna pick the ball up and throw it in goal and if anyone has a problem with it they're just silly squares trying to hold me down.

[@CaptChrispy]

I have been suggesting movies that don't seem like they go together but would make an interesting double feature, I think this would go brilliantly with A Clockwork Orange for a number of reasons!

[@suedenim]

Is Cyndi Lauper the hardest popular singer to cover in recent memory? She's got great songs that seem like they should be covered, but you can't forget (or duplicate) that unique voice.

[@seanmcdougall9497]

I would love a stand alone video comparing "All quiet on the Western Front" and "Top Gun Maverick". Both are objectively good movies and are the exact opposite of each other. Also the brief synopsis of "Come and See" is spot on; I watched the trailer for that movie and it took me another six months too emotionally prepare to watch it.

[@joe74509migo]

I must admit due to the recent events, I read the title as Strictly Balloon

[@BearlyGamer]

Six Days, Seven Nights starring Anne Heche and Harrison Ford can be another bridge movie in the Day & Night Festival

[@VinylinStrangePlaces]

Scene It? Idle Hands (1999). Went into this one with rock bottom expectations, but was pleasantly surprised. A horror-comedy that delivered on both fronts. Over the top at times, but never surpassed the overly silly threshold that films of this genre tend to do.

[@MrGluey666]

a life lived in fear is a life half lived

[@rebelsatcloudnine]

I really want to see All Quite on the Western Front, as my Great Grandfather was a sharpshooter during WWI. I watched the trailer and I showed it to my Dad and we both said that we were going to skip this one. It looks so intense that I think it would be too hard for us to watch knowing that we had a family member who barely survived those 4 years.

[@stevensedlak]

2:51 I Want My Opera House!!!

[@scfeng6883]

I too want Ken Railings to walk in here and say, "Pam Short's broken both her legs, and I wanna dance with you."

[@smacksalad]

My film festival is all films with the exact same title.

[@AdudenamedKemp]

0:30 Really thought Matt was about to say "Twilight"

[@smurfette_blues7922]

I want to say that romeo + juliet is luhrman's best film because im a believer of "style IS substance" and that film (the parts that isnt just written by Shakespeare) is just luhrman in his bag. But i also want to say strictly is his best film because of how distinctly grounded it is, how different that is to the rest of his films. What i'll say for sure is that i'm always curious to see what he makes next (elvis was if nothing else, fascinating and fun to talk about and if thats not just what movies are about, i dont know what is).

[@deadpan80]

I total agree - not a Lunrmann (I think he's waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over the top/excessive) but I saw this movie back in the 90s and really like it. Didn't think I would when my crazy aunt made us watch it one Easter after dinner. Had no idea who Baz was at the time. Its the only movie of his I like.

[@redsands1001]

The other movie i remember paul mercurio from is Exit to Eden.

[@michaelolivero1626]

The festival is probably a thing of the past now, but I hope they included 30 Days of Night

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

"Give My Regards to Broad Street" has a ballroom dancing scene. They use McCartney's song "Ballroom Dancing" during the scene about ballroom dancing. Coincidence? Maybe coinciDUNCE.

[@gbeaudette]

I would assume this is the most expensive movie ever made, given how platinum most of the hair is.

[@blahlbinoa]

Always funny to see my last name in a movie, then I do the Leo point meme. I'll tell Barry Fife to cool it down and let people dance the way they want

[@m-the-bug]

For Seen It!; all your Star Trek references in this make me want to hear you opinions on the three reboot movies. I think the last one is the best but the second one has scenes with merit, though it absolutely cannot stand up to the original Wrath of Khan.

[@SleepFan771]

Have you guys seen Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985) starring Sarah Jessica Parker & Helen Hunt? It's very cute and funny with great 80's music, and of course Cyndi Lauper especially.

[@vampricramen]

I've only read "All Quiet on the Western Front" though the film is on my Netflix queue, but it's the second bleakest novel about WWI that I've read.

[@ellenmuseum]

Baz beginnings

[@fungiplays2289]

Between this and BMX Bandits, I think we've covered Australian cinema

[@caffeineadvocate]

Have you ever had to replace the TOP SECRET envelope? Sub question: why is 'TOP SECRET' never in there? Seen it? :)

[@somecathchick]

I can't remember which episode it was, but Matt did pull "Top Secret" out of the envelope once for kicks because he'd already seen it. Edit: Per the website, Craig wishes for "Top Secret" in the "Armageddon" episode and Matt grants his wish in the following episode "Help!"

[@waynechapman9823]

Tom Hanks as Tom Cruise as Maverick . . . . well, THAT would've been new!

[@maxx2dxtreame]

Have you guys seen The Whale? Please discuss this movie 🙏

[@BogusMeatFactory]

FRAN!!!

[@Tensen01]

So at the movie festival, do we get Dawn of the Dead? What about Twilight? ;)

[@jilliandiamond3358]

FYI that paso you have around the 9 minute mark is not only bad by flameco dancer standards. It would have been awful in ballroom competition is well. It makes no sense that anyone supposed to be that highly regarded as a professional would dance a paso like that.

[@williamblakehall5566]

I love Genevieve Bujold, but not enough to watch her suffer through that thing several more times, let alone a thousand. ("Harridan" is another acceptable term for a nagging woman, certainly more than "tarragon.") It is interesting to learn that Baz Luhrman once made a good movie after all. Interesting idea for Top Gun Maverick, but it won't work -- the Mission Impossible movies are proving that Cruise is in fact an immortal vampire who can't die.

[@erniemiller1953]

I don't like other dance movies...at all. But this one, I love it, and I am totally a hetero male.

[@judelbugsrutter6727]

Enjoyed your review… don’t mean to be picky or through shade on non-Aussie Tara’s but while I’ve known a few terrifying Tara’s who could outscreach Liz… down here it’s pronounced tah/rah not similar to how we pronounce "terror".

[@michaellafferty6364]

Watching the same movie one thousand days in a row? Move over, Cinema Immersion Tank, it's time for Cinema Immersion Alternative Lifestyle!

[@aldeharp]

cough....Twilight

[@TheJoeDean]

RRR is too long to watch on Welcome to the Basement so you need to talk about it during scene it. I've seen it three times, it's simply the best way to spend 3 hours.

[@sloth0jr]

I'm with you Matt. Top Gun Maverick was fine, but so much fan service and callbacks to the first movie. Could've and should've told a different story, squandered opportunity.

[@TomWDW1]

"Baz Lurhmann leans TOO heavily into the style" -- I have never disagreed more with Craig. Moulin Rouge will forever be one of my favorite films.

[@denial987]

Seth Rogen was in The Fabelmans? No wonder it tanked.

[@Bit-c-k6h]

These dudes think spanish people arent white thats hilarious

[@HaveMonkeyWillDance]

For all your projected comedic mantra, you are the murderers of humour. Please, please stop.

[@hadassah179]

I did the homework of watching this the day before and didn't like it. Dance With Me and Take the Lead were better.