America's Sweetheart | MEGASODE | Welcome To The Basement
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- We ring in the new year with some silent shorts from “America’s Sweetheart” Mary Pickford, star of old timey movies. A bit of chaos on the couch prompts a last minute movie switcharoo!
Also we induct six new members into the basement hall of fame and there are plenty of other surprises:
In Seen It we discuss archaeologist adventurers, archaeological digs and a crappy prom.
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Welcome To The Basement" is a show about watching, discussing and having fun with movies. None of the discussion or riffing is planned ahead of time.
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My mother was a HUGE movie fan. She took me to see a movie every week. I remember walking through the lobby of the shittiest theater in the area. They had a Raiders of the Lost Ark standee. I was totally skeptical but I remembered the name of George Lucas from my favorite movie Star Wars. When I went to see Raiders I was blown away. This cemented my love of movies. I didn't think any movie could do anything wrong. My mom and I continued to go to movies every weekend until I joined the Army in 1989. She died in 2020 from Covid, while suffering from Dementia. Losing her was difficult, losing someone who loved movies as much as me. Watching WTTB is helpful because I know there are tons of other people out there that know the beauty of the lights dimming, popcorn in hand, feet sticking to the floor, who're just as excited to watch something new and be entertained.
For real, my movie memories are:
Joe Vs. The Volcano: my family went out for a weekend lunch, and we ended up at the movies somehow (not a thing we did), and this was what we watched.
Star Trek 4: With my departed grandmother. She had been a sci-fi/trek fan from the old days (we once watched hours of the an original Outer Limits marathon, with her occasional "Oh! I know this one! interspersed). The sound was painfully loud for the first ~20 minutes.
Bill and Ted: The One Where They Die: #2: I'm Bad at Names: "Can we see it, grandma?" "Ok, let's check it out on Tuesday." "Yay!" I wish I could have asked her how much she hated it. I suspect she would have admitted to liking it more than she did. :D
Sorry for your loss, I wish I had someone like that to enjoy movies with. My parents and friends don't care much about films
@@DanMonio Your comment made me realize that I was very lucky to have that in my life. I'm sorry you didn't have that growing up, like I did. I've met a lot of people in my life now who just don't care about cinema. It always puzzled me because it's such a tremendous artform. Luckily we can all come together to watch WTTB and celebrate it's good, bad and unintentionally silly aspects. Maybe you can be that person to someone else some day, taking them to movies, showing them movies at home and talking about what you love about film. You could be a gateway for others to enjoy it and gain their gratitude for showing them something beautiful they never knew existed. I wish you good luck!
@@drskelebone Ha ha! Great memories. My favorite line from ST4 is: th-cam.com/video/pgHxFNFWlZc/w-d-xo.html I hope the link works. It was a fun movie. Second favorite scene: th-cam.com/video/LkqiDu1BQXY/w-d-xo.html
Found you guys all the way back in 2016, possibly even 2015. Can't say how happy I am that you guys are still going strong. Happy New Years, and here's to many more!🥳🎉🎊
Fond "Raiders" memory: growing up in Northern California (way up, near the Oregon border) oftentimes films played long after they had a run in the big cities. However, one night the local cinema asked if people wanted to take part in a special preview of a new film, and only gave us the title. I went in thinking it would probably be a boring Western, and came out vastly entertained. Still don't know why they decided to ship a print that far north, but thank you Steven Spielberg and company.
This shows like a warm blanket
I can't imagine a better time to spend the remaining hour of 2021 than watching the two of you do the annual megasode.
Thank you, Craig, Matt, Tona and The Cats for endless enjoyment not just this year, but for the past 10 years. One of the few good things that came out of the pandemic was my discovering WTTB while perusing YT during quarantine last year and I've been a fan ever since.
Thank you, again, for all you do and have a happy and prosperous 2022 and beyond. XOXO
Love the year-end episodes, reminds me of all the awesomeness that came before, so i look forward to what’s to come next year even more 😊
On a sad note, RIP Betty White 😢
Welcome to the basement humbled me and my movie knowledge. You guys have taught me much and I’ve learned a lot but mostly I know next to nothing when it comes to vast ocean that is cinema. Look forward to more schooling in the years to come.
To another year in the basement and Blame Society; been here since '07 and I hope to stay here for a long while yet
Yay for 10 years!
Saw my first blamesociety video, "Matt Sloan Becomes Mayor of French Town" back in 2007 when I was 9 years old
I'm about to turn 24 and I'm still a diehard fan
Keep up the great work!
Man its hard to believe that your channel has been going for 15 years already...I think I came in around 10 years ago, keep up the good work!!!
Watching a marathon of these year-end reviews has become a New Years tradition of mine.
Happy new year !! And a bowl of catnip to ernesto, may he rest in peace
I was 14 when I saw you guys now I'm 21. Legitimately watch you guys so much it's insane. Happy New Year guys!
Damn, has it really been ten years? I've been here since day 1.
been watching this since the show started, keep up the entertaining work 😃
So Happy to see Ms. Lansbury get the recognition she so richly deserves. Thanx Basement Boys.
Awesome episode guys. Been here since Episode 1 and I'll be here as long as you make them. Have a nice break!
11:42 Rollin', rollin', rollin'; god my bum is swollen. RAWHIIIIIIIDE.
I went to the USA on holiday when I was 14, and this was the funniest thing someone said to me.
there actually would be people who would narrate silent film but inter titles sort of replaced this. There is also Benshi who would perform alongside films in Japanese silent cinema tradition. thanks for another year of wttb, you guys are a consistent joy and laugh !
I'm with Matt - I couldn't care less about spoilers. Someone could quote an entire movie to me, and it wouldn't prevent me from wanting to see it, and, in fact, might convince me to see it.
Great season, guys. Love your work.
I always love these year-end episodes. Many of the movies you watch are somewhat obscure or forgotten, but most SHORT films are even moreso.
Guys I remember the opening credits when the show was 1/5th of a decade old. Boy how the time flies! Keep up the great work!
I remember when the credits had actual boxes before they switched to generic.
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Thank you so much for this episode on New Years eve. I'm home from work sick. Really needed this, gonna have to rewatch episodes in the hiatus.
YAAAAAY!! Thank you guys- this was sorely needed today. Bless you both, and extra special blessings for Tona.
The one thing Greta Garbo has over Adam Sandler, but it’s a big thing: she’s charming. Sandler looks like an extra/cameo character in a Marvel film who gets his hot dog cart destroyed by a supervillain and gets real sad.
Re: raiders of the lost arc submarine. U boats of the ww2 era were primarily diesel powered and functioned off of battery when submerged. They were boats that *could* submerge. Not like Cold War or modern subs. So yeah, if the U boat indie is on doesn’t run into trouble or decide to get the jump on an enemy, likely would sail directly without submerging.
Yeah, this model U-Boat could operate submerged for a few hours at a time. The other thing to keep in mind is that Germany was not at war yet, so there would be little need to submerge. My theory is that they only submerged for brief periods to hide their approach to the secret Aegean Nazi base.
And if it's just an hour or two, the deleted "Indy lashes himself to the periscope" scene isn't all that much more implausible than other Indy shenanigans.
Happy new year Basement gang! And happy new year to all the other viewers! It’s been a rough year but fridays on the old leather couch have made things so much easier for me and I’m sure lots of others!
Happy new year! Thank you for the wonderful movie reviews! I've been with you since the start!
Yes! Singing! “I wAnT mY oPeRaHoUsE!!!”😂
I agree about The Dig! I wanted to learn more about the pieces they found and put in those boxes. Ralph Fiennes did a great job. I thought him and the little boy being friends was cute. Like he was passing his knowledge to the next generation of diggers.
*My dad said Indy could ride the top of the submarine, because at that time submarines weren’t that great. So unless you were actually attacking they’d just sail around at surface level.
Great end of year round up. I hope 2022 is the year my contribution dvd gets watched! Irene Handl for the Hall of Fame! :)
To answer your question about riding outside the sub - it was standard operating procedure at the time to stay surfaced and run the Diesel engines and only dive when preparing to attack an enemy vessel. It’s very possible they headed straight to the island and did not submerge the entire time.
I don't remember, but don't we _see_ the submarine submerge?
@@Gillsing That was before they headed to the island with the ark.
Was not expecting this! Grateful I have this episode to help ring in the new year. Thanks for a great season. You've gotten me through a rough year.
Does anyone else think Matt’s Green Slime outfit looks kind of like a Kookyspook?
That Raiders comment made me remember a thing.
We had cable, and HBO at a time in the 80s when that wasn't the standard. My dad, being not an idiot, recorded all the big name movies (as well as his personal favorites) onto VHS when they'd come on. I remember him programming, I remember him using the Top-Of-The-Line Apple ][ computer to organize and list the tape number and index (?? time code? however that worked) of each movie on each tape.
So, by the time I was, let's say 7, I had seen all of the Star Wars, all of the existing Indiana Jones, all of a bunch of things.
Then my grandparents visited. They had no awareness of these things, and I, a kid who'd been playing with SW toys for years, and had absorbed at least the smallest fraction of the plot (Luke is good, so is Leia and Han. Chewbacca is angry, but good angry. The robots exist. Everyone else is probably bad, so it'ss OK if they get shot or sliced, plus there's that cool pit swinging scene in the first one, and the big robots in 2&3), had no concept that this wasn't ubiquitous.
"How have you not seen this?" I asked. "It's been out since /before I was born/!"
And now, I live in the present, where I can watch infinite ST: TNG episodes from when I was slightly older, and can find most TV shows, and a good fraction of movies with zero effort, and either zero dollars, or zero friction to just buying the dang thing so I can see how awful the BeeGees were in "Sgt Pepper".
Seen it? Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? It's...not great.
Love to be here for a decade (??????????that seeems fake????). I hope to be here for another!
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Happy new year people!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!!!
How did Indiana Jones ride on the back of a sub?
In those days, Nazi subs were deisel running and only dove deep when in pursuit of a ship to torpedo. The deisel engine had a snorkel to push the exhaust out while submerged only enough to hide the sihlouette, but not deep enough to cause water to bring water into the engines.
RE: Indiana Jones. It wasn’t a submarine, it was a U-boat. They’re diesel powered but couldn’t run on diesel underwater because the exhaust would kill all on board. While underwater they run off batteries that soon need recharging. Because of this, they submerge only infrequently (to attack, to avoid destroyers, to hide from spotting aircraft).
But yeah, it was still a ridiculous gamble.
Hearing that the voices of two characters in Godzilla were voiced by the father figure in 2007's 'Balls of Fury' is just mind-wrenching, for me.
Well, I wasn’t expecting to start the new year with a last year’s episode! Let’s travel back in time!
As a queer person, I cosign Matt's analysis of the sexless palatable lesbian trope.
My brother did the same as Matt's siblings with the first Toy Story and I also loved it.
Hapy napy new beer 2022 more like 2020 who cares haha woo yah wee woo love u guys, have you watched th Bicentennial Man? Its real good and stuff
I'm not sure if you all have talked about it before, but the Prom made me think to ask if you all have seen Love, Simon. It may not be that perfect representation of LGBTQ closet struggles, but I found it endearing and fun to see "whodunit" per se.
16:25 Owen Moore has gone away, owin' more than he could pay.
Still hoping that someday during their foreign month or animated month they do a review of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie, since its such a cultural milestone in Japan.
28:50 Comic Strip Lesbians
Band name. Called it.
I don't know if you guys heard of the new version of Elf On The Shelf, Delroy Lindo In The Window.
Hi guys.
I always suspected that Greta Garbo and Adam Sandler were the same person, thanks for clearing that up
Gawd, you said 110 years ago and i thought: "it's from1890? i thought movies came out in the 1910s?" I'm too damn old and mathematically an idiot.
Next season, Shack Out on 101
Hey guys! Have you seen One Night in Soho? I adore Edgar Wright movies and I wanted to see it but it doesn't play anywhere near me. Also, some time ago, Matt mentioned He's considering watching a movie He already seen on the show. I'd like to nominate Stranger Than Fiction. His first viewing was clouded by reluctance towards Maggie Gyllenhaal's character and so He missed out on some of the great strengths of the movie.
Sixty fractions of Megon?! What do you think we are, millionaires?!
I regret never visiting Cuba while Castro was alive.
You guys have got to watch "Year of the Dragon" starring Mickey Rourke. It was directed by Michael Cimino yet it's not too long of a movie, and it's an underrated neo-noir masterpiece.
I think Craig is comparing Greta Garbo to Adam Sandler because he wants Sandler to go away and stop making movies.
Fyi 1940s submarines spent most of their travel above water especially long distances so Indy could sit safely in the conning tower
Despite that horrible choice of constant "frost" around the edges of the screen, I want to watch Quintet.
I agree with Matt 100% about the relationship in Prom. It might be a PG relationship, but that still would entail kissing, hand holding, hugging, cuddling. Literally any indication that they love eachother. From what he is describing it sounds not like a PG relationship, but rather a G or lower one. One where you're jsut told oh these two are together and that's the extent of it. A like 1st grade relationship, where they say oh were dating even though they have no idea what that even means. It's not believable for a high school couple to behave that way. Even the most findemental religious people would at least act like they love eachother. Like Brad and Janet at thw beginning of Rocky horror, the two of them are completely sexless until they get to the mansion, but they still hold hands and hug and cuddle and act in love.
*SOMEONE PLEASE HELP*
I know theres probably no OG fans here, but if there are I've been trying to find one these guy's videos for a while now. Its from a series called DVD Party. I found Murder Cabin and Ape Cop, but I'm trying to find the third one. Its about 2 brothers, one smart one a moron. Please help
Seen it? Inside - by Bo Burnham
To be fair to Marion, she was abused as a child by an older man who took advantage of her sexually. I know we're supposed to ignore that bit, but she was like 14? 16? While he was early 30s? That's fucked up. Oh, sorry, she's only 10 years younger than him, so she was 15 while he was 25. That's totally cool /sarcasm here please/.
You'll wash your eye out, kid.
The view counts for wttb is so depressingly low, how's this show not huge? The world sucks
Spoilers don't bother as much as other people.
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Did you guys stop doing this show ?