good evening and welcome to a special edition of fistful of popcorn our four hundred show would you believe i'm bob brown still and i have been here from the very beginning i did take showers occasionally i like to read but we have more than our regular panel we have our own gang tonight we have janet stern we have carol well see  we have a couple of anecdotes we're going to talk about the course of filmmaking and film attending over the period of time that we've been doing this show for twenty years and so ready  go i guess ok anybody want to start well why don't we start by talking about where we are filmmaking and the show just got in the last twenty years right i have observed that we have a sort of a peculiar our own taste and that is been what we've done and i'm assuming discussed on the show by seems to me that people that i know are more watching t v now or their streaming or their tea boing or they're doing various things or watching things at their own convenience and they're not so much going out to watch conventional movie setting that's right a big change yes yeah we're the videos and was yesterday  way oh absolutely i mean there's an immersive quality to that experience and and the group experience is is just really different right now and unless you've got a really wonderful home movie movie theater with you know surround sound and everything the quality of watching things on a small screen is somewhat diminished yes but for and that's the why a lot of the shows that are quality t don't really go for huge kinds of effects and and beautiful scenery drug free they go for the intimate moving some great acting and an ironic attendant to what you said marilyn is that more and more movies are being made them yeah the sequel the sequel you see yeah that that seems to be where the business of moviemaking well i it's certainly true that that in order to make money all around the world right b is the least culturally specific as possible and there had robert push showed up on he's the owner of the montgomery yeah there still is to my knowledge what was does anybody remember what he said that was really really surprising about film distribution i think he said close to you and that's why we see today that right now we want to cover in the garden show that often show the same things but not very often at the same time but he said something else he said that he welcomes the whole burgeoning a video rental stores and that we thought was counterintuitive until he explained that it's because film producers and distributors know that they may have a better chance of recouping their costs that they go and make a film trimming services you sure and the interesting thing about the streaming services and maybe they feel they don't have enough product coming from coming from regular filmmakers and the they're sponsoring films themselves right at the exactly them now and remember the name of the fellow i strained to hear what dialogue was going on in t v but really what was the name of the movie you know i don't know all i know is that we were at least accredit that's funny you know number seventeen if you care to watch with russell crowe with gabby and i got to interact with russell crowe so that was and the other was i q which i didn't have particularly like i gather all of us are right why did you know it was fun being in the film and it was sort of a silly film again but you know i heard later that most of the cast hated the fact that they were kind of stuck in princeton for the entire film you know rea was back when we were able to sustain an hour for a show yeah yeah yeah and we could ramble on well don't forget though we had to do more movies yes we did you know i think you're rooting for it with this show i mean we can ramble on for an hour about anything yeah and we used to do like three movies oh yeah our show that's right is our format that would be tough for me today because i have trouble seeing one movie for the show that we do just i have to squeeze it in the only movies i see are ones for the show so now we have to perhaps change to having watched something you can tivo watch it in your free time you know another chance it occurred in the industry is sometimes you can actually see for elms streaming online that are still they are you know yes i remember missing one of the films we had to see in the theater but it was still playing online so i saw it at home and it was in the theater much but i do does anybody recall what does what is your opinion of the biggest disagreement we had you know i remember i don't think we disagreed very often they are all but i think that what we were told and at some point spawn is the movie you tend to dislike movies that you find too obvious yes and i remember another one that i despised and you were very heartbroken i know which  said and sometimes you just like those under scripted rambling movies like i remember there was one movie and i can't remember the name of it but it was about a bunch of kids wandering around baltimore or some southern town predictable that very low budget and that you can just maybe even see this seems a little bit but the people see really committed to making the movie and really really have a something to say and i think that's true of george washington and they had something to say about you know their nor and very often we cured do you remember how we were each individually described in one of the articles and it was i do i do it well i was somewhat offen another station do you remember that son said to chuck and said this is the best hovey review show i've ever see and i want it on my station  that and i'll say that after a brief stint of trying to end the show which was a disaster i realize how difficult this production is and apparently it's a lot easier now than it used to be  how many shows did you do i tried i did one which i completely screwed up because by the end of the show the voice was not sink and then i tried to do another one that i never completed you know i was not you which film if you can remember were you most surprised by how much you liked it having and i'm not including foreign films because the ones who come here are already self's sort of self selected we know that they're going to can i name one that i'd like yeah i knew it you're absolutely right because i always tell everybody about that movie i did not want to see it i thought oh this is going to let me go why i thought that i went in and i was completely gobsmacked i was completely chanted by amy adams which was you know early film of her and i was so charmed by that film and i will always tell everybody about that film yeah it was a that was fabulous i had to lie to my husband to get him to come see it to car tom already in a car for two hours tom writes for oh yeah who would who would think two more two more well don't think twice which was the one about the improv group that was nice but what is strange remember that beautiful film with