Happy Gilmore

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello, and before we begin the podcast, I'd like to apologize for there being such a big gap since the last episode. It comes down to just getting people on, because I can't expect people to just drop their shit and do a podcast. It's basically, no one gets paid. I don't get paid. They don't get paid. This is all done for fun. So there are going to be times where both on this podcast and the other podcast I do, there's going to be some gaps. But hopefully after this week, we'll get back to a more regular schedule. If not, then just. Just wait. There'll be more. There's always more. There's always more coming. Anyway, enjoy the podcast and check out happy Gilmore. Bye bye. Well, not bye bye. Stick around. Stick around. [00:00:48] Speaker B: Don't. [00:00:48] Speaker A: Bye bye. Bye bye. At the end of the podcast. Hello, and welcome to the Pugsley crew reviews, where we discuss all manner of films, whether they're good, bad, or, you know, just. Just a film. Today we have guest for the first time. You've been on the video game podcast peds game shop. You've not actually been on Pugsy's crew reviews, so. Yes. Ashwa, hello. [00:01:21] Speaker B: Thanks for having me. [00:01:23] Speaker A: No problem, man. How you doing? How you doing? [00:01:26] Speaker B: I'm doing well, you know, excited to be on the first, like, on my first, like, movie podcast. One, seeing with. What was it? Two. Two game ones we've done now, I think. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Yeah, no. Little nightmares and little nightmares two, Nightmare crew. Yeah. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:42] Speaker A: And now we go away for little nightmare three now, which is supposedly coming out some point in the future. I think. I think it's already. I think it's next year, isn't it? [00:01:52] Speaker B: I know it's in the work. I know. They announced. Was it last year? They announced it? I think. [00:01:56] Speaker A: I think so. Yeah. [00:01:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:59] Speaker A: For those who are wondering, just. Just check out Pugsy crew, not Pugsy crews. That's the podcast. We're done. Check out peds's game shack and look for little nightmares on little nightmares two. And you can hear me and Ash talk about the very, very fucking weird games, but really good fun as well. [00:02:15] Speaker B: Yeah. A bit creepy. A little bit. [00:02:17] Speaker A: Yeah. So, as per the guest chose the film, it was happy Gilmore. Why did you pick happy Gilmore? [00:02:30] Speaker B: I just. I don't know. I just like Adam Sandler and, like, listen, hold the. Hold the vegetable throwing. Hear me out. It's like Adam Sandler film. Just because, you know, the chill, you don't have to think too hard about him. And they're generally just a good laugh. [00:02:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:44] Speaker B: His latest stuff's been a bit stinkier, but, like, the old school, like Happy Gilmore, little Nicky, big daddy, stuff like that. It's just like. And water boy, he can't help but like those films. [00:02:55] Speaker A: Yeah, they are enjoyable films. They are enjoyable films. I agree with that. I do find a lot of the other stuff a bit meh. And, like, I've heard about Adam Sandler in more serious roles where he's meant to be very, very good in them, but I haven't seen those. But he's supposed to be really, really good. He's supposed to be a really good actor, but he just seems to like having fun making films with his friends, and that seems to be his whole thing. That's just a fun, make a film. Fucking check it out. Let's see how it goes, that kind of thing. [00:03:29] Speaker B: If you can be successful at it, why not, right? Why not? It's just one of those things. Another reason why I picked Happy Gilmore, one of those films where the film has got a heart in it. It's basically one of those messages where it's like, if you, no matter how much you want to do something, you might be better suited to something else. [00:03:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. That's bang on the nose. And for me, it's like, however much I want to do cool stuff, I suck. So I may as well just cry in the corner, you know? [00:04:02] Speaker B: I'm better crying than I am, you know, so embrace it. That's why I'm called Wawa, after all. And cut. Known as wow. [00:04:12] Speaker A: That's fair enough. I'm gonna assume most people who were listening to the podcast have seen Happy Gilmore. They haven't. Watch it and then listen along. Because, you know, you probably enjoy the podcast more than after watching the film than watching the film after. After the podcast. Yeah, that's what I think anyway. But the film is basically about a guy who grows up, and all he wants to do is play hockey. His father even dies during hockey game, which I did laugh. I gotta be honest. I shouldn't laugh. But I did laugh. And turns out, while he's got a great slap shot, like, it's really, really good, he's really bad at everything else, including skating. So ice hockey is not really something he's ever gonna do good at. So he tries driving a ball in golf to make some guys, you know, moving stuff out, skipping a bit. Here is Gran, who he lives, who he lived with growing up. Because his father died, his mother left. She's having her house repossessed and while happy Gilmore is in the house, the people who've taken the stuff out decide to have a break to drive a ball to see how far they can do it. And then happy Gilmore drives it and drives it, like, 400 odd yards away, which is allegedly really good. I haven't got a clue. I don't follow golf at all because it shits. [00:06:01] Speaker B: This makes golf entertaining, let's be honest. [00:06:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't really enjoy sports. You know, I'm not gonna enjoy, like, rugby or something, which is, like, fucking brutal, fucking fast paced stuff. Then I'm not gonna enjoy someone standing there hitting a ball for hours on end. [00:06:21] Speaker B: See, golf is one of those weird ones. Don't like watching it, and I don't like playing it, but I love playing it in games. Yeah, it's weird. It's like I can't watch it, can't play it. But you put me in front of a game with golf in it, I'll play it all day. [00:06:40] Speaker A: See, I don't mind, like, mini golf style golf games, but I'm not really much of a golf game. Like, I wouldn't play PGA Tour, but I would happily play golf with golf with your friends, you know? [00:06:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it's got to be an arcade event. It can't be a sim version. I've been bored to tears, man. Like, I've got the attention span of a two year. Two year old with a sugar rush. You know, it's not going to work. [00:07:08] Speaker A: Probably different if you're playing here with a group of friends, because, you know, they can keep you on track. [00:07:15] Speaker B: Yeah, but when are the lads going to sit down and go, you know what? Let's break out, EJ. We're in for a good time here. It's like, no, don't make that interest is turn it into a drinking game. [00:07:26] Speaker A: That's what I was thinking. Every time you don't. Every sh. Every shot you take, you take a shot. [00:07:34] Speaker B: Wow. Yeah, that could get messy pretty quick. [00:07:37] Speaker A: Yeah, very quick. Especially as someone would probably purposely just miss the fucking hall constantly just to get drunk. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Oh, no. Again. God damn it. Oh, well, all right. More for me, I guess. And then you've got that one. One guy in the friend group who refuses to take it because he just wants to win. Yeah. You know, we've all got one. [00:08:02] Speaker A: I haven't. I've got any friends. [00:08:06] Speaker B: I think I'm that in the friend group, to be fair. [00:08:15] Speaker A: With this. Then he finds that he's good at driving a ball, goes to driving range. I gotta be honest. When he's driving in, he smashed the window like, ah, yeah. Haha. I didn't find that particularly funny. When he hit the guy, I didn't find that too funny. But when he hit the woman afterwards, I did find that funny because she like, the guy got hit and he's like, ah, my head. But when the woman was hit, she was hit on the head and then she fell out of a window. That was funnier than the guy getting hit in the head and just like rolling, not rolling around, but like moving around us and like, oh, I hurt my head. Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:08:54] Speaker B: And then he tries for the open, doesn't he? Because his cash involved. [00:08:57] Speaker A: Yeah, basically he only has an interest in golf or the simple fact that he can earn some money he doesn't like. It's not like he's trying to earn money because he's the kind of person who's just like, I want as much money as I can get. It's literally he wants to get enough money to get his grandmother's house back. And that's what he really cared about initially. As it progresses, he cares more about the game and starts to enjoy himself by the end of the film. It's a fun film. I think Abby Gilmore is a character that is not particularly likable a lot of the time because he's just a bit of an ass towards other people. It's mainly because of his temper, in my opinion. But at the same time he seems to wear his emotions on his sleeve. He loses temper and then he'll be like, ah, shit, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that. Anything but. [00:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah, well, this is why. This is why like he was wanting to do hockey where he's basically trying to fight everybody all the time. This is his big thing of fighting everybody. [00:10:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:15] Speaker B: And being like the enforcer in hockey. And now he's come to golf. He's got a restraint though. So obviously he goes to like the driving range and he starts. So obviously I take some money off those two movies. He's like, I can make some money at the driving range and start driving like betting people. And then obviously a pro takes notice of him. Chubs. [00:10:38] Speaker A: Yeah, chubbs. Carl Weathers, rest in peace. [00:10:42] Speaker B: He's a really cool, plays a really nice part in that. [00:10:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Especially after seeing him. It was Carl Weathers in Predator, wasn't it? Pretty sure. [00:10:51] Speaker A: No, it was John Glovere. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Wait, John Glover? [00:10:55] Speaker A: Oh, wait a. [00:10:56] Speaker B: Wait, wait, wait. [00:10:57] Speaker A: No, sorry. I was thinking of Predator two. John Glover, the predator two in predator, I believe I believe it's Carl Weathers. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Who'S like Danny Glover. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Danny Glover, yeah. John Glover's a different guy. Again. [00:11:08] Speaker B: F. We're pretty, man. Like, I could be wrong. [00:11:16] Speaker A: No, I think it is called weather. Yeah. Yeah. When he's, when he grabs Arnie's arm and the muscles are algae and sweat. [00:11:26] Speaker B: Since I watched that film. But, yeah, it's. And then seeing him somewhat immortal like happy Gilmore because basically the story with Chubbs is, you know, he's a pro. He had to retire because he went to get his, lost his ball in the rough and bit his hand off. [00:11:43] Speaker A: And he removed the. [00:11:47] Speaker B: He's got a big prosthetic, like, um, hand. Any, like a big wouldn't. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:51] Speaker B: Let combat it. But still, he's a nice character in that. I like him in that. [00:11:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. He's, uh, he's a nice, uh, he's a good character. He's fun. And, uh, it's cool to see him play like a. Just a chill guy. Like, I'm not, I'm not used to seeing him as a, as a chill guy because it was Calwer that's in Rocky as well. My brain is so awful. [00:12:19] Speaker B: Gone. I'm awful. Reactors names, terrible with them, to be fair. Yeah, it was. Yeah. [00:12:29] Speaker A: Yeah. I thought it was Colwell. I said Apollo Creed. Yeah. [00:12:36] Speaker B: Yeah. He was mad back in the day. Like, he's ripped his hell, Mandy. [00:12:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:45] Speaker B: I think this is one of the first times you see him in a role where he's not playing like a, you know, a serious role. [00:12:52] Speaker A: Yeah. He's just kind of chill and he's like, you know, I'm just chill. And, you know, go to your happy place and take time and enjoy the game. Whereas we in rock, he's like, let's punch set. [00:13:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And that base, that's what happy Gilmore is. Let's just punch it. You know, but he takes him under his wing and, you know, guides him to, like this open. So if you, if you win this open, you get chance to be on the pro tour, which is like, big time for him. So basically, long story short, he ends up getting onto the tour he can't put. So he has to. So chubbs have to be like, listen, we're gonna have to learn. You had to put. That's the way he comes in with a happy place. [00:13:43] Speaker A: Yeah. To be fair, he does say to him, don't go on the tour this year. Do it next year. Give me time to coach you properly. And he's like, no, man, I need the money. Like, I need to. I need to do it. And obviously to other people, it probably just seems like he wants money. He's like, just wants his riches. But obviously we, as the viewer knows that he wants this money to get his grandmother's house back, which in the end, well, skipping back, skipping to the end, she's like, I don't really care. It's just a house. There's more important things than a house. [00:14:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Also, to add to this, to the agency of why pushes get on the toilet? Because it's going up for auction. [00:14:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:25] Speaker B: He's got a very strict deadline of when this needs to happen. [00:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think he realized it's going for auction, but he got a certain date to get it by. He's told that he has a certain date to get the money by, to get the house back. And, oh, it's going to be sold. That's what he's told. If you don't get it, if you don't have the money by this day, it'll be sold. So to me, it seems like the way it was described is they were. I wouldn't be like, if it was me as Harpy Gilmore and that was happening, my thought would be, oh, well, I could just buy it back just like he did. Because they didn't say, oh, we're going to auction off at this date. If you don't get the money by this date, we're getting rid of it. That, like, we're going to sell your house. That implies that he has a chance to get in his house before it's sold on. But obviously that's not what happens. [00:15:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it made me laugh when he says, like, you gotta get this. There's nothing we can do. We've got to get this money by this date. You hate me now, don't you? And then the next minute you see the old prince of Bel Air style being chucked out the house. It's like, yeah, he hates me. [00:15:33] Speaker A: And he's great because he's like, no, no, I don't hate you. [00:15:45] Speaker B: Then when he gets on the tour is very like, plays it like he's playing hockey. So how can I put it in? Attracts, like, the working class crowd and, you know, yeah, everybody like football for anybody that you would not associate, go, yeah, it's fun. [00:16:03] Speaker A: Because when he starts off, like, there's a lot of swearing, a lot of aggression. He punches other players and stuff like that. And obviously he has to tone it down there. The thing is, is where every time that, like, he swear in, it shows it from a tv standpoint where they bleep all the swearing. You can make out every single word quite clearly what he's saying. [00:16:31] Speaker B: One of the best. When he's fighting over players. One of the best ones. I'm not. We're not gonna skip ahead too far. We'll circle back to this. But I. Well, you're gonna get it now, Bobby. He starts fighting Bob Barker. [00:16:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I found that fight funny because he fights with Bob Barker, and then he knocks Bob Barker out, and he's on the floor out cold. And then I think when he goes, the price is wrong, bitch. He's like, give him a second win. It's all we come across. How fucking dare you? The indignation. [00:17:09] Speaker B: I think you've had enough. No. Now you've had enough. [00:17:15] Speaker A: Yeah. There's some fucking really funny moments in this. And I like, I know a lot of people dislike Adam Sandler films, but I do think his earlier ones, especially, for me, this one mortal boy, are particularly great. [00:17:30] Speaker B: Like, you know, I personally think a lot of people turn their nose up at Adam Sandler film because they think that the, like, go to trash. No, it's. It's something you put on to have a laugh, and that's it. There's no deeper meaning, no deeper plot, just there for a bit amusement. Right. And I think people just get lost in that for an artistic purpose, like. No, it's just for a laugh. Like, you can't have things for a laugh. It does. Does occur. [00:17:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Not everything needs to be citizen fucking cane. No, but I've seen Citizen Kanek. [00:18:05] Speaker B: I've not seen it ever. It's way too high class for me or high brow for me. It's more the fact I think people just. That movies were meant to be fun and not like a complete peace or saying a message or anything like this. It's just like, it's just meant to be fun. Just enjoy it. That's stuff where we've had a sandler. Stuff where it gets lost translation a little bit. Well, they're not the best thing in the world, but they're like, I can't put it. Just comfort food, you know, like the older ones where you can just play on and go, oh, yeah. Like, you know, so chill. Like, you know, when you're not feeling great, you've got a bad day and just sticking out of the film on. Oh, not seeing big daddy for a while. I've not seen happy Gilmore, not seen little Nicky freighters. [00:18:52] Speaker A: Yeah, he's one of those films you can stick on. I put it on. I was like, I haven't seen this for a while. Let's just enjoy. And I did, like I said to you, I'll probably write some notes down. And I managed to write down three. And then I just carried on watching the film and enjoying it. And the literary I wrote, I did laugh at the father dying, and I was like, poor Carl Weather's hand. And lastly, the first caddy is treated really weirdly because one with the first cad he has, he, like, obviously takes happy Gilmore's clubs. [00:19:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:30] Speaker A: And happy tackles him, and he's like, give me my fucking cabs back, bitch. He doesn't say those words. So that kind of film. And then he's like, oh, no, I'm your cardio. I meant to carry him for you. He's like, I'll carry him. And then he's like, 1 minute he's strangling him, the next minute they jump. He's jumping around with him. And it's like, what is up with him? Like, he's just fucking mental. [00:19:56] Speaker B: He doesn't know how tat did it. He didn't even have the concept of Caddy. It's like when he gets to his second caddy, it's like, right. It's like, who's your caddy? Like, you guys are meant to give me one. It's like, no, on the pro tour, you support your own caddy. And he literally goes out and gets a homeless guy to be and put socks on his golf clubs. It's just so deadpan, which I didn't realize. The actor that played the homeless guy is one of the gay friends in big. Yeah. Which is in a lot of stuff. He's in all his films, but I think there's a group of friends that just, you know, are always in his films regardless. Like, oh, yeah, happy Madison. That's another one in ithood. Oh, no. Billy Madison. Billy Madison. Yeah. Yeah. I think a lot, a lot of those comedians around that time all helped each other out. Anyway, I know. If you, you know, if you know, if you know your mates who do it, why not use them, right? You don't have to give everyone new opportunity all the time. If your friends can do it and you get on, why not? Righteous. I don't think we get them films anymore. I think the last ones we got were ended in, like, the mid nineties, you know? And I hate you people term notice, but still, like, if you get, like, you know, I mean, like, um, what was one that Ryan Reynolds did? Van Wilder. That's it. Those type of music, american pie and all that sort of stuff. Oh, God. No. I like. I like. I like the films, but I don't think they'd work now. I think they try way too hard. And, like, the new. The new language the kids are using now. That is pause without new comes on now. And get the Google thing. Like, what does that mean? Oh, yeah. Well, it's not me, is it? So, you know, I'm gonna be selfish on this. That's true. And also. Hmm. I don't think they'd ever do it, but. Because, wow, that's. That'd be retro now, wouldn't it? Oh, my God. Yeah. It's like 30 odd. 30, 35 years ago. Mandy, it. That's scary. I don't like things like that. Yeah. Five and 15 for me. So roughly same. I got it. Yet I'm still holding out. That's true. And after, I'd have to be able to get four kids in a week. Bloody hell. That'd be on a right shift. But no, then obviously with, like, yo on this talk, he obviously gets a rival. The guy's kind of a dick, I'm not going to lie. Very dumb humor in it and stuff. It's, um. Well, that's for me. That's what you need sometimes, right? Everything has to be clean. Um, but, no, I said he only wants is Hugh McGavin. All he wants is the golden jacket. He thinks it's his turn. And obviously, happy Gilmore joining is, uh, deterred from that and degraded the support in his eyes. But obviously, because the ratings are high, he gets kept on. It's, um. Yeah, also, you could describe that about most, but, you know, plays, hits the ball, goes to the other plate. Sorry I got interrupted. I do apologize, basically good about most. But if you. I suppose if you take an interest in it or. But for me, it's not for me. I can't watch it, and I can't play it. We'll put a video game for him. I can do it if it's arcade. So I understand the fun of it, but, yeah, it just seems like a lot of work, and it seems like a very old man sport, I'll be honest. Well, I'll never be old enough to get into golf once I start getting into golf. That's what. I've got to admit it. I've, like, matured a bit too much. You? Absolutely. One of those. It's one of those feel good films that was a bunch of Adam Sandler films from the nineties. And I know people say they don't like Adam Sandler. That's fair enough. He just. I find his music movies funny, you know? So I would highly recommend. It's just. It's just a laugh, right. Don't take it too seriously. Just enjoy it for what it is. No, that's about it. I think, like, hockey plays golf, you know? Goes on a wacky journey. I think that's about the most tagline you need. Go, go. Watch it. Bye. [00:29:44] Speaker A: You're gonna beat me a golf. Oh, you're on. You're in big trouble, though, pal. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast. You eat pieces of shit for breakfast? [00:29:59] Speaker B: No.