Hugh Jackman, Chris O’Dowd & Nicholas Braun Play Movie Mash-Up! | Say More
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0:00 I mean, you didn't put a lot of work into the acting, but I understand why.
0:03 is really I come for the press.
0:05 Yeah, this is why they bring him out.
0:08 [laughter]
0:08 A lot of games today.
0:09 I'm going to bet that United United 93 Amigos doesn't come up.
0:15 Oh, man, I'm going to build that in.
0:17 I'm not I'm taking that.
0:18 Note to self.
0:19 This is a portmanteau game.
0:21 Portmanteau means we put two words together, so bear with me.
0:24 Uh I'm going to give you two movie descriptions that are combined.
0:27 What these movies share in common is a word that is in the middle.
0:31 So, one movie a title ends with it, the other begins.
0:33 I know this sounds really complicated.
0:35 I'm going to give you an example.
0:36 So, like Nicholas Cage headlines this romantic drama
0:39 as a heavenly guardian who helps a Los Angeles-based
0:41 ball team to victory would be City of Angels
0:45 in the outfield with the common word game.
0:47 I'm not going to be good at this.
0:49 That's okay.
0:49 Can tell.
0:50 All right.
0:50 As a bonus
0:51 we are the tall actors, not the smart actors.
0:54 Yes.
0:54 I was
0:55 So, any questions about height, we got you.
0:58 I'll We'll I'll see if I can rework the second that in there.
1:00 You want me to get what from where?
1:03 [laughter] Well, the good news is at least one movie title in each combination,
1:07 one of you is in, and I have clues if you guys need some help.
1:10 Okay.
1:11 So, and this is collaborative.
1:12 You guys can help each other.
1:14 We got 10 minutes.
1:14 We're going to have a good time.
1:15 Yeah, I feel good about that.
1:16 I've gotten one already.
1:17 I'm embarrassed before.
1:19 The embarrassing is the worst.
1:19 This is You're going to do great.
1:21 We're working together.
1:22 Yeah, yeah, you can work together.
1:23 See if you figure out the Okay, we're not competing.
1:25 Okay.
1:26 collaborative.
1:26 Let's get into it.
1:27 So, this Wallace and Gromit spin-off focuses on a fluffy farm animal
1:32 who leads a murder investigation when his beloved shepherd turns up dead.
1:36 So, it's two it.
1:39 Shawn the Sheep Detective.
1:40 Yes.
1:41 Yes, there you go.
1:43 Nailed it.
1:43 Thanks.
1:44 What's the answer?
1:44 What's the answer?
1:45 It's Shawn the Sheep Detective.
1:46 Got it.
1:47 Yeah, Shawn the Sheep is Shawn the Sheep Shawn the Sheep Sheep Detective.
1:49 I I have actually played this game before.
1:52 No, I'm I'll say it.
1:53 In this wild comedy,
1:55 Steve Martin stars as the titular patriarch who's going mad as his daughter,
1:59 played by Kristen Wiig,
2:00 grapples with how to be a maid of honor at her best friend's wedding.
2:04 Oh, yeah, when they say it's daughter of the bride's maids.
2:09 Yes.
2:09 Sweet.
2:09 You're great at this.
2:10 Sweet.
2:10 That would be a good spin-off.
2:12 Right?
2:12 Let's get that in the work.
2:13 This is also just how I get my associate producer credit on things.
2:16 This is I'm always thinking.
2:18 I'm always hustling.
2:19 Uh Nicholas Braun plays Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman in this showbiz
2:24 dramedy about what happens when zombies invade a comedy sketch show.
2:29 George Romero directs.
2:30 Okay, so the second I don't know the second one.
2:33 Second one is Dawn of the So, did you do Well,
2:36 it's called Wasn't it called Saturday Night, right?
2:38 Saturday Night Saturday Night of the Living Dead.
2:44 Yeah.
2:43 No, come on.
2:44 Yeah.
2:45 Crushing it.
2:46 But you didn't know that second movie, but you did.
2:48 Thank you, guys.
2:48 You said Dawn of the Dead.
2:49 I was like, when he said Saturday Night, you're going to get there, and you did.
2:52 Oh, I'm excited.
2:53 Well done.
2:53 Well played.
2:53 How was that movie?
2:54 I didn't see it.
2:55 It was good.
2:56 So good.
2:56 It was really It was fantastic.
2:58 You were so good.
2:59 you didn't think it was good, you're going to say no.
3:00 Yeah, I thought it was good.
3:02 That would be the wrong place to ask.
3:04 Yeah, that was a big ask.
3:05 It was That's two iconic people, incredible stuff.
3:07 Okay, number four.
3:09 Featuring songs like This Is Me,
3:11 this rousing musical stars Hugh Jackman as a circus founder who
3:14 wears a red cape as he battles for Metropolis as a superhero.
3:19 Michael Shannon co-stars as General Zod.
3:22 Right.
3:22 So, you know, what it is is Showman Superman Showman I got it.
3:28 The Greatest Showman MAN OF STEEL.
3:33 WHAT'S IT CALLED?
3:34 YEAH, MAN OF STEEL.
3:35 This is your game.
3:36 I presume so.
3:38 [laughter] It is called Man of Steel.
3:39 There you go.
3:40 The takeaway from this interview is invite Chris
3:42 O'Dowd to game night if you want to win.
3:45 Like truly, you're blowing this out of the water.
3:48 Amazing.
3:49 Um I mean, you didn't put a lot of work into the acting, but I understand why.
3:52 This is really I come for the press.
3:54 Yeah, this is why they bring him out.
3:58 [laughter] A lot of games today.
3:58 I'm going to bet that United United 93 Amigos doesn't come up.
4:04 Oh, man, I'm going to build that in.
4:06 I'm not I'm taking that.
4:07 Note to self.
4:08 That's crazy.
4:09 the one you were going to put out there?
4:11 I do have some weird ones coming up.
4:12 Um Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz fall in love
4:14 in this wacky rom-com about a magical English
4:17 nanny who comes back to visit a family
4:19 that once saw her fly away with an umbrella.
4:21 There's Something About Mary Poppins.
4:23 Come on now.
4:25 That one.
4:25 It is technically Mary Poppins Returns because that Chris is in that one.
4:29 But There you go.
4:30 That's why it comes back.
4:31 But yeah.
4:32 Crushed it.
4:34 Returns.
4:34 I played a dog in that.
4:36 That was one of the clues.
4:37 My two characters would not have gotten on in these movies.
4:40 That's true.
4:41 Sheep and dog, of course.
4:42 You can look at this.
4:44 They're certainly a dynamic in one,
4:46 like How did you play the dog versus how you how did you play the sheep?
4:50 I went with animal voice both times.
4:53 And they shut it down the first both times.
4:56 They said with a speaking space.
4:58 Yes, I did a lot of accents.
5:01 I was like, you want a weird one?
5:06 [laughter] They were like, no, you're not.
5:07 Uh okay, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play
5:10 a Neil Diamond cover band in this David
5:12 Lynch neo-noir where Dennis Hopper Song BLUE
5:15 VELVET VELVET THAT HAD ITS 40th anniversary.
5:19 Oh, really?
5:20 Blue Velvet I just passed the IFC.
5:21 It was like a week ago.
5:23 Yeah.
5:23 That's sexy stuff.
5:24 Crushed it.
5:24 Come on.
5:25 Love that.
5:26 Um okay, a school for superpowered teenagers could
5:29 be where teen Will Stronghold finds his inner hero.
5:33 But how will he handle it when a vengeance-seeking
5:35 cowboy challenges him to a shootout at 12:00 p.m.?
5:39 Sky High Noon.
5:40 Yes.
5:40 [screaming] Sky High is my movie.
5:42 The first part is my movie.
5:44 Disney old Disney film.
5:47 High Noon I just guessed cuz it said 12:00.
5:49 Yeah, right.
5:50 How did you know that?
5:51 I did.
5:51 High Noon you voted on that.
5:53 Yeah.
5:54 Very good.
5:55 Sky High Noon.
5:56 Sky High Noon.
5:56 Number eight.
5:57 Um in this movie anthology,
5:59 Hugh Jackman plays a man who has balls hanging below his chin.
6:02 Oh, yes.
6:03 While Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg,
6:06 and Ted Danson play a trio of eligible bachelors Movie Three Men and a Baby.
6:10 YES.
6:11 THAT'S GOOD.
6:13 [laughter] CRUSHING IT.
6:17 OKAY, I WILL say but Not the 93 Amigos, yes.
6:20 is trickier.
6:23 [laughter]
6:22 I'm going to write that one up.
6:24 That's going to happen.
6:25 Um The God of Thunder returned for this critically panned sequel which earned
6:30 an Oscar nomination for John Lithgow's performance
6:32 as a transgender ex-football player named Roberta Muldoon.
6:35 Wow.
6:36 I Do you know what?
6:36 I tuned out for a second there.
6:38 You have number nine.
6:39 Yes.
6:39 So, the God of Thunder returned
6:41 for this crucially panned critically panned critically panned.
6:45 Probably one of my It is one of my It is
6:47 one of my which earned an Oscar nomination for John Lithgow.
6:54 [laughter] Thor 2 Oh, does it have a name?
6:56 It probably doesn't.
6:57 Wait, what's the first movie?
6:59 Oh, Thor It was the second one.
7:01 Do you remember it?
7:03 It's called like Face of the Hammer.
7:07 [laughter] Face of the Hammer.
7:10 It's not Face of the Hammer.
7:11 Not Love and Thunder, not Ragnarok, but Hammer time.
7:15 Hammer time.
7:18 [laughter] By the way Not a bad title.
7:21 The next cowboy which earned an Oscar nomination
7:24 for John Lithgow's performance of a transgender ex-footballer.
7:28 That one stars Robin Williams, and it's from like the '80s.
7:31 I forget what year.
7:33 Yep.
7:33 Uh-huh.
7:34 A hard pick, you're right.
7:37 It's Thor Meets Mrs.
7:38 Doubtfire.
7:39 Um okay, so the first title is Thor: The Dark World.
7:41 So Do you know what the second one is?
7:46 Dark World World World of Warfare World World of Mrs.
7:51 Doubtfire.
7:54 [laughter] See, this one Honestly, I think this is the trickiest one.
7:56 It was Thor: The Dark World ACCORDING TO GARP.
7:58 OH, GREAT.
8:00 YEAH, THAT WAS IT.
8:01 AND THEN I WANT to give you one more before we wrap because
8:03 uh this one is This is one that in my head is just hilarious.
8:05 We'll see if you get it.
8:06 This Pixar movie about a young girl who can transform into a big
8:09 fluffy animal surprised audiences and critics with its mature subject matter.
8:13 As she joins a cult armed with hot girls and lots of guns,
8:16 Kevin Smith writes and directs.
8:19 Uh Kevin Smith writes and directs.
8:22 Well, that's Red State.
8:23 That's a movie I was Red State.
8:25 Okay, the first Pixar movie It's something Red State Men Truth State.
8:31 You're on the right path.
8:33 Do you remember the movie called Red
8:34 State Red It did surprise audiences and critics.
8:38 It was like a metaphor for like for for like menstruation,
8:41 but the little girl turns into a giant
8:43 fluffy animal in the Pixar movie Turning Red.
8:48 Fluffy Turning Red State.
8:51 Turning Red State.
8:52 Red State Turning Red State.
8:54 Turning Red State.
8:57 [laughter] I like it.
8:57 That is I mean, it's like a kids' version of Carrie.
9:00 Yeah.
9:02 [laughter] This whole Bleach with the theme.
9:03 Well, thank you, guys.
9:04 That was really fun.
9:06 I don't know.
9:06 It seemed the thing to do.