41. Listener Request: Fade to Black and Romero's The Amusement Park
Release Date: 07/16/2021
70. Spookies
Someone's Favorite Movie
This time on the program: Thanks/ USA Network Up All Night and what is Spookies? (3:44)/ Bowel Eruptor (9:00)/ What is this plot? (14:00)/ The special effects (16:00)/
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69. The Stuff
Someone's Favorite Movie
Better late than never...we're back This time: 1985 (7:17)/ Is The Stuff appropriate for the holiday season? (12:50)/ The plot of The Stuff (15:00)/ The practical effects in The Stuff (20:50)/ PLOT HOLES (22:00)/ the marketing design of The Stuff (26:35)/ Garrett Morris as Chocolate Chip Charlie (27:00)/ The misleading box art of The Stuff (30:00)/ Would you eat The Stuff (33:00)/ The ending (41:00)/ The Larry Myth (44:00)
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68. A Double Shot of Weird Al: Weird and The Compleat Weird Al
Someone's Favorite Movie
The Roku Channel (1:30)/ Your first Weird Al experience (3:27)/ The ‘80s pop culture experience (6:00)/ Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (10:00)/ Hay boys (14:00)/ Doctor Demento (15:40)/ The Yankovic Bump (17:30)/ Madonna (18:55)/ the look of the movie (21:00)/ Daniel Radcliffe and child stars (21:50)/ the ending (26:05)/ The Compleat Al (28:00)/ The Michael Jackson skit (33:00)/ Thoughts on The Compleat Al (35:00)/ Weird Al as a benchmark of success (45:50)/ The Weird Al/Coolio feud (43:00)/ A pitch for Weird Al (45:09)
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67. Halloween Ends (but does it really?)
Someone's Favorite Movie
Tom Coe’s sick/ Recap of the previous David Gordon Green Halloween movies (2:22)/ Halloween Ends (7:12)/ Corey Cunningham (15:10)/ Laurie Strode’s matchmaking skills (20:15)/ Why is Michael Myers hiding? And Halloween 4 similarities (23:20)/ Halloween Ends trailers and posters (27:05)/ Halloween: The Love Story? (28:00)/ Michael Myers’ sidekick and an alternate ending that references Halloween 3 (28:58)/ the gore (33:40)/ Michael Myers screen time (35:30)/ The ending to Halloween Ends (40:00)
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66. Marvel's Forgetten Movie, Man-Thing
Someone's Favorite Movie
This time, we cover Liongate's attempt to bring Marvel's walking pile of sod, the Man-Thing, to the big screen. It eventually premiered as a Sci-Fi Original Movie (before the SyFy change) and there are a whole load of reasons for that, which we cover in this eppy. Joining us is Jake from the unfortunately defunct podcast "Jake and Tom Conquer the World." Jake rejoins his cohost and bff, Tom, to help us decide what went wrong with this movie and whether or not it actually is someone's favorite. Tom tries to 1up Randy/ Too Many Dogs (8:00)/ Man-Thing (11:00)/ Behind the scenes of Man-Thing...
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65. Sid and Nancy
Someone's Favorite Movie
Never mind the Bollocks, it’s Someone’s Favorite Movie with another cringe punny way to introduce the show notes for episode 66 of this esteemed program. In this episode, it’s the doomed romance of Sid Vicious (from the Sex Pistols) and Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox's sensationalized biopic. This is the second Alex Cox film that we have covered. The first was the equally punk-centric movie, Repo Man in episode 58 of this podcast. Check it out! What’s a Sex Pistol? / Where have we been, for crying out loud/ Sid and Nancy (4:31)/ Sid Vicious (5:00)/ the music of the Sex Pistols (8:00)/ the...
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64. Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein and Andy's Warhol's Blood for Dracula
Someone's Favorite Movie
Birds/ Film Anger about DENISE CALLS UP (1:32)/ Flesh for Frankenstein (4:30)/ “skinimax version of Universal Monsters” (6:00)/ Andy Warhol (8:40)/ Batman Dracula (10:15)/ Andy Warhol - the brand name (13:30)/ The plot of Flesh for Frankenstein (17:10)/ the fame of Joe Dallesandro (22:00)/ Weird sex and gall bladders (26:30)/ The death scene (28:50)/ Improv (33:20)/ The ending (36:25)/ Blood for Dracula (41:50)/ Udo Kier’s unhinged performance (46:48)/ the creepiest hero (50:11)
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63. Alligator
Someone's Favorite Movie
Jaws (the James Bond one)/ Jaws ripoff/ alligator urban legends/ Robert Forster/ did Spielberg take inspiration from Alligator?/ the Breaking Bad connection
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62. X
Someone's Favorite Movie
Talking about Batman’s A Death in the Family/ X the movie (13:00)/ a24 (15:00)/ Mia Goth’s performance/ did we love it or hate it?
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61. Wired (the infamous Belushi biopic)
Someone's Favorite Movie
Bob Woodward/ the genius of John Belushi (6:40)/ how do you make this movie work? (9:00)/ The singing talents of Michael Chiklis (16:30)/ The outrage in the plot (22:44)/ Ray Sharkey (33:14)/ do we recommend this? (39:00)
info_outlineThis time, we take a listener request to cover the 1980 slasher, Fade to Black. Plus, we talk about the recently released lost George A Romero film, The Amusement Park.
Is there a obscure movie that you absolutely love and think more people need to know about? Shoot us an email and we will cover it on the show! ([email protected])
The Amusement Park
lost media (16:15)
Jerry Lewis’ lost The Day the Clown Cried (17:00)
other lost media including lost Doctor Who (21:20)
Fade to Black (26:50)
Randy is the host of the big dumb comedy show Miserable Retail Slave. We recently celebrated our 9 year podcasting anniversary on the show. You can listen to it here: bit.ly/miserableretailslave
Tom Coe is the host of the long running podcast, Jake and Tom Conquer the World. It's the conversation between two geeks at the end of the bar. Listen to here if you love nerding out: https://drunkendorkpodcast.libsyn.com/
Randy was recently a guest on the Bumming with Bobcat podcast along with Shayna from Girl Interuppter and Dennis from The Dennis Show! It's a fun conversation about alcohol and podcasting. Listen here! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theres-a-pork-chop-in-every-beer/id957207905?i=1000529031444