TMR 066 – Full Metal Jacket
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This week on Total Movie Recall, we go to the suck. Steve develops a thousand yard stare reserved for veterans of nightmare wars and mediocre podcasts. Ryan chalks up another point in the Irresponsible Father column, reflecting on his father’s prudent decision to let him watch this vision of insanity at a tender age yet again. If you listen to this episode, you can go to my house and fornicate with my sister. Full Metal Jacket (1987) d. w. based on his novel Starring: as as as as as as as Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis,...
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TMR 065 – Harold and Maude
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This week on Total Movie Recall, we watch the first Manic Pixie Dream Girl ever on screen, who is not a girl at all, but is most decidedly a woman. It’s the perfect post-2020 movie, and not just because of the constant suicides. It’s twee and precious and we absolutely loved it. Harold & Maude (1971) d. w. Music by: Starring: Cult classic pairs Cort as a dead-pan disillusioned 20-year-old obsessed with suicide and a loveable Gordon as a fun-loving 80-year-old eccentric. They meet at a funeral, and develop a taboo romantic relationship, in which they explore the tired...
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TMR 064 – The Neverending Story
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This week on Total Movie Recall, we learn that while some stories never end, mothers do, and that’s the beginning of how a serial killer is made in this unflinching look inside the mind of one disturbed little boy. Hang in there with us, listen to this, and watch it again and try to tell us you didn’t witness a psychotic break as this poor boy retreats inside the dark fantasies of his mind. The Neverending Story (1984) d. w. , Music by Starring: as Atreyu as Bastian as The Childlike Empress as Teeny Weeny On his way to school, Bastian ducks into a bookstore to...
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TMR 063 – Wild Things
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Ah, the good ole days of passing around R rated spank tapes. This movie is so trashy, it gave Charlie Sheen HIV. (1998) d. Starring: When teen debutante Kelly fails to attract the attention of her hunky guidance counselor, Sam, she cries rape, igniting a scandal that results in his arrest. Sam appeals to Ken, a hack personal-injury lawyer who has never handled a case that couldn't be helped by a prop neck brace. Soon, a second victim, Suzie, comes forward, and Detective Duquette discovers that the unfolding case is far from what it seems. Things discussed in the...
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TMR 062 – From Dusk Till Dawn
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Remember the innocent 90s, when white directors thought they had the N-word pass for some reason? What do you think their “woke” movie would look like? Probably like this, where the N-word is replaced by horrific rape and Mexican jokes. This proto-edgelord movie was looked at as such a good time romp that it was considered the perfect vehicle to transition from the hit network show ER to the big screen. What a simpler time… From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) d. w. (story), (screenplay) Starring: On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers...
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TMR 061 – Napoleon Dynamite
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This week on Total Movie Recall, we try to decide whether this is a charming, unique film about staying true to yourself, or a nightmarish descent into the insanity that comes with living in a barren, desolate landscape like rural Idaho, where the Uncle Ricos of the world keep subterranean dungeons for unsuspecting Debs. This might say more about where our heads are at right now than about this beloved comedy. Napoleon Dynamite (2004) d. w. , Starring: In small-town Preston, Idaho, awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in...
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TMR 060 – Dolemite
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This week on Total Movie Recall, these two born-insecure honkies break down the seminal Blaxploitation movie of 1975 and do a pathetic job of trying to reconcile its progressive vision of black empowerment with the misogyny of the pimp game. It gets complicated. Dolemite (1975) d. Story by: Starring: Dolemite is released from jail after being wrongfully convicted to take on rival pimp Willie Green, corrupt police officers who framed him and even the mayor! With the help of his friends: Queen Bee (the madame of his brothel), Creeper (the heroin addict Hamburger Pimp), Reverend...
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TMR 059 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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This week on Total Movie Recall, things get Freudian as they did for every little boy who stared confusedly at Jessica Rabbit and wondered what was happening to them. Handsome, chiseled leading man Bob Hoskins soldiers on in spite of the bleeding ulcer all that booze gave him, and Christopher Lloyd goes to eleven with his unhinged, terrifying performance. Did hentai exist before this movie? Because it sure as hell did after it. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) d. Starring: Down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon to investigate...
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TMR 058 – The Princess Bride
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This week on Total Movie Recall, we take a hard pivot from all the toxic masculinity of weeks past and Steve shows his gentle, romantic side. Somehow, Ryan makes this about his sad sack heartache but in the end, everybody calms down and moves on with a nice mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. The Princess Bride (1987) d. w. Starring: A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. Based on the...
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TMR 057 – Heat
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This week on Total Movie Recall, Ryan stares out the window of his furniture-less modernist home at the endless, uncaring ocean while Steve sleeps on the floor with his hand gripped around his pistol. The pseudo-philosophy of this movie seems deeper than it is because it’s endlessly reflected in all the glass buildings of Michael Mann’s uber-masculine vision. Sure, it may be pretentious, but that’s the point, and if you’ve got a problem with that, I will take you down, because we ain’t exactly doin’ thrill-seeker podcasts with “Born to Lose” tattoos on our chests. (1995) d....
info_outlineNaked Gun 33 1/3 (1994)
d. Peter Segal
writers: Pat Proft, David Zucker, Robert LoCash
Starring:
Leslie Nielsen
Priscilla Presley
George Kennedy
O.J. Simpson
Fred Ward
Kathleen Freeman
Anna Nicole Smith
This week on Total Move Recall, Steve holds Ryan's white, cisgendered, ignorant feet to the fire as they revisit and are repulsed by the humor of The Naked Gun 33 & ⅓: The Final Insult. Steve is appalled by the mainstream sensibilities of 1994 when white men had the right to mock and ridicule whoever they wanted, and Ryan tries to distract people from his antiquated views by talking about his stupid Master's Degree. "Ooh look at me! I'm an educated, patriarchal monster!"
Police Squad Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) is retired and spending time with his new wife, Jane (Priscilla Presley), when he's called back into action by Capt. Ed Hocken (George Kennedy). A terrorist named Rocco (Fred Ward) plans to bomb the Academy Awards ceremony, so Frank goes undercover as Phil Donahue to try and head off disaster. He causes almost as much trouble as he prevents in an Oscar show complete with over-the-top production numbers and numerous celebrity appearances.
Things discussed in the show:
South Park (Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Brian Graden)
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson)
Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte)
Superbad (Greg Mottola, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader)
Blood In, Blood Out , The Principal, Dangerous Minds, The Substitute
Child's Play 3 (Jack Bender, Don Mancini, Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Jeremy Sylvers)
Military School - Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Hugo Boss nazi uniforms
Leprechaun (Mark Jones, Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt)
Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle,
Midnight Run (Martin Brest, Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto)
Heat (Michael Mann, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd)
King of the Hill (Greg Daniels, Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy)
Midsommar (Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren)
Psychedelic horror as a genre
Hereditary (Ari Aster, Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne)
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (Donick Cary, Nick Offerman, Sting, ASAP Rocky, Bill Kreutzmann, Rosie Perez, Reggie Watts, Will Forte, David Cross, Carrie Fisher, Natasha Lyonne, Anthony Bourdain, Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, Adam Horovitz, Adam Scott and a ton more)
Ketamine for therapy and recreation
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Tom Rob Smith, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, John Travolta)
1992 L.A. Riot
The O.J. Simpson Trial and the beginning of the Kardashians
Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves)
Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby)
Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft, Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges)
Fred Willard R.I.P.
The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden)
The Untouchables / Battleship Potemkin baby carriage on stairs scenes
Vanna White & Weird Al Yankovic
Priscilla Presley & Elvis, The Colonel, Chuck Norris
Are sperm banks real?
Rambo (Ted Kotcheff, Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna)
Tommy Boy (Peter Segal, Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy )
Coming to America (John Landis, Eddie Murphy, Paul Bates, Garcelle Beauvais)
Dumb and Dumber (Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly)
Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller)
Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton)
Bad Boys (Michael Bay, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Lisa Boyle)
UHF (Jay Levey, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy)
Raquel Welsh
Arrested Developement (Liza Minnelli, Mitchell Hurwitz, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, Tony Hale)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross)
Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Elle Russ)
Next week: The Fly (1986)