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_outlineThis week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan light a candle for all the former child stars doing porn and robbing gas stations and lament the end of trashy 90s television — the genital warts of American society. We watched The Cable Guy and discovered that Americans would rather have their comedic heroes talking out of their rectums than critiquing our dumb media consumption. Put on your Doc Martens and pop in your Mazzy Star mix CD because we go back to a morally murky time — the 1990s.
The Cable Guy (1996)
d. Ben Stiller
Writer. Lou Holtz Jr.
Starring:
Jim Carrey
Matthew Broderick
Leslie Mann
Jack Black
Janeane Garofalo
Oddball cable installer Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey) attempts to strike up a friendship with customer Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) by offering him premium channels at no cost. When Steven rebuffs Chip's frequent need for companionship, Chip goes from a mildly eccentric acquaintance to a full-fledged psycho stalker. Though it's increasingly apparent to Steven that the cable guy is dangerous, convincing his friends, family and the authorities of that is another matter entirely.
Things discussed in the show:
Free will / tabula rasa
F is for Fake (Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach)
Brain Smasher... A Love Story and Andrew Dice Clay vs. William Shakespeare (Albert Pyun, Teri Hatcher, Yuji Okumoto)
Daisey Ridley
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
The Last Dance (Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, David Aldridge, Chicago Bulls)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito)
Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan, Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri)
Space Force (Steve Carell, Greg Daniels, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz)
Veep (Armando Iannucci, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden)
Hyperdrive
Hannah - 2011 (Joe Wright, Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana)
David Lynch
Little Women - 2019 (Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh)
Anne of Green Gables (Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Greer)
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Uncut Gems (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Idina Menzel)
Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac, Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young)
The Mask (Chuck Russell, Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert)
The Ben Stiller Show (Judd Apatow, Jeff Kahn, Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk, John F. O'Donohue, David Cross)
Permanent Midnight (David Veloz, Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Jay Paulson)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman, Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson)
Jenny McCarthy
Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler, Pat Casey, Josh Miller, Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey)
In Living Color (Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jim Carrey, Kelly Coffield Park, David Alan Grier, T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, Tommy Davidson, Jamie Foxx, Damon Wayans, Jennifer Lopez)
Justin Beiber
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field)
Matthew Broderick 1987 car accident
Daybreak (Aron Eli Coleite, Brad Peyton, Colin Ford, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Sophie Simnett)
The Warriors (Walter Hill, Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright)
WarGames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood)
Project X (Jonathan Kaplan, Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt)
The Menendez Brothers
The Andy Dick Show (Andy Dick, Paul Henderson, Lacy Livingston, Ashton Kutcher, Jason Biggs)
The Sarah Silverman Program (Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, Sarah Silverman, Laura Silverman, Brian Posehn, Steve Agee, Tig Notaro, Justin Roiland, Ron Lynch)
The Jerry Springer Show (Jerry Springer, Peter A Kelly, Steve Wilkos)
Trial By Murder / The Jenny Jones Show
The OJ Simpson trial
Our scary future of deepfakes
Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger)
Turner & Hooch (Roger Spottiswoode, Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson)
Mtv news / Tabitha Soren / Kurt Loader / Matt Pinfield
Liquid Television
Cable Guy soundtrack (Primative Radio Gods, Silverchair, Toadies, Porno For Pyros, Cracker, Cypress Hill)
Singles soundtrack (Alice in Chains, Chris Cornell, Paul Westerberg, The Lovemongers, Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Paul Westerberg, Jimi Hendrix, Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins)
Gift (Jane's Addiction, Perry Ferrel)
Next week: Raising Arizona