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, we find a new zest for life in 2001’s Amelie. Steve gets wistful recalling his time working in a porn shop, and Ryan reveals his ignorance about Paris. But is it ignorance? Don’t we kind of all know what Paris is really like? Smelly and smoky and rude? Not according to Amelie. Paris is a place of magical realism, true love, and tastefully decorated porn shops.
Amelie (2001)
d. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring:
Audrey Tautou
Mathieu Kassovitz
Rufus
Jamel Debbouze
Isabelle Nanty
Dominique Pinon
"Amélie" is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"; "The City of Lost Children") invokes his incomparable visionary style to capture the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingenue.
Things discussed in the show:
The vast emptiness of Kansas and Nebraska
Paranoia and smoking weed at psych rock shows
Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard)
Young Guns 2 (Geoff Murphy, Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips)
A Man Called Horse (Elliot Silverstein, Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon)
Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat)
Top Gear (Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May)
Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Roger Corman)
Ford V Ferrari (James Mangold, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal)
Newsies (Kenny Ortega, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall)
Bad Education (Cory Finley, Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White)
The Principal (Christopher Cain, Frank Deese, Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong)
Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley, Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin)
Les Miserables (Tom Hooper, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway)
Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Benicio Del Toro, Frank Oz)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Gareth Edwards, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Ben Mendelsohn)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o)
Star Wars: Clone Wars (Dave Filoni, George Lucas, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein)
Star Wars: Rebels (Dave Filoni, George Lucas, Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar, Dee Bradley Baker)
Brick (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin)
Looper (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt)
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, Steven Rogers, Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney)
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry, Chadwick Boseman)
BlacKKKlansman (Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Alec Baldwin, John David Washington, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Adam Driver, Topher Grace)
Conan the Barbarian - 2011 (Marcus Nispel, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan)
Robert E. Howard
Conan the Barbarian- 1982 (John Milius, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow)
Conan the Destroyer (Richard Fleischer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo)
Red Sonja (Richard Fleischer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman)
Arnold Schwarzenegger getting drop kicked
Ultimate Beastmaster (David Broome, Sylvester Stallone, Tiki Barber, Rafinha Bastos, Luis Ernesto Franco, Terry Crews, Chris DiStefano, Charissa Thompson, C.M. Punk)
Awake: The Million Dollar Game Show (James Davis, Russell Rope, Ikechukwu Mbagwu)
Manic pixie dream girls / Natalie Portman
City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet)
Delicatessen (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Patton Oswalt)
Home Alone
Suspiria 1977
Sweeping the Streets documentary
Sacré-Cœur, Le Pigalle, The Moulin Rouge
Yellow vest protests in Paris
Bart in Paris (The Simpsons)
Timothee Chalamet
Brigitte Bardot
Edward Hopper paintings
Travelocity Gnome
Gnome Liberation Front
Paddington 2 (Paul King, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville)
Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, Steven Knight, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo)
A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Sébastien Japrisot, Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster)
High Fidelity
Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel)
Next Week - Babe: Pig in the City