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 destroy our nasal septums with 1983’s Scarface. Ryan presents a cogent, detailed thesis on this film’s central character as a metaphor for the all-eating, never-satiating, soul-crushing machine that is capitalism, and Steve counters with “No he’s not.” Touché Steve… touché.
Scarface (1983)
d. Brian De Palma
w. Oliver Stone
Starring:
Al Pacino
Michelle Pfeiffer
Steven Bauer
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Robert Loggia
Richard Belzer
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
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Things discussed in the show:
Mountains of cocaine and cubano sandwiches
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss)
Dark, season 3 (Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari)
Esotericism / Rosicrucianism
Lost (J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Daniel Dae Kim)
The Leftovers (Damon Lindelof, Tom Perrotta, Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston)
Avatar The Last Airbender, season 2 (Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Filoni, Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Dante Basco, Michaela Jill Murphy)
Game of Thrones (David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau)
Ulysses - James Joyce
MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer)
Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Alice Cooper, Meat Loaf)
Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki)
Mulan - 2020 (Disney, Niki Caro, Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong)
Blow (Ted Demme, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds
The Business of Drugs - documentary hosted by Amaryllis Fox (Spice / MDMA / African heroin / meth in Burma / opioids)
Scarface - 1932 (Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley)
Armond White film reviewer
Scarface in hip hop culture - The Notorious B.I.G., Sean Puffy Combs (P Diddy), Nicki Minaj, Rich the Kid, Lil Wayne, Big Boi, The Geto Boys, Jay-Z.
De Palma - 2015 documentary (Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow, Brian De Palma)
Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma, Robert De Niro, Allen Garfield, Lara Parker)
Casualties of War (Brian De Palma, Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey)
Sisters - 1972 (Brian De Palma, Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning)
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow)
Body Double (Brian De Palma, Robert J. Avrech, Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry)
Untouchables
Charlie Rose interviewing Brian De Palma
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper)
Mission Impossible - 1996 (Brian De Palma, Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart)
The Movie Brats directors (Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Paul Schrader, Brian De Palma, John Milius and Steven Spielberg)
Ayn Rand vs. Scarface. Who's the more hardcore capitalist?
"Never get high on your own supply."
"Never underestimate the other guy's greed."
"I have eight killers with badges." Murderers in the police, medicine & military.
Order of the Nine Angles (O9A) murder plot to kill his army squad
Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest, Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn)
Serpico (Sidney Lumet, Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe)
Hunters (David Weil, Al Pacino, Logan Lerman, Lena Olin)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin)
Steve's theory that Tony wants to have sex with his sister because she's as genetically close to him as can be, and his narcissism is to big for him to handle.
Wall Street (Oliver Stone, Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie)
American Psycho (Mary Harron, Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie)
Top 10 movies that use the word fuck the most (
Debby Harry (of Blondie) - "Rush, Rush" - "Rush, rush, got the yeyo? - Buzz, buzz, gimme yeyo"
Queens of the Stone Age - "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"
Next Week: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade