TMR 066 – Full Metal Jacket
Total Movie Recall
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, Ryan takes us on a journey through time and memory to show us his origins as a film-lover, a man, and, lo, a human. Sure, he could have said his favorite movie was some snooty, intellectual piece of New Hollywood cinema, but that would be a lie. It’s a VHS that his father got him as part of a $5.99 Big Mac giveaway at McDonald’s, and he was never the same. He makes himself vulnerable before you, and of course, Steve makes him regret it.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
d. Steven Spielberg
w. Jeffrey Boam (screenplay), George Lucas & Menno Meyjes (story)
Starring
Harrison Ford
Sean Connery
Alison Doody
Denholm Elliott
John Rhys-Davies
River Phoenix
The intrepid explorer Indiana Jones sets out to rescue his father, a medievalist who has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail. Following clues in the old man's notebook, Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, but they are not the only ones who are on the trail, and some sinister old enemies soon come out of the woodwork.
Things discussed in the show:
What it means to be a man.
Avatar The Last Airbender, season 3 (Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Filoni, Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Dante Basco, Michaela Jill Murphy)
The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan, Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone)
Alien RPG / Dungeons & Dragons
Call of Cthulhu video game
H.P. Lovecraft
Alien (Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt)
Aliens (James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein)
Alien 3 (David Fincher, Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance)
Terminator 2 Judgement Day (James Cameron, William Wisher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong)
Avatar (James Cameron, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver)
The Abyss (James Cameron, Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn)
Titanic (James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane)
FernGully The Last Rainforest (Bill Kroyer, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Robin Williams)
Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott)
City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet)
Dark City (Alex Proyas, Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly)
Steampunk
Star Wars The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, George Lucas, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill)
Alien Isolation - 2014 survival horror video game
Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman)
Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Boam, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody)
The Holy Grail
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
James Bond
Tomb Raider (Roar Uthaug, Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins)
Gunga Din (George Stevens, Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt)
"It belongs in a museum."
John Williams Oscars
Don "Magic" Juan
Museum controversy / Repatriation of cultural heritage / stolen artifacts
Iraq war / ancient sites ISIS has damaged and destroyed
River and Joaquin Phoenix and the Children of God Cult, flirty fishing
Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, Stephen King, Raynold Gideon, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, Flea, Udo Kier)
River Phoenix's band Aleka's Attic
Cross of the Coronado
Indiana Jones body count is 2,706
Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword
A View to a Kill (John Glen, Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts)
Goonies
E.T. The Extra Terestrial (Steven Spielberg, Melissa Mathison, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote)
Yale's secret nazi alumni
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf)
The Monkey King
The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff, John Fusco, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano)
Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi obsession with the occult, his obsession with Arthurian Legend, the SS as a cult, and his plan to find a more Norse religion to replace Christianity.
Munich (Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, Eric Roth, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze)
Stunts in Mission Impossible, Fast and the Furious, Marvel films, Mad Max Fury Road and John Wick
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodat, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti)
Scarface
Shriners Chick Tract - dying fez with the blood of Christians and the worship of Baphomet
"A bad penny always shows up." superstition
Big Black - Bad Penny (Steve Albini)
Fight Club (David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Helena Bonham Carter)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall)
Next Week: The Sandlot