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, one man’s fun trash is another man’s not-fun trash. Steve gets typically indignant at Ryan’s casual, cruel dismissal of somebody’s labor of love, and Ryan reaches heretofore unplumbed depths of his warped psyche, exploring the lingering effects of watching movies like Killer Klowns at too tender of an age. This is what happens when a little boy lets teenage girls bully him into watching movies. Ryan’s therapist has her work cut out for her this week.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
d. Stephen Chiodo
w. Charles Chiodo, Stephen Chiodo, Edward Chiodo
Starring:
Grant Cramer
Suzanne Snyder
John Allen Nelson
John Vernon
When teenagers Mike (Grant Cramer) and Debbie (Suzanne Snyder) see a comet crash outside their sleepy small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns. They try to warn the local authorities, but everyone assumes their story is a prank. Meanwhile, the clowns set about harvesting and eating as many people as they can. It's not until they kidnap Debbie that Mike decides it's up to him to stop the clowns' bloody rampage.
Things discussed in the show:
Coulrophobia - The fear of clowns (Agoraphobia, Anablephobia, Triskaidekaphobia)
John Wayne Gacy / Pogo the Clown
Spawn and The Violator (Image Comics)
King Missile (John S. Hall) - The Leather Clown
Police Story (Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin)
Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong, Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip)
Drunken Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jackie Chan, Siu-Tin Yuen, Jang-Lee Hwang)
The Toxic Avengers (Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman, Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist)
Flock of Seagulls & The Cure hair doos
The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon, Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa)
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams)
Dave Made a Maze (Bill Watterson, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Adam Busch)
Primer (Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden)
Doctor Who and The TARDIS
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits)
Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais)
Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard)
Epic Levels - Dungeons & Dragons music
The Sopranos (David Chase, James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Steven Van Zandt, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Tony Sirico)
Schitt's Creek (Dan Levy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy, Chris Elliott)
Perry Mason (Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones, Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, John Lithgow, Lili Taylor)
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
Bad Boys for Life (Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens)
Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Abbey Lee, Jamie Chung, Jada Harris, Michael Kenneth Williams)
Bozo the Clown
Flowers in the Attic (Jeffrey Bloom, Virginia C. Andrews, Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Amadeus (Milos Forman, Peter Shaffer, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge)
Critters (Stephen Herek, Domonic Muir, Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush)
Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton)
Puppet Master
Bad cops in Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) and Shaft (Gordon Parks, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi)
Ghoulies (Luca Bercovici, Jefery Levy, Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres)
The Willies
Metallica - Metal Up Your Ass
Sigmund Freud's uncanny effect
Commedia dell'arte
Hop-Frog (Edgar Allen Poe) & Regicide
David Carradine
The Dickies - Killer Klowns from Outer Space theme
illiterates - Makeout Mountain (punk record)
Where did I Come From? (Howie Mandel)
The Joker
Insane Clown Posse (ICP)
Next Week: Aladdin (1993)