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 put on their codpieces and fret over the innocence of teenage girls around David Bowie. Don’t get us wrong, we love this movie, but why does this charming children’s tale have a character named after the part of the anatomy responsible for transporting sperm? And why do so many sequences resemble sperm? And if all of these things are symbols for sperm, what does the Bog of Eternal Stench represent? We shudder to think…
Labyrinth (1986)
d. Jim Henson
w. Terry Jones
Starring
David Bowie
Jennifer Connelly
Brian Henson
Shari Weiser
Brian Froud
hundreds of puppeteers
Teenage Sarah journeys through a maze to recover her baby brother from a goblin king in this '80s coming-of-age fairy tale.
Things discussed in the show:
The Little Mermaid (Disney, Ursula, Ron Clements, John Musker, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois)
Babylon Berlin - Season 3 (Art deco, morphine abuse, noir, Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch)
Dark (Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari)
Mrs. Doubtfire (Chris Columbus, Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan)
Zoomer attention spans
The Devil all the Time (Antonio Campos, Donald Ray Pollock, Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland)
Saw (James Wan, Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover)
Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel)
Children of the Corn
Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, Jordan Belfort, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, Steven Zaillian, Charles Brandt, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin)
Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki)
Midsommar (Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper)
Covid 19 talk
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker)
Saved By the Bell (Sam Bobrick, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond, Lark Voorhies, Dennis Haskins, Tiffani Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkley)
The Social Dilemma (Jeff Orlowski, Davis Coombe, Vickie Curtis, Tristan Harris, Jeff Seibert, Bailey Richardson)
Rabbit Hole podcast (Kevin Roose)
The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano)
The Terminator & Skynet (James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton)
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PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman)
Fraggle Rock and the social contract between Fraggle and Dozer (Jim Henson, Karen Prell, Gerard Parkes, Kathryn Mullen)
Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Michael Allin, Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Queen)
Flesh Gordon (Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm, Jason Williams, Suzanne Fields, Joseph Hudgins)
Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheetleaders (Howard Ziehm, Vince Murdocco, Robyn Kelly, Tony Travis)
The Muppet Show (Jim Henson, Jack Burns, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz)
Mia Sara
Return to Oz was directed by Walter Murch (Gill Dennis, Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Brian Henson)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri)
Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
The Phantom of the Opera
Evita (Tim Rice, Alan Parker, Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas)
H.P. Lovecraft / The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers & Carcosa
True Detective season one (Nic Pizzolatto, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, Tory Kittles)
Teenage girls protecting their virginity at all costs
Matthew 18:3 - “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
The Bog of Eternal Stench
The maiden, the mother & the crone
Michael Jackson was up for the role of the Goblin King
Phil Collins
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel, Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger)
The helping hands
Surrealist film
Beauty and the Beast (1946) (Jean Cocteau, René Clément, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély)
Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta
Stevie Nicks' fashion
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Mars
Iggy Pop and The Stooges / Steve's theory that Bowie ruined Iggy Pop
Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, James Lyons, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale)
Pinocchio
Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell)
Dungeon's and Dragons
Xenomorph
M.C. Escher
Crossroads demons and Robert Johnson
The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Frank Oz, David Odell, Kathryn Mullen)
Next Week: Leprechaun