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 wonder why kids are scared of the stupidest boogeymen. The Leprechaun haunted Ryan for his entire childhood, waiting in dark corners, making it unable for him to pee in the middle of the night. If only he had watched the movie when he was seven years old, and seen how stupid, unscary, unwitty, and half-assed this boring, lazy movie is, he wouldn’t have wasted another second being scared. The Leprechaun can’t even be bothered to turn limericks into dirty rhymes. Nantucket! It rhymes itself!
Leprechaun (1993)
d. Mark Jones
Starring:
Warwick Davis
Jennifer Aniston
Ken Olandt
Dan O'Grady steals 100 gold coins from a leprechaun while on vacation in Ireland. The leprechaun follows him home, but Dan locks the him in a crate, held at bay by a four-leaf clover. Ten years later, J.D. Redding and his daughter, Tory, rent O'Grady's property for the summer. When their new neighbors accidentally release the leprechaun, he goes on a murderous rampage to reclaim his gold.
Things discussed in the show:
The words "Cop Salon" sounds better than "Cellar Door"
Donnie Darko
Tolkien (Dome Karukoski, David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford, Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney)
The difference between New Mexico, North Dakota and Los Angeles, California
Badlands (Terrence Malick, Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates)
Carrie (Brian De Palma, Stephen King (novel), Lawrence D. Cohen, Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving)
Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted, Thomas Rickman, Loretta Lynn, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm)
The Invisible Man (#metoo, Leigh Whannell, Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer)
The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim, Mark Vicente)
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Lisa Bryant, Michael Reiter, Annie Farmer, Shawna Rivera)
Scientology vs. NXIVM
Jonestown and Jim Jones
Justin Beiber and Kanye West leading the next wave of sexy young Christians
Cobra Kai season 2 (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Josh Heald, William Zabka, Tanner Buchanan, Mary Mouser, Ralph Macchio, Jacob Bertrand, Xolo Maridueña, Courtney Henggeler)
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, Robert Mark Kamen, Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue)
Rocky (John G. Avildsen, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young)
Last of Us (Bruce Straley, Neil Druckmann, Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Hana Hayes)
Krav Maga vs. MMA vs. Shotokan Karate vs. Boxing vs. Muay Thai
Avatar The Last Airbender (Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Filoni, Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Dante Basco, Michaela Jill Murphy) (
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford)
The Boys (Garth Ennis, Eric Kripke, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie)
Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Michael Kenneth Williams)
Sundown Towns
Ratched (Ryan Murphy, Evan Romansky, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Ken Kesey, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito)
Nip/Tuck (Ryan Murphy, Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson)
Glee (Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Lea Michele, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison)
American Horror Story (Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Denis O'Hare)
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell)
Q&A (Sidney Lumet, Edwin Torres (book), Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante)
Nick Nolte / Gary Busey Impractical Jokers
Joe Bob Briggs at the Drive-in and Monstervision
The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, David Mamet, Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden)
Dog Day Afternoon (Frank Pierson, Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen)
Serpico (Sidney Lumet, Peter Maas (book), Waldo Salt (screenplay), Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe)
Rumpelstiltskin (Mark Jones, Joe Ruby, Max Grodénchik, John Ducey, Kim Johnston Ulrich)
Child's Play (Tom Holland, Don Mancini, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Chucky)
My Buddy doll
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare (Rachel Talalay, Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt)
Tremors (Ron Underwood, Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter)
Leprechaun 2 (Rodman Flender, Warwick Davis, Charlie Heath, Shevonne Durkin)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet)
Leprechaun 4 in Space (Brian Trenchard-Smith, Warwick Davis, Brent Jasmer, Jessica Collins)
Leprechaun 5 in the Hood (Rob Spera, Warwick Davis, Ice-T, Anthony Montgomery)
Roger Corman
Troma Entertainment
Transmorphers (Leigh Scott, Matthew Wolf, Amy Weber, Shaley Scott)
Friends (David Crane, Marta Kauffman, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer)
Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis)
Dan Quayle
U2
The I.R.A. (Irish Republican Army)
Lucky Charms
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker)
Four Leaf Clovers and fairy folk
Next week: The Return to Oz