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 holds Ryan’s hair back while he cries and dry heaves and rocks back and forth like his cat just died, because there has never been a movie more perfectly designed to make him cry like The Sixth Sense. Misunderstood children? Check. Put-upon mothers just trying their best? Check. An exasperated but committed psychologist just trying to figure out how to reach this kid? Double check. Get your tissues for this one.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
d. M. Night Shyamalan
Starring:
Bruce Willis
Haley Joel Osment
Toni Collette
Donnie Wahlberg
Mischa Barton
Young Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too afraid to tell anyone about his anguish, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe. As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the truth about Cole's supernatural abilities, the consequences for client and therapist are a jolt that awakens them both to something unexplainable.
Things discussed in the show:
PEN15 season 2 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman)
YouTube prank channels
Aokigahara, the Japanese suicide forest
Bloody Mary
Minecraft
Heathers
Unspooled Podcast
Mean Girls (Mark Waters, Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams )
Donnie Darko
Big Mouth (Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, Jordan Peele, Jenny Slate)
Raised by Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Ridley Scott, Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim)
Cult of Apollo, Ra and other sun gods
Warhammer 40k and the God Emperor
Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan)
Sunshine (Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans)
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Heavy Metal magazine
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich)
German Expressionism
The Boys season 2 (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)
Radicalized shooters (Kyle Rittenhouse, Dylann Roof)
Utopia (Gillian Flynn, John Cusack, Ashleigh LaThrop, Dan Byrd, Desmin Borges, Christopher Denham, Javon 'Wanna' Walton, Farrah Mackenzie
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Ulysees' Gaze (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman)
Losing and gaining weight as an actor (Kumail Nanjiani)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, Jake LaMotta, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci)
Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange)
White Men Can't Jump
Armageddon (Michael Bay, J.J. Abrams, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson)
Child psychology and ghosts
What's more scary, basements or attics
Battlestar Galactica (Glen A. Larson, Ronald D. Moore, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Hogan)
Home Alone
Cask of the Amontillado (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison)
Alfred Hitchcock
Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter)
Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer)
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers)
Paste Magazine
DJ Bruce Willis and his band Bruno
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
The Rolling Stones
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Kathy Griffin)
Moonlighting (Glenn Gordon Caron, Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley)
Die Hard (John McTiernan, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia)
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry)
Sin City (Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Rutger Hauer, Brittany Murphy, Nick Offerman, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood)
The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Charisma Carpenter, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke)
South Park Quarantine Special - Mickey Mouse has sex with a bat
Questlove of The Roots
Michael Cera
James Newton Howard soundtrack
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson, Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson)
Dr. Sleep (Mike Flanagan, Stephen King, Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran)
Get this ghost gone:
Jacob Marley (A Christmas Carol)
Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter)
Slimer (Ghostbusters)
Casper the Friendly Ghost vs. John Wayne Gacy
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
Large Marge (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
The Booberries Ghost vs. Count Chocula
Jesus as a ghost (Luke 24:36-51)
Ghost (Jerry Zucker, Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg)
Stir of Echos (David Koepp, Kevin Bacon, Zachary David Cope, Kathryn Erbe)
Blair Witch Project
Next week: Thriller & American Werewolf in London