TMR 051 Holiday Special – The Nightmare Before Christmas
Release Date: 12/29/2020
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
Total Movie Recall
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
Total Movie Recall
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 the Total Movie Recall Holiday Special, Steve and Ryan visit the mopey, gothy early 90s when Generation X looked to the high school Gloom King Tim Burton to express their so dark vision of Christmas. Stop motion animation is such a labor intensive craft that creates beautiful visions that aren’t all that interesting, which is going to enrage a bunch of high school Wiccans that love this movie. It does look great, though.
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
d. Henry Selick
Starring:
Danny Elfman
Chris Sarandon
Catherine O'Hara
William Hickey
Paul Reubens
The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.
Things discussed in the show:
Babe Pig in the City
Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton)
Dark Shadows (Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green)
Dumbo 2019 (Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito)
Beetlejuice 2
Yule logs, holiday presents and the Krampus
Saturn and Jupiter aligning in 2020
Supernatural's final season (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins)
Armageddon and kaijus
X-Files (Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi)
power ranking Young Sheldon episodes
Mom (Allison Janney, Anna Faris, Mimi Kennedy)
The internet turning on Chris Pratt
Johnny Depp & Amanda Heard drama
The Straight Story (David Lynch, John Roach, Mary Sweeney, Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz)
Tom Cruise freaking out on staff not adhering to covid restrictions and Scientology
Mission Impossible 7 (Christopher McQuarrie, Vanessa Kirby, Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell)
Mission Impossible Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams)
Mission Impossible 3 (J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames)
South Park - The Pandemic Special
Cyberpunk 2077
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis)
The Mandolorian Season 2 (Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Weathers, Temuera Morrison, Amy Sedaris, Bill Burr)
Kathleen Kennedy
Star Wars - The Clone Wars (George Lucas, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter)
Star Wars - Rebels (Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Dave Filoni, Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall)
Ahsoka Tano
Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache)
James Cameron's Avatar films
The Town (Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon)
Jean-Pierre Melville
No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell)
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya)
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor)
Fargo season 4 (Noah Hawley, Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jack Huston)
MacBeth 2021 (Joel Coen, William Shakespeare, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Brendan Gleeson)
The Naked Man (J. Todd Anderson, Ethan Coen, Michael Rapaport, Michael Jeter, John Carroll Lynch)
Black Mirror - Nosebleed Season 3, Episode 1 (Michael Schur, Rashida Jones, Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve)
Chinese social credit
Community Meow-Meow Beans - App Development and Condiments - Season 5, Episode 8 (Rob Schrab, Yvette Nicole Brown, Joel McHale, Jim Rash, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Ken Jeong, Jonathan Banks, Steve Agee, Brian Posehn, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim)
Disneyland during Covid
Oingo Boingo - "Little Girls" video
Cab Calloway
The Jungle Book (Disney, Wolfgang Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima)
Stop Motion Animation
Goth Girls and the mall
Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest)
Frankenweenie (Tim Burton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short)
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, Linda Woolverton, Lewis Carroll, Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter)
German Expressionism
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, Roald Dahl, John August, Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly)
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, Mike Johnson, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson)
Big Fish (Tim Burton, Daniel Wallace, John August, Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup)
Sweeny Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, John Logan, Hugh Wheeler, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton)
Ed Wood (Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker)
Batman (Tim Burton, Bob Kane, Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Tim Burton, Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson)
The Holiday Movies the Made Us
Ray Harrihausen
Frosty the Snowman (Jackie Vernon, Billy De Wolfe, Jimmy Durante)
Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman, Gene Cunningham, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Virginia Rose, Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman)
Batman Returns (Tim Burton, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer)
Necromancy reindeer
Slenderman & Creepy Pasta
Beware the Slenderman documentary - the story of two 12-year old girls, who attempted to sacrifice one of their friends to Slenderman in a rutal attack
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
The Satanic Panic
The Slender Man Movie (Sylvain White, Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair)
Bad Luck Brian
Next week: Cabin Boy