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, Ryan gets his hipster comedy credentials revoked after Steve makes him pay $3.99 to watch the 1994 not-so-classic comedy, Cabin Boy. Ryan simply cannot understand the cache this movie has in the “alt-comedy” world, or as he likes to call it, the “non-comedy” world (now that’s funny!). Steve would explain it, but you just, like, don’t get it man.
Cabin Boy (1994)
d. Adam Resnick
Starring:
Chris Elliott
Ritch Brinkley
James Gammon
Brian Doyle-Murray
Brion James
Melora Walters
David Letterman
Andy Richter
Ricki Lake
Nathanial Mayweather is a spoiled rich kid whose plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire, finding him lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors. When his crusty cabin mates get a whiff of his highfalutin attitude, they give him every rotten chore on the boat -- and take him on an absurdist adventure through Hell's Bucket!
Things discussed in the show:
Will Farrell
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito)
Late Night with David Letterman
Klonopin and coffee or Codeine and syrup
The dumb politics of 2020: QAnon and conspiracy nonsense
Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard)
Apocalypse Now - "The Final Cut" (Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall)
George Lucas constantly meddling with old Star Wars films
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando)
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro)
Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio)
Democracy in Chicago
While We're Young (Noah Baumbach, Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver)
The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech)
Bug (William Friedkin, Tracy Letts, Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.)
Tangerine (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe)
Kubrick v. Akira Kurisawa v. Jodorowski v. Scorsese
David Byrne's lyrics
Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer)
Brick (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin)
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston)
Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato)
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper)
Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero, Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts)
The Pest (Paul Miller, John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Freddy Rodríguez)
The Walking Dead (Frank Darabont, Angela Kang, Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride)
Monkey Shines (George A. Romero, Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil)
The Great (Tony McNamara, Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox)
Werner Herzog and finding the deeper truth in documentary
The White Diamond (Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Plage)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves)
Se7en (David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey)
Mr. Beast, Twitch streamers, mystery boxes from the dark web
Dybbuk box
Star Trek's utopia
The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente)
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Noelle Stevenson, Aimee Carrero, Marcus Scribner, Karen Fukuhara, Keston John)
Lumberjanes
Conflict in scenes through love not anger
Steven Universe (Rebecca Sugar, Zach Callison, Deedee Magno, Michaela Dietz)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton)
Buffy the Vamire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima)
Dungeons & Dragons
Gummi Bears
Battlestar Galactica (Glen A. Larson, Ronald D. Moore, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber)
Janusz Kaminski
Get a Life (Chris Elliott, David Mirkin, Adam Resnick, Bob Elliott, Robin Riker)
Bob Odenkirk
Married... With Children (Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye, Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Katey Sagal, David Faustino)
Tim Burton
Death to Smoochie (Danny DeVito, Adam Resnick, Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener)
Terry Gilliam / Monty Python animation
Absurdist, Surrealist dreamscapes
Home Improvement (Carmen Finestra, David McFadzean, Matt Williams, Tim Allen, Earl Hindman, Taran Noah Smith, Jonathan Taylor Thomas)
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries)
The Naked Gun (David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson)
Black Sheep (Penelope Spheeris, Fred Wolf, Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson)
There's Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Nathan Juran, Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Ray Harryhausen)
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès)
Handsome Boy Modeling School (Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, Róisín Murphy (of Moloko), Del the Funky Homosapien, J-Live, Sean Lennon, Miho Hatori (of Cibo Matto), Mike D (of the Beastie Boys) and Don Novello (as Father Guido Sarducci)
Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Ian Black, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper)
Mr. Show with Bob and David (David Cross, Bob Odenkirk)
Next week: The Devil's Advocate