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 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.
Heat (1995)
d. Michael Mann
Starring:
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Val Kilmer
Jon Voight
Tom Sizemore
Natalie Portman
Ashley Judd
Kevin Gage
Hank Azaria
Danny Trejo
Henry Rollins
AND Xander Berkeley as RALPH!
Master criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is trying to control the rogue actions of one of his men, while also planning one last big heist before retiring. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hanna (Al Pacino) attempts to track down McCauley as he deals with the chaos in his own life, including the infidelity of his wife (Diane Venora) and the mental health of his stepdaughter (Natalie Portman). McCauley and Hanna discover a mutual respect, even as they try to thwart each other's plans.
Things discussed in the show:
Zatoichi
At First Sight (Irwin Winkler, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier, Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves)
Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat)
Dead Snow 2 Red vs. Dead (Tommy Wirkola, Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr)
Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton)
Idle Hand (Rodman Flender, Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica A. Fox)
Fatman (Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms, Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste)
The Witches 2020 (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Roald Dahl, Guillermo del Toro)
Return to Oz
Zoroastrians
Soul (Pixar, Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin)
Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kyle MacLachlan, Paula Poundstone, Bobby Moynihan, Frank Oz, Flea)
Mad Max Fury Road (George Miller, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Zoë Kravitz)
The Bechdel Test
The Handmaiden's Tale (Bruce Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes)
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright)
Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Zander Schloss)
Wonder Woman and BDSM
The Cleveland Steamer or The Chi-Chi Rodriguez
Allen Moore
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 (French Revolution, Madame Guillotine & the Reign of Terror, Harold Young, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Looney Toons, Daffy Duck, Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese)
Frank Miller's Batman
The Godfather Part III (the re-edit, Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, Joe Mantegna, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan)
Adaptation (The Orchid Thief, Spike Jonze, Susan Orlean (book), Charlie Kaufman, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper)
Rex Stout and his character Nero Wolfe
Spike Jonze music videos: Yeah Yeah Yeah's - "Y-control," Fatboy Slim - "Weapon of Choice," Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"
Her (Spike Jonze, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson)
Where the Wild Things Are (Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin, Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book, Yippie movement and the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention
The Murder of Fred Hampton
The Hunger Games franchise (Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, and Donald Sutherland as President Snow)
Gangs of London (Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Ray Panthaki, Joe Cole, Lucian Msamati)
Willow
Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore)
Tombstone (Doc Holiday, George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton)
Brian Eno
Thief (Michael Mann, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson)
Neil McCauley, a calculating criminal and ex-Alcatraz inmate and Detective Chuck Adamson met in real life for a coffee
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means)
The Keep (Michael Mann, Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson)
Miami Vice (Anthony Yerkovich, Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago)
The Hays Code
Moby
Kevin Gage's stint in prison
Alex Colville painting "Pacific" as inspiration for Heat scene
Manhunter (Hannibal Lecter, The High Museum of Art, Michael Mann, William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen)
MC Chris - "Half corn beef and cabbage. Half Fred Savage."
Next week: The Princess Bride