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, 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. Robert Zemeckis
Starring:
Bob Hoskins
Christopher Lloyd
Kathleen Turner
Joanna Cassidy
Charles Fleischer
Stubby Kaye
Alan Tilvern
Joel Silver
Mel Blanc
Down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit, the sultry wife of Maroon's biggest star, Roger Rabbit. But when Marvin Acme, Jessica's alleged paramour and the owner of Toontown, is found murdered, the villainous Judge Doom vows to catch and destroy Roger.
Things discussed in the show:
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson)
Forest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise)
Woodstock documentary (Michael Wadleigh, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey)
Fargo season 4 (Chris Rock, Francesco Acquaroli, Andrew Bird, Jessie Buckley, Salvatore Esposito, Jeremie Harris, Jack Huston, Amber Midthunder, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw)
Billy Bob Thornton
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris)
Supernatural season 15 (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Mark Pellegrino)
Lobo vs. God in Lobo A Contract on Gawd
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Gary K. Wolf)
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter)
Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis, Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary, Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie)
The Witches (Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci)
Baby Herman, Eddie Valiant, The Ink and Paint Club, Paddy Cakes, Toon Town, Judge Doom,
Herman's Shermans, Pistol Packin' Possum
Steve Buscemi or Andy Serkis as the recast Roger Rabbit
Hollywood Babylon (Fatty Arbuckle, Erol Flynn)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)
Mickey Mouse 2013 ("Gulp" is the best episode, Disney, Chris Diamantopoulos, Russi Taylor, Bill Farmer)
Dragon Con
We're Doomed - Board game about getting a seat on the rocket fleeing Earth.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote)
Goonies
Hentai
Thirstin Howl III - "Dreams of Fucking a Cartoon Bitch"
Catalina Island
Step Brothers (Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen)
Portable Hole
The Untouchables
Nancy Cartwright is the voice of Shoe in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Robert Stevenson, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall)
Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson)
Bumping the Lamp
Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, Diane Thomas, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito)
Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna)
Shave and a Haircut
Harvey (Henry Koster, Mary Chase, James Stewart, Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn)
Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn)
Ronin (John Frankenheimer, J.D. Zeik, Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone)
Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin ride at Disneyland
Back to the Future II (Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson)
Predator
Cool World (Ralph Bakshi, Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Janni Brenn)
An American Werewolf in London
The Jetsons (Hanna-Barbera, George O'Hanlon, Janet Waldo, Mel Blanc)
The Flintstones - Wilma & Betty (Hanna-Barbera, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl)
Scooby Doo - Velma & Daphne (Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Joseph Barbera, Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe)
Family Guy - Lois Griffin (Seth MacFarlane, David Zuckerman, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green)
Futurama - Leela (David X. Cohen, Matt Groening, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - April O'Neil (Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, David Wise, Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen)
The Little Mermaid - Ursala (Ron Clements, John Musker, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois)
Archer - Lana (Adam Reed, H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer, Amber Nash)
The Real Ghostbusters - Janine Melnitz (Maurice LaMarche, Dave Coulier, Frank Welker)
Talespin - Rebecca (Ed Gilbert, R.J. Williams, Sally Struthers)
The Simpsons - Marge Simpson (James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer)
Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg, Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale)
Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers - Gadget (Peter Cullen, Tress MacNeille, Corey Burton)