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, 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. D'Urville Martin
Story by: Rudy Ray Moore
Starring:
Rudy Ray Moore
D'Urville Martin
Lady Reed
Jerry Jones
Hy Pyke
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 Gibbs (the gun-running preacher), and his gang of female prostitute karate experts, Dolemite takes back his turf and club through martial arts prowess and sheer oratory showmanship.
Things discussed in the show:
Blaxploitation films
The Jerk (Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams)
Black Mama White Mama (Eddie Romero, Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig)
Coffy (Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui)
Shaft 1971 (Gordon Parks, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi)
The Last Dragon (Michael Schultz, Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney)
Wu Tang Clan
Kung Fu and Hip Hop
Fargo season 1 (Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman)
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya)
The Little Things (John Lee Hancock, Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto)
The Midnight Sky (George Clooney, George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo)
Dolemite is my Name (Craig Brewer, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps)
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan)
Twin Peaks (Mark Frost, David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick)
Mad Max
Repo Man (Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Zander Schloss)
Rudy Ray Moore's influence on Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and hip hop in general
Three Penny Opera (Georg Wilhelm Pabst (as G.W. Pabst), Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher)
The Mack (Michael Campus, Max Julien, Don Gordon, Richard Pryor)
Song: Mack the Knife
Gaspar Noe
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen)
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)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Thirstin Howl III - Skilligan's Island
THX 1138 (George Lucas, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley)
Elvis level Karate
Jackie Chan / Jet Li / Chuck Norris / Bruce Lee
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Flea, John Turturro)
Titanic (James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane)
Rudy Ray Moore albums (Eat Out More Often, This Pussy Belongs To Me, and The Dirty Dozens)
Barry (Alec Berg, Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan, Henry Winkler)
The Princess Bride
The Human Tornado (Cliff Roquemore, Rudy Ray Moore, Lady Reed, Jimmy Lynch)
Disco Godfather (J. Robert Wagoner, Cliff Roquemore, Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch)
Big Money Hustlas (John Cafiero, Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Jamie Madrox, Rudy Ray Moore, Insane Clown Posse)
Blacula (William Crain, William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino)
Pirates of the Caribbean
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (Gordon Douglas, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair)
Forest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise)
James Bond
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote)
Top quotes:
"That rat-soup-eatin', insecure honky motherfucker!"
"Ghosts? If you ever see a ghost, cut the motherfucker."
"Dolemite is my name, and fuckin' up motherfuckers is my game!"
"Man, move over and let me pass 'fore they have be to pullin' these Hush Puppies out your motherfuckin' ass!"
"I'm waitin' for Dolemite! - For who? - Dolemite, motherfucker, you heard her."
Next week: Napoleon Dynamite