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Gathering Movie Suggestions

As we finish Battlestar Galactica 1978 we will be getting back to doing more Patreon exclusive movie reactions. More info on this coming soon.

Next week we will run a poll for you to decide the first movie we watch, so we need to gather your suggestions!

There are no rules or constraints on what movie to suggest. If it’s a movie one of us or both of us have seen we will reply saying so, but they do not have to be first time watches for both of us every time.

Comment as many movies as you’d like but please only 1 movie per comment.

If you see a comment for a movie you would like us to watch please like that comment instead of commenting it again.

We will take a mix of the most liked choices as well as ones we find most interesting and use them in the poll next week.

Comments

Dang it. Of course Fred Astaire, who played Starbuck’s father, was the biggest star to appear on the show.

Aramis Calcutt

My Blue Heaven (Steve Martin, Rick Moranas) OR The In-Laws (The original with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin NOT the remake. The remake sucks)

StealthMomo

Shape Of Water

Curzon Dax

Altered States (1980)

Jay McGinnis

Brainstorm (1983)

Jay McGinnis

Scanners (1981)

Jay McGinnis

Minority Report (2002)

Jay McGinnis

Young Frankenstein 1974

JoeyVettes

Silver Streak 1976 Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder

JoeyVettes

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Jay McGinnis

Glengarry GlenRoss

JoeyVettes

The Langoliers

JoeyVettes

The original Ocean's Eleven starring the Rat Pack. (Iyky - it's tangentally related to stuff)

Nolan

The Day After Tomorrow

Badger

Escape From New York. Kurt Russell

JoeyVettes

Exorcist 1973

JoeyVettes

Awesome thank you

JoeyVettes

American Werewolf in London

JoeyVettes

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Jay McGinnis

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Jay McGinnis

Did they? I can't find it in the Movies list. Do you have a link? I'd love to see them react to it!

Bret Kay

I saw it in the theatre when first released as well. Just a kid, but haunted me for years.

Monty Crawford

Legend (1986) by Ridley Scoot, has a young Tom Cruise. Freaked the heck out of me when I was a kid.

Firekrys FWO

Followed by Lost Skeleton of Cadavera

Firekrys FWO

Ooo good call

Firekrys FWO

Cabin in the Woods is one of Josh’s favorites

Josh (Target Audience)

"The Sarah Connor Chronicles"! Okay, technically it's not a movie - but it is a continuation of the "Terminator" franchise and you could just give the pilot a try and see what you think.

Rob

Have you seen the original Conan the Barbarian?

Ryan Baillie

They've said that if they watch Star Trek Continues, it'll be wherever it fits in the airing timeline (which I think is between Into Darkness and Beyond)

Ryan Baillie

They just posted Star Trek 2 a few weeks ago. It’s perfectly reasonable for folk to want some variety in their life.

KR Thompson

This is completely unrelated to Star Trek.

Josh (Target Audience)

"When's the next Star Trek vide-" 🙃

Nolan

Dog Day Afternoon

Ken R

Tombstone

Badger

Star Trek 3, 4, and 6 are very good. Don't bailout now. Just a few more steps to go.

Will Johns

MASH

Andreas Schmitt

Star Trek Continues series on YouTube. I think you may like it. They sum up the rest of the original five-year mission and bridge the gap between the original series and motion picture.

JoeyVettes

Have you guys seen "Blazing Saddles"?

Rob

They already did this one.

Rob

I saw "Colossus: The Forbin Project" when it first came out. I still think it's an excellent movie! It was directed by Joseph Sargent, who also directed the "Corbomite Maneuver" episode of "Star Trek".

Rob

Definitely watch the 1951 version of "The Thing"!

Rob

There are SO MANY references in "Airplane!" that you will not get if you haven't watched these!

Rob

The Time Machine 1960

JoeyVettes

I want to assume that you have seen it.. but if not, definitely Fight Club

TalynStarburst

The Evil Dead series.. someone replied to one of my comments on it, so don’t know if it has already been posted

TalynStarburst

Good point! I’m all for them doing that!

TalynStarburst

Time After Time (1979)

JoeyVettes

(and oldie) In Harm's Way

tyranusfan

Identity

tyranusfan

Airplane II The Sequel

tyranusfan

2010: The Year We Make Contact

tyranusfan

Master and Commander

tyranusfan

Basic

tyranusfan

The Hunt for Red October

tyranusfan

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Rory OToole

Spinal Tap (1984)

Rory OToole

Heavy Metal (1981)

Rory OToole

Jaws (1975)?

Rory OToole

Murder By Death (1976) with a large cast including Alex Guinness right before he did Star Wars. Classic famous detectives of movie and literature are all brought together to solve a murder in a mansion.

Rory OToole

Jaws?

Rory OToole

Universal Pictures had a real habit of recycling footage. Heck you saw it in Battlestar Galactica using footage from Silent Running

Rory OToole

Great crazy time travel story

Rory OToole

Don't forget it has Mary Steenburgen who was in Back To The Future 3. David Warner is really good in this film, high recommendation.

Rory OToole

But have y'all watch the other original films after Planet Of The Apes? The third movie Escape From The Planet Of The Apes is pretty wild. It would be a good reaction especially to see how it ties into the newer films.

Rory OToole

The Evil Dead film series if you haven't already.

Rory OToole

Yes yes yes. Made by the actor who played Bill in Bill and Ted, Alex Winter who is highly talented and created a lot of funny shorts and skits over the years. Also has Brooke Shields and Mr T in the film that definitely lives up to the title.

Rory OToole

American Graffiti (1973) directed by George Lucas, his second film after THX 1138 (1971) which would also be a good reaction.

Rory OToole

Creepshow (1982) a horror anthology by Stephen King and George Romero

Rory OToole

Burnt offerings (1976) starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis and Burgess Meredith. It was directed by Dan Curtis the man that created Dark Shadows.

Rory OToole

Silent Running (1972 ) starring Bruce Dern and three robots that inspired R2D2 named Huey, Dewey and Louie. This also is the movie that has the Agro-ships (the ones with the domes with all the vegetation)that you saw in Battlestar Galactica. The footage they used came from this movie.

Rory OToole

Equinox (1970), another college film that was picked up by a studio, made by people who would later become pretty big in the industry. One of the main creators of it was Dennis Murenn who has won more special effects Oscars than anyone else and was part of ILM since the beginning so of course he worked on all the Star Wars movies and a lot of other big projects since. He even has a star on the Walk of Fame and is just generally a nice guy. One of the actors later went on to be on WKRP. This movie had to have heavily influenced the Evil Dead movies since it's basically about young people going to a cabin in the woods to see a professor who has disappeared while studying the Necronomicon.

Rory OToole

But only if they have seen at least the Evil Dead series

Rory OToole

Orson Welles' best movie - "The Third Man"

Nerd's Gold

Red Dawn 1984

JoeyVettes

Excalibur. The best King Arthur movie ever made.

whacky deli

Yes, the studio theatrical cut is unwatchable, makes no sense at all.

PFCoffey

K-PAX (2001)

Tristan Rose

Annihilation (2018)

Tristan Rose

Contact (1997)

Tristan Rose

Sphere (1998)

Tristan Rose

No love for this one, lol. It is a seminal work in animation and it's visually referenced all the time next to being highly influencial for many animators. And it's friggin' WEIRD.

Nolan

Having trouble loading all the comments for some reason but I can't believe I haven't seen one suggestion for "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Rob

I highly enjoyed your “Buffy” series and your “Galactica” series. I would recommend you go on to do more of “Buffy,” and also the 2004 “Galactica” series. Were it me, I wouldn’t bother with “Galactica 1980.” (BTW Is Alex face blind? It is a rare but real condition. The famous brain scientist Oliver Sacks (“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”) was himself face blind.) More on Galactica I was nine when Battlestar Galactica came out. Of course Star Wars was a huge thing but I had been watching Star Trek practically from the cradle, so even as a kid I preferred the one I could watch every week or every day after school. I have to say, you guys really should have paid serious attention to the Patrick Macnee narration at the beginning. I can still recite it from memory. It really sets the tone for the story. A great way to get into the right mood for the show. And of course the music is fantastic. That’s something that is really lacking in modern shows. Same with the narration and theme for Star Trek. And then Lorne Greene’s narration at the end was a great way to end each episode. (Aside about Star Trek visuals And I loved the visual look of Star Trek as well. Before they remastered the visuals, the line green shirts worn by Kirk, Sulu, Chekhov, etc., appeared as bright yellow on TV. So even though the costumes were pale green in real life, all the action figures, etc., had them in bright yellow. I loved that palette of bright primary colors—blue, red, yellow. Now that they have “fixed” the visuals so that the bright yellows now are a pale green, it looks so dull to my eyes. And I hate the CGI Enterprise, which has replaced the practical model shots.) But getting back to Galactica, it had been promoted heavily long before it premiered. I remembered you could see the toys on the Sears catalogue—especially the Colonial Viper fighter and the Cylon Raider—many months before the show premiered. And I loved the look of the ships much more than Star Wars. It started as a three-part miniseries, just like you watched. (Later they recut the three parts into a single feature film that was released in theaters after the miniseries had been broadcast and it was quite successful. I believe Count Baltar was beheaded at the orders of the Imperious Leader at the end of that version, and that’s also how the novelisation ended. I also seem to recall that in the novel version, each Cylon Android did contain a small vestige of an actual living organism somewhere within it.) So as an excited 9-year-old, I got our 12-inch black and white TV, and set it up in my brother’s bedroom. It was exciting. I loved the music, I loved the costumes, I loved the visuals. The story was exciting. But … a few minutes in to the premiere, President Jimmy Carter broke in to make a live announcement about the signing of the Camp David Peace Accords. By the time it was done it was too close to my bed time and the night was ruined. Eventually, ABC rebroadcast it and the show became my favorite, but it was very hard to catch. The shows were enormously expensive to produce—the three-part premiere cost something like $7 million—and they had not originally planned to do a weekly series. Just a series of TV movies. There were constant delays and pre-emptions. As the season went on, ABC refused to keep paying the cost of the show, so as the season goes on you keep seeing the same shots over and over again. They cancelled it after one season and eventually brought it back as “Galactica 1980,” set decades later after finding Earth, cutting most of the effects budget. Most of the main cast except for Lorne Greene was unavailable, so the new leads were a grown up Boxey (now called Troy) and his Starbuck stand in Dillon. It was a terrible show and I knew it even as an 11-year-old. Other facts: Lorne Greene was the most famous member of the cast. He had played Ben Cartwright on the TV western “Bonanza” for 14 seasons. Jane Seymour who played Serina was probably the next most famous. She had already had a leading role on a TV show and had been a Bond girl. She had a very successful career on Broadway and in TV movies and eventually starred again in her own series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” for six seasons. Seymour was quite famous in the 1980s and 1990s and had a more successful career than almost anyone else on the show. She appeared nude in Playboy twice, the second time when she was almost 70 years old. Possibly the biggest name to “appear” on the show was Patrick Macnee, who was the voice of the narrator and eventually the actor portraying Count Iblis. Dirk Benedict, who played Starbuck, became well known after Galactica as Faceman on “The A-Team.” Richard Hatch (Apollo) spent decades trying to revive the show. His version never got made but he got to play a recurring role in the revival of the show in the 2000s. Apollo’s brother Zak was played by rocker Rick Springfield (“I Wish That I Had Jesse’s Girl”). John Colicos (Count Baltar), who had a long career as a character actor, also played the Klingon commander Kor on Star Trek, in the original series and in Deep Space Nine. Series creator Glen A. Larson was a Mormon and he based a lot of the lore in the series on Mormon beliefs, such as the twelve tribes and the lost thirteenth tribe. In the show, each tribe of the Colonies has its own planet, and they were named after the Zodiac signs. For example, most of the main characters are Capricans from the planet Caprica. He also didn’t approve of foul language so he made up the fake curse words “frack” and “felgercarb.” As the show became more geared towards young audiences, they softened some of the more adult elements, like forgetting about Cassiopeia’s past as a “socialator” and pretending she was always a med tech. Maren Jensen’s role as Athena was diminished over the course of the series because of health problems. On the 1978 show, there was a card game called Pyramid and a team sport called Triad, but when they did the remake, someone misremembered and the names got switched. By the time they realized, it was too late to fix it. A lot of the names are from Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Egyptian mythology, which explains some of the ones that sound strange to us, like Boötes and Puppis.

Aramis Calcutt

Dragonslayer!

Gary Leyh

My all time favorite film. So quotable, so good.

Gary Leyh

The Others (2001)

Jay McGinnis

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Bret Kay

Slither is another one I can think of by James Gunn

TalynStarburst

The Cabin in the Woods

TalynStarburst

DEFINITELY the director's cut!

Gaius Frakking Baltar

Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman)

JoeyVettes

Dark Skies

Katie Jackson

That is an excellent movie.

Steven Johnson

Great minds think alike, Deborah!

Steven Johnson

Soylent Green

JoeyVettes

One of my favorite movies that NO ONE seems to be interested in reviewing...well, two actually. First one is "Murphy's War" with Peter O'Toole, second one is "Colossus: The Forbin Project". Murphy's War is a tale of revenge, with some great scenes that would definitely not be made today the way it was then..(lots of CGI would be required today)...and Colossus is one of a cautionary tale concerning AI that although made in 1970 is very relevant today.

Monty Crawford

Clue (1985).

TheBlowpop

Would've suggested this one myself.

TheBlowpop

The 'Burbs (1989)

James Bottas

Almost anything Hitchcock. Rear Window has already been suggested, but North By Northwest would be great. I'm assuming at least one of them has already seen Psycho.

KatWithAttitude

Both work for me.

KatWithAttitude

It also has one of the greatest film scores of all time

David Felgate

Wow, he REALLY doesn't like Westerns, haha.

Nolan

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

James H

I think the score is the best part actually. So outta left field.

MertzRocks

lol

MertzRocks

There is also a movie about its creator and creation: ED WOOD starring Johnny Depp

MertzRocks

Some say this is the WORST MOVIE EVER, some say it's the BEST BAD MOVIE EVER..... PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE many rofl emojis (I'm guessing one of u may have seen?)

MertzRocks

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Jeff Cornell

Death Becomes Her

Phillip Grischa

Apollo 13

JD Nevesytrof

Field of Dreams

JD Nevesytrof

We love Troll 2

Josh (Target Audience)

We all know why

AzoriusMage

The 1978 version has Leonard Nimoy in it...

Edweirdo

I gotta go Conan the Barbarian. Great fight scenes and I think the best Arnie acting job

Prof Moff

Troll 2, which has no connection to Troll. A so bad it's good movie. There's a documentary about it made by the kid who starred in it that is really good.

Rory OToole

Since Halloween is coming up, maybe some classic Hammer Horror films...Horror of Dracula, Brides of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, etc.

Deborah Osika

Event Horizon

Deborah Osika

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Ken R

Yes we have seen it (except Josh hasn’t watched part 3)

Josh (Target Audience)

Goldfinger

Ken R

Freaked (1993) * 🤞🤞Keanu Reeves is in this movie. Try to spot him

James Bottas

Pi (1998)

Jay McGinnis

Brazil (1985), but it has to be the directors cut.

Jay McGinnis

Dark Star (1974) a low budget movie created by John Carpenter (Halloween and much more) and Dan O'Bannon (Alien & Return of the Living Dead) as a college film that was picked up and distributed. It's basically a spoof of 2001: A Space Odyssey but you also see definite ideas that later popped up in Alien.

Rory OToole

I would love this. Entire series

James Bottas

Not many comedies on the list yet. One of my favorites is "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (1988)

David Felgate

Another long running series started in the 60's James Bond, starting with "Dr. No."

Nolan

I third that even though Earthquake is one of the weaker ones in this group of films. I like the Airport series, Poseidon Adventure or Towering Inferno better.

Jonathan

Classic horror movies from the 50s/60s. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 comes to mind.

Firekrys FWO

Aw, hell, the most quoted film of all time "Casablanca" another oldie.

Nolan

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) - Great Independent movie that inspired the classic ALIEN. Written by Jerome Bixby who would author Mirror, Mirror for Star Trek.

Mark Chrisco

Oh man, I could just pelt out suggestions, looking at my media shelf, lol. How bout some Anime, such as the film AKIRA?

Nolan

You probably have seen it, but if you haven't, rectify it 🙃: The Back to the Future Trilogy.

Nolan

Rear Window. My favorite Hitchcock film with the stunning Grace Kelly.

Nolan

Citizen Kane. Not sci-fi, but held the top spot as the GOAT for decades.

Nolan

It has a long-ish run time, but one of the most thought-provoking movies I've seen (and I'm 65, and an avid movie-watcher), is "The Cloud Atlas" with Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant (to name a few) playing several roles each. Directed/produced by the Wachowskis.

Kris Langley

There's nothing quite like it. Who made it, who's in it, the setting, the performances... it's a must see

James Bottas

Love Four Rooms. One of my favorite films. Little known gem

James Bottas

Seconded! I don’t think I’ve ever watched anything else that quite matched the sense of quiet, unrelenting tension that The Abyss captured. Had some really neat practical effects as well.

KR Thompson

I did comment on the "Spectre of the Gun" reaction that I wanted you guys to watch Tombstone, but Josh later said he's got no interest in the genre/period? So aren't you glad this is NOT a suggestion to watch Tombstone? (Or is it...?)

James Bottas

FOUR ROOMS Only partly a Tarantino movie but I think you'll like the mix of styles.

MertzRocks

PULP FICTION

MertzRocks

Gonna suggest just 3 Tarantino flicks. His first 3, starting with RESEVOIR DOGS

MertzRocks

My favorite dystopia movie A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

MertzRocks

Gattaca (1997). Very timely now with CRISPR, genetic engineering stuff on the horizon.

JM63

My favorite weird animated movie, FANTASTIC PLANET

MertzRocks

My favorite Hoffman movie, LITTLE BIG MAN

MertzRocks

The Abyss (1989) *(James Cameron classic)

James Bottas

I second that

MertzRocks

1408 (2007)

James Bottas

Ravenous (1999)

James Bottas

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) — I remember really enjoying a lot of the set design, but haven’t watched it myself since I was a young teen. Might be interesting to revisit

KR Thompson

We watched Galaxy Quest for our 2,000 subscriber special! You can find uncut reaction on Patreon & edited reaction on YouTube

Josh (Target Audience)

We watched Airplane for Patreon! You can search Airplane to find our uncut reaction or look in the movies collection

Josh (Target Audience)

Lifeforce (1985)

Paul Rymer

Excalibur (1981)

Paul Rymer

Young Frankenstein (1974)

David Felgate

Ok. How about The Pink Panther films? Peter Sellers…Genius

Chris S.

The Rocketeer (1991)

David Felgate

They already reacted to that

David Felgate

How about Galaxy Quest!?

Chris S.

No Country For Old Men

John Zelinka

The entire 1970's disaster genre starting with Earthquake

John Zelinka

Alex has seen it, Josh hasn’t watched the whole thing but is aware of the ending. We both love the new apes trilogy

Josh (Target Audience)

We’ve seen it, great film

Josh (Target Audience)

12 Monkeys (1995)

PFCoffey

We’ve seen it, definitely underrated imo

Josh (Target Audience)

Airplane

John Zelinka

We’ve both watched it many times but never together

Josh (Target Audience)

We have both seen The Martian. Great film.

Josh (Target Audience)

We are open to animated suggestions!

Josh (Target Audience)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

David Felgate

The Truman Show (1998)

David Felgate

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a classic, and excellently executed. A bit more out of left field in terms of genre though, hah

KR Thompson

Blade Runner (1982) THE cyberpunk movie, inspired many following movies.

MrDeadstu

Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick. Maybe the most beautiful film ever?

JM63

The Martian is a more recent scifi movie that I enjoyed; the book is good, too

KR Thompson

Must be directors cut.

MrDeadstu

Dark City (1998)

PFCoffey

Atlantis: The Lost Empire, if you’re open to animated suggestions

KR Thompson

Event Horizon. (1997)

Steven Johnson

"Belle" is one of my favorite movies of all time. It's streaming on Max. It's an Anime musical and I like to describe it as a cross between Beauty and the Beast and Ready Player One

FireBall_IA

We watched Logan’s Run for our 5,000 subscriber special. Uncut reaction is on Patreon & edited reaction is on our YouTube

Josh (Target Audience)

THX 1138 (1971)

Jay McGinnis

Time After Time (1979). Stars Malcom McDowell who is the main villian in Star Trek Generations. Also stars David Warner who is in Star Trek 6 and a famous TNG episode. It is directed my Nicholas Myer, who did Wrath of Khan and Star Trek 6.

Jef Etters

Silent Running (1972)

Shibster

Logan's Run (1976)

Jay McGinnis

The Right Stuff (1983)

Chtphr Rrr

12 Angry Men (1957)

Andrew Duffy

The Man from Earth (2007)

Jay McGinnis

The Final Countdown

tyranusfan

The Last Starfighter

tyranusfan

Space Mutiny (cheesey 80s Sci Fi that reuses Battlestar Galactica space scenes. As seen on MST3K)

Bret Kay

Buckaroo banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

Scarpad’s Domain

True Romance

TalynStarburst

Run Lola Run

Dion James Pitman


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