Early Access: Movie Catch-up - Winter Extravaganza
Added 2025-02-17 21:52:55 +0000 UTCNot sure how we got this carried away talking about what essentially amounts to seven movies, but here we are! We were going to split this into two parts but I think it honestly flows better as one loooong one. On it, we discuss mostly newer releases theatrical and streaming releases. Spoilers are heavy so consult the timecodes below:
Joe’s BluRay Viewings - 00:00:00
Nosferatu (2025)... again - 00:14:27
Wolf Man (2025) & Universal Monster Movies - 00:24:38
The Tom Green Documentary (2025) & Freddy Got Fingered (2001) - 00:39:56
Saturday Night (2024) - 01:13:33
Flight Risk (2025) - 01:42:42
Flight (2012) - 01:53:50
Here (2024) - 02:03:13
If you've seen any of the movies we talked about, let us know what you thought of them in the comments!
Comments
What an extremely obscure film. No Wikipedia page, no DVD release. I finally found it on Prime. It really didn't have a middle.
Brian Fields
2025-03-04 15:53:12 +0000 UTCsorry I was mistaken about Turn-On it got cancelled during commercials(Johnny Carson made a joke about it)
Salvador Pereira
2025-02-27 20:00:57 +0000 UTCMaybe they should do a episode on the 1st Aqua Teen movie as a excuse to talk about The Simpsons movie
JokersJuicyAss
2025-02-26 14:01:35 +0000 UTCNot sure if you ever Bam's pre-Jackass stuff with CKY, but that was even *more* mean-spirited. That was part of the charm when I was younger but I find it much tougher going as I get older
Tom Goodwin
2025-02-21 01:47:37 +0000 UTCEggers is one of the best working filmmakers. Ryan is just wrong on this contrarian take.
Carlisle
2025-02-21 01:35:16 +0000 UTCI say the same thing about Asian countries and forks.
Lux Anatis
2025-02-20 21:57:16 +0000 UTCNothing I hate more than when Ryan is right.
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-20 17:07:52 +0000 UTCMy all time favorite Mel Gibson quote. “What?! WHAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!”
Macready31
2025-02-20 16:50:12 +0000 UTCThat describes Johnny Cash (And every other Outlaw star of the time) more to a tee
JokersJuicyAss
2025-02-20 15:41:31 +0000 UTCAlso if you do research on headlight legislation in this country, it's that same story over and over again Europe has a new headlight American companies want to use them, Government say no and it takes years of lobbying to get those headlights, normally when Europe moved onto a new headlight
JokersJuicyAss
2025-02-20 15:39:59 +0000 UTCIt was also lost into recently
JokersJuicyAss
2025-02-20 15:37:30 +0000 UTCYou guys should review The Simpsons Movie or at least have a discussion on it. I remember seeing it with my dad and brother, it was the first time I think we were all collectively disappointed in something. I somehow still remember the whole movie too. It’s boring.
97Brawl
2025-02-20 04:44:17 +0000 UTCRyan is right Van Helsing is in the Herzog Nosferatu
QuebeckFilms (Listen To Malding At the Midseason)
2025-02-20 04:34:35 +0000 UTCAs a car guy, I know at least part of why this is. Europe/SE Asia have been using LED headlights since the early-00s. It was some weird legislation the US had that didn’t allow us to do the same until just a few years ago. It’s a cop-out excuse but we are just not used to them.. again, not an excuse. It gets complicated with how manufacturers save money, global platforms, yada-yada..
97Brawl
2025-02-20 04:31:57 +0000 UTCIs that the one that RLM covered?
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-19 20:16:22 +0000 UTCWe are all surprised
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-19 20:16:04 +0000 UTCI’ll check it out, thanks! In that Blues Brothers book I mentioned reading it talks about how he was heavily inspired by Kentucky Fried Theater as well
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-19 20:15:24 +0000 UTCTo be fair, I don’t know that anyone could’ve adapted Here in a compelling way
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-19 20:14:11 +0000 UTCWhen Roth isn’t writing stuff like Here and is putting his time to films Munich or The Insider, he does a damn good job.
The Film Smith
2025-02-19 17:52:07 +0000 UTCHey Joe and Ryan, About Lorne he worked at Laugh-in that also had sketch comedy segments, but I really beg to both check from the Same Creator of Laugh-in Turn-On 1969, it was a comedy show that was so ahead that got cancelled after 2 eps, It was also the first TV show to use Computer generated and Montion tracking. Thx for the podcast!! https://youtu.be/sDpum0Jp7Gw?feature=shared
Salvador Pereira
2025-02-19 17:47:08 +0000 UTCConcerning Ryan's AI debate, we are able to tell the difference between Skittles and fruit but nobody wants an apple in their truck or treat bag. People won't care if there's something better because they don't now and eventually a generation will be born into a world that accepted less long ago.
Lux Anatis
2025-02-18 20:55:54 +0000 UTCY’all ever think about how you can sing the names of most of the Three Stooges to the tune of the second stanza in “St. James Infirmary Blues?” “Let her go, let her go, God bless ‘er” becomes “Larry, Moe, Curly, Shemp, Joe Besser” What do you think, better or worse than the Brady Bunch one?
Mary and Steve
2025-02-18 19:55:24 +0000 UTCAll-timer thumbnail
Mary and Steve
2025-02-18 19:29:39 +0000 UTCI was totally wrong on Ryan not liking Saturday night! What a twist. I had the roles reversed on this one.
Tyler Mammen
2025-02-18 18:35:04 +0000 UTCVeeeery cool.
Lux Anatis
2025-02-18 17:58:34 +0000 UTCYou guys need to check out The Baby from director Ted Post. It’s a very strange and unsettling movie.
Killer Nerd75
2025-02-18 16:52:42 +0000 UTCTHEY ARE TOO BRIGHT! Driving at night is blinding it’s awful!
Ryan Lancello
2025-02-18 16:10:02 +0000 UTCRyan what's your legislative stance on car headlights you left us hanging? That Mel Gibson clip was great too. "What if I rob you?
Steven Trotter
2025-02-18 15:00:48 +0000 UTCI found Eggers' Nosferatu to be a letdown since it gets a lot right and wrong. Its production design and cinematography are superb, with you feeling Orlok's apocalyptic presence in this German town. But where the story goes is what loses me, as it can't seem to decide what it wants to be. First it's a successful gothic horror film, then it becomes an exorcism film, until settling on a love story in the third act. You get a sense that Eggers wanted to incorporate stuff from the previous Dracula adaptations, with him citing the Coppola film as one of them. But what makes Dracula adaptations charming is the different interpretations they bring to the source material, with Eggers bringing an anorexic Mr Pringles design to Count Orlok (Makes sense why they his face in the promotional material. Freddy Got Fingered is an interesting beast, as I can't call it objectively good yet I find a lot of enjoyment from its unhinged nature. I get a kick out of showing this to people who've never seen it, as their reactions to the baby swinging or the elephant cum scenes are priceless. Regarding that "he was trolling the audience" theory that gets touted, one opinion that explains a lot was Adum/YMS' on their Sardonicast episode. He said how Green is essentially just adapting the formula of his show to the comedy, as stuff like the cheese factory or the horse cock are something he'd do to provoke those around them. The problem with why it doesn't work on film is that you're working with hired extras, who know what they're in for with a Tom Green project. So you don't get that authentic, person-on-the-street reaction. But there's no denying how fascinating its critical reception has become in the past 20 years, with people reappraising it. Even Ebert kind of recognised this, stating in his review of Stealing Harvard (Which also had Tom Green): <i>"Seeing Tom Green reminded me, as how could it not, of his movie Freddy Got Fingered, which was so poorly received by the film critics that it received only one lonely, apologetic positive review on the Tomatometer. I gave it—let's see—zero stars. Bad movie, especially the scene where Green was whirling the newborn infant around his head by its umbilical cord. But the thing is, I remember Freddy Got Fingered more than a year later. I refer to it sometimes. It is a milestone. And for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt to accomplish something. It failed, but it has not left me convinced that Tom Green doesn't have good work in him. Anyone with his nerve and total lack of taste is sooner or later going to make a movie worth seeing"</i> - Stealing Harvard, Roger Ebert.com
The One and Rory
2025-02-18 11:27:10 +0000 UTCRyan, you should watch 2023's "All Souls" with Mikey Madison (from "Anora"), G-Eazy and Jess Gabor. I am not even kidding, it was my favorite movie of 2023, it totally blew me away..... And it's a brisk 81 minutes. Please check it out Ryan!
JP
2025-02-18 10:04:03 +0000 UTCRip Torn is also great in a supporting role in "Songwriter" which I watched last year when Kris Kristofferson died.
JP
2025-02-18 09:59:47 +0000 UTCWoody Allen movie titles were always decided by the producers. Woody famously never titled his own movies which is why some of the titles are generic and/or don't make sense. Usually, the producers would bring multiple titles to a focus group and just go with the title the focus group liked the most (I'm pretty sure they never showed the focus groups the movies either, just the poster).
JP
2025-02-18 09:10:58 +0000 UTCRip Torn is really awesome in the 70s move Payday, where on the surface he's this kind hearted, down to earth country singer like a Johnny Cash, but in reality he's a drunken drug addict travelling all over America with his wife and mistresses arguing over money and running from a murder conviction. He's so good in it as this sleazy guy with an "awww shucks" grin.
Thomas Bishop
2025-02-18 07:40:38 +0000 UTCThank you! Should be fixed now
Almost Cult Classics
2025-02-18 00:25:30 +0000 UTCDamn, the episode ended just as you were wrapping up the HERE review. May wanna fix that. Great episode otherwise, fellas, my Uncle Buck 4K arrives tomorrow!
Jesse Shade
2025-02-17 23:49:34 +0000 UTCTwo and a half hours of a podcast that's never long enough... Today is a good day!
Jason Patterson
2025-02-17 23:10:36 +0000 UTCFunny Joe mentioned watching movies you preorder when you get them because my most recent preorders are the kino lober Blu-ray’s Joe did commentaries for,
Luke Gordnier
2025-02-17 22:14:57 +0000 UTCThe only thing I remember from Hacksaw Ridge is the climax where Andrew Garfield is telling himself that he needs to save one more soldier.
Luke Gordnier
2025-02-17 22:08:08 +0000 UTCOh Ryan you're going to love the next batch I might send you guys
JokersJuicyAss
2025-02-17 22:06:30 +0000 UTC
