Total Movie Recall Steve Albertson & Ryan Mixson

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. Stanley Kubrick

w. Gustav Hasford based on his novel The Short-Timers

Starring:
Matthew Modine as Pvt. Joker
Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother
Vincent D'Onofrio as Pvt. Pyle
R. Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman
Dorian Harewood as Eightball
Kevyn Major Howard as Rafterman
Arliss Howard as Pvt. Cowboy

Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis, quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant, and pudgy Private Lawrence, nicknamed "Gomer Pyle," as they endure the rigors of basic training. Though Pyle takes a frightening detour, Joker graduates to the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam as a journalist, covering -- and eventually participating in -- the bloody Battle of Hué.


Things discussed in the show:

Willy Wonka

Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard, Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall)

Zack Snyder's Justice League (Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Cyborg, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, J.K. Simmons)

The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah)

Dawn of the Dead 2004 (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer)

300 (Zack Snyder, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham)

Joss Whedon gets canceled

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford)

Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison)

Mel Gibbson uncancelable?

Toxic fandom

Firefly (Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass)

Moulin Rogue! (Baz Luhrmann, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo)

Luc Besson

Josie and the Pussycats (Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Carson Daly)

Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante, Thunder Levin, Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard)

Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn)

George Burns

Sean Connery

Larry Sanders Show (Dennis Klein, Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, Wallace Langham, Rip Torn, Janeane Garofalo, Jeremy Piven)

Billy Crystal

Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly)

Kitbag - new Napoleon film (Ridley Scott, David Scarpa, Joaquin Phoenix, Jodie Comer)

Hieronymus Bosch - Dutch painter

Visual Tone Poem

François Truffaut on war films

Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore)

John Wayne

The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien

The Mickey Mouse Club theme song

Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann)

Jungian duality of man

Next week: UHF

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. Hal Ashby

w. Colin Higgins

Music by: Cat Steven (Yusuf Islam)

Starring:
Ruth Gordon
Bud Cort
Vivian Pickles

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 theme of the meaning of life with a fresh perspective.


Things discussed in the show:

Savages (Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively)

Santa Muerte

Dunkirk (70mm, Christopher Nolan, Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance)

Overlord (Julius Avery, Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier)

Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki)

1917 (Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays)

Rolling Thunder (Vietnam POWs, John Flynn, William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes)

Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino)

Mental health and the military

The Four Feathers 1939 (Zoltan Korda, John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith)

The Last Blockbuster (documentary, Smash Mouth, Taylor Morden, Lauren Lapkus, Sandi Harding, Ken Tisher, Doug Benson, Doug Loves Movies podcast, Kevin Smith, Samm Levine, Brian Posehn, Jamie Kennedy, Ron Funches, Ione Skye, Lloyd Kaufman, Troma, Paul Scheer)

Clerks (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Scott Mosier)

Letterbox app

Streaming services

Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Frank, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton)

King Billy Corgan, monarch of Chicago

Suicide

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden)

Next week: Full Metal Jacket

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. Wolfgang Petersen

w. Wolfgang Petersen, Herman Weigel

Music by Giorgio Moroder

Starring:
Noah Hathaway as Atreyu
Barret Oliver as Bastian
Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress
Deep Roy as Teeny Weeny
Frank Oz

On his way to school, Bastian ducks into a bookstore to avoid bullies. Sneaking away with a book called "The Neverending Story," Bastian begins reading it in the school attic. The novel is about Fantasia, a fantasy land threatened by "The Nothing," a darkness that destroys everything it touches. The kingdom needs the help of a human child to survive. When Bastian reads a description of himself in the book, he begins to wonder if Fantasia is real and needs him to survive.


Things discussed in the show:

Christopher Nolan

Carl Jung

Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann)

Enemy Mine (Wolfgang Petersen, Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James)

Snowden (Edward Snowden, Oliver Stone, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo)

Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney)

Oliver Stone's memoir - Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game

The Social Network (David Fincher, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake)

3rd Rock From the Sun (Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Wikileaks and Julian Assange

The Intercept (Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill)



Natural Born Killers (

JFK (

Any Given Sunday (

The Disaster Artist (

The Room (

Rocky Horror Picture Show (

Midnight screenings of Rocky Horror and The Room

The Crown (

Repo Man

Dangerous Liaisons (

Downton Abby

The Remains of the Day - novel (

Conan, Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs

George Miller

Next week: Harold and Maude

Ah, the good ole days of passing around R rated spank tapes. This movie is so trashy, it gave Charlie Sheen HIV.

Wild Things (1998)

d. John McNaughton

Starring:
Kevin Bacon
Neve Campbell
Matt Dillon
Denise Richards
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Bill Murray

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 show:

Passing around R rated spank tapes

Porn in the 90s and holograms

Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón, Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho)

Harry Potter

The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes)

WandaVision (Jac Schaeffer, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn)

Dinosaurs (Not the Mama, Michael Jacobs, Bob Young, Stuart Pankin, Jessica Walter, Jason Willinger)

The Flintstones (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl)

X-Files – (Joe Napolitano, Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi)

Red Shoe Diaries (David Duchovny, Anthony Addabbo, Audie England)

Skinamax

Supernatural (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Alexander Calvert, Mark Pellegrino)

SyFy Channel

Z Nation (Craig Engler, Karl Schaefer, Russell Hodgkinson, Nat Zang, Keith Allan)

Resident Alien (Chris Sheridan, Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds)

Dr. No (James Bond, Terence Young, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee)

Dr. No novel (Ian Fleming)

John Carter of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Law & Order Special Victims Unit (SVU, Dick Wolf, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T)

Spin Doctors, Third Eye Blind, Hootie and the Blowfish

Scream (Wes Craven, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, Liev Schreiber)

PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman)

Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, S.E. Hinton, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane)

Michael Rapaport

Swamp vs. bayou

Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken

Brian De Palma

Next week: Black Cat White Cat

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. Robert Rodriguez

w. Robert Kurtzman (story), Quentin Tarantino (screenplay)

Starring:
Harvey Keitel
George Clooney
Juliette Lewis
Quentin Tarantino
Salma Hayek
Cheech Marin
Danny Trejo
Tom Savini
Fred Williamson

On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, the criminals sneak across the border in the family's RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out.


Things discussed in the show:

Sex Machine and Santanico Pandemonium

Full Tilt Boogie (Sarah Kelly)

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)

Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen)

Dolemite

Mortal Kombat 2021 (Simon McQuoid, Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson)

Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki)

Mulan 2020 (Niki Caro, Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong)

G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott, Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft)

Bliss (Mike Cahill, Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper)

The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss)

Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz)

René Descartes

Rick and Morty (Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland)

Aliens soundtrack

Chingon - Robert Rodriguez's band

E.R. (Michael Crichton, Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies)

Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Sonny Chiba)

Grindhouse films - Planet Terror and Death Proof

MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer)

Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker)

Tarantino's Star Trek

Mercury Cougar XR7

The Dusk Till Dawn Soundtrack (The Blasters, ZZ Top, Jon Wayne, The Mavericks, Stevie Ray Vaughan)

Kelly Preston

Of Mice and Men

Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, John Hughes, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis)

George Romero

The Descent (Neil Marshall, Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid)

The Titty Twister bar

Desperado (Robert Rodriguez, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida)

Los Lobos

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford)

Call of Cthulhu RPG

Anne Rice vampires

Lapdog of Satan

loudQUIETloud A Film About the Pixies (Steven Cantor, Matthew Galkin, Frank Black, Kim Deal, David Lovering)

El Rey in Robert Rodriguez films

The Getaway by Jim Thompson

Rifts RPG - Mexico's Vampire Kingdom

Charmed (Constance M. Burge, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Brian Krause, Rose

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. Jared Hess

w. Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess

Starring:
Jon Heder
Efren Ramirez
Jon Gries
Aaron Ruell
Diedrich Bader
Tina Majorino
Sandy Martin

In small-town Preston, Idaho, awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in an accident, his life is made even worse when his strangely nostalgic uncle, Rico, shows up to keep an eye on him. With no safe haven at home or at school, Napoleon befriends the new kid, Pedro, a morose Hispanic boy who speaks little English. Together the two launch a campaign to run for class president.


Things discussed in the show:

Russian movie posters

Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)

Dumbo (Disney, Samuel Armstrong, Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing)

Kung Fu Cult Master

Real Steel (Shawn Levy, Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo)

Robot Jox

Rocky (John G. Avildsen, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young)

Lionheart (Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard)

Switchback (Jeb Stuart, Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, Claudia Stedelin, Jared Leto)

Killing Eve season 3 (Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw)

Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, Kang-ho Song, Lee Sun-kyun, Yeo-jeong Cho)

Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris)

Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Juno (Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody, Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner)

Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear)

Jack White

Jamiroquai

Wes Anderson

Trapper Keepers

Rushmore (Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams)

Gummo (Harmony Korine, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh)

Julian Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, Ewen Bremner, Brian Fisk, Chloë Sevigny)

No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin)

Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman)

Peluca - Short film

Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon, Will Speck, Jeff Cox, Craig Cox, Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler)

Dungeons & Dragons

Heathers

House Party

Bone Tomahawk (Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, S. Craig Zahler)

BTK Killer

Atlanta local spots: Manuel's Tavern, 529 Bar

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles)

Elvis Costello

Who's Line is it Anyway?

The Drew Carey Show (Drew Carey, Bruce Helford, Diedrich Bader, Kathy Kinney)

High school dances as ritual, an anthropological study

Community (Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Chevy Chase, Troy Barnes)

Ligers - centaurs and Dungeons and Dragons little brown books

X-Files - Jersey Devil episode (Joe Napolitano, Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi)

Bat Boy from Weekly World News

Wesley Snipes

The Jackalope and Dave Coulier

Brian Setzer Orchestra and The Stray Cats

Next week: From Dusk Till Dawn