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This week we're tackling Martin Scorsese's classic Taxi Driver.

Join us as we discuss and break down all the details from this classic 1976 film.  The boys discuss the major themes, references to the film and some of the eccentricities of Robert De Niro's performance.  Also, is it weird to anyone else that David Krumholtz is basically a dead ringer for 70's era Scorsese?  Just us?  Fair enough.

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In the mid 90s, the cinematic landscape was much different. Batman and the general comic book film was about to go on hiatus until 2005 after director Joel Schumacher drove its toyetic Batmobile up a building and over ice, and The Addams Family had their two films come and go. We needed a new action hero based off an already established commodity. Enter an at the time squeaky clean, ever smiling Tom Cruise as Agent Ethan Hunt. The Mission Impossible film series, based on the 60s television show, started off as the first film franchise Cruise was associated with. But the films gradually turned into the go to when Cruise needed either a hit or image makeover.

1996 was a big career year for Tom Cruise. Though he was still riding high on his 80s cred, he hadn't really established himself as an action star. With the decade's previous title holders Ah-nold and Sly taking hiatuses from their successful franchises, the time for Cruise to pounce was now. Still relatively shiny in the public eye with a seemingly happy marriage to Nicole Kidman, his career was set to take off into a whole new direction.

Enter Mission Impossible. The intrigue of bringing Brian DePalma was making the film be a huge possibility of being one of characterized drama. But DePalma pulled no punches, and the first Mission Impossible film proved to be a mega hit with audiences, and a so-so one for critics. Even if nobody who saw it knew what the hell was going on.

Join me, Matt, and Aftertaste newcomer Pete MC, as we start our dive down the Mission Impossible franchise, and wonder if and when the film ever untangles itself from its own web. And keep coming back, as we will review each film all the way through the new release Mission Impossible: Fallout, which arrives in theaters July 27th.

 

Mission Impossible (1996) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

 

 

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No Law, no 'Reno means Jack and Ammon are in charge.  The boys talk a little housekeeping at the top then get into it with reviews of WESTWORLD, THE EXPANSE, BROCKMIRE, PARTS UNKNOWN, NO RESERVATIONS, THE STAIRCASE, THE CONFESSION TAPES, LEGION, THE BACHELORETTE, X-MEN APOCALYPSE, CITIZEN KANE, INCREDIBLES 2, 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY, WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR, SICARIO 2, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, IN THE FADE, MARROWBONE and JURASSIC WORLD FALLEN KINGDOM.  There's also some talk of introducing children to The Big Lebowski and some other stuff, so get to work.

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0:00:00-Listen up.

0:02:06-Falvey and Ammon. New merchandise! What’s going on on the site? Movie Homework is back! Trailer Round Up

0:27:28-TV ROUND UP.....after Trailer Round Up concludes. Westworld Season 2 in full (spoilers begins around 47:05 and end around 49:25). Ammon has The Staircase, The Confession Tapes, Legion, and The Bachelorette. Jack has Parts Unknown, No Reservations, Brockmire, OJ: Made in America, and The Expanse.

1:14:31-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Ammon has You Were Never Really There, In the Fade, Marrowbone, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Incredibles 2 (which Jack also checked out). He also saw Isle of Dogs but may have to revisit it. Jack begins his list with X-Men: Apocalypse, Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, and Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado.

We out.

 

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Waiting for a good, realistic looking dinosaur movie as a kid was like waiting to grow up. It couldn’t happen soon enough. Specials and educational programs of dinosaurs, as well as books and puzzles galore decorated every little boy’s room, just waiting for that movie that didn’t look like stop motion to come sweep us off our feet. And no, dinobots do NOT count. Little did we know, five movies about these very creatures would soon roam our theaters, all overseen by the director who had already changed cinema forever the decade before.

After Jurassic World came out in 2015 and proved with its over $1 billion take that people were indeed still thirsty for dinosaurs, producer Steven Spielberg once again got the ball rolling on another sequel. Though with previous director Colin Trevorrow writing the script and stepping off the director's chair, Spielberg once again had to choose a new face to head his franchise. Enter Juan Antonio Bayona (pronounce Bah-Jona). He had proven himself a director of talent with the tear jerkers A Monster Calls and The Impossible. Yet, he was yet another director armed with a hefty budget that he had never played with before. How did he do?

Join me, Nate, and Law as we answer that question, and subsequently finish (for now) our Jurassic Park series of podcasts. This was a hell of a series to go through, and I would once again like to thank my co-hosts, as well as those who listened. Stay tuned, more retros to come.

 

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

 

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TM is off this week getting old... so PJ welcomes back the SportsCasts' special soccer correspondent, Alex Keen! If you're a soccer fan... this show is for you.  PJ tries to talk about soccer and fails miserably, luckily Keen is there to pick up the slack.  The guys recap what was the group stage.  Who impressed, who struggled, and really, who really just survived the first 2 weeks of the World Cup!?  After PJ is done bitching about the rules and tiebreakers... the Knockout Stage is discussed for the upcoming week.

Join us for this special SportsCast and let us know who you've got to win it all!

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Law and Chad C are hanging out again and acting like everything is fine between them but any true listener can feel the tension building with each and every word. Will they fight before the end of the show? Was Uncle Drew a heaping pile of poopies? It's a Me, Sicario 2? And does anybody die via shank in Won't You Be My Neighbor? All these answers are about to explode in your ear mouths.

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Waiting for a good, realistic looking dinosaur movie as a kid was like waiting to grow up. It couldn’t happen soon enough. Specials and educational programs of dinosaurs, as well as books and puzzles galore decorated every little boy’s room, just waiting for that movie that didn’t look like stop motion to come sweep us off our feet. And no, dinobots do NOT count. Little did we know, five movies about these very creatures would soon roam our theaters, all overseen by the director who had already changed cinema forever the decade before.

Fourteen years after Jurassic Park III came and went with little more than a whimper, producer Steven Spielberg was ready to once again tackle the world of dinosaurs. But instead of bringing in someone known for big blockbuster entertainment like he did with Michael Bay and Transformers, he brought in Colin Trevorrow. Who the hell is Colin Trevorrow, you may ask. He was the director of a little 2012 Sundance highlight called Safety Not Guaranteed. Based off that film, which was by no means a showcase of visual effects, the gamble on Trevorrow paid off as Jurassic World ended up making over $1 billion. But how do we feel about it?

Join me, Law, and Nate as all three of us revisit Jurassic World for the first time since theaters. All of us were initially dead set against its machinations and unending nuances back in 2015. But will the three of us feel the same way now?

Download below to find out, and be sure to tune in next Tuesday as we dissect the new release Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, and I give the Binge Aftertaste schedule for the remainder of summer.

Note: There were a few technical difficulties spread throughout this episode. Sorry about that. Please don't make us extinct as a result.

Jurassic World (2015) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

 

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PJ and TM get educated on World CUP Soccer by a special guest...

TM is wasted so shut up and listen to Keen...idiot(s)

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0:00:00-Yo.

0:02:08-Bare bones, bitch. So much tech diff. It’s gross. Law sounds old school. Moreno’s phoning it in. Literally.

0:05:30-GOOGS.

0:23:45-TV ROUND UP. Intervention. Law watched The Staircase and I’m Dying Up Here, which Moreno discusses as well. Also Handmaid’s Tale. Moreno has High Maintenance.

0:47:13-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Law tells a positive theater story. Then Incredibles 2, bitch. Law watched Den of Thieves. Beers. BingeViews. Better Call Binge.

Shortest. Bingecast. Ever. Probably? I don’t know. Maybe? I don’t know. Fuck you.

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My computer is working, Chad C is back, and he's got a new Pixar film to review.  Best morning ever.  Special appearance by Cat!

Incredibles 2, Tag, and the Superfly remake are all reviewed and rated.  Get it on!

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