Diminished Returns - The Movie Podcast About Sequels, Prequels, Spin-offs and Reboots

Allen and Chris give thanks and talk trailers

In between 'franchise' episodes (where we delve into a particular film or series of films) we'll be doing bonus episodes where we talk about wider trends in sequel culture, sequel news, new trailers and whatever the hell we like.

In this episode:

We go ga-ga for Goggins

Crow reboot casting

The surprise box office hit we all forgot about

Where do we draw the line for comebacks?

Trailer Talk

Brad Bird films, adorable? Or worrying?

And an in-depth recounting of the Harry Potter franchise.

Trailer Talk

Incredibles 2 Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDMWVZta3M

Black Panther

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDjIWPwcPU

Daddy's Home 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyW_EX7iRW0

Band Moms 2: A Bad Moms Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQPr0sCjau0

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COMING SOON ON DIMINISHING RETURNS: STAR WARS – The Force Awakens

DIMINISHING RETURNS: A comedy podcast about movie sequels, prequels, spin-offs and reboots. Hosted by Allen and Chris. WARNING: Contains Scottish accents and spoilers.

To celebrate it's 30th anniversary Allen and Chris take a break from pushing pencils to talk Predator and it's sequel, Predator 2...

Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Predator was released 30 years ago. Despite lukewarm reviews it's now regarded as an action/sci-fi classic. It's 1990 Danny Glover starring sequel, less so. But how do they both hold up?

In this episode...

Rippling biceps

Political futures

Arnie's body

Jesse The Body Ventura and was it acceptable in the 80s?

Bill Duke

Shane Black (of course)

Sonny Landham and his bodyguard

Jean Claude Van Damme Vs Kevin Peter Hall

How do you follow Predator as a director?

Easter eggs

Allen and Chris argue about voodoo

Cool kills

And Bill Paxton

Remind yourelf of the films here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(film)

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_2

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DIMINISHING RETURNS: A comedy podcast about movie sequels, prequels, spin-offs and reboots. Hosted by Allen and Chris. WARNING: Contains Scottish accents and spoilers.

This Halloween, we find out the real podcast episode...was inside you all along

In between 'franchise' episodes (where we delve into a particular film or series of films) we'll be doing bonus episodes where we talk about wider trends in sequel culture, sequel news, new trailers and whatever the hell we like.

It's almost Halloween so Chris and Allen get spooky. In this episode:

-Why we aren't going to discuss the thing everyone is discussing so in a way we do end up discussing it

-Halloween

-Maniac Cop

-Puppet Master

-We have a Quiz

-And a competition! That you should or should not enter

-Nachos

-Allen shows he is the king of 'Yes and'

-Nam

-And Lenny Kravitz!

TRAILER TALK

Leatherface

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDNJ3XQn9Cg

Insidious 4: The Last Key

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQyrwQyCOk

Boo 2: A Madea Halloween

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwRAqEBITuc

MICELLANEOUS

Dinosaur Jr – Start Choppin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGy1yEB299I

Leatherface – Not Superstitious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URmg0Zg3uzQ

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COMING SOON ON DIMINISHING RETURNS: Predator and Predator 2

DIMINISHING RETURNS: A comedy podcast about movie sequels, prequels, spin-offs and reboots. Hosted by Allen and Chris. WARNING: Contains Scottish accents and spoilers.

It's October, which means 2 things, Halloween is almost upon us and Allen and Chris will be returning to Crystal Lake to watch more Friday the 13th movies.

Last year, we watched the first three instalments, so it was inevitable that this year we would look at the next three - the incorrectly titled The Final Chapter, A New Beginning which set up the beginning of a whole new plot thread…which was totally ignored by Jason Lives. Join us as we discuss:

Analogous nudity

Crispin Glover's live appearances

The Crystal Lake Library system

Corey Feldman's Tommy Sheppard showing them how it's done

Reckless Reggie's gallusness

And the surprising excellence of one of the chapters!

Remind yourself of the films here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th:_The_Final_Chapter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th:_A_New_Beginning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_Part_VI:_Jason_Lives

The trailer for the Crispin Glover film Chris talks about in the episode (contains nudity and weirdness)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EJqmf8cJOs

And Crispin Glover dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgj9tewHso

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DIMINISHING RETURNS: A comedy podcast about movie sequels, prequels, spin-offs and reboots. Hosted by Allen and Chris. WARNING: Contains Scottish accents and spoilers.

Allen and Chris talk about IT, terrible people in the world of film and terrible trailers.

In between 'franchise' episodes (where we delve into a particular film or err…franchise) we'll be doing bonus episodes where we talk about wider trends in sequel culture, sequel news, new trailers and whatever the hell we like.

In this episode we talk

Hellboy and Hollywood Racism

The new adaptation of Stephen Kings IT

Some terrible people

Gerard Butler's face

Chris and Allen get romantic and accidently write a porn parody.

Plus recommendations, new trailers and more!

TRAILER TALK:

Tomb Raider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ndhidEmUbI

Jigsaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPP6aIw1vgY

Fifty Shades Freed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpAuCG6iUcA

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COMING SOON ON DIMINISHING RETURNS:

Friday the 13th parts 4, 5 and 6.

DIMINISHING RETURNS: A comedy podcast about movie sequels, prequels, spin-offs and reboots. Hosted by Allen and Chris. WARNING: Contains Scottish accents and spoilers.

Chris and Allen put down their copy of Tobin's Spirit Guide to relive their youth

Do, Ray, Egon…….Allen and Chris talk the original Ghostbusters film and its sequel, Ghostbusters 2, a film that did not have a great response at the time but in the dumb furore over the 2016 reboot seemed to be reclassified as a classic. How does it stand up and can two dudes that saw Ghostbusters when they were kids ever be able to look at the first film with any critical distance?

We discuss:

Ghost trains

Bill Murray's excellence

Dan Ackroyd's beliefs

Chris misses Harold Ramis

The Beatles

And Allen has yet another impersonation

Who you gonna call? No one calls anymore, Granddad, just message them instead.

Remind yourself of the films here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_II

Huey Lewis and The News: I Want A New Drug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA

The Hateful Life And Spiteful Death Of The Man Who Was Vigo The Carpathian:

http://deadspin.com/the-hateful-life-and-spiteful-death-of-the-man-who-was-1737376537

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Allen and Chris look into the depths of their dark hearts. And at trailers and stuff.

In between 'franchise' episodes (where we delve into a particular film or series of films) we'll be doing bonus episodes where we talk about wider trends in sequel culture, sequel news, new trailers and whatever the hell we like.

In this episode we talk

Jet setting

Daniel Craig returning as Bond

Death

Enjoying violence in movies

Valerian and The City Of A Thousand Planets

Some stuff we forgot to mention about the Robocop soundtracks last episode

And Allen debuts another new impression!

TRAILER TALK

Death Wish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_I4zqC7GN8

Rise Of The Footsoldier 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hURIOh3txps

Cop And A Half: The New Recruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZwkStRlou4

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COMING SOON ON DIMINISHING RETURNS : Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2

DIMINISHING RETURNS: A comedy podcast about movie sequels, prequels, spin-offs and reboots. Hosted by Allen and Chris. WARNING: Contains Scottish accents and spoilers.

Since it's 30 years since the iconic, brilliant Robocop was released, we ask, what made it so good? And why did the 2014 remake miss the mark?

In this episode:

We hail Paul Verhoeven, the king of SciFi

Joel Kinnaman makes his return to Diminishing Returns (as does Ronny Cox)

HR procedures in OCP

Going to work with a smile with Clarence Boddicker and gang

The late, great Miguel Ferrer

Peter Weller and the other great pop culture Weller

And another almost certainly uncannily accurate impression from Chris!

Remind yourself of the films here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_(2014_film)

Check out the ridiculous scene from the remake that we talk about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOhIJg4B7k

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Allen and Chris talk Comic-Con news and discover they are the new power in Hollywood. Kiss the ring!

In between 'proper' episodes (where we delve into a particular film or franchise) we'll be doing bonus episodes where we talk about wider trends in sequel culture, sequel news, new trailers and whatever the hell we like.

In this episode we talk

Doctor Doom

Inhumans

The Flash

Ridley Watch

Predator

Which one of the hosts was an adorable looking child

Recommendations that aren't recommendations

and Abba!

TRAILER TALK

Blade Runner 2049

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOaI_Fn5o4

Justice League

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJgkniSCks

Thor: Ragnarok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue80QwXMRHg

Annabelle: Creation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZkJa6Z-SY

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COMING SOON ON DIMINISHING RETURNS: Robocop (1987) vs Robocop (2014)

DIMINISHING RETURNS: A comedy podcast about movie sequels, prequels, spin-offs and reboots. Hosted by Allen and Chris. WARNING: Contains Scottish accents and spoilers.

Allen and Chris get on the rag…the Mummy's rags that is!

Universal recently released The Mummy starring Tom Cruise, hoping to kick of their Dark Universe shared universe….how does it stand up next to the last big budget Mummy reboot, Stephen Sommers' wildly successful 1999 film starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah?

We talk,

Cool voiceovers

The Egyptian Devil

Geopolitics

Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce!

I've heard of a Dr Jekyll..but a Mr Hyde?

Russell Crowe and his plummy accent

And the lesser-known Universal monster we want to see rebooted

Remind yourself of the plots here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(2017_film)

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MISCELLANEOUS:

The trailer for the ridiculous Lifeforce: https://youtu.be/qej5nlRb9VM

And seriously, reboot this now : https://youtu.be/r7O6qSAwnzM

DIMINISHING RETURNS: A comedy podcast about movie sequels, prequels, spin-offs and reboots. Hosted by Allen and Chris. WARNING: Contains Scottish accents and spoilers.